The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 18, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the sts of Key West Che Key West Ct Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE JU. S. A. VOLUME Le No, 66. PRICE FIVE CENTS KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1941 Navy And Aqueduct Commission Make Ready’ For Installation OF Water Pipé Linc To Key West Major Balkan War Between Germany And Britain Looms GENERAL FRINK | ARRIVES HERE MAKING INSPECTION OF FA- United States Ships Keep Sharp (By Associated Press) Events today continued to move toward a majer war be- tween Germany and Great Britain | as London newspapers reported the movement of large bodies of troops from Egypt into Greece. | Balkan Lookout For German Anticipated That Within Six Months Water Will, Be Available For Key West And Key Section Maly Prominent Personages lo Give Addresses At Lecion Meét 1 to 'Vhe Citizen) D. C., (Spec WASHINGTON, ‘URGE PARENTS 10 ee March 18.—Senator Pepper WATCH CITIZENSHIP announced today he anti- cipated that within a few) days the Bureau of Yards_ and Docks of the Navy would | contract for the construction | of a 135 mile water main) from the Florida mainland to Key West to provide for \High School are the needs of the Navy and fc ‘cards GRADES OF PUPILS CONDUCT AND ATTITUDE) FACTORS IN FAILURE OF MANY STUDENTS, PROFES- SOR O’BRYANT REVEALS Parents of pupils in Senior ked to watch or citizenship grades on report of their children The the civilian population of faculty feels that academic grades a Key West. “For several years the lone do not give a true picture for the parents Conduct and attitude may be |factors that’ explain why a cer- citizens of Key West have jtain pupil is not school—hence, been striving for a source of jenship, which student's conduct in class and his water supply to displace the A | succeeding in the grade in citi- is based on ttitude toward the school and age old system of catching its teachers, is of utmost import- a rainwater,” Senator Pepper | said, “and it now seems that within a few months this |* saisfactory They appear on the report cards ince, Three grades are given and good unsatisfactory eG", -/S? sand: U" “These imarkings’ were chosen in order to great need will be supplied avoid confusion with grades giv- len for history, music, as a result of a cooperative! the the citizens of |t! k Monroe County through its agreement between Navy and 2 Aqueduct Authority created , ; by the 1939 Legislature. of constant for the West, the P “With the prime view pro- | 0 viding a certain and source Navy 76th 000,000.00 for the of water supply needs at Key Congress construction of hi 2 u a 12 inch water line stead to Key West. Subsequent negotiation by the Aqueduct Au- thority has resulted in agreement between the Navy and the Au- thority whereby an 18 inch line will be constructed to supply not. re; only the Navy's needs, but, well, the civilian"needs at Key West and the various small is- lands between Key West and the By ‘virtue .of this] nt, which has just been the Aqueduet Autharity ee $1,000,000.00 to the $ 000,000.00 made available to the This $1,- aned by the Re ince Corporation from Home- g oO DP b n b mainland, agreem: reachec will Navy by the Congress. wl be construction Fir to be 1 of water 000,000. w ervice charges.” Last week representatives Navy and the Aqueduct co were occupied in dra concluded that isfactory xed within Navy ha by the al be pro extent of about 3,- Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! BINGO Sponsored by NAVY WIVES CLUB La Concha Park Friday. Mar. 21—7:30 P.M. Refreshme: Admission 25¢ |these grades. ship should be Hee O'Bryant explains, zenship grades will help parc w Every aS ‘gate the ete. to watch for “U" in citizen- investigated so hat both parent and pupil will now where the trouble lies. “Many bright pupils fail or rng in marks far below the lev of their ability”, Professor Parents are urg< A “sim ly because they will not work r because they are too busy an joying others or amusing them selves to pay attention to the reci- tation at hand tragic appropriated $2,- see intelligence wasted and wrong This is one of the elements of school life—to abits of work and thought built p. It is hoped that these citi et on the f some track of the solution of their problems. Thi ill succeed, however, only if arents do something about it time they se a ‘U’ on a card they should cause. When a pupil i learning bis lessons he doe: have time to get ou port investi usy ot le". HOME SOCIETY :... GROUP MEETS : juidated from the proceeds LOCAL UNIT MEETS WITH DISTRICT SUPERINTEND ENT LAST NIGHT f the the, ts Newspapers said only that hun- dreds of heavily guarded trans- | ports were plying the waters be- tween Egypt and the port of Athens, but reliable sources in} Istanbul now say that 200,000 | British soldier: stationed in Greece and more are on the way. Adolf Hitler, whose hesitancy] in starting the Balkan campaign | has surprised most diplomats in | southeastern Europe, is reliably | reported to have 350,000 men massed on the Bulgarian border. | Diplomats at Istanbul predicted today that Germany will break CILITIES AT LOCAL ARMY BARRACKS Reported In Attantic Housing Unit Neets With Smith id TB rene Company To Discuss Increase In Wage For Many Carpenters Some Think Story Brit- ish Propaganda VISITGRS ENJOY DAY’S ANGLING) | |erating in the waters off Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Valdez | York. of Dallas, Texas, visitors to | Key West, went out yesterday | for a day of fishing, and thor- oughly enjoyed hauling in many nice specimens during the trin. Included in the catch were * Gen. Jame L. veral of the ea, arrived in 1orning to inspect fecilities and serv- Brig. quartermaster fourth Cory jKey West thi | quartermaster lices at the local army barrac The general, after a quick in- spection during morning, complimented Col. L. L. Pendle- ton post, and quartermaster off on the con- dition of the facilities here. off relations with Athens in a General Frink will leave here few days and the German am-} | tomorrow ntinue his inspec- bassador there is said to be ready tion of other gamps in the corps. to'le t a moment's notice. With (Continued on Page Four) Frink, as A list of the prominent speak- during the American Legion’s he state convention here Aprii 23-26 was announced today by Albert Mills, executive director of the Key West Convention corpora- tion. At the Mills nounced a special meeting of the board of directors of the corpora- tion to be held tonight at 8:30. Discussion will center around sending a delegation represent- ing Arthur Sawyer Post 28 of the American Legion to the fifth dis- trict conference at Fort Lauder- dale on Saturday and Sunday General Blanding, for whom Camp Blanding, one of the na- tion’s outstanding military camps was named, will respond to the opening of the convention session Thursday, April 24 General Blanding is expected to speak on s plans for the national commandant of the aoe (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 18.— Capital opinion split sharply to- Five board members of Key West Housing Authority this aft- ernoon are same time an- day over the truth of a report area. conferring with rep- resentatives of Paul H. Smith Cgnstruction company in ef- fort to learn what the company will do about a wage |that a German submarine is op- New an increase for Although many government the 30-odd carpenters working on their two housing contracts | officiels expressed the opinion ie British on | the story is a piece of Carpenters employed navy yard construction job of W. P. Thurston company, | Propaganda, department assured of asa Senators Claude Pepper arles O. Andrews will both address the convention Friday morning, April 25. It is believed they may have something to say (Continued on Page Four) ANOTHER ATTACK | ON ROOSEVELT GERMAN PAPER TERMS FDR “HATEFUL NTERVEN- TIONIST” ‘ADMIRALTY STATES $9,000; TONS LOST WEEK ENDING MARCH 9 (Ry Associated Prensa) | ready and the armory (ity Associated Press) 99.000 BERLI March 18. newspapers, led by the tion controlled by Air Minister Hermann Goering, continued their bitter attacks on President Roosevelt and the United State € an- Berlir publica on is ye 141,000 tons ad previous week, the 20 British and and are far above weekly average of how account for ship 64,000-ton Lit down car- five allied the the naval intensive will strike 1 & members in Preside n t y “ r tive bean ic waiting precautionary mez expecting navy two yellow jacks, weighing | men said ships on neutrality pa- 25 pounds each, horse mack- | 44) had been ordered to keen» erel, grouper, yellowtail, bar- racuda and mutton fish. j sharp lookout and it is ind: .s. ee soicuhaae es patrol will be reinforced. The first report that a long- nhharharhrbehethhon) range Nazi U-boat had started for |this country is believed to have MAKE REPORT ON come from British Ambassador ‘Viscount Halifax. A German LOSSE F HIPS sin official here, although S 0 S ‘admitting he knew nothing of the story one way or the other, |said he did not believe it could be true. Prime Minister Winston |Churchill in London said today it jis likely a submarine might have j been dispatched to the waters off |the United States and added that |German raiders and U-boats al LONDON, March 18.--British are operating as far west allied shipping losses during |#* the forty-second meridian week ending March 9 totalled | Although Churchill did not in Winsieth eivedmnicay |dicate the exact location where eer ae y Ihe believes the ships are operat tee thao ing, the forty-second meridian ited an the runs from the tip of Newfound oe hela iand past the bulge of Brazil in 2 South America and is about 500 miles cast of Cape Cod Just what American ships would do if they did find the submarine operating within the 600-mile neutrality zone i unknown. Previously, both Great Brit and Germany have in vaded the southern wa stood by dd the and n interventionist that hateful 4 the local force i zone and US. the role in hips have of observers. be aard and with on ican Ambassador John G. Winant. POLICE DUTIES ropean order “tyranny more | | the firm, at Richmond, Va teners that the United States now today would not say exactly for the demo-| TEREST OF NATION company representatives is “There is no order or security ment an order to begin active po- viously agreed that the wage in- Members at the weekly meet-' Yesterday's closed shop vote FACING ARREST general call to put the units W. A. MeAlister, labor depart has brought with it the threat of penters ures word from the navy ¢ el { b been destroyed mer WOOD LAST NIGHT RUNNING HIGH MADE ON BREMEN Hitler’s a European Order appearing before the Pilgrims’ a closed shop after a vote yester- Society for his first public ad- day, have been granted their raise cruel than the world has known.” | rare | Housing authority officials, Castigating German and Italian} WOULD BE FOR PURPOSE OF who voted yesterday to go on is ready to what their conference with Smith ws of war ex- cratic nations of the earth | pected to accomplish. The Hitler's Germany. he said, “has | ing started at 2 o'clock at {in tyranny,” Winant told the Pil- jice duty in precautions against crease comes under the imme- ! (Continued Or Page Four) saboteurs and spies, Major Rob- diate jurisdiction of the contrac ing tonight at the national guard although making it mandatory for will hear of instructions the contractor to hire only union SHEHIEES AWA EH SAYS Oe ives diiy, «Thee mectng ment conciliator, said yesterday PATROLMAN READY TO scheduled for 8 o'clock the company has no other course abotage operations, _ Painters en y Great Britain during said. Home guard tion job, wh« ear of the war. ds for an increase from 80 qurit e war. The figure wa lar orders rents to $1 an hour. So far. there inced by Germany sev- { uni IERICAN ARTIST DELIVERS : SME j POUNDED IN FIFTY-NINTH VERY INTERESTING NINETY-NINE BUNCHES SOLD “HATEFUL INTERVEN dress here, this morning de-| to $1 an hour, subject to approval methods in the bluntest possible WORKING AGAINST SABO- record as being “sympathetic to meet- leten and run amok with the in- | Key West home guard mem- housing authority offices, aa ert R. Spottswood revealed to- tor and cannot be acted upon by issued to home guardsmen in in- labor, will not become offictal un anmeee La Passage the “lend-lease” ver, than to follow — the some cities alre penters in voting for dmiralty t the same 7 4 re \ i : Exactly what the nature of (Continued on Page Four) : ago and denied in ADDRESS YESTERDAY BROUGHT nipceea LONDON, March 18—Amer-| nounced Adolf Hitler's new Eu-} by W. P. Thurston, president of | terms, Winant told his British aaa the wage raise for the carpenters,” | TEURS AND SPIES IN IN- provide the | the ventions of free minds.” ibers are expecting at any mo-! Members of the group pre- BRIDGE ANGLERS day the housing authority dustrial cities and plans for a til Thurston's approval is granted measure in Washington last week cision laid by the structed to be yesterday, are nitted that 5,000,000 tons SALES RECORDED :: SPONGE PRICES IT $865.99 TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last night 24 hours COMING EVENTS » 8 " SERVICE FORCES ae a residentia TUESDAY 7 BOXING KEY WEST ARENA Cor. Simonton and Front Sts. Wed. Nite. March 1$8th. 8:30 JACKIE PAGE k N : KEY WEST FRANKIE McKENNA were killer WEDNESDAY “FIRE ON BREMEN IS EXTINCUISHED 66 SIX GOOD PRELIMINARIES ONE-CENT SALE! Tomerrow, Wednesday h Gardner's Pharmacy Rexall Store FOUR DAYS ONLY