The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 3, 1941, Page 1

\ | VOTE IN THE BOND ELECTION TOMORROW Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West mw Key West Ctttzen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOLUME LXI1. No. 29. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS Bond Election To Be Held Tomorrow For Purpose Of Passing On SPP O I LIM MMM, : ‘APPROVES RAISE IN Issue For Securing Funds , NATIONAL DEBT LIMIT For Government Air-| eS (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.— | The House Ways and Means committee today approved a measure raising the national debt limit from 49 to 65 bil- lion dollars. port a Property owners of Key West | and Monroe county will go to the | polls tomorrow to decide if they | FVII OPIS IS IS wsut 1 bons cna iw seavea OUTLINING PLANS FOR LEGISLATU |SENATOR DYE TO HAVE LEG- | ISLATION ADVERTISED 30 Voting places are | Precinct 1—County courthouse. | PAYS E Tey ence Precinct 2—Dixie Hall, White- | head street. Precinct 3—City Hali. Precinct 4—521 Division street Precinct 5—331 William street. Precinct 6—322 Grinnell street. Precinct 7—605 Ashe street. Precinct 8—No. 3 Fire Station. Precinct 9—Golden Eagle Hall. by the army for an airport. | The polls open at 8:00 o'clock | and will remain open until sun- down. BRADENTON, Feb. 3 (FNS). |—State Senator Dewey A. Dye, ‘representing the 39th (Sarasota, Charlotte and Mana- tee counties), has written the House members in the lof his district to advise them that District | counties | ‘in order to facilitate the proceed- | Precinct 10—1111 Division, Precinct 11 nasium. Precinct 12—1100 street Precinct 13—Marathon Grocery High School Gym- Virginia ings of the coming legislature, he IL strict! bserve the require- sirect.. pW? strictly observe e quire Constitution, that ation be advertised introduction — in ments of the all local legi: 30 before ithe legislature, and that he will ‘insist therefore that all proposed | \local bills be in his hands at least ,30 days before the legislature convenes, in order that he may be fully advised and may get the views of the affected public be- fore he leaves for Talla . It is expected that similar tion will be taken by — senators from other districts which will remove much of the confusion, lack of information, uncertainty and injustice that usually at- tends local legislation. GREEK FORCES MAKE ADVANCE k fore- es have pushed their advance to the shore of Valona bay, about eight miles from the Albanian city, it was announced today The month-long siege of V: lona is being steadily pressed, ac- HALF-MAST FLAG size ihc serene is FOR WM. M'ADOO ALAMO CAME. IN Precinct 14—Pinder’s Garage, Islamorada. Precinct 15--C. O. rett's Packing House Rock Harbor. TWO TRIED IN CRIMINAL COURT Lewis Cobella and = Arthur Crosani, charged with petty lar- ceny in the theft of two bicycles at Matecumbe key, entered a plea of guilty in Judge William V. Albury’s criminal court this morning and were sentenced to 45 days in county jail The court, which began its ses: sion this morning, will at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning for the trial of Sam _ Pritchard, held on a grand larceny count, nd to set dates for remaining cases on the docket convene Flags over the Key West Coast Guard station todav were at half death of former sec The ‘ wy reighter Saturday Key West from half afternoon s funeral this cretary of the mast in honor of the William G. McAdoo retary of the The flags will remain at mast until McAdo« afternoon. The is ex of the coast guard f treasury i k yesterday 292 of freight for gE 292 te treasury officer left here the r Tampa. late ir Largest Type Of Mosquito Boat Arrives At Key West PORT YESTERDAY ! i | ARE NUMEROUS | TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY- | | ; WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. — | TWO SUPPORTED IN 1940; Stewart F. LaFollette, former gov- | ernor of Wisconsin, told the Senate } RATING AS CONSUMER MAR. {Foreign Affairs committee this | KET SHOWN AS HIGH |morning passage of the “lease- i | lend” bill would place the power | eee \ of war or peace in the hands of one | WASHINGTON, D. C,, Feb. 3.—|Man—President Roosevelt. |(WNS)—The density of retail! The bill, he said, would “clothe |outlets in Key West in relation to the United States in all the trap- |its population is greater than for Pings of dictatorship, the very | the State of Florida, less than for | thing it is supposed to prevent. |Monroe County, and greater than! LaFollette, first opponent of the for the United States as a whole, | Measure to testify before the com- | | According to the latest census! - erase \figures, Key West, with a pop-/ It ‘ulation of 12,927, last year sup-| TAMPA PREPARING all i kinds, or one for every 58 inhabi- |tants. For the country as a whole jthere is one store for every 73 in- were compiled as of April 1, 1940,| ELABORATE PROGRAM BEING ‘while the retail census was con- | ducted as of the end of 1939. ARRANGED FOR COMING i F CELEBRATION has one for every 52 inhabitants, | while Florida has a retail outlet | jfor every 66 inhabitants. jported 222 retail stores of FOR GASPARILLA ‘habitants. The population figures race | Monroe County, with 269 stores, | ‘These facts are significant since) TAMPA, Feb. 3—(FNS)—When | the number of retail facilities in!Gasparilla, the pirate chief, cap- a trade area in relationship to its ‘tures Tampa on Feb. 10, they will |Population is a deciding factor in Sourney up the Hillsboro River in guiding prospective new enter- | prises to a city. That a community is able to support proportionately more ' to transport them from the pirate stores than the national average, ship G: to the boat landing in would seem to indicate that its the newly developed Roebling rating as a consumer market 15/4344. now being built at Dunedin igh. Mid for the United States Navy. These giant tanks.,.operate jeither land or water and thousands the most modern equipment as ar- rangements have been completed j ‘of spectators lining the river bank |see them come up the river, climb the bank like an alligator, to take their place in the parade forma- tion and carry their pirate crew through the city streets to the Florida State Fair grounds, where the parade will be officially re- viewed by the governor and other notables. on (Ny Asnoctated Preas) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Ad- miral Harold Leahy, new United States ambassador to Vichy, has been instructed to check on re- ports that Japan has demanded has COMING EVENTS MONDAY Criminal Court session opens at Courthouse. it Meeting Chamber of pm a naval base from French Indo- China, it was reported here to- War between Indo-China Siam is reported still in progress despite an armistice signed Fri BEING ARRESTED day. Japan, as mediator in the to have demanded a port in In- do-China as her reward for set-| A complaint on Key West police tling the dispute. \action in arresting visitors to the Two important battles were city for improper parking cording to the reports, but no de- |of the chamber of commerce. tails have been given Both Douglas Rose of Philadelphia, countries agreed on a 15-day |who made the complaint, said he armistice to begin Saturday. had parked his car in front of a short time later to find a summons for illegal parking in his letter, said “We could not help but feel like day. | ont COMPLAINS OF armistice talks, is said in Vichy fought Saturday and Sunday, ac-|reached S. C. Singleton, secretary police officer and returned a imme- unwelcome strangers and diately cancelled our plans several days fishir keys and retur course we did no’ parking summons to the police th ne st r the police static among Miami. Of disregard the We captain on Senior 7:30 Junior, Commerce duty where we were TUESDAY ived and posted $1 Bond Election. Service Club. courteously rece Breeb bond Stonc ders’ Church pm 6:00 ‘There 5 departme strel Rhythm”, Navy vies" Sm GROUP. CONFERS WITH HOLLAND NEW YORK - BUSY BEE Cooking—Conch Chowder Daily “Best Sandwiches and Eats” for * the ° mittee, said he believed the measure would fool England into believing the United States would send men into the war, provided shipments of munitions failed to tip the balance against Germany. Norman Thomas, Socialist can- didate for president, was expected to testify this morning, but the committee suddenly announced LaFolette would be first to speak. Thomas is scheduled to speak in opposition to the measure this afternoon. JOS. W. ALBURY DIED LAST NIGH FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON Joseph W. Albury, age 61, died last night at his 1424 Eliza street, after a short illness. Funeral services will be held t morrow afternoon 4:30 from the chapel of Pritchard Funeral Home, Rev. W. R. Howell of Flem- ing Street Methodist Church, of- ficiating. residence Survivors are one son. Raymond Albury; one sister, Mrs. W. H. Tynes; one brother, W. H. Pierce, ail of Key West. WOOLEN GOODS MOSTLY DESIRED Wool sweaters and childrer warm clothes are the most press ing need of “Bundles For Brit- Mrs. Mary H. Barker, in charge of the project here, has been informed from New York headquarters. Mrs. Barker been receiving a flood of coats and warm ently donated by the north ‘No one things a received”, ain aid today she has heavy appar from clothes visitors would ever need I have here heavy she said. DEPARTS FOR JACKSONVILLE West for the past 20 term of ‘oast Guard radio ident of Key years, left duty in Ror expected to remain with their two chil here reported * TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest las! night 24 hours 39 49 REAL STORES Ses Too Much Power For Oi Fierce Attacks Made By Man Ate Tobitan Messe” BF itish And German Units (By Associated Press) TRAINING FIELD BEING REBUILT | i] CARLSTROM FIELD WAS CEN- | TER OF ACTIVITY DURING | WORLD WAR DAYS ARCADIA, Feb. ~3.—(FNS)— Carlstrom Field, of air- training activity during the days | for the first world war, is being re- | built for service again and, will once more be the alma mater of U. center .S. Army pilots. This school is designed to house and train 250 students and _ will probably have its enrollment in- creased to 500 within a year. The Riddle Aeronautical stitute, in charge of training tivities at the field, plans to estab- lish a college here which will be the talk of the Army Air Service. In- LICENSE TAGS SOLD RAPIDLY Motorists who failed to get their new license plates before the deadline Saturday night were’ still forming long lines at the county tax collection office this morning and Sheriff Berlin Saw- yer prepared for a drive to round up car owners still using the 1940 tags Joe C. MeMahon, collector, county tax aid this morning his of- ; fice had sold 1,560 licenses, 500 of them in a rush Friday and Satur- day. Tax records igdicate about 500 more cars are still operating with the 1940 licenses. FALSE ALARM OF FIRE ON SUNDAY The fire department answered a call sent in yesterday shortly after noon from box 132, corner of Fleming and Simonton street, and on arriving at the scene where there was supposed to be a_ fire, in the Jewish Synagogue build- ing, corner of Simonton and Southard;*it' was found that the occupants"fyya been smoking out} mosquitoey } Someone seeing sm coming out ffom thé building immediately ent in the alarm AQUEDUCT UNIT GOES TO MIAMI William T. Doughtry, chairmar Kev West Aqueduct com ion, left ear’ afternoon i with ams and nold to confer with SP. Robineau, commission at- Robineau has reported unoffi RFC funds will be construction Kev West ymission from him ally that will | report to- night EXPECT ARREST IN THEFT CASE . BLES: Royal Air Force Bombers JANUARY WEATHER \ NEARLY NORMAL | = | Nazis Make Surprise At- tack Over London Blast Various Bases; Key Westexperienced nearly normal weather dur- ing January with a high tem- perautre of 82 and a low of 52, 0.1 degrees cooler than the average since 1871. Precipitation for the month was 0.79 lower than the aver- a but there were five partly cloudy days and 12 rated cloudy. The greatest amount of precipitation for the month in any 24-hour pe- riod was 0.71 inch on Janu- ary 5 and January 6. The normal wind direction for Key West, which is north- east, held fairly steadily on due north during January, with an average hourly ve- locity of 10.7 and a high of 29 miles per hour. Under miscellaneous phe- nomena in the weather re- port, were recorded two so- lar halos, two lunar halos and six thunderstorms. SSMS SSIS DT Ps ITALIAN BASE mv itera be Hight’ boribers*and they Kept all (My Assoctated Press: Massed squadrons of British | | | | | bembers thundered over the in- | wallet points of north France jand Belegium eerly this morning jand Nazi Germany struck back in darting bomber attacks ithe full Isles. ranging length of the British Small units bombed Scotland for the first time in a month dur- ing the morning and individual bombers flashed over London so quickly it was impossible for air raid wardens to sound their si- rens Employing a technique which was predicted by British air officers iast week, the Ger- man bombers flew either individ- new up a constant bombardment through the morning. Royal Air meanwhile, (By Associated Press) CAIRO, Fe' .—Barentou, im- portant Italian supply base 40 miles within Eritrea, was captured Force bombers, sent the greatest yesterday by the British Army of the Nile, it was announced here to- day. British forces were reported moving steadily forward on the heels of retreating Italians, who were said to be fighting an orderly rear guard action. Preliminary attacks around Bengasi, meanwhile, were said to have placed the invading British fore in a position to launch a full scale assault on the town PRISONER SHIP HIT BY BOMBS: (Be Associated Prens) LONDON, Feb. 3.—Two dive bombers of undetermined nation- ality killed or wounded hundreds of Italian prisoners aboard a British ship in a ck Frida }it was announced today The ship was carrying prisoners ffom Libya to England when it was attacked and several bombs landed on the heavily loaded decks. VANDERBILT’S YACHT ARRIVES K_ Vanderbilt acht, arrived and for Havana from 1100: The Tampa night wil yacht came here fleet they have mustered during the war to blast at invasion bases from Belgium as far south as Calais. The attack started sev eral hours before dawn and last- ed for more than four hours. IMMINENT INVASION IMPORTANT TOPIC (iy Assoctated Press) LONDON, Feb. 3.-—German diplomatic pressure on uneceu pied France and the threat of an imminent invasion of Great Brit- ain are the two most important topics of conversation here today French naval officers are known to have been called to Berlin for a conference with Adolf Hitler and the re-instate ment of former Vice Premier Pierre Laval is felt here to be the German basis for further dis cussions. Exactly what position Laval will be offered is unknown, but German papers have commented that no further talks with tt French government at Vichy can be expected until the ousted dip lomat is placed in an important post. Rumors are that he may he recalled to the cabinet an executive trium vera Premier Gen. Henri Phil Petain, or might be of fered a post as liaison officer be tween Berlin and Vichy. British householders are tructed once do in the and high ae te may be ed in with lipe being more in what to event of an invasion government officials ap expect ch an attempt most any time Tug Loses Propeller; Coast Guard Goes To Assistance the towing t Gua cadquarters ye which had r2 Dicky hosel A C tow both the rest of the Guard vessel Dicky and its b 4 way to Key West CUBA PICKED UP “SOS” CALL The SS. Cuba, und f Captain R H Noble & © Steamship route from St. Pefersbur; West sighted, at 3:95 a. m, an SOS being flashed far to eastward of of Key West. The Cuba vas immediately changed Lifeboat crew ca and je ready for what wes to come arrival at the scene was found to be the tug J. I ith two barges in tow few Orleans, bound for laying at anchor di av lost ite propeller. The ¢ flashed this message to the Cc yard in Key West, and t more than could be « for the tug, proceeded on to its destination, her course and everything ant sine: ¢ was m