The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 13, 1941, Page 1

’ ssociated Press Day Wire Service ‘or 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average. range of only 14° Fahrenheit est Citizen ‘OLUME LXII. No. 141. lompson Enterprises, Buy. More Land 10 ‘Takte- Care: Of _ Rapidly Expanding Business Purchase Twenty Thou CHP OOO IOSD sand Dollar Tract Of; Waterfront Property On HONEYMOONERS, SUNNYMOONERS DAYTONA BEACH, June Caroline Street 13—Florida’s ,’typical honey- The Key THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. INTEREST LAGS _ IN TRAINING OF BE CONDUCTED UNDER PROGRAM OUTLINED } Training as radio operator un- jder National Youth Administra- jtion and the state board of educa- { jtion today appeared in imminent danger of being eliminated, be- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1941 Sin (By Associated Preas: WASHINGTON, June 13.— American Consul Walter’ J. Linthicum, who interviewed sur- vivors of | the freighter Robin Moor at Pernam- kg Of Aner Yess torpedoed U.S. } q 4 ' { Matter Of ‘ENGLISH BOMB | i { | buco, Brazil, today is flying to; BOMBERS BATTERED INDUS- Grant For Highway Impro { € 1 | i mooners” will be “Sunny- | Cause of the failure of enough Key R. Ww. Craig Named To TRIAL RUHR DISTRICT mooners” at Daytona Beach West young men to enroll for the Expanding business and the necessity for more dock space made it necessary for Thompson Enterprises to purchase a $20,000 | waterfront tract from William R. | Porter, president of the First Na- | tional Bank, A, Maitland Adams, general manager of the Thompson ! firm announced today. The property, located on Caro- line street between Margaret and Grinnell, ps ine entire block bounded by James, Caroline, Margaret and Grinnell streets,: will give the Thompson firm ex- | clusive ownership of the Caroline | street waterfront area. Adams said work will be started | at once in bulkheading the water- | front area to provide more space | for ships and barges. At present, he added, the firm ! | the week of July 20. In this second annual “Honeymoon contest” in which all June brides and bridegrooms of Key West are eligible, the prize will bea free week of entertainment at the cool, breeze-swept city of Daytona Beach. All entrants. have to do is send their photo, . graphs to the Chamber,of.. ‘Commerce at Daytona Beach... That puts them in the contest, The name of “Gunnymoon” ‘has been given to the contest because in reality the winners will be on a second honey- moon, for no one would expect couples married in June to ‘wait until mid-July for their first honeymoon. However, the City of Daytona Beach plans to make the Sunnymoon equally as memorable as the original honeymoon, Russell Dymond, Chamber secretary, said. cde ull ute aie uh ude uh aha has not planned any more building on the property than the needed ; bulkheading. | cf ., }ment superintendent here, ELKS AND LEGION’ classes. | Federal regulations provide that ino class may be continued with less than 10 students, which is the number now enrolled for the ,tadio course. Starting with an en- jtolment..of 52, attendance at the }£lasses has dropped. off rapidly. in recent weeks, reaching its,pre- sent level of 10 in the past .few | days. : I, L. Murray, education depart- ; and local business men interested in finding work for youths, have pointed out that the class offers tone of the most valuable possible } trade courses. Many local boys in the 16 to 24 age limit are working on jobs where the end of the defense boom will find them no better | able to earn a living than they were before, Murray pointed out. | The radio course, which is held | daily from 9 a. m. to noon, offers | {a chance at a paying and expand- | ing trade where many new open- ings are anticipated after other defense jobs will have been com- ' pleted. Under the existing program, } —$ | SUGGEST BRITISH SANK SHIP June 13.—In- formed Berlin quarters today said a full investigation is be- the . U.S. freighter . Robin Moor, but unofficial comment indicated there is little like- lihood.. of an official admis- sion that a German U-boat launched the fatal torpedo. Several Berlin officials have suggested that a Brit- ish submarine probably sank the freighter, while others said the United States is mak- ing political capital of the sinking in an effort to pro- voke war. General comment was to the effect that it is a matter between the United States and Britain, and the warning ‘was repeated that any ship carrying contraband to the British will be destroyed. ——— Washington with further details in the alleged sinking of the | vessel by a German submarine. (CHECK FORGERY . ROOSEVELT GIVES LAST. NIGHT LONDON, June 13.—Hundreds * lof Royal Air Force bombers last | SER | night battered Germany’s indus*| WARNS “LOCAL MERCHANTS, ‘trial Ruhr district in a raid.de-\) TO;DEMAND IDENTIFICA- |Seribed here as the most. exten-{* TION )BEFORE CASHING | Sive and damaging of the entire} GOVERNMENT DRAFTS war. | sbi ee t Breaking a period of compara-| Henry F. Tyson, agent jtive inactivity, waves of British | charge of the U.S. Secret Service | warplanes sent thousands of high | buzeau at Miami, in Key West to |explosive and incendiary bombs | investigate the forgery of a gov- lerashing into the very heart of ernment check, today warned jGermany's industrial section. jlocal merchants to demand ade- | Fliers returning from the at- quate identification before cash- jtack said “fires were every- | ing the checks. | where”. | Tyson said merchants are | (Berlin, breaking the usual si- | clined to cash government checks ‘lence on industrial damage, ad- Without any of the precautions (mitted the raid had severely 'they use on other drafts, since |damaged some factories, but said. they know those from the gov- the greatest toll had been in ernment are good. ; Civilian lives and property.) The agent flew here from Mi- | i | | i | ters indicated a heavy toll ; lives, since members of the raid- | $40 check belonging to a coast |ing armada said they had seen! guardsman. The check was cash- ‘giant explosions in some plants,:ed and returned, but never was in Reports from RAF headquar- | ami aboard a coast guard plane of, to investigate the forgery of aj ‘WARNING RELATIVE TO LABOR GROUPS \URGES NATION'S ORGANIZA- “(ity Aanoctated Prean) WASHINGTON, June 13.— President Roosevelt this morning | warned the nation’s labor organi-~ | zations to stop raiding one an- other for membership, and in- |structed the federal mediation in-| board to watch for signs of iUr- | peoval for the project, | isdictional strikes. CIO President Phillip Murray, “meanwhile, appeared to. be lead ting the way for a purge of Com- | munists in labor unions, as AFofL leaders followed his example and announced they, too, would launch a campaign to weed out ‘subversive elements in their Although announcing officially t LANCE LESTER, JR., NEW GRADUATE | ! i KEY WESTER AWARDED DE-| GREE OF DOCTOR OF ME- DICINE AT TULANE ON, WEDNESDAY (Special to Vhe Citizen) NEW ORLEANS, La., June 13— Joseph L. G. Lester, Jr, son of Myr. and Mrs. J. Lancelot Lester of | Key West, Fla., was awarded the degree of doctor of medicine at! ‘Zulane university's —commence- ment exercises Wednesday, June 11, in the McAlister auditorium | on the Tulane campus. { Degrees were conferred upon 528 graduates by Dr. Rufus C. Harris, president of the univer-j| sity. Commencement was held inj two divisions, one group of col-| leges being awarded degrees in| the morning and the other group in the afternoon. ! ARRANGE PROGRAM FLAG DAY PROGRAM TO BE CARRIED QUT AT LA CONCHA PARK Elks and American Legion of- ficers, whose organizations will direct the annual Flag Day cele- bration tomorrow night at La Concha Park, today urged all Key Westers to observe the day by dis- playing flags at their homes an Places of business, Tomorrow night’s program at the Park, opening at 8:30 o'clock, will be featured by talks by Capt. Russell E. Crenshaw, command- ant of the local navy bases; Army Capt. E. E. Lockhart, and Horace O'Bryant, principal of Key West high school. Small flags for lapels will be distributed and a musical pro- | gram will be conducted by a local | orchestra, with Miss Beatrice Mo- reno at the piano, BILL DOES NOT AFFECT MONROE jyouths taking the course will that nothing will be done by the| |study here for three months, with ‘state department until Linthicum j : i indies og Red aginst has arrived with a full report, of-} tions, . completing 1 ie, train- ; fieials of the department said | ing in an exhaustive eight-months the United States. probably will jemand from Berlin~an apology - and in ity for the ship’s de- and, indemnity for the ship's 4 struction. work as radio: « coe ipon'| Descriptions of the sinking, by | jcompletion of their training. | SUfvivors today made it clear’ | Murray pointed out that sim- that-armed seamen of the at- | | ilar training has been a highly tacking submarine boarded “the ee ed and does offer : Robin Moor and disabled her ra- similar course, The recently es- (2 jtablished high school here is the ié- first ever opened in Key West. | Survivors said they were or- Even from the standpoint efidered to leave the ship within iver sickness Moncey caid 7! 130 minutes after a signal had } id it is a . as diftioulé to-aee wiv the co been flashed from the subma rinc announcing the Robin Moor { | would not be in demand. was to be sunk A rain of | { shelifire crippled jthe vessel, they said, and a tor- tpedo finally sent her to the bot- j tom. RETIRING PRESIDENT WAS HEARD AT MEETING CON- German Papers With Article indicating that powder had been touched off. plants ' Churchill Says \ Be io equipment before the sink- AIRPORT BIDS JACKSONVILLE, June 13— Opening of bids for construction of the county airport at Key West has been postponed, war depart- ment engineers announced today. The engineers would not say when the bids will be opened, or explain the reason for the delay. Avoid Bloodshed By Ending a ived by th to whom it Unions. aap" Seonget eee os | International headquarters — of AFofL today requested . local junions to return their Vichy Can rabies they will return to their jobs. Workers at Consolidated air- { a contract with the company, (fy Associated Preasd ij LONDON, June 13—Pleas from | WEAVER RITES drew from Prime Minister Win- | A ston Churchill the blunt answer i ance in the mandated area. Vichy, in a note yesterday, said | ling be ended. War V Sunday will take | Travelers from, Syria, according | Batt ending a strike threat. Workers Vichy that Great Britain avoid that no more lives will be lost if| WILL BE ACCORDED FULL :that Britain must have learned to a report published in Istanbul, | The morning commencement | address was delivered by. Dr.) James Ross McCairl, president of; PERTAINS TO PROTECTION Agnes Scott college, Decatur, Ga.;| OF GREEN AND LOGGER- the afternoon commencement ad- HEAD TURTLES dress by Justice Frank Murphy of | the United States Supreme Court. | The formal graduation cere- monies marked the last of six days of traditional functions, including aR Rg { A measure for the protection of DUCTED LAST NIGHT Drawing a parallel between the ideals of Lionism and the funda- mentals of Democracy, retiring Lion President Gerald Saunders | banquets and award exercises of the various colleges of the univer- sity. The bacealaureate sermon was | offered Sunday, June 8 by The} Very Reverend William H Nes, | dean of Christ Cathedral, New) Orleans. Lester completed the regular course of the school of medicine | and was presented for the degree by Dean Maxwell Lapham. SET HOURS AT Applications for assistance at the state welfare board office must come Tuesdays and Fridays between 8 a. m. and noon, it was announced today. Previously the office had been |, open Saturday, but in the future applications will be accepted Fri- day instead ISOUTHERNMOS T FLOWERS FATHER'S DAY BOQUETS. a $1.00 dozen 616 DUVAL PHONE 136 Opposite Monroe Theater by Governor Holland, will not af- | fect Monroe county, according to | th, Rep. Bernie C. Papy. Papy said the measure original- | cessful in its history. Before turn-| government and The talk marked the closing of | ¢ Lions fiscal year which is con- | sidered by the club the most suc- | Concerning England Recalled Before Issue Was Completed (Ry Assoeinted Press) NEW YORK; June 13.—An edi- green and loggerhead turtles in} jast night reminded the Lions of | torial in which Propaganda Min- ; the fourth congressional district, | their obligation toward keeping! ister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels reported by the Associated Press | alive these principals upon which | promised surprises | this afternoon to have been signed | American freedong is founded. for Britain was the basis of a new Nazi mys- tery today as copies of the paper in which it appeared suddenly were called in by the German the editorial ly would have prevented killing | ing over the reins of the organiza- | deleted. turtles within certain seasons in Monroe counties. Monroe county prohibition elimi- nated, however. |MISS SHEPPARD OPERATED UPO! Miss Juanita Sheppard, daugh- ; ter of Chief Engineer Frank Shep- pard of the wrecking tug Willet, and Mrs. Sheppard. who was operated upon recently at St. |Luke’s Hospital in Jacksonville, | is reported to be improving, al- ; though she will be required to re- main in the hospital for some time as yet Mrs. Sheppard will remain there until her daughter has re- covered sufficiently to be re- leased from the hospital at which time she will return to Key West. ition to new president John! Papy had the | that he thought it fitting to bring | which Goebbels out a few of the things which Lions are pledged to do and are doing in all parts of this country jand many foreign countries where | Lions Clubs are now organized. Lion President Saunders show- led the Lions that their first duty |is to sce that our churches are not jallowed to disappear from society ‘through neglect and indifference. | He pointed out that it was through the desire for religious freedom and right te worship that our forefathers were inspired to es- tablish this country. It was announced that joint meeting of Lions and Rotary would be held in Lions Den on Thursday, June 26. Also, all mem- bers of club will go to Miami on} Saturday 28 for joint installation; of officers with clubs in the Miami | area. J. J. Stocking of Kansas was a | guest of Rev. Lion ES. Doherty. 1 The Berlin paper went on the {Palm Beach, Dade, Broward and | Costar, Lion Saunders remarked | streets carrying the editorial, in said British Prime Minister Winston Church- ill would be surprised by what the next few months hold in store. Suddenly, the paper stopped the presses and newsboys at- tempted to get back: copies al- ready sold. Correspondents were warned not to cable the editorial, and subsequent copies of the Paper appearing on the streets did not contain the Goebbels article. Before receiving orders not to permit cabling of the editorial, however, correspondents already had sent it over the wires. Goebbels, recalling the British defeat in Crete, said that Prime Minister Churchill probably would have laughed a month ago if he had been told that Ger- many today would be in posses- sion of the strategic island. He warned that within the next few Mr. Sheppard returned to duty; Lion Benjamin Smith, former}months, more surprises are in on his ship here after the opera-| Key Wester, now residing in Mel-Istore, and advised Churchill to tion, which was termed very suc-/ bourne, was also a guest of the|remember Crete before making jSesstul. i chub. any plans for the future. e Aroun a { Se eta at the plant will get a blanket j five-cent raise. further bloodshed in Syria by! ending her campaign there, today | | , Vichy will call a halt to resist-| MILITARY HONORS AT FUNERAL for herself that no Germans are| Officers and members of B. H: ,in Syria, and urged that the fight-| McCalla Camp, No. 5, Spanish Turkey thay, saw German sol- | diers in complete control of the | strategic airport at Allepo, as well as in other sections of the country. Although ‘no German troops are} i known to be taking part in the! fighting, the travelers said large| JULIUS ‘STONE in certain parts of Syria, appar-_ night at a government hospital in Atfinta. : Services will be held Sunday First Methodist - (Stone) |church, with the Rev. A. C. Rievere officiating. The body was brought to Key { bet al | | sere at 4:30 o'clock from Ji | numbers of Germans are draw up} West yesterday in one of the Damron, © Take Matter Up With Government Officials At Once County commissioners, told by County Attorney Julius F. Stone, Jr. that their chances for a 100 per cent federal grant on Overseas Highway improvements are dwindling away, last night named Commissioner R. W. Craig to get Craig will seek approval of Col. LL, Pendleton, army com-" mandant here. and Capt. E. Crenshaw, commandant of t+» navy station. the hi itary Craig will go immediately to ari ters at wt val at C roads. Stone said money for craft announced they have signed highways ‘Meeting Norberg Ramsey, ral rites for their : William M. board. "| Weaver, 61, who died Tuesday Agreeing liquor the board wher. Pritchard Funeral Home cars and Alice Reid bouse at 10 GOES TO MIAMI AND BERVALDI FOR TRIP TO CHICAGO ently awaiting orders to take ac- tion. STATUS OF DAMASCUS NOT CLEAR IN REPORT thy Associated #res=t Julius F. Stone, Jr., advisor to the county commission, left this morning for Miami, where he will be joined tomorrow by County Clerk Ross Sawyer and Carl Ber- valdi, chairman of the commis- sion, for a trip to Chicago. Sawyer and Bervaldi will sign county bonds at the Chicago of- fice of R. E. Crummer. who is re- funding the bonds. Stone will ac- company the two as legal advisor. All three are expected to stop in Washington on their return trip to Key West British and Free French troops make clear if the invading forces has reached Damascus. Last reports before this morn- ing’s communique, which did not lied forces had reached the city’s . trance. Whether the French have with- drawn from the city, or if they mention Damascus, said the Al-' iwi | 2 o'clock Sunday. Survivors are nis widow, Mrs. | Lillie Weaver; two sisters, Miss tion of the beard that Johnston City, | persuade owners Tenn, and Mrs. Anna Zang, Co- | bar on the county Ella Weaver, : ill be placed in the church at ‘street, and for Lopez Wholesale Liquors, 207 Duval street. “ ftone, acting on a recommenda he sen arty Dick to change Di lumbus, O., and three brothers.’ the name of the establishment, | both of Johnston, Tenn. time of his |here last night. ; Mr. Weaver wes a member both of the Spanish“War-Veter- ans and of Dade Lodge, F. and A. .M. and full military bearers will be se! veterans and Red Men. and Improved. Onder of payment by the outskirts and were forcing an ef- Red Men. He will De aepected | Hospital — CAIRO, June 13—Terse reports | Benjemin Weaver, Columbus, O., said the owners hed agreed to the issued in Cairo this morning said | and James and Wilson Weaver, |change, if necessary. The board approved, however, @ recommern- are rapidiy assuming control of! The widow and Mrs. Zang were ‘dation that the sign be moved back the situation in Syria, but did not/ at Mr. Weaver's bedside at the away from the highway, giving i 19 proved a resolution providing : county of Marine charges against indigent Eliminating ¢liniq con ont tc rot'ot the yaymente: the cower tax collector will be empowered still are fighting on its outskirts,’ Soonish War veterans will to pay for treatment at the rate is not known. FLAG DAY Saturday, June 14th