The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 12, 1941, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLU ME LXII. No. 61. OF $3,000 Giarged Wi Violation Held For Federal Court Action; In Jail Awaiting Trial First Week In! May Murs, wiarvan Gruta, familiarly known in Key West for two de- cades as Alice Reid, late yester- day afternoon was bound over to federal court under $3,000 bond on a charge of Mann act viola- tion, Operator of the 1016 Howe street house where Mrs. Cecelia Thompson Tunks was mysterious- ly strangled to death Feb. 9, Mrs. Griffin is now in county jail awaiting trial judge during the first week of May. The charge of white slavery on which she is held carries a pen- alty of from five to ten years in federal prison. Margaret Allen and Frances E. Michuad, inmates of the Howe street house, were held as ma-} terial witn yesterday after 10 special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had raid- ed the establishment terday morning. Later, U.S. Com- ; maiissigner Rodney Gwynn set $1,- | 000 bail for the pair, but ordered their release on their own recog- nizance. Marvin Griffin, husband of the! defendant and reputed co-opera- | tor of the Howe street establish- ment, this morning was. still in county jail, but no charge has been filed against him a ies is | not held as a_ witnes ster | Roberts, bartender in te coe | and a soldier picked up by the | G-men at the time of the raid, | being held Commissioner Gwynn said this | morning he has no official know- | so are ledge of the trio’s presence in jail. | It is understood, however, that | the FBI is holding them for the | legal period of 72 hours without filing a charge and will release them sometime today or row Under the elastic terms of the Mann act, a conviction may be obtained by the federal court if it is shown that the defendant in any way contributed to the trans- portation of a woman across the state line for immoral purposes. Thus if the woman were sent car. fare or in any way helped to get nto Florida, the act would apply Mrs. Griffin, aside from the federal case, is under $50 bond the county criminal court on a charge of vagrancy and last th was held three days as a the Tunks by aterial witness in urder The two women held es in Mr also char the county as) wit Griffin’s Mann act 1 with v this morning wer« tenced to pay fines of $10 and spend 60 days in William V. Albury G Tony Knudsen ar Walker, other inmate: house, were giv y Albury WANTS BRAIN WED TO VOCAL CORDS wciated Presa) before a federal early yes-| tomor- jail by | OT Mann Act INVESTIGATE BOMB ATTEMPT ON LIFE. OF BRITISH ENVOY | | |SEVERAL SUSPECTS ROUND-} ED UP IN ATTEMPT AT AS. | SASSINATION YESTERDAY IN TURKEY (Ny Asnociated Presa) ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 12. |—Investigation of the bomb at- jtempt yesterday on the life of | British Ambassador George Ren- | del in Turkey held the news spot- light of the Balkans today as ex-! pected political developments 'failed to materialize. i Several suspects of unan-! {nounced nationality have been rounded up in the case, but Tur- 'kish officials generally have had little to say. Secret documents | concealed in the ambassador's | luggage, rather than the life of 'Rendel, is believed to have been | the goal of the bombers. { Rendel narrowly escaped death ; when two bombs shattered the {Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul | shortly after his arrival there, killing at least three persons and | T | injuring 10 others. pound bomb concealed luggage failed to go off. Turkish spokesmen said today they will make no comment on their country’s foreign policy, | possibly for several weeks, in the tigation. ‘ am Alice Reid Under Bond |the amount paid for {Bunches Type IN THE U.S. A. SPONGERS STAGE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1941 PRODUCTS SALE: OVER FOUR THOUSAND DOL- LARS WORTH ARE DISPOSED OF ~ Key West spongers staged their |first important sale of the year i today with a total auction of $4,- '526.14 in wool and yeiiow grades. A smaller sale, amounting to several hundred in January, but today’s was the first of any importance. ‘A crowd of nearly 100 buyers and interested visitcrs grouped around the dock, watching the proceed- ings. Amounts of the sales are listed, with the money figure showing the entire auction lot: Cash Paid $ 13.01 13.40 9.00 52.01 16.09 53.70 37.50 5.21 6.11 53.89 11.40 217.45 241.00 27.81 471.06 59.60 1440.40 58.60 37.80 1700.10 $4526.14 10 12 10 20 8 16 10 Wool Yellow Wool 138 13 10 155 Total— FINDS "WHEEL FROM SKY” COFFEYVILLE, Kan.—An ex- and shouted that a “wheel just dropped out of the sky”. Of- ficers investigated and found Hen- ry Kellum, unhurt, staring at the remains of his buzzsaw. The fly- feet away. Workmen At Aluminum Plant Striké For Increase In Wages: NAZI REQUEST TURNED DOWN ‘eZ (By Annoctated Press) LONDO! March = 12.—Fran- cisco Franco, premier of Spain, has turned down a German re- quest for permission to fly planes across his country and balked a plan to get Spain into the war, it is declared here London spokesmen say a Ger man envoy attempted to get commitments from high-ranking Spanish government o by telling them an agreement ready had been signed between his country and Spain in Berlin One of the officials, it here, went to Franco, him there had ment ors al is said who told no been agree TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest las! night 24 hours 42 60 4 4 ' Detre P. after a two weeks’ {Ry Associated Presa) WASHINGTON, March 12. dollars, was held } | jintense | smashed at Italian lines | | A huge 250-!cited man telephoned the police ; Germany’: had |convinces military observers here jcount Mussolini about feent and himself take up the task |of Mussolini. and ‘wheel had gone to pieces at full lof dec declined to discuss how far they |speed and a 25-pound chunk had ithe Near East «had advanced in the bomb inves- embedded itself in a building 830! | perform —/decoying large Workmen at the Aluminum Com- pany of America’s giant Edge- water, N. J., plant walked out this morning in a demand for higher bringing to 31 the ber of large factories idle in the United States because of strikes. Workers at the Bethlehem Steel ‘company’s Lackawanna plant, back at work this week walkout, are again at any ainst alleged company wages, num- expected to strike time in protest “unfairness” by cials Building tradesmen American Federation walked out ona si struction job at § of of Labor ll army Louis today they cla i the com pany had refused to give per- manent working passes to some of their number, and workers at Fisher Body company’s Oakland Cal, plant walked out in for increased pay jeral mediators are top speed here in g roll because working effort to f a ¢ struck HANNAH BOUND OVER 10 COURT °: cus Hanr the Ni ah Ludrey {holding them offi- : the > jof the war. |mounting offensive ‘que | inforcements \sector with the |speed, llaughing up | Marshal Goering Roosevelt Asks Congress For Seven Billion Dollars To Be | (By Associated Press) Used For Munitions Of Wat WASHINGTON, March President Roosevelt this morning 12.— sent his formal request to Con- gress for $7,000,000,000 to spent “for every gun, every plane and every munition of war that we possibly can produce”. (By Associated Press) 12.—Driving } they have pierced defensive lines forward beneath one of the most|in several places and are throw- bombardments ing the Fa: . Greck soldiers today | increasing speed. Al-| !bania in the sixth day of a steadily ATHENS, March artillery in ction. according to a communi- this morning, is rushing re into the Tirana utmost possible but Greek quarters say Italy HITLER DISCOUNTS MUSSOLINI IN | OPERATIONS IN THE NEAR EAST By MORGAN BEATTY. AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, March into 12.— Ss march Bulgaria that Hitler has decided to 100 dis- per- forces ying Britain's in It has been more or less that an open secret here German respect for Italian arms has nev- too There was when Field spent much “‘v in Italy er been high ‘a- of before the war started cation” time go It was assumed the marshal a couple ye was trying to figure out whether the forces could task of British forces in- d zer- Italian military their appointed to the Mediterranean zone while British Isles elve fi decoy few there, the then attacked It many The long assumed that the of their navy Italian destroyers a ago for military Italian commanders put burst of s and exe “You nothing able to have task work years the a lans attaches, on laimed w be ill ever Ital sfu ucce red heavy be | this week in a “fireside chat”. Greek Soldiers Smash At The President called together party leaders and cabinet mem- bers this morning dor a discus- sion of terms of the ‘‘lend-lease” measure and announced that hel will tell the nation of the bill st forces back with } In six days of fighting, accord- ing to Athens, 4,500 Italian prisoners have been taken and the snow is littered with Fascist dead Losses in the present battle, they | say, have brought total Italian | casualties in killed, captured and | wounded to more than 130,000. whole Balk- | in Hitler’s hands. If; they keep those in the Near East, then he will himself have moved in as decoy in place Isles this spring the ans will be forces The fact is, the mere presence of one of Hitler’s armies in the Balkans is enough to hold Brit- ish forces in the Near East. And | the German high command knows it better than anybody else. There are, of course, other compensating factors for the Germans. They now have a pro- tecting cordon around the pre- cious Rumanian oil fields. They have split off Yugoslavia from Russia, and make it a little more likely that the Serbs will listen | to proposals to join the Greece is threatened now, never before, at a time when the British would prefer not to have to send their strength into | the Balkans. And finally, the maneuver gives pause to Russia and Turkey, however, much as. surance was also given to those nations by the Germans. These are not inconsiderable crumbs of diplomatic and military ad- vantage. Obviously the German high command hopes the British will strike back at the Germ through Greece. After 000. troops 1 equippec Id off 250,000-odd it possible as an army 700,- can they Mus come- f for int of sh pe least longer NORTHLAND GETS AN AIRY FERRY (Ry Anaccinted Preas) LINOCKE M Italia | the {ship drive with he Key West Ctttzrir THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER PRICE FIVE CENTS ll Newspapers § Predict American Entry Into War CONDUCT _MEETING HOME GUARDSMEN BOMBERS WORK DURING NIGHT NIGHT CLUB ORCHESTRAS. BRITISH AND GERMAN AIR- PUT ON PROGRAM DUR- ING EVENING Key West home guardsmen last side of soldiering as they launched a membership drive at the Na- tional Guard armory with the help of entertainers from three local night clubs. Lieut. Fred Marvil and Frank Sabini, night club operators, brought two bands and perform- ers from their clubs for a two- hour show at the armory. Taking part in the were Three Girls of Note, Arthur Divanti and Jack Crawley from Cabana, Dean Bernard and Marian Allen, Panama star, from La Conga, and Master of Cere- monies Bill Merrill, Sammy Byrd and his Dixieland Jazz band, Mamma Inez and Kay King from the Samoa. Members of the guarl unit will continue to push their member- prizes for the members bringing in the most candidates during the next few weeks. program MOST POPULAR BOOK WASHINGTON. — Since the invention of printing, a total of 1,404,000,000 volumes of the Bible, in 1,039 different lang- uages and dialetcs, have been published jnight had a taste of the lighter Italian Lines In Albania’ FORCES TRADE BLOWS ACROSS CHANNEL (Ry Asnociated Press) BERLIN, March 12.—British and German bombers ss the channel structive raids which at blows night left hundreds Reich's great and at south England German ac in di homeless Kiel base Birmingham hurled thou- into Birming- ham, it is reported here, and at least 150 in one district were destroyed by fire. Bombs several factories in the planes sands of bombs homes wrecked area. _ At Kiel, Berlin admits a heavy British raid in which two were | killed and at least 13 seriously injured DEFENSE DOLLARS MAKE BIG NOISE) lated Press) March 12.— The young son of a construction | worker at a big powder plant at nearby Radford expressed alarm about the safety of his father be- cause, he said, ther ehad been a big explosion. When Scoutmaster Carl Poff seemed skeptical, the boy pointed to a newspaper headline: “Boom spreads over Radford”. ‘British And Ethiopian Troops Swarm Into Point Of Advantage (My Annocinted Prem) CAIRO, March 12.—British and Ethiopian troops today swarmed into the Italian-held city of Dire selves within easy of the railroad Addis Ababa stronghold Ethiopian them dis- Daua to place striking be- the captured tance lines tween and Fascist in | British Somaliland With one fighting its from the force Ethiopia expeditionary way across southeast and alres the northern uthern army has ition to cut 250 miles inside r, the been pushing into po: Ita borde ff supplies f Addis The capture of Dire explained here om jan defend ers of Ababa e railroad line Italian supplies forces frorr troop: to tt cannot from blo topp. tempt t go NAZIS CORNER EUROPE’S COAL and France comb GREAT HELP FOR FLORIDA SCHOOLS OVER FIVE MILLION DOL- LARS PROMISED FOR VA- RIOUS FACILITIES ON. D.C, March gress follows the of the Secre- f War Sectetary of the Bureau of the Budget President, Florida will $5,611,919.00 to provide facilitie for children litary r Pepper de the serva ator Claude ured today. 997 227 $3,484 iding fa 00 ervice me FREIGHT VESSEL COMES TO PORT arrived in 4-00 rmnig at freigt Richey Revival Tonight Section of Seats Reserved For the Children Hear Raymond T. Richey Tell About His Big New Tent for | Soldiers and Sailors Meetings BIG TENT — Duvaland Division Streets Bring the Sick for Prayers traded | last } the | submarine | in| German And Italian Papers Bitterly Assail United States As ‘Meddler” In Affair (ity Associated Press) -| American entry into the war |was predicted by Italian news- Papers today as the next logical | step following quick passage of bill yesterday |and its prompt signing by Presi- dent Roosevelt. German and Italian newspa- | pers bitterly assailed the United States as a “meddler” but reiter- ated that American intervention \can have no effect on the out- ‘the “lease-lend” | |come of the war beyond prolong- ling it, | London vapers, apparently sur. | nrised at the disnatch with which {the bill was whinped throueh |Congress and made law yester \dav, published the story with hanner headlines and Prime Min- ‘ister Winston Churchill this morning told the House of Com- mons: “The United States has dedi cated her industrial apd financial |nower to insure the defent of |Naziism. In fact. it mieht be ‘seid that.che has signed a new | Maena a” ' German pavers said “America has rinned off the mask of neu- |trality” and accused President |Roosevelt of planning a world dictatorship. The United States, thev said, is attemotine to pro- long the war in Asia and Europe so as to insure its own financial gain and eventual rule of the world. Foreien Minister Matsuoko of — |Japan is exnected within a few davs in Berlin and today Italian newspapers made much of his ar. rival in connection with the “aid to Britain” bill's passage. Javan, they point out, is in a position to cut the British-Amer- ican lines in the far east, while the democracies are too far away to threaten the island empire on her home grounds. Passage of the bill. according to Viraino Gayda, Rome editor and semi-of ficial government spokesman, is the affair of all three Axis na tions and Japan will not be to act Entry of the United States into the war, Gayda explains. will come because it is impossible for Pritish ships carry supplies through the U-boat counter block ade. American naval units event ually will be used to protect the supplies, thus bringine America directly into the conflict COMING EVENTS WEDNESDAY Doubleheader Gym. 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY meets 1215 Parish Hall r Club meets at 6:40 » Lior Den, Seminary Street mvyent Alumnae meet at Horne oat Mr Steptien Lowe, 620 Southard Street, 7:30 p.m County Commission meets at o'clock tonight Patriotic Daughters of of Mrs slow Basketbal Rotary C ub p " 8 89-0 pur FRIDAY ng. Key West Arena, Sir ton and Front ets, 8:30 ps ted Cross Sewing Club meets at 315 Duval Street. 2:00 pm Basketbal Doubleheader, High School Gym, 7:30 pm . . PRESCRIPTIONS Acc arately Corr Fresh