The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 31, 1941, Page 1

- VOLUME LXIL. No. 181. “is a World War veteran and an | | ee PRESS Eh RRR OSA 4 NG, Mac sonnemnesiiiitinnitipilhieeenicadliieesits ‘O’BRYANT QUITS ‘MOSCOW LARGER ees Aon waterway SELECTIVE BOARD — THAN CHICAGO ec ee ca ana Thee writen ty 8c Highest Ranking Officer Of Army To Visit Key West Since World War Days Lieut.-Gen. Walter. Krueger, commanding officer of the Third ; Army: with five staff ‘incurs and Col, Ralph C. Mitchell, com- mandinig officer of the Fourth | District, Coast Artillery, arrived | here this morning from Miami; aboard a navy patrol plane. General Krueger, whose rank is second only to that of the! chief of staff, is the highest | ranking army officer to visit Key { West since the World War. j With members of his staff, the | general flew from his headquar- ters at San Antonio, Tex., to Mi- ami, then boarded the plane ‘to carry out a technical | inspection of guns and equip- ment at Key West. Colonel! Mitchell, whose command _in- cludes the local artillery unit, | flew from his headquarters at! Atlanta to join General Krue4 ger in Miami. Upon completion of their in- spection, the officers. will leave here either tonight or in the morning to inspect Fort Bar-| rancas at Pensacola. { General Krueger, who is 50, | honor graduate of advanced mili- tary schools, including the .gen- eral staff college. NON-COMPETITIVE Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted te the Best Interests of Key West In Key navy | West For Inspeétion “Of Equipment At Army Reservation i THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. } i Gasoline Stations To End Night Service Beginning This Sunday On Orders Of | See _HE WON'T DEBATE _ £ Wendell Willkie \ “THE WHOLE THING IS RI- DICULOUS”, commented Wen- dell Willkie on a proposal that man Thomas, Socialist leader, at Rushville, Ind. “What are the. war aims?” Willkie asked. 5 ; ice board, announced today he has TAMPA, July 31.—(FNS) A turned in his resignation both as | * new hon-competitive policy for) chairman and as a member of the county participation in the next} Florida State Fair, Feb. 3 to 14,| ager B. T. Streider. j Counties will participate next) year on a flat guarantee basis in- stead of competing with -each other for cash awards in the vari-| ous classifications. | The new plan, which will be county agents and fair officials. The change was made, Streider | explained, to improve the general | quality of the county division | board will be selected by the ad-{ St. | which already had been develop-! Horace O’Bryant, chairman of | POLICY OF FAIRS: the Monroe county selective serv- | board. O'’Bryant, who will leave here | was announced by General Man- | Saturday for a vacation at his old | said his | principal i c will occupy all of his time up until Lddeanti lenis iced ob the start of school in September | home in Oxford, Fla., duties as high school and during the school term. Expecting greatly of new pupils. A new member of the jutant general's office at he debate war issues with Nor- | increased school attendance, O’Bryant and put into effect on a trial basis for | other school men are faced with one year, has the endorsement of| the problem this summer of pre- paring for an indefinite number Oil Administrator (iy Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, July 31.—Oil ; Administrator Harold L. Ickes to- |day called on United States re- | fining companies to end night | service at 100,000 retail service stations on the Atlantic coast ‘be-| Gpinniste Sunday. | Warning of strict gasoline | rationing to come if motorists do! not cooperate in cutting consump- | ‘tion, Ickes asked the companies) to close down service nightly be-| tween the hours of 7 p. m. and 7 a.m. The order will affect every} }state on the Atlantic coast from | Maine to Florida, States with: boundaries extending west of the Appalachian mountains will be! affected only in the area east of | | the mountains. | | Ickes said requests for a vol-| | untary cut in consumption of gaso- |line have met with no response. Unless the ban on night service! | brings the desired effect, he said, | | it will be necessary to issue ration | cards for motorists wishing to buy ! »| gasoline in the eastern area. |direction, will promulgate | ONE OF CITY'S OLDEST RESI- | | noon, | seventy years KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1941 ‘Vice President Wallace Named TASER aA Chairman Off jonomic Defense (iy Associa WASHINGTON, July 31.— President Roosevelt today signed an executive order appointing | Vice President Henry A. Wallace ; chairman of a committee to di-| rect the nation’s economic de- fense. | The committee, made up of} cabinet officers under Wallace’s | and HELD YESTERDAY DENTS ‘RETIRED 25 YEARS AGO DUE TO BLINDNESS ~ John Lewis Albury, 77, one of Key West's oldest residents, was laid to rest yesterday after- Mr. Albury came to Key West from his birthplace, Harbour Is- | land, Bahama Islands, when a| small child, and for more than! resided in this} city. Prominent in business circles | for many years, he was forced to! retire about a quarter of a cen-! tury ago because of blindness. | However, this did not prevent him ‘from. becoming a familiar figure on the streets as he went about distributing gospel pam-! phlets and talking to his friends, Beloved by all who knew him in life, his passing brought gen- uine sorrow to the large throng who attended the last rites yes- terday. Funeral services were conduct- ed in the chapel of the Lopez} Funeral Home by Samuel B. Pin- der and W. P. Montecino, life- long friends of the deceased. In+ tery. The remains were borne to their , final resting place by W. S./proval for extension of the inland! much of the fact that the “ultra- Eakins, James Saunders, Milton | Baker, Will Baker, ited Press) approve policies for the individ- ual boards directing the defense effort. President Roosevelt said the new board would not take over the duties of other groups in the | defense machine, but that they} would be required to get ap- proval for new policy from Wal- lace. leer eeeees HARRY HOPKINS’ VISIT TO MOSCOW IS TERMED “CRIMINAL” BY ITALY (By Associated Press) ROME, July 31.—Virginio “Gayda,” semi-official Italian “spokesman, ‘today termed the’ ‘Moscow visit of ‘the United ‘States envoy, Harry Hopkins, ‘as criminal as Moscow's own _ “plans for a drive'on the west.” Gayda ridiculed the pur- pose’ of the’ surprise flight of President Roosevelt's special envoy, and declared the Rus- sians should realize that help from the United States cannot save them from their in- evitable defeat. IAS ALD LL A A high command announcing | its ] ND W ATERW AY. \ing the night. Huge fires were -|said to have been started in the { "Red capital by the Nazi bombers. PROJE( | REVIVED: Red sources denied stories of Japan Bomber Attack On U.S. Gunbo Key West, Florida, has the © most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CE | | (By Associated Press) NEW, YORK, July 31—Ger- many’s high command today re- peated its threat to burn the giant Russian city of Leningrad to the ground, but claimed little actual! progress for the two armies mov- ing toward the city from north} and south. Russian troops in Estonia (said bythe Germans to have been wiped out in a communique two weeks ago were said today to have been thrown back after a strong Red counter-attack. | Both sides claimed heavy dam-} age in aerial raids, with the Ger- seventh raid on Moscow dur- | ‘damage to Mescow and declared {that not a single German plane; {reached the city. ROTARIANS URGED TO WRITE: ' FLORIDA REPRESENTA- TIVES ON SUBJECT Defeat “Ultra-Aryans” { | Moscow claimed the annihila-! ; tion of a crack regiment made up \of Nazi storm troopers, said to ‘have been selected by Adolf Hit-' ‘ler as perfect specimens of the Rotary club members today’ aryan type. The Russian report,’ were urged by the chamber of! describing an assault on the Nazi! \terment was in the local ceme-/Commerce to write Florida sen-/regiment near Smo! lensk, , said lators and representatives in, an ef~/2,000:men were killed ‘in: the: ac- fort to secure war department ap- waterway from Bahia Honda to |the Men’s Bible Class which |Singleton, chamber of commerce { SOVIET CAPITAL IS SIXTH LARGEST AMONG CIT- | IES OF WORLD H | | (Aswociated Press Feature Service) Moscow is larger than Chicago and has been growing faster than With a population of 4,000,000, the Soviet capital is more than twice as large as it was 20 years ago. Among cities of the world| it ranks sixth, behind London, | New York, Tokyo, Paris ‘ and} Berlin, . | In the same latitude as north-| drat |em" Labrador, Moscow is the far-, hest north of major world eapi | tals and its life is geared to long} ed ‘into the outstanding depart-| Augustine, and a new chairman! Winters when the rivers. freeze) ment.of the fair here and one of the finest in the country. “Most of us felt,” said Streider, | “that sifice we have gone. almost to the limit of excellence with the old competitive plan, a change! would bring real improvement. ; The non-competitive program per-| mits every county to budget its expensives on a businesslike basis and gives it a goal to shoot at. It) will make the county division a} real exposition. It also will pro- vide an incentive to more coun- ties to participate who have here- tofore been reluctant to enter on} a competitive basis.” Streider said he had assurance} that all counties who showed last | year would be back for the 1942} fair, and a number of others as/ well, An exceptionally fine livestock show will be a feature of the com- ing fair. TWO PROPERTY SALES RECORDED Eduardo C. Gomez has sold to} Ira Thompson the home at Ame- | lia and Whitehead streets for about $700, a deed revealed to-| day. Theodore E. J. Roberts, in an- other transaction, sold a Royal street lot to Robert J. Valdez for $500. will board. I Will Be In Key West FRIDAY AND SATURDAY to conduct the Largest USED CAR SALE Ever. Held Here All Makes - All Models AND. . .No Reasonable Offers Refused Come See For Yourself DEACON JONES MANAGER TWINS USED CAR LOT Division and Simonton be . elected. later. by § the | S°lid and become roadways for} | horse-drawn sledges. | Summer comes to Moscow not n the mild form known to Ber-| jun Paris and London, but with | extremes of heat to match the, | winter cold. In these extremes) | Moscow climate is comparable to | | that of the northern plains states | |of the U.S. A. i On an ancient trade route be- |} | tween the Baltic and the Caspian, | | Moscow existed as far back as/ | 1147. It was the natural center of ‘the movement which united the} |feudal Russian states. The city | |suffered a setback in the early; eighteenth century when Peter! |the Great moved the capital to a_ site on the | {where he built St. | (Leningrad). |. When the Soviets took the cap- |ital back to Moscow, the tradi-| | tional center of Russian life, they | undertook to build a modern city | ‘over and around one that had } | progressed “little'in the preceding | | two centuries. i New buildings bobbed up) among the old. Great areas were cleared to provide for the squares | \for which modern Moscow is| {well known. New water mains | jand electric services were in-) | stalled and industrialization made | | Sreat strides until the govern-| jment restricted further develens| ments in big cities in favor of a| policy of national _decentraliza- | tion. Petersburg Lc a AB I Ratt VISA ASE 44 oY ris School and of which the de- ceased was a faithful member. The deceased is survived by Mrs. H. E. Day, and a grandson, | John Lewis Day. In the passing of Mr. Albury, The Citizen loses one of its old- est subscribers, he having been ; lication began. | BARKER FUNERAL HERE. TOMORROW The funeral of Charles Barker, | who was found drowned yester-; day morning at the foot of Palm. Avenue, will be held tomorrow, afternoon at 5 o'clock from the, Lopez Chapel, Rev. Edgar Coop- er of the First Baptist church | officiating. . , ra The deceased, familiarly known | as “Old Dan”, is survived by a} brother, William Barker, and} other relatives. RE-STARTS HEART AFTER 5-MINUTE LAPSE | performing | 12-year-old heart stopped | LONDON.—While an operation on a boy, the child’s beating. After three and a half|to a recent article entitled “A}the five years since the close of injected adrenaline into the heart | and a minute later opened the upper abdomen and performed re-starting. He will recover. TITTIES IS AMERICAN PLANES ‘DOING THE WORK’ | i «fy Axsnocinted Prenat LONDON, July 31.—Amer- | ican “Tomahawk” planes (Curtis P-40's) have destroy- ed 40 German fighters and bombers in the Middle. East |Special! |meets each Sunday at the Har-| secretary, it was pointed out to |the club members that extension supplies in half during the past; ,of the waterway would be im-/ month. |the widow, Bertha; a daughter, | Portant to national defense. Fred Knapp, representative of | the county selective service board, and British air forces the first ‘appeared before the Rotarians at|such joint action of the war. their Parish hall luncheon meet- ja constant subscriber since pub- ing to ask for a volunteer to re- place Horace O’Bryant, board chairman, who announced his resignation today. The club members agreed to study the duties and qualifica-| portant” in a previous account, Cal collections for the relief or- tions required of a member of the | said 28 RAF bombers were shot ganization since board and to asx a’ logical candi- date to put up his name for ap-}- pointment. The’meeting was opened with singing led by William Little and Aaron MicConnell, and with the | part in fighting against the Rus-! es , prem! did not mention LOCAL GIRLS CO NE ee troops in the field. ABOUT HIGHWAY | introduction of Maddox Morley, a guest’ from Visalia, Cal. ST. PETERSBURG, July 31.— (FNS) Terming Florida highways “the most commercialized roads in the country”, The National Roadside Couneil calls attention |minutes, the operating surgeon | Motorist’s View of U. S. 1 from Maine to Florida”, which declares that Florida from Jacksonville to Miami has more signs, more bill- Gulf of | Finland, | 4 cardiac massage. After a min- | boards, and more commercial en- jute, the heart beat once, then| | three or four times jerkily before |equal mileage of U. S. 1 in any terprises of all sorts than on an other state. Florida's new billboard law should bring about. a vast © im- |provement in the appearance of/ 1936, and since has. advanced..an jher highways, but the state |still jadditional. $1,159,000, 'has much to, do before she, can / tax delinquencies. overcome’ the stigma ‘ow rests on her from the standpoint of road desecration. Special! coe dozen ba 40c Brady's Live Poultry and Egg Market |‘ tion and ‘the otheis captured. | ‘The Russian communique made | aryans” were defeated by troops ; ; made up of 60 races. > i Moscow reports, meanwhile, de- | |scribed new air raids on Ru- | ACTING. AS manian oil fields, which the Rus-; ;sians said have cut German vil: | London reports told of a heavy bombardment of the Finnish port ; of Petsamo by combined Russian | London said the city and port ‘air ministry admitted loss of 16 | bombers, while Berlin, which had described the raid as “unim- f down. “Italians Reach Front Expéditionary Force were _re- | portéd in the séctor to witich ‘the Italian scribed their welcome by the Ger- [HIGH RATE OF Nazis Repeat Threat To Bum City Of Leningrad 10 Ground OPENS ARMS PLANT street, is acting a3 local agent for Bundles for Britain during the suffered widespread damage, with absence of Mrs. Mary H. Barker, a training ship in the harbor and. who is in Boston for the summer, jfour supply vessels damaged. The Mrs Barker wrote The Citizen to- day. {said she has been informed that From : ‘some Key Westers had believed | that er Italian soldiers of the Stalin the coljection depot u Rome to have taken | her absenee. forces have beéa’ sent, but ax HONORS i |total of 291 students are included | _ on the approbation list or. honor § roll for the pt parce yon a Report Before M Decision On Acceptance Of Apology © j {My Associated Press) - WASHINGTON, July 31—Ja- pan today offered quick apolo- gies for a bomber attack on the — American gunboat Tutuilla in China yesterday, but Under’ Sec- retary of State Sumner Welles indicated it might be some time before the United States would “closed”. The state department, in dis- patching a stern demand for an { explanation, had revealed that a routine apology would not be sufficient, and it was declared today that nothing. more. would te LOCAL REPRE- SENTATIVE FOR BUNDLES FOR BRITAIN Mrs. L. V. Martin, 623 Margaret Mrs. Barker, who has made lo- | ment they r | the Japanese its inception, | he pret AT SC {Special te The Citizen) TAL EE, July 1—A WASHINGTON, July 31—In its lending period, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation has si Berkowitz of Key West. collected nearly 39 per cent of the cities on the a) Among the students listed probation. list, millions it loaned to distressed Florida families to help them 1933; to additional toi i for such purposeg,}. Its collections ed to $12,371,413. a have paid fe SAALaOtE Oe cel their loans in full, the HOLC Florida up to June 1 have amount- | - Anita Berkowitz, Marie . Belle at dollars in interest payments | a4 ° hone 540 on their BY POPULAR DEMAND--RETURN ENGAGEMENT OF CRUNCH CRUNCH AND HIS ORCHESTRA AT STORK