The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 16, 1941, Page 1

ss b ! 1 ee } jis about $4 a month. in cash taxes at least as great as ms | i Cadets Subject t: Of Air rport At: Speaking as representative. of | those being set off by the pre- poe eine the sae STALLMENT BUYING ON ' 7 . 8 H service, he took a e1 a | % 2 ithe Florida Keys Electric Co. |sent company, and would retain general’ bust VARIOUS GOODS | i a ie ca ry pean e Key West Citizen === THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1941 Service For 61 Years Devoted te the Best Interests of Key West VO4,UME LXI, — No. 195. PRICE FIVE CENT} Co. Under RFC-REA Plan)" covenmcrr isn | YEARS SERVICE Purchase of Key West Electric’ operative association, Stone said ee . —_ a : company under the RFC_REA|RFC would make the million- } Hey jplan presented to city council dollar purchase at an interest} J05¢ C- Perez, Cuban vice con Remaining Fife . t Thursday night would mean de rate of only 2.48 per cent, while sul at Key West, has retired after | $25 annual saving to the average’ the Nuveen company, with which | 5&TV#9g more than 20 years in the ————_____-—_—_______, Se | power user in Key West Julius] ihe ciky hes conleactod, weak Cuban consular service at United ' F. Stone, Jr, coonty attorney, } |declared ‘today. | charge from 4.5 per cent to 6 per | tates Posts. FIX MINIMUM |Tax Matters Also Hea : ——. {| Stone based his figures on the | cent. Perez, who has been in Key At Socal Session | = P arly three years, pre- \ . ! jassurance of the federal agency. Stone said the co_operative, if West for nearly ™ des DOWN PAYMENT ‘County Board Members OF tek, slackcis ‘cules been coukd belie wae cn acquiring |Viously served as private scere-| | Cy {cut 50 per cent under REA direc. | tary to the chairman of the Cuban | a. i seas i t / Different Opinions On tion. The average consumer pili | ‘* Power company, would pay 7 REGULATIONS DEAL WITH IN- Marathon i all» present employes of the }mess course at McKenly College | | The City: Council at @ spe hee ° : | ‘DEATH PENALTY ° jcompany. | at Lebanon, Jil, then’attended the | Res: | session held: last night took a A ‘feature of entertainment! FOO SOOO SOS ! ‘ l\oAs a further saving, REA Brown. Business school in St. ; chy Aedaeenh: Peete). | finite stand om the matter platisfor Mexi aly abn | Proposed isition of land | ‘would furnish’ free of charge |Louis, Mo., where he entered the} WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. —| ing the fire debris : ' -competent?:;fimamcing, engineer- | service. Regulations setting from 15 to 33/the property “at the ec board the ns) Durango, | CUBAN GOVERNMENT : p wien atlas ORDERS NAZIS AND A Set ts Mare. | ving, accountingy-egal and opera.| During his residence here, |PeF cent as the minimum down | Duval and ar gaanig ‘tions assistance, ‘eutting charges payment for goods bought on the jhas remained on. the : { ‘thon revealed i j iP ; “se i a buffet supper at which the) TALIANS TO LEAVE. @ sharp difference | asert. GERMAN DEMONSTRA-' now made by the local firm to |, cr? ™&de many friends and was jretaiiment plan, and fixing 18/since the conflagration. cadets will be guests of the Cath. | of opinion among county com-/| {the parent company in New Jer- |#¢tive in civic affairs. He re- months as the maximum period 20. ole Diighiars of. -Amerion -ana! ee ns fe ee ns wae TIONS IN FRANCE DRAW ‘sey. cently became district deputy for the payments, may be set up| The sounell. instructed | the National Catholic Community | HAVANA, Aug: 16—The | em. i HARSH REPRISALS | Reduction of rates, Stone/grand master of the Twenty- by the Federal Reserve Board, +e Bi pea owl Service, it was announced today.) CWban government today or- | missioners Ernest A. Ramsey andj ‘pointed out, would increase pur. !Fourth Masonic District, which WS indicated today. | E Planin d e¥-' dered all German consular in Ricci Reseed chases .of electrical equipment | includes Key West. | A spokesman of the hoard said show cause by Septe poise oe : Pen i day night,/ cfficials and employes to lorberg Thompson opposed the| tii Reabelaanl Deans ‘here, boosting power use and| Perez has not announced his’ the figures would be put up ten- | We orders issued for the: Providing the ship arrives here on Prepare to leave the coun- | move on economy nds, while) NEW YORK, Aug. 16—Anti_|Tequiring the addition of more ‘future plans, and consular offi- tatively, giving the public ing up of the : peers Tuaeiay. rai, the! ry, and fixed Set. § as the | pies German demonstrations in unoc- |8@Merating facilities, which REA |cials said they have not been noti- Chance to react before final laws |been complied wil e! tween 5 and! deadline before which Ital- | Commissiner R. W. Craig held out cupied France yesterday drew; Would be n a position to install. ified who will be assigned to fill are Put into effect. | | T o'clock at the USO hut on Duval’ jan consular offices must be ls harsh reprisals from the Reich Under such a plan, he ex_ {the vice-consulship. | cee eee ee street, H | for the purchase, P ‘ 4 : } Gasiniaks Glace & day-long; "me as Berlin officials announced im- Plained, the navy would be will- | ———— | GAUDY COLORS. pines eve plans for iil 'y-long The decree, which came | After offering to pay for an|position of the death penalty for ing to drop its electrical ex-| LEFT HIM ON ROAD | entertainment program have not as g surprise failed to set a ‘ appraisal out of hie’ own funds, |Communists, ‘pansion program, getting power Rate | WILMINGTON, Del.—Regard- | yet been announced, The full) Gate for the German with- In a decree, Berlin ordered all from the increased facilities of; CAMDEN, N. J.—Two. hitch- less of the snickers of his com-| pragram will be released Mon-| gyawal, jCraig won reluctant commission |. | who have gone into the co-operative, with a conse. |hikers who kidnaped him in his rades, F. V. West of this city, rail-/ UP te P day, sponsors of the entertain- approval for a land study by Key abies France Pat ugar a quent increase in earnings for /own automobile ke Frank Rol- road fireman, adopted be sess sna | Serre aa aaa Ves Sealy company, but Thomp-| cupied province of Lorraine to/the plant. r’s wooden leg and left him on colored pajamas as his wi ne a ae ae Ga i ~ {son * Ramsey warned him they | give themselves up by midnight’ Sale of the local firm is made -a road near this city. | Clothes, i Serr ‘ORDERS CUT ON este eee Pie egheidts. agi tonight. Families of men who Recessary under a ruling of the | Rete: eee 2 QUINCY, Mass.—Nineteen per- | P fehete ci. ne Droperty. | disobey, the decee said, will be’ Securities and Exchange com, 1 4 Nin: per-| | e on the subject WAS | cent to Germany and scattered! Mission in July, which ordered Permit proper operation . of the | | Marathon urged the county to aP-|two inembers of a family. weing, poration of New Jehaey, to. sell i hn pre gang eae iO BT . ;Bropriate $25,000 for an. airport] sent to any onessection-’ of the+itS controlling. interest. ..in-.-Key |.» ‘ fsité-on which CAA js ready to $10. }TEN PER CENT REDUCTION IS | spend $234,000 for construction. Craig suggested an appraisal, i | ORDERED BY PRICE CON- | hut tailed to get a.second. Asked | TROL OFFICIAL ifor his support, Ramsey replied | that he failed to see how the coun- country. - _ | West Electric company within 12 The entire poulation of France;months, the decree said, will be held ac_| The ruling is part of a pro_; pic : countable and punishable for the §@m of SEC to break up holding eeneeerk. acts of any Franchman in rioting , companies. against the government or (By Amsosinted Prenny ty could authorize such an expen- 5 —Resist- i eee | diture, while purchase of the land, | 2€ainst Germany. ._| FOUR PLAN 2-YEAR _ NEW YORK, Aug. 16—Resist | WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Or- be Said, is impossible. beat dishendel oid dckeey CRUISE OF OCEANS [52 res = ders for a 10 per cent reduction in|, Thompson Opposes Buy rs pn Saeed, tt producing one of history’s blood- Thompson, explaining that he is legal, the decree went on, its! IN SMALL VESSEL jest battle, Russian armies in the} | asoline sales along the Atlantic’ the owner of the land under con-|™¢™bers will be punished by| |eoast today were described by | sideration and would prefer to death, (ity Annocia.ed Presa) | Price Control Administrator Leon: stay out of the debate, declared / 16.—' | Henderson as an “interim step”, he could see little value in the air-| CONTROLS TRAFFIC _ with Uncle Sam's biessing two ; designed to serve while plans for Port if it were completed. Ex- ; actual rationing are set up. ‘penditures by CAA on the prop- | Henderson said it will be neces- | erty, he said, would be useless to <Se meaoaanaee Seas | the South Atlantic and South Pa-_ sary at once to issue ration cards, | the county, since it. would be} CAMP POLK, La., Aug. 16.—A' ‘ific in a 43-foot auxiliary sloop. | ‘i : t providing given amounts of fuel|necessary to import outside labor. |word: from heaven is helping to| Mf. and Mrs. Lee Jackson and) ayo reports spoke of a “bit | for persons who require gasoline| B. Ml Duncan, Overseas Road control traffic in Louisiana these Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harmon fol-| 7" Unelenting” action, in which @tiving |in business, and slashing the sup-|and Toll Bridge District. man- days. lowed red tape for months to ob- ‘the Ried Atenian were: z the cused of | Plies for others. lager, who was on hand to secure} The newest wrinkle developed ‘aim government approval of | Germans bay. with’ blond rea j, The 10 per cent cut in supplies maney for the state defense coun-}to keep some 30,000 vehicles and | Plans to follow a course plotted by | ory toot of Uh ian aout nxt }for filling stations was pro-/cil, urged the commissioners not/more than a quarter million @ Steamship captain familiar with | 143, they passed. A i jclaimed by Henderson's agency to pass up the airport, pointing {troops moving in the third army. | omantic:- waters, ique said the ? ares jlast night. Under that plan, ef-| out that airports, like railroads} maneuvers area isan air force of, Im theiz gegently purchased) 24 i i. uae | fective at once. there is no pro- and highways'in the past, would | military police’ They haven't “Hatm-Jack,” now, being over-') i i. 2 eon vision for individual rationing, determine the important cities of |earned a name a¥ Yet; but until a hauled, the:foursome will nose ; over SEEDS | but wholesalers will cut by 10 per|the future. ~’ better one comes ‘along’they will out of Ocean City inlet the first | Durne = mak | cent the amount of fuel delivered . Moving on the defense council, |be known.as the “"M. P’s of the of next month, setting course for soul 228i | to filling stations, jof which he is chairman, Duncan | Air.” : ‘|the West Indies. | _ States effected are Maine, New won authorization for payment of{| These high flying traffic cops they'll ge to Rio. Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu- | $245 in bills already incurred, and }have been assigned a dozen small the path., pli setts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, ' told the commissioners future op-| grasshopper planes to test the! |New York, Pennsylvania, New eration of the council and its|feasibility of directing traffic | Jersey, Deleware, Maryland, Vir- | widespread activities must be set | from the air, conducting behind; ginia, West Virginia, North Caro- | up in the budget at a figure of at; the lines observation and acting $235 | | lina, South Carolina, Georgia, the | least $500 a month, as an aerial messenger service for ‘i | District of Columbia, and that Gomez Launches Battle jarmy headquarters during the! part of Florida east of the; Commissioner Eddie Gomer, edge war games to start here Aug. | South Pacific \ | Apalachicola river. i» (Continued on Page Four) Upon results of the tests the| conditions. Eventually t RSE OE EE Friday 10 Criminal Court IN MILITARY AREA Ose2" City couples, will set sail | Sept. 1 for a two-year cruise of - DUVAL AND DIVISION — "41 FORD COACH __... $845 ‘41 FORD COUPE ___.. $795 “41 CHEV. PANEL $200 off ‘41 BUICK SEDAN __ $300 off ‘41 NASH SEDAN __ $200 off 40 CHEV. SEDAN _.._ $695 ‘40. WILLYS SEDAN ‘40 NASH SEDAN _..___ ‘40 NASH COUPE __ ‘40 AUSTIN RDSTR. ‘39 NASH. SEDAN. - ‘39 NASH 5-pass. 38 DeSOTO SED.. Radio 38 NASH SEDAN _ "38 CHEV. SEDAN "38 BUICK SEDAN . "38 WILLYS SEDAN - "37 CHEV. COACH ‘37 FORD 85 SEDAN - ‘37 FORD 60 SEDAN *37 NASH O'DRIVE ‘36 FORD CONVT. "38 FORD SEDAN _ "96 PLY. SEDAN _. "36 NASH COUPE _.__ ‘96 PACKARD SEDAN . "96 DODGE COUPE "96 CHEV. SEDAN "96 CHEV. |COACH __ Until the maneuvers are under. goods. It way, the planes will be used to! 100-gallon circle military convoys and com-/ room for municate with them by radio or luxuries are being cut to voice to direct their movement mum and one couple that smokes along the road. Actually the’ is giving up cigarettes for the du- planes, according to their manu- | ration of the voyage. : tiny, low-flying planes in today’s! The “Harm-Jack” ‘is high-speed warfare. \ with more than i ; Hastings Johnson, U. S. Army | occurred outside the military res- |Sergeant, who was held on two /ervation and was handled by civil SOSREERERERE $145 | counts of assault ang battery for | authority. probably will be made of the two-/ of Michigan re outfield: Steet $145 || beatings he is accused of adminis-} John Harten, charged with|W@¥ radio.sets mounted in the (er, has been paid a bonus’ of $45,- ean,” tering t6 his wife and’ Frances! vagrancy, was sentenced to 30 it contract. with ‘. | Searcy, ‘his sister-in-law, yester- | days in jail, and Mitzi LaMarr and | tems attached to a few of them. Tige 1 e \day was ordered by Judge Wil- | Carmen Gonzalez, charged with! |liami V. Albury to pay fines of $25) prostitution, were fined $10 and! | and costs on each charge. | costs. : : r4 | Accepting Johnson’s plea of} Jean Morris, who was fined on_} | guilty in chambers, Judge ‘Albury |a prostitution charge at the last. | fixed jail sentences of 60 days on|term of court, drew a $5 fine, | jeach charge, should the sergeant | costs suspended, when she reap-. | fail to pay the fines. He paid and/ peared on the same charge yester- | was released. | day. | Johnson already had served | (more than a month in. jail since | \he failed to make $500 bond after | ; |the beatings July 13. Al Blosis, champion | Col, Webster F. Putnam, army pedo gies hs ar hang DIVISION } executive officer, said there/into the army, ! DEVAL ABD would be no military charge/and one-half inches in against the man, since the offense half-inch over the limit. NO SOLDIER HE