The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 31, 1941, Page 1

ee ee I ee Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted te the Best Interests of Key West - THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. Che Key West Citizen == KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1941 VOLUME LXIIL. No. 259. CHALLENGED Leonard Guerro Held In Jail For Shooting Raymond. Muy “ FRENCH FAIL TO ‘STOP. WORK’ ON BRITISH. APPEAL PLEA OVER RADIO SUG- GESTED MASS PROTEST AGAINST SLAYING OF HOSTAGES _ RESIGNS POST Monroe County To Fight Comptroller’s Order To. sel ét Budgct At 7 Mills ritr And Attorney Gem DELGADO HOUSE eral Taking Up Matter In Tallahassee FIBE CHIEF SAYS IT WAS UN- DOUBTEDLY OF INCEN- DIARY ORIGIN an altercation this morning in and painfully | wounded Raymond Murphy, 2i, {B08 Ashe street Murphy, said to be recoverii at Marine hospital afte: moval of a bullet f leg. was ordered h (By Associated Press) Monroe county will fight Comptroller J. M. Lee's order for @ seven-mill budget ceiling. board Chairman Car! Bervaldi, °CCuPied Virginia street home of JOSEPHUS DANIELS. one- time secretary of the navy, has resigred his vost as ambassa- dor to Mexico. President Roose- Fire which destroyed the un- velt amnounced today at a % - press comference. The chief declared last night. Ramon Delgady at about 3:30 TWO COUNTY COMMISSION- tat ba executive gave high praise to Interrupting what had been ex- lock this morning, “undoubt- ERS learned last night from pesos the retiring official who is two who already knew that their board is to fight the sev- en-mill budget ceiling set by Comptroller J. M. Lee. At- torney Julius F. Stone will seek to have the order set aside by the attorney general's office. i ie af - ng uty George Gomez t —— = at about 3:00 after he Pected to be a routine session for ““/¥ was of incendiary origin”, approval of the budget authoris- Fire Chief Harry Baker declared @d by Lee, Bervaldi said the ‘4Y- ¢cmmission’s legal advisor, Julius Se TORS OF ne, it: tind riducigl the onc FOXES CONFUSE Attorney Gen. J. Tom Watson in siory building to ruins, said an effort to have Lee's order set Streams of burning oil poured - from the rear of the house on aside. ra" lop of" the Water directed inside Commissioner Roland W. Craig, by_the Gre Sghters. who is fighting for a proposed $4,000, had The home, valued at about.WILD SPECIES HAVE MORE GIVEN APPROVAL ‘=: vacated by a airport at Marathon key, elimin- wfiar ti VITAMIN THAN THOSE ated from the budget under the ago. RAISED ON RANCH ceiling set by Lee, said he had his wife found taiked with > by teh during the afternoon. Neither Commissioners A Ramsey nor Eduardo G had been informed of the ef te have the budget t creased, and Ramsey id Tax Assessor Claude A. Gandolfo hotly protested at having been kept in the dark. es “Gentlemen”, Gandolf sigs oe ped, “if you have anything more PS ai lay it on the table tonight” id t Gandolfo’s tax books already LEFT YESTERDAY have been set up on a bas‘s of seven mills, and a change in the figure now would mean weeks of work for his office before the books again could be laid before the board for approval. The tax assessor revealed day that he does t have enough sheets to re-write the books and T, whose men were un- AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO WAS SECRETARY OF NAVY IN WORLD WAR DAYS able to halt the conflagration 80.000 SERBS FIGHT NAZI TROOPS, PLANES (By Asnociated Prexs? i family enly a few Delgado tok days By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor y YORK Ernest ~ fox: FAVORITE DELICACY « MAY SOON REAPPEAR ‘ in- INSTRUCTOR INJURED would have to wait until more could be ordered from Talla- SSE ES hassee and prirted in Tampa vy Peg t ‘Continuea on Page Four) ‘British Arwiés le ee Ordered To Enter Russia Robert Shinault Under Bond = Charged With Manslaughter: _ PLANT ON STRIKE STAND READY TC TO PROTECT MEN WISHING TO RE- TURN TO WORK ag (Bs Associated Press} Miami Be (By Asseciated Press) i DEX, N Bi Oct 31— $2,500 bond on a charge of man- = sisughter today after a coroner's c jury at = Tave LIVES THROUGH FOUR UNITED STATES WARS Press) . Teady to pro- wishing to looks grave for Russia Russian mepeets reachirg Lon- *** c the Germans are , chunhing thete way forward agamist strong resistance in the Homestead Jones was treated for bruises, but Sunday night at a Spital had rategic B at Sevastapol x ng on the Moscow front =“ was said to be raging at a high pitch im reports from beth Teountries, but there was no in- dication that either side is mak- nal court on a Roosevelt ordered action last night repeatedly had beaten and threatened men wish- ing to return to their jobs. windshield. oad Patroiman T. E. Jones, > made the arrest and brought ult here, t ed, however, '\ Hauled and Leveled your ground at a REASON- PRICE. Hurry and get fs while it lasts. ing any important gains. Shi and Egg Market SOFT - BONE ROASTERS LOWE’S POULTRY FARM Se oe " hter Johnny McBrow Fuzzy Knight . Battery Raised FRYERS — ROASTERS on mansiaughter CALL 755 charge will being the case oO = FRYERS. B = 35¢ STRICTLY FRESH EGGS T Judge William V: Albury's BURY ME NOT ON | Dressed, Cees am Delivered Dressed, Drawn, Cutup and Y TOPPINO criminal court of record, prob- LONE PRAIRIE j Delivered at No Extra Cost 731 Caroline Street Also: NEWS and SERIAL ably im the term opening Nov. iv. eescccece: ee EA DA Pe OYER REUBEN JAMES SUNK JOSEPHUS DANIELS BRADY’S (Live) Poultry aot Francs Set Phone 478 1214 White Street Phone 549 nd ase ro — AMYIGA Warship Torpedoed Last Night West Of Iceland « VESSEL WAS CONVOYING IN NORTH ATLANTIC WATERS; NO WORD WHETHER THERE WERE ANY SURVIVORS; SHIP LEFT KEY WEST STA- TION IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR BULLETIN By Ansocinted Press BERLIN, Oct. 31.—Am authorized German spokesman today declared: “If the United States destroyer Reuben James was in a convoy, it wes no wonder she was terpedoed. Convoys are entirely a2 British af- fair.” (ty Anenctuted feemns WASHINGTON, © i The navy department an- unced tex i ec + destroyer Reuben James pedo during the night ef Oct_ 36-31, while he North A ic west of Iceland wa te word as te whether there were any survivor The Reuben James was described as am O-type, flush deck desirc aid te be similer to the type traded te Great Britain A navy statement aig: “The navy depettmest am. nounced that the U. 5. destroyer Reuben James was sunk by a torpede during the night of Oct. 30-31 while conver- ing in the North west of Iceland. The command- Atantic, ing officer is Lieut. Comdr. H Edwards. U.S. N “No further details are available at this time, but wil be released when received Th vessel was 314 feet long: beam, 30 feet; ermal crew, 120 men, six of whom are officers , apace womens WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—President Roosevelt, apesik- a few hours after it had deen announced that the de- James had i »yer Reuben been sunk by a Germat sub- press conference this morning he could see ited Staves wouid break diplomatic ations with Germz The chief executive said there is no reason for's change this nation’s foreign policy because of the staking and he declared the was simply carrying out a duly as signed to her. Destruction of the Reuben James is the first amp casualty for the American ncyy im the present war, but he is the third fighting ship to be fired upon. The Gestroser " Greer escaped damage when a torpedo narrowly mised her Sept. 4, and the destroyer Kearny was damaged m 2 torpedo attack Oct. 17, with the jess of 14 lives. comment attack followed twe previegs = Congressional] after the about the pattern established in the cidents. - Robert Taft (RB. (RAN ‘D ), agreed in effect could be expected in view of the President's policies. Sen. Scoit W. Lucas (D-II), declared, however, that the torpedeing of the Reuben James provides definite knowledge that the Germans have embarked on 2 cam paign to sweep the seas of all neutral shipping. ’ KEY WEST NEGRO BELIEVED _ AEZOARD TORPEDOED SHIP James Cleare, negro, who lived here at Thomas and -Ohic). and Sen. Gerald T. Nee that the incident was only what - Southard streets, was said by lecal friends teday te bave been serving as a covuk aboard the torpedoed desireyer Reuben James Cleare has a wife and two children, whe are Eving m@ Key West. Weill known here, the Reuber James made ber final departure from the jecal savy station in January of tht year. She had been here since Oct. 1940. Previously, the vessel had made national news when she dashed out of Key West's port on a mysterious errand, Oct. 7, 1939, in search o1 a foreign submarine believed to have been lurking im the waters eff Dry Tortugas. ee With tue ether semyly ietaeaeme the ¢eerer ar J ' . 5 = > z = Pas £ 2 ress ere t s - . a