The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 4, 1940, Page 1

Associat« 1 Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 263. Interest. Run High For preter Llection Day Tomorrow Many Believe National Is- sues Will Bring Out: Seventy - Five Percent j | Of Registrants ! Last minute preparations were | } being made today by politicians of Key West to get out a big vote } ‘URGE ‘YES’ ON 3RD AMENDMENT {SMALL COUNTIES UNITE TO OBTAIN EQUAL DISTRIBU- TION OF FUNDS West Many interests in Key i were engaged today in receiving ; in the election to be held tomor- row, with advance estimates of the total number of votes ex- pected to be cast varying any- where from 4,000 to 5,000. As in the past, interest is less keen in elections in this state, it was pointed out, with most of- fices providing no opposition. National issues this time. how- ever, have whetted vopters’ ap- petites, and it is likely that close to seventy-five per cent of the total registration will cast bal- lots. In that case, 4927 citizens will exercise their franchise— there being a totai of 6570 regis- tered in this county. Jaycees’ Parade Members of the Junior Cham- ber+ef _Commezce issued “an urgent invitation to all residents with automobiles to join their “Get Out and Vote” parade which starts tonight at 7:30 o'clock from South Beach at the foot of Duval street. Officials stressed that this is an annual project sponsored by young business men of the city in an effort to arouse interest in public affairs—primarily voting. Everett Sawyer, Delmar Butler and Chester Knowles constitute the committee-in-charge of this| parade. The Citizen releases herewith a list of all precincts of the coun- ty, together with the list of in- spectors and clerks at the polling places, showing location. Head- ing each precinct is the number of registered voters in that pre- cinct. peciet No. eease Precin 1—Court — House, White! st, Key West, Fla: i \¢ ms; Inspectors nriquez, L. P. Daniels, merc Precinct No. 2—321 Precinct No. 2 — Dixie Whitehead St. Key W E Clerk: Hilary F. Whalton; inspec: (Continued on Page Four) support for the third amend- ment to appear on the ballot to- | morrow, which will provide an, equal distribution of race track funds by the state to all coun-i ties Present the funds are made according to pop- ulation in the Gounties. Monroe County, as a member of oe “Small County Bloc”, is co-spon- soring this amendment and offi- cials here were urging all voters ; to vote “Yes” on that amend-! ment. Independent opinion on the} other amendments appeared in! favor of the first, third, fourth and sixth items as they will ap-|! pear on the ballot. runs high on the fifth -amerthacnts, according to reports, and bulk of opinion fav- ors a “No” vote on both. MASTER DRAFT LISTS ARRIVED LOCAL DRAFT BOARD PRE- PARES TO ISSUE FIRST QUESTIONNAIRES distribution of The Key West Draft Board was preparing today to issue the first batch of questionnaires fol- | lowing receipt of the official list of numb as drawn from the “fish bowl” last Tuesday ber 29, in Washington. According to schedule, to 100 questionnaires mailed out first, to those trants who are on the draft list with draft numbers up to Following: classification into one of four groups, additional. men will be called. from 50 will be Wilkic Supporters. Fire Parting Shot At FDR. The following article is authored by Sam Harris, secre- tary of the Key West Willkie-Democratic Club. It con- stitutes his answer to Saturday's story released by the Mon- roe County Democratic Committee. “Bacon said, ‘Only cowards hide behind anonymity’, and that saying is as true today as it was when he wrote it more than 300 years ago. But I won't apply that truth to the members of the Monroe County Democratic Ex- ecutive Committee, for I have a kindly feeling toward all of them, except one, and I implicitly trust all of them, except one. “I advise the committeemen, when they dish up anything else for the paper, to get somebody to do the dishing who knows how to reason, even though he doesn’t know how to write. The screed started out by telling a story about a lawyer who called names, when he had nothing else on which to base his case, and then accused me of _ calling; names. How could I call names! when no name or names were signed to the dribble that blurred the lower right-hand corner of The Citizen on Thursday in the attack on me and other members of the Willkie Democratic Club of Key West? The writer hid be- hind the skirts of the. committee and forced me to name some- body to whom to write, and as the dribble seemingly had drip- ped from the brain of a dizzy man, I chose the name Dizzy. “When I saw that the stuff in Saturday’s Citizen was also un- signed, I thought of what Bacon had said, but, when I cooled down, I laughed off what I had intended to say about anonymous ; writers and said, ‘Tl call that baby Fourth-grader, with apolo- gies to Melvin Russell and his (Continued on Page Four) _ ~— |LARGE TURNOUT. - “HEARD CANNON | HERE SATURDAY SPOKE FOR HOUR ON NA- TIONAL CAMPAIGN AND IN INTEREST OF HIS CAN- DIDACY; LEFT YESTERDAY! } | i | | 1 1 Congressman Pat Cannon ar-} rived in Key West Saturday aft- ernoon, at the invitation of the; Monroe County Democratic Com-} mittee, who sponsored a rally} that evening in La Concha park, | at which Mr. Cannon was the} main speaker. ee { Estimates placed the total num- | ber of citizens packed into the; park at more than 2,000. more than an hour in the in- | candidacy for re-election as con- Controversy | second andj} | while stationed in Key West. He } ‘hoped to return on visits from Octo- | | place. ‘ASSAULT HEARING. regis- | 100. | gressman from this district. | Captain Walter F. Jacobs, U. is. N., commandant of the local jnaval station, escorted Mr. Can- jnon on a tour of the naval prop-/| erty here Saturday. A fishing | party was planned for him yes- jterday, but high winds prevented jthat trip. i Many impromptu gatherings | were noticed Saturday night with | personal friends of Mr. Cannon j in attendance. He left for Miami; esterase ae BOUTELLE LEAVES | W.P. A. POSITION lamaaaalees JOB AS SUPER- VISOR HERE LAST FRIDAY { t George J. Boutelle, supervisor | Jof the Key West W. P. A. forces | for the past eleven months, an- i] ; nounced this morning that he had | !resigned from that position, ef-| fective date being Friday, No- vember Ist. Mr. Boutelle stated that he| would leave Wednesday for Jack- | Sonville to investigate several openings in private employment. | Expressing his regret at oe ing this city, Mr. Boutelle stated that he had made many friends | time to time, he stated. It was learned that the W. P.| A. work here will be directed out of Miami, with no supervisor to be appointed to fill Mr. Boutelle’s TODAY AT 5:00) Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., peace | justice, will hold a hearing at 5:00 o'clock this afternoon to de- } termine disposition of the ag-| gravated assault case occurring | early Sunday morning. Complainant in the affair is} Felix Gibson, who charged that | George M. Wilkinson hit him| over the head with a chair. Gib- | son was taken to the Marine Hos- pital where five stitches were found necessary to sew up the! wound inflicted. Wilkinson is held at present on $200 bond. AUXILIARY ENDS | DRIVE NOV. 11TH American Legion Aicttiary! will conclude its drive for mem- { "bers on Armistice Day, according ! to an announcement made today hy Mrs. George F.- Archer. x Those eligible and wishing; membership in the Auxiliary are urged to contact Mrs. Archer as soon as possible at 1425 Newton} street or by phoning 388-W. Elks and Visiting Elks! Are Welcome To Hear ELECTION RETURNS Over the New Philco Radio atthe —ELKS CLUB— TUESDAY NIGHT Seana Cae Seam | | jence your vote will KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1940 ‘AP's. Anny ~ Aegurate: Election Returns, TOOK OVER DUTIES ‘SOME- NATION MAY KNOW RESUI RESULTS OF NATIONAL! wuene ar SEA‘: CARPEN- RACE BY MIDNIGHT TOMORROW (Associated Press Feature Strvice) The acid test of democracy graphers and messengers, comes on election day. You cast your vote. Then what | happens You go home con- ifident that your morning news- will collect the votes from more than | 120,000 voting precincts, funnel jpaper will tell you a few hours! jlater how many citizens voted {the way you did, whether they were enough to elect your fa- :vorite candidate, or whether be the country will business. go about its | tallied | will be brought quickly terests of support for the Demo- automatically, that the winners Associated Press’s Jeratic ticket, including his own | Will be known promptly and that cobweb of leased wires. There will be no months of un-* certainty and turmoil, with the with threats of armed conflict. the figures through some 3,000 county correspondents, into state Associated Press bureaus, which will in turn flash them into the TePorted for duty at Washington, | === iaemimnenieaiamiaie jaccording to word released this LATE NEWS BULLETINS association’s Washington office. DER LEFT MIAMI SATURDAY | Captain A. S. Carpender, U.S.N., until recently commander of the Key West-West Gulf Pa- trol, has been relieved of com- mand of that patgol, with head- ‘quarters at Key West, and kas Pouring in by telephone and morning. telegraph, and where necessary j {another candidate won, and how|by messengers over mountain | | many voted for him. roads, and across the water from Batteries of complicated cal-: culating machines in the various (Continued on Page Four) Yet, paradoxically enough, your CITIZEN TO POST government will not officially tally the vote for weeks to come. | j Not until December will Congress imeet to go through the ritual of counting the votes of the Presi- dential electors, for whom you will have cast your ballot No- vember 5. The prompt collection and tal-! lying of the votes of more than 50,000,000 American citizens will be done for you by your news-; papers, through The Associated Press, a mutual, non-profit, non-! partisan association of more than | 1,400 newspapers. Army Of 65,000 An organized army of some | 65,000 persons, including Teport- | ELECTION RETURNS gation. No announcement of — As ver its policy in the past, The Citizen will post election returns in front ‘of its office tomorrow | night, with large bulletin boards to be assembled on which re- sults will be listed. Associated Press dispatch- es will be received by wire during the evening, treating on the trend displayed by returns nationwide. All residents are invited to witness this posting of re- turns. jers, editors, correspondents, tele-— Kahana hahah ahah | A Vote For THESE SEVEN MEN (First On The List) To Bé Presidential Electors of the: State of Florida?! PAUL APPLEYARD FRANK B. DOWLING WALLACE N. KEITH JOHN KNIGHT MALCOLM McCLELLAN LEWIS W. PETTEWAY RAY SELDEN Will Mean A VOTE For ROOSEVELT (Political Advertisement Paid For By Monroe County Democratic Executive Committee) Miami, arriving last Saturday, losing party screaming fraud, and 8 SPP MDP MP MD DM BS the nation’s capital. | | | | scented FIRST RECEIPT IN )Street, ,ber one from tax collector Frank | ‘H. Ladd this morning. ;new book are being sent now, with all checking Captain Wilder Baker, USN, Mr. Cannon spoke for a qetble | You know from past experi-'islands off the ‘coast, the totale ‘troyers ordered to sea on a mys-| to the tery trip last week and took over! 285,000-mile command of the patrol vessels |. {somewhere at sea” last week-| ‘end. Captain Carpender flew to/ and entrained immediately for | | Captain Carpender’s new duty | will be with the Bureau of Nav- actual duties has been made. McEvoy Returns George A. McEvoy, chief clerk | lin Captain W. A. Jacobs’ office, ! |returned to his duties this morn- | {ing, following a three months’! Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. E FIVE < - Increase: Raids TEE ; & E ae it Hel cI i fi a tiie HI (i | HSTENEE ik i ti Hi ite i ¥ | | jleavg ot absence. PAYMENT OF COUNTY- STATE TAXES 1010 Varela} again demonstrated his! “true citizenship” this year by} being the first resident of Mon- | roe County to pay his real estate taxes. He received receipt num- | Jchn C. Lord, In past years, Mr. Lord has jeither been “Number One Man” } jor among those who have appear- I ied early to settle their tax bills. Mr. Ladd announced this; morning that tax bills for the! out of the ‘tax roll completed last weekend, | following turning over by the | County Board as delivered by J.! Otto Kirchheiner, tax assessor. | | GUARD BAND IN REHEARSAL MEET. All members of the Key West! t | Guard Band have been urged to |attend a rehearsal of their unit | ;those found guilty rs f AO Over Greece British Naval Units Ee 1k iF aE I t 4—Scotland ¢ \Yara has had to organize flying jsquadrons of special police and ree to combat looting hich has been practiced by many bene tollowimg awrasds Newspapers have demanded that of such “evil practices” be put to death. Force conducted a large @ on the German naval base at Kee last ngiht, destroying many docks | and military stores there raids over London were ;paratively light lest night this morning. (Ry Acsocinted Preas) CHILLICOTHE, Mo peo | Jacobs, 91, has set himself. He has made up mind to have one airplane ride each year until he is 100 90 Days! z City laws now require all resi- |tonight at American Legion Hall, ‘dents living on streets on which | Tehearsal before | Legion Armistice Day parade, for | lication—September 23, | Starting at 7:30 o'clock, by George Mills White, director. i This is scheduled to be the last the American j which the Guard unit will supply 4 \the martial music. Any musi- cians not miembers of this unit, {have been invited to attend the 1 rehearsal. sewer laterals have been imstalied to connect up their house lines with the system. Ninety days from date of pub- ch the time limit. FORTY-ONE DAYS HAVE ELAPSED! The Civic Orchestra | ~ 1946s +