The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 11, 1941, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Associated Press Day Wire R Service J 4 ‘ For 61 Years Devoted to the ‘ Best Interests of Key West THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. — VOLUME LXII. No. 10. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS Portsmouth Last Night * Two More Government : "RTS#_BRace | Vessels. Arrive At Base FOR U.S. AID They Are Of Sub-Chaser PLANNING FOR USE OF AMERCIAN SHIP- Type; To Work Along’ To U. 8. Ad To Britain IIAP LL SS SD ‘NEW. ESTIMATES IN CASUALTIES! (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Jan. 11.--German newspapers today bitterly at- tacked President Roosevelt's “aid to Britain” program, denouncing HELP (By Assoetated Press) YARDS TO REFIT SHIPS LOOKED UPON AS GREAT With Sound School Out- fit | Two patrol cruisers, a sub-chas- SEEKING TO FIND MOST AP- PROPRIATE WAY TO EX- TEND COURTESY WINTER GUESTS: LONDON, Jan. 11—War worn | plans for the refitting of British ‘British civilians were in high! ships as a violation of the United spirits here today with publica-|States’ own peace covenants of tion of plans for new aid from the | 1919, United States and stories of fur- While maintaining that any ther victories for their armies in| plans for helping the British to | Albania and Africa. !defend their empire must come too Plans for the use of America | jate to be effective, the Nazi news- er type of naval boat, arrived at | |shipyards in the refitting of ships Key West naval station for as signment to the sound school late yesterday afternoon, it was an- obs, U.S.N., commandant at the station. They are the PC-450 and the PC-451, the division under com- | mand of Lieut. Joe Wood Boul- ware, U.S.N., also commander of the 451. by Liuet. Stuart. Four destroyers, three subma- rines and the two patrol cruisers are now assigned the sound school. This school is one in which naval seamen learn fundamentals of underwater sig- naling and sound detection. There are 100 men in the school at all times, but with sxe teaching staff and the crews of the boats assign- ed to it there are several hundred men. The two cruisers are carrying 72 men, 52 on the 451 and 20 on ~othe $50, > CLI SLD LS SS CALLS WITNESSES IN INVESTIGATION (Ry Axsnetated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 Senator William Gillette, Towa Democrat who heads the Senate committee inves- tigating contributions in the presidential campaion, has ordered representatives of the Rockefeller and of the Pennsylvania Oil company to appear before his group. GIO TIL ILI IIS ees committee from the Stone | o¢ the Royal Navy were hailed as }Church Service Club has celled @/a great step in increasing the ef- warships of belligerent powers | Papers pointed out that under Ar- : jticle 13 of the peace covenant’ imeeting of visitors to confer with | them and decide just what woul be the most appropriate method of ; nounced by Capt. Walter F. Jac- (extending courtesy and hospital- | Tobruk in Italian Libya told of a ity to our winter guests. | ‘The committee will meet at the |Chamber of Commerce office at |7:30 p. m. next Friday, January 117, In some manner, unknown to the committee, the impression got out that the mecting was to be held last night and some callers at The 450 is commanded |the Chamber of Commerce office |identified as General Bergan- iwere disappointed to find the | doors closed. | Visitors to Key West, having suggestions will be welcome a! the meeting next Friday and writ- ten communications can be left at the office in the meantime. the ; TEMPERATURES Lowest last|Highest las! night 24 hours 35 55 24 44 . 22 33 80 39 212 28 . 25 40 30 40 26 53 ~ 41 54 44 59 38 59 16 31 36 54 58 66 51 64 39 64 11 29 43 54 25 38 Phoenix 42 61 Pittsburgh 24 29 Salt Lake City 24 40 Sit. Ste. Marie 2 26 Washington 26 40 Abilene | Boise Boston | Bristol | Buffalo Charles | Chicago {Cincinnati {Denver ‘El Paso Galveston |Havre ad | Huron Jacksonville | KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis New Orleans New York Engineers Taken To Keys For Survey Of Proposed Fresh Water Pipe Line MASONIC LODGE MEETS TONIGHT A special meeting of Dade Lodge will be held tonight, be ginning at 7:30 o'clock, for the purpose of conferring the Mas- ter’s Degree on two fellowcrafts, one of whom is G. N. Goshorn, Jr., son of G. N. Goshorn, district of the organization. the second son that has been raised as a Mason by Mr. Goshorn, of which fact he is ex ceedingly proud. Ll CLUB LA CONGA Invites you to DANCE YOUR CARES AWAY to the only RHUMBA BAND in Key West —THE— Havana Royal Quintette Hear Charming MARION ALLEN Sing your favorite Songs Have a smile with our own DEAN and her ACCORDION Hear our SWING TRIO ! and of course you can't lose us FRANK and TEDDY Come up ‘n See Us! No Cover No Minimum Alwa Laughs s Lieut. Commender T. J. Brady, Us ger of Overseas Highway, are accompanying an engineering party over the keys to enable the group to prepare plans and speci- cations for the naval water sup- ystem from Homestead to West, it was announced to- Heading the group is Ellson T. Killam, who helped prepare much of the data that is in pos- | ession of the Florida Keys Aque- duct commission, and who hails from New York. party are Charles Travis, Robert L. Wood and H. J. Ralston, of the | engineering firm of Parsons. Brinkerhoff and Douglass of New | York It will be remembered that the New York engineering firm rec- ended to the Bureau of and Docks of the Navy de- nt construction of the Key water system. The engi- ers are here in the Washington and project will t $2,000,000 LUBRICATION by EXPERTS Lou Smith Auto Service Duval at Division Phone 9153 or 5 cost S.N., and B. M. Duncan, inana- | Also with the! interest of | of the hard-working | are restrained from remaining in neutral ports f At the same time, reports from |hours 5 orcmare ‘than. 08 steady tightening of the cordon ‘help for Britain swelled a chorus around the besieged outpost. | of unfavorabl British motorized forces were said es spel perincemey iba ae o have swept far to the west of | ¢,; i Tobruch, smashing new holes Biel sa | the Italian line of supplies. | British scouting forces around! 'Tobruch reported the capture of an Italian general tentatively Roman newspapers carried ban- | posed American help as un-neu- |tral and commented editorially that public opinion in the United States is not behind the President jon the aid bill. | Russian papers, meanwhile, ac- cused politicians of “juggling with international law” and demanded to know why America felt able to supply help for Britain while at the same time accusing Russia of serving as an ally of Germany be- cause of proposed food and supply sales. |zonni, dubbed “Electric Whiskers’ by the Arabs and at one time com- mander of Italian forces operating in the Spanish civil war. Soldiers who made the capture said the general was walking on the road from Bardia to. Tobruch. | British sources previously had de- jclared the general had deserted }his men at the time of Bardia’s fall and was heading for safety jfarther back in Italian-occupied | territory. ‘TWO BOARDS — _T0 CO-OPERATE j|EMPLOYMENT SERVICE UNIT, TO VIE WITH SELEC- TIVE GROUP .CAR PLUNGES INTO CANYON | E | FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Leaving an automobile ripped out forty feet of guard rail, plunged 300 feet to a ledge ard then 600 feet to the canyen floor. ‘The four -oc- cupants of the car were killed. (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 11.—The | Florida State Employment Serv- | ice will cooperate with the Selec- | eaivkae tive Service Board in the investi- | WASHINGTON den ict gation of applicants for occupa-! 3 bi ; i tional deferment, Fons A. Hath- | the handful of new senators who away, director of the State Em-/are just settling in their chairs ployment Service announced to-/for the tirst time—some Don'ts day. ‘in the Senate that might have “The Selective Service Regula-| been Do's if you had taken your tions provide that the State and seat a long time ago: local draft boards may call upon} 1. Don’t carry firearms {the State Employment Service for the Senate floor. information concerning applica- | Just because Vice President tions by draft registrants for oc-} Van Buren used to preside with a {cupational deferment.” Director | brace of pistols in his jeans, don’t | Hathaway explained, “Procedure|think it’s an old Senate custom has been established for promptly | to come to work armed. Since the supplying the required informa- | days when Senator Foote of Mis- tion in such cases in response to} sissippi drew his trusty derringer the draft board’s request.” on a colleague and some years Under the Selective Service }later when Senator Saulsbury classification system, occupational |tried to shoot the sergeant-at- deferments are the category in!arms, packing a gun in the Sen- which are placed registrants found | ate has been looked’on with high | to be “necessary men” in industry, | disfavor. There’s even a rule that | business, employment, agricul-| you have to check your six-gun tural pursuit, government serv-/at the door. lice, or other occupations con-' 2 Don't invite ladies |tributing to th» national health. | you on the Senate floor. | safety or interest. | There was a day, as one lady | Hathaway pointed out that the ! observer put it, when “The Sen- jState Employment Service has|ate chamber was crowded }more than 40,000 persons regis- crushing with ladies. I ne jtered for work, that a complete on such squeezing occasions | work history of each of these ap- again when “It was supposed yes- plicants is on file with the em-‘terday there were 300 ladies, be- ployment service and that the | .iges their beaus on the floor of board can be advised promptly of | the Senate”. Those days are gone a shortage in any occupational i¢.pever As far back as 1924, classification. |“Something of a sensation was jcaused by entrance of a woman to ithe floor, outside the bar, accom- {panied by two sen to be Frau Schreiber, who, being nember of the German Reich- stag, was ¢ jof the floo STINNETT, onto to visit | NOTICE TO ALL BUSINESS PLACES The City of Key West will not ; honor or approve for payment any | bills rendered the ¢ity for mer- |ehandise or services unless such bills are properly covered by an official City of K West Pur- chase Order. For your protection } demand a purchase order. CHAS. R. ROBERTS, City Auditor. led to the privilege The gallery is the It a member of CALL FOR BIDS { Key West, Florida e sealed bids up to and cluding 4:00 P. M. Februa Attention, Everybody! SLOPPY JOE’S BAR pr Norman and Donovan Wisconsin Boys featuring Accordion and Saxaphone Solos Dancing by Eddie Tryon’s double jacket Fire Hose ed to 400 % pressure. hose tcompiete with rocker lug coup- Community Singing. | | ings. Bids specify down {| payment and f time pay- and ments. || Ne Cover —— No Minimum || CHAS. R. ROBERTS, | Ginsat atr eeRalinaa socne | jani City Auditor. The German criticisms of new: ner headlines denouncing pro-} the highway on a dangerous curve, . ‘OLD UNITED STATES SENATE ISN'T WHAT IT USED T0 BE AP Feature Service Writer tors. It proved : d Mbdel 74, 1938 Police Motorcycle, (ity Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 11.—Revis- . ed estimates of Italian casual- ties in the capture of Bardia last week placed Fascist loss- es at 45,000 officers and men either killed or captured, it was revealed here today. IDI IMIS FS (By Associated Prexs) RAF CONTINUING ATHENS, Jan. 11.—Greek and IN THEIR RAID .British motorized units, fresh from yesterday's conquest of stra- jtegic Klisura, swept on today on CARRY ON OPERATIONS WITH ‘Italian army. BLASTS OVER GERMAN- HELD FRENCH AREA , the heels of a. reportedly routed (falling back in a disorganized re- itreat on Valona, {miles away, and British flyers | brought back reports of fresh vic- } tories for the pursuing Greeks. Mountain troops, which storm- ed height after height to overcome stubborn resistance at Klisura, (ty Asnociuted Press H LONDON, Jan. 11.—Royal Air’ Force bombers, continuing their raids over German-held France, blasted today at the ports of Brest and LeHavre, it was reported here. Flyers returning from the at-! tacks along the French coast claimed to have seen great fires blazing in both cities after the attacks, while hits were said to have been made on a naval ship in an effort to soften the way for janchored at LeHavre. ‘another attack. (German official sources admit- ; ~ os ted the raids but said the enemy | ty anes had been driven off after! | ~ HOME-SOCIETY | re only slight damage. forward while Greek advance units harried the retreating Italian army. The main body of the Greek army apparently had slowed its advance temporarily to reorganize while British and Greek bombers pushed on over the Valona sector refused to on. the ‘reported bombing of.a ship.) SERBS ol a eS | |\MANY OF SPONSORS ARE IN MONROE COUNTY: SESSION TO BE HELD IN MIAMI ON JANUARY 17 one or the other branchzs of Con- | gress, I have never known a, speech to change a vote”. 4. If it is your custom to toss off an occasional highball, don’t expect to buy cne in the Capitol corridors. As long as a hundred years ago there was a rule against sale of liquor in the Capitol. One observ- er, however, visiting the Capitol cafe, noticed that “You go there and ask for pale sherry and they hand you gin; brown sherry and it is brandy; madeira, whisky”. And as recently as Vice President Curtis’ day, when he consented to the planting of a prohibition agent in the Capitol, they caught the “congressional . bootlegger” with an embarrassing list of his chents. But those days are gone. ‘ford Building, Miami, before Janu- 5. If you're a chain smoker of; ary 15th. cigarets or cigars or can’t clamp, Marcus C. Fagg who has been your teeth together without a state superintendent of the Chil- pipestem between them, better dren’s Home Society for the past get yourself a new habit at once. ‘thirty years, will be present The Not so very long ago, Sen.’ guest speaker will be George E. “Ben” Tillman, to whom tobacco Holt, Dade county member of the smoking was obnoxious, waged a Florida legislature, who will dis- successful one-man battle to bar cuss the child welfare laws of smoking on the floor. The only Florida. concession was “except during ex-! Officers of the Southeastern ecutive sessions”. Cheer up, Branch of the Children’s Home though. Vice President Wallace Society are: F. W. Borton. presi- (Continued on Page Four) ;dent; Mrs. J. D. McKenney, vice- president; Mgs. H. O. Jones, vice CALL FOR BIDS president; Carl T. Hoffman, vice president; M. L. Mershon, vice president; L. Ireland, vice- will receive sealed bids up to and president; Mrs. Roy Morrison, including 4:00 P. M January 16, secretary, Grover C. 1941, for furnishing the City of treasurer, and Francis Key West with one Police Special , counselor. Motorcycle. Bids shall specify; Monroe county are amount that will be allowed the | Benjamin D. Trevor, Dr. William City on the trade-in of an Indian,|R Warren, William V. Little, William = W. Demeritt. Mrs Stephen W. Douglass, Rev John Miss a ie Porter Harris. Charles E. Smith, Allan H. Armstrong, Wil lard M Albury, Mrs. Howard Wilson, Mrs: Grace B. Phillips Mrs. Everett B. Winter, Mrs. RF. Spottswood, Miss Florence E Sawyer, Mrs. W. P. Arrher Judge iette Russell, Joe Pearlman HE. Day. The Southeastern Brancn of the !Children's Home Society of Flor- ida serves Monroe, Dade and Broward counties and is repre- sented in Key West by a sponsor- ing committee of which Rev. John Gekeler is chairman. Once a year the members of this society meet jto elect directors and hear re- | Ports of the work. This year the meeting will be a luncheon at the Alcazar Hotel, Miami, on Friday, January 17th at 12:15 noon A cordial invitation is extended to Key West residents who are in- terested in child welfare, and it is hoped that a large representation from Key West will be present. | Reservations should be made with the office of the Society, 714 Lang- The City of Key West, Florida P. Miller, sponsors and time payments. CHAS. R ROBERTS, janil-It City Auditor. | | | i I Attention, Key Westers AN UNUSUAL DINNER DINNER AWAITS YOU At The Ocean View Restaurant 520 United Street 1213 Georgia Street TRELLIS Greck And British Forcés |\Nazi Air Fleet Reported To Have Made Two Di- reci Hits On English Bat | tleship Fascist forces were said to be | about thirty | were said to be pushing rapidly | Zaring, *° FOR SALE—FURNITURE ,. Keep On Heels Of Itans TOI AIIII SDS, JOE PENNER, RADIC-SCREEN STAR, DEAD (By Associated Presa) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11. —Joe Penner, the 36-year- old radio and screen star who put “Wanna buy a duck?” in the national vocabulary, died suddenly last night at a local hotel. Penner was starring in the touring musical show, Yokel Boy. His wife, the former Eleanor May Vogt, found his body when she returned to the hotel from a tour. Death was said to have come after a heart attack. PII eS Tea aw 4 BITTER FIGHT ON _ BRITAIN-AD MILITARY COMMITTEE HAS DEMANDED JURISDIC- TION IN MATTER (Ry Axssectated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 11,—Sen- ate militarv affairs committee to- day demanded jurisdiction over the pending “aid to Britain” in the first move of what promises to be a bitter struggle on Capitol Hill. foreign affairs committee for study, but members of the mili- | tary committee have protested that it should have come to them first. Congressmen of both parties, meanwhile, prepared for the ex- pected struggle over the bill's passage. Despite severe criticism from isolationist members, ad- ministration backers, a ing a quick passage for ure. e meas- ah tt t+ Work On Progresse Construction work on Joseph Yates Porter Place, the white housing project on Trumbo sec- tion, is going ahead according to schedule, Executive Director Wal- lace B. Kirke of the Key West Housing Authority announced to- day The foundations for the 18 buildings in the project are now seing sunk. Two draglines and a large squad of men are engaged in sinking the foundations from 12 14 feet in bed rock It is necessary to seek bedrock for the foundation, Kirke ex- plains, beceuse the buildings will be of solid concrete block con- struction. The’ buildings‘are be- ing erected with the idea of 60 years of operation, so that a firm foundation for them is essential The 18 buildings will contain 136 s, of one, two ana three bedroom size The foundations will be sunk gradually, so that the other work may proceed. The walls of some of the buildings will soon begin to rise. The proj- scheduled to be finished in a year from now. The totz! cost of the white proj- ect is slated at $372.920. The Paul Senit Construction company is the contract for this as well as the colored project to be erect- ed at the foot of Division street. Court proceedings to acquire the land necessary for the colored section are now under way. The bill was turned over to the (iy Associated Presa) ' BERLIN, Jan, 11.—Waves of ; German bombers, apparently in _Tetaliation for British air activity over France yesterday, hammer- ed the port of Portsmouth last ‘night and this morning with an | attack comparable to the deva- \ stating raid on Coventry last month, i i | Sweening in ever the channel under the protection of forma- tions of fighter planes, the Nazi bombers smashed at Portsmouth \through the nighttnd ints the | early morning. ‘ (British sources lin. Portsmouth admitted the severity of the raid, but credited their own RAF | fighters and intense anti-aircraft |protection with saving the city jfrom damage as extensive as that (of Coventry. At least eight fires BILL _ were left burning in the city and | Other Nazi Soiubets, flying to jthe aid of Italian forces in the Mediterranean, claimed’ two di- irect hits on a British battleship |operating off North Africa, | Official sources here also claim- ed sinking of an 8,000-ton British freighter off the coast of Ireland by another bomber. COM. LOCKHART GETS INJURED Commander Eugene Lockhart of Battery E, 13th C.A., at Fort Taylor, was teported today as having received an injured knee recently in a volley ball garne. As a result of this, Commander Lockhart has been inactive in piedigt fondycting his duties. He is ex- pected to be completely recover- ed within a short time. t-te Housing Units $ Satisfactorily ‘COAST GUARD BOAT LEAVES Coast Guard Tender Birch left today for the west coast to — re- place three valuable aids of navi- gation which were destroyed re- cently, it was announced by Lieut. Commander Car! Hilton, in charge of the district, today. Lights to be replaced are Gas- parilla Sound, Pass-a-Grilie South chaninel and the entrance to An- clote anchorage. They were blown down lately by the heavy storm. Birch is permanently assigned to the area bounded by Indian Key river anchorage up to 30 miles north of Cedar keys. She is com- — by Arthur H. Sheppard, r NEW YORK - BUSY BEE Specializing in Seafoods. Spanish Cooking—Conch