The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 26, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 178. | British Down 28 Nazi Panes In Single Day Record Covers Past 24 FEDERAL PATROL Hours; Gemany Aé-'T0 PROTECT BEDS mits RAE. Inficted OF SPONCE UR Much Damage | | (PNS).—€arl Byoir, well-known {STATE C. OF C. REQUESTS | public relations counsel, was giv-| (By Associated Press) I : ‘ LONDON, July 26.—British' IMMEDIATE RE-ESTABLISH-|en a clean bill of health by the Federal Bureau of Investigation = ‘NT RM! INSPEC- Dae war office reported today ue Fan CaNene after carefully investigating RAF. TION charges of un-American activities made against him by Congress- {man Patman. The following statement the case was released by the De- partment of Justice last week: “The investigation made by the FBI concerning allegation against Carl Byoir discloses no evidence whatsoever that he has been en gaged in any un-American activi- ties. No basis for departmental action has been found and the case js regarded as closed”. Commenting on the Depart- ment of Justice statement, Byoir said: “Naturally, Iam most happy that the Department of Justice has let the public know that the FBI investigation completely re- CLEAN BILL BY FBI ON SPY CHARGES WRONGFULLY ACCUSED HAP- PY OVER DECISION: PRAIS- ES PROMPTNESS OF INVES- TIGATION | WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26 that, had’ downed a total of 28 Nazi bomb-! defending forces (Special to The Citizen) WASHINGTON, July 26.—Im- last twenty-four hours, being the mediate re-establishment of the largest amount of enemy planes Federal patrol to protect sponge beds off the West Coast of Flor- ida was requested here today by the Florida State Chamber of Commerce. ing and attack planes during the on destroyed in a day since the start of the air invasion. Total planes downed since June 15th were listed at 213 by! Addressing all members of the the British. Florida delegation in the capital, Nazi dispatches. on the other Harold Colee, State Chamber hand, reported that air fights executive v: e-president, declar- over England had brought an- eq the government must resume nihilation to 23 English defend- its former inspection and’ patrol ing planes since yesterday. Ger- work to stop poaching of under- man attacks, mostly, are being. sized sponges or “the sponge in- directed against all shipping qustry of this state will be com- around the British Isles, appar- pletely destroyed”. . Key THE SOUTHERNMOST NE! CARL BYOIR GIVEN SPAPER IN THE U. S.A. Report of Congressman Pat,proved of Capt. Jacobs’ recom- Cannon to The Citizen that the!mendation that the submarine $500,000 authorization in the nav-|base be dredged to 23 feet”, al bill for the marine railway!Commander Brady said. “About had been reported to Congress/250,000 cubic yards of material yesterday led to the announce+/ are to be dredged out of the base ment by Capt. Walter F. Jacobs,:under. that recommendation”. commandant of Key West naval}, That amount of dredging means station, of three important de4/that the submarine base will be velopments. deepened from approximately 19 They were: |feet to 23 feet, including the en- 1, That “it was presumed” trance. It will be recalled that marine railway referred to thqisome months ago a submarine construction of a new railway/put into port at Key West, but between piers five and six in thgjwas not permitted inside the submarine base. s|base. The entrance was said to 2. That the navy department have been too shallow for it to has approved of Capt. Jacobs’: enter. recommendation that the subma-}. The marine railway would be rine base be dredged to the depthibig enough to permit submarines of 23 feet. and destroyers to be hauled up 3. That he had recommended for repairs. to the navy department a “large at the southern end of the sub- amount” of dredging at Trumbo airfield so that seaplanes may be landed without difficulty. Lieut. Commander T. J. Brady, public works officer at the naval station, verified the marine rail- way story. He said that it had been recommended several months ago that the old marine railway be put in the submarine base. “Since that time the navy de- further word as to the meaning partment is reported to have ap-‘of the bill before Congress. Piers five and six. Capt. Jacobs was unable to state the exact amount of dredg- ing that would be undertaken at Trumbo airfield. Certain it for seaplanes of the size utilized by the navy require a long run- condition at way. BILL CALLING FOR $500,000 EXPENDITURE BELIEVED COVERING THREE IMPROVEMENTS HERE RED CROSS AID | GOES CHIEFLY | TO BRITONS |pabE COUNTY DIRECTOR w-| ROOSEVELT PLANS TERPRETS NATIONAL RE- | PORT FOR LOCAL OFFI- | CERS | W. W. Jefferson, Jr., executive ‘director of the Dade County }Chapter of the American’ Red }Cross, has just recently passed on some interesting facts to the local director, Mrs. Grace B. Phil- lips, in regard to activities of the war relieif work being conducted in Europe by that organization. According to a full report of the Red Sross work released by Norman Davis, national chari- man, the relief now being admin- | tributed to by local chapters being chiefly centered in England jat the present time. ; According to Mr. Jefferson, jnone of the funds now being | by either of those countries. | “At the outbreak of the war”, he States, “aid was offered to all ;_ Congressman Cannon gave no belligerents, but Germany, Rus-! sia and Japan stated that they needed no assistance. Hence, all of our assistance has been going est Citttzrn 1941 Tax Kol Sat A> Equakzatee Bet: Last Night; Brief Spe Gal Sesion Held: RE Crammer Heard REFUGE SAILINGS GUARANTEE SAFE TRAVEL FOR CHILDREN i j i Tee epecnes = seus =— were ot Sie for Sy ces = (Ry Anseciated Press) WASHINGTON, July 2 President Roosevelt annoum today that the U.S may ask a! belligerent nations to guarantee safe travel for planned sailings Sideries «tf the equalicetioe Doert meeting mec ae mot | It would be placed |istered abroad, so willingly con- American ships from foreige shores carrying children fram the marine base, probably between | throughout the United States, is war zones The real question im the matter is—safety, the President going on to point out that such Stated is| gathered are going into Germany humanitarian work could no that the volume would be large, |°F Italy or to countries controlled carried on without foreign ’ operation. ‘ Havana Reports Reports from the New World Conference now veing held | Havana brought news of the first | definite accomplishment gained ently in an effort to cut off sup- Mr, Colee said he has been ad-. futes charges of un-American -ac- |to the Allied countries until the! today. That was the adegtine of ply "lines “bringing armaments’ vised by George M. Emmanuel tivities made against me by Con-! ;capitulation of France. and food supplies. Shipping sunk totalled 63,000 tons during the past two days, according to Nazi advices, though the British here listed only two small trawlers sunk in that pe- riod. Meanwhile, British counterat- tacks against Germany are being conducted constantly. Nazis ad- mitted today damage to much property over a wide area, in- flicted by the R.A-F., but the lat- ter had not reported on the ex- tent of recent raids at press time today. British admitted that a terrific bombardment by seaplanes and ships of the Italian navy had been experienced by the base at Gibraltar. ‘No serious ‘damage ‘was reported, however. From Berlin came the news that Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop has been given the job of smooth- ing out the Balkan “mess”. In conference with Rumanian offi- cials today it was reported that that country appeared amenable to the idea of making some con- cessions to Bulgarian and Hun- garian demands for lands, provid- ing Germany would act in behalf of Rumania in getting some of Bessarabian territory back from Russia. of the Sponge Producers Corpora- tion at Tarpon Springs that the recent mysterious disease deci- mating the beds has now: disap- peared and young growth is coming back fast. “But divers have been picking sponges less than five inches in diameter, and if we don't get some help—an appropriation from the Bureau of Fisheries in Wash- ington—all the beds will be ex- terminated”, Mr. Emmanuel em- phasized. - Action of the State Chamber, Mr. Colee remarked, was in line with that of the Chambers of Commerce in Tampa and Tarpon Springs, as well as the Rotary Clubs in those two Florida cities. Tarpon Springs is celebrated far and wide as the largest sponge market in the entire world. 1gressman Patman. “I know that the public is not interested in an individual case, jbut I feel there is an important principle involved here. It would be a terrible situation if, in times tof great public feeling, citizens ‘had no protection against mal- jicious accusations attacking their Letters and wires have been LLB. Delay ‘May | Cost County Money “At the present time practical- ly all of our supplies are going {into England and to the unoccu- pied territory of France but these lonly where we are able to do |the distributing by our own rep- resentatives”. * | Mr. Jefferson says he hopes to ployed to carry on this work ef- |make a visit to Key West in the !loyalty made on the floor of Con-!sent by Clerk Ross C. Sawyer to ficiently so the citizens and land|near future, perhaps next week. gress by a congressman abusing his legal immunity. Many people do not know that under this im- munity a congressman cannot be sued for slander for anything he |‘© SPecd up the signing of the their lands”, said Caruthers let- says in the Congress. “Mr. Patman, of course, attacked me in the hope of dis- crediting some of the opposition to his now dead chain ‘store tax bill, which I frankly opposed as a public relations counsel. “The promptness with which had; iF. C. Elliott, secretary of the jtrustees of the Florida Internal {Improvement Fund, asking him ‘deeds of the Murphy act land sold in this county. | Roy Caruthers, secretary of the State Association of County Clerks, has written Clerk Elliott suggesting a hiring of additional clerks ‘to sign the deeds to the property “so that the citizen land owners of this state would owners of this state would not |He told Mrs. Phillips that he . | would advise her when he ex- be caused trouble and delay nt to be in the city so that a redeeming and repurchasing ‘conference of local board mem- | bers may be called for the pur- ter to Elliott. j Pose of discussing any problems “With that I can certainly | that may exist in the local chap- agree”, declared Clerk Sawyer |ter. today. “If we do not receive the} neutrality regulations by all ™a>- American nations dealing with establishment of safety zones The measure deals at length with the definition of Interne- tional Marine Law (By Associated Freee) LONDON.—Preference is bem given to wives of service men at Queen Charlotte's Maternity hos- pital here. The hospital reported that in the first World war more than 5,000 babies were born * service men’s wives. Many those babies are in war service today. deeds by Jan. 1 the property can- } not be certified on,the 1941 tax) toll. The county, the state and| school trustees will lose the} taxes.” Training Reveals Civilians 2 Law prohibiting the taking of the Federal Bureau of Investiga- not be caused trouble and delay under-sized sponges has been on the books for more than 20 years, Mr. Emmanuel stated, “but has not been enforced since 1932 when the -government discon- timued the Teasons of economy. Florida has jurisdiction up to ten miles out, ‘but not after that. We must have} a 24-hour, dav and night, Federal patrol if we are to save the Flor- ida sponge industry and the hun- dreds of families dependent upon office of inspector for | tion made a thorough investiga- tion of Mr. Patman’s charges} > seems to me to serve notice that | eit lands”. no citizens will be burned ‘at the| , Clerk Sawyer reports that on stake in this country by irrespon- [aaa gathe ee teh tee tad sible attacks even in high places”. promised “by duly 102: When |July 26 arrived the deeds were | |not on hand yet, and Clerk Saw-, PREPARE TO WELCOME VISIT- | (My Associated Preas) lyer reports that if the deeds are j MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Clarence, a/ not oh received the county, a eae ae Negro, learned about justice when | state and school trustees will los: HAVANA CONVENTION | he was sentenced to 60 day in jail. | another year's taxes an the prop. | He won't have to serve them un- | erty involved. | | in redeeming and repurchasing LIONS MET | LAST NIGHT “Soft”, Need Conditioning (Special te The Citizen) FORT McPHERSON, Ga., July 26.—If trainees at the special business and professional men's Citizens’ Military Training Camp here have their way about iti, the conditioning program they are getting is not going to stop when they go home August 6. jit for their daily bread”. FISH ON WAY TO sh scr PHILA. AQUARIUM Federal-Sta DR. VAN DEUSEN MAKES AN- NUAL SHIPMENT TO FAIR- MOUNT PARK itil the crops are in next fall. te Conference To Discuss Defense Laws Aboard the SS. City of Phila- A confe: o rence of Federal, State | ticipants, however, will not be delphia, which put in here from and local officials to Promote co-| committed to particular courses Houston yesterday on a courtesy operation and understanding of of action. call, were placed 2800 unique and law enforcement problems aris-, Separate section meetings will valuable tropical fish for trans- ing from national: defense has be held on these subjects: portation to Fairmount Park been called by the Department of 1. “It is realized that this addi- Ke ii ; e ey West Lions Club held tional work by the trustees of their weekly supper meeting last the Internal Improvement Fund night at the Lions Den and laid has worked a certain amount of plans for an informal greeting to hardship upon them, but certain- the visiting delegate Lions re- ly sufficient help could be em- turning to this city tomorrow and FUNDERBURKS TQ) comvenson'in tavana LEAVE SATURDAY The local club will coo ite with the Redlands Lions Club by Mr. and Mrs. B. Funderburk, residents in this city for the past , inviting all disembarking Lions ten years where Mr. Funderburk ; to stop at that Lions club’s club- | house in Homestead. No definite ‘entertainment has been planned in this city for the weekend al- though all visitors will be re- In the third week of their 30- day voluntary military training Program, the civilian leaders |from eight southern states are | beginning to get hardened, and Cc. G. Milner, Rome, Ga. auto- i mobile dealer, said he “never felt j better in my life” and that sore |muscles are inni to '“straighten out”. The military j training is coming up to ex- | pectations, he said. E. L. Mat- | thews, editor of the Starke, Fla ' 1 Aquarium, Philadelphia. There are more than 70 varie- ties in the catch, and Dr, Robert O. Van Deusen, director of ‘the aquarium, who has ‘been super- vising the gathering of the fish as he has done for years, aj that it was his most unusual col- lection. From cars in which the fish were held since they were caught, they were hauled in tubs to the deck of the steamship. They were placed in tanks in which the water is constantly flowing. There were 16 of these tanks. The City dinarily does not put into Key West. She runs between Hous- ton and Philadelphia and it was a courtesy call. of Philadelphia or-; Justice, August 5 and 6, at Wash- ington, D. C. More than 800 invitations have ‘been sent to members of the Gov- ernors’ Conference, the Council of State Governments, the National Association of Attorneys Gen- eral and the Interstate Commis- sion on Crime, which are spon- soring the meeting. Representa- tives of the U S. Conference of Mayors and the American Muni- cipal Association have also been asked to attend. The Conference is designed to work out plans for cooperation! on such matters as espionags, mob violence, aliens and general interference with the operation of the law enforcement and na- tional defense program. Par- Protective and preventive measures and policies relating to | Properties essential to national ‘defense. | 2. Treatment of espionage, sedition, propaganda, mob vio- lence, violations of civil liberties, interference with operation of law enforcement and national de- fense program. 3. Treatment of aliens, their registration and position in the community and industry. 4. Methods for considering and exchanging proposals regard- ing administrative cooperation and new legislation. 5. Public education to secure general cooperation with Federal and State Governments and citi- zens with respect to foregeing ob- jectives. jhas been a member of the Bar- racks force, will leave Key West tomorrow for ‘Charleston, S. C. They will be accompanied by Mrs. Funderburk’s sister, Miss Edith Wommack. Mr. Funderburk has been transferred to Ft. Moultrie at | Charleston, and is to report for jduty next Monday. Both he and his wife expressed sincere re- grets at having to leave this city. Soft Bone ROASTERS, Ib. _ 32c BROILERS (1% to 1% Ibs.) |1214 White Street Phone 540 minded of a dance at the Concha hotel tomorrow ys Meeting last night was of in-) ,- anti “ Hformal nature. Tailtwister fea-| ‘Ve Patriotism and “most of us tured another in a series of base- ball-spelling bees. Johnny Si-! mone’s Red Sox defeated Joe, Lopez’ Pink Bloomers, 2 to 1 in a} hotly contested two-inning af-!n Grist, of York, S. C., salesman jand member of a long prominent +South Carolina family. J. Y. El- DANCE TOMORROW in the it 1s to whik” and that they «x- pect to walk regularly when they return home Plenty of hiking, firing of mod- ern weapons, including the new Garand rifles, the 37 milimeter | anti-tank gun, the machime rifles and the 30 caliber machine gums have been on the schedule reg ularly. An overnight hike is planned for July 31-August 1, when the trainees, with full pack. will march to Black Rock lake, about ten-miles from Atlanta, pitch camp and sleep im tents during the night, pack up and return to i tr Mt