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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10
Mrs. A. Sheppard
Here From Tampa

Mrs. Arthur Sheppard, Jr., who
has been making her home for
the past several months in
Tampa, where Mr.. Sheppard is
attached to the U.S.C.G. Tender
Ivy, was a returning passenger
on the SIS. Cuba this week and
is visiting at the home of her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
u. Allshouse, on Flagler Avenue.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10
HOT TIME

PORTLAND, Ore.-A wrist
watch owned by j. F. Cross, a
baker, fell from a shirt pocket
into a batch of dough and was
discovered Is minutes later stick
ing out of a loaf of bread. The
watch, despite the 550-degree
oven temperature, licked on for
seven hours and was simply re-
paired at a jewelry shop.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10
Mrs. James Left
For Boston

Mrs. Thomas James, wife of
Lieut.. Thomas James, U.S.N., and
two daughters, Josephine and
Gwendolyn, left over the high
way Thursday enroute to the Bos-
ton Navy Yard, at Boston, Mass,
to visit her husband.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage license was taken out
this morning at the office of
County Judge Raymond R. Lord
by Clyde T. Burch, a seaman on
board the U. S. S. Twiggs, and
Miss Lille Mae Knowles, 18, of
Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

For age is opportunity. no less
Than youth itself, though in an
other dress;
And as the evening twilight fades
away
The sky is filled with stars in
visible by day.
Dr. : T. -Longfellow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

On a federal warrant charging
him with illegal entrance into this
country IS years ago, Giuseppe
Guttila is being held at Rock
ford, Ill.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10
SIS FOR CLEAR CONSCIENCE

RICHMOND, Ind.-An unSign-
ed, printed note came to the
Second National Bank with a $50
and a S. bill. Received S25 too
much change back either in No
vember or December. 1887, from
either second or third window
from front along west, the note
said. "a girl made the mistake.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

Mrs Eo0Ee11-EUW- 49,
whsfl ] gef Z ] cuok > E-
Ike that for you eEET 60 81
the rest Of TINS yea
NO0wedd-Ny EEe zxz-zzce
believe
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10
GEMS FOR
YOUR SCRAPBOOK
HOPE

Hope is like the sky at night:
there is no corner so dark but
that a persevering eye will dis
cover a Star.-Octave Feuillet.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10
Never Trust En-

Prison Chaplain-Why are you
here again, Tom?
Convict-Because of my belief,
sir
Chaplain-Nonsensei What do
you mean?
Convict believed the police
man had gone by, sir.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

The World war draft law COW
cred men between 18 and As.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

The 1910 Wyoming cattle
brand book contains 1910
brands.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

The National Gallery for Art,
in Washington. D. C., now near
ing completion, cost SI5,000,000.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

About 100000 persons are
under Russian Communist rule.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

The black WIDOW is the only
poisonous spider of temperate
North America.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

Eight presidents of the United
States did not veto a single bill,
but Grover Cleveland vetoed
301.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

More than 20 species of prehis-
toric mammals are represented
among the fossils taken from the
Miami, Tex, fossil quarry.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

There are 100000 retail tobac-
CO outlets in the U. S.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

New York's mayor, F. H. La
Guardia. has had Is official resi-
dences since he took office.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

Enough salt underlies more
than. 1000 square miles of Ohio's
area to meet easily requirements
of all the world.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

Ants are near the top of the in
sect intelligence list, spiders near
the bottom.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

Boulder Dam houses the
worlds most powerful hydro
electric plant.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

The Great Salt Lake is 80 miles
wide and 20 miles long,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

The antelope is one of the fleet
est North American animals.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

Human hope and faith should
join in natures grand harmony
and, if on minor key, make music
in the heart-Mary Baker Eddy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

Bituminous coal miners pro-
duce about Az tons a man-day
compared to pa tons for each
anthracite worker.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10
INTERESTING NOTES

Newly Matched spiders can't
eat
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

Look, what thy soul holds dear,
imagine it
To lie that way thou COST, not
whence thou com'st,
Shakespeare.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

There are Is republics in the
Soviet union.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

Our joys shall always last;
For hope shall brighten days
to come,
And memory gid the past
Thomas Moore.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-10

Keep your face to the sunshine,
and you cannot see the shadow
Helen Keller.
Evening star., 1940-11-14

ment, heavy lorries and one or two
small tanks. This equipment was
strewn far behind in a great mass.
Only the first vehicles were blown
up while moving forward Most of
the remainder of the column was
in bivouac set up f1anking the mar
row road. an dactually only the first
part Of the column can be seen. 1t
is difficult to know what is in the
middle of the pass or at the western
end.
Most of the first part of the pass
has been cleared up now to open the
road, but at the roadside there still
is the blood Of battle in the mud
Most of the first Italians were killed
by heavy machine gun fire. but
where mortars hit them the salugh-
ter was terrific. Clouds passing over
the sun bring quick, racing shadows
every now and then along the whole
east end Of the rocky pass, and this
is the only covering these young Ro-
mans get for the time being.
Tall, green expresses and small
spreading scrub, which is very thick,
should have been an ideal hiding
place for the Italians, but the Greeks
seem to have had their machine
guns. motars and light artillery so
placed as to get into the timber most
effectively.
Two BayOnet Attacks.
In the first group of Italian lorries
destroyed were supply trucks with
oval tins of bully beef and long
packets of thick biscuits, which are
now melting soggily into the mud.
Spare equipment was well in front,
Evening star., 1940-11-14

too. 1t seems to be trick to put
some of the most unimportant ma
terial forward, so that it is smashed
up rather than the better stuff.
The Italian dead in the woods
were practically always in groups
and they were spread out or heaped
or dry leaves in awkward shapes.
Twice there were bayonet attacks by
the Greeks in the earliest battle for
the pass, one at the rear and one
from a Rocky crag that hangs over
a slope in great sweep to the
road. Most of the Italians did not
even have bayonets fixed to their
rifles, SO they could not do much
anyway, but there are unsheathed
bayonets lying around everywhere.
Occasionally off to the northwest
one can still hear the bark OF noun
tain aartillery. Here and there are
small groups of ruddy-faced, un-
shaven Greek soldiers cleaning up
the mess or marching with fixed
bayonets. Some Of these have got
grenades now, which they did not
have before. The captured Italian
equipment is already being used by
the Greeks.
Way Out Of Pass.
Actually there was way out OF
the pass, but the Italians did not
know it. Some of them trying to
escape found it and wandered
through Maybe they numbered
thousands. I deliberately avoid fig
ures because it is impossible to esti-
mate them and dangerous to try.
italian organization up to the
everything was in order Do not get
the idea that this column was strewn
carelessly along the road and
stopped with a few shots. 1t was
we'll dispersed and put up fight.
Because of this it is not possible to
see large groups of dead. One sees
small groups here, there and every
where. They have all died with
their faces in the mud. their gloved
hands stretched out before them in
the red, wet earth, and with
smashed equipment around them.
Small defensive positions made out
Of rock were blown sky high by shells.
Great coils of field telephone wire
in confusion are tied up with the
sprawling figures.
Men Die Muddy Death.
One dead Roman had his arms
locked around a tree as he died.
Some young boys lay with their
trousers still creased and their tin
hats smashed in. Dead horses were
Evening star., 1940-11-14

The story OF the trapped DIVISION
probably already is famous in the
outside world. 1t is known how the
Greeks allowed the Alpini division
to enter the pass, how a relief col
umn was permitted to come in, how
both ends Of the pass were blocked
by heavy weapons and how the
Greeks from vantage points on the
mountainside poured hell into the
Italians strung along beneath them
on the valley road.
Terrific Slaughter.
The slaughter was terrific. Now the
battlefield resembles Guadalajara
1t begins on a rise, with a solitary
Italian soldier stretched out in the
mud He lay right on top Of the
rise with his chest and head smashed
by machine-gun bullets. His tin hat
had lesped of his head when ne fell
and lay brim down in muddy hole
yards ahead. Nobody bothered to
move him for quite while.
The remainder of the division was
spread-eagled behind him at vari-
Gus distances. Then there were a
few more Italian dead-green-jer-
kined men lying fiat on their
stomachs with a mountain of equip
ment on their backs and their faces
in the mud. Then came vehicles
camoufaged like trees, which were
very good. Some of them had just
stopped, others were burned out on
the side of the road.
Around some vehicles in the woods
beside the road were more green
ierkined Alpinis with their silly soft
hats squashed under foot. Beyond
this. one could not see much.
There was a lot of heavy equip
Evening star., 1940-11-14

in panic. My forces carried on the
fight through November 6, when re-
Inducements arrived. My men were
so enthusiastic that could not hold
them back. :,
"They are all from Athens and
piraeus. They played very i'm
portant role in halting the invaders,
for If they had not stopped the
Italians the advance would have
reached the highway at Grevena.
Equipment Thrown Away.
"On November the Italians still
were being hotly pursued in the d.
rection of Koritza when the retreat
developed into an irregular flight.
the Italians throwing away their
equipment.
"Up to 8 o'clock that night, we
had taken about 800 Italians pris-
oner and killed about 1,l00.
ION the snow-covered summit OF
Mount Smolika, which is $500 feet
high (highest in that region), about
$50 Italians were killed by bayonet
charges and machine-gun fire.
cat 9 o'clock on the night OF
November 6, an Italian cavalry col
umn coming from the direction OF
Koritza to assist the retreat was
held and dispersed and itself re-
treated in disorder.
Panic spread to the whole COL
umn. They threw away everything
they had in order to flee more
quickly.
eve tied our prisoners together
with ropes in groups of 1S and led
them back, each group being cs-
corted by two Greeks.
"They made no resistance. On
the contrary, they seemed pleased
at their capture.
Bombed by Panes.
Throughout the fighting, Italian
planes with Greek colors machine
gunned and bombed the Greeks.
During the first day they few as low
as 1,OOo feet.
Otalians have denied previ-
GUS charges that Italian planes
bore Greek markings, indicat-
ing they may have been inspired
by the fact italian planes have
as tail insignia the white cross
of the House Of Savoy on q blue
or red field with q crown in the
center. The Greek national en-
blem is similar, they said)
"Afterward, however, they DROP
ped bombs from great heights, not
daring to fly low again.
practically all the prisoners we
took were young men 20 to Is years
old, many of them wearing boards
like that of the late Italian Marshal
Italo Balbo."
The figures given by Kyriakou did
not cover the period since Novem-
ber 6, during which the government
has announced annihilation of the
greater part of an italian division.
Evening star., 1940-11-14

war is changing up here, there is
not likely to be anything like this
again. There will be victories and
defeats, but not like this. Both
sides are licking their wounds and
preparing for battle again. Mean.
time, guerrilla bands keep hunting
of to the northwest and an oc.
casional burst of machine gun fire
echoes down the long valley Just to
show that the war is still going on.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
EVENING STAR WASHINGTON

point Of battle was all right and
under the trees.
There was much paper scattered
around from the soldiers pockets
and pictures Of their mothers, wives
and babies were now dirty yellow
mess In the red mud of the road.
If anybody has ever entertained the
Hitlerian idea that death in war Is
q beautiful thing he ought to see this
Because the very nature Of the
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Cold Slows Up Smokes

The Bronx Zoo in New York now
chills poisonous snakes in q re-
frigerator before handling them.
The cooling process makes the rep
! taloo slow and slueg1ah.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Italians Trapped in Greek Pass
Die q Bloody, Muddy Death
Slaughter Terrific as Defenders Pour He'll
Into Foe From Positions on Mountain
By JAMES ALDRIDGE,

WITH THE NORTHWESTERN GREEK FORCES, Nov. IA (By
wireless via thensUp here in the mountains of Northwest
guerrilla of still
left the Sd Division of An which trapped in
Metsovo Pass.
Small bands hreshng the woods for the advanced
sections of remaining Italians who escaped Prisoners still
time in marching them Retr-
button these parts is swift and terrible.
Evening star., 1940-03-21
}. P. Morgan & Co. Files
Incorporation Papers
BY the Associated Press

DE tie hbSOCldteO fTeSS.
NEW YORK, March 21.-Incor-
poration papers for J. P. Morgan &
Co, Inc, which is to take over the
business of the historic banking
partnership April l, were filed to-
day with the State Banking Board.
The boards approval was con-
sldered a routine step. Previously
the State Legislature had passed
law ironing out difficulties created
by the existence of small corpo-
ration of the same name, not in the
banking business.
1ncorporators were all existing
partners of the firm. with the ex-
ception of Edward Hopkinson. jr.,
who will remain with Drexel g. Co.
in Philadelphia Officers of the
corporation will be announced next
week, While today's action makes it
possible for j. p Morgan g. Co.. Inc,
to begin functioning at any time, &C
tual turnover of the business and
assets of j. P. Morgan & Co. to the
corporation is scheduled for April l.
Ownership of stock in the corpo-
ration at the outset will be sub
stantlally on the basis of present
snare participation in the partner
snip, but Wall Street sources said it
was expected leading out-of town
clients OF }. P Morgan g. Co. might
be given an opportunity of stock
participation at some future time.
Evening star., 1940-03-21

Constructor Awards
Behind 1889 DESPITE
Week 's.Increase
Priyute Total Down
33 Per Cent From
Period Yeor Ago
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 21.-Heavy
engineering awards for the week
ended Tuesday totaled $50 ,202 900,
a gain of 20 per cent over the pre-
vious week, Engineering News Rec
ord reported today.
The total, however, was 10 per
cent lower than in the correspond
ing week a year ago. g.
Private engineering contracts
were 8 per cent greater than the
previous week, but 33 per cent lower
than year ago. Public awards
were q per cent larger than a week
ago and 6 per cent ahead of the
same period last year.
The weeks awards bring 1910 en-
gineering awards to $597, ,723 900, or
10 per cent below the first IL weeks
of 1889. Private construction awards
for the year to date. however, total
$20l ,821 900. or 4 per cent more
than in The same period last year.
Comparisons follow:
Private,
Last ssS Wk nGo Prey W6 6oo so, Yr AZ Ago ooo
State and Municipal.
S25,579.0oO S26,O@3,OOO S3O,262, 600
Federal
s1o,755,ooo sa,537,oOo S3,s65,ooo
Total.
S52.2o2. coo S43,30s,0O0 S57s93,OO0
Evening star., 1940-03-21
Trading 10 Be Resumed
In McKesson & Robbins

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 21.-After
nearly l6 months suspension, stocks
of McKesson & Robbins, Inc, drug
and liquor firm, will probably be
returned to trading in the New
York Stock Exchange next week.
The securities were removed from
listing on the big board" early in
December, 1888, when it was dis
covered that the company's presi-
dent, F. Donald Coster, was really
Phillip MuSica, former convict, and
that he had been juggling the firm S
accounts. Musica committed sui
eide.
Since that time, McKesson g. Rob-
bins has continued in business un-
der the truSteeShip of William J.
Wardall and the firms shares have
been traded lover the counter" The
common stock has recently been
priced at around Sc share and the
convertible preferred at about $25.
These prices compare with $3.50
for the common and $3.50 for the
preferred when the stock exchange
suspended dealings.
Judge Alfred Coke of the United
States District Court for Southern
New York signed an order Tues
day permitting Wardall to file with
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission amended annual reports for
wears earlier than 1890
1t was understood that as soon
as the S. E. c. receives these re-
ports. the stock exchange will notify
the S. E. C. it intends to readmit
the stock to listing and, if there
is no objection, take the action two
days later.
Evening star., 1940-03-21
Cotton Staples Shorter
During 1899 Season
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Cotton ginned from the 1899 crop
averaged shorter in length than the
1888 crop and the proportions in
the lower grades of white cotton
We're somewhat larger, the Agricul-
ture Department reported.
Ginnings from the 1889 crop were
placed at 11,477,133 running bales,
including 11,448,139 bales of Amer
lean Upland, 26,824 bales of Ameri-
can-Egyptian and 2.l7O bales of sea
island. Total ginnlngs from the
1888 crop were 1923 22l bales.
Spotted cotton represented only
is per cent of the 1889 ginnings as
compared with % per cent in the
previous season
Strict middling white and above
represented about II per cent of the
current seasons crop as compared
with 20 per cent last year. Middlng
white represented 81 per cent, COM
pared with 80 per cent last season.
Strict low middling white and below
accounted for about 81 per cent of
the 1889 crop and only % per cent
in 1898.
The average length of the 1899
crop was 3l8 thirty of an
inch as compared with 32.l9 thirty
seconds in 1888. The proportion of
the 1889 ginnings classed as 1892
of an inch and shorter was about
5 pc, cent more than last season.
The proportions in the length l Lis
inches s.nd longer were somewhat
smaller
Grades and staples tenderable
under futures contracts represented
80 per cent of this seasons ginnings
as compared with "a per cent last
year.
Evening star., 1940-03-21
Bond Averages

NEW YORK, March Elbow
yield issues came back little in to-
days bond market, following slide
yesterday on weakness in United
States Governments.
After midday United States
Treasures showed rallying tenden-
Gle in spots. Gains ranged from 3-32
= to 1892, while others still on the
offslde were down 1-32 to 1882.
Corporate issues were mixed. Mod
erately higher near the final hour
were Union Pacific 312s of II, Texas
Corp. 3l2s, Nickel Plate 512s, Good
rich 4 4l4s and Rock Island general
4s of '88.
Slightly lower were bonds Of H.
ternational Hydro-Electric, Ale
ghany Corp. and Portland General
Electric.
The foreign list showed compara-
lively small price spreads. South
Americans were firm.
Evening star., 1940-03-21
Hudson Winter SuIes
Best in Three Years
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DETROIT, March 21.-The best
winter sales volume in three years
was reported today by George H.
Pratt, general sales manager of the
Hudson Motor Car Co.
Total retail sales of 2O,297 new
Hudson cars were announced by
Pratt for the winter months of De-
cember, January and February
Deliveries OF new Hudson cars to
domestic retail buyers for the period
gained 62 per cent over the corre-
spending period year ago and a
similar gain of 81 per cent was re-
corded during the month of Feb
ruary over the same month a year
ago, he stated. r
Evening star., 1940-03-21
Bank Clearings Rise
Sharply Ahead Of
Previous Week
Total Remains Below
Year Ago Due to
New York Drop
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 21.-Bank
clearings for the latest period rose
sharply above the volume for the
week preceding, aided by tax pay
ments and usual midmonth settle
ments. The total for the country,
however, was again smaller than
in the corresponding 1889 week, due
to the continued drop below a year
ago at New York.
Total transactions for % leading
cities for the week ended March
20, as compiled by Dun & Brad
street, amounted to S5,839, ,178, 900,
compared with $6,026, ,673 900 for the
same 1889 week, or drop of 81
per cent.
Clearings for the current period
increased $461 ,376,000 above the
turnover for the week preceding,
which contrasted with a rise of
1858, $3.50, 900 between the two SIM
liar weeks of last year.
The aggregate for New York was
S3,401 $4,000, against $685. sos 900
last year, representing a decrease of
lib per cent. The showing for
the outside cities continued favor
able. Clearings for 81 cities, ex-
cluding New York, totaled s2437 1872
600, an increase of 11.2 per cent
above the s2,191 ,O68 900 recorded in
the same week year ago.
Louisville and Omaha reported
small declines from last year. The
more important advances at other
outside centers included: Detroit, 3o.1
per cent; Cleveland, 26.5 per cent:
Pittsburgh, 1858 per cent; Baltimore,
230 per cent; Buffalo, 2o2 per cent;
Atlanta, 1870 per cent; Cincinnati,
l72 per cent, and New Orleans, 1877
per cent.
Bank clearings at leading cities,
together with percentage changes
from a year ago, follow; also the
daily average bank clearings for the
months of January, February and
March to date:
Evening star., 1940-03-21
Construction Coins
In Chemical Field
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, March 21.-Sharply
improved sales and earnings of
chemical companies are being re-
.1ected in larger construction budgets
of the industry.
Contracts awarded on current con-
struction projects in the chemical
process industries now total $780,
0G0 compared with $960,O00 a year
ago, says Chemical and Metallurgi-
cal Engineering, trade publication.
Current proposed work amounts to
$13,735, 900, against $3,628, 900 year
ago.
Outstanding proposed projects
this month include $5,O00,0 900 ray
on mill for American Viscose Corp,
a .s2,000.000 plant for Industrial
Rayon Corp, and a 100000 syn
thetic rubber plant for Standard Oil
Co., of New Jersey.