The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 29, 1941, Page 1

> Associated Press Day Wire ‘ Service For 61 Years Devoted te the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIt. No. 179. Water As Two Occupants Were Apparently Asleep Orlando Salesman Named PLAN TO CEDE AREA IN| INDO-CHINA BRINGS ABOUT CONSIDERABLE _DISCUS- SION (ity Axxociated Press) COOITISLSS NEW YORK, July 29——London Bishop, And Colored | REP a re i. S today was understood to ‘be fram- Driver, Cc Out Of ing a stiff protest against an al- 5 (ity Assdeinted Press) leged Japanese plan to cede Cam-} e | eee 29.—Ni Accident Unhurt | teen British ships totalling |Podia in French Indo-China to : 116,500 tons have been sunk | Thailand. | | in a U-Boat attack on an Reports reaching L d | os «| ry ondon enographic supply sales-) Atlantic convoy, it was an- through Reuters, 4ritish. news nounced today. A communique said a fleet of submarines descended on the convoy far out at sea. TIP IIIS SSS JNO. LEWIS ALBURY man from Orlando named Bishop | and an unidentified negro boy whom he had hired.as a driver, this morning slept through an accident which almost cost them | their lives, service, indicated the Japanese; would give Cambodia to Thailand | for assurances that that country | would join in the Japanese cam- ; paign for a new Asiatic order. | The British protest was said to be based on the contention that | such a move would violate the | ‘C OF C Plan Would Headed for Key West at about 2:15 o'clock this morning the two’ were awakened when Bish- op’s car plunged, upside down, DIED THIS MORNING Vichy-Tokyo pact, which guar-/ anteed the territorial integrity of | the French colony. i With no new developments ap- | parent in the troubled Far East-} into 10 feet of water at Gandolfo | FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE | Ma about 20 miles north of: CONDUCTED TOMORROW ‘ern situation, Tokyo newspapers | continued a bitter editorial cam- paign against United States “in- i The negro boy, who said he! AFTERNOON fo tcers | couldn't swim “except when I'm erference. | seared”, and Bishop forced open! en a Papers, promising Japan| } would continue her territorial ex- | the doors of the car and swam} John Lewis Albury, age 77, | pans =a 4 errito! ia as | ashore, both without injury éx- | 3 i pansion in spite of the United | cept for a slight bump on the | Passed away this morning 7:45!States and Great Britain, admit- | salesman’s head. lo'clock at the residence, 531/ted that American and Dutch oil} Bishop, whose full name could | Grinnell street. embargoes constituted a real blow | not be learned immediately, said} Funeral tomorrow afternoon | #8#inst the empire. H | agli Diag ahah back seat at’ at 5 o'clock from the Chapel “lH U 6 | e time o! e accident, while S i eS | the boy said he believed he, to Lopes Funeral Home. H 0 SIN SURVEY | had fallen asleep. The car tore; Samuel B. Pinder “will .offi- | | out part of the rail on the high | ciate ab services. MOST BENEFICIAL; bridge and turned over in its’ Surviers include the widow, | * | dive into the creek. | Mrs. (innis Albury; a daughter, pepe pac! | ery te i OY West 102 | Mrs HE. Day,” ang a~grandson, | day was attempting to raise the : John Lewis Day. car, while Bishop and the boy! Pallbearers will be selected were brought here last night by | from the Bible Class of the Gos- L. P. Artman, Jr. {pel Hall. |J0E PEARLMAN RELATES ar] VANTAGES TO BE GAINED | BY SYSTEMATIC WORK } | GOVERNOR HOLLAND RECITES TAX - STRUCTURE AT JAYCEE LUNCHEO (Speeial to The Citizen) The inauguration by the gov- lernment of a systematic survey and housing registration bureau \in Key West is likely to be one of \the most immediately beneficial jactivities that has been instituted in Key West, states Joe Pearlman, | ORLANDO, July 29.—Flori- dians—taxpayers and tax offi- cials—are actually doing the job of revising the tax structure under the 1941 laws, Governor Spessard L. Holland told the Jaycees at a luncheon here yes- terday. Right in the heart of the “it can’t be done” belt, the governor pointed to evidence that the job is being done and ade- quately done, ry ing “and it is being done rig! ere in Orange County”. “The first stage of the job is almost accomplishéd”;* ‘he said, “preliminary reports: from asses- age will fall faster than assess- | ments are rising. | “And this millage question is | being handled too—millages are { going down ratably as the assess- ‘ment rises. Budget boards have! sent back increased school bud- gets in Polk, Escambia and Duval | counties—starting the second | phase of the job being done so, well. And if the people, through | their budget boards and their | appeals, can’t insure proper mill- age reductions, State Superin- | tendent Colin English told a dele- gation from Duval edunty just | president of the Merchants As- sociation. “There are more than 200 men here now, who will bring their | families when this registration; has been completed for adequate housing for them. What this; means to our commercial life may | be judged by the fact that it is| family na community means «| QtFiking Laborers Are Asked minimum of $700.00, on the aver- | age, to the merchants of that com- munity to which they come. “The government, provides a skilled manager to supervise the | survey and registration, thus tak- ing most of the burden from the community It does not provide lers’ unions late lor tonight, were expected to go- sors showing’ that in one county alone, Dade, the tax roll will pass the half-billion mark—total- ; Saturday that he'd see that the | any fund for operating expenses, | job was {niished properly when} that being the share assumed by ithe budget reached him for ap-| the community. ing more than the entire assess-'proval Jim Lee, the comp- “This has been partly met by | SPE ba Roope a commerce Marvil, commandant of the force, ed valuation of the state of troller, sitting in the same se8-|the city providing a phone and FY hate re: h ey Negi again on announced that he has taken Florida last year. Several others‘ sion, told the delegation that | typewriter, the Hotel La Concha te ether they wi return to charge of riot weapons and tear ; will run from $100,000,000 to $250,000,000 each. ty there will be more personal property on the roll this year than all 67 counties reported last year. Palm Beach county is general county budgets showing | providing an office, the county: Lincreases would meet the same | furnishing the money required for | fate at his hands. We're actual-| ily doing this job. And by we I/of Commerce employed a steno- mean, the people of Florida. Why | grapher for one week to get things it’s amazing the way the taxpay- | started jumping personalty from $1,000,-; ers are responding. In one coun-/ “To provide for a continuance 000 to $10,000,00 and in Osceola,'ty 30,000 have made returns. of this necessary clerical work, the famous cow county, newspa- | “In little Monroe, where @ the Merchants Association has | per reports quote the assessor as; tax return had hardly been (taken up the work of cooperation telling a public meeting ‘I am! heard of by the average prop- (by sponsoring the payment of the going to assess all the cows in| erty owner, more than 3,000 | stenographer, and Key West has Osceola and value them at 100} have filed and the assessor re- again demonstrated that it can} per cent’) and the Fort Myers: ports another 1,000 are prepat- {give a good exhibition of team | News-Press quotes the Lee as-! ing returns. | work for the good of the city. A sessor: ‘The returns being made} “Literally millions. of dollars/jist of contributing’ merchants show up more cattle than I ever!of new values are being placed} will be published shortly.” dreamed were owned; and pouls/on-the rolls. Items, like the apart-| . CALL FOR BIDS try too’. ,jment house in.one. county as-| “All the reports aren't com- sessed last year for $8,000. The ic | ing from the big ‘countries, ei} owner lived in one apartment; Sealed bids to provide the cig | ther”, the governor told his (and got $5,000 exemption. This| of Key West with one (1), one-, audience. “In Monroe, a new year it goes on at $40,000 and the half (%) ton Used Panel Truck, assessor is icnreasing the real (owner pays operating taxes this, will be received by the City estate roll from $2,500,000 to {year on $35,000 against $3,000| Council of the City of Key West $15,000,000 and personalty from |Jast year. Thousands of such|up to and including 4:00 P. M. $200,000 to $3,000,000. jinjustces are being corrected.; August 7th, 1941. Bids shall) “Up in Little Gulf, where I One county alone estimates more | specify trade-in allowance on a spoke to the annual tupelo honey | than 1,500 similar items not to/ truck now owned by the City, festival yesterday (Sunday), they' mention four or five thousand down payment and terms. De- are increasing the roll from less bonafide homes which will go tails may be obtained by calling than a million to more than $3,-'above the exemption value for|at the City Hall, office of the City 000,000 and school officials and the first time. There are busi- | Clerk. county commissioners have re-'ness blocks in which the owner duced their budgets so that mill- (Continued on Page Four) In Dade coun- CHAS. R. ROBERTS, \jly29-1t inches tsotto te ie estes te te Se aare te Beetle shh uci ii cml tie before their 1,000-odd | to learn if they are willing to ac- ‘Ork. John Burke, Miami union rep- P resentative, Postage, etc., while the Chamber | orning and immediately went | into conference with W. P. Thurs- |ton, president of Thurston Con- struction company, Albert J. Fay, navy public works officer. | week-old strike were scarce, how- | ever, with most of the city’s la- | borers and carpenters idly wait- ing for their leaders to give a | sign as to what will be the next | step. rived here for strike duty yes- terday afternoon, and three} more came in during the night, derson, Price Administrator, but there was no evidence of vio- | requested the baking industry to lence any place in the city. i Capt. Stuart A. Seneff, of the by reducing operating expenses came in with the patrolmen and of bread. He says announeed this morning that his ent costs have risen {men had been placed at the dis-|ly one-half a cent a City Auditor. | posal of Sheriff Berlin Sawyer | because of increased |southern road patrol Che Key West Citize THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1941 Permit Wage Study, Key West’s nationally publicized defense strike temorrow will have continued for a week—a week of delay in vitally needed military housing, and a week of lost time for hundreds of families in real need of the money which has gone unpaid in wages. It has been a week of wild rumors and misunder- standings, in which labor’s original, simple demand for more money almost has been lost behind a cloud of near-hysteria, in which the threat of violence has seemed to come from evrywhere except the labor unions. (See lead editorial, Page 2). If anything is clear at the end: of:this week-long strike, it is this: Labor should adopt the suggestion. of the cham- ber of commerce and returmto work until a fair and unhurried study of the.wage/situation here is com- pleted. , Continuation of the strike’at this time can lead to nothing but a clash of wille between two groups, neither of which intends to be bull-dozed—the federal government and the labor unions. The government—through the navy department —has set a figure beyond which it will not go. To back down before the threat of a continuing strike would be a confession of weakness. Laber, already granted’a 10-cent compromise raise, can return to work with no such confe¢sion, and with the announced intention of fighting for the 621/2- cent scale originally demanded. Labor has accused Key West civic leaders of fail- ing to help in the fight to put wage rates here on a level equal with those existing in Miami. Th civic leaders, whatever their sins of omission in the past, now are ready to help. Working with and around the chamber of commerce, they will continue the fight for a higher wage level, hand-in-hand with labor. i Picmik * ‘ re can be no other reasonable course. An end to the strike now would clear the air and permit an honest effort on the part of Key West busi- ness men and workers to make Washington see that the wage differential between this city and Miami should be eliminated. It would permit the defense work to go on, clear- ing local labor of the stigma:attached to anyone who holds up national defense. And last, if labor did not win its pay demands and voted to renew the strike, there would be no . justification for the present claim that the strike was hurried and illegal. The fight for more pay can go on, but the strike must not. It is time for a return to work. _To Take Another Vote Tonight Leaders of two striking labor- this afternoon, sfor as long as their presence considered defense force, followefs ' heen placed. on guard duty planes yesterday from Miami. arrived here this Civic Leaders Ask Truce and Lied yesterday afternoon, sought Actual developments in the hourly wage. work question, urged that they a 30-day period, i {forts would be pushed to Lieut. Comdr: Henry L. Naff, wage increase. fmayy public relations officer, | 'respo, i fsaid ‘edrly this’ afternoon there’ of the Eka ae em jhad been ‘nd’ Hew developments | ey ¢ither here of ‘at navy headquar- ters in Washington, ithe group he 24 hours if the men Patrol Cars Arrive } Four state road patrol cars ar- BREAD WASHINGTON. — Leon joffset increasing ingredient End Week’s Walkout | necessary. Members of the newly-formed meanwhile, had ; the negro seetion, and Capt. Fred - gas bombs flown here in navy. Civic leaders, called ta meet-' sage are not yet complete, \ing at the chamber of commerce ' cussed possible legislation during persuade the workers to return leaders. ‘ to their jobs, while efforts are| Backers of the administration ‘made to get them a 62%-cent foreign policy are said to favor i It was suggested that the me | those eligible for lease-lend hold a new vote on the back-to- | as a reminder the civic group flour cast. Key West, Florida, has most equable climate in range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CE} —4 Threats: Of German Invasi OAR azronrs Causes'Great Britain To S Up ‘Program For Resistar ‘MAKES MORE PROGRESS IN | YEAR THAN THAT OF GER. | MANY IN SIX, SAYS CAN-| ‘U. S. MUST DECIDE’ ADA DRY CHIEF (Bs Aanocintea Preany | NEW YORK, July 29.—Roy wW. | | Moore, president of Canada Dry! ;Ginger Ale., Inc., said recently | | that American industry had made | imore progress in defense manu-. \facturing in the last year than) |Germans had in six years. { Moore, a director of the Na-! {tional Association of Manufac~! j turers, told delegates to the con-}y | Vention of the Commercial » Law’ | League of America in a discus-}1 | sion of. industry's role in the de- j fense program: iy | “The immediate contribution is, |of course, physizal production for’ | defense. On that point industry's! ;record is proud. H Industry Hates War i | “Year ago, this country had no armaments industry. Industry had | geared itself wholly to production | for_ peace and was bravely waging tty Associnted Prexn) 3 LONDON, July 29.—Threats ; Isles were brought bluntly be Frank Knox ‘came the call to arm. | “Industry hates war, for war is; States must decide, “have we |anti-economic; it is anti-humane,| Something worth fighting fo ‘and industry thrieves on peace. and “have we the | “But by December, American } fight for it?”. industry was the world’s arsenal lof demecracy. And in one year it ‘has made more progress than Hit. jler's state-directed armaments in- idustries had been able to make } eS ARCHERS BUY PROPERTY | No Profiteers | “There are few attempts to! | profiteer on defense orders, More! | representative of industry is the ; ‘chemical firm which has taken all | the orders it can carry at a. profit. of two: per cent; the {to the Government when in- j¢reased orders reduced, construc- ; tion costs; the companies who ‘have plowed back more than all the profits they have received or | will receive on existent orders} ‘ into-expansions. so they can in- crease the output the defense pro- | | gram needs. is’ i t { | | (ity Associated Press) ! WASHINGTON, July 29— Plans for lease-lend aid to the Free French, and details of the, in} to: the morning with administration | including the Free French among the Unit Mrs.