The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 10, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 216. Sul) Séa 10 Operate: Out Of K. To Be Escorted By Two * Destroyers On Experi-| mental Operations In} Area The Submarine Sea Raven, un- der command of Lt. Comdr. T. G.! Reamy, together with the do | stroyers, U. S. S. Lawrence and U. S. S. Humphreys, in escort, have been stationed at the Key. West Naval Station indefinitely for experimental operations in the Key West, Dry Tortugas area. This announcement A was au-j thorized by Capt S. Carpen- der, commander of the Key West Patrol, this morning. The area in which the experi- mental operations will car-| ried on will extend from 23 to 25! degrees latitude and 81 to 87 de- grees, between the northern coast of Cuba and Cape! Sable and an area between those two latitudinal lines from the tangent line marked from the eastern tip of Yucater peninsular ! and a similar iine drawn from Cape Sable Contrary to belief express- ed here yesterday by several Persons, the Sea Raven is not the recommissioned Squalus. The new name for that submarine is the Swordfish. Commander V. C. Barringer is in command of the U. S. S. Law- rence, and also is commanding officer of the 83rd destroyer divi- sion. The Humphreys is under command of Lt. Comdr. H. B. Southworth. Dredging Bids Lt. Comdr. T. J. Brady works officer at the nav tation, called attention to the dredging work to be started shortly after opening of bids on the project in Washington on September 18. The bids will be opened in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and call for excavation of the sub- marine basin to a depth of 22 feet The project be longitude, public will allow ample maneuvering space for sub- marines expected to be based here next year without ground- ing. The submarine Sea Raven, ar- riving last Sunday, is anchored at one of the sea-moorings. It draws more water than the pres- ent basin ows for passage. DRIVER’S LICENSES SELLING SLOWLY OCTOBER 1ST IS DUE DATE FOR NEW YEAR’S AUTO CARDS County Judge Raymond R. Lord's office reperted this morn- ing that the new fiseal year's batch of driver's licenses are moving slowly Up to noon today, less than 50 had been sold, the greater per- centage of these being renewals. Almost 3,000 licenses were sold during the last fiscal period. If the deadline date of October Ist is not extended, at the present rate of registration, hundreds of auto drivers will be operating unlawfully, it was pointed out. Raver W. Base WIALLS LL LL |POLICE CHIEF IN HAIL STORM} A clipping in the Anniston | (Ala.) Times, forwarded to The Citizen this morning, tells of the vacation trip be- } ing enjoyed by Key West Police chief Ivan Elwood and sergeant J. O. Kemp. Spending considerable time at Anniston, enroute to Hot Springs, Elwood and Kemp : were taken on a sightseeing trip of that city and sur- rounding territory by that ¢ity’s Chamber of Commerce secretary, Charles F. Varn. “It was while they were on a trip to see Fort McClellan”, the clipping stated, “that the visiting policemen saw some- thing they had never seen before—a hail storm”. | SaaS Ss. MS. Chenthead SPONGE SALES NETTED $338 TWO SALES REPORTED LAST WEEK; TEN LOTS ON AUCTION Sales of sponges last week, as reported today, netted Key West spongers a total of $338.89. On two days, Monday and Thursday, auctions were held at the municipal sponge dock and a total of ten lots were sold. In all 89 bunches of wool sponge were sold, bringing $316.53. Eight bunches of rag wool brought $8.85 and four bunches of yellow brought $3.51 One lot of 49 wool sponges net- ted $197.99. ~'SEAMEN FOUND. i bury, ‘court present. jcounty jail awaiting trial. : trial. GUILTY OF AUTO | | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, ‘LOWER AGE LIMIT THIEVERY TODAY “=. = SENTENCE DEFERRED IN NON- ; SUPPORT CASE: UNDER-| SIZED SPONGE VIOLATOR TO BE DEALT WITH LATER! Seamen F. S. West and L. B.; FOR FIRST-GRADERS' Superintendent of Public struction Melvin E. Russell In- an-| ‘SUGAR EARNINGS IN PAST. SEASON ‘DESPITE LOSS OF ONE-THIRD OF CROP DURING WINTER. | USSC SAYS BEST IN THREE j}nounced yesterday that an opin-/| ion has been handed down b; j Attorney General George Coupe: !Gibbs to Colin English, superin-! IN THE U. S. A. Che Key West Citize THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER SEPTEMBER 10, 1940 Nazis And British Bombs On Capital Cities CLEWISTON, Sept. 10 (FNS). Copestick were found guilty this ;tendent of Public Instruction of | Despite the loss of a third of the morning in Criminal Court of il-}Florida, which permits children crop because of unusual weather legal possession of an automo- bile belonging to Frank Sabini! of this city. j The case was first on call this! morning before Judge Wm. V. Al- with all attendants of the The auto was taker by the two! seamen on September 4th and they were later apprehended by the sheriff's office and placed un- der arrest, being detained in the! Judge Albury sentenced West! ‘and Coppestick to pay a fine of} '$10 and costs, amounting to; $30.66 each, or spend sixty days in jail. The defendants were | placed back in jail following the Case of Zackias Williams,! tcharged with non-support of wife | and minor children, was guilty by a jury of the count, but not guilty of upport of his wife. Given the choice of turning over $35 of a $50 sum he pos-. (Continued on Page Four) second ; non- | } | who will be five years and eleven {months old on or before Septem- ber 23rd to enter first grade. Previously, translation of School Code nad been the taken to ‘mean that children would have to be five years and eleven months of age on the opening day of school to gain admittance to first grade. In other words, Mr. Russell {pointed out, any child who will be six years old on or before the 23rd of October may enter first I grade at either of the three Key West grade schools. ‘PRIVATE RESERVATION| (iy Associated Press) WOODLAND, Calif., Sept. { ‘ 10. also|—There are only 15 Indians left ” heard this morning. He was found in the Rumsey tribe, but they are s to have their own reservation. The Indian bureau is preparing to put them on 66 acres of good farm land near Guinda, Calif. where it is expected they will be able to support themselves. Improvements For Key West Base $1,125,000 APPROPRIATED IN SECOND SUPPLE- ; listed MENTARY DEFENSE BILL Advice day, sent to Captain W. F. Jacobs, commandant at Key West Naval Station, told of particulars contained in the second supple- mentary National Defense bill, passed by Congress recently and now signed by the President. Included in the bill, Captain Jacobs stated, is an appropria- tion of $1,125,000 for Key West for rehabilitation of the sub- Fifth Column Move Spreading, Says Hoover IFTH COLUMN methods have penetrated into every walk of ”” declares J. Edgar Hoovi er, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Their insidious propaganda has even gained entry into some of our churches and many of our schools. Unless we unite to re- sist these efforts, America will regret the day when it let down the bars.” The foregoing quotation is from issue or a national magazine, entitled “Inside the Trojan Horse” and written by Donald E. Keyhoe and John Jay Daly, both well known Washington correspondents. J. Edgar Hoover is not given to mak- ing hysterical statements and such writers as Messrs. Keyhoe and Daly are not alarmists. In a fore- word to their piece in the magazine, Robert H. Jackson, Attorney Gen- eral of the United States, says in part: “These are times which require strict discipline. It becomes the duty of every citizen to maintain inde. vidual discipline and the discipline | of his community if our American | democracy is to stand.” More than 350,000 known mem- bers of the Fifth Column have been laced under direct orders from} urope. Hundreds of foreign agents have entered the United States, leg-| ally or illegally, to train the hidden army in tactics which was so suc- cessful abroad. Federal agents esti- mate that more than half a million Persons have been drawn into this network including the 350,000 al- ready known. Five cases of sabotage were discovered in aircraft plants, one in the factory producing the huge four-motored Flying Fortress- es, heart of our air-defense force. Airplane controls crossed by an un- known spy caused the crash of a new Navy plane, killing its crew. These and many other results of the careful, methodical infiltration -in this country of agents under| orders from Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, are not guesswork on an article appearing in the October | J. Edgar Hoover | the part of the authors but proven facts. | The writers say Nazi propaganda | | has tripled in the past two months. | |A vital decision will soon-have to | be made in this country. Follewing ; are the three most potent arguments | on the question of appeasement of | Hitler or challenge of his attempts for world supremacy. They ‘were | released in this country by Nazi! propagandists after careful pre- paration in Berlin. i (1) (Wishful thinkers) Germany | can’t rule the whole world. She can’t even police the countries she’s cap- tured—ete., ete. | (2) (Business Men) Hitler’d | rather make a business deal with the United States than go to wai | Why ruin business with huge tax (3) (Stiff Resistance) The Nazis are invincible. Better not antagonize | Hitler. It will only bring him into cellaneous construction. The work will include con- struction of a marine railway, coldstorage plant, sessed of piers and bulkheads, dredging, improvement of power facilities, submarine battery-charging facili- ties, store houses and improve- ment of buildings, houses and miscellaneous structures. The new facilities and con- struction work will serve to bring the Key West naval base to full efficiency as a small craft op- erating base, Captain Jacobs stated. U.S INVINCIBLE IN AIR, KNUDS (By Associated Press) BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 10.— Head of the National Defense Commission, Wm. S. Knudsen. here on the final lap of an in- spection tour of aircraft plants in the United States, today ex- , Pressed the belief that this nation would be invincible in by next year. Knudsen stated that within the year plants would be turning out modern fighting aircraft at the the air trate of 900 per month. By April 1, 1942, the present |program called for completion of {33.000 planes, he stated, 19,000 of {which will be for the United States and 14,000 for Great Brit- ain. CHOI Da aaa sa MRS. J. T. THORNTON CAUGHT A SAILFISH Lt. J. T. Thornt Thornton, U.S.N.. took the Naval Air Station motor launch out for . some fishing on Labor Day last. it ‘Was reported today. and it honors for the day with the The Thorntons live at 1302 Reynolds street. conditions last winter, the Unit- States Sugar Corporation, op- erating the largest agricultural enterprise in Florida, reports a successful season. President Clarence R. Bitting reported to the board of directors’ - 1939-740 in three that earnings on the crop were the highest years, although long sustained sub-freezing temperatures in January, with a low of 21 de- grees, cut the harvest time from 174 days during the previous sea- son to 135 days. During the last harvest 65,101 tons of raw sugar | Was produced from 663,232 tons ‘of cane. Profits from sugar operations ;were $1,294.891 and net, before ' dividends, $846,680, compared ‘with $1,173,592 and $798,841 the eceding year. Mr. Bitting announced that the ard declared regular ly dividends on preferred stock for the current fiscal year, pay- able quarterly, at the rate of $1.25 a share on the 15th of: Octo- ber, 1940, January, April and |July, 1941. to holders of record the second day of these months. No action was taken relative to dividends on common stock. The i last common stock dividend was 1c a share, paid October 20, 1939. The corporation's ninth annual report showed earnings of 54c a Share of common stock $115.15 a share of preferred stock, compared with 50c and $108.64 the preceding year. Bitting said the corporation continues its opposition to re- duction of its sugar require- ments, and continues to protest both the federal excise tax on sugar and benefit payments for from Washington to-' marine base facilities and mis- restricting the pec eee : TRUMBO QUARTERS OPEN ON MONDAY AVIATORS WILL EAT FIRST BREAKFAST THERE TUES- DAY MORNING Approximately 150 men, of- ficers and men, of air squadron VP53, will move into their new living quarters.at Trumbo air- base next Monday afternoon, ac- cording. to announcement this morning by Captain W. F. Sacobs, commandant at Key West Naval Station. First meal in the new mess hall at the air station will be served next Tuesday morning, it was stated. Work on the hangar at the air station is being pushed and it is expected now that the structure will be fully enclosed by the middle of next month and ready for plane occupancy by the end of October. WILLKIE DELIGHTED WITH MAINE'S VOTE. HOPES THERE WI WILL BE NO DELAY IN CONSCRIP- TION (By Associated Press) ELWOOD, Ind., Sept. 10.—Re- publican presidential’ candidate | Wendell L. Wilikie today ex- pressed the hope that Congress would move to enforce immediate conscription laws and not post- pone the measure, according to House amendment, for another sixty days. Expressing delight with the larger Republican majorities in the Maine elections yesterday, Willkie pointed out that the mar- gins of victory were approxi- mately twice as large as those gained in 1936. It’s indicative this hemisphere sooner—ete. ete. rr OOOO MOMs oi the trend today”, he stated. WE HAVE EVERYTHING FROM SOUP TO NUTS FOR YOUR CAR! SEE LOU SMITH AUTO SERVICE, DUVAL AND DIVISION STREETS, PHONE 9153 OR 5 quarter-_ and; trictions on United States pro-| SECRET WEAPON? ‘Fire’ Started By Water GREEKS HAD WORD (Associated Press: Feature Service) Greatest secret weapon of ‘all time was Greek fire. By means of it the Byzantine or Eastern Roman empire ruled the Mediterranean and kept alive classical civilization for 1,000 years after Rome had fallen to barbarians. The secret was guarded so well that chemists and military ex- perts can only guess its composi- tion today. Used chiefly as a naval weap- on, “Greek fire” was shot from siphons heralding the flame throwers of the first World war. Water could not quench it Projected from the tubes of the Byzantine biremes, it set on fire th ships of the Saracens at Cyzicus and assured their defeat No fleet could stand against the “sea fire” of Byzantium. Greek fire is supposed to have been invented by .an architect ;named Calliniscus (64845), who had gone to Constantinople from Syria. Modern military men believe |it was composed of such materials as sulphur and naphtha with jquicklime, and took fire spon- taneously when wetted. It was projected and ignited by apply- therefore serves twe (Continued on Page Four) COMMITTEE WILL NOMINATE STATE C.OFC. DIRECTS ELECTION SCHEDULED aT ANNUAL MEETING IN DE CEMBER: SMITH OF MIAMI CHAIRMAN (Special to The Citises TAMPA, Sept 10—Cari Brorein of Tampa. president the Florida Chamber Commerce. appointment ness leaders nominate new tion at the Decemi meeting of the st McGregor Sr act as chairman ing committee. Serying with hez are Velma Keen T. Francis P. Fleming. Walter Hays, Orland B. Sutton, Tampa sents one of the to which the divides the Si tional purpose “The elect directorate State Chamber.” Mr Brorem ex plained composed four members from each of five districts. Of the four. State has annoum af five Florida comm director. h of Muami w of the nomunat “is ot our the terms Briteshers Recove. Free Effects Of Ratds- Hi- ler BEebeved Plame Invasen Effert of two.expire each year, the, other two holding over far anoth er twelve months. Each direct years. & (Cont) ed on Page Four KING GEORGE CAUGHT HIM NAPPING, : RFC Head < ‘World's Biggest Money Lender eee ‘A RARE EVENT IN JESSE JONES’ LIFE : By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.— Jesse Jones is probably the only man ever to have been introduc- ed in his stocking feet to King George V. He also has the distinction of being “the world’s biggest mon- ey-lender” while at the same time he is a man who once show- ed far greater aptitude for bor- lrowing than lending. In the first instance, the tall (6-feet-2), broad-shouldered. gangling fellow who was a Red Cross official during and follow- ing the World war, had gone to {Buckingham Palace with Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson. While the President and King George con- ferred in an adjoining room, Jesse stretched out before a fire- place, doffed the shoes he had warn through a foggy London dunking, and dropped off into a tsnooze. The President and King entered the chamber, and, as the story goes, it was Wilson who apologized—not Jones—and the King who laughed—not Wilson Started With Nothing In the second instance, 22- year-old Jesse Holman Jones was ; working for a Dallas, Tex., lum- | ber company owned “by his uncle. The young Tennessee farth boy had gone west penni- less—after turning over to his jsisters $2,000 cash inheritance from their father. He persuaded a banker to lend him $500..He-had no use for the money. ‘He just put it away, and when his note came due, paid it back. Later, he borrowed $700 and paid that back. And finally $1,000—each time merely keeping it hidden in a sock until the note was due. When the business op- portunity finally did present it- self, young Jesse marched up to the bank president, borrowed $10,000 on his established credit and started building his great jfortune with a small south Texas lumber company. ‘preparing to spring queries Maybe was t of his ha skuliduggery wh: “if give awa E own him to say Congress me to 2UNEY it away directed to lend it—on the sible, both to the governm the borrower” Has Lent 19 Billions f Reconstructusn sin lend As head Fimance C he was appoimted as ber by President Hoover and as director by Roose following year. ts has lent ten volume beyond the poration wtucn board mem bilbon the If Jc ment by Presiden Secretary of Commerce. he is 2 most certain to come mm for some thing of a battle be has coz firmation by the Senate Reason The white-haired Houston city builder, publisher, banker civic leader has risen high @ Democratic party councils. In Chicago, the convention's perme nent chairman, Senator Barkley was hardly more conspicucus on the platform than Jesse Jones and there was never a huddle party chieftams in which hus mor of white hair was not promin ent. Prepared For Questions There is a rumor that Repub lican leaders in the Senate are anc the great money-lender that wil test every ounce of hi tions for appearance as ar on one of those radio quiz pro- “grams. On the other hand. friends say the financial wizard of south Tex- as is ready for ‘em and when the time comes will give an account ing of every dollar of the ten bil- lion of which he has supervised the lending. : ph pee