The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 6, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 187. Of Annihilating Action To Come EXAMS NOW OPEN Spread Devastation) FOR CIVIL SERVICE OFFICE WORKERS ;JUNIOR AND SENIOR STENO- i High Command States! Planes Are Poised To} Over England (By Associated Press) LONDON, Aug. 6.—High com- | mand officials of the Nazi army today warned that the British are i in for “some new methods of. PLICATIONS MUST BE IN NOT LATER THAN AUG. 15 (Special to The Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 6. by Hitler, probably this weekend —Civil Service Commission has —methods that will spell “fright- unexpectedly called an examina- tion for Junior and Senior Steno- warfare” when the word is given! ful and annihilating devestation” graphers and Junior and Senior} to the English countryside and Typicts, applications to be filed not later than August 15th. i The register to be established the Ger-|@S @ result of these examinations : will be for work in the District man officials stated that initial o¢ Columbia and applications plans called for high-powered may be had through postmasters in home cities or from the U. S. Civil Service Commission of this war to date with as many as 500 city. planes at a time to be hurled The first examinations in three ‘ 2 5 years for the above category of gm Sigtensiers .. covering work were héld in May of last e year and it was then the con- Nazis claimed that in-'sensus that there would be no vasion plans were complete.!more examinations of that char- Planes, they stated, are poised in acter for several years. two or three score concentration _ The defense council, however, side: Acs thee wlanbine temdly Sox has requested that an additional - = District register be established, instant duty will surprise the and the announcement has been world, they added. released for the examinations. Great variance existed in re- ports issued by both belligerents concerning British shipping loss- es. In a recapitulation since the outbreak of hostilities almost a year ago, the Nazis claimed to have sunk a total of 5,000,000 tons of Allied ships. England rid- iculed that total today, asserting that the total would reach no = s =. higher than 1,200,000 tons. The Ae Sonkeen aeeen ee latter loss was nearly offset, the; WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—The British asserted, with new ships Washington scene has changed floated in the meantime. more rapidly since the Chicago Skirmishes broke out in in- convention than in any similar creased volume on the Italian- period since the New Deal took British frontiers today, large- over in 1933. scale action being reported near Three administration Egyptian strongholds and in Su- wheel horses in the dan areas. Indications pointed to party who have simultaneous efforts to advance here sorhe time, have departed. against the British, coincident There is some possibility that a with the German effort against fourth will follow. It'll never be the British Isles. the same Washington without Diplomats here paid increasing \“Big Jim” Farley, “Cactus Jack” attention to Russia's latest move|Garner, “Lou” Johnson, nor for expansion when dispatches | without Paul McNutt, if he goes from Moscow stated that the So-|home too, as some of his friends viets were still dissatisfied with jsay he will. reports from Finland concerning! Most missed perhaps will be alleged mistreatment of Russian | Farley, the big genial fellow who minorities in that little Baltic came down with “The Boss” in country. 1933, parked at the Postmaster It was agreed in some quarters General's desk and for seven that the Soviets may take advant- years gave all he had to the twin age of present world conditions | jobs of seeing that the mail went to push further territory claims; through and keeping the Demo- against the Finns, this at vari- cratic party machinery running ance to treaty terms of peace smoothly. made early this year, bringing Farley will be hard to replace. an end to the two-month Finnish- Target of all the abuse of Repub- Russian war. licans and anti-New Deal Demo- French officials hurried a_de-/'crats, he stood the potshots with- nial of any trouble in one of her out a whimper. Pacific ocean island possessions, Garner Career Over? New Caledonia. That colony was Farley's split with the Presi- reported to have issued decreesident over the third term was concerning a desire-to continue| merely the final straw. The the fight against the axis pow- breach in the relations had been ers. This colony is famous for its' widening for a couple of years large production of nickel. las President Roosevelt turned Britons took stock of the short-'more and more to the inner age of food situation throughout circle New Dealers and less -to continental Europe today with his old campaign manager with the observation that their nation :his confidences and plans. was probably better off than any’ Nobody who was with Farley other country, either those war- in those closing days of the con- ring or those still neutral. vention could fail to see how Many nations were dependent /deeply hurt he was that he had in normal times for from 25 to'been brushed aside as the group 50 percent of their food supplies|that had its nucleus in Harry from the outside world, but with Hopkins, Senators “Jimmy” war conditions existing and the Byrnes and Alben Barkley took British blockade still operating | over. effectively, there is no way of Farley might have quit the knowing What the percentage of government anyway to repair his shortage is at present. }Personal fortunes, but he would cities. In pointed releases, air attacks unprecedented in the their By JACK STINNETT veterans, Democratic been around THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1940 AS BOATS COLLIDED Mrs. Dalbert Bethel, 804 Ashe ‘SECRETARY HULL: | CALLS ON: _ FOR COOPERATION |PLEDGES GIVEN PAN-AMER- | ICAN NATIONS MUST NOW BE BACKED UP WITH AC- | TION. HE D was caught between two beats yesterday, near the dock of the P. & O. Steamship company. Mrs. Bethel was riding in her (By Associated Press) street, suffered the loss of part of | the right thumb when her hand ‘NAVAL STATION | PUSHES DREDGING | | |BIDS TO BE SOUGHT AT. ONCE ON PROJECT THAT | CALLS FOR EXPENDITURE OF $90,000. 5 Bids will be sought at once for! the dreadging of the submarine | “WORK FOR anc ()verseas Che Key West Citizen Receipts $19,000 Tetary of State Hull today called ; husband’s boat. When she put base at Key West naval station, | ; WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Sec-! on all citizens of the United her hand down to swerve the; Capt. Walter F. Jacobs, chief of GRAPHER AND TYPIST AP-' Washington Scene. Changes As Veterans Leave Ranks | States to prepare for any emer “I saw that the thumb was and I hel ex- t j i BOCA CHICA YESTERDAY: FRONT TIRE BLEW OUT NAMES GHOST AS CO-RESPONDENT jSency that may come in the | jfuture, in a press interview this loose at the first joint morni t if | . j moniing at Department of State flicked it off”, Bet come when the people may be{ She was given treatment at the jcalled on to endure suffering of | Marine hospital. : i we | being centered in all depart- jments of federal and state gov-; ; aggression from foreign nations. INJURES THREE | Following commitments made} tof foreign ministers, Hull stated | ;that it is incumbent | United States to back up many | pledges given the 21 other na- | ence with acton. Sinister danger exists today in most of those na- act to protect the “American way jed yesterday when their automo- of living”, our whole. framework |pile upset on a curve about 12 jover, he stated. if Calling for united cooperation |PeT end of Boca Chica. The injured are: | went on to outline some of the problems that would have to be |the car, minor lacerations on the future as the defense program is {#"™- jwith other nations of the Amer-jthe head. icas become more closely knit in| Ishmael Ramirez, 42, gash un- pases psi -sa pt lee, en-| A passing motorist took the trio, who are members of the running between Havana and Miami, to the Marine hospital LOS ANGELES. — Claiming; persuaded to give up loving him! According te os eet filed by a ghost named ShoSha, Dr. | with the sheriff's office the right is seeking a divorce. chine was wrecked in the ditch. ______—.!The trio: were on their way to | You-Name-It Department (By Associated Press) :seven-headed fish was Mike Sciu- to’s reward for a trip to the “ent circumstances and with less! prove it. misgivings for the future of the barely an inch long, was found has been so devoted. stranded by outgoing surf and When Vice President John led it up. Uvalde, Texas, the other day, it} was a grim, tearful little knot of | Garner off at the station. és: m It w t that i Anceminas Srey cnbiterel te he ins | _KANSAS—-Grrn—Aay- term”. His friends say that he | Kansas City salvage firm hoisted may never return to Washington, it probably is the end of his long Within a short time a rival political career, as I pointed out ,COMPany was displaying this With Louis Johnson, the 200-}here”. pound, machine-gun talking law- SHIPS IL Ss who threw Army defense meas-; ures into high gear, as Under- | WON’T YOU JUST question of the “third term”. But | he was the victim of - changing | ad aie . ty L. Stimson in as Secretary of ! YELLOWSTONE NATION- . War. It was no secret that John-* | Mr. Hull stated the time may ,Plains. i many kinds in the campaign no’ EE SRY: eae CAR OVERTURNS; jernments to ward off danger of ' r at the recent Havana conference | on the, {tions represented at the confer- tions from abroad and if we dont Three men were slightly injur- Otten), ay eee miles above Key West on the up- from the nation as a whole, Hull Antonio Bareara, 35, driver of faced and conquered the worked out and our relations} J°seph Ramirez, 25, gashes on the planned campaign to keep!der the right eye. steward force of the S.S. Florida, fe th that his wife, Lillian, had been |r, ‘reetment. William E. Bryce, eye specialist, front tire blew out, and the ma- {Key West to visit relatives. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 6.—A rather have done it under differ-jpeach—and Mike has the fish to The hydra-headed creature, Democratic party to which he! sdpsis N * a - iStill was alive when Sciuto pick- ance arner leparted or 1 friends who saw him and Mrs,| Reward For Modesty was embittered by the “third} er but whether he does or doesn’t, |i78S”. here some months back. jbanner: “100 percent savings yer from Clarksburg, W. Va., secretary of War, it was not a; BEAR WITH US? Politics that put Republican Hen- | AL PARK. Aug. 6—The ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON! la sign that read: “50 percent sav- boat from collision with another staff of the seventh naval dis- her thumb got caught. i | trict, announced today. + The sum of $90,000 has been; ‘allocated for the work by the MP MO* IO MO LD SD iF | Navy department bureau of yards iF ISHERMEN IN ROLE and docks, Capt. Jacobs said. i Submarine base will be | dredged to a depth of 23 feet un-/| jder the terms of the contract. | | Approximately 252,000 cubic’ }yards of clay and coral rock will jbe removed from the basin, to. make it easily assessible to de-! stroyers and submarines. H It is believed by naval officers, | including Lt. Commander T. J. | Brady, public works officer, that ; the $90,000 allocated by the bu-; reau of yards and docks will be | miore than sufficient for the work. | All of the 252,000 yards of ma- | terial, including some rock, will | be dumped along the athletic field to the south of the base. | The lowland will be built up to{ the level of the surrounding } property to make room for the! housing project of the navy de- | partment on the recommendation | + of Capt. Jacobs. ; thrown off the SS. Hagan of Also receiving some navy de-' the Pennrylvania Shipping partment attention is a project; Company Line. for the construction of a marine » railway at the south edge of the | Bai awT arses: WARNS AGAINST SWINDLE base. No appropriation for this} work has been allocated by the | WASHINGTON. — A warning SCOUT AWARDING {against swindlers who are ad- ;son, director of alien registration of the Department of Justice. Mr. ifice officials and that no fee can ED RATINGS :or will be charged for this serv- bureau of yards and docks. i ivertising a “finger-printing serv- _ COURT WILL MEET . Harrison declares that no finger- ice. Demeritt brothers, of the pany. went out as fishermen yesterday and came back to port as mail carriers. When about 14 miles south- eart of the city. they were hailed by crew members of @ patsing steamer and a bot- tle containing 13 letters and the side. A skiff on the fishermen’s vessel was lowered into the water and the floating “mail box” retrieved. For their trouble. the brothers found a one-dollar bill in the bottle. which had been placed in there for the person who mailed the letters. The bottle had a canvas cover and handle and was ice” to aid aliens in registering jhas been made by Earl G. Harri- P MEMBERS TO RECEIVE prints will be accepted except those made by the proper postof- BADGES AND ADVANC- | OF MAIL CARRIERS QUOTA OF 170 Over Last Period July This Year she ee Sa IN THIS AREA TWELVE MEN TO BE Es ROLLED AT MIAMI OFFICE: NAVY ENLISTMENT PAYS GOOD DIVIDENDS (Special te The Citieee, MIAMI Aug 6—The t Navy Recruiting Service lotted a quota of 170 m enlisted from the FlorideGe gia District during the month August Of this number quota of 12 men will be ex through the Navy Recrui Station, Postoffice Building this city, with the probab an increased quota of the ber of well qualified applicants for enlistment warrant such ac tion. The First Line of Defense. the U. S Navy, has many vagencies to be filled by young Americans in the interest of the National Defense Program. * was an nounced. The principle require ments for enlistment are good character, U Ss Cituremshup ability to pass the required men- tal and physical examination unmarried with m and not less than than 31 years of age An enlistment m the Navy will pay dividends m self improvement, it pointed out nur was { Announcement was made today i ;by the Monroe County District, 'Boy Scouts of America, that a’ ‘regular Awarding Court would |be held at Scout Hall, in the old {Naval Hospital building, tomor- ‘row night, starting at 7:45 o'clock. Chairman of the Court commit- . ltee is Scouter Wilbur Moerhke. ;_ Merit badges and advanced rat- jings will be awarded to an un- !announced number of Boy Scout |members of the five Key West | By WILLIA troops. | First installment .of this re- ; View of the “good o:d days”, as jrecerdai in the Key West Direc- itory of 1893, was published yes- === 'terday. The account ended with Advisory, 9:30 a. m.: The slight |the listing of improvements | tropical disturbance that was re- | Sponsored by the city, county and Ported near the Virgin Islands | Federal governments, such as the iyesterday has moved westnorth- ,construction of a court house and ij westward and was central at 7:00 jail, city hall and city jail, custom a. m. EST. about 100 miles south-!house and additions to the Army jeast of Turks Island. It is at-) Barracks. | tended by only fresh and mod-! Then followed a description erately strong winds and has not |of public and private schools, for shown much tendency to in- both whites and colored, and the lerease. Center will pass near Churches of the city, and conclud- j Turks Island today and caution jed with “First Methodist church, jis advised over southeastern Ba- Which is of stone, being the hand- |hamas this afternoon and tonight. | somest”. WEATHER BUREAU, Key West, as a health resort Citizen Writer Digs Out Interesting Facts Of son. felt he was due the Secretary | of War post. When he didn’t get it and was not rewarded at Chicago by a ;nod from might have made him Roosevelt's the President that ; i tells about the tourist from Minnesota who swirled up in a cloud of dust and shouted: “There’s a, bear loose!” running mate, he too departed. President Roosevelt has offered him the job of executive assist- ant in charge of the national de- fense drive, but his friends here express doubt that he will ac- cept. H McNutt For 34 Term McNutt's position is more com- |plicated. An original third- termer, his disappointment came when the President didn't throw the Vice-Presidency wide open. The question now is whether McNutt's withdrawal in behalf of Henry Wallace will be reward- ed. He is high up on the list of those mentioned for Farley’s two jobs but the inner circle New Dealers have kept him at-arm’s jlength ever since he has been there. = i [ ad ds Ld Jacksonville. ; was praised and although yellow — ifever was prevalent, in those Advisory, 9:30 a. m. EST.:|days, the writer declared “its | Tropical storm central at 7:30 a:jtreatment is so well understood jm. EST. short distance south-!by physicians and people that westnorthwestward “seven to ing and pleasure, facilities eight miles per hoiir’ Attended by ' described, chief of ,which was shifting gales 6f 50°f0 60 ‘miles the “angling for the gamey tar- per hour “aifti®™pressiire "29.35 ‘pon, king fish and trout, besides inches at Grafid'fsle.“ “The storm ‘the hundreds of other beauties”. jhas reached near hurricane Hunting on adjacent keys and ‘strength and will continue to' yachting were also recommended. {move westnorthwestward today} “The New Russell House is the [attended by damaging east and leading hotel” and the “Duval ; Southeast winds west of Grand House opposite is smaller, but no jIsle to vicinity of Franklin, La.,'less popular, and its restaurant and unusually high tides over ‘is the favorite resort of passing jlow places near coast. Persons in |tourists”. The Russell House was jlow exposed places ‘ahead of, located at 112 Duval street, the {storm should seek safety. Warn-|present location of the Gilbert- fings changed to southeast storm|Jefferson Hotel. For further ac- ; warnings Bay St. Louis to Mor- |commodations, the writer stated gan City. Storm warnings now jthat “efforts are now being made displayed Bay St. Louis to Gal-|to induce capitalists to erect a |veston, Texas. fine tourist hotel on the island”. i WEATHER BUREAU, “Key West can outrival Tampa, | New Orleans. | Jacksonville or St. Augustine as’ That Ere CITY'S STATUS DURING ‘GOOD OLD DAYS M RUSSELL 2 tropical pleasure resort, fer & can offer what they can oat, @ summer climate the year round. sea bathing in ocud-winter and abundant acquatic sport » @ own hafbor” the brief cuthne ended. The business directory covercd eleven pages. Listed were 1] - torneys, only ome of hom « now livmg L.A Harms WC Maloney, J. Vining Harris and Jefferson B. Browne were mmciud ed. . There were I commission merchant: Philbrick, Geo. 1 Geo. L. Babcock easily by cldtimers numbered 14. only one adverts ing in the directory, Jo Pinckney First National the Union were the banking => Stituticus then, the former still m existence. Geo. W. Alien was west tf Grand Isle, La, moving the mortality. is very low”. Sport-) i E- H. Gato Cigar Co. Key West Cigar Co, L. & Co, P. Pohalski & which the name Pohalski between Francis and immediately below | ribet fe sit plete Report Eecteased Teday Jade Cie’ G Bice of fe Ove Set aot Tad Sedge Diet cst Ge monthly pet Ger July coder 22° ihe bguce scememoec ceees cOnmeet goss mews = me Da mc ent Key Se Bar = é focal peor es bout wafixc ac SSE Se ur ates KEY WEST DIRECTORY OF 1893 RECALLS : « iy t Ve bh