The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 2, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIl. No, 157. 2 SECRETARY. |~ HIS ‘COURSE’ Wavel To Some nda es at aban KNOX WILL NOT RETRACT STATEMENT THAT AMERI- | CAN NAVY SHOULD ENTER ne | WAR NOW | Céamatdet ta: In- Chiet te! Transferred In Surprise = Shake-Up That Drew Much Comment (Ry Asaociated Press) WASHINGTON, July, 2.—Navy jSecretary Frank Knox, despite widespread congressional critic- | ism of the speech in. which he | jurged immediate use’ of the | ; United States navy against Ger- ! | many, today told newsmen at a{ press conference he still is of the | jopinion that the course he out-/ jlined would ‘be the best one to! follow. t Knox said he had nothing to} add to the speech, but felt the} subject had been’ thoroughly cov-} (fy Associated Press) LONDON, July 2.—Prime Minister Winston Churchill today refused to comply with the demand of War Secre- tary Hore-Belisha that he ex- » plain the government's rea- _| © sons for removing Gen. Sir F fered at that time. : Archibald Wavell from com- | He denied emphatically, hove} a mand of the Middle East | ever, reports that “American | army. Churchill said the govern- ;tween ships of the fleet and} _ time of the removal is suffi- IN A SURPRISE MOVE, Gen, |German vessels came | ment's explanation at the | Sir Archibald Wavell _ j Knox’ denial of fighting be-| arm as some} THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1941 Air Craft Warning Service Set Up For alanis “is Chef Deputy Sheriff Resigns me ‘ i: Sir Archibald Wavell has been | i - ; cient, Nothing can be gained, | 5% all congressional leaders demanded | OBRI K U. 5. 10 ERECT ‘ . a " | Felieved of the British army an investigation of reports that | he said, by adding to that ex- | spines the Middle East {American vessels have taken! ak | and transferred to India. The action against German subma- planation at this time. | British government said he (rines. | “needed a rest” but London pS ISIE iS SERS i cause of political differences Archbold Wavell, commander. with Prime Minister Winston DEFENSE MEMBERS in-chief of the British army in the Middle East. today was head- R. G. DANNER T0 PHYSICAL TESTS WILL BE ed for India in a surprise shake- ment from outside. That, coupled 3 “kicked downstairs” for his fre- ;7i8ht Will hear a confidential dis-| been ordered by Capt. Fred Mar- | munique said today. stations to warn of the approach | tinent in a renewal of the nightly Bec holding solidly at SO gs Adams’ accusation, he said, | 1 b RG. Danes. Pie ees cet eer sense: T o'clock | The report said, Italian and /of hositle bombers to shores of the | Pombing attacks. | Thousands of German soldiers caused him’ to lose his head and q quent political differences with | by ner, Federal Bureau |g! ¥ eB! ‘3 The air ministry said flyers re-- have been killed and hundreds | # ;German aircraft joined to bom-} force the correspondent: from the of Investigation agent, at the high ‘for physical examinations. United States and overseas bases ted Seiten acid Sith Prime Minister Winston Church- ‘bard the British garri £ To- jPorted seeing bombs land within ‘of tanks destroyed in fighting office. school auditorium. ; Dr. Julio J. DePoo and medical ; garrison 07 |was ordered by the War Depart- | a few yardsjof one of the two aj the Polish border, the Rus- ill, but the government explained! Danner, who will speak at the officers from the army and navy }bruk, inflicting heavy damage. | ment, | German aatines at ek. fo peg me i A Se Story To Accuse | ‘ aie auditorium starting at 8 o’clock will carry out the Paysical ex- |The two vessels apparently were} . 4 cali was iestied for 600 volin |Bkeat acl Gtnce moor ie GE ag Ree page eee Adams, ‘he said told is removal with the double com- pee er RN, auspices of [Sane Captain Marvil an- | sunk near Tobruk inthe Medi- | teer technical experts to man the | important damage to drydocks in’ gf Nazi tanks stormed. defense | “poe ce kis ; ment that the general “needed 8| ‘The talk is to be of a confiden- | As soon as medic@l exams have | | terranean. | ston, to be equipped with a) the city, lines near Minsk yesterday, but rest” and that India now may | tial nature, and only representa-| been completed and the record | an i tant scene of: tives of clubs and bodies listed by | of eligibles prepared, a muster- | heraine apr eaiias: . the legion will be permitted to at-/ ing officer from adjutant gen-| Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, ; {tine will be sent here to com-} commander-in-chief in India, will BOAT SAILING }Plete formation of ‘the guards. | be transferred to take General ' Arms and uniforms also will be! Wavell’s place, with Capt. 1 | operations. tend. {eral’s headquarters at St. Augus- | 1 { 4 Prime Minister Churchill's war | cabinet, serving in direct charge) Quit Goanleieankes Transportation com- | ‘soldiers was repulsed with heavy a all poser strictle plltane mat-| pany of Tempa, which® was to | li ga ae | before him on a charge of reck- rc Stations were contemplat-| qh. sceulae ee meeting of the lossses of life, but Swedish news- en in the Near Eas! {inaugurate freight service be-| Vices a ed. | Stone Church Service Club held papers said th v7 ty Captain Lyttleton’s transfer to tween here and Tampa last month | Fr ee ae | ee fallen to 4 Games saat Collins of Tulsa, recently sold aj the Near East is the first time in| by ship, has been forced to post- history a British cabinet minister | pone sailings at least until July ‘Sean: has been ordered to overseas | 10, H. A. Cooper, traffic manager, ! duty. | informed The Citizen by letter to- i day. to sign. 5 tract forms were sunk. | jheld up by failure to get parts Mie contact, Saran ¥ - ll he hi tr t it safe- | brothers who were mainstays of | vessel which is to operate over the H ine igh ag > Bek it ani the Pittsburgh Pirates for 14 | route between here and Tampa. j; = years, are now with the Boston! The first sailing originally was ight Braves. ‘scheduled for June 23. | HERE’S AN IDEA FOR — zi. | SPINACH BOOSTERS 3 | (Ry Associated Presa) } HELD AT ARMORY —Tw ‘ up that drew startled comment | GIVE TALK TONIGHT meas | shive were sunk by air action} in which L. Spooner appeared song to a London publishing | dent in w He was notified his sale | volved with C: contract was on its way for him | West. Paul and Lloyd Waner, famed! needed for the equipment of. the The third one arrived safely. Now | : LONG DISTANCE PORTED SUNK BY ACTION { (By Associated Presa) ROME, July 2—Two British | STATIONS INSTALLED from London newspapers. jand the besieged garrison at To- | bruk suffered a violent air at- The 58- Id 1 w Key Went law enta law enforcement oe Men who have signed for duty | Rtnadbe be. be Aa jficers, civic club members and of-| with the armed branch of she table yesterday in fighting along; . 7 ey Yeeheraily regarded to have been! fiers of the armed services, to- county home defense force have} jthe north African coast, a com- j tion of a chain of radio detector squadron swarmed over the con- frozen Murmansk, wii ie Red (Hy Aaaceinted Preasd |. “WASHINGTON, July. 2.—Crea- most equable climate in the range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Key West Citizen === Russell GERMANY CLAIMS | NEW VICTORIES OVER RUSSIANS MINSK HAS BEEN ANNI- HILATED: NAZI BOMBERS | SMASH BEHIND LINES (Ry Associated Presa) Germany’s high command’ to-} yday. claimed sweeping new vic-/ lakips already had aan Ger. | ARMY AIR CORPS OFFICERS are vena here pepiar isso the transfer jin ‘Florida civilian air- {tories in the war with Russia as | man submarines, or that navy | raft warning instructions from plane to army truck at the Tallahassee air base. Left to right, Ma-|Nazi mechanized units were re-| jMmen and material had been lost | jor Harold B. Hinton, assistant intelligence officer, Third Air Force; Brig. Gen. Walter H. Frank, | ported rolling swiilly cortrned lin the Atlantic. | commanding officer, interceptor command; Col. Jacob W. S. Wuest, commanding officer, Tallahassee /on the road to Moscow. y air base: and Major ial H. Kyster, Jr., anti-aircreft of the Interceptor command, : A communique said the entire; ; Russian army west of Minsk has! i been annihilated, while German! BRITISH. PLANES bombers are smashing behind! the lines in the most furious at- FROM A AIR RAID WARNING POSTS STRIKING HEAVY. tack since the campaign began,‘ i J 5 | Finnish troops, according to ; ee | Berlin are attacking on. the i | mewspapers declared he has ‘EX AMIN ATION FOR | AGAINST PLANES THE: : . (By Ansoctated Press) i its ine ARE RE-| GERMANY AND NOR’ AN ; ; LONDON, July 2a: sis) POE “Micked downsiaize”: be aes | jnorth, while Bulgarian soidit FRANCE SUFFER FROM AN- luow are taking part in the of- | | GOVERNMENT HAS NEW DE- fensive t§ward the Russia! OTHER TERRIFIC AIR RAID | VICE TO DETECT ‘ENEMY’: | Ukraine in the south, | WAR DEPARTMENT ORDERS mae | A bulletin from Berlin said (iy Ansoctated Press) the asia creep exactly LONDON, .July 2.—Germany , 8ccording edule. and northern France last night; epee peepee suffered another sustained air }rially opposite to the German | raid as Royal Air Foree.bombers. -elaims,. told: of Jarge and ships of the American.Eagle the way from Bessarabia to Fires from the previous night’s jof a story wi Isecret radio beam device which bombing led acheg warplanes every attack was beaten off and. | officials said was based on the Brest, according to the air minis- ly high. i ' same principle used by the British , try, while other bombing squa- Moscow said 156 German war-! to German casualties were unusual-| | REPORT RED ARMY WEST OF! PRICE FIVE oe Post \iaetiaiheen Follows Al- | tereation With Earl Adams; Miami Newspa- | per Correspondent 1 | Harold Russell, former Ameri- | can Legion. post commander, yes- terday resigned his most as chief | | deputy, sheriff after a blowup in | which he is alleged to have struck | Earl Adams, Miami newspaper | correspondent. Russell charged “outside influ- | ences” with running the sheriff's | office and said he lost his head | when Adams told him the Mi- , ami peper planned an expose | story accusing him of being a member of a mob which drove 14 Lester F. Preu construction com- peny workers out of Key West a Sheriff Berlin. Sawyer said had no information concerning | |the reason for Russell's resigna- tion.” He a Mpeg |mez, a United ’ marshal, to fill | Russell declay fulfill the du cause of { beougi to bear. upon, Guacaanianel in their recently perfected “radio |4tons hammered at cities in the planes were shot down in the | today IN SPOONER CASE locators.” |Rubr and through north France. single day of fighting, while, for a statement, was’ Original plans submitted to Con- Peace Justice Franklin Aren- &'€5S said six stations were plan: sent to the unit at that time. | ver Lyttleton, a member of| SAID DEFERRED |b thi ned for the Atlantic coast, one for | Russian bulletins said a \A PRIVATE BAT Ic. Too |!" Prsnpyre dere gee atari the Gulf Coast and three for the! HEARS RAMSEY massed infantry assault on Mur- Pacific Coast. In addition, four mansk by Finnish and German The charge followed an>‘acci-' Other stations. were. projected | in the church, annex last plicasey fallen to the Germans, a report for Alaska, Panama, Hawaii, And | With Veenirienh Savon Maceonet 4 which was not confirmed either ad- yril Griffin, Key Puerto Rieo. Presumably the At-; reiting wasteatured with an in Berlin or. Moscow: Justice Arenberg. tecess- lantic bases acquired from Great arks Mr. Ramse WANERS WITH BRAVES | Cooper said the service had been | Twice, however, ships bearing | other witness, with the warning devices tc give | SLRS Pe } fighter planes a margin of 15 or 20 minutes to climb to meet an hich Spooner was in- air attack. PUFFERS PICK CHAMP | Details of the radio beam ma- | t |chine were said by the War De- ciated Press) | partment to be as closely guarded VANCOUVER, Canada, July 2. ‘ag the air corps’ bomb sight, but! —Keeping one-eighth of an ounce signal corps officers reported of tobacco alight for an hour and (By Asi Sobstantial Fowl Sought | GOLDSBORO, N.C , {57 minutes, A. H. Freemantle of , the British device. the store fast enough to buy a/ quart for 15 cents. Park and more money for the| fered soldiers and sailors is ex- prices—and operation as a recreation center | pected to come from the $150,000,- | Sweeter,” Davis said. of the former Knights of Colum- | 000 McNutt appropriation, which ! | sal |When Bennie Davis read that! Vancouver claims the world’s | | strawberries in London sold for |@¢°td for sustained pipe smok-; For Recreational Needs : cents apiece he couldn't get to i" Smoking a_ 15-year-old curved | SCRANTON, Pa.,—In all her 93 | |stem “hod”, Freemantle outdrew years, Mrs, Harriet freeman of Rois ae Ee ‘ 64 other entrants a mtest this city h: ti Improvements for Bayview; Money for recreation to be of-| “I ate $10. py Raggy Officials of Fel bias tan is city has never tasted pie or, bus hut on Duval street were re-| will be coordinated locally by} commended by local recreation,/ Novarine. COMING EVENTS leaders yesterday to Raymond L.| Before leaving for Miami, he} Novarine, field recreational re- | conferred with B. M. Duncan, } presentative of the south Florida|chairman of the home defense | Federal security agency. | committee: Lieut.-Col. G. D, Hat-} 0, ee ee ayn caus Novarine, here from Miami for: field, Marine officer in charge of | eas ense, Guards | ational Guard Armory, 8 p.m. a survey of recreation needs, in/recreation for the armed forces} THURSDAY i Key West, discussed necessary | here; George Monpetit, USO re- lLions Club meets st €30 po.| work on the park and USO recrea-| presentative; Eva Warner, WPA Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. | tion room with men interested in: recreation director; Paul Albury, providing entertainment for per-' chairman of the city-county r Rotary Club meets 12:15 p.m. ° rish Hall sonel of the armed forces in Key | creation committee, and Father =. Sea 39 West. iP. J. Kelleher. Junior Woman’s Club-! DeMolay | 1 amare a a RT TR ITRY. a so | Ole, ie am: | Charity Dance, La oe) NOTICE : | NOTICE, ELKS oe ae All members of American Le-| All members of B. P. O. E., No. | Notice! Notice! | gion Post No. 28 are requested we are requested to attend the} All Stores will remain attend the confidential meeting | confidential meeting at the High OPEN ALL DAY THURSDAY at the High School at eight o'clock | School at eight o'clock tonight, | and will be tonight, July 2nd. | July 2nd. CLOSED ALL DAY FRIDAY AL MILLS, | GEO. 0. LUCAS, lin celebration of Peat of Daly jun30-3t Commander. | jly1-2t Secretary. OF IMPORTANCE TO‘BUSINESS MEN WHO BUY: POSTAGE STAMPS Habit is a queer thing. You don't exvect anvone to “so- licit” you to buy postage stamps. Thev are necessary ta the WHY? You would have much tougher going if there was no Chamber of Commerce in Key West acting as YOUR corresponding secretary. And, most business men like to pay for what they get. ‘We are not in the begging business. We SELL for fifty cents per week, a SERVICE worth much more than that to you. It would be GOOD BUSINESS for you to call at our office and check up on that. operated on the same principle as |; NEVER TASTED SWEETS cake, and at her recent birthday | id the former record Was an party she refused even a nibble} jhour and 34 minutes. of the large cake given her. | dress’ by Ernest Ramsey. In the; which he “felt the organization | could’ engage in profitably to the/ | community in general. At the conclusion of his adress | | the speaker invited a roundtable | discussion of conditions locally | which resulted in those present |and two out-of-town men who | engaging in a series of most help- | celebrated their —_ twenty-first! there ful suggestions looking forward to | birthdays after Oct. 16, 1940, Sai eo improving the civic, moral and re- | terday registered for selective ser- RECISTERED HERE 2" it} ee eer Berlin claimed 322 Soviet planes | i were destroyed with the loss of | Suthonity: te prevent ERVICE CLUB jonly 12-German machines. entering the sheriff's’ hi Fifty-five young Key = ‘told Russell he did not hi Several witnesses — once. ae tone oe jand that the. ligious life of the community. vice at local draft board head-/q surprise, A committee composed of Rev. | A. C. Riviere, Chas. H. Ketchum | Horace O’Bryant, chairman of | and Gerald Saunders was appoint- | the local board, said he was sur. ed by the President to bring in re- | prised by the small number of men. ‘commendations for the annual | registering, but reports from, all, observance of the club’s “Go to | over the nation indicated that less | | Church Sunday.” men had registered than had been | expected. | BOTHERED KNIGHTS OF | { | anniPOERS tee beewsaes i " tle more than half the 500°na’ at | reservists graduated. fromthe -U ]| S.Naval Academy. this\veat Were able to obtain swords, for foreign supplies have been cut off. To jsave embarrassment, the navy | Waived a tule requiring all of- | ficers to wear swords when re- j Porting for duty. O’Bryant has placed the local! OLD SOMETIN nate to register a vashings | ad quariers, | Russell rost of: ly upon ti the two cat Daviona, Bi