The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 7, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 83. Che Hey West Crtizen Key West, Florida, has the - most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1941 Airings. Proposals. For Inclusion Of ‘Key West To Be Head Tomorow PAPY HAS 14 LOCAL BILLS Civil Aeronautics Board To Take Up Matter Of New Route At Confer ence In Washington |MEASURES AFFECTING KEY WEST TO BE PRESENTED IN LEGISLATURE; CON- VENES TOMORROW (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 7. —Three proposals of National Airlines, Inc., to include Key “West on a new route, will take} Bernie C. Papy, Monroe coun- ty’s representative to the an active step toward a decision |joyisiature, already has 14 local by the Civil Aeronautics Board 5 sent during the legislative ses- sion which opens tomorrow. The local measures, all of which have been published in The Citi- zen in compliance with the reg- ulation requiring (Continued on Page Four) here April 8, when a prehearing conference on the three applica- tions is held. Indications are that National will have to fight for its routes— and Key West for its airline con- nections—from the very begin- ning, for Pan American, Eastern Airlines, and Seaboard Airlines have all been granted permission to intervene in the action. Competing airlines do not in-| (By Associated Presa) tervene in a pending application| BERLIN, April 7.—Berlin and for the purpose of urging its ap-|Rome in a joint statement today proval. jbanned all transmission of news National's three proposed{from 8 p. m. to 7 a, m. (1 a. m routes all include Key West, The |to midnight, EST). first is a proposal to extend its|_ The order, which goes into ef- present line from Jacksonville to !fect at once, will prohibit use of Miami so that it would continue telegraph or radio on down to Key West. Second ej newa transmission between those an lication for a. new. route | hours. nat Sie to Haviea via’ Key West. The third application hich will be discussed next tuesday is for a new line from lew York to Havana, by way of shington, D. C., Winston-Sa- . N. C., Augusta, Ga., Tampa if Key We: he conference | BAN PLACED ON Five Highway | To Augment 8) on April FROM MONROE state | bills affecting Key West to pre-| advertisement | HOURS FOR NEWS facilities for BRITISH PUSH ITALIANS BACK ITALIAN CASUALTIES ARE SAID TO BE RUNNING VERY HIGH (By Associated Press) CAIRO, April 7. — British troops, who marched into the | Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa Saturday, today are pushing \Italian forces into a narrow bot- jtleneck north of the city, a com- | munique has announced. Italian casualties are said to have been high and the remnants of the once-powerful army in | Ethiopia are being herded back into a valley from which they can not escape. A report from the Army of the Nile east of Bengasi in Libya said |German and Italian forces still are advancing, and the British {are continuing a planned retreat. ‘MARRACAS TO, BE IMPORTED |ENDEAVOR TO HAVE PAY- | MENT OF DUTY CANCELL- ED FOR LEGIONNAIRES { | { Congressman Pat Cannon has jasked Treasury Secretary Henry |Morganthau to permit Key West Legion members to import 500 pairs of marracas from Havana without payment of duty, it was jannounced today. | Cannon, in a letter to Stephen Singleton, secretary of the cham- ber of commerce, id he had sked Secretary Morganthau to jlift the ordinary 30 percent duty jbecause the marracas are to be ‘distributed free by a_ patriotic jorganization. They will be giv- who come here for the conven- ition, April 23-26. Patrol Cars Police Force en to American Legion members | TI I ILI SIS SS, NINE BRITISH VESSELS « SUNK (Ry Associated Press) BERLIN, Apri 7.—Nine British merchant vessels have been sunk and 14 damaged in the past 48 hours, a com- munique said today. A navy spokesman said the sinkings represent a loss of 52,000 tons to the British. STII SIS SS SS NATION'S INCOME | REACHES HIGHEST | PEAK IN HISTOR |WAGES HIGHER WHILE LIv- | ING COSTS REMAIN PRAC- TICALLY UNCHANGED IN VARIOUS SECTIONS (Special to The Citizen) | MINNEAPOLIS, April 7.—Mr. jand Mrs. American Public, |the nation, enjoyed the highest |“real income” in their lives dur- ing February. Their real income hin February, 1941 was 17 cents jon the dollar higher than in Feb- ruary, 1940, according to a month- \ly study of what people get and ‘spend, made public here today by jInvestors Syndicate. | “Price increases, some of them substantial, have been recorded in the primary and _ wholesale markets,” explained Investors |Syndicate’s monthly study, “but jso far the average consumer has little reason to complain about the high cost of living. “When comparing February, 1941 figures with those of a year ‘earlier certain conditions, such as rising living costs and declining ‘employment in February, 1940, jmust be considered. | “The cold waves that swept jover the Southland during the first_two months of 1940, killing: or ruining important fresh fruit and vegetable crops, were reflect- j ed in higher food costs during Feb- ruary, 1940, when foods rose two jcents on the dollar over a year j earlier.” | Costs Rose, Incomes Fell “Reflecting a slackening of i like | THREE SUSPECTS IN FINK MURDER HELD IN MIAMI | DRIVER OF GROCERY TRUCK | WAS HELD UP AND KILLED ‘ON OVERSEAS HIGHWAY | NEAR FLORIDA CITY | ‘The following account of three | men, who are termed ‘definite | suspects” in the hold up and mur- der of Mark Fink, Jr. on the Over- iseas Highway in February while driving a grocery truck from Key West to Miami, appeared in a re- | ‘cent issue of the Homestead Lead- | ier-Enterprise: { “Three men arrested in Miami | Wednesday in connection with aj ;hold-up in that city Saturday | were said by Miami police to be; (“definite suspects” in the hold-up | ‘and murder of Mark Thomas | !Fink, Jr., driver of a wholesale ;grocery truck, on the Overseas ‘Highway several miles south of Florida City in February. “None of the three Miami band- } its, however resemble either of the | two youths who entered the Last | Chance barbecue and beer stand ; ‘at the Florida City fork shortly | after the murder and acted sus- |piciously, while making no at- ‘tempt to conceal the fact that they were carrying revolvers in- | side their shirts, according to bar- | |becue stand attendants who were } linterviewed and shown a news- |paper picture of the group under { | arrest. | “The two Last Chance suspects | ‘got away while patrons were | ‘hunting for officers of the law in | Homestead—who in turn were all jout hunting the Fink hold-up jmen. On coming to the beer stand they asked if the man who ‘had been shot had died, and since jso little time had elapsed since | ithe shooting, patrons and opera- | |tors of the stand grew suspicious jand police were secretly sent for. «*The men held in Miami are Gene Porter, 25, John Hall Allen and Jos L. Churchill, 36. | “According to Miami detec- ' i tives, Porter was a member of the | so-called “crime castle” gang of |six youths captured in 1937 in an | Everglades shack after a series of safe burglaries and hold-ups. | | Fighting In. Yugosl ipl PRICE FIVE CENTS And Greece Threatened To Throughout All Balkan Territory STEEL STRIKE LEGISLATURE TQ , [Te Countries Prot IS AVERTED, OPEN ToMORRO Asin Bridah Bomb ings; Royal Air Force TWO COMPANIES CLAIM THEY |OPENING MESSAGE OF GOV-| Fighting Vigorously WILL MEET DEMANDS ERNOR TO CONSIST OF OF EMPLOYES 12,000 WORDS (ny Associated Pi (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 7—A} TALLAHASSEE, April 7—A threatened waikout which would |12,000-word address by Governor | have halted steel production |Spessard L. Holland tomorrow at} throughout the nation today ap-'noon will mark the opening of | peared to have been averted asthe twenty-seventh session of the two of the greatest companies af- Florida legislature. fected announced they would Governor. Holland is expected} meet the demands of their em- i to devote most of his address to} joyes. 2 | The strike was to begin at mid- the need for road and_ bridge army and night tomorrow, unless a settle- ‘construction to link ment were reached in the mean- navy posts throughout the state. The governor probably will goj time. | U.S. Steel, a spokesman an- before the legislature again in} make necessary about 10 days to describe his pro-' nounced, will reforms, hammered the capital city and concessions, and National Steel at gram for t Pittsburgh announced a 10 cent, ectentonh Mg | SEEKING AIR | LINE PERMIT ‘blown up rail lines far inte the in- | terior of the country. (By Associated Press) Fierce fighting in Yugoslavia. Albania and Greece today threat- ened to spread to all the Balkans as Rumania, Bulgaria and Hun- ‘gary framed urgent protests against British bombings in all three countries, Royal Air Force bombers last night smashed at airdromes and rail lines in each of the German dominated countries and hurled tons of explosives into the ranks of advancing German soldiers in north Yugoslavia. Sofia deelare¢xaa “state*“ot alarm” after British bombers had hourly wage increase, which is what had been demanded by, workers. Prospects for a settlement of the Ford strikes also seemed bet- t ter today government media- Rumania, too, was reported to tors announced they had per- (have taken a terrific pounding at suaded company officials to take (Hy Annceiated Presap _ |airdromes-and rail lines. part in a conference with union) MIAMI, April 7.—Eastern Air} Fighting under the direction of heads. Lines has applied for authority|Gen, Sir Arehibald Wavell, who The 75-day strike at the Mil- to operate a temporary schedule |has reached Greece from his waukee Allis-Chalmers plant, one between here and Tallahassee | African. campaign, from 100,000 of the most serious to defense'pro- during the session of the legisla- | to 300,000 liers are re- duction is expected to end today, ture, it was announced 9 tported “to be Company officials have an-| The service, if permitted, will! Yugoslav troops in the fighting nounced they will reopen the include two planes making daily | along the Struma valley. plant tomorrow. ‘flights. : Lonaon diplomats think Russia .|and Germany definitely have jcome to a-parting of the ways, | but Moscow, although expressing \sympathy for Yugoslavia, has |made no move to assist in the Germans Carry On Attacks not take up the proposed new routes but vill be for the*purpose of clari- fying issues to be argued stipu- } lating cettain facts which will be / admitted without proof, eliminat- ing certain issues which do not appear to be directly in line with the applications, and preparing to expedite the formal hearings, which will be held at a later, date. The pre-hearing conference will probably be attended only by at- torneys for the various airlines and other interested parties. merits of otherwise | Five state highway patrol cars Will be on duty in Key West dur- jing the American Legion's state | convention April 23-26, it was an- nounced by Albert Mills, ecutive director of the Key West {Convention corporation, at the jsame time reporting all points of interest in the city would be |thrown open to the Legionnaires. | The five cars will augment the |city police, the policemen from Miami and the special corps of American Legionnaires, all re- | porting to Police Chief Ivan El- wood for duty in maintaining or- During Leg ° e 'dustrial production from the 1939 Sentenced to eight years in prison, | 10n Conventio year-end and some irregularity in|he was pardoned in July, 1940. | trade, employment declined from} His crime record dates back to |the 1939 peak and consequently | 1933. ‘ a s payrolls lessened and so did wage| “Allem served a year at Mari- tion, the city golf course, Fort’ 14 salary payments. Non-agri-|anna in 1936 for automobile theft | Taylor and the Martello towers’ -yitural employment in February and in Oct. 1937 was sentenced to { will be among the points of inter- 1941, however, was the highest for four years on a similar charge. | BERLIN, April 7 est free to Legionnaires. y February in the history of |Churchill is wanted in Inverness, against a stubbornly ting “The lighthouse, Fort Taylor, this country. \Fla. on a first degree murder | army of Greek and British _sol- and the naval station have “Higher living costs and lower charge for the killing of a guard |qicrs in the Struma valley, Ger- Z ¥ wage and salary payments during at a Floral City. convict camp on !man forces are making slow been made available to Legion- | February, 1940, kept the real in- | July 28, 1938. His crime career gains, at some points up to 20 Mills said, “Col. L. L.|come for that month from making goes back to 1927, and in 1933 he miles, a communique said today. Pendleton, Capt. Walter F. Jacobs such a favorable comparison with | was sentenced to seven years bya} ‘The unusually reticent report and Lieut. Commander Carl Hil- {that of February, 1939 or with | Dade County criminal court'saiq that. Belgrade has been ton deserve the thanks of the Am-| (Continued on Page Four) | judge. \transformed into a raging inferno erican Legionnaires for their part D ICATION OF “Last Chance attendants said jn four raids and that airdromes 1 | Fighting all! ized the place several times, but Against Yugoslavia; Greeks And British Fight Bitterly (By Associated Press) {fight against Germany's south- up more ward thrust. | Turkey has called jarmy reserves, but it is generally | believed she will remain neutral, jat least for the time. : | Athens says fierce RAF attacks savagely at Yugoslav airdromes jaye been the most devastating and cities along the upper Adri- | feature of the war since the Ger- atic. |man assault began yesterday. Returning flyers reported that, Greek and British troops, ac- the entire central part of the cording to a communique, have fallen back into the Struma valley Yugoslav capital at ‘Belgrade has | according to a pre-arranged plan been smashed to bits, Fires are and are putting up stubborn re- reported raging uncontrolled | sistance, throughout the city, and the gov- German casualties ware said to ernment is said to have fled yes-|have been “very high” in Mwy day terday of fighting. : ! } wef der and handling the line of SOLDIERS HERE march for the parade. / UWPhe city aquarium, the Thomp- son turtle crawls, the botanical OBSERVING ARMY DAY: EX. | gardens, the lighthouse, the art }center, the Key West naval sta- HIBITION OF EQUIPMENT The decorating company will begin work in Key West on Wed- nesday, Mills announced. It is important for all the business places on Duval and Division WAS GIVEN SATURDAY | ALICE M. DAHL are taking things easy today in observance of Army Day, decreed | by President Roosevelt All} Alice Monson Dahl, Dade coun- duties have been lifted for the|ty, Saturday was granted a di- day and the soldiers are free to|vorce from Nils Dahl, Woon- do as they please jsocket, R. I. She charges deser- The display of military equip- | tion. ma ment at La Concha Hotel park, which it was announced would be postponed from Saturday to © today, was exhibited Saturday in spite of the: rain. Officers in charge of the display decided to go ahead with their plans at the last minute. No further display at the park is scheduled for today. . | A }} lagic Spring (ny Aww RATON, N. M swastika is an ancient Indian} symbol and in the southwest once | Swas common. In Raton the last trace of swastikas, used in firm has erased. The its name names bee Red the coal nd the trade name for se was changed. The ity council has changed Swastika wenue to Brilliant avenue. camp to IT STARTS IN THIS PAPER TOMORROW streets to be decorated, for fully 3000 Legionnaires, the largest convention ever held < | West, are coming. | Division and Duval streets will be decorated with streamers jhanging from the poles. There } will be overhead decorations, and | the store fronts and other build jings will bear their full share of j the flags and bunting | Tonight's meeting of the Key | West Convention corporation board of directors will be devoted to final arrangements for the j state meeting. A number of bil | will be paid and details in the in in granting permission to go jthe:" believed two of the men in and cities trhoughout Yugoslavia the newspaper picture had patron- | have been pounded. through their establishments.” | ' (Ry Associated Press) DALLAS, Ter., Avril 7.—Dedi- cation ceremonies at the newest North American reraft plant Key |here today wili mark the dom-| fartory time pletion of the days from the ted. When leity th 400 trair month within 100 work was operating plant full capa- Hi produ pursuit ships a 000,000 federal rkers at has been com- A |housing project for the plant recently pleted w final drive for the collections of | {funds will be discussed. | Stone Church Service Club. 6: pm. Catholic Daughters meet, 8:00 5 Ke National Guard armory, p.m. THURSDAY Club meets at 6:30 s’ Den, Seminary Street. ission meets, Co se, $:00 p.m. otary Club meets 12:15 p.m St. Paul's Parish Hall pm. »y West Home Guard meets at} Air ur as left hours Two Nazi reported to have 4 dropped of them was Os CONTAINS MANY PIECES AVE. Ky.—Mrs. H. K s the owner of which contains i 14,788 pieces. e | they were sure they were not at | the stand on the night of the Fink { murder.” |CONVENTION AND BANQUET j | HELD SATURDAY ATLA | CONCHA HOTEL A representative’ number of | superintendents and agents of the Life Insurance Company from various parts of the state arrived in Key West Saturda afternoon for the purpose of hob ing their annual convention, tak ing up headquarters at La Concha | Hotel | A very enjoyable honor of the visitin was given in the early yening at Rainbow Dining attended by the insurance representatives in the entirety, with excellent m being prepared for the many who were seated around the festive board. The long and spaciou: ‘Continued on Page Four) banquet in which | NOW IN EFFECT | | Special Summer Weekly and Monthly RATES CENTRAL HOTEL Duval and Southard Streets 1 i ‘autioning German citizens not to expect rapid advances, the communique said Stuka dive bombers are pulverizing Greek forts on the sloping mountain sides of the Struma valley, but that stubborn resistance has held! German forces to slight gains. Italian bombers, with the German DEFENDANT TO GET HEARING ELIZABETH SCHEIBLER WILL BE ARRAIGNED THIS AFTERNOON HERE TUESDAY hours key WEST WOMAN DIED IN 55 MIAMI: BODY TO AR- 4 RIVE HERE TODAY oS 47 52 56 “a 37 64 vey 61 87 7% 7" 72 a2 2 TEMPERATURES — Lowest last/Highest last night 52 32 40 30 24 45 28 31 “4 64 a 49 52 mn 49 7m 43 Abilene Boise Boston Bristol Buffalo Burlington Chicago Cincinnati Denver Detroit El Paso Galveston Havre Huron Jacksonville KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Montgomery New Orleans New York Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland St. Louis San Francisco ! Spokane cooperating have struck | Funeral services for Mrs. Jen nie Jotinson, age 62, who died_in Miami yesterday, will be held in Key West tomorrow aflernoon at 4 o'clock at St. Paul's Episeo- pal church with Father A, B. Dimmick officiating The body will arrive here this afternoon and will be placed in the church tomorrow afternown at 2 o'clock. Pritchard Funeral Home will be in charge of ar- rangements. Mrs. Johnsen was the widow Ted the late Claude Wack) John ‘im TWO: PROPERTY | SALES RECORDED 64 Elizabeth Scheibier, charged with unlawfully using the prop- erty of another after she alleged ly took and wrecked an automo | belonging to 1. E. Sherrod, » before Peace Justice En- quinaide this afternoon ck for preliminary w rique es 5 o'cle hearing Sheriff's officers w Wilkinson, assault and battery Thompson. DAYS UNTIL the AMERICAN LEGION’S STATE CONVENTION at a 62 36 53 51 are seeking charged with on Herbert am Charles H, Smith, Key West, has purchased from LH. Piteher Hillsborough county, a 122-foot fromt lot on Catherine street, it was revealed today. Purchase price on the lot. which is located near White street, js believed to be about $3.006. Mr. and Mrs. Austin L. Resse have purchased from Mr. and Mrs. William M. Pinder s lot st Tavernier in Biock A for $100. SOUTHERNMOST FLOWERS GLADIOLL Tuesday. 766 616 DUVAL PHONE 136