The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 26, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 152. Preli Che Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Work Claim Union Oreaniers|JAYCEES HOLD Subjected Workmen To! Terrorism And Ordered, Them Out Of Town | Construction of a $450,000 hous- ing project at Lime Grove was cancelled today by Lester F, Preu | company of Miami on charges | that workmen sent here for the job were subjected to terrorism | by Miami union organizers and local laborers, Preu company officials in Mi- { ;Commerce were evening on the “high seas” when the organization celebrated the; |occasion with a boat ride aboard | Bob Daniels’ charter craft. INSTALLATION |NEWLY-ELECTED OFFICERS INDUCTED LAST EVENING Newly-elected officers of the ey West Junior Chamber of Delmar Butler . was inducted | Joe Qn: PRO! wy . q BUT CRY IS “MORE NEED- ED YET” By CLAUDE A. JAGGER AP General Financial Editor NEW YORK, June 26.—Mid- 11941 finds America’s vast indus- jtrial machine shifted into high gear with production experts fran- | dreamed of-in this machine age. Already, the nation’s great miils installed last | and factories are pouring forth a ‘cific coast workers, grist larger than in the vaunted |Ppeace-time: “new era” of 1929, far bigger than during the frantic war | effort of 1917, yet the cry is more, | into the office of president, with |more, and faster. other officers as follows: The fist half of 1941 has seen tically devising super-charges and | other devices designed to speed | production toa pace never before © ami informed William R. Porter that members of a group of 20 workmen sent here for prelimin-! aty operations were beaten last, night and ordered out of town. | Sheriff Berlin Sawyer said his office has no knowledge of the alleged attacks. Pinder, vice-president; Dan Har- | the arms program move out of the | irison, recording secretary; Ches- | ter Knowles, corresponding sec- | blue print “into the: production | {retary; Charles Roberts, treasur- | Stage. Emphasis has swung from , jer; Andrew Elwood, Jay Strick- Inew arms plants to the sigantic er, Bob Saunders and ‘Joe Al-} iproblem of supply. len, sad ee 3 The government is swinging i | fae feat ia ab activities | |controls over an ever-widening | planned for the coming year. | | orbit to assure the arms makers | }Isadore Weintraub was master .of adequate steel, copper, rubber, | of ceremonies. to make sure that there will be! —- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1941 | WASHINGTON, ! Government June mediators up of work in Pacific coast ship- jyards at San Francisco as AFofL {machinists voted to return to work, and CIO workers showed | every sign of following their; lead. The AFofL workmn voted at general compromise for, all Pa- while. the }CIO men are expected to vote’ 'the same way tonight. The. strike had delayed work ;on $500,000,000 in construction. | Company officiais, ~ ‘SAFETY COUNCIL URGES CAUTION ms | REQUESTS ALL TO COOPER- ATE DURING FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION TAMPA, June 26 Housing ret Halted (Day Hold OF Work midnight last night to accept a} learning of | Porter said a stick of dynamite | was exploded within 100 feet of his Lime Grove home in an ef- } fort to frighten the Miami work- | RUSSELL RITES |no needles diversion of any of the | i | multitude of supplies needed both ' ‘of our own growing armed forces, | ,and by Britain. | Again the Florida Safety Coun-! jeil is calling on the people of Florida to exercise every caution | through the Fourth of July holi- End Of (By Associated Press) 26.—: today | thailed the end of a 47-day hold- | the AFofL compromise, said work could be resumed on al- Most regular schedule now, even if the CIO workers failed to re- turn. Navy department officials, who hed started enrolling new work- ;Men to take the places of the | strikers, said they would seek to have the unions accept the 88 re- | gistered employes at their seosienk Gani ‘jobs.If the unions refuse to work}; +with the men, it* was indicated, |they will be transferred to the | navy base at Mare Island. Settlement of the strike and ithe acceptance of the contract, j marked the first time the Bethle- hem company ever has agreed to a closed shop. |SOUP STRAINERS WORK IN REVERSE | (By Assopiated Press) June | LUBOCK, Tex. 26.—| | Jack- -rabbits and prairie dogs in; moisture through the whiskers | to sustain life, E. G. Pope, dis- trict fish and wildlife survey | aBent, has learned. | Across I Pasig. Coast Yas" OM Claimed British Cruiser Sank Nazi Surface Raider' (Special to The Citizen) LONDON, June 26—The 10-000; Where the battle took place was ton British cruiser. Cornwall to-/ not disclosed, but a bulletin said | day was reported to have caught | the German raider, a cruiser, was | and destroyed a German surface sunk by fire from the Comawalls raider somewhere in the Atlantic. guns. MPMULLEN "NAMED AS PRIZE WINNER sx CHRYSLER AND OTHER MAN- | AUTHOR OF ARTICLE PRINT- men from the Preu company. Formed Skeleton Force HELD YESTERDAY: Mid-1941 sees America coming to grips with a wartime economy, and coming to grips with it with a A director of the Lime Grove |SERVICES CONDUCTED IN constantly changing conception of corporation, built the homes, Porter declared at least 100 buildings would have. been constritted, with the larg- | est share of the work going to local men. The Preu company employes | sent here, he explained, were part of a skeleton projects in which the firm is in- terested. Preu company officials, in a telegram, told Porter they would | not consider going ahead with) the local job until the labor sit-' uation is cleared up. Men returning to Miami from here told conflicting __ stories about what had happened in Key West, Say 300 In Crowd Some of the Preu employes said at least 300 men in automo- biles trapped them at the Lime! Grove job yesterday afternoon, beat some of them, and ordered all of them to leave town at once. Others said the crowd had | been made up of about 75 men, but agreed that several workers had beer injured. The Preu company maintains an open shop and has refused closed shop demands ‘on ‘dozen: of defense jobs throughout’ he South. The firn? is ‘the. largest | home-building company in Flor- ida. Recalling the enforced depar- ture from Key West of g Paul H. Smith company foreman several months ago, Porter said it is dif- ficult to get contractors to build | in this city, and that the action of the Preu company in calling off the job will make it even more so in the future. Lawless, Irresponsible People Contractors throughout the state, Porter declared, have gain- ed the impression that Key West is populated with “lawless, irre- sponsible people”, with whem it is unsafe for an outside firm to/ deal With the navy seeking quar- ters for another 5,000 persons here, the banker said, it would be impossible to come anywhere near filling the demands. unless} construction ‘firnjs’ are given an (Continued-on Page Fenty force main- | tained by the company: to begin} which was to have) appeRNOON AT FIRST CON. ! |. GREGATIONAL. CHURCH Funeral services for Joseph Russell, who died in Havana on 'Friday night, were held yester- day afternoon at 5 o'clock at the First Congregational church, Rev. E. S. Doherty officiating. | Funeral arrangements were in charge of the Pritchard Funeral Home. At the conclusion of the serv- ices at the church, the large fun- leral cortege wended its way to ‘the city cemetery, where. inter- ment took place, A feature of the services at the | grave was a beautiful hymn sung |by Gerald Saundere, which was a contributing factor to the im- ipressive ceremony which was }earried out in the presence of a {large number of relatives and _,- friends assembled to pay a final | tribute to the deceased. The floral offerings were pro- | fuse and beautiful, being strewn around the casket at the church jand at the cemetery grave. The many floral contributions attest to the friendliness and goodwill 3|of the deceased’s numerous friends made during his span of life. “Joe” Russell numbered friends on every hand, and his passing brought deep grief to the many who paid him their last respects at the concluding services con- | ducted at the grave side. Pallbearers included will Dougherty, Jonathan Cates, H. | Ramos, Bernie C. Papy, Harold Key, Willard Albury, Earl Adams and Eddie Gomez. C. F. TINGLER BUYS PROPERTY ; A transaction in which W. A. Parrish sold to Chester F. Tingler | $3,000 tract in the Parrish sub-! pdivision was revealed today with | Fetording of the deed. he sale was made in April ; what it means. We Change Minds |. A year ago, France had fallen, President Roosevelt had asked for , a couple of billions additional arms appropriation, Admiral Stark had asked for a $4,000,000,000 two- ocean Navy. But few imagined,’ with huge surpluses of agricul-! tural products, and industry coast- ing along at two-thirds to three- quarters of what seemed practical capacity, that America have any difficulty doing the de- fense job needed. We thought we could have both guns and butter, | that the cry of guns or butter seemed a little absurd for Amer- ica. But only last month, W. L. Batt of the Office of Production Man- | agement told us “we have been operating on a gun and butter philosophy, a butter, ice cream and movie matinee philosophy . We cannot produce the vast quantities of fighting equipment \which must be produced and at | the same time preserve our stand- would | jday period. “Holiday traffic’, Director Asher Frank points out, “is al-; ; ways a hazard for the motorist. | Records show July to be one of the worst_ traffic Tmonths. During that period folks are pleasure bent; they are fon vacations and they are not) ‘thinking of the dangers that lurk jon the crowded highways”. A year ago six persons were killed in accidents; four were idrowned; two killed in traffic accidents in this state, there were numerous injured. “Be cautious”, urges pendence Day. Don’t over-play, don’t go in swimming until an hour after eating, don't ;chances on the highway, and be careful when diving to avoid shallow water.” Start Machinery Directed By New. Tax Enforcement Statutes ard of living in terms of automo- | biles and electric conveniences and leisure hours.” A few days later, Stacy Mary, research chief of OPM, said we are spending atthe rate of $13,- 000,000,000 a year, but it would i take three times that to carry out the Presidents’ foreign policy Already automobile manufac- turers have agreed to cut civilian production starting in August by 20 per cent to make way for de- fense, and authorities in both Washington and Detroit expect the cut may be much deeper. The War Department has suggested 50 per cent. But the production men say there is an enormous amount of “give” in the vast economy of the United States, that by standardi- zation, simplification, and most efficient use of resources, remark- lable results may be achieved }Donald M. Nelson, OPM _ pur- ‘chaser director, said June 16 that productive capacity for defense could be increased by 25 per cent “or pethaps even by a third.” by | reducing the variety of civilian ) goods. British Ships And Planes Smash At t French Troops’ (By Associated Presa) CAIRO, June 26—British ships and Royal Air Force bombers jsmashed at French troops south of Beirut last night and today, as soldiers of the Army of the Nile Swept north in a new series of at- tacks on the Lebanon capital (Vichy denied British reports of the capture of Palmera airport north of Damascus.) Mpving around Beirut in a great if pincers movement, the British and Free French were reported! hemming in French defenders of the city. (Special to TALLAHASSEE, June 26—Re- turning home from the. statewide tax conference in Tallahassee Tuesday, county officials are put- ting into high gear the machinery directed by the new tax enforce- ment statutes requiring full cash value assessments for property and stringent collection features among which are mandatory pub- lication of the names of those who fail to pay their taxes promptly and final sale of tax delinquent proverty-——botn real and personal. There is also something else in these new tax laws—called to the attention of the assembly of ap- proximately 500 county officials by State Comptroller J. M. Lee.-It is section 41 of the personal pro- perty assessment law, which pro- vides possible terms in jail for of- ficials who violate the provisins of the act One of the pertinent points raised by Comptrolier Lee in his remarks was that compliance with statutes requiring full cash valué assessments should not in- lerease the tax burden in as much tas the law directs. the commis- |sioners and school boards to -re- duce the millage in proportion to increase in assessment, “which will reduce the take from the fel- low who has been supporting gov- ernment these many years and | distribute the burden to property” that has been evading some part of | its just tax load Governor Spessard L. Holldhd, | who also talked to the gathering, made it very plain that while he was prepared to throw the full re- sources of state government of- while } Frank, ; “and live to see another Inde-, “When you see a rabbit brows-' the Chrysier company withdraw /™agazine article, described — im- i img in the grass in the waste lands he’s soaking up water”,' new models had met with a flat | j mechanism, and predicted future | | Pope ventures. ‘,When there's no water to be had for drinking, he it through nature's way”... | QUIZ PROGRAM (ity Ansorinted Prenny BALTIMORE, Md., June 26.— Municipal museum employes wonder just what the public thinks a museum does. Recent visitors have included: |a couple wanting a marriage li- cense, a sportsman seeking a dog license, a boy searching for his |birth record, a policeman who |thought it was the liquor board, take | six people asking for real estate © permits, and one couple asking aman by name because they thought it was the citv jail. | | ‘The Citizen) ahead, he is equally as.well pre- pared, to throw the “full power” of his office into the scales if ne- cessary to secure a complete com- pliance with the law. | Governor Holland stressed the | fact that these laws do not con-} centrate of centralize power in Tallahassee. They leave the power of action in the counties, merely giving supervisory power to state officials to the end that uniform- ity—as required by the constitu- tion—shall be secured; and of course re-iterating the power al- ready in the old statutes for en- forcing performance of duty. He pointed to statutes—satisfactory to all the people—placing sheriffs | under the governor and said he} couldn't see arry difference in giv. j ing someone the power to require | tax officials to enforce the law. “These new laws are not idle ‘ {Jer in similar refusals. UFACTURERS IGNORE CON- TROL ADMINISTRATOR i «My Annoctnted Prenad WASHINGTON, June 26.—Re- fusal of the Chrysler corporation and other automobile manufac- turers to accept prices fixed by Price Control Administrator | (ENS).— | time of drought absorb sufficient | Leon Henderson will result in a | article, request for stringent laws to en- force the board’s rulings, Hen- | derson announced today. | Henderson said requests that announced price increases for. refusal. Other auto he declared, were led by cone | re a Previousy, efforts at price, jcontrol have been on a more or | Hess voluntary basis, with most! rulings. — i TOWNSEND MORGAN RETURNS TO CITY F. Townsend Morgan, director ; f the Key West Art Center, | WPA, returned here this week! after a 4,200-mile vacation trip” along the eastern seaboard to! Connecticut. | Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, with ED IN COAST ARTILLERY JOURNAL 1 Lieut.-Col. James D. McMul- | len, for three years commanding officer of the coast artillery bat- tery in. Key West before his transfer to Camp Davis, S. C., is the author of a prize-winning “It Can Still Happen “Standing Off German And Rumanian Forces Around Oil Center (By Asuectated Press) German. troops inday were re- Ported racing across neutral Swe- den inite Finland as the Finns once more took .up arms agains! the mighty war machine of the Ankara heard reports that 2,- 000 Russian parachutists swoop- ed down in the Rumanian oil fields last night, and today are standing off German and Ru- manian attempts to drive them out of the Reich's precious cil |Here”, in the current issue of Coast Artillery Journal. Colonel McMullen, in the | {provements in coast defense (Sevices which might be develop- to provide. greater... protec- | Dé tion. The colonel, whose article won | ‘honorable mention in the 1940} Artillery association, was in ‘command of the army post here | from October, 1936, to July, 1940 ,and was one of the found- | ers of the Key West Yacht Club. | | CALLED TO DUTY First Lieut. T. E. Northrop, a resident of Denver, Colo. and) ‘Air Force Knocked Out Berlin ministry ‘reports said the Red air force \companies accepting Henderson's | competition of the U, S. Coast | has lost control of the skies along the whole 1,400-mile _battleline, and German warplanes were ported bombing and raking machine gun fire the troop centratfons . behind Russian lines. their daughters, Mary and Doody,!son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. | Rhine district. jleft here in June, and the mem- |Northrop, 1017 Margaret. street, | ‘bers of the family were present | ‘has been called to army duty at optimism over the lat Mary Morgan’s wedding in| Lakeland, June 9. | Morgan and the family visited Fort Belvoir, Va, his parents | learned this week. Lieutenant Northrop will be attached to the | iat of Gates comedies any sensational victories in the first five days of fighting, said other relatives in northern states | Sixth Instructors’ course, Engi- | British can do little to help Rus- on the trip and spent a day study- {ing the Museum of Modern: Art| \in New York City. ; FLORIDA PORTS ‘COMING BACK’ TAMPA, June 26 (FNS)— Fiorida ports, hard hit a year ‘ago because of curtailed . trade with Europe, have made a start- ‘ling comeback, and figures re- leased by the U. S. Customs of- fice reveal that customs collec- tions for the Feleral Government. for May totaled $587,533 as corn-; ; Pared with $377,376 the corre sponding month iast year. The gain is credited to increas- jed business at home as weil as jan improved business with our) neighbornig Latin-American na, tions. There are good indica-: neer school tantonment, j Because of an injury to his leg! jlate in May, Charles Northrop | was unable to’ make the tr from | here to visit his son as the train- | ing camp. Lieutenant Ree ‘wife and two children made the trip with him from Denver and will return home after a visit of ; two weeks, Happy Where He Was (By Associated Preas) t HUTCHINSON, Kas., June 26.* —A Hutchinson reformatory pa- role violator says he was moti- vated by a report that his wife i was planning to take him back. That was the leastest thing he , wanted. So he got drunk, robbed @ store and surrendered. - A RECORD? TESVILLE, Ve. Je gestures,” he said. “They're going | tions that the improvement will SCOTTSVILLE, V: to be enforced, adding that he | Continue, under government plans —Friends among the stood 108 per cent back of Comp-| | which call for the increased use) ple bave erected a troller Lee in his administration {Of railroads ‘while ships are used here to Samuel ‘R, Gna who ort of the statutes. ;LOCAL OFFICIALS BACK FROM CAPITAL PARTY Five Monroe county officials, back from a Tallahassee confer- ence with Comptroller J. M. Lee, today enther were in Key West or expected here during the after- noon. County Clerk Ross Sawyer, Commissioner Ernest A. Ramsey, and Tax Collector Joe’ McMahon returned here from the Tuesday morning conference last night. Tax Assessor Claude A. Gandolfo and Melvin Russell, county superin- | ficialdom into the job of co-opera-/ jting with county officials and co-/ i jordinating the tremendous effort, for shorter hauls between ports, | according to Allie J. Angle, col- lector of customs. Great Victory (died after |r 6p pope onease Cemeapeee fo ee eee For Britain |sia beyond hacking at the Reich ~ Wit 6 to invoke the neutrality Jaw (against Soviet Russia, today -ap- | peared salve sidecteeehieslcme: gressional opposition to Russian \aid in the war with Germany. Administration leaders sdmit- ted little aid can go to Ressis under any circumstances, but said they doubted if the oppost- tion could rouster nearly votes to enforce the neutrelity act over the President's bend. Even if supplies were made