The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 15, 1940, Page 1

Associat: i Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 273. Che Key West Citizrn THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Nazis Claim Coventry Is Totally Destroyed > CONGRESS WANTS - _ INVESTIGATIONS MANY LEGISLATORS, CLUDING COMMITTEE MEM- BERS, STATE CHAIRMAN IS Company today TOO AMBITIOUS (By Axsociated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. — Members of Congre: including some who are working with Con- gressman Martin Dies on his in- vestigation of subversive inter- ests in this country, expressed the opinion today that the chair- man is attempting to cover too wide a scope in his effort to track down saboteurs and espionage agents. Stating that Dies should leave prosecution and apprenension of foreign agents to the Federal legal department and F.B.I. men, the objecting congressmen be- lieved that the special congres- sional committee could better serve the Nation’s interests continuing with general investi- gations only. Further light on the William C. Bullitt resignation from the Post of Ambassador to France was shed this morning with the announcement that Mr. Bullitt may be selected to represent the United States in the same capa- city at London. Ambassador Kennedy’s resig- nation, as present representative for England, has not been filed, however. What Do So By ROBERTO UNANUE AP Feature Service BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 15.— The best advice I can offer fel- low Argentin visiting the United States for the first time is this—be yourself. Don’t think yourself a Don Juan (and behave like one) be- cause a North American girl ac- cepts an ‘invitation to spend an hour or an evening with you. And don’t try to transform your- self into a New Yorker overnight by buying “Yankee” clothes. It won't work. The seven-thousand mile step from Buenos Aires to New York is an easy and happy one if the Argentine visitor will only help to make it so. North Americans at home are even more pleasant than abroad—friendly, quick to resent violations of their hos- pitality. Mix With The Folks These ten commandments helped me through three pleas- ant months in the States. Per- haps they will help other Argen- tine visitors also: 1. Do not associate too much with other Latins. Make friends with and be with the North Am- ericans. 2. Being a foreigner has cer- tain advantages and certain dis- advantages—exploit the former and hide the latter. There are few Argentines in the United States and the people are in- terested in us. 3. Do not imitate Norfh Am- ericans. That which appears natural for them may be artificial or forced in one of us. 4. Do not be impatient be- cause so little is known about (Continued On Page Two) SCHEDULE DEC. 23 ischedule, however, by, uth Americans Think About Us, Anyway? The writers of the articles below asked the above question of an Argentine and a Brazilian newspaper man, both of whom visited in the United States recently. Read their answers.) To unr pigs’ 'S*. CUBA ON NEW | Million Pounds Of Bombs | Dropped On British In- | dustrial City In Attack Last Night Two Trips Here Weekly, (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 15. — Nazi claims that the industrial city of Officials of the P. & O. SS. announced the new winter schedule for the S.S. Cuba, which will continue the twice-weekly service from’ this port to Havana. Revision of the brings only one round-trip weekly from Key West to Tampa and St. Peters- burg. Beginning on December 23rd, the S.S. Cuba will leave Key West on Mondays and Thurs- days at 10:30 a. m. for the Cuban capital The one trip per week to Tam- pa is scheduled for departure from Key West at 4:45 p. m. on Fridays and return here on Mon- day mornings at 7:00 a. m. The Cuba will make a round- trip from Havana to Miami, leaving Havana at 7:00 p. m on Mondays and arriving back at Havana on Wednesday at 9:00. IODA SESS S J. A. PRESTRIDGE IS VISITCR HERE J. A. Prestridge. assistant secretary of the Southern Cy- press Manufacturers Ass>cia- tion, of Jacksonville, arrived for an overnight's stay in the city yesterday. Mr. Prestridge will be re- membered as the person who donated the five kinds of cy- Press wood for the renovated Chamber of Commerce of- fice. SILI SSS 3 Ls Coventry was “entirely wiped out” were partly confirmed by the British this morning, follow- ing a ten-and-one-half-hour air attack on that city last night— the worst experience of the war in terms of concentrated attack on any one city. DNB dispatches stated that Coventry today is a mass of ruins, with practically every dwelling, ; Store and factory buiiding celled to the ground. Nazi air- men told of flames from burning buildings that rose skyward suf- ficiently to be seen one hundred miles away on the English coast. A total of 1,000,000 pounds of lev- attack last night, with many new- type, immense missiles unloosed from the dive bombers. Nazis claimed 1,000 were dead or jwounded, and the British au- jthorities admitted that figure to ‘be practically true. Described as a “revenge raid”, 'the Coventry attack was made to “pay the English back” for their air bombing of Munich at the time Hitler was a_ visitor there on an anniversary date re- cently. Royal Air Force activity last night was also described as great- ly increased. Weather conditions made it possible for a large num- ber of raiding units to reach Ber- lin, where a number of main railroad centers were hit by in- cendiary bombs. Nazi sources admitted that the German capital suffered the worst raids of the war last night, but declared that damage wasn’t wor mentioning. The fact. however, that British admitted (Continued on Page Four) | bombs were used in the Coventry! KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1940 MORGAN STRESSED' ‘YOUTH EDUCATION ‘AT ROTARY MEET j INTERNATIONAL SERVICE. PROGRAM FEATURED TALK ' AND SONGS LED BY MBS. | EVA WARNER | { 1 | Dr. A. M. Morgan was the main} | speaker at the Rotary Club meet- i ,ing yesterday noon at luncheon |in the Parish Hall, as introduced | by Sebastian Cabrera, chairman | ; of the International Service com- | | mittee. | ' Rotarian Morgan chose “Youth | | Education” as his subject and j headlined trends that should be! ; He ‘employed in the effort to bring TMP OSI’ IOI SSI SIS otiice world peace. “That can best be assured if our youths are proper- ly educated—not in book studies, alone”, he stated, “but in the characteristics embodying obe- dience, allegiance and faithful- ness.” Mrs. Eva Warner. accompanied by Miss Beatrice Moreno, led the club in singing “Cielito Lindo”, the theme song at Rotary Inter- national convention in Havana, and “I Am An American”, fur- (Continued on Page Two) LIONS HONOR JOHN SIMONE CONGRATULATE BROTHER €r ships on patrol duty at pres- St@ MEMBER AS NEW CITIZEN OF U.S. i { Key West Lions paid honor and congratulations to Lion John- ;ny Simone at their meeting in! the Den last-evening on the oc-* jeasion of his becoming a citizen jof the United States at last Federal Court session. ! Lion Simone thanked his broth- er club members, both for the congratulations and the gift pre- sented, and expressed words of concern for his native country, France, the while pledging full loyalty to his adopted nation. Christmas Tree Benefit plans were discussed at the meeting with chairman Lion Victor Lowe making a plea for used clothing to use as gifts along with toys, ‘fruit and candy. Lions Sid Einhorn, Berlin Sawe yer, Gerald Adams and guest E. H. Sylvester, of the Stork Club, were winners in another of Lion Adrian O’Sweeney’s “Chinese Auctions”. E. C. Kinsman was also a guest at this meeting. i dents, appeared at the "SIP SSSIS GARGANTUA DUE FOR ‘MIDDLE AISLE’ (By Associated Press) SARASOTA, Nov. 15. — (FNS) While social. pages failed to carry the item and even Walter Winchell seems to have missed it. a report from Sarasota this week re- veals the fact that Gargan- tua, the famed Gorilla of Ringling Brothers and Bar- num and Bailey’s circus is about.to “middle aisle” it with Herculita, a young lady gorilla from Cuba. Gargantua, now on tour with the circus will arrive at his winter home here this, week and plans to receive the lady of his, or perhaps we should say, Mr. Ringling’s choice, on January 1. No in- vitations have been issued as yet. WAINWRIGHT JOIN NATHAN MAYO IS _ NATIONAL LEADER IN AGRICULTURE 17TH ANNIVERSARY AS FLORIDA‘'S COMMISSIONER BRINGS REVIEW OF NOTE- WORTHY ACHIEVEMENTS ; TALLAHASSEE, Nov. 15— (FNS) Nathan Mayo’s celebration ‘of his 17th anniversary as Flor- \ida’s Commissioner of Agriculture jentitles him to recognition as jone of the country’s foremost agricultural leaders. He is the third oldest agriculture commis- sioner in point of service in the ‘United States. was first appointed to the he now holds by Governor Cary Hardee to succeed W. A McRae. Since then he has been elected to that office five times by the apprective voters of Florida. ‘vas During his seventeen years of SHIPS ON PATRO! ONLY ONE NAVAL VESSEL IN PORT THIS AFT- ERNOON Comdr. Wilder Baker, U.S.N., commander of the Key West- West Gulf Patrol, announced this noon that the USS. WAIN- WRIGHT, new destroyer of the local patrol, had left to join oth- ent. Four other destroyers are out on patrol—the U.S.S. SIMPSON, U.S.S. BROOME, USS. Mc- ETT. Flagship U.S.S. MacLEISH was the only vessel in port this morning. JUNIORS SPOKE FOR RED CROSS Betty June Cottrell and Ker- mit Roberts, High School stu- Monroe Theatre last night to deliver four- minute speeches in behalf of the local Red Cross chapter's drive to obtain one-hundred percent membership in tre annual Roll Call now progressing this city. The speakers were sponsored by the Junior Red Cross division. in service, Commissioner Mayo has been active in promoting every phase of agriculture. His system of farmers’ markets, inaugurated in Florida several years ago, has been widely copied throughout America and has been a great factor in promoting Florida as a premier farm state. He has lead the fight against illegal artificial coloring and arsenic spraying of fruit, has ob- tained higher maturity rates and has promoted better citrus laws and enforced them through the ite Inspection Bureau. He has (Continued On. Page Two) CCC. BOYS — }CORMICK and U.S.S. PLUNK-' SPECIAL CRIMINAL COURT i SESSION HELD THIS | MORNING Edward Davis, William How-! ard and Eugene Cunningham, members of the C.CC. camp at West Summerland key, were sen- tenced to sixty days in the county | jail this morning at a special session of Criminal Court, Judge Wm. V. Albury presiding. The boys were found guilty of ,Stealing money from Jack Edi- son, another member of the camp. Criminal Court will assemble tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock Eey West. Florida. bes Mes equate cimzte = country; wih ao: range of only 14° F Se | =e average atrenier PEKCE FIVE CEXT. Housing Authority Mef To Okey Award Paul Smith Construction OSS 2222 a os Co. Bid Approved; Cen- IT’S GOING TO BE demnation Proceedings . om as Ordered Local | i I fi { i " t Wallace B. Kirke. director. an nounced this morning thet the Key West Housing Authority. im ‘meeting yesterday afternoon ap | Proved the Paul Smith Construc- tion Company. of Miami ewerd |as transmitted from Washington Total amount of the a i | | | | | i | :! eee which calls for construction the Joseph Y. Porter Place and Fort Village housing projects $587,004 | Members of the authority | approved the final construction activity are B. Curry | Moreno, chairm step bef Williams. The board members appointed Aquilino Lopez, Jr. as its attor- ney, to succeed Henry H. Taylor. Jr., who will leave for National Guard encampment in the near | future. | At the same meeting, the \thority board members passed 2 jresolution authorizing the atter jney to institute conde {proceedings against all property involved in the Fort Village (Conunued on Page Four as [fs 2727 20°°°° AND NOW MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT CAR i } ! Her Perzonality Was for the purpose of drawing jury | names for the of court opening next morning. Monday By E. M. CASTRO AP Feature Service RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 15.— Brazilians, President Ge- tulio Vargas down to the poor- “caboclo” (back country- man), think the American pretty much all right. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—If Anyone with an average edu-|Italy, in its attempted blitzkrieg cation in Brazil knows American on Greece, damages Athens by foreign policy almost as well as raining bombs on the city, it an average Yorker. He! Will be the destruction of what déctn't keww. so: seeth: aheeil ie nearly all American continental e travelers refer to as “the most mestic politics as the New York-| superficially American city in er, of course, but names like Europe or Asia”. LaGuardia, Borah, Garner and This is a phrase that needs Willkie are bywords to him some explaining, but it boils Babe Ruth Famous, But Why? down to the fact that there are Take sports. Baseball is one of few if any cities on the continent the few important games not where an American can feel so Played in Brazil. But the name | much at home. . .so little a strang- of Babe Ruth is as well known in ‘er in a foreign land. Brazil as that of Leonidas, the Almost daily now. I find news- most famous Brazilian football papermen, foreign service offi- (soccer) player, although the ‘cials, former tourists shaking Brazilian doesn’t understand their heads sadly over the pros- , what Babe Ruth did to get fa- pective plight of Athens and re- teas e s calling visits to the metropolis of cre are a lot of reasons Why ‘the Aegean as their happiest days Brazilians feel close to Amer- abroad. Why? icans. Traditionally, Brazilian!” Because at the kiosks on the foreign policy has been pro Am- streets of Athens, you probably erican. The United States isican buy mote Amedican newspa- Brazil's greatest foreign market pers and magazines than any- and her greatest provider. = S this i American movies are by far esis ee — the most popular and through th the Brazil: Ss Cc em the Brazilian has gotten to You REALLY SAVE if you trade in now on a know a lot about American life. Some of the ideas he gets are not 1940 MODEL Electric Refrigerator quite true, as I found out on my pe EY ae NAVARRO. Inc. trip to the States. Exclusive G. E. Appliance Dealer eee from est is New All Americans Together In some other Latin American countries, the man from the United States is called a “North (Continued on Page Two) ‘ Ry JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer |sphere. On the Athens rialto are at least a dozen movies where neon lights boldly announce Hol- lywood films in American and without the bother of Greek sub- titles. In the drug stores you find all of the locally nationally-ad- vertised brands of toilet articles. In the resaurants, you can get American food cooked in the Greek-American manner. In the groceries, you can buy American canned goods and in the shops and department stores are wares bearing American labels. Tops Them All I have no intention of exag- gerating this. Athens, Greece, is not Athens, Ga., but I haven't talked to a traveler here who hasn't commented that it is prob- ably easier to get by in Athens, Greece, without speaking. a for- eign language than in any of’the continental cities. The reason for all this is sim ply that probably more Greeks| than any other nationality have *come to America to make their fortunes, large or small, and re- turned to live out their days and irear their families in the “old; country”. Living is so cheap (or at least has been down through | the years) that a man with a few thousand dollars can return to/. his little village, buy a-_ small farm, a cow, goats and a few | olive trees and live like the king of his community. These affluent. Repatriated Greeks Have Made Athens. Most ‘American’ City In All Europe 1 repatriots, having gotten a taste of American life, demand such things as western and detective stories, a copy of the “old home town” newspaper, American mo- vies, and a few luxuries such as American toothpaste, scented soap, ten-cent lipstick. Lived At Little Rock A friend told me this story. She was traveling less than two years ago in the mountains where the people have been hearing the thunder of guns. At a little vil- lage, the party stopped and she hiked off alone to a tiny house that topped a nearby crest. There were a half dozen children about and when they found that the lady came from America, they in- sisted that she wait to meet their father. Soon he came and in the heartiest Americanese that ever rolled over the Ozarks, told his visitor that he had lived for 10 years and amassed “his fortune” in the “greatest little city in the southwest”, Little Rock, Ark. All over Greece, from Crete to Macedonia, it is the same. The condition is enhanced no doubt} TONIGHT—at Key West Stork Club Hal Durnell and His Orchestra also James Francis at the Solovox No Minimum — No Cover Charge At Any Time Bar Open From Noon Phone 406 by the fact that there is a con- flict in our naturalization laws and Greece does not recognize an American natural. . IF he re- turns to Greece. Many now are finding out about that. Having November term j Bv SIGRID ARNE. AP Festure woe WASHINGTON Nov !These past few months ‘political wrangling have 'the personality of a woman | most as much of an issue as WPA jor TVA That has never |this country before. } But Eleanor Roosevelt jand quite probably will continue to be—a national issue The lady, herself, the record” for the as nearly “off the woman can who is political campaigner husband. Service a happened Was went “off s campaign record” 2 seasoned who likes or returned to the old country, they | are being inducted into the serv- ice, regardless of their American naturalization papers. Acropolis And Parthenon? There is one cther point that former tourists to Athens are wondering aboui. Will the Axis, raining bombs from the sky above Athens, blast the Acropolis and complete destruction of the Par- thenon which was started by an Italian and a German just 253 years ago? In 1687, the Doge. Moerosini, and a German prince, laid siege to Athens, blew up the powder magazine in the Parthenon, and began the vandalism of Pericles’ great masterpiece-of Attic art which eventually reduced it to its present state of ruih. Place Order NOW For Your Thanksgiving Turkey SOFT-BONE ROASTERS FRYERS i Market Phone 540 She went off the record after a dramatic air trip to the Chicage convention in July to make brief speech. It was hoped her ap- pearance would heal the wounds of that meeting The President, & speech to the convention, referred to “my good wife”. thereby recognizing publicly among his party workers that his wife is 2 |party force to reckon with, either on or off the record. Sew More Of Family | In 1936, as well as this year Mrs. Roosevelt took advantage of _ the campaign to see more of her family. Roosevelt critics pomied in Tad looks forward to her off-the-rec- ord spells with the family.