The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 16, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Kry = Citizri THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXI. No. 247. wi | Key West. Florida, bas the mom equabie climate = ibe country; range of only 14° Fabrenbet | a= svreraege KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1940 B tish To Stop TradeRelations With Rumania: Battle Of Europe Ap-, proaches Desperate P. Stage; Nazis Increase, Action (By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct. 16.—The Anglo- Rumanian crisis has approached the breaking roint today as the British secretary of foreign af- fairs announced that normal trade relations with Rumania would be broken off momentarily. Explaining that such action was Nazi more inevitable with domination being made and the further more com Rumania that action could be expected plete stated in secretary diplomatic in the near future. And so- the ans Latest shifting unrest continues to be of the in the Balk- rule day item highlighting the around being undertaken the poungement. that Turkey, Greece and Yugo-Slavia are making ef- forts to have Bulgaria join their projected non-aggression alliance aimed at Hitler. There was small hope entertained, however, as ob- servers here believed, of Bulgaria leaning away from her Nazi con- nections. by major powers was an- AIR WAR ENTERS FURIOUS STAGE (By Associated LONDON, Oct. 16. tle of Europe entered a desperate stage last night as Nazis put on steam i rained blow after blow at this city and many other sectii the British Isles. Lo pounded like it never was pounded before. last night, British officials counting a total of 72 districts hit by bombs of incendiary type. Local guards ed to keep nder control following the gis and utility ized state. ed their t three days, with more planes and more cities be- ing attacked. Dispatches from Berlin today stated the present pace is about one-third of the strength Ergland will feel when Hitler gives thé “all out” signal. London is racked to the strain- ing point and estimates now as to how long the city will be able to withstand such attacks has revised from previous figures. Morale of the Britishers, how- ever, continues to run high. Ex- cellent reports of the R.A-F. at- tacks on the enemy continue to pour into headquarters and this news serves to cheer the home people tre mendously. s RAF. were restricted to cha on shipping and doc! Bad weather prevented long forays into the country and on to the principal point of attack, Berlin. Meanwhile, reports from Rome this morning were to the effect that the Italians are moving on from advance posts in Egypt and that another advance of 18 miles had been made. Pushing towards the Suez canal, the Ital- ians are experiencing stiff resist- ance, with R.A.F. planes in con- stant action against the mechan- ized units of Italy. idon was lines were ve tacks in the maneuvers el attack: A Sh AT RRETRE ATTENTION, ELKS! Thursday, Oct. 17, 1940 D.D.G.E.R. Night Smoker Visiting Elks Welcome GEO. O. LUCAS, Secretary. | SR REE RESTS been} long-time! SESE ISS SL& P.-T. A. CAFETERIA WORKERS NOT UNDER S.S.A. PROVISIONS MIAMI Oct. 14 (FNS).— Workers in school cafeterias operated by Parent-Teacher Associations do not come un- der the social security act, it was revealed here when a suit brought bv the Shadow- lawn Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation in federal court was dismissed by Judge Curtis L. Waller. The suit was brought some time ago by the association after it paid a social security tax of $12.36 levied by the internal revenue departm=nt. The association asked the re- iurn of the monev and held that there was no actual rela- tion of employe and =mploy- er in the operation of school cafeterias operated for the benefit of students and with- out profit. After the suit was filed. the aitorney general ruled that the tax be returned and the association then asked the dismissal of the suits in court here. mo 2 | SII IIS SS Vs THRONGS CHEERED PARADING GUARDS TWO UNITS IN MILITARY PRESENTATION LAST EVENING Key We city in the —and it thoroughly like nation, many another likes parades enjoyed the vailing of Battery » companies ard paraded up White- martial spirit pr night when memb: “E”, FNG, and the tv of the Key West G down Duval street 2 head street last night The parade was held to focus attention on Registrati Day be- ing held throughout the city to- day, and as a test “mil ability” of the home guard units. The National Guar the parade, behind guard. - Then came the Guard Band, led by tor, George Mills White. Follow- ing came the Key West Guard it- self—young men and older men, all stepping out bravely to martial strains of the band. of color y We their direc- VAGRANT ORDERED TO LEAVE TOWN Criminal Court yesterday afternoon heard the case of MacDonald Karns, charged with vagrancy. Followi sub- mission of testimony, Judge W. V. Albury deferred sentence pro- viding the defendant left town immediately. This Karns prom- ised to do—within an hour after session held | release from jail. Case of J. B. Prine, charged with grand larceny, was -held over for November term of court. COMING EVENTS (Ry Associated Preset DODGE CITY.—James L. Wil- son of Bolivar, Mo., about to be married, entered a shop and was shaved—by a woman barber. At the courthouse the regular was absent and Wilson and Miss Geraldine Fay McGuire of Moun- tain Grove, Mo., were married by the judge pro tem—also a wom- lan. thet >and Elizabeth streets. GETS UNDER WAY, HUFFMAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY ON SCENE OF SUBMARINE DREDGING PROJECT; AWAIT DREDGES! TAMPA, Oct. of the encouraging fact Florida’s ; Strategic location in the Western ut. Commander T. J. Brady, !Hemisphere makes our state the SN public works officer at the Very center of the New World, Nagai Station, announced this the theme ‘Florida—Center of morning that the Huffman Con- the Americas’ will be devoted to struction Company had started the 24th annual Statewide busi- work on its contract to dredge! Mess conference and membership pmarine basin to a depth meeting of the Florida State jChamber of Commerce,” it has ninary work consists of ‘been announced by Carl Brorein, of retaining walls on the | President. field site into which the! _ “After much earnest considera- be dumped by trucks; tion of a great number of sug- the huge dredges to be used ,8eSted theme-topics, the prograra dredging work. jcommittee with A. B. Dooley of dredges are on their way |J@¢ksonville as its chairman has to the city from completion of a!made its decision—and, to my oreet aia . Mind, a ve e - pr sete Nt ee tion for theme of the State Cham- nder Brady stated this at two other projects on Bureau are ex- i to enter contract stage They are the navy hous- and marine railway projects. | Dr. Blackwell Leaves Commander R. C. Blackwell. US.N.. MC.. left Key West this afternoon to report for sea duty in the China area as soon as he r there. He reports first nolulu—then proceeds to a! i stern sector pa- | . Navy mmander Charles P. Arch-! beault, U.S.N.. M.C.. has re-| ved Commander Blackwell. | SERVICERS HEAR REV. TED JONES STRESSED COMMUNITY SERV- | ICE IN TALK: REDS ARE Wil BE THEME OF hen n begin ference and meeting in Jackson- ville, December 2-3, 1940,” Mr. Brorein declared. “There is no doubt, I am sure, in anyone’s mind but the North ; American and the South Amer- ican continents must work out {their future health, happiness and prosperity in closely-bound unison if our hemisphere is to ese WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.— "S funny thing now the big gov- ernment contracts bring out the racKeveers. | This is a true story, but don’t Guest speaker at the regular ; ask me names or places, because meeting of the Stone Chara it’s off the record and I can go Service Club held last evening in | Only so far. - the church annex was Rev. Ted| Three men—two from Boston, 'M. Jones, pastor of the First Me from Providence, R. I—are | Baptist Church. scouring the land, knocking on Using the 12th Chapter of} the doors of those manufacturers Romans as the basis for his re- who might get government con- jmarks the speaker brought out! tracts. These men have made no very forcibly the necessity for {mistake about it, either. the individual to present himself| They checked up in advance on upon the altar of service if he |needs and possible supplies. They would be used in building a finer |have found what way the con- community, state and nation {tract wind is blowing. Here is a In the course of his address | Sample of how they work: Rev. Jones brought home to his! “How do you do, Mr. X. It’s a listeners the fact that the people | pleasure. It really is a marvelous of any community can have the {Plant you have here. Why, you kind of community they desire. {Could produce things you never However, in order to attain a{dreamed of, Mr. X. Did you ever desirable and attractive com-|think of getting a government munity life, we must first rid /contract? ourselves of fence-straddlers,| “Well, here's how it is, Mr. X. people who lack the courage of !..- -In Washington, we exercise a their convictions to take a def- ‘great deal of influence. We have inite stand upon questions af- |connections. fecting the moral and spiritual; “Would you like to see our welfare of all the people. |passports? Ha-Ha! Of course they Guests of the club included iaren’t passports, Mr. X. They are Rev. O. C. Howell, pastor of Ley | just. . .well. . .what you might Memorial Methodist Church and jcall ‘calling cards’. the Rev. Dr. Parker in charge of: “Here is a bona fide member- Latin Mission work in the state skip card in the Blank-Blank of Florida for the Methodist‘club. Of course you know what ;that means, Mr. X. “Then, here's my card Capitol Writers’ Club. . .And the Association of White House Punks. . .And the Congress Green Room. . .” Get To The Point The men finally explain what jthey are up to: How would you, jwith your fine factory, like a con- tract for defense materials? We can fix it. And it won't cost you | AHEAD IN CONTEST | ecretary was instructed to the to communicate with the pastors ; of the various churches inviting | them together with their official boards to meet with the Service Club on next Tuesday * evening | for the purpose of discussing | questions pertaining to the wel- fare of the community. Results of the membership ; drive recently instituted showed the Reds to be in the lead. How- the Blues promise some your gross contract! live competition and threaten to! Nine times out of ten, the fac- overcome the slight lead held by .tory owner will say: “All right, the Reds by next Tuesday's ,Pal. But there’s nothing dishon- meeting. ,est about it, is there?” H “Dishonest? Why, my dear fel- WILL MEET TONIGHT Democratic Club of West will hold a meeting to- . as announced by officers, at the home of the group's presi- dent, Isadore Weintraub, Angela Members will assemble at 8:00 | “#*#ns today on Page 4. o'clock to discuss membership ex- pansion and political plans to support President Roosevelt's ‘campaign in this city. eer ber’s 24th annual business con-: * penny ja penny more thah 2 percent of “OF THE AMERICAS STATE C.OFC. MEET other portions of the earth. “Florida’s position, luckily, in the direcf line of trade and com- munication between North and South and Central America is such as to make this State the virtual center of the New World in every aspect of education, trade, commerce, communication and defense. All this is latent with the phrase “Florida—Center | of the Americas,” as the theme of our December business confer- ence.” Including Mr. Dooley, 14 promi- nent Florida business men are serving on the program commit- tee. They were listed by Harold Colee, State Chamber, executive vice-president, as follows: Ray Cralle, Tampa: Bryan Hanks, Mi- ami; Bayard S. Cook, St. Peters- burg; Robert Kloeppel, Jackson- W. C. Sherman, Panama City; Walter Hays, Orlando; G. G. Ware, Leesburg: Francis P. Flemingj Jacksonville; Lee Guest, ae He W. S. Johnson, Jacksonville; J. P. Walker, Jack- sonville; Scott Loftin, Jackson- ville; Joe H. Scales, Perry. _ ; val stre BIG GOVERNMENT DEFENSE CONTRACTS Modern Version Of Ancient = Game Worries F.B.I. “SMOKE QUT’ SMALL-TIME RACKETEERS e e e oc By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer be deing anything4ike that, sure- ly? “Why, we are simpiy brokers and Syrely you know that there are brokers in every _ business. Do you now of any business that pays les@ than 2 percent for get- ting the’ contracts? Certainly not! What do you pay your own salesmen? Ten percent? Fifteen percent? Well, there you are”. And so the men go out of the factory with a contract. And what happens? The manu- facturers may, within a few days or few weeks, get an order from Washington to produce ten thou-_ sand pairs of woolen socks, a mil- lion leggins, 40,000 radio dials, or 500 tanks. And the manufacturer may pav his 2 percent and figure himself well off. The Old ‘Con’ Game This racket, which being | worked all over the United | States today, is nothing more than} a variation on an ancient con game. The defense commission isn’t} paying commissions to anybody. No manufacturer has to pay one! for Washington influ- | ence, because if there were any} such thing and the F.B.I. found! out about it, somebody would be in the hoosegow right away. But these defense grafters check upon factories which might posibly get government contracts, beat the government man to the door and sell nothing for 2 percent of the gross con- | tract. Over at the defense commis- sion, they are gnashing their teeth. The F.B.I. is just as mad If you know of an example of this shell game, notify your local police or the F.B.1. British Saving Tinfoil (By Associated Press) LONDON—With war demands for paper and tinfoil, cigarette cases are coming back into favor. Some dealers even ask customers to leave cigarette cartons at the shop. Take Better Pictures Do you ever take pictures? If you do, you will be interested in a series of articles <p raveted 2, = peceeeelenst phaicpeap her. tore artistes, appear weekly. are of interest to camera fans of all ages proficiency. Turn to Page 4. ~>| BUILDING PERMITS FOR HALF MONTH ERECTING WALLS: Copszace Taken Of Strategic New World Location 60 OVER $25,000 NINETEEN PERMITS ree BY RALPH RUSSELL DUR. | ING FIRST FIFTEEN Days | OF MONTH Seeccesccsserse0eres0e00008 (Special to The Citizen) 16.—“Cognizant ; avoid the troubles today plaguing | | A total of 19 building permits were issued by building inspec- tor Ralph Russell for the first fifteen days of September, ac- cording tc check of records made this morning. Construction work listed totalled $25,549. Heading the list of construc- tion in the city this month is the three-unit apartment building be- ing built for Mrs. Edward L. Pe- iterson, at the corner of Washing- ton and Alberta streets. Cost this structure will be $14,879. | i Two permits totalling $3,000 in construction were issued during this period, one to the Gulf Oil Company for general repairs to its property on Caroline street and the other to Whitney Papy for a new residence on South street. Other permits issued follows: E. P. Winter, 1421 street, new roof, $100. J. A. Crowe, Jr., Craig Docks, lunch stand, $125. Mrs. Mildred R. Poor, 109 Du- t, restaurant repairs, $75. | Theodore Roberts, 613 William street, addition, $100. | H. B. Haskins, 328 Eaton street, | bathroom, $100. 1 Mrs. Junice Pinder, 416 Mar- | garet street, repairs, $500. Charles Lumiey Park ‘sion street, addition, $300. Y. Cobo, 1107 Duval street, gen- | eral repairs, $900. B. H. Lowe, 1108 White street. | general repairs, $500. | Rosella Saunders, 318 Margaret | street, general repairs, $50. j Pierce Bros, Fleming street, | Store repairs, $100. ! Ray O. Elwood, Southard street, general repairs. $500. Bruce Saunders, 1215 White head street, porch roof, $20. Pena Morales. Smith Lane and Duval street, general repairs, $50 H. L. Albury, 524 Petronia street, general repairs, $1000. Laurence Mears, general pairs, $250. COUNTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT TO APPROVE VOTING LIST. | SUPPLIED BY ENG- | LAND were as Whalton 4 Divi- | re- Meeting in special session to- | night, the Monroe County Board jof Commissioners will check the | Voting lists as supplied by coun- 'ty supervisor of registration John England. Mr. England stated this morn- jing that following all deductions the list to be turned over would total 6631. A total of 140 names were added to the books in the county’s fifteen precincts during the current registration period closing last Saturday i HIGGINS’ SON DIES TUESDAY Stephen F. Higgins, Jr. nine- year-old son of Chief and Mrs. Stephen Higgins, 1122 Watson Street, died last night at 8:40 o'clock at the Naval Dispensary hospital. Funeral arrangements, to be handled by Pritchard’s Funeral Home, will be announced follow- | ing arrival of relatives. | Surviyors,. besides the parents, / area sigtep{ Kathleen ‘and a broth- er, Stamey: Fred Marvil’s CABANA COCKTAIL LOUNGE Invites the first man in Key West who is drafted, and his lady friend, to be the guest of THE C. A for the entire 1,109 Men Reported For Draft At3:00 SASS IIE A AS Work Progress With HEMINGWAY BEGAN AS NEWS REPORTER (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK. Oct. 11— Add the name of Ernest Hem ingway to the long list of American authors who got their writing stert as news whose forth coming novel. The Bell Tolls”. has been chosen by the Book-cf-the Month Club. landed his first jeb as reporter on the Ken sas City Star. H> was only Sixteen at the time. and #f his size had not beguiled 2 City editor into overestimet ing his age. he would newer have got the job. Hemingwey hed previeusiy shown some inclimetion fo write, and pieces by him had appeared in his school paper in Chicago. But it wes the daily grind as reporter for the Star that first taught Hemingway to use the spare. terse, matter-of-fact style for which he has since become famous. 6 hehtattiatientieatied DEPUTY RULER Ne “Hitches: hver Registered At 9-98 The HERE TOMORROW - TO DISCUSS UNION KEY WEST LODGE TO HOLD SMOKER AT CLUB BUILD- ING IN EVENING District Deputy Grand Exalt Ruler, Florida East, of B. P. € Elks, Harry Haimowitz. rive in Key West tomorrow ernoon at 3:00 o'clock, to pay h official visit to this city’s No. 551 After a o rence with loca Exalted Ruler Dr H C Gailey and George Lucas, secretary, Mr Haimowitz will be entertained x the evening by the lodge mem- bers with a smoker. Mr. Haimowitz will be accom panied by Mrs. Haimowitz and will register at the La Com « fe j hotel 90 Days! City laws now require all resi- dents living on streets on which sewer laterals have been installed to connect up their house lines with the system. Ninety days from date of pub- lication—September 23, 1940—is the time limit. TWENTY-THREE DAYS HAVE ELAPSED! MEET aT COgmTY couZzZ FICIAL SEB