The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 1, 1940, Page 1

Associat« 1 Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Kry Pat Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LXI. No. 261. RAF. Aas ROTARIANS "HELD | _ DISCUSSIONS ON | |INFORMAL TALKS BROUGHT OUT COMPLETE AGREE-) MENT AMONG MEMBERS ON! ON! ltaly From New Southeast Base 2 Naples Bombed For First!" Time; Greeks Still Hold’ (iy Associated Press Italians In Check; Tur- {the meeting yesterday noon dur-! WASHINGTON, Nov. 1— ing the regular luncheon meet af} State Department officials the club at St. Paul’s Parish Hall. { were keeping a wary eye on Consensus of opinion appeared the French today, in anticipa- tion of any atftempt that might be made to turn over possessions in the Western Hemisphere to Hitler. The only amendment on which members of the Key West Ro- dred percent agreement in their informal discussion on the six jconstitutional amendments to bei voted on next Tuesday was that jone providing for equal distribu- | |tion among the 67 counties of} y portion of, or all, excise tax- les collected from pari-mutuel } | pools. ‘LATE NEWS WS BULLETINS key Remains Neutral (By Associated Press) LONDON. Nov. 1.—Reports from the Balkans today contained jvalorem tax, though differences} iof affect on tax situations state- ing a favorable vote for abolish- jment, Clem Price read a_ pape! | with that viewpoint. Melvin Rus. LONDON, Nov. 1. — Swift'sell, speaking for the schools, fighters of the R. A. F. today pointed out that $600,000 would = tbe lost to state institutions an- successfully fought off a large- nusllysbut “his-igroup itavarel | invading fleet of German j polishment Equitable county bombers and protective planes. | assessments would follow, rey Included in the invasion action {stated were four Italian bombing planes,|_ Ernest Ramsey opined that} the dispatch stated. Bombing |“abclishment will be the forerun-| here last night was very light. (Continued On Page Two) WASHINGTON. Nov. 1.— The Key West destroyers and bombers, which began a “sealed order” trip on Tues- day of this week, may have gone to St. Lucie island. near Martinique. to establish a base, reports here indicated. unconfirmed. An- other conjecture of the move- ment was that investigation of a German battleship near the Panama Canal was to be made by the Key West-West indications of increased air at- tacks being conducted by both the Greeks and Italians in the bat- tle being waged by the axis-pow- |...) ers to gain control of oil fields and important strategic bases for military expansion. Greek air action, it was stated, was being aided and abetted by ; help from the British—the latter sending R.A.F. units from unan- nounced bases for attacks on the hitherto unmolested military cen- ter at Naples. Rome admitted these attacks, but insisted only light damage was created. Italian planes hovered close to Athens this morning in a concen- trated attack on the ancient cap- ital city of Pireaous. Hundreds of bombs were released from high-flying aircraft, but the aim | RETURNED FROM FLORIDA KEYS TRIP YESTER- DAY tary Club could attain one-hun-: wide were mentioned. Advocat-} Fifteen members of the Mon-/ appeared to be poor, according to the reports received. Few casual- ties and small property damage was indicated. In the meantime, dispatches still revealed the Greeks were of- fering the stiffest of opposition to Italian ideas of aggression Yugo-Slavian reports had it that heavy battles are being {Continued on Page Two) Gulf Patrol. ROME, Nov. 1.—Virgino Gayda, writer, President to place the war “United States is already the arsenal for that “American men and arms are be- Italy’s leading editorial today stated that Roosevelt is ready United States in actual status. Stating that the England”, Gayda reported ing sent to England daily”. Assessors Tax Roll Okeyed By Board ocr’ mappiaces County Commissioners met in special session yesterday morn- ing at 11:00 o'clock to receive the 1940 Tax Roll from county as- sessor Otto Kirchheiner and to approve receipt of $4,000 from R. E. Crummer Company, fiscal agents for the county, to be de- posited to the credit of thé Army Sub-airbase fund. Acceptance of the new roll was voted by the commissioners, and ordered turned over to tax col- lector Frank H Ladd. Budget set-up for the new year listed the roll at $2,330,000. Mr. Ladd’s office reported this CRIN ARR ER. NO THIRD TERM! For President WENDELL L. WILLKIE For Vice-President CHARLES Ls ewe eas e fare ied fol- ale ate ‘Names Bernard) W. Carey H. S. Courtney Calvin H. Draper Roger V. Flory A. W. Hill | Ella R. Miller Democrats and Independ- ents should find it an easy matter to vote for W:LLKIE i | | | | | 1 | | | | D4 D4 D4 Dd Od Od morning that new roll would proceed diately, to take off which were effected by the delinquent tax sale September.‘ Bills will of imme checking any sale u held i probabl; go forward some time next week, | the office reported. Today is deadline day for pay ment of state tax althoug Penalties are not assessed unt? next April. vember, three in December, tw items roe County Grand Jury spent the day yesterday on the Florida e reportedly on an investiga- jtion of schools in that district, and to inspect the county’s wood- en bridges. An investigation of the schools in Key West was on the sched- ber of the jury. An accident oc. curring last year, in which a *jtruck driver rode down a bicycle :Tider, resulting in .death, was al- jso reported to be on the list of; jinvestigations to be made. DIVORCES UNDER the} ,.; Courthouse records this morn- ing revealed that .final decrees for divorces granted in October were far less than the number of marriage licenses issued for the | same month, Circuit Court records listed 10; |divorce decrees signed for the -|month, and county judge Ray- ng R. Lord’s office reported a in n ly h Four percent in No- 0; in January and one in February. discounts are offered for p: ment of taxes in those months. GEORGE WASHINGTON The Founder Of Our Country “There cannot in my judgment be the-least dar.- ger that the President wif by any-practicable irltrigue ever be able to céntinue himself one moment in of» fice—but in the last stage of corrupted morals and poli- tical depravity.” G. WASHINGTON. THOMAS JEFFERSON The Founder Of The Democratic Party “Should a President con- sent to be a candidate for a third election, I trust he would be rejected on this demonstration of ambitious views.” TH. JEFFERSON. Preserve American Democracy (Paid Political Advertisement) ule today, according to one mem-! KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1940 i ‘WILL BEAR NAMES INSTEAD OF NUMBERS peter rae a SIX AMENDMENTS Donators oF Fitty-Eight Plne Request Dutch Monikers (Special to The Citizen) ; WASHINGTON, Nov. 1\Brit- jain’s Royal Air Force will have :40 new fighting planes and 18 bombers that will go into battle bearing names instead of num- { bers. The reason for this departure is the combat craft are a gift through the Prince Bernhard \fund, of The Netherlands East {Indies, which contributed 5,000,- 000 guilders for the purpose. Prince Bernhard, in so advising ;Britain’s Minister of Aircraft mamed for places in The Netherlands Empire. Lord Beav-_ ferbrook declared the gift “an expression of that spirit of free- +marked The Netherlands through- out the centuries”. The Air Ministry EE shortly will commission planes bearing such names as “Java”, “Sumatra”, “Aruba” and “Surmam”. Picturesque names were borne by early American service air- jeraft in peacetime endeavor, but the life of a combat plane is so short—from eight to 20 hours— that numerals serye as their only identification. The Army planes which, back in 1924, set out to circle the globe were the “Seattle”, “Boston”, “New Orleans” and “Chicago”. “The Bird of Paradise”, another The discussions were held at!Production, suggested the planes*Army ship, appropriately made jthe first flight from California to Hawaii In the Navy’s history book, the “America” appears. It! was a flying boat, designed to fly | !to favor repeal of the state aq/0m and devotion which has the Atlantic, but the first World War intervened and it was never commissioned by the Navy, but sold by its builder to England. i | WILLKIE'S KEY WEST SUPPORTERS | Dizzy’s al, Bunk And Gos Remind OF Hitler he ‘FIRE BACK AT DEMOCRATIC RELEASE Sam Harris, secretary of lease in yesterday's Citizen. “The guff, the bunk and the goo that the County Democratic Executive Commit- Hee had in The Citizen yesterday comprise the same type of guff and bunk and goo that Hitler told the German people the last time his name was submitted to them for approval or disapproval tas their leader. They were told that no true-blooded German, re- | gardless of his political affilia- jtion, could conscientiously fail to jvote for Hitler. Had Dizzy, who ;Presumably wrote the commit- |tee’s guff and bunk and goo, copied Hitler, word for word, he could not have put it more point- edly than what Hitler did. Hl “Does Dizzy and his committee {mean to say that this country, like Germany, Italy and Russia, jhas already become a totalitarian state? They must mean that, for jit is in those countries only where voters are told they are not ‘true-blocded’ if they don't jvote the way the dictators tell ithem to vote. This country | is }Supposed to be a democracy and: is supposed to have a constitution jthat gives every man and woman jthe inalienabl- right to vote as he or she pleasés. But if Dizzy and his committee have revoked that Tight, then let all of us ‘Baa, baa!’ jand line up like sheep and vote ithe way they say we must vote. j “Are Dizzy and his committee taking a crack at me when they peek about disgruntled _politi- Monroe the Key West Democratic Willkie-For-President Club, authors the following article in answer to the Monroe County Democratic Committee re- cians who are angered because they were cut off the New Deal's’ payroll? I was cut off the New’ Deal's payroll because I fought against the same festering polit- ical condition that existed: in 1934, when the FERA swooped down upon Key West, and in 1938, when WPA workers were lined up throughout Florida to ;vote for Claude Pepper. “The three floors of the Jeffer-' son Hotel, in 1934, were jam- packed with small-time politicians from all over the country. From; the so-called doorman to the top- notcher, everyone of them was an out-of-towner, and all classed as administrative officers and given fancy salaries. Westers were put to streets and pulling weeds at a ‘few paltry dollars a week. “I was told that if I didn’t stop talking and writing about that rotten condition, I would lose my job as postmaster, and 1 replied that if I lost my job, I would still have my conscience left. “In ' 1938, Pepper’s me to support ‘our Claude’, I feplied that I would have been | an-ingrate and a skunk if I voted! class on Wednesday, 3:00 to 4:00 jProgress of the Strand i against Mark Wilcox. As all} Key Westers, even Dizzy and his committee, will recall, the WPA administrative officers West held a meeting in the court- house to make arrangements to (Continued on Page Three) KEY WESTERS will all want ito read, not only Hemingway's jnewest, voted by the reviewers all over the country as his best —FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, but also Ray Kauffman’s fine adventure CANE’S WAKE. All these and ?many more can be purchased or rented at the Southernmost Book and Art Shop, entfante from - South street _at, Duval. novi- 1 CABANA —TONITE ONLY— After the last performance at the STRAND THEATER Until Midnight Ic COCKTAIL HOUR The Three Girls of Note c tnt ttt ne tent etn ltt rent tee —featuring— story, HURRI-! ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF (rand Inet = First Performance Tomaght, 7:00°0’Clock —Featuring— Brian Donlevy - Akim Tamiroff in “GREAT McGINTY” COMEDY and NEWS REELS Admission Children, 30c; Adults, 40c Matinee Performances Each Afternoon at 4:00 o’Clock Except Saturday at 3:30 o’Clock. RECENT ADDITIONS TO ROYAL AIR FORCE," OSTAL pin LAST MONTH SEVENTY PERCENT: MONEY | ORDER SALES ALSO UP. RECORDS SHOW - City For October Over $35,000 ‘LIONS CONTINUE iiieetiien Permits i- CHRISTMAS PLANS “= St == Of Mesth: Expendi- tures Totalied 410 Postmaster Fred J. Dion re- {leased this morning the reports on business at the postoffice for last month, with all departments Showing substantial increases over October of last year. In the stamp sales department, | an indicated raise in total pad of seventy percent was shown this! year, the total of $4537.55 com- | {paring with $2691.72 during Oc-| jtober of 1939—a difference of | $1845.83. Money orders issued duting} jJast month were for a total of 'SCOUTS COLLECT TOYS TO $60,969.34. This figure was over/ one-hundred percent higher than} MORROW: CONTRIBUTION ; business transacted during the BOXES RELEASED same month last year when a to- tal of $29,762.61 was reported. | Money orders paid at the local | , office totalled $24,669.35. Last| Continuing plans for jyear's October business in this {nual Christmas Tree Benefit, Ke idepartment was $15,273.5f. (West Lions at their supper me Postal savings accounts at the jing in their Den i postoffice showed a total of $327,- | ad oh {478.00 on deposit as of this morn-|PC@@ Plans discussed The same date last year |**¢T Collection of oid 031 was on | was on deposit. jrepaired and learned |tribution boxes would Boy Scouts of Troop WN 32 will collect toys all day tomor CONSERVATION AGENT C. F.jcooperate by phening number | LOWE CHARGED PossEs. [495. and the scouts’ wauld call SION OF ILLEGAL SIZES | Officials tendered the Palace ! Conservation agent Charles F. (Continued On Page Two ; Lowe, operating on the Florida ee Keys, was the complainant in the j oe . arrest case of four spongers ap- 90 Da s! prehended by him off Key Largo. Vv * He charged they possessed under- | — {buted to all stores in | : Tow and citizens were asked * | Theater 2 vote of thanks for the sized sponges. i City laws now require all resi- were! Key! Sweeping | in Key; The four men, Clifford Rolle, Edwin Nottage, Thomas Rowe and Freeman Bailey, were order- jed held for the next Criminal Court session by Peace Justice E. j R. Lowe in a hearing yesterday. Bond for each was set at $100. CLASSES IN FIRST Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, home hygiene chairman of the local Red Cross chapter, today =s minded all women of the city that | they may report directly to the | classes which open here next) , Monday, without registering. Classes will be held at 9:30 the Harris school on Monday. A/ {p. m., at the Parish Hall, has also ; j been organized. A CHANGE AT LEAST RALEIGH, N. C—After being a “human cannon” for some- time, being shot out of cannon at county fairs for the amusement / jof spectators, Carl Kennedy, 19,! jrecently signed up for “a nice) jquiet life” as a private in Uncle Sam's Marines. SERN The Problem Simplified | idents 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 23 198-= |the time limit. | THIRTY-NINE DAYS HAVE i ELAPSED! Tec bag AD OPENMONDAY New Strand Theater _ 7:00 Tonight With all the features a forts of a modern campaign to 11:30 a. m. at the Parish Hall; |Carbonells are today op manager wrote to me and asked 3:30 to 5:00 p. m. at the High | Strand Theater which seveTa and | School and 7:30 to 8:30 p. m. at | Years ago was destroyed by & ‘Those who have watched the ments know th jnew from roof to jto back. Mate ‘construction of the room jas other parts of the jfireproof, neatly }acoustical board of (design | Practically al work on | the new building was dome by \the Carbonell brothers designed |by. Ygnacio Ca: | Strand Theater imtroduces |the first time im Key W | cushioned seats which are ' most comfortable type used aw theater fmushed : 2 modern DEMOCRATIC RALLY Sponsored By Momro- Counts Demecre: Executive @aid Political Commotiee Agrerusemes—