The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 9, 1940, Page 1

Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Associat« 1 Press Day Wire THE VOLUME LXI. No. 293. “Weak Sea Rae Seek Vengeance For At- tack On British Auxil- iary Cruiser; Battle Ex-. pected Today (By Associated Press) MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 9.—The claws of the British Lion reached éercss the South Atlantic this morning to avenge Hitler's war on England's shipping. An unconfirmed report from this city revealed that the HM.S the Enterprise, heavy cruiser of Royal Navy, has sighted a: in pursuit of'the German rn raider that last week shelled the British auxiliary cruiser Carnarvon Castle, causing a loss of seven lives and wounding many more. It is reported that the Enter- prise is closmg in rapidly on her adversary and a battle is expect- ed this afternoon. The dead and wounded were removed from the crippled Car- narvon Castle by an unnamed British war vessel and are being rushed to Britain’s Faulkland Is- land naval base, off the south coast of Argentina. The damaged ; ship limped into Montevideo har- bor yesterday. Scene of this latest naval en- counter in South American wa- ters is the mouth of the La Plata river, where last Spring the Brit- ish cruiser Exeter, along with two other ships of smaller size, caused the captain of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee to flee and later scuttle his com- mand. GREEKS ADVANCE ON ALL FRONTS CAPTURE ARGIROCASTRO AND ADVANCE ON ELBASAN (By Associated Press) ATHENS, Dec. 9.—Greeks were jubilant today at gover nt re- pors|ftetihg ‘that - the } {Albanian base: sea-coast city Argiro- castro had. been captugedy . and other columfs appeared to be gaining possession of the north- ern Italian stronghold of El- basan. Greek troops were reported to be pursuing the Italians north out of Argirocastro, th@ while a pincher drive is being applied to Il Duce’s forces in the middle sec- tor in Albania. Reports of Albanian uprisings against Italian troops near Porto Edda were received here today. One group of 800 Albanian citi- zens was said to have attacked rearguard troops of Italy. CHASED BY BUCK HE SHOT CHERRY CREEK, N Y.—Rev. Walter Bradley, local pastor of the United Brethren church, was nursing several bruises and a sprained ankle as a result of be-. ing chased by a big buck he had} wounded. with’ his’ last « shell. Scrambling up: a_creek:-bank, the minister managed to finish off the buck with the butt of his empty gun as it followed him. SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS PACIFIC FLEET NEWSCASTER WN LOOX gen AND C.B.S. HEADQUAR- | Pursuing | | TERS SMASHED, IN TER- RIFIC BOMBARDMENT BY AIR (By Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 9.—Headquar- ters of both the National Broad- }custing Company and the Colum- 1IaI LDS FED IS \y\.° Broadcasting System were SUICIDE ZORSKY | ins Lattice over this BITTEN BY MORAY jmetropolis, resulting in. the se- }rious injury of Fred Bates, new {caster for N.B.C.,<and:the narrow Jeseph Cramer, owner of { ab Caclus Terrace, and familiar- |€Scape from a similar fate of ly known as Suicide Zorsky. jLarry Le Seure of Columbia: he had | Inone of the worst raids ee ee dersiay while |far, one which saw hundreds ‘of out fishing with friends on {Nazi bombers in attack formation Thursday. over the city for several hours, The incident occurred when _|'he lower Strand section was torn the moray was being disen- into 2 shambles and fire fighters gaged from a hook to throw it back in the sea. The pvartv with Mr. Cramer landed 18 sharks and many cther fish while out angling approximately three miles off jing battling severe blazes which | threatened the heart of the Brit- fish press sector. Despite the demolotion of both broadcasting headquarters, no in- terruption in radio service to eles America was announced. It is! SIS SFIS FOO 8 \>vobably that the daily newscasts will hereafter emanate directly |from the underground studios of hada British Broadcasting Com- N |pany, so far untouched by bombs. ON MANEUVERS) — SECRECY SHROUDS NAVAL; GAME OPENING OFF i NAVY TANKER: HERE SUNDAY {TWO DESTROYERS ARRIVE i | FROM PATROL YESTER- DAY AND TODAY HONOLULU \™y Axsoctated Press) | WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The! Navy Department announged to-| day that the Pacifi¢ Fleet, ‘involv-| ing over 100 ships and the full! aie U6. 5 Sapaen ney nk: complement of navy planes, all | the local navy base. yesterday stationed at Pearl Harbor Hawaii,|morning at 6:00 o'clock, and had begun off of|after discharging a cargo of oil, Honciistas. |gasoline and other supplies, left Admiral Richardson, aboard the ee ene flagship, U. S. S. New Mexico, is the chief observer of the man- euvers, which it was stated, will extend over at least a month's period. jarrive in port this afternoon. Recent assignment of new ves-| Only other ship of the local sels from west-coast bases and/! patrol in port today is the U. S. the arrival of navy bombing!S. MacLeish, flagship. planes from San Francisco, at! Pearl Harbor, brings the present! maneuvers to a position of high} importance in regard to the num- ; ber of units engaged, the largest ; assembled in the history of the} nation. | maneuvers ,S. N., announced: this morning that the U. S. S. Simpson had re- }turned from patrol duties in, the Key West-West Gulf patrol area. CHRIS HOEFEL DIED SATURDAY FORGETFUL PLAYMATE | some: WELL-KNOWN IN. KEY WEST Announcement of the death, of Christian’ Hoefel in St. Louis, + was ‘feceived in Key West Sat jday afternoon by Peter Roberts, ;1111 Southard street. No details of the demise-was contained in the telegraph message but it is assumed Mr. Hoefel passed away !some time that morning. News of the death came as a SELES ELE EB sirprise to relatives here. Earl NEW YORK. — While chase, 9, and his friend, James , 6, were" fishing off an old pier, John Tost his balance and fell into the rives. The smaller boy went home and said nothing about the accident until the fath- er of the missing boy inquired about him. Then James told what had happened. Efforts to find the boy’s body failed. i John 4 the Key {were busy until early this morn-j{ jer and supply ship, arrived at” Commander Wilder Baker, U.' |The U. S. S. Truxton was due to: KEY WEST, FLORIDA, M British Columb: war-cry, “There Will Always Be The mayor of Victoria will war activities for a brief celebra- tion of the holiday in the manner of their motherland. The annual festival, staged in the rotunda and lounge of a large hotel, which resemble the en- trance hall of some baronial manor house, will reach its climax on Christmas night. At the tea hour on Christmas Eve damsels in fichus and mob jeaps will serve crumpets and {scones before great log fires. The next morning “waits” in jruffs will greet the merrymakers } with carols and _ traditional }chants. } And when night falls, a proces- tsion of ruffed and rapiered lords” and their “ladyes faire” {will wind through the crowd (Associated Press Feature Service) VICTORIA, Canada, Dec. 9—This quaint “old-wer'd” capital of will put a Christmas touch to the em ing of the Yule Log, with all the pageantry of Elizabethan days, | while civilians and officers of the , three armed services recess their’ est Citizen SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. But Not The War Gry MAYOR OF VICTORIA TO PRESIDE AT TRADI-| TIONAL YULE LOG RITES SISTANT ATTORNEY GEN- ERAL McGUIRE ARRIVE | YESTERDAY: FISH TODAY Two prominent Washington of- ‘An England!” pire's current -siciais, with their wives, dropped preside at a traditional christen- jn on Key West yesterday after- —-— noon to “look our city over”, as ' singing old songs of “Merrie Eng- ,they reproted, and are land” while trumpets blow and x a jester tumbles ahead in cap /0ver today to sample the widely- and. bells. touted fishing in this vicinity. Then, to song and carol, the, appointed senescha}. will anoint: They are- Congressman and the Great. Log -with-“wine from Mrs. T. A. Flahaty, of Boston, Spain” and fat from the Christ-"Mass, and Assistant Attorney mas Toasts;-and the mayor will .ge, 1M. L. Mi d’ Mrs. fire the log ‘with ritual almost as ‘wrGuire ein oe c= old as England herself. | Later, as the crowds dine be-;, Constessman Flahaty is slated neath heavily beamed ceilings.|© become a _ member of the the “boare’s hede” will be carried House Appropriations committee, among them while trumpeters' naval sub-committee. alter the ees event, Shortly after arrival yesterday, am ie caroliers nt t > wii Then His Majesty’s servants | ‘7° Moma Ak a = and their ladies will arise, lift SPection tour of all naval prop- their glasses and proclaim: erty in the city. including the “There Will Always Be An Eng- ?°¥ air station on Trumbo Island land!” and go back to war. |Captain Walter F. Jacobs, U.S.N., staying on | eae iKrem { i hd j By HENRY C. CASSIDY. MOSCOW, Dec. 9.—The mas- “ters of the Kremlin, ruling the neutral Soviet sixth of the | world, are wearing their most jinscrutable mask in the grim jgame of power politics being ‘played as a side attraction of the war. Never known for talkativeness, the Kremlin gen now have be- come as uncommunicative as the sodden, gray clouds of winter over the golden Byzantine domes :of their citadel. $ Joseph Stalin, chief of them jall, has not spoken since the March, 1939, congress of the Communist party, of which he is secretary-general. Vyacheslaff Molotoff, premier, yforeign commissar and general ;Tight-hand man, who usually YES SUH, THEY SHO GOT RHYTHM 4 lin Temple. ‘Shh’ Heard Around World (By Asyociated Prews) Then fellowed an auto tour of Key West proper, with stops at }many places of interest. | Staying over until tonight, or |tomorrow, registered at La Con- jcha hotel, the visitors, keenly ‘en- |thused with the city, went on a AP Feat Service Writer anne excursion this morning. not. spoken publicy since the | WILLET ON WAY TG ep mance o TOW BRITISH SHIP OW Gaara Of Silence; Supreme Soviet session last Aug. ! Parliamentary debate, public ‘Statements and press confer- ences,—all the normal through which a government usually informs its people of | what it is doing—have been} closed. ‘The Soviet press remains vir- running dry. Most war news is{the Porter Dock Company at given in official communiques ; 2008 today, under command of from Berlin and London. Diplo-‘C@Ptain C. L. Peterson, called to matic news usually comes in New ;the scene where the British York dispatches, quoting Amer-. freighter, S. S. San Jose lies in ican newspapers about what is distress. The San Jose ran ashcre, ac- (Continued On Page Four) cobain jaa honk: jon Olé Providence Island, near dug —~=s{ Se! wass floated by a sister ship, the S.S. Killreg, but is in need of a tow to drydock for repairs. | Porter Dock officials stated the | Willet would arrive off Old | t | HUGHES, Ark. Dec. 7—Negro i |PASSED AWAY IN ST. LOUIS cotton pickers in this rich East tween the furrows. ‘Arkansas delta country have got rhythm—but définitely- > A passerby;‘-investigating “the Source of “boegie-woogie”” tunes in the center of. a big . cotton patch, found they came from a ga ES ESE Less Providence Island in about three litth ble radio down be-;ays. They did not know to a anabee cece: . town bet ilieh <iepibsck tine dieebled Bcit- vish ship would be towed. ‘thythm. we really rhythms dis: ‘cotton—picks nearly twice as! much”, a worker explained | Proudly. i i Business Is Better ONLY NOTABLE NOMINATED FOR HONOR: 141 COM- PETED channels STEAMER SAN JOSE RAN) ?St. Andrews, Colombia. The ves- | [PII Ia OOO OM. Vi Cty Vesterias \MISS STRABEL MOVES INTO NEW ‘Si? HOME terviewarg (aoe it Interest Of Sappert Fer New Schedek j } ; j j | ginie j ; Fe ke hedededel BRITISH ENGAGE ITALY IN ECYPT -- —_— ee ] MUSSOLINTS maAIN DE- “ | TACHMENT (By Assecinte? Prees) LONDON, Dec. 8.—Dispatch from British Near East bead ters in Cairo this morning stated jan impending large-scale ‘looms between defending forces ,of Egypt and the habe: ;army. Advance British patrols have located main Italian force the dispatches disclosed. and troops have been ordered up to start battle aiming at forcing the ene my out of captured territory battle mam ‘HISTORIC SLAB IN: JUNGLE VERO BEACH, Dec 8.—NS ‘A curious bit of histery was | veiled here last jhuge slab of mahogany 35 feet |long, 5 feet wide. 4 inches thick jand weighing more. than two jtons, arrived from New York jand was transferred to Jungle {Gardens where it is to be made into an outdoor banquet table According to Waldo E Sexton director of the Gardens. the siz jcame from a tree m the Philip- jPpine Islands. It was brought jthis country at the turr of the week when DIFFERENT QUEENS , COME TO FLORIDA; FT. MYERS, Dec. 393— (FNS) Long famous for its Production of “queens” of the bathing beauty variety. Florida is on its way to be- come noted for the produc- tion of queen bees who are also “honeys”. : A group of the most noted pee men in’ the nation visited 't. Myers last week seeking the safest winter quartérs in the U.S. for rearing queen bees. Their attention was at- tracted to this section by the success obtained by Jay Smith, local bee raiser, who has been specializing for five producing capacity of his strains and who is now ship- Ping “queens” to every state this section will appear in an early edi- tion of “Bee Culture” maga- zine. | PDD D DLA EAA Pro 177 jlast week the Hoefels had writ- jten they expeeted to be in Key West the latter part of this month, which tends to the belief that Mr. | Hoefel’s end came suddenly. Survivors include his wife and two sisters, all of St. Louis. Fun- ;eral services will be held in that {city some time this week. Mrs. Hoefel is the sister of Ben- }jamin and Joseph (Dick) Demer- titt, Peter Roberts and Mrs. H. C. ;Hudlow of Key West. | Mr. Hoefel, familiarly known ~swas stationed in:this city during the Spanish-American‘ war: At \that time he met and married the jthen Miss Katie: Demeritt. “He returned to St. Louis after the |- war and secured a position with a railroad cmopany, from which he retired a number of years ago. : Although St. Louis was his home town, he preferred Key West in {the winter and, with his wife, iwas an annual visitor here. ‘Yardley TOILET GOODS i Sold Exclusively in Key | base if Free Delivery jas Chris to his many friends here,} century for display at the St MAYO, Dec. 9 (FNS).—Com- |; World's Fair Later # jtransferred to the Americar ‘Museum of Natural History & 'New York where for thirty | For Border Patrol | peting with 141 of the nation’s !notables, Stephen Collins Foster | was the only nominee to be elect- By WILLIAM E. KEYS. AP Feature Service Writer SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 7. don’t forget how they swapped |—North of the border. down lead with raiders in the days ot|°4 ‘© the Hall of Fame in this! 21. it was displayed as med- ——_ Ts ous |Mexico way, the U. S. Border Pancho Villa. jyear’s election. “His closest com-jtood Then a curator Giscovessd ment, ight Sx om = Me | Patrol is readying for emergency.| Aliens are being trapped more | Petitors, according to Paul Runge. iit to be mahogany and i was 2m as 2 tese for 2 peutic atack {Troublesome international condi-'quickly—more of them in the “tor of the Mayo Free Press,’ n+ to the basement to be on the Pamame Canal sccuniing |tions increase the burden of these act of crossing the dividing line W®te Walter Reed, scientist; Sid- jhawk-eyed watchers, who are and fewer of them inland. Sea. ;2°Y Lanier, poet; Henry David | Saining in personnel and equip- coast business is picking up too | Thereau, suthor, and Booker | ment. ‘ because of desertions from Euro- | W2shington, negro educator. | Soon the patrol will sprout pean ships. ee }wings from an aerial watch on The patrolmen’s job is a 24. | Figinators of the “Foster for Hall the 2,000-mile Mexican boundary. hour vigil covering thousands of of ; Three radio-equipped autogyros sun-broiled, cactus-spiked “miles. pMill ‘be used to track dewn bor- by automobile,-horseback and on! ¢der-jumping aliens and .smug- foot. They work in crews of! glers ‘of aliens. i twos and threes, sometimes ‘as’ A growing network of - radio many as 25. Gun duels 7 transmitters and observation tiful-more then 904 are neeondea PS Placed among those of 72 oth- |Charleston towers and an authorized increase in the El Paso area alone—and |! 8teat Americans next spring, Chicago of approximately 360 mer. for a more than 30 patrolmen have /®¢cording to an announcement | Cincinnati total of about 750, indicate how fallen in 15 years. Tough hom-/™ade by Dr. Harry Woodburn |petroit the wind is blowing along the bres are the smugglers—of goods {Chase chancellor of New York my pas, southern border. |and aliens—and those .38 caliber | University and director pro tem Refugee Problem ' pistols, army rifles, riot guns and |! the Hall of Fame. { The patrol eyes with precau- sub-machine guns are not for! tion an influx of Europeans into | decoration. Mexico. Should revolution come When roads run out in border jstored. There Sexton discovered jit last summer, bought i and had Tit shipped here & a ope. «is by Congresses We mat watt mete very Comes = eet a ot ee to-eleet Foster. in the southern republic these thickets, the patrolman shucks| | O® and after January 1. 1941. yinneapolis refugees—and possibly others— his green Sdioers for cowboy | the scale of wages for Union Car- | x7... Orieans would be on the move. chaps and mounts a horse or|Penters will be $1.00-per hour. iNew York +} Most aliens nabbed on- the strikes out on foot.- |Locas wo. 6ss, CARPENTERS’ Pissbuss= border these days are Mexicans. He might have to hide in| UNION. Joseph Watkins. Presi- St Louis _ ylooking for a job, but old hands! (Continued on Page Four) eo dec$-1t, Washington »