The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 17, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOLUME LXII. No. 65. Che Key West Ctttzen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1941. Criminal Court \MaKes: New Record; No Session Close To Eight Hundred Dollars Collected Fines And Costs During Proceedings A three months’ jail sentence for Van Beedle, negro fishing camp employe who was convicted Saturday on a petty larceny charge, this morning brought the March session of county criminal court to an end with the unusual record of not a single acquittal. Judge William V. Albury dur- ing the week-long: session of court, sent two men to jail, turned one over to the army, ordered two men out of town and collected fines from. 20 persons. The county collected $784.43 in fines and costs during the court term and every person who faced the bar was found guilty. Van Beedle entered a not guilty plea, but a jury adjudged him guilty of stealing $22.14 in new) coins collected at the fishing camp where he was employed. Sam Manning, the only person who escaped a sentence in the/|at a high altitude by anti-aircraft | all jewelry effects. . court term, was released on an assault and battery charge Satur- day when Blanche Larson, the complaining witness dropped the charge and paid court costs, TAYLOR INFANT BURIED “SUNDAY y Amelia Taylor, five- month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor of 621 Catholic } Lane, died Saturday night at 7:30} o'clock at the residence. ! Funeral services were held! yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock | from the chapel of Pritchard's } Funeral Home. Rev. E, S. Doher- | ty, of First Congregational | church, officiated at the serv- ice Survive i | include the parent ‘8, Gloria and Barbara, ! and grandparents, Mrs. Myr Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. Fran- | cisco Alea. ST. PATRICK’S DAY, |jumped the tracks | Acquittals In Which Ended Today ‘NAZI BOMBERS BLAST BRISTOL HEAVY CIVILIAN CASUAL- TIES ADMITTED BY AIR MINISTRY (By Associated Press) LONDON, March 17.—Heavy civilian casualties at Bristol were admitted by the air ministry to- day after two sauadrons of Ger- man bombers blasted the city last night. No official estimate on the number of civilian dead has been made, but hundreds are believed |to have suffered death or injuries in the second of the two attacks. Air raid wardens in Bristol said jmany people returned to their homes after the first raid, think- ing it was all over, and were caught in their beds when more than 200 planes roared in for the | second attack. | German squadrons attacked ;seven industrial towns in central England during the night, the air ministry said damage was |slight and the planes were kept | guns. | Bad weather over the French j}coast apparently kept the RAF jout of action during the night. CHARGE SABOTAGE IN WRECK OF TRAIN SIXTY-NINE PERSONS TAKEN TO HOSPITALS IN | PENNSYLVANIA «my A ted Presa) BADEN, P March 17.—Spe- cial officers of the FBI were called here today as Pennsylvania Railroad officials declared the wreck of a train near here last night had been caused by sabo- tage. Sixty-nine persons were in hos- s'pitals today after two cars of the Pittsburgh-bound passenger train and plunged jinto the Ohio river. Exactly how many were killed been dis- closed. “EXTRA” HEART FAILS; eee | MAN DIES were | County employes today | ' ASHLAND, Ore celebrating joiptly,, the, fifteen- hundredth anniversary of St. Pat- rick’s Day and?) the’ fifty-sixth birthday of Sheriff Berlin Saw- |left ventricle of his “extra” heart | yer — John S. | Frick, 78, who had two fully de-} veloped “hearts”, died when the ruptured. .His second heart was Sawyer, equipped with a piece{in the lower left chest below the of the original blarney stone, is celebrating both oces ly in his office. Plans Near Completion For | Legion Convention Parade Plans nearly today by the Key West Conven- tion corporation for the annual! parade of the state department of rican Legion here April t Mills, executive direc- were Pendleton, command- f Key West barracks, 1 arshal. He will ing officer be gene be assisted by Col. G, D. Hatficld, | manding officer of the Marine nd Charles Pat Can- Holland Ind., spleen and underneath a_ lung. sions quiet-|His normal heart was in its usual | place. completed |mandant of Key West naval sta-| jtion, some of the state officers of the American Legion tail of officers from naval station to be Capt. Jacobs. The parade will start pri at 5 p.m. Friday. Apri! 25, Palm avenue and Div n street, and march toward; Duval street. Td Duval strepb the parade w tribve to'Front street where it w and a de- Key West selected by mptly from but | CHRIS ORTIZ IN | OPERA ROLE AT NEW ORLEANS \PORMER KEY WESTER GIVEN PART OF SPOLETTA IN PLAY BY UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA Cemmany’s (By Assoet BERLIN, March 17.—Fire of jundetermined origin has gutted |Germany’s $20,000,000 luxury |liner Bremen, it was announced here today. A brief announcement said the | jfire had broken out in the liner | (Special to The Citizen) {Saturday and still is By Jimmy Wilson, Student in the ie the eo is docked was ji not announced. faa en Ga eae __| The great North German Lloyd i ’_ |ship has been reported sunk sev- ;Spoletta, the role of the villain’s | eral times since war was declared righthand man in Puecini’s opera |and its whereabouts have been a |Tosca”, has been given to Chris {Ortiz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L, Ortiz, formerly of Key West. |The Louisiana State university ; opera will Fe presented as the} fifth annus: production of the} |New Orleans Spring Fiesta and | | will be held on the night of March | |22 in the city’s municipal ““'N0 INFORMATION ;torium. His will be a welcome return to} [the New Orleans operatic stage !| ABOUT HOTELET | |for he won the acclaim of the audience last year with his role! ¢ of the stuttering Wenzel in|FAIL TO LEARN ANYTHING Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride.” In 1939, in Baton Rouge, he also} OF CORRESPONDENT JAIL- {took the masculine lead, Des ED IN BERLIN SATURDAY {Grieux, in Massenet’s “Manon”,! in one of the five performances. Mr. Ortiz, in “Tosca”, plays the | \part of the villain, Scarpia’s lieu- | tenant, who takes over the “gang” | on the death of their leader. Beside his role in the opera, he has been in charge of fashioning -Practically jall the broaches, bracelets and {Tings worn during the perform- ance will be of his making. For the past few years he has sung at one of the New Orleans been successful, it was revealed synagogues, helping to defray his | today. eho! clea is under the di-|_Hotelett was seized by Gestapo @ production is under the di-j_ 9... : rection of Pasquale Amato, famed \age Wg Pcie ones Metropolitan baritone, ncw head [Charge of espionage. of the voice and opera depart-| Gestapo headquarters, it is re- ments at L.S.U. Thirty years ago |ported here, have declined to al- Mr. Amato's voice was acclaimed |iow anyone to speak to. their second only to that of Caruso’s. | prisoner. Louis Hasslemans, for 14 years !is completed, Sixty Persons (Ry Assootated Presa) WASHINGTON, March 17.—Ef- forts of the United States embas- sy in Berlin to get information on the case of Richard Hotelett, United Press representative who was arrested Saturday, have not | and on they -announced, the Metropolitan and for 25 years an associate of Mr. Amato’s in the music world, who is now a mem- ber of the music school facu! lis director of opera music and will conduct the University symphony |during the production. |gage an attorney and will be al- jlowed to talk with embassy rep- | resentatives. ‘EMPLOYMENT OFFICE | IN NORTH CHINA NOW Mr. Ortiz, a junior in the Louis- | jiana State University school of |music, has many relatives andj jfriends in Key West, where he jlived until he was 14 years of tablished here age. 1 300,000 Chinese 1 (Bs PEIPINC information bur labor ‘au has been es- the 1, needed to supply jaborers VAST RECLAMATION —Manchoukuo, Mongolia and Jap- lanese-occcupied Central China PLAN IN MONGOLIA | North China is a cheap labor ADDS RICE FARMS merket and has supplied the |needs of other parts of this coun- (fly Annocinted Prean) jtry in former years. Officials es- PEIPING, March 17.—Vast rec- |timate that Manchoukuo requires lamation projects to expand rice | 300.000 conlies Mongolia 600,000 cultivation are making progress /and central China 400,000 annually in Honan province and in Inner |to work on Ta roads, highways, Mongolia. jirrigation and other projects Honan, which is |portant cotton producer, is work- | ing on the reclamation of 60,000! acres as part of the construction lof a network of waterways and ty ' {each year for work on projects in | also an im- GRANTED DIVORCE Kreuscher 0 aturday from Dade coun d di- and 40 Fisher's Is- Y. She bitual ngov- habitual in- arrie a flood prevention works. In Inner | vores large tracts are to be |¥® in the vicinity of Pao- j! ong Water ,charged extr Yellow jindulgence Mongoli reclaimec tow, likewise for rice land will be diverted from the river for irrigation n March The 1901 couple Basketball Dovbleheader, 7:30 pm high school pm TUESDAY aa jStone Church Service Club. 6:00: BERLIN newspa High C (By Assoc Marct riticis WEDNESDAY ig. Key West n and Fr THURSDAY 1b at Arena based his talk or Fite Destroys Liner Bremen, burning. | Dead In Howling Blizzard al After the investigation | conductor of the French wing at | Hotelett will be permitted to en-' NONDAY German Newspapers Bitterly Criticize Roosevelt's Speech $20,000,000 i arr jated Press) mystery ever. since it steamed out British of New York harbor in the early days of the conflict. At that time, with British ships reportedly waiting for her just outside American territorial wa- ters, the giant ship mysteriously vanished into the north Atlantic and was unheard of fer more than | a month. Later, it was reported to be at Murmansk in Russia and then was sighted by a British submarine commander near Nor- way. DEFENSE BRINGS NEW TEMPO INTO CAPITAL’S LIFE ALSO ADDS NEW NAMES FOR OLD IN SOCIAL BLUEBOOK. BESIDES VARIOUS OTHER ACTIVITIES Ave Known: : By JACK STINN AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, March 17.— * in Let’s suppose that you were (By Assoctated Press) i Washington in 1928—or ten years A howling blizzard which in later—and you were making your some sections was the worst in | ai [first trip back since then. Today, jhistory, is rolling east across Michigan and Illinois today leav-| \ver the superficial aspects of the ing nearly 60 known dead in its probably {national capital, you i would say, “Well, there are a lot ew bui s—there are more Forty-seven are known to have | Of new buildings—there a 2 seems, but I don’t think perished in Minnesota and North | aaa ay ave ae a ae Dakota and scores are missing. i Ae een Sean Four died in Manitoba, British; “n¢ ‘nat 1s where you i aes | be dead wrorg. It might take you Columbia, and coast guardsmen |° suse eta are looking for 20 persons adrift al coe dances ted ‘a . (but you soon wouid find out that on an ice floe since Saturday in | national defense” has changed Lake Superior. Washington more than anything Roads in most sections of the 'since the British took over in storm-whipped states still are 1812. blocked and searching parties of! Under national defense, life in residents and state patrolmen fear | |they will find many more dead P0. The old order is changing, as the snow is cleared away. {and a new is coming in. It’s dif- "phe storm, piling up huge drifts ficult to say where one should wake. city of 85 miles an hour, caught |t0 start with society. When a hundreds of persons in auto- {City’s society turns upside down mobiles and most of the deaths —and I mean champagne, white- |resulted from cold and exhaustion , tie. and mink coat society—then to people caught away from their ;4 City is no longer what it used homes. to be. Temperatures, which had been! According to the society writ- hovering near the 40 degree mark ‘¢'S Who have their fingers on the in parts of Minnesota, suddenly |Pulse of every shindig and shin- dropped below zero Saturday | digger that rates caps in the cap- night and early Sunday morning. | ital bluebook, the “old Washing- | jtonians” and the “diplomatic set” = —who always have ruled the {Washington social roost in the | past—have not only taken a back , but aren't doing any driving Lowest last Highest last from there night 24hours | After all, what frosted and 32 76 \frosty widow of the Roosevelt I 40 65 |era can compete with the Stet 35 43 | tiniuses, the new Supreme Court 22 43 jjustices, the Knudsens, the 66 |Knoxes, the Morgenthaus, the :Jacksons and the Joneses of to- ‘day? But there is something more TEMPERATURES — Abilene Boise Boston Bristol Brownsville Buffalo Chicago | Cincinnati | than’ that Denver 2 | The day when the embas Detroit | and legations could send all soc’ Eastport 3 3 j Wastengion a-flutter with an all- El Paso B: out party is gone. What ambas Havre {sadors and ministers haven't lost Huron {their countries? Some haven't Jacksonville ; but aren't those either at war or |KEY WEST so at odds that any entertain Los Angeles | ment is a mockery? Miami Minneapolis N Orleans New York Okla. City Phoenix St. Louis alt Lake City Francisco »kane Ste. Marie Washington 61 6s 56 64 7 56 35 22 46 13 51 36 1 29 THERE’S A REASON FOR COWBOY SONGS (By Associated Press) FORT WORTH, Tex., March 17 Modern music owes much t the sure-gaited Texas cowpony whose ts rhythm n the F Univers w hoofb Sit tirred up dust | Texas Christian | fessor sa i—probably quite -to fit the Rait Dr. Newton ur s ss f horse” Gaines exlpains. A trot will fit the Chisholm Trait’ the Streets the easy mournful song: uch as ‘Bury Me Prairie nd | the Then, ‘A of Laredo’ i swing of t ‘inted Press) he (Roosevelt) Not Bar President have THURSDAY. MARCH 29 From 6 to 8 at CLUB HOUSE Washington is nitting a new tem-j PRICE FIVE CENTS Ready For Showdown In Balkans ‘MAKE REPORT ON CASH GRANTS TO | | j |OVER EIGHT THOUSAND DOL- | LARS DISTRIBUTED DUR- ING JANUARY BY STATE WELFARE BOARD (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, March 17.— | !Monroe county received »an in- jcome of $8,671 for the month of | January from cash grants, which was at the rate |of $104,052 pe public assistance r year, according to |by the State Welfare Board, For the entire state, January |disbursements for public ance totaled $587,863 or at the rate of $7,054,356 per year. There were 37,624 recipients of Old Age Assistance, 7,614 (children) recip- ients of Aid to Dependent Chil- dren, and 2,465 recipients of Aid to the Blind. Funds paid out as public assist- ance not only contribute to the relief of the needy but also go into the channels of trade and stimulate business generally, ‘State Welfare Commissioner C. C. Codrington pointed out. “This payroll in some counties is probably the largest that is re- leased on a monthly basis”, he said, “and in all counties is an ii a-wind which reached a velo-'*tart to explain it, but I'm going |economic factor of considerable {turned importance”. Payment of public assistance grants with joint federal and state funds, the latter being ob- tained from the beverage tax, be- gan on July 1, 1937, at which time the State Welfare Board was inducted into office. Prior to that the state had no financial participation in the program. SCOUT TROOP HELD MEETING Boy Scout Troop 52 held its weekly meeting on Friday at the scout hall in the old naval hos- pital. The meeting was opened with the Scout Oath, Law and Motto, followed by the flag sa- lute. An excellent collection of dues was noted and the best “good turn of the day” was related by Earl Adams, Jr. Plans were made for @ hike to be held this week. The scouts will journey to Raul’s Beach. The Indian Patrol holdsia three- point lead over the Wolf unit in the honor patrol contest A quiz contest was staged by the troop, greatly enjoyed by the members. Appointment of an as- istant bugler was considered The meeting closed with the Great Scoutmaster’s Benediction, SCHOONER LEAVES The Da Getson, three masted Panan ian schooner, left Key West yesterday for Mobile The | arrived here Saturday and was moored at the Porter dock MONROE COUNTY assist- j Turkey Still Refuses To Make Known Her Atti- | tude; Greece Ready To Withstand Attack (By Asnooirted Presa) German and Bzitish troops ap- |parently are moving toward a showdown in the Balkans, with |Turkey still refusing to say what her attitude will be and Greece |resolutely preparing to defend herself against attack from any | direction. Istanbul says from 150,000 to 200,000 British soldiers are taking | if you had a few hours to run! figures made public here today! up positions in Salonika, and Lon- |don for the first time today ad- ‘mitted that troops have been fer- jried from Africa into Greece. Greek troops, apparently con- vinced that Italian power in Al- bania has been shattered beyond hope of a quick comeback, are | mov" { from Albania into posi- tior long the northern fron- tier. A communique from Athens this morning said Italy's greatest offensive in Albania had been broken. Premier Mussolini, who is believed to have taken personal charge of the attack, is said by | Athens to have given up and re- to-Ronie. ~ According to Athens, Italy lost ‘nearly 50,000 men in killed and | Seriously wounded, with many ‘battalions suffering casualties up to 40 per cent. Berlin professes little interest in Greek and British defense moves and a foreign office spokes- man said today that Germany is “fully prepared to settle the |Greek question.” | From Istanbul, meanwhile, comes a report that an emissary on his way to Berlin will do no more than thank Adolf Hitler for his offer of cooperation. Turkey, it is understood, will make no (Continued on Page Four) ASSURED COURSE IN ARC WELDING ACETELYNE PROCESS ALSO | TO BE STUDIED; THIR- Inauguration of a vocational training course in are and acete- lyne welding was assured today as the thirteenth applicant rege istered at the office of Melvig E. Russell, couny superintendent of schools. The course, operated under the {state office of vocational training, was promised if ten peerset enrolled. é Russell said today the course will get under way as soon as equipment has been purchased and a loaction aranged for. The course probably will be held at the WPA sewing room building. Large Number Fail To File 500 Monroe who county expect visit during the office of Tax Assessor Claude Gan- 4 1700 home county, Gandolfc stered 1230 The March tax returns 31. Is also due by to} exemption this their claims - Claim For Home Exemption Some property owners are in curring extra expense and cloud ing their property titles, Gandolfo because they believe that homestead exemptions covet said today all taxes Actually, debt service taxes of three mills on mandamus # counts and six mills for schools are collected from the home steaders’ A few of them whose taxes are a8 low as 30 and 7) cents have incurred expenses Up to $5 because they failed to pay the small levies.