The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 20, 1941, Page 1

To Handle Christmas Mail Ferd Dates For Pati SUPPLIES. TO BE December Tenth And| oe BY NEW ROUTE | WILL BE UNNECESSARY FOR (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) j WASHINGTON. D. C.. Oct. 20. TO GO THROUGH JAPAN- —Extra mail carriers will work; ESE WATERS 830 hours during December to! make sure that all Christmas’ (By Adaselntea Press) mail addressed to Key West) WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.— residents is deli a by Chri Completion of two new Siberian mas Eve, and at the same time to make possible a holiday for regular mail carriers on Christ- mas Day. The extra carriers will be hir- ed by the postmaster and paid out of an allotment of $520 just approved by the Postoffice De- partment and set aside for the special purpose of facilitating Christmas mail deliveries in Key West. Pay at the same scale as for regular postal substitutes will go to the extra carriers hired for the Christmas rush. This pay rate is 65 cents per hour. It will be up to the postmaster to decide how many extra car- riers to employ, and for how Yong. Favored dates for putting Christmas extras to work are December 10 and December 15, and usually some temporary workers are employed on Christ- mas Day, and the two or three speed unloading of American supplies for Russia and will make it unnecessary for United ,; States vessels to go through Jap- janese waters, 11 was announced today. Names of the newly completed ports were not made public here, but it was said they would vastly aid the Soviet Union in getting supplies from the Pa- cific. WM. M’KILLIP DIED SUNDAY OF ee ee EOE. OE aaa or Ol BY LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER William McKiilip, age 83, pass- ed away yesterday at 5:45 p. m. days following, taking care of at the residence, 625 Eaton delayed mail. street. ‘In a sense, the special Christ- Funeral mas allotment reflects the local Postmaster’s expectations as to the volume of Christmas busi- the direction of Lopez Funeral Home will be announced later. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. three ness, according to postal offi-.Mary Eliza McKillip; cials, since it is based on the daughters, Mrs. D. H. Stewart of postmaster’s estimate of the Washington, D.C, Mrs. Odes Pogue and Mrs. Peter Brown of St. Petersburg, Fla.; three sons, Will McKillip, Roy L. McKillip and Gilbert A. McKillip of Key West; four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. number of extra hours of work which will be necessary. CHILD BARES FACTS ABOUT FAST DRIVING (Ry Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20.— When W. E. Mahoney of this city was held for speeding, he said he was hurrying home to his sick wife, but his small daugh- ter said: “Daddy was seeing how fast the new car-would go”. Mahoney was fined $2.50. ROME, Italy—American cigar- ette when, and if possible to ob- tain them, are-bringing from $3 to $4 a package. Tea costs $17 a pound." @éqith/whiskey, when it can be found, brings $18 to $20 a jbottle, and English gin, $15. Edward MeGrath, Charged With Slaying Leon Massi, Gets. Bond Reduced And Case Is Continued union leader who has been held ' 1949 and di ing hi under bond for more than 3 Saaaee Peed rom year in the slaying of Leon a car into the waters of one of the Massi, this morning was granted a Key inlets. McGrath flew here $2,500 bail reduction and a con- from New York to appear in court, | tinuance as Judge Arthur Gomez and was to fly back after driving opened the Fall term of circuit to Miami this afternoon. court. iMpGrath, originally held under Grath’s lawyer, T. S. Caro, that $7,500 bond, which was reduced in | the defense was ready for ‘trial, the Spring term of court to $5,000, ordered Assistant,State’s Attorney today won another reduction to J. Lancelot Lester to prepare for E }trial tomorrow morning. Later, The New Yorker, with another | however, the judge granted Caro’s man named Harry Beil, whojmotion for a continuance to the never has been located, is accused | next court term. Lester informed the court there would be no reason for calling a court. ‘eases set for trial on the docket. Ports north of Vladivostok will’ FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS | |PRESIDENT OF CUBA. FUL- | GENCIO BATISTA. STUDENT AND DEVOUT ADMIRER OF | GREAT PATRIOT H | (Special to The Citizen) | HAVANA, Oct. 20.—Jose Marti, j jclassic figure in the liberation of ; Cuba, takes on an ever bolder re- Hief among the immortals who! liberated America and gave the) j Peoples of America a concept of ' freedom as yet ungrasped to those | i Cath Se who inhabit the other continents, LOWEST BIDDER SUBMITS — | UNITED STATES VESSELS ;!0 Cuba Marti is at once adoctrine| FIGURE OF $24520 TO CON- STRUCT RECREATION CEN-| }@fd a shrine. His teachings, his/ sacrificial death and his memory } | pervades the thinking and feeling! of all Cuba’s people and had a sweep and grandness deeply sig-j nificant to all Americans but es-/ pecially to Spanish-Americans. } From his early childhood the! Present President of Cuba, Col. Fulgencio Batista, has been a stu- ; dent and devout admurer of Marti,! Marti’s prolific writings have sup-j plied the suggestions for many or} most of the projects Colonel Ba- tista has launched for the better- ment of the lives of the people of! Cuba; they have provided the an-/ swers to most of the problems he has faced, and they have inspired | and directed most of his thinking, ; his acts and his enthusiasms. | Several years ago Colonel Ba- ‘tista expressed his deep admira-} tion of Marti in a proposal that a grander monument than any yet} built or to be built in Cuba be! Taised to perpetuate the living cult jof Cuba toward the apostle and! martyr of Cuba's liberation. The} jgrandeur of the proposal met the} popular desire ta honor Marti fit- \tingly and became a part of the Recognizing the steady growth lof Havana and the certainty that | such growth is to continue, Colonel ; iBatista also realized that the! ‘future spread must be principally { ‘toward the south and west andj | will of Cuba. : | | Havana would naturally lie in the} larea to the south of the Univer-! 'sity of Havana. It so happens! that this area is still almost vacant, | although it is surrounded by} heavily built-up residence sec-/ tions and crossed by the principz. east-west and north-south ave- nues of traffic. j To Include Library i | Accordingly. this site was; 'chosen for the Marti monument. : | jhundred thousand dollars were; contributed and substantial prizes were offered for the best designs | and for the best literary works to; make Marti and what he stood for / better understood. The monu- ment itself, to be at once a library} and museum of the most prized} jrelics of Cuba’s long struggles for } la place among the free nations of | ithe, world, is to be the center of al igreat central plaza with avenues! lradiating from it toward each} part of the great capital city of! Cuba which, with its surrounding | suburbs, already has more than} 700,000 inhabitants. | | The very magnitude of the proj- | fect has made it necessary that it; tprogress slowly and other prob- | lems of a bread-and-butter nature i | have also held it back. Last week,! jhowever, another important step|two parcels, having three miles|Gulf should exercise caution un- Edward McGrath, New York of shooting Massi in September,' was taken with the signing of ajof frontage on St. Lucie Canal til winds subside. No presidential decree authorizing! the expropriation of the lands!town. In addition to the two future developments required for the monument and/jlarge tracts, the acquisition in- same. plaza. : i This great project is not, how- ever, the only demonstration of owned by Glades Land corpora- disturbance of slight i . (President Batista’s enthusiasm to>|tion and under option to United was central 7-00 a. = ‘en Y Judge Gomez, told by Mc-|ward the memory of Marti Only |States Sugar corporation. ss ta few dafs age he formally. de-| jliveraitg Mary 9; surviving oe ter thé Gdeds ara Keys to a Beauti- ful home, built and furnished by ; thim—with the help of generous|demonstration of our faith im main displayed on the West} Miss Floreida Williamson, friends—that she might have a proper home and its donors the ‘sites, together with the rights of Cedar Keys. Caution is advised wh 5 jsatisfaction of ‘contributing to; such a gift. | After the ceremony of the pre-| Hillsborough Canal on our plan- coast from Titusville, Fla, to grand jury at this term and the ‘sentation dofia Amelia Marti—who tation tracks with our own Savannah, Ga. Judge continued indefinitely the/had shared the thoughts and | equipment and give us access to tease of the Standard Wholesale | dreams of her illustrious brother Eastern Seaboard markets by/ Grocery company against Louisejfrom childhood on—told news-| water transportation through the Bond Smyth, et al. Neither side|papermen she felt that President|St Lucie Canal and the coastal | TWIN desires toward Cuba her brother} | The court session, recessed this | had died for, adding that she hadjpi Valley may also be reached morning, is to be resumed tomor- | mixed tears with her prayers that|through the St. Lucie Canal,| }row, but aside from the Standard |the president be spared to Cuba/Lake Okeechobee, Caloosahatchee | | Wholesale action there are no/long enough to carry into reality|River, Gulf of Mexico her brother’s plans and dreams. Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, M Across MIAMI CONCERN GETS CONTRACT Fo BUN TER W. G. Mangham company of Miami, with a low bid of $24,520, has been granted the contract for construction of the tion center at Jackson Square. Mayor Willard M. Albury was informed of the bid placement this afternoon by Lieut. Edward Kersting of the army’s construc- tion quartermaster corps, whe opened the bids this morning at his office in Venice. The Mangham company has handled other construction here for Norberg Thorapson and is understood to be ready to start the recreation building at once. Mayor Albury said he was told a representative of the firm will be here this week to make a final check of the plans and prepare for the start of work. Construction of the center is being carried out by the federal security agency. which has allo- cated $28,285 for the job. About $5,000 is to be spent in equip- GERMAN OFFICIAL SHOT AND arrangements under that the new center of Greater; COLONEL KARL HOLTZ WAS SLAIN BY TWO UNIDEN- TIFIED MEN (By Asscctated Preax) VICHY, Oct. 20.—Two uniden- tified men this morning shot and killed Lieut. Col. Karl Holtz, Ger- man military governor of Narce, then fled before his aides could reach the scene. German troops were called into LUXURIES HIGH IN ITALY ‘4 ©°™mission was named, several | action for a wholesale roundup of | Possible suspects in the area, and it was indicated stern reprisals will be carried out. SUGAR CONCERN ACQUIRES. LAND ACRES TAKEN OVER IN TWO PARCELS (Special te The Citizen) CLEWISTON, Oct. 20.—Clar- ence R. Bitting, president of United States Sugar corporation, today announced the acquisition of approximately 3,300 acres in between Port Mayaca and Indian- cluding necessary rights of way to connect the sites with lands In making the announcement, Bitting said, “The acquisition of these lands for future plant-side development is but one more the Everglades. These plant way. will permit the handling of all products north and east of in the case was represented in! Batista was inspired by the same! waterway. “The markets of the Mississip- and the Wester recrea-! _——w: INDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1941 Rolling Russia ‘United States. Guns For Her vce... Tvpedo Altack On Destroyer day were reported rolling across FINDS NEW FIELD western Russia to join the stale- | FOR HOMELY MEN London ; military men said another 10,000 German tanks are} being rushed into the battle along! 350-mile arc before the Redj pital, bringing the total Nazi (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. Oct. 20.—Masses strength im that area to about OF SHIPS seas = ame 35.0: oe - Mbpscow bulletins, meanwhile. | “Hold it!” cried the artist. ween se peo ae jteld of continuing Russian at-| tacks on the Germans, and one} that's now an architec: w = communique said the Reds are| Came to have his a < = we ec successful in lopping off every form perpetuated _ oD es ae wedge in their lines driven by the rent of his own building. ct ore 6 oe a ae Nazis. { <= — : London said the cities of Orei| CMMI MIO LID I 2 ~angeee ee and Kalinin have changed hands ; So many times it is impossible now | = to know which army is occupying = P a that at any given time. IN SCHOOL — Nazis Bomb Moscow i — «ie Dive bombers, according to Ber- | ot So lin, are keeping up a constant = ge bombardment of the besieged capi- | STRUCK IN EYE BY PIECE OF “™ — a. tal. and kesmen in the Reich Bs oe capital said the attacks on Moscow METAL: RUSHED TO MI- = foe a we are more severe than those carried | out a year ago against London. {| In the south, according to Ber- | the lin communiques, Nazi mechan- | . 19, 718 Love ized forees are rolling forward " . with little into the sich | "= Sten was understood t t ‘German bomi-ers on the other | Pital, after an industrial schoo! side of Europe struck at the Brit- | accident here last week im which i isles last night, but the Loo-|he was struck in the <ye by 2 - id | Piece of metal. importance of the ane SO Higgs, a student at one of the Italian bom- | Classes directed by the defiense- il rent ' i a of British attacks on Sicily and | Bengasi in Africa. ' bers were said to have carried out | education office here, was hurt = oeeee —— a heavy raid yesterday..on be-/as he scraped a piece of metal in ee seiged Tobruch in Lybia. | welding course. Unable to get Set ee ome j treatment for him here, L. L. pated | Murray, director of the schools, | Sa=itan 2c. SOS te sat ses seee elie NURSER jrushed him to Miam of Rolhms Colege a Cer Gs oe Geiger Park, with Mrs Holt ant 2 FOO pepe at ee Geet ae ang ee NEW LOCATION tious ineerens WEDERS SET GP <--> ~-=-=-> “SS | specnon with Cagt Bumel S gp geet | Crenshaw Sabet comment The WPA Nursery is now o- NEW LABOR UNIT Dr. Hoh. whe was here oul @ cated at 731 Caroline street, hav- | few hours, came after «2 code ing been removed to the new | NE message trom Sectemm o me readquarters recently. | (By Associated Press) Navy Frank Knox ta tequemet Mrs. Caroline Ford, who is in charge, states that there are openings for additional csildren, and parents who are interested ‘of withdrawing from the Amer- in placing, children there . caM scan Federation of Labor and set- | necessary arrangements. union. coe ss a sR, Members of the seceding group. ADVISORY angry over alleged ‘lights at the ees A¥ of L convention last week, dé | i Y3Al tf 3 ehé id t | : II | i : Ll] | 4 | FE | tr F ‘ if i if hi | 2:30 P.M. (EST), Jacksonville. |<l#red their reove soon will apres” —The slight tropicai disturbance ance north of Cedar Keys, Fla, | moving slowly northwarc. It} GETS DUTY coast at Cedar Keys 10 a m. at-/ tended by winds 40 to 50 miles | will diminish in intensity, but | merly an attorney at small craft in the | Mics, reported for advisories will be issued unless | <onnei officer. tattended by strong winds was! crossed the northwest Fictida| |per hour near center. The storm | Ensign Hugh B. avy station today as aide warrant bi - Two Acc | [is 9:30 A) M (EST)—Tropical Cedar Keys, Fla, moving slowly northward or portheastward. It is attended by fresh to strong ,shifting winds, quails and beavy rains. Storm warnings re- Florida coast from Sarasota to | year-old visitor from small craft in Mexico and along the Atlantic WEATHER BUREAU. i HH BEDS | Reserved Seats—Simone Tours f iher ff t } K L i t