The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 21, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen Key West. Florida, bas the most equabie climate m@ the country; wih ap sverage range of only 14° Pabrenbet THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1940 VOLUME LXI. No. 251. ritish Attacks On Berlin Declared Heaviest Of War CUBAN OFFICIALS — TO VISIT CITY ON VON COSEL CASE INTEREST IN CUBA AROUSED | TO HIGH PITCH: BROAD. | CASTS STOPPED UNTIL | (CASE IS INVESTIGATED H By order of partment of Justice lawyers, each representing the two sides of the controversial Von Cosel case, will arrive in Key West tomorrow afternoon on board the S. S. Cuba, to con- duct an investigation of the case. Interest in the case has run continually high in Cuba, with broadcasting stations featuring the events in dramas almost nightly since the facts broke in- to public attention on Sunday, October 6th With the has “ the Cuban De-: two Cuban realization that the case 0 sides”, Cuban of- ficials ha ordered all broad- casts stopped until a check could be made on later angles now de- veloping The two lawyers who will ar- rive here tomorrow are Dr. Car- los M. Palma, famous criminal lawyer in Havana, and Miss Mar- garita Pinto. A lar, delegation of Key West’s Cuban colony plans to welcome the visitors tomorrow, it was stated. NPA. COLIN ENGLISH IN CITY TODAY STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN- SPECTED SCHOOLS Colin English, Florida State Su- perintendent of Public Instruc- tion, together with Joe Hall, State School Supervisor, arrived in Key West yesterday afternoon on an the the official inspection trip of schools in this city and on keys. Before leaving after noon today, Mr. English paid The Citizen a visit in company with Melvin E. Russell, Monroe County shortly Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, and stated that his ii tion had been highly satis “We schools to found Monroe County's be in fine snape—as good as those in any other coun ty”, he stated. In talking with The Citizen, Mr. English brought out the state school department's view on Con- stitutional Amendment number one, to be voted on next Novem- ber 5th. As editorialized in The Citizen last week, the office of Public Instruction is for the amendment, although it deprive the school System of 1 and 3-4 mills assessed for state teachers and school books. GRADUATION HAS MUCH MORE FBI Head Has Trained 500 Special Agents To Date SIGNIFICANCE THAN IT WAS GIVEN & @ecccescesce Bs JACK STENN WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—The other day in the Great Hall the Department of Justice build- ing, 40 men were handed diplo- stating that they had suc- fully completed their work he National Police Academy The graduation exercises were run off with comparatively little fanfare. Had it not been that Secretary of the Navy Knox took the occasion to make there a speech of great significance, — the commencement program prob. ably would have gone unnoticed by the press. In the last five years, it has become a common- place, for thi are three exercises a year. In this period of national stress and international strain. of fifth column talk and rumors of sabo- tage, of the building of an army! SEPTEMBER SALES | MEET APPROVAL ALL DEEDS MARKED OKEY BY LI. BOARD: NEXT SALE OCTOBER 25 of ma such County clerk Ross C. Sawyer, agent here for the Internal Im- provement Board of Tallahassee declared this morning that he had received approving informa- tion from the board in connec- tion with the sale of Murphy Land certificates held on Sep- tember 27th soon as the office force can draw up deeds and forward to assee for signing, the ma- y will be set in motion to conclude final details of the sale, Mr. Sawyer stated. i orning, as vertised in The Citizen October 4th. AP Feature wee vencescccccesecncccccssecese: Writer of a million men and a national undreamed of in time, this passing of one milestone in Chief G-Man gar Hoover's police school great deal more si it was accorded. Twelve Weeks Of Study The NPA is run by the federal bureau of investigation and therein lies the The 40 men who were graduated _ the other day had just finished 12 weeks of concentrated study of what are considered by many the most efficient and modern police methods in the world. The important thing something like 500 men, senting every state and territorial possessions, have pre- ceded them. Most of these men (Continued on Page Four) defense peace- more J. Ed- had a ificanee than story that repre- several is COMDR. FISHER IS CAPTAIN OF YARD Capt. Walter F. Jacobs, U. S. N.. commandant of Key West Naval Station, today announced that Lieut. Comdr. Edwin Fisher, U. S. N., retired, had been detailed as Captain of the Yard at the local station. The appointment was made last weekend and is to take effect today, according to the commanding officer's ord Lieut. Comdr. F. H. Calla- han, U. S. N.. former Captain of the Yard and Communica- tions’ officer, will be re- leased to concentrate all his attention on District Com- munication Officer's duties, ‘Capt. Jacobs announced. Comdr. Fisher reported at the local station early this month, from San Diego. SHIP LIsSs we“ JUDGE GOMEZ OPENS FALL ENDED SPRING TERM. SINE DIE, TODAY: JURY VENIRE DRAWN FOR SUMMONING OF GRAND JURY Spring term of the Circuit. {Court was ended, sine die, this Motored Planes Over morning in cout chambers at the county courthouse, wiih London Today; Broad-jJudge Arinur Gomez caiting tor jammediate opening of the fali casts Haited session, complied with by chief deputy sheritt Bernard J. Waite. Assistant State Attorney J. Lancelot Lester informed the - court of developments in the Ma- LONDON. Oct. 21.—Acting on j<i'homicide case, and requested Previous determination that ajthat a venire of jurymen be ee drawn from the jury box for later Powerful offensive at this time calling of a Grand Jury to hold 5 = = |an investigation. mer teeming the tedeiotivicioey det | Before recess, ordered shortly initely in her favor, Great bee ae the venire was drawn, E Judge Gomez announced that je ee oe Se ai Ie sibly the greatest air attack of member of the circuit, would be zs {present on Wednesday morning the war on Germany last night. jto charge the jury. He requested the attacks, (that a bem e the ae West } . ‘Bar e present when court open- which spread over a wide areal ot ot G60 o'eloek, @ as ports to the| "Following residents of Monroe very center of Berlin, was con-jCounty were ordered notified of 1 in Nazi high command |their selection as jurymen, as reports this morning. which stat-|drawn from the box by Judge that apartment buildings, \GOmez, to be ordered to be pres- See Be ;, ent at re-opening of court Wed- railroads and hospitals in Berlin | resday scene! and admissions} George J. McDonald, B. A. were made of mounting casual-iBaker, Jr., Maxwell M. Russell, ties, {Joseph Fernandez, Clem Demer- Wave after wave of British )itt, Kingman G. Curry, Joseph bombers swept cver Berlin last Esquinaldo, George F. Pierce, Ira befare Albury, Andrew Pritchard, : Joseph P. Ladd, Charles W. midnight and four sections of | aguerro, William T. H. Ball, Ed- the German capital city were a enral L. Roberts, R. F. Spotts- flames before the attacks ended | wood, Arturo A. Henriquex; Noll shortly before dawn. _ |Roberts, Clifford Watkins, Ben- One hundred bombs a minute jamin Curry. were dropped on Berlin with; A. T. Malone, M. P. Napolis, equally large-scale attacks cen-' pawin Knowles, J. R. Costillo, tered on industrial and channel vivian Pinder, H. Blake Roberts, port cities. Simultaneous with 1, p. Daniels, Oscar Cruz, Frank these air attacks, the British Balbantine, James Brady, Louis opened up with huge naval guns T. Bragassa, Millard B. Gibson, from their side of the channel, royis Monareal, Leonti Vala. aiming at objectives across the dares, Paul Gibson, A. H. McIn- channel on the French side. nis, Roy L. McKillip. Nazi officials took cognizance F of the nightly program of enemy | attacks by stating that there would be no more night broad-| casts of news, between the hours of 11 p.m. and six in the morn- ing. Attacks on British cit Nazis Send Only Single- Corroboration of from channel ed were destroyed ght. starting shortly London and other today were notice-/ ably reduced, the Germans con-| tenting themselves with sending - : small units of _ single-motored | . 4ainst all the excitement and fuhters. each ceatn with ;TOMance of men and events of past anti-aireraft barrages, the yuaue in the whole panoramic planes were unloading racks in| history of headlines reached the fast oiger. Some of the aircraft Public today Mie eae Sod bea: ;, ,Of a strikingly illustrated book. is aeee ceteoeiae Sans 86) Sono! itis or hegwork aia Atiac THE STORY OF NEWS and in !dramatic sweep it recounts for this morning. Large squad-|the first time the actual, firs rons of R.A. F. bombers stedted ihand experiences of a procession Italy from the air last night,|/°f TePorters from the beginning Genoa to #Addale iSce of news gathering to the rise of The aliacketoame at the | the present-day Associated Press Premier Mussolini was in-|#8 the world’s oldest and largest specting bases not far distance |NCWS association, of which The from scenes of falling bombs. _ | Citizen is a member. The German Reich announced| The author is Oliver Gramling, today that economic war steps|# Newspaperman. since he ob- would be attempted in the Bal- | tained his first job as a $5-a-week kans this year, and that that was|TePorter at the age of 15. He ll that would be expected. The | 4S assisted by William A. Kin- opinion prevails that. the Nazis |M€Y. now of the Washington staff won't hazzard any military ac-|0f The Associated Press. The il- tion in that sector this Fall, act-|Justrations are by Henry C. Bar- g on the realization that bad jTOW; Whose editorial page car- weather may jeopardize toons appear daily in scores of quantities of military Papers over the country. a The story begins with the origin of systematic news gather- ing in Boston harbor in 1811. Ominous events were shaping the destiny of the recently born United States. The War of 1812 was in the offing, yet the people had no way of obtaining fresh news. Neither the telegraph, fhe wireless nor the telephone had on Italian factories gain reported by the Brit- from Points. large equip- ment. badly needed elsewhere. Meanwhile. the British are act- ing to strengthen their near-east contacts. They announced this morning that huge massings ot men, guns and planes were going forward in sections that will be called on to defend the Suez Canal. German naval authorities claimed today that an increase in submarine warfare had resulted in shipping losses to the British : the past || EXTRA! Monroe Tuesday, October 22nd of over 50,000 tons in hours. . Power ese sorsecene Announcing Opening of LULA’S LUNCH ROOM AND ICE CREAM PARLOR 822% Fleming St. Specializing in— Chili Con Carne, Hot Souse, | Conch Chowder, All Kinds of Sandwiches, and Soft Drinks THE IDEAL PLACE TO EAT , Spring they have been EXTRA! TOM WOODS FLEW CANADIAN PLANES. Tom Woods, pilot of a sight- | Key | Seeing airplane based at West last winter, has returned to Key West from England where he was engaged by a Canadian corporation ferrying planes from English factories to air bases. With Mr. Woods is Mrs. Woods, operator of a dress shop at Mar- tello Towers. The couple have been greeting their many friends in Key West the past few days. | They will return to Clearwater to supervise real estate they own there and will then return to Key West to spend the winter here. Mr. Woods in discussing the war situation said that every Englishman he talked to was very much impressed with the aid that America was giving Eng- land in this war. Woods ferried the modern English planes to the landing fields and stated that they are very well built and per- form well. Climate of Key West just can't be beaten, the Woods are thusiastic in saying. Since last in New York, Montreal, Jersey cities and they find nothing to even re- motely compare with Key West. Last spring Mr. Woods was en- en- ,gZaged in “dusting” Jersey farm- lands from an airplane to control pest damage. JOHN WELLS DIES SUNDAY John Wells, 2ged 76, died yes- terday morning, 3:00 o'clock, at pis residence, No. 7 Hunt Lane. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 4:00 o'clock from the chapel of Funeral Home, Rev. E. S. Doher- ty, of the Congregational church, officiating. Surviving Mr. Wells are a daughter, Mrs. Herman Roberts; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Russell and Mrs. Raymond Barker; two brothers, William and James; ten grandchildren and one great- grandchild. HISTORY OF AP: IS THE STORY OF NEWS been invented, and public infor- mation traveled only by word of mouth. The tavern of the coffee house, rather than the so-called news papers bf the day, was the best place to find out what was going on, and Boston was the trading center of the New World Into this setting appeared a young Bostonian, Samuel Topliff, who went into the harbor by rowboat to obtain news from the incoming schooners. He gather- ed what information he could wheedle from the merchantmen of the world and recorded it in a news book at Boston’s famed Ex- change Coffee House, where mer- chants and patrons came to read. This enterprise marked the real beginning of news gathering and out of Topliff's efforts came the newspaper practice of obtain- ing and printing daily news. The first phas of AP—THE STORY OF NEWS deals with these pioneering efforts, the bat- tles between competing new men, and the eventual founding of the first news gathering as- sociation—The Associated Press —in 1848. From that meager be- ginning the practice of gathering news grew until The AP, as it is familiarly known today, (Continued On Page Four) EXTRA! Theatre Wednesday, October 23rd PRESENTS A Saga Of Modern America! “THE RAMPARTS WE WATCH” See yourself in this story of your nation’s destiny! PRICES WILL REMAIN THE SAME Pritchard's | spends | $11,000,000 annually to obtain the | intelligence of the world for the! Glals Senator Pepper Advises City Of Defense Funds Available For Army Project Taking swift advantage of the ‘opportunity presented Key West when Senator Claude Pepper wired Chamber of Commerce of- ficials here last weekend that | only acquiring of necessary prop- erty prevented approval of army sub-airbase for this city. county officials today were ac- tively pushing |funds for purchase of an original airport Chica key. The site an airport has suitable for this army airbase, {with a 7500-foot nWi and of ample dimensions for all govern- {ment specifications. |_ Greatly enthused by Senator i Pepper's wire, local officials were | pointing out the advantages to be obtained from the establishment of this airfield. The wire sent here last weekend read in part, as follows: “Army authorities in Washing- ton advise that we can get aid jout of the special National De |fense Fund above the ordinary WPA aid for an Army Sub-Air- jbase at or near Key West if land is provided. A square mile will plans to raise site selected on Boca formerly selected for been declared An answering telegram was isent Senator Pepper to the effect |that local officials “felt sure a \Square mile of land with addi- tional area providing a 7500-foot runway couid be guarante within a week’s time” Negotiations of a certain nature ave been proceeding _ satisfac- tory for the past month, one of ficial stated this morning. d successful completion of purchase of the land is pated. F.D.R. SUPPORTERS MEET WEDNESDAY Every citizen of Monroe Coun- ty interested in the reelection of President Roosevelt is invited to attend “the meeting of Young Democratic Club to be held Wed- nesday evening, 8:00 o'clock in County Court House. Monroe County Democratic Committte has accepted an in- vitation to attend this meeting and plans for an active campaign in this area will be formulated. antici 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-EIGHT DAYS HAVE } ELAPSED! More Finn Unemployed (Ry Associated Press) | HELSINKI. — Finland's latest figures on unemployment list 3.- 178 men and 1,861 women with- out jobs, a total of 5.039 against 4,011 a year ago. In addition there are about 250,000 refugees from border areas on relief. Confident Land For Airbase ls Forthcoming RITES YESTERDAY PAPY TALKED FOR MRS. ALBURY WITH PEPPER ON AQUEDUCT Mia YESTERDAY «£ GANESVELE SES ATOR PUSH MATTES AT TIAL COMFAS Toar HUNDREDS ATTEND SERVICE wr. whe her residence Grinnel ‘ day afterno the Presi hun bors husband daughters grandchild Pritchard's Funera in charge of arran FLOWER-PATCH WEDDING ASHL. too s N. LF married Mr Mount Victory ly. SINGAPORE AND HONGKONG FOL Britair. Knows, But Won't Admut, Hongkong Lest Cause POINTS OF TWO MAJOR WORRIES By JAMES BASSETT AP Feature Seewxe Woe French chor. name must painted ing 2 CONVENTION BUREAU NLA coNcHA oFFice «§©=- BURIED) SPAY RITES SELD aT FLOSS STREET CHUSCE YES primarily to handle all mat ters pertaining to the Amer ican Legion state convention to be held here next April & me — SIIIILIS ss