The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 11, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Cittzrit Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14°. Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. VOLUME LXIL. No. 36. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS ~ Seore Of Witnesses Heard Marvin Griffin And Wile SOOO IOSD Ordered Held In Jail As NEW WITNESSES i} Material... Witnesses In! Case Two new witnesses believ- ed to have knowledge of the murder of Mrs. Cecelia Thompson Tunks Saturday ARE CALLED IN| NAVAL THRUSTS AGAINST ITALY WILL FOLLOW BRITISH OC-! | CUPATION OF RED SEA| PORT; ENGLISH FORGING AHEAD IN MANY. SECTIONS (Ny Associated Press) CAIRO, Feb. 11.—Vastly in- |creased naval thrusis against Italy j were expected today to follow! |British occupation of the Red Explosion Rocks South ARE EXPECTED. In Death Of Mrs. Tunks Philadelphia; At Least Five Persons Are Dea (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.—At ast five persons were dead, S¢ction were in bed early this | itical changes in Spain and the many missing and 40 in hospitals Most residents of the affected morning when the first of the blasts shattered houses in the im- Sheriff Sawyer Gets Instructions By Wire From Chief Executive On. Open Truck; No Ar- rests, Reported ‘At Sher- iff’s Office SPAIN, BALKANS STATUS BRINGS ON SPECULATION GENERAL FRANCO TRAVELS: ACROSS FRANCE FOR CON-) | renence wre wussouxt HUGH WILLIAMS | | POSSIBLY HITLER | ‘DIED THIS AM HCE | | (By Associated Presa) | Speculation over possible po-; FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE CONDUCTED THURSDAY AFTERNOON |Balkans occupied trouble Europe | night were called in for grill- ing by State Attorney George A. Worley this morn- ing. The witnesses are William Acheson and A. J. Stewart, Jr. A steady stream of witness- es has filed into Worley’s of- fice all morning and this aft- ernoon for testimony behind closed doors. Belcre a crowd that half filled jSea port of Mersa Taclai in Eri- | trea yesterday. British forces, executing a giant pincer movement, swept into the Italian base yesterday afternoon while another column} was reported fighting its way |swiftly down through the center | jof the country. A flying column of the army | jinvadng Libya, meanwhile, has morning and found her strangled | |reported its progress as “satisfac- to death in her bed. PP LILI LI LILI IG A tory” in the drive from Bengasi | the cavernous Monroe county | courtroom last night, Graydon | Plowman, local taxi company | employe, told how he kept a 3:00 | o'clock rendezvous with Mrs. Ce- | celia Thompson Tunks Sunday | |recked South Philadelphia today. ' | destroyed by the blasts and a rag- | plosions. this morning as the aftermath of mediate neighborhood and blew jh Out windows for blocks around. three gas main explosions whic! : | Firemen and _ police officers ,Tushed to the scene and were An entire block of homes was searching the debris of wrecked homes when the second blast brought walls tumbling down in ing fire which swept over the sec- many more homes. The third ex- ‘plosion again shook the neigh- borhood and started huge fires which blazed for blocks. ‘ All gas mains in the district a Philadelphia were turned off after the third tion after the third of the ex- Joseph Clark, |today as General Francisco Fran- | ‘co of Spain traveled across France | for a conference with Benito} /Mussolini, and, perhaps, with | Adolf Hitler. | Rumania today severed rela- | away this morning 8:00 o'clock, at ‘tions with Great Britain in re-|the family home, 400 Duval street. ‘taliation for England’s severance | Mr. Williams came to Key West of relations yesterday, but reports four years ago and since that time reaching London indicate Ger-,has been prominent in the real many is attempting to avert an |estate business in this city. A open break which would lead to native of Springfield, Ohio, he possible war. ‘came to Florida 20 years ago and After an illness of only a few |days, Hugh Williams, 46, passed , First of more than 20 witnesses whose testimony will continue in Peace Justice Enrique Esquin- aldo’s coroner inquest this after- noon, Plowman described how he toward Tripoli. URGES PASSAGE OF tecion UNIT 10 | police officer, was killed when the blast, but no information as to the Hitler, according to Tumors second blast caught him in a cause of the disaster has throughout France, wants Spain house partly demolished by the made public. to allow his navy and air arms first of the shocks. Firemen are searching the |the use of bases on the Spanish Residents of southern New Jer- wreckage now for a score or more |™#inland and in the Ballearic and been ‘LEND-LEASE’ BILL SAYS IT IS SUREST MEANS | MEET THURSDAY climbed in the window of Mrs. MATTERS RELATIVE TO CON- Tunks’ room “over a Howe street | beer garden. He found the wo-| man's nude body on her bed, | (Ry Associated Presa) silken undergarment twisted; WASHINGTON, Feb, 11.—Pres- jident H.C. Conant of Harvard Shout her threat with 0 tet sniveraity this morning urged t brush. |quick passage of the “lend-lease” ee pee Abeta Sbibeea ar Tekina personal charge of the | bill before Senate Foreign Rela-| pyiiding. | — jtions committeemen as the sur-| ‘This meeting was made neces- ‘est means of protecting the! sary by the failure of the corpora- ] 1 Amer ican way of life. | tion to get a quorum at last night’s The body of Mrs. Cecelia |" Foliowing New York Mayor|meeting. It is desirous that every | Thompson Tunks, whose dead | rigrello LaGuardia to the stand,|member of the board of directors body was discovered early Sun- 11. University president told the |attend. day morning, is still at the Lo- joommittee he would favor jany| “Every director must figure on | pez Funeral Home, Instruc- | measure to insure a British vic-|attending every future meeting”, | tions from relatives in Chat- \tory in her war with Germany. | Al Mills, executive director of the | tanooga, Tenn. is being await- 7 .Guardia had previously urged|corporation, said today. “The ed before disposition is made. ‘passage of the bill as a vital ne-|time before the convention is| sity for American protection. | growing so short that much im-| OF PROTECTING AMERI- ; VENTION TO BE | CAN WAY OF LIVING } J DISCUSSED | 1 { | A special meeting of the board | jof directors of the Key West Con- | jvention corporation is scheduled BODY AT FUNERAL HOME (ce ” strange case. George A. Worley,/ Wendell Willkie, returned from |Portant work must be done now. state attorney, came here from a trip to England, is scheduled to| At last night’s meeting the | Miami to direct the investigation. | speak before the committee later} board directed Mills to order | Beer Tavern Owners Held this afternoon. [printing of cards to show that s Ae See ince local merchants have contributed | Mr. and Mgs,.,Marvin, Griffin, jto the Legion convention fund. ! owners and operators of the Every merchant making a con- “Alice Reid” house where Mrs. FREIGHT VESS tribution will be handed a card for | Tunks lived and was employed, | R | proper posting. | were ordered held in county jai | | as material witnesses in the | ——— Testimony of other girls anc employes of the house will be! The Clyde-Mallory freighter! COMING EVENTS brought out this afternoon at 4:00 Colorado put into Key West yes-! se ee a o'clock when the inquest is re- of freight | convened. | J. Lancelot Lester, Jr., as: t state attorney, carried the bur- to (Continued on Page Four) day = terday with 170 tons | for the city. | TUESDAY The vessel docked bere en route ‘Stone Church Service Club. 6:00 ampa at 3°30 o'clock yester- p.m. afternoon and left at 8:15. Revival Meeting, Disturbed Conditions In = Guba Have Calmed Down BUYS PROPERTY M. Fox has r and Mrs. Wi Be a lot on Albury street near Flor- First Baptist | WEDNESDAY Revival Meeting, First Church. THURSDAY County Commission meets at 8:00 p.m. County Courthouse. {City Council meets at 7:30 p.m. City Hall. Lions Club meets at 6:30 Lions’ Den, Seminary Str Rotary Club meets 12:15 in Paul’s Parish Hall Revival Meeting, First Church. Fashion Show, Casa Marina, 9:00 Sponsored by Senior and Baptist p.m. et, Steet ey St y Assoctated Press) upset last Fulgencio iderties Baptist Co exiled rebel y officers, are ding t George . from Mr 315 Duval Street, 2:00 p.r t Club meets at Art Center, ida The undisch First Baptist SUNDAY val Meeting, First Baptist Under New Management “ Artistic Beauty Salon 1116 Division Street Now under onal servision SONYA LANDA Expert Chicago Beautician Benefit British War Relief Mon.. Tues. Wed. Admission S0c Exhibition and Sale of FINE ANTIQUE ENGLISH SHEFFIELD SILVER Old Island Trading Post , Monday—Tuesday—Wednesday a jue steak and sey could feel the earth shake beneath them as one main after another was blown to bits. ef persons reported missing, man; of whom are believed buried their wrecked homes. Airport Project Confirmed TIMBER STEALING CASE NOW ON TRIAL EXPECTED CASE WILL RUN LATE INTO THIS AFTERNOON Testimony in the timber steal- ing indictment against J Thompson, negro, continued this afternoon after Judge William V. Albury of criminal court had re- cessed the case until 2 o’clock. Jurors first heard testimony in the case Saturday, but it was postponed until today because of the illness of L. B. Boyd of Key Largo, complaining witness. Two former employes of Thomp- son, Ernest Thomnson and Joe Garner, described in court how they removed the timber after Thompson had told them it had beeh approved by Boyd. Jurors hea the case, which is expected to end late this after- noon, are Joe Gandolfo, J. D. Stickney, Eugene B. Albury, T. Adams, R. “Adrian O'’Sweeney. Raymond Russell, and Will P. Roberts as an alternate. » work on the Confirmation of WPA approval for the $1,477,000 Boca Chica air- Port project here was received this morning in a telegram from Congressman Pat Cannon to S. C. | Singleton, chamber of commerce secretary. Word of WPA's swift action in approving money for immediate airport had been heard here ina report from a Washington news service. Only the approval of President | Roosevelt now remains before money will be made available to begin work on the project. Congressman Cannon, in his wire to Singleton, said “presiden- tial routine approval expected soon.” Monroe county will bring $340,- | 000 to the project $300,000 of which is supplied by Civil Aero- nautics Authority. HOLDS 13 HEARTS WYTHEVILLE, Va. — Thirteen hearts were held in one hand in a contract bridge game played at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. M Johnson in this city ‘SINGLETON DENIES STORY ANENT PANTHERS FOUND ON KEY LARGO prook Pegler, columnist, last week t ale of panther: rubbery s Cc t secretary the chamber of commerce. prepared following open let- ter to the colun h Red Cross Sewing Club meets at |‘ y vantage hen 'd otherwise take ad-_ of your trustful nature by telling you about panthers on chances to one, that it was cat going wild, is understanding. You t home on Ke: are om ject hat degree reduces your usefulness. “Yours truly ‘S. C. SINGLETON™. ‘anary islands. The Spanish dictator, it is be- i lieved, will confer with Musso- |lini at Rome sometime this week and. may..then talk with © Hitler, either in Rome or in Germany. In Rumania, British diplomatic jand consular staffs have sent all important papers to Turkey and are prepared to flee the country }at a word of command. Balkan diplomats feel, how- ever, that Germany will do every- thing possible to prevent a war |which would see British bombers | , blasting at Rumanian oil fields, the most important single sources of Nazi supply. Bulgaria, appeased by British retraction of a newspaper state-| ment that German soldiers were already using the country, are re- ported unwilling to break with England. TWO BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED 509 South- was grant- Mrs. Mary Hanley, ard street, yesterday ed a building permit repairs to her home. Benjamin M. Russell, 1005 Eat- on street,.also received a permit for $100 in general repairs. TEMPERATURES ~ Lowest last|/Highest lasi night 24 hours 35 66 46 29 69 31 52 39 47 32 68 62 42 44 36 52 60 69 62 33 60 31 73 40 48 52 62 42 a 41 Boston Brownsville Buffalo 22 hicago ; Denver Detroit El Paso Galveston Hatteras Jacksonville KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Louis t Lake City Francisco 57 kane % Ste. Marie 19 ington 21 “4 COSTUMES ON DISPLAY THURSDAY and FRIDAY for Key West Yacht Club Ball FEBRUARY 14 DIXON COSTUMER $10 Duval Street entered the firm of Williams and Pawley of Miami. | In that city he was an active civic worker. He served as chair- |man of the Dade County Repub- lican Committee, president of the Miami Junior Chamber of Com- ;merce, participated |other organizations and was ac- tive in politics. The four years which Mr. Wil- liams has lived in Key West has | seen him in various forms of civic | work including the Chamber of |Commerce. He was also a mem- ber of the Key West Housing Authority. Funeral services will be held from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Thursday afternoon, 4:30 o'clock with the Rev. Arthur B. | Dimmick officiating. Mr. Williams is survived by the | widow, Julia Stewart Williams, one sister, Mrs. Willis D. Booth of | Clearwater, and a brother, Roger Williams of Louisville, Ken- | tucky. MRS.F.L. DIES IN HOSPITAL Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Me- | hospital. Her body was rentys lto Ufiea, N. Y., for fune 5 sices and burial. It was carried as far as Miami by a funeral car of the Lopez undertaking estab- lishment. Survivors are one brother, Ben- jamin J. Fisher, and numerous nephews. (By Associated Press) The thunder of British bombs rolied over Italy and German- occupied Europe today as Royal Aur Force formations struck with increasing fury at both ends of the axis partnership. Hanever, object of the most severe attention from the RAF, was left a seething mass of flames last night, it is reported, and Rot- terdam, Cherbourg, Ostend and a dozen other cities feit the shork of the bombs. In Italy, official sources admit- ted Sicily and southern Italy as far north as Naples had suffered heavy casualties last night and this morning In all, nine German cities were admitted bombed in Berlin, and British flyers told of a smashing day and night attack against pos- sible invasion points along the channel. Berlin reported 33 British planes had been shot down during the night and this morning. while British sources said they had not yet made a complete count. in various | M’KEOUGH RAF Strikes Heavy At Maly |" Every slot machine in down- |town Key Wes! disappeared this morning. Acting on direct orders from Govern-r Sressard L. Holland, Chief yold Russell is chine operators to remove them at once. Russell, questioned this morn- , ing about the disappearance of the | machines, denied they had ever jrun in Key West. Claiming he was speaking for Sheriff Ber- lin Sawyer, who is ill, Russell said the sheriff's office had no statement to make. Sheriff Sawyer, asked about the slots by a reporter who visit- ed his home, said: “As long as I am sheriff of Monroe county, I can promise you there will never be another slot machine in opera- tion here”. Sheriff Sawyer received the following wire from Governor Holland: “Berlin A. Sawyer. “Sheriff, Monroe County, “Key West. Florida. | . “Reports rceeived here from reputable citizens indicate that slot machines operating openly in Monroe county. I hereby di- rect immediate action by you to enforce law by arresting op- | erators and taking out slot machines. Let me have imme- diate report concerning your activity. (Signed) “SPESSARD L. HOLLAND”. In spite of Governor Holland's for $500 in Keough, age 67, died in a’ local directions to arrest operators, an employe of the slot machine dis- tributor this morning was making the rounds of local bars. taking down the slot machines and emptying them of money, Later, all of them were-loaded on an open truck and i plain sight were driven down Duval {Continued on Page Four) SW Aantetinted Preend . WABHINGTON, Feb. 11-De- fense commissioners William §. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman to- dey entered negotiations with union leaders tc end the weeks’ old strike of the Alice Chalmers plant at Milwaukee. Most serious of the five strikes now in progress. the Chalmers strike has kept 7800 men idle for nearly three weeks.