The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 2, 1941, Page 1

| Being Flown Into Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIL. No. 2. NaziSquadrons BRONZE STATUE TO BE ERECTED Coo ee esas ‘MRS. WILLIAMS APPOINTED: AS FOR HUEY LONG WILL BE UNVEILED IN NA- TIONAL CAPITOL’S STA- TUARY HALL AFTER CON- Mrs. Hugh Williams, who resides at the corner of Duval and Eaton streets, in the old Cash home, was today ap- pointed as a deputy sheriff for Monc7e County by Sheriff DEPUTY SHERIFF | Karl O. Thompson. Mrs. Williams enjoys the distinction of having been the first woman to recellve such an appointment is the history of the county. . The Citizen joins Mrs. Wil- liams’ numerous friends in tendering congratulations on her appointment, which car- ties with it a distinction rare- GRESS CONVENES By JACK STINNETT AP Feature Service Writer _ WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Some- time after the new, Congress con- venes, a six-foot-five, 900-pound | bronze statue of the late Huey Long will be unveiled in the na- ; ede es tional Capitol’s statuary hall, but! 7Y given to ibaa it may a that just half of Louis- | shis permeular capecity, iana’s delegation to Congress will | BIBI S aa MSIMas have anything to do with this > Italian command. } recognition and high honor ac- corded tne state’s onetime “king- fish.” By federal statute, each state is allowed to place one statue in statuary hall—orice thé ‘old cham- ber of the House of Representa- tives—and a second in the Capitol corridors. After Huey’s death and during the regime of his brother as governor, the legis- lature set aside $15,000 for the bronz¢ figure and Sculptor Charles Keck, of New York was commis- | sioned to turn it out. Since Louisiana has no other Statue in the Capitol, Huey‘s gets the honored spot in the hall. few weeks ago it arrived and, draped in an American flag, was placed on its four-foot pedestal between representations of Wil- liam Jennings Bryan of Nebragka | and the senior Bob LaFolette of Wisconsin. Delegation split It will be unveiled, so members of the old Long groups still in Congress say, soon. But here is where a strange factor comes in. In the state political battle be- tween the Longs and the anti- Longs in the November ‘election, five “antis” were elected to the House. This splits the Lovisiana POWER PLANT ROLLS ABOUT } TO YOUR DOOR WHEN | YOU NEED IT | (Ny Asnoeiated reas) SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Jan. 2. —An electric power substation on |wheels that can travel 50 miles jan hour and feed out enough electricity for a city of 10,000, is |ready for 1941’s storm damage to | electric lines. § | The plant is built on a trailer, jand is no larger than a medium- {size truck. It offers a new step {in quick restoration of electricity when power lines go out and for | bombed communities in war it has special possibilities, The General Electric Co. de- signed the portable power plant. It has a retraceable, trolley-like tower rising from the roof to make the connection with a pew- er line. Inside, are, | transformers and switching )systems to distrib- ute the electricity. , Two types congressional delegation in half.|have been made, one for . large The five new members all are op-'communities and the: other for posed to the old regime. The two | small. senators, John H. Overton and| To make sure that children or Allen J. Ellender both were elected | prowlers do not burn themselves, during the time when the Long /|the parts which might be touched machine was in power. They by outsiders are set were not up for re-election in| hea’ tecl screen. The rest of the November. Three of the con-! plant heathed like an armored gressmen elected in the Long era, truck behind steel plates. were reelected in vember. —_——— These are Representatives Ove SEVERAL PARKS ton Brooks, Newt V. Mills and A. FERNANDINA, Jan. 2 (FNS).— Leonard Allen. With the formal dedication of One of the leaders of Louis- iana’s Long opposition said re- Fort Clinch State Park in this Florida’s State cently the new regime did not plan to interfere with dedication of the statue but would not par- ticipate in the ceremonies So it seems that the bronze “kingfish,” right hi raised in a forceful gesture characteristic has opened four of of those days when he took the its 10 projected parks to the pub- Senate floor and conducted his lit. (Continued on Page Four) for the opening of kka River State Park be- a and Arcadia, and rns near Mar ARCADIA PLANS ARRANGE FOR ANNUAL EVENT here this week by Welles, Elaborate for the bull~ compe! tions petition ing ar r i attract larger crowds. behind a! The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. } r | Official ‘Word Is Given \i tivities In Helping’ Axis | Partner \ (By Associated Press) | ‘ROME, Jan. 2.—First official | announcement that Germany is | now coming to the aid of her axis | loaernn Italy, was contained in; la communique today issued by “the Italian War office. The official report stated that Nazi air squadrons were now be- |ing flowh into Italy and Albania |and would operate under the { Italian officials also stated that ‘the German Fuehrer “was with- drawing all but one air squadron ; out of the Battle of Britain and strengthening the Italians for a} stiff battle in the Albanien and | North African war fronts. The Germans new war strategy was seen to be aimed at stronger attacks against English supply lines and sea power in the Medi- | terranean, | Heretofore, the Italian govern- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THUR! Service Men Have Mix-Up| Here In Colored Section A near-riot of United States; Police Captain Alberta Camera sailors and soldiers, who threat- | reported the trouble to the shore SDAY, JANUARY 2, 1941 CARGO SHIPS “IS FIRST ACT Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS —<—<—$$_______. ——— staal heresy | Of Germany’s New Ace ened to wipe out part of the col- | ored section of Key West, was quelled late Wednesday night. All shore liberty for sailors and marines was stopped and all lib- | jerty for the soldiers was ended |disturbance. Italy And Albania on orders of Capt. Walter F. Jac- obs, U.S.N., commandant of Key West naval station, and Col. L. L. Pendleton, U.S.A., commandant of Key West barracks. The trouble started, it is re- ported to Lieut. Col. G. D. Hat- field, U.S. marine corps, com- mandant of the marine detach- ment in Key West, when a_sol- dier and a sailor got into a fight a colored drinking place on Petronia street near Thomas street. : Two negroes in the place pro- patrol, a policing organization jmaintained by the navy depart- |ment here. Police Officer Ray Atwell also helped to quell the In a few moments {the shore patrol had stopped a |bottle and stone battle in Petronia jstreet between Whitehead and Thomas. After’ things quieted down |somewhat another gang of sailors jand soldiers assembled in Petron- ia street, between Duval and Whitehead streets. Capt. Camero jsent in an appeal to Capt. Jacobs, ;who called Col. Hatfield to quell jthe disturbance. Himself taking command of the :situation, Col. Hatfield rounded \up 14 marines and rushed to the tested and the fight was on. The Scene of the trouble in a_ truck. sailor and soldier turned on the | He held the rernainder of the ma- colored men and began fighting.!rines at the naval station, ready {It is alleged that the colored men {for any emergency. drew knives. The sailor andj Then the sailors were quickly soldier were beth slashed, but!rounded up and ordered back to not seriously. |the naval station. Col. Pendleton In a little while word spread ordered the military police to stop | among the hundreds of sailors/all eaves of soldiers, and soon} and soldiers on leave that the rounded up the men at Key West colored men had killed the sailor , barracks. { and soldier. It was only a few! “The trouble was of a trivial] PLAN NOW BEING CON- SIDERED TOWARD SEIZING SHIPS NOW TIED UP AT AMERICAN PORTS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Ad-j ministration leaders stated today ; that the first act to be taken in| the President’s plan for further aid to Britain probably would be the lending or leasing of cargo ships to England. It was indicated that a plan! was now being considered to seize the 133 ships of German oc- | cupied countries now tied up in (American ports to take the place of those turned over to Great i Britain. Officials also indicated that the {government still had under ad- visement the plan to turn out 500} planes a day by converting auto-! .mobile factories into airplane! plants but were not yet sure that , the plan was practical. They stated that automobile manufac-— turers were already cooperating in the country’s preparadness plan. In Highway Revenue December Receipts Run Far Ahead Of Amount Collected For Same Pe- riod Of Last Year Preliminary figures released to- day by B. Mi. ‘Duncan, general manager of’ Overseas highway, GRAND PARADE "IS PLANNED FOR _ INAUGURATION GOVERNOR-ELECT HOLLAND | DEVOTES FULL TIME TO | PREPARATION OF INAUG- | URAL ADDRESS show that during “December the | operations ‘were $2800 ahead of i December, 1939, In December the receipts were $24,095 compared with $21,295 in | December, 1939. This brought operations for last year well above those for 1939. “If we had not had a week's rainy weather we would have ! BARTOW, Jan.-2.—(FNS) Gov- ‘ernor-elect Spessard Holland, who ‘for the past month has been be- sieged by thousands of job hun- ters, well wishers and others, de- ‘clined to make further appoint- jments and is devoting his full time to the preparation of his in- augural address: minutes before a crowd of 300 or more service men assembled at Whitehead and Petronia streets. At Local Naval Station Start Work On Barracks {nature and nothing printed about it”, Capt. Jacobs ‘said. should be~ BIG EXHIBITION | OF PLASTICS IS BEING DISPLAYED |DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE {broken all records in December”,! He stated, however, that he Duncan said. “The results have | Would participate in the celebra- been very gratifying and I'm sure | tion in Bartow on Monday, Jan. 6, that we will meet all expenses taking a special train from there from operations in the current |to Tallahassee. | fiscal year”. t In ‘Tallahassee a“Gommittee is There was a general. increase in | arranging for a gigantic inaugural tourist travel this December and parade and. celebration. Many ithe navy work at Key West, /counties have entered floats and NOW BEING LOOKED UPON j which saw a large quantity of numerous bands will participate |building materials shipped ove! Work got under way today t TOOT IS TS Key West naval station on con- struction of the new barracks for CATCHES HIS the sound school, it was an- nounced today by Capt. Walter F. Jacobs, commandant of Key West naval station. The barracks will hold 250 men and will be a two- story building 100 feet by 200° feet. January 1, 1941, will always be a memorable day for George E. Weber, of Opelika, ment has discredited all reports to | the effect that any help was being \Teceived from Germary. Today’s | report indicated that Hitler was much concerned about the fate of | Mussolini in his battle with the | Greeks in Albania and the British | ,in Norih Africa. , SAVAGE ATTACK MADE BY RAF.’ BREMEN WAS GOAL OF AIR FORCES IN ACTIVITIES DURING NIGHT ‘(By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 2.—As retailia- | tion to the fire raids over England | last Saturday, Royal Air Force last |, night made a savage attack on the | | started work of the construction Alabama, who celebrated New Year's Day by catching his first sailfish. It was a beautiful specimen, 661% inches long and weighing 37 pounds, Mrs. Weber and C. E. Neisler, Jr., of Kings Moun- tain, N. C., were also in the party which went out with Capt. Jakie Keys in the Le- gion. The rest of the bag consistde of a fine dolphin and several king and mack- erel. Master Peter Fields, twelve years old, sun of Mr. and Mrs. G. Leslie Filed. of Grosse Pointe, Mich., is not likely to A power-driven dredge also! of the new oi] storage tanks at the naval station. The tanks will be of 20,000 and 40,000 gallons storage capacity. t SANDPIPER HAS ARRIVED IN PORT U.S.S, Sandpiper has arrived in port as tender for seaplane; squadron VP33, it was announced today by Capt. Walter F. Jacobs, ! U.S.N., commandant of Key West . naval station. The Sandpiper came here from Coco Solo, Panama Canal zone. She brought much of the person- al equipment of the 140 officers and men of VP33. German port of Bremen. Three persons were killed and | others injured in another raid over | neutral Ireland last night. Con- | siderable property damage was! reported in Dublin. | German air activity over South- | eastern England was light and bombs dropped were said to be only of the nuisance type with no casualties and little damage to property in that area. i On the Albanian front little ac- tion was reported excepting addi- tional Greek advances on a small scale. | Royal Air Force continued to blast channel invasicn ports in} Germany’s captured countries. New attacks were made on Italian bases of Valona and Taranto. BANQUET FOR RETIRING SOLON TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Jan. 2 (FNS). — Congressman Millard Caldwell, retiring after ten con- secutive years in Congress. was honored last week by the Young Democrats at a banquet. He was presented with a silver n- plaque. CLAIMS DISTINCTION LYNN, Mass—Mother of thir | teen children, and boasting 25) grandchildren at the age of 57. Mrs. Eleanor Goguen of this ci claims the distinction of be the youngest great-gran ip the United States. WAVES SMASHED OVER SEA WALL TAMPA, Jaz. 2 (FNS).—Twen- ty-foot waves stashed over Tam- pa’s bayshore sea wall last week | in the wake of a squall which passed over South Florida. The drive was under two feet of water for a time, disrupting traffic and littering the roadway with all manner of debris. ___ TEMPERATURES eluded them this time. VA hhh hadi de) COUNTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT Only routine matters are slat- ed for discussion at a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight of the Monroe county commission, County Clerk Lowest last\Highest las! Ross C. Sawyer seid today. night 24 hours The commission’ met briefly 40 68 last night and immediately _re- " 35 cessed until tonight. The first Wednesday in the month is the official date of the meeting. but the commission re- cessed because of New Year's, MANY LICENSES ARE ET County Tax Collector Frank H. Ladd has issued only 340 1941 State licenses for automobiles, he reported this morning. There are approximately 1 800 in the county to be issued. Gov. Fred P Cone usually extends the time from two weeks to 30 days beyond Jan. 15, but it is not known if Governor- elect Spessard L. Holland will do his. It is believed however. there will be an extension of time. Abilene Boise Boston Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Denver Detroit Galveston Huro: Jackse KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Nashv fe Pitt: St \ FIRST SAILFISH WITH GREAT DEAL MORE OF IMPORTANCE By JACK STINNETT | AP Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The | Department of Commerce is slap- ‘happy over plastics. In the vast | {vaulted foyer of the department's | building (sometimes referred to} locally as “Hoover's Folly” be- | cause nobody up to that time had! ‘ever thought of Commerce as im- ; |portant enough to be housed in} {such an edifice) there now is on| display as big an exhibition of | ‘plastics as Washington ever has, |seen. | There is everything from false |teeth to brassieres; from milady’s ‘dainty pumps to football helmets that would stop the jar of a Kim- 'brough; from fragile-looking bits lof costume jewelry to airplane windshields that toss machine-' | gun bullets aside like pellets from a bean-shooter. | What Plastics Are | The day I was over there, there | was a icl!ow standing around. I tasked him: “Whaddyumean plas- | itics?” And his answer was: “Gen- jerally speaking. plastics are sub- stances capable of being molded! Overseas highway by truck, have been held responsible for the in- crease in tolls. ‘BLOOD SQUAD’ IS EVER READY CALLED UPON VERY OFTEN IN NATION'S CAP- ITOL (Py Associated Prensa) WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. — There are some folks here in Washington who don’t bark bad humoredly into the telephone when it rings in the middle of the night. Instead, they jump up and go into action with the thrill that can come only to men who are |presented with an opportunity to ;Save a life. They are not firemen or doctors either. They are employes of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and {members of’ the bureau’s Ameri- can Legion’ Post No. 39. They make up’ the post's “blood donat- or otherwise fabricated (with |ing squad”. t Hf coloring matter or a fillér) into| Mostly ‘it is Charles Wolfe, ad- a desired solid form; this ¢ondi-'™inistrative assistant at the bu- tion being obtained bya physical |Teau‘and captain of the squad, or chemical interaction between |Who gets the call. . .or it may be ithe molecules of a, wide range of |Arthur J. Thomas, an assistant to 1 aiecalee |Commissioner Guy T. Helvering, Well, no doubt he knew what|Who is Captain Wolfe’s first lieu- he was talkinb about, but that |tenant. But it can be any one of ‘seems to me to be putting it the the men or women who comprise hard way. Plastics are like radio the squad. {—you can’t explain them, but Members Are Typed there they are. You take a little| If it is Wolfe who is called, as ‘coal tar or hainmered soybeans,'it was one night recently, when mix them with a little air or wa-jan excited, pleading bureau em- ter, run them through a press and | ploye told him that his sister had you get everything from syn-'undergone a tumor operation and | thetic silk to gear-shift knobs. her doctors felt it imperative she | The Chinese started making have a blood transfusion, the cap- {apier-mache about as far back ‘tain goes to work. If the patient's fas firecrackers, but since papier- blood type is known, Wolfe con- {mache wasn't an instrument of ‘sults his little Mack book, selects slaughter, it took civilization!members of the squad who have jabout ten centuries longer to fig-|the same tvpe and orders them to ure out that jt was @ @lastic and jrush to the hospital. In this recent | plastics were ‘orétty hot stuff case, the emplove's sister had her Bi y) yyears; of |transfusion within an hour and coussheh af nt,| fend |now is at home and well. about ten years of concentrated! The “blood donating squad” is {attention from both the men in'a Bureau of Internal Revenue ac- 'the laboratories and those in the |tivity. It has been operating for j market places, plastics are coming nearly four vears but it only came linto their own. When you comb |to public attention reeently when jyour hair and brush your teeth ‘the officers sent out invitations to and switch off your lights at night. | a benefit dance and included a lit- | the chances are ten to one you tle history of the squad. Don't get jare using plastics. | When you shove the family administrative expense and no- |jalopy into gear. vou are using body gets paid for bload or time. ; Plastics. They are in your kitch- With increased activities, espe- i (Continued on Page Four) cially in the last two. months, aoeeretererernecnerrennime i when members of the squad have WORKS WAY THROUGH turned out for 10 transfusions, it | cee | was found that the necessary taxi j, KANSAS CITY—Miss Anna fares were becoming a drain on Lee Barry of this city earned her jsormme budgets. The benefit dance way through the State Agricul- is just an effort to put enough tural College by cooking for 250 money in the treasury so that no men students. imembers will be out financially. the wrong idea. The squad has no’ is well as military units, The ceremony is scheduled to-begin at | 11 a. m. and the oath of office will” be administered at noon, te attend au pected. Hotels all report reserva- tions for every available room, twhile the Chamber of Commerce ‘is making an effort to secure ‘rooms in private homes for addi- | tional hundreds. The Hollands were notified by Governor and Mrs. Cone that the Mansion would be vacated Jan, 3, Governor-elect and. Mrs. Hol- land will take their three chil- \dren, now in school at. Bartow, Mary Groover, 16, Billie Ben, 12 and Ivanhoe, 9, to Tallahassee. Another son, Lindsey, 19, a sopho- more at Emory University, will ‘attend the inauguration. CITY PATROLMAN PLANS QUITTING RAY ATWELL WILL LEAVE WITH GUARDS SHORT. LY FOR GALVESTON Police Officer Ray Atwell, who is also a sergeant in the National Guard, has informed The Citizen that he proposes to resign his police job on Friday of this week, which will afford him about a week's vacation before leaving with his company for Galveston, Texas, where the unit is being sent for a year’s training. The company members will report for duty at the local armory on Jan- uary 6, and are scheduled to leave a short time after that date for their new post. Officer Atwell has made an ex- cellent record during his service with the police department, and has fully proven his worth in the capacity of patrolman with the city organization. Another change in the police department was the appointment of Mack Walker as patrolman, succeeding Officer Gill, who ten- dered hjs resignation ats, rh é ing a véry short time. i OF ASSOCIATION PENSACOLA, Jan. 2 (FNS)-~ R. G. Patterson of ths city was re-elected president of the North- west Florida Association this week. Other officers elected were V- G. Phillips, Tallaherree, first vice-president; A. P. Drummond, Bonifay, second vice-presidents Will D. Muse, Pensacola, seere= tary: J. A Shuler, assistant sees retary, and Julius Wernicke,-Pene sacola, treasurer, P