The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 17, 1941, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. ————_ KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941 ‘Legislative Bill Prevents Strikes On Defense Jobs n— PEPPER URGES VOLUME LXII. No. 92. Banquet Tonight Will Close Catholic Daughters Convention! vs LOW oRst Election Of ie To| IJ PISLS ALLL SLD TIP FOR VISITORS THAT MAY PRICE FIVE CENTS Cemans Give London Greatest SEE NATION'S | (Ry Associated Press) ‘TALLAHASSEE, Abril Take Place This After- UNIQUE EASTER EGG noon, Ending Business Session State officers of Catholic Daughters of America are being elected this afternoon as the 150! Florida delegates in St. Theresa's hall bring to a close their eighth biennial convention. After two days of business ses- | sions and religious members of the eight participat- ing Florida Courts will complete their election in time to adjourn at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon and to prepare for the formal ban- quet at La Concha hotel tonight which brings the conclave to an end. NA ceremony. | HUNT FOR MONKEYS SANFORD, April 17 (FNS). —A unique Easter egg hunt was staged in Sanford when the keeper of the local zoo Monkey Island. ing them in small bags, rocks and bushes, and elsewhere. excited simians, witness the event. } “Preacher”, big finding the most eggs, Zoo Superintendent Moughton was fearful | ache as a result. decided to stage one for the benefit of the troop of mon- keys that scamper about on Peeling the eggs and plac- paper he hid them under trees It didn’t take the monkeys long to get the idea and the screaming and chattering, were all over the island Jike a) blanket, to the delight of over 5,000 spec- tators who had gathered to spider monkey and bully of the is- land, captured the laurels by and James the | animal would have a stomach Officers announced today that OPTI aIes Ta tickets for the banquet will be on sale tonight at the door, with the public invited. The program, which will begin at 8 o'clock, fol- lows: Banquet Program Mrs. Julia Fogarty Brooks, toastmaster. Invocation, Rev, Kelleher, S.J. : Address of Welcome, Mrs. Virginia Demeritt, Grand Re- gent, Hostess Court. Presentatun—of smembers of clergy and special guests. “Why be a Catholic Daugh- ter”, Mrs. C, C. Bagwell, State Regent. Duet, Mrs. Eva B. Warner and Mrs. Elena McCoy; accompan- ist, Miss Beatrice Moreno. Address, Miss Frances her, Vice Supreme Regent. Address, Most Rev. Joseph P. Hurley, D.D., Bishop of St Augustine, State Chaplain of C.D. of A. Presentation of state officers. Delegates to the convention last night saw pictures of the “Holy Shroud” at St. Cecelia’s hall on the Convent grounds and heard an explanation of the pictures and | the method in which Christ was crucified. The Rev. Peter Rin- aldi, (Continued on Page Four) CITY COUNCIL ‘MEETS S TONIGHT The Patrick J. Ma- City Council will meet te- CLAIMS BULLITT (Ry Ansocinted Prensa) Senator Burton K, Wheeler, tana isolationist, today i {former Ambassador William | Bullitt of telling | would go into the war. |Bullitt had talked, | Wheeler said the ambassador |promising American \the wa | Presidelt entry Roosevelt was ADVOCATED WAR | SALT LAKE CITY, April 17.— Mon- accused c: “someone” months ago that the United States Without specifying with whom Senator w into at the very moment when cam- jpaigning with promises of keep- ‘ing the United States out of ' struggle. ‘CAMPS BEING — the | BUILT RAPIDL S.C¥ explained the imprints! | (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 17.— {Construction of army camps, bar- | iracks and cantonments, of delays caused by weather labor trouble jule, war {said today The engineers department said the in spite | and , is aheatt of sched-|* engineers | con- | History. building, night at 8 o'clock in the second | struction schedule on April 5 had regular meeting of the month There is nothing scheduled aside from regular business, al- though other matters may come up during the of the sion course ses- icome from behind to reach a point | about one percent ahead of plans. | 8T¢ss, where. you Since then, the report said, schedule steadily has and is now well ‘plan ahead of Restaurants And Hotels Are. Making Ready For Convention HOME GUARDS’ SMOKER TONIGHT yne guard members attend smoker at the national guard armory tonight will inspect of the army's field equip le the pro field kitcher usua food smoker spe pr SOUTHERNMOST}| FLOWERS $1.00 PHONE 136 Choice GLADIOLL doz. | 616 DUVAL Every restaurant and to its staff of operators. by the Key corporation ricar it reported today Convention has cha arrangements next week “Restaurar should take mediate 3000 pe conven the quickened | the eating place in the city is adding eel West which | ing new flower species for tion | im- HAVE DESIRE TO GO THERE THIS SPRING AND SUM- MER Ry JACK STINNETT AP Feature Service Writer ; WASHINGTON, April ame had | ation | should I do the last few weeks I have many requests for inform: “What Washington?” about in! i Judging by the mail, there are} going to be more tourists in Cap- | ital City this spring and summer than ever before. I don’t mean} judging entirely by my mail—I mean judging by the great num- | ber of queries that have come to} departments of the government | that have anything at all to do} with directing visitors within the District of Columbia borders. ; That means there probably will be between 2,375,000 and 3,000,- | 000 visitors in Washington this | year. The average has been around 2,250,000. So I'm going to lead off my an- 'swer with: | “How to See Washington on Nothing a Day”. | Of course, there is no such thing jas that. But if you pay transpor- tation in and out, make arrange- | ments for moderate room and! board, you can spend a long | | weekend here without putting out | another penny and see more than you can in any other city in the! United States. To begin with, if you arrive at Union Station with no advance information as to where to stay,. call the Washington Board of | Trade. It has a hotel and room information service, ranging from single rooms in private homes to splendiferous hotel suites. If you drive into the capital in a car} and want to check with the Automobile Association of Amer- ica (the AAA), you probably will! |plain rackets. gets j Secretary jment to Great Twenty representatives intro- | |the attorney general to prohibit al ‘closed shop on defense projects, and other jobs paid by govern- ment funds. The speaker sent the measure jointly to labor and Americanism ;committees after an unsuccess- ;ful attempt to rush it through. Jenkins, of Alachua, said de- fense project unions were “just Soon as a worker through paying initiation fees, they push him out so some- fone else can start paying dues.” It provides fine and imprison- : ment to $3,000, and three years for any employer, or other person interferring with work on a gov- ernment-financed project. By 82 to 2 the House passed a bill requiring Florida to observe the last Thursday in November as bole NAVY EQUIPMENT SENT TO BRITISH {Bs Associated Presa) WASHINGTON, April of the Navy Knox this morning told a Senate investigating committee the Unit- ed States is sending navy equip- Britain “almost every day”. What type of equipment is ing sent the Navy not disclose. be Secretary did get the same information With that done and three days, jto spare and every hour to fill| (without cost), you look up your} congressman or senator, Why? j{ Because he can see to it that y: | ! get passes to the House and Sen- | jate galleries in the Capitol—and } 'special passes to the White House | (10:30 a. m. to 12 noon). If you} don’t know any congressmen. {you still can see the White Hou: | ao a.,m. until 2 p. m.) but you prone get into’so many rooms. | No-Permission Tour: Now turn to the tours for which | you have to ask one’s permission. | | Start with the various divisions of | the Smithsonian Institution—the {National Museum, the Natural} the Aircraft } building: § | Drop into the Library of Con- can examine everything from the original jmanuscript of “Deadeye Dick” | {to the one-and-only Declaration of Independence and the Con- stitution. Hpre there are pani 6,000,000 first editions and more! than 2,500,000 maps, charts, etc. Here also is the “Gutenberg } Bible” and more original prints! |from the plates of Joseph Pennell | than can be found anywhere else in the world. Visit the Folger Shakespeare rary—second to only one in the world in Shakespeariana Drop in on the Botanical Gardens which don’t have to dip a d j to any when it comes to develop- } and im- proving on the old ones. the National Zoological Gardens \- better known as the Zoo- where there is the world's great- of reptiles, and and birds and id you home reeling collection American Legion Visitors PENA’S Garden of Roses most popular N you to visit Day or Night, for a warm— WELCOME vight jterday RALPH GARCIA GIVEN HEARING Ralph B. Garcia, charged with entering without breaking, yes was given a hearing fore Peace Justice Enrique quinaldo, Jr. The case was continued until a Jater date without Garcia's ther being) bound over or freed STR. COLORADO COMES T0 PORT The Colorado dockec morning to Tampa fron The vessel early this discharged 165 tons of freight here GETS "ASSIGNMENT FOR 12 MAGAZINE STORIES TAMPA A Howard W. Ha reporter of the and Es ei- freighter y West this K er York departed at 7 route staff the Pop into >P into |. shortly writ Cuba's str Saturday,9 A.M Argonne Rugs SALE STARTS duced a bill today sponsored by | SUPPLIES FOR Bombing Of War: Oné Hundred | { | i | | | | | WAREHOUSE SALE Beautiful Chenille, Broadloom, Must Be Sold at Low Prices — Inspection Invited 9:00 A.M. GATO WAREHOUSE 1100 Simonton Street GREAT BRITAIN SAYS THEY MUST BE SENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE wel Thousand Bombs Aré Dropped PREVENT VICTORY OF AXIS | POWERS ‘SENATE OVERRIDES ‘GOVERNOR’S VETO | (ity Asnocinted Prews) ina ra-| TALLAHASSEE, April. 17.— warned |The Senate overrode the veto of Fred (ity Associated Press) ST. PETERSBURG, April 17.—' Senator Claude Pepper, dio address here today, that unless an increased flow of of \former Governor Cone supplies is dispatched to Eng-}| the 1939 bill providing pa (of $674.27 Alberto ‘may be forced to go into action} |who was removed as constable to prevent complete Axis victory, |W"° Was Temoved as constable of Speaking after he had promis-!Monroe county by former Gover- ed to work for the establishment | .4. pave Sholtz in 1935 iactory in St. Pe- | a as the senator told a radio GERMANY REPORTS LESS CRIME NOW, (iy Ansoctnted Prenay BERLIN, April 17.—Crime yment land soon, the American na to Camero, tof an aircraft tersburg, audience “The real | \those who would impede our sup- | war-mongers — are ply of munitions to Englnad” If England’s victory can be as-| sured by supplies from the Unit- |4ecreased 50 percent in Germany, ed States, he said, the question of |Tecent statistics _ indicate, ;whether Americans must die in | Cipally capital battle will never come up. jment has prin- punish prescribed formerly atoned for by life imprisonment Several war-time crimes, among ‘them violence and robbery dur- ! sing blackouts, also draw decapita- ! jtion sentence: because has been imany offenses i } for MORE PROPERTY SALES 5 RECORDED Evelina Lopez, Monroe county, | GREAT BLOW ° TO has sold to Edwin H. Wooley, Mon- ; SMITH FAMILY mouth, N. J., a house and 50-feot | tract on Simonton street near} Southard, it was learned today, Chea Santee ain Pca jalong with another lot on Eliza-| PINEVILLE, Ky., April 17.— Bae set Acquittal of 2 defendant on arson Purchase price for the two lots |Charges here was a blow to the was about $4,000. {Smith family. In another transaction recorded| The case was prosecuted by today, Waldorf V. Jensen pur-|Commonwealth’s Attorney Dan chased from Tamiami Everglades | i¢! Boone Smith and County At company of Miami a 10-acre tract ;tornev Walter B. Smith. Chief on the Monroe county mainland jProsecution witnesses were Rosa for about $500. The purchase in- |5mith, Willie Smith, Mrs. Willie cludes all mineral rights to the Smith and Susie Smith. There pmcene s a Jack Smith on the jury A transaction in which County |, Commonwealth's Attorney Judge Raymond Lord sold to Smith commented: “I wouldn't Claude Salis a 50-foot front lot on }object but for the reflection on Frances street near Angela today the Smiths” was revealed to have included ¢ purchase price of about $2,300 Mrs. L. P. Artman sold to Mrs. Flora H. Kidder a United street lot between Pearl and Duncan streets for $500. It is understood | Mrs. Kidder will build on the | property H | BOY’S WISH WAS - PARTLY —— «my & inted Presa) PUEBLO, Colo., April 17.—T before ge ° Hubert 15-year (ily Associated Preas) Stubborn Greek and British re continued to break-through fense lines today j London Glover y. fo istance prevent a Allied de but Athens and admitted that three- pronged German drive still {forcing the defenders farther and farther back. natron’s} The mair jto have centered near die of the defense Naz ated a rly State industrial sch« wanted to stole the boys in y that he a truck and drove there Tho judge sentenced him to 60} days in quarters ‘ FOR MISSING PERSONS DEPT. AGO. a German drive the line had seem mid- where pushed country to cap- d move perilously i at Kalabaka A second German column Alb: columns today has CHIC ed Coriz reached the fre tern end of the Greek and British positions, while @ third weeping back the east f the line beyond Mt la oT ne; push 1 ern end Olympus. Italian foree, nd where it moving had entered the g t ward the Greek Saturday, 9 A. M. a somber com (Continued On Page Four) ~ COMING EVENTS THURSDAY ms Club meets at 629 pm Lions’ Den. Seminary Street. City Council City Hall. 8:00 p.m. - All-Weol Rugs SATURDAY I L meets, WORK AGAINST PROFITETSING 15,000 DEFENDANTS TO BE PROSECUTED BY DEPART- MENT OF JUSTICE (iy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 17. More than 1,500 defendants will be prosecuted by the department of justice on charges of unrea- sonable increases in commodity prices, it was announced here to- | day. Cases already have been pre- | pared against several Philadel- | ‘phia store operators for jumping | food prices. PLAN COURSE FOR STUDENTS ORLANDO, April Believing that high school stu- dents should have practical as well as theoretical knowledge of 17.—(FNS) | how to seek jobs after graduation, | a group of Orlando merchants in! conjunction with school authori- ties are sponsoring a “business in- terview” program at Senior High school, according to ,C. B. Treadway, managing direc- tor of the Florida Chain Store As- sociation The program, designed to give the high school students a prac tical cou in modern business methods, and supply them with information as to what will be re- quired of them in seeking jobs with retail merchants, will be state-wide in scope, if it proves to be a success in Orlando, Mr. Treadway said. Similar courses are now being given by merchants in Boston, Mass., and Dallas, Tex The program was approved by R. Boone, school principal Ww. Greek And British Forces Put Up Stubborn Fight As Nazis Continue With Drive TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last night 24 hours Abilene 65 81 Boise 76 Boston 5 73 Buffalo Burlingt« Chari Hattera Havre Huron Jackseny KEY WEST Las Angries Miami Minneays New Or New Okia Spokar Sit Ste Wash 45 4 Notice! Notice! The examination for Junior Property and Supply Clerk sched uled to be held om April 19. will be held at Senior High School. corner White and United streets. ARTHUR PASTORINI. Local Secretary. U. 8. Civil Serv- ice Board. Marie — | after Orlando } ‘Berlin its worst taste Tens Of Thousands Left Homeless; Flames Sweep Large Area In English Capital (By Assocti Hundreds of seat se last night left London in flames “revenge” British an eight-hour bombardment which the ‘air ministry said was “far worse then anything we have experi- ‘enced before”, For hour after hour, type of German bomber, includ- lh ing the crew sruxas, “pounded | the world’s greatest city with an ‘estimated 100,000 fire and high explosive bombs. fashionable west end as did every London’s suffered crushing blows, residential districts in every part jof the city. The air ministry said “tens of thousands” left and hundreds were jobless after the aerial blitzkrieg had devas- tated whole neighborhoods and wrecked shopping centers. In the wake of the attack this morning, as firemen and soldiers battled an inferno of civilians rushed through streets demanding revenge. Ruined buildings everywhere in the city had chalked upon their walls “Bomb Berlin!” Meanwhile, Beriin, ernment spokesman frankly the promised re venge for the were homeless flames, the in a gov said attack was the raid eight days ago in which British bombers handed ‘of aerial bombardment An offictal spglgesman declared For every, British attack a German residential section, we will repay them many fold A German pilot said the op London was the most horrible had ever seen. I in flames righ he id. “More than huge fires were raging control at the time city red giare Londoners had thi time Observers of the the of the ed the most on attack thing he he five block gether a) out of and the with entire was covered a said that in spite number of fires, ail of them brought under contro morning in remarkably shor pt part attacks Stuka terrifying the night-long bombards tt f Ger hundred« part in the an taken only f ye beer khot British planes fe of the ci NOW IMPROVING ds of Mra F aiad to learr ally underwent a n @ Miami: hosp the road to ree return wt next She expects to lo city the early part wows 6 DAYS UNTIL the AMERICAN LEGION’S STATE CONVENTION