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

Associat« 1 Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Che Key West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1940 Defense Puts: Women VOLUME LXI. No. 282. NAVY CHAPLAIN . ‘LEGION MEMBERS NaZis Hammer British West ast Sector Churchill Announces No |~ Cessation Of War Dur- THELMA -STRABE ing Christmas Holiday ; ‘Reap Wild Wind’ “Aathor| HAS NEW NOVEL Greeks Push Italians (ity Axsocinted Pressey LONDON, Nov. 26.—Nazis and| Announcement was made _to- day by the local agent that Miss British exchanged hard blows Thelma Strabel, owner of the ‘new Southernmost House in this last night in the air as weather appear of cleared to allow both in-one issue novel to the January publication their air Ladies Home Journal Name of the novel is Lima”. A_ previous novel Miss Strabel, in serial form, ap- pearing in the Journal, was “The Bright Face Of Danger”, but she is better known as the author of “Reap The Wild Wind”, a Sat- urday Evening Post serial ap- pearing last spring. “Reap the Wild Wind” is now being filmed by Paramount - for release late next year. The film will be a super-feature, entirely in technicolor. conditions in the nations to send forth Squadrons. Additional raids were aimed at English this morning and again during mid- afternoon today by the flyers, but British still refuse to reveal of the ment. Nazi dispatches state, however, that west-coast - territory German authorities the towns under air bombard- name continue much to de- city, is the author of a complete- | | “Love in} by TO REPORT ?FOR® DUTY DEC; 9TH SERVICES SINCE OPENING; | THREE OTHER OFFICERS | HAVE REPORTED j Capt. Walter F. Jacobs, U.S.N., ;station commandant, announced | itoday that Lt. (Gg) Luther B. Craft, U.S.N.R., would report at Key West station on or about | {December 9th, to serve as chap- lain. The local station has without a chaplain since { opening almost 13 months { \ been | its | ago. | S tom his home in Jonesboro, Ga. Lt. J. B. Swain, U.S.N., has re- Ported for duty at Key West, ac- {cording to announcement this | morning, to work in connection oe establishment of a Sound | School at this base. Lt. H. E. ,Whitehead, (jg) U.S.N.R., has also reported, it |was announced, to serve in the Communications office. Lt. Elmer C. Clusman. U.S.N.R., reported for duty on board the U.S.S. Mankato, newly-commis- sioned boom tender, on Novem- ber 2Ist, it was announced to- ‘KEY WEST GUARD IN MEET TONIGHT , | tion, In ‘Home Guard’ Role | STATION HAS BEEN WITHOUT | ‘FEED COUNTRY, WIPE OUT MALNUTRITIOD GOAL OF FEMI > NINE AMERICA By SIGRID ARNE, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—This winter is going tc be mighty busy j—and_ differently busy — for American women. Less bridge. "|More work. Work for “total de- fense”. Most of the | organizations here are laying ,down programs to tie in with the jnation’s Herculean efforts to arm itself. The women are planning take their traditional role: Feed tion. The first rash of women’s con spectacular. learn to fly. ideas about To learn to shoot. |To prepare for parachutists. But now that a few months have passed the women leaders here are hammer- ing home a different, harder, less spectacular philosophy—feed and house the racy safe. The kingpin is Harrict Elliott, the dynamic little college profes- ; sor who represents consumer in- terests on the defense commis- sion. She is flooded with mail asking, “How can we serve?” ‘Within The Gates’ She replies, “Hunger, malnutri- ignorance, lack of adequate Portsmouth, N. national women’s; to, tribution were more‘ Women decided to | outstanding : people to hold democ- | struction has followed bombing of Bristol. the important military and shipping base west of Lon- don Prime Minister Churchill an- nounced today that there would be no cessation of hostilities dur- ing the Christmas holidays. The suggestion was broached in par- liament last week when laborite Thomas E. Naylor called for two- day cessation by all nations in observance of the birthday of the Prince of Peace. Diplomatic action of new portions announced morning when British make pro- this thorities known a strenuous effort to keep Bulgaria and Yugo-Slavia from signing mutual pacts with the axis-powers Dispatches from Athens this morning related of cooperative moves instituted by the British and Greeks against Italian troops in Albania. British planes, using Greek is- lands as bases, have followed policy of strafing Italian supply lines behind the lines in Al- bania, creating confusion and less chance of reinforcements from reaching the scenes of conflict Greek artillery, in the offen- sive moves, have consistently wrought considerable damage to opposing ranks with tions against retreating columns. Trap after trap has been sprung as Greeks still control important mountain tops. resulting in cap- ture of additional soldiers and huge quantities of equipment. Greek officials pointed out that further advances into Al- bania were becoming difficult owing to the extreme nature of tourain to negotiation. Called one of the most mountainous sections of the Balkans, many of the roads over which troops and machines must pass, are chopped out of mountainsides, and allow traffic of any kind to go only in one direction, in many instances. Nevertheless, the Italians have been pushed back more than 15 miles in the northern section, as the Greeks establish new base of operations at Koritza, the forme: Italian base. Bee ae BRADYS (Live) Poultry Market TURKEYS — DUCKS FRYERS ROASTERS mwas ig ee Your THANKSGIVING TURKEY Today eel 8S 1214 White St, Phone 540 was Order ssistance proved the concentra- | ARMY BARRACKS’ PROJECT OKEYED | PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL IN, WASHINGTON TODAY FOR REPAIRS Lt. Col. W. F. Putnam informed The Citizen this noon of con- firmation of the WPA army bar- | rack’s repair project approval, as; forwarded Claude! Pepper's office in Washington. President has by Senator Roosevelt bill, No. 50181, called for WPA labor expenditure of $2,847. The army adds $3,800 to this amount for material It is expected that 30 men will be employed on this project to repair the two barracks build- ings, for an approximate ten-day period. The repaired buildings will house 150 soldiers now housed at the C.C.C. camp at Ft. Taylor. NAVAL RESERVES RECEIVE ORDERS ,SECRETARY OF NAVY ISSUES ORDERS THIS MORN- ING Officials at Key West Station stated that they had re- ceived advice from the Secretary of the Navy that all naval re- serves are to report for active duty. The message received was follows: “The Bureau of Navigation now, authorizes order all classes Naval Reserves, except merchant marine reserve, to active duty, with or without their own, con- sent. “Every effort will be made to order to active duty only those members of the volunteer reserve who will suffer least personal as hardship as result of separation ,“jur from civilian ocupations and who are not engaged in pursuits im- portant to National Defens Thanksgiving Day DANCE Thursday, November 28, 1240 ena’s Garden Of Roses Auspices Knights of Marti ap-| WPA Project j Naval | Key West Home Guard will ‘hold its regular weekly drill to- |night at 8:00 o'clock at American jLegion Hall, Whitehead and United streets. i All members and those desiring to offer their services in this or-/| |ganization are urged to attend this session. Special To The Citizen B: PORTSMOUTH, N. H.. Nov. 26.—Several times each day and ‘night during the broadcasts from ‘GOVERNMENT “JUNK MEN’ DOING TWENTY | Handle Everything From Barlap Sacks To Airplanes ‘MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS ANNUALLY By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—!dry! It came from the Bureau of [Meet the government “junk Engraving and Printing, Fae deal in everything from ab hedl Been Usedisitor -Qvashing i burlap sacks to silver fox scarves; |T#8°- If you think the laundry stumped the boys, guess again. from horse manure to airplanes; from blackjacks to antique clocks. |They found a new United States reformatory’ that ‘needed ~ just Out of the government grab- |bag. they take more than $20.-!such a laundry to make its plant| complete. 000,090 worth of junk, leftovers and confiscated materials eyery} They onee .got 1,300 gum-plas- year and the figure is moumting | tered theater chairs and although jsteadily. About 85 percent of “it they reluctantly admit they diverted into government chan- ‘coyidn't find anything to do with nels where the government would |the old chewing gum, they sold have to pay millions more for the half of the chairs to alittle stuff it if had to purchase it out-! church that was just organizing , right. The rest is sold at public here and gave the other half to ‘ auction. the national training school for These “junk men” are the boys | poys. in the surplus property section of To NYA Schools ithe treasury procurement divi- a |sion. They know more about! Obsolete airplanes making palatable hash out of |tors from the Army tovers than the most efficient wife in the land. And inci- ally, they probably are the t cash-savers in your work- government. Of Post-War Origin The surplus property section } was started after the World war, | when the government found it} had about $350,000,000 worth of} jsurplus stocks built up that | Jie, would rot or become obsolete un- SAMOA CLUB less somebody could dispose of | (Formerly Club Cayo Hueso) them. The section was formed for} jthat specific pyrpose and eventu| A Touch of the South Seas in Old Key West ally did dispose of everything | An Exclusive Rendezvous For (some of it just recently). But} in the following years and espe-} Key Westers and Those With Discriminating Taste cially under the guidance of] Treasury Secretary Henry Mor-} CATERING TO CIVIC ORGANIZATIONSand CLUBS Jr., the government | ” have really been go-! ing to town. On the water at the Not long ago, they got a laun-j; Yacht Basin = | Penny Cocktail Hour SSS Ae IS Daily—S:00 to 6:00 P. M. Beachcomber Restaurant | Dancing Every Night To THANKSGIVING DAY || S"U5y, Manning's Orchesir | TURKEY DINNER, 50c. where and apd }have been transferred to the Na- tional Youth Administration for training mechanics for national defense. Old Army uniforms, with stand-up-collars, have been turned over to the Bureau of In- dian Affairs, where they were ripped up and made into play (Continued on Page Three) mo- y Lillian Abell | complete itetigttes Phones 9123 and $137 | SAME MANAGEMENT AS Specials from 25c to 50c CABANA CLUB Navy | housing, clothes and warmth— these are the enemies within the} gates. These are the saboteurs of democracy which sap men’s strength. They breed suspicion jand hatred. The men wonder, ‘What is there to defend?’” So she laid down a program to meet those conditions. It is go- ing out through state defense councils now being formed by, state governors. Here’s the Elliott program so Lt. Craft will come to Key West the country. Wipe out malnutri- ‘far: | 1, Start a radio news service to tell housewives which are the good and cheap food buys each day. 2. Start a school lunch pro- ‘the convention. | gram so that each child has one | adequate meal each day. 3. Work for low cost ways of selling milk, fruit and vege- tables so the low income fam- ilies can get them. 4. Set up diet clinics where | home-makers can bring their | nutrition problems. 5. Support the food plan. 6. Learn, if you have land, to raise the food you can't | buy, and can if. 7. Urge merchants to sell government graded foods. (Centinued on Page Four) stamp ——~ j}commander Selling in ‘West To The North: H. Radio Names Island City Daily | y FRANK W. LOVERING WHEB in this busy little seaport city, the announcer identifies his station to the listening world as follows: “This is station WHEB, the only all-steel radio broadcast- ing station in the world, locat- ed at Portsmouth, N. H., on United States Route 1, which runs between Fort Kent, Maine. and Key West, Florida”. There has been a broadcasting station in this city many years: it has recently been modernized and entirely streamlined, and is a Portsmouth showplace. WHEB operates on 97 kilocycles. a Next War Phase: Struggle For Oil By MORGAN M. BEATTY. AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—The major key to the next phase of the European war may be a three-letter word. It’s “O-I-L!” Whether the Axis powers con- centrate on the British Isles, or Gibraltar or Suez, or all three, the long range planning behind their military and diplomatic maneuvers may be forced upon them by the coming thirst of their industrial and war machines for the stuff that turns the wheels of modern nations—petroleum. That's the view of some Wash- ington economists, who suspect that the Axis’ problem at this time is oil rather than food Not that it’s giving out any time soon. But it must look ahead, now that it’s failed to make quick work of , i Britain. For instance, the economists suspect recent German-Russian negotiations were concerned, not with a new or intensified part- nership, but with a German scheme to syphon oil Near East, or even Ri self. Similarly, the statisticians also patent see in the military meeting of the WEDNESDAY EVENING DANCE KEY WEST STORK CLUB John ee Farmer | Hal Durnell and His Orchestra a — No Cover Charge) COMEDY-and NEWS REEL Time => HEE =_® 25 OPEN FROM NOON ‘HELD MEETING ON. PASS RESOLUTION AGAINST CARNIVALS THIS SEASON: | COMMITTEE MAKEUP AND | | EXCURSION ANNOUNCED | A resolution putting the Key | West Convention which is arranging the state con- | vention of the American Legion | here next April, on record as op- | posed to the holding of any car- | nivals in Key West this season | was adopted at a meeting ss, night in La Concha hotel. Adoption of the resolution came after a discussion of ways! and means of raising funds for| It was brought out that carnivals interrupted a regular flow of business and! worked a hardship on the busi- ness interests of the community. At a meeting to be held by the convention corporation direc- tors the night of December 9 a jdecision will be reached on way lof raising money. of the executive Corporation, ; Each member | committee de- |termined to bring in a suggestion ;at that time. from.« the Local Union No. 655. at 1024 ate hae = street. tomorrow evening. | i Council president William A Freeman was appointed chair- man of the finance committee. Al Mills, executive director of the corporation, and John Pinder were selected by president Wil- jliam V. Little to serve with him This committee will have charge jof all finances. President Little also appointed Harold E. Russell, secretary William H. Reardon and Worth D. Welch as members of the decoration committee. This committee will have charge of all* decorations, badges and signs for the convention. One thing the committee will have to decide hortly is the route of the line of Tmarch of the monster parade to be staged during the convention , for the route will have to be dec- orated. It was explained by executive | director Mills that the P. & O. Steamship company proposed to | run an excursion to Havana im- mediately following the Key West convention. One advantage of this is that an arrangement will be worked out whereby per- sons from up-state, who board the ship for the Key West con- vention, may purchase tickets for the Havana trip. “The American Legion post of Havana and the Cuban tourist commission is being interested in the proposal and a fine line of free entertainment is assured the (Continued on Page Four) | | | i | { Italian and German high com-) mands at Innsbruck Austria, a} revival of the often discussed threat against Gibraltar. For that } Way also leads to precious oil—j| the oil of the Western Hemis- pheré. Why the push for oil? Most military experts and economists agree that it takes about 200,000,000 to 300,000,000 barrels of oil a year to run the Axis war against the British. Bui j assuming both Italy and Ger- jmany have built up reasonable reserves, they cannot hope to re- plenish their supplies from the lone big oil field in their pos- session—the Rumanian. At best! this area could give them only 60,000,000 barrels a year. (Continued on Page Four) NOTICE, CARPENTERS! | There will be a meeting of° lovember 27. at 7:00 o'clock. Im-! HENRY WATKINS. Financial Secretary. | ee STRAND THEATER | j FLOWING GOLD | Matinee, 3:30 p. m. __ 20c and 30c¢ | Night, 6:30 p. m. ____ 30c_and 40c ' saw in the east went before them. \for the jthe conjunction jwas s jculated back and discover j the jhappen to coincide em Navy Air Station Sale Completed _ Tite are Check Fer 216.008 \Will Be Visible Christmas Total $766 50 EAS’ A COMET? “““"= “And lo, the star which they Gerson and Price Miami tp of Trumbo island sepersed 1ill it came and stood over where the young child was”. yestirday tne the sale erty ormumally ieesec Departmen: bo: c ime Nery Scientists have Sati Bethiech caused t « factori = nomicz Christmas s United Stu nomenor planation, perhaps The first is will become cember It was Leland B. Cunningha: vard College observatory “By Christmas should be plainly visible western sky after sunset”, s Prof. William H. Barton. 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