The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 29, 1940, Page 1

Key West Number 1 Draftee---Edward Fernandez Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 258. AZIS MA Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1940 TRC Key West. mom equal. country; range of onty 1 | SEALED ORDERS FOR K.W. PATROL Guard Against Russian Fight ttaian Advance ALL NAVAL SHIPS LEAVE TODAY ON MYSTERIOUS TRIP NAVAL OFFICERS SILENT AS TO DESTINATION: WAR EMERGENCY IN EUROPE MAY BE CAUSE Conjecture ran through the Key West Naval Station this high morning—in fect. throughout all ef Key West—following reports released early today that the Key West-West Gulf Patrol ships now at this station would leave late this afternoon or this evening on sealed orders. would not to val officials here venture an opinion as what prompted the orders coming from “higher-ups”, but it was thought that Ta-emergency measures in connection with recent war moves in Europe were sible for the On sealed orders, their base without know- ledge of their until well out to sea, where the orders are opened and read at a desig- nated time and place. Tespon- secret mission. ships any destination leave In view of the turn of events in} ‘KEY WEST AIRPORT C. A. A. Will». Survey ON ‘PRIORITY: ‘LIST A special dispatch to The Citi- zen, received this morning, from {Senator Claude Pepper, states that the Civil Aeronautics -Au- thority has included Key West on its priority list for airports to be considered in Florida and sur- veyed by a special board. Officials here, when advised of the telegram, stated that the project now being pushed on the Boca Chica site. comprising 994 acres, no doubt was included in the airport list to be considered by the C. A. A, who, it was stated, will cooperate with Army officials in the surveys. The message continued to state that: “Following the survi determination of the ex character of improvements |.visable will be made. “This survey grows out of the appropriation of forty million {dollars for the setting up of 250 airports in the country”. DREDGING BEGINS AT NAVAL BASIN HUFFMAN COMPANY DREDGE SCOOPING OUT MARL AT FAST RATE t and ad- Europe that has found France lin- | ing up with'the the war against opinions locally were fect that the Key We: go to the French island posses- sion of Martinique. This assumption is backed up by the effort to be made by the United States to prevent any foreign nation, including Franc from turning over any posses- sions to any other nation. An airplane carrier, three de- stroyers, a submarine and other smaller vessels of the French navy are at Martinique at pres- ent, bottled up by blockading British vessels. Local ships leaving today are the flagship, U.S.S. MAC LEISH, USS. STURTEVANT, USS. BAINBRIDGE. The U.S.S. SIMPSON came in from patrol yesterday and _ left last night and the tender U.S. GANNETT left last night. Jt is believed that the two destroy- ers, U.S.S. BROOME and U.SS. TRUXTON, which left here Fri- day for Miami and Navy Day ob- servances, would leave on the same orders from that port. START PURGING LIST OF VOTERS Commissioner William H. Mon- salvatge stated today that upon release of The 'Citizen’s list of Selective Service registrants, he and John England, supervisor of registration, would start to check the list against those of register- ed voters in Monroe county. This action was approved by the county board recently as a T™Means to seek out any names on the voters’ lists that should be purged when compared with the draft list. Misstatement of age will be the main cause for purg- ing the name of a voter. axis-powers Britain, to the ef- ships will in some The huge dredge of the Huff- man Construction Company, which arrived last weekend, be- gan operations yesterday on that company’s contract to dredge the naval station submarine basin to a uniform depth of 22-feet Lieut. Comdr. T. J. Brady, U S. N., public works officer, stated that the contract had been ex- tended to January Ist, by which time the work should -be com- pleted. The fill, coming out at the rate of about 10,000 cubic yards per day, is being dumped in lowland areas of the station yard. final opening of drawings for the first departmental Auditorium to par- Roosevelt Opened Draft Selection Of Numbers Today FIRST 412 NUMBERS DRAWN BY 3:00 P. M.; SIXTEEN KEY WEST (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—An ticipate and witness the fateful impressive ceremony marked the event, beginning at noon today. ceremonies with a Peace--time conscription in the United States here today as high- KEY WEST NUMBERS CALLED Associated Press dispatches received up to 3:15 o'clock this afternoon listed 16 numbers within the local Draft joard’s range of numbers, from 1 to 1522. The following names were drawn: One—Edward Fernandez, 418 Amelia Street; 158, Ist. ‘Two—Allan Lockhart Hampton, 910 Georgia Street: 192, 2nd. Three—Duncan Michael Jones, 705 Thomas Street: 105, 19th. Four—Leon Gillam Jones, 409-C Eaton Street: 188, 41st. Five—Reinardo Soriano, 1011 Whitehead Street; 120, 46th. Six—Michael May Johnson. Simonton and Fleming Streets: 846, 94th. p Seven—Forrest Wilson Finerty, 1413 Eliza Street; 161, 109th. Eight—Manuel Cervantes, 804 Olivia Street; 14, 13lst. Nine—Feridio Frank Caraballo, 922 Catherine Street: 57, 203rd. Ten—James Alexander Cleare, 307 Julia Street; 153, 211th. Eleven—Julio Avael. 1102 Margaret Street; 19, 25st. Twelve—Julian J. Kee, 228 Division Street: 766, 268th. Thirteen—Oscar Cabanas Mendoza, 522 Olivia Street; 172. 288th. Fourteen—Charles Perez. 1007 Packer Street: 126. 309th. Fifteen—Bill Crespo, 819 Olivia Street: 187, 367th. Sixteen—Aurelio Sanchez, 1017 Eaton Street; 167, 412th. efficialdom gathered in the Inter- ,it is, and should be, a most {solemn ceremony”, j;point out that recent - |stressed “only the strong may. WE'VE HAD LOTS OF BITTER CAMPAIGNS By JACK STINNETT, AP Fe: WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley was speaking over his bar to Hennessey. “Soon,” Dooley, “the election will be over and after that Dooley goes back to his beer pumps and Hen- nessey goes back to his slag pile and the old flag’ll continue to wave over us all.” Apparently Mr. Dunne knew his history as well as he knew his Irish Americans. There have been 37 national elections. “With the exception of the first none has been unanimous. Invariably election campaigns have been marked with bitterness. Some have been muddy. Some even have been bloody. Ripe eggs and over-ripe vegetables have been thrown—many times. But only twice in the history of the United States heve election ‘battles resulted in post-election | eee BUT WE GET OVER THEM ALL RIGHT said Mr. 'd ;continue to live in freedom and peace”. Following the President's open- . jing remarks, a part of which Selective |Service National chairman, Dr. Clarence Dystra, took charge of the proceedings and the draw- ings proceeded. ss Secretary of War Henry Stim- son drew the first number, after what was to follow, re Service Writer hangovers and from one of these the sick nation emerged healthier and happier than it had been for cades. Every four years Johnny Q. Democrat and Richard R. Repub- lican strip to the waist and go at it tooth and nail with no holds barred. Socking below the belt is common. Every four years— except im two instances—they’ve | dragged their aching bodies out of bed the morning after election to get back to the united task of seeing that America carries on. One of those two instances, of course, was the Civil war when the boys got mixed up in the slavery question and had to call on Joe Public to go out on the field of battle and settle the fight once and for all. 1876 Was Acid Test The other was the exception (Continued on Page Four) ury Henry Morgenthau, Attorney opaque blue capsules. had been placed in the same fish bowl used in table used on occasion. First twenty-seven called were: numbers 4861, 6116 and 5527. RED CROSS | | i | | j | | | k vor, Mrs. | Knox, Secretary of the Navy, and | 415.999 will be j CAPTAINS -ANNOUNCED LOCAL CHAIRMAN RELEASES FULL LIST OF THOSE TO SERVE FOR ANNUAL ROLL CALL Mrs. R. T. Menner, Roll Call chairman of the local Red Cross chapter, announced the full list of captains and assistants who will serve during the Roll Call in Key West, starting on November 11th. An important meeting of this group has been called for this Friday morning, at 10:30 o'clock, ! at headquarters, 536 Fleming street. On that day, the head- quarters will be opened, to re- President Roosevelt opened the main so each day thereafter ex-| 10-minute | cept Sundays, from 10:30 a. m. to talk in which he stressed that “no ‘12:00 o'clock noon. fanfare accompanies this event—} Captains were named as fol- lows: Mrs. Walter F. Jacobs, for the navy; Mrs. L. L. Pendleton, for the army; Mrs. A. P. Rubino, Marine Hospital; Mrs. J. J. Tre- Edwin Trevor, Mrs. Sidney Kirtland, Mrs. R. C. Sni- dow, Mrs. Albert J. Mills, Mrs. Lee Pierce, Mrs. H. C. Taylor, Mrs. Isabel Ball, Mrs. Carl Ber- valdi, Mrs. Eola Swicegood, Mrs. E. J. Bayly and Albert Peirce. Members of the Executive com-! | mittee of this city who have volunteered to serve are: R. H. Spottswood, secretary, Mrs. Hugh Williams, publicity, Mrs. William R. War- ren and Mrs. Mary H. Barker, production, Mrs. Edwin Trevor, juniors, Hilton Kemp, treasurer and Mrs..M. E. Berkowitz, home hygiene. WINS THE BOLL GAME (By Asseciated Press) PLYMOUTH, N. C.—Bill Wood- ley grew a stalk of cotton that contained 114 bolHs—a record for this section. The average stalk contains no more than 60 to 70 continuing to | bolls. history | - — executive | chairman, Mrs. Grace Phillips, SHIS SS SS! 2 ED. FERNANDEZ SAYS ‘PM WILLING TO GO’ Edward Fernandez. Key | West's Number One Draftee | as selected by federal offi- cials this afternoon in Wash- ington. having been assigned the registry number 158. stated to The Citizen this aft- ernoon that he “would be willing to enter one year's It develops, however, that | Fernandez, who lives at 418 Amelia srieet. may not be called in the first draft. He has two children. aged Sand 13. and his wife is dead. He is a WPA worker. Second number for the Key West Draft Board is that of Allan Hampton's. gas com- pany salesman. Mr. Hampton is not eligible for the draft. being a member of the local National Guard. which will go into encampment early next year. IS IDI SSS 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-SIX DAYS HAVE ELAPSED! WILL HAWAII BE Civil War Settled Slavery Issue Once And For ANC devoted to a description of | Plebiscite In Pacific Islands 49TH STAR Holds Decision Of Question FLAG? NOV. 5 VOTE MAY POINT WAY ee a ee Se eee —— ee Far out in the Pacific on N vember 5 there will be a ballot- being blindfolded, then, in fast ing which may lead to addition order, the Secretary of the Treas- cf a 49th state to the Union. While people on the mainland the Presidential vote, Hawaii’s A ‘ just as interested | other high officials stepped up tojin the outcome of a plebiscite to! draw a number contained in little determine whether it is the desire | Feature Service) Jin the electoral college. It does )Not elect its governor, and its rep- |resentative in Congress is mere- ily a delegate with the right of de- General Robert Jackson, Frahk ®¢ Waiting for final returns of} bate and introduction of bills but ;no vote. Laws Can Be Voided Hawaii has a legislature con- lof the majority that their islands |*#ting of 15 senators and 30 mem- The capsules, totalling 9,000, D€ admitted as the 49th state. Hawaii has been a territory of the United States for 40 years. Its the World War ‘citizens are citizens of the United | draft call, on the same mahogany States and its Federal taxes go |the President. that memorable into the United States treasury. With a few exceptions, the gov. ernment of Hawaii today func- tions-as does the government of a state. Principal exception is ba- 158, 192, 8239, 6620, 6685, 4779,'sic in that the Congress of the 8848, 6262, 8130, 5892, 5837, 5485, United States can determine the 6604, 8946, 5375, 7674, 4880, 4928, form of government for the terri- 105, 6582, 6729, 7508, 7857, 5995, tory. ibers of a lower house. Congress jcan void laws passed by this leg- jislature, but never has. The governor is appointed by | (Centinued on Page Four) _ 4” SHEATHING © $32 M | Strunk Lumber Yard RAF. CONCENTRATES COUNTER-ATTACKS ON GERMAN SHIPYARDS (D> Aqwociated Premey Germany has massed 2 striking force of seventy divisions—estimated at 2 million. twe hundred and fifty thousand treops—in the Balkan area te prevest any possible Russian interference with her plans. 2 British military expert reported teday While Greece stubbornly fought to steve eff the cope. the expert auerted Ger OFFICIALS HERE —— — —— — gone somce Frence tel —eltahen thrus: mae southees Ee LOCAL CHAPTER GREETED VISITORS AT MEETING : LAST NIGHT B Spa: heid reas greeting I Wilham Sv Special mecting of the MegCalia Camp, No. 5. War Veterans, was evening at the Ov with membe Hote loca a rartment Inspect ger. of Orilandc of his official v Ts who came t& for the meeting were W Soper, past commander Camp, No. 18, Orlando; Earl Der nick past Oscar Daumer, past con Camp, G Mu commander, L: Camp mander, Compton M4 West Palm Beach. of Brooklyn anc Mills, N.Y Ladies m the patty Mo Oscar Daumer past presides Compton auxiliary; Mrs Mills, past president. iliary, No. 44, Brovkiy Adel Steiger, past president ly Auxiliary; Mrs. Wills ger, past president, Lovel " iliary, and Mrs. William J. Sope: past president, Lovel Auxiliary Visitors taken for sightseeing ride around yesterday by loca G. N. Goshorn and pas mander Charles Ketchum Mrs. Goshorn, president local auxiliary SELECTIVE SERVICE BOARD Chairman Ross C. Sawyer. the Monroe County Selective Service Board, which served t head the registration held om October 16, today received not fication of official dismissal from further duty from H P. Baye state chairman Mr. Sawyer stated that board, comprised of Melvin E cx: Russell and John England. wsh- o= if ed to give full cred to the rade Ge school principals and teachers im the * who took charge of all details of Compicte details were