The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 25, 1941, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an avera: range of only 14° Fahrenheit Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LXII. Residents of a waterfront hotel ; they heard the} (Dy Asnoctated Press) Fear of an explosion in the | Balkens, possibly within a mat- who thought (By Associated Press) | | | | H (By Associated P: > P ' yy Associated Prens' H screams of a drowning woe CAIRO, Feb, | group will be entertained on SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25- the grounds at Fort Taylor. _ ter of hours, increased today with . The German Consulate has asked | the United States Immigration PMP? OMIM I DP &, reports of German occupation of ‘Service to explain why four Ger-! Bulgaria and British preparations ' j . eo. - e CHANGES IN BILL,;): A ij ht Along Wat Front t German U-Boat Base | ENTLY WILL IT F AO ee |Sponding to threats of Adolf Hit- i (Be Auuecinted Press) jstruck at the great German U-j pa ad * . Coast Guard Vessel Was ETHIOPI AN C APITAI {ministration forces this morning tWo light bombers had been miss-| Dumping tons of explosives | ‘admitted they would be unable to | ! crashed in air. ‘for hours, the British bombers: FL TERS ARE HELD: led they would stand firm in op- | ivasio { 2 ee Sixty soldiers stationed in outs Expected To Be lanes crash at a distance and ‘Coast. i . . . BRITISH FORCES SPEED op-| Senator Murray, Montana Dem- :P’ With Air Station tis, Va., will be guests of hon- ‘in.a final plea for quick passage. 98°. ping losses, putting the total ton- | NOT RELEASED pincic will begin at 4:00 |sible precaution against war for|Teturned on schedule. Each of the figure 180,000 tons. last night actually were hearing |capital city of Addis Ababa was'the death blow to free enterprise | 4-ship convoy off the coast of 46, KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1941 _ TO AID BRITAIN iti i i 5 ADMIT PLAN (By Ansociated Presa) | |_ LONDON, Feb. 25.—Royal Air! ? e ! | When Small Boat Capsized FOR VOTE IN SENATE THIS jler yesterday that his submarine | ins dice naine SAN DIEGO, Feb. 25.—Navy |boat base at Brest last night in a! 1 CR DLS La SSS 5 ing since last night as fears in-|0W°r the town and harbor facili- (Resuli Of Reporied Ger- Called To Scene; Both BOMBED LAST NIGHT push “lease-lend” bill No. 1776 H Several small boys playing near | Made a great sweep of possible in- | raat Se | Key West whc have been or- | jocrat, took the floor for the ad-|Police are investigating, but have Admiralty officials, meanwhile, GERMAN REPRESENTATIVE . Started At Once ae | ERATIONS AGAINST or at a picnic this- afte: | Murray told the Senate passage! The navy issued only a formal nage destroyed for the week end- o'clock. lhe United Staten, the bombers carries a pilot and; The Admiralty said Hitler's de- | _ ortugal last week was entirely TEMPERATURES THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. pete etme We nreey a Oat 'g ‘OPPOSE FURTHER: ;|Roval Air F i a | 'PROPOSED MEASURE APPAR- | Force bombers, apparently re- e ARE MISSING. , . comers oaks jfleet would dominate the seas, | | WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Ad- |headquarters-here today admitted |»¢Vastating raid. ; ae ; creased that the two planes had |ties in a series of attacks lasting PICNIC FOR SOLDIERS | man Occupation; Black- ‘to a vote this week, but announc- { sR i ’ Of Men Are Connected! d lGamiactadt es vasion points along the channel | | \posing any further amendments. |Carlsstadt said they saw twoj P g the channel | dered transferred to Fort Eus- |ministration during the morning , been unable to find any wreck- Tidiculed Hitler's figures on ship-} woQulRES WHY THEY ARE ITALIANS it was announced today. The |of the bill would be the best pos- Statement that the planes had not 'ing Feb. 16 at 37,000. Hitler made Members of the deperting 25.—Ethiopia’s | Describing w Hitler victory as|One observer. scription of the destruction of a} heavily bombed last night as'in this country. Murray said a} inaccurate. Ten of the ships are seaman from the air station who : f !German-dominated Europe would British forces speeded operations surop | \safely in port, according to the ad- wes tired of standing up to his’, every front in their drive|force farmers of this country to | so =; Lowest last|Highest lasi neck in water on a sand bar. jagainst Italian lines. | 'T. G. McMillen and R. E, Dick-| Sit Archibald Sinclair, British jeq by Senator Burton K. Wheel-! apite announced more er, have admitted their inability Boise attached to the air station, were | than 1,000 Italian planes had been'to prevent passage of the meas- | Boston rescued after their small sailboat} shot down or destroyed on the|ure, but they are making efforts | Brownsville ason, both second-class seamen /@ir minis had overturned abcut half a milej ground in the Mediterranean | offshore. Jarea, including both Africa and ruin. Anti - administration senators, to secure further amendments es ithe price for giving up the strug- \Chicago night 24 hours ne _ 46 36 57 28 40 21 51 Be 14 {Buffalo ;miralty, and the others are not ' known to have been sunk. | (An announcement from Berlin } {this morning sail 253,000 tons of |British shipping had been de- :stroyed in the past 48 hours.) DEN man fliers, who came here last CHURCHILL SAYS |to evacuate nationals from the country. intention of smipping home by ; ,way of Japan, still were in cus-| | The four, former pilots on the |Scadta Air Line in Colombia, have | jbeen detained at the immigration | August from Colombia with the NO COMPRO! Telephone communications be- tween Sofia and Berlin were mys- |teriously cut off this morning and a report from Zurich, Switzer- land, said that city, too. had (By Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 25.—Prime istation. I. F. Wixon, District Im- {Minister Winston Churchill has! McMillen attempted to swim} (gle. One amendment particular- , : jmigration Chief, said he had no ‘informed Japanese Foreign Min- + slinsig i : Cincinnati ashore, but tired quickly in the |the Greek-Italian struggle in Al-jly favored by Wheeler is a pro- jnetroit rough water and attempted to at- | bania. , Viso which would forbid sending 33 28 43 35 found communication with Sofia tract the attention of the hotel! One flying column was report- | pede: ner he managed o eetied today to have roared across | is feet down on a_ sandbar. | y4,); Somalila: > rate of! Whistles and calls failed to get any | parla ne at) he aE is attention, then the seaman began | /0 miles in two days to 3 to scream for help in a voice that | Positions less than 100 miles ae was mistaken for that of a wo-|the capital at Mogadiscio. man. In Eritrea, British forces push- | A Coast Guard vessel, calledjed their way to within 70 miles | by. the hotel, was unable to get/of the important city of Asmara| into the shallow water to pick|from the north, thus exposing! up McMillen and Dickason, who the city to attack from both sides. | was still clinging to the capsized | A strong British force already has| boat. A small craft from the air|moved into position south of the ; station finally brought back both, city. | men, tired but unhurt. SEVEN TAKEN FROM SINGLE NEWSPAPER INTO ARMY FOR FED- ERAL SERVICE ‘VIRGINIA POLICE DISCOVER BODY. Ny Asnociated Pr | MORGANTOWN, Va., Feb. 25. |__Police this morning found the | | bullet-riddled body of an uni- 'dentified man near a car which |belonged to Robert S. Bevins, | whose body was found on a state PC LEU ais highway near here yesterday. | HARRISBURG, Pa. Feb, 25; A Wallet and identification pa- | The President, the Publisher, and | Pets found on the body were the | the Editor of the Harrisburg {Property of Bevins and police be-| Telegraph were inducted into | lieved the man found today had the Army for a year’s Federal |Tobbed and killed Bevins and service. . In all, seven left ;then met his own death at the | the paper. hands of accomplices in the hold- | The President is Brig. Gen. Ed up. | ward J. Stackpole, Jr.; the Pub- lisher, his brother, Col. Albert H. Stackpole, and the Editor, Bion C. Welker. General Stackpole has nominated to command the 56th | Infantry Brigade and Colone! | Stackpole commands the 104th | Cavalry. | Others inducted include a po-! litical writer and the sports edi- tor. men been | Funds Still Money is coming in toward the American Legion convention fund very slowly, but there is. still time for all of it to materialize, Guy Carleton, chairman of the civic committ told the direc- tors of the Key West Convention corporation last night. Several of the groups contributed up to the limit manded of them, but others, not- ably the restaurants and whole- sale gasoline companies, are lag- ging behind, Carleton said “The restaurants and cafes stand to be the biggest bene- ficiaries of the convention” Carleton said. “It behooves them to contribute promptly and lib- erally if the fund is to go over the top”. Building Permits Issued Monday Totalled $1,825 Fern we AUTO TAG SALES REACH 2,000 MARK cue have Sale of automobile licenses at de- the office of County Tax Colleec- tor Joe C. McMahon today had climbed to the 2,000 mark, or only 50 less than the number sold during the entire year of 1940. McMahon predicted today the total for 1941 would climb = well above last year's figure, since the present number is several hun dred above the total at this time in 1940. Benjamin Fernandez of Piere Lane, with a $1,000 building per mit for the construction of ot front. Cave Inn, Duval street ame building, yesterday topped i ee . was granted a $200 permit wi American troops or ships out of this hemisphere. COMING EVENTS TUESDAY Stone Church Service Club. 6:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY Wrestling, Simonton and Front St. Arena, 8:30 p.m. THURSDAY Garden Tea, Auspices Woman's Club, 4 to 6 p.m. City Council meets at 7:30 p.m. City Hall. Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. Key West Players, Art Center, i 8:00 p. m. FRIDAY Conch Dance, La Concha Rainbow Room, 9:30 till ? Boxing, Simonton and Front St. Arena, 8:30 pm. Red Cross Sewing Club meets at 315 Duval Street, 2:00 p.m. Tourist Club meets at Art Center, 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY Garden Club Flower Show, Pub- lie Library. SUNDAY Garden Club Flower Show, Pub-| lic Library. ‘American Legion Unit Works | On Program For Convention; Being Received Albert Mills, executive direc- tor of the corporation, reported the Finch Decorating company of Ft. Lauderdale had signed the contract for decorating the city during thé convention, which is to be held ere April 23-26. Con-! tract includes all the stores and the Legion meeting places, all the entire length of Division and Du- val streets. Tentative chairmen of the rifle competitions and the band com-; petitions committees were select ed by the board of directors. Mi was directed to contact the mentioned to see if they would serve before they are announced. t was decided to send a large delegation of Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28 of the American Le- gion corpor, represe > the fift of the A ica Lauderdale March boost the legion’s conve tives ence Ft The P. & O. Steamship com has so far refused to set a from Tampa the Tuesday, April 22 large crowd of wu ported. This many Legionnaires would want to be here the y the con opens Li cted come by automo them would El Paso Galveston Havre |Huron | Jacksonville Kansas City |KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami {Minneapolis jNew York ;Okla. City Phoenix Pittsburgh San Francisco Spokane Slt. Ste. Marie Washington 45 45 8 -6 56 24 72 53 68 6 25 48 24 47 30 14 29 61 53 14 15 57 38 78 64 73 17 36 36 59 32 58 34 30 42 DESERVES MEDAL MILWAUKEE. — George Wei- ler of this city gave his wife a medal on their 35th anniversary, explaining: “I've attended fra ternal meetings almost every jnight during the time, and any |wife who stands for that deserves a medal” | | 1 | | | ws of the death in an airplane lerash Friday of Dr. Sir Frederick |Grant Banting, Insulin, this morning recalled to | Marie Cappick of Key West an in- |terview she wrote after a | with the doctor in Miami in the jearly 1920's. | Sir Frederick’ co-discoverer of visit body, along with those of two companions aboard a as found Monday jon the shore of Trinity on the route k and Botwood, Joseph military plane bay, tween Canada wfoundland. Creighton Mackey of Kansas City, pilot of the Canadian military plane, was alive when rescuers rea ithe scene. The dead, besides Frederick, were Navigator Bird, Kidder- inster, anil = William ilham, Be N.S. Word Frederick was n t public had failed to return secret mission Miss Capr her meeting a Sir Frederick Cappick) from : Key West Players Present Three One Act Plays “The Loves of Lionel” “Farewell to Love” HARRIS SCHOOL Feb. 27 and 28. 8 P. M. Admission: 45¢ plus Sc tax—S6c ‘Death Of Dr. Banting Recalls | jmen to be Interview With Co-Discoverer | Of Insulin With Marie Cappick (By Asnoctated Press) ATHENS, Feb. 25.—Athens, newspapers today challenged a | statement of Italian Premier Benito Mussolini minimizing loss- | es to his forces in Albania. | Printing official Greek figures, ; | the newspapers said their armies in the war with Italy had de- stroyed seven divisions. Losses ;to Italy in killed, wounded and ‘captured during the war now jamount to more than 105,000 |men, according to the papers. | Answering Mussolini's state- ment that the only Italians cap- tured in Albania were a few too badly injured to be removed, the | |papers said 20,000 Italian soldiers are now in Greek hands. Cold weather continued to hold down activity in the campaign! today, but Greek official sources | said their troops were still work- | ing their way into position to de- liver a crushing blow at the port} ‘of Valona. H | | | | | | | { }Coast of Florida with the im-| portant experiments made by Dr. Banting, which finally led to the discovery of Insulin, a_ specific for diabetes. Some years ago, in the early 20’s, while in Miami, I learned of a young man then at Coconut Grove who was experimenting with fishes for scientific purposes. I went down to Coconut Grove, talked with fishermen, and in time met Dr. Banting who had been pointed out to me by one of the fishermen. “The scientist had very little to say about his work, but from that little, and bits gathered from fishermen. I iearned enough to write a news story on the experi- ments with fish caught in Florida waters. As I represented the Toronto Star at the time, I for- warded the story to that Paper. “Several days after it appeared in the Star, I received a letter from the president of the Univer- sity of Toronto in which he con- gratulated me for the story, and Stated that Dr. Banting was a member of the university faculty there was added interest in it for himself and the faculty He added that he knew Dr. Banting was on va mn, but did not know where, neither did he know along what lines Dr. Banting’s experi- ments were leading, until he read the story with a Key West date hne | For this reason it is probable that Key West was the first to announce to the world, news of the experiments of Dr. Banting, later knighted for his work, but at Ss time it would be impossible to prove the truth of the state- ment.” j i cure (J apan. ‘say they have been prevented from }to mediate lreturning to Colombia. CITING LOSSES suthority to release the pilots un- | ister Matsuoko there can be ned impassitte less they could obtain passage to compromise between Britain and Japanese steamship lines, it was Germany, it was learned today. reported, have refused to take the| Churchill talked with a Jap- four because of the British block- ,anese representative yesterday, ade in the Pacific. The Germans | Matsuoko has denied offering the British-German {struggle, but Churchill said the Mr. Wixon said their release to offer was to mediate the Thai- return to that South American land-Indo-China war “or any oth- country would have to be author- jer current dispute”. CAREFUL DRIVER jized by Washington. | HEN IN WAITING MADISONVILLE, Tex.—Mrs. |enteen years that she has driven Jay Grizzle of this city owns a|school buses for a livnig, Mrs, W. hen that goes with her to town| Pugh of this city has worn out every day, waits in the car, andjthree vehicles, but. has never lays eggs in the meantime. ‘even dented a fender. First Of Soldiers Transferred From Here, Leave Tomorrow Ten soldiers stationed at Key ardson, Marcus D. Walden, Bethel West army barracks will leave P. Johnson. for Fort Eustis, Va. tomorrow,! Privates Gerald Cano, James leading the way for a total of 60.T. Davis, Bud T. Smith, Alex J. transferred between Albritton, Joseph B. Fordham, Wilbur Cox, Harry L. Sowry, Ce- now and Saturday. j the cil A. Dukes, Victor J. Hartmann, Selected from among trained men at the local barracks, George D. Wilson, James H. Dur- | the 60 will be divided into two rance, Woodrow W. Chaney, cadres (skeleton forces) which Page A. Stewart, Paul A. Rich- will be brought up to full strength ard, Jr., William P. Alexander, through the addition of drafteesgJohn Patterson, Lester H. Hil- and volunteers at the Viegipial liat¥e Emery. L, Dopp, Jr. Ed- fort ward A. Daw, James L. Law Col. L. L. Pendleton, command- |hon, Robert L. Johnsen ,Vane¢q ly ing oftie gs Gf the \Coast | Artillery Fortner, Kenneth E. Baker, Ar- defenses Key West, will leave thur T. Griffin, James D. Tyson, with the secpnd body_of men Sat-! Lloyd H. Geesford, Tommie J urday. Md dolonel” is expécted |Lowe, Warren H. Strange, Swin- to turn the men over to the com- son A. Henderson, Freddie O manding general in Virginia and Stitcher, Haggie Cockman, Ed- return here. ward Tanner, Everett Spurling, Men transferred by the new or- Arthur Coggeshall, Robert F. Du- der include a number who have france, Charles E. Shepherd, Obie lived in. Key West for years. D. Ward and William L. Monroe. James Gallagher, promoted to first sergeant, has been here for more than 22 years, while Sgt. Victor Hartmann, has been here for 18 years. ‘ Leaving Tomorrow leaving here tomorrow Com Men are Sergeants Robert H. Hender-| son, Willie F. Sands, Cecil E. Smith, Joseph B. Smith, Victor Hartmann. Corporals Linton G. Camus, William H. Riggs, Ned Hollings- worth Privates William F. Tidwell Frederick K. Ebright March | Departing for the Virginia fort March 1 will be- First Sergeants John V ton, James Gallagher. Sergeants Monroe Whitehead Henry Peak, William E Thorn ton Florida State Railway commis. sioners yesterday turned down the application of a Miami concern for authority to run a sightseeing bus to Key West. Members of the commission ex amined one witness for the com- pany and ordered the appligation rejected because of insufficient preparation. The company will be granted 15 days in which to prepare another pica. S. C. Singleton, chamber commerce secretary who attended Corporals Felton E. Lumpkin, the meeting, said today the pro Ray E Baker. Oscar L. Hearn. posed bus line would make a one- Paul Jeneau, Jr. Burton W. Rich- day trip from Miami here and beck with no stop-over privilege. From testimony of the one wit- ness, Singleton said it appeared the company actually had not been formed, but that its backers were waiting to get the railway commission approval before or- ganizing their firm. opposed Singhe- Whar f Ask About the Triple Thrill of FLUID DRIVE on the 1841 DODGE Free Demonstration Without Obligation at NAVARRO, Inc. Local business men are ito the line, according to mission Denies Application - Of Miami Concern To Operate Sightseeing Bus To Key West German staff officers were reliably reported in London to have taken over more ‘than 20) villas in a wealthy “suburb of Sofia and Observers’ expect at any moment to hear the news that German troops are flooding into Bulgaria, 4 British diplomatic officers burned all official papers which they do not intend to take out 4of the country with them and children of the em- HOUSTON, Tex.—In the sev- WOIORY Ore Fapontee Yuen ling to Turkey. | Blackouts through Bulgaria were expected to begin either to- ‘day or tomorrow. | Arrival of Sir Anthony Eden, |British foreign minister, in Tur- jkey this morning was expected jto bring a definite word from An- |kara, but Turkish statesmen al- lready have announced they will ‘stand by Great Britain in any Balkan showdown. | Russia, meanwhile, has inform- led all Balkan countries she will {not oppose German moves. GEORGIA STREET PROPERTY SOLD Mr. and Mrs. W. F, Bowery, of Key West, have purchased the Georgia street property of Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Parker, a deed recorded in County Clerk Ross Sawyer's office revea’ 1 today The lot, which was sold for about $1800, has a 40-foot front and extends back 90 feet. Mrs, Sybil Carey, widow of the late Leon Carey, has sold to Mrs. Flora H. Kidder her garage- apartment and adjacent lot on United street The purchase price is believed to have been about $2,200. ton, because present facilities per- mit a stop-over here and the pro- posed trip would not. Singleton also attended a meet- ing of the Florida Inland Naviga- tion district at Miami Saturday to ask considera: of Mon conan ty’s request fof mers The navigation district attorney, Alfred H. Green of Daytona Beach. told Singleton he would write Julius F. Stone, Jr, acting Monroe county attorney, and promised the navigation commis- sioners would make every effort to help this county in getting per mission of the state legislature to become » member. Under the act forming the navi gation district, no authority was granted the members to take in other members beyond the orig- inal group. Singleton returned here last night after spending the week-end in Miami and attending the two conferences.