The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 12, 1941, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit H Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Kry West Cttizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1941 ¥ OLUME LXIIL. No. 88. PRICE FIVE CENTS APPRO ATION Reorganized Yugostavian Soldiers Stiffly Oppose German Invaders; RAF Bombers» Join Activities Temporary Agreement Reacied In Strike At Ford Company Plant; Opposition To Germans In Northern Part Of Yugo- slavia Reported To Be At) An End (Ny Associated Press) Young King Peter II took per- sonal command of his troops to- (By Ann WASHINGTON, April ted Prens) 12, —jthe plant swings back into full Employes of the giant Ford Motor | Production after 11 days of idle- ness. agaed Pan er er Rouge, | Seventy-six General Motor Mich., Monday will return to company plants, meanwhile, may | {work under the terms of a tem-/go on strike next week unless ef- {porary agreement worked out by ! forts to mediate a dispute are suc- {CIO and company leaders. cessful before that time. Com- " ans ‘ . | Defense mediation officials;pany officials have refused a said “the military situation is im- here said a few men would return) union demand that they sign a proving.” \at first, with others following as closed shop agreement. day as Yugoslav and Greek sol- diers struck back in a counter- drive against apparently stale- to mated German columns. A communique from Athens Rome said Italian troops have | ~~ taken a city in, northern, Yugo- Select-C F in Sapiand Milnes Gert ommittees or egion man and Italian‘soldiers have ef-| ected a junction near the Al| banian border, completing the | job of cutting off the southern part of Yugoslavia from the re-| mainder of the nation. Committees representing the, Key West unit of the woman's auxiliary of Arthur Sawyer gate, G. D. Hatfield, Mills, Wm. R. Warren, Douglass. Albert J. re- Will Resume Work On Monday Auxiliary Work At Convention Stephen j AMERICAN ENTRY INTO GREENLAND TERMED ED ILLEGAL GERMAN REPRESENTATIVE | PREDICTS REACTION FROM | HIS) GOVERNMENT FOL- LOWING INCIDENT 1 | | \ | | | | | (By Associated Press) BERLIN, April 12.—A foreign office spokesman today that American entry into Green- land is “illegal” “appropriate reaction” | government | German government levidently were in President Roosevelt's from his leaders taken by surprise sudden tection over Greeland. What action the Nazi foreign office will take has not been re- vealed, but it is understood here the German government — will ‘make no formal protest until aft-| er the Dinish government at} ;Copenhagen has declared its re- ‘action. YOU MAY TREASURE A BATTERED STRAW jated Press) ST. . April 12—The smart man will not throw his straw hat on the baseball dia- mond this summer. or -pitch. the old honnet in the tr can. He may have to wear it other season—and like it. The reason is that the straw} ‘hat industry—another war victim —forsees difficulty in getting materials for the 1942 crop Manufacturers here y the shortage may even be noticed at an- declared | and predicted an! action of placing American pro- } Key West Makes Ready | | For Legion Convetion- Fifty Thousand Dollars For Proposed Activities |Five Hundred And Twenty- | SOCIETY 40 & 8 Streets, a ss ai Resi- SDITTIOOLS dences Will Be Decor-|POLICE CAPTAIN | FACED REAL GUN | ated For Big Event) : ° | echamaaoes Starting April 23 i Police Captain Alberto Ca- ‘| mero came close to heart fail- | ure yesterday when he dis- its! covered after he had knocked what he thought was a toy Pistol out of the hands of a 17-year-old boy who threat- ened to shoot him, that it was the real thing. Herbert Boomhower, Sara- sota youth who escaped from county jail Wednesday after he had been senteficed to 90 days the previous afternoon on a petty larceny charge. threatened Camero with a .38 caliber savage automatic sh | when he was captured on ; in The! Trumbo island. jcity making contracts for the! Camero, thinking the gun ! 54 | was a toy, jumped forward jdecorations and they should be; and knocked it out of Boom- hower’s hand. The youth was returned to late yester- day to await a new trial. Key West must decorate | Streets and store fronts for the | American Legion state conven- | tion because of the advertising | value that will come from that] |decoration, Albert Mills, execu-| tive director of the Key West Con- | vention corporation, said today. Representatives of the Finch Decorating company are given every encouragement, Mills said, “The American Legion's State TST STS SS. SS jcohvention will be the first con-! véntion of that magnitude ,that ;has ever chosen Key West as its! meeting place”, Mills said. “The | lcity should be liberally decorated | to present a gala and dressed-up appearance. PLANS TO"BUY: ~ DANISH SHIPS “The decorations are very rea- sonable. If the shop owner had UP WITH CONGRESS to buy his own decorations and INSTEAD OF TOY | F.D.R. WILL TAKE MATTER) Five Members In Monroe | a : | County Will Profit By | j New Line The Citizen is in receipt ‘of a wire from Senator \Charles O. Andrews | Washington, D. C., advising that a $50,000 allotment has i been approved for the Flor- sida Keys Cooperative Elec- tric Association, Inc., Key | West, to build 89 miles of jelectric line to serve 525 BENJAMIN C. HILLIARD, JR. | members on the Florida Keys He hails from Denver, Colo.,! and under his direction, he is ehef, @2d Monroe County, [de chemin de fer of the 40 & 8,| the American Legion's fun and) mother wire has been re- honor organization, more than | ceived from Oscar Johnson, 43,000 “voyageurs” are giving) service in Legion work and are. secretary to Senator Pepper, contributing to the spirit of the Legion comradeship through their | telling of the approval given |to the project, amt advises _ funmaking activities. ' April 22 and will leave April 24. ‘that while the amount stated Mr,...Hilliagd , will “arrive: bane. ‘ARRANGE EASTER |" jis not enough to complete the additional funds SUNRISE SERVES va ease tc som | coming later. John A, Russell of Mate- | ! | TO BE GIVEN AT BAYVIEW | Royal Air Force bombers con- tinued to provide the most effec- tive resistance to the advancing Germar flyers pounded a column near the Vardar river with furious intensity. Flyers said they had seen heavy tanks hurtling through the air, so} great was the force of the heavy bombs. A German communique claimed slight advances and admitted that reorganized Yugoslav soldiers were providing stiff opposition in the south. Opposition in the northern part of the country, the communique said, is at an end. The American legation»sat Bel- | grade informed the state depart- ment that German bombs had de- stroyed the home of the United States ambassador, but residents of the house were uninjured. COPEL. Me | | Stephen PEANUT ROASTER VERY MUCH ALIVE | man. Post No. 28 of the American Le- gion as well as civic groups in the city were selected by the chair- gion here April 23-26. The committees are all working under the general direction of Mrs. A. M. Morgan, general chair- Names of the committees are as follows: DISTINGUISHED GUESTS Mesdames Albert J. Mills, chai man; Willard M. Albury, Carl Bervaldi, Wm. R. Warren, Step- |hen Douglass, L. L. Pendleton, Wallace Kirke, Harry Prindle, | Miss Etta Patterson. EXECUTIVE BOARD DINNER =~ Mesdames Wm. Richardson, chairman; Ralph Sawyer, N. B. Shannahan. | SECRETARIES LUNCHEON Mesdames Sebastian Cabrera, J chairman; Lee Pierce, Carl Rom, Douglass, Isabel Ball Emerson Archer. PAST PRESIDENT’S PARLEY LUNCHEON—Mrs. George Lucas, chairman men today to work for the state! convention of the American Le- EIGHT AND dames Ralph Alce Curry, Warner. OFFICER'S Mrs. Wm. R. Warren, chairman. MEMORIAL AND DISPLAYS —Mrs. Arthur Pastorini, chair- man. GOLD STAR MOTHER'S sdames George Ar tephen Dougla Arthur Pastorini, Frederic Knapp, Al- bert J. Mills, Horace O’Bryant AMERICANISM AND TIONAL DEFENSE BRE FAST—Mesdames Frederic W. Knapp, chairman; Dan Navarro, Rob Ro TRA Mes- dames } Shannahan, chair- man, Marjorie Lopez, Miss Juanita Dongo PUBLICITY - Lee, chairman; FORTY — Mes- Milner, chairman; Mary Walton, Eva TEA, her, chair- — Mesdames Wm abel Ball. STATE LEGISLATURE IN EASTER RECESS LUNCHEON —' the retail counter this summer, MONDAY although most manufacturers had Put them up and tear them down the cost would. be many times what the Finch company is charg- ing. “The members of Arthur Saw- |placed orders from 18 months to |two vears ahead Materials for even the very pest, are im- ported. The bulk comes from the Yet Post No. 28 and the Key Orient or other areas involved in Convention — corporation the war. worked hard to make _ this vention a grand success be a grand succ if the streets ships in this country ,| are properly decorated day. “In every other city in the state Following on the that has had the state convention Preaiientis deciarat that the of the American Legion they have © "CS!@ent's declaration tha z made a special effort to decorate Red Sea and Gulf of Aden are the streets, the store fronts and now open to American shipping, the private dwellings. Most of his plan for purchase of the Dan- SII S SSS aS. those cities looked wonderfully jsh ships which were seized last CONFERS HONORARY bright andi clean week is believed to be the fore- “How is Key West? We don't want to fall down on the job, Tuner of new aid to the Allies DEGREE ON WINANT There are some stores that have in the Balkans ordered decorations and some; After studying plans for an in- ; that have not. Those that have crease not will suffer greatly by com- parison with those that h “We cannot fall down on dec- orations, for 3000 or more will be and women of the American Le- lion to 4 million tons (ny A” cmnted Presa) WASHINGTON, April President Roosevelt today de ferred with administration lead- con. ¢fs in Congress and announced he It will Would ask for purchase of Danish Mon- 12.— con- most straw hats, che EGGS UNBROKEN = BOSTON—William J Ly of this city fell and broke his leg in two places, but doctors found a package of eggs in his overcoat pocket, unbroken Han heels of the in American ship building BRISTOL, England, April 12.—Thousands of residents of this industrial city. after spending most of last night in shelters while German bomb- capacity, President Roosevelt pre dicted that in 1942. this country 3% of shipping pol producing from mil- PARK AT 6:07 O'CLOCK; MUSICAL PROGRAM The Annual Sunrise Easter | Service sponsored by the Minis- terial Alliances and the Key West churches will be held at Bayview | Park Easter Sunday at seven minutes after six o'clock, this be- ing the sunrise hour. The Rev. W. R. Howell, pastor | of the Fleming Street Methodist Church will be the minister to de-! liver the Easter message, entitled, | “The Hope of the Resurrection.” The Rev. A. C. Riviere willbe the chairman and all the churches} will take part. Music will) be; given by the High School Glee Clubs, under direction of Miss Madaline Weeks The program is to be as follows: Hymn, “All Hail the Power of Jesus Name.” (Shrubsole) Anthem, “Easter Jubilate,” from Mendelssohn by Margaret Brown. Junior Glee Club. Prayer, led by Rev. Ted Jones, First Baptist Church pes is president of the as- sociation. PURCHASE LAND ON MATECUMBE K. C, Jakoubek and Harvey Vincent, Price county, Wisconsin, yesterday purchased for about | $500 a tract on Upper Matecumbe from George E. Sweeting, Key | West The land runs along the shore of Florida bay. Cyril Lowe and. Lorena Pinder lof Key West, in another transac tion recorded today, sold to Pres- ton B. Pinder a lot on Matecumbe | Beach for $100. TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest las! night Whours 66 Abilene 60 A tip from the Ocala Morn- ing Banner that “Pee-Wee", former Ringling Brothers’ acrobatic clown, had taken his own life in Key West. yesterday turned out to be all a mistake, “Pee - Wee,” industriously stoking a peanct roaster at Duval and Southard streets last night. denied the whole business. “You tell those folks in Ocala,” he said, “that I'm 51 years old and I feel as if I'm 25. I like it in Key West or I wouldn't be doing this” (pointing at the peanut roast- er), “Tell ‘em Pee-Wee's ©. k.” A veteran of the Ringling and Sparks circuses, Pee- Wee first came here years ago yhen a circus played Key West. Later he lived for 15 years in Ocala and moved here about three years ago. BPLaL as. hntnhtleadean 11 DAYS UNTIL the AMERICAN LEGION’S STATE CONVENTION TICKETS — Mesdames John Delgado, chairman; Ray Navarro. | Wm. Reardon, Roy McKillip, Wm T. Fripp, Jos. E. Shourds, George Mills White, Isabel Ball, Russell Hoff. HALLS, PLATFORM, CHAIRS and MARKERS—Mesdames Mil- ton Sawyer, chairman; Wm. Richardson, James Singleton, Irving Sweeting, Miss Etta Pat- terson FLAG CLOSED WEEK OF SPEEDY ACTION: IMPORTANT BILLS ON SENATE CANLENDAR TALLAHASSEE, Both houses of the t 1 Easter whi reces —Mesdames Willard Al- @ Week in bury, chairman; John Pinder, Ar- thur Pastorini, John Fleming REGISTR ATION — Mesd Carl Berv Sjursen, Juliett riguez Atwood Richardson INFORMATION Joseph Lopez Mills, John Offv wood; Misses I Know Annabel Rodri Lels Marguc Alice Aguil Margaret Susan LaKin, Ramona RECEPTION vin Russe ~ Coy, C. T berg. George Lu GIFTS Mesd, Douglass, chairr torini FLOW) Carleton signs legislation Senate yesterday became The COMES TO KEY “WEST FOR FISHING OUTING ers carried out a devastating raid, today turned out to watch Prime Minister Wins- ton Churchill award an honorary law degree to United States Ambassador Winant. Bristol and the neighbor- ing city of Plymouth both sustained damages and heavy casualties during the night as squadrons of German planes smashed at them with fire and high explosive bombs. Raging fires in a residen- tial section of Bristol were quickly brought under control during the night and the air ministry said no important damage had been sustained. TDI IIa ALAS LEONARD H. SACHS, Representing THE MAXWELL CO., Inc. WHOLESALE Furnishings, Restaurant Equipment and Venetian Blinds WILL BE IN KEY WEST AT SOUTHERN CROSS HOTEL Furniture, 326 Duval Street MONDAY AND TUESDAY Interviews or Contacts With Anyone Interested gion will be here for four days and each year. they will notice the effort the city has put forward to string flags DEFENSE JOBS Ee oto STILL GROWING , HOW TO FEEL YOU (fv Associated Preaa> ARE RIGHT HOME new york, April 12—n paierer eS fense industries are raising the (Ry Assoctated Presa) |dickens with model railroad clubs MILLINOCKET, Me.. April! by picking off the most expert John Porter members for der 4 ha | nimb: fingers for his engine, but for! patier For this we ha the word of Richard a Merie, chairman of th New York Society of Model E gineers, which particularly membership. The reason, man who wi rated me tease into operating acquires an apti tude needed by the defense in dustries One amateur who built a gaso- line engine, a Merie relates, now has a job testing airplane en- gines. Another who teamed up with a machinist on a model lnco- motive now is testing sights. Still another is over the potential value of idle locomotives. Such men turned to making models in the first place because of @ social condition, a Merie be- ileves. 12. en-} jobs hous: nase and gineer. bu: here—not himself The seven-room dwelling. look- ng » like a silo, has several advantages, Por' Be there's no waste : cinch to hea t because she corners to clean.” rt believ has exp cause heavy raids on its 1 be Porter } of co is that Phone $132 rienced |* Anthem, “In Joseph's Lovely Boise Garden,” (Dickenson) by High Boston School Senior Glee Club. Butfato cad ine Burlington : Casper r Chicago Rev. E. | Cincinnati jonat (Denver Detroit El Paso 32 36 4l 55 52 67 62 6 73 61 a 8 yu 4 oo 81 “4 “6 77 86 82 *B a0 72 7 7 7 73 al » a“ 52 Matthem Howell, pas- Methodist Scripture B:1-5 by Rev , Church Offering and Offertory Doherty Congregat Churct tor A Song of the Resur (Moore Senior Glee Huron Jacksonville KEY WEST Los Angeles Sermon, by Rev. W. R. Howell, leming Street Methodist Church. Benediction, Rev. G. Perez, El Salvador Latin Mission < This Sunrise Service wilt pre- Miami ther services that will | Minneapolis a he same day held |New Orleans y West churches New York Okla. City Phoenix St. Louis Sait Lake City Sen Francisco Spokane Sit. Ste. Marie 37 6 Washington 7 % face many be dedicat in the varior 46 82 45 “SUNRISE EASTER SERVICE BAYVIRW PARK €:07 A. M. Easter Morning EVERYONE INVITED Sponsored by The Ministerial | Alliance and Churches of Key West SERVICE STATION ATTENDANTS WANTED —— PO Lou Smith Auto Service |) Duval af Division Phone No. 5 i