The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 13, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIL No. 11. National: Guard Company. Departed This Moming Enroute To Galveston * Unit Left In Fifteen Army cl sore lal | Trucks; To Board Train VARIETY OF FISH i. ||| Caer SuMRAY At Miami For Destina- % A 24-pound grouper topped tion a catch of 22 fish brought into ! | | i | | 1 | Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, M AID. RECIPIENTS ONE-CHILD FAMILIES ARE RUNNER-UP IN REPORT FILED BY STATE WELFARE) BOARD Merchant | j \ | (Special to The Citizen) { JACKSONVILLE, Jan, 13.—; Two-children families are leading | Britain Not So Worried Over Bombing Of Terri- among recipients of Aid to De-| pendents Children in Florida, ac-| England’s Loss 0 Her Greatest Peril ONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1941. —_——_— | | | Sips {s "NEW TERRORS Key West, Florida, has the © most equable climate in the country ; range of only 14° Fahrenheit with an average o Arrive Tomorrow NAZI BOMBERS POUND LONDON. POUNDED BY RAF ATTACK MADE ON LARGE WAVES OF. PLANES FLY OVER 'NAZI BASES ARE |Preparations Complete For | Entertainment Of Visi- tors; To Land At Upper End O¢ Island: SPREADING DESTRUC- TION NUMBER OF ENTRENCH- ED SOLDIERS | Key West yesterday by a \cording to a statistical report fil- | | party. led by the State Welfare Board | Artil-| The fishing pool was won | _ : x | by Sgt. Warren A. Scott, va- | with the Social Security Board. cationing from Camp Bland- ing, Fla. Members of the party brought back a bag which included grouper, yel- lowtail hog fish, porgies and ‘grunts, FOR TOBRUK tory; Stresses Need For; Freight Vessels There will be ly {one hundred airplanes arriving at (By Associated Press) (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Jan. 13—Waves of} LONDON, Jan. 18—Fighters of S*Y West tomorrow morning, be- | Nazi bombers hammered London the Royal Air Force brought ginning at 8:30 o'clock, from Mi- jagain last night and spread de- jubilation to. London newspaper} (By Associated Press) (struction to ports and industrial readers today in a smashing ma- | @mi for the air meet to be con- CAIRO, Jan. 13.—Heavy artil-|cities all over ine islands, it was chine gun and bomb attack on Batiery E, 265th Coast lery Florida National Guard, in} command of First Lieutenant | Will E. P. Roberts, left at 6:45 | o’cleck this morning enroute to | \ | | HEAVY ARTILLERY UNITS | | SUBJECT BESEIGED CITY TO (By Associated Press) | TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT LONDON, Jan. 13.—British gov- | ernment spokesmen took new | | They constitute more than one- |fourth of the families that are |benefitting from this program, | with 854 of a total of 2,944. One-child families are in run- nebo Fort Crockett, Galveston, Texas, GLIIIISS: | for a year’s training. Captain Wililiam C. Harris, DEADLINE FOR commander of the battery, was T ‘AGS 1S NEAR of appendicitis and was wthere- | i fore, unable to leave with the/ONLY TWO DAYS goats ae company. He will join the unit} GET NEW COUNTY BUT: later at Galveston. The other | MORE LICENSE commissioned officer of the com: | s 4 Li | Monroe county automobile own- re roa maaageaceaal | ers, faced with a Wednesday dead- ¥. Taylor, Jr. |line for the purchase of 1941 There were fifteen army trucks {license plates, apparently have conveying the men to Miami, at | little doubt Governor Spessard L. which point they will board a| Holland will follow the example | train, which will take them to | of his predecessors in office with their destination . cw awi}n extensin of time, i ere were é! ehty men leaving| With two days to go before the’ in the company, nine having been 1940 tags officially go out, Coun- rejected here because of the faul-|ty Tax Collector Joe C. McMahon ty condition of their teeth. The said teday his office has sold 525 men left behind were George S.|new plates.out of an estimated Albury, Charles F. Ingraham, | total of more than 2,000. John M. Lopez, George F. Nor-| Last year’s total sales amounted cisa, Charles Paiso, Colin J. Smith, | to 2,050 in the county and a con- Reace A. Thompson, Gerald T. siderable increase has been an- Williams and Eugene P. Wells. | ticipated. The bp nat selptane Dated Florida governors in the past up to a total strength o: with have granted from one to three | ity addition}, number of Mi- | time capes in favor of the! amians that will be added upon‘ the unit’s arrival in that city. There was a large number of relatives and friends of the com- pany members assembled at the Armory this morning to see the boys off. STEAMER ‘ALAMO Alamo, freighter of the Clyde- Mallory lines, left Key West last night at 7:45 o’:lock for Tampa recently stricken with an attack, , t dilatory motorists, but no word trom the new governor has_in- dicated he will alfow a similar de- lay. Unless more time is granted, Sheriff Berlin Sawyer will be in- structed to begin making arrests immediately after the Wednesday night deadline is passed. GOES ON DUTY Miss Naomie Hill, recently ap- pointed teacher at Key West high families, eight. ‘and 16 vears if not in school. ' tion basis due to the limited funds + was given as 385. with a cargo of 229 tons. The ‘ship docked here en route from New York Sunday morning. _ TEMPERATURES Lowest last/Highest lasi school, takes up her duties today to replace Mrs. Mary A. Delaino, who has resigned, Principal Hor- ace O’Bryant announced today Miss Hill, who graduated with an A.B. degree from the state wo college at Tallahassee and d her master’s from the University of Florida at night 24 hours 52 63 33 64 24 37 22 52 75 59 33 20 56 45 53 a7 35 59 Gainesville, will teach tenth and eleventh grade English and eleventh grade algebra Mrs. Delaino, who ned, has left the city for her new home in Homestead. Abilene Amariilo Boston Bristol Brownsville Buffalo Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Denver Detroit El Paso Galveston Huron Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Montgomery New Orleans Pittsburgh St. Louis San Francisco Spokane Sit. Ste. Maric Washington rned to New report, it was TROPICAL LUNCHEON THURSDAY. JANUARY 30. 1:00 o'Clock WOMAN ’S CLUBHOUSE Division Street YORK - BUSY BEE ng in Seafoods. Spanish Chowder Daily “Best Sandwiches and Eats” NEW PRICE Phone 403 or 670 for Reservations Engineers Survey Water Line Project On Keys - rived here nex-up: position): with’ 763, follow. | °c of their situation in the war led closely by three-children fam-} with Germany and Italy today of Bardia, subjected besieged To-! lilies with 637. Far in the rear is’ ang informed the United States bruk to new terrors today. The i the ten-children family, but one of which is listed among the re-| cipients. Nine-children families lies in the submarine and air war drew a blank in the tabulation. | ers In other groups the reckoning ,°" merchant shipping. was: Four-children families, 415; five-children families, 164; six- children families, 78; seven-chil- dren families, 24; eight-children that England's cravest peril still The war cannot be won, they ,Said, by bombing of England or by military action, in both of which Phases the United Kingdom has greatly improved its position this winter. The steady warfare of sub- marines and flying bombers on Britain’s far-flung merchant fleet admittedly has had frightening re- sults. Right now, the British say, matching federal funds to dollar aircraft and military assistance for dollar from the former one from the United States are not as dollar for two became effective. | important as the need for freight Under the “provisions .of the Vessels of-every ‘sizé to fill” the amended Spcial Security Act the | gaping holes in the lines of sea- federal government matches state ; borne supplies. funds up to $18 for the first child] Military observers here believe and $12 for each additional child, 'the island kingdom is relatively eligibility being confined to chil-|safer from defeat by air or in- dren 18 years of age if in school | vasion than ever before. “They ; missed their chance to invade us Need is determined by the va- ‘after the fall of France,” it is said rious District Welfare Boards aft- here. “It would have been much er staff investigation, cash grants! easier then.” being made on a county popula-| Meanwhile, the British are look- ing for food and ships to carry on jand struggling to find new meth- \ods of combatting the grisly war families receive more than $50 carried on from under and over per month. and that 428 families | the sea. receive between $18 and $19 per | month. Only 18 families receive | the minimum grant of between | pas $5 and $6 per month. The num-!| ATLANTA, Ga—Two brothers. ber of families whose grants are/A. D. Davis and S. R. Davis, op- between $30 and $31 per month lerators of a cafe, offered free jChristmas dinners to as many jneedy people as wanted them. | Although they had prepared to ifeed 2,000 people, only 800 diners jshowed up. The state is now paying $800,- 000 annually to children who are in need, half of which amount has been contributed by the federal government since January 1, 1940, at which time an amendment to the Social Security increasing available. The report reveals that 131 GIVE 80C DINNERS AWAY LEGION GROUP MEETS TONI There will be a meeting to- night at 7:30 in the La Concha hotel headquarters of the board of directors of the Key West Con- vention corporation, Secretary Willidm Reardon, announced to- | day. | The Key Progress in the sale of the auto- Willet, hurrying noth to aid mobile will be discussed, as well freeing the grounded as new suggestions for money to finance the state con- was believed early this afternoon vention of the American Legion to be nearing the scene. here next April 23-26. The Porter Dock company tug, Secretary Reardon announces under the command of Capt. C. L. the tickets to be sold for the auto- Peterson, left Key West shortly mobile have been printed by the before midnight last night when Artman Press. it was reperted here that the 24- 289-ton Manha had gone aground off the north Lake Worth Inlet, five miles north of Palm Beach. Company officials said their tug shc run about 14 hours the more than 24 v engaged in freeing iner. Repc said heavy 1 here today make the and join already the stranded CUBA ARRIVES AND DEPARTS The P. & O. s this 161 scene today developed a ble tugs had mer C morning Havana-be brought a f npa with rom Tampa. It carried 255 sac of mail for Havana and one Key West Sixteen passenge Key West aboard the 40 stopped here aboa: ni enroute to Havana ard 121 be ed it at this port Tug Willet Proceeds To Aid Of Grounded Liner West wrecking tug in luxury raising liner Manhattan near Palm Beach, ,lerv units, brought from the siege | guns, hauled across the desert to prepare the way for an impend- | ing infantry attack which is ex- |pected to take the town, hammer- ied away through last night and this morning. British soldiers, meanwhile, re-— ‘ported stories from Italian prison- jers that morale in the besieged town was “very bad”. With preparations for a grand yassault apparently nearing com- ‘pletion, the British spokesmen said Tobruk was not expected to _ hold out against attack as fierce- ly or as long as did Bardia. PLAN MOVEMENT GARIA TO AID ITALY CON- SIDERED IMMINENT (By Axsociated Press) } SOFIA, Bulgaria, Jan. 13.—| German troop movements through Bulgaria to the aid of Italy in Al- bania were considered imminent here today. Unusual activity was reported among the Nazi forces in Ru- mania, but no definite word was forthcoming. Russia, which from time to time has been reported in opposi- tion to the German troop move- ments through Bulgaria, has had nothing to say about the latest ‘developments. t $s} | not yet been able to pull her free. Spokesmen for the United States Line, owner of the vessel, said the is no immediate danger, announced here today. The major thrust of the attack }apparently was zimed at London, | which took a three and one-half hour pounding, but other cities suffered as well. The bombers, escorted by fighters, came across the channel shortly after dark. (British sources, it was learn- ed, admitted a heavy attack on London, but reported the raids in other parts of the country had been very light. The attacks, it :was thought, were intended for a full scale onslaught on_ stra- , tegic points in southern England, but fighter opposition drove off most of the bombers before they could unload their cargoes.) ARRANGING FOR BIRTHDAY BALL IN CONNECTION WITH EVENT ANNOUNCED First committee. appointments in connection with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Birthday Ball here February 1 were announced today by Chairman Julius F. Stone, Jr. Plans for the Key West cele- bration of the annual event have been nearing completion and Chairman Stone predicts the finest and largest party since the presidential parties were in- augurated. Al Millis has been selected as master of ceremonies for the in- formal affair which will be staged at the Rainbow Dining Room of La Concha hotel. The celebration will begin at 9:30 o'clock. Committee appointments low: Fi Jr. Entertainment — George Mills White. ‘ Hotel, and Floor—Miss Eliza- beth Sharpley, Tiekets—Dr. Armando Cobo. Army—Col. L. S. Pendleton. Marine Corps—Col. G. D. Hats- field. Navy—Lieut. Commander Fort Callahan and Lieutenant Suther- ling. Contests—Mr. fol- inance — Sebastian Cabrera, and Mrs. Al SAMOA CLUB Starting Today, Throughout the Season TEA DANSANT 5:00 to 6:30 P. M. Dance to the sweet music of the CARIBBEAN QUARTETTE. Herman Vernon at the Solovox PENNY COCKTAIL HOUR, 5:00 TO 6:00 P. M. ETC. ON THE HOUSE however, and her 200 passengers and 500 crew members have re- mained aboard. Mills. Congratulatory Messages—Dr. | and Mrs. A. M. Morgan. Coast Guard officers, mean-' Motion Picture — John while, had dispatched several bonell ships immediately upon learning .City—Mayor and Mrs. Willard of the accident and larger ships M. Albury. capable of helping to pull her free | _ were reported preparing to go to her assistance. iC bl The liner, formerly in trans-| a Atlantic service, “was running from New York to San Francisco when it struck what Capt. G. V. Richardson described as an un-/| charted bar. The ship did not INF he IN send an SOS signal, but flashed a Car- message to the radio marine sta- tion at Lake Worth asking imme- diate Coast Guard assistance. Lola Yvonne Samuelson. age jtwo months, infant daughter of , Mr. and Mrs. Raymond K. Samuel son of 64 Ashe street. died late Saturday night at a hospital in Miami after an iliness of three i days. | Besides ber parents she is sur- vived by one brother, Patrick , Samuelson { Funeral services wére conduct- ed this morning at 11:30 o'clock at the grave in Graceland Memorial Park Cemetery, Miami |Nazi invasion bases on the French ‘coast. London newspapers carried banner headlines with stories de- scribing the RAF attack on en- trenched German soldiers along the coast. The attacks, it was ex- plained,.revealed for the first time that Nazi troops were dig- ging trenches along the coast and apparently feared a counter-at- tack invasion of the continent by British forces. The RAF fighters swept down, over the trenches along the shore and swept them again and again with blistering machine gun fire, then moved on to allow the bombers to come through with another terrific attack. Other units of the flying forces, meanwhile, carried out extensive raids over both Germany and ‘nerfed. ‘The “ bombers fires roaring in a number of Ger- man cities and concentrated on a hammering attack which rock-_ ed Sicily in southern Italy. HOME GUARD T0 HOLD MEETING COL. HATSFIELD WILL IN- STRUCT UNIT TOMOR- ROW NIGHT Col. G. D. Hatsfield, U. 5S. Ma- rine Corps, will tell members of Key West's home guard how to handle their new duties tomorrow night at the organization's weekly meeting at the American Legion hall. The meeting starts at 8:00 o'clock. \Speaking on the subject “In- formation and Precautions” the colone! will explain to the guards- men what they should be looking for and how to convey their knowledge to the proper authori- ties. Members of the group are ex- pected to hold their weekly meet- ings after tomorrow at the Amer- iean Legion armory. RELIEF OUTLAY DOWN WASHINGTON November outlays for general relief from public funds in 114 urban areas amounted to $18,824,452, a de- crease of two percent from the previous month, according to 4 report of the Social Security Board. e Vessel Ordered Out 19, Make Necessary Repairs The cable repoir ship Western Union, under the command of Capt G. K Steadman, will leave Key West Wednesday to locate a break in the line near Punta Rassa, it was announced today. Service on the No. 4 cable which connects northern points with Key West, Cuba and the West Indian islands. has been inter- rupted and the break is believed to be about 100 miles nerth-north- west of here. Supplies and equipment were being loaded on the ship today, preparatory to its departure Wed- nesday. The line is one of three main cables connecting this erea with the north and interruption of its service requires re-routing of service through the other two. Italy during the night, it was re- started | ducted here in connection with | the mass flight to Havana. By 10:30 o'clock tomorrow it is ex- | petted that all of the planes will have landed at the upper end of the island, The landing field has been leveled off and a new di- rection indicator has been erected. Owing to the large number of sentrants, an advance detachment , will arrive some time during this afternoon, with the main body coming in tomorrow morning. Following the time-approved jcustom of handing important as- \signments to a busy man, Mayor: ident Everett Russell of the Cham- ‘ver of Commercs,to organize and. ol will pause here on their way to ‘Havana. Appreciation | Mr. Russell takes advantage of ithis opportunity to express his |appreciation of the ready assist- ance extended by every one who is in a position to co-operate in making the stop-over a brigh’ spot in the flight from Miam) Havana. Upon their arrival Ws the fliers will find a brisk fire | going under an Army pot of good old U.S.A. coffee, -provided by ‘Colonel L, L. Pendelton of Bat- itery E, Thirteenth Coast Artil- tery, with the ladies of the Key West Woman's Club dispensing the doughnuts that go with the coffee. The fliers on their way across will seldom be out of sight of the patrol furnished by ships from the Navy and Coast Guard. Com- mander Hilton announces that the patrol will consist of the Mo- jave or a substitute if she is call- ed for duty; the Pandora, the 185 and one or more Preparing The sizable job of preparing the field for the large number of ar- rivals and the management of the two-way radio which will be put in service was placed in the ‘capable hands of Chief..Com- munications Officer R. M. Gratam and the operator in charge of the station at the head of the island, C. M. Morenus. John L. Morris, manager of the Miami Chamber of Commerce, who is a flier in his own plane, was a visitor last Thursday to make final arrangements and stated that the little visit to Key West was an event that grew in ipopularity with the increasing number of entrants. Mr, Morris stated that the number of en- trants in the rece was limited only by the number thet Key West could provide landing space for and that when the proposed Boca Chica Leld was im opera- tion, this city may expect to see at least five hundred pertici- pants. MADE DIFFICULT WASHINGTON — The, Baha- mian government created some- thing of a curiosity in stamps that collectors might consider a worthy item, then made it difficult for collectors to get hold of one. LILLIAN ABELL Songstress Appears Nightly with Jerome Collins Dancing and Dinner 8 to 12 P. M, Mo Cover — Mo Minimum 5 |Willard M. Albury asked Presi- < |