The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 3, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No, 132. Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1941 French Cabinet Members Assemble At Vichy For Important Conference Newspapers ae Reports Roosevelt And Winant In That German Troops Are In French-Mandat- ed Syria COPIA OS SS |COUNTY DELINQUENT TAX LIST APPEARS (My Assoeta’ 6) French cabinet members today were called into special session | Conference At White House (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 3.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, after a weekend rest at his Hyde Park home, today Long-Range Bombers Hit At Berlin And Dusseldorf; (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 3. — British, long-range bombers last night struck at Berlin and Dusseldorf | with new types of high explosive | bombs said to have caused severe | damage in both cities. WASHINGTON, June 3.—Try- SOLDIER CAN SHOOT WEEK’S PAY | AND STILL NOT MAKE LOUD NOISE! The air ministry gave scant de- tails of the raids, the first on Ber- lin in several weeks. (Berlin admitted damage and some casualties in the capital dur- ing the night bombardment.) By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer ,tertainment? They saw the BASEBALL WORLD) MOURNS DEATH OF; ‘TRON MAN’ GEHRIG VICTIM OF RARE FORM OF PARALYSIS PASSED AWAY! AT BRONX HOME Laat | NIGHT } <By Asaoctated Press) NEW YORK, June 3.—Organ-} lized baseball and the nation’s fans today mourned the death | last night of Lou Gehrig, “Iron Horse” of the New, York Yankees Key —_—_—_— | saa PRIGE FIVE CENTS Attorney General Jackson Regarded As Succéed Justice \ 1 GETS NOTICE ON | ing to find an “average trainee” |Washington monument, the Lin- IN TODAY’S ISSUE In today’s issue of The Citizen appears the county was back at his White House desk, } at Vichy in a meeting decribed | with a conference with Ambassa- } visiting Washington on week-end leave seems like trying to find coln Memorial, the Smithsonian museum, the Zoo, and a sandlot as the most important since the! armistice with Germany. With Syria almost certainly decided upon as the next scene 1 | | delinquent tax list, which con- tains 4.000 or more names, taking up nearly six news- Paper pages. The list will be printed dor to Britain John G. Winant as the most important feature of the day’s program. Speculation has been rife since three more times, once a | Winant flew h his Lon- week, making a total of four ee . j don post last week, and it is un- jderstood he will hand the Presi- } dent detailed reports on the ability | of England to continue the war. HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER NABBED |ARRESTED BY OFFICER ARENBERG AT EARLY HOUR THIS MORNING of Mediterranean war, French newspapers today denied British publications. reports that German troops are VI SASALLEFA AF) in the mandated area, and da) clared Britain is seeking an ex KEY WEST HAS cuse to invade French territory. | Reports from Rome _ indicate | VERY DRY MAY still closer collaboration _be- | we tween France and the Axis aft-| FOLLOWED WETTEST APRIL } i | a common denominator for the ! baseball game in one of the parks Eskimos, Hottentots and Boston! just off the Mall. Three of them Back Bay society. I never tried! went to a movie to see a picture the latter, but I did try for an‘ (“Lady Eve”) that they had “average trainee”. jheard was funny but which I'm going to state three gen- hadn’t yet played the camp. CALL FOR ARMY ;MAN FROM MIAMI WHO VOL- UNTEERED FOR DUTY TO BE GIVEN EXAMINATION| BEFORE INDUCTION and one of the game’s greatest | performers. Gehrig, stricken by a rare form of paralysis during the playing} season of 1939. died at his Bronx ! home last night after being in a \ critical condition. for three weeks. He would have been 38 on June ; Choice To Cordell Hull, Secretary Of State, Also Mentioned As Possible Choice For Position = (Ry Associated Press) "WASHINGTON, June 3-—At- torney General Robert H. Jack- son, 49-year-old New Dealer. to- \day wes’ negandell boy. capital ob- | eralities as a result of my sur- vey, and for anybody who might raise the question, I admit that it hardly can be called “scientif- ic sampling”. After all, it’s a one-man staff that turns out this jeolumn and even if I worked They caught it at. a neighbor- hood house at 25-cent time. At the Zoo, they met and talked to two “swell gals” who went sight- seeing with them for half an , hour and promised to get on the jcamp S$ dance-date list as soon as 19. The former Columbia Univer- sity slugger asked and received his release from the Yankees in} 1939 after running up the amaz- : ing record of 2,130 consecutive Earl Lee Phillips, Miami, has servers as the most likely choice of ‘been sent his notice to report for| a physical examination, prior to; President Roosevelt to succeed induction into the army, Draft Charles Evans Hughes as chief \Board Chairman Horace O’Bryant | jannounced today. Phillips, who | Justice of the United States Su- in | back home ‘an} just simply aren’ ‘three eight-hour shifts a day | possible. One of the “swell gals” |€ames in the years between 19 'for a dozen week-ends, I could{is a junior at Georgetown Uni- jand 1939. : : ‘hardly make an appreciable in-|versity—the other is a govern-| For months prior to the diag- |road on interviewing the thou- | ment stenographer. | posi, which for the first time sands of lads'in khaki who pour! From here on, the trainee |informed the world of his dis- | into this town from nearby weekenders seem to go up or |€ase, Gehrig had been in what | training camps. idown financially, Some spend a | WS considered a prolonged bat- | The generalities: iday and as little as $1.50 seeing |ting slump. One of the heaviest |. @) Visiting draftees like to do} Washington. Others have dates ; hitters of all time, the big first jjust aboue the same things oth- | ($10-to $15 weekends, the boys | baseman was bewildered by his er sightseers and weekend vaca-;tell me) and go dancing and {inability to connect with the ball tionists do. | driving. jbut continued to field his posi- | (2) They do not go in for a lot} About half of the visiting |tion effectively and looked the | fof shocking devilmeht. Even if draftees I have seen carry cam- | Picture of health. ' ithey feel like that, it costs too!eras and snap everything from} On the suggestion that _his | /much money. |a giggling lass in the amusement | continuous play might have tired | ; (3) Aw amazingly few of them park to the orang-outang in the |him, he broke his consecutive | Zoo who has clowned his way | string and returned to the lineup | they can’t afford it, don’t know. to cope by eating most of hie Pate rest, but still was unable; any. girls, or have — s) is with a banana “pe for : fe i ra hen . a hat that slides off ent Doctors informed Gehrig, ..the | iquently, but which he always disease which affectel his spinal | ;cérd would prevent bis _ partici- pation in baseball, but it was{ understood he would not be phys- | i i j \have dates. The reasons are that j interested. ; I might add that the “average solemnly replaces before he con- |trainee” has about five bucks to | tinues eating. | spend for a weekend jaunt, which, { Are Well Behaved ‘icant : _if he’s just a private, is a week’s' Of course, there are boys who | Joa ly incapacitated. — p ‘pay. | get into trouble, but the percent- Ne in a, hg after his retirement, i i | ages—in rd sary aera a caer teiie winter hi deeper are minute. half dozen hard- a Pico i bitten policemen who patrol the 68 eee - cograee y j most unsavory sections of the "on of Asa aa te Mga | city have told me the soldier Gehrig pronounced himself in | Case Of Man With $5.20 There was Pvt. James Martin ;of Fort Meade. He arrived in ltown with $5.20 and four other | fellows. They spent $1.25 apiece good physical shape. er yesterday’s surprise confer- | ence between Benito Mussolini DE APATONE.OF and Adolf Hitler, and Gen, Max- | cITy ine Weygand is said in Paris to have presented a full re; n | the middie-easiern situation. to/,'¥eY Westers, after wading i i ‘ : pia ,. through some 13 inches of water! Peace Justice Franklin Aren- Premier Henri Philippe Petain|, fey i berg, who didn’t know there was dike senlnitiit: in history's rainiest April, tould | anystery, solved. one. for =the 8. | have picked up all the rain on a y LB * , London newspapers, —_mean- | blotter last month as the weather | SPetiff’s office and police station while, repeated their demands | man recorded the third driest May | me ering 2 Sb * pe =a that British troops take Syria at | since they started calling Mile ie cae cis ae once, before Germany is. able to iegpuathet Grandad “emperor” | rested a hit-run driver early this establish a foothold, In splte'ot tie bhi ee a ‘morning’ after an accident i British soldiers are said to be! Which the Ute, gant Mound {front of the Southern Cross massed on the Palestine and ‘traces of precipitation in May, the [hotel : Trans-Jordan frontiers, ready ‘0.14 inches he _ finally recorded |), An: Someries Stee Haiet me for a drive into the mandated ) wasn’t enough for @ bird bath, | aac = Fai ig * Ded area, but miliary observers’ in 4d not since 1927 has there been | winches wate tk % Sealy ss gaye 1. {a May so dry. That May in 1927, 6 Abe hotel, at Lofidon admit that Gen. Sir |; ; ni {about 2 a. m. . 4 | incidentally, is assured of a per-} j Archibald Wavell’s troops in’ jranent place on the record hook: |. A search at city and county north Africa are spread over so since there wasn't any rain then, |J#ils today failed to uncover any great an area, that Hitler, with’! while the previous record of 1ga¢ | Prisoners, however, and both de- his concentrated forces, may , showed of. partments spent. the. moming strike at any of half a dozen! The average temperature of 78) points, jdegrees was the same as last! Berlin papers said the meeting year’s and 1.1 degrees cooler than of Hitler and Mussolini yester- the average since 1871. Highest day means there will be imme- temperature recorded during the diate action on some front, but month was 86 degrees, and the! Stressed the possibility that a lowest was 68. frontal attack cn England may! The wind velocity averaged 10.8 | begin at any moment. miles per hour, but for four days, , Reichsmarshal Herman Goer- ' May 25-28, it was whistling along | ing declared the successful inva- |at a 23-mile clip. sion of Crete by air proves be-| Ten days were clear, 14 partly yond doubt that no island can ‘cloudy, seven cloudy, two with! consider itself safe from invasion | measurable precipitation, and six | under the conditions of modern | with traces of precipitation. war. In spite of the dry May, Key: Rome sources said the dicta- | West still has an accumulation of tors, in their conference yester- | 14.29 inches too much rain since | day, discussed fully the possibili- | the first of the year. ty of United States military par- | —_—_—_—_—_— ticipation in the war. REFUSES GREECE FOUR BUILDING | | ALL RECOGNITION. PERMITS ISSUED! = —— jsovier GOVERNMENT RE- FUSES TO ADMIT AMBASSA- DOR TO COUNTRY Charles S. Tift, 1028 Division street, yesterday was issued a building permit for $500 to be spent in, construction of a shed} as June records were opened with a day’s business of $790. Other permits went to Star) government, following Coffee Mill, 512 Greene street, | cedure in the cases of other coun- $100 for roof repairs; W. P. Nel- | tries occupied by Germany, today son, 728 Love Lane, $90, general | withdrew recognition from Greece repairs, and to Agusto Aguisto,|and refused to admit the Greek 1105 Packer street, $100 for a) ambassador as a representative of metal roof. \his country. In a brief explanation, the ——~—-=-ee—men | Kremlin declared Greece no long- TUESDAY | EVENTS er could be considered a sovereign Stone Church Service Club. 6:00 country pm. } (My Associated Presa) WEDNESDAY Florida Key Electric Cooperative Trustees et at 7:30 p.m. Tavernier Grocery Company. THURSDAY } Rotary Club meets 12:15 p.m.| TALLAHASSEE, June 3 St. Paul's Parish Hall, ; Governor Holland today permit- City Council meets, 8:00 ted to become law. without his Hall. signature, two bills relating to County Commi: meets #:00/Key West city taxation which p.m., County Courthouse. were introduced in the House by Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m | Rep. Bernie C. Papy and approved Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. | by the senate. West Have } ' } pm. Two Bills Relating To attempting to learn what had happened. Arenberg, who is on night po- lice duty and sleeps during the |day, explained that he had held : $!-10. Robert Bethel, bakery driver, after the accident, truck but to pay for damages. The youth said he fell asleep at the wheel. HALF-DAY CLOSING BEGINS THURSDAY Key West merchants this week will begin their annual summer practice of closing at 1 o'clock on Thursdays, it was announced to- day. MO THER RECEIVES DUPLICATE LETTER _- (Ry Associated Press) TULSA, Okla. June 3.—Dale Ross addressed the letter to his mother, slipped in a $10 bill, and then lost the envelope. He had to send another. His mother received both in tact, placed a stamp on it, and dropped it in a mailbox. INHERITS FARM BUFFALO, N. Y.—After work- ing 50 years on a farm near this city, Henry Larush inherited it from its late owner, Edward Wandel. Key Become Law (By Associated Press) The measures, law after 10 days on the gover- nor's desk, are HB 137! validat- ing Key West assessment rolls, and HB promises and adjustments in taxes as set up by Key West city coun- ci, which became | for rooms for the night (four of |them slept on cots). They had one good meal, with some “fancy { ‘junk we don’t get at camp”—cost They averaged seven beers, 70 cents. The rest of it was spent on taxis, other transpor- ‘had released him on his promise | ‘tion, hamburgers, rips pei If one fellow went over, | postcards for the family friend. he borrowed a quarter or a half ‘from one of his more affluent | buddies, | Now what did they do for en- | CHOOSE CLOTHES OF THEIR OWN (By Associated Prensa) BERN, Switzerland, June 3.— Kindly ladies who have been j knitting industriously for Swit- | zerland’s soldiers have discover- ed they probably were breaking the law. Under rationing regulations, boys are the best behaved gen- erally of all they have to deal with. Several of the lads I have talk- ed with have told me their great- est,regret is that they always miss “the big show”—Congress in session. Congress rarely works weekends—but if the complaints continue I'm going to Petition the House &’nd Senate to hold special Saturday night ses- : sions, with all the trimmings— “for traii:ees only”. SOOO ILM: THORN IN SIDE OF RAILROADING (te Amentinted Premay the soldiers are required to sur- | render clothing ration tickets for) gifts as well as purchases. Many: soldiers prefer, however, to keep i their small number of cards for clothes of their own choice and MOSCOW, June 3.—The soviet the same mail. The finder of the |have declined to surrender them its pro-' first had sealed it with $10 in- | for unsolicited gifts of homemade socks, mufflers and mittens. | TOWN BECOMES SEAFARING AGAIN (My Aanocinied Preass PASCAGOULA, Miss, June 3. —This sprawling town, boyhood home of Admiral Farragut and Henry Wads- wrote “The | Building of the Ship”, has be- come seafaring again. Three new vessels are being built here for {the Maritime Commission at a- cost of $4,000,000 each, resulting in construction of 700 new homes i nd tripling the village's popu- lation. MAN HAD GLASS EYE AKRON, Obio—A man on trial in this city for intoxication re- |his eyes were blood-shot by ex- | tracting his glass eye. The case was dismissed. | train. TDD ADIIL LS IMPOSE FINES ON BERLIN MERCHANTS (Ry Associated Preae) BERLIN, June 3.—During the month of March, 3,975 shopkeep- ers in Berlin were fined for vio- lating the price laws. By order of the price commis- sioner, all merchandise for sale, from fur coats to flower pots and dill pickles, must show a price | ‘ag to enable the public to check and thereby prevent profiteering. | CLOSTER. N. J.—Sheritt wil- liam R. Brown of this city dis- covered after his birthday 1372, approving .com- | futed an qfficer’s testimony that | attended by police chiefs and jtectives that someone had [his birthday gift, 2 pair of candlesticks. } i | ' | f i | { | EMORY PIERCE GIVEN DEGREE pasbeiren to sr westea AT UNIVERSITY OF =| FLORIDA | Margarita Gates, Guillermo Fer- | 'nandez, Jose Rodriguez, Gustavo | ‘Perez, Rogelio Chavez, Charles Emory Lowe Pietce, son of Mr. | | and Mrs. Emory Pierce, 417 Eliza-' | beth street, last night at Gaines- \ ville received his doctor of phil-' ‘osophy degree from the Univer- |Sity of Florida, it was learned j Agraduate of Key West high. . school and the University of Flor- ies where he received his bache- | lor of science degree in 1935, Dr. Pierce formerly was supervisor of , io Key West aquarium and did | graduate work in marine biology | jat the University of Liverpool in England. At 28, Dr. Pierce plans to ac- cept.a position as a teacher, if he! is not called into the army. Old-timers here say his is the first Ph. D. degree ever received by a Key Wester. PIRATES COVE CAMP Pirates Cove, key fishing camp, thas closed for ably until Dec. 15, it was an- nounced teday. The camp closed after the longest and most success- ful season it has enjoyed. BERLIN, the season, prob-’ registered in Key West, volun-| teered for duty and will fill one of the two local openings if he is ac- i cepted. O’Bryant said he has been noti- fied that Reinardo Soriano, 1011 Whitehead street, first on the lo- cal list; has been turned down as physically unfit, and will not be | ‘called. Members of the board will meet | tonight to classify reports on other draftees, and it is understood men ( behind Soriano on the list will be | sent their orders to report for) physical examination. FOR PERIOD OF LAST SIX WEEKS AT CUBAN INSTITUTION 6th Grade—Aurora Leon. Sth Grade—Dora 4th Grade—Rose ida Spencer, 3rd Grade—Alba | fatson, Ale- | I Rodriguez, nm - 2nd Grade—Gloria Watson, Mario Rodriguez, Frank Balbon- | tin, Henry Baker, Ist’ Grade—Norberto _ Pons, | Sylvia Hernandez, Tomas Baker, Charles Ingraham, Elena Castillo, Ricardo Perez, Celinda Collazo, | ‘Blanca Leon. Gates, Martin Leon. ; Perfect Aittendance: Marfo Rodriguez, Gloria Watson, Rene ~ Rodriguez, Dora Spencer, Aleida Spencer, Rose Watson, Sylvi Hernandez, Celinda Coliazo, Charles Ingraham, Alicia Pons, Aurora Leon, Frank Pereira, | Blanca Leon, Alba Rodriguez, | William Hernandez. Honor Roll (covering the dis- tinguished pupils during the com- plete school term, 1940-41; 6th Grade—Aurora Leon, jandrina Valdez, Hector Machin. Sth Grade—Dora Spencer, Eve- lio Fones. 4th Grade—Rose Watson, Rose Alfonso. 3rd Grade—William —Hernan- dez, Bianca Leon, Alba Rod- i Rose Machin. | i title, Sylvia Hernandez, Tomas Collazo, Margarita Gates, Guil-! lermo Fernandez, Jose Rodriguez, Gustavo Perez, Rogelio Chavez, Charles Gates, Martin Leon. preme Court. i Chief Justice Hughes, 79, an- | nounced his retirement in a jetter to the President yesterday, The retirement will become effective July 1. Since President Roosevelt has not vet filled the vacancy created by the tetirement of Associate Justice James C. McReynolds, it is regarded hee as unlikely that a cheif justice will be appointed in the immediate future, He had been an associate jus- ice between gone 19) Pel fore accepting Repu nomination for President of the United States, running against and being defeated by Woodrow Wilson. A child prodigy, Justice Hughes had one of the most honor-filled careers in American history. His first important task was in 1906, when as assistant to the |Dmited States attorney general, he directed the investigation into coal company operations through- out the nation. He was nomi- nated for mayor of New York City the following year, but de- lined to accept and was elected governor of New York for two terms. In the following years, he was appointed to the supreme court, ran for Prerident of the United States, was appointed = seeretary of state in 1921, served as chair- i man of the Washington arms limi tation conference in 1921, corved asamember of the permanent world court of arbitration, costs on a charge of peddling without a county license. The above reports were issued , by Miss Benildes Remond, prin- cipal