The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 19, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Ary West Ctttzr THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER Key Fe West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country ; range of only 14° Fahrenheit with an average IN THE U.S. A. VOLUME LXII. No. 94. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS Consignment Of Defénsé Postal Savings Stamps Sent Key West Ofice Purpose Of Stamps Is To Vere eeeeee. Aid Sales Of Treasury |FRANCE HAS QUIT | LEAGUE OF NATIONS Department Bonds And! Certificates Press) VICHY, April 19.—France, one of the founders and bul- warks of the League of Na- tions, has resigned. Vice-Premier Adm. Darlan announced today that he had | (Washington Correspondent | of The Key West Citizen) | | WASHINGTON, D. C., April! sent to the league council a 19.—Initial consignment of de-| "°te informing the group _ # | that France’ no longer will fense postal savings stamps fo; retain her seat. Key West will total $5,020 in de- nominations of 10 cents, 25 cents, | PPI MDL SI SIMS SID PRICE TO ATTEND BOYS’ STATE MEET 50 cents, $1 and $5, it was learned at the Post Office Department. today. |inator Marvin Lewis and the local | Principal purpose of _ these ; 'WPA recreation director, Mrs. Mr. Albury ex-| stamps will be as an aid in sales of nai With the savings stamps and certificates which will go anil the market May 1 to help finance | Treasury Department bonds tional defense preparations. will | Walter Price, TO GO TO STATE CAPITAL Key West SELECTED BY ROTARY CLup |£¥a Warner. re high jin playing condition. jSchool student. will go to Talla-! council fulfilled its promise to aid be issued albums of cards, each | of which, when filled can be ex- laepee in June to take part in changed for a bond. the Boys’ State week, The used to establish or increase ord- new stamps will be so ida will run during passing on which boys from all over Flor- | the affairs of the |State government. inary postal savings accounts, and Price was named by Rotary will be redeemable for cash at any | club members as_ their repre- time, no matter what the custom- isentative this week at a meeting ers purpose in buying them.| which was featured by a talk! They also will be sold for the!on unemployment by William Lit- | benefit of large commercial Fine of the state employment of-} panies, who have been asking the | fice here. department for years to promote some method of group postal sav- BOTH SI SIDES (CI CLAIM ings. Present postal savings stamps will not be delivered after May and are expected to be out of 1, existence soon. A battery of high- powered publicists, most of them (my A ‘inted ress) dollar-a-year men, are ready to; BERLIN, April 19~Nazi dive begin nation-wide promotion of bombers yesterday pounded a baby bonds. convoy in British waters off the north of Scotland, sinking or crip- | pling a total of 19,000 tons, a com- | munique said today. (London claimed RAF bombers had sunk four ships from a Ger- ;man convoy in the Mediter- ranean.) TWO PROPERTY SALES RECORDED Marvin E. Sweeting, Key West, Se has sold to his wife, Mary Rut- NEW YORKER BUYS ledge Sweeting, two lots on Washington street for $100, a deed recorded at the county PROPERTY IN CITY courthouse revealed today | In another transaction, Marie Pilkington, with her husband, S. Rene Lafitte, New York city, R. Campbell, Orleans Parish, La.,/has purchased for about $3,300 a sold to Nathaniel Clark a lot on jot on Francis street near Divi Thomas street near Division and | sion. The property formerly another on Division street for! that of Mary A. Wigham, Hills- $400. borough county. has 102 feet of s “ frontage on Frances street MUCH EQUIPMENT - el - ESCAPE METHOD FORT JACKSON, S. C—A se- lectee who reported recently in Students at this city to begin his year of mili-}the navy’s submarine schools are tary training brought a bedroom | subjected to “escape trait ing” in Suite, a rowing machine and aia cur tank before bicycle other basic courses are started. County Defense Council To Be Organized Monday : n of the SINKING OF SHIPS »: RECREATION UNIT. WORKS TO OBTAIN BASEBALL FIELD COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN PAUL | ALBURY CONFERS WITH, OFFICIALS IN MIAMI IN! INTEREST OF PROJECT j The city-county recreation jcommittee this week requested |financial aid from the City Coun- cil for the purpose of equipping {and improving a_ baseball field jon Trumbo Island. The request, | granted by the council, stipulat- jed that $47 was needed to con-' struct a 17-foot backstop, $50 for repair and erection of grand- stands and left undetermined the cost of grading the field In presenting the request, chair- man Paul Albury of the cit county committee explained that} the building of the field is the first concrete step taken towards |fulfillment of a recreation pro- | gram for Key West, as devised) jand suggested by defense co-ord- essed the opinion that the pro- | | gram has every chance of being | Successful. i It is estimated the ball dia- {mond, located on Tumbo Island, | | will cost a little over $100 to put! The city land promote recreation here by! the requested sum| {without a single objection being! - voiced, donating $150 to the proj-j fect. | Confers With Miami Heads | | In his capacity of chairman of ithe city-county recreation com- ;mittee, Mr. Albury journeyed to ;Miami Thursday for a conference with a number of WPA officials. The recreation prospects of Key West were discussed at great length and the conference ended in a high note of optimism. | | Among those with whom Mr. Al- | bury conferred were Mrs. Frances | allahan, district head of the} |WPA Professional and Service | Division; Mrs. Elizabeth Dutcher, her assistant, and Mrs. Mary | Powell, district supervisor of rec- reation. | Minister Alexander They Are Expected Monday tt tt ttt tt ttt tht MRS. A. L. BUZZELL, SR. MRS. L. M. STOUTENBURG These two women, state commander and secretary-treasurer, re- | | spectively, the American Legion auxiliary will be in the city Mon- day to take personal charge of the arrangements for the auxiliary’s meeting in connection with the convention of the American Legion. Cermany Accuses Killing Greek ‘Greek Prime Minister (iy Aww BERLIN, April 19.—German newspapers today accused British fagents of killing Greek Prime Korizis be- cause he had decided to capitulate to Adolf Hitler and end the war. Korizis, who was 55 and had For Federal (Special to MARATHON, April 19.—Com- missioners of Overseas Road and Toll Bridge district today opened the way for federal aid in road | improvements by passing a resolu- tion calling for a legislative bill which will make mandatory the return of the bridge to the state Mr. Albury told the officials of | of Florida. his confidence in the ability and] capacity for hard work of Mrs.| Members of the group will pre- Warner and Mr. Lews. While {sent a draft of the bill to Monroe there is undoubtedly much to be;county commussioners at their done, he felt that an excellent next meeting in May |start towards a cohesvie recrea-| The bill, providing that the {tion program for Key West had | bridge is to be turned over to the been made. state after toll charges have paid The city-county chairman also | for its construction, makes it pos- conferred with E. H. Halse, dis-|cible for the federal government trict manager for the WPA, seek- | ing use of a scraper and grader in| |leveling the Trumbo property do- | {nated for the field. Mr. Hulse stated he felt Albury's request would be granted..as soon as the Jacksonville offie® had an oppor. tunity to review the request | TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last night 24 hours Abilene 52 84 Boise 5: | Bost 74 sSrownsville 85 _ | Buffalo 72 | Charleston 66 87 ic Bry 78 re 58 85 26 3 61 76 45 47 83 62 85 sione ced today he will " * par ting Monday night at|°@" Mee ot caurthouse to organize! __Bervs pati WEEKEND SPECIAL GLADIOLI me dozen foc FREEMAN’S ©: 1121 Catherine Street Seeeccccccccsesevccesese WANTED! SERVICE STATION OPERATOR Low Smith Auto Service WANTED! Duval at Division Phone No. § the British OF ted Press) been in office as premier only 80 days, died suddenly yesterday | afternoon at 4 o'clock. An Athens | communique announcing his | death did not describe the cir- cumstances, ‘Bridge Commission Opens Way id On Roads’ © Citizen) to spend money in improvements to parts of the road outside the toll gates. A government reg- ulation made it impossible for such money to be spent so long | as there was any question about who would be owner of the bridge. Tolls no longer will be charged upon completion of the payments, which will be in about 40 years. Members of the group also ap- proved a resolution to lease land to the county board of education for a school in Marathn; resolved to permit naval inspectors free passage over the toll bridge dur- ing construction of the waterline to Key West, and agreed to a spe- cial rate for American Legion members going to Key West for their state convention. Exactly what the rate will be has not yet been determined. Compromise Reached On Gasoline Tax Difference «By Aww TALLAHASSEE, April 19.— Governor Spessard Holland lead- {ers and the County Commission ers’ association today compromis Jed on the gasoline tax difference today with an agreement that may avert a bitter fight. Salient points of the new pro- posal. solve designed to imme diate state road-building needs and Havey road-bridge indebted follow: ness of counties & inted Press) > MANY DENIALS ON HOME EXEMPTIONS DAYS UNTIL the AMERICAN LEGION’S STATE CONVENTION Allies ‘And Ax ‘Fighting '1. Sections IN CHICAGO FOR Se KILLING | EDITOR VICTIM WAS WRITER OF, ITALIAN NEWSPAPER; PO-" LICE REFUSE TO ‘DIVULGE; IDENTITY OF SLAYER __ ARRIVES MONDAY — | | | | { | i { { i \ | i | | | | | | | (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, April 19—A man! jwhom Chicago police refused to} lidentify, but who was described | as a petty criminal, today is be- | jing held as the killer of John F.} H | Arena, editor of an Italian news- | ne | |paper, who was shot to death | ; Tuesday. |of mechanized troops § Continue Bitter Of Greect \ ae However, Appears To Be Running Against Opponenis Of Hitler And His Partners (By Associated Press! Berlin and London today is- sued widely divergent communi- ques on the progress of the war in Greece, but it was sharply evi- os from both claims that the | battle is continuing with undim- inished fury and that the tide | Still is running against the Allies. columns had in sn hing through the Berlin said powerful suc- Police spect the man and he is being questioned. ; Meanwhile, investigation into Arena’s life has led some observ- jers to believe that his anti-Fascist editorials may have been a blind jto cover his actual work as an \Italian agent. The editor was {found shot to death on a. north {shore street. | It was assumed that he had been killed in reprisal for his {editorials, | which condemned said they had reason to MRS. GEORGE C. BURTON Is national vice-president of the auxiliary of the American | Legion and is expected to ar- tive in the city Monday to take charge of the auxiliary conven- tion which will be held here at the same time as the Ameri- can Legion's. TREVOR HEADS HEALTH ASSN. “fifth column” activities in the {United States. OTHER OFFICERS CHOSEN AT. MEETING CONDUCTED YESTERDAY KERNS SENT TO | REFORM SCHOOL ,ca, London newspapers ‘ceeded ‘Allied line near Mt. Olympus and were driving swiftly into — the ‘heart of Greece. London and Athens \ally denied any break ... the line, but admitted that the German attack is hammering their lines steadily back. Apparently preparing the Brit- lish civil population for the pos- sibility that their forces may find it necessary to withdraw to Afri- recently jhave been publishing stories de- scribing the difficulties of mak- ‘liga eVacuaton from the rug- ged Greek coast, Meanwhile, British and Greek troops are reported to have tak- en hundreds of German and Aus- omphatic- J. J. Trevor was selected as ‘ian prisoners in the battle president of the Monroe County which is now raging, while thou- MINOR WAS ARRESTED HERE Tuberculosis Association at a oe Hide died in front of the meeting held yesterday morning “Hed line ON VAGRANCY CHARGE in. 1, Concha Hotel | Royal Air Force bombers still LAST YEAR Other officers chosen are as'#Te pounding advancing German i follows troops in an “apparently endless _- Dan Harrison—Secretary series of attacks. | McDonald B. Kerns, a minor Je Allen—Treasurer. : Directors: Mrs. Florence M. who was arrested here on a va- ¢ Nee Sao : 94y, SPottswood, Dr. James B. Parra- grancy charge in October, 1940, : 1s More, Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, Mel has been sentenced to the US. 70 pool Dr PD. Holl EGYPT SUFFERS Southwestern Reformatory at El VS Hussell, Dr ie Reno, Okla w five years on a “@ eno, Okla., for five year n @ Other directors will be selected charge of taking a stolen car : across a state line, it was learned |{f0™ the Monroe County Medical (e\:Aabbdinded Peaas ire eee Association, the County Welfare’ CAIRO, April 19.—The stalled Prison officials, who learned Board, Woman's Club and other jtalo-German push into Egypt through Federal Bugeau of In- i¥iC Organizations interested in. suffered new onslaughts today as vestigation files that Kerns had ‘Ms work. British troops stormed into action been arrested in Kev West, wrote _,Miss May Pynchon, president’ pear Salum in a resumption of to learn if he is wanted here, The Of the -Florida | Bybercujosis As: ° their counter attacks youth was held-on a vagrancy {“0Catigny dagrestet the local unit! f° 4. communique admitted, how a here, but sentenck’ wa {OR tbe Work of Me Slate organ-tever that belleset Totedh “aed i and he was ordered to 12@tion and what the local as-' its garrison had been heavily heave town sociation is expected to do in this bombed by German planes yester- a : area ae We're fighting an insidious | advanced stage before any symp. to the public fact-—-apparent | On the Water at the at Tern ees ot | Yacht Basir dieters ae aap teapeniy a | “Key West's most Sophisticated Tor this x ph 1 and Intimate Rendezvous” : ecnuileta @iticatl oi a through the entire Convention Official 40 and 8 Dugout Mr. Jean La Monte Rhumba Dancer Mr. Bobby Johnson Rhythm and Songs. Mistress of Ceremonies Mr. Ralph Gilbert Interpretative Dancer Mr. Bobby La Marr Songs Stylist All direct from the Ha-Ha Club, Holly wood PRINCESS NODGA. Latin Quarter BILLY SPARKS. Drums MONA. Rainbow INEZ, Esquire Sammy Bird and Ris Dixieland Band The Biggest Congregation of Stars ever assembied in Southern Florida Three Shows Nightly 12:00 1:30 3:00 Search For Nazi RESERVATIONS. CALL 9123| orpt the etore react $1.00 Minimum Charge Superior bas that even if ¢ lake, they will be Prisoners Who Escaped From Ontario (Hy Annoctated tormy lake EERE BRADY’S (Live) Poultry and Egg Market 30¢ Fresh Fla. Grade A. Large White EGGS. dosen 28¢ (Awerage 6% to 7% iba) ROASTERS — FRYERS 1214 White St. Phone 540