The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 23, 1941, Page 1

For 61 Years Best ae eR A OIE VOLUME LXII No: 201. Pirie eee oar ecenmae ee Few Changes W Were Made Before Adoption; Sev- eral Amendments Of’ fered Were Killed | The City Council convened in| { special session last night.in res- | Ponse to a call issued by Coun man Leonard B. Grillon, - 2uthorizing the leasing of the! city’s unused underground atest system the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission, William: Freeman, council president, who | to ‘from the city of Mayor Albury. the | was also in attenlance at meeting, with all other men present. council- | After adopting a few ments to the ordinance, with all | councilmen taking part in the discussion, the ordinance, with the appended lease in connection | therewith, was passed on its second, third and final reading... % voted for its passage, while i Councilman Sweeting passed on roll cali. Although Councilman Freeman had no vote due to the fact that he is acting mayor, never- theless was accorded the courtesy by the presiding of- ficer to address the council on the subject, which he did. Mr. Freeman stated that he felt that) the matter should be deferred until a later date in order that! the issue may be given further | study. It was the sense of the ma- jority of the councilmen that all members had been given suffi- cient time to familiarize them- selves with the issue, which was presented to the council several months ago by S. P. Robineau, at- torney for the Aqueduct Commis- sion, and again on Thursday night past at the regular meeting of | the council. At this juncture the | “question” was put, and Acting | President Grillon ordered the roll | be called, with five out of. the | six voting for the passage of the ordinance. Councilman Sweeting offered several amendments to the. ordi- | nance, one of which was to strike | out the section which read “that forty cents per thousand gallons would be the maximum charge for water,” and also wanted to elim- inate any charge being made for hydiant service by the city, but) would have the city collect an- nually one per cent of the gross receipts in the sale of water by the commission. All of the amend- ments offered by Mr. Sweeting were killed on roll call. William Doughtry, chairman of the Aqueduct Commission, and! Mr. Budd, attorney, acting for Mr. Robineau, who is attorney of the Commission, were present at the meeting, both taking part in the proceedings dealing with the or- dinance which» was before the council for consideration and dis- posal thereof. CARPENTERS HELP HOUSING CAMPAIGN Aiding the campaign for homes | registration in Key West, car-/ penters’ local 655 today donated, $50 for contiuation of the homes’ | committee program. { } Officers of the committee for | several weeks have been cam-| paigning to raise money for a complete registration of homes in the Key West area, Associated Press Day Wire Service Devoted te the Interests of Key West Five members of the council | jing | George L. Burr, MAN ARRESTED HERE TO FACE TRIAL IN MIA |LOCATED LAST NIGHT BY COUNTY OFFICERS; DEPUTY COMING HERE TO RETURN wrival of a Dade county | dgputy Who will return him to | Miami to face five separate! charges of breaking and enter-' ing. scription were sent here by Dade} officials, was arrested last night} by Chief Deputy George Gomez! jand Deputy Frank Stickney, who | |German is acting mayor in the absence, jlocated him through his social se- | |Karelian isthmus defense lines | curity record, ‘The man was employed here by the Hoffman Construction com- | | pany, where he had worked for jagency, DNB, describing the past six weeks. Gomez said a woman at the amend- | rooming house where Outgles was ‘gone conclusion, with staying told him she had never) | heard of the man, but a few perdi later the deputies again drove past the house and saw him Peeping frpm a front windo from a front window. GNS Pt POSITION | GIVES UP DUTIES AS RE-| CORDING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE COUNCIL Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, record-! secretary of the Monroe county division, state signation from the post. Mrs. Berkowitz, who will con- tinue her duties as chairman of the council’s first aid committee, and as leader of Red Cross train- | ing activities here, said her | health would not permit her to retain the recording ship, In accepting her resignation, Jr., executive director of the state council at Tallahassee, said in a letter. “We regret very much to learn that because of your health it will continue serving the Monroe county defense council as its secretary. We are very grateful ;to ‘you for the excellent work which'you have done in the formative days of the council. “Your numerous reports con- cerning the activities in Monroe | county have kept us well in- formed of the progress which | the sincerely hope that you will find| it possible to resume activity inj the defense coal Work On Lime defense | council, today announced her re- , NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—“Dig {yourself in. The decisive moment has arrived,” Thus Soviet Marshal Kliment iE Varoshilov today called upon ‘the citizens of Leningrad to fight | ito the death against a Nazi at-! {tack which may be launched at lany hour. | As Marshal Varoshilov spoke, ‘acknowledging the grave danger to Leningrad, Nazi troops along! the entire Russian front were hurling themselves into a re- newed offensive, said to over- shadow in ferocity and of the : | fighting which :has gone’ before. | tgles, alias “Coochie”, | in‘ county jail today | te capture of Chernigov, Dnieper’! Unofficially, Berlin claimed’ jriver city between — captured |Gomel and beseiged Kiev. } In the north, Nazi columns? i were declared to have crashed to! within a few miles of Leningrad, | while far to the south, another | | Outgles, whose picture and de- ;German column was smashing to hin nine miles of the Black Sea port of Odessa. Finns Break Through Helsinki declared Finn troops have and crushel j of the Red Army and are strik- ling toward Leningrad, 45 miles away. The German news enor- ijmous Russian losses, said the re- sult of the war now is a_ fore- the Red official Claim Tourist ‘suffer through jaemelines “unless conditions grow | worse”, the state chamber of com- | merce has informed S. C. Single- tton, secretary of the local cham- ber. ‘The local board, which now is affiliated with the state board, {was informed in a bulletin that the state representative would ef- fectively represent its members in handling the gasoline crisis. The bulletin follows: (Gasoline: No commercial or legitimate use is threatened as secretary- far as we can ascertain, The U./} :S. is moving to curtail, if not stop, joy riding. It is to our interest to/ cooperate. Unless conditions grow worse, Florida’s. tourist; trade will not suffer. “Your state chamber will ef-) fectively represent you in this‘ be ‘impossible for you to crisis, if indeed the situation may; be thus labelled All-out aid to! Britain demands some sacrifice. Wee will be fortunate if we are not asked to give up more than use- less motor prowling.” | The chamber of commerce bul- letin continued: “Fire Prevention -Week (Oct. 5-11) coincides with the anniver-; sary of that action on the part of council is making, and we Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, the story of| which has come down through! the years. She (the cow, not Mrs. \O’Leary) kicked over a lantern; Grove Housing Project To Start On. Monday. E. B. Anderson Construction ting ta corporation of Miami, will launch operations .Monday’ morning on/ the Lime Grove housing project | abandoned in June by the Les- ter F. Preu company, also of! Miami, it was announced today. The Anderson firm, which | will finance the project, yester- . SEE THE 1941 Studebaker Champion “The Car That Saves You Gas” New models displayed at Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming Phone No. 5 day took title to 16 of the 56 lots; in the subdivision, and an-, nounced work would start at! jonce on the first 16 units. (By Associated Press) ) soldiers facing inevitable defeat. | Moscow, losses by the Germans, declared it is obvious that the war will be} a long one, with certain Russian victory as its result. Russian claims dealt wth un- | | Specified areas in which the Reds were said to have held firm against German attacks. At “D” (probably Dnepropetrovsk, im- portant Dnieper river city) the Russians said 4,000 Germans were killed and scores of* tanks (destroyed in ‘launched by Red soldiers and members of the “citizen's army”. Wipe Out Army In another unspecified area, »the: Russians said nine villages |have ben retaken from the Nazis, jwhile the entire 161st division of the German army was said to have been annihilated. Aerial activity on the western front increased during the night, with the RAF pounding Man- {heym, LeHavre, . Ostend and Dunkirk, while the German luft- waffe struck back with attacks on unnamed British airports. Italian sources claimed the destruction of 10 RAF bombers } as the British blasted Tripoli and | Derna in Libya. Berlin, in describing the at- tacks on Britain, said a 10,000- ton merchant ship was sunk off} the south British bomber. Trade Will coast by __ fRoberts; one sister, Mrs. Lillie MRS, BERKOWITZ | Not Suffer Through Any area Restrictions On Gasoline Florida’s Tourist trade will not, and Chicago’s great blaze was on. |ways had great confidence in; been shot for anti-German acts, | restrictions on! Warn your folks against gasoline | whatever information Mr. Roberts stored on home premises. “Earlier this year than usual, ‘the advertising and publicity | chemers are in our midst. Your state chamber turning at least one away cacia week. Prob- | ably two each week next month. | Florida can well rely on recog- nized media,” ‘SEED GERMINATES AFTER 500 YEARS IN DESERT DUST | ay Annveinted Mremst ST. LOUIS, Aug. 23.—How long can a seed retain its vita- lity? Some light is being thrown on :this age-old question by a plant ;germinated from a_ seed 500 years old at Shaw’s garden her The plant is a Chinese lotus, scientifically named nelumbium jnucifera, closely related to wat lilies, the seed of which was found in a peat bog in Manchu- ‘ria where dust from the Bogi desert had covered it under sev- eral feet of loam. Three of the ancient seeds were planted June 16. One gr- jminated immediately: and now ‘has a sturdy leaf about the size of a cup. One of the other seeds !rotted and the third one is still | dormant. While doing research work in |Manchuria in the early 20's, (Ichiro Ohga, a Japanese botanist, found a -dried-up lake where ‘lotus seeds were so plentiful na- is | tive children digging for peat-{ } fuel hunted them for food. Jap- j anese geololists estimated more | than 400 years has passed since the lake disappeared. | Ohga, collected many. jseeds and distributed of... the them to KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1941 also describing huge | a counter attack ; valerian ceenttoor 3 Che Key West Citizrn THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. enh iF SOR aaa Key West, Florida, has the ~ most equable glimate in the country ; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit _ PRICE FIVE CEN 1 Declare —— United States Become Embroi Upon Japan Should DIED THIS A. FUNERAL SERVICES WIL! CONDUCTED ON SUNDA’ AFTERNOON Samuel Roberts (Pilot), age 82 years, died this morning at 12:14} o'clock at his residence, 526 Wil- jliam street. Funeral services will {be held tomorrow, Sunday after- jnoon at 4:30 o’clock from the first |Congregational Church, Rev. Doherty officiating. The body | will be ‘placed in the church at 2 {o’clock. Survivors are three sons, S. ; Winfield, J. Frank and J. Webster 1 Cole; one brother, Thomas H; {Roberts (Pilot; four grand chil- ea and two great grand chil- he \ Pritchard Funeral Home in arge of arrangements. Mr. Roberts was one of Key TWest’ S. oldest and highly respected | citizens, ‘and was looked upon for ta long number of years as “Key West's Second Weather Man.” The people of this city have al- is j imparted relative to storms and | their movements, and during the "hurricane seasons his telephone | been put down by the German | was kept constantly ringing by | | the many who were eager to find; jout »what he thought of the | weather. In other words prac: | i tically everyone called up “Sam! | Pilot” to find out about weather | conditions, Aside from this, the deceased | was looked upon as being a man} of sterling qualities, being an ac- | jtive church worker, and in fact jw be buried from the church which he organized in Key West, | The First Congregational Church, | which is directly across the street | | from his home. ‘Mr. Roberts’ passing will be parents felt by the people of this jcommunity among whom he numh- | ‘bered friends on ESSE On SXeEs. hand. | FAVORABLE TO | Most Key West fi filling station | operators are in favor of com-/; ' plying with the government’s re- quest that they close Sundays, but jonly if they are assured that all stations will close, Lou Smith op- erator of ohe of the city’s largest } stations declared today. would be glad to follow any gov- necessary to national defense. The operators, he said, would be just as ready to close Sundays as | they were to follow the request | and 7 a. m. Charging at least one large station with remaining open at night in violation of the operators’ agreement, Smith said the other) operators would be unwilling to! stop sales Sunday unless they Homes in the project will be | botanists in varions parts of the!could be certain there would be | built to sell at about $4,500, an! officer of the firm said yesterday. | | Each unit will contain six rooms, | with three bedrooms. The homes | will be of frame construction, | Under present plans, the firm’ {will build homes in the subdi-j ision as fast as they are demand- jed, putting up 100 | buyers appear. The Preu company abandoned | construction of a 100-unit, $450,- 000 project at the subdivision |because of labor trouble. Cheely Lumber company, Key | West, will furnish building sup- | Plies. if sufficient | | world. ‘| TWO MODERN AUTO SERVICES 1. 30 MINUTE BATTERY CHARGING. 2. CHEM-CREAM WASH- |; ING—looks like a polish at no extra charge, |; Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming Phone No. 5 no “chiseling” on the move, He suggested that Mayor Al- ‘bury or some other official take j the initiative in getting the op- erators together for a Sunday) {closing program. EE, DRINK YOUR BEER from a frozen glass at JOHNNIE NEBO’S. STARLIGS. CLUB val Street vinst AND ONLY PLACE IN KEY WEST - ‘SAMUEL ROBERTS.» W: hostages and shot for a SUNDAY CLOSING! | Smith said most of the operators | ernment suggestion for a move) that they close between 7 p, m. | (My Ansociated Prensa) NEW YORK, Aug. . assured President Roosevelt ti | the British Empire will Bs qv upon Japan “' : : nosiages, —8NG' should the United States crimes such as that against the German of. wiki e answered ‘embroiled in a Far Eastern by the Nazis with the shooting | it was reported in London (By Associated Press) INEW YORK, Aug. 23—Ger- will be held as many and Italy are being driven to increasingly harsh measures to istem a rising tide of revolt and {unrest among the conquered peo- “ of “some” of the prisoners. | een a {ples of Europe, according to in-) How many will be killed for day. : formation reaching here tode such an offense, it was declared,! ‘An authorized spo Following immediately r the German decree announcing that Frenchmen would be held as ainst German authorities, Rome today announced it had been necessary to impose military law to halt up-, risings in Croatia, Marshal Heri Philippe Petain, | will depend on how serious the . the. promise came. when authorities believe the crime to, ident Rooseyelt questioned: be. far the British would go TWO MORE BODIES. soa." RECOVERED TODAY 2s chief of the Vichy government, | announced, the creatidm-of military. ‘+ courts”, throughout occupied BRINGS. pares ‘ror. lon France for the purpose of meting | out death sentences to,Commun- i BROOKLYN FIRE TO THIRTY-THREE tic empire or. its must be licensed by o Meanwhile, it was. reported | Shanghai that American o Uy Assortated Press) peaiies are attempting to NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Rec-j|out of Japanese-dominated overy of the bodies of two Genes Gee in order to escape jStevelores today brought to 33 | American _ freezing _ order ithe total of known dead in the | Chinese credits. ‘ \fire which destroyed the Cuban} Texas) Oil. : Mail line dock Monday in-Brook- | nounced, will move. lyn, Several men. still are missing | Si lists, Jews and saboteurs. Berlin said a Belgian mayor heal | and reports have reached New | York of violent outbreaks on the | ‘part of the Greeks which have! army and secret police, Decree Orders Death | The German death decree in France followed the murder by | stabbing of an unidentified Ger- {man staff officer in a Paris sub-: pas and it is feared ‘they, too, were 4 2 trapped and killed in the fire. The decree said all French} sis : wae |prisoners taken in the future BIGFIREIN PHILADELPHIA MORE SHIPS FOR GREAT BRITAIN (iy Associated Preast WASHINGTON, Aug. 23,— ‘Congressmen opposed to. the ad- ministration’s foreign policies to- | at ‘residence day were up in arms over a on wee street. port that 100 more tankers soon Funeral will be sent to Great Bri Leaders of the’ opposition, who Glenda Rae — Roberts, months, Seuabier of (Ry Asnnotiated Vresn) PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23.— | Another million-dollar fire today ' gutted a lumber yard in north Philadelphia, burning homes and part of a factory in the area be- fore it was brought under con- already have asked a senate jn-| chard trol. ‘ ‘vestigation of the shortage on|of Ley Monae The five-alarm’ conflagration! the east coast, said to send an- | ing. | was the second big lumber yard |fire here within four months. Authorities, investigating the cause of the blaze, said damage would run well over $1,000,000. | The fire destroyed part of a fac- tory engaged in manufacturing | valves for defense machinery. ‘other 100 ‘tankers to Britain would mean cuts of 50 per cent and up in gaspline shipments to, the Atlantic coast states, Survivors STOOD UP FOR DAD CUSHING, Okla—When the — Rev. W. G, Ferguson, pastor of FROM THE FRYING PAN... ie Cushing Christian ¢hurch, | | —— asked everyone to stand who was | |, MY. HOLLY, N. C.—Milton |present and accompanied by his | Morris, overeome by gas in a/father, the 32 members of the chemical plant, was placed on aj We. J. Hubbard family all stood. 15-foot platform—from where he | The included chile | fell and fractured his skull. evicunell oe sag Key pice largest property | 2 owners filed into the courthouse fis morning i Grotent to county | Dis ge ty owner, and Julian Marks | “y lcommission, acting asa board o' their protests with the board, is equalization, the 100 per cent yal- While F. E. Bennett, tax agent juations recorded against them by the Florida East Coast. railway, pop oc Tax Assessor Claude A. already had protested against the 'Ga ‘0, William R, Pérter, president of *S¢ssment on the Casa Marina’ the First National Bank and a, hotel. holder in numerous other inter-| 7. & Pelee Aoi Me