The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 19, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. 4 / saa VOLUME LXII. No. 119. One | Believed To Have Cone Down On Egyptian Ship Steamer Carrying 205 Pas- sengers Reported As Having Sunk Around South Atlantic (By Anaociated Prens) ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, May 19.—The Egyptian steamer Tan- zan, carrying 205 passengers. of whom more than 100 were Amer- icans, is believed to have gone down with all on board some- where in the south Atlantic. Reports reaching here said wreckage, identified as part of the ship, has been picked up off the coast of Africa. The. vessel was due at Capetown more than a month ago. ‘ Twenty-four of the Americans aboard the ship were volunteers for the British army, while oth- ers included missionaries and business men. So far as Is known, no one survived. British navy men fear the sinking of the ship mey have been carried out by a_ surface raider, Previously, the waters of the south Atlantic along the African-coast. have been, consid-. ered safe for vessels carrying supplies into the Red Sea. FOOD PRICES ARE MOUNTING’ (My Asnociated Perens) WASHINGTON, May . 19.— Mounting costs of living were reflected in a report made pub- lic by the department. of. labor today, showing that food prices went up one percent during the first 15 days of May. A survey last week showed that food prices had’ ‘ascended four percent since April a year ago. BROKEN BACK UNTREATED FOR NINE DAYS IVA, S. C_—Herbert Dixon was dismissed from the hospital after receiving treatment for laceta- tions about an eye after an auto- mobile accident, Nine days ‘later, he went to a doctor to see about a pain in his back. The doctor found that it was broken. Pendergast, Escaped Prisoner, | Captured In Miami Saturday; In Solitary Walter Pandergast, unsuccess- ful in his third escape from county jail. confinement, presumably medi- tating on the untrustworthiness of Miami machine ‘ shop opera- tors. Pendergast, who hied himself away from a county work gang Friday, was arrested by Miami police Saturday after he had bor- rowed a hacksaw from a machine shop to divest himself of a steel ring which the county had fas- tened around his right ankle. Over a period of several months the youth had managed to wear through the chain on his leg, freeing himself of the 20- today is in solitary} |\ CHOOT OO MS |SUBMITS MEASURE TO |EXTEND BRIDGE AREA (By Asncetated Preas) a May 18. —Representative: Bernie C. © | Papy introduced HB1342 exi>* tending the: Overseas Road ‘! | and Toll “Brdige District S include all of Monroe coun- ty. we pent He said the bill’ would permit the district to get funds for’ repairing the road in addition to the bridge area. Y ded ddd dda WAS OPERATOR OF ROOMING HOUSE GN EATON STREET IN KEY WEST i Eaton street, died Saturday at his Sanchéz, a friend of the family. Mr. Laubscher, with his family, left here two weeks ago to spend | the summer in Evansville. ‘ He is survived by his widow, a, daughter, Gertrude Laubscher; two sons, William and Harold, lace two grandchildren. Harold ‘formerly was employed at the {chamber of commerce here. j { ‘ALL ALIENS TO _ BE ROUNDED UP (Ry Associated Press) i WASHINGTON, May 19.—The j justice department's roundup of aliens in the United States will! continue until every alien has, i been checked, Attorney General | Jackson announced today. |. Two hundred more aliens were {arrested over the weekend in a nation-wide ‘campaign. Justice department officials explained that aliens who have nothing to! {hide need not fear the checkup. Confinement Here ja machine shop to borrow tools} | with which to get it off | | ‘The operator of the shop, who | gave Pendergast a saw when he | represented himself as a fellow machinist with a job to do, but} no tools, was startled when the | | young. man seated himself in a/ corner and started to whittle on/ }the ring about his ankle. } | Apparently feeling that rings | ‘of that kind are not standard | ‘equipment for machinists, the; shop operator called Miami po- | ‘lice: who met Pendergast at the | |Goor just as he tossed away the! jdroken ring and: stepped out! ‘into the street i Sheriff Berlin Sawyer went to! Miami after his prisoner yester- | " close supervision home in Evansville, Ind., it was }and all activities. will be under learned here today*by Mrs: Jose tthe ‘watchful leadership of “com=Y>ringing practical “gifte—barrels |= / ment, SNAPPER CREEK QUITE A NUMBER OF KEY WEST BOYS ARE MAKING PLANS TO BE- IN ATTEND- ANCE Quite a number of local Boy Scouts are planning to attend the second annual camping session to be held at Snapper Creek from June 8 to July 6. This is spon- ‘sored: by the Dade County, Coun- il, Boy. Scouts. of. America, of -which Key West is.a part. 2» Seout.official Albert E. Peirce $ made reservations for 40 local scouts. Members of the various ‘troops must inform their inten- tion to attend who in turn must notify Mr. Peirce at once. Snapper Creek Camp is lo- cated in one of South Florida’s most beautiful hammocks, 14 miles South of Miami on Sunset ‘Road and just four miles west of South Miami. The camp will be under the di- rection of the Camping Commit- 'tee of the Dade County Council DIES IN INDIANA and inspected by the Health and |' { Safety Committee at regular in- The Scout Executives with a corps of capable, adult Scout Leaders, and Junior Lead- ers will be in camp at all times. Every precaution has been tak- en for the health and safety of the campers. All drinking water and ‘swimming areas have been tested tervals. William Laubscher, operator of fw approved by. the Board of The Tides rooming house rm the boating and swim- will be under at all times ming activities petent adults. In addition to the camp infirmary, the county hospital is only a mile from the camp. ‘The camp is equipped with a spacious screened dining hall and kitchen, administration building, infirmary and hospital, office and camp store, boat house, ‘recreation hall, craft shop, screened sleeping cab- ins, modern sanitary toilets with showers, tents, teepees, athletic field, archery range, canoes and boats and a beauti- ful new swimming pool miaking ! this one of the finest camps in the entire country. A well planned program has ; been developed to give every camper a full day of enjoy- Opportunity will be giv- nm all campers to participate in archery and the making of archery tackle; an athletic field for baseball, volley bail, field { meets, ete., canoes and boats will }add the thrill of adventure, hikes and nature lore; fencing with the foil. Campfires will end the days’ activities with programs of song, dramatics, stunts and events. Any registered scout in the city is entitled to attend one or more weeks of the camp. Cost is nominal, in fact it amounts to only $5 per week for meals Troops are encouraged to tend as a unit but individual scouts may attend for any one or more weeks of the period. JOHN FERNANDEZ BUYS PROPERTY, John Fernandez, has purchased for about the Manhattan restaurant and adjoining property on Duval street near Angela 1 The property formerly owned lore RK jes. Jay Thgogory Koy MONDAY pound steel ball which was sup-| day when he saw a story about | Special meeting Minoca Council posed to keep him in Monroe county The ring about his ankle was more of a problem, however, and Pendergast visited Southermest Flowers’ Candies GLADIOLL $I w dozen When You Think of Flowers— Think of Ours! 616 DUVAL PHONE 136 Opposite Monroe Theater the arrest in a Miami newspa-/} } Per: Pendergast had told Miami); | police he was an escaped prison- } er from the Tampa stockade, and | | Miami authorities were com- municating with the Tampa | tived. > betone No. 13, Degree of Pocahontas and Red Men at Wigwam, Caro- line and Elizabeth streets, 8:00 pm TUESDAY | sheriff's office when Sawyer Hi The escape Friday was Pender. gast’s third since he was jailed jon @ vagrancy charge in Janu-} time, according to|Lions Club meets at 6:30 pm Sheriff Sawyer, he will be kept; ary. This jin solitary confinement, instead = going out with W. A. Gan- dolfo’s work crew, ‘Rotary Club meets 12:15 p.m St. Paul's Parish Hall Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. Social Meeting of Junior Wom- an’s Club, 5:00. pm, at Club- at-; Key West. | jacent to Las Palmeras at 10 cents $8,500 | was} KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1941 (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 19.—Ac- tion has been delayed in the leg- islature on Governor Holland's | program for raising money be- | cause of protests that a new store SPANISH REFUGEES| SENT TO ECUADOR FROM NEW YORK THEY WILL JOIN THIRTY- | *Ck tax bill contains one pro- NINE THERE ON CO-opERA- | Vision lowering TIVE FARM THAT HAS BEEN | “hain stores. ESTABLISHED | Rep. Overstreet of Dade coun- | ty asked the finance committee license (Special to The Citiven) and freedom in a friendly land{ before sixteen Spanish refugees, now on their way from New York | this point. to Ecuador. There they will join 39 others on a 750 acre co-opera- | tive farm established ‘a few / til ‘months ago by the New World a |Resettlement Fund, which has! heard that the bill to outlaw clos- j headquarters here. ! Three families make up the} sixteen—Luis Cano Perez and his| been lost, and started a new one wife Encarnacion, Enrique and! Luisa Verdu Safont, and Angel} jand Carmen Zornoza Sanchez, With the Senate in rececss un- late afternoon, the House ed shop on defense projects had through committees. |who collectively have ten chil- j = KENNETH SNOW Miss America Gonzalez, former | resident of Tampa, is executive | INJURED SUNDAY secretary of the Resettlement: Fund. She is the daughter of Mrs. | '3409 Nebraska avenue in the Flor- | ida city, and her father was the | ee late Jose Gonzalez, long co-prop- ! rietor of the Pardo & Gonzalez PAUL SEARLES HELD: UNDER bakery there. ; CHARGE OF | Various local Spanish groups | entertained them during their) ‘five days here and some twenty; CURRED IN AFTERNOON friends saw them off on the ship, |; of pots, pans, dishes, and other; oa Household accesstries) a fine|_ t= Snow, West Palm modern perambulator for the | Beach, mutietiek severe: cute, sind ,Cano baby, Oscar, and marvelous | bruises about the face, and his toys for the youngsters. companion, Paul W. Searles, was “About what is past,” said Luis held on a reckless driving charge Cano Perez, “it is better not to after an accident at Duval and jthink. Much better to think Southard streets yesterday after- about the future. In Ecuador there noon in which Snow’s car and a is peace, and we can make a liv- machine operated by George Lee. ing with our hands. We are work- Key West, were damaged. i ers, and we love the soil. We will “Searles, who was " driving build for ourselves a new world— gyow's car, was said by. Constable jwhere we cannot hear the Bienvenido Perez and other wit- bombs.” nesses to havi | Sb oe 'S e attempted to cross On May 22 thev will be met in Duval street at a rate of more Guayaquil by Arthur Fried, the than 50 miles an hour. i Resettlement Fund's resident di- Their car struck Lee’s machine ‘rector. New clothes will be sup- which was going south on Duval plied, and each person will re- street, whirling it around and {ceive a thorough medical exami- smashing it against the curb. Lee nation, any necessary dental care, ia " and Searles were not injured, but and eye-glasses if need be. Then 4 they will proceed to the colony, Las Palmeras, 31 miles from Quito, the Ecuadorian capital, on an automobile highway | Notable progress has been made by the first of the. colonists. | Timber is being cut and sold, and charcoal also marketed. Oxen are used for plawing, but these {1941 pioneers have a 1938 motor truck for hauling; ten cows; pigs, ‘which lately littered; and a flock fof chickens. All the men in the {colony are farmers, and some are |skilled otherwise. They include a carpenter, a teacher, who has set |up study classes for the children, and an ex-hotel chef, who is cook |in the communal kitchen. Among jthe women is a capable seam- stress. “We will place other refugee parties in the same region as soon as a second tract can be made ready,” Miss Gonzolez said “Homestead privileges have en abled us to claim public lands ad- ed against and broken the wind- shield of his car. Searles was placed under $100 bond, awaiting a hearing this afternoon before Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. SUAREZ BOUND OVER TO COURT Edward Suarez, negro, was bound over to criminal court under $100 bond Saturday after- noon on a charge of gambling Peace Justice Enrique Esquin- aldo held the hearing ALARM CLOCK — DYNASTY SEEN {Ry Associated Preea) PITTSBURG, Kas, May 19 — The weary residents of a Pitts- burg neighborhood are beginning to believe that in woodpecker families missions-in-life are hand- ed down from father to son At 7 a m. nearly every day a woodpecker alights on one parti- cular roof and unsheaths his bill against a metal ridge pole. It has been going on for so many years > that th leeping idents ° e ithas been a self-supporting. one-wogipecker project SAR | || ANNOUNCEMENT— —-—_THE—_ — GRILL AND SIDEWALK CAFE Opposite La Concha Hotel Under New Management DINNERS, 35¢ Up OPEN ALL NIGHT Up to 5,000 families can ct nego- an acre. |be sent in under {tiated with the Ec jorian gov- ernment,.last vear by John Dos Passos, our national secretary “For each family going in, we deposit $700 with the Ecuador au- thorities as assurance that they will not bec When they 2 efurn re on 1 jte have the bill withheld from ; NEW YORK, May 19.—Peace | debate in the House until he and } | the bill’s introducers can study } RECKLESS | DRIVING: ACCIDENT OC-} Snow required 12 stitches in the } forehead after his face had smash- | . (ity Associated Press) in the Mediterranean area took, the offensive on two fronts in Iraq :and along the Egyptian border to- | {day with heavy fighting reported | in both sectors. I Fighting in the western part of | Iraq was reported to have stepped ; up in iptensity, while British troops once more pushed Axis ‘soldiers across the Egyptian bor- der, retaking Salum and Capuzzo. (At Tobruk, a Rome communi- | |que said advanced defense lines | which the British defenders set up | in a series of attacks last week, | had been broken and the Aus-| tralian defenders of the city pushed back to their original | lines.) Royal Air Force planes con- tinued to hammer Syrian air- dromes during the night and | strong squadrons of bombers at- |tacked Italian forces near Tobruk. | ; London was said to have warn- jed Ankara today that Germany | may attempt,to fly supplies across ! Turkey, urging the Turk’ govern- ‘ment to prevent any move in that | direction. The formal note de-} livered in Ankara said Britain has |no knowledge that any supplies jhave crossed Turkey. ARE COMING IN |POCAHONTAS AND RED MEN | | MAKING READY FOR | CONVENTION Red Men and members of Poca- hontas councils from throughout the state were arriving here this afternoon in preparation for the lodges’ annual convention, which ; ;opens here tonight. rs of the lodges are registering | at La Concha hotel, Members /Bntering plea and sentence ct (50) etait Formal,business, sessions will. Total Clerk's Costs. PRICE FIVE CENTS SS cial Washington Secs Lkeiood Of Roosevelt Acting British Units In Mediterranean _ Take Offensive On Two Fronts CAIRO, May 19.—British «coo EXPLAINS ITEMS IN“ COURT COSTS ON FEE CHARGES |FIVE. DOLLAR FINE WITH NUMEROUS COSTS ADDED BRINGS TOTAL AMOUNT TO $17.49 Sheriff Berlin Sawyer today repeated his warning that men) from other states employed in Key West must purchase Florida license plates immediately upon their arrival here, if they are to escape arrest. State officials are making a de- termined drive to enforce laws re- quiring -Pigride, licenees op gistpes mobiles owned by persons work- ing in the state, and men disre- garding the law, or delaying, run the risk of incurring penalties of about $25. Many of the men who have | been arrested recently do not un- jderstand the fee system used |here, and are shocked when their “costs” amount to considerably more than the $5 fine. On a typical case, with a $5 | fine; here are the costs: Doeketing case (15c) B and B_ (30); Indexing case (10c) B and B (20c) To arraigning prisoner (25c) Information, Writing Oath (25c); Administering Oath (BOC) ag ore g sgt , Affixing ‘seal (25c); Filing information (10c) ’ 35 Commitment (50c) 50 Certificate and seal (50c) 50 Filing 1 papers (10c) each 10 40 35 50 Pb $3.20 % jnot opensssntil © tomorrow,’ >-but;dustice of Peace Ist district, {members 6f*'the l6cal+ |Council of Pocahontas will cele- brate their twentieth anniversary , tonight at a ceremony opening at 8:00 o'clock at the Red Man | Wigwam. Great Council officers will be presented at the session tonight and the anniversary celebration | will follow. Tomorrow's schedule includes ja meeting of the Great Council at 1:30 o'clock, with a banquet at La Concha hotel at 8:00 o'clock Pocahontas Council members will attend a breakfast tomorrow at {Ocean View restaurant, then hold | public exercises and council ses sions during the day at the Red Men's Wigwam _OF POT PLANTS, pind RAE DATA resides office employe, who on Southard street, near the corner f Francis, reported to The Citi teday that thieves ered his yard on Saturday night and plants zen took away several pot in front of the premise: Mr. Mathews. making every effort to beautiful the sur roundings of his home. is much perturbed over the theft of the plants and states that he hopes these vandals will be rounded up in due time, which may have a | tendency to stop others who jmay be engaged in these opera- ons, who is Minocé? {Sheriff's costs or c6unty judge costs , 4.04 5.25 5.00 Total costs $17.49 Add the $5 fine, and the total penalty for not getting a license amounts to $22.49. in addition to the cost of the license , which must be purchased anyway. Rome Admits D County solicitor Is Now Prisoner Of Briti (Special to i9—Rome for mally acknowledged today that the Duke of Aosta, viceroy of Ethiopia and cousin of the Italian King-Emperot Vittorio Emanuele, is a prisoner of war in the hands tof the British. _Jhe duke and his army of some 38.000 men surrendered to, the Britigh forces yesterday after they had been forced steadily back into a position where they were caught between two armies British officials here announced Sunday that the duke had sent emissaries asking terms for @ sur render. The British . previously had demanded an unconditional surrender as the basis for any later negotiations, end it is be lieved the duke surrendered on those terms With the fighting in Ethiopia at an end except for small, scat tered forces in the mountains. Britain is free to rush her power fu) Ethiopian forces into the fight ing in north Africa, as well as freeing planes and equipment for action elsewhere. CAIRO, May 25 | “Free JM As Mediator In Nazi-British War Claimed Neither Germany Nor England Strong , Enough To Force Other To Her Knees . | | | 1 | } } i | | (By Associated Press) | Ww. ‘TON, May 19,.—Of- ‘ASHING’ | ficial Washington today "could | see little likelihood that Presi- |dent Roosevelt will accept the pee of Paris newspapers to as- ‘sume the role of mediator in the | war betweon Germany and Great | Britain. Paris newspapers, after bit- \terly criticizing the President for interfering in European: affairs bees he urged France to refuse Axis collaboration, suddenly made an about face yesterday and urged American mediation to end the war. He. The Germah-controlled papers said neither Germany nor Eng- land is enough at this time te. Unless President Roosevelt~ me- diates a peace, according to the papers, the war may go on for years, with the United States jeventually being forced to take j}an active part in the fighting. | Observers here could see scant ‘hope for a peace which both sides would accept, and the ‘Paris papers are generally be- |lieved to have sent un a trial , balloon for their German spon- sors, At the same time, it is under- ‘stood here that the United States may officially recognize the French” government of General Charles De Gaulle as. the true representatives of France. | With France steadily swinging to the side of Germany, observ- ers fecl the United States is likely within a short time to withdraw recognition from the | Vichy government of Premier jarshal Henri Philippe Petain on the, grounds that Germany is jthe dominant factor in that gov- j ernment. ;.. Aggording to word reaching ihere,.,.Prime Minister Winston “Churchill has called the peace suggestions “Nazi-inspired” and does not conrider it likely thet President Roosevelt will take any action at this time. London vesterday —_ warned France against further collabora tion with the Axis powers; afte the newsnaper stories had * been published in Paris. uke Of Aosta ‘The Citizen) after British colonial soldiers had fystematically cut through Fascist defenses with a dozen columr converging from every side of the country. With the captire of Addis Abihe a month ai, itd troops assumed actual pinittel of Ethiopia, but’ the stubborh resist ance of the Duke Ads’) troupe continued thé waf until he and bie men were rounded up the mountain of Amba Alija. (Rome, in admitting the Gefeat in Ethiopia, said the duke and hia men had fought bravely, but hed been defeated by superior sum bers. Italy's inability to get sup- plies through the British line was presented as the most im- portant factor in the final de- feat) on LE LE RS SPAGHETTI SUPPER Auspices St. Paul's Alter Guild PARISH HALL Tuesday. May 20th, 6:00 P. M4. PRICE S0c — Dessert Included (Bahama Street) ~~ a | ee