The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 2, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 79. Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1941 Pian For Regular: Tourist Travel To Fort Jefferson Buildings On Loggerhead Key Will Be Utilized To Accommodate Visitors During Stay (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2. —The outlook for establishment 4 | of regular tourist traffic between SHOOT OIa as 'MAKE APPEAL FOR ROOMS FOR LEGION Rooms needed by the | Key West Convention cor- {| poration which is arranging the annual corvention of the | American Legion here April | 23-26. | There have been more than 2200 reservations for {| the convention to date, Albert Mills, executive dircetor of | the corporation, said today. | \ H 1 | | STATE TROOPS» ON GUARD AT FORD'S RIVER ROUGE PLANT MOVEMENT TO FREVENT RE- | CURRENCE OF VIOLENT! BATTLING BETWEEN /periin newspapers expressed in- WORKMEN lereasing indignation today as ‘every Latin American country jexcept Argentina, Uruguay and (By Associated Press) {Brazil seized ali Italian and Ger- DEARBORN, April 2—State;man ships in their ports. troopers today were posted! At least 30 ships are reported German official spokesmen and pany’s River Rouge plant as Gov. |€™ countries, lifting to 56 the Murray D. Van Wagoner moved number of German and _ Italian to prevent a recurrence of violent | Vessels which have been removed iseizures by the United States Sat- Officials of the striking United Urday and Sunday. Including the Automobile Workers Union. who |39 Danish vessels which were launched an informal sit-down |Seized in the United States, near- non-striking workmen. _ Germany Much Perturbed Over Seizure Of Vessels | In Latin American Areas (By Associated Press) | i | ithe seizures “acts of gangsterism” | |and diplomatic sources indicated | protests have been framed for; presentation in each country} |which has participated. Secretary jot State Cordell Hull already has said there would be no answer to the German protests, how- jaround the Ford Motor Com- to have been seized in the south-|ever, and it is understood Latin American countries will follow , the same course. | It is unknown if Germany will! } Peru, meanwhile, anti-German action yesterday, ‘banning flights of a Nazi-con- |trolled air transport service over | took newj Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the ecuntry; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Greece May Sign Pact'in United Front Against titer Domination MORRIS HOLTSBERG "22'99-947 Two Yu ‘FINE WEATHER DURING MARCH’ DIED THIS MORNING jbattling between striking and {tom Axis control since the initial }demand the return of the vessels. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON Key West experienced an almost normal display’ of March climate last month, except that it was a little too cold and there was almost two inches more rain than goslav Diplomats On Way To Moscow For Conference With Josef Stalin (By Associateé Preas) ISTANBUL, Turkey, April 2.— Two high-ranking Yugoslav dip lomats are winging their way to These reservations took all the rooms in all of the downtown hotels. “Persons with private there should have been. Mean temperature for the month, as recorded at the U.S. ‘Weather Bureau, was yesterday, announced today they |!y 100 have now been taken from the country and revoking the ; thad declared a full fledged strike |the Axis. license of the German Trans-| Morris Holtsberg, age 54, died, lin protest against the : firing of| Berlin newspapers today called Ocean News service. \ | {workmen for alleged union activi- Key West and Fort Jefferson Na- tional Monument took an en- | ‘this morning 8:15 o’clock at the) couraging turn today when it was learned that the Coast Guard has given the National Park Service permission to use buildings on Loggerhead Key for accommoda. | tion of visitors, Granting of the permission onal a reversal of previous Coast Guard action, which had turned ; down such a proposal from the Park Service on the grounds that the presence of large numbers of | visitors on the Key would inter- fere with Coast Guard activities. The buildings in question are several large frame structures on Loggerhead Key which were con- structed a few years ago to house units of the Carnegie Institution engaged therein research work, Row completed. Park Service plans are that the buildings should -be rehabilitated and developed into restaurant and over-night accommodations for visitors to the historic nation- al monument. Definite plans for such work are now in process of formulation. Coast Guard reversal of its previous unfavorable ruling ap- pears to brighten considerably | prospects of establishr.ent , of | regular tourist boat service from Key West to Fort Jefferson, Park Service officials said. A definite contract for the! operation of such a line appear-! ed to be in the offing. last Decem- | ber, when a New York boat op- erator conferred with officials in Washington and then made a trip to Key West and Fort Jefferson to look at local sites. k At the psychological moment, however, the Coast Guard an- nounced that it could not grant permission for use of the build- ings on Loggethead Key and the prospective deal fell through, jment in suits against three insur- | suits totaled $28,000. She sued! | Hartford Fire Insurance company | Closed last night with 1,525 appli- and rattled off the bids in quick rooms should come forward at once to offer quarters to the visiting Legionnaires”, | Mills said. "This is import- ant, for we want none of the visitors forced to go back to Miami for lack of quarters. That would be the sorriest kind of advertising for Key West”. Those havng rooms for this purpose should call 698 or list them by applying to the Key West Convention corpora- tion, La Concha hotel build- ing. DIDI aIS ES SS SETTLEMENT IN PENNICK CASE AWARDED SETTLEMENT IN SUITS AGAINST INSUR- ANCE COMPANIES Ruth N. Pennick, whose home at 533 Emma street was burned in, a mysterious fire in January, 1940, has been awarded a settle- ance companies, William V.. Al- bury, her attorney, announced to- day. Judge Albury refused to say how much Mys. Pennick had been } given by the companies, but her for $8,000, Continental Insurance for $10,000, and United States Fire Insurance for $10,000. The fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin, destroyed the home while Mrs. Pennick was away on a vacation. Later, she moved to Seattle, Wash., where { ALBURY HEAD OF | she is now making her home. THREE BUILDING ties. Automobiles have been used to barricade roads leading to the} mammoth plant and workmen) armed with clubs and hammers | have prevented non-strikers from | returning to work. The walk-out | began when members of the HARRY KNIGHT INSTALLED union forced other workmen from | AS MASTER COUNSELLOR the production lines yesterday } afternoon. | OF ORGANIZATION The Ford plant, largest indus- ' trial unit in the world, has $154,- | 000,000 worth of defense orders, | most of which are for airplane | engines to be produced in a build- | Master Counsellor of Robert J. ing which will be completed soon. Retry (Chikpter: Order of DEMa- Harry Knight was installed as CREDITED WITH SINKING SHIPS in this office, (iy Annociatea Preant - ae BERLIN, “Apell-&-sAn.uniden:| Kermit Lewin” was’ inducted tified German submarine. com-|into the office of Senior Counsel- mander today was given” ¢redit|lor and Sidney Mathews, Jr; in a navy communique for sink- ; Junior Counsellor. ing six British freighters in a single attack on_a convoy. The communique said 11 Brit ish ships were destroyed during | the attack on a convoy in the North Sea near Scotland. Total | loss, it was reported, amounted to more than 77,000 tons. jlay, at installation ceremonies jheld last evening in Scottish Rite \Hall, corner Eaton and Simon- ton streets. This is his third term LANDS SOLD | Acting as auctioneer for the \state, County Clerk Ross C. Saw- lyer this morning sold 97 parcels of land under the Murphy Act COUNTY TAX BOOKS CLOSED tts: or snow sasoo. jhouse steps at 10 o'clock before County tax assessment books ja handful of interested citizens cations filed for homestead ex- time. emption, Tax Assessor Claude A.| Property to be sold under the Gandolfo said today. jact has been described in adver- No further applications will be|tisements and bids have been accepted. ‘accepted up to this week. British:Colonial Armies Suffer Heavy Casualties (By Associated Press) DEMOLAYS MET ‘LEGION GROUP MEETS TONIGHT ; | | STATE OFFICIALS OF THE AUXILIARY WILL BE IN | ATTENDANCE ; \ | | | i i | | Key West members of the vari- | ‘ous committees to the American | {Legion auxiliary will meet to- ; night at 8 o'clock in the office of ;the Key West Convention cor- poration with state officials of the American Legion’s auxiliary. | Coming to the meeting, Mrs. A. iM. Morgan, general chairman of jthe Key West auxiliary conven- tion committee announced, are A. L, Buzzell, Sr.. of Coral| Gables, president, and Mrs. Pearl | Stoutenberg, secretary, of the |state department of the American | Legion auxiliary. { ‘Complete, outlines of the auxil- iary convention will be con- sidered and studied by Mrs Buz- ; zell and Mrs. Stoutenberg, it was announced. The women of the! Key West Convention committee | are all going to be present, for; they will learn something inter- | ‘esting, it is reported. | | “It is important for every wo-! ;man of the convention commit- | residence, 323 Whitehead street. The funeral, under the direc- tion of the Lopez Funeral eae will be held tomorrow afternoon | at 3 o'clock, with services to be} conducted at the residence by; Rabbi L. Lerer. | Survivors are a son, Herman; daughter, Anita; sister, Mrs. Chas. Aronovitz, and uncle, Frank Holtsberg. Mr. Holtsberg operated a dry goods estalishment in Key West | for a number of years and was | considered one of the largest; merchants doing business here. | He was well-known to the peo- | ple of Key West through the/ many years that he had come in} daily contact with the public in| connection with the operation ef | his business, and was looked upon | with great favor by the citizenry of the city in general. | 75.1 degrees, with a high point of 84 and a low of 52 degrees, The average for March since the weather bu- reau began its records in 1871 has stood at 77.5 degrees, with an all-time high during that period of 89 and a low of 48. Precipitation, which reach- ed 3.12 inches last month, was 1.73 inches greater than the average of 1.39. Since the first of the year, there Has been 5.84 inches more rain than the normal. Probably unnoticed by the averege Key Westers, the weather bureau records eight solar halos during the month and four lunar ha'os, The wea- ther experts discovered nino completely clear days, 16 cloudy, six with measurable precipitation and six with more than .01 inches of rain. atten PAYS HIS BOND IN JUSTICE OF PEACE COURT HERE Edward J. Cahill, held in coun- EDWARD CAHILL BOYS HELD FOR |TWO OTHER CASES HANDLED CHARGE PREFERRED BY RO- | GELIO GOMEZ; ADMITTED | STEALING ARTICLES Rogelio Gomez, operator of the Moscow in a government plane teday, perhaps to sign with Josef Stalin a pact which will bind Yugoslavia, Russia, Turkey and Greece into a united front against Germany's Balkan ambitions. Semi-officiai spokesmen of the government here say there is no doubt that Yugoslavia will fight |if Germany moves toward the ;south. It is understood here, however, that Russia may be fav- jorable to a logge. partnership which would group al the Balk- ans already dominated by Ger- many into a solid bloc, Occupants of the plane are be- lieved to be a new counsellor of young King Peter II aud a naval attache. The nature of their mes- sage to Stalin has been kept’ secret. -Germany,. has. troops massed four fronts fac- ing Yugoslavia and government spokesmen make no secret of |their belief that the crisis is grow- jing acute. German newspapers jhave hammered for days at al- jleged Yugoslav atrocities on mi- \nority groups in the country and the press campaign is steadily growing in violence. German newspapers insist that British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden was in Belgrade yesterday, although the story has been denied in Yugoslavia, Eden is tee to be present”, Mrs. Morgan ty jail for two weeks on a charge Gomez Bottling Works, yesterday believed to be in Athens today. said today. “It will be one of the | last chances to meet with the state officials of the auxiliary.” ANOTHER ITALIAN SHIP DESTROYED. (Ry Associated Press) } LONDON, April 2—Another Italian naval casualty was scor- ed. last week when a submarine was torpedoed off the African! léased by ee ‘Jastite Enrique snatched purses coast near Eritrea, |nounced today. A communique said the Italian | RECREATION UNIT’ PERMITS ISSUED GROUP HELD MEETING LAST Three building permits yester-} NIGHT AT CHAMBER OF | day started Inspector Ralph Rus- } CAIRO, April 2.—British colo- nial armies in Libya suffered heavy casualties yesterday in a ship, forced back waters and destroyed. i COMMERCE Paul Albury last night was! named chairman of the city-| county recreation committee as! members of the group met at the chamber of commerce and voted to ask city council and the county commission for official recogni- tion. Both boards will be presented | with petitions asking cooperation | for the recreation group. Marvin Lewis, defense co-or- dinator who is helping in the di- ction of the recreation program, punced he had been granted in the lobby of La ncha hotel. Headquarters for the com . be located there ir and a secre- tary will be hand at all times. M he group, who met wi are Carl Bervaldi Freeman, Col. G. D. Hatfield, Glenwood Sweet- ing, Mrs. Isabelle R. Knapp and Albury office space c DAYS UNTIL the AMERICAN LEGION’S STATE CONVENTION | entry. sell’s April books with a $1,200} Everesta S. Stevens, South street home owner, was granted a permit for $500 in general re- pairs to his property. Juaquin Osario, 611 Whitehead, was grant- ed a $250 permit for the construc- | tion of a new floor, and Raul Garcia, Louisa street, took out} authority to spend $450 for the | construction of a one story wood | building. ‘SELL FIVE-ACRE | | Cireuit Judge thur Gomez and Mrs) Gomez have sold to Irene E. Mace of Broward county a five-acre tract on the keys north of Tavernier. The property. purchase of which has not bee is located near the F way at Barnes sound. SOUTHERNMOST FLOWERS 150 up—runenat sprays 616 DUVAL PHONE 136 price n disclosed, > right-of. fierce battle with German mech- NEWSPAPER MEN ized s, it w nounced PLAN CONVENTION east continued a wild pursuit of CALIFORNIA UNIT TO HOLD Italian soldiers across Eritrea. | wwEETING IN JACKSON- A communique admitted troops VILLE, FLA. in Libya have encountered heavy | fighting with the newly landed German units, but did not men- tion the loss of a town which Ger- many had claimed was cap- tured. With Asmara, the capital of Eritrea and chief center of trans- portation, under their control, British forces in the country are said to be pursuing a retreating Italian army toward the port and last Fascist stronghold of Mas- sawa. Capture of the port will complete the British occupation of Eritrea and end Italian rule in the oldest of her African colonies LOS ANG (FNS ‘going to “blitzkrieg April 21-May 1 100 or more ES, Cal, April 2 ‘alifornia publishers are Florida, when a group of Calif editors w company the Na- m to its and publi: Ts President Roy Br wn « tional Editorial conventi ANNOUNCEMENT— Knight's Scavenger Service has been purchased by Jesus Caraballo and will in the future be known as— CARABALLO’S SCAVENGER SERVICE PHONE 224 SAME EFFICIENT SERVICE | ‘ 2 City council meets at Two Placed In Jail On Charge. Of Beating Up Fino an ‘STR. COLORADO COMES TO PORT The Clyde-Mallory freighter Colorado arrived in, Key West yesterday with 280 tons of freight from New York. The vessel ar > rived here at 10:30 a.m. and de- parted for Tampa at 5:15 yester- day afternoon = elderly Lions Club meets at 6:30 pm Lions’ Den, Seminary Street city hall, 8:00 p m. Rotary Club meets 12:15 p.m St. Paul's Parish Hall County Commission meets. Coun- ty Courthouse, 8:00 p.m. of passing two worthless checks to Robert Taylor, operator | bottles they are accused of steal- | |of the Boat Bar, was released to-' ing from his plant. He found out, | day on payment of a $250 bond Arenberg. { Cahill said he will make re- stitution for the checks when his | porarily in county jail, but Sheriff | case comes up jn May, Nattie Sa farrested on a non-support claim filed by his wife, Juliet! ders, was re- i charge dismissed. Erskine Sands, charged with vessel was trapped by a British petty larceny, paid the costs of sent to reform school, into confined the justice of the peace court and they be held was released by Esquinaldo. David Lopez and Ellis Tom- linson, who admit they beat up an old man at Flamingo Cape Sable, “because we wanted to lick the biggest man in town,” today are in county jail awaiting trial be- fore Judge William V. Albury. First prisoners to be brought! here from the Cape Sable section in more than five years, the pair admitted the offense and will plead guilty before Judge William V. Albury. They were arrested by Constable Cleve Johnson on the complaint of Clayton Brown, fisherman who was | beaten. Peace Justice E.R. Lowe of Tavernier bound the pair over to criminal court under $150 bond, which they have not produced. Flamingo, an isolated fishing village on the Florida mainland. is described by officers here as a rendition of the old frontier law. Peace officers seldom go there and the population makes up its own laws more or less to suit the occasion. $50 questioned two negro boys to! learn what they had done with “Why, we've sold all of them |set by Peace Justice Frerklyn| back to your place,” one of the boys told -him. The two youngsters, both about 12 years old; are being held tem- Berlin Sawyer said today there is little that can be done about their offenses. ‘Both are believed to be members of wide id that has by inte (Homes and engaged in it was an- Esquinaldo, Jr., last night, and the | every type jof petty Jatceny. If the boys are under 12, Saw- yer pointed out, they cannot be nor can in county jail. Larger counties have houses of detention for young offenders, but Monroe county has no such institution, and youthful law vio- lators must be released if they can prove they are under 12. _ TEMPERATURES — Lowest last\Highest last night 24 hours 55 #4 41 57 6 “4 4 42 51 rf) Abilene Boise Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Denver Detroit El Paso Galveston Havre Huron Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis w Orleans | New York Okla. City Pittsburgh St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Spokane Washington #7 SSESELASAE@ssse ARMY UNIT WILL GIVE EXHIBITION DAY ON SATURDAY AT LA CONCHA PARK ‘3 qf ; In its annual celebration of |Army Day, the Key Bar- racks Coast Artillery Unit will stage sn exhibition of various forms of equipment in La Concha Hotel Park between 2:00 p. mi and 10:00 p. m., Saturday, April 5. Permission to use the park for this purpose was secured from Fred Dion, agent for owners, and Albert Mills, commander of the American Legion. Two squads of enlisted men from Battery “E” will accompany the equipment and explain the various features thereof to curious visitors. No admission will be charged and the public is cor- dially invited to attend and learn how “Uncle Sam” is preparing for defense. The numerous articles of dis- play include machine guns. auto- smatic rifles, field telephones, ange finding instruments, dummy and loaded 37 mm and 155 mam’ shells, field Kitchen, and @ soldier's individual shelter tent with petsonal equipment Latest type models of a recon- naissance car possessing front and reat axie drive, and « passenger car will afford an idee of the me jchanized equipment necessary in modern warfare. Under the direction of F. Townsend Mprgan, director, the Key West Art Center is now de signing and peinting attractive dispisy signs for the exhibition. Army Day has been officially proclaimed as Monday, April 7. by the Presidest. Various con- siderations, however, have caused the selection of Saturday, April 5, as the day for ceremonies, parades and exhibitions in many ‘Amy Camps and Ststions. vt