The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 7, 1941, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit | Sasa Se eetS i rs eee PRICE FIVE CENTS Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West Cttizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1941 Roosevelt: Stands: Ready To | Take Over Plant And End Strike Of 3-Day Standing MOND SCOUT. SAYS PLAY- dad kee ees ERS WILL ACCEPT OFFERS | WASHINGTON, June. 7.— to carry on production, according |President Roosevelt has the pa- to the plan. IF TRAINING IS PROVIDED |pers and orders on his desk’ Che STATE LEAGUE CLUBS SEEKING: i LOCAL TALENT ROY HAMLIN, KEY WEST DIA- Est Heminguay, Noe Author, Visits ‘Key: West CHM LLL LS LS ‘MORE BRITISH SHIP LOSSES (Ry Associated Press) BERLIN, June 7.—Subma- tines and bombers yesterday destroyed 30,000 tons of Brit- ish shipping in a convoy raid in the North Sea, and a long- range bomber sank another freighter 300 miles off the west coast of Africa, a bul- letin announced today. In Key West s e e “««"' Administration Forces Feel which will send the army into the | conferred pe apeemeie — a o,° W t t! eri iati t ' At least four local paticlavecolaleiiglewued calle eulies me yesterday, flew to the California | Britain S$ Position In ar : ’ After All Not So Gloomy’ After All inave been offered berths with three-day strike is-settled before | plant last night in an effort to i (By i ; Monday, White House Secretary | settle the strike. The Union men} Fort Saugerdale: “ana Ocala i Stephen T. Early said today. | said the strike was not authoriz- | Washington a : | of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, June 7.—John; Winant, “would like to see the; waspInGTON, D, Co June 7. G. Winant, Unitel States ambas-| United States in the war, but) : teams of the Florida State league,; With negotiations apparently ed, and declared the men went} jRoy Hamlin, manager of the Key | at a standstill between company | out on the responsibility of local | . rine sador. to London, today painted | ‘hey don’t blame us for keeping | —At least five highway sections for a group of administration i in the Key West area should be |West Conchs and an _ expert}and union leaders, Early said the | union officials. Speaking of Rudolf Hess, No. 3 | Proposal Under Considera- tion Contained In Bill Being Studied In United States Senate Left Late Yesterday Aft- ernoon With Joe Russell To Fish In Cuban Wa- ters } | i | Ernest Hemi + big, | mingway, big. brown «(By Associated Press) and looking about as you'd expect picker of diamond talent, an- President will order the army to! The three-day-old strike is |nounced yesterday. |take charge of the factory Mon- holding up production of about! : 8 ;,; day morning. | one-fifth of the nation’s aircraft} } Hamlin, who, has ‘severed his Army mechanics will be used | supply. Ernest Hemingway to look, perch- ed on a tall stool in Sloppy Joe's connection as manager with the} yesterday afternoon and held up| his Cuban fishing trip by talking! about everything under the sun— except China. “You can see how it is, kid,” Hemingway explained. “I'd like to give you this China story and} let you write it, but it's coming | vut in PM Monday, and they'd call " me a louse if I gave it away now. | They're paying me for it, and you} can write a story about the fish- | ing trip and get paid for that.” | China reminded him of some- | thing else: H “Hey Joe,” (Joe Russell, who owns and operates Sloppy Joe's is Hemingway’s companion on the Cuba fishing trip) “when we | get to that Chink restaurant in | Havana, I've got something here’ll ; knock him dead.” ‘TOKYO AWAITING | softball league-leading Pepper's | Plumbers, said managers of the| Fort Lauderdale and Ocala nines ; have wired him asking for the; jservices of local players. | FURTHER REPORT | Herb Thomas, »* Lauderdale ; ‘ manager, wants Julius’)(Dodo) | ee | Villareal, Conch baseball and | | Plumber softball outfielder. Vil- PERTAINS TO NEGOTIATIONS | yal, a heavy hitter, has placed | BETWEEN DUTCH EAST (among the topnotch sluggers in| both sports. INDIES AND JAPAN Cyril (Belis) Griffin, icatcher, and a member of the! Conchs, also may go to Fort, (By Associated Press) !Lauderdale. Griffin, although in! TOKYO, June 7.—Tokyo cab- his 40's, is. a dangerous hitter in| inet members announced. today | the pinches and has displayed a} they will await a complete re-| knack for training young pitch- | port on negotiations between the e's: He has had a number of | "i {tryouts with minor league clubs. Dutch East Indies and Tokyo be- | Players who may accept the| fore revealing their answer to @'Qeala offer are Juanie Navarro, | flat Dutch rejection of Japanese | rated the best fielding shortstop | demands. {in Key West, and Joe (H { A hdd diudul veteran louse) | Admitting that the Dutch re- Navarro | | Casa, veteran pitcher. NAME SNGETON. HARBOR» MASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HEAD SURPRISED AT APPOINTMENT (By Associated Presa) TALLAHASSEE, June 7.— The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Stephen Cochran Singleton as harbor master at the port of Key West until February 7. 1942. SINGLETON ASKS TIME TO CONSIDER NEW JOB Chamber of commerce Secre- senators a picture of Britain’s|Nazi whose sensational flight | ibattle against Germany, which! from Germany to Scotland last REGISTERED == FOR om.” [Stablished now that Hess rok ‘DEFENSE “SERVICE studied as locations for “flight | gloomy”. | established now that Hess broke | ing fields of the type in use in Speaking before the senators; with Adolf Hitler and fled Ger-'Germany, under authorization lin Vice President’ Henry Wal-}many “in fear of his life”. \Jace’s office, Winant said Brit-| Winant's statement, thought to , Contained in the Emergency Road ain has enough men and equip-|be about what he told President | Construction now under | iment “on the spot” to hold the| Roosevelt on his arrival here: = , ENTIRE NUMBER OF BLANKS Suez canal. |from London earlier in the week, Study in the Senate, it was de- | British morale is good, he re-j followed closely on the heels of: RECEIVED FROM TALLA- | norted, and the American naval|the President's press conference | “ated today ‘by SeGater Rpi-Bo- HASSEE HAVE BEEN DIS-/patrol had proved itself of real|declaration that stories of im-'Carran, (D.. Nev.), pioneer pro- |value in the battle of the Atlan-|minent British defeat are Ger- | TRIBUTED HERE tic. Many of the British, said man propaganda. {ponent of development of a sys- - — -~--—~|tem of “flight strips for the j | seapeceaeenes ale TEACHERS WILL { | | More than 3,500 signed regis- ‘tration forms for civilian defense |have been returned to his office, | William V. Little, chairman of ‘the division of labor and person- jnel, Monroe county defense | 'KKK’S ARRANGING °='=<*%« | | Aimed at providing a nation- , wide networ! © @tiiergency land- | ing and take-off areas for national ATTEND SCHOOL FOR LARGE FUND ) —* ‘council, told members of council at a meeting this morn- the | LEFT THIS MORNING FOR TO BE USED FOR BOLSTERING strip” plan would utilize existing Hemingway produced a heavi-| Ply to demands for trade privil-|is a member of the Trojan nine | tary Stephen C. Singleton this ly sealed document, proclaiming eg¢s had been a flat rejection,jand the Barber softball squad,|™morning expressed surprise at in Chinese (with a picture) that | the cabinet members said it would ‘while Casa, who has had organiz-| his appointment to the post of Chiang Kai Shek, dictator. and) be necessary to make a complete ed baseball experience, is with} harbor master, but had little to generalissimo of China, knows | study of the negotiations before the Conchs and formerly was ;Sa¥ about it. * Ernest Hemingway to be a citizen | deciding on the next step. ‘with the Pirates. | “In view of the work piled up * of good character, and granting! (Dutch forces, recently armed} A number of other promising |p My. desk, I shall ask to be ex- | P% ENROLLMENT IN SUM. _ CIVILIAN MORALE DURING | Di#hways, with adjacent or near- MER SESSION NEXT YEAR pa a bad rected | While highly | (By Ansociated Press) 1 mal civil air traffic, period Friday, Little said 2,- {Harris school, accompanied: « Ga,’ June 7.—Kw- : ing. \ | B. M. Duncan, chairman of the ! council; Ben D. Trevor, vice | j chairman, and Mrs. E. M. Berko- witz, secretary, heard Little’s re- At the end of the registra- | { | } | j flight of its W:; E. Fowler, principal of the | him, safe passage. through China. | with United States equipment, | young players, Hamlin reports, | used from maling any-stafement} som are said to be ready to fight be- are reluctant to give up steady fore yielding to Japan. Observers | employment for the uncertainties at Batavia say Dutch leaders are! of a baseball career. However, convinced it will be necessary to}they quickly added they would fight Japan sometime, and they snap up the opportunity under have adopted the attitude “it! other circumstances. might as well be now”.) Hamlin said he will invite ee so HERE SUNDAY i ball managers to a meeting KEY WEST RESIDENT DIED AT HOME YESTERDAY ! Monday night, in order to learn AFTERNOON Hemingway, who painted Key ‘West's portrait in letters of blood | with his “To Have and Have Not,” | found a most prosaic Key West | yesterday. He had arrived only a! few hours before, and with Joe} and their guide, Jose Rodriguez, ' shoved off at about 5:30 o’elock | aboard his cabin cruiser, Pilar, (remember the character in “For Whom The Bell Tolls?”) i Stephen Bancroft, Pan-Amer- ican pilot who flew the Heming- | ways to China and brought them back to San Francisco last month, | is another member of the fishing party. At the moment, he’s com-} peting in the Cat Cay fishing tournament in the Bahamas, but he'll join Hemingway and Joe) sometime in the next day or two) for the fishing party off the Cuban | coast, | Hemingway, who was greeting | Key Westers like long-lost broth- ers as we talked, was willing to say that China probably can fight | forever against Japan, but he} thought the question of how much aid China is getting from the United States hit pretty close to his own story in PM. So we moved over the Spanish Civil War, which is a! wide open story, since the book al- ; ready is on the stands. Heming- way has covered that one pretty, thoroughly, anyway. ‘The author's two boys, Pat and Gregory, will join him in Cuba next week. Mrs. Hemingway, the former Martha Gellhorn — ace (Continued on Page Four) to Weygand Says Join Any Movement Directed (By Associated Preas) LONDON, June 7. — General Maxine Weygand, commandant of France's armies in Africa, has told Premier General Henri Philippe Petain and the French cabinet he | refused flatly to permit transfer! without making an will have absolutely nothing to do to the German army of trucks, | first time such a thing has hap-|N. C-St. L. Ra move against Great! fuel and other supplies held by | pened in months : with any Britain or the United States, formed quarters in Vichy vealed today Weygand's stand is said by in formed Vichy officials to hav opened a wide breach between French leaders wishing military collaboration with the Axis and those unwi im to move against France's old allies. Reports reaching here said Gen- eral Weygand told the cabinet he n- re- | { { the reason for delay in com- pletion of the Trumbo Island baseball diamond. Players need the diamond to get in shape, Hamlin said. and local fans have been promised games at the field for weeks. | The committee was granted | $150 by city council and a like s ; sum by the county to com- Funeral services for Mrs. Fran-| plete the field. Five teams are ces N. Hyatt, age 77, who died! reported ready for action and yesterday afternoon, 4:05 o’clock,| await only the opening of the at the 918 North Beach residence,| Trumbo diamond. will be held 5:00 o'clock tomor-| The meeting will be held 8:00} row afternoon. {o'clock in City Hall. The body will be taken from} In announcing his “‘tésignation the Lopez Funeral Home chapel!as manager of the Plumbers, | to the St. Mary's Catholic | Hamlin declared he quit because | church, with burial in the fam-!of the “uncalled for actions” of | ily plot in the city ceme-|Jackie Carbonell, captain of the! tery. Rev. J, J. Murphy, S. J.,/team, Carbonell, according.’ to | will officiate, Hamlin, benched players without | Survivors include a brother, | sufficient reasons in recent! John Condi; four nephews, C. C.' games, and in one instance used | Duval of Jacksonville, Harry Du-!a player not on the roster, which val of Miami, William and Ed- | would have permitted the oppo- mund Duval of Key West. sition to protest the game had Pallbearers will be Leon Cur-|the opposing team lost ty, Leroy Torres, Merville Ros-| Carbonell claims the am, Steve Whalton, William} benched contemptly criticized Sawyer and Robert Braun. Positions assigned them on the | so icicle es tei - jfield and at bat and that one of} = j the rebuked performers continu- H W: ll N t ally razzed a teammate e ] 0 | Leo Stanley, who has obtained j his release from the Sawyer’s | Barbers, will probably appear in |a NavSta uniform next week 'NO ARRESTS MADE DURING PAST WEEK i | ! | { players and his men are ready to fight for defense of the empire, but he is! Monroe county sheriff's depu-4 unalterably opposed to military ;ties and constables today had cooperation with Germany, and gone through an entire week ‘tomary. | for eight months, he will, | Florida, the appointee | has to give until I have had time the matter due consideration’ Singleton declared. “The only question in my mind”, he said, “is that of how I can best serve Key West”. Frank Papy, present harbor master and brother of Rep. Ber- nie C. Papy, explained that the appointment to February is cus- Although the commis- sion puts Singleton in office only if he accepts the post, remain in office for two years, with the governor |holding the authority after Feb- ruary to replace him at will. Under the legislative act creat- ing the post of harbor master in full authority over the docking of ships, and may charge a fee up to $20 per ship, depending upon the amount of service rendered. In Key West, however, harbor master’s duties are light, and the charge seldom runs over $5 per ship. Singleton, incident- ‘ally, once Jed the fight to prevent Papy’s collection of fees from privately owned yachts. NAZIS SUBSTITUTE «ny BERLIN, June 7.—Wood fiber may dethrone “King Cotton” in Nazi Germany Big-scale preparations, based jon work by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Research, are being made to insure a continuous sup- ply of wood. About 48,000 acres have been devoted exclusively to growing of “giant” poplar trees, considered best for wood fiber. The trees, cultivated from pop- | lar trees from Siberia, North America and the Rhine, grow 20 to 40 percent faster than or- dinary poplars, according to Dr. von Wettstein of the institute. Two years after the young trees have been planted their sprigs can be harvested. ASKS COURT TO “BREAK HABIT” the | 500 forms had been distributed | threé of the school’s teachers, Mrs, Klux Kian “members, holding terest at this time jto persons who wished to fill Mavereen Meador, Miss Jennie their annual convention here to- military value, in making possible jthem out at their homes. The ne Johnson and Mrs. Ethea “AY, announced they will raise a both speedy decentralization of jentire 6,000 forms received from ' Stricker, left Key West thi $1,000,000 “Americanism fund” air forces in case of attack or other Tallahassee thus have been used, ;>'TCKer, ‘ett Sey West this morn- for bolstering civilian morale | emergency, and in and several hundred men and ing to attend summer school. during the next year. i rieb permitting | women who left their names and! Driving together as far as Tal- Klan leaders said the money "®#¥¥ concentrations of military jaddresses with the committee jahassee, the group will separate Will be spent in newspaper and roca in desired areas, Senator will be furnished with those tak- | there, with the teachers attending Tadio publicity, with distribution M¢Carran pointed out, en from a fresh supply. ‘classes at the Florida State Col- of pamphlets and speakers carry- In order that full classifica- jege for Women, while Fowler ing a part of the program. tion of the registrants may not will go on to Nashville, Tenn., to Members of the organization be delayed, all those who have | college, also considered a move to not turned in their forms have; After receiving his master’s de- the hood and mask, which was pula fue cae Wednesday before been urged to do so as soon aS gree at Peabody in August, Fow- outlawed by the Klan several = snot committee = —_ possible, either to Little's office jer. will drive to Kentucky to years ago. Bier a post eee oe at 314 Simonton street or to) spand-a week with his father, oad pica a member, members of the fire department | thdn visit friends in Memphis, is desig: to —— at Stations No. 1 (City Hall) and Tefn., before returning here. President Roosevelt's call an No. 3, Virginia and Grinnell sat SR ee additional $125,000,000 for -na- streets. Additional persons “MRS. KIRCHIK tional defense highway construc- wish to register may do so if IMPROVEMENT tion. they turn in their names and ad- : ee | Though the flight strip progrem dresses at the above named loca- | ; ‘is something he had long ad- tions within the next few days. | Leon Myers, 517 Frances street, vocated, Senator MeCarran said Executive officers of the de-| | today was reported better, but he feels haphazard construction fense council said the results of | still undergoing treatment at should be avoided; and to this end the voluntary registration are | {Special to The Citiveny \Marine hospital, a week after he he proposes to urge a definite un- gratifying and a credit to the| TALLAHASSEE, June 7.—~ fell from a scaffold at the sea- derstanding that locations of such citizens of. Monroe county, The Charging extreme, cruelty, Mrs. men’s barracks. emergency landing areas be sub- -regitration was conducted with- Roberta Kirchik, Thursday was Myers suffered a broken leg ject to approval of both the Civil awarded a.divorce in Leon county icirenit court from Jack Kirchik, | Mjathi municipal judge. | Mys. Kirchik said her husband ‘dissuaded her from a_ religious jmarriage ceremony, on the! joutsany ballvhoo, stunts, mass and injury to his collar bone when Aeronautics Administrater and “8 | meetings, oratorv .or high pres- an object dropped from above the Secretary of War, and be se- ingness to serve their community | ground she would then feel no/ I t Vv te da in case of an emergency, indi- | religious scruples if she later de- e e es r y ; { In Purchase Of Rest Beach sure of any kind, ‘That such a ‘knocked him from the seaffold lected only after careful study of cates a unity of spirit which is sired a divorce. The complaint j ' ' | ! tion came forward freely and | voluntarily, to indicate their will- large percentage of the popula- two stories above the ground. (Continued om Page Fraur’ very encouraging, Little declar-;charged Judge Kirchik main- ted. |tained an unpleasant attitude to- Little said the Monroe county | ward her family. defense council wishes to ex-| press its appreciation of the full ‘PARIS co-operation whith it has re} ceived, in conducting this reeis- tration, from the American Le-/| gion, the Boy Scouts, The Key) (Ry Acsoctated Presa) i tions for the $40,000 purchase of West Citizen. the Cuban Club, | a a oa Rest Beach, a warranty deed at principals and teachers of all the | tauran’ PORES. 800 5 Schools, pastors of the churches, |able to discard their scidsors, County Clstk ore ug igoke a organized labor, members of the which have been used to clip Mice Fev today, TOE fire department, Senior and food tickets from ration cards| The deed, filed lste yesterday Junior Woman's clubs, employes |The cards will be perforated Yr » . was dated May 26. the it; purchased at the courthouse, National | make ‘the tickets saosin rT Une when Thompson and Adams‘ Eaton Youth Administration and a si scissors—or — foldiny property from South | number of individuals in Key , knives with setssor attachments, 2owired the : West and on the keys | which have been at a premium— ‘Shore SSIES jfrequenters. of restaurants, coffee . BLANK CARTRIDGES jhouses and tea-rooms usually’ learry small boxes of lump sugar, ; DINERS-OUT NEED INGENUITY Norberg Thompson and A Rest Beach, whieh includes o 'Maitland Adams early two lweeks ago completed negotia- j the French in Africa Members of the cabinet, accord. ing to the reports, agreed at a meeting May 28, under pressure from Berlin, to begin a campaign CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—The way recently pe- titioned the court to enjoin Sam The usual Saturday night cele-/ Shipley, 22, from standing in bration is expected to break the | front of fast trains until emerg- “crimeless” period tonight. lency brakes are applied. It was “ alleged that Shipley was in the FORCED TO QUIT SIOUX CITY. Ia.—After shoot- ing at himself three times with a arrest—the | ; covered he had used blank cart- ridges. 30-MINUTE habit of watching until fast revolver, a man of this city dis- | jsince only saccharine is served sin public places. Many have special folders for | their food cards, with little trans- | parent pockets for “change” slips. Privileged diners-out sis received est privately owned beach in Key | West, « tract with » frontage of © L750 feet. ; Adams txday ssid he and ‘Thompson have no immediate plans for development of the i to wipe out Free French forces of \freights and passenger trains ap- General Charles De Gaulle and PHILADELPHIA — A firm in| proached. then stepping on the seize territory occupied by them.) this city which was robbed twice | tracks, necessitating the applica- When General Weygand was in- | quit business with the explana-/tion of emergency brakes. As formed of the agreement, he de-/ tion: “What is the use of carrying | the trains slow down to a stop, clared he would not move against/on a business for the benefit of | Shipley would step from the (Continued on Page Four) | robbers?” | tracks. BATTERY CHARGING Road Service Lou Smith Auto Service Phone No. 5 White at Fleming | whiskey and peanut butter.