The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 28, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted te the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 178, Pat Pressure’ On Believed Roosevelt Pre-| paring Agreement To Cut Japanese Purchases In Western Hemisphere (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 28.—Tokyo newspapers today were whipping up a new. “war of nerves” in the! Far ‘East, bitterly, attacking the Dutch for an attempt to “put pressure” on Japan. The Japanese press attacks came after announcement of a freezing order from the Dutch East Indian capital of Batavia, impounding all Japanese credits | and requiring special permits tor | i acl shipment of materials to the is-| VENICE, July 28 (FNS).—This/ ; Gulf coast community, 12 miles: ‘south of Sarasota and home of} land empire. London, at the same time, was Preparing a program which will 14 Medical Center, let loose an’ ing, $1,150,000; |McDill enthusiastic cheer when it was' Tampa, $150,000; | announced the army had picked freeze Chinese credits out. through- the British empire. The | move was at the request of the! for a coast artillery training area | Chinese government of Chiang Kai-Shek and is to prevent Ja- Pan from using Chinese credits | through “dummy” Chinese banks, Washington heard reports that Jupangse..troops _ already:...are landing on the French Indo-China | coast near Campodia, in position | for an attack on Thailand or an Overland thrust against the! Burma Road. Rioting In Tokyo Neutral observers saw evidence | . of internal disagreements in Ja- | pan with a warning in the Japan Times and Advertiser that wom- | en must refrain from -forming long queues in front of food stores. ‘ ‘The order against lining up at} food stores was said to have come | after police had been called to SISSIES aS SS 4) POLA NEGRI HELD AT ELLIS ISLAND (Ry Ansocinted Press) NEW YORK. July 28.— Pola Negri, 41-year-old film star, today was being held at Ellis Island after fed- eral authorities refused to permit her entry into the United States on a permit ‘which they, said had not been renewed in five years. ‘The Polish star arrived .at Ellis Island today after cross- ing from Portugal aboard the liner Excalibur... LLP L LI I IST BD a VENICE SELECTED AS TRAINING BASE Dr. Fred H. Albee’s famed: Flor- this section as a probable site and anti-arcraft firing center | should defense plans require ad-json Field, $60,000. i ditional training camps. The site under consideration already has been surveyed by the army and all indications point to its selection. “Beginning atthe soathern city limits of Venice. it extends about seven miies to Englewood. The area is served by the Seaboard Air Line Railway. The terrain jis high and dry and wooded, lo- : Mississippi's , cated on a slight bluff overlook- ing the Gulf. CAMPS HELPFUL TO MANY BOYS JACKSONVILLE, Fla. July Che Key ‘ ai KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1941 APPROPRIATED”’ FOR ARMY FOOD MORE THAN’ ONE MILLION * Fal DOLLARS TO BE EXPEND-| : .ED IN FLORIDA DURING | International leaders of Amer- ican Federation of Labor car- THREE-MONTH PERIOD i penters and laborers were called | into the complicated labor picture | (Special ‘> ‘The Citizen) there today( as 600 union car- ATLANTA, Ga. July 28—!penters walked off their jobs in i More than $1,500,000 for Army | sympathy with the four-day-old food supplies will be spent in! laborers’ strike. Florida in the first three months ; The carpenter walkout, de- of the current fiscal year, Lt.|scribed by Business Agent Clar- Col. William F. Riter, chief of | ence Higgs as a “spantaneous the Supply Division of the’! Move” in protest against treat- Fourth .;ment accorded the laborers, ourth Corps Area Quartermas-| came shortly before Lieut, Albert! ter's office, announced today. | J. Fay, navy: public works. of- This money will be spent by ficer; announced that the navy: the Quartemaster of the various!department had informed him of camps, forts, and bases for the i eae r eran: AF of | |purchase of food Li d and the lice of Production sii oS ti it a a Management outlawing strikes. Hae ysueccmtenis Lieutenant Fay said the agree- _The total amount of the sub-| ment, as detailed’ to him in orders \sistence funds allotted to the | from the navy department at; Fourth Corps Area for the first} Washington, provided that the quarter of the present fiscal bra apaaeeatinh no strikes on i pape ..| defense construction. jyear ia S17 O8B,A16. Ok this} Informed of the order reach- amount, $17,190,050 has already! ing Lieutenant Fay, Higgs coun- {been allotted to the various sta-| tered by pointing out that the} tions in the eight Southeastern |carpenters are not on strike of-| states comprising the Fourth' ficially, and that the agreement | Corps Area, ‘could not affect the laborers, | In Florida the allotment is sub-| since they were out before the! (divided as follows: Camp Bland- | pact was signed. He added that! Field,‘ no information about. such an Orlando Air! agreement had been received at; i Base, $75,000; Air Corps Flex- | his office. {ible Gunnery School, Panama, ls Leader: City, $50; Ft. Barrancas, $40,000; | pee el ore Key West Barracks, $15,000; Tal-| W. P. Thurston, president of inansee Air B. $75, 000: Norri-| the struck Thurston Construction ee AT ase, $19,000; Norri- | company, called on international \headuarters of the laborers’ and | carpenters’ unions this morning, | asking for aid in getting men back ; to work here. Thurston termed the strikes illegal, since neither union fol- Georgia’s allotment of subsistence funds, $4,230,000, is! |the largest of any state in the! ‘Fourth Corps Area. Louisiana is; jnext with an allotment of $3,855,- | {000. An appropriation of... $1,-'y : i r *"Jowed thevAF of Lrule that-in- pres Go ee Practise | ternational headquarters must be | large part Of that State’s appro- ‘notified 30 days in advance of a priation of $2,250,000. South strike. The laborers’ headquar- Carolina’s total is $1,875,000. appropriation to- \tals $1,635,000 and Alabama’s, | $1,025,000. Tennesse trails the PH with an allotment of $765,- ‘THREE DEFENDANTS RELEASED ON BOND heard of the strike only this morning, Thurston revealed. j of the laborers’ union had voted yesterday, 314 to 156, to contnue} the strike until they receive a pay | boost to 62% cents an hour. The! men returning to the Thurston! job were put on the payroll at 50! cents an hour, the figure fixed by | the navy department as a com-} Hilton Williams and Glenwood break up a riot among the women. | 28 (FNS).—Concrete evidence of President Roosevelt, studying|the benefits from a physical Manuel, both negroes, were re-| the Japanese situation at Hyde standpoint to young men enroll- Jeased under $100 bond today Park, was believed to be prepar- 4 in the CCC, was disclosed in after having been arrested on’ ing an agreement with Latin Am-| eriean countries which would cut | Board by James J. McEntee, di- | off~Japanese purchases every-! where in the Western Hemis-' a report to the State Welfare rector of the corps. Entee said a two-year survey \charges of non-support. Claude W. Brown, charged with \reckless driving, was released un- der $50 bord. He was arrested phere. Japan recently has been|0f 101,856 enrollees by the surg- | yesterday. making ‘large purchases both in Peru-and Brazil, and the Presi- dent’s plan, it is believed, would divert those materials to the United States, Shiv Position Mystery Maritime officials were puz- zled over the whereabouts of the Japanese vessel, Totatu Maru, which was scheduled to arrive at San Francisco Friday with 150 Americans and a cargo of $3,000,- 000 in silk. The vessel was last heard of when it was learned she was standing off the California coast, apparently waiting for or- ders from Tokyo. In Washington, it was under- stood President Roosevelt is pre- | paring orders calling 150,000) Philippine Island reservists into - the United States service. VOLUNTEER GROUP APPOINTMENTS MADE (Ry Associated Presa) WASHINGTON, July 28.—Ap-| pointments made by’ President | Roosevelt to the Volunteer Par-! ticipation Committee within the | Office of Civilian Defense in-} cluded: Dr. John Stewart Bryan, president, William ' and “Mary | College, Williamsburg, Va. | Jonathan Daniels, Raleigh, N. C.; Mrs, Ellen S. Woodward, | member Social Security Board, Washington; S. A. Roper, presi- | dent Nashville, Tenn, former} chairman of Schedule and Griev- anve Committee, Railroad Bro-| therhood of the Tennessee Cen- | tral Railroad; Blanton Fortson, | Athens, Ga., lawyer, judge of) the Superior Court. eon general’s office, showed the average 18-year-old enrollee gains 10% pounds and grows % inch. The study said that rural en- rollees increased an average of 13.07 pounds against 9.83 for city boys and grew .89_ inche: taller as against .81 for urban ites, In addition to physical im- provement it is pointed out that the special training received by the boys aids them in later life. SBD aS SS LSS NOW IT’S SERGT. AND. MRS. CARON (Special to The Citizen) HARTFORD, Conn, July 28.—Last fall a pretty bru- nette stepped up to the booth of the United States Marine Corps at the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield and asked if she could enlist. Sergeant Alfred C. Caron was behind the counter and decided he could take a joke as well as anyone. “Certainly;; madam", he came back, “just fill out this card with your name and ad- dress and I'll be around to see you about details later”. Well, Sergeant Caron didn‘t lose any time explain- ing the details, but it wasn't until recently that the young lady, Edith L. Bochardt of Meriden, Conn., said “yes”. Now it's Sergeant and Mrs. Caron. ‘FSI LP LL LL SD usually impressive” | SURPRISES IN |. ICELAND FOUND | REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July 28. ‘A United States naval officer who has been here a week is still somewhat flabbergasted at find- | ing rivers of hot water and day- ight around the clock in Iceland. “It’s not nearly as cold as the jname (which in Danish actually | means island) of the country sug- | gests,” he said. “Rivers of hot | water astonished us at first but BY AMERICANS promise. | Call Out Guards | Capt. Fred Marvil, commanding officer of the newly formed state | defense force here, meanwhile had called out the guard com panies at 12:15 o'clock today in) | preparation for possible outbreaks | ‘between the strikers and: the | llaborers who had. returned to as | May, ijlard put} | aul paled Sdlietsian 34-hour duty and assigned night men to patrol \duty today- around the entrances | | to construction: jobs. } | Sheriff Berlin Sawyer also took jsteps to prevent trouble in the jstrike, calling on extra deputies |to keep up a_ continuous patrol | duty around the struck jobs. With the walkout into its fifth | |day, work on_all government con- | jstruction jobs except the Paul H. Smith housing project had come to a halt today. The Smith com- | pany last ‘week returned the | now we've got used to the idea of | laborers to work at 62% cents an swimming in water warmer than hour, pending a settlement of the the air. : | wage dispute at the other proj- A. member of the United States | ects. | Labs Hare To Resume. Work COMBS SMM LLM. MEETING TO STUDY LABOR SITUATION S. C. Singleton, chamber of commerce secretary, today issued a prepared statement calling for a meeting of citi- zens this afternoon to study the labor situation here. The statement follows: "A call issuing from a rep- resentative group of citizens chas»been)made for a meet- ing: at-the chamber. of .com- (merce ‘office: at 5 o'clock to- | day te-consider' the~ emer- ‘gency created by the unset- tled state: of labor now: exist- ing”. JUSTICE LISTS BASIC BELIEFS OF AMERICANS (My Associated Prema TALLAHASSEE, July in warring nations if those na- tions would observe the funda- mental creeds of the average Ajn- erican citizen. Justice Roy Chapman of the State Supreme Court told a Sum- mer graduating class of 31 stu- dents that “our sovereign citizen may transmit his message by our fleets, tanks and guns, or by the | manhood of our land. “Our sovereign citizen this day ters at Washington said they had |},o14s the torch light of American: liberty and its rays of hope and About 100 negro laborers re- | light are not only seen but felt in| turned to work on the Thurston | the hearts of discouraged and con- { job this morning, after members! quered men and women of the! warring nations across the sea. “Our national traditions en- | morning was named publicity ‘ regimentation. courage our sovereign citizens to chairman of the United Service | exterminate ; Organization trown | mittee as leaders of the group unseat dictators, usurpers and remove heads.” Among the fundamental beliefs of the average American, Justice Chapman listed the worship, useful service, triumph of law and jus- ice, thrift and economy, dignity of labor, life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness and the right to own property. na WAY CLEARED FOR USING SURPLUS TAX {ity | Ansoeinted Presa) TALLAHASSEE, July 28.—At-| armed forces. torney. General Tom Watson has use surplus construction of coun- He said the surplus division law, passed by the 1941 Legisla- ture, provided for monthly dis- tribution of the funds “and there are no limitations placed upon the use of this money” in road building by the county commis- sions. Excessive rains recently in some sections have caused road | Florida State College: for Women | graduates were told that peace! and confidence could be restored | pat Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. | | j \ I ! | right to free i national humanitarian | service. \cleared the way for counties to | °° GQ. a | ty roads, even though current HATS.ON NAVY HEADS ‘budgets do not list the amounts. [PPI | TWO OFFICERS TO CSI MS MG A 6 gy ‘sip through a considerable part Hungarian. \MRS. H. DEMERITT SELECT: Key West, Florida, 7~s the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Hurling Attacks Ag German Air Force Made Heavy (St Activities Alons | Eighteen Hundred Mile; Front; Fierce Fighting Reported Raid Over London Last Night, | i | (Special to The Citizen) BERLIN, July 28.—Squadrons) ports. Important damage was) of German bombers last night|said to have been done in the) staged their first important raid | heart of the city, and a 5,000-ton! Se ny ey ee) on London in more than a month, | steamer was reported sunk. H ppereea iy 8-—So! sending tons of high explosive} (Scattered ve left by a Ger-| NEW YORK, July 2 2 and fire bombs crashing into the|man attack on London last night | diers of the Red army today were heart of the city. | were quickly extinguished, and! s The raid, in retaliation for/little real damage was inflicted, | *eported grasping the initiative | British bombing of civilian cen-|the London air ministry declared | go, the first time in) their war ters in Germany, left a major|today. The air ministry said) — part of the London dock center! three German bombers were shot} with Germany, hurling a series in flames, according to Berlin re-!down in the raid.) | of attacks against the Nazis ee | along the entire length of the ‘VIT ‘AL NEED NOW | Fighting around Smolensk was | 9| said in Moscow to be particular \ ‘ly bitter. and unique said ‘MISSION HEAD SAY * ER RPDK SH Aes | of an important success” there, | CuRusTIAN FORCES OF AM: pee: aaa Re : i ERICA CHALLENGED TO lee ee Re clrn of | PREME TASK OF RESTOR-, : i BE MADE CAPTAINS Marine Lieutenants Edwin A. Law, Bartow, and James L. Neefus, Rockledge, Fla., have been included on a list of 190 first lieutenants recom- mended by President Roose- velt for promotion to the rank of captain. it was an- nounced here today. Approval by the President means the two officers will be in line for promotion when vacancies occur. ING WORLD i j bad weather for the slowness of the German drive. Berlin reports indicated a gen- eral retreat of the Russians in the — gains for the combined in the north. Defeated (Special to The Ultizen) i NEW YORK, N. Y., July 28.— Just returned from an extended | USO COMMITTEE MET ON SUNDA ED AS PUBLICITY CHAIR- MAN DURING SESSION recreation com- met at the USO “Hut” with Wal- “Episcopal Church's domestic mis- as the country’s greatest t' corps b the Far ind retained,” Dr. Wieland says,’ Moscow. jcitizenship which is willing to’ knocked out of effective use, , whole, or by the way of totali- “Knowing a good. deal about agency, said 140 Russian planes of our Christian civilization, our losses. ae describi: iolent a ter Kalinowski, club director apo Save , will be determined here, on the’ and field representative of the : American continent, in the de- Catholic of the United States, the Rev. Dr. ‘George A. Wieland, head of the’ and Finns sionary work, S68, natignal e 1 id..0 this moment. zx to aid in.the Smolensk defense - “National unity can be attained, ‘has been crushed on the road to | ‘in one of two ways. By the’ ‘The Red Air Force, which Ber- | patriotic effort of an enlightened jin several times has .said was \make sacrifices and to plan pro-* bombarded Rumanian oil fields grams for the welfare of the again last night, and was report- Mrs. H. Demeritt yesterday‘ tarianism, of force, of fear, of on German troops in the field, — | DNB, official German news America,” he added, “I have the were destroyed. di yester- ‘burning conviction that the future day's fighting, with no German , Christian culture, and Moses: even the future of the human race, attacks -along the entire front, Finnish ship was. said a ed in the Gulf of ; occupying force, he summed up! Capt. Russell S. Crenshaw, ; damages, and Watson said repairs | these impressions: {navy station commandant, said} could be financed with the sur-; | “Thanks to British co-operation | this afternoon there had been no! plus gasoline money. jand thoroughness in their prep-|new orders from -Washington' Under the 1941 laws, a county’s | |arations for us we are much more | setting a deadline for the end of ;surplus is determined after pro- comfortable than we expected to, the strike. Asked about recur-| vision is made for annual inter- | be, : ‘ring rumors that the 62% cent/est and principal payments on “Stores are ‘well stockéd with | scale may be accepted by the; outstanding county-wide and | Americanand British goods,” but: navy, Captain Crenshaw said he} district road and bridge bonds{ Americam magaziries,” @igarettes | had received no information since | financed with gasoline funds. and soda fountains “are “’ Fon- ihe was informed last. week that | picuously absent: ““ “l eivil service ;workers:; would. be | | “Most of the people seém glad! ysed if the laborers failed to re-| to see us and since a great many turn for 50 cents. of them speak some English it is} | not at all hard to transact busi- U. S.-SOVIET TRADE | WASHINGTON.—The United | | States has offered to buy - sub- English. American and Epirus eet eo - oes ness. isn, 1 materia: im uss! inc! \Icelaridic money circulate to- | WASHINGTON.—According iol panes and chrome ores. Rus | gether in a cashier’s nightmare. |! Acting Secretary of State Sum-jsia would use the cash to buy! “It's a very pretty country.! ner Welles, the United States has; war materials in this country./| |T'm surprised the tourist industry! information that leads to the|The main difficulty in the trade |and steamship lints haven't made | belief that Germany plans to take |is the long haul from Russian | more of it. The steep rugged | other military steps as soon*as mines to Vladivostok, where mountaiss and fjords are un- | she completes her attack upon | shipments would begin the long Russia. route across the Pacific, community | cades that lie immediately ahead. | Russian bombers: ye says | World Issue is { Bombing. Fred Dion was named program! “If a Christian civilization is’ ¥rom chairman, with Mrs. A. M. Hew-'the only hope of world sanity, ter of war, itt, hostess and chaperone com-; then a Christian America is the mittee chairman, and George | Pe eer es ae an ‘Montepetit, secretary... rica today, though nominally The committee will act in the! Christian, is essentially pagan in capacity of an‘ advisory board, its sutioes and its life, { formulating a detailed | program! “The world issue today is stroyed i Z sentially a religious issue. We. of recreation for men in the shave before us the straight . { between Aik eee Ae tand love juman brotherhood, .., 5 "AFM \on the one hand, and a god of penta vue. blood and iron, of hatred and op-, Z pression, of war and human deg-. redation, on the other,” AEE) | “As we see the need of unity,”! | Dr. Wieland said, “we see a choice” | between a unity based on force. ind ee and human bondage, and a unity based on the Christian yjorida hotels, assumption of a Father God who) nd rooming h i broods over a race of brethren. of 352,291 ; However much it may be ob- Hotel Commiss secured by political propaganda, that is the real alternative facing Everyone agrees it’s “hats off” to Uncle Sam’s navy, but from now on it’s “hats on” as far as navy officers are con- cerned. A naval regulation _ | ruins of, the olds: to this world more worthy of its destiny pe gee “To we must | the Christian f [ forces of NAVAL BASES ast Nazis | suctéss in the fighting, ed to have inflicted heavy losses —