The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 10, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Ctitzrn THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXIL. No. 59. Bids For Extending Highway Over Railroad Viaducts' To: “Be Called. For Mar 2 Proposed Operations Will OBSERVANCE OF Eliminate weed Of Old) FEAST OF LOTS Wooden Bridges Now In HERE THURSDAY Use LOCAL JEWISH COLONY WILL CELEBRATE EVENT) the} WITH SERVICES TO BE) old railway viaducts between Big HELD AT SYNAGOGUE Bids for construction of a part cf Overseas Highway over Pine key and Big Carpet key will De aarestised: by the: state Poet The ageless story of the Jewish | it ‘people's deliverance from oppres- | sion will be recalled in synagogue , {and home when Jews will cele-} department this month, learned today. was KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1941 LONG WILL GET MILITARY TRIAL TURNED OVER TO ARMY AFT- ER BEING ARRAIGNED IN LOCAL COURT Private Jack Long, charged with temporary use of the prop- erty of another after he allegedly | took a fellow soldier’s car last week and wrecked it near Tav- ernier, this morning was turned over to the army for trial by Judge William V. Albury in crim- inal court. | Opening the March court, Judge Albury heard Long’s | plea of guilty, but withheld sen- jee in order that he might be homes to Ame tried before an army court on! the stiffer charge of desertion and | theft from government property. | Jack Boyd, charged with reck- | less driving after he was arrested on the upper keys January Harry Hector, recently ‘appoint- | brate The Feast of Lots on Thurs- i ed state road commissioner, noti- jday, March 13, The holiday falls | fied William R, Porter, First Na-| oy the fourteenth day of Adar of tional bank president, today that | 46 Jewish calendar, and is known| a gadis pt LEE Purim. Regular services in| c s s A e i ith the event will be! the old viaducts will shorten the] "NCCT 7 0 voce) Synagoa’ highway about seven miles and |P¥ Rev: 7» Merer. ia | Distinctly applicable to present | will reduce driving time by from | ee RRS $5 44°90 Gninlites |day conditions which find them | By elimination of several the narrow wooden bridges ‘driven from one country to an-} of jother to escape baseless persecu- | and ‘tion, the Purim story is concerned their rough approaches, the road | with the attempted destruction of | |TWENTY INJURED IN FIRE! was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs, or spend 90 days in! jail. Boyd paid the fine. TWELVE KILLED | DURING BLAZE: THIS MORNING AT BOSTON | department improvements are,| the Jews of Persia. Because Es- expected to eliminate much of the ae a sien sevens we was congestion resulting from in-|@ueen of Persia, intervened andj ability of cars to pass on the uncovered the plot to her royal | bridges without dropping their |4USband Ahasuerus, the Jews | speed almost to_a crawl. | Were permitted: to) defend and jsave themselves. |. The Book of Esther, tells the | biblical story with its message of eternal hope and eventual de- liverance. The story, written on a Scroll, called the Megillah will be read at synagogue services. Megillahs, often beautifully hand- written and decorated, are among the most beautiful Jewish cere- monial objects. A modern Megil- lah printed in English and hand- | Painted is one of the newest ad- jditions to the history of Jewish ‘art. ‘. me Aalders Barns | po i Purim a A voy ot feast marked campaign tomorrow night at the | PomtadueTqncs theatricals, | re- National Guard armory. Mem-| giving. speci acies in the o meet a o clock an rilis wil | ies be on the pi le ground at army | h ap arty » pastries called popconi ny | “Hamantaschen” so named _ after Members will be given prizes = at fe pag ra be wee wee based on the number of new can- peels ob ihe Setcantion ot the didates they bring to the meet- | Jewish people, and whose villainy ing and a special program has found its appropriate retribution been arranged for them. jin his defeat and execution. MEET ON TUESDAY. ORGANIZATION TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGN FOR MEM- BERSHIPS = et ___ TEMPERATURES ' Abilene Boise | Boston Buffalo | Burlington |Charleston i Chicago Mrs. Mary E. Gates, age 81, died Cincinnati yesterday morning at 8:10 o'clock 'Denver at the residence 907 James street. | Detroit Funeral this afternoon at 4:30! El Paso from First Congregational Church. | Galveston Rev. E. S. Doherty, officiating. Havre Body will be placed in church at Huron a p.m Lowest last/Highest last night 24 hours 37 77 27 53 24 31 21 31 17 24 44 60 31 40 23 17 26 37 54 28 27 40 S4 60 52 30 34 26 FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED THIS AFT- ERNOON |Jacksonville Funeral Home in charge | KEY WEST arrangements. Los Angeles Survivors are daughter, Mrs. | Miami ‘Thomas Felton; four sons, John, Minneapolis Samuel, Frazier and Joseph!New Orleans Gates; 28 grandchildren and 17|New York great grandchildren. | Phoenix Pa will be selected Pittsburgh from the Band of Prayer of First St. Louis Congregational Church. They are It Lake City 2 William M. Know n Francisco 50 Archer, Samuel Cates, | Spokane 27 Cu Hezekiah Pierce Sit. Ste. } 18 iam H. Pierce. 26 arers rtis, 1 Wil St ee fet aoe eeet en toy FREE MOVIES “Pictures of the World War” TONIGHT AT THE RICHEY REVIVAL BIG TENT (Duval and Division Streets) the Sick For Prayer SERVICES DAILY 7:30 P. M. | | | \ | | | Bring I (By Associated Press) | BOSTON, March 10.—Twelve Key Westers Asked To Throw Homes Open’ To. Legionnaires During Convention In Apr | There were 303,000 American j Norman Halil, president of the |Legionnaires in Boston last year National Conve attending the annual national convention of the American Le- gion and ‘n‘ot one dollar’s worth of damage” was reported by any- one. Quoting Joe E. Clark, attorney of St. Petersburg, national execu- tive committeeman of the Ameri- can Legion, to this effect, Albert term of Mills, executive director of the |Legionnaires and there was no Key West tion, today housewives to throw Convention corpora- urged Key West open their rican Legionnaires attending the convention here April 23-26. “Key West has got to show the people of the State of Florida Mills said. “Therefore we must make our housing situation con- form to the demands. “Already more than 900 rooms have been rseerved for the con- vention. We are rapidly nearing the stage where we will have to ask housewives to throw open their homes to these visitors. They are all lawyers and_ busi- nessmen, all between 40 and 50 years of age, and are settled in life. There will be no ‘kid’ stuff to make our housewives ashamed of the American Legion”. ntion Corporation |of Boston, where the American \Legion poured in 303,000 persons last year, reports that there was ino damage to any hotel or priv- jate room. The American Le- gion’s state convention at St. Pe- jtersburg last year attracted 3300 . ‘damage, according to Attorney With Trophy 0 Clark, who was a member of the {convention corporation. Ep ey | At Ft. Lauderdale in 1939 there; Mitchell Wolfson, personal rep- hwere 2770 Legionnaires attending resentative of Gov. Spessard L. the state convention. Surprising-' Holland, Saturday night pro- ily the only damage done was by ‘vided the highlight of a Key West \the Key West group of veterans. ‘yacht club party when he pre- \that it is capable of handling con- | They dropped a piano in moving sented the Governor's trophy to jventions of the size of the state it; but the damage was promptly Dudley Sharp, owner of the yawl | 14, meeting of the American Legion”, | paid by the post commander. |Gulf Stream. Every post commander of the Sharp won a half interest in the American Legion attending the cup when his yacht’s triumph in American Legion’s state conven- | the Havana-Key West event put tion here will be charged with the him in a tie with William Labrot, duty of paying for any. and all owner of Stormy Weather, for the damage, if there is any. It will Florida ocean racing series title. be paid in cash. ‘Stormy Weather did not enter the All Key Westers wishing to Key West race, remaining in Ha- throw open their homes to the yvana because of bad weather, but visitors attending the Key West Sharp will hold the trophy six Senate Judiciary committee he in that convention are invited to call at months and then forward the Key West Convention cor- Labrot. poration’s office, La Concha hotel Miami and St. Petersburg yacht building, or to send word of the club officials, along with local number of rooms they will have. {members and crews of the racing _--—_.______. | yachts, made up a party of more it to j than 125. ownership in the Governor's ‘GIVES OPINION “ABOUTS STRIKES |BULLITT SEES SIMILARITY | OF PEOPLE OF TWO DIF- | FERENT NATIONS i \ (By Asnociated Press) |. WASHINGTON, March 10.— |Former French Ambassador Wil liam C. Bullitt this morning told sees “a striking similarity be- 'tween the attitude of people in the United States and that in France before the war.” With more than two billion dol- lars in defense orders delayed be- |cause of the 25 important strikes along with his half now in progress throughout the! country, Bullitt testified before firemen were killed and more than 20 seriously injured here | County | Sharp, | jtrophy, won Key West awards for Senators who are attempting to ‘corrected time victory in the race legislate the strikes out of exist- Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country ; range of only 14° Fahrenheit with an average PRICE FIVE CENTS France. Demands Of England Passage Of Ships Bearing Food Supplies To Country Winner Of Yacht Race Presented Tse" To Send Navy n Saturday Night ) Back Into War Unless ‘Vessels Are Allowed To Pass (By Associated Press) VICHY, March 10,—France will send her navy back into the war |to protect food bearing ships, unless their passage through the isea blockade is guaranteed by Great Britain. Vice-Premier Admiral Darlan jthis morning told American Am- |bassador Harold Leahy he would ‘give Great Britain three weeks to work out an effective means of allowing ships to get food to \France. If nothing is done with- time, Darlan said he jwould go to Premier Henri ‘Philippe Petain and get author- ity to force the blockade with the |French fleet. | Voicing a bitter protest against \Britain’s unytelding attitude, ;Darlan compared the English refusal to discuss means for gét- ,ting food to France with the co- ‘operative attitude of Adolf Hitler. }Germany, he said, has relinquish- ;membering the poor and gift- | this morning when the roof of a theater where they were fighting a blaze caved in on them. Heavy snows piled atop the theater were believed to have weakened the roof supports. The heavy ceiling and ‘tons of metal braces dropped on the firemen as they poured water on the pro- jection room from the balcony. Rescuers worked _ frantically | and get to the trapped men. least two or three other firemen jare missing, and, it is feared are jaead. - \ MONDAY {Basketball Doubleheader, ! School Gym, 7:30 p.m. | TUESDAY Everready Star Club mee | Home of Mrs. Doris Rive Fleming Street, 3:30 p.m. Business Meeting, Junior Wom- an’s Club, Clubhouse, 5:00 p.m. Stone Church Service Club. 6:00 p.m. \ Key West Home Guard meets at , National Guard armory, 8:00 p.m Division Street School P.-T. A.'s “Father's Night, Auditorium, 8:00 p.m : WEDNESDAY Basketball Doubleheader, School Gym, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY Rotary Club meets 12:15 St. Paul's Parish Hall. Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m ; Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. }Convent Alumnae meet at Home f Mrs. Stephen Lowe, 620 ithard Street, 7:30 p.m. {County Commission meets at 8 o'clock tonight. FRIDAY Zed Cross Sewing Club meets at 315 Duval Street, 2:00 p.m. ketbali Doubleheader, High hool Gym, 7:30 p.m High High p.m. B | | | ij | | } | ' } with all the horrors and miseries of a this morning to clear the debris | At | | | | Lowe's Clerk Of Second Divores Suit | Ex:Mayor Jimmy Welker of {gp her “to consider each ana ATTACKS MADE 1) | New York, described as a. “biek- erer” and “tormentor” ina new divorce suit filed by his estranged wife here Saturday. today was notified by County Clerk Ross Sawyer that he would be sued for the second time in as many months. Another divorce suit in which Mrs. Walker charged extreme cruelty, but told Judge Arthur Gomez her relations with Walker always had been and still are on the friendliest basis, was turned down last week. Mrs. Walker (Betty Compton) accuses the playboy New Yorker of indulging in violent displays of temper which left her physically ill. Walker's temper was such, she ‘complains, that it was necessary NEGROES TO BE GIVEN HEARINGS TWO WILL BE ARRAIGNED TOMORROW BEFORE PEACE JUSTICE Tommy Wilson, negro em- ploye of Charles Lowe, Key West dairy shop operator. tomorrow | will appear before Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo on a charge of breaking and entering Wilson was charged in a com- plaint filed by Lowe with break- ing into the »wner's home on the night of Feb. 24 and steal- ing three guns, of Mrs. personal property and about $60 in cash rrested by shop some Constable erday and y jail until negro, alse | appear before Esquinaldo o8 charge of temporary use of the rty of anvther. He "8G king the ¢ar of hig @us A. Nichols, and over the i Hannah ar and left from Havana and for winning in ‘Continued on Page Four) every move she made and every +word that she might utter, so as ‘not to do, or say, something which | might: bring on a fit of passionate | anger.” | “The defendant continuously | and insistently aggravated, wor- | ried, chided and nagged the plain- | tiff over small and unimportant | matters and would use profane language in the presence of the {Ry Anneriated Streant plaintiff,” the bill continues. | LONDON, March 10.—Squad- Judge Gomez, who announced Tons of RAF bombers soared over his decision turning down Mrs. the channel_this morning in Walker's first divorce suit from Smashing series of attacks on in- Miami, is expected to return here Vasion bases along the German- to hear testimony in the second occupied coast. suit. The original divorce plea Residents of the Dover area was denied “without prejudice,” Saw the planes winging across making it possible for Mrs. the channel in bright sunlight Walker to file another claim with this morning and a few minutes new evidence. later they could hear the pound- ing of heavy bombs. vi ae ~ | Both Portsmouth and London | THREATEN T0 were bombed last night, but Lon- | — jleft in flames and docks and warehouse facilities wrecked both \PERTAINS TO THOSE BEAR- there and at London.) | don spokesmen said the damage was slight. | ING SUPPLIES TO | ENGLAND OCCUPIED COAST FORCE SOAR OVER CHANNEL | | ing that Portsmouth had been | FURTHER TENSION newspape s today warned the VUGOSLAVIA‘S STAND United States that Japan | WITH provide “an unpleasant surprise” | GERMANY AND ITALY IS in answer to Saturday's passage | CAUSE GIVEN of the “lend-le: measure and | Americ intention helping Great Britain to win the a ma © pecan (By Asnocinted Press) Yugoslavia's apparent desire to ay active partnership with |Germany and Italy in the axis Describing the act as jtoeday added further tension to tervention in the war”, the Ital- | Balkan developments. papers joined with Berlin} German leaders showed ob- s of 's avowed war. “open in- ian f (My Associntea Presa) TOKYO. M and Thailand plomats will ference table here tomor- fnoon st 4 o'clock to put at a co papers in promising to sink | vious displeasure with Sofia’s de- every ship bearing American | laying tacties, but London, ap- supplies to Great Britain. jparently feeling a break is near, | i x jordered her ambassador at Sofia jto return bome today. Britisir jare ing today. SETTLE DISPUTE! Admid reports that Nazi dive jbombers have been landed -at Rhodes in the Dodacanese islands, |within easy striking dis Greece and Albania, Athen 10.—French | nounced she would give up “not sit lan inch of Greek soil” and con- ued to hurl new and more vigorous attacks at Italian troops. Sources at Istanbul suggested Turkey would delay an- f uncing her decision regarding that French troops have been vio-|German troop vements into terms of ice | positions along the Greek fron- ister |tier. More than 200,000 Nazi sol- uoko said todayshe believes diers are reported massed in finally southern Bulgaria across the [Greek frontier, the war will be settled tomorrow. 'SQUADRONS OF ROYAL AIR (Berlin announced this morn-} ence. | Seventy-five thousand workers |now are idle in factories of the United States and CIO union lead- ers announced today they would order another strike at Beth! | Steel's” Lackawanna plant un! | the company is willing to increase | wages. A Lackawanna less than two weeks ago, but union leaders say the company has been unreasonable in negotiations since. Strike notices have been tbeen in three Ford plants jat Detroit, but a Michigan law re- , ‘quiring 30 days between an- nouncement of intention to strike and the beginning of the tual walkout has kept the factories in operation. ‘ed her claim to 2,000,000 quin- tx in order that France spit be fed. to go on “They re company Darlan’s announcement fulfill- ed the*prediction of an un-nanied weeks ago that France would raise it necessary to use her fleet x for protection of food bearing i ee ships and would enter the war on the side of Germany against Britain. The diplomat, generally believed to have been ex-Premier Laval, aroused a storm of denials at the time. BLAMES DRIVERS GOVERNOR HOLLAND MAKES FOR BUS STRIKE ‘Secon pisrnicr 0 i SECOND DISTRICT Governor Spessard L. Holland MANHATTAN CIO WORKERS has appointed Ernest A. Ramsey, ‘CREAS! city councilman, as county com DEMAND DN = missioner for thé second district, IN WAGES ‘succeedida Ui Frank Roberts who has Ween serving in this capacity jundgr an appointment made by | (By Aunocioted Press) ‘formertGovernor Fred Cone dur- | NEW YORK, March 10.—A ing his term of office. \walkout of 3,500 New York bus’’ Mr. Roberts was appointed at jdrivers this morning tied up the time to fill the vacaney cre- |transportation in Manhattan and ated by the death of the late forced some 800,000 regular cus- Braxton B. Warren. This ap tomers to ride subways or plow pointment by Cone was supjcet through the snow on foot. to the approval of the new gover CIO drivers, demanding @ 25 nor, who, instead, appointed Mr | percent wage increase and three Ramsey for the full term )weeks vacation with pay, tied up os 90 percent of New York bus DEMERITT GETS transportation facilities. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who had worked at top speed for days TRANSFER ORDER jto prevent the walkout, angrily accused the drivers of “wanting —_— to strike”. Dr. William W. Demeritt “They just wanted with offices in the Renedo strike”, he declared ing, has received gover orders to report to Fort Jacks officials” $ C.. on March 25 The union contract expired Dr Demeritt's commission wi last week and union leaders have be First Lieutenant in Dent ing-unreasonable in discussions Dr Mrs {forfbetter terms in the new con- been residing at their tract 1911 Seidenburg avenue fused to talk with the aceused company officials of” be- Corps Demeritt he hore and ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF THE BEAUTY COLONY Key West's Newest and Fines! Beauty Salon eeeee Expert Operators Rainwater Used Exclusively Machineless Waves Courteous and Efficient Service Hair Styling by Alfred of Helena Rubinstein and Stevens Hotel in Chicago. KXppotnamamts (Neat to Bus Station) MARY HANLEY and LILLIAN STEWART. Co-Owners i Caen eee eee eee ee el for