The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 24, 1941, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit ae, aq Associated Press Day Wire J A Service For 61 Years Devoted to the ) } ba PS T TZPit Best Interests of Key West 4 SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941 VOLUI ME LXIL. No. 98. PRICE FIVE CENTS Y CONVENTION OFFICERS HERE MRS. FRANK BRADLEY First District President MBS. A. L. BUZZELL, SR. State President MRS. GRADY BURTON Sixth District President MRS. T. E. JACOBSON Le Chapeau, 8 and 40 MRS. GEORGE BURTON National Vice-President MRS. C. E. SWANK Third District President MRS. C. C. GILES Department Chaplain MRS. P. N, HIATT Fifth District President American Legion’s Convention Officialy Opened Today With National Officer Legion Auxiliary To Give flies Kad gbers OF ‘State Senate Committee Rejects "Holland Race Betting Taxation (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, April 24.; The bill may come to the British And Australian Soldiers Fighting Desperately In Balkans <2 a jage pensions with an added other committee reports fa-' ive per cent race betting tax | vorably. | an. Eali| British And German Bombers eS e spa im houses awaited the | Adress By “peasgurper Trade Blows Across Channel ‘sity ~ben th sents mie lied Line And Taking | cellaneous Affairs committee “Athens Today calendar if the Senate over- rides the committee or some governor’s general finance Program before proceeding +, pa a MLE LS ES SS With tax legislation. “CHF Axwoeiated Press) rejected. British ‘and German bombers traded blows across the channel SENATOR PEPPER again last night, with €ngland’s SPOKE TODAY AT great port at’ Plymouth bearing | STRAND THEATER the brunt of the German attack, ! and the RAF claiming a direct hit | on the pocket battleship Scharn- | horst, anchored at Brest. A Berlin communique said two Department President Mrs. A great fires had been left raging L. Buzzell and her executive in the dock yards at Plymouth, board were guests of honor last but London said the raid was not night at a banquet which marked nearly so severe as those of the the opening and the social high- two previous nights light. of the American Legion In their new attack on Brest Auxiliary’s convention in Key and the ships which have been West brought there for repairs, the Some RAF claims to have dropped a of the veterans of World War I Arriving here unexpected- — j,ymb directly on the Scharnhorst gathered in the colorfully dec- | ly ima state patrol car, Sena- and straddled another raider in orated dining room of Ocean View ; for Pepper: rushed to the the harbor restaurant to make each others theater and stepped to the Docks and warehouses are formal acquaintance before the microphone at about 10:30 4 have been pounded and parts start of their busines sion to- o'clock. of the city left in “flames. Colonel Lindberch, he aN said, has worked for Hitler in RITISH PUBLIC his efforts to prevent Ameri- BECOMES AROUSED can aid to Britain. The only (ity Associated Preau) way to help Great Britain LONDON, April’ 24.—British win the war, Pepper told the publie opinion, aroused by the Legionnaires, is to rush every s of disasters to Allied armies aid at once. Balkan and Mediterranean The senator left immediate- campaigns, is demanding an ex ly after his address to return = planation from Prime Minister to Washington. Churchill and severely BALKAN SITUATION ip ae all qua a me Minister Enjoyable Banquet Last Night Breakfast Tomorrow Morning. For Legion Auxiliary eee POOOO PELE * BETTING MEASURE Methodist church will start at 7:30 w Representative Bernie Papy of Monroe county has intro- duced a bill in the legislature to permit pari-mutuel betting on midget automobile races, according to an Associated Precs story received here. Papy’s bill would permit a maximum take of 15 percent on wagering pools, with 3 per- cent going to the state. The state also would collect a 15 percent tax, or 10 cents per person on edmissions. Cities in which the tracks operate, under the Papy measure, would be permitted to collect a tax not to exceed te crity $10 ver day. countiy IIIa ISS ~ Organization Continue To Arrive In City For Big Event elated Presas Sticking tenaciously to . the whole of Adolf Hitler's Balkan | their | guns in the face of might Senator Claude Pepper, making a last-minute change in the schedule which called for him to appear before American Legion members here tomorrow, early this morning denounced Col. Charles A. Lindbergh from the platform of the Strand theater as a “hero with feet of clay”. ranking officers of her tion. Later, each of the 75 dele- gates rose to introduce _ herself and describe briefly her position Ranking officers who attended the banquet included Mrs. Buzzell and Mesdames Dollie Jacobson, le chapau departe, mentor of the 40 & 8 society; Betty McLure, vice president seventh district; Grady Burton, sixth district president; Dorothy Crosby, fourth “district president; Harold Whitehead executive committee Mary Haws, national chapau passe, 40 & 8; Pete Hiatt, fifth dis- trict president; Eunice Bradley. president; C. C. Jile (Continued on Page organiza- way war machine, British and Aus- | Five backdrops to the question trelian soldiers today are holding of national defense “should gov- th a breakfast devoted to National De- fense at Overseas hotel Mrs. M. L. Mrs. Hal Whitehead are chairmen of the breakfast, which ranged by the local women. At 8:45 a. m. Mrs. A. L. Buzzell, of Coconut Grove, of the Florida department, will call the second session of the con- vention to order at Old Stone church Advancement of colors will be by Mys. A. L. Martin, department sergeant-at-arms, and Mrs. Lee Kerschner, assistant sergeant-at arms. The pledge to the flag will be by Mrs. C. E. Swank, third dis. trict president, and the Star Spangled Banner will be sung by the gathering Following Mrs. C.C the historic pass at Thermopylae. Americanism and ern us in the solution of our pres- Berlin has modified an earlier ent national end international Montgomery and communique in which it was problems”, Milo J. Warner, To- wives and daughters was ar- ledo, O.. national commander of the American Legion told a joint ciamed German panzer divisions had pierced the Allied line and might take Athens today. Ra preuient session with the auxiliry at the tional wo mid Admitting that said still British holding. firmly Strand theater today, He follow “1. We forces to the southern are an; i ; etc we listed these backdrops as gateway which leads to ws Greece day a candle-light- ‘orated table, Mrs of the and other high tanding behind ed and flag de Buzzell introduced district pres Legion’s Forty And Eight Unit Holds Annual Convention Here 1 Berlin communique to first district department Six) should, at all times, consider the interest of the United States first, last, and always, and do nothing to destroy the national vid that mechanized units each had forced their way into, but not through British defense Gern while sident the line. or identity of our own an newspaperss, _mean- the “tremend of fighting wild and mountain eric pine _in the difficulties” the terrain of the of our in our fight DARDANELLES ‘ws Se titutional democracy preparation ow through ou DNB. entire are southern Greece. nston an invocation at zing y Eden who is accused preamble the fourth zerman news the mi-offie! to con- concepts Ms trict t said cam government, a cor paign i “It added, of can Crosby ere ut but al of the all times preser tonly as to ¢ ske effecti the de (My Ansoriated Prean) LONDON, April 24.—The Daily Herald an tory, sa terday ¢ meetin: and troops we read te re Lon admit d te ye vitz hall Buzze ia eit though it is generally believed his time in five ye t relate: 36 2 cart ; : ‘4 , ging Q not in imminent. ported Mrs ar-guard ne ‘ nment is dav probler ops to their Thomas the Aus ared his SONS OF LEGION BITES INTO RING MINNE LIS Ww MEETING TONIGHT has been asked an verses. istralia has leaders ir ~ YUGOSLAV AIRMEN — DIED HERE TODAY * "UNDERGROUND ROAD » LAND IN MOSCOW (Ry Nee COW, A 24 4 Press) av Spe the nationa Ardory, § spondent ~ MRS. L. WARREN FUNERAL SERVICES FOR KEY WEST RESIDENT TOMOR ROW AFTERNOON legge eng INVESTIGATES (Ry Ansoctated Prees) NEW YORK. April 24.— An American financed under- ground railway. which trans perts escaped German pris- oners from Canada out of the country. is under investiga tion by FBI men. the Daily News said in an exclusive tory today. According to the News, the system has its headquarters im Detroit. where Nazi sym pathizers living in the Unit ed States vrovide money to help esceped prisoners get back to Germany. IDI LID aS. Mr Star Mothe first reading of Ms ommittee Six) COMING EVENTS “THURSDAY American Key West business session Legion conver’ n school auditorium. TWO PROPERTY DEALS RECORDED :: WANTED :. DELIVERY BOY Brady’s Poultry Market 1214 White Street Ens dian last Here are some of the impressions that he reteived and reported to the mat- jional executive committer of the (Continued on Page Four) Spring