The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 22, 1941, Page 1

For 61 Years Devoted te the Best Interests of Key West Reading In Regular Sessio NAVAL STATION [Decamost Deas With Pro- WATER SUPPLY posed Lease To Aque- RUNNING LOW duct Board For Furnish- FORCED TO SEND TO MIAMI ing Fresh Water TO RENEW ITS SUPPLIES: a Caeae 3 meeting night, passed an or- LACK (OF RAIN CAUSE OF | ginance on: its’ initial reading ACUTE SHORTAGE which wouldi:authorize the leas- jing of the: city’s unused under- ground water system to the Flo- rida Keys Aqueduct Commission in connection with furnishing The City Council at its regular Faced with an acute shortage of fresh water, the navy station has been forced to send to Miami to renew its supplies, Capt. Rus- sell S. Crenshaw, station com- mandant, revealed today. Two tankers brought water here during the past week, and the navy will find it necessary to send for more unless there is a heavy rain. within a_ short time, The station also faces the prospect of strict rationing, Cap- with an adequate supply of fresh water which will be brought in |from Homestead down alon, keys on to Key West. The meeting was presided over by Councilman Leonard B. Gril- }lon, president protem, in place of | President William Freeman, who jis acting mayor in the absence ifrom the city of Mayor Willard ;M. Albury. Councilman Freeman * 4 ‘and all other members of the tain Crenshaw said. council were in attendance at the With only 1.87 inches of rain) meeting. recorded in the past month, the | Included in the ordinance re- station’s cisterns are nearly dry,| lative to the water system was while the need for water has ig the i j tanks and a pumping station. The continued to be abnormally present sit mie water works great. i system site in Jackson Square, Athough much Key West cons- | pear of the courthouse, and three .truction Has been done with con-/ hundred feet-of- the:sou' crete mixed with saltwater, of. Palm. Avenue. Captain. Crenshaw said! navy” FBeach drive, adjacent to the city quirements demand fresh water | sump, are the two sites trans- for cement. The several thou- | ferred to the commission. sand civilian employes working} In exchange for the system and | sites, the commission will sell to the city water for municipa] pur- at the station also provide a heavy drain on the water sup- plies. | poses, The rate to be charged the city for furnishing the water in question will not exceed 40 cents ANNOUNCE CIVIL : SERVICE EXAMS. : also be an annual stand by charge of $50 per hydrant, with a priv- jilege of using all water necessary The U. S. Civil Service Com- mission announces open com-!for fire purposes. Uni h petitive examinations for the;agrement the commission will | : L positions of Firefighter (Motor | install whatever additional hy-' which the larger ships could not; Equipment) (For filling the posi- | drants that may be needed for fire tion of Engineman, Firefighter), | protection. with pay rates of $6.88, $7.36, $7.- | According to the agreement 84.9 day, and Helper, Firefighter | drawn up, after the liquidation of (Motor Equipment) (For filling the pesition of Helper, General (Firefighter), with pay rates of $4.00, $4.48, $4.96 a day. (Over- time: For all work required in excess of forty hours per week, emploees will be paid the over- time rate of time and a half.) Applications, willy be ived until further’ Motice, "The: letes: sary forms » fidy | be dbtained tem, exclusive of that under navy of the city, An ordinance regulating the operation of eletrical contractors andy worker$iwab-iassed on } second ets reading. |, A resolution was,.adopted au- thorizing that, the owners of the |property at the corner of Duval be. notified r 2 Board, | and Greene streets sig" on er Yara, | that they must show cause why South Carolina; the» Sevretary, | the order to have the fire debris red away has not been com- ivi ice | clea of U. S. Civil Service | oited with. If sufficient cause is Post Office, at any! Board Examiners, first or second-class post office; | Mot shown by September 4, the iyi ‘ istri : ie the property in an Civil Service District, New Post | take a lien on the 7 Office Building, Atlanta Geor-|@mount which will be necessary | work under its supervision. The question of having the HE JUST WATCHED THE TRAINS Go BY | Gato brick builling on Catherine istreet to other qubrters, was EMPORIA, Kas., Aug. 22—Ar-| night in which it was stated that thur E. George, 64, worked for the! the welding school was of a gov- never took a trip as a passenger | instead of the welding school until he retired recently.. He was being removed from the building lost an arm in an accident. Then’ is also carried on, that the sew- he was appointed a crossing | ing room project will have to be the joly33:years without losing but) Mr. Bennett, tax agent of ‘the one day? | (Continued on Page Four) or the Manager, Fifth U. S. j city will start proceedings to gia. | to have the city carry on the | welding school removed from the (Ry Annotated Prensa) | brought before the: council last Santa Fe rajlway 44 years, but he; ernment defense nature, a brakeman until 1907 when he! where the sewing room project watchman in Emporia and was on} moved elsewhere instead. im % : * SE s RUD eS Cs RRR merican Pilots i Did Not Take Part In Attack On Nazi Plane: (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—j)driving off the bomber when it American military pilots in Ice-' appeared over Reykjavik, it was land did not take Ss — io at-/announced that only British tack ona German bomber Tues- 1:30. took part in the. action. i ord reaching | . Sey peices =e ME Planes used by the British were Contradicting earlier reports | American-made, but belong to that Americafs had aided in|the RAF, Che Key West and the key section! ithe lease of two sites for storage | and } PROVING THEIR WORTH IN | MANEUVERS: GIVEN WIDE RECOGNITION WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. |(ANF)—That uniquely American |product, the little “flivver” plane, pence long ago established itself \as an ideal training ship and as a flyer of limited means, is coming {into its own as an essential in- {strument of defense. ‘Recognition of this new status of the-light plane has come ::re- | cently from two sources, the Avia- tion News Committee reported to- i day. One was the summer maneuvers of the U. S. Army, in which ships furnished by leading light plane manufacturers and piloted by ithrough a pipe line extending |Company representatives took an premiership, it was announced in| part. New Defense Rating | The second was the designation }of such ships as a “defense util- ity” by the Office of Production Management. | Participation of the little planes lin Army maneuvers clearly dem- onstrated their value. It was {found, for instance, that a pilot | with as little as 10 hours of train- jing could fly one of these far be- hind-the-lines observation duties \ with .the artillery and infantry. Afother advantage is the fact that they can not only be turned out by the hundreds at but a frac- jtion of the cost of the heavier | combat planes, but can be utilized i active tt cor-|on important assignments which; North | could not readily be undertaken | | by the larger’atid more powerful ships. For Small Fields | Equipped with radio instru- jments strong enough to reach | gun crews below but too weak for ‘ordinary listening posts to inter- | cept, the little planes can fly slowly and safely at low altitudes, per thousand gallons. There will; observing operations, while re-/surprise trans-Atlantic flight. | maining in communication with ithe ground. They have the added | advantage of being highly maneu- taken off from small fields from mn. Training Program Just now, however, it is in the training of flying cadets that the j functio: | j ‘the bonded debt, the entire sys- {light planes are doing their most; limportant defense duty. Using control, will become the property | these planes, more than 900 train- H ing centers are turning out 3000 student pilots a month in addition to more than 750 advanced stu- |didates, 500 or so are joining the | Army, Navy or Marine corps air | branches each month. Possibility that light plane man- jufacturers would have to curtail jor entirely suspend production: be~ \eause of their inability to procure dequate supplies of aluminum thas apparently been eliminated | by the recent OPM ruling. | Through the order, the light | plane industry has been officially j designated as a defense utility and will therefore be assured de- | liveries of aluminum and other iscarce or critical material. | ¥ GUM ROSIN LOAN RATE ‘NOW DUE FOR RAISE (Ry Asnopiated Presa) WASHINGTON, Aus. ; The agriculture department an- ‘nounced that government Joan than last year. ‘The 1941. rates will, result, the {department said, in an average i gum rosin elible for storage un- der the program Loans will be made to producers through the ) American turpentine farmers as- sociation co-operative, at Val- dosta, Ga. BRADY’S (Live) Poultry ' and Egg Market Fresh Florida Grade A EGGS. doz. SOFT BO! { STEWERS — TERS 1214 White Street Phone 540 Key general favorite of the private | 22-—| rates on gum rosin undec a price- | fstabilizing program would be 50 | cent per hundred pounds higher | ‘Joan to producers of $2.70 per} {hundred pounds, net weight, on —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1941 Register With (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Paris|governors of Paris issued de- newspaper tolay told of a huge jcrees ordering all Russian sub- revolutionary plot, which they | jects in France to register with |declared- upset this week when | the police at once. German troops suddenly launch-; The more than 10,000 Jews ar- ed a sweeping roundup of Jews/rested earlier in the week, ac- and alleged Communists in the}cording to the newspapers, are iformer French capital. tbeing charged with Communist \ Following swiftly on the heels|sympathies, and most of them jof ihe plot story, the Germanjrushed to concentration camps. ‘TAMPANS ARE (By Anaoeinton Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 22—Aus-| |tralian Prime Minister Robert G.| Menzies, denied the right to con- } ‘tinue as Australia’s chief ex-| ecutive and serve in London at) ithe same time, will: resign the| MILLS ENJOYING HOS- PITALITY OF JOE WYNN Capt. J. A. Nipper, Tampa police officer who plans to make , {his home in Key West upon his lretirement in Septembef, with Menzies’ resignation, it is un- tal F detsicod. oil le: gut before par: | Wilbur Mills, also of Tampa, is liament this week, and will be ac- | Visiting here with Joe K. Wynn, |cepted, making it possible for him | Southern Brewing company dis- |to take up the new role of Aus-| ‘ibutor. . pe | tralian’ representative in London. | Wynn, who: has been joined at | Members of the Labor party his Coral Apartments home by earlier in the week had yoted: Mrs. Wynn and their son, Jim- bit al en end wis Menzies | my, said Captain Nipper will join } le as Time muinis-| fi is ire- |ter, but would serve in London, | te fi" here upon his retire With the Orient on the verge of, at the same time Wynn an- an explosion, they contended, |nounced expansion in local the prime minister should be | business has required the em- ployment of another man, Paul Australia. i E. Mesa, who will be connected VISCOUNT HALIF. ‘AX jh i oe Deepa Brewing REACHES LONDON anv auto car THAT BENDS IN MIDDLE Sidney today. | | i | <By Axsoctated Press) { LONDON, Aug. 22.—Viscount | (By Asnvelnted Presn | Halifax, British ambasador to the; MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. ; United States, arrived here ‘this, 22— A car that bends in the | morning aboard a bomber after a’ middle when rounding corners} thas been invented by Cornelius The ambassador will rest in | Murname of Melbourne. It is! England at least for several'hinged in the middle so that ; weeks, and some sources said it js; when the steering wheel is turn- Under the’ verable and can be landed and doubtful if he will return to the |ed the whole forepart of the | United States. chassis turns instead of just the | front wheels. Murname claims | this prevent skids. IT SEEMS THERE WAS A STORK IN WAITING HEARD IN COURT Jesse Mullins, charged with as-| HICKORY, N. C., ‘AUB. 22.— sault and battery, today. was sen-| Four boys were born in quick jtenced to pay a fine of $10 and ‘succession at a hospital here, and TWO CASES ARE | | | } i t its dents. From this reservoir of can- | costs by Judge William V. Albury | four girls followed soon there- of the county criminal court of! after. The followin: record. js : [more babies were born—a vir; Accepting guilty pleas in cham- | tual ‘baby blitz that taxed _ the ,bers, Judge Albury deferred sen- | hospital facilities. {tence in the case of Bert Fox,} But Harry Steelman explained {charged with vagrancy, upon the /it all. He saw a stork—so he said ;man’s promise to leave Key West. | standing on 15th street. | The bird seemec to be preen- {SILK SHORTAGE jing himself. “And he looked just AFFECTS MAGICIANS jlike he was going for another (By Asaociated Press) load,” Steelman” added. Next ‘day the hospital reported five new babies. ‘NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—The na- | jtion’s silk shortage is affecting | | the art of magic, according to Rus- | sell Swann, president of the Mas- (Ne Asnncinted Presa) jter Magicians of America. He' ASHEBORO, N. C. Aug. 22— | says that magicians will be forced!Asheboro was determined -to | to eliminate all “silk tricks”—the | salvage everything it could from favorite one being the illusion of the old water system. Now it has pulling yards of gaily colored ma- a 450,000-gallon garage for city terial from an empty hat or vehicles j pocket as soon as their present storage house—the old water : stocks of silk cloth are exhausted. | tanks made over. | ig day seven | ALL TANKED UP and FRANKLY I am more than pleased. I surely do and a 425,000-gallon | in est Cittzri THE SGUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. Berlin Claims Having Cap-| tured. Over Million Rus- sians Since War Started’ Two Months Ago H | (Ry Associnved Prensa) | NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Thou-| sands of Leningrad citizens—both | men and women—are joining the CAPT. NIPPER AND WILBUR | Red army in a last ditch defense the weekend at his Hyde Park} | against German columns attack- | ing from three sides. Moscow de- clared today. 1 Admitting some German units! may have forced their way to! | within 13 miles of the city, the, |Moscow communique said the! | Savage resistance of more than 1,-| {000,000 regulars and the entire | | CLAIM MILLION REDS HELD AS PRISONERS (By Annocinted Prenn) BERLIN. Aug. 22.—Berlin today claimed 1,250,000 Rus- sian soldiers have been cap- tered since the war with the Soviet Union began just two months ago today. With the war entering its third month. the Nazi high a pesres ter population of Lenin- grad is holding the Germans at f | bay. t . Berlin, meanwhile, claimed im-! portant successes for the Nazi jcolumns striking at Leningrad from captured Novgorod in the, south, from Estonia in the west} and from.the Karelian isthmus in| the north. Stuka dive bombers have raked _ the Red: defenders in repeated | attacks, while the mechanized | might of the three columns is said to be shattering Russian resist-| ance on all fronts. Far to the south, Berlin claimed | more victories as swift columns | moved east of beseiged Odessa on the Black Sea- to attack Red troops not yet in their new de- fense lines on the east bank of the Dnieper. Wipe Out Rear Guard Russian troops attempting to group over the Dnieper have been wiped out, according to German sourees, while thousands of'men' are sdid to have lost their lives’ is and boats to stop the retreat.’ Mascow claimed German ad- vances have been stopped on the banks of “an important river” | presumably the Dnieper. Neutral | observers said the Russian com- munique thus would seem to bear out the German contention that fighting on the west bank has virtually ended, with the Reds in new defense lines on the far side. Aerial battling on the western front continued in the night. as Royal Air Force bombers struck again at northern Germany, while Helsinki described a Russian raid Finland. Berlin claimed de- struction of 29 British planes, and ' day. protect the crossing of the main | _ : LITTLE CHANGE IN STRIKE SITUATION ROOSEVELT STANDS READY TO SIGN ORDER TO SEIZE PLANT (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. © 22.— President Roosevelt, spending | {Ry Ansocinted { home, today was: expected to! yyDE PARK, N sign an order seizing the strike-| oy, by bound Kearney, N. J., Federal! eae ‘Harry F. Byri that Shipbuilding and Drydock com-/j he d any plant | Program has bogged r jwere characterized as _ Federal mediators have aban-| 5 accurate by Peal doned all efforts to settle the} ; ‘ velt, restiny o strike, which has delayed work | “” pigetc: on nearly a half million dollars} a shipbuilding con: | President declared, we ; 2 Q ‘\ to-date, nor were they bi The eee: sR eee reliable reperts. eae no oy same: Bes ial Admitting he is not se tian eas a i pain §) with the defense 8 4 car an se ines. ia ‘President sald merican Federation 0} | figures reveal Whe operators who. effected the tieup ) in Thursday have refused to accept: city officers of mediation, AUSTRE Senator Byrd's (By Awnoctated Press) LONDON, Aug. . 22.—Austra-) - lian soldiers still are holding out on the German-occupied island of Crete, it was declared here to- ete i mation that the r is he been carrying on relaying ordersto busy. 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