The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 9, 1940, Page 1

Che Key West Citizer THE SOUTHERNMOST NE-WSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 190. Lessens; Italy Claims Gains POLICY NOTES | INSURANCE COMPANY LOANS Lovering Discovers Original Name Still eee ‘NOW GAY SS. STEEL PIER OF NORTH sosmeav —— To ' KEY WEST, FLORIDA, -FRIDAY, AUGUST §, 1940 TO POLICY HOLDERS DE-} CLARED TO COME UNDER | INTANGIBLE PROPERTY (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 9.— Still carrying ahead a seven-year drive to increase the returns ; | from taxation on intangibles—; British State One of EVERGLADES SEEN has won an opinion from Attor-/ Every Seven Nazi Air- planes Downed In Huge Aerial Struggles (By Associated Prens) LONDON, Aug. 9.—Air fight- ing eased off a bit today over England and Germany while in- creased tempo, both in the air and on land, was noted in British Samoliland as the Italians dou- bled their effort to provide a jumping-off place for future at- tacks on Aden. the Gibraltar of the Red Sea. There vou have the picture as it exists in Europe todz ing to this British empire ¥. accord- dispatches gathered of in ever-busy capital the Today’s slackening of air attacks was.a_weleome respite for the British as they hurried repairs of defenses admittedly shattered to some extent by the Nazi waves of bombers in yes- fierce concerning the largest of again featured the day's reports. England claimed that one out of ever: by the listing the total at approxima 60. This would indicate that from 350 to 400 planes were en- gaged in the air invasion. British admitted their losses at 15 planes. Characteristically, the N2zi claims just about re od these figures. Regardless of claims, the fact remained that tremendous struction resulted from the tacks, both in England and G many the R.A.F. counter-at- tacked. From Rome came the confi- dent report that Italian forces ex- pected to mave into Berbera, capital city of Samoliland, some time today or tomorrow. Numer- ous air battles were featured in the news from that sector, one report arriving here stating that 15 Italian planes had been down- ed, costing the British three. As if in prearranged unison, the axis powers apparently are endeavoring to lower the British morale to the vanishing. point with the high-powered attacks on the main strategic points of the empire, but, according to war ministry advice, quite the op- posite is the fact. The British situation in regard to shortage of destroyers, many having been sunk recently by Nazi bombers off the coast of England, was considered acute. One high official released the ii formation today that the United States had been’ sent another re- quest to sell England one hun- dred destroyers: Main air attacks against Eng- land yesterday and’ last night were centered in and around the main port of Dover, Idading some observers here to believe that this city will soon witness the first actual invasion effort made by Hitler. Nothing could be learned, however, which led to belief that the invasion would come within the predicted period ending tomorrow. Combined reports from points of the British Isles this morning listed a total of 2,000 bombs dropped by attacking Nazi bombers. Nazis claimed that 15 British ships were sunk in the twenty-four hour period ending this morning. seven planes sent ove r Nazis +} was destroye de- at- all * removed from the meal which is yY then treated with distille: | which carry the very low rate of} published not long ago.) |2 mills—Comptroller J. M. Lee; ;mey General George Couper} (Special t Gibbs holding that-notes held by }insurance.companies.secured by |9.—Every afternoon at q policy liens are intangible prop-|past 2, Henry M. Flagler’s once erty and taxable just the same as!palatial steam yacht, Miami, ' BEAN CULTIV thotes of anybody else held by {docks here at the end of a timber —sa7 other institutions or private .in-!pier that stretches nearly half a dividuals. {mile into the landlocked harbor le Seg ee PLASTICS IN INDUSTRY by the comptroller not only/in 1630 before they crossed the against Florida cmpanies but by reaches of Massachusetts Bay to BRINGS CONSIDERATION ' companies from other states hav-!set foot on Plymouth Rock and OF FARM ESTABLISHMENT 2g Offices in this state. | Intangible tax receipts build their new colony among have | the Indians on the verdant hills jincreased from about $50,000 Per | dropping back from that early ENS year the year before Comptroller! milestone in American history. (FNS).—The ‘Tee was inaugurated to more| Provincetown harbor is a use of plas-!than a cool million dollars the|proad hospitable shelter made by tics in industry, with every in- past year and he is hopeful that |the sandy forefinger of Cape Cod dication pointing to their more /this and other aggressive efforts! when it reaches westward to extensive use, has revived inter-' to assess intangibles will further | point to the bulk of the state of est in the commercial growing of | CTC8S¢ the total the coming/Massachusetts twenty year. away. soy beans in the Everglades. |" The tax on intangible property |""Os the bow of the yacht the It estimated that goods js set at its low figure because | historic name, “Miami”, is plain. valued at over $20,000,000 a year | the Constitution was amended ajy visible at the right of the more are now being manufactured from ; decade or more ago to provide a/recently acquired name, “Steel the meal of soy beans, which is | S¢Parate classification = agli and the letters are etched the major plastic requirement. {Property and permit a levy of !into the metal of the hull by the ing less than one-tenth the average; ‘ - Plastic materials are now being | é ee tovee Bf gnawing rust of the many years employed in the manufacture of | Millage ats ied on other types Of /the former floating palace plied everything from ash-trays to air- | Property. in southern waters, or was tied planes, and only recently a com- ase Sea = in es Port plete plane was constructed of = ae ere it lay dis 1 plastics. ‘The automobile indus-i| REPAIR. THE STREETS! trumbo docks “of the try is now using plastics in ever-'s TT ;& Occidental increasing quantities. Radiator} caps, knobs for doors and win- dows, steering wheels, radios | and countless other items on late! model cars are all plastic. 1 The oil first is extracted from! the beans and itself is a valuable | article of commerce, used exten- | sively in the manufacture of high | grade paints, oils and varnish. {| For plastic use, the sugar, starch and other components are ~) MIAMI, Aug steady increase in the is Since The Citizen’s edi- torial concerning the bad con- dition of the city’s streets— this office has been swamped with calls focusing attention on particularly bad spots. These will be passed on to the authorities for action from time to time. Florida East Coast Railway Sys- tem’s Key West Extension, for seven years. Only nameplates boited to the bow can banish the reference to the vessel's heyday, illy conceal- ed by white paint; but the for- mer designation means absolute- ly nothing to probably any one of the 800 to 1000 passengers which make up the boat’s daily excursion list out of Boston jacross Massachuetts Bay. Familiar Whistle Speaks As the old yacht swings past the harbor buoys and points her sharp prow to the wharf and ON SOUTHARD STREET “A serious accident is going to 4 ter |OCCUr if the citv doesn’t fix the water ibad hol Southard street, be- which disperses about 95 percent |twoen Margaret. and Grinnell”, coe pape were material of the | sccording to one citizen who call- defatted bean. i i zi : __ led this offiee today. This nitrogenous soy protein | Investigation brought out that miles is then treated with formalde- hyde, which results in the plas tic compound. Dried, it becomes a black powder. With five per- cent moisture added, it may be moulded. | It becomes brown yellow! when water is added and is tough, hornlike, and partly trans- ithe hole is a pipeline ditch. It should have been filled to even- street-level, according to regula- tions governing such excavations. But it wasn’t. Why? MSON DECRIES the closely huddled gray roofs of the crescent-shaped town built jon endless ranges of yellow sand {dunes breasting the open ocean, her familiar whistle rouses the ready echoes and the sightseers flocw to the pier to watch the afternoon crowd of two-hour picknickers come ashore. parent. It does not warp or { under varying degrees of heat it becomes the furniture, fixtures! if and other commercial items now | ARMY'S NEED OF 4,000 AIR- used so generally. | Soil and climatic conditions in] CRAFT FINDS MANUFACT.- | the Florida Everglades are ideal! yRERS IN HESITANT MOOD for the growth of soy beans, and | it is reported that industrialists | are investigating the proposition | 2 (By Associated Press) with the prospect of establishing! s WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Sec- soy bean farms in the area. ‘retary of War Henry Stimson jstated here today that the gov-/ jernment would have to under-|Sensus heard from those mem- jtake some form of amortization; bers of the local jfor plane manufacturers of the | Weren’t picked for the cast of country if the military program|“Mr. Brown’s Unlucky Day”, jof plane-construction expansion | Staged impromptu at the weekly | ing to be successfully car-'Supper meeting of the group at FDR COMMENTS ON GUARD BILL « SAYS RESTRICTIONS ENDAN- | GERED EFFECTIVENESS OF diate need for 4,000 planes for the during the business session, but |Pians last night—in a big way. At least that was the con- EMERGENCY LEGISLATION (By Associated Press) HYDE PARK, .Aug. 9.—Presi- dent Roosevelt showed his dis- pleasure today at efforts of va-| ;tious Senate members to insert} what he termed crippling re-} strictions into the National Guard emergency bill passed by that! body yesterday in Washington. Chief amendment of any in- terest tacked on the bill was ex-| emption of any guardsmen with | dependants. Roosevelt's criticism of Senate | action referred to an effort to hold any National Guard move- ments strictly to continental United States, which would have Prevented any expeditionary forces being sent to other Pan-’ American countries if’ the need larose, army found the surprisingly low number of 33. planes actually contracted for in the past seven weeks. Manufacturers, he stated, are unwilling to enter ‘large- scale operations without guaran- tees of amortization of some sort from the government. Announcement was made to- jday that an initial order for su-|€Fty man. per-dreadnaught tanks hfd been ;it remained for Tailtwister Joe 'Allensto “steal the spotlight” ;with his Spizzerinkterring. Announced as a production by (Editcr’s Note—The following feature article is written for The Citizen by a former Key West editor who probably is better informed with regard to the amazing career in Florida of the late Henry M. Flagler than the majority of Floridians, adopted or native. The author's extensive files are filled with clippings. pamphlets and photographs of Mr. Flagler’s daring venture in pioneering the Florida East Coast Railway System down the edge of the Atlantic and across it to Key West. and he has included considerable interesting material in his “Reporter In Paradise.” a book By FRANK W. LOVERING The Citizen) | PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Aug! i quarter! :a lot of money left in Province-| ‘shortly will Steamship Com- been removed abaft pany, spearhead of the vanished upper deck where it used to stand | i Seven Lions Took Part In Production Key West Lions turned Thes-; much to the delight of the audi- jence, club who} Stimson stated that the imme- ! Gerald Saunders was in the chair | ‘the “Cow Key Players”, the di-. |rector was alleged to be “George _ Mills” Einhorn, assisted by “F Township” Costar and “Guy (No More Noise)” The surprised recipients of placed with the Baldwin Loco-| Part assignments (all read them} motive Works at Philadelphia. Order entailed an expenditure ee } $5,500,000. .PRESH FLA. Grade “A” LARGE Adams; Boggs—Lion Albert Di- WHITE EGGS, doz. - STEWERS. De ROOSTERS — FRYERS Dressed, Cut-Up, Delivered At No Extra Cost Brady’s (Live) Poultry Market 37¢ jfor the first time in a highly creditable manner) were: Mr. Brown—Lion Charles Rob- jerts; Mrs. Brown—Lion Gerald Negro; Mrs. Scrubbs—Lion Johnny Simone; Levi—Lion An- jdrew Pritchard; Messenger Boy j—Lion John Costar and Miss Winn (the villainess of the pro- duction), Lion Rodman Bethel. Lions taking the parts of ladies were correctly attired in | In a few minutes the voyagers will have trickled along the two main streets of Provincetown, captured her short cross streets, spread themselves and their food baskets on the green grass of town hall lawn and the park in front of the 235-foot monument and the bronze tablet memorial- izing the Mayflower Pact of long ago. When the visitors leave as the whistle from the Steel Pier calls again, there is always a job for the town park department next forenoon; but there has been town. For the boys on the passenger list the novelty stand at one side of the engine room on the boat has an advertising offering that carry the name, “Steel Pier”, all over town. This is a white yachting cap with bril- liant blue band and black visor set off with imitation gold braid. Above the band is printed in blue “Steel Pier”. As the greeting whistle sounds across the sunlit harbor and the of Key West./boat swings to port to ease along- | disconsolate] ly _at thejside’the dock, an inquifing on-/ Peninsular looker wit see that the name has '|Commission only if the Reton- above the out in letters ten feet high by day in silhouette, and in electric lights | at night. This was a relic of the reborn “Miami” after she pulled out of Key West harbor under Captain Charles Lunn in April, 1932. At that time the old yacht was drydocked four days! at Newport News, reached At- lantic City inlet April 18th, was overhauled, and disguised with the name, “Steel Pier”, manned with a crew of 44, and started the onerous career of an excur- sion boat taking sightsers on two- hour trips up and down the nearby coast beginning that June. Few Recognized Her Few or none of the Miami’ old friends recognized her. Gay in the Atlantic City municipal colors of blue and white, she had been completely refurbished. The writer hardly knew her » SEATUS CLOUDED | HAVE STATED THAT LINE | WILL NOT BE CONSTRUCT- ED FOR SOME TIME Reports that the navy depart- ment will undertake construction of the water line to Key West from the mainland within months are in conflict with statement from Washington ,;the effect that indications are ithe project will not. get, started for some time. Naval efficers at Key* West ‘profess to know nothing about a series of conferences held at Washington between the navy department and S. Pierre Robin- eau, attorney for the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission. Robineau is presumably author of the statement that there is diminshed interest in speedy con- struction of the water line. Rob- ineau informed reporters that no decisions had been reached, and said that the conference would be resumed on Monday. On the other hand, other agents returning from Washington state the RFC and the. navy depari- ment are in accord on starting work on the water system some ‘time within the next two months. Congress recently appropriat- ed $2,000,000 to the navy depart- ment to do this work. It is pre- sumed the navy department will lay the water mains, but the navy department, according to Robineau, expressed willingness to- co-operate in a larger project with the Florida Keys Aqueduct two struction Finance Corporation funds can be obtained by the commission at once. The Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission was assured $1,100,- 900 from the RFC. STATE CHAMBER CONSERVATION GROUP TO MEET WILL ADVANCE NINE-POINT PROGRAM FOR PRESERVA- | TION OF WILDLIFE AT OR- | LANDO, AUGUST 16 (Special o The Citizen) | ORLANDO, August 9.—A nine- point program for preservatiod of Florida wildlife and conserva- al to! Extingushable) BY LATE REPORTS, To Sawyer: WPA VOCATIONAL ‘= Cus<r or terse (MSCHOOLS ENROLL ““~ ** & Sees Deeds Cover 636 Parcets | 546 STUDENTS PENSACOLA AND TALLAHAS- SEE INCLUDED in eExren. “AS © Song serie: of Gelees SION MOVE INSTITUTED sy "“Sshese She Gents cometing EMPLOYMENT DEPT. Se wy Sg tate oe jest Speamg exroec socey at te fice of Cecet Com Cink (Specie JACKSONVILLE. Aug Extension of the WPA wocatzor school ogra: clude was P. Harper ployment her Under the liam B. Comer, of vocationa WPA ha at Jacksonvi St. Petersburg an units opening at Pensacele 40 auto-mecha reporting for traming and Tallahassee wath 4 cabinet-thekers. A unit & t & opened at Camp Rosser Ocala, at an early date The total trainec now al schools in with a port—inciud port new the grand t A director supervissor Oriana: progm put an Tampa, Mix Oriange, = been dang vocater the ate ss few assugned ng the eaghty schools thus i wi al “The success of the wocstions! training program FRirrta surpassing all expectation cording to State Administ Roy Schroder. worker. , who have se" 1 school profound interes Those in charge coures report trainees at WOE eee Ge Ge eee Ge - prowcets Beart at ee Pe been show mg war se (Continued on Page Two) tion of the state’s. naturel re- ———-————--= {sources ‘willl be ‘consifiefed’ by members of the conservation ‘committee of the Florida State | Chamber of-Commerce at a state- jwide session here Friday, August '16, it was announced today. | The meeting will be held in the iChamber of Commerce building ‘and will get underway at 10:30 ‘a.m. Mrs. A. B. Whitman, of Orlando, is chairman, while L. C 2 ~ 'Leedy, also of Orlando, is vice- although, from time to! chairman. time, loud “boos” were heard to; Slated for discussion is the issue forth over the footlights. 'four-point legislative program of Fortunately, however, no stale ithe Florida Wildlife Federation | Downds with imoome vegetables were hurled. |program and Governor-Nominee| Predicting that « The production was staged as|Spessard L. Holland’s endorse- | WWd probably bh = the Tailtwister’s contribution to-|ment of it, in addition to pro- | 558.000.000,000 im onder thar wards his monthly assignment to ‘gress of the Everglades National |*®¢ Present lead of gowermment take over the program. Park, excessive drainage and wa-|C*Penses be made possitiie. Misr The club voted unanimous ap-|ter waste, lake and stream pollu-|£°™**#u declared the gowers MEDIATE PASSAGE OF PROFIT TAXATION meerintes Freee WASHINGTON. Aug retary of the Treasury Morgenthau today stzted Congress would heve immediate passage | legislation if the ge going to be successful expenditures from ge > Proval to U. J. Delgado’s applica- |tion, forest values in income, cli-|™«"t i opersting “in the med” tion for membership. He will be! matic influence, and recreational |** * Tecord pace daily greeted at next week’s meeting. Guest at the club was Rev. A. C Riviere of the First Methodist Church. CLP IIIIL OLDS. Ketchum was PFOP- VISITS CITY AFTER 13 YEARS’ ABSENCE “Miss Evelyn Van Valken- berg, of Troy. N. Y., is a visi- 1214 White Street Phone S40 “the latest fashions for women”.| rrr reer eg, |Purposes; and plans for establish- ‘committee in every community jof the state. e 1. Committee members are: © Mrs. (Whitman, iLang, Melbourne; M. O. Harrison, |Palmetto; C. H. Overman, Bag- ;dad; C. C. Woodward, Tampa; Dr. Fred G. Garner, Winter Hav- ten; Mrs. Walter Wylie, St. Peters- jburg; R. L. Dowling and L Kennedy, both of Tallahassee, | STORM SHUTTER MATERIAL -iment of an active conservation | THEY FOUND MAN | I ul tal | ' iy! ‘ ' i eee Mines = | | i i Ms ‘ ii i I | t ty I v | ! tit ii | iat