The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 14, 1941, Page 1

| Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 39. Board Of Public’ Works*: Members Submit Their Resignation T0 Coun Action Taken; Many Other Matters Heard At } Special Meeting Last Night In a communication to the City Council, which was read at the special meeting last night, :the! EXPLOSION IN | \GREEK TROOPS CONTINUE TO SLASH AT FASCIST LEGIONS Prospects of an explosion in the Balkans within the next few ‘days continued to mount today. | BALKANS FEARED CAMPAIGN NOW ON IN FULL SWING CHAIRMAN CARLETON SAYS EXCELLENT PROGRESS BE- ING MADE IN SECURING CONTRIBUTIONS The American Legion’s conven- tion fund campaign is progress- | ing toward a successful conclu- sion, according to Guy Carleton, Ichairman of the special commit- tee intended to seek subscrip- | tions. “We have definite assurances from a number of larger individ- ual subscribers that they can be counted upon and will send us their checks in the next few days”, Chairman Carleton said } KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1941 CONVENTION FUND|Maloney Reappointed Road Patrolman; Commissioners Sustain Action Of Craig SB LESS SSS SS TWO PERMITS WERE LANDED YESTERDAY Miss Gladys Jenkins, with a 21-pound permit yesterday, brought the Casa Marina its first specimen of that kind this season and Mrs. John Oldrin, Darrien, Conn., made it two with a 10/2-pound per- mit, “The pair fished with a par- ty aboard Mr. and Mrs. Old- tin‘s private boat. H. Morely Hitchcock, of Cleveland, brought back an 8%-pound bonefish from an- Raymond Maloney. dropped |from his county road patrol job a | week ago, goes back to work to- iday on the appointment of Com- | missioner R. W. Craig—but the j battle in county commission goes | on. Maloney re-won his job last night as the commissioners by a three-two vote passed a motion permitting the chairman of the | road committee (Craig) to appoint ls Patrolman. Commissioners Eddie Gomez Che Key West Citizen 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 PRICE FIVE CENTS SKY Fighters Stage Greatest Air Battles Since Septembe M’DONALD RITES THIS AFTERNOON PIONEER CITIZEN DIED AT HOME HERE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ‘REWARD OFFER HAS Activities Carried On Far | Above Clouds; Nazis’ a re -_ Long-Range Guns Add To Fury ‘hy Annoctated Prexs) i |MRS, GRIFFIN SAYS WILLING TO PAY AMOUNT IF SHE HAD IT i today. “It will be of interest to! and J. Frank Roberts immediately Roya Air Force and Nazi sky | | members of the Board of Public! Greck troops, offered an Iatlian | | The in again-out again story of | Works‘ tendered their resignation letter stated that the board would stop functioning at that time, and would turn over all matters to the! peace by Adolf Hitler, continued ; to slash at Fascist legions in Al-} to become effective March 1. The | bania and Royal Air Force bomb-/ /ers carried out two of the longest | _and heaviest bombardments of | Italian positions since the war be- j gan. Turkey, reportedly under pres- the city in general to know that every room in La Concha and Overseas hotels, as well as every {room of the other hotels and rooming houses has been re- iserved. “Every prospect points to the (TENSION IN FAR EAST SUBSIDING |Protested, announcing they would {refuse to recognize the appoint- ment of Maloney and would op- pose allowing him pay or expense }money. Sheriff Berlin Sawyer, Riemrine that Craig intended to re- JAPANESE CLAIM THERE 1S | appoint Maloney, said he would Funeral services for Edward McDonald, 86, who died yesterday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Sawyer, 901 Elizabeth street, will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock | George | fighters this morning wheeled and Mrs. Marvin (Alice Reid) Grif- = {fin's $500 reward for the appre-|*#R@d far above the coasts of jhension of the slayer of Mrs. | England and France in two of the |Celelia Thompson Tunks Sunday greatest. ‘air bast) the |massed German attacks of Sep- morning took a new turn today. Mrs. Griffin, who said yester- at St. Mary’s Star the Sea |Catholie church. The. Rev. P. J. Kelleher will jofficiate at the services at the| {chapel of Lopez #*uneral Home ‘and at the church. of day she had decided to spend the ‘reward money to hire private de- | tember and October. jtectives in the’ case, said this! | English residents of the Dover morning she had told a reporter; for an out-of-town newspaper 97¢a could hear the thuds of last night that she was willing to! r pay $500—if she had it. sete eee at ee eee fact the, attendance during the convention will be all or more than the 3000 persons expected by is sure from Adolf Hitler to join the council, which would assume all axis forces, reaffirmed its alle- duti : giance to the British cause and an- | 4 ee Pere, eecorment PY | nounced it had made no commit-|the Key West Convention cor- the Public Works Board. This | ments to German representatives. | poration. Those individuals who A spokesman in Bulgaria said have not yet subscribed should do NO NEED FOR UNDUE | Tefuse to deputize him. EXCITEMENT la Sawyer, whose Fefusal to |deputize Maloney ied to the patrolman’s dismissal last week, }announced from his home that he ‘still considers the appointment (My Ansocinted Prexny was brought about due to the fact that the Council at a recent meet- | ing moved to have the legislature | it had ceased to be a matter of so at this time, or subscribe in- speculation whether German troops would strike through the Balkans. directly by buying tickets on the new automobile which has been WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Far Eastern tension, which reached alarming proportions yesterday, !contrary to the best interests of | his office and the majority of the key residents. Survivors are Mrs, William Sawyer, a daughter; George Mc-! Donald, a son; Mrs, Nettie Pita, ! sebiciouiabiet | ‘The money has not been post- the channel and the puffs of an- ed, but Mrs. Griffin said she! thought it would be all right to #Fereft bursts were visible high “It is now only a ques- placed on sale”. tion of time,” he said. “Hitler will’ There will be a meeting of the |strike within the next two or committeemen in charge of the sister; Joseph Baker, brother,! {five grandchildren and six great- grandchildren. today appeared to be dying down.| Commissioner Norberg Thomp- Reports reaching here indicate son opened the battle shortly after Japanese diplomats today have /the meeting began. He proposed put up her house and beer gar-|yp above the clouds, i t abolishing thi jden at 1016 Howe street as collat- Pass a special ac: ing the bee German’ bombers in massed Board of Public Works. |three days”. The council failed to take any | action on the resignations, and | appointed a committee, composed | of Councilmen: Sweeting, Boyden and Brinton, to contact the mem- | bers of Public Works Board and | request them to continue func-| jtacks on Rumanian oil . German troops are massing in Rumania and a blow is expected to fall on either Bulgaria or Yugo- slavia at any moment. Bucharest officials, meanwhile, admit Royal Air Force bombers may begin their threatened at- fields jeampaign in the near future to work out plans for carrying on ithe work. ‘JOHN. ANTI IS - NEW PATROLMAN leral. been reiterating to American and)a motion which would permit | Pallbearers from the Key West)“ re house apparently will be formation over Folkestone, Eng- cause for excitement. 4 Consular authorities in Shang-|also a member of the road com- ai were continuing to igsue “mission. British officials that there is no|Craig to make the appointment j without consulting Gomez, who is ‘fire department, of which Mr. |McDonald was a member, are George Albury, Henry Saunders, F. Vidal, Charles Anderson, Lum- arnings to women and children! THompson introduced — Park sand* Edward Matthews: and men without important busi-|from residents of the upper keys,|__ Mr. McDonald was the oldest ness there to return home, how-!showing 156 signatures of voters’ living member of the Key West ever. desiring a patrolman. Asked what |Voluntecr Fire Department, be-| safe, however, since Peace Jus- tice Enrique Esquinaldo has said ithe reward would not be collect- jable unless formally ..nasted in, Tthe hands of some department of law enforcement, jland, were met by flights of RAF fighters and residents of the city ‘feotuld-see-the- heavy Gurman: fore |mation break up in Separate duels j with the combat’ planes. Ma- jchine gun cartridges and heavy whenever they decide the time is/ Uncertainty over the attitude he would do about the refusal of ing a charter member of the or-| candor wills pines doa oh the tioning until their term of office | expires this coming November. Regarding Election i Councilman Sweeting made a| Proposal that the charter be| changed relative to the length of time in the term of office for city officials, The proposal is that elections continue to be held in! November, and that the three | councilmen receiving the highest number of votes be elected for a four-year term, with the other four to serve for two years, which would necessitate a special elec-! tion every two years to take care | of the two-year term. All other officials under this arrangement | would be elected for four years. | This would be by a_ legislative | act, and referendum of the people. The motion was carried with five councilmen voting yes, with Ram- | sey and Freeman voting no, H The matter of a general sales tax for Key West was brought before the meeting by Councilman Ramsey. After considerable dis- cussion, it was decided to hold this matter over for further con- sideration, and to be taken up at a meeting some time during the | ripe. | wa DIVORCE DECREE GRANTED HERE Edward Schermer, who gave his address’as Dade county, yesterday was granted a divorce from Mar- garet Barton Schermer on grounds of extreme cruelty and desertion. Circuit Judge Arthur Gomez granted the divorce. FBI Headquarters Given All Available Evidence Bearing On Slaying Of Mrs. Tunks, A baffled coroner's jury today is waiting for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide the {next step in their investigaion of | undergarment had been the strangle nrurder of Mrs. Ce- celia Thompson Tunks Sunday morning at a Howe street beer garden. | John Anti of 1020 Duval street |has been appointed as city pa- |trolman by Mayor Willard M. |Albury. This is the extra police- man that the City Council recom- mended some time ago in order to strengthen the force. Anti will be sworn in today by City Clerk Archie Roberts, and will then enter upon his duties jat once. |fashioned around her neck only |as a blind. | Hamlin said he found the girl's | | nude body carefully placed in the | center of her un-mussed bed. An‘ twisted | | tight around her throat with a | toothbrush wedged beneath the left side of her jaw to hold the noose in place. i Only available fingerprints Hamlin testified, were a smudge }on the toothbrush, which was too | of Russia is believed to be hold-|Sheriff Sawyer to deputize Ma-|ganization, which was organized | ATTACK BRITISH ing back Japanese plans for ex-|loney, Thompson said he believed | pansion in the far east, and re- Governor Spessard L. Holland ports from Tokyo today indicated would order the sheriff to add} members of Parliament have dis- | Maloney to his staff if it were | cussed the possibility of drawing shown the majority of people here | up a non-aggression treaty with jdesired the appointment. the Soviet Union. Roberts immediately pointed A Japanese spokesman, ques- tioned about relations with Rus jout to Thompson that the peti- tions asked only for a patrolman sia, said his country was attempt- |—not for Maloney. ing to improve relations between| Chairman Carl Bervaldi, who the two nations. |voted with Gomez and Roberts aj} a Ae ee lweek ago to abolish the job,! PLAN CEREM NIES | swung to the other side last night, land with Thompson and Craig ‘forced the motion through. ANNIVERSARY OF SINKING The session lasted only about! half an hour and the battle over) OF BATTLESHIP TO BE OBSERVED Maloney’s appointment took up} most of the discussion. i Thompson, Gomez and Roberts were named to a committee to study county tax assessments with Assessor Claude Gandolfo this; jweek and Thompson was asked | by Bervaldi to continue his look | Key West Spanish-American for a suitable site for the county | war veterans tomorrow will do | health offices. honor to the United States navy, A bill outlawing billboards on seamen who went to their deaths |Overseas highway was returned | 43 years ago in the sinking of the |to the commission for re-wording | battleship Maine in Havana har- | by Representative Bernie Papy. bar. about sixty years ago. He was also at one time a member of the United States Cus- ice here and at Knights Key. The deceased was sanitary in- ispector of Key West many years ago. He also held other positions in city government. Up to a short time ago he had |been very active in the various activities of the Fire Department, and took great pleasure in aiding |the organization whenever it was | possible to do so. His death will be a_ distinct less tp the department and the city in general. TO WASHINGTON (By Asnociated Press) PORT -OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb, 14.—Harry L. Hopkins, for- mer secretary of commerce, land- ed here aboard a flying boat to- dj and then took off again to continue his trio to Washington from London toms Service, having seen serv-! "MERCHANT. SHIPS (Ny Associated Presa) | BERLIN, Feb. 14.—Long-range Nazi bombers have attacked a streets and rooftops of the city as the fight gradually worked its way far up above the clouds. | In the Dover area, a similar for- imation of RAF bombers, in their idaily attacks on the channel ins British merchant convoy off the | Vasion points, ran into patrols of coast of Scotland, sinking one |Nazi fighters and a second tre- vessel and damaging at least six others, it was announced today. The report did not say when the attack took place, but told of the convoy scattering and being chasen by the bombers. BRITISH BOMBERS HOPKINS ON WAY STRIKE IN ALBANIA (Hy Ansertated Prem | ATHENS, _ Feb. 14.—British heavy bombefs last night struck at two Italian.aindromes in Al- bania, one at Tirana, in the heav- jest and most successfully ‘aerial attack they have carried out. Hangars and airport facilities were reported smashed or in |fames at both points. | Returning fliers said they had mendous battle began. | Official reports from Berlin isaid nine British. aircraft had «been shot down in the Folkestone area by Nazi bombers, but Lon- |don refused to estimate the loss- les in either battle, : | German long-range auns added to the confusion at the height of the battle over Folkestone as they began their bombardment of the Dovet section for the third con- | secutive day. | The big guns from the French coast sent their heavy calibre ‘shells winging over the channel at the rate of about one every ten minutes. No official reports have yet been made available to indicate \if the British bombers had’ start- led their attack before they were scattered by Nazi pursuit. planes, Bodies of the dead seamen were Hopkins, acting as the special seen their bombs destroy four |but it is understood the fighters month. | After questioning more than a/ narrow to permit making an iden-|PTought to Key West and buried , To Inspect Building | tifiable print. jin National Cemetery, where Mayor Albury stated that he | Members of the jury agreed, ‘Spanish indents sett nes |, had received a letter from Captain | several times, Peace Justice En- | however, to send the toothbrush |CO™memorative rites each yea Jacobs, commandant of the local. : : |to FBI headquarters along with |Since the disaster occurred Feb- Naval Station, stating that an in- | tique Esquinaldo and his coroner's money found in the dead girl's genie 15, sa spection would soon be made of | jury yesterday afternoon a, a hand, a glass, a bottle of medicine | ORROTTOW, F008: representative of President jtalian heavy bombers on a field } Roosevelt, spent several weeks injand had wrecked an unknown |London discussing the war situa-| number of others with direct hits tion with Prime Minister Win- | on hangars. ston Churchill and other British, sional tanceechaaaeaiaid leaders. He is expected to report to the were waiting to attack as soon as the bomber formations — crossed the channel. COMING EVENTS Score of witnesses, some of them FRIDAY Red Cross Sewing Club meets at veterans will 315 Duval Street, 2:00 p.m. } j the old naval hospital building, | which the government proposes to take over. The city has been maintaining this property for some time. Councilman Brinton ‘was named as a committeeman to confer with County Commissioner Norberg Thompson relative to se- curing a suitable building to tal care of the clinic which is now lo- cated in the hospital building. The WPA social welfare office and commodity room will also! have to be taken care of. There were two places suggested for taking care of these operations, the old Gato brick building, cor- ner of Catherine and Grinnell Streets, and the Kindergarten building on Reynolds street. Both duildings would be used if ar- rangem tan be made to take them over. J. J. Romero, caretaker at the aquarium, was granted a fifteen day leave of absence, beginning February 15. Leo Cook requested that he be permitted to have a trailer parked on the lot, cor of Eaton Simonton streets. The request was denied. to send all available evidence to garment from about her throat John J. Pershing camp, United FBI headquarters in Washington. The inquest was recessed after its fourth day of fruitless investiga- who acted as Sheriff Berlin Sawyer’s office in the case, lin, expert for added a new note to the proceed- i ied Ga., a pair garrote ngled by BRADY'S (Live) Poultry rendezvous with Mrs. Tunks maak Coast Guard st and Egg Market Fresh Florida Grade “A” Lange White EGGS. 35c Roasters We h of live We and 3 1214 White St. ‘Phone 540 <ocansidliomaaanaaaniaiiones found near the bed, the under- and the bedspread. Hamlin said the government experts had developed a process which would permit taking of fingerprints from cloth, some- thing impossible with locally available equipment j Chief Deputy Harold Russell made his first appearance on the stand to recount how he went to | the house early Sunday morning and told Marvin Griffin, operator of the house, about the slaying. Graydon Plowman, who had been to the stand several times before, came back for a long serie: of questions about his finding the body when he went to keep Sunday. Lance Lester, assistant state at- torney, admitted his office had} been unable to uncover anything | in the shape of a real clue, but — Fryers — Stewers added he was working on a hither-| Tuesday. February 18, 1:00 P.M. to unexplored lead. The coroner’s jury will recess probably for four or five days, or until FBI headquarters return the evidence with their i be joined by a delegation from the Tourist Club meets at Art Center, 7:30 p.m. Spanish War Veterans, at Miami. | Revival Meeting, George N. Goshorn of the local) Church. post has taken charge of arrange- | Key West Yacht Club Ball at Casa ments. Marina. 10:00 p.m <ey West, on the day when a SUNDAY mine sent the Maine to the bot- val Meeting, First tom of Havana harbor, was the first y in the United. States to hear the news. An Associated ip uncheon, Casa Mari Press telegraph operator here re- Auspices Key ceived a flash that the ship had... 2 uf First Baptist Baptist _jterday were granted permits for) President immediately upon his, _ arrival in Washington. _TEMPERATURES _ THREE. BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED Three Key West residents yes- Lowest last|Highest last night 24 hours 31 59 32 43 “ a i) 6 31 4 32 45 50 6b Abilene Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Chicago Cincinnati @ total of $345 in general housing |DE"Ve? exploded and was sin rest of the world heard the news over the wire from Key West The bod: later were brought here for bur and many nentoes of the tragedy also were brought to Key West. The local ation has a num- ber of pieces of ,equipm da i from the Maine on display Key Club, 4:00 p.m vision Street West Clubhouse Woman's Di- TOMORROW NIGHT FREE!! FREE!! MIRACLE OF MODERN SCIENCE A stage presentation of the GENERAL MOTORS PARADE OF PROGRESS Direct from the World's Fair | at the ; LA CONCHA PARK | 30 and 8:36 P. M. | KEY WEST WOMAN'S CLUB LUNCHEON CASA MARINA ; Reservations close Saturday Night Call Mrs Past 403 or Mrs. Greyburn jer, 670 EACH PERSON __ — $1.35 “A 72 6 4l 3 oo n El Paso Galveston Hatteras Havre Huron Jacksonville KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis New York Phoenix Pittsburgh Portiand St. Louis Salt Lake City 33 only ONCE a year! San Francisco 46 February 15th to 22nd inclusive 24 cEY 7 Sit. Ste. Marie 32 KEY WEST DRUG CO. “7 pairs by Ralph Russell, city. % inspector E. Carey, 620 White strect. | was granted a $100 permit for re- |pairs to his home; Annie T. | Sweeting, 991 Pearl street. took }a permit for $150 for roofing, and iH B Haskins. 523 Division jstreet. received permission to |spend $95 for a roof. ; helena rubinstein’s BEAUTY PREPARATIONS 20% Off @ 8 33 4 70 52 sd 52 4 Cd BN so a ROME, Feb. 14 — Suicide ads of British ists landed in southern Haly Monday night and earsy Tuesday morn- ‘ing. it was announced in a delay- ed communique here today. Official sources said the Brit- ish troops, equipped with ma- chine guns and grenades, plurn- ymeted down in the extreme southern pert of Italy just north of Taranto, but were quickly captured. (London has denied any know- ledae of the exploit.) The soidiers, according to the report, were equipped with tools to damage water and power lines in the section near where Ger- man planes are operating agaiget British Mediterranean feet units According to the report, Rome delayed the story in order to seo if more British troops would at- tempt to make landines Appar- ently, no more made the attempt, The dispatch said Italian sl- diers were in the immediate vicinity and rushed to round up the British parechutists before they had a chance to unlimber their guna