The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 30, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West 310. Nazis Destroy ti VOLUME LXI. No. London Churcft Landmarks * CAPTAIN DAVIS FINDS LIFEBOAT OF NAZI VESSEL LOCAL FISHING BOAT TOWS PRIZE INTO PORT HERE; IDENTIFYING INITIALS WERE “H. A. L.” GERMANS NOW IN ALBANIA THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MON NDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1940 cal St. Paul’s Cathedral Al- most Alone Withstands Assaults; Attacks Last Night Fierce LT. J. R. LEEDS TRANSFERED TO NORFOLK DUTY, WILL BE COMMUNICATIONS | { OFFICER UNDER ADMIRAL JACOBS THERE; SUCCESSOR LT. WALTER STROHBEHN Lieut. J. R. Leeds, of the most popular navy men in Key West, will leave tomorrow for Norfolk on a new tour of |duty, dt was announced today at iKey West naval station. (By Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 30.—Nazi raiders have destroyed an in- air- ‘creasingly large number of his | torical buildings in this city, Capt. Bob Davis of the fishing FIRST DIVISION MARCHES boat, Americana, proudly dis- played a rowboat which is be- OVER YUGOSEAVIAN EBON” lievedito be one of:those fromthe TIER LAST NIGHT TO HELP scuttled German steamer Rhein. The Rhein was scuttled by its own STRENGTHEN ITALIANS crew off the coast of Cuba. The U.S'S. MacLeish, flagship of the Key West patrol arrived at A Bye Ascinted Becee) \the scene of the scuttling shortly ATHENS, Dec —Dispatches ‘after the tragedy. It will be re- received here this morning stated called that the crew of the Mac- that the first Nazi | Leish destroyed several lifeboats troops had arrived in Albania to ane by the screw of sthe anvels ; ein. srene nen the Italian retreating cet Davis ws ealing the SR ae are - Americana about seven miles Ser dnice actin iGreen lifeboat was sighted. Closer ex- campaign, but today's verifica-/2™ination revealed it to be a life- tion of such an ev aly came | Dost 20 etcets Ones) COMDIStEIY: from Yugo-Slavian sour The aioe Nabe eurt St) rations and fresh wa division cro ed into Albania gies tase epee sae eda a found were the initials H. A. L., the south front, the Greek Which I believe would indicate tinued to overcome all that the boat may have been ; owned by the Hamburg American Line,” Capt. Davis said. “There ! was a mass of line, a jibsail and piece of lumber in the boat” When found the boat was partly filled with water and was nearly anager of Por- level with the water's edge. In ter Dock company, said today that towing the boat to Key West the the freighter Shenandoah would Americana pulled the forward arrive here late the day with a bow of the boat out and had to cargo of dicscl oil. The oil will hitch a rope around the stern. It be unloaded into the tanks at the was pulled into Key West harbor dock stern first. division of Ss from dis- 4 armies con obstacles in their effort to take the (Continued on Page Four) T ANKER ARRIV ES Charles Tay ike r, JEAN SIBELIUS AT 75 LABORS ON Doesn’t Think World Will Be Changed After War UNFINISHED COMPOSITIONS IN FINLAND By PAUL SJOBLOM. AP Feature Service Writer HELSI i Mannerheim of Music, old Je unger man, quickly pt “Th 3-year- h the vigor of a far t out whiskey and cigars. President Roosevelt,” he f in rhythm to his words said, his survey of damage inflicted re. cently revealed today. Especially has the destruction added up in the past two days and nights when furious assaults have been borne in four- and five-hour at-| tacks engaged in by hundreds of German bombers. Gone now are many of Lon-! don’s ancient landmarks, _ re- minders of previous davs of glory and architectural beauty. erous church edifices are includ- ed in the list of destroyed build- ings, structures built Christopher Wren following great London fire in 1666. Miraculously, St. Paul’s Cath- édral has so far escaped damage. This, the shrine of tourists from all points of the globe in more the Lieut. Leeds goes to Norfolk to {be attached to Admiral Randall |Jacobs, U.S.N., commander of the itrain patrol unit. It has to do; U.S.N., one} SOISSSOI IM, “ARTISTS HERE SEND EXHIBIT TO IOWA Key West Socie! Society of Art- ists has sent an exhibit of their work to Davenport. Towa, for a month's Art Show in the Municipal Art Show of that city, it was announced today. The show opens on January 9th in Davenport. About ten local artists sent a total of 49 oils, etchings, water colors and craft work, valued. offi- cials stated, at $1,105. Mrs, Charles M. Stone, re- siding near Davenport, ar- ranged the showing and de- tails of the exhibition. Mrs. Stone is a member of the lo- cal artists’ society, having joined the group last year when she resided at the Casa Marina for a period. z jwith the handling of auxiliary, SI LII ILL LS SIS jShips of the navy, ers. The has harge of communications ior ‘i ey West patrol. He first came there on'Bec. 11. 1939, and served lieutenant been such as he ALL) BIRTHDAY CHAIRMEN’ PICKED junder Capt. Arthur ». Carpender, COMMITTEE ORGANIZATIONS U.S.N., who has been transferred to the department of navigation jat Washington. Capt. Carpender vill soon be a rear admiral. nder Admiral Jacobs I will! have charge of communications”, Licut. Leeds said. “I am sorry to Hleave Key t. It was becom- jing like home to me and I know my family jcins me in saying that , we are sorry wc are going” | Lieut. Walter Strohbehn, U.S.N., munications officer of Key pat-ol under command now COUNTY BOARD | MEETS JAN. 2 peaceful days, has withstood all | onslaughts, not without witness- ing however, scenes of destruction * on all sides. i Old Guild Hall, a famous land- mark, is a shambles following last night’s bitter attack. lasting, ob- servers stated,. for over five hours. Firemen were called to widely scattered areas the first thing this morning and were battling vali- antly at press time to extinguish the hundreds of fires started from incendiary bombs. ITALIANS STILL HOLD OUT AT BARDIA CAIRO, Dec. 30.—Near-east British headquarters here heard ! that the Italian “suicide forces” at the stronghold of Bardia in Lybia were still holding out, despite the | fact that artillery fire was acting to crumble all protecting walls of the fortifications. British felt confident that re- apitulation of Bardia would come within the next 48 hours. GERMANY BELIEVED HEADING SOUTHEAST HONGKONG, Dec. 30.—British ' officials here believed today that (Continued on Page Four) after his ly may hear o death Sibelius cannot bring himself to finishing touches to the positions; there t something he does not quite like. “No longer does he suddenly h off completed compositions longer does he make side, as of old, on hed for some spe- occasion”, explained his 1 haired wife. at a terrific pace, tensely, boundlessly. His capacity for taking pains is unlimited. He f works tirelessly He o but one ciless taskmaster, not “We va No, h would e is always d no pieces on the order, to be fi in- a wrestler. Throughout with ani jects, pu on the big cigar fiery Finn, sharing with the Finn- ish army chief, Baron Manner- heim, the title of “uncrowned king of Finland” Never Quite Satisfied He is working into the store up a fortune of m works which the wor! aw, a m his science Consequently, the manuscripts that are “not quite finished” are high in his workroom. Works At Night He dislikes tc waste time in ,Sleep, and does much of his com, "po sing at night. Yet he always (Continued on Page Four) This was the PHONE 540 for your New Year’s CHICKEN Dressed, Drawn. Delivered at no extra charge. Brady’s (Live) Poultry Market 1214 White Street SOUTHERNMOST FLOWERS Antistic Corsages for New Year's Eve 616 Duval Street Phone 136 TEMPERATURES Lowest last/Highest las! night 24 hours 37 55 40 44 34 41 40 58 32 37 36 43 27 38 30 38 49 67 38 65 35 38 77 63 78 35 58 52 53 Amarillo Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Denver Detroit El Pa Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis New Orleans New York Pittsburgh St. Louis San Francisco Washington will close Tuesday after- noon for Inventory. CAPTAIN BOB DAVIS Leave $:30 a. m. Return 4:30 p. m. Tackle Furnished PORTER DOCK NEXT: MRS. McGREGOR HEADS WOMEN (Special to The Citizen) ORLANDO, Fla.. Dec. 30.—Lo- cal chairmen for the President’s Birthday Celebration have been named in all of Florida’s 67 coun- ties, it has been announced by C. Num- ; will succeed Lieut. Leeds as com- B. Treadway, state chairman of West this year’s dri of for the Nationa! Foundation for by Sir Commander Wilder Baker, U.S.N. Infantile Paralysis. to raise funds With appointment of all coun- ty chairmen’ completed, Mr Treadway said organization of county committees and selection of city chairmen will get under- wav immediately. Women's activities throushout the state will be under direction There will be a meeting of the of Mrs. Louise W. McGregor of Monroe county commission at 8 DeLand, appointed this week by Count announce: = today. p. m. Thursday, Ross C. Sawye Clerk Mr. Treadway to head the Wom- en’s Division of the Florida Com- Che Key West Cittzrn === New Squadron Of Navat - Planes “Arrives At Base Tw elve VP33 eee Riedie Planes Under Command Of Lieut.-Comdr. B. D. | Quinn | | Squadron VP-33 of naval sea- ;Planes arrived in Key West Sun- day afternoon in an uneventful flight from Coco Solo, Panama Canal zone, it was announced this morning at Key West Naval sta- tion. i i | There are 12 seaplanes in the squadron. It is under command of jLieut. Commander B. D. Quinn, U.S.N., who was here last spring and served as recreation officer junder Capt. Arthur S. Carpender, U.S.N., former commander of the Key West naval patrol. “It seemed like coming back jhome again,” Commander Quinn ‘said when he alighted at the sea- Plane base on Trumbo section “The trip to Key West proved un- eventful.” VP-53 is still duty at Key West. What will be- come of the remaining section, {consisting of three scaplanes, will probably not be known before to ;morrow. Lieut. Commander A. P. Storrs, III, is still in command of VP-53, but is on duty elsewhere in the Caribbean. “All we can say is that VP-33 has arrived in Key West,” was the succinct statement of Commander J. K. Davis, U.S.N., commander of technically on The first meeting of the board mittee for the Celebration of the j the Key West patrol in the ab- will be held Wedne: Year's Day. but it diately recess: ing day. Onl are scheduled by the comr lay. 1 be imme- routine o be ion. FDR’s Warship Doodles Get Admirals’ Respect "EV. By JACK STINNETT _ AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The y chitect in this his de- and gets them looked at seri- President Roosevelt. I you could call it- a hobby, but what the President does in rare spare moments is to jot down little notes and sketches for | changes in design of our fighting | ships. }. These informal bits of doodling jhe sends along to the admirals. ; Sometimes they show up on the backs of old e1 }on leaves from a scratch pad and ‘ways with the little note that “It's just an idea. What do you | think of it?” You couldn't Pos- | sibly Squeeze out of the Na’ brass hats what y think of it, jbut I _ it from several of the -so-high-ups that the k a lot of it—and y is {have been us | several war: | down the w 3 The President's specialty, so the in the design of Ps now skidding } Le goes, ivelopes, sometimes ! New President’s Birthday. Julius Stone, Jr., is chairman of until the follow- the Monroe county committee for | matters the President’s considered will be announced in the near fu- | circled the city, then split up into Ball. Plans there ture, it was stated. is torpedo boats, but | he doesn’t confine himself to one type. It’s not at all surprising that the admirals take time to decipher the President’s doodles and give them serious consideration. Not only was he a pretty highly re- spected Assistant Secretary of the Navy in World war days, but he! has had a lot of naval officers’ eyes popping in the last eight years with his knowledge of navi- gation along the Atlantic coast. One-Man Gas House Gang Down through Rock Creek park comes a big black sedan, moving under a load of bullet-proof glass (on instructions from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.) It reach- es the gas house district, where Virginia avenue cuts in from the park drive, and draws up to the curb. Out into the atmosphere. often laden with the stench of artificial gas, steps United States Attorney General Robert L. Jackson. He strides off down the sidewalk, the car loafing along at a discreet dis- (Continued on Page Four) The formal Opening Dinner at LaCasa Marina HT sill take place this year on Tuesday evening, Decem- ber thirty-first. A cordial invitation-isextended to the people of || Key West to participate-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 reservations. This is necessary. CASA MARINA, PETER SCHUTT. Manager. i i i t i {sence of Commander Wilder | Baker, who is on leave. The 12 ships flew over Key | West in beautiful formation. They {groups of three for landing. As {they landed they were dragged up ton the ramp at the seaplane base jand immediately serviced. FIRST-TIME VISITOR SPENDS WEEK H HERE FROM DUTIES AT TAMPA JESUIT SCHOOL Rev. Michael Kennelly. S. J. arrived in Key West Christmas Eve to spend a week’s vacation here with friends at St. Mary's Star of the Sea church. - White Mere, Rév. Kennelly is be iing shown about the city by Rev. 1A. L. Maureau, S. J., of the local church, and he has shown keen enthusiasm for the various at- tractions afforded. It is his first visit to the Island City. He stated he would return next summer for another visit. Rev. Kennelly is faculty ad- visor for “The Tiger.” a monthly newspaper published by the Jesuit High School of Tampa, Fla. The Periodical contains live news of interest to students and friends of the schooi. DIES SUDDENLY Charles Mendoza died shortly after noon today at his residence. 416 Bahama street. Death came suddenly after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements under di- Tection of Lopez Funeral Home will be announced later. NEW YORK - BUSY BEE “Best Sandwiches and Eats” Svecializing in Seafoods, Spanish A Truck Load of FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ARRIVING TOMORROW TIFT’S GROCERY |1101 Division Street Phone 460 "ROOSEVELT PLEASED AT RECEPTION THOUSANDS OF APPLAUDING MESSAGES ARRIVE AT WHITE HOUSE FOLLOWING SPEECH LAST NIGHT (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec ident Roosevelt “immense ple ceptior via radio to the nati last night from Interviewed President that “co-operation n increased on the par tion-at-large” when h of l-out help for Br thoroughly of his speech Meanwhile, however. note in national di operaticn with the adr was struck today at Mad consi where convent dele gates of the Youth's Committee Against War wes assembling to pass important lutions drawn by executives. It was believed possible this organization would one opposing resolution calling for action against national con- scription Socialist Party leader, Norman Thomas. declared today that “President Roosevelt was exag erating the danger” when talked of Nazi threats a United States. This also held by Senator Whe. e1 Montana th underst 30n on that the TOTAL IS 600 POSTMASTER DON STATES REGISTRATIONS ABE STEL endorse u Released by the Florida News Service When Governor { chief executiv Cone tur: ifice Gove unpaid obliga’ This may sound « whe under that the road have a big d the year. department will able commitments agai revenues, all curre tic including approved tractors; estimates for work 2 ually completed the end of the year Anent Future A word future o up some what this are made months t includ surveys, dra cifications, road board had not mitments against future revenues it could -d up shop six months ago. another six months would have elapsed be- fore the new administration Guid have started “pay-as-you-; will be It takes prepare about of, the policy construction. The ~ IN LA CONCHA’ RAINBOW ROOM