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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-09
:: SOCIETY ::
Ray Demeritt Choice Of His
Classmates For BalfOur Award

Ray Z. Demeritt. son of Mr..
and Mrs. Ben w. Demeritt, 531
Francis street, yesterday after
noon was the choice of his senior
classmates for the 194l Balfour
award, one of the highest hon
ors bestowed by the high schools
graduating class.
The award goes to the student,
who, in the opinion of his class
mates, is outstanding for scholar
ship, loyalty and achievement.
1t entities the winner to a
bronze key, presented at Class
Night, May %, and to a place on
the Balfour plaque at the junior
high school.
Junior Class Prom Tonight
Graduating seniors at the
school for the next few weeks
will take part in a full schedule
of medal awards, ending with
final examinations, class night,
the Baccalaureate sermon and
graduation.
The top social event of the
program is scheduled for tonight
with a junior class prom in
honor of the graduating class.
Students have been working for
days, decorating the gymnasium
for the event and preparing in
vftations. The scheme of the an
nual event, as has been the GUS
tom in the past, is dark secret.
The affair is semi-formal.
Science Award
Walter McCook, Demeritt and
Sergio Alvarez have established
themselves as high men in the
science field at the school and
one of them probably will be
awarded the annual Bosch &
Lohm science trophy.
The award goes to the student
who has made the highest aver
age grade in three years of
science.
Legion Medals
Other awards to be presented
within a few days include the
American Legion medals for the
ranking boy and girl student in
the ga grade.
Students of this class will soon
select the two leading boys and
two girls, with the final selec-
ton left to the faculty.
Student Council Election
Student council of the high
school, at an election of officers
May Is, will select leaders for
next year and present awards
to leaders in journalism, ath-
letics, scholarship and leader
ship.
Nominees for the offices and
awards are: President, Wilma
Russell, editor-in-chief of the
school paper, the Snapper, and
Raymond Divide; ce-president,
Virginia Rodriguez and Howard
Johnson; corresponding secre-
tary, Roy Chancellor, co-art
editor of the Snapper, and Don
aid Lowe; recording secretary,
Raul Cuesta and Ruth Thomp-
son; treasurer, Betty Adams and
Betty Chastain; journalism
award, Alicia Borges, former
editor in-chief of the Snapper,
and Richard Chapman; athletics,
Dewitt Roberts. center and hon.
orary captain of the basketball
varsity, and Anthony Mcmahon,
cage varsity forward; scholar
ship, Walter McCook and Elinor
Larsen, and leadership, Barbara
Guerro, Ray Pierce and Betty
Levin.
' .p9 PIT. a. Awards
Walter McCook and p" Betty
Levin recently were presented
with awards by the PIT. A.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-09
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can contribute TO serious weak
ening of your strength. BY all
means take Vinol with your diet
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pick and Iron.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-09
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however, that German parachute
troops are being massed in the
Aegean islands and that it is not
too late for NaZi forces to take a
hand in the fighting. Officers in
Iraq have requested additional
men at once so the seizure of the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-09
Couple Plan To
Marry Saturday

Henry E. Albury, "a, and Mil
dred Proctor, Is, both of Isla-
morada, will be married tomor-
row by the Rev. w. ]. Parker at
Islamorada, it was announced
today.
The couple received license
from Judge Raymond Lord.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-09
SPENDS DAY HERE

Ellis Kemp, former Key West
er, but who is now residing in
Miami, spent part of today in
Key West meeting old friends.
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Ru|e-haking Power Is Hit
By Virginia Bar Speaker
By the Associated Press.

BY IEe ASSOC!aleQ PRESS.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w.
Va, Aug. 9-Thomas w. Ozlin,
chairman of the Virginia State
Corporation Commission. said today
in an address to the Virginia Bar
ASsociat ton that he was in substan-
tial agreement with the growing
belief that Federal and State regula-
ton by commissions and boards had
exceeded ali bounds of reason"
Bills introduced in Congress and
in the Virginia Legislature. he added,
were an indication of the resentment
against the making power
vested in these extra legal bodies.
Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington
correspondent for the London Times.
told the association last night that
postwar reconstruction of the So
cial order on a lasting basis could
be accomplished only If men are
aroused to an aWareneSs of the
deadly need that it should be done"
Extension of Kappa Beta Pi. legal
sorority, into all countries of the
Americas was urged by w. Ray VAL
lance. attorney in charge of British
affairs in the State Department and
secretary general of the Inter-Amer-
lean Bar Association. in address to
the convention of the sorority, COM
posed of woman lawyers. magistrates,
members of CoporecS district att0r-
neys and State legislators.
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Five Meade Soldiers
Held Without Bail on
Girls Assault Charqe
Victim Identifies Men;
Sixth in Group Freed;
Hearing Set August l8
By Q Staff Correspondent OF The Star.

UPPER MARLBORO. Md, Aug. g..
Five soldiers, stationed at Fort
George G. Meade, today were being
held for a preliminary hearing
August 18 on a charge of criminally
assaulting a 17-year-old Headwater
(Va0 girl.
State Trooper Bernard c. Mason
arrested six men in uniform less
than an hour after the dazed girl
told her story in the Waterloo police
substation. One of the men was
released, but the five charged are
being held without bail after the
girl identified them.
The girl, who was visiting friends
at Berwyn, told Troopers Mason and
Thomas Hignutt she had met the
soldiers, with her companion, in a
tavern Thursday night. After ac-
cepting an invitation to ride home in
the soldiers automobile, the girl
told police, the service men drove to
an isolated spot on dirt road about
one-half mile from the Baltimore
boulevard, near Berwyn.
At this point, she related, her
companion became frightened and
fed. She said the men held her
arms and stuffed a handkerchief
into her mouth to stif1e her screams.
She was found by John Herbert.
a garage proprietor. standing on the
boulevard near Savage. Md, crying
and in dazed condition
The soldiers charged are Thomas
Amato, 81, Cleveland; Lee Schroeder,
rs, Baltimore; Cyril Beck. 25; Will
liam Greenjack, %, and Francis
Bauer. 30. all of PHILADELPHIA.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

nti-aircraft pieces, more than $3.50
trucks and II trains.
The great victory in the Ukraine
announced by the high command
last night apparently was the result
of an encircling movement which
began July II. when the Nazis re-
ported they had broken through
Soviet defenses at Zhitomir, west Of
Kiev.
German ground forces. supported
by the Luftwaffe. were said to have
swung to the south after the break
through while other Nazi and Ru-
manian units struck nortnward from
the Dniester to catch the Russians
in trap.
While fighting to close the ring
around the Soviet troops the Ger
mans were forced time and again to
battle in two directions as Russian
forces outside the encirclement
sought to rescue their trapped COM
rades, reports from the front said.
The Russians apparently put up
their Stiffest resistance at Uman.
German war correspondents said
entire villages ringing this area were
razed in the fighting. during which
the troops alternately were drenched
by cloudbursts and parched by in
tense heat.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

"ARSFNAL" SIGN This g.
by-4-foot poster may be dis
played by plants devoting so
per cent or more Of their
facilities to defense work,
William S. Knudsen, o. P. M.
director, announced today. He
said in a letter to defense
contractors, Il feel sure that
every defense worker-wheth-
er in management or labor
will feel a closer personal re-
lationship with the defense
effort through the display of
this identification"
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Three Named TO Study
CanceIinq Of Conventions

Expressing the view that there
ought to be a middle ground in the
convention situation" representa-
tives of the Hotel Association of
Washington and the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee of the
Board of Trade yesterday named a
special committee to map course
of action in light of Price Admins
TRAITOR Leon Henderson's demand
that the city's convention program
be curtailed during the emergency.
The committees conclusions are
expected lin few days" L. Gard
ner Moore, president of the Hotel
Association, said in statement an
nouncing formation of the three
man committee.
Administrator Henderson had
urged that no more conventions be
scheduled and that some of those
already booked be Cancelled where
convenient because he said. ROOM
ing facilities were severely strained.
1t is understood that number of
complaints had been voiced by out
of-town business men who claimed
they were unable to find hotel rooms
when they visited here on defense
matters.
The Hotel Association recently
announced a survey had disclosed
that one-fifth of the city's hotel
capacity was as yet untouched, and
declared that blanket cancella tions
OF conventions would have an ad-
verse effect for long time after the
emergency ends.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

S1,347,053,55O Arms
Fund Plea Opposed;
A. {. F. Aim Feared
Army Request Reported
Provoking Inquiries at
Senott Hearing
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senatorial opposition developed
today to a War Department request
for a 81 7,053, $50 cash outlay to
manufacture tanks and other equip
ment for a potential combat force
which would come into being only
after the Army's strength had
reached 100000 men.
Included in an S8,063 ,238,478 de-
fense money bill previously approved
by the House, the request was re-
ported to have provoked extensive
and critical inquiries by Chairman
Adams of an appropriations sub
committee now conducting closed
hearings on the bill.
In addition, Senator Nye, of North
Dakota, senior minority member of
the committee. said it was his belief
that more was involved than the
mere attempt to create a pool of
ordnance materials and to pile up
backlog Of prospective orders for de-
tense plants, as War Department
officials had explained.
Another A. E. F. Feared.
This has all the earmarks of
program of moving large forces
abroad and creating new forces at
home to replace them" Senator
Nye told reporters. Quite clearly
the thought is of large involvements
abroad"
The proposed s1,347O53, $50 appro-
priation, it was explained, would
permit the War Department to place
orders for tanks, anti-tank weapons,
anti-aircraft equipment including
! 900 47-inch anti-aircraft guns,
artillery material and ammunition
for deliveries expected to be COM
pleted largely by December, 81, 1912.
War Department officials made it
plain that this suggested fund was
for ordnance which could be used
to equip combat groups beyond and
in addition to the potential aug
mented force of 100000 men for
which other appropriations in the
measure would provide equipment.
Patterson Urges Approval.
UnderSecretary of War Robert p.
Patterson told a House committee.
in urging approval of the request,
that it would provide for ordnance
weapons we have viewed as forming
a pool of items that will be needed,
We are quite sure. as things get
more serious or if we go into actual
conflict
Maj. Gen. C. c. Wesson. chief of
ordnance, told the same committee
1t is the type of equipment that we
forecast We will need if We ever 60
into large operations. 1t is equip
ment that will enable us to convert
certain units into so-called panzer
divisions
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Southbound Planes Checked
To Keep japanese Beetles Off

tinations are kept closed while on
the ramp at the airport except dur
ing the process of loading or unload
ing.
Hundreds of the stowaways from
abroad, waiting stone-faced for the
roar of the motors which will carry
them to richer pickings in the Sec
tions of the United States they still
have not touched. have been taken
from planes and passengers here.
Men and women have been ex-
tremely cooperative, officials re-
ported. 1t takes more than ordinary
calm, it is explained, for a person
to remain passive when a stranger
with a badge walks up and plucks
something off his lapel, tells him he
merely has captured japanese
beetle.
Two inspectors at time usually
are kept on duty and will remain
there through the beetle season.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

the Berlin during the night, giving
rise to reports of an attack.
After hours of silence on the re-
port of the first Berlin raid, Mos
COW announced early today Red war
planes loosed high explosives and
fire bombs on the Berlin area Thurs
day night, thus taking the credit fer
an attack which British sources all
during yesterday had attributed to
the Soviet.
Planes Not Russians, Nazis Insist.
Beforehand the identity of the at
tackers had been in dispute. the
Germans insisting that they were
British. The Nazi command pic
tured the damage to Berlin as slight,
and said six of the raiders were
brought down. Moscow said, how
ever that several fires were set in
the German capital and that all
Soviet planes returned safely.
A Soviet radio report described the
raid as reconnaissance flight un-
dertaken by group of planes, the
size of which was not stated.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

japanese beetles trying TO hitch
hike ride by plane to the cornfields
OF the South and Middle West are
meeting their match in Department
of Agriculture inspectors at the
Washington Airport.
Eyes as well trained for the de-
structive little insect as a detec-
tive's for the land-weary hobo have
been stationed there and are max
ing no exceptions. If beetles, like
the railway vagabonds, have code
of their own, already the message
has been flashed that passage Is
barred on any planes out of the
National Capital except those headed
north and east.
Through the cooperation of air.
port officials, agricultural inspectors
are permitted to search every plane
to the South or West before it
leaves Moreover matches and doors
Of all ships scheduled for such des-
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Priorities May Leave
100000 Job|ess,
Henderson Fears
Expects Most to Be
Absorbed in Time by
Defense Program

Two million men may be thrown
out of work by the closure of plants
necessitated by defense priorities
and shortages of materials for civil
ian purposes. in the opinion Of Leon
Henderson. head of the once of
Price Administration.
His views were outlined to news
men yesterday after he had testified
before the House Banking Commit
tee urging enactment of the price
control bill, which he described as
one of a number of steps democ-
racy must take to offset the dislocat-
ing effects of a huge defense pro-
gram unless chaos is to take
charge"
The unemployment, he believes,
will be largely temporary, however,
because the Workmen ultimately will
be absorbed in defense production.
Representative Wolcott, Repub-
ican, OF Michigan led Mr.. Hender-
son through maze of questioning
about administration fiscal and eco
nomic policies of the last few years.
AT one point, Mr.. Henderson said he
thought the idea that prices could
be controlled through revaluing the
dollar was lousy" and declared he
had never believed the Nations eco
nomic situation could be saved
through funny money business" or
juggling with gold"
He asserted that when the admin
istration suddenly curtailed Govern
ment spending in the fall of 1887 we
went to hell in a wheelbarrow. In
that connection, he said, he had
spent three or four hours with Presi-
dent Roosevelt telling him that such
course was wrong.
While Mr.. Henderson was testify
ing. he was denounced on the floor
of the House by Representative Dies,
Democrat, of Texas as having been
member of five Communist-con
trolled organizations"
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Strikes
Continued From First Page.

New Haven, Conn. that his union
was attempting to organize the
1000 workers of the Winchester
Repeating Arms Co, which is max
ing Garand rifles for the Army
and ammunition for Great Britain.
Pittsburgh had new strike and
threat of another next Monday
The McKees Rocks plant of the
Pressed Steel Car Co., employing
about $500, closed after the C. I. O..
steel workers called a walkout in
juriSdictional dispute with an
independent local union which has
been recognized by the National
Labor Relations Board as exclusive
bargaining agency at the plant
About 5000 white collar salaried
employees of the Westinghouse Elec-
trio & Manufacturing Co threat
ened to strike Monday for a $40
a month increase in all salary
brackets and 62a per cent raise
for employees who work only 40
hours a week.
The c. I. o. Steel Workers Union
at Columbus, Ohio ratified an
agreement to end nine-day strike
at the Timken Roller Bearing Co.
plant, called in protest against dis
charge Of five woman employees. An
arbitrator will further review the
dispute and the company will re-
hire the women at pay equal to that
they received before they were dis
charged. The company employs
about 5000 and will resume work
Monday on defense orders.
In a speech m Chicago William
Green, president of the A. F. L.,
said trade unionists had pledged
unconditional support of the de-
tense program and asked continued
freedom from restrictive legislation.
which he termed unnecessary and
un-American." He said true COL
lective bargaining eliminates the
principal cause for strikes and es-
tablishes order in industry. There
Is our answer to the hue and cry
for repressive legislation"
John Mayo of Columbus, Ohio,
iCSlOiloi I'll CSOol vi OllC ~. L. ~.
Steel Workers Union, said he urged
100 striking employees of the Tim
ken roller bearing plant at Canton
to return to work because he con-
sidered their strike a violation of
the union contract with the firm.
The entire personnel of more than
1000 men of the Joseph E. Seagrams
& Sons Co. distillery at Lawrence
burg, Ind, was idle today as a re-
suit of strike of an A. F. L.-affii-
ated foremen's union.
Striking union workers were
called to vote today on a company
counter proposal that would end a
walkout at Appalachian Knitting
Mills in Knoxville, Tenn.
The tentative agreement was
reached last night between the mill
management and committee rep
resenting the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union "a. F. L..
The mills, holding Government
contracts for clothing, shut down
Monday when union wage demands
were rejected
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Col. Merle Smith Named
Attache 10 Australia

Ey the Associated Press.
Col. Van Santvoord Merle-Smith,
New York investment banker and
Army Reserve officer now on active
duty, was ordered by the War De-
partment today to service as .this
country's first military attache to
Australia
A Cavalry officer during the World
War. Col Merle Smith served as
Assistant Secretary of State in 1920
and 1921. His home is at Oyster
Bay, N. Y.
The order directing him to go to
Australia, with which country direct
diplomatic relations have been
opened only in recent months. said
that he should be relieved of his
present duty in the Office of the
Chief of Staff August 10. 1t is ex-
pected he will set out for Aus
tralia Immediately thereafter.
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Blast Fires Tanker
AT Detroit, Two DIE;
G-Men Join Probe
Canadian Croft Bursts
In FIumes Just After
Leoving Port
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT. Aug. 9-Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation agents and
Detroit police launched an inquiry
today into the cause of an explosion
which turned the Canadian oil
tanker Transfer into an inferno
and cost two persons their lives.
Five minutes after the 180-foot,
Diesel-powered vessel left port late
Yesterday afternoon laden with 750,-
900 gallons of gasoline bound for
Canada. the tanker exploded and
burst into flames on the River
Rouge.
As police searched the waters for
the bodies of Mrs. Elida Tremblay.
46, of Murray Bay, Quebec, wife of
the captain, and Roger Frechette. "a,
a deckhand, survivors related tale
of heroism.
With flames leaping about him,
Capt. Rudolph Tremblay, they said,
swung the ship in wide arc to pre-
vent it from drifting downstream
and endangering oil docks lining the
shore.
Capt. Tremblay leaped from the
tanker when it nosed in the mud
and reached shore with IA crew
members while fireboat forced the
burning ship upstream and away
from the chemical company with
streams of water.
Two of the crew, Francois Desch-
enau, third engineer, and Edward
Bariteau. cook, are in Delray Cen
eral Hospital for treatment of burns.
Eight others. including Mrs. Jeanne
Cascault. wife of the chief engineer
were released after treatment for
minor burns and injuries.
Mrs Tremblay and Mrs. CaScault
had boarded the Transfer a week
ago for vacation trip.
The hull of the vessel, warped and
twisted by the intense heat, con-
tinued blazing today and inveStlga-
tors were unable to board it to de-
termine the possibility of salvage.
but it appeared doubtful whether
the tanker could be refloated.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

that he was at home at the time
of the crime.
Following the police lineup after
his daughter had pointed to one
man, her father placed in the hands
of police a letter in which he offered
1000 for the arrest and conviction
of the attacker.
The suspect singled out was one
OF three men held in connection
with the case because of their close
resemblance to the general descrip-
ton given by the girl. One was
picked up shortly after the attack
was reported Wednesday Another
was picked up yesterday while
wandering aimlessly near the scene
of the assault. All three, according
to detectives. were dressed in tan
play suits. the principal item Of
identification listed by the victim.
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Perseid Meteors
To Be Heaviest
Monday Night

The annual shower of August
meteorS, natures spectaculak
sky show, will be heaviest Mon
day night, the Navy Depart
ment announced today.
Capt. j. F. Hellweg, superin-
tendent of the Naval Observa-
tory, said the showers from the
Persefds will be seen late in the
evening in the northeastern
sky. They move quickly and
give bright light. They follow
the path of Tuttle's comet, last
seen in 1862.