The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 20, 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 VOLU ME LXII. No, 120. Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1941 British Make Effort To Wreck ~ Germany’ s Foothold - In Syria)’: edd dl SENATOR TOBEY GETS UI UMBRELLA <By Axnoctated Press) WASHINGTON, May 20.— —Isolationist Senator Tobey, father of the anti-convoy bill, today good-naturedly ac- cepted from a delegation of his New Hampshire constit- uents an umbrella, which they described as a replica of the one carried to Munich by | the late British Premier Neville Chamberlain. | Senator Tobey said he | would accept the ‘token in | English Turn Loose Full Fury Of Aerial And| Ground Might To Crush Iraq Resistance (By Associated Press) CAIRO, May 20.—Britain’s Army of the Nile suddenly turn- ed loose the full fury of its aerial and ground might today to crush Iraq resistance and wreck Ger- many’s foothold in Syria, the good humor in which “I As British troops raced north; 2% sure it was offered”. from Ethiopia, where they had accepted the surrender of the Italian Duke of Aosta and brok- en the last of Italy’s organized; resistance in that country, Brit- ish soldiers in Iraq smashed through Iraqi lines and drove aj wedge straight for the capital of | Baghdad, Royal Air REQUEST MADE FOR CLOSING Force bombers, meanwhile, intensified their | bombardment of Syrian _ air- dromes as French ground forces, CLAIMED BLIGHT HAS SE- opened with RIOUSLY AFFECTED PROD- guns. (Berlin said a British bomber| UCTS; had been shot down by French! artillery, while Iraq bombers; TION DEPT. ORDER were said to have destroyed Brit- | ish tanks in an attack last! night.) | A state A Cairo communique said an! ment order closing sponge beds | aborlive Arab rebellion in 'Iraq|, had been crushed, while Iraqi| troops in the Basra sector are re-| been requested ire anti- aircraft | conservation depart- jin this area to all fishermen has by 13. sponge Ported to have been thrown back |boat owners and captains in A are vomits outa transportation | in confusion by the new British! | petition presented to Represen- antic: eave cere saroaty| tative Bernie C. Papy, through ed enemy positions uring the 1, night before the ground s etace [Rat Russell, son of the veteran was, launched, [Sponge buyer, Milton Russell. B munique said British | “Sponge “lakes” southwest ° of troops in Ethiopia were being | Key West and in the Marquesas | sushed to the fighting zone | section have become so seriously along the Egyptian border 4s | infected by the mysterious blight fast as planes and ships could; fi ti f th move them. The capitulation |*hat profitable operation o' ef of the Duke of Aosta, according | fisheries is impossible, according to Cairo reports, means the end/to the boat operators. of fighting in Ethiopia except! The senior Russell said today ff scattered bodies of native | his son, who went to Tallahassee | soldiers. The duke, who wished to jlast nek el ate Pape fo pe: the last man to leave the fort |tition the conservation depart- at Amba Alija, had defended through a 40- day |the area, preventing anyone from siege, formally turned himself taki the infected sponges. Re- over to the British et deta | prey eo IT’S A SURE FIRE FILM 20° cary IN AMERICA, BUT TO from their boats are dead FRENCHMAN: IMMORAL ext day. Even crawfish in the infected that day the (Ry Associated Brena) NEW YORK, May 20.—In the dying from the strange malady‘ first reel the girl gets the job. ; which has practically wiped out In the last reel she geta the boss, | the local sponge industry. The As fire plot—but to Rene} | operators claim numerous dead Clair, French director of such Eu- | fish’ have been found in the af- ropean hits as “A Nous La Lib- i fécted areas. erte” and “The Ghost Goes West”; | ‘Russell said ‘oat’ lednecét fand it’s one of the most“immoral” in| captains have told him the blight the movies today—worse than!is “thééd: itimies | worse’ vial gangsters, worse than sin | when it first appeared h Clair visited here after finish- | eral years ago. Only a inging “The Flame Of New Or- | months ago, experts from lean: his first job in America, | U.S. Bureau of Fisheries “T've seen that plot over and | pronounced the sponges in over again”, he said, “in Ameri-| area free from blight. can pictures and British and! The boat operators, French and German pictures, It’s dangerous and demoralizing, but|tative Papy to work out nowhere does censorship stop it.| method of finding new “It builds up the idea that it’s|ment for men engaged not smart for young girls to sponge industry here. work but to make a play for the Russell said one boat returned boss. The girl who does that is | here this week no better than the most scarlet | fishing, bringing only 12 bunches ; of scarlet women”, (of poor sponges. Mrs. Rohde, Former Ruth Bry an | pe the | had this | in their in Mrs. Borge Rohde, ‘the’ former |} Ruth Bryan Owen who served The pinto came here last wee from their home in Aldersgny Spending their vacation’ ia Ki West at t of Mrs. Prin will ve f visiting other Flo trip home. Mrs. Re speaker, time to be sla America Post recent! actor Doug M as United’States minister to Den- of h congressional district, Monroe county, this sightseeing Key West with her Danish t husband, Captain Rohde, on their first visit here in three years. mark and as congresswoman the F including nm the ja cities week is derstood at PRESCRIPTIONS Best Quality Ingredients— Prompt Free Delivery Gardner’s Pharmacy “The Rexall Store” PHONE 177 i tions were being cut drastically, VC henhehehdheeuteuhedhey ‘i broadcasts last night said, SPONGE BEDS: SEEK CONSERVA- | which his men{ment for a virtual quarantine of | |turning fishermen say the blight | | area appear to be paralyzed and ; petition, have asked Represen- } some | employ- | the | after four weeks | vii B notary {INQUIRE ‘ABOUT AMERICANS ON _ EGYPTIAN ‘SHIP |STATE DEPARTMENT MAKES FORMAL REQUEST OF GER- FORMATION | (Ry Ansoctated Prens) | WASHINGTON, May 20.—The what has become of 138 Amer- lican citizens aboard the Egyptian i liner Zamzam, believed to have} {been sunk or captured off the! | African coast. After first reports had in- dicated the Zamzam weni down “| with all on board, London radio “The Zamzam may be safe after all.” the British announcement, said rom Pernambuco ; Town.” State department officials here said it is unlikely a protest will be | |made to Germany, even if the ;ship had been destroyed, but that to Cape! jthe United States citizens who were aboard. The ship ew. | 322 persons, including her crew. American citizens, it is pane jed, would be eligible for release {at once if they were picked up by | |a German ship. If the ship were | operating from the African coast, jhowever, state department men }or to communicate with the out- side world. | Some observers have suggested | face raider may be operating from {the French port of Dakar in | Africa. BANQUET TONIGHT ‘FOR LODGE U |POCAHONTAS AND RED MEN | ASSEMBLE HERE FOR CONVENTION More than 125 Red Men and members of Pocahontas councils assembled here for their jconvention, tonight will be en- tertained at a banquet at La C ‘cha hotel after a day of business sessions. Mayor Willard M. Albury es morning welcomed women of ,the Pocahontas councils at the Red Men’s Wigwam here, the Red Men went into their first ; business session at the }of Pythias hall. Shortly after Mayor Albury’s | address'of welcome and. the invo- | | |cation by the Rev. .T. E. Jones,’ |H. M. MecMulley, great sachem, ; Jacksonville, and-the Great Po- cahontas Mary L. Hoffman, Fort Myers, opened the Pocahontas council session of business. Members of the group, after their first session, were enter- tained at lunch and then return- ed to business this afternoon A special anniversary meeting, the twentieth of the local coun- }cil, opened the convention last | night. Exercises at the Red Men's Wigwam today were open to the : | ‘ie i i | ; Owen, And Husband, Visit. Here. né ‘Church Service Club. 6:00 THURSDAY Club meets 12:15 p.m St. Paul’s Parish Hall Lions Club meets at 6:30 pm Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. Social Meeting of Junior Wom | an’s Club, 5:00 pm. at Club house on Division Street and Candies Convent Graduation boquets—order now MAN GOVERNMENT FOR IN- | state department today formally | ! requested the German govern-; ment to inform the United States | The Berlin radio, shortly after | | will be raised to the $15 bracket. | the Zamzam had sunk “en route | ; the possibility that a German sur- - state | while | Knights i Bill For Increased Auto License Revenue Passed By | ee | (By Axnociuted Premny TALLAHASSEE, May 20.— House administration forces to- day beat { jamend or down all efforts to | Holland’s bill for increased auto- vote of 60-26. | other $1,500,000 annually in auto - | hicexise money, is the first phase of the governor's special finance program. | Unler the terms of the meas- 300,000 which formerly used $10 licenses ure, about automobiles Proposed brackets are: | than 2,000 rounds. $5: 2,000 to! |2,500 pounds, $10; 2,500 to 9,500 | pounds, $15; 3,500 to 4,500 pounds, / { every effort will be made to locate | $20, and more than 4,500 pounds, i will be set up in an organization | United States may send troops | $25. Felix Gonzalez, Wanted By _ Authorities, Gives Self Up say it might be difficult for the ; | Felix Gonzalez, widely 'Key West boxer who w: yesterday in Miami to face a charge of grand larceny, | walked into county jail at ‘mid- {hight last night to give himself | i up. | The fighter, who refused to! |make any statement to officers, | ; Will appear with George (Monkey) | 'Gwynn in a preliminary hearing | before P Justice Enrique Es- | quinalde tomorrow. The two fare charged with stealing $60 from O. L. Cannon early Sunday morning as the man slept in a ; booth at the Osceola bar. Gwynn w ed yesterday by Constable Elwood, but of- fice sked for no publicity on the c since they were seeking | ‘ANNIVERSARY OF MARTI OBSERVED PROGRAM CARRIED OUT YES- TERDAY, AT MONUMENT IN BAYVIEW PARK known ought and Tampa |}, the great Marti, Cuban Patriot, Jose observed yesterday with a program carried out at the Marti imonument in Bayview Park, which was under the aus- pices of the Cuban consulate, San Carlos Board of Directors and school faculty and childres The event v in commemora- tion of t forty-sixth anniver- sary of the death of the great Cuban apostle of the revolution in | the struggle for the independence of his country Addresses were ;Cuban consul was made by Vice Perez and Dr. Miss Benildes | of the San Car- a talk in istory of the Jose which she tlife of Marti Miss G Pa jand Cy lsung by rection Leon and Miss pupils of vems, American ishymns were under the @i- . jects, and Junior high school stu- » dents will win honors at a special ¢ President En Jose ~ WANTED! DELIVERY BOY — Apply Monroe Market. House And Sent To Senate sidetrack Governor! mobile license revenue and sent! the measure to the Senate by a; The bill, designed to raise an- | less | The anniversary of the death of! the - will be distributed for six win- “CITY COUNCIL Emilio! 'NEW YORK MAYOR GIVEN NEW POST ODS aaa a es. HOUSE FAVORS USE OF U.S. CONVOYS; ! | NAMED NATIONAL DIRECTOR | OF OFFICE OF CIVILIAN (My Ansoctated Press) i TALLAHASSEE, May 20. —Florida’s house of represen- | tatives, by a vote of 69 to 0. today passed a _ resolution urging the United States con- gress to provide convoys, or any other necessary means, to insure the safe delivery of WASHINGTON, May 20.—New (York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia today was named national direc- j tor of the Office of Civilian’ De- American war supplies to | fense in a decree signed by Presi-| Great Britain. ‘dent Roosevelt. The organization, placed under IIL III ISS | the Office of Emergency Manage- ment, will have as its purpose the tegieealion of men, women and! BERLIN. PAPERS ATTACK ON U. S. ‘children throughout the United ‘States for volunteer duty in an | COMMENT ON REPORTS THAT} PRISONERS TO BE USED) ‘emergency. President Roosevelt, explaining ; the program to newsmen, said the | Separate states and districts will be given full power, with the na-! tional office acting in an advisory capacity. Nine regional offices ‘similar to the nine army corp tareas. TO MANUFACTURE MaA-! TERIALS FOR NAVY BERLIN, May 20. — Berlin} newspapers today launched new and particularly bitter al | torial attack on the United States | and President Roosevelt\ com- | Gonzalez end expected to find! ‘menting derisively on reports that | him tonight, when it was thought ! he would attend the fight pro- | Atlanta will be_used to. manu- | {pram either at Tampa or Miami. | factére certain materials for the | | Officers in both cities had been | P#VY- | “wired Gonzalez’ description and! The President, according tor were on the lookout for him. | Berlin papers, is seeking to or-; Gwynn and Gonzalez, both of , ganize the United States for a one- whom were placed under $250. man campaign to impose his own | bond today, are accused of taking will on the entire world. j ‘the $60 from Cannon's wallet. | Cannon, a naval station employe, | ) Said when he awakened he found | the empty wallet in his pocket. Constable Elwood, acting on al tip, drove as far as Pirate's Cove! last night looking for Gonzalez, | ; but returned to find the fighter | already had given himself up and was in jail. SEES U.S. IN. TURKEY, AS WELL AS AXIS MAY BE AGAINST HER j SE PERT ET | STUDENTS ARE GIVEN AWARDS tMy Aanocinted Pream) TOKYO, May 20.—The United | States has told the government of French Indo-China not to co- { French” | said his government TOKYO SAYS FRANCE, SPAIN, . | went before DENIES RIGHT OF U.S. TO SEIZE FRENCH PORTS: |PETAIN ANSWERS REPORTS | THAT TROOPS AND, SHIPS| TINIQUE (Ny Associated Preasy VICHY, May 20.—Premier ; jHenri Philippe Petain today _ jdenied the right of the United ' States, or any American nation, | to seize French colonies in the Western hemisphere. and sug- gested that French troops soon may be used to reclaim African ‘colonies dominated by the “Free government of Gen. Charles De Gaulle. Answering reports that the and ships to Martinique, Petain sist any such action, no matter | what nation ation might: sure undertake it. : DEFER SENTENC ON P. SEARLES ED ON CHARGE OF RECK- LESS DRIVING Paul W. Searles, West Palm’ | Beach, yesterday afternoon was! granted a deferred sentence by Criminal Judge William V. Al- bury on a reckless driving charge growing out of a collision Sun- ;day in which a car driven by Searles and owned by Kenneth MIDDLE OF WAR ® Snow, struck a machine op- erated by George Lee, local gro- jcer. Searles entered a plea of guil- {ty before Peace Justice Enrique | Esquinaldo, Jr., jder $100 bond and immediately Judge Albury. Sen- tence was deferred until an es- |timate of the damage to Lee's | car haf been made. Snow, who suffered cuts and brusises about the face in the ac- cident, left for West Palm Beach PRESENTED THIS MORNING | °Perate with Japan under pain of |yesterday with Searles. Their active retaliation from America | and Great Britain, Tokyo news- papers declared today. In stories originating in Hanaii, | jcapita! of the Frénch colony, | ‘Japanese Corresporidents said | Prineipal Horace O'Brvant of the French colonial government Key West Senior high school oT) would reject any United States morning presented awards to| threate ise aide itorially, the papers declar lesiiers Of the student lids; O80] 1. sieeve <fas coer tegiigsc tt Special program staged in the! find herself in the middle of a school auditorium. ' spreading war in which France, Walter McCook, judged by his! Spain and Turkey, as well as the classmates the _ outstanding | Axis powers, might be arrayed scholar in tne schooi, was award- | #8#inst her. ed honors both for his scholarship | and for excellence in bookkee ep- | ing, an honor shared by Ray De- | meritt. Other awards went to Richard Chapman, journalism; Anthony McMahon, for athletics, and Betty Lewin, as the outstanding leader! of the school Athietic letters which were to! have been awarded this morning have not yet arrived, Principal | O Bryant announced, and the! awards will be made later in the week. Typing awards also have not yet been received here. Later im the week, cash prizes BY PRINCIPAL HORACE O'BRYANT FOR CONVENTION COMMERCIAL SECRETARIES TO OPEN MEETING HERE MAY 25 o | Fifty delegates to the’ Florida Commercial Secretaries’ associa tion convention (hi opens jhere May 25, already have regis tered for the trip to Key West Clem Price, chairman of the Hlocal committee in charge of the convention, said today he had been informed of the registra- tion by August Burghard, Fort Lauderdale, who serves as asso- ciation secretary taries and expec ig registration during this week, local commit- teemen predict about 150 per- There will be an informal/sons will take part in the pro merting of the City Council held|gram here. Registration of the tonight, beginning at 8:00 o'clock j secretaries will open at La Con- The meeting has been called|cha hotel May 25. with a pro- for the purpose of discussing} gram of school courses and enter- ning essays on vocational sub-/} meeting Thursday. car is being repaired here. ‘MINERS GOING BACK TO WORK (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGTON. May 20. Ninety-one thousand Pennsyl- vania anthracite miners today agreed to return to work, after mine operators had agréed to a flat seven percent pay increase, the first the miners have receiv- led since 1923. New York miners, too, are re- | ported mveting today for a final agreement, already accepted ten- vey by both sides, while 12, AF. of L. shipyard em sours at San Franciseo have agreed to return to. work to morrow. would re-! was placed un-} PRICE FIVE CENTS island Of Crete To. Battle British | Partcialiche Drop From Planes, Transports And New Type Gliders Land Others | | (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 20.—German | Crete today in parachutes, trans- "port planes and newly-developed gliders. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, reading ‘Ddillétifs which were handed to him as he spoke, told a startled house of commons that some 12,000 Ger- mans, some of them thought to ‘be dressed in New Zealand uni- forms, have taken a _ military hospital in Crete and are battling British troops. Churchill read a bulletin claim- ling British defenders of the is- | land, who number between 50.- j 000 and 60,000 men, had Tétaken I the hospital and were striking + suriousty at the invading Nazis. Royal Air Force fighter planes were said by Churchill to be | mae in combat with the in- | prisoners at the federal prison in| DEFENDANT WAS ARRAIGN- vaders, while RAF bombers roar- hed across the waters of the {Aegean to. pound eirdromes on | the Greek mainland in an effort | to head off further transports. Aside from its great import- ‘ance as a base for possible Ger- jman thrusts into the Near East, ‘Crete has political significance as the seat of the Greek govern- ‘ment in exile and the refuge of King George II and his cabinet. Churchill said German bomb- ers pounded Crete last night in the most intensive attack of the campaign. Shortly before dawn,’ ‘parachutists suddenly swarmed lover an airdrome, blasting the defenders with machine guns. Huge transport planes dropped to the field immediately after it had been captured, and other planes, towing gliders, released more hundreds of men over an area of several miles. (Berlin, making no comment on the landing of troops, said Crete had been bombed heavily last night, with a British cruiser sdestroyed by a direct hit in a | Crete harbor.) Rumors of a new type of Ger- man glider for the transport of troops have. been current for weeks, but apparently their use at Crete was the first appearance of the new weapon. Observers in London said the attack on Crete sounds like a full dress reheorsal for an invasion of England from the air. Churchill said the latest dis- patches from Crete indicate Brit ish troops have established” ei trol of the situation and are driv- ing the German forces into a steel trap. LEFT FIVE DOLLARS DENVER.—A burglar in this city took $75 from a drugstore, but Jeft five dollars in chan: when the druggist protested that he needed the money ~ Fou’ Measures Pass House Affecting Monroe ( County (By Aasocinted Pree) TALLAHASSEE, May 20.--The House passed four bills introduced by Representative Bernie Papy of Monroe County. The bills follow "Providing for extending Over seas Rood and Toll Bricige District to include all of Monroe County.” “Providing for retirement of employes and officials of Key West" “Providing creating of office of police lieutenant for Key West.” “Providing increase of salaries for members of Board of Commis- | "PROPERTY SALE RECORDED HERE John Wilbur Cates. former Key West resident who new makes his home in Miami, hat sold to his father, Jonathan Cates, 520 Angela street, a halt interest in Ti-foot front lot om Division street, southwest of | Grinnell. | ways to obteim funds for making |tainment continuing until May |sioners of Overseas Road and Toll Purchase price was not fe- 2. ‘ vealed. city payrolls.