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-* ee ee See . . ee meme anal nite RESO Rf Rael mat 0 nS PED Oe eet rN ay : Service: For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. Np. 177. Planes Believed To Be "SOOOOOOOS, ‘Flying Fortresses’ Ob-| FOURTEEN DEAD tlasd:~ From << United | FROM HEAT WAVE States | CHICAGO, July 26—Four- | teen were dead CORRY. WHO LOST HIS LIFE TRYING TO MAKE RESCUE (Speetal to Citizen) CHARLESTON, July 26.—The Destroyer 463 designated by Sec- Seducing. the eastern United States to- {By Annociated Presa) day as the result of a mount- [as the USS. Corry, will be NEW YORK, July 28.—Four- | ing see ware and weather |jaunched into the waters of the men here % ss motored RAF bombers, balled) run sui ter could ewe [Cooper River at Chariestn, &C. to be “flying fortresses” from ae days. hull completed, she will be eastern two-thirds of 4 ime”, the United States, last night) the nation is oriped : eae peg tae vveiting. out" poured high explosives into the ranging up to. degree j|docks where her engines and the ‘| mark, but the humidity is re- [intricate instruments and ma- heart of Berlin the first assault | Sponsible for most discom- [chinery of the modern man-of- on the German capital in more; fort. z war will be installed. In Chicago. humidity today The 463 has been named in than a month, i registered 90 per Sent, and [honor of Lieutenant-Commander fhe London ‘sir. minisiey: : said similar figures marked most | William Merrill Corry, U.S.N. It Ba etl f th 1 of the northeast. {is the second destroyer to bear coeres © ie eeey. powertul | the name of the famous naval type shattered the heart of the | tere era. German propaganda minisiry 1 | Lieutenant-Commander Corry last night claimed less Brit- | | was born in Quincy, Florida, ish planes shot down than OVER SIX HUNDRED BOARD October 5, 1889, and died in London admitted. | NAVY TRANSPORT Hartford, Conn., October 7, 1920. | SIP aviator, who met death in Hart- IT HAD TO HAPPEN j ford, Conn., on October 7, 1920, U §. CITIZENS twhile attempting t6 rescue a (By Associnved Press) o bee |companion from an_ airplane NEW YORK, July 26—For | which had crashed and _ burst the first time in the war. the | ON WAY HO jinto flames. Berlin said eight RAF Corry was appointed a mid- bombers were destroyed last WEST POINT shipman on June 20, 1906 and night, while London admitted ony ie wn {commissioned Lieutenant-Com- nine had been shot down. | LISBON, Portugal, July 26—| mander July 1, 1918, which rank i ~ {he held until his death. During In spite of the importance > * hundred United States citi-}the first World War, Corry was of the British raid on Berlin, | 2's, including 16 ambulance | assigned to duty in Europe with RAF activity last night was 1a ee survivors of the torpedoed ‘the United States Naval Aviation spread far over Europe, with | 2gyptian ship Zamzam, today Forces and later was ordered to Hanover in north Germany | Wete headed for home aboard/command the U. S. Naval Air taking a more severe pound- | the navy transport West Point. (Station at LeCroisic, — Loire, ing than the capital. | The ambulance drivers, who!France. His success and skill as t. were confined in France prior to} an air pilot on this station won city, and fires were reported | their removal to Portugal, said it|for him the cross of a chevalier raging in-some sections. is the hope of most of the French lot the Legion of Honor of France. With- whom-they-came in fOn June 1, 1920, Corry was as- bombers attacking on both sides | Contact that the United States | signed duty as aide for aviation of Germany, the Berlin high | Will enter the war. jon the staff of Admiral H. B. command admitted a huge Red 4 constantly recurring ques-/ Wilson, commander-in-chief of counter-attack near Smolensk, | tion, they said, is “when are the | the Atlantic Fleet. It was while and inferentially admitted that | Americans landing?” jon this assignment that Lieu- German troops have not occu-| Other passengers aboard the | tenant-Commander Corry met pied the city, as had been pre- | Ship are consular employes and | his untimely death, viously announced. {their families, expelled « from He was awarded a medal of The high command said Rus- | Gemany and Italy. {honor “For heroic service in at- sian troops attacking from the tempting to rescue a brother of- south near Vitebsk, 85 miles FAMOUS PITCHER jficer from a flame-enveloped northeast of Smolensk, had been |aiplane. On October 2, 1920, an beaten off by Nazi forces. . From {airplane in which Lieutenant- the description of the assault, it CRITICALLY HUR ; Commander Corry was a passen- appeared the attacking Russians ger crashed and burst into had moved up from Smolensk to flames. He was thrown 30 feet strike at the Nazi lines, appar- GROVER CLEVELAND ALEX- Clear of the burning machine and ently eliminating the possibility | ANDER SAID TO BE jendeavored to release the pilot; that they had been driven east | | fam: he. infers: An eo doing of the oii. | NEAR DEATH he sustained serious burns, from Berlin explained the slowed, | which he died four days later”. down push on other fronts with . Sie Aaoeetaies began On hand as sponsor for the avtrinie : Handions Sat. stubborn NEW YORK, July 26.—Grover vessel and to christen it, will Ribilid ‘tedistanck, ailtienlt ter- Cleveland Alexander, among the; be Miss Jean Constance Corry, rain,’ and impossible cweather. greatest of baseball pitchers, to-| niece of the late William Merrill jday was under treatment for!Corry, and her cousin, Miss STALIN, CHURCHILL, possible skull fractures .and ajSara Corry, will assist as maid TRADE COMPLIMENTS brain hemorrhage after a mys- of honor, (Re Ansecioted Peema) terious accident last ‘night. | Assisting the Misses Corrys in LONDON, July 26—Prime| Alexander, who was ’said’to be | their detail will be Rear Admiral Minister Winston Churchill today |"@@t death, was found in a‘ gut-' William H. Allen, U.S.N., com- was said to have replied to a_ ‘et, Suffering cuts ,.and \. bruises} mandant of <the'Charleston Navy | complimentary letter from Josef | 2found the head. ees Captain. G. E. Baker, Stalin, premier of the USSR. | ERC |U-SN., captain of the yard. Stalin, in his letter, thanked HASTINGS SMITH | 7 general charge of launching Great Britain for her sustained jwill be Captain A. M. Penn, air attacks on Germany and/ NOW RECOVERING | usw. manager, Industrial De- lauded the bravery of the RAF. | SRE ; __|pattment, Charleston Navy Churchill replied with compli- | Friends of Hastings Smith will| Yards. Commander C. H. Cush- ments for the stand put up by | be glad to learn that he is now re-|man U.S.N., will be in charge the Red Army. and informed | Covering from an operation per-|of Shipways, assisted by Launch- Stalin aid for Russia would be | formed recently in Jacksonville. | ing Officer Lieutenant J. Zabil- limited only by the amount of| Mr. and Mrs, Smith returned to/|sky, U.S.N., assisted by Lieuten- machinery received from the | this city Wednesday after an ab-|ant G. R. Arey (CC), USN., United States by Britain. sence of several weeks. | (Ret.) Lieutenant (jg) B. G. : ____ | Wade, U.S.N., Lieutenant (jg) C. R. Brandt, U.SIN.R., assist4 ° : | ee 5 United States Population For | USN, (Ret) Lieutenant E. Flom, jing, U.S.N.R., Ensign J. F. May- 1985 Placed At 153,000 QOD nara. UsNR. Chict carp. 5S ? ’ }|McDonough, U.S.N. Launching gran sae eects | observations: Lieutenant V. B. (Special to The Citizen) |€ole, U.S.N., assisted by Ensign WASHINGTON, July 26. —;per cent between 1930 and 1940),/E. S. Beauchamp-Nobbs (CC) United States population, based this eves Gages oe ad- ee ee a era se ‘ |dition of less than 2,000,000 per-} luisc for the »oecasion “of the si Preeent sie ae Fie bape during the decade 1970 to} launghing will be (furnished by and immigration, should reach | gg ge . S. Marine-Band of Parris about 153,000,090 in 1985, and then!) The estimates forecast. a pop-| Island, S. C." Speaker of the day begin a gradual decline, figures / ulation of 136,448,000 in’ 1945 and will be Captain” C. P. Mason, released by the Federal Bureaujone of 140,561,000 in 1950. By | Air Station of Jacaksonville, Fla. of the Census revealed today. |1980 the population may number /Captain Mason will be _ intro- The estimates indicate a stead-|about 153,022,000, as compared duced by Rear Admiral Allen. ily decreasing rate of population | with the 131,669,275 enumerated; As an expression of their ap- growth for the next several de-/in the 1940 census. preciation in the opportunity of cades. | There may be a slight addi- having a part in the construction In the decade 1970 to 1980, it is! tional increase between 1980 and |of the U.S.S. Corry, several gifts estimated, the population of the|1985, after which date an ab-/ will be presented from the Navy United States will increase only solute decrease in numbers may) Yard employes by John D. Jen- 1.2 per cent (as compared with 7.2 set in. jmings. TONIGHT - - LATINS FROM MANHATTAN, RADIO STARS RSE AMER aint aS te mine ld The Key THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. NAME OF COMMANDER | retary of the Navy, Frank Knox, ! Duetasenasieeottomncuransanehenteneaaaael KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1941 | | | 7 | i | | { Keitel Berlin radio last night denied Russian, reports that Gen, Walter | von Brauchitsch and Marshal Wilhelm Keitel have been relieved of their commands for failure to beat down Red resistance, The radio | also sceffed at reports qf Air Marshal Hermann Goering’s having been confined in a concentration camp. f ‘County Clerk Gives Taxpayers | Summary Of New Laws Enacted i Ross C. Sawyer, clerk of the lands which the State of Florida ‘cireuit court, has attempted in. now holds tax certificates for de- simple language to give to the; linquent taxes for the year 1940 taxpayers a condensed summary and prior years shall be assessed of the new tax laws recently en-|for the year 1941 and subsequent | acted by the legislature. | years as if there were no tax cer- The personal tax law and the | tificates outstanding. Such lands intangible tax law, which are | shall be sold in like manner and separate and distinct measures,/to” the same effect as other are not included in this sum-! lands, . maty, since they’ do not pertain; Section 5—Provides that after to the office of circuit court; the tax assessor has completed clerk. assessment of the tax rolls which Lien Of Taxes |must be by June 1, submit the | Section 1—Sets up that taxes rolls to the comptroller for ap- {in a first lien superior to all oth- | proval, after which the rolls are ter liens. No act of omission or é¢qualized by the board of county }commisson on the part of any Ts, [official shall operate“ to. defeat! ‘County~“ commissioners the payment of taxes. jand respective millages extended Section 2—Provides that the by tax assessor. The tax roll tax assessor by diligent inquiry , shall be delivered to the tax col- ‘shall find all persons that should ‘lector on November 1 for collec- ‘be taxed, also their personal: tion by him of taxes shown due. \tax, real estate tax and tangible! Two copies of the tax rolls are personal property and assess‘ to be made, one delivered to the same at its FULL CASH VALUE. ‘comptroller and the other to Tangible personal property shall clerk circuit court. County com- ‘be made separate from the as- missioners have no authority to sessment of real estate. ‘make any changes in tax roll Section 3—The tax assessor in | after delivery has been made on | all cases where land has not been | November 1. returned by the owner for as-{ Section 6—Deals. with routine |sessment shall assess same in the matters of county officials. jmame of the last known owner.! Section 7—Provides that tax Section 4—Provides that all (Continued on Page Four) Time For Filing Tax Returns Expired At Noon Hour Today PISATIS PLS ZY Monroe county property own- ROOSEVELT PLANS i making @ belated rush, to file | SPECIAL MESSAGE. «| turns, this: morning ¢rowded the | FOR COMING WEEK '°tice 08 Tax Assessor Clautie A. {Gandolfo until the doors were (Ry Associated Press) | closed at noon, | _ WASHINGTON, July 26— | Repeating hts warning of pena } ; f penal- | President Roosevelt is pre- ee ; i caving eanaeial casbegs i ; ties for those who fail to _ enter | congress for next week, their returns, Gandolfo said he | White House Secretary Step- would accept statemenfs from hen T. Early announced to- |property owners through the; day. |mail if they are posted today. The message will deal with i eee Sha ee pales comticl | The actual deadline was at noon legislation. today, and the assessment office will be closed to the public all of SII STF SZ B.D D | next week, while books are pre-' | | pared to be turned over to the AMERICAN FIGHT JOSE. PUAN, 74, \ (Ry Asnociared Press) WASHINGTON, July 26— State department officials today | Jose Pijuan, 74, died yesterday "were watching the South Ameri- | @fternoon at‘ 5:30 o'clock -at the can situation with keen inter- |Tesidence of his daughter, ~Mrs. | _est, as Ecuador called up reserves | pas oe ee ae jand Peru announced tentative this afternoon at 8:30 from the moves toward an armistice. residence. Rev. Guillermo Perez, The Ecuadorian government, | Pastor of the Latin Methodist blaming Peru for the border dis- | Church, will ‘officiate at the pute, called on the United States pa hice ae aun tae deine: and Argentina to step into the | Mrs, Eddie Gomez and Mrs, Free- affair as mediators, but govern-|man D. Hall; one son, Jose Pi- ment spokesmen insisted their | juan, and six grandchildren. army is ready to repel the Peru-} Pritchard Funeral Home is in, \vians if actual war does start. charge of the arrangements. - FROM LOEWS STATE THEATER AT THE STORK CLUB. | fun ‘okyo " reezi Laborers Seem To Be Divided — “sez.ovfsaie | personal and intangible, tax. . re-j And Japan Near Breaking Po anil _" Meeting Caled For TomOMOW | NEW YORK, July 26—Rela- Striking Key West. laborers,| would go in making terms with} eon, tie — idle since Wednesday:, on three | the laborers. | and. Japan neared the breaking vernment deiense jects, to-|, Because of the Saturday half- point today Eastern tee appeared pa holiday at the navy station, it was | este separ ly hi : ane jeonsidered. unlikely. there would | crisis moved swiftly with these i ly on t e question of. accepting a he any new action from the navy # iE pednacaial pay offer from the! before Monday, when it is be-} jMavy. \lieved orders. will come from. | Offered 50 cents an hour if they | Washington setting a deadline for | will return to work at onge, close ; ‘Pe strike. ! |to 1,000 laborers are expected to. Orders already have been re- meet tomorrow morning at Dixie | Teived here, informing Lieutenant Hall to determine if they will end} rity se civil service bring will their strike. The meeting is|%e used to supplant the union Fe { scheduled for 10 o'clock. < ‘men, if the strike is not settled on| proclamation, ordered the arm- Indicating that a back-to-work | the basis of 50 cents an hour, a 10-| oq fopces of the Philippine Is- |their jobs at one construction | Strike Ballots Ready z ‘company this morning, but they! Members of a group describing | wise? were told to wait until after the! themselves as “friends of labor”| bridges leading to the Interna | vote tomorrow. \today had arranged for printed | tional Settlement at Shanghai; | Mecawbie< selirele called | ballots, which it is hoped the la-| 4) Britain abrogated ail trade |meeting this morning was post-| borers will use in settling the: treaties : ' poned ween Le Deon. bic fl a question tomorrow. i 5) a officers | most of the laborers had not been; A spok. for th H 4 ‘ |informed. About 100 men tured |saia he hoped the laborers Would | Grist i Seigeae French Inder | out at Bayview Park at 11 o'clock, | agree. to a secret ballot, which Neutral feared {to be told by President Charles» z - observers fee ‘ : would permit free voting by all Z the Albury that it had been decided ‘without any fear or coercion, | P*” woult: invade, | to wait until tomorrow, | Employes of the Paul. Smith a Order Not Confirmed | Construction company, e Lieut, Albert J. Fay, navy pub-| while, were. working for lic works, officer, said this morn- | cents an hour, but nes _ tion of an order from the bureau! await settlement of the jof yards and docks, which fre-, The company has agreed. to | viously had set 50 cents as the whatever scale is decided limit to which the government, by the navy. ~~ PERMITS ISSUED 10 MEET | THOSE GRANTED THIS WEEK SCHEDULED TO HOLD a | BRING TOTAL FOR MONTH FERENCE THIS AFT- i | UP TO $160,900 t ERNOON j f £ | Building permits. issued in the (Ry. Asaorinted Press) ‘in the et ‘five business days of this week| WASHINGTON, July 26— that og’ 7 amounted to $21,100, brnging the , Members of a Russian military bespeee ; ‘total for the present month up | aes bigness to — ain may do, | to $160,900, Building Inspector | Conference ler Secre' 'Y. D, Carbonell revealed today. (of State Susans, Welles here at The month's figure, with four |? o'clock ‘this afternoon. i {days of business still to go next! , Rpahgae T g | b H | j week, is the highest, reached Ie ‘ here in recent years....;;4 14 Hopkins and: | Permits. issued yesterday. : Thursday. include those’ ‘to: Wil- |“ “ ee |liam B, Smith, 205 Whiteliead'| *néten this morning They | street, $300, general repairs, | Aguilar, 1111 Watson, $100, gen- ‘eral repairs; Samuel Drudge, | ‘° Russia. 1301 Newton, ‘$500, build porch; : Edward Mounts, 713 Elizabeth, | $100, general repairs; William | H. Malone, 626 Grinnell, $200, | general repairs; Pearl Thomas, | 100 Olivia, $100, general repairs: ; | Gertrude Golden, 707 Division, | ; $100, screen porch; E. Hernan-| 'dez, Duval street, $100, renova-j{ tion; J. W. Cramer, 400 Simon-} ‘Austin, 910 Center, ‘repairs, and. Ekiza.Gardner, 1106} | | White at

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