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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
DEFER SENTENCE
ON P. SEARLES
DEFENDANT WAS ARRAIGN-
ED ON CHARGE OF REcK-
LESS DRIVING

Paul w. Searles. West Palm
Beach, yesterday afternoon was
granted deferred sentence by
Criminal Judge William v. Al
bury on reckless driving charge
growing out of a collision Sun
day in which a car driven by
Searles and owned by Kenneth
ID. Snow. struck a machine OPP
Grated by George Lee. local gro
Ger.
Searles entered plea of gull.
ty before Peace Justice Enrique
Esquinaldo, Jr., was placed UNI
der 500 bond and Immediately
went before Judge Albury. Sen
tence was deferred until an es-
innate of the damage to Lees
car has been made.
Snow. who suffered cuts and
Bruises about the face in the ac-
cident, left for West Palm Beach
yesterday with Searles. Their
car is being repaired here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
INQUIRE ABOUT
|, AMERICANS ON
EGYPTIAN ship
STATE DEPARTMENT MAKES
FORMAL REQUEST OF GER
MAN GOVERNMENT FOR IN
FORMATION
my Associated rressD

WASHINGTON, May 2O.-The
state department today formally
requested the German govern
ment to inform the United States
what has become of 1873 Amer
lean citizens aboard the Egyptian
liner Zamzam. believed to have
been sunk or captured off the
African coast.
After first reports had in
dictated the Zamzam went down
with all on board, London radio
broadcasts last night said, "The
Zamzam may be safe after ALL"
The Berlin radio, shortly after
the British announcement, said
the canaan had sunk zen route
from Pernambuco to Cape
Town"
State department officials here
said it is unlikely a protest will be
made to Germany, even if the
ship had been destroyed, but that
every effort will be made to locate
the United States citizens who
were aboard. The ship carried
1922 persons, including her crew.
American citizens, it is explain
ed, would be eligible for release
at once if they were picked up by
a German ship. If the ship were
operating from the African coast,
however, state department men
say it might be difficult for the
to obtain transportation
or to communicate with the out
side world.
Some observers have suggested
the possibility that German sur
face raider NAV be operating from
the French port of Dakar in
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
DENIES RIGHT OF
U.S.. TO SEIZE
FRENCH PORTS
PETAIN ANSWERS REPORTS
THAT TROOPS AND. SHIPS
MAY BE SENT TO MAR
UNIQUE
tBy Associated pre.n

VICHY, May 20.-Premier
Henri Philippe Petain today
denied the right of the United
States. or any American nation,
to seize French colonies in the
Western hemisphere. and sug-
gested that French troops soon
may be used to reclaim African
colonies dominated by the Free
French" government of Gen.
Charles De Gaulle.
Answering reports that the
United States may send troops
and ships to Martinique, Petain
said his government would re-
sist any such action, no matter
what nation might undertake it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20

Gonzalez and expected to find
him tonight, when it was thought
he would attend the fight pro-
pram either at Tampa or Miami.
Officers in both cities had been
wired Gonzalez description and
were on the lookout for him.
Gwynn and Gonzalez, both of
whom were placed under $3.50
bond today, are accused of taking
the $50 from Cannon's wallet.
Cannon, a naval station employee,
said when he awakened he found
the empty wallet in his pocket.
Constable Elwood. acting on a
tip, drove as far as Pirates Cove
last night looking for Gonzalez.
but returned TO find the fighter
already had given himself up and
was in Jail
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
ANNIVERSARY OF
MART OBSERVED
PROGRAM CARRIED OUT YES
TERDAY. AT MONUMENT
IN BAYVIEW PARK

The anniversary of the death OF
the great Cuban Patriot, Jose
Marti, was observed yesterday
with a program carried out at the
Marti monument in Bayview
Park, which was under the aus
pices of the Cuban consulate, San
Carlos Board of Directors and
school faculty and childres.
The event was in commemora-
ton of the forty-sixth anniver-
sary of the death of the great
Cuban apostle of the revolution in
the struggle for the independence
of his country.
Addresses were made by Vice
Cuban consul Jose Perez and DR..
Jose c. Sanchez Miss Benildes
Remond. principal of the San Car
los school. also gave a talk in
which she gave a history Of the
life of MartI.
Miss Aurora Leon and Miss
Gloria Watson. pupils of the
school. recited poems American
and Cuban National hymns were
sung by the children uader the III
rectlon of Mrs. josephine Es-
quinaIdo and c ESquinslcio.
Flowers were placed on the monu-
ment by the children of the
school
Those present we're Cuban
Consul Berardo Rodriguez. Vice
Consul Jose Perez Vice President
Of San Carlos Institute, Emilio
Romero. Domingo Uhiesa. En-
rique Esquinslco. Jr. Or. Jose
SANCHEZ. Gonzalio BezaniIls. Jose
Gonzalez Mrs Josephine Is
quinsldo. Mss BenIldes Remond
and e EsQuinalio.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
MINERS GOING
BACK TO WORK
By Associated Press,

WASHINGTON. May 90
Ninety-one thousand Pennsyl-
vania anthracite miners today
agreed to return To work. after
mine operators had agreed 10 a
flat seven percent pay increase.
the first the miners have receiv-
cd since 1923
New York miners. too. are re-.
ported meeting today for q final
agreement. already accepted ten
tatively by both sides. while ~.
900 AT of L. shipyard EN-
ployes al San Francisco have
agreed 10 return To work 10.
morrow
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
REQUEST MADE
FOR CLOSING
SPONGE BEDS
CLAIMED BLIGHT HAS Sc
RIOUSLY AFFECTED PROD
UcTs; SEEK coNsERvA-
TON DEPT. ORDER

A state conservation depart
ment order closing sponge beds
in this area to all fishermen has
been requested by Is sponge
boat owners and captains in a
petition presented to Represen-
tative Bernie c. Papy. through
Earl Russell, son of the veteran
sponge buyer, Milton Russell.
Sponge lakes" southwest OF
Key West and in the Marquesas
section have become so seriously
infected by the mysterious blight
that profitable operation of the
fisheries is impossible, according
to the boat operators.
The senior Russell said today
his son, who went to Tallahassee
last week, will ask Papy to pc
tition the conservation depart
ment for a virtual quarantine of
the area, preventing anyone from
taking the infected sponges. Re
turning fishermen say the blight
has spread so rapidly that
healthy sponges seen one day
from their boats are dead the
next day.
Even crawfish in the infected
area appear to be paralyzed and
dying from the strange malady
which has practically wiped out
the local sponge industry. The
operators claim numerous dead
fish have been found in the af-
fected areas. Era pa
teRussell said boat ownersa and
captains have told him the blight
is three times worse' than
when IL first appeared here sew
eral years ago. Only a few
months ago, experts from the
us. Bureau of Fisheries had
pronounced the spongeS in this
area free from blight.
The boat operators, in their
petition. have asked RepreSen-
tative Papy to work out some
method of finding new employ
ment for men engaged in the
sponge industry here.
Russell said one boat returned
here this week after four weeks
fishing, bringing only IL punches
of poor sponges.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
IT'S A SURE FIRE FILM
in AMERICA, BUT TO
FRENCHMAN: IMMORAL
anv A.enclntca I.renal

NEW YORK. May 20.--In the
first reel the girl gets the job.
In the last reel she gets the boss.
A sure~fire plot--but to Rene
Clair, French director of such Eu-
ropean hits as "A Nous La Lib
erte' and "The Ghost Goes Vest.
it's one of the most "immoraI" in
the movies today--worse than
gangsters, worse than sin.
Clair visited here after finish
inging "The Flame OF New Or
leans, his first Job in America.
I've seen that plot over and
over again, he said. Gin Ameri-
can pictures and British and
French and German pictures. It's
dangerous and demoralizing, but
nowhere does censorship stop it.
1T builds up the idea that it's
not smart for young girls to
work but TO make a play for the
boss The girl who does that is
no better than the most scarlet
of scarlet women.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
BERLIN PAPERS
LAUNCH ANOTHER
ATTACK ON u. s.
COMMENT ON REPORTS THAT
PRISONERS TO BE USED
TO MANUFACTURE MA
TERIALS FOR NAVY

BERLIN, Nav 20. - Berlin
newspapers today launched a
new and particularly bitter edi-
torial attack on the United States
and President Roosevelt,A COM
menting derisively on reports that
prisoners at the federal prison in
Atlanta will be used to manu-
factdre certain materials for the
navy.
The President. according to
Berlin papers, is seeking to or
ganize the United States for q one
man campaign to impose his own
will on the entire world.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20

The couple came here last week
from Their home in AIderserA Va
spending aheir vacation il key
West al the home of Mrs. D. A
Print2, $40 Eaton street. They
win leave for Virginia Thursday.
visiting other Florida cities on the
trip home.
Mrs. Rohde. an accomplished
speaker. was understood at one
time to be slated for the South
American good will ambassador
post recently taken by screen
actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
During her career in congress.
she was dubbed the adopted
daughter Of Kew West" and bat
tied for construction of sub
marine base facilities here at a
time when all naval appropria-
tions were being cut drastically.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
English Turn Loose Full
Fury Of Aerial And
Ground Might To Crush
lraq Resistance
ny Associated Prsnnl

CAIRO. May 20.-Britain'.
Army of the Nile suddenly turn.
ed loose the full fury of its aerial
and ground might today to crush
Iraq resistance and wreck Ger.
msnY's foothold in Syria.
AS British troops raced north
from Ethiopia, where they had
accepted the surrender of the
italian Duke of Aosta and brok-
en- the last of Italy's organized
resistance in that country, Brit
ish soldiers in Iraq smashed
through Iraqi lines and drove a
wedge straight for the capital of
Baghdad.
Royal Air Force bombers,
meanwhile, intensified their
bombardment of Syrian air
dromes as French ground forces
opened fire with anti-aircraft
guns.
Berlin said British bomber
had been shot down by French
artillery, while Iraq bombers
were said TO have destroyed Brit
ish tanks in an attack last
night.)
A Cairo communique said an
abortive Arab rebellion in Iraq
had been crushed, while Iraqi
troops in the Basra sector are re-
ported TO have been thrown back
in confusion by the new British
attack. British bombers pound
ed enemy positions during the
night before the ground attack
was launched.
A communique said British
troops in Ethiopia were being
.ushed to the fighting zone
along the Egyptian border as
fast as planes and ships could
move them. The capitulation
of the Duke of Aosta. according
to Cairo reports. means the end
of fighting in Ethiopia except
for scattered bodies of native
soldiers.
The duke, who wished to be
The last man to leave the fort
at Amba Aliia, which his men
had defended through a 4O-day
siege. formally turned himself
over to the British yesterday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
new YORK MAYOR
GIVEN new POST
NAMED NATIONAL DIRECTOR
OF OFFICE OF CIVILIAN
DEFENSE
my Axsocia:ee pressl

WASHINGTON, May 20.-New
York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
today was named national direc-
tor of the Office of Civilian De-
tense in a decree signed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. +
The organization, placed under
the Office of Emergency Manage
ment, will have as its purpose the
registration of men, women and
children throughout the United
States for volunteer duty in an
emergency.
President Roosevelt, explaining
the program to newsmen. said the
separate states and districts will
be given full power, with the ma
tional office acting in an advisory
capacity. Nine regional offices
will be set up in an organization
similar to the nine army corp
areas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
Bill For Increased Auto d.
License Revenue Passed By
s House And Sent To Senate
GBy Associated Press,

IBy Associated Prcssy
TALLAHASSEE. May 20.-
House administration forces to-
day beat down all efforts to
amend or sidetrack Governor
Hollands bill for increased auto
mobile license revenue and sent
the measure to the Senate by a
vote of 60-26.
The bill. designed to raise an
other sl.5o0.oo0 annually in auto
license money. is the first phase
Of the governors special finance
program.
Unler the terms of the meas
ure. about 100000 automobiles
which formerly used $40 licenses
will be raised to the SIS bracket.
Proposed brackets are: less
than 1000 rounds. SIS; 2.0c0 TO
$500 pounds. $40: $500 to $500
pounds. SIS; $500 to $500 pounds.
$50. and more than $500 pounds.
SIS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
Four Measures Pass House
Affecting Monroe County

TALLAHASSEE. May 10 The
House passed fottE bills introduced
by Representative Bernie Pspy 81
Monroe County Tire bills lglioss
Providing foF extending Over
seas Rosd and Toll Bridge District
10 include ali ~ AonFce County I"
Providing for retirement ~
employees ard officials Of Key
West
Providing creating - 0ffsee u
police lieutenant for Ksy Wcsi
Providing increase Of salaries
for members Of Beard 81 Connas-
ss1nerx of Overseas Road ard Toll
Bridge District
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
Mrs. Rohde, Former Ruth Bryan
Owen, And Husband, Visit Here

Mrs. Bcrge Rohde. the former
Mrs Ruth Bryan Owen who served
as United States minister TO Den
mark and as congreSSwoman of
the Fourth congressional district
including Monroe county, this
week is sightseeing in Key West
with her Danish born husband.
Captain Rohde. on their first visit
here m three years.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
British Make Effort To Wreck
Germany's Foothold In Syria
~Illl[[l%
SENATOR TOBEY
GETS UMBRELLA
KY Associated Press)


WASHINGTON. May 90
-Isolationist Senator TobeY.
father of the anti-convoY
bill. today good-naturedlY &C.
copied from a delegation of
his New Hampshire constit-
uents an umbrella. which
they described as a replica of
the one carried to Munich by
the late British Premier
Neville Chamberlain.
Senator TobeY said he
would accept the token in
the good humor in which II
am sure ii was offered.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
CITY COUNCIL
MEETS TONIGHT

There wiIl he 81 informal
inserting Of the City Council held
tonight, beginning at 500 O'Clock
The meeting has heen called
for the purpose o. discussing
ways 90 Obtain funds for making
city payToIl&
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
Parachutists Drop From
Planes, Transports And
New Type elders Land
Others

LONDON. May alderman
troops. in one of the most dar-
ing moves of the war. swsrmed
down on the Greek island of
Crete today in psrachufes. trans
port planes and newly developed
gliders.
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, reading bulletins
which were handed to him as he
spoke, told a startled house of
commons that some $4,000 Ger
mans. some of them thought 10
be dressed in New Zealand uni
forms. have taken a military
hospital in Crete and are battling
British troops.
Churchill read a bulletin claim
ing British defenders of the is
land, who number between 50.-
900 and $4,000 men, had fetaken
the hospital ami were striking
furiously at the invading Nazis.
Royal Air. Force fighter planes
were said by Churchill to be
locked in combat with the in-
vaders. while Raj bombers roar
ed across the waters of the
Aegean to pound airsaromes on
the Greek mainland In an effort
to head off further transports.
Aside from its great import
ance as base for possible Ger
man thrusts into the Near East.
Crete has political significance
as the seat of the Greek govern
ment in exile and the refuge of
King George II and his cabinet.
Churchill said German bomb
ers pounded Crete last night in
the most intensive attack of the
campaign. Shortly before dawn.
parachntists suddenly swarmed
over an airdrome, blasting the
defenders with machine guns.
Huge transport planes dropped
TO the field Immediately after il
had been captured. and other
planes, towing gliders. released
more hundreds of men over an
area Of several miles
Berlin, making no comment
on the landing of troops. said
Crete had been bombed heavily
last night, with . British cruiser
destroyed by . direct hit IN 0
Crete harborl
Rilmors Of new type Of Ger
man glider for the transport Of
troops have been current for
weeks. but apparently their use
at Crete was the first appearance
of the new weapon. Observers in
London said the attack on Crete
sounds like a full dress rehearsal
for an invasion Of England from
the air.
Churchill said the latest dis
patches from Crete Indicate Brit
ish troops have established cs5n.
troll ~ the situation and are driV-
ing the German forces into a
steel trap.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
LEFT FIVE DOLLARS

DENVER "a burglar in this
city took SIS frnTn drugstore.
haIt left five dollars in change
when the druggist protested that
he needed the money.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
PROPERTY SALE
RECORDED HERE

jain Wilhur Gates former
KeY West resident whe neg
fnakea his hosme In Msansi. Ne
sold - hia father. Jonsthsn
Gates 5z0 Angels street. ; BAR
interest m II foot front rs o.
Division street, southwest 81
GFInnesL
Purchase price was Esos re-
vezie6.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
German 1IO0ps6WOop Down On Greek
Island Of Crete To Battle British
o. AwA 49, - So. 49, ~ 80 -aaw ..aG.
HOUSE FAVORS USE
OF u. S. CONVOYS
thy Associated Pressl

TALLAHASSEE. May 20.
-Florida's house of represen-
tatives. by a vote of So to 0.
today passed a resolution
urging the United States con-
gress to provide conveys. or
any other necessary means.
TO insure The safe delivery of
American war supplies to
Great Britain.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-20
COMING EVENTS
TUESDAY

Stone Church Service Club 900
pm. .ss. .ee
THURSDAY
Rotary Club meets i2:I5 .. m.
St Paurs Parish Hall.
Lions Club meets at $50 pm.
Lions Den. Seminary Street.
Social Meeting Of Junior Won
ans Club. 500 pm. at Club
house on Division Street.
Evening star., 1941-06-03
Elizabeth Leach
Weds Ensign Clarke

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul r. Leach an
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Miss Elizabeth Jane Leach, to
Ensign Frederic B. Clarke, U. S. NJ,
Sunday morning. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Luther
j. Neff, pastor of the Wesley Meth
odist Church, at $50 o'clock, and
was followed by breakfast at the
Columbia Country Club for a few
friends.
The bride wore brown and white
silk ensemble with matching acces-
sories. and a corsage of spray
orchids.
Mrs. Clarke is graduate Of Hol-
ton Arms School and attended Con-
necticut College and Corcoran and
Abbott Art Schools.
Ensign Clarke is the son of DR..
and Mrs. Frederick B. Clarke of
Long Beach, Calf. He was grad
uated from the United States Naval
Academy in 1899. The young couple
left Immediately following the we'd
ding breakfast for New London
Conn, where they will reside.
Evening star., 1941-06-03
Women Plan
Conference
On Defense
New Federation
President Sends
Out Call

Leaders Of women's organizations
throughout the United States are
receiving invitations from Mrs. John
L. Whitehurst. new president Of the
General Federation of Womens
Clubs, to attend a meeting June 13
in New York to discuss q program to
mobilize 10000 900 women for ma
tional defense.
kilograms were sent out yesterday
as Mrs. Whitehurst's first of1cial act
upon her arrival at federation head
quarters here from her home In
Baltimore.
Mayor La Guardia Of New York,
recently appointed by President
Roosevelt as director ofcivilian de-
tense, has been invited to address
the meeting, she said.
Mrs. Whitehurst explained her de-
sire to reach all women and girls OF
the Nation, regardless Of race, re-
ligion politics or club afnliation, and
to invite participation in q co-ordi-
mated defense program.
The new federation head does not
believe in CONSUMPTION OF the Ma
tons woman power, as she thinks
volunteer service will be adequate to
carry out a strong program. "Vol-
unteer service will permit many
women to carry on their home life"
she explained. They can contrib
ute their services during hours
which will not interfere with domes-
tic responsibilities"
She expressed no fear Of q lack OF
volunteers. IT have already received
over 1000 letters from women ask
ing for something definite to do,"
she said.
The federation president was en-
phatic in declaring her belief that
no one group should endeavor to
dominate the defense work.
Every woman, no matter how she
feels-whether she be Republican,
Democrat, New Dealer or anti-New
Dealer-should get back of the
President now in this unlimited ma
tional emergency" she said.
Mrs. Whitehurst said she would
suggest at the New York meeting
that women's groups coordinate
their activities with the Govern
ment's new Civilian Defense Com
mittee, centering activities in coun-
ties in the beginning. The various
national organizations would rec
ommend to their State units that
they promote a joint meeting of all
women's groups in each county to
elect a county co-ordinator. County
co-ordinators would name q State
co-ordinator, who, in turn, would
work with members of the Govern
ment's Civilian Defense Committee.
Such coordination, she believes,
would dispense with duplication of
services and would prevent wasted
effort.
Mrs. Whitehurst has appointed
Mrs. Harold v. Milligan of New
York chairman of the new national
defense department of the general
federation. The setup as outlined
will include committees for organ
ization, registration, Americaniza-
ton, housing, nutrition, nursing, in
dustry, agriculture, recreation, con-
sumner problems, aviation and stamps
and bonds.
Other new department chairmen
announced by the general federation
include Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley,
chairman Of legislation.
Evening star., 1941-06-03
Ecuador's Envoy
And Niece Return

The Ecuador Ambassador, Capt.
Eloy Alfaro, and his niece, Senor-
ita Eugenio Sosa Puig, have re-
turned to Washington from Sails
bury, Md, where they went Fri
day for the strawberry festival at
which the Ambassador crowned
his niece as queen. Serving as
her ladies-in-waiting were Senor-
ita Cristina Michels, daughter of
the Chilean Ambassador, and
Senor Don Rodolfo Michels, who
accompanied her to Salisbury,
and Senorita Lede Fernandez,
daughter of the Costa Rican Min
lister and Sonora de Fernandez,
who also were in Salisbury for
the festival.
Following the ceremonies a
dance was given in honor of the
Queen, which was attended by
her court and those who accom-
panied her to Washington. In
addition to the Ecuador Ambassa-
dor, Sonora de Sosa, mother of
the queen, and the First Secretary
of the Ecuador Embassy and
Sonora de Crespo were there.