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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 215. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, Doughtry ISSUES Statement On Aqueduct Status Follows Meeting Held On Saturday In Miami; To Proceed With Bond Validation Effort Chairman Wm. T. Doughtry, Jr., of the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission, issued a statement today on the meeting held last Saturday in the office of the s. P. Robineau, in Miami, at which full Commission’s attorney, membership of the commission was present, sitting in with B. M. Duncan, general manager of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District. Li The The The tain progress being made on the commission’s application to the RFC for a loan of $1,100,000 to construct the aqueduct. Mr. Doughtry’s statement is as fol- lows: “The Navy is about to make a complete engineering survey of the project upon both of the fol- lowing bases “1. To build a water line the needs of the Navy alone; “2. To build a water line the needs of both Navy civilian population. “Negotiations are in progress on the matter of the larger water line for both Navy and civilian population, in accordance with ae stion in the amendment to the Navy appropriation, which prov; rides that the Navy may build the water line in coopera- tion with an agency of the State of Florida (which is the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission). “The matter of financing the participation of the Aqueduct Commission for the civilian sup- ply is being Hess with the R. F.C. The details required by the R. F. C. for the revenue cer- tificate securities to be issued by the Aqueduct Commission to fi- nance participation in the joint line are expected in due course by bond counsel, Masslich and Mitchell “Upon receipt of these details for the securities, validation pro- ceedings will be drafted, initiated (Continued on poaeee Four) SAILORS TO HAVE MOVIE PREMIERE NEW EQUIPMENT IN BUILD- ING 21 TO BE USED TO- MORROW statement, as presented to Citizen, tor itself. meeting was called to ascer- speaks for for and its Lt. Comdr. Ray S. Byrns, sup- ply and counting officer at the naval sta ion, ‘@nnounced today that the new» movie projection equipment will have its initiation tomorrow night in the auditorium on the second floor of building 21. The equipment, consisting of two modern projectors and full sound equipment, will be used at regular intervals to provide en- tertainment for the navy person- nel. Finishing touches on the hall wer being installed this morning, the form of electric fans. The equipment is all new, be- ing manufactured by the Motio- graph Company. Standard width films will be used. in FENDERS CRUMPLED? BODY DENTED? WHY WORRY WHEN YOU CAN HAVE THOSE WRINKLES IRONED OUT AT LOU SMITH’S. DUVAL & DIVISION ST | tional and state ‘ publication. GUARD PREPARES FORMATION OF FULL BATTALION’ MAKES BID FOR NATIONAL AND STATE RECOGNITION; ARRANGE PROJECT TO SUPPLY UNIFORMS Executive officer, Julius Stone, of the Key West Guard, newly- formed organization in this city, announced today that the group has been contacting _ legislators in Washington, through various military channels, recognition for the local Guard. “We've also made a these same communications,” Stone stated, “to obtain National Guard equipment for our drill periods”. Further enlistments in the Guard will be handled tomorrow night at Legion Hall where the second meeting of the Guard will be held. It is expected that a full battalion will be enrolled within two weeks’ time. Officials announced City and County governments have agreed to ponsor a WPA project in the Sewing Room to have uniforms made for mem- bers of the Guard. These, it was explained, would remain the property of the sponsoring agencies. A_ headquarter’ act in advisory capacity, com- posed of older men in the city not able to come under military, physical regulations is to be formed, it was announced, and another group of honorary mem- bers, composed of retired army and navy officers in the city, is also to be formed “All in all, we are obtaining the finest sort of cooperation in our Guard movement”, Mr. Stone stated. bid, in that the company, to to obtain na--D WATERWAY Cc. OF C. PUSHES MOVE TO; EXTEND ROUTE FROM BA-! ' " | REVIVED IN” SEPTEMBER 9, 1940 The Sciols Rot "a, Enrollment Of 162 HIA HONDA; WRITES many HIGH SCHOOL AND TWO GRADE INSTITU-! LETTERS | { | Chamber of Commerce officials} i reported this morning that they! are taking all possible steps to acquaint the U.S. Government ;with facts pertaining to the ex- ‘tension of the Inland Waterway! from Bahia Honda to Key West. S. C. Singleon, executive secre- ttary, showed The Citizen corre-| #gpendence this morning which ne been sent to various local’ military officials, serving to ac-; quaint them with all facts in the! matter. “Now that the federal govern-} ment has ordered reopening o' the Inland Waterway discussion”, Mr. Singleton stated, “we want! anyone who may be called to hearings in the future to have all} the facts before them”. Informative letters, describing | the need for the waterway exten- | sion, highlighting the military as-j pects of the situation, have been’ sent to Col. L. L. Pendleton, U.S.A., commander of Herts lefenses here; Captain Jacobs, commandant of he navel station; Commodore A. H. Brook, ! _Junior-Senior High School {Harris and Division Street gram-' imar schools had turned in their tenrollments this morning. TIONS SHOW INCREASE FIRST DAY Superintendent Melvin E. Rus sell’s office reported at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon that the and The figures reported indicated jrecord high enrollments at the ! schools, with ‘a total of 1626 stu- ‘dents registered. Junior-Senior High School re- ‘ported an enrollment of 711 stu- idents. This was an increase over the first day last year of 40 stu- dents. Division Street School reported {512 students on hand this morn- Submarine ing when the bell rang, being an increase of 25 over last year’s first-day figures. Harris School also came up with an increase this school semester, with 403 students enrolled, 22 more than first-day in 1939. The increase of 87 at the three Key West schools, with Douglassi School (colord) still unreported, will probably be further in- creased as the week advances, according to usual custom of late, registrations of visitors, etc. All schools reported “the situa- tion well in hand”. No serious problem of accommodation due to the increases was indicated. | ‘And Three Destroyers In Port: chairman of the Florida inlan NEW ARRIVALS CAME YESTERDAY; TIGHT- Navigation Association of Lauderdale; Lt. Comdr. A. H. Hilton, head of the local Coast | Guard forces, and to Lt. Col. J.} D. MacMullen, former head of Harbor Defenses in Key West, who was most interested in the project while stationed here. Communication has also been sent to the District Engineer's of- fice at Jacksonville, advising that the above men could be con- | tacted in the matter, to receive | information concerning the ad- visability of deepening the wa- terway to navigable depths for large craft “The waterway, in our opin- ion”, Mr. Singleton stated, “is most necessary as a supplemen- | tary route over which to bring supplies to Key West from Mi-| ami. It is all the more desirable at this time, pending completion | of our highway bridges”. ee i SET NEW RECORD j CHICAGO.—During July, Air- lines of the United States flew 101,881,075 revenue passenger miles, bettering the record high made during June, 1940, of 101,- 172,000 revenue passenger miles. Citizens Will Attend Delinquent Tax Mest last th high over continued Interest weekend, morning, ject of the tion meeting ordered b3 Council for next Friday “The 13th”. Following publicity on the mat- ter, both in its news columns and editorial, The Citizen found that a large number sidents, claiming to be taxpayer were planning to attend the meeting to “see for themselves” how the council acts on what they termed, “the most important municipal problem of the moment”. The meeting was ordered, it will be recalled, when the coun- cil was presented with the list of 1939 delinquents, totalling ap- proximately $40,000. Discussion followed as to whether the list should be published in legal form. On that question the council- men appeared to be divided and it was to see whether other forms of collection could be adopted that the meeting was called. Councilmen Boyden and Brin- ton spoke out in favor of legal Councilman Sweet- ran and delinquent tax situa- the City night— of in this city on the sub- | ing was quoted last week as be- ing “tentatively opposed” to pub- lication. This is corrected to read—“no opinion stated”. This same status is ascribed to coun- cilmen Grillon and Ramsey. Only council president William A. Freeman spoke out in definite opposition to legal publication, claiming that the procedure would be a ‘waste of money”. Councilman Carbonell was not present at last week’s meeting, so his opinion in the matter was not'> ‘SMALL FIRE AT obtainable. ONE-DAY ROUND-TRIP TO CANAL ZONE MIAMI, Fla—In a test trip over the route to be used by Pan- American Airways pilots be- tween Miami and the Panama Canal Zone, Capt. Robert H. {Fatt flew one of the 33-passen- ger strato-clippers the 1,547- mile distance from Miami to Cristobal in six hours and 12 minutes and made the return trip in six hours flat. The time. both going and coming, bettered any record, even that of military icraft, officials declared. E} “Secure all naval ships to * moorings!” That was the general given out by Captain H. S. Car- pender, commander of all ships afloat at the local naval station, this morning to prevent damage that may be caused by the squally weather. A submarine and _ three stroyers steamed into Kev harbor yesterday afternoon de- West for | an indefinite stay, and the U.S.S OTHER STREETS NEED REPAIRS RESIDENTS CALL ATTENTION TO MORE DANGER SPOTS A number of calls have come to The Citizen lately concerning danger spots in the city’s streets, other than those published here- tofore. Latest, and alleged to be “most dangerous” is a series of bad holes on Francis street, Southard and Angela. Automo- biles are said to be in danger of crashing into one another as the drivers try to dodge the big holes in this stretch. Another matter called to the attention of The Citizen is that concerning the three-ton marl trucks carrying material from Stock Island to the airport proj- ect. These trucks come down the boulevard and, as it was stat- ed, are causing big holes to wear into the pavement. “Why don’t the trucks use the less-travelled County Road on their marl hauls”, is the way one citizen put it this morning. “Our boulevard should be reserved for Private cars”. C. GUARD BASE Alarm number 12 sounded this morning, calling the city’s fire apparatus to the naval station where it was discovered that a small fire had broken out on one of the Coast Guard boats docked alongside the base dock. No damage was_ reported from the fire. It had been brought under control before the fire companies arrived on the ‘scene. MOORINGS FOR SQUALLY WEATHER order between | jhearing of Noa came in later duty in the Caribbean area. | Submarine now in port is the: Sea Raven, here five months ago| on a shakedown cruise. She is under command of Lt. oes T. G. Reamy. Destroyers newly arrived are the USS. Lawrence, under | Comdr. V. C. Barringer, who is! also commander of the 83rd De- stroyer Division; the U.SS,! Humphreys, under Lt. Comdr. H. B. Southworth, and the USS. King, under Lt. Comdr. E. E, from patrol | | Berthold The USS. Bainbridge, de- stroyer, and U.S.S. Goldsborough, converted seaplane tender, are) also in port at present. Three of the shins are fastened at the new! mooring buoys in the harbor. SERVICERS ACT ON SUNDAY NOISE DIRECT REQUEST TO MAYOR ALBURY TO HAVE CHURCH DISTRICT PATROLLED The needless accelerating of motors and blowing of horns in the vicinity of Key West churches during the hours of public wor- ship by thoughtless motorists here, was the subject for discus- sion at the regular meeting of the Stone Church Service Club held on Tuesday evening, September 3rd, in the church annex with President Daniels in the chair. This condition, which has pre- vailed for some time, is getting constantly worse and upon mo- tion duly made and unanimously carried, it was agreed to com- municate with the Mayor and re- quest His Honor to assign a traf- fic officer to patrol the vicinity of the churches during the hours of public worship and check these offenders, thereby render-| ing a most valuable aid to the religious life of our community. | Guests of the evening+incluged Rev. Ted M. Jones, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Stephen C. Singleton, secretary of the Cham- ber of Commerce and Paul Es- quinaldo. During the program section of the meeting, Paul Es- quinaldo and Gerald Saunders rendered a bass and tenor duet, accompanied on the piano by Kingman Curry. The observance of “Father, and Son or Daughter” night was set for the last meeting in Septem- ber. Rev. A. C. Riviere, who had been away for several weeks on vacation, was welcomed back to the club. f |Lefteris Cantonius. | Carribean. Che Key West Citizen CASE IN COURT 'Y TRIAL IN PROGRESS AT PRESS TIME: TEN CASES SOUNDED ON CURRENT DOCKET Criminal Court was called to order this morning at 9:30 o'clock in county courthouse chambers, with Judge Wm. V. Albury pre- | siding. Court attendants were all —_ SENATE AND ent, including clerk C. Sam Curry, deputy sheriff Berar Waite and Allen B. Cleare, county solicitor. A docket of ten sounded, and cases for the term tentatively assigned. Court was recessed for about an hour soor after being called to order, for the purpose of hear- ing These heard in the jury room, and all, accord- ing to Mr. Waite, were denied by the judge. Case of the state versus Berlin arsen, charged with illegal pos- session of sponges under -inch legal size, was called Mr. Larsen entered a plea of guilty to the charge and Judge | Albury withheld sentence until jlater this week. Another case of similar nature went to a jury trial shortly be- {fore noon—the State versus Selecting of jury and preliminaries to testimony took up most of the time before recess at 1:00 p. m. Resumption of the trial was called for 2:00 o'clock and com- pletion was expected too late for publication this afternoon. ‘BOLT STRIKES FISHING ROD cases was motions. were the DELTA, Col.—Clinton Barlow 16, was instantly killed while fishing when lightning struck his § steel fishing rod. Two compan- ions, using bamboo. poles, were knocked down ard. stunned by the bolt but escaped injury. the ~ London Carries On Following Longest Bomb-Raid Of War SE Sectioms Of « Hz HOUSE CONFEREES MAY DROP 60-DAY MENT AMENDMENT: LABOR MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT (Ry Aasoriared Preae) WASHINGTON Senate Hous were in meeting tod and to straighten the Burke tion bill houses It was with k Roose probably wishes in postponement ar to become effectiv Wadsworth rep s believed the Sena vise its age-limit incide with years classification LABOR OFFICIALS TO COOPERATE vy YORK conference ernment nounced th c (Continued On Page Four! OUR DEFENSE (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of 2 series pre- pared by the National Defense Advisory Commission im re sponse to numerous requests for articles on our national program. Future releases will appear in The Citizen on Thursdays and Mondays. THE UN ‘ITED STATES The U. S. poh: which stretch] S4#lfr§ gob. Wid, trom the lushit €n@ es round jharbors of y | the bleak ‘tans, is truly our first line of de- fense. To hold that line requires trained personnel which includes fen Islands to ,men who command the bridge of a battleship and others who can fit dental bridgework. There must be men who can lay their hands on fuel oi] in the Arctic and ice cream freezers the There must be air- plane pilots and submarine com- manders. There must be men who can maneuver a fleet of bat- tleships across a million square miles of ocean, and others who understand the care and feeding of sump pumps. Practically every known occupation is need- ed in the Navy. And the where- ‘withal tp:carry on that activity |must.be-om hand, ready or use. |t,is the function of the WNa- itighal Defense Advisory Commis- on sidh to Sd that’ the Naty’ gets ; the supplies it requires. All the Navy business orig- inates in a twenty-one acre build- ing, hastily erected in 1917. In this building is the Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, and As- sistant Secretary, Lewis Comp- ton. They are surrounded by sailormen who have reached the top of the heap on the long vol- , age that started ‘tween decks as midshipmen, by way of the quar- ter deck of a destroyer, to cruiser, to a battleship, to Com- mander-in-Chief of the fleet, and ‘eventually to the number one* pt, the Aleu- * “oversees the NAVY Cc f Se *_ Fhe Navel Bureeus The Chicf of Naval major naval can send hundred to any oce comes the tion are in his care of the huge The next Navy body repr Secretary on nava Paul J recora o who has It is respon: chemicals of war The Bureau of Ships sibic for the general desige ture, strength, and seaworthuness (Continued on Page Two)