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The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19
Clio. CONSIDERS
PEACE FOR LABOR
CONVENTION HEARS RESoLU-
TON PRESENTED FA-
vORINC MOVE

ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 19.-
A special committee presented a
resolution to the CIO convention
being held here today, which
called for labor peace, but under
specified terms.
Chief consideration of the
resolution was that a new union
of all existing unions, CIO,
AFofL and the Railroad Brother
hood, would be created.
Leaders of the CIO declared to-
day that their president John 1.
Lewis should not be blamed as
the sole person agitating TO pre-
vent labor peace from coming
into being. The declarations
were thought to be the forerun-
ner of definite move to place
Lewis again at the head of the
organization.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19

and which was recently charter
ed by Congress.
Already more than 200 men
nave answered this call and
have built the Key West Guard
into a highly efficient semi-mili-
tary organization capable of cop
ing with any emergency which
may arise in this city. such
duties now being performed by
the Florida National Guard
which will be called into active
army service within a few
months.
These men who comprise the
Key West Guard are finding that
there's plenty of fun in soldier
ing outside of the serious nature
of the project. They like the
companionship of their fellow
soldiers and find something new
in their Tuesday night meetings
which sometimes bring on a good
stiffness in the legs brought on
by regular drills which makes the
fellows realize how good it is to
stretch.
Each week officers of the Key
West Guard attempt to bring out
to the members a different phase
OF the functions of the home
guard.
Tonight, Col. H. D. Hatfield.
US Marines. will begin a series
of addresses to occupy the first
part of the meeting His talk this
evening IS entitled School of the
Soldier and School of the Squad ;.
There is definite need in the
Key West Guard for every man
of the community who is not at
the present time taking part in
other military activity. Do your
partl Attend tonight's meeting
at the Legion Home.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19
.KWHACONTRACTOR.
ARRIVES In CITY.
GOING OVER INITIAL PRE-
PARATIoNS FOR WHITE
PROJECT

Paul A. Smith, head of the
Paul Smith Construction Com
pany, Miami, arrived in the city
this morning, according to Wal
lace B. Kirke, director of the
Key West Housing Authority.
Mr.. Smiths company was the
successful bidder on, the two
housing projects for this city.
He came here today to go over
initial preparations before actual
construction starts on the Joseph
Y. Porter Place project on Trum-
bo Island.
Condemnation proceedings on
the Fort Village project, which
will consume the next month or
two, are in process of being in
Stituted by the authority's at
torney, Aquilino Lopez, Jr., and
it will not be possible to consider
construction plans on this prof.
ect until later, it was stated.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19

collar like yours and nine s -
style Coat plests make fhe an
swing free. The sofE-coliare6 wuol
shirt and couventiozzl blz1k Ia
are staying.
Those blsnkety-bfsnk 1~ztc1@
that laced Up fignf zrouzo tae
knees and the en6less roLl-pzr<e=
are out One rezSnn. few EsEz-
facturers can make then A.
other, there's little military cgz-
mon sense In EN- Regular -Dz-
sers without CUTS are - Ca
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19
COMMITTEE PLANS
RED CROSS BALL
TO BE HELD NEXT SATUR-
DAY NIGHT: BENE-
FITS ROLL CALL

Local Roll Call committee of
the Red Cross chapter. Mrs. R. T.
Menner. chairman announced
plans to hold a Benefit Ball to be
staged at the 2Stork Club next
Saturday night
Responding to initial call for
reservations. an imposing list of
society leaders in Key West have
Signified their intentions of at
tending the affair, destined. as
the committee points out, to be
Continued on Page Faurl
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19
AIDS FRIEND IN SUICIDE

DENVER - James 4 So
4l-year-Old railroad sectlon haao.
admitted that he ob5EnnEly
helped" his friend. Merriu 10
lin, "A, commit suicide When
NOlin expressed the deslre 70
end It all by jumping 0ut C .
hotel window. Shears sad. !
just grabbed him by the shoul1er
and the seat Of the pants and
helped him" NoIin Was killed r.
the four-floor fan
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19
HE CHASES FIRES
JUST LIKE MAYOR
(By Associated Prexs)

WY A-EG88t
RATION. N. NJ. Nov. 49,
Assistant Fire Chief Louis
Dclan not only fights fires.
he tracks 'em down.
Driving his car toward the
fire station. he saw a cloud
of smoke on a distant street.
He investigated and discov-
cred a truck blazing near a
garage and other buildings.
Running TO a telephone. he
summoned his fire laddies
before any serious damage
occurred.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19
0ODays!

City laws now require all resi-
dents living on streets on which
sewer Iaterals have been installed
to connect up their house lines
with the system.
Ninety days from date of pub
ication-September q, 1940-is
the time limit.
FIFTY-SEvEN DAYS HAVE
ELAPSEDI
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19
BONES OF MAMMOTH
UNEARTHED

OMAHA, Neb. = The skeleton
of a mammoth. estimated to have
been at least twelve feet tall and
probably 5000 years old, has
been excavated from the fine
sands of a lime and cement COM
pany quarry near Louisville. Neb.
The size of the beast, ancestor of
the modern elephant, is revealed
by the toe bones which are
about six inches long and three
inches wide and thick.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19
Seeks
New Balkan
Combination
Conferences With Bull
garia And Hungary
Aimed At British Greek
Supremacy
CBy Associated Press)

LONDON. Nov. 19.-There was
at least momsntarY lulI in air
fighting todaY-both over Great
Britain and over the European
continent. Warning nations ap-
pear TO be pausing to await out
come of various diplomatic con-
ferences being held by axis pow
ers.
Germany and Italy continued
to hammer at British control of
the middle-eaSt and Mediter-
ranean sectors of Europe-but
the action is through diplomatic
channels. Parleys are being held,
and more scheduled, in an effort
to tighten the axis grip on the
Balkans and to foster a gigantic
maneuver to snap the British EN-
pire'S lifeline
Prelude to the present plotting
was the conference announced
yesterday between Hitler, Count
Ciano and representatives from
Spain. Today, it was revealed
that Hitler would next shift his
attentions more directly on the
Balkans with a conference sched-
uled with Bulgarian officials,
headed by King Boris himself
1t is believed here that Hitler
is seeking permission to transport
troops and equipment through
Bulgaria to aid the Italians in
their so-far futile fight against
Greece.
If that Interpretation is true,
observers pointed out that such a
maneuver would bring the NaziS
right up to the border of Turkey.
How the Turks will feel about
that action is anybody'S guess
though it has been felt by the
British that they would not un-
der any circumstances give up
control of the vital Dardenelles.
Still more conferences between
axiS-power officials have been
announced, to be held in Vienna.
Then, as many believe, a renew
ed attack on the British, apart
from the home fronts, will get
under way.
No planes came across from
France or Germany today from
dawn until mid-afternoon-giv-
ing the British populace a much
needed breathing spell and a
chance to clear away wreckage
of past bombings.
Announcement was made this
morning that another concentrat-
ed Nazi raid occurred at Liver
pool last night. German sources
claimed that industrial plants
were hit in large numbers. Brit
ish officials, on the other hand,
assert that bombs fell only in
residential sections of the city.
Royal Air Force officials an
nounced today that new methods
of combating air attacks were
being developed They predicted
that even as most daytime at
tacks have been stifled of late
the night raids will become in
creasingly ineffective as time
passes.
Nazis claimed that two sub
marines accounted for $4,000 tons
of British shipping yesterday and
sea raider action had brought
more losses, total not disclosed.
England refuses to confirm or
deny the latest shipping losses,
although the report on ships sunk
during the week ending Novem-
Der 10th was given as 10 vessels
of $4,000 total tonnage.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19
CHAMPION FATHER

CONWAY, S. CD J. Rob
erts, tobacco planter, is father
again-for the Both time. He has
been married twice. Sixteen
children were by his first wife
Twenty-four of the children are
living.
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19
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CRIEVED IF AXIS OVERPOWERS GREECE


WASHINGTON, Nov 19-Wil Greece fall % Axis?
Lincoln MacVeagh United envoy extraordinary and
minister plenpotenay to the land of Homer and Socrates
minister without a
those questions in the affirmative
The Key West citizen., 1940-11-19

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Evening star., 1940-01-11
Club Is Urged TO Aid
Incubator Fund

Save a baby!" is the slogan of
DR.. Edward M. Pickford, staff men,
ber of Providence Hospital, who
talked before members of the Amer
lean Business Club yesterday at their
luncheon in the Hay-Adams House
in the interest of Incubator Fund,
Inc, local humanitarian organiza-
ton that intends to supply WASH
ington hospitals with a means to
lower the mortality rate among pre-
maturely born infants.
In all Washington hospitals, at
the present moment, according to
the speaker, there are only 13 in
cubators-and these are in constant
use. Not long ago, the Variety Club
of Washington provided Sibley Hos
pital with a complete incubator
ward. Recently the staff physicians
at Providence Hospital subscribed
s425 to purchase an incubator, which
now is in operation.
With the help of the American
Business Club, Providence Hospital
along with all other hospitals in the
city, will soon have incubators
enough to reduce premature infant
mortality from its prevalent rate OF
55 per cent down to % per cent OF
thereaboutS.
Even the bachelors will be asked
to get behind this movement" DR.
Pickford said.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

Sisters 10 Fight Case
Giving Dodge Widow
$1,25o,ooo
Mrs. Sloane, Mrs. Seyburn
PIon Appeals From
Detroit Verdict
BY the Associated Press,

by the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Jan. 1.-THE fight
over the $11 100000 estate Of Daniel
Dodge, with the ink hardly dry on
one courts verdict, headed toward
another tribunal today and a new
chapter in the family dispute over
its automobile fortune.
Counsel for two of Daniels sisters
Mrs. Isabel Sloane and Mrs. Wini-
fred Seyburn-prepared to appeal
to Circuit Court the verdict Of Pro-
bate Judge Thomas c. Muhphy
under which Daniels widow, Annie
Laurine, receives $1,250,000.
Charles Wright, jr., attorney for
the two sisters, announced he would
appeal within 20 days. Renville
Wheat, attorney for a third sister,
Mrs. Frances Johnson, was unde-
cided whether to appeal.
A new suit thus will involve
mother, daughter-in-law, and two
daughters in the continuing series
of court fights over the $4,000, 900
left by the late John F. Dodge,
pioneer motorcar manufacturer.
A diSinherited son, John Duval
Dodge, twice has gone to court to
break his fathers will. On the first
occasion he received a $1,60O,0OO
settlement. A second suit is pend
ing.
In his verdict yesterday Judge
Murphy, while making no mention
of sums for each beneficiary, ruled
that the 100000 belonged to Mr..
Dodge's estate and should be dis
tributed in accordance with his will.
The verdict, in effect, gives Annie
Laurine Dodge, 81, whose former
switchboard job paid her $18 a
week, the sum of s1.250,000 and
Daniels mother, Mrs. Mathilda R.
Wilson, approximately $500, ,000
The State and Federal governments
receive $6,00O,000 in taxes.
The $11 100000 was accumulated
income from Daniels share in the
$40, 100000 trust fund set up by his
father. He died when he was 81
four years before he was to have
received the money.
In view of this, the three sisters
had contended that the income
should be divided among them in
! stead of being considered Daniels
/ estate.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Falling Body Hits
FIoorwoIker; z Die
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. ia woman
who plunged from a seventh -flool
railing in the Marshall Field De-
partment Store yesterday not only
killed herself, but also fatally in
jured a floor walker.
The dead were Mrs. Mary Mar
garet Robbins, q, wife of DR.. r. H
Robbins, Waukegan, ILL.,, physician
and Herman Kohlman, so.
Mrs. Robbins body landed partly
on display show case and partly
on Mr.. Kohlman.
Mrs. Robbins father, Howard S.
Cook, said she had suffered a nerv-
GUS breakdown after the birth of
her baby month ago.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Mrs. Randall, Wife
OF Minister, Dies

Mrs. Sara C. Randall, wife OF the
Rev. o. G. Randall, former pastor
of the Potomac Heights Community
Church, died yesterday after a long
illness at the home of a son in
Lansdowne, Pa. The Randalls had
moved to Pennsylvania last October
Mrs. Randall, a native of Yardley,
Pa, is survived by her husband and
two sons, Charles M. of Lansdowne
and Harlan Randall of Washington.
The latter is music director at the
University of Maryland. -Four
grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services will be held at
the Potomac Heights Community
Church, 5000 Cathedral avenue
NV. tomorrow at 2 pm. The Rev
L. Barrett Rice, former pastor, and
the Rev. Albert E. Gingrich, pastor
of the church, will take part in the
services.
Burial will be in Washington Me-
mortal Park.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Dobie Is Nominated
For Appeals Judgeship

President Roosevelt today sent to
the Senate the nomination of Ar
instead M. Dobie to be judge OF the
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals for the fourth judicial circuit,
comprising Maryland and parts OF
West Virginia, Virginia, North and
South Carolina. Judge Dobie, now
a District Court judge, formerly was
dean of the law school of the Uni
versity of Virginia.
The President sent four other
nominations for the judiciary: AL
fred D. Barksdale of Virginia, to be
district judge for the western dis
trict of Virginia; John c. Mahoney
of Rhode Island, to be judge OF the
Circuit Court of Appeals for the first
circuit; William J. Barker of Flor
Ida, to be district judge for the
southern district of Florida, and
John Patrick Hartigan of Rhode Is
land, to be district judge for the
district of Rhode Island.
The President also nominated
George A. Malcolm of Michigan as
attorney general of Puerto Rico.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Needing Chi|dren's S Plea,
Parents Return Home

BY the Associated Press.
OMAHA, Nebr, Jan. 11-Heeding
their lonely children's plea. Mr.. and
Mrs. William Wells returned home
today
The father explained he had been
searching for his wife, but came
home when he saw the youngsters
published appeal: Dear mother,
wherever you are, please come
home"
Mrs. Wells said she stayed late
with friend last Friday. then
feared to return because she thought
her husband would be angry
Harold, II; Doris, IA. and Billy.
II, spurned offers of aid and stayed
alone and awaited their parents.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Snow Due 10 Turn
To Rain Tonight;
Warmer Tomorrow
Lowest Temperature
Forecast Is 30;
2o Low Lost Night

Washington was enjoying warmer
weather today, with temperatures
that rose out of the 2Os and the
prospect of nothing worse than
Eight snow or rain"
The Weather Bureau forecast that
light snow this afternoon would
turn to rain tonight-and that the
fall would continue tomorrow. The
lowest temperature foreseen for to-
night was 30 degrees and tomor-
row will be warmer.
The low temperature reading last
night was % at am. This came
on the heels of a week of biting
cold, which had seen the tempera-
ture drop to II degrees early yes
terday-the coldest in four years.
But the Weather Bureau could
offer no assurance that the low
pressure area which was bringing the
measure of relief would be with the
city long. Friday night and Satur-
day will be cooler-just how much,
the forecaster could not say.
The milder weather raised hopes
that ice which was cluttering up
the Potomac River and Chesapeake
Bay would be broken. Ten ice break
ers were smashing their way through
the crust along the Maryland and
Virginia coastline in an effort to
open channels. The Pan-American
Clippers, which usually land at Bal
timore, have been ordered to put
in at points to the south in order
to dodge floating ice in the harbor.
Policeman Injured.
Unusual accidents attributable to
the weather injured several Wash
ingtonians last night and early to-
day, one a fifth precinct policeman.
Policeman Everett Will was ar
resting a colored man, suspected Of
stealing an automobile, at Seven
teenth street and Barney Circle
Sc, when he slipped on the ice,
striking his right hand against the
fender of the stolen car. Doctors
at Providence Hospital said Mr..
Wills hand probably was fractured.
An unidentified boy tossed a
SNOWFALL through the window OF a
streetcar near Second and G streets
NV. and the flying glass slightly
injured passenger, c. F. Westover,
81, of 3412 Tenth street NE. He
was treated at Sibley Hospital for
face scratches.
Mrs. Edith Baturin, %, of 94l
Randolph street NV. slipped and
fell while crossing at Fifteenth and
F streets NV, injuring her side.
She was treated by a private ply
Sician.
Few Traffic Accidents.
Traffic accidents were few despite
slippery streets, with only two per-
sons admitted to hospitals with in
| juries.
William Penner, 70, of 1048 Jeffer-
son street NV, was treated at
Emergency Hospital for fractured
| leg and head and internal injuries
after he was struck by an automo-
bile at Twenty-fift and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV.
Lloyd H. Black, 80, of 2504 Bla-
densburg road NE, who, police said,
walked into the side of a car in the
1900 block of Bladensburg road, was
taken to Sibley Hospital with a
compound leg fracture and later
transferred to Walter Reed Hos
pital.
Struck by a taxicab near Fifth
and E streets NV, Burton w. Day,
SIS, of Ais G street NV, was treated
at Emergency for minor cuts and
bruises and allowed to return home
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Jonas Lie, 50, Painter,
Roosevelt Friend, Dies

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-Jonas Lie,
SO, one of the worlds leading marine
and landscape painters and a past
president of the National Academy,
died last night from pneumonia.
The Norwegian-born artist, close
friend of President Roosevelt,
achieved fame. while working as a
designer in a cotton factory and
studying art at night.
His paintings are hung in mu-
seums throughout the world, includ-
ing the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art, the Corcoran Gallery in Wash
ington and museums in Pittsburgh,
Chicago, Rochester, Boston, Sa
vannah, Ga. and Baltimore.
Mr.. Lie, who formerly lived in
Plainf1eld, N. j., is survived by
daughter.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Mine Explosion
Continued From First Page.)
knew something was wrong "back
in when big cloud Of dust swept
over him.
300 Stand by to Aid.

knew something was wrong back
in when big cloud Of dust swept
over him.
800 Stand by to Aid.
While rescue workers dug below,
300 men stood by above ground to
help when needed. Some 1000 to
1000 persons stood outside all night
in a roped area 300 feet from the
mine. warming themselves at bon
fires while awaiting word from the
bottom of the shaft. More than
100 wives and relatives of the
trapped men gathered in another
roped inclosure about IS feet from
the tipple.
1t showed during the night and
then turned to sleet, covering the
dry Fork Valley and the hillsides
with ice The weather added to the
misery of the scene.
Most of the members of the
miners families waited stoically for
news from the tipple. Some even
joined in handing out coffee and
sandwiches to rescue crews.
One of those who helped was
Mrs. Floyd Combe, a young bride
whose husband was among the miss
ing. Toward morning she could carry
on no longer. She started home,
sobbing, and suddenly collapsed in
the snow. Friends helped her home.
Fifteen-year-old Agnes Monaghan
stood vigil all night to spare her
mother, Agnes brother, PaPt Mona
CHAN, %, was caught below.
Reassures Mother.
Il kept giving alibis to my mother
so she would not worry the girl
said, and even after the mother
had to know. Agnes insisted that
she stand watch near the shaft
mouth.
The girls father is dead.
One of the ironies of the blast was
the report of Opie Casteel, analyst
for the mine. Just Is minutes be-
fore the blast he had visited the af-
fected area and found the air there
good"
L.. C. Collins, 48, member of the
first rescue team to enter the mine
after the explosion, told the story
of the crews work.
I'VE went down the shaft" he
said. I'VE went to the second over
shaft where it was blown out.
I'VE built a brattice. We moved
rock, and there was plenty Of it IN
that entry.
Find Two Victims.
I'm the same entry, close to a
quarter of a mile from the shaft. we
found two men. Both were fiat on
their backs, side by side. They were
against slate fall"
At least two of the trapped men
have known tragedy within the last
year J. H. Mullens and Jasper
White each lost a daughter last
October II when a school bus went
over a bank at nearby War and
killed seven persons Students from
BARLEY attend high school at War
The blast, possibly West Virginia S
worst mine disaster in more than a
decade, is the first to occur at the
BARLEY No. /, which has been
operating since early 1929 in one of
the busiest and richest coal sections
of the State. The mine normally
employs $50 and is located on a hill
above Dry Fork River, 140 miles
south of Charleston.
Six ambulances were standing by,
with IN o{Iars voi1ob1 of Wo1ch
20 miles away. Oxygen equipment
also was on hand, manned by crews
ready to help any who were brought
out alive.
The only telephone in this isolated
village of 1000 persons is connected
with the mine company's office and
it was two hours before news reached
WEIGH yesterday that something
had happened" at the mine.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Joseph W. Paige Dies
In New London, Conn.

Joseph w. Paige, A, a native OF
Washington and former naval ofneer
died of heart disease Tuesday night
in New London, Conn.,, and will be
buried today in Arlington National
Cemetery, according to the Asso-
ciated Press.
He was a supervising constructor
IN the Electric Boat Co.'s Groton
shipyards at the time of his death,
having resigned last March as q
lieutenant commander in the Navy's
construction corps. His survivors are
his widow, three children and his
father.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Mother of Gene Buck
Dies in Detroit
Py the AssorjatedP A Press

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT Jan. 11.-Mrs. Kathe-
rine Buck, mother of Gene Buck OF
the theatrical world, died today at
Providence Hospital
| She had been confined to the hos
pital since Christmas, when she fell
at her home and suffered a frac-
tured hip. She was rs years old.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Actress Due to Wed Toduy

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. II R.-
Friends of Lya Lys, Viennese motion
picture actress, said she would be
married at Las Vegas, New, today to
John Gunnerson. 80, thrice-married
Chicago manufacturer.
Mr.. Gunnerson's second wife was
Anna @. Nillson, star Of the silent
screen
Evening star., 1940-01-11
U.S.. Gunboot Is RefIouted

COLON, Panama, Jan. II R.-
The United States gunboat Charles
ton was refloated last night by two
tugs after she had been grounded,
apparently by unusually strong cur
rents. Naval authorities said the
gunboat was undamaged.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Nozi Ship Believed Sunk
After Hitting Iceberg

Py the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 1.-THE
German steamer Bahia Blanca, $500
tons, was wrecked and presumably
sunk after striking an iceberg off
the coast of Iceland last night,
marine authorities said today.
The crew of 62 was reported
rescued by the Iceland trawler
Hafstein despite heavy seas. .