The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 26, 1941, Page 1

sition With City The City Council, with Leo- nard B. Grillon, president pro- | tem, presiding in place of Presi-: dent William Freeman, who is! acting mayor in the absence from | the city of Mayor Willard M, Al-| bury, reconvened last night in a recessed meeting, sitting as an) equalization board for the -t pose of hearing complaints from | texpayers, Acting Mayor Freeman was | also in attendance as was ant! other councilmen with the ex- | ception of Councilman John Car- bonell. who was unable to attend owing to pressing business which required his attention, A communication was read from the Florida East Coast Ho- tel Company requesting that the assessment of $321,900 on the Casa Marina Hotel be reduced to $260,000, and that the assessment “en*dther land. adjacent ~ fo. the.’ hotel be reduced from $20,400 to $14,000, and also that the per- sonal property assessment on the } WANTS U.S. T0 to the American people to decide’ T Maggie Haverly, negro onan? in, about 20, was critically in- i jured but understood to be re-| jcovering at Marine hospital to- iday after a knife attack last | night by her common-law hus- } j band, Melvin Albury, 49. ERLIN, Albury, who walked to the is Aug. 26.—Adolf Hit-; {sheriff's office and gave himself ler today ordered Mexican con- | yp immediately after the cutting suls in Germany to close their of- | jat about 8:30 o'clock, said he ‘fices and leave the country. | slashed the. woman because she No reason. was givenfor the or- jrefused te care. for their two jder, but Mexico... previously. had ‘children and,.spent his money tordered German consuls , out of {on liquor. that courtry, and Germany a He told Chief Deputy George retaliated by demanding the }Gomez he persuaded the woman withdrawal of Mexican .govern- ito accompany him to a back ment. officials from Paris andjroom at the Robert Lewis beer! other occupied cities. and wine store on Petronia street, Berlin yesterday ordered the | then drove a heavy fish knife in-! |withdrawal of Haitian consuls |to her abdomen and slashed her |from. nie ae jabout the head and neck. The woman was rushed to Ma- {Tine hospital, where it was said | today she is not out of danger. | Albury was held in county GET INTO WAR jail for a preliminary hearing, j Which will be held by Peace Jus- jtice Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., j when a definite report on the {By Axsncinted Presa) LONDON, Aug. 26.—Back in | Woman’s condition has been re- | London after a series of confer- | °!Ve4- ences in Washington, Lord! Beaverbrook, British minister of | supply, today told newsmen he! would like to see the United | States actively in the war. “I am not going to be hypo. critical,” Beaverbrook told a porters in declaring that he would | be pleased if the United States | would take a more active part in the conflict. He added, “but of course it's up MEXICANS OUT) {By Associated Press) ‘MANY COMPLETED "FIRST AID COURSE The following women have completed and passed the stand- ard first aid course, sponsored | by the American Red Cross, ! with Mrs. E. C. Folger, instructor | in charge: that” Mrs. G. B. Bull, Mrs. Joseph R. Colgate, Mrs. Alice Enos, Mrs. jMartha Estabrook, Mrs. Lois H.; | ' ordinance ready for ‘the mayor. [reémall$ Supporters of a measure through which city council would lease to the Florida Keys Aque-, | 1 “duct commission this city’s WPA- (constructed water system. toda: furmed impatiently as acting Mayor William Freeman refused; to permit the bill to become law. Freeman, whose signature is necessary during the absence of ‘Mayor Willard M. Albury, who is in Miami, said today he would not sign the bill and would fight against its approval. Leonard B. Grillon, acting coun- cil president, gave his approval to the measure during the morn- ing, affixing his signature after members of the aqueduct board had requested him to get the action by The ordinance, approved by a ‘5-1 vote of the council Friday night, Council J Glenwood Sweeting dissenting, would turn jover to the aqueduct commission ithe city’s underground water sys- tem and would grant the commis- sion title to two pieces of property which would be used as pumping | Station sites. Freeman Explains Refusal The city Would be required to, pay $50 a year for each fire ‘hydrant. Freeman, explaining to The VISITORS ENJOY SOJOURN HERE ‘Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Burgert and hostelry be cut from $35,000 to; $10,000. 4 The council by a unanimous; vote refused to make any reduc- tion whatever in the assessments | as placed on the book by the tax | Serene: ;daughter Miss Barbara of Detroit, A request was also received | Michigan, Mr. Burgert's mother from the Woman's Club to elim- | Mrs. A, L. Brazil and sister Mrs, inate taxes on property, that of | Rose Baker of Tampa, Fla., who the old Hellings building on Du- have been guests of Mr. and Mrs val street which was recently FF. Hoffman for the past two purchased by the club. The mat-' weeks, left over the highway yes-| ter was deferred until a later: terday morning for their respec- date, with no definite action tive homes. 'Fenn, Mrs, Lawrence Fish, Mrs. !Citizen his refusal to sign the or- A. R. Gallaher, Mrs. Molley !dinance, characterized it as a “bill Reed-Garnet, Mary Noel Grant, /of sale” and declared the city! Winifred B. Hill, Mrs. Joan|never would get control of the! Johnson, Margaret Lund, Mrs. |system, which, according to the John Grant Lyman, Carolyn U. contract, would revert to city Martin, Thelma McCormick, Mrs. council upon liquidation of the Andre Mendell, Alaire S. Paige, | bonds. Mrs. Mizpah Pierce, Mrs. Regin-| ‘The commission, he declared, | ald Pritchard, Mrs. Charlotte | would be able to continue issuing Spangler, Helen Swain and Mrs. bonds for repairs or other pur-; Lloyd R. Vasey. |poses “forever”, preventing the | Edwin B. Thompson, instruc- !system from ever passing into the ltor, will be at the American Le- hands of the city. gion Hall, Wednesday, Aug. 27,| Freeman also has insisted that 1 HE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. areas KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1941 Stand , Was committed to no immediate | action. Col. Brinton Heard Col. L. C. Brinton, a supporter | of the ordinance as passed, to-j lay termed Freeman's objections iculous. “I’m quaking in my boots. for ‘fear something will happen toj{ the. deal because of this delay”, ‘| he said. | Brinton declared the idea of | “attempting to force the federal | government to put up a per-| formance bond was unheard of, } and pointedgto the fact that the | city soon would have to put up $25,000 to $30,000 for repairs to the existing pumping system as an answer to Freeman’s conte: tion that council should recei some compensation for the sys-! tem. | William T. Doughtry, Jr., chairman of the commission, said he hoped the mayor would | sign the bill upon his arrival here Thursday or Friday. “There's nothing we can do in the meantime”, he said. “They bonds cannot be validated until the indenture is completed”. ENROLLMENT INCREASE. | PREDICTED FOR FSCW i «Special to The citizen) 1 TA Aug, 26,—-Aj slight increase in‘ enroliment i anticipated at Florida State Col- lege for Women, which will open | its doors Monday, September 8, for the nine-month winter term. | This is based upon advance room } reservations and inquiries about | credits. Enrollment was 1,959 ; September 20 of last year, mark- | ‘ing the hignest fail enrollment! jon record. A general faculty meeting is! i scheduled September 8 at 4:30 | |p. m. | Freshman Week and registra-' tion will start September 8 and | |continue through’ Saturday, = | tember 13. Registration of upperclassmen | +Governor Spe The new commissioners, an-'ernor are Warren Sawyer, Ed-| {nounced by the governor this ward Gato, III, Thomas Moore, | nw A: morning, are Albury, Dr. Ar-'Harry M. Baker and Maximo! ‘mando Cobo, William W. De- | Valdez, all of Key West. | meritt, Sr. and Benjamin D. Baker is the only member of | ; Trevor, all of Key West, and the old group to receive a new) Robert Pentland, Jr., Miami, appointment. The late W. EL! auditor. Houston and the late Robert| John H. Costar, John R. Slade Pinder were members, and Paul | jand John D. Kennedy were Archer and Enrique Esquinaldo, | ' dropped from the board. The Sr., were not pease: } dent of the Woman's. club, and reconditioning the building” ‘half wilt be used Reemenen ny for | eS Key West, Florida, has most equable climate in country; with an @ range of only 14° Fah PRICE FIVE nto ran amnhing Heavy Ata With Exception Now At War With Brit. | ish And Reds (iy Associated Presa) NEW YORK, Aug. "and Russian armies, using aoe (Special to. The Citinem) TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 26.—/jlate C. C. Symonette was ie |Key West Mayor Willard M. Al- | fifth member of the original bury today was the only member’ group. i month. jof the board of Overseas Road; The governor also announced: ae, is and Toll Bridge District com-jthe appointment of Mrs, Isabelle; British soldiers, rushed to missioners to hold his post as Fleming, Ke. West, to succeed! Iranian. interior in rd L. Holland: Tranquilino Velasce- as county | planes, were reported".pro appointments, | probation officer. {the vital Iran oil fields and: members from: Port of Key West pilot .com-; missioners appointed by the gov- | TURKS FAVOR IRAN his announced , dropping three {the board. Key West's Public Library _ Will Be ‘Reopened. Key West's public library, said books will be available. Chil- |closed since June when the USO ‘dren’s books still were being) ,took over its old site on Duval moved into the new building to- ‘day, but they, too, will be avail- ' street, will reopen tomorrow aft- | able’ after tomorro ‘Mrs. Susan ernooen at its new location, Oe | Shounay, Mk be Ebene Hellings building at 319 Duval) Members of the Woman's SOS | street, Mrs. Fred Knapp, presi- when they resume their an- in October, will occupy half nat Oe ot building as clubhouse, while the other | nounced today. Although work of remodeling | their still is going forward, Mrs. Knapp the library. ‘MRS. ISABEL BALL TAKES UP taken. | Trumbo Properties, Inc. re-j quested that the assessment on! its property of $150,000 be re- duced. Inasmuch as there was no specific amount mentioned in/ the reduction asked for, the mat- » (Continued on Page Four) j 1 ‘number of pictures around the 16:30 p. m., to enroll those desir- ; ing to join the advanced course class on the following evening, 6:30 o'clock, at the same place. {This course is restricted to. those | holding Standard course certif- licates. Mrs. E C. Folger will al- Mr. Burgert is connected with the Detroit News, in their photo department. He photographed a docks of the fishermen and their catehes as well as many other in-; teresting scenes of the Island City, (Contineed on Res Two) Russians Believed To Have Recaptured City Of Gomel (By Asnociated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Russian ‘ troops, swarming into action along the entire southern front, today were believed to have recaptured the important White Russian city of Gomel on the east bank of the Dnieper riven | Moscow claimed only that an} important city on the southern front had been recaptured after five days of occupation by the! Nazis, but military authorities in London said it was probable the’ city would prove to be Gomel. Moscow, at the same time,’ claimed a huge victory near Odessa on the Black Sea, where} one Rumanian division was said to have been wiped out and two piss: | shattered. The Russian comb ud saifi the Rumanian Third infantry division suffered annihilation in a counter attack near Odessa, while the Sixth and | Seventh were said to have been} crushed and six other divisions} driven back with heavy losses. The Russian account of fighting | 1 DRINK YOUR BEE from a frozen glass at JOHNNIE NEBO'S STARLIGHT CLUB 713 Duval Street FIRST Wee regen es PLACE IN | |are driving down on Leningrad, so assist in the instruction of this group. | SERIAL STORY | STARTS TODAY} | { ‘D DAGGER” BY RITA MOHLER HANSON eaireves “SACREL i at the “important city” said vic- | tory came after some of the! bloodiest battling of the war, with} the Germans fighting from house} to house in their retreat. Admit Northern Gains Berlin claimed rapid advances in the north, where three columns | When Anne Willard went to! {central Asia she thought she was! merely joining her father and mother, whose archaeological camp was doing useful work: re- and Mbscow admitted that de-jconstructing the civilization of fenders of the city are being ancient days. driven back from the north and| But before she even reached; west. | the camp she received a guarded | Although German troops have!note from them which appointed | been reported within a few miles a meeting place at which she, of Leningrad, even in the out-|would receive a sacred dagger, , skirts of the city, neither Berlin | and would in due time be told{ nor Moscow mentioned any fight-j|how to use it to release her ing in that vicinity today. {parents from captivity by the | Berlin claimed an Serial attack | tribe of the Nagaras, and at the; sank three supply-loaded barges! same time to give the world the | 1on the Dnieper, and the Russians‘ truth about the marvels of the! | were said to have suffered the | hidden bee Shy-a Nago. loss of a troopship in the Baltic. And them she passéd through | Heavy British attacks on Man-;a series of adventures which \heim in north Germany featured ' seemed, even to her, almost be-| the night’s aerial warfare on the'yond belief. And when she ar- j ‘western front, with the British’ rived she found that the man she | ‘admiralty announcing that huge! was engaged to marry was not! . | R fires were left burning in the Ger-' the man she thought him — or at 8 o'clock tonight as a board of | Se were not acceptable, man industrial city. |perhaps it was because on her! London admitted the destruc: | way: she had met a man who was! , tion of six RAF bombers in the’ almost her ideal. ‘attack, and Berlin claimed five) He was Blaze Sherwood, andj} were shot down. |heavy raid by planes of the fleet | of Shy-a Nago. “The Sacred Dag- airarm on Sardinia. , (Continued On Page Four) A Blaze was working against her|made by Tax Assessor Claude 4% The admiralty. also described a}parents in the delicate business | Gandolfo. the city should not be required to pay for the fire hydrants and | should receive some compensation | for the use of its system. | With no provision for a per-' formance bond by the commis- | With the arrival of 50 or more | bonis Freeman zi me a ee new students for the second | away Seo Key West for two led readers at -the taking up a contract in which it;semester in January the total | “for was agreeing to do everything, “enroll tor the year should | Months talcing extensive ra and —— honors |while _ the annie commission | pass the 2,000 mark again. bee a reading —. at the ‘her Scholastic: wae University of Federal Covermeat To Take’ <8 a Action In Gasoliné Shortage week Reading Clinic at the Uni- ' versity of Florida, which was| ON INDUSTRIAL (By Associated Preas) WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—) His announcement came after conducted by Dr. Stella Center, | director of the New York Uni- The federal government will |the committee had. agreed to the jtake definite action in the east-! ettablishinen} of a tive: ‘ern seaboard gasoline shortage ‘3 ‘ iwithin 48 hours, Leon Hender- | C°™mittee which would be em- powered to make a survey of ‘son, price control administrator, told mmehers of the senate com-|the nation’s gasoline stocks and merce committee today. |to study the reasons for the Henderson, whose declaration ; shortage in eastern states, *of a gasoline shortage has«met; Congressional opponents have heated attacks from congression- | declared there is no shortage, al critics of the administration, | describing the rationing meas- refused to say. what the action |ures as an attempt to build up would be. ia war spirit will begin Thursday, September 11 ,and continue through Friday, | September 12. Classes begin Monday, tember 15. Sep- ésneetnt to The | probably the leading and chief exponent of the science | of reading in this country. 2 At Dr. Center's. suggestion, ' ' pointed. a mem Mrs. Ball proceeded to St. Lawr- / committee in ence University to continue ad-' Division, vanced work there undet Miss | ment, of will meet on August Gladys Persons, assistant direc- | tor of the New York University | ™ston to investigate Reading Clinic and co-author| (Continued On Page with Dr. Center of several texts. | ——————-=---— — - While attending St. Lawrence |. ‘Commissioners Meet Tonight As Tax Equalization Board County comm ssioners, meeting |first hearings on the tax rolk ince the complainants failed to put their claims in writing. The board will continue to meet each night until Fre complaints have been week, they an Pepe gee adjust- |ments on the rolig « ; | equalization, will continue to hear complaints of Monroe county citi- zens against property valuations { Many of the complaints BNE ceived when the board held its