The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 28, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXI. No. 257. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1940 Army Officials Point Out 33 COUNTIES GET MAXIMUM AID FOR THEIR DEPENDENTS | TWENTY-FOUR FAMILIES OF MONROE COUNTY RECEIV- D $785 TOTAL IN SEPTEM. STATE ROOSEVELT HIMSELF MIXED PARTY E BER (Special to The Citizen) +28.—Approximately 50 percent of jFlorida counties are now receiv- aclig¢e JACKSONVILLE, Fila, Oct. ‘ing maximum Aid to Dependent Children cash grants, which in- clude an additional 20 percent allotment made possible by the the previous fiscal year, accord- Desirability Of rieta SHIPS SPRUCED UP «= of funds carried over from Now Near Reality; $35' An Acre For Land “There's a gcod possibility that the new airport now being engi- neered for Key West will come; up for army officials who are reportedly looking for a 3C0,000-acre tract in South Florida for bomb practice facilities”. The above statement was made by-county commissfoner ‘William Monsalvatge this morning, when interviewed by progress of this project. Army officials, who have sur- veyed the land now being ear- marked, have indicated keen in- terest in the project, with its nearby islands providing excel- lent bomb targets, Monsalvatage added. “Our site wouldn’t ne- cessitate such a large land pur- chase”, he concluded. A total of 499 acres, of the 994 planned for the Key West army sub-airbase, have been pegged as approved by owners for the project. ll except 73 acres will have been placed on the approv- ed list in the next day or two. Even the owner of that one tract is expected to forward approval in the near future, making the whole area applicable for op- tions by the first part of next week. Terms of the lease, which would deed the 994 acres to the army for the airport purposes, will include a clause admitting private and commercial planes to use the field, Mr. Mbonsalvatge pointed out, bringing additional benefits to the city besides those contained in the military aspects of the project. A mass abstract covering all land in the projected airport has been ordered... It is believed that the major part of the land will be purchased at $35.00 per acre, slightly over appraised valua- tions, the premium being paid for prompt action. HARRY 0. PENICK DIED YESTERDAY Advice received in Key West this morning told of the death from heart attack of Harry O. Penick in Seattle, Wash., yester- day morning. Burial will be later! this week in Chariton, Iowa. Mr. Penick'Wwas the owner of the home at Southerd and Emma streets which was almost com- pletely destroyéd. by fire believed to have been of arson origin last fall. AFRAID OF DARK? (Ry Associated Press) of automobile driving, W. Henry Clayville turned his headlights on only once—10 years ago when he failed to get home from a Sun- day ride before darkness: fell. He’s bene home in daylight every other time he’s driven. favorable aitention of; The Citizen on} ‘Six Vessels In Fall Dress FOR NAVY DAY Ships of the |Gulf Patrol, Key West-West under command of Captain A. S. Carpender, U.S.N., five in number, hed pennants jstrung to the breeze yesterday in j full dress as the U. S. Navy ob- jserved Navy Day. Destroyers in port U.S.S. MAC LEISH, ‘USS. McCORMICK, USS. |STURTEVANT, USS. BAIN- BRIDGE and U.S.S. GANNETT, tender. Sixth ship, the yard tug YT143, even full-dressed for the occasion, according to Captain Walter F. | Jacobs, U.S.N., flying the Amer- ican Flag from its mast. Emergency the flagship, were regulations _pre- vented public’ inspection of the ships or admittance to the Naval Station, but many persons ported viewing the ships various vantage’ points in city. Among the several messages of | congratulations received by y officials yesterday was this sent by Columbia Laundry, addressed to Captain Jacobs: “To you, your officers and men, who so ably maintain the traditions of our United States Navy, greetings and our best wishes on your annual ‘Navy Day’. May the future of the navy add to the accomplishments. of the past”. re- from the DEFENSE ACTIVITY NOT WITHOUT ITS ing to announcement today of the State Welfare Board. wenty the nouncement said, can add five or less additionel ADC cases and 14 counties can add more than five The remaining 33 are at saturation point. In Menroe county, 24 families (65 children) received $785 dur- ng September, an average of .71 per family and $12.08 per child. Expenditures for this public assistance category are current- ly on the basis of $947,893.72 an- nually. Of this amount, $400,000 is in the form of a legislative ap- propriation, paid from the bever- age fund, which is matched by an equal amount of federal money, while $73,946.86 represents the unexpec balance from the past fiseal year, which also is match- ed by the federal government on a dollar for dollar basis. Despite ade on a population ratio so that all counties may share alike —a total of 7,850 applications were pending as of September 30, the statement said. In some of the heavily popu- lated areas which have fairly high economic levels a greater proportion of ADC applications have been taken care of that has been possible in counties of lower economic levels and small popu- lation, according to the Welfare Board No further expansion of this program is possible, State Wel- fare Commissioner C. C. Codring- ton explained, unless state ap- propriations are increased. This could only be done by the Legis- lature when it next convenes. counties, an- cases. Misspelled ‘Airport’ Cauced Important Two-Hour Delay CHUCKLES: NEW NAME FOR NAZI TROOPS By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—The welter of defense activity is not without its chuckles. For ex- ample— A friend had gone to the air- i port the other night to see his sister-in-law off. The plane taxied down the runway. turned, rushed back up the field and | skimmed into the air. My friend had started to leave ; when a hulking fellow stepped out of the shadows and stopped him. “Where was that plane headed | for?” he asked. The friend explained but asked why the question. The big man jsaid: “Oh I don’t know. I just | wondered. It was a good take-off. my stretch in the Navy—six years | | One of the best”. beauty of planes winging into the airport and off into the night. Finally he started to leave. My friend said: “Well, gooa- night, Mr. Knudsen”. And it was, too—William S.— who may be defense production chief when he’s keeping those long hours at headquarters in the Federal Reserve building, but is just another landing-takeoff kib- itzer at the airport when he’s re- laxing. Writers Must Write? He came in to fix my_ type- jwriter. He may have been 30. {He looked husky enough. We ‘talked of selective service. | “Funny thing”, he said. “I did ,of it—and then stuck on in the increased expenditures ° Key West. Wilkie-Crats Answer Party Criiism ISSUE; COMPARE WITH WASHING- TON AND JEFFERSON Democrats have asked re- peatedly the following question of members of the Willkie Demo- cratic Club of Key West: “How can you as Democrats conscientiously vote for a Re- publican candidate for the presi- dency?” Dr. J. Y. Porter, president. and Sam E. Harris, secretary. this morning issued the following an- swer to that question: “This question of the differ- ence between a Republican and a Democrat has been made a joke by Roosevelt himself. His run- ning mate; Wallace, is a Republi- can and dll his forbears were Re- publicans, including his father, who served in two Republican cabinets. “Roosevelt himself forced the Democratic convention to nomi- nate the Republican Wallace for vice president. Besides, Roose- velt has three Republicans in his cabinet, Ickes, Knox and Simp- son, and had four up to the time Wallace resigned-as~secretary-0f ‘agriculture after his nomination for the vice presidency. ' “In view of those facts, it shows poor taste and poorer rea- soning for Democrats, who are sticking to Roosevelt, to ask us how we can conscientiously vote for a Republican when they will also vote for a Republican in the person of Wallace, who has ‘curbed the sugar industry in Florida, time and again, and whose sympathy is with the farmers in the central states, where he and his father before him were born and grew up. Clewiston, Florida, which is only a couple of stone throws from the mainland part of Monroe county, has the largest sugar plants in the world, but what is the use of having them if Wallace is elected vice president and uses his in- fluence, as he did when he was the head of the AAA and, later, the department of agriculture, to curtail the sugar output in Clewiston? “Now, then, if Roosevelt, a Democrat, is justified in appoint- NO C.M.T.C. CAMPS IN ’41 FORMATION ON SUS- PENSION B. C. Paay, representative in !Monroe County for the Fourth Corps Area, of the U.S. Army, announced today that orders had been recently issued calling for suspension of Civilian Military Training Camps for 1941. With exception of certain en- rollees in Army Extension Cours- es, there will be no activity for civilians next summer, the order reads. The communication concluded with a message of thanks for. “fine co-operatioy i Papy by Clifford “Cabell |Early, colonel, . infantry, C.M.T:C. ‘officer. yi: tf City laws now require all resi- “Do you mean to tell me”, ask-'navak reserve. When they called | dents living on streets on which SNOW HILL, Md.—In 12 years'ed my friend, “that you haven't up the reserve the other day, I|sewer laterals have been installed tanything better to do than stand thought I'd better go down to!to connect up their house lines around here and watch the planes , headquarters and find out what with the system. take off and land?” The man said: “I don’t see any-! thing wrong with that”. And drop- ping into a conversational tone, ‘he talked for minutes on. the ‘it was all about. “I went and they asked me a lot of questions. Finally, they said, ‘What are you doing now?’ + (Continued on Page Four) Ninety days from date of pub- lication—September 23, 1940—is |the time limit. THIRTY-FIVE DAYS HAVE i ELAPSED! ing four Republicans to cabinet posts and running on the same ‘ticket with one of them, aren’t ; we, Democrats also, justified in voting for two Republicans, Will- kie and McNary? Or is Roose- velt a king or a dictator in the making, who can do whatever he wishes to and with the Demo- cratic party without a single word of protest breathed against ;him while we ordinary Demo- crats must clap our hands and shout approval over everything he does? Democrats who believe we should do that compare Roose- velt to Washington and Jeffer- son, so we will do a little com- paring ourselves. “For two years Roosevelt was asked directly hundreds of times by reporters and indirectly thou- sands of times by newspapers if he intended to run for a third (Continued on Page Four) GRAND JURORS ~ STILL IN’SESSION Monroe County Grand Jury as- sembled again this morning at 10 o'clock in the courthouse jury 'room to hear additional _ testi- mony in the Leon Massi murder ‘ase. It was expected that a true bill would be voted on this case some time later this week. Other mat- ters would then come up for at- tention, jury officials stated. GEORGE HAMLIN NOW IMPROVED Roy Hamlin, mailearrier, in- formed The Citizen tnis morning that his brother, George, of Tampa, was recovering from an appendectomy performed in a hsopital of that city. Mr. Hamlin was critically ill last week but has been declared “out of danger” by attending physicians. T.E PRE VISITS HERE T. E. Price, accompanied by Sam Anderson, owners of Trum- bo Properties, arrived in Key West late Saturday afternoon. Mr. Anderson returned to Miami DRAFT BOARD M.D.’S RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLASS 1-A MUST | PASS RIGID HEALTH IN- | SPECTION: ALERT FOR (Special to The Citizen) WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — Every man inducted into the Army under the Selective Serv- ice Act “nrust be able to see well; have comparatively good hear- ing; have a neart able to with- stand the stress of physical ex- ertion; be intelligent enough to understand and execute military maneuvers, obey commands and protect himself; and be able to transport himself by walking as the exigencies of military life may demand.” National Headquarters, Selec- tive Service System, today dis- patched these general instruc- tions, together with detailed reg- ulations of physical standard re- quirements for trainees under the Selective Service Act, to all phy- sicians who will examine pros- pective soldiers. The physical requirements are the same as those set forth in the War Department's “Standards of Physical Examinations during Mobilization.” Navy standards }will be issued when the Navy begins inducting men under the Selective Service Act. | In general: trainees must be at \least five feet tall and not more than six feet-six inches in j height; must have twelve natura! ;teeth including three upper and three lower masticating teeth and three upper and three lower incisors; must weigh not less than 105 pounds nor mbre than would permit normal physical activity; must have good vision and must have feet which can stand long marches. Unlike the days of the World War, when only sketchy instruc- |tions went to physicians who ex- amined men under the draft laws, the doctors attached to lo- cal boards and medical advisory boards will follow a standard form in their examination of prospective trainees. Only those men who are classi- fied by their local boards as available for military service will be given physical examina- tions. Men given a _ deferred status by their local boards will not be examined by a physician. In_the instructions” distributed (Continued op Page. Four) | b Too Low j Bee Sas } “In general, the grades earned ‘High School The Kry West Citizris Italy Attacks ~ Greek Cities By POETS 10 WRITE ON THANKSGIVING Key West poets are invited te enter the current National Thanksgiving Poem contest which will close midnight, No- vember 1, according to imforme tion received from Thomas Bruce Reese of The Poety League of St Petersburg, Fla Not more than three poems of twenty lines or less may be en tered. All entries must be unsign- ed with name and streams of sender in an en@lose@d envelope Any form in modem technique may be submitted. A) poems become property of the Nationa! Thanksgiving Association The best fifty poems m cech State will be entered im the ne tional contest for prizes. All poems must be based on Thanksgiving Day, and stress the accomplishments of our country as reasons for giving thanks Poems must reflect patriotic and religious significance of Thanks- giving, and emphasize why the flag of our country should be dis played The National Thanksgiving As sociation, sponsor of the contest. is endorsed by governors of 45 states, the American Bar Asse ciation, Daughters of the Amer can Revolution, and the National Flag Association. Margaret Ball Dickson, edi of the Country Bard and poet laureate of Minnesota is national chairman and Marie Cappick of Key West co-chairman. Al en tries should be forwarded to Mr tor Reese atthe Poetry League” Headquarters, 415 Third Avenue ‘South, St Petersburg. Fla Grades | ---Q’Bryant te do any work at yesterday, but Mr. Price will re-| by pupils in Key West High Wonder he received low marks main here for a day or two to take care of matters pertaining to their holdings in Key West. School for the first six weeks in- | \struction of the year are very From the glint in that mother's eye it could be plainly seen that at least one youngster weuld mo Mr. Price called on Captain W.|4isappointing. Entirely too many longer roam the streets on school F. Jacobs, U.S.N., commandant of | Pupils are bringing in low grades. nights. the naval station, and discussed | 4 check-up shows that in most. “Many parents have accepted progress being made in the Navy ,SUCh cases, the youngsters are low marks from their children Department's purchase of land Playing around and doing noth-|as a matter of course, when these now occupied by the sub-airbase. |i28 While expecting to ‘get by’ same children were capable of ', extended. to, Approximately 200 children. at- | tended the Key West Lions Club | Theatre last Saturday morning, jon their personality or some- of turning in reports for the first |six-weeks’ period just ended. Prof. O’Bryant continued: | “Too many parents have been hoodwinked by the story ‘I do all jteacher never gives me any doing much better In their’ abilities make possible are a little too high for ther children to achieve. Toy Benefit show at the Palace'my work in study hall’, or ‘My “Not every child is expected to make, or is capable of making. officials of that club reported work’. One mother. distressed at A’s and B's. her son’s low marks, did a little consult the school principals, find Admission to the show was an | checking and found to her sur-|out what abilities their children old toy that could be repaired for prise that he had four short study -have, and what marks should res- distribution to poor children in the Lions’ annual Christmas Tree benefit to be held at Christmas- time. periods | 0 week, | Pecting per to carry yet five Another show is planned for! the near future. home. No * | I HAE ty