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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
EXAMS NOW OPEN
FORCIVIL SERVICE
OFFICE WORKERS
JUNIOR AND SENIOR STENo-
GRAPHER AND TYPIST APP
PLICATIoNS MUST BE IN
NOT LATER THAN AUG. Is
Especial to The Cifizenl

WASHINGTON, d. C., Aug. 6.
Service Commission has
Unexpectedly called an examina-
ton for Junior and Senior Steno-
graphers and Junior and Senior
Typists, applications to be filed
not later than August 18th.
The register to be established
as a result of these examinations
will be for work in the District
of Columbia and applications
may be had through postmaSters
in home cities or from the u. S.
Civil Service Commission of this
city.
The first examinations in three
years for the above category of
work were held in May of last
year and it was then the con-
sensus that there would be no
more examinations of that char
acter for several years.
The defense council. however.
has requested that an additional
District register be established.
and the announcement has been
released for the examinations.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
SECRETARY HULL
CALLS ON NATION
FOR COOPERATION
PLEDGES GIVEN PAN-AMER-
IcAN NATIONS MUST NOW
BE BACKED UP WITH Ac-
TON. HE DECLARES
OBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Aug. Sec
rotary of State Hull today called
on all citizens of the United
States to prepare for any emer-
gency that may come in the
future, in a press interview this
morning at Department of State
offices.
MIR. Hull stated the time may
come when the people may be
called on to endure suffering of
many kinds in the campaign now
being conferred in all depart
ments of federal and state gov
ernments to ward off danger of
aggression from foreign nations.
Following commitments made
at the recent Havana conference
of foreign ministers, Hull stated
that it is incumbent on the
United States to back up many
pledges given the 81 other ma
tons represented at the confer
ence with acton. Sinister danger
exists today in most of those ma
tions from abroad and if we don't
act to protect the American way
of living, our whole. framework
of democracy may be toppled
over, he stated.
Calling for united cooperation
from the nation as a whole. Hull
went on to outline some of the
problems that would have to be
faced and conquered in the
future as the defense program is
worked out and our relations
with other nations of the Amer
icas become more closely knit in
the planned campaign to keep
foreign totalitarianism from en-
croachment on this side.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
NAVAL STATION
PUSHES DREDGING
! WORK FOR BASIN
BIDS TO BE SOUGHT AT
ONCE ON PROJECT THAT
CALLS FOR EXPENDITURE
OF $4,000.

Bids will be sought at once for
the dreadging of the submarine
base at Key West naval station,
Capt. Walter E. Jacobs, chief of
staff of the seventh naval dis
trict, announced today.
The sum of $4,000 has been
allocated for the work by the
Navy department bureau of yards
and docks. Capt. Jacobs said.
Submarine base will be
dredged to a depth of % feet un-
der the terms of the contract.
Approximately $4,000 cubic
yards of clay and coral rock will
be removed from the basin, to
make it easily asSessible to de-
strOyerS and submarines.
1t is believed by naval officers.
including Lit Commander T. J.
Brady. public works officer, that
the 100000 allocated by the bu-
reau of yards and docks will be
more than sufficient for the
work.
All of the $4,000 yards of ma
terial, including some rock, will
be dumped along the athletic
field to the south of the base.
The lowland will be built I'D to
the level of the surrounding
property to make room for the
housing project of the navy de-
partment on the recommendation
of Capt. Jacobs.
Also receiving some navy de-
partment attention is a project
for the construction of a marine
railway at the south edge of the
base, No appropriation for this
work has been allocated by the
bureau of yards and docks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
THUMB JOINT LOST
Woman Suffered Mishap
AS BOATS COLLIDED

Mrs. Dalbert Bethel, 804 Ashe
street. suffered the loss of part of
the right thumb when her hand
was caught between two beats
yesterday, near the dock of the
P. & o. Steamship company.
Mrs. Bethel was riding in her
husbands boat. When she put
her hand down to swerve the
boat from collision with another
her thumb got caught.
Il saw that the thumb was
loose at the first joint, and /
flicked it Off, Mrs. Bethel ex-
plains.
She was given treatment at the
Marine hospital.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
Overseas Highway
Receipts $4,000
Over Last Period
FISHERMEN I'm ROLE
OF MAIL CARRIERS

Demeritt brothers. of the
Demeritf Brothers Fish Com
panY. went out as fishermen
yesterday and came back 70
port as mail carriers.
When about IL miles south
east of the city. they were
hailed by crew members of
a passing steamer and a bot
tie containing IL letters and
a postcard was dropped over
the side.
A skiff on the fishermen's
vessel was lowered into the
wafer and the floating mail
box" retrieved.
For their trouble. the
brothers found a one-dollar
bill in the bottle. which had
been placed in there for
the person who mailed the
letters.
The bottle had canvas
cover and handle and was
thrown off the SIS. Haqan Of
the PennsYlvania Shipping
Company Line.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
KEY WEST DIRECTORY OF 1893 RECALLS
Citizen Writer Digs Out Interesting Facts OF That Era
GTY'S STATUS DURING GOOD OLD DAYS
By VILLA NJ RUSSELL

First installment of this re-
view of the good ozd days, as
reccrdeI IN the Key West Direc-
tory of 1893, was published yes
terday. The account ended with
the listing of improvements
sponsored by the city, county and
Federal governments, such as the
construction of a court house and
Jail, city hall and city jail, custom
house and additions TO the Army
Barracks.
Then followed a description
of public and private schools. for
both whites and colored. and the
churches of the city. and conclud-
ed with First Methodist church,
which is of stone, being the hand
soonest.
Key West as a health resort
was praised and although yellow
fever was prevalent. in those
days, the writer declared its
treatment is so well understood
by physicians and people that
the mortality. is very low" Sport
ing and pleasure. facilities were
described, chief of which was
the angling for the gamey tar
pom, king fish and trout, besides
the hundreds of other beauties.
Hunting on adjacent keys and
yachting were also recommended.
THE New Russell House is the
leading hotel" and the 'Duval
House opposite is smaller, but no
less popular. and its restaurant
is the favorite resort of passing
tourists. The Russell House was
located at 1l2 Duval street. the
present location of the Gilbert
Jefferson Hotel For further &C
the writer stated
that efforts are now being made
to induce capitalists to erect a
fine tourist hotel on the island
Key West can eutrival Tampa.
Jacksonville or St. Augustine as
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
Washington Scene Changes
As Veterans Leave Ranks

rather have done it under differ
ent circumstances and with less
misgivings for the future of the
Democratic party to which he
has been so devoted.
When Vice President John
Nance Garner departed for
Uvalde, Texas. the other day, it
was a grim, fearful little knot of
friends who saw him and Mrs.
Garner off at the station.
1t was no secret that Garner
was embittered by the third
term. His friends say that he
may never return to Washington,
but whether he does or doesn't,
it probably is the end of his long
political career. as l pointed out
here some months back.
With Louis Johnson, the 200
pound, machine-gun talking law
yer from Clarksburg, w. Va,
who threw Army defense meas
ures into high gear. as Under
secretary of War. it was not a
question of the third term. But
he was the victim of changing
politics that put Republican Hen
ry L. Stimson in as Secretary of
War. 1t was no secret that john
son felt he was due the Secretary
of War post.
When he didn't get it and was
not rewarded at Chicago by a
nod from the President that
might have made him Roosevelt's
running mate, he too departed.
President Roosevelt has offered
him the job of executive assist
ant in charge of the national de-
Tense drive. but his friends here
express doubt that he will ac-
cept
McNutt For ID Term
McNutt's position is more COM
plicated. An original third
termer, his disappointment came
when the President didn't throw
the Vice-Presidency wide open.
The question now is whether
McNutt's withdrawal in behalf
of Henry Wallace will be reward
ed. He is high UP ON the list of
those mentioned for Farley's two
jobs but the inner circle New
Dealers have kept him at arms
length ever since he has been
here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
QUOTA OF ITO
NAVY RECRUITS
In This AREA
TWELVE MEN TO BE ~
ROLLED AT MANI Office
NAVY ENLISTMENT PAYS
GOOD DIVIDENDS


MIAMI Aug 6-The II S
Navy Recruiting Service has a.
lotted q quota Of 10 men a. -
enlisted from fhe F-lurlds-Gear-
gia District during the ul1ufh q
August
OF TINS number = mIuIu1uEu
quota Of u men vii - eulls1ed
through the Navy Recru111rlE
Station. POStOffice Building. e
tins city. with the urohzhIl1tv 90
an increased quota = thf MN
Der Of well qualified sppllrzuss
for enlistment warrant such ac-
ton.
The First Line q Defense. Ene
u 8 Navy. has many Tacanzz
TO be filled BY young Arerirzzz
IN the interest Of the Estiu-zzl
Defense Program. 4 Wzs an
nounced- The principle re1uEe-
ments for enlistment are sec
character. L 8 citIzenshl--
ability 10 pass the required ulen-
tai and physical exsmlnztlun- -
unmarried with no depende11z.
and not less than "a nor Uure
than 81 years Of age
An enlistment N the L 3
Navy viii pay dividends IN sell
Improvement, II Was polule1
out
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06

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can offer what they can no .
summer climate the year ruzz--
sea bathing in mld-w1uter ane
abundant Aquatic sporf 40 2
own harb0r~ the brief uz1lzne
ended
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ed There were j. suctEn znc
commission merchants. Iunn =
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easily by oldtimers EzEew
numbered "a. unlv one sdEe-Z-
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approximately 30 ciEzr 49,
facturers. employing frur 81 -
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which the name Pohslzki W1ILzEe.
between Francs and WE1e
streets Immediately bel0W DEl-
sion. was derived. d l. Trz54e
& Sons -ClothinE. hsf and znae
stores numbered nlne FlEe
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WON'T YOU JUST
BEAR WITH us?

fHy Associated PressD
YELLOWSTONE NATION
AL PARK. Aug. 6.-The
summer of 1910 has produced
a couple Of good bar yarns.
Ranger De Lyle Stevens
tells about the tourist from
Minnesota who swirled up in
a cloud of dust and shouted:
There's a bear looseI"
Stevens broke the news
gently that there are approx
matelY 800 bears al large in
the park. including man-kill-
ing grizzlies. and its hardly
possible to drive through the
place without seeing dozens
of them.
Then there were the wom-
en- who were fishing near
Pear lake. One of them hook
ed q big trout. The other
glanced up and saw . bear.
so we've got a wide new
trail 10 Pear lake now.
chortles a CCC boy. The
women made il. through the
underbrush and timber.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06

Advisory, $50 a. m. EST:
Tropical storm central at 7:3O a.
m. EST. short distance south
west OF Grand Isle. La, moving
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT seven to
eight miles per hour attended By
shifting gales of so to so miles
per hour and pressure %. IS
inches at Grand Isle. The storm
has reached near hurricane
strength and viii continue to
move Northumberland today
attended by damaging east and
southeast winds west of Grand
Isle to vicinity of Franklin, La.
and unusually high tides over
low places near coast. Persons in
low exposed places ahead of
storm should seek safety. Warn
ings changed to southeast storm
warnings Bay St. Louis to Nor
gan City. Storm warnings now
displayed Bay St. Louis to Gal
weston. Texas.
WEATHER BUREAU,
New Orleans.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
SCOUT AWARDING
COURT WILL MEET
TROOP MEMBERS TO RECEIVE
BADGES AND ADVANC-
ED RATINGS

Announcement was made today
by the Monroe County District.
Boy Scouts of America, that a
regular Awarding Court would
be held at Scout Hall. in the old
Naval Hospital building. tomor-
row night, starting at 7:45 o'clock.
Chairman of the Court commit
tee is Scouter Wilbur Moerhke.
Merit badges and advanced rat
ings will be awarded to an un-
announced number of Boy Scout
members of the five Key West
troops.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
l(%AZlNN%%s
WARNS AGAINST swINDLE

WASHINGTON. - A warning
against swindlers who are ad-
vertiSing a 'finger-printing serv-
ice" to aid aliens in registering
has been made by Earl G. Harri-
son. director of alien registration
of the Department of Justice. Mr..
Harrison declares that no finger
prints will be accepted except
those made by the proper postof-
flee officials and that no fee can
or will be charged for this serv-
ice.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
BY JACK STINNETT
Alp Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The
Washington scene has changed
more rapidly since the Chicago
convention than in any similar
period since the New Deal took
over in 1888.
Three administration veterans,
wheel horses in the Democratic
party who have been around
here some time, have departed.
There is some possibility that a
fourth will follow. It'll never be
the same Washington without
Big Jim" Farley, Cactus Jack"
Garner. Lou" Johnson, nor
without Paul McNutt, if he goes
home too. as some of his friends
say he will
Most missed perhaps will be
Farley, the big genial fellow who
came down with The Boss" in
1888, parked at the Postmaster
Generals desk and for seven
years gave all he had to the twin
jobs of seeing that the mail went
through and keeping the Demo-
cratic party machinery running
smoothly.
Farley will be hard to replace.
Target of all the abuse of Repub-
licanS and anti-New Deal Demo-
Gratis, he stood the potshotS with
out a whimper.
Garner Career Over?
: Farley's split with the Presi-
dent over the third term was
merely the final straw. The
breach in the relations had been
widening for a couple of years
as President Roosevelt turned
more and more to the inner
circle New Dealers and less to
his old campaign manager with
his condolences and plans.
Nobody who was with Farley
in those closing days of the con-
vention could fail to see how
deeply hurt he was that he had
been brushed aside as the group
that had its nucleus in Harry
Hopkins, Senators Jimmy"
Byrnes and Alben Barley took
over.
Farley might have quit the
government anyway to repair his
personal fortunes, but he would
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YOu-Name-It Department
CBy Associated PressD

Thy Associated PreSsD
PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. Ga
seven-headed fish was Mike Sciu-
to's reward for a trip to the
beach-and Mike has the fish to
prove it.
The hydra-headed creature,
barely an inch long, was found
stranded by outgoing surf and
still was alive when Sciuto pick
ed it up.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
NAMES GHOST AS
CORRESPONDENT

LOS ANGELES = Claiming
that his wife. Lillian, had been
persuaded to give up loving him
by ghost named ShoSha, DIR.
William E. Bryce. eye specialist,
is seeking a divorce.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
ADVISORY

Advisory, $50 a. m: The slight
tropical disturbance that was re-
ported near the Virgin Islands
has moved westnorth-
westward and was central at 700
a. m. EST. about 100 miles south
east of Turks Island. 1t is at
tended by only fresh and mod
erately strong winds and has not
much tendency to in
crease. Center will pass near
Turks Island today and caution
is advised over southeastern Ba-
hamas this afternoon and tonight.
WEATHER BUREAU.
Jacksonville.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
Germans Warn
OF Anni1i|atinQ
Action To Come
High Command States
Planes Are Poised To
Spree d Devastation
Over England
By Associated PPessD

CBy Associated PFessD
LONDON. Aug. 6.-High COM
mand officials of the Nazi army
today warned that the British are
in for some new methods of
warfare" when the word is given
by Hitler. probably this weekend
methods that will spell fright
full and annihilating devastation"
10 the English countryside and
cities.
In pointed releases, the Ger
man officials stated that initial
plans called for high-pOWered
air attacks unprecedented in the
war to date with as many as 500
planes at time to be hurled
against the defenders covering
wide areas.
Nazis claimed that their in
vaSiOn plans were complete.
Planes, they stated, are poised in
two or three score concentration
points, and the number ready for
instant duty will surprise the
world, they added.
Great variance existed in re-
ports issued by both belligerentS
concerning British shipping loss
eS. In a recapitulation since the
outbreak of hoStilitieS almost a
year ago, the NaZis claimed to
have sunk a total of 100000 tons
of Allied ships. England rid
iculed that total today, asserting
that the total would reach no
higher than 100000 tons. The
latter loss was nearly offset, the
British asserted, with new ships
floated in the meantime.
Skirmishes broke out in in
creased volume on the Italian
British frontiers today, large
scale action being reported near
Egyptian strongholds and in Su-
dan areas. Indications pointed to
simultaneous efforts to advance
against the British, coincident
with the German effort against
the British Isles.
Diplomats here paid increasing
attention to RusSia's latest move
for expansion when dispatches
from Moscow stated that the So
viets were still dissatisfied with
reports from Finland concerning
alleged miStreatment of Russian
minoTities in that little Baltic
country.
1t was agreed in some quarters
that the Soviets may take advant-
age of present world conditions
to push further territory claims
against the Firms, this at vari-
ance to treaty terms of peace
made early this year. bringing
an end to the two-month Finnish
Russian war.
French officials hurried a de-
NAL of any trouble in one of her
Pacific ocean island possessions,
New Caledonia. That colony was
reported to have issued DEGREES
concerning a desire to continue
the fight against the axis pow
erS. This colony is famous for its
large production of nickel.
Britons took stock of the short
age of food situation throughout
continental Europe today with
the observation that their nation
was probably better off than any
other country, either those war
ring or those still neutral.
Many nations were dependent
in normal times for from IS to
80 percent of their food supplies
from the outside world, but with
war conditions existing and the
British blockade still operating
effectively, there is no way of
knowing what the percentage of
shortage is at present.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-06
Reward For MOdesty
(Ry Associated Pre.nl

KANSAS cry, Aug. g.
Kansas City salvage firm hoisted
a sign that read: so percent saw
ingS".
Within a short time a rival
company was displaying this
banner: 100 percent savings
here.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-28
6. ". High Baskefers
Start December II
AGAINST Eastern

An 18-game court schedule will be
opened December II by the George
Washington High Presidents of
Alexandria when the Virginians play
host to the Eastern High quint Of
Washington.
Last year the Presidents won the
Eastern championship of Virginia
and lost to the E. G. Glass quint of
Lynchburg, 32-3l, in the State
finals.
Coach Rusty Doran will have
Amos Cliff, Johnny Shelton and
Tweets Chisolm, returning letter.
men, to form the nucleus of his
new team.
On preseason showings Doran is
pleased with the work of Matty
Denitto, Marty Foltz, Larry Kersey,
Turk Dudley, Clyde Dombrowski and
Jack Crump, all with the second
team last season.
The schedule:
Johns. away: 10. Central. away: january
z St. , Johns home; H. h Thomas Jef nSn
Marshall, away; Is. PETERSBURG away;
IL sderSksSITs away; 70 Ea E.sIp
well. away: is. THOMAS Jefferson. away:
81. John Marshall. home; %. Petersburs'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-28
Abrams Drive to Ring Heights
is Menoced by ChmieIewski
Go at Riverside Tonight

for Abrams, however, who broke
even with Steve in two fights. The
second, it will be recalled, almost
ended his career, resulting In a
spinal injury that put him on the
shelf six months. His rise In the
realm of middleweights dates from
his recovery and has continued
steadily.
George Is Fine Puncher.
Abrams, while not a great puncher.
is singer and can shake 'em up.
He is an excellent boxer and blessed
with a driving determination to
reach the top. The blending of these
qualities may carry him to victory
tonight as it did in his second bout
with Jimmy Jones of Baltimore, who
put the snore on him with a sneak
punch in their first encounter.
George is fully cognizant of the
bouts Importance and supremely
confident of winning.
Abrams expected to come In at
$50 pounds and Chmielewski at 157.
An attractive supporting card finds
Eddie Dunno paired with Hershey
Kid Chocolate in the 8-round semi
final. Sharing interest with 1t will
be another 8-rounder between Billy
Bullock of this city and Harry Hurst
Of Canada.
Roy Dunno will make his profess
sional debut in a 4-rounder with
Baby Face Walpert. L. F. A.