The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 22, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII, No. 122. The THE Key West Citizen er KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1941 Nilion D For Key West Recommended Item Contained In Bill In- Germany May Be troduced In Congress} By Chairman Vinson Of; Recall At Lea Naval Committee (By Assoctated Presa) WASHINGTON, May 22. Qne million dollars for con- ‘PLAN TO CHECK | AMERICANS. OFF struction of hospital facilities | Requested To st One Of Her Ministers In United States | (By Associated Press) / announcement that the States must withdraw matic staff from Paris applies not BERLIN, May 22.—Germany’s | United | its diplo- | jonly to that country, but to all} Bahia. Honda-key "W Water Route” Placed’ On National Defense List (CLOSED SHOP "AGREEMENT HAS | BEEN REACHED i SIGNED BY HEAD OF soe ERS’ UNION. THURSTON! COMPANY AND GOVERN. | | | Intracoastal Route To Provide Channel Seven Feet Deep (Washington Correspondent Of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 22. Survey To Be Made Of; BRITISH HAMMER i COAST OF | FRANCE. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. a * PRICE FIVE CENTS fl Forces. Swarm: Around Island Of Crete; Heavy” Fighting Reported Senate Votes 25 To 11 To Raise Price Of Auto Tags; Measure Sent To Governor | Bomber Squadrons Taking | Part In Operations Out number Opposition 20 (By Associated Press) | To 1 AMADSEG, May 44.—The | oe ar ora Presa) : Senate voted 25-11 to increase} > Ning Se -Gecmay’s the cost of 300.000 auio. iicense|“*h"U” expanding axmy in Crete The nun om completed the occupation of |the island's largest city, Candia, _and is battling superior Old age pension advocates, | wereamscne GERMAN BASES ON | tags from sio to $15. goes to the governor. SUNKEN VESSEL at Key West was included | | nations having embassies both in MENT COMMISSIONER yesterday in a $31,115,000) navy public works bill intro-| { duced in Congress by Chair-| Paris and in Vichy, it was an- nounced nere toda;. Denying that the move had been ‘directed particularly against the United States, Berlin diplo- mats said today “there is no rea- son for any nation having diplo- matic staffs in Paris and Vichy.” FOR PURPOSE OF IDENTIFY- ING ALL SURVIVORS BE- FORE THEY ARE RELEASED FROM CAMP man Vinson of the House; naval affairs committee. The bill includes $5,500,-' 000 for expansion of naval (Ry Ausocinted Press) MAY ASK RECALL OF BERLIN, May 22.—United |NAZI MINISTER States embassy attaches from (By Axsoelated Press) training stations and $3,- . $8 | Bordeaux and German represen-|_ WASHINGTON, May 22—In- 500,000 for expansion of marine corps training facili- ties. | YESTERDAY AND BACK ] | A provisional closed shop agree- | pesed improvement of the intra- ment ‘calling for a 48-hour week was signed yesterday by Charles |R. Emick, president of the Key! | West painters’ union; W. P. Thurs-! {ton, president of Thurston Con- struction company, and W. A. Mc-! jAlister, government commissioner | {of conciliation. | The agreement, negotiated inj April but held up until yesterday,| for government approval, pro- | Key West. vides that the company shall not; ;hire non-union painters or paper- | This the interpretation hangers, unless the union is un-|nlaced here on action taken bv{ if practicable, and in any eal not less than five feet deep, among the keys and shoals be- tween Bahia Honda Harbor and is States in retaliation for the Berlin |able to provide competent men Major General Julian L. Schley, | MUnique said today. | ese within 48 hours after a call... . * ©," \ chief of y . jShould the union fail to provide| "ef of Army Engineers, in ap \ competent men, the company may | Proving a detailed survey of the hire non-union men, and_ the | Proposed improvement. junion will agree to take the men; The survey will involve prep-! jinto the organization. | aration of plans and estimates for | | The ne a eel ate : Lage the work. vision making it illegal fo f : | strike to be called without pre-| . Ostensibly based on a “prelim- |sentation of grievances 30 days in| inary examination” made of the tadvance of any walkout. j Waterway at the reauest of the | Under the terms of the con-|House Committee on Rivers and ‘tract, painters and paperhangers‘Harbors (made last August), Gen- | will work a 48-hour week, with {¢ral Schley’s action’ actually time and a half for Sunday and Would not have been taken if the ; overtime. Journeymen will be Project had not gained ‘in stature | paid $1.00 per hour, and appren-!by reason of national defense tices, 50 cents, jneeds, informed observers here ; | A'similar agreement for car-|believe. A. similar “preliminary | penters is awaiting government ,€xamination” was made earlier, | approval before it is signed here. | the observers point out, and a re- 7 port was turned in that the proj- | ect did not justify, in reasonably } expected benefits, the expense of a detailed survev. Since no new | facts other than the changed na- | , tional defense picture have arisen | , to modify the situation since the other “preliminary examination”, | it is the national defense factor; which must be regarded as having | brought about the new attitude, | it is claimed. i H j AWARDS MADE |FOR OUTSTANDING WORK BY THOSE FROM LOCAL | —Limited: ‘national ‘defense ‘pri-|BERLIN REPORTS SIX OF i feity has been: granted the pro. BOMBERS WERE BROUGHT coastal waterway to provide a} PLANES LOST protected channel seven feet deep! jot any German planes.) |or the manner pODOWN WITH NO GERMAN | ‘"¢ Senate committee Killed yes- | terday. attempted to filibuster | feday to prevent other action un- Hackett toes iil something is done for the LONDON, May 22.—Royal Air | eged, but the move was blocited jForce bombers yesterday staged | by a House vote. one of their infrequent daylight ; raids on the continent to ham- BOATMEN mer German naval bases along ; HOLD MEETIN | Se (Berlin said six of the bombers | Charter were destroyed without the loss !poat i the French coast, a delaved com-! boatmen and other operators interested in {studying coastwise _ navigation The air ministry, an-' will meet tomorrow night at the nouncing the raids yesterday,’ county courthouse at 7 o'clock. imposed new censorship on the; The ’ training, coming under descriptions of night sky fighting | the direction of I. L. Murray, de- over England. In the future, it fense training coordinator, will was revealed, no information! be given if enough interested will be released about the num- | men register for the classes, ber of German raiders shot down! morrow’s meeting will be held in in which they room 105, on the second floor of ‘the courthouse. in are destroyed. OF NEW LAWS RECENTLY ENACTED TALLAHASSEE, May 22.—At- and involved torney Gen. J. Tom Watson today sr in condemnation VETERINARIANS Create state board of veterin- ary examiners, to examine and license those who practice. STATE BUILDING Appropriate $300,000 to struct an addition to the state released a brief resume of new laws enacted by the 1941 legisla- ture, having an effect on coun- ties throughout the state. who wanted a cigarette tax which | con- | j tatives will check the identifica- SEN ek ae tion of all American survivors of MRS. ROHDE ENDS a camp in southern France, | order that America’s diplomatic 'e i it was announced today. ] | pe aS ENE jcation might be difficult, Berlin! CANCER CONTROL jauthorities said today it would: WORK PROGRESSES {release to the United States any- | OFFICE BEFORE HER jone who could not prove his EPA! 4 DEPARTURE {doubt, Many of the’ ship sur-j porting on the work of the Flor- |vivors are believed to have lost} jda Division of the Women’s - > =e H Mrs, Borge Rohde, who, as Mrs. ' papers, when the vessel was de- Society for the Control of Can- Ruth Bryan Owen, served as stroyed. |cer, Mrs. A. Malcolm Smith, state mark and as congresswoman of wide educational campaign is the Fourth Florida district, left A cebrecth ohana elem ORGANIZE UNION before graduating students of the | | The campaign for funds also Florida State College for Women } ee Laborers on Key West con-|have already exceeded their vacation in Key West with | returned to work on a Paul | 1's her husband, Captain Rohde, vis-|H. Smith Construction com- north. She will speak in Talla-| tonight at the Golden Eagle Hall, | hassee at commencement exer-!| White and Petronia streets, to return to Key West later to make this her permanent home. At ; , ask Germany to recall at least one jthe sunken Egyptian liner Zam-|of her ministers in the United |zam, before they are released staff in Paris be withdrawn. KEY WEST VISIT; Admitting the task of identifi- 'be impossible for |Germany to PAID CALL AT THE CITIZEN) oP cated American citizenship beyond a; TAMPA, May 22 (FNS).—Re- theif ‘po8sessions, including their! Field Army of the American United States minister to Den-! ORERS Wil ; commander, states that the state- Key West, this morning td sauakt | ty units active in all sections of | shows progress with a number of at Tallahassee. communities reporting that they s. Rohde, after spending 4) struction jobs, about 125 of whom ited ‘The Citizen office this morn-| pany housing job Monday. aft-| AIRMEN IN ALASKA ing before starting on the trip'er a two-day strike, will meet! JOURNEY CLEAR TO cises. | organize a union. Mrs. Rohde said she hopes to} present the couple make home in Alderson, Va, SUMMER TRAVEL NOW INCREASES JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 22 (FNS).—With summer travel to Florida becoming more and more popular, the Illinois Cen- tral railroad announced recently that their c k Diesel electric streamliner tity of Miami” will be kept in operation throughout the summer, giving Florida the benefit of fast and comfortable rail service to Chi- cago and the mid-west. \Gonzalez And On Petty Larceny Charge local boxer, and (Monkey) Gwynh yester- rnoon were bound over to $100 petty larceny \Felix Gonzalez fore < court under bond after Cannon had testified out $48 from station his wallet he ¢ Osceola bar. nn prev arged with gra slept befor lievedfout $48 was left andblum, taxi driver, someone } John S. Burke, Miami organizer, will describe the cedure for setting up a union union. an hour, until they have com-' pleted the formation of a union to bargain for a higher wage. DEFENSE UNITS MEET FRIDAY Chairmen of the various sub- divisions of Monroe county de. fense council will meet tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the chamber | of commerce, it was announced today. B. M. Duncan is chairman of the defense council. Gwynn Held | identified wallet court as one he saw in Gonzalez’ Cannon's in hands Sunday, while Cannon was sleeping in the booth. Other wit- nesses, including the bar operator Felipe and Claude om ye, could add ond the fact they had seen z sitting with said rowed $5 from Gwynn. Gwynn . zalez returned the y and gave himself up to Chief (Deputy Harold Russell. pro- | (By Associated Press) FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 22. —Army air corpsmen, engaged their|Members of the striking group |in experimental flying at Ladd jon the Smith jobs agreed to re-| Field near }turn to work Monday at 40 cents | from today here, have flown into yesterday and | returned. unscathed. Major Dale V. Gaffney, experi- |mental station commander, and a bomber crew “past-tensed” themselves, then conjugated themselves and the plane back into the present, during a flight to Point. Barrow, on the Arctic rim. The huge craft took off from Ladd Field during one of | the shortest days of the year, | flying north and away from the fust-rising sun. But it soon left the rays of the sun behind and the men found themselves flying through the Arctic night. At Barrow, the plane began its / return flight, and presently the crew was treated to the phe- nomenon of the rising sun again —the same sunrise they had left behind a few hours pre- viously. The four-engined bomber back to Fairbanks as_ the rays of the setting sun sending shafts over the tains of northwestern the second sunset the ‘seen that day. got last were moun- Alaska— men had BOY, ASLEEP. WALKS INTO MORGUE PRATT, Kan.—Clad his pajamas and sound Bobby Holopeter, 7, walked o: of his house, downtown and ii & mortuary where he was awakened by an attendant SOUTHERNMOST FLOWERS and GLADIOLI, doz. $1.00 616 DUVAL PHONE 136 Opposite Monrce Theater only in asleep. INSTITUTION Albert Key West morning presented Marshall the club's annual award for outstanding work on the Junior high school traffic patrol ata ceremony in the sthool audi- torium. Danial, Moss we can Legion t achievement by Bringing th awards to and Seni pal Horace over the earl toda tt Peirce, * representing club, this to Manuel yer -and et wattied’ the Angad: for all-‘round y Trevor. distribution of both Junior schools, Princi O'’Bryant _ presided morning program medals and uted to out- players. wr high pu sday basketball were awarded with a layers are etic the mpion Hornets on the Forwards Center Scho- Colgate and for the Hornet Pierce and Wel of the Hot a single was award- his per- SUPERIOR. W of his frequent s fo his farm Wisconsin, of Minne- WANTED! DELIVERY BOY — Apply Monroe Market. trophy | —Paying one, Colonel W. C. Weeks,” District ! Engineer at Jacksonville, will have charge of the waterway sur- i take vey, which is expected to four to six months for comple- tion. WOULD REPEAL NEUTRALITY A\ HE WOULD SUPPORT MOVE TON, May 22.— Secretary of War Stimson this morning told a press conference he would support a move to re- peal the neutrality act The United States, he said, has every right to and would benefit by returning to the ancient con- ception of freedom of the seas. RETURNS BOTTLES CHARLOTTE, N. C.—Mrs. A | M. Feaster of this city reporting to.police that milk was stolen from-her doorstep, said that the thief. would return and leave the empty, washed bottles. NOTICE! There will be a meeting of all Common Laborers at the Goiden Eagie Hall, White and Petronia Sts.. on Thursday eve- ning, 7:00 o'clock, May 22nd. John S. Burke will speak the benefits of Organized Labor. WILLIAM ARIAS, Vice-President, Pro-Tem. Colored Laborers will meet at the Dixie Hall, 8:00 o'clock. The measures and their | jects follow: GASOLINE Repay counties from gas tax funds for all roads and bridges | designated as state roads before jor during the 1941 session, and j extending back to 1915; repay |counties from gas tax funds for ‘all interest paid out on roads now | taken into state system; main- jtain repayment to counties from |gas taxes at 1938 level and use ‘all over for next 18 months for |state roads, approximately $4,- | 000,000 more than was available ‘for state highways last year; | Permit board of administration to use gas tax funds for buying jup bonds of any county, thus javoiding possibility of default; | Proposed constitutional amehd ment freezing returns from 2 cents of gas tax for road and bridge bonds, leaving returns from 4 cents for highway work. AUTOMOBILES Making license $25.00 per year for private auto used exclusive- ly for transporting school chil- 'dren; require extra maintenance tax charge of $50.00 yearly on all ltrucks and trailers over 34,000 pounds sub- OFFICIALS Make terms of ali minor state appointive department “heads— |hotel commissioner, beverage di- cetor, state road department. racing commission and similar posts—expire on the same day as that of the governor. SEEDS Regulate the sale of commer- cial seed, to prevent fraud. INSURANCE Use .all surplus over $1,000,000 in state fire insurance fund to buy fire prevention equipment |for state buildings. i EMINENT DOMALN i State, county or city to take) supreme court building; making an appropriation for repairs and alterations to the senate cham- ber. HOUSING Authorize housing authorities to undertake dwelling projects for national defense workers. CLAIMS Pay M. F. Comer Brideg and Foundation Co., $1,669 for dredge leased to FERA and damaged by hurricane; pay Dave Newell $17,- 896 for making motion picture of Florida life BANKRUPTCY Provide for filing record of federal bankruptcy proceedings in state courts. RACE TAX Take the “breaks” or odd change from horse tracks amount to $300,000 yearly, for old age assistance; increase tax on horse track wagering 5 percent to produce $2,000,000 yearly for old age assistance. | of British and Greek soldiers in | furious ground and air “combat. | Prime Minister Winston Churchill |told the House of Commons to- day. | Admitting that many more Ger- |mane had reached the island last jnight by sea and air, Churchill | Said Candia and its important air- ‘drome had been overrun. in the face of stiff British resistance. | Forty thousand Nazi soldiers ,have been massed in southern | GréSte for transport te "Co, | Churchill told commons, and Nazi (fighter and bomber squadrons ‘have established an air superior- lity over the island, . sometimes | reaching 20-to-1, Germany's invading army, | whose use of gliders in the Crete ‘attack was the first in history, ‘last night and this. morning un- ‘covered another startling inven- tion—parachutes with which men may be 200 fevt of the ground. said experts believe the new ‘chutes contain a charge of powder which : whips them open in far less time than the conventional type. Churchill said one German de- stroyer, a transport ship and sev- eral fishing boats, all bearing Nazi troops, had been sunk in fighting last night and today. Other ships, he admitted, ran the gauntlet of ithe British fleet and unloaded ;men and equipment. Ranking at one of the most amazing feats in military history, the Nazi army, apparently bv air, has equipped its forces in Crete with light artillery, tanks, anti- tank guns and all the parapher- nalia of the familiar blitzkrieg: Churchill said reports fea(Hing him indicate Adolf Hitler has de manded that Premier Benito Mus- solini uncover the remains of the Italian navy to force a sea passage for the transportation across the Aegean sea of a large enough Ger man force to insure capture of the trat c 5 6 in soe of the increase in Ger mar armed strenvth on the is- land, Churchill told commons. the British foreer still hold strategic points from which they should be able to prevent the Nazis from overrunning more than a small part of Crete. NEEDLE IN BODY 49 YEARS DENVER.—Forty years ago, when Mrs. Dena S. Wiseman was a baby, an older sister dragged her across the floor, causing & needle to lodge in her hiv. The other day, when Mrs. Wiseman was X-rayed after a traffic ac- cident, the needle was seen lodg- ed in her pelvic bone. Britain Will Attack German Soldiers In Unoccupied France (BY Amovinted Prem) LONDON, May . 22,--Britein will not hesitate to attack Ger- man soldiers in unoccupied France or in Morocco, if Vichy permits them to go there, For eign Minister Anthony Eden de clared before the house of corm- mons today Quoting reports that Germans are filtering into the unoccupied zone in France on an alarming scale, Eden said Viehy must pay for her collaboration with the Axis by suffering attacks on her own territory. has revealed Germany will ing to France Corsica, Tunisia and the Riviera, territory which Premier Benito Mussolini had (claimed for Italy. In exchange for the return of her territory, Eden told com mons Germany will demand fulj collaboration from France, with posible German cecupation Morocco and Syria, as well French cooperation in unoccupied territory. (Vichy announced today that Germany will not occupy Syrix. but that terme of Freneh- parts of Yugo- |