The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 8, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIL. No. 84. Governor Holland Legit Representative Bernie C. Papy Named To Serve On Six Different Com- mittees (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, April Governor Spessard L. Holland to- day opened the 1941 the state legislature with an ad- 8— session of dress on road and bridge con- struction which started at 3:00 o'clock. The legislators went into ses- sion at noon, before the governor appeared. Representative Bernie C, Papy of Monroe county named by Dan McCarthy, speak- er of the house, to serve on six committees in the legislative session. . State Senator David Ward pre- today was, On Its Opening FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM WILL BE OBSERVED JEWISH HOLIDAY BEGINS ON APRIL 11; SERVICES TO BE CONDUCTED AT LOCAL SYNAGOGUE At the family Seder Service in the home, on Friday evening, April 11, the Jewish people will welcome the advent of Passover, their Festival of Freedom. Be- ginning each spring on the eve- ning of the fourteenth day of Nisan, of the Jewish Calendar, this Feast of Unleavened Bread is the oldest of Jewish Festivals. Services will be held at local synagogue by Rabbi L. Lerer. Celebrated first over 2,000 years ago as a spring festival at} |the time of ‘the first harvest of | barley, Passover early in Jewish | history became the occasion for celebrating the safe passage of |Israel from bondage in Egypt to} viously had been named chairman | : hn f * i freedom in Palestine. The part- of the important public roads and ing of the Red Sea to permit the highways committee and made a Israelites to cross on dry land is! member of three others. Senator one of the events noted in the Ward's appointment was an-' Passover story. Unleavened bread, | nounced Jast night by John R. known as Matsos, is eaten during ' Beacham, president of the sen-'the week of the holiday inj ate, memory of similar fare which the | Papy will serve on the banks Israelites.ate during their hasty | and loans committee, commerce flight from Egypt. and navigation, hotels and inn-! The holiday is observed for keepers, legislative expense, pub- Seven days by Reform and Pales- lie amusements and public roads tinian Jews and for eight days by and highways, the Orthodox and Conservative Senator Wags. aside f roups. Passover was first cele- | See eet the mee esi erated for eight days by Jews out- mittee, will be a member of the Side of Palestine because of the drainage, judiciary, rules and uncertainty of calendar calcula- calendar and the appropriations committees, HOME GUARDS MEET TONIGHT Key West honie guard mem- bers tonight will continue their rifle competition at the weekly drill at the National Guard ar- mory. The group will meet at 8 o'clock. Rifle competition began several weeks ago, with marine corps ex- perts helping out as instructors. The contests are betwegn the two guard companies and instruction is given at the same time. Tonight's session will include drill and calisthenics as well. as the rifle meet, tion in ancient times. In the seven | joey celebration, the first and last days are full holidays. With oppression rampant to- | day, the universal thought of free- |dom in the Passover celebration is as meaningful as it was in the |days when Rome ruled Palestine with a heavy hand. At the Seder Service which lopens Passover, the Haggadah, a | special book containing the story of the deliverance of Israel, is! jread by the head of the family. | Often beautifully decorated the Haggadah is an outstanding Jew- j ish ceremonial art object. MRS. MITCHELL BUYS PROPERTY Mrs. Edna H. Mitchell has pur- chased for $2,400 the two-story Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1941 RECORDS SHOW SOLDIERS’ PAY WORTH WHILE MASTER SERGEANT IN HIGH- EST BRACKETS OF NON- ‘;COMS RECEIVES $126 A MONTH By JACK STINNETT AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, April 8.—An- swering the mail orders: P. D., Winston-Salem, N. C.— To go into the whole matter of army pay for privates and non- commissioned officers would take more space than this column is allowed, but if the idea is gen-| The National Labor Relations rer ger eT Oe ea ws eral that $21 a month is every private’s lot, it is a considerable misconception. Only privates who | have been in the army less than Allis-Chalmers four months or who have shown themselves inefficient or unfit get $21 a month. After that they get $30 a month; $36 if they are pri- vates, first class; $54 if they are} corporals; $60 if they are ser- geants and so on up to master. sergeant, who gets $126 a month. In addition to that, there are six specialist ratings, such as elec- tricians, clerks, cooks, mechanics and radio operators (and many other skilled workers) who get additional pay ranging from $3 to $30 a month. There also are decorations and awards for which more additional monthly pay is made. Advanced air corps pri- vates and non-coms also get up- per bracket pay. I never heard of a rich private, but any lad with | aptitude and application can get a pretty decent living out of it when you consider that clothing, sustenance, housing, medical care and a number of other things are thrown in and that entertainment and-recreation-comes a lot cheap- er than you can get it down at the pool hall or at the corner sa- loon. . * K. L. T., Madison, Wis.—The best information I can get is that the first American minister to New Zealand will be one of the state department’s top - notch career diplomats now in the Far East. Yes, I saw the report that Mrs. Florence Jaffray Harriman might get the appointment, without any reflection on Mrs. Harriman’s already proved ability, the story around the state department is that nearly all problems arising in the new minis- try will be problems concerned principally with the Far East and that some diplomat who knows that section of the world like a book will get the job. see Cc. E, Springfield, Mo.—You can bet, Mr. E., that Washington talks about a lot of other things than war, lend-lease bills, and so 160,000 (Dy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 8. —! Secretary of Labor Frances Per-{ kins sometime today will turn! over settlement of the week-old | Ford Motor company strike at! River Rouge, Mich., to the na-| !tional mediation board it is be-| ilieved here. } Federal conciliator James F.} | Dewey, who had hoped to get CIO} | Officials and company yepresen-; \tatives around a conference table! {for a discussion of the strike, re- | | por ted to Secretary Perkins today | ; that it had been impossible to get ‘the men together. | ‘Board today ordered a collective | |bargaining election at the main \Ford plant at River Rouge. Eight thousand workers at the: plant in Mil-; ;waukee, meanwhile, have gone; back to work and government! imediators have announced the! j likelihood that other outstanding | strikes will be settled soon. The| } Aillis-Chalmers factory, idle for ! , 76 days, holds $45,000,000 in gov-, {ernment contracts. H Tug boat crews on the Great} |Lakes, who had announced they | !would strike this week, have; {been granted a wage _ increase, | | and the difficulty is said to be set- tled. ! | Formal action by companies {and unions in the wage battle {launched by soft coal miners is |expected today. It is understood that both the miners and steel in- ; dustry workmen will reach a set- {tlement with their employers this jweek. NATIONAL GUARD | OFFICERS SHIFTED | CAPTAIN HARRIS SENT TO Settlement Of Strike At Ford Motor Plant To Be Turned Over To National Nazi Soldiers Mediation Board OS ES DS SE BRITISH REPORT ON SHIP LOSSES; (By Associated Presa) LONDON, April 8.—Brit- ish ship losses for March to- day were admitted by the admiralty to have totaled» 522,000 tons, or more than NEGRO KILLED © IN CAR SMASH | | SHERIFF'S OFFICE UNABLE | TO GET INFORMATION: HaP- | 130,000 tons a week. PENED AT CARD SOUND | The estimate increased an | earlier figure which had —_—— | been released by the admir- / sheriff's officers late this aft-| alty. A i H i {ernoon had received no informa- | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS —————$ Qn Defense In South Yugoslavia NEGRO YOUTHS — [Estire Coldmn Of German ON PROBATION| Sle Reported Win ed Out In Valley Of ORDERED TO REPORT REG-| Gf Ri ULARLY TO OFFICER noc hs oe (By Associated Press) Greek and British sources to- Eight negro youths whose petty |98Y hinted at the evacuation of thievery for “movie money” has the important Greek port of Sa- !tion about an automobile wreck | been making life miserable for jat Card Sound bridge this morn- | the sheriff's office, today were ing which cost the life of a negro | ordered to attend Sunday and day occupant of the car and is re-| school and to report each Satur- ported to have injured three | day for three months to Probation others. Officer Frank Velasco. The car with its four passen-| Juvenile Judge Juliette Rus- gers is believed to have plunged sell, in passing sentence, warned STARTS TODAY rex the rail of the bridge at|the boys they will be punished about 3 o’clock in the morning, | if they are caught on Duval street ne carrying one of the occupants to after dark. Most of them have ideath by drowning. ‘been with a gang.which danced LOVE MADE POSSIBLE FOR | Chief Deputy Harold Russell; and begged for pennies in front POLLY AND DAVID: TO BE said he received a telephone call’ of Duval street bars. ‘at 3:30 o'ciock this morning, tell-! Because it was the first appear- FOUND IN COLUMNS OF | ing him of the aceident, which is ance in court for most of them MAGIC SPRING, SERIAL STORY, lonika as columns of crack Nazi soldiers steadily forced back de- fending troops in the valley of Struma river in south Yugo- slavia. Striking with the full power of jtheir aerial and groynd attack, ;Germany’s expert | mountain troops are driving least 20 miles into the section“near where |Yugoslavia, Greecé and Bulgaria THE CITIZEN ‘said to have occurred during a {blinding rain. Names of the pas- |sengers have not been received and because owners of stolen come together north of Salonika. property did not put in an ap-| Athens has admitted that two pearance, Judge Russell said she! Since childhood, David Wiley | here and it has not been reported and Polly Jenkins had planned | in which direction the car was go- to marry. They had planned a_ ing. great many other things, but the! The bridge is the farthest north same difficulty that kept them in the Overseas Highway system from marrying also kept them {and the body of water which it from adventuring out of Arden- | crosses is the dividing line be- dale, into the great world. ‘tween Monroe and Dade coun- That was the fact that both of ties. them had relatives to support. | Then David's Aunt Julia died KID) KIDNAPING IS. ‘and left him all she had, which | was an inn that nobody could! NO KIDDING MATTER | make pay. In spite of the new! ‘ burden, DaVid and Polly had set) (iy Associated Presa) the day—and then little Peter) OKLAHOMA CITY, Apri 18— Wiley descended on David. J. E. Hale has three goats—Pet, pene “site i was making the sentence Thefts, ranging over a period of cactus plants, a gun a tent, wo- men’s dresses and several demi, johns. Two of the boys, admitting they had gone to a bottling works to steal more of the bottles, for which they had been receiving a cent apiece, indignantly denied having taken any of them. “They caught us before we could get in,” they declared. “te light. | jforts:on the sides of the valley have fallen before the German ‘months, have included bottles, ;OnSlaught, but reports say six jothers still are holding out, | A.Germe"s, communique said icrack mountain troops are taking ithe forts in the same manner (they broke soiié Or The strong jpoints of the Maginot Line last summer, |. Stuka dive-bombers are ‘ing the defenders in hair- jthrowers, German reports say, ‘cover the fort with a blanket of ‘fire to hold off attack until the but | Things tangled still farther. | Babe and Nannie—and a police Margo Powers, who was the !dog named Queen. ,daughter of David’s boss and rav-|_ When Babe gave birth to two lishingly beautiful, came back to) kids. one died and Queen adopt- town and decided she needed Da-jed the other, taking it from vid to make her happy. Warren | Babe. { Capt. James B. Cato, Jackson-|McNeill, who loved Margo but| Then Pet had four kids and ville, has taken command of the|not her endless round of gayety,;Queen immediately kidnapped Key West national guard Battery | also arrived. And David, who had|them. Nannie is expecting, too, !E, Fort Crockett, Texas, it was|no idea of forgetting Polly, could,and the Hale family expects learned yesterday. jonly try to work off his frustra-; Queen to get her kids. Capt. W. Curry Harris pre-|tion at the old inn, repairing the} Patsy, Hale’s _ five-year-old iviously had been transferred to}swimming pool. idaughter, bottle feeds the kids | the regimental headquarters bat-| “Magic Spring” is the story of While Queen keeps watch over |tery and he recently has been what happened when crippled them. joined by Lieut. Will E. P. Rob- little Peter Wiley began swim: | jerts. Lieut. Heriry H. Taylor, ming in the pool, and when a dis-| WHAT’S IN A NAME? who was with the Key Westers aster changed a number of blight-; | ‘at Fort Crockett, has been sent to'ed lives into great successes. | HERE S WHAT IT IS. (Wy Associated Press) { Fort Monroe, Va. for special; Allen Eppes is not the right} LEXINGTON, Ky., April 8— i training. name of the author of “Magic; and Mr./When General Pershing Bishop } | REGIMENTAL HEAD- QUARTERS PCE ES Ee Oh Spring”. “Eppes” is actually \infantry can reach it with gren- ‘ades and small cannon. EDITOR VISITING FORT JEFFERSON Some German troops already Wesley Stout, Saturday Eve-! strip of Greece east of Salonika ning Post editor, is visiting at to reach the Aegean sea and ef- Fort Jefferson today aboard the fectively separate Grece from coast guard cutter 185. | Turkey. Coast guard officers said the) Reports of a British land push editor has been vacationing at into Bulgaria, published last Pigeon Key and went with the | night and this morning, apparent- patrol boat yesterday on its reg-|ly have not been confirmed. ular supply run to Dry Tortugas.’ Berlin has reported that no The ship is expeced back to- British troops are engaged in the night. ‘present struggle, although Royal ;Air Force bombers admittedly MINNOWS FROM (Ny Ansoctated Preaay PUEBLO, Colo, April 8— ‘no indication of British land | AXIS TROOPS Watkins | E. Wright, Wright uses the name because he /of Conkling, Ky., appeared before is a very prolific writer and really @ Flying Cadet board here, mem- needs two names to keep up with bers of the board naturally asked Mack Clevenger, drilling a well on his ranch, was down 400. feet when tiny fish began. to appear ticipsition in the fight! ithere are reports that idiers ai ish 80] himself. iquestions about his name. forth. With more than | government employes and most of {them affected from alarm-clock lring until they switch off the lights jat night by every move the gov- ernment makes, there’s a lot of frame residence at 609 Caroline street; formerly the property of Theodore Knowles, |frontage on Caroline street, CROSS AFRICA (By Associated Press) | Mr. Wright was born in Vir-| The youth said his parents ‘ginia, and although now he lives were so enthused at the succseses in New York, he has spent much of the American artriy at the time | ROME, April 8.—Italian and \time in Virginia and North Caro-\he was born in the World war |German troops have completed a@|jing and frequently sets his nov- that they named him in honor of }lightning dash across north Africa jin the water he was bringing .up.: a new iby sieee The well workers. surmised. the..west Honika °° a: minnows came from some distant }.0'7 4 lake or stream connected .. with. Briti is ‘expected to: | the underground wager. through »made on a fault in rock strata, |better protected front afforded Willie Wilkinson, charged with assault and battery, and Eliza- beth Scheibler, held on a charge of using and wrecking an auto- mobile belonging to I. E. Sherrod, yesterday were bound over to criminal court by Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. The justiee set $50 bond the pair. for - Legionnaires To Make Final RENEDO GRANTED | | BUILDING PERMIT Helio Renedo, 903 Virginia! street, yesterday was granted a| building permit for $250 to be spent in repairs. Drive For Convention Fund A final drive to put the finan- cial aspects of the American Le- gion’s state convention over the top will be undertaken’ by the Key West Convention corporation at once, it was decided at a meet- ing of the corporation's directors last night When Albert Mills, executive director of the corporation, re ported that the remaining budget n expenditure of the entertain izes for the drum the corporation was at hand for nup drive. of the corporation will! into two teams and a round of business other spots for con- ill dispose of tickets to the new car sale and in that way hope to reach’ their objective. William A. Freeman, treasurer lof the corporation, made a com plete ‘finaneial report, \ showing that all bills to date had been paid and that there was a substantial cash balance on hand. Entertainment of the American Legionnaires will be quite an item. It was decided to authorize Mrs. Julio De Poo and Mrs. Eva Warner, WPA recreational visor for the area, to dresses for 4 young women whe are being drilled at this time Also it was decided to have | Bozo’s team of 14 rhumba dancers | engaged for the occasion. They} will dance every night during the convention, April 23-26, in front! of La Concha hotel. Colored lights are being strung for the oc- casion. talk, but it more often is about the effects than the things that cause them. For instance, I've ;never been in a city where there is | so much talk about housing and rentals as there is here right now The two baby jaguars at the zoo got a terrific ride, as we say in the newsroom. The city _ still is practically divided _ into camps on what caused a_ street car wreck here a week ago when one car plowed into the middle of another trolley moving at right angles. And more than 75,000 persons in one week visited new National (Mellon) Gallery of Art which opened only a short time ago. STEAMER ALAMO ARRIVES HERE The Clyde-Mallory Alamo arrived here this afternoon with 182 tons of freight for Key West The vess to contin k to Tampa. freighter New SOUTHERNMOST FLOWERS EASTER LILLIES. it 616 DUVAL PHONE 136 the | {to re-capture Derna in Libya, a |communique said today. | No details were given ‘that the Axis troops had taken jthe city with little resistance. | Derna is 105 miles from Ben- jgasi, which was taken by the jltalian and German troops last except five | Week after it had been evacuated Preferred”, was done for the ra- jby the British. j TUESDAY |Stone Church Service Club. 6:00 | p.m. i | Catholic Daughters meet, 8:00 p. i ™ i Key West Honie Guard meets at | National Guard armory, 8:00} pm ' | THURSDAY | {Jun r Club Social, 5:00 pr Lic ets at 6:30 pm eminary Street. sion meets, Coun- Courthouse, 8:00 p.m. }Rotary Club meets | St. Paul's Parish Hall 15 DAYS UNTIL jthe AMERICAN LEGION’S STATE CONVENTION + 12:15 pm! .that damage had been heavy, els in one or the other of these the A.EF. general. states. He first “broke into” the writ-| ing game when a high school student in Asheville, N. C a was with a play called “Put It On| The Map”, which was first per- formed professionally, and later published. Another play, “Helen /Abilene — ise TEMPERATURES _ Lowest last Highest last night 43 38 39 42 ONE TRIPLE PLAY . WAS NOT ENOUGH (P+ Ansoctated Press) MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 8— hours = The Weirich brothers did their 7 matrimonial bit by the Larkin sisters when Virgil Weirich mar- ried Hazel Larkin, Elgin wed Lucia and Woodrow married Marie. | But there aren't any more Weirich brothers and there still are Helen, Cecilia and Rita in the Larkin family. - dio. His fiction has appeared in Boston a great many magazines, among , Bristol them the New Yorker, College Casper Humor and Young's. \Charleston For the last eight years he has |Chicago been under contract to two book | Chicago publishers, and has published a | Cincinnati long list of novels, of which | Denver “Magic Spring” is one of the most | Detroit popular. In addition, a number El Paso of his books have been published | Galveston in Englnad. This is his first As- | Hatteras sociated Press serial. Havre “Magic Spring” begins in The Huron Citizen today. Read this thrill- ‘Jacksonvitie® ing novel daily. | Kansas City Severa Robert S. Yount, who turned up in city jail Sunday with « beer-drinking monkey, yesterday departed for Washington, D. C. after leaving the monkey and $25 with Judge William V. Albury's criminal court Yount, charged with stealing the pet from Laverne Schwartz, was ordered to pay the fine or spend 60 days in jail He chose the fine and immediately left Key West. Talmadge Carey, held on a charge of stealing a suit valued at $25, was sentenced to 60 days in county jail, and KR. Boombower, charged with petty larceny in SSASSSsSersegsesss BSLSRsesegsusess ‘KEY WEST Medford Miami ——— |New Orleans {Ny Associated Press) iNew York LONDON, April 6—Fleets of |Okla. City os « ers last night hammered Gias-/ Pittsburgh % gow, Liverpool, central England | Portland 45 and Belfast in Eire. iSt. Louis 47 » the cities were bombed repeated-;San Francisco 51 ly over a period of six hours Spokane Mu during the night and admitted Sit Ste. Marie 2% Nashville several hundred German bomb- | Phoenix The air ministry said some of Salt Lake City [Washington - 42 ARASI2RRIAe | by the river. | Athens says an entire colurnn ‘of German troops was caught in a valley in south Yugoslavia and wiped out to the last man. Belgrade, bombed repeatedly yesterday, has taken a new bom- bardment by German planes to- day and the entire city is reported in ruins. German reports say Stukas destroyed 32 Yugoslav planes on the ground and 20 more were shot down. German bombers also spread destruction to bridges and rait roads east of Belgrade in a series of lightning attacks last night. | Cases Disposed Of — At Criminal Court Session ed $445. was sentenced to 9 days. Testimony indicated Boom. bower had broken into homes and trailers to steal the money Edward Goddard, Washington youth who was ordered to leave town after he had been convict ed of vagrancy last month, veo terday came back on the same count for a -day sentence Judge Albury told the boy the tion of joining the navy. Jane Woods, charged vagrancy. was ordered to pay $10 fine, plus costs, or days in county jail She pai fine,