The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 25, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE VOLUME LXI. No. 177. Che Key West Citizen U. S.A. Coast Gu Plans 150th Anniversar Service Antedates U. S.. Navy; Local Unit Plans To Be Announced In Near Future Arrangements are being work- ed out by the loca! Coast Guard the of Coast Guard Day. August 4, which has for observation been announced as the 150th an- niversary of the organization of that federal service. First known as the U. S. Rev- enue Marine, and the U. S. Rev- enue Cutter Service, the Coast Guard antedates the U. S. Navy. The Navy was organized in 1796. Since and including the war of 1812, the Coast Guard has taken part in all the wars this country has been engaged in. In 1915 the Coast Guard took over the life saving service of the American government, and changed its name to the Coast Guard. In 1939 the Lighthouse service was combined with the Coast-Guard;-and it now has about 15,000 personnel. The Coast Guard is the nation- al maritime law enforcement agency. Its police powers are derived from the laws enacted for the regulation and promotion of American sea-borne com- merce. Its growth parallels the maritime development of the na- tion. Locally some sort of progra is to be worked out by Lieut. Commander C. H. Hilton. CABALLEROS UNITS IN JOINT MEETING GATHERED AT HALL LAST NIGHT: IMPORTANT MAT- TERS DISCUSSED A joint meeting of lodges of the Order Caballeros de Marti was held last night at the meet- ing hall on Elizabeth street. Two male units and the ladies’ lodge were represented. Matters of importance were discussed and plans for the com- ing convention to be in December were formulated. Oscar Quesada, a visiting mem- STATE' EXHIBITION Fair Register DRAWS BIG CROWDS Visitors (Spec: The Citizen) WORLD'S FAIR, N. Y.. July 25.—The increased popularity of the Florida State Exhibit, this year, over last, is attested by the constantly increasing number of visitors passing through the main building the loggia the tropical garden and over the boardwalk which travei the entire length of the beautiful beach. A million a month is the average attendance now. The register maintained in the Information booths of the Florida exhibit shows that up to Satur- day, July 20, nearly 7,000 Flor- idians had taken the time to in- scribe their names—and_ all not register. Among recent reg- istra sre the following from Key West and vicinity: C. H. Johnson, Miss Sarah Ann Birs, Mrs. G. P. Tedder. Miss Elizabeth Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bervaldi, Miss Faye Be valdi, John.Lewe. Miss Phyllis Carbonell, Mrs. Clara Carbonell Boyer, and Russell Baker. ses Sorrick Elected Head Of Lions (Special to 1 CHICAGO, July 25.—Kari } Sorrick of Jackson, Mich., is the new president of the Internation- al Association of Lions Clubs. He was unanimously advanced from rst vice-presidency to the presidency at the 24th annual convention of the association, which closed July 25 in Havana, Cuba. Sorrick succeeds retiring President Alexander T. Wells of’ New York City. The Ha ni convention con- cluded the most successful year in the history of the Lions ass ciation, according to the report made by the secretary general, Mel for 1939-40. He re- rmation of 522 new a held here | do. . sity KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940 COUNTY BOARD sw, aoa Cards FL Taylor Tomorrow THIS NOON: URGES EXTEN- | SION OF INLAND WATER-| WAY FROM BAHIA HONDA LEAVE ON BUSES AT 10:30 A. M.; COL. WALL DECLARES TRAINING COURSE VERY SUCCESSFUL Board of County Commission- ers abled this noon at the courthouse and proceeded to dis- asse cuss the merits of extension of the Inland Waterway from Bahia Honda to Key West. | Present at the meeting were Chairman Carl Bervaldi and Com- | missioners B. B. Warren and Wil-! liam Monsaivatge. i | In the belief that present de- fense program measures may in-! ‘clude a favorable view on exten- ‘sion of the waterway to aid in transporting supplies to military units here, the commissioners In thirteen buses of the Flor- iida Motor Lines, the 265th Regi- ment, Florida National Guard, Iwill leave Key West at 10:30 a. {m. Friday for Miami. The guards- acted to notify Wahington of: men have been in training at Ft. public desire here for the plan. |Tayior for three weeks. A resolution drawn up, accord-{ At 9 p. m. Friday the 450 offi-. the regiment had completed its ingly, was passed by the boardicers and men of the regiment training course with little diffi- and ordered sent by the clerk to! will board trains from Miami for culty. Senators Claude Pepper and C. \their homes. Searchlight battalion} “Key West encampment .was Headquarters battery and the and “B” will leave aboard a Florida East Coast train for Jack- sonville. Col. P. L. Wall, Jacksonville, commander of the 265th, said that IT STILL GOES THROUGH WILMINGTON, O.—It took = nearly a year for E. J. Hiatt to} Final concert of the National get a letter written by Walter’ Guard encampment given by the The inland waterway now ex-!and Pensacola, respectively; weather has been ideal, and there yachting fraternity chiefly. De- were able to see how the nav: operations of the navy”. Siders of Columbus. The mis-|265th Coast Artillery Band, FNG, Sunday from Fort Screven, Ga. O. Andrews and one to Congress-jand Battery “C” will board the the most successful the 265th has man Pat Cannon. jSeaboard railroad train for Ocala ever held”, Col Wall said. “The tends along most of the Atlanti: were no. mosquitos. The men coastline from Maine to Bahiaj have all told me that they wish Honda Key. Extension of the to come back here again next waterway has long been sought | year. by local interests as an aid to the | REGIMENTAL BAND “The officers of the regiment fense plans now, however, may | —_——- patrol works. We were given bring completion of the water-! special trips in thi seaplanes, way where private interests in ; CAESAR LA MONICA LEADS ae of on as fic ast Vaewtace the past failed. TALENTED MUSICIANS AT It was a rare privilege and we rr. TAYLOR BANDSHELL were adequately informed of the Today at noon the officers of the 265th were guests of the Ro- tary Club at their luncheon. The Key West unit of the Na- tional Guard is expected back ASSEMBLES TONIGHT AT 8:00 O'CLOCK: DEADLINE 5:00 TODAY City Council will assemble to- night in council chambers at the City Hall to sit as an equaliza- tion board to consider any com- plaints against assessments made on the new tax roll. Deadline for filing complaints, to be made in writing and sent to the city clerk, Archie Roberts, is 5:00 o'clock this afternoon. The council will meet at 8:00 o'clock. Special business may also be handled at this meeting, it was announced this morning. OTHERS AIDED IN RED CROSS WORK In compiling the names of those women who assisted in knitting and sewing on garments for the local Red Cross Chapter, the Key RING LOST HALF-CENTURY sive, routed by way of the south | wil] be held tonight at the Ft. se traveled nearly 20,000 ' Taylor bandshell. Admission, as miles before reaching Wilming-| usual, is by invitation-only. ton—50 miles south of Colm) Caesar La Monaca, wafrant of- bus. 'ficer, conductor of the band, an- nounced the following program jfor the concert: j March, “The Stars and Stripes | Forever” Sousa {“Malaguena” from Andalucia > j Suite, “Espagnole” Lecuona Internationa |My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice, | from “Samson and Dalilah” Saint-Saens Te, 'Overture, “Poet and See of Lions supplying their! noc communities titi a natomigent Herold Benue tts Mandy Pee: j tary Escort”, in five ways, leadership auring the present | Novelty Fillmere world crisis, and urged all mem-!Concert Waltz, “The Blue Dan- bers to give genuine support to! ube” Strauss the men elected to head their re- | Sgt. Frank Purnell singing spective governments. | “God Bless America” Berlin The Lions’ new president is | Descriptive, “A Hunting Scene” president and general manager of Bucalossi dermo Products, Inc. of}The Star Spangled Banner Key Springport, Mich., manufacturers ! : of paints, lacquers and enamels, | industrial finishes of all types, be- i —_ sides a line of exterior and in-! (Ty Associated Preast terior paints. He is a member of| POMEROY, O.—Norman Ar- the Jackson, Mich., Lions Club,;°tt found a ring while working and is also a Mason. jin his garden. Checking with the Sorrick was born in Grand /Prevéeys:: property owners, he Rapids, Mich., where he received |found that the ring was dost 50 his education. After a few years | ¥€4!S 460. jin clerical positions he became! ‘| jinterested in manufacturing. For ; SS SSS aa Ss. a time he was office manager of ‘ARE THERE ANY an auto wheel company in Lans- ‘ing, Mich. Then he worked for) ‘RECIPROCAL PLANS ON TRADE CLAIMS MEET’S ATTENTION | FOREIGN MINISTERS’ CON- (By Associated Press) HAVANA, July 25.—Reciprocal trade agreements between Pan- American nations represented at the Foreign Mimsters’ Conference jan this city sook the limelight to- iday. ; Chief in importance in this Phase of the conference was the itavor with which the United !States looks on the establishment of a huge fund for loan purposes first battalion, and Batteries “A” |to any Pan-American country. ° Congressional approval of idea, however, is yet to come. The fund would be used to ‘purchase agricultural surpluses of South American countries to ‘keep them out of foreign econom- ic channels of barter and ex- change. ) Argentina was expected to submit a counter-proposal to the conference today, offering their ideas on the project to place all lands in this hemisphere con- trolled by foreign nations under jtrusteeship. That nation has been strongly opposed to the action jfavored by a majority of the na- : tions. ; Co-operative defense plans were also to be discussed at the sessions today, sponsored chiefly jby Venezuela and Cuba, the na- jtions that have advanced strong measures on that subject. | Other subjects vet to be cov- ered include mutual protection fagainst fifth columnists, a sub- iject touched briefly last night; neutrality provisions and other ‘economical co-operation. the NEXT BEST TO VEST (By Associated Press) McCOMB, Miss.—Editor Oliver Emmerich, of the Daily Enter- prise, and H. J. Vest, a friend, {Spied a roll of greenbacks on the |sidewalk. | Vest got the bills. | “At least I got a story out of De | Fall As British ProveSuperior COUNTRY’S , Driven Off Today By: Both Candidates Like Soil ‘Smaller Number VP. IS A FARMER“ "= (Asnocinied Presse Feature Servier) jo matter which party wins November, the next Vice Pres dent of the United States w a farmer. Here's proof McNARY live Salem, Ore. “Fir his home, is a community place, has filbert. walnut. cherry and pear orchards. McNary veloped the largest prunc market, sells its juice as a b fast drink. The 66-year-old sez tor from Oregon in 1926 sponsor ed the McNary-Haugen toed by Coolidge to U. S. grain growers to sel He has always supporte electric power—one to get cheaper electricity farmers. WALLACE has achieved mark ed success as a corn hushandmar and cattle breeder. Incidentally he founded those corn-husking contests. He ra corn and wheat in lowa, developed a new (“Hi-Bred”) corn that yields four to 10 bushels more an acre than ordinary varieties. He third of his family to edit weekly “Wallace's Farmer Iowa Homestead”. He think reciprocal trade treaties he riculture. And he was one the founders of the AAA are ro ona he ca show or subsudize abroad being reason nd > ae it”, wrote Emmerich. NO DEMOCRATS { | | cee | Ry JACK STINNETT, A | WASHINGTON, July 25— {Things to pe remembered about jthe Chicago convention: In spite of the stampede which Wendell L. Willkie’s tunique method of political blitz- |krieg started at Philadelphia, no Jone at Chicago made any effort be duplicate it. James A. Farley did do a lot of lobby-hopping, \but it was nothing like Willkie’s Hone wolf prowls on the hunt for idelegates. Sen. Burton K. Wheel- jer generally was around his MADE ANY Aspirant: Kept a Ta That Was All “= TO IMITATE WILLKIE BLITZKRIEGING = P Feature Service Writer in the ring fof the vice-prest dency, said “That time will come although perhaps not for 10 20 years”. Those Jittery Police Not even political convention are free from the practical joker * pests. One stuck a firecracker m. to the vest pocket of one of the delegates and lighted it It was just outside one of the Stadium * entrance and the speed with which the police descended on the unfortunate victim is a dem or varie A ber of the, Tampa Lodge, was a guest of the order. Mesdames present were: Con- cha Vasquez, Josefina Johnson, a year as construction engineer in Flint, Mich., and for a similar |period with the Hayes wheel; company of Jackson. For a year; Concha Fiallo, Dulce M. Pere: Aide Martinez, Maria Gutsen Armando Aguilar, Josefina Vin- son and A. Gutierrez. Members of the male lodges present were: J. F. Fleitas, Rev. Perez, A. Lucignani, B. Soldano, F. Castro, J. M. Fernandez, Carl Sawyer, Ross Sawyer, S. V. Rod- riguez, J. C. Fernandez, Jose Fernandez, Jose Gonzalez, IL Medina, Julio Perez, J. Calleja, T. Betancourt, O. Milian, G. LaFe, Pedro Oliva, Pedro Agui-| —_ lar, Juan Cobo, John Curtis. Jose M. Fernandez, H. Pons and Alberto Martinez. After the meeting refreshments were served. 40 AND.8 TO MEET NEXT WEDNESDAY Officials of the local 40 and 8, American Legion unit, announced today that the meeting original- ly scheduled for this Friday night has been postponed until Wednesday, July 31. Lions Clubs and the addition of over seventeen thousand men to the roster of the association in the twelvemonth period ending June 1940, which raised the total club figure to 3,817 and the 1embership to 137, by far the rg in the twenty-three years of t Lions Association exist- ence. In he accepting the presidency, ick said that the new year well started, and that plans had been made for a year of unusual expansion in , 1940-41. He stressed the neces- |during the first World War he was active manager of the Hayes’ company plant in Chatham, Ont.,| which was then manufacturing munitions. | In 1923 he took over the post = of vice-president and sales mana- ger of Oxidermo Products, Inc.,! subsequently becoming president and general manager. | He has been active in Lions Club work since 1921, when he’ was one of the original group which formed a Lions Club in’ Jackson that year. He has held many offices in his own club, has; served as district governor of the Lion Clubs of lower Michigan,! and was a director of the Asso-j} ciation for two years. He was: elected to the third vice-presi-! dency in 1937 at the Association convention held in Chicago, and has advanced steadily through the vice-presidenci becoming} President by unanimous vote at/ the Havana convention. | Sorrick’s favorite pastimes are| sailing, hunting, photography andj muskelange fishing. He is also aj farmer, in addition to his busi-! ness interests, operating a 40-j acre mixed farm near Jackson. | T# ISH OOOIO Ls 4-LEAF CLOVERS IN ISLAND CITY? Charles E. French, “Clover Charlie”, of Huntington Park, Calif., wrote The Citizen re- cently asking if anyone resid- ing here would be interested in éxchanging Four Leaf Clovers with him. Through co-operation of various C. of C.’s throughout the nation, Mr. French was able to procure four-leafers : MEET ON SEPT. 2ND West officials inadvertently left | headquarters, receiving delegates jout the names of the followingjand friends. Sen. “Jimmy’ local women from the list: {Byrnes was accessible when you Mrs. Stephen Lowe, Miss Flor- could catch him, but that was ence Williams and Miss Annig about as simple as catching a bat Baldwin. ‘on the wing. Paul V. McNutt _These names added to the pre-! dropped into his palatial head- vious list made a total of nearly i quarters occasionally to pose for seventy-five women who assisted | pictures. But Willkie still is the in the work. The first consign-'one-and-only when it comes to ment of garments went forward |up-setting the traditional apple- to New York headquarters on ‘cart of convention campaigning. Wednesday of this week. | Ladies’ Hats In Ring? PENSION GROUPS T0 It was Sen. Alva B. Adams, ithe Coloradoan, who dug up that | asta old plank in the Demo- cratic platform of 1896, that “no jman should be eligible for a third iterm of the presidential office”. !If he had gone back to 1912, the SILVER SPRINGS, July 25 first convention that President "@NS)—All_ Florida “pension Roosevelt attended, he would groups will meet at Silver | have found a plank favoring a Springs on Labor Day, Septem- | single term for the President. ber 2, it was announced this |Platforms reflect the issues and week by Mrs. Lillian M. Burk. the threats of the day. In 1912, secretary of the temporary com-jthe threats to the Democratic mittee. {party were both President Taft State officials are being invit-'and former President Theodore ed to attend the meeting and par- | Roosevelt. ticipate in a program designed to} There was flutter. mostly fem- provide better pensions for this. ini } } jon groups and a large attendance from all sections of the state is antici- Pated. laughing it off with the ment that she didn’t think yet for a woman to cast her hat onstration of how jittery we are these days. “Gosh”, one of the coppers said to me, “we thought it was an as sassination”. Palestine. Maite ox four sector: wtant amy neunced Britust neuncec Whenever my modesty threat ens to desert me about this pil- Jar of type, I recall that it took a little more than a million words a day to keep you all informed of what went on at the conventions. Of course, no paper can carry 2 millign words. The special cor- respondents and the duplicating services to various papers and groups of papers accounted for the vast verbage. Nearly everyone I talked to at the convention agreed that it was the pressure of delegate and public séenfiment that foreed Roosevelt into the statement be made through Sen. Alben Bark- ley. The convention had bogged down as if wading in 2 swamp * and the degelates were miserable and lifeless. The powers that be insisted thev had to have a jolter and frantically pleaded with FDR to give it to them. Spain ports were way to the Nar Dispetches comtaumenr and some protest: were hemg cus id-red for transmmpsan to Amer- ican nations, calling for cbeerr- ance of neutr up heretufare. by the Atiantec ago. There was no signsture.