The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 8, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 7. New Regime Takes: Over County Work Yesterday Sheriff Berlin Sevdder be OOOO T OTS LARGE KINGFISH CAUGHT TUESDAY What is believed to be near a record kingfish captured in these waters was brought ashore from Capt. Michael Lopez’ boat yesterday by Wil- liam Leohr, of Chiippewa Lake, Ohio. The huge fish weighed 60 pounds and was more than six feet long. It was a beauty, and hung on display for several hours at the Cactus Terrace camp, where Leohr is staying. With Leohr were William Parker of Cleveland, Henry Doerfelt of Paterson, N. J., and J. S. Britt of Washing- ton, They were not so lucky, but are going out with Capt. Lopez again in an at- tempt to land a_ biggamester off Key West. Capt. Lopez caught up with the fish off Eastern Dry Rocks. LILI LILI ILI I ILE gins New Duties; Sev- eral Other New Faces At Court House Everything was running smooth- | ly around county courthouse to- | day, with new officials in charge _ of the sheriff's office, the county | tax collector's office, the office of | | the county tax assessor and the/| clerk of criminal court. | | Sheriff Berlin A. Sawyer man-! ages to get around to his office ; every day, despite the fact he ran a nail in his foot several days ago. | He was on hand to shake hands, with a number of well wishers | when he relieved former Sheriff Karl O. Thompson. Chief Deputy Sheriff Harold EB} Russell is rapidly getting the hang | of things around the office. To- ES AEE: eam day he plans to move into the sheriff's residence in front of OFFICERS NAMED “ska aen segs cen BY MARTI LODGE Marcus A. Mesa, Sr., in the sheriff's office. He is as- sisting the sheriff and making himself useful. Frank C. Stickney | ELECTION TOOK PLACE AT is sheriff's deputy in place of Ray Elwood, and William Kemp is RECENT MEETING OF OR- jailer. Joseph C. McMahon settled into | serait of the office of county tax collector | after he relieved Frank H. Ladd | THE SOU n KINGDOM FOR: A’ lEnelish Need Night Fighter NEW TYPE PLANE By BILL WHITE I AP Feature Service Writer | LONDON, Jan. 8.—War-weary | | Britons, satisfied that the RAF has elmost completely nullified | |the threat of daytime air raids, lare demanding now an answer | jto the four-month-old horror of; | night raids. And there seems to be no im-| | mediate hope in sight. | Some 14 weeks ago, Sir Archi jbald Sinclair, Minister for Air,' jdeclared, “I am able to look for- ward to a time when the pleasure | of night bombing over Britain; |will cease. to be attractive to| | Reich Marshal Goering and his} |aerial minions”. | | Good News Those words were hailed by| |everyone who had huddled in a! ‘shelter or ,had his sleep broken ‘by the terrorizing whump of |bombs and the answering clatter ; ‘of anti-aircraft guns. But the two-part job of lo- | cating the night-prowling ene- | my and downing him is not as | | simple es it first appeared. Anti-aircraft guns, even by day, are none too accurate. The |World war average of “30,000 | shells per hit” still appears -to hold good. By night, the guns are less accurate. They can keep the’ enemy high and spoil his aim, but they aren’t likely to turn | back a determined raid. The bar- rage balloons and the searchlights | are helpful—but simply keeping | “Jerry” high isn’t enough—for ob- vious mathematical __ reasons. ‘Sound travels about 1,100 feet a second, that by the time a plane speeding 200 miles an hour at 25,000 feet is heard on the | | Fifth Column: ‘Activities jdivert attention from other im- Che Key West Citizen THERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1941 | oge Carried On At Martinique Bis = German Radio Station * |means of a German radio station, jaccording to word from reliable BULGARIAN OFFICIALS WILL French sources on the island. CHES. | . Thorough search failed to lo- SEEaeE nee . | eate the low-powered transmitter ON SITUATION loperating over short wave with a 500-mile radius. Information in |code is relayed to Berlin by means (By Associated Press) lof a more powerful station in SOFIA,. Bulgaria, Jan. 8— South America. it is believed ‘Speeches Sunday by Bulgarian | are 5 Premier Bogdan Filoff and other Aliens and even citizens of Mar- tinique are being watched for high officials will climax a period Dae essing to ie discovery of | jof tension in this small Balkan ‘the operators. country. German invasion plans ate eee eee | failed to materialize today and ob- GIVE REASON IN | budget is only one billion dollars (Servers choose to think that Ber- |lin had been responsible for the ‘many rumors of the past week to’ . s A P budget of 1917, the country but police are taking (By Associated Prexs) jless than the € measures to punish those who LONDON, Jan. 8.—Diversion year which the United States en- would tend to disturb the situa- of shipping to Libia accounts for tered the World War. tion. shortage of meats in London, ! Congress will have a larger in- (By Associated Press) MARTINIQUE, Jan. 8—Es- |pionage and fifth column activi- ties are being carried on at Mar- | tinique ora nearby island by Calling For i | WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Presi- |dent Roosevelt today delivered |the budget to the Seventy-seventh | Congress asking the expenditure Sof $17,500,000,000. Designed to provide the nation | with adequate national defense, portant war moves. ice record-breaking peace time Quiet prevails throughout the the food administrator of England come this year than ever before ‘stated. ee In response to questions MOSCOW—Feodor Vassiloff of cerning the \this city when pensioned by the food, he asks ‘Czar of Russia in 1782 told the rather eat less meat and have no man can see all that WELL DESERVED and is expected:to reach a total of con- | $9,000,000,000. lack of sufficient| President stated that the bud- “Would Britain ‘et was prepared at a time when is ahead sovereign he had 83 children. Bardia?” Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country ; range of only 14° Fahrenheit ———_$_——————— NY, with an average PRICE FIVE CENTS Fore More. Than Seventeen Billion Dollars (By Asvociated Press) and prepared congress for the pos- sibility of asking for additional | appropriations by requesting the: national debt limit be raised. Under the constitution the na-; ‘tional debt limit is $49,000,000,000. , The federal debt is now within $5,- 000,000,000 of the revised limit. No figure has yet been set as a future limit. President intimated that the, present tax system will be im- proved. He declared that people | are getting rich from the defense program and the present congress | would probably have to place new | taxes on incomes. Excess profits | tax designed to take the profit out of war has not done all that was expected, Mr. Roosevelt indicated. | NAZIS ANGERED BRITISH BLOCKADE © Concentrate On Tobruck Roosevelt Presents Budget Good Fight Is Expected From Italians Despite Their Recent Defeats At Many Points | | | | | | } } (hy Ansocimied reas) CAIRO, Egypt, Jan, 8.—Middle perereee cena jfoday that the main body of the | British African forces was now ' concentrated on Tobruck. Good fight is expected from the |Italians despite recent reversals but the Libyan seaport is expect- ‘ed to fall before the Nazis can come to the aid of General Gra- ziani forces. In an official communique, of- |ficials stated that less than 600 men had been lost by the British, ‘compared to 30,000 Italians either killed, wounded or captured, jshowing a loss of 500 Italians to ,one Britisher. Despite previous claims that |General “Electric Whiskers” Ani- bale Bergonzali had been among jthe 30,000 captured, the general |is said to have made his escape in ja motor boat. Italian sources re~ vealed that General Bergonzoli refused to escape in a plane which had _ sent for his rescue bed without fuss. He is keeping the} There was an interesting and ground, the machine is more than “feame~efficient *organizatior’” as} well ‘attended. meeting. of the a-mile from the point at which kept by Ladd. They are Mrs.|Marti Lodge No, 3, Order Ca- the sound originated. ‘PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SUGGESTS - * | | AT BRITAIN AID IS SLIGHTLY EASED >= Mary Perez, who has been in the office 15 years, and Miss Elaine! Johnson, who has been there | eight. Claude Gandolfo relieved Otto Kirchheiner as county tax asses- | sor. He has mae no appointment | yet, but expects to name a person | to help him in his u!fice tomorrow. | He is straightening the office fur- | niture and placing a number of chairs for visitors in the .ante-/ room. Harry Dongo is the new clerk of criminal court. He relieved C. | Sam B. Curry yesterday. NATIONAL YOUTH © WORK INCREASES balleros de Marti, Inc. of Florida | held recently at their headquar- | ters during which time the follow- ing officers were elected to serve for the ensuing six months: Luminar—Pedro Oliva Benity. Voluminar—Horatio Pons. Patriarca—J. F. Fleitas. Tesorero—Oscar L. Milian. Sec. de Finanza—Mario P. Rolo. Sec. de Actas—Santiago V.' Rodriguez. V. Sec. Experto—T. Betancourt. M. de Ceremonias—P. Aguilar. Guarda Int.—F. Castro. Guarda Ext.—Jose Menaya. P. Estandarte — Rafael riguez Alfonso. So far the British ack-ack gunners have been credited with bringing down more than 300 enemy aircraft by day and more than 100 by night. But that is not enough. Competent observers are cer- tain that the night fighter plane! is the solution—but present! planes for that purpose are falling far short of the results sought. The night pilot, too, has his! problems. He is deaf to all oth-| (Continued on Page Four) ONE SHAVE IN 20 YEARS SANFORD, N. C.—It required more than an hour for S. D. Port- Rod- er, barber ,to give Oris Burns, 55, | people individually a shave and a haricut. It was the REVIVAL OF OLD ° TOWN MEETING By JACK STINNETT, Al | WASHINGTON, Jar. 8—Rally, around, folks. Pick you a town | crier—a feliow with a foghorn bellow that can rattle the shingles ;on every house in the neighbor- {hood. Give him a bell and send \him crying, “‘o oyez” through jthe village. There’s a move jtry to revive the old town meet- de Actas-Jose Gon-|* sounds and sometimes tempor- ; | ing. H It started with President Roose- \velt. The President said he would \like to see the old town meetings irevived in every hamlet, village and city in the land, with the and collec- acting on ‘tively studying and Pasado Luminar—Gerardo La first shave and haircut Burns had | problems that beset them. IF MANY LINES OF TRAINING, — NOW BEING GIVEN TO MEMBERS Added importance is being given each day to the National Youth Work program in connec-} tion with defense work. Great stress is placed on the training given youths taking part in this work so that the greater portion of NYA activit will be strictly devoted to defense needs. The NYA workshop has been transferred to the U. S. Army Barracks reservation and the op- portunities offered the boys on, this project vary from plumbing, sheet metal work, auto mechanics, carpenter work to machine shop and other similar occupations. Un- der the personal guidance of train- ed supervisors these boys are given every attention that such training requires and due to the fact that these advantages are not offered to youths under any other circumstances, Special notice should be made of same. There are vacancies in the N. Y A program at present and ap- plications will be received daily at the Incal office, from those desir- ing to take part in york and whose ages range fror years, and who school also offereti to ages to w sewing, hor tendants ar ants, besides m training DEEP SEA FISHING Diesel Powered $2— ‘AMERICANA’ —$2 CAPTAIN BOB DAVIS Leave 9:30 a. m. Return 4:30 p.m Tackle Furnished PORTER DOCK Secretary Of had in 20 years. Chamber umber Of Commerce Stresses Great Need For New Air Base Three quarters of a million dol-; lars will be spent in deVeloping the air base on Boca Chica, S. C. Singletor cretary pro tem of the committee acting for the purchase of the field said in a letter to the secreta’ Key West's civic org: ions. That is, Secretary Singleton pointed out, if the freeholders of s for | Monroe county approve of the is- suance to bo: in the sum of $40,- 000 at a special election to be hel Feb. 4 for the purchase « 0 acres of land on B: WHITE HERON (Stork Club) Announcing to its patrons the opening of one of Key West's finest RESTAURANTS Dinner—6 to 9 p. m. Our specialty will be STONE CRABS AND OTHER DISHES MADE FAMOUR BY KEY WESTERS —The Management. the publicity committee at the Chamber of Commerce headquar- ters yesterday afternoon. Attend- ing the meeting were Chairman William H. Monsalvatge, the man- agers of the Palace and the Strand and Monroe theaters, Joe Allen and H. Townsend Morgan. The managers of the theaters promised to make frequent an- nouncements from the stages of the theaters, or to permit them to be made. Morgan was directedto bution pointing out the value of the airport to Key West. Secretary Singleton’s letter to the secretaries of the civic or- ganizations follows “This letter will call the at tion of the members of tion to an oppor @ service of lasting be tesy in pl you aber ti d for the if we ed as an army air field d States government ase the land. In order to do this, a bond elec- st be held for the purpose (Continued On Page Four) Several congr nen and sen- lators of both parties took up the jery One congressman decided: to try to do something about it. He {is Jerry Voorhis, the young sage f San Dimas, Calif.( At 27 and tse ten years thereafter, he was headmaster of his own school for ' boys.) Representative Voorhis is a y man. He’s on five commit- , one of them the always-ac- tive Dies committee, but he took time out to try to get the town meeting ball rolling Sees Aid To Democracy He dipped find out just meetings were F old town ike. Then he sat down and wrote letters to.Secre- tary of Agriculture Wickard, to Commissioner of Education Stu- debaker, to Secreta of Labor Perkins and to the director of the American Yc c y draw up a card for general distri- “ of greater ad- ent than $ con, and would ect in any w to! t They state ; MUCH PERTURBED OVER AC- TION OF ROOSEVELT TO HELP BRITISH P Feature Service Writer | project, else it would defeat itself ; before it started, No effort should | be made by any agency to at-} tempt to tell these meetings what | their problems are or how to; (Continued on Page Four) _ TEMPERATURES {iy Axsocinted Press) BERLIN, Jan. 8.—German press “frothing at the mouth” over —e- made by President Roosevelt in regard to United | States’ aid to Britain. , | The President is Towa at aha sage | newspapers as @ war-monger. ag- bread -_ | gressor and No One enemy of be 47 the Nazis. They state that no aid a7 53 | made possible by the President 32 46 can save Great Britain from the 4 be pale of Nazi-occupied France. 60 70 12 26 23 43 23 31 26 37 25 55 6 19 40 67 57 62 7 46 54 38 77 66 30 56 49 62 32 67 30 | | | ly described in Abilene Amarillo Boise Boston Bristol Brownsville Buffalo Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Denver Eastport El Paso Galveston Hatteras Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Montgomery Nashv: ille w Orleans New York Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland St. Louis Salt Lake City 3 San Francisco § Shreveport Spokane Sit. Ste. Marie be ‘a (Dy Ansoctoted Prens) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The United States Fleet has i placed on a full wartime footing. | Each warship has been ordered to carry full strength crew, accord- ing to orders made public today | by Frank Knox, Secretary of the | Navy. | Forty thousand men will be jadded to the Navy to complete jthe job of getting the Fleet ready \for any emergency been ‘MORE ITALIANS ARE CALLED IN (By Associated Press) | ROME, Jan. 8.—Boys between ithe ages of 19 20 are being 4 of their VISITING HERE Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Dove of Ma Ga., were recent arrivals in Kev West for a two weeks’ visi at they are much pleased with their visit to the Is. land City. Africa re- thousand 1 roops accounts for the 1 to colors of this draft group. Recent reversals in A A SAMOA CLUB ANNOUNCING— MISS BETTY NEWMAN Direct from a two years’ engagement with the World's Fair, DANCING NIGHTLY — First Performance 11:30 SAMMY BIRD’S Original Dixieland Band 18:08 Penny Cocktail Hour Daily—5:00 to 6:00 p. m. j | Leonard Guerra. proprietor of j2 dining place on County roed, Te- tported to Chief , Harold Russel ; women's clothes had been tossed jinto his automobile yesterday. The clothing held for identi- fication at sheriffs office. New York City. “till 3:00 ‘PURPOSE IS TO ALLOW MEDI. | CINES AND FOODSTUFF TO REACH FRANCE (By Associated Prens) LONDON, Jan. 8—Informed circles stated today that the Brit- | ish blockade was being eased to; allow medicines ‘and foodstuffs | to reach France. Recent rapid spread of disease and starvation has caused an) emergency. Britain is said to! have yielded to pleas from both France and the United States to allow supplies to be sent to re- lieve suffering. American Fleet Placed On War Time Footing =: TAI OMOaae, FINE SAILFISH IS BROUGHT IN. On his first visit fo Key West waters, Roy G. Miller, Rochester, N. Y., who is stop- ping at the Ocean View ho- tel, caught a $44-foot sailfish yesterday. He was fishing from the Seven-Up. the boat captained by Bobby Waugh. With Miller when he made his catch were Edward Dirin- ger of Rochester and Eben Jeter Bray of Baltimore. A hed head, had hod Saag 1S 5 FEATURED The Americana, 45-foot fishing ‘boat operated by Capt. Robert Davis from Key West, is featured a special photographic section of the Fish & Oyster Reporter. in the December issue, it was an- nounced today. In another photograph the en- gine of the Americana is shown. She is powered by a new Mack Mariner engine, which develops! 125 he: horsepower "NEW YO YORK - BUSY BEE Specisiizing in Seafoods, Spanish | Cooking-—Conch Chowder Duily “Best Sandwiches and Eats” ‘ BOMBS | PUL WINDOWS OUT ‘GLASS FRAGMENTS DUE TO BLASTS USUALLY BURST OUTWARD (By Amocirtpa Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—Does a bomb outside a building blow the windows in, or blow them dut? The correct answer, says Na- ture, British official journal of science, is that the windows usually go out. That is, the glass falls outward because the force which breaks the windows is out- | ward, even though the bomb ex- | plodes outside. Nature ought to know, for some fof its editors live in London. The explanation: Two forces from the bomb could break the whemebity Number one is a com- wave, which travels reheat the air to the window and strikes it with a blow which, if the window shatters, drives the particles into the room. The second force from the bomb is the “suction” force whieh fol- lows right behind the crest of the compression wave. The air just behind the compressione wave is partly a vacuum and it acts. to break windows by sucking them outward, “Unless the explosion is very close,” Nature says, “glass frag- ,Inents due to blasts usually burst outwards.” The force on the re- bound, that is, is more often shat- Siow! than is the first inward w. ‘STEAMER PRIMO WAS FLOATED Capt. C L. Peterson, salvage officer aboard the wrecking tug Willet, cabled the Porter Dock Company yesterday that the $8. Primo, Norwegian vessel that went aground on Megana Key, Cubs, had been floated af 5 p. m. yesterday The Willet is momentarily ex- pected back in Key West, for the distance to Megana Key is only about 110 miles GREATEST BANQUET PARIS — One of the greatest i banquets on record was given im | Paris in 1889 by President Carnot of France to 15,000 mayors and senators and other officials. Thirty. H i | thousand loaves of bread wer@ © used, <esuie! cial i ‘