The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 15, 1941, Page 1

BARGAINS DUVAL AND DIVISION 741 FORD— Conv. Coupe; Radio; U. 8. $200.00 DISCOUNT ’41 CHEVROLET— Panel Del. Truck: 2,500 m. $200.00 DISCOUNT "41 BUICK— 8 Sedan: 500 miles— "$300.00 DISCOUNT ‘41 NASH— 600 4-Dr. Sed; new car guarantee— $200.00 DISCOUNT "40 WILLYS— 4-Dr. Sedan; like new— $495.00 40 NASH— 4-Dr. Sedan; 9,000 miles— $695.00 739 NASH— Amb. “G" 5-Pass, Coupe: O'Drive— $595.00 739 NASH— 400 4-Dr. :Sedan: buy— $545.00 *38 BUICK— Spec. 4-Dr. Sed.; like new $595.00 °38 DeSOTO— 4.Dr. Sedan; a real buy— NEES 0 a ES 938 CHEVROLET—» Coach! Po? knee action— a real 739 AUSTIN— Dix. Roadster; like new— $335.00 °40 NASH— Conv. Cpe.; Radio: O’Drive $895.00 ’37 CHEVROLET— Town Sedan; Radio— $345.00 °37 FORD— °-. 85 4-Dr Sed.; runs swell— $265.00 "38 WILLYS— 4-Dr. Sedan: runs swell— $235.00 736 PACKARD— 4-Dr. Sedan; looks like new— $295.00 '36 FORD— 4-Dr, Sedan: no oil burner $265.00 °36 DODGE— Dix. Coupe; new paint— $265.00 °36 CHEVROLET— Dix. ey Sed.; a steal at 136 PLYMOUTH— 4-Dr. Sed.; a honey— $295.00 © 3 7 Zi E PHY R. — 4-Dr. Sedan; Radio— $395.00 "36 OLDS— 4-Dr. Sedan; a real buy— $165.00 35 PACKARD— Dix. Coupe; a real buy— "35 HUPP 4-Dr. Sedan; new paint— $175.00 35 DODGE— 4-Dr. Sedan; runs swell— $145.00 Key West MOTORS DUVAL AND DIVISION Matter Of Clearing Up Fire Debris . Deferred; Hear Jaycees Plan To Clean Up City sion convened last night, met with the trustees of the Florida Keys i Electric Cooperation Association | for the purpose of hearing a res- ncrpieae introduced by the key jhody requesting that the City of | (Key West join in with them in thelr efforts to acquire the Key) | West Electric Company's electric ite: which interests must be! disposed of by the present holding | company within a specified time, | which is in accordance with a law “recently enacted. After a thorough discussion of | the matter, it was the sense of} the council that no definite action | could be taken in the matter at this time, due to the fact that-the LECTURER WILL APPEAR AT LIONS MEETING TONIGHT; {TO BE ILLUSTRATED WITH) ‘MOTION PICTURES TAKEN} OF KEY WEST AND FLOR-! { IDA KEYS | } Key West and the Florida Keys, ‘as they appear to the eye of the ‘color camera will be brought be-| | fore a local audience tonight as | James B. Pond, globe-trotting lec- | turer, appears before a gathering! | to which alt local citizens and visi-| tors have been invited. Program , 48 being sponsored by Key West {Lions Club. The program will open at the !Lions Den on Seminary street at :8 o'clock, | Titled “Florakeys,” the Pond{ ‘lecture is a study of the marine | | and floral life in the “vast new | jTegion south of Miami,” “an un- j believable land. “a veritable | | South Seas at our door.” city had already entered into an| Editor of the magazine “Pro-| agreement with the Nuveen Bond- igram”; Pond is a famed traveler, | ing Company of Chicago, who is| president of the Circumnavigators acting as agents for the city in en-| | club, and vice president of the Ad- |; deavoring. to acquire the Key West Electric Company for the municipality, with the under- standing that the city will become the owner of the system after the} plant has been paid for through the issuance of bonds. The entire matter will be han-; dled through the bonding com- pany, which will finance the prop-! osition until such time as the sys- tem is cleared of all debt incurred through purchase and mainte-| mance by the bonding concern, | with a board of trustees to super- vise the operation of the system | in the interest of the City of Key | West. While the members of the coun- | cil made it known that they were favorable toward having the city take over and operate the system, nevertheless they felt . that the key organization's proposition was | informed | a very good one, and that body that their resolution bearing on the subject would be given every consideration by the | city, and thanked the members for coming to Key West to present the matter, which was clearly out- lined by Julius F. Stone, attorney , for the key organization. | The council also informed the trustees of the key set-up that in the event that the Nuveen Com- | pany, acting as agents for the City | of Key West, failed to bring the matter to a successful conclusion within a reasonable time, -that they would then be ready to hear their proposition, and discuss the matter of working in cooperation with them looking toward the pur- chase of the electric system question. The trustees attending the meet- ing last night ,were Julius F. Stone, attorney; John A. Russell, chairman; John MacRae, W. A. Parrish, A. E. Woodburn, T. Jen- kins Curry and Ross Sawyer, Jr. The matter of having the fire debris removed from the corner of Duval and Greene streets was brought up for discussion, and City Attorney Aquilino Lopez, dr, informed the board. that. he would contact the owners of the property today, and would be ready to make his final report on the matter at a meeting to be held tonight. A letter was read from the) Junior Chamber of Commerce re- questing that an amount of twenty-five dollars be approp- riated to be used by the organiza- tion in starting a clean-up cam- paign in Key West. The junior body also requested that the city cooperate in having all unsightly and delapidated . buildings ‘torn jdown, vacant lots cleaned up and 'made many other recommenda- tions in the interest of the clean- (Continued on Page Four) in’! | | venturers club of New York: | His lecture is illustrated with | pictures done in natural color. TARGET PRACTICE | HERE ON MONDAY | |COLONEL MITCHELL WILL BE HERE TO WATCH PRACTICE FIRING Col. Ralph M. Mitchell, com. manding the Fourth Coast Artil-| llery District, with headquarters jat Atlanta, will be in Key West | Monday to watch practice fire of the local battery, it was an- nounced today. The 155 mm guns wil be fired at |a target drawn by a destroyer at ja speed of about 20 knots. | Officers here said they have re-/ j ceived a new eight-inch tow rope ; to replace the line which broke before the guns could get into ac- j tion for practice July 22. i PEACE JUSTICE HAS MANY CASES) NEGRO POLICE OFFICER WAS | ONE OF DEFENDANTS ARRAIGNED | Arnold A, Roberts, negro spe- cial police officer who pleaded | that his official capacity relieved him of the necessity for buying state and county occupational licenses, yesterday was bound over to criminal court by Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo. The negro, operator of two res- taurants, was released under $50 bond. James W. White, held on a reck- less driving count after his arrest by Bienvenido Perez, was bound; over under $200 bond after he en- tered a plea of guilty. Pearl Thomas, Marie Powers, Kathryn Altkinson . and Dorothy | Nichols, all charged with being inmates of a house of prostitution, | were bound over under $50 bond. Marjorie Roberts and Marion Allen, negroes, were bound over | under $50 bond on a charge of tak- ing part in an affray, Two other women, Beatty Hans and Peggy Gayers, were arrested by Perez last night on charges of prostitution and will be given pre- liminary hearings before Judge Esquinaldo tomorrow. sete | fire blows of the Nazi invaders.., rat Cittzrit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Navy Department AV KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1941 Baresi Seas ‘Use of new type reconnaissance vlanes for aerial photography. now utilizing color films and flash victures, is changing the whole military strategy, Lieut. Col. George W. Goddard, air corps officer, SS anc alcatel “has revealed. The giant flying camera above is a Beechcraft F-2. Russians Are Withdrawing From Ukraine; Now Taking Up New Defensé Position (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—Yield., Admitting the German capture of Smolensk, Russian- sources nyggh euea the’ Gay called the Victory one of the ing before the crushing onslaught |, jof Nazi mechanizéd’ columns, | Russian army of the south is; withdrawn from the Ukraine to ,C°Stliest in history, declaring the take up a new defense line on the , Germans had gained only a gutted east bank of the Dnieper river, and ruined town. London military men said today. Russian ,defenders, they said, Berlin claimed almost complete fought from street to street, and collapse of the Red armies in the ‘from to house, destroying the city south, and DNB, official German as they backed away from it. The news agency, declared the en-! victory cost Germany thousands tire Soviet system in the Ukraine ' of men, according to Moscow. is crumbling under the rapid} beasties 300 BRITISH PLANES Moseow, not mentioning specific |IN CONTINENT SWEEP places in the Ukraine fighting, ad- Uy Asseetated Prexs) mitted a general retreat, but an’ LONDON, Aug. 15.—Three official bulletin said Nazi claims hundfed long range __ British that most of the army had been! bombers last night blasted cities itrapped were not true. | throughout north and _ central ‘A Red army communique de. 'Germany in a mightly continen- scribed the retreat as “planned” | tal sweep, the air ministry an- and “orderly.” | nounced today. Finns Crush Reds Following swiftly on the heels Finnish troops, driving down joe a daylight “attack on the from the north across the Kare- | French coast, the night raiders lian isthmus, according to Hel- ‘struck at factories and railroads sinki, have smashed Red defenses | #s far east as Berlin, although the and are within striking distance ; air ministry said they did not at- of Leningrad, Russia's second | tack the German capital. city. Indicating, the scope of the The Finnish communique said | raid, London admitted the des- Red fortifications have been des. | truction of 12 of the big bomb- troyed, and the Finn army is re-| ers. ported moving at full speed on} Berlin claimed destruction of the heels of a broken Red force. / only eight. MEETS TONIGHT (Special to The Citizen) | County commission members, LAKELAND, Aug. 15.—Sam/ who failed to get a quorum last Jones Womack Jr., Key West, | night as two of them attended a will be graduated from Florida joint meeting with city council, Southern college with a bachelor | will hold their postponed meeting of arts degree Friday, August 22, tonight at 8 o'clock. when the summer commence-| The board is scheduled to sit as ‘KEY WEST BOY WILL GRE GRADUATE | i iment is held at-5 o'clock in An.|a board of equalization to hear nie Pfeiffer chapel. Forty-one complaints against current tax as- other students will receive de! | sessments, grees and a number are candi- | Commissioners Ernest . Ramsey dates for the two year normal | ,and R’ W. Craig last night at- diploma. j tended the j He has been active in college council, while Commissioner Ed- |" affairs and politics. During the die Gomez is out of the city and past year, he was editor of the could not attend: With only Com- annual, ‘participated in the dra-| mission Chairman Carl Bervaldi matic productions of the Vaga_|and Norberg Thompson ‘on hand, bonds, and sang with the South-| the board did not have a quorum. ern Singers. He held membershi Sar rae in Tau Kappa Alpha debate fra. ternity, was on the debate coun- . f cil, and the newspaper staff. | Brady's Live Poultry Dr. J. H. Therrell, superinten, - and Egg Market dent of the state hospital at} SOFT BONE ROASTERS Chattahoochee and honorary “Battery Raised Rhode Island RED FRYERS. STEWERS. ROASTERS chancellor of Southern, will de-/ liver the baccalaureate sermon 1214 White Street Phone 5 Sunday. No address will be given at the commencement | exercises, int meeting with the Britain. P London officials: depebt ‘another For Laying Fresh Water Pipe Ling © (Nazis Defy Democracies In | Declaration Of War Aims’ { (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. ;Scornful defiance from the Axis | | | powers today answered the eight. | {point war aims declaration drama- | ically made public yesterday by | |President Roosevelt and Prime} Minister Winston Churchill of | jGreat Britain. Official Berlin set the Saincte'| |for the Axis nations with a deris- | ive challenge: | “If the socalled democracies | want Germany disarmed, then “We have but one aim—vic- tory.” Rome called the and the peace aims “final proof that the United States is at war,” | whether or not the congress and! the people are aware of that fact. | “Blood-stained Joke” Premier Francisco — Franco's | government at Madrid termed | | the peace aims “a _ bloodstained joke”. From the other side of the world, some Chinese officials at Chungking said they were disap- pointed that they had not receiv- ‘ed specific mention in the pro- disarmament as. an feature of the declaration. The prevalent. Bae it China rab thas, ae pe ‘prdeaae mee destruction unless she quits the aggressor camp. “It is up to Japan now, whether there is war or peace,” one offi- cial commented. London Sees 3 Points ++ London diplomats, applauding | the corference and its results, said they believe three definite important in. “}points were worked out and will be made publie¢ later: , Q) How to stop Japan; (2) Plans for closer coodina- tion between the United States / and Great Britain in the manu- facture of war goods; (3). Plans to insure delivery to; Britain of Americar. equipment, ‘Comment both in Washington and in South American countries was. overwhelmingly favorable, although there were some con- | pressional complaints in the na-} {tion’s capital. Overstepped Authority Chairman Walsh of the Senate | Naval Affairs committee said | there is no doubt the President Mar overstepped his authority”, Senator E. D. (Cotton ) Smith, (D.-S.C) ry humiliated per vee aes failed to consult congress before taking a far reaching step toward collaboration with Britain. . President Roosevelt, mean- ‘while, was expected to expand on the conference to newsmen) when he reaches a port aboard the presidential yacht Potomac: tomorrow. The chief executive probably will land somewhere along the New England coast, re- jturning to Washington imme- —. + Beaverbrook Arrives Lord Beaverbrook, British min- ister of supply, arrived in Wash- ington this morning and was ex- ‘pected to go into conference at once with William, Koudsen, OPM. chief. Asked about the purpose of his trip, Beaverbrook said he came for one purpose—to ee to “get more of rome ote one be a message from President wvaldi ooaevelt and Churchill to Rus- sian | i two countries are to in- eel a Tore | COLI II ILI Ma SO let them come and get our arms. | conference | | Conservation work gram, but hailed the demand for | Alb Of Money Neceanay Been Made Available As Yet, However | | | The navy department has ‘MANY CRAWFISH ARE lawarded to, Williams Brothers, BEING CAUGHT NOW |7u'ss, Oka... contract for laying the 130+ mil aqueduct from \Homestead f Key West, Capt. Russell S. Crenshaw, navy station commandant, revealed today. Warning that money still is not available for the construction job and that its letter should not be construed 4s a go-ahead signal, the navy bureau of yards and docks informed the company. that its bid of about $1,000,000 was |low, and has been accepted, | Details of the contract are not | available here, and Captain Crenshaw. said he could not say exactly what is covered. Certain Anglers of the of the East Coast Fisheries company this morn. ing brought in 7500 pounds of crawfish between 7 and 11 o'clock, it was revealed by Ralph Chester Thompson. Jr., conservation officer. Local fishermen, hailing the present season as the best jin the past 10 years. said catches now are rivalling those at Bimini. Since the season opened July 21, catch- es here have totalled 104,234 pounds, with the present price at four cents a pound. in maintaining the closed season is one cf the most important factors in the big catches, ac- cording to Thompson. ‘PLANNING FOR ENTERTAINMENT {project is unknown to loval’ of-_ ' ficers, since the job is being hand: led from district engineering jheadquarters at Jacksonville. __ Apparently, however, the con- track Ceppesn at east i. a ‘flat | sibly a ball game will greet can cadets ‘and’ mavy.men aboard the Mexican ; transport Durango | Brothers’ when they arrive here Tuesday morning, Capt. Russell S. Cren- shaw, navy station commandant, said today. ‘The training snip, headed here from Philadelphia, is expected to arrive at about 10 o’clock Tuesday morning, and city and navy of- ficials are mapping a full program of activities to last through: her 24-hour stay. Captain Crenshaw, with com- rison, marines, coast. guard - the air station, will give a dinner at his quarters fon the command- ing officer of the ship. After the dinner, the Mexican dance at La Concha bse the cadets will be guests of navy and city at Habana-] and enlisted men will be engi Joset Stalin. The 430 of Hi = ig es none proximately Sere: ef ba Cosas Soke ceigrts