The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 18, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 42. Neutrality Of Depends On Scope Of Nazi Troop Movements ‘SEVERAL CASES British Warn Sofia That Co-operation With Ger- many May Break Diplo- | matic Relations (By Anwociated Press) Bulgaria‘s continued neutrality will depend entirely on the scope of Nazi troop movements in the; country, London warned today. As repercussions from yester- day’s Turkish-Bulgarian non-ag- gression pact spread over Europe, | British statesmen sent to Sofia a blunt declaration that co-opera- tion with Germany may result in an end to diplomatic relations with England. British their belief that Turkey’s mutual spokesmen reiterated assistance pact with the will not be affected by the Bui- garian treaty and predicted a statement from Istanbul clarify- ing Turkey's new position. Most Balkan diplomats treaty as a Adolf Hitler, e the however, and a lightning move against Greece is, expected at any time. As most | diplomats view the _ situation, | Turkey, perhaps under Russian pressure, has now agreed to give Hitler a free hand in the Balk- ans. Berlin has been jubilant since the treaty was announced yester- day -and Nazi officials consider that Greece has now been hand- ed the alternative of calling off the a German army to smash through on her flank. In Sofia, high-ranking govern- ment officials feel the pact has materiaily reduced the chances of an armed conflict in their coun- try and Russia is reported view- ing the new situation in a favor- able light. British reports, in spite of Bul- garia’s insistence that German troops have not moved into the country, indicate an army of some 75,000 German soldiers could be moved to the Greek frontier within 10 days and word has reached London that hun- dreds of barges are’ being con- structed on the Danube for use as floating bridges. TEMPERATURES Lowest Jast|Highest las! night 24 hours 62 47 3i 76 30 25 26 38 51 67 Abilene Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Burlington Chicago Cincinnati Denver Galveston Hatteras Havre Huron 52 46 2) 72 Phoenix Pittsburgh St. Lou Lak “Call Mrs. M. L. Russell. 663-J r reservations for the CABARET Directed by I t HABANA MADRID CLUB Saturday. February 22. 10 P. M. Auspices St. Paul's Woman's Guil Admission empire major triumph for |i war with Italy or waiting for! $1.00 Per Person ® | Bulgaria | HEARD IN COURT | | ESCAPED PRISONER, RECAP- | | TURED, GIVEN SIX MONTHS | IN COUNTY JAIL i | falter Pendergast, jailed a week ago with the provision he | would be held only until a letter jfrom home provided him with! [enough money to leave Key West, lis back in county jail after a brief ; jabsence—this time for a straight | six months, | Pendergast was sentenced to six months at hard labor yester- | day as Judge William V. Albury | | heard he had taken advantage of | 'his comparative freedom to escape ; ‘from. county jail. ~“e was recap- tured after a few hours, the orig- inal vagrancy case reopened, and | the new sentence handed down. | Judge Albury made the original tence of 45 days, with the pro- | ion freeing Pendergast when his letter arrived. The defendant, | | who said he was a_ graduate of! |Cornell.and temporarily down on his luck, was granted the freedom | | of the jail. | | William Russell, negro, yester- | ntenced to six months ail by Judge Albury on | a vagrancy charge and Johnny Fuentes, Tampa, won a deferred {Continued on Page Four) ng Losses British Shippi Shown To Be Conflicting’ GIVEN PERMIT 0 BUILD RESIDENCE Jennie C. Pierce has been granted a building permit for $1,- 000 to construct a one-story frame building on Southard street ne: Simonton, Building Inspect Ralph Russell announced today. The building will have a 24- foot front COMING EVENTS” TUESDAY Artists’ society annual show ee at Art Center for two weeks. cheon, Casa Marina, 1:00 p.m., Key West Woman's Meeting, Key Club, 4:00 p.m vision Street Stone Church Service Club. p.m Revival Church. WEDNESDAY Artists’ society reception Center, 8 p. m. Revival Meeting, Church. THURSDAY Ss Ss West Clubhouse, Woman's Di- 6:00 Meeting, First Baptist at Art First Baptist ck ial, Auspices pter, No. 21, O.ES. Rite Hall, 8:00 p.m meets 12:15 in Hall eets at Annual 7:30 p.m. at 6 ary Stree First Bar ing. First Ba SATURDAY iby I SUNDAY First Baptist ing. ‘AID GREAT BRITAIN ! ATTORNEY FOR BETTY COMP- |tarian organization. | cal supplies, and funds to purchase | ‘ments, surgical and medical sup- THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. Che Key West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, eeu 18, 1941 KEY WEST WORKS FOR BUNDLES: TO FORMS ANOTHER LINK THAT MAKES UP CHAIN FOR HU-| MANITARIAN ORGANIZA- TION NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—The March of Bundles for Britain, Inc., branches over the country has ieesened Key West, Florida, where Sawyer of the another link has been forged in) jthe chain of this great humani-— Mrs. Mary Hammond Barker of ; that city, is guiding spirit of the new branch and its president. | Other officers of the new branch are not yet chosen. The branch will join in the} | work of providing clothing, knit-| ted garments, surgical and medi- children’s cots, mobile canteens | and other urgently needed emer- | gency equipment. Bundles for Britain, Inc., was; formed a year ago by Mrs. Wales ; Latham, New York society wo- | man, to help the war-stricken~ people of Great Britain. Mrs | Winston Churchill, wife of Brit- ain’s Prime Minister, is its honor- | ary sponsor. The organization now has over | 550 branches and units in 47 states | ‘and enrolls an average of 20 new branches a week. | It ships an average of 50,000 | items of clothing, knitted gar- plies a month, (By Asnoctated Press) British shipping losses were the | ' subject of widely divergent offi- | cial reports by London and Berlin | today as admiralty officials re-, leased a statement showing 30,000 tons of shipping destroyed in the | week ending Feb. 9 and Nazi/ | spokesmen put the figure at 102, al 000 tons. | According to the admiralty, the | week’s losses showed a marked decrease in the admitted weekly | average of 62,100 tons’ loss. Ger- man reports showed Britain had {lost nearly double the average. Royal Air Force headquarters reported destruction of three Italian merchant ships by torpedo | carrying seaplanes during the past week and put the total Axis sea losses since the war began at 2,000, ~~ eee ‘NEW COURSE FOR GUARD MEMBERS e in army calisthenics led to the training of t Home Guard members tonight as the organization stag- es its weekly meeting at the Na- tional Gurad armory. The meet- ing is scheduled for 8 o'clock. Guard members are getting a general “toughening up” routine of marching and drilling and expected a soldier will be ed to the group tonight to expla the army's formula in calisthen- B and navy ave been co-operating in giving men special training in first © fighting and cael which the the A cou ’s h army as- letion of ir ‘train ing Sealed bids wil the City Counc reserves r all t " ARCHIE ROBERTS. ‘JIMMY WALKER jLee, APPRISED OF, DIVORCE BILL | } | | } 1 | | | TON. HIS WIFE, FILED PE-! | TITION IN KEY WEST LAST) EVENING | oo James John Walker, former; mayor of New York City and! tthe nation’s most widely known playboy in the era of the “gold-! en twenties”, today was formally ; {notified by County Clerk Ross C. divorce suit of petty Compton, his wife. . H. Rosenhouse, attorney for lhe, attractive ex-musical comedy star, filed the divorce petition last ;might at 6:10 o'clock after a bus trip here from Miami. Miss Compton is believed to jhave been fishing in the Florida |keys somewhere near here when her attorney walked into the county courthouse last night to file her divorce plea. The for- mer mayor, according to informa- tion filed by Rosenhouse, is living at an address on Seventy-second street in New York. Walker’s marriage, after he jhad resigned his mayoralty and refused to appear before the then {New York Governor Frankfin D. Roosevelt, came while he was visiting in Cannes. Walker had been bitterly attacked in a re- port to Roosevelt by the Seabury investigation committee and he ;accompanied Miss Compton and her mother to Europe at the height of the probe. The marriage occurred in April, 1932. Talk of the divorce had been current since Miss Compton came ito Miami early in December, a when Walker arrived there i the pair posed net s together and denied Rosenhouse;-in a ‘statement wt newspaper reporters, said: “Mr. and Mrs. Walker are both | sensible people and irrespective | of the divorce proceedings, real- ize that the welfare, upbringing! and happiness of the two chil- dren is of paramount import- ance”. The two children, both adopted, are Mary Ann, 5, and James John, Jr., 4. H Miss Compton established her legal residence in Florida Nov. 19 at Stuart. RECITES RULING ON HOMESTEAD PERSONS RENTING HOMES NOT ELIGIBLE FOR EXEMPTION Persons who rent their homes, no matter for how short a time, are not eligible’ for homestead exemption in Florida, a ‘ding to a supreme court ruling PIV ed by County Tax A sor jClaude Gandolfo today. In a letter to Gandolfo, J. M state comptroller, said the jonly exception to the rule will be in the case of men drafted into the army, while in all other cas es, renting of a homestead will automatically end nption status Lee quoted J. T. Watson, state attorney genera), to say “all opin- ions heretofore rendered in con- flict with above are expressly revoked”. The ruli amendment vides: ng. an pro changing assed 1938. officers | ¢ KEY WEST GETS RECOGNITION IN YACHT CIRCLES | VARIOUS CLUBS ORGANIZE FOR PURPOSE OF COORDI- NATING BIG OCEAN RACES OF WINTER SEASON Key West has been accorded a |signal recognition in the world ‘of big-time yachting. The South- ern Ocean Racing Conference, ves BADGES ORDERED Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘Highway From Pine Key 10 Key West Lined Up In First Defense Priority ‘ANOTHER CLASS crores exe wos“ FOR LEGION UNIT TO BE TRAINED Club, the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, the Miami Yacht Club, the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, and the Nassau Yacht Club has recently | been organized for the purpose of | coordinating all the big ocean races of the Florida winter season. | These races are the Lipton Race, Miami, the Miami-Nassau Race, the Governor's Cup Race, Nassau, the St. Petersburg-Havana Race, and the Havana-Key West Race. Points are allowed each yacht placing in the various races and at the conclusion of the season the yacht making the highest Confer- ence point score will be awarded the Governor of Florida Trophy, donated by Governor Spessard Holland. This beautiful trophy, destined to become one of the most sought-after awards in ocean yacht racing, is to be presented in Key West at the finish of the Havana-Key West Race on March | 8th, sponsored by the Key West Yacht Club. Word has not yet been received from Governor Hol- land as to whether he will present DECORATIONS FOR ‘CONVEN- TION ARE ALSO PRO- VIDED FOR Decorations and badges for the } American Legion convention ; April 23-26 were ordered night at a meeting of the Key West Convention tion boara of directors Concha offices. Division_ street. Duval and the headquarters of American Legion convention, Concha hotel and Overseas ho- tel, as well as the Strand and Palace theaters, will be decorat- ¢d with Legion emblems and American flags. Badges were ordered for 3000 delegates to the convention. There will be special badges for the American Legion’s auxiliary and for the Forty and Eight, as well here last corpora- in La street the La the trophy in person or will ap- jas for the local Legionnaires. point a representative. BROWDER LOSES LEGAL BATTLE IN | The board of directors also ap- | proved all bills on recommenda- | {bert tion of Executive Director Al- Mills. A housing chairman; jto succeed R. A, Lehmann, who (Continued on Page Four) MUSSOLINI cine SECOND QUOTA FOR D=FENSE OF COUNTRY (By Associated Press) ROME, Feb. 18.—Premier Mus- solini today ordered the second class of 1941 into. training and failed to make the usual vision which allows university students to graduate before tering the army. Some by the order. en- WORKING ON TAX X RETURNS County Tax Assessor Claude A. Gandolfo, in accordance with ate law, will spend two days visiting every precinct in Monroe | county receiving tax returns, he! announced tatay. Gandolfo wi? hours at each Feb, 27 and 28. spend. specified | Of re precincts SUPREME COURT Planes Drop ‘Hundreds TRIBUNAL UPHOLDS PPS i TION OF BROWDER AND) WARSZOWER IN PASSPORT | PROCEEDINGS (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. ‘Turned down by the United States Supreme Court yesterday, Earl Browder today appeared to have exhausted the legal devices which have kept America’s rank- ing Communist from a four year term in prison The court unanimously upheld the conviction of Browder and Welwel Warszower of New York on charges of using a passport se- cured by a false statement Browder was convicted and sen- tenced under the provision mak- ing it a crime to use the passport because the statute of limitations had made it impossible to try him on a charge of obtaining the pass. port through a false statement The Kansas-bor mmunist leader adm itte d ports under al 4 and 1931, but he laid himself open to prosecution when he produced the passport as evidence of zenship before an immigrat spector in April, 1937, and in February, 1938 Browder on could have tificate or affidavit residence in th the passport i 1921 citi on in- again th produced »se occasions a birth cer proving his ‘ountry, but used d not refer to to which he CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY OF KEY WEST Free Less On By VIOLET KER f Bost M. Christian Science SEYMER, C.S.B. assachusett HIGH SCHOOL UNTTED AN Thursday, City Clerk. j as February 20, at 8:00 P. M. —— AUDITORIUM HITE STREETS Of Bombs Over London (iy Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 18.—German bombers spilled hundreds of in- cendiary bombs over London last night and an explosive bomb kill- ed 12 persons in an air raid shelter. channel massed the Nazi bombers split up and flashed over London and its environs singly or Roaring over the in formations, in small groups. Anti-aireraft guns constantly during the raid and official reports dicated some of the hammered hour-long today in- invading ‘bombers had been hit A casualty report issued today for the month of January showed a reduction in civilian losses dur. ing air raids. According to the report, 1,500 persons were killed in England during the month, and 2,000 were wounded sufficiently to be confined in hospitals ETHIOPIANS ROUT ITALIAN FORCES DRIVE OUT GARRISON WITH IN 175 MILES OF AD- DIS ABABA 1x3 Flooring $50 M 1x4 Flooring $50 M Strunk Lumber Yard PHONE 816 ‘GREEKS ADVANCE ON TWO FRONTS (By Annocinted Press) ATH Feb. 18.—A_contin- uing which driven back Italian defense lines on two fronts in Albania was described to ivance has by a Greek war communique day Greek. sparcesy their army bag #ajght fis way to moun- report tain peaks covering Valona and, is noW ready to force its way into the city. BOXING KEY WEST ARENA Simonton and Front Streets TONIGHT, 8:30 O'CLOCK Main Bout—10 rounds JUSTO JIMENEZ The Mexican Buzz Saw BOBBY SYLVESTER Semi Final—8 rounds FELIX GONZALEZ vs. JOE PARSON PRELIMINARIES George Tippino. 129 ibs. vs. Johnnie Yates 132 Ibs. Tony Troaini. 159 Ibs. vs. Morkow Kid (U. S. 5. Decatur) Battling Geeche (Shine) 135 lbs. vs. Tiger Woods, 146 Ibs. BATTLE ROYAL LOTS OF PARKING SPACE Door Prizes Phone 9169 for Reservations ADMISSION: General Sic Reserved $1.10; Ringside $1.45 | Construction of 'May Be Completed With | Qne Hundred Percent Federal Grant States Ju- lius F. Stone ' \ i a military | highway over the 40 miles be- | tween Big Pine Key and Key West has been placed in the first defense priority and may be com- pleted by a 100 percent federal pro- | grant, Julius F. Stone, Jr., has re- ported to Carl Bervaldi, chairman of the county commission. | Stone, back from a week's trip ito Washington and. conferences | with federal authorities on Key West problems of road construc- ; tion, water, housing, electrifica- | tion and the Boca Chica airport, jhad found complete knowledge | of facts concerning Monroe coun- A at each of the agencies he visited. Thomas McDonald, administra- | tor of the public roads adminis- tration, . spared Stone a. romps. jaction in improvement of high- | way facilities from the mainland lof Florida to Key West. | The Key West-Big Pine section of the highway has every likeli- hood of being completed solely hele federal funds, while the road above Big Pine Key has been placed in the second defense ‘category and probably will be |built with money supplied joint- ly by the state road department and the government agency. Stone said he was promised co- operation both by the Federal Works Agency, parent body of which the road bureau ia @ branch, and by Senator Claude Pepper. Acting as county attorney. in the absence of W. Curry Harris, Stone made the Washington trip with B. M. Duncan, general man- ager of Overseas Highway. The pair returned here Jate Sunday night, just a/ week after their de. parture, and conferred with Ber valdi today, Major Lucius Cleare, head of the emergency airport division of the Commerce department aero~ nauties authority, told Stone work on the Boca Chica airport will begin as soon as preliminaty clearing is completed here. Army engineers are ready for immediate action, he said, and work will get under way within a few weeks as soon ax money has been ap propriated to carry on the proj- ect Key West, Stone learned, has been declared an emergency housing area, a status shared by about 80 cities in the Unite! (Continued on Page Four) 300,000 men are affected ENGINEERS STUDY PLANS IN CONNECTION WITH ‘QUODDY BAY’ (By Assecteted Press) EASTPORT, Me, Feb. 18 Naval engineers are studying a plan which might make "Quoddy Bay’ one of the nation’s mest powerful fleet bases, it was an- nounced today President Roosevelt has been quoted as saying at the time Con gress refused to appropriate more money for a huge power project here, that ‘Quoddy’ might some- day be the Seapa Flow of the United States Present surveys are believed preparatory to recommendation of the site for a powerful new inavy station.