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Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. VOLUME LXI. No. 226. Council Passed Two Ordinances TERWILLIGER =| | PUTS FINGER | ON ASSAILANT —— WHO ROBBED HIM; HEAR- ING RECESSED UNTIL 3:00; KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1940 DRAFT SYSTEM BASED ON WORLD WAR’ ese . Most Of Us Will Hardly Know Conscription Is Going On EXP ERIENCE—ONLY IT’S STREAMLINED ss.arce ‘ae can os (EDITOR'S NOTE: When Congress passed the Com- i } The signal for distribution was! STILL AWAITING | —— a. rime SD Expected FROM NAPER COUNTESS’ SON YESTER-! | DAY EXECUTED BY ‘HOOK-! At Special Mect Raises Building Permit Fees And Adds Various Occupational _ License Provisions City Council passed two ordin- ances on second and final read- ings at a special meeting held yesterday chambers afternoon in council at the city hall. Two councilmen were absent—Free- man and Carbonell. First ordinance was the Build- ing Fees’ measure, calling for higher license charges for permits in the future. The second was an ordinance providing additions to the city’s occupational license laws Building permits will now be issued according to the follow- ing scale For work to be done, not over $100-—$L00. For work valued between $100 and $500—$2.00. For work not exceeding $1,000 in value—$5.00. From $1,000 to $75,000 in value, future building operations will be assessed an initial fee of $5.00 for the first $1,000 and $1.00 for each additional $1,000 over that amount. Over $75,000, the rate per thousand dollars is reduced to 75 cents. Occupational license additions to the present ordinance were as follows Automobile dealers and pair shops, $125. In the case non-residents, the fee will be $250. Auto dealers without re- Pair facilities will pay $93.75, and non-residents, $187.50. Handlers of bakery products will pay $50 annually in the fu- ture. Curio deale ued under $ license fees will be $45 Soft dr $6.25 Inspector's valued re- of 's. with stock val- 0, will pay $25.00 -over $500. the fee parlors will pay ually, according to the edule, and wholesale soft drinks will be nnually ks will be $50.00 annual City tax assessor-collector B. Pinder icated that his of: would act immediately to collect occupational taxes from those listed in the new provisions 1 payroll released to employes yesterday assesed the was $1,45: Fi HOUSING BIDS TO BE OPENED OCT. 3 Twelve days r ers to obtain n for build- specifications and is for the Key West Hous: Authority's projects, accorc director Wallace B. Kirke, who re d The Citizen today that the bids will be opened on Octo- ber 3rd. Approximately 15 concerns, from widely-scattered sections the count! have paid the receive specifications Mr. Kirke stated, this being relayed to Key the Pancoast organiza- Miami, architects for the jects here. PATRIOTIC DANCE Sunday, Sept. 22. 10 till ? Habana-Madrid Club Auspices MARTI CLUB Music by JEROME COLLINS and his Beach Combers FLOOR SHOW fee for BOARD DECIDES ~ TO CLOSE CLINIC; LACK OF FUNDS SERVICES AT MARINE HOS- PITAL TO BE CONTINUED; COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO “GET NEW HOSPITAL” Effective October Ist, the Mon- roe County Clinic will be closed down insofar as_ phy pharmacist services are concern- ed, according to information re- leased today by the Advisory Welfare Board of this city. Lack of funds to carry on the work was held up as the reason for the move which will act to deprive needy citizens of prac- tically their only source of pro- tection from disease. Facilities at the Marine pital, however, will be tinued, it- was announced. Cer- tification for admittance to that institution will be signed, upon application, by the former clinic staff, Doctors Warren, Galey and DePoo. Pharmaceutical, medical and office supplies at the clinic will be sold soon, it was stated, and the funds will be turned into the Welfare Board’s treasury to help defray hospitalization expenses. A meeting of the Board was held Thursday night which brought the above decision. At this meeting a committee com- posed of Melvin F. Russell, Dr. H. C. Galey and county com- mission chairman Carl Bervaldi, appointed to work with rep- sentative Bernie C. Papy aim- ing at the estaMlishment of a new hospital for Monroe County. hos- con- The Relief Issue (EDITOR'S NOT! ton Feature Service Writer, is devoted to his column is made available to the two major Parties for a pro-and-con presentation of an agreed list of Political subjects. Neither side has seen the other's articles and there will be no rebuttal.) m | All Boy Scouts of The Republican View |whether participating By J. WILLIAM DITTER Representative from Pennsylvania and Member WPA Investigating Committee WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Pol- itics in relief and federal employ- it agencies agai ri its y d in this elec year s it did in 1936 and 1938. With the opening of the cam- paign, July WPA began to mount. Each suc ve showed progressvie increases, the total for the month 000. And this wa: week i and jouncements from the Depart- at of Labor that private em- ployment was expanding. Notwithstanding vast appro- priations for defense resulting in many new jobs, relief rolls con- tinued to increase in August and remain at virtually the same high level. Under the Hatch Act, per- receiving incomes from the federal government are debarred from political activity. There is nothing in the law to prevent government agencies padding the relief rolls for political support. New Deal relief is a standing record of scandal and extrava- gance. Congressional investiga- tions, dominated by Democratic members, have exposed the un- scrupulous exploitati of the needy on WPA rolls in a dozen CARBURETOR NEED OVERHAULING? SPARK PLUGS ADJUSTING? VALVES GRINDING? MOTOR BOLTS TIGHTENING? SEE LOU SMITH, PHONE While Jack Stinnett, AP Washing- = —_ ithe President's proclamation for} O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON| pulsory Military Training; ogictration. Law, it left most of the deli- {| <. es i <atuidacddons cuathe dest to | Six thousand five hundred local! regulations prescribed by the idraft boards of about three menj{ President. This is the first of ‘each are the heart of the selec- two articles telling the how The Presi- and why of the rules and (dent appoints these men with the regulations.) advice of the governors. i By MORGAN M. BEATTY 1 Areas Of About 30,000 | AP Feature Service Writer i Each board presides over an Snoring i WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—The :area in which about 30,000 peo-i The hearing got off to a late ;RUMbers of a legion of) youn ea ey i Bo es ee ee ee ee eee imond R. Lord presiding, and without of the fish bowl—the fish'about how many men will regis all witnesses in the case not {bowl that’s been in Independence ‘ter. They use a system known as heard, the hearing was recessed |Hall ever since the World war' Weighted census statistics”. As jat noon to be called back for ‘draft, or a bowl just like .it. suming a population base of 131, ;more testimony at 3:00 o'clock! First, about 10,000 capsules will /000,000 Americans, they know this afternoon. ibe poured within its wide brim.,between 12 and 13. percent of |_ Terwilliger’s complaint charged |The capsules will be like the ones ,these are between 21 and 36 or Sweeting and Joseph Perdomo, your druggist uses for powdered '@bout 16,500,000. alias Pina, with robbery. Identi- medicine, but deep blue so no-| In the light of World war ex- fication of Perdomo had not been!body may see the number on a Petience, about one-third of the lestablehed athanniinday! leaiciatimarert canis esrir sixteen and a half millions will in calling the hearing! Here in Washington they'll fall into class one—subject to sed by the complainant's {mount the glass bowl on a table immediate military training. physical condition which has‘and stir the capsules with a _ The Army isn’t ready for 5,- kept him abed at the Marine hos-| wooden spoon. Lights will snap 500,000 men now. Between regis- pital since Sunday. jon, cameras will grind and not- ‘ration day and February 1 it can It was stated that the defense ables will step forward to pick handle about 400,000. By the end had two witnesses to present at) out the first capsules. Later the Of the fiscal year on July 1, it the continuation of the hearing generals will finish the long job. C2" absorb another 400,000. this afternoon. Further testimony! Behind this business of pulling: First Call In November for Terwilliger was expected to {capsules out of a bowl is nearly; On the first call, about mid- be presented this afternoon. ja quarter of a cenutry of expe- November, it expects to take in | rience and planning. 75,000 of the first quota of 400,- Planned For 20 Years 000. Another call for 75,000 is to Blasts Of War Waken | Back in 1920, Congress ordered go out a few weeks later, an- Ohio Glass-Crafters |the Army and Navy to plan for other for 125,000 soon after, and Z ‘future military emergencies. Six.a final call for 125,000 will fill (Special to The Citizen) years later the Joint Army and. the first quota. i TOLEDO, O., Sept. 21.—Toledo ; Navy selective service committee} The next auota of 400,000 in which was the world’s capitaf of went to work. After 1936 thé"vhe spring will make up a total fine crystal blowing back in the ‘committee called in 30-odd civil- well within the fixed limit of 1890’s when cut-class was inter- | ian experts, most of them grad- 900,000 in any one year. It’s all nationally famous, is again com-|uates of the World war draft planned so the draft will go first ing into the limelight as the great | System. into low gear, then into second, glass blowing center. | The result of the joint effort: and finally high. | A few years after the turn of The 1940 draft. The committee} And it’s dollars to doughnuts; the century the glass factories|expects it to be simple, smooth most of us will hardly know a became more interested in ma-| Working and, above all, fair and draft is going on. Under the plan! chine-made glass, and the art of|democratic. Basically, it is the now being set up, sparsely popu- ‘blowing fine crystal passed to| World war draft system all over lated Nevada will be asked for Europe.- Now, however, all| again, but streamlined. scarcely 50 men on the first call sources of fine Swedish and| The minute the conscription in mid-November. Crowded New Czechoslovakian glass are cut off,;law passed, printing orders for York will contribute only about and skilled blowers are once | 500,900,000 forms—booblets, cards, 7,675. | more making their way back to/ blanks, questionnaires, in fact, all | Toledo. jthe paraphernalia of the draft— And so the rekindling of the | Were ready to shoot out. fires of this ancient art, which goes back to classical times, marks the upswing of an important in- dustry in the making of fine mod- ern American glass. Thomas R. Terwilliger, paymas- _ter of the Coast Guard cutter Mo- | jave, definitely identified Wilbur | Sweeting, city taxi driver, as! |the “man who robbed me” at the | first session of the hearing held; at the county courthouse this! ,tive service system. Many are called, few and why!) (Monday: are chosen, Preparations Completed , For Scout Swim Meet Eight big events will high- 50 yard free style—100 Ibs. or| light the Boy Scout Swimming over. © | Meet schéduled for tomorrow at 2 yard breast stroke—open. | Officers’ Pavilion of U. S. Navy Undressing race—-open. Yard under auspices of Key West Fancy diving—open. Junior Chamber Commerce. Life line race—open. Activities wiil begin at 2:00 Senior relay—100 Ibs. and over. | o'clock. Junior relay—under 100 Ibs. All members of the Key Wast | Junior Chamber of Commerce are also requested to be at the main gate at 1:30 to assist in the arrangements. FIVE SHIPS ARE IN PORT DESTROYER HUMPHREYS IN TODAY: SUBMARINE DUE TOMORROW | | SCCCCSTCOSEOSSOSEEe | on vacation, the space usually of the city, in the jevents or not, are to assemble outside of the main gate of Navy ‘Yard in swimming suits at 1:30 sharp to enter yard in a body. states. Since 1933 the federal} Lieut. (jg) J. J. Daub of the U. government has expended more S. Bainbridge and Ensign Ww. than 15 billion dollars for relief.,T- Sisson of the V. P. 53, both During each of the last two years | former scouts and swimming and the total cost of relief was nearly Giving experts, will be on hand three times that in 1933, yet the to assist the judges in selecting mber of persons receiving re- the winners, especially in the payments in the latter years pad anne ey was actually fess than in 1933. | 5 “Carpender, Col. H. D. Hatfield relief 2nd Councilman Ernest Ramsey. Events slated are as follows: 50 yard free le—under 80 ibs. 50 yard free style—80 to 100 The inefficiency of the system, the billions wasted on frivolous and unnecessary proj- ects is only equalled by the futile attempts of the administration to reduce unemployment. During “seven years of the New Deal 18 percent of the labor force of the! nation has been unemployed, as compared with an annual aver-} age of 7.2 percent during the 12 years, 1921-32 period under Re- publicans, a period with two de- pressions. No Republican, no American, favors permitting those who are unemployed through no fault of their own to suffer. But practic- al experience has demonstrated that with federal assistance the states and local communities can administer relief more equitably and more reasonably than when » (Continued on Page Four) i U. S. S. Humphreys, destroyer escort for the submafiné Sea Raven, carrying on experimental operations in_K fest. came into the Basé this according to Captain A. S. pender, commander of the West Patrol. Other ships in port today are the destroyers Bainbridge, Lea and King, and the converted sea- plane tender Goldsborough. The U. S. S. Lawrence and the sub- marine Sea Raven are due to ar- rive back in port here tomorrow, it was stated. The navy oil tanker and sup- ply ship, U. S. S. Salinas, left this morning for Norfolk and the destroyer Sands is still out on ‘neutrality patrol duty. . _ a aac, CAVE INN BAR The Hawaiian Trio Beginning a and Featuring Rhumba Dancing By Louisa PAY US A VISIT 417 Petronia St. Key { i i i | ' i | NOSED’ VILLAIN (By Associated Press) HILLSBOROUGH, Calif. Sept. 21.—Count and Countess Mare De Tristan, prominent residents of this exclusive , section, were anxiously awaiting further word from the kidnaper of their three- year-old son, Mare De Tristan. The kidnaping occurred yes- terday, engineered by an alleged “swarthy, hook-nosed kidnaper”, vho left a note demanding $100,- 000 for the safe return of the Stating that they wished to ey every wish of the kidnaper, the parents today awaited word from him as to how to proceed to pay that sum of money. Ac- cordingly, state and federal po- lice were called away from the scene of the abduction, remaining powerless, for the moment, to start a search for the criminal. Some apprehension was ex- pressed by friends of the family concerning the boy's condition It was feared that he may have been killed as more and more hours elapsed between the time of kidnaping and the present, with no further word heard According to the boy’s nurse, the kidnaper rushed from a car parked near the immense grounds of the De Tristans, grab- bed the boy, dropped the note and fled. He lost his hat in flight to the car. Possibility that the kidnaper was a member of the De Tris- tans circle of friends was held in indicating a high degree of education. HEAR OF MRS. ROGERS’ DEA Mrs. Anna Key Rogers died Sunday, September 15, in Tampa, according to advice received to- day by The Citizen. Mrs. Rogers is survi husband; three sons, Thadius Gaskins of Key West, Clarence and Bueman Collins of Tampa; four daughters, Katherine, Mir- iam, Eugenia and Ethel Collins, and seven grandchildren Her mother, Mrs. Gertrude Key Roberts, of Key West, also sur- vives. FUN-FOR FIGARO (Ry, Associated Press) MEMPHIS, ‘Tenn. — “Figaro” a black kitten, and “Gene Autry a smal] turtle, are playmates, Mrs. J. W. Ashwood says. Fi- garo scoops the turtle out of his shallow. bowl and then the fun begins. The turtle will run for cover, Figaro will fish him out, and the game begins again. ed by her fin need of € To Enter War ~ Tn Near Future MONROE YOUTHS | MAY ENROLL IN STATE €.C.C. WELFARE BOARD SAYS 1750 WILL BE SOUGHT IN DRIVE OPENING OCTOBER 1: NINE FOR THIS COUNTY (Special to The Citiees) JACKSONVILLE, F 21.- youth to joim Conservation C i future. There ate 1 enrolled. The State tifying ani day announced that approx ly 1,750 Florida young be enrolled during the October 1-October 20 Applications for the COC now being accepted by Welfare Bow selecting age tthat the note contained phrases offices of the tw fare found in every 'state, State Welfare er C. C. Codringto be eligible for selects man must be a citizen United State unemployed ployme betweer boards, why cour c n @ young character, 17 years of age, unmarrie school, physically fit. The minimum roliment is for maximum t years. The compensatior per month Those chosen re $45 per m sistant leaders $36. Througt requirements fective July 1 thi is extended to a need of employmer longer c in need f Members of the ing to official subject to m ame extent of their age had they not enrolled present, the Corps’ cx to national defense training will equip them tivities. or as they would be For w sk © civili: in special f Everglades Park Official In a prepared statement from Ernest F. Coe, director of the Everglades National Park Asso- ciation, Inc., the danger of “tak- ing it for granted” that the es- tablishment of the park has been accomplished is cited, and a call for continued action is made. The statement, in part, is pre- sented herewith: “It is now well knwon that Spessard L. Holland nominee for governor of Florida, has very positively expressed his purpose to use every influ- ence within his power, when elected governor, to the end that the Everglades National Park project becomes established with all possible speed. “It is also well known that each member of the forthcoming governor’s cabinet has expressed himself to this association in favor of the .Park’s early estab- lishment. “Herein lies a danger, that in- dividuals and collective interests , |Honorable which h: the Ey al acti it for gran ect has now w that wh: finish u: job is j ter of routine detail attitude would be facts in the case and guarded against by all interested (Continued on Page Four: NOTICE! CITY 1940-41 OCCUPATIONAL tions engaged in City of Key West notified t City of Occupation Licenses are due and payable 1940. No extensions business im hereby Key West for 1940-41 October 1 of time are @ granted WILLARD M. ALBURY. sept21,1940—1t Mayor Will Seek Captere OF Gi braltar: Britam Sicek Military Action Show Teday Thinks Project Endangered we naval bese 9153 OR 5

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