The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 3, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Ary West Cittern THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. <a Ping For Key West Wate Line Arvin. At Homestead Twenty Carloads Per Day "POO ea aa aa; Rolling ‘APRIL SHOWERS’ Expected To Be Rolling | Now CHANGED TO In Beginning — Coming} HEAVY DOWNPOUR Week The weather bureau closed fits books on April today and | pronounced it the undisputed champion of rainy Aprils in Key West. With a total of 13.14 inches of precipitation during the month, April boosted 1941 into a fair spot for setting a year’s record. The city now has experienced 17.69 inches too much rain since January. Weather bureau records EDR. URGES FULL 24-HOUR WORK WEEK) Qnly. In Case ROOSEVELT CALLS ON COUN- (SII VILL SS | TRY TO GO ON GREATER | w ARN LONDONERS PRODUCTION BASIS IN DE-| ABOUT WAR NEWS FENSE INDUSTRY (By Associated Press) | LONDON, May 3.—Lon- (By Associated Press) ; doners today were warned WASHINGTON, May 3.—Presi-. by the Daily Express to be- dent Roosevelt has called on the; lieve no good news, unless nation’s defense industry to goon! they can see it for them- a production basis of seven days! selves. a week, 24 hours a day. The paper, owned by “as- In a letter to Production Man-| sistant Prime Minister” Lord agers William S. Knudsen and; Beaverbrook, criticized lead- Sidney Hillman, the President! ers of the government for suggested a re-canvassing of the, glossing over bad news. and jnation to find skilled workers to} giving false impressions of iman the machines of industry. It} British victories. should not be necessary, he said, In spite of optimistic re- show that the rainiest April {to increase the working time of | ports, the editorial said, Brit- this city ever had experienced jany mechanics in order to attain| ish troops have been defeated before was in 1881, when 4.99 the constant operation of fac-; in Norway, France, Greece inches was recorded, prac- | tories. . and Africa. tically nothing compared fo Declaring flaly that the present j last month's 13. April in | industrial output is “not enough”, | OOPQPQ°D LISI SSIS 1930 was the only other time / president Rodsévelt said it is es- GERMANS BATTER | TOBRUK DEFENSES the gauge showed more than | sential that industry constantly four inches, with a recording ‘increase its output until not a that month of 4.39. machine is starfding idle at any BRITISH LAUNCH SURPRISE ON ITALY’S REMNANT ETHIOPIAN FORCES (Special 10 The Citizen) HOMESTEAD, May 3.—Pipe for Key West's long-sought wa- ter supply system will be rolling into Homestead at the rate of 20 carloads a day next week as con- tracting engineers begin the lengthy task of processing. Providing the first concrete evidence that work is about to start on the project, 24 cars of material arrived here this week and a crew of 50 men went to ‘work preparing a site for the pro- cessing job. The pipe to be treated “dar come in sections 50 feet long, | before for the entire month. and weighing about a ton apiece. Aside from the rain, the There will be about 20 to the car.!_ month was about normal. Gaines Laster, yard superin-| The mean temperature was tendent of the Standard Asbestos; 75.8 degrees, slightly warmer Manufacturing and Insulating raged vhs its . Z e wind Co., Kansas City, Mo., said today | usual direction, east. with an the processing will require from | average velocity of 10.9 miles. six to eight months and will be} completed at a cost of about $450,- | In one period of 24 hours on jtime of the day or night. Wednesday and Thursday this ‘week, the bureau recorded 7.95 inches, far more than had ever been experienced Production management, in ad- dition to checking up on the na- tion’s supply of skilled workmen, including men in the armed forces, should study methods of getting machines in out of the way places into action, he con- tinued. Wherever possible, the joutlying machinery should be put to work where it stands, but if that is impossible, it should be jmoved at once, (By Associated Press) CAIRO, May 3.—War in Libya and Ethiopia flared up with new intensity yesterday as a German mechanized column battered at Tobruk in one of the heaviest at- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1941 Officers On Patrol Duty Warned To Avoid Shooting At NaziShip ej Of Real Necessity rt DRESS i ay A ed Press) WAorinwauss, anay v—iNav- el cticers aboard snips in ime extended United Siates have been warned to avoid shooting at German vessels, at all cosis, according to reliable in- formants of the state depart- ment. patroi According to the report, the officers were instructed to fire jon a German raider only if the | safety of the American vessel can Joe. preserved in no other. man- ner. : Navy department officials have tefused to make any comment on jthe patrol or its duties. THOMPSON BUYS ACREAGE ON KEYS MARTIN KEY BEER GARDEN AND STOCK ISLAND LOTS SOLD TO H. A. GOWING | i } Karl ©. Thompson, {sheriff and operator of a_ soft drink bottling works here, has Before PRICE FIVE CENTS Nazi Units Enter Campaign TREVOR HEARD VILLAS SS LS S| Guierally Believed That IN ADDRESS AT | LIONS’ MEETING CARLETON SAWYER, REPRE- SENTATIVE OF TOBACCO COMPANY, ALSQ.. HEARD DURING SESSION Benjamin D. Trevor,-vice chair- man of the Monroe County De-~ fense Council, told Key West Lions Club at their meeting} Thursday night what that organ- ization, other groups and in- dividual citizens would be ex- pected to do in the organization of this work in Monroe County. Selection of committees as out- | jlined in instructions sent out by | td governor's office will be the | first duty of the present organ- | ization, stated Mr. Trevor. | Briefly he outlined the duties | former jof the following committees: Fi- | FACES ARRAIGNMENT IN FED- | nance and budget, fuel, water system, jcommunications, Power and | fire, food, | transportation, | REPORT HEAVY SHIP LOSSES TO BRITAIN BERLIN, May 3.—German bombers, submarines and su® face raiders during April de- stroyed more than 1,000,000 ‘tons of British and Allied shipping, a major part of it in waters off Greece, a com- munique said today. ‘Since the start of the war. according to the report, Ger- ‘man raiders’ have destroyed 10,917,000 tons,of enemy ship- ping. (London today admitted the destruction of two destroyers | and four transports in the evacuation of the B. E. F. from Greece.) FE ke hk bub hou, CE GRIFFIN TO BE TRIED MONDAY i } ERAL COURT ON TWO WHITE ‘SLAVERY INDICTMENTS caped From Greece Are Going Into Action (By, Assectated Press) LONDON, May 3.— Britain's Army of the Nile today appeared to be racing against time in an effort to crush Iraq defenses and seize the capital at Baghdad be- |fore German troops can enter the jcompaign, Practically no information on the Iraq fighting has been re- leased. but it is believed here that British soldiers who escaped from Gieece this week ure being hurried back into action. A terse communigae said the British forces. had seized Iraq guns, which yesterday fired on the airdrome at Habanniyah. . 000. Every inch of the pipe, in- side and out, will be treated with! an enamel process, insuring} against possible bacteria action | ingide’ and against corrosion by; the soil of the outer covering. and his ere of assist- vaprived: here week, to ‘preparation of the 1 tract where the 13§-odd miles of steel’ pipe will be treated. Workmen immediately began clearing the field and preparing Supports for the pipe, which will be brought here. Laster said deliveries will be brought up to 20 carloads a day and maintained at that rate until all the pipe is here. dk hk ded udeudeul, ‘MONOPOLY VERDICT Itacks of the campaign and a Brit- lish force in 1 Under a shroud of secrecy, the [Purchased for about $8,500, two! information, health and housing. | Iraq appeared the s 1B. | battle in to tracts at Key Largo along the} President Gerald Saunders! pater wl GRAND JURY MAY UPHELD BY COURT f Ethiopia suddenly '9jq East Coast Railroad right-of- launched a surprise attack on the ; way, it was revealed today. remnants of Italy’s army. | Thompson bought one 60-acre A German column which forc- | tract from Arthur B. Hale, Hills- Fed- ed its way deep into Tobe s county, a3 defense was shattered in a strong ‘counterattack “by “the ‘city’s “Aus: | jHale involved about $6,000, and j tralian defenders, according to a communique. the purchase from Miles about (Berlin said one column had ‘$2,500, deep ‘into the} In another transaction recorded INVESTIGATE RAPE four subsidiaries court in 1939. Judge Walter C. Lindsey at} South Bend, Ind., found the companies guilty of operating a monopoly in 1939 and sentenced ithem to pay fines of $5,000 apiece. (Ry Annoeinted Press) WASHINGTON, May 3. secu of appeals anes Frag, Sean conviction of General Motors company and by a lower | !fought its way HARRISON SAWYER PLACED UNDER $500 BOND TO AWAIT TRIAL IN JUDGE GOMEZ’ CIRCUIT COURT jtaining its position. munique warned, however, that'O. Nelson, both of Waltham, it may require a “long time” to! Mass, lots in the Florida main- capture the city.) land development. Both Harrison Sawyer, Co-operating with RAF bomb- and ancther | city’s outer works and is main-! today, Cape Sable Land company | The com- | sold to Eva P. Fisher and to Irma | trans- | pledged the Lions wholehearted| Alice Reid Griffin, held for |~ », support in this work. jmore than two months in coun- |" rast with Britain's Letters from Governor Holland, \ty jail, will go to. trial Monday | Vitally important oil fields and uepcasetstite Papy and Ser afternoon in Federal court to | the Suez al as the prize to the ‘ard pledging support | of ‘face two i wi adi ‘iat ai . Lions ‘blind bijl now béfore Wie | i Ubdiiiadicalie (Berlin said oil lines from Iraq legislature were read by Secte-| The Reid woman, former ‘op-| Palestine hed tary Rodman Bethel. jerator of a bawdy house at 1016 |‘? Palestine had been severed; but Carleton Sawyer, lecturer of a' Howe street, is charged with admitted the pipes probably wére tobacco company, gave the club transporting two women here not irrevocably damaged. Berlin paw tihare¢ talk on the tobacco | from other states for immoral officials refused to comment on a industry. |purposes. She was arrested in > # He brought out the fact that as e surprise raid by officers of the | report that Iraq had asked Ger. {much money is spent in this coun-/FBI at Miami, who seized her ™#°Y — aid, geen official {try for tobaceo as is spent for! i ‘ sources in Rome said such an ap- jand her husband, Marvin Griffin. {peal had been made.) } | | bread, amount to one billion six (Griffin later was released. 25-year-old | lactions involved. about. $300, jhundred million during the past ers, British forces in Federal Judge John W. Holland | London foreign officers today {negro, today faced possible trial before circuit court on a charge |~ of rape after he was bound over | Thursday night by Peace Justice | om Jr., under | JAPS SAY U.S. ‘TEMPERATURES PATROL OF ATLANTIC BY AMERICAN SHIPS | IEnrique Esquinaldo, {$500 bond. State Attorney J. Lancelot Les- ter and County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare, Jr., said this morning | Apalachicola they did not know if Sawyer |Asheville — would go to trial on a_ straight) Atlanta charge of rape, a capital offense | Augusta | which would be tried. in circuit | Birmingham jeourt, or if he would be tried on | Boston a | Abilene | Albany Buffalo were said to be driving homie a sudden push against Italian troops {which have taken up positions in the northeastern corner of the county. FIELD MASS AT SPANISH MISSION NEW SYMRNA, May 3 (FNS). j—The fifth annual Field Mass Ethiopia | Henry A. Gowing, in two {transactions recorded yesterday, purchased from Martin Key a {beer garden and 16 lots on Stock Island for $6,000. _ The transactions were recorded lseparately, one for $3,500 and \the other for $2,500. WOULD CUT NON DEFENSE PROGRAM j twelve months. Mr. Sawyer stated that this country derives six hundred mil- {lion dollars in taxes from tobacco, | representing 10 per cent of the national income. He divided the industry into five classifications, snuff, chew- ing tobacco, pipe tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, and explained each in detail. NEW MATRON AT will preside when his court opens | | Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock | jfor naturalization proceedings. | | With the completion of exam- jinations, the new citizens of the} (United States will take part in’ an Americanism ceremony to be |staged in court by members of, ithe local Elks club. | | The Reid trial will open at 2 o'clock. ! HOUSE TO GET | | predicted the quick defeat of Iraq “ and expressed their opinion that Adolf Hitler's plans for the near- east campaign had been upset by the too hasty ,action of Iraq's army. According to observers here, the Iraq army was not ex~ pected to provoke an incident with British forces until German troops hag been massed in a posi- tion where they could eriter the fight immediately. Reports reaching here said Ger- man soldiers are being trans- (Ny Agnociated Prena) TOKYO, May 3,—Anti-Amer- county criminal court. i | ( } i t ' statutory charge before the | | Charleston jwill be held at Old Spanish Mis- | Sawyer is accused of attacking | Chicago (By Annoctated Press) {sion here May 8th, Rt. Rev. Msgr. | WASHINGTON, May 3.—The i ported to French Syria in planes, ‘but there has been ho confirma- - tion. ican feeling in Japan was running higher today as the influential Times and Advertiser editorially a mentally infirm: negro woman, | Cincinnati ha charge which would constitute |Cleveland a technical case of rape, even|Columbus ., called Upited States patrols in|with the woman's consent. |Corpus Christi the Atlantic “unneutral”, and, Grand jurors, who yesterday |Denver ultra-nationalists displayed signs|visited the Howe street bawdy |Des Moines in the streets demanding a stiffer |house where Mrs. Cecelia Thomp- ! Detroit attitude against the democracies. |son Tunks was strangled to death | Dodge City The newspaper said patrols in-|the morning of Feb. 8, are con- | Duluth evitably would lead to convoys, |sidered likely to take up Saw- | Eastport which in turn would lead to the |yer’s case. jEl Paso United States sending an army in-| Sawyer, if tried before circuit ‘Fort Myers to the European war. court on the charge and found Galveston Placards on the streets urged | guilty, could be sent to the elec-|Grand Rapids the Japanese government to ad- tric chair. Criminal court, which |Hatteras vance in resistance te’ American | does not try capital offense cases, | Havana and British pressure in the Farjhas the power of sentencing a | Indianapolis ni ~~ Little Rock Nashville Clem Price, Secretary of the »keing made to arrange a schedule |St. Louis annual convention of the Florida /as a school, since chamber of com- | Tampa cities throughout the state are ex- East. man to life imprisonment. | Jacksonville Arrangements Go F d For icons" gements GO Forward FOr | xtemonis Annual Convention Of Florida ***- . . + |New Orleans ommercial Secretaries’ Assn.|*<« ¥=* Philadelphia converftion oration, and | Whereby the delegates may visit )Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce Secretary /|Cuba after the session here {San Antonio Stephen Singleton this week are} Singleton explained today that San Francisco Commercial Secretaries’ associa- | merce secretaries take a coure in | Washington tion here May 25-28. More than 100 chamber of com- | pected to come here to take part! in the convention program. Their visit here will be the first the as- |KEY WEST |Mpls.-St. Paul } Pittsburgh completing arrangements for the the convention also will function | Spokane merce men and their wives from! sdeiation has paid to Key West the proper direction of their of- | ficers, and later are given a writ- ten examination covering the sub- ject matter. Last year’s state conve was held in Tar and ton attended a meeting board of directors tion ie. the at William Barry of Miami officiat- ing as celébrant. The annual field Mass has be; jcome an historic institution in ‘this. c6mnmunity. Started in June, 11937, at the time of the golden jjubilee of the incorporation of jNew Smyrna Beach, the Mass jcommemorates the work of the {early Franciscan friars to chris- {tianize the Indians who settled jin Florida in 1685. The celebra- tion centers around the oldest imonument to Christianity in Flor- jida—the Old Spanish Mission. People from all over the state jwill flock to the historic mission {grounds to take part in the serv- jice. The Florida Historical So- ciety will attend the Mass in a | body. | COLD FREEZES SYSTEM | ARROWWOOD. Alberta |When the home of Albert Simmie caught fire, it was so cold the 'town alarm siren refused to work. and the building was destroyed. House Ways and Means commit- teemen are studying methods for cutting a billion dollars from the non-defense expenditures of the (United States. Continuing public hearings on the treasury department's $3,- 600,000,000 tax bill, the committee announced it would call on CIO President Phillip Murray today. R. WATSON FINED “IN COURT TODA Robert J. Watson, charged with driving an automobile while un- der the influence of intoxicating liquor, this afternoon was sen- tenced to pay a fine of $100 and costs and to serve a jail sentence of 30 days. Judge William V. Al- bury, who heard Watson's guilty plea in his office, suspended the jail sentence on the provision that Watson pay the fine. LOU SMITH AUTO SERVICE NOW LOCATED AT COUNTY'S HOME MRS. DALBERT BETHEL TO TAKE CHARGE ON MAY 16 Mrs. Dalbert Bethel, wife of the former deputy sheriff, will take charge of the county home May 16, Commission Chairman Carl Bervaldi announced today. Mrs. Bethel was appointed by Bervaldi to fill the vacancy cre- ated by the death of Mrs. Louisa Warren two weeks ago. Mrs. Warren had held the post for 27 years. The appointment was approved Thursday night by the board of commissioners. | RABBIT FIGHTS SNAKE KANSAS CITY.—When A. M Benander of this city, who is state game protector, saw a rab- bit jimping up and down in a field, he investigated and found it was trying to | SHIP MEASURE } ei Bigs: i BILL CALLS FOR PURCHASE OF FOREIGN VESSELS IN AMERICAN PORTS | Ay Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 3.—An administration measure calling {for purchase of foreign ships in | American ports will go to the | House Monday, it was predicted today. The bill would permit the federal government to buy up merchant vessels now in Amer- ican ports and turn them over to | Great Britain. Senator Tobey, New Hampshire isolationist, has announced he will fight for an amendment to the bill, providing against the use \of convoys. A similar amendment | backed by Tobey for the lend-° lease bill was defeated. County And City Take In Some observers think Germany | will drive through Turkey some- time within the next few days, in an effort to reach Iraq before (Continued on Page Four) U. NAVAL PATROLS IN FULL OPERATION (By Associated Prone’ WASHINGTON, May 3—-Ex panded naval patrols of Atlentic waters, suggested by President Roosevelt a week ago, already are in full operation, the navy depart ment has announced. How many ships are involved or where they have been sent has not been disclosed, but under the plan outlined by Prenident Roosevelt, the petrols will reach \algnost into European waters, re Twelve Thousand Dollars In Current Taxes In April ‘The BETTYE RAYMOND $12 CAROLINE STREET $s closing today for the summer. Raymond wishes to FLEMING AND WHITE STREETS Formerly PAUL'S TIRE and AUTO SUPPLY STORE We will continue with same policy es this station has maintained during the years and invite all of the customers of this station to continue with us. County and city tax collectorsjhed taken im $3320.76 iast between them last month collect- month, almost =» 50 percent in- more than $12,000 in current crease over the same month last city 7° when $1649.78 wus collect- | gtoup’s Reservations for the convention |Tampa_ in delegates have been reserved at La Concha hotel, and efforts are October, when | West Was selected as the site for ithis year’s meet. ; Bettye Key | thank ail of her patrons for their | generous patronage. Seccereainineemeeeteemteeenecaeecatae teen | Expert Repair Service | i ‘collections corresponding |@¢ County Tax Collector Joe Rago | MeMahon, however, took in $9,- Tax Collector Sam Pin-/| 166.50 instead of the $13,450 col. accounts showed his office lected by his office a year ago, Phone No. 5