The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 19, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 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 VOLUME LXII. No. 146. Airport Of Damascus French Counter Attack Drives Some British Forces Back To Pales- tine Frontier (By Associated Press) CAIRO, June 19,—Crack Brit- ish assault troops have captured the airport of Damascus and are teady to hurl a final, conquering blow against the ancient Syrian city, Mself, a British war bulle- tin said today. Admitting strong opposition from French troops, but denying AMENDMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED 10 ELEC TORATE eee Bureau of Investigation; who will represent Commission | j ;Chairman Carl Bervaldi, and,/set for Tuesday morning, TO BE ADOPTED OR REJECT- ED AT GENERAL ELEC- | TION TO BE HELD IN YEAR 1942 (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, June 18— Eight constitutionat amendments will be submitted to the electorate of Florida at the general election in November, 1942, for adoption, as the result of legislative action Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1941 (FBI. RIGHT; ON OF OPERATIONS LOT OF STRANGE THINGS ' TURN UP AS _INVESTIGA- TORS CARRY ON ACTIVI- TIES IN CAPITAL By JACK STINNETT AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, June 19.—The turns over a few stones: The FBI survey of defense plants has turned up a lot of strange things. For instance, at ing instruments that are among the military’s deepest darkest se- crets, FBI nivestigators asked to ‘County Officers Plan To ~ Confer With Comptroller County employes of all depart-. to Chicago and Washington on ments except the sheriff's and | which he has been accompanied jjudge’s will be without bosses}by Bervaldi and Julius Stone, |Monday when a delegation of de-| county attorney. | partment heads leaves here for al Bervaldi and Stone, who went jconference with J. M. Lee, state|to Chicago with Sawyer to sign comptroller, at Tallahassee. | county bonds at the office of R. E. | Officials making the trip will|Crummer company, are expected | include Claude A. Gandolfo, to arrive here tomorrow or Satur- county tax assessor; Joe C. Mc- | days The three stopped in Wash- Mahon, tax collector; Ernest A.jington on their way back from Ramsey, county commissioner, | Chicago. ‘he conference in Tallahassee, } was iprobably, Melvin Russell superin- | called by Lee in order to acquaint | tendent of schools. }county officials with regulations | Ross Sawyer, clerk of the circuit | under new tax laws passed by the ‘court, will join the group at Tal- | legislature in the recently ended fone plant where they are mak-,lahassee on his return from a trip | seasion. ] SOUS SRESSE TSS “Ee RaEES WHAT THIS: COUNTRY. NOW» NEEDS see where the army’s secret plans | 1S MORE: SPA NeW r TON and the specifications were kept. | The official accompanying them ; By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, June 19.—Vis-| public buildings administration took the men to a vault and! proudly explained that the com-} to Washington-under-un-| in the Federal Works Agency. pany had just had the new fire- proof, burglar-proof steel door|_ installed. The agents were im- | itors Vichy reports that the British force is in danger of being cut off, Cairo said the capture of Damascus had been delayed by efforts to prevent damage to the historic city. Rejection of the now will place responsibility for its destruction on Vichy, British sources declared. (Reports from Vichy said a French counter attack has driven some British forces back to the Palestine frontier, with the whole invading army in immin- ent danger of being cut off from supplies.) (French naval units are said ato:,have.. delivered. _ damaging ws to British concentrations * south of Beirut.) _ Cairo reports from Libya, ‘Meanwhile, said the British army there has fallen back to its orig- inal position after testing Ger- man and Italian forces. Only normal patrol activities are in progress now, according to the bulletin, (Berlin said British troops which advanced into Egypt suf- fered a crushing defeat, with the loss of great stores of war equip- ment and many men.) MANY GERMAN PORTS BOMBED BRITISH AIR FORCS CON- | TINUES RAIDS OVER MANY SECTIONS (By Associated Prema) ultimatum | calling for surrender of the city | just ended. Briefly, the amend- ments provide as ollows: H AMEND. ART. IV, by adding! section 30. creating. Game and! Fresh Water Fish Commission, ! consisting of 5 members, one from. each congressional district; to be | appointed by the governor. AMEND. ART. XVII, Section 3, :to provide for submitting consti- {tutional amendment ‘in special | election, not less than 90 nor more than 180 days after legislature ad- jjourns; providing three-fourths | ;members of each branch of legis- | lature votes to submit constitu- | | tional amendments at special elec- | tion. | AMEND. ART. IX, by adding | | section 16, creating State Board of | Administration; providing for di- vision of gasoline taxes on a basis | 2 cents for county.road.and bridge | debt service and 4 cents to Road | Department for period of 50 years. Governor, Comptroller and j Treasurer to compose board of | administration and shall have’ jPower to retire all road, bridge » jand debt service, and supervise | Fretundives, AMEND. ART. V, by adding Sec. 46, providing for election of | Circuit Judges in 1948; and all in- | cumbent Circuit Judges to re-| main in office until Jan., 1949, if | amendment is adopted. { AMEND. ART. XVI, Sec. 16,! providing taxing of all corpora-} tions except religious, scientific, ' | municipal, literary, fraternal, or ; | charitable; but not affecting Sec- ‘tions 12 and 14 of Article IX. H | AMEND. ART. X, Sec. 1, to pro- | |vide garnishment of wages, salary, | or incomes up to 25% ; but not ap- | | plying to salaries or incomes of | | $25 or less per week, unless for | | necessities of life. | AMEND. ART. XVI, by adding | (Sec. 32, creating and vesting | | authority in a board to make rules | jand regulations relating to con-/ | | pressed. but they investigated fur- ither to find that the other three walls of the “fireproof, burglar- | limited-emergency almost inva- iviably mutter “All is confu-| {sion”. It’s because of Mr. Guthridge that the new Social Security building is occupied mostly by Russia Anneas ‘International Traveling Men Of America Will Make History After War By JACK STINNETT, AP. Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, June 19—When the history of this war is writ- ten, there will be a chapter—an important one—on interna- tional traveling men of America. A These men are the eyes and ears of President Roosevelt and the state department and the army, navy and marine corps. They are message bearers to and frome’ the heads of governments on! ones sent out by the state and both sides of the eastern hemi- | other departments. sphere. \ If the President, the state de- Not since the late Col. E. M.;Partment and ane government | ! House made his historic trip for | don’t know what's going on in ! ‘ 3 the world today on at least one; | President Wilson have the jun- | side of the war picture, it isn’t PRICE FIVE CENTS ———— cnt Turkish Diplomats See Conflict Coming Now Within Very Short Pe- riod (Dy Associated Press) of border conflicts and imminent \Russo-German war | flooded Europe today, but Berlin | and Moscow remained silent and ‘stories of armed clashes could not be consirmed. Turkish diplomats, who _yes- terday concluded a startling 10- proof” vault were of wood panels through which any keyhole saw} 2 have written, about the/the Office of Production Manage- expert could go in 10 minutes and | 8rowth of the capital city under | ment (the Knudsen-Hillman set- through which fire could eat in |Mational defense before, but it is/up), the Office of Emergency less than that. j@ continuing story becoming | Management (the over-all de- ri ad Jah <a 1 aoe pas eau each day and itense organization) and Army eight times as echel pete inal | It is something Washingtonian Ordnance. . .and much of the So- men in the United States as |¢at and sleep. It is a more gen- cial Security clerical staff is in there are criminal women. A’ |¢t@! topic of conversation than! Baltimore, where two warehous- survey of their vast index of jthe war or weather. And it is/es are serving as temporary fingerprints completed recent- {not surprising that this is true quarters. ly showed 5,305,500 male and |0r that the casual visitor thinks 4 f hi 661,400 female criminals on the | this a city of utter confusion. Hs bepnuse ky in books. Since the census was taken NeW Railroad Retirement However, the survey of crime last year, it is estimated that ing was handed over to the for the United States for st Wemniietor. has dpcreased its army. With almost every inch shows that Kipling still is right— ‘Population 10 per cent or almost ilabl i the female of the’ species con. {70,000 persons. This _ does not | Ye Boe wate Gal wera eanad tinues more deadly than. the | take into considgration..the thou- - tate -of- 4,000 a month (in male. Out of each 1,000 men and sands who have settled in the Washington). Guthridge’s job is 1,000 women arrested in the land | suburban towns in Maryland and | to find space for them and he —10 men and 13 women are ; Virginia—Alexandfia, Arlington, has against him the competition charged with murder. Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Silver of such organizations as the Brit- that the build- Speaking of fingerprints, some | Spring and others. It doesn’t take: ish purchasing commission which | evidence of what vital industrial |into consideration the thousands has taken over one floor of the plants are doing to protect them-'of new visitors—persons who willard Hotel, three apartment selves against sabotage may “be have discovered a new interest pyildings, a private mansion. gleaned from recent FBI finger-!in government and want to see Aside from the greatly increased print record receipts. In three how the whole shebang works; embassy staff, the Britsih are months in the 1941 fiscal year, | relatives and friends of the num- gaiq to have about 2,000 em- 730,753 sets of fingerprints were ,berless new defense workers; ployes in Washington. received by the bureau from in-| business men here to confer on “Temporary’ Since 1917 dustrial and commercial firms. |defense contracts; soldiers and Th d a During the corresponding quar- sailors from nearby stations. | i — a Ravy: 1d ror ter in 1940,, the FBI got only} Rooms Hard To Find re tee eee pai gee ng 248,842 sets from such compan-; What any visitor is likely to i” in the World. Wer They ies. ‘discover first is that even if it are aged frame tinder boxes In the Jest few days, the. FBUlis an aft-week, he may Have where one of the strictest office has had two cases which illus-jtrouble getting accommodations rules is against smoking. trate the-value of this finger-fat any of the city's 28 first-class’ 7.6 palatial dew war. depart: printing in criminal investi- hotels unless he has made reset-' ment building is nearing comple. gating. One fellow, who had ap-' vations a week or more in ad- tion and the new prakesssi be plied for a job and sworn that he | vance. If he is out from 7:30 to’ Gsric veri never had been arrested, was dis-| 9:39 in the morning or 3:30 to 6 covered to have been twice in|; fternoon, he’! he gn3 ; trouble, first when he made “taibe| cust ce penocat deter Mattie finished in a few. months. These affidavits in connection with a . \ may take care of fey or eleven ' Ag jthat reaches its peak in. those ¢housand workers. Guthridge Veterans’ Bureau claim” in Okla- | pours (staggered hours seem wijt tell you that that’s hardly a ton cemetery in Virginia will be Office building bordering Arling-' |kets of “personal representatives” | because they haven't sent enough | the Reich, said there is a "50-50" lof the President or the govern-j traveling men to bring back; chance of wer between the two ment attracted such wide atten- | first-hand reports. ¢ i | - countries before the weekend, | oie the first pete ot MIMS MIMS LID EE | Sweden's capital at Stockholm ROOSEVELT ADDRESS ee"? that Russia is nurriedly ‘this chapter will have to be de-| voted to Sumner Welles, under-| ' secretary of state, for it was his: "great flying trip of Europe in the | ' spring of 1940 on which the world | ‘pinned futile hopes of avoiding the catastrophe of this last year. | , Welles, the United States’ No. a diplomat, interviewed Chamber-}| lain, Lord Halifax and the King» in England; Hitler in Berlin; (iy Associated Press) CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June Daladier and Lebrun in ‘is; cand Ai in- Italy and back to givé the most complete sembled by one man of the na-; tions poised for battle. i Willkie Most Unusual Most unusual of all the “un- Wendell L. Willkie. Mr. Willkie went to bomb-torn England to} take a look-see for himself but! he went with the President's — i | duction to Winston Churchill. He OOO 70 returned to give this country the | — —— $$ unique sight of a defeated can- | didate of the opposition party and observations to the ‘man who had defeated him. t Then went Harry Hopkins, not | report but to prepare himself, by | i intimate knowledge, for the her- EY SORE jculean task of administering the, STATE DEPARTMENT OFFI- | that trip, too, Hopkins laid the | foundation for his conclusion, TOM NOW USELESS; BEGAN ; that “Hitler can't win”. | Col. William J. (Wild Bill) Don-| '™ EARLY 18208 picture that could then be = official observers”, of course, was blessing and his letter of intro-' reporting, in private, his views jonly perhaps to see and hear ani. $7,000,000,000 lend-lease bill. On CIALS SAY ANNUAL CUS-| Berlin diplomats hailed ‘ovan combed the Mediterranean, | LONDON, June 19—Germany jservation of salt. water fish and; and north France suffered their | Salt water products. j eighth successive. night of large | scale aerial bombardment tast | in& for electio t night as Royal Air Force {Commissioners for 4-year terms. | war-j rs : e planes pounded ports along the} AMEND. ART. VII, Sec % by | channel coast and blasted indus-| increasing the number of State | trial cities in the heart of the | Senators from 38 to 40; creating | Reich. |two new senatorial districts. the S {3 rd County, and Slightly less intense than their |39th out of Browa' ) previous night's attack, the cia the 40th district out of Calhoun were said here to have carried fire | 84 Gulf Counties . i and “high explosive to a dozen| SELLS BROTHER'S LEG | cities in Germany or German oc- | shanties | cupied territory. WOONSOCKET, R. I—Walter (Berlin said the raids caused; A. Laird of this city was sent to} some damage and loss of civilian | jail for 10 days for stealing and | life, but were not important.) _| selling his brother's wooden leg Duncan To Meet With Road Officials Looking Forward, ck. sahin, lin <OOOOOOTEeD Overseas Road and Toll Brid: District commissioners, will meet, SUSPENDS EIGHT HOUR WORK DAY) with representatives of the state road —depa: nt and federal | bureau of public roads next month w | to arrange for completion of the WASHINGTON, f4 oy i key road system, it was announced} president Roosevelt today | today H suspen.ied eight-hour Duncan, who said surveys at! working ped men on gov- | ernment projects at the | each end of the road system have been completed by the road de- canal sone. Alaska and Puerto Rico. i partment, will meet with the re- presentatives July 2 at Pigeon Key. i A hd To Activities tenced to 18 months in Leave worth penitentiary—and again AMEND. ART. VIII, by provid- when he violated the conditions !},. in the mood for lection of Dade County |°f his parole. The second case drinking, he'll find was that of a man who sought a job and admitted that he had been arrested three times. What he neglected to tell, his finger- prints did tell—he was a_ fugi- tive, wanted in Santa Monica, Calif., for burglary. A perfect match for the wooden vault story was a plant where a highly secretive weap- None of these, however, caus- ed FBI agents such consternation as the aviation plant where some (Continued on Page Four) NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC nformation pertaining to City of Key West building require- ments; applications for building permits and building permits may be obtained at the office of the Building Inspector at the City Hall daily, except Saturdays and Sundays, during the following hours, 11.00 A. M. to 12:00 Noon, and 1:00 P. M. to 2:00 P. M. YGNACIO CARBONELL, 9-21 Building Inspector. junl homa—for which he was Se0-jonly to have spread, congestion. drop-out of the bucket. And it over longer periods). isn't. At times when he is likely to na. the Balkans, the Near East and Africa for Secretary of Navy Frank Knox besides doing eye | and ear work for the secretary in to England. i } Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon | {general of the United States, | went to England to study what ; If he wants a taxi, he'll find UREN TE ae i i there are periods of the day and) WELCH, Okla—When the men | poe Fargas 92 grat ome jnight or anytime during a storm of Welch were a: little slow in i j when it is practically impossible pushing the civic clean-up project | or paca Age Racgetir goo 3? to get one, A taxi company offi- the women took over. They | worst of the bamb shelters were |cial tells me that a year ago there seooped up 13 big truck loads of | not as unsanitary as some of our j were 5,000 cabs on the stfeets of trash, and hauled it away. Collect- | cums and sothe of the boom ; Washington, but now there are ing 25 cents from each house-| towns that mushroomed “ah et [only 3,700. Drivers, working on hoider they paid off expenses and | national defensé. |the zone-rate basis (as all Wash- came out $11 ahead. Took Long Way Around lington cabs do) find the traffic — | Most prominent of a battalion | slows them down so they can not —=——___. a or cheeses tate of |make what they feel they should. | pretiag singe sree Mead If a visitor wants to go shop- COMING Se i ae eee 5 tine corps is Capt. James Ropse- jping, all he can do is join the ___ |velt of thy 3s | Dftnalyo—<$<<$< ¢ marines, who, took l > daket: ween Seccaek A ea THURSDAY the long way round to get to plete geetiagtsng: Saw Junior Woman's Club Social} Cairo.and the Battle of the east- nth and pray that it will slow "“Si ing 5 pm, orn, Madtebvaiiink i UP ‘enough to let him work Dis Rotary Club inects 12:15 p.m.j W. Averill’ Harrifiin, although | St. Paul's Parish Hall he has ibe title of thinister, be- | }way in when he comes to his {store ‘The other half ‘of this ‘city Council meets at City Heil,| longs. im @fli catagety tao, for he! 8:00 p.m i Last week, army, and vy alone added 800 new civilian eating or employes here. i the restau- That's what is happening rants and bars filled to capacity Washington these days. and probably lines of waiting customers in the former. A REAL CLEANUP \ problem is trying to find a clerk. Space Finder Extraordinary (Lions Club meets at These are not exaggerations. Lions’ Den. Seminarv and I am sure that the first per-| ‘ json who would bear me out! ‘would be Clay J. Guthridge who, 21 since Oct. 16, although he is concerned with & m. to$ p. only one phase of what is hap- eral building pening to Washingtos, knows service, more about it than anyone else. It’s his personal headache Few government workers nave ever NOTICE! CALL 109 heard of him, but he hes affect-'. jed the daily routines of more of if you have any COCO- — than any other man here.| NUT TREES you want }A quiet, bespectacied, laged man, Guthridge is chief of Femoved from your prop- pplanning and space control of the jerty. (By Agnoctated Prone? : WASHINGTON, June 19.-—The state’ department has’ stopped’ sending its twice+-yearly notices to nations in default on World War debts to the United States. Ever since European nations: due January 15, and June 15, of each year. This year, the customary no- tices did not go out after June 15 had passed wihiout receipt night of May 31. of payments, State department’ The consul’s office said the pos- officials had decided it was use- ribilitv had been admitted in Ber- less to remind the debtor na- lin, and suitable reparations would For Alleged / Eddie C: arey pe ar Alex Brun this afternoon was unconcious ing ee g