The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 27, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOU THERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXII. No. 50. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941 Status OF Naval Station Will Now Requiré. Many New Glerks And Officers SHIPS IN BATTLE OF TTALY’S LAKE | SHOWN THAT DIVE BOMBERS IN CAPABLE HANDS CAN BE MOST EFFECTIVE IN MODERN WARFARE ‘PLANES VERSUS * Calls For Putting An Ad- PSP D9 DMPO DS 6 T| WASHINGTON, miral Here To Handle FOUR PERMITS CAUGH Most Of Naval Estab-| lishments In Florida | | as | headquarters of the seventh nav- | Designation of Key West al district will bring in the neigh; | borhocd of 100 more clerks and navy officers to this city, Capt. | W. F. Jacobs, commandant of the! local base, explained today. | | The Citizen, in an exclusive) story yesterday, revealed that a) bill soon will be introduced by | | the House appropriations commit- | tee providing for transfer of Sis II III IIMS ST 8 trict headquarters from Charles-' ton, S. C., to Key West. sentative Pat Cannon described Repre- passage of the measure as virtual- | ly assured. | Captain Jacohs t said transfer of the headquarters | GgMpBINED ASSAULT OF RAF oato..this_city. would. be in. ling with: * the navy department’s action in January, which shifted head- quarters of the eighth district from Charleston to New Orleans. | Admiral William H. Allen of | Charleston previously had acted | as commandant -for the sixth, seventh and eighth districts. Un- the strategic der the new setup, Admiral Allen | of Castel Ori commands the sixth and seventh combined |BY VISITING ANGLERS' Four beautiful Permits adorned the porte cochere of the Casa Marina last night which were the object of much admiration. Mr. and Mrs. Bertram C. Hopeman, of Waynesboro, Virginia, caught three of them, fishing from their own boat the “Ailesroc’. Mrs. Hopeman accounted for a 16% pounder, and Mr. Hope- man fora 17 and a 9% pounder. K. H. Woolson, of Spring- field, Vt., well-known bone- fisherman who has done con- siderable Permit fishing in these parts, brought in the fourth Permit, which weigh- ed 17% pounds, CONFIRM REPORT CAPTURE OF CASTEL ORITZ OF | By MORGAN M. BEATTY | i AP Feature Service Writer Feb. 27.— American military and naval ex- perts are getting new and jtounding evidence from U.S. ob- iservers abroad that the dive {bomber in capable hands can be ithe most effective single weapon of modern warfare. Fewer than 100 German dive l bombers (Stukas) in almost no |time have accomplished what the as- {entire Italian navy and air force ; {combined failed to accomplish in ;seven months, | They have made the central | Megiterranean dangerous for the {British navy and: merchantmen. ; They have forced the British to abandon plans to send home to ‘Britain most of their huge Medi- ,terranean naval forces. And, fi- nally, they have tarnished Brit- ish victory, just when the Axis lecisive defeat since Hitler came to power in 1933. Damage One-Sided Even if all of the Stukas had! i been lost, and they weren’t by any means, the total material loss to Germany would: have been about: $5,000,000. Damage to the British sea 10 in actions led by Stukas may jultimately count up well over BOMBERS ‘AND DESTROY- $200,000,000, apart from the lost ERS MADE ON STRATEGIC | ISLAND (ity Agsoctated Preany LONDON, Feb. 27.—Capture of Dodocanese services of important warships. All this doesn’t mean that air | power at last has beaten sea pow- jer. Far from it. The British blockade of the |Mediterranean is almost 100 per- cent intact. The British have moved all their convoys without island }the loss of a ship in an attacked zo yesterday by a convoy, except naval vessels. The ault of RAF bomb-/British fleet still is patently in districts, which include the coast- ers and destroyers of the Royal control of the Mediterranean. line from Virginia around Florida | y, and as far west as Pensacola. The eighth district, for whic a commandant has not yet been appointed, takes in the coastline | It from and including Pensacola | from which bombers have beer stronghold The around the Gulf of Mexico to the Mexican border. Designation of Key West as headquarters of the seventh dis- trict would mean putting an ad- | the Dardanelles miles of the miral here to handle all na tablishments in Florida w exception of Pensaiola and west Florida. Local office facilities for Cap- al es. tain Jacobs’ command are cramp- | four-hour bombardment of the is- | land by 5. ed alread of the headqu would mean construction of a new build- ing to house them. From the standpoint of ships and enlisted personnel, the would be no change, since those departments already are handled from Key West. PAUL BUTLER VISITED HERE G. Paul Butler, editor manager of books, churches schools departments with the New York Mirror, visited Key West and The Citizen office yesterday Butler expected to le either last night or today to return to New York Gi and | th and ; ir th ve hari at Malta, island, lying near the entrance to; immense strategic v ain yesterday Mrs. L and lifted the total grante< of $500 ay lavy was confirmed by admiral- h | ty headquarters here today. Landing pa alian airdrome on the ing the British it was revealed. and within important But the British wounds are |great. One cruiser has been sunk. 'The Germans claim hits on three have taken an battleships and many smaller war- island | ships. One British aircraft car- ) Tier has been put out of action for a long time to come. British silence indicates the batleship hits may be serious. The dive bomber is an Ameri- 9) can invention and has been part Italian |Of our naval forces for years. The h the |base at Rhodes, is considered of army had rejected it until the value to Brit-.German victory over France last |spring. The army now is investi- Reports from Cairo told of a|Sating its possibilities three British destroye erman dive bombers (Continued On Page Four) Three building permits to Armando Cobo Juland totalled $2 the P. for hree days to $6 swooped | the It's A Specialist The dive bomber has neither speed nor maneuverability | (Continued on Page Four) Building Permits For Past | Three Days BOR GOODS) a secsine aticn in te we, issued |> and past Building Inspector Ralph Rus- ll, who has n the three he previous Mrs done di 16 days, more bus Derr ar FREIGHT STEAMER $ ss. C freighter fr here yesterday to deliv of freight for Key We The freighter afternoon tc Tampa. RR ARERR NE RIT es. Notice! 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 ERATE TIAA ANAM f ARRIVES IN PORT Ce and W .500 permit Bu White Heron [Stork] Club DELORES CORTEZ 38 Mexicar ancer CRUNCH CRUNCH and his ROYAL CAYO HUESIANS Shows at 11, 12:30 and 2:00 DINNER 9Sc UP Featuring STONE CRABS y period than in yesterday mits Club, 4 to 6 p.m City Council meets at 7:30 p.m City Hall. Lions Club at 6:30 Lions’ Den, Seminary Stre West Art 8:00 p. m. FRIDAY nch Dance, La Concha Rainbow 9:30 till ? monton and Fror 8:30 pm ross Sewing Club n Street, 2:00 p meets K layers, st Club meets at Art unior-Senior High Schoc Teachers Associatior 1 Building. SATURDAY Ww» Flower Sh 3:30 5 ‘SUNDAY Club Flower Show med about to suffer its first! forces since January , GERMANY HAS CONFIDENCE VOTE ! BIGGEST GUN | GIVEN CHURCHILL EVER FORGED) owt LONDON, Feb. 27.—Prime HUNDRED AND THIRTY. NOE CE cubtilence from oleae FIVE MILES; GUN BARREL| Members of the body, after ater Ciancnil, pesecd a sommoges| Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit which will make it possible for {them to hold their seats in Par- jliament and hold government po- sitions at the same time. | | Nazis Attack vasion points. Apparently attempting to dis- organize German aerial and U-| boat thrusts before they are ready | MRS. MORRISON DEAD Htaian Troops In Somaliland = Now Surendering By Hundreds "MARY BLACKMAN BUYS PROPERTY a (By Associated Press) CAIRO, Feb. 27.—Italian troops in Somaliland are surrendering by hundreds after the fall vester- day of the capital at Mogadiscio, | according reaching ! here. { Mary H. Blackman, | British forces, still driving at county, Mass., purchased jfull speed across Italian Somali- eight lots at Cape Sable from the jland after their victory yesterdays | Cane jreport they have rescued 200, British seamen who were cap- tured by Italy early in the war and have been in military prisons | since. (Rome admits widespread re- treats in Italian Somaliland, but Ai has refused to confirm the fall of i Fitzpatrick | Mogadis According to an of the fire- |army bulletin, scist troops are z called 1-|falling back toward the town he now.) British sources say Italian army units, cut off from their supply base by the capture of Moga- discio, have given up hope and are asking to be taken prisoner. A communique from London, arriving Cairo this morning admitted for the first time that German mechanized forces had attacked a British column west of Bengasi in Libya. The communi- que says the German troops were to reports Plymouth has Sable land company of Bos- ton, a deed filed at County Clerk Ross Sawyer's By JOHN GROVER AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Brit- wa — ~ ish artillery experts admit Se SCHOOL P. ATROL jmany has the greatest cannon ever ; | forged, except for one little defect } } y. } —it can’t hit what it’s shooting at. / s BO § . DRILLED This super-colossal Bigger Ber-! tha hurls an 11-inch shell 135! EES miles. The projectile travels 37) The school patrol boys were’ ait bpenan bea toda: jmiles into’ the stratosphere on its taken out to the American Legion , eo fahecrnctri {thunder-making journey. It has grounds yésterday afternoon ‘for are roaring over the French chan- | the longest gun barrel ever cast— a drill period by Myrtland Cates. | | 120 feet. | Mr. Cates states that the boys Mel coast in an incessant 24-hour- These technical data on the are becoming much interested in a-day bombardment of submarine | Nazi long ranger were published their activities. Many maneu- jin a British artillery journal, but ‘vers were entered into during the bases, airdromes and possible in- | nobody lost any sleep. What ar- ‘drill held yesterday. i tillerymen call “inherent error” / ——_———_— | makes the gr gun about as val- | uable as a bean shooter from a CITY COUNCIL | military standpoint. | | Inherent error, boiled down, is MEETS TONIC the half-a-hundred reasons a per- | fectly-aimed gun doesn't hit its} hee |past 24 hours have ranged far target. Inherent errors multiply | z 2 is as Pinaice ie Geen eee The City Council will meet in| VPs Cennenys and deeds He Muzzle droop, vibration, worn |SPecial session tonight at 7:30;channel and North sea coast to rifling, non-uniform powder — |0'¢lock for the purpose of dis Norway. jthese are a few inherent errors, |Cussing matters relative to pro-| Berlin, meanwhile, tells of an | multiplied in the Bigger Bertha gies ag to be made in the serial attack on a British convoy The terrific speed of the projec- | City charter. Lehichs ‘tin chibe tile—5,905 fc Sees secouie it tel Whatever changes are decided ee oat a eae id arts long ranger—heats up a gun bar- ,¥pon will be submitted to Repre- ;tom for # total British loss of 60,- rel. The heated metal tends to Sentative Bernie C. Papy to b> 000 tons and damaged another droop out of line. The longer the taken up at the coming session of 40,000 tons of shipping. F barrel, the more the droop. |the state legislature. | Dive bombers hit a battleship The Nazis have tried to correct | _at Malta and sank another vessel this droop with outside — trusses | jin the harbor, the German air like bridge girders, but even an} sie jministry claims. } infinitesimal droop means the big; _News has been received in Key | London admits four - bombers gun will pitch a curve. | West announcing the death of were destroyed in raids over the | Vibration is set up when the Mrs. Ellen Morrison in a hospital industrial Ruhr district of Ger- propelling charge is set off. The |in Miami yesterday morning. many last night, but reports tre- tremor travels up the gun barrel,| The deceased, 24 years old, was mendous damage to factories and making it rotate ever so slightly. ,the daughter of the late Jos. Rob- warehouse facilities in the area. It’s impossible to gauge exactly |erts, who was at one time sta- Bombers attacked on both sides of where the gun muzzle will be in|tioned at the Army Barracks in | the Rhine, according to the report, its vibration-orbit when the shell! Key West, and who was well- ‘and left a trail of fire and broken leaves it | known to the people of this city. debris for miles in the area. | If the muzzle is a frog-whisker ,out of line, the shell will land half a county wide of its mark. Powder charges even minutely non-uniform—as they always are in mass manufacture of munitions mean shell miles over or short of the objective. Rifling wears down each time a gun is fired. } | Even at 15,000 yards, slightly mpre than eight miles, one hit in three shots eagle-eye marks- | manship. The speed of the earth's rotation must be taken into split- second account with a 135-mile gun, That's why it’s the consensus jamong artillerymen that the ultra- long range gun won't cut much ice in the battle of Britain | SMALL FIRE ON office revealed to- day Mrs. Blackman purchased about $2,400 lots five through 12 on the island. for ond-story of tk building at the of Greer Rafael Hen jam. of clothing to Bundles for Britain are bringing Pies Contributions with them an unexpected fund of history, Mrs. Mary H Barker, Key West representative COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN cere of the relief organization, has dis- covered Mrs. Barker, Margaret street packs the wool garments donated by Key West reside tors. A huge nearly filled and the ci package soon will be se York headquarters of Bundles ain and then dispatched be gland sented at, AS Mrs. Barker Library The good warm garments con tinue to come in. There seems to be a lot of history clinging to some of them. BE MODERN — — “A beautiful coat a worn by a northern bride with FLUID DRIVE! = “7s bome. It bas been in mot . is for 25 years. Free Demonstration : = ‘A darling. warm dress NAVARRO, Inc. Ri that ardson 4 to the list c at 623 and who lis collect ROSES FOR FLOWER SHOW ommittees: in donate = Flower pack aturday please get in touch with Mrs. Quarters M-2 ati Telephone 790. Don will or may be p West Public Saturday morning icribes it wool was wo for some small, bombarded child has a note pinned into a pocket t each British Bombers Are Roaring Over French Channel Coast; English Convoy LEGION : PLANNING FOR ‘ANNIVERSARY MATTER DISCUSSED AT MEETING OF ORGANIZA- TION LAST NIGHT Observation of the American to start, RAF squadrons in the Legion’s birthday will be held by | Arthur Sawyer Post 28, the Am- erican Legion, the night of March 17, it was decided at a meeting of the post last night. It was decided to put on a cele- bration and to invite the mem- bers of the American Legion auxiliary to participate. There will be food, drink and entertain- ment. Fred Marvil was appoint- ed chairman of the entertainment committee, T. A. Woody, chairy man of the food committee. The post also decided to send one Key West youngster to Boy's State, an American Legion spon- sored class of young Florida boys annually conducted at Tallahas- see. The post will seek to have (Continued on Page Four) Lowest last|Highest last night 24 hours 80 80 37 16 11 25 23 14 12 43 37 2 9d 67 56 66 4 Abilene Boise Boston Buffalo Cincinnati Denver Detroit Eastport El Paso Hatteras Havre Huron KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Montgomery New Orleans New York Phoenix Pittsburgh St. Louis Salt Lake City 4 San Francisey 52 Spokane Sit. Ste. Marie Washington 51 49 Key West Comes To Front In “Bundles For Britain” for a three-year-oid child. A beautiful, heavy kept its owner warm on a trip around the world. For six or seven years it has been anchored in moth balls in a Key West attic An officer's wife breught in 27 af socks. It seems a high and we hope he is not left sock less. ‘One young mother came down our walk with 1 child or of out n her arms.” has been conceivable from riding and heavy Key West coat has a om side and a carton grown baby clothes So far, the cart packed with type of garm breeches to coats Mrs Robert Spottswood, co operating in the Bundies for Britain campaign. announced yes- terday she would arrange to sell novelties supplied by the organ ization for additional relief money Articles described by the dquarters include mpacts with the or and British socks pins and co tion emblem PRICE FIVE CENTS Seven Passengers. Kile 1 Crash OF Big Aine ‘Eddie Rickenbacker Crit- ically Con- Injured; | | | gressman Byron Believ- | ed To Be Among Dead mee (By Associated Press) ATLaAN 1a, rep. 47.—cupt. Ed, bette Rickenbacker, World War tiy- |irg hero and general manager of , Eastern Airlines. was critically injured this morning in the crash | of one of his airliners which cost | the lives of seven passengers and seriousi, injured eight. Congressman William B. Byron | of Maryland wa: belie d & © \the dead aboard the giant Mexi- er Sleeper wrich crashed |to the ground 15 miles south of here shortly after midnight. Eastern Airline officials early | this afternoon had been unable to make positive identification of the dead. The seven injured but still living passengers were rush- ed to Aljapta,hospitals. o | Flying in murky weather with a 300-foot ceiling of visibility, the New York-to-Brownsville, Tex., airliner plunged into an isolated forest district shortly after its last signal at 11:55 p. m. (CST) had announced it was ready to jland in Atlanta. Civil Aeronautics rushed to the ety scene of the crash to determine what had ca ed the wreck, but a survivor gave a possibile clue when he said he believed the ship had been struck by lightning } “Something jarred the plane”, he related. “All the lights went out and there was a terr fic erash I found myself sprawicd.on the ground”, Airport employes here said the weather and visibility had been ‘fair” and that other transports landed immediately before nd after the Mexico Sleeper's crash without incident Hospital attendants said Rick enbacker's condition was critical, but did not detail his injuries Several other injured survivors of the crash are reported near death. BRITISH ENVOY ON WAY TO TURKEY THONY EDEN ON MAT- TERS OF WAR ‘co Sil inspectors (Ry Assortated Press) ANKARA, Turkey. Feb. 27 Stafford Cripp .Britwh am dor to Moscow, is flying to Turkey to explain to Foreign Minister Anthony Eden the at titude of Janef Stalin toward Ger man orcupation of the Balkans, it learned today Eden's conferences with diple- matic and miiltary leaders” here are expected to pave the way for British efforts build up a bloe of resistance to German ef forts to move through the Balk ans into Greece Turkey already has prom stand by Britain, but Russia has had little to say EPPS Annual Key West FLOWER SHOW Sat , 2 till 10 9. m. pera Piptig tt pie Monday. 16 a. m. to 10 9. m. PUBLIC LIBRAR wa to ert