The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 6, 1941, Page 1

» ful’ Ruksian’ attacks along the For 61 Years Devoted to th Best Interests of Key West. Inaugurated By Red Un hilated In Attack On| Besieged Black Sea Port NY Antiocintea | HE MAY RESIGN southern front have hurled the Germany back from Kiev with four divisions shattered, Moscow | | | \ man lines were broken in half a dozen places as masses of Russian troops followed heavy tanks into Hie katte, SENATOR BURTON x. | Another division of Rumanian! WHEELER, Montana isolation. | troops was said to have been an-| ist will resign his post in or- nihilated in an attack on the be-/ der to put his anti-war stand | sieged Black Sea port of Odessa, | to the test before the voters, | A Finnish communique from it was rumored in Helena to- Helsinki told of a German artil-; 4@y- The senator was said to | lery bombardment of Leningrad be Planning a vace against | in which the city was said to have| James E, Murray, junior sena- been set afire. The attack, staged | tor, yesterday, was said to have. PRR ante eee STO et smashed important. — industrial COMPTROLLER i works in the ancient city, and to, ‘The Finns said Russian troops | after last year’s winter war with | J: M. LEE STATES MANY OF- | have left flames towering into the | { - | IS ON have been driven across the old Soviet frontier entirely out of the Finland. __| FICIALS LAX IN. DUTY.! Neither German nor Russian{ Karelian isthmus area occupied reports mentioned any change ini FEARING RESULTS WHEN | DICTED FOR COUNTY jord-breaking registration. ;vent. of Mary Immaculate have} } jbeen at their desks all week, for! 4, j the ‘great majority of students ini of barges with building supplies} é Key West, school begins between | for Key. West, was: swept into ‘NEW AMERICAN | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1941 CONVENT OF MARY IMMACU- LATE OPENED THIS WEEK: LARGE ENROLLMENT PRE- Transportation between Key | West and the mainland was halted this morning and will re- | Three months of summer vaca-; main out until late tonight _be* {tion comes to an end for Key West. school children Monday iepegdes sind athe the local school system Prepares! Workmen who rushed to the for what is expected to be a rec- ‘scene immediately after the ac- {cident said service would be out . {for at least 10 hours, perhaps Although students at the Con. luntil. midnight tonight. The accident oceurred when a ig from Miami}: towing a string 8:30" and 9 o'clock Monday. the bridge by the current. . The Junior-senior high school stu-|®@V¥ barges are believed to’ cause of damage to the Card} and a jhave smashed for raising and jdraw. |. Florida Motor Line officials the mechanism lowering the there this afternoon were await- ing instructions from Miami as to whether to send the regular 5 lo’clock bus north, }. Meanwhile, it was feared that jbundreds of defense workers jleaving here this morning for Mt jami would be caught at the bridge, and highway authorities expected a major traffic jam in the area. The bridge is the last in Mon- roe county,.cormecting Key Lar- ‘go with the mainland. dénfs will get ack in harness at | dents reporting to the auditorium } at that time, and seventh, eighth ; and ninth grades reporting when} the bell rings again at 9:30 o'clock. Regular opening hour | after Monday will be 8:20 o'clock. and Harris schools must be on} hand at 8:40 o'clock, and begin-| ners will assemble in the respec- tive auditoriums with ore of! suffered agony for years with- their parents. Must Be Six Only children who will be six|*P°w was unfolded before a by October 8 will be entered at | Monroe county coroner's jury the grammar schools, and no be-| : ginners will be accepted after | this morning as the investiga: the first two weeks of the term. | 4; San Carlos students are sched- ; A te Sen ot era FTG wy: uled to be on hand at 8:30{%¢!d Morgan last night ended in o'clock for their assignments, |. suicide verdict. with a special Spanish class! planned for the afternoon) | Teachers at most of the Schools were ing“ their ‘final fistruc- tions ware ates meetings at the (oe through the "heart. . junior-senior high at 2:30 o’clock; }body was found at about 5:15 Division Street at 2, and the |yesterday afternoon, crumpled in Harris school this morning at 10,|the bathtub at the Morgan home, 627 Caroline street. Members of the jury were Frank O, Roberts, foreman; S. Mrs. Morgan, the jury decided, } took her. own-life:with a pistefi...Mrs. Morgan's death . left, her heart. The husband and three . daughters, | in her back,! {had been ill and despondent, but! }Plained of pains ‘been treated for any serious ail-/ | ment. | | Testimony of a physician, how- | jeyer, revealed to the jury that! ‘Mrs. Morgan had been under jtreatment for years for an in- ; jeurable disease which she had/ kept carefully hidden from her! ; husband. A pencilled note left | on her bed revealed part of the | story. t Mrs. Jack Torchiana and Miss ; Norma Morgan, Del. and Mrs, Mary Bernd-Co- ‘hen of Lakeland and Monte- { zuma, Ga. { Rose Valley, | | BODY To BE CREMATED Leainacie KEY WEST PLAYERS ARE TO! JOIN WITH LIONS IN PUT. | TING ON PLAY AT HIGH PRICE FIVE CENTS In Self Defense Brook Rice, employe on a con | BLAMED FOR DUEL srtuction job here, was held un- der $200 bond in county jail ton iday on a charge of drunk driving ee ogee Pg ihe Mrs. Townsend Morgan ‘Died: From Pistol Shet Inflicted By Students at the Division Street | H er 0 n Hands Ye ste rd ay after an accident at Boca Chi last night in which he and a par- ity of Key Westers narrowly es- caped serious injury. Constable which five Key West were heading for Miami. oe permitting her husband to so far as he knew had never | No one was injured, but thal Key West car plunged ditch. LIONS PREPARE FOR ANNUAL SHOW | TO HELP SCHOOL BUILDING Key West Car Plunges Ditch On Highway Last Night: | ui By Alleged Drunk Driver Bienvenido Perez, | iwho made the arrest, said Rice, | driving toward Key West, eras! | A grim story of a woman who! His wife, he said, had com-/€4 his car into a machine in; ! residents | I into the t ;Berlin Accuses President Roosevelt Of Provoking Incident In Order To Precipitate Conflict Into (By Assovtated Presa) BERLIN, Sept. 6.—Conceding fired two torpedees at the Amer- jcommand today declared that the submarine fought in self defense and accused President Roosevelt _ Ls canis the in order |\to draw the United States into oe } t j ' Franklin D, GERMANY'S HIGH BLIND. Sons osct"ouc ace the | der to provoke | was said to ha _ \ i | : The body of Mrs. Norma Bow- ‘ ‘ the situation at Leningrad, tal ELECTION COMES AROUND, SHIP LAUNCHED 'o": Sawyer, Frankie Fig-| 5, Morgan, age 55, wife of F. Key West Lions Club Dee Stockholm heard rumors that the ’ : ueredo, Leon Roberts, Charles Townsend Morgan; will be. sent sponsor its second annual show Finns, satisfied with having re- psetate Sa 4 i nee | Curtis and James Curry. jout over highway tonight to ‘ iS Morgan, director of the WPA: Miami by the Lopez. Funeral | a a Heart reas Phat : : ie jart center here, told the jurymen Home, in charge of afrange- , : | WILL CAMPAIGN | bu siiaad eestor Pt following Miss Harriette | ments. 24. This year Key West Players: AGAINST | put gained their lost territory, ey | (Beseint te Phe Chiteea) | make peace with Russia rather! ja qx, ILLE, Sept. 6.—! than continuing the attack toward LP SRONY: * Eres ai (iy Annootnted Prenny KEARNY, Sept. the former Red capital. , County commissioners must an- Russian reports continued ti (ticipate the collection of at least tell of. important guerilla activi-|75 per cent of tax delinquencies ties, with some Red soldiers said accumulating since the Murphy to be harassing the Germans 300'Act and other county-wide and miles behind the actual scene of school board millage levies must America’s newest and mightiest | battle cruiser, slid down the ways { of the Federal Shipbuilding, and | house, of finding the body in the | Miami. Drydock company here this morn- ing, christened by Margaret Mit: chell, author of “Gone With the Critchlow, his assistant, into the bathtub and of frantically call- jing for doctors and the police, The body will be cremated in} | Funeral services will be held | later over the ashes. will join with the Lions to pre-} {sent “Twin Beds” West High School Auditorium. | the principal: activity of Lions Clubs all Blind work is in the Key) JUNIOR SENATOR MUR- "RAY FROM MONTANA over | iBy Assocmted Prensa) - the world. Last year local Lions,, HELENA, ' Mont, Sept. 6—|OF under the-chairmanship of Lion Se. Burton K. Wheeler, who has | « Doctor Sanchez, outfitted scores! fought. the administration at of school children with glasses ,¢very step in its foreign policy, | © ; and examined the eyes of many | Will resign his seat to learn if Ba more. .y» | the people of Montana are in sup- | Story of ai Proceeds from this year's :per-/ Pert of his stand, political ae : . fighters from the days before the comparable reductions in millage; The 6,000-ton ship is said by ‘Japan Declar es That Nazis last war, were said to be driving | over and above other possibilities |navy men to constitute the most | esis trom the reer ‘voller JM. Lee announckd to her sie ever deveioped. | Are Doomed To Lose War nie : lowing his session with the Du-| Completed, she will be capable | : VAL. STATION |board of county commissioners’ faster than any destroyer and| uw york, Sept, 6.—The in» the combined’ stvengilt of the ka. |formance will be used to finance |*ervers are predicting here. | UF NA | here. i second only to the PT boats. Avene Jancacen ccuncaned Geananeeaid "ig top |an extensive program which has’. Wheeler, itis, believed, will ; torially that Germany is doomed: Observers ‘here’ saw ‘immense; ‘ey West Players have AE8 Maes Montana, dames side Hp: SSmounts. “Deeded” they | to lose, the war. ! significance in the story, since'the |? tremendous hit since | ithi¢ars) Murray. must deduct the amount of an- | VISITORS HAVE GAY ‘ ? : man : secatce Mian | ti i r / that plans to achieve a quick vic-‘ for the Japanese government at | TS of this group will find “Twin Sig the phen tah ne somtense UNION: MRS. SCHNEIDER _ tions required and levy millage | ARREST AS RESULT |'°!Y bad failed, and declared that most times. ; Beds” an answer to their re- rep- |. «Contunued on Page Four) Ri ST act oR ‘ ne | erntneiht te & Oe ites comedy drama, |position to the administration. | t Naval station employes here j 4 | have borrowed $16,500 from their | | early this morning at Stock | B ADLY ‘BRITISH SINK clean as the high wind, swift! Sue of a vote of confidence ON GUILLOTINE | Island were suffering various j . moving in. its action, brilliantly |Tecord. slangey and vivid in its dialogue | ‘sisson fighting. Cossacks, famed cavalry | reflect these anticipations with ; Wind.” home lightning attacks on the /under the new statutes, Comp- | Powerful and the swiftest ship ot jval County ‘budget board and of developing a speed of 43 knots, | Guichen calc . RS: The rule means that after the | ae News Week today. declared edi-'xreat for the Nazis’ to Overcome. | been: planned by the tocal, ‘éhubs| Campaign against the junior: sen- © : CIRCLE GA county budgetary authorities de- MPO OO Oa DS ; ; , tn ateanerye 2 rs izati | Senator Murtay,.who has op-| eh est ganization and the many. fol t CREDIT |... et The paper. pointed to the fact’ News Week unofficially ‘speaks REPORT MADE (BY |ticipated delinquent tax collec- | TIME; THREE UNDER FFICE | No effort was made by the gov-|uest for an honest-to-goodness | tesent his constituents in his op- NAMED TO 01 _ who held a drinking party jovial, rollicking and: Will campaign on a clear cut is- Federal Employes’ Credit Union| stages of discomfort today. since its formation in November, | My 1940, a report put before the mem-| _ Mrs, Mary McCracken was | and iol and sure in its char: Key West Youth Trains i fens mn tea nuthedt thy Anenenseed Treas) | toad on a es Med Phares WASHINGTON. tag 6—| PEERS. Mian of “Twin Beds”} For National ef ; The: waten,. " its in-| PARIS, Sept. 6.—Three alleged | x aie : . ae (By Associated Press) deals with the feliciti ds tet ‘ delinquent account since its in-/ ca gt i driving: Kenneth Kemp was | State employment offices ‘have; leals wit e es and, i a jon, has 406 members, who Communists, apparently picked at! held und $50 bond on meee | LONDON, _ Sept. ‘British felicities of three married couples | a auguration, has hi pe Hunter |Tandom from, the hostages seized | es yf is ose ap Ma been authorized to aid in the submarines operating in tue { : Own eT surer of the organ-|PY German police a week ago, deity ea Mage Canter wed (OE thousand technicians for | Mediterranean yesterday sank 4] \"\2cagon in 20 ways) in their Marti é ration, announced yesterday that: ted on the guillotine this morn- lannounced by the department Of. Ghee, testes Een eka das {fut <font ts ti sneragnlene os jannounced by the department of 000-ton Italian fighting ship, the labor today. jadmiralty announced today. Britain is said to be particular-; -The ships brought to eight the ly in need of radio and automo-! number claimed for British sub- bile mechanics, electricians and marines in the past two days. metal workers. Royal Air Force bombers dur- |: The employment ~ offices!ing the day were said to have throughout the nation will ac- carried owt a powerful attack cept applications and will inter-: the Italian base 6f Tripoli view prospective employes. (north Africa, under $50 bond for drunken- ness. The fourth member of the party, who escaped Constable Bienvenido Perez by swim- ming fully-clothed across a channe] and plunging into the mangroves, probably was suffering from — mosquito bites. ; Perez said he found the party at about 4 o'clock, the | ivi i i hare-;ing in grim reprisal for the| Soaee is tome. ede | wounding of a Nazi sergeant this | ac . week. Members of the group held aj | special meeting Thursday to name | The German sergeant, shot Mrs. Frank C. Schneider tothe! down in'the street by a terrorist, post of assistant treastirer. Frank’) Wes not seriously injured and is s : ‘ the /Said to be recovering. af eg 3 peverient - rt ‘German police had announced } union. Bisvaitemuriitwuercst (nse) {previously that all Frenchmen ar- } ;rested in the future would be held ; esate: i jas hostages for the good behavior — Poli omen | of their countrymen. For future es Pee sae Gra-|crimes against the Germans, it! ham observed an aged but still; was decreed, the prisoners would dexterous pickpocket lift a wo-}be killed in numbers Branots man's purse in a department tionate to the seriousness 0! e | store. What trapped him was that ; erime. i he had to stop to put on He PDL LIS SOI SB to inspect the content TS — E Announcing— | PLYMOUTH’S FINEST | of uncomfortable an brewing prosinty ina pore | strect, Key: West two men fighting, Mrs. Mc- Cracken at the wheel of the car and Miss Carter stretch- ed in the middle of the high- way. AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC TO RETURN MILK - BOTTLES! SERVICE STATION HELP WANTED MARRIED MAN PREFERRED Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming Phone No. 5 1941 STUDEBAKER At A Bargain! ° Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming Phone No. 5 ON DISPLAY SOON AT NAVARRO, Inc. Never Before Such Quality