The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 3, 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. : EW WAR ACTION KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 38, 1940 AXIS PREPARE REDS TAKE SECOND TILT Abandon Invasion Effort SOND ' Sar ED On SEPTENBR WAS Te was ox Wal S | ror Mediterranean Seene e ~ = — COLUMBUS DAY HOUSING PROJECTS | ! e | Nese DRAWINGS IN NA- j — = H WEST BEA\ FIRM | ; ; TIONAL SELECTIVE SERV; | Only five other Septembers in | | | {the history of the local Weather | In Third Inning; Scene HAS LOWEST BASE BID FOR I HEL = British Empire In Near! CE DRIVE WILL BE D | Bureau witnessed more rain than | Changes Te Detroit Te- VOLUME LXI. No. 236. Nazis Will Direct New Maneuvers To Smash | | s | | | BOTH PLANS: AWARD TO VISITING M.W.GM. _ aie ON OCTOBER 21 |the month that has just closed, | BE MADE LATER = ae jwhen a total of 11.88 inches of | |rain fell in this city, according to j jthe monthly report released to-| (Ry Associated Press) (ly Assoclated Presa LONDON, Oct. 3.—All signs téday pointed to definite post- Fonement of the Nazi attempt to! send invading land forces to! Great Britain, and the eyes of the world are now being focused on the Mediterranean and Near East fronts where action is expected to be stepped up enormously in the very near future. Abandonment of the of England. matic invasion an admitted diplo- and military defeat for Adolf Hitler doesn’t mean, how- that the British cause all safe. According to vice ever. is at , comm: best ad- now available, the axis pow- laying extremely careful k the British Em- with attacks on ers plans to pire other ws of great are bre to pieces’ then, if successful, effort bv all ene- sectors democracies later on. import the is expect- German-lItal- ian-Spanish conferences appear to be about concluded. While no} official from ences, mies on r “invasion effor ed momentarily as announcement has come Berlin, scene of the confer- in regard to Spain's par- ticipation in the Great Britain, preparation: drive against known that S are even now under it is way to admit large Nazi forces to Spain for a lana ta i milita attack on experts are said e nt to Italy and n to direct combined attack yements and a general ping of control of the It armies in Africa the East is said to be going forward at this time. Meanwhile, no hope that the on their < been and Near there seems to be expressed in this city N will slacken up} tacks. Hundreds of continue to fly across the el in nightly attacks and continue on throughout daylight hours sporadic, nuisance bo lk its prope found « pled F i planes cha ! with recapitulation of nage today and! ions quite bad. Utili- n tremendously crip- city and its suburbs conditions are hope- arled despite heroic ef- the part of civilian guar clear wreckage left in the w of demolition and in- cendiary bombs. On the get “Lond the Royal more ' and forts other hand, Berlin is heavy samples of the} attack” treatment, with; Air Force becoming expert daily in their ma-j| neuvers directed at military ob-} er and_ transporta- British makeup of rtment and official xpected to be an- hortly, with accent on 1g younger men to the fore. It was said that former prime minister Neville Chamber- lain will be relieved of all par- ticipation in the nation's affairs. David Lloyd George, popular leader in the first World War. may be recalled to replace still another member of the cabinet, it was rumored. : right eye, Water Here Stressed COUNTY WILL CONNECT TO CITY SEWERS COURTHOUSE PRIVATE LINE WILL BE DISCONTINUED: ADOPT RESOLUTION REC- OGNIZING K.W. GUARD Preparations to stop of the county private sewer line at the oners’ meeting last night when board Monsal- vatge and Warren’ were appoint- ed a committee to consider con- necting up the building’s facili- ties with the city line. Tracing of the line, which emp- ties into the submarine basin, and carries sewage from the courthouse and La Concha hotel, will be done and determination of where to cut in on the munici- pay line on Fleming street be pushed. The board authorized adoption usage courthouse were made members will of a special resolution giving full county recognition to the Key West Guard as a military unit to take the place of the National Guard. Other matters the commissione: Adoption of s resolutions in line action by county considered included: eral political with — similar boards _ state- by wide, calling for support of the 5 Democratic ticket in the election next month. Approval of a contribution of $100 for Thaddeus Gates to have an operation performed on his now affected with a bilateral cataract Hiring of Pedro Espinosa caretaker for the county cloc Approval of liquor license per- mits for the Starlight Club and Habana-Madrid Club. Denial of a request to-use firearms on a firing rang at the head of the i Approval of a payroll for coun- ty workers on Friday of this week. Bills read and approved. as seaman’s LEGISLATURE T0 NAME DISTRICT TALLAHASSEE, Fila. (FNS).—One of the ta: faced by the 1941 legislature will be that of creating a sixth congres- sional district. Florida’s popula- tion increase since 1930 will en- title the state to a sixth member of Congress. The legislature may establish a new sixth district or may permit the sixth congress- man to run from the state-at- large. When the 1930 census gave this state an additional congressman the fifth congressional delegate was elected from the state at large for four years as the legisla- ture did not create a fifth district until 1935. The first election for a sixth congressman will not oc- cur until 1942, Oct. 3 f Plans To Bring Major Commissioners Hear 0: Projects To County’s Aid Declaring that the absence of an aqueduct line from the main- land to Key West and no airport facilities for civilian and military use in the county deprived Key West of a conservatively esti- mated amount of business income of $500,000 a year, commissioner Wm. H. Monsalvatge told the county board members last night that every effort was being made to obtain financing of the pur- chase of property for an airport end that chances for start oi work on the aqueduct line soon were favorable. Chairman Carl Bervaldi of the board called the meeting to order at 8:00 o'clock last night with commissioners Monsalvatge, T. Jenkins Curry and Braxton B. Warren present. Deputy sheriff Bernard Waite, attorney Ww. Curry Harris and clerk Ross Saw- yer were also present. Reporting on_his trip to Miami last weekénd; commissioner Mon- lvatge gave details of the con- with Pat Cannon and other gov- ferences held tive ernment officials and explained . that the Navy department was proceeding with contractors to prepare engineering plans for the line under two plans. In regard to the airport, it was revealed that efforts were being made to interest financial agencies in providing funds un- der Certificates of Indebtedness procedure to enable purchase of approximately 1200 acres on Boca Chica. Appraisal figures in- ted that this site could be bought for $35.00 per acre. Depending upon success of this move rested chances for obtain- ing complete airport facilities for this county as set up in a Civil Aeronautics Authority tentative appropriation that would provide 05.000 for that purpose. Clerk Sawyer reported that the certificates of election had been received from secretary of state R. A. Gray. Commissioners de- ferred action on authorizing elec- tion procedure until next week's meeting. H. S. McKenzie, merchant of Tavernier, and member of the Booster Club of that town, ap- peared before the board with a proposal to construct four roads at Tavernier, using equipment he possessed. Roads would measure nine-feet in width with a six- inch rock crown, rolled with a 5-ton roller. Legal bidding pro- cedure was approved by the board, funds for the project come within the $1200 amount already appropriated by the com- missioners. Board of Administration re- (Continued on Page Four) to) WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. — President Roosevelt announced today that he would deliver a ra- dio address on October 12th, Co- lumbus Day, on a_ short-wave hookup to all nations of the Western hemsiphere. Treating on subjects of Na- tional Defense, Roosevelt stated the talk would seek co-operation from all Pan-American nations, including Canada, in a concerted drive to bolster New World de- ,fenses, military and economical, lagainst inroads threateried by ‘the dictator states abroad. DRAFT SELECTION DAY OCTOBER 21 (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct._ 3.—The U.S. Army Draft Board officials stated today that were being made to hold the first drawings in the National Selec- tive Service drive on October 21st. On that day, President Roose- velt will be called to Senate chambers, according to tentative plans, and will be asked to offi- ciate in drawing the first name calling up approximately 400,000 young men between the ages o! 21 and 35 to the colors. County draft boards _nation- wide have reported to state head- quarters, it was announced here ltoday, that all is in readine for the registrations to be made on October 15 and 16. Complete lists of draftees are expected to be in the hands of Washington officials not later than October 19. arrangements, day. Highest amount of precipitation \for the menth since 1871 was in 1894 when 17.29 inches was re- corded. Other years that regis- tered more rainfall in Septem- jber than last month were 1889, | 13.87 inches, 1890, 16.14 inches, 1919, 14.26 inches and 1920, 11.89 inches. ; Greatest amount of rainfall fell in the 24-hour period on September 15 and 16 when 2.87 inches was recorded. Accum- ulated departure from normal for the year to date on October first was 4.34 inches plus. | Average temperature for Sep- tember was 81.4 degrees, with | highest temperature recorded on the 2nd, at 92, and lowest, on the 4th, at 71. Normal mean -for September is 82.2. Prevailing winds for the month were from the East at an average hourly velocity of 8.7 mp.h. Highest velocity was dur- ing the three-day period, Sep- tember 8, 9, 10—27 miles per hour. There were seven clear days, 10° partly cloudy days and 13 cloudy days in September and measurable precipitation was re- corded on 22 days. Thunder- storms occurred during 17 days jof the month. REVIVAL SNAKE BITE FATAL RICHLANDS, Va. — Grabbing the rattlesnake which Evangelist J. W. Grizzell was holding aloft, Robert Cordle, 48, was bitten by the snake and died from the ef- ifects. +¢ Three Florida contracting firms turned in bids for construction of the two Key West Housing Projects at the deadline and opening of bids meeting held this afternoon starting at 2:30 o'clock. At press time, the successful bid- der had not been ascertained, as members of the Authority in ses- sion at headquarters on Duval ; street considered all bids andj qualifications. | : About forty interested persons ! were present when the bids were j opened including representatives | of bidding firms. Chairman B. | Curry Moreno read the bids} while Melvin E. Russell, J. J.! Trevor and Hugh Williams, Au- thority members sat by. Wal- lace B. Kirke, executive director opened the bids. Member A. Maitland Adams was absent American Contractor's Com- pany of West Palm Beach turned in a base bid of $608,314 for con- struction of both the white and colored projects. Separate base bids were — white, $409,940. colored $238,350. Total of alter- nate deductions for the white project “A” were $48,610, “B” colored project, $21,710, and both, $69,070. Paul H. Smith Company of Mi- ami, bid $614,904 for construction of both projects, total alternate deductions being $70,450. Sep- arate bid for the white project totalled $407,309, total alternate deductions, $48,100, and the colored project bid was $225,595. deductions, $22,400. C. J. Trevail, of Palm Beach, (Continued on Page Three) FOR WHOM THD"BELL TOLLS Tepresenta- 4; Ernest Hemingway's new>book, “For Whom The Bell Tolls”, was released last month by-the publishers. The book is headlined in the November issue of Book-of-the-Month Club News and the following review, presented in its entirety, was written— By HENRY SEIDEL CANBY This is Hemingway's best book since “Farewell to Arms’. As that famous novel, now regarded as an American masterpiece, has been inaccurately described as a \story of the Italian defeat at Caporetto in the last war, so “For Whom the Bell Tolls” will be, with equal inaccuracy, spoken of as a story of the Spanish Civil War. The scene, of course, is Spain, the time the Spanish War, the plot an attempt of a young American in the Republi- can forces to blow up a steel bridge at the beginning of a ma- jor attack on Segovia. But how little of this touching, and often terrible, and always engrossing, novel is included in thig deserip- tion. Like “Farewell to Arms”, this is actually the narrative of the reactions of a young man to dan- ger, and a conflict of ideas and tense emotion. As in “Farewell EXCURSION TO- HAVANA S.S. CUBA In connection with Presidential Inauguration First Class. R. T. $15.00 Second Class, R. T. 10.00 Tickets on sale Monday, Oct. 7 P. & 0.S. S. Co. J. H. COSTAR, Agent to Arms”, a love story enters, quite accidentally, and becomes a vital part of the narrative. And let me say that Hemingway, who has been celebrated for his toughness and brutality, has writ- ten in the sudden love story of Robert Jordan and his “rabbit” one of the most touching and per- fect love stories in modern lit- jerature—a love story with a tragic ending which lifts rather than depresses the imagination. The proper background for un- derstanding a description of this |fine romance is the famous se- ries of drawings by the great Spanish artist, Goya, of a cen- jtury ago, illustrating the horrors ‘and realities of guerrilla war- fare. In those celebrated prints lone sees the strange Spanish {peasant; cruel, yet capable of in- ifinite loyalty; brave, because ex- ‘pecting suffering; ignorant of and indifferent to culture as we! know it; but with an immense izest for living and an unexampled ‘homely wisdom. These pictures show them with their fierce na- jtive emotions aroused by forces }from the world outside, torturing ‘and fighting and rescuing each jother. | In the curious military world of: Russian generals and| Madrid, | politicians (brilliant characteriza- ‘tions in themselves) are prepar-| hing attacks against German and Italian commanders over the mu- tilated body of Spain. Robert |Jordan,. an American teacher of Spanish on leave from his !versity, has enlisted in the Re- |publican struggle He is theo- retically a Communist, because Communism at the moment is the most effective force in loyalist Spain; but actually he is a We ern democrat, believing in life liberty, and the pursuit of h piness; just as his peasant co panions, who call themselves Communists, are actually loyal only to Republicanism and agrz rian reform. He is chosen for a highly dangerous mission—to go behind Franeo’s lines, make con- tact there with a band of guer- rillas, and prepare at the precise jand chosen moment to blow up jan essential bridge. The novel at jthe beginning finds him already in the mountains; it ends with a jchapter of exciting warfare—but tits bulk lies in four short days of preparation in between. It is exceedingly difficult make the prospective reader this book feel the interest and tensity of these few days, because so much that happens results from the remarkable characters {Continued on Page Four) uni- of —_—_—_—_— Ee Senior Class of K. W. High School presents All-Awerican Dance CUBAN CLUB — OCTOBER 4 Admission 60c—8:30 P. M. ‘til ? | Music by THE BEACHCOMBERS | Benefit School Sound System A ALLERGIES te nn i | Phone 818 SMITH L. TURNER SMITH L. TURNER. Most Worthy Grand Master of ail Masons in Florida. is sched- uled to arrive in Key West this afternoon on his official visit to Key West's three lodges. Preparations heve been completed for a joint-meeting of the lodges to be held in the Hell of Dade Dodg® at a MEETS TONIGHT IMPORTANT TOPICS UP FOR ACTION AT FIRST SESSION OF MONTH City night "Be Counc unc 8:00 will licers paid ywide scheduled for counc cording to Archie Roberts, TWO DESTROYERS GO OUT ON PATROL clerk tha’ SS. TRUX USS. SIMPSON S port this The USS rr ROUGH GOLDSBO mn patr duty alse sen mor? were the USS BROOME flagship USS. MAC LEISH to FOOD and APPLE SAUCE LAYER CAKES. special Maloney Bros. Bakery £12 Fleming Sree: morrow (Special to The Cittere CINCINNATI Oct 2 wes Bucky Walters’ dey todey. and as a result of his masterful 3 Bo pez formance. the Cincinnati Beds evened up the Worlds Series standing im their bettie for =e