The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 13, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to th Best Interests of Key West IN THE U KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1941 Che Key West Cttizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER . S. A. VOLUME LXII. No. 114. Would Have Monroe County Representatives Nominated From Particular:: Districts Representative Bernie c| Papy Introduced Local) Bill In Legislature To-' day (By Ansoctated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May Representative Bernie C. Papy 13.— | this morning introduced before! the legislature a local bill calling for the nomination of Monroe! by dis-| county representatives tricts. SCHOOL PATROL WINS TROPHY IN CAPITAL PARADE KEY WEST GROUP AWARDED HONORS IN REPRESENTING SOUTHERNMOST CITY IN UNITED STATES The School Patrol, girls and iboys, who went to Washington, | D.C. to take part in the big parade staged in the capital city on Friday, returned to Key West ; U.S. SEEKING EMPLOYES WITH CLEAN RECORD BE SURE OF YOUR PATRIOT- | ISM BEFORE MAKING AP- PLICATION FOR GOVERN. | MENT POSITION By JACK STINNETT AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, May § 13.— Don’t, for goodness sake, call it a witch hunt, because it isn’t like |that’at all. But rarely has there! ‘been so much “investigate-your- | neighbor” stuff going on as there | ‘is in Washington today. { If you even plan to apply for ;a government job, be sure that | your patriotic record is as clean} 'as George Washington's. ; It happens like this: You can’t ; jwork for the government if you lowe allegiance to any organiza-' Passage of the measure would |Yesterday afternoon. The patrol] tion that is violently “agin” our return Monroe county to the nomination method used up un- 1 til the present system of nom- | ination by the county-at-large ‘was enacted 10 years ago. BILL ADVERTISED HERE BY GOMEZ The nomination bill presented | by Representative Papy was ad- vertised in The Citizen by} County Commissioner Eddie Go- | mez. The present system was enact- ed by the legislature in 1931/ through the efforts of former ! Representative William V. Al-} bury and former Senator Arthur | Gomez. j _ BUYS PROPERTY | M yester rion Logan Dunn, Key West, } ay purchased four lots inj} the Pohaliski tract near army | barracks for about $1,200, | The property formerly was that of Dan L. Navarro and Rosa- lie Navarro Pillans, Mobile, Ala. } Ralph J. Faraldo, Key West,| erday purchased for $2,100 a! foot front: lot on Fourth} street. near Seidenburg avenue | from T. R. Pritchard, a deed re- corded at county courthouse re- | led today. { C. H. Mead, Wyoming county- in another transaction r corded today, sold to Alonzo B. | Galbraith, Chicago, property on} the upper keys valued at about; $700. H | | STEAMER ALAMO COMES 10 PORT et | The Clyde-Mallory freighter | Alamo arrived here early this ning with 160 tons of freight for Key West from New York. The vessel left for Tampa shortly after noon. HOME GUARDS DEFER MEETING Key West home guard mem- bers tonight will postpone their regular Tuesday meeting at the national guard armory, with the members taking part instead in a@ mass meeting for defense at the armory Thursday. ‘ Monroe Business | was’in charge of Mr. and Mrs Myrtland Cates, who reported that all of the members of the or-! ganization had a wonderful trip. The Key West unit, which sand boys and girls, won the trophy for the second year as rep- resenting Key West as the south- ernmost city in the United States. Many places of visited, one of which was the FBI | Bureau, where G-Men explained | how finger prints are made. Other places visited were the White House, Bureau of Engrav- jing and Printing, Smithsonian In- stitute, the Senate, National Mu- seum, Lincoln, Washington Na- tional Monument, National Ceme- tery at Arlington, Va., Washing- ton’s old home in Mount Vernon. On visiting the Senate which was in session, they were wel- |comed by Senators Claude Pepper and Chas. O. Andrews, and was addressed on the steps of the White House by Vice-President Henry Wallace. The A. A. A. put on a show for the visitors and for all of the patrol at the Uline Arena, where avery enjoyable evening was spent. ; Those making the trip were Gerry Albury, Dolores Boney, Dot = Marti Antonica Smith, Rosemary Kerr, Zelma Dee Grif- fin, Myrtland Cates, Jr., Johnny Cerezo, Jack Smith , Division Street School; Phyllis Six, Billy Spencer, Harris School; Ralph Solano, Hector Castillo, St Joseph's School; Jenny Saunders, Larry De Lozier, Nilo Albury, John Owen Monsalvatge and Cal- vin Cates, High School. THREE BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED. G. Mailland, Louisa street, yes+ terday was granted a permit for $3,000 in general repairs to his property. Building Inspector Ralph Rus- sell issued two other permits dur- ing the day to Paul B. Richardson, 701 Florida srteet, for construc- tion of a roof, $250, and to H. Aryola__513 Division street, gen- eral repairs, $500, MRS. D. H. COFFEE GRANTED DIVORCE Mrs. Daphno ‘Herrick Dade county, yesterday granted a divorce from Oliver Coleman Coffee, also of Dade county, on a charge of extreme cruelty. Men Will Coffee. was interest were | {political way of life. Thus, when ; ,you apply for a job, the Civil! ;Service Commission makes all | possible investigation within its; jheaded the parade which was | Means. jmade up of about twenty thou- | Suppose you get a job. You get} jassigned to a_ tyepwriter, we'll |say, in the Treasury Department. | The Treasury has its own inves- | tigatory staff. It gives you an- jother going over. Still, all clear. Then, you get an offer from a! friend you have made to come} jover to the Office uf Production ; {Management at a better salary. | {You make the jump. You are in- | | Vestigated again—because cer- | tainly there are few spots where a person playing loose and free (with his government's secrets is! more dangerous than at OPM. | i Refer It To FBI } | Still, you come through with-! | { i H jliminary program by Governor Holland Delivers Address Tomorrow At Joint Session In House Chambers (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 13.—, outlining his financial recom- With the endorsement of his pre- ™endations. foo heavy) The governor will appear | morrow before a joint session in |the House chamber. Already both branches had put enclisodny gacenared Ws sseCOnd arasy approval on virtually all 1941 majorities in the state legisla- ‘ture, Governor Spessard L. Hol- major address to the 8€S- bills he proposed at the opening sion of the legislature—this time | of the legislature. Four Fifths Of Occupied France To Be Freed Of Nazi Domination (iy Associated Press) LONDON, May 13,—Paris and four-fifths of occupied Fri will be freed from Nazi occupa- the agreement worked out FELIS S AB SALE GETS OFF TO ROARING START (ily Associated Press) SHADYSIDE, O., May 13. —The Futhey Lumber Com- pany decided to quit business and put uv a sign to announce the fact. Co-operative thieves promptly cleaned out the supply of guns, ammunition and cutlery. | tion under terms of an between Adolf Hitler and French vice | premier Admiral Darlan, reli- able sources have reported here. Admiral Darlan. after visiting ; in Germany, is said here to. be | IPD LD SSS MP SD | veturning to Vichy to lay the ;agreement before Premier Henri BRITISH UNITS IN tere Pin | FRONTAL ATTACK able to get no accuate informa- ; tion on what France will give | Germany to regain her capital | and territory, but observers; here are confident Admiral Dar- | Jan has offered tc permit i German use of the African port} (Bs Assoctated Press) PEIRUT, Syria, May 13.—Brit- ish troops have launched a free | frontal attack on Iraq _ soldiers Rudolf Hess, Outstandin Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Germany, Is »|U. §. Marines And J Stage Fight In Shanghai) aps (By Associated Press) TOKYO, May 13,—Strained United States-Japanese relations today suffered new tension as the result of a fight at Shanghai in which United States Marines and Japanese were involved. Marine guards were said to have fought with clubs, repelling a group of Japanese who attempt-| building. barracks for the purpose | ed to enter the international set- tlement. At least 10 Japanese VARIOUS CASES MANY STUDENTS FROM LO- CAL SCHOOL PRESENT TO HEAR PROCEEDINGS Prince Roberts, negro farmer at Sugar Loaf key, this morning was sentenced by Judge William V. Albury in county criminal court to pay a fine of $1 and costs on a charge of trespassing ; on the property of William Bul- lard. Roberts, who was found guilty by a jury, was accused of taking timber erty. William Wilkinson, another negro, was ordered to pay a fine from the Bullard prop- | jout even a slightly muddy hem. near the airdrome at Habbaniyah of Dakar, of French Mcrroco and ; ;and one marine were injured in he fighting. Domei, official Japanese news | service, at the same time publish- ‘ed a story protesting against ‘treatment of Japanese in e |Philippine islands, where the |story said they were given no ‘police protection. | The story said Americans were ‘of segregating Japanese residents ‘of the islands. NEW. PROBLEM IN "STRIKE. CIRCLES | { i} ELECTRICIANS AT CONNEC- TICUT PLANT WALKED OFF JOBS TODAY (iy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 13.—CIO jelectricians at the Colt Arms com- pany plant at Hartford, Conn., is morning walked off their jobs to provide defense mediators {here with new problems in the strike situation and to start new | Congressional demands for firm | government action. | Mediators attempting to settle strikes at 11 San Francisco ship Then, somebody hears something. You were seen last night with a very suspicious person: The “somebody” who heard some-} |thing sits down and writes your | | boss, or the Federal Bureau of In- ; vestigation, or the Department of Justice. If the justice people } | think there is the slightest possi- | , bility there might be something | in the case, they refer it to FBI, | jand J. Edgar Hoover’s boys would | jand are driving toward the cap- ital of Baghdad, a report reach- ing here said today. No details of were available. SPONGE BRING the fighting GOOD PRICES |be knitting on the job if they ‘of Syria. American Ambassador Harold Leahy is said to have told Ad- mial Darlan the United States ; would oppose German occupa- | tion of any of the French terri- tories in Africa. British spokesmen have insist- ed for several weeks that Ger- man action in lowering the cost to France of the army of occu- pation, in removing border re- strictions between the two of $25 and costs for an assault| yards so far have met with no suc- and battery on Herbert Thomp- cess, while CIO leaders aregholde son, negro; of which he was’ ing to their threat of a walkout in found guilty by a jury. |all General Motors company fac- Henry Perez, charged with | tories Thursday. ,operating an automobile with- At Boston, AF of L representa- jout a 1941 license affixed, enter- tives have refused to discuss fed a guilty plea and was fined terms for a settlement of their | $5 and cos jnavy yard strike there, until WPA Harrison Sawyer, negro, who | workers have been taken from the originally was charged with as-| yard. jsault to commit rape, won his| Their offices flooded with de- PRICE FIVE CENTS q Na In |First Words On Giving Himself Up Were: “I Have Come To Save Hu- manity”’ | | {Ry Associated Press) \ LONDON, May 13.—The ‘fantastic story of Rudolf Hess’ flight from his position as No, 3 fuehrer of Nazi Ger- many to the role of a British Prisoner of war still had Lon- |don officialdom gasping to- | day as new details of the Ger- man chief’s: flight became known, \ Hess’ first words on giv- ‘ing himself up to British | military police, it was learn- \ed, were: “TI have come to save hu- Observers in London, com- menting o> the rali | us fer- \vor which seemed to have ‘struck the ace Nazi Jew- |baiter and old-time fiend of } |Adolf Hitler, suggested his | flight to Scotland might have |been prompted either by re- | Morse or by disgust with a bee | tween Germany and Soviet |Russia, whose communist philosophy he hated. Prime Mfhister Winston Churchill declined to discuss Hess’ flight before the house of commons, while Minister of In- didn’t make a thorough investi- | tion. So you see where this thing leads. Working for the govern- ment is becoming a stroll through ja maze of investigations. I know of one young woman who has iworked for four different agen- | ‘cies in three years and claims; |she knows of six different times | |she has been investigated. Some | Selling small lots, but getting high prices, spongers yesterday recorded $288.24 in an auction at: the sponge docks here Capt. Laurence Johnson wa paid $185.86 for one lot of 36 bunches of sheepswool, while an- tions of France and in promis- ing to free French prisoners of war could be paid for only with | the release of Africa possessions, and, possibly, use by Germany of the French fleet. Under the new agreement, it sec-| Allan B. Cleare, Jr., dropped the | charge to one of fornication, then nolle prossed the case. Sawyer was ordered by Judge Albury to pay the costs of prosecution. Some 40 boy and girl members of a ninth grade civics class at jfreedom when County Solicitor) mands for government action to formation Duff Cooper comment- prevent further strikes in defense plants, Congressional leaders are faced with growing opposition to their program of leaving the strike settlements up to present mediation authorities. | Although administration lead- other lot of 10 bunches was sold for $69.11 SHE PROPOSED jof these were routine—but a! is understood, Germany would remove her troops from all but the northern provinces of France. Key West junior high school vis- ited the court to hear evidence in the Roberts case, but left aft- yer hearing the evidence, before ers have blocked previous efforts to legislate against the strikes, mediation board spokesmen ad- mit some quick settlement of the |couple must have been on com- j {plaints of alleged subversive ac- | j She doesn’t know that! time the _ investigating | jress has been uninterrupted. | | Aside from the routine initial | ‘investigations to determine if a | prospective employes ever, swore | allegiance to an “ism” that advo- { cates the overthrow of our form} jof government, most of the prob- ‘ings now come as a result of let- |ters to the boss, Civil Service, or FBI. Nobody Is Exempt } | Nobody is exempt—not even! ‘the department heads—but many of these letters can be put into the “poison pen” classification las soon they are opened Nevertheless, there are enough more that have to be investigat- ed to make it a major headache with those who have to do the work. A lot of them even then turn out to be nothing more than mebody's trying to get some- | | body’s job—or hoping to even an score—or just being what is politely referred to as a crank. as Profit By Papy’s Measure RECREATION UNIT (Ry Associa: TALLAHASSEE, May 13. nroe county business men who the M have been ow Key West ch since the Overse by aber of commerce s Highway cele- bre » measure rayme in- troduced yester pay road and toll bridge i ment by 1 1938, will get a pro rata a te8 Press) district of n promised stoners for bration Although opinion eral’s office authorize paym e Papy bill would nt of the moncy. | TO MEET TONIGHT City-county — recreatio will meet t was annou 1 Albury on committee rr for 8 o'clock league meeting scheduled for 7:30 Yelock on a call by League President J. M. Varela. s because she loved him SENATE MEASURE HELPS PACKERS (My Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 13.— | Packing house employes, pre- viously fot included among workers eligible for unemploy- | ment compensation, will become | eligible for the benefits under a} Measure passed by the Senate | this morning. | The bill, which still must pass | the House to become law, pro-{ vides for payment of the bene- | | fits, except during the months of | June, July and August The Senate also passed, 61-21, a measure appropriating $200,000 | for the Florida National Exhibits | administration. { | HE ACCEPTED because he was bored City-county recreation committee | at city hall, 8:00 p. m Island Cify, diamondball league at city hall, 7:30 p. m. Stone Church Service Club. 6:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce meets at 6:30 p. m. } THURSDAY Rotary Club meets 12:15 p.m} St. Paul's Parish Hall 1 Lions Club meets at 6:39 pm/ Lions’ Den, Seminary Street City Council meets at City Hall, 8:00 p. m. \ aes. nama Tells What Came Of It Starting In This Paper Tomorrow tional Guard Armory, 8:00 p. m. | students, who are studying |supply depot and airfield {sentence had been passed. The the operation of courts, were led by Mrs. Anna K. Gamble. Jurors in the Roberts case were LG, Griner, Santiago Valdez, Robert“H. Thompson, J. A. Kee- ton, Eugene Johnson and An- tonto Valdez. Jarors who tried Wilkinson were Miguel Carmona, Harry Wickers, William B. Russell, Houston Pent, Ralph Sawyer and Rafael Rodriguez. NEW ARMY ‘WEAPON’ REPELS TERMITE FIGHT (Ry Associated Presa) OGDEN, Utah, May 13.—Thin metal sheets, bent inward at the edges like a square saucer, pro- vide the shields with which the army expects to repel the first at tack on its great military estab- lishments here. Thousands of these galvanized iron plates are being fashioned and fixed in inverted position over the concrete piers from which will rise the pinewood bar- racks, warehouses, administration and hospital buildings attached to the army's Ogden arsenal, general ny? Ter- wood-bar- The prospective en mates—-white ant-like ing insects which can, and have raised havoc with fra struc- tures not protected against their assault. The upside-down “sau- cers,” says the constructing quar- aster, present a perfect guard. HAD NO VALUE CAMDEN, N. J —Burgiary of a sheaf of unpaid bills was report- ed to police in this city where a pers for something of value. strikes will have to be worked out, unless stronger action is to be taken. 13 VESSELS (Re Apsociated Prens) LONDON, May 13.—German submarines, in an attack on @ convoy early this week, sank 13 merchant vessels, the admiralty admitted today. Previously, the admiralty said that four of the 13 believed safe. had were RECEIVES BROKEN RIB BURLINGTON. Kans.—Editor John Redmond of this city stoop- ed over to pick up @ piece of pe- per and felt a sharp pain in his right side. Doctors found he had a broken rib, suffered when a pencil in his pocket jabbed into his side. ‘ed, “It is good news at a good | time.” | Most observers were inclined to |think Hess had made his solo \flight to Scotland to escape | another blood purge, similar to |the night's massacre of 1934, when {Ernst Roehm and many other | Nazi leaders were murdered. Hess, who landed in a wild sec- tion of Scotland Saturday after flying alone from Germany in a Messerschmidt combat plane, was taken froma a Scotch hospital to- day to some closely guarded quar- ters in céntral England. His ankle was broken when he jump- ed from the plane in a parachute, permitting the aircraft to crash on a nearby hill. Reports reaching here from Ber- lin that Hess would attempt to present a peace plan which had been vetoed by Hitler, were ridi culed in London. Foreign office spokesmen laughed at German suggestions that the deputy fuehrer was insane and predicted he would be able to furnish them with much valuable information. If Hess will talk, and rumors e circulated that he has offer- ed to tell everything. officials here are hopeful of learning dozens of valuable pieces of in: formation concerning Hitler's plans for future moves, the morale of the German people economic statistics from conquer (Continued on Page Two) For “Reap The Wild Wind” Eighteen screen experts and studi day are at Marquesas Island and Sand Key \ pictures for the filming of Para mount’s “Reap the Wild Wind.” The Hollywood delegation, led by Director Arthur Rosson, came here yesterday to set up head- cameramen workmen to- shooting preliminary Defense Mass Meeting at Na-| thief evidently mistook the pa- quarters at La Concha hotel and Hotel preliminary work on the Theima Strabel novel, a story of the wrecker days in Key West. Members of the group are pected to stay bere for three or four days, taking pictures in Key West and in this vicinity Previously. the studio had an nounced that a crew would be sent here this month end had re quested Key Westers to forward pictures to Hollywood showing local scenes and examples of na- j tive residents, ex ~