The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 1, 1941, Page 1

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. VOLUME LXII. No. 104. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941 British Obs Foresee German Thrust For Suez ‘Key West Building Activities In Month Of A Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars Four building permits on the final day of the month, yesterday added another $4,000 to City Building Inspector Ralph Rus- sell’s figures for a grand total of | $25,475 during April. The final day’s business, with C. H, Smith, taking a $2,850 per- mit for construction of a one- story building on White street, put April figures for this year $2,- 500 under the same month in 1940. Permits issued during the month were to R. B. Curry, 322 Grinnell street, $100, general re- pairs; Smith, White street, $2,- 850, building; N.\P. Nelson, 728 Love Lane, $50, garage; Charles L. Sweeting, 1218 Varela, $1,000, general repairs; Key West Elec- tric company, Fort and Angela, $2,500, general repairs; Theodore | ‘Squadrons Of Warplanes Swarmed Over Greek - Island Of Crete And British Naval Base { pril Represented (By Asnociaced Press) British observers today saw the Frelude to a new German drive for the Suez canal as hundréds of Nazi warplanes swarmed over {the Greek island of Crete and ; Britain's naval base at Malta last OTHER OFFICERS SELECTED | yignt la then bombing at- AT MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT ‘DELMAR BUTLER "HEADS JAYCEES tacks. Turkey, apparently fearing a thrust in her direction, called up Delmar Butler was unanimous- Governor's Race: Betting Tax For Pensions Passes House (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May a not to oppose the program Governor Holland’s extra five|which Governor Holland esti- percent horse race betting tax to! mated would raise ne average raise about $2,400,000 a year for| pension from $12 to $23 monthly. the; The bill guarantees that each House today without a dissenting |county is not to receive, through vote, Lisi | the existing three percent, less old age pensions passed | Minor amendments will send/than received last year. It totals i H jthe bill back to the Senate where about $33,000 annually. | | ne extra tax would decrease tives decided at a meeting last | betting. lit was originally passed, 34-4. Race ‘track operators had said Forty small county represent: EXPLAINS: MATTER CHILD HEALTH DAY REGARDING LOANS OBSERVANCE TODAY GEORGE WALZ VISITS KEY HEALTH AUTHORITIES GIVE WEST AND FLORIDA | , INSTRUCTIONS REGARD- KEYS | ING DISEASE and George Walz, secretary Local health authorities, par- Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14°’ Fahrenheit HEATED DEBATE IN| IAPANESE CIRCLES TUDE TOWARD U. S. AND ! GREAT BRITAIN (By Associated Press) TOKYO, May 1.—Growing de- {mands from army and navy ele- jments for a sterner attitude to- ward the United States and Great Britain are causing heated debate jin the Japanese parliament. Observers say many of the younger men are demanding a re- sumption of Japan’s interrupted drive toward domination of the south Pacific. ISTEAMERS TO ° BE REPAINTED CUBA WILL BE RE- ARRANGED Milton Cohn Arrives In Key West After Making Survey Of Industry In Various Sections Milton Cohn, president of the \Sponge Institute and Gulf and ‘|West Indies Company of New | York, was an arrival in Key West yesterday, and is looking over the sponge industry here. | Mr. Cohn has been making a lsurvey of the sponge industry in Florida waters, as well as around |Cuba, and states that very high | Steamships Cuba and Florida of the P. & O. lines are due for PRICE FIVE CENTS Products Has Disappearéd HILARIO RAMOS BUYS PROPERTY ON DUVAL ST. JOE JAYCOCKS MAKES PUR- CHASE; WM. WICKERS AL- SO BUYS PROPERTY IN RE- CENT TRANSACTION Joe F. Jayeocks has purchased © from Clements Jayeocks a lot with 50-foot frontage on the southeast side of Division street, near Varela street, it was reveal- ed today. The transaction, which iy elected as prsident of the Key We: eight new classes of reserves and ;treasurer of the Miami Produc- ts a Se tion Credit association, visited |Cairo said British expeditionary | Key West and the upper keys to- |ticipating today in the national |scraping and a new coat of paint jobservance of Child Health Day,|this month in Tampa, and their \are campaigning to teach couples |schedules will be rearraged to | involved $1,500, was completed in March, but the deed was not recorded until today. prices are now being received for these products of the sea. He _ i st Junior Chamber’ of Com-| trees are being rushed to bolster day to explain to farmers, fruit|planning marriage, or married merce at a meeting held last eve- ning in Orientale Restaurant on Duval street. Other officers selected for the term which begins June 1 are as \ follows: | growers and dairymen that they the defenders of the vtal Iraq oil | may become eligible for loans 1 from the organization, | fields, A farmers’ cooperative buying Moscow observed May Mav association, the agency is run on a non-profit basis and grants loans only after a study has re- vealed the necessity for money. with a call on the warring nations jto reach a neace settlement, de- \couples who are likely to become parents that in fairness to their | prospective children they should | visit a clinic for blood tests. Figures from the public health Service in Washington reveal that | each year, syphilis kills more than 25,000 babies before birth or “states that as high as nine dol- }lars a pound are being paid for sponges in several places. Included in his survéy wasTar- |meet docking arrangements, it was announced here today. The Florida, which ordinarily sails between Miami and Ha- William O, Wickers, Key West, bought from Ross J. Whitmarsh a 32-feo$ frontage on Ashe street neat Southard for $100, the deal w ‘1 | Joe Pinder, vice-president. Knowles, Venentia road, $1,000,i (two) buildings; Delia Rodriguez, | Dan Harrison, recording secre- 414 Amelia, $500, building; Na-/|‘@"Y- thaniel Clark, 1006 Thomas, $500, | Chester Knowles, correspond- |claring the little people of all the jnations do not want to continue {the war. It is understood Pope /Pius will issue a similar appeal general repairs; C. L. Peterson, 626 William, $100, general re- pairs; “BJ. Curry, $22 Grinnell, $75; ed, $400, garage apartment; Gerald Zarati, 1438 Virginia, $75, building garage; Mrs. Louise R. Bullard, 4 Ashe, $100, general re- building; Melvin Tynes, 624 Unit-} ing secretary. jsome time next week from the | Charles Roberts, treasurer. | Vatican. Directors (one-year: term): An- | ore ion. spebiesd idrew: Elwood, Yay Stricker end en optinitcaly,predicial the ‘Bob Saunders. Isadore Wein-|™€" OPumis bige traub was'selected’as state di- | British withdrawal from Greece rector. jwould prove to have released Report on. the state convention |close to 50,000 men, of the orig- held last weekend in St. Peters-|jinal army‘of 60,000 which took burg was given by Mr. Wein- traub, delegate from the local club. Others attending the con- {vention were Charles Roberts, pairs; Assembly of God, Olivia, $100, new roof; S. P. Necker, 512 Simonton, $5,000, general repairs; J, B. Symmonnette, 506 Francis, ‘part in the fighting there. First jestimates were that about 45,000 jmen had made good their escape. The assocition, which was found- ed in 1933, includes the area’ and infects another 60,000. from Indian River county south to} » Dr. James B. Parramore, direc- 2 |ter of Monroe county’s health de- who visited here briefly) partment, has explained that, before returning to Miami to- jeven without legislation requir- night, was accompanied. by _ his | jng blood tests for couples plan- Geosse-Walz, 2-fupior.at the lifing marriage;tocal people can j Uni versity of Miaml. igo a long way toward ending the a 27 laa | syphilis plague by taking the tests CHECKING UP | voluntarily. <I Also in commemoration of the ON BLACK FLY, PLANT BOARD INSPECTORS ®ttend their open house program j within the first year after birth, of the children’s nursery school at South and Reynolds streets have invited all interested persons to vana, will leave Cuba for Key West May 6, arriving in the after- noon, and then proceed to Tampa ; for dry-docking. There will be ; no southbound sailing from Port {Tampa for Key West and Ha- vana Wednesday. The Cuba will sail from Ha- vana the morning of May 8 for pon Springs, where the industry | made subject to taxes.. is thriving very well, | In another transaction, Hilario Mr. Cohn declares that name ge 8: Srape i blight, which had been affecting | Proper' hos re paigneegionesed es: bat Duval street, 126 feet from the |Sponges so greatly in Florida wa-|: | lintersection of Greene street, The ters, especially, has disappeared | property, which was sold for $4,- entirely, and finds: that the ‘500, is described as the former Child Hlealth Day, WPA directors | (Miami, and during the period while the Florida is in drydock, (ein handle the schedule, jalone. rk on ‘the Florida ~ bly will be completed by May 16, re- turning the ship to duty and per- mitting the Cuba to go into dry- idock. world, located in New York. He revealed that the demand for sponges at this time is far greater than the output and pre- dicts that within a short time |Nos, 211, ‘catches now being made are of 213 and’ 215, Duval the very best. Tee e A veteran of th dustly, Mr, street. in-} ce ; jthe largest packing houses in the | $75, general repairs; L. L. Pendic- ton, 914 Grinnell, $2,000, general repairs; Otis Johnning, 325 Amelia, $250, general repairs; Mrs. Agnes G. Ryan, 504 Simon- ton, $225, general repairs; J. R. Stowers, 515 Duval, $75, repairs; George C. Russell, 1008 White, $75, repair porch; Julia Mingo, 516 Olivia, $100, building; | P. W, Keifer, 1116 Eaton, $100, building garage; B. Soldano, 705 Windsor Lane, $100, general re- pairs; Joe Lopez, 1915 Seiden- burgh Lane, $2,000, building; Karl Joe Pinder and Hunter Harden. Mr. Weintraub was commended |by the club for the splendid work {he accomplished at the state meet. thereby placing Key West in the limelight. Plans were formulated and {commttee appointed to look into |the possibilities of building a Young Winter Visitors Club in iKey West. Site near the beach {will be secured for this purpose. Committee is as follows: Frank jJohnson, Jr, chairman; | Butler and Joe Alien. Delmar | Thompson, Fitzpatrick, $100, Evidence that some of the Brit- ish troops still are in Greece and jare continuing to fight was con- |tained in a Berlin commuique describing mopping up operations ! in the southern area, however. The communique said German troops were swiftly breaking up | 8 jorganized resistance, but told of |in 1936 and 1937, 25 inspectors of fighting between Nazi forces and the British rear-guard, which jmust still be holding its lines to permit remnants of the army to reach ships. Crete, site of the Greek gov- yernment since King George ani MAKING SURVEY OF CITRUS TREES Checking up to make sure there ! jhas been no return of the black | trees. Ralph Milner, local inspector, said today the men will be here jabout two weeks making a rou- {tine check-up. Although the in- today. SALE OF STAMPS _ SHOWS INCREASE |fly which they helped to eradicate | Sale of stamps at Key West the state plant board are making |P9St office during April soared | March of this year, 28 couples | Ja thorough check of local citrus |More than $1,000 above the same |received licenses. month in 1940, Assistant Post- master Hollon Bervaldi revealed today. Figures for the that Key Westers last month month show BIG INCREASE IN | County Judge Raymond Lord's ; loffice had its busiest month of’ jthe year in the marriage license | {field during April when 31) couples marched to the altar. Last year in Aprli, only 19 li- icenses were issued, while during | (In the Mur! imonths of 1941, the county | judge’s office has granted per- |Mmission to 106 couples to marry. ithe industry will reach its height | WILL PERPETUATE PAINT- INGS OF LATE GEORGE INNESS, JR. with large catches in waters around Key West and other sec- | tions of Florida, as well as along | the Cuban coast. Mr. Cohn says that the Key West fleet should be operating; TARPON SPRINGS, May 1— at full strength now since the/(FNS) An endowment fund of light has disappeared. There | $200,000 to be raised over a period are excellent growths of sponges | of five years, has been proposed to be found over a wide area of |to perpetuate the paintings of the the grounds, he concluded. ‘late George Innes, Jr., in their « aS" gugaecms ipresent setting in the Church of MEETS TONIGHT ‘Rev. William W. Laite, minister ‘of the Methodist Church, after, it ) was learned it was the plan of t | board of trustees of the Univer- build sign board; J. O. Kemp, 1213 Duncan, $100, add room; Agwi- lines, Inc., $100, building ramp; W. R. Fleck, 700 Duval, $500, re- modeling; Aquilino Lopez, Wil- liam and United, $1,500, general repairs; Frank Papy, 1501 Semi-| BELIEVED TO HAVE COME) island and that some. German} nary, $500, general repairs; Ross C. Sawyer, Dey, $1,500, general repairs; W. T. Brume, Blanche and Bertha, $200, cistern; Helio Renedo, 903 Virginia, $250; E. E. Archer, 1403 Albany, $75, new roof; John R, Watson, Fogarty and Seventh, $100, building; Raul Garcia, Louisa, $450, building; Everesta S. Stevens, South, $500, genefal repairs and Joaquin Osorio, 611 Whitehead, $250. THURSDAY Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. City Council meets in City Hall, 8100 p.m. County Commission meets County Courthouse, 8:00 p.m. FRIDAY “Young April,” high school senior play, 8:15 p. m. May festival at high school, 9:00 p.m. in I wish to announce that I have taken over the garage adjoining PAUL'S TIRE and AUTO SUP- PLY STORE and will continue as in the past to serve you as LUIS GARAGE AND STORAGE S16 White Street Phone 265 LUIS NORCISA ‘HUNGRY BIRDS. jhis ministers; fled. there ; shortly | . jbefore the'fall of Athths, took a | heavy bombardment frm | Ger- | FLOCKING HERE |=: dive bombers during} the jnight. A Cairo communique said |RAF planes were defending the {bombers had been destroyed. ] Cairo also claimed success for \the RAF in bombing raids against German and Italian columns in |the Salum area-along the Libyan- |Egyptian frortier. Thousands of hungry birds, be- | . lieved to have been blown here | from Cuba by the storm, are hop- | ping and flying around Key Wi \this week, getting into hous jautomobiles and every place | where there might be something to eat. Curry Moreno, identifying some of the birds as gold finches, sparrows, nonpareils and chip- ‘chips, suggested today that Key Westers toss some bread crumbs into their yards to feed the new- comers. The birds are able to find plenty of water, Moreno said, but they appear to be starving HERE TO GET OUT OF STORMY WEATHER night in the first regular meeting of the month. The session will start at 8 o'clock. Most of the businses to come before the meeting will be that of a routine nature while other matters may come up during the ‘course of the session. British Use Long Range ~ Bombers In Berlin Raid (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 1.—L range |H rg as well as dropping a British bombers struck at Berlin few bombs in Berlin. egg, Be gue es eg At Kiel, the communique said week, but their attack was a : tenet on t nds of high explosive and base at Ki diary bombs smashed docks today « equip Rail With EB t tacks | w lines im the were de fi stroyed and fires could be seen squadrons reached f imany to strike at and burning from miles away. along the wate across Ger- Emden The City Council will meet to-| purchased $5,221.48 in stamps, while in 1940, the April total was $3,863.91. GRAND JURY HERE STILL IN “SESSION spectors have not visited Key | West in three years, they are con- | tinuing a series of periodic studies jto make sure there is no return lof the jflie y +ti-— ALBURY INFANT BURIED TODAY | Funeral services for Mary jAlice Albury, 23 - month - old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard |A. Albury, 726 Southard street, jwere held this morning at the jchapel of Lor Funeral home. |The Rev. Arthur Riviere officiat- led. { apparently still investigating the strangle-murder of Mrs. Cecelia Thompson Tunks here in Febru- ary, today visited the Howe street house of Alice Reid Grif- fin to see the spot where the woman met her death. _ TEMPERATURES The baby died yesterday aft-! ernoon at the home of the par- ents. She i and ¢g jHarry Sawy Albury. NOTIGE EFFECTIVE MAY 1ST CURRIE’S | SERVICE STATION now located at Fleming and it Streets will move to the STANDARD OIL COM- PANY SERVICE STATION at corner of Lowest last Highest last i 24 hours 7 76 62 3 eI 81 86 68 80 81 * 7 76 6o 5 78 59 72 82 ps i by her parents Mr, and Mrs Mrs. Hattie Abiene Boise Boston Buffalo —_ Charlestor Chicago Cincinnati Denver Detroit El Paso Galveston Havre Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Nashville White and Division | New Orleans ™ la. City Streets Portland All customers and friends} Sait Lake City are cordially imvited to call | san Francisco ARNOLD CURRIE. Prop. seeaeruag ry BS SSRAees saves i | Monroe county commissioners | Stage their first meeting of the} month tonight at the courthouse | at 8 o'clock, ‘CONTINUE RAPE | CASE HEARING | ' Still pending before the board | | | is the appointment of an upper Peace Justice Enrique Esquin-' key road patrolman to fill the post aldo, Jr., this afternoon at 5 of Raymond Maloney,. who re- o’clock will continue the rape signed after Sheriff Berlin Saw-; lease hearing of Harrison Saw- yer had refused to deputize him | yer, negro, who is accused of at- and several commissioners had Monroe county grand jurors, tacking an elderly and ‘crippled protested against employment of Visit jnegro woman. a non-deputy road patrolman.” | The hearing was carried over Ross C. Sawyer, clerk of the !to today while the court waited board, left yesterday for Talla- jfor one of the material wit- hassee and will not be present at! [nesses to appear. tonight's session. OC a ° Operators And Striking Miners | Have Ironed Out Difficulti } i (By Ansociated Press) j | WASHINGTON, May 1—Soft; United Auto Workers represen-! | coal a enagsenye J ee jtatives demand overtime for men | miners ve iro out e last) ork 4 oftheir difficulties and are jn _ ee ised | promising full production within |9°4 4 strike w week-found mediation |}* Majority of the a week, government lofficials announced today ; After a month-long walkout: not met |that brought some defense indus- eeomerenceath jtries to a halt and threatened to DESCRIBES KNUDSEN jdelay others, union representa-|AS ‘LABOR BAITER’ stives yesterday agreed to a gen (By Associated eral return to work in beth} HARRISBURG, Pz, {northern and southern fields. The Describing Defense Production jnerthern miners previously had Manager William S. Knudsen as |announced they would start work a “labor bsiter”, John L. Lewis, | today. president of the CIO mine work-! i Negotiations for a settlement ers’ union, said today he would jof the threatened General Motors demand that the former General | q strike’ will get under way this |Motors executive either be re- | afternoon Company officials ‘strained or removed. thave attempted to work out a/ In a scathing address before schedule of seven-day production, | with four shifts, each working constantly itheir normal 40 hours weekly, |position as director of | without overtime. _. production, t workers | i! j%© walk out if einen ad j {salist church to. move the paint- ings from this city. The proposed fund would be raised through the thousand Uni- versalist churches throughout the country and. frdm. individuals. This would make the local church that houses eleven canvases of the late Ameriaen artist a national shrine, Annually thousands of visitors from all parts of the world the church to view the paint- ings. The Innest masterpieces were a gift to the Tarpon Springs church from Mr. and Mrs. Innes THE PIED PIPER CHANGES TUNE {My Annoeieted Prone) HAINKING, Manchoukuo, May 1.-—-Manchoukuo health authorities are staging a unique lottery, tickets being sold for rats rather than money, By this medium they hope to prevent re- currence of bubonic plague in the capital. Each rat surrendered is worth % ticket. Drawings are held each for prizes totaling $1,600. DELAYED LETTER CLEBURNE, Tex.-Mrs. MH. Happel of this city wrote to an delivered, and half of it had been destroyed by termites. man's Club will be heid