Associated Press Day WiraService

For 61 Years Devoted to theBest Interests of Key West

VOLUME LXII. No. 154.

STlrr IKry Hfest CitternTHE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A.

City To Assess PropertyOn 100 Percent Valuation

Gideon Curry AppointedCaretaker At AquariumWith Stanley SaundenAt Assittant

At a meeting ot the City Coun-

cil held last night an appropria-

tion of $75 was ordered to takecare of extra help for Tax Asses-sor-Collector Sam B. Pindex inrewriting the tax roll, which will

be made up on a one hundredper cent cash valuation assess-ment on all properties, insteadof fifty per cent as has been thecase in the past.

This action was taken in ac-cordance with recent laws enact-

ed by the legislature, and whichGovernor Spessard L. Hollandhas ordered to be put into effectin all countie*, of the state.

While there will be a fiftyp4r cent raise in assessment,there will be no increase in theamount of taxes due to the factthat the levy and millage will bearranged to equalize the amountof taxation to conform to theraise in assessment as providedfor in the law recently enacted.

The city entered into an agree-ment with the Gato interests tolease the brick factory buildingoft Catherine street to be nsed asa WPA sewing room and for oth-er activities. The city in ac-cordance with the agreement willexempt the taxes for a periodof one year, which is the timelimit of the lease, and will alsopay the amount necessary tocarry insurance on the building.

It was ordered that three hun-dred stickers be purchased to beissued to car owners in lieu of li-cense plates during the next threemonths due to the fact that thecity has run out of plates, andwill not have any on hand untilthe first of October when the newlicense plates will placed on sale.The sticker idea was adopted inorder to accommodate many carowners who have applied for tags,and were unable to obtain them.

The stickers will be pasted onthe windshield of cars, showingthat a license has been applied for,which gives the car driver permis-sion to operate until the new tagsbecome available.

It was ordered that an amountof $142.50 be refunded to RomeyTynes which amount he paid for asaloon license, but which he wasunable to use due to the fact thathe could not obtain a license fromthe county, and therefore couldnot operate in accordance with thelaw. Mr Tynes made the requestfor a refund at a meeting of thecouncil several weeks' ago. andthe matter was reported to thecouncil last night by the chair-man of the finance committee, inwhose hands it was placed at thetime, with the finance chairmanrecommending that the council re-fund the amount in question.

Upon recommendation of thechairman of the Aquarium com-mittee. Gideon Curry, assistantcaretaker at the aquarium, wasappbinted caretaker to succeedJoe Romero, who resigned recent-ly. and who winds up his activitiestoday. Stanlev Saunders was ap-pointed assistant to Mr. Curry.

VALUABLE WAGON

Eureka. Calif..—Joe Mattecycciof this city five years ago contem-plated selling his old wagon for$1 Recently his brother discover-ed $2,600 in gold coin under thefloorboard

TRANSFERS BONES

Atchison. Kan*.,—When Molly,an Airdale, owned bv Charles Coxof this city saw foe family movinginto anew home, she went into foeyard, dug up 17 bones, earnedthem, one by one. to the new yardand reburied them.

EXEMPTIONS FORCERTAIN CLASSES

PERTAINS TO THOSE WHO

PROVIDE ENTIRELY FOR

DEPENDENTS

(By AundaOd Press)WASHINGTON, June 28.

Local draft boards throughoutthe United States today were in-structed to grant exemption tomen who prove their earningsare providing entirely, or to afair degree, for the support ofdependents.

Instructions from conscriptionboard headquarters said menwhose induction in to the armywould work a real hardship ondependents, should be exempted,no matter what their previousclassification.

For men who have been mar-ried since the draft call, theboards were instructed to inves-tigate if the marriage occurred“in the normal course of events".

CHARLES LOWEBOYS PROPERTY

ARTHUR MULBERG ALSOPURCHASES TRACT IN

MARTELLO TOWERS

Charles G. Lowe has purchasedfor about $1,900 a Georgia streetlot near Division, formerly the

I property of the three heirs of Da-Ivis Albury, it was learned today.The lot belonged to Flossie B.Malone and Natalie RobertsCurry, Monroe courtty. Jhnd toLorene Sawyer, New York.

Lowe today was granted a S3OObuilding permit tor general re-

i pairs to the Georgia street home.In another transaction record-

ed yesterday, the Pell Corpora-tion sold to Arthur Mulberg a$2,000 tract in Malrtello Towers. _

PLAN AGAINSTUNEMPLOYMENT

j

DETROIT. June 28—Auto-mobile company executives,scheduled for a meeting withgovernment price control officials iWednesday, today urged a grad-ual decrease in output to preventwidespread unemployment.

Executives of the forms, point-ing to a 20 per cent cut alreadyordered by the goyjptftment, saida drastic slashing- of output thisyear would throw men out ofwork before they could be ab-sorbed in defense production.

JUST SO MANY MENTO SO MUCH SPACE

m<r AMMflalr* Pr.M)NEW YORK. June 28 —The po-

lice don’t guess—they know al- jmost exactly how many peoplethere are in crowds

Chief Inspector Louis F. Cos-1tuma explained how his men getfoe figures. At Coney Island. ,they check subwav turnstile me-ters and count cars in parking,lots, figuring three persons to a jcar. In a parade, they know thatmen marching 12 abreast willpass a given point at foe rate of5,000 an hour. $

Fred Marvil, reserve army cap-tain. last night was named captain

i of the newly formed home def mse■ guards as 68 members of foe or-ganization met at the nationalguard armory to complete plansfor their enlistment.

| Two lieutenants who will serve! under Marvil are to be elected by1 foe men at a later meeting.

REVEALS HOWLIVING COSTS

,HAVE VARIED

OBSERVER GIVES IDEA RELA-

TIVE TO INCREASED COSTS

IN CONNECTION WITH NA-

TIONAL DEFENSEj

By MORGAN M. BEATTYAP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, June 28—Up

jto now the war has hit most of us

[ in the pocketbook, the electric re-jfrigerator and the fasteners on' our clothes.

I Next month it starts in on thekitchen, the bathroom and thescrap box of nuts and bolts and

j wire in the basement—posibly onthe Sunday afternoon joy ride,

i By fall it’ll catch us in the suitj and overcoat, probably the fuel

i oil tank and possibly rent. Comei winter we may even be giving up; that new house we planned—or. at least modifying its design.

] Next year?' Every hour of the day will findus making a sacrifice if the war

: lasts.i Oddly enough, we soon may be

j living better in some respects be-j cause Uncle Jim. who hasn’t had j

• a job in years may be working !steadily at tne foundry.

We’re already paying throughthe pocketbook because of the 10 ■per cent special income tax for de- jfense and we’ll be paying even ii heavier next year. If we haven’t!

1 put out income tax money, wehave paid extra on taxable pro- jducts like movies, cigarettes, etc., jeither because taxes are higher, or jbecause we’ve bought more.

We are paying through the re->*frigerator, because ice trays are jgetting scarcer, and so are the !freezing units.

We’re paying through clothesfasteners, because manufacturershave been forced to lower the qua- flity of dollar wash frocks for wo- jmen by putting on more andcheaper buttons, and fewer zip- !pers.

So far, aluminum products are 'under the heaviest restrictions. JThat’s because defense industry is jabsorbing every pound of virginaluminum production in thiscountry.

Next hardest for the house-holder to get will soon be copper. ;I know a woman who already hasgiven up her cherished hobby— !making dishes and decorative !pieces out of sheet copper. Amonth ago, the price went up onher. Now she can’t even buy cop- jper in the desired form. The trou-"ble is. we’re going to produce less jthan 1,500,000 short tons of cop-per this year, and defense andcivilian needs require more than '1.800,000 tons. There just isn’t}enough to go around.

Zinc is scarcer, too, to galvanizeyour fense posts, for roofing and |or garbage cans. Steel for that newhome you’ve been planning is:being delayed 14 to 18 weeks now, jbecause Uncle Sam is buying somuch.

Mrs. John Q. Citizen, you’re al- Jready paying 25 to 30 per cent<more for wash frocks, or taking jpoorer qualities. And just wait juntil you get readv to buy yourwinter coat and furs! They’ll costyou at least 20 per cent more, say jthe retailers.

If your husband thinks hell es-cape. he’s mistaken Either he'll jtake cotton and wool mixtures, or <

he’ll pay $2.50 to $5.00 more for his ‘winter suit and overcoat

As for food, we have plenty. In ,general, food prices are much low-,er than they were in prosperous1989. and somewhat lower even <

than they were in 1937.

Fred Marvil Named CaptainFor Home Defense Guards

Tentatively accepted membersof the group will report to foe ar-mory Wednesday night for physi-cal examination*, it was an-nounced. and uniforms and armswill be sent here after foe guards-men are formally sworn into ser-vice Dr. JuUo DePoo and Dr. Har-ry Galey have donated their set-

> vices for foe

KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1941

Delinquent On Of TangibleAnd Intangible Property Will

Bn Subject To New PenaltiesENURE GERMAN

ARMY REGIMENTIS ANNIHILATED

RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE MAK-ING GREAT HEADWAY IN

MANY SECTORS OVER NAZI

FORCES

(llj- Aai>flnd Presal

Annihilation of an entire Ger-man army regiment in Bessarabiaand the destruction of heavytanks in an attack across thePinsk marshes was claimed bySoviet news sources today as theRusso-German war front flared|up in the heaviest fighting of

j the week-long struggle.I Red news sources said the Ger-

] man thrust toward Moscow hadbeen beaten off and scattered inheavy fighting in Poland, whileanother German-Rumanian drive

j toward the Ukraine, was said toi have met the same fate.

A German high command; communique had almost nothing!to say about the course of the

i battle, beyond promising a fulli report on the success of the cam- ji paign within a few days.

Even the German news service, !DNB, which has provided nearlyjail information from the Berlin jj end of the war, today was ijstrangely silent.

Rad Air Fore* Attacks‘ > Russian bombers agsm atrtfdlHheavy blows at oil fields in Ru-!

' mania, according to reports from '! Moscow, and the Red air fleet!was reported in action over Fin- jland and Hungary in anew seriesof night bombing attacks.

Russian sources admitted Ger-man panzer divisions had pushedback the defenders along a 250-mile front extending from what 'was Lithuania down into northPoland.

Reports added, however, that'soldiers of the Reich sufferedheavy casualties in making theattacks, and the drive was saidto have been checked when thetank units were separated fromthe infantrymen behind them.

Royal Air Forre bombers, car-rying out the British promise ofaid from the air. reached faracross Germany during the nightto bombard the hehrt of the Ruhrvalley industrial area.

Berlin, although denying anyserious damaee in the raids, tacit-

I ly admitted the size of the offen-sive action with the announce-ment that 36 British planes were .shot down in the night-long bat- 1tie over Germany.

Owners of tangible and intangi-I ble property who permit theircounty taxes to become delin-quent July 15, will be subject tonew penalties this year and their

names will be advertised. Joe C.McMahon, county tax collector,announced today.

Delinquent tax lists will be ad-vertised in The Citizen July 15,and Sheriff Berlin Sawyer will beinstructed to draw warrants forseizure of the property after Au-gust 1.

McMahon, one of the county of-ficials who was called to Tallahas-

I see for a conference with Comp-troller J. Ml Lee this week, ex-plained that the stringent new

j laws enacted by the legislaturenow place tax assessors and col-lectors directly under the super-vision of the state.

Under orders handed him at themeeting McMahon must advertisethe tax lists July 15, and on that

; day increase the amount due by apercentage -of 1 per cent a monthin the case of the tangible prop-erty, and 2 per cent a monthin the case of the intangibles. A

, 10 per cent delinquent charge alsowill be attached to the intangibles

jon July 15.Persons failing to pay up before

i August 1 will make themselves! liable to seizure of their propertyby the state.

Wages of Key West workrqenwould be scaled on a par withthose in Miami under the termsof a program suggested by cham-ber of commerce directors lastnight.

The directors, meeting at thechamber of commerce building,instructed Secretary Stephen C.Singleton to write Florida sena-tors and Congressman Pat Can-non, requesting a study of thelabor wage situation by the fede-ral labor board.

Wages in Key W'est are scaledconsiderably below those in Mi-ami for some types of work, withthe balance generally in favor ofMiami workers of all kinds. La-borers here, although they havesought an increase to 62 Ms cents

NAVY TO HELPIN TRACK MEET

AT LOCAL PARKLIEUT. WHITEHEAD GIVES

* -ASSURANCE OF AID FOR

FOURTH OF JULY EVENTS

! NOW PLANNED

Lieut. Hulan Whitehead, rec--1 reation and welfare officer atthe navy yard, last night assuredciljy-county recreation commit--eemen of help from navy en-

-1 listed personnel for the Fourth ofJuly track meet at BayviewPark.

Lieutenant Whitehead saidmen at the yard have expressedinterest in the events, and manyof them will take part. Othershave volunteered to act as judg-es and to provide starting pistolsand stop watches.

Interest in the events has risensharply within the past fewdays, and prospective entrantshave been getting into shape forthe track and field meet. Mrs.Eva Warner, recreation directorunder WPA, said today she isworking to get the park in shapeso as to permit practice and train-ing space there before foeFourth.

Boy scouts have offered to en-; ter the meet, and girls will takepart under foe direction of Mrs.|F. C. Kocel and a committee ofjwoman volunteers

' William Freeman, city-countyrecreation committee member,has been selected by the commit-tee to provide prizes for all

1 events.

SEES SETTLEMENTj OF STRIKE THREAT

< By ' A PumiNEW YORK. June 28-New

York Mayor Fiorelto H. LaGuardta today predicted a settle-ment in the threatening trans-port workers' strike before to-

; nightScheduled for a walkout next

; week which would tie up subwayand bus service throughout foecity, the transport workers weresaid by LaGuardi* to he consid-ering a compromise which wouldend foe strike threat

Officials oi the CIO union' areexpected to announce their de-cision before night

COMING EVENTSTUESDAY, JULY I

Man who have nactej ago of21 cine* Oct. It, 1948. register 9a. ok. to • p. m. at room M Fsd-

for army nlirto i

(Naerinl to Tfc- Clllf**)

j HOMESTEAD, June 28—Pipe

for the Florida Keys’ aqueduct is’rolling through the treatment

! plant here at the rate of about 200

sections a day.

• Pushing the 50-foot lengths of18-inch pipe through the protec-tive plant at that speed, accordingto engineers, means the entire job

i will be completed in about twoand one half or three months.

The processing including put-! ting a sticky solution on the pipe,i then spreading it thinly over thei surface to insure a smooth, glassyand erosion-proof covering for the

, metal., Bids for the installation, mean-while, are being prepared for pen-ing Monday in Washington, whenthe bureau of yards and dockswill prepare to let contracts forthe force sections involved in theline. It is understood here, no in-

| formation on which company haswon in the bidding will be re-leased for several weeks,

j The bids were called for on a' basis of three units between KeyWest and the south toll gate, foesection between foe toll gates*,

j and the section between the north, toll gate and “a point near Flo-rida city" as the third. Each bid-

! der will have foe privilege of bid-ding on any or all of foe units, so

i the job mav be done by one, twoor three contractors.

SANCHEZ RITESHERE TOMORROWFuneral services for Mrs. Rosa

! Sanchez, age 66. will be held to-! morrow afternoon at 5 o’clock

I from the First Baptist church,where the body will be placed at

j 2 p. m.The body will lay in state at

i the residence, 619 Olivia street,i from 12 noon until 2 p m., whenit will be carried to the church.

Pallbearers include WilliamSawyer, Nathan Niles, ClydeBattzell. Lerov Torres, BerlinSawyer and Alberto Camera

Lopez Funeral Home is incharge of arrangement*.

PARITY PRICES

Parity prices, as calculated May1. 1941, are: Wheat $1.14* per

[pound; com, 83.5 per bushel; rice.$1,057 per bushel; tobacco, fluecured, 16.8 cents per pound; Mary-land tobacco. 17 9 cents per pound,cigar-leal 11 cents per pound, andcigar binder, 15.5cents per pound

OCCASIONALMOTOR TUNE-UPSaves You Money!

Lou Smith Auto ServicePhans No, $ White at Flaming

TWO KILLED INTRAIN COLLISION

•Hr luwiiim l*rwiJACKSONVILLE, 111. June 28

—Two passenger* were killed andscores injured here today whentwo fast trains struck in a head-.on coHirion

The crash this morning was ?the third in Illinois within aweek.

* * !*< i fd

Albert Cuff, negro last nightsuffered serious injuries artten tiewas slashed by a knife, allegedlywielded by Hatley Joyce, anothernegro.

Cuff was roshsd la foe hospital iafter he had bseo cut ahead the,

uyawyerMy DenesStory In Miainj Paper Relative

To Hi ‘CaDing On Marines’Would Have Wages Of LocalWorkers On Par With Miami

Colonel Hatfield Has Is-sued Sharply WordedDemand For RetractionOf Statement

Sheriff Berlin Sawyer today

jflatly denied having made a atate-

jment printed in the Miami Heraldjthat he would "call on the ma-jrines" to end labor trouble here.

} as Lfeut.-CoL G. D. Hatfield, com-

j mandant of marinas, issued aj sharply worded demand for a re-

traction.The Herald story, describing foe

beating of two Lester F. Preucompany employes on a housingproject here Wednesday nightquoted Sheriff Sawyer directly:

“I am determined to give work-men on that project or any pro-ject protection, and if I cannot; give this protection I will call onthe marines."

Sheriff Sawyer, who yesterdaywas called upon by Governor H*lland for a full report on the beat-ing and the ejection from town ofanother 12 Preu company employ-es, said he was misquoted.

Didn't Mention Marino*Sheriff Sawyer, admitting he

j was under foe impression the

I housing project was government-operated. said he did not remem-ber talking to a newspaper re-porter about the situation, beyond

j making the statement to all news-men that he had not been informedof the trouble at once, but woulddo all in his power to prevent arecurrence of the mob action.

In discussing the situation withseveral union men in his office.Sawyer said he told them he con-sidered it the duty of his office toprevent outbreaks against the

j peace here, and would see to itthat nothing of the kind would oc-cur again.

Sawyer said he commented tothe men that such outbreaks re-flected on him and that, since itwas his impression the work wasbeing done by the government,further trouble probably would

; force foe government to take ac-tion, wtfo a consequent loss of

(prestige on hit partI CoL Hatfield Statement| Colonel Hatfield, in a statement

issued to all newspapermen this[morning. declared:

“Referring to foe article headed: Troop Call Threatened Again *

| Mob’ appearing in the third col-jumn of the front page of the Miami Herald of Saturday, June 28

I 1941, the commanding offset ofi the manna* in Key Weft statesi that there is no authority for foesheriff to call for federal tnoy*ft any kind, that the sheriff hagl ad no conversation on the sub-j#ct with that officer, foe homingproject referred to is not a defense*project and is not sponsored bythe federal government

"Marines have never been useda* trike breakers They have he, ;•

used to preserve order within foenavel station and naval air sta-tjnn Protection of workers onprivate projects is purely a dutyof state, county and muna if** offinals Federal have* cann* >t b

U*t preservab'm of ordei >o#: side federal reservation* e* * t>i in

ofsifesasi*#, or upon direct or-der from foe President of theUnited State* after the governor>4 the state Han admitted that Hersmtvat preserve order with dateforce* and has requested federal

- assistance"There t* no tovmiats*e lor ti,-

artteie mentioned above, and thatpari that pertains to marinesshould be retracted with equalgauwhtetofi**-

program will ter continued mean-

turn te Miami of Lerier Pm*

an hour, originally were scaled at40 cents, while Miamians drewthe higher figure.

The directors also instructedSingleton to arrange for the localchamber’s membership in thestate chamber of commerce, andto arrange a conference withCounty Attorney Julius F. Stone,Jr., on the county’s joint adver-tising committee.

The group also will seek betterinspection of automobiles by thecity with a petition to city council

Board members at the meetingwere President Everett W. Rus-sell, Melvin Russell, vice presi-dent; W. T Fripp, treasurer, andCharles S. Taylor and BascomGrooms.

Pipe For Aqueduct Is NowBeing Treated At Homestead

DR. PORTER GETSORDER FROMCOURTCHARGED WITH FAILURE TO

PAY ALIMONY IN FINAL

DIVORCE DECREEii Dr. J. Yates Porter, Jr., accus-ed by his former wife of failing

| to pay alimony, has been orderedto appear before Circuit CourtJudge Paul Barns July 8. to showcause why he has failed to com-ply with the terms of the finaldecree.

Dr. Porter, in a decree grantedMamie B. Porter on March 22,

| was ordered to pay SIOO a monthalimony. She charges him witha month's delinquency, and withfailure to pay taxes on propertyowned by her but occupied byfoe doctor.

J. PENDERGRAFTMED YESTERDAY

J. S Pendcrgraft. carpenterwith the W P. Thurston Com-pany, died yesterday morning atan early hour.

The body is at foe Lopez Funeral Home pending instructionsfrom relatives as to the disposi-tion of the body.

VAGRANCY CASESHEARD IN COURTJudge William V Albury.

holding criminal court in Chambets, this afternoon was hearing

.charge* filed against Louis Mst-! tox, Jimmie Iaim- David Wil-liams. John Anderson, George Llaunb and Fred Vaugh% #U

iuikn: h

AW Of, Negro, SlashedWild Knife In NUnight Fight

left arm and bads tn a fight at. Petroma and Emma stree ts at

l about 12 J* o'clock.Joyce was held m county jail to-,

day awaiting a hearing beforePeace Justice Enrique rsqninat '

si

Key West, Florida, has themost equable climate in thecountry; with an averagerange of only 14* Fahrenheit

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