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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
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SOUTH AMERICAN
LOAN APPROVED
HOUSE COMMITTEE oKExE
FUND TO PURCHASE SUI
PULSES IN AREEEIcAs

WASHINGTON Aug II
House banking committee uu1ez
approval today q fhe suuruu-z-
ton Of S500.000.000 - the c-e6r
of the Imporf-Exp1r1 Bank % o.
used 10 buy up surrl1s IL
South American cuuuEriez N
vote was 3 10 g
The move was reoaezted -
President Roosevelt ln p-ep-z
tiOn for the economic MAJ E.eer-
ed IN the offInE folloEnE uzz-
come Of European Warz
Believed o. D. q -po1-shuf- 81
Republican Candidate Ma
was the move taken tulsy -
Roosevelt 20 provide So 80 60
Tor IVA expansiun plans - ~
national defense pruErzm-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
CALLSFOR UNITED
PARTY SUPPORT
CHAIRMAN TURNBULL SAYS
NOMINEES MAY NOT PER
SONALLY SUIT ALL

TALLAHASSEE. Aug. l.
FNS) Calling upon Florida
Democrats to join in 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 nominees pro-
duced by the Chicago convention
may not be entirely satisfactory
to all of us, we should lay aside
every prejudice and furnish a
solid front to any opposition that
may develop in our state. ]
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 fol-
vice-president. but since the ma
jority of the national convention
delegates picked him Il expect
to support the ticket enthusiast
tically."'
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
lee
SAYS FLORIDIANS
must PAY TAXES
MUNICIPALITY AND FARMER
ASKED FOR EXEMPTION:
NEWSPAPER PRAISES OF
FICIAL'S ACTION
Especial to The Citizen)

TALLAHASSEE, Aug. l.
Tourist hotel and a farmers mule
as symbols of impartial enforce
ment of tax laws were recalled
with State Comptroller J. NJ
Lees refusal to grant the request
of ST. Augustine city officials to
exempt from taxation the mag
nificent Alcazar hotel because
the city is leasing it from the
Florida East Coast Hotel Com
pany.
Comptroller Lee told city of
ficials who pressed him to ask
the attorney general for a ruling
that the matter had been settled
more than five years ago when
Clearwater civic leaders appeal
ed for tax exemption and can
collation. for their miIlion-dollar
Fort Harrison hotel
Comptroller Lee had received
in that days mail a request from
a Sumter county farmer to cancel
taxes levied against his mule.
The Miami News Whirligig
cOlumnist summed if up:
The Clearwater delegation
argued the hotel was the towns
chief tourist lure The farmer
insisted his mule was his only
means Of livelihood Lee read
the farmers 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
the hotel for three years and keep
it on the books. The moral should
be comforting, concluded the
Miami paper, to the minority
that has been CARRYING the tax
burden for the non-paying ma
jority''.
Comptroller Lee saw no need
to change the ruling.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
HOuSCCOnl1littcC
Lists Additional.
Navy Work Here
IMPROVEMENTS TOTALLING s1.375.OOO IN.
CLUDED IN SUPPLEMENTAL Ma
TIONAL DEFENSE BILL

Additional improvements to
the Key West naval station to
cost SI,375,O 900 were included in
the nine naval projects for Flor
ida. estimated to cost 81, 4O5, 900.
approved by the House appro-
pTiatiOnS committee at Washing
ton yesterday, according to an
Associated Press dispatch to The
Citizen.
They were written into a sup
Elemental national defense bill
involving appropriations and
contract authorizations totaIing
S4,070, Isl ,957.
The Key West items were:
Naval station. rehabilitation of
the Sumbarine base facilities and
construction of d marine rail-
way, S1,25O,OOO.
Purchase OF additional land.
SIPS, 900.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01

1t is presumed this land Dur
chase covers the cost Of the prop
erty acquired from Trumbo
Properties. Inc, of Miami, as a
site for the Seaplane base
The marine railway will cost
$500. 900. but the remainder CT the
81 100000 item for the rehabili-
tatiOn of the submarine base is a
mystery to the officers on duty
at the station.
It IS presumed an item of S126.-
600 for dredging the base from 19
to . feet is included
Since these appropriations
have been approved by the ap-
preparations committee, the bill
must go before Congress to be
enacted into law The Kew West
items are considered certain of
Congressional approval
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
LONC-RANCE WEATHER FORECASTINC
PROGRAM AS NATIONAL DEFENSE AID


Feature Service Writer
contributes to weather in defense.
The army is moving ITS nneteoro-
logical school to Chanute Field.
Ill, and increasing the number of
students in the air corps courses.
The navy uses the California
Institute of Technology for in
Struction courses and is increaS-
ing the number of its students.
The increaing Importance of
air force in warfare is, of course,
one of inc principal reasons for
the increasing importance of
weather. but that isn't all
In defense of country like the
United States, everything would
depend on mobility of defense
forces. and mobility depends on
coordination of all branches. If
an unforeseen fog whips in, or
unexpected rains or gales plague
a mobile army it may result in a
disastrous mess.
What held the Russians in their
attack on Finland? The coolest
winter in years. What defeated
Poland in 1928 order? The alb
.Sence of those rains that usually
turn the country into a bog. WI #
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
nlcians wondering why Hitler de-
layed his attack on England? Be
cause they know that the fogs
roll down from the North Sea in
increasing numbers as August
waneS and that by November the
British Isles will be blanketed 40
to 20 percent of the time. Are
there other factors more impor-
tant than the weather or is it
that German meteorologiSts know
that the fogs, like the rains of Po-
land. will be late this year?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
Warning Powers
Trade Blows In
Aerial Attacks
36-P0UKD KIEGFISH
B0ATED YESTERDAY

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01

JAMES DAVIDSON
SEEKING Parents

James Davi6zon. recez1lF
mustered ouf Of xhR a7v
from . posi- an the Pnlllpr1s
IFiandx. was q caller e TsR
Citizen office tins n1rEnz
asking infornsfion abozs -
location Of ms psrszsx-
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son
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week
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
BUILDING TOTALS
QUINTUPLE LAST
YEARS FIGURES
RUSSELL RELEASES REPORT
FOR MONTH JUST PAST;
INCREASED ACTIVITY RE
vEALED IN PERMIT LIST

Building permits issued by
Building Inspector Ralph Russell
during the month of July totaled
S47. 487, an increase of S38. 997
over July. 1899. The permits is
sued during the month of July
last year amounted to So, 400.
A total of $4,000 In permits
were issued by Inspector Russell
for five dwellings being built by
the Bagby Construction com
pany on Avenue Z. II 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-
lows:
Tranquila Costello. repairs al
828 Elizabeth street. SIS.
Oscar Benz. repairs al 1903
Eaton street, 500
Leonard Curry. repairs al llO8
PetrOnia street, $500.
W. o. Johnson. repairs at BOG
Division street, 500.
Thomas r. Gibson, repairs al
327 William street, $50.
Pablo Calleja, repairs al Caro-
line and Elizabeth streets. $50.
Mrs John Visquv. repairs al
1109 Duval street, $40
Z NJ Key. repairs at 1910
Grinnell street, $4,000.
Mrs John Russell, repairs al
1924 Division street, SIS.
RhOda Baker, repairs al Elem
ing and Margaret streets, $50.
John Spence. repairs al 1920
Olivia street, $40.
Augustio Martinez, repairs al
All Elizabeth street, $1,000.
E E Arthur, repairs al l402
Olivia street, $50.
w. L. Bates. repairs al 1925 Pc
tronia street, $3.50.
Pedro Aguilar. repairs al Is
Thompson lane, 500.
Jim Doughty, repairs on
South street, $1,000.
Col F. B. Edwards. addition on
South street. $500.
Trinity Presbyterian church,
repairs at TIT Simonton street.
$500.
B. NJ. Russell, repairs al 716
Southland street, 500.
Elizabeth Gardner. repairs al
1104 Petronia street. $50.
Jacinto Solaras, repairs al 625
Angela street, $50.
E s. Wilson, repairs at 405
Eaton street. $3.50.
Frank DeVillar. two-stOry
frame dwelling at 9O9 Elizabeth
street, $4,000.
Jack R. Baker. new home at
Avenue z, $4,000.
Bolivar Valdes, new home at
Avenue E, $1,000.
Horace O'Bryant, new home at
Avenue E, $4,000.
MISS NJ Martinez. new home
at Avenue z. $4,000.
Andrew c. Elwood. new home
at Avenue E, $1,000.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
Destroyer Fleet
To Leave Base
For New Patrol
POSTAL RECEIPTS
WERE UP AGAIN

Stamp sales at the Key
West post office amounted 10
S3.5o7.55 in July. compared
with s2,44s.s6 in July last
year. according 70 a report
Issued by Postmaster Fred
Dion today.
AT the same fine money
orders issued more than
doubled the same month of a
year ago. The figures for
this july wera S52.z27.6s.
and The total for July. 1899.
was Sz5.s64.5s.
Postal savings amounted TO
S336s922 al the end of last
month. compared with $685.
All al the end of July. 1888.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
CITY COUNCIL
MEETS TONIGHT

First meeting Of August for the
City Council will be called to or
der this evening by president
William A Freeman in council
chambers at the city hall at 800
o'clock
Financial reports for July will
be heard and many matters of
high Importance to the munich
pality are scheduled for action
by council members. according to
city clerk Archie Roberts.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
MARRIAGES OVER
DIVORCES IN JULY

Marriages more than duutle1
divorces IN july. sccurdlng a. -
ports on file Il the ufFn-e rf
County Judge Raymond r Lur6
and County Clerk Ross c SzE-
yer.
According - the repurts fhere
were % marriage liceuses lswes
IN July. compared VIII - m
July. 1893
Divorces tofaled - ~ Tulv
compared with L m July. ls7s
according 10 the records "a IL
at Clerk SsWver's uffIce
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
DIES IN GRAIN TANK

CHESTER. Mont - Junior
Story, 10. suffocated to death
after falling into a grain storage
tank before his uncle, Mike
Thurman, who was filling a truck
from the tank, could dig him out.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
Pied Piper To Blame?

GOSS. MO.-There's not a child
of school age residing in Goss.
The town has population of 80
persons, exactly half of whom are
more than IS years of age.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
Three Other Ships Com
ing Here; Present Per-
sonnet May Not Re-
turn

Almost the entire fleet of de-
siroYers with the Key West pa
troll will leave here tomorrow or
Saturday morning for Norfolk.
Va. but three other desfroYers
are coming into port 10 take their
places in the patrol. If 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
troll will be the DickersOn, the
Maddox and the ColWel- 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
troll 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.
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BABY SCORES TWICE
lBy Asseelatea Pre..l

HOUSTON. Tex-Baby Flor
ence Eugene Barron was born
on her fathers birthday AT 3:3e
a. m And her mother was in in
Urinary room No. 33e.
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IFS Importance

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Over
at the Weather Bureau they are
starting to look beyond the ends
of their noses. 1 thought at first
they were just searching for a
break in the heat wave.
But Commander F. W. Reich
elderfer. chief of the U. S. Wea-
thcr Bureau. SAYS that isn't so.
It's just the beginning of longer
range forecasting at which the
bureau has been shooting. for a
long time. And. incidentally, it's
part of the program to put the
weather in the first column of
national defense.
Within a few days. the bureau
will start making forecasts for
five days. They are going to try
to get awav from the vague gen
eralities and greet areas of cover
age of the old weekly forecasts
and try to narrow it to sDecific
localities and fairly definite pre-
ELECTIONS For several weeks. the
forecasts will be experimental.
but after that they will be made
public.
Weather AS Defense Aid
Maybe it's the beginning of a
new day. when sports promot-
ers can cut out that disappoint-
ing system of handing out rain
checks when Aunt Minnie can
plan the weekend picnic with
ont running outdoors every few
minutes to search for a cloud.
More important. it NAV be the
heginninp of a day when the
United States army and navy and
lair forces can plan defenSes sew
eral davs in advance with some
certainty as to whether the
weather will be with US or agin'
us
When If comes tn putting the
weather in the defense ranks. the
bureau couldn't do better than
have Commander Reicheiderfer
at the barometer. He has spent
more than half his II wears as an
ace meteorologist in the navy's
weather service and is the ma
tion'S foremost authority on
aviation weather. He's an air
plane. airshiD and balloon pilot:
was meteorolo0iSt on the famo,is
lold navy dirigible Los Angeles
and 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
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
Army And Navy Help

Of course. the federal weather
bureau isn't the only one that
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01

Associated Press Day Wire
Service
For go Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-01
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-07-05

We would work ahead of time and after everybody
gone earnest dependable patient
we would be trusted to do jobs alone
would the family the edge of where
arech cheaper and could have garden
We wouldn't buy radio. We'd get early enough to
put spare time home
we'd rig a workshop of our
girl graduates, we'd for learning of
pa newspaper distribution keeping
ing and selling.
leads the hit
the we'd
book full of of people who had work knew could do
wouldn't ask for help we'd be
lookout that needed attention and volunteer fix
it a reasonable cost.
We'd discover tried that there is salts
the boogie-woog and
program like that might be city councilman
executive but we'd make living
which something these days of hard times unempy
-Eromth america atimorel
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-07-05
Wendell Wilkie and the Negro Voter

When the Republican National nominated Wendell Will
parys candidate president named the strongest
We the sight who has remote
chance chief executive
runs this strange circumstance this news
nomination makes incumbent the Demo-
Roosevelt for is the only member Of that party
who has a ghost of a of defeating this Wike
Wke Republican of destiny else he is the
clever product public who used willing Amer
press him. To the the street he would seem
which the sought ne appears
cooruI figure could the New Deal
they deliberately subtly clevry building
whom O. P could afford to down.
matter how they might newfound Repbanim
National Negro Republican leaders, most Of the white old
guards the We stampede No Negro
apparently really how Wike feels the soed Negro
platform mention of the Negro denouncg dis
elimination armed forces which to be-
reality would have have the cooperation of the presidential
candidate provided reelected Platform promises Of
party usually worth the which they
drafted.
M concerning attitude towards the Negro
in America. Mr. Wke daring the daily press
from him fortnight statement
without equvocaton his tankess courage only SKIN deep
Forthcoming million
will know he another Republican candidate
capable his his
nomination We and Co. not think
for Negro longer be by referring
the Emancipation Proclamation buying
politicians, preachers, aymen newspapers.
Wie something offer and he has fear of Offering to
Negroes the county he will
people old
the vena politicians who hang
which
table, the Wike campaign Negroes will be
failure
Wlkie, edtoaly 81 cooru figure and will
probably Negroes for that alone However the
introduced the American Negro the
manifold benefits he has helped and Mr.
couple million these people that he will be
has the present administration all the glamour Mr. Wi
has will be of avail far the Negro voter concerned
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-07-05
(From Northwest Organizer)

Gov vi SaAAACLl
have come to Canada since the
summer of 1899, and have already
started up factories manufacturing
such diverse products as animal
foods, Bohemian glassware, tennis
racquets, sugar beet products,
period furniture, paper, silks, kid
gloves, etc. Most of these people
would have preferred to come to
the United States, but have been
barred by rigid immigration re-
strictions. Canada offered them a
safe haven, and now thousands of
Canadian workers have new jobs.
Some Conclusions
A study of the government
statistics quoted by the American
Friends Service Commission, and
the other official statistics and es-
Inmates presented, compels one to
the following conclusions:
/. The fear, mostly artificially
and demagogically created, that
German immigrants and European
immigrants generally constitute a
threat to jobs here, is unsound.
2. During the first six years af-
ter Hitler came to power in Ger
many, only $4,000 Germans have
been added to the population of the
United States.
3. Of these $4,000, only 5000 are
eligible to become wage earners,
the remainder being young chill
dren and elderly people.
4. If the experience of England
and Canada is reported in the
United States, as appears likely,
the German immigrants will pro-
vide many more jobs for American
workers, rather than less.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-07-05
Editorial Shorts

Now that the golf tourney history Slemmon and Allen
tie down to making living!
Republicans who insist that they'll be glad if Mr. F. D.
hsng the dark They'll be dawgoned happy he does
choose to rum"
gets Minnesota business might pick accord
merchants
Some business in fact of hem sit nights think
ing up why business is not good
business good"
feel like nominating him for president
This written Tuesday By the time you read Friday
thousand Civilized" will
celebrating glorious Fourth.
Army miseraby
drive for white Americans only They could be close blood kin and
actual sympahzs with anti United States forces just they
Caucasian they enlist in the marines No NegroAme
need apply We're glad the drive for volunteers failed might
silly American prejudice block defense
South American countries slow to rally around plan
defense of the Western hemisphere American mperias initial
ing English many
friends than suspect the brown skinned Republics to
the south of
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-07-05
Copenhagen Residents
Are Cycle Enthusiasts

Copenhagen has a bicycle for
every one and one-hah inhabitants.
And since many Of the machines
are tandems and young Danish
mothers usually have a baby-carry-
ing contraption rugged on the ham
dlebars, the city could easily 60
cycling en- masse and simultaneous
ly.
AS it is, Copenhagen does prac-
tically take to wheel in a body on
every summer Sunday. The holi-
day exodus takes place so rapidly
that there are roads where $4,000
bicycles pass a given point in an
hour.
Traffic troubles are eliminated by
having a system Of cycle roads from
which both motor vehicles and
pedestrians are barred.
The Danish mode of road travel
has some advantages over our
method Of going places. It is free
from gas fumes, and 1t is silent;
FAMILY parties, SquadronS OF club
groups. couples side-by-side with
arms around each others shoulders
drift along with no sound except
that Of conversation and laughter
and song.
EurOpe's First Card Game
Tarocchi Is said to have been the
first card game played in Europe.
Tarocchi had FIVE suits instead Of
the four we have in today's packs.
Four Of the suits stood for the four
main classes Of people in the Middle
ages-the nobility, the clergy, the
merchants and the peasants, repre-
scented, respectively. by the symbols
of swords, cups, coins and slaves.
These symbols or signs have come
down to US as spades. hearts, dia-
monds and clubs. The fifth or
trump suit outranked all the cards
of the other suits, as these cards
represented such elements Of nature
and human characteristics as death,
ghtning. temperance and thrift.