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

Associate 1 Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 281. THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE JU. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1940 BLASTING — ALARMED. CITIZENS LOUD EXPLOSION EARLY THIS MORNING BELIEVED | CAUSED BY OPERATIONS AT SUB-BASE PUBLIC FUNDS ASSISTED 559 IN OCTOBER WELFARE BOARD RELEASES FIGURES ON ASSISTANCE FURNISHED THREE GROUPS IN MONROE COUNTY (Special ‘0 The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov. 25.—Publie assistance payments to Monroe County recipients for |the month of October totalled $8,- 048.00, according to announce- !ment today by the State Welfare | Board. Chief topic of conversation in Key West, as workers city-wide reported for duty this morning, was the loud explosition heard during the early hours of the} morning. | Rumors ran wild—some report ing the Gas Company works had blown up; others that some serv- ice station gasoline tank had ex- ploded Location of the explosion was described as “up-town”, and in many other locations, widely scat- tered. The Citizen began a systematic check of the rumors. and with pre-knowledge at hand concern- ing activities at the submarine base, believed this noon that the mystery had been solved when it was announced that blasting work conducted during the night at the sub-base had caused the alarm. The R. C. found it necessary eral layers of rock in the subma- rine basin in order to fulfill depth requirements of the dredg- ing, which has been going for- ward on a 24-hour basis the past month. Interviewed this morning, of- ficials of the company Stated that “one large blast occurred at ap- proximately 3:00 o'clock this morning” The sheriff's department re- ported at noon today that a blast had occurred in the rear of the Cortez factory building, near Flagler ave Time of the ex- plosion, however, did not corre- spond with the reported time of the blast heard by a large portion of residents in the city. At any rate. ome observers note the it served to “give first-hand information on what it must feel like to be bomb- ed from the air”. Huffman Company to blast sev- 1ue a incide las Old Age Assistance; |as Aid to the Blind, jas Aid to Dependent Children. Of this sum, $5,373.00 was paid $1,903.00 and $772.00 The number of recipients in the respective categories was: Old Age Assistance, 366; Aid to the Blind, 130; Aid to~ Depend- ent Children, 24 families (63 children). Total, 559 persons. Applications pending were as follows: Old Age Assistance, 49; Aid to the Blind, 19; Aid to De- pendent Childgren, 141 families. Average grants paid were: Old Age Assistance, $14.68; Aid to the Blind, $14. Aid to Depend- ent Children, $32.17 per family ($12.25 per child) During the month 36. Flor- ida recipie of Old Age*As sistance received cash grants of $456,601; 2,903 families (7,511 children) received $74,633 as Aid 3 as The grand to- tal for the state was $5628 at the rate of $6,753,804 per year BABY RENDUELES DIED YESTERDAY held for 18- and who the Funeral services are being this afternoon, 4:30 Mercedes Mary Rendueles month-old daughter of Mr. Mrs. Amando Rendueles. died yesterday ning residence, 412 Amelia street Rev. Guillermo Perez, of the Latin Methodist Church, is of- ficiating at the Pritchard's Funeral Home is in charge of ar- rangements. Survivors. are two brothers, Thomas. o'clock, at ‘ites besides the parents Charles and CONGRESSMEN FORGOT PARTY “LINES Texan hotell Judge Of U.S. Court OF Claims, ‘RECEIVE OFFICL OFFICIAL WHEN JONES SANG HIS SWAN ‘SONG Na Raids ENGLISH NAVY FANS ATLANTIC® | lnuandinac.eom FOR NAZI VES-' SEL PREYING ON MER- CHANT SHIPS; MORE DIS- TRESS SIGNALS HEARD (By Associated Press) j NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—The | British navy increased its fan- jlike search of the Atlantic ocean |shipping lanes today, following pts of messages that freight v are being attacked by ei- ither a Nazi sea raider or subma- j rine. No information was obtainable here as to the fate of the Port | Hobart, 9,000-ton vessel, which , }Teported by radio Sunday that it };Was being shelled by a ship ; thought to be of sea raider pro- {portions of the Graf Spee type. | Port Hobart’s location at the jtime of the shelling was about 500 miles northeast of Puerto Rico, or within 1200 miles of the {Florida coast, bringing the new sea action to the outskirts of the Pan-American neutrality zone. Additional stress was added to the picture of necessity for pro- tective action when the 5,000-ton Temple Inn radioed this morning that it was being attacked by a approximately 300 es off the Irish coast. DENY SECRETARY PERKINS HAS RESIGNED | WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Ad- ministration officials today de- Secretarv of Labor Frances had resigned. The New York World Tele- rried a story this morning sponsible labor repre- (Centinued on Page Four) ‘WORD ON DRAFT ing the army as a GREEK ARMY CHIEF, FOR SEA RAIDER Uses" Few Words Bat IS MAN OF ACTION (Amnociated Press Feature Service) | ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 25.— “He’s a man of few bat <= That's a man-on- -the-street ap- praisal of today’s national hero’ in embattled Greece—Genéralis- simo Alexander Papa: direct- ing genius of the army opposing Italy. “But actions ak louder” This phrase follows as a mat- f all acquanited with the 57-year-old officer. Greece knows Generalissimo Papagos—in normal times—as a man living a quiet well-priered! life; as a smartly-dressed gentle- man fond of riding; and as a family man wed to the daughter of another army leader. But in such da these the} country proudly recalls his place in a military dynasty. The tall, stately soldier up through the cavalry. came! Enter- graduate of military and cavalry schools in Athens, Belgium. and Italy, he rose from lieutenant to captain in the Balkan war of 1912-13. He supplemented this experi- ence with service against Bul- garia and Germany in the World war. a general staff assignment during the Asia minor campaign of 1920, and service with a French military mission in 1933. Greece made him minister of war in 1935, a post he relin- quished briefly for active service. but to which he returned a year Koritza to the main defense line! band”. later. In 1936 he was named chief of (Continued on Page Four) GROUP TO DISCUSS P.&0. EXCURSIONS CONVENTION CORPORATION EXECUTIVES MEET To Bristol; De Gaulle In London West Coast City Bears Brunt Of Concentrated Attack;' DeGaulle .Con- fers With Churchill (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 25.—British ithat Nazi this morning to the scene of a concentrated aitack conducted lest night on a “west coast city”. Information as to what city bor> the brunt of current Nazi “mass | attack” last night and this morn-! ing was not given out. Nazi sources, however, de-} clared the city of Bristol, an im- Portant base port west of Lon-} jdon, had “suffered the same fate as Coventry and Birmingham”. An important conierence is be-} ing held in London this morning between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Charles DeGaulle, head of the “Free- French Armies”. No details of the confernece nor the purpose for which it is being held were available at press time. Meanwhile, as the Battle of Britain still continues with un- abated ferocity. attention of Eu-! Tope was directed still towards the east where Greece is tinuing to push the Italians fur- ther away from its territory. Dispatches this morning stated that scouting troops of the Greek army had pushed north from} Previously selected by the | Italians. Other Greek detach- | ments are operating “far into Albania”, reaching the Shkunki river, which cuts Albania prac- tically in half. Italian news dispatches charac-! teristically make little mention! of the Greece war, satisfying themselves with headlining the new displomatic order in the Balkans. planzs had returned! con- | ‘RECIPIENT OF MESSAGE IN HEADLINES WITH NOVEL OFFER TO MARRY ‘A VOL- UNTEER’ A young member of Patrol Squadron VP53, stationed at the sub-airbase on Trumo Island, was revealed today as being one of iseveral hundred young men na- |tionwide who answered a novel ‘proposition advanced by Miss io D'Arcy, of Atlantic City, a D'Arcy made lines recently -with an offer imarry “a patriotic young boy ithat would eniist in the army or navy”. She deciared herseli ; “disgusted with ‘conscription jmurriages’ , and made pubtic an- |nouncement of her offer. | The local young man answer- to words | War depariment admitted sae the proposition in this wise: “I imagine by this time you've jreccived hundreds of letters like fea so one more won't hurt much, and, who knows, this Ict- Iter may make me a very happy man, at least, I hope so. | “You said you would like to |marry a patriotic boy who would join the army or navy to protect his country. How would one who is already in the navy do? {At least, I'm more able to sup- port a wife than some one who nas just joined, because I have ladvanced in rating quite a bit, jand am making a great deal more ithan the $21.00 or $36.00 per {month that is the first pay of a {soldier or sailor. “I support the wings of the United States Navy'on my uni- form and am-a pilot of one of Uncle Sam's big patrol boats now patroling the Atlantic coast. I'm |23 years old, five feet ten inches tall, blond hair and blue eyes. “That may sound like a “Pen Pal ad ina ranch romance or :something, but I have to give my- self some kind of build-up, even if it’s for nothing but an awful let down. “Please write and let me know the verdict, and if you have a |spare picture of yourself, may I jhave one?” | Then came the signature, pended by “A Prospective ap- Hus- (EDITOR'S NOTE: For those ‘who may be curious—the name of the above letter’s author will ;NOT BE GIVEN to any. inquir- | ers.) the head-; Che Key West Citizen == Ready 10 Start Aqueduct Line Comdr. Brady And Engi- neers Went Over Whole Route Saturday Of Last Week . Comdr. T. J. Brady. U. S N.. public works officer af the local naval station. arrived back from a week's trip to Washing- ton, D. C. late Saturday after- noon. bringing word of the navy's water-line project. Comdr. Brady panied here by two engineers « the firm of Parsons. Brinkerh Clapp and Douglas, of New York The three men left Miami carly Saturday and spent the whole day in going over the route of the projected aqueduct from Florida City to this city. It is this engineering firm that filed preliminary reports on the aqueduct line with the Navy De- partment a week ago, Further investigation of the pfbject was ordered last week, resulting im the inspection trip being made Comdr. Brady stated that the engineers left this marning. companied by B. M. Dunc general manager of the Oversea: Road and Toll Bridge District and planned on picking more in formation on the project at that agencies’ office in Marathon Schedule on the project for another report to in to the Bureau Docks at Washington between December 1 and 15. with tional detail checking to be done in the meantime It is believed that the navy making ready to proceed w r $2,000,000 project, regardless whether the Florida Keys Ague duct Commission's ma project is “ready t was accom < o e FIST FIGHT BECAN Termed Labor's Diplomat MURRAY'S CAREER EDITORS SOTE- Serves a bret mBogreptmecs! ser? of Philip Merrers sew pres Gent of the CLO. By ALEXANDER BR GEOBCE oP Sete Gee ae Realists Dig In To Help Dreamers vetoes man tgs wt Make ‘Good Neighbor" Policy Work | STATE HEADQUARTERS SAYS TONIGHT (Associated Press Feature Service) WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Rep Marvin Jones, of Amarillo, Tex., sang his swan song in Congress the other day and the echo was the well is rarely a burst of eulogy from of the such as it any asure to hear. Th that divides parties crumbled member aft- er member climbed to his and delivered encomiums virtues cf Ma Jones wished him well in his wo judge of the United States Court of Claims hich President Roosevelt tly appointed him. If you don’t know Marvin Jones, you might wonder why 90 Days! e 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- lication—September 23, 1940—is the time limit. SIXTY-THREE DAYS HAVE ELAPSED house man’s pl feet 1 the and as STRAND THEATER Bob Hope—Paulette Goddard in The Ghost Breakers COMEDY and NEWS REEL | Matinee. 3:30 p. m. _ 20c and 30: Night, 6:30 p. m. ____ 30¢ and 40c NONE TO BE ASSIGNED all the panegyri: won't. Marvin Jones came to Congress ; if you do, you cae { UNTIL NEXT YEAR in 1917 and spent mest of his first ; term as a buck private in the tank corps. He still was in the tank corps in 1918 when there occurred a little incident that has been used often s > il- strate his quiet, ir nature. He was pee out back of the me: one of the men han ed telegram. Jones a i it in his pocket, nou expression. “What's the news, a curious buddy. “I've just been Congress ed for another potato. Only 12 His Senior There are now only 12 men among the 435 members of the House of Representatives were members when Jones first walked across the well to his (Continued on Page Four) ce Tturb: char nging asked pal? re-elected t Speseeviaist seer SS a Elks’ Annaal— CHARITY BALL STORK CLUB (Formerly Raul’s on the Blvd.) Saturday Night 10 o’Clock Nov. 30th. 1940 Fun — Favors — Flocr Show $1.00 Per Person Phone 42 For Reservations said Jones and reach- } who; | Monroe County Draft Board has received official notification from State Headquarters at St. Augustine that no quota assign- ments here will be required un- after July first next year. Credits now existing with of the National those already vol- nteering, brought the quota as- signment of 175 with a margin of six extra. | Accordingly, no draftee will be {called at this time. officials an- nounced. Classification work, wever, will proceed leisurely, | With interviews, at the rate of |10 or 12 a week, to be held at the i local office. | Advisory Board | Headquarters here announced jthe names of those appointed to jServe as the Advisory Board, to Jassist’ Selective Service regis- ‘trants in filling out question- naires and the making out of ap- Peals, if necessary. The board membership is Aquilino Lopez, Jr.. 207 Duval | street, Judge Raymond R. Lord, county building and John G.! ; Sawyer, Renedo building. a Dance-Lovers Attention. . .! Special , THANKSGIVING EVE DANCE Wednesday — November 27 RAINBOW ROOM La Concha Hotel—9:30 P. M. Jerry Collins’ Beachcombers No Admissim or Cover Charges} ne ee, i to completion, | At a meeting tcaignt executive committee of the West Convention the question of P. ship excursions to Kes ‘y West dur- ing the American Legion's state convention next April will be taken up. The executives of the P. & O. were in the city last week and arranged tentative chedules and rates, which will be announced later. The meeting of the corporation will be held in the lobby of La Concha hotel. Later ft is pian- ned to open convention head- quarters in private quarters in the La Concha hotel building. Chairman Al Mills will explain details of the new setup. Question of raising money for the convention corporation will also.be discussed. There are sev- erat} propositions pending, which will be brought into the open for decision by the executive com- mittee. the Key _Co oFporation, of ie - | CAYO HU Upholdi story today calling attention to} the 33,500,000 additional popula- } tion added to the axis-power sphere of influence as a result of the three-nation tie-up effected Rumania. A hitch in axis plans, however, appeared on the horizen this morning with the report being circulated in Europe's capital that Bulgaria is balking and} Probably won't sign up along with sister nations. Additional hope for the de- mocracies was held out toda with the almost positive news (Continued an Page Four) Special . . THANKSGIVNIG DAY TURKEY DINNER La Concha Hotel Rainbow Room FU! a. COURSE $1 00) 12:00 to 3:00 and 6:00 2:00 P.M. ceece eewwcoccccoos: FRED MARVIL Takes pleasure in announcing that he has purchased the ESO CLUB on Trumbo Island—and has renamed it SAMOA During mE. improvements the club will NOT be closed of the CABANA. you will get properly dispensed CLUB the bast LIQUORS possible. Penny Cocktail Hour: 5:00 to 6:00 Daily neighbor policies,” j To attempt to discuss briefly all of these would be to clutter this column with things of scanty meaning, but I hope from jtime to time to report on the jreally solid things that are being idone to bring South and Central America into a hemispheric jfamily that can stand united j against economic, political or {military onslaughts from any jsource whatever. i Experiments Under Way Among the larger plans of the | realists is one to provide our jneighbors to the south with | enough capital and credit so that pihey can spend in the United Stetes on a basis never thought of before. | One government department ;Tecently estimated that if one- ‘third of the former U. S. tourist trade to Europe could be diverted to South America, our southern ‘neighbors would have credits - tations in Liberia Ry JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer i WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Out of the fic exchanges of culture between North last week between Germany and | America, and nebulous schemes for welding the & O. Steam- ‘Italy and Hungary, Slovakia and j there are developing a few concrete plans for laying an ecx H foundation which really may support the dreams of even y od of talk ab two dreamers sary purchases from the Unite States. But another and herein I'm going tc only what the Department Agriculture is doing and plan: do along this line There are, at present perimental field groups department in Central and Sout! America, working on the sing crop of rubber. Last ye gress appropriated 2 dollars for this work that seems a the possibilities Rubber origimated America and until about most of it came from there. Th the Far East Malaya. Ces and the Dutch east Indies ue @an to comfe to the fore. until lest year, when U. S mmports were approximately 600,000 tons only about 20000 tons me from South America About 20,808 tons more came from Firestone plan- West Africa rest from the that four «x jot, let's exam Sours m and most of the Far East A Flood Of Money Let's not even consider the possibilities of our Far Eastern source of supply being closed Let's just consider what & would mean to southern Mexico, Brazil and the others if we were to pur-