The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 2, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire «Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 158. uncl Special Meeting Held This Afternoon; Pass Inspec- tor Ordinance On First Reading City Council met in special ses- sion this afternoon for the pur-'o¢ the death of Peter M. Miller, | Pose of approving the appoint- 'secretary-treasurer of the Tainpa | ment of the Zoning Board of Appeals by Mavor Willard M. Al- bury and te set-up an inspection system to service future calls to obtain building permits in zoned areas of the city. Makeup of the board as ap- Pointed by the mayor: Frank H. Ladd, John Allan Long, Ralph Russell, Joe Pearlman, J. Frank Fleitas, Judge Raymond R. Lord, Allan B. Cleare, Jr. The city’s chief executive's action was con- firmed by the council. The council passed on first reading an ordinance giving the mayor power to appoint a build- ing inspector on a fee basis, this person not to be the fire chief of the city. The qualifications of the in- spector are te include thorough experience with all types of con- struction work. Plans also call for a doubling of present permit fees to make the position more at- tractive to perspective applicants for the position. EATIN’ APPLE PIE IS GOOD WAY TO KEEP DOC AWAY (By Associated Press) BLACKSBURG, Va., July 2.— When you eat a slab of that delectable and popular Ameri- can favorite, apple pie, you in- crease your consumption of Vitamin C—the anti-scurvy sub- stance which is a good general ‘conditioner. Experiments at the Virginia Tech home economics depart- ment showed that apples cooked into pie retain more of their Vitamin C content than apples cooked any other way: 28 per cent for pie, as compared, to 22 per cent for fried apples and only 16 and 13 per cent, respectively, » for apple sauce and baked apples. Although cooking by any me- thod causes a loss of the greater part of the Vitamin C, Miss Mary J. Satorious found that this loss can be lowered by soaking the fruit in a two per cent salt water solution overnight before it is cooked. Apples contain less Vitamin C than many other fruits, but pro- vide a good source when eaten in relatively large amounts. Miss Satorius found that apples lose a significant amount of Vitamin C at ordinary cold storage tempera- ture of 40 degrees, but incur lit- tle or no loss if stored at 32 de- grees. 100,000 FOR CCC WASHINGTON. — The enroll- onment of 100,000 men began on July 1 to replace those who have | wondered, as a lot of people have |stead of trying to tell him how to} left to accept jobs, it has been an-} lately, what manner of man this run his business on the strength nounced by the Civilian Conser- vation Corps. BERMUDA MARKET announces ICE COLD WATERMELONS CALL FOR YOURS EARLY! For Your 4th of July Picnic we suggest PICNIC HAMS— lb, 15c. We have the best assortment of Cold Cuts! er WE WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY JULY 4TH —_—_—— White and Virginia Streets PHONE 52 | » ememmneneenenuenuneeeee! ling who once turned down a] | Approves Makeup Of Zoning Appeal Board PETER M. MILLER Was Well-Known Here DIES IN TAMPA i | Word was received here today | Electric Company, at Tampa, on ,June 16th. | Mr. Miller, who was 54 years jold, had been in poor health for imore than a year, succumbed at the St. Elizabeth’s Hospital where he had been taken for an opera- tion. He went to the Tampa utility in 1925 as assistant treasurer, having been connected previously :with the Gulf States Utilities Co., Beaumont, Tex., Savannah Electric and Power Co., Jackson- ville Traction Company and The Key West Electric Company. He was a native of Statesville, Ga. Mr. Miller was assistant treas- urer of The Key West Electric Company during the period 1910 to 1913 and was well-known toa great many people here. He had visited this city several times since his departure, his last visit being during 1939 when he and Mrs. Miller spent several days ‘here meeting old friends and go- ing on fishing excursions. “DROWNED” BOY SAFE GLENWOOD SPRING, Col—. While a number of persons were searching for his drowned body, Bob Similion, 13, walked into the searching group. Carried three- quarters of a mile by the swift current of the Colorado river, Bob managed to struggle, ex- hausted, to the shore. He had been given up for drowned. With Outspoken Manners Willkie Makes Friends | CORONER'S JURY INQUIRES INTO — ? { _ RAWLS’ DEATH |MANNER OF DEATH NECESSI:| | TATES IMPANELLING OF’ JURY; VERDICT EXPECTED! THIS AFTERNOON H H 1 ;jor part of the The death of William B. Rawls yesterday necessitated the sum- moning of a coroner’s jury to in-* vestigate into the cause of death and a verdict rendered as to the causes which led to his death fol- lowing the loss of his arm in an automobile accident that curred Friday morning when the car driven by T. Reid Lauter- bach crashed into a parked truck on Simonton street near Division. Other passengers in the car were Sergeant R. W. Carlton, of the Marine detachment, and Wil- liam G. L. Simper, of West Palm Beach. i Coroner Ex-officio Franklin Arenberg summoned the follow- ing to act: Frank ©. Roberts, foreman; James A. Curry, Simon Creole, Millard Gibson, Paul Boy-: sen and Frank Velasco. ; The investigation is-being con-| ducted by County Solicitor Allan: B. Cleare, Jr., while attending the inquest is Assistant District At- torney J. Laricelot Lester, At- torney Henry Taylor, Jr., repre-_ senting the surety company, and! Emmett A. Donnelly, of Lake Wales, friend of Mr. Rawls, andj of those who are connected with! the case. The investigation was brought to a temporary close at 12:10! o'clock today and met again for the afternoon session at 2:00 o'clock. j oc- By MORGAN M. BEATTY j (Associated Préss Feature One day back in 1937 when the New Deal utility scrap was mak- ing Washington weather stickier than usual, I had to get some in- formation about “Commonwealth & Southern, the big holding com- pany Wendell L. Willkie runs. A utility representative Washington said: “Sorry, I can’t speak for C. & S., but I'll pass on your ques- tions”. Then the phone rang. “This is Wendell Willkie”, said the voice, crisp like iceberg let- tuce. “But I didn’t know you were in Washington, Mr. Willkie”. “Tm not”, he snapped, “but when a reporter wants my side of this scrap, I'm ready to give jit to him. Shoot!” From his New York office iright next to Wall Street, Wen- 'dell Willkie rattled off his an- swers. “Call me any time”, he finish- ed. | And as I wrote my account I in Willkie was. He Surprises ‘Em All | Willkie’s the man who joked about a presidential boom while others were desperately trying to launch theirs. He's the fellow who actually shooed away able young men who | Willkie bring'down the moon, but finally failed to dissuade |. them. Segvice Writer) | farmer's daughter and her 150 acres of Iowa corn land. | | (A few ,weeks, ago, more than ‘a. quarter of da_@enfury jater, an Iowan told that story on Willkie jat a political rally. After the meeting, an elderly farmer step-' ‘ped up and asked the candidate jwhat year he had been a hobo {farm hand in Iowa. Willkie counted back for his inquirer. “Nope”, said the old fellow, “you ain’t the man; I'm looking for a [chap that didn’t exactly turn ‘down the farmer’s daughter”.) i Ousted The | Willkie’s the rough and tumble | Hoosier who went to New York a dozen years ago with a chip on his shoulder for bankers, and fired all but one out of Common- |wealth and Southern — swivel \chairs. Then he turned right. ;around and accepted an invita- ‘tion to lunch from a group of ; Morgan partners. a | } (They fooled him for fair. In-; lof their small stock holdings in‘ jhis company, they just talked, about flowérs. and the weather.! And there-sat Willkie with a use- And Wendell Willkie’s the man whose slim, lively wife had ra- ; anything else. jless chip on his shoulder.) j The biography broadcast from! jthe Willkie-for-Presdient head- | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, Che Kry Wes THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. §. A. TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1940 Not Found In Key West Area SUFFERERS OF PAIGN SHOULD START |NO-POLLEN COUNT SHOULD ATTRACT MANY MALADY; CAM- Comes the season when a ma- United States headlines all sorts of cures and things to do about hay fever. In about another month a_ certain portion of residents in almost every state in the nation will be- gin annual trekes to high-altitude resorts, where, it will be said, the pollen-count is very low and suf- ferers will, most surely, obtain instant relief from one of the most bothersome of all ills that beset mankind. A hay fever victim, all will re-; call, is susceptible to all the agon- ies of asthma and allied ills when he or she catches the first breath ! of air laden with pollen from that peckiest of all weeds, the rag- weed. Then—unless the degree | of the disease’s effects isn’t too much for them, or, as in some cases, they can‘t afford the lux- ury, victims go on a hunt for lo- calities where ragweed pollen is not present..___ Which all brings up the sub- ject of the absolute lack of pollen northern papers, starting around Beach, FLORIDA RETAIL — BUSINESS RIS |FIRST FIVE MONTHS TEN. PERCENT HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, July 2.— May sales of independent Florida retail stores showed an increase of 6.7 per cent to give the first five months of 1940 a 10.7 per cent gain over the same period last year, it was announced today by the Florida State Chamber of Commerce. Sales of the 280 Florida firms reporting reached a total of $3,- 218,033, according to the Bureau ‘of the Census, Department of Commerce, compilation, Chgtiber officials declared. ities covered in the compila- on “and their percentage of in- crease were: Tampa, 20,5; Pensa- State ‘cola, 14; Miami, 8.1; Jacksonville, 6.5; West Palm Beach, 5.6; Orlan- do, 5.1 and St. Petersburg, 5 per cent. Gains were shown in all but one of the city-size group- ‘ings. By business classifications, furniture stores led with an in- creae of 165 per cent. Other businesses and their rate of gain were: restaurants, 10.2; hardware stores, 10; drug stores, 9.4; de- partment stores, 8.9; lumber and building material dealers, 8.3; combination grocery and meat stores, 7.6; dry goods and general merchandise, 5.8; and motor ve- hicle dealers, 2.9 per cent. FOLLOWED ADVICE AND GOT THE JOB (ify Axsociated Press) GALVA, “Ti, July 2—Five years ago Soderberg. then 17 and a senior at the Galva high school, wrote to Walter Chrysler, the auto manufacturer, and asked him how he should go insisted on ther just stroll down the street about becoming an automobile | throwing up good jobs to helpjwith her husband than do Lope ease enroll in a good miechanical school, and if he could graduate He's the tobacco-chewing, fist- quarters is, in the words of Wil- in the top ten per cent he should slinging young man who once ‘liam Allen White, the slickest apply to the Chrysler company challenged the Bible on the cam-jliterary goose grease that has for a job. pus of Indiana University, about- ! burdened the second class mail inj jlofty hokum usually used to doll | ‘faced, listened to the Methodists, and ultimately chose the Episco- | palians. He’s the hobo with book learn- sometime. It |up a candidate, cheerfully paints (Continued on Page Four) | Willkie in his youth as Peck’s ‘his class and | Chrysler Soderberg received an neering degree sity of Ilinois ranked in engi- the Univer- _ fehecked the © city. P.j in Key West, with its sea-washed air, and the campaign, of a sort, | that has been going on here to! encourage victims of hay fever to | spend “their agony six weeks” | in this city. ! L. S. Gruber, proprietor of the | Overseas Hotel, called attention ' to the need for residents here to; continue the drive to attract hay fever sufferers to Key West when | he stated recently that he had; freceived many inquiries from! ‘northern people lately asking for; ‘rates during the hey fever weeks. | It is recailed that the Chamber | ,; of Commrece started such a drive ' ‘last year when cards were made! up to post in prominent places in! the city to remind winter tourists _that Key West was an ideal place in which to escape the disease. | Not many of those cards are in_ evidence today, as The Citizen: Also, the! ‘chamber did some advertising in | !the middle of July, calling atten- ition to the pollen-free atmosphere here. | Many noted sufferers of the} malady have come to Key West,’ among them Harry Hopkins and, jRexford Tugwell, former brain- , trusters. The Chamber of Com- : merce answers requests for in-~ ‘formation on the subject in this‘ | wise: “The secret of our immunity rests, we believe, on a sounder basis than just the mere absence of one sort of weed. The pre-j| vailing breeze ‘throughout the year is from the southeast, and; the nearest land in that quarter { is Andros Island and then Africa. “So, the air is washed pretty | clean by the time it gets here”. Inquirers are further directed to contact Dr. Wm. R. Warren for confirmation of the claims made in regard to positive relief from the “distressing malady”. IT’S JUST ONE MORE _ ELECTION TO PIERRE CITIZENS THIS FALL' (Ry Associated Press) PIERRE, S. D., July 2—Voters in this South Dakota capital will , be skillful ballot markers when November rolls around. They al- ready have been to the polls five times this year. A regular election was called: to fill a vacant mayorship. Com-} Commissioner Griffin kept his job to campaign. Griffin was elected mayor, but so many can- didates tried for Roberts’ com- missionership that Election No. 2/ was held to break the ties. In Election No. 3, city voters Participated in state primaries. } No. 4 was called when commis- :Sioner Oldaker resigned .to be- come police chief and Griffin re- Several tried for Griffin's com- mission job. One filed for Olda- ker’s and was e] But. again | None won a majority in the Grif- _ fin race, and No. 5 was held as @ run-off. Just to keep in trim, many residents here will be voting in the state Republican and Demo- ' \Brady’s 4th July Specials Fresh Florida Grade A EGGS, doz. titzrit AS Nazis Aid Rumania FLORIDA CITIES SHOW UPWARD BUILDING TREND STATE ‘CHAMBER . FIGURES SHOW 99 CITIES WERE $1.-| 750.000 AHEAD OF LAST YEAR IN MAY (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, July 2— Continuing their series of conse- cutive monthly gains, Florida building permits issued by 39 cities in May showed a gain of approximately $1,750,000 in com- parison with the same month a year ago, the Florida State Cham- ber of Commerce announced to- day. Total for the 39 reporting cities last month was $7,292,842, an in- crease of $1,736.247 over the fig- ure of $5,556,594 recorded for the same communities in May, 1939, the State Chamber said. Leading communities and their reports for the month are: Miami Beach $2,333,060; Miami $1,307,- 665; Jacksonville, $624,201; Ft. Lauderdale, $442,967; St. Peters- burg, $377,416; Tallahassee, $295,- 799; Orlando, $257,085; Pensacola, $220,005; West Palm Beach, $203,-' (By Anmociated Press) WASHINGTON, July 2 —Presi- dent Roosevelt gave approval to- day to Project number 40.454 pro- viding for an allocation of $1725.- 00 to employ WPA labor on work to code and index ordinances minitrative orders and regule tions of the City of Key West City councilmen explained to day that this project has been long sought in order that chaotec condition of the city’s ordimances and official documents may straightened out. A while back, such a project was started, but fell throug lack of city sponsorship. It is understood that the will earmark the prevailing sponsorship percentage of funds for this project and that work will proceed as soon as official word of the presidential ap- proval reaches the local area of fice. 887; Tampa, $178,067; Daytona | $175,480; Hollywood, $119,487; Palm Beach, $106,585. Other reporting municipalities and their totals follow: Lake Worth, $82,650; Key West, $69,600; Sarasota, $65,508; Se- bring, $58,820; Gainesville, $52,- 785; St. Augustine, $43,310; Lake- land, $36,687; Clearwater, $34,- 600; Winter Haven, $30,882; Vero Beach, $27,415; Winter Park $27,- | 226; Lake Wales, $24,065; Ocala, $16,681; DeLand, $16,650;. San- ford, $14,135. Jacksonville Beach, $13,225; New Port Richey, $10,300; Apop- ka, $1,025; Plant City, $8,400; Palatka, $7,598; Dunedin, $6,800; New Smyrna, $5,089; Leesburg, $2,486; Stuart, $2,250; Tarpon Springs, $1,250. Hull - (By Assoctated Preee) WASHINGTON, July 2—Hen- ry Stimson declared today that he was in favor of giving all pos- sible aid to the Allies im ther |war against the dictators with- Mr. Stimson was questioned in a public hearing being held by a joint-Congressional committee here on his appointment to serve as President Roosevelt's secretary .of war in the cabinet Farley Ticke Forecast ‘By (suessers By JACK (Associated Press Feature Serv WASHINGTON, July 2—From three widely divergent sources— none of them reliable—comes the conclusion that the Democratic ticket will consist of Cordell Hull, of the Pickett County, Tenn., Hulls, and James A. Far- ley, the wizard of Grassy Point @. Y.). The sources are: (1) A south- lerner who has for two genera- tions been an outstanding Jeader of Washington (2) A prominent New England Republican politi- cian. (3) A mid-western political observer without an axe to grind either way. STINNETT Weiter ‘have confidence. 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