The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 6, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 108. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1941 Great Increase Shown In Travel Over April Over Previous Year Legion Convention Travel Proved To Be Big Boost In Traffic To And From Key West | Nearly 6,500 more sacstaneel trips were recorded over Over- Seas highway last month than in April, 1940, a monthly report from the road and toll bridge | district revealed today. Boosted near the end of the month by American Legion con- vention travel, figures for April show 28,038 passengers, contri- buting tolls of $24,682.75. Inj April of the previous year, there | were 21,590 passengers paying $20,028.50, or $4,654.25 less than | last month's figure. Since the present fiscal vear opened Sept. 1, 1940, a grand to-} tal of 228,842 passenger trips! have been recorded in the eight | months which ended April 30, | bringing the total above the! 226,340 passengers recorded for | the entire 12 months of the} 1938-39 season. An unexplained comparison between this year and the first} _year of the bridges’ existence, is péssengers”seem™to be riding in each car now than. in the 1938-39 season. At that time, although the etire year showed | 2,502 less passegers than the first eight months of this year, the Same period saw 11,000 more: automobiles crossing the bridges | than have done so in the past eight months. After March's record-breaking collection of $40,590.25, April to- * tals made the expected sharp drop, but in every department of autos vehicles, passengers and tolls the month showed distinct ims over the two previous} Aprils in the three-year period. | Passenger figures for the month reveal that more. persons still are heading south over. the bridge than are going north. \In automobile traffic, 10,804 per- | sons headed north, while 11,727’! paid toll charges for the trip! south. Bus: carried a total of 5,507 passengers in both direc- | tions during the month. \ } FIGHTING IN IRAQ INCREASES. TEMPO; GOVERNMENT OF RASHID ALI AL GAILANI ORDERS GENERAL MOBILIZATION: RAF ACTIVE Highway For | (iy Associated Press) GRAND JURORS | Fighting in Iraq today appeared to be gradually increasing in scope as Great Britain poured jfresh reinforcements into the |seized port of Basra and the gov- {ernment of Rashid Ali Al Gailani called for a general mobilization. eee Admitting that Iraq soldiers jhad seized the four military posts BEGAN INVESTIGATING OF |tom which Britain previously SCHOOL FACiLITIES THIS | guarded the oil line to Palestine, a report from Cairo said the fight- MORNING; GEORGIAN HELD ing still is “indecisive.” FOR REID OR TUNKS CASES} British bombers are reported |to have blasted all Iraq airports [Eden Blames Disastrous Greek War On Ex. t Prince Paul Foreign Secretary Opened] SAFETY PATROL Debate On Vote Of Con-! GROUP LEAVING HERE TOMORROW fidence For Churchill ' i 'OFF TO WASHINGTON TO Government | HEAD MAMMOTH PARADE | | (Dy Ansoctated Press) | LONDON, May 6.—Foreign !Secretary Anthony Eden, calling | jfor a vote ef confidence in the! government of Prime Minister! | Winston Churchill, this morning opened debate in the House of Commons by blaming ex-Regent {| | Prince Paut of Yugoslavia for the! idisastrous Greek campaign. | Prince Paul, Eden told the ‘house, misled both the British ;: government and his own coun- Patrol girls and boys farewell on trymen in telling them his army their trip to Washington, D. C. jwas mobilized to a point where it could furnish some resistance EVENTS IN CAPITAL CITY | Key Westers will gather at the FML bus station tomorrow morn- ing to bid .the the local Safety FRIDAY MORNING: OTHER: Monroe county grand juror: late this morning’ left their of-j insists that artillery still is shell-/*0.2 German thrust. When the alles sh cio o aaaae "thrown, it was learned that al- Ay ‘bos most no soldiers had been mobi- four _schools—Division Street, Harris, St. Joseph’s and High Schools—leave on the 7:00 a. m. Seventeen girls and boys from fice at the coutthouse to begin an investigation of school facili- ties: in Key West. that the French government at ¥ Syria has agreed to permit Ger- ss oodles a reocant ee |man transport planes to fly across | i the Ii have marked at least a tem- |** country with help for the Iraq 6 cs jarmy, but French officials at Loa geht {he probe into the 'vichy denied they had made any Cecelia | Thompson Tunks, ich agreement. +. | SU Feb. 8, which ; : | mor current in they are thought to have been! aneeer en carrying on. } Cairo was that Baghdad is pre- Sheriff's officers, meanwhile, PROSOE, (olmprey cumnae et are holding Charles D jtions with Berlin, Relations were Penchent 30 Id ates {broken off at the start of the war, nes who as yohiened hore | Sele ie adele Eaheine City jail for ques. | Dritish Iraq government pul the e n tioning, either in the Tunks. mur- haere Catraiior econ tee der or in the federal white slav-!~ arother frequently heard ery trial of Alice Reid Griffin, | ymor is that Britain is organiz- which opened today. i ‘ing Moslems in the south of Iraq hulp swage bee soe y sd 2 overthrow the Rashid Gailani ; previous leaders. fore she came to Key West. Turkish and Egyptian efforts to D UTY BRING mediate the struggle, meanwhile, TWO MEN. HERE’ MRS. NESS’ BODY John Smith and Jerome | SHIPPED TO HOME Carver, charged . with driving | while under the influence of} The body of Mrs. Katherine liquor, were brought here last|Marie Ness, age 32, who was night by Deputy Bob Combs. | drowned on Sunday, was sent this Combs said he arrested the | morning to her home in Brooklyn, men near Islamorada, where|N. Y. by the Pritchard Funeral they were driving a lumber | Home for funeral services and in- truck. , terment, Istanbul publicized a rumor Two Cases Now Receiving ? Attention Of Coroner Here Franklin Arenberg, justice of the peace and coroner ex-officio, this morning recessed until Fri- day a coroner's jury investigating the death of 27-year-old Thelma Ballantine and prepared to con- tinue this afternoon his investiga- tion into the wating of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nesg Sunday morning. The probe “into "Miss Ballan- mrp e') Ee The funeral of Miss Thelma} Ballantine, age 27, who died Sunday night 0 o'clock, at al local hospital, will be held today | 4p. m. from the chapel of the! Lopez Funeral Home. Rev. Ted | Jones of the Baptist Church of- ficiating. FINDS FORTUNE | IN OLD HOUSE | tine's death was continued when jurymen said they would prefer to wait for an analysis of stomach contents before render- ing a verdict, Dr. A, G. Foraker, assistant to Dr Anthony Rubino at Marine hospital, previously had testified that in his opinion, the woman suffered from a case of pneu- monia serious enough to have caused her death. She was taken to the hospital from a local room- ing house Sunday night, uncon- scious from an apparent overdose of a sedative. Mrs. Maude Roberts and Thom- Duane, employes of the room- fer KINGSTON, Tenn. — While | ing house, testified that the wo- tearing down an old building on; man was in a coma when they de- , his place, Tommy Burns, aj cided to send for a doctor. Duane painter, removed a board and aj said he heard her mutter the Small fortune in gold, silver and name of the drug. but could not eurrency—amounting to over $1,~| say if she meant that she wanted Miss Ballantine had been in Key | West about six weeks. | Anew angle in the death of Mr. and Mrs. Ness Sunday morning may be uncovered this afternoon when James Oliver, assistant fore- man at the Wailves Dove-Hermis- ton company where Ness was em- ployed, will testify that Ness fre- quently had complained because Jhis car was difficult to get into re- verse gear. Oliver, who had been in the car with the couple a few hours} before it plunged into the waters | of the P. & O. steamship slip, told | Justice Arenberg that the car fre- | quently jumped forward when Ness was attempting to back up. | Instead of backing away from the } seawall, the machine jumped for- | ward, rolled down a flight of steps and plunged into 25 feet of water. | Witnesses yesterday afternoon | told of hearing Mrs. Ness scream | for help, while her husband fum- | bled with the door handle of the car, apparently attempting to get} out Thomas McDermott, an employe j at the Samoa club, where the} couple had been, told of diving in- to the water and kicking out one of the small rear windows in the | Indianapolis | Pittsburgh \ tized, and by that time it was/bus for the nation’s capital to j too late. jhead a mammoth parade of pa- Eden said the German drive| trol units from all over the coun- caught Yugoslavia absolutely un-|try. The youths will parade Hines tiny fousme En nag down the famous Constitution , : Avenue before the President's {Greek troops also were caught aay : before they were ready. If the | reviewing stand in front of the Capitol. {government of Prince Paul had The Key West group won the acted with the resolution of the King Peter advisors, Eden said,{honor of leading the -parade by “it might have been a different | being selected as representatives jof the southernmost city in the ited States. The event will ke place Friday morning. All military advisers in the! near east are of the opinion that the campaign should have been| | |Special khaki uniforms for the undertaken, Eden explained. The!local members were rushed \disaster, they feel, could not; through to completion by the have averted by any power| NYA sewing room project here. in Britain's hands at the time. Mr. and Mrs. Myrtland Cates, | Debate on the vote of confi-}head of the boys and girls, re- dence will continue tomorrow | spectively, today praised the jand observers here feel that only |Pfoject employes for their fine jthe aircraft production handled | work. ! by Lord Beaverbrook is likely to] Leaving tomorrow morning Dee Griffin, Myrtland Cates, Jr., | Johnny Cerezo, Jack Smith of Everesta §S. Stevens, South ! Castillo of St. Joseph’s School; ‘street, yesterday was granted a Jenny Saunders, Larry DeLouse, | Joseph B. Pinder, 1414 Leon|be their present directors, Mr. |street, took another permit for | and Mrs. Cates. escape scathing criticism. will be Gerry Albury, Dolores — Boney, Dot Martin, Antonica Division Street School; Phyllis | Six and Billy Spencer of Harris building permit for $1,000 to add , Nilo Albury, John Owen Monsal- 'a porch and make general re-|vatge of the High School. jconstruction of a roof and gen-| The directors said today the eral repairs, to cost $100. | trip will be of extreme interest ° {Smith Rosemary” Kerr, \ Zelma PERMITS ISSUED = |School; Ralph Solano, Hector j bars to his home. | Accompanying the youths will pi in its entirety. Every effort will === be made, they said, to stress the | educational value of the trip. Saturday morning, the local TEMPERATURES a | patrols, along with others from Highest last|Lowest last | a1) over the nation, will visit the amg es | Federal Bureau of Investigation {in Washington, the Smithsonian 64 38 | Institute and many ‘other federal 75 70 | buildings and departments. 84 “We are also preparing a side BL \ trip to Mt. Vernon”, Mr. and Mrs. 65 Cates declared, “to view George 62 Washington's home. We plan to take the youngsters to Annapolis jto view the midshipmen there”. The group will arrive in Wash- ington 9:06 o'clock Thursday night. Abilene Albany Apalachicola Auanta Birmingham Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Columbus Corpus Christi 80 Denver 66 j Detroit 72 H Dodge City . 75 | Green Bay 85 Pee RS ES tt LE ES Havana 84 Havre 67 83 81 81 TUESDAY ‘Stone Church Service Club. 6:00 p.m. Key West Home Guard meets at National Guard armory, 8:00 p.m. Jacksonville KEY WEST Los Angeles . 84 Miami 78 Mpis.-St. Paul 80 Mobile 79 New Orleans 77 New York _. 61 naire * | St. Paul’s Parish Hall Philadelphia 83 |Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. 83 Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. County Commission meets in THURSDAY | Social meeting of Junior Woman's Club, 5 o'clock. Portland 58 Che Key West Citteen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE JU. S. A. Ato - 300 Feet General. Rules. Key West, Florida, has the } most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Of Saloons ‘Within Of San Carlos School \ | | «chy Apeane. Press) TALLAHASSEE, May —Reversing itself overnight, | the House voted 48-38 today | to put $750,000 of Murphy| Act land sales money into the general revenue fund for legislative expenses, and Confederate pensions. The House had voted 48-34 yes-| terday to give the counties 90 10} | per cent, and the state per cent. A House bill proposed to-; day would limit labor unions | to $10 initiation fee, and one! per cent monthly dues. | Construction of four con-| crete-steel bridges between} Big Pine Key, and Ramrod | ey Was delayed again to-| day when only one bid was submitted. The rules re-; quire three. Powell Brothers Construction Company, West | Palm Beach, was the lone’ bidder today. PEPPER SAYS TO House Votes To Put $750,000 Of Murphy Land Sales Money Into General. Revenue Fund Papy’s Bill That Would Allow Operation Near School Given Approval | By Committee (Special to The Citizen) csi PASS. BILL: FOR OFFICE EXPENSE IID ISS SD TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 6.—Attorney General | Tom Watson, in .an opinion OF TAX ASSESSOR enna (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 6.— The State Senate today pass- ed House Bill 359 providing $2.500 per year from the Monroe county commission to the Monroe county tax ai sessor for expenses of the of- fice with an amendment by Senator Ward limiting time of effectiveness. DIIIILDIDM 4 GERMAN AND BRITISH UNITS STRIKE HARD filed today, ruled that beer pee liquor licenses may not |be issued to establishments within 300 feet of a Cuban |government school at Key | West. He said the Florida law |retting the distance which \liquor from, la school iregardiess of whether or not |it happens to be upon prop- | ‘erty owned by a foreign ernment.” - A committee of the Flor- FELT CRASH OF EXPLOD- has approved a bill by Rep. ING BOMBS IN OPERATIONS Papy of Monroe County to al- LAST NIGHT ‘low licensed beer and liquor \dealers to operate near the (ny Ansoctated Presa) | achool, Cities in six countries felt the | crash of exploding bombs last; Papy told the committee en as Coes and British air | that the 66-pupil school is ‘fleets struck savagely in one of | | the largest scale night operations conducted entirely in Spanish | of recent months. ‘and i te Cuban German bombers rained high | ind is located - the explosives on Liverpool for the consulate which has the CITIES IN SIX: COUNTRIES ida House of Representatives. | sixth successive night, bombed }Glasgow in Scotland and turned loose a second heavy attack on ‘ABANDON FRINGE OF NEUTRALITY’ Belfast in north Ireland. Soe British operations, meanwhile, CALLS ON UNITED STATES Te stretching far out over cen- tral Germany, raking the French TO TAKE DECISIVE AC- {Continued on Page Four) TION TO INSURE BRITISH | -——— VICTORY (By Associated Press) ; WASHINGTON, May 6.—Sen- ator Claude Pepper ot Florida, in ‘ a prepared speech, this morning | Alice Reid Griffin, held on two federal indictments of white slav- ery, went on trial at 2:30 o'clock this ,afternoon before Federal and take decisive action to Judge John Holland and a 12-man insure British victory in the JUY which does not include a Key a West resident. _ | The trial, postponed yesterday American ships should be sent | pecause of the absence of Defense wherever international law will | Attorney Bart A. Riley, opened permit them to go, Pepper said. (for the selection of a jury this “And if German submarines in- | morning. Immediately after the terfere—then blow them out of jurors had been sworn in, Judge the water”. ‘Holland calied a recess until this Pepper said the navy ought to afternoon. tcalled on the United States to “abandon the fringe of neutral ity” seize the Canary islands and the itself the well as establishing strategic islands of Pactfiic. Continugus debate over every in south 7 Riley, who will defend the Reid Rotary Club meets 12:15 p.m_|French-African port of Dakar, as woman in partnership with Louis Harris, flew here this morning }from Jacksonville, where he had been defending the Italian sea- men who were convicted yester-: same diplomatic freedom | that the embassies and other [consulates have. He did not |say that liquors are served iat the consulate. Alice Reid Griffin Placed On Trial In Federal Court are Frank O. Pruitt, Miami; James F. Macking, Hollywood; C. H Fallen, Jr., Miami; George E. Sia- mons, Jr., Fort Lauderdale; Den- nis M. Altman, Miami; Carl J Hobson, Naranja; Fred McNetl, Fort Lauderdale; Benjamin A. Barth, Dania; Charlies Behrens, Princeton; Otis L. Goseman, Goulds; Ray R. Alisbrook, Coco- nut Grove, and Sam Blank, Misroi Beach, W. Earl Julian, Key West, was first on the list of jurors, but was dismissed, as was Wiiliam T. Doughtry, Jr., eighth on the list. step in the defense. program, Pep-' day in federal court on charges of esmoueinnie per told the Senate, hat paralyz- | sabotage. Riley will fly back to & ed goverfiment. He called’ ‘on’ Jacksonville Friday to be present ' TO MY FRIENDS: President Roosevelt for dedlara- | when the men are sentenced, then I take this opportunity of! tion of a national emergency ahd return to Key West by (plane. jthanking my many patrons fof jurged the Senate to attack the| The Reid womiuy, former opera- en during my OPefa-/ roblem of defense in a realistic tor of a bawdy house at 1016 . manner and with the utmost pos-| Howe street, was arrested March } Paul's Tire And Auto | sibie speed. 11 in a raid carried out by 19 spe- | Supply Store ——— address was pang br eciamo of baggy Buresu ag jte prov: the opening gun in a of Investigation. was placed Mother's Day STREET carrying # 428 WHITE | campaign for the use of convoys | under $3,000 bond and has been in of AU CANDIES PARTS and ACCES-|t© accompany merchant ships |county jail ever since awaiting SORIES. Your continued patron- | bearing supplies to G eat Brit- | trial WHITMAN'S and GALE'S age is invited. ain. Although be did not A federal grand jury in Tampe i ! Open 8 to 6 P. M. Daily Sundays of §welaM | RAYMOND CURRY. Prop. | PAUL'S TIRE AND AUTO i SUPPL GRIFFIN, Ga-Wegley Coch tran was’ digging ih tewer beds * when his shovel struck some tung, which, Jytned out to be an tron boiler!’ Unearthed, the pot was found to contain $62.50 in sil ver coin, the newest of which was dated 1901 000—rolled out. imore. A visitor from’ Cleveland Str; Osark Biingiag Largest Freight Shipment In History vorrow will get the} boom years of the "20s. The ves nsignment of}sel is coming from New York and ocal history | most of the cargo consists of sup- with the arrival of the Clyde-|plies for federal projects here Mallory freig vr Ozark, bearing} Ordinarily, the freight co: @ cargo of 510 tons. jments brought here by Clyde-} Roland Weatherford, member |lory freighters have been running of the local office force, said the ‘around 160 tons. consignment will be greater than; ‘The ship is due to arrive at any delivered here during the/p. m. coupe before it sank to the bot-! tom. Although he managed to shatter the glass, McDermott said | So. onan he did not kick it completely out, | socttie and in any event the window | co. o' would have been too small to pet | parang mit either of the vietims to €s-| washington | cap ’ , Harry Shaud, manager and co- ~ = owner of the club, told of swim (Continued on Page Four) Salt Lake City 71 } County Courthouse, 8:00 p.m. San Diego SOUTHERNMOS FLOWERS Order Mother's Day Key We: - largest ship-bor IPHONE 5] -CAN®! |GARDNER’S PHARMACY Phone 177 Free Delivery 2 Y¥ STORE