The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 15, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 116. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, T Che Kry West Ctttzeen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. HURSDAY, MAY 15, 1941 Allocation. Of Funds For Key. West. (Churchill Will Postpone | Declaration AUSTRIAN IGNORES COURT;* ASKS FOR In Hess Case! NAZI AMBASSADOR Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Laborers On Two Housing Projects Halt Operations § (By Associated Press) | SAYS HE IS SICK MAN AND} LONDON, May 15.—Prime Min-'case today, German newspapers - | ister Winston Churchill today an- editorially declared Adolf Hitler} WANTED HOSPITAL TREAT- nounced he would his, Within a few days will begin a] MENT AFTER JUDGE AL- Municipal Aiport Apgar Certain postpone Final Approval By Priori- ties Board Expected Some Time Within Next Few Days To Governor TALLAHASSEE, May 15.—In | quick succession today the Sen- ‘ate passed and sent to Governor (Washington Correspondent of | yiolland four bills presented by the Ray West: Claes) | Monroe Representative Bernie C. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15.) papy which will: —Allotment of $305,000 for de-} 1) Provide for the nomination (By Associated Pr. of Monroe county commissioners velopment of the Key West muni- by districts; 2) Make it legal to issue liquor ilicenses to dealers within 300 feet lof the San Carlos school on Cu- ban government property. 3) Permit the county to levy a three-mill tax for helping federal works projects; 4) Make it illegal to discharge firearms on or near Overseas} “They have that system in Mi-j | Highway. jami and in other cities,” Gomez | Serer, |said, “and I think it works better. {LIQUOR BILL ENDS The commissioners still will be LICENSE, PROBLEM elected by the people at large, but | Passage by the House and Sen- | the residents of the districts will | ate of Representative Papy’s bill! be in closer touch with their com- permitting the sale of liquor!missioner. I’m glad it passed.” | within 300 feet of the San Carlos! Bervaldi Unconcerned school solves a problem which! Commission Chairman Carl ; |has grown increasingly difficult! Bervaldi said the measure would | for Monroe county commission- | make little difference to him. ers, “T’ve been elected both ways,” | Since licenses already have|he commented. Bervaldi was a/| | been issued to a number of liquor |commissioner before the present | | dealers in that area, among them |law, requiring nomination by the | ;La Concha hotel, the commis- | county at large, went into effect. NEW SERIAL COUNTY DEFENSE cipal airport, on Boca Chica Key, will be announced by the Civil Aeronautics Authority within the next few days, it was learned ex- clusively here today by The Citi- zen. The money will come from the special appropriation of $40,000,- 000 made by Congress last fall for construction of airports classified | as important to national defense. Although formal announcement of the allotment has not yet been made, allocation of the funds for the Key West airport was de- scribed as a virtual certainty. Final Approval Awaited CAA experts have approved the plans and the amount of the allot- ment and ali necessary steps have been taken except final approval Four Monroe County Bills Sent For His Signature ? sioners have been unable to cope with the problem presented by jadditional requests for licenses. Dealers who were turned down pointed to those already issued, whilg to issue more was in direct violation of an opinion handed {down by the state attorney gen- eral’s office. Gomez Pleased Commenting on the {passage of the commissioners’ |nomination bill which he pre- pared and advertised, Commis- sioner Eddie Gomez today said the measure would insure better representation for voters in Mon- roe county. Senate declaration to the House of Com- mons on the case of Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi fuchrer, who landed in north Scotland Saturd after jumping from a Mes ‘mitt campaign, both military and poli- tical, which will produce “world- | shaking events.”) { Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin, | the first prominent official to ;comment on Hess, said today he BURY PASSES SENTENCE Albert Macking, Austrian born immigrant to the United States, ‘REAP WILD WIND’, Watkou: bea From ‘CAMERAMEN LEAVE Timekeeper Firing Six ! Men Who Sought Pay fighting plane in a parachute. believes Adolf Hitler knew of the Apparently intending to main- proposed flight before his top- tain their secrecy for its propa-| ranking aide took off. ganda value in Germany, British; Bevin declined to elaborate, but government officials declined toj| suggested Hitler might have sent comment on Hess, and it is under-, Hess to Great Britain as a feeler stood Churchill's speech to the for a possible peace talk. house will contain little more British papers, meanwhile, to- than an explanation of why his,day toned down their editorial — I NEW for three days. | (Making no mention of the Hess | i Merchants Agree On ‘Stock Tax government kept the story secret; comments on the possibility of a he would not “accept” peace proposal from the German minister. veree Votes Agiist Saba Sie ? this morning asked for the Ger-, ,man ambassador and announced | LOCAL SCENE WILL BE USED) the would not accept the verdict of | ! IN FILMING THELMA STRA- | ‘the court when Judge William V. | | Albury sentenced him to 90 days; BEL’S NOVEL OF KEY WEST jon a charge of vagrancy. | WRECKING DAYS Macking, who repeatedly said | his. trial, told the court he was a sick man| Paramount photographers, who |and wanted hospital treatment | since Monday have been shoot- ‘after Judge Albury had pro-jing pictures in the Key West jnounced sentence. Told that section for use in the filming of imedical treatment was outside the liheima Strabel’s novel, “Reap province of the judge, Macking z RS irequested Judge Albury to get the ; the Wild Wind”, left their head- German ambassador for him. pauaniers at La Concha hotel at | H i Held As Draft Dodger (By Associated Press) | The man was arrested after he TALLAHASSEE, May 15.— Independent merchants and chain cperators finally agreed today on a tax law applying to both classes. In return for repeal of the gross receipis tax, retailers en- dorsed Governor Holland’s rec- Rinsie Will Perm by the interdepartmental airport priorities board, whose confirma- | tion is expected some time this wek. Work onthe airport will be done by private contract under supervision of U. S. Engineers, it was learned. Improvement of the local field under the special defense approp- riation will mean that the city will have to sign an agreement with the government, agreeing to let the United States use the field for defense purpgses in case of emergency and contracting to maintain and staff the field in a manner acceptable to the CAA. CAPT. CRENSHAW ARRIVED TODAY WILL RELIEVE CAPTAIN W. F. JACOBS AS COMMANDANT TOMORROW Capt. Russell Crenshaw, who will take command of the Key West naval station tomorrow, ar- rived here this afternoon from Washington. Captain Crenshaw, who has been serving with the general board in Washingtan, is expected to present his orders to Capt. W. F. Jacobs sometime tomorrow morning. Previously it had been understood the transfer would take place today. Officers at the station said there will be no formal ceremony. Cap- tain Crenshaw probably will read his orders to Captain Jacobs and the present commandant will read his orders, telling him to report to Whshington for duty with the board of navigation. C. P. CORRIGAN DIED YESTERDAY FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED THIS AFTERNOON Charles Patrick Corrigan, age 70, died yesterday afternoon at a local hospital. Funeral services are being held this afternoon at 5:00 o'clock from the chapel of Pritchard Funeral Home, Rev Doherty of First Congregational Church officiating Survivors are the widow, Mrs Emma Corrigan of Key West; one son, Herbert E. Corrigan of St Petersburg, Fla., and three grand- children. /"SOME DAY I'LL FIND “You” TITLE OF THE CITIZEN'S | NEW ROMANTIC DRAMA Gardner's University was except for graduation like two | Eileen |from the |most others, | things. | One was that she had led her |class, and was offered a choice |of careers. The other was that, {at a party after commencement, |she jumped from a bar into the larms of a blond stranger. | Then danced with the | blond stranger, and found that jhis name was Martin. That was {all she learned in the ten min- she utes she was with him, but aft- | jer he had disappeared as sud- {denly as he arrived, she found la tiny gold ski with his initials. So Eileen took the craziest of |her chances and went to a mountain town to sing on an ob- jscure radio statio. She thought it would lead her to New York, ‘and it did, But she also hoped jit might lead her to the hand- some stranger, and there were |complications about that. | The complications led Eileen |into as odd a romance as any jcollege girl could ask. “Someday {I'll Find You” is the story of a | girl who picked her own man. Margaret Widdemer, whose \“Someday I'll Find You” is the ‘new Associated Press serial start- ed in The Citizen yesterday, is unique in that she never has had any formal education. Miss Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pa., and one of her grandmothers was a_ trained teacher. “I've never been in any institution of learning ex- cept to lecture or receive de- grees”, Miss Widdemer says. The author's first job was as assistant to A. S. W. Rosenbach, the world-known expert on rare books. But she had begun writ- ing years before that, as a young girl. Her first novel, “The Rose Garden Husband”, was publish ed when she was still in her teens. There have been many since, and several volumes of Poetry She lives in Larchmont, N. Y officially, and spends her sum- mers in the Adirondacks She also has some of the strangest hobbies of any author. She col lects folk s and mid-Vic- torian novels. experiments in psychical research, models sta- tuettes, and goes in for long dis- | tance swi b STORY BEGINS FORCE WILL BE | _ ORGANIZED HERE: |MASS MEETING CALLED FOR TONIGHT AT GUARDS’ AR- MORY TO PERFECT ORGAN- IZATION | j | A mass meeting of Monroe county men tonight will launch | the organization of a county de- | fense force under tine program set \up last month by Gov. Spessard L. | Holland. With Chairman B. M, Duncan | presiding, local men will be told of plans for the defense organiza- {tion when the meeting gets un- 'derway at the national guard ar- jmory at 8 o'clock. Under the plan set up by Gov ternor Holland and described at a | previous general meeting by Carl | Bervaldi, chairman of the county |commission, Monroe county will i be expected to organize a force not less than 50 and not more than 62 men. The guards, who more or less will take the place of the national | guard units which have been call- ed to active duty with the army, will be armed and uniformed by the state. “Enlisted men” in the organization must be between the ages of 18 and 55, while officers will be between the ages of 21 and 63, A captain and two lieutenants will direct the organization Governor Holland explained, in outlining his program, that’ the |force would be expected to take action in any emergency, includ- (Continued on Page Four) Informed Baghdad quarters to | day said Soviet Russia has ~an- nounced her of per- to intention | mitting Russian _ pilots Britain. Increasing the gravity already tense situation in reports from Cairo today |German planes already are in {Syria and in Iraq, while a re: ; port from the Turkish capital at ' Ankara said Adolf Hitler had de- manded an end to the informal alliance between the country and ; Britain. | Reports of military jin the tiny country have been non-existant for several days, with a few British troops appar- ently taking over some key po- j sitions, but avoiding any import- jant military engagements. *Volunteers’ To Fight The Baghdad story said Rus- sia would not send formal sup- {port to Iraq, but would permit |“volunteers” to take part in the of the Iraq, i | t | said operations of fight against England. Observers s said the move would PASS. MEASURE "VETOED BY CONE be in re- APPLIES TO EXEMPTION FROM BRIDGE TOLLS OF | SCHOOL OFFICERS (By Asseciated Press) | TALLAHASSEE | Representative Bernic Papy’s measure, p xemp jtion from tc J E Highway Re | dist 15. ex-Governor Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. City Council meets at City Hall, 8:00 p, m. Defense Mass Meeting at tional Guard Armory. 8:00 p. m. “Hearts and Blossoms”. present by Andrew Jackson Hig ool, Miami; High School Auditorium, 8:15 p. m. FRIDAY “Hearts and Blossoms”, present ed by Andrew Jackson High School, Miami: High School Auditorium, 8:15 p.m. MONDAY Special meeting Minoca Counc No. 13, Degree of Pocahontas and Red Men at Wigwam, Caro- line and Elizabeth streets, 8:00 Pm ‘CTY COUNCIL | | nature this i Session. as Take Part In Iraq-Britain War \had asked for a bed and food at a | Civilian Conservation Corps camp tory tax of $10 on each $1,000,ion Summerland Key. Officers |said he refused to answer simple ‘questions about his destination The sales tax was swept out of and told them he was not a nat- cmmendations for a stock inven- with the first $1,000 exempted. the picture when the House vot-/jctcred for selective service. ed 47-15 to sustain a committee's! Later, he appeared before the unfavorable report on a ‘ed for selective service. Chief 'Deputy Harold Russell __ this ~ | morning testified that immigra- ‘tion authorities are investigating ithe ease. | Co-Drivers Fined $125 Each John Smith, charged with op- erating a motar vehicle under i percent general levy. it Pilots To {local draft board, but proved he | two; was out of the age limit includ-; {noon today, returning to Holly-| wood. \ The photographers have taken: most of their pictures south of! jhere, many of them at Marquesas | Island and Sand Key. | 1 Damon Runyon Says— i Runyon said Madeleine to imorning, Damon the British actress, Carroll, is expected pass through Miaun soon to join a big movie crew “on a cay, which is a key to you, way out in the ocean to make another pic-/ ture”. ' Quite a passel of Hollywood folks is due soon at Key West to ‘HERE NOON TODAY A Paul H, Smith construction company timekeener who yester- day fired six men because they i had asked for a pay raise, today was credited both by company of- ficials and workers with pre- cipitating a walkout which this morning had ended all work on two housing projects. More than 300 laborers, have asked an increase from 4¢: who cents to 624% cents an hour, left the two housing jobs in protest against the timekeeper’s action, L. J. Lankford, superintendent |uralized citizen and had not reg-| In his syndicated column this | of construction: fer. .the! Sanit company, said the timekeeper had overstepped his authority. “He had no more right to fire the laborers” o: take away their buttons than they did to fire him,” Lankford said this morning. William Aris, one of the labor- ers who was fired, said he and five other members of a committee were ordered off the job and de- make a picture involving the vold-time wreckers and a burri-prived of their identification but- take i part in Iraq’s war against Great! pronouncement to the Vichy gov- driving, was sentenced to 30; MEETS TONIGHT ° a Press) taliation for Britain’s tacit ap- 4provat of the -use-of: British sol- |diers in Russia's war on Fin- | land. London, in a stiffly worded ernment, said German planes were understood to ve in Syria, gathering for an attack on Brit- ish forces in Iraq. If the reports are true, the statement — said, British forces will attack the German planes wherever they may be, even if it is necessary to bomb Nazis M: Germany is ia, Itself. jing In Syria said to have col- lected bomber and pursuit planes at fields in Syria, with a num- ber of big transport planes which were used to carry soldiers across the Mediterranean into Libya. The Ankara report of Hitler's demands said a letter delivered by Ambassador Franz Von Pa- pen yesterday reiterated — the fuehrer’s protestations of friend- ship for Turkey, but suggested that the time had come for an end to the friendship between Turkey and England. WALKOUT. TERMED “MISTAKE. STRIKE” THIRTY - FOUR THOUSAND GENERAL MOTORS MEN QUIT JOBS TODAY WASHINGTON. 15.— Thirty-four thousand General Motors employes in four F Mich ked off their jobs in plants this morning what mediation officials here describe es a “mistake strike” After CIO auto workers’ rep- resentatives had agreed to a 24 strike nmement in the ved from company the em- r General Motors it FAMILY OF TWINS *"ROVINCETOWN, Mass.-—Mrs ur Roderick of this city is a her husband is a twin. mother of twins, a boy and she and a girl. |the influence of liquor, was sen- Raine ching edhe jtenced to 45 days in county jai ee eee the group land ordered to pay a fine of} : defi here 1 $126, while Jerome G. Craver, |made ne Badia. .comeisents jwho was with Smith in a truck |bout when the ‘cast of the pi jat the time of the arrest and is bet tery ntrige Says Io begin | jaccused of doing some of the ‘Actas Cannas | It is understood, however, a} jlarger group of , photogtaphars | and the actors, arg to arftive here | | soon after ‘the present delegation has returned vOheopw 5 | The novel, most 'b HGH fis | laid in’ Ry West, was wriften by | Miss Si 1 after she had spent! considerable time in this city. ! She later built a home in Key West | gonivone oriwo cures WHITE SLAVER OFF LODGE DELEGATES TO REFORMATORY COMING 10 PF vctansi coca TAKING . | ALICE GRIFFIN TO SERVE _POCAHONTAS AND RED MEN { HER SENTENCE | MEMBERS TO HOLD SES- SION IN KEY WEST ‘days in jail and ordered to pay [a $125 fine. Shellfish Violator Fined Henry Thomas, negro, was fin- ed $1 and c for having in his possession crawfish under the! legal weight limit of one pound. Conservation Officer Claude 'F. Lowe and Constable Ray El- | wood said the man had 24 craw- ish, which, together, weighed only 14% pounds, some of them weighing only one or two ounces. ' Alice Reid Griffin, convicted last week on a white slave charge in federal court and sentenced te ; three years and four months in prison, this morning boarded train in Miami to begin her sen- tence The woman was immediately after been pronounced May 7 been permitted to remain there order to conclude her business af fairs here Federal officers today will tak her to the West Virginia Federal Reformatory for Womer she is to serve out her sentence MORE PROPERTY SALES RECORDED Ruth A. Lumley, widow of th T. A. Lumley, and their childrens yesterday sold t Charles © Tift, Key West, a cof ner jot at White and Watson street, for about $4,000 The six heirs of Mr Park, R ley, Mary M. Sterling | Ruth Lorraine Brady and Flora Y Mc¥arilain In other transactions, W. P. Brown. Wayne county, Mich., sold to the Durant Land company, Mi a a tract of key property fm $600, and Postmaster F. J. Dion toid to the sare company another tract valued at $2,500. Members of Degree of Poca hontas and Improved Order of Red Men from many sections of the state will begin arriving in Key West Sunday for their Great Council sessions which will be- !gin with a special meeting of Minoca Council Monday night and last through Wednesday aft- ernoon. Public exercises will be held in the Red Men Hall at 9:30 o'clock Tuesda morning. Mrs. Cin derella Roberts, Pocahontas of Minoca Council, will be mistress of ceremonies. Mrs. Mary L. Hoffman, Great Pocahontas, will preside at the Great Council session of the De ec of Pocahontas which will 1c in the Red Men Hall at 11 o'clock. The Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men will meet in the Pythian Hall at the same hour with W. M. Mc Culley, Great Sechem, presiding. A banguct in ‘the Rainbow Room df La Concha Hotel will be the outstanding feature of Tues day evening's entertainment Past Gre: Pocahontas Club luncheon will be held Wed nesday at 12:15 p. m Memorial service will n the Red Men Hall at 1:30 p. Wednesday Installation fficers will follow. Both will be open to the pu Cc cils tha gates in Key West are: Hiawatha Jacksonville; Indianola, Tampa;| Charles W. White, York, Waneta, Miami; Red Wing, Palat-|sold to William H. White ka: Cherokee, Orlando; U-le-lah, | West, a tract [Fort Myers; Mincea, Key West, jabout #£°°, { | a taken to Miami sentence had She has in cor late h be hi f will have dele Pa K tons when they asked to see Lank- fgrd about a pay raise. sit. aye. ‘The timekeeper asked us what we wanted,” Aris said, “We told him we wanted to see Lankford, and when he asked us’ why, we told him it was about a raise. The timekeeper ordergd us to turn in ou bye and get off the job.” ‘Latikford said the Hinekecpet told # different story, but addec that non ies citourh- si alenied the statement 6f some of the laborers that car- penters and plumbers also had walked out, explaining that the skilled workmen had been laid off today because they could not carry on without the assistance of the laborers. Members of the labor commit- tee, in addition to Aris, are Ever ett Higgs, William Sweeting, Ed- ward Moncur, a negro; Joseph A Pert and N.C. Recio. The com mittee members said they had sent to Miami for an A. F. of L izer to press their demand 62i4-cent pay scale No Intention Of Quitting Aris said the laborers) had ‘no intention of quitting thein jobs before the timekeeper had fired the committeemen, Members of the group had agreed to work for an hour ‘until they had 11 50 cent formed a union, and intende< st on the job while negotials were underway Lankford said no member committee had called on bir de an a to explain their bu expressed the hope tlement could be arrange? Mayor Advises Return To Work Mayor Willard M. Albur t with members of the tte this morning, advised them to work until to returr organizatior to negotiate “t up ar will: be thetn] Albury said the men morally bound to live Up to their contract, ond appintesicout thet ae take three fur week cry te pertedt ah oF tdriren period dagogrebich the employed unless the tor able wer g to compromise The mayor ernoon with md the striking scheduled a meeting ee RAC STN REO A SPAGHETTI SUPPER Auspices St Paul's Altar Guild PARISH HALL Tuesday. May 20th. 6:00 P.M. + PRICE sie ewsert Inciuded Behama Street) the et thin aft company officia laborers hay for tonight will SE A CTR