The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 3, 1941, Page 1

. VOLUME LXI. No, 209, Red Tanks Play Important Part In Advances Made (Dy Asnociated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 3—Mam- moth Russian tanks, rolling into action in the wake of a night-long artillery barrage, today were re+ Ported “driving back Gernian fortés*south of Leningrad as the! battle for the great industrial city. began in earnest. German sources, partially ad- mitting the Russian claims of suc- cess, said the battle was develop- ing into one of the most bitter of the war, Moscow. claimed the Germans have been driven back three miles to the banks of the Neva river, and constant Red bomber attacks are claimed to be taking a heavy toll of the German invaders The Russian army paper, Red Star, said the roads are cluttered with Nazi dead, with the fighting continuing on a massive scale. Reds Attack Center Giving almost the only detailed account of the fighting, the Red Star said German forees on the central front near Smolensk have ‘There, too, the German high command admitted constant and furious attacks by the Russians, but a communique claimed the attacks are being broken up with heavy losses to the Reds. mecated Press Day Wire For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West p meesaliiere, = “ Seiaetee at Key ‘West Junior: | BOIL OLLs, Slashing tentative estimates GOVERNMENT AFTER | which ted put she value of an | Ale CAPONE ‘AGAIN, *iPort site-neer- Maremnon > at ; about $25,000, appraisers of the Southernmost» Realty Board told :one last might<they would con- + sider $18:947.99" a fair price for | recover $119,000 in liquor | the 923-acre tract, allegedly owed by the | i . 1982. ; Members of the board pre The government charges the taxes are due on liquor seized by revenue agents be- tween 1921 and 1932, SLID III SS [NEW TEACHERS "SELECTED FOR ee) (iy Ansoeiated Presa) - Sept. 3.—Al |vey after Civil Aeronautics | tatively for a $234,000 airport. | Scheduled to meet as a board lof equalization to discuss. tax | lrolis with Assessor Claude A.| :Gandolfo, the board met briefly ; to accepi the appraisal ,Gandolfo had been ordered to send his books to State Comp- troller J. M. Lee for approval. SIX NEW INSTRUCTORS TO The surprise order from Lee will START TERM ps. | te” the equalization meetings | at least for several weeks. t GINNING MONDAY: RUS-) . SELL NAMES TEACHERS | The realty board appraisers, ; who presented a bill of. $117.50 for their work, fixed prices on the aifport site at from $75 to ‘Senior high ‘school ‘next week ' $23.33 an acre. The land, which ‘will be getting acquainted with! is located three miles east of} ;Six mew teachers, whose ap-|Marathon, is the property of ,Pointments were announced yes-'Commissioner Norberg Thomp- | terday by Melvin Russell, super-.son and A.‘ Maitland Adams. ‘intendent of public instruction. Members of the commission Miss Margaret C. Johnson, who are expected to discuss purchase | | viously had authorized the sur- | | Authority approved the site ten- | after °" Construction of a $50,000 fire- proof store block on Southard street between Simonton and Duval will begin at once, Fred J-/ sruction will be a cameutie’ sind Dion and LZ. Clark, Miami reinforced steel, with keystone Beach and Key West agents of | front. the Brown Properties, Inc., an-/ ‘George Maurer, president and nounced today. _ }manager of the Southeastern firm, Contract for the work has been granted to Southeastern Con-' | struction company, already en-; stories in the future, will be Provisions for the addition of two throughout and will the project by Dec. 1. The Southern Inn, also owned here, and the work is expected to! moved to another location in the begin this weeks jsame area to make way for the Ending its third fiscal year of \ithe first time since the bridge Bete) a 1, apne tees }system was opened showed a and Toll Bridge district UTES | as jcontinued to break records last en over July figures. |month with an August total of). stead of the customary drop $25,384.75 and a fiscal year total! in August, last month's total of $292,286.15. ‘climbed above the $24,758 re- The year’s total, bringing the|corded this year in July, a figure system’s intake to $740,394.06 in }which was, itself, a record-break- three years of operation, sur-/er for that month. | passed the 1939-40 figure by $56,- | Thus instead of hitting the '187.80 and climbed $80,276.59 | usual summer slump at the first ‘over the total for the 1938-39/of August, the intake went on | season. ito reach the highest figure since Recapitulation by vears: |-March this year. Autos Pssgrs. Tolls | Reflecting Labor Day travel, ‘38-'39 115.445 226,340 $212,009.56 the August collections reached *39-'40 123,604 277.496 $236.098.35' their highest point of the month “40-"41 145,469 325,342 $292,286.15 | on Sunday, Aug. 31, when the ;°¢- ‘ August collections went $8,- bridge system collected $1,075.50, 307.40 over the figure for the ‘with 1,219 passenger trips re- same period last year, and for corded. TOMORROW AFTERNOON : VISIT UNITS OF PARK FROM RESIDENCE SYSTEM tain space for nine stores. Con- | Finland Faces Faring I Winter Months said his company will complete | gaged in a defense housing project by the Brown company, will be} | (The building, one story with stores, 4 { Climb;MakepNew Recotd H. WUUAMS { i i { { Rome mentioned great concen- | will teach science, is 34, has liv-| trations of Red troops in the area | ed previously in Gainesville and around Smolensk, and British'has had experience as a teacher military authorities said it is clear’ at Punta Gorda, Lawtey, Vero that the Russians are holding the Beach, Altha and Frostproof. initiative they seized in that sec-! She received her B.S. degree at tor a week ago. ‘the Florida State College for —_— | Women, later attended VPI and | Duke, did post graduate work at | the University of Florida. Miss Lynette Thompson, 22, is } FED ON AUGUST l= English teacher, attended the | Florida State College for Women jand attained her A.B. degree, cum laude, at Oberlin. Mrs. Elizabeth Greenleaf,’ ‘william Hurschel Gore, 22, Baha'i teacher, lecturer ad! who will teach music, is a native philosopher who has been a win-| of Missouri, attended the Uni- ter visitor to Miami and Key | versity of Tampa and graduated West for the past several years, !this term from the University of died Aug. 1 at Worcester, Mass: Miami. He has studied voice it was learned here today. ‘and plays a variety of instru- Mrs. Greenleaf had been ill! ments. since leaving Florida in May, | Miss Donna Betty Hoyt, who when she went north to.-her/wili teach history and _ social heme in Eliot, Me., expecting to science, is a graduate of Stetson return to Key West at the con-' University and has made her clusign of the summer term of jome in DeLand. She is 21. the Baha'i schol at Greenacre,! iss Marian Shuler Starke, Me. 33, is an English teacher, Word of Mrs. Greenleaf's death | taught previously at Hlinois high was received here from Miss|schools ni Saline, White and Margaret H. Atwater of Miami. (Frankin. She is a graduate of has” |meeting Thursday night, of the property at their regain but | most of them already have said | they will look with little favor morning 6 o'clock at the resi- )on any attempt to acquire the land for an airport. Commissioner Thompson eral weeks ago said he sev-| would 5:30 o'clock tomorrow afternpor| not be particularly interested in missioners Ernest would oppose the purchase. A. Ramsey | and Eddie Gomez also said they | Key Westers today. were in-| vited by Hayden Williams, zep- resentative of the Florida Forest | and Park Service, who is making be held his first’ trip here, | units of the park system. Felino Rivero, age 75, died an) idence, 524 Louisa street. Funeral services will “Florida State Parks | Survivors include the widow, | Invite You,” which he left for. Mrs. Juano Rivero; a niece and/|free distribution at The Citizen | Eanes ona nephew. | office, the chamber of | Pritchard Funeral Home is in | @nd various hotels FOREST PRIMEVAL TO icharge of arrangements, | Containing wre natural. color | REMAIN THAT WAY |and black and white photographs, | Ser eee os re \the booklet describes the various | (Ny Aaxocinted Preasd COLORADO. SPRINGS, Colo, Sept. 3.—Forest. service officials | have discovered a forest so beau- | tiful they have, started a move-' ment to have it set aside. per- petually as an area where never a wWoodsman’s axe may ring. E. S. Keithley, Pike National Forest, trees are Engelman spruce with supervisor of said the a stump diameter of about 30 inches and some are 135 feet high—as JUST AIR WILL DO (My Asnocinted Preaey ROCK HILL, S. C,. Sept. 3.— Rationed gasoline wouldn’t bother James S. White, 63. White, a grandfather, says he has pedaled his bicycle more than 19,000 miles. Japan: Faces Great Crisis On Issue Of} United States’ ar Shipments To Russia (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 2—Japai faces the gravest crisis in her his- tory, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye warned his government today in admitting that three sep- arate nationalist groups are de- manding a firm stand against the United States, particularly on the question of war shipments to Rus- sia. As Prince Konoye described the troubled relations between his the University of Kentucky at Lexington, attended Asbury col- lege and Bethel Academy at | Wilmore, Ky., and Southern Il- |linois Normal. | Mrs. William Mundy, wife of jthe pastor of Fleming Street Methodist church, will teach \geography and social science at ‘the junior school. tall as a seven story building. j They cover a 40-acre tract Keithley said the area was “dis- covered” while he was on an in- spection trip He said the timber was virgin, spared for many, many years from forest fire or timber cutters. He has suggested the forest service set aside the area as a | forest primeval and build a road to it so that the public may see the giant trees. EMPLOYS THEORY OF KILL OR CURE (Ry Associated Press) KINSTON, N. C., Sept. 3— Glenn Swisegood, farm agent, tells of a man whose children had ij been plagued with summer colds and bought a herd of goats to cure the kiddies’ colds “The man said he had heard} many times that a cold would not stay on the same premises with a goat. When I arrived at his house a week later three of the; goats were gamboling on the top of an automobile and a couple were wrecking a rose arbor—but ‘the children’s colds were gone.” }country and the United States, ‘both the Japanese government |and the White House were deny- ling rumors current in Japan that [he would seek a mid-ocean meet- ‘ing with President Roosevelt | similar to that between the Presi- dent and British Prime Minister | Winston Churchill. White House Secretary Stephen \T. Early said no such proposal had |been received by the President. oA ROR |SCHOLASTIC CALENDAR 2 cnc JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH | developed (Corner United and White). | ‘The park system boasts of fiVe | THURSDAY—Summer make-up/ recreation areas now open and’ students register for examina-|two more nearing completion of , tion. |development programs. Those, | FRIDAY—Summer make-up ex-| now being used by Floridians and ; amination (time to be an- visitors are: Highlands Ham-> nounced). SATURDAY—General faculty}River, near Tampa; Myakka meeting at 2:30. p. m. | River, betweer. Arcadia and Sara- ; —_ , | Sota; Gold Head Branch, near) DIVISION STREET | Keystone Heights; Fort Clinch, | (Corner Division and White) | "€ar Fernandina. THURSDAY—Registration, 9 a | Two units which are expected m. to 3 p, m. Pe this fall FRIDAY—Registration, 9 a, m.) are: i averns, near) to3ipm “s | Marianna, and Torreya, near! SATURDAY—Registration, 9 a. Bristol. . m. to Noon. | The attractions in the parks: are varied, and in all but one locations. of . the i (and the sditional unis Hebe | t sti DAY—Facult; ‘ ee a bathing, boating and _ fishing esas facilities are available The ex-/ HARRIS SCHOOL |ception is Highlands. Hammock. THURSDAY—Transfer' students | ™eking facilities. sere register, 9a. m. to Noon. _. DENTS OCCUR. FRIDAY Aitadkbic stisienis ied] ACCIDENTS saTudDiy YS Wam * { (Re Aannetnted Preand aera OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 3.— SCHOOL OPENING | its qethina’es & dee can’t even ALL SCHOOLS open Monday | mow his lawn safely, moans G. morning. Beginning students! w. stipbens. and their parents will assemble| That's just what he was doing at the grammar schools (Divi- the other day when his mower sion and Harris) Monday morn-' struck a 15-foot pole ing. Only children who will! (Corner Southetd’ and Margaret) |All the parks have excellent pic- | o'clock each afternoon for the fought. Clelian ‘and ‘ on ‘both ‘sides’ totaling’ 22,000, Square jAntietam has al‘usually' forgotten THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. 5. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1941 Approaching t (By Asaveiated Press) | STOCKHOLM, Sweden, . Sept. | jfamine which may bring — the Finns the “most. difficult” win- | ter in history, authorized spokes- | }men in Stockholm declared to-' iday. i Predicting that. Sweden would | be forced to go. to the’aid of the| 'Finns in providing. food. during} the winter, the Stockholm jsources said the situation there | (rapidly is becoming serious. { Few crops were planted in} } Finland last season, they explain, tand the war with Russia now has drained the country of man- ipower to a point where not | enough men are available to har- | vest what crops do exist. | At the same time, the Russian | withdrawal from former Finnish ‘territory left only burned fields [and wrecked mills, destroying {the hone of the ‘Finns that they }might salvage some of the crops | jin the territory they have regain- Applicants for driver’s licenses may get them up until 5:30 next two weeks, County Judge Raymond Lord announced to- day. Since most local working peo- ple cannot leave work until 5 o'clock, Judge Lord said he will hours Sept. 17. THEY CAME FROM ber 17 is the anni e. Bove versary of units that are in year- op- civil war’ bat Puppies eration, and also coeeine 0k between * Of i Sate » Eee with casualties Lee} significance, according t the new. book “Reveille in Washington,” for it was here that an ambulance corps first demonstrated its value. wounded, and Dr. Jonathan Let- army | Her S adopted his plan for the war of when she was a few \ and she's miles 1870 and all modern armies since have patterned their ambulance systems upon it. Key West J Commerce CORI TLIO IM 3—Embattled Finland faces a| KEY WEST HAS HOTTEST. AUGUST 1 i H j j | Explosive Bombs Are Dropped By Royal Air Force Raiders range bombers of the Royal Air Force last night pounded Berlin in one of the largest scale and SINCE YEAR 1927 | most aamaging attacks they have -- Hottest August since 1927. Driest August since 1938. to visit the hold his courthouse office open} NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Wher ian extra half-hour during that|would you go to get information selling the land, and added that | {fom the residence. Rev. Guil-| Williams brought with him period, but he warned that the | about the Virgin Islands? he would oppose a county ex-|lermo Perez, pastor of the Latin | copies of the service’s newest | °ffice will crs penditure for its purchase. Com-} Methodist Church,’ will officiate. | publication, mock, near Sebring; Hillsborough | terman reinforced hospitals and Lawyer Richard | 1 { the air ministry claimed today. — Thousands of high explosive bombs were said to have crashed. ‘into the very heart of the Ger-