The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 21, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit | For 61 Years Devoted to the | Best Interests of Key West izrit { NMOST NEWSPAPER FLOR IDA, EN: THE. 0. S. As VOLUME LXIL. WEST, FRIDAY, LUE 21, 1941 es HOUSE Aloe No. 45. ae cae GENERAL EDD ollie Sinai Cross French ity Counc Votes 10 NOMINATED FOR | Border Into ‘Spain: Brings PRICE FIVE CENTS tional Wak ARMY PROMOTION Install Parking Meters Chauffeurs tion Proie Present Peti- ing Against Bus Company Operating! Sightseeing Tours Upon recommendation of Mayor Willard M. Albury, the City Coun- cil at its regular meeting last night voted to install parking meters on | some of the streets of Key West. Bids were ordered called for the purchase of one hundred meters, which will be installed on a six- | months trial. The vote on the is- sue was carried 5 to 2, with Coun- cilmen Boyden and Freeman vot- ing no. A. petition wa chauff ar read from the of the city, which was igned by many other citizens and merchants, protesting against the bus company operating tours and sightsecing trips. within. the limits of the city. It stated that the chauffeurs were not given a chance to figure in on the sight- It was said that not being given 3 busine the visitors were a chanc to visit the different points of interest on the bus (wea which simply take the passengers over the city without any stops. Relative To Guides | of the petition also ainst any and every- tourist guides, most of whom, were nat capable.of per- forritity 18 sok view, oeP aise that of the buses picking up n- gers at the steamship dock. The chauffeurs stated that they were willing to pay an ¢ ‘a_ license, provided they were given the pro- per protection. The matter was referred to the Welfare asd Taxa- for further The signer protested a one actir tion committee sideration A letter was Kirehbhe reimbur con- read from J. Otto iner requesting that he be to the amount of $100 performed for the city homestead exemp wa: referred with a bill be while he was ndtin The matter ommittee. that the in | tions, to the f recom ndation paid A. communication read from the Board of Public Works stating that the fees being re were not of operat and requested that fe creased. The matter the tax collector. ADpo’ nt of John Anti by Mayor Al- was nt to take r user suffic care ng © the ty patrolmar nfirmed. reteived from that a fine police court f court be remitted request him » hiry mralect. be rdered defer consideration. | read from Mr the installation r piping in the white housing was referred Works. three hun ased for Two Ordinances Passed Re ee er WEEKEND SPECIAL Rovau SPRING FLOWERS Flowers , Phone 136 Se $1.50 ‘ WARSAW CAPTURED AFTER GREAT FIGHT APALACHICOLA, Feb, 21 (FNS)—A rare warsaw weighing three hundred pounds and more than five and one-half feet in length, was hooked and landed by Angelo Carras last week aft- er a 30-minute battle. Carras was fishing for snap- per in 43 fathoms of water using a common snapper line with a hook. A terrific battle began when the warsaw took the bait. Thirty minutes later the propeller of the boat cut the line but the big fish was so exhausted that he did not make an effort to escape, merely rested near the boat until he was hauled in by the crew. Wersaws are edible fish, but are very scarce. An excel- lent meal of warsaw liver was Prepared by the cook and was thoroughly enjoyed by, the captain and crew. Ke mand be ant chief West Point LOCATION OF LOTS °. us MADE MUCH EASIER | ae DEADLINE FOR FILING AP- PLICATIONS IN MURPHY SALES IS MARCH 5 Prospective buyers of Key West property under Murphy, Act sales will be able to locate their ‘lots with a minimum of effort under a plan being set up by Clerk Ross >. Sawyer. Apphcations already are being filed at the clerk’s office for the sale of property on the courthouse steps April 2. Deadline for filing of applications will be March 5. Under the system which Sawyer is putting into effect, purchasers may run through alist which shows the location of the property its lowest purchase price and where further information can be found in the plat The books are mai y to point out the street locations a the lots. Title to the property involved went to the state of Florida June 9, 1939 and prices are based on per cent of the assessed valuation in 1932 RATIONS GIVEN CUT IN ITALY the books. and size of day jotted per persor ed structor He tive Franc t in P. TOMORROW, FEB. 22nd 4 P. M. ; RAY KAUFFMAN, author of “HURRICANE’S WAKE”, thrill ing and romantic story of a “world cruise” in a 45-foot Ketch, will autograph copies of his book for purchasers at the SOUTHERN MOST BOOK & ART SHOP, 1400 Duval Street: . .Tea will be served. COMING EVENTS FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY We TIONED RRIED MISS ON school t in the WILL. BE OPEN HALF sng WHILE Added Worries To Britain| AUTO WORKMEN REINSTATED: T0 GET BACK PAY FORD MOTOR COMPANY OR- BY NATIONAL LA- TO PUT MEN (By Assoe di Presa) Five small detachments of Ger- man trocps crossed the French ‘border into Spain today to pro vide Britein with new worries in the tangled European diplomatic scene, Spanish officials said the troop: on an errand of elp rebuild hurricane gutted Santander 30,000 were last week, Other observers BOARD mercy to and fire O WORK than point ed out, however, man soldiers sent to Spain we ~\specialists and engineers a might e: have been sent to auto tat work pave the Git an assault on with bac itar iia continued calling troops in the faec when the Danube Sofia attribut from Ru- the riot radicals’, but indi wide a ajority : di nt and are due bargaining stand at the tain and masse 1 en the Bu kara nev ffirmed ide of Gre more frontier *\to denounce rian annour informed Br itist rade id the fertified 0 COMMANDER BRADY “LEAVES ON TRIP WILL TAKE UP MATTERS IN CONNECTION WITH MA- RINE RAILWAY HERE planes tushed from Afziea to man its de- 1a million new the R Rumania calle reservists to the ibly to release ing frontier. HAMPTON MAKES SALES RECORD is presum J. Bra- at the IEW BY AXIS American Warplanes Now Being Rushed To Hawaii (By Awsoetated Press) where more left h less | that all the Ger- | Expenditure Of $1,517,500 For Key West | \ | Prisoner In County Jail puzzled about what became of Walter Pendergast when he took , & three-day va¢ation from county jail last week had an answer to-! day. He said he’d been in Cuba. Attempts to confirm the escaped prisoner's salty tale have been un- successful and Pendergast has re- fused to divulge any details. The sheriff's men know Pender- gast was sentenced to 45 days on a vagrancy charge, walked out of county jail early -last week and was picked up at Big Pine Key ter he had sailed there in a stolen beat. Judge William V. Al- bury thereupon sentenced him to six months’ hard labor, which didn’t altogether stick, since the New York boy’s most wearisome labor so far has been combing the tangles out of his red beard. Pendergast, in a bored tone, ex- plains that he wanted to see a man: in Cuba, so he “borrowed” a nine foot sailboat and went down to drop in for a call. ermans Bomb Wales” Arca; British SP AP AF PF AS AD UD? aD we INVENTION WILL PUT Tells Story Of Whereabouts When He Made His Escape: i | Sheriff's officers who have been A motor boat (he won't say which one) gave him a tow part) of the way and dropped him off on the coast of Cuba about 50 miles east of Havana. “It was terrific,” says Pender- gast. “They hadn’t anything to drink but whiskey.” Cuban police officers picked him up and told him he would have to go back to Key West and make the call more formal by pare ting some papers. Pendergast had tired of the Key. West life by that time, however, so he caught another tow and landed about 30 miles north of the city. “That was terrific, too,” he recalls now. “They didn’t have ‘any water or any whiskey.” Eventually, a deputy found him working at a cafe at Big Pine Key and returned him here for a stiffer sentence. Sheriff Berlin Sawyer and his cohorts frankly don’t know what to make of Pendergast’s story. | They admit it’s a wonderful if true, but they doubt it. Besa oe Attack Naz Bass | (iy Associnted Prene) BERLIN, Feb. 21.—Formations of German bombers last night Naval Staion hiiemaiaiiai Commitiee Money Within Next Few | Expected To Provide Days (Washington Correspondent of | The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 21.—The House has au- thorized an expenditure of $1,517,500 additional for the Key West naval station. included emergency defense author- ization bill, which is expect- ed to go through the Senate with but little change. The appropriations committee is expected to provide the }money within the next few days. | Work authorized at Key It was in an tale, West is construction of addi- j tional su and sur- tN rcovesiee biog ; “and re- | bee Haig including and messing facili- ties ice shi’ 's crews. ‘LITVINOFF HAS BEEN EXPELLED LOAFING LEFT THUMB subjected the Wales area of Brit- | DISMISSED “FROM SUPREME 1YPISTS TO WORK CRESTVIEW, Fia., Feb. 21 (FNS).—A sinpie little ding- us has been invented by Cap- t-in Mallie Martin of Crest- view which puts the loafing left thumb of typists to work and eases the load on their overworked little fingers. The “touch system” of typ- ing calls for the use of the little fingers for shifting the type bar in order to make up- per case characters, The right thumb is delegated to do the spacing. But there is no de! inite duty assigned to the left thumb: it hangs there idle. Captain Martin observed that the litlte fingers tire and cramp under heavy duty while the left thumb loafed on the job. He resolved to do something about it, and the Martin Typewriter Speed Bar is the result. His new gadget may be at- tached to any typewriter without marring its appear- ance, he says, and he will not sell his patent rights but will make it available to every typist in the world at the lowest cost possible. Baa SD. wate. EDEN CONFERS WITH OFFICERS UF of ; highway describing very front streaming ana in Ethio- from Gen. Sir in Lib. Tripoli is now ward Lake a report t Ops speeded up their the night with ain to even more intensive bomb- ing than their destructive ieee of the night before. High explosives and fire bombs rained down on cities in the area and returning flyers said they had left great fires. British planes attacked German bases in France and the Reich during the night, but damage is reported slight Another RAF attack on an air- drome in southern Italy is re- ported to have damaged planes on | the ground, set off gasoliné stores and killed at least three persons. Nazi bombers are reported this morning to have attacked another British convoy, ships, but the scene tack is not described. of the at- DR. WARREN HEARD AT ROTARY MEET JULIUS F. STONE RELATES PROGRESS MADE IN CIV- IC IMPROVEMENTS Dr. William R. Wari day described to Key ians the history of their organi tion since its foundation February 23, 1905. The day was formally sinking three‘ COMMUNIST PARTY COUNCILS (Hy Ansoeinved Presa: MOSCOW, Feb. 21 — Maxim Litvinoff, formet chief commissar of the Soviet Union and a founder of the Bolshevist party, last night was expelled from the supreme Communist party councils. The announcement came as the supreme body of commissars met for its annual conclave here. Litvinoff, for many years the shaper of Soviet foreign policy, began to slip from favor three years ago a8 Russia made its first moves toward cooperation with the Axis powers Litvinoff had worked for an alliance with Great Britain, and in May, 1939, he re signed from the foreign office, pleading io health PLAN CONFERENCE ON USE OF LAND CHURCHILL To MEET WITH MEDIATOR FOR DIS- CUSSION (By Assoctated Press) LONDON, Feb. 21.—A promin ent citizen of the United State or Cattada will be called in as mediator in discussions between commemorated by Rotary elub® prime Ministers Winston Church throughout the nation Julius F. Stone. Jr, back from an official journey to Washington on the part of the county commis. sion, described progress he had made in connection with civic im- provements here, including th improvements and wa- ter line fac’ Guests at the luncheon meeting were Robert Brown and Hector Castillo, junior safety patroimen. GEORGE WASHINGTON CAKES SPECIAL aloney y Bros. Bakery | ties lili of England and Eamon De Va- lera of Eire, it was reported un- officially here today. A source close to Churchill said talks had progressed toward eventual Irish agrement to use of er land for British air hanes but that no final settlement had been made, BRADY'S (Live) Poultry and Egg Market Fresh Florids Grade “A” 35¢ Large White EGGS. dosen ROASTERS — FRYERS DUCKS — STEWERS 1214 White St. Phone 540