The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 11, 1941, Page 1

VOLUME LXxIl. No. 164. Arrangements Are Being| Made Against Any Pos- sible Power Shortage In Future . Coordination of Key eal Electric company and navy sta- tion power facilities, protecting both the city and the station against a possible power short- age, is being worked out by the in Washing- ton, Capt, Russell 8. Crenshaw @nnounced today. mavy department Captain Crenshaw, holding the first of a series of weekly press conferences, said Lieut. Albert J. Fay, public works Officer, re- turned here from Washington yesterday after discussing the Power situation with officers at the capital. _Construction of navy power fa- cilities is being rushed, and it is understood the navy station within a few months will have a greater production of electricty than the Key West company. ere meee ee CITY TO TRY BLACKOUT Describing last night's black- cut of army hid ‘Hay fésérva- tions as a success, Captain Crenshaw said it probably will be necessary within a. short time to ask the city for co- Operation in staging a com- Piete blackout of Key West. Although army and navy buildings were black. pilots reported to Captain Crenshaw that Duval street looked like a “great whiteway” from the air, Enemy pilots .the cap- tein pointed out, could de- termine the location of army and navy targets by placing them in street. relation to Duval _—_————- Under the new plan, the two plants would be available to as- sist each other at periods when one or the other was carrying a peek load, Construction of two barracks, holding about 500 men between them, will be completed this week and the buildings ready for oc- cupancy. Sailors here: for work with the sound school and sub- marine men will fill the barracks as soon as they are opened. Work on the new subsistence building at the station, it -was an- nounced, will be completed by August 1, and it is understood the marine railway will be ready for use by September. Captain Crenshaw said bids are to be opened in a short time for between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 in dredging at the navy air base, while work on the hospitals is ex- pected to get underway within a few weeks. The navy plans to use for the hospital all land in the Stock Is- land tract between the Civil Aero- nautics radio station and Roose- velt Boulevard. Equipment from the navy radio station will be re- moved to make room for the hos- pital grounds, and Captain Cren shaw id it is likely the aero- nautics station will be removed iscussing protests against pos- » acquisition by the navy of ty blocks around the court- se, Captain Crenshaw said his office has no definite plans for using the land. Estimates of its (Continued on Page Four) BRADY’S (Live) Poultry and Egg Market Battery Raised Rhode Island Red Fryers ROASTERS — STEWERS 1214 White Street Phone 540 lated Press Day Wire Service 61 Years Devoted to the | Best Interests of Key West Power Faciliies Planned ADVERTISING UNIT MEETS TOMORROW REPORT TO BE MADE RELA- TIVE TO ORGANIZATION OF COMMITTEE Julius F. Stone, Jr, and Joe Allen, members of a committee charged with completing the or- ganization of Monroe ‘county's joint advertising committee)’ to- morrow will report to members of the body at a luncheon at La Concha hotel. The committee meeting is scheduled for 12 o'clock. Committeemen are E. A. Ram- | sey, representing the county; L. | C. Brinton, the city; B. M. Dun- |} can, manager of Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District; Earl Adams, Florida Aqueduct com- mission, and Stone, Allen and Charles Taylor, representing the chamber of commerce. S. C. Singleton, se¢retary of the chamber of commerce, will take part in the discussion: PLAN RED CROSS FIRST AID UNITS Two Red Cross first aid class- es for Key Westers will get un- derway next week, Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz revealed. foday, in an- nouncing the Ameriean Legion has consented to permit use of the hall for night instruction. Anyone over 17 years may take part in the training pro- gram, a 20-hour free course. Classes will be held each Mon- day afternoon at 3 o'clock, and ‘each Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. ; Mrs. Berkowitz said all Key West Electric company employes have signed up for the training. TWENTY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY USED CAR SALE $20,000 Worth of USED CARS at UNBELIEV- ABLE PRICES! ALL MUST BE SOLD Low Down Payments! Make Monthly Payments _ bocally! NAVARRO’S USED CAR LOT Cor. Simonton and Fleming Streets i TONIGHT - - LATINS FROM MANHATTAN, RADIO STARS FROM LOEWS STATE THEATER AT THE STORK CLUB. NO I Key West, Florida, has the. most equable climate in the country; with an avera: range of only 14° Fahrenh st Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRI FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘Shot An Constable’B. Prez | CONTINUE IN MARCH ON LE- BANON CAPITAL OF BEI- RUT IN NEAR EAST Killed By (iy Angoeiated Press) | | | WASHINGTON, July 11! i j Australian Secon today were! W ARDEN LAWES SHOOTING TOOK PLACE TODAY WHEN EDWARDS RESISTED ARREST ON BEING APPROACHED BY OFFICER AT HOME ON ANGELA STREET jcapital of Beirut in the Near! ‘East, as Vichy and London ac-/| feused each other of bad faith} jin a false armistice earlier in| OF SING SING WILL RETIRE USED POLICY OF “IRON HAND IN VELVET GLOVE"; ALSO OPPOSED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ithe week. H | London accused the Vichy gov-| ernment of “attempting to sab-!| jotage” the armistice, by delay-| jing the transmission of terms to} tarmy headquarters in Syria. t | Vichy, meanwhile, called on} the United States consul in Bei-} James (Chucker) Edwards, negro, this morning was shot and killed by Constable Bienvenido Perez |as he resisted arrest on a charge of simple assault | against a white woman: ine | Perez fired two bullets into the:negro’s body, one ~—sin the chest and another in the face, after Ed- wards had:threatened him with a pistol at the door of his home, 307 Angela” street. * For more than an hour after Henri Philippe Petain rut to testify that terms had been” CyARGING ‘THEIR/ARMISTICE PLANS in Syria/were allowed t0| Gen. Maxime Weygand (By Associated Press) 1 rushed, but that Britain had ig-)}-= e tment ili ‘ ‘ OSSINING, N. Y., July 11.—On | (hored the French reenest ter iy| die by the British, Premier Henri’ Philippe Petain“ and General : | ighti | Maxime Weygand, commander of French troops ‘in the Near East, | bleak winter day 21 years ago| lend t \ | Maxime We: | : : ? tiered sane declated the |} 40day mapped a “last ditch” struggle. to hold: off advancing’ Allied | ®” sacle tt rene. pol ie | BOUND. FOR BRITAIN French army: in Syria’ now H General Weygand flew to Vichy to consult with Petain, | V/S#sed passends' ? ouB! ' n is ; forces. the'grounds of a great cluster of | {ready to fight\on until the Brits)... - | eray buildings on the Hudson} ish ty invasion thrust is turned | River. | back. | HELEN SAUNDERS — i | i It was the Christmas «season } ' and although New Year's. Eve| was near, the man in the car was | far from gay. i the shooting, officers, and hun- dreds of passersby waited around He was Lewis E, Lawes and} Moston Cims 45,000 Nas Killed In Savage Gls ~-Fiting Wi asin the hcuse as Perez and sheriff's deputies threw stones through ihe windows and sought to learn if the negro were waiting inside to ambush them, 3 Perez, not certain whether his shots had taken effect, threw iwo tear gas bombs through a side window, but the fumes were blown. away by the wind and it that Ed- waiting in j the scene was Sing Sing prison, | | GRANT TED DIVORCE: ba Dy where he was about to become} | the new warden. Helen Saunders, Key West,} 36 Years’ Service H has been granted a final divorce; x His mission—to tame the riot- | jfrom Jack Carbonell, joint-op-! | wracked prison. where sometimes ‘erator of the Osceola bar, it was there were as many as 20 crush-! learned today. ‘The charge was pease Ve TORS {outs a year—was a tough one, lextreme cruelty, a ery but the tall husky warden ful- i quar! the |” ‘ : Belcher Oil company, Miami.) mitre. ban Rene: OF ARO ced At . Now, at 57, he is re-| has been awarded the $305,000; ®™my engineers at Jacksonville | tiring. . | fold Storie there -Hikd iin eeline Behind him is a record of 36; years of service in New York! State penal institutions and. 21 | years. at Sing Sing; ahead of him \ contract for construction of Boca iy a ‘ minor delays in getiing work Chica airport, and work on the { started. } Pe writing, lecturing and “many | paojact i. scheduled 40:;, start Stone was instructed to cali| causes which have long interest- | ji H ed me”. within a few days, Julius Fey Mie: engineers’ offi ie ta He submitted his _ resignation ¥ to. John A. Lyons, | Sti ci = 1 miseioher "of Conteution Paging y that, ‘his ‘retirement become ef- fective July 16, when he will be| Viscount Halifax, British am- eligible for a pension of $6,000| -bassador to Washington, today | Stone, Jr, county attorney. WS) commissioners at a routine: meet- | informed today. Jing last night, Great Britain Denies U. S. Is Constructing Naval Air | we Base In Northern Ireland ! |. Berlin’s high command main- BENEFIT DANCE | ine Aegoenmtes, Yrean), tained its strict silence on progress | a year. was reported preparing for a icy: “I have always attempted to brutality. on the other.” DIED THIS A. Mw. |ficiate at 303 executions. These he | PuNERAL ARRANGEMENTS \CD2"Sing he had ridden past her | WASHINGTON, July 11—/ment the switch was thrown, Perez went: to the negro’s of the fighting, but DNB, official | | |Charges of Senator Robert =] home, but Edwards refused German news service, declared’ SATURDAY NIGHT 22% th: tne United states is se-| gquummmmmmememeemememme 2 r o i |cretly building a naval air basevin | se angaret eats nbd deer | pate dreland today drew denials ' WHAT ee DO iganized parts of the defending! forty-and-Bighters of the 2 partial confirmation from | THEY USE army. % f 3 Great Britain. me ‘An. open latter to: Monroe |: Rail lines between Moscow ana | American Legion today predict-) London officials said some county nia ey Leningrad were reported blown! ed the most entertaining Bro; | Aiemenn workmen have been’ In fairness both to you, the ‘out at half a dozen points in|gram of the year for their bene- |€™ployed on airbase in north Ire- : , heavy bombing attacks yesterday, (fit dance tomorrow night at the eo out cree the Sige ene. while DNB said 375 Russian-tanks (stork. Club. jemploved by the Beltil, Riek bibs wey pres bp Senciaye FP fi (Officers of ; the organization | Official sources in London said some tanks have crossed the Nepa'!® id a heavy, advance.sale indi- | there could be* no grounds .for, river on’ the road to’ Moscow, but cates a record. crowd for the , Senator Taft's) charge that ther, | the report is not ‘confirmed either) program, "proceedsof which will paps — is engaged in sucks j gas gs: rh declared et pe ee inbala: ok Belfast Seeesaiee’ awry, | | that comualties entong the Bus-| tor to be turned over to the city. | said it was understood in Ireland sians now. amount to more ‘than Purchase of the equipment) that the United States might en-| 1,000,000 men since the fighting| Was decided upon by the organi-| gage, or be engaged, in construc- | j began. ‘zation after the grand jury | tion of a base there. ! SAY NAZIS EVACUATE | recommended use of an inhalator | seNwaTE To DISCUSS | | CITIES HIT BY RAF |by the city to prevent water | IRISH BASE CHARGE | i (ity Annocin.ed my __—|tragedies such as the one in} (ity Axsoeinted Pres) LONDON, July 11.—Civilians| which a couple drowned this, WASHINGTON, July 11— are being rushed out of Cologne, | Navy Secretary Frank Knox and} Dusseldorf and other German! | Admiral Stack, chief of navel! cities which have born the brunt, | operations, lay were ex of heavy RAF bombardments, the | DON’T FILE AND THEN ito, appear etoie's Senate Naval air ministry announced today. | ‘p? | Affairs committee to testify on! ‘The announcement came after) FORGET ‘B’ FOR BASS | charges of Senator Robert S. Taft | (Hy Annocinted Press) RAF bombers last night staged that the United States is building OKLAHOMA CITY, Jul yll—|" The committee hearing will be, what is believed to be the heaviest | a naval air base in Ireland. | | Flyers said oceans of flame | You can’t beat the efficiency of | scenes. | | elas | (By Associated Pres) Germany’s vast offensive along the entire length of the 1,800- mile Russian front has been| ; brought to a “dead halt” officials | io quarters announced. today. ; Mbscow said 45,000: Germans | lost their lives in savage, hand-to | ;hand fighting yesterday, with 58 He credits this success to an| eturm trip to London, iron-hand-in-a-velvet-glove _ pol- | ———-—--__- —— steer a straight, course, avoiding FRANK ¢. BROWN coddling on the one hand and | He was a bitter foe of capi pital A | punishment, but was forced to of- jagainst: Edward arranged with heavy heart and jhome on a bicycle and had always turned his head at the mo | FOR LOCAL RESIDENT TO | thrown a bottle at her. BE ANNOUNCED LATER Franklin C. Brown, old-time | a jtesident of Key West, died this|rant, and to get help in case- ‘morning at 2 o'clock at his home, | wards put up a fight. 2 |801 Waddell. Avenue. The negro was regarded Funeral arrangements, which’ mented by local officers ; are. in charge of the Lopez Fun- had narrow! escaped feral. Home, pending arrival of once before sey his “dalighter, Mrs. Marguerite | uty Stickney. Edware ipg..,.Will be announced ed to draw, hist e deceased is survived by officer had is wit Mis} Jennie Brown, his own gun, }|.and fs 9 Uy Mrs. Eleanor fire, Re. Chamibeqlain, aid, Mrs, 'Spald- | Png S ing. Mr. Brown was for quite a‘ head number of years connected with | taken effect the civilian staff. of the, Key | appeared West Naval Station, ~being en- | fatal. = gaged in activities with th Peace | civil engineering forces, retirin about ten years ago from acti) Be, He had returned to K just recently from an colended trip w the Great Lakes section, where he visited with relatives, and had been ill but, a short time | prior to his death this morning, | i The undersigned has received | 90% so many and such cordial <) gratulations upon his ap ment, and such jhearty | winter. Firm “B"—New Truck, $1,- 350.00; Allowance, $225.00; Net Price, $1,125.00, | raid ofthe war on north Germany. | H | covered Cologne, Dusseldorf, Os-| the secret service. i ‘tend and other German cities after | An agent told a friend fishing | in Norman Lake was useless. The | “AWARDED DOGS ‘the long attack, if more friend, went anyway, caught). a'| | Relays of bombers for DALLAS,)Tex.—In- a than eight hours kept up an intes-/ fine bass.and.mailed the head téjheard; by»Judge Claude McCul- ALi ppreci sant bombardment of, the entire|the agent, who was away when | len of this city, he ordered a ai: R tg :agsure his") frientis'' north German atea, while other} it arrived. |vorce granted and that “ctis-/ : thus expressed theit (Squadrons smashed throughout colleague filed ‘it - carefully | tody of ali: dogs” be awarded 9H |/Governor Holland's : the night at German-occupied away for him, then he, too, left.|the wife. $26? i | ports along the French coast. The warm air did the rest. .'. { Venta and a hunt was started. Another; MAKE REFUND jagent recalled the filing so the aa jhunt centered in the filing cab- ! ST. LOUIS.—William Traver of | inets. t {this city told two bandits when! The “f” sections yielded no| Saturday, July 12—10 P. they held him up: “I’ve only got !fish, se a call went to the filer. | New Orchestra Where had he filed this fish? “Under B”, he came back. “B for bass”. $9 to feed the kiddies on”. The! robbers refunded $6 of their} booty. i Help the 40 & 8 Buy a Hi