The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 26, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West West, Florida, equabie climate z wih os only 14° F, of Cittizrit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Air Warfare Reach Early Clue On Race From Illinois And New York Votes High Pit ch: UJ S Sends HERE'S WHAT TO WATCH NOVEMBER 5 9 e e | By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE, AP Feature Service Writer VOLUME LXI. No. 256. | LECTION ‘EXPERTING’ MADE EASY: ? eee |the election outcome as the Te-' plurality upstate. Hoover won the easy to tell which way the. These experts, however, con- :same as in 1936. Vote statisticians and non-par-! nel Port Attacks } jjor indicators as the states of Pittsburgh and Cleveland, as | iNew York and Illinois. These Well as running well in New \ e : : won pene mn) tine might OP oe ua 188s, Shes Al. Smaith led wind is blowing if you khow | Sider it virtually impossible for Returns indicating Willkie was Capt. Jacobs In Statement ji. political observers are in, 2 as —— WILL CONSIDER PLAN TO OF- | two, particularly New York, may; ¥°rk City, would make the out- vember 5. . \olint (Gee pote trenda cia ceftain | the Republicans to overcome up- | Nazis Say They Started STATE PUBLICITY | j | making it a horse race in such ani _ | foretell the story. jlook rather dismal for the New (By Asnoctated Press) KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1940 | OF THIS EDITION PEICE FIVE CENTS County Commissioners “Approve Refunding. Pa For Airport Purchase QUALIFIED LIST OF VOTERS PART City And Scheel Beard Waive Claim Te Gas Tax Funds: Move Te Purchase Land SCOUTS ENJOYED Paraded On Duval Street HALLOWEEN FETE JOHN ENGLAND. SUPERVISOR. LONDON, Oct. 26. — Counter claims of huge destruction were | released today by England and Germany as a result aerial battles and forages sent forth: from respective airports last night and this morning. DNB official cispatches from Berlin stated that one of the ber 2-3, at which time a nation- largest attacks of the war had be been centered over London and a score of other large cities last! jaunched, it was announced by night, one observer reporting | : Fo Teturning planes lefts total | Milton E. Bacon, Jr., chairman of of 127 separate fires burning in London. On the British side of the pic- The association plans to offer ture, Dover reported this morn-' Florida “Sunnymoons” to select- ing that flares from fires burning WASHINGTON. Oct. 26.—You assuming of course that the Re- Unless the Willkie-Roosevelt 2!most 3-to-2 in the city. {key states and. cities protend. | State a 2-to-1 Roosevelt margin SHIPS FULL D |winner by 10 p. m. central time— | F-D-R. a city plurality of some 1 irs tn tandv: DIRECTORS MEET | MARRIED COUPLES OF NA ;can do your own “experting” on publicans will amass a maximum ce is unusually close, it will ial Cities Also Key i(Perhaps you can figure out the? the city. That would give 11 p. m. eastern, 9 p. m. moun-| 200,000 if the total vote were the jtain and 8 p. m. Pacific.) R.A.F. Continues Chan-| r j NOVEMBER 231 jgeneral agreement as to such ma- industrial centers as Detroit, TION of TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Oct. 26 (FNS).—The Florida Association tof Publicity Directors will hold its annual meeting here Novem- wide publicity program will the ppogram committee. | “On the eve of Navy Day, I de- sire to congratulate the citizens | ‘of Key West and Monroe County ee the co-operative spirit they have shown during the past year '—which spirit has been of ma- terial assistance to the officers and men of the navy and to the . civil force of the Naval Station in carrying out their mission”. | Thus snoke Captain Walter F. | Jacobs, U.S.N., commandant of ithe Key West Naval Station, this ;morning in an interview with {The Citizen, in which plans for local observance of the day were | South Is Clue i Virtually all the experts figure! jthat if Roosevelt carries ‘both; those states, he’s in. Many lieve he can lose Illinois, along} 'with a flock of other large north-| ern states, and still win if New} [York is in the Democratic bag. | This is because Roosevelt's! backlog of “sure” southern states, | plus an array of states “leaning } Democratic”, gives him a big! ‘head-start statistically in the elec- toral column. However, if Willkie! tis running close to Roosevelt in such Democratic strongholds ~ as} New York City and Chicago {(Cook county), G.O.P. chances of corraling New York and Mli-} nois will be very favorable. And = Republican prospects for a na-! tional triumph will be excellent. } F.D.R. Took Both In ‘36 : Dealers. Roosevelt's strength, outside the South”, is concentrated big cities. Should Roosevelt show 1936 vote-getting form in the big northern towns and run_neck- and-neck with Willkie in the small towns and agricultural dis- tricts, a Democratic victory would be rated a sure thing with a landslide an easy possibility. A decisive Willkie lead in majority of the border states Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentuck Maryland and West Virginia— would be a likely indicator of a Republican sweep. It usually takes a Republican landslide to put a majority of these states in the G.O.P. column. CORN COBS ADDING greatest “Solid in the a ed newly-married couples, in co- giscussed, in Calais and Bologne were : 2 clearly visible across ae channel, |°Peration with newspapers; Owing tc departmental orders, twenty miles away, roca a4 Rao yeae the cqpecmi ae |with reference to the present that Royal Air Force planes were | lucky couples wil given @-45)P+emergency situation, no persons “pabcesstull in their attempts. bey to Fiorida @ff all expenses paid will be allowed to enter the nav- er destroy favasion points.’ and will be royally entertained! 3) station except with authorized Py Ma thee Gramncl haminered [at each of the attractions spo M-| passes, and, consequently, no away at Dover all morning long Atego a encing ofthe ex: eae iad ae eae or in today and Re pe shells into ecutive committee of the organi- Paes a a oe = inl inland territory. Small damage zation at Silver Springs, various se - sa pecieetnat? wil ‘ - nymoons” idea were discussed “2 re : coin eia| ‘the seep ra and prepared for presentation to niece tants — i a5 h 1 " z directed the association at the Tallahas- Highlighti ‘th ial sid i ee ee ee ae see meeting. Election of officers N: ag se mans Reppert against shi pears = ee js abio echeduled. = ae events in this city will se a sued ae ioe tahaben Present officers are Wilton es a age carat by = port estroyed, in Hamburg Martin, Silver Springs, president; } lavy Wives club at a local night and- Kiel areas. No flights to club tonight. ‘ i Milton Bacon, Jr., Marine Stu-} y he R. Se right bY the F cios, Marineland, first vice-presi- ,and Landon, If Roosevelt’s pluralities, on the! TO POULTRY PROFITS other hand, are piling up at 3-to 1 ratio in New York City ‘and at. better than 12-to-7 in Chicago as they did in 1936, then indications of his re-election will be impres- sive. Four years ago New York City gave the President 2,049,000 votes 665,000—a Demo- cratic plurality of more than 1,- 300,000. Outside New York City the state gave Landon 1,514,000 votes and Roosevelt 1,251,000, a Republican lead of 263,000. Some statisticians believe Will- kie will have a fairly good chance to take New York state if he holds Roosevelt to a 3-to-2 lead in the nation’s largest city. That’s (Ry Annocinted Presa) PUTNAM, O., Oct. 26.—Put this down in your list of new uses for cld materials: Carl S. Bittner, Ottawa county agricultural agent, reports sev- eral farmers have insulated their Poultry brooder houses with ground-up corn cobs. Cost of electrical heat has declined ma- terially as a result: FATHER OF 26 CHILDREN PARIS, N. Y.—Bill Huggins, , 76, became the father of his twen- ty-sixth child recently. Twelve | of the children live at home. Shouts of laughter greeted each group as they arrived Boy Scout Troop No. 52’s Hallowe'en party last night. Each one registered as he ar- rived and then had his “fortune told”. At 8 o'clock the grand march began. Ernestine Evans, as a Spanish senorita, was the winner of the prize for the most attractive costume, and John Marzyck, as “1940 Miss America”, was declared the winner for the most comical costume. In a stunt game, Bert Cates re- ceived a prize for singing “Mary Had A Little Lamb”—a la grand opera. After refreshments were serv- ed, the entire group paraded on Duval street. Those who enjoyed the were: Z John Ogden, Billy Ladd, Dick Noyes, William “Soldano, Paul Herrick, Delia May Curry, Ward Herrick, Donald Pinder, Juanita (Continued on Page Four) q 90 Days! 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. THIRTY-THREE DAYS HAVE ELAPSED! at party Late dispatches from DNB to- dent; Ray Billings, Ravine Gar- day claimed serious damage to a dens, Palatka, second vice-presi- major naval ship of the British, dent; W: W. Patterson, Florida in the Atlantic ocean north of State Chamber of Commerce, | Ireland. Submarines were given Jacksonville, secretary; W. H. credit for the crippling blows de- Lai te McKee Gardens, Vero | Pap eos ee i i i each, treasurer. is J 2 . livered. No confirmation of the | WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. it An Ill Wind Blows For Politicians Feature Service Writer Rs send offenders to the peniten-| That's the explanation given, | tiary. Pest is started in the political teapot, it has a chance of getting aril could be gained from the NEW YORK FAIR CLOSES SUNDAY Many casualties were expected OVER 40,000,000 HAVE VISITED to be reported from last night’s heavy attacks on London and FLORIDA EXHIBITS SINCE 1933 other cities. No estimate or tabu- lation was available, however, at a late hour today. U.S. WARNS FRENCH ON POSSESSIONS WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull to- | day informed the press that President Roosevelt had sent warning notes to France concern- ing French possessions in western hemisphere. (Special to The Citizen) WORLD'S FAIR, N. Y., Oct. the | 26. — The management of the a {Florida State Exhibit doesn’t Taking recognition of the turn of events being brought about as | ‘!#im credit for all of the : @ consequence of late conferences increase of 409,000 in the state's between Adolf Hitler and vice-| Population, as revealed by the premier Laval and Marshal | 1940 census but it believes that Petain, with the possibility that the displays of Florida's re- French possessions in the Old | S0Urces and attractions which be- World may be handed over to |" in 1933 at A Century of German control, the United Progress in Chicago and have States has determined that no been continued, yearly down to possessions on this side of the At- | ‘he Present moment, has been a ; i i i im. | Strong factor in that increase. pple included in a sim |" “By the, time the 1940 New The note of warning was sent (See hice ave den sone: Oct. day, Secretary Hull stated. |<!» More than 4 i men, Treer _Hull stated. | women and children from all states of the American union and in- may be just a little election-time: _|Political twister, as some ob- servers here insist, but if those are real straws that I see in the | wind, certain politicians are in }for a tornado of trouble after | November 5. | Why AFTER November 5? | That's a good Republican ques- | tion in some quarters, but the | Democratic answer is that except fees the primaries held in recent months, there have been no elec- tions to investigate since 1938 and it would have been utterly jimpossible to complete sleuthing and prepare indictments before election. Even if they could have got the cases ready, no court could have moved fast enough to try them. Suppose charged were innocent. Think what injustice would have been done then to persons running on the party ticket of those who had been charged. the persons: but to get back to those straws. 1. A Senate campaign investi- gating subcommittee, with Sen- ator Adams (D.-Colo.) as chair- man, heard testimony in Jersey City, N. J., where Mayor Hague’s Hudson county political machine has been on the griddle for years. | 2. Another Senate subcommit- tee, with Senator Hill (D.-Ala.) as chairman, heard testimony in Chicago, Where the Kelly-Nash machine, captained by Mayor Ed- ward J. Kelly, has also been un-' der a crossfire of charges from t big political guns. 3. Numerous complaints of violations of the Hatch act. the Corrupt Practices act, and civil rights statutes have been filed; with the Department of Justice. | These are purported to run the} whole gamut of election and cam- | Paign violations, from minor in- | fringements which might result in Federal employes’ losing their jobs to the outright stealing of jelections by means that could | 4. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson has publicly de- clared an out-in-the-open war on election frauds and all viola- tions of the voting and campaign statutes now on the books, and backed it up by appointing Maurice M. Milligan, U. S. dis- trict attorney at Kansas City, Mo., as field general for the drive. Milligan is the 55-year-old attorney who prosecuted Tom Pendergast and sent that long- time boss of Kansas City politics to the penitentiary. Sixty-three other defendants who stood trial were convicted; 36 others pleaded guilty and 169 threw themselves on the mercy of the court. Call It Window-Dressing Some administration critics say this is just pre-election window- dressing—front to offset charges that machine politics really aren't frowned upon. I wouldn’t know about that, but it certainly is a fair guess that even if the tem- out of hand and becoming a good stiff blow, if not a tornado. In the first place, on those Senate committees both the Re- publican and Democratic parties are represented. If charges against the persons investigated are substantiated, they're not BOTH going to sit quietly by and let the breeze die down. In the second, if those com- plaints filed with the Depart- ment of Justice are verified, they are matters for the courts, and the Federal courts~ don’t hold their sessions and deliver their verdicts behind closed doors. | In the third, My. Milligan has i tasted blood, is ambitious (he ran for the Senate but was de- feated for the nomination by the incumbent, Senator Truman, in a stiff three-cornered battle), and is considered by friends not to be the kind who would take his ap- pointment lightly. ‘LAUBSCHER JOINS HUFFMAN COMPANY SPANISH WAR | from practically all other coun- c ‘OF a FORCES tries of the earth, will have j have passed through the build- ings devoted to Florida exhibits, Harold Laubscher has joined | since we began exhibiting at the {the local Chamber of Commerce! Chicago World's Fair in 1933—/staff, according to announcement seven years ago”, said E. W.|this morning, and will have | Brown, who has staged and man- charge of accounts and collec-! aged the exhibits which have tions, beginning his duties next! proved so attractive. “Other mil-| Monday. | lions have seen our smaller ex-| Mr. Laubscher was connected} |hibits scattered over the several with the local chamber last year, Inside - outside Dining Room |! fair grounds as well as.in the and made many friends at that! Division and Simonton Sts. Pennsylvania, railway station in time. He has just returned from ‘New York, Philadelphia and a summer position at Eddystone! other key cities.” (Farms, Sparrowbush, N. Y. Gulf Stream Restaurant Offers For Your SUNDAY DINNER ROAST YOUNG TUR- 50c ..KEY and DRESSING DREDGE HERE NOW Expected for the past ten ys. the huge dredge that be used the VETS TO MEET Members of the B. H. McCalla ‘Camp, United Spanish War. Vet- jerans, will meet at the Overseas | Hotel next Monday evening at! (8:00 o'clock, according to an- nouncement made this morning. Deputy Inspector William Stie- |ger will arrive in Key West Mon- day afternoon for his official vis- it to the local camp. from tions. | iS oemmeemnatantinniemimnininenteenmttateeeel ‘MURPHY SALE : HELD FRIDAY Only one bidder appeared RELEASES LIST OF OVER 6600 NAMES FOR NATIONAL ELECTION Qualified list of voters te go ower clams with B E Crem 6.631 citizens wh« the franchise to vot totaling mer. fiscal egemt tor the cor enc cCeunty comcrtnins tmmemcoms = «: army subencbese & Se scuee on Boece Chics key tional election. is a part of th Citizen, now ten as auth county ed by Supervisor Sohn England In releasing the list for p: tion, Mr. England issued 2 commissior ‘ment calling for co-ope the part of the public snforr ing his office of any persons why shculd not be on the list Mr. Bpgland stated Ses supervisor of regis tretion, west each of yuu te go over the qualified list that ap pears in this issue of The Key West Citizen, and should you fm any name listed there ti know to be eith away to live, w port the facts 1 either send this a post card or person at 912 Key West, Flor “I am asking th of Monroe county lieve you will help me the Registration Bow thereby preveht som taking advantage of st over which no ome persor control. But if we will a together, and for the same pose, success will be ours “Yours for clean pe fund susue «nit wet funds f murucipe. suse - report te Southar “cause u Arrangements are being made with state Red Cross beadquar ters to forward certain informe tion to Key West for the opening of a Red Cross course m aid here in the near future cording to officials of # chapter in announcement this morning. Classes will be held m Marrs and Division Street schools hours to be arrange iently so that everyone m tend. Designed + pr opportunity for those to take part in the nz paredness drive. iS expected g00d attendance will turn out for the classes. The following women have of fered their treined services the local chapter: Mrs W. Fripp, Mrs. Allan B. Cleare. Mrs. Ross Sawyer. Jr. Mrs © McAlmont Wassell and Miss Mary Thomson Those wishing to jom the class- es may phone or send names to Mrs. M E Berkowitz 323% Whitehead street, phone 765. made THOSE HATS AGAIN (Ry Associated Prean NORWALK, 0.—Women's wiie