The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 19, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West THE sou THERNMOST Me Che Key Wesi Witizrit SPAPER IN THE U. S.A. Key Wes Florida bas the Most equabie climate m the country; with «= sverage | range of oniy 14° Fairenbet VOLUME LXI. No. D0. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1940 CONSTRUCTION IN ’40 NEARS RECORD MARK FIRST EIGHT MONTHS’ TO- TAL CLOSE TO MILLION MORE THAN ENTIRE YEAR OF 1933 (Special to The Citizen) TAL Oct. Hotel apartment tion 18.— a construc- flourished near-record the first eight months of 1940, according to fig-! style during * Berlin And Athens Deny Claims Made ures compiled in the office of W.; M. Taylor, state hotel commis- sioner. ! Permits for construction and for improvements to existing | structures for hotel, apartment, and restaurant purposes aggre-! gated $13,040,174 from January 1} through August 30, 1946. State law requires hotel commission approval of such construction. |CARDS ARE SHUFFLED BE- This total was in contrast—and | FORE SERIAL NUMBERS some $800,000 greater—than the ARE INSCRIBED ON THEM: aggregate for the year of} OTHERS MAY REGISTER DRAFT BOARDS NOW PREPARING new 1939, which show twelve months of construction amount-| ing to $12,283,050. | The month of August, 1940, hit | a peak for thee twenty months’ - Kann aey ea starting January 1939,|_ ST. AUGUSTINE, Oct The 181 construction permits is-| Local boards to th sued from Commissioner Taylor's | 102 have office amounted to $3,450,788. ! selection, July, 1940, showed the second) highest total of $2,590,980, repre- | sented by 114 permits. A total of $2,282,917 for 95 permits was ded in July, 1939. Majority of the construction} in all instances, Commissioner | Taylor said. was in the southeast- ! ern district of the state, which} embraces Miami, Miami Beach, Ft. Lauderdale and the Palm} Beaches. POLING PLACES LISTED TODAY, LEAGAL ADVERTISEMENT | GIVES LOCATION AND IN- SPECTORS NAMED (Special to The Citizen) 19, taken over the deferment an tion for military tra ida, the second phase of the pro- gram. that an emergency tional defense, here of Selective Freshly is destined to for it was announced H. P. Baya, head Service is state. their fashion = army the na- today by in coached as duties at six instruction schools. the boards have or, ized by the jelection of a ch man and secre- ary for each board and by em- ployment of a clerk tional clerical help where needed. In Key West, as announced Previously, the chairman of the Draft Board is Fred W. Knapp, with Earl Adams act- ing as secretary. Other mem- ber J. Frank Fleitas. Clerical help has been hired but the names were not and addi- is Legal advertisement appearing | i " in this issue of The Citizen on| @V¥@ilable at this wriing. age three, inserted by order of}, The first duty of cach Le : jhas been performed in all the county commissioners mea all poling places for the general }'' W@S announce election to be held on Tuesday,|°2iving from the Nove 5th chairman of the cc Also appea it is located the c 5 rasan of registrant tisement 8 clerks t the electior The advertisement appears this issuc v. For the con-| venience of voters. however. The Citizen repr contents immediately or election |" day, it was announced e board lists ber the inspectors the county adver- for are the serve her ther ny cards i ix location of a will t its POURS OUT GOLD : FOR NINETY YEARS be eS oe | the board ther dlete, (Ry Associated Press) ke GRASS VALLEY, Calif. 19.—For ninety years the Mine has been pouring out gold} bullion without a shutdown Located in 1 by George D.} Roberts, it is considered the old est conti operating gold mine in the ted States. There are re than 190 of underg i tunnels. Oct. | out a list of reg Empire | of which shail be posted i ‘lic Place. one jin the files of the t copy is t quarters and be released to | Headquarters }that any man whe ister on Wednesday ma 'himself before the loc and if he has a valid reaso {his tardiness, the board sue him a regist P another y miles RUDENESS CAUSES CAPTURE ASHEVILLE, N. C City laws now require all resi-! dents living on streets on which sewer laterals have been installed | to connect up their house lines ‘scanning a photograph with the system. | wanted in connec vi from date of pub-|der, as he was eating Serer be 23, 1940—is | Asheville bus the time limit. brushed Deputy TWENTY-SIX DAYS HAVE Brock shou ELAPSED! knocking the picture hand. The Sheriff looke n then at the photc at the man. It was th wanted. — Whil He Who Waits. . . WILL BE DISAPPOINTED Reservations for the LIBERTY BALL Are Limited CALL 318-N-0-W Sunday Special. ‘ TURKEY DINNER, 50c “All the Trimmings” ! Soup, Salad, Vegetables, Dessert and Drink SIDEWALK CAFE LIST OF NAMES Nazis Say Story Inspired By British; Japs Con- tinue Bombing Of Bur- ma Road (ity Associated Press) LONDON, Oct. 19.—World news seen through the eyes of war correspondents headquarter- ing in this city today gave just | about an even split of spotlight attention to events of the western | sectors and those of the near and far east. first place, es teday 2ppear to have given the broadcast this morning that and Italy have lie to news Germany present- ed formal and stringent demands to Gre< One hint from Berlin was to the ce sponsored the false stories, up additional trouble Balke ns. This. the British emphatically denied. airwar over Germany and | vas the next item of im- to consider, according to dents Nazis have increased atly since the early- and considerable neuvers has been noted Low-flying planes are sweeping over the midland sec- in the their st] vtions of the British Isles today as ther planes keep up continual t n London’s fortifications v objectives. rt Force planes, flights up chiefly of new-type bombers, concentrated night on Ham- ther seacoast cities. A ilroad lines were re- up and numerous tarted in widely scat- re Balkans. Greece | once bitter enemies, forced to forget old} » as no two other} ever before united. ative plans to.stave off > action expected mo- mentari y the axis-powers. In the case of Turkey. ma- c y of feeling is gloomy. Most tks feel that the nation cannot war with Hitler if the prevailing spirit to resist any ag- gressive move is continued. Over 10,000 troops are stationed inj ining the Dardanelles, against any emer- areas adj $' word comes » that Jap planes fly- Indo-China bases, have g the Burma yesterday. No cor- of this has been re- British officials, how- Japanese press, mean- keep: up: a continual war against Great n an United States, hough Japanese _ sg; have reiterated their hope ‘that the ion will not become. in- in a war with America. Jap feeling mainly is to the ef- f t because Great Britain ognized a state of war to ween China and Japan, now in opening the a Road to send supplies to nese armies, should be in- d as an act of war against volve itional trouble in the far- was expected to develop if differences of opinion erritorial demands between and Indo-China could not be settled. Siamese troops are reported to be on the march to- d vards frontier posts be- lay to ‘tween the two countries. late disnatch- { from Berlin and Athens aim-! Road } a SANTA ROSA WAS ON ‘POST’ COVER MILTON, Oct. 1: Oct. 19 (FNS).— } Santa Rosa county is feeling due to the fact that among the 1941 automobile tags re- Produced on the front cover | } ning Post, tag number 33-6605 ! was displayed representing } Florida. , "Since 33 is the key number assigned to Santa Rosa coun- ty bv the Tag Department. Santa Rosa points with pride to her representation on the front page of the “Post”. TI ISI IDI Sess HIGGINS’ RITES HELD YESTERDAY | JUNIOR PATROL MEMBERS OF FOUR SCHOOLS ACTED AS PALLBEARERS 1 1 { Funeral services for Higgins, Jr., nine- Chief and Mrs. Stephen Higgins, who died last Tuesday, were held yesterday at 4:30 Funeral Kelleher, S.J., Stephen ear-old son of afternoon Pritchard's PS, o'clock at 'Home, Rev. officiating All Junior Patrol members of arris, Division Street, St. Jo- ph’s and High Schools were present at the ceremon: the pallbearers having been sclected from those groups. Stephen was a member of the Division Street patrol. A large number of stu- dents from that institution also attended the funeral services. effect that the British | Bs JACK STINN WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Poli- tics is a strange diseas It’s like tropical fever. Once it’s in your blood, there is no telling ‘when it’s going to crop out. And for an outsider, it is pretty hard to see what the conditions are that bring about its recurrence. For instance, in the Senate gal lery the other y. I witnessed ithis little legislative drama Senator Wheeler, the Montana ; Democrat, who been one o! {the chief ramrods in opposition toa administration foreign poli ‘stood up before the Senate the other day and offered his resolu- jtion to inv gate foreign con- \trol or partial ownership by eign compani i stock, paten A firms which contribute to national defense program. | There was a preamble to the |resolution which started: “Where- jas authentic reports indicate that German and other foreign cor- porations enjoy a measure of con- {trol over some of our most im- defense industries; and an American corporation {which 1 for instru- }ments and weapons for the Army and Navy has been shown to have close relatinos with a Ger- {man concern involving disclosure of secret processes; and whereas one of the most important met- invaluable in the manufac- ture of airplanes, is controlled |by a corporation half of whose istock is reliably reported to be owned by the German chemical Following so’ more where- ases was the resolution to inves- tigate the situation and report to the Senate. | SWEETING’S SERVICE STATION now located at Simonton and Greene Streets Expert Painting. . .Tune-up and all-type repairs! PHONE 53 i! of last week’s Saturday Eve- j 4 Pecccccccsescccvccccacccececssccececeescevecceess | ‘LIKE _ STRANGE DISEASE, ‘POLIT! ' National Conresion Tue Are Ot. Affected IS BOUND T0 CROP OUT ANY TIM AP Feature f of expediency and “GENUINE BOOM”) Keeps Businesces On Jump RAGING IN STARKE STARKE. Oct. 19 (FNS).—The Bradford County Telegraph ‘tells a “moving” tale of Miss Kathleen Hall. lunch room proprietor. who because of the rapid of all business in the community has been forced to move her place of busin three times within ten days. First she was crowded out of her location through the expansion of the bar- ber shop, which was being push- ed for space by an expanding ‘drug store. } Moving to a new location, Miss Hall hardly got settled before she was forced to move again as the} building was to be taken over by another growing concern. | Moving to the Green Building, she remained but a few days be- being notified that the building would be torn down to make room for a new structure. So the young lady wearily pack- ed her equipment and today her Gem Room another location—but she doesn't know for how long | Starke experiencing genuine “boom” all chants are doing land office busines Carpenters, _bricklay- ers, mechanics and other skilled | laborers at Camp Blanding come j into town with payroll checks based on wages that range from $1.to $3 an hour and it is only the beginning. Merchants report sales increases have quadrupled expansion Six Standing Groups Are Named And Two Spe- cial Projects Selected For Fiscal Year tors announced the list of stand- ing committees together with fore two special committees that will serve during the fiscal year now opening this morning. The mem- ‘bership is as folows: CIVIC — Ernest A Ramsey, Frank H. Ladd, Bernie C. Papy ADVERTISING Allen. Elizabeth Sharpley, Single- ton. FINANCIAL AND LEGAL Julius F. Stone, Jr. William Freeman and Charles E. Smith FEDERAL AND STATE RE- LATIONS — Charles S. Taylor, Wm. H. Monsalvatge and E. A. Strunk, Jr. MEMBERSHIP — A. E. Peirce, ‘Jr. John A. Gardner and Fred J j Dion HEADQUARTERS AND PRO- | MOTION — Carl Bervaldi, Mrs. {Hugh Williams and William Ar- ee An important special commit- fe has been appointed to handle the convention of the Florida Commercial Secretaries Associa- j tion which will be held here next !May. A large proportion of the Chambers of Commerce through- ,out the State will be represented, jit was announced | This committee membership ci . }consists of W. W. Demeritt, Mel- It takes an army of reporters vin E. Russell, Elizabeth Sharp- working night and day, just to‘iey Mrs- Hugh Williams and W. skim the cream of the news off | 7’ Fripp this national defense program and nobody can say that he or she knows all about it. But on the surface, this would look like a pretty worthy investigation, ! wouldn't it? If there are finan- cial fifth column against the defense one of the national bodies should know about there aren't. then all these rum- ors should be branded as propa- ganda and silenced forever | But... | developments warrant Senator Austin. Vermont Re-| publican, brought up the al objected resolution at H Lunch occupies | is a c and a mer- S. A ervice Writer Another committee which can establish Key West as a summer resort for an important of the national population is the committee to establish Key West being immune from Hay Fever. Dr. Wm section as R. Warren and Cap. tain W. W. Demeritt will this committee. It was nounced that these men have al- ready taken advance steps and will add to their committee as legislativ it act on an- ONE RESULT OF WAR (iy -Aneochahed Peet ae PARIS—The newspaper Senator Barkley, leader of the jourd’hui” estimates that Democratic majority in the sen- | French sailors are. without ate, put in this: “Being a member! since many of them are of the committee on interstate/the north and from towns like commerce, I am familiar with the | Dunkerque, destroyed by the facts connected with this resolu-! war, they are unable to obtain tion and the statements before the | relief. committee resulting in its report I can state to the senator from! Vermont that there is no rea in the resolution. It is not a po- litical matter at all. Senator Austin— Does it occur to the senator from fey (Mr. Barkicy) that w iat any intention on the part of the} Senate in passing the resolution. nevertheless politics might get into this matter?” had shot AT his wife six times Senator Barkley—‘“It is not! contemplated there shall be any} hearings under the resolutions 3,4 present. . .The facts may be de- nnoun a veloped in a quiet way. . .There A ji Opening of will probably be no _ publicity JOHNNIE NEBO'S famous about the matter. As the senator from Montana (Mr. Wheeler) TONIGHT consideration of the this time. “Au- 60,000 work from BCASTED TOO SOON (By Associated Press) SPARTANBURG, S. C—*Send NOt the police out to my house right —I've just shot my wife imes”, said a frantic voice the police department teleph Two carloads of police rushed in January. . .” Senator Wheeler—“There will not be any politics after January! anyway. Politics will be over at that time, will be adjourned, we (Continued on Page Three) ANNOUNCING REOPENING OF Ramonin’s Restaurant 615 Duval Street TODAY AT 12:00 NOON TWO SPECIAL DINNERS z WILL BE SERVED GEORGE CURRY and His Orchestra Popular “LOTA” Doing Her Famous Dance | | | i i i | i i / i i Chamber of Commerce direc- | to the scene—to find that the man ;; mber Offici Announce Makeup Of Committees = COIS OF FLOEDA a=D Bs == ‘MECHANICAL HARVESTERS TO BE USED - SUGAR CORPORATION Am NOUNCES PURCHASE OF _ SEVERAL PATENTS: IMME DIATE ACTION CLEWISTON General Mana of the United poration that he President that the for the purch; harvester had just t Clare al ase cane “We immediately patents. will undoubted: wi of a machine under such pat Moran said. and would make further comment at this time In the past United States Sugar a Lakelaz Corporation have stated they did not push use of mechanical harvesters because of their desire to give as much employment as possible when un- employment rolls were high From time to time the ment has been m that one-tenth the nw ployees woulti be ne mechanical harvesters pared wit hand h, It is chase was announced week after the Junior from Florida introduced in the U; which, if have sugar cane G. 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