The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 15, 1941, Page 1

| Associated Press Day Wire Service ‘For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 167. CRIMINAL AFTERNOON COURT THIS German Reports Failed To CABANAS READY FOR Deny Announcement Of; ARMY BUT ORDERS Sixteen Ships Being Sunk, FOR SOMEONE ELSE son of Ricardo Cabanas, kept the bus waiting for 15 minutes yesterday while the military bigwigs of Florida decided if he was going to be Key West's latest —selectee—and they ‘finally decided he was not. Cabanas said the mixup started when the local draft board sent him a draft order which presumed. he. was. a negro. Told at the draft! office -to comply .with ‘the: order: any- way, Cabanas. wenti'to: Draft» Board Chairman. Horace O’Bryant, who, appealed to the adjutant: general's: office St. Augustine:-The adjutant general called Camp Bland- ing, where he was informed they needed more negro sol- diers from Key West now, but no more whites ones. So Cabanas, who had Packed his clothes and was ‘weiting at the bus station, went home. At the end of more than three hours since they left the ceurt- room, a six-man jury in county criminal court early this after- noon had not reached a verdict in the case of Nell Curry, charged with assault and battery. Judge William V. Albury ex- ; cused the jury for lunch after they had failed to reach a verdict at 1 o'clock, and the state early this the road to Moscow today were reported hurled back more than 20 miles in a ficrce Russian tank attack which drove the invaders west of the Dniester river, A moscow bulletin said ‘the Nazis suffered enormous’ losses in the attack, and the German. offensive all along the central front was reported shattered. Red troops in the north, mean- | against George Gwynn and. Felix.) Gonzalez accused of petty lar-; L, Spooner, held on two counts! of reckless driving after an acci-| jdent- June 30, in which his car) collided with a machine driven by ! | Cyril Griffin, was found guilty on one charge of driving through a | Stop sign, but was. acquitted byj 4 | | {driving in such a manner as toj endanger the lives and property | of others. j Judge Albury ordered him to; return to court tomorrow morn- | ing for sentence. ‘ STOLEN VIOLIN The Key West shots, projected on the transparent screen, pro- vide a moving background of wa- ter and elouds for the camera on the other sidé—giving the im- | pression ‘that the set boat on the {stage is moving against a back- jground of the Florida Keys, Overseas Highway and the green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. | City In Picture Key West, which doesn’t fig- ure in the novel, will get. into the picture, so the Republic crew has-been shooting scenes ! all over town, some of them from the roof of La Concha hotel. They won’t have anything to do with the story, but the Key while, were reported stubbornly holding their own against a Ger- man pincer movement aimed at Leningrad, while in the south the general situation in the German drive on the Ukraine was said to: be unchanged. | Official Berlin made no new | crt nt soent KEY WEST GROUP LEARNS MUCH ABOUT communique declaring only, “op-! } orate Ge praeening steadily.” | eee see eee jays Fort Taken . . 5 | DNB, in a bulletin early a! All Happened During Operations Along Florida Keys afternoon, announced Nazi troops! $9 :¢ rt lg as | have taken the easternmost forts! SHOOTING CTU | of the Stalin line on the central Pi RES IN SHORT PERIOD. front. i 1 A huge Russian tank attack was! | reported smashed by DNB. { Three Key West men, a boy,| The pictures taken here, with | German reports today did not and a girl from “Miami, have been the local cast, serve two pur- deny yesterday's announcement finding out for the past two poses. from Moscow that 16 Nazi-vessels! weeks. why.Greta Garbo used ‘to|- First,-some of them are shots were destroyed Saturday in the wind up production of a picture/made at a long distance, and Baltic Sea. jwith the announcement: “I tank they will go into the finished | Aside from a German: radio I go home”. | film, so you will see the Key broadeast which told of an attack; For the time being, they're! Westers in it, but not their faces. | successfully driven off by German movie stars, and they've march- | Close-ups of the real cast will | ships in the Baltic, there has been ed across enough Republic Pro-| be made at the studio in North no comment on the sinking in!ductions film in the last couple Hollywood, giving the impres- Berlin. jof weeks to make another “Gone | sion when the picture is complete RAF Blasts Bremen | With The Wind”. [that the stars are the ones you; While fighting reached a ssl They've struggled out of bed: at | see in the long shots, high in the east, Royal Air Force/6 a.m. every morning, and) ° sec ic- bombers last night were reported ‘they've dropped back i Ping ae asc rey ae to have smashed at the German night at about 10. It’s ‘background—which is quite a cities of Bremen arid Hanover in'the boat” and “get out of the | ticp in itself. baa attacks said by the air ministry to | boat” and the sun keeps on blaz- | tices have been the most devasting in'ing, and the cameras keep on; _. enh Frans Remind : hee ease {grinding—and you'll never see} Film made in Key West will be Carrying out Prime Minister; any of their faces in Republic's Projected upon a screen, just as Winston Churchill's promise to/| “Mercy Island”. you would see it done in any “blast Hitlerism from the earth,” If you know Theodore Pratt's|theater. In Hollywood, how-) hundreds of RAF bombers were story—it’s about the Florida Keys | €Ver, the screen will be transpar- | said to have staged a night long!—you'll rememiber the five peo-|¢Mt, and on the other side of it! bombardment of the two German ple in the boat. There’s the old/ Will be the actors, with another cities: }Conch captain, whose duties Camera shooting them from that -|Tight now are being taken care ; Side. : : of by mneth..Kemp; there's! It sounds a little complicated Warren Ramsey ‘and his wife, in print, but it isn’t particularly NEW YORK.--Max Yorkinan, | Leslie, . played ig| the Rigy, West 5°. pawn shop operator of this city, company by ° 1A. mann ! reluctantly paid a. young man $5)and Mrs. Florence Petrow; “Wic- for a battered violin. Investiga-|cy”, the Conch boy, played by} tion by police revealed that it|Paul Herrick, Jr, and Clayton was stolen from a violinist and/Foster, the salesman, who. is was worth $10,000. telaves by Clarence Thompson. Cerman Government Accused Of Operating Sy i Ring In U. S$. (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 15.—The German government today was formally accused of operating .a far-flung spy ring in the United | ernment for whom the spies were ' accused of working. | West pictures will be flashed on | In the indictments, however, |the screen at the start along the FBI accuses the German gov-|Wwith the name of the picture ernment of setting up the spy ring and the credits for actors and ARRAIGNED FOR TRIAL IN| afternoon ‘was presenting its case ; | LaGuardia‘ last night agreed that a Hitler. peace proposal is in the j the jury on the second charge of} KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1941 [ANOTHER ‘MUST’ Ij’S THE NEW NATIONAL AIRPORT AT GRAVELLY | POINT; GOES ON LIST FOR| SIGHTSEERS H THEY DIFFER ON HITLER PEACE PLANS By JACK STINNETT AP Feature Service Writer 1 WASHINGTON, July 15.—The | {new National Airport at Gravelly | { | a passenger's. Along with the Jefferson Me- morial, it gives Washington two ‘Burton K. Wheeler Fiorello, LaGuardia ‘Senator Burton K. Wheeler: and New York's Mayor Fiorello H. }more “musts” for the visitors’ | list, | I stood on the promenade. of the Terminel building the other afternoon with a man whe is an expert on the world’s airports. | We looked out over the great network of runways — broad | enough and long enough and solid | {enough to take care of the great- ‘est giants in the air today or even; jof those greater ones which de-| signers and engineers have only | ; discussed in unguarded. ments. | We could see n.uch of the port's | {759 acres and all of the 450 eo! ed out of the Potomac river béd! (iy Aenociated Prean) jand laid out in the sun to dry”. | WASHINGTON, July 15,—/We could see all of that 7,000-' e vi | foot-long north-south runway and | President Roosevelt today signed) just west of it, at the south end, | a bill authorizing the navy de. | the bay ‘which ‘someday ‘will ‘be: air. Wheeler said Hitler's plan might have saved France and the conquered nations of Europe, while LaGuardia cautioned against listening to: the plan, Roosevelt Signs Bill For Allocating $1,000,000 To Build New Hospital Here — * | FIRST AID UNIT HOLDS MEETING ; jthe marine airport. i Pariment to spend about $31,000,-; Below. us on the apron were MUCH ENTHUSIASM SHOWN’! 000 for development of 10 shore | three huge airliners, two prepar-| AT SESSION YESTERDAY ing to depart. One had just ar- | fi Stations, including a $1,000,000 al- ‘rived, had taxied slowly in,! AFTERNOON } (dropped its right wheel into the location for the Key West sta- Soeabe saucer and gunned its | tion. left motor to sine around in| With much enthusiasm, the Mone. |formation. _When it came to a firstisession of the newlysformed \».. fen Nog. Ment Pe standstill, its. erss, were class in Red Cross First Aid was Spent in *construction of a hos- held at the American Legion! pital and for aquisition of land Hall yesterday afternoon at 3 | for. the hospital sitc. fuel and air-conditioning hoses' |.only a few steps from the’ term- | o'clock. The bill also includes $3,500,- | and telephones and pneumatic {inal entrance. The plane itself | ! was directly over the paving-flush } The enrollment was exception- ally large and includes: | « 7 000 for expansion of marine corps tubes. by which pilots receive ‘last-minute messages, } | steel doors out of which come, Mrs. Emily B. Bull, Mrs. Em-' _ The airport expert had had jnothing to do with this one, | which should make his comment |doubly worth while: “I doubt. if i there is anything like it in the world; certainly not in the west- ern hemisphere”. I'll doubt it. too | juntil I hear of something better. | { A Project In Description | If I took a week off and wrote | | about nothing else, I couldn’t tell Mrs. Charlotte K. Spangler, Mrs.; Lieut. Solomon Kaplan, @S-| you all that the architects, en- Lloyd R. Vasey. _ Signed to direct the navy’s share | gineers, Civil Aeronautics au- Others wishing to enroll in of a registration which will reveal! thority officials, airliners, wea- | this class must do so at the sec- pow much housing space is avail- ther bureau and what-not have ond session Thursday, July 17, ble in K : -«, | poured into the new. Washington | same place and time. able in' Key: What wilt meek with | National Airport. This evening 8 o'clock at the City and county representatives} { could do one of these pieces | Legion Hall, the first session of on the committee tonight at the | on the six giant hangars (only one | an evening class_ will oe held... chamber of commere. | of which is finished)-in which, if | Quite a number, including Stay The’ calied meetin; the floor were of sod, it would bei : ; scheduled | : ? : ployes of the Key West Electric |, 8:00 o'clock, is for the p' jno great trick to play a, football Co., baye ‘enrolled, and many i game. ‘ tk of setting up the committee or-| The Terminal building, itself-.is more, are expected. 4 " Mrs, E. C. Folger, a volunteer ganization and preparing for the | worth a chapter in anybgdy's;book | pe aero Fama ciniiag —_ operation of'a permanent office. |on modern. ulitarian apchitec- é in charge of both classes. En- Members called ynfer-| ture. It’ is a semi-circular affair rollment for future classes can 5 . o Se See Canter | without a straight line in it. Huge | be made through Mrs. M. £,/°nce including Lieutenant Kap | jinars rise from the promenade | Berkowitz, chairman of the First 149, are Everett W. Russell, Wal-| to the roof, and between them is/ Aid Committee, phone 765. lace B. Kirke, Victor Lowe, Clem | nothing but great walls of clear P C Price and Glenwood Sweeting. | glass that -make it possible for ‘JO | ditioned waiting w | OF SYRIAN AREA “HN A. LONG By ‘ginaclouan Presa) lever take-off and departure. VICHY, July 15,—British and Close, Mrs. Blanche T. Duncan, Mrs. Lawrence T. Fish, Mrs. Lois H. Fenn, Mrs. M. R. Garnett, Mrs. ; Ellen H. Jewett, Mrs, Joan G. Johnson, Mrs. Myrtle Lyman, Mrs. Andre Mendell, Mrs. Ruth Metcalf, Mrs, Carolyn N. Martin, Mrs, Claire S. Paige, Mrs. T. Reg- inald Pritchard, Mrs. Mizpah Pierce, Mrs. Helen U. Swain, HOUSING UNIT | BUYS PROPERTY On the roof is a complete weather bureau laboratory, with |twin observatories at each end, | from which balloons are sent -up directions Free French troops, under terms! John Allan Long, Key West, of the armistice concluded yes-|has purchased for about $1,500 a terday in Syria, will occupy all|lot at Martello Towers, formerly | hourly to check wind and speeds and: gather instru- of. the mandated area and the/|the property of Eduardo H. Gato, ment readings. In front and above the weather bureau, rises the con- Point is an airman's dream—and | | i ; § mo-; j f | the new selectees drawn in the States, as federal indictments against 33 alleged members of the ring were returned here. { Previous |information, at, the | time of the’arrests by the Federal | Bureau of Investigation. two; weekg Ag6) had not named the.gov- | Truck Arrives TONIGHT TIFT’S CASH GROCERY 1028 Division St. here in 1936 and paying for its operation with money handled through banks in South America and Holland. : Members of the ring are said to have been recruited on ships ply; ing between Germany, ,and, the! United States, with special attén- tiom paid to American cifizens' of German descent. The alleged spies are accused of \checking American shipments, | Present job. ‘ WITH SHIPMENT OF FRESH ‘| factory production and all similar | Fresh Fruits - Vegetables) information which they consider. | for both the bosses. \wicted, will be liable to prison; while Morgan has been tied up Phone 460 | sentences up to 22 years, a fine of; with a string of Gene Autry ed might be useful in Germany. Members of the group, if con- ems $10,000, or both. octagonal trol tower, with walls that slant | out and then in to the roof. These walls are ‘of ‘tinted glats to pre- | production men. R. E. Abel, production mana- ger, who decides what ‘shots, are to, be made, does the hiring and |pays the bills, says,.the picture | will be. about. a ;half-million dol- lar production;; It's, due. out ; sometime in September. | Abel and Bill Morgan, the pro- iducer, with a crew of five, flew here from California to do the Levant, it was, announced here 'a deed: filed at‘the ‘county court- today. » house revealed today. Branch 'Postoffice ‘To Be Opened At Army Barracks } The setting is a little strange | 3 @ Mrs. Sue Boyd, wife of Sgt. } general's office at Washington for | Reginald L. Boyd, tomorrow will|9peration of the branch, which open Key West barracks’ first | Will handle stamps and money or- ders for the convenience of men postoffice — branch, Postmaster | stationed at the barracks, Fred Dion announced today. | The branch will be similar to | Mys. Boyd has been granted a’ one opened for the navy station ‘contract from the postmaster! year ago. | Abel’s last three jobs have jbeen on Judy Canova musicals, | horse operas, -——— Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit bein Clims Ane ~ To Sink Nazi Submarines 1 CALLED U.S. MENACE | Claim That Such An: Inci- dent Would Precipitate | War On Part Of United States ; Gly Associated Press) | BERLIN, July 15,—Berlin | newspapers. today printed a re- port, received via Stockholm, that. President. Roosevelt has or- dered: United States warships tc sink German submarines. | Editorially, papers here said there could be nd question of the | truth of the reports, and indicat- led that the American President | had told the navy to precipitate © | en incident which would force | the United States into the war. \JAPS MAY SCRAP PACT WITH REDS | STATEMENT MADE TODAY BY i TERMED A PROPAGAND., IST for Germany and a menace to the United States, ex- Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh last night drew scathing crit- icism from Secretary of the In- terior Harold L, Ickes at a Bas- tille Day rally in New York. Ickes said Li: was the spokesman of the Nazi party in this country. BRITISH SHIP SAID TO BE IMPORTANT FACTOR IN MATTER ernment today revealed may serap her friendship pact | with Moscow. Asked directly if his govern- ment is ready to abrogate the alliance with Russia, the spokes- man said “the pact still stands, ; but I am unable to comment on the future”, & (My Axsoviated Trena) LONDON, July 15.—British and Allied shipping losses in June 3 : dropped to their lowest total ara een nine te fries since. January with a total of /coast, he said, presumal 329,000 tons, the admiralty. re-| guard against an attack by. vealed: today, |man ships on Vladiv United States naval aid in the SPokesman added that | Atlantic was said to be an im- | 0% believe’ German ships: | portant factor in the shipping | loss reduction, and admiralty of- ficials predicted the losses would continue to drop in the future. the Pacific. operating in oF ‘ 4 novelg is Names: ‘of young. ‘who registered for! atiny. duty the nation’s” “draft call ing WPA July 1, today were being posted looking uy at the Federal building. - ; The eens v Horace O'Bryant, chairman of at the Iocal board, explained for the benefit of the new selectees | that their names will be inserted’ in the previous draft list on a =< basis of 26 of the old registrants _ to one of the new. Under the system, the first of ‘Stone Cl Pan, master lottery. will get No. S-57, "tary the second one, S-83, and on UP cinns in jumps of 26, [| Lions’ TONIGHT - - LATINS FROM MANHATTAN, RADIO STARS FROM LOEWS STATE THEATER AT THE STORK CLUB. NO IN