The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 9, 1941, Page 1

ed By U.S. rn te Sunk Southwest Of Ice- loss of 24 lives, the state de- Partment announced late this ‘morning. Three men are believed to have been. rescued. Of the ‘men lost, one was an Amer- ican, SEES WAR ON U. S. (My Axnociated Prensa) BERLIN, Sept. &—An - Axis) bomber—either German or Italian | attacked and sank the Amer-| ican freighter Seafarer in the Red! Sea Sunday, it was announced of! ficially today. i An official spokesman said the | 6,000-ton vessel “probably” car-! ried war suppies for the British, | and added that in any case there | was nothing extraordinary about destruction of a ship in the war: area. The Red Sea, he continued, is ee Ships in} i | / } t | i his | mo oe {My Axsoetated Prensa) WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—) President Roosevelt, in his Thurs-{ day night address to the nation, probably will discuss the sinking} of the American vessel Seafarer | in the Red Sea Sunday and will! afinounce a stronger system of; American naval protection, capi tal observers predicted today. The Seafarer, a 6,000-ton vessel belonging to the Isthmian steam- ship company, was destroyed by a bomber as it proceeded toward! Mrs. Gertrude Farley of Winter the + eager ence lend-lease | Haven, Florida, president of the supplies for the British. } » Reports from Cairo indicated Florida Agsembly of Rebekah ‘all hands were saved in the de- | Lodges, was an arrival in the city struction of the ship, the third today. She was welcomed, and a American vessel to go down since guest at luncheon of the war began : | Deputy President Bernice Park The state gopertment this morn- | and Noble Grand Edna Albury of ing had made no comment on the: local. lod i local ledge. sinking and had not fixed respon-| ‘A school of instruction was held sibility for the act. | Observers in Washington said | at 2 o’clock at the lodge hall, under it is entirely possible the Presi-| the direction of Mrs. Farley. dent will. include the Seafarer | Tonight at 7:30 she will make sinking account in his radio ad- | her official visit to Sparkling Wa- dress, along with -the German’ ; submarine attack on the destroyer | ters Rebekah Lodge No. 14 at the {regular meeting. At the close of Greer Saturday. Mt appeared certain the chief | the meeting a program and social executive will been a pal hour will follow. On Wednesday tem of naval protection for ships |... ba: t will be {Reenine a nquet wi given proceeding both in the Red Sea’. 11. Delmonico at which Mrs. rth Atlantic. oa he ne Farley and members of her staff FOUR BEING ake FOR COURT TRIAL'FLYING GROUP | MEETS T TONIGHT to England, | inston Robert Corrie Showmaker, ar- | rested yesterday by State Patrol- | man H. J. Alfonso on a charge | of reckless driving, 2 eso | over to criminal’ court ler bond this’ ‘tharhing! by “Roace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo. Fred Lischner, arrested Constable Bienyenido' Perez on al vagrancy charge, was held under. $250 bond, while “Millie Lane, reputedly Lischneris;: wife, was held under $50 bond as an in- | mate of a house of prostitution. Alfred Williams, negro, was; held under $100 bond on a charge | of assault and battery against | Prescola Williams, negro woman. He was arrested by Constable Ray Elwood. fing club, who recently have | }bought a Piper cub plane, will | meet tonight at the Join by | Legion. hall. The meeting is scheduled for 8 .q@clock. Anyone interested is inivited to attend. LAAs .. We Invite You To Visit HERE SOON! NAVARRO’S, Inc. Members of the Key West fy.) THE SOUTHERNMOST NE City Tax Roll Exceeds - Eight Million Dolats Sixty-One ‘sublicensees Homestead Exemption) Denied; To Fix Budget | On Thursday The City Council which has been sitting as a tax equalization board for the past several weeks hearing various complaints from taxpayers relative to assessments _entered on the tax rolls by As- sessor Sam B. Pinder. concluded its work at a recessed meeting held last night. After making a few adjustments, the council ac- cepted the tax roll as presented by Mr. Pinder. the total figures on | the enfire book amounting to $8> | 277.754, The book was made up on a ‘one hundred’per cent valuation {basis ip accordance with a recent ‘law os by the state legis- ; lature, and also ordered to be ' placed i in effect by Governor Spes sard L. Holland as was all other {counties in Florida. There were sixty-one applica- tions for homestead exemption denied owing to the fact that the |property in quéstion was not be- ing maintained as a homestead in- jasmuch as the owners were not living on the premises, and that the property was being used on a! commereal basis, with being derived outright. The council will meet in special session on Thursday night for the purpose of completing the budget, which has been tentatively drawn up, and will also set the levy and; fix the millage, which will com- revenue the current year Immediately | following this action, the tax col lector will be ready to accept taxes on the new book. MPM EE LS TI I aT BP GENERAL SHEDD TO GIVE RADIO SPEECH Maj. Gen. William Edgar Shedd, brother-in-law of Miss Etta Patterson. 522 Caroline street, will speak over a na- tion-wide radio broadcast from the Canal Zone tomor- tow night. Miss Patterson announced today. The broadcast will stare at 8:30 o'clock over the NBC blue network. General Shedd. who for- merly was stationed in Key {West and who married Miss Patterson's sister. the former Miss Lettie Patterson here. will talk via radio with Gen. George C. Marshall. chief of- staff, who will be in Washing- ton. The general will be intro- duced by Governor General Edgerton of Panama. "REELS REMOVAL NOTICE CHEELY LUMBER CORPORATION Is Now Located at CATHERINE AND ELIZABETH STREETS (Next to Gas Plant) Us At Our New Location KEY WEST, FLORIDA, T ISOLATIONIST CHARGES IN- DUSTRY WITH PRODUCING FILMS FAVORABLE TO BRITISH VICTORY (Ne Associated Presa) WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—Sen | {Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota {isolationist today charged the t Ainesicen film industry with pro- | ducing propaganda films, “be- jeanne it has a financial stake in a oo victory.” Senator Nye, speaking before a sens investigating a the _ picture, eomntanics| t ting to draw. the United es into war against Germany. } Wendell Willkie, former Re-; ‘publican presidential. candidate! 4+Wwhe is representing the film com- | panies, said the charges were un Rakese Witnesses called from the pic- ture companies today announced jthey would testify under protest, | since the senate has not approved } the investigation being carried on | by the sub-committee. ASKS CUBANS TO REGISTER CUBAN CONSUL TELLS ALL CITIZENS THAT SAME IS NECESSARY Cuban Consul Berardo Rod-j} riguez is notifynig all citizens ef Cuba that may be in Key West that they..must of necessity re- Tegister’ at his office“ inv ante 85 t6 maintain their correct status as |°#Ptured in the past 48: hours, | to their citzenry. This is in accordance with a new law passed by the Cuban | government. The notice, which follows, printed-in Spanish, is for the benefit of the many Cuban citi- | yzens who are unable to read English: AVISO DEL CONSULADO DE CUBA Se pone en conocimiento de los ciudadanos Cubanos residentes en Key West y Condado de Mon- roe, Fla., que todas las inscrip- ciones efectuadas hasta este} fecha, en el Registro de Ciuda- danos Cubanos de este Consul- ado, han sido, totalmente anuladas por orden del Ministerio de Es- District Plete the entire tax structure for |taqq. Seran renovadas unicamente jlas inseripciones de los ciuda- jdanos Cubanos que expresmente }o, soliciten, previo el extricto |cumplimiento de los requisitos ‘4 petigidos,-y que Hor este Con- Se invitala orion? danos Cubanes ‘cion en*esté Co ade Septiembre 9. 1941. | sulada lus‘ nd | Distrito, Mien er = Berardo Rodriguez Valdes, Consul CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON Theophilus Sawyér, age 980, passed away last night at 11:15 o'clock at the ‘residence, 900 Eaton street. Funeral will be held tomo afternoon at 5 asec Ea First. M- E. “(Stone) where”the body will be) lat 2pm Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Catherine Sawyer; a son, Leroy great-grandchildren. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE ait PER IN THE U AY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1941 i ; | Key West, Florida; has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Citizrn S.A. PRICE FIVE CENTS. my War Into Waters rded By United States Navy } i | i \ | NEW YORK, Sept. $—A rout- ,ed German army 1s streaming in idisoraeriy retreat out of the cen- {tral front near Kiev, Moscow de- Jelared today. German soldiers for the first! time since war began are said to! be throwing ‘away their arms jand running to escape the on- ‘rushing hordes of Russians. Moscow said the main body of the Russian army on the central front is driving forward at a speed of eight miles a day and is‘now only 40 miles from the taken by the Germans in the first slashing attack of the war. The Russians, moving into ‘attion behind their giant tanks, : ate said to be slashing at the; German armies both frontally ; fram the flanks. Moscow 50 with enormous stores of wi supplies. Eight Divisions Lost Eight German divisions, ac- | i 27-day struggle since the Reds | took the offensive near Kiev last month. Moscow claimed another vic- tory in the south, where 20,000 +Rumanians are said to have been | fkilled or wounded in an attack | \ carried out by the defenders of! ssa. { German communiques for the; fday concentrated on a descrip- + ition of new attacks on Leningrad | and of an aerial bombardment of : Moscow. The Germans claimed ade! mechanized forces are driving | cares. nearer Leningrad, while | bombers are keeping up a con-/ Istant attack which has engulfed’ Tanck of the city in flames. j | REGISTRATION ON OPENING DAY CLOSE TO SEVEN- TEEN HUNDRED Seventy-five more pupils were j lenrolled in Key West public | ;schools yesterday than in the! first day of school last year, Mel- | vin E. Russell, county superin- ; tendent of public instruction, | announced today. i Registration on the opening - 'day wet to 1,693—T713 at Junior-| Senior high, 546 at Division | Street and 434 at. the Harris; school. Principal Horace O’Bryant at! potest A sf eee te i t Germans ‘Towing Away Arms Crushing: Howdes. Of Russians (By Ansociatea i Raeesinteg: aeehh great industrial city of Smolensk, | cording to the Moscow commun- | — have been smashed in the | TWO DRIVERS ARE. Will Make Effort Toward Pre Delivery Of ‘FINED By COURT fice hecho ae Great: Britain ; |MCENSE REVOKED BY JUDGE, IN CASE OF BROOKE G. RICE To Escape tfhg Arudeinted Premny. LONDON, Sept. $—Adolf Hit- Brooke G. Rice, truck driver, #® *00m will carry the war into on a construction. job here, was! waters patrolied by the United ordered to pay a fine of $50 and} effort pre costs and his driver’s license was! berger Sates os revoked this morning when he! vent the delivery of American pleaded guilty before Judge Wil-! liam V. Albury in criminal -court | supgting: to. Great Dine Slee on a charge of driving while| Minister Wimston Churchill told under the influence of liquor.; j Rice, who. was involved in | the heupe-<f: cca sans _an accident at Stock Island Setue-| day night, was given the com-, paratively light - sentence wi The Nazi high command, , Viewing attacks both on Lenin- ' grad and Odessa, predicted today that the two major cities would jbe in German hands “before snow flies”. Moscow Discounts Raid | Official Russian. sources dis- ; counted the German version of a raid which left Moscow in: flames last night, declaring that only a few. planes reached the city, destroying three houses be- fore they were shot down, On the opposite side of Eu-! rope, Royal Air Force bombers | Swept over central Germany and ‘struck again at Palermo in Sicily, while the Germans coun- , tered with a powerful attack on oe coastal cities and Scot- | re- Judge Albury the had agreed to pay for damages. Manuel Valdez, charged wil driving without an operator’s li: cense, was fined $1 and and a similar sentence was ed A. A. Roberts, charged wil |operating a business without “teh jfour ‘German ships in an se channel convoy, :¢laimed four British ships pana | sunk in an attack by bombers. Address On Wed TRAN CABINET FAVORS PEA DEMS WITH pang ag cies pepe yt of vinbexpe | Ameen Is throughout the world |. «By Ansocinted Press) ted LONDON, ‘Sept 9.—The’ “trail : ‘parliament and the cabinet. of ‘Premier Ali Furanghi have ap- |proved peace*terms providing for | premier’s | the occupation of their country by ‘some of the The ae ee ee ee ‘tion of the southern part of the country by the British with the Russians holding the north. i British. will be estab-; lished in the vital oil well regions, | for R: lard all Germans in the country | would resume will be interned. now At the same time, it. was an- nounced that the embassies of (Ttaly, Rumania, Hungary and! | petain ae We fomme oon 8 Slate