The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 28, 1941, Page 1

Service br 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West ===: Local Gil [s MAKE CORRECTION OF ER-| ROR EMBODIED wre wane ser = 10 BG CHOSEN city council by Saturday will] have given full approval to an or-| i 5 we f Key (West's most attractive With council expected to recall’ young woman will be named by | the faulty existing ordinance and local junior chamber of commerce | pass another tonight'on first read- imembers tonight at La Concha) . .., | hotel in a selection preliminary to i ing, Mayor Albury said he still! the Miami junior chamber’s Labor has not read the measure, but will | Day “Tropical Festival”. | sign it if it embodies terms con-| Girls who have entered the pro- | tained in a tentative ordinance he |@t#™ by sending their photo- read a month ago. | graphs to directors of the contest | , | will appear at the hotel tonight Supporters of the measure in! for the final selection, while all For. ‘Testival council, who passed the first ordi- nance on final reading Friday, have insisted that the measure contains exactly the same. provi- sions tentatively approved them before, a - City Aittorney Aquilino Lopez, | meanwhile, informed the council- | men it would be necessary to re- call the first measure to remove a clause in which the city granted | the commission an easement on the army pipe line at the city sump, The easement has since been learned to be unnecssary, | since the land to be turned over} to the commission does not in-| | Council tonight is empowered’ to pass the newly drafted ordin-! ance only on its first reading, but | it is believed likely the members; seking quick action will ask an-| ther meeting Friday night in or- | der to give the ordinance final) approval. Council President William; Freeman and Councilman J. Glen- | wood Sweeting are expected to! opose the ordinance tonight, | other young women between 16 and 25 who wish to take part may jenter without the photographs. | ‘The chamber members have in- | vited all Key Westers who are in- | | terested in the program to be their | guests for the festivities tonight | at 9 o'clock. i Winner of the contest here will | be sent to the Miami festival,! where the girl who is chosen the ; most beautiful of the day will be } entered in an all-America contest | in New York. QOSEVELT 10 LARIFY UNITS (By Associated Press) i WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. — President Roosevelt this week will issue a formal statement clarifying the apparently overlap- ping authority of the Office of t | | | } | ' Weat Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEW SPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1941 ~ County Go On Sale'Tuesday Drivers’ licenses for 1941 do not | go on sale until Tuesday, the day after Labor Day, Gwendolyn Bor- | | den, clerk in the office of County | Judge Raymond Lord said today jin revealing that many Monroe county residents have attempted jto file their applicatoins this | week. } Miss Borden, who is in charge |of the office this week while : Judge Lord is in Tampa on a business trip, warned that drivers | must bring their old licenses with ! them in order to get a renewal for | 1941. | For the first time, Florida this } year is demanding a drivers’ test . for those making their initial ap- ah geass State road patrolmen. 5 wie carry out the tests with the Cordell Hull | prospective licensed operators. ADDING: HIS. W. ‘i Drivers who have been granted that delivered by Moscow: yes- ferday, Secretary. of State Cordell Hull informed ‘the Japanese government that the Unitd States will insist on the | ancient principle of freedom of | the seas in delivering war | supplies to Viadivostock. X-RAY CLINIC SCHEME, By MORGAN M. BEATTY. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Will | the British ariny invade German- | controlled Europe at any time in the predictable future? The various answers one gets TALK OF BRITISHEEUROPEAN INVASION ONLY "PROPAGANDA jlicenses previously, however, are not required to take the tests. Another innovation this year is} ‘the differentiation between! licenses for operators, junior op- erators, and restricted junior op- erators. The licensed operators must be , 18 or more, and will be charged} »$1.00 for a permit giving them! full driving rights. The junior} ‘operators (16-18 inclusive) will} receive their licenses for 50 cents, ! but they will not be permitted to | drive outside their home county, ' will not be permitted to drive! after dark, and must not exceed | a speed of 35 miles per hour. The! restricted junior operator (14-16) i jis placed under the same condi-/ i tions as the older group, but he | must also have an adult ahs pena 4 with him in order to drive. | Former French Vice Premier! Pierre Laval today was considered | jin a critical condition after a ' youthful terrorist fired four bul- lets into his body yesterday. Mar- | }cel Deat, a Laval associate. who shot at the same time. is re- OBSERVERS CLAIM 72 = JAP PREMIER the H WARNS F.D.K. Shred oat } , AP Feature Service Writer jrope. They can constantly dem- onstrate their control of world’s sea highways, especially for the benefit of Axis partner ; Japan. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in # country; _ range of only 14° Fahrenheit — with an PRICE FIVE CENTS” Condition Grave | JUSTICE DOUGLAS’ - The Supreme Court was © listening to an argument by John W. Davis, the eminent New York lawyer. whose plea was most earnest—and ob- viously rather long. Sudden- ly he brought himself up short, fearing he might be getting close to his alloted time limit and hoping he might finish his point. “I apologize”, he said, ad- dressing Charles Evans Hughes, then Chief Justice. “I have no timepiece. Would the court be kind enough to tell me hew much of my time remains”. Chief Justice Hughes, fa- mous for his punctuality, pulled out of an inner pocket the huge turnip of a watch he carried to keep himself that way. He advised Mr. Da- vis there was one minute left and in his voice there was & tone of finality. Mr. Davis drew himself up, bowed. and answered in his most formal manner: “In that case, Mr. Chief Justice, may I present that minute to the court?” The minute was accepted— very gravely. | i | PLAN TO BUILD MEET TONIGHI ORDINANCE WILL COME UP FOR CORRECTION There will be a meeting of the City Council held tonight, begin- ning at 8 o'clock, which will be reressed session from the meeting. The council. will vene tonight as a tax) i somal ai taxpayers. é In all probability, the water dinance passed at a recent n ccrrection in one of the pr embodied in the document. The last meeting, at which ordinance in question was. pasi was presided over by i Protem Leonard B. Grillon, President Freeman. having | vote due to the fact that he acting mayor at the time. has However, Mayor Albury turned to the city, and Pre Freeman will therefore. preside. tonight’s session, at which |he will have. STARTS HERE ON SEPT. 10 |MISS CLEO McLAUGHLIN AR- RIVES TO WORK IN CON- NECTION WITH DR. J. B. -PARRAMORE Miss Cleo McLaughlin, consult- ing nurse on tuberculosis with the State Board of Health at Jackson- ville, was an arrival in the city yesterday to conduct a tuber- eulosis X-ray Clinic in conjunc- tion with Dr. J. B Parramore, head of the Monroe County unit. The clinic will be operated from ling on the water o jpn ‘The “ ‘from military men all add up to: They can make minor raids | |“NO!r”’Some few feel the British against the German-held coast, ' might dress up a small raid or| too, especially around Murmansk, | two as an invasion attempt, ifj/where they. have a fighting, their losses could be held to a ‘chance to keep open the supply! minimum. But the few have no!road to Russia. Hl deep convictions. Finally, there’s Russia. I can state definitely that the; If the Germans should close rit veinted frend i British air command agrees with |off Murmansk, the best feasible; WASHINGTON, Aug, 28—Jap-~; other ab aewarad ~ military ‘route of British attack against anese Premier Prince Fumimaro | serviee that a full-scale invasion Germany would be up from the ; i attempt against the Germans this ; Middle catty where cabolies and i Konoye, #2 personel meee bra | year. wouki. have no better shan jeqanpineen could: move’ the. -year ;* 7Sident Roosevelt, today is te) gag ja 1-to-3 chance. It would, there- round. If the Russians’ could lieved to-have warned that “his | Appiication : |fore, run the danger of going hold the Germans somewhat ‘cabinet may fall to Japan's ultra, | yyay Department by the’ jdown in history as a futile raid- | short of the Volga this fall, there | nationalist militarists because of ‘Road Department of Florida, T: the | would be a chance for Britain, ‘the crisis precipitated by Amer- lahassee, Fla, for War Depart~ in jing party. Annoyance to Germans would be the only re-/ with American help, to use the ican shipment of war materials to | et approval of: revised plans to. ' Russia. ; jconstruct a bridge and place av. an nee | Caspian door. invasion is prevalent at; British empire men and Amer- ‘submarine across i ! power cable the The personal message to the |Intracoastal Waterway (WJewfish- ithis time only because it serves |ican material could pour in from | water the |the south by sea and land, and} United States chief executive is Creek) on the line of the old 4) Key ONWARISSUE, ">. |APPLICATION MADE TO WAR view of well-informed observers, | and, it’s based on the idea that) still fighting Germany. The ef-',,; 2 miles west of -Largo, Monroe | @ (the Germans will hear the talk, fort (probably would first = take |S ™oring by Japanese Am~) (in VSe ® "Uesies date -of De- |and prepare for invasion even|shape as guerrilla warfare—an- P#SSador Admiral Nomura, who Coie 91. 1939, the Secretary of 'a propaganda purpose, in actually join a continental ally believed to have been ‘delivered | ida East Coast Railway about two} - on since both. agree that the city | Production Management and the | though they are convinced it willjnoying raids Germany’s ‘held a lengthy conference. with | i i should be granted terms not.’ in- | Office of Price Control and Civil- | War issued an. instrument to the ‘Ss |September 10 to 13, NOT come. jstreteched coramunication lines. ' the President and another with State Road Department approv- eluded in the original méasure and considered unacceptable by the aqueduct commission. Sweeting today- pointed out that a story in The Citizen which | said he voted against the measure | Friday night was in error. jAictually, the councilman pro-} posed five amendments to the ordinance, all of which were turn- ed down, then passed his vote on the roll call. ‘Sweeting sought to have elim- inated clauses which,.would pro- vide for the city’s paying 40 cents, per 1,000 gallons of water andj for an annual charge to the city. of $56 per fire hydrant. He also suggested clauses grant- ing free water to the city for municipal purposes, providing that the city should receive one per cent of the commision’s gross | revenue, and providing that fail- | ure of the commision to secure money for the project within 90 days after the ordinance’s passage should void the lease, thus per- mitting the city to seek a new contract for installation of the} aqueduct system with any other agency. Expect Slash In |seem to overlap and conflict. of Investigation were ian Supply, he declared today. | Although the President refused | to go into detail about the forth- | coming statement, informed quar- i ters said it is likely he will an- nounce formation of a third board which will have co-ordinating powers over the other two. Difficulties have risen con- stantly in recent weeks between OPM Chief William Knudsen, and | ‘West and Monroe County, the death rate from the dreaded | disease, so prevalent, having been Leon Henderson, price control administrator, whose jurisdictions ' Five Injured In California Fire (Ry _Asgoctated Prensa) SAN JOSE, Calif, Aug. 28—' that while a large number have! homeland. That means sec eiae * |Qpened Monday, a $12,000,000 been helped through proper treat-| ish must conserve men and ma-/ All S id A magnesium plant at Monte Vista ment, ne there vie sca orth a terials for a full scale defense, | tu ents re this morning was swept by fire which injured five men, two crit- ically. | The fire was brought under con- trol after a small section of the new plant was wrecked. Officers of the’Federal Bureau reported flying to the scene of the blaze | to investigate posible sabotage. An X-ray will be made of thosg suspected of being affected with tuberculosis, particularly unem- ployables, while contacts will be The basic reasoning behind time, lies in military principle. | But losses should be negligible. Secretary of State Cordeil Hull. j _t ‘ z |ing the location and plans of jthe British high command’s re-| At the “right moment”, * huge; Both conferences were shroud- i peopoeed bridge at the pate 4 |fusal to consider invasion at this/armies could be rallied to take : ed in secrecy, and White House of- | scribed: site. : {the offensive. Meanwhile, Ger-'ficers refused to give any inkling| The bridge as approved pro- made of other suspects where same is found to be necessary. It is shown that much has been accomplished since the inaugura- tion of the health clinic in Key with decreased to a great extent through proper treatment and at- | tention accorded in due time. In a great majority of cases it is shown that those between 15 and 45 years of age are more apt to contract the disease than others, while no one is immune from the dreaded malady. (The health authorities state problem in Monroe County in dealing with the many cases that Any force attempting to estab-;many would be required to of the nature of the talks. jlsh a beach-head must count onisquander men and materials in| Information from Tokyo ap-’shoreward side of either bascule |losing perhaps 600,000 out of|Russia to meet the constant’ pears to make it clear, however, \every million men thrown into | threat of attack. This would les- | that Prince Konoye’s moderate | feet normal te the channel, ‘action. Even if the force should} sen their remaining forces for |cabinet will fall unless he is able cal clearance of 12 ‘establish a beach-head, it would invasion of the British isles. ‘to prevent American shipment of mean low water be exhausted, and the problem! ‘Therefore, the eyes of military | war goods to Russia via Vladivo-! width of 24 feet. State Road of widening the breach would be /unen are on the Caspian sea. And stock, | Department now desires to’ place! even more serious than the orig-')they:ask: Are thh Russians will- I 'The Japanese newspaper Nichi- | an approach span 34 feet, 2 inches inal attack. ving to make the further huge Nichi summed up the dangerous long shoreward of each gio The stream of death notices tesacrifices required to hold off ‘situation with the statement. that | pier and increase the ro dwaj | parents, sweethearts and friends ;the Germans? The Germans ob- | the entire future of Japan and-of | width to 26 feet. P ‘would damage morale, perhaps; viously see the open door in the her place in the Far East rests on) fo iach piaenee wreck it, if the invasion should | south, too. They’ve thrown their the decisions of the next few! will be constructed of fail in the end. | major weight against the Ukraine ‘days. : : eee, rae From the point of view of the |at last, in an obvious maneuver { It is not one oil tanker that is'no change in the horizontal or! ‘British government, the first} to close the Caspian door, before |important, the paper said, (an | vertical navigation clearances, - Al duty of a prime minister and his | winter comes. ‘American tanker already at sea is submarine power cable (for op-)) military advisers is to defend the | |expected in Japanese waters with- | erating the bridge) jin a week) but the entire position in a trench at least ‘of Japan as a world power now mean low water, \Tests on the question of whether erly side of the for! ! she will submit to the blow to her! Plans of this m ’ prestige entailed in the ship-'at the U.S, Engineer Office, 2n j Vides for causeway fill on the Q My especially since the target or the Germans is present there are three patients| What simpler from their point of from Key West now being trated |View and from their springboard. at the sanitorium in Orlando,| concentrated, U d T E li are found from day to day. At|and therefore invasion is some-| rge 0 : nro What, then, can the British do? | | ments through her waters. i | Japanese public officials at-| |tached grave importance to the the U. S. Engineer ‘With opening of schol just a visits made to. the emperor this: ami Beach, Fla floor of U. 8. Courthouse and which is well equipped for this particular treatment of those af- fected. | little more than a week off, Pro- , morning by chiefs of the army and | It is not proposed to hold a pub: They can continue to blockade vic hearing on this the Germans by air and sea, and , fessor Horace O'Bryant, principal navy, and most Japanese OFFICES OF RED WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. —| CROSS ARE MOVED September gasoline consumption} — Q#fives of the Red Cross in Key along the Atlantic seaboard. must! y..: have been moved from their be cut 15 per cent under the figure | 14 jocation at the USO center on for July, Acting Petroleum Co-| puval street to the Federal Build- ordinator Ralph K. Davies warned | ing, Miss Leonor ‘Warren, secre- today. . .,. | tary, announced today. Presenting a mass of statistics) “ qh. new offices, located at room | to prove his contention that there | 913 in the Federal building, will is grave danger of a complete|), open daily except Sunday from failure of gasoline stocks this win-}9 4m. to noon, The office tele- ter, Davies declared that “mis-/ phone is No. 890, while Miss War- information” about the shortage | yon may be reached at other times is the result of a “sinister and) 4+ gi9, planned campaign” to discredit, the government. } Use Of Gasoline (Ry Associated Press) | TRIPLET CALVES He said there is every reason to biceist Bt | be ieve that a grave shortage will; CANTON, Ohio—Daisy Snow- | exist this winter, both in gasoline drop, a Shorthorn cow owned by) and in fuel oil stocks for heaters | H. C. Folk of this city, had trip- and for industrial purposes. [let calves, all normal and healthy. i thank you for all his efforts. He Dr. Parramore and Miss Mg-|the air, now that their naval Laughlin are working in hearty force is buttressed by command accord with other members of the of the ait over western Germany clinic in an endeavor to bring|and France. These are slow, un- | about even better results in con-| spectacular methods -of attack. nection with the treatment and/The public cannot. see victory care of those who find occasion to’ when it’s coming’ at a snail's consult them, in seeking treatment pace: But the ultimate results for tuberculosis which disease is ‘might be the sdme, especially if now being given great. attention the British keep up’ the drum- by health authorities throughout -fire of bombs,. hold tight the country. | Steel chains of blockade. NONE TOO GOOD the end, the effect of denial is NEW YORK—The bride hur- the same as the drip-drip of wa- ried into the delicatessen store 0M |ter on the brow of a_ prisoner. her way home in order to have/After several thousand slow dinner ready when hubby arrived. | drops have hit him in the fore- The clerk was very painstaking! head, each additioal drop feels jin helping her select each article, like a sledge-hammer blow. The and when she picked up ber Germans know this. They're package, she gave him a friendly | trying to achieve the same re- [eulte eile euantertbelicane: cheerily replied, “Oh, that’s all) British forces can continue right, Miss—there’s our motto.”| also to fight for the strategic pointing to a sign on the wall:| outposts of empire, restrict “Our best is none too good.” many to land victories the { Germans may be doing with- out butter and beefstake, but in} who are entering or re-entering | the United States. » : | school to register at his office the | State department officials here, ‘balance of this week or sometime | however, are said still to be of the ; opinion that the two nations can avoid. war. i SEER during the first part of next... students who haye been regularly. | promoted to, Junior High, School. Schools. The purpose of this reg: istration for new students is to ar- flux of new students, there will no time for registration the first few days after school is opened. Set suaded jeffect - A i i ‘of the Key West Junior-Senior | are said in Tokyo to have given; : to [blast continental. industries from) 5° 1 fuek a so fas 2 es | Anyone causa! — of