The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 21, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME I LXII. No, 121. Che Key West Cittern THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. —_ KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1941 ‘/ Twenty-Four Americans Face FLORIDA: GIVEN Detention As Nazi Pristieaa Other ada Survivors "POO OOO SSM: ' Off Sunken Vessel Ex- | |SENATE PASSES | PAPY MEASURE! pected To Be Sent To) New York (Dy Axsocinted Press) BERLIN, May 21.—Twenty- | four United States volunteers| (iy Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 21. —The Senate today passed HB1372 by Representative Papy, approving Key West tax compromises and ad- justments. TOIL 2 4 MUCH; PUBLICITY ;RESULT OF PRESS ASSOCIA- TION MEETING IN STATE TAMPA, Fla., May 21 (FNS).— |Florida Press Association, ‘State of Florida will be publicized ‘as never before in its history. As a direct result of the Na- {tional Editorial Association visit to Florida, newspapers through- |Through the enterprise of the! the} House Passes Measure For « Three-Cent Cigarette Tax ‘THREE SCATTERED STRIKES 5 SETTLED |SIX-DAY HUDSON MOTOR! | Senate. COMPANY DISPUTE ! ENDS (By Assoctated Press) ws cent cigaret tax to raise old jage funds was voted 70-21 by the Sponsors said it about $4,000,000 a year. Harrell, (Py Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 21.—A}| bere today, and sent to the; would raise; of Hamilton county | ‘More ‘han Twelve.’ ——-Yroops Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with: an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS d Nazi In Operation Around Crete ‘HESS 1S TERMED DIFFICULT GUEST i BRITISH PRISONER DEMANDS | SPECIAL FOOD; HARDTO | ‘GONZALEZ TO Germans Elude British Navy And Pour More Men Into Rapidly Ex- panding Battle BE ARRAIGNED WILL BE GIVEN HEARING BE- FORE PEACE JUSTICE for ambulance duty with Gen.! lout the nation are carrying) WASHINGTON, May said it would strike hardest in| (Dy Associated Press) Charles deGaulle’s “Free French” | army in Africa today faced “pl tention as German prisoners ot | war, If it is proved they actual- | ly had enrolled in the before leaving New York wet Announcing for the first time ‘SHIPS ARE TO BE SENT 10 RED, SEA’ service PLANS WORKED OUT BEFORE GERMANY LABELLED IT COMBAT ZONE ‘column after column of marvel- ous publicity descriptive of the charms, attractions, resources and dadvantades this state nas to offer. Through its contact with 22 na- tional press clipping bureaus | throughout the country, the Flor- | | stories, pictures, columns and edi- torials about Florida published in the nation’s press. | Already several thousand clip-| | ida Clipping Service has arranged ! to secure a complete file of all: 21— !Company and CIO Heoresentac| tives today agreed to a_ settle- iment of the six-day Hudson Mo- jtor company strike at Detroit, | ‘returning 8,500 workers to their pale poor man’s commodity be- jobs tomorrow. The company; |holds about $30,000,000 de. | Pampa. roe senet eln lewying.9 tax fense orders. Negotiations in the |chinists’ strike at San Fran-; cisco shipyards were reported iol have broken north Florida where cigaret to- | bacco is grown. \ in { on cigars smoked by plutocrats.” down He said, “you're levying a tax} QUESTION | (By Associated Press) | LONDON, May 21.—The for- eign office today admitted that ‘Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi fuehrer more than a week ago in a para-_ chute, is proving a difficult guest. | What Hess has told British of- jficials about German plans and vulged, but men who have talked | with him said he “is hard to ques- | tion.” THIS AFTERNOON Felix Gonzalez, local boxer} who was released from county | jail. yesterday afternoon under} ;jPeace Justice; Enrique Esqui- ‘naldo, Jr., this afternoon at 5, o'clock to face a» preliminary | 1 | larceny. i Gonzalez, who gave himself up; LONDON, May 41,—#ast Ger- man transports and patrol boats last night eluded the British who dropped to earth in England $250 bond,, wilh appear before Navy to pour more men into the rapidly expanding battle for Crete. a British “Broadcasting lconditions never has been di- hearing on a charge of grand | System report said today, Prime Minister Winston Chur- chill, who first told the house of + the Egyptian liner Zamzam. | ! | | Another point of contention is ‘late Monday night, and George; said to be Hess’ demands for spe- ; (Monkey) Gwynn, arrested Sun- | commons yesterday of Adolf Hit- cial food at the hospital where he ‘day, are charged with stealing $80/ ter’s “fantastic. parachute. andl is recovering from a _ broken from O. L. Cannon Sunday morn- | ing, while the man slept in a/ glider plane assault on the island Hess ; booth at the Osceola bar. | that the 300-odd survivors of the (ity Angociated Pri sunken liner have been taken to! WASHINGTON, May 21.—The again, but} CLOSE PROGRAM! | pings have been received and the eae aye eases with every meit {£0vernment, mediators said the | Atlantic | United States Maritime Commis- | “Floridians do not yet realize |* to in- coast, seven miles north of the | sion announced officially today | | what the recent visit of the NEA | terfere with A.F. of L. workmen | Spanish border, German offi-! that American shins will be sent really means to this state,” said; who returned to their jobs to- a French camp on the trikers had agreed «not | According to his captors, Aedooden b FOUR BUILDING Is said they would study the cases of the volunteer ambulance | drivers { Others of States citizens, si the 128. United! many missionaries, York. explained ' the return trip to New German officials that it is difficult to transport | the ship survivors to a neutral: port at this time and would set no date for their probable ar-| rival in Lisbon. How long the} survivors have been in the French ! ¢amp is unknown, since Berlin’ has. not) annouticed—when the” Zamzam was sunk. re expected to 0 many labelled the to Portugal, embarking there for | combat zone, and that no changes | {in the ann will be considered. ‘MAKES INQUIRY j receipt of a letter oon as possible. The commission said plans for | the dispatch of ships to that areajone of the 523 who toured of them had been worked out before Ger-' state have returned to their re-|raine, O., Red Sea a,spective homes thoroughly sold | work after two days of idleness,|on jointly by Pocahontas ABOUT DI DRAFTEE The localSelective Board is in from Pulaski The ship had been overdue for | Countv. Little Rock. Ark. seeking | 26 days when the first an-| nouncement of her destruction | off the African coast was made | public. PATTERSONS TO le SHARE It INCOMES | local A | BEQUEATHED UNDER WILL OF THE LATE CARRIE S. FAIR (Special to The Citizen) | NEW YORK, May 21.—George | E. Patterson, Jr. and William F. | Patterson, grandsons of the late G. Bowne Patterson, 522 Caroline street, Key West, Fla. and sons of Elliott Patterson, are bequeathed an income from a $50,000 trust | fund under the will of the late Mrs. Carrie S. Fair, East Orange; N. J., filed for probate yesterday in Essex County Surrogate’s Court At the age of 25 each will re- ceive $10,000 outright, at 35 another $10,000 and at 40, $5,000 each Other Key West are George E. Patterson, son- in-law, $2,500 annually for ten years, and Beatrice F. Patterson, daughter, the residue js fai di beneficiaries it jd n t t PERMITS ISSUED Theodore Knowles was granted two $500 building p¢érmits for construction of two iding on Venetia road. Other permits were issued by Building Inspector Ralph Russell *o Hunter G. Hardon, 805 Division street, $400, general repairs, and to Manuel Barros. Southard &reet, $400 for construction of a Bitchen yesterday fi fer with te re will be a i" nm Laborers at € le Hall, White n Thursday ev May will sp nefits of Organized { ,. WILLIAM ARL ‘ Pre d Laborers wii » Dixie Hall, 8:00 o'clock. President at the | the whereabouts of the man | question, and request that anyone | tractions will be published and noi |who may have any (tourist business | Neal, jc | through the winter months. will tell how the Sunshine City is |prolonged and will outline what tourist bus by the veteran chamber merce manager to his colleagues West reach there ors will visit Key West during Florida Association week, to listen highly Leon Lew of the Dennis, ex-president The local office does not know | in information | ‘oncerning Hamilton, to notify; to the Red Sea with supplies as | President Russell Kay of the Flor- | day. |ida Press Association. “Reaction of the delegates | amazing and indicates that eve! is ry | the on this state, and they are proving themselves master | judging from the glowing descrip- | tions and wonderful _ tributes; |found in their feature stories and) editorial columns.” In addition to the news stories developed, a 1,200-foot colored! | movie of the NEA convention and | ‘tour will carry Florida’s story inj} | pictures to every state in the na-| ‘tionas ‘these pictures will be | shown at every state press con- vention, reaching thousands of | communication with one Henry | newspaper men and women lied | Hamilton, colored. |could not take the tour. | During the next 90 days shouc| isands of pictures of Florida at-| |one can say how many columns of | editorial and feature material will | | be printed. St. Petersburg Official To Advance Ideas To Increase Income For Florida Cities: By JOHN LODWICK (Specie! to The Citizen) ST. PETERSBURG, Fia., 1.—Florida Commercial May Secre- taries at their 25rd annual, meet- ing to be held at the Hotel, Key West; May 26-28 will La Concha et the real low-down. when. on, the Burwell manager of, the Sunshine ity chamber of commerce will ive a break-down on the tourist ngle in what should be the most iscussed paper of the four day | Session Neal in his talk will tell how | thousands of seasonal guests are ted to St. Petersburg, en- ained and kept actively busy He his community is doing ing for summer time in bid- vacations. Billions of dollars are spent an- ually by Americans for vaca- ions and travel, Neal will say at he Kev West conferenc when he will point out how the state of F lorida can increase this rich its income rom and lucrative source New ideas for building up the ss will be presented of com- Neal will leave Sature day here for Key and is due to nday morning On his arrival, Neal wil Secretary Steve Single- on Four prominent St. Petersburg the Secretaries conference, next non ral of the papers They Com: Commercial interesting to be ead before that body former odore N. L e Hotel Thomas local Yacht Dr ciation Griffin, former chief of staff at {Mound Park Hospital, and Paul | Reese, also a former Commodore of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. Following the conference, the quartete will leave aboard the Lewis yacht “Siwel” for Dry Tor- ‘tugas and some fishing. In his first try in tarpon, Thomas J. Tiernan of 8025 Shore-rd,’ Brooklyn, N. Y., landed the'prize winning silver king for last week in the annual tarpon rodea here, an 85 pounder. “Now that I have another beau- tiful trophy for my den back home, I am going to try my luck in Key West for sailfish,” said Tiernan. From Clearwater comes word that Fred Lee, secretary of that city's chamber of commerce will not be present at the Florida “Seck” meet in Key West next week, Earlier in the month, Lee opened summer vacation informa- tion offices in Birmingham, Ala. for his city, which will be kept open through June and July bid ding for vacation business. Tourist registration figures just compiled by the publicity depart- ment of the chamber of commerce again show the three lead states unchanged, New York, f Pennsylvania, second and Ohio third, but by cities, Chicago leads ; a with a total of 1817 and Pittsburg replacing Detroit for second place with 1242. Dropping thir position is Detroit followed by New York and trailed by Ph delphia, Cleveland, Brookly Washington and Rochester. At the publicity clipping dis- play held at the Chamber of Com- merce in early May there were 800 full pages shown covering every state in union, Canada Cuba and many countries world. There were th t clippings that were made available for the exh which entirely covered every | inch of display space. into salesmen, | fishing for | thousands of | f HOLD INSTALLATION CEREMONIES | Two other strike settlements} | improved the labor outlook, how- | jever, as 700 employes of the Lor-! shipyards returned to! Installation ceremonies carried coun- cil members and Red Men_ this afternoon will bring to a con- clusion the three-day convention | of the two lodges in Key West. Red Men, after holding their land 40 metal and machine tool shops in Chicago were reopened with an 1l-cent hourly pay boost for employes. ASKS U.S. T0 | ENTER .WAR NOW jlast night, performed the in stallation ceremonies this morn. cing at the Knights of Pythias jhall, while the Pocahontas coun- cil members staged their | tion this morning. | George Hoffman, Fort Myers, ‘was named great sachem by the ‘Red Men and installed in office today, while D. T. Farabee, Fort ‘Myers, was named great senior sagamore; H. M. McCully, Mi- ami, greai prophet; Hector "NOT TO SAVE ENGLAND, BUT} HELP IN A SURE AND | QUICK VICTORY” (ity Associated Press) LONDON, May 21.—The Lon- don News-Chronicle today called on the United States to enter the . {war at once, “not to save England |A2Peitia, Tampa, great chief of |from defeat, but to help in a Sure |Tecords; F. Paul Roberts, Key and quick victory.” i West, great junior sagamore; Le | The paper said English citizens C. Barfield, Miami, great guard "do not doubt their ability to win; of the wigwam; William Culling- | the war, but that fighting may go ford, Key West; great guard of on for years if it is necessary for |England to carry the war to its jend alone. LOWNEYS MOVE INTO TRAILER Myers, great sannapp; Charles M. Russell, Miami, great mis! ;nowa, and C. B. Jerkins, Miami, | great keeper of wampum. Pocahontas officers are Ger- trude Decker, Orlando, great pocahontas;, Mary Hoffman, Fort Myers, retiring great pocahontas, | great prophetees; Lina Skipper, Miami, great woneta; Mary Gause, Tampa, great minnehaha; and trustees, Emma Johnson, Jackson- villa; Mary Kinard, Palatka, and Belle Evans, Tampa. Members of the lodges, who at- tended an informal banquet last night at La Concha hotel, today selected Miami as the site for their 1942 convention. Most of the members planned to leave Key West tonight and some were starting out early in the afternoon. J. B. Lowney, veteran deep sea diyer from Louisville, Ky., and Mrs, Lowney, yesterday moved into what the Flint, Mich., manu- facturing company describes as a “perfect trailer”. Pictures of Lowney big trailer, which with bath, kitchen and facilities of a small will be used b} the ivertising campaign. The trailer is parked on the Duval and Front street lot across from the First National Bank build- ing. Lowney. February after working undersea construction Guantanamo bay, Cuba employed as a diver and the navy and his complete all the bungalow, company in an ac INVESTIGATING ‘PEACE’ GROUP DIES COMMITTEE PROBES ORGANIZATION BELIVED COMMUNIST-INSPIRED here on job now work marine who came in an at is supervisor railway here. Gastronomic Arithmetic on (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGTON. May Congressman Martin Dies and his long-standing committee on un-America activities today jaunched a new probe into the American Peace Mobilization group, which has been picketing the White House for days. Reports have been that the organization munist-inspired 21— condensed milk, 3 pounds of pounds of bacon ultry pound att of oys- current is com- one potatoes, 12 gg ir of f coffee. ok 1616 DUVAL =©=—- PHONE 136 otal of Opposite Monroe Theater ARRAN is RMN | {POCAHONTAS AND RED MEN 'ankle, suffered when he landed. | elec- | the forest; E. B. Williams, Fort | | makes no secret of his displeasure | jat the meals served him, offering | {to pay for other food. ! | SESE. os Ee |THE SAGA OF | | FILM FAN SAGE, (By Associated Press) | CLEVELAND, May 21.—In the |days when Cleveland’s first | | honest-to-gecdness cinema palace consisted of a row of kitchen |annual election for state officers ' chairs in a darkened shop, Wil-| previous night. ‘liam de Looze was a regular cus- | tomer. As the city’s theaters in-| {creased he followed a pat system | in order to see every show. On Monday and Tuesday he'd see ; three shows a night and again on | Thursday and Friday when the | bills changed. | In recent years, however, De 'Looze has slowed down to three lor four shows a week. “It's a ;case of losing interest,” he be- lieves. | British Forces Are Continuing Drive Forward In Iraq Section Constable Ray. Elwood an-| at Sf Ctseh: goversarent: sine nounced Sunday night that he had | today the fighting igmincreasing | arrested Gwynn and had prepared | ja warrant for Gonzalez’ arrest, iin intensity. with more than 12.- but Sheriff Berlin Sawyer asked | 999 Nazi troops now said to be in that no publicity be given the | fighter’s connection with the case, | action. since it was hoped he could be} | captured at a fight program Tues- | i day night, either in Miami or, ‘h* German troons had been kitl- Tampa. A story appeared in aed or rounded un, was declared morning paper, but Gonzalez al-| by Chrrehill to be untrue. He |Teady had given himself up the sisted, however, that British Joseph’ Danes, nae thin) toldtete are in command of the ituation. morning was released by, Justice | © Esquineldo under $50 bond on a} (A Berlin communique, charge of assault with a deadly first to mention the Monday weapon, growing out of an alleged ' night attack on Crete, said “the knife attack on a negro woman | i roceeding on sched- last night. Dames entered a plea ney gn is. . 1S es cour wen bound over Ati) aeparta tigen Oe taal Anna Roig and Hattie Smith, | ing indicated today that the bat- negroes, were arrested last night, tle must be develoving into one by Constable Bienvenido Perez on | of the bloodiest of the war. Brit- Cargen f VENTEOET. ish sources said German trans- port planes, packed with sol- diers, had been shot down in flames by RAF fighters, while | dozens of the big Nazi transports were reported to have crashed in landing on the island's rocky terrain. (Ny Asnociated Press) British military Jeaders at Caira today studied a Vichy threat to bomb Palestine in retaliation for | | Royal Air Force attacks on Syrian airdromes, but sritish troops con- tinued to drive forward in Iraq; and bombers again smashed at Syria last night. | Communiques from the Iraq! fighting made conflicting claims, | with British troops claiming steady progress in their push. to- ward the capital at Baghdad and, Iraq forces declaring they have inflicted heavy losses on the! enemy near the port of Basra Rome said five or six British, bembers had been shot down in fighting late yesterday over Ca- puzzo on the Egyptian border, but both sides still claimed their troops held the town. Fighting along the Egyptian | border was generally admitted to have slowed down, however, with ; the British apparnngy waiting for reinforcements from their vic- | before | torious Ethiopian army {launching an offensive {Connell as president of the or There was afi inférrhal meet ing of the City Countil held last night with Mayor Willard M. Al- and Tax Assessor-Collector B. Pinder at which time imatters relative to taxation and finances were discussed at length The object of the meeting was to devise some way whereby more funds can be collected to ake care of payrolls. | The matter of allowing delin- quent taxpayers to square up |their delinquency on a reduced jbasis for 1936 and prior years, | prow: ided payments for subse- quent vears are made in full, was no action was This and other matters con-j cerning taxation will be taken | jap at the next meeting In spite of losses, communiques COO OOOO MM. | reaching London said Nazi trans- U.S. NAVY PLANES (207%, “ert Pint iniaoa, with NOW TOTAL 3,400; desperate hand-to-hand fighting jin progress on a dozen fronts. (Dy Associated Press) | Military observers in eo ‘said German soldiers appeared noe a Mey am to be concentrating on a rocky received ass prc! i promontory near Suda bay and of various types during the the Gulf of Amaras. If the Ger- ima essful takin) pest 11: tonthé,” 9 mans are. successful in 7 msde public today an- command:of the sector, observ- nounced. ers here said, it will be difficult or the British to drive them The navy. according to the asefthcie A report, now has 3,400 planes. lout, or to prevent more landing parties from reaching the fight- ing zone. Churchill told commons | morning, “we must expect the fighting to continue for some ti on an ever increasing scale” German bombers, meanwhile, pounded British forces during the night and London admitted a heavy German and Italian bomber attack on the naval base at Malta. (A report from Rome said Mal- ta had been bombed heavily and 10,000-ton ‘ cruiser hit and perhaps sunk.) Military observers in London tressed the importance of Crete, both as the refuge of King Georr> It and his government, and as #7 important base of operations for the British fleet. Should the fleet be driven from Crete, they preicted. it would he almost impossible for it to operate suc- cestfully in the eastern Mediter ranean Most observers here predicted that a German victory in the Crete campaign would be fol- lowed almost at once by & sim- ilar drive on England. this ELECTED AS PRESIDENT AT MEETING CONDUCTED LAST EVENING Members of the Stone Church Service Club selected Aaron Mc one ganization for the ensuing term in their election of officers con ducted at the regular meeting in the church annex last evening with President Jerry Daniels, presiding. Other officers select- ed to serve with Mr. McConnell were Robert F. Brady, vice-presi- dent; Josenh A Boza, secretary and Jack Swift, treasurer. Romney Beckman was the speaker of the evening and gave an extremely interesting address on the subject of “Human Per- sonality”. In the course of his remarks Mr. Beckman brought out the various types of person- alities and the characteristics go- ing to make up each type Next Tuesday will be observed as Ladies Night and all oid mem- bers of the club are invited to contact the secretary and notify him of their intention to at- tend. The affair will begin at 7 Social Meeting of Junior Wom- o'clock, one-half hour later than Club, $00 pm, at Club- house on Division Street. A> early renort that “most! Mfc, te