The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1940, Page 1

60 Years Devoted to thi tt Interests of Key West LUME LXI. No. 299. avy Personne swelled By 700 In Sound School TWO SUBMARINES, TWO DESTROYERS ARRIVE FORT REMAINING | IN PORT OVER WEEKEND With the arrival in Key West of two submarines and two de- stroyers, the sound school, which will mean a permanent population of officers and men of 700 for the today. city of Key West, got under way The submarines S-25 and S-29 arrived here Saturday and this will be their permanent home port. rive Tuesday or Wednesday. U.S.S. Herbert and Jacob Jones, * destroyers, arrived Saturday. They are shortly to be joined by the U.S.S. Roper and Dickerson. One of the vessels is on repair status at present, but it stated au- thoritative! be here well before the One hundred pupils in the navy sound school. At pres- ent they are aboard the destroyers undergoing that phase of the training which relates to under- water sound detection and sound transferance. On Jan. 13, the shore school will get under way, probably in the same building now occupied as headquarters of the Key West- West Coast patrol in the navy station. Although the school is the direct charge of Lieut. J. B. Swain, U.S.N., aetual eom- manding officer Commander Edward H. Jones, U.S.N.. com- manding officer of Division 53 of the destroyers. He will arrive + is under th the is It is expected the S-22 will ar- here in the Roper at the date. As soon as one sound school is completed there will be on hand another 100 sailors in to take the lessons. The school term will be about one month. Many of the 700 officers and men the school will bring to Key West are married. They have been advised not to bring their families here until living condi- tions are better, but some of them already have appeared with their families. “The homegort for marines and destroyers to the sound school has been changed to Key West”, Lieut. Commander Edwin Fisher. U.S.N. retired, said today . “It will mean @ great thing for the city to have later the sub- attached this school, for nearly all the men — aboard the submarines, for ex- ample, are married. They their families here with them.” Cuban Government To Entertain Legion Details of the special Havana excursion to be Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28 of the Amer- ican Legion April 27, the day fol- lowing the close of the s , were worked out over the weekend Al Mills, chairman of the Key West Con- vention corporation. With Mills when he went to Ha- vana was J. K. Williams, of Miami, state judge advocate. They were entertained in the Cuban capital by government representatives at the American Club and by Dr. W. Edwin Klawans, commander the American Legion post of Ha- vana. * The secretaries of the Cuban government and _ the Commission also attended. It was determined that for si0! the Legionnaires and their friends who make the trip will be given board and room in the Hotel Plaza and the Royal Palm Hotel from Sunday evening until Tues- day evening, the cost including transportation to and from the dock. As a further inducement the Cuban government will give a din- ner-dance at the National. the city of Havana will entertain with a luncheon and tea dance and the American Legion post will hold a cocktail party and dance. A total of $250 in first and second prizes for the best two fife and drum corps appearing in a parade of the Legionnaires is of- fered by the Cuban government, Mills reported. run by e con- vention here. by of SAMMY MANNING’S ORCHESTRA Now Playing Nightly at BOAT BAR 503 Duval Street Appearing Nightly. . - _ANN SHERWOOD in songs that will please you! SAMMY appears daily at COCK- TAIL HOUR—S to 6 and from 9 to 1 Phone 9165 for Free Delivery on PACKAGE LIQUORS apr te mace pee SSSI SSS SS SS DEPUTY COMING HERE FOR ST. PAUL YOUTH A deputy sheriff from St. Paul, Minn., will arrive here late today for Willis Raff, 20, who surrendered himself to Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard Waite after confessing he was wanted for forgery in Minne- sota. . Raff waived: éxtradition and the deputy sheriff was sent here to get him. The nature of the charges against Raff are not known. Cuban OMI LI LD SD DB DS DD sorts want = tassisted by THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1940 GUA CALLED 70 COLORS IN EGYPT SECTOR’. BRITISH IGNORE OUTPOST | AS BATTLEFRONT SWITCH- ‘will leave Key West for Fort* ES TO LIBYA; “ISLAND AD- VANCE” PLAN IN USE (By Assopiated Press) CAIRO, Dec. 16.—British forces in Egypt are advancing steadily into Libya and there is only one Italian fort left remaining in this country The Fascists hold the Fort of Solon, but reports state that the British forces have adopted the island advance” techngiue in this phase of the war and are making no attempt to crush the fort at present. The military technique employ- ed by the British is to completely ‘ignore the Solon fort until larger concentratios of Italian have beeh beaten. Last weekend more than 25,000 Fascist troops were captured by the B.EF. in Egypt. troops TEMPERATURES Lowest last|Highest last night 24 hours 29 45 31 44 35 51 34 50 27 52 62 70 7 82 46 65 72 79 21 25 54 74 39 42 41 52 30 42 42 48 40 45 Boston Buffalo Chicago Detroit El Paso Jacksonville KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis New Orleans New York Pittsburgh St. Louis San Francisco Washington ONLY ONE FASCIST [NINETY KEY WESTERS TO LEAVE FOR TEXAS! ar Service Will Cease Here ii CAMP EARLY IN JANUARY Company E, 265th Field Artillery, will be inducted into Federal | service on Jan. 6, it was announced today in a telegram received by | Capt. William C. Harris, commanding office: of the unit. ‘Capt. Harris estimates that it if ‘will: Be between Jan: 11 and 16} | before the battery. which now consists of three officers and 87 men, | Crockett, Texas. jett, the officers and men ‘their fitness for than all other co HARRIS SCHOOL CHILDREN IN January 6th and the for Fort Crock- of the company will have to be examin- ed by federal officers to determine service, which Between date of departure will be for one year. Those rejected will not be per- mitted to leave with the battery. Their places will be filled from the reserve which Capt. Harris will sign up from this time for- ward. The battery at full strength at present, except for one officer who will be named LISS SSS SSS s CUPID WORKED HARD OVER LAST WEEKEND Marriage licenses were is- sued by the following persons when they appeared before County Judge Raymond R. Lord on Saturday: Chester L. Burks, 39, sea- man aboard the U.S.S. Bain- bridge. and Rosario Cas- tellano, 25, of Key West: Ar- thur J. Chaghowski. 34, a U.S. seaman, and Lucy Kight, 25, of San Antonio, Texas; George E. Saunders, 54, of the state road department, and Louise Riggs. 41, of Maysville Ky.. and James M. Birmingham. 39, a U. S. seaman, and Violet Acosta, 31 of Key West. Bits s ss: U.S. LEADS IN PETROLEUM is WASHINGTON. States produces — The United nore petroleum itries combined. CHRISTMAS OPERETTA TUESDAY y The’ Harris school music depatt® ment. upder the direction of Mu- ic Djfectbr Miss Alce Curry and Mrs. Mary Ely and Miss Jennie Mae Johnson, pre- tomorrow night at the Monk ’s Book Gis Calacbal Facts On Florida’s Old Days The Florida Keys, the chain of islands extending from Biscayne Bay to Key West and beyond, a distance of some 200 miles, shown on the e: Martyr Islan tires,” were so named, rer, by | to Lowery, who cites Herrera, Ponce de Leon on his first vo; P. of discovery in Florida, “because | the high rocks looked at a distance like men who are suffering.” And in Margaret Geiger’s trans- lation of “The Martyrs of Flor- ida,” 1512-1616, by Luis Ceronimo de Ore, Franciscan Monk. it is said “ships were lost every year along the coast of Matacumbe, owing to the unskillfulness of the pilots in the Bahama channel” (Now known as the Gulf Stream.) “The Indians killed the Span- NOTICE! On and after January 1, 1941, the scale of wages for Union Car- Penters will be $1.00 per hour. LOCAL NO. 655. CARPENTERS’ UNION. Joseph Watkins, Presi- dent. iards, who took refuge on the beach. As a result they called the place “The Martyrs,’ which per- haps some were, for their deaths (Continued on Page Four) school auditorium, 7:30 p. m., Annual Chris Operetta, titled “The Toy Maker”. Appreciation is extended to the N.Y.A. colored sewing room project, which contributed time to the making of the various cos- tumes for the characters taking part, Miss Curry brought out. The cast follows Chorus Of Toys Horacio Sanchez, Ben Saunders, Leland Archer, Bertram Roberts, Mae Bi 3 vi Gloria Brown, Gloria Robert Archer. Betty Ar-; mayor, Dorothy Saunders, Billy Spencer, Joy Ball, Joan Knowles, (Continued on Page Four) its en- later, as no one in the battery is qualified to hold tne rank. Besides Capt. Harris, the other officers of Battery E are First Lieutenant William E. P. Rob- erts and Second Lieutenant Hen- ry F. Taylor, Jr. All three of the , Officers are ready to leave. The telegram received by Capt. Harris was from Vivian Collins, Adjutant General of the Florida National Guard. It read as follows: “War department telegram dat- ed December fifteenth advises that two sixty-fifth Coast Artil- lery will be inducted into federal service on January sixth”. It is expected the trip to Fort Crockett, which is right along- side Galveston beach, will be made by train. It would be log- ical to move the battery to Fort Crockett by boat, but whether the war department will change plans for this is not known. LOCAL SCHOOLS TO CO-OPERATE IN SEAL DRIVE Mrs. M. L. Russell, president of the Monroe County Council of the Parent-Teacher Association and, school chairman for the annual Christmas seal campaign, an- nounced today. the willingness of all the city schools to co-operate in the 1940 drive. Teachers in all schools are co- operating with Mrs. Russell in making the drive a success. “The greatest hope for success in the educational movement against tuberculosis -lies in the growing children of today. These children have opportunities of knowing facts about the preven- tion and cure of tuberculosis that scienct ‘had not uncovered a gen- eration ago”, Mrs. Russell said. “The sale of Christmas Seals for 34 years has made possible a year-round educational campaign against the disease that has en- tered practically every class- room in the country”, she de- clared. PAUL TRACY DIES IN HOSPITAL HERE Paul Tracy died at 7:30 o'clock last night in a local hospital. Funeral arrangements, un- der direction of Pritchard funeral home, await instruc- tions from Mr. Tracy's sister. Mrs. Charlotte Fullmer, of ‘Seatood | Once ieee ‘Rosefish’ Rocketed To Favorite New England Delicacy By FRANK W. LOVERING (Special to The Citizen) BOSTON, Dec. 16.—Seven years ago a course not printed on the menu was served at the semi-an- nual dinner of a group of chain store managers in a middle West- ern city. It was fish, and a very common fish, at that. There were 21 men present. The delicacy had been spirited into the hotel kitchen at the inspira- tion of a young meat and fish buyer who was looking earnestly for a “fish special” as a leader for He was used to of wholesale fish his advertising. the stock list quotations, and one day it came Fish Pier and ordered ten pounds shipped in a hurry. It arrived in delicious filets, frozen and rosy-red. The dinner was scheduled for that very night, so he took it to the chef, who pro- to him that way back when he|Perly did his stuff During a went into the trade “rosefish” had | always been listed at one cent a pound. dering what rose- fish could be to stay constantly on | i There must be some out- let for it. He put in a_ long- distance phone call to the Boston i change of service the waiters | brought on small portions of the ; fish. It tasted like perch caught lin the mid-west lakes. “What is it? “Why—we'll call it sea perch. It's rosefish from Boston.” The 21 diners called for more (Continued on Page Four) j thing has_a’quiet wey Chamber Of Commerce Secretary Instructed To Determine Facts From P.& 0. f of Secretary S. C. Singleton the Key West Chamber of Com- merce was instructed today by directors of the chamber to con- tact the P. & O. Steamship com- pany to determine if the service Che Key West Cittern Italian Cruiser GIVEN TO GM. government of the large: tracts or gine division tors corpora’ The contr. and, although luctant to div engines in that they w cooled type Fifty Fascists beget Killed 4« RAP Pome Bemb ~<2pert Bit © XN ARTIST SOCIETY EXHIBIT OPENS AT ART CENTER The Key West Somer: Christmas show opened the Art Center. The pain ex m includ icolors, prin ularly pric These colorful show subjects are cither of the abundant plant city This exh through January 6th Included i Skete eighbors”— make to Tampa is to be suspended this season The matter was called to atten- tion of the directors of the cham- ber by the Tampa Portland Cement company, which stated that it is been informed Tampa service is to be discontinued. It asked the chamber direttors ‘to furnish a list of other ports from which cement could be shipped to the navy department here. The secretary was also directed to examine the possibility of hav- ing cement shipped here from Jacksonville and other ports. ULS.-CANADIAN BOARDS MEET (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 16—The United States-Canadian Defense Boards will meet here today. Problems of mutual defense. brought to a state of serious im portance by the war, will be thrashed out. Mayor Fiorelio H La Guardia of New York, chair- man of the American board. will preside. Smith “Flower Smith 01 ter: “Lime: “Fish Packi Reed Marior: —Eleanor R “Study” Su “Schooner Reed Watson Hint New Scheme For Credit To Gr Great Britain — By MORGAN BEATTY. AP Feature Service Weiter WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Be- neath the headline hubbub about credits for Britain lies the fun- damental fact that a new pattern of relations between the United States and the Empire is in the making. At the moment the pattern’s in he’s fighting th er ed 50 deal the doodling stage—mere circles lat and squares and curley-cues a tablecloth between Secre Morgenthau of our treasury a Sir Frederick Phillips of the Brit- t- tish Treasury. But when the pattern’s finish ed it may change title to some the world’s raw or industrial re- sources, or,both: That, 4ipd of snaking important history. The ‘Bfitish Zé like a s trouble. wealthy investments on the income. gold reserves or his se- he lives taps his curities. When he needs extra dollars. which he can buy only with gold. he would like to borrow on his personal note to avoid selling his investments or even them. But, unfortuntelv for him, he argued about a personal note he gave the United States about 20 years ago. He failed to pay back $5.000,000,000 worth of World war debts. Now he’s back again. sug- ‘gesting, as he did before that y out troye more there. How Chi to ] products 900.000 fr rials for d pledging s tration seaSt Comsudet. plans to build future Briuush (Continued On Page Four)