The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 1941, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Crtizeir THE VOLUME LXII, No. 18. Colonel Robinson Arrives To Inspect Army Barracks Inspector General To Make "OP M° LI LISI. oF DIRECTORS LAST EVE- NOVICES MAKE GOOD) me ON FISHING OUTING Complete Check Of Fa- cilities, Including Va- rious Buildings Col. Williiam F. Robinson, spector general of the Third) Army, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, | arrived in Key West at noon to-| in-| day for a two-day inspectior of | Fort Taylor and army barracks | here. The Colonel, accompanied by. a} warrant officer, is expected to| make a complete check-up of; army facilities here, including buildings, gun emplacements and all equipment. He will be ac-| companied on his rounds by Co! Lewis Pendleton, commanding | officer of the garrison here. | Plans also have been an-! nounced for a reception at the| quarters of Mrs. Pendleton Wed- | nesday night in honor of the vis- iting Colonel, Colonel Robinson will remain in Key West through Thursday | and return to Miami by bus Fri- | day. MOCK BATTLE OFF ATLANTIC ACTIVITIES STAGED BY OP- | POSING FORCES ALONG | NEW ENGLAND COAST (By Associated Press) | NEW. YORK, Jan. 21.—Defend- ing army fighters, warned by thousands of unofficial spotters on Long Island, zoomed to the at- tack this morning to defend the city from “invading” airmen com- ing in off the Atlantic. The mock battle, fought be- tween opposing units of the army air corps, came out all on the side of the defenders ahd the invading force was driven back to sea. Similar battles, meanwhile, were being fought all along the New England coast and the spot- ters, who ranged from debutantes to milk truck drivers, apparently enjoyed it more than anyone else. Be EL Ja REGISTRATIONS ON « KEYS BEING TAKEN FOR PURPOSE OF BEING MADE ELIGIBLE FOR BOND ELECTION Pr Ss: Sa C. Sam B. Curry, deputy super- visor of county registration, will leave Key West tonight to begin a three-day campaign for free- holder's affidavits on the upper keys, it was learned today. This is in connection with the bond election to be held next month. The deputy supervisor will spend all day tomorrow at Mara- thon, taking registrations from 9 o'clock until five with two hours out at noon from 12 o'clock until two. Thursday he will spend the day at Matecumbe, and Friday he will take affidavits during morning at Tavernier and in the afternoon at Rock Harbor. John England, county super- visor of registration. i this morning he will begin accepting the affidavits at his home, 912 Southard street, after the court- house office is closed at 5 o'clock. Citizens who have been unable to ¢ get into the office during the will thus be bled to file th affidavits before the deadline February 4 Affidavits up to talled 126 at t Get Your Reserved Seats * at I SAN CARLOS BOOK STORE (Next to Palace Theater) —for— ROLLIN’ RHYTHM MINSTREL - REVUE HIGH SCHOOL — JAN. 23-24 today + Boise Brownsville Buffalo Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Denver Detroit New New York Spokane Sit Washington They say noviccs have all the luck and it certainly seems to hold in the case of Harold Stabler, of Chevy Chase, D. C., and F. L. Bow- man, of Tilghman, Md. Mr. Bowman caught his sailfish on his second deep- sea fishing expedition last Saturday, and Mr. Stabler went and did likewise yester- day—on his fourth deepsea trip. What's more, Mr. Strabel’s sailfish goes to the top of the Casa Marina Record Board, with 7'3", 43/2 pounds, the same length but just a half- pound heavier than Mr. Bow- man’s. The very first strike of the day was a sail, and they had five strikes all told, the last of which they landed. This surely removes both out of the novice class. Judge and Mrs, John Van Voorhis and Mr. and Mrs. Philip Farnham, of Roches- ter, N. Y., accompanied C, H, Stuart, of Newark, N. Y., on a fishing trip, They ran into a school of bonita and brought back a boxful. Mr. and Mrs, Dave N. Mc- Gregor, of Springfield, Mo., went, out to try their luck. The biggest fish of their haul was a/ 50-inch barracuda, which weighed 2312 pounds. Seven boats went out from the Casa Marina dock today. TAISALLL LM —| WASHINGTON, ___ TEMPERATURES _ Lowest last|Highest las! the House Foreign Affairs com- 24 hours 39 24 70 21 54 32 night 32 13 59 9 26 22 19 yston ASO Galveston Havre Huron cksonville KEY WEST os Angeles iami inneapolis Orleans 4¢ hoenix Pittsburgh St Louis : it Lake City 2 an Francisco Ste. Marie : Mass Meeting Here Monday Night In Interest Of Coming American Legion Convention) the Sp here o: Api da to Key W ‘SPOTTSWOOD "HEADS LEGION CORPORATION. i ELECTED TO PRESIDENCY | AT MEETNG OF BOARD Robert F. Spottswood, Key} ;West businessman, was unani- |mously elected president of the Key West Convention corporation | ,at a meeting of the Board of Di-} ;rectors in American Legion con- vention headquarters. La Concha | | hotel building, last night. At the same time the corpora- ition accepted the resignation of | William H. Reardon as secretary. } (Mr. Reardon asked that it be a cepted because all of his time was to be spent on pushing the sale of the automobile by the corpora-’ | tion, | Dr. A. Mi Morgan was elected | secretary in place of Reardon. He | will take office immediately. | On the question of decorations | for the convention the corporation ‘told the representative of a dec- (orating company to submit his} |proposition in writing. The line |of march of the parade, the head- ; ‘quarters of the Legion and _ its | Auxiliary and all the stores of the | city will be decorated for the Am- } erican Legion convention here | April 23-26. | The proposition submitted by a local tour agency for a trip to Ha- vana was rejected by the cor- poration on the ground that the rates to be charged were too high. Al Mills, executive director of the corporation, was directed to work ‘out the Legion’s trip of Havana | beginning on April 27, after the | Legion convention closes. URGES SHIPS BE 4 GIVEN BRITISH { (Ny Angociated Press) Jan. 21.— | Joseph P. Kennedy, former United States ambassador to Britain, told mittee today England must have | supply ships and food this year or suffer serious consequences. Appearing before the commit- tee to testify on the “aid to the democracies” bill, Kennedy said | the proposed building of merchant | ‘ships for England would not come | soon enough to prevent a shortage of food and supplies this year. ‘AUTO WORKERS’ STRIKE HALTED (By Associated Presa) SAN DIEGO, Jan. 21—A 12 hour postponement of the threat- | ened CIO Auto Workers union | workers at the Ryan Aeronautical | plant here was announced by la- | bor leaders and company repre- } sentatives today. j The strike, which was to have | begun tonight, will be postponed until morning to permit further negotiation. e the 26th, is very desirous of your attendance at a mass meeting of 1 business people to be held in the County Court House, Monday night, January 27th, at 8 o'clock. our earnest desire to re- C noney making schemes ill endanger our merchants. e repeatedly turned down carnivals, bingo games, Convention will bring 3,000 or more people od of four days. The power per per- ).00 per day. This of cash to siness are jfought briefly ‘soldiers before retiring. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1941 Eighteen Fishermen Believed To Have Died In Freezing Waters Of Boston Harbor SCIOTO LISS VISITORS PRAISE 2 (By Assectated Presa) | BOSTON, Jan. 21.—Eighteen ‘fishermen aboard the foundered KEY WEST FISHING | trawier Mary E. O'Hara are be- M. Y. France and R. L. Pegg of Columbus, Ohio, have just finished a three weeks’ stay in Key West, having fished the gulf stream from Sand Key to Cosgrove Light and report taking three sailfish, two large sharks, one four hundred pounds, and fifteen other varieties of fish. They had two very thrilling experiences, one of which was when a propeller shaft broke near Sand Key at night, and it was sixteen and a half hours before they were picked up by a Coast Guard boat. They were also caught in last Saturday’s southwester near Boca Grande Key about twenty-six miles out, but made port just as the life guard were leaving to look for them. Both are ardent fishermen, having fished the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. They carry their own tackle and are equipped to take small reef fish or the heavy marlin, tuna or shark. The visitors paid a pleasant call at The Citizen yesterday afternoon and stated that it Wes their opinion that the waters around Key West have’ the finest variety of fish to be found anywhere. Bas SI a SS & IRON GUARDSMEN NOW REVOLTING SOME GERMAN SOLDIERS IN- RUMANIA GARRISON KILLED (Ry Associated Press) BUDAPEST, Jan. 21.—Revolt- reported at a standstill, but air-|cuit court yesterday ing Iron Guardsmen in Rumania have violated the Hungarian bor- der and are attempting to over- throw the government o Premier Montanescu. and young King ‘Mihai; it is reported here today. Some German soldiers garri- sonéd”\ifi; Rumania have been killed in the swiftly spreading re- vait, government. spokesmeti: here said. Diplomats: and neutral .observ- ers in this country are said te be watching the affair with keen in- terest as the possible prelude to a full-fledged German occupation of Rumania. The border incident occurred, according to the re- ports, when Iron Guardists who j have bitterly opposed Rumania’s forced cession of land gained after the world war to Hungary, forced their way across the frontier and with Hungarian MONROE THEATER presents | lieved to have died this morning i jin the near freezing waters of | Boston ‘harbor. | Five of the vessel’s complement jot 23 men were picked up by |another trawler nearly | three hours after the Mary E. O'Hara jhad struck a sunken barge and | vessels and many private craft are searching the waters of the har- SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. British Troops“) Crack Tobruk Defenses GERMAN DRIVE ON GIBRALTAR SEEN BELIEVE HITLER AND FRAN- CO WILL HOLD CONFER- ENCE ON MATTER (By Asnoctated Press) ROME, Jan. 21.—Rumors of an ‘impending conference between {Adolf Hitler and General Fran- inewed conjecture about a pos- jsible German drive to capture , dL dd URGING BRITISH TO LEAVE JAPAN | Ry Assoctat Press) | ‘TOKIO, Jan. 21—Circulars reiterating Britain's advice to her nationals to leave Japan have been distributed here today. larereeere ‘JAPAN-RUSSIA |gone down. Eleven Coast Guard cisco Franco of Spain today re-| RENEW P A i |bor, but with the temperature ‘hovering at about 15 degrees |above zero, little hope is held ‘out been general ever since Hitler's | |for the remaining members of the |army completed its French cam- | crew. | The heavily ice-coated Mary E. \O’Hara apparently ripped out her { bottom on a sunken barge near the \Gibraltar. ) Talk of a push through Spain ) against the great British fort has (paign, but observers here be- lieve the new discussion may in- idicate a Spanish push had been \discussed at the meeting of Hitler |and Premier Mussolini Sunday. i TRADE AGREEMENT TO RUN FOR DURATION OF | ONE YEAR | j (By Associated Press) ‘ TOKIO, Jan. 21,—Announcing | PRICE FIVE CENTS ve TO Claimed lialian | Forces | Sufter Tremendous Loss- | es; Many Dead, Wound- | ed And Captured | (By Associated Press) | LONvUN, Jan, 21—British {colonial troops stormed over the |top this morning in their first | geal effort to crack the defenses of Tobruk. | Reports from Middle Eastern headquarters at Cairo said Aus- | tralian soldiers who led the suc- |cessful assault of Bardia were smashing at the Italian garrison in a furious attack. Heavy artil- lery brought up for the assault jentrance to the harbor, and the| Newspapers here, meanwhile, ‘the renewal for one year of trade | was reported hammering the iso- exhausted survivors who were /Sid the attitude of the United agreements between Japan and | ' picked up believe most of the sea- |men must have been trapped in i their bunks. Others, who managed to reach ‘ging, the survivors said gradually jatopped into the sea, unable to hang on in the intense cold. “VALONA- SECTION | SOMEWHAT QUIET |HEAVY RAID WAS STAGED OVER ITALIAN PORT LAST NIGHT (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 21.— Little ‘change in the position of Italian and Greek forces warring around | Valona was reported here today. Two columns of Greek forces which have pressed their way to within 10 or 14 miles of Valona are ithe deck and climb into the rig- | {States toward the war had been | thorcughly gone over by the lead- jers in their conference and warn- \check on the “war-mongers” |who would lead them into a dis- astrous conflict. STR. COLORADO | COMING TO POR Colorado, Clyde-Mallory line freighter, is due in port here this jafternoon, it was announced by the local office today. The vessel, bringing 174 tons of freight to Key West, is bound for Tampa from New York. COUNTY BONDS ARE VALIDATED in cir- afternoon Judge Arthur Gomez Soviet Russia, Japanese newspa- pers again today denounced Brit- China. | War between the United States ‘and Japan may be very close, the ‘papers warned, but regardless of 'British and American _ activities ‘in China, the progress of “the ‘ order” in Asia, cannot: be"de~- layed. | Announcement of the continu- tance of Russian trade agreements |was regarded as another sign of the growing friendship between the two countries, ‘HUGE STEAMER STILL AGROUND (By Associated Prens) WEST PALM BEACH, Jan. 21. —Two heavy-duty tugs which had waited until high tide for the purpose strained at the mooring lines of the stranded luxury liner Manhattan this morning. But craft operating from advanced. signed an order validating county nothing happened. Albanian bases staged a heavy raid over the strategic Italian port last night. refunding bonds valued at $2,- 308,000. . The new issue of bonds, re- |funded in 1936 with R. E. Crum- The huge liner, aground on a bar north of here for nine days, could not be budged from the sand which has now built up around Sa BEA DAG BBs Company of Chicago as fiscal her hull and men in charge of GOOD FISH CATCH MADE ON MONDAY The Americana had a good catch Monday, consisting of big grouper. porgies, hog fish and yellowtail. The party boat also brought in a red-robin scorpion fish, which was donated to the aquarium here. The pool for the largest fish of the day was won by Samuel W. Kay of Philadel- phia, Pa. Baas aeese2as TODAY AND TOMORROW FIRST TIME IN KEY WEST Ginger Britton, America’s Foremost Strip-Tease Dancer WOMEN ONLY MATINEE 3:30 P. M- NOTE: Special Working Girl Show Wednesday 6:30 P. M. to 8:30 P. M. After Mat. Wednesday — One Only—3 P. M. to 11 P. M. —— ALSO ON STAGE — In Person Radio's “Friendly Advisor”. YOUR SEX PROBLEMS SOLVED! How To Be Happy In Mar- riage! How To Make the Honeymoon Last! Spesial Pictures Shown! jagent, will bear interset at the {rate of three percent until 1946 ;and four percent until 1962, the jaate of maturity. floating her admitted after the tugs’ attempt that nothing could be done without more equip- ment. Coast Guard Vessels Call Off Search For Airplane | Back from their third search 'for a missing airplane within the j week, coast guard vessels based jat Key West this morning called ‘off their hunt for a plane piloted by John L. Morris, Jr., of Miami, which failed to arrive here with |some 65 others from Havana. The tiny monoplane, with gas enough for only three hours flight, was last seen yesterday afternoon by the cutter Saranac. headed out to sea about 45 miles south of Miami. It apparently was far off its course and had missed Key West by miles. Lt H. B. Haskins, coast guard executve officer. said this morn- ing the plane had flown out of the Key West territory and the search would be taken up by planes and ships based at Miami Radio reports from the Saranac said the plane was headed on a northeasterly course and flew at an estimated rate of 110 land miles per hour. Its course was more or less in the direction of the Bahama islands, but coast guard officers here doubted it would have enough fuel to make the hop and felt it would have been forced to land either on one of the small keys in the area or at sea. The cutters Pandora, Nemesis and Juniper, all of which took part in the search yesterday, meanwhile, returned to Key West. Nemesis has been ordered to Fort Jefferson with supplies for park service employes there, while the other two vessels will return to routine patrol duty. NOTICE, B.P.O. ELKS No. 551! Special meeting will be held tonight, Janu- ary 21, 8:00 o'clock, in the Lodge Rooms, to meet with President and Secretary of Florida State Elks Association. GEO. 0. LUCAS, lated Italian fort with new fury |and RAF bombers swooped in ed American citizens to place a ish and United States aid 10 over the advancing British forces to pave the way with heavy | | bombs. Prime Minister Winston jp Cparenis, ading first reports of tthe “attack” in’ the Holise of Com-" mons, told representatives there the attack was progressing “suc- \ cessfully”. | ©There will be no interruption {now until our victory is complete and Tobruk is taken”, he an- | nounced. British forces in Africa, mean- while, smashed with renewed vigor on two other fronts as fly- ing motorized columns ve two ‘deep wedges into Italian Eritrea on the Angld-Egyptian Sudan and another swiftly moving force announced it had penetrat- ed into Ethiopia and joined forces with. rebelling tribesmen already engaging Italian garrisons. Fascist forces were said by the ‘advancing British to be making a general and disorderly retreat along a 200-mile battle front in Eritrea. British spokesmen here said Italian forces had suffered tre- mendous losses in the African campaign but did not place a def- inite figure. They feported, how- ever from 20,000 to 30,000 men were isolated in Tobruk alone and placed Italian losses in dead, wounded and captured at 60,000 in the Albanian campaign. OUTLINE LABOR REDSTRIBUTION (Py Asnoctated Prensa) LONDON, Jan. 21.—Par-reach- ing plans for a redistribution of British labor from non-essential to war industries were described by Labor Minister Ernest Bevin ‘before the House of, Commons this morning. Bevin, replying to criticism of “high-handedness” in the meas- jure, said the changes would be jplaced on a voluntary basis as far as that would be possible, He implied the transfets would be. made mandatory if they were considered necessary afd the workmen involved would not co- operate. THREE OVER ENGLAND (Dy Annocinted Preest LONDON, Jan. 21.—Three light raids over central England last night accomplished only minor damage and London had one of the best nights for sleep in recent weeks. Bad weather has held up at- tacking airmen from both Eng- land and for several days and the raids last night were ‘considered unimportant, | |