The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 14, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizs THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXII. No. 89. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1941 Ratio Growth In Key ‘West In Decade’ Was 0.7 Percent Four Other Cities Grew At Exactly Same Rate Pe- (FEDERAL REFUGES | HOLD OPEN HOUSE IN WILDLIFE WEEK EVENT FROM APRIL 14 TO 18 SPONSORED BY NA- Renamed To Bench — During Ten-Year ICE riod (Washington Correspondent of the Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., April Great White Heron and Key West National Wildlife Refuges in Key |West during National | Restoration Week which \(April 14-19) being celebrated |throughout the country, ‘sored by the National 14.—Key West's rate of growth during the decade from 1930 to! 1940 was higher than that record- ed by 283 of the country’s 1,082 ‘\Earle R. Greene, Refuge Manager } “urban places” of 10,000 or more | population, according to the cen- sus bureau. Increasing in size from a popu- lation of 12,831 in 1930 to 12,927 | in 1940, Key West registered a! jthe refuge headquarters, | With ar f 221 growth ratio of 0.7 percent. Seven ith areas of 2215 acres, the) hundred and eighty-eight “urban places” grew faster. The rate of growth for all “urban places” in the entire coun- | The 1,082) try was 6.1 percent H “urban places” include five! of Greater New York, | listed separately, as well as a to- tal for New York City. In Florida, Key West showed ; the lowest rate of increase inj population, with the exception of ; St. Augustine whose population! showed a decre boroughs Judge William V. Albu BROTHER VS, BROTHER were Refuges Help Restore Wildlife | “The refuge system plays |important role in. the co tion of our wildlife resource: \clared Hishment = these areas there has Bids for the |two bridges which construction will. replace | wooden spans in Overseas High- Lowest last/Highest last way considerably higher night @hours ‘than the estimate, State Senator 65 David E. Ward revealed today 34 ; Ina letter to Stephen Singleton, j Secretary | of the chamber of com- {merce, Senator Ward said the jroad department will cooperate on a fifty-fifty basis the fed leral government to the wooden bridges | The bridges wh placed are betwe TEMPERATURES — were c Abilene Boise Boston Buffalo Chicago Cincinnath Denver Detroit El Paso Galveston Hatteras Havre Huron Jacksonville KEY WEST Los Angeles Medford with replace are to be re d jand lowe Ward s. ° meeting of the April when th JUDGE ALBURY Great White Heron and Key West tection of Great White and other ministered by the Fish and Wild- FLORIDA Naas CONFIRMS Hawaii, Greene said. MORE ON CRIMINAL COURT jsize from l-acre islands to the comprises almost 2,000,000 acres completes a 15-day term as city} . Establishing refuges is, of same..rate as Key West during firmed by the-Florida senate for.|tained were. Seattle, Wash., and Wilkinsburg, | Judge Albury has served as Proving refuges, he explained, is Largest rate of growth was re-| Judge W. P. Archer, population was West Frankfort, |bench came from R. A. Gray, sec- | by the W.P.A. and the N-Y.A. cent. Eight cities in the country |term begins May 7. {found on the sanctuary,” Greene San Francisco, Calif.; Wil- LINCOLN, Neb—Cruiser {birds or mammals.” He added mobile collision in this city found | marily for migratory waterfow Lodi, N. J.; Ellwood City, Penn., — a --- d game, fur animals, and other Bids For Building Two Highway of extirpation and even extinc- the two principal things of many forms of wildlife are the hunting. ‘Bhese measures, he ex- improved climatic conditions fol tions for migratory waterfowl throughout the y and by re- j bridges again wil been curbed and the birds have JUDGE WM. V. ALBURY [National Wildlife Refuge were | CONFIRMED FOR ‘established primarily for the pro- | ‘herons, brown pelicans and gulls. ANOTHER TE These refuges are two of 263 ad- life Service throughout the United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and These refuges have a_ total EA! s | aver ‘FOR FOUR eae jabout 13,500,000 acres, ranging in ‘Aleutian Islands National Wild- ne 'life Refuge in Alaska, which {and extends 1,200 miles westward who | from the Alaska Peninsula. ase ,of 0.2. percent. \magistrate this afternoon, learn- | course, only a beginning, Greene Four cities grew at exactly the oq today that he has been con-|ddded.” Many of the areas ob- the ten-year period, They were: another, four-year term as. judge} refuges at the time and required Millville. N, J.;| Paducah, Ky.; of the county's criminal court, [a great deal of development. Im- city magistrate for the past two {one of the Service's objectives. vies weeks during the vacation of | Much of this work, Greene said, corded by Hobbs, New Mexico, | The tonfirmation of Judge ,of the Civilian Conservation 1,675.8 percent. Largest drop in/Albury’s election to the county Corps. Help has also been given \retary of state, with a letter from} “While all wildlife refuges pro- Illinois, which declined 15.7 per- \Sehator David Ward. The new {tect the many forms of wildlife did not change in size so much | | said, “each area is usually par- as one-tenth of one percent. They | |ticularly beneficial to certain | car that 176 refuges in the limantic, Conn.; Malden and officers investigating an auto- | wide system were established pri- Pittsfield, Mass.; Niles, Mich.; ithe cars were driven by Emmett 50 for colonial nongame birds, 24 and Temple, Tex. and Roseoe Coleman, brothers. for migratory birds, small | wildlife, and 13 for big-game ani- mals. of that had been close to the point | jtion.” The wildlife expert said servationists have done about the present “healthy” satus establishment of wildlife refuges and the stricter regulation of plained, have made it possible for the wildlife to take advantage of lowing the great drought crisis “By basing its recommenda hunting regulations on knowledge of the conditions of the birds ducing the bag- * when necessary, overshoot en an opportunity to re numbers. gain U Hunt | prover Monroc SPECIALS Monday and Tuesday at BROADWAY MARKET 15¢ Spokane Sit. Ste Wa Mar ington $ € program GROUND MEAT. Ib Swift Premium or Star HAM. (small half) DAYS UNTIL the AMERICAN LEGION’S STATE CONVENTION 25c |: 1Se | Phone 178 |“ b ~ BOLOGNA. ib 701 Duval St. TIONAL WILDLIFE SERV-) of | only _ prospective ; Open house will be held at the! Wildlife | is now} spon- | ! Wildlife |Federation, it was announced by | ‘|of the Fish and Wildlife Service, ; Worth was re United States Department of the Member of the Florida Industrial ) Individuals and private organ-' the ¢ feetlons who wish to vigit the | formerly refuge may make arrangements | Lake Worth. by calling on Manager Greene at |Commission he will represent em- GIVEN APPOINTMENT imanding a 10 cent hourly wae Inight even if no STRIKE D ; SET FOR T NIGHT WORKMEN IN STEEL PLANTS WILL WORK TOMOR- ROW, HOWEVER (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 14—CIO jworkmen at United States Steel! plants probably will continue to | {work tomorrow, although a strike | deadline is set for tonight. Union leaders, who are d increase, said today postpone the strike they beyond agreement Mediators will} to- | is | are reached today. ‘convinced the union and company i ARTHUR W. RITZAUR | Arthur W. Ritzaur of Lake! sntly appointed a Governor Hof-; ‘land. Mr. Ritzaur is a member of ‘arpenters’ Union and was Building Inspector of As a member of the }Commission by { ployees. | i | nation- }come his Confidential jin the White up- | fice, serva- a rea old brite the etal jeral thousa rms ibeen a decided return of species | '® i} | that mt S at to bring }last night at 11:5: jyears old. He jhas been carried on with the aid|past two months. EVERARD TIBBOTT ATTAc ‘DIED LAST NIGHT, representatives are promise, near a com- Mediators also feel they are j near success in their, efforts to| effect a compromise which will | return 250,000 soft coal miners to} their tools. Southern operators are said to have halted efforts to! settle the strike until now. { Another strike at Standard Tool works in Cleveland has} {been settled and men will return! to work tomorrow. \ ( 1 { ‘ACK MADE ON BORDEAU { jinto the Balkans, but German and! } ‘Italian newspapers hailed \diplomacy. ‘Germans Suffered PRICE FIVE | CENT TS Tene Losses During Fighting In Washington Makes No Comment On ‘Signing Of Of Russia-Japanese Pact 5 (ity Associated Press) ' WASHINGTON, April 14. —Of-| ficial Washington today refused | a eS to comment on the newly signed non-aggression pact between Bae and Japan, but newspapers ! throughout the world gave widely | {varying interpretations of the! treaty. q Pravda, semi-official Russi: paper, said “the treaty will le: Japan and Russia free to st ‘their destinies,” but did not ex. {plain exactly what wil be its fect. London newspapers suggested Department Commander | 1 t & {the pact might leave Russia free | in the east to oppose Hitler's drive the| @ triumph for then | treaty as a Chinese spokesmen in Wash- ington said they do not believe SERVICE AT LOPEZ caaeeel SCORES OF FRENCH PRISON- | ‘the treaty will interfere with | THIS AFTERNOON AT 4 O'CLOCK | petanetA | died 5 o'clock at the home, 1020 South street will be held this o'clock at the Lopez Mrs. R. R. Ricketts. The body will be taken to Mi- ami tomorrow morning by the Lopez Furierat’fome where” it will be cremated, after which the ashes will be shipped to his home | in Indianapolis, Indiana Everard Frank Tibbott was 82 had been ill for the He was born in Ohio, Sept. 22, 1858 and ih his early days wa: court steno- grapher and late reporter for the Associated Pre: He was as- signed to cover General Harri- son’s presidential campaign in 1888 and Mr. Harrison was so im- | Pressed with his ability and per- jsonality that he asked him te be- Secretary in which throughout term of of- Everard Franklin Tibbott Services 4 Chapel by afternoon House, pacity he acted President Harrison 1889-1893, and continued as his private secretary until his death in 1901 Recently, during the tion of Pres. Harris biography. Mr. Tibbott, at Mrs. Har} request, reviewed and transer short-hand notes. nd letter ind mem en Harrison's nator | feat id aside y of the ther system liar. | prepara- n’s during rited States remark had 1 oranda I and Pre: biden fter he 40 year: jail short ha att ha all the Pre from Harr Pr per yn to H Har ter Ger “lage ERS KILLED IN RAID BY BRITISH \ (By Associated Press) BERLIN, April 14. — Heavy | British air attacks on the Ger- man-occupied city of Bordeaux | last night brought death to scores of French prisoners when bombs dropped on a prison camp, it was | revealed here today. ~The air ministry...said British} planes bombed Lorient and Brest | in addition to the attack on Bor- |deaux, but a report said little damage was done in any of the! cities. | German planes, meanwhile, } struck at a convoy in the North Sea, sinking 33,000 tons of mer- | chant shipping. Other German planes in the Mediterranean were , said to have crippled two British | destroyers. MISS B. A. RUSSEL DIED THIS MORNING | FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON Miss Bessie 42, died this early hour at the Petronia street Funeral services will be held at 4:00 p. m. tomorrow from the residence. William A, Edwards, of the Grace and Truth Hall, will officiate. Survivors include the mother, Mrs. Alice H. Russell; three ters, Mrs. Catherine Russell, Mr: Una Monsalvatge and Mrs. Al- berta Sills, and a brother, Dwight Russell Lopez Funeral Home charge of arrangements. Russell, at an 1118 Amelia morning residence, sis COMMANDER TEAM under Mr Ww very nf COMING TO CTTY |MEDICAL OFFICER TRANS- LEGISLATURE TO | RECONVENE TODAY TALLAHASSEE. April 14. —Florida legislators. who re cessed Friday for the Easter holidays, will reconvene late this afternoon efter extend- ing their holiday through most of today. NOW IN EFFECT | Special Summer Weekly and Monthly RATES CENTRAL HOTEL Duval and Southard Streets Aexocinthd Preast i FERRED FROM VIRGINIA TO KEY WEST who Va West Portsmouth ferred to Key || SOUTHERNMOST FLOWERS WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SPLENDID EASTER PATRONAGE 616 DUVAL PHONE 136 | Japanese-Russian move jare visitors in Tallahassee. Young {Russian shipments of supplies to! ithe embattled army of Chiang! |Kai-Shek, but Japanese news- | papers intimated there would be | no further aid for China from | Russia and hinted that Moscow! may step in to mediate the war. | Whatever the effects of the in Eu- rope, most observers in Washing- | ne expect Japan to take more! will preside at all business |ambitious steps in her campaign} °° sessions of the convention. |to control the south Pacific. BERV ALDI GIVEN. PARROTT WORKS IN TALLAHASSEE DEFENSE CONTROL |SENDS. LETTER TO THE CITI- ZEN TELLING OF HIS ACTIVITIES LISLE SMITH Of Haines City, Fla., is Florida department commander of the | American Legion which will hold its annual convention in Key West April 23-26. As com- mander of the state, Mr. Smith FENSE CORPS IN MON- ROE COUNTY Carl Bervaldi, chairman of the Monroe county commission, will be delegated to control this coun- {ty’s share of the state home de- \. iter from Milton A. Parrott at fense corps, Stephen Singleton, Tallahassee stating that he iS! chamber of commerce secretary, keeping in daily touch with hap- ‘announced today. penings in the legislature and al- | Singleton, who’ returned to jso with U.S. Senators Claude} Key West yesterday after attend- Pepper and Charles O. Andrews | |ing a meeting of the state defense in Washington. group at West Palm Beach, said Mr. Parrott, who is familiarly | fe would be unable to reveal known to his numerous friends | details of the group's action un in Key West as “Mickey”, states | jtil he had furnished Bervaidi The Citizen is in receipt of a jin his letter that he will be more | with a written report. than glad to render any service | possible for The Citizen and Key | Singleton sid, “is that Bervaldi West during his stay in the state/has been chosen to direct the capital, whieh will be for the du- | Key ‘West’ and Monroe county ration of the legislative session. (end of the defense organizatio The following is a clipping re- lative to Mr. Parrett which was taken from the Tallahassee pa- per: “Milton A. Parrott and his son, | Joseph Anthony, of Key West, | “One thing I can tell you”, Parrott, who is four years old, is said to be the youngest member of the American Legion. He is a! protege of Senator David Elmer Ward of Fort Myers and he and his father keeps in constant touch with United States Senators C. O. Andrews and Claude Pepper”. Adolph Valdes, owner of the | Plaza hotel, will arrive in Key West this week to super- v. IAPLLAL SL 2 vise the hotel reservations for the trip a bss American S roagacicly SEA WILL BE SUNK the convention here closes, Al (Re Associated Press) Mills, executive director of the Key West Convention corpora tion, announced today. Mr. Valdes runs one of the best ROME. April 14—Virginio joteis in Havana, and all of those Gayda, authoritative Rome naking the trip to the Cuban editor, warned the United [capital will be housed in it. The States today that any Ameri- | biaza will be headquarters for the can ships appearing in the group while in Havana Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden Civilian population will be sunk. Wiest will be carried Gayda said German and oy, the same trip, Mills ‘The Italian naval units are active in those waters, while bomb- ers make frequent and effec- tive attacks there. Havana, of Key fare is $30 from Key West, to in clude the boat trip of 90 miles across the Straits of Florida and return; the hotels and al! meals; the entertainment and other as- SHIDO D IDO 0.0005 i the tip left left “Nothing has been out” soeeeee Mills said “Everything ‘& in- Wanted! Wanted! cluded, right down to the trans Dishwashers, waitresses, cooks portation of baggage from the and bus boys for the American boat to the hotel It is one of the Legion Convention week. cheapest trips to Havana that was Apply at cs ever announced.” ree LA CONCHA HOTEL Ni Approximately « gion- ecoee| (Continued on Page Four) oH DELEGATED TO CO TO CONTROL DE- | i Havana | Communication And Trans- portation Disrupted By lazis In Yugoslav. Sec- tions (By Associated Press) German dive bombers, striking lat railroads and highways in fevety pert of Yugoslavia, today | continued to overshadow the ex- ‘ploits of ground forces which have stalled before a combined Greek-British defense line. i A London communique de- ‘scribes a major battle Friday in {which regiments of Adolf Hitler's ‘crack S.S. storm troopers are re- ‘ported to ‘have been cut to | pieces. In the description of the bat- ,tle, which was made public this orning, London says the picked erman shock troops suffered iterrific losses in an attack on 'Greck and British positions. | Berlin today.repeats aprevious ;claim that the main body of the Yugoslav army has been destroy- ied, but admits that scattered |Serb oufits still are resisting ih |the hills. Remaining Yugoslav resistance, however, is not im- portant, according to Berlin. | Communication and transpor- itation in every part.of Suge slavia has been disrupted by ¢ stant German _ aerial aiacks. | Stuka dive bombers have - id again \retreating Yugoslav forces. |GERMANS MOVE INTO ‘EGYPTIAN FRONTIER «(Ry Ansocirted Presa) CAIRO, April 14.—German sol- diers crashed nearly 100 miles inside the Egyptian frontier yes- terday to knock at the gates of Salum as dive bombers poured a hail of high explosives on British troops still holding out at To- bruk. Ships in the harbor at Tobruk were methodically bombed, ap- parently to prevent the strong British force there from making an escape by sea, The joint Italian-German drive into Egvpt marks the second time since September that Axis_sol- diers have crossed the frontier. Gen, Sir Archibald Wavell’s Army of the Nile began its drive across north Africa from Sidi Barrani, next city im Ine on the new Axis push. (The London Daily Mail said today “the drive is now a large ‘Continued on Page Four) | { | Hotel Man Coming Here To Supervise Reservations For Legionnaires Going To Cuba MISS BRADY, BEAUTY SPECIALIST, IN TOWN Through the courtesy of Gard- Rexall Drug Store, Miss Terrice Brady, make up and beauty consultant, is in Key West for interviews with ladies of this city desiring advise in her tine. Without any obligation of any netere, Miss Brady will analyze your beauty problems and give free make-up demonstrations using CARA NOME beauty aids This is a special service ar- ranged through Rexall Drug Interviews are strictly sonal and private, being made at the e xpense of Gardner's Phar- macy, at the Besuty Colony, next to the Bus Station on Southard street The number of appointments are lirnited as Miss Brady began this morning and will be here only through Friday. Those interested should make appointments through Garder'y Rexall Store, phone 177 or at the Beauty Colony, phone 206.—advt. ner’s