The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 10, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 138. ‘Washington Awaiting Report On Sinking Of American Ship — Ws Claimed Vessel Was Sunk By German Submarine In South Somewhere Atlantic (By Ansociated Press) WASHINGTON, June 10.—The American steamer Robin Moor definitely was sunk in waters of the United States neutrality zone, the navy department an- nounced today, but officers cau- tioned against speculation on the cause of the sinking until a full report has been received. Naval officers said they expect a full report today upon the ar- rival in port of the Brazilian freighter Osorio, unofficially re- ported to have picked up one boat load of survivors from the Robin r. First word of the ship’s sinking came in a radio message from the Osorio to the steamship Lages. The report said a lifeboat filled with survivors from the Robin Neutrality Zone 'WAR CUTS DOWN | STILL TRAVELING WITH- | IN BORDERS OF U.S. (Dy Assoctated Press) NEW YORK, June 10.— | Americans will travel America {this summer as they never have |traveled i* before. That's the 'report from national parks and | monuments, where early figures point to an increase of 10 to 20 percent in number of visitors over the record-breaking totals of 1940. (1938 was the previous peak year.) The upward swing in 1940 was attributed primarily to the war, | which practically put an end to | war is influencing vacation plans again this year, not only by | cutting Americans off from for- eign tourist attractions but also by stimulating a defense effort which has boomed employment ;and brought increased incomes. Uncle Sam, at the more than } 165 national parks and monu- jments he maintains, entertained -— TRAVEL ABROAD |BUT AMERICAN PUBLIC IS/| | vacation travel abroad. The same | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1941 [CONVOY PROBLEMS AS SEEN DURING WAR _ ACTIVITIES SHOWN WHAT CAN AND MAY | HAPPEN IN CONNECTION WITH PATROLLING LANES IN RESTRICTED ZONES iGovernment Officers Say Plane Plant Strike Ended With Resumption Of Work (By Associated Press) INGLEWOOD, Calif, June 10.;had returned to work -was not |—Officers of the army air corps revealed by the army, but it \today were rapidly taking over j was understood operations have jexecutive positions at the North}been at least partly restored. {American Aviation company} Strike leaders, who defied both plant here as a guard of more} the government and national 4 4 ;than 3,000 soldiers continued to{CIO officers to call the strike, sped ers reeled hold CIO pickets at a distance |continued to urge employes of WASHINGTON, June 10—To/ (¢ about a mile from the plant, | the plant to hold out for a mini- |convoy or not to convoy may be; Officers assuming charge of}mum hourly wage of 75 cents. just another cracker barrel is- | the plant said the four-day strike| CIO officers in Washington isue to John Q. Citizen but to,is over and called production | declared net would nee eS ca ‘i it’ ! “nearly normal”. |government get operators from ia paket egy eg ee | Many of the plant’s 12,000 em- ‘other states | if enough of the | inti wm ees Y | ployes were back on the job to-|North American employes do not jcomplicated by the airplane and |day, taking advantage of army/return to put the piant back in {the radio. jProtection. Exactly how many j full operation. Plane spotters and radio sound ui devices are the new pawns in} !the convoy game. By and large, ; : 7 Bauman Saw oa Ine cone ‘DEFER TIME IN AWAITS ORDERS {the airplane is the better awn ‘ere Fone, ane war, ‘TWO DRAPTEES' ON APPOINTMENT i a | SINGLETON TO ACCEPT POST they have an advantage, | i lacked in 1914-18. They're clos-! DELAY CAUSED IN AWAITING } BUT AWAITS OFFICIAL NOTICE By MORGAN M. BEATTY i bast jer fe Me steamer lanes than are | Ex NATIONS TO i Britain’s own air scouts. When; {they spot a convoy, they don’t; have to wait for a submarine to come alone and hit the targets. lithey can let fly their own ei | Two prospective draftees from} Stephen C. Singleton. chamber And it doesn’t take much of a, “ey West probably will not be | f commerce secretary and newly bomb to put a thin-skinned mer- | C@lled into service before June | appointed - Key West harbor chant vessel out of business. 24, Horace O'Bryant, chairman of ; master, said today he has no in- Radio spotting devices are /|the local selective service board, | tention of taking up his new more sensitive in this war, but | announced today. still they are not keen enough; O’Bryant said the men werfe to! Tallahassee. Che Key West Citizen IN THE U.S.A. ‘Churchill Claims. Loss Key West, Florida, has the — most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Of Crete Was Due To Lack Of Suffient Number 0 | f Anti-Aircraft Guns By MORGAN M. BEATTY, | HALIFAX. N.S. June 10— This is the city that wars built. For 190 years this Anglo-Sax- jon citadel of the North Ameri- can continent has thrived—and jsuffered—in wartime; struggled for economic security in peace. boom is on again. Halifax (popu. 75,000) may not be, the biggest port in the world, but today it probably is the busiest. It moves the most ships, a large | Britain. “It's a pity we must always i thrive on war”, says Port Mana- {ger Ralph Hendry. | He wishes there were no such ‘HALIFAX BOOMS ON BRITISH AID JUST AS ALWAYS IN WAR TIME Today the story is the same. The} percentage of them in convoy for, Tells House Of Commons That Shortage Of Artil- | AP Feature Service Writer lite Nova Scotians, and soldiers, and sailors from ev rywhere rub} |shoulders. It’s Heiitax’s nearest | (By Associaced Prens) approach to a nigh’ club. Because) LONDON, June 10.—Prime . | it has a good piyno the customers | Minister Winston Churchill, an- hen } Lied par, eee eoey ct | swering criticism of his govern- A Geography Lesson /ment’s handling of the disastrous Ask a native Haligonian (Hali-' ¢, paign, tod: told the | faxer to you) why it takes a war. sisted 2 mal to push his city into prosperity, | house of cémmons the defeat [ang ell answer you short and could be blamed on a Jack of anti- | Gecy-aphy. Halifax has one of aircraft guns. the fit natural harbors in the | seas js", Further inland, connected; Admitting that 15,000 men had ; Wath to outer harbor by a deep; been killed, wounded or captured narrows, lies a huge anchorage ‘basin, where scores of ships jin the-fighting for the Greek is- luties until he receives official | tragic design for prosperity here. lie, awaiting convoy. The port is| land, Churchill blamed former notice of his appointment from! But he knows, as do all native | ice-free all winter. Geography also made Nova Sco- Pee sieved aaah Moor had been picked up, and added the ship had been tor- pedoed by a German submarine. The Osorio was said to be! doah, searching for two other lifeboats! smoky. carrying 35 passengers and crew} tina, 360 960; Rocky Mountain members, but no word has been! 627.847: ; : petiived td indicate alan tn oy | Colorado, 627,847; Yosemite, Cal- het * [ernie 567,081; | Yellowstone The'Robin Moor, ‘afier ‘ailing yC™Mns Montana - Idaho; 526,- 252. May. 6-teomeNew York for-Cape- a3. town, South Africa. was said in ‘cao ntl hgh mesons At seal " it 8 Hen: = the first messae to have been de-, fred tere ang Pekenry.. Mery , i land, The Statue of stroyed May 21, somewhere in the » ; i “ dott ‘Adlintic. | Liberty was second, with 395,- | 633. Smallest national park at- oe oa bie was under’ tendance was at Mt. McKinley, e command of Capt. Edward! alaska, where 1,201 visitors were Myers and carried a crew of kok ight agua | registered. Only 35 persons went owl jto Mount of the Holy Cross na- PROPERTY HERE =" ACCEPTS NEW POSITION |RECREATION COORDINATOR T © To ; TO LEAVE THURSDAY FOR JACKSONVILLE | 16,741,855 visitors in 1940. The five most popular parks in 1940 Virginia, 950,807; Great Tennessee-North — Caro- ! | | Col. G. D. Hatfield, 2 Marvin Lewis, who served here mandant of marines in Key West, | for three months as _defense-rec- bas purchased for about. $2,200! reation coordinator under WPA, four lots bounded by Eleanor, returned from a trip to Jackson- Leon and Von. Phister streets, a | ville today to announce he has ac- deed revealed today. The prop-: cepted a position as personnel erty formerly was owned by /and recreation director Vergna N. Lowe, Dade county, {tional Container Roberto C. Crippa, New York, | Jacksonville. bought from Alan R. Kidd, Lake! Lewis, who will leave here county, Illinois, two lots in the | Thursday to begin his new job Company in Martello Towers subdivision for | Monday, said he will make every | French berths day after day un-|°f Mrs. Hyatt and that of her \effort within the next few days’ til these big battle cruisers were | husband will $3,300. | to get work on the Trumbo Island | baseball diamond completed be- fore his departure. “Although the Jacksonville of- and attendance figures; Shenan- | - bolaseiare hes in tine, enough | go into service June 17, but delays The British convoy problem is in medica] examinations have |more complicated in this war {made it impossible for the board } ‘appointee the duties of the office. | Haligonians, that you can’t beat. . | The chamber of commerce sec- | fate and geography. Nova Scotia tia, and more particularly Halifax ‘vetary was appointed harbor mas-| sits out on the eastern fringe of |hatbor, a British perch to k ;ter by Governor Holland, and the | the continent, some 2,700 miles the French in North America in appointment confirmed by the from Liverpool. So Halifax once te 18th century. Parliament sub- senate last week. {more becomes the Gibraltar of | sidized a colony in 1749, sent it to | Singleton said he will accept the |the western world, the great | the Harbor of Chebucto in post and expressed thanks for the | cross! of Empire, where aa. That colony became Hi ‘cooperation of Frank Papy, out-' Hindu turban is almost as com- There followed the Eo Stet barioar aster, who offered’ mon as a New Zealander’s wedge pe ic - assistance in teaching the new . (overseas) cap. bealitex: Then the A Atos olution. Halifax remained loyal _ “Snip It Short’ Evidencerot the cross-roads na- t¢ the end, supplied blockading ivateers for the Brit: ture of Halifax is on every side. | figets and pri ish. And made money. A lank, blond Australian sol- During the Napoleonic wars, dier flops into a barber's chair. “Snip it short”, he says. “I; the Royal Navy kept big fleets in don’t know when or where J'll the harbor. Wolfe planned the | get the next haircut”. icapture of Quebec here. And it | Charles Wiendahl, pleading! A shipload of Chinese sailors | was here during the wat of 1812 guilty to a drunk driving charge #*tives at immigration headquar- | that the world’s first modern con- before Judge William V. Albury , ters: fresh from a dramatic rescue 'yvoys were made up and escorted ‘this morning, was ordered to pay ff @ torpedoed freighter. ‘through the American blockade a fine of $100 and costs and sen-| “Marvelous, these Chinamen”, by British men 0’ war. tenced to 30 days in jail, with S@¥s their English mate. “Every ‘The 1914 Push IN COURT TODAY, t i] {the war office ‘ ite,” h another 30-day sentence if he fails ™n stuck to his post when we! {to pay the fine. j were hit”. : | Irving Albury, negro, was fined’ Understanding not a word, the The story was the same in the; shortage of artillery, “which , he said made it impossible to defend Hore-Belisha, one cipal critics of the ign, tet, ble vin ixcraft, Churchill said it would have been a mistake to build more airports when there were no guns with which to defend them. Churchill ridiculed the sugges- tion that anti-aircraft guns were available for use in Crete. So many of the guns have been used on ships, he declared, that it was necessary to weaken the defenses of England in order to get as much artillery at Crete as was placed there, Churchill said he does not ex- Crimean and Boer wars. The Big: pect commons to “get in, the of Na-| because the British fleet does to select the two men who will be jItalian, and Japanese fleets, nor ‘ . . the men shall be given 10 days’ f le aval | the hel of Dace Bears navel tice betcnesoing ‘ith thd eae iti: iralt; r. parently, has felt it, could nei tons of those at, the top of thé list have not been, completed. work, and so has had to shorten : ‘ escort, both meet tonight in an effort to speed je eee 2 ae up the procedure and get the 1 jfor the Germans. { ‘3 ear SA How is a convoy escorted, and WI] DUVAL T0 attacked? The usual convoy is a} on through dangerous water by de-; stroyers, the arch foes of subma-! Especially valuable shipments'tg RECEIVE $500 FROM ES- ,are sometimes guarded by a} TATE OF HIS AUNT. big ships like that don’t come; ja dime a dozen, and their use | That the British can't spare }many big ships for convoy duty jbeen using cruisers or battle | cruisers against convoys. A de- against these big ships, for eruiser guns range far beyond | pick off ships in the convoy line with ease. explains why the Royal Air | Force went after the Scharn- not have the help of the French, | called. Regulations require that frees. and up to now medical examina~ eee ee ee 28 SOUCY | a bersot the deathivand will I that has hea Fee vices cone: (rwedictl examinations completed. herd of merchant ships, escorted | SHARE IN WILL jrines. ee omeet cruiser, or even a battleship. But | WHO DIED FRIDAY | breaks up units of battle fleets. explains why the Germans have stroyer doesn't have a chance |those of a destroyer. They can British dearth of escorts also horst and the Gneisenau in their |Teported out of commission. While they were loose, the Gneisenau and Scharhorst were death on convoys. $1 and costs on a charge of driv- ay, ing without a driver's license. He | William Duval, Key West, will Wiiserve a 60-day sentence in | receive $500 from the estate of his | county jail if he fails to pay the ‘aunt, Mrs. Frances N. Hyatt, who | gine |died Friday afternoon at her 918; i RIES ELS < ERIN |North Beach home, it was re-! na jvealed yesterday when her wit, MURPHY SALES |was filed for probate. AY | Mrs. Hyatt, in her will, pro-| vided that the home shall be sold, with $500 of the sale price 'going to Duval “for his many {kind acts”. The will provides for purchase ‘of a cemetery lot where the body county land were transferred in house steps Clerk Ross C. Sawyer announced today. be buried to- gether. \ ae Total sale price for the prop- lightweight containers they are’ erty amounted to $990, with Jake Aronovitz paying $116.50 for one BEARS DECREASING; Chinese grin their assent. At Norman’s, in Morris street, jadmirals of the Royal Navy, po- |STAMP - SIZE LETTERS |FOR BRITISH FIGHTERS | my aunnctated Press) |. CAIRO, Egypt, June 10.—Let- bors for the 50,000 British sol- | iers, sailors, and airmen in the | Middle East are being reduced to | weight and bulk in thé mails. , ton. By photographing them on film and packing them in small, reduced to thirteen pounds. On arrival here they are enlarged to! | Push. of prosperity came in 1914. ' It was the same business of sup-| | plying rendezvous for convoys, a i North Atlantic base for the Brit-| ish fleet, and later for the Amer- | jicans.. Supplies for great waves’ | of France-bound soldiers were fur- ‘nished here, too, Halifax was in | the money again. | Through it all, Haligonians ‘have not rested content to reap the profit of war. They've also taken the risks. You can name Sixty-eight parcels of Monroe | the size of postage stamps to save | hardly a battle fought by British | jforees anywhere in the world, Murphy Act sales on the court-} Ordinarily these 50,000 letters | without running into a Haligonian yesterday, County would weigh three-auarters of a, hero. And it was at Halifax that a munitions ship explosion in the World war killed 2,000, lef, 10,000 homeless. |fer was one I could not refuse,” | lot in the negro section, the only four by five inches then rushed to| | Lewis said, “I am sincerely sorry |to leave Key West, and wish I {could have remained here Funeral services for Mrs. Fran- | ces N. Hyatt, who died Friday afternoon, was held on Sunday afternoon from the Lopez Fun- eral Home chapel to the Catholic church. Services were Rev. program which I helped to start.” Lewis, who has been in Jack- sonville for the past week, ex- plained that the shortage of labor has been responsible for the long series of delays in the diamond's ‘completion. conducted by A. L. Maureau Mussolini Says United States Unable To Save Great Britain (By Associated Press) Speaking to-| tion of all Greece, including the anniversary of Capital at Athens. entrance oh cea Peed gece rags —— Sistance already is cru! ang an Benito Mussolini told i sisted it josuid ue tenaaeainne for cheering members of the Fascist’ the United States to get enough Supreme Council it is too late for aid to Britain to prevent the United States to save Great eventual defeat. Britain, and predicted that Japan| Mussolini also announced that would fight on the side of the Axis his government has withdrewn if the United States goes to war. diplomatic recognition from Iraq, Germany, he declared has; a country which he said has be- agreed to permit Italian occupa-' come a British “puppet”. ROME, June 10. day on the first Italy's Premier into t i long | through: waters close to the Brit- enough to complete the recreation | ish isles, There several destroy- | match the slowest ship | STILL PLENTY LEFT The British have established | convoy meeting spots, were mer- | }chant ships wait for escort let for which there was com-/ petitive bidding. : TREE RINGS IN. | SHEETS OF STEEL. (Wy Ansociated Press) OTTAWA, Canada, June 10.— | Fishing bears that prow! the | banks of small streams in the jers usually meet each convoy.! Queen Charlotte Islands off the | As the line gets under way. the | British Columbia coast are a big j destroyers set their speed to} headache to fisheries officials— . in the! but there aren't as many as i line, which may be between six| there used to be ‘and eight knots. of the (Ry Associated Press) NEW YORK, June 10—tTree! rings have showed up in the steel | floor of the Williamsburg bridge | Ninety-one marauders the postoffice to be sorted, folded and gummed prior to dispatch to their final billets. The new method also saves the long tortuous sea voyage. Writers are limited to about 700 words. Critics claim this necessitates shorter letters. Others say they never were very good letter writers. j were shot in 1940, rey re- her! rts to the LIKES GOOD MARKSMEN ang | LEMOYNE, Neb—Skeet, a bird dog belonging to Ray Ritter of this city, becom: | fisheries department said. Bears | are numerous in the islands. Offi- cials said that along one small section of beach ten of the ani- es disgusted with ' mais were seen Scoo : s ping out paw- } hunters whose aim is bad, and if fuls of salmon as the big fish Brat a shots in @ TOW. / began ascending creeks to the i saat ts home. spawning grounds. ies % DAVE (Jan) BISHOP is BACK at the “Same Old Stand” Navarro’s Used Car Lot Fleming and Simonton Sts. |! FINEST ASSORTMENT OF USED CARS IN THE CITY All Pedigreed! TUESDAY {Stone Church Service Club. 6:00 pm. THURSDAY between New York and Brooklyn. /‘LITTLE DUCK GIRL’ They are imprints of rings in REALLY TRAINS ’EM wooden paving blocks which had been set on top of the steel plates {My Assectated Preset MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 10. and left in place ten years. The rings were one-sixteenth | of an inch deep in the metal face} Memphians turn their heads and —an excellent job of engraving! blink their eyes when the city’s by some force of nature. Scien-| “Little Duck Girt” marches down ‘tists have two explanations. the street, followed by her obe- They point out wood is much | dient crew. stronger than commonly. believed “Get in line!” Twelve-year-old and that the paving blocks on the] Virginia May Taylor orders over bridge probably had keen kiln | her shoulder and her three duck- dried, @ process rendering wood | ling. Donny, Johnny and Mickie, two or three times stronger than move into single file. quacking when green. Dirt and grit seep- | mildly. “Stop!” she ing below the blocks, might have |and they squat docilely on the served as an abrasive for cutting the rings as the wood was pressed British And Free French habit” of demanding full explana- tions of military operations, and declared he has not heard Adolf Hitler explain the destruction of the Bismarck, nor Benito Mus- solini explaining the loss of most of his empire. Repeating his previous stand, the prime minister said that in many cases full description..and explanation of military operations is of value to the enemy, RICHMOND, Calif—An ambu- lance in this city was leaving the scene after answering a falve re- port of a railroad crosting #eci- dent when a train came alone and banged into a truck. Leaders Predict Capture Of Beirut Very Shortly (By Ameorinted Pres) British and Free French leaders at Cairo today predicted capture of the Syrian capital at Beirut within a matter of hours, and Istanbul reported ancient Damas- cus already has fallen to the swiftly moving invaders of French-mandated Syria Although Vichy issued a bulle- tin announcing the dispersal of a British column by heavy artillery, ‘reports from Cairo continued to indicate there has been little real fighting. Free French leaders seid more. than 4,000 of their countrymen ai- indicated the Allied troops are moving rapidly toward that city and Beirut. Cairo at the same time an- nounced a new victory in Ethiopie, where four divisions of Malian sol- diers were said to have been wiped