Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West $$ VOLUME LXI. No. 183. Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Destroyer Fleet To Leave Base For New Patrol Three Other Ships Com- ing Here; Present Per- sonnel May Not Re- turn Almost the entire fleet of de-/ stroyers with the Key West pa- trol will leave here tomorrow or Norfolk. Va., but three other destroyers are coming info port to take their Places in the patrol, it was learn- ed today. Leaving for Norfolk, where they will go into squadron train- ing, will be the 65th division. In that division are the Aaron Ward, Buchanan, Hale and Crownin- shield, the latter the flagship in the absence of the Lea, which has gone to New York. Coming in here to join the pa- trol will be the Dickerson, the Maddox and the Colwell. These ships are not of one unit, but from scattered patrols through- out the Atlantic area. It will be ‘necessary to estab- lish a new headquarters’ ship to take the place of the Crownin- shield. The Noa is the only boat of the original patrol left at this port. This vessel is out on pa- trol at present, but is expected to return in time to meet the Dickerson, the Maddox and the Colwell. All of the officers attached to the fleet are silent regarding the future disposition of their boats. They do not know whether they are coming back to Key West or not, but they are inclined to doubt it. CALLS FOR UNITED PARTY SUPPORT NOMINEES MAY NOT PER- SONALLY SUIT ALL Saturday morning for TALLAHASSEE, Aug. (FNS) Calling upon Florida Democrats to join in a _ whole- hearted effort to carry Florida overwhelmingly for the state and national democratic ticket, Chair- man T. T. Turnbull of the State Democratic Executive Commit- tee, just back from the Chicago convention, said that immediate steps would be taken to organize the state for an intensive cam- paign. When the State Democratic Committee met in Orlando June 6, Turnbull told members that “even though the nominces pro- duced by the Chicago convention may not be entirely sfactory to all of us, we should lay aside every prejudice and furni a solid front to any opposition that may develop in our state. I promise my _ individual and wholehearted support of the nominees, whomsoever they may be.” As an individual, Turnbull said that he did not favor the nomi- nation of Secretary Wallace for vice-president, but since the ma- jority of the national convention delegates picked him “I expect to support the ticket enthusias- tically.” AA EE ST WEEK-END SPECIALS TUTTI-FRUTTI and SPICE CAKE, special 33¢ Maloney Bros. Bakery Phone 818 812 Fleming Street ee ee ee 1= OIAAZZ2Z2 22) ‘POSTAL RECEIPTS WERE UP AGAIN Stamp sales at the Key West post office amounted to $3,507.85 in July, compared with $2446.66 in July last Year, according to a report issued by Postmaster Fred Dion today. At the same time money orders issued more than doubled the same month of a year ago. The figures for this July were $52,427.68, and the total for July. 1939, was $25,964.58. Postal savings amounted to $336,922 at the end of last month, compared with $303,- 471 at the end of July, 1939. VI DZIDIAS IS EDITOR OF BARTO CALLED TO COLORS NAVAL RESERVIST GALLE- MORE SAW SERVICE ON SUB IN WOBLD WAR BARTOW, Aug. 1 (FNS).—Roy ’. Gallemore, editor and pub- lisher of the Polk County Record of Bartow for 16 years announced ; jlast week that he had been called} into active service with the Unit- leave! ed States Navy and will this week for Washington. He holds a commission as lieu- tenant-commander in the naval reserve. Gallemore saw service on con- voy duty during the war, was assigned to ;lowing the armistice. He later served for four vears in the sub- marine branch of the service. As second in command of the Russia fol- submarine R-14, he gained wide | fame when the sub’s engines fail- ed and he brought the vessel in under sails, thought to be the only instance on record of such a feat. During his last two years with the navy he was comman- der of the submarine R-15. RITES TOMORROW FOR MRS. HIGGS Mrs. Mary Ella Higgs, 75, died early this morning at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Harris, on Ashe street. Funeral services, under tion of Lopez Funeral Home, will be held at First M. E. (Stone) Church, tomorrow afternoon at 5:00 o'clock, Rev. A. C. Reviere officiating. Survivors are two daughters. Mrs. Harris and Mrs. G. R. Steadman of Key West: two brothers, John C. Higgs of Tam- pa and Ralph L. Higgs of Coral Gables; eight grandchildren and one. great-grandchild Mrs. Higgs had been a resident of Key West for the past thirty- four years. Pied Piper To Blame? (My Associated Press) GOSS, Mo.—There’s not a child of school age residing in Goss. The town has a population of 30 Persons, exactly half of whom are more than 65 years of age. DIES IN GRAIN TANK CHESTER, Mont. — Junior Story, 10, suffocated to death after falling into a grain storage tank before his uncle, Mike Murman, who was filling a truck ‘from the tank, could dig him out. direc- | ~ COMPTROLLER LEE | House Committee Lists Additional ~ Navy Work Here : SAYS FLORIDIANS ‘MUST PAY TAXES’ NEWSPAPER PRAISES OF-/ FICIAL’S ACTION (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 1— Tourist hotel and a farmer's mule jas symbols of impartial enforce- ment of tax laws were recalled with State Comptroller J. M. Lee's refusal to grant the request of St. Augustine city officials to exempt from taxation the mag- nificent Alcazar ‘hotel the city is leasing it from the Florida East Coast Hotel Com- pany. Comptroller Lee told city of- ficials who pressed him to ask jthe attorney general for a ruling! jthat the matter had been settled ;Mmore than five years ago when jClearwater civic leaders appeal- led for tax exemption and can- ;cellation for their million-dollar iFort Harrison ‘hotel. | Comptroller Lee had received jin that day’s mail a request from ja Sumter county farmer to cancel jtaxes levied against his mule. The Miami News’ Whirligig columnist summed it up: | The Clearwater delegation “argued the hotel was the town’s jchief tourist lure. The farmer insisted his mule was his only jmeans of livelihood. Lee read jthe farmer's letter to the Clear- 'water business men and answer- | ‘ed both pleas at the same time. | : ‘The people of Florida must pay their taxes’. He ordered the Pinellas assessor to back access ithe hotel for three years and keep jit on the books. The moral should ‘be comforting”, concluded the j Miami paper, “ to the minority | the tax! |that has been carrying {burden for the non-paying ma- Hority”. | Comptroller Lee saw no need jto change the ruling. STORY OF SUGAR IN NEW BOOKLET |STATE AGRICULTURE DEPT. | PUBLISHES BROCHURE | ON INDUSTRY first world ; | TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 1.— | (FNS) “Florida's Sugar Bow!” is |the title of another attractive | booklet’ issued this week by the {Florida Department of Agri- culture. |_ Consisting of 56 pages, the new | booklet tells the complete story of Florida’s sugar industry. _ It contains many tions of the huge United States Sugar “Corporation's fields and mill at Clewiston. A description jof the methods uf growing the cane, its harvest, pressing and ‘finally the actual sugar produc- | tion, is all covered in the book- } let. The two color cover is an at- j tractive combination of a green jhalf-tone of a portin of a Florida | sugarcane field, with the title of ithe boklet appearing at the top jin brilliant orange lettering. Copies may be secured upon re- quest from the Department of | Agriculture, Tallahassee. AIRLINE MOVES TO JACKSONVILLE JACKSONVILL®.. Aug. 1— (FNS) Headquarters of the Na- tional Airlines will be moved from St. Petersburg to Jackson- ville, it was announced this week by city Bids for the construction of a new steel hangar at the Jack- sonville municipal airport were opened this week which will be rented to the airlines. The National Airlines operate full page illustra- | commissioner Imeson. ! KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1940 ‘IMPROVEMENTS TOTALLING $1,375,000 IN- SUPPLEMENTAL | TIONAL DEFENSE BILL because ! CLUDED I Additional improvements to the Key West naval station to ‘cost $1,375,000 were included in the nine naval projects for Flor- lida, estimated to cost $2,405,000, approved by the Hous appro- ipriations committee at Washing- ton yesterday, according to an Associated Press dispatch to The Citizen. They were written into a sup- |plemental national defense bill appropriations and horizations totaling items were: Naval station, rehabilitation of the sumbarine base facilities and {construction of a marine rail- way, $1,250,000. Purchase of ‘$125,000. additional land, Building Inspector Ralph Russell during the month of July totaled $47,487, an increase of $38,997 ,over July, 1939. The permits is- ‘sued during the month of July last year amounted to $8,490. A total of $15,000 in permits were issued by Inspector Russell for five dwellings being built by ithe Bagby Construction com- ;Pany on Avenue E. It had been reported that while six buildings were under construction at this ‘point, only one permit was taken out. Permits issued in the last two weeks of the month were as fol- NA- ; It is presumed this land pur- ichase covers the cost of the prop- erty acquired from Trumbo Properties, Inc., of Miami, as a a site for the seaplane base. i = Costello, repairs The marine railway will cost ‘2g Elizabeth street, $75. $500,000, but the remainder cf the! Qscar Benz, repairs $1,230,000 item for the rehabili- | Faton street, $90. tation of the submarine base is a mystery to the officers on duty at the station. It is presumed an item of $126,- 000 for dredging the base from 19 to 23 feet is included. \327 William street, $50. Since these appropriations; pablo Calleja, repairs at Caro- have been approved by the ap- jine and Elizabeth streets, $50 propriations committee, the bill} Mrs John Visquv, repairs at must go before Congress to be 1199 Duval street, $70. enacted into law. The Key West! &£ M Key, repairs at 1010 items are considered certain of Grinnell street, $2,000. “Congressional approval. Mrs. John Russell, repairs at 11124 Division street, $25. at at 1008 Petronia street, $600. ‘Division street, $100. Thomas R. Gibson, repairs at LONG-RANGE eee . i jat the Weather Bureau they ‘are | Starting to look beyond the ends ‘of their noses. I thought at first jthey were just searching for a jbreak in the heat wave. But Commander F. W. Reich- jelderfer, chief of the U. S. Wea- jther Bureau. savs that isn’t It’s just the beginning of longer- range forecasting at which the jbureau has been shooting. for a long time. And, incidentally, it's |part of the program to put the ; weather in the first column of jnational defense. Within a few days, the bureau vill start making forecasts for jfive days. They are going to try to get awav from the vague gen- eralities and great areas of cover- age of the old weekly forecasts and try to narrow it to specific localities and fairly definite pre- dictions. For several weeks, the forecasts will be experimental. but after that they will be made public. : Weather As Defense Aid Mavbe it’s the beginning of a new day. . .when sports promot- ers can cut out that disanpoint- ing system of handing out rain :ehecks. . .when Aunt Minnie can plan the week-end picnic with- lout running outdoors every few iminutes to search for a cloud. More important. it mav be the heginnins of a day when the {United States army and navy and lair forces can plan defenses sev- eral davs in advance with some certainty as to whether the weather will be with us or agin’ us. When it comes to putting the weather in the defense ranks, the ‘bureau couldn’t do better than fhave Commander Reichelderfer jat the barometer. He has spent jmore than half his 44 vears as an jace meteorologist in the navy’s so. WEATHER FORECASTING 03" S22%.0 s*¢ \It's Importance Can Not Be Under i PROGRAMAS NATIONAL DEFENSE AID s By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Over contributes to weather in defense. | 10 planes on routes between Weather service and is the na- Jacksonville, Tampa, New Or-{tion’s foremost anthority on : jl Seni aviation weather. He's an air- ae ee plane, airshin and balloon pilot: jas meteorolosict on the famens jold navy dirigible Los Angeles Southern Service Station White at Catherine Phone No. 5 Let “SHORTY” Tune Your Motor and Save — Gas - Oil - Wear 8 Cyl. $3.00-6 Cyl. $2.50 4 Cyl. $2.00 —<——<—<—<—<—<_<_<<__ jand for a time was meteorological ,observer on the Hindenburg. It is under his direction that the At- lantic forecasting service has been brought to its present efficiency. | Army And Navy Help | Of course, the federal weather bureau isn’t the only one that Rhoda Baker, repairs at Flem- ing and Margaret streets, $60. John Spence, repairs at 1220 | Augustio Martinez, repairs at = 431 Elizabeth street, $3,000. | Olivia street, $20. W. L. Bates, repairs at 1225 Pe- |tronia street, $180. Pedro Aguilar, repairs at 13 Thompson lane, $100. Jim Doughtry, ‘South street, $1,000. repairs on The army is moving its meteoro- South street, $600. logical school to Chanute Field, | Trinity Presbyterian church. IIL, and increasing the number of ,Tepairs at 717 Simonton et students in the air corps’ courses. ; B. M. Russell, repairs at 718 The navy uses the California | couthard street, $100. Institute of Technology for in-| fjizabeth Gardner, repairs at struction courses and is increas-'1104 Petronia street, $50. ing the number of its students. | Jacinto Solaras, repairs at 625 The increaing importance of Angela street, $150. air force in warfare is, of course,|_ © S- Wilson, repairs at Eaton street, $230. one of ine principal reasons for; “prank DeVillar. two-story the increasing importance of frame dwelling at 909 Elizabeth weather. . .but that isn’t all. treet, $2,000. In defense of a country like thi Jack R. Baker, United States, everything would ' Avenue E, $3,000. depend on mobility of defense; Bolivar Valdes, new home at forces. . and mobilify depends on ‘Avenue E, $3,000. co-ordination of all branches. If! Horace O’Bryant, new home at an unforeseen fog whips in, or Avenue E, $37000. unexpected rains or gales plague Misis M. Martinez, new home a mobile army it may result in a at Avenue E, $3,000. disastrous mess. Andrew C. Elwood, new home What held the Russians in their at Avenue E, $3,000. attack on Finland? The coldest —- winter in years. What defeated JAPAN MOVES T0 Poland in 1-2-3 order? The ab- sence of those rains that usually turn the country into a bog. Wht} GOVERNMENT WARNS WORLD IT WILL ALLOW NO INTERFERENCE IN PLANS 405 new home at was the only factor that gave Hitler’s armies pause in their! lightning thrust to the channel and into France? The days of rain and bad weather. Why, now, are military tech nicians wondering why Hitler de-| layed his attack on England? Be- cause they know that the fogs roll down from the North Sea in (By Associated Press) increasing numbers as August; TOKYO, Aug. 1.—Japanese wanes and that by November the | diplomats serving under the re- British Isles will be blanketed 40 gime of the new. army-navy gov- to 70 percent of the time. Arejernment set-up, warned the there other factors more impor-; world today that Japan was tant than the weather or is it moving towards complete domi- that German meteorologists know | nance in economic matters in the that the fogs, like the rains of Po- | far-east. land, will be late this year? | While official cognizance was jnot given, press reports stated | that the new order would include CITY. COUNCIL jeontrol of Indo-China and. the MEETS TONIGHT 27s Scr om 'dent Roosevelt's decision to clamp [down a gasoline embargo on all First meeting of August for the hemisphere would be interpreted | Col. F. B. Edwards, addition on | ~ erial Attacks eh Le Le ae And Sea Raiders inte Leonard Curry, repairs at 1108! W. O. Johnson, repairs at 806 = oe et lew cee a ame 2 ¢ Mewes 3 ote< oem < me 2 goes Bmaav aI is. EE. Arthur, repairs at 1402 3 u . reese) | WASHINGTON. Aug i- House banking committee approval today of the approprs tuon of $500,000,000 to the creds of the Import-Export Bank » ‘used to buy up surpluses South American countries vote was 8 to € The move was | President votes requesiec Roosevet prepare tion for the economic war beles ‘ed in the offing following come of European wars Belicved t 2 “polabat” «2 Republican candida Wilk» was the move taken teday by Roosevelt to provide $68,900,000 for TVA expansion plans im the national defense program ps tee _ DIVORCES IN JULY ree ppg =e | Marriages more than doubled divorces in July, according to re ports on file at the affice county Judge Raymond R and County Clerk Ress € yer. According to the reports there were 29 marriage lieenses sssues in July. compared with 2B = jJuly, 1939. Divorces totaled m compared with 12 im July according to the records at Clerk Sawyer's office (LLL LLL LL LA JAMES DAVIDSON SEEKING PARENTS Lore See i i juts 193s on file } rats : i iE f oral | i i : i! fr City Council will be called to or- der this evening by president William A. Freeman in council ; chambers at the city hall at 8:00 o'clock. { ‘ Financial reports for July will be heard and many matters of thigh importance to the munici- | pality are scheduled for action by council members, according to ‘city clerk Archie Roberts. as an unfriendly act by the Japanese. BABY SCORES TWICE (By Associated Press) HOUSTON, Tex.—Baby ence Eugene Barron was on her father’s birthday at 3: a.m. And her mother was in i firmary room No. 338. fi i i eeke ele | | \“—Weemwaaaas

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