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Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 224. LICENSES HAVE SLOW SALE HERE OCTOBER FIRST DEADLINE NEARS; ONLY SMALL PER CENTAGE OF LIQUOR AND DRIVERS' PERMITS SOLD i I Key Westers apparently are paying very little attention to October first deadline decrees in the matter of having their driv ers’ licenses renewed or in ob taining permits to operate beer and wine and liquor establish ments. I In the case of the former, 1 county judge Raymond R Lord reported this morning that only about 250 automobile owners and drivers had applied for their license cards to date ! This figure is to be compared with a total of nearly 3,000 cards issued during the last fiscal year. It was remarked that facilities at the judge’s office will be heavily taxed if the deadline date is not extended. In the office of the tax collec tor, Frank Ladd, it was found that only eight licenses had been purchased up to noon today. Six of these were for beer and wine establishments and two for liquor places. A total of 112 licenses covering both beer and wine and liquor establishments in the county, w'ere issued last year, it was stated. The deadline date for these licenses will not be ex tended and those not having li censes will be subject to imme diate arrest, it was announced. Sewer Licenses Switching over to the city, clerk Archie Roberts reported last evening that a total of only 44 householders in the city had applied for permits to connect up with the city sewer line. This figure is only 19 more than the last check made nearly three weeks ago. when, following announcement of the permit plan calling for certain charges for es tablishments having one or more bathrooms and outlets, a “mod erate rush” of 25 persons applied for the licenses. RITES TOMORROW FOR R. THOMPSON J. B. SMOOT DIED THIS MORN ING; SWEAT BODY SHIPPED ! Funeral services for Robert Wesley Thompson, 76, who died yesterday morning at his resi-! deuce, 607 Grinnell street, will be ; held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at Fleming Street Metho- j dist church. The body will be placed in the church at 1:30 o’clock by Pritchard Funeral Home, in charge of arrangements. Rev. W. R. Howell will officiate. j Surviving Mr. Thompson are:! His wife. Sarah Ann; one daugh ter. Mrs. Hilda Roberts; six sons, Osborne. Robert. Marvin, Victor, , of Alameda Calif, and Ernest and Anthony, of Detroit. Mich. Eight grandchildren, one great grandchild. three brothers, two sisters also ar e survivors. J. B. SMOOT J. B. Smoot. 44. died this morn ing at the Marine hospital. His body is being shipped by Pritch ard's Funeral Home to Lamar. Mo., where services will be held. JAMES SWEAT The lx>dy of James Sweat. 23. was shipped by Pritchard’s Fun eral Home yesterday afternoon to Douglas. Ga.. for funeral sendees. Mr. Sweat died Tuesday. W. L. BAGBY Funerai arrangements for W. L. Bagbv. who died last Sunday, are still pending word from rela tives. Pritchard’s announced this morning. WE SAVE YOU MONEY ON EXHAUST PIPES, MUFFLERS AND TAIL PIPES. LOU SMITH AUTO SERVICE, DUVAL AND DIVISION STREETS. PHONE 9153 OR 5 ®lie Kgg West Cftfsen Churchill Announces Union Move With U.S. Nazi Bombers Continue Bitter Pace Of Attacks; Ninety Britons Killed, Hundreds Wounded (lly Aanurlalril I’re**) LONDON, Sept. 19. Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Com mons today that steps were being taken to form a definite union with the United States. He stated that he approved of the plan as tentatively an nounced. (llt Amiddntfd T*r** LONDON. Sept. 19.—Terrific raids again descended upon this city last night as the Nazis ap peared in a hurry to destroy what is left of the English capi tal, and most of it is left, before British defenses against air at tacks are more perfected. New protection devices are be ing tried nut, it was announced bv the British, which may act to cut down the danger of future attacks, and the Nazis apparently have news of this as they “put on steam” in their day and night attacks. Ninety persons were reported killed in the raids last night and many hundreds injured. Numer ous public buildings were bomb ed to complete destruction and i the usual number of homes in | widely scattered areas collapsed from demolition bomb-fire or from resultant fires. Forty-eight German plane s were downed in the last twenty four hours, according to the Brit ish, although Nazi dispatches listed onlv 12 planes lost. The British admitted an even dozen aircraft downed with pilots and crew of four saved. Nazi re ports listed 35 English planes de stroyed. German dispatches stated to day that retaliatory raids will be started soon “multiplying a thousand-fold the present pace”. Nazis expressed extreme anger at British air action which destroy ed three hospitals in the Ruhr in dustrial area. Royal Air Force attacks have increased their pace. too. it was reported by the British and con firming reports came through from the Nazi high command. Twelve British planes were re ported to have been shot down by anti-aircraft batteries in Ger many. signifying that the scope of British attack has greatly en larged. The Duke of Kent, brother of King George, narrowly escaped injury’ and possible death last night when a time bomb ex ploded near his automobile when ho and his wife were travelling to their home. Censorship of newspapers and radio w’as clamped on tighter by the British today when it was announced that no further news of when airraid alarms were turned on and off would be given out. This news, the British now think, was being used by the Nazis to some advantage. Rome admitted today, in dis patches telling of the war on the (Continued On Page Four) WEEK-END SPECIALS ORANGE and CHOCOLATE MALTED MILK QQ/> LAYER CAKES Out Maloney Bros. Bakery Phone 818 812 Fleming Street THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. CAPT. JACOBS NOW ASS’T COMMANDANT Advice received from the Chief of the Bureau of Navi gation at Washington this • week tells of a promotion for Captain Walter F. Jacobs, U.S.N., commandant of Key West Naval Station. Capt. Jacobs, besides being head of the Naval Station here, has also been serving as Chief of Staff and Aide of the Seventh Naval District, comprising all of the State of Florida east of the Apalachi cola river. The promotion raises Capt. Jacobs to the title of Assist ant Commandant of the Sev enth Naval District. He will continue. th e dispatch stated, as commandant of the Key West station. The dispatch ended with this comment: "The Secre tary of the Navy has de termined that this employ ment on shore duty is re quired by the public inter ests". PUBLICITY MEN MEET SEPT. 28 FLORIDA ASSOCIATION WILL HOLD SESSION IN TAL LAHASSEE TALLAHASSEE. Fla.. Sept. 19 (FNS).—The annual convention of the Florida Association of Publicity Directors will be held here September 28-29, it was an nounced this week by Secretary John Dillin. Final plans for the convention were drafted at an executive com mittee meeting held at Silver Springs last weekend. Florida To Continue Fair Exhibit On Tour WORLD S FAIR. N. Y, Sept. 19.—1f present plans are adopted Florida will not stop giving pub licity to its resources and attrac tions by means of exhibits after the New York World’s Fair of ’ 1940 closes its doors at midnight, ' Sunday, Oct. 27. next. The phenomenal -increases in the number of visitors to the i state both in summer and in win ter. which have resulted at least in great part, from Florida’s par ticipation in expositions—in Chi cago in 1933 and 1934: in Rocke feller Center in New York City during the winter of 1935-36; at the Great Lakes exposition in Cleveland, the summers of 1936 and 1937. and at the New York World's Fair in 1939 and again in 1940 —has created a disposition on the part of thousands of the leading citizens of the state to want Florida to continue show ing what it has in the way of re sources and attractions, as it has been doing during the past seven or eight years. By the time the 1940 fair closes. Oct. 27, more than 40.- 000.000 men. women and chil dren. from not only every state of the American union but from practically every country on the globe will have seen Florida’s . exhibits and will have been made Florida-conscious through j visual education regarding the 1 various phases of life in the Sun shine State and its advantages i and opportunities from every i point of view. Arrangements are now being made, according to E. W. Brown. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940 SENATE HEARS MORE ON EXCESS TAX MEASURE HOUSE HELD BRIEF SESSION TODAY; DEFENSE COMMIT TEE PREPARES TO TAKE OVER COMMUNICATIONS <lty AMNuriated I’rexii) WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. Congress was only partly in ses sion today as final affairs of leg islation of the present session were being brought to a con j elusion. The Senate continued its dis cussion on the excess taxation measure and hoped for passage of the bill in a day or two. The House met for a brief session this noon and adjourned shortly after wards. i Democrats appeared in diffi culty over selection of a ma jority leader in the House for the next session of Congress it was reported here today. Various i candidates for the office were j being discussed and caucuses i were not solving the question. National Defense committee prepared for further , emergency measures today when it was an nounced that conditions in the i future may warrant the co-ordi nation of all communication facilities of the nation. DAVIS OPPOSES i THIRD TERM ! WASHINGTON. Sept. 19. John W. Davis, Democratic standard bearer in the 1924 presi dential campaign, when Calvin Coolidge was elected, came out today in opposition to the third , term for Roosevelt. Davis will be remembered fur ' ther as the originator of the Liberty League that caused much controversy since its etsablish ‘ ment in 1934. (Sprrial to The Cltixen) I general manager of the Florida j State Exhibit, to keep up the ■ good work through comprehen (sive displays at Cleveland. De ! troit, Chicago, St. Louis and other midwestern cities. Mr. Brown in conjunction with Frank Buck of "Bring ’em Back Alive” fame; Almon R. Shaffer, who managed "Old New York” at the fair last year and who is at the head of “Winter Wonderland", this year—both outstanding amusement enterprises, are plan ning to take on tour some of the best features of the 1940 World’s Fair, including Florida dioramas and other displays which have made the Florida exhibit so at tractive. The hope is to carry the World's Fair of 1940 to the mil lions of Americans who for any reason could not or did not visit it at New York, thus keeping Florida to the forefront in the public mind. KEY "PROPERTY ; CHANGES HANDS f Warrantee Deed recorded at the county courthouse yesterday told of the sale of four lots of property at Upper Matecumbe by George Wilmon Pinder to Charles S. Roberts. Reported sale price was $4,000. Another warrantee deed trans ferred the same property to L. O. Scarboro, the records revealed. Resale price was not given. NAVY DAY TO BE OBSERVED ON OCTOBER 27 LOCAL STATION RELEASES INFORMATION ON SUB JECT; EMERGENCY CUR TAILS SHIP INSPECTIONS Correspondence received at the Key West Naval Station from Chief of Naval Operations H. R. Stark, of -Washington, D. C., an nounces that the U. S. Navy will observe Navy Day on the usual date, October 27. The announcement came here in the form of a copy of a letter from H. Birchard Taylor, presi dent of the Navy League of the United States and National Chairman for Navy Day, to Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy, and a letter in answer from Mr. Knox to Mr. Taylor. Purposes that established Navy Day and its observance each year since 1922. held on the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, wvre outlined in Mr. Taylor’s letter. concluding with this ’ statement: “Other patriotic, veteran’s and civic societies will cooperate as always in the observance of Navy Day 1940, and I have the honor to request that the Naval Serv ice give the interest and assist ance in this observance that has been so splendidly extended on former Navy Days.” Assurances of “fullest coopera , tion in order to make Navy Day ! 1940 a success” were expressed by Mr. Knox in his reply. It was pointed out in attached information from the Chief of Operations that, in view of the present emergency, inspection of ships at Naval Stations would not be possible this year. The day, however, will be stressed as: “A day not only for the Navy, but also an appropriate occasion to bring the citizens of the United States into closer contact with our problems and to be come better acquainted. “It is regretted that under present circumstances, in the in terests of security, general visit ing to vessels of the U S. and Asiatic Fleets, Navy Yards and industrial plants can not be per mitted. “Vessels in United States wa ters will full-dress ship from early morning to sundown on October 27”,. . the information sheet concluded. OUR DEFENSE (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is fhe fourth of a series pre pared by the National Defense Advisory Commission in re sponse to numerous requests for articles on our national program. Future releases will appear in The Citizen on Thursdays and Mondays. THE UNITED STATES NAVY When The Shooting Begins The Navy exists for the major purpose of keeping enemy ships away from our shores. Every ac tion in time of war merely pre pares the way for the eventual meeting of the battle fleets. That meeting can be swift, terrible, and devastating. All the mechan ical equipment, all the training, all the manpower that has been assembled, will show its worth. History’ may be changed by such a battle. Some knowledge of how that battle will progress will give us an idea of what the Navy must prepare for. The show will be run by the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet. Far removed from Wash ington. his will be the responsi bility for placing the fighting ships in line and for winning the fight. Importance Of Naval Aviation The efficiency of our naval aviation, ranging far out across the sea, makes a surprise naval battle unlikely. The Commander in-Chief will know where the enemy is, for his patrol planes, operating 2,000 miles from the Japs Sponsor Scout Swimming Mott Next Sunday HEARING ON THEFT CHARGE HELD OYER PHYSICAL CONDITION OF COMPLAINANT MAY CAUSE POSTPONEMENT FOR TWO DAYS Hearing on the robbery charge filed against Joseph Perdomo, alias Pina, bartender, and Wilbur Sweeting, taxi driver, was called this morning in county judge Raymond R. Lord’s chambers, but owing to the complaint's inability to be present. it was postponed until such time as he would be able to appear. Perdomo and Sweeting were i arrested on a warrant yesterday afternoon late, charged with as sault with intent to commit rob bery against Thomas R. Terwil liger, paymaster on the Coast Guard cutter Mojave. They were held by the county on SI,OOO bond each. Last week Coast Guard offi . cials here were searching for Terwilliger when he failed to ap pear on board the Mojave follow ing a brief stop made at this port. He was later found by the same officials working in conjunction with local police, confined in the Marine hospital since last Mon day. i County officials did not know just when the hearing would be held. Terw-illiger’s physical con dition was described as such that it may not be held for at least two days. ESCAPES CRASH; KILLED BY WIRE BLOUNTSTOWN. Fla. Wil liam Martin emerged unhurt from the wreckage of his automo bile, after it had crashed into and knocked down a power line pole. He was electrocuted a few seconds later when he came in contact with a live wire which had fallen from the pole. far-flung naval bases, have al ready reported to him what is on the ocean. The battle will open when he orders the fighting planes into the air from the decks of the carriers. The mission of the fighters is to meet and down the enemy’s planes. They must win, for the fleet losing this aerial dogfight tw’o miles above the ocean will be on the spot. A fleet without control of the air would have no planes to direct the fire of its big guns. The enemy could retire out of sight and hammer at th e fleet with long-range guns. While the combat planes are fighting it out, the dive and tor pedo bombers go into action. Torpedo bombers work a few hundred feet above the waves, i They carry regular torpedoes | dropped from the planes. These speed through the water, driven by compressed air engines, like torpedoes from a submarine, to blast the enemy ships with a thousand pounds of TNT. The dive bombers, which, inci (Continued On Page Two) Will Be Held In Nival Station: Winners To Be Entered In C'Mnril Meet Swimming meet lor all Boy Scouts of tise city will he held Sunday afternoon. Ml o’clock, at the Officers' Pa ril lion in the U.S. Navy Yard, under the aus pices of Key West Junior r ~ h - her of Commerce. Dan Harri.-on. rhairman of the Jaycee Boy Scout Commit!. i< in charge of arrangenwnti. assist ed bv a committee omp*s*r3 of Joe Allen. Bill v Warren, jte Fin der and Sn*utn .aster Albert Peirce. Winners in the various cr*- test -as designated by the com mittee of judges will be taker t Miami Friday. September 27. by Scoutmaster Peirce to compete with scouts from other at the district, in the council-we swimming meet to be held at the Venetian Pools in Coral Gables This annual swunmir Dade Countv Council is sponsored this vear bv Miami Beach Post American Legion. The post has i donated a handsome silver trophy cup to be awarded to the winning troop and ribbons will be pre sented to each place winner m the events. Scout leader? of the city will be asked to co-operate with the Jay cess in making the event a surres All Bov Smuts of the city are requested to meet outside the main gate of Naval Station at 1:30 o’clock to enter the station in a bodv. Smuts who couar later than the appointed horn will not be admitted in the yard Members of the Jaycees an nounced that it would be impos sible for the general public to at tend the swimming meets It *s hoped, however, that all naw personnel will be in attendance Eight events have been slated for the meet, listed as follows: IA—SO-yard free style—under BO pounds. IB—so-vard free style—Bo to 100 pounds. IC—SO-yard free style IM pounds or over. 2 25-yard breast stroke—open 3 Rescue rare—open 4 Undressing race—open 5 Fancy diving—open 6 Life-line race—open 7 Senior relay—loo pounds <-*r over. B—Junior relay und*T 100 oounds. DESTROYER LEA BACK IN PORT The destroyer U. S S. Lea has returned to Key West Naval Sta tion. according to announcement by Captain A S Carpender. commander of the Key West Patrol, this afternoon The Lea came from overhaul duty at Brooklyn Navy Yard and arrived here this afternoon at 2:00 o’clock Other ships of the patroi now in port included the destroyers Bainbndge. 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