The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 21, 1941, Page 1

"soc Fa bay Win For 61 on Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit The Key West Citizri THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1941 Florida's First Lady Opens State Aluminum Recovery Drive | PRICE FIVE CENTS velt Would Have. Selectee Retained For More Than A Year * Urges Legislation In Ad: dress Delivered Today To Congress Citing Na- tional Emergency Director Of Examining Di- CITY vision Due To Arrive In Key West This After- noon I PLAN TO RAISE FUND FOR NEEDY ; RED CROSS CHAPTER WILL H , HOLD RUMMAGE SALE FRI- DAY AND ——, TO HOLD TRAINEES |LILLO SAID TO HAVE BEEN C. O. Falkenwald, director of; | LEFT IN FLAMES FOLLOW-| the examining division of the! < | ING ATTACK MADE DURING | Rural Electrification Administra- | NIGHT / tion, was expected in Key West { i —_——— } i i this afternoon to study panel eo ananonenina causa REA purchase of Key West Elec-)| LONDON, July 21.Lillo, im-| tric ny, and.to i the} ‘portant industrial city in north | ; | France, last night was left in! route of power lines to be laid by, flames after a series of smashing | i The production combines the Key. West Chapter of .the- American, Red Cross will hold a Ruramage Sale on Friday and | Saturday of this week at Saint Joseph's Hall on Thomas street. | The proceeds from the sale: | the people of the United States to | will be used to buy materials | i | j | j i | | the Florida Keys Electric Co-. ‘RAF raids which the air’ "ministry , | said made up one of the most de- | structive assaults on any city in | this war. operative, Falkenwald, who flew to Miami in South Carolina, is on his way here with Ross Sawyer, Jr., newly appointed superintendent of the key lines. Julius F. Stone, Jr., county at- torney studied purchase of the! local power company with Fal- kenwald recently at Tallahassee. Under terms of the REA pro- } gram, Stone said bonds-could be issued with an interest rate of 2.48 per cent, while city council’s: morning, only a few hours after minimum offer for purchasing the the night raiders had returned property was 4 per cent interest, | 8°TOSS the channel to England. : | (Berlin claimed six British od tala yuthyy je bonds ‘were } bombers were shot. down this ‘Putting the” purcHase “Silas at ee tee sary palit $1,000,000, which is about what is "Nee Gr wtistee said thr expected, Stone said the REA pur- | Seems nd eigatcehehliiraay eee chase thus ‘would. save $600,000 | British Planes beige’ lost = day- over a 30-year period in contrast light operations this pondeborgined to the city’s 4 per cent offer, or While six German planes were re- would save $1,050,000, if the city | Porte? downed.) from a similar survey ands incendiary bombs rained night, and fliers said great ex- Plosions appeared to come from stores of oil and ammunition. Cologne, in Germany's indus- trial Ruhr, and the bomb-marked port of Rotterdam in Holland shared the attacks of the RAF during the night. Squadrons of bombers were re- ported to have hammered Lillo again in a daylight attack this Thousands of high explosive | down on the city througtfout the” Mrs. Spessard L. Holland is shown presenting an old aluminum dishpan'te Malcolm Yancey, , Leon County Defense council head, as the opening contribution of Florida's participation in the National Aluminum Recovery Drive, scheduled July 21, 29. Governor Holland, as state Defense chairman is committees, boy scouts, pier ic Babe pt pare ip County councils using local the drive. tection on Monday morning. The drive is designed to gather only discarded THREE ARRESTS MADE SUNDAY Thelma Mackey and Millard Cobble were arrested yesterday Berlin Compares’ Situation: In Russia To Fall Of France CPIIIIS SS 4 (By Associated Presa) ;ments which , donations will be called needed to make the refugee gar- the chapter is sending to Europe. Such items as thread, buttons, tape, pins, baby shirts and stockings are not furnished by the government ;and have to be purchased from ‘chapter funds. ; Anyone having discarded cloth- ing—shoes or any saleable goods —is requested to. contact Mrs. W. R. Warren or Mrs. Dan Navarro. A committee will be at St. Jo- i seph’s Hall on Thursday morn- ing to receive donations or such for if members of the committee are notified. Funds are badly needed at the present time and it is hoped that ; those who can help to make the am Re Sale a success will do ey successful sale: will | “Mthat the splendid work.» which | has been accomplished. by the production committee will con- tinue. REMARKABLE ESCAPE SPRINGFIELD, Mass,—When jmit the army to. hold for more |than a year its selectees. national | guardsmen and reserve officers, | The President's recorded mes- ; Sage was broadcast over a nation- wide radio hookup shortly after it had been delivered to the (| senate, at 12:15. p. m. Terming the “national emer- gency “not less grave, but more grave” than when i was adopted last year, the Presi- dent said the nation would be ; making a “tragie error” to permit two-thirds of the armed forces. ‘return to civil life at this time. — D : SPEAKING TO THE CON- \ GRESS and to the people of the nation, President Roose- velt today urged retention of "army selectees for a period longer than their originally planned year's training. Their release at this time would be a “tragic error”, the President said. % | HURT IN "NEW" LOS ANGELES,.—Recently lit tle Robert Fisher, 8, was butned when a paper milk carton” ex- ploded as he was burning it .in; Release Older | ‘an incinerator. Three minutes | —— Pager = after he was admitted to the hos- Would favor release pital, an ambulance rushed up over 28, moving such men found it necessary to pay taxes on' er onues TORN FROM BODY °Y Constable Bienvenido Perez Official. Berlin. today . likened sess * ee a ee eae eg Continued on Page Four) the bonds, | — on charges of open profanity LOU FIELDS OF ithe situation in Russia to that Ke pew Rae ety ne wind; the ee i : — 4 ine eee eee on ton eas | ARKANSAS CITY, Kan.—As E. and disorderely conduct. Both’ WAUDEVIEEE FAME *ft<t the French Maginot line'was plane stalled and crashed Up- jhe can nat oe NANAL would babs exemption of the 1 Lawson stepped down from a‘ will appear before Magistrate | [turned a year ago, but admitted sige-down on the roof of a house the SA RS: ‘These Besose the i} Ped ot a Bena oo tractor, he was thrown in front Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. today DIED THIS A. M.! the drive on’ Moséow has bogged adjoining the airport. Rodale- first accidents of this kind ever, eat tne aredtneat ee i of a binder, and his trouser leg for a preliminary hearing SSPE down in seas of rain. wicz was unhurt: seers at the or i ready to Sen re sagen sin Ps caught on a rod. Before the ma- John Albury, Key West, was (By Axnocinted Presa) Just as the French and British iS a catae iy beceolaing 40 pay all ita taxes shine could be gerres. all aH — oy state ise vero yag HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July by fe Sant oe to kcnse serra 3 ; ;clothes were torn m his after his arrest yesterday on a 21—Lou Fields, 74-year-old {ter the inot line was crack- Fe POEs, FOIA, ad mean Ody, but Lawson, 73, escaped charge of reckless driving on member of the ote vaude- | ©» 80 the:Russians are being har- Local Lions Join Defense continuation of the tax payments, j unhurt. even though the legislature might | pass laws providing for ahoboit tion. Faikenwald, it is understood, will drive over the route where power ljnes are to be laid along | the keys, and will discuss the pro- gram with trustees of the co-: operatiys: Firing of the coast artillery’s $4,000-a-week class in vaude- division (about 15,000 men) has aluminum’ da Thursday, j j 155 mm. guns at Fort Taylor to- "HOUSING SURVEY ville in an era when they, 2¢e8 Wiped.out there, while three Women ‘haw 2 ga urged to COMMANDER N |AFF imorrow probably will get under- haorpaile opay, (other divisions are reported in a Prepare for the drive re a 4 }way at about 3 o'clock, Col. OPENS OFFICES hapaten aceamogaienat ta " desperate effort to crack through , Week by a agen oe Saturday was granted a diverce’, HAS NEW DUTIES ecutive officer, announced to- oe Russell were the darlings of | by the Nazis: nse | day. | Lieut’ Solomon Kaplan, head. Broadway. 4,000 Left On Field rsa escape i | Four of the heavy guns will ing 2 committee which will make Fields had lived in retire- DNB said the division which wits ted Yremn? : # Lieut, Comdr. Henry 1.’ Naff,|take part in the practice, firing’ 2 Complete survey of housing ment for 10 years since he Was wiped out was made up of the ieseeten July 21— | transferred here from Honolulu/at a moving target, which will facjitics and requirements in and Webber broke up their ‘emnants of five other divisions, Bhsargpescnhon officials ‘Naval Board after service with the Pacific! be towed behind a destroyer at: key West, this morning opened team to quit the stage. which previously had been de-, here ee predicted.a total | : fleet, has been assigned to the{a range of about 12,000 yards. 2 Dormanent office at La Concha i stroyed in the Nazi attack. Thou- of 20,000,000 pounds of alum- post of station public relations| The battery is scheduled to fire | },,4¢) preparatory to getting the: D.G@ GBB BB BBS sands of prisoners have been tak- inum for defense as the re- H fficer, succeeding Comdr. A. M.| about 34 rounds during the prac- en by the Nazis, according to the sult of scrap drives to be held | nh 0 Steckel, it was learned today. {tice session, the first which has men, probably report, and more than 4,000 Rus- . this week throughout the "| Commander Naff, who took! been staged here this year. outs, are expect- MISS EMILY SAWYER sian dead were counted on the nation. r over his new duties Friday, act-} Colonel Putnam today again 4 to work with the committes field near: Mogilev. With more than "1,000,000 ed as first lieutenant and dam-j cautioned residents of the Fort i, making a house-to-house sur- DIED SUNDAY A. M. | Moscow, insisting in its com- yolunteers taking part in the age control officer aboard the Taylor area to open their win- \.. of the city, which, when munique that Red Armies are! oundup, cities in every part ‘Antares ie zeit ho cda baad 2 pod eee and he complete, will reveal’ exactly holding firm all along the front, 9 the United States were Commander Steckel, who add-| protect pictures or other articles w much rooming space is said a stre German force was ready today start their ed the public relations post tolwhich might be knocked to the TOW, "uch Tooming SP FUNERAL SERVICES HELD beaten off yesterday south of iearhanst witeadtheses his regular duty as commander | floor by concussion. cists alerwees exith dee: eter’: Leningrad, and fighting was re- jf the in-shdie patrol will eons} he firing will ast only 19 or! (a yee pre coreninea nn LATE YESTERDAY ported tu have diew ous alex the PS snag pp ge ig tinue to act in that capacity. }20 minutes. lit is understood: work will’ ‘be AFTERNOON Germans’ retreat during the ors contain enough ahiiin- —— —-- launched within a few days: night. : | wm to construct a fighting City. council; last »week agreed A Red Army bulletin said Rus- * i Ce . d Int St a. to furnish Lieutenant Kaplan! “Miss Emily. Sawyer, age 78, Sian tanks drove through German ar rasne 0 0c: | with a typewriter-and-telephone, “diéd yesterday morning at 5:00 29d Rumanian troops in the’ Island Bridge Last Night | ministration probably: will sup-' Henry Ogden, Palm Dairy; Ogden, who was driving the employe, was slightly injured, | machine, said his lights failed as and James Cleare, negro, suffer- he approached the bridge, and in ed deep cuts about the head and swerving to the side, he hit the face shortly after midnight last! end of the bridge rail. night when the car in which they } Cleare was rushed to a locai} were riding crashed into the | hospital for treatment, while Stock Island. bridge. | Qgden remained with the car. Webster Fy Putnam, battery ex-) I Overseas Highway. Make Ready. For Finds eee Guns At Fort Taylor Tuesday while the. county is expected to supply the office with money for postage... National Youth Ad- ply a full-time secretary. The survey, which is similar to those being conducted by the navy at other bases, will give officers here a definite know- ledge of how many more men can be quartered in the city, as well as how much more building is necessary. ville team of Webber and Fields, died this morning at his Beverley Hills home, a victim of pneumonia, A penniless immigrant from Poland when he first set foot in New York, Fields and his partner rose to the mond Jim” Brady and Lilian o’elock at.the County. Home. Funeral serviees:s were held yésterday afternoon: at —3:30 o'clock from the chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home. Rev. A. C. Riviere, of the First ME.) (Stone) Church, officiated. ' Survivors are several and nephews. ; veloping near vied and driven back by the Nazis, the Berlin propaganda ministry announced, Both Berlin and Moscow agreed that a tremendous battle is de- Mpgilev on the Dnieper river, west of German- , occupied Kiev. DNB, official German news ) Service, said an entire Russian a steel ring thrown around thém | south, inflicting enormous. losses on the enemy. A screen of Nazi tanks leading infantry was re- ported broken, and the infantry cut to ribbons by the Russian nie- chanized units. Air Alarm In Moscow nieces' Reports from Moscow said citi-| Elias filed a a }zens of the capital ducked for ty Court Pallbearers were William Saw- shelter during the night in a 40-' Elias’ yer, B. F. Sawyer, William Boll, | minute air alarm, but scant de- Opposing Elias Dalbert Bethel, Merville E. Ros-|tails made it apparent that no/ | Bolus was ptt jam, Sr., and Charles Curtis. ‘ 3 bombs were srophet: hese ulus tates, Council Io Aluminum Drive Key West Lions and ae of the state defense council to- day were completing their final preparations. for the city’s, «big: . Neb.—Recently attorney acne prices, The present HELEN SCHARF — William Scharf; Los _An-