The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 12, 1941, Page 1

| Nazis Drop Bombs: At 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. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1941 VOLUME LXIIL. No. 118. NEW. DEFENSE STAMPS PLAN IS EXPLAINED IDEA PUT INTO EFFECT BY United States. Warned Of Great Danger In Pacific (By Associated Prexs) | WASHINGTON, May 12. —jtained in the Axis pact to learn Nany Points In. England Tokyo and Rome newspapers to- what would be expected of Japan! —— Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘Pressure On Turkey md France To Get Ary into aq ‘GOVERNMENT TAKES CUE FROM UNITED STATES POs- should the United States enter the |day warned the United States of | war. grave danger in the Pacific, but } Reports State That Ex- "SMO OOOoi oS pected Attack On iow | don Last Night Failed To Materialize (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 12.—An expect- ed German air attack on London | last night failed to materialize, but Nazi bombers scattered their missiles over nearly 50 small/ towns and airports through south and middle England. Londoners, who took the worst pounding of the war Saturday night, had expected the German squadrons to come back last night. Apparently, however, the! scattered raids in south England were for the purpose of testing the effectiveness of British de- fenses. The Royal Air Force, mean- while, staged heavy attacks on Hamburg and Bremen, blasted | oil refineries at Rotterdam and! struck at the German submarine base at Emden. Flyers said the raids had been particularly heavy and the toll of destruction | was called high. Air ministry officials said to- day Gerfnan planes brought down in last night’s fighting had } brought the total for the first 12 days of May up to 116. (Berlin, in a emomunique, said | seven RAF bombers were de-j stroyed in fighting over Ger- mary.) ~~» Today, Londoners “still” could make no accurate estimate of the toll in deaths and destruction from the Saturday night raid. Hundreds still are missing, some; of them thought to be buried| under the debris of their homes. | ' IVY TO BE USED | IN BANANA TRADE LIGHTHOUSE VESSEL SOLD TO S, E, FLETCHER OF MIAMI ¢ The lighthouse tender Ivy, at- tached to the lighthouse service and coast guard here for nearly 30 years, has been sold to S. E. Fletcher of Miami for use in the banana trade. The 175-foot, steam operated vessel was brought here about 1912 after the seventh district headquarters had been trans- ferred from Mobile, Ala. to Key West. Previously both the sev- enth and eighth districts had been operated from Mobile. STRAIGTHEN UP LOVERS’ LANES TAL SAVINGS diplomats here said. talks of a jpeace between Japan and China which would free Japanese forces in the Pacific, is “just talk.” | event of war, since the rich oil de- In Rome, the newspaper Il Telegrapho said Japan can laugh at an American oil embargo in the House Declines To Send To ; owners ad 1,000 A. F. of L. work- {ers who laid down their tools | his By JACK STINNETT AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, May 12.—The (Ry Associated Prensy PUEBLO, Colo., May 12.— The straigthest line between two points also is the most unromantic, city officials have decided. They removed some of the winding tree-shrouded lanes in City Park because there was “too much loving going on”. Now lovers don't go there any more, Lb hadi ded ddd.) WORKING TOWARD SETTLING STRIKE MEDIATORS PROMISE QUICK ACTION IN OPENING NEGOTIATIONS campaign isn’t nearly so com- lighter moments. For example, Secretary of the Treasury Mor- our recent expenditures and com- mitments. The hired hands burn- ed some midnight oil and the an- swer was that we would need something in the vicinity of three billion dollars cash in the next year or eighteen months that couldn’t be washed up by the or- dinary bonding methods. (The treasury officials won't say exactly how much, because that, would be establishing a goal —and goals are hard to reach, as every community chest or charity fund director will tell you with- out prompting. The estimates run from one to six billion needed jin the next year and a half from (iy Aanocine: | defense stamps, baby bonds and WASHINGTON, May 12.—Fed-| defense bonds—but the estimates jeral mediators today promised | are unofficial. Those in the know quick action in opening negotii- set the goal tions between Boston ship yard | . lion.) So Secretary Morgenthau and s rpiaieats co-workers looked through this morning in a walkout. {the books and they found two With a half billion dollars in| things. They found first the war ship contracts tied up by the /savings stamps and liberty bonds Cc. I. O. strike in San Francisco | of the World War. Then they dis- yards, defense mediators are at-' covered the Postal savings stamps tempting to get a basis for agree- {and bonds. Presto, they combined ment set up quickly. Workers | the two and what they got really at the Boston yards have pro-/|__with slight modifications—was tested against what they describe Leta: postal savings system in de- as unreasonable work quotas by | fense dress. their employers. {' Hadn't Planned 10-Centers Employes of General Motors | The discovery seemed such a around three bil- national defense stamp and bond! plicated as it sounds, and it has its } genthau and his staff looked over | | plants, after weeks of negotia- | find and, according to Treasury j walk out of 19 factories Thurs- tons; have announced they will | Department gossip, officials were ;. |in such a hurry to adopt it, that is !the plan already was announced | before they discovered they were day, unless an agreement reached before that time. Papers in Tokyo said the gov- ternment would make an imme- ‘diate study of conditions con- posits of the Dutch Indies now are ,at her command whenever she de- cides to take them. ‘NATION'S “REAL INCOME” FOR MARCH PERIOD HIT NEW HIGH (Special to The Citizen) MINNEAPOLIS, May 12.—Mr.! 1940. This was true also of wear- ‘and Mrs. American Public during ,ing apparel, men’s, women’s and income” in their lives as ‘cash in- and December respectively, when | come gains kept ahead of the ad-|contrasted with these same vance in living costs. Their “real ; months a year earlier. income” in March, 1941 was nine- | teen cents on the dollar higher! than in March, 1940, according to a monthly study of what people get and spend, made public here today by Investors Syndicate. ficient housing, advanced rents to “Higher taxes and higher costs $1.01 in. March, 1941, compared later may make Mr. and Mrs. Pub-! with $1.00 in March, 1940. Apart- Teh paces ST bungalows, cottages, and dicate’s monthly study, “but at other types of shelter in February, the moment consumers are faring January and December, respec- very well. Their March cash in- ‘tively, also rented for $1.01 com- come, thanks chiefly to substan- | pared with $1.00 n these same tial increases in wages and sala-' onths of the preceding year.” ries, was 21 cents on the dollarj . How “Real Income” is : a re 940. i “ ahead of March, 1940. Their March | Figured cash outgo, however, was up only | 5 !two cents on the dollar over the; Mr. and Mrs. Public, jsame month of last year. Wage Rise Leads Cash Income Gains “Wage envelopes in March, | tional distribution of such pay- 1941 contained $1.34 for “Dat ew Their living expenditures of shifting populations, resulting from the concentration of defense work at some centers without suf- in this salaries, investments and other $1.00 in them in March, 1940, Dur-.| likewise. are. those, of average ing February they contained!houscholders. Their “real in- | $1.29, in January $1.22 and in De-|come”, or purchasing power, is cember, 1940, $1.16 respectively, | their actual ability to buy reg- all figures being contrasted with | ularly needed goods and services. | the same month of a year earlier.| “Real income” is not a mere “Salary checks in March, 1941/ subtraction of cash income from} were written for $1.15 against; cash outgo, which would be an in-} March enjoyed the highest “real children’s, in February, January | 5, Florida employment. “Housing problems, arising out ! , Study, receive income from wages, sources in proportion to the na-| Committee Amendment That | Pre CSS fal OPS EA ‘Tne | | House decuned soday 10 send to' BRAWN BREAKS aie labor commitiee a proposed | INTO THE BAND constilutional amendment out-| | (By Associated Press) |tewrindcatton tabor's cloned stl. pea anmamenres brawn in back of those treble clefs when the University of Minnesota band toots thie “In- vocation of Alberich” from ‘Wagner's opera. “Das Rhein- gold.” A 250-pound anvil which William (Biq Bill) Zesiger. ace percussionist, wallop with a sledge for sound ef- fects, is making the spring tour with the band this sea- son, necessitating inclusion of six husky handlers in the retinue. TSEOTO TTS ‘HOME GUARDS = MADE CHAIRMAN The bill, offered by Rep. Jenk- ins of Alachua, is before the con- stitutional amendments commit- {tee for hearing late today. | Rep. Gillespie of Volusia sought | to have it sent to the labor com- | mittee, of. which he is chairman, but Jenkins and others said such action would result in killing the bill. Gillespie's motion was de- jfeated 57 to 27. | bers -haye. cancelled their sehed-|" car, NATIONAL HOTEL uled meeting tomorrow night in} order to take part in a mass meet-| WEEK OBSERVANCE; TO Would Outlaw Closed Shop DEFER MEETING OF HOTEL UNIT Key West home guard mem-|HEADS COMMITTEE ON LO- i Fighting In Mediterranean Area Overshadowed By Move Of Nazis For Se- curing Aid Gy Associated Press) LONDON, May 12.—Fighting in the Mediterranean area, most of it air warfare, was over- | shadowed today+ by diplomatic moves as British leaders predict- ed German pressure on Turkey and France for aid in getting an army to Iraq. London foreign office men, re- vealing that German Minister | Franz von Papen now is en route }to Ankara, said information | reaching here indicates that Ger- |many will not attempt to cross | Turkish territory, but will de- ;mand freedom to take transports | through, the Dardanelles. | The French vice-premier, Ad- j;miral Darlan, recently has re- turned to Vichy from Germany, possibly from a conference with Adolf Hitler. British leaders say it is likely France will be forced to agree to German occupation of Syria as a base for operations | in the Suez area. Diplomats here also are puzzled lover the sudden Russian move in establishing diplomatic rela- tions with the anti-British gov- ernment of Irag. Although the move generally is considered un- important,..here, . a friendly gesture toward Ger- many. In actual fighting, meanwhile, !ing at the national guard armory ! Thursday night, it was announc- ed today. { All local men, and particularly | the home guard members, have | reports from Iraq indicate Brit- NAME ASSISTANTS The appointment of Miss Eliza- going to sell 10-cent defense sav- COURT UPHOLDS BOARD RULING ing stsmps. They had intended to (By Asnoctated Press) make the minimum 25 cents, as in NEW YORK, May 12.—Bethle-|the World War, But the story jhem steel today lost the last jalready had gotten out and the re- round in a long series of legal | action was so favorable they left battles with the labor relations | it in. trict court of appeals upheld the | ground—it having been proved | ruling of the board that “unions” | Paradoxically that children and joperated by the company were Small savers can go a lot farther ; illegal. jon dimes than they can on quar- The court heard testimony that | teTS- a detectives were hired by the| So the answer is that all of lcompany as spies to report on|this talk you have been hearing | the activities of union men, lately about defense stamps, baby | bonds (that’s not the official name | AN OLD, OLD HAND for them, but it already is the ac- | AT DOUBLE TALK cepted way of describing the $18.75 - at - purchase - $25 at - | ten-year-maturity bond) and the j | Series F and G defense bonds is | SEATTLE, Wash, May 12.—|about little more than what the iM Raymond J. Evans’ } postal savings saver has known |were drawn to a newspaper item | for 20 years ; | which reported: The stamps look a little differ; | “Twin girls were recently born | ent; the|albums that the national to the Warren Robinsons in Hol-} defense stamp collectors paste (Ry Asnoctated Press) $1.00 in the like period of 1940. In| February they were made out for , dex of savings rather than “real | beth Sharpley, manager of the | been asked to attend the mass $1.13, in January for $1.10 and in income”, but an average relative | necting when plans _ will be |La Concha hotel, as chairman of The “March of Dimes” idea | board as the United States dis- | already has paved a lot of good | December for $1.08 respectively, [all comnarisons being contrasted with $1.00 for the like month of a year previous. “Other income, such as business earnings, the sale of cattle and | crops, rents, |March, 1941 stood at $1.07 com- !pared with $1.00 in the same 1940 !month. This item in February | was $1.01, in January $1.08, and in December, 1940 was $1.20, all lof these comparisons being made with $1.00 for the like month of ithe preceding year. | Investment Income Off 1 From February | «Dividend and interest dis- bursements in March, 1941 were $1.04 as contrasted with $1.00 in the like 1940 month. Such pay- ments in February were $1.05, in |January $1.96 and in December, | 1940 were $1.08 compared with {$1.00 for each of these months a The ship was built in 1905 for | denville, Okla. Mrs. Robinson is |them into will look a little dif-! year earlier U. F. MORRISON GRANTED DIVORC. Ullmont Franklin Morrison, Key West, Saturday won a di- vorce from Christina Lang, New- port, RI, whom he charged with being habitually intemper- ate The tested divorce suit was not con- Judge Ibury to pay a fine sts, serve 30 days in serve another 30 e is not paid pleas of 14 other grand larceny, was sentenced to Criminal Court Term Opened Today; Several Cases Heard }ferent; the bonds issued in lieu of them and the bonds purchased outright will look a little different }—but it's the old postal savings | tem just the same—and just as safe as long as Uncle Sam can jingle gold and silver in his jeans. a twin, her grandmother a twin and Robinson’s uncle a twin”, ; Mrs. Evans promptly wrote to | th Robinsons: jem are not greatly impressed. My er aunt was the mother of four pairs of twins, my mother was a twin, my aunt had twins, jmy two sisters are twins, one of my » mother of twin | gi is the father of | twins, and, last but not least, I lam the grandmother of twins. | “You will understand now why we had to smile. and wha prompted us to write you this | note when we read the clipping” Not For Banks There is just one thing about |these defense stamps and bonds | that you may not have heard. No banks can buy them. That's the jrule. Treasury officials won't ome right out and say, but they | su hint that the rule is there, | because if it weren't banks would {take advantage of a good thing Don’t ask me; I'm too busy figur- ing how to pay last year’s little in- e tax ‘and next year's (to m | big one to bother with that kind « FAREWELL NITE at SLOPPY JOE’S BAR Eddie Everette Tryon and his NORTH and SOUTH ~ Thi COME AND th end t { | | | ORCHES: { | SLOPPY JOE’S BAR No Minimum days for vagrancy . i ‘Most of these ‘through March at least, were {translated into ‘real income’ gains, because living expenditures did not increase as rapidly as cash incomes gains, | | | Miscellaneous Items Lead in | Living Cost Rise | “Miscellaneou the second items, usually household out- * Fort Myers or months include every living y. other than shelter, has mpared with rear earlier. ervices nat all necessity | food. been un » of highel gey west and wages Food Prices in March Are Steady No Cover bs and royalties, during | _ | Asheville Y Medford s 52 | ‘Miami Signed ‘to show how the wost of: worked out for local co-opera- living affects the adjusted dollar | 40M in the state defense pro- income. bats reat eae | The Thursday night meeting is | scheduled for 8 o'clock. TEMPERATURES |ppre panccuctt | TEMPERATURES __ PRES, ROOSEVELT iighes! Lowest las: | anine “now att” BACK AT HIS DESK Albany pene aac Amarillo Apalachicola 76 61 | 62 34 | 65 50 | 83 62 63 41 12 51 76 52 73 50 92 58 67 47 86 65 57 34 28 58 41 37 \ 34 (By Anno WASHINGTON, May 12.—} | President Roosevelt, recovering from a stomach disorder, return- jed to his White House desk to- | }day, but his calendar of confer- | ences for today was sharply cut. | Presa) Atlanta Augusta Birmingham Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Burlington Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Corpus Christi Denver Des Moines Detroit Dodge City Duluth Eastport Elkins El Paso OUT OF BRITON’S LIFE. 7 (Ry Awsectated Presa) } GLASGOW, Scotland, May 12.-- | Eight days after John Cormack’s | 42 home was struck by a bomb, he 69 j was dug from the wreckage and 51 | hospitalized Within two weeks 42 the was up and around, telling 38 friends of the experience 50 ; The explosion buried him be 5 jneath a heavy beam, wrapping 37 bed clothes about him. Unhurt, a7 ‘he settled down to wait. In time | 67 [he lost consciousness, knew noth 60 ling more until rescuers “poured 6 fiery drops of brandy down my 34 | throat.” 54 ‘ 73 60 42 34 54 47 7 73 56 58 37 91 85 78 62 65 82 88 71 63 87 77 86 83 Galveston Grand Rapids Hatteras Havana Havre Huron Indianapalis Jacksonville Kansas City MONDAY High School Alur Assocta tion meets tonight at First Methodist Church-enmemyt@oam) o'clock ae K. W. Airport Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville TUESDAY Stone Church Service Club. 6:00 pm. | WEDNESDAY Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce meets at 6:30 p. m. | AY |Retary Club meets 12:15 p.m ' St Paul's Parish Hail lLions Club meets at 6:30 pm ’ YORK — Mrs. Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. N Speight and her daughter|City Council meets at City Hall, obtained divorces the same day. | 8 pm j Their lawyer was Robert O'Neill,| Defense Mass Meeting at Na- Mrs. Speight's first husband. . | tional Guard Armory, 8:00 p. m. | } \ ' i | Memphis 50 70 | 42 58 54 45 St. Paul bile gomery Nashville STRANGE INCIDENT Irma O'-| the local National Hotel Week Observance Committee for Key West, is announced by Garnett Andrews, general chairman, Na- tional Hotel Week Observance Committee for Florida, In making this appointment, Mr. Andrews said “National Ho- tel Week is particularly appro- priate in the State of Florida The hotel industry is one of Flor- ida’s largest industries, and in this state holds a prominence not paralleled in any otbet state in the country. fact, National Hotel, conceived by @ Florida hotel man. Leonard K. Thomson, of thé Mec- Allister Hotel in Miami, is rec- ognized as the father of | this movement, and has been active in its observance since its incep- tion in 1939”. As local chairman, Miss Sharp ley will select the local hotel men to assist her in handling the details of this observance in this community Miss Sharpley’s appointment as chairman of the local Hotel Week Observance Committee has the approval of the president of the Florida State Hotel Asso: ciation, S. D. McCreary, and president and national chairman, Leonard K. Thomson. GIVEN TWO-DOLLAR FINE EAST HAMPTON, Conn.—Aft er he had struck a bondsman, At torney J R Rich of this city, complained of his conduct to the justice and was fined $2 far as sault and battery. In addition to this | Week» was, ish forces have overcome almost all resistance. A communique said the Iraa army is being brok- en up, adding that the war soon | will pass into the guerilla stage. (Berlin claims capture of the Greek island of Menos, 75 miles | north of Crete. German soldiers were said to have descended on the island, suddenly from fast boats.) . ; (Rome and Berlin have claim- ted damage to three British fight- |ing ships in action off Tobruk. A ;communique said the ships were , hit by bombs as they attempted |to shell Axis forces attacking the city.) ‘SHIP NAME HONORS “AMERICAN PRESS” (Hy Assorinted Prenat SAN FRANCISCO, May 12—A 12,875-ton motorship launched ‘here bears the name “American Press’ Said Vice-President Kenneth Dawson of the United States “It is fundamentally be jcause of its uncensored news- ‘papers that the American pub. lic can remain free. It is with pride we give this name to our new ship” lines GETS FEMININE DRAFT INSURANCE (fy Avsortate4 Prenat BALTIMORE, May 12—Robb r, filling station proprietor v0 has “lost” several assistants to the army, is taking no more chances—-he has hired five girls to “man” the pumps. Each day the station's loud speaker system announces Defense takes men; they go with cheer Girls take their place you'll find them here.” o Manufacturers To Be — Asked To Cut Production (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 12—Am erican automobile manufacturers will be asked to cut 1942 produc- tion by 40 per cent in order to work defense contracts, a spokesman of the office of pro- duction management announced Automobile manufacturers al- ;as «washing machines, isweepers and similar household \ machines will have their produc- 009 cars, instead of 5,900,009 next year. Defense leaders have de cided, however, it will be neces sary to cut the production of 1942 models again to 3,000,000. Other mechanical devices, such electric ready have agreed to build 4,900,-/tion drastically cut, 3