The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 5, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press D; Wire Service bis : For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Takes Fist Pace Over Others In Work Program Contracts “Rushed Faster RAILROAD HANDS Than At Other Yards VOTE TO STRIKE That Are Placed In Class Two MILLION AND QUARTER MEN READY TO WALK OUT ON SEPT.’ 11 | Contract work at ‘the Key’ west! naval station ‘during’ July was | rushed faster than at any ‘onto ee, Bt of its size? Li rar : me AtBert Wineteen railroad unions repre- PEAT, MON? Public works OFAC cing more. than _ 1,250,000 has been notified by the bureau | workers will call a general strike of yards and docks at Washing-|Sept. 11 at 6 p.m, unless de- ion mands for an aggregate wage in- jerease amounting to $900,000,000 The local station, grouped in ‘a year are met before that time, lass 2 because its monthly ex- jt was declared today. Penditure on contracts is be-| Union leaders accused the rail- tween $300,000 and $500,000, road operators of failing to bar- won first place in competition gain with them, and threatened (Wy Anmdetata Prennd SHINGTON, sept. 5.— Py T Mest Cittzrn HE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRI DAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1941 Key West, Florida average most equable cli renheit country; with an range of only 14° Fal qNTS PRICE FIVE CEN. To Bring In Fresh Water “An adequate and steady flow | lon, chairman of the Public Safe+ of fresh water for Key West" | ty Committee, and Councilman |John Carbonell, chairman of the! |Welfare Committee, and others, minds of the members of the for having repairs made to the City Council at its meeting last | Jose Marti monument in Bay- night inasmuch as every council- | view Park, which was damaged ; ay ja short time ago by vandals, and man voted favorably when the/21., for their investigation made ordinance was read on its sec-jinto the matter. There were ‘ond, third and final reading, |#!so several letters read, from ¥ ;Cuban societies heartily com- which ‘gave unanimous approval | Counciided'’ = tiliton: imending for tufning over to the Florid&)and Carbonell, and also Mayor} Albury’ for their prompt action was evidently uppermost in the | | ' e hj te t city’s underground water system. | in the matter, i | Keys’ Aqueduct Commission’ the The matter of having the’ de- This requirement was made bY pris cleared up on the lot at ‘the | the Reconstruction Finance Cor-/corner of Duval and Greene! poration, which had made a def- |streets was taken up last night. | : : |It was ordered that bids be call- | jinite commitment for a $1,500,000 | oq by the city for the perform-' !ance of this work ‘at once. In, adie tk acme jthe event that the owners of the, “Fresh water for the Island! property do not take care of this ;City at any cost” appeared to} expense, a lien will be placed on ipermeate the air in council'the property to the amount that {chambers last night as there was may become necessary to have; not a semblance of opposition to! the lot cleared up. i the passage of the document,} Mrs. Larrinaga, one of the iwhich was the last remaining!owners, addressed the council with every other station of that ' the nation-wide tie-up unless | factor that stood in tHe way of last night and stated ¢lass under the U.S. navy's juris-' their demands are met at once. diction, | Government mediators, _ work- Class 1 stations are those with | ing to avert the f{hreatened monthly expenditures of more/strike, pointed out that the than $500,000, while the third! unions could not call a walkout class is for stations with expen-|in September unless they were ditures of less than $300,000. | willing to disregard conteacts In announcing that the local signed in compliance with the station had won first place in national railroad laborers’. act, tHe opening month of the com-| Unions, under. the contract, Petition, the bureau. explained are bound to, observe formalities that a system of-awards will be | before ealling °a «strike which worked out for the Speediest | would require at least two construction jobs on a month-to-;months before they actually. month basis. | could walk off their jobs. Should the local station hold! its place at the top of the list for’ three months, it will be awarded | K CA woot te ee ALONG HIGHWAY a blue pennant. win more than two of the pen- ants, but the station leading at} the end of the 1942 fiscal year! will be awarded a silver cup. 1 The Key West station, it was: 4 ‘ruck operated by pointed out here, must have Standard Wholesale Grocery the contest began, since a strike ‘morning on the highway near Li up pits for almost a full Homestead, The truck, driven bstaustiartohie al by aman named Russell, was en route to Key West from Mi- GUNNER FICKES } It was said the truck capsized when the driver swerved ‘machine to avoid a passenger jear that drove right into its Chief Gunner Ted D. Fickes,! No one was injured. formerly stationed» aboard the | er salvage vessel Falcon, reported; MAKE PRESENTATION for duty at.the,navy station here | OF FIRST AID KIT Fickes,.a- native of: Salt Lake | Toss fei City, came here with |>Mrs.| From. a fan ‘ ide! available Fickes. | aah 3 we dice manuals and supplies, a 24-unit |A.RC. first aid kit was purchas- FLYING CLUB TO jed by the local chapter and pre- sented to Fire Chief Baker on {September 3 to be maintained at |Fire Station No. 1, Greene i street, for emergency use by any The Southernmost Flying Club,| Presentation was made by Mrs. with George Faraldo as one of its} M. E. Berkowitz, chairman of the fliers, proposes to have a plane | First Aid Committee, in the pres- flown to Key West from Miami}ence of Prof. Horace O'Bryant, members of the organization. (Chapter, and executive secre- New memberships in the club} tary Leonor Warren. are being sought. Anyone in-, It is expected that more of terested can communicate with these units will be purchased for been far ahead of the field when|Company was capsized this jami. GOES ON D crm } path. today, ’ eon RECEIVE PLAN Rare. | accredited first aider. some time next week for use by |chairman of the local Red Cross Mr, Faraldo. | other locations. Fifty Jurors Drawn For Criminal Court Session Names of 50 Monroe county | grat, Jr., Fred Hi Brye, George W, residents who will be called for|Adams, Flonnie Pellicier, Jose jury duty in the’ September term | Suarez, Charles-P. Curry, Oscai of criminal court Monday were | Molina, J. H. Costar, Ira Cash, R. drawn this morning by Judge | C. Jackson, Charles E. Ma- William V. Albury. jane Donald Cormack, Charles ‘The prospective jurors are O’- | Gibson, Charles L. Russell, Claude Brien Baker, W. Otis Johnson,|Albury, Eduardo Henriguez, Garland Richardson, Thaddeus|Donald J. Curry, Harry Baldwin, Gates, James Brady, William M.} Ev. Fowler, Willis Brady, Abe- Baker, Merrill Albury, Pedro Val- | lardo Rodriguez, Hartley Roberts, dez, Jr, Vivian Pinder, Edward Archie Albertus, Alonzo Cothron, Johnson, John F. Roberts, Millard; Guy Carleton, Gerald Adams, E. B. Gibson, William R Gordon,|R) Tynes, Charles A. Sweeting, Milton Roberts, W. H. Reardon, King Gomez and J. Thomas Fel- William I. Knowles, John A, Rob- | ton. erts, | Robert Shultz, Enrique; The jurors will be subpoenaed Renedo. 4 ‘ for duty at 9:30 o’clock Monday AE, Pierce, Jr., George W Mal- i morning. ry apa nea eae rte omer shy wee the | |through thesale yyofy‘ifirst aid | ” jthe aqueduct commission putting \the finishing touches on its pro- !posal toward securing the neces- ;sary loan from the RFC, which famount will be matched with! the Navy Department’s $2,000,- , 000, making a total of $3,500,000, which is necessary to finance operations in constructing a ifresh water pipeline from the |mainland to Key West. ; William Freeman, ‘president, and Councilman Glen ; wood Sweeting, who opposed the measure at previous meetings council | their objections on certain pro- | visions of the ordinance, jumped ton the “band wagon” last night with the other councilmen and , voted to put through the meas- ;had made every effort to ploy someone to do this ‘but had been unable to do so up 'to the present time. on the work will be to Mrs. Larrinaga, who stated that she was willing to pay for same. If the price is not satis- factory to her, then the city will \carry on with its procedure as jordered to place a lien on the |property to the amount that jmay become necessary. a a 2 a | Benjamin C. Roberts tendered | Viscount Halifax might not re jduring which time they voicedihis resignation as a member of jturn to the United States as am- | and } bassador. }the Election Commission, |Carlyle Roberts, his father, was | appointed to succeed in the posi- tion. The reappointment that she) pected attack on Russia’s second | port of Odessa. em- | city, work ' huge casualties. The amount of the bid to carry; that the Russians have attacked fierce fighting around the submitted | and still are driving forward, but | sieged port. ‘ of Ralph | India. jure which it appears means so; Russell as a member of the Hous-| {much to Key West. Messrs. Free- the ™man and Sweeting stated thatibury was since some of the things that they had opposed had been clari- fied they stood ready to make , the vote on the issue unanimous. | The aqueduct board will get busy immediately in contacting the RFC with a hope that the jmatter will soon be brought to a successful and satisfactory clusion. A communication was from Mayor Willard M. Albuay {commending the prompt action of Councilman Leonard B. Gril- SCHOLASTIC CALENDAR INIOR-SENIOR HIGH (Cother United and White) |SATURDAY—General faculty meeting at 2:30 p. m. (Corner Division and White) SATURDAY—Registration, 9 a. m. to Noon. SATURDAY—Faculty 2p. m. HARRIS SCHOOL meeting, SATURDAY—Faculty 10 a. m. SCHOOL OPENING ALL SCHOOLS open Monday morning. Beginning students meeting, sion and. Harris) Monday morn- ‘ing. Only children who will che six years, of,age by October ‘8 will be permitted to enter, jing Committee by Mayor confirmed by council. \COAST GUARDSMAN SLIGHTLY INJU con- | | Louis Masney, 32-year-old coast \dale, was slightly injured this {morning when he was_ knocked | down by a truck at the naval | station, | Masney, who was brought here '5.-Wihen members of the 113th | for training with the navy. sound | field artillery band signed the | | payroll their black cat ~ mascot, school, was rushed to Marine | Hospital, were physicians |his condition was good. | He was treated for . abrasions jand slight cuts, ‘USE OF ALCOHOL HIGHEST IN FRANCE (The Ausovinted Preaa) | BERN, Sept. 5.—The Swiss, | living in a mountainous country | and working much out of doors, consume three times as much al- ‘cohol as Almericans, but they are said (Corner Southard and Margaret) | far from being the heaviest drink- | jers in Europe. | | Statistics published by Tapio | Voionmaa, Finnish minister in Bern, in his recent work, “Re-| railroad in the world” searches on the Alcohol | tion,” show that between Ques- | gallons) of pure alcohol a year. | For other countries, the figures were: Spain (1930), 15, litres, Italy 11, Switzerland 16, Belgium | 1935 | and their parents will assemble} and 1937 the average Frenchman | of traffic control: * » | at the grammar schools (Divi-| drank 20 litres (more. tham «five | Al- | deprecated these reports, the | with one that Capt. Oliver Lyttel- | | read | guard seaman from Fort Lauder- | | Making Wide Search For Sub That Shot At American Ship oa aes OOOO T Tas bb Foand Ik Wal Leningrad’s-Citizen Army vovto varian. ‘Joins Red’Soldiers Making © Assault On German Troops, (By Axsociated Pressy | NEW: YORK, Sept 5.—Lenin- | London heard | grad’s citizen army today was re-| Nazis are rushing great numbers | ported storming into action at the of men into position for a final, side of the Red soldiers in a bit- crushing blow. ! terly contested assault on German Nearly 2,000 miles to the south, ; troops drawn up south of the city. | Moscow said another huge battle} Moscow said the Germans were is developing, with the Red armies driven from three ‘villages which striking at Rumanian and German they have used as bases for the ex- | forces surrounding the Black Sea reports that the! WILE BE RECEIVED (Hs Associated ‘Press? VATICAN CITY, Rome, Sept. §—Myron C. Taylor, special presidential envoy to the Vatican. will bs received by Pope Pius upon his ar- rival here from the United States Tuesday, it was an- nounced today. Taylor was forced to leave the Vatican and return to the United States early in the summer because of illness, A hk ke ded he deuk | Be ‘Eliminated’, Is Dec- (By Associuted Presse) | WASHINGTON, Sept, 5.— United States naval forces. .ate | sceuring the waters of the north | Atlantic in search of the subma- | tine which yesterday fired two ‘torpedoes at the Destroyer Greer, t LONDON, Sept. 5.—There was | tivity yesterday along the entire’ and both sides admitted | Crush Three Divisions | Moscow said three tion MUU. HASSALL ‘Berlin released few details of divisions (about 45,000 men) have! the fighting, beyond admitting been crushed in three days of be- | | Odessa, according to the com- EXAMINATION munique, still is being held firmly | by the Russians, with all efforts to \ take the city so far broken up. | Unofficial Russian reports from i Moscow. told of intense aerial ac- , REVEALED. THERE WAS NO SKULL | FRACTURE published speculation today that front, and more than 100 German | Lieut. G. C. Hassall,.- officer’ | planes were said to have been aboard the Seneea, a training ship ates ishot down as they attempted to | of the Pennsylvania State Nauti-} It was said in these, pomb’ Red positions leal school, was’ rel Lf accounts that both he and Sir 4 x - : Ss Samuel Hoare were being con-| ARGENTINE ENVOY | Marine Hospital yesterday to’ sidered for the post of Viceroy of | board his ship after examination ' ers, ei | WILL COME TO U. S. for « possible skull fracture. | mail when. ee | Lieutenant Hassall was brought ed its un WASHINGTON, Sept, 5. —/|bere aboard the ship yesterday ton, now special representative of Tomas Lebreton, Argentine am- afternoon, suffering frem injuries the war cabitet.in: the Middle bassador to London, will visit the received when he dived into shal- East, might replace ’the.Viscount | United States en route: to Buenos low water as the: or in Washington. | Aires on a vacation, it was learned ‘at Dry ‘ ‘Examina' 0 Lord Halifax himself said upon | today. | revealed there was no fracture. his arrival from the United States' The veteran diplomat who was! ‘The vessel sailed late yesterday:| two weeks ago that he expected to one time Argentine minister to afternoon with the lieutenant on!) — return shortly. ‘Washington, will leave Lisbon | board. ‘ = Sept 13 for New York, traveling | ‘The Seneca, under the com- HERF’S NEWS FOR by clipper. He will visit in New| mand of Capt. George Baum, a nf York and come to Washington as former navy officer, is cruising. THE SUPERSTITIOUS the guest of Dr. Felipe A. Espil,| to Havana on a training voyage (hy Asnocinted Press) FORT JACKSON, S. C., Sept. HALIFAX MENTIONED FOR INDIA VICEROY (By Axnocinted Press) however, along ‘Informed persons, (Re Associated Press) | Argentine ambassador. Dr Espil| for merchant marine cadets who began his diplomatic’ career. as T et secretary under. Leberton when The h the latter was minister here. é by. th ‘ a 2S maining. TERA AG Pete, leaped on the table “and COMMUN ‘OR’ I strutted across Then three’ muysi- { NEEDY EF ‘ARMERS E cians reported minor accidents, ioe “3 qi Sergeant Ed Parker got word his Cty Aagoeiaced Press) daughter had appendicitis, and a| PORTERVILLE, Calif, Sept. 5. | brigadier general, a lieutenant —A $310,000 community for colonel, a major, two captains, needy farm families has been two first lieutenants and two war- opened near here, bringing exist- rant officers showed up to inspect ing facilities for such people in the unit. Peter was put out of California and Arizona to the quarters for 24 hours. | 6,000-family level. } x NEW YORK, Sept 5—Deter- mined to lese some excess pound- age during his summer sojourn in i —_—_ | Such camps were started by | e RAILWAY CROWDED ¢t aust bow! migrants. Some ~ ‘are now on a permanent basis wien Miang ‘ jena tended to aid farm labor ’ TON, 2 (ST lies Tourist travel on “the Peseta — gens es nee a Bee creased so heavily that Capitol police now are enforcing a system | During the 11:30-12:30 rush THESE CARS hour on the underground railway from the Senate Office Building | to the Capitol seats are now re- served for Senators anxious to No beginners will be accepted ‘after first two weeks of term. SAN CARLOS (Duval, Between Fleming and Southard) SATURDAY—Registration, 9 a.| m. to Noon. SATURDAY — Enrollment 8, Greece and. Rumania 6, Great)get to the Capitol for Senate ses Britain 4.5, Hungary and Yugo-| sions or for lunch’ ir the Sénate \slavia 4, Germany#and Bulgaria /dining room. The police also pre- |3.8, the United States and Sweden| vent tourists from overcrowding | 3 to 3.5 ithe remaining seats. Special Spanish Class, 9 a. m. to Noon. Adults included. 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