The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 24, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 254. GRAND JURY CALLS FIRST NITES OPENED INVESTIGATION IN- | TO MASSI MURDER IN JURY | ROOM AT COURTHOUSE | THIS MORNING Hl | | i ! i i Members of the Monroe County Grand Jury, assembled yesterday by Circuit Court Judge Paul D.! Barnes, met this morning at; 10:00 o’clock in the first of a se-| ries of meetings to investigate circumstances surrounding murder of Leon Massi about September 21st. State Attorney George Aj Worley arrived in Key West yes- | terday afternoon to take charge! of presentation of evidence col-| lected by his assistant, J. Lance- lot Lester, and to present other | evidence assembled by his Mi-j ami staff pointing towards those believed guilty of the crime. H First witnesses called for inter- | views before the jury were most- } ly employes of La Concha hotel, where Massi is believed to have} stayed for two days following his arrival in Key West from Cuba. Witnesses were: G. W. Sykes, ! Kenneth Archer, Charles E. Curry, William Frederick Ed- wards and Anibal Armayor. Others subpoenaed included Al- vin Costar, toll gate keeper; E. R. Lowe, Tavernier peace justice, and Henry Betancourt, taxi driv- er. Mr. Worley expected to return to Miami late this afternoon to attend to pressing matters in con- nection with the Dade County Grand Jury now sitting. Details of the case would be left in Mr. Lester’s hands, he stated. Judge Barnes stayed on in Key West today, hearing chamber cases this morning, Judge Ar- thur Gomez also was hearing cases in chambers this morning. Radishes—By The Foot (Ry Associated Prensa) MORGANTOWN, W. Va.— Truck gardeners in the Cheat Neck section don’t fool with the little ones. Donald Leo Shay, 15- year-cld high school student, proudly displayed a giant radish over 12 inches long and over five pounds in weight. on or ; Federal Registran List Released ByDraftBoard he TMB D LS SS Posted At Federal Build- ARCHAMBEAULT TO FETE NAVY DAY All officers and navy per- sonnel at Key West Naval Station will join. in Navy Day festivities next Sunday. with ships all full-dressed and uniforms spruced up. But—it remains for Comdr. Charles P. Archambeault. U.S.N., M.C., senior medical officer at the station. to really observe the big day for the U. S. Navy. Besides being Theodore Roosevelt's birthday and the day on which the naval forces call attention to their importance, it is Mrs Arch- ambeault's birthday. oS. 6 de ctabeuud s FLORIDA INCREASES KWH CONSUMPTION (Special to The Citizen, JACKSONVILLE, Oct. Florida’ homes and _ factories {utilized 98,752,000 kilowatt-hours of electrical: energy during August, a gain of approximately ‘five per cent over the preceding month of July, the Florida State Chamber of Commerce has an- 24. — ‘nounced. Total generation within the State, according to reports to the Power Commission, amounted to 100,406.000 KWH. A total of 8,364,000 KWH was ex- ported ¢o other States, while 6,- 710,000 KWH were received from out-of-State sources. Total util- ization within the State was therefore 98,752,000 KWH, an in- crease of 4.8 per cent over July. MYSTERIOUS WOMEN’S VOTE PUZZLE Many Believe Ladies Nucleus Of Great Independent Unit . eae TO STRATEGISTS OF MAJOR PARTIES By MORGAN M. BEATTY, WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Polls of public opinion or no polls, both major parties swing into the home-stretch of the 1940 cam- paign without knowing which way—if any—10 or 20 million women are going to jump on election day. That means the women’s vote is the big mystery in politics, just as it has been in all of the six Presidential elections since 1920 when the women got the vote. There are those in high places in both political parties who feel that women may be the nucleus of the great independent vote in American politics. Some even suggest that sweeping landslides like the swing from Hoover in 1928 to the avalanche for Roose- velt in 1936—only eight years later—are possible only because the women are less party-bound than men. There are - 75,000,000 Ameri- cans of voting ages. Something less than. half, or about 35,000,- 000, are women. Only about half of our citizens over 21 actually vote, as a rule. It is generally assumed by the high commands of both parties that the same holds true for women. Fifteen million women’s votes would be Draft Special— Buy one Ice Cream Soda at 15c Get another one for your Girl at only Ic just by showing your Draft Card. Gardner’s Pharmacy “The Rexall Store” AP Feature Service Writer a sensible estimate in a fairly lively presidential campaign. On rare occasions the women’s vote has been sampled with the idea of finding out what sex does to the ballot. With the help of the National League of Women Voters, Samuel P. Hayes, Jr., of ‘Mount Holyoke college mpled the view of women in states just before the election in 1932. He applied rigid s' trols to the result anc women were more ed, more international-minded, and more socia! minded than }men—but only slightly more. For instance, a greater per- jcentage of the sampled women than men favored government }ownership of railroads and were against the government staying tout of business. More women jthan men favored the world court at that time. But even he } took these tendencies with a grain of salt, for in spite of them, he ) Said his general conclusion was ; that women reacted to candidates and issues generally about as men do. He didn’t put any stock in that old gag about women changing their minds. At least that played no part in his survey. Harold F> Gosnell, of the Uni- versity of Chicago, made a dis- covery in 1927 that still gives the Political master minds.the jitters —namely, the old suffrage issue isn’t quite dead. In hunting for reasons why people didn’t vote, jhe found one of the two major al con- concluded liberal-mind- causes was the belief that women ‘sisted of C.R. Murray, J.L.Gran-jdon on the TAUTOG’s indoc-| THIRTY-OBE DAYS HAVE ELAPSED! (Continued on Page Four) Che Key West Cittern THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. | | | t ing Office; Another | List Available At The} Citizen Monroe County Draft Board is-| sued today the list of all regis-! irants who applied on Selective! Service Registration Day. Octo- } ber 16th, and followed regulations | by posting a copy of the list in its headquarters in the federal building and furnishing The Citi- zen another list, both of which} reveals registry number of each applicant. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1940 SIBDDIADM4 CUBAN DOCTORS : ENJOYED FISHING Drs. J. J. Guerro and Dan P. Galvin, of Havana, im- mensely enjoyed the fishing in Key West waters all day Tuesday and will return io the Cuban capital with high Praise of the piscatorial sport Such is the information supplied The Citizen this city electrician. who played host to the visiting medical men. Included in the catch, Mr. Albury stated, were large numbers of yellowtail. group- er. muttonfish, etc. Drs. Guerro and Galvin ar- rived over the Overseas High- way from Tampa Monday and left on the S.S. Cuba for Ha- vana this morning. They plan to return to Key West within two weeks. Dr. Guerro is a practicing physician of the Cuban capi- tal and is also connected with hospitals in Clearwater and Davis Island near Tampa. Dr. Galvin is a well-known eye specialist. IIASA LLL LLL MURPHY SALE TOMORROW County clerk Ross C. Sawyer jannounced this morning that the teurrent month’s sale of Murphy Jands, as authorized by the In- ternal Improvement Board of | Amazed Fishing Boat Crew! | ‘FROM AQUARIUM’ DELRAY BEACH, Oct. 24) (FNS).—Escaping from his cage | at Marineland, “Butch”, a train-; | ed seal, who has done several bits| jin motion pictures and has en-! jtertained countless visitors with} this tricks at the studio, made his ;way down the Matanzas River! |to the Atlantic and then leisurely along the coast in the direction of ; | Key West. Tame and unafraid, “Butch” | jovertook a commercial - fishing | jboat near Oak Hill and delayed i this trip south long enough to: jerawl aboard to the amazement} {of those in the boat. Calmly help- | jing himself to a mess of - fresh | caught mullet, “Butch” permit- | ted himself to be lassoed and was | taken into Fish Haven where he: gladly paid for his meal by doing! jtricks for the folks. i Learning that he had escaped | from Marineland, arrangements! iwere made for his safe return| and visitors will again find him} ;Sunning himself in the bayou: |pool and dreaming of his recent | jattempt to “go south for the win-| ter”. GOOD MANNERS | ARE VALUABLE | GAINESVILLE, Oct. 24 (FNS).} —Speaking before a group of! nearly 1,000 University of Florida | freshmen, Dr. Walter J. Matherly ; discussed the manners of an edu- cated man and informed students | | | Confab Holds Key West. most equable country; with range of only 14° PRICE FIVE CENTS STATE CHAMBER HEAD LOOKS FOR BUSIEST SEASON BROREIN IX CHICAGO INTER. Franco Fate OfSpain: Britons Warn Of Block- ade Extension If Span- iards Join Axis-Powers In War (By Associated Press) LONDON. Oct. 24.—Diplomatic pots of Europe were approaching the boiling point today. with ex- Pectancy of “blow-offs” within the next few hours, featuring the Situation at press time. Unofficial reports from Berlin, Rome and Madrid were pouring into diplomatic headquarters here this morning, all mostly concerned with the threatened one sent to state headquarters at leiclck on the courthouse steps! St. Augustine and the other be-| Eighty-eight parcels have beer ing retained for the board's files. |listed for this sale, as advertised Peg ait with wishes of jin The Citizen on October 4th. e local board, The Citizen |_ __ that “good manners have a/action by Spain to join the axis- monetary value” and can be in- | powers in its fight against Great strumental in securing positions’ Britain. and promotions. H fe j Following the conference be- one Cues eae | tween Adolf Hitler and General | ‘ 5 |Franco yesterday on the France- will vost its list in a conven- ient location in its office so that all those who wish may scan the pages to ascertain registry numbers. Hours, 8:00 a. m. to 5:00 ». m. Clerks employed by the board Self- ufficieney Is Goal-- Of Isolated Australians pressed vere tothe effect that Spain wculd announce definite war action within the twenty-four hours. As if in anticipation of that | Spain border, most opinions ex- | next RIPE APPLES Oh hh headed ded AMPHIBIAN TANK PASSES ITS TEST RACKS AT QUAN- TICO. VA. CLEARWATER. Oct 24 (NS Ser Tums in making out the 61-page list, j containing 1441 names, as of this | morning, were Miss Eliza Bar- retto and Mrs. Kathleen Nottage. } Chief concern of all those on the draft list, as evidenced by the! large number applying at Draft Board headquarters this morn-} ing, was to determine their reg-! istry number. It is this number, according to } regulations, that will be the key to the final draft number and also to the order of being called for! board classification inquiry, as; thev are read following drawing | in Washington. D. C., next Tues- | day, October 29. } USE OF PROPER jsends jwark in East By JAMES BASSETT. AP Feature Service Writer Australia, a lonely and unpro- 7,000,0000. New Zealand's people; maneuvers striking both enemy ne tected island-continent, is striv- ing desperately for self-suffi- ciency and for the military strength to repel the Japanase in- vasion that she fears. As does New Zealand, she her best-trained young fighting men to the Middle East. To the Mediterranean has steamed her “pocket navy.” Even her 400-plane air force has been depleted in order that Singapore—without which the white man would have no bul- Asia—might be strengthened. But the Anzacs of the big is- number about 1,600.000. From this small reservoir of} manpower, Maj. Gen. John North- | cott, commanding Australia’s in- fantry, is creating an army that soon will number 250,000. New; Zealand’s will be close to 100,-; Already 28,000 soldiers—in ad- dition to the navy—have gone to} help the mother country of Great! Britain in Egypt and Palestine, | and as many as 80,000 more may follow. What worries authorities in case of a long war is that the nation’s manpower may be ex hausted, and some place this early as; In action, England put on steam in —A four-ton amphibian its attacks against Germany and.built by Donald Roebling Italy today—with prolonged air Clearwate> was ordered deliv “ < the Marine nations. Factories in Berlin area Quantico, Va were hit and incendiary fires were reported in several German undergoing satisfactorily pre cities. inary tests here Diplomatic warnings were is- The tank, bu tac sued by the British state depart- 492, attained a speed ment this morning, directed per hour on land, traveled against both Spain and France. mile on the water. the former case, London climbed up a five- warned that extension of the sea bank from the walter blockade would be clamped while carrying 2 down against the Spanish cities, pounds. preventing shipments of many mangrove needed articles now allowed to within its ow reach Spain. And France would pay dearly the if she decided to join in the war of # against Great Britain, was the joading supplies Barracks last week. It plo 2 goed praperie te sper = Perm jland that is Australia and the two smaller ones called New Zea- jland are tough, hardy people. The principal officers of state ‘and ‘of the army, navy and air HUNDREDS :.OF ROGIDENTS | tosee talked to me frankly of CAN BE PREVENTED AND their situation. Near Size Of U. S. SCORES OF LIVES SAVED ; Australia has almost exactly jthe same area as the United | States, but its population is only { {Special to The Citizen ORLANDO, Oct. 24.—“Hun- dreds of accidents can be pre- vented and scores of lives saved when Florida automobile oper- | ators concentrate on the use of} ‘U.S.S. M’CORMICK «ARRIVES AT BASE proper hand signals when driv-; ing,” Walter Hays, chairman of ! the safety committee of the Flor-! DIVISION COMMANDER COOP- ida State Chamber of Commerce, ER ON BOARD; BAIN- declared here today. “To be a really safe driver,” BRIDGE RETURNS Mr. Hays stated, “one must in| reality picture themselves driv-| (Continued On Page Four) j SEAMEN OBTAIN | TAG RES Ee Captain A. S. Carpender, Members of the Fleet Reserve |US.N., commander of the Key Association, Branch 56, sent a|West-West Gulf Patrol, announc- delegation of their members to‘ed that the US.S. BAINBRIDGE Mayor Willard Albury this after-j|has returned to the local base noon and obtained temporary, at following escort duty to the sub- least, respite from the city ordi-!marine SEA LION, the ‘trip start- nance requiring all persons to;ing from here on September purchase auto license tags. 23rd. Mayor Albury informed the} seamen that he would order the far as Panama, the BAINBRIDGE police department to hold off is-|picked up another submarine, suance of arrest slips to navy per-|the TAUTOG, and escorted it to sonnel until the matter has been |Gulf points, later being relieved thoroughly thrashed out before ;by the U.SS. REUBEN JAMES, tthe city council. which will continue the escort to Delegation of the Reserve con- | Mobile, Annapolis and New Lon- The destroyer U.S.S. McCORM- ICK arrived at Key West Naval Station yesterday afternoon with Division 63. commander, T. V. Cooper, U.S.N., on board, and !Lieut. Commander J. H. Lewis, ger and W. E. Julius. trination and training cruise. Escorting the SEA LION as! “saturation point” as 2 1943. ; Warning contained in the diplo- jmatic dispatches to that nation jas word of continued conferences between Hitler and vice-premier |Laval came through. | News from Egypt. was to the strength. She needs our goods|effect that the British were pro- more than our soldiers.” viding additional hardships to the Naturally Australia is think-'Italians’ desire to advance . fur- ing of both invasion and defense|ther towards the Suez canal. largely in terms of air power. )RAF. forces were delivering The all-important lane of ocean ‘telling blows against supply lines commerce between Brisbane and jand main bases of the expedition- Adelaide, in the temperate and ‘ary force. most populous part of the coun-; German attacks in the air try, needs protection. So does | against British territory increas- the tropical area around Portjed last night and this morning, Darwin on the north coast, which | following four days of compara- is closest important point to the |tive quiet. Three bombers squirm- Dutch East Indies. ‘ed through barrages this morn- |_ So Air Marshal Sir Charles ing and unloaded huge demolition Burnett is out to produce 26,000 | bombs. pilots, machine gunners and ra-j Dispatches from West Scotland diomen a year, which will be/this morning stated that that sec- supplemented by 4,000 a year tion was receiving the most se- from New Zealand. One factory yere air attacks of the war to is turning out a combat plane a!date. 1 day—based on an American! = model—and a powerful all-Aus- ' BULLET IN HAND NINE YEARS tralian bomber is in develop- z¢ i ment. SAN SEO.—Nine years Australians reason that an at-!ago Joseph DeGenova collapsed tacker must necessarily approach | while working at a service sta- with aircraft carriers. Assuming tion, presumiably hit in the head Japan were the aggressor, some when a tire blew out. The other (Continued on Page Four) [day a physician located a bullet anno: ws bead which was the seal - jcause of his collapse. Now De- _90 Days! A. E. Monk, head of the Aus- tralian Trade Unions, says: Emphasis On Air Power “We need men right here. Eng- land can’t utilize her own man ‘Genova wants police to look for {the man whe “shot” him nine years ago. City laws now require all resi-! dents living on stresowhidhk ———>>>——EEEEE====== sewer laterals have been installed) WFFK-END SPECIALS to connect up their house lines; pevIL’s FOOD and , with the system. | TUTTI-PRUTTI LAYER i Ninety days from date of pub- | CAgES, special x licat ber 23, 1940—is iis tea eeee Maloney Bros. Bakery Phone 818 812 Fleming Street shore...sevetaj more be ordered. The tests were witnessed Brig..Gen. Emilie P. Moses charge of equipment, for the 3 rine Corps; Commander £ Grenfell and Commander —& Dage WASHINGTON MONUMENT JUST Emencpeze Secu Visitors Viewing “Great B~ JACK STESSETT. 4F Peete Gee See WASHINGTON. Oct 24—Just splitter Preecie= = £ what impels tourists to tour the = a way they do s a mystery that no nat £ authority that I hawe been a to find here wants to tackle Bt colemesdes of Ge Micon that ‘the ways of the toursts are the Llc poe ah strange is a2 certainty. eo That much is proved by 2 sur- Vases » me Beco vey of the National Park service shout the seme as let eee on comparative travel for the 11 for gemme eee De gto months ending September 1 and those whe went => Ss just released. I put the puzzie up Demwel Ceeter Freoc® to the personnel of the Amercen the Great Eruecgece Automobile Association, suppos- ed to know all there is t about touring. but they said ‘would have to pass the buck couldn't explain what goes @ tourist's mind. If you try to make something of jare some facts and figures. | For example, the most tourist spot in America today the Lincoln Memorial sneaking up and ahead Washington Monument's ‘year, the Memorial to the mae perk server be — ebie =