The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1940, Page 1

Associate 1 Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 295. U.S. CALLS 19 OUTFITS TO COLORS 65 Officers And 1,500 Men Are Summoned For Ac- tive Duty; Sixty Million Dollar Loan In Offing WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. — Navy Department announced to- day that 19 fleet divisions of the Organized Reserves had been called back to duty. The orders went out to 65 of- ficers and 1,540 men, and, carried urgent necessity for all to report for immediate assignment designated naval stations. Previous blanket-order at indication of all serves had been given out week, but the order today com- pleted the move which will serve to completely outfit the affecting re- last new naval units now being commissioned. LOAN COMPLETED FOR ARGENTINA WASHINGTON, Dec. Secretary of Commerce Jones, announced here this morn- ing that arrangements for a $60,- 000,000 loan had been completed to be placed to the credit of the Latin-American country of Ar- gentina. _ TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last night 24 hours 35 50 30 45 39 70 28 33 36 55 39 63 74 42 73 67 25 Boston Buffalo Char Chicago Cincinnati Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York Pittsburgh Washington 49 5 63 | vice-president; ' secretary, jto the | that body through its safety com- Laubscher Heads City Service Club BEE EXPERT IS GUEST OF EVENING: PRAISES KEY) WEST CLIMATE AS cont FOR APIARY At the semi-annual election of} the Stone Church Service Club | last night, Harold Laubscher was made president; J. S. Daniels, Charles Ketchum, and Jack Swift, treas- urer. The new officers will take j office the first of the year. A petition was voted to be sent City Council requesting mittee to see to it that stop signs be repainted on street corners at once in order to avert serious ac- cidents resulting from the influx | of winter visitors. The group recently voted to start in motion a movement look- ing forward to establishing community men’s bible cla: Sunday afternoons in one of the city parks. Speaker of the Ernest R. Root, president of the A. ; I. Root Company of Medina, Ohio. ; Mr. Root spoke in glowing terms of the unrivaled climate of Key West, stating that in his judgment it was the most uniform climate in the United States. The speaker, who has had many years experi- ence in the breeding of bees for honey gave a most and instructive talk on the sub- ject. He climaxed his remarks by saying that the climate, with its uniform terperature, was most ideally suited for the year-round breeding of bees. MRS. ALBURY DIES; BURIAL TOMORROW Gertrude Albury, 72, died this morning at 10:00 o'clock at her residence, 615 Grin- nell street Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 o'clock in Congregation] church, where the body will be placed at 2:00 o'clock by Lopez Funeral Home. Rev . E. S. Doherty, of that church. will officiate. Surviving Mrs. Albury are two sons, Criminal Court Judge Wil- liam V., and Joseph Mitchell Al- bury: a daughter, Mrs. Fay E. Dickens, and four grandchildren. Key West lodges of Knights of the Golden Eagle and Knights of Pythias will attend the funeral service in a body and pallbearers will be selected from the mem- bership of those groups. Mrs. Minnie Inventors Work On Magic Materials For Defense. (Associated WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.— tional defense has a brain trust. Don't get the idea, though, that it’s anything like the group that the New Deal winging on re starte its way. The tional defense b composed entirely of labora- tory magic dabblers and work shop g Official name of gray matter corps is the National Inventors Council. Chairman is Dr. Charles F. Kettering. There are 13 othe in the group. And theirs is the darndest job in the whole defense set-up. If there something that earth; if on one has thought of it before; even if ws whether it really ex- needed—it’s up to to produce it. “What we need,” says General Hopeful, “is a rocket torpedo that can be fired to a height of about five and will level off, »wn a bombing plane and blow it to splinters. And right away the inventors go to work. “If we could just make air- planes out of plastics”, says Gen- eral Wisher, “and stamp them out at the rate of a thousand a on one ists—b the cou miles, er inventor either on the direction of the tarts retorts steaming and presses pressing. These may sound but the plastic pla reality and some experts say the or under council e fictions, isn’t ever } is nearing, Feature Service) aerial torpedo for defe bombing attacks is just horizon. Plastic Plane Is Near se aren’t the only duties of new brain trust. One of the st important is sifting of all as and suggestic that pour from the publi Since the creation, more than 6,- have collected and g in now at the a day—all dealing raeipndaite strengthening ding the nation’s defen- ange all the way from that must have nse against over the h idea e rol ightmare to practical sug- gestions. drom embryo Edisons (Continued, on Page Four) VATICAN WILL HAVE NEW BOMB SHELTER (Associated Press Feature Service) VATICAN CITY, Dec. tight shelter bolstered by 100 tons of steel being built to pro- tect Pope Pius XII from bombs that may be dropped on Rome. The shelter, Vatican circles say. probably will not be completed until the first of the year. Vatican prelates say the Pontiff has declared that he would not}. . leave Vatican City for son”, “any rea- a . non- | sectarian in nature, to be held on! evening was| interesting | 11—A j , Massi Murder WAS FOUN At the same time. an order for a speedy trial will be turned in, following instructions to the State’s Attorney, calling for open- jing of the murder trial on Mon- jday, January 20. | Judge Gomez concluded the preliminary hearing, at which a motion for discovery and one for a speedy trial came up, in court- house chambers in Miami yester- ‘day. The habeas corpus proceedings, according to the order received by | Clerk Sawyer this morning. served to obviate the necessity of a pre- liminary hearing. Accordingly, McGrath, through his attorney, has waived that. Judge Gomez indicated that no order had been granted on the motion for dis- covery filed. Massi’s body, bullet-ridden, was found under Card Sound bridge on September 23rd. Investigation by the sheriff's departments of Monroe and Dade counties, im- plicated McGrath in the case, and he was indicted in a secret return ‘by a Monroe County Grand Jury yearly in November. Special deputies from Dade county travelled to Boston to bring McGrath back for trial late last month. Hearings held last week before Judge Gomez on the motion for Will Nazi Gun Fodder Hold Out? KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940 WHOSE BODY ID ON KEYS Edward J. McGrath, under indictment for the murder of Leon' Massi, will be arraigned before Judge Arthur Gomez in a Circuit | Court session here Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, according to WILL BE HONQRED AT DIN- information received at Clerk Ross C. Sawyer's office this mes . | discovery and speedy. trial were continued to Monday of this week, at which time eight wit- nesses who appeared before the ‘Monroe County Grand Jury were heard. These were Kenneth Ar- cher, Alvin Co: Freddy Ed- wards, G. W. es, A. Vincent Armayor, Chas. E. Curry. Henry | Betancourt and Leroy Roberts. It was alleged that McGrath had been taken into custody before the indictment had been returned by the Grand Jury, necessitating the preliminary hearings before the trial could be set. MRS. DEGUIRE DIED TUESDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Ruby Deguire, 30, who died yesterday in a local hospital, are being held this afternoon at 4:00 o'clock in \Pritchard Funeral Home's chapel. ‘Rev. bk. S."Doherty of First Con- gregational Church is officiating. Surviving Mrs. Deguire are a son, Cleveland Del Pino, and two sisters, Mrs. Emory Curry cf this city, and Mrs. H. G. Nells, of Opa Locka. ORDER SPEEDY TRIAL IN ( IN CASE OF ALLEGED’ KILLER OF MAN Suspect TOBE GlOre Judge Gomez Next Saturda E IN THE U.S. A. reigned Legion Ainullaie Heads Coming Here To Arrange Parley NER TENDERED BY CON- VENTION CORPORATION IN LA CONCHA HOTEL Mrs. Zoe Buzzell, department president of the American Legion Auxiliary, and the state officers of that organization, will be in Key West Friday in connection with details of the American Le- gion’s state convention here next April 23-26. They wlil be given a dinner at the La Concha hotel, and at 8 o’clock they will be guests of the Key West Convention corporation and executives of Arthur Saw- yer Post No. 28 of the American Legion at post headquarters, United and Whitehead streets. Among those who will greet them will be Lisle Smith, de- partment commander of the American Legion. who is return- ing from Havana with Al Mills, chairman of the convention cor- poration that day. Committee of the American gion auxiliary of Key West will be appointed at the meeting. There will be several hundred women of the American Legion in the city next April and ar- ranging dinners and luncheons for them will be quite a task. Experts Guess At Metal Supply By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service WASHINGTON. Dec. 11. — Ex-Premier Tells Hun- garian Parliament Nazis May Not Win!. -Greeks Rout | Italians Again!. . .British |Win Mediterranean -Naval Victory Italy Will Run fox Of Cotton January 1! | -Germany Seeks Oil in {Near East!. -Turks Talk | Up to Germans! | Are these headlines the ; symptoms of a major cri in war materials for the Axis powers and their allies? That's en all absorbing ~ ques- tion for the experts who measure the natural resources it takes for a major industrial power to fight a long, modern war. It’s particularly tempting for wary Dr. C. K. Leith, the Nation- al Defense Commission’s metals wizard. Dr. Leith hazards no jTeady answer. Dr. Leith is one jexpert in Washington who admits jhe’s already made a serious error jin guessing the outcome of the war. He picked the Allies for a fast victory on the sheer weight of the metals reserves they had. He was wrong. Ww: the balance of power in basic raw | materials was too overwhelmingly jin favor of the Allies” he explains. “But our conclusion was based jon a fallacious assumption. We jassumed the Allies would use jtheir reserves on somewhat the same scale as the Germans. We fexpected the Maginot line to hold jlong enough to bring these re- {serves into action. We were wrong. “The Allies’ potential weight of metal and other reserves was not jbrought to bear at the right time. -We should have reasoned at |the start that it is one thing te posses reserves, and still another tong : “You see, some of us figured = thing to use reserves efficiently.” That's what counted for the Germans. They brought the full weight of their meta! reserves to bear long before the war started. They were going at top speed when they struck. But the Allies had to fight and make war ma- chinery.,at the same time. How “dif; the’ Germans “do it since their country lacks many of the essential materials for fight- ing a war? Materials Hoarded The official reports of the United States Bureau of Mines as early as August, 1934, shows the Germans were (1) prohibit- ing to domestic manufacturers materials that had to be import- ed, and (2) doubling and trebling the rate of importation Thus, German people had to do without tin cans, good insulation, good brakes on their cars etc., but all the while great stock pi essential materials were built up. Furthermore. the Germans were developing substitutes for rubber, COUNTY ‘BOARD MEETS TONIGHT County Board will assemble for its second meeting of the in Clerk Ro s Sav ly thought that a revision of plans to obtain Boca Chica property for the projected army sub-airbase would come up for consideration at this meeting. Announcement this morning, however, was to the effect that that subject will be delayed for another meeting. A special committee is due to! report on whether or not one of three bids submitted for purchase of a dragline will be accepted or inot at this time. petroleum, tin, mercury. and many other materials. So when the war came, their mite was flung full force at the enemy, while the Allies were still break- Continued Or Page Four) NAVY AUTHORITIES DENY SUB-CHASING ERRAND OF U.S. SHIP MISSION OF U. S. S. MacLEISH | Program and Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER What have ! | | RUMOR EXISTANT IT ANI MET WST aS ;}CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RE CEIVES PRIZE INQUIRY OF THEM ALL: SECRETARY DE Shades we h efs have long adverse publicity gi bey Island City of go and food rest. But now c and best (or worst F. W. McBurnie |has heard rumors that tary authorities 1 jruled out al ter to the Chamber he — tour: true scale Ts to come tourists? We hea | ment was work ¥ jin Key West KEPT SECRET: LEFT HUR- — "3 RIEDLY YESTERDAY AFT- | vided Sor ERNOON S. S. MacLeish, flagship of > Key West-West Gulf Patrol, | esata by Comdr. Baker, U. S. N., ried orders yesterday afternoon | i Wilder | tation left port on hur- | at 4:00 o'clock for an unannounced | purpose. Station officials denied the i { And what an Seer dash off one swers. He “supposed t lies had been + West that could be tol letter opens up a new Then followe the about Key Wes FISH MARKET? (Uy Aneocinted Frees) JACKSON story appearing in a Miami paper |; #7. Schrader this morning which surmised that the MacLeish was called to sea in search of a German submarine. “That was not the purpose of the hurried trip”, they stated, we are not at liberty to state why | the vessel left”. U. S. S. Simpson left this after- | noon for ordinary patrol ad while the U. S. S. McCormi docked from a period spent on | patrol in this area. LEONOR M. WARREN IN SOCIOLOGY CLUB | (Special to ‘The Citizen) NORTHAMPTON, Mas: 11—Miss Leonor M: daughter of Mr. and Mrs. liam R. Warren of Eaton street Key West, and a member of the senior class at Smith College. has been accepted, along with 18 other new members, into the Smith College Sociology Club. The club is open to all juniors and senicrs who are majoring in sociology and who have shown an interest and proficiency in that subject. Dec. VETERANS STAGE JAMBOREE | j Warren, | ‘Wil-| Missour his list « He pl Along came “Is it here that ture display of al fish to illustrate and closed se on the wail payer end asked SONS a tax “but |they sell those fish?” ras TTALIANS —-. MET NEW DEFEATS Hi Duce’s Legumes Serres- der Two More (ates ip Argiecastre Secter Lieut. Craft Comes As Navy Chaplain Key West Naval Stat hold Sunday School and services next Sunday time since opening of on November 1, 1939 Lieut. Gg) Luther S. N. R., of Jo ported te Jacobs mandant . tory making throughout the services to be held w ing Sunday Lieut. Craft i Sunday Schc \childres of al TONIGHT AT POST HALL ‘day that the Naval St Tonight the jamboree and roundup of Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, the American Legion, will be held at Legion hall, Whitehead and United streets. There will be a regular meet- ing of the post at 8 p. m. In the absence of Harold E. Russell, post commander, who is in Miami, Al Mills, vice commander, will be in the chair. At approximately 10 p. m. the SABLA s. X-RAY SPECIALIST KEY WEST VISITOR, Da. and. Maza, + Be Bernard |, Nichols, of Cleveland and Ra- venna, Ohio, are visiting in Key West. stopping at the La Concha hotel. Dr. Nichols is a director of the X-ray department at the authority in his specialty, having published one of the text books on diseases of the kidneys. E He served as president of the Radiological Society of North America this year. 1001 Eaton street .at a lunch- eon this noon. PII LDID LL! :| entertainment will start. Featur- ed will be the orchestras of the La Conga and Cabana ciubs while the food, drinks and smokes are being served. Fred Marvil of the Cabana club, chairman of- the committee, is in cnarge. He will be master of ceremonies. Invited guests will include Mayor Willard M. Albury, Coun- ty Commission Chairman Carl Bervaldi the members of city council and county commission, and the officers of the army. navy, marine corps, guard and coast guard. It was erroneously stated in |The Miami Herald that the party | }was to be a farewell for the ;members of the national guard national i | National guard members will be! \entertained by Arthur Sawyer + gigs at a later date. “MISSING PISTOLS FRIGHTEN HUBBY | cay Aesodioted Poqeed { TULSA, Okla, Dec. 11—A sec- jond hand dealer, reporting to po-! |lice that someone had stolen $950 | from its hiding place, asked offi-| cers to search for his wife. disappeared at about the time as the money. “Why don’t you look for her?” asked a detective. stag 4 two shootin’ pistols | , too”, said the cémplain- fase sienificantiy. She | same listed personnel's hour will be Both this and the will be held in Movie Announcement was has opened, s fed m a FADaAALAAALS "iit ir ® 9 i if k 1 [tH 3} i i Ns t q ; To dcdaddhnduudeatn 11 | FULL SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS Your PHESCEIPTION adet fer Slec a wor aor woes anc cel verec SSS Gardner = “The See Seoee™ Phone I77 Fre ese? ,