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

Associate 1 Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West eyy West Cittzern THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. VOLUME LXI. No. 307. More. Government Boats Due Herei.,....=> .. Movements Reported Around Balkan 1 Area Three Patrol Vs Vessels Ex-. pected To Reach This; Port Sometime Before January 7 Three new patrol boats are ex- pected at the Key West naval | base sometime before January 7.) it was announced today by offi-| cers of Key West naval station. | They are the YP-31, the SC-! 330 and the SC-432. They are| awa a, ‘ROOSEVELT NOT TO BE DISTURBED (By Asnociated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 26,— President Roosevelt has post- ed a sign “Do Not Disturb” outside his office and will not be home to anyone during the next few days when he will put all of his time on the (preparation of his speech Sunday night. The chief executive states that he will tell the ngtion of his intentions in st up national defense @ ns for further aid to KEY WEST, FL' HAVE BEEN DAMAGED IN MEDITERRANEAN (By Aascetated Press) ROME, Dec. 26.—Italian com- munique reported strong naval activity in the Mediterranean re- sulting in the sinking of a British cruiser and the damaging of two battleships. ees BRITISH FREIGHTER BELIEVED LOST. _ LONDON, Dec. 26.—No fur- ther reports came from the 5,222- ton British freighter. Everleigh, which gave a,Germen- submarine a spectacular stefn-¢hase yester- day. far ‘ousin- the: North Atlan- tic, off the coast’ ‘of Scotland. Shelling of the’ freighter was coming here from New Orleans. Nhnhchanhethdeatender reported.in two, ocd Messages All except the YP-31 are going in, a few days after arrival to Nor-; folk. The YP-31 will remain in Key West and become one of the Key West patrol, it was stated. Naval ships in port today were the Bainbridge, the MacLeish, the Jacob Jones, the Overton. the Herbert and the Sturveton, de- stroyers; the S-22, S-25 and A-29, submarines, and the Mankato and the YT-143, tugs. Last night 63 under command of Comman- der T. V. Cooper, U.S.N.. left for Norfolk. Destroyers in the di- vision were the Broome, the Simpson, the Truxton and the McCormick. It is expected they will be back to this area later. They have been refueling at Gal- veston and have not been in here as regularly as some of the oth- er ships. destroyer division GREAT PERFORMER BUFFALO, Minn.—Albert Nel- son of this city is a one-man band He plays 32 instruments, singly and in groups, using his feet, el- bows, wrists, knees, lips and lungs. ; Officers To Make Inspection Covering nee Key West naval station public works activities will be inspected on Thursday, Friday and Satur- day, Jan. 2-4, by Capt. C. A. Trexel and Commander I. A. Bickelhaupt of the seventh naval district pub- lic works division, it was an- nounced today by Lieut. Com- miander T. J. Brady, U.S.N., pub- lic works officer at Key West naval station. “These officers will go oughly into all phases of the work in Key West,” Brady said. thor- naval | Commander “It is probable that Sas Ane seem tN SAMMY MANNING’S ORCHESTRA Now Playing Nightly at BOAT BAR 503 Duval Street Phone $165 for Free Delivery on PACKAGE LIQUORS ‘Orange bowl football RADIO PROGRAM | THIS EVENING: MIAMI, Dec. 26 (FNS).— t Through the enterprise of the City of Miami and the Florida Congress on Democracy, the fam- i ed radio program, “America’s,! Town Meeting of the Air”, will | be broadcast from Miami on a na-| tion-wide hookup this evening, } from 9:30 to 10:30 o'clock, over! the NBC coast to*coast Blue Net- work. George V. Denny, Jr., Modera- | tor of “America’s Town Meeting | of the Air”, will present Miss Elsa Maxwell as a special guest on this {alert-for a surprise move by the | Ww: program. Others: scheduled to! Participate are U.S. Senator} Claude Pepper, Mayor Carl ¥. Ziedler of Milwaukee, George} Barton Cutten, President of Col-| gate University and a Florida boy or girl chosen from one of from the obese EUROPE E STL FREE ‘OF RAIDS? BRITISH. HOWEVER. REMAIN | ALERT AGAINST SUR- $ PRISE MOVE (hy Aanobvtited Preway LONDON, Deé. 26—AlN Eu- rope was tense today as. the sec- fond day of the unofficial Christ- > mas peace -proceeded without al single ‘air-raid warning being+ sounded over England, Soest or Nazi-occupied territory. Per-| fect weather prevailed _ over the } British Isles. | However, Britain was on the! enemy and, with a 24-hour watch, guarded against a new invasion attempt which ‘observers predict will be Hitler’s next move. Meanwhile the battle in Lybia and Albania continued uninter- | rupted and British officers pre-| |dicted that the fall of Bardia was the high schools of the state as a ‘only a matter of a few days. Heavy winner of a Town Meeting essay contest. The broadcast of this famous radio program this evening, orig- |, niating in Miami, is one of the! few out-of-town appearances the} ‘program has ever made. | Activities: their recommendations will be! accepted by the Navy depart- ment’s _ Bureau of yards and doc! At present the navy station here is completing a housing project for | naval employes and civilian work- ers, the seaplane base on Trumbo | Section, the dredging of the sub-{| marine base, the construction of} the $950,000 marine railway and! several other lesser jobs. Commander and Mrs. Brady plan to leave for Miami on Mon- day. On Tuesday they will meet! Capt. Trexel and Commander} Bickelhaupt, and go into the first } of a series of conferences. On Wednesday they will attend the; game at} Miami, and on Thursday begin in-} specting Key West naval station. | “We plan to make this a com- bination business and pleastire trip,” Commander Brady com- -mented today. a The formal Opening Dinner at La Casa Marina will take place this year.on Tuesday evening, Decem- ber thirty-first. A cordial invitation is Key West to participate custom. extended to the people of as has been the annual Dinner will be served at 8:00 o’clock and danc- ing in the Patio is from 9:30 ’til 2. The Dinner charge will be $2.50 per person. ' Please call Mr. Grobe, phone 780, for your table |, iy Teservations. This is necessary. CASA MARINA, PETER SCHUTT, Manager. | {siege raged on this Italian strong- |’ shold and despite heavy reinforce- ,—— ;ments the Italian positions have ! ‘been weakened and” Mussolini’s | forces. were slowly .but steadily a= KNOW NOTHING OF NEW BASE VICHY GOVERNMENT HAS NO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MAR- TINIQUE (By Associated Press) VICHY, Dec. 26.—Government officials today distlaimed any knowledge of the United States’ desire to use the island. of Mar- tinique as a sea and air base. Naval leaders in the United States have expressed themselves ; as favoring a plan: to complete! national defense plans in the | Caribbean by establishing a base ; on Martinique, one of the south- | ‘ern entrances into the Caribbean. SLL LE LLL Se “WAHOO TIME” IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA| Fy d gif ae Cidddddedidd seo SEA cri jj$2— ‘AMERICANA’ —$2 CAPTAIN BOB DAVIS i Leave 9:30 a. m. Return 4:30 p. m. Furnished Tackle PORTER DOCK fer and that the Bet back to Kcy ¥ ORIDA, THURSDAY, COMPLETE SALE OF CERTIFICATES PURCHASER WAS A. H. JEN- NINGS, FINANCIER, OF EVANSTON. ILL. (Special to The Citizen) FORT MYERS, Dec. 26.—The City of Fort Myers has completed the sale of ail Heitman estate de- linquent tax certificates for the sum of $88,309.21, the price cluding some $16,000 in 1940 tax- es now due on the property. The purchaser was A. H. Jennings, Evanston, IIL, t:nancier. “We can all congratulate each other”, said Mayor Fitzsimmons in informing the council of the transaction. “Sale of the certif- ticates is just as good as collect- jing the taxes. It boosts 1939 col- lections to 89 percent of total roll. I can’t say much about, the deal except that we found a buy- money is in the in- bank”. WRECKING TUG RETURNS HERE recker Willet arrived back in -Key West on Tue: nounced today fed the San Jose, a assisted from Eucador, to ‘Tampa where the ship was put into dry- dock. The Willet’s crew glad to t to spend j Christmas. DECEMBER 26, 1940 EPO SUN [Heavy Ger German Troop) | (By Associated Press) BUCHAREST. Dec. Ru. | today confirmed heavy | German troop movements in the Balkans and indicated that Hitler | was carrying out his plans to beost his Balkan army to a half million men. High government officials stat- ed that the Fuchrer’s forces were now only 18 miles from the Yugoslav frontier and although | no official announcement of Hit- | ler's intentions had come yet from the German capital, indica- tions pointed to a three-fold pur- | pose in the latest German action. First—Hitler hoped to bring pressure on Turkey, Bulgaria and Russia to force a showdown these three countries. Second—A thrust over Yugo- slavia to aid Mussolini’s pressed army in Albania. mania in} hard-} Key West's Water | ‘MONROE COUNTY | PROFITS MUCH | IN STATE AD DECEMBER GRANTS FOR AS-. | SISTANCE IN MANY WAYS. EXCEED TOTAL OF EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS Third—To bolster his defenses | in Rumania in view of a new in-j{ vasion thrust over the British Isles. The twenty divisions of 300,000; men, with artillery, bridge build- ing paraphernalia, tanks and mo. tor transports, began their move- ment over Rumania and Hungary Wednesday. Military experts es- timated that Germany already had over 100,000 men in the Balkans, chiefly in Rumania. Military experts stood by for the long expetted showdown be- tween Germany and her ally, So- viet Russia. RUMORED BORIS > MAY ABDICATE SOFIA, Dec. 26.—From reliable sources come rumors that King Boris of Bulgaria would abdicate if the Nazis are successful in their plans to pass through his country to aid the Italian forces. (Editorial) THE BATTLE OF KEY WEST Important battles are becoming numerous enough to require labels. So, we have the Battle of Dunquerke, the Battle of England; and many others in a long and dreadful lis But here ir Key West a scene is transpiring that can only by courtesy be called a “battle” unless the gradual destruction of a fascinated victim by a boa constrictor, is a battle. Time was when Key West would act swiftly in its own defense as invading spongers can testify. But now, when Key West is being invaded by or- ganized vice, by the scum of the earth, churches and service clubs; parents and teachers; aye, fathers and mothers. stand mute with folded hands and the soil in which the Fifth Column finds its most luxuriant de- velopment, spreads like a flood of slime along our pleasart streets and pavements that lead to homes and schools and churches and none the less to unpoliced brothels where little girls are sacrificed to aliens’ greeds for illicit profits. Long has Key West boasted that it is the Gibraltar of the Caribbean and invited the defenders of our coun- try to use Key West as a vantage point from which might issue competent defense of the ideals of our country. The question that Key West must answer, one way or the other, “Shall it maintain this proud position, or shall it sink to the level of Suez and Aden and be- come a trepical sink-bole wherein no decent man would make his home and rear his children?” More than the integrity of Key West is at stake. It is in an atmosphere of organized and protected crime that the deadliest enemies of our country can work un- hindered in undermining our defenses, if they can work in the shadowed retreats of debauchery. If local governmert can not turn on the light so that we can see and deal with any threatening danger. the military might of the United States must and will do it. If Key West can not recognize its responsibility >to the young men of the Nation who are among us; young men as dear to their parents as our sons are to us, young men who have come from homes as good as Ours, if we are content to offer no competition to the powers of evil, to make no bid against that made by those who at best would take their money and at worst would rob them of their honor, the regulation of our city will pass from our hands. For, the safety ard welfare of these boys is as much a charge upon the loyalty of their officers as is the disch other duty; and American of- ficers perfor ir duties with thoroughness. The men are here, not because they chose to come; but because their country needs them here. To make Key West a. wholesome, decent place for them to be in, is the immediate business of Key West if it ever hopes to grow in honor and in prosperity. The f:rst step is a popular demand for a clean-up, a demand so insistent that it can not be ignored. If this step is not taken—there are other steps, (Special to The Citizen) | JACKSONVILLE, Fia., Dec. 26. {—Monroe county’s chief Santa }Claus, so far as the dispensing of ~ {Christmas cheer to the needy was concerned, was probably the State Welfare Board, state agency charged with the administration of the three public assistance categories—Old Age Assistance, ‘Aid to Dependent Children and; Aid to the Blind. December cash grants to county were slightly larger than those of November, which to- taled $8,218.00. 372 recipients of | {Old Age Assistance received $5,- | 531.00, 63 recipients of Aid to De- pendent Children received $772.00 and 130 recipients of Aid to the Blind received $1,915.00. December disbursements to Florida public assistance recip- ients were in excess of $572,917, 'the amount paid out in Novem- “jber, or at the rate of $6,875,000 per year. The last of the Christmas checks was mailed from Talla- 'hassee on December 20. so that they might be received in time jfor holiday spending. The finance and accounting department of the ;State Welfare Board here had worked overtime to get the pay- ‘rolls out earlier in the month than usual, because of the Yule- | tide emergency. | Payrolls are made up on a stag- | \ger basis, for the convenience of the office of the state comptroller | by which the warrants are issued. The mailing time of OAA checks jfor the various welfare districts was: | Districts 1 a 2: December 4. | Districts 3 and 4: December 9. | Districts 5 and 6 December 12. | Districts 7 and 8: December 16 | Old Age Assistance: checks for Districts 9, 10, 11: and 12, as well tas all checks for recipients of Aid ito Dependent Children and sup- iplements were mailed on Decem- \ber 20. } More than 47,500 individuals lwere gladdened by public assist- jance checks this Christmas. TEMPERATURES _ Lowest last|Highest las! night Pare a . 35 31 . 30 -46 i Abilene Amarillo {Boston _ | Buffalo {Chicago ;Cincingati __ 46 j Detroit 3 jGalveston —_. 56. |Huron _. _- 3 “KEY WEST _ 73 Los Angeles — ‘Miami __.__. 69. {Minneapolis ._ 34 'New Orleans 56 'New York __ 40 St. Louis 48 ;San Francisco 54 Spokane - 3 Sit. Ste. Marie 35 Washington . 50 Notice To Delinquent Taxpayers Tuesday, December 31, 1940. is the expiration date for the set- jtling of 1936 and prior years on | the 30° cash basis. SAM B. PINDER, j City Tax Collector. the ; | ternational ___Systcin Be. Approved Goud Meme fo Recsinad Here Today By Officers At Local Nawal Ste thon News that 2 firm of New York engineers hed recommendec sp proval of the water system ‘to Key West iz « report submitted to the Navy department 2: Wash ington was receiwed bere ‘oder by officers of Key West nevai DIES IN GOTHAM 2s 2 — have engaged yards BOY AND ROSE TO. GREAT PROMINENCE IN THE THEATRICAL WORLD _ » (By Ansociated Preas) NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Daniec’ Fréhman, the theatrical pro- ducer, died today at the advanced age’ of 87. of his death was broncial pnew morta. “The curtains down,” were the last this’ beloved stage | He was the eldest of “the Fro mans” from origin in a small Ohio tow prominence theatrical producing worid The three were sons of German The immediate cause are words who rose humbie , Hebrew immigrants wh ‘There 2 in Sandusky)" 0. was born, August though Santiusky | Broadway, Where Dan brothers were to gain succes: renown, the boys’ early years {Continued On Page Four) Sawyer Explains Issue Relative : To Resolution pereT: pore the sta gex against the proposal “Some controversy aroused by the passage resolution,” Clerk Sawyer said “It was plain why the resolution was passed The board of ministration, a state body. hed held that under the present setup the county would not have 2 sur plus until after all the county's bonds were paid up. “In this situation they recom- 2 mended that Monroe county is sue bonds serially Thet was what the resolution provided