The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 24, 1940, Page 1

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. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1940 VOLUME LXI. No. 228. RAF. Hands Bellin Worst Attack Of War * Germans Lose Two Tr00p- IO IIIS OM, ters to be sent to all delegate ships And Barges Con- taining 50,000 Soldiers’ In Channel {Ry Associated Presa) LONDON, Sept. 24.—The Royal Air Force submitted Berlin to the worst airraid and bombing of the war to date last night when approximately 500 planes were dispatched from British bases across the lowlands and far into Germany to the capital city. Nazi anti-aircraft guns suc- ceeded in driving a large propor- tion of the invading British center of many R. A. F. penetrated through the to give from ‘the but planes away the bomber city, barrage and proceeded Berlin a heavy dose of the medi-’s that has lot of three cine the past been London during the weeks. Public buildings of all descrip- tions were hit and factories, large and small, were set afire by in- cendiary missiles. In retaliation, late reports here indicated that the Nazis sending over a renewal of today were their air attacking drive, follow- ing parative a two-day period of com- Southeast Eng- reported that respite land cities of had greatly creased at noon today and that hundreds of German planes were heading toward London up the Thames estuary. A report was heard here this morning. though unconfirmed by official British sources, that from 50,000 to 65,000 Nazi troops were drowned last week when barges upon which they were embarked in the English channel had been sunk by R. F. bombings. Observers bi ved that this inten- sity attacks in- |CONE MAY APPOINT | ADDITIONAL JUDGE; (By Associated Prenn) TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 24. —Attorney General Gibbs tuled today that Governor Cone may appoint additional judge in the Eleventh Circuit (Dade and Monroe) if cir- cuit’s population increased 50,000 since 1935. Under Act 1937 Legislature Circuit Judge authorized for each additional 50,000 or major fraction. In all other cir- cuits, number judges may be changed only by Legislature. Sait I 22S: INTO THE PUDDLE— OUT OF A MUDDLE 'fiy Associznted Press) HUTCHINSON, Kas. — “What's the idea?” asked a couple of po- lice officers when they found two en in a creek daubing Ives with mud “We've been out on a party,” said the men, “but we’ going to tell our wives “ve been stuck in a mud hole them- WHEEL OF MISFORTUNE DU! N. C.—Trying out the bicycle he had just bought for his children, farmer J. J. Parker fell and broke a leg. His little daughter tried out the wheel the next day and broke her nose. His son hopped on the bicycle to go to the store to buy groceries. He fell and broke an arm. Why I'll Vote For--- Seccccccccvccceseccsces (EDITOR'S NOTE: While ton Feature Service Writer. is on vacation, the space usually devoted to his column is made available to the two major Parties for a pro-and-con presentation of an agreed list of Neither side has seen the other's articles Political subjects. and there will be no rebuttal.) Wendell L. Willkie KEY WEST C.OFE: | director's meeting held at the lo- SEEKS F.C.S.A.’S. SPRING SESSION LETTERS TO BE SENT TO ALL DELEGATE MEMBERS URG- ING FAVORABLE VOTE ON QUESTION AT MEETING Navy Lets Contract ‘i in For Basin Dredging BUFFALO FIRM AWARDED WORK ON BID OF ; $107,000; TO COMPLETE JOB IN Key West Chamber of Com- merce took steps this morning to obtain the Spring convention | Session of the Florida Commer- cial Secretary’s Association for this city when it authorized let-|™7ine basin at Key West Naval Station has been let to the R. C. members of that organization urging a favorable vote on the question at the next meeting. This action was taken at the of Buffalo, New York, according to word released by Captain Walter F. Jacobs, commandant, lic works officer at the station, this morning. Previous reports from Wash- [ington had stated that the dredg- jing work had been let following opening of bids last Wednesday, to Willbanks and Pierce, Inc,, of Manning, South Carolina, for their bid of $127,160. The Huffman bid totals $107,- {000 and calls for completion of son when he appears at the Octo- |the project which will include ber 4th and 5th meetings of the! = a idredging the entire basin to a Secretary’s Association at Ocala. f 22-feet and filling Mr. Singleton stated that a eee oes Ss Sees eo na =~ set DEVAUX CAUGHT vestigate whether there was rag- weed growing on the island, and | meet here next’ if any was found, to eradicate it’ OFFICER MALONEY BROUGHT immediately. This step would be taken in order that Dr. R. P. PRISONER TO JAIL HERE Wodehouse, prominent scientist! connected with a bio-chemical , company conducting experiments | on hay-fever allergics, could in- = | the eemaies ina | County police officer, Raymond he is writing on the subject of Maloney’brought John Devaux ee jte the county jail this morning Communication from John H.:0" charges, preferred by Ma- Costar, agent for the P. & O. S. iloney, of stealing limes from off S. Company, concerning a_ re-| |Key Largo property on com- quest to aes the northwest plaint of C. O. Garrett, caretaker channel shoaled was acknowl-{°f the property. -dged and the secretary requested | Officer Maloney reported that ppeeutey ee U. S. Army En- {Several complaints had been gineer’s office in ‘Miami eee by Mr. Garrett, and that he hiceas Martin’s complaint thad been looking for the thief. gainst municipal taxes came up | Yesterday he discovered Devaux for attention. He was to be in.{With two sacks of limes that had formed that the matter would be | Deen Temoved from the property in question without permission reful consideration. i een of the owner. Three other sacks had been sold, Maloney learned. Devaux was bound over to the Criminal Court this morning on bond of $300, which he was un- able to furnish. cal chamber this morning attend- ed by five members of the gov- erning group, Everett Russell, president, Miss Elizabeth Sharp- ley, W. W. Demeritt, Ben D. Trevor and Charles Taylor, and secretary Stephen C. Singleton. The invitation was to be} stressed by Mr. Singleton in per- ber of secretaries had their wish to spring Chamber directors voted io! push an active campaign to in- Jack Stinnett, AP Washing- ARRIVED BY PLANE CAME WITH NAVY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE SITE FOR Contract for dredging the sub-! Huffman Construction Company,’ and Lt. Comdr. T. J. Brady, pub-, - COMDR. ROSENDAHL SEVENTY-FIVE DAYS concrete wall within a 75-days’ period of time. Comdr. Brady told The Citizen | this morning that he was await- | ing the arrival of the Huffman Company representative and ex- pected that he would be here in, a day or two. At present the Huffman Com- pany is doing work in the Tampa area and it was expected that they could move machinery and equipment to Key West in order | to start the dredging and filling ; work perhaps by next week. Contracting firm tives have been in Key West dur- ing the past week, Captain Jacobs stated this morning, of- fering preliminary figures and information concerning con- | struction of the $500,000 marine} railway for the local station. Construction of the marine railway which will be of suffi-| cient size to admit destroyers to its ways, will be handled on a cost, plus fixed-fee contract basis, Captain Jacobs stated, and | recommendations of the’ local of- | ficers will be accepted by Wash- ington headquarters it was thought. No further word on the hous- ing project for Trumbo airbase} had come through from Wash- ington it was reported. This “project which will house 50 navy families in quarters to be structed at the southwest be constructed on a cost, fixed-fee bas also, it stated. CORONER’S JURY was TO PROBE DEATH PRELIMINARY INVESTIGA- TION POINTED TO MURDER Judge E. R. Lowe, peace justice j at Tavernier, will preside at a; coroner’s inquest tomorrow after- j noon at 12:30 o'clock in that town- ship; called to investigate circum- stances surrounding the finding under Card Sound bridge yester-} day afternoon of an unidentified | male body. Preliminary investigation point- | representa- | con-! cor-; ner of the Trumbo property is to! plus | |COMPLAINANT ADMITTED DRINKING INTOXICATING LIQUOR BEFORE ALLEGED ATTACK OCCURRED Charges of assault with intent !to commit robbery, filed against | Wilbur Sweeting and Joseph Per- jdomo by Joseph Terwilliger, pay- {master on the coast guard cutter | Mojave, were dismissed yester- jday afternoon by county judge Raymond R. Lord. | Taking the case under advise- ment following completion of all | testimony late Saturday after- Inoon, Judge Lord rendered his decision yesterday when court ,assembled at 4:00 o'clock. Judge Lord ruied that Ter- willhiger “had no. case” against | Sv eeting or Perdomo in that he had admitted on the stand that he had been drinking for three days prior to the alleged robbery and that his memory was such that he could not recall much of what took place during that time. Attempting to make a case for | himself, Terwilliger did state that Sweeting “was the man who {pushed me from the car after re- lieving me of my money and pis- tol”. Questioned closely on this point, it developed that his mem- lory was too hazy to be suffi- jciently certain of the accusation. {He was unable to identify Per- domo and one other person whom jhe had previously stated were in the car. :in | JUDGE SCOWLS; | ATTORNEY HOWLS | | | i \ { (By Associated Press) OKLAHOMA CITY — Whether {a judge got red in the face is go- jing to be the subject for discus- ‘sion in a judicial hearing J. D. Lydick, attorney for a de- | fendant sentenced to five years, | contended in an appeal that the judge’s face and demeanor indi- cated he “did not believe” a wit- ness. i NOT SO UNLUCKY SPRINGFIELD. I]i —Reversing the traditional beliefs, Roy | George thinks Friday the thir- teenth is his lucky day. His car twas hit by a train, rolled over twice and was crunched beneath j the wheels of a coal car. George was pulled out alive—his only injuries being bruises on his left shoulder and left leg. Name Nineteen BY JUDGE LORD AS Supporting Unit For Guard PIP IPL AS 2 2 Prominent VISITS CITY AFTER 38 YEARS’ ABSENCE Having moved from Key West 38 years ago to make her home in Cincinnati. Ohio. Mrs. Agnes Carey Katez is back home greeting friends. She is a quest at the home of her brother, John Carey. whom she had not seen im 29 years. During that long period of time. Mrs. Carey had been in Key West onlv 2 few hours when she came here due to a death in the family 17 years ago. She is at the present time making her home in Miami with a son, John A. Katez BIDIIIIs. ae ‘ THREE SHIPS IN—TWO OUT DESTROYERS FORMERLY STATIONED HERE CAME IN FOR FUEL TODAY (jus: We Lesk Fer Tetz Member~tup Hundred Serve; ~ Te The destroyers U and U. S. S. Wicke stationed here as West Patrol this morni Galvestor for Norfoli Also ai ing here veston was the U bringing Ca a who is c Division 36. Other shiz ing were flagship « under co: Carpende converte part of 10:3 the ‘THE ECUPSE: SAVAGES RUN FROM barge attempt may have been the initial invasion attempt ordered by Hitler, and its failure sig- nalled the decision to call off the ed to murder in that the man’s | body seemed to have suffered aj en ee sre in| Moon et Between Earth And Sun October First ed by bullets in two places, one in; A HIPS By JOSEPH W. MARTIN, JR. seria Chairman Republican National Committee and Republican invasion until later. British sources stated that ac- tion over the west coast of France this morning resulted ia the sink- ing of two German _troopships and damage to at least one other. No information as to casualties was obtainable. Reports were rampant here this morning concerning the sub- ject of future “bitter fights” be- tween newly-organized units of the Fret army and British forces. me credence to the report was indicated when dis came through anent defense of African pos- at Dakar when expeditionary forces operated in co-operation with “free French forces” under command of Gen. Charl De Gaulle attempted to force landing there. D hes from Berlin this mi ng told of increasing bitter- towards the United States ance being given the One sued a warning to Amer- the British will lose the s of help from any ial Nazi news agen- ed that air attacks late waste to addition- property in and London » and more build- Waterloo sta- oad center near ings in this city, ged, the claims rial objectives e Yarmouth were strafed by bombers. railroad aroun: was further stated at Ne mercile: British | official is said to} Leader in House of Representatives WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—The and which it is now forthco ane rable ae sie saan ae . this effort be successful, it is jin importance any issue of pure- RI SS SE even to the possibility of a life tenure for the chief executive. What would become of our De- mocracy under such circum- stances and under the influence of present world trends, it is not difficult to foresee. It is for these, among many other reasons, that I shall support Wendell Willkie and Senator Charles and Vice-President of the Unit- States and not merely because of the circumstances that I am a Republican. It is for these same reasons that millions of former Demo-} crats will support Wendell Will- kie for the Presidency and will have no part in the third term effort to establish the fiction of the indispensable man or to up- hold other falacies of the New Deal. sought g election lly partisan politics. It represents a struggle to de- {termine e future co > of the ation for possibly generations to economic, social and polit- The paramount issue cans are called upon to di whether we shall preserve the indiv: ‘and the free: institut teed to us under the Cor ution, or whether we shall depart yet further from the American prin- ciples of self-government along the road of foreign concepts of Tule by dictatorship. The present administration re- mains steadfast in its adherence to bureaucratic and _ socialistic trend: Spite of its seven years of failure. Through the New Deal system of uncurbed spending and borrowing we have reached an all-time high debt of staggering Ameri- © 8.6 L. McNary for President} proportions and continue to face annual deficits of bil Ss, even without having entered upon the thus far abortive effort to accom- plish an adequate national de- fense. There is, furthermore, the is- sue of departure from the wise precedent and tradition against any individual serving a_ third term in the Presidency, a tradi- tion upheld by all of our Presi- dents from Washington down,; T am and always have been a Republican, but were the situa- tion reversed, I should feel and act as do these Democrats, who aFe putting country above parti- sanship and patriotism above false hero worship. We need a businessman in the White House, not only to solve our grave economic problems, brought about by seven years of waste and extravagance, but to insure that adequate defense (Continued On Page Four) Commander Charles E. Rosen- ‘01 dahl, attached to the office of the Secretary of the Navy at Wash- ington, came to Key West this morning, arriving at 9:30 o'clock, to investigate the possibility of establishing a supplementary non-rigid airship station here. Commander Rosendahl arrived on a plane of Squadron VP53 from Miami with two members of the official board making the inves- tigation for the navy depart- ment. Comdr. George H. Mills, U.S.N., and Lt. Comdr. Daniel N. Logan, _ US.N., accompanied Comdr. Rosendahl. They planned to return to Miami this after- ;noon. will or following The navy department yhave 48 non-rigid blimps dirigibles on hand completion of present construc- tion operations. They will be used chiefly for observation put poses. LJ SONS OF LEGION the side and one in a temple. The | | sum of $29.67 was found in his trouser’s pocket, indicating that robbery was not the motive of oe killing. The above information supplied The Citizen by police officer Raymond Maloney } this morning at the county court-; house. He stated that he would be the executive officer at the in- quest and that Captain E. R. Combs would be foreman of the jury, serving with Adrian Hodges, ; G. Donnelison, E. H. Smith and‘ Jimmy Venn. Charles B. Curtis and Mr. and Mrs. David Lyon discovered the man’s body floating under the! bridge, and Mr. and Mrs. Leon ; Sawyer assisted in bringing it to shore, Maloney revealed. Check Up On These Home Fire Hazards (Special ‘The Citizen) WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—The = H county | week of October 6 to 13 has been} designated Fire Prevention Week ; MEET TONIGHT Sons of the American Legion, Squadron 28, newly-organized group here, will hold a meeting at American Legion Hall tonight, 6:30 o'clock. Plans for organizing a club will be discussed at this Meeting, it was stated, and all members have been urged to at- tend. by Presidential proclamation. Most home fire hazards—points out the National Fire Protection Association, sponsors—can easily be eliminated. These, which take an annual toll of 7.000 lives and $100,000,- 000 in property loss, are listed as: rubbish in cellars and attics, faulty heating plant, dirty chim- neys, inflammable roofs, rifle and explosive cleaning fluids. faulty } electrical equipment and wiring, | TAS SOENTISIS RUN TO IT iy HERMAN R. NEW YORK, Sept. 24—Terror will reign in the steaming jun- |gles of the Amazon basin in South America on Oct. 1 as the }moon comes between the earth and the sun. But to scientists it will be one more chance to learn about the universe we live in. | This will be no ordinary eclipse. The sun's disk will be entirely covered for more than four minutes. “The circumstances that make lan eclipse of this length possible are extremely rare,” says Prof. ‘William H. Barton, executive jeurator of the Hayden plane- jtarium of the American Museum jof Natural History. | “They involve the relative dis- tances between the earth, the moon and the sun. It is a for- tunate combination of these rel- ative distances that will make the coming solar eclipse such a |notable event, both for astron- jomers and the man in the street —r, rather, the Indian in the jungle. “The blotting out of the sun | by the moon in full day during jan eclipse has always struck fear linto the hearts of primitive men that the average person sees no more than once in his lifetime. “That isn’t because eclipses are! j because an eclipse is something! R. ALLEN. a but beca: SO rare never same place same > SUN Tise f southern Ce« ; it will be total Then a hundred darkness acro: “olom zuela, the jungi out over the Atlanti later, efter cr r ca, it will lose dian Ocean The eclipse will in the United Sta @ few fleeting moments gia and Florida, where partial Several expe in the until noor furnishing the following Teject any and all BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS sepie-