The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 6, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 5. National: nucted Ino Federal Servicé MORE UNITS OF | Local Company To Leave Shortly For Galveston! To Begin Year’s Train-| ing Battery E, 265th Coast Artil-| lery, Florida National Guard, was inducted into the federal service | in a brief ceremony at the arm- ory, corner White and Southard Guard NATIONAL GUARD | ARE CALLED IN EVEN MORE UNITS ARE AF- | FECTED IN CALL TO DUTY) | THROUGH ORDER OF PRESI- } DENT | (By Associated Press) | ‘United States ;with German, {charged in a special WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Seven | |more units of the National Guard | is have been called to active duty) Streets, this morning. | When the entire regiment :, ;_. jby order of President Franklin D. | inducted into the federal service, ‘Roosevelt. The order, signed to be efefctive for one year from Saturday, affects 5,700 men. They will go into training effective} date, orders will be received send- | January 27. i ing the regiment Texas, for training. to Galveston.’ , nMy's STRENGTH TRIPLED IN YEAR (By Associated Press) Thirteen trucks and one sta-| WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—War|} tion wagon will transport the bat- | Department has announced _ that | tery to Miami. There it will,the U.S. Army’s strength has EXPENDITURES BY Che Key West Citteen === THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. DIES COMMITTEE. CITES QUESTION :; CLAIMS AMERICAN MONEY IS BEING USED TO FURTHER OPERATIONS OF FOREIGN NATIONS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The is being flooded Italian, Japanese and Russian propaganda and American taxpayers are footing the expense, the Dies committee report to Congress, made public the past weekend. American money, the commit- tee revealed, is being used to fur- ither subversive operations of foreign nations in the fight ‘against democratic countries. The ‘propaganda is aimed at creating national confusion and slowing down of the defense program. Under a_ reciprocal agreement | ;put into effect at a Universal’ Postal Union convention, of literature from abroad. Dies committee recommends four nations be stricken from the | list of foreign countries accord- | ed this 1 ae ae U. S. ENORMOUS. MORE SPENT IN PAST YEAR THAN ANY TIME SINCE WORLD WAR DAYS Men! KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1941 President Strpsses Two OF PROPAGANDA! ‘Great NecdS In Address To US. Congress Today i TOBRUCH GOAL OF BRITISH IN ‘needs: | NEW Y ACTIVITIES First, the imperative necessity | AUSTRALIAN TROOPS ARE in the form of munitions to for- WORKING “ALONG WITH “ig® countries actively engaged in ROYAL AIR FORCE IN HEAVY BOMBARDMENTS (By Associated Pre.) CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 6.—With the fall of Bardia British Ex- the Royal Air Force put every- } ‘address to Congress today, Presi- | \dent Roosevelt stressed two great i ; House chamber. \ was at his side. Sam Rayburn in-! this | peditionary Forces in Libya raced| President \country allows free distribution | against time today towards the 8tavely of the crisis confronting | The ‘important port of Tobruch, just 60 this country, discussed’ the in- | the miles down the coast from Bardia. | Teasing threat of danger to all | Australian troops together with ; democracies of the European war. | (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—In his for increased defense measures; | | Second, the need for increased aid ' ‘fighting “aggressor nations” The President spoke to the as- sembled House and Senate at 2:00} o’clock from the platform of the! His naval aide , troduced the President. Roosevelt spoke | He stated that it was “unhap- | thing in their attack. British fly- Pily necessary” to report that the ers pounded the city with tons of future and safety of our demo-|fidavits from free holders who }bring capitulation before Nazis | ‘help arrives. Extensive aid from Germany is ‘high explosives in an effort to Cracy were bound up with events beyond our border. The President warned against | war profiteering, saying “We must en route to the Libyan battlefront be wary of men who would clip! including 1,000 planes. The large the wings of the American eagle and important Tobruck airdrome in order to feather their own , is the first objective of the British. nests’. Commenting on the fall of Bar- The “need of the moment,” he dia Italian commanders placed the declared, is toward a greater pro- blame on Rome, stating that lack duction of defense needs. of motor transportation and ar- mored power in face of well-equip- He de- | (Continued On Page Two) Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country;. with an- average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS German Ultimatum Allowing - Na Troops Within Borders ELECTORS MUST | FILE AFFIDAVIT IN BOND: ISSUE SIRE TO VOTE MUST SIGN, REGISTRATION OF ALIENS . EXCEEDS FIRST "ESTIMATE , ALL FREE HOLDERS WHO DE- TOTAL 4,720,000 AT PRESENT: | ADDITIONAL THOUSANDS) Reports From Reliable ‘Sources. Are: Not: Con- firmed, However; Some Deny — SERRE ntnwaeae rence Mer APE ose VERS | { | | | | | | | (By Associated Press) SOFIA, Bulgaria, Jan. 6.—Bow- UP WITH REGISTRATION | EXPECTED TO REPORT TO ing to the wishes of the Nazis, OFFICER | i Registration Supervisor John! England today began receiving af- j wish to vote on Feb. 4 on the ques- tion of issuing bonds in the sum of $40,000 to buy an air base site on Boca Chica. The money will buy 1,000 acres of land. “Only those whg sign up will be able to vote,” England said today. He had received only ten affi- davits for freeholders up to noon,’ {but explained that it was always | slow the first few days. The free- HEADQUARTERS (By Associated Press) | Bulgaria today surrendered to the |German ultimatum that allows ; been sent to his office. |the large number was due to per- | holders will be permitted to sign WASHINGTON, Jan, 6.—Regis- | | Hitler's troops within its borders, tration of aliens in continental | ynconfirmed but rolieble private United States hes greatly passed ! a the number predicted by Earl G. | Sources reported toclay. Harrison, registration director. | The setimate was placed at 3,600,. Ne Beth. Sofia, and, Beslinsdenied 000, but Mr. Harrison has an-(|the report but all indications nounced that to date records and Pointed toward Bulgarian ac- fingerprints of 4,720,000 aliens had quiescence to Hitler's demands, {bringing Balkan power, into the The registration director said hands of the Axis’ leaders. Bul- sons who entered the country il-! aieegpker enrages orem jeg eo legally and others who were! een broken down in a meeting doubtful of their citizenship. [yesterday of German foreign 9 % i | minister Von Ribben Bul- board a train for Galveston, It|been tripled within a year. (hy Asnociatea Prees | pedéfiritish forces lod to defeat Additional thousands of records | roi was decided to go by train be-! cause there was no regular boat service from Key West. .to..the Texas city. Throughout the day, the officers Fla., who inducted the officer: and men into the federal service, | engaged in a physical examina- tion of the troopers. The officers were Capt. Max B. Williams, D.C., First Lieut. Ern- est Najure, MC, First Lieut. La- mar L, Lambert, M.C., and Lieut. Maonor J. LeDoux. First sworn into the federal | service were Capt. William ‘C. Harris, First Lieut. W. E. P, Rob- erts and First Lieut. Henry H. Taylor, Jr. j Then the other members of the battery were sworn in as fol- lows: Ist. Sgt. Gr. 11 Robert J. Saun- (Continued on Page Four) GOVERNMENT MAY TAKE OVER SHIPS octated Press) WASHINGTON. Jan. 6—Navy department’s concern of .Com- munistic activity in the American merchant marine may result in the government taking control of all vessels. This prediction was made the past weekend At the same time it was an- nounced that the government is studying the practicability of op- four | from Camp _ Bianding, ; ‘now under arms, including regu- ‘lars and National Guardsmen, number 608,000. Approximately {a half million more men wlil be} mustered into service within the next three months. A year ago only 230,841 officers }and men composed the country’s ; land forces. PLANE PRODUCTION. INCREASE FORECAST «ny hesouinted 1 Prens) itreasury statement as of Decem- WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—A ber 31-revealed that the States government spent more! mofiey last year than any year since World War I. Stepped up by $2,587,000,000 of national de- fense expenses, a total of $9,800,- | 000,000 was spent in 1940. Despite ever-mounting govern- ment expenses, the deficit for last | year was below that of 1939. Re- | lceipts the past year totaled $5,-] | 834,000,000, which left the govern- | ment $3,966,000 000 in the “red”. | |In 1939 the deficit was $4,020,000,- | 0. DOWNEY, Calif., Jan. 6.—Pres- ; 00 ident Richard Miller of Vultee Aircraft has announced that the company’s three factories will in- crease production to 3,000 planes this year. Last year only 300 air- | craft were produced. Miller said | floor space had been _ increased | 700 percent to take care of Brit-! ish and U.S. Army’ orders. MASS EXPULSION OF ‘ALSATIANS, MORE AMERICANS RETURNING HOME COMING BACK FROM MANILA | AND SHANGHAI; NUM. | BER 1,000 i et (By Aw led Press) | (By Assoctated Press) VICHY, = France, * Jan. France's new government has} learned that Ger: y, in an ef-| fort to exclule “elements consid- | ered injurious to the German} people”, has ordered mass expul-| sion of Alsatian Frenchmen from their country’s former of Alsace. province | The expulsion also in and German-speak-! erating a certain number of the i ships in the event of war or fur- ther complications in the national emergency 1 Alsatians” and Ger-j remain in the con- | quered province. mans may United States Government Strengthens Its Position In. Various Foreign Countries WASHIN pecting import in the Mediter diplomati gover enir or near c fected 6 developme his port. He ad been in th laries | Shanghai, and 800 wives and chil- | Roosevelt's personal TOKIO, Jan. {Amercian citizens, One thousand ; in response to 6.— advice of the American state de- | Washington partment, are now on their way jto the United States. i The SS. President Coolidge, sailed Saturday with 200 mission- and their families from dren of naval men from Manila No announcement has been made as f future evacuation of Americans in the Far East. ‘HOPKINS GOES (My Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 6—“I dc now how long I'll be in Lo at it won't be long”, stated Har- j L. Hopkins, former secretary of commerce but now representa- {tive to London. j The statement was made as Mr s boarded a Yankee Ci 6—War | the Jan announced cost-plus-fixed basis. ‘que announced. The assault President | ¥ Fall of Bardia resulted in the capture of 25,000 prisoners includ- dé. general: “All ‘resistance ceased at 1:30 p. m. Sunday, the British high command communi- by land, sea and air lasted 20 days. DESIRES TRUTH ABOUT HITLER “PEACE MOVE” \WHEELER FAVORS INVESTI- GATION REQUESTED BY DA- vIs, OIL MAN. ABOUT ‘ “AGENDA FOR PEACE” (By Assoctated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Senator | Wheeler has declared himself, in favor of a congressional investi- gation requested by W. R. Davis, oil man, who wants the country. to know “the true facts” of the charge that he brought an ““agen- ;da for peace” from Hitler to from Germany in Mr. Davis counter-charges that his position and that of his com- pany has been misrepresented to the American public d that the 'time has come for a full explana- tion. Mr. Davi “mystery from Gerr en dubbed the ce his return | CONTINUE RAID OVER BREMEN CITY OF BREST COMES IN) FOR ATTACK ALSO BY ROYAL AIR FORCE | ena) | 6.—Powerful ' and continued (by Axnociated LONDON, Jan. attacks on Brest destruction of Bremen marked the principal activities of the Royal Air Force over Germany the past weekend. Successive raids on the import- | ant German seaport of Bremen started last week and since that time the English airmen have kept the city in a sea of flames with fires so numerous that it became impossible to distinguish military objects below. Air ministry also reported raids on other German towns. KENNEDY BACK IN WASHINGTON (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Jo- seph Kennedy has returned here from Palm Beach for a two-week sit. Nature of the visit has not been made public. Mr. Kennedy is the former ambassador of this country to England. (ment, depends upon British Tanker Slips | Out Of Miami Harbor (By Associated Press) MIAMI, Ja |fuei oi of thi England harbor Sat B: DEEP SEA FISHING Diesel Powered | : $2— ‘AMERICANA’ —$2 5 CAPTAIN BOB DAVIS Leave $:30 a. m. Return 4:30 p. m Tackie Furnished PORTER DOCK ed with rifles and Ingenious para- ja protects the craft from floating mines. Para- vanes, towed by cables, cut anchor lines of sunken mines, seems at to the surfa suppli guns An g the en- 3 and pre- floating e fact that not all has felt the raft f Germany's sea and air block- ade, the S. S. Athelfoam is com- pleting its third wv: England and the it now, the ship has been un- i be used of smokeless i Its molasses cargo in the manufacture gunpowder. | affidavits up to and including Jan 30. On orders of President Everett W. Russell of the Chamber of Commerce, Secretary S. C. Single- j ton of that body mailed cards to the following citizens today ask- | ing them to join in promoting pub- | licity “that Key West may not fail to secure,” the air base: , Chairman William H. Mon- | salvatge, who retires from the {county commission tonight and who was largely responsible for the detailed plans for the air base; Joe Allen, John Allen Long, Gon- ‘zalo Benzanilla, John Carbonell, William J. (Bill) Lee, John Gard- ner, Everett Winter and W. Town- , Send Morgan. Mr. Singleton wrote as follows ‘concerning the air base: “As you know, the establish- ment by the government of an army air port on Boca Chica, in- volving the expenditure by the government of nearly one million {dollars in developing the same, jand the ultimate expenditure of ;many hundreds of thousands |dollars as personnel ‘this area; also the increased per- ;manence of the interest of moves into on the part of the government in main- taining the status of Key West as an important defense establish- a favorable vote on the part of more than 51 per cent of the freeholders at an election to be held on February 4. “It is obvious that unless suffi- cient information is placed before the voters, that this project will not receive sufficient support. It is also obvious that the time is short.” SY _TEMPERATURES Abilene Bois Bo: Buffalo Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Detroit Galveston Huron Jacksonville KEY WEST Los Angeles . New Orleans New York Pittsburgh St. Louis Salt Lake City 27 San Francisco 48 Sit. Ste. Marie 4 + | Washington NEW YORK - BUSY BEE Chowder Daily “Best Sandwiches and Eats” (Continued on Page Four) predates SS MORE RAIDS ~ OVER LONDO INHABITANTS ARE JUBILANT OVER SUCCESS OF VOLUN- TEERS LAST NIGHT (Ry Axsocinted Prean) LONDON, Jan. 6.—Four day- light raids were reported over this city today. Londoners were jubilant today over success of their volunteers } hg Premier Bogdan hugeccing an ve Mer ins ‘two moves, Extensive help to Italy, which might bring an ulti- matum to Greece demanding peace terms with Italy or concen- | tration of activities in the Balkans thereby focusing attention on this new war arena and disguising | plans for a final attempt of inva- |sion on the British Isles. Germany now has, 600,000 _troops concentrated in jumania , with tons of equipment, luding |heavy coastal defense guns. The Nazi troops are concentrated at (Continued on Page Four) last night in extinguishing fires spread by Nazi fire raids, Effectiveness of this new organ- ization of men, women and chil- dren was amply demonstrated when the situation was quickly brought under control after two waves of German raiders dropped devastating incendiary bombs over various sections of the city, STEEL SHARES LEADING STOCK (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 6-—Steel shares were leading the stock mar- ket's upward trend which started last week. U. Steel climbed from 69 to 70%, a gain of 1% points. Savage Arms and Oil tocks also rose. (By Asnocioted Prenn) BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan. 6.—~ Frenchmen attempting to «¢ this country on the ee Thailand - Indo-China frontier have been repulsed, the high com- mand reports. French forces were unsuceetsful in two endotnters with police and civilians in the Chochandr and Krungkhobok areas. NEW TITLE FOR OFFICIAL JOURNAL (By Associated Prensa) VICHY, Jan. 6-—~The official newspaper of unoccupied France has dropped the word “Republic” from its title and is now known as the “Official Journal of the French State”. County Commissioners Meet Next Week; Several Jobs Are Monroe county commission will probably lot meet before the first of next week, was the opinion of c Car Bervaldi, chairman of the board ‘The commission is awaiting the return to the city of Comsnis- sioner Norberg Thompson,” Chair- man Bervaidi said. “He is ex- pected back the last of this week. so we will probably not meet be- fore the fore part of pext week.” The county commission has sev- etal jobs to fill at the first meet- ing There is a janitor and ss- sistant janitor of the county court- house; two road patroimen, two guards for prisoners and a watch- man at the county courthouse. Sheriff Karl O. Thompson was issioner To Be Filled atthe courthouse this morning clearing out his desks prior to turning the office over to Berlin A. Sawyer. Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard Waite announced that he was ready to relinquish his duties to Harold E. Russell. new chief deputy under Sheriff-clect Saw- yer, ai midnight. “On the whole the last eight years have been extremely pleasant.” Waite said. “We know that we have done our duty and have earned the plaudits of the inspecting state officers, We hope that Sheriff-elect Sawyer has every success in his new job.” Sheriff-clect Sawyer ran a naif in his foot and is confined to hig home. He expects to appear at jomsaty courthouse tonigh, 4