The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 23, 1941, Page 1

ciated Press Day Wire Service s Devoted to the s of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit uit Interested st Park An d Organization tailed Re- Recreation Un 2 Coxréspondent sey West Citizen) (G.UN, B,C. May 23, imation of Key and recreational fa- national defense n here today as a detailed report park and recreation- i has been re- th National Park ter to Willard M. Al- of Key West, New- Drury, director of the Na- asked th 1 Park Service, has for a dleietiva repori-on all ci park and recreation areas. mewhat similar n mage every five in *1925, Mr oné is of par- c because of of adeaufite ree- to the “will ¢ ery immediate defense result park fu- in as the result of be made avail Army, Navy and Pificials, it was undoubtedly be saran n pro- fa- of in yal vecreation recreation fa- required for. th itary and in concentrated » for overnight e of military nts enroute country to official him f the anticipate requested kre many use than ¢ from the made An [Dz ANCE| aturday 1 JOE? S BAR ment lonal Faciities TRUCK LICENSE ACT IS UPHELD :. CONCERNS TRUCKS OPERAT- , ING FROM OUTSIDE CITIES (By Assos TALLAHASSEE, Heuse refused # lay to prohibit ‘small towns from charging occu- | péetional licenses against trucks selling merchandise from ware- houses cr plants located in other cities. The Hous> an also tabled amendment to the pronosed re- vision of a gencral occupational license tax. SENATE PASSES BRIDGE MEASURE ': AUTHORIZES BOARD TO BOR ROW MONEY FOR CON- STRUCTION WORK «ity aw TALLAHAS The May 23.— Senate today passed and sent to Governor Holland a intrdouced by Monroe B measure Representative Bernie, C Over Papy, s Road t ang au- commis- money for con- increasing — the and Toll Bridge distric thorizing the district sioners to borrow struction of facilities under the terms on which exist- ing structures were built The measure, HB 1342, wa passed by the House Tuesday REPORTS LOSSES OF BRITISH SHIPS new same GEO. VAN SAAKE _ LATEST TO JOIN ARTIST COLONY MAN CONVERSANT WITH SIX LANGUAGES, ALSO AC- COMPLISHED PIANIST, COMES TO KEY WEST ! George R. Van Saake, a square- handed little man who built him- elf as a restorer of an international reputation then portrait painter, arrived in Key West yesteraay to “become the newest member of this city’s art- ist colony. Conversant. with six languages and an accomplished pianist, Van Saake built his reputation a portrait painter on such widely milar models as the late Mellon, former he champion Max the beauteous paintings, d the heights again diss Andrew vy weight chmeling and Dietrich His most widely known work is the “American Blue Boy”, a painting which has been exhibit- ed in many of the nation’s great art museums, but the Amster- dam-born artist is most interest ed in his portrait of Dr. Charle: H. Herty, “father” of the Georgia paper-pulp industry—whom — he never Van Saake painted the por- trait from photographs, after Dr. Herty’s death, using a model of about. the doctor's a: for skin tone ics other ne de i painting was praised of Dr. Hertv’s fam and placed in the Herty In stitute a permanent me Van Saake’s portrait of crew Mellon was the last before the aluminum tyceon's death. Later, he won praise for his paintings of Goeta Ljungberg, Swedish prima. donna of the Metrepolitan opera, and of Car- men Costillo, famous Mexica: singer and wife of Xavier Cugat, the band leader. E Ford gave him sion to invade the mighty Ford plant at River Rouge for indus- trial paintings, where, from seaffold built for his use, transferred to canvas the step- by-step story of the automobile, from molten metal in the giant pots to the finished product. Only Primo Rivera and Van ke have been permitted to paint in the plant, In the field of art restoration, Van Saake studied in Europe, worked at the Kaiser Freiderich (Centinued en Page Four) HOSPITAL SITE IS SPECULATIVE Marlene The members as BERLIN CLAIMS 114,009 TONS( SUNK WITHIN PAST FEW DAYS (Ry Associated Press) English ¢ THREE BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED TO MY cusToO F FRIENDS— LOU SMITH AUTO SERVICE Phone No. $ Flemingand White BELIEVED, HOWEVER, SOUTH END OF ISLAND WILL BE LOCATION little addition proposed nav tal to be tructed under $1,000,000 grant, in i yesterday by 1 of the House throw col a’ bill iC ch naval 1 is understood be constructed the clerks in upen plot at the island vorks 1 decided te someenntitatatisinnenenstitinctnacetianaipaastinsie LADIES NIGHT DINNER HOTEL LA CONCHA Florida Commercial Secretaries Association ADMISSION BY CARD ONLY t la than 6 P. M, Sat +No Reservations Can; Be Made After That Time KEY WEST CHAMBER OF i COMMERCE An-' permis- |* IDA, FRAY, MAY 23, 1941 Highest For new high for the year, as buyers | paid a total of $3. dock auctior Ralph Tt officer with the ¢ mpson, state police servation de- he found the sponges of good size shape, partment, and except for a few had been attacked by the blight. Thompson said he found no small sponges in the appreciation cooperation with th department Number of amount paid fé Twenty wool, $11.85; 23 wool lot and expressed for the conservation bunches and thej 116.85; $56.00; wool, wool, } wool, wool ; , $66.08; 12 $L 4711 70 and 1 yell wool, $50.3) 115 wool: 7 wool, 3 94.10 wool, $ 4 grass Introduce Bill To Impose ie Sales This Morning mall lots which | spongers’ } q Present Year| Sponge sales this morning set ay & 44; 4 grass and yellow, $6.10, }and 1 glove, $1.65. 52.49 at a sponge SSPONGERS DIVIDED |ON BED QUARANTINE Spongers gathered at the docks for this morning’s auction were in sharp disagreement over the wis- dom of the proposal that they ask a conservation department order closing the banks to prevent fur- | ther fishing. Milton Russell, veteran buyer, | > ad in the week disclosed that | 3 boat captains and owners had j _asked him to petition Represen- | Talla- tative Bernie C. Papy at hassee for a quarantine order. Many of the fishermen and boat owners at the auction this | morning were of however, that it would be sense- j Tess to close the beds. ‘Those dif- | fering with the idea of closing the beds said it would be more profit- } ‘able to take what good sponges ean be found now, rather than j wool, $56.00; 52 | waiting for the blight to infect all and yellow, | of them. Tax On Sponge Producers DENIES RUMORS ABOUT TURNOVER WILL NOT GIVE FLEET TO “ANYONE” SAYS FRENCH ony VICHY, Vice ‘Premicr Jean Darlan today jenied British intimations that France is ready to turn her navy to Nazi Ger- Axsoctated Presa) and colonics over many. veryone, all, the British hould know that T up the fleet to Darlan declared to newspapermen. Darl said France faced with « che and death n the collaborat ther Fran operate, h w ould be and all not any give ne-, had. been between life question of with Germany. a would agree to = xplained, or aie destroyed. 194 Hitler off the admiral dec could have wip- ed Fr ap «6of 6Eu- Darlan rniar ance r however, that received France’s Ge sked or mandat of ~Admiral and + ‘MURPHY SALES {By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 23. —’next president of the Key West | Senators Taylor and Johnson to- day introduced Senate Bill 716, a measure imposing a $50 whole- salers’ tax and a one per cent gross tax orf sponge fishermen and buy- ers. The $14,000 annually, to be spent in state patrol of the sponge banks. measure A delegation of Tarpon Springs fishermen last week agreed to the measure, but Key West sponge boat operators have protested the measure on the grounds that fur- ther taxation of sponging would force them to close down produc- | tion. ARE APPROVE Murphy act sales made here May 5 have been approved in Tallahassee and County Clerk Ross Sawyer has forwarded deeds for the property to the comptroller’s office, it was an- nounced today. As soon as the decds have been signed and returned here, they will be forwarded to the property buyers. Summary Of Legislative Activity By CLYDE J. m, was week in and iap the ng-await- raising » bridge the income y presented ntain- ons and uiled by er groups ndation was tags to Senate DASER, Florida News Service, Staff Writer 3.—Fi- corresponding increase in those in the upper brackets. And the school lobby won't like his recommendation that the | request for an increase of $250 per teaching unit for the next two years be turned down. How- | ever, most students of state af- fairs recognize that an increase as requested by tag prices will fill the hole left | in school finances by the repeal of the gros¢ receipts tax, according to his tions, more county money will be available for schools, and finally that under present finan- cial circumstances in the state xe schools must look nearer at for any additional money | recommenda- y they may want or require In o he fo tion They er parts of his message wed the of the Brookings Institute include: outright sale of} tax delinquent land after year with homesteads being sold after two years; assessments bas- ed on a full 106 percent valuation instead of varying assessments in various counties; limit on homestead exemption to the part | of the building actually used and 23 peg once for homestead purposes; i tags without reved method of collect- ng intangible taxes; and a strict- Nats Triumph Over: British Bitter i ting At Gre Geary Seen the opinion, ; would provide | the governor in! that if! county finances are strengthened | recommenda- | one} With Victory ‘JOHN COSTAR NEW HEAD OF LIONS CLUB ORGANIZATION LAST EVE- NING; OTHER OFFICERS SE- - LECTED TO SERVE { | 1 ; | ! 1 } John Costar was nominated for | ‘Lions Club at a meeting held last evening in the Lions Den on Semi- nary street with Gerald Saunders! j presiding. Other officers selected for the new year beginning June 1 are as} follows: John Simone—First Vice. Presi- | dent. Victor Lowe — Second Vice-| President. Ear! E. President. Rodman Bethel—Secretary. Charles E. Roberts—Treasurer. Joseph Cramer (Suicide Zor- ky)—Tail Twister. Albert DiNegro—Lion Tamer. Hamilton Hastings Smith and Pritchard, Directors. | Ivey Murray, Coordinator for! ‘National Defense, recently sta- tioned in Key West to direct the work now going on here was guest of the club and briefly explained to the lions and their guests the benefits which Monroe County would derive from this program. Lions unanimously pledged them- | selves to the support of the proj- ect. Plans were completed fer the entertainment of Lions who are coming to Key West Saturday for the Zone Meeting. Meeting of the club will be heid on Saturday aft- ernoon, 6:30 o'clock for" this pur- pose. Tail Twister Joe Allen an- nounced as a coming event on the | Lions calendar a farce comedy to be sponsored by the club in the near future entitled Holler to Hollywood” the following characters been selected: Hastings Smith movie star. Albert laueen who wins Hollywood John Costar—the from back home. Rev. E. S. Doherty—the villain. Sheriff Berlin Sawyer—the vil- lage barber whe lifted the queen's face and shaved off her eyebrows Date of this show will be an nounced in the near future. Andrew have -a Hollywood DiNegro—the a chance to go to! boy friend BOATMEN WILL MEET TONIGHT hoatmen and other interested in navigation i | i } j i Charter ibeat operators Studying coastwise will meet tonight 7 o'clock in the; High School, | The training. coming under _ direction of I L. Murray defense training coordinator, will be given if enough interested - men register for the classes. room 105. Lieut Emerson. USN €r collection of intangible taxes, }- 25 percet going to the coun- ties to provide an incentive to the local tax collectors and as- (Continued on Page Four) HELP WANTED Lou Smith Auto Service Fleming and White Streets |NOMINATED AT MEETING OF | Charles H. Ketchum, Joe Allen, } House Confirms Acts Of Aqueduct Board t { Cty Assoctoted Press) | TALLAHASSEE, May 23 —The} | House yesterday passed two bills; j ‘presented by Monroe Representa-} tive. Bernie C. Papy, conseratni | | acts of the Fiorida Keys Aqueduct | commission authorizing Key | | West to lease its water distribu- | |tion system to the commission. | BOARD MEMBERS GET | CONFIRMATION The Florida Aqueduct Commis- { |sion’s three members were con-! | firmed in office and their ar. | rangements for water rates ap-| | proved in HB 1498, which was ad- | vertised in The Citizen by the | commission, March 8. The second measure, HB 1499, | authorizing the city to lease its ; water system, was advertised by | Mayor Willard M. Albury for the ‘city at the same time. COMMENTS UPON _ “NEUTRALITY BILL WHEELER CLAIMS. _R9OSE VELT AND SECRETARIES | “ARGUE IT OUT” -Third Vice-! | | (iy Associated Mresn) WASHINGTON, May — 23.— Senator Wheeler, Montana isola. 'tionist, today suggested caustic. ally that President Roosevelt and his two cabinet members, ; War Secretary ‘Henry L. Stimson ‘and Navy Secretary Frank Knox argue out between themselves the question of scrapping the neutrality bill. Commenting on speeches in which both Stimson and Knox | urged repeal of the measure, | Wheeler said the measure .bad been hailed by} President Roosevelt as one of | the outstanding achievements ‘of | the administration. EX-SAILOR 0 GET HEARING MARVIN ROBERSON, DISMISS- ED FROM NAVY. HELD “ ON THEFT CHARGE | Peace Justice Franklin Aren- berg tommorrow is expected to iheld a hearing in the case of “From Hog) for which | beauty | Marvin H. Roberson, 20-year-old |¢? near © ex-sailor who was dismissed from the navy and arsested on a charge of stealing a check yesterday. Roberson, whose birthday was yesterday, was held on the check count after he had been dropped from the navy because of\un ‘ fitness” RODRIGUEZ DIES . DECEASED WAS SISTER OF DR. E. RODRIGUEZ OF KEY WEST Miss Conchita Rostigus, sis ter of Dr E Rodriguez, 925 Fleming street. and for many years a resident of Key West, died this morning in Havana Cubs, it was learned by the family today. Mise Rodriguez is survived by her brother; a iister, Mra. Fer nando Gate, Havana, and by a inephew, Dr. Ramon Rodriguez, {Ker West. Funeral arrangements have }not been announced. neutrality | "PRICE FIVE CENTS Report Damage To British Fleet Staggering’; | Whereabouts Of Greek t apy Auwetated ‘Prexs) Three days oe tew thou- jon German paraghutists open- ed a, seemingly impossible con- quest of Crete, the German high command announced today that the "batile is entering its final | phases, and victory is clearly in ight”. Damage to the British fleet, scommuni- que, is “staggering”. ~ German soldiers have eaptur- ed the istand ‘capital of Canea, |refuge of Greek King George II patter his fiight from Athens, and ‘unconfirmed reports <3¥_—ihe | British have been driven from Crete’s largest- city, © Candia, Present whereabouts of the lrefuge king have not been dis- losed, [ AGermag delves: a London communique, is cutting {the island in half at its narrow- est point, near Malemi and the British naval base at Suda bay. Reports from London say. Ger- man casualties in the brief cam- aign have been appalling, per- aps as high as 50 percent, but ore than 20,000 men are said to have been landed by air and ship during the three days, with more constantly pouring — their weight into the growing Nazi army. Prime Minister Winston Churchill yesterday admitted the Royal Air Force has been driven from the sky bv the , destruction of all available airdromes at the hands of Stuka dive bomber | pilots, Military observers in London admitted that conditions. are far imore favorable for the transfer of German troops to Crete now ‘than at the start of the struggle, ‘white even at the present rate, | Germany could have an army of 50,000 men on the island in tess than another week. Thus the | Nazi force would be as great as j the combined Greek and Britigh jarmy at the start of the battle, land that force has been ent by leasualties without being reir. | forced. A Rome according to OW. 2st ; communique thi morning said Italian speedhoat and torpedo-bearing planes last jnight destroved one British erie rete and damage three others. Berlin said dive. bomb ers wreeked three British «ie stroyers during the night Denying the rerorts of dam age to the Meet, Prime Minister Churchill today said the. navy.é shelling German forces the island and last night destroyed two Nazi transports loaded witt troops. GETS substitute on NEW YORK—Ferdinand Ba cone of this city, whose eyesight is poor, had Irvine Lester ot stitute for him in his autow driver's license text. Polire tame suspicious, and both sailed. he wire LEER GG ER EA BRADY’S (Live) Poultry and Egg Market Rhode Island Red Battery Raised FRYERS Tennessee Milk Fed ROASTERS — STEWERS . Drawn, Delivered’. aret Cut Un To Pieatwe You At No Extra Cost 1214 White St. Phone 540