The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 31, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West vou UME I LXIL. No. 77. Making Plans To Clea Up City For Hope To Have Two Blocks; Caeeeeesas On Duval Street Kept MAKE PLANS FOR m Suval Street NP" ALUMNAE BANQUET | Of Automobiles During Convention Clear Committee members in charge of the annual banquet of Convent of Mary Immac- ulate Alumnae explained to- day that some members have not received invitations be- cause their addresses are un- known, All alumnae are welcome, it was explained, and the committee will send invita- tions as soon as members motify them of their correct mailing addresses. The ban- quet is held each year on Easter Monday. Mayor Willard M. Albury will ask the city council at the regular meeting Thursday night for au- i thority to issue a proclamation calling for a cleanup drive in the city and for authority to prohibit | parking in Duval street, between | Southard and Eaton streets, dur- ing the American Legion's state convention here April 23-26. In seeking approval of the no parking regulations the PAYS $50 FINE: mayor | will ask council to pass a resolu- tion Duval have prohibiting It He seek every civilian keep in to car street will ALBURY ON ASSAULT AND BATTERY CHARGE his at | home fully nd during the convention, for 3,600 American Legion- res are expected here. “Many of down the highway in their cars”, | fight at the carpenters’ union hall Mayor Albury said. “It would be | here Friday, this morning was a shame to put the visitors to any | sentenced by Judge William | Albury to pay a fine of $50 and costs, the costs to be suspended if he leaves town. Matson. paid the fine he would leave Key West at once. Florine Jones, negro, was sen- them will travel trouble parking, ask our home town folks te park their cars at home. who wish to dvive to their businesses can have their cars driven home by relatives.” pee ay dk tine 68 S10) 3 by the mayor to participate in| charge, while Henry Solomon and cleanup plans. The Scouts will) Ray Combs, arrested on charges rake up leaves and other debris | o¢ driving with improper licenses from yards and lots and pile at! were fined $5 and costs convenient places. The board of | imarue Garegneareicharced public works will be requested | with stealing a suit of clothes, was to collect this trash. arrested by Bienvenido Perez Some householders should | saturday and will have pre- attempt to clean ub|jiminary hearing before Peace vacant stores and other places | Justice Enrique Esquinaldo to- carrying old placards”, executive | gay director of the Key West Conven- | Henry Eloy Perez, tion corporation, said today. “This | state read Patrolman T ction by the owners of the af-! yesterday, will have a fected property will make the | before Esquinaldo on tay of the Legionnaires more | driving without a license pleasant, and they will take away 4 good feeling for Key West.” Only three weeks remain to handle the final details of the convention. The Key West Con- vent rporation board of di rectot st tonight at 8:30 o'clock to make some of the final for the convention. so I'm going to Those and said make an arrested by E. Jones hearing on ¢ arrangement HAS GOOD CHANCE — EXTEND: SCHOOL —— signi LUNCH PROGRAM FIVE SCHOOLS IN MONROE TIONAL HONORS IN ORA- COUNTY SHARE IN FREE COMMODITIES TORICAL TEST ‘The Citizen) Marct (Special t JAC ou LE. Florida's has t 16, son of Mr. and en, formerly of i chance of nat oretorical {fered by the Am- reported to r had won ahassee f John f Arthur re Am local 95 749 S. Miller 225 Seal and ording to R. repres' : Marke ported fare Boa Mon ace tw DUTHERNMOST — DWERS for wei¥ings versari@@unerals. Ney Low 616 Dw graduations. anni High quality. > PRICES Phone 136 sault and battery charge after a) CAR PLUNGES Convention ‘cape from serious heavy § |the Gulf. cheheuterdaheadeadeutast i 20 feet of water. RUDOLPH MATSON si 32204 on eta WAS SENTENCED BY JUDGE shock, CRACK TROOPS Rudolph Matson, held on an as- vy. BRITISH UNITS TO STRENGTH- s, | Strengthen a charge of being poured ' garrisons Expect Great Development Of Key Property Purchased Recently By Dupont Estate, Che Key West Ctiizeir THE SOUDRERN MOST MEWSPAPER KEY WE ST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 31, Seizure Of Foreign Ships In U.S. Ports Precipitates World-Wide Repercussions 1941 OFF HIGHWAY INTO WATER TONY PINION SLIGHTLY IN- JURED; ACCIDENT HAPPEN- ED LATE YESTERDAY AFT- ERNOON | | (By Associated Press) | Seizure by the coast guard yes- |terday and Saturday of 65 Ger- REOPEN INQUIRY IN PLANE CRASH (By Associated Press) ATLANTA, March 31.— A committee of the house of representatives is expected here today to reopen the in- quiry into the mystery crash of an Eastern Air Lines sleep- er near here early in the month, man, Italian and Danish ships in Tony Pinion, 25-year-old Miami an unidentified miraculous e injury or death afternoon their United States ports today drew bar operator, and repercussions from all parts of companion had a the world, but no government ap- yesterday edan plunged from Roose- velt Boulevard into the waters of | as peared ready to say what action will come next, German newspapers denounced z i as illegal the seizure of italian and Danish ves The car, apparently thrown out of control when it hit a hole in the road, veered into a palm tree, hurtled over the sea wall upside down and came to rest in shal- low water with one wheel hang- ‘ing over into the ship channel Is, but did not men- tion the fact that Nazi vessels, too, were included in the whole- sale sweep. An official Berlin spokesman called the coast guard action “an event of historic im- portance,” but declined to say if {his government would consider it an act of war. | Rome newspapers said ‘that the “act carries the way half a ais perth of the first States closer to war drew hundreds of | Axis.” AVIATION GREAT FACTOR IN PLAN OF GOVERNMENT DEFENSE ACTIVITIES NOW BEING CARRIED ON WILL} Washington, too, refused to say } definitely what action will fallow, EVENTUALLY PUT “AM- ERICA ON WINGS” The pocigeny, which eculed flatly United with ihe wooden bridge, passing motorists H Pinion was treated at Marine hospital for bruises and shght while his companion did jury hosiptal care. although Secretary of the Treas- Henry Morgenthau denied | that this country will confiscate or isell the Herbert E. Gas- jton, assistant secre of the jtreasury, at the time the ships were seized that the meas- ure was purely protective in or {to prevent further sabotage {crews of the interned vessels. Semi-official | spokesmen London their gov jhoped to benefit by the seizures, ‘although he refused to say what way they expect to gain {has been hinted in London, how- jever, that the hips gnight (Ry Associated Press) used by the United States, rele. SINGAPORE, March 31.—Crack jing other vessels for transfer to regulars of the British army, first ;Great Britain to come here since the war start A report from Costa Rica said ed arriving by transport to!crews of two interned merchaft garrisons in Malaya. jships there Italian and one Transports which put in here |German, had set fire to their ves- yesterday brought thousands of ;sels. Both were described as total the empire’s finest troops and others are reported on their way | here from Africa Veteran RAF pilots the men being transferred regiments of bearded Hindu war riors have been landed here for duty, Planes, vessels ACK STINNE?TT AP Feature Service Weiter WASHINGTON, March 31 r The coat-tails of national defense by weighted There more things (and peo- ple) riding on them than you could shake a bomber at. I don’t ymean to say that these things (and people) are good or bad. It grill take that all-seeing —back- ward glance of history to tell whether this or that was waste; or a rare stroke of genius But good or bad, national de- fense is mothering an interesting brood. For instance one of these lusty infants popped up in the House of Representatives the other day in the form of a bill by Rep. John Martin Costello, Holly- wood's Democratic congressman. It is another measure designed to put America on wings—this time on motorless wings—for if Mr Costello's bill becomes a law, the air over the United’ States will be filled with gliders piloted by soaring young hosts, committed to learn the rudiments of aerody namics and thus skim over the first hurdle toward qualifications for flying with the < v or navy Let's give Mr. Costello the air and him tell it in his own words. As you will note not without a sense of humor. Will “Glide Forward” “The United States will not] 1 ackward in aviation if ae America gli ning ry said AT SINGAPORE certainly are are in said rnment EN GARRISONS IN MALAYA It be are losses Eleven other Italian and Ger Mexican ports are food and upplies, possibly for a dash across. the A ‘comma ship on whicl men found the by sa man_ Ship: said to be in are among taking on and supplies the Ma are laya guns and ante. botage ted th the Italiar (ton GEO. MILLS WHITE LEAVING KEY WEST |ASSIGNED TO aid he had permit- ect orders from Washing- at top speed in let he's ie the air Amer iation LIBRARY OF ure ¢ CONGRESS MUSIC PROJECT: ica’s supremacy in av FINISHES TODAY wee Alfred I subsidiary duPont es: >, through Wakulla Edge paid in the neigh the water company borhood of $10,000 for two large tracts in the 600 acres « COMING EVENTS MONDAY CRUSHED BY RUNAWAY CAR SILI GSI ISIS S __{order to get food down. | Key West, Florida, [ Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit IN THE U. S. A. PRICE FIVE ‘CENTS Italian Navy Practically Wiped Out BY Britain's Battle Fleet PROTEST “AGAINST eee e Ae eee. Nunber 01 Lan Largest Ships ATTACKING CONVOY mae AT FORT BRAGG | THIS AFTERNOON VICHY GOVERNMENT FOR- WARDS SHARPLY WORDED NOTE TO LONDON Destroyed During En- gagements In Mediter- (By Axsoctated Presa) ranean FORT BRAGG, N. C., Mar. 31.—A 21-gun salute this aft- ernoon will honor the arrival of President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt for an inspec- | tion of this great artillery | training center. | tle fleet steamed into Alexandria Two regiments will line the road where the presiden- tial party will enter the camp. President Roosevelt is ex- pected to spend about 70 minutes inspecting the camp, then proceed to Washington. He will be met here by Mrs. Roosevelt, who is coming from a vacation in the South and is expected to spend more time in the inspection. The President this morn- ing paid a visit to Fort Jack- son at Columbia, S. C. PDI LILI LIL LIS I CASA MARINA TO. CLOSE TOMORROW ENJOYS ONE OF MOST SUC- SESSFUL SEASONS, SAYS MANAGER SCHUTT Spokesman of the foreign of- pelea | 'fice here today said the ships have been carrying rubber and other raw materials which are known to be finding their way into Germany. “It has been go- ing on for months,” he declared JUDGE ALBURY TO PRESIDE IN CITY ‘Judge William) V. Albury county criminal court magist today takes on the dutie judge for a 15-day term Judge Albury will be as city. ju this afternoon Mayor Willard Albury He erve t the half-monthk Magistrate W (iy Associated Press) LONDON, March 31.—Eng- jand's mighty Mediterranean bat- ted Press) 31.— The (Ps Ae LONDON, arch !Vichy government has presented |harbor today. after a triumph ‘London with a sharply worded ‘over the Italian navy which neu. protest against the attack on a \tral observers describe as one of convoy which precipitated an ex- ; | the “most astonishing” in his- (change of gunfire Sunday be- Licey, | | ii tween British ships and a French Ranking with Trafalgar and jshore battery in Alge | Jutland among Britain's greatest | Britain’s action in attempting to seize the naval exploits, the destruction of French ships may one Italian battleship, four cruis- cause a re-examination of the en- | itire question of convoys for food ers and three destroyers was ac- jships, the note said. Vichy has {threatened before to use force in ships through blockade. s battle — occurred ‘when French shore _ batter opened fire on British destroyers which were attempting to halt a convoy of French merchant ves- sels offf Algiers. British ships re turned the fire and later were at tacked by bombing planes, which they drove off. complished without the Royal ong losing a ship or a man. 35,000-ton warship of the” “Foon cla: Italy's largest and newest tvpe of ship, is reported to have been seriously damaged and perhaps sunk. A communi que from Alexandria today in jereased the Italian losses. which previously had heen set at three cruisers and two destroyers. (Rome, in an official confirma tion of British reports of the three day sea fight, said today that hree cruisers and two destroy ers of the Italian navy had gone to the bottom. A British aircraft carrier was said to have been hit by torpedoes.) Nevtral correspondents eboard epriias the British fighting ships, who saw the battle, today agreed with of Key the official account in denying successful social af- that any British ships had been hit or damaged Foreign office Closing of Casa Marina hotel tomorrow will end one of the es- tablishment's most successful sea sons, Peter Schutt, today The hotel season beginning been the West's fair have included manager said which completes a Dec. scene of many most s during the season ome of the nation’s industrial Gues spokesman in London today said the battle had removed Italy from the list of naval powers. “The Italian navy 1s yy in name only”, he said Jubilant over the success of the fleet and with reports of new land triumphs in Ethiopia and trea government observers today hinted that Italy will be forced to ask for an armistice, “perhaps, within a few Rey some most prominent and cial name: Schutt said most guests had left the hotel over the of city a worn ir ek-end and wil teday, but some ] remain un- er breakfast to ‘ow whe’ aur, til after breakfast tomorrow when sorte Bee; lly comes to an catior ty $ jArcher, from Greece identified destroyed Italian ships as the cruisers Pola, Zarw They Make Plans 10 Depart de STEPS IN GROWTH TEMPERATURES rts of the OF AXIS POWERS Lowest last Highest las me-Berlin Ax night 24 hours 42 KEY WEST LANDA BEAUTY SALON 1116 Division Street Salor Now Under Personal Manage ment of MISS SONYA LANDA cago and Miami Phone #70 For Appointments Landa Beauty Salon tic Beauty | | | | | | {