The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 21, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXII. No, 148. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1941 Su Naval: Officers Of Saving Men On Board ‘core Se lalan Cons Of US. Ae Orr. Out Hampshire Coast; Thir- | HOUSING SURVEY | watts x } i } 1 j (Ry Associated Press) PORTSMOUTH, N. H. June 21—-Navy divers, reaching the stricken submarine O-9 440 feet 21—! ty-Three Aboard | WASHINGTON, June - BUSY ALL TIME ‘WHILE NOT DIRECTLY IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE, STILL VERY HELPFUL IN OTHER ACTIVITIES By ADELAIDE KERR AP Feature Service Writer Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde is ‘as beautiful as ever and still one of the busiest women in the country. The silver-haired daughter of the silver-tongued orator—the late William Jennings Bryan— stopped at my hotel during her visit to New York with her Danish born husband, and I had a talk with her. She was wearing a pin dotted, dark blue frock, which reflected President ‘Roosevelt today order- | the blue of her eyes, and beautiful |M@¢ Teturned from a tenth suc- WARPLANES LAUNCH SPEC- | ‘TACULAR DAYLIGHT RAID ON GERMAN BASES IN FRANCE (My Asnecinted Prean) LONDON, June 21.—Residents of the south England channel! coast today saw huge squadrons | of RAF bombers flying high| {over the channel, then heard the} Pounding of bombs as the war-| planes launched a_ spectacular |daylight raid on Germany’s in- vasion bases in occupied France. Following only a few hours after their bomber squadrons | | i Term “Piracy” Message As. PRICE FIVE CENTS Declaration Of War On Axis (By Associated Press) ROME, June 21.—Italian news- jdent was leading his nation to papers today described President | war.) Roosevelt's “piracy” message to| (New York stock market recs | Congress yesterday as a virtual ords revealed no slump after the. declaration of war on the Axis. |speech. Trading during the aft- below the waters of the Atlantic, today reported no sign of life in the smashed vessel. Naval officers said salvage op- erations have been started and will continue, but hope for the 33 efficers and men aboard the sub TO BE MADE BY PLAN UNDER WAY IN CON- NECTION WITH MACHINERY SET IN ORDER TO ACCOM- ODATE SERVICE PEOPLE led the Ialian government to with- | Pearls at her ears and throat. (Her/Cessive night of assault on’ nérth j.. Virginio Gayda said a proper- draw its consular ‘officials from | favorite perfumes seems to be ajGermany, the daylight flyers tly termed protest by the Presi- the United States by July 15. jcarnation scent.) | zoomed out across the channel: dent against the sinking of the ; “I'm not doing anything for th i | Robin Moor in neutral waters a | The move, expected ever since ' government oe pis pen me begin the ceyaigs bombardment. | month ago could*have*been giv- German consuls were ordered to, “but I'm busy as ever. I'm a mem-| padagies pilots said last!en consideration” by ° Germany, | close their offices last week, was {ber of the advisory board of the | Night's attack had been one of} As the message _was framed, lexplained only by the laconic ' federal prison for women in West | the heaviest of the 10-day bom- however, Gayda said it served as icomment of Summer Welles, | Virginia and a collaborator with | bardment. an ultimatum and could not be iunder-secretary of state, that the U.S. Travel Bureau. I'm also! Dusseldorf was pounded again | CoSidered in Berlin. |“they (the Italian consuls) could ;°? the Columbia Brosicaeine | ait tremendous fires were said Other “papers sermed: the ae Company’s Adult Educational sage a “long step” toward war by: ernoon was normal, with irregu-— Jar gains and declines in some stocks.) j GUNS, CONVOYS SEEN FOR U. S. FREIGHTERS (Hy Associated Press) “sa WASHINGTON, June 21.—. i a ministration supporters in Con- tion in bounded from north to the majority of opinion, today and from east to west by White- |serve no desirable purpose in the | hi di as been abandoned. | United States.” | Board and on the American- ; dustrial to have swept much of the in- Ruhr valley | with hailed President Roosevelt's mes- head and Emma. Jackson Square, the United States, and accused|sage on the Robin Moor sinking <i. of the county courthouse, The O-9 yesterday failed to re- | By making the order effective ‘Greenland Commission, which has | Yiines turn to the surface after a prac-| Machinery for a home registra-! July 15, President Roosevelt gave een administering the affairs of | tice dive near the Isle of Shoals tion system which will give to off the New Hampshire. coast, ‘service men information on where Italians the same amount of time ‘Greenland. In the 1940-41 season |} | for closing their offices which had |1 lectured in more than a hundred “ALLIES STILL mn given Germany. German jcities. After this New York visit,’ tain living quarters in Key pee UP BRIDGES AND RAIL LINES GERMAN-RUSSIAN | RUSSIAN SOLDIERS BLOWING | | Rissia, in spite of emphatic de-; onsulates must be’ closed by July I'm going home to the beautiful | jwhite house we reconditioned |near Alderson, W. Va.” | Then I asked this woman who and was the United States’ first 1 in feminine envoy to a foreign coun- | ‘only throu, the embassies in y field advisor, division of housing ices ight are not af-;'Ty (Denmark), what part she'. j thought women could play in re-! {construction after the war. “I believe we could prevent wars by building a tribunal of international justice and bat§:- ing it by an international po- man’s part would be to build up public opinion in favor of it.” she said. “As nations we now have about {the same system that society used in the frontier days. Each man packed-a gun and had to settle his {own affairs. A bully could ride jin and shoot up the town. People tried to deal with him, but he could pick them off one by one. Then the court was_ established and backed by arms. It is stronger than individuals and we no longer | want to arm. The same principle could be applied to international affairs. “I believe women care more than men do to solve this problem of wars, We have a different at- titude toward the things that touch the child. Women could. be a real force. Toward building pub- lic opinion in favor of a tribunal GOING FORWARD ted States now will have ;S¢?ved two congressional terms’ BRITISH AND FREE FRENCH OVERCOME RESISTANCE FROM SYRIAN FORCES. (By Assoctated Press» CAIRO, June 21—British and | Free French soldiers, overcoming ) Stiff resistance from the French | defenders of Syria, are completing ‘an encircling movement which , will cut off ancient Damascus from food and supplies, the high com- mand announced today. No longer attempting to take the city by frontal attack, the ad- vancing Allies are said to be driv- ing between Damascus and Beirut, while another column has swung east of Damascus. (Vichy today declared British advanees in Syria are slight and are being made at a terrific cost} in life and material) (Beirut, according to Vichy, was left in flames last night by British dive-bomber attacks.) ABACK SEAT DRIVER, MAYBE) | (Ry Ansocinted Press) | | t fear in America that the Presi-| jof American feelings. President Roosevelt of seeking | yesterday as a clear expression | x to inflame the people of the na-; pe: pce eegle a: Saving tion. (Berlin papers commented that the slump of the New York stock market after the speech revealed five city blocks for possible na’ Most congressmen said Ameri- can merchant ships undoubtedly will be armed now, with the in- idication that convoys, too, will be used for future shipments. SOCIAL SECURITY 'MANY TAKE UP ACT | , |NEW. PROVISIONS WILL BE- . -FIRST. OF JULY. (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, June 21—| on July 1 of this year, the State Welfare Board has been advised. These read: “Effective July 1, 1941, provide that the state agency shall, in de- termining need, take into consi- ;deration any other income and re- ;Sources of an individual claiming |on August 22. old-age assistance; and, effective closure or information concerning applicants and recipients to pur- poses directly connected with thi administration of old-age as- : a PUEBLO, Colo—The jury ac- |sistance.” | of international justice. . } / | i j CLLEGE WoR | TWO KEY WESTERS ARE EN- (Snectal to The Citizen) LAKELAND, June 21—Two \enrolled at Florida Southern col- ia come same toe: the Seat See Snare purchase |which began Monday and. will (fr the land is under consideration, {continue through July 18. The said negotiations have not been ;Second five-week session begins entered into, and he refused to jthe following day and concludes say to what purpose the ‘with the summer commencement | Would be put if it | Enrollment for the session now |July 1, 1941, provide safeguards exceeds 400, President Ludd M. |which restrict the use of dis-| Spivey announced after late re- | gistrations had been tabulated. | Special activities of the summer | program the first week included lectures by Dr. Gus W. Dyer, pro- fessor of economics at Vanderbilt (Ny Asnociated Prensa) FAIRBANKS, Alaska—Auto- | mobiles in the far rorth? City Clerk Grace Fisher issued 1,129 territorial license for cars in this vicinity through April. Thieves Get Onceover (By Asseocia.ed Press) | | | Miss Olive Ringsrud of South Dakota. is the only wo- man secretary of state in the United States. Her hobbies are horseback riding and deep fishing. sea . Four panes ended a successfy) pettieoat(rile in Dover, N. C., thi June life and turned the command back to men. At the end of their administra- tion of the town of 400 population, they were able to point to a new $16,000 gymnasium, a lunch room for the school, the beginning of a much-needed drainage pfdject, employment for women in a WPA mattress project and improvement of the main streets, auitted the automobile driver of | \the drunken driving charge but convicted the fellow riding in the back seat. Since he was the owner of the car, a jufor explained, he! could better afford to pay the fine. )| TOREADOR TACTICS. | (Ny Ansoctated Presa) | NASH, Okla—George Hugg! puzzled for quite a while over the! problem of driving his bull from; pasture to barn. Finally he solved it. He simply enters the pasture, attracts the bull's attention, and then runs “at 90-miles-an-hour,” for the barn. The bull comes right ‘along after him. | | jing old-age’ assistance without re- | which the Social Security Under the terms of the amend- | joi verci Judge Arthur ments, both of which are in line | Weyer er opnton ok conitinns pe court with its present and past policies, lthe University of. North Carolina. the State Welfare” Board is pro-| pr Ernest R. Graves, another hibited by fedetal law from grant- j University of North Carolina so-| ciologist who is nationally known THREE BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED L. H. Rogers, 1015 South street, atl aero to be spefit in TODAY’S SHORT STORY | generat repairs to his home. oe | Sam L. Gales, 740% Willem could invoke would be the with-| (My Aexcevnted Prewss ‘ street, took another drawal of federal participating; Certain tribesmen of Sumatra $300 to build a one funds from the state. These are} were most particular in the old building, while Marion L. granted on the basis of dollar of | days of cannibalism—they never Duval and United state money, and will be increased | never ate anybody who wasn't a granted a $1,500 permit for gener- gard to income other thai 'the old- | age assistance cash t, also concerning applicants and _ reci-| pients. The most drastic penalty for violation of these amendments Board | | LORAINE, O.—A Loraine shoe | ~~~ a | public assistance appropriations} 00 in proportion to the increase | vas al repairs, iby the recent session of the legis- | rant and drink stand under that salesman combines advertising / |name during the years of prohibi- | with robbery insurance. A sign on SERVICE that money. You pay for as the need of a rental is elim- inated hb our new “IN THE CAR” method. Tt saves you time, inconven- tence and delay, and many of our customers have their bat- tery boosted every time we bubricate their car—that way it’s always fresh and up to full strength. White and Fleming Sts Lou Smith Auto Service saves” you's and dozens of navy ships began to ob’ 3 it igh L signals from the submarine re- | West Was set up last nigh as loca j20. vealed she had met with an aeci- | business and political leaders ten-| With the removal of all consu- dent, | tatively named a 14-man commit- lar offices of Germany and Italy, Rese ips ‘tee: the Uni glace ee mg cl hg diplomatic contact with the Axis to determine the exact location of the undersea craft. Wrecka a: . M that shot to the rtai = ng co-ordination, the group will com-’ fected by the other decrees. oil slick that spread for 1,099 Plete a-housing survey of Key| pwede ss ry the approximate! The committee iembers, who jocation of th O-9, but first ef-| osen last. night, will meet | forts to reach her failed. ingen a and se ie x ANNOUNCE CIVIL the chamber of commerce to get previously had explained his be-! lief that full use of existing hous- jing facilities here would obviate | The United States Civil Service | houses at this time for service Ete Commission announces open com- }Men. By Axsocrat reas) petitive examinations for the posi-| Members of the committee, as! HELSINKI, Finland, June 21. tions of Assistant Clerk, field ser- | tentatively named, are Wallace |—Russian soldiers are blowing and Principal Clerk, field service | A. Maitland Adams, representing {to the European frontier, refu- for filling vacancies in the Fifth|Key West Housing authority; | gees. reaching Finland from Rus- U. S. Civil Service District, com- | Ernest A. Ramsey, t..e city; C. C. | sia declared tdoay. prising the states of Alabama,/Price, real estate operators;| Tension between Germany and South Carolina and Tennessee. lot Lester, attorney; Clarence /nials from the Kremlin and si- Applications’ may be filed with) Higgs, labor; Dr. William R.| lence from Berlin, has reached a the Manager, Fifth U. S, Civil; Warren, city health department; | Point where an explosion may Service District, New Post Office! Dr. J. B. Parramore, county | come at any moment, according further notice. Federal Housing authority; Ever- | Gen. Von Liszt, high-ranking ES ES tare ay ‘ett W. Russell, ‘chamber of com- | Geriman staff officer, is said here THEIR OWN PROPERTY merce; Mrs. Florence Spotts- | to have been sent to the Russian Si iene ;} wood, planning committee, and border to take, command of Ger- | of this city, pelped load a beer) Col. L. L.’ Pendleton, army |Tecently was repotted, in England cooler on’ tpuck, After informing | post commander; is expected to to have committed _ suicide be- | the proprietor of their good deed|name a permanent representa- | Cause of alleged blunders in the | they were ‘told it was stolen from} tiv from the army to complete | C@mpaign against Crete. | ! Local Saloon | 0 Dies In H perator, 1es avana Joe Russell, familiarly known | was the first to use the now wide- | to Key Westers and thousands of | ly known name, “Sloppy Joe”, for Joe,” died at 3 o'clock yesterday, afternoon in a Havana hospital. Ernest Hemingway, with whom tion near the First National Bank. his truck reads: “This car contains he had been fishing in Cuban! Later, when prohibition ended | show samples for one foot only— | telephoned Joe Russell, Jr. here | street, then moved several years last night to tell him of his father’s | ago to the present “Sloppy ‘Joe's death. The elder Russell had gone jat Greene and Duval. | to the hospital for a minor opera-| “partly through the influence MOTORISTS! e only a few hours. before death | trieng “Sloppy Joe’s” became|| When the starter fails to re. came, apparently from a stroke. | widely known throughout the'{ Spend and lights are dim, that’s H The son left here at once for | wnited States and visitors to Key 4 When you need.our 81 = Miami, to take @ morning plane 0) west frequently made the bar father's body for funeral andi ingway and trophies from his burk i ; fishing and hunting trips were A native of Key West and at made a feature of the bar's deco- one time a cigar maker, Russell! Stisne is survived by his widow and son. Joe Russell, Jr, two daughters, | Mrs. Anita Cates and Mrs. Edna — Mie Anderson; a grandchild, Men who have reached age of | Milton and Wilson Russell, and a 23 since Oct. 16, 1940, register 7 | sister, Mrs. Laura Archer & m. to 8 p. m. at room 208 Fed-| It is understood funeral ar- eral building for army selective | rangements here will be in charge a frantic search when smoke scene, but were unable at once | Working with Sigurd Nylander, | square feet over the water’s sur- West. ; the program underway. Nylander SERVICE EXA\ ia ate aca | the necessity of building more vice, Senior Clerk, field service, |B. Kirke, B. Curry Moreno and | up bridges and rail lines leading Florids,~ Georgia, Mississippi, ; Lieut. Sam Wilson, navy; Lance- Building, Atlanta, Georgia, until {health department; J. J. Trevor, | to reports current here. NEW YORK,—Two policemen! H. E. Rue, WPA? man troops there. .The . general | visif®rs as “the original Sloppy a bar. He opened a small restau- waters for the past three weeks, | in 1933, he opened a bar on Greene | No good to anyone except me.” tion and was said to be recovering and writing of Hemingway, a close Cuba. He will return here with his | their first-stop. Pictures of Hem- Russell, who died at age of 51, TUESDAY. TULY 1 {Anita Anderson; two brothers, service. of Pritchard’s funeral home. Marathon Airport Civil Aeronautics. authorities in Washington this. morning inform- ed Senator Charigs O. Andrews FAST BATTERY CHARGING ?)they an airport for Marathon has | current fiscal year. Ueert included on a list to be sur- veyed for cons' * and im- provement under the defense pro- gram. In a wire to The Ciizen, Senator Andrews said the airport would MASONIC NOTICE All members of Anchor Lodge and visiting Masons or members of other lodges im the City are requested to attend a meeting of Anchor day night. Visit of and refreshm By order of the WM. JOHN C. PARK. Secretary. | j dun2i-1t regular the DDG M__%0n chairman who returned here jj Paced On | j , be one of 191 throughout the na-/ | tion, 149 of which will get money junder an appropriation for we! Regional representatives of CAA in Atlanta will carry out the j survey, Senator Andrews an-j; nounced, with only those fields which have been certified by de-{ ‘fense authorities getting a share in the program. | Senator Andrews said the Marathon Key field would be made a Class two airport. H Carl Bervaldi, county commis-' yesterday from Washington, re- ceived the same information from Congressman Pet Cannon and re- jlayed it to The Citizen. lature. i The requirement in regard to} the disclosing of information con- | cerning old-age assistance ap-; plicants and recipients is founded | on the desire to shield the-aged New Law Enacted Relative To Catching Of Sca Cras Ralph Thompson, state police |. Mr. Thompson states that he with the Board of Conscrvation, wishes to°thank those engaged if \informs The Citizen that a new..these Operations for their hearty ‘law was passed in the legislature in observing the law ‘on June 12 which prohibits taking: in force in connection with the in- tof crabs of certain principal- . is NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC them from possible expivitation. NOW LIEUTENANT i F t ii i j i F i t ‘ i i | i F [ i g i z i a f f Eg H : : | } : i Ht Re te shy ad Fel af i 8 E Bf ! i a g FE i FE l : i ; E