The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 13, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 62. Congressman Says. Purchase Pricé Of Land For Key West Bast ‘Unconscionable’ Ditter Claims tanks bh wewwreeee 'NEW YORKER LANDS | Question Should naa 32-POUND DOLPHIN | —— 9) |ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, CARPENTERS LAY DOWN TOOLS ON THREE PROJECTS FIVE MEN WALKED OUT| TODAY IN DEMAND FOR HIGHER WAGES (By Associated Press) New squadrons of Royal Air |Force bombers thundering channel this morning are jacross the ‘in a continuation of the mightiest than 125 Key West car-\air bombardments of the war. More Been Secured In Con-; jpenters this morning walked off Using a new type of bomber Dr: Webstar’ Robinson, of (Pee government construction nich apparently carries an demnation Proceedings | New York and Key West, [Js in a demand for increased oo bomb oad, British [en SPUB He Boone eeaeete| sentatives of W. _P. | planes last night struck at Berlin, | fishing expedition yesterday, | Thurston Construction company ;Hamburg and Bremen with un- | (By Ans tated Prensa) thus pushing Mrs. Robinson, and Paul H. Smith Construction | paralleled ferocity. At the same WASHINGTON, March} who held the previous record |Cmpany, contractors on the three | Teondon. ait for the largest dolphin of the | season, off the record board. The fish was foul hooked and | put up quite a fight. 13.—The price paid by the navy for land at Key West noes See “ a | Bertram C. Hopeman, of | was termed unconscion-| wavnesboro, aera , hy g »mber f the| two nice permit yesterday, able’ by a member 0 | (6b welshine lesa pencinatal | use appropriations com-| the other 20 pounds. He was Ho PREVI fishing from the private craft mittee. of Mr, and Mrs. John Oldrin, of Darien, Conn., as guest of \ During the recent hearing | the Oldrins. on the naval appropriations! , hhahathatiadimadeuihe MARVIN: GRIFFIN AND WIFE ARE STILL IN JAIL. | TWO OTHERS REMAIN IN CUS- condemnation | TODY IN CONNECTION WITH | rec-! bill, Ditter (R-Pa.) Representative declared the navy was subject to censure for) making outright purchase of the naval station land rather than using proceedings. Hearing ords were made public to-' BY FBI MEN ed with Washington authorities MAKING PLANS dav changing the terms of the con-| bi jtract Rear Admiral Ben Mor-| mrs. Marvin Griffin, operator] Higgs said the official rate FOR HANDLING : fx) | ee ‘ = _jhere always has been $1.00 an reel, chief of Yards and of the “Alice Reid House” at 1016/hour, but that local carpenters | LABOR TROUBLE Docks “Bureau, explained Howe street which was raided by had been persuaded to work for | | there | FBI men Tuesday, in | ,county jail today on a white navy “had to go in remained Officers ‘‘dicker- 6 quickly.” |charge without taking advantage | ey - pay raise, he said, but when it! BE PLACED IN HANDS OF ed” with owners, he said, of the $3,000 bond set by Com-{became apparent to carpenters | AnD then leased land for five !missioner Rodney Gwynn. ee that no immediate action| 3? aunt > Marvin Griffin, husband of the |could be expected, they agreed to| (Ms Aswoctated Press) years at $20,000 annually. (defendant and co-operator of the|/#¥ down their tools. =| WASHINGTON, March | 13.— - : . ‘arpenters will meet tonight}... ay SaACkine He said this lease carried ae aes _ une °F | with union representatives at Red edi : hie ic ; f strike ME nearer ders from the FBI men, who have | Men's hall at 7:30 o'clock to dis-|9Pie@0" : seer aTy Lis provisions that navy could jreturned to Miami. Sheriff's of- jcuss the walkout EeGie Pe Sear buy property and first year’s ficers today said they did not| Thurston company, whose car-|procident Roosevelt has called a know why Griffin is being held|penters refused to work — this }eonference with Labor Secretary rental would apply on price.!or how long he will remain in|morning, has a contract for con lrance ing) ana Dedenee ie ee ; jail. jstruction of buildings at, the | oon ici: Sidney “HRlman Therefore, he added, land “Chester Roberts, bar tender in |sound school in the navy yard | sad eWilliea acnudser was obtained for $105,000, [the house, and a soldier are be-! —___—____ lsetpne (Buesiient is snideta ul Rave seem hat $20,000 eee vith Griffin Pet | worked plans for a labor u assume that $20,000) George Gome:, United States TEMPERATURES sealete and a 30 : marshal in Key West who actual is be- rental was reasonable ly 4 le the rests in Tuesday’s | ie 1 last|Highest last to gc to effect é i : pine. west last|Highest las! | ae amount?” Dit ingle raid, said this morning the me ny kers of the Shel Ditter asked. |will’ be held here until the FBI| might masons iz Compans y at Ho Tex “That is correct", replied Officers give him orders about | Abilene a bs |producers of 1 na their disposit te inp : t Morreel. “We had govern-! rears 3oston 16 28 pee! ; f / Bristol 28 51 : ment agency, Home Owners K. P. OFFICIALS uffalo 7 28 inced they will go ¢ Loan corporation, make ap- leston 45 61 jemand ay eg ee ies Chica 22 34 ee praisal, and we felt after in- COMING T0 CITY «: cs ingens 33 42 J here vestigation that price was oe onver 8 24 : me . » J raisn re i t 28 33 t : i fair one. Appraisal valuation ay iy, meeting of Key West/El Paso 37 60 1 i nee was $145,000 and our pur-| Loge No. 163, K. of P., to be held |Galveston 46 69 pe . . shi MELAS AT tomorrow evening, the Rank of | Hatteras 40 5 . chase price was $105,000 oF | page will be conferred on a large | Havre 16 es : with first year’s rental $125,-| class | Huron 18 : Git eee | Harry M. Love of Miami will|Jacksonville 40 65 lee cos 00. obligate the new members. The}Kansas City 28 8 | eateries “I think he must have had Bible to be used in this ceremony |KEY WEST 64 78 Al | HUNGARIAN will be the one used by Justus H. | Los les 5: 61 . in mind buying up ground Rathbone, the founder of the Or-!N 63 79 | for Miami or Palm Beach for et. at the itution of the first /M 15 4 CREDITS FROZEN ° | lodge in the United States. Na il 3 some kind of resort pur- Mr. Love comes to Key West'!New Orlea 49 58 { poses,” Ditter said.” Per-|for the purpose of conducting!New York 26 4 Seas eee mae oe th He will be accom: | Pittsburg 23 5 a 4 : : haps wanted to put up new panied me Master of |St. Louis 26 rt hotel instes sing na Exchequer of Salt Lake City 21 49 : ead of buying navy Wilmingtor bia Pe a ayer 7 . site ne jChs t : er | Spokane 24 43 2 : “Qur appraisers were in . Washing: 32 6 its the t $ pr ete agreement, Mr. WARN NATIONALS TDI TOTOeIS Y with the owners of } + Shae COBOA LANDED BY the proverty that it was «TQ RETURN HOME wuxw ano sounson COUNTY BOARD fair price.” (My Associated Presa) < : : oat. the Cutes. yesterday sturally woul of that > Lockett Nunn of Evansville pir , eae Beg Ind.. had a grand fight with a = ane 3 oF : , 40-pound coboa. Later, Morree! testified ap- |< got Three other large coboa sisal Was about $2,000 an _ . - were landed by Dr. C. W. E t ; Johnson of 1201 Olivia a acre. He said same property street. was used by navy during the Ge sa a ees ' ingly delighted over their F World Wara ne rental of tomes® | catches. $20,000 a year. shortages y | projects, met with union officials Hast night, but javert the walkout. RAID ON ALICE REID HOUSE ie time, ministry offi- fe | of defense jagainst night bombing had saved ‘Liverpool from destruction at the hands of a Nazi squadron num- {bering more than 200 planes. Key{ Berlin, admitting damage, bit- West carpenters, he said, have!terly accused British pilots of de- been attempting for several |jiberately attempting to destroy months to arrange an increase | residentiz districts. Sixteen per- from 80 cents to $1.00 an hour,!sons were killed in Berlin and 37 and today’s walkout was spon-! injured, according to a formal taneous and unofficial. statement this morning. When the carpenters will re-| In spite of British defenses. cials said a new type were unable Clarence Higgs, business man- ager of the local carpenters’ union, this morning said no offi- cial strike had been called. a Is and both admitted today |pool last night, damage admitted- | could not be pany, which holds con on pany to raise the pay rate with- sis of 80 cents for carpenters and | turn to their tools is unknown} which London says brought down either by Higgs or company offi-| nine German bombers over Liver- that other carpenters probably|ly was heavy. German planes would join in the walkout. iflew at tremendous altitudes, so L. L, Langford, superintendent | high their motors of construction at the Smith com- two housing projcets her id it 2 would be impossible for the com- } jAaMIra en out authorization from Washing- ton. Contracts were let on a ba-j; the company will not raise the! e until an agreement is reach- the lower rate on the promise they would get increased pay in a short time. The union has been working sinte January to get the PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS CALLED CONFERENCE; TO THURSDAY, British Use New Type Of _ Bomber In Raid Last Night | Over Several German Ports City On Inspection Trip MARCH 13, 1941 heard, and dropped bombs all over the city. Tens of thousands of bombs were dropped, according to Ber- lin, and London admitted today | that some fires in Liverpool had not yet been brought under con- | trol. Loss of life was held to a low figure, however, and Liver- pool reports all transportation Thrusting deep into Germany, the RAF bombers last night ap- parently rained bombs over chan- nel bases at Cherbourg and Calais on their return trips Dam- ; age admittedly was great in both cities, A German destroyer, according ta London was sunk by a torpedo- | carrying plane in the Skagerrak. but Berlin claims a British de stroyer was sunk in the channel by a torpedo boat Today's raids on the channel | ‘coast apparently are being staged with the same type of heavy ex- | ‘Unit Held Meeting Last Night To Whip Things plosive as was introduced last | night. Residents of the Dover; Event Next Month area have felt the earth shake | beneath their feet from the blasts | of the bombs more than 20 miles away. | Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28 of ithe American Legion will supply \20 special officers to help the city the Arrives In \police handle the details of state convention here April 23-26, it was decided at a meeting last | night of the post at headquarters, |United and Whitehead streets. mandant of the sixth and seventh | } Rear Admiral W. H. Allen, com- jnaval districts, is visiting in Key jused to maintain order, to patrol These special officers will West for an inspection of naval ‘the line up of march of the, station and air base facilities. |Parade, and handle all other de- | {tails. It was realized the city Admiral Allen, whose head-) jolice force was inadequately quarters are at Charleston, S. C..' tanned for this work, and the is staying here at the quarters of iAmne Capt. W. F. Jacobs, commandant rican Legion’ st of special officers will be submitted to of the local base and assistant yyayor Willard M. Albury commandant of the seventh dis-) aipert Mills. executive direc trict. ‘tor of the Key West Convention He will return to his head- | corporation, which is handling ar quarters in the morning after rangements for the convention, completing the tour of inspection was called upon by Post Com- today |mander Harold Russell to make a GEES re Ge | progress report GREEKS HITTING | Mills said that all of the 1500 re vations that hed been re ITALIANS HARD peived (ordutetunitht convention had been filled. Every down town hotel and rooming house is assured of ing the a capacity crowd dur THOUSANDS OF TROOPS UN- four days of the conven DER COMMAND OF Musso. |". Mills said 5 | One hundred reservations for LINI ARE PERISHING ithe Havana trip have been re ceived by the convention cor Ra, poration. This trip leaves Key (By Axsociated Press) | West via the P. & O. Steamship ATHENS, March 13.—Hurling ,;company boat on April 27, the thems forward beneath the, morning after the convention personal command of Premier | here clos Havana Post No. | Benito Mussolini, Italian soldiers | of the Americar jon is ar n ania are perishing by the ) rang deta q rt thousands without taking a s Iment to be accorded th tir o Greek line a com Legionnaire nc ur i today ! It was announce M tha A en said there is no!Col. L. L. f Key We nger y doubt that the Italian jt ks has agreed t t th mier n Albania attempting (I nnaires every ava b te C ered morale of |r for the housing of 1 force and dru t have ———— BOXING| | | COMING EVENTS i Tomorrow Nite 8:30 1 ;KEY WEST ARENA; THURSDAY i “CLY DE HAYES } : s p H ‘ | JACK PATTON | ' JACKIE PAGE Face’ — A i i { MANUEL HAMCOCE {| “"** } Good Supporting Preliminaries | = energy H r: H $0¢. mc lie $1.00, tax 16 | GEN. ADM. } RINGSIDE ' ror Reservat Special Officers 10 Assist City Police At Convention SDS SIS MSIL MS S| SIX AMBERJACK | ARE BRCUGHT IN Into Shape For Coming G. C. Hall, “fishing from. his boat, “Jeep”, with Mr. | and Mrs, Ed Hall and Fill | Hall, visiting relatives from Buffalo, N. Y., and Mrs. Rob- ert Davis of Key West, yes- terday landed six large am- berjack. Hall landed the largest of the fish, a 59'4 pounder, while each member of the party caught at least one. They also landed four big grouper, 12 barracudas and a mackerel. Hall has _ spent several weeks each season fishing in Key West for the past sev- eral vears, aeatadteudeudeateaenl JAMES STARKER FOUND GUILTY BY JURY TODAY NEGRO WAS ARRAIGNED IN CRIMINAL COURT CHARGED WITH ASSAULT AND BAT- TERY : Fisher, patched up Elizabeth negro wash- her differ Starker a little so this morning woman, ences with James too late, a@ SIX man jury found him guilty of as- in Judge Wil sault and battery liam V. Albury’s criminal court Starker, who entered a plea of guilty Peace Justice Enrique Esqu rourt ,at a pre lire hearing, denied the ch today and witnesses bore him out in denying that anything had happened I pite of th of Stark Esqu m j fF and Cle ; mY OTe ee SF EE VISITOR CATCHES 20-POUND PERMIT Miss Gladys Jenkins, of Darien. Conn.. caught 3 beau specimen ef permit Tuesday. and Col. Heney P. Barret. of Henderson, Ky-~ landed another Miss Jenkins. prise tipped the scales at 20 pounds. and Mr. Barret's weighed 10 pounds. The anglers were fishing from Mr. end Mrs. John Oldrin’s private fishing creft. SLID LLL LDL: tiful Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; range of only 14° Fahrenheit with an average PRICE FIVE CENTS Key West To Get Nearly Three Million Dollars In Government _ Appropriations For improvements l | | | Contained In Naval Supply Bill Introduced By House Appropriations Commit- tee (My Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March panama — House appropriations | ‘committee introduced today naval supply bill which in- icluded $16,711,100 for im- | provement and expansion of | Florida shore stations. | This was in addition to | $7,314,000 worth Florida ‘naval items in fourth sup- defense bill al- ‘ready passed by House and | Senate. | plemental New measure makes reg- jular naval appropriations for year beginning July 1, officers told subcommittee, however, they planned \start work before that date to ‘on many of projects for which bill riate. would approp- Data filed with approp- riations committee and made public today showed two sets of estimates for air station at Jacksonville and Key West, Miami, Banana River, one each for those at and Pensacola, One of Jacksonville proj- ects included items totaling $2,753,500, of which $1,- 603,500 would be approp- riated in cash and $1,150,000 allowed as contractual au- thority. Pensacola estimate was $1,100,000 including $510,- 000 in cash and $590,000 in contractual authority. Additional outright = an- propriations included $7,- 951,600 for » Jacksonville, $2,770,000 for Key West, $711,000 for Miami, and $1,425,000 for Banena River. For Key West, Projects included: Additional barracks, mess hall and galley for 650 men, $490,000; extension of roads, walks, and services, $200, 000 mp, $75,- 000; of seaplane parking area, $100,000; tension of bachelor officers’ quarters, $60,000; dredging seaplane operating area, $1, 500,000; amsnunition stor age facilities, $250,000; hos $50,000; medical equipment, $20,000; $25,- seaplane extension pital = facilities, recreation 000. facilities,