The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 30, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service Key West, Florida, has the | most equable climate in the Che Key West Citizen For 61 Years Devoted to the country; with an average | — Best Interests of Key West range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. . VOLUMELXIL No. 155. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS SENATOR'S DEATH ‘IN CAPITAL CITY MINISTRATION FORCES IN WASHINGTON Senator Tydings Opposes | | igh: f Appointment ‘Of Attorney Vichy: ’ General To. Supreme Court | (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, June 30.—Sen- | dings flayed the attorney general lator Millard E. Tydings, veteran | fg failing to. prosecute a libel Maryland Democrat, today op-| posed President Roosevelt's ap- ei, SENSE 'pointment of Attorney Gen. Robert S. Allen, newspapermen. WASHINGTON, June 30.—The! Robert H. Jackson to the supreme} The suit was brought by Sena- a new court court with the charge he is} tor Tydings against the ‘“Wash- ; disqualified “by temperament,’ ington Merry-Go-Round” authors philosophy and training”. after he said they had implied he | Speaking befo:s the Senate ju-|furnished his Maryland home Government Closes Book For Fiscal Year Showing Forty-Niné Billion Debt Expenditures For Next PO @P@MPMLDI DLS | i {President has hung out Year Expected To Be’ KEY WEST POST |sign, It reads: “Help Wanted— FICE IS RATED Means Of Running Debt/ —_ Eighteen Suspected Spies | | ToFaceU.S. Commissioner suit against Drew Pearson and | seateeaes | Heavy Fighting Still Con- tinues Between Nazis And Reds In Various Sections liaison man in the Senate”. The death of kindly, soft-spok- (By Associated Press) j jdicial committee, Senator Ty-|with government money. 3 } AS FIRST CLASS} oi and aera Sen. sie ae ‘ : NEW YORK, June 30—Eigh-; FBI, said the sweping series of ar-| ee Up To Higher Figure igwiapers cruagal tania Pea “+--+ — “+ I teen metabers of an. alleged New| reste followed Swo gene ohicoah-! tity aissnataited Peammp Key West post office to- morrow assumes the rating of “first class”. but the only change as jar as the public is concerned will be that the money order and postal sav+ ings windows will open and |the Senate, has so turther thin-| {ned the ranks of loyal senators‘ JIMMI that the administration report- | ediy is getting a little frantic! about what to do for leadership! in the upper chamber. | It isn’t that there aren’t some The Vichy government of France today severed relations with Soviet Russia, handing the Russian ambassador his passport E BYRNES MADE MANY ENEMIES: HAD NONE WHEN ‘COURT: CHOICE: CAME York spy ring rounded up yester- | ter-espionage on the part of his! day by FBI agents, today will face | department. { |a United States commissioner in} Some of the accused spies, he! | Brooklyn on charges of espionage ' said, were found with radio equip- under the federal act of 1917. | ment in their possession which, it! The suspects, part of a group of ; is believed, was used to transmit! (My Axnoctated Pre WASHINGTON, June 30.—The United States fiscal year, ending t | at midnight tonight, sees this} close one hour earlier,’ Post:”:;men remaining who can be} By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer 29 arrested by the FBI, the resi-} information about British ships’ in retaliation for alleged , anti- ; ¢| master Fred J. Dion, an- (counted on to line up on the}: WASHINGTON, ' June 30.—, isfration-favored Sen. Alben!dents of the New York area./movements and United States de- ponch activities of Russian country with a national debt o! nouiiiged: foday. iright side of the aisle when the: When the Senate confirmed the kley by only one vote. But it | Others who were picked up in} tense measures to foreign coun-. $49,000,000,000 and appropria- Starting tomorrow, the’ *|chips are being counted. The ‘elevation of Democratic Sen, “#3 Senator Barkley himself who;New Jersey, Michigan and Wis-| | Communists. | tries. The FBI, in announcing the ar- consin, will be transferred to New| | rests, did not say to what country | recently accompanied Harrison jand Sen. money order and postal sav- administration still has @ sub-| James F, Byrnes’ to the U. S. Su- Reports from Vichy said police ings departments will open at tions of $22,000,000,000 for ex- the | penitures' next year, the treasury department revealed today. Next year’s expenditures, ex- pected to be the highest in his- tory, will include $15,500,000,000 for defense spending, and the IOI aI aa a ae, treasury expects the national debt to climb to $55,000,000,000 before the year is out. Cash expenditures during the past year have amounted to $12,- 600,000,000, an amount which the treasury department — explains would have been higher but for delays caused by. strikes and failure to get certain raw ma- terials. Congress, meanwhile, is ex- pected to rush through new ap- propriations for $4,000,000,000 to- day, in order to have.the-amounts: on the books before the fiscal year ends, The appropriations under con- sideration today include a billion dollars for the department of agriculture, 936 million for re- lief, and another _ billion-dollar deficiency bill. COUPLE HELD ON VAGRANCY CHARGE Jeanette Rodriguez, employe of we “he Osceola bar, and her hus- Bnd, Tony Rodriguez, this mprning were bound over to vAliminal court under $50 bond on charges of -vagrancy. The couple appeared before Peace Justice Franklin Aren- berg. HOUSEHOLDERS READ | BETWEEN THE LINES TO LEARN OF ROBBERY (Ny Anuneiated Prewad DENVER, June 30.—Mr. Mrs, Arnold Minning were re- turning home after an extended | trip. The maid didn't expect to be home when they arrived, so she left a note. After she had gone a burglar got into the house. Here's the note as Mr. and Mrs. Minning found it: Maid’s writing: “The cat and T rejoice that you are back”. Burglar's you ure not”. Maid: “All of the beds are} eshly made”. urglar: “But I don’t need a laid: “There is ice and I or- dgred the regular milk”. ‘Burglar: “Never use it”. J Maid: “You will find some gmoney I collected on a bill in your dresser, minus the paper money” Burglar: “You won't. So hanks”. h wenty-Five Men Believed Lost In Mine Explosions \ ; \ 2 vriting: “I am glad | 9 o'clock, instead of 8, and will close at 5 o’cock, instead of 6. Other windows and the carrier and box service will remain the same, ‘RELATES TRIP TO | | Ville Journal (Knoxville, Tenn.) | appeared an article on the visit of | Mr. and Mrs, Emerson Archer and family of Key West tothe Great | Smoky Mountains. Headed “Florida Man Hails Smokies”, the article said: Prhe Gréat Smoky Mountains | Naional Park is worth traveling hundreds of miles to see, accord- ing to a Florida man who came through the park yesterday (June 21) for a visit to Knoxville. He jis Emerson E. Archer, Key West, Fla., who, with his family, is vis- iting Mr. and Mrs. Harold John- son, Island Home Pike. “Tt was the first time I was ever on a mountain’, Archer said. ‘Some of the family got | scared, but it certainly was worth seeing’. “Johnson met Archer in the the World War. Archer is engaged in ship salvage work and was one of the crew that was engaged in rescuing the jliner Manhattan which ran aground on a, sandbar a few | months ago”. | SRS SALE | THAT’S WHAT MAKES THE ROOSTERS CROW | (Ry Assoctated Presa) | NEW YORK, June 30.—Radig ‘station WOR wanted a rooster to |erow at dawn when it inaugurat- jed all-night broadcasting. Sound teffects men collected several, j | Army during and | just in case, but none of them did ! | anything. They called up Dr. Harry Nim- phius, director of Central Park Zoo, to find out why. Dr. Nim- | phius told them “One of the rea- | sons roosters crow is to challenge other roosters. Unless there is a hen in the vicinity there is reason for them to make a chal- lenge”. The sound effects men dug up a hen. Poochie, a Japanese Long Tail rooster, looked at the other roosters, then at Clarissa, took a | deep breath and crowed his lungs out. ALUMINUM FOR PLANES Aircraft officials estimate that it takes 5,000 pounds of aluminum | to build a pursuit plane, 10,000 for a dive-bomber, 18,000 for a me- dium two-engine bomber, and 30,- 000 for a heavy, four-engine bomb- er. (Ry Associated Press) INDIANA, Pa., June 30.-Twen- ly-five men were feared lost this orning when a series of explo- ons wrecked the Rochester and ittsburgh company’s McIntyre Rescue squads rushed to the mine immediately after the shock mine company officials this morn- ing were unable to say definitely how many men had been trapped. ‘SMOKY MOUNTAINS tantial majority as long as jfight is just a skirmish between Democrats and Republicans. But + when it develops into a knock- !down-and-drag-out, who's go- ‘ing to give the signals, call the | plays, and keep the boys from getting off-side? ben. James F, Byrnes—the | greatest contact man the Presi dent ever has had on the Hill— _has moved up to the Supreme Court. Pat Harrison is even higher tribunal. I've combed the cloakrooms listened to the rumors. | and 1 , ° ! In a recent issue of The Knox- | There’s hardly any one you could | point to and say he’s the next President’s man. George Already Busy | Sen. Walter F. George, of Geor- ‘gia, might be the next President jpro tem, but Senator George, as ichairman of the foreign relations committee, already has his hand | full...\President pro~ tem” never | was |than an honorary job anyway and it is only when some senator not otherwise in a key position can be given that post that it means any- | thing. WARREN BETHEL HURT IN FALL Warren Bethel, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gwynn Bethel, /810 Fleming street, at 3:30 o'clock jthis afternoon still was uncon- scious’ at Marine hospital, almost 48 hours after he fell from a tree jat his home Saturday after- | noon. The boy dropped 15 feet from an almond tree at his home Sat- urday afternoon, landing on his head. He was rushed to Marine hospital unconcious and has not regained consciousness, STREAMLINED OYSTER CULTURE BEGUN (fly Annociated Prenn) WEST POINT. Va., June 30.— | A beauty culture program is un- ‘der way for oysters on the bed {of the York river. The Chesapeake Corporation, a | big producer, has brought in mil- lions of pounds of ribbed mussel | shells, which have litte commer- | } ” | cial value, to aid im streamlining | the | shells. The thin, fragile mussel shells, it is anticipated, will serve as a rough, misshapen oyster |elutch for the oyster arvae, en-| jabling it to take shape with less resistance and become a more at- {tractive half-shell delicacy | |FIRST THE LAW, THEN CHERRIES (By Ansoctated Prenat NEW YORK, June 30.—Mrs. Elizabeth Gontard wants the law enforced } She had a man arrested for pedding cherries without a li- cense. Then she paid the $2 for |@ license for him | Announcement— CHERRY’S ARTISTIC BEAUTY SALON (The House Of Quality) will open for business July Ist after being thoroughly remodel- | ed, Also, Miss Kitty Sanchez, who! of the explosions was felt, but needs no introduction, as a Beau-| La Concha Rainbow Room gone to an meant to be anything more} i preme Court, it did it unanimous- {ly and so quickly that no one had time to take out a stop watch, | Last March, Sen. Charles L. Me | Nary, minority leader, called at {the White House and told the j President that it was the unani- {mous opinion of the Senate Re- ;Publicans that Senator Byrnes {should have the vacancy created , by retirement of Associate Justice | James C. McReynolds. | This was, of course, a great | tribute to an able and respected j adversary, but some politicians tributes from “the other side of the aisle”. A few suspicious Dem- jocrats wondered if their GOP | foes weren’! pulling a fast one— ;and among themselves, privately, | voiced their fears. | Now, some Washington wags { | i the cleverest liaison man he has had in Congress has done one of the nicest things he could do for the opposing party. Mixed His Medicines It’s not necessary to wag with the wags to admit the truth of this. Senator Byrnes has been the most potent shepherd of ad- ministration legislation in the j Senate for at least eight years. I haven’t found many who will | agree that he has any formula— | but in almost every case, it ap- ;Pears that he has mixed soothing syrup with his bad medicine to {such an extent that not even the | opposition came out of the ruckus ; with any complaints against the South Carolina senator about what they had had to swallow. Even when “Jimmy” went against the home team—and he ;did, importantly, several times— jhe was always welcomed back linto the line-up with a lot of jheartiness. When he fought in the ranks against the Chief Exec- jutive, he seemed to be able to do j itowithout acquiring or leaving jany scars. He rammed the two-billion-dol- lar veterans’ bonus bill through jover the President's veto; he | backed his senior colleague, Sen. E. D. “Cotton Ed” Smith, in the {famous purge elections after the latter had been placed on the i blacklist. He opposed the wage ‘and hour bill. He backed out of |the Senate majority leader race to throw his weight for Sen. Pat Harrison, who lost to the admin- i } | 100 STITCHES; THAT ENDED THAT (Ry Anson Press) | SPARTANBURG, S. C., June |30.—The man walked unassisted jinto General Hospital where physician took 100 stitches in an tugly wound—without benefit of | anesthetic. | While the sewing was under jway, the man went to. sleep Awakened by a nurse he refused a bed, went an anteroom where he s nd chatted with the man alleged to have wielded the knife th As a res ithe attacker paid the hospital bill and together they reported the | “incident Sam Henry. Ther he me. ' Junior Woman's Club - DeMolay CHARITY DANCE Benefit Local Charities | ticlan, will be Manager. } Thursday. July 3. 10 m ALEXANDER J. CHERRY. | couypie ot ys st invariably cast a fishy eye on) are saying that the President, in to the court had been postponed removing from the.politicalapena-awetil after the $7,000,000,000 lend- ments had not | White House to urge Byrnes for ; is able to complete the legal steps | the Supreme Court job. {| necessary. In the Supreme Court reorgani-} J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the zation fight, Byrnes was in the! forefront for the administration. | It was a bitter battle—and for. SMALL BLAZE IN ‘Byrnes and the administration, a: lost cause—yet a very few years | DRUG STORE HERE later, friends and foes alike were | A small fire in the Southern- willing to join hands and insist | that Byrnes be given a lifetime | job on the same bench that oppo- { nents had shouted he was trying to sabotage. He'll Be Missed : Is it any wonder that some- , Democrats got a little suspicious and murmured that maybe the opposition was trying to bury one of their ablest political gladiators? , If there had been, it might have been dispelled when it became apparent that Byrnes’ nomination was extinguished by employes of the store without the neces- sity of sending for the fire de- partment. The fire was in the FREIGHT SHIP DUE TOMORROW lease bill fight and when the ru-! mor leaked out the other day that | he would stay on in the Senate—_ in spite of his appointment and! confirmation — until Majority; ‘The Clyde-Mallory freighter Leader Barkley returned from his Colorado is due in Key West to- long illness. morrow morning at 4:30 o'clock, The President has put some of his most capable lieutenants on the Supreme Court—and not the least of these is Attorney Genera! Robert H. Jackson, appointel at the same time Byrnes was—but it is pretty certain there is none he will miss so much when poli- ties get rough and tumble and! Congress gets out of hand. | A PARKING PROBLEM _ “FOR MR. WILSON the line agent announced today. The vessel is bound for Tam- pa from New York. MEAT IN MEMORY OF AUNT MINNIE (By Associated Pressed The Adam Society of Portland has plenty of cougar meat once more. George Umbaugh and Henry | Baumgartner, hunters up in the LOy. Aenean’ Pree), | Cascades, bagged two of the DENVER, June 30.—As _ C. rather rare animals for the so- Wilson drove up to his house he ciety’s annual banquet. There saw a’man walk in his front door. | wasn't enough to go around last Wilson hastily parked his car on | year: As they got the story, part the wrong side of the street and/ of the society's ritual is to eat | gave “pursuit. | cougar meat, because—. Not a policeman was in sight.| Jn the: eariy, days, Aunt The surprised burglar me through the house and down the | gar, and her descendants formed alley. Wilson chased him for 4 ‘the society to “avenge the death couple of blocks and then gave of Aunt Minnie.” up. | The two hunters won't vouch When Wilson returned there | for the story. Anyway, they got was a police sticker attached to | the cougar. the car windshield. | Not sees was in sight. |HUMAN FLY A VETERAN PULLS | GOES FOR RIDE THE WALNUT TRAINS ia j (Ny Asaociated Press) (My Associated Press) ST. MATTHEWS, S. C., June 30.—Mrs. L. B. Wannamaker was STOCKTON, Calif, June 30—!rather provoked when a youth | Built in 1867 and believed to bejriding on the running. board of the oldest locomotive in the /her car crawled halfway in the country, old No .1 of the Stock- | window. ton Terminal and Eastern rail-| “Get back out”, she ordered road still is in daily service. | “I can’t drive with you in here”. During the year it hauls about; The boy turned white and $1,000,000 worth of walnuts be-j pressed his face against the side tween this point and the townsjof the car. If wasn’t until Mrs of Linden and Bellota | Wannamaker stopped , that... she peas. realized the automobile had no running board. LUCKY WAITRESSES Carlyle, Tit,—After they had eaten $1 meals in a cafe in this city, one of two wealthy Texas oil operators offered to double what- ever tip the other left. By the time Min- IMPOUNDED Assets of Germany, Italy and all invaded or occupied European countries whose funds and invest- previously been frozen have been impounded by the President. had received a total tip of $360. NOTICE we July 2nd. ‘ednesday night, oof jund0-1t | Carter Glass to the ; York for trial as soon as the FBI! LONGVIEW, Wash., June 30.— | ran nie Adam was eaten by a cou-) a halt was called, the waitresses) the information was being sent. | Of the 29 persons arrested, how. ever, 22 were of German birth. THREE PROPERTY ~ SALES. RECORD John Frow has sold to Mrs, most drug store at _ Duval and | Marguerite Sharlow a home on yeported | Fleming streets this morning Margaret street for $2,000, a deed Soviet defenses to occupy revealed today. | In other transactions, Annie E. Sawyer, Key West, sold her cor- |her property at Emma and Louisa laundry ‘streets to Chat Patterson, Yellow | room of the store and did little Springs, O., for $500, and Hatry Minsk, but admitted heavy fight- ; Beaver sold a Stock Island lot jand home to Fannie Pepper for | about $1,250. TO CHECK UP (tty Associated Prema) | SPARTANBURG, 5S. C, June | 30.—-A garageman told a chauf- |feur that the new tires on his !automobile were not entirely | “balanced” but that it would not | be noticeable until speeds of 65 }or 70 miles an hour were attain- led. A few minutes later, patrolman stopped the chauffeur while he was traveiing at 74 miles jan hour. “Next time”, the chauffeur told ;a magistrate, “se going to let ‘that garage fellow balance them | tires”. JUVENILE JOURNEYING BASIS FOR A CLAIM i (iy Associated Presn) HE i | | MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 30.—Al- bert Roy Clark has a pretty strong claim: to the title of the nation's most traveled one-year-old. Albert Roy has traveled 44,000 miles by auto, 700 by plane, 600 by bus and 250 by train, say his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Clark. ; His journeys have taken him through 24 states and Canada. ARE YOU LONELY? GO TO THE BEES (My Annocta.ed Presa) GRAY COURT, &. C., June 30, —W. R. Garner, 74, doesn't mind living alone so long as he has his 200 hives of bees, “Bees are like people”, Garner says, “treat ‘ero right and they'll jbe nice to you”. But some bees are anoody fel- jows, Garner adds. “When they begin stinging me I know I have ) gotter careless and mashed some fellow whose feelings were a bit tender that day”. Youths Reaching Age Of 21 Tc Register Tomorrow Young men of Key West who a state. | throughout the nation, and per- stopped for questioning. Two employes of the Soviet jembassy were reported under | arrest. ‘ | On the war front, . »German ineckhniet q to have broken | White Russian capital of Mi -and the important Baltic naval base of Libau in Latvia. Reds Deny Nazis’ Claim Moscow denied the capture of ‘ing is in progress in that area and confirmed DNB, official German news ser- vice, said Slovak units in the south have broken through the | defense, and ere smashing toward the Ukraine, while the official German radio said a division of Russian soldiers has been trapped and is in imminent danger of an- nihilation on the Polish front, Moscow said a German thrust aimed at isolation of Leningrad has been turned back with heavy losses to the invaders. A Red army communique said masses of German infantry in Po- ,land have been separated from their “spearhead” of mechanized troops. Heavy fighting is reported in progress all along the front. RAF In Daylight Raid Britain's Roval Air Force struck | savagely at the Reich last night and returned today in a thuncder- ‘ous assault on Bremen and Ham- | burg. pounding raijroad facilities jand leaving great f The air ministry admitted 11 planes had been shot down ip the bombardment. and Berlin wlaced: in the Britith lone ‘at 13. A } preitmucttsvie SAY. BRITAIN. WILL SEND REDS U. S. ARMS (iy Asnootnied Preaeh ANKARA, Turkey, June 30-— Arms manufactured in the United States for Britain's use in the near ‘east will be diverted to Russin, in- formed sources here declared to- day. Turkish observers said the Bri« tish ere arranging for transport of the American-made equipment to Russia from Iraq and Iran. Manufacturers have been re- Guested to reduce the number of “fashions, styles, models, colors rhapes and brands” by Donald M Nelson, Director of Purchases, OPM, who savs that the prodac- tive capacity of the nation can be increased perhaps @ third by stan- durdizing models and rédicing the variety of civilian goods. i bourd office, Room 209, Federst