The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 24, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of piso 1 West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER i: FRE. U. S.- a : KEY WEST, FLORIDA, See AUGUST 24, 1940 VOLUME LXI. No. 203. Bomb Attacks; Both Raid Alarms Sounded In’ Conscription Vote London; Tension Relieved Some- what Greece - Italy (By Associated Press) LONDON, Aug. 24—A bright, sunny day over most of England dawned this morning, and with it came resumption of the Nazi mass bombing attacks. Wave aft- er wave of the destruction ma- chines appeared from across the channel, the total, uv to noon to- day, being listed at approximately 300 planes. Shoppers driven to in this were shelter, air-raid alarms sounded this morning and early this afternoon, but no bombs had been dropped in the metropolitan sections of the city, according to latest dispatches. Explosions occurred, however, city as at a host of centers in southeast England, as the Nazi ~ bombers swooped down through fighting ranks of R.A.F. defending planes to drop their loads. Shells fell on English territory again today as the Germans re- sumed their bombardments from emplacements across the channel. R.A.F. planes were busily engaged the emplacements, British coast artillery up their long- range guns and hammered away at the French coast. British headquarters here de- clared that six out of one detach- ment of 28 German planes had been downed this morning by de- fending forces. DNE news agency claimed that the Stuka bombers had created much damage this morning to an additional list of British fields, hangars and other military objectives throughout England. RAF. raids in Germany were reported, but the Germans claim- ed that no material damage was inflicted. Tension in tite Greece-Italy crisis eased off somewhat today as no additional indication of pressure being applied by Italians was evident. Observers here, however, stated that it is certain that Italy will insist Greece re- nounce the guarantee of assist- ance pact with England. Greece. it is believed, will not agree to that demand, if and when it comes. Italian planes swarmed over several cities in British Sudan this morning and inflicted much damage, according to admissions here this noon. Dispatches stated that the R. A, F. in that sector had fought back valiantly, but that they were outnumbered badly. R.A. F. planes on the other hand, successfully warded off offensive air maneuvers by Italian aimmen on the British stronghold at Alexandria. He Upset A Theory in bombing the while units set own air- (By Associated Press) LA JOLLA, Calif., Aug. Contrary to popular belief the hot summer days are not the time when water evaporates most readily, says Dr. H. U. Sverdrup of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He believes that sea water evaporates fastest in the late fall and early winter because the air must be cooler than the water for evaporation to take place. es To Come Next Week SAWYER TELLS OF CONFUSION ABOUT SALES MANY APPLY TO BUY TAX CERTIFICATES FROM HIM BELIEVING DELINQUENT ROLL WAS MURPHY LAND County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer called The Citizen's this morning to belief some people are holding in connection with the difference between Murphy land sales being conducted by his office and the delinquent tax sale to be held on September 2 for non-payment of county taxes for 1939. For the past three weeks, Citizen has been publishing Mondays, the delinquent tax roll as released by county tax collec- tor Frank H. Ladd. The prop- erty listed is that on which taxes for only the year 1939 have not been paid. There is no connection between this list and the Murphy land sales as authorized by the In- ternal Improvement Board in Tallahassee, as trustees for ali land on which taxes were not paid and which were not Mur- phyized two years ago. les on the Murphy lands held the first four months and other prepare will held on September 2’ The tax delinquent sale, offer- ing property on which last year’s county and state taxes have not been paid for 1939, will be held by Mr. Ladd, on September 1 as the advertisement states. This notice of delinquency will appear one more day, next Monday usual procedure of holding the tax certificates two years wiil hold in the c of any property bought at the sale, usual rate of inter to be paid by the owner. KEY PROPERTY CHANGES HANDS MABEL’S PLACE ON KEY LARGO SOLD TO A. K. GRAY attention an erroneous The on were sale, Warrantee deed the courthouse noon turn rgO property alongside the highw known as Mabel’s Place to A. K. Gray, of Miami. Mabel McKinney was the sel- lor and the price was stipulated as $1500. Island Holding Company of Frorida. R. C. Perky, president sold a 100-foot by 630-foot parcel of land on Key Largo to Robert H. Cook for $1,000, according to information in the warantee deed filed yesterday. Gonzalo Bezanilla. owner the soon-to-be announced, Bella- mar apartments, on Elizabeth street, purchased part of lot 2, Square 23, size 80x60 feet, from recorded at erday after- .W. L. Bates, yesterday, for $500. The 4 | | i i i | i { ITS GENERAL. GEORGE, C_ MARSHALL Turns Tésbe’ On: ‘italceiis Gets ‘Attention eee . ‘SPEAKING—ALL CAPITOL HILL LISTENS By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 2a; army and his varied (but consis- ‘Senators and congressmen are tently successiui) military career i i | President tran, tof staff before him listeners. (Drop into the galler- ies some day.) There is one though, who goes up on Capitol Hill fre- fellow, {quently, and when he does, mem- {bers of Congress listen! Washington get attention—and Few men in such undivided respect—from congressional audi- ences as does Gen. George Cat- lett Marshall, chief of staff of the: United States army. A little more than a year ago, Roosevelt gave this soft-spoken, graying soldier la promotion over 33 of his senior Officers. In doing so, he elevated to the post a man to whom three chiefs (Pershing, {MacArthur and Craig) referred at various times as a great sol- Senate Remains In Session dier. Over This i Weekend; ‘dent, the promotion Although not without prece- also gave !this top army post to a man who Gen. Marshall Invites | ws not a graduate of West Point. Pan-Am Chiefs (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. There's no recess for the Senate leaders this morning, as that august body bears down on the subject of whether the United States is to have conscription ot| its youth to “match the tetee (Os or plans”, as one senator put it. Following President Roose- 1 press release yesterday in he demanded that the which jut no man who ever came out be the army college was more a | professional soldier. Graduate Of V.M.I. “Puck” Marshall was born in ‘Uniontown, Pa., 60 years ago. He 24.— | was graduated from Virginia Military Institute with honors 21 j years later. this ‘weekend, as announced by WaS commissioned _ second itenant A vear after that he lieu- the United States FRITZ PUT in ‘HANS, (ON WAR WAR PAINT Senate approve conscription leg-! islation within two weeks, Sen- ate members put on steam to rush debates and final maneu- vering to bring the subject up for first vote as early next week oral George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, stated today that he had sent out invitations to army chiefs of staff in 20 Latin} American countries to visit the United States some time in Octo- ber on a junket to view defense preparations being pushed in this country. Navy department here nounced letting of several con- tracts today fer improvements to be made on holdings at the Pearl Harbor base at Honolulu. Arrival of a drydock recently constructed New Orleans, at Pearl Harbor, will facilitate re- pairs to all vessels stationed there. A $5,000,000 airfield project ing fuel storage tanks and equipment, will be an- other improvement. President Roosevelt announced this morning that Harry L. Hop-; kins’ resignation from com- merce department secretaryship at had been received, with regret. ! lll health was given as Mr. Hop- kins’ reason for resignation. Ef- forts were being made it was heard to get Jesse Jones to ac- cent that post. ym. S. Knudsen, national de- commission co-ordinator, spected army defense plans on the west coast this morning, with General Arnold, chief of ghe army air corps. Mr. Knudsen stated that plans inland He plane factories to cities for best defense strategy. paid several visits to air fac- tories and saw the new-type planes being constructed for the army. RETURN FROM seating 8,000 an- (Associated Press Feature Service) BERLIN, Aug. 24. — Ev though Germany is at war, the show must go on—and strangely enough the show is an American Indian play. In a natural amphitheater, persons, make-be- lieve Indian braves shoot point- less arow and war-whoop in Ger- man. Befgre Old Shatterhand and Sam Hawkens and other charac- ters spreads a great outdoor set- ting, an “eratz” for America’s great southwest. Scenes are from the works Karl May. Feuds between manches and Apaches and of Co- the jwhite man’s greed for gold and ;Old Shatterhand’s fur form the ground. Winnetou’s sociological back- Silver Rifle”, and “Bear Killer”, protect the good and punish the evil. Love, comedy and tragedy are injected, and Sam Hawkens finally deals out wild-west jus- tice to Santer, the renegade white. Some excerpts from Hawkens’ Gags may give an indication of|which opens Sunday, September ! contact what tickles the wartime funny-} bone. When Trapper Sam is tied to the stake, about to be provided with a funeral pyre, he observes: i“And it is such a nice day—to be burned in public”. It almost rolls ‘em into aisles when Sam adds that “being burned to death results in such bodily inju: one seldom survives it”. A dramatic critic might be in- clined to find fault with such in- jconsistencies as a windmill in the } = ; background, y i = were going forward to move air-'=°*8roum —— ing up the shortage of muskets. But the audience apparently is consoled by the thought that the play’s the thing. although? some of the Indians ride like-German icavaltymen and, 4fter ‘smoking ithe pipe of peace, shake hands |German style. ——s TALLAHASSEE \Come On Out To Mrs. Mavereen Meador ca RAUL’S Miss Jennie Mae Johnson arriv-} ed on the noon bus today fromj Tallahassee, where they had been | f attending both sessions of sum- State Col- | and Have A Good Time! mer school at Florida lege for Women. Both Mrs. Meador Johnson are teachers School. and Miss; * tot CLUB Shelley and Sib Johns WELCOME YOU! Wild. West Thriller The the | jtraditionally better talkers than Was under way. Nations Bombarding The stories about him at V.ML are as numerous as the anecdotes of that institution writ- ten into the recent play and} movie, “Brother Rat”. In his “rat”, or freshman, year, he was seriously injured by a bayonet | during a hazing incident. Bat | Marshall passed it off without aj word of accusation against those responsible. i Marshall was graduated with- |! out a single demerit, senior cap-! tain of his class, fifth in scholas- tic standing and an all-southern | football tackle. Defense Plan Praised ; There is another story that! while serving in the Philippines, | when he was a second ee, he drew up field orders that w later described by his eases at the best plan for the defense of the islands that he had ever seen. Seven years ago this month, General Marshall was only a col- } onel. It was during the World! war that he first came to the at-} tention of General Pershing, whose aide he later became. j When General Marshall took! over the army-a few months be- } fore the Nazis went rampaging in Europe, he immediately set about | reorganization. Some army men’ wise in the ways of politics told him he was inviting the axe. But the General went ahead, quietly but firmly brushing the objecting politicians aside. Each Passing month found him an-. other notch higher in the esteem of Congress and the civilian corps working for national defense. Makes Haste Slowly ! lean, wiry General, with a 4bit of.a squint in his left eye, has been an apostle of “make haste slowly” in the defense program, but he never has relaxed his in- sistence 9n its expansion. i When the vast war games were largest such peacetime maneuver up to that time), General Mar- Shall said: “It was a successful experiment. It showed us our shortcomings”. “That”, said a friend, “is Gen- eral Marshall. He'd rather know an army’s weakness than its strength”. KEY WEST GIRLS TO ATTEND FSCW MISSES PIERCE AND SAWYER RESERVE ROOMS FOR 1940-41 TERM (Special The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 24— The Misses Helen Pierce and Elizabeth Sawyer, of Key West, are among the freshmen reserv- ing rooms for the 1940-41 term, ; 8, at Florida State College Women. Initial event of Freshman Week is a meeting of all the new Students at 7:30 p. m, that night | with Dean Olivia Dorman bring- | ing official greetings. President Edward Conradi of the college will address the! freshman at their first assembly at 8:30 a. m., Monday, September | 9. The week will be fliled with | Placement tests, registration pro- | for | ‘over to Mayor Albury Coun 1940 Tax Roll At Recessed Meeting City Council Passes Sanitation Ordinance - Special Meeting Held Aft- er Recessed Session; Orders New Plates License City Council passed the new uniform health and sanitation measures in the city at a special meeting held last night in coun- cil chambers following the re- , essed tax roll meeting. Bid of the H. C. Leipsner Com- pany of Kansas City to make the 1941 city auto tags, black letters on a white background, for $68.75 Was accepted. Application of the state 40 ana ©. held in the South last spring (the ® Voiture, Locales 492 and 428, to hold a parade in this city on Saturday, August 3ist, closing Duval street for an hour and half in the late afternoon, was turned for dis- Position. This organization is a unit of the American Legion state department. A special meeting of the coun- ‘cil was called for next Tuesday night to hear the new Plumber's code and ordinance read. Discussion was entered into on the subject of adopting new oc- cupational license provisions The Tampa plan which calls for minimum hcense and percentage of gross sales }from merchants. Councilmen i were to study the proposition for | future action. Resolution was passed leasing the. Front street property of the scity to the Art Center Corpora- 'tion as the city’s sponsorship agreement with that group. Mayor Albury was asked to naval authorities on whether it would be possible to juse a building on the old Naval | Hospital grounds for an NYA |Home Economics’ project. Ques- tion was raised as to whether the navy department planned to re- habilitate that property for future use. Area supervisor W. J. Boutelle of WPA, was to be sent a com- munication asking that employes in the office building conserve on electricity by turning out cedures, and assemblies as well as ‘lights and fans when they leave recreational Program to orient the new students. TT TIT IPT HUMBLE CANTALOUPE COMING INTO ITS OWN {By Associated Press) j FEDERALSBURG. Md. will. be that this doing cantaloupe. here help; to ie for the dusts and 2 Sprays of weenie for H ee eee —_ Ew "IIIIIIILS for the day. Question of a concession op- erating at South Beach, by per- mission of the Hotel Association, was brought up for attention of the council Upshot was that the concession would be ordered kept away from the beach proper on the west side of Simonton street Settlement of a dispute as to who will have access to South Beach for Labor Day affairs was to be settled by Public Welfare chairman councilman Carbonell. Two organizations had applied for permission to use the beach. Junior Woman's Club-DeMolay CHARITY DANCE TONIGHT, 10 TILL ? La Concha Rainbow Room $1.00 couple | ec emamemen a TO BE MILK BY BOARD FIFTY CARLOADS ALLOCAT ED TO STATE BY SURPLUS COMMODITY DIVISION FOR DISTRIBUTION (Special te The Citiere, JACKSONVILLE, Fila. Aug 24 —Florida children who pertic Pate in the hot school lunch pro- gram sponsored by the State We fare Board will have milk during the term. The vision of the agency has plenty coming schoo! Surplu: located 50 carloads of milk for distributior next evap during according of Chas. L. te d nine months, announcement today Cranford. director of vision Each cases and cach erand total o The the rate will 2ontein 1 case 48 car 2.400.000 can: milk wil upphed at of three cans per month to each the 100,000 children who are expected to participate in the program by the end of the present year. ly shipment Was suggested, =e adequate to meet from the opening day term. Att year close of the 56 90 hot lunches prove Marketing Ad the Federal Surpiu: ministration featured prominent The rumber of children par ticipating during the 1940-41 term will be greatly men ing to present. indic: In addition the evapurated enilk allocated especially for use in the cars hewe beer eonete commads » sharing ded by the schovls. clever allocated distribution chents a ; AND WOODEN BREAD (By Aaneciated Peeany MIAMI Fla. Aug 24 —They resumed serving rubber eggs ani wooden siabs of bread in Miami _ The items are part the equipment of 2 hotel employe traiming progrem conducted by the Dade county school boar for carly among All Recommendations Of Taxation Committ: City Coumel meic spec rece ed meeting lect night held over from the Augest it =ectieg settie al difteremce: sacmec s+ Property owmers «: ccesemmec o> the council jive me compiaunts amc = pre wy Exnest vec per Ramses se t™e moe 2 me camer —— = —e Prospective waiters use the Stage props to learn how the real articles should be served BOMB SCARE RUINS SUIT. CASE PASSAIC, N. J. —Becoming frightened when 2 man failed & return for 2 suitcase left with case in oil before opening & Then the owner. Emanuel Loeb New York imsecticide salesman. rushed in to open the bag and re- veal its insect-killmg equipment | The suitcase was a total é