The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 16, 1941, Page 1

3 7 Day Wire For 61 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 220. ; Under Orders To Navy Secretary Issues In- structions To Vessels In (By Asnocinted Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Ger- man and Italien spokesmen to-| day bitterly assailed Navy Sec- retary Frank Knox for his dec-|tne number of homesteads with leration that United States nav- | assessed valuations in excess of z # j $5,000 has added nearly $900,000 1 ships will begin to attack Axis! t. the county tax rolls, Tax As- ‘war vessels in the waters be-|S¢ssor Claude A. Gandolfo has jreported to Comptroller J. M tween America and Iceland. | Lee. Virgini R ditor,| _Gandolfo’s records for this year Gare. “ishow 72 homesteads with valua- said the United States, without | tions of more than $5,000, adding tion, uoed lan assessed valuation to the books a ins baad {of $350,200 over last year’s figure, ‘war. | when only one homestead in the Authorized German sources de- | ~ tlared the navy secretary Stringent observance of re- quirements for homestead ex- ‘emption and a huge increase inj carried the United States “clos. | er to war than President Roose- | (Ry Annocinted WASHINGTON, Prema) 7 a | Uniited States —T ves, TWO BOUND OVER, their guns stripped for action, } were patrolling the waters of ‘FOR COURT T the North Atlantic today under } the orders of Secretary of the! 3 e | Melvin Albury, negro, was 1 Navy Frank. Knox to “seize OF }ound over to criminal court un- destroy” Axis U-boats or raiders ider $1,000 bond yesterday on a in the area between the United | charge of assault with intent to States and Iceland. }commit murder growing out of The navy department refused , 8M alleged knife attack last month to say if the orders inmued « by (°? his common-law wife, Maggie Haverley. Knox yesterday meant a resump-i peace Justice Enrique Es- tion of the convoy system, but quinaido, Jr., aiso bound over most observers regarded the George Cook under $100 bond on question as a technicality. a charge of drunk driving and or- Under the secretary’s orders, ‘dered James H. Powell, a passen- Gu: hace thik acne ws pay ger in the car, held for drunken- ness, + ed with the job ot clearing the; Army Sgt Edward E. Kersage, seas of enemy vessels, and most’ charged with assault and battery observers could see little import+'!nrtcr an alleged attack on, -his ance in whether that is accom~:iwife, Margaret, will have a pre- Plished by convoys or-by an €X~\Jiminary hearing tomorrow after: panded patrol. ‘noon at 5 o'clock Sergeant Ker+ Knox revealed the shooting ‘sage is charged with beating his orders in an address before the | wife Sunday night. American Legion convention yes- SOS 5 3a terday at Milwaukee. 9, s pAb sag tit That’s All For Tonight The secretary told the legion} members: “Come what may, American | 16.—Someone (a weary motorist, aid to Britain is to be delivered!no doubt) burglarized a filling and is to be used in the fight/ station here after the 7 p. m. cur- against Hitler to the maximum. |! to obtain a pump key and That. is this country's answer to) draw out seven gallons—no more Hitler's declaration that he will | of gasoline try to sink every ship his ves-| sels encounter on the routes/ leading from the Unitied States| ae to British ports. | REDFIELD, Kas.—A terrapin “Beginning tomorrow the/made his 18th annual visit to American navy will provide pro- the Guy Smith farm near here tection as adequate as we can this summer. He always arrives make it for ships of every flag on schedule. The family has him carrying lend-lease aid between | well marked so that there is no the American continent and the | doubt that he is the same fel- waters adjacent to Iceland”. Now. Japan Sota Protests’ : Grae Shipments To Reds (By Associated Press) “TOKIO, Sept. 16—Sapan will! The newspaper Nichi-Nichi discontinue her protests to the!warned, however, that Japan United States over shipment of| must consider the fact that peace- oil to Russia, at least for the time}ful gestures from the United being, an official spokesman said | States and Britain can be only for today. ithe purpose of appeasing Tokio ‘The spokesman said Japan is! while the European war is in prog- willing to let the question of oil | ress. shipments be dropped until col-| Both of the democracies, ac- laboration talks between the two cording to the paper, are willing governments have been com- to go to great lengths to prevent pleted and the status of future re- | having to fight wars in two oceans lations is made clear. ‘at the same time, {My Associated Pronnd UPHOLDING AESOP Patrol Nort More. Revenue. Derived: FIOM: races S Ant’ AssegsmentssMadee In EXCESS ~ Nazis Break Russian Lines; Troops: Pouring Into Grimen|(ARROL TYNES © WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Sept. | — tani Wat : Destroy Axis Subs! (By Associated Press) wieldi hei this morning as 1,900 down- town barbers and 400 mani- it was announced this morning. entire county was on the books} Curists walked out ina de- ,for more than the $5,000 limit. mand for higher wages. The total number of exemptions granted also received a sharp cut | ODDO DPD DI i IB with 1,797 on the books this year} | : in contrast to the 1,934 who were] PILOT BO ARD granted exemptions in 1940. Gandolfo said most of the home- HAS MEETING steads taken off the exempt list! pilot ecutions was given. MYRON TAYLOR failed to qualify because the own-' ers either did not live on the prop- erty at all or rented it part of the} The (Ry Ansoctated Prens) commissioners of ROME, Sept 16—Myron C. year. In some cases, investigation Key West held a meeting last |.#¥!0% Special representative of} revealed that property owners had) night, which was an putea cin Pa Sigensberadiaitel ee peat asa | ;to the United States today after j@ morning audience granted him | been granted homestead exemp- tion previously on vacant lots. pereion. ane elected. Faery: Ms |Baker as chairman, and Maximo | Valdez, secretary-treasurer. i The other members of the | board are E. H. Gato, Ill, Warren; by Pope Pius XI. | FINNS — geen from the Pope i. (Ry Asnoctated Presa) (Ry Associated Prensa) j HELSINKI, Sept. NEW YORK, Sept. 16—Rus-| | sian defense lines on the east! ' Carrol F. Tynes, Key West, ibank of the Dnieper river have | Purchased from Myrtle H. Lester, ' i ‘ jalso of this city, the home on : been crushed at "several Points, | Onivia street between Duval and @¢tion and 70 vessels totaling 100,- land German troops are rolling | Whitehead, a deed revealed to- 000. tons have been sunk by the into Crimea, British military in-| gay. | Finns since the stare of the pres- formants admitted today. Purchase price was about $800. ©®t war with Russia, it has been Confirming German reports of are Se Riya PRR ;announced officially. A communique claimed capture ia break through, which Moscow ARMY OFFICERS {did not confirm, informed Brit-| ish quarters said. the southern | army in Russia may be put in a “desperate” position by the Ger- TO BE REMOVED | chine guns, 1,000 heavy machine | Suns, 600 trench mortars, 800 guns (Ry Asnoctated Prexs) | of other calibres, 300 tractors, 1,- man victories. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—A‘25¢ motor trucks, 30 locomotives, ‘ Berlin declared the river | SecTet board of five generals rec- 600 railway cars, 8,000 horses and jerossings climaxed days of the|Ommended the removal of 170 about 1,500 horse-drawn vehicles. bitterest kind of fighting. {regular Army officers from active In addition 669 tanks and 67 ar- |. Mechanized columns were said | duty. {mored cars were reported de- |to have swept across hastily! _The war department announced | stroyed or captured. = lthrown up bridges, driving the | that under a recent law the of-| The Finns said that of the ships |Russians back from temporary | fivers on the list who have held .sunk 55. were sent to the bottom | bridgeheads and paving the way | ‘their commissions for less than by naval craft, 14 by coastal bat- ifort a general advance. seven years will be honorably dis- teries and‘one by plane. Five } Crossed Near Mouth | charged, while the men with long- | other ships were captured, it was ler service will be retired, their | said; in addition to 42 vessels, ; One important German break- | pay to be determined by rank and ‘chiefly ‘motorboats, on Lake La- {through was said'to have ‘come their years in the Army. 'doga. On the lake * 10 Russian |neat the mouth of the Ditieper,’ ‘The secret board's decision is| ships were reported sunk, includ- j while the Nazis are believed to cuhiect to the approval of Secre-| ing a gunboat and six big trans- |bave broken through’ the “Rus-|tary Stimson The officers also {port lighters loaded with war ma- [sea defenses. ay. die apie time have the privilege of requesting terials and troops. jfaxther north. retirement and the department a Military observers from | Eng-| said that 66 out of 133 notified of (Queenie Quits Raisi jland said the Germans appear to} recg dations already had jbe driving both into Crimea | 2 oe ¥ | asked for retirement. jtoward the great port of Sevas- |topel and to the east in the di-! {rection of the rich valley of the | BRITISH P RESS !Don, most productive session of LAUDING FDR | the Ukraine. | | Both sides, meanwhile, were} (Ry Asaocinted Presa) jclaiming great victories in the; LONDON, Sept. 16.—British raging battle south of Leningrad. | editorial writers continue to Berlin, admitting the fighting | praise President Roosevelt's is progressing on a huge scale |“shoot-at-sight” broadcast, and | with hundreds of thousands of|the Daily Mail interpreted it to 8 }men.on both sides, said 53,000)/mean the United States had | Red prisoners have been taken | “sailed into action ... .which. .. there, with nine Soviet divisions | looks very like war”. wiped out and nine more de-} The speech was the greatest feated with heavy casualties. jand most momentous the Presi- Moscow claimed German at-/dent ever has made, the Mail de- |tacks have been thrown back, /tlared, : and a communique said one Nazi! The News-Chronicle asserted [regiment of 3,000 men'was wiped'|the PresidentSs declarations, “put | out. [s - 4 ‘You CAN'T KEEP been aed to our resources’ | ; GOOD MAN DOWN Tux Uitte HOME | THAT WASN'T THERE | (By Associated Prensa) H (Ry Arnociated Presa) | TRENTON, N. J. Sept. 16.—| | Charles Spickler, learning to fly |at 62, made a successful forced] FREEHOLD, N. J., Sept 15.— landing when his engine quit, al-| Harry W. Mayberry bought a tax | though he had had only four hours! lien on a house and four acres of |of solo experience. Undaunted, he/ ground in nearby Atlantic Town- | awaited repairs, then flew the air- | started to foreclose, i Plane back to the airport to de-|called the whole thing |mand the unusued 20 minutes of/even a surveyor could |the hour for which he had hired! property where the THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1941 VICHY, Sept. 16—German sol-j diers in Paris today executed 10 more “hostages” in retaliation for acts of violence against the Nazis, No explanation for the ex- COMING HOME ‘Taylor was said to have been} | Sawyer and Thos. Moore. igiven a special message for the j “HUGE WAR LOOT Aggregate Tax Roll for the Year 1941, $8,279,154 at 16,—Vast | has Quantities of war material have! been captured, 454 Soviet planes | and balloons have been put out of | of 25,000 rifles, 2,000 light ma-} Trick Lion Cubs eal ‘isso, New City Budget As Adopted 1941-1942 Administrative Department PARR Police Department Fire Department Sanitary Department Scavenger and Sanitation Aquarium ae Golf Course Pensions ‘ Street Lighting “ Bi WPA Projects ‘ Rae 7 Parks and Recreation 2 a Miscellaneous Apprepriations (Chamber of Com- merce, Library, Etc.) Se eee se Public Welfare (Community Clinic and Welfare Worker) - te aca acters TORS 8 $114,513.85 Deductions (Revenue to be derived from other sources, Occupational Li- t eenses, Motor Vehicle Licenses, Fines and Forfeitures, Building Permit Fees, Aquarium Fees, Etc. 54,435.40 Net Amount, General Revenue—to be levied for on the 1941 Tax Roll _ Board of Public Works $45,199.43 Less Sewerage Operation and Main- | tenance Fees _....________.__ 3,000.00 60,078.45 41,598.43 Indebtedness (Interest and principal on General Revenue Bonds and Floating Debt Retirement) _-_._.___. Bonded Debt (Bond Refunding Fund) for interest and sinking fund require- ments on City of Key West, Fla. Re- funding Bonds dated 1/1/38 —____ 50,709.82 $159,320.93 6,933.23 TOTAL. BUDGET ~Total-Nen-Exempt Tax ‘Rolitor the Ywar 1941, $6,- 162,879 at 17-5/8 mills for operation ___. $108,620.73 6-1/8 mills for debt service TOTAL TAX LEVY, 1941, 23-3/4 mills to yield 159,330.55. i bow ee Carpenters Expect To Vote | On defense jobs are expected to vote I would decide. jwalkout this year unless the) trip, would affect more 12%-cent| men working for hourly increase over their pres- | Thurston and W. FL ent scale of $1. companies here. The carpenters, through Clar- ' contractors in Key West, ence Higgs, | union i i fs Thursday of last week, Lieut. Franklin G Jansen, public works officer) at. the maty station, that they would not eon~| imavy grants them a bureau of yards and Washingon, but be said has been no answer up to i. And Sets New Millage 50,709.82. Another Proposed Walkout Carpenters on two Key West,refused to predict what they itomorrow night for their third ‘The walkout, or mass fishing | Board Votes To Make Ba- | hamia Street “No Park- | img” Thoroughfare To | Clear Up Traffic | | Ata special meeting of the City | Council held last night, the bud- | get for the ensuing term was com- | pleted and adopted on its final {tax roll was set at 23% mills. As- | Many of the officials and em- )ployes salaries were _ increased, ‘some of which were in accordance | with a legislative act, while the ‘others were raised by the coun- ‘cil, . 2 ‘ | The following are the. annual — ceived an increase in the \budget: Mayor, $2,100; city clerk, | $2,100; city auditor, $1,800; city ‘attorney, $1,080; assistant to tax $900; city !