The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 19, 1940, Page 1

Associat« 1 Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXI. No. 276. TWO GUILTY OF ASSAULT £: Me<Vetsh’s:Love oF Hitler AT CRIMINAL COURT SES. SION: MANSLAUGHTER | TRIAL OPENS TOMORROW By JACK STD New Balkan Combination Conferences With Bul-; Two juries brought in guilty If those quetins are answer verdicts in as many assault and MacVeagh will ene deeply oa battery cases this morning in deed. No representative of the $f i : United States has more thorough- Criminal Court. Judge William ly and whole-heartedly adopted iV. Albury presided, with all any country than MacVeagh has Supremaey (By Assvelated Press) LONDON, Nov. 19.—There was of at least a momentary lull in air fighting today—both over Great Britain and over the European: continent. Warring nations ap- Pear to be pausing to await out- comet th various cep tomatic (cae the post’s headquarters building on Whitehead street The flag was donated, accord- ing to the announcement, in memory of Sgt. Nodine’s brother, Edward Nodine, who died on Oc-} tober 26th past at Yonkers, N. Y. | Edward Nodine was a Legion-! naire, his brother here explained, ‘and he saw no better way to per- petuate his memory and service} to the country than to present; ‘the local post with the flag. ! Officials of Arthur Sawyer Post acclaimed the gracious act of Sgt. Nodine—accepting the gift inthe name of the post lasti weekend. ferences being held by axis pow- ers. Germany and Italy continued to hammer at British control of the middle-east and Mediter- ranean sectors of Europe—but the action is through diplomatic channels. Parleys are being held, and more scheduled, in an effort to tighten the axis’ grip on the Balkans and to foster a gigantic maneuver to snap the British Em- pire’s life-line. Prelude to the present plotting ‘was the conféfence “announced yesterday between Hitler, Count Ciano and representatives from Spain. Today, it was revealed that Hitler would next shift his attentions more directly on the Balkans with a conference sched- uled with Bulgarian officials, ARRIVES IN CITY headed by King Boris himself. | Siti It is believed here that Hitler’ is seeking permission to transport troops and equipment through PARATIONS FOR WHITE Bulgaria to aid the Italians in their so-far futile fight against PROJECT Greece. t If that interpretation is true, es | observers pointed out that such a maneuver would bring the Nazis right up to the border of Turkey. How the Turks will feel aboyt that action is anybody’s guess— though it has been felt by the British that they would not un- der any circumstances give up control of the vital Dardenelles. Still more conferences between axis-power officials have been announced, to be held in Vienna. Then, as many believe, a renew- ed attack on the British, apart from the home fronts, will get under way. No planes came across from France or Germany today: from dawn until mid-afternoon—giv- ing the British populace a much- needed breathing spell and a chance to clear away wreckage of past bombings. Announcement was made this morning that another concentrat- ed Nazi raid occurred at Liver- pool last night. German sources claimed that industrial plants were hit in large numbers. Brit- ish officials, on the other hand, j assert that bombs fell only in ,court attendants present. adopted Greece. | Franklin Russell was the first) For seven years, this quiet, == = = case presented to a jury. He was'scholarly New Englander has ‘SGT. GEO NODINE found guilty, but his sentence ‘heen our chief diplomat in the garia And Hungary . . has been deferred for the pres-' shadow of the Acropolis. His love k — = Poses 6f: Roberts anaa: * and knowledge of Greece, how- Ai t British- ‘In’ Me Rae ‘oSeph ‘ever, dates much farther back Aimed At British-Greek Jp Memory Ot Brother — was next heard. Another than that—at least 30 years back DONATES A FLAG 220 Bus not suitty. and his eee eee oes brother, Joseph, guilty. Joseph classics. ms ee ; Was sentenced to pay $25.00 fine 3 & ;and costs or to spend 60 days in Knows Every Village Members Arthur Sawyer; the county jail. Long before he was appointed Post, No. 28, American Legion,| The court callendar calls for to his post, MacVeagh knew his announcedithis morning that Sgt lopening of the Robert Sawyer Greece from Crete to Macedonia. Giseen Node Es manslaughter case tomorrow ‘Since then, he has traveled over cs - * {morning. Sawyer was held for almost every foot of it, going by ; member of the local Army Bar- | trial by a coroner’s jury, follow- donkey over the rough mountain racks’ personnel. had donated an’ ing the death of Gilbert De- trails and on walking tours American Flag to the post, which! meritt after Sawyer had struck through the less rugged sections. now flies to the breeze from atop , him in a street brawl on Thurs- There is a story in Greece that day, November 7th. there is not a town or village in - the country where MacVeagh SI DL LE BBM, bes not stayed the night. There is a saying that even the Greeks HE CHASES FIRES go to MacVeagh for out-of-the- way information about their JUST LIKE MAYOR '**) a ‘Aceolaclanimbcusy When MacVeagh looks up at RATON, N. M., Nov. 19.— : Me Assistant Fire Chief Louis ,"Uins that are familiar to almost Dolan not only fights fires, CVety schoolboy, but the majestic Hadicein caaaeanene imarble beauty of the Driving his car toward the ; which was the inspiration of fire sintion, he saw a cloud , Pericles and adorned by Phidias, of smoke on a distant street. T° of the greatest of the im- He investigated and discov. mortals among the sculptors. He ered a truck blazing near {knows every catastrophe that be- garage and other buildings. ‘fell the temple down through the Running to a telephone, he | 22°S to bring it to its present summoned his fire- laddies | ‘T@8ic state. before any serious damage When MacVeagh stands on the occurred. thills above Marathon, he hears \Militiades haranguing the Athe- "SI SIDS GIP Gs vian generals and inspiring them Key West Guardsmen Find Soldiering Fu The following article was prepared for The Citizen by the Publicity Department of the Key West Guard. GOING OVER INITIAL PRE- Paul A. Smith, head of the; Paul Smith Construction Com-! pany, Miami, arrived in the city! this morning, according to Wal-! lace B. Kirke, director of the! is ten el eee | On October 16, throughout the Mr. Smith’s company was the NA On 8 S00. 000 a umesaCans Tes asi dahies etic stao istered for service to their coun- housing projects for this city.!'¥- Before the year is out He came here today to go over |M2ny of these will be serving as aes “eae regular soldiers. initial preparations before actual |""T03.. there is another call ‘f construction starts on the Joseph | pinged: gpalits vey 9 Y. Porter Place project on Trum- | enlistment going out and _ this polisiand. jtime to those citizens of this Condemnation proceedings or eoaees Stead peering of Haag the Fort Village project, which ie rl tbe se atl will consume the néxt month or! UY tes will no! — two, aré in process of being in, /active service for the defense of ee ‘their country. stituted by the authority’s at- Poe desbde: 5 torney, Aquilino Lopez, Jr, and! This time the call is a volun- torne tary one and comes from the it will not be possible to consider 5 construction plans on this proj- Home Guard, of which Key West : ei jis one of the first units to be Se eee !organized in the United States COMMITTEE PLANS 50 WPA WORKERS RED CROSS BALL START WEDNESDAY reslden inl sections of tee city. | STORDE Erato ar | LOCAL, CREICEEADIREIME, | soya. ir Force oOfficiais an- 9 ce: ; nounced today that new methods! DAY NIGHT: BENE ASSIGNEES WHERE FITS ROLL CALL - to the members a different phase of combatting air attacks were being developed They predicted TO MEET of the functions of the home z ! : guard. that even as most daytime at- = tacks have been stifled of late—| Local Roll Call committee of! zu : ‘onight,-Col. H. D. Hatfield, the night raids will become in- the Red Cross chapter, Mrs. R. T. Fifty WPA. oa paige U.S. Marines, will begin a series haeedieney Peg ly ‘Or of addresses to “fi Menner, chairman; announced feeteks col Uite nen pegmcieae = Ciocioa soccypy ~ the first creasingly ineffective as time 5. SSeS. ‘i ¥ pat of the meeting. His talk this ss sae eres =a ptiial Rifle Range, project .on,Stock Is- yeyenirig is Ee of the ; jland tomorrow morning. Soldier and-School of the Squad” Nazis claimed that two sub- marines accounted for 45,000 tons | Saturday night. of British shipping yesterday and Responding to initial call for What bothered some of the! There is a’definite teed in the sea raider action had brought jreservations, an imposing list of men, however, was how to get to'Key West Guard ‘for every man more losses, total not disclosed. society leaders in Key West have = of the project—six miles of the community who is not at ignifi i i = : ‘the present time taking part in signified their intentions of at- Local headquarters solved the other militedy activites Doser England refuses to confirm or deny the latest shipping losses, tending the affair, destined, as oe : : . 4 # question in a special release this ! Attend tonight’s meetii ithe committee points out, to be moi which cll’ all = Logis Riper ien = ting although the report on ships sunk (Continued on Page Four) without meraten Ae ae during the week ending Novem- , ber 10th was given as 10 vessels f 35,000 to the WPA garage, corner of Si . total topeeee STRAND THEATER ;monton and Greene streets, 8:00; i o'clock tomorrow morning. i WHITMAN S CANDIES ; Dennis Morgan—Elizabeth Earl | This notice was felt necessary. ; Fresh Shipment Just In } —in— Tegardless of the fact that sever-} All Sises—All Kinds j RIVER'S END jal had inquired at headquarters | PRESS ' Comedy and News Reel |concerning means of getting to| Gardner’s Pharmacy _| Matinee, 3:30 p. m. __ 20c and 30c their work. Trucks will be em-) “The Rexall Store” | Night, 6:30 p. m. __ 30c and 40c ployed daily to transport the men! Phone 177 Free Delivery | i ————______eassss t0 the new project. i and which was recently charter- ed by Congress. have answered this call and have built the Key West Guard tary organization capable of cop- ing with any emergency which may arise inthis city. . .such duties now being. performed by the Florida National Guard which will be called into active army service_within a few months. These men who ‘comprise the Key West Guard are finding that there’s plenty of fun in soldier- ,ing outside of the serious nature of the project. They like the companionship of their fellow soldiers and find something new stretch. Each week officers of the Key ; West Guard atempt to bring out "Roosevelt's Thanksgiving Eve. BALLOON DANCE Wednesday Night jthe Acropolis, he sees not the; temple | into a highly efficient semi-mili-_ ‘ETT, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Will Greece fall to the Axis? Will Lincoln MacVeagh, United States env | minister plenipotenitary to the land of Homer H | another minister without a country? cu in ERED IF AXIS OVERPOWERS GREECE extraordinary and id Socrates, become ‘ed in the affirmative, then Lincoli « to that battle fervor that made it possible for a handful of Greek warriors to drive into the sea a Persian host which outnumbered ‘them ten to one and to write in- to history the first great battle which changed the course of the world. When MacVeagh, seven years’ ago,- presented .his credentials to the government, he spoke up in informal but . perfect modern Greek. That, say friends here, is how our envoy and minister to the latest country to hear the roar of Axis guns knows his Greece. World War Major Lincoln MacVeagh was born 50 years ago in Narragansett Pier, R. I. He attended both Groton and Harvard and in those years became acquainted with the Roosevelt family. He attended the Sorbonne in Paris for a year and went into the Army, rising to the rank of major during the (Continued on Page Four) GREECE READY FOR NEW D |BOLSTER ALL LINES AS | ITALIANS GET NEW RE- i INFORCEMENTS j (By Associated Press) ATHENS, Nov. 19. — Greek |army officials today announced that they were ready for.any ne’ offensives that the Italian army may institute. ' The announcement was made coincident with news from Rome ___ | to’the effect that large reinforce- {ments had arrived on the Al- 'banian fronts to bolster the at- | tacking forces. Fighting today found the Italians still driven “back on | their haunches”—as the Greeks leapitalized on their smoothly- ‘running offensive machine. New _equipment was seized and hun- dreds of Italian troops taken prisoner. Main point of the new Italian drive is said to be considered for the vicinity of Koritza, ten miles bania. CHAMPION FATHER (By Associated Press} CONWAY, S..C_——Ed J. Rob- | erts, a tobacco planter, is a father ‘again—for the 30th time. He has jbeen married twice. Sixteen |children were by his first wife. !Twenty-four of the children are living. BONES OF MAMMOTH UNEARTHED | OMAHA, Neb. — The skeleton of a mammoth. estimated to have in their Tuesday night meetings | been at least twelve feet tall and which Sometimes bring on a good; probably 6,000 years old,. has} |stiffmess in the legs brought onjbeen excavated from the fine! | by regular drills which makes the |sands of a lime and cement com-! fellows realize how good it is to pany quarry near Louisville, Neb. | | The size of the beast, ancestor of | the modern elephant, is revealed ‘by the toe bones which are about six inches long and three inches wide and thick. 90 Days! City laws now, require all resi- : dents living on streets on which sewer laterals have been installed to connect up their house lines with the system. Ninety days from date of pub- the time limit. | FIFTY-SEVEN DAYS HAVE 1! ‘TURKEYS | SOFT-BONE ROASTERS j Order TODAY For Your THANKSGIVING DINNER | Brady’s Poultry Market 1216 White Street Phone 540 Greece Dates Back 30 Years “DUCKS | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1940 i AIDS NATIONAL DEFENSE WORK rimenaaons, a ADDED TO FLORIDA'S SWELLING QUOTA: MA- | S=2=5 On Aqueduct | oe i | (Special to Tre Citizen) JACKSONVILLE. Nov. 19.— The newly authorized increase of 4,000 in the Florida WPA em- ployment quota for the last half of November will aid materially in speeding up national defense construction in every part of the state, according to Administrator Roy Schroder. Fully 75 per cent of the in- crease, or 3,000 workers, will be ladded immediately to the person- | nel of national defense projects, ,and 1,000 will be employed by :the professional and service divi- sion, which operates white collar :projects, sewing rooms, the schoo! lunch program and similar un- dertakings, the Administratcr ex- plained. Authority to employ the addi- tional personnel was obtained by the Administrator following a series of telegraphic and mail ap- peals to Washington, supple- mented by his personal visits to ;Tegional headquarters at At- lanta, and to national head- , quarters at the capital. { United States Senators Charles . Andrews and Claude Pepper, ;as well as members of the Flor- lida congressional delegation also aided materially in gaining the increase, Schroder declared. The new employment limit of |35,000 workers for November ‘places WPA employment in Flor- ,ida at the highest point since {April, 1940, when the quota stood lat 36,130 persons. The previous high point of the year was in {February when 44,000 workers were on WPA rolls in this state. The low mark was reached in June, July and August when em- \ployment was held to 26.200. | This was increased to 27,200 in | September’ and lifted to 31,000 lin October. CLO. CONSIDERS | PEACE FOR LABOR CONVENTION HEARS RESOLU- | ‘TION PRESENTED FA- | VORING MOVE | (By Associated Press) ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 19.— 'A special committee presented a Already more than 200 men in from Greek boundary in Al-!Tesolution to the CIO convention jbeing held here today, which | called for labor peace, but under \ specified terms. i Chief consideration of the resolution was that a new union lof all existing unions, CIO, | AFofL and the Railroad Brother- ;hood, would be created. | Leaders of the CIO declared to- |day that their president John L. | Lewis should not be blamed as jthe sole person agitating to pre- vent labor peace from coming {into being. The declarations were thought to be the forerun- ner of a definite move to place ‘Lewis again at the head of the ! ‘ ; organization. | Spiral ta i in ta Puttees, Choker Collar Harris school held specu! servances each day last week connection with American Educe tion Week, sponsored gex by the school's Parent-T group. On. Monday, th Started off with 2 senting tue -different tered in the parade The teachers took charge observance on Tuesday class periods for discussion “Financing Public Ed@ucation Wednesday was set aside the fathers of the stheel The: night, Dr. A M Morgan was the principal speaker at 2 Father's Night meeting heid at the schooi the subject of his “Education Principal, led a discussion on “Financing the Public Schools At this meeting the 6th Grade chorus sang “Bless This House and “Tm An American Re- freshments consisting of sand- wiches, punch and cookies were served, at which time the pare: had ample opportunity to get ac quainted with their childn f Armustice 2 teachers. Roll call showed Mary Ely Sadie Moss, upper grades and Cleo Kemp and Charlotte Has kins, primary grades, with best attendance of parents On Thursday the 2B anc «8 * caliea classes staged a playlet “Changing Joe's Mind servance of Book Week The week's observance closed on Friday when the school held open house. A good prope of parents attended this a and were served muffins coffee furnished by the & room. AIDS FRIEND IN SUICIDE DENVER — James H. Shears 41-year-old railroad section hana. admitted that he obkigingty “helped” his friend. Merrill No- lin, 44, commit suicide. When Nolin -expressed the desi end it all by jumping ou hotel window. Shears said just grabbed him by the shoulder and the seat of the pants and helped him” Nolin was killed & the four-floor fall. Gone With Other 1917-18 Ordeals (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of = series of By MORGAN BEATTY. AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—There’s a word for the new citizen army uniform. “Swank!” i stories about the life you d-aftees will live in army camps.) | | | 1 The uniform will try to improve on the army tradition of guak- | ing a soldier's garb easy on the eyes of fair maidens and doting mothers. And this time, they’re¢ The most weltome difference \ between 1918 and now will be ‘the blouse collar. Coat to you, |civilian. Reason? The standing | choker type collar of World war days was the devil's own plague to army tailors. If the choker fit, the shoulder didn't. If the shoulder fit, the back wrinkled like a washtub rubadub. i So a regular turned-down coat! vas wxk « <a: gore h . Litt e ? q T tf | itt ir | ‘i \f