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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
| THINKS NAILS WILL
CRACK UP QUICKLY
tDy Associated IsreasS

LONDON, Aug. 8-Camille
Quit. finance minister of the Bel
gian government in exile, in q
BIC broadcast said he believed
that a sudden German collapse
sis no longer so far Off.
Eve have now started on the
road to victory, he said. NO
body can name the dates, but
the day is no longer so far off
when the Germans, realizing as
In 1918. their losses. their fall
ures. their shame, will crack up
all of a sudden. and collapse be-
cause, LEI us not forget il, they
are the same as~27 years ago..
Quit said the German people
ibid not believe Russia would
put up a fight, and God, how
she fights.
In Belgium. he declared, ''re-
sistance to the invader is the
same as during the last war, The
indomitable spirit of resistance
is more alive than ever.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the
Board of County Commissioners
of Monroe County, Florida, will
meet in the clerks office at the
county court house at Key West,
Monroe County, Florida, on Satur-
day, August %, A. D., 194l at II
o'clock a. m. for the purpose OF
hearing complaints and receiving
testimony as to the value of any
property, real or personal, as
fixed by the county assessor of
taxes, of perfecting, reviewing
and equalizing the assessment OF
the tax roll for the year 1941.
Dated at Key West, Florida,
August 8, 1941.
BY order of the Board
ROSS c. SAWYER,
Clerk Board of County Commits
sioners, Monroe County, Flor
ida. aug8, 194l
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
v. E. ABBOTT is
GIVEN PROMOTION

Continued from Page One)
the Tampa Chamber of Com
merce; on the Tourist and Con-
vention Bureau of that city; a
member Of the Masonic Lodge;
the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks and various other organ
izations.
In Abbott's capacity as assistant
to the president of Florida Motor
Lines, he will travel throughout
the entire state and will be en-
abled TO extend his civic activities
throughout the state.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
LIONS HEAR ART
MATTERS LAST NIGHT

Continued from Page One)
local art project and invited them
to visit the center whenever pos
sible
Also visiting with Lions last
evening was Jesse Albury of
Miami, son of Lion Paul G. Al
bury.
Lion Albury suggested that
Key West Lions Club sponsor en-
tertainment in near future to
raise funds for entertainment of
men in National Defense Work
now going on in Key West. Com
mittee was appointed to take care
of this matter.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
JACKSON SQUARE
SITE SELECTED

CONTINUED from Page One)
expenses of a proposed PW.A-
financed hospital, Chairman Carl
Bervaldi blamed city council for
the fact that money is not avail
able
Bervaldi pointed out that he
had named a committee to work
with council in getting legislature
approval for a tax-levy which
would be spent for hospital main
tenance.
He declared council had ignored
the request for cooperation, and
board members agreed with him
that nothing could be done about
securing the funds now.
Marathon Mayor W. A. Parrish,
seeking $4,000 for county pur-
chase of land to be used for pro-
posed $234, 600 CAA airport, was
referred to Commissioner Craig,
who will aid him in instituting a
survey. 1t was pointed out, how
ever, that the county does not
have money for the land pur-
chase.
Delay Defense Money
A request for money to be spent
on the state defense force also
was held up when the commits
sioners told B. M. Duncan, chair
man of the organization, they
would be unable to discuss a
figure until the budget is conn
pleted.
Bervaldi was empowered to
meet present expenses, but the
board refused to act at once on a
salary for Albert Mills, secretary
Of the council, who is directing the
local program.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
Miss Laura Roberts To
Wed Harry Johnson

Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Roberts,
I'LL Southland street, have an
nounced the engagement and APP
preaching marriage of their
daughter, Miss Laura Louise
Roberts, to Harry HI Johnson,
son of MIR. and Mrs. Antonio Gar
cia of this city.
The wedding will take place
on the evening of August IL,
with the Rev. j. j !. Murphy, st.
Mary's Star Of the Sea. officiat-
ing. Only members of the inn
mediate family and the bridal
party will attend the ceremony.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
Today's Birthdays

Roy Barton White, new presi-
dent of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railway, born in Metcalf, ILL.,, So
years ago.
Admiral Louis NJ. Mutton,
U.S.N., retired, of Winchester,
Va, born there, 70 years ago.
Edward ]. Noble, former under
secretary of commerce, born in
Gouvernour, N. Y, SO years ago..
u. S. Senator Patrick A. Nc
Carran of Nevada. born in Reno,
65 years ago.
Prof. Ernest o. Lawrence of
the University of California,
physicist, Nobel prizewinner,
born in Canton, S. D., 40 years
ago.
Eugene E. Gene Buck, song
writer producer, president of the
American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers, born in
Detroit, Sc years ago.
DIR. Elizabeth Mason-H ohl of
Los Angeles, noted physician
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
SMALL BoY-HERoEs

THERMOPOLIS, Wyo.--Into a
scene Of utter confusion and ter
ror where an angry bull was
paving the ground, believing,
stopping cars and frightening
nurses and everybody in general
near the Hilltop Hospital, walk
ed three small boys, the oldest
not over eight years, Initiating
toreadors, they drove the wild
bull home, to the immense re-
lief Of everybody concerned.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
Ahead for Once

Well, we've switched back to
wintertime."
did you turn your clock back
the night before the changes was
due2p
mo: waited until the alarm
rang next morning, and then !
turned it back an hour. First time
I've ever beat the pesky thing"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
TOMATO JUICE
q great hot day
Refresher
Dorothy Greif 3

VHTnEN you drop In to see a GER.
w tain friend OF mine on hot
day. the first thing she does is hand
you o tall frosty glass Of tomato
juice.
Mary gives everyone tomato juice
cold. lively and tangy right from
cans kept chilling In her refrigera.
tori gfIaf children coming in hot
and thirsty get 1t. And her husband
declares she meets him at the door
In the evening with glass OF 1t
for him In her hand.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08

Directors of the Florida Photo
graphers Association voted this
week to hold their next annual
meeting in Tampa some time in
May of 1912. President AL Bur
CERT said an attendance of around
$50 is expected.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
Wind Direction and Velocity
E-7 miles per hour
Relative Humidity
FORECAST

Gill 7::30 p. m. Saturday, ~
Key West and Vicinity;Part
cloudy tonight and Saturday, pos
sibly thundershowers Saturday;
gentle to moderate east and sauthr
east winds. g IVA g
Florida: Partly cloudy and con-
tinued warm tonight and, Satur-
day, scattered thundershowers in
extreme south portion Saturday
afternoon.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits
and East Gulf: Gentle to mod
crate variable winds over north
portion and moderate east and
southeast winds over south por-
ton; partly overcast weather to7
night and Saturday, widely scat
tered thundershowerS Saturday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08

A glass writing board in va
rious colors which will improve
the illumination and appearance
of school rooms has been perfect
ed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
Couple Married
Here Yesterday

Vicente Gonzalez, "a, and An
tonia Gonzalez, "a, both of Key
West, were married yesterday by
Peace Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08

There's nothing to equal tomato
juice as real perker-up," she says
cheerfully. She's right, of course.
Besides, tomato Juice is one drink
appropriate for any meal and for
serving any time of day or night.
Tomato juice is refreshing. too,
any way you take itvvfresh and
cold as II pours from the can, or
mixed as a cocktail. For instance,
here are two delicious hot weather
cocktails:
Tomato-veaetabIe Cocktail
! can Ga oz) tomato Juice
! tablespoon watercress, finely
chopped
teaspoon chives, finely chopped
tablespoon lime juice
! teaspoon sugar
] pinch Of salt
Remove watercress leaves from
stems and chop very fine. Combine
tomato juice, chopped watercress,
chopped chives, lime juice, sugar
and salt. Mix thoroughly and chill.
Makes 2 glassfuls.
Tomato-Grapefrult Juice Cocktail
! can GA oz.l tomato juice
" cup grapefruit juice (un-
sweetened)
! teaspoon sugar
y teaspoon salt
Mix the tomato juice, grapefruit
juice, sugar and salt. Chill and
serve. Makes 2 glassfuis.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08

Harold Pinder, employed by the
noard Of Public Works. who oc-
sopies an office in the City Hall
building, win leave on Sunday,
accompanied by MRS. Pinder, on q
uap to Miami, West Palm Beach
Pno other points, where they win
pehd few weeks visit
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08

Norwegian railways are ex-
perimenting with a new type of
locomotive that has pulled 800
ton trains up the steepest grades
at a speed of go kilometers an
hour
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08

Dr. j. B. Parramore, head oi
re Monroe County Health Clinic,
Who had been taking a special
course In women's and chiIdren's
diseases at the Spartanburg Chill
aren's Hospital at Saluda, N. O.,
mas returned to Key West. He was
accompanied on the trip by Mrs.
Parramore. DIR Parramore states
mat there were about one hun
bred doctors taking the course.
The Parramores report having
had a very delightful trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Russell
left this morning ON the Florida
Motor Lines bus for Miami where
they win spend a few weeks va
cation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Solano were
included in the recent arrivals
here from Miami for a visit with
relatives and friends.
Mrs. Miles Roberts, with her
son Jonathan, is visiting here
with her aunt, Mrs. Melvin Rus
sci, 1927 Washington street. Mrs.
Roberts came here from Winter
Garden for weeks vacation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08
THE WEATHER

Observation taken at 7:30 a. M,
18th Mer. Time (city office
Temperatures
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-08

DR.. Elizabeth Mason-Hohl of
Los Angeles, noted physician
Evening star., 1941-03-02

and dropped them into the boat, then waded
on to the next crab.
What do you use the conchs for?"
They are the bait for the stone crabs. l
break their shells, then put them in the traps.
The stone crabs prefer them to anything else"
They had lunch sitting in the boat beneath
the white hot October sun, and it was then she
remembered for the first time to ask about the
pine tree and the eagles nest: Didn't there
used to be pine tree on one of these islands,
one with an eagles nest in it?"
f1E HAD been talking about shells and about
his work and how someday, if he had a better
boat, he would be able to do better, perhaps
even need partner. But as she asked about
the eagles nest his face changed; the anina-
ton went out of it and left it blank and set.
How long .ago?" he asked after moment.
who told you about it?"
'Oh, five or ten years ago. forget who told
me. Somebody heard talking at the Pavilion"
"I1l show you the place before we 60 home"
He did not speak again. He stepped into the
water and began working once more, pulling
the boat, gathering the conchs and filling his
croker sacks with them. The warm friendliness
which had been between them for a while was
gone She did not know why and felt strange
loneliness
The afternoon wore on. Clouds piled up in
CONTINUED on pogs 12)
Evening star., 1941-03-02

hospital beside me. He knew he was dying and
so he talked. He'd double-crossed the rest of
the mob on the O'Hara kidnapping ten years
ago. hidden the money. And then while he was
ducking the rest of them, he was picked up in
South Carolina on an old murder charge and
given fifteen years. Now don't argue, Baby
It's ours for the finding. Remember that mink
coat you wanted? It's good as yours. And this
time we'll see the bright spots the way you
want to see them"
i HE rowboat moved smoothly on out of the
bay and into the shallow water of a bayou.
The bayous with their myiads of tiny, desc
late islands, formed a world of their own,
touched only by the coming and going of the
tides or by the shadows of birds overhead.
He pointed. "Over that way, about three
miles, is where De Soto landed, over four hun
dred years ago. don't reckon person year
has been in these bayous since then"
The water was no more than one or two feet
deep here. Tom Harris shipped his oars, stepped
overheard, and began to pull the rowboat be-
hind him. He bent and pulled horseshoe crab
out of the sandy bottom. He tossed the crab
into the boat and kept wading until he'd found
thirty or more of them. Then, still pulling the
boat, he moved closer to one of the little
islands.
With hammer he broke the shell of one of
the crabs, dropped it, pushed it down into the
sand
He moved along the side of the island,
dropping crushed horseshoe crab every few
feet and in this way he circed two of the little
islands before coming back to the first dead
crab he had dropped.
"See?" he said. They are often in lines ike
that. 1t must be a sense of smell that attracts
them"
What are they?"
Castle oonchs. That's the common name
for them"
She could see long line of the shells NOV
ing slowly across the sandy bottom. Tom gath
cred them with dip net A dozen of them that
had already reached the dead horseshoe crab
and were feeding on it. He gathered them too
Evening star., 1941-01-23
Wick Reported Among Nozis
In Canada for Internment

chute to the sea off the Isle of
Wight just after bagging his
56th planeD
Internment officers said the ship
ment of prisoners included a ma
jority of the Nazi flyers shot down
and captured in Britain up to the
time the ship sailed, as well as sail
ors taken from German submarines
One prisoner was said to be the
commander of the submarine which
torpedoed and sank the liner EN-
press of Britain after she was at
tackled by German bombers in the
North Atlantic last autumn.
The captives will be sent to two
prison camps which have not been
used heretofore, officials said.
A few prisoners raised their arms
in the Nazi salute, some grinned and
others we're stolid as they tramped
from the camoufaged prison ship.
1t. Col. R. Weddell, commander
of the guards aboard ship, said the
Germans gave mot the slightest
trouble on the voyage from Eng
land.
British and Canadian officials
have kept secret the locations of
internment camps in Canada, but
an officer in Ottawa disclosed two
months ago that between 5000 and
10000 military captives and interned
civilian aliens we're then confined
behind their high barbed wire fences
Between $50 and 300 aliens from
the camps were shipped back to
Britain January 8 to help clean up
air raid debris Prince Friedrich
%, fourth son of the former Crown
Prince of Germany, was reported
among them.
Evening star., 1941-01-23
Cox lauds Districts
o-operation With
Draft Officials
Selective Service Chief
Finds No Evasion
Cases Here

Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox. selective
service executive for the District,
said today no cases of draft evasion
have been found in Washington. .r
I'VE have received some COM
plants" Gen. Cox declared but we
found in every instance that the
complaint was due to error or to
misunderstanding. 'Washingtonians
have reason to be proud of the city's
record"
There were reports from Baltimore
yesterday that a number of warrants
charging draft evasion had been
issued, and that the Federal Bureau
of Investigation is studying COM
plants from many local draft boards
in Maryland.
The first third of the 1896 selec-
tive service registrants who are to
be given physical examinations to
provide a pool from which the Dis
tricts February quota of 353 men
is to be drawn will report at six
local hospitals tomorrow night.
Other groups are to be examined
Tuesday and Friday of next week.
Tomorrow nights examinations
are scheduled to include: George
town Hospital. 81 whites and "a COL
ored; Emergency Hospital, 43 white
and 38 colored: Garfield Hospital, So
white and 10 colored; Providence
Hospital, 48 white and "a colored: !:
Freedmen's Hospital, 80 colored, and
Sibley Hospital, "a white and %
colored.
Evening star., 1941-01-23
British Planes Blast
Italians in Albania
And Dodecanese
Fires Are Set in Assault
On Muritzu Airdrome on
Rhodes, R. A. F. Says
By the Associated Press.

6y tne hooOSldtcu IISoos
ATHENS, Jan. 23.-A two-day at
tack on Italian objectives in the
Greek war theater-military build
ings and transport concentrations in
Albania and the airdrome of Martha
on the Dodecanese Island of
Rhodes-was reported today by the
British Royal Air Force.
The assault on Martha, one of the
few actions thus far against Italians
in the Dodecanese Islands, caused
fires among military buildings at the
airport last night, the communique
said.
Military buildings at Berati, Al
bania, also were damaged, the R.
A. F.. reported, while transport on
the Klisura -Berati road was raked
ahead of the Greek counter invasion
front.
Enemy fighter aircraft intercept
ed our bombers and a short engage
ment resulted" the r. A. F. said.
but all British planes returned to
! their bases.
More than 100 Italian Army trucks.
trapped IN a narrow mountain gorge
when bomb b-dislodged boulder
blocked the road, were destroyed by
Greek bombing planes, the Greek
air force reported from the Central
Albanian front last night.
Repeated machine gun and bomb
attacks on Fascist troops also were
described.
A government spokesman an
nounced advances of Greek artillery
to new positions in the central front
after infantry gains had cleared
the way.
Two hundred Italian prisoners
were said to have been taken in
the fighting and four counterattacks
"easily repulsed" with heavy Fascist
losses.
Without mentioning specific To-
calltles, a Greek high command
communique last night told of sue
cessful local operations" and of safe
return of all Greek planes from
bomb attacks on battlefield targets
Evening star., 1941-01-23

pointed out, of whom $4,000 are
Regulars, 5000 National Guardsmen,
and $4,000 Reserve officers. But
when the Army reaches the strength
of 100000 planned for some time
this year, he added, it will require
about $1,000 officers.
While he expressed belief that the
prevalence of influenza is on the de-
cline in Army posts, Secretary Slim
son announced that the Surgeon
General has been authorized to set
up special board of control to in
vestigate influenza and other dis
eases in the Army. The board will
call on scientists and technicians to
carry on research work and to send
medical staffs to scenes of possible
epidemics.
Mr.. Stimson said the War Depart
ment had authorized Army areas to
give pneumonia vaccine to soldiers
on voluntary basis.
Evening star., 1941-01-23
Ryan Contract Provides
Same Pay as at VuItee

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Jan. % OP.-
All employees of the Ryan Aero
nautical Co. were given pay in
creases today under a contract rati-
fed unanimously by the c. I. O..
United Automobile Workers local
after a deadlock in negotiations had
been broken and a threatened strike
averted.
1t was disclosed last night that
the same basic scale had been pro-
vided as that won recently by the
U. A. w. after a strike at the Vul-
tee Aircraft Co. plant at Downey,
Calf.
Present employees with less than
one months service will receive S.
cents an hour minimum pay with
80 days 57i2 cents and after four
months, 6212 cents. inexperienced
new workers may be paid as little as
80 cents an hour the first go days
with a raise thereafter to 81 cents.
Evening star., 1941-01-23
By the Associated Press.

AN EAST CANADIAN PORT, Jan
ga top-rank German air ace
and hundreds of other war pris-
onerS rolled westward toward Cana
dian internment camps today fol-
lowing the recapture of one of a
pair who broke away after theii
prison ship docked.
The escape of two prisoners was
disclosed shortly after the captive
flyers and seaman had 'debarked tc
waiting special trains last night
One was recaptured early today
and patrols searched the dock area
for the other
Police announced the presence
among the prisoners of a noted 25-
year-old Nazi fighter pilot credited
with downing 56 planes. beginning
with the Spanish civil war.
(Offcial identified ton of pris-
oners is forbidden under war
regulations. but the description,
together with the captive's pos
Sesrion of the Iron Cross with
Oak Leaves-highest Nazi mill
tary award of its kind-coincided
With that of Maj. Helmuth WicI-.
commander of the famous Rich
totem squadron.
Maj. Wick was shot down by
a British fighter over the Eng
i!sh Channel. A German com
munique December 4, reporting
his failure to return, said the
Nazi airforce had lost zone of its
most audacious and successful
pursuit pilots" Fellow pilots re-
ported he descended by para
Evening star., 1941-01-23
Stinnson
Continued From First Page J

enlisted man considered by the
higher officers of his post to be of
officer callber could be named.
There also will be 100 vacancies in
Regular Army commissions open to
National Guard and Reserve officers
between the ages of q and 30 now
on active duty, Secretary Stimson
announced.
Preliminary examinations for these
permanent commissions probably
will begin about July l, with final
examinations about September l. To
be eligible the National Guard or
Reserve officers must have been in
active Federal service for at least
six months.
The Secretary also disclosed that
another AIS new officers would reach
the Army through West Point grad
uations, 100 more through R. o. 7. c
graduates who would compete for
a years training leading to commits
sions, and so from r. o. T. c. honor
graduates.
The Army now has 47,200 officers
in active service, Secretary Stimson
Evening star., 1941-01-23
One Set of Tags
| Serves All Cars
In Utah VILLAGE
BY the Associated Press.


SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 23.-
Representative Milton Twitchell told
this story to the Utah House of
Representatives during debate on q
measure to permit sale of State
automobile licenses by county treas
urers:
Residents of a small community
in Southern Utah purchase one set
of automobile license plates an
nually. The plates are left at the
village post Office and motorists
drive around the community with
out license plates.
A motorist going out of town
drives to the post Office, gets the
plates, and attaches them to his
car. He leaves them at the post
Office upon his return.
Representative Twitchel refused
to name the town-or to explain why
State highway patrolmen haven't
found 1t.
Evening star., 1941-01-23
Army Bomber Search Turns
To California Oregon Area
B, the Associated Press.

B, the Associated Press.
McCHORD FIELD. Wash, Jan %.
AS the first week passed without
a definite clue to the fate Of an
Army bomber and the seven Nc
Chord Field officers aboard, the
search shifted to Southern Oregon
and the California Oregon border
The twin-motored bomber dis
appeared week ago today en- route
from McChord Field to the Muroc
bombing range in California.
I'VE have found a very likely area
south of Medford, Greg, around a
place called Montague" 1t. William
Hatcher, in charge of field oper-
ations, said. 1--WE expect to eX-
anime the country thoroughly as
soon as we can get decent enough
weather to allow our planes to fly
1t. Hatcher said a ground crew
was sent out yesterday from Fort
Jones. Calf, to seek clues in the
rugged Oregon California region.