The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 23, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 20. Negoted Prac. Sen. ~ BY Linergh As Best Eng OF Hosts This With Neither Side Be- ing Victorious; He Pre- dicts Defeat For Loan- Lease Bill (By Annocinted Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—A negotiated’ peace, with neither. side victorious, would be the best possible ending for the capstea | war, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh told a House Foreign Affairs DRUNKS LEAD IN REVOCATION OF LICENSES TWELVE WERE FOR RECK- LESSNESS | | | | TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 23 |(FNS).—Drunken driving —_ac- jeounted for 115 of the 130 driv- ers’ licenses revoked during the The Key West Citizen | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TH [NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART WILL HAVE VARIOUS PAINTINGS FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLAR INSTITUTION WAS’ GIFT MADE BY THE LATE AN- DREW MELLON By JACK STINNTT (Ry Ansoctated Prem) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Art came from, the people and, in the United States at least, it seems to be going back to the people. When the great doors swing open here on the late Andrew W. Mellon’s $15,000,000 National Gal- lery of Art, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public will walk between the towering columns, stand in a ro- tunda that stretches 100 feet to the vaulted dome, and take over one of the world’s greatest collec- tions of paintings and sculpture. The National Gallery is a stag- gering, windowless expanse of pinkish-white Tennessee marble that runs along between Consti- tution and Pennsylvania avenugs within hailing distance of the —. URSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1941 Two. Factions Qf, Rumanian tron Guardists In Clash (By Associated Press) BUDAPEST, Jan. 23.—Clashes,came new reports of house-to- between two factions of Rumanian house combats in which at least Iron Guardists flared up sharply 50 Iron Guardists were said to today with reports the deposed have been killed. Rumanian minister of the interior! Rumors of a German occupation Rumanian Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country ; range of only 14° Fahrenheit with an average PRICE FIVE CENTS and his followers had seized the Bucharest police station and were firing on soldiers in the street. Radio reports from Rumania; later intimated the fighting in| ‘Bucharest had stopped and the government had regained control of the police station, but from! towns on the Russian frontier} of Rumania to restore order con- tinued to be heard, but Nazi | spokesmen here said their govern- ment is taking no interest in the strife. Hungary, meanwhile, mobilized some army units and the Turkish cabinet has been called into an emergency session. ;who have been drawn for jury Sixty: Jurors: Drawn: For Court Session On Monday Sixty Monroe county citizens|Franklin Carey, Jose Espinosa, | of two men.and injured 18 others. \Charles L. Pinder, Raul Sevila,| has | START PROBE IN . BIG PLANE CRASH j CIVIL AERONAUTICS UNIT NAMES BOARD OF FOUR MEN { | (By Associated Press) ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23—Civil ‘ Aeronautics authorities this morn- ‘in quickly named a four-man | board to investigate the crash of a {TWA airliner which cost the lives T. P. Scott, the pilot, and J. F. WORKERS IN TWO rst Indusval Cty Ltt | PLANTS WALKOUT in Flames Following Raid | That Lasted Several \BOTH PLACES AREHANDLING, Hours DEFENSE ORDERS OF $10,000,000 (iy Aasortated Press LONDON, Jan, 23.—Royal Air (By Ansociated Press) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 23— jag night at D a tou ;Workmen in two International | Harvester plants with defense or- "#94 one-half hour raid that left iders of $10,000,000 today joined the great indusirial city in flames, striking Alice Chalmers eM- they reported today, ployees in a general walkout, committee this morning. Capitol. Seven thousand Alice Chalmers’ A oil plant and the heavy con- Predicting defeat for the “loan- jmonth of December, according to a Even in a city that con- {a report released last week by jtains buildings whose floor-space ithe Department of Public Safety. ease” bill on which his testimony | Reckless driving was the reason was taken today, Colonel Lind- stated for 12 revocations, incom- bergh scoffed at the dangers of in-!petency for two revocations and vasion of the United States, but ‘physical unfitness for one revo- advocated construction of 10,000 | cation. modern fighting’ planes os this | Polk county had 25 revocations; ‘ | 11; Putnam, 7; country’s surest protection. 6; | Orange county, | Dade, Duval, He pointed out to the Congress- | Manatee, Marion, | Hillsborough, Pinellas .and men the difference between an/ Volusia, 5 each; Alachua, Char- aerial invasion of this country and |lotte, Leon and Sarasota, 4 each; trans-ocean bombings in which a | Highlands, Palm Beach and Sem- tinole, 3 each; Hernando and Jef- large plane might fly over the At- |ferson, 2 each; Brevard, Broward, lantie and drop a few bombs. Gadsden, Glades, Lake, Martin “Such a plane might easily be and Osceola, 1 each. Certified constructed,” he said, “but i¢ Teports of convictions on drunken would be too expensive, not of ,4tiving charges in Georgia were military value, and would mean jTesponsible for 15 of the licenses too great a loss’to the invading Tevoked by the Department of power.” Lindbergh __ explained, Public Safety, such bombings éould not in any| Duval cétinty had 11 of the 45 way prepare the road for an in-|@rivers’ licenses suspended dur- vasion and added, “If England can|ing December. Hillsborough iad live at all with bombers only an ;8; Polk, 6; Volusia, 5; Lake and hour’s flight away, I do not see Orange, 3 each; Leon, Manatee that the United States is in anyjand Seminole, 2 each; Gadsden, great danger.” }Putnam and Sarasota, 1 each. | Since the Drivers’ License Act ‘became effective in Octeber, ' 1939, a total of 1,424 drivres’ li- censes have been revoked and 406 have been suspended. Practically all of these revocations and sus- ; pensions were made during the TO FLOAT BARGE TWO TUGS ARE NOW EN-|itrol did not become active until | December 11, 1939. DEAVORING TO FREE CRAFT | AT CONTENT KEY Coast Guard officers here wait- ed this afternoon to learn if it would be necessary to “send the cutter Pandora to float a barge grounded since Sunday on Con- tent key. Two Hoffmen Construction Company tugs, Payday and The report on activities of the can be measured only in acres, the National Gallery is an eye- stopper. But what is in it is far more ar- resting and many times more valuable than the building itself, for Mr. Mellon not only gave the building to the nation but threw in, to boot, 122 great paintings and numerous pieces of fine sculp- ture, valued in the neighborhood of $55,000,000. More Gifts Followed Augmenting this within a few months, Samuel H. Kress, the New York five-and-dime tycoon, an- nounced his gift to the Gallery of 375 paintings by the old Italian masters and more sculpture. And more recently still, «Joseph E. Widener, heir of traction mag- nate Peter A. B. Widener in Phila- delphia, ahnounced that he would strip the walls and pedestals of Lynnewood, his ancestral home at Elkins Park, Pa., further to enrich the museum. It is next to impossible to place any dollar-and-cents value on art, but guesses are that when the Na- tional Gallery opens, the building and its contents will represent an; outiay of between one hundred and two hundred million dollars. Here will be Rembrandt's “The , Mill,” for which it is reported the elder Widener paid England's Lord Landsdowne a tidy half mil- lion and which has been called one of the world’s greatest pic- tures. There will be 22 other ;duty in connection with the Fed-| ,eral Housing Authority’s condem- | Andrew C. Elwood, Sinton D.| Mott, a TWA employe riding as a| Johnson, J. W. Pinder, John! Passenger, were instantly killed Mickie, S. Winfield Roberts, as the big transport plane crashed j employees walked out of their plant yesterday after negotiations /nation suit in circuit court Mon- | James Hyde, Fabio Olivieri, Eu- day have been served with sub-| gene Fabal, William R. Archer, poenas by deputies of Sheriff Ber- | Albert L. DiNegro, Frank O. Rob- ‘lin Sawyer’s office, it was an-'erts, Nestor Recio, Alfred D. jnounced today. Cook, George C. Russell, Frank | The prospective jurors are Se-'A. Varela, Frank W. Johnson, bastian Cabrera, Moreno Wallace, Waldo Valenzuelo, Reggie Trev- !George B. Johnson, Roy J. Tracy, | or, Henry Betancourt, William Hamilton P. Williams, Leslie E./ Atwell, Henry Barcelo, Willard Thompson, Ramon Torres, Clyde;L; Alymda, Richard A. Knowles, iM. Knight, Geerge Key, Faus-|Clarence Higgs, Walter Thomp- |tino Rendueles, Jr., J, H. Huau,|son, John Larner, Haydn Illing- Harry M. Sawyer, Beauregard ‘worth, Emerito Gomez, Freemont Lowe, Kingman G. Curry, Abra-{|T, Curry, William T. Doughtry, ham Carey, J. Carlyle © Roberts, \Jr., Evelio Sivila, Charles O, Cale William Sands, Ross C. Sawyer, and Garland Felton. Jr., Alfred A. Acherson, J. M. Va-| | Circuit Judge Arthur Gomez rela, Sr., Harold M. Russell,| will hear the case Monday. mora- Charles C. Curtis, W. M. Weaver, |ing at 10 o'clock. { Two submarine chasers and command of Lieut. (junior grade) two patrol boats which have spent | William B. MoCiactt, Be. malt ofthe Esse jleave here within a few days for pap mae ci ore i: is Norfolk, Va., while SC-64, with in fresh water, arrived in ey Lieut. (jg) Robert Kunkle in com- | West this morning to begin the }last leg of a cruise which will; jearry three of them almost com- | pletely around the eastern half of |the United States. York, YP-32, commanded by Lieut. (jg) Harold V. Brown is ex- pected to remain for duty in Key West. Four Government Vessels | Arrive At Naval Station! mand, will go on alone to New| near a landing field here early this | A morning. for a general pay raise and re- | The plane, bound for New York |employment of 1,000 dismissed from Los Angeles, appeared in petz| workmen had broken down. fect control as it dropped in fora} phe International Harvester {landing here, then suddenly swerved into a high-tension wire, /employees have demanded a gen- sheered off a telephone pole and €ral wage increase and recogni- crashed into the ground. | tion for their CIO union. , First Sate) werigent in fe ooo Building trades in Pittsburgh, ‘pany since , the wreck sent 13 | i iti “ the passengers to the hewiial eee additions: to aipern: ‘and nine have not been released. |Ment buildings, also have de- |All the passengers were at least manded dismissal of jaon-union slightly injured. |workmen as the conaition on Witnesses to the tragedy said. which they will continue te work. i the plane’s nose struck the ground | ‘and it crashed over and over, ! tearing its metal hull almost i BRITISH ENVOY half. Both engines were thrown! from.their, moorings and a wing, * was torn off. .. RECREATION IN FLORIDA SHOWN | AS IMPORTANT KEY WEST FOR OVERSEAS PARKWAY . ae HALIFAX WILL EITHER LAND IN U.S. OR CANADA ! jnted Prenss | LONDON, Jan. 23.—Viscount Halifax, new British envoy to Washington, will land either in j the United States or Canada here, The viscount is variously re- ported aboard a British warship TO-LAND- TODAY. "zz some time today, it is rumored | | Highway Patrol for the year 1940 | (Continued On Page Four) Rembrandts, including his “De- H scent From the Cross,” “The Man With a Tall Hat” and “Lady With TAMPA PREPARES | Ostrich Feather Fan.” H ‘There will be Vermeers, El Gre- FOR ST. ATE EF AIR cos, and Titians; Maset’s great | cpa painting, “The Dead Toreador,” ‘FORMAL OPENING FEBRU- | and works of Renoir and Degas. From the Widener collection will come one of the world’s finest i groups of canvases by Van Dyck, Led by the sub-chaser 412, | which served'as flagship for the | | ing in command and senior officer present, the four small vessels put into Key West after a trip from the Great Lakes, down the Mis- sissippi river and around the gulf coast. SC-412 and YP-27, under the i | All of the ships have been based TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 23 cruise with Lieut. Walter E. Goer- rtraining naval reserves. | while the smaller patrol in the Great Lakes area for use in } SC-412 , (FNS).—Among the recommen- was, at Milwaukee, SC-64 at dations made in the Florida Park, Peoria, Ill., YP-27 at Minneapolis, Parkway and Recreational-Area and YP-32 at St. Joseph, Mich. |Study recently completed under The sub-chasers carry a comple- the sponsorship of the Florida ment of 17 men and two officers, State Planning Board, of which boats George G., Gross is executive sec- lretary, are the expansion of rec- lreational, facilities in existing |State Parks and improved access to main highways; the acquisi- have 10 men and two officers. or a Pan-American flying boat. Reports here agreed only in that he is generally believed to plan arrival in the western hemisphere today, but his point of debarka- tion was variously reported as Halifax, Nova Scotia, Boston, New York or a point on the Poto- mac river. CHARLES FARR ARY 4; GASPARILLA FEB. 3° Lucky, are attempting to float the | heavily loaded barge today, but j neither is equipped with radio and coast guard headquarters say they | the Flemish portrait painter of the 17th century. * TRUCK):STRIPPED: |ROBBER «STAGES ition of areas which, because of their scenic, scientific, archaeo- COMING HERE will not send the Pandora unless its assistance is requested. The tugs are expected to at- tempt to refloat the barge at high tide late this afternoon and will then have a four hour run back to Key West before they can report to the cdast guard. J. B. SYMMONETTE PURCHASES HOME TAMPA, Jan. 23 (FNS).—Two jweeks away from the formal! {opening on Tuesday, February 4, Florida State Fair reports a com- plete sell out of every foot of ex- hibition space in the 24 mam- moth fireproof buildings and the {demand for grandstand seat res- jervations for Gasparilla Day on ‘y 10 and other special indicate capacity } Dr. and Mrs. G. Allen Trexell of | Sarasota, back for their fifth visit jin Key West and their first trip lon the Overseas Highway, are visiting here at Hotel La Concha. The pair, who came to Florida | for the first time in 1930, have jhad as their guests here Mrs. ire crowds. Clattering hammers in every building mark the activities of OUT ON HIGHWAY BERS MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO FIND TIRES Failure of American Telephone to record the serial numbers of turned sheriff's office investigation of the strip- ping of an A. T. & T. truck yester- truck tires has and Telegraph Company officials, ‘ fy Y ‘BARGAIN SALE) <a: and ,histogic values should | be preserved and the acquisition (Continued on Page Four) ARRESTED. BUT COMPLAIN- pelbihehahierewinmenet ANT WOULD NOT PROS- ECUTE CASE TEMPERATURES A thief who broke into a Key West home and then staged a bargain sale by disposing of an overcoat, three dresses and sever- al pairs of shoes all for 25 cents was at liberty ioday because the | } | sc Lowest last Highest las! night 24 hours 45 58 34 45 37 45 25 “4 47 24 Abilene Boise Boston Buffalo Charieston Chicago 29 } Charles Farr, WPA artist, who has just completed a mural in Tampa, wil come to Key West about February | to paint and teach at the Art Center, Town- send Morgan, director of the proj- ect, announced last night. scores of artisans who are prepar- |ing the elaborate county exhibi- Redecoration and repairs will! tions, Florida National Exhibits, be completed on the old Wilson! honey show, cigar industry ex- | Cleare home now occupied by position and the countless other | James B. Symmonette, who pur- displays that make up the na-| chased it yesterday. tion's fourth largest Fair. Entries Symmonette, who bought the have never been so great, Gen- home for $3,000, said this morn-'eral Manager P. T. sStrieder re- ing he intends to keep the prop-/ ports in pointing to the hot com- erty as a residence, but will be-| petition that looms up for the! gin redecoration in a short time. ‘$40,000 in cash premiums offered ' | — | CLUB SAMOA Exclusive Fashionable Meeting Place On the Ocean - Unexcelled Drinks Dancing - Entertainment - Music by Sammy Bird OPPOSITE YACHT BASIN Beatrice Butler and Miss Mar- garet Butler of Boston, Miss Rose Hoey, Dorchester, Mass, and Joseph Butler, Framingham, Mass. Dr. Thexell, impressed with the climate here and the trip on Over- seas Highway, said he had found a number of changes and im- provements in Key West since his last visit. LONDON RESTS FROM BOMBINGS (Ry Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 23—No Ger- man bombers appeared over Lon- don last night and heavy mists today continued to hol ir ac- tivity almost at a standstill Several high-flying German planes were sighted over the mid- day into a guessing game. The company reported yester- day one of their trucks parked on the highway had been stripped of wheels and tires during the ab- sence of workmen. Deputies attempting to check on the case today said the com- pany's failure to register the tire numbers would make +t almost impossible for. them, © Ft PIT ALIAN ARMY an intelligent s@arch: owner of the property refused to sign an affidavit. Sheriff Berlin Sawyer’s office arested the mar on a tip from the purchaser of the clotning but released him when the woman complainant said she would not prosecute the case. (Ry Assoctated Preas) ATHENS, Jan. 23—A fierce two-day battle in the snow around Klisura has ended in the rout of an attacking Italian army, it was announced here today. Greek forces, beating back the attacks from their mountain 35 pa | 51 27 41 71 24 Cincinnati Denver Detroit Galveston Havre Huron KEY WEST |Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis {Montgomery |New Orlears New York Phoenix | Pittsburgh |St. Louis 31 Salt Lake City 28 }San Francisco 51 Spokane 32 Sit. Ste. Marie -7 Washington _ 42 Col. William F. Robinsor,, cut- ting short his Key West inspec- tion tour, left for Miami last night. The Colonel, who is inspector general of the Third Army, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, made a two-day tour of barracks and Fost Taylor here. 6 6 1 j “Rollin’ 62 4 17 71 i) 47 64 49 51 6 58 “ 25 55 ; CONWAY VISITS HERE j delantiecainits P. J. Conway of Pittston, Pa. centration of railroad yards in Dusseldorf were said to have been destroyed, while other units of airforce hammered several un- named points in the German in- _dustrial section. s Residents of tl Dover this mor dull” hammeriry bombs on the s°) 3 ' section of me, tthe tae |scured. vision. j Reports indicated, however, the RAF bombers had renewed their attacks on channel ports during the morning and it was believed they were ranging all along the coast in a new series of attacks on possible invasion ‘points, | sl 7 SECT : | BRITISH fantry was still mopping up a few |scattered points of resistance at | Tobruk today, but the strategic \fort and its garrison of 14,000 jmen had surrendered. | Official sources have yet ‘made public the number ltal- ‘ian dead and wounded im th ismashing attack which last wrested Tobruk. into’ B hands and paved the way Jor a new attack on Italy's army in Lybia, i British losses in the attck are placed at less than 500, while Italian losses are counted at 14,- 000 taken prisoner, including a general commanding an. army corps, two other generals and an admiral, 200 heavy artillery guns and much equipment. (Italian newspapers today ad- mitted the fall of. Tobruk, but said military men had foreseen the surrender when Bardia was |taken and had destroyed all valu- ‘able equipment.) Flying British columns, some of which took part in the initial (Continued on Page Four) NAVAL STATION WORKERS MEE HARDIN NAMED CHAIRMAN OF NOMINATING COMMIT- TEE LAST NIGHT Hunter G. Hardin, naval sta- tion employe here, last night was named chairman of a Federation of Government employes nomin- ating committee at # meeting staged in the Knights of Pythias hail Hardin, with other members of the committee, will draw up a lint of candidates to be presented for the annual election February 5. Members of the committee are Hardin, George Perpall, Jr. Jeme J. Montgomery, Max £. Foster and Jose A. Torano. DON'T MISS IT! Rythm” HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM TONIGHT and FRIDAY NIGHT heights, said the Italian army |property owner in Key West for| had broken and was being hurled '14 years, is here for a visit of: back with heavy loss of life and two weeks in the interest of his iequipment. holdings. January 23-24, 8:00 p.m. lands this morning. but they HELP KEY WEST LIONS CLUB BLIND FUND! dropped no bombs and were be- jleved to be scouting planes. Watch for New Floor Show Opening Saturday