The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 2, 1941, Page 1

_Key West, Florida, has the | most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West rat Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MON IN THE U.S. A. DAY, JUNE 2, 1941 VOLUME LXII. No. 131. Each New Family In Key West Means About $700 Annually Census Bureau Compiles Report Showing Differ- ent Expenditures Made During Year (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2./ —Each new family which comes to Key West means an addition- | ij] undergo a physical examina- jnounced this afternoon. j For Merchants BOY SCOUTS TO GOING TO CAMP AT SNAPPER CREEK Boy Scouts who have registered |to attend camp at Snapper Creek 10:30 | GET EXAMINATION ‘| APPLIES TO THOSE WHO ARE |MORE THAN 1,000 SIGN PAPERS FO | DEFENSE SERVICE EXPECTED THAT MARK OF WASHINGTON, June 2—} SIX THOUSAND SET WILL | president Roosevelt today signed BE EXCEEDED AT END OF|the long expected priorities bill, giving the federal government | NEXT FOUR DAYS full authority to dictate to fac- tory owners what they shall produce. Key Westers over the weekend ‘WOULD HAVE GREAT BRITAIN SEIZE SYRIA | continued a steady registration for emergency defense’ duty, with | } more than 1,000 signatures on the } | i jbooks at noon today, Defense ;Chairman William V. Little ‘an- | Si ae Bill Signed Giving Federal Government Ri Press) Ithough war machines have m given priority in manufac- ing plants, the bill makes such goperation mandatory and _per- mits the government to decid ti not be, manufactured. CGARETTE SA TO HAVE CAUSED FIRE | IN JERSEY ; ' $ Funds To Be Rekaset t To Dictate | In All Factory Productions (By Associat } i any LONDON, June 2.—Britain's| For Work On Keys Electric Proje == And Boca Chica Manicial i Manchester, Industrial City | In Eland, Reeves Boning This Y fi Announcement Relative To Improvements Made By F. Stone, Jr. ociated Press) A London communique admit- M a : ? ith local | tion tomorrow morning etches ree, Scone nstiaas o'clock at the office of Dr. Julio Firemen have assisted in the ; URGE THIS MOVE BE MADE INVESTIGATORS CLAIM NO ‘great industrial city of Manches- | ted there was “some” damage. another London, enjoying and trustees of the Florida Key BEFORE GERMAN FORCES! HAVE TIME TO CONSOLI- DATE GAINS H VIDENCE FOUND THAT | last night suffered its most | el fintensive bombing in months as | bombless night, wen rough a | OULD POINT TO SABO. |*4vadrons of German warplanes | three-hour alarm period as Ca oe Co-operative, by a few }poured thousands of high ex- |man planes were sighted flying ‘strokes of the pen Wednesday ‘AGE | plosive and incendiary bombs in- | high over the city, but no. bombs | 3 ine city and its outskirts. ‘were reported dropped. hess Thursday of this week, will a —~-- Felease $355,000 for the start of il merchants, according 10%de Poo in the Renedo Building, |Pt9stam by making a nouse-to- according td an announcement | house canvass, explaining the de- jmade today by Scout Offieial Al- fense program, Little said. In ad- | | bert E. Peirce. ¢ {dition to the 1,000 forms, already Every boy, regardless @fe whe- {filled out and recorded, Little! ther he has had a physical exam | Said another 3,500 have been dis- | or not, must report tomorrow tributed to persons wishing to 7 morning. This is required for at-|take them home, rather than fill- jtendance at camp. Cost of exam | ing them out at the public booths. foes HR a vig per occupied dwelling unit is be-! will be 50c end each boy is re-{ With four more days to go, |"WSPaPer columnists and some Bs Census Bureau figures just re- leased. This is on the basis of 1940! business. Key West's annual retail expenditure of $71 (Hy Axsoctated Press) aver } LONDON, June 2.—London! My Acsoctated Press) JERSEY CITY, N. J., June 2.— Jersey City firefighters today the Boca Chica airport, low the Florida average of $1,181 end much lower than the nation- al average of $1,236. | Food stores in Key West.aver- age $217 from each local family. In comparison, the average Flor- ida family spends $256 annually in food stores, while the average American home spends $310. Each Key West home spends an average of $62 yearly . with automobile dealers and, auto sup- ply stores, and another $57 with filling stations. The average for Florida is $197 spent with auto dealers and auto supply _ stores, and $98 with filling stations. while the national average is $168 for autos and auto supplies, and $92 for gas, oil, and, service. Average family expenditures with other classes of Key West retailers include: Apparel, and eating and drinking places, quested to bring this amount at the time stated above. Medical forms which must be filled out by the examining phy- ‘sician and parent of the scouts will be distributed tomorrow morning. | Following boys will attend first week of camp: Eugene Russell, Buddy Navarro, Earl R. Adams, Jr., Wm. Ladd, Jack Harris, Phil- lip Scheurer, Calvin Cates, Wood- row Niles, George Cooke, Donald | Pinder. Following boys will attend this | week: Daniel Lujan, Paul Light- | bourne, John Marzyck, Robert McClintock. Third and fourth week: Thomas ; G. Kelly, Frank Sands, Robert Mitchell, Jimmie Singleton, Ray- mond Maloney, Charles H. Sands, ‘Tom “Ketchings, Edward John- son, Billy Robinson. | It has been suggested by Scout Executive McFarlane that boys report on Sunday and leave on following Sunday and may pay jafter today, Little said defense ' members {committeemen are hoping to ex-} ? : 5 ceed the expected 6,000 total in ‘joined their voices in a swelling Monroe county. Members of the | committee are urging citizens to register as soon as possible so as |seize French-mandated Syria be- to avoid a last minute rush. I ‘RUMORED NAVY ‘and move in. TO TAKE OVER © TRUMBO LAND :.:- Germany could offer effec- itive aid to the enemy, London HOWEVER. STORY GOING papers declared there is no rea- son why Adolf Hitler always ROUNDS NOT CONFIRMED should be permitted to hold the UP TO LATE THIS AFTER. initiative. ae iia H ~ (Paris:mewspapers, condemning + _ Britain’s repeated bombings of | the Tunisian port of Sfax, said to- i of parliament today chorus of demands that Britain | + jfore German forces have time to consolidate their Crete victory | Pointing to British success in crushing the Iraq “rebellion” be- i were discussing a rumor that the , warplanes to North Africa. Any | |Mavy will take over all land at future attempts to bomo French HITLER CONFERS WITH. MUSSOLINI jee arrival at camp. COMDR. STECKEL ROME, June 2.—Reichsfuehrer | Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini, meeting at some un- Specified spot in one of ‘the two, STATED THAT HE HAS BEEN countries, spent five hours this APPOINTED PUBLIC RE- morning “discussing the political situation”, it was announced to- | LATIONS OFFICER day, | (Correspondents both in Ger-| many and Italy have been forbid- chee i voy’ ; den to report or speculate about | West didn’t say, “we ain’t talkin, the whereabouts of either of the | today, but they came as close to two leaders, or about future poli- | ita is permitted by the diction of cies.) officers and gentlemen. Naval officers stationed in Key Crenshaw’s office said Comdr, A. |M, Steckel, formerly in command jot the shore patrol, has been ap- AT BUS STATION peinted public relations officer. In the future, all information eon- —— nected with the navy must come There was a small fire last | through his hands. night shortly before 8 o'clock in| Commander Steckel, who will the restaurant portion of the bus have his offices in the postoffice station on Southard street. There | building, is away from Key West was ver; little damage resulting ‘on duty. Employes of his office from the small blaze. | would not say where he is, but The alarm was sounded from | they suggested he might be back box 23, Southard and Duval. | tomorrow. Key West’s Building Program | During May Totalled $27,400 Key Westers during May spent | during the month, most of them an estimated $27,400 for building | for minor repairs. Nine reached repairs, showing a slight increase a 4 over the $25475 recorded in| "C $1000 mark Building Inspector Ralph | Archie Thompson was issued books revealed today. | the largest permit of the month, 1940, the department | $5,000 for construction of two figures showed a record-break- | bungalows at White and Petronia ing $62,600. | streets. Fifty permits issued | Others totalling $1,000 or more, were to B. E. Brantley, 900 Fran- cis street, $1,000 for generaf’ re- pairs; Stanley Key, Baker's lane. $1,000 for one-story building construction; Benedict Thielen, were , the balance of their money on; An employe of Capt. Russell-E. | Trumbo island, with the excep- tion of the P. & O. docks, but the story up to late this after- | firm. Capt. Russe E. Crenshaw, jcommandant of the navy station here, said his department has jmade no move to get either the |property or the docks. “Wherever we see an dock”, Captain Crenshaw said, “we cast longing eyes on it. How- ever, I can tell you definitely, {quiring or attempting to acquire |the land”. WAR GIVES PUREBRED DAIRY CATTLE NEW (Re Ansnetnted Proms | RIGHMOND, Va. June) 2+ | Looking forward to.post-war de- {mand for purebred dairy cattie as {replacements for slaughtered herds in Europe, leading Amer- ican experts predict that the next jten years will present dairymen [opportunity in livestock breeding history. {_ “All countries,” reports Karl |B. Musser, secretary of the Amer- ican Guernsey Cattle Club, “will be looking toward the United States as the source of foundation animals.” Offers have already been made |by American breeders to help re- 'stock the islands of Guernsey jand Jersey, held since last sum- jmer by the Germans. If the pro- |posal is carried out, they will be |paying a sentimental debt to the | jsmall channel islands which fur- nished this country with the orig- inal stock of two of the world’s most famous dairy breeds. A sim- jilar plan probably will be fol- lowed by breeders of Holstein jeattle, since Germany is known jto have seized many herds of this | famous breed in Holland, where lit originated. Because of the larger area involved, however, noon had been impossible to con- | idle | we have done nothing toward ac- | FIELD TO CONQUER in this country with the greatest | possessions in Africa, the papers said, will be resisted with pow- erful air units.) Increasing danger of armed j conflict between Britain and France was revealed today as it ; Was announced the British for- eign office had curtly rejected Vichy's second protest against { the bombing of Sfax in Tunisia. The foreign office said the ;continued presence of Italian | Ships in the port was a violation jof France’s neutrality | icin ‘ Si | HAS FREAK DOG ; BRADDOCK, Pa. — William | Doughtery of this city is the jowner of a dog with a dual spine, {two tails, different colored ey jand a gait similar to that of a rab- bit. Wines Sheltved With Operati ag | House Of Ill Fame To Be Tried ge At Next Term Criminal Court Joyce Jordan, charged with op-‘of the house, were ‘arrested with | COMING EVENTS erating a house of ill fame at 1016 | the Jordan woman Saturday night | ' | Howe street, today bound over to criminal court under $200 bond in the first such case local was law enforcement officers can re- member. The charge constitutes, a felony, and, upon conviction, could be {punishable with imprisonment in the state penitentiary. The Jordan, woman's appearance before Judge William V. Albury the July | term of court will be the first such criminal judge Carmen Vincent and... Millie Lane. charged with being inmates \ | VALDEZ wishes to thank the people of Key West for their splendid vatronage given the SAMOA CLUB during the past season. THE SAMOA CLUB will be closed until October 1. Mr, Marvil promises an en- tirely new show when opening for the winter season, Dey street, $2,000 for general re- pairs; Charles Jeffers, 1420 Olivia street, $1,000, general repairs; G. Maillard, Louisa street, $3,000, general repairs. John T. O'Rourke, 643 William Street, $1,500, general repairs; Church of God, 909 Angela, $1,- 1000, building, and Everesta 5S. tevens, South street, $1,000, add iporech and gencral repairs, \the problem there may not be as! acute as on the channel islands. | Bulngs to Key HAS TRAIN STOPPED blamed a careless cigarette smok- er for the $25,000,000 fire, which over the Weekend destroyed an ! | and | JYNIOR-SENIOR HIGH PHYSI- | BROTHERS RETURNED CAL EDUCATION TEACHER | WILL RETURN HERE | eight-story, grain elevator swept the city’s stockyards. Worst fire in the history believed to have started from a cigarette burning in a_ pile waste, FBI gnen, called to the scene to investigate the possibility of sabotage, said there was no evi- dence pointing to anyone delib- erately starting the fire. POSTAL RECEIPTS of REVEAL BIG GAIN Key Westers this afternoon 'day Vichy has ordered additional ABOUT SEVEN HUNDRED DOL. | University. LARS OVER SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR Key West postal receipts in May jumped about $700 over last year's figure for that month, As- sistant Postmaster Hollon Ber- valdi revealed today. Sales for last month amounted to $4,984.23, while during the previous. year, May’s total was $4,272.49. Completing the first month of defense bond sales, Bervaldi said the postoffice during May received $6,731.25. Sales opened May 1. Complete figures on the bond sales in Key West are not avail- able, since the First National Bak also has taken part in the pro- gram, and Cashier J. J. Trevor id today figures were not yet vailable on how great the volume at the bank had been. by Constable Bienvenido Perez, and this morning were bound by Justice Enrique Jr., under $100 bond. The house, formerly owned by Al’ce Reid Griffin, who is serving a three-year sentence in federal prison for white siavery, recently was leased by William H. Dam- ron, Miami. The lease carried an option to purchase. * Katherine Turner, over Esquinaldo, Louisa At- kins and Olivia Bruner, negroes, case he has tried in five years as also were arrested by Perez Satur- | day and charged with prostitu tion: Their hearings have been scheduled for tomorrow BAKERY West the New ENRICHED BREAD conforms to the recommendations of WATSEKA, Ill—An express jtrain made an unscheduled stop {in this city to allow a woman pas- jsenger to phone the janitor in her jChicago apartment and ask him jto see if she had turned the gas [stove off, search ENRICHE Cuban Bread - Aunt the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Re- Council. D BREAD In All of Our Products Molly’s Bread - Bolls of | ‘Jersey City, the conflagration is | John R. Offutt, teacher of his- ‘tory and physical education at Key West Junior high school and coach of the varsity basket- | ball squad, left with Mrs. Offutt | this morning for Chicago, where | he will attend summer classes in j physical education at North- j western University in Evanston, | -The couple will drive to cago, returning here some before the start of school in tember. | Offutt came here from Stetson . where he held an} ‘athletics scholarship. As director ‘of athletics in the local schools, County Attorney Julius F. Stone, AT HAVANA PARTY <> nm To! Stone, who returned here Sat- -urday night from a trip to Chi- ‘cago and Washington, said ~ this |morning both projects are wait- jing nothing -but the routine ap- proval of the local boards. ~ ' Bids for the airport John Simone, local tourist bu- tion were opened yesterday reau operator, who returned here CAA officials last week with his brother, Wil- i bed been liam Simone, after a tour of 'demnation proceedings Cuba, is the subject of a story in | of the land will open Wednesday the Havana paper, “Informacion”. t eal Thursday night x ‘The paper, dated-May 26, said: | vs will a at the land KEY WEST FOLLOWING TOUR OF CUBA — “Colonel Jaime Marine, POE ny a telecram of the sports commission of Cuba, |has been acquired. prominent. figure of this. CAA officials told try, Vey ie ": ai el s Test vation ‘the b d woul liam and John Simone, important make the award immediately figures of the tourist business in upon notice from the commission the United States: Also present ‘that the property is in the hands were Mr. Cesar Rivero, chancelor of the county. A first allocation jof Cuba in Tampa; Jess Losada_ of $305.000 is ready for immediate |he coaches basketball teams for) of the sports commission, and /Senior and Junior highs. Alex Garcia of Radio COK, the During the past year, Mr. Of- | sports commission's station”. futt directed cage championship | tournaments among teams of both yooks in Cuba, said he was par- the junior and senior classes, a ‘ticularly impressed with the ef- city league composed of civilian’ tors of the sports commission and service elubs and an inter- | toward relation sand understand- ‘scholastic schedule of the var-' ing between the Latin sity. ! countries and the U: —— | ‘ SISTA i BILL PROHIBITS | IN 12 MORE TONGUES | ROYALTY CHARGES | (a een &: " NEW YORK, June 2.—The | TALLAHASSEE, Jame 2— | Bible was published im 12 new i The legislat languages last year, bringing to { passage today of a [bill pro; g,\.051 the number Pega in t % ris tre _Lwhich sbieapart 0! scripture ier charges ia been printed. | or pthier trai ipti | ‘The -American Bible Society said the languages bi Zuni | QVew |Mexico) Indian, din- { To a eis ‘and + | lects: of Africa, Burna, Palestine » 1 can’ | and Ecuador. purchase records and play — es, pss tae British Besabaiice Ak Crete : eee Bigs Been Broce See ae June 2.—Germany's high command today wrote BERLIN, TUESDAY ge Nie. Service Club. 6:00 | winiee ty the bloody, 13-day j WEDNESDAY struggle for Crete, announcing Florida Key Electric Cooperative | that British resistance is st an Trustees meet at 7:30 p.m. end. Tavernier Grocery Company. German troops, engaged j THURSDAY mopping up operations over the ‘Rotary Club ineets 1245 p.m. weekend, are reported to have St. Paul's Parish Hail. captured another 3,000 British 8:00 DIM. | soldiers, bringing to 13,000 the total number trapped during the brief campaign. ‘ With © Mediterranzen fighting showed atter the victory in Crete, in |City Council meets, City Hall. County. Commission meets * 8:00 | pam,,County Courthouse, t Lions Club mrets at $30 pam , Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. | ee ships at beseiged Tobruk’ were sunk yesterday by dive bombers, and it was intimated Germany and Haly soon will begin a new (drive acrom the North African Terrace Bowling Lanes TONIGHT John Simone, who spent two 5 a bulletin said five Brith troop-' ‘front into Egypt Opens 5 New DeLuxe Lanes Installed By Brunswick, Balke - Col- lender Co. 12 LANES (Admitting their defeat at Crete, military leeders in Cairo today estimated 15,000 British sol- diers have reached Egypt in’ safety.” German. lodses, they said. were far higher than the British.) expenditure when the bid of a@ contractor is accepted, County Judge Raymond Lord id this morning the friendly condemnation proceedings will ‘not require more than two or three hours Wednesday, so it is understood there will be no delay on the part of the commission, | Stone said the electric coopera- | tive trustees will meet Wednes- iday niebt at 7:30 o'clock at Mara- ‘thon to sign a loan contract re- ‘leasing $50.090 for the electrifica- | tion project. It is imperative, he added. that all members of the board be present for the meeting, which is to be held at the Marathon Grocery . Stone, who I 10. dave per: three ago for a h sonal busi he de-~ and which davs in ‘Washin: tails off the | clearing up might have caused delay. t(ipectal to The Citinem) lied force at the start of the Ger- man invasion amounted fo about 50,000 men.) SLEEP WALKER GOES RIGHT INTO MORGUE {Wy Aessctated Preas) PRATTA Kas, June 2-—Dave Holopeter was startled when a voice on the telephone asked: '“Have you loxt one of your boys?” Holopeter said no, the boys had been in bed-for hours. “You better look,” he was ad- vised Holopeter did, and found Bob- >. 7, mining from bed. © ss Bobby had had a bad dream, apparently, and had walked, bare- foot and in pajemas, downtown ‘and into # Mortuary where the