The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 8, 1941, Page 1

_ Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIL, No. 213. | Threaten To Destroy London * Hundreds Of Planes Par- ticipate In Attack; 27 Civilians Killed And Scores Injured (By Associated Presa) LONDON, Sept. 8,—Hundreds of Royal Air Force bombers last night hurled death and destruc- tion at Germany's capital in the mightiest offensive the British sir armadas have undertaken in the war. the air ministry de- clared today. Attacking in a sky made clear by a full moon, the bombers thundered over Berlin shortly before midnight and squadrons of long range ships of all types! Continued to pound the city al- most until dawn. | The air ministry said tons of | high explosive and incendiary | bombs shattered the” heart of Berlin, destroying a railroad sta- | tion and starting huge fires | throughout the capital. ~“ophe*moon; according to the “air ministry bulletin, lighted up the city “like a map” and the return. | ing fliers were able to see the: great fires behind them miles} away, : Raid Airdromes Fighter planes swept irto ac: | tion with the bombers, strafing | airdromes along the route to! prevent the German _ fighters! from rising to meet the attack. The air ministry said defend-j{ ers of Berlin hurled a curtain of anti-aireraft fire into the sky, but the attackers were said to; have pushed through to reach’ their targets. Indicating the size of the at-} tack, the air ministry admitted | topour in to. President Roosevelt ;mourned the death yesterday of ;culosis has allied itself tend the funeral, THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDA 7 French Quarters Claim ‘Reign Of Terror’ Being Inaugurated By Communists ‘Against Nazis (By Associated Preaa) WICHY, Sept. 8—Promising|A saboteurwas shot yesterday at} stern reprisals for continugd| Nance by @ German firing squad,! sabotage and anti-German ac-/ they announced. ~ { tivities, authorized French quar-| Clarifyimg thé’ status of “hos } ters today declared Communists | tages” who are to be executed for | are attempting to inaugurate a/crimes against Germany, a Nazi| “reign of terror” in order to force | official said Jews will not be con-| Germany to withdraw troops from | sidered in that class. Communists, | the Russian campaign. | however, will be held and will be ! The spokesmen admitted sabo- | shot for the activities of their fol- | tage and terrorism is continuing. lowers. t : i Eee RE eae SSEEE Ah cae i i | i | ROOSEVELT RITES TUBERCULOSI SET FOR TUESDAY STILL REMAINS DIED YESTERDAY AT HYDE pee ; RT ISSU! i ee ee ; ED SHOWS THAT | | DISEASE RAPIDLY IN- | GREASING IN MANY OTHER COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY (By Anseciated Prensa) 1 HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 8.—| Messages of condolence coming from all over. the world continued | | | (Special te Cle Citieen) } NEW YORK,’ Sept. 8.—Tuber- | 1 to the| his mother, Mrs Sara Delano|war in menacing the lives and Roosevelt. |health of European peoples. | Mrs. Roosevelt, who would have | From data now available, statis- | been 87 this month, will be buried | ticians report it is clear that “tu-| tomorrow in the churchyard of St. | berculosis is on the increase| James Episcopal Church, next to! abroad, and that the splendid her husband, James. Only mem-| record of accomplishment in the | bers of the family, close friends | control of the disease throughout | and the household staff will at |the world is being seriously ; ssl |threatened as a result of war, j th | conditions”. j COURT HEARS | “Even in those countries where |the antituberculosis today. as he and his “family | disease | jis now finding fertile soil for, growth”, the statisticians ex-j {plain. “In less advanced coun- | campaign | ':has been organized, the Mary Carter, charged with jwies, where the mortality from | Must We Wait For Repairs For eight and one half hours Satur- day Key West was cut off from the main- land. : : It happened that the accident which caused that break was not serious. It happened that no one was hurt. It hap- pened that a pile driver was nearby, so the damage was repaired in a matter of hours.instead of in a matter of days. Kéy West that time was lucky. But if it did nothing elsé that accident shou!d go'to convince the people of Mon- roe county’and'the members'of the state road department that it is time to stop stalling about construction. of a modern highway from the mainland to this city. It is time to stop taking chances with the lives of the thousands who drive over those rickety wooden bridges. It is time for the road department to stop playing football with the future of this city and this county. For some day Key West*is not going to be lucky. Some day, unless the road department decides to end thrée years of political fumbling, one of thdse bridges is going out for good—and the road depart- ment is going to be responsible. Stop and consider what!would hap- pen if a loaded bus some day should crash through one of those already weakened and overburdened bridged. Consider what would happen to Key! West, de- pendent. on winter travel, if @ne of those bridges should burn, cutting off.thé city’ - for days or weeks, instead of for hours, The road department, spending mil- lons for construction of highways though other sections of the state, tells us now— has told us for years—that it has no money. Overseas Highway always is go- ing to come next. The people of Monroe county can go a long way toward convincing the road department that Overseas Highway should come first. Consider what Overseas Highway does for the state. Then why not let the governor and the road department know that you know? Y, SEPTEMBER 8, 1941 ? travelled over by 145,000 cars—145,000 cars which burned from 20 to 25 gallons of gasoline on which the state exacts a tax of seven cents per gallon. At the very minimum that is a sum in excess of $200,- 000, and that is only part of it. More cars drive to the east toll gate and return without coming to Key West than actually do make the trip here. ' From''information gathered by checking travel over Card Sound bridge it would ‘appear that perhaps 180,000 cars drove asefar‘as the gate or stopped along the ‘upper ‘keys to fish. ‘Phat money, too, goes to the state for no other reason than the fact that the citizens of Monroe county obligated themselves to build the bridge system. If the bridges were not there the state would get none of that money. Governor Holland, when he was in Key West last spring during the primary campaign, said one of his first official acts would be to give his attention to Overseas Highway. He has been in of- fice now about eight months. The people of Monroe county, whe- ther or not all of them know it, are obli- gated to the extent of more than $8,000,- 000 in Overseas Highway. They are ob- ligated for the support of the road and toll bridge district, and should it fail to pay, then the people would have to make good, : "Phe people of Monroe eounty pay 4s much in gasoline taxes as the peopje of other sections of the state. They pay millions of dollars in tolls. While hamlets in north Florida are suddenly finding themselves on modern highways, Key West citizens are paying for their road—and still not getting it. ~ From every standpoint — defense need, safety to Florida citizens. and Florida visitors, and in‘ simple justice, that road should be completed at once. Ex-Governor Cone polled only 12 votes in Monroe county. Governor Hol- land found strong support here. It is time for him to remember his Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit | Reports State That Both Armies Are Fighting With Much Difficulty-In Bad Weather Cd dd dd dd, WOULD HALT CLOSING ORDER ON GASOLINE | WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.— Charging that the 7 o'clock gasolhie curfew is a needless irritation and has not cut fuel consumption, the Ameri- (By Aanoeinted Press) can Automobile Association | NEW YORK. Sept. 8.—Russia’s has petitioned Oil Adminis- | three beseiged cities—Leninsrad, | Kiev and Odessa—still were hold- trator Harold L. Ickes to re- move the closing order. ing ouf inst fi G a: association contends that early closing only forces motorists to stock up during the day. Wdkddidedideded. SIX MIDGETS j bad weather, pounded Leningrad RUSSIANS ARE ASSIGNED TO; THOUSANDS TO SIBERIA ROLES IN DEFENSE OF i UNITED STATES Berlin admitted bad weather was holding up ground activities on all fronts, but a high-ranking German. staff officer said Lenin (Associnted Press Feature Service) | ICORAL GABLES, Fla, Sept 8.} —Six. Russian-born midgets, re-| tired troupers who reside in a set- tlement of doll like houses on the} fringe of the Everglades, have! pion assigned roles in the defense of the United States, |. Their tiny settlement has been; designated as an observation post in the nation-wide air raid warn- ing system. Proud of the duty assigned them, the midgets eagerly demaon- strated how they could perform. John | Velikanoff, 48-year-o iature set of binoculars. “Two turkey buzzards flying south,” he e Michael Sokolsky, 58, picked up. a telephone and said skly: “Calling headquarters, All quiet here. Is supper ready?” _ The midgets were part o troupe of 23 that once performed |~ before the Romanoffs. After the ussian revolution. they roamed through Siberia, Manchuria, _In-|_ dia, Japan and the Philippines, They landed at San Fri 5 in 1931, toured this country carnivals and sideshows, and were naturalized in 1933, ip The other small people are Mrs. Anna Sanderlin, 44, whose hus-| band is normal-sized; Basil Fillin, j48; his sister, Miss Mary Fillina, 45; and Miss Paula Velikanova,| John’s sister The normal-sized persons in the settlement are J, E. Sanderlin, a married Anna two years ago, and that 20 bombers failed to return. | drunkenness after a party Satur- | nasa fi meanwhile, lang at tock inland, drew a ono ebetepsts is normally high, | Other squadrons, the death rate from the disease | handed out severe punishment | fine in criminal court this morn-| is jikely to mount to frightful | — Eee aL SeN este to cities along the French chan-' ing from Judge William V. Al-!,,, tions, as hi ed in the} ae P nel coast, and Palmero, Sicily, bury after having been placed SE senha ga bitte pags ant ha | BREAD CAST ON INTERNATIONAL i VY PLANS 10 ; was given a savage pounding. | der $50 bond by Peace Justice En | } Van : , aj | ‘ pret: seas ne WATERS: RETURNING: FOR! MASIM’ PUT IN CONDUIT IC ; easton) 2 URTVINOU AND? STARFORBICRAPPS ae sis ix oricis non (Rome said 16 were killed in | rique Esquinaldo. te statipticiags explain “that NING ‘FROM NAVAL STA- | the attack on Sicily.) | Judge Albury suspended costs yate ay ; and Waigs i | TION TO AIR BASE Overseas Highway last year was promise. Sg upon payment of the fine, giving! j939 sho: Slight’ tise ahiiné | possi ag Me | the same treatment to Kenneth} male civilians the 70 coetween | = ‘Kemp, Miss Carter's companion} : dovadt (iy Anaociaved Press. P, | 1939 and 1940 affected both males \at the party, who drew a $25 fine, 5 BERLIN, . Sept. 8.—Twenty- | “Charles Sobers, cHarged iwi }and females. ‘Among males the | seven. civilians |nificant that the rate increase of 7 percent. ! boy of British politics. In Scotland the situation dif-| fered little from that of England; 4" and Wales. The tuberculosis ; Cripps abandoned a $100,000 a death rate increased 14 percent} ‘ ine i04b: es: coripand iy 1939, |¥°2" law practice to work for and was the highest of any year | what he termed the nearest thing since 1392. While no rise in the! to Christianity he could find in tuberculosis death rate occurred | ivilizati ‘ + i eh |modern civilization. His opposi- in Canada last year, it is sig-;,. ; ia for th ‘e | tion to government policies in “aristocratic socialist”, | ‘BLOWOUT’ FOR crease. first-half of 1941 showed an in-|8eneral and his advocacy of'seli her on Russian respectabil- | friendship with Soviet Russia in| cae |. Capt. ,Russell S. Crenshaw, ee tke — aane | permission of the: board of pul salesmanship is back in good | jie works for the installation Standing in Russia, and, accord-| conduit between the navy sta- ing to reports, the former Soviet | tion and the air station, ~Harold | foreign commissar is back in good! pinger, clerk of the board, re- | standing too. ¥ | Litvinov in. his heyday played | up to England, did his best to! ity.. He played up to the United CAPTAIN MARVIL were {death rate rose 13, pereent;: from | withheld sentence in the case of Consul Berardo Rodriguez, the | McCracken under $100 bond on.a Mario Garcia Menocal, 74-year- closed in mourning for the gen- | a Capt. Fred Marvil of state| killed, | gambling was fined $25 and costs 7z1 per 100,000 to -87.4; for fe- | (Associated. Preas: Péature: Service” ’ sf 2 a }Justino Ruiz, charged with driv-| San Carlos Institute and many }charge of drunk driving, ‘and old ex-president of Cuba who! eral’'s death, and the flag over! An increase in the disease has probably also beén experienced by Germany, the statisticians say, although current statistics particular won for him the title ;of “most dangerous revolution- ary in England”. | States, too, and was a factor in achieving U. S, recognition of \the'Soviet Union. Incidentally, ‘Continued on Page Four) [and James W. White, charged! ics the tuberculosis. death| The worm has turned for Sir }dious ¢yele from the role | ing without a license. | of the Cubans living in Key | placed Brook B. Rice under $200) died yesterday in Havana. the school was placed at half-| guard company “D”, «seventh from it and from occupied coun- | That was in the 1930's, before ev ‘proposed @ British-French- MOURN DEATH OF =: reckless driving, drew a fine|rate in 1940 was 54.7 per 100,- | stafford Cripps, onetime bad litical outcast td a place high in| ‘ + j Earlier in the morning, Es- West, today sent messages of; bond on the same charge. The ‘San Carlos school, scned: | mast. | battalion, will be‘ guest- of <honor''tties are not available. In France, ! i. $15 and costs. Judge Albury | 999 as against 50.9 for 1939). an| |the councils of British govern- | GENERAL MENOCAL Nace agwcaa |quinaldo had placed Mrs. Maria sympathy to the family of oes uled to open today, remained: One of the revolutionaries who‘ tonight at a “blowout" ‘to #"be/'the Vichy government reports a Munich «.and before Germany’ aided ‘in the overthrow of» the'!staged by»: thei) guardsmen*™in’/sharp increase. late President Gerardo Machado, General Menocal . later became president himself, visiting in| after his inauguration. honor of his-birthday. yin The guards will meet at’ ‘the state armory at 7:30 o’clock for bration for Marvil coming later. American Third Russia With Supply Of Oil SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8—| The Standard Oil tanker J. C.| Fitzsimitions has docked at Mur- mansk with a cargo of oil, it was learned here today, CULO TE Ship Reaches | The ship is the third to reach | the Russian port in safety with/ supplies for the Soviet Union in| its war against Germany. | statisticians declare, “the greater Key West during 1927 and 1928,|their regular drill with the cele-| will be the increase in tubercu- after the war was uni , Cripps was a ‘prophe' jcious litlte honor ei or at home. Even Russi “The longer the war continues ‘avid the further it extends”, the losis, particulatly on the Contin-| of 1949 he had been selected ent. The experience of the World| Churchill for a trade mission 4 War of 1914-1918 affords an in- The Soviet officials (Continued on Page Four) | were cold and would not admit him until the British govern- ment gave him the rank of jor. It proved to be a lonely sion, but Cripps made the of it. He laid the ground WATCH FOR— PLYMOUTH’S FINEST “The Car That Stands Up Best” ON DISPLAY SOON AT NAVARRO, Ine. reel, alliance | marched into>Poland* ‘But even, beara cs May, 1930, of Litvinov, i Came June, 1941, arid the Ger- man panzer divisions