The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 14, 1941, Page 1

7 4 | q _ Associated Press Day Wire y Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 166. Reported. Sweeping CT DS | Germans: ‘Down, | Upon Soviet: Gapitall Cnr Are Also Said To Be Proceeding On Toward Leningrad HE WON AND LOST WON AND LOST {GOVERNOR CONFIRMS HIS} APPOINTMENT TO SUPER-| | VISE ENTIRE PROGRAM| | FOR MONROE COUNTY Paul Albury, chairman of the! | city-county recreation commit-! tee, today received from Gov. |° Spessard L. Holland confirma- | tion of his appointment to. the e | post of recreation chairman un-/ der the Monroe County Defense | Council. | Albury, who thus has been put ; in charge of the entire recrea- tH 'tional program for the county, 7 d hel clk teeting of loa pe leaders at the city hall, eanesday night to outline. his’ (By Ansocinted Press) German forces, crashing through the vaunted Stalin line at a half-dozen points, today were reported in Berlin to be sweeping down upon the Soviet capital at Moscow and the great industrial city of Len ingrad, Moscow denied all the reports’ and an official communique de-' scribed the situation as gener’ ally unchanged from last week. DNB, official ization, . ee is expected: to. absorb | d greatly increase - the pro- | gram of the city-county commit- | | tee, which was set up by Marvin | | Lewis, WPA defense-recreation | director, now in Jacksonville. | Albury, who set the meeting ifor 8: o'clock . Wednesday | | hight, said he will appoint sub- | lcommittee chairmen at that | time, and will begin to work out ‘a complete recreational program, |including dances, ball games, fishing trips and a wide program ‘ ‘of similar entertainments. | The new recreation leader also MUSTERING IN jis expected to investigate the | USO setup in Miami, preliminary CEREMONIES OF jto launching a campagin for a FREE FRENCH FOLLOWERS of Gen. Charles DeGaulle last week had won. their first vic- tory since the defeat of France, aiding the British in a success- ful campaign to break Vichy Vichy re- plied by ousting DeGaullist German news service, said a fast-moving pincer attack is menacing the Dnieper river city of Kiev, re- ported to have been captured by | the Germans in yesterday's re-| control of Syria. ports, { DNB said the swift Nazi ad-| leaders from the Legion of vance surprised and overwhelm-| Honor, depriving them of their ed defenders of the Soviet for-| right to wear French medals. tress at Vitebsk, and German! columns were said to be speed- ing toward Moscow from less than 250 miles away. Rumania Heavily Bombed Dismissing the German ac- counts of a general collapse of} the Stalin line, Russian sources said the Germans at some points ; have been hurled back, and no! ri break in the line has be- | come apparent ® ine has Pe- w4a5OR ROUSSEAU WILL PRE- | SIDE AT. EVENT SCHED. Red bombers» last night pound- ed .Rumianian. oil fields-and cities ULED "FOR EIGHT orciock| AT ARMORY Similar program here. in Rumaniaj." Moseow declared, | while advancing German troops | were subjected to a heavy bom- | bardment, CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON PACT BETWEEN PAIR Maj. J. B. Rousseau, represent- | De OF SUICIDES-BERLIN Mrs. Nellie M. organ died nICID nog ah hing the adjutant gereral’s office at yesterday morning 5:15 o'clock yy Asenctan bart ‘St. Augustine, tonight will direct 2 BERLIN, July 14.—Informed peel bis g to sins witoig ot ee German sources today laughed | eth ths list, f oM Funeral services will be held at reports of a treaty between Plete the enlistment of staid * ft t 4 o'clock England and Russia, terming |county men into the newly or-|‘omorrow afternoon a swans « ler the di the agreement “a pact between | , Ganized state defense force. unger. ¢ Labi pen Ths : ee suicides”, ‘co, M@ior Rousseau will open the will leave the residence for St. Bi thd pe meopaganne office, proceedings at 8 o’clock at the na-' Paul’s church, where the Rev. possible effect on the outcome of tional guard armory with the roll! Thomas J. M. Davis will offi- for Russia or | call of men who have signed up for “ate. | service with the unit. ; Survivors include three daugh- focgecacsaed | Capt. Fred Marvil, commanding frei Carberell end Wee Wea REA | TA outta oan enron | officer of the local force, said to-|Demeritt, Jr.; three sons, Walter (ity Assoetated Presa) iday he has asked all local employ- | Lightbourn, Dexter Dorgan and LONDON, July 14.—Conclu-' ers whose businesses remain open. Joe Dorgan; two sisters, Miss the war, either England. sion of a pending treaty be-|at night to permit men working: Sadie Moss and Mrs. G. M. Mc- tween Russia and the exiled) for them to take part in the hour-. Gowan; three brothers, Will Moss, “free” government of Poland in long ceremony. | Edgar Moss and Henry Moss, and London may free 200,000 Polish! , Captain Marvil also invited all| six grasdehildren. | 133s ' prisoners for war duty against; men and women of the county to} Germany, it was indicated here , attend the ceremony. ‘CORONER'S JURY today. | Immediately upon Major Rous-! Spokesmen for the Polish gov-' seau’s return to St. Augustine, | RENDERS VERDICT ernment-in-exile said the treaty} uniforms and rifles for the men/| would include terms for the res- | will be sent here, and the actual’ toration of Russian-occupied Pol-, training program is expected to ish territory upon the successful get underway at once. KILLING OF NEGRO BY CON- STABLE TERMED “JUS- TIFIABLE HOMICIDE” conclusion of the war. Members of the guard unit will In return, Polish prisoners tak- | be assigned to duty similar to that en by Russia in the occupation | performed by the national guard, would fight on the side of the previous to that organization's; Soviet against Germany. as into active service. able homicide, a coroner’s jury decided Saturday afternoon. The jury. meeting under Coro- ner Franklin Arenberg, heard Pe-' Judge Orders Estreatment {rez and witnesses testify that the: Of Bonds ds Totalling $200 Judge William V. Albury, open- | Sch haceece Bosfield, whose bond: constable before: the fatal shot | fired. ing the July term of the county; was set at $100 on a charge of | WaS criminal court of record, this! loperating a game of chance, was Edwards was killed at his An- morning clamped ddws. on ‘de-) | ordered rearrested and the money fendants who arrive late for trial | t by ordering the estreatment of; | forfeited to the county. white woman. Fifty dollar bond in the cases; Jurymen were'Frank R. Rob- \of Olivia Benners and Katherine | erts, Gabriel DeArmas, James | Turner was forfeited, when the}Curry, Winfield Russell, Enrique! | Women arrived late to face va- ; Henrique and Ramon Torres. | grancy charges. COMING EVENTS | Hattie Smith, Florence dene COURT RT GRANTS | trest on a charge of assault on a $200 in bonds and issuing a caplaa! for the rearrest of one defendant. ! land Willa Mae Rivera, all charged! with vagrancy, drew fines of $1) TUESDAY |and costs, while the case of Thel-| DIVORCE DECREE’ Stone Church Service Club, 6:00 | ma Loretta Mack, held on the; p.m. | same charge was deferred. THURSDAY | Felix Gonzalez and eet sie 3% LaPointe, D: Rotary Cluh meets 12:15 p.m.|Gwynn, charged with petty lar-| Saturday was St. Paul's Parish Hall. ‘ceny in a “rolling” case at a local! divorce decree Lions Club meets at 6:30 ‘p.m.| bar, will Lions’ Den, Seminary Street. ‘morning. granted a final face trial tomorrow / LaPointe, Chicago. s He charged extreme cruelty. i } ' Seg Soares Hl ing with United . Service} th it e new county: they ‘KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1941 Last Nit “I don’t know what made me to the rooming house last night do it. j the electric chair!” Thus police said a tearful, re- }pentant Army Sergeant Hite! house, Johnson this morning told them’ Johnson calmly sitting on of the savage beating he is ac- front porch of the house administering cused of to his 25-year-old pregnant wife at a} Simonton street rooming house his wife, Johnson is said by po- last night. The woman was conveyed to ministering the beating, jthe hospital in |from the Home. Pritchard Physieians at) Marine hospital, ; where the ‘young . woman was ' rushed shortly after last night, said her ambulance Funeral an 1 o’cloek life’ is -no dpiers cone considered in danger. so badly beaten. ‘eteran police officers said have seen a person i The woman's | | eyes today were swollen shut | and the chances of her regain- i ing her sight are uncertain. | Her nose is believed broken, | | her head and face are grotes- quely misshapen, and the in- | side of her mouth is lacerated. Frances Searcy, ter of Mrs. Johnson, 20-year-old sis- was releas- ed from the hospital after under- i going treatment for kicks about the body and a bite on the cheek which she accused Johnson of inflicting when she attempted to save her sister. Officers and neighbors rushed issue Permit For Consiewciien CRIN memoas at Raye They ought to send me to when they heard Mrs. Johnson's screams for help. Police Chief Ivan Elwood, whose home is near the rooming when he reached the scene. After denying he had beaten| ! lice officers to have admitted ad- and have told the officers he was in- | Sanely jealous. Chief Elwood .said it ap- peared Jehnson had: punched his wife: in the face as she lay on the: bed, attempting: to: stop her screams» ‘with a>pillow.* Later: he is: said: to-have thrown her to the floor. and continu. ed the beating, pounding her heed against the wall. Magistrate Franklin Arenberg, who will conduct the prelimin- ary hearing, said it would be ,Decessary for his office to get a! definite report on Mrs. Johnson's condition and to get her testi- mony, before entering a charge. Johnson, meanwhile, is being held in county jail. Officers at army barracks said | Johnson, a veteran of 13 years in| the army, had an_ outstanding | record and was considered a “fine ! sergeant”. He and Mrs. Johnson ' had been in Key West about a year. Of $105,000 100 Apartments Here | NATIONAL GUARD INDEFINITELY COMPROMISE MEASURE TO apartment buildings, of four units 4 tigger, Lucky came here in ALLOW SELECTEES CHANCE | TO LEAVE AFTER ONE- ‘ponell issued the permit for cons- | jthe labor board said they have YEAR PERIOD (iy Axnociated Press) : WASHINGTON, July 14—A compromise measure which would keep national guardsmen !and members of the reserve ‘training for an indefinite period, allow but would in selectees to leave the armed forces at the end of their year’s training was believed under consideration at a White House (tele Roosevelt, acting on} recommendation of | George\\€. Marshall, ‘army chief : AFFAIR TO BE BE. GIVEN ‘ON. conference to-| Gen, ' of staff, thatalr men be held f6K| longer than a, year's -trainikg, called house and senate leaders to the. conference this morning. Informed quarters compromise semed a likely an- ' necessities needed for successfully | swer to General Marshall’s rec- operating in the city, ommendation, and predicted that Daughters of America are sponor-| ;such a measure would have a_ ing a Big Bingo Party at the K. C.| | socal chance of passing congress: Hut on Monday, Under the plan believed tes] The fatal shooting of Eugene|for consideration, the (Rs Anaoc! WASHINGTON, at four southern California fac-|chant»in the city will donate aj tories last month _ had from 72 percent to, more . than ‘others who have contributions or | 1,000 percent, over production, for) przes are requested to get in touch | the same period a year ago, the -withieither “Mrs. war department today. Factories reporting on produc-! were Douglas, Lockhead, | tion said the up selectees | ' (Chucker) Edwards Friday morn-| would be urged to remain in the | are being asked to help in this ‘ing by Constable Bienvenido Pe-| army, but it would not be com- | drive as such items as showers, a} ; Country” and “Pinon Country,” rez constituted a case of justifi | | pulsory that they do so. ‘CONSTRUCTION 0 AIRCRAFT JUM Press) July 14— (gela street home as he resisted ar- Consturction of military aircraft! jumped ; was. informed | Vultee and North American. } Vultee, which recently install- ed the first belt line production | nounce the birth of a son weighing {line in aircraft history, has made | 7% lbs. on Sunday morning at the North American, from Gertrude speed after their recent ‘new is producing 10 warplanes a riage Miss Dorothy Ortega of this Dade county, the largest jump of the four. home, 1019 Varela street. back at top strike, | day, the report revealed. Construction of a $1@5,000apart- {ment building project in the block said he found Sergeant | the | to! | Arthur Lucky, Che Key West Citize THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit ‘BRITAIN. WANTS NO’ TERMS WITH GERMAN LEADER CHURCHILL CLAIMS COUN- TRY WILL NEVER GIVE IN TO DICTATOR: MORE DE- | TERMINED THAN EVER | (We Associnted Preas) LONDON, July 14—“Great Britain never will swerve from her purpose until she has achieved a new glory for all the world,” declared this morning in a world- {cide radio broadcast. { to the free and conquered Britain never will make: term } “swith Hitler or with his gang.” German cities as hard “if not | harder” than English cities have | been bombed by the Nazis. United States aid, he told the |people of Britain, is rapidly mounting, and soon their demands ; for revenge on Germany will be ;met with more and more bomb- ings. ARTHUR LUCKY, 43, © DIED HERE TODAY YARD: SUFFERS STROKE WHILE ON DUTY civilian employe at the navy sta- tion, died this afternoon at 1:27 } ‘ bounded by South, Royal and Wil- o'clock at Marine hospital after ‘liam streets was. launched pened prgre a stroke while on duty by Mangham Construction com-! pany, Miami, for Thompson and Adams, Ine. The project, to be completed in the fall, will include six two-story apiece, Building Inspector Y. D. Car-| truction this morring to the Mi-| ami firm, and clearing of the land was started at once. Specifications reveal the build- | ings will be of modernized-Colo- | nial design, constructed of con-; crete block. Paist and Stewart, Miami, will be achiticts for the! homes. ‘ARRANGE BINGO PARTY FOR USO JULY 21 BY CATHO-" nic DAUGHTERS ~ * In an effort to provide the local | U. S. O. chapter with the many | Catholic} July 21, 8:00; e’clock in the evening. Other organizations in the city | radio and numerous other items | are badly needed to equip the U. S. O. Headquarters. Those in charge of the eplertaas-| | ‘ment explain that this is not a drive for funds for the Catholic: Daughters but every penny of the! money raised will be used at the | U.S O. hall where service’men of all creeds are welcome. It is expeeted that every mer-| : prizeito be given at the party and | j Herman De-| meritt, phone 276-W or Mrs. ‘ Charles Mackie, phone 553. SON BORN SUNDAY Mr. and Mrs, David Dowd an- Both mother and baby are doing nicely. KEY WEST AUTHOR| WILL WRITE BOOK’ : | rida a j try,” the book will be completed at the station. Lucky collapsed at the yard ! shortly before 12:50 o'clock, and |died, about 20 minutes later at the hospital. May from Miami, living here at ' 529. Caroline street. Officers at been unable to learn if the man was married or had any close rel- | atives in this section. A, brother ' in-law lives in the west. } IN NAZI E NAZI PRISON? — * Order Issued For Its Maintenance in Spite Of Various Others To Be Discontinued Prime Minister Winston Churchill | |) "Addressing his fighting speech || of the world, Churchill said Great} | Britain, he declared, will bomb} ® 43- year-old | “Until End Of September $ rites elie of The Key W ) WASHINGTON. D.-C.. July M4, Slated. for con’ until | September ‘30, im spite of @ cut of the country, is CCC camp SP-11. Monroe County. working eb the Florida Overseas _—* it | was learned here | ‘The camp is scl to be ' continued at its present location |at Marathon at least until the Dee: of the current ‘iod, Sep- tember 30. is Congressional cuts | propriations for the lyear made ; ment of more than¥200 CCC camrs, officias said. Tn addition a num! | camps in state parks. areas are being closed so that. the companies occupying may “| be: put to work at ory near an Loe post or other defense ae 5 Hermann Wilhelm Gocring BUILDER OF GERMANY’S mighty’ air force, No. 2 man | of Nazi Germany. Herman Goering today was reported in @ concentration camp as the result of a run-in with Adolf Hitler. Goering was said to | have opposed the Russian cam- of work other “(Ry Ansocinted Pres) , VICHY, July 14—Speaking * slowly and solemnly, ere day (France’s National Inde- tvs olyilian, defenne: countt today ‘Were opened on the second floor pendence Day) “is a day for of the courthouse. £ thought and meditation”, | The: office will coordinate ac- Petain spoke briefly in com- tivities of the* various defense memoration of the day, but branches. B. M. Duncan, chair- there was little celebration in man of the council, said a France. In his address, he nev- ber of the group will be in the er mentioned the word ‘“free- fice at all times to answer ques dom”, usually the theme ad tions and take messages for the Bastille Day speeches. joounell. Magistrate Franklin Arenberg, ‘acting as coroner, impanelled a ; coroner’s jury late this afternoon to hold the inquest. Funeral ar- | rangements are in charge of Lopez | Funeral Home. hive ano Key. West fi pte one lal years, has been awarded a con- tract by publishers Duell, Sloan & Pearce to write the Florida vol ume in the American Folkways Series being edited by Erskine | Caldwell, it was announced today. To be entitled “Florida Coun- __ Stetson Yt early this Wnter. The first two volumes. of. the series, “Desert were published last month, and are meeting with enthusiastic ac- | claim. According to editor Erskine Caldwell, who is most widely known for his “Tobaco Road,” the Series will “tell the colorful storv of American life through the gal- vanic medivm of the customs of the people. Stetson Kennedy has written numerous short stories, articles and verse, ‘dealing | realistically titled “Uncle Sam’s Southernmost Sentinel,” will appear this month State Comptroller Si Need Of Collect: Ta TALLAHASSE, July 14.—Pro- p ty which has been cartying its lone ee v Jiete be weltax ok at ae = “suffer from any, unfair burden | met because of the new tax law”, State Comptroller J. M, Lee told ies te a an invisible audience over WTAL | all the eek re ere. 5 ““Those who make their returns. mengebee will not suffer from a load ,that and not make returns on time, either,” , he added. ; “There are ways to find proper-' new. law: ty that is escaping taxation, and I mixed ta scientiously and with faith in poste government file their returns, while others who make no return or incomplete returns have thelr, burden diminished. “I sat through a railroad assess- ment board hearing Thursday <3 heard dubious, taxpayers ; can’t be done’ “a | with that atti and now—it att promise pte peg tet» in the “Florida Port & Aviation Mrs. Dowd was before her mar- | city.