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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-07
SUGGEST CONCESSIONS
FINLAND SH ULDI
MAKE; MOSCOW IS
SUES ULTIMATUM
OBy Associated Press)

(By Associated PreSS)
LONDON. Mar. Fear of
consequences should Russia be
successful in the aggressive war
against Finland has prompted
Sweden TO press for settlement
of that war. representing other
Scandinavian countries. accord
ing TO information received here
today.
Dispatches relate of a new
formula advanced by Swedish
officials which allegedly have
been forwarded to Finn head
quarters and to Moscow. While
not much is known of the terms,
it is understood that the Swedes
are suggesting that Finland sur
render the Karelian isthmus on
which most of the heavy fighting
has occurred in recent weeks,
and give Russia permission to
construct a naval base in the
Gulf of Finland. Other conces-
sions in territory adjacent to
Lake Ladoga are understood to
be a part of the formula.
Finnish officials have ever
made it known that they were
agreeable to a peace of honor to
them, however it is not expected
that the Swedish gesture will re-
suit in favorable response from
Moscow in the light of develop
ments coming up since yester-
day.
Russian ultimatum has again
been sent to HelsinEi calling on
the Firms to make drastic con-
cessions in order that the war
may cease. Deadline for COM
pliance with the ultimatum is
tomorrow night at midnight. No
report came from the Finnish
capital as to what would be done
about the demands.
In the meantime the war goes
on apace. Drives continue to be
repulsed in the Viborg area with
heavy casualties again noted on
the Russian side. The tide
changed somewhat in the Lake
Ladoga area with the Firms adj
hitting that some territory has
been lost in the northwest Sec
ton of that sector.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-07
Permits Show Two New
Residences Being Built

Building is. on the increase in
Key West with considerable per-
NIT listing being noted at the
office of Building Inspector Harry
Baker.
Two new residences were
noted on the file which were re-
corded since the first of this
nionth-one on Vernon avenue,
being built for Esther Andrews
Chambers by contractor Hamil-
ton Knowles, the other, a two
story residence at the corner of
Vernon and South, being built
for James d. Roberts, Jr.
Permits listed for the month
to date are as follows:
New structure, two story
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-07
CONDOR PICKS UP
SIS. POST LETTERS

Yacht Condor. one of the
entries in the ST. Petersburg
Havana yacht race which be-
gins the latter part of this
week. was in port for a brief
time yesterday. coming from
Miami enroute 10 ST. Peters
burg for the start of the race.
While here members of the
crew dropped off fourteen
letters found a short way
north of Key West IN a bottle
dropped from the United
Fruit CompanY's SIS. La Per-
Ia.
Postmarks on the letters.
two of which were addressed
TO relatives in London. Eng
land. were March 4. This
enabled comparatively quick
posting Of letters found in
this manner.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-07
CITY COUNCIL
MEETS TONIGHT

Members of the City Council
will assemble for the first meet
ing of the current month tonight
in Council chambers at the city
hall, the meeting to start prompt
ly at 1880 o'clock with Clerk
Archie Roberts reading minutes
of the last regular meeting as the
first order of business.
No special business is on tap
outside of a few resolutions and
communications, together with
first-of-the-month reports, ac-
cording to Clerk Roberts.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-07
DIES STUDIES
ILLEGAL ENTRIES
ARRIVES IN MIAMI BEACH
FOR COMMITTEE
WORK
<By Associated Press)

MIAMI BEACH, Mar. Mar
tin Dies, Texas congressman, was
here today carrying on investiga-
tons for his un-American Activi-
ties Committee.
Dies was reported to be inves-
tigating the illegal entry at this
port of aliens and foreign agents
and other matters coming under
the jurisdiction of his committee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-07
NO coIN-HoTEL BURNS

BASKING RIDGE, N. j.
When the Broad Acres Hotel
here caught fire, the owner and
his staff rushed to the coin tele-
phone to summon the fire depart
ment. Because nobody had a
nickel, the hotel burned down.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-07
FINNISH DRIVE
NEARING GOAL
LOCAL FUND TO BE COM
PLETED ON MARCH

Contributions continue to come
in to the Help Finland Drive
headquarters in L. p. Artman's
office, the total amount now on
hand being $4,000.
The local fund will be sent to
state headquarters in Jackson
vile on March Is. and it is hoped
that 500 or more may be sent.
Listed herewith are the latest
r~~-%~;L,,@~~~-.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-07
Braxton's Flower Mart

will be closed part of the day
Friday to assist in decorations
for "A NIGHT IN HAVANA" to
take place tomorrow night at
HABANA-MADHID CLUB.
Leo BTaxten Warren.
sseesseesee6eeeaaseeesee
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-07

Key West, Florida, has the
most equable climate In the
country; with an average
range of only IL Fahrenheit
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
Dutch Deny British
Soldiers In Indies

report, the foreign office awaited
direct word from it's w consular
representatives.
The report was published by the
large Tokyo newspaper Nichi Nichi
in a dispatch from Surabaya, Java,
which said a British officer had
disclosed accidentally that he was
a member Of a force sent from Sing
apore to East Java.
The status of the Dutch East In.
dies, rich in rubber, coffee and tin
and strategically located between
the Indian and Pacific oceans, has
been a matter Of special concern
to Japan ever since Germany occu'
pied The Netherlands.
On May II, the day after the in
vasion of Holland, an Allied force
landed in the Dutch West Indies
"to prevent possible German at
tempts at sabotage in oil refineries
there. London said the action was
taken Gin full agreement with The
Netherlands"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14

requirement and it garden pro-
ects, the city created position Of
director of city gardens for Reid
er and he kept right on.
Each year politicians have
sniped at him. 1t has often seemed
that his work was doomed because
OF failure of the governing board.
to give him any financial support
But somehow or other, money O.
no money, politicians to the con
trary, the gardens have been plant
ed with Render as director.
The seed is given to WPA work
ers and other families of low in
come, Render gives advice ans
moral support. From one end O
town to the other, from one enc
of the year to the other, he goes
promoting the garden idea where
ever he finds a vacant back yard
Right now we r trying to ge
our gardeners interested in put
ting up stuff for the winter" say
Render. The way things are witt
the world now, I believe in pre-
paredness for all emergencies"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
Hickory Citizens Ask
All Aid For Allies

HICKORY, June IS |R1Reso-
lutions urging the United States
Government to give the Allies all
possible aid short of joining them
in war were adopted yesterday by
400 citizens.
1--WE stand ready" the reso-
lutions said in part, ito make
whatever personal sacrifices, and
meet any risks and consequences
necessary to aid the Allies in their
struggle for the causes of Demo
crack and the freedom of nations
The resolutions also advocated
that laws be changed to aid the
Allies, theat fifth-column activities
be combatted, that all political
parties unite in the common cause
and that all communists holding
federal jobs in Washington be dis
charged.
The citizens, who formed a unit
of the organization to defend
America by aiding the Allies" sent
sent a copy of their resolutions
to President Roosevelt and the
states U. S. Senators and repre-
sentatives, and directed that a
special letter be sent Rep. A. L.
Bulwinkle emphatically disapprov-
ing his recent stand against direct
assistance to the Allies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14

LONDON, June l3.-F-The
Netherlands government in London
has denied a rumor that British
troops had landed in the Dutch
East Indies.
The rumor had been published by
a Tokyo newspaper.
The Netherlands government in
London said:
''There are no British troops in
Java nor in any other part of The
Netherlands East Indies, and there
is no intention on the part Of The
Netherlands authorities to make any
change in their well-established pol
icy of maintaining the status quo
in The Netherlands East Indies"
TOKYO, June 13.-R-The Japa-
nese foreign office said today it re-
garded with extreme gravity" a pub
lished report alleging that 1000
British troops had landed in the
Dutch East Indies after the islands
requested protection.
While both the Dutch legation and
the British embassy here denied the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14

look with your clothes off. I have
made you strip in order to examine
you so I have an advantage over
you. And I think that you should
really know what you are like.
In the Mirror
Because my diagnosis of you is
that you have an entirely wrong
conception of what kind of a person
you are. You are a banker and you
tell me that you spent practically
all the years of your life between
the ages of 20 and 40 sitting down.
You enjoyed it and somehow you
managed to accumulate quite a
good deal of this worlds goods.
So with this addition to your family
you decided, as the saying is, thai
you we're going to enjoy yourself
for a while. Somebody advised you
to take up golf and you have been
playing three times a week and
twice on Sundays for the last five
years.
"You were told that this would
be good for your health, but you dc
not seem to connect the symptoms
you now have with the change
from a sitting position to a stand
ing position.
The reason I want you to look
in the mirror is that l think you
will Immediately realize that you
are a natural born sitting person
Furthermore, your habits II
other respects have changed since
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
NEGRO TEACHERS
SUIT IS FILED
Court To Pass On Practice
OF Paying Them Less
Thar Whites

AsHEVILLE, June Is In A
suit contesting the general'practice
in the South of paying negro school
teachers less than white teachers
in the same classification was doc
keted today for hearing. nj the
fourth United States circuit. court
of appeals.
The case, on appeal from Nor
folk, Va, involves Melvin O. Ais
ton, negro teacher, an association
of negro teachers, the Norflolk
city school board and the city sup
erintendent of schools.
Aston and the Norfolk teachers
association argue that racial dis
elimination" in salary schedules
and in actual salaries paid con-
stitute a denial of the negro's con
stitutuional right to equal protec'
ton of the law a. guaranteed II
the 18th amendment.
He contends that the alleged dis
elimination, under which he re
ceives 1925 a year as a male
high school teacher while white
male school teachers get more
than $1,000, is arbitrary and I'm
reasonable" and is based "solelJ
on race or color"
Superintendent c. W. Mann ano
the Norfolk school board, defending
the action, argue under Virginia
law school teachers salaries are
fixed by school boards in thei1
discretionary power and not by law
and that therefore there has beer
no violation of Alston's rights
They also contend that the gis'
of the equal protection" clause o!
the 18th amendment is to extnee
toa II citizens substantially equa.
treatment in facilities provided
from public funds. In this case,
they contend, the facilities covered
involve the right to attend school
and not the right to teach in E
school.
Mann and the school board also
contend that Aston, in accepting
employment by the city schoo.
board and in signing a contract
agreeing to teach for 1925 a year,
WAVED his constitutional rights,
if any he had"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
BRITAIN ADMITS
5000 CAPTURED
French British Force At
St. Valery Taken By
Nazi Invade rs

LONDON, June 13-RNMilitary
circles said today that about 6.0OU
British and French troops were
captured by the Germans at st.
Valery, on the French coast, where
high cliffs and a heavy fog pre-
vented the decentralization of more
than a comparatively small num-
ber' of Allied forces surrounded
there.
The troops were running out OF
ammunition and food, these IN
formants said.
Troops that were re-emoafKeo
have been re-landed in France and
fresh reinforcements are IN line
and fighting under French ORDERS
they said.
Apparently the Germans have
stengaged all their armed forces
in the battle for Paris which had
been declared an open city, 1t was
added.
''There seems no doubt that the
Germans have fame throwing
tanks" these circles said, % ut
there are no definite reports OF
their having been used yet"
About two brigades Of n OF
the B. E. F. divisions were sur
rounded at St. Valery, it was said,
while two brigades retired with
the French below the Somme. The
former forces had attempted with
only partial success to reduce the
German bridgehead at Abbeville.
South of the Seine, fresh British
troops recently arrived from the
united kingdom were said to have
taken their place in the line with
their French comrades.
Their bearing and discipline
were said to have done much to
maintain the morale of the Allied
troops who have been fighting day
and night to stem the German ad-
vance. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
al E H
B R FS
Star News Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERILL

RALEIGH, June 13.-When June
Rose, State Legion commander, be-
gan to preach a gospel of Save
food, this is going to be a hungry
world" he was just catching pI
with an amiable chap down in
Wilmington who boasts that his
"canankerous persistence has
resulted in the growing of hundred
of thousands of dollars worth Of
vegetables on what were once I'm
slightly waste spots and city eye
sores.
This column is ordinarily devoted
to a number of short topics, but
for today it will be given owe to
passing out a bit of information on
Carl Render of Wilmington and his
hobby which feeds thousands.
His idea has been a grand one
in piping times of peace. 1t helped
soften the blows Of depression for
thousands. 1t still is a boon to
many. In time of war, he ought to
be drafted to supervise and ex-
tend like activities into hundreds
of other cities of the country.
For years Render, an advertis-
ing man by profession, used 10 di-
vert himself by more or less pid-
ding around with flowers and a
few vegetables in his own back
yard.
He loved order and beauty and
n of his principal dislikes was
directed at filthy, barren back (and
often 'front.' yards in the slums of
the city. Nearly fifteen years ago
he took a notion to do something
about it except dislike it, and so
he went to one of the public schools
in the less exclusive sections and
propositioned the children. He told
them he'd furnish seed and in
struction, and give cash prizes, if
enough girls and boys would plant
gardens.
They did, and he did; and il
turned out that so many of the chill.
dren were enthusiastic that Reid.
IL h4ACW liz 4CdAly 1ldO oOllltLIllIlS
He received calls from practically
all the schools and his h O b b J
spread into hundreds of back
yards. The Garden contest became
the outstanding event of v J
school year.
Also the thing became a fnan
cial burden, but the local neWspa
pers came to his aid. They give
the prizes, though Render still has
exclusive direction of the program
This year there were 429 schoo
gardens entered.
When depression brought MIRA
and WPA and all sorts of alpha
betical relief, Render fell natura
heir to leadership in the garden
project" in, New Hanover. Anc
there, at least, the no garden, ne
relief rule GOTTEN completely ig
nored elseWhere) was enforced.
1t worked well and when the
Federal government dropped its
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
FRIDAY, JUNE IA, 7,,o

you took up the athletic ".
probably do not realize how we, You
~ l wormed out of you tb@ aoroit,
lunch you eat at the qo (te klnd Of
the days you regain T0IIr V.oo On
You eat a good club b, meath,
which is in quite a contrs s4n ta
one you ate when you wero 70 the
1lclng banker. Then Won a pFae'
DOW OF soup or a glass Of "a n.,
pc pera AZ a sandwich and an mix mix
or other piece of fruit. y o'I apple
ably have not taken co5n va Prob,
the fact that your sto 7r',Llnce Of
sitting stomach also. ms5a is a
your body. it is not sne 10 f!
take on a load of luyIriop'o a'e 70
You have surprised vo1ir toods.
aeh: You have played a pras s,Ga,
Joke on it, and NOBODY ITiaClcal
nave practical jokes pIa '1Gss 10
them. I knew a fellow orSo on
hlllng station who was a born IN a
tlcal 5oker-but I guess We ba ptsc,
got time to go into his stor ~a'g =, :
point is he was unpopuIaT In, Inc
everybody around the fT;nz with
ton, and you are unpomnlars ~. S.a'
your stomach. With
MIR. Pillblaud, exercise has II,
ed more people than ! havo AlI'
That IS a very comprehensive s.o @Y'
ment. stale
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
ALLIED B0MBERS
CONTINUE RAIDS
|Nazi And Italian Centers
|. Attacked In Far-Flung
| Air Operations

CAIRO, June 13.-LR-Roaring
south and west from Egyptian bases.
the Royal Air Force smashed new
blows today at Italian airdromes in
Libya and Abyssinia and at the Red
sea ports of Eritrea.
Air Marshal Arthur Longmore said
the continued air attacks are deliv-
ering "a Gripping blow" on strong
holds from which Egypt. might be
threatened.
The British air force did extern
(sive damage to military detectives
in Ethiopia yesterday as well as
raiding Asmara, Eritrea, British
sources here said. Airdromes
we're bombed in the latter town,
also in Gura, where hangers were
demolished.
Despite severe opposition from
fighter planes and anti : aircraft
guns, it was reported, all planes
returned after shooting down one
Italian fighter, possibly two, and
damaging a third.
NEW YORK, June 10 -lR-A
British Broadcasting Corporation
report heard this morning by NBC
said photographs taken by British
pilots who participated in the air
raid on the Italian base at Tobruck
clearly show the considerable
damage that has been caused"
TOURS, FRANCE, June 3d.
French bombing planes have at.
tackled the German cities of Mann.
helm, Neustadt and Frankfort, a
war ministry spokesman said to.
Gay.
LONDON, June 13-R-The fleet
air arm bombed Boulogne harbo1
yesterday, destroying one motor
torpedoboat.
A British announcement said that
planes of the coastal command
bombed German supply ships near
Bergen and runways and barracks
at the Vaerles airdrome, both in
Norway.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
BEHIND THE SCENES
In WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON - This admin
STATIONS deep desire to see the
Allies win the war is by no means
due solely to a fear OF further
Grman aggression.
Equally important. probably. is
the belief that the economic con-
sequences of a sweeping German
victory would be little less than
catastrophe to the United States.
This is a subject which has been
publicly discussed very little. I'm
der the surface, however, it is
getting a great deal of attention.
Elaborate studies are being made.
And in all of this there is being
filled in the picture of a world
which would be so radically chang
ed by a Hitler triumph that the sur
vival of American democra y it
self might be in question.
Here, in brief, is the way some
of the New Deal economists see
it:
Here, in brief, is the way some
of the New Deal economists see
it:
Assuming a victory which woule
mean German dominance of Eu
rope, the first consequence Woule
be extreme RECOMMENDATION of in
ternational trade. What is left o
normal" trade would practically
vanish; trade would 60 on a barter
basis.
U. S. EXPORTS
WOULD FALL OFF
Europe, then, would buy in thu
world market only where it coule
sell an equal amount in return
1t needs huge quantities of farm
products and other raw materials
instead of buying them from tn,
United States, it would be far NOR,
likely to buy them from non-in
dustrial nation, like those of Soutl
America, which could take it's owl
manufactured goods in equal guam
tity in return.
American agricultural export!
would drop to an all-tim- low
The farm surplus problem, which
has cost the government hundred.
of millions in the last sever years
would become ever so much worse
Cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco-al
would be t~errifically affected. A
huge acreage would have to be
retired from their production.
Farm prices would go way down.
Along with this, all industries
which are on an export basis would
decline sharply; and the decline
in farm buying power would hit
the other industries which do moi
depend on foreign markets.
The result would be, as econo.
mists here see it, a lower ma.
tional income, much greater sub.
sides for agriculture, heavier
spending for relief, probably some
elaborate rural-work-relief pro.
gram plus the new heavier
spending on defense. Hand in hand
WILL tAoe WOAAA SO, ClLI16I dill ever
mounting government deficit, OF
drastically increased taxes or,
possibly, some of both.
Furthermore, with world trade
on a barter basis the United
States would have to set up fairly
strict production controls in order
to conduct any foreign trade at all.
Setting up such controls, estab.
fishing huge government corpora
lions to handle the trade, doing
all of this in a declining market
in the face of continued depres.
sion at home-all of this, it is
suggested, would be impossible I'm.
less the United States adopted fol-
use at home at least some Of the
methods of the tota1itarians.
1t makes a gloomy picture. Prob
ably you can see. flaws in it; doubt.
less there are plenty of economists
! who will disagree with it. But il
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-14
Medical Care
BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D

My friend DR.. Adrian Gibbs tells
me he said to his thirty thousandth
'ratient the other day, Il am going
to prescribe a somewhat peculiar
form of treatment for you.
Il advise you to purchase a full
length mirror. It should be one OF
those three-way affairs you find in
clothing stores which are designed
to make you see how you look with
your clothes on. But I want you to
use your mirror to see how you