The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 5, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 135. 1 940—500th Anniversary FETES OF PRINTING In every part of the civilized world not torn by the horror of War and the screaming requiem of shells, there is being celebrat- Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, Overseas Highway Tolls ed this year the 600th Anni- versary of the invention of print- ing by Johann Gutenberg. At Strasbourg and at Mainz, Germany, the two cities sharing the honor of being the birthplace of the invention of printing with movable types, which makes pos- | sible your reading of what is on} this page, the least of the world-! wide celebration is taking place.;, ANNOUNCES ANNUAL Strasbourg now lies in French! territory near the Maginot Line, | and Mainz, where the inventor! was born, id now in German ter-; ritory, just behind the Siegfried | Line. Blackouts as a precaution. | ary measure against air-raid at- tacks are the order of the night! Major E. V. Garcia, Florida! in these shrine cities of the print-| National Guard, in command of! ed word. {the Second Battalion of the 265; Workshop Dismantled | Regiment, C. A. C, was a visitor } Cabled attempts to get new in the city yesterday .and last: photographs of the reconstruc- night and inspected Battery Ej tion of the Gutenberg workshop | Unit of the Battalion. Other units in Mainz, according to Douglas|@T€ Battery D of Daytona Beach} C. McMurtrie, chairman in 4nd Battery F of Miami. t charge of the 500th anniversary! The major said that he found! celebration for the International everything in perfect condition Association of Printing House ,Te8arding personnel and _ equip- NATIONAL GUARD UNIT INSPECTED BY MAJ. GARCIA) ! LOR FROM JULY 7 TO 27:! 900 MEN TOTAL H i | Craftsmen, have been met with|Mment and told Captain W. Curry VOOM OM Oe a. Harris that he was pleased to a reply that the workshop has'® “. been dismantied and stored in awe battery-in such excel-} bomb-proof cellars, a 4 Z es The inventor was born of an During the inspection Major aristocratic family in Mainz, the |Gareia nie: Se ppURS present-day scene of war hys- that the encampment this year of | teria, about the year 1400. Strife the regiment would be, as usual, is nothing new to the city of i Key West at Fort Taylor res- Mainz. Because of an uprising ervation. It will consist of three} of tradesmen and craftsmen headquarters batteries and seven against the aristocrats, Guten-| firing batteries and the regi- berg, during his early manhood, Tov yo ahy 97 onthe, Tal | bon sry ae Bee a See together there will be between eae about a hundred mies 300 and 900 officers and men in} According to authentic docu- eee | mentary evidence, Gutenberg was engaged in experiments with movable types at Strasbourg as early as 1436. It was not until about the year 1440, however, that Gutenberg produced mov- able types that could practicably be used. Latin Grammar The inventor returned to his native city of Mainz shortly aft- er his printing process was per- fected. His earliest work, con- trary to popular belief, was not the “Gutenberg Bible”, but it included seventeen _ successive eflitions of a little Latin, used by ‘evéry school bor during PAYMENT MADE TO, FUNDS OF TEACHERS, |COUNTIES RECEIVE MONEY AND PROMISE OF FULL | PAY ASSURED | | | (Special to The Citizen) ment with distribution today of | $671,766.30 to county the middle ages. se “When Gutenberg, after return- boards from the State Teachers | ing to Mainz, started work on Salary Fund, according to an} the first celebrated Gutenberg |@announcement here today by | Bible, which appeared about State Superintendent English. | 1455, he was forced to borrow The announcement said that} large sums of money from Johann the unpaid balance of $1,343,- Fust, a Mainz capitalist, to fi- | 532.59 due the counties is sched- | nance the production 'of the book. Uled to be paid in part on July; The inventor was unable to re- || and to be met in full before! pay the loans and Fust foreclos- State and county books are clos- ed, forcing Gutenberg out of the ¢d for the fiscal year about July business. Today’s distribution includ- ed a transfer by Governor Cone! of $225,000 from the expense| fund of the Motor Vehicle. Li-| cense Department. } Began Over Following the suit, Gutenberg set up another smaller ; shop, where his work. is believed to have included the printing of an- other Bible which was complet- ed about 1460. As a_ business man, however. Gutenberg was! never an outstanding success. In his declining: years, the: in-} ventor of printing was granted a} pension by. the: Archbishop ‘!of} a j Mainz which enabled him ta live {¥, Commissioners, the first of in modest comfort. At. Guten- “ane 9 J eRe for to-} berg’s death early in’ 1468, his | Die! 00 o'clock in the office} = * of Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, and press and equipment were claim- many matters of importance are ed by a friend who had bought | to te haeniied po | a Among the things to be handled | $00 Years Since lare payment of clerks, inspectors | The 500 years from 1440 to'and other employes at the polls! 1940 have brought many revolu- in the primary elections of last } tionary inventions—photography, month, for which special ar-| the turbine, the electrig light, the rangements were made at a radio, the automobile and the meeting last Saturday when a airplane—but perhaps none of jtransfer of $1,080 was requested | thera have been responsible for 'from the comptroller from the! such, tremendous cultural and so- Indebtedness Fund to the (Continued on Page Two) leral Revenue Fund. COUNTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT EN FEATURED IN LIONS’ MAGAZINE} Current issue of the Lions Magazine, official organ of Lions International. cir- culated to over 3,000 clubs throughout the nation, con- tains a feature story and pic- ture of the Key West Lions Club clubhouse, now called the “Lions Den”, situated on Seminary street. The article related about dedicatory exercises held on April 18th at which District Governor Roscoe Brunstetter was the speaker. An editorial from The Citi- zen commenting on the per- formance of the local club was also quoted, in part, in the article. |LATE NEWS BULLETINS: (Ry Axnociated Prenny $4,000 Higher In May PO OOO OMA UPWARD TREND CON- | TINUES. WITH FISCAL PERIOD. WELL OVER | LAST YEAR’S BUSINESS | | Tolls on the Overseas Highway jduring the month of May dupli- | j¢ated the figures for the preced- ;ing month when the totals again | \showed an approximate $4,000 in- ‘crease over the corresponding | month last year. according to a | report of the month's business just released by auditor Clifford i | | With a total of 6762 autos ‘passing through the gates north {and south bound during May, the total collections were $14,532.50, _jcomparing with 5336 autos for May 1939 and collections of $10,- 1781.75. The increase each month dur- ‘ing this fiscal year has brought |the total collections for the dis- WASHINGTON, June 5. — up to $186,120.75, Naval Affairs sub-committee of more trict for the nine months period or. $10,852.94 corresponding than the the House of Representatives to- | period’s total last year. ‘day turned down a proposal to! jaid the Allies with all planes now the district need -collect only ‘existent in this country and with $25,888.81 during the any other needed supplies, by a' three months of the fiscal vote of 21 to 2. June 5.—Ob- servers here were of the opinion that a revamping of the British cabinet was in the offing. The new move Is said to include ousting of f A Z LONDON, Wood, Lord Halifax, Sir John Simone and others. | NEW YORK, June 5.—The| United Garments Union voted; In session there to return to the American | cig eee aaa ae Federation! of Labor Union fol-| Comptroller Lee to Florida teach- |!owing approximately three years- | tammar |€s is virtually‘ assured of fulfill- | @ffiliation with the C.LO. unanimously today WASHINGTON, June 5.— Congress today prepared ito enact laws—and passed over first legislative hurdles— which would tend to prevent any foreign nations from erward. Such moves would be considered violations of the Monroe Doctrine. PARIS, June join in a campaign TOP HONOR STUDENT Meeting of the Board of @ WRITES. WITH TOES |», detachable celluloid cuffs. | (By Associated Press) PUEBLO, Colo.. June 5— a i I E él pth flies deny! al Bikes £8 | i “Vee eeeNe es To keep even with last year remaining year jending next September, as the jtotal for the full period during | 1938-1939 was $212,009.56. This would be an average of a little jover $8,000 for each of the next WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1940 ‘OFFICE NOW LOCATED IN ROOM 130° IN POSTOFFICE| BUILDING: LIEUT. COMDR. MURPHY LEAVING A labor board has been estab- jlished at the Naval Station in’ Key West, with ‘he following jmembers: Commander G. B. Hoey, N. S. N., retired as senior i i ;member; Commander R. B. Black- | jwell, M. C. U. S. N,, as medical | officer; and members Lee M.! Pierce, John B. Watkins, N. Os-| terhoudt and Mrs. Cordelia R.} gland Schroder, acting recorder. | Tanks At Fast Rate | The office of the board has! ibeen located in Room 130 in the| - ;Postoffice building, where all ap-i |plications should be made for em- ‘AMERICAN iployment, and all information! ,concerning employment is made | / available. t | Heretofore the applications for; employment and all of the neces- | sary information regarding same} was handled by the labor board, in Charleston, S. C. Navy Yard. | (By Associated Press) ’ The establishment of the board; LONDON, June 5—Observers here does away with all waiting _ for orders from Charleston and i England today reported that all questions will be answered at factories in several cities were ‘the recorder’s office... j It was stated this morning at ‘¥rming out tanks in great num-| the naval: station that advices bers, : : had been received that another, = - ‘member of the force of workers | American auto‘line methods at the station will be added in| Were evident in the tank produc- the person of Munay L. Mil-;tion, the war-machines being lander, electrical armature wind-| “Punched out” in steadily in- er from Centerville. Alabama, creased streams which indicates who will arrive at the station on that the near-future British army June 12. will be well equipped to fight a Lieutenant Commander W. J. mechanized war. : Murphy, who was assigned to, Acre on acre of the finished Key West for the purpose of as-, tanks are awaiting shipment to sisting in getting the station Various coast cities for use of working on an industrial basis,,home guard troops. Others are said this morning that every- ‘labelled for shipment to ports thing has been accomplished to| Where they will be trans-shipped that end and he will leave to-|to France, Mediterranean and morrow afternoon, going back to |colonial points in Africa. Charleston Navy Yard from! Rothermeré To Canada AUTO - LINE "BOBS Ii ASA s. METHODS ARE EM- NAZIS HAVE 600,008 PLOYED; TO EVAC- UATE CHILDREN dadet i! i ! byt i [ fE i | . | pel i 5.—Observers | Wright, the Dayton bicycle mak- here heard reports today that er. | Mussolini and Hitler may soon frail against mount. He tinkered with wrench-| France on the southern frontiers. CDM IODA ID! j H siselif fig? iwhich station he was ordered. Lord Roithermere, prominent —_—_—_.---_______-________ [publisher of London, is reported on his way to a visit with Cana- dian officials in Ottawa. It is be- lieved that the trip is being made jto institute pleas for a more) {vigorous co-operation with the ° |Mother Country on the part of | (Continuea on Page Four) U.S. PROVED THAT PLANES COULD FLY, | i | ; beh | i | | | | hndbdk bbbh h d EUROPE: PROVED THEY ‘COULD’ FIGHT “2 ='ss0'smvcr: Weapon Of Destruction Had Innocent: Beginning Canadians. | trip to visit with President Reose- | By MORGAN M. BEATTY eee eee | It was also reported that jvelt at the White House in Wash- (Associated Press Feafure Serviee Writer) Evacuate Children War department heads ‘here | 5.—It ; oil for a 125-mile flight, and took a = —_ are being | ichi. _ }conside: evacua’ a large, ‘aloft two persons weighing to- percentage of British chi to! |either Canada or Australia. More ment handed over $25,000 Con- | information on that move which gress had promised for the first is being considered in the light | -Jovial, 800:pound President Sean airplane. And a thrilling of — danger ot is William Howard Taft swapped ‘°#, Was over. expect Shortly, it was an- ~ i Little did anybody at Fort; nounced. stories with spangled aides, dip- M 2 : _/ Myer that day in 1908 dream — lomats in the heat of a Septem that 32 ye later mili 8 =TR 1 WASHINGTON, | was a gala day. Top hats, striped pants, para- gether 350 pounds. The govern- sols, uniforms, medals, dotted the Fort Myer (Va.) | grounds. f June training ‘By Aamectated Press) LONDON, June 5—Pull re form of attack. now known the blitzkrieg. was ber afternoon. = A ae y _! would be doing 500 miles an ciee he ata big to fly MY-, hour, and nations would _ boast! | # 3 2 ile | Steat winged fortresses with can-} But all this was lost on Orville \nori sticking out of their cat '2,000-pound demolition bombs! | dangling below. Five years before the Fort My- i jer show, the Wright brothers, Or-|Peiree, Jr., of Boy Scout Se Sees and et nine e'n ville and Wilbur, invented their|No. Si, that the t ce piece of string from his pocket, airplane. Influenced by a news-|meet at the Wesley Half next he solemnly tied on his Ge ee — by him “oe sant, t i ke pa3 : id be : } a wes > = {peeled off his coat and shucl ed | Lilienthal, the Wrights absorbed | at ‘Othe | bei ini < # id, ago. a Orville Wright climbed |'>¢ history of attempted tight | Mention of this week, Scouts | St that unleashed — j = 2s e vial clim! @' from 232 B.C., when Archimedes |Lou Smith and Richard Barbier |@#tacks on Poland jest Sepaem- | peneirs je chains levers and Wrote laws governing bodies {received their first-class pins. |ber. and, later on Norway a “eee {floating inl liquids and gases. The!Tommy Dion received his sec-|the low countries German |” “Leet “er go". he wai Wrights felt their predecessors |ond-class pin, while Walter Price |erals who | 2 : had mastered one or the other of |and Eugene Berkowitz received } oa oe die oes a the two great principles of fligh’ it | advanced merit badges. e Hi sd but that no man had mastered; Troop projects for the near fu- |plane headed for the sky. There both. \ture were discussed at the meet- |was nary a weapon aboard, nor! So the Wrights designed their ing. |yet a place to mount one. For- airplane to carry power and con-/ -—— |eign observers were astonished trol. Those who went before ei-) SCOTTY LOSES WHISKERS by the speed of the thing and ‘ther had power plants too heavy, ; | |the control Americans cheered, |or no power plants worthy of the, TULSA, Okla—Mrs. Harry W. |glowed with pride. jname. 5 |Nelson is wondering who kid- The Wright plane made sev-' On Kitty Hawk hill the Wrights | napped her Scotch terrier and, fore returning him, shaved His sole concern was the crate he was about to it ino ; g! rt fi eral flights that day, traveled 40 had combined power and control. | miles an hour, carried fuel andi (Continued On Page Four) ‘his whiskers. : ; . i ii {i i rt Au ! : i f