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breaag = 2 Day Wire For 61 la Darited te the Best Interests of Key West Sea RES VOLUME LXUL. No. 204. Five Homes i ing Grove Arca At Cost Of $20,000 gpior sass DIERRE LAVAL, mitoses FORMER VICE coos PREMIER, SHOT housing project were issued yes- ferday to E, B, Anderson pe struction company of Miami as}: Building Inspector Y. D. Car. | bonell's August total was be | | i i MARCEL DEAT, FORMER AIR MINISTER, ALSO SHOT; YOUTH AR- RESTED ed by another $26,850, Each of the Anderson com- pany permits was for $4,000, and; all five were designated for lo- | (By Associated Prens) cation on Staples avenue. The| VICHY. .Unoccupied France, homes will have a 41-foot front! Aug. 27.—Pierre Laval. former | with 32-foot depth, of frame} construction, | Vice premier of France and once Gonzalo Bezanilla was granted | ae permit for remodeling | P° o! ie Palace theater, work of which will be carried out by [ Teeoes rt ee ee the Southeastern Coénstruction | | Critically wounded this morning ; company, with Russell T. Pan-j coast as architect. | at Versaille, Other permits issued during | the day went to James D. Rob-: erts, Jr., $150, general ro, | oa alleged Communist, was! Cheely Lumber company, $500, | general. repairs; Key West ome ban B'S Huby 2M ee Duval $2,090) general repairs; Merrill rd “eat long a leader of the fac- Havana street, $100, general re- \voring more complete col- pairs, and John Archer, a5" vis ay street, $100, general ia beaeoaey with Germany. de Reset haga et { | Shot while he was accepting regis- TRANSIT aS Serene join the fight against the Rus- TOOK VOTE TODAY +... Political heir to Marshal Henri A 2l-year-old youth, He was shot both in the arm WILL ACCEPT AMERICAN and body. FEDERATION OF LABOR | Marcel Deat, former air minis- AS BARGAINING AGENT | ter and Rightiest leader, was shot ‘at the same time. receiving a sin- (My Ansovinted Prenat DETROIT, Aug. 27.—Detroit transit workers, who tied up this/| city for three days+ last week | were serious. but they believed when they halted service on| street cars and _ busses, today | he would live. voted by a 2-to-1 majority to ac-' cept the American Federation ot Labor as their bargaining agent.* The workers returned ‘to their | ¢ NEW YORK—Because her hus- jobs. Monday after city officials - had appealed to them to con- phat took her out) three times tinue working while plans for @uring 18 years of married life, ' the election were completed. Mrs. Max Popper of this city sued CIO leaders, their union de-! for a divorce. feated in the election, indicated | they would continue the strug: gle. One leader of the union aia! ANTIGO, Wis.—Looking the election would | settle the} through edna eit denies trem chia jurisdictional dispute “for the time” but he said CIO would! ‘father’s estate, O. J, Husemeir of launch a drive to gain new} |this city, found $333 in old bills members. in one of them. | Five Draftees Called In Key West For Army Duty Three Key West men, a Civil-; Thomas Chatwood is enrolled at ian Conservation Corps member | the CCC camp, while John An- at Ramrod Key, and a Mi-!drew Caple, Jr., will report from amian who registered here have} Miami. been ordered: to report to the local) ‘The men have been ordered to Sraft bonee. Sere. 6 ay ad Ot ccnort to the draft board office Camp Blanding. for} at the Federal building at 2 Key Westers ordered up Ft ciobk Sept. 8, army duty are Jose Manuel Val-! des, Jr., 1310 Virginia street; Ar-! thur Vincent Armayor, 748 Wind- Lane, and Harry rt Saun- ders, 416° Mi NOW ON DISPLAY!: ders, 416 Margaret street. James | 1941 MODELS Studebaker Champion Willys gle wound in the right arm. Physicians said Laval’s wounds 2 SUES FOR DIVORCE FINDS OLD BILLS DRINK YOUR BEER from a frozen glass at JOHNNIE NEBO'S i sedisiiey ka Gee GHT CLUB, aTAge Aen trent Street Lou Smith Auto Service FIRST AND ONLY PLACE IN [min ws Phone No. 5 KEY WEST Me Fone SS oY Sa a Paul * canneries” near the North Amer- | Key THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1941 GOVERNMENT. Error In Water Ordinance bapa | HIKES ‘TARIFF "| Requires That Document Be | ON | CRABMEAT | Brought Up Fe For Correction PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS-/ {fforts to rush transfer of the} Dymeyor Albury refused to com-! in SUED PROCLAMATION IN, city’s underground water system | mit himself, however. ; INTEREST OF ICAN !to the aqueduct commission came | The mayor said he was not jtoa dead stop this morning as City , familiar with the terms of the cede, “anaes Sota MARKET INCREASE | Attorney Aquilino Lopez revealed | measure, and he refused to say if ithe ordinance making the trans-! he would seek the concessions 2 |fer was faultily drawn and must’ demanded by Freeman—a_per- (Specir* “> rhe Citizen) be recalled. Lopez told the councilmen of the mistake after he had been notified by Garland Budd, one of the commission attorneys, that the ordinance was not acceptable in its present form to Reconstruc- tion Finance corporation, which is to lend the commission $1,500,- 000 as its share of the water proj- a bigger ect cost. At the same time, Mayor Wil- lard M! Albury, © returning un- expectedly from Miami at mid- night last night, said this’ morn- ing that he would make a full formance bond from the commis- | sion, free water for the city’s fire, hydrants and a percentage of profit for Key West from the water sales. Mayor Albury’s return, permit- | ting Freeman to retake his seat on the council as a voter, promises at j least two votes against the ordi- WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—The water foods industry of Florida | assumed a rosier hue this week as leaders who fought for in- creased import duties on Japan- ese crabmeat enjoyed the fruits of victory and planned for de lopment ef .a fisheries conse. vation program ‘designed»to in ‘rease production for erican® market: Victory in the fight to elimin- ate unfair competition brought | By ‘Japanese crabmeat producers {came last Friday when President Eyal issued a proclamation |study of the ordinance before raising the tariff on imported ‘either approving or disapproving crabmeat from 15 percent ad va- ' it. ij jlorem to 224%%. } Passed by council Friday night, Opportunity For Expansion | the ordinance had been held up The presidential order was the‘ i this week by the refusal of Acting jresult of efforts. of. American | Mayor William Freeman to sign, {conservation leaders to provide but supporters of the measure had lopportunity for expansion of the expressed confidence that Mayor crab industry in the United | “bury. would give quick approval x Four) States—a campaign’ in which | upon his Se teah ee He <aty. \Contined: a8 haa ns dent Washington, the voters have {Fibride’s et pr sree Pak eit Lapeirane: by psy ana non figured prominent‘ sit f “big shot” iticos. the increased tariff the Bowe and tumble political fighter, has ee oR now DEFENSE RESHAPES INDUSTRY =.= {along the ‘Atlantic and Gulf! leader of the opposition in Presi- coasts to supply the increased | }dent Roosevelt's two most, spot- jdemand for the product in the | |lighted struggles—over the Su- | American market. | 'preme Court enlargement plan It was through the leadership | WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Na-'are doing three shifts a day Nj and over the country’s war poli- of Congressman Canon and oth- | tional defense has given new! bomb bodies and fins. (cies. ‘er enthusiasts for conservation | meaning tothe word “conver-j Two soyercere companies ‘War, the threat of war and ithroughout the countr that | i 2 eves: sah ace anything | party splits have dramatized the | President Roosevelt and “the tar- ree aae Utata ee | more warlike than a knife and | ation re tarotous political antago~ |iff commission: were sold upon," P jcork for massacring a T-bone, nisms, Most of these”feuds have jthe. asserted “confiscatory com-|Pocketbooks squeezed by priori-/are making ' cartridge “ clips.’ been between members’ of the petition” of Japanese interests,|ties and the like whq aren’t|Vacuum cleaner companies are same party. One deprived Maine’s ‘many of whom operate “floating jlying awake nights ‘thinking|™@king gas masks. Parking me, priliiant James G. Blaine of the about ik jters have been converted into Presidency. OPM, the army, the navy and ‘bomb mechanisms, hair clippers Secretary of Buk Jefferson all other national defense buyers/i@t machine gun belt links,’ and Secretary of the Treasury uct that has been sold in the! are thinking about it, too. jeream separators into gun tri-, Hamilton frequently were on the United States in competition} “Conversion” means changing | Pods. and slide fasteners into verge of fisticuffs during cabinet with American-produced crab-| plant facilities from manufacture | ®2¥8¢s- And for some strange controversies over the rights of | meat. of articles for civilian consump= | ees Raging strong Cork Co. the individual sth i of toe fed | i | an, e. tates as against those - Cann Tilustrat } ti cles fe ational , de- | = jwhich Japanese crab packers | The complications of it can be Ailes Banos Wma onde joa proponent - a powerful cen-. thave thrived from American | left bee snnthes ime, an ta | Beta kg the army. sean ae ‘al Governitien! sales ma int- |started out to tell you was that) ports of canned crabmeat, paste |the strangest industrial bedfel-} ean be petite from in 9 twinkling barely wpbseacarivds rch ers ooh ne and sauce during 1940 totaled |lows that ever stretched out ony f A s 1 of articles of peace to the in- net, neither leader publicly | 11,861,462 pounds, with about 90 |@n assembly line, 'struments of war. dulged in rabid verbal onslaughts | ‘percent of these imports coming |_ It may not be so startling that] want to tell you, as it was upcn the other. ‘Their duelling, | from Japan. The Commerce De-|B. F. Goodrich, the rubber pro-/ 1414 5 me, about one of the’ fist-tighting foliswers, however, partment placed a value on ‘ducer, is loading bounceless shells | yore recent results of this search | tossed. torrid invectives. : these imports of $3,596,643. The |and bombs at a Texarkana, Tex..' ang how a big boom has come, cengressman further declared | Plant, or that Willys-Overland it, the quiet little resort town| against the France to which Jef. jthat during the first five months | Motors, right along with their | o¢ Bantam, Conn. ferson was friendly, thus toasted set the current year Japanese | ‘Jeeps’, are turning out 155-mil-' “ty that town | where business the new President, John “berabmeat imports to America to- llimeter shells—but the army{ (Cont Fey Four! i Tealed taon pound. contract records do give you a! cennnyed On Page ‘ TO. Acton, tony. Se Baas | The British government ban- |Jolt when youysee that the na-| ned imports of: Japanese .crab- | tion's largest ypanufacturers of wee ayia woes wt 2e * Bertin And Moscow Both. of the war in 1939. ‘While the | Path beaten to their “doors the | {pick up thousands of army. ose | i | tariff increase. ordered » by President will not ban Japenkec| You wouldn't | expect _ the| Corp., at Kohler, Wis., | ‘imports to America, it was ex- | Kohler i pected to greatly reduce them {Which is responsible for a lot pf} because it will force the orient- | bathroom fixtures, to be making | \als to eliminate “price-slashing” |fuses—but once you have that; | methods. a ldown try to figure out why the | | The presidential order climax- | lipstick makers, whose only ex- es a long. fight by the American jplosions heretofore have been in Crab Packers Committee, head-|the realm of romance, also are ed by Sterling G. Harris, Port | making these little gadgets that! Royal, S. €., packer; the Ameri- |5¢t off death from the sky. _ can Water Foods association, | While we are in the cosmetics whose general counsel, Hugh M. | field, note too that a big Linden, ; Frampton, Washington attorney, |N. J., producer of compacts now conducted the case before the |‘ rolling out percussion caps. ‘hearing, probably Thursday night. | Councilman J. Glenwood Sweet- | ing voted against it the first time, but Freeman, as acting mayor,, WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—The was unable to put in his official feud between the President and protest, except by refusing to sign ! Montana's “Battling Burt” etter p uommenangy meng ed Wheeler has become the No. 1 political animosity of the battle- 1 The error which made it neces- seal th di ce, Lopez studded Roosevelt administration. pale so recelt Vie ceereere . It may turn out to be one of the explained, was made by the com- : . mission attorneys when they in- classic enmities of American po- “ litical history. cluded in the proposed lease an . ‘ easement for the army barracks’; Since the days when silk-stock inged Thomas Jefferson and sewage pipe line, which they be- ¥ s sd lieved extended through the prop- | Alexander Hamilton almost came to blows in the cabinet of Presi- By JACK STINNETP, AP) Feature Service Writer ican continent and, employing} cheap labor, maufacture a prod- BIL) X (hy Amosiatea beens NEW YORK, Aug 27—Berlin, DNB, official German news jtoday claimed a smashing new/agency, countered with the victory on the Russian central’ claim that the entire Red Twen- front, with the capture of the cit- | ty-second army was engulfed and Hes of Velikie Luki and Borisov, | destroyed in the fighting around arrisons over which the Ger-/Velikie Luki, where mechanized man armies must ‘roll to reach columns now are reported Moscow. | streaming through a break in Reports from Helskini, capital the Russian lines. of Finland, indicated another | At Leningrag, the Russians tariff commission, and other in-| Pipe organ makers are grind- a eee cece beet lees oS faerie deh oi seas terested water foods producers | ing away on saddle frames, Cas-| iio) OF Sslonum, Mpere See ane | cesstully against @ hi and groups from throughout the |Ket makers, as if they didn't! 10° 0° son. oe ai) ‘Finns. “som the nofth, — country, who sought to show the {have enough to do in wartime, idea jg? cexcuation. asserted unfairness of competi- ‘The Mt Odessa Said Unafraid tion brought by the Japanese. ne hurt eae Gun se gy a report from Odessa, The fight flared into the open | ik " about a year ago when Senator ; ONLY 4 MORE DAYS Bag fhe, re across Bp | Ae Genes. Black beet ane the TO BUY A GOOD Id a t George L. Radcliffe, of Mary- | as reported raging “hiee 1 the land, introduced and steered | Observers in Finland through the senate a_ resolution! | Russians are hopelessly directing the tariff commission ; is } ‘; “ to conduct an investigation into |] Without Government Credit ‘ty ae Rgewsctien, the methods of competition prac- | Restrictions. ticed by importers of canned Use Our crabmeat. WE- NO. U Highlights Of Evidence plan to NAVARRO’S USED CAR LOT and Simonton Sts. At the final hearing before | the tariff commission in Janu-! ary, Mr. Frampton and Mr. Har- ris were supported by senators | and congressmen from coastal | States throughout the a who appeared as witnesses to in| form the commission of the =| ae of a break through on the een-| jtral front, said Red troops at pressing” effect Japanese com- petition was having upon the (Continued on Page Four) rat Citizen War Supplies 8 For Viadivosto WILL THAT ENMITY BETWEEN WHEELER AND ROOSEVELT RANK By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE; AP Feature Service Writer Although Federalist Hamilton | Federalists, shouting for war | Claim Victory In a. Key West, Florida, has most equable climate in the country; with an avera; range of only 14° Fahrenheit Any Ship With U. Coirts 2 ‘Notice Issued As Uni States Tanker From West Coast | Bearing Sepp sands of Frenchmen with © the} (By Associated Press). jawbone of Jefferson.” | (NEW YORK, Aug. 27. Republican ~ Democrats called } Russia today bluntly warned Hamilton “an English monarehy-! | Pan that any interference loving Tory” and spread mali- H caine U: cious stories of “his affair with a/ Mrs. Reynolds.” | Supplies to Viadivostock ‘The break between Presiden!’ be considered an unfriendly | Andrew Jackson and his vice} president, John C. Calhoun, came | in Moscow, and: would be in “an era of political hydro-/ with “appropriate: action”. phobia.” Calhoun resigned as | vice president and won a seat in. The = the senate when Old Hickory = States. tanker sailed | a strong stand against “nullifica~ tion.” States-Righter Calhoun | W@St coast port for held that if an act of Congress | and as it was rumored in seemed unconstitutional w a! state, the latter might properly | hat: the Japanese suspend or “nullify” operation of : bad addressed new the act within its jurisdiction. 3 When Calhoun’s South Caro-: Washington and lina “nullified” a tariff act, Jack-: y, son issued a proclamation of} | ported a senate resolution which icensured the President for re- ‘moving government deposits from, (the United States bank. \ Can anal bon, Steak eee tore weed Caeet ve han i i ieee e Sonkling. ‘boss of New York twice thwart- | jed the popular James G. Blain’s, attempts to win the G. O. P. presi- 2 ;dential nomination. And when | fen |Blaine finally was nominated, and | Conkling's failure to. support him prevented his election. } | “The feud started while both: were members of the House >of | Representatives. On one occasion. (Continued on. Page Four)”

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