Key West Citizen, The (Newspaper) - August 1, 1941, Key West, Florida Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West Florida has the moat equable climate in the country with an average range of only Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A VOLUME No 182 KEY WEST FLORIDA FRIDAY AUGUST 1 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS KEY WEST AIRPORT IS INCLUDED IN LIST OF APPROPRIATIONS NAVY MEN READ VARIOUS BOOKS Contracts For TWO j Submarine Commander Sent Here dred Thousand Dollar Project To Be Awarded Within Few Days The navy department within a k few days will let contracts for i the construction oi a set j tion base at Trumbo Island Capt i i Russell S Crenshaw navy tion commandant announced j day j Originally intended for use in i connection with an electrical re- j pairs shop the Trumbo Dock j under the new plan will be in- I eluded in a base designed for maintenance of all of small I vessels including harbor craft i Full plans for the base are not j yet available but Captain shaw said it is tentatively planned to build a signal tion barracks and store houses on the site i Two other section bases at Mayport and Fort were authorized by the navy along with the Key West base Hospital Contract Let i Captain Crenshaw holding his weekly press conference this morning revealed at the same time that the navy department has awarded to A D Steward I Associates Miami the contract for planning a navy hospital here j Contracts for the actual con- have not been let and the recommended site at the head of the island adjacent to the CAA radio station has not been approved formally Questioned about recurring rumors that the hospital site will be shifted to the old pital grounds on United street Captain Crenshaw said he could make no definite commitment but that it is his private ion the building eventually will be constructed on the mended property at the head of the island Plan Swimming Pool As part of an expanding program the captain revealed plans for the tion of a swimming pool for service men on the outside of the mole which protects the navy harbor The pool he said will be built between two of the old groins along the mole and shelters will he provided i At the same time the Continued on Page Four DRIVE BY OUR Today and See the BIG REDUCTION IN PRICES Prices Reduced On Every Car From to EVERY CAR MUST BE SOLD TODAY AND SATURDAY Many New Cars Arrived Today STOP IN AND SEE FOR YOURSELF WE WILL TRADE TO SUIT YOU DEACON JONES MANAGER TWINS USED CAR LOT Division and Sim on ton To Supervise Activities Of Base Lieut Comdr Walliam W IP i nr nas served recently ESTABLISH RECORD IN as a submarine commander with Asiatic fleet reported for J O duty yesterday to take com- mand of submarine activities at the local base it was announced today Commander Weeden with Mrs j Weeden arrived in Key West j earlier in the week They will i make their home at 408 United street j Presence of a submarine ex- pert was made necessary by the impending completion of the I railway it was explained The railway will be finished in 1 September and is scheduled to haul its first ship for repairs in i October 1 Submarines will make up a large part of the vessels brought here for work and Commander duties will include supervision of the repairs as well as command of submarines op- crating from the base The East Coast Fish Com- pany under the management of Elijah Cates has shipped over pounds of fish from Key West to parts of the country since July 21 date of the opening of the crawfish season The shipments during the ten-day period are the best yet made ing a new record in Key West WASHINGTON Aug A appropriation for a Key West airport today was included in a list of 288 ports designated by Brig Gen Donald H Connolly CAA administrator as sary to national defense The list made public by General Connolly was proved by secretaries of war navy and commerce MARATHON FIELD OK'D Allocation of funds for im- provement of the airport at Marathon Key has been proved by a special board of the Civil Aeronautics ity Senator Charles O An- drews notified The Citizen in a telegram today The allocation includes to clear grub grade drain muck and sod the field landing strips feet Taxiways also will be paved and basic lighting installed READING TASTES FOR DIF j FERENT LITERATURE HIES CONSIDERABLY Gen Troops In WILLIAM DAVIS DIED THIS MEXICO REBUKES NAZI SUGGESTION MILLIONAIRE OIL OPERATOR VICTIM OF HEART ATTACK HOUSTON Tex Aug William Rhodes Davis old millionaire oil operator died this morning the victim of a heart attack The spectacular financier who had made and lost at least four great fortunes recently came in for wide criticism when it was revealed he had sold oil to Nazi Germany through Mexico OIL COMPANIES TO COMPLY WITH ICKES ORDERS ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT ALSO MAKES DEMANDS ON EMBASSY ACTIVITIES CONCERNS THROUGHOUT NATION READY TO ERATE IN EDICT ARE BACK FROM TRIP City Councilman John honell and brother Ygnacio city building inspector returned to West day from Atlanta Ga where they had been on a visit lor several days The brothers local theater op- went to Atlanta pally for the purpose of ing pictures for the Strand and Monroe lor the coming season Whil there they also attended a meeting of the directors of the Southeastern Theatre Owners Association It was decided at this meeting to hold the next convention of the association at Jacksonville Fla The Carbonell brothers report having had a very delightful trip although they state they are glad to be back in the Island City where it is considerably cooler than Atlanta and other points visited enroute WASHINGTON Aug nation's oil companies today an- their readiness to com- ply with Secretary of the In- Harold Jokes request that they shut down service stations at night beginning day Oil operators said they believe the practice will affect some j ings in gasoline consumption but t it was freely predicted that cards will be put in use alter Labor Day i Ickes denied that the move is likely to cause any widespread unemployment pointing out that i there is a great demand for which would absorb ing station men who might be thrown out of work Arrangements will be made to j supply trucks on night i IIy MEXICO CITY Aug ico today to Berlin a stinging rebuke terming im- and threatening the German government's suggestion that Mexico protest to the ed States against eco- nomic measures Berlin previously had ed against Mexican cooperation with the United States in ing oil embargoes on Japan and had urged the Mexican ment to protest against can efforts to involve that try in foreign disputes JOE LOUIS WIFE GIVEN ALIMONY ARGENTINA REBUKES NAZIS BUENOS AIRES Argentina Aug Argentine ment today demanded that the German embassy in Buenos Aires either destroy or send back to Germany a powerful wave radio found on the embassy grounds A worded note to Berlin embodied the Argentina de- mand GOING TO CAMP My CHICAGO Aug Trotter Louis wife of weight champion Joe Louis day was granted temporary mony of a week in an der handed down by circuit court The wife had filed suit for divorce six weeks ago but it was understood the two planned a reconciliation Key Boy Scouts of Troop 51 will meet tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock at the new Wesley House to begin their annual en- A E Peirce former master and chairman of Monroe county camping ties announced today The boys will leave imme for Camp Owen at Tampa where they will re- main until August 9 when they will head for the West Palm Reach county camp at Lantana They are expected to return over the weekend of ust 16 Peirce and his brother W Burke Peirce who has returned here from Virginia will accom- pany the boys Allan Hampton scoutmaster Will be unable to make the trip Navy Dept Release i WASHINGTON Aug and men of the navy are j reading approximately books a year the navy ment announced today Their leading tastes constitute a cross j section of men of the same in civilian life ashore j cording to Miss Isabel DuBois di- i ector of libraries in the navy's I bureau of navigation she explained that 1 probably a somewhat heavier of them favor western stories I would say that fifty per cent of the demand on the part ot the enlisted personnel is for western stories But they lead in every inter- national law to westerns and de- I The navy's library system is a big one A battleship rates j books A submarine with its I small complement is stocked with 150 In the fiscal year 1941 the j navy bought new books for libraries then in existence This number does not the i books supplied for newly com- i missioned ships in the year Libraries in the navy go back to the days of John Paul Jones i They have long been considered i an official part of the ship's i equipment though in earlier days they were provided for out of propriation for instruments and supplies rather than from the appropriation of today The navy's modern library tem grew out of the augmented service established during the last World War bv the American Library association in army camps land naval stations Following i demonstration of the value of 1 adequate library service the j navy decided to put its libraries i on a modern up to date basis Sea stories are not among the most popular among navy men as a whole One libarian at a large training station notes that new recruits like stories of the sea and seafaring life but that after one voyage they come back knowing more than the man who wrote the The library of the recently com- missioned battleship North lina is typical of the variety of hooks in the libraries of the larger ships Of its 2.000 books proximately two thirds are fiction of all varieties and types Then there is the foundation of the classic with standard authors such as Dickens and Thackeray For the balance there are en- cyclopedias atlases the standard texts on navigation astronomy ordnance and en- international affans international law science tory poetry and art New shipments of books go out to ships libraries quarterly Roosevelt Clarifies Matter Of Materials For Russians WASHINGTON Aug sia is not receiving war under the terms of the lease-lend and there is no indication she will in the future I Roosevelt told news men at I weekly press conference I Refusing to reveal how Hopkins made hib trip to Moscow to confer with Russian Premier Josef Stalin the President said he would not be in a position to speak j definitely on Russian needs until he a leport the 1 envoy He said it appeared however I that Russia is in a position to pay for war materials obtained in this country and will not be included in any luture lease-lend j nation President said his j to sav how Hopkins reached Russia was based on the fact that such information might endanger other Americans wishing to make the trip in the same way 1 Commenting on Russian ancc he told newsmen they could quote him directly v ith the ment that the Red army lus shown itself to be better than German military experts had be- i possible MYSTERY BROADCAST Harry Hopkins Still In Moscow Slept Through Bombardment Of City Last Night CHAIRMAN ALLEN URGES BOOST IN ALUMINUM DRIVE Joachim von Ribbentrop A BRITISH BROADCASTING Corporation announcer ing on a language news program last night ed German foreign ter Joachim von Ribbentrop to in en Sunday night's program ai 8 p m 1 p m There was no tion SENATE DEBATES TRAINING PERIOD KEY WESTERS REQUESTED TO MAKE FINAL EFFORT ADMINISTRATION LEADERS HOPEFUL OF AN EARLY FINISH IN ADDING TO TION ALREADY MADE GEN KRUEGER LEFT YESTERDAY Jor of the I club aiding m 1 thr ide aluminum drive today urged Key West els to make a final effort to boost the collection heie i Aluminum utensil on the coin I house lawn will be sent to Miami Monday and Allen Kev to their con- into the pile today and tomorrow No further use of i be marie in the i ing it up to the s to bring their old utensils to the courthouse A WASHINGTON AUK 1 today 1 an i 11 m h to tho senate bate on run of true lor in the 11 mcd I nice 1 w 1 pi ti il to eon tunic through the if believed M that efforts of tlx to i ti n ion lime ill be I ADVERTISES RADIO s as mv I the 111 held nut in 1 ment in this for two Walter commanding general of the Third 1 Army left here yesterday I after a tew hours tion returning aboard a navy plane to Fort cola The general was accompanied on his trip here yesterday by five members of his staff and Col Ralph C Mitchell ing officer of the Fourth District I coast For Attack Oil Building permits issued in Key West during July hit a breaking Building Y D Carbonell revealed today Spurred by widespread repairs i and small building during the month the total was lifted to the highest recorded in recent years by the permit issued Thompson and Maitland Adorns for an apartment house development One permit was issued day to Joseph Zorsky for struction of two cottages on j sion street at a cost of building office has been closed for a week up until yesterday during absence from Key West Officials Arrive For Audit Of County's Road Records Brady's Live Poultry and Market Fresh Florida Grade A EGGS dozen STEWERS ROASTERS Battery Raised Rhode Island Red FRYERS Soft Bone Roasters to Ibs 1214 White Street Phone 540 Monroe county road records at the office of County Clerk Rosh C Sawyer today were getting their tirst official audit by the road department since 1931 Auditors of the state road de- who came here last night to make the check are J L Barber J R Jr and C F Jones R S Weidling of the state ler's office also came here to work on the books 1 Records of bond issuances and taxes for road maintenance arc being studied by the road in preparation for the of credits which will en- t able the county to retire the j bonds and to pay interest The audit is expected to re- quire several days Weidling pointed out that the books have been audited by departments i but that the road department's i own check is the first in 10 years Aug 1 anese apologies for a at tack on the gunboat in the river were followed by another getic note explaining the taken occupation of American in north China by anese troops The note said Japanese diers had been withdrawn from the property some of which be- longed to Standard Oil and that American in the Beat the heat come on down to our Hop Join the Square dancin or you can flop A prize each for best Hick and A bottle of wine for one who's Hick re Only a dollar at ten We'll see Come looking a KEY WEST PLAYERS H a u i HI Id At the time it wa in- lieu the has unified an ot at- tacks on the United Slates have their scope in history Tokyo apparently making every to avoid more trouble the United States it was m- in i epoi ts mm London that impending Japanese i on Thailand probably will be in a way designed to prevent any further economic measures Japan by the United States and Great Britain Tokyo huh announced j tion of the merit by Thailand and the of a loan to Japan by Siamese banks of yen i Thailand according to Tokyo has accepted the now order for the Far East and will agree cede some to Japan in change for parts of French China occupied by Japanese troops this week Itl NEW YORK Aug troops in sixth week of continuous assaults along the eastern front today to have begged down completely in the face of wall Russian resistance Neither the German high com- mand nor the official cy DNB claimed any break in the Red lines although DNB told of a Nazi victory near Smolensk in which a Russian tack was said to have been en uo with enormous losses to the Reds The news agency said Russians were taken prisoner in two-day battle and tens of thousands of dead left on the battlefield The German command in a terse communique said the battle continues to develop m our but marie no mention of gains for the attacking forces Moscow Bombed Again Moscow temporary home of special Hany Hopkins came in for its eighth light of bombardment and Beilin claimed extensive fires in the laid Russians claimed the raid nothing and reports horn Moscow said Hopkins slept most of the shooting Moscow reports indicated the Ked are taking the along the entire front and one report said a t ics ot is ing H the from Lake in the north to The Red Air Force claimed to inflicted casualties in i attack yesterday on troop concentrations which the Germans had massed behind Continued on Pane UNDERSELLING COMPETITION ALL PEDIGREED USED CARS 1941 Dodge DeLuxc Sedan 1940 Chrysler Coupe 1938 Dodge Sedan 1938 Plymouth Sedan 1937 Dodge Sedan 1938 Chevrolet Sedan 1 938 Chevrolet Coupe 1936 Lincon Zepher 1939 Ford 1938 Ford Coupe All the above cars in FIRST CLASS condition BARGAINS 1937 Ford Sedan f 1937 Nash Coupe iw 1935 Dodge Tudor I 1937 Chevrolet Sedan 1933 Pontiac Sedan Buick Sedan I ALL THESE AMD MANY MORE OK SALE at NAVARRO'S USED CAR LOT i Simonton and Fleming Streets PHONE Open Sundays and Navarre's Pedigreed Cars Are Assured Values BY POPULAR ENGAGEMENT OF CRUNCH CRUNCH AND HIS ORCHESTRA AT STORK CLUB NO INCREASE IN PRICES NO MINIMUM
