The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 18, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER VOLUME LXI. Ch No. 249, IN FHE U.. S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1940 Key West, Florida, bas the most equable climate im the country; with an sverage range of only 14° Fahrenheit i British Deny Nazis Increase Air Attack OVERLIN GIVES {6,000 Britons Killed Dur- TELEPHONE INFO: SPOKE ON VOCATIONAL PRO- GRAM AT ROTARY CLUB ing September, Reports State; Attack Canter- bury Cathedral MEETING (By Associated Press) LONDON. Oct. 18.—Three units of flying corps said this Howard were the Key We fice, ea his company’s Rotary Club noon He Overlin. manager of t Southern Bell of- talk on at the yesterday to have attacked vocational bu meeting iness surrounding territory, according to DNB dispatches received here tated that the company totalling $8.35 a year on each telephone in the state to the state and federal government and that there 950,000 sub- scriber Florida handling a total of 12,000,000 calls daily. Key West station totalled 1,264, com- paring with 835 fours years ago. Wm. V. Little broke out his mouth organ and entertained the Rotes with several numbers, all played to the same tune. Baby Rotarians A. Maitland Adams and Earl Adams were present ar the following guests Robert F. Slingluff Singleton Whitehead, this afternoon, each unit said to contain 1.000 planes. No_ indication mass-attack as British ported no more than usua such here any are 5 a ient however. sou xtent jof bombings. Casualty list for the September was re d British war office this 6.000 reported as killed month of by the morning 10.- 600 severely airraids wounded in ijuring that month. kk workers succeeded ni bringing 170 per: guest Ro- San of rescue and of Steve tarian L. C Aatonix from under debris this morning following explosion of N bombs over an airraid shélter few persons. it wa led. but the majority trapped would be alive, it was predicted Dr. Hewitt Johr Canterbury charged that N rately aime M Ss at athedral yesterday —three planes diving low to unload their racks. Only the stur struc- tion of the building saved t lives of th present for wor- ship in the cathedral at the he stated. Additional to the Balk when _ dispatc! said that a fo of Rumania was conferences with nother Rome disp: Spain was lean further towards that with 1 spon- amor Six win- three cement was made vould coopera PoP A: contest chool the the sorir students at that s ners will be boys and t said. were out brou rewarded girls. ELKS ENJOYED CLUB SMOKER de- the bombers ce g00 clubhous Deputy Dist Ruler Harry ored S Mr mystery nericé nce STONE LEAVES 2% TO TAKE EXAMS #20" n-ore shipments ia to fill armame hile Rumanian Julius Ston diers were undergoing thorough W. Curry Harris Key West today to take State tions. Mr. Stor the city early associate in law office, left for Tallahassee Bar Examina- pervised by officers of sion now in that country. Late that a British nav chased a Nazi fic English coast Nazis finally cover at Brest. All was reported, was long News from the fa was concerned chiefly revelation that G n minister Von Ri ely > into Dutch East n-th dispatches _ today expects to return to next week GOOD IDEA WEST H? ART FORD, Conn.—In an effort to get its overdue books the local public ly sunced that barrel on the front steps week “to receive books months overdue ns asked.” library re- it would ba put for a a No fine ae Fred Marvil’s CABANA COCKTAIL LOUNGE PRE-SEASON OPENING Sundav. Oct. 20, 5:00 p. m. Presenting “THREE GIRLS OF NOTE” support Jack Crawley and Otto Divanti COCKTAIL DANCING in our Bees NEW PATIO Enjoy the beautiful new Mexican and Cuban Rooms THE BEST REST ROOMS IN KEY WEST s and no questi war to Er take an act: part in the cause Britain further worry land, on the other hand, as wanting the United establish ba in Dutch East dies. of opened Bur i ing her own ¢ to keep s avenues open for her Chinese army 4 were by the Japs. Ss were @ the additional sur ing towards their ar ite against Japan indefinitely. city and * jenable them to prolong the war | ‘OVER 700,000 FLORIDIANS BUY DRIVER LICENSES RECEIPTS TOTALLED $372,- 000, REPORT OF LICENSING DIVISION THIS WEEK RE- \HASSEE, Oct. ing the first Licens« 18. — year the “Driver's operatic Law” Florida a total of 3,503 licenses of been according to a report made public this week by D. W. Finley, officer of the licensing division of the Depart- ment of Public Safety. County judges sold 694,079 op- 55,203 chauf- executive crator’s licenses, 4.50 to the in Tallaha: operator's license 13 al chauffeurs licenses, for a total revenue of $1,482.50. It also sold replacement licenses to 2,- 604 operators, 230 chauffeurs, and 31 special chauffeurs, for a total revenue of $1,563. The amount of revenue re- ceived from all sources was $372, 900. Disbursements in the rensing division were $32,453.87 for salaries and $26,583.98 for ex- penses. In the patrol division ).994.92 was paid out for salaries and $114,067.53 for e: penses. This does not include salaries for the last month nor expenses for the last 15 days of the month ,which probably will, mount to twelve or fifteen thou- | sand dolla! nd last minute re-! ports may require some minor nges ir scessity for purchasing pment required in setting up this new department boosted ex-' s over the amount which! sould normally be required for erating the department, Finley eq DISQUALIFIED IFIED LIST. PUBLISHED TODA CONTAINS 202 NAMES STRICK- EN FROM VOTING LISTS or of Registration John order of the county authorizes the ication the disqualified f ve this issue of The! en, appearing on page three. concluded with an Superv ssion ° that a restoration! held by the com- Frida: October m., oners at 8:00 p. 1 the list may present p! to be restored. of qualified voters will ap-! the October 26th issue of} zen. Printing of ballots ordered and will delivery early next ated this morn- MRS. ‘L.A. ALBURY * DEMISED SUDDENLY .. W. Albury, 5. pet. wife migration and inspector here, ate 1e residence Funeral services under the di- ef Pritchard’s Funeral - will be announced later. CIRCUIT COURT OPENS MONDAY : Arthur judge. recti He Gomez, Circuit s due to arrive in| weekend to be on ie recessed se: Mond the term ending of the fall rdered open and cases keted for disposition | er, clerk Ross C. Sawyer stat-' ed this morning. has been all kinds have | li-! the other items listed at which any; appear | . be | j this morning | W RIOD; ROAD | JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 18—A diversified program of contribu- |tions to the health and progress of Monroe county made up the {five-year program operated there |by the Florida WPA with the ex- penditure of mdte than $3,150,000, 'State Administrator Roy | Schro- der reported today. These have included the con struction and improvement of 19 miles of roads and streets, includ- iing six miles of paving, building ,of ten culverts and other work. Seven new public _ buildings have been erected and 92 others improved. This phase of the pro- gram has included work on nine schools, six recreational build- ings, six administrative struc tures, a hospital, a dormitory, four garages, 13 storage buildings tand others for a variety of public uses. Improvement of outdoor rec- reational facilities has included expansion of ten parks, five ath- letic fields and two golf courses. OLD STEVE, PEANUT VENDOR, EXAMPLE Wanted: mae Of Knox’ Speech Before oie Goninon divided into three teams, OF ‘HOW 10 BECOME A FINE CITIZEN’ “Ceoaaae Oa ca whee se NNE WASHINGTON, 18.—I'm {just a stranger in parts, but Steve has been around here 'a long time. As a matter of fact, Steve. . -his last name is Vasila- ikos. . .has been peddling peanuts !on the corner at the White House | while that lived-in ;dence has had four tenants. ! ‘The other day, ambling away |from one of the President's press {conferences, I noticed a sign on Steve's stand. It was to the effect ‘that he was donating the proceeds of two days’ sales to the Ameri- can Red Cro: It isn’t the first time that Steve has donated to the Red Cross, but it was one more day’s sales than usual and I stopped for a chat. “All us Americans got to do our part”, said Steve, who only last week got his final papers and \became an American. : “Some. ae guns. Some go up in . I'm too old for that uff. So I just give my two days’ sales to the Red Cross “I put that sign up so so folk would know that they just buying peanuts jSteve, but buying ‘em ‘Red Cross too”. 1 I looked again at the sign. side it was one of those Ble ss America” placards. Not About Presidents to get Steve to talk about Man in the White House and B: JACK © Oct. these much resi- old the for for And “God the itlemen who lived in there to teli me how to sell pea- jnuts, a Old Steve ain’t gonna | try to tell any of them how to run the cou I think the story of Steve V 1 Jakos should be written in forty- Vleven languages and given to every alien who comes to these shores, under the title: “How to ae a fine American citizen” Of all the all ve been made 1 |hand to that of Senator Wi Chippewa Falls, Wis. who Iced the Senate the other day with the suggestion that “It might be well to have a rule that for three months previous election there should be no d. y ycussion relating to the nomi jof the political parties” | The senator prefaced his hint, \with the remark that “I feel like , apologizing to the country for the time the Senate has taken in re- cent months in considering irre- suggestions vy of start- to llevant matters, personal matters A Totals Monroe rive Year pat Program — WORKERS: HERE COLLECTED $2,511,000 IN PE- , BUILDING CONSTRUCTED (Special to The Citizen) AP weren't | desteps. I understand he al-| None of the! ‘LIONS PREPARE i — TREE 00 COMMITTEES APPOINTED AT MEETING LAST NIGHT: PRO- FESSOR QUIZ FEATURED PROGRAM AT LIONS DEN SEWERS Directors of Key Club laid extensive plans for their annual Christmas Tree Benefit to be given for the needy children of this city again this More than 18 miles of water Year. These arrangements were nains have been laid along with ™@de following the regular sup- about 18 and a half miles of storm Pe meeting held at the Lions and sanitary sewers, together Den last evening with president with the establishment of 2,500 Lion Gerald Saunders in the consumer connections. aon A mosquito control project re- _ The following committees were sulted in the draining of acres #Ppointed to serve—contributions of lowlands. WPA workers also Of Paint and supplies for toy con- built 3,690 fect of retaining walls Struction, Lions Victor Lowe and ne Jack Delaney; contribution cans Five airport buildings have fF stores—Lions Rodman Bethel, been reconstructed, a dozen air- Joe Allen and Allan Armstrong; way markers established and 32 theater benefits—Lions Gerald airport boundary markers Saunders, Charles Ketchum and mealied John Costar. Rete Public is cordially invited ueeianee to contribute old toys to the Bape witch Lions Christmas Benefit, as among the various authorized by the club. Both of the county the NYA Department and WPA allocations for WPA Recreation department gram amounted to $ are co-operating to remake ted the proj, Sld toys into new ones. By operated contrib-| PBRoming 495, orders may be uted $196,300 toward total c left for toys to be picked up. neluding $150,000 for materials, the Lions stated. supplies and equipment De See Sa of a lot of healthy singing as only the Lions can manufacture. Lion e@ Saunders contributed a_ violin solo as the concluding number on the song-fest section of the pro- gram. Professor Quiz shot questions at West Lions in- county workers have than $2,511,000 in re circula firms w ed business the pro- 957,900 and sponsors who sel ects that were “true and the Lions, the High-Brows, or was it the Low- Brows, gaining high score of most false” Joe Pinder, Judge Raymnod R. Lord and H. E. Moore, of the State Auditor's Department. Cub-Lion “Doc” J. R. Teaguc was welcomed into membership of the club at last night's mect- ing. Lion Saunders’ curiosity to see what was contained in a book as os Feature Service Write —attacks on and defense of presi- | dential nominees”. A fair-sized Congressional Rec- doings <1 the and house, published in an eight- by-ten-inch pamphlet. two col- gescribed by Lior Adrian O'- umns to the page, has about a Sween % hundred pages of closely packed ‘fttle type a dav. How much of it has been devoted to pure politics of late, I wouldn't venture a guess. but I would venture four-bit Piece that half of it re cent months has been more politic: than anything else and th ae a time when country over a rocky road. a greater percent of Con, trying its level b: road ahead. ord, daily senate As guest Moore book went explosion. described it—‘the over with a bang”. “ KEYS REGISTER 156 FOR DRAFT TOTAL FOR MONROE COUN- TY TO DATE 1511 in is rolli far th i r the Didn’t Follow Text Wanted—by the National fense Commission—a stenograph- transcript of Secretary of the De- =—_ Four districts on the Florida Keys have reported to the local Knox’ recent speech before praft Board their totals of reg- graduates of the National Police ‘istered men for the Selective Academy in which he warned ag-' Service registration gressor nations that the United y to meet any chal- ic Tavernier registered 46 men Matecumbe, 36; Marathon, white, 44, and colored, 16, and Flamingo. 14. Total for date is 1511 to registe: y behind the this. tary Knox his spech and, as_ is allowed the Navy tion departm official te story prepared customary, | re infor: release “the ance. The rub ships at sea came w tary, speak- Draft Board organization de. ing without notes, made his’ tails are being worked out, it v speech a good deal more fore stated this morning, and full an- than the “official text”. The de- nouncement of personnel makeup fense commission *h = must | and progress being made in num- base much of its program on de- jx ring and classifying registrants partmental poli has been is expected tomorrow calling all « ashington to try to find ne who made a ster mographic: $ europe ae 90 Days! commission| just wasn’t | will have to} City laws now require all resi- » the reportorial word of the {dents living on streets on which who covered it that what Mr. Knox said Res a ae ae WE MUST DISPOSE of our ENTIRE STOCK Further Drastic Reductions have been made in KANTOR’S REMOVAL SALE Splendid pares on Fine Men's |/ Clothing all next week tes ea a a Monroe: county t Others are expected i today, tomorrow and ne next v as they come in from ac as If the defense wants a tip. there made and they jto connect up their house lines with the system. Ninety days from date of pub- lication—September 23, 1940—is the time limit. -FIVE DAYS HAVE ELAPSED! Brady’s (Live) Poultry Market STEWERS SOFT BONE ROASTERS Dressed, Cutup and Delivered At No Extra Cost. FRYERS 1214 White St. Phone 540 gained for him a_ neat} that's ; Sewer laterals have been installed s Council Acts To. Cancé! Ordinance On Bird Shooting ‘COUNCIL ADJUSTS TWO LICENSES MENT FOR TWO Fipses Two Committees Meet Today; Albury Calls For Traffic Safe- ty, Clean City Mayor Two city council committees are meeting this afternoon, Pub lic Safety and Taxation and Rec ords, for the purpose of framing suitable bird legislation to control shooting within the city limits for the protection of resi dents. This at last action was night's meeting council at citv b being presided B. Grillor ma Serv absence Two stre amen the subjec city, Paul Ladd and Fernand Camus council gested the repealed in council Mayor prese Johr from the appointed im was confirmed missed Daniel: Action council signs be and D Divis vidir stop-and-g Flem factoril ferred mittec Matter refi Welfare committee Report on auto tag and occupations turned in that city “done a fine i in the matter” To date a tota have been sold 135 sold at this time wi police nal license 1 which compare 130 so’ the correspond with ing date case, fol the mavor was autho ceed “as ance of partial payments—with deadline for completion ments not later than 1941 Public Safety committee ordered to take up the of stopping parking alk east side of Georgia stre north side of Virginia street dering Ba: w Park—this fe the protection of children pb ing there. The request as contained communication from Wm. J. Bar field. chairman of the Baseball and Softba sion Mercedes hospital the council for further 2 assistance during the coming v Matter was referred the Finance committee. ANNOUNCING REOPENING OF he sees fi TO OUR PATRO rae Due to the death of Mr. Rocelic Ramonin’s Restaurant Cabrera there will be =o matinee 615 Duval Street verformance «at the PALACE TOMORROW — SATURDAY THEATER today. Nicht feature at 12 Noon will be shown as usual ; TWO SPECIAL DINNERS GONZALO BEZAMILLA. WILL BE SERVED Meseo-*