The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 1, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LAI. No. 234. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1940 New Planes Drive Nazis From London * MASONIC HONORS AT HUSTON RITES HELD TOMORROW SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. } 4:30 O'CLOCK; PALLBEAR- ERS ANNOUNCED Funeral services for William E. Huston, who died Sunday eve- ning at the Jackson Memorial hospital in Miami, will be held} tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday, 4:30 o'clock at the First Baptist} church. i Rev. John C. Gekeler, pastor} of First Presbyterian church,’ joined by Rev. Ted M. Jones of the Baptist church, will officiate at the services. The body will be placed in the church at 2:30 o'clock by Pritch- ard’s Funeral Home, in charge of | arrangements. Full Masonic hon-| ors will be observed. Pallbearers announced | as follows H Horace O'Bryant, Ross C. Saw-| yer, Ralph B. Boyden, John Park, B. Curry Moreno, Charles Lowe, J. R. Hyman, Wm. Evans, Melvin! E. Russell and George Perpall. Mr. Huston is survived by his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Huston and a brother, John Morrow of Mobile, were 1 1 | POSTAL RECEIPTS CONTINUE CLIMB Postal receipts during the month of September this year | continued the upward climb hold- ling all previous months in com-| parison with the corresponding | ;months last year. Postmaster |Fred J. Dion released the follow- ing figures for the month ending! yesterday: i] Postal receipts increased! $995.72, with $2272.64 in sales for} September, 1939, and $3268.36 \September Reports Given AND YOU All-Time High In ‘Brita YOU PAY TAXES! (Associated Press Feature Service) LONDON, Sept. 30.—History’s most costly war has_ boosted Britain’s income tax rate to an all-time high. Canada, Aus-! tralia, New Zealand and South | Africa have also raised their; j tates. Britain's basic rate is now $1.89 on the pound ($4.45). Taxation is slightly less on income | brackets. In Canada the income | tax together with the new na-! | tional defense tax amounts to $30 jon an income of $1,500 a year and {$555 on $5,000 a year for mar- SECRETARIES TO RECEIVE INVITE TO MEET IN K.W. S. C. SINGLETON CONFIDENT ASSOCIATION WILL AC- CEPT; DIRECTORSHIP NOMI- NATIONS COMPLETED | ‘Night Hawks Undergo | Successful Initial Tests; Berlin Sees Longest Air Raid Of War Secretary Stephen C. Single- jton of the Key West Chamber of ;Commerce leaves today on the 5:00 o'clock bus to attend the Florida Commercial Secretary’s | Association convention opening in Ocala next Friday, October 4th, lasting for two days. Carrying with him a bid from the local chamber to hold the LONDON, Oct. 1.—Predictingispring convention of the as- } 2 . sociation in Key West next April |** = that the Siege of London ‘con-},. May, ‘secretary Singleton x= ped Persons with no dependents. } ducted:be/Mesi ikcmbinnded | pressed confidence that the secre- | Provincial income taxes also are joes wen yo Sea and levied except in Nova Scotia and acceptance of the invitation. New Brunswick. iooanat de ceecenmaninsl ee ee loting were announced this morn- j ustralia hes ineressed income | ing at chamber headquarters. jtaxes by roughly 50 per cent. An Twenty-four names were placed ; Australian with a wife and two which) in nomination by chamber mem-' children, with earned income of have performed wonders in ex- bers, from which list a total of $3,580 pays $152.15. Under the 12 directors will be chosen at a old system he would have paid 1 | lower | j (By Associated Press) | | | will soon come to a definite stop, the British today revealed the existence of a new-type defend- er plane called Nighthawks, i last month. Money orders issued last month} totalled $54,957.00. For the same; month in 1939, the total was; $30,711.00. Money orders paid by the local office tast month to- talled $23,276.00, comparing with last. year’s total in the same month of $20,460.00. In the postal savings depart- ment, corresponding increases were shown. On deposit and due depositors as of close of business last evening was $329,991.00. This amount compares with $296,654.00 on deposit September 30, 1939. | DISGUSTED! LONDON. — Hearing agonized'“° cries of “Help, help!” under the} wreckage of a bombed residence, firemen braved the dangers of an air raid overhead to batter their way to the rescue of—aj bald-headed, profane parrot H | periments held during the past later election, to serve for the $102.03. Australians Pay state in- next fiscal year. jcome taxes as well. Those nominated were: New Zealand has a graduated A. Maitland Adams, Joe Allen, tax scale. In its first war bud- Wm. M. Arnold, Carl Bervaldi,' get the rates were increased in W. W. Demeritt, Fred J. Dion, | all categories by 15 per cent. : z Wm. A. Freeman, Wm. T. Fripp,} South Africa’s rate varies. Su- day time, will go far, experts here}john Gardner, Bascom L. pertax goes to a maximum of declare, to stop the invasion and|Grooms, Frank H. Ladd, Wm. H. $1.12 on the pound ($4.47). Nor- take the war across the channel ;Monsalvatge, Bernie C. Papy, A.' mal income tax and supertax in on offensive drives into Germany |=. Peirce, E. A. Ramsey, E. E. South Africa have both been in- and France. Russell, M. E. Russell, Elizabeth ‘creased by 20 per cent. - Sharpley, Charles E. Smith, Additional preparations were A i going forward in Berlin today Julius F. Stone, E. A. Strunk, SPONGE SALE Jr., Charles S. Taylor, Norberg to evacuate children and women é ¥ not needed in armaments fac-| /#°™Pson and Ben D. Trevor. Largest sponge_sale_ held_for | the last three weeks was Conduct-! tories. = LICENSES SELLING i H buildings and military objectives. ——= ee Hes eeunciirad Guck: Yeates ons He day. is raid. declared to be theisTORE KEEPERS AND DRIV-; A total of ten léts were sold longest of the war to date, was | brin a ‘ ging a total of $465.08. There | conducted on a successful basis, ERS FLOOD COUNTY were 105 bunches of wool sponge the British stated, despite heavy OFFICES disposed of, eight bunches of yel- anti-aircraft fire by Berlin’s de- ‘low and six rag sponge bunches. | hee ies ue |One lot of 37 bunches of wool| ; A total of approximately 1400 sponge brought $166.67 and two| two nights. These planes, soon to rise by the hundreds in the defense of Britain, both at night and in the | t attack by the RAF., sting of a five-hour concen- tration on industrial areas in and surrounding the German capital, brought much destruction to reported fronts this - S. A. Che Key West Citizrir Day Oct. 16 ==> = Pais @ S2708T 2s0os— YESTERDAY Board States Melvin E. Russell and ‘TUG WILLET { John England Assist; Ross Sawyer As Draft) Heads Instructions received itodey jfrom H. P. Baya. State’ Director for Selective Service. with head- quarters at St. Augustine have served to inform county clerk Ross C. Sawyer fully on the sub- ject of personnel of the local draft board and process to follow in registering all young men in Monroe County between the ages of 21 and 35, in conformity with the conscription act. Melvin E. Russell, superin- tendent of public instruction, and John England, supervisor of reg- istration, will serve with Mr, Sawyer, constituting the Monroe County Sélective Service Board. October 16th will be registra- tion day in this county, in con- formity with all other counties of the state, and Governor Cone, according to the announcement, is expected to declare a school holiday on that day. This holiday will facilitate the IT TAKES TIME, MONEY, AND EFFORT ‘Learning To Fly Not Pushover’, Says AP Aviation Ed eee eee ese imorning, indicating that forma-{4tivers’ licenses will have been lots of 25 bunches of tion of new alliances against the |issued by county judge Raymond | democracies and their neutral|R- Lord by closing time this aft-| sympathizers were still being {€Tmoon as indicated this morning discussed. when autoists flooded his office on the diplomatic wool | work of registering the draftees, in that the Selective Service Board has tentatively decided upon employing school teachers brought $109.10 and $101.80. MORE MARRIAGES TO PUT WINGS ON JOHN Q. CITIZEN By DEVON FRANCIS, AP Aviation Editor NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—The gov- ernment is talking about a de- velopment in private flying which will put 100.000 or more light planes in the air. At the expense of arousing some of the private flying en- thusiasts, I am going to state that flying in airplanes as they are now being built probably will never be any more popular than, say, sailboating. Learning to fly properly is no pushover. I know. I've tried it. That I succeeded in obtaining a license is more of a credit to my _ in- structors than to my aptitude. We Francises always have to learn things the hard way. The procedure has been sim- plified considerably for the stu- dents enrolled in the federal civilian training program. They are out little money, they have definite hours for their training and they have extremely close supervision. By way of contrast, as an aver- age citizen, I began taking in- struction at a small, privately- owned airport in July, 1939, and it was not until 14 months later that I got around to taking all the required tests and waited, breathlessly, for the verdict. In the meantime I had piled up about 12 hours of dual in- struction and 46 hours of solo flying. Only 35 hours of solo time is required for a student to try out for his “ticket”, but it is a good idea to add a few more. License Cost $384 My license cost me $384. That covered the dual instruction at $8 an hour (in metropolitan cen- ters it runs as high as $10 an hour. »lo time at $6 an hour and a brace of physical examinations at $6 the copy. There were such added expenses as transportation to and from the airport, the pur- chase of log and_ instruction books and roses for my wife that night when I got home late, but we'll write those off as overhead. Costs may be scaled down somewhat in less congested cen- ters, but in no event would they be less than $200. My license cost me 22 days of eight hours each, counting the hours spent riding to and from the airport. It also cost me a con- siderable amount of mental an- guish incident to family discus- sions of spending money on a frivolous pastime. Coordination And Judgment Getting the hang of managing a plane is a matter of good mus- cular coordination and quick judgment. Until your speed be- gins washing your control sur- faces with air, for instance, you must handle the rudder carefully on takeoff. You must learn the “feel” of a stall. You must learn to make three-point landings and “wheel” landings with the tail up. You must “smell” storms and avoid the turbulent air under cumulus clouds and on the lee- ward side of hills. You must learn all these things, but finally and most im- portant, you must learn how not to get lost. Air navigation is a tidy little study all by itself. Looks Twice At Your Eyes After mastering that — and don’t forget a pretty rigorous physical examination in which the doctor looks twice at your eyes—you are eligible to try for a license. If you do get that precious slip of paper, you still have the problem of acquiring a plane or, in lieu of that, joining a flying club or renting a ship by the hour. A trim little coupe good for 100 miles an hour will cost around $2,000. But if you are an average American ticket holder, you will rob the baby’s pig bank to spend an hour in the air. Flying is like strong drink. It’s hard to stop. i From the far-east came news|t© obtain the permits. This rep-j} bringing some tension to the war ;Tesents nearly half the list that office here. Japan issued a}j@Pplied during last year. strong warning to Britain not to} In county tax collector Frank | open the Burma road for trans-|Ladd’s office, liquor establish-; portation of supplies to the ;ment owners were reporting to} Chinese armies now struggling }P2y license fees this morning.| against the Japs central }About 40 more were reported China. outstanding, however, at noon to-} This move, contemplated as a/day. Occupational licenses, due counter-action against Japan’s{at this office. were receiving} 4cq by thn chek signing of the triple-alliance with |scant attention with only about} Tore were 21 ttsees th we Germany and Italy last week, to-/50 out of an estimated 300 mer- ry issued last month and a total gether with strong British re-|chants reporting to pay this lil of Si Sank deen deca sistance of Japanese territorial |cense-. Fe aggressive action, would prob- K. W. GUARDS THAN DIVORCES Marriage licenses issued by county in nearly doubled the number of final divorce decrees tdown by the circuit court as re- ably act to bring on declarations | Se. of war against the Britons by | | today. ‘That’s The Day’ Deacon Jones Owner and Manager Jones Used Cars will bring to Key West the finest assortment of GUARANTEED USED CARS ever offered the Public. To Be Sold Regardless Of Price GUARANTEED FRANCE TO BUILD BASE AT MARTINIQUE WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt announced today | that the war and state depart- ment had been in conference j with French officials, treating on | the subject of French strengthen- : ing of their military base at the} Major R. H Spottswood, pre-! island of Martinique in the Carib- | Siding officer of the Key West Bene |Guard, called attention to plans | United States approval of the! being formulated for that organ- | move was indicated in the press | ization, which will be outlined ; release this morning, issued by jat the weekly meeting to be held | the White House secretariat. at Legion Hall tonight. Band concerts, to be given by! MURPHY REPORTS sso ot ceorse suits Wnite re planned for the future and drills be featured following further Practice by the Guard members. County clerk Ross C. Sawyer jtwo companies will have a mem- announced today reports on the/bership of 100 by the time en- went forward to the I. I. Board inj terested, regardless of age, have Tallahassee this morning. Total | been asked to meet with the 709.00. } This amount was bid for | age of a little over $50 for each} All Master Masons are hereby parcel. summoned to assemble at Scot- Board members and rejectionsjtomorrow afternoon to attend and acceptances will be sent Mr.}funeral service for our brother issue deeds on approved sales for G. N. GOSHORN, Board signatures. D.D.G. M MENTS; DRILL TO BE * HELD NOTICE the Guard Band under director- { ! : : : H 60 T0 LL BOARD ;: the public to witness will also | It is expected that each of the Murphy Sale held last Friday;listment closes. All men in- amount bid at this sale was $3,-| Guard tonight. parcels sold, indicating an aver- The reports will be studied by}tish Rites Temple at 4:00 o'clock Sawyer later, with instruction to}W. E. Huston. octl-1t judge Raymond R. Lord | during the month of September | handed | i | as registrars. Registrations will be conducted in all school buildings the county. Further information on {reporting to those buildings will be issued later. Chief registrars for each school will be appcinted by the j local board this week and make- |up of the crews to handle regis- | trations will be named. | Means are now being studied j to reach all districts of the coun- ity. Some trouble is anticipated fin registering young men on the ‘mainland in the Cape Sable dis- ‘trict, but the local board is get- ting in contact with five or six persons living in that section who may handle the registration. Preliminary instructions in- dicate, as is known universally, that all those who are asked to serve as registrars or in any other capacity, both preliminary to registration day or on that day, do so on a no compensation of THIS MORNING FOR OBSERVATION Coxswain George M. Hubbard, 'U.S.N., who suffered severe in- {juries early last Thursday morn- jing in a fall from the third floor jof the seamen’s barracks at the naval station, was taken by VP53 \plane this morning to Norfolk jnaval station to enter a hospital lat that point. Suffering from a broken arm jand wrist, and internal injuries, |Hubbard has had a high fever for the past three days. His con- |dition was better this morning, iso naval station officers decided facilities at Norfolk. |New York Cuban Mail SS C ‘approximately 750 miles exst BACK IN PORT : TOWED STRICKEN VESSEL TO NEWPORT NEWS FOR The salvage steamer Willett re turned to port yesterday follow ing a 12-day trip made to as the S.S. Panuco, belonging to the pany. The Panuco Dock Company 18th that she had Propeller and that need of a tow advised dropped she was Her position w= Key West. The Willet left that day. picked up the vessel and towed her imto Newport News. Japtain Cor- nelius L. Peterson reported an uneventful trip with no untoward incidents. Army, Profiting By World ‘ar, Using Screntzie Plans CLASSIFICATION IS A MAJOR PROBLEM By JACK STEN WASHINGTON, Oct Army ha S way, the square pe the new into the never refers round hol “selectees” are (The inducted Ar Service draftees Selective are Select There are classifications would take more of this column them To see and butchers type, the War worked out and quesuonnaires & who is a square round one World war exper the military men manpower im accordance wath most effective qualification could become something more than problem EE: after m service units were disrupted because was discovered that men were doing work for which they were not best fitted. Men who could shoe a mare were peeling pote toes and not liking #@ a little bt Expert bookkeepers were buiid- ing bridges. The end of & of course, was wholesale transfers, wasted time, and frazzied tem- pers. yest peg and whe 2 a There'll Be A ‘Receptic=” To get around this m 1940-41 the Army is goimg about scientifically. The business will start in the Reception Centers (These high sounding names sets calet cow ics qu most have us down). A “Hecep- 490000 fe bes chee = tion Center” is merely 2 three or ch ao four day clearing house. The “Re placement Center” is camp No where the boys will get thea first taste of toughening. one-two three-four, wearing the old uni- form, saluting Shavetail Jones and rolling out for 6-15 reveilie At the Reception Centers the government imsurance poles Amy 2 fom whee = Coie et Me 2 te OST Bees Jomeny Boe = one of Se | will be issued, vaccinations and to.allow his removal to better pleted. imoculations given. and the classi- gud tg ome fication tests and interviews com- mjiker mem pee et Don't ask me exactly whet peenches w Ge Sellen.