The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 140. To Succeed: Chief Justice Hughes: In Supreme Court Atiorney General Jackson | MISS JEAN CAREY CONTEST WINNER And Senator James| Byrnes Chosen As Asso-| | SPONSORED BY FLORIDA j | | COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF | COLUMBUS ciate Justices (By Asnoctated Prens) WASHINGTON, June 1) Harlan F. Stone, 69-year-old New | rhe Thirteenth Annual Essay Yorker who has served as an as- | contest, sponsored by the Florida jate justice of the United |State Council, Knights of Colum- | bus this year was a departure from the customary Essay, and today was nominated by Presi-| was a “Radio Playlet”, The win- dent Roosevelt to succeed Chief / ner is Miss Jean Catharine Carey, j12th grade student of the Aca- Sere Ses Ranh ages. | demy of the Holy Names, Tampa, The President at the same | Fla. The judges selected a 2nd and time nominated Attorney Gen. | 3rd winner which also went to the Robert H. Jackson and Senator | Academy of the Holy names, to States Supreme court since 1925, Che Key West Ctttzen Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, T! WURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1941 TO PAY’ FoR THEIR EATS| FOr Funds For SHOWN THAT GENERAL PUB- LIC BELIEVE THAT GOV- ERNMENT OR TAXPAYERS | PAY FOR FOOD Key West city and county leaders last mght prepared to ask the federal kovernment for $420,- : ce bhp ag 000 to be spent in improvements | A are r necessary to the county’s civilian | WASHINGTON, June 12—The defense, iHouse of Representatives went/ Acting after R. C. Hoefeli, divi- jon a “don’t-get-us-wrong” jag ; sional representative of WPA, had H the other day and you would|informed them of government) have thought these “often hon- {Plans for a $150,000,000 expendi-! estly misunderstood” gentlemen ture in civilian defense needs, } |were on a nation-wide broadcast |members of the local defense com- } ‘to their constituents instead of |™ittee outlined needs for a hos-; just talking among themselves, {Pital, community center, increase | | It came about when Rep. John | in schools facilities and extension |W. McCormack of; Massachusetts | Of incinerator and sewer facilities. | brought to the floor a bill to ap-| Hoefeli, who is making-a tour’ {propriate $15,000,to set up a,0f cities through south Florida to; ‘branch of the Capitol;House res, | learn their defense needs and des- | {taurant in the House ®ffice build- ‘¢cribe the federal plans, spoke be- ing, just across the street to the ;fore the committee members last south of the Capitol. ,night at the chamber of commerce, Mr. McCormack explained the ; Members of the group met there necessity in detail: It seems that |again this morning to draw up ap- every lunch hour the congress- | Plication forms for the projects. | men, their guests and office em-| B. C. Moreno and W. B. Kirke | ployes have been getting into . applied for $235,000 to be used for, that old “can’t-get-a-seat-can’t- the sewer and incinerator im-! | get-any-service” - trouble. (The | Provements; Melvin Russell ap- EU, §. Goverment i Bé Asked Local Civilian Defense Set Up ed ISSUE REPORT ON ’ WAR CASUALTIES (Ry Associated Press) BERLIN, June 12.—Ger- many’s high command today placed at 11,400 the number )of men and officers killed, wounded or taken prisoner in the Greek and Crete cam- Churchill in London previous- ly had-.announced that Ger- many suffered losses of 15,- 000 men in Crete. alone.) IPI III I I SS FACTORY GREAT FACTOR IN WAR MUCH PRODUCTION REQUIR- | congressmen should come with plied for $60,000 to go for school James F. Byrnes (S.C.-D) for the | Olga Rivera, and Ann Washing- associate justiceships which will ton. be left open by the elevation of | Justice Stone and the retirement of Justice James Clark McReyn- me any noon down to the War Department, Interior or half a facilities, including grounds and equipment; Mayor ; Willard M. Albury called for $25,-' building, | This is the 13th of a series of these contests, open to students in high school classes of Catholic dozen other departmental cafe- terias. I'd show them what real trouble is in trying to get served 000 for a community center, and Dr. J. B. Parramore and John olds. Chief Justice Hughes an- nounced retirement from the bench last month in a letter to the President, in which he plead- ed age and ill health. Justice Stone, a native of New Schools in Florida, and to Catholic students of other high schools in | Florida. The subject this year, was se- lecte' by his Excellency, Most |Rev. Joseph P. Hurley, D. D., |Bishop of St. Augustine, was; jin the 30 minutes most govern- ment workers are allowed for lunch.) bed hospital. “It is believed”, Mr. McCor- mack elucidated, “that if this {restaurant is established, a_good part of our own office force county commission, is expected to 2 m ; Ryesent another bid for beach im- provement here. Hoefeli is expected to return to Gardner asked $100,000 for a 25- | Carl Bervaldi, chairman of the, Hampshire but a life-long resi- dent of New York, formerly was dean of the law school at Colum- bia University. He was nomin- “ ‘ident Coolidge. The President's three nomina- tions will go to the Senate for confirmation at once, ; “Father Luis Cancer”, O. P. First | Martyr of the Floridas”. 379 Es- says were submitted from 15 | schools, an increase of ‘170 over for, the,.Supreme court..by- (the previous contest. | Joseph F. Marron, T. Frederick ; Davis and Mrs. Emma_ Rochelle ; Porter, all of Jacksonville acted as Judges of the Contest, and were | highly complimentary for the ex- would eat there and in this way relieve the situation that exists in’ the restaurant downstairs”. No Free Meals It was. then that Rep. Earl C. Michener of Michigan started the avalanche, with: “The gen- tleman has suggested that the people eating in the restaurant (in the Capitol) are usually | i Washington a report on the sug- gested improvements here, a re- port which will be included in a general survey of the entire na- GIVES AN IDEA | cellent essays submitted, and that | music and sound cues and produc- ‘tion directions would make the | Essay readily qualified for radio { LOSES LICENSE =<», se _———— The prize, a silver loving cup NORMAN EDWARDS ALSO will be presented to the winning FINED SENTENCED ; student and a similar cup to the pies | School. The Presentation will be TO JAIL TERM made by Rocco Marsicano, State Deputy for the Knights of Colum- j guests of members of the House. , {I want it understood, of course, | that they are guests and the checks are paid by the individual members of the House. There are | no free meals for members or guests. “We ofttimes receive letters as well as see newspaper comments (not in these columns, Mr. Mich- ener!) that members of the House ABOUT TONNAGE GROSS TONNAGE IS GEN- ERALLY REFERRED TO BY SHIPPING MEN (iy Associated Press) Landlubbers often wonder what ‘ing stages, now is vital. ED TO MAINTAIN MEN ON FIRING LINE (Ry Associnted Presa) CLEVELAND, June 12. — In-! sisting that today’s wars will be! won in the factory, the National | ‘Machine Tool Builders Associa- | | tion calculates the present com- | plex, mechanized warfare re-! quires 18 men to maintain just one soldier on the firing line. In 1918 only five men backed up every man-at the front. ! The modern soldier fires a rifle ‘three times as’ fast as in the first World War. He can travel, com- pletely equipped, ten times as far inaday. The tank, introduced by the British in the first World War | but a limited factor until the clos- And the airplane’s long-distance bomb- carrying capacity is 32 times that \of the last great conflict. Therefore, the association cal-' culates, “the real contest today is not on the firing line but on the factory production line where defense equipment is built. “The great army of men behind | | | | | Germany Wams Of Starvation lf War 1s Continued; Urges Bia To Halt Stag | (By Associated Press) i LONDON, June. 12.—-German ; President Roosevelt's words, the }bombers last night made scat- leaflets declared “for every five |tered raids over - England, but | ships sunk by Germany, the |confined themselves almost ex- | United States’ President has said ‘clusively to dropping leaflets, it | the combined shipyards of Amer- , was announced here today. ica and the British empire could | The leaflets, warning of star-| replace only two”. | vation tq come if the war is con-; The foreign office said the tinued into 1942, urged English- American President actually had men to force their government said that German sinkings at to end the struggle. |present are outrunning the abil- In what foreign office spokes-| ity of the two countries to re- imen said was a distortion of; build. MISS M. PARKER 'ELKS TO PUT ON | PRICE FIVE CENTS Was Deliderately Sunk By Nazis Strong Protest Of Unde- termined Nature Now Being Prepared For Transmission To Berlin | } i | (Ry Ansoctated Press \ WASHINGTON, June 12— |The United States freighter | Robin Moor was destroyed in | western hemisphere waters by & ; German submarine whose com- | mander could not have helped | knowing he was attacking an | American ship, Under-Secretary |of State Sumnez Welles an- | nounced to newsmen today. Making public a report from }the U. S. consul at Pernambuco, Brazil, Welles said there can be no further doubt that the Cape- town-bound ship was deliberate- SELLS PROPERTY FLAG DAY EVENT ly torpedoed by a German U-boat. The vessel went down ! RETURNING PERMANENTLY HORACE O’BRYANT TO BE off the South American coast on TO HER FORMER HOME AT MT. VERNON, KY. ‘the night of May 21. MAIN SPEAKER ON i Eleven survivors of the strick- SATURDAY NIGHT Norman Edwards, charged with drunk driving, yesterday was bus in Florida, enjoy this restaurant and that the government or the taxpayers pay for the food. Of course, we all the high commands mean when they say so-and-so many tons of shipping are sunk. A medium fined $100 and costs, sentenced to 30 days in jail, and his driv- er’s license was revoked, when he entered a plea of guilty be- | fore Judge William V. Albury in| county criminal court. | Henry Hamilton, negro charg-' ed with illegal use of the prop- erty of another after he had! admitted taking two automobiles | which, belonged to Luther Pin- | der, was sentenced to 90 days in} jail. | 0 | TALLAHASSEE, June 12—~ ‘NEW COLORS FOR AUTOMOBILE TAGS MOST OF MOTORISTS WILL PAY MORE FOR PLATES NEXT YEAR sized freighter is 410 feet long and weighing 5,645 gross tons. When no food furnished anyone for , the German navy claims to have nothing.” | sunk 60,000 tons, it means approxi- Mr. McCormack said that he mately the equivalent of 10 ships was happy Mr. Michener had ; Of size mentioned. made that contribution, “because | There are several ways of ex- there is an awful dot of honest , Pressing tonnage, but | shipping | misunderstandings in all our dis- |™en always use \ gross) tonnage, tricts. . . Some people honestly | which originally meant the num- think we all live at the White ber of “tuns” of wine that could House, for example, and some | be carried in cargo space, crew's people think that our hotel ex- ‘quarters and. superstructure. A penses are paid, including bar- tun was a cask holding about 200 bers and everything else”. gallons. “Net” tonnage is the From Rush To j number of tuns that could be car- By this time, the idea had Tied in cargo space alone. “Dis- caught on. The rush to explain | Placement” is the weight of the know that this is not true and in this new restaurant there is to be the army at the front today in- cludes steelmakers, shipbuilders, metal workers, farmers, parts as- semblers, inspectors and a long list of others. But none is of greater importance than the country’s operators of tools—an army of over a million There are hundreds’ of types of | machine tools, some of:‘them small | bench-size units, others weighing 50 or more tons and standing as! high as a three-story house. _ The industry savs the demand is so tremendous that United States production this year will amount to $750,000,000 — or $300,000,000 machine | j { | | Miss Mollie M. Parker, re-| Horace O’Bryant, Key West sident of Key West for more than high school principal, will a. decade, has sold her property| the featured speaker on. @ Flag ‘and second story bungalette at Day program to be presented by 1015 South street and will leave local Elks Saturday night at La here early nextyweek to return! ° permanently to her birthplace Concha park, it was announced and former home at Mt. Vernon, | today. Ky. |The program, seheduled to The property was purchased for| open at 8 p. m., will be directed $11,250 by Lee H. Rogers, Wash-| by the Elks’ lodge, with Ameri- ington Courthouse, O., who will|can Legion members and local take up his residence there with | boy scouts taking part. his family in a few days. | Principal O'Bryant will speak Miss Parker, whose garden is!on the history and meaning of one of the city’s showplaces, said'the American flag, while the she will leave Key West either Elks and legion members will Monday or Tuesday to return to/ provide other sections of . the the mountains where she grew’ program. School students par- iP. | ticularly will be invited to at- tend. | ‘PRIZE. AWARDS _ (CRASS FIRES WILL BE MADE "THIS. MORNING ,PERTAINS TO AUTO ACCI-, Be eee DENTS CONTEST IN | ONE ON DUVAL STREET AND OCALA. FLA | ANOTHER ON PETROWIA ~ ait 3 j NEAR DUVAL OCALA,’. June 12 — (FNS)> ; Awards will be made this week | City firemen this morning put in the contest sponsored by Hon. | out two gras fires on one trip. Nathan Mayo, Commissioner of Called to a blaze at the rear ‘Agriculture, to determine “Who of 1229 Duval street, the firemen greater than last vear, which was double booming 1929. ; 1 r | Welles said all are in good con- dition, -however, and hinted a strong protest from this country | to Berlin as soon as written de- positions trom the survivors are |in the hands of the state depart- | ment. | The Robin’ Moor, Welles de- ‘clared, was not in the war zone, he emphasized, carried no ‘war materials of any kind. , Welles said the ship had huge American flags painted on each ‘side, and the flags were con- istantly illuminated at night by batteries of floodlights. News was received in the city today announcing the sutiden death of H. Emil Kirehheiner at his home in Miami this morning at 6 o'clock, The deceased, who was the oldest brother of J/ Otto Kirch- heiner of this city, Was Si years old. | He is survived by his widow ‘and four children, Otte Kirch- t is the other fellow who is blamed | found another grass fire on Pe- heiner left this morning over the jin auto accident”. First prize was|tronia just off Duval and extin- highway for Miami to be in at- | (FNS) Florida automobile tags for {next year will be orange and blue in color, orange letters and num- ; erals on a navy blue background. | 2,800 gallons of paints will be re-! S. D. Leggett, 200 Division street, yesterday was granted a building permit for $150 to be Spent in general repairs to his home. Dan Navarro received another permit for $75 to build & tool room at Simonton and Fleming will now be required to carry a | ‘@xes”. streets. Two Men At Marathon Have Altercation; One Wounded This all started with a little object lesson for the children in p way of a cat with the gold- fish, but the party turned rough. So S. S. Singleton. is await- ¢ trial on a charge of assault » a deadly weapon; William Smith is nursing four long knife wounds in his middle, » Enrique Esquinaldo is Betty Russell, Mara- to visit Key West and give Sing gether in Mrs. Russell's rooming house at Marathon, but they don't speak to each other Smith bought five new fish. Singleton, illustrating a nature study for a four-year-old gold- quired to enamel the tags. j “honest misunderstandings” on Florida motorists will be called | the part of the folks back home {became a stampede. and Peace! little ( upon to pay more for their tags} next year as the legislature in- creased the cost to all but the {lightest weight classification. Most light cars that under the old law required only a ten dollar tag » fifteen-dollar tag. boy, held his cat over the top demostrate that cats and goldfish don’t mix. He jdid it two or three times, until the cat picked up the idea and Started snagging goldfish outside jof study hours. Smith either put a finger in front of Singleton’s nose and told him to watch that cat, or he tried to strangle the old man, depend- ing on whose story you hear. Singleton, the 74-year-old, planted a fist on Smith's jaw and knocked him clear across the room. Smith returned to do battle, and Singleton carved him with a knife. It's up to the judge from there, of the bow! to j | Rep. August H. Anderson of | Minnesota contributed: “A good | many people also have the idea that members of Congress do not pay any income taxes or other | Rep. James F. O'Connor of; Montana rushed in to explain | that prices charged in the House restaurant to congressmen are just the same as the prices charg- ed the public. (As Washington restaurant prices go, they are neither high nor low.) Mr. O'Connor wanted it } plained also that members of | Congress enjoy no free use of | telephones. Mr. McCormack ex- | ; Plained. The only free use of tele- phones the congressmen get is on | calls made from their offices to } points in the District of Colum- | bia. Even 10-cent calls come out of the congressman's pocket. ex- World's Heavyweight || MONROE THEATRE tomorrow | 1416 Petronia | water pushed out of the way when 'the ship is launched. “Dead- | weight” is the actual weight of the ship. ‘TWO SELECTED FOR ARMY DUTY Clyde J. Filer, 24, of 1219 Pearl street, and Newell Pinder, 23, of street, last night were selected by membérs of the local beard for induction into the | army, June 17 Horace O'Bryant, chairman of the board, said today it had been necessary to draw two local men instead of the expected one. but the board has been unable to lo- cate a Miami draftee who had an- nounced his inte: on of enlist- | ing CHURCH OUTGROWS BARN ENCINO, Cal—There were only a few worshippers when Rev. Harley Wright Smith found- ed the St Nicholas Episcopal church two years ago, so Edward Everett Horton offered his barn for a meeting place. The con- gregation has now grown to several hundred and have decid- ed to erect a suitable church to FEWER SMILES AND TIGHTER BELTS IN UNDERFED SPAIN (ie Axancinted Press) NEW YORK, June 12—Even the bulls live on apnormai ra- tions in Spain these days. All that can be spared them is grass, They are underweight and lack the old fire when they enter the ring. There are fewer smiles in Spain | tighter { these days. There are belts. People go to bed at the unheard of hour of one a. m. They are up and working by mid-morning, grimly earning a pittance that will not stay their hunger. Smokers go about with long faces. Tobacco is severely ra- tioned. A man is entitled to two packages of cigarettes every ten days. Women get no tobacco. Spaim always has been a coun- | try of contrasts and this holds to- day. There is bountiful food for few |won by R. B. Ward, Jr., of Red- idick, Fiorida—a prize of $25.00. | Second prize of $15.00 was won by | Pat Cunningham, a 13-year old! boy of Jacksonville. | These awards will be made in| |Ocala by Nathan Mayo, Friday evening, June 13, at the Commu- nity Building, stated Asher Frank, idirector of the Florida Safety Council. The public is invited to attend. | guished it, too. tendance at the funeral. British Planes Pounded Syrian Capital At Bert Last Night (By Ansoetated Prone) TWIN BABIES DIEIN FALL | British warplanes last night pounded the Syrian capital at BOSTON — Seeing little Eva Being in five devasting raids, Grinvert, one of twin sisters two! while heavy ships of the Mediter- jyears old, plunge from a fourth- story. window of her parents} "S?eap fleet bombarded French apartment, neighbors picked her lines-aiong the coast in an ap- up and rushed her to @ hospital, / parent prelude to a new drive Police, sent to the home to inform atmed'et ending the campaign. the parents of the accident's,/ Informed quarters in London their own, -but admitted lew of life a appa bombing attacks of the British. Cairo said reports from the front indicate that British and found the crumpled body of Eva’s | said today the prospect of a Ger-" man drive through south Russia little sister, Ellen, who apparent- ; . into the near east now is being ly missing Eva, crawled out of | the same window to see what had hay to her sister. Both ibabies died of the injuries re- ‘ceived — get littl more than a mouthful. | Faced with an acute shortage. fariest arrangement. They ed that }to buy take care of the members, most) j