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Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME L) o. 214, PWA Applications Are (O’Bryant Outlings Changes Returned; List Shows Keys Aqueduct Project Wm. inaicaniibiahias Of EXPECT RELIEF | Commission, States 2 RECERTIFIC ATION | HERE SEPT. 15. aes | ae | { 'DADE COUNTY GETS ORDERS; i ' apaty LOCAL OFFICE NOT HEARD | the return to the public of 5,043! | ther Contacts Are Being Made Announcement is made { a FECTED i 2pplications public works | ! Prejects has been started by the | Public Works Administration on | Aree Supeawiene Wallae= Shion and Employment Officer ‘Claude Gandolfo have not as yet ‘been notified as to when certifi- cation of Key West relief work- to‘ ers will be begun, although or- them this action was taken in ders have.con erder of Federal Works Adminis- | s traitor John M. Carmody. Applicants are being advised that as a matter of fairness e in for Dade coun- | ty relief recertification. { view of the adjournment of Con- : am om The 30-day “vacation”, which gress without providing for an was ordered for all relief workers extension of the PWA program. throughout the nation who had The 5.043 applications involved ; Peer epibloyed -coniauausly: for! requested grants of $766,803,691 1%, Wontne, ends Friday of next and loans amounting to $242,445, Broward and Collier counties’ re- | 063. The total estimated ida The Kry THE SOUTHRERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1939 eat Cittizrn Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit | DEFINITELY YET; 400 AF-,1 ;sciences for the senior cient history will be continued | next Monday. ;dutch treat. there were a number of very in- {teresting matters discussed, prin- BACKGROUND OF THE WAR Digest Of War News From All Fronts { ( i Principat Horace O’Bryant xan year but will be dropped pects an enrollment of around 'dropped next year. American 720 on Monday at the opening of ‘history will be changed to the FOOD ores ene UP Key West High School for the/1lth grade. Sociology will .be| Although. President Roosevelt | 1939-40 term which will be the|taught for the first time. To- S#id that he would stop sky-| largest enrollment recorded in/gether with civics it will be '¢keting of American food prices the school. ;taught in the 12th grade. at present, it remains certain} New teachers who will be at, Commercial bookkeeping will that food’ will rise to some ex, the High School this year will be be taught also this year. There ‘ent. There has been no genera i John R. Offutt who will teach (will be several smaller changes. ;@dvance in clothing and shoe | 8th grade history and coach var-; Two beautiful plaques by the Prices throughout the country. i sity basketball and baseball; Miss Federal Art Project, one of the Retail food price boosts through- | Juanita Lewis who will coach/seal of the United States and Ut the country are somewhat as/ the girls’ basketball team and another of the great seal of Flor- follows: Flour up $2 a barrel, teach eighth grade mathematics; ida have been placed in the large S¥U8@r up $1.50 hundred pounds, | C. H. Mains, who will teach me-‘room upstairs of senior high. {beef up 5c pound, pork up 7-8! chanical drawing and wood-! Experiment has been tried on, Cents, butter 2 cents, lard _5c,! working. All of them have ar-/the floor of the central hallway |Cooking oil 35¢ per gallon, chick- | ‘ived for the school year. W. E.| with floor sealing applied as aj€MS 3c more per pound. In many | Fowler will take over senioz high |safety measure to guard against Cases hoarding and great de-j duties. He taught at Junior High j splints. If it is successful it will Mand by housewives are blamed | last year. - |be placed on, all floors. for shortages and high prices. | Among the changes in curri-; Improvements have been noted ; culum are those in the social’ in the water system of the phys- {CIVILIAN SNIPING ! high jics and 8th grade s ence room,! Civilian sniping is quite a prob- , school. World history will be repairs to the plumbing system, ‘lem for the Germans in Poland. taught for the first time and will! and two new drinking fountains. ; The Poles, notoriously a high tem- | come in the 10th grade. Modern! All public grade schools ‘in Peted people, wait until they get | history will be discontinued. An-| Monroe county will also open 890d shots then blaze away mer-, rily and effectively at German | | troops: capturing towns. Sniping ; Saath Be gradually cleaned up in cap- {tured towns by the troops. Re- ports that Germans are respecting | Polish shrines are coming |through. Homage was given at 'Pilsudski’s grave, and the fa- nous black madonna in Jasna-! }gora monastery in Czestochowa thas not been harmed. German | sion that all the news being re- troops at the front find loud {ceived at the Chamber of Com- speakers entertain them with mu- merce was by no means bad, as sic. A certain amount of war; it was stated that Mayor Willard "°WS is broadcast the soldiers and | 3 im-one case there ‘is a newspaper | M. Albury wrote a fruitful letter ‘printed and distributed over a} to A. L. Winn, Division Plant | 30-mile area. Superintendent of the Western : ies |Union Telegraph Co., relative to GERMAN LEADERS ithe people of the company from: VENTURESOME | Key West to Big Pine Key. |_ Members of Adolf Hitler's cab- | An answer was received by the inct are all venturesome men of mayor in which Mr. Winn grants dynamic action, which may ex-| ,to Key West permission to sal- plain in part the craving for ac- vage any of the telegraph poles; tion always evident among pres- between the. head of the island ent German leaders. Hermann! | and the Key, the piles to be used Goering was a war ace and com-} jin the work of transferring Gar- manded the famous Richthofen | rison Bight into a yacht basin. squadron. Rudolf Hess was a} ‘The poles provide some much war veteran, who was an aviator | needed material. lin a Bavarian regiment. Served | a ise uray wie Meee _--.__.; prison term with Hitler. Wiil-' helm Frick, police administrator, | {took part in Hitler’s beer cellar j NYA OPENINGSFOR FISH CATCHES si s="itiuch teri, COLORED YOUTHS ARE REPORTED of artillery at outbreak ' Commerce Body Directors Enjoy Luncheon Meeting Board of directors of the Cham- ber of Commerce held a luncheon meeting yesterday at the Hotel La Concha, and the brilliancy of the affair was marred only by the knowledge that it was a In. spite of »this. cipally on the IntracoastaT Water- way. It was apparent during the luncheon that food and fluent conversation go very well, to- gether, and it was unanimously decided that it would be a fine idea to invite the members of the Monroe County Commissioners to join in one of these seances at an early date. It was stated during the ses- of World War, is interested in: {mechanical side of war. Walther! (Funk surprised the world with! the ability with which he filled , the place of Hjalmar Schacht, re- ; !tired German financial genius. | {Is an unconventional economist. | |Hans Heinrich Lammers, who {knows Polish problem, was law- | lyer, judge and war veteran. Lit-| itle wonder German leaders were 9.—A ‘all for war. APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE | PERTAINS TO NON-FOOD AS: | MADE TO VICTOR LOWE, | WELL AS EDIBLE AREA SUPERVISOR FISH (Special to The Citizen) A ding to advices received Seen | TALLAHASSEE, Sept. i { | PRICE FIVE CENTS Both Sides Release Conflicting Reports Anent Warsaw's Fall * i (iy Associated Press) BULLETINS LONDON, Sept. 9.—Contradictory reports come from Germany and Poland today as to whether Warsaw has (By Associated’ Press) | fallen. SHANGHAI.—The cost of food | inne ohana ncoat Settlement that a German broadcast was sent out from Warsaw as has greatly increased in the last | few days. | Proof. Germany reports its capture and points to the fact WASHINGTON.—F urthe | Polish spokesmen in London deny this. They claim plans against profiteering are be- that Germany has becn Yepulzed on their attack on War- ing pushed by President Roose- | : E i velt. |saw. They state that the radio broadcast was a trick, with NEW YORK.—Admiral Byrd has decided to push ahead on his Antarctic Expedition despite the fact that the Coast Guard Ship Norhland has been taken from his list of vessels. ithe same wave length as that of Warsaw used. Hermann Goering, Germany’s No, 2 man, said that | Poland would fall over the weekend, whereupon Germany would send a million men to its eastern front to defend it- celf against France. Goering said this defense would be OTTAWA.—Terrific _profiteer- ing is reported in Canada in food | and other industries. Urgent de- | mands have been sent to Prmier' MacKensie King of Canada to stop the practice: ROSH HASHONO SERVICES TO BE CONDUCTED | Protest to England. AT LOCAL SYNA- England meanwhile appropriated $2,500,000,000 for GOGUE Military preparations in Canada are very strong. On France’s western front great praise was being given the Moroccan group, attired in their red pantaloons, |for gallant fighting in the Saar region. The French have | Pushed fotward through the woods near Saarbrucken. From Belgium come reports that a Belgian plane was shot dewn when it forced an English bomber to land on | flying over its neutral soil. Belgium will send a vigorous | military purposes. being rushed to the limit although Canada has not as yet Celebration of Rosh Hashono, | exitered the .war. % f the Jewish New Year, will begin | ar ; diatel: on the eve of the first day of the | Britain announced that she would ets HER y 5 yéar, 5700, on Wednesday, Sep-|taliate against submarine sinkings by inctituting a stiff tember 13. The holy day falls} . A hi . | ontraband cargoes. on: the first. day of Tishri, the eee to seize all chips carrying contra! carg' seventh month in the Jewish cal-| Thus far. eight British ships, one Dutch, one Greek and | ore 3 _ |one French ship have been sunk in the war. . Services in connection with} this event will be held. at the | local Jewish Synagogue. New Year and Atonement | Day, the holy day which occurs! ten days later, differ from most | Jewish festivals in that they were } Tortugas Boat Crew jnot the outgrowth of old nature of NYA,|total of 178,000,000 pounds of | , non-food fish, used in a large va-; STRANGE WAR It is a very strange battle in! costs |lief workers may apply for re- of the : returned in Florida amount to Offices. loans of $16,016,700 and grants of | It is believed that orders to f soon be given for Monroe coun- L f $43 outlay of $43,552,982. ty. There are.400. Key. ‘West re- been returned is the one for the j pipeline to Key West entailing of $1,700,000, a total in all of $3,- | been made for any of these proj- Saeed ects, a large percentage of them : engineernig, finance |Command of Captain G. Cameo divisions, and would |Olsen, left last evening 6 o'clock mendation for allotment __ of | Indies. ; \ funds had been available, Mr.|, The vessel arrived Wednesday | The Citizen in conversation awaiting orders, which were re- with Wm. Doughtry of the Flor- ceived yesterday by the Porter aid that the commission is not | ‘ain and preparations were made / yet in receipt of its returned ap- | fF sailing. pipe line from Florida City to|Waiting for the arrival of the Key West; however, the return Raila, that the submarine was; cause of no funds being set aside ble commotion in shipping cir- | f the projects during the re-|Cles, of Key West. Captain Ol- cent session of Congress nS 3 : proper procedure on the part of | Raila’s personnel, denied having , in order that all applicants Sethe rte Atom. Joe An oe ee seek other means of financ- SCOUT TROOP | path: Aauineeae uggested by Mr. Carmody in HOLDS SESSION his letter to applicants. | Mr. Doughtry continued with | the statement “until our applica-| tion has been returned and we are in receipt of it no definite statement as to the course we will pursue is deemed advisable. We have, projects which are being certification to the Miami WPA $19,598,519 or a total estimated St#" recertification Friday will Among the projects which have: lief ‘workersaffeeted. | { | a grant of $1,390,909 and a loan! MER LEFT ' Though allotments had not} had been passed favorably by Norwegian Steamship Raila, in have been in a position for recom-|for Aruba, Netherlands, West , Carmody indicates. from Montreal, Canada, and was Keys Aqueduct Commission | Dock Co., delivered to the cap- | plication for construction of the) It was pilots from Key West of this application and others be-|S€en and which caused consider- for is the |SeM, Officeryand members of the the Public Work Administra- Sen the submersible. \ ing their projects as had been ithose colored youths wishing to |_ The weekly meeting of Troop 54, B. S. A. was held in the! ) Stone Church Annex 7:30 Friday » evening. however, pursued in-| ‘The meeting opened with the vestigations regarding private fi- | Lord’s Prayer and the Scout nancing cf this project, the suc- | Oath, cess of which will be determined| The troop charter which was_ largely by the economic condi-| received last Wednesday was tions in this country due to the passed around by Scoutmaster present European War. We wish George Saunders. { | make application for training at the A. and M. and Bethune-Cook- man colleges should apply to! Victor Lowe, area supervisor. | It is expected these will be open by September 15 or 20 as it will take several days to make selections from those applying and it will also be necessary for applicants to take the physical examination required. Youths are urged to make their applica- tions at once. Some of the courses offered at the Bethune-Cookman College —— oe come EY | europe. The French and Eng-! |commercial fishermen in Florida lish, it would appear, have mad¢i |waters during the last year, Su-/no really- concerted attempts to | pervisor of Conservation R.° L. ‘smash the Siegfried line, especial- | Dowling reported today. Most oan ae aes matter igrdaprenail x z _iwith Poland fighting on the other | Ant ee ee SS {side of Germany is evident. They | haden. a have been besieging the German! The total was in addition to people with pamphlets, instead, | more than 100,000,000 pounds of perhaps as a greater _strategy.! edible fish caught during the Mussolini has not entered the! same period, according to |war, presumably because Italy, | 4 jboth on land and at sea, cannot! servation department reports. ‘he defended against France while ; “The same producing belt of she could be of service in giving | salt waters which almost sur- supplies to Germany as a neu-| iround Florida contributed this, tral. There are rumors Canada | ; . ** : will do th x ermany | are home économics, including ee Labo or ane ae sped. \keeps bophusiaing et Pecans cooking-sewing maid service and! 274 the catching and selling of ‘only “thinks she is at war with allied services. These trainings N°?-Cdible fish is regulated by |Germany”. There are rumors a will be stressed and in addition °°"S*?¥ation law the same as for}pecae after Poland is ee cert therd "Wilk be other subjects, euch food fish taken for the nation’s ee < waite as hotel planning and_ service, ' ™@tkets”. tines, Eger which ‘bear relation to this class! Shark fisheries on both coasts of activity. | utilize these fish in manufactur- SUFFER FOR A FOURTH ‘ing shark liver oil, leather from ——-_ ' con- jendar the days at the beginning. {preparation for a new year of festivals or based upon historic events. In ancient times, there; was but one holiday in the fall, the harbest festival. After the! exile in Babylonia, this holiday { was divided into three distinct holidays but by the time the sec- | ond Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, the New Year festival | became marked with the same/ idealism and c2remony that are prevalent today. While Liberal Jews celebrate one day of Rosh Hashono accord- ing to the original plan, Orthodox and Conservative Jews celebrate two days. Observation of a two- day festival began when it was Capt. Alex Brun of the Dept. of a gray color, but did not look of Interior Tortugas supply boat, like an ordinary boat. That seen “F. W. Meade” and crew report is believed to be the conning seeing a strange craft believed to tower of the sub. be a submarine on Thursday| This story affirms that of mem- morning around 10 o'clock just|bers of the Pilot Boat Three inside the sea reefs off Rebecca.;which saw the same sight at The Meade was further inshore dawn Thursday morning when it toward Rebecca. went out to meet the Norwegian The Meade was broken down tanker, Sige wcglingerger ape a4 i i and had to be towed into Key West port for orders. is woul Saas donee Seem Wee by the Coast Guard later place the sub about forty miles Palestine of the date of the holi.|0- The “strange vessel” had the from Key West five hours after day. The two-day celebration |#PPearance of a rectangular box it was sighted off this port. was, therfore, introduced as a safeguard. . More serious in. mood than other holidays in the Jewish cal- |FIGHT, AND FIRES camry ORAPEZA FAMILY VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 9. | |—Joe Louis either has to make of the year stress the moral re- sponsibility of the ‘individual. They are days for meditation and the public to know that we are It was brought up that Mr. actively engaged in following | Doughtry and Mr. Daniels have up this, which we feel to be of |iots to be cleaned and offered uch vital importance to Key the jobs to two scouts. Scouts West and the Florida Keys”. Jimmy Singleton and Harold Se Sands took the jobs. H SCOUT: TROOP The meeting closed with the Great Scoutmaster’s Benedic- COMING BACK" County Prison Guard Leroy | Torres is expected to arrive in the city early this with members of Boy Seout Troop 52, who had been in camp Snapper Creek, about four miles west of Miami. Scout Committeeman Chas. Taylor Wednesday night was granted permission by the coun- ty commissioners to use the truck | and at once made arrangements! with Guard Torres to have the vehicle in readiness. All necessary matters were at- tended to and yesterday he left with the truck to spend the night | at Snapper Creek and leave this morning for Key West, afternoon | at) | 800 Simonton St. {the shark skins, novelties from! WICHITA, Kas.—“All Kale need | ! ‘mow is a fourth for bridge”, said iMrs. Al Klenda when she came | lout of the anesthetic and looked ! | around. In the same hospital FILED IN COURT EXAMINATION a the eyes and teeth, and a food delicacy from the fins, most of ; which is exported to China. | The menhaden fish is taken in 'nets in large quantities on both Suit for divorce was filed yes-| terday in the office of Clerk Ross; C. Sawyer of Circuit Court by! ‘Fernando Martinez against Sarah! Flatt Martinez. \the civil service board, is today commerce, as well as the fer- Pee {conducting a civil service ex- tilizer elements that come from (amination in the rooms at thé.the flesh after it is pressed and jfederal building for the position Processed into meal. jot Engineer Aid, Top Grade. i Large fleets of boats and sev- : | As far as can be learned there eral hundred persons are em- Available For Full 24 Hours was but one applicant for the ex- phys regularly in fishing for R Ys § VICE amination, and Mr. Aldary ex-| and menhaden, and the Phone 444 | Would be concluded early in the Car Trouble After Hours? GUARANTEED PARTS AND SERVICE 1 chief resources of the state’s vast jafternoon. expanse of salt waters, Raymond Albury, member of Coasts, and oils are extracted for| bier lif his fights Jast’ lone ¥ Mr.-and Mrs. Jose Orapeza othe Bio jhis Sante er or ¥an-| wish to announce the arrival of "shy is) resid AS he i toes sas epee services | sidents have to refrain! two-pound boy last night at One explanation of this custom |{om turning in alarms during | 19:45. The new arrival has been with her were her husband and |} that its sound will call the broadcasts of championship’ given the name of Daniel Ora- broth: enry A people to God. Special prayers | bouts. oe all me ast coda (ate recited on Rosh Hashono. | When Louis fought Jack Roper, i trouble. 7 Though primarily a day cele-}Vancouver firemen settled back brated in the synagogue, the New | to listen and a lumber yard blaze | Year is also a time for family|started. Before they got back Mother and son are reported ‘Dance Tonight —at— Pena’s Garden Of Roses No