The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 17, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 118. Criminal Court Finishes. siness For May Tent Many Cases Diposed OH OPPOSES TAK ON During Sessions Held SPONGE FISHING All Through Week End- EARL RUSSELL GOES TO TAL- | ing Today LAHASSEE IN INTEREST OF INDUSTRY { Hoss Whitmarsh, sentenced yesterday to five days in county jail for contempt of court, this : morning was ordered by Judge Sc wit tll» house commmities William V. Albury in county|at Tallahassee next week that criminal court to pay $5 each | Key West’s sponge industry will? bck Satithe Wayport et ie two [ot down before it will submit | to a one percent levy on fisher- children. men and an equal levy on pack-! Lecturing Whitmarsh on_ his ing’ houses. failure to support the two intant| The, senior Russell, in a tele- children, Judge Albury told him|phone conversation with Repre- he would defer sentence indef-|sentative Bernie C. Papy this ghey. ugh snag the man_ con- week, said local sponge interests inues to make payments for the cannot afford to pay the tax, | ¢hildrens’ care. . which was tentatively agreed to} “I will defer this sentence 34 from day to day, and from week |@t a hearing in Tallahassee last Wednesday. to week” Judge Albury wafned. “If you ever fall down on your Earl Russell left here yester- | ; payments, you are on your way | day to make the trip to Talla- to the state penitentiary at Rai-|hassee, in order to represent} ford”. local buyers in a second hear- J. O. Perry and Robert War-|ing. Thirty Tarpon Springs ren, both held for working in|buyers were on hand for the; Key West without Florida li-| Meeting last week, without aj censes on their automobiles,| Key West man present. were ordered to pay fines of $5! With the growing fear that a and costs or serve 60 days in jail,|™ysterious blight may pers Both already have purchased the | Wipe out their business, local Florida tags. dealers say it would be impos-! Elizabeth Scheibler, held on aj} Sible to pay the tax out of their vagrancy charge, was ordered to present meager profits. One} pay a fine of $15 and costs : or| boat last week, according to the serve 60 days in jail. The wom-| senior Russell, returned here | an, who was not in court when| With its crew of five after six | ‘\ dee name:was-called, was told by | Weeks fishing,. bringing a cargo judge Albury that $5 of the fine | of only 30 bunches. was for being late. Before her| Pepy called here to learn arrival, Judge Albury had issued | What the feeling of local dealers Earl Russell, son of the vet- :The Pocahontas Council bers will attend a breakfast Tues- a capias for her arrest. The cases of Oscar Herrera, held for vagrancy, and Edward J. Cahill, under bond for issuing two worthless checks, were con- tinued indefinitely. Judge Albury dismissed the | jurymen, ending the May term! of court, but told County Solici- | tor Allan B. Cleare, Jr., it might be necessary to call a_ special jury this month if enough cases pile up. Several guilty pleas, still to be taken, will be handled by Judge Albury next week in chambers. NEGRO BOUND OVER ON ASSAULT COUNT Henry Henfield, negro, held under $100 bond this morn- ing and turned over to criminal court by Peace Justice Enrique | Esquinaldo, Jr, on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Henfield was charged with at- tacking Willie White, another negro, with a knife. Oscar Hetrera, whose case was continued in criminal court, was bound over this morning by Es- quinaldo under $100 bond on the vagrancy count, while Willa Mae Rivera, Rose Pla and Ella Mae Hall, all negroes, were bound} wver under $50 for vagrancy. The | four were arrested last night by Constable Bienvenido Perez. Irvin Albury, held for driving a car without a license, was bound over under $100 bond, while Arthur Fabio, charged | with taking pictures without a/| license, was bound overt under $50 bond. Peggy Gayer, charged | with vagrancy, was bound over under $50 bond, as were Florence Jones and Willie «King, negro women. SAMUEL PINDER BUYS PROPERTY| Samuel B. Pinder, Sr, has pur- chased for about $600 a lot on an alley off Grinnell street The property formerly belong- ed to Richard Hamilton Adams. Special meeting Minoca Council No. 13, Degree of Pocahontas and Red Men at Wigwam, Caro- line and Elizabeth streets, 8:00) pm (NAZIS COMMENT | was jlong association and spongers would be on the measure, ON HESS’ FL | (By Ansociated Press) | BERLIN, May 17.—Berlin} newspapers today broke their! silence on the flight to Scot- | land of No. 3 Fuehrer Rudolf Hess last week with the com- ment that Britain has found him! to be a “most unwelcome and | embarrassing guest”. | The papers, after running stor- ies of Hess’ disappearance and of his mental disability, had an- nounced that the whole affair was of little importance and not worth further notice. j 10% THE sou Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE: U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1941 LODGE MEMBERS COMING TO CITY POCAHONTAS AND RED MEN REPRESENTATIVES TO HOLD CONVENTION Celebrating the twentieth an- niversary of Minoca Council of Pocahontas and the seventeenth of the Great Council, Key West ‘Red Men and their auxiliary Mon- lodge | members at the first session of; day will welcome fellow their three-day state convention. Great Council officers will be presented at a meeting at the Red Men’s hall Monday night at 8) o'clock, after which the anniver- sary celebration will begin. Lodge members Tuesday will launch their Great Council ses- sions at 1:30 o'clock, with a ban- ;quet at La Concha hotel begin- ning at 8 o’clock that evening. mem- day at Ocean View restaurant, with public exercises and council | sessions during the day at Red) Men’s hall. Wednesday, the final day of the ; convention, members of the | lodges will be entertained at al luncheon and memorial services and installations will be held later } in the day at Red Men's hall. LESS COST TO COLLECT TAXES: (Special to The Citizen) TAMPA, Fla, May 17.—It | costs less than 2% to collect tax-!in non-political commission with |¢™Ployers alike es through the office of Florida’s | | efficient go-getting State Comp-! troller, according to one of a se- ; iries of educational advertise- ments on state government car- | ried in the local papers by the First National Bank of Tampa. While other state agencies spend from 4% to 8% ae taxes and it costs between 5% and to collect county exes, the actual cost of collecting $30,000,- 000 of state taxes through the! comptroller’s office is 1.39%. The bank’s ad also noted that | under Jim Lee’s able supervision there has not been a dollar of de- positors’ money lost by bank fail- ures since the moratorium in 1933 and in its message points out further that this is a record “unequalled” in the Southeastern states, | POSSUM GOES TO CLEANER | LINCOLN, Crounse, who operates cleaning establishment, | quite decide what the o’pussum ‘which wandered into his shop | wanted—food or a cleaning—so | he just put Mr. O’Pussum in the | couldn't | ‘windown on aga Walter. Pendergast Separates Himself From Steel Ball And Makes Another Getaway Friday : County Jailor Willie wean to- again as county sheriff's officers | began their third search for Wa’ ter Pendergast. | Pendergast, who started his} with the jail! keeper in January, when he sentenced to 45 days on a vag- rancy charge, walked away yes-! terday afternoon, after breaking | a chain which held a 20-pound steel ball to his right leg. Previously, he had escaped from a work gang in February to make what he insisted was a trip to Cuba in a 14-foot sailboat Sheriff's officers never believed the youth's story about that trip, ; but he did take a boat from Rest Beach and was picked up near, Dance! Floor Show! TONITE — $ till ? SLOPPY JOE'S BAR Music by O. B. and his RHYTHM BOYS Tap Dancing by STEPPING BRUCE No Cover No Minimum |Tavernier after being gone for |day was minus his star boarder | the greater part of a week In March, still suffering from a | sprained ankle, a memento of his boat ride, Pendergast made a fly- ing leap from a work truck, and vas | was gone agan, but only for about | quire re: 24 hours. With the ball and chain on his leg, Pendergast worked along through the rest of March, April and 16 days of May before r - aging to break the chain and de- part again. His sentence, which j started with 45 days, with the pro- vision that he be released if he re- ceived a letter with money from home, had another six months added because of his escapes. Earl Adams, local newspaper correspondent, provided the or clue to Pendergast’s whereabo where he told of seeing 3 fighting mosquitoes on ¢ way north of here at o'clock this morning. Adi he thought he recognized the man as Pendergast but assumed he had been released. Adams said he believed Pen- dergast was picked up in a truck en route to Miami The escape artist. meanwh still has a steel ring around ankle, with about three feet of ichain attached. |Automatic Tax Increase Faces Monroe County ‘Manufacturers, Tradesmen And Their Employes | ' SPILLS SI FSE'Y, §, Census Bureau Issues SUBMITS BILL FOR | Report Concerning Old | RETIREMENT SYSTEM | | cee | Age Benefit Tax Affect- (Py Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 17. —Represeniative ing This Area Papy troduced HB1306 providing a in- (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17.) | Monroe \ retirement system for em- } | Ployes and officials of Key | count t West, and also HB1308 creat- 7 wpnnaracterest !and tradesmen and their em- | ; ing the office of police lieu- | ployes face an automatic tax in- ; tenant. | crease next January, which, for POOI ISL PIB ss, year, ‘NEW LEGISLATIVE: __ | mum of $4,111, it was revealed | | MEASURES CREATED | today. | (Special to The Citizen) S TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 17. again —New laws created by the 1941 oa | legislature and briefed by Attor-' period. The boost in the old | j ney General J. Tom Watson were age benefit tax was scheduled to | | announced today, as follows: go into effect on January 1, 1940, | Constitution — Propose amend- | PUt late in the first session of | ment to permit election on chang- re ‘76th Congress, the legislators roze the existing rates for an-' jes in constitution within 90 to other two years. This two- -year | 180 days. period expires on December 31, ! City Streets — Require state | 1941. i jroad department to maintain | is eee employe and em- a : ployer each pay one. percent of lover connect through | the wage earned. When the! “frozen” period expires the rate! Conservation — Propose amend- | will go to 1% percent each. oe to constitution placing con-! The additional half percent of trol of game and fresh water fish |t@X will make employes and in trade and | power to conserve and restock. manufacturing in Monroe county | Dentists — Abolish unauthor- , PaY $2,055 additional, according ! ized dentistry, require all dentists | t® estimates based upon pay roll: to be certified by state board. | figures for each business group | Colleges — Designate Univer- | las reported by the United san sity of Florida and Florida State Census Bureau for 1939. {College as depositories for public ee ‘MORE OPENINGS | will amount to a mini- The increase will become fective unless Congress ‘freezes the social security documents. Salaries — Require salary buy- ers to charge no more than Che Key West Citiz PRICE FIVE CENTS’ London Admits Direct War Betweén France And ‘Britain Now In “Making (By Associated Press) blanket eppropriation age pensions, funds from federal government, was placed on the House calen-' \dar today despite recommenda-| for old! to match any) tions of the finance and appro- » priations committees. that it be! rejected. i Blanket Appropriation For Old Age Per Pensions Goes On Calendar| TALLAHASSEE, May uv» CERTIFICATES GIVEN STUDENTS. ,| CLASSES PUT ON PROGRAM! AT SAN CARLOS SCHOOL ON THURSDAY Thursday afternoon, The House voted 57 to 18 to ish Special Class received their give the bill calendar space, but | cial rules and calendar commit- \tee, which makes up daily busi ness slates, gives it preferential status. Rep. Dixon of Jackson intro- duced the bill and moved to have it placed on the calendar. He explained that “ the finance | committee can find some way to provide the money” if the House voted the vast mpteeag LOCAL WORKERS ORGANIZE UNION. MEN WILL RETURN TO WORK | MONDAY AT OLD RATE certificates. Miss Benildes Remond, con- age benefit taxes for an ensuing | it probably will not be reached quctress of the adult instruction { for final passage unless the spe- ' class, presented the students ‘with the certificates and gave a complete report of all activities in connection with the class dur- ‘ing the school year 1940-'41. i Miss ‘Martha Watson gave an \interesting description in Span- ish about her trip to Cuba two | months ago. Mrs. Madeline Wassell address- ed the school faculty, boards of dircetors and representatives of the Cuban governm: Gloria Watson, a second grade | pupil of San Carlos School, en- { | tertained the audience with a re- cital of poems in English and{ ' Spanish. Stephen C. Singleton, Chamber | of Commerce secretary, .present- j ‘ed the certificates to the | Border | British Colonial tues Exchange Shots With French Units On Syrian (My Aexociated Press) British colonial soldiers ex- | ened shots with French troops jon the Syrian border today as | London officials gravely admit- | ted that a full dress war between | France and Great Britain may students | ‘of the San Carlos Institute Span- be in the making. Royal Air Force planes, strik- \ing with intensified fury at three airdromes in Syria were reported to have smashed Ger- ‘man attempts at a quick, surprise thrust into Iraq, and Cairo in- formed the Turkish government at Istanbul that the Iraq situa- tion “is under control”. German and Italian soldiers, driven out of Salum yesterday, were reported in Rome and Ber- lin communiques’ today to have driven British forces back across the Egyptian border, recaptur- ing both Salum and Capuzzo. | Cairo, not mentioning the fighting at Salum in its morn-* ing communique, said the Aus- tralian garrison at Tobruk had smashed encircling- Axis be- seigers and extended the city’s jdefense lines far outside their (original boundaries. tu! after roel in perio, ton, i dents and congratulated ur te for | | was reported to have neared a !1 yafterward, the their excellent work. Immediate; | students and Neb. — Norman | a dry} {legal interest; in effect, abolish- jing salary buying. Property — Remove from real lestate titles the clouds of unper formed boom-time contracts. Holiday — Making the last {Thursday in November official | Thanksgiving in Florida. Newspapers — Prevent _ price- jeutting in legal advertisements. | Wild Life — Pledging all hunt- ing and fishing license funds to |conservation pury Defense — Pur national or state defense work | Regulate making and handling explosives. Create state defense council to coordinate activities. tablish Florida Defense Force, jor home guard. Repeal 1917 coun- ty guard law. Outlaw German yinds and communist party | Housing — Allow city housing {authorities to build defense dwel- ling project outside city limits. jCreate county housing authority | to.promote new homes for low in- icome farmers. To authorize jhousing projects for those em- ipl, -d in national defense work. soline — senate the sev- leat cent of gasoline tax, half to ra Is, half rn general revenue fun ee mobiles Prohibit con- tracts in restraint of trade in the sale of new automobiles. Prohibit sale of used te r for hire car without it being labelled as such Require notice of Ss on auto- mobiles to be ehicle, cc stration tatives h sabotage on motor missione auto factory represe SAVED 1.500 NICKELS; BUY BONDS OMAHA liam D. M fer the Tr nickels, to the wey BATTERIES CHARGED WHILE YOU WAIT! The lart word in Battery Charging Equipment. Lou Smith Aute Service Cor. White and Fleming Sts. Former! Shop PHONE NO. 5 ; | } i i | IE * tional defense - examples Clay County FOR YOUNG MEN CCC WILL BEGIN SUPPLE- MENTAL ENROLLMENT ON'MAY 20 (Special ¢o The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, May Supplemental enrollment for ‘the Civilian Conservation Corps will begin on May 20 and continue , throughout the month, according to announcement today of the State Welfare Board, selecting agency. ‘ It was announced at the same time that Monroe County now has 10 young men enrolled in the Corps, of whom two were selected during the second quarterly en- rollment of the year in April. 'To- tal enroliment for the State at the time was listed as 3,914. Many enrollees, it was stated by | Jack Horne, State Welfare Board Director of CCC selection, wil]' be | assigned to one of the camps lo- cated within the State, of which | there are now 21 200 enrollee each camp Horne pointed out that in those counties located directly within or adjacent to military canton- ment areas, the number of en rollees had sharply declined. He! attributed this to increased em- ployment of young by na projects, citing in wh Camp Blanding located, and Putnam County adjoining. There are only seven now enrolled from the two counties Indicating the current trend, he stated that in Monroe County the March enrollment was eight. Of these none were discharged. with two enrolled during April for a new total of 10. Compensation continues at $30 r subsistence. H bility ¢ n the for are the same e past ynth peric 1940, the otal of CCC ex Florida stressed. od. J was OSLO, Norway —Curiosity got better of several > were ied when a ch had washed ashore on an/tell with any degree of nd north of Bergen exploded | whether the applicants le they tampered with it. vit Approximately | will be assigned to! | For Key West Water System civilians | st mine | pany officials have been unable tg OF PAY FOR PRESENT Local laborers on two Paul H. |Smith Construction company , housing projects yesterday set up ‘an A. F. of L. union to bargain lfor a wage imerease of 62% icents an hour, but agreed to re- ‘turn to work Monday at their {old rate of 40 cents. The laborers, who walked off the job Thursday, agreed to con- ; tinue working while their union status is being approved A. F. of L. headquarters in Washington. Since the Smith contract is based on wage figures | set up by the department of la- bor, the union will attempt to get approval for the higher wage through the Washington office. Members of the group met yes- terday afternoon at county ;courthouse with John Burke, union organizer from Miami. Making Ready’ On Processing HOMESTEAD, | liminary May work of installing ma construction of houses for processing Key West chinery and aqueduct pipe will be finished a week, officials of the Asbestos Manufacturing pany announced today Fifty men already have been employed in the preliminary op- erations and company officials said the number will go to more than 100 when the processing of 135 miles of pipe gets underway Pipe has been arriving in Home- ;Stead for the past week, with about 20 more carloads expected to a within a few days. The pipe is in 50-foot lengths Workmen on the job, at least 95 per o of whom will be Homestead residents will get $5 y for unskilled la with operators other ilied men drawing $1.25 per hour Company officials have agreed esent a list of applicants to | Mayor Tom Harris in order that check the bona fide Home- ad residents. Previously, com- in Com- or accuracy lived in Homestead or were transients at) To Start Work” Standard! idience sang the American and /Cuban national hynms. 4 |, Those receiving certificate were; He , Second Ae ae Robinsoit. * First ye i e ‘Was sell, Miss Hh Mayme Petrik, Hstiel » Johnson, Mrs. Matiorle Stevens, Mrs. Eliztbeth Granick, Thomas Fields and Roberto Crippa. ; Present were: Residents and Directors of San Carlos Drs. Julio De Poo, Jose C. Sanchez and Domingo Ubieta; Cuban Consul Berardo Rodriguez, Vice-Consul Jose Perez, Principal Miss Remond and teachers Mrs. Josefina Esquinaldo and Miss Elva Esquinaldo; Stephen Single- | ton, Gonzalo Bezanilla, Mrs. Ade- laida Acevedo, Mrs. Jose C, San-' chez, Mrs. Aydee Martinez, Mrs. ; Kenneth Shirk and others. Aqueduct Pipe inen) Sheds already have been com pleted the machinery foundations are nearing comple With the start of actual pro: cessing on the pipe. the job months. VARIOUS STUDENTS SEEKING DEGREES for and tion. it is estimated will require about six (Sper Vite rhe Citheeny TALLAHASSEE, May 17 tdi of 277 students of ‘Florida State College for W« ) are can didates for de May 26 Commencement marking the highest number in the history of the college. Two hundred and *fifty-four were graduated last May The candidates include one for the Master's degree, Mra. Estelic Jones McKay. of Tallahassee, in e for the degree of Master of Science: 143 in the College of Arts and Sciences; @1 in the Schoot of Education; 42 in the School of Home Ecotmunics, and [16 im the Scho rees at the 'final victory today, as a com- munique announced one British force had cut across the Italian jline of retreat, while another force is driving the defending Italians back to a _ position | where ‘they will be caught be- tWeen two armies. iBaghdad said Itaqi soldiers had latinched an attack on Brit- ish troops at the important Persian Gulf port of Basra, but a communique from Cairo said Iraq already has been crippled ‘and will be forced *to give in within a short time, German infiltration into the -country was said in Cairo to have “been cut to a’ trickle” by \the raids on Syrian airports. Little is known of the border clash ‘between British — and French ‘troops, but reports are current that skirmishing has broken out at several points. ON CREOLE ai DIED FRIDAY FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW MORNING Simon , age 10, died yesterday ou at 1 o'clock the residence, Whiteh Funet 1) will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock from the chapel of the Lope Funeral Home, with burial in the Jewish plot in the city ceme tely Rabbi L. Lehrer will officia at the burial services. Survivors whe pat Logis, sister, Boris Creofy, brother, snd ta niegeng, Mrs Sat Kenage : and Mire bapa : er Key West hg » 163, K of P., and Key West f “i of Odd ws, of which the deceazed a member, will attend th funeral in a body MORENO ISSUED Moreno, 741 Duval street yesterday was insued « building permit for $75, to be spent in construction of a roof, and Rich- ard H. Adarns, 1016 James street. was grented a permit for $100 to install « floor in his home. wa BC