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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16
By JACK sTINNETT

ZAP Feature Service Writerl
Oriental temperament coupled
with a hatred brewing more than
so years is making the Sino-Jap-
anese conflict a suicide war;"
In the two months of major
conflict, an amazing number of
cases Of financial heroism ending
in self-destruction have been re-
ported on both sides. They range
from the traditional hara-kiri of
the Japanese to the suicide OF
masses of 800 or more Chinese
who have walked stolidly into
the whitening fire Of enemy bat.
teries.
Tradition And Patriotism
On the one hand are the Jap
anese, aflame again with theiI
long-smoldering feeling of '.mani-
fest destiny" and subscribing 70
point Of view, generations old,
which has made Of suicide a for
nal ceremony of expiation, de-
votion, protest or contempt.
On the other are the Chinese,
presenting their most united front
in recent times and giving vent
10 their new nationalism in
feverish patriotism.
Early in the conflict, Shimezo
Maho, a japanese merchant east
himself into the sea from the SUI
eide island Of oshima that the
government might have his $4,000
life Insurance to add 70 the war
chest
Commander Kaoru Fuiita, ir
Tokyo. discovered bis bride Of
three months that he might have
10 distraction In his fereent aP-
pIication . the var. Three monshu
later. IN north China. be met
heroic death in action
Quiekar Than Hara-kiri
Tokyo newspapers reported that
al japanese aviators zere equip.
ped WITH pistols - vel - The
small, traditional Samurai swerds.
II they we're shot Down down and
had no tine before eapEure a
perform the rites 81 hara -kiri,
they might shoos sheusaelves eth
the pistol TIE dizpatek expiztned.
In AuxnSt. While - air hak1le
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16
Dr.. M. A. Sturm Of Miami
Beach Has Become Greatly
Impressed With Key West

DIR. Sturm is a retired former
general practitioner Of New York
City, who numbered among his
patients practically all of the
outstanding leaders of the thea
ter for the past 25 years.
He is delighted with the
quaintness and picturesqueness Of
Key West, and spent some time
looking over the United States
weather bureau reports for a pc
Rod Of years. He was exception
ally pleased when he learned
there was neither hay fever nor
asthmatic fever in Key West.
One of the delightful expert
ences of his visit was the time
spent yesterday at the garden of
Miss Mollie Parker where he had
the pleasure eating his first
cactus fruit and also enjoyed a
sweet carissa, and was thrilled by
being able to pick and eat his first
fresh dates.
DR.. Sturm was a captain in the
United States Army during the
World War, and was stationed at
Camp Sewer near Greenville, S.
c., with the Thirtieth Division and
was in charge of hospital construe-
ton. Retiring 10 years ago he
went to Miami Beach and en-
gagged in the real estate business
and building construction. He
recently purchased and is moving
into a new $4,000 home on
Sunset Island.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16

CEnn, deceased, former county
judge, $188.61; F. o. Roberts,
former peace justice, $145.24; E.
R. Lowe, Tayernier, peace justice,
$127.16; Constable Ray Elwood,
$50; E. B. Parker, former Taver-
nier constable, $40.
State Attorney G. A. Worley
has been requested to act in the
matter of collecting these over
payments of fees, charged to the
state. The request for action was
issued by the state comptroller, j.
NJ. Lee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16
FEARFUL REJOICING

Moorhead. Minn.-Theren be
smiles mingled with tears during
the harvesting Of the bumper
crop in this territory. The largest
onion crop ever produced in this
area eame this fan. producing
yields running from ESQ bushels
per acre onward and giving num-
bers Ct farmers as much as $3.50
profit per acre
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16
WPA Official Comes Here
To Inspect All Projects

Jerome D. Peterson, area sup
ervisor in the Third wPA Dis
trict, was an arrival over the
highway last evening on one Of his
regular visits to Key West and
activities in Monroe county.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16
By MARY FREDERICK

Tin me DctrotI NEWS or 0eptSm
Der 26)
No resort gamble in the coun-
try is more absorbing of interest
than that of old Key West, await
ing completion of an overseas
highway that will bring the great
travelling public for the first time
to her neglected shores.
Everywhere are to be seen evi.
dences Of preparation for the first
tourist season. which will begin
when the road is opened the first
of next year. New homes are be-
ing built and old ones put in re-
pair. Downtown streets are be-
ing resurfaced. There is activity
around the yacht basin where
more of the big fellows are ex-
pected, once the city has been pio-
neered into prominence.
And yet, with general invi.
tation out and the curtain of
new era about to rise, the salty
little hostess is not entirely salts
fled with her future. Her case is
not like that of new resort,
made-to-order and suited to con-
ventional American taste. Elk
cept in allegiance, Key West is
hardly American at all. She wants
to be liked, yes, but for herself,
not the nucleus for a great tourist
development, not as the site for a
future Island Miami.
Woman's Analysis
In 1891, when travellers were
dismissing Key West as "the last
place God made" a lady journal.
list visited the island and for some
reason stayed to discover its
charms. Her name was Lucie
Vannevar and she wrote this
apology:
SIT is Key Vests misfortune
that steamers going and eOmins
from Havana and other ports stop
over some hours"
Carriages, then, waited at the
dock and four or five hours suf-
feed for a sightseeing trip, q
cooling drink and, an impression.
Boats sailed away FRIGHTENED
with such impressions, barriers ia
better acquaintance.
Today the Key West admins
tration reiterates:
"Unless you are prepared to
stay theee or four days, we are
not eager to have you"
Thus viii the city try to main
tain its character. In Miss Van
nevar's day it didn't matter SC
much If travellers failed to form
3 true appreciation Of the is
lands qualities. Industry and the
Army and Navy posts supported
its citizens. Strangers attracted
little attention. unless they raT
afoul OF the sheriff.
Many blows have fallen sincs
then % bring the stranger and his
tastes into prime economic i'm
rortance. He must be served
but. the administration hopes
with what curious delicacies are
at hand. All les asks Is a little
tine. On It's terms. a visit i sure
70 be rewarding.
Advice To visikor
First. II be Is 20 enjoy his stay
The visitor mnst change his tempo,
20 on SIN time and forget the
calendar. II there i ; question o.
marketing. L Is enoagh t. re
n.ember which days the bakery
rzts raiSins IN its bread.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16
Lighthouse Tender Ivy
Returns To This Port

Lighthouse Tender Ivy arrived
this morning 6.46 o'clock and is
now preparing for a series Of OPP
erations which viii begin early
next week.
The Ivy has just been given
thorough overhaul and repair
while IN dry dock az jacksonville,
the work being done BY the Jack
sonville Utility Company.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16

This morning Dir. Peterson
started cut in company with local
WPA engineers and supervisors
for a thorough inspection of all
projects in this section. and in
all probability win conclude hi:
survey by this afternoon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16
NOTICE

The snail arms range at Fori
Taylor, Florida. viii be ia use or
Sunday morning. October 18th
between the hours Of a. m. and
/ o'clock p. m. Boats are advised
20 use al due caution in APP.
preaching Fort Taylor.
WILLIAM C. HARRIS.
oetI6-lt Captain Gao FNG
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16
WAR OF SUICIDES RAGING
ON SINO-JAPANESE FRONT

ragged over Shanghai, observers
saw a Japanese plane catch fire.
Whirling his ship in a great fam
ing arc, the pilot. instead of bail
ing out, did power dive into the
Chinese lines, carrying with him
a death-dealing cargo of bombs.
Over Peiping. Japanese ayia-
tors defied anti-aircraft guns to
skywrite reports Of their victories
on other fronts. In the Woosung
area, a dozen japanese, stripped
to red loin cloths, swan a creek
under fire, elambered up the
muddy banks and with their bare
bodies, spiked a Chinese battery.
White Band Of Death
At the junction Of the Whang-
poo and Yangtze rivers, 20 picked
members of the Shirodasukitai,
the white Band Of DEATH" went
ashore in q small launch Those
few who reached the wall OF
flame that was the Chinese land
J battery, died in hand-to-hand com.
bat.
Such cases are, by no means,
confined 70 Nippon's hordes. There
was the Chinese aviator who en-
gagged four enemy bombers and
returned again and again 20 the
combat until his plane WIS shot
70 pieces.
Another Of china's edeyil dogs
Of the air. staged = lone raid
over Shanghai in q September
dusk Flying low. he Owed into
the hail from anti-aircraft guns "a
drop bombs intentionally close
70 the japanese flagship, Idzuma.
For days. daring Chinese oper.
ated 3 fleet Of mosquito-liks sea-
sIeds IN the Whangpoo and
Yangtxe, defying the gunboats q
bow them from the water a. thsy
dashed nsadly on solo runs into
the fleet 70 fire torpedoes 81 eleas
range
March Ts AunEhiiasioa
Il was the japanese who re-
ported. IN the battle ~ Lotien. :
women's @batsalian 81 death. =
composed 81 zo-year-oid chineae
communist girls who did not know
The meaning 81 the word retreat.
And il the same battle. . com
pany q SEQ grizzly dstermined
Chiness crashed through tie Jap.
sness Lines. inflseiing terrific
lomes. ard eontinsed their -.
s4nce rntll thefr batta1ien aas
annEh iliated
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16

Key West, Florida, has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only IA Fahrenheit
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-10-16

Associated Press Day Wire
Service.
For 81 Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
new DEAL BACKS
LAGUARDIA FOE

NEW YORK, Oct. ~ G.N.SJ.
Following a radio appeal to all
Democrats as well as united labor
to stand by the Democratic ticket,
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley made it clear today that the
full strength of the New Deal had
been thrown into the New York
city mayoralty campaign in sup
port of Judge jeremiah T. Ma
honey. He prepared to make a
second address tonight.
Farley did not attempt to make
any commitment for President
Roosevelt, nor did he mention
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, Ma.
honey's rival, by name. But he
said he held deep resentment"
for those who sought to turn the
Federal Governments public
works program to their own
political advantage"
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
BUILDING FALLS;
Is ARE BURIED

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Oct. 81
GN.SJ.-Many were reported
killed or injured today when a
three-story building in the produce
district collapsed, burying rs men
and women in the debris.
First reports placed the dead
at five while later it was said the
toll might reach 10. One body
was removed from the wreckage.
An explosion followed the col
lapse and all available ambu-
lances and scores of police and
fire squads were rushed to the
scene.
Four injured persons were
taken from the wreckage, and
firemen said they believed many
of those in the building. which
was occupied by the Morris Fruit
and Produce Company. were dead.
Hundreds of tons Of fruit and
vegetables were stored on the up
per floors. of the building, police
said, and the structure collapsed
with a roar under the great
weight.
Investigators said they were told
the third floor first gave away,
sending tons of produce, steel
beams and timbers crashing onto
the second floor, which also
crumbled and plunged onto the
first floor workers.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
OLD RULE HITS
BUSINESS TAX

The none-too,smooth machinery
set up for collection Of the bush
ness privilege tax stalled further
today with the resurrection Of Q
court ruling which may permit
the taxpayers to deduct pedeyal
and District nuisance taxes I 1m
their schedules.
Allen F. Brooke, administrators
of the business tax office. declared
the new turn of events not only
will throw out all previous esti-
mates of yield from the tax, but
will cause alteration of virtually
all the schedules thus far sub
mitted.
A tentative ruling permitting
the deduction of these taxes has
been approved by the Commission
ers on recommendation of Assist
ant Corporation Counsel 10 V.
Morgan.
The monkey wrench for the bust
ness tax collection machinery was
hurled by a merchant who re-
viewed a judicial decision in the
American Oil Company case. In
that case, the court held gasoline
tax could not be construed as a
part of the purchase price of gas,
but the dealer was acting in Ca
pacity of a Government agent in
it's collection.
On the basis of this, the mer-
chant argued such nuisance taxes
as levies on gasoline, liquor, to.
bacco and its products, amuse.
ments and aut omobile tires,
should be deductible from the
business privilege schedules. Nor
gan tentatively agreed with this
argument in submitted his recon-.
mendation for the temporary ruL
ing to the city heads.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
AFL Demands

Here is the plan Of the
American Federation of La
Dor, offered to the Commit
tee for Industrial Organiza-
ton today in an effort to
bring peace between the two
factions:
/. Unions suspended by the
ALL for CLIO affiliatiOn are
to reaffiliate with the parent
body a n d resume former
rights and privileges.
2. A conference to be called
to work out terms and con-
ditiOnS mutually agreeable"
3. Organization and ad-
ministrative policies to be re-
ferred to the next ALL con-
ventiOn for final decision.
4. An aggressive organic
ing campaign" to be cOntin-
ued among unOrganized work
ers along both industrial and
craft lines as circumstances
and conditions may warrant"
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
Wandle, Trainer,
Hurt, Lost to Yale

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Oct. 27
G.N.S0.-Major Frank A. Wandle,
Yale trainer who suffered a cere-
bral hemorrhage while leading the
football squad in setting-up exer-
cises, was in New Haven Hospital
today with his right side partially
paralyzed. His condition was re-
ported as flair" by hospital au-
thorities, but he will be lost to
Yale for the balance of the season.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
By FRANK GERVAsI


Copyright, 1887, by Interna-
tiOnal News Service. ReprOduc-
ton in whole or part strictly
prOhibited.)
ROME, Oct. z7.-Benito Juarez
Mussolini, in whose hands rests
the immediate fate Of Europe, told
International News Service today
that fears of a general European
war in the immediate future are
unfounded.
In an intimate across the desk
interview, replying candidly to q
series of questions, Mussolini ex
claimed: --
ct do not see the imminence Of
a European war!"
II Duce did not exclude the pos
Sibility of an eventual war. but
his assurance against an imminent
danger, coming from a realist
rather tn a n a professional
pacifist, carried the weight Of con-
viction of a man whose motto has
ever been:
Live dangerously"
II want you to tell the world"
Mussolini said in calm, meas
CONTINUED on Page 4, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
Clio Spurns ALL Offer; Recess for Week
Leaders Flatly Reject
Demand for Dissolution
CLIO Rejection

The American Federation
of LabOr's peace plan was re-
jected today by Philip Muir.
ray, chairman of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organ
izatiOn negotiating commit
tee for the following reasons:
l. 1t suggests the abject
surrender and dissolution Of
the CIO."
2. 1t calls on the nine in
ternatiOnal units which left
the AFL for the CLIO to ode
sert and betray' the % new
unions affiliated with the
CLIO.
8. 1t constitutes a rejection
of the principle of industrial
organization in mass prOduc-
ton and other basic indus
tries.
4. 1t indicates that the
ALL is still determined to
prevent industrial OrganiZa-
ton, even though that may
prevent the organization Of
millions of workers.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
Soviet Executes
So as Mutineers

WARSAW. Oct. ~ UNS0-
Fifty-eight Soviet seamen and
officers have been executed fol.
lowing a mutiny at Kronstadt,
Russia's chief naval base, accord
ing to a report today from Lenin-
grad. bad food" was blamed for
the trouble by the Soviet commits
sar at Kronstadt, said the report.
Ninety-two were arrested.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27

A million melancholy Chinese
stood gazing sorrowfully from the
roof tops of Shanghai at the
enormous pillar of fire and smoke
behind which a death battalion of
300 "do or de- martyrs main.
tanned a last hopeless stand
against banzai-shouting, hand gre
nading, machine cunning japanese
navy and army troops.
ALL SLAUGHTERED
The Japanese have surrounded
the entire Chapel area, which
once housed half a million per-
sons, but now is given over to fire
and killing-because n prisoners
are taken by the Japanese.
Every Chinese is slaughtered on
the spot. Some are made to dig
their own graves. Twenty Of them
threw down their arms near the
mint. They were seen by United
States Marines to walk out with
their hands up-until, when they
were a few PAGES away, a Japa-
nese machine gun moved them
down.
800 SPURN SAFETY
The 800 "do or die" troops, mem.
bers of Generalissimo Chang Kai-
Shek'S eighty eighth division,
could have saved their lives, but
they refused three times when
British military officials offered
to take them into the Interna-
tional Settlement without their
arms.
They are now in the Central
Trust Company Building, on Tibet
Road and Soochow Greek, ringed
with burning buildings and suf'
fering whitening fire Of machine
gun bullets and hand grenadeS
which is bound to blast them into
eternity soon.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
Rain, High Wind 4
Forecast for D. C.

Heavy rain and high winds were
forecast for the District this after.
noon as the result of storm over
Virginia that is moving northeast
ward. The skies will clear tonight,
however, and tomorrow will be
fair and slightly colder.
With the storm moving along
the seacoast, storm warnings were
ordered displayed from Delaware
Breakwater to Boston. Strong
northeast winds, shifting to north
west tonight, were forecast.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
Victor McLaglen's
Brother Is Jailed

GLENDALE, CAL, Oct. 81
ON. SO.-Capt. Leopold McLag.
len, 50-year-old brother of Victor
McLaglen, the screen star, was be-
ing held in Jail here today pend
ing investigation of charges that
he sought to extort money from
the millionaire explorer, youthful
Phillip Chancellor. Chancellor told
authorities that McLaglen was
hired as his trainer.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
SEVEN MILLION
X MAS SAVING
PAYOFF SLATED
D. G. Banks Note
Huge Increase

Checks totaling $7,343,050 will
be mailed to 82,858 members Of
Christmas Savings Clubs of Wash
ington banks early in December.
Gain of $1,OS4, $50 in the Christ
mas club cash and of 1851 mem
bers over last year is reported by
officials of the District of Column
bia Bankers Association.
Washington Christmas Savings
Club members will receive checks
averaging $50, a gain of ST over
last years average. The average
nationally is $3.50.
NOVEMBER Is DEADLINE
Final payments by members will
be due November Is, following
which the final preparations for
distribution of this large sum will
be begun.
That Santa Claus will have a
bullying pack nationally due to
Christmas savings distributions, Is
shown by a report issued by the
National Association of Mutual
Savings Banks, none of which are
operating in the District e
Figures from the IA, states, in
which the mutual institutions are
operating. show that their Christ
mas savings funds total ISL. $751;
s61, a gain of 100000 over last
year. Club members in these
States total 1,226,89l, a gain of
1853, 800. The average amount is
$42.lO.
NO PROFIT TO BANKS
District bankers point out that
while there is very little direct
profit accruing to the bank
through handling of these Christ
mas savings clubs accounts they
are more than willing to foster the
movement because it makes
funds available for other than
Christmas-giving funds and en-
courages systematic saving.
Christmas savings clubs for the
coming year will be started Novem-
Der 80.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
Fire in Defense,
Marines Told

SHANGHAI, Oct. ~ tI.N.
ST. Rear Admiral Harry E.
Yarnell, commander Of the
United States forces in the
Shanghai area, today o 'dered
American Marine to open
fire in seIf-defenSe If at
,acked by airplaneS Of any
nationality.
The order applies to at
tackS on any of the American
defense posts o. OF. any nom
cOmbatants within the Inter.
national Settlement sector
guarded by United States
troops.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
y Japanese Die
In Train Wreck

YOKOHAMA, Oct. 81 G.N.SJ.
Twenty-Five gay Japanese were
killed today when death, in the
form of a speeding electric train,
cut off their cheers for departing
soldiers. Scores more were seri'
ously injured as the train plowed
into a crowd roaring their fare,
wells to the troops.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
Tardieu May Face
Trial as Traitor

PARIS, Oct. q G.N.SJ.-Ex.
IRENE rightist newspapers com.
mented jubilantly today on former
Premier Andre Tardieu's revela'
lions that he paid government
subsidies to Col. Francois de la
ROGUE for services Of the Fascist
organization, Croix de Ecu. At the
same time, the left-wing papers,
Populaire and Humanite, de.
manded a high court try Tardieu
for treason.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
Poll Shows British
Want Duke, Wany

LONDON, Oct. 81 GN.S).
Sixty-one per cent of all Britons
want the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor to be invited to return
to live in England, the British
news magazine Cavalcade revealed
today. The publication stated it
had reached these figures through
a nationwide poll, full results of
which will be published tomorrow.
(Other details on Page 81
The Washington times., 1937-10-27

Miss Roche relinquiShed her
post to take over the presidency
of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Com
pany of Denver.
Her resignation was submitted
to Secretary of the Treasury Nor.
genthau and President Roosevelt
September IA, on the plea that
The Washington times., 1937-10-27

she was forced to adjust her pri.
vate business affairs in Colorado.
Both Morgenthau and the Presi.
dent at first refused to accept the
resignation. hoping that Miss
Roche could get her affairs in or
der without leaving the Govern.
ment.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
GOVERNOR is HELD

HAVANA, Oct. 81 Q.NSD.
Celestino Baizan, aged governor
of Hahara province, was detained
by police today in connection with
their investigation of the fatal
political shooting of President
Severiana Pulido of the provincial
council last Thursday.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
500, 900 CHINESE SLAIN

TOKYO, Oct. 81 QN.S).-Chi-
nese casualties in North and
South China between July 7 and
October "a were estimated at
100000 in an official war office
communique today.