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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No, 1. Key West Post Office Does Record Business Receipts Last Month Were OOOO OS OM 1 \MAGAZINE FEATURES Much Greater Than val KEY WEST PAINTINGS Same Period In Decem- | ber Last Year The January. 1941, num- ber of the American Home Magazine carries two repro- ductions of pictures by fa- mous artists that are of in- terest to residents of Florida in general and to Key West in particular. One is a reproduction of a signed etching by W. R. Locke, the subject “Patio, Old Toledo House”, Si. Aug- ustin, Florida. The other is a reproduction of a water color by Winslow Homer, “Negro Cabin and Palms”. This is a Key West scene, and the text reads: “In this Key West scene, Homer satu- rated himself in atmospheric effects, excited by the bar- baric splendor of southern light and color”. SIITIIILSIS REAL ESTATE DEALS CLIMB j County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer reported today that real estate transactions in his office increas- ed last year by 400 over the fig- ures for 1939. In 1940 there were 1490 legal instruments recorded jin the office, and only 990 in 1939. | At the same time Sawyer re- jported there were 201 divorces granted in Monroe county. This compares with 279 marriage .li- censes issued by County Judge Raymond R. Lord. In 1939 there ‘were 175 marriage licenses is- sued. Judge Lord married 93 of the couples himself, while Peace Jus- \tice Enrique Esquinailo, Jr., mar- jried 59 couples. | Clennie Demeritt, 73, died yes-! terday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock at his residence, 1325 Simonton street. Funeral services will be} held tomorrow afternoon at 4:30} Post office receipts in Key West | in December were about the larg-/ est in the history of the local | station, Postmaster Fred J. Dion | announced today. | i Receipts last month were $8,- | 814.18 as compared with $6,358.88 | in December, 1939. Last month’s | receipts brought to $56,781.35 the ; total for 1940. This was greatly) in excess of 1939, when the re-| ceipts totaled $40,758.27. | Postmaster Dion reported that} the receipts for the calendar year | put the Key West post office in! the first classification of post of- fice. Heretofore the city has been rated second class. Whether this wil mean a greater personnel to handle the increased business was not known. “It will be the beginning of the' next fiscal year before we will know that, in all probability’, Postmaster Dion said. | While the advent of the navy in Key West was held to be one rea- son for the increase in receipts last month and last year, general conditions have improved in the city. The tourist trade is larger and the civilian population enjoy- ed a greater measure of prosper- ity, it was reported. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON STATIONS AFLOAT Home THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDN [PAYS DEARLY FOR FAILURE TOPAY TAXES) INTERNAL REVENUE DEPART- MENT MAKING VIGOROUS DRIVE AGAINST NON-RE-| MITTERS (Special to The Citizen) WASHINGTON, Jan. Pietro Garofalo, president of the} Cine Lux UCorporaiion of New: York City, which operates a mo- | Abandoned By tion picture theater in that city, | paid a dear but just penalty for embezzling admission taxes col- lected from his patrons, Commis- | sioner of Internal Revenue Guy} T. Holvering said today in com-: menting on court action against} the movie exhibitor. The case was brought to trial before the United States District {Court for the Southern District of New . York on December 2. {Garofalo and his corporation en- {tered pleas of guilty ,and United {States District Judge William i Bondy fined the corporation $5,-| 00¢ and Garofalo $2,000, sentenc- ed him to two months in prison, ! and ordered him deported to! {Italy upon completion of the! German raiders took the pas- prison sentence sengers prisoners after sinking | Garofalo made returns to the/their ship and were forced to Collector of Internal Revenue! abandon them on the island be- each month but did not remit the | cause of food shortage. tax to the Government. His de-| According to their version of |fense was that he used the money ithe story, the ships never had a |to pay the operating expenses of jchance. The raiders struck at jthe theater and corporation. —_|night, drawing close to the ves- | Commissioner Holvering said) sels under the cloak of darkness. |that the Bureau of Internal Rev-} 4 number of the survivors re- jenue is taking vigorous action|vealed they received good treat- jagainst those owners and opera-jment at the hands of their cap- jtors of theaters, cabarets, night |tors. Others told of harrowing jclubs and other places of amuse- ‘experiences, declaring that they ment which collect admission tax- went three days without water jes and do not remit them to the/and that their food consisted of |Government. The Cine Lux Cor- |black bread, raw bacon and saus- |poration, he pointed out, evidenc-|ages. They stated the German es the swiftness and thoroughness jraider still held many captives. with which the Bureau of Intern-| Some of the ships’ crews nev. al Revenue is.moving to.clean up jer saw their attackers. They this situation. caught in the blinding glare of | Se searchlights, folowed immediately ‘WARNING GIVEN iby ship-rendering explosions by | torpedoes. URGE THAT PRECAUTIONARY German sea raiders in the Pa- cific have taken a heavy toll of MEASURES BE TAKEN BY FLORIDIANS ; Nazis On Island After Sinking Of Ship Owing To Food Shortage (By Associated Press) MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 1,—Stories of shipwreck and cap- ture were revealed here today by } | { | des Island of Erromange New Guinea. shipping. DESIGN FOR Captured By Germans survivors picked up on the Hebri- | DEFENSE AND o'clock from the residence Rev. | Have Doherty of the First Congrega- | tional church will officiate. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Sarah Demeritt: two daughters, Mrs, Hugh Hinde and Mrs. Oliver | Kemp; three sons, Stephen, Har- old and Clennie; one brother, | George Demeritt, all of Key West, except Stephen, who resides in Arizona, and his brother, George of Tampa; twenty-six grandchil- dren and thirteen great grandchil- dren. The pallbearers will be selected Comforts NAZI FLYERS FOR | (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Jan. 1—Along the JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 1—! (FNS) Floridians were warned | this past week to be on guard | against an outbreak of influenza. | State health officials pointed out {that there was no cause for alarm STEPPING UP PRODUCTION: SISIIIOSSS GIANT OAK IN » LIVING QUARTERS (Rr Axnociated Press) MOUNTAINSIDE, N. J. | Jan, 1.—Dr. Fiske Wood, re- tired Westfield surgeon, de- cided to enlarge his mountain cabin and make it his per- ‘manent home, but there, was a 90-foot oak tree in the most | likely spot for his living room. | Dr. Wood just built around it. ' The tree, about 30 inches | thick at the base, pushes its ! way through a hole which has to be enlarged every few years. A piece of automobile inner tube seals the hole against rain and snow. ! The cabin. atop Watchung mountain, overlooks West- field. From one room, Dr. Wood and his wife have trans- formed it into a rambling six- room bungalow. The tree is just another Piece of furniture to the Woods. They do not like to reflect on the possibilities cf a strong wind’s uprooting it. VISAS LSAAA GUN PELLETS IN BODY 16 YEARS OMAHA, Neb.—A recent X-ray |examination revealed that there are still some shotgun pellets in Police Inspector Paul Hazel’s body i ; English, French and Norwegian which he received sixteen years ‘ago while trying to arrest a man. By MORGAN M. BEATTY. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—Presi-} dent Roosevelt cuts his cloth from French coast of the English chan-| 114 stated that the form of in-|/@ world war pattern when he nel, reports the “Deutsche Allge- meine Zeitung”. floating rescue stations have been put out to save aviators who have plunged into the sea, Looking like huge telephone \fluenza now prevalent is mild afd | {urged precautionary measures as ja means of avoiding it. The State Board of Health said | | j | that the exact number of cases in the state is not known, but many from the police department of booths bobbing in the waves, the jhad been reported, indicating which Mr Demeritt was a. mem- ber and served the city for, 21 years as policeman and three years as captain of police. Pritchard Funeral Home will be in charge of the arrangements. FIVE CHILDREN IN ONE YEAR i HARTINGTON, Neb.—A_ year to the day after the birth of trip- lets, twins were born to Mr. and Mrs. John Feilmeier. The latest additions to the farm family—a boy and a girl—raised the num- ber of children to fourteen. Group Arrangi buoys are painted on the top with a red cross, Around the edges are lines with which an exhausted swimming flier can pull himself onto a little Jadderway up the side of the float. On top a trap- joor opens and the man_ lowers himself into the floating apart- ment. He sets a little flag to indi- cate someone is aboard and waits for the rescue boat. Room is provided for four men cep. Water, warm sweatsuits, oes, cognac, food and light are a few of the comforts which await the dripping pilot. ng For Legion Convention Next meeting of the directors of the executive tee of the Key West Convention corporation will be held next Monday night as announced today by executive di- rector. Th ing the 1941 state department commit ce ready about located next of Com sid board of; } plete listing of e city is im- perative that the delegates to may be ry room the con’ ated. the city accom. | $5 ‘that the epidemic which started ! in the west and has been sweeping | across the country for the past few j weeks has reached Florida. | Persons having colds or fever }should immediately isolate them- selves, the Board said, and call a \physician. It was pointed out that ‘prompt care and attention would ‘prevent serious illness and loss of {time from work, while neglect and ; jearelessness might ead to com-’' jPlications. H | A bulletin issued by the Board urged persons with colds, coughs, jor fever to stay away from other people—especially babies and olderly persons, avoid kissing any- , one, use disposable tissues for nose and throat discharges and dispose jof them promptly, wash hands | frequently, especially after com- ing in contact with discharges, consult a physician and follow his jinstructions. Ifa fever is evi- jdenced, patient should go to bed immediately. A Sufferers were cautioned to | avoid the use of alcohol, which in jthe case of “flue” lowers the re- sistance instead of increasing it, ing it just that much harder m: for t * ease. convention all odds the biggest that Key West has ever ~ | promptly, since the real ake every the Influenza itself is not par- ticularly dangerous, official: ;Pointed out, but warned against failure to recognize and treat it danger from complications which would arise used through neglect lead to pnew NEW YORK - BUSY BEE “Best Sandwiches and Eats” Specializing in Seafoods. Spanish fe! Chowder Daily i he body to throw off the dis- 4 (2 names a new high command with a single director to step up de- fense production. He also runs into new, confusing problems of military tailoring. In the mnds of many observers, big Bill Knudsen steps into shoes similar to—but not exactly the Same as—those worn by Barney Baruch in World War I. Baruch was the chairman of the War In- ‘dustries Board named by Presi- dent Wilson. Knudsen is direc- tor of the new office of Defense Production But there are important differ- ences between 1917 and now. In the first place, the 1917 gov- ernment declared war on Ger- many, and passed laws giving the President indirect, but none- theless czar-like powers over the nation. War, therefore, had a legal status, and the public was aware of it. Today we a not at war. Most observers agr therefore, that the public is not imbued with a “wartime” spirit. Rather are the times co “peacetme”, however much the academicians con over the question whether aid for Britain actually means we are warring on the German people. The wartime spirit is generally recognized by political leaders as a f y nation— internal Tuggle is A suggest that » production ad- his They do the image did World ot have before war Americans. ° AP Feature Service Writer Barney Baruch’s post-war re- port on the war industries board he headed said the ultimate suc- cess of the American war pro-/| duction effort. depended more on the support by American public opniion of the war effort, than on the dictatorial powers with which Congress clothed President Wilson. There are legal differences, too. In World War'days, Congress gave the President power to con- trol food fuel. production, transportation, and in one broad sweep, pledged to the “all the resources of the country” to bring the war to a successful conclusion. The draft was so de- signed, too, that it could also be held over the heads of labor— and w by President Wilson. These indirect controls gave tho President and his wartime boards the power to fix prices, establish priority for war production, ration food, compel labor to work, force industrial plant owners to comply with instructions, under threat of taking their property. It was done mostly, as Baruch’s report intimates, with an iron fist in a velvet glove, with an eye on public opinion. For instance, in the Bridgeport strike, the Presi- dent had only to threaten plant management with requisitioning to end the plant’s resistance to a strike. And he had only to threat- en a minority labor element with removal of draft exemptions, and o take their right to work in war industries away from them. That was enough. Public opinion ap- proved Today but one and President mt Roosevelt has egal powers among grar ilson, beyond and above a tgency powers that always rest in the hands of a President’ He may take over plants that fail to co-operate in the defense effort. He has no similar powers over labor. Pri se Che Key West Citizen ESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1941 Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; ‘with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit a ee PRICE FIVE CENTS. - — } i MOTOR FAIR NEXT MONTH CHRYSLER CORPORATION TO. HAVE EXHIBIT IN TAMPA, | FLORIDA i | i i TAMPA, Jan. 1.—(FNS) Chrys- | {ler Corporation’s New York | World's Fair show, “The Ply- jmouth Motor Fair,” will be j brought to the Florida State Fair in Tampa, Feb. 4 to 15, General | Manager P. T. Strieder has just | announced. , Contracts for the great motor ,exposition have just been closed ‘here with Tampa dealers sponsor- jing the event. So great is the ‘motor show that building facili- ities are inadequate to house it,’ making it necessary to erect two, mammoth tents in the northeast section of the grounds near the ‘Cass Street bridge. t Millions viewed he Chrysler show in New York during the two years of the Fair where it was con- sidered one of the outstanding educational displays in the com- | +; mercial exhibitions. Although now | being modernized, streamlined land renovated, the show, will be ‘much the same here as it was at : Flushing. STRANGE MAN; ——| LENGTHY POEMS: JAMES COPP RECITES THEM WHILE PERFORMING AT PIANO By HERMAN ALLEN AP Feature Service Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—James | Copp III is a strange, long young |man who writes strange, long {poems and recites them at the piano. People et the ritzy night ; Spot where he recites, think he's | very funny. | James was born of Los Angeles social'register parents in 1917, At |14-he plaved the piano with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Or- | chestra. i ' “Then I stopped taking piano ilessons”, said James, “and didn’t play for a long time. At the age of 15 I wrote a strange, long poem and submitted it to the school de- bating society. I was admitted. “At Stanford University it oc- lcurred to me to put the strange. {long poem to music and try out jfor the annual musical show. It was accepted. After that I wrote more strange, long poems, set | them to music, and did them on |the radio but finally decided it jconflicted with my college work”. After Stanford, James studied {writing under Robert Hillyer at Harvard. Peope tried to get him to put on his piano-things in night lclubs or on the radio, but he was jmore interested short-story writing. At (he end of his second {year he was awarded a prize for showing “greatest literary prom- ise in the most advanced course tin English composition”. He had ‘stories published in a national magazine “I finally became serious about jmy piano-things when some friends in Chicago persuaded me }to appear in an amateur night at a hotel. I won. and Will Oshorne, | whose orchestra was playing j there, offered me a job” | He took the job and wound up jwith Osborne in New York where he went into night club work. « James Copp III's only explana- jtion of why he does piano things is guess I just have a queer | mind”. Powers During Night SLIGLL LALLA LARGE KEY LEMONS SENT TO MARKET Remarkably large ..lemons were krought to town today by Prince Roberts, 911 Terry Lane, farmer on Cates plan- tation, Sugar Loaf Key, some of the lemons measuring ten inches in circumference and said to be exceedingly juicy. Farmer Roberts also brought in extra large ba- nanas grown on the same plantation, and from his re- ports of conditions on the Keys, the recent heavy rains (ed action during the night and will be of great benefit to the Keys farmers. ‘ the dawn of New Year's Day saw TOLL LLM MMB, other brief period of peace and GREEKS STIL = = ‘Nazis. And British Units Exchange Blows Yester- | day At Several Different Points ’ | (by Annociated Press) * | Another undeclared truce has {again halted hostilities between | the two great warring powers of \Burope, Germany and Great | Britain. Neither air force report- tions, P UND ‘ Reports from London, how 0 ITALIAN sever. termed cessation of hostili- ee ae {ties due to bad. weather condi- ‘tions. ELEVEN BOMBS REPORTED Highlichts of yesterdav’s air itaids were attacks on Cologne AS BEING DROPPED —_ianl Rotterdam, both being heav- IN TARANTO ;ily battered by the Royal Air | Force. | In yesterday's raids the Nazis ATHENS, Jan. 1.—Stanstill of | other industrial po! activities at heme brought no | British Isles. let-up by victorious RAF forces | Both capitols took advantage in Greece. Reports revealed strik | of the second undeclared “holiday ing blows to Italy during the night truce” and made merry. Many with the heavy bombing of Ta-,persdns abandoned air raid shel- ranto and Naples, Palermo i. ters while others showed evidence Sicily and Valona in Albania, _ | 9f the holiday season by pouring Eleven bombs were said to have |out strains of “Auld Lyng Syne” been dropped in Taranta, destroy- | which were heard in all: . of ing many important military ob- | London. P M] jectives., It was at this port that! Bie Ben. familiarly tolled out the Royal Air Force made a suc- | the New Year at the hour of 12. ints over the cessful attack sevgzal weeks ago, | crippling the Italian navy. SPEND ENJOYABLE STAY IN KEY WEST Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Duddleson and daughter, Janis, spent an, enjoyable stay in Key West today and were much impressed with their first visit to the Island City. ; They were accompanied by Mr. Duddleson’s parents, Mr’ and Mrs. ' O. W. Duddleson of ‘Three Oaks, Mich., and Mr. and Mrs: ‘William DeBoer of Stephens Point, Wisc., who are visiting the Duddlesons in Miami over the holidays. COLD STORAGE (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES.—Five chin-/ chillas from the Chilean Andes are on display here in an icebox. Accustomed to a temperature of about 40 degrees, they are being given it in their new home. but this vear only to bomb-scar- red London, Revelers gathered near St. Paul's Cathedral and greeted 1941 with cries of “to hefl with Hitler”. SEEING STARS PAINLESS WAY (Ne Awanctated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—Five hundred naval reserve midship- men are learning navigation the easy way at the Hayden Plane- itarium ‘of the American Museum of Natural History. Constellations are projected in- side of the black dome as they would appear in various parts of the world, and lectures explain how to determine a ship’s posi- tion. Capt. J. J. London reports, “We are training midshipmen to become navigators in a very short time”. Italy Drops Dancing ste Aaonstated Prensa MILAN, Italy.—-Public dancing has been forbidden in Italy as a |war precaution, Key West Celebrates New Year's Fittingly Key West ceehtated the cording of the New Year fittingly. There were dances, dinners and parties of all kinds, Then with the ad- of 1941, whistles, bells, auto- mobile horns and fire crackers heralded the day New Year's Day dawned bright and with a stiff breeze blowing. To many it marked the dawning < a day's work for a day's pay. Construction work went forward at the Key West naval station, as usual, though nearly all the civil- ian employes enjoyed a holiday. and they were to remain there throughout the day. The seamen enjoyed the holiday, with special dinners, featuring turkey and all the trimrnings, the rule. Seaplanes put out from Trumbo base on the regular Key West patrol, They were back by 3 Dp. m, 30 the crews of the shins could enjoy the holiday. There wat a special dinner for the crews at the air base, The majority of the civilian population enjoyed the day to tha fullest. There was very ittle ace ‘tivity downtowr before early afte ernoon. The stores were closedj some of them taking inventatys 4