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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 212. County Advised The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TH $5,000 InBonds Are Cancelled Other Bond Refunding Matters Held Over; Five Apply For Liquor Licenses Monroe County Commission- ers, in regular session last eve- ning at the county courthouse, were advised by letter from State treasurer W. V. Knott that sufficient funds to complete pur- chase of the remaining $5,000 of Monroe County Road and Bridge Refunding Bonds still remained Fund, designated in the Kanner Bill that the bonds “B”, and purchase, at 79 and interest, as reccmmended July Ist, would be consummated, following which the bonds would be cancelled. Present at the meeting were chairman Carl Bervaldi, commis- sioners Wm. Monsalvatge, Brax- ton B. Warren, T. Jenkins Curry and Norberg Thompson. Stone, ting the attorney, and chief deputy sheriff Bernard Waite were also pres- ent Julius repre county SLE LES ESS SEWING PROJECT IN REPORT TO COUNTY Members of the Monroe County Board of Commis- sioners received a six-month report from the WPA Sewing Room project at their meet- ing last night. The report included work performed for the period Feb- ruary 25 to August 14 this year and listed the following figures: Governmental contribution, $14,867.07; Federal Textiles, used, at 10% cents per yard, 30,499 yards, at a cost of $3,- 202.40. Total amount ex- pended, $18,069.47. Garments issued to com- modity room, 15,272; to jun- ior patrols, 42; to Monroe County Home, 42. City contribution on the Project was listed as rent on the sewing room, $1,200, and $30 per month during the period, $180, SISSIES ST FS 4 LADD ASKS FOR, TAX ROLL NOV. 1 ASKS COMMISSIONERS TO REQUEST ASSESSOR TO COMPLY WITH LAW “YOUTH OF CITY NOT AWARE OF MAY FEVER DATA CRISIS’ ROBERTS)” *: = O8SSmensmres NATIONAL GUARD a: 0 IN BOOK | ING OFFICER HEARS. OF) ALARMING STATEMENTS | BY YOUNG MEN HERE The reputation of Key West as ja refuge for hay fever sufferers} lis beginning to attract ; wide attention. Recruiting officer, Lt. W. E. P.| The local Chamber of Com- Roberts, of Battery “E”, Florida' merce has received a letter from | National Guards, today called on R. P. Wodhouse, Ph.D., of the |The Citizen to assist further in Arlington Chemical Company of| the drive to enlist members to | Yonkers, N. Y., which pioneers in| fill the ranks of the local bat-'the manufacture of individualj | tery. pollen and protein extracts for | Lt. Roberts stated that in in- diagnosis and desensitization pro- terviéws with several eligible cesses, asking for information to young men, he had found an be used in a book which he is larming indication” that the preparing on the subject. |youth of Key West were notj Secretary Singléton has | “taking the present crisis period” | warded copies of the letter | 88 seriously as they might. Dr. Wm. R. Warren and Dr. J. B.| | “Startling to me”, Lt. Roberts|Parramore, and to A. D. Luethi} jstated, “were the statements|for accurate information to send! |made concerning shirking of}|Dr. Wodehouse. | ‘duty in connection with enlist-} In the reply, mention will be! {ment in the Guards or the reg-;made, it is planned, of various! ular army upon enactment of the|notables who have sought relict! Burke-Wadsworth . conscription|from the disease here, including’ bill.” He stated that some young!Hon. Harry Hopkins and Hon. men had entertained the opinion! Rexford Tugwell. |that they could escape draft by| marriage, or thought that * CITY COUNCIL would be called for service. | MEETS TONIGHT | would be a long time before they Heard, too, were statements to| |e nation- for-j the effect that some Key West |young men would rather be aj “live coward” than a “dead/ {hero”. Lt. Roberts summed it all {up by discouraging the view taken by most young men who spoke out on the subject, fi < aa that “a miracle would happen to setae by president William stop the world unrest and wars”. | cl ‘a Ane | Results of the drive to date to’, Clerk Archie Roberts fill the local battery’s ranks have resulted in only five new recruits, Lt. Roberts stated. He stated |that he would continue in his ef- , fort to attract interest in the! cause of the National Guards and. hoped that his efforts would re- sult in success. WIRE ELECTROCUTES BoYS First meeting of the current ‘month for the City Council will | be called to order tonight at 8:00' jo’clock in council chambers at advised that routine matters and first-of- {the month reports were the main litems to come up at the meet-| Ou VIA STREET PROPERTY SOLD KITE i} Warantee Deed recorded at the county courthouse this week in- dicated the sale of fifty-nine feet of property on Olivia street, near NEW YORK.—Two boys, Dom- inick Scorca, 12, and Louis Sis- tagini, 13, of the Bronx, were electrocuted when the strand of Elizabeth, by Narcissus L. John- "RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940 azis Increase Tempo Air Battles Over England PEACE FIVE CENTS = NAVY OFFICIALS SEE NECESSITY OF HIRING WORKERS LOCAL YARDS ADVISED IN- WARD DURING PRE-ELEC- TION PERIOD Captain W. F. Jacobs, com- mandant at the Key West naval station, today informed The Citi- zen of a Navy Department dis- patch sent to all naval stations, with the provision dealing with increases in naval forces during the sixty days’ period prior to a national election. An Act of Congress, approved June 30, 1876, prohibits’ any in- crease of the force at any navy yard at any time within sixty days next before any election to take place for President of the United States, the dispatch stated, except when the Secretary of the Navy shall certify that the needs of the public service make such increase necessary at that time. The letter was sent to inform all naval station commandants that “certificate as to the neces- sity for increases in the forces at navy yards and other naval shore establishments within sixty days before the national election” had been made, and that “for the purpose of expediting National Befense, the needs of the public service make increases in the forces at all navy yards and other naval shore establishments neces- sary at this time”. Accordingly, commandants and [AMERICA DONATES Average Donor Gives Pint BLOOD TO BRITONS to|' CREASES WILL GO FOR- (Associated Press Feature Service) Blood for British wounded is being collected from volunteer ; American donors by the Red ‘Cross, converted into a plasma- ; Saline solution and sent across the sea. About a pint is taken from the average donor. A vacuum bottle draws the blood through a needle From the bottle, the bleod ithe subject of which has to do transferred to two small centri fuge bottles, in which it is whirl- ed at 2,000 revolutions a minute to separate the red and whit< corpuscles from the plasma, fluid. The whirling forces heavier corpuscles to the toms of the centrifuge Metal containers holding the bot bottles bottles Cherche® Digtet &: Term | Of Trade That Beings Pafts Dewarecers Frum Amereca (CONGRESS MAY ~~ ADJOURN IN THREE WEEKS BOTH HOUSES RUSHING BILLS: NAVY PREPARES TO SET UP BASES ON LEASED eee ae 7 = eeoram we Se ower impemt © for se owe eee f rbeby ce Bowes ls | ih are placed in the centrifuge ma-! chine. Fresh plasma, mixed with saline solution, is then ready for use. Slightly pink, the fluid i translucent. It gets to the sealed bottle without having been ex- posed to contamination from the air. DREDGING BIDS ARE: OUT NO TO BE RETURNED TO WASH- INGTON OFFICE BY SEPT 18 Lt. Comdr. T. J. Brady, public By Anmecinted Prone, SHINGTON. Sez : jority Barkley would s legisla £ its fina ages x would be able October ist. Senator Barkiey in that move can leader Vermont On the was by acting Repubi Senator = ooneec Aum oof xpenencec Burae Wea House side difficulty was being in bringing the ; Worth conscrap’ Elongated debate tured on the floor a today, like fina come before the | ! eh. it Ih i Another communication treasurer Knott dealt with the $29,000 refunding bond issue which has been referred to the from other commanding officers are authorized to continue to in- lerease the forces at navy yards ;as may be necessary to prosecute bell wire they were using to fly their kite fell across a high-ten- sion wire carrying 2,400 volts. {! i works officer at the local naval or the first station, announced today that Navy department + bids were now being accepted at this morning that a 1 the Bureau of Yards and Docks 000,000 would be son to Moulton Johnson. Price of the sale was approxi- imately $1,000. Tax Collector Frank H. Ladd attorney general for an opinion as to whether the outstanding bonds can come within the scope of the Kanner Act Still another bond _ offering matter, as recommended by Mr. Knott and R. E. Crummer, was held over to the next meeting when county attorney W. Curry Harris would be present. The commissioners voted _ tc purchase two pages of advertis- ing in coming “Florida Sil- houette” supplement edition of the Miami Daily News at a cost of $500. It was mentioned that that newspaper would sell an- other page to merchants of the city and would’ donate another page to maké Key West's part in the special edition’ four pages The edition is' to sell at 10 cents per copy and will be released on December 1st Bond of LeRoy Francis Cuppy for $1,000, to guarantee perform- ance of duties as deputy sheriff, was approved by the board. The following applications for liquor licenses were read and placed on file for future action. Rene S. Marchesseau, Craig, Fla.; Julius F. Stone, Boca Chica; Mabel McKinney, Key Largo: Fred L. Marvil, city; Edwin H. (Continued On Page Four) ISS SE a aM: STORK PAYS CALL AT BYRDS’ HOME Sounds like Mr. Stork went calling on some other members of the bird family, doesn't it? However, it’s just the cus- tomary way of that Mr. and Mrs. James Byrd welcomed an_ eight-pound boy, born at a local hospital Tuesday. September 3rd, at 12:00 o’clock noon, exactly. The baby has been named James Claude Byrd. His mother is the former Miss Ernestine Salis. She and her son are reported as doing nicely. TSS IIIS SSS > ; bills for the called on the county commission- ers at the meeting last night to furnish him with the 1941 tax roll by November Ist in order that his office may act imme- ly to collect ta ‘as pointed out that the tax or had rarely reieased the tax rol n the past until nearly Christmas time, too late to enact collection process before the first of the year. The law requires that the roll be handed to the collector by November Ist. To Co-operate The commissioners voted appropriation of $25.00 to the Special County Committee in that group's endeavor to effect continuation of the state pro- cedure which distributes gas tax funds to the several counties. Concluding action at the meet- ing last night was the reading of month of August. They were all approved, as read by clerk Ross Sawyer, for pay- ment when funds were avail- able. an DRIVER'S LICENSES ARE NOW ON SALE County Judge Raymond R. Lord advised today that driver's licenses for the new fiscal year opening October Ist were to be placed on sale immediately and should be purchased before the deadline date. New application forms were expected at Judge Lord’s office this afternoon. A total of 2,989 licenses were issued during the current fiscal year now closing. ON MILITARY MAP, IF YOUR ROAD IS Strategic Highway Network May Be Improved, Repaired YOU N EEDN'T WORRY ABO By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—If the Public Works Administra- ‘you see a couple of gents measur- It spiderwebs over every ing the wae os a a highway, state, with east-west and north-| fee ay ite "shodiders south arteries tying together the, and measuring the sag in-.old;coast lines and the borders and | bridges, you'll know that thej|giving clear outlets from indus- ‘highway is a part of the 80,000-|trial centers to military canton- ‘mile network of strategic military'!ments and naval supply bases. roads. i Bridge Boom Likely H You probably won't see anyj| Much of it, according to pre- | ;such gents, because most of the liminary surveys, would be satis- ;state highway departments al- | factory for military use even now. {ready have the information. In!The principal difficulties are gaps, the next few weeks they will be of poor road that link some of the |pouring it into the Public Roads better highways and about 2,000 jadministration here for tabula-'bridges that are far from ade- tion and assembly into a report! quate for passage of new, heavier to the Army and the National: military equipment. Defense commission. | It looks to this unexpert eye! Out of that report, with rec- as if the bridge building busi- ommendations from the President ness is in for a boom. If there and action from Congress, our are 2,000 wobbly bridges that strategic military highway net-:need reinforcing or _replace- work may be improved and re-!ment, that means a heap of new ‘paired. But don’t let anybody tell spans, even if some of them are you that at the moment there ts'no more than glorified cul- any wholesale plan to make su-/verts. per-highways out of every wagon Not All At Once track—or even any national de-| What effect the survey and fense plans to “super” highways | subsequent recommendations will that aren’t already “supered”. jhave on the country’s highw: Must Support Tanks ‘system cannot ba predicted now. About the only military roads!But you can skip the idea that ithat will be built immediately are|we are going to have in the near those which lead from the main! future 80,000 miles of highways arteries or cities to new military |that will match the 1,900-mile tion. y lightweight end naval establishments. In mileage, will be negligible. It is likely they will be built with an eye to modern mechanical warfare— wide and strong enough to ac- commodate the heavy tanks and new heavy gun carriages. The 80,000-mile network was WEEK-END SPECIALS BUTTER SCOTCH and DUTCH TORT LAYER 22) CAKES, special c Maloney Bros. Bakery Phone 8 812 Fleming Street zoe esis wer ede ree aM shot einaiceresiens encnttiscacsokeas’ od acc MAYBE YOU’RE CONSIDERING HAVING THE DENTS STRAIGHTENED OR THOSE WORN OUT TIRES REPLACED ... SEE LOU SMITH, DUVAL AND DIVISION these roads probably} worked out by the Army and‘ four-lane, earth-divided autobah- nen of Germany. We already have more auto- bahnen here than that and we'll probably have still more, but it would take years to super-high- way the whole network and make |adequate feeders out of all the horse and buggy roads that lead into it. the work assigned, as stated in the message. HIGH UPKEEP BALTIMORE — According to a report filed in Orphans’ Court recently, the upkeep, education and recreation of 17-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of the late Zachary Smith Rey- nolds and the former torch singer, Lidby Holman Reynolds, cost $1,- | 701,940.45 last year. in Washington for the submarine base dredging project. Bids went out on call ten days ago, and are to be turned in at the Washington office by Sep- tember 18th. Comdr. Brady felt, in a statement to The Citizen this morning, that work on the proj- ect would get started around October Ist. Plans and specifications are on file at Comdr. Brady's office and are being studied by members of his department now. _OUR DEFENSE _ (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the tenth and final of a series prepared by the National Defense Advisory Com- mission in response to numerous requests for articles on our national preparedness program.) THE ARMY OF TH E UNITED STATES S. 0. S. Thet is not a distress signal. It stands for the services of supply, the services that help the fight- ing arms of the Army get on with their fighting. These serv- ices include such important functions as feeding, _clothing, housing, paying, hospitalizing, arming, and even praying for the men who man the guns. A soldier is just like anyone else. He needs food, clothing, and shelter. The Quartermaster Corps furnishes him with those essen- There are two main ways which the Quartermaster buys supplies fer the Army. It pur- chases food and =:rticles of stand- ard manufacture direct from commercial dealers and from manufacturers. It puts its’ mar- ket basket over its arm every |day and buys a trainload of beef here, a shipload of potatoes there. About sixty percent of all the food bought for the Army is purchased in large lots by Quar- } in | the eight base on British years. Balancing bases Pacific ocean Canal were t stated. AQUEDUCT GROUP as sought PLAN TO CONFER WITH AT TORNEY IN MIAMI SATURDAY Members W: chairman; Willia: |Earl Adams. of the Aqueduct Commis informal mee discuss the pipeline its latter stages Present at the gathering were |Julius Stone and representative |Bernie C. Papy. B M Duncar was to have attended, but we not in the city. | Upshot of the 2 j decision to hold a session in Mi jami on Saturday of this week with attorney S. P. Robimeau ® ascertain progress being made with the han application before the RFC and to discuss other matters. Julius Stone and Mr. Duncan were extended an imvitation te accompany members of the com mission to Miami It was felt that the interests of the aque Guct line could be well served by meeting was tial needs. It carries a stock of termaster Depots and is furnish- going over all matters concerning uniforms for the Tropics and a supply of fur hats for Alaska. It can make cloth- ing at its Philadelphia depot for all oceasions. It provides fish on Friday, and turkey on Thanks- giving. It has tents for the marching troops, and brick bar- racks for those who are station- aty. It buys needlepoints and troop ships. And it has to fig- ure far enough 2head so that when a soldier gets to where he is going he will find a Quarter- master already has fixed it that supper is on the stove. ‘ed to the posts. The other forty 'percent of the ‘food, fresh eggs, ‘milk, fowl, fruit, and vegetables, is bought on contracts made loc- tally by the Quartemaster pur- jchasing officers on the Army |Post, who are the local house- ‘kepers, looking over the day's bargains and figuring up what to serve. Fresh bread is made every day on same posts, and the Army cooks usually bake all their pies and cakes in their unit kitchens. The Quartermaster (Continued on Page Two) the commission's project with view in mind of making a ful report for public consumption following the meeting SHOCK SHATTERS BONE CASSADAGA. N. ¥Y—So se- vere was the shock which Dr Ralph Bruckheimer. 50. received when he touched a water faucet while wearing an electric head- lamp, that his right shoulder bone was “as completely shattered as so Corps also operates schools for if it had been struck by @ small shell” j ( ompars REDS