The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 17, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West. Florida, bes the most equabie clmate m= the country; with an sversge range of only 14° Fabrenbet Che Kry West Citizrir THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1940 Jas Thcaton Repisals AS hq 2 0a" Cp cas a Tis fi Burma Road 1S THOwn pei ==> =< sam oma BRITONS CHOKE Lite Begins At 70 In South WEAR OUT IN 1940 LISTS FROM pac City Clerk Archie Roberts re-| VEHICULAR =SCOnNOsEr as AT MEETING Ported this noon that only rou-| ALYSIS RECENTLY com :tine business had been scheduled HELD LAST NIGHT NAZIS TRANSPORT SUBMA- | PLETED BY STATE BOAD LXI. No. 248. - | ENGLAND — 2,000 —_— HIM NOW Other Officers ASCAPT. LOCKHART First Lieutenant Eugene E. COW TELLS OF GERMAN, Lockhart, Commanding Officer {of Battery “E”, 13th Coast Ar- FAILURE | tillery, recently received official ‘notification from the War De- (By Asnocinted Prees) partment of his promotion to LONDON, Oct. 17.—The British rank of Captain. American Trucks: Loaded To Rush Sup-' plies To Chinese Arm- jeurrent month for city council- imen to be held in council cham- County Commissioners held a bes at the city pall starting at Four Key special meeting of their board Biro clocks (onlgne : Pay Day Tuesday last night at the courthouse, for : ith rer ‘ Second full-month’s [_” Sebeems ane sole purpite OF sing this mont was cnieed {checking the election aS disbursed to city employes on| j¢ompiicd by Supervisor of Regis- Tuesday of this week, over $5,000 (iis) Ansocinted Prces) | tration John England. being paid on back salaries. At 12:30 p, m. today, Eastern} Mr. England's list of 202 names. On October 4th, city cm-; Standard Time, th. Burma Road |*‘Ticken from the voters’ rolls pe Me cecunt aussie was given by |e” st election was approved ‘this week bringing the percent-| and ordered inserted in The Citi- age of salaries owed during the and materials /Zen under date of October 18 as current year to a relatively low the official Disqualified List. imark General Chiang | At the same time, the board Favorable collections in the oc-. When the chairman, Ross C. Saw- jdecided to hold a_ Restoration cupational _ license department yer, ;meeting on Friday, October 25th, enabled the two payrolls this sime engaged in desperate battle at which any persons who claim month, it was stated. |they are not disqualified may ap- with the Japanese, were lumber-| year to present their plea to have ing over the first stretches of the pihelr name put back on the vot- eee ‘ ‘ing list famous route into inner China. | List of qualified voters, con- i ee itaining 6631 names will be pub- accord ical Ee ee tore \lished on Saturday, October 26th, ports wirelessed. to this country, |the final day allowed by law, ac. 5.000 Chinese coolies, jubi- | cording to announcement by Mr.. THREEDAY FESTIVAL OPEN- at their tasks, eee this morning. ED AT SYNAGOGUE American | truck: js for their counts WEDNESDAY both commercial and mili- with first at the s-off place awaiting the} West Schools Registered 1356 Men; Draft Board Met T Morning ‘Report payroll I lists |for the second meeting of the RINES TO BLACK SEA; Mos. Selective Service Registration (\\ sia prean Peatane ce CHARLOTTE. N. C_—Ox Life sometimes begins at 70 dow? south. Thomas Holmes, 80 years old, but says he well, day 6 when Holmes began picking tween 160 and 170 pounds of cot ton a day, his friends had tc mit he didn't act like genarian Edward P. Brandt, 85, a b smith of 70 vears’ experier still one of C workers, says doctors. “When I'm sick I j work off,” he says. “A doctor says, I don’t know what's the matter with you,’ and then he sits do and writes me out a presc opening signal Committee of Monroe County British officials, ended its duties this morning destined for KaiShek, th: Mt Olive Captain Lockhart reports Chinese igeneralis- duty at the Harbor Defenses of air-blitzkrieg being pushed by the Key West September 5th, having been ordered here from Fort Monroe, Virginia, and with Mrs. Lockhart and two small sons is quartered at one of the at Fort Taylor while their per- manent quarters at Key est Barracks is undergoing repairs Two additional reserve officers CV¢T have been assigned to the Har- lantly bor Defenses of Key West. and loading have reported for duty. with First Lieutenant Richard W. jyey Barnes, Coast Artillery Reserve, of Miami, who was on active duty ports on Germany’s effort to in- here for a twenty-eight day tour ; for turned over the registration feeis— offered stiffer resistance to the for egis! not a over (cards filled out yesterday in Key = Draft JEWS OBSERVE Sosa, | SCOT IES a = Registration cards for the five West, to the permanent Nazis and aided by rainy and ad- qually weather, this nerve-hub an otto- rottag city of the British Isles was ques’ All morning, breathing easier following over \ aie harleston’s hardest he doesn't 40 days of continual bombing. singing headquartets on the Florida Keys had not arrived in Key West in Four air raid alarm signals 2,000 CONVENT SPANISH CLASS WILL. OPEN ast were reported this morning, but mate time for the meeting this morn- only a few bombs were dropped i ing, and reports from that terri- Members of B'Nai Zion Jewish ‘Ory are not expected until late Cognizance given Russian re- tary, trucks jumping vade England was reported here, told of “Britain’s successful defense of her country carry the as news from Moscow and campaign war to Germany”. to NAZIS SENDING SUBS TO BALKANS > BUCHAREST, Oct servers here <7.—Ob- learned today that the Germans were sending sub- marine hulls and machinery to Black Sea ports, coming down| the Danube River from German sources Impending action in the terranean area aga would probably see Medi- st the British these sub- marines in action, it was stated, but permission from Turkey to pass through the Dardanelles at in June of this for an extended tour duty. Field Artillery lando, tour of active duty, has been ap- pointed Quartermaster and entered upon his duties at Key Both Lieutenant Rybolt Ww Barnes and Captain quartered at the cottages at Fort Taylor. “goodbye” ev see year, Howard R Reserve, reporting for an ¢ Captain est Barracks. of returned active Rybolt, of Or- xtended has are VERY GENTLY LEXINGTON, Neb.—Wher hat blew into a deep canal as watched a six ton steam work, Dr. A. R. Than to his headg the doctor w: the scoop carefully er, his he shovel sue said How- s amazed to pick his would have to be granted, it was hat from the canal bottom and ‘op it gently at his feet. predicted. dri Se eeoocecccveveccvescesseseeee eee FACE §R FINGERPRINTS?—QUESTION iventeiistenten ihenialsone Slows Ur Legation | HOLDING UP CIVIL SERVICE BILL ACTION & Leeeccescosccccess By JACK STING WASHINGTON, Oct. cause the House of Repr tives insists that a_ fed ployer has a right to see what he’s getting when he takes on new hired help, one of the most important pic of civil service legislation to come up in years, has bogged down. It's the R&mspeck bill, which would bring into civil service more than 200,000 government workers not now classified. The joker in the bill is a Sen- ate amendment which would substitute ngerprinting for photographs as a means of iden- tifying civil service applicants When it came back to the House with that rider and without House amendment whi would have forced the gov nt to hire workers from the 32 states which do not have their quotas of Federal workers before taking any more from over-quota states. the House went through the e. It sent the bill back to conference with written instruc- ti » House conferees‘ that the bill was not to come back without the quota amendment E with the unwritten but un- derstood instruction that the ban on photos was to be tossed out the window. Too Much Dynamite The conferees agreed on only one thing—that the bill is too full of politcal dynamite to go tossing ‘ound before election and so, they are doing with a lot of I political dynamite these day they put it av until November. For the time being at least, a fed- | T, AP enta- em- 1 pl of ons to el Feature —Be- eral employer still can see what he's getting. photos was sum er when he sai is adopted there is no way of te ing whether the ploye that the present syst crimination against ne applicants that foreign-born look, they way back. f little business of sending photos applications to let your tive employer get what you look like. in effect school teacher decided he wanted to a railway postal clerk. He wrote to Washington and got 1 cation and when he filed it, he ied a picture of himse good one knows, that Service Writer The case of those ned up Ed Ge id essman sett 0 “If this am prospec’ bla ch is white or loyes must be The anti-photo factior n who have might be The bill the is deadlocked battle came historical an in item some who Americar want Con f Texas endm by tive em- and em idea of their appearance or cal characteristics”. is a dis- retaine! 1s from teres pout with prospec- idea of Not In The Law The civil service since 1883, g in it about ot of your n bu’ in Pe ui “I just thought it we idea to let them looked like”, he says. He got the job and so fi was (Continued On Page ttac p with your the law has been it there's ar as first Four) signal to proceed early this morn- ing loaded with food and other! supplies. Thus was started the incident! considered a powder-keg of ese issued me threatening ts in Tokio newspapers morning. and the United States, the press; releases warned that Japan would most certainly bomb the Burma from bases now being es- blished in Indo-China. Other Jap newspaper talk con- sisted of threats kong. which they stated is likely jue for Japanese naval attacks in that the city is being used for a from which American and British supplies are reforwarded to the southern terminus of the Burma Road. anc toad base RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER SAYS NAZIS FAILED MOSCOW, Oct. 17.—A leading Soviet newspaper published here carried an editorial on its front r today stating that the Nazis I ed dismally in their inva- plans against England and d the point further by de- the >-pli HENRICH HIMMLER GOES TO SPAIN MADRID, Oct. 17.—Henrich ! Himmler, head of the German secret police organization, the Gestapo, day on an unexplained mission. Observers here were of the opinion that Himmler had been} sent by Hitler to organize Spanish forces into (Continued on Page Four) SERVICES FRIDAY FOR HIGGINS BOY Funeral servic for Stephen Jr., nine-year-old son of and Mrs. Stephen Higgins, Watson street, who died Tuesday night. will be held at the chapel of Pritchard’s Funeral tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 the ae Star of the Sea Catholic will officiate at the rites. Surviving Stephen, besides his‘ parents, are a brother, Stanley, and a sister, Kathleen KEY ACREAGE Warrantee deed recorded at county courthouse revealed sale a three acres of land on Key Largo to the Lime Importing } y. of Miami, this week. Abbie J. Bain, and wife, Hat- tie, were the sellors at the re- iported price of $550. ex- preportions as the Japan- | state- | this| Aimed at both Britain; against Hong- | present air-blitzkrieg } P. J. Kelleher, S. J., of a 2s ISTRATION AT HIGH tival, Feast of the Tabe SCHOOL TOMORROW AT 4:00 P. M struction Melvin E. Russell an- jnounced registration for a special | course in Spanish reading for to- | tomorrow icongregation in this city ‘observance of the three-d acle, services held synagogue, fes- ;Succoth, at |night in the at 7:30 o'clock. Continuing today, with serv- ices at 7:00 o'clock this morning, ‘Lazarus Lehrer will conduct sim- ilar rites at two services tomor- \row at the same huors—the evening closing the {morrow afternoon at 4:00 o'clock ! festival period. lat the High School. Sister Catherine Semmes, the Convent of Mary late, will give this course, consist- ing of two-hour classes each week for a period of twelve weeks. Those who have had ‘High School Spanish cannot take | this course. it was explained, the }course being primarily jwho have had no previous work ‘in this language. Especial emphasis American locale and customs will be contained in this course which will gain credits for entry into the U. of Fla. or Fla. State | College for Women. to South WORKERS HERE TO HAVE THRIFT UNIT LARGE CROWD ASSEMBLED ( LAST NIGHT TO FORM NEW GROUP arrived in this city to-{ similar es- ! Federal workers employed in :Key West, representing all serv- ice and civilian branches of the ; 8overnment, form a thrift association at a {meeting held last night at the Panes courthouse. Frank C. Schneider, civilian electrician employed at the navy yard, was chairman of the meet- ing which heard David A. Rambo, representative of the Farm Credit Uniin explain the formation of a Key West branch jof that federal organization. The system employed by simi- lar groups throughout the nation is to accept weekly savings from , working, for deposit, paying in- , terest, then using the funds as- ;sembled to loan to unit members jfor worthy cases. | City laws now require all resi- }dents living on streets on which |sewer laterals have been installed | of RABBI TABORY Immacu- jho LEAVES SUNDAY After a pleasant visit six weeks, Rabbi Harrisburg, Pa., will leave re Sunday. While here he was guest at the home of Rabbi Lehrer of the B’Nai Zion Congre- here Z. Tabory | gation. for those | In appreciation of his services during the high Jewish Holidays of Yom Kippur and Rosh Ha- shono, the local congregation and ladies’ auxiliary presented the visiting Rabbi with a gift. His sermons and assistance in the rit- ual were greatly enjoyed by the members of the Jewish colony here. Rabbi Tabory was much im- pressed with the religious con- sciousness of the Key West Jéw- ish community and. appreciative of the spirit of hospitality {denced by Rabbi Lehrer and his ‘congregation. PIONEER EDITOR laid active plans to; to connect up their house lines; jwith the system. j_ Ninety days from date of pub-| |lication—September 23, jthe time limit. | TWENTY-FOUR DAYS HAVE is40—is D.D.G.E.R. N DIES OCT. 11TH STORRS PUBLISHED ‘BREEZE’ FOR GENERA- TION DeFUNIAK SPRIN 17 (FNS).—R. W. Storrs, resident of Walton county and publisher of the DeFuniak Springs Breeze for a generation, Oct pioneer began |this afternoon. Superintendent of Public In-{nd at 7:30-o'clock tonight, Rabbi! 461, of tal registration for all of county would for mark. ! committee evi-! | | i YOUNG DEMOCRATS : |board and As soon as they arrive, the Draft Board will gain or Possession of them, it was stated last ; starting completed Total registration for Key West, night at 9:00 These school last o'clock, was i356. totals were reported: High School, 369; Harris School, Division Street School, 282; Douglass School, 244. Two dis- tricts at Marathon, one at Mata- one 'cumbe, one at Tavernier and one at Flamingo have yet to report. Chairman Sawyer, and his com- {mittee, Melvin E. Russell and John England, were of th: opinion this morning that the to- of the reach the 1700 Everything ran entirely smooth all through the registration yes- terday and the Selective Service expressed its thanks for the fine cooperation given by the chief registrars and regis- trars throughout the 14-hour duty during which all men re- porting were handled with ex- treme courtesy and efficiency All draft business from this time forward, will be handled by the permanent board consisting of Fred W. Knapp, chairman, and J. Frank Fleitas and Earl Adams. Appeal agent for this county is councilman Ralph B. Boyden. Late registrants, coming into the city from boats at sea yes- terday, will have to report to this changes of address should be turned in to them, it was explained. The board has obtained tem- porary office space in the federal building and was acting today to complete its office personnel and equipment requirements. Work of sending out questionnaires would proceed immediately it was announced. MET LAST EVENING Young Democratic Club held died after several months’ illness |Special meeting last night at the last Friday. Born in Ohio. ida in 1883. He established first paper at Jolly Bay. then a} residence of Isadore L. Wein- he came to Flor- traub, with a good attendance re- the jPorted Purpose of the meeting was to thriving sawmill town, calling it | |take up matters of vital import- the Jolly Bav Breeze, later mov- ing to DeFuniak Springs and changing his paper to Funiak Springs Breeze, which he actively operated until 1939 when the paper was sold to its present owners. He was a persistent Florida and Walton county booster and did much to advance the welfare of his section of the state. the De-! tmey attend and act Jance relative ta the campaign. It was resolved that the next meeting be held at the county courthouse on Wednesday, Octo- ber 23, in order that all those who feel the “democratic 3 to support campaign presidential President Roosevelt's for re-election. ATTENTION, ELKS! TONIGHT Visiting Ets Welcome GEO. O. LUCAS, Secretary. itt aseieieiteennimnteeetieeation ieee enthinenenastaeal ight Smoker | CAKES: special | | WEEK-END SPECIALS DATE and NUT and BETS CHOCOLATE LAYER Maloney Bros. Bakery Phone 818 812 Fleming Street tion.” John J. Fenton, Mebane, 70. re- ceived a ticket nime feet long when he left for a 9,009-mile jaunt which was to include both the San Francisco and New York fairs. Arthur Brooks, 85, learned drive his automobile at 76 and has driven from Bryson City to his Spring Creek, Pa. farm and back, a distance of 1,800 miles. more than 20 times. Mrs. G. P. Hamrick, 76, began her 60th year as a school teacher at Shelby George Green, who deputy clerk of federal court at New Bern in 1888, celebrated b 81st birthday Mr. and Mrs. J. H Brockman playmates in childhood, and now married for 59 years, celebrat their 77th birthd Dutch Fighting Manis (By Acsociated Press) SOMEWHERE IN WALES Machine guns, brought from He land and manned by members the Dutch Legion, are guarding airdromes against Nazi became be WELL, ANYWAY, viCaY (FRENCH SPA) Old Castom Observed Beagite New Gules le France IS A GREAT PLACE FOR THE CURE =— (Associated Preas Featers sereters VICHY, Oct members of the talled 1 “Free I am t ent, ins capital of many refugees Vichy “cure” Faithfully eact prescribed p* ish spring renovating one tions. Faithfully evening I w ercise route (marked by red. and yellow signs) through Vich; parks and along the Allier Pierre Laval, active head of the French government, is a fellow water-drinker. Mr. Laval somehow manages t secure gaso! in a limousine. I exercise jaunts da waters s interior decore h morning and the prescribed ex consisting 50 grams of water from the Source Grand Grille at 10 and 11 each morning, and 50 grams from the Source de T'Hopital at 5 and 6 each evening. The diet prescribed no butter. fried foods, fresh bread, fruits containing seeds and several oth- er items. Butter, vegetable and animal Mans what wes sappet cE Ro wes tee Sr De flocked here from all over (Continued cz Page ==