The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 10, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Intevests of Key West Che Key West Cittzen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXII. No. 9. TwoNore Policemen t's Will Be Employed “=== & Visitors and citizens alike have {filed suggestions with The Citi- POT ISEST SIs) LARGE CATCH OF a that more fire buckets be FISH THURSDAY *°<* on the wooden bridges on Action Taken At Meeting Of Council Last Night; Many Other Matters |Overseas Highway leading to the ! The catch aboard the Amer- Taken Up | icana Thursday, fishing with | : | Capt. Bob Davis, consisted of | A survey of the bridges reveals | 25 fish—two sharks, a porgie, |that fully 75 percent of the buc- eight grunts, ten yellowtail. |kets which were placed on the i |mainland. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1941 Roosevelt Will Have ‘Blank Check’ Authority ~ In Defense. Preparations (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — will be used for industrial expan- President Roosevelt will have | Sion in the program. |*blank check” authority. in, the} =tesdent Roosevelt told: re- | : A . porters at the same time he is [spending of the poe Hee dole studying a plan for further aid to jlar “Aid to Britain” bill which Britain through the use of Amer- | comes before Congress today, he ican shipyards in the refitting of | said this morning. British warships. ‘EXPLOITS OF Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS British Forces azi Invasion Points TROOPS CAUSE BIG SURPRISE - eonni if = ! OLS SMS SMS Fiercest Daylight Raid Of | War On German-Occu- 'STOCK MARKET I PWARD | oe sa pied Points On French tke | The City Council met in regular | i session last night with President | Freeman presiding, and all mem- bers present excepting Council- | man Ramsey who was out of the city. The council, upon recommenda- tion of Councilman Grillon, chair- man of the Police Committee, voted to have two additional Policemen placed on the force," which it was stated was badly needed at this time. This action was taken following a request from Mayor Albury that he be given more police help. Mrs, J. E. Shourds addressed the meeting calling attention to the council the fact that the stone walls in her home had been dam- aged from the concussions in con- Mection with the blasting opera- tions being carried on at the'Navy Yard. “Mrs. Shourds was adyised to thke the“Miitter ub With the lo- cal government authorities. Ask Smaller Charges In the same connection, the mayor was requested by the coun- cil to ask the government authori- ties to use smaller charges of ex- plosives in order that the concus- sion would not be so great, which often results in damage to prop- erty in the city. Police Officer Paul Waniels re- quested that a caution sign be placed at the end of Division street connecting with Roosevelt boule- vard inasmuch as this is a danger- ous corner where heavy traffic ‘Continued On Page Four) SWEDISH SHIP SAILED TODAY The ed off the island since January 4, clears today for Galveston, Tex- as, Charles Taylor, manager of Porter Dock company, announced today. It is presumed the Glimmeran will take on a cargo of fuel oil for shipment to Europe. Yellow Cab Company Wants To Opeatt in Key West A communication from the Yellow Cab Transfer Company’s branch at St. Petersburg, Fla. was read at the meeting of the City Council last night asking for a ten-year franchise to operate in Key No details were given in connection with the letter. The matter was re Welfare muttees regular meeting A letter was-read from Callahan, d ec the Emerger quest that the effort to appr in taking care projects ter stat the sew INTRODUCING— MISS LILLIAN HODGES Expert Hair Stylist and Cosmotician For Appointment Phone 870 ARTISTIC BEAUTY SALON ¢..-: 1118 Division Street eee i one REC three groupers and a trig- ger fish. Mrs. Fred Wolf, of York- | ville, Ill, won the pool for | Speaking at his morning press Dedges tw wente Beriby crlenot conference, the President dis- the Monroe county commission | «jaimed to reporters any desire to have disappearea. Some of them |take unrestricted powers in the Stressing again the need. for speed, he said the new bill will; supersede all existing legislation | on the subject of loans to other AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEA- LAND SOLDIERS AMAZE ' its upward surge with lead- ers advancing fractions of a point. Chesapeake and Ohio was (Ry Associated Press) | .FOLKESTONE, England... Jan. the biggest fish. obviously had beengsiolen. H The buckets should be kept fill- SII TI FT I FI SF DS od with water, as some of them — jwhich are still in place are not. | powers. Observers here under- stood him refer to the Johnson act, which prohibits new loans to! nations which defaulted on pre-! vious war debts, and to certain; |handling of the defense money. | “Obviously, however, someone must have full authority,” he said. {The bill gives the President full power to administer the $2,000,- LONDONERS: RECALL AC- 4.14 U.S, Steel held its % '10—Royal Air Force bombers and TION IN WORLD WAR I | vise, while Chrysler had a slender loss, |fighters are pounding Nazi in- | OL IMSS FB, (™ points on the French coast Glimmeran, the Swed-’ ish steamer that has been anchor- | K MAD \Further, it was suggested that ) | signs notifying persons taking {000,000 to $10,000,000,000 which jthe buckets that it is against the | __ |law and punishable by a fine be; {placed on the bridges. { | “It is bad enough to have to use those wooden brides”, one citizen | said today. ‘es are left without any protection | whatever the danger is greater. | ° The state road patrolman can | jwatch the buckets, if the county | |cannot, and I believe they will be | (By Assoctated Press) |safe. Even if a few of them are} ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 10.'stolen from time to time they | —Southbound bombers, believed | should be replaced”. to be British en route to Italy, { sent citizens here and at Bren scurrying to air raid shelters this afternoon. | Air raid alarms were sounded | as the planes roared in over the! ‘frontier and the all clear signal came 30 mniutes later after the! bombers had disappeared to~the BRITISH PLANES SWOOP| OVER SWITZERLAND TODAY | | | The matter of outstanding oc- jcupational licenses to the amount lof approximately $4,000 was taken No further applications for Ha fi : e 2 : ip for discussion at the council Murphy Act land sales will be ac- | 5 - a }meeting last night, and.it was de cepted until after February 15th, \cided that every effort will be | County Clerk Ross: C. Sawyer an- ;made to make these collections as south, | nounced today. soon as possible. A license inspec- This action was taken at the iio. will be appointed to make the HOP NS 5 request of the trustees of the] ounds and check up on all de- |Florida internal improvement Applications for the ‘fund, which met at! x | linquents. esterday jappointment to this position will Tallahassee and reorganized. The |}... received by the mayor, who telegram received by Clerk Saw-! ii) make the appointment in the (By Axnociated Presa) lyer from F. C. Elliot, secretary of very near future. LONDON,, Jan. 10.—Harry L. | the trustees of the Florida Inter- |" 7} was ordered that parking be ,. personal representative nal Improvement Fund follows: |, ostricted to one side of the street ident Ruosevelt to Eng-| “Trustees Internal —Improve- |, Simonton street, between Caro- land, saw his first air raid last/ment Fund by action today in- ‘11. and Eaton, with only fifteen night. | struct that effective upon receipt minutes parking at any time The A London paper stated that the ‘hereof no furhter applications for mayor will put this order into ef- Germans were now prisoners of ‘Murphy Act land sales be accept-'s.c¢ at once. This action was war due to the British blockade. |¢4 until after Fberuary Fifteenth ; taken due to the great congestion SE IE jnext. Also that all applications | ¢¢ traffic in front of the post office now on hand and not advertised j v1 ity. be advertised not later than Jan- ec ieoelln of Ralph Russell, i esc ~ ‘showed that building and repair he dogeriestta Sy peau one se activities during the month of De- with as advertised? ,cember amounted to $19,735. (ity Axsootated Press) so Frank O. Roberts, heading a CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—The day- old strike which partially par- alyzed the industrial city of Chi- cago was settled today when Mayor Kelly and thirteen AFI | unions agreed on a compromise. FA { AID, TO delegation of Knights of Pythias, | Wage cuts were accepted but jattended the meeting. Mr. Rob- BE CUT DO TEMPERATURES the cuts were modified to a con ‘erts, speaking in behalf of the A A LS siderable degree. iMy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—De- partment of Agriculture officials here revealed today a cut of ap- proximately $45,000,Q00 in their appropriation under the 1941 bud- get. Sacrificed to the defense pro- gram, the reduction will drastic ally curtail far maid, but spokes- man of the department point out ncreased prosperity brought about bv defense production prob- y ably will ease their requirements Lowest last Highest las! night 24 hours Abilene 30 Boise Boston Brownsville Detroit El Pas Galveston Havre Huron Jacks posed projects could be sponsored in the same manner. The matter mittee. W. Bowdoin Dav caught the on amt so far brought osevelt the Casa Marina dock this Tt weighed 52% Ibs. and a whale of a fight s Two other large amberjacks and ‘s wille It was ordered that be alled for the purchase of a new bids e for the city police de t Dr. It was ordered th New } largest in to 24 Marie 22 MASONIC NOTICE _ SOUTHERNMOST FLOWERS SPECIAL Beautiful GLADIOLAS. dozen 616 Duval Street ter was re- committee. $1.00 - Pt 136 | ). WEECH, Secretary. =a Outstanding Occupational (By Associated Press) provisions of the neutrality act. LONDON, Jan. 10.—The latest jexploits of Australian and New \Zealand troops in the drive on \Italian Africa are furnishing {Londoners with something to talk | about. | The big, rangy colonials who Be Collected; distinguished themselves as shock leading the offensive since Mus- their Soldiers back in England from the African front say the long- delegation, stated that the mem- jogged warriors from the Pacific bers of the organization were have gone gailey into battle sing- there for the purpose of request- ing the “Wizard Of Oz” and ad- ing that additional policemen be dressing the Colonel by his first ®mployed to take-care of the Dame. heavy traffic and other things in Key West at this time. Police Judge W. P. Archer spoke of remedying certain conditions at the city jail, and requested that they be corrected. It was ordered the beneficiaries of Braxton B. Warren, deceased, be given amount of the death benefits as Mr. Warren was a vol- unteer fireman and was eligible EXPECT MORE AND ‘FASTER AID Ay Anno LONDON, 2 the United States of Viscount Halifax, new ambassador to | Washington, is expected here to touch off a new drive British campaign for more faster aid in the war with Ger- many. Prime Minister Winston , Churchill, speaking at a luncheon for same. ‘given in honor of the ambassador, It was ordered that $25 be paid described his duties as among the on the expense account of the most important in the Empire's Overseas Highway Celebration. It was ordered that $25 be ap- propriated to take care of re- freshments and other matters in connection with the Air Meet to i] HERBERT ROSS GREATLY BENEFITED BY KEY WEST CLIMATE fed Preany P 1 rival in be held in Key West on January 14 in connection with the fl shts from here to Havana. It was ordered that employes be paid a month's salary Jan. 17. The council orderea that bids be ealled for the purchase of five hundred feet of new hose. When the-niew hose is received, the did | hose now being used will be turn- ed over to tre Board of Public! Works. President Freeman addressed the meeting just prior to adjourn- ment, calling attention to an ar- {ticle appearing in The Citizen from the Citizens And Taxpayers, ! Inc. concerning the activities of the council, Mr. Freeman stated that he felt that all councilmen deserved the same praise for the many things accomplished, and not any particular ones. He said that as far as voting on any issue, he felt that a councilman had the right to vote according to the dic- tates of his conscience. He said councilman was not wrong e he did not vote a certain and felt that the criticism Herbert M. Ross, Riverside-on- Hudson, New York, reports that he got instant relief from an at- tack of sinus when he reached Key West. Ross was in Secretary S. C. Sin- gleton’s Chamber of Commerce office the other day and happen- ed to read a letter from Miss Elizabeth Shuemaker, executive secretary of the Pioneer Valley Association, Franlon, Hampden, Hampshore counties, Northamp- ton, Mass. In her letter, Miss Shoemaker stated that she had been having sinus trouble “due to this cold and damp of which you know nothing about” Ross requested Singleton, to secretary's letter in response to {Miss Shoemaker’s letter. Ross “I happened to be in the Cham- ber of Commerce office when jshown to me. 1. too, am a@ sinus d have just completed a N taking in the re- “sinus relief” places. I have in Key West barring rainy this place has let him write a footnote to the wrote as follows GETS HEARING: jyour letter came in, and it was w York to California found the greatest pn f right t possibilities” | ' Fresh Florida Grade A dozen LEAVING TOWN. MUST SELL BEFORE JANUARY 13th. 1212 Georgia Street eae eRe cad FRYERS 1214 White St. STEWERS Phone 540 } re- NEW GAINS BY — BRITAIN SHO | ENGLISH PLANES HAMMER { AGAIN AT MANY | SEAPORTS | troops in World War I, have been! ORDER HALT IN Inspector To Be Appointed <= (By Associated Prexs) LONDON, Jan. 10.—Great Brit- ain’s drive to knock Italy out of t the war before aid from Germany can became effective showed new gains today on every front. Greek troops, storming into ac- | tion again after several days. of slow gains, reportedly had forced {open the road to Tirana, Albania’s capital city, as British war planes hammereu again at seaports along the entire coast, From neutral Egypt came new stories of Fascist troubles in Haile tion soon would become unten- able. | Meanwhile, British African fighters were steadily tightening their noose around Tobtuk while a surprise attack in East: Lybia was said to have forced General Rudolfo Graziani to abandon his headquarters and move farther into the interior. NAZI MUNITIONS PLANT DESTROYED (Dy Ansociated Press) LONDON, Jan. 10.—Official sources today revealed that a large Nazi munitions plant in Czechoslovakia had been blown vp by the British. BRITISH SUBS ARE DESTRO (By Associated Press) ROME, Italy, Jan. 10.—Italian destrovers were said to have sunk two British submarines yester- day. It papers stated that to win this war “alone”, or with allies, is unimportant” jan ‘today in the fiercest daylight raid | of the war. Virtually unopposed by German aircraft, but flying through heavy ,anti-aireraft fire, the British planes are reported ranging from Calais to Boulogne in a new at- tempt to smash the Nazi jumping off points for an attempted Eng- \lish invasion, Watchers on the chalk cliffs of Dover here have felt the shock of exploding bombs across the chan- ‘nel and RAF dive‘bombers during the afternoon were clearly visible as they swooped in over the French coast to unload their ex- plosives. | More than 60 British bombers and fighters were counted during the morning raid and witnesses here said they could see no sign of German aerial resistance: The bombers’ heavy escort of pursuit planes was believed! to have at least temporarily cleared the scene of German aircraft. ENGLISH BLAST VARIOUS POINTS i i iopi ili 10. — British in the Sellassie’s Ethiopia and military LONDON, Jan. i and men there said the Italian posi- bombers of the Royal Air Foree i the past two days have bias' Axis strongholds from NorWay to north Africa in a new series of sweeping attacks, it was reported here today. The far reaching British air arm reportedly smashed at Ger- man towns last night, sank dn Italian destroyer in the Mediter- ranean, unleashed a new flond of bombs over German invasion points on the French coast and continued to hammer Italian forces at beleaguered Tobruk on the Lybian frontier. (German official sources’in Bet- lin, im an unusually informative statement, admitted heavy prop- erty damage in the raids and named a number of the citi¢s which has been attacked. The list included Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Frankfort, Koln and others) England, meanwhile, was sub- yected t6 heavy bombing during the night at London Liverpool and at least 12 other citfes. IGNITES MATCHES. SAPULPA, Okla —When. Fire= men John Brisxie of this city stid down the brass pole at the fire house, the friction of the slide ignited matches in his pocket. One Hundred Planes Due Here Tuesday One hundred airplanes will ar- rive here beginning at 7 a m. Tuesday as part of the M.»mi-Ha- vana air race, John Mor: a, secre- tary of the Miami Chamber of Commerce, told the Retary Club at noon Thursday By 9:30 a m Tuesday all the airplanes will have landed at the upper end of the island. The landing field has been leveled off and a new direction indicator has been erected. President Everett Russell, Mel- ‘AMERICANA’ —$2 CAPTAIN BOB DAVIS Tackle Furnishea PORTER DOCK ‘di vin E. Russell, B. Curry Moreno and Secretary 8. C. Singleton of the Kéy West Chamber of Com- merce and the Rotary Club met Secretary Morris and W. M. Hutchins of the Miami civil sero- nautics authority, who flew to the landing field at the head of the is- land. “Key West's cooperation makes possible the Miami-Havana air cruise after the Miami air races,” Secretary Morris said. ‘The fliers are always glad to come by way of Key West, and manage to en- joy themselves under the sway of your magnetic personalities ” Dr. William KR. Warren, also ad- rested the Retary Club yester- day. He spoke of the value of the ROASTERS — DUCKS Leave $:20 a. m. Revurn 4:30 p.m. magazine Rotarian to the mem hers of the Rotary Club, citing @ number of articles in » recent cumber, ieneajadeaiaal