The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 16, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No, 143. | SuIVvors Landed In South Afti¢ Horsestiog Bar Was Robbed On. Sunday Two Hundred And Fifty! Dollars Stolen; Officers Now Making Intensive Investigation Sheriff's deputies today were} HOLDING ‘PORTS AROUND SYRIA’ REPORTS REVEAL ALLIED DRIVE HAS BEEN CHECKED investigating the theft of $250 H early Sunday morning from a safe at the Horseshoe Bar, 602 (Ry Ansoeiated Prensa) | CAIRO, June 16.—French and | Allied soldiers today were locked | Duval street. jin bloody, hand-to-hand combat | The burglar, surprised in the | in Syria as the stubbornly resist- | act of looting the safe by a waiter, ing French battled to hold both dropped more than $40 in change | Damascus and Beirut against the | and small bills as he ran from the | advance of the British and Free! bar, but carried away about $250! French, i in larger bills. fs Jose Norcisa, operator. of the British headquarters, where it Horseshoe, said the thief evident-|h@d been hoped the invasion ly knew the combination of the! could be carried out without} safe, or succeeded in stumbling | ‘bloodshed, confirmed reports today | onto it. The safe was not damaged, | | that fierce fighting has broken) and the thief re-locked it after tak- ! jout south. of the two i is gas peer edi aomniceis Woy. bettas and that the Allied drive has | ing in the back room of the bar at) | been checked. about 5:15 o’clock Sunday morn-! British troops were said to be, ing. Investigating, he heard the five miles south of Damascus and | con oe pesos 12 miles from Beirut. (Previous ning. Without knowing the money ; "Ports said the Allitd advance | had been stolen, the waiter fol- had reached the outskirts of both Jowed up the alley, and found the , cities.) change and bills scattered on the | The Britis: communique said ., Bround. {the armies are advancing in the The theft was the second in face of stiff opposition. three days, following after some- : one stole $200 from a filing cabinet Friday at the office of Horace SUMMER SCHOOL C’Bryant, bigh school principal. FINDS SNOW UP | British freighter. Sp Thirty-Five Picked Up By British Freighter; All Aboard Sunken Vessel Accounted For * | | (By Asnociated Press) NEW YORK, June 16—Thirty- five passengers and crew mem- bers of the torpedoed U.S, freight- er Robin Moor have been res- cued and landed safely at Cape- | town, South Africa. Believed to have beet lost after | the Robin Moor went down off the South American coast May 21, jthe occupants of two lifeboats were taken to Capetown by a] Word of the rescue reached New York when the British firm cabled its New York office of the Passengers’ arrival in Capetown. Details have not reached this country, but it is apparent the‘ | Survivors in their two lifeboats | were picked up after another |» boatlead of survivors had reached ay aboard the Brazilian ship | | Asorio. The 28 crew members and seven Passengers who were taken to | Capetown account tor the entire! { | i |complement of the Robin’ Moor,’ officials of-the hne said today, re- | vealing that no one was lost in the ship sinking. The Robin Moor was destroyed by shell fire and a torpedo fired |from a submarine as she headed down the South Ameri jon the way to Capetown. ‘MAKE REPORT ON CHILDREN’S AID | FIGURES RELATIVE TO CON- TRIBUTIONS COMPILED BY | STATE WELFARE BOARD ican coast ,Cleveland and the Ohio Agricul- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, ‘Heads Schek Officers of the newly organiz- ed Island City Baseball league} will be named tonight as mana- gers meet for the sesond time at} city hall to complete plans for | the league schedule. i Roy Hamlin and Mario San-! chez, members of a committee | appointed to investigate delay in| the completion of the baseball | field at Trumbo Island, will re- port when the meeting gets un- |} der way tonight at 8 o'clock. A tentative schedule is to be| worked out during the session, and managers will agree on the | total number of teams to be ad-} mitted to the league. | Softballers Meet Tomorrow | Softball managers and officials of the league will meet tomor-; row night at 7 o'clock, with al city-county recreation committee meet scheduled for 8 o'clock. {celebration and the improvement | Tonight And Tuesday rag a softball managers and offi- cials are expected to arrange for a second-half schedule, and to Straighten out the controversial } |game between Barbers and Plumbers, which Barber Manager Theodore Albury was promised } would be played again. Albury’s team walked off the field after an argument over a decision in| the first inning. | . Recreation Group In Session | Discussion of a Fourth of July | sanitary conditions at Bay- lew Park are slated for discus- sion by the recreation commit- ,teemen tomorrow. A report of progress made the | ‘ies week on Trumbo Island) seball field will also be heard iby the group and plans for fu- j ture projects will be aired. Skippers Apprised Of } } | ‘Project Must Be Complet- ed Within One Hundred And Eighty Days Aft- er Work Begins (Special to The Citizen) xOMESTEAD, June 16—Con- Struction of ‘the’ $3,000,000‘ éque- duct from Florida City to Key West ‘must be completed within 180 days after work is begun, specifications issued by the navy department this week -have re- vealed. Bids for the project will be opened July 2 at the office of the Key West, Florida, -has'the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Opened On July 2 ‘Key West To Have Police Lieutenant; Salaries Of Mayor And Others Raised RUSSIA PLACED (iy Aunoctoredt Pressy | TALLAHASSEE, June wrongly issued in Monroe county; (2) Create the office of Key | West police lieutenant and in- | crease the pay of the mayor, fire ‘and police chiefs and captain of ‘night police; (3) Increase the salaries of Over- ‘seas Road and Toll Bridge Dis- {EITHER DECLARE FOR GER- | MANY OUTRIGHT OR ELSE. FIGHT (By Associated Presa) LONDON, June 16.—Relations — i5 | tains of six Danish ships here | | fewer insects than any other col- IN. MOUNTAINS Gonzalo Bezani manager of | the Palace Theatre, now vaca- | tioning in the mountains...near | Colorado Springs, Colo., has, been | reading The Citizen and is aware | of the heat wave experienced in Florida during the past 10 days. | With this in mind he writes.a} friend here that “with my, best regards for you and the rest of the Lions, I am sending under | separate cover some of the snow | we found yesterday at the top of the mountains”. LILLIAN COHN GIVEN DIVORCE Charging eens. cruelty and habitual indulgence in a violent temper, Lillian F, Cohn, Miami, Saturday won a final divorce decree from Rinaldo S, Dadamio, , the Bronx, New York City } Leonard Guerro, who charg-} ed desertion, won a divorce from | MISS MARY FETNER CHOSEN | PRESIDENT OF NEWLY FORMED COUNCIL (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, June 16— Election of a summer School stud. ent council with Miss Mary Fran- | ces Fetner, of JatKsonville, as president took plact this week at | Florida) State College. Named council secretary was Miss Helen Emmanuel, of Tarpon | Springs. Other council officers, listed by | dormitories, are as follows: Gilch- rist, Miss Helen Emmanuel, of | Tarpon Springs, president, Miss | Roxilu Kelton, of Miami, vice president; East Landis, Miss Jean- ne Felkel, of St. Augustine, pres- ident; Miss Mery Reddick, of Jacksonville, vice president; West Landis, Miss Mary Frances Fetner, of Jacksonville, president, Miss Carol Marshall, of Fort vice president. Men's dormitory, Kenneth P. Maddox, of St. Petersburg, pres- ident; Boyce H. Tuten, of Bonifay, Pierce, | Frances Beasley, address known. un- | vice president; and Silas Franklin, © Blountstown, secretary. Many Sponges Sold... Here This Morning dock auction sales this | bunches, wool, $5.51; 17 mounted to $860.19, but} wool, $161.89: three fused two larger bids | wool $1251: 22, wool, ounting to almost $2,000. wie eas wool, $69.85; 27, wool, $73.35: 11, Bids refused were for 163 bunches of wool sponge, $1,401.01,/ Wool, $43.45; 40, grass, yellow and glove, $41.89: two, wool, and for 52 bunches, $500.69. Amounts sold and the $10.49; three, wool, $449; 11, chase prices follow: wool $27.19, and, 40, wool, Two Bunches, wool, $12.35; two | $331.01. Sponge morning bunches, bunches, $56.21; 27, pur- | families representing 16 children \representing 21,487 children. (Spectal to The Citizen) | JACKSONVILLE, June 16.—Of | the applications for Aid to Depen- | ‘dent Children made in Monroe County since the program was launched in - September 1938, ! through April of the year 87.88, percent of those acted upon have been a y.it was announced here today "by ne State Welfare | Board; the State average during the same period was 64.25 per- cent. As of April, a total of 29 fami- lies (79 children) has been ap- proved for the receipt of cash | grants in the county. 4 Due to limited funds, Aid to Dependent Children has been dis tributed on a population basis to! each of the counties. Applications for ADC during | April totalled ‘238 families repre- | senting 585 children. These, added to the 8,664 pending from March, i gave a total of 8,902 applications pending at the end of the month During April 13 families repre- | senting 33 children were ap-/ proved, 11 families representing %4 children were rejected, and 11 | were disposed of for other reasons. The total of 8,902, less the 35 acted | upon, leaves a pending figure at | the end of April of 8,867 families Aasistance payments were made during April to 2,996 families rep- resenting 7,569 children. The grants received totaled $7,240, an average of $25.78 per family of $10.20 per child. The average number of children per family re- ceiving assistance was 2.5. FOR SALE —— BARGAIN Let 100 by 75 feet on Flagler Avenue, Martello Towers. Price ‘$1.850.00. PHONE 804 - FRANK H. LADD Real Estate Broker 51S Caroline Street jences for colors. {than June | gave a driver a ticket for doing 78 { U. S. Seizing Ships) (By Associated Presn) NEW YORK. June 16.—Fed- {aboard the ships to take control, feral officers today notified cap-|but it was announced in Wash- ington that only one of them | will be used at present. and in Boston that their vessels | The vessel to be used by the and all equipment now are the | government will not be put in ‘property of the government of /trans-ocean service, but will ply } the United States. between ports on the Atlantic Guards immediately | went!coast in the United States. ‘YELLOW LAMPS ‘Fish Bombed By RAF RATED LOW IN Feed Rationed Nazis “ths A ‘Presa INSECT APPEAL | KIEL, Gas ny, June 16.— By HOWARD W. B BLAKESLEE | Plenty of fish, especially, herrings, AP Science Editor | were provided Kiel’s population | SCHENECTADY, N. Y., June 'by the Royal Air Force after a re- 16,—After spending years learn-| Cent night raid on this city. Although it is a fish story, a ing what colors of light attract! rrespondent on. the < Bertin | bugs into death traps, scientists | Zwoelf-Uhrblatt says it is. au- hays begun to meet success. | thentic. The idea is to find the best light! ‘Phe RAF bombs must have ex- or human out-of-doors comfort at! dusiagcthnene he a sata ring. Thousands of dazed or dea night. Lawrence Cc, Porter of the hetring were washed | ashete or} General Electric Company at fldated into Kiel harbor the next | morning as a welcome extra ra- ‘tion. The newspapers’ correspon- { jdent didn’t specify whether it! ‘happened to be a meatless day. But he went on to say that the} |population brought buckets-full of fish back into. town and fisher- men made record hauls. Double-Daylight Time Born To London Stage {BY Asancinted Prewn) LONDON, June 16.—Double daylight saving time, introduced a | tural Expiriment Station have j made a report. They say they don't know all the answers, but that red attracts But because red is not alto-| gether satisfactory to live under! or to use for a porch game of cards, yellow light tentatively is/ selected as the most’ satisfactory. A flame-colored lamp is very satisfactory, so far as bugs are \concerned,. when someNfair seeing is also wanted What the scientists now v wish to find out is whether there isa dif-| In the first week, theaters, mov- ference. between insect prefer- | ies, dance-halls and greyhound They point out race tracks did their best business that gnats are more troublesome | of the vear, since many put on bugs, since the gnats | eVening performances for the first time. It is about 25 years since day- light saving became law in Brit- ain. The government adopted it as a wartime measure in 1916. STUDENTS TO PAY TEACHERS (Ry Aranetnted Premed or. war effort, has brought prosperity | to’ London’s show business. bite. Aside from the color differ- ences, the most effective way to reduce the number of insects is to lower the wattage of the light. | There is no such thing as a lamp that does not attract insects. [TIME, NOR TIDE, NOR A TICKET 16.—Antioch College : 16—Motor | ™embers may have to treat stu- Nunganaro dents with extra deference next year. NEW YOR K, Ju patrolman Alfred ‘MOONSHINE CROP |the moon, A gardening contest east. bureau of yards and docks, U. S.} trict commissioners, Navy department, in Washington. | between Russia and Fe sonatas (4) Confirm wg in Monroe Specifications set the source of |H@ve reached a ie ep Gis: “ phase” where the Soviet Union| ‘The four bills were passed by the water at a “point near Florida jouse and senate and ¥ either must become an out-and- the h ate And avant to City” apparently ruling out the! Governor Holland last week, possibility that water will come | Ut ally: ot Gorman from the Homestead city supply. fight, informed sources here- are-aMWOR'S PAY UPPED The 18-inch pipe will be Inia Proce. |TOSI75 BY A nc Pan oe underground. attached to the side} These rae ae Ger- nate — = al And _ of bridges, and laid on the ocean | ™@"Y ‘will do: saything banners ant in ‘est er give the floor where spans are moveable. | | t© get supplies of oil, wheat and so ny Wea to lift one of the At the 60-foot high Bahia Honda /©Te from Russia. patrolmen to a rte sega on. bridge, the pipe will not be at-| Thus, it is explained, Josef; The , himself, will ee ce oe ees floor, Stalin is faced with the alterna- amen my / under the reg ut wi fastened at the level | [Stead of | of the. ald rallwad boa. ‘tives of virtually — ction of 1284¢"mile| aqueduct in the jired 180° days: means the contractor must lay for it. i police, $125 a month. pipe at the rate of three-quarters Russians who distrust Ger- | ‘The measure relating to Over- of a mile-a day. many are warning that the Ger- seas Road and ae Bridge District commissioners gives them a pay ‘man cecupation of the Balkans, ‘cost from $10 a month to $50. long under domination by Rus- | Papy explained that the bill PAYS RICH PROFITS sia, may reduce that country to cancelling tax sales certificates is- , the status of a second rate power ' sued prior to 1921 was introduced unless some action is taken to in order to make certain Monroe tip back the balance. county would have such legisla Pete Zarzoli scoffed last year at ft in | tion in case a general bill cancel- the prognostications of Professor According to informe - old sales certificates Cotton Whitaker, an unofficial mats here, Russia either will throughout state should fail weather prophet of note who be- Make some new trade atrange- to go through. lieves crops planted in the dark ment with Germany in the next’ of the moon have greater yields few days, or Hitler's army will STUDY — ny auteentea: Frew) MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 16.— than those planted in the night of launch a new drive toward the was arranged. Zarzoli’s crop, planted under a to help speed Britain's undustrial |° YELLOW SPRINGS, ©., June} faculty | full moon, proved clearly super- {rior to those of Whitaker, planted when there was little, if any, moonlight. Zarzoli was made foreman of a WPA truck farm of 25 acres, .. AND BALES CAME TUMBLING AFTER (Hy Asnweinicd Prenat BUTTE, Mont, June 16.— ; Climbing to the top of a pile of hay, Dan Brooks, rancher, started j to pull down a bale. It struck. him and he and the bale dropped 40 feet to the floor lof the hay mow. | Both the rancher and the hay went through the floor and 74 ad- ditional bales, weighing 7,500 pounds, came tumbling after. Brooks, prostrate on the ground floor, covered his head with his arm or protection and took everything that came his way. Ranch hands pulled the pile of hay away—a 20 minute job—and jfound Dan, smiling and only islightly hurt, In recognition of his ability, : BUYS Armand Schaefer, associate eager with Republic Produc- ions, and William Morgan, an jadineetor atrived here today | Howard Sanchez has purchased ‘make @ preliminary study from Harold D. Albury a Wash- cea fot ‘filming of “Mercy ington street lot, near), Ashby Island,” “‘best-kelling novel street, a deed re’ today. . | Theotlote’ Ptatt. wae purchase price,.was, about |. ‘The pair flew » & NAVAL ACADEMY HAS ‘DOUGH’ BOY (iy Anancinted Prone) ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 16— ,Plebes (freshmen) at the U. S.' Naval Academy here traditionally are required to memorize each day's menu as part of their hazing and must be able to repeat it on request of any upperclassman. Among the midshipmen is one who has turned this state of affairs to | account He gets the menus ahead of time, has them mimeographed, and sells ‘em to piebes in advance , #110 cents a copy. Thus they gain :extra time for memorizing them, of a boat to the islands south of Key West. ARRIVED SATURDAY Mr. and Mrs. William S. Sweet- ing -of Miami, accompanied by Miss Gladys ware of Philadelphia, arrived in Key West Saturday to spend the week-end as heuse- fuests of Captain and Mra. A. E. Sharpley on William street. miles an hour. The man sped off, ‘and Nunganaro caught him doing 62 In court the defendant explained jhe was trying to make up for the time he. lost ticket. getting’ the first Seo enmararenimini Se oe emma TUESDAY Stone Church Service Club. 6:00 plaint that a “gang of men” was| Nathan Wright, the whistle p.m. THURSDAY Rotary Club meets 12:15 p.m. St. Paul's Parish Hall City Council meets at City Hall, 8:00 p.m. , {general fund deficit, the students yin a secret vote decided 11 to 1 to; To help reduce the college's contribute $25 each to faculty } salaries in 1941-42. This will be in addition to their regular tuition fees. HAIL, HAIL, THE — GANG’S ALL HERE! (Mr Aasectatea Preat . Kas, June 16— Came midnight and with it a com- disturbing the sleep of hotel| dwellers, at a certain intersection, | with their loud singing. Officers found the noise ema- nating from a crew of five men whom the chief had hired to re- Lions Club meets at 6:39 rll paint traffic lanes. They explained Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. ‘they liked music with their work. jhe gains an extra $25 a week. IN SILENCE OF FLOODTIME (83 ‘Auenctated Prone’ } CARLSBAD. N. M., June “u—! For 18 years the fire department siren sounded, on the second, at high noon. Then an amateur town crier} spread the word, when a flood! threatened, that Pic ar | “bust loose any minute” and if} Key West, whose first two his intention of enlisting they did the fire siren would blow. | draftees are to go into blower, heard about it. nn ee “We're afraid to blow the darn U0 for another man thing any more for fear folks will , Horace O'Bryant, jead for the tall timber without the local asking any questions”, says 3 Wright. “So until they forget; OBryant mid the about floods the siren will be] tempting silent.” Phillips,