The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 29, 1940, Page 1

Associate 1 Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 2 THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. PRES. ROOSEVELT , . SAYS ‘NO: SALES TAX FOR DEFENS : OPPOSES MOVE TO ESTAB-; LISH SPECIAL TAX FOR NA- | TIONAL DEFENSE EXPENSE | FUNDS | | (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.— President Roosevelt told a press; conference here this morning that he was opposed to the set- ting up of a national sales tax to raise funds for National De- | fense Program expenses. Recognizing the need for ditional taxes to offset the celerated speed of defense expen-; ditures, the President stated that} LONDON, Nov. ad-!yian sources today ac-} |Greek army maneuvers. in Al- “a sales tax is not the way to | trap more Italian army units and :eastcoast sections meet the financial burden”. materials. ;from the southern offensive lines, ijmorth of Porto Edda and Argiro- castro, the Greeks are pushing to wards their other forces, in an MORE PLANES TO BRITAIN WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.— State Department today revealed shipments of planes to Britain had increased in the last month. Total for October reached a value of $2,000,000—but demand for more bombing and fighter planes is greater now than ever before. To date, $21,000,000 worth of; other supplies and war materials have been shipped Great Britain, the department advised. BUND DECLARES IT’S PLANNED THAT WAY (By Associated Prens) NEW YORK, Nov. 23—A writer for the German-Amer- ican Bund featured a special release in that organization's official organ. published to- day, which commented on the Greek-Italian war. Stating that the “axis-pow- ers have planned the Greek- Italian war that way”, the Bund writcr went on to give reasons why the Italians were adopting a “retreat pol- icy”. Mainly psychological, were the points stressed. GERMAN FREIGHTERS ON NEW DASH TAMPICO, Mex., Nov. 29.—; Two German freighters, the 5,000- ton Idlewahl and Rheine, started another attempt to break their: way through the British blockade | here this morning, steaming | down the harbor entrance escort- ed by a Mexican gunboat to the | nine-mile limit. attempt to cut-off slowiy retreat- ing Italian battalions coming out of the Koritza battlefront. Reinforcements for both sides have been rushed to heaviest scenes of fighting. Eleven ship transports arrived in northern Al- bania this morning, loaded with Italian soldiers. These were be- ing rushed south by trucks to join their embattled countrymen. Greeks announced that more soldiers were being sent to the battle lines tv strengthen the lines now held and to guard against threatened counter-at- tacks expected momentarily. Meanwhile the Battle of Brit- ain progressed under more handicaps as “heavy” weather ROBERTS CAPTAIN OF F. W. MEADE Word was received earlier this week that Captain Veral Rob- erts has received the appointment to be captain of the tug-boat F. W. Meade which plys between Key West and Dry Tortugas. The appointment came direct from National Park Service headquarters in Washington. Captain Roberts will take com- mand of the vessel tomorrow morning, it was stated. STINNETT ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON see Says me Pome Will Leave Americans In Greece UNITED STATES’ BM QACK STINNETT, Fisture Service Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. —AAM vate several countries that say swering the mail orders: children born of natives living | M. B., Southampton, N. Y.—The abroad still are citizens of the state department says that it is;country of their parents. This making no further plans to bring'claim is re-established when United States nationals out of those children return to the land Greece. This means that there of their parents. It is even pos- are no plans at all at present. sible that your son, now close to! The government points out that maturity, had been called for it gave adequate warning long|service in the Greek army. If ago for American citizens to get|this has not happened, and you out of Greece and the complica-'can afford an expensive trans- tions of transportation are ‘now portation, it is possible that the such that they can do nothing|boy and girl can get out through about it. If your son and daugh-|Turkey and the East. One per-} ter are still there and (although|son here who recently returned they were born in this country |from Europe tells me that it still and hence entitled to U.S. citizen-|is possible to get out of Greece ship) if you had not taken out!through Yugoslavia, northern naturalization papers until re- Italy (by “sealed express”), occu- cently, they may be in for com-;pied France, Spain, and Portugal, plications. Greece is one of the but I am unable to verify either many countries where the dualjof these routes. citizenship problem arises. There, C. A. P., Biloxi, Miss. — You ate right, :E-did jump the gun a bit on :the Socialist party candi- ie fou President since 1900 and eee FOREIGN POLICY F) Virginia Gilmore—Robt, Sterling | record as well as that of my im —in— | formant. MANHATTAN HEARTBEAT th. candidate every four years COMEDY and NEWS REEL from 1900 to 1912, inclusive, and Matinee, 3:30 p. m. __ 20¢ and 30c again in 1920. Allan L. Benson Night, 6:30 p.m. ___ 30¢ and 40c; (Continued on Page Four) COMING! AS PRESCRIPTIONS Carefully Compounded With Fresh. Pure Ingredients Gardner’s Pharmacy “The Rexall Store” ‘FLANK MOVEMENT SWINGS TO WEST FROM SEACOAST SECTOR; REINFORCE- MENTS RUSHED I'm glad.to straighten out my ‘Pistachio, lemon, ks Man Trap More Italians KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1940 To. suc (By Associated Press) 29.—Yugo-Sla-|again dropped down to hinder stated that !accurate plane action. Long-range guns from the Pbania were being aimed to en- French side hammered away at ail morning long, though heavy mist pre- Striking in a westerly direction Vented observers from checking targets accurately. Rescue crews were busily en- gaged in bringing out. wounded persons from a hospital hit by Nazi bombers last night in an un- announced northwest city. Royal Air Force was practically grounded last night. although re- connaisance flights and light bombing attempts were’ directed against bases on the French west- coast. CHINESE GORILLAS BLOW UP TRAIN HANOI, F. I. C., Nov. 29.— Chinese gorilla army detach- ments were blamed today for the! blowing-up of a train north of this city on which a delegation of French-Indo Chinese officials were Nanking-bound. The train ran into a land-mine placed on the track and was al- most entirely destroyed. with dead and wounded figures un- known at this writing. Fighting between Siam and French-Indo China forces was continuing at ‘increased tempo today, according to reports filed here. Main army. detachments have come to grips at several points along frontier territory between the two nations, MURPHY SALE HELD TODAY County clerk Ross C. Sawyer, agent for the I. I. Board at Talla- hassee, conducted another Mur- phy Sale on the courthouse steps today, starting at 10:00 a. m. There were 17 parcels in the sale, as advertised in The Citi- zen on November 8th, the bid- ding being exactly the same as the base bids listed, a total of $501.25. Mr. Sawyer announced that there would be no sale in De- cember—the sale probably to be | held the latter part of January. i ‘BOWL QUEEN SOON | ‘Will lect This Weekend. ence to be held here next month TO BE ANNOUNCED ORLANDO, Nov. 29.—(FNS) Selection of the Orange Bowl Queen for 1941 and a discussion | of possible contestants in the an- nual Orange Bow! gridiron classi¢ * at Miami will highlight a week- end of activities here under spon- sorship of the State Junior Chamber of Commerce. From among sixty pretty Flor- ida girls one will be selected to Preside over the annual Orange Bowl Festival at Miami during the year-end holidays. Judges, whose names have not been re- vealed, have already been ap- Pointed and will decide which of the contestants shall be named queen. They will also select four other contestants to form; the royal entourage. There will be a statewide meet- ing of the Orange Bow] commit- tee at which a discussion will be held on possible contestants for the game. No announcement is expected following the meeting, but it is believed that when the session is concluded the two Bowl teams will have been tentatively | chosen. Contestants for the title of Queen will be elaborately enter: tained during the week-end by‘ local Jaycees who have arranged a series of parties. They will top their activities with a coro- nation ball in the municipal audi- , torium. SPEAKER'MONDAY aA ee AT CHAMBER MEET STATE ORGANIZATION WILL. | STRESS STRATEGIC LOCA- | IN-AMERICAN CONTACTS JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 29 (FNS).—Greater and greater in-, ; terest in the “Florida—Center of the Americas” business confer- His being generated in all parts of! the state, with more than 600 prominent Floridians expected to jattend the meet. | Governor-elect Spessard Hol- land is to be the principal speak- er at the banquet session, slated to be held the evening of Mon- day, December 2, in the May-i flower Hotel. Scott Loftin of Jacksonville is to be toastmaster, while the invocation will be voic- ed by the Right Reverend Joseph | P. Hurley, newly consecrated! Bishop of Florida. Holland’s} speech is to be broadcast. | Whole idea of the session is to! emphasize Flordia’s strategic ! location in relation to cultural, commercial, educational and de- fensive contacts of all portions of the New World. This theme will be capably covered by such ,Speakers as Joseph C. Rovensky, Washington, director of the fi- nance and industry division of ithe National Defense Council; George B. Elliott, Wilmington, | N. C., president of the ACL rail-; road; John P. Broome, Washing- ton, Southeastern regional direc-' tor for the U.S. Housing Author- ! ity; Mayor R. E. L. Chancey of Tampa; Emmett F. Connely, De- troit, president of the Invest-! iment Bankers Association of America. Conference _ sessions will all be held in George ‘Wash-! ington Hotel. i Short talks by U.S. Senators! Charles O. Andrews and Claude | Pepper, election of officers and adoption of resolutions will fea-| ‘(Continued on Page Four) j{ Che Key West Citizen Frank. Knox To Come Here W TION IN RELATION To Lat. HEAD OF NAVY DEPARTMENT TO FLY DI- | RECT FROM WASHID GTON ON INSPECTION TRIP Captain Walter “F. Jacobs U.S.N., commandant at Key West Naval Station, announced , details of the reception to be ac- corded Secretary of the N; Frank Knox during his stay Key West next Wednesday. Secretary Knox will arrive by plane direct from Washington next Wednesday afternoon some time after 3:00 o'clock, and will be brought ashore by boat at the “President's Landing”. The trip is a part of the nationwide in- spection of naval properties in- stituted by Mr. Knox a short while ago. The usual military reception will be accorded the Navy's Sec- retary, with a Marine Guard pa- rade and all naval officers at the station present in full-dress. Fort SIO SIS SSS: COULDN’T BE HOPING FOR EXTRA 40 WINKS (By Associated Press) DELAWARE, O., Nov. 23.— George Andrew Slack was regarded for 20 years as the best bugler in the Ohio na- tional guard's 166th infantry. Nevertheless he couldn't pass kis physical exam for train- ing at Camp Shelby. Miss. The company ae oa Slack’s being left behind by holding @ parade. Private Slack, emo- tion-choked, sat in the re- viewing stand. Jiniiaceneniec:srecommbeamenmains in Hawaiian Statehood May Have ’ To Wait 1 (Associated Press Feature Service) ] WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—As sure as shooting, steps are going | to be taken in the 77th Congress to bring into the union a 49th! state. In case you haven't heard, The flag people already have it figured out pattern of stars to a 7-7 spacing field or making the star pattern* look like a crowded section of the Milky Way. But the flag people have been prepared for “any for a good long time and prob- ably are two hops and a_ skip ahead of congress. I doubt if there is a congressman who isn’t fully aware that this “organized incorporated territory and in- pcere part of the United States,” "NEWICE CREAM | FOR ‘Sugar Content Cat In Half DIABETIC VICTIMS 1 By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE | Associated Press Science Editor URBANA, IIL, Nov. 29—A/j} new ice cream for diabetics has | been produced at the University of Illinois containing about 40 per cent as much sugar as the standard product. Scientists at the institution substituted a mixture ‘principally of milk proteins for the glycerine used previously’ in, efforts to freeze a low-sugar ice cream. These proteins, reported Profes- sors W. J. Corbett and P. H. Tracy, came from fresh skimmed milk and reduced’ the glyéerine to 4 per -cent~Flavors prodticed satisfactorily were pirieapple, lime, orange, | mint, apricot, vanilla and choco- Eugene V. Debs was /#te- One out of each 260 persons in| the United States is diabetic, the ; scientists estimated, and hence | might receive benefit from such | a product. ‘DANCE. . . to the Sweet Music of John Pritchard’s Orchestra | as Hawaiians are fond of calling it, isn’t about as important as any off-shore chunks of terrain that jever fell into the lap of Uncle |Sam. If there is any doubt, let one stare for a couple of hours at {the islands’ production figures on sugar and pineapple (to mention only a couple) or their consump- tion figure on mainland tourists (to mention only one). Nevertheless, this measure to make Hawaii the 49th state is ; going to meet plenty of opposi- tion—or if not “opposition” ex- actly, then lethargy and_indif- ference. This isn’t my conclu- sion. It comes from a score or more of representatives and sen- ators, some of whom, to say the least, are supposed to have their fingers on the congressional Pulse. Nobody Can Be Sure Nobody can be sure of any- thing that. will happen in Con- | gress until, the votes are in (the majority, leaders in both houses were SO wrong about adjourn- ment, for instance). But this is contingency” . it's Hawaii. | The present 6-8 of the stars without changing the! the way they look at the state- hood-for-Hawaii situation: (There should be here the brief precede that the Islands, in their recent election, voted 68 per cent in favor of pushing statehood. | As soon as the Hawaiian legis- lature meets and memorializes Congress to that effect, a joint resolution will be introdueed, no doubt, which, if passed; would clear the way for the 49th state). | The military powers that be may not favor statehood at this time. They figure it’s easier to handle a territorial government under even limited-emergency conditions than a state. And if anybody doubts the importance of Hawaii in Pacific naval af-' fairs, let him get out his en- cyclopedia and read up on Pearl Harbor. When peace is on the world and we're scrapping ships, instead of building them, what the Army and Navy people want | doesn’t amount to so much. But | in times like these, what they; want makes a big noise under the Capitol dome and all the con- gressmen hear, and a lot of them! ‘agree. | Mixture Of Races | There is also the problem of} racial make-up of the Hawaiian population. According ‘to the | Territorial Board of Health esti- | mates for 1940, the ’ opuilation | | Was made up“of 156,849 Japanese; | 65,291 Hawaiians ‘or part-Hawaii- | ELKS’ ANNUAL CHARITY BALL Tomorrow Night, 10:00 o’Clock KEY WEST STORK CLUB (Formerly Raul’s FUN on the Boulevard) FAVORS ——— FLOOR SHOW $1.00 Per Person GEORGE and MARGARET Tomorrow Night Phone 177 Free Delivery PENA’S GARDEN OF ROSES | (SR el Rr a Phone 42 for Reservations ans; 115,836 Caucasians; 52,148 Filipinos; 28,809 Chinese; 6,761 Koreans; and 960 of other na- j tionalities. Of the Caucasians, jnearly 31,000 were Portuguese; |7,700 Puerto Rican; and 1,200 Spanish. The military forces just list them, point to the 36 per cent total of Japanese, raise their eyebrows. Out in the Islands, of (Continued on Page Four) | tinuation Taylor will fire a upon his arrival Shortly after his arrival, the Secretary will be escorted on a tour of inspection of the station and the new air station propert by Captain Jacobs and his staff County and city officials are being invited to greet Secretary Knox. County Commission chair- man Carl Bervaidi and one com- missioner, Mayor Willard Albury and a city councilman, together with Col L. L. Pendleton, USA with an aide to be appointed by him and members of the press will be in the greeting group Accompanying Mr. Knox w be his aide, Capt M L Dey US.N., a Mr. Warner, persona friend.of the Secretray, and pes- sibly Rear Admiral Ernest J King, USN. It is expected that the tary will leave early t ing morning by plane f of the inspection He will spend Wednesday in B.0.Q. (bachelor officers ters) at the air station BECKMAN STARTS 19-gun salute RENOVATING WORK = WILL SPEND $4000 ON NEW HOME RECENTLY PURCHASED Romney O. Beckman ordered his contractor to begin work a $4,000 remodelling and = vating job for the home cently purchased here The building is the Laura Grillon Crusoe on Simonton street next postoffice. Mr. Beckman ig a2 national au- thority on personne! training and has decided to make Key West his permanent home city IN THE GROOVE (Ry Anseciated Preas) CLARENDON. Tex — James Goin of the Biankensi ranch, has won his spurs 2 cowboy. Finding a rattlesnake a clothes closet, he tained branding iron and k: he former residence ‘America’s Wi Medical Science Continies Battle Against Worst Enemy Of Man ‘Miracle Drug’, Serum Almost Conquers Pneumonia g 5 " i EL By JOHN GROVER AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.— ; Healthy horse blood and a scram- | which keeps score on the disease Seige test aang arse aa Today it is eighth, with 80,000 deaths. Once pneumonia murdered one in every four victims yet at the present time six in seven persons ? get well) Sulfapyridine and the new serums developed by science are the reasons. Sulfapyridine is the miracie stepson of sulfanilamide, the greatest medical discovery of modern times. Sulphur and ana- lin, the dyestuff, are its basic components. What it does to pneumonia is ‘everybody's business, because everybody is pneumonie’spoten- ‘tial victim. Sulfapyridine: ‘iter- ally works miracies. Stowly fill- ing lungs are cleared as ty: muaigic ; when the new drug attacks the Pneumonococcus. Cures that ence took weeks are now 2 matter of days and hours. The serums are not so dramatic. SHOPPING DAYS factures s dre trifuge Preumutia vocm forcement: disease the pnewmoris cesit rate S gf oun ee Ofte= anc er : Scence bas these t3O wonder- working cures well mame tet hopes Eaperumenta. Vaccines ate Seg Geet Se ané while rexaerch eutkess = the pubbe service apent Saying much thes est hopes The tests may mediate pero monia can be prevented by x= jemation Ef so ceaths fom | dasease wil ¢umde neal Rave the be _UNTIL CHRISTMAS