The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 10, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 112. The Key West Citizen Key THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1941 Britain's Shipping An Plc Berlin, However, Claims Million And Half Tons Were Destroyed In Pe-! riod Mentioned (By Associated Press) ewer Wer OM sue Micitudas aiuppaily os Great Briain auriny Apri toox ane ad- @ iol, of 4.8..uU 10ns, miraiuly announced today in a report: released ahead of sched- United | ule for the benefit of States congressional leaders who! had asked definite information| on the shipping crisis. The admiralty report listed 1,- 500,000 tons of shipping destroy: | ed in the first four months of | 1941, a figure, which if contin- of this year, would exceed two and one- half times England's ability build ships. Destruction of ued for the remainder ei shipping in April, although lower Prediction aired by admiralty officials several days ago, is 90 Per cent above the monthly aver- | than a age up to the first of the year. (Berlin claimed 1,500,000 tons had beer destroyed in April,| alone.) NEW RECHT ATIANS CONCERNING TkWc! GERMAN MILITARY GOVER- \ACTION ON CONVOYS MAY} jship seizure bill might be taken | | before a joint meeting of the sen- ‘ClO MECHANICS Losses During At 488,000 Tons SEE WITHDRAWAL OF ANTI-CONVOY BILL IN CONGRESS: BE MADE KNOWN DURING | ADDRESS BY ROOSEVELT AT JOINT MEETING (By Associated Press) WAISHINGTON, May Senate isolationist leaders today 10. predicted that the Tobey anti- convoy bill will be withdrawn be- | fore it is scheduled to come to a} vote next week. Friends of the New Hampshire | senator said he had decided that a] defeat for his amendment to the | as an endorsement of convoys by the senate. Action on th e convoys may | come, it is predicted here, in an/ address by President Roosevelt | ate and house, but it is generally | believed the President. will an-} nounce his Stand when he ad- dresses a Pan-American congress Wednesday. STAGE WALKOUT) FEAR OUTBREAK OF VIO- LENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO SHIP YARDS > SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.— City and company officials fear new outbreaks of violence in San Francisco ship yards next week! as the result of a walkout by CIO} NORS PREPARE NEW SET mechanics today. OF ORDINANCES (Wy Associated Press) PARIS, May 10.—New and| more stringent regulations for Jews were predicted today as Ger- | man military governors H cupied France announced they had prepared and soon would pub- lish a new set of ordinances re- garding Jewish behavior in the | occupied territory, | Already under restrictions by | both German and French laws, | Jews will be forbidden to hold any position, either public or pri- | vate, where they give orders to! Aryans, it is understood. Plan Starting Work Monday On | Ball Diamond AtT rumbo Island’ Equipped with heavy roller and scraper equipment borrowed WPA through the navy, workmen will begin the task of putting Trumbo Island baseball park in shape Monday Paul Albury, chairman of the city-county recreation committee, predicted before county commis- sioners last week that the first game would be scheduled for a week from tomorrow. Mean- while, teams are being organized and equipment lined up for the start of the 5 ing Season The roller and scraper ment, owned by WPA, leased to the navy lief organization can from equip- was re- the re- turn over since night for the weekend, CIO lead- ers announced 1,800 mechanics | would march on picket lines Mon- | day. Leaders of another 18,000! employes, who have refused to recognize the walkout and would enter the yards Monday in spite ! of the pickets. i Company officials admit, al- | though most of the workers are | ready to continue operations, that | the striking mechanics are key men, without whom the others | can accomplish little. The yards | are constructing both naval and | merchant ships. i { equipment only to a federal de- partment. Navy headquarters im- | mediately arranged for the com- | mittee to use the equipment A grandstand from Martello} Tower: being torn down to be rebuilt at the new ball park and navy public works officers have arranged to salvage pipe for con- struction of a back-stop. The pipe will be used as a frame, with wire netting spread between the up- rights. Members the commissic have been granted $300 for w on the field by city coun! a county commission, with another $25 donation for - pire’s protectors and similar equipment ' of k bases, u NEW CLEANING AND PRESSING PRICES Effective Monday, May 12, 1941 Suits and Dresses, cleaned and pressed Coats 40¢ Suits Pressed WHITE STAR CLEANERS VOGUE CLEANERS FERNANDEZ & GONZALES Te Pants 35¢ 50 DUVAL PRESSING CLUB GARY'S CLEANING & DYING BEARUP DRY CLEANING CLYDE BAKER'S CLEANING CURRY'S RELIABLE CLEANERS PIPE WORKERS SATISFIED WITH AN OPEN SHOP EMPLOYES OF CONTRACT-) ING COMPANY AT HOME- STEAD TAKE MATTER UP WITH REP. CANNON (Special to 'The Citizen) HOMESTEAD, May 10.—Ef- forts of union representatives to organize men working on treatment of pipe for the keys aqueduct project drew protests yesterday from employes of the contracting company. In a telegram to Congressman Pat Cannon, men working on j the project said: “Local labor and 99 per cent of population in this community is opposed to closed shop on pipe treatment contract. Advise that you try by all means to keep it open shop to avoid se- rious trouble. Contractor hand- ling local labor o.k.” Cannon replied: “Retel: Not advised as to facts your wire. Navy advises contractor will carry out work in conformance with local con- ditions area.” i Agents from several Miami unions have discussed organiza- tion with workers here, as well as with Gaines Laster, yard su- perintendent for the contracting firm, the Standard Asbestos Manufacturing and Insulating company of Kansas City, Mo. Laster said men who had ap- proached him made no demands, but suggested that the workers be organized. e Local workers, who now make up about 98 per cent of the en- tire work crew, feel that union organization would result.in.em- ployment of men from other cities, FOUR BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED Four small building permits were issued yesterday for gen- eral repairs and improvements to Key West homes. Building Inspector Ralph Rus- After the yards had closed last | sell issued the permits to Ches-{this Grand Jury is satisfied that ter B. Sawyer, 538 White street, $50, new roof; R. Solano, 904 Whitehead, $100, new roof; John B. Webb, Harris street, $500, one-story building, and Maud of oc-| strike, said they would refuse to | Roberts, 628 Wickens Lane, $80,| Monroe County, Florida, appear- roof and repairs. TEMPERATURES Highest last|Lowest last 24 hours night 64 50 64 49 52 38 57 34 41 40 48 35 49 chicola Atlanta Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Detroit Dodge City Duluth El Paso Fort Myers Galveston avana Huron Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Little Rock Los Angeles Miami Nashville New Orleans 92 New York Okla. City Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh 52 73 Si PHONE 5 Lou Smith Auto Service Whi fit Washington that | | Grand Jury Fails To Make | Any Indictment In Murder | | Of Cecelia Thompson Tunks The baffling murder of Mrs.:| The Grand Jury has inspect- ‘ed the following public buildings and institutions, and as a result lruary at a Howe street house of | °f such inspections reports: | County Court House We find the County Court Monroe _county’s; House in good repair and clean; however, we note that the wa- ter supply pipe and_ standard, | formerly used in connection with {drinking fountain on the second The grand jury report, in which! floor of the Court House. is pro- the jurors said they had spent'truding about three feet above | most of their investigating period the floor and constitutes a haz- jin a study of the crime, said the | Seon fenves: no: usefull spurs i ;pose. This hazard should be | jurors were firmly convinced that ‘removed at once. Further, there béen {a murder had committed.! is a door knob missing from the Thirty-five witnesses were grilled! lock on the door to the Grand iby the jurors. | Jury room and the lock is not in | Members of the group found! working condition; accordingly, | public buildings here in good con-' we recommend that a new lock } ‘dition, with the exception of the: be installed. We also find the ‘colored junior-senior high school| Court House grounds well kept. building and the cojored Douglass; We commend the janitors for elementary school building, found| their care of the Court House to be in need of repairs too numer-| premises and the guards for ‘ous to mention. | their efforts in keeping up the Complete Report ' grounds. The complete report follows: | County Jail | We, the Grand Jurors, duly’ The roof of the residence sec- impaneled and sworn at this|tion of the County Jail occupied Spring Term of the Circuit Court/by the Chief Deputy Sheriff ‘of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Jeaks to such an extent that un- jof the State of Florida, to inquire! less same is corrected at once it lin and for the body of the Coun-! will be necessary to vacate this \ty of Monroe, respectfully sub- | part of the premises. The build- |mit this our report: jing is sustaining damage by | This Grand Jury was im-jreason of such leak and repairs paneled and sworn on the 23rd, should be made at once. It is day of April, A.D. 1941, at the!also noted that a new screen Spring Term of this Court. Our! door is needed on the North side jforeman, G. C. Saunders, ap-'of the Jail. Further, there is a jpointed Paul Boysen, a member |leak in the roof in the extreme lof this Grand Jury, clerk. | West end of the Jail which should Says Tunks Woman Murdered [be repaired at once. With the | We proceeded immediately | *x¢eption of the matters men- {with the investigation of the’ tioned above the Jail’ was found death of Cecelia | Thompson{to be clean and in satisfactory | Tunks, which occurred on Feb-|Condition and the jailor is com- ruary 8th or 9th, A.D. 1941. Inj; ™ended for his care of same. | the course of this investigation | County Home we examined thirty-five (35) wit-| The County Home was found nesses. The major part of the;to be in good condition and | Cecelia Thompson Tunks in Feb- | Prostitution today was marked | i"closed” as ‘grand jury returned its report | without making an indictment. This in- jtime of this Grand Jury has) investiga- | been devoted to this tion but notwithstanding our ef- forts, this Grand Jury has been unable to. obtain sufficient evi- dence up to the time of writing clean in every respect. stitution shows that it has had most admirable care. We wish to recommend that a radio be sup- | plied for the comfort and enter- tainment of the inmates. Schools West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country ; range of only 14° Fahrenheit with an average PRICE FIVE CENTS Bish Squadrons Strike In. Great Waves Over Much German Territory Germany Fails To Take Action | In Britain-Iraq War Thus Far’ (By Associated Press) The threat of German action in| boration between the two nations. Britain’s miniature war with Iraq | Spain is reported building ar-! still hangs over the Mediter- | tillery emplacements on both ranean area today, with compara’ | sides of the Straits of Gibraltar in| tively little activity on the part) of either side. }a new move to close the western | A British communique said Iraq i entrance to the Mediterranean. | troops were hurrying back toward | Reliable informants say, however, Baghdad with British forces mov-|that Premier Francisco Franco ing steadily after them. Unoffi-| has told the German government | cial reports say Britain is ready to | he will make no move unless, and | force the removal of Iraq's anti-| until, the Suez has been wrested | British premier Rashid Ali Alj| from Great Britain. { Gailani, as well as forcing the Iraq | Rome reported a British sub- | army to withdraw from strategic | marine had been destroyed in the | points along the Palestine oil pipe | western Mediterranean, and | line. ;Cairo reported heavy bombing; Reports reaching here from|raids on the captured city of! Vichy, meanwhile, tell of a sud- | Derna, | denly called conference between! German-Italian action in the} French Admiral Darlan and Ger- ae on Egypt apparently has} man military men, which it is!come to a temporary halt, with/ feared may be for the purpose of | British sources claiming success | drawing up new plans for colla-|in minor clashes. House Passes Bill Creating Probation And Parole Board «By Associated Press) May 10.—{$75,000 annual operating expense } from $575,000 state prison appro- | TALLAHASSEE, Governor Holland’s bill creating | } a state probation and parole | Priation. | The bill would give the com- House na Et sh: ~ | mission: power to granf™ paroled 79-2 today. The bill now el 4 who shevidtas taal | to the Senate. \six months on sentences of one| An amendment adopted 38-36 | year or more, or at least five! would, take the commission's | ye: rs on life sentences. ' ~f ROME SEES US. ‘DEATH PENALTY — commission passed the * German Planes Also Go Into Action In Air Raids Over Seaports Of Eng- Jand (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 10.—Britain’s Royal Air Force last night, for the second time in as many days. reached out over Germany to smash at industrial areas with massed squadrons comparable to those hurled against England last summer by the Nazis. Striking in great waves, the British squadrons loosed their loads of high explosives over the German capital at Berlin, over Calais, Ostend, Bologne and at forts in Holland and Norway. British flyers said they had seen pillars of flame mounting from the prospective invasion bases along the French coast and Berlin suburbs were sald to have received extensive dam- age. (Admitting the seope. of the new attacks, Berlin said 129 eivilians were missing after the~ bomber ings. The communique did not carry the familiar “no military objectives were damaged”.) The air ministry, attributing a large part of the success of the raids to new American long- range bombers, disclosed that shipments from the United States are speeding up. Although no official estimate of the num- ber of planes furnished by the {this report on which to base or| return an indictment. However,: The Key West Junior-Senior High School building was found | Cecelia Tunks WaS/| to be in excellent condition with } murdered. the exception of the plaster on! | Reviews Vagrant, Assault Cases (the ceiling in room 203, which | At the invitation of the Grand | needs repair. |Jury, the County Solicitor of The Division Street Elemen- | tary School building is in satis- | factory condition with the ex-| ception of the following:- The} exits to the fire escapes on the Southerly side of the building are through windows and we | recommend that these window | exits be cut down to the level of the platform of the fire escapes and that doors be installed at these exits. Also that railings! around these fire escapes be | provided with wire mesh or pan- | At. the invitation of the Grand els so as to prevent children | Jury the Mayor. the City Health from falling through the rail-| | Officer, the Sheriff, and the ings H Medical Officer in Charge of the ‘The Harris Elementary School | | Dispensary, U.S. Naval Station, building was found to be in| iKey West, ed with this satisfactory condition with the | body ways and means of improv- exception of the fire escape to the the rear of the building and this matter was brought to the j attention of the County Superin- tendent of Public Instruction, | who has informed this Jury that repairs to said fire escape were now in progress. We find the colored Junior- Senior High School building and (Continued on Page Four) Thompson | jed before this Body in connec- tion with the case of the State of Florida’ vs. Rafael Knowles, charged with vagrancy, and the case of the State of Florida vs. Harrison Sawy bound over jon charge of to commit rape. The Jury finds {that the’ County Solicitor had already commenced and was making a thorough investigation in both of these cases. discus | { | | It is recommended that a pul- | motor be purchased by the City of Key West for the benefit of the public and made available at some central locati and we suggest No. 3 Fire Station as the | location. Engineers Supervise Work Of | Preparing Pipe For Aqueduct SAFETY PATROL HEADED PARADE The Citizen is Myrtland Cates ‘inen) 10.—Pace mun 18-inch in receipt of a in to queduct pervised for pipes used in eles aqueduct. wire from Washington. D. C. relative the trip of the school safety pa- hich left here for the na- capital on Wednesday. telegram follows: expert, reached | be home on Monday. All of the members are well and happy”. ENTRY INTO WAR (By Associated Press) FOR’ VIOLATORS United States was matle, the air |ministry said some of them have (By Associated Press) | t t | TOKYO, May 10. — Japanese | been sent to Africa for use ROME, May 10.—Rome news- papers, apparently preparing the next week will public for entrance of the United | tional espionage States into the war, predicted to- | day that American participation | is a matter of weeks, or perhaps, of days. “na- | begin- | ning Monday, in commemoration | of a law passed today which pro- | vides the death penalty for dis- | closure of any state secret. celebrate week”, j at } ROUT LOAFERS PELL CITY, Ala—An ordi- ;makes it unlawful for loafers to lean against show windows on the City firemen at 11:15 o'clock main street of this city. this morning raced to the navy yard submarine base, but dis- covered upon their arrival that navy fire crews already had con- trol of a blaze in a pile of old pilings. Navy workers said they had’ intended to burn the pilings, but not until they had been moved to another location Judge William V. morning drew a jury list Albury this of for the MOTHER SENDS — SON FLOWERS court of record Monday morning names in preparation opening of the county criminal County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare. Jr. has prepared information against 14 defendants in criminal actions. (iy Annoeinted Presa) CAMP ROBINSON, Ark. May 10 —Sgt. John L. Hixon of Atchin- Members of the jury are L. G son, Kas., chanced to mention on! , i es W. Ketchum, Leonard a radio program that he longed Griner, B. Ketchum, Leona i N. Curry, Santiago Valdez, Rob- for the sight of the spring flowers Vaid t- blooming in his home state anh 5i. Thomgeen: Viecges Ce A few days later the postman |mata, Arthur Tony, J. A. Keeton. brought a big box of daffodils | Eugene Johnson, Harvid Key Fe Ae ee by a listener, Joaquin Diaz, Leon Roberts, A. t., canes co Minnis, Antonio Valdez, Miguel Jury Drawn For Criminal Court; Convenes Monday around the Suez canal. German air attacks on Eng- land last night were described as light, with most of the raid- ers dropping their bombs — in the southern section of the country. WOMAN TOO BUSY CHICAGO Miss Edith Gra- ham of this city was so intent on working a cross word puzzle that she didn’t notice that her home was on fire, but was warned in time to escape. Carmona, Edward Valenzuela, George G. Gomez, Harry Wickers, William B. Russell, Houston Pent, Herman L. Roberts, Alberto Val- dez Agueria, Ralph Sawyer, An- tony Salinero, Rafael Rodriguez Manuel Cervantes, Tomas Machin, Sr., Felo Henriquez, Milton Rob- erts, Jonn W. Sawyer, Walter ( Maloney, Osgood Kemp, . Julio Lopez, Eugene A. Sands, George H. Leister, Robert Lee Albury Edmund Lee Curry. Alfred Saw yer. Arthur H. 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