The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 26, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXII. No. 49. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1941 British Troops Capture Italian onal German Motorized Unite Attack British Force At} Section In Vicinity nea Bengasi (By Associated Presa) CAIRO, Feb, 26.—British one captured the Italian Somaliland capital of Mogadiscio this morn; ing and German motorized units | launched an attack against a} British column near Bengasi to; provide the twin highlights of| Britain's African war. The capture of Mogadiscio, a} city of some 55,000 and the cen- | tral Italian supply base in east | Africa, means another crushing } blow to the chances of Italian! survival in Africa. British motorized troops made; an amazing record lancing ; through Italian defenders and) into the capital at the rate of 210 miles in three days. There wes | no opposition at the city, itself, | and a communique _ reaching! Cairo said the Italian garrison} pvas-taken iby surprise. and.over: | powered. in |FINAL |part of Indo-China, |the Japanese Parliament, defend- ‘SENATOR NYE | RIDICULES ANY INVASION FEAR. INTINUED HIS BATTLE TO-| DAY IN SENATE IN OPPOSI- TION TO BILL TO AID ENG.| LAND land Capital Of Mogadiscio German Claims In British + Ship Losses. Stil Mount - (Re Ansocinted Preas? WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Iso- jlationist Senator Gerald Nye con-; tinued his last-ditch battle against | |passage of the “lend-lease”, meas- , | JAPAN FORWARDS ‘Royal Air Force Bombers jure tnis morning with a denun- Continue Terrific Bom- |“#t'*" ot Britain as the “biggest | aggressor”. i bardments On Two Ger-| warning his colleagues that’ | Passage of the bill will “lead to jwar, make Roosevelt ja dictator and reduce Congress to ithe status of a rubber siamp”, the |North Dakota senator called on jadministration foes in the Senate ion of British shipping continued | to block i MEDIATION PLAN | TO END FIGHTING’ SUGGESTION con. | io CERNING WAR BETWIEN. THAILAND AND FRENCH INDOCHINA President man Ports (Hy Associated Presa) German claims for the destruc- euactment, Nye ridiculed fears of a Ger- man invasion of this and predicted a British ctory. “After the war, if Germany, wins, she will have the Balkans jand all of Africa”, Nye declared. “The idea of Hitler attempting to invade this continent is ridicu- lous. Besides, 1 think England | will win the » anyway”. Describing Wendell Willkie as | to mount today in the wake of! { continent \Adolf Hitler’s statement that “sea ; ‘eb. 26.—Japan has iwartare is only now ready to jforwarded a final plan for the gare.” ' mediation of war between Thai- | q land and French Indo-China, | \ Royal Air Force bombers today Tokyo newspapers announced to- jare continuing a terrific bom- The plan, calling for a sweep-|bardment of German ports jing series of euncessans. et Cn Dunkirk and Cologne, but a com-|# “clipper diplomat” the North is ie Dakotan scoffed at views ex- Japan will offer, the newspapers (aniniqua from Berlin has listed pressed by the former presidential | , declared. é didate "Premict” Konoye, " “addressing {sinking of at least seven vessels eee seals Heyes Bea in the past 24 hours, Claims Franco Promises (By Assoctated Press) LONDON, Feb. 26.—Premier Francisco Franco of Spain has igiven London his solemn promise jnot to fortify the international zone at Tangiers, Richard A. | ‘Buckner, parliamentary secretary ‘for foreign affairs, told the house of commons this morning. | Spanish troops moved into the | international zone a few days! after the fall of France and rumors have held that guns were | being mounted to attack the; British fortress of Gibraltar. | Buckner said an investigation , vhad revealed no fortifications in‘ the zone and Franco had assured him Spain has no intention of at- tempting to garrison the district more strongly than it already is held. House members during the morning heard an admiralty re- port that one 35,000-ton Italian: warship, damaged by a British torpedo attack in the harbor at Taranto a month ago, has been given up as a total loss. Secret reports from Italy in- dicate two other battleships which were damaged in the at- tack are still under repairs and are unfit for sea-duty. FORMER KING IS | SINKING RAPIDLY ‘TURKEY TO STAND | BY GREAT BRITAIN IN BALKAN CRISIS RENEWS PLEDGE AS FOREIGN MINISTER ANTHONY EDEN | ARRIVES AT ANKARA TO. DELIVER SPEECH i i] (Ry Ansociated Press) ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 26.— Turkey today renewed her pledge to stand at the side of Great Brit- ain in any Balkan crisis as Brit- ish Foreign Minister Anthony Eden arrived here and_ publicly | ! expressed his confidence German defeat. Eden won wild cheers from the | crowd when they ciscovered he would make his speech in Turk- ish. The foreign minister iearn- bs the language in college. Both Eden and Turkish states- ‘men admitted German epee | | might pour into Bulgaria in full; force at any moment. More than 200,000 soldiers of | he Reich: are’teported on the Ru- |manian border, ready to cross in aj Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS To Be Retumed To Forme Zone At Tangiers Will | Not Be Fortified Area Stats Prior To Its Being Placed On Inactive Basis Headquarters of the seventh naval district are to be returned to Key West, Representative Pat Can- non advised The Citizen today. A bill will be intreduced by the House appropria- | tions committee to provide money for the: transfer. Representative Cannon is assured its passage is virt- | ually certain. Key West, which had the district naval head- quarters before the local statipn was partially aban- doned during the Hoover administration, now gets its naval orders from Charleston, S. C. Capt. W. F. Jacobs, commandant of the local base, is thus assistant commandant of the seventh | district. Transfer of the headquarters back to Key. West iis believed to have been made imperative because of plans for the tremendous increase in size of the sta- tion here. Present plans call for money grants to the station which will make it the most important in \ the district and operations obviously could be ol | more easly from here than trom Charleston. Advance forces of Sir Archi-/ 44 himself against attacks which | jdent Roosevelt said this country! ALPHONSO OF SPAIN mal fronts ane ECUby Bulgaria | bald Wavell’s army, advancing! i, has been thought might lead | A speed boat, according to the |need have no tear of a Japanese IZES DEATH IS toward Tripoli about 100 miles; west of the captured Libyan city of Bengasi, said they had encoun-, tered.a German mechanized force which attacked them, but was beaten off. i (Rome claims the battle is still in progress and that German forces routed the British advance | guard and captured many prison ers.) Arrival of the German troops in Libya was known in advance, | but no information as to the num- } ber of men or the amount of| equipment they were able to slip through the blockade has been made public. The fall of Mogadiscio leaves Premier Mussolini's forces in Ethiopia almost completely cut off from help or supply. The land-locked country has been getting most’ of its supplies through Italian ‘Somaliland in the past and British forces now have cut that country in two and es- hed a line which makes ge of Italian reserves im » strong force of British in- | fantry had been moving up to ward Mogadiscio from the south for more than a week and it was assumed they would attack the city when they were ready. The sudden thrust from the north across more than 200 miles of desert caught ftalian forces to- tally unprepared. TWO YOUNGSTERS BATTLE POLICE (My Assvet POMPTON LAK N. J 26.—Two 14-year-old boys terday fought a four-hour battle with loc patrolmen ne The boys, Er William Hunter. unharmed aft police officers morning from edge of town Pe officers won the ture war when tear were thrown in t the shack forcing the pa out. No one was hurt A search of boys’ revealed cluding eig and hun munitio shack after rested on a felony charge. a) Feb. yes gun > come refug TAYLOR NAMED | {THOMPSON AND O’'BRYANT to his forced resignation. ee | The Premier said he was not pessimistic over relations be tween his count and the Unit- ed States. The United States has misunderstood Japan, he told the Parliament, but relations are now improving . | communique, sank a British de- stroyer off the coast of Scotland yesterday and a submarine tor- pedoed and sank an armed trawl- er somewhere in the same neigh- _ borhood. | Bombers have destroyed three |ships totalling 21,000 tons in an jattack on a convoy in the channel and a bomber operating with .Italian forces in Africa sank two 8,000-ton ships off Libya. Two huge squadrons of RAF bombers, accompanied by flights of pursuit planes, roared over the central German Ruhr during the night and returning pilots told of seeing great con- flagrations in factory districts. A German bomber squadron, meanwhile, struck at an uniden- tified British airdrome during the night and, accorging to a descrip- tion’ of the bombing from Berlin, blew up an ammunition dump (Continued on Page Four) CHRISTMAS SEAL CAMPAIGN MOST | PROFITABLE YET TREASURER OF ORGANIZA- TION REPORTS THAT $561.99 TURNED IN UP TO PRES- ENT TIME GUARD CAPTAIN SELECTED AS LIEU- TENANTS district With practica now in for the y all returns 1940 Christmas Seal Campaign, the drive just completed is the greatest return in the history of Key West, Ac- cording to J. J..Trevor, treasurer, | a total of $561.99 has been turned4 in to da e Mr. Trevor.was~-gratified the generous response came from people in all walks of life, many of which made.sacri- fices to contribute to the work. Those who were una to pur- chase seals wrote to the treasurer showing the t in the fight aga it tuber Compared wi last year, the tive stamps ir Charles S. Taylor last night was elected captain of Company eS West Home Guard, . William H. Reardon turned in his resignation. ' Captain Reardon said work in connection with the American Legion convention here made it (Continued on Page Four) } by? which Mrs. Lambright And Daughter Rescued From Water Yesterday ARRANGE. CLASS FOR TRADESMEN Building tradest ssmen interes in registering for a course blueprint reading, building 4 estimating must make applicat before tomorrow night, it was nounced today © same period of the decora- ainstay of the tuberculosis, John Conn., Lambert, New Haven, terday rescued his wife and six-year-old daughter, Mary, after their car had skidded into a canal along Overseas highway at paign. Sugar Loaf key. her pave The accident happened late | yesterday afternoon Lambert freed himself from the automobile and plunged into the water to bring out his wife and daughter. No one was hurt < MRS. HAMILTON: GIVEN DIVORCE“: nys Katharine py West, has won Edward Delos M it was loc was fi ing to Mr. ¥ the 1940 cam- yossible to con- t fi against twelve ght ther highly p this ye that th d Notice! Three One Act Plays scheduled for Thursday and Friday. Feb. 27 < and 28 have been postponed un- til next week, Thursday and Fri day. March 6 and 7. Key West Players purposes t was granted last week. (Continued on : Peer Four) - Key West Players, Art NEAR (Dy Associated Press) ROME, Feb. 26.—Alphonso XHI, former king of Spain, today! appeared sinking after repeated heart attacks, Physicians said the Bourbon king had spent a restless night and refused to admit visitors to his bedside today. One doctor said Alphonso seem- ed to have admitted to himself there would be little chance of his recovery. While he was be- ing treated yesterday the doctor said Aphonso told him “do not try too hard. If my death is not today, then will be a day soon”. it - COMING EVENTS WEDNESDAY Wrestling, Simenton St. Arena, 8:30 p THURSDAY Rotary Club me 12:15 St. Paul's Parish Hall Garden Tea, Auspices Woman's Club, 4 to 6 p.m j City Council meets at 7:30 p.m. City Hall Lions Club meets at 6:30 Lions’ Den, and Front p.m. p.m. Seminary Street Center, 8:00 p. m FRIDAY Conch Dance, Room, 9:30 till ? Boxing, Simonton 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 jen Club Flower Show, Pub- and Front St. Annual Key West FLOWER SHOW Saturday. Sunday. Monday. March 1, 2 and 3 PUBLIC LIBRARY Admission 25e La Concha Rainbow ; FIVE-ALARM FIRE IN CHICAGO TODAY i IN HEART OF “LOOP”; EXTIN- | GUISHED AFTER SEV- ERAL HOURS | | ted Preset CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—A five- alarm fire in the heart of the, “loop” this mornjng blocked traffic and made thousands of office workers late to their jobs. Damage in the fire, which gut- ted a_ five-story wood storage building, amounied to more than $150,000, it was announced. The blaze was brought under control after several hours. Fire boats were brought up the Chicago river to wet down other buildings in the vicinity and prevent the spread of the con- flagration (By Ana Building Activities In Key West Show Marked Increase building per- mits yesterday for the second day in succession lifted local building figures over the $1,500 mark Luther Thompson, 1126 Pearl street, was granted permission to spend $1,000 for construction of a one-story wooden building, while Mrs. T. H. Boil, Windsor Lane and William street, took out a permit for $500 to be spent in general re- pairs to her home. Fred Solomon, 922 Eaton street, was granted‘ a/\$200 permit to build a smal! wooten house. Other Improvements Sebastian Cabrera, wholesale grocery operator, will convert © old homes at 702 and 704 street into modern apart- he announced today. Cabrera said he plans to have work begun on the two houses me nexf month and will spend about $1,500 in repairs and alteration Basi! Tynes also has made plans for improvement of the home at 1410 Olivia street. Tynes will spend about $1500 in repairing Issuance of three iand redecorating the home (Ei Paso FIND BODIES OF ‘NAME CHAIRMEN | TWOIN WRECKAGE OF COMMITTEES OF SCOUT PLANE FOR CONVENTION KILLED WHEN PLANE MAKES nis MORGAN SELECTED AS POWER DIVE TO EARTH; GENERAL CHAIRMAN OF INVESTIGATING CAUSE OF LEGION’S AUXILIARY AC. ACCIDENT | TIVITIES (My Anaoerated Presa) Mrs. A. M. Morgan, Reynolds SAN DIEGQ, Feb. 26.—The bodies of Pilot C. S. Maxwell and E. A. Cleary, radio man, were found this morning in the wreck- age of their navy scout bomber less than 15 miles from San Diego. While navy p!anes continued to search for another scout bomber carrying Pilot W. A. Daniel and Radio Man E. S. Lamont, a seaneh party discovered the bodies of ‘Continued On Page Four) street, has been selected as gen- eral chairman of the auxiliary activities during the American Legion convention here. April 23-26, it was announced teday by the executive committee’ of Ar- thur Sawyer Post No. “28, the American Legion. Mrs. Morgan succeeds Mrz. William RK. Warren, who was un able to take on the larger job, but has consented to serve the con vention in anciher capacity, It , was with regret that the resigna tion of Mrs. Warren was accept ed. “1 don't see this as a difficult task”, Mrs. Morgan said. “It will be a question of keeping the com mittees in operation, and I'm sure that the chairmen who have con ed to serve under me will all rm their duties effectively”, chairmen of the committees as (Continued on Page Four) TEMPERATURES Lowest lest/Highest les! | night 2% hours Abilene 39 40 Boise Boston Brownsville Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Denver Detroit 21 Dr. Enrique Renedo, IJr., a visi tor in Key West with Mrs. Rene do, has been called to active duty with the army dental corps and will report at Fort Bragg, N. C.. March 5. The pair came here after Mr. Renedo had received the call to duty in Miami. $25.00 REWARD for information leading to sr- jest and $100 for conviction of Giri or Woman who entered my yoo tile massing eal ofthe three large Papsyas from tree. WILLIAM KR. PORTER. Havre Huron Jacksonville Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Montgomery New Orleans 5 New York Okla. City St Louis Salt Lake City 2 San Francisco Spokane Sit. Ste. Marie Washington -