The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 21, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted ta the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 199. Leningrad To Save Smashing German Troops Reported OPI DDO MOMS SS To Be Pouring Into An-|CITES CASES OF cient Walled City Of SNAKES, SPIRITS ROBERSONVILLE, N. C.. Novgorod Aug. 21,—John Briley was sure there was nothing il- lusionary about the whiskey he was dusting off in the Al- coholic Beverage Control store whenan 18-inch moc- casin tickled his arm. He (By Ansociated Prens) NEW YORK. Aug. 21—Adolf Hitler today called upon Soviet 3 dropped the liquor and head- Russia to surrender Leningrad! 04 fer the door. How the lest the “fate of Warsaw” over-| snake got there is still a mys- ‘tery. take the ancient capital of the czars. ‘Describing the situation as al- ready hopeless from a_ military standpoint, Hitler's headquarters declared Leningrad will be smashed into rubble if the Rus- sians attempt the “impossible” task of defending it. i As the Nazi leader spoke, Ger- | man troops were reported pour- GREENWOOD, S. C..' Aug. 13.—Deputy Sheriff R. L. Lyon advised companions some distance away that he had discovered the illicit still they were seeking when, Sheriff Cal White said. he suddenly jumped high in tht air and bellowed like a ban- shee. Hanging to Lyon's troucer leg like a bulldog was a highland moccasin. Lyon had difficulty shaking him off, DP LPM LILI I LI MI Pa PING PONG FOR ENLISTED MEN i | ing into the ancient walled city of Novgorod, south of Leningrad, and Finnish columns were at- tacking furiously over the Kare- lian isthmus in the north, Moscow, admitting that “Len-! ingrad is in dread danger” and “under direct threat of at- tack”, declared. the ;Russian_sol~; ~diers-would defend te city “to! the death”, Million Men Ready Leningrad’s defenders, ing to Moscow, number than 1,000,000 men, who have been ordered to cefend the city} as they have others in the past, street-by-street and house-by-| house, NAMENT TO START ON SATURDAY more | USO club house, George Mont- petit, director, announced today. | mile war front, German sources}men. In the future, the club will declared the Black Sea port of | open on Saturdays, Sundays and Odessa is aflame, shattered by! ariullery borabardment of the at- he € tacks of the Stuka dive bomb- ;P- ™, as in the pas' ers. | Men who have announced their Propaganda sources in Moscow} intention of entering the ping told, however, of powerful coun-|pong tournament are R. W.! ter attacks delivered by the Red | Kitchen, B. L. Wren, Jack Hobbs, Sk ace RE OS have been Romard, Alfred MeCartz, J. G. slaughtered. Churchill, Joseph Powell, W. J. The Russians said thousands’ Daniels, A. BH Asseir, J. E. Mes- of men and tanks were dropped | semer, Jr.,.H. A. Fitzsimmons, from planes in the rear of the | George McClusky, Motris Klein German lines, attacking in con-jand Johnny HAE iy. Larkin, junction with a frontal drive ned | "ANNIE WALKER units fighting the formerly retreating troops near Odessa. British Bomb Holland Residents of the channel area | day. heard the roar of engines for} more than an hour, as squadrons | erty is made subject to the right- of bombers swept north and | of-way of the Florida eis Coast (Continued on Page Four) | railway. Twenty-Six Americans Will Be Allowed To Leave Japan (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—j| The NYK liner will transport Twenty-six Americans, members the Americans to Shanghai. of the diplomatic staff and their: Announcement of the plan for families, will be , permitted to| Permitting part of the American leave Japan aboard the liner Ta-} {colony in Tokyo to quit the coun- tatu Maru, the state department | hed came after a spre of fruitless formed today. efforts on the part of the state de- hala |partment to win Japanese ap- |proval for an evacuation of the ee (ES ties Previously, Japan had = an- 19 41 WILLYS jpounced that no Americans would | were called for by a ship from the be allowed to leave unless they ; United States. The liner Presi- BUILT TO SAVE GAS Now on Display at Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming Phone No.5 | j | | dent Coolidge, sent to bring the | Americans back to this country, | was not permitted to dock, and Tokyo declared that no one would be permitted to leave. and | EIGHTEEN SIGN UP FOR TOUR- | Eighteen navy enlisted men} accord~| have signed for a ping pong tour- | |mament starting Saturday at the) Montpetit said hours at the! iclub will be changed because of At the other end of the 1,800- | increasing demand by the service } | holidays at 9 a. m. instead of at i, H The Royal Air Force, still | BUYS PROPERTY carrying out extensive bomb-j ardment of erman-onrieed | sabes territory and north Germany,! Sara J. Welch, Key West, has swept ‘over the channel this/ sold to Amnie I, Walker, also ofj morning in anew series of day-| this city, a 10-acre plot on the! light rails. | keys for $500, it was learned to- ‘The deed transferring the prop- | RECREATION DEPARTMENT AND WPA PROVIDE CHARTS SHOWING VARIOUS POINTS OF INTEREST From now on service men Key West will have no difficulty in quickly locating all the recrea- | tion centers, points of interest, and churches in the city, thanks to the large sized wall maps WPA Writers, Art, tion projects, with materials spon- sored by the City-County Defense Recreation Division. ‘The maps, three feet by five service men: and tourists. ply. of the. maps will be delivered | to Lieut. Col. G. Di Hatfield, rec- reational representative of the} arméd services here, who will have them posted in the various} The Recreation Divi-| is} | barracks. sion, of which Paul Albury chairman, will post other maps in | such conveniently located places | Civic Art Center, ete. Col, Hatfield expressed himself} as being very much pleased with | \ the maps, and he hopes to be able {to obtain more map material so the WPA projects can prepare an additional supply for posting in} | ships and submarines as they come | ; to port. | The idea of the recreation wall } maps for service men was con- }ceived* by Stetson Kennedy, rep- } ect here. He made the necessary survey of locating the points iden- tified, and the WPA Art Project, ; {under local. supervisor F. Town- t ‘bered the places on the maps. FREE TRIP TO” SOME KEY WEST GIRL TO BE SELECTED IN PRO- ! POSED CONTEST Some Key West girl between the age of 16 and 25 will be the lucky winner of a free trip to Mi- | ‘ami on the Labor Day week-end. ; Key West Junior Chamber of; Commerce last night voted to par- } , ticipate in the “Tropical Festi-| j val” being sponsored by the Mi- jami Beach Junior Chamber of |being held in connection with this event. Girl who represents Key West | will be entertained with girls | froin “ll ‘sections of the state as every, Jayceg unit has been in. vited ‘to ‘participate. Winner of contest in Miami Beach will be given a frée*trip to New York contest there. lected as local chairman and asks that all interested to send in a photograph to be used in making the selection. Photography should be mailed to the chairman, 1311 Laird street and should be post- marked not later than Tuesday, August 26, midnight. CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT There will be a regular meeting of the City Council held tonight, beginning at 8 o’clock. This is the second regular meeting of the month, There are several committee ; reports to be made to the council tonight, while other matters may come before the board during the course of the session. TWO DEAD IN ATTACK MADE ON SUEZ CANEL (Ry Associated Press) CAIRO, Aug. 21—Two ians were dead and 28 seriously injured today in the wake of a German bomber attack last night on the Suez canal, it was announced today. Authorities said little proper- ty damage was affected in the raid, Key THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1941 TS Opposed Would Compromise With in! which have been prepared by the | and Recrea-| feet in size, show a total of more} than 60 such: places of interest to | ‘A sup-" resenting the WPA Writers’ Proj- | send Morgan, spotted and num-; MIAMI OFFERED City and entered in the National | drving Korach has been se-; civil- | STREET CAR AND: BUS OPERATORS (By Associated Press) DETROIT, Aug. 21.—Mayor Edward J. Jeffries today called upon striking American Federa- tion of Labor street car and bus} Operators to return to work at} | once. “Entering its second while more than a half million | Detroiters walked or road cabs {to work, the tieup already has !forced the Hudson Motor Car Co. to suspend production, and lother companies ready to follow suit. Mayor Jeffries demanded that the men return to work and set- tle their differences later. The istrike is a aS eres one. | ‘DESTROYED’ SHIP’ BEING REPAIRED AT UNANNOUNCED PORT IN UNITED STATES (iy Ansociated Vrews) LONDON, Aug. {British aircraft carrier, { Illustrious, is in a United States (port undergoing repairs, the ad- miralty announced today. First such announcement to jcome from the admiralty, the j bulletin did not reveal -where ithe giant ship is being repaired. Germany previously has an- jmnounced destruction of the Illustrious. ‘RELIGION IN. IN 21.—The | BISHOP CLAIMS RELIGIOUS TRAINING NECESSARY TO PREVENT CRIME | (Special to The Citizen) ‘LOS ANGELES, Calif, Aug. 20, —Anticipating the time next imonth when thousands of boys land girls, young men and women {Governor Holland and at which | will be returning to school andj gnlcers all over the country, the Rev. Robert B. Gooden, Suf- ee Bishop of the Episcopal armies in the Ukraine, in which! pil} Newell, Bill Shaddix, John! “ | Diocese of Los Angeles, issues a Cc b mtering a Key by some of Germany’s most famous | Krukowski, Al Bridges, Charles A eae ine iz the robe contest ‘statement calling American j schools to account for youthful de- | linquency. | “Youths 16 to 21 are responsible |for fifty per cent more of Amer- \ica’s crime than their number in | the Population makes reason- able,” the Bishop asserts. “In one } | year youths were 50 per cent of | all automobile thieves; 40 per cent of all burglars; 28 per cent of all robbers. In proportion to popula. ‘tion the nineteen-year-olds lead f | the criminal parade. “The fact that religion is left out of consideration during the | impressionable years at the time} jof the major interest of young jPeople, their secondary school days, must bear the blame for} much of this sad” situation. No real remedy is available until peo- ple recognize the fact that charac- ter cannot be developed with good hope of success unless God is ad- mitted into the everyday life of j youth, not by courtesy or subter- fuge but by right. must be the nurture of character and good public schools make every effort as far as they can without religion. Here they are attempting the impossible, | 88 character must be based ot foundations of real Cl itianity.? day, | , {which has planned a special edi-; af | HS | i SCHOOL arp | meeting sponsored by the United “A prime duty of any school! TOUR OF UNITED STATES Ending a six-months’ goodwill} tour of the eastern United Staies and Canada, Comdr. Agustin Prat, retired officer of the Chilean) |mavy, stopped briefly in Key West | today before boarding a ship for \Cuba and a continuation of his] tour. ‘Commander Prat, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Emma de Prat, ; has visited for the past six} months in New York, Washing- ton and other cities along the} eastern seaboard. Purpose of his visit is to outline. the plans. for Pan-. American | friendship as presented in the! Chilean newspaper “La Nacion,” | tien of a million copies to be cir- culated through the Spanish- speaking nations of this hemis- phere. Commander Prat, during his as the Chamber of Commerce, | BRITISH PLANE CARRIER 1S} Visit here, was the guest of Mr. | front. jand Mrs. Sebastian Cabrera, 811 Southard street. MRS. D. RAMOS DIES IN TAMPA News has been received in Key | iWest announcing the death of Mrs. Dolores Ramos in Tampa, ; Fla., on Sunday. Mis. Ramos is survived by a daughter, Pura, and eight grand- children, The deceased has numerous friends in Key West who will be much grieved on learning of her death. a> Er “i * _ es ARMY CAMP AREAS TO BE MADE LAW-ABIDING (Uv Ansocinted Preany JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 21.— Florida Beverage Administrator E. W. Scarborough pledged sup- port of his department to a move to keep areas near Florida’s Army camps law-abiding. He made the statement at a Brewers Industrial Foundation at which Scarborough represented Army and Navy officials were present in addition to peace of- ficers of Clay, Nassau, Bradford, St. John’s and Duval counties. James R. Nicholson, director of the group relations of the founda- | tion, said brewers were conduct-| ing a nation-wide campaign to. keep training areas law-abiding and that the industry was co-op- erating with civil and military au- | thorities to ‘clean up or close up" | any ligensed beer outlet which ré- } fused to obey the law. Col. Li) Ab Kunzig, commanding officer'at’ Camp Blanding, and Lieut. Comdr. Ronald D. Higgins from the Jacksonville naval sta- tion also were present. The campaign, Nicholson said, | soon will be extended to the whole of Florida, |GEN. WAVELL PRAISES FIGHTERS OF INDIA (ity Asnocinted Press) “BOMBAY, Aug. 21.—Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, in his first broadcast as British commander in chief in India, said “our future efforts must continue to prevent; the enemy, wherever possible, from getting within striking dis- tance of this country.” Gen. Wavell paid tribute to the part played by Indian troops” for|the Middle Eastern cam and said “nearly bhegparti Li eA i * Re aire fee eT To War ‘Turkish Diplomats Now Fear Attack On Country By Nazis (By Annocinted Press) ANKARA, Turkey, Aug 21.—; High-ranking Turkish diplomats | today admitted ‘the possibility of, a German attack upon their coun-; try, should Russia be successful | in holding off the Nazi invaders| until winter snows bring an ena to swift action on the eastern | | | German troops, according to re-| ports reaching here, are being| massed in Bulgaria, possibly for a} drive into the Near East, a cam- paign which would mean Leas war against Turkey or fresh de-| mands for transportation of tote across her boundaries. At the same time, reports fate! reached here from Sofia, indicat- | ing that Balkan countries would} protest against any German at- tack on Turkey, Repeatedly. it has been rumored that the Slav nations are bitter) over Germany’s assault on Russia, and ‘an attdck Ohi Turkey,” it “is thought, could bring them into open revolt, é BULLITT ASSERTS U. S. CAN’T BE ISOLATIONIST (By Associated Prensa) i ALTOONA,» Pa. Aug. 21— Williams, C.. Bullitt, former am- bassador to France, told the Pennsylvania convention. of | American Legion it was impos- sible for the United States to live in isolation “because Ger- many, Italy and Japan are leagued against us and are de- termined to dominate the: earth, including America.” Bullitt said it was‘ not sur- prising that many Americans wish we could avoid any contact with the world outside ouc. bor- ders” but “isolation is impos- sible.” ‘ al SERIOUS SHORTAGE:IN SCRAP P IRON gees age ari iron pth ak ‘be e the steel industry will be forced to curtail open hearth furnace schedules within seven to eight weeks unless the flow of serap is speeded, Daily Metal Trade said. Declaring this to be the most urgent need of the nation’s steel- makers, the publication added: “No one of the various sugges~ tions for expanding the amount of | his available scrap is the complete, answer to the problem of provid- ing an adequate volume of old ma- terial, but all will help, For weeks scrap has been consumed at a faster rate than it has been fur- nished the mills. There is no time to be wasted.” HIATT IGM. conservative deputy, who. called Pessina ele To: gressional Critics Special Message ered Today \VWaOeeaeeeae i | CANADIAN PREMIER IS VISITING LONDON, (By As.ocinted Presn) | ity Assoctated, Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. LONDON. Aug. 21. — | Canadian Prime ~ Minister McKienzis King, spending his first day in London after ‘a bomber flight from the Dominicn yesterday, told the British war cabinet today: “Canada has but one mind and that is to do all we can in winning this war.” The Prime Minister later had a luncheon conference with Prime Minister ' Wins- ton Churchill, i ii . was poorer dpe The President's message fer Canadian military aid to the home government would contained in a ——r be discussed. jTead before both STPIUETE SS [sth She ene ae | Roosevelt, in @ special: | declared today that anyone | ORpanse, tise: oulliand aaa | be willing to accept a mise with Naziism™. Seka after purchased a ticket for Marathon |S will be arraigned before Peace! Justice Enrique Esquinaldo this’ afternon or tomorrow. « County Solicitor Allan Cleare, Jr, said this morning was not certain if other would be placed against the man, CHILE TO OUTLAW NAZI ACTIVITIES | was on | Sitch ons Asnaceiied SANTIAGO, Chile, “hug. 2b The chamber: of deputies, called | ji for t into extraordinary session re- and navy | ceived a bill to outlaw Nazi or- ference, ganizations in Chile and heard at from the the same time an assertion that 95 per cent of the nation’s army officers are pro-German in their sympathies, | Introduced by a socialist deputy, | the proposed legislation not’ would’ ban Nazi_ activi would permit sons engaged ‘therein. was ma zalez- von. and dire : merly known.as the National = cialist party, who said “absurd to combat the German 'e regime.” it He declared Chile would re- ceive “many benefits” if Germany: won the war. Gonzalez was reproved by a