The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 28, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to ths Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 154: On 100 Percent: Valuation EXEMPTIONS FOR CERTAIN CLASSES PERTAINS TO THOSE WHO PROVIDE ENTIRELY FOR DEPENDENTS if - Gideon Curry Appointed Caretaker At Aquarium | With Stanley Saunders | As Assistant At a meeting of the City Coun- cil held last night an appropria- tion of $75 was ordered to take | care of extra help for Tax Asses- (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 28.— REVEALS HOW | _ LIVING. COSTS: \ HAVE. VARIED| OBSERVER GIVES IDEA RELA- TIVE TO INCREASED COSTS IN CONNECTION WITH NA- | TIONAL DEFENSE | By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, June 28.—Up | to now the war has hit most of us , in the pocketbook, the electric re- | frigerator and the fasteners on} | our clothes. katate Be Sulject To. New Peles ENTIRE GERMAN ARMY REGIMENT IS ANNIHILATED RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE MAK- ING GREAT HEADWAY IN MANY SECTORS OVER NAZI Owners of tangible and intangi- ble property who permit their county taxes to become delin- quent July .15, will be subject to | new penalties this year and their names will be advertised, Joe C. McMahon, county tax collector, announced today. | Delinquent tax lists will be ad- ‘vertised in The Citizen July 15, and Sheriff Berlin Sawyer will be [instructed to draw warrants for {seizure of the property after Au- jgust 1. | McMahon, one of the county of- To Him ‘Calling On Marines’ Would Have Wages Of Local Colonel Hatfield Has Is- sued Sharply Worded ~ Demand For Retraction Workers On Par With Miami Local draft boards throughout} Next month it starts in on the! FORCES sor-Collector Sam B, Pinder in rewriting the tax roll, which will be'made up on a one hundred per cent cash valuation assess-, ment on all properties, instead of fifty per cent as has been the Case in the past. This action was taken in ac- cordance with recent laws enact- ed by the legislature, and which Governor Spessard L. Holland has ordered to be put into effect | in all countie. of the state. | While there will be a fifty; pér cent raise in assessment, | there will be no increase in the| amount of taxes due to the fact! that the levy and millage will be | artanged to equalize the amount of taxation to conform to the aise in assessment as provided | for in the law recently enacted. | The city entered into an agree-! ment with the Gato interests to: lease the brick factory building | the United States today were in-; jsttucted to’ grant exemption to men who prove their earnings! jare providing entitely, or to ai |fair degree, for the support of dependents: Instructions from conscription | board. headquarters said men, whose induction in to the army | would work a real hardship on! dependents, should be exempted, ' no matter what their previous classification. i For men who have been mar-! kitchen, the bathroom and the scrap box of nuts and bolts and | wire in'the basement—posibly on the Sunday afternoon joy ride. By fall it'll catch us in the suit and overcoat, probably the fuel oil tank and possibly rent. Come winter we may even be giving up | that new house we planned—or at least modifying its design. Next year? Every hour of the day will find | { (By Associated Press) | Annihilation of an entire Ger- jman army regiment in Bessarabia and the destruction of heavy tanks in an attack across the. Pinsk marshes was claimed by Soviet news sources today as the Russo-German war front flared jup in the heaviest fighting of j the week-long struggle. Red news sources said the Ger- H ficials who was called to Tallahas- | see for a conference with Comp- troller J. M: Lee this week, éx- plained that the stringent new Wages of Key West workmen would be scaled on a par with those in Miami under the terms an hour, originally were scaled at 40 cents, while Miamians drew the higher figure. jlaws enacted by the legislature 'of a program suggested by cham- ‘ : now place tax assessors and col-;ber of commerce directors . last! The directors “also instructed llectors directly under the super- night. henwuepies to arrange for the local | vision of the state. The directors, meeting at the|chamber’s membership in the | ‘Under orders handed him at the|;chamber of commerce building, | state chamber of commerce, and meeting McMahon must_advertise | instructed Secretary Stephen C,'to arrange a. conference. with the tax lists July 15, and on that Singleton to write Florida sena-| County Attorney Julius F. Stone, day increase the amount due by ators and Congressman Pat Can- \Jr., on the county’s joint adver- j Percentage of 1 per cent a month non, requesting a study of the; fising committee. im the case of the tangible prop- | labor wage situation by the fede-| The group also will seek better lerty, and 2 per cent a month |ral labor board. ‘inspection of automobiles by the jim the case of the intangibles. A | ried since the draft call, boards were instructed to: inves- | Jasts, tigate if the marriage occurred | “in the normal course of events”. | CLAD SOE we soon. may. te | living better in some respects be- |cause Uncle Jim, who hasn’t had ia job in years may be working fy | steadily at the foundry. { BUYS PROPERTY We're already paying through the pocketbook because of the 10 per cent special income tax for de- ;fense and we'll be paying even j heavier next year. If we haven't ‘put out income tax money, we |have paid extra on taxable pro- | ducts like movies, cigarettes, etc., either because taxes are higher, or because we’ve bought more. We are paying through the ARTHUR MULBERG ALSO PURCHASES TRACT IN MARTELLO TOWERS Charles G. Lowe has purchased on-Catherine street'to.be-weed as for about: $1,000 a-Georgia street \frigefator, because ice trays are the | us making a sacrifice if the war |™@" thrust toward Moscow had {been beaten off and scattered in! | heavy fighting in Poland, while another German-Rumanian drive | |toward the Ukraine, was said to! jhave met the same fate. i ; A German high command }communique had almost nothing | to say about the course of the battle, beyond promising a full jreport on the success of the cam- ;Paign within a few days. | Even the German news service, ; DNB, which has provided nearly;) {all information from the Berlin | jend of the war, today was/ {strangely silent, ‘| } Red Air Force Attacks © / 10 per cent delinquent charge also |considerably below those in Mi- | \ Wages in Key West are scaled city with a petition to city council Board members at the meeting will be attached to the intangibles ‘ami for some types of work, with | were President Everett W. Rus- on July 15. | the balance generally in favor of sell, Melvin Russefl, vice presi- Persons failing to pay up before | Miami workers of all kinds. La-|dent; Wi T. Fripp, treasurer, and August 1 will make themselves ‘borers here, although they have Charles S. Taylor and Bascom liable to seizure of their property , sought an increase to 62% cents Grooms. ‘ by the state. | } NAVY TO HELP IN TRACK MEET | AT LOCAL PARK LJEUT. WHITEHEAD GIVES Pipe For A ueduct Is Now Being Treated At Homestead fot (Special to The Citizen) i | HOMESTEAD, June 28—Pipe A "8 i a WPA sewing tod and for oth-| lot near Division, formerly the getting scarcer, and so are the | property of the three heirs of Da-; freezing units. ef activities. The city in ac-| bombers. heavy blows at oil fields in Ru- mania, according to reports from Moscow, and the Red air fleet 7 tor the Florida Keys’ ‘aqueduct is f Poco ee rolling through the treatment! | NOW PLANNED | ment printed in the Miami Herald that he would “call on the ma- tines” to end labor trouble here, as Lfout.-Col. G, D. Hatfield, com- mandant of marines, issued @ traction, ss The Herald story, beating of two Late Fe “T am determined to give work~ men on that project or any pro- ject protection, and if I cannot. give this protection I will call on j the marines.” 4 Sheriff. Sawyer, who yesterday — jovernor Hol- \ \ cordance with the agreement will‘ oy wg ha a agape pane We're ing through clothes; i i in- | he lot belonged to Plossie. B. paying 8 ; Was reported in action over Fin-! i ¥ ‘ fasteners, because manufacturers : land and Hungary in a new series exempt the taxes for a period Malone and Natalie Roberts have been forced to lower the qua- | of night bombing attacks. ! of one year, which is the time Curry, Monroe courfty, And to | lity of dollar wash frocks for wo- es | Plant here at the rate of about 200 | i Lieut. Hulan Whitehead, rec-! " sections a day. ‘reation and welfare officer at ¥; Pushing the 50-foot lengths of! limit of the lease, and will also Lorene Sawyer, New York. Pay the amount necessary to! Lowe today was granted a $300 carry insurance on the building. Tt was ordered that three hun- Sacha adie sina pate saa ‘ , In another transaction record- dred stickers be purchased to be' eq yesterday, the Pell Corpora- issued to car owners in lieu of li- tion sold to Arthur Mulberg a cense plates during the next three $2000 tract in Martello Towers. . months due to the fact that the; Site olin city has run out of plates, and PLAN AGAINST will not have any on hand until the first of October when the new , license plates will placed on sale. | The sticker idea was adopted in! order to accommodate many car! owners who have applied for tags, amd were unable to obtain them.| DETROIT, June The stickers will be pasted on Mobile company the windshield of cars, showing Scheduled for a meeting with that a license has been applied for, government price control officials which gives the car driver permis-; Wednesday, today urged a grad- sion to operate until the new, tags | Ual decrease in output to prevent bécome available. widespread unemployment. Tt was ordered that. an amount} of $142.50 be refunded to Romey , ing to a 20 per cent cut already ‘Tynes which amount he paid for a} Ordered by the goVethment, said saloon license, but which he ‘was @ drastie slashing of output this unable to use due to the fact that| Year would throw men out of he could not obtain a license from | Work before they could be ab- the county, and therefore could, Sorbed in defense production. not operate in accordance with the law. Mr. Tynes made the request; JUST $0 MANY MEN for a refund at a meeting of the council several weeks’ ago, and the matter was reported to the council last night by the chair-} man of the finance committee, in! whose hands it was placed at the time, with the finance chairman | there ais Scene recommending that the council re- Chief I a. prabees + fund the amount in question. | lef Inspector Louis F. Cos- Upon recommendation of the chairman of the Aquarium com-} mittee, Gideon Curry, assistant | m caretaker at the aquarium, was ters and count cars in parking appointed caretaker to succeed ‘!ts, figuring three persons to a Joe Romero, who resigned recent- | °@- In a parade, they know that ly, and who winds up his activities |™en marching 12 abreast will today, Stanley Saunders was ap-/ P&ss & given point at ~ rate of pointed assistant to Mr, Curry. | 5,000 an hour. Fred Marvil N {fy Ananciated Press) VALUABLE WAGON } | Eureka, Calif,—Joe Mattecycei| of this city five years ago contem-| plated selling his old wagon for $1. Recently his brother discover- edi $2,600 in gold coin under the floorboard. TRANSFERS BONES tain, last night was named captain jof the newly formed home def »nse Atchison, Kans,—-When Molly,! guards as 68 members of the or- an Airdale, owned by Charles Cox ‘ganization met at the national of this city saw the family moving guard armory to complete plans | into a new home, she went into the for their enlistment. yard, dug up 17 bones, carried] Two lieutenants who will serve them, one by one, to the new yard} under Marvil are to be elected by and reburied them. ‘the men at a later meeting. Russian sources admitted Ger-| the navy yard, last night assured ' | building permit for general re-/ TO SO MUCH SPACE. For Home Defense Guard Fred Marvil, reserve army cap-/ men by putting on more and ;man panzer divisions had pushed cijy-county recreation cheaper buttons, and fewer zip-| back the defenders along a 250-.-eemen ef help from navy en- {mile front extending from what ' listed personnel for the Fourth of | pers. | So far, aluminum products are | junder the heaviest restrictions. | ; That's because defense industry is | ‘absorbing every pound of virgin | ; aluminum country. { Next hardest for the house-|to have been checked when the have volunteered to act as judg- j holder to get will soon be copper. }tank units were separated from es and to provide starting pistols I know a woman who already has iven up her cherished hobby—| {making dishes and decorative | rying out the British promise of sharply within {pieces out of sheet copper. A‘aid from the air, reached far days, and prospective entrants while, are being prepared for pen- 28.—Auto- Month ago, the price went up on jacross Germany during the night have been getting into shape for ing Monday in Washington, when executives, ‘her. Now she can’t even buy cop- | to bombard the heart of the Ruhr the track, and field meet. Mrs. the bureau of yards and docks per in the desired form, The trou- | ; ble is, we’re going to produce less | civilian needs require more than! jough to go around. | Zine is scarcer, too, to galvanize | your fense posts, for roofing and | or garbage cans. Steel for that new ten was Lithuania down into north Poland. Reports added, however, that soldiers of the Reich suffered attacks, and the drive was said the infantrymen behind them. Royal Air Force bombers, car- valley industrial area. Berlin, although denying any sive action with the announce- Executives of the. firms, point- | 1,800,000 tons. There just isn’t{ment that 36 British planes were , Fourth. shot down in the night-long bat- tle over, Germany. scanners com Ste" SANCHEZ RITES j being delayed 14 to 18 weeks now, | | because Uncle Sam is buying so | much, | Mrs. John Q. Citizen, you're al- } Teady. paying 25 to 30 per cent ; jmore for wash frocks, or taking | | poorer qualities. And just wait) NEW YORK, June 28.—The po- | until you get ready to buy your | morrow afternoon at lice don't guess—they know al-| winter coat and furs! They'll cost | from most exactly how many people you at least 20 per cent more, say | Where the body will be placed at | the retailers. | | If your husband thinks he'll es- | | winter suit and overcoat | | As for food, we have plenty. In| | general, food prices are much low- | er than they were in prosperous | | 1929, and somewhat lower even; | than they were in 1937, i amed Captain | | i Tentatively accepted members mory Wednesday night for physi- |; cal examinations, it was an- nounced, and uniforms and arms; will be sent here after the guards- | men are formally sworn into ser- vice Dr. Julio DePoo and Dr. Har- | ty Galey have donated their ser-| ‘vices for the examination. i HERE TOMORROW Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa Sanchez, age 66, will be held to- 5 o'clock the First Baptist church, 2p. m The body will lay in state at ‘tuma explained how his men get cape, he’s mistaken, Either he'll | the residence, 619 Olivia street, | the figures. At Coney Island, | take cotton and wool mixtures, or ; from 12 noon until 2 p. m., when they check subway turnstile me- | he'll pay $2.50 to $5.00 more for his | it will be carried to the church Pallbearers include William Sawyer, Nathan Niles, Clyde Baltzell, Leroy Torres, Sawyer and Alberto Camero. Lopez Funeral Home is in |charge of arrangements. Parity prices, as calculated May 1, 1941, are: Wheat, $1.149 per }Pound; corn, 83.5 per bushel; rice, $1.057 per bushel; tobacco, flue land tobacco, 17 9 cents per pound; cigar-leaf, 11 cents per pound, and OCCASIONAL MOTOR TUNE-UP Saves You Money! Lou Smith Auto Service Phone No.$ White at Fleming commit- 18-inch pipe through the _protec- tive plant at that speed, according to engineers, means the entire job | Park. ; will be completed in about two’ ' Lieutenant Whitehead said and one half or three months. men at ‘the yard have expressed; The processing including put- ‘July track meet at Bayview production in this heavy casualties in making the interest in the events, and many | ting a sticky solution on the pipe, of them will take part. Others ; then spreading it thinly over the surface to insure a smooth, glassy and stop watches. | and erosion-proof covering for the Interest: in the events has risen | metal. the past few| Bids for the installation, mean- Eva Warner, recreation director will prepare to let contracts for under WPA, said today she is the three sections involved in the than 1,500,000 short tons of cop- | Serious damage in the raids, tacit- working to get the park in shape line. It is understood here, no in- per this year, and defense and jly admitted the size of the offen- | so as to permit practice and train- | formation on which company has there before the won in the bidding.will be re- ‘leased for several weeks. t Boy scouts have offered to en-| The bids were called for on a [ter the meet, and girls will take | basis gf three units between) Key / part under the direction of Mrs. ! West and the south toll gate; the: |F. C. Kocel and a committee of.sectién between the toll gates, | j} woman volunteers. | and the section between the north William Freeman, city-county | toll gate and “a point near Flo- recreation committee member, | rida city” as the third. Each bid- has been selected by the commit- | der will have the privilege of bid- tee to provide prizes for all ding on any or all of the units, so events. |the job may be done by one, two. or three contractors. ing space SEES SETTLEMENT | ‘TWO KILLED IN aeons | TRAIN COLUSION NEW YORK, June 28.—New); York Mayor Fiorello H. La-} Guardia today predicted a settle- ment in the threatening trans-/ i {Ry Anacetated Presa) ' JACKSONVILLE, IL, June 2. ' —~Two passengers were killed and | two fast trains struck in a head- next [on collision. The crash this morning was | | night, Scheduled for a walkout week which would tie up subway and bus service throughout. the |the third in Illinois within a city, the transport workers were week. said by LaGuardia to be consid- ering a compromise which would | end the strike threat 2 Officials of the CIO union are expected to announce their de- | cured, 16.6 cents per pound; Mary- Cision before night. of the group will report to the ar- | Ge Seder, 15.5 cents per pound. | Dr..J. Yates Porter, Jr., accus- ed by his former wife of failing Judge Paul Barns July 8, to show cause why he has fatled to com- ply with the terms of the final decree, Dr. Porter, in a decree granted alimony. She charges him with a month's delinquency, and with failure to pay taxes on property owned by her but occupied by the doctor. pany, died yesterday morning at an early hour. tion of the body. VAGRANCY HEARD Judge William Vv holding criminal court in Berlin port workers’ strike before to-| scores injured here today when bers, this afternoon was charges filed against Louis tox, Jimmie Lane, David liams, John Anderson, Geor, Lamb — L | | ree | Ind /to pay alimony. has been ordered | severa’ | to appear before Circuit Court | Sawyer said | of the all in sidered it the duty of his prevent ou peace here, and that nothing cur again. j |Mamie B. Porter on March 22,| Sawyer | was ordered to pay $100 a month the men i 3 i flected on | was his impression z i i 1 iF 98 i i Ht i i i i f f a ff ii i