The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 5, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No 82. British Smashe'At: Bremen: In Most Teri Ata North German Industrial OOO MLM MMA) wave MucH KNOWLEDGE City Reported To Have Been Blasted Through- out Last Night (By Associated Press) LONDON, April 5.—The great north German industrial city of Bremen was blasted out of fury ther use to the Reich “for months to come” in a smashing RAF ats tack last night, the air, ministry, has announced. | MORGAN BRINGS IN HIS FIRST TARPON F. Townsend Morgan, Key West, Art Project director who has hooked scores of tar- pon, but never landed one, re- turned from a fishing trip last might with a 65-pound speci- men, one of the first brought into Key West this season. ¢ Morgan, fishing aboard the guideboat Marlin, was accom- Doody . Morgan, another daughter, and Polycarp Art- man, The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1941 WAY OF LIVING ARE DESCRIBED MANY WHO MAKE ABODE IN OFFICIAL WASHINGTON GOING TO WASHINGTON; TO BE RELIEVED BY CAPT. RUSSELL CRENSHAW Capt. Walter F. Jacobs, mandant of the Key West navy station for the past 15 months, will be transferred to Washing- ton May 15, it was announced to- day. com- \ ‘OF PEOPLE OF EUROPE By JACK STINNETT AP Feature Service Writer \ WASHINGTON,~ April 5. —! There is one thing about Wash- jhere coincided with the start of ington — practically nothing can ine swift development of the sta- happen anywhere in the world |tion into a powerful navy base, but that you can find someone |Said today he will be succeeded here who knows intimately the |by Capt. Russell Crenshaw, who facts and legends and people and |has been serving with the gen- countries involved. eral board of the navy depart- I don’t mean at the embassies |ment. either. Stiff formality, the de- mands of diplomacy, make them, |e@ here, paid a brief visit to the for the most part, a pretty poor |local base many years ago. He source of anything but official | will arrive here sometime before pronouncements, I mean people | May 15 by automobile, bringing who have lived there or were | with him his wife and children. Captain Jacobs, whose arrival | MONROE COUNTY RESIDENTS ARE OFFERED OPPORTU- NITY; ENROLLMENT TO BE HELD ON APRIL 15 (Special to The Citizen) young white men residents {Monroe county who are unem- |ployed and between the ages of 17 and 23% years are offered an- jother opportunity to enroll in the Civilian, Conservation Corps. The second quarterly enroll- Captain Crenshaw, it is believ-!ment of the year will be held on} _ 9 April 15, according to announce- |4ied today at noon at the resi-; PORT ISSUED tient today of Jack Horne, State j |Wefare Board director of CCC se- jlection, who stated that Florida’s JACKSONVILLE, April 5.—All | in| YUGOSLAVS AND |CAPT. JACOBS: . [PLANi-TO. ENROLL. Now Looked Far MRS. C. GIBSON | | FUNERAL SERVICBS WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON | micretentere i Mrs. Caroline Gibson, age 79, jdence, 624 Francis street. The :funeral will be held on Sunday jafternoon at 4 o’clock from the |Fleming Street Methodist Church, DIED AT NOON! born there and now live here, grinding their, own axes and not | those of some foreign land. The tarpon, which was caught in the beam of a spot- light through its entire fight, Stepping up the power of their assaults and using the new super Captain Jacobs, who is to go to jquota is sufficiently large to as- ‘Rev. W. R. Howell, officiating. the bureau of navigation in !sure the selection of all eligibles! The body will be placed in the Washington, also holds the rark | |church at 2 o'clock. jWho apply. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit 4 PRICE FIVE CENTS Momentarily King Peter Issues Procla- mation Calling For Mo- tary Forces [CASH GRANTS ARE GIVEN T0 MANY CHILDREN FLORIDA'S DEPENDENTS RE- CEIVED $77,217 DURING FEB-| BELGHADE, April. '-—Anti- ‘RUARY, ACCORDING TO RE- | sircraft guns blazéd into action here this morning as a lone for- capital. that Germany may launch her { (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, April 5. — Florida’s dependent children re- ceived $77,217 in cash grants dur- high explosive bombs‘ which they have been testing, RAF bombers hammered for hours at Bremen and the important submarine base at Brest. Returning flyers said damage at Bremen was so great that fac- tories would have to be complete- ly rebuilt. Huge fires lighted the scene after the first attacks and wave after wave of British planes pounded the city throughout the night. At Brest, flyers said they had seen bombs strike one of the two German surface raiders which are being repaired there. Other bombs were reported to have dropped all around the ships and on the docks. and warehouses wete set afire. SEX DETERMINATION BY ALKALI! OR“ACID INTRIGUES SCIENCE (Ry Annoctated Pron) LOS ANGELES, April 5.—An instrument for measuring the relative alkalinity or acidity in the human body is being put to use on a wide scale in an effort to enable parents to dictate in advance the sex of their children. It was invented by Dr. A. O. Beckman, once a professor at the California Institute of Tech- nology. A theory on which several re- search men are working, accord- ing to information received here from both English and American sources, is that increased alkali in the mother’s system favors the birth of a boy while a prepon- derance of acid determines a girl. Several instances of successful- ly treating the prospective mother by diet or medicine have been reported, but they are not | nu- merous enough to establish that they are not merely the 'résult of chance, LEWINS PURCHASE SOUTH STREET LOT Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Lewin, Key West, have purchased from T. Reginald Pritchard a 50-foot front lot on South street, Purchase price was about $100. FAILS TO WASHUP DETROIT — “Joe had a habit, among other things, of walking around in the coal bin barefooted and then going to bed without washing,” Mrs. Joe Rowe of this city told the judge when suing for divorce. ‘made 10 flying leaps for free- dom, once hitting the side of the boat. Morgan landed it after about 20 minutes. hkutendeutadututeaste LEGION PLANS CONTEST FOR _ BUGLE CORPS TO BE HELD AT ARMY BAR- RACKS IN CONNECTION WITH COMING CONVEN- TION A. contest for the 18 or more senior 4>d.junior drum and bugle corps of the American Legion in the state will be held at Key West barracks the night of April 25 to which the public is invited. Albert Miills, executive director of the Key West Convention cor- poration, today announced that Lieut. Col. Webster Putnam, U. S. 1 would be in charge of the con- j test and would act as one of the i principal judges. Assisting Col. Putnam will be Lieut. Col. G. D. Hatfield, U. S. rnarine corps, Lieut. Commander Carl Hilton, U. S. coast guard, Dr. Antonio Rubino, medical officer in charge of Marine hospital, and Lieut. G. D. Rhymer, commander of the Civilian Conservation Corps, West Summerland Key. The drum and bugle corps will be judged for their music, in- spection, cadence, marching and maneuvering, equipment, colors !and standards, uniforms and neat- ness, and other features. { The competition will get under way at 8 p.m. April 25 under floodlights that are being erected at Key West barracks. Adequate public accommodations are being provided. It is reported that fully 2000 seats for the gbtieral public will. .be provided...» -. The competition lasts about three hours. All the senior and }junior drum corps will be in- volved. Prizes totaling $1000 have been appropriated by the | Key West Convention corporation, jso that the competition wil] be keen. “Each one of the judges has had experience with past state or na- tional convention and it will be a stirring event”, Mills said today. |“The convention corporation has | announced prizes for the juniors as well as the senior drum and , bugle corps. The result is that a number of the junior corps will come to Key West for these com- | petitions.” | Uruguay Orders Seizure Of Z Italian And Danish Vessels (By Associated Preas) MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April S—Uruguay, one of the three western hemisphere powers which refrained from seizing Ger- man and Italian ships early this week, today ordered the seizure of two Italian and two Danish vessels moored in Montevideo. Crews of the vessels were marched ashore under guard and an official announcement was re- leased, proclaiming that the ships had been taken into protective custody by the government. Only Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil failed to take over Italian and German ships early in the week when it was announced that the United States had seized ves- sels of those nations and Denmark in American ports. German protests so far have won no answer from other Latin American countries, and it is in- dicated Uruguay will not reply to protests when they are filed by ithe Italian That is why, when, the eyes of jof assistant commandant of the the world turned on Yugoslavia, |seventh naval district. I went over to the bus terminal |an officer, he was one of the men which (never used as such) now |who helped clear away the North houses the makeshift offices of ‘Sea mine field after the World the Department of Justice’s alien |War and was decorated with the A veter- | registration division and looked | up Donald R. Perry, the acting director. Perry is a product of the Whar- ton graduate school at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. He is an economist and expert on i.nance. ;For eight years before coming to Washington last summer he was state director of finance for Pehn- sylvania. You wouldn't think on the face of it that Donald Perry would know all about what some- one described as the Balkan’s crazy-quilt kingdom and land of unpronounceable names. But a little more than 20. years ago, Perry’s name wasn’t Perry. He tan American and-he.was Paty from three years and seven |months of bitter fighting in the gallant little army of his naitve Serbia. Navy Cross. ARMY EXHIBITION HERE ON MONDAY A scheduled exhibition of mili- tary equipment at La Concha |Hotel park this afternoon has ; been postponed until Monday be- cause of the rain. | Col. L. L. Pendleton, com- |mandant of the artillery forces here, said he had waited as late as possible, hoping to put on the ‘be decided few visitors would brave the weather to see it today. The exhibition will start at 2 | Applications should be filed at jthe local welfare office. Enrollees, in addition to an as- sured minimum income of $30 iper month, plus substinence, med- ical and dental care, will have Lopez Funeral Home will be in /ing February, or at the rate of charge of arrangements. $926,604 annually, according to Survivors are: One son, Millard! announcement here today from B. Gibson; two daughters, Mrs. | . % [Rita Lewin ahd Me. Mans |the state office of the State Wel: |Lowe; one brother, James Saun- |fare Board. attack against Yugoslavia at any hour, Belgrade’s defenders turned loose a rain of shells at the plane, which wheeled about and fled to- ders; three grandchildren and two | show. “The equipment would not} damaged by the rain, but It was} great grandchildren. PARIS EATS TURNIPS AND SPARES Z00 (Ny Anaoet Press) PARIS, April 5.—The day and night preoccupation with food— ‘or rather the lack of it—in Paris {has caused many a_ covetous the opportunity to train them- Selves in useful skills, Horne said. The Corps, he explained, is offer- ing training to those with especial aptitudes in a variety of skills, such as operation and mainten- ance of truck, tractor and other |automotive equipment, use of ex- \plosives, electric wiring, photo- |graphy, blue printing, drafting, typing, radio and cooking. glance toward the zoo. : As a result of this training,| There have been no casualties jMany enrollees have gone direct {in that institution this time, al- lfrom camp to jobs in industrial | though during the siege of 1870- pees which are working on na- {7 2 Ra waa any 4 dish: tor f . | Pari: S heals defence orders, Horne ac: Statistics show that Géoffroy There are 44 CCC central re- |Saint-Hilaire, director of the zoo, pair shops located throughout the jdid a very profitable business in jcountry, he stated, one of which | 1870. Two Egyptian geese were sold for 155 francs; three ante- The state appropriates $400,000 ; jannually, which is matched; W@rd Rumania. equally by the federal govern-; (A Berlin spokesman this ment, for the payment of grants | morning eommented that “rela- ito dependent children, making a 4 i tions with Yugoslavia could not total of $800,000. year, State Welfare Con ic C. Codrington explained. T commissioner also pointed that because of the inadequa funds to meet existing n administrative cost jeharged against the ADC pro- | gram. | Indicating the pressing need, it | Tens of thousands of soldiers jare at work up breast- o’clock Monday afternoon and An Epic In Blood continue until 10 o'clock. “Their history is not just his-} Two squads of soldiers will be tory,” he says. “It is an_ epic jon hand to demonstrate for visi- {they have striven to maintain | the devices which are to be dis- freedom, independence and the/played. New types of machine |peasants have an oft-repeated | type used in the coast defense saying, ‘I would rather go to my | guns and other equipment is to be |they mean it.” 3 —$ As the story of the Balkans is COUNTY EMPLOYES extended in 1941 terms, it might | be clarified a little by remengher- | ARE PAID TODAY jhas to say. : | In the first place, you are going past Tea to read much of the Yugoslavian} County employes today are re- ‘or Serbian peasants. Perhaps no- ceiving checks at the office of ; word peasant (selyak) have the} Funds from general reveune same meaning. There it is a title /of Decémber and fine and for- to be proud of. Eighty-three per /fejture from November are being cent of the entire population are ‘paid. It is the one country in Europe that boasts of a ruling Peasant | dynasty. : \ GERMAN VERSION Point No. 2, Yugoslavia really | (Ry Axnocinted Presa) ‘of Serbs, Croats, Slovens, Mon-| BERLIN, April 5.—Ground tea tenegrans, Bosnians and even | wit] take you twice as far as tea ference, Perry says, are concerned | informed by an enterprising firm with who's going to be sheriff and joffering “tea mills” for sale, ference of religion. Part of the ment, “have the commendable population is Greek Orthodox and quality to help you save your analysis, Perry doesn’t think that Half of the usual amount of these differences within will split tea if put through the mill will On A Busy Highway {which vou are accustomed, the In the third instance, Yugo- “ad” said. which is “the land bridge be- supplies in the hands of German tween Europe and Asia.” It has 'families to the bone. During Jan- armies of Alexander the Great, ' grams ef tea—less than an ounce Attila the Hun, Ghengis Khan, |—for the first time in 14 months. Bismark said that no one could; THIS CAT MIXES controt Europe or the world with- ; WITH RIGHT PEOPLE Perry calls that “Bismark's Sym-| phony in 5-B Major—Berlin, Bu- j {Rv Associated Preasd MOBILE, Ala April Baghdad.” Whoever owns it, will / Beauty, a white cat control the Black Sea and the |Florence Lee Kraus of Mobile, her (Continued On Page Four) j duties. With the help of her mis- | tress, she filled out an application Wanted! Wanted! [Humane Association. signed it | with a paw mark, and enclosed GARAGE HELPERS | The association was pleased, BOYS EXPERIENCED IN {promptly sending back a mem- “The society welcomes its new- > o jest member. Perhaps your noble NAVARRO, i democratic spirit. The Serbian | guns, range finders, shells of the grave than become a slave,’ and ; displayed. ing some of the things that Perry where else in the world does the |Cjerk Ross C. Sawyer. peasants and there is no nobility. | I ee Ones. TEA FOR TWO— is a patchwork kingdom, made up | others. Their main points of dif- 'jeaves left whole, Germans were who deputy sheriff—and the dif- | which, according to the advertise- part Roman Catholic. In the final | precious tea supply”. the country. |make the same fragrant drink to slavia is on the Balkan peninsula; War rationing has cut the tea been the main highway of the uary Germans were allowed 25 the Turks and the Crusaders. out controlling this land-bridge. } @apest, Belgrade, Bosporus and | owned by Dardanelles—“the jugular vein of ; isn't one to neglect lfor membership in the Mobile savivlegien seténncniey ithe dollar fee. SERVICE STATION WORK bership card with the notation: Inc.) written in blood. For centuries |tors and explain the workings of | &«<) civic | is in Florida. Florida camps, Horne stated, form a complete ‘radio network linking each to the ‘other and linking all the camps with CCC district headquarters. BRITISH EXPECT TO TAKE ADOWA (By Annoel Prens) CAIRO, April 5.—Adowa, the Eritreun city where Italian forces stumbled into a massacre in their soon will be in the hands of the ‘British, it was announced today. POLICE BREAK UP DANCE IN FRANCE (By Associated Press) VICHY, France, April 5.—Be- cause France has many séldiers in prison camps and German troops in its richest areas, a state of national penance is generally observed. Consequently, when 1150 young men and women were observed flocking to two estab- ,lishments in Marseilles, an inves- j tigation was begun. | The press disclosed the places |were operated so that “young jpeople might abandon themselves was announced that cash grants |lopes brought 4,000 francs. were being received by only 2, | Two camels, one yak, two kan- 979 families of 7,612 children, |garoos, a pelican, a swan and a | while applications were pending ; Small deer went for 4,375 francs. | from 8,513 families of 20,589 chil- |The best sale was that of two ele- | dren. phants which a butcher snapped; In addition to ADC funds, Flor- up for 27,000 francs. lida appropriates $3,400,000 an- One newspaper summed up the nually for the payment of Old |Situation recently with the re-| Age Assistance, Aid to the Blind, mark that “our forefathers would | administration of certain essen- have been happier if they had tial federal services and the en- eaten turnips as we are.” A good tire welfare program. State funds jworks and fortifications and a |royal proclamation by King Pe- jter Tl calling for mobilization of \“the entire military might of the kingdom” was made public last night, ; Railroad, tank cars, believed ‘loaded with Rumanian oil bound \for Germany, are said to line sid- jings on the Rumanian side of the |Yugoslav frontier. All train ship- ‘ments of supplies for Germany have been halted. jfirst Ethiopian war 70 years ago, | ‘many Parisians refer con- temptuously to turnips as “cow- fodder,” but they are eating them now.” \GERMANY CONTROLS POTASH MONOPOLY (Ry Associated Press) BERLIN, April 5.—The defeat of France has returned to T- |many the European potash mo- inopoly, held by her, it is claimed, } until the end.of World War I. | With the occupation of Alsace, jall potash deposits there esti- ; mated at approximately 300 mil- lion tons, have fallen into Ger- |man hands and are being expolit- jed in increasing measure. REDS KEEP FRENCH "POLICE WELL POSTED jto the pleasure of the dance.” | {Police descended, arrested all ,daneing “criminals,” placed heavy fines against orchestra members, |and confiscated all the music. / Sencintireepetiitieiemtenectl (= t Lowest last Highest last a 2 gy |Abilene Boise Brownsville Burlington {Charleston 1 Chicago Denver Detroit El Paso Galvegton Havre | Jacksonville KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis |New Orleans 'New York | Phoenix | Pittsburgh {San Francisco Spokane hseseeuseseseasessusesy | (Ry Associated Prenn) VICHY, France, April 5.—Po- i jlice in Grenoble didn't have to} |look far to find out what illegal |Communist literature was reach- ling their town. |; Every day for some months jthey found a Copy of the under- iground paper “L’Humanite” and the latest subversive leaflets in ithe police station mailbox. |} The offenders finally }caught. were \CONDITIONAL SALE | AT LONDON STORE j (By Associated Presa) | CAMBRIDGE, ©. April 5—A! letter from P. €. Fitzgerald of | Cambridge, England, to the Cam- 'bridge Rotary Club told of this |sign in a London store: } Sale of Blasted Goords—When | We Can Find Them. 18 DAYS UNTIL are matched dollar for dollar by | the federal government, both as! to grants and administrative \costs, exeept that only 5 per cent; lof Old Age Assistance matching 'funds are allowed for administra- tive purposes. | Cash grants paid to recipients; |of Old Age Assistance, Aid to the ; (Ny Associated Press) | Blind and Aid to Dependent Chil-| WASHINGTON, Apri 5.—Gov- _dren during February were at the ;ernmest mediators cheerfully ex- SEE SETTLEMENT OF TWO STRIKES | rate of $7,052,356 per year, as.com- wontidence today that | pared with the spit state-federal 'the week-long strike in the giant allocation of $7,600,000.. }Ford plant at River Rouge, Mich., TOWN SKIPS ELECTIONS | | 4 CRE ott eal men (My Annet Press) \ GLENPOOL, Okla. April >— SOLDIERS 10 'Glenpool, with a reputation for | economy, hasn't had any election ; HAVE HOLIDAY for 12 years, t « “Everyone scems happy, $0 aes 'why should the officials file for) re-election every year?” asks, Soldiers stationed in Key West |Mayor Floyd Vowell. jwill have a holiday Monday in He says a city election would recognition of the Army Day cost $75 and unbalance the bud- decreed by President Roosevelt. get. An election hasn't been! Although many camps ure held since 1929, when Vowell was celebrating today and the local elected. jsodiers had planned their display The town has a population of of equipment this afternoon, 384 and the city payroll is $15. Monday will be the official Army i The city treasurer is paid $10 and Day here. Soldiers will be re- ithe town clerk $5. The mayor lieved of all duties and will be iserves without pay, as do the permitted to spend the day in council police chief. >» lany way they please. jo4—§ 3 bis ei 4 5 et In Retreat From Bengasi (By Associated Press) CAIRO, April 5.—British troops |bald Wevell's expressed . dislike today continued their orderly re- | for hoiding large bodies of troops Libyan city which they occupied | the retreat. yesterday | British forces are believed to Already 200 miles back of their’ advanced base below Bengasi, Libyan British officers said H