The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 18, 1941, Page 1

- Service Will Be Used Principally For Electrical Repairs To Ships Using This Port Completion of a deal with Trumbo . Properties, Inc., soon will give the navy station use of the Trumbo pier opposite the P, & O, dock, Capt, Russell, ‘announced today. Conference at the | mavy station, said details of the deal are being worked out now end a lease will be signed within a few days. j / | The pier will be used for elec- | trical repairs to navy ships, and} some equipment will be moved | there from the station, Captain Crenshaw praised co- | operation of Key Westers in last | night's partial blackout and| eee cee CAPTAIN PICKED BASES Announcement today that the navy has opened two bas- He helped select them. | & eer nero nena described the test as highly suc- cessful, In a prepared statement, said: “The test last night was great- ; ly assisted by the 100 percent co- j operation of the people of Key West. They were interested, or-; derly and helpful in every man- | ner, “They showed that the citizens | of Key West and the city offi- | cials caf direct their efforts with { he | efficiency”. | Asked if his office plans a blackout of the entire — island, Captain Crenshaw said the pos- sibility of a complete test is be- | ing studied. He said it would be impossible to tell at this time} whether such a test would be; staged, or when. the next partial | blackout ; would, be set. | FOOTBALL CRANK LYNN, ‘Mass!"— Mrs. Agnes Toczylowski, 24, of this'city, ‘filed suit for divorce saying her hus- band left her and their two chil- | dren to play football for Louisiana | State University. German “Associated Press Day Wire For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West And Russian Units Harry Hopkins HARRY HOPKINS. President Roosevelt's special envoy to Great Britain, broke all pre- cedent yesterday when he ap- peared at a secret meeting of the British war cabinet. kins is believed to have de- scribed United States’ lease- lend plans, MILLS “NAMED AS. DELEGATE TIVE OF DEFENSE COUNCIL: Albert Mills, American Legion post commander, today was no- tified. of his appointment as Florida delegate to the national defense council in Milwaukee. The council will meet with the American Legion in September }at-the time of the annual nation- al convention, Mills was appointed to the delegate post yesterday at a meeting of the state council in | Tallahassee, and word of the ap- pointment reached him today. OPTIMIST PROMISES TO HAVE PRAYERS (Ry Annociated Prensa) ROCK HILL, S. C., July 18.— Boys at a camp for underpriv- ileged were asked to make seh- tence prayers at bedtime. The first returned thanks for’ his baseball bat, another for his baseball glove, another for his aiitt and so on. The last little fellow had’ not shared in the ball equipment but he promised: “Lord, I haven't got a prayer tonight but I'll be sure to have one tomorrow night”. Clash In Heavy Fighting (By Associated Press) German troops along the entire ; Russian front foday appeared to be smashing forward in a series of trip-hammer blows at Red de- | fenses, but there was no indica- tion anywhere of important gains. Heavy fighting was reported in progress south of Leningrad, and } German reports told of the cap- ture of huge stores of war mate- | rials from the Reds in that sector. | Information on the actual gains of the Germans in that sector was scant, however, and Russians re- ADY’S (Live) Poultry | and Egg Market Battery Raised Rhode Island Red Fryers 1214 White Street Phone 540} TONIGHT - - LATINS FROM MANHATTAN, RADIO STARS FROM LOEWS STATE THEATER AT THE STORK ports said the Nazis were being | held off. Moscow said a giant attack near Smolensk on the central front was repulsed yesterday, and DNB, of. ficial German news’ agency, today. admitted that the city had not been captured as was announced previ ey ft id Bessarabia DNB said German troops ih Bessarabia have captured all strategic sites and are driving the Red army out of the country. Moscow reports make no mention of important fighting there. The Red. Air Force and German luftwaffe both claimed extensive | Center for display at the galler-| dog catcher, of this city, lost his big New York damage after heavy raids on the} ies and to be included in show-| job because he placed so many years, he has been the. \ fighting area yesterday. Russian | ings at the Army Barracks and dogs in quarantine that the city chief of the division ROASTERS — STEWERS (Planes were reported to have Naval Station. This artist may | could not afford to pay him the $1 bonds, and “in that it bed Rumanian oil fields dur-/ join the colony here next win-|/a head that was offered for drummed up 2,500, maven | INS the operations, | Hilton Kemp, Key West, Simon | ee ee es . THE SOUTHERNMOST NE. Andrew Joseph Kemp, 82, died last night at midnight at the resi- dence, 1207 United street. Fun- eral tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 from the Chapel of the Lopez Funeral St. Paul’s church, Rev. A. B. Dimmick, of- ficiating. ‘Survivors are: Widow, Mrs. Mary H. Kemp; two sisters, Leila | London, has appealed to Japa ! for'ah. immediate attack on Rus: sia in the far east. Home to far off schedule by. stubborn re- sistance on the part of the Red Army. in anxious to avoid a long and H (By Associated Press) ‘ H LONDON, July 18—Adolf Hit-}| costly war in Russia and has urged | | ler; according to reports reaching |Japan to make an immediate at-| DAY —- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1941 n Russia tack on Vladivostock. London military men, who were ‘inclined to believe there will be {more danger of a Japanese push Reports from reliable inform- | to the south than of an attack on| field at Bayview Park yesterday ants in-Germany indicate the Ger- Russia, now are said to be con-| was supported by members of }man blitzkrieg has been thrown | vinced that a drive against Siberia! the newly-formed defense coun- | is in prospect. (Japan yesterday sent'a sharp | protest to Moscow against mining According to the reports, Hitler of Siberian waters by the Red | 8t@m here. Fleet.) Kemp, May Kemp; two brothers, ' Kemp, Hialeah,; and nieces and | ws. . Pallbearers: Ross. C. Sawyer, }Joe. C, McMahon; Merville E. Rosam, Glenwood Sweeting, Ray- mond R..Lord, Frank Johnson. ART CENTER NEWS (Contributed) | t } LOCAL CHAPTER IS ORGANIZ |CRIPPLED CHILDREN’S SO. KEY WES'T ART CENTER has| —_ CJETY FORMED HERE received a new schedule of com- ing exhibitions to be here LAST EVENING through July and August. Color iithographs, Alaskan paintings a New Ynrk children’s show colonial Spanish porttolio ' yy, and a new group of Currier and ives prints are included in the revised schedule. orida Crippled Children’s So- ciety was officially organized jlast evening at a-joint meeting of Some of the pictures will re- ;Rotary and Lions Clubs held in’ | extension | St. Paul’s Parish Hall on Bahama street, 7:00 o'clock, place those now. at points for Army and Navy. H The New York children’s show | one; jespecially. to those who/president, John A. Gardner, by viewed the Key West children’s | Dr, Arthtir H. Weiland, official of show in the Spring. the Séutty Florida branch. Two new exhibits at the Art| Besides members of the Lioris Center galleries are providing | and Rotary, a number of charter both interest and amusement. In | members of the local branch were our small gallery the work of | Present for the presentation. local artists is being shown. Many! Meeting was presided over by of these are local scenes. | Wm. T. Fripp, president of the Originals for “Quips From Es- | Key West Rotary Club. quire” have’ their place in the Paul G. Albury, chairman of the large gallery. You Army and/Lions Recreation Committee, Navy men who have seen the | challenged the Rotary Club to a mounted “Quips Flom Esquire” | game of soft ball to be play@d in should enjoy seeing the originals. | Bayview Park next Thursday Here are excellent examples of |evening. Rotary president Fripp work of some of the top-ranking | accepted the challenge with the Esquire artists. . Hoff. . .Bundy | stipulation that members of both . . Shermund . .and others. |team be required to wear dresses Of course you have all seen for the game. the old Mountaineers by WLES BUY. Webb—we have a number “'KNO LES BUYS originials. | By the way, the pictures are outstanding when placed on the | many colored walls of the Art| Center galleries. | A recent note as to changes effected at the Metropolitan Mu- | seum of Art in New York may | be interesting to: Citizens familiar | with’ the colorful Key ‘West Art Center walls... “Already 13 Gal-! leriés have beéf'/painted fresh, subtile colors”. .“The Spainards against a dull tone of rich rose” . . .The 18th century Englishmen are newly impressive against ed for about $2,500 the Oscegla bar on Greene street, formerly {the property of Felipe Carhonell, Knowles, who will manage the, \bar, plans to change. its name | from the Osceola to the George.I. |HER SCREEN TEST WAS walls of blueish-green” . . . |NOT WHAT YOU THINK To return to Key West, our} (By Annoctatea Presa) walls of greenish-yellow, blues,| NEW YORK, July 16.—Arlene and rose afford excellent back- | Francis, brunette star of “What's grounds for tne numerous exhib- {My Name?” was reading in her its shown here. ‘apartment when the buzzer We are always pleased to have sounded. She answered and a visiting: artists call on us. Emi-| man calling from the front door ligo Reyes, well-known native | said, “Miss Francis? I’m here for artist of Key West, has returned | the screen test”. to his old haunts and is again | Miss Francis laughed 4 musical painting familiar subjects. His|jaugh and said, “Mistet, 1 don’t character head studies show an} know ‘what you're selling but I jintimate understanding of sub-| don’t think you'll get very far ject which is natural for: one | with that gag” born and brought up in the lo-/ pack to her reading. cality.. For a bee 0 of years,|» A few minutes ater the build- I Rey€s has: beep, workisig sin Mi-'| ing custodian was at her door, Bete wanna at’ Mian Beath’| and with him, another. man., “Hate WPA. He was one.of the to trouble you,, Miss. Francis”, he on. thes Flosigs Pree said, “but we've got to,do this. job | egucdbre has. +when, the tenants, are in”. So the | oped. “ It is ex’ up | make Key West his home again. he will soon | two men, came in and began ex~ | in. | amining the windews, looking for |. The Center’ enjoyed a visit} holes in the screens that might | watetreotor painter’ who has been | screen test! | making his home in Miami. He | completed over a dozen paintings |during his few days’ stay, some |of which are coming to the Art LOST HIS JOB ST. LOUIS.—M. S. Richardson, | ter. levery animal. Key West Chapter of South! Charter for the local organiza- | SELECTED AS REPRESENTA-! will be an unusually. interesting ‘tions was handed to the. local; George I. Knowles has, purchas; ; last week from Klinkenberg, @ need repairing—this was the j German: PlanesiMade: Heavy Attack Oni Halli: Last “Nigh | (iy Asaveinted P: BERLIN, July | warplanes last night answered re- ” 18.—German |peated British raids with a thun- | detous night attack on the south- | east port of Hull. Squadrons of Nazi bombers roared over the city for hours and ‘oil depots, grain elevators and warehouses were reported in flames at the end of the attack. (London admitted the Hull at- tack caused considerable damage , and loss of life. UNCLE SAM IS SUPER SALESMAN ' DEFENSE BONDS AND STAMPS | ARE BEING SOLD ON EVERY HAND By JACK STINNETT AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, July 18.—The biggest -ballyhoo campaign the government has conducted in at least 20 years, perhaps ever, is under way. It’s the campaign to peddle to the public billions of dollars of defense savings bonds and stamps. \ , tle red school houses to the mar- | ble halls of high finance on Wall Street, from the cash-and-carry counters of the chain groceries to the old gray United States j treasury building, the bonds and: , Stamps are now on sale. ‘ It is estimated that more than $10,000;000', of free radio adver- fising’ las been’ contrib- »uted. This ranges from the 10- ‘second skinouncemerits that in- xtersperse the soap operas to a full one-hour show ‘(which will nrun_ into Septe ),. that. .con- tains ‘more ‘ cents tal- ent than the richest commercial ; Sponsor in the country would be ; | likely to buy. | The amount of newspaper ad- vertising, from one-line slogan ads to full pages, couldn't even be. roughly estimated. A direct mail advertising cam- paign, now in the experimental stage (to determine, by sampling groups of 100,000 or so. prospec- ‘tive buyers, what letters and pam- phlets get best results), will be launched before the year is out. Thousands Of Sales Talks i ‘civic, patriotic and fraternal club from New York city to the _ lets is already steaming, 5 movies are grinding, dut’ sh Posters splatter’ the Scevié wher- ever you look and Whiets’ booklets now or soon’ mé “Be i rcse 4s & vice uenaiien. we 4 ‘vestment expert, in on banks. of time ‘ers for Uncle Sam’ SPAPER IN THE U. S. A. From kindergartens in the lit-' A speaking program that will) Then she went take the sales talk into every! Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit ia PRICE FIVE CENTS Debi From Fire Reis =| aay Other Matters Are _ WARNS OF UL S- RUIN | Heed Ab Reguber See: sion Of Board Conduct- ed Last Night ‘The ‘City Council at its regular ta nae te’ ba aivon tothe | | |MATTER DECIDED UPON AT MEETING OF RECREATION COMMITTEE HELD YESTER- | | Establishment of an athletic | | jeil recreation committee as the! first step in a _ recreation pro- | | Members of the group,meeting | j with Raymond Novarine, field! {recreation representative of the: social security” agency, he Lieut. Col. G! Di “Hatfield of \marine corps; Lieut. H. White. \head, navv retreation officer, arid: | Lieut. Russell Pirkle,'all of wh | Stressed the ‘need for activities for’ ;men in the armed forces. | Officials attending the meeting | }at city hall agreed to place the! \athletic field first on their list, | ‘with second choices including a | }defense recreation building at! | Bayview Park, renovation of the | | Knights of Columbus building, or | construction of a. downtown serv- 1ice_ men’s club at Jackson i | The owners are Mrs. D. T. Swee- | ruy and Frank Johnson, respec- | tively. x In the event that the owners fail to comply with the order, | werrants will be issued for their tion. of the notice as given. This action was taken due to _ the numerous complaints receiv- from all parts of the city, and the council after such long delay in the matter, decided that this was the best procedure to follow in having the premises cleared of the unsightly remaining debris on one of the principal corners of i juare. ; Among those who spoke at the t {meeting were Mayor Albury, | |Council President William Free, | jman and Councilman Glenwood | |Sweeting, Mrs. Eva Warner, | WPA recreatgon division; Paul | Albury, defense council chairman’ England. Franco said the Greek WARNING that United States’ entry into the war would .be madness, Generalissimo Fran- cisco Franco, in a militant speech, said Germany already bas won the struggle against i | for recreation; John A. Long, de- ign proved a fleet could | fense council facilities sub-chair- |, be destroyed by airplanes. | man; B. C. Moreno and Ignacio! DEES T OCEAN BE | Carbonell, representing the city, | *) gar jand Mesdames Blance Hewitt, | WORK FOR WPA Ralph Milner and Alice Robin- , son, recreation ‘council sub-chair- | UNITS. SOUGHT Soaks anealbhaand ed Wi wt | me 4 ; | | ANNOU! ‘| JACKSONVILLE, July 18. —) pong ‘A ms ENS) The appointment of Wil-| | liam T. Comer, Orlando as di ec- | i The Civil Si oe ine RRS ‘tor of the recently created divi- launoignced today - examinations °°" fs ning, and re-employ-' for filling six grades of positions ent Was unnounced this wel by for Housing Management Super-| “Comer, a former engineer, ‘con- visor. tractor and bond broker, has been | Salaries of the positions range state supervisor of the WPA na- from $2,600 to $6,500.a year and) tional defense vocational training | employment is in the Office of the | ey for the last a sara Administrator, Defense Housing ; - es ieck at oe Division of the U.S, Housing Au-/ training and finding private em-| thority. | ployment for persons now on the! Another highly, specialized ex-| WPA.‘ The program will cover. aminetion announced by — the all fields of training with the em-| commission is for Project Audi-| phasis being placed on the educa- jtor in the Quartermaster Corps, | tion of workers for defense indus- | War Department. Salaries of the | tries, positions range from $2,600 to $5, | Comer is chairman of the state | 600 a year. advisory committee of the Florida. Other examinations are for,)Industrial Commission, i coal mine inspector, assistant in; |. spector of hulls and assistant ins) FIRST AID CLASS spector irony ' * | PORMED ~All applications, must, be senticy) 04 io ee to the Washi office of the. Another A. R. C. First Aid Civil Service Commission. Full .Olass. was,completed last evening! information. ag to. the require- with Edwin B. Thompson, in ments for these examinations and |charge. The following members , application forms, may be ob- who completed the standard tained from the secretary of the course and passed the examina- board of U.S. Civil Service Ex-| tion, are: % aminers, at any. first- or second-; Arthur Bliesner, Mrs. Rose class post office. |Brust, John Lewis Day, Mrs.’ - Muriel E. Doyle, Mrs. Robert 'T._ SAW NO CHANCE ra { Ross C. Parker, Ross C. : Parker, Menner, Mrs, Eva Navarro, Mrs, |. OTTAWA, ILA. V. Robich, of| Jr., Miss Patter: Jimmie this city, seeking a divorce, ‘eat | Scape ‘ “ar : his attorney he believed there! Miss Dolores Bel for was no chance for a reconciliation | the advanced course certificate. with his wife, The complaint; The class presented Mr. Thomp- | showed they had been separated | son with a lovely gift of apprecia- | 36 years. © tion. SE ee seae WCE ava EDOM NS Ue SR EA PA EATER NISC LAST NIGHT