The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 18, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to th Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 223. Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940 Dredging Opened In Washington * Comdr. Brady Hopes Ac-} Bids Today SDI D ISS SD tivity Can Start Oct. 1;'| LEICESTER HEMINGWAY Housing Plans Receiv- ed No word has been received at/ Lt. Comdr. T. J. Brady's public works office this afternoon as to the successful bidder for the sub- j marine basin dredging work to be performed at the local station. | The bids w bureau of doc Washington, D. C. at 11:00 o'clock Comdr. Brady morning that if the bids came within the amount specified by the Navy department announce- | ment of the letting would be made, probably tomorrow, and he hoped that work could get started on the project by Octo- ber first. The dredging work signals the first get-away for projects to- talling $1,250,000 in appropria- tions recently approved by Con-,; gress for Key West naval station. Comdr. Brady stated that addi- tional plans had been received for the 50-unit naval housing Project that will be situated in the southwest corner of Trumbo air station While no date for start of work has been announced, it is ex- pected that the request to place the, project on a plus-cost con- tract basis will be granted and that contractors will proceed with the work within the next 30 days. opened in the and yards at this morning stated this FRENCH TOWN FINED VICHY, France.—A fine of 3,- 000,000 frances has been imposed by the Germans on the French town of Royan, near Bordeaux, because a German sailor killed there by unidentified sailants who escaped Service Club companies were $10,959,007. miums paid for insurance of kinds aggregated $59,597,002; net \COMING HERE SOON Leicester Hemingway. brother of Ernest, the noted author, is due to arrive in Key West in the next few weeks, according to advices received by friends, bringing his family, Mrs. Hemingway and son, Jake, with him, and accompanied by Sir Anthony Jenkins. While here Hemingway and Jenkins will concentrate on completing a serizcs of articles describing the events that took place when the crew of the schooner Blue Stream left Key West last year for a “snoop cruise” to South American waters. The cruise turned up some interesting observations of Nazi operations on bases off South American countries and the articles, it is thought, will have much to say about that activity. Mr. Hemingway was on the staff of the New York news- paper “P. M.” for a short pe- riod a few months ago. SSDI IS Lae LIFE INSURANCE REPORT ISSUED (Special “+ The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE. Sept. 18.— Annual report of W. V. Knott as state showed that Floridians paid $31,- 303,280 in miums in the year ending June 30, 1940. insurance commissioner life insurance pre- Net losses to life insurance Pre- all losses for all insurance classifi- cations were $20,086,175. Heard _ Dr. Tyler Last Night The regular meeting of the Stone Church Service Club held last evening in the church annex with President Daniels presiding was featured with an address by Dr. R. Z. Tyler, District Super- intendent of the Methodist Church for the Miami District. Dr. Tyler expressed keen pleasure at being present and stated that the organization was filling a vital need in the life of the community, combining spirit- ual values along with the values ordinarily derived by service clubs generally. In the course of his remarks the speaker brought out the fact that for the past several years there has been a steady decline in church attendance on the part of the men. He stated that inas- much as this condition was prey- | alent it is highly necessary that means be .found to take, the} church and its influence to them. |! Dr. Tyler brought out that even} in Communistic Russia, where! the church and religion generally is looked on as an opiate of the people, there is nevertheless, a constant hungering that will not be satisfied with temporal ma- terial values of life. The speaker concluded his re- marks with the thought that eventually man will come to realize that as an eternal being he can only be satisfied with the eternal values to be found in the realm of the spiritual. TYLER WILL HOLD TWO CONFERENCES TONIGHT Dr. Z. Z. Tyler. superinten- dent of the Miami District. will hold two Quarterly Confer- ences in Key West tonight. He will meet with officials and members of Ley Memorial church at 7:30 o'clock, instead of Thursday, as previously an- nounced. Dr. Tyler will then hold a conference at Fleming Street Church at 8:00 o'clock, to be followed by prayer meeting, at which he will preach. Members of both churches. as well as the public, are urged to attend either or both of these meetings. The membership was reminded of the Father and Son or Daugh- ters Night to be observed next Tuesday evening when a special Program pertinent to the occasion will be presented. A communication _ received from Mayor Albury pledging co- operation in the matter of polic- ing church districts during wor- ship hours on Sunday was read by the secretary. A vote of thanks was tendered the mayor for his action. ‘MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL : WILL) BE! HEARD SEPT? 28 HINTON’S ATTORNEY DE- CLARES NEW DEFENSE EVIDENCE BEING TRAILED: | SOSIN FINED Judge William V. Albury pre- sided at a recessed session of the Criminal Court this morning, , With all attendants present. ‘Motion for a new trial for his client, Marine | Hinton, was to have been heard ,at this session, but Harris asked for and was granted an addi- tional period of time before mak- ,ing formal presentation of the |€@ch Tuesday night it is planned, Tentative plans for the cere-! i motion. | Attorney Harris stated that ad- ‘ditional evidence for the defense was being investigated and that Attorney W. Curry Harris’s| sergeant Alton| KEY WEST. GUARD NOW 116 STRONG Key West Guard perfected or- anization of its battalion into jcompanies “A” and “B” last jnight at American Legion Hall and added to its enrollment list another twenty-five members. | The Guard now is composed of 116 men. Non - commissioned officers | were appointed by the Guard of- ficers and members of the two {companies proceeded to receive {preliminary drill experience. | Weekiy drills will be held | with accent on just rudiments of | military. formations and stature. | The Key West Guard approved ‘ON: | TAX MEASURE | (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — !Army headquarters here an- jin fast order, sufficiently so that | President Roosevelt will be re-j PRICE FIVE CENTS H é | ‘quested to draw the first number calling some young man between | FILIP LILI I MI IS the ages of 21 and 35, to the ” colors, on or about October 23rd. {!I’S = St ‘AS TOYS Members of the Key West ‘mony include the drawing to be held in Senate chambers the eve- |ming of that day. | Meanwhile all states of the ithe motion could be presented on|# tentative design for its official ‘union were reporting drafting ac- | Saturday, September 28. Judge | Seal last night as drawn and pre- tivity with boards being an- ! Albury ‘approved of that date. | Hinton was found guilty by a ‘jury last Saturday of a statutory offense of felonious nature. He | is being held by the county at !present under $2500 bond. Only other matter coming be- fore the court was the Sentenc- ing of Frank Sosin, who was found guilty on a charge of as-} He was fined $5.00 and} sault. costs amounting to $32.01, or a total fine of $37.01. | sented by W. Townsend Morgan, director of the Art Center. The seal, to be used on letter- |heads and, in modified form, for arm bands later, depicts a scene of the bridges and the Island of Key West together with the United States eagle before a shield arrangement. A_ belt around the whole is buckled, with “The Key West Guard” in- tseribed on its face. Constitution Day Observed At High School Assembly Key West school demonstrated their students interest in the preservation of democracy the basis upon which governing | when Copgstitution Day was ob- served yesterday morning in! Senior High School chapel, spon- ter in order that all pupils in the Senior High School will know rules" are controlled . Responsibility to the State of Florida was stressed in talks nounced for all cities within their boundaries. In most states, it is now thought, registrations will be ready to start by October 15. Legislative action in Congress today consisted chiefly of Senate consideration of the excess profit’s taxation measure. This bill, it was stated, was about the only piece of legislation between Congress and adjournment which is expected to take place within the next ten days. National Defense headquarters announced today that a total of $6,000,000,000 in contracts had been let to various factories throughout the nation up to June 30th and that rapid strides for- ward were being made in pre- paring this nation for any event- uality. . ment anent collection of old toys for the Christmas Tree Benefit they will again spon- sor this year. Lion Victor Lowe, NYA su- Pervisor here, will again an- swer all calls to pick up old toys. He, as sub-chairman of the Boys’ and Girls’ com- mittee, asks all residents to telephone 495. Any and all old toys are desired for this year’s b=nefit which will be held, as before. for the needy children of the city. The NYA department will repair them and make them like new. BIG IIagsgs ss STATE MAY GAIN R. W. THOMPSON sored by the Student Couneil of given by Hastings Adams and RISE IN POPULATION WILL 5 p sweat DEATH YESTER- NECESSITATE IN- - 2 CONGRESSMEN DIED THIS NOON: that body. Roberts Smith, who were dele- “The assembly, called annually gates last spring to Boys’ State! at this time, for the main pur- in Tallahassee. Sponsoring bodies pose of inducting new students for these boys were the Rotary into the senior school division Club and Arthur Sawyer Post, featured a well-balanced mixture No. 28, American Legion. of stress ‘on importance of right Jessie Watkins, one of last year’s graduates was then pre- conduct as members of the stu- sented to the asembly in an im- dent body and as members of a Pressive talk on the Const*tution democracy. ;of the United States. Her story The chapel service started with Of the origin and purposes _be- CREASE (Special to ‘Pho Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 18.— Florida may be entitled to repre- sentation by two more Congress- men as a result of the 1940 federal census, state officials indicated here after studying preliminary census reports. The state was allowed five DAY: BAGBY SERVICES UNCERTAIN AS YET Robert W. Thompson, 77, of 607 Grinnell street, died at noon to- The body is resting at Pritch- ard’s Funeral Home awaiting ad- vices from out-of-town relatives before announcement of funeral arrangements is made. * |members of the Student Council seated on the stage. President Barbara Guerro opened the serv- ice with 2 resume of the mean- ing of pledging allegiance to the flag. Following her talk, the color bearers brought in the flag and the impresive ceremony of pledging allegiance was given. hind the writing of the Constitu- tion was given in such clear, forceful terms that her audience paid her the tribute of the closest of attention. SCRAP WASHINGTON. — A complete tembargo on the export of steel A Bible passage was then read ‘scrap, it is understod, will be followed by assembly singing of ;recommended by the National “God Bless America”. Betty ; Advisory Defense Commission, Bowen then presented the first which has decided, after a study talk on democracy by explain-'of the situation, that all steel | ing its meaning in relation to the scrap is necessary for the domes- High School students. ;tic armament program. Japan Bringing in the school respon- will be the chief sufferer from sibility angle, Flossie Mae Key, such an embargo, having taken secretary of the council, recited more than ninety percent of this the constitution of the High ‘country’s scrap metal in 1939. School body. This, it was ex- pained, is presented each semes- (GOOG DOOBAO&a: | ve A CAUGHT HERE Fourth ranking tarpon en- tered in the George Ruppert DIED LAST NIGHT: WIFE AND THREE SONS SUR- National Fishing Contest was VIVE listed in the report just is- sued as being caught by Wil- liam W. Condict, of St. Louis, while fishinc in Key West waters on board the “Mar- lin”, captain Gould Curry. The weight was notched at 149 pounds. vertising manager of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and visited Key West about two Funeral services for Lawrence; L. Higgs, 61, who died at shis; residence, 409 Grinnell -:street;/ shortly after 7-00.o’clcok last eve-* ning, will be held Fridayafter-4 noon, 4:30 o'clock, at the Eizsti MLE. (Stone) Church. Rev. A. C.| months ago. Riviere will officiate. j The body will be placed in the| PMLMO* OID DSI DD. church at 2:00 o’clock by Lopez} Funeral Home, in charge of ar-| Tangements. | Surviving Mr. Higgs are his| B fit D wife, Maude L. Higgs; three sons, ! it n Lawrence L., Jr. and David, of | _ Friday. Sept. 20, 10 sill ? Key West, and Jack, of Chulsey.; Pena’s Garden Of Roses —PRIZES— Naval Station Softball Team Mass.; one brother, Samuel Higgs; ; two sisters, Misses Ethel and Lula Higgs, and one grandchild. =a pepe a WHY PULL THE HEAD OF YOUR MOTOR TO REMOVE CARBON WHEN A ise CAN OF CISCO PEP WILL DO THE JOB. LOU SMITH, DUV. Congressmen under the 1,468,211 poulation recorded by the 1930! federal census. Preliminary re- ports of a 27.9% imcrease in population would boost Florida's population total to approximate- | ly 1,878,000 persons. Present federal apportionment laws for Congress permit one Congressman for each 280,674 in population, or major fraction théreof. On that basis, the state would be allowed seven members , of the national house. of repre- w ee ai |L. Bagby are still pending word Should the inerease be allowed | trom relatives in ‘Georen, se. under official figures, the legisla- learding to Pritchard's Funeral ture would be called upon in - Home, in charge of the body. 1941 to re-district the state or 0 |r Bagby died Sunday night at sits ae jon of two CONngress- | his residence on Packer street es DPaZI@OLaL + GASOLINE TAX cirrus Freax 1s FUNDS SHARED SIAMESE TWIh COUNTIES AND SRD RECEIVv- ED NEARLY $11.000,- 000° EACH JAMES D. SWEAT James D. Sweat, 23. died yes- terday morning at the Marine hospital. Funeral services will be held in Douglas, Ga., his na- tive town. Pritchard’s Funeral Home is in charge of shipping arrangements. Sweat is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Sweat. W. L. BAGBY Funeral arrangements for (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 18— Florida counties received~+a $10,-/ 872,554.39 share of the $25,501,-' 375.03 collected from the seven-! cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline in) the fiscal vear of 1939-'40, Comp- ; troller J. M. Lee reported. 4 In addition to county alloca-.; tions, the state road department : received a similar amount to that going to counties; the county schol fund got $1,821,526.86, and the state’s general revenue fund received $1,821,526.86. TID ADM AEE @ 2% on the project. the ROAD TRAVEL FOR PURPOSES UP SURVEY REVEALS THREE TALLAHASSEE, Fila, Sept (FNS).—That the automobil; f today has graduated from the luxury class into an economic necessity is clearly demonstrat by a recent survey made State Road Department wh shows that three-fourths travel on Florida’s highway made for business purposes The road use study the department for the ‘ourpose of finding out whe our highways and for what purposes. The study is being used in designing a scientific and ade quate system of highw will provide for the type az volume of traffic using them to- day and which can has made by uses be expand to take care of future traffic demands Disregarding trave’ busses, etc. which is tirely for business purposes analysis of passenger car tr shows that 58 percent of the tra el in that type of vehicle is on business, 30 perce for recrea tion, and 12 percent calls. Passenger car owners living i rural 69 percent of the total for business purposes, 1€ percent of the total for tion, and 15 percent of the t Purposes s of passenger cars I and towns devote 1 to business and social pur more to recrestion than their rural neighbors. ac cording to this'study. Of the pas senger-car travel by ut§anites. 54 percent for business, 11 per leent for 1 purposes. and percent for recreation. increased by truck almost ex ar areas trave and is soc 35 Ships Are Said Te Have Been Sent Back Te Ner- way; Diplomats Con fer egems: tee Browe eccomtag = werd that come ttocegt of Gs bensing of the ocmome Seer = derec for ter pu->ome oe B= s for social > Lions Den Turned Into Night Club dancing ' eS. portraying young coupies in a night club at mosphere created for their own pleasure are going to be headlined by the Key West Lions Club come this Friday 2 when they play host to all High School couples who like to dance and partake of night life in 2 conservative sort of way. The Lions Club had this sort of very in the rear of the gymnasium. Ac- cordingly, after considerable Loans are announcing the first of long series, they hope, of “Jitne Dances” for young couples. The Lions hasten to assure legitimate Night Clubs im the Distribution was on the basis) CHESAPEAKE BAY OYSTERS city that they are, by po means. of a three-cent portion of the sev- Served Any Style or en-cent tax to counties, three Sold To Take Out In Quarts cents more to the road depart- or Pints ment, and one-half cent portions Wells’ Lunch Room 5c couple to schools and to the state’s gen-| $90 Southard St. Phone $23-w dances do not attend eral revenue fund. encroaching upon their business. Most, if not all, of young t te regular patrons of Leons places of entertainment. It is to fill this the tted the ther TE