The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 26, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOLUME LXII. No. 73. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1941 Commissioners Meet: Tonight To Approve Certificate For Releasing Fund For Airport Gomez poe That He MARVIN LEWIS MAKING PLANS WAY TURNED ON PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC COMPANY PROMISES FULL CO-OPERATION IN LEGION MOVEMENT | A free | Havana, all-expense-paid trip to s well as 10 per cent from the sales, is offered by the Key West Convention Corpora- | tion to any Key Wester who sells |$100 worth of tickets on the auto- mobile that will be given away 'during the American Legion state ib Beste -Attendanes} 1) BE SAAR) At Session Which Will ON RECREATION : Start At 8 O’Clock = |MEETING CALLED FOR THIS | EVENING 8 O'CLOCK AT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ‘TO OUTLINE PROGRAM i today appeared to be within sight { | Boca Chica property owners whose land is to be used for the establishment of an army airport! of payment for their property as Monroe First’ steps in the launching of | Aner} | county commissioners | a program of recreation for Key agreed to a special meeting to- | Westers and members of the arm- | might fed services who are stationed here The commissioners, 000 on hand for purch held in escrow, will approve a certificate of indebtedness to- night, releasing the money. R. E. Crummer bond company, which has agreed to purchase the county bonds at par, forwarded | the check for $28,000 here this | week. Release of the funds has |is invited. awaited only the action of the! Plans for the operation of the} commissioners, who previously | program will be discussed briefly had been unable to agree to a/and a committee will be formed to special meeting date. {get the work underway. | Commissioner Eddie Gomez,! Lewis has explained to local! who originally announced he! leaders in the past few days the} would not attend such a meeting, | necessity of getting such a_ pro- said today he would take part in! gram started here, both for serv tonight’s session. fice men and for civilians. Th | “TI still think the wisest course ; program, he explained, ought to would have been to wait for aj be fully underway in a short time, | regular meeting date,” Gomezjbefore the expected arrival of said today. “However, if it is ,many new men here both from true that delay might hurt or de-| the army and navy. | lay the project, I am perfectly | Under the government's plans, willing to attend tonight.” Lewis and WPA recreation de- ‘The meeting is scheduled for 8 | partment employes will be used | o'clock at the office of County |to help communities where serv- | Clerk Ross C. Sawyer. lice men are stationed. Although there is no government money available for the program now, ithe WPA personnel will coop- erate with civic leaders in arrang- | Be for recreation. | Lewis has urged persons at- tending the meeting to a of the {Promptly at 8 o'clock, so the plans with $28,- se of deeds | | will be taken at a meeting at the} \chamber of commerce tonight. Marvin A, Lewis coordinator ; between national defense activi- ties and the recreation program, | called the meeting for 8 o'clock. | | Anyone who is interested in help- | ing to form the recreation group RADIO EDITOR VISITED HERE Ben Gross, radio editor 1 April 23-26. jot the Key West Electric com-| thon st jdirector of the Key West Con fence jtion corporation to have a clean {Steel Workers’ Organizing Com-! is convention. The Havana trip is figured at $30, to include the boat trip to and from the Cuban capital, room |with bath in one of Havana's ene corporation to have the finest hotels, transportation for {white way lights in Duval street himself and baggage to and from the hotel and the boat, and an e3 the American | tensive itinerary while in Ha- convention Key West Electric company co-operating in every way with effort of the Key West Con- he {burning during Legion's state here | vana. The Havana trip will begin on 1 April 27. The contest winner will reach vi ana early that afternoon, art on a round of pleasure. There will be a dinner dance by he Cuban government at the Na- ional hotel, Bascom L. Grooms, president pany, told Albert Mills, executive vention tnat the corporation, yesterday company would do everything in its power to have | /the white way lights in operation | j during the convention. “We are going to do something | ! about having those lights turn- | jed on”, Mills said. “What we! plan to do we cannot say at pres- ent’. Mayor Willard M. be Albury will} German troops continued to proached today with refer-| hack at British advance units near to the effort of the conven-j}Bengasi in Libya, according to communiques from both sides to- up of the city before the con- | day. vention. | Cairo says the attacks have not 'been serious so far, but admits. the German force has now reach- ed a size where it must be con- {sidered a definite Ge man reports say forces beyond Bengasi been thrown back with heavy losses. Rome, meanwhile, tells of a WIDESPREAD RIOTING BROKE \German dive-bomber attack on OUT YESTERDAY NEAR oe Suez 1al and Cairo reports heavy aerial activity all over PLANT | ‘SEEK SOLUTION TO STEEL CO. STRIKE menace British have Africa’ by the RAF. German ‘strongholds were bombed, ac- jcording to the reports, and a (Ry Associated Presa) BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 26.— Representatives of the rival CIO} mittee and an alleged company | union jatek today in an ue to a cocktail party eae British Forces Around Bengasi_ Free Trip To Havana Offered TO HAVE WHITE Winner Of American Legion’s Auto Ticket Selling Contest by the city of Havana and the breakfast given by Havana Post No. 1 of the American Legion. “So many persons have calling this office for informa- tion regarding the Havana trip that the convention corporation believed it would be a nice ges- been ture if we offered a free trip to} every person selling 100 books of $1.00 each on the automobile”, Al- bert Mills, executive director of the corporation said today “Anyone failing to reach $100 in sales will be given the cus- tomary 10 per cent of each ticket sold, so that the effort will prove a very profitable one. Remem- ber, the same goes for any or all ! citizens selling that number of} tickets. It should be relatively easy for a progressive man woman to sell $100 worth tickets. of —— Continue Move Against | (By Associated Press) strong Italian force near Ababa was given a severe bom- bardment. German bombers are have attacked in force against units of the British fleet in the Mediterranean, and London has admitted that action in that area is becoming intensified by the presence of the German planes. Two columns of British troops moving up toward Addis Aba in Ethiopia report uniform suc- ce: her Ethiopian forces into a final, major battle before admitting the loss of the Ethiopian capital, but Rritish troops are in possession of the main highway and report ney are meeting with success. said to or} Addis ! Italy is expected to throw | PRICE FIVE CENTS US. Studies German ‘Move To Include Iceland In Blockade BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, March | 26.—Rioting and the | provinces continued to break out jtoday as Yugoslav here in citizens ex- displeasure at the ltreaty which yesterday joined {this country with the Axis pow-, lers. | Troops and police were |pressed their called ‘out all over the nation and hun- ldreds of students were arrested Pamphlets predicting Russian id were distributed through Bel- gi and railroad offices said their facilities were jammed with thousands anxious to leave the !eountry. Trains to Greece will be packed for days, it was an- |nounced. DEADLINE NEAR ON HOMESTEAD CLAIMS REGISTRATIONS UP TO TO- DAY BROUGHT CLAIMS TO 1,373 With only four days to go be- the state deadline for fore regis- tration of homestead exemption claims and reports on intangible {personal property, Tax ae sor Claude A, Gandolfo to- County SCOUT COMMITTEE (MRS, ELLEN CAREY «sos: scones. dents to hurry. Yugoslavians Stage Riots Over Pact Signed With Axis Powers (By Associa ‘liquor, ‘last night broke out in rioting. | nomestead eet n anne up Steel Camatcn strike | which | to 1, | After more than 150 state po-|TO BE HELD IN CONNECTION FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE 1 600. CONDUCTED TOMORROW » but last year’s total was and at least that jshould be recorded many before the WITH SUPPER MEET- No Formal Comment Made Dealing With Issue In | Which Nazis Warned All Neutral Shipping | | { } i | d Prexs) | Greek and British legations/ were surrounded by young Serbs} demanding uniforms and __ trans-| portation to the fronts for war} against Italy and Germany. i WASHINGTON, March 26.— Prince Regent Paul was said! to nave planned radio addresses | S#te department officials today to his countrymen explaining the! studied without formal comment necessity for the Axis pact, but | so violent was the popular dis-;the German announcement that approval that he refrained from | xq, eland will be included speaking. Huge demonstrations | were staged in Nis, home of Pre-| Nazi blockade area. mier Drag Cvetkovic, who} signed the treaty with Germany. | announced yesterday Elsewhere in the country, Serb| that a line of demarcation had patriots were reported crossing | the border into Greece to help|been drawn into the territorial against a German thrust when it| waters of Greenland, and warned comes. ] (By Associated Prensa) in the Berlin all neutral shipping that entrance WATSON HELD FOR '* = wi w= sere COURT TRIAL HERE) = so many F pababiy plans to mine the |area from long range planes in jorder to impede passage of ships ‘carrying American supplies to | England. Icelana, formerly ruled jas a part of King Christian's joint Fe ore !kingdom, with Denmark, has been occupied by British troops | Since shortly after Denmérk was overrun by Germany. “ Berlin accused British“ghips of illegally using Iceland for a base and announced that the navy had been forced to include the coun- jtry in her zone of* operations jaround England. BUILDING CLOSED TO ALL VISITORS Coast guard offi » who cently closed the historic city JAYCOCKS ALSO TO BE AR- RAIGNED IN CRIM- INAL COURT Robert J. Watson, charged with | driving an automobile while un- der the influence of intoxicating late yesterday afternoon was bound over to criminal court by Peace Justice Enrique Esquin aldo. Jaycocks, Jr., one of four other occupants of the car, vas bound over on double charg- es of drunkenness and disorder- | ly conduct ' Bond for $200 and for Clement Watson was set at! Jaycocks, $50 re can be worked out in the shortest |tled strikers around the company | {gates last night, Governor James = {sent an urgent request for action } = to Clarence A. Dykstra, chairman | TEMPERATURES lof the U. S. Mediation board. | . |. Workers in the struck plant yes- |) terday turned cver more than 40 Lowest last|Highest last automobiles belonging to men night 24hours |who are continuing at their jobs. 47 59 ! Officers in the company said work 38 63 is continuing at the rate of about 37 39 |70 per cent of production, but CIO | 28 52 jorganizers said it was far below 24 34 jthat and would come to halt 30 41 |within a short time i Re 49 70 Fighting broke out when 18! 32 41 |state troopers on horseback clear- 23 50 Jed strikers away from the gia 18 30 |factory’s six gates, Other patrol- | 29 40 scattered through the area New York Daily News and ra-| dio news commentator for the | Possible time. New York Station WMCA, left | Key West this morning after a} vacation at the 523 Eaton street of Mr. and Mrs. Ross C. Sawyer. | Cross, frequent visitor here | in the past few years, said today | a pire he will pay another visit to Key | Boise West as soon as possible. Mrs. |Boston Gross, who remained in New! prictol York while he was visiting here, | Buffalo is the owner of a home in Key | West. {Burlington ING meeting of the bneaa district Commit March { Pinder's F Committee ters, and ne pre ervat a » te {Charleston | Chicago |Cincinnati ' Denver Detroit PHELAN RITES 1 at THIS MORNING al of Mrs. Pauline | Jacksonville M. Phelan, who died on Sunday |KEY WEST afternoon, was held this morning, Los Angeles 9 o'clock from the chapel of; Miami | opez Funeral Home to the Minneapolis — 33 | Catholic church, where services|New York | ‘i | } | | El Paso Galveston {Huron 44 66 | 56 65 | 31 35 | The fune 54 76 | 69 53 70 were conducted by Rev. P. J.) Pittsburgh Kelleher. Portland Pallbearers we A. E.|St Sharpley, William A. Freeman,}San Francisco Alexander M. Hewett. J. Otto | Spokane Kirchheiner, James B. Sullivan t. Ste. Marie nd B. Curry Moreno. ‘Washington 25 47 30 44 37 18 32 re Captain Lot Japanese Minister rece le Berlin To Confer With Hitler BY Associate, |near the plant, breaking up groups Jothers pushed six ‘BLESSING OF POPE GOES TO ALL PEOPLE of loiterers. One group of turned over 20 cars as police followed hen igh a parking lot, whil into igh river. strikers mud flats of the Li ALBURY GRANTED BUILDING PERMIT rea | BOXING KEY WEST ARENA TONIGHT 8:30 O'CLOCK Cor. Simonton and Front Sts. MAIN BOUT—10 Rounds BATTLING GEECHE | Key West TOMMIE DYES WINNER TAKE ALL Semi-Final Bout _ Amateur Preliminaries | Gen. Adm. SOc. pl jus Sc Tax Ri ingside $1.00 s Ate Tax GREAT ONION DURING AIR ALARMS" licemen and local officers had bat- | AFTERNOON Mrs. Ellen Jane died yesterday the age 83, 2:45 Angela Carey, afternoon at residence, 1122 street The funeral morrow afternoon at 4 under the direction of the Funeral Home from the Baptist Church, where the will be placed at 2 o'clock Ted M. Jones will officiate Survivors are one daughter, Mr: Thomas one Harry Care ard Russell, held to- o'clock, Lopez First body Rev. brother, Rich- en grandchil- one BRITONS BRUSH uP ON WARTIME DISHES MADE OF SEAWEED April 1 deadiine. { Only 21 been filed up to today, Gandolfo said it would be impo: ible to determine how mar should be in his hands by the end of the month Under the intangible tax returns have but of the record the in tangible a punishable by a jail sentence or fine. Failure to register for the hom ad exemp- tions will mean that property homes ordinarily would be exempt will be required to pay full taxes. ROTARY ANN NIGHT ‘AT CASA MARINA | ‘TWENTY - FIFTH ANNIVER SARY OF ORGANIZATION TO BE CELEBRATED term. to ets tate law, failure owners whose COMING EVENTS WEDNESDAY Ext TRACED DOWN BY HAMBURGER ODOR (By Anaoetn’ PUEBLO, Colo March 25.— Police Capt. R. E. Pratt was in- vestigating the theft of a revolver Ia the car It had ham- Preas> automobile @ paper napkin on it from an he found the unmistakable burger with onion: The captain hurried to a near by coffee shop. Sure, said the itress, a couple of men had inutes before and which a few m had ordered hamburgers, they took with them. Just then one of the fellows re i ordered another ham- en ir t i urned a lighthouse to visitors, this week added their Front street head quarters to the no-visitor list. Local officers explained that the flow of tourists through their offices, in view of their expanded duties, had become a frequent source of interruptions. Previous ly, visitors been permitted to walk through the coast guard building to view a collection of service exhibits A steel door now bars entrance to the building and persons with busine in the guard ¢ fices required to have @ navy pass, which permits them to go into the building through | the avy reservation and a side door have coast are Pratt frisked him there the burger. Cap igh was NEW YORK MAN BUYS PROPERTY Henry esterday In metal to build Sands of Goverr it unced that of Ma da. Purch any ase price about $1,000 Man Charged With Cashing Two Worthless Checks Now In Jail the for the proper two check testified he had whieh drawn $100 te and ¢ the writing the check addition to the $100, b were seeking