The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 30, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Cttizer THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXIIL. No. 26. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1941 German And British: Forces Swap Blows At Several Pomnts English Smash Into Base REGISTRATION At Derna; Nazis Strike Heavy At London During | Night And Today | FOR CLASSES 7:30 TONIGHT {PLANNING BOARD MAPPING OUT SCHEDULE FOR VOCA- TIONAL TRAINING MEETS) AT 8 O'CLOCK (By Annocinted Press) British colonial troops smash- ing into Italy's east Libyan | at Derna and bombs in London and Wilhelm- | shaven highlighted the the thunder a Applicants for vocational train-} ing under the newly set up state | | board of education pian. will reg- A formal communique from jister for classes tonight at 7:30! Cairo said Gen. Sir Archibald |o’clock at the Key West high! Wavell’s victorious desert troops | sehool, had completed the occupation of; Monroe county’s planning board, Derna and were pressing ahead | which has mapped out a tentative for a quick attack on Italy's last schedule of classes, will meet at, stronghold in East Libya, Ben- |the high school at 8 o'clock. gasi. ; As the program is now ar- German bombers, striking a ranged, five classes will be pre- | furious blow at London after a sented for naval station employes week of bad weather, pounded | and teachers who have been ap- | the city throughout last night; | pointed to direct the courses will! and four heavy daylight raids | be on hand tonight to register ap- were reported to have taken place | plicants. this morning. | Under the outline presented by Royal Air Force squadrons, the state board of education, how- meanwhile, dumped tons of ever, any ten men interested in a bombs over Germany's great subject not listed in the program naval base at Wilhel yen, re-| May arrange for classes in that } ies subject, provided equipment can be secured. VOTERS RUSH TO REGISTER: Monroe county _ freeholders, rushing to, get in their affidavits | before registration ends tonight, | will carry the total of eligible | voters well over 500, Election Supervisor John England pre-} world’s | war news today. and warehouses. A German re- port said most of the bombs had! landed in residential sections and four people had been killed. From Albania, Greek reports | insisted a series of Italian coun- | terattacks around Valona had been beaten off and their army | was marching forward in the face of rear guard action by the re- treating Fasc’ Britain’s occupation of Derna, expected for days, is believed to have resulted in the capture of only a few Italians as the base |*. had been held by a skeleon force. | Uicted today. The town is important, however, | The last minute rush has pro- (iy Associated Press) Min iene ini aiiine 6 ef | vided more affidavits in the past pool “nor ea the [two days than had been collected | jin the prev ious two weeks andj; |England has been too swamped to | JAPAN T0 ADOPT. |make an accurate count. Freeholders are being asked if ’ STRINGENT LAWS they own property other than their exempt homesteads and the | itwe of affidavits must be kept | amped |separately. England said he will TEATH OERALT® FOR (SPIES extend the 5 o'clock deadline at ONE OF PROVISIONS pate his office closes tonight by accepting affidavits until a rea-/} IN BILL | sonable hour tonight at his home, | | 912 Southard street. is studying terms of a bill which would provide stringent new OUT ON PATROL regulations governing civilians in Japan. | The bill includes the death | penalty, without trial or appeal, for spies. It also would limit vessel sharply news descriptions of hap- penings in Japan from St. Petersburg, will leave Key West on its regular rounds sometime today Committee Named To Solicit Funds For Legion Conventio John Delgado, Raul Ignacious Carbonell, Carbonell, Paul Curry, am A. Freeman, L. S. Gruber, Pearlman and Everett Rus-/ A committee of 11 businessmen was named today by arle ton, chairman of the speci r mittee to solicit funds for the Ar erican Legion c jon here April 23-26, to as m in the work. Those named lard M Albury iz Letters will be out today .,, and tomorrow to h . business Mayor Wil- house the 24 groups into which Bowan been vided. Each were Duke the c! etter wi contair desire th, BEST OF THE PORTO RICAN RUM For Sale By ALL LEADING BARS AND CAFES express t the chant w arg their be said today. “The t taken Du ked to asked $5,000, the on Page Four) _ fees ‘of gas tax moncys by DIVERSION OF GAS TAX MONEYS IS EXPLAINED| FLORIDA'S NARROW ESCAPE RECALLED WHEN COMP- TROLLER STOPPED DISTRI- BUTION OF FUNDS (Special to The Citizen) ATLANTA, Jan. 30.—Diversion state au- thorities is actually going to cost Georgia’s road building program $504,074 of federal aid. Thos. H. MacDonald, U.S. commissioner of public roads, has declined to re- view his decision of Dec. 28 de- ducting that sum from Georgia’s jallocation, and the $504,074 will be distributed to the other 47 states between now and June 30 in addition to their regular al- jlotment of federal aid funds un- der the Hayden-Cartwright law which provides that Uncle Sam may penalize states up to one- third of any year’s federal aid al- |lowance if that state diverts gas tax moneys to purposes other than highway construction. FLORIDA'S NARROW ESCAPE The above recalls that Florida ; ;had a narrow escape when State | Comptroller J. M. Lee in 1937 | stopped local act distributions of | |gas tax moneys under these moneys were being divert- (Continued on Page Four) MORE: MIDSHIPME ARE AUTHORIZED Navy headquarters here were’ ‘advised in a radio message from the secretary of the navy today that Congress has passed legisla- tion authorizing appointment of an additional midshipman to the naval academy by senators, rep- resentatives and delegates to | Congress. Since time is too short to ar- range for examinations April 16, the mental examination, at that time will be eliminated and all candidates, including those from the regular army and the naval and marine corps reserves, will | be examined i ee ee Zz; NEGRO IS HELD Ernest Rouse, negro, yesterday | lafternoon was bound over to | criminal court tinder $200. bond ; by Enrique Esguinaldo, justice of the peace. Rouse has been held in county jail since Monday on a charge of assault. He is accused of attack- ing Géorge Carey, another negro, | with a knif THREE BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED — Church of God, 1106 Olivia | street, yesterday took out one of | by Ralph Russell’s city building department for general repairs. The church was issued a $100. |permit for painting. Margarite Lacedona, monton street, was 1313 Si- granted a |$100 permit for general repaii and Edward Sawyer, 728 Pas: issued metal work on over Lane, was $100 permit for his home. CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT z A meet has be sub cat to be taken up for dis- LOST! ! PLATINUM WEDDING RING BAND Reward If Returned To * Key West Drug Company which | another | Leese Bill ‘Goes To Congress For Debate * t { | (Ny Associated Press) II IIIS ISIS. ASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Ad- PICKETT CHOSEN AS ministration torces won their first | DIRECTOR OF HEALTH ous victory in the fight over | e “lend-lease” bill today as the | tol Foreign Affairs committee 'gave its approval and turned the {measure over to Congress for de- | bate. The bill reportedly was | proved by a vote of 17 to eight. | House committeemen previous- ! td badd de dd ly had turned down a_ proposed | BEEN wae Ane? RTA amendment which would have | MISS: BLACK: WAS ;prevented President Roosevelt | VISITOR TO CITY ‘using American warships to con- , SUPERVISOR OF EDUCATION voy supplies to Britain. They ap- proved, however, an siigeeden or ADDRESSED STUDENTS WHILE HERE (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 30. —Dr. William H. Pickett of Jacksonville, today was nam- ed state director of health by | Governor Spessard L. Hol- | land. ap- | | which said the bill could not be | ‘construed as authorizing the use | of naval vessels for convoy duty. RECREATION PLANS DISCUSSED TODAY NTERTAINMENT FOR SERV-| ICE MEN TAKEN UP FOR CITY’S LEADERS | Miss Harriet M. Black, newly appointed supervisor of Adult Education WPA for District No. 3, made her first visit to Key | | West yesterday. Miss Black found } Mrs. Crosby’s commercial stu-| peer at the high school building, | an alert group of young people; Navy requirements for person-! studying very industriously so/nel recreation are being laid be- | that they might be fully prepared | fore a committee of city, county | to do efficient work when called! ang chamber of commerce rep- upon to fill office positions which | resentatives early this afternoon, toe be open because of the im- at a La Concha hotel luncheon. | | mense defense program. | Col. G. D. Hatfield, represent- In Miss Black’s talk to the ing Capt. W. F. Jacobs of the na student body, they were intensely |g} station, is expected to tell com- interested in hearing some first- mittee members what the navy hand information about South will require in recreation if lib- | Ameriea—information which ‘she trty parties are to continue com- had obtained during her work in ing ashore in Kev West and how helping organize schools for Amer- far the navy will go in assisting ican citizens, whose work neces- a recreational program. | sitated their living in Venezuela.’ Attending the conference are She told them about how the Colonel Hatfield, Carl Bervaldi, | native Venezuelans, because of chairman of the county commis- their weak government were sion; Mayor Willard Albury; Wil- realizing the importance of éduca- liam Freeman, president of the tion; that up until 1938 they had a city council; Victor Lowe, NYA high rate of illiteracy. Now, all director; Al Peirce, William Mon- Venezuelans were encouraged to salvatge and Julius F. Stone, Jr., take English, and Americans to chamber of commerce commit- | study Spanish. She dealt on the teemen, and a_ representative characteristics of the people of from each the army and coast | (Continued on Page Four) guard. FOR COURT TRIAL REINSTATEMENT —-NATION’S OUTPUT OF LAVAL URGED SHOWS INCREASE y ‘d Press) (By Associated Pres BERLIN, 30.—German| WASHINGTON, aJn —The | newspapers today joined Paris nation’s industrial output for this papers in occupied France in a, month has reached 135 percent of ; scathing attack on the Vichy gov-| the 1935-39 average, it was .an- jernment. nounced today. The papers derided Premier. With’ 15,000 men on strike in | Phillipe Petain’s government and six industrial plants and one air- urged reinstatement in power of port project, output, increased Pierre Laval, ousted by Petain. sharply during the month. | VACATIONING IN FLORIDA AND KEY Nemesis, coast guard patrol 'the three building permit sissued | Norman Sets Of Ohio Writes Ot Trip Made To State WEST NOT SO EXPENSIVE AFTER ALL How to visit Florida and Key!Cleveland. Hotels are a little West on a limited budget is de- more expensive during the height scribed in a Cleveland (Ohio) of the season than they are here Press story by Norman Shaw, but there is a wide range of a |city editor of the paper, who has comodations and prices at a {rece completed a tour of the ‘times. (Part of t ‘ory not of | state with his family general interest ey Westers | Shaw's story, released through is deleted here the Fle of nner, w merce ows ith children’s portions for two, was $290 at a Homestead restaurant, on the road to‘Key West. . Hotels, \ - eat tages and apartmen anything you wish to paid only $4 a in a Florida Tt can as economis you choose need be, abo jextravagant as just pay ight for an im- with two children. a large trouble staying d budget, seeing is to see, and d eating in good com- * |San choose from at $5 a night fc jsleeping 3: fh bath Florida attrac- Marineland, Mc Jungle Garden. Silver Springs. cost $1 apiece to visit There are no toll roads, but a few oll bridges, of which the Over- seas Bridge from Miami to Key West is most expensive ($1 for car and driver cach way)—end ,fon't miss it”. i ost of the such as | amount ‘we do not | ng we hesitate selves “Food prices are just about the same in Florida as they are in , Huron {Los Angeles > Phe Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Hitler Wars All Na That Ships With British PRICE FIVE CENTS e ONS Supplies Will Be Sunk ‘EXPLAINS. STATUS OF INSURANCE OF ACTION ON | NAVY PERSONNEL SECRETARY OF NAVY SENDS OUT INFORMATION DEAL-: ING WITH LOSS OF RIGHTS , AFTER CERTAIN PERIOD Navy personnel in active serv- jice October 8, 1940 who continue lactive duty without a resumption of civilian status will lose all rights to apply for national serv- ice life insurance after February |5, Secretary of the Navy Frank {Knox has informed the local base. Personnel who entered or re-en- jtered active service after Octo- ber 8, will continue their eligibil- ‘ity and may make application | lany time within 120 days after | their enlistment. Veterans’ administration has nformed the navy all applica- tions for insurance should b2 made on the pzeseribed forms, but any'signed statement from an ‘applicant which meets require- ments of regulations, together with payment for the first month- llv premium, will be considered an | application. TAG-PURCHASING DEADLINE NEARS Monroe county automobile own- ers are facing a fine and com- pulsory purchase of licenses if they don’t buy them before mid- night tomorrow, but they are still buying them slowly. Out of a total somewhere in ex- cess of 2,000, 1100 automobile own- ers today had purchased their new licenses and Tax Collector Joe C. McMahon's office force is puzzling over what will happen if the others all try to get in before closing time tomorrow. The offiee will clo: ular trme Friday afternoon and Sheriff Berlin Sawyer's deputies will begin stopping. cars, with 1940 licen: fdfteribidnight. TEMPERATURES Lowest last|/Highest last night 24 hours 53 64 27 39 at its reg- Abilene Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Denver Detroit El Paso Galveston Hatteras Jacksonville KEY WEST BIR Miami . 94 Minneapetis** New Orleans w York Okla. City Pittsburgh St Louis Salt Lake City Francisc Spokane Ps) Sue8 2 Wash hington ae ATTENTION to our customers who plan to attend the President’s Birthday Ball Make Appointments Early Carolvn Beauty Salon Overseas Hotel Phone I 'swing 75 Phone 177 FAVORS QUICK BILL TO AID BRITAIN —- GERARD STATES JAMES W. THAT HE PERSONALLY FA- | VORS DECLARATION OF WAR ON GERMANY | lSeya Al Vessels ‘With Or Without Convoy: Will Be Patt Without cy’ (My Assveinzea Preys BERLIN, Jan. 30.—Adolf Hitler. speaking before 20,000 Nazi par- ity members on the anniversary | of his rise to supreme power, (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—De- claring he would favor an imme- diate declaration of war on Ger- many, but does not consider it necessary, James W. Gerard, United States ambassador to Ger- many in 1918, urged the Senate Foreign Affairs committee this morning to take quick action on the “lease-lend” bill. Gerard said the situation now is very dangerous and pointed out the dangers of German infiltration into South America and a subse- quent attack on the United States. He told the committeemen Brazil has a population of 2,000,000 Ger- . mans and 35 per cent of the en- tire population is of Italian de- scent. The former ambassador said the idea of a declaration of war was only his personal opinion and in answer to questions testified he did not believe American involve- ment was by any means _ inevi- table. ° ROTARIANS | HEAR ABOUT AIRPORT MONSALVATGE BRINGS MAT- ‘Y. TER BEFORE CLUB AT MEETING TODAY Urging support for the estab- lishment of an army airbase at Boca Chica, William Monsalvatge described benefits to Key West to- day in a talk before members of the Rotary club. Monsalvatge. asked tarians to make every popular support to the measure between the close’ of registrations today and the free- holders’ election February 4. the effort Ro- to TIES MANY KNOTS MIAMI, Fia.—Lieutenant Com- mander J. N. Patton of this city can tie 772 varieties of useful and ornamental knots. ‘attempt to aid England | power | werned the nations of the world today that ships bearing supplies to Britein. “wiih or without con- voy, will be torpedoed”. Hitler said he and his generals had taken into account since the first that the United States would in her fight, “When our hour comes, we will strike decisively”, he said. “The year 1941 will be hi year of our triumph”. The-Puehrets F Mecnietg tian ‘radio hookup whieh carried his words to Norway, Italy, Denmark, Holland and German’ soldiers throughout Europe told of 300° years of British oppression of small nations throughout the world. ‘ The British Empire, he said, has persecuted Germany since 1871 and deliberately provoked both the World War and the present struggle, Describing Ger- many’s defeat in 1918, | he) jsairl England had sent “an American to plunder Germany” and! had then broken all of the solemn promises made in the peace trea- ty. Hitler described his own rise to and told his listeners “even the citizens of Germany do not know to what an extent our forces have grown. The army and air force have expanded be- yond our fondest dreams”. The German premier mention ed the time of the final blow against Britain onlv indefinitely as in the Spring, He mentioned bis axis partner only once, to sey “only in Germany and in Musso lini’s country have the principles of national socialism taken root and grown”. JOLTED OUT OF BED RICHMOND, Calif —Raymond Fry of, this city suffered back in- juries when an automobilé struck his home and jolted him out of his bed. Legion Unit Discusses Plans Fo Members of the board of direc- wrs of the Key West Convention corporation met last night with C Howard Rowton, Palatka. Florida ent adjutant of the Am ican Legion and discussed plans for the anpual convention of the Legion here April Rowton expressed pleased with the by the convention said the Key promised to be r held by the Legion Innumetab friends of mine, men who have never been in Key West, have stated to me their in as wel progress made and ntion XS YOUR DOCTOR ORDERS That's the wey we fill your PRESCRIPTIONS Pure Fresh Ingredients. Too! Gardner’s Pharmacy “The Rexall Store” Free Delivery r Convention tention to eome here”, Adjutant Rowton said. “The housing ar- rangements are satisfactory and 1 believe will be ample for all the men who are coming to your beau- tiful city.” Adjutant Rowton answered a number of questions from the di- rectors of the corporation. He ex- pressed pleasure with the tenta- tive plan to make the occasion «@ fiesta, with Cubsan rhumbe dancers and the Cuban national band featured. Nava! cooperation was urged by the state adjutant. Consequently Al Mills, executive director of the corporation will write letters st once to U.S. Senators Claude Pepper and Charlies Andrews, as well as Congressman Pat Cannon seeking the cooperstion of the navy department in permitting | Legionnaires to go aboard vessela (Continued On Page Four)