The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 28, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. Nb, 101. Key Westerss Are: Spending Automobiles Than}. °°" More On During Boom Comparison Covering Both Periods On Auto Trans- portation Made By Cen- sus Bureau (Washington Correspondent ot The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 28. —Key West residents “like to go places”, According,to Census Bureau records, Key West residents are tpending proportionately today for automobile transporta- tion than they did in the boom year of 1929. According to the Bureau, Key West residents spent $219,000 in automotive stores and another $199,000 in filling stations for gasoline and oll, for a total of $418,000, during 1939. In 1929 comparable tures were $365,000. The 1939 expenditures repre- sented $32 per capita, while 1929 per capita expenditures was $28. Making the necessary al- lowance for the difference in price levels, Key West were purchasing many more automobiles and-accessories’ and agreat deal more gasoline in 1939 than they were in 1929, more eyen than the difference in dol- lar volume itself indicates. ARTIST STUDIES HUMAN ANATOMY (By Assoctated Press) * GREAT FALLS, Mont., April! 28.—It was a fortunate thing for @ young fellow, picked up by po- lice, that he had ‘some praise- worthy sketches of nude women in his car. The officers caught him loiter- ing near a dormitory for young ladies. “Sure I was watching the girls,” he admitted, readily. “Once in a while they forget to pull shades. “You see, I'm an artist, study-' ing human anatomy. I haven't the money to hire models, “And besides that the girls pose | with much less self consciousness | when they don't know they are} being watched.” Police said his cated he had expendi- sketches indi “genuine ability and they released him on his! promise not to try it again. PREFERS METHOD TRIED AND TRUE (Ny Ansociated Prete) NEW ORLEANS, La., April 28. Someone here apparently pre- fers the old-fashioned method of | hatching eggs. The following advertisement appeared in the Times- Picayune: | “Small electric incubator for sale cheap. Or will swap for hens”. the | residents i the | Year Of “29 CMa SII aaa SDS. RECORD 2.37 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN CITY Key West rainfall in the past 48 hours has established no new records for the year, the weather bureau reported today, but at 7:30 o'clock this morning it had taken its Place among the longest in the past 12, months—and it has rained, most of the time since. Since the rain began, 5.34 inches had fallen at the C.A.A. station at the airport up until 7:30. this morning, with 2.37 inches recorded at the downtown weather of- fice. | ububd hdd dod FIRE WILL STAY OUT OF CONFLICT (ity Angocinted Prenn) NEW YORK, April 28.—Eire {will enter the war only if she is |attacked, Frank Aiken, head of a} supply commission sent to the United States to purchase arms and equipment, told a gathering jof American Irish last weekend. Aiken said the people of Eire were firm in their conviction that their country has no reason to jtake-part in the struggle and will not do so uniess it is impossible to avoid. TULSA BOTTLENECK SMELLS OF PEANUTS (Py Annociated Prena) } TULSA, Okla, April 28.—A jcouple of peanut vendors have, been “bottlenecks” in the Tulsa} |national defense program, says Charles Short, airport manager. Asking county commissioners lto do something about it, Short |reported the vendors sold pea- {nuts at the airport entrance, to| which traffic comes from five di- | rections. Every time a driver stops at the peanut stand he halts cars and trucks “for a mile”, said Short. And the traffic jbound to and from defense proj- 1 { 1 |TRY EXPERIMENT. IN EDUCATION (Ny Annocinted Prema) ATLANTA, April 28. jearnest young men, survivors of | jan. eleven-man “brain team,” {have just qualified for four-year | bachelor of arts degrees in less than 20 months, President Thornwell Jacobs of Oglethorpe University, who start- ed the eleven on a in September, 1939, looked oven their report cards and observed The collective average for the {group is better than 92 per cent on a-study program of 30 class hours }a week—twice the normal load The boys are healthy, happy jand still going strong. | British Hold Off German And Italian Forces Around Egypt’ (By Associated Press) CAIRO, April 28.—British fense lines in Egypt held de- have suc- cessfully off a strong Ger man-Italian push across the des. ert toward Sidi-Barrani, a munique announced today. The Axis column, held up for a week near Salum on the Libyan- Egyptian frontier, suddenly burst forward again yesterday with a series of attacks by dive bombers on the British garrison. Leaving the British defenders at beseiged Cippuzzo, much as com- they did at mechanized — cc &round the city direction of Sidi ed by the Italia inal drive inte taken by the counter drive. The communique fighting had raged west of Sidi-Ba Axis troop: stopped. Exactly fighting occurred potted. i T he = Axis aded in t Eavr British in said n the but have whe was heavy iesert Six] -year grind | | sweptif their Che Key West Citiz THE sou MORE.. INTENSIVE:. NYA FORCES MARITIME COMMISSION AN- NOUNCES SEVENTY - FIVE FLORIDA YOUTHS ARE TO BE GIVEN CHANCE After an inspection of National Youth Administration work ex- perience projects in Florida, the U. S. Maritime Commission an- nounced through State Youth Ad- ministrator, Charles G. Lavin, that they would accept from the rolls of the N. Y. A., 75 Florida youths for a more intensive train- ing course in radio transmission and receiving and 75 youths for a more highly specialized course in the preparation, cooking and serv- ing of food at the U.'S. Maritime School in New London, Conn. Expressing themselves as high- ly pleased with the results of the NYA work experience program at NYA Camp DeSoto, Tampa, the Commission urged the National Youth Administration to intensify its efforts to give work experience to NYA boys in cooking and radio. Lavin announced today that the facilities of NYA Camp DeSoto, Tampa, would be thrown open to all youths who are interested in javailing themselves of an oppor- {tunity to get the necessary work experience to qualify them for ad- 1 School in New London, Conn. This school is offering an in- tensive eight months training course in radio and cooking for Florida youths who meet the fol- lowing qualifications: For cooks: 1. Must be an Am- erican citizen between the-ages of eighteen and twenty-three and without physical defects render- ing him unsuited for a life at sea. 2. Shall elect voluntarily to do this tvp¢ of work and must qualify for and be willing to take} a position as a cook, steward, or mess boy on 4 merchant vessel. 3. Have had at least three months experience in the cook- jing, preparation, and serving of food. credited public grammar school. Requirements for Radio Opera- jtors: 1. Be an American citizen between the ages of eighteen and ;twenty-three. of high sthool which shall have yinelused one year of Algebra. jin plain language in International than 12 words per minute. 4. Have an elementary knowl- edge of radio-theory and elec-; j tricity, including the theory and} | operation of radio sending and re- ceiving equipment. 5. An elementary knowledge of provisions of treaty, statute, | and communication regulations. Youths who successfully com- plete the preliminary NYA course | “lat Camp DeSoto and the eight {months cooking course offered by | the U.S. Maritime Commission | stewards, chant v or mess boys on mer- ; els, being commissioned for service, and those who suc- cessfully complete the |course will be assured of jobs on ships as radio operators or in the U. U.Coast stations along the At- lantic Coast Line. Basic pay for those accepted jby the U.S. Maritime Commission will be $21.00 per month and sub- sistence for the first months while at Conn., after which the youths will receive $35.00 a month and subsistence through the comple- tion of the course. Employment possibilities in fields are excellent as re- studies have revealed a tre- nendous shortage of cooks and adio operators. Wages in these i vary from $100 to $150 th and subsistence. ations of those who are interested will be taken at NYA jarea offices in Key West, Miami Tampa, Arcadia, Jack- e, Lake City, Tallahassee or Pensacola. Only one or call the nearest for further details. jmittance to the U. S. Maritime | 4. Have graduated from an ac- i 2. Have completed two years} 3. Ability to send and receive } .; Morse code at a speed of not less ; is} will be assured of jobs as cooks, | radio | | three | New London, | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average ‘range of only 14° Fahrenheit THERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1941 Al:Mills‘Named.Delegate To National Convention Of American Legion Next Year Albert Mills, Key West Con- PRICE FIVE CENTS Completely Wipe Out British; No Further Lull In hostilities 'Nazis Put Forth Smashing Effort To Cut Off Re- treating Units Of British Army Palm Beach; Harvey Payne, Mi- ami; A. J. Ryan, Dania; P. C. Reese, West Palm Beach; P. B.! Brisbane and William T. Comer, Orlando; Frank Brigham, Winter |Haven; William C. Brooker, 4 A Tampa; Ernest C. Smith, Bartow; jtional convention next year Lisle Smith, Haines City; Jess | Milwaukee, Davis, Gainesville; Ollie Thomp-! —, DeFuniak Springs; Max] cr tonne at am ae LUMQDOIGH GINS Up COMMISSION As Oficer In Amy Air Corps eae Earl Thompson, Tampa, was | rected judge advocate, with the (By Associated Press) | PMD B® SS SS SS WASHINGTON, April n_|& (My Assoet: Press) Rev. J. E. Strath Delra: Legion and Auxiliary mem- Epa oe repli, ga) —_ Howard Rowton, Palatka, a! Col. Charles A.sLindberph, in a NOTED VIOLINIST IS Geran: mechan See | STILL UNCONSCIOUS | and parachute troops today are | driving swiftly southward into vention corporation director who Saturday was named a delegate to the American Legion's na- in today is vacationing other families. bers,. who brought their conven: | | veteran of 18 years in the post of | jtion tovan end here Saturdayjdepartment adjutant, was re- left | {elected for the nineteenth time, | | while Edgar F. Hummer, Miami, yesterday morning for a three-| was rethrned to his position as |sergeant-at-arms. District commanders _ elected | The election of Mills and other jduring the eon bhears x ae a Sa lay @ . | Cromartio, earwater, first dis- isaac ap RT? Sere son | tect; Melvin Hobson, Lake City, _— fe naming of Rupert | second district; Sol A. Levy, Pen Caviness, Ocala, to the post of | sacola, third; George Upchurch, Florida state department com-!Daytona Beach, fourth; Ralph mander. Freeman, Belle Glade, fifth; Delegates who will accom-! Harry Price, Avon Park, sixth, pany Mills to the national con- land John J. Schick, Melbourne, night after four busy days, | day vacation in Havana. 2 letter to President Roosevelt, to-| (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, April 28.— Fritz Kreisler, 66-yeir-old violinist and composer, _ still was unconscious in a New York hospital this afternoon from injuries received when he was hit by a truck Satur- day. day gave up his commission as al e e | the Greek Peloponnesus in a final reserve officer in the army air | | COrps. Lindbergh, who last week drew ; ja stinging rebuke from the Presi- | dent for his repeated assertions ; that Britain could not win the war, said the statements regard- ing him left him no alternative but to resign. The world-famed flyer said he Te utaatheaiathecalenathathondiondien had hoped he could exercise es | smashing effort to cut off retreat- i | | {ing British troops before they can board ships for their retreat |to Egypt. ‘ Bombers, hammering at British _ Ships in harbors along the coast, {are announced in Berlin to have sent to the bottom 30 evacuation le | | vessels and four navy ships. A German communique said the bodies of British soldiers, fill | (iy Axsociated Press) 28. —| TALLAHASSEE, April 3; Florida, during the 1940-41 tour- ist season, played host to 2,600,- ;000 visitors from other states, |the hotel commission reported | | today. { A report estimated the visitors | |spent $445,000,000 during jefforts to return the mines to pro- | | trips. duction. coindusrinl leaders declared *\ swiss PUT CHILDREN ON RATION LIS this week may gravely endanger | the nation’s entire defense pro- gram. Company and union represen- + tatives admitted yesterday after- noon that their negotiations had | fallen’ through, apparently stop- ped by the insistence of southern that they will abolish the wage differential be- tween mines in the |those in the north A proposal of President Roose- {velt’s calling for the re opening of | northern mines, where an agree- et has been reached, has been }turned down by both sides. Un- der the President's plan, all mines | | would but wage | {negotiations continue at | the southern plants, with the final agreement dating back to the time when operations would be | resumed (By Ansocintea Preasy WASHINGTON, April President Roosevelt spent thi: morning studying records of the collapsed negotiations between southern coal operators and strik- ing CIO miners, but made no in- dication of what he plans to do in; 2B} vention are P. M. Hiatt, West ‘seventh. COAL SITUATION — VISIT FLORIDA ‘cng: ican citizen in peacetime Scinoat | PATROL FLEET giving up his privilege of serving | come: BAD MOVEM NT, HOWEVER. CON- LION VISITORS EN- Lindbergh became an officer in | 7 o is |the Kansas national guard at the |the waters along the coast in a CERNING MATTER TERTAINED cene “too horrible.to describe.” |He was appointed a captain by a | [eeverner's order, | IT WILL BE FINAL STEP IN 14 the first part of the evacua- | BRINGING UNITED STATES tion, has been..cimpleted.suaoesse... TAX: MEASURE | INTO WAR jfully, and Berlin admits that | PRESIDENT MAKES NO STATE- OVER TWO AND HALF’ MIL. | With the armed forces should war {time of his flight to Paris in 1927. {MONTANA SENATOR CLAIMS An Australian communique small parties of the B. E. F. have (By Ansociated Presa) (My Annoctated Presa) WASHINGTON, April 28.—Ex-| 5 . Mibimspsta Sahar eats 28.— tension of the United States neu- | this time there will be no lull in theic| cay at elas Ane oc trality patrol to help protect! iP | the fighting, as there has been ling began hearings on the con- ping en route to Great Britain is} after each of the previous Nazi rovers 1941 tax bill, the one, final step needed to! conquests. German troops, said jearry this country into war, Mon-| he news service, will continue to itana Senator Hiram K, Wheeler |#fY the fight to Great Britain T CE D SE juntil the empire’s power is de- (declared this morning. istroyed completely. Wheeler said there could be no) ‘The spectacular German rush ldoubt that if vessels | south into the Peloponnesus ap- were assigned to the patrol duty, parently is designed to catch the Alice Reid id Griffin, held in county jail awaiting trial next month on charges of white slav- children of other cry in federal court, has sold to jremains of the harried British at. | forees pincer movement, which would envelope the rear nations are permitted to |W. H. Damron, Key West, the even for vacations, in small num- fixtures, furniture, equipment plan apparently would result in| bers only. The country’s eco-!and appurtenances at her house d before it could re: the at 1016 Howe street nomic position is too precarious to .* z en wpe egy (ote taguaien aura i | The woman was said to have /*4PPlies, but would not be as ef {Permit many to come in: sold her interest in! the: house at fective as the use of convoys. The regulations are based part-| about the time she was’ ‘ttrested ly on experience from the First'on the white slave! voult, ‘but the World War when 10,000 Austrian | bill of sale was recorded at the chdidedad sancignis vackticnae county courthouse only Saturday "SIOIEIIIS CENTRALIA Wash ris il 28. COMING EVENTS | TALians Triep aan en Mee FOR SABOTAGE wick. rummaging through a box of lost and found “junk” at po headquarters, cé up with an orange-colored ball, po licemen tumbled over each other rushing into the street It wa d grenade in good working order, with firing pin Veteran ficers couldn't remember how t into the box The German news service, D. N. , warned the Allies today that leaders American BERN, Switzerland, April 28.— Even children Switzerland. Victimized are rationed in as described by President Roose velt, that they would tacked in a i be | enter, Washington observers said the Parachute troops, brought into | uve for the first time in the Balkan campaign, swiftly hurdied the narrow canal. across the, isthmus of Corinth yesterday. FREIGHTER ALAMO COMES INTO PORT . Clyde-Mailory freighter arrived here this morning from w York, unloading 165 tons of freight The el is expected to Tampa this afternoon operators not savings to British ships carrying south and ARMY SOUVENIR’ ROUTS POLICEMEN be reopened, ‘ amo would 2. TUESDAY Stone Church Service Club. p.m. Key West Home Guard meets at Sage National Guard armory, 8:00 | \CRIPPLES ONLY IN| pm FIRM AT BROOKLYN Rotary Club meets 12:15 p.m. St. Paul's Parish Hall. Lions Club meets at 6:30, p.m _Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. on ““ Florida City Favors Pipe Line Project AtHomestead ‘= - ek aayio4 (Ry Anno = JACKSONVILLE. April 28. —Twenty-one Italian seamen this morning went on trial in federal court on charges of sabotage and conspiracy to commit sabotage. (LEAL L LA LL 6:00 iron ve lea f an army har THURSDAY TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest las! night hours 55 7 42, 46 40 ” AS a9 (By Associated Presa) NEW YORK, April 28.—A | Brooklyn business begun a month after the 1929 stock market crash by a crippled employer of crip pled employes had a gross income of $85,000 last year. The firm offers a mailing serv- ice and mos 25 persons working there distinguished by crutches, leg brates or! physicat g meets 8:00 p TO MY CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS: aisle Sk, Having recently been called to bers bh Tequestec service in U.S. Navy. I have been Aqueduct commission f mail go forced to close the a Teported decision Soe TA os RESTAURANT 627 Duval Street use Buff i the c {ordepeetil ep bytiders tn Rig City to wodlé Auer on Ba + able set of FHA loans Headquarter uncil mem the Florda to recor w West ir County Court car | offset ] conditions in getting forwarded to I will be at the above address teday and tomorrow and if there is amyone whom I owe anything to, they are invited to collect at this time: likewise. those who owe — Key West which would % me are asked to call and settle a water supply syster Mem! JOHN A. GELABERT | (ocr. % eet bater would failure to get water would force graphing J. P. Gok Like 85 pe being drawn for bids is expected w two weeks The source of water also will be annvanced at that tune, jSelt Lake City 43 Sit. Ste. Marie 36 ‘Washington . 53 the