The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 29, 1941, Page 1

I NO a ce a Sis rer wore SA a Associated Press Day Wire ‘ears Devoted te th Best Interests of Key West Sees ees VOLUME LXIL. No. 206. Resubmitted For Correc-'FREEMAN’S FOUR POINTS ON WATER tion Of One Paragraph; Passed On Its Initial; Reading The City Council reconvened in @ recessed meeting last night, with President William A. Free- members in attendance. Mayor Willard M. Albury, City Attorney Aquiline Lopez and City Clerk j Pressey L, Weatherford were) also present. The much discussed water ordinance was resubmitted for correction of one of its para- graphs, after having been re-. called due to the error in ques- tion, and had to be redrawn and reread, despite the fact that it had already been passed on its ing to the provisions of the law. The ordinance was read last: night by title only, and was' Passed on its initial reading, and will come up again on Thursday | night at the council's regular meeting for its second, third and: All of the councilmen, with the exception of Freeman and Sweeting, voted for its adoption : on its first reading last night. On roll call Sweeting “passed” | and Freeman answered “not vot- ing”, Freeman was the only councii- man addressing the board rela-| tive to the subject. He reiterated his objections on the passage of the ordinance, stating that he, felt that the city should profit to, some extent in turning over the; system to the Aqueduct Commis- | sion. i Mayor Albury will make al complete study of the ordinance | in the meantime, and- will be called upon to sign the measure} in the event that it is passed on its final reading Thursday night, | which every indication shows} that it will, inasmuch as_ five} councilmen voted for its passage | on both occasions. | The council sitting as a tax Key West. equalization board last night} heard several complaints from MINE-HOUR DAY taxpayers. relative to assess-! ; aera ments. One was from Allan B.| M’COMB, Miss.—The swapover | Cleare, Sr., relative to his resi-| to daylight iA tert ot Phite dence property’ Gn North Beach, ! county, while the rest stays ‘ requesting that the fixed assess- | standard, has County It Harrison behind the eight-bail. wee ordered het the gmnunt be Tp please everynedy: and handle | replace the envoy during the Rus- | trapped in Iran, and a German | | his work, he says, he has to get up| The request of the Gulf Oil, by daylight time and go to bed by i standard. ment of $7,800 be reduced. reduced to $7,000. (Continued on Page Four) annually to the City of Key West, Fla. one per cent of their annual gross receipts. Said amount received by the City of Key West to be credited to the general rev- enue account of the City of Thurston Company To Construct — Scion Bast At Trumbo Wan Construction of the navy's re-}Comdf. William S. Heath’ Ret.) cently authorized section base at|has been transferred here to a as, assistant port carried out Pi | Pommander GisBe k pe den! Ray E. Oliver , Mass., to i B Frog Trumbo Island will by W. P, "Th through an extension of the con- tract by en, da bui hor today | Work on the Trumbo Island! base is expected to cost about | $200,000, including rental for the; year from T. B. Price. "The base, which will be under} the command of Comdr. and facilities for servicing sch | One in October. supplying the small vessels which Captain Crenshaw announced Sg cesar mee ‘One of the cranes will operate make the patrol force. on tracks around the railway, cai = | while the other is a floating crane at the same time that Lieut. for general use in the station. ‘tor, unde: Agent Jim} et ‘| |DOCUMENT ALSO PERTAINS) TO SPEED LIMIT OF AUTO-| MOBILES; COPY SENT TO! MAYOR ALBURY | a ae ‘ | At a meeting of the Board of | Directors of the Key West Chamber of Commerce held on} Tuesday night, a resolution was | adopted in connection with the! conservation of gas, which is a! major item in the defense ro: | gram of the nation, and also per- | | streets of the city. resolution, signed by Zverett W. | Russell, president, and S. C.} | Singleton, executive secretary, | iwhich has been forwarded to} jthe Honorable Willard M. Al-| j bury, mayor of the City of Key ; West: j |. “It having been reliably iat | jlished by tests conducted under iscientific conditions that the dif- | ference in gas consumption be- | |tween a car driven at 25 miles/ jper hour, and the same car driv- en at 50 mlies per hour shows a/ |first instance, and 16% in the; jease of the car driven at the greater speed, and the conserva- } i jnation, and there being evidence | to show that the greater speed} constitutes a greater menace to life and property, and there. be- ing a law now onthe Statute | {books of Key West limiting | speed within the city to 25 miles! per hour, and considering that ‘at the legal speed a car can be {driven anywhere on the island | in less than 15 minutes, the | cails {Chamber of Commerce ;upon the mayor to exercise the power conferred upon him and establish a strict observance of | the laws governing traffic in | this city, both as a patriotic duty | and. as a protection to the life | and property of our citizens and | visitors”. | US. ENVOY T0 | GO TO MOSCOW i (By Axsocinted Press) | WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—W. | Averill Harriman, special United | States envcy in London, will be; |sent to Moscow for the scheduled | production talks with British and} Russian leaders, President Roose- | 4 velt said today, | The President said he will an-; nounce later the names of about! [te other men who will accom- | jpany Harriman, while he said} | John Biggers, production chief; } with OPM, will go to London to} sian visit. i (VANDALS DESTROY ‘BASE OF STATUE, Vandals last night destroyed | the base of the statue of Jose/ Marti, one of the fathers of Cuban | independence whose monument | ‘at Bayview Park for years has} been a shrine for Cuban visitors to Key West. ‘i ‘One of the heavy marble slabs | under the statue was broken and | another. was pried. loose and | thrown, te the ground, | Mrs. Eva. Warner, WPA recrea- j. } statue’s destruction this morning, | said numerous other pieces of} ! property in the park have been| destroyed recently. A piano fur- nished for vark programs has been smashed several times. PERERA GE EE DRINK YOUR BEER) from a frozen glass at | JOHNNIE NEBO’S STARLIGHT CLUB 713 Duval Street FIRST AND ONLY PLACE IN KEY WEST he Key West Citize THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1941 Key West, Florida, has poetry apy country ; an ai range of only 14° Fahrenheit Ending an unprecedented five-day conference on the eastern taining to the speed limit of i front, German Dictator Adoli Hitler 4nd Italian Dictator Benito Mus- | automobiles operating over the | solini Have announced their own war aims to challenge these’ made The following is a copy of the | Complete text of the aims was not made public. Hitler And Mussol Their Five-Day Conferenct (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Aug. Premier Benito Mussolini completed a sensational five-day today. have not been announced, but au- two leaders agreed-on a “new or- der” for Europe designed to erase the cause of war. Possible duration of the present’ since the two met in Brenner pass , and Parrish, | war and a full study of the con-' before the start of the Russian; flict'’s military and -political as- Russian And British Tr Moving Swiftly Into Iran have t : | 29 — Reichs’ pects also are said to have been mileage per gallon of 23 in the | ruchrer Adolf Hitler and Italian discussed during the meeting. Word that the dramatic con ference had been completed w: jjor item in the defense of the | front, it was announced in Berlin' leaders again had met. Berlin news agencies made no mention Details of the secret conference of the specific location of the con- son. ference, beyond saying that the j,,, by. Craig thorized sources in Berlin said the two had “met in Hitler's army | manager of the -+Readquarters .or front. | The conference was the firs! campaign. (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—Russian and British troops today were re- ported moving swiftly into stra- tegic positions in Iran, despite con- firmation of earlier reports that the Shah of Persia has ordered his men to lay down their arms. London and Moscow refused to say exactly what terms of an ar- mistics will be arranged, or even to confirm reports that the fight- ing actually ‘has stopped Military leaders in India com- mented that the peace terms were a political. problem, not a military | one, and apparently were continu- ing to push troops into the de-/ feated country as rapidly as pos-, sible. Berlin, meanwhile, expressed concern over the fate of Germans! diplomatic official was PIERRE LAVAL NEAR DEATH HERE SATURDAY Funeral services for Harold A. | Sweeting, age 24, who died in will be held | tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock }from the chapel of the Lopez INFECTION SAID TO mine SET IN AROUND BULLET UNDER HIS HEART (Ry Axmoeinted Presa) PARIS, Aug 29.—Pierre Laval, former French vice premier who was felled by four bullets from day was reported near death ‘ as physicians announced der his heart. Reports from Vichy indicated Sweeting; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sweeting; five sisters, the doctors are preparing to op- erate in a last minute effort to re- move the bullet Previously, they had said it would be too, dangerous to attempt as operation in Laval’s weakened condition. ‘The former political leader was | reported to have sent a plea toj Vichy authorities to spare the life of the 21-year-old Paul Co-} lette, who loosed the burst of gun- fire which struck him down. Stories from Vichy said Laval forwarded to the authorities the message: “I request that Colette not be executed”, ~ eee believed ‘ an -infec-! in the capital arranging for safe conduct for the Germans out of the country. PERSIANS WERE TOLD HITLER IS MOSLEM (My Ansoeiated Press) MOSCOW, Aug. 29—The Rus- sian army paper Red Star said to- | Benjamin Pierce ‘ day the population of Iran had; been tbld by Nazi hammedan. faith. ‘The paper said Russian’ troops | exjinguished, with practically no entering Iran: heard’ stories that | damage resulting from the blaze. : the } Moslem. religion and had set him- self up as the defender of the faith Hitler was converted to throughout the world. Red soldiers, according to the paper, were told that most of the Persians were skeptical of the claimed conversion. ‘SWEETING RITES Miami Thursday, | Funeral Home. { ‘the service. ‘Naomi Sweeting; (Jennie and Margaret | Mrs, Edward Odette, Mrs. « | Lowe and Mrs. Roy Clarke; ja brother, Wi \of Miami and Miami Beach. ini End aS him they would o; - the first indication given the out- y Vee ae ition of gas having become a ma- | conference on the eastern fighting) side world that the two Axis the fighting ong Toll Bridge distr agents’ that | Fi * i it: | Adolf Hither dakar adogéadiéntoMa-| “o> “emitter 6 DBs Ot Gam The body will arrive tomor- [row morning over the highway. witer ‘Freemont Curry of the Grace/amijaundry truck e an assassin’s gun Wednesday, to-| and Truth Hall will officiate at} charged’with reckless driv Nazi Units Strike Simul- taneously By Land, Sea — And. Air Capturing Es- tonian Capital Appraisers Complete Study Of Marathon Key Property Acting on instructions of coun-| MaMa aD | ty commission, appraisers of the! :|Southernmost Realty board have | MYSTERIOUS VOICE ; H -|completed their study of Mara- thon Key property which may become the site of a $234000 CAA airport, it was announced | today. ; Members of the board. said} x |they would present their valua-|.ish radio» ‘listeners’ today | Tellinn and inflicted o j tion of the Property at the: next4... in _ |regular meeting of the commis- ee “4 Se jsion Sept. 4 W. A. Parrish! minutes heckled an official | Russian garrison, Berlin president of the Marathon cham- ber of commerce, who accom- {panied the appraisers, previous- ily had told the commission the jland could be acquired for about! { $25,000. | Money for the airport con- ; struction has been approved by |CAA, but county commission- ers in discussing the proposal | earlier this month strongly op- | posed any county appropriation 'for that purpose. Under the ‘urging of County Commissioner! R. W. Craig they finally agreed {to the appraisal, but several “:!members of the group warned penditure for the airport. | Members of the appraisal board were Fred J. Dion, J. Otto. Kirchheiner and James L. John- They were met at Mara- B. M. Duncan, H. Winchester, | U. office, Miami Beach, jomas t Engineers Duncan furnished a boat with | which the appraisers made a | complete study of the property- under consideration, OOPS HALL FIRE ON | At about 8:30 o'clock last night | New ey ; the fire apparatus was summoned held Monday afternoon Bae (0 a call sent out over the tele-}~ ~~" : ths chapel ot the phone reporting a fire on Bahama Lopes Funeral Home sd ;Street, between Southard and 4 iain | Fleming, in the rear of the resi- dence occupied by Police Officer On arriving at the scene a fire jin a vacant lot, which was soon! Mr ‘The firemen and police officers, 1 : of the greatly congested .condi- meas 4 baal tion of automobile traffic on) NOW | Bahama street last night during / the fire which handicapped the! fire department to a great extent | flagrant violation of the tai iy flagrant violation of the traffic Jaws, as there is an existing ordi- nance that prevents automobiles t moving in and around the ~ i f il diate vicinity where a fire be raging. A lon by, ti da bull Survivors are the widow, Mrs. | Nisbet gate en ‘ s } tion has set in around a let un- | Leo ti , Miss nH > ing project, Capt. Russell S. Cren-| of the medical corps, also has re-} ton leader: who | digeuvered:' the Leona Sweeting; daughter, Patrolman Henry shaw, station commandant, said| ported here from Fairfield, Ala. Captain Crenshaw was notified this week that President Roose- velt has approved a navy ap- propriation measure from which land, which is being leased for one; two cranes for the local station | are to be purchased. The cranes, to cost about $200,- A. M_/000 apiece, will be used in con- Steckel, in-shore patrol director | nection with the marine railway, of the Seventh naval district, will; which is expected to be ready for include barracks, a radio station’ tests in September and for actual %