The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 16, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 221. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Conscription Bill Now Law; 60,000 Guards To Camp Roosevelt Signs Draft This After- noon; Bankhead Serv- | ice Held Measure ‘COUNT Y RECEIVES | 37 TEXTBOOKS ON | NATIONAL DEFENSE’ | SENIORS GET MATERIAL FOR | (Ry Associated P. WASHINGTON, Sept. =) President Roosevelt signed the passed amended by new conscription bill as by Congress and joint Congressional action last 3:00 o’- clock today in his office at the weekend, shortly after White House. The measure calls on 16,500,000 young men of the tween the nation, be- ages of 21 and 35, to register for duty in the military branches of the government. Today further with military and defense im- portance when it was announced that 60,000 National Guardsmen, the first of some 400,000 even- tually to be called, had been or- dered into encampments for a year's training. The ranks of the guardsmen will be reduced somewhat when those with dependents and having physical handicaps, will be ex- cused. Their ranks, however, are (Continued On Page Four) was marked ithe first of a series giving ele- COURSES IN APPLIED | MATH AND SCIENCE; MORE; BOOKS TO COME LATER (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 16. — The State Department of Educa- tion has 37 books lated to national defense provided re- for the | boys who | school year The book use of Monroe County will graduate this from high school. mentary instruction in general mechanics, engines, aeronautic: radio, photography, and the arm- ed fore i As quickly as additional copies can be printed the books will be available to the schools as public free texts, to whatever extent plans are made for their use in| each school. Approximately 8,- 000 have been distributed throughout the state to make them immediately available to senior boys and to teachers of physics, chemistry, and mathe- matics. The first book of the series in- (Continued on Page Four) { (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third of a series pre- pared by the National Defense Advisory Commission in re- sponse to numerous requests for articles on our national Program. Future releases will appear in The Citizen on Thursdays and Mondays. THE UNITED STATES NAVY From Navy Yards To The Fleet According to the United States Navy, it takes about a year and a half to build a ship to the launching point. As soon as it is launched, it is towed to the fit- ting-out basin and the crescendo of work increases. Under the great cranes, the additional half billion pie that go into a ship must nestled into their ap- pointed piaces, Under the current speed-up program, when the ship arrives at the fitting-out basin, the pre- fabrication of deckhouses, bulk- heads, and fighting equipment will be done to such a point that the cranes seem to lift whole ships sugh the air as_ these parts are on the way to being welded into place. All over the yards individual shops are busy finishing their work on the deli- entrails of the engines and on the tough hide of the turret armor. Far away in the optical shops of inland cities, men with skill gained, not through years, but through generations of de- votion to ten-thousandths of an inch, are gently rubbing slices of . bringing them to the focus m the guns. In other ark men wade through s of cotton, picking the bolls will eventually. become guards, awnings, and Down the nation’s communication lines roll these tons erial, each arriving on time icked up by the cranes and dropped into place. Arming A Ship A year passes. Finally the cranes pick up the great naval guns. These may be as big as the batt! 16-inch guns. with each tube 60 feet long and as big be cate that ‘Naval around as a flour barret, ready to be dropped into place in the steel turrets. Lighter the 8- inchers and the 5-inchers, are fitted into their places the decks. The antiaircraft guns and the “Chicago Pianc are put in- to place. The latter are groups of twenty machine guns mounted on a single pivot which can fill the air with flying metal. When the men have finished their work, the builder's trials begin. The ship is run forward and backward, tested for speed, fuel consumption, — stability — everything the imagination of the Navy inspectors can suggest If a hundred thousand men down the nation’s production line have done their job, if the designers’ slide rules told the truth, if the men who placed the parts have done their job, the ship does better than the mini- mum predictions made for it by the Navy Board and Chief of Operations, . when they first made up the spetifications. Final Trials Then the ship»wil-be tried out under the Navy’s guidance, over the decp water mile in the cool, clear waters of the Gulf of Maine. If it makes the grade here, it is a full-fledged ship-of- the-line in the Navy. But it is t yet a unit of the fleet It must go through a six month shakedown cruise. The gur must be fired in every concei able position. It must worm i way in and out of tight places un- til every last man from the Cap- tain on the bridge to the Phar- macist’s Mate knows what it can (Continued on Page Four) guns, on vw<weewrree '40°S FATAL TO KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, Che Key West Citizen SEPTEMBER 16, 1940 INVITES € | | Ptesident Sion Relays Message To Pari Minister’ ‘STATE CHAMBER | WAR FLYERS T0 TRAIN IN FLORIDA H (Special to OTTAWA, Canada, Sept. 16.— |Canadian and American business leaders are urging Dominion of- ficials to give earnest considera- |tion to the proposal made by Carl D. Brorein, president of the |Florida State Chamber of Com- merce, that Canada train flyers tin Florida this winter. ; One of them, whose name was |not divulged, has written Col. |L. Ralston, Canadian Minister of | Defense, in support of the plan jas follows: | “One of my very good friends, GERMAN RULERS*¢2"! D. Brorein of Tampa, pres (By Associated Press) PARIS, Ky. Sept. 16.— Mrs. Ira E. Smith calls at- tention to history which shows the ‘40 years have been fatal to rulers of Germany. Frederick I died in 1440, George William in 1640, Frederick William I in 1740 and Frederick III in 18: IIIT ILS SS ident of the Florida State Cham-} |ber of Commerce, telephoned me yesterday that they have heard SAYS THE FERRY Was Told So? ‘STILL OPERATING? i ‘Visitor NEW COMMANDER ASSIGNED TO BASE COMING FROM SAN DIEGO; RESERVE OFFICER REPORT- ED YESTERDAY Captain W. F. Jacobs, com- mandant at Key West Naval Sta- tion, announced today that Lt. Comdr. Edwin Fisher, U.S.N., re- tired, had been ordered to report to this station by September 30. Commander Fisher will come from San Diego, his home city. Captain Jacobs did not state to which department he would be assigned. Lt. J. H. Fessenden, U.S.N.R. of Sebring, Florida, reported for temporary duty with the air- force and destroyer fleet here for two weeks. Dating The Depression? (By Associated Press) NEW YORK—The world’s dia- mond production last year broke all records with nearly two-and- a-half metric tons of stones, says the Jewelers’ Circular. Less than one-fifth were gem stones, the others being industrial. Even so, this made about 1,000 pounds, or half a ton of gems. | Odd stories concerning lack of knowledge about Key West come quite frequently out of Miami, but the prize, in the opinion of j The Citizen, was presented this ;morning when the reporter met ‘and talked with Mr. and Mrs. A. jC. Hersey, of Kingston, Jamaica, | B.W.L. | ‘The Herseys came down from Miami to purchase transportation to Havana, for the ship © sailing this morning. They were told {by “some travel bureau” in Mi- ami that the ferry was still in ;operation to Key West and that “they would have to take their chances on catching it” as the reporting information-giver didn’t know the ferry schedule. Officials of the Overseas High- way commission were wondering today, when acquainted with this story, whether or not their ad- ;vertising in and around Miam and all the “free advertising” * obtained in the press of the na- tion, was worthwhile. “We cer- ,tainly felt that tour agencies, at least, knew that the ferries have long since departed”, one of the officials stated. AGED FAMILY MEET | PITTSFIELD, Mass.—The mem- bers of one family, all over 80, recently held a reunion, celebrat- ing the birthday of the oldest of the clan, who was 96. They were David Parsons, 96; Mrs. Celia M. Sears, 94; Mrs. Catherine Pills- bury, 92 ;Mrs. Emma Hutchinson, |90; Frank Parsons, 80, and Wal- ‘ter Parsons, 84. J.idoes get under way, , town” The Citizen) in the South preparations were underway to train Canadian aviators in the southern United States during the winter months. “Mr. Brorein is very anxious to have the Air Force seriously consider Florida. He is one of the ablest men I know in the South and flew for us in our last war. If any program as suggested I sincerely To Materialize; Attacks Over London Lessened hope Florida will be given earn- est consideration. I have a win- ter home there and know the country very well—it would be an ideal place for ery such work. I should also be delighted to give you any assistance in my power if it would be of any help in the event Canadians train in the States. Canada is daing a great job, and I feel our country 1 apidly getting under way and his story om the Idend City that we shall be of still greater ” A ” had been accepted by ~.P. assistance in the future’ ” i M.”, the new New York Brorein recently requested the aaa x. for publication United States War Department ? peer: = = in the near future. to designate some Florida air- - 3 port as Canadian _ trainin| Thoth eee ee : oe sahsoree? © trated profusely with pic- ground. Canadian authorities say .: tures of the city and sur- this is unlikely in view of the 4 . United States Neutrality Act, but °unding territory. it is hoped some plan can be Mr. Giewold) spent sbest worked out to train the Cana-, ® month in the city this eum- - mer, on vacation. dians in Florida as civilian pilots) ™® and complete this with military SIPIIL IS Fs HUNGRY TOURISTS iz ite USING CAN BE CARED FOR |CONSTRUCTION HEAD PASS- ED AWAY SUDDENLY AT PACKER STREET HOME William L. Bagby, head of the construction company bearing his name, died last night at 11:00 fo'clock at his residence, 1015 Packer street. He was 47 years ‘old. The body is resting at Pritch- ard’s Funeral Home awaiting word from relatives in Georgia as to funeral services. Mr. Bagby came to this city a little over a year ago and formed the construction company and en- gaged in a general contracting busine Recently he had been successful in pushing to near- completion, six homes for local residents on Avenue E. SEDI EaaS, GRISWOLD’S STORY < ACCEPTED BY ‘P.M.’ Oliver Griswold. . publicity agent for Government movies at Washington, D. C. a native of Key West. informed friends here yesterday that HOTEL COMMISSIONER LISTS 3957 SEATS IN COUNTY RESTAURANTS (Special to Tre Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 16. — Ample facilities for tourists and those who want to “eat down- are available in the 102 restaurants and cafes licensed to operate in Monroe county, ac- cording to W. M. Taylor, state hotel commissioner. Combined capacity of the res- taurants and cafes in the county is 3,957, Commissioner Taylor said. Each of the restaurants and cafes listed operates under strict health sanitation and safety reg- ulations of the state hotel com- mission. Commissioner Taylor reported that the current license year saw permits issued by the commis- sion to 8,551 cafes and restaurants over the bleachers, out of th in the state. These had a com- baseball park and through an bined seating capacity of 301,- automobile windshield. It was 582 persons, he said. Miner’s car. HARD LUCK LAUREL, Neb.—A foul _ ball, hit by Pitcher Earl Miner, curve Beatty Says Adolf Hitler’s ‘Surprise For Britain’ May Be Phosgene Gas By Morgan M. Beatty, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. they have a great surprise in for use against the British, and the British admit the peak of air war is not yet, it adds up, for the store able use of poison gas in the near future And you can bet one gas that's coming will be deadly, almost in- visible phosgene. If the Germans use it and they were the first to use chlorine in the World war—air experts expect they will drop it from the sky. The purpose would not be te decimate the population as so many people seem to think, but to spread panic and fear when panic and fear are already taking hold of the civilian population. Phosgene would be the fav- orite for this purpose for these reasons: 1. It is almost invisible, and therefore will have a_ terrifying effect on civilians subjected to the first ates People will ap- first— 16— When the Germans tell you that | military expert, to the prob- | pear to drop dead like flies for no apparent reason. | 2. It is easy to store in bomb- Hike containers and drop from the; ‘air. 3. It is highly adaptable to use in the British Isles at this season, because the atmosphere is often hazy, almot foggy. The thin white cloud of the stuff will be invisible under tnese conditions. ; (Phosgene is no good in very wet weather, for water absorbs and dissipates it more rapidly , than air.) 4. The Germans know that the British popuiation has been lax tin their use of gas masks. I have it from well-informed military observers that both the Germans and the British hi big stores of gases for use under desperate conditions—the Ger- jmans for the peak of their air at- tack against the islands, and the British to use against land inva- sion. As protection, the British au- thorities have already distributed 30,000,000 gas masks among their jReonle They have rigged up‘ thousands of underground anti- |gas shelters. One gas-proof sub- way in London can house 8,000 people. | Phosgene is ideal for the Ger- mans to use at the peak of their air war becaue it has all deadly effects and mysterious presence attributed to war gases in popu- presence of phosgene, he experi- ences a sharp metallic taste in hi mouth. In an area as big as a room 10 feet square, a lethal dose of phos- gene is one-third of an ounce, if ‘the victim is exposed thirty minutes. In higher concentra- tions, of course, it is quickly fatal Drops of watery material form in lar fiction, and not because it is lung tissues, stop oxygen, and widely destructive of human life.'the victim suffocates It disappears too quickly to be of! It is well suited to use against maximum value as a weapon civilian populations also because against trained troops lvictims would be likely to run or But as a p: producer among ‘exert themselves. The slightest civilians it is highly effective texertion produces death almost Some experts figure one bomb of Fimmediately. phosgene would produce more] Phosgene is known to all mili- panic and fear among civilians tary forces. The common gas than 100 actual explosive bombs. mask is one hundred percent ef- The stuff is a simple combina- fective against it. tion of chlorine—the purifier you’ Military experts point to get in drinking water in minute cent statements of the German quantities—and carbon monoxide. high command accusing the B: It is easy to compress into a ish of dropping poisonous mi liquid, and upon release becomes rial in grain fields. They suggest a gas. the Germans are preparing to | Slight concentrations smell like use gas and are “justifying” fresh-cut corn in a field. Heavy | wholesale raids on London in ad- concentrations smell like a silo vance by accusing the British of full of fermenting ensilage. When barbarous bombing of civilian a man smokes a cigaret in the populations. shelter 4 eau VP53 PERSONNEL "= Ss ee 5. me a 2 | BASE QUARTERS {7 | Action FIRST MEALS TO BE SERVED TOMORROW: LT. SUTHER LING ANNOUNCES SPECIAL MENU Bo ke ee ee LOND OM sep = 3 2 ames; etlece. Secec wee pte Barrack: at the Trumt regular flight effects from proper to the Approx have ne mc cial meals w row to the “celebra te The menus for the to be prepared and s mess halls are printed herew Breakfast—Fresh eges, fried ham | potatoes, coffee Lunch—Hot s giblet gravy "s, vegetat buttered lettuce and ice er Germ tere to ple pic bread, bread. bu Supper — Fr fr Peeecccceseseres Pe eecec nce scceeees The Budget Prob!<m POO e eee em n ec eeececesecereeseseseeseteceeeseeseees (EDITOR'S NOTE: While Jeck Stimeet AP Westies ton Feature Service Writer. is on wecetion the space usually devoted io his column is made evailabie to the feo major Parties for a pro-end-con ,cesentation of a= eqreeed Et of Political subjects) Neither : ide hes seex= the steers acces and there will be no rebutt L. Chairman. Committee On Ways And Meems House of Since 1933 increased $43,000,000,000 000 increase nual average deficit 000,000,000 for each en years During the period the sion with Selves afflicte: USS. NOA LEFT FOR NEW STATION Destroyer US Key West base fre 22 000 .000,G08 The $21,000,001 represents 2 a :$ hese ae whict this morning Ships in port this are the USS. King ed from neutrality pa the destroyers Bainbridge Goldsborough latter two be- ing on base operation duty morning USS. Sa on neutrality GENUINE FACTORY MUFFLERS AND PIPES FOR YOUR CAR. CALL LOU SMITH FOR AN ESTIMATE TODAY. DUVAL AND DIVISION STS. PHONE 9153 OR s