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The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
Housing Officials
Arrive; Prepare
Start Of Project
TO BE HELD
LATER THIS WEEK;
CHANGES ARE TO BE
MADE

r. S. SweeleY. representative
of the United States Housing
Authority in Florida; H. D. Stu
art. architect. and Max Marx. of
Miami. were arrivals in the city
last evening and are guests at the
La CoEcha Hotel.
Seen this morning in the Of
flee of Wallace B. Kirke. director
of the Key West Housing Au-
thority, Mr.. Sweeley said that he
was awaiting tine arrival of Rus
sell Pancoast, and upon his ar
rival matters concerning the au-
thority's building project in Key
West would be taken up, prob
ably the latter part of the week.
There are a few changes to be
made in the set-up for the Key
West area, Mr.. Kirke stated, and
these would probably be attend
ed to at the meeting.
On March 20, President R0OSe-
welt approved loan contract to
be made by the U. S. Housing
Authority to the local authority
calling for an expenditure of
$650,0O0 for the white and color
ed units to be constructed in Key
West.
1t was thought the changes to
be made in the local plans was
of necessity to conforms TO the
lower amount allotted by he ma
tional authority than was origin
ally designed. Plans were first
made for units that would cost
100000. Sponsorship by the
city, in either event, would be
ten percent of the total cost.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
NYA COMPLETES
ELECTION BOOTHS
CONSTRUCT rs FOR COUNTY:
ALSO MAKE EIGHT
BALLOT BOXES

Victor Lowe, area supervisor
for the National Youth Admins
tration in Monroe County, said
this morning that the workshop
of the NYA had just completed
rs booths and eight ballot boxes
for the county, to be used in the
coming elections.
The ballot boxes, said Mr..
Lowe, are exceptionally large,
made expressly to accommodate
the excess number of the large
ballots which will be used in the
first primary on May z.
Mr.. Lowe left today for Tampa
and other points to attend meet
ings of the officials of the NYA,
but did not say when he would
return.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
CONGRESS SHOWS
DETERMINATION TO
ADJOURN in JUNE
SENATE CONSIDERING TWO
BILLS AND HOUSE GIVING
WALTER LOGAN ACT FIRST
CALL
my Associated PressD

WASHINGTON, April 10
Both sessions of Congress con-
vened this morning for consider
alton of important legislation
with a determination to carry
through work-schedules that may
allow adjournment early in
June.
The Senate had two bills on
tap-one 70 create new Federal
Judgeships, the other to regulate
and change the Social Security
administration.
In the House of Representa-
tives, consideration of the Wal
ter Logan bill was given first
call. This bill would tend to
limit the powers of various new
agencies, and has been met with
considerable opposition from the
administration forces.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
new SERIAL
BEGINS TODAY
LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK
WILL KEEP READERS
INTERESTED

A gay Leap Year story, Leap
Before You Look, by Peggy
O'More, is the new Citizen serial
which starts today on another
page.
Story concerns the trouble Toni,
the impulsive rebel heroine of
the Toland family. meets in run
ming frog farm left her by an
uncle. She has to run it sue
cesSfuly without assistance from
anybody, or it will go to a young
lawyer, Allen Bartell, who she
loves, but doesn't want to admit
it.
Toni hires an assistant, Pierre
Prudhomee, who promptly falls
in love with her.
One obstacle after another
blocks Torni's path, and failure
seems certain. In the end she
discovers Pierre's treachery, and
Aliens true role in her affairs.
With the help of Leap Year she
wins both the frog farm and the
man.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
VISITORS FROM
ILLINOIS MEET
WITH ACCIDENT
AUTO coLLIDEs WITH KEY
WESTER'S CAR AT SOUTH
ARD AND FRANCIS STREETS
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON

Two automobiles collided late
yesterday afternoon at the cor
ner of Southland and Francis
streets, one of them, a Packard
owned by Charles Baldwin, of
Urbana, Illinois, who, with his
wife, had just entered Key West
for visit.
The other car, a Plymouth,
owned by Darnell Carey, 1914
Petronia street, suffered heaviest
from the collision, being over
turned twice and landing right
side-up on the sidewalk adjacent
to the street intersection. Carey,
the sole occupant of the car, was
thought to be internally injured,
though, following examination
at the Marine Hospital last eve
ming, he was released to return
for X-rays tonight.
Traffic officer, Ray Atwell,
Was called to the scene of the
collision, and reported today that
no complaint had been made by
Carey. 1t was understood that
Baldwin's car was fully insured
and that the practically-de-
molished Plymouth would be
fully repaired. Officer Atwell
stated that Baldwin said he
didn't know Southard street was
a through street, which account
ed for the cars coming together.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
LOUIS BIERNA
DIED TODAY
SERVICES TO BE ANNOUNCED
LATER; BODY TO BE
2 BROUGHT HERE

Advices from the Pritchard
Funeral Home are to the effect
that Louis Bierna, who had been
confined in government hos
pital in Florida, died this morn
ing, and the body will be brought
to Key West tomorrow in the
funeral car of the Pritchard
Funeral Home. Announcements
of the funeral services will be
made later.
1t has been known by members
of the family in Key West that
Mr.. Bierna had been declared
worse for a few days and his
daughter, Mrs. Gladys Roberts,
in ST. Petersburg, left last week
for the hospital to be with her
father.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
DINNER TONIGHT
FOR SEN. ANDREWS
AFFAIR TO FOLLOW SPEECH
AT LA coNcHA HOTEL;
LADIES INVITED

A representative gathering OF
Key West citizens, both men and
women, are expected to be in at
tendance at a dinner tonight at
La Concha hotel to greet Senator
Charles o. Andrews and Mrs.
Andrews following his talk in La
Concha park. The dinner will
be held at $3.50 and particulars
are announced in an advertise
ment elsewhere in this issue.
Due to the short notice pro-
vided, it has been announced that
those desiring to attend the din
ner should contact the hotel
management to make reserva-
tions as early this afternoon as
possible.
The Chamber of Commerce is
taking a leading part in spon-
soring the dinner in honor of
Senator Andrews.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
POISONING CASE
TREATED TODAY
APPARENT SUICIDE ATTEMPT
FoILED BY QUICK HOS
PITAL ACTION

& Lopez Funeral Home ambulance
was called about 7:3O this morn
ing to come to 522 William
street and take a patient to the
Marine hospital for treatment for
poisoning, the poison being self
administered.
The ambulance at once went on
its mission of mercy and the suf-
ferer who gave her name as
Mrs. Eanu Dilger, was placed in
the care of Surgeon Sidney Ghol-
son who made the examination
and gave the necessary treat
ment.
Calling at the hospital some
time later The Citizen was in
formed by the surgeon that the
patient had been returned to her
home and was apparently all
right.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
Battle For Scandinavia To
Feature Sea VS.. Air Power

AP Feature Service Writer
2.-The British, on the other
hand, have got the Germans in
the open by their threat against
Germany's Swedish iron ore sup
plies.
Now that the Germans are in
the open, the British are in a
position to establish a new front
in the war by the use of their
strongest force-their fleet. Vic
tory would mean they had flank
ed the Germna west wall, and
established a new front on the
north.
Only the future can tell which
of these two strategies will pre-
vail.
have discussed the North Sea
strategy with half dozen Amer
fican experts-political and eco
nomic experts, as well as mill
tary men.
Most of these men agreed that
the Scandinavian action by the
Germans was dictated by Ger
many's need of Sweden's iron
ore, and by Germany's coming
food crisis. They believe the
Germans themselves do not look
upon Norway as the best possible
hop-of for an aerial blitzkrieg
against the Allies but chose Nor
way because they hoped they
could kill two birds with one
stone. They might Cd beat the
British to the draw, and prevent
the complete blockading of
Swedish iron ore, and l2) begin
their air blitzkrieg preparations
from Norway, and the Netherlands
if and when they won an estab-
lished position in the North.
n Stake: The North Sea
1t all SINNERS down TO a bat
Continued on Page Four)
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
N9ZiS Strive
To Establish
New Arb9SCS
OBSERVERS DECLARE
THAT ONE-THIRD OF
GERMAN FLEET IS
MUTILATED
By Associated Pressp


LONDON. April l6.-Conflict
ing claims from the Allies and
Germany featured headwaY be-
ing made in the Scandinavian in.
vasion by the Nazis today.
At this writing, it is not at all
certain that England will be sue
cessful in keeping Germany from
some sort of permanent estab-
liShment of air bases in Norway,
in that dipatches indicate pro-
gresS being made by Nazi invad-
ers in clearing away most OBJ
structions to effect such threats
against English navy bases in the
North Sea area.
Independent sources claimed
today that Britain had mutilated
at least one-third of the German
fleet in addition to sinking
nearly 30 transport and freight
ships carrying supplies and men
to Norway.
British capture of Narvik, on
the Norwegian west coast, was
discounted by the Nazis who in
sisted that they still hold the
port, while admitting concentra-
tion of British ships off the city.
On another front, south of
Narvik, the Norwegians have
successfully pushed off German
attacks on Trondheim and con-
tinued to hold all Notifications
in the area.
Prime Minister Chamberlain
again reiterated the English de-
termination to stop at all costs
the German invasion of Norway.
Realization of consequences to
be expected should Germany eff
feet control of southern Norway
territory, has spurred the British
on to push all possible avenues
of prevention.
The British war ministry re-
ported today that additional re-
serves will be called up on May
25th, including the 26-year-old
age groups. This classification
would not have been called until
June had it not been for recent
outbreak of hostilitieS in Nor
way.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
MRS. CHURCHILL
LEAVES FOR HOME

Mrs. Winston Churchill.
who was a brief visitor in
Key West for a day or two.
staying at La Concha Hotel.
left for her home in Avon
Park. Fla. yesterday after
noon.
Mrs. Churchill's husband
is a second cousin of the ia
nous War Minister of Eng
land of the same name. and
is descendant of the Vir-
ginia Churchills - related
closely to the clan in Eng
land.
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The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
VANDERBILT YACHT
ARRIVES TN PORT

Magnificent yacht Alva.
which is owned by VIM. K.
Vanderbilt. Jr.. arrived in the
harbor this morning and was
lying berthed in the Stream.
II was said at the Porter
Dock Company that the
owner and party would de-
part some time during the
week for Hayana. and the
vessel would be cleared
through the Porter Company.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
King Baseball rules the day!

King Baseball rules the day!
Opening games of the big
league are being played this aft
ernoon in eight cities of the
nation, unless inclement weather,
indicated by the national weather
bureau interferes to postpone
openings until tomorrow.
Following rigorous spring
training and preseason exhibi-
ton games, the major leaguers
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16
LATE NEWS BULLETINS
tBy Associated Press)

LONDON, Apr. 16.-England
answered the Nazi threat of
blitzkrieg tactics to come in the
war on the British Isles by call
ing attention to their own blitz-
kfieg accomplishment in sending
expeditionary forces to Norway.
The war office announced that
the expedition, believed to be
made up chiefly of Canadian SOL
dierS, was made up, transported
to the sea coast and on their
way, all in the course of one
night, AAA2 SO 3
PARIS, Apr. 16.-Premier Rey-
maud today told the French
Senate that the Allies were COM
ing into complete control of the
North Sea sector with more and
more sinkings being reported of
German ships.
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16

Key West, Florida, has the
most equable climate in the
country; with ana. gerage
range of only Ia Fahrenheit
The Key West citizen., 1940-04-16

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Evening star., 1940-05-25

stop management is not victimized
by those who want to use the present
situation for their own self interest"
The present. he said, is no time for
inside personal politics" The other
is to be on the alert to see to it
that those placed in authority "are
persons whose loyalty to the insti-
tutions of this country are unques-
toned"
Walter Dietz, vice president in
charge of the personnel division of
the American Management Asso-
citation, also addressed last nights
dinner meeting He reviewed trends
in personnel management in busi-
ness and industry during the last
three decades. At the present time,
he said, the emphasis is placed on
cooperation, coordination and
consultation between management
and employees in solving personnel
management problems. Industry,
he said, is increasingly recognizing
the fact that personnel manage
ment is one of the most important
elements in the success of business
enterprises.
About 200 persons attended last
nights meeting. Oliver c. Short of
the Department of Commerce pre-
sided, and introduced the speakers.
The program of the institute this
morning included group of round
table discussions and general
meeting, under the Craftsmanship of
Harry B. Mitchell, president of the
United States Civil Service Commits
sion.
The subjects of the round-table
discussions, with their respective
leaders we're as follows: Classifi-
cation, Stanley T. Orear, Railroad
Retirement Board; employees train
ing, H. L. Buckardt, Soil Conserva-
ton Service; employe relations, Ed
ward Yardley, State Department:
selection and placement, S. S. Board,
Agriculture Department; service rat
ipgs, A. H. Aronson, Social Security
Board; employe health and safety,
R. R. Zimmerman, Council of Per-
SOnnel Administration,
Evening star., 1940-05-25
Il American Republics
Protest 10 belIiqerents

The 81 American republics yester-
day protested, as a violation of their
inherent right" to have American
waters kept free OF warlike acts, an
incident involving the scuttling of
the German merchant ship Hanno-
yer when it was intercepted by a
British war vessel near the Domin-
ican Republic on March 9. ,
Identical notes were sent to
King George vi Of Great Britain
and Chancellor Hitler of Germany
expressing roget at "the failure of
the belligerent governments" to OBJ
serve the right asserted in the dec
laration of Panama last October.
The declaration set up wide neu-
trail zone around the Americas in
which all belligerents were asked to
abstain from any hostile acts.
The note was transmitted by the
President of Panama on behalf of
all the American republics, and the
case was referred to the Inter-
American Neutrality Committee at
Rio de Janeiro for further study.
Evening star., 1940-05-25

Constantine Brown. far given invalu-
able services to the German Army
by forcing the French to keep crack
troops along the Italian French
frontier
The French high command has
put second rate troops on the West
ern Front 1t relied so heavily on
the Maginot Line of Notifications
that it did not consider it necessary
to place at the front the best in
fantry and the artillery provided
with the latest guns. Behind the
powerful chain of Notifications more
than 200 miles long were soldiers not
so well trained as those in the Alps
and along the southern coast of
France.
In the general reserve around
Paris were crack troops intended
originally to form the corps intended
to be thrown into Germany after
the Germans had broken their Often
sive power against the Maginot
Notifications.
These troops are now being used
by Gen. Weygand in his attempt to
free the five armies which are
threatened with annihilation IL the
German plan to surround them from
the south and the north is sue
cessfh
But, after having given this serv-
ice to his ally. II Duce is not willing
to chance anything He is awaiting
word from the German headquar-
ters that the Allied Armies in
Northern France have been de-
stroyed before he decides to throw
his troops into the war
/ Daily reports from Rome indicate
that the Italian Army, Navy and
Air Force are ready for action.
( Count Galeazzo Ciano has left
his post as Mussolini's No. dip
lomat and has gone to Albania on
an inspection tour" According to
Rome reports, II Duces son-in-law,
who has been designated tempo
rarlly as Mussolini'S successor, is in
Albania ready to place himself at
the head of the italian Air Force
when orders come from Rome that
Italy has decided to strike. In a
country like Italy. it is necessary
that the future leader be a national
hero. The laurels Ciano won in the
Ethiopian campaign as flyer are
not sufficient; his actions there have
almost been forgotten. The italian
Foreign Secretary needs new vic
tories to consolidate his political
position and these victories he ex-
poets to obtain at the head Of the
Italian Air Force when Mussolini
orders it to enter the fighting.
Evening star., 1940-05-25
Service Will Honor
and Dewey

Annual memorial services for Pres
ident Wilson and Admiral George
Dewey will be held tomorrow by
the men who fought at the Battle
of Manila Bay on May l. 1888.
The Capt. Joseph B. Coghlan
Chapter No. of the Dewey Con-
gressional Medal Mems Association,
aided by numerous other patriotic
organizations. will meet at the Wash
ington Cathedral at noon.
Max M. Goldman, commander of
the chapter, said survivors of the
battle from many cities will partici-
pate in the annual services. Army
and Navy high officials will also par
ticipate.
Evening star., 1940-05-25
Deaths Reported

Henry Clemens. SO. st. Elizabeth's Hospital.
Mary L. King. 81. 1855 Todd pl. ne
Denis Ryan. 78, United States Soldierr
Home Hospital
Mary J. Reynolds rs. Providence Hospital.
anne SheckSford, "A. Emergency hospital,
Wllllam Whftmen. 81, st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital.
John F. Koine. "a. Emergency Hospital.
Hospital
widney Candy, 80. United States Soldiers
Home Hospital
Edward F. Hannah. 4s. 1889 Mintwood
pl. NV.
Maude T. Moore. 45, GEORGETOWN Uni
versity Hospital
Aice es y Rpenn Denson; AZ city Post : Once
Gertrude Gates. 90 1920 Q st. NV.
Thomas z; Lee. 81. Freednen's Hospital.
Charles Plummer. 30. 14O5 I st. NV.
Lawrence Hite. 80, Gallinger HOSPITAL
Olden Knox. 80. Garfield Memorial Hos.
Mary L. Smith. %. Freedmen's Hospital.
Constance Deville. 1. 0allinger Hospital.
Infant Connie Thompson, Children's Hos
pttal.
Evening star., 1940-05-25
Priority Is Promised
Defense Agencies
For Civil Service
Commissioner FIemminq
Addresses Personnel
Administration Session

Announcing that the Civil Service
Commission, in the present emer-
gency, will give priority to the de-
mands and needs of the national
defense agencies, Arthur 8. Flem-
ing, civil service commissioner, in
addressing the first annual insti-
tute of the Society for Personnel
Administration at the Raleigh Ho-
tel last night, urged personnel Off
GERS in Federal agencies to con-
tribute as much as they can to
carrying out the Presidents emer-
gency national defense program.
The techniques of administration
as they have been developed in the
past, he warned, now face the most
critical test in their history. IF the
administrative machinery of the
Government can't handle the task
and it proves unequal to the emer-
gency it will be junked," he said.
"If it can handle the job it will
rest upon an impregnable position.
1t is vitality important for us to
demonstrate that in an emergency
such as the present, Government
can continue to function effec-
lively"
Big Personnel Job.
The President has already made
clear the overall objective of the
Government in the present emer-
gency. Commissioner Fleming
pointed out. That objective is a
rapid expansion in our national de-
fense forces to meet the new situa-
ton faced by the United States as
result of recent developments
in the European war. This expan-
sion will require a large increase In
the civilian personnel of the Army
and Navy. with an increase also In
several other Government agencies.
Recruiting this personnel, he said,
will be big job.
A successful personnel officer,
Commissioner Flemming said, must
meet four requirements:
First, he must be crusader, In
sisting in and out of season that
management recognize that civil
ian personnel is one of its major
problems and responsibilities.
Second, he must be adaptable
and be the best critic of his own
procedures. The American people.
he said, wants results and per-
sonnel officers must see to it that
these results are obtained.
Third, personnel officer must
believe that he has a real con-
tribution to make to the whole field
of administration.
Must Render Maximum Service.
Fourth to demonstrate that ad-
ministrative machinery is equal to
the task now facing it, personnel
officer must believe that his ulti-
mate goal is not to obtain the
maximum amount of power and
operating responsibility, but to be
in a position where he can render
the maximum amount of service to
the persons who have the oper-
ating responsibility.
Government personnel officers, In
the present emergency, have two
other responsibilities, Commissioner
Flemming added. One Is to see that
Evening star., 1940-05-25

leTcIlCc ycSIcI-
day that the President was denying
any such proposal had been made
to Col. Knox or that the President
did not consider such a proposal a
plan for coalition government, II
the offer was made.
It has become abundantly plain,
whether the President did or did not
mention to Col. Knox the idea OF
entering the cabinet, that there is
going to be no coalition government.
Former Gov. ALT M. Landon of Kan
sas, Republican standard bearer in
1896, called the turn when he issued
a statement here a couple of days
ago, saying that the only way a Re-
publican could accept post IN the
Presidents cabinet or other impor-
tant administration Office. was for
the President to declare he would
not run for third term.
The President himself, however,
has declared there is no intention
and never has been any intention Of
seeking a coalition Government. That
seems to wind it up. One thing,
however, is true Many Republicans
became convinced that the President
and the New Deal administration
generally was intent on persuading
leading Republicans to accept cabi-
net or other posts in the administra-
ton. They believed that if this
were done, the country would be
told that the Republicans them
selves recognized a national defense
emergency" required the President
to run for a third term and to be
elected. So the Republican leaders
in Congress-and Mr.. Landon-
issued statements declaring them
selves strongly opposed to any such
coalition Government. And when
they did a coalition was dead.
There has been no explanation
yet OF the purpose for which Mr.
Landon was invited to come all the
way from Topeka to Washington to
have a luncheon conference with
the President. From all that can
be learned, Mr.. Landon is at much
at a loss about this matter as is
the public. The withdrawal of the
invitation and its subsequent re-
newal by the President has not
tended to clear up the mystery.
Unselfish Service Issue.
Mr.. Landon issuec a statement
here, after he had been a luncheon
guest of the President at the White
House, in which he urged the Presi-
dent to declare he would not run for
third term, in the interest of ma
tional unity. Mr. Landon said that
if the President took himself out of
the presidential race. then Republi-
cans could take any Office the Presi-
dent wished without appearing to
give support to third term for Mr..
Roosevelt. Through Stephen T.
Early. one of his secretaries, the
President made it clear he would not
issue statement declaring himself
out of the race for another term
not at this time, at least. The Early
statement said the President was too
busy with other things to prepare
political statements 1t would have
taken the President very little time
he could have compressed his state
ment into three or four words, de-
pending upon whether he intends to
be candidate or declines to be. He
might have said: II will rum" or he
might have said Il viii not run"
Mr.. Landon's statement raised the
issue of unselfish service to the
country. The President can scarcely
accuse the Republicans of selfishness,
If at the same time he insists upon