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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09
START DREDGING
WORK AT NAVAL
SUBMARINE BASE
COMMANDER T. J. BRADY
FURTHER REVEALS BOR-
INGS FOR MARINE RAIL
WAY BEGAN YESTERDAY

Lieut. Commander T. J. Brady,
U.S.N., public works officer of
the Seventh Naval District. an
nounced today that preliminary
work on the dredging contract
recently let by the Navy Depart
ment, had been started at the
local submarine base.
Huffman Construction Com
pany crews arrived in Key West
last weekend and started work
on the contract Monday 1t was
announced that the huge dredgeS
to be employed in the project
will probably arrive this week
end. coming down from a COM
pleted project at Tampa.
Commander Brady announced
this morning that US. Army
Corps engineers, from the Vicks-
burg CMiss) Experimental sta
ton. arrived here last Saturday
and began boringS on the site of
the proposed marine railway for
the submarine basin develop
Continued on Page Four
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CRITIC DE YARA
RITES THURSDAY
CEREMONY WILL BE BRIEF
THIS YEAR IN DIFFERENCE
TO CUBAN CELEBRATION

Officials of San Carlos In
Stitute announced today that the
annual Critic De Yara rites will
be celebrated tomorrow morning
at the Los Martires de la Patria
plot at the city cemetery. start
ing a 1000 o'clock in the morn
ing.
The Institute will hold but
brief ceremonies this year, it
was explained, in Difference to
the Cuban Inauguration cere-
mOnialS being held in Havana to-
morrow, which will lift Colonel
Batista into the presidential chair
of Cuba.
Several members of the Cuban
colony here left yesterday to at
tend the Inauguration ceremony
in Havana tomorrow. ConSe-
quently, the rites here tomorrow,
which signify Cuban Freedom"
will be very brief.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09
IT'S JAIL OR A FINE If YOU DON'T
oniinues To Clarity SelectiUe Service Problems
Ky JACE1 SIN NETT. AP Feature service writer

, Feature Service Writer
ing physicians and government
appeal agents 1t will be the duty
CT the board to classify all regis
trants and notify those men call
ed into service.
O. In our local board district
there are many factory workers
and there is no labor man on the
board who has any understanding
of labor problems. Is there any
thing we can do about II?
a Yes Appeal to your COVER
nor and ask him to appoint such
a representative of labor to the
board Those in charge Of selec-
tive service at national headquar-
tiers here are particularly eager TO
have these boards made up Of
men of high standing who are
representative of the community
they serve In the case Of appeal
boards 1t IS stipulatd that the
boards should include one men,
Der from labor, one from indus
try, a physician, a lawyer and
Continued on Page Four
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ANDREWS AND
PEPPER PUSH
AQUEDUCT LINE
JUNIOR SENATOR ADVISES
KEY WEST THAT he AND
COLLEAGUE ARE DOING
EVERYTHING POSSIBLE

Advices received AT The CIti-
zen office this week indicated
that Senatorial Representatives Of
Monroe County IN Washington
are doing everything possible 10
push the Florida Keys Aqueducf
project.
Both Senators Claude Pepper
and Charles Andrews have IN
vestigated the possibility OF the
RFC expediting the loan 10 the
Florida Keys AQueduct Comission
in order that that state agency
may include its project with that
already approved by the navy
The wire following highlighfs
progress made:
Senator Andrews and ! had .
personal conference with RFC Of
ficials relative 10 expecting the
aqueduct project.
AT present II seems impossible
to clear the RFC side Of the mat
ter until the report comes n
from the navy engineers, which
is anticipated in the next few
days.
''As soon as that report Is re-
ceived then we viii know Just
what TO ask Of the RFC.
Il am sure that We shall have
sympathetic consideration from
them and all possible co-0pera-
tion. / am going 10 stay behind
this project until II IS approved
Reference was made 10 the
hope that the Aqueduct commis-
sion's loan of S1.1OO,OO0 could be
granted IN order that the navy 5
project may be enlarged for fu-
ture expansion here.
Chamber OF Commerce and
Mayor Willard Albury received
similar dispatches from Senator
Pepper this week
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. =
Questions arising from selectlve
service are as thick as grass
hoppers in a swarm. Following
IS further effort to answer some
of them)
O. Suppose l refuse TO answer
the questions put 10 me by the
registrar?
A. The registrars already have
instructions how to handle YOU
RecalcitrantS will be urged and
argued with. but if they persist.
witnesses will be called and the
case referred to the United States
district attorney For willfully
obStructing the draft. a man IS
subject to the same penalty as
for willfuIly lodging the draft:
not more than five years IN the
penitentiary nor more than S10.-
600 fine.
O. ! am moving 10 another city
the day after draft registration.
What should ! do?
A Notify your local board i'm
mediately when you change ad-
dress. no matter when II occurs
after registration
O. What Is the difference be
tween the registrars and the local
boards?
A The registrars are merely
the registration machinery (in
most cases it will be the same as
the election machinery and after
October is their task will be fin
iShed. The local boards are per
manent. voluntary. unpaid groups
OF three or more men. with a paid
clerk. presiding over an area OF
approximately 10000 population.
Attached 10 the boards, but not
a part Of them are the examin-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09
STATE BUSINESS
SHOWING GAINS
COMPARES FAvoRABLY WITH
NATION FOR FIRST SIX
MONTHS OF 1910

JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 9. =
Florida's business record the first
six months of 1910 shows up more
than well in comparison with
both the nation and South Allan
tic Region, the Florida State
Chamber of Commerce today
quoted Business Week Maya
zine.
The State Chamber said the
business publication in a current
issue shows Florida making sub
stantial gains in six of eight rep
resentative business induces used
in the compilation
Percentages of gain. first six
Continued on Page Fnurl
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registration. machinery through
out Florida was complete. The
completed organization extends
down into the districts, the direc-
tor said, with the exception of
half a dozen counties and these
were urged by wire to conclude
their preparations not later than
tomorrow.
In each of the 81 counties.
county registration committees,
the chairmen of which were ap-
pointed by the Governor have
named registrars and assistant
registrars who will be charged
with the duty of recording the
regiStrants as they appear at the
registration places on Wednesday
of next week.
Nationwide breakfasts this
week will further familiarize the
public with Selective military
service. according to a telegram
received today by Director Baya.
On Tuesday, Lieut. Col Louis
B. Hershey, acting director, and
others will be heard over the
Columbia System in a round
table discussion. Col Hershey
will speak over the Mutual Sys-
TEN Wednesday.
Both broadcasts will begin at
10:15 p. m. Eastern Standard
Time.
Col Hershey will appear on the
University of Chicago Round
Table program at 2:3O p. m. Sun
day, over the Red Network of
the Nation.
Local broadcasts are being
scheduled this week over many
Florida stations by a Radio Com
mittee, headed by Harold Colee,
manager of the Florida State
Chamber of Commerce. This
committee is also arranging for
four-minute patriotic addresses in
theaters and other public places.
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Governor Urges Flag.
Display On Oct. f6.
CALLS UPON ALL CITIZENS TO ASSIST IN
EVERY WAY ON SELECTIVE SERV-
ICE REGISTRATION DAY
Especial tn The Citizen)

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. Oct. 9.
Prominent display on Registra-
ton Day of the nations flag by
all citizens at their homes, at
their business houses, and at
their places of recreation-is
urged by Governor Fred P. Cone
in a proclamation issued today
declaring October Is to be a pub
lie school holiday throughout
Florida.
Selective service regulations
provide for the display of an
American flag at each of the
thousands of registration places
on the same day
1T is we'll, the proclamation
states, ''in this extraordinary
period in the history of our cOun-
try, that all citizens should show
their appreciation of their great
privileges by thought and action
and a solemn rededicatiOn of
their lives and fortunes to the
defense of their country and the
perpetuation of the principles for
which it stands
1T is fitting and appropriate ,
the proclamation reads, that the
Public School System, one of the
finest products of our Democracy,
should lend itself to the nations
welfare in this important work
All citizens are called upon by
the proclamation Ito assist in
every way they can in the ex-
ecution of this Act (Selective
Service Ac)".
Registration Day had previous
" been declared a school holiday
by the State Board of Education,
the proclamation recites.
Copies of the proclamation
were received here this morning
at State Selective Service Head
quarters by H. P. Baya, named
by Governor Cone as state direc-
tor of registration, shortly after
he had announced that county
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09
LEGION POST
MEETS TONIGHT
ARMISTIcE CELEBRATION TO
CONE UP FOR DIS
CUSSTON

Arthur Sawyer Post, No. D.
American Legion VIII meet to
night al post headquarters. cor
ner Of United and Whitehead. at
800 o'clock.
Besides routine business Of the
post. with q probable report from
convention delegate Al Mills. the
legionnaires viii take UP the
question Of Armistice Day cele-
bration 10 be held in this city on
November 18th.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09
WHAT MAKES NAH WHEELS OF ECONOMY
Destruction Provides Work; Paper Provides Money
GO 'R0UND EXPLAINED BY DUTCHMAN

The CifiEen)
this merry gO-rOund solves fne
whole wages and money problem
al once. II Is really . pity that
none Of our professors q econ
omy ever thought Of tins simple
solution
We have been 3 nation thai
ate much too much TINS over
eating has given Us many DIS
eases II IS marvellous now LITTLE
food Is really required - enable
one 10 live and 70 work Tea
and coffee. for instance. are
very unhealthy and Ne are glad
that the allowances Of fhese tao
bad stimuisnts are ciruirished
Our radio programs zre ma
Vicious. too. We get the bez Ger
man gay music and fhe ness C
the world given by 1he mos r.
liable sources thai une rzn
imagine. We have never beer 50
well informed as 70 zS-zf 1he
world Is thinking and dung
Since the war here ended -.zrv
people have caught . renzrkznle
deafness They cant hear Cis-
tinctly. especially II the cay
time But a. night. say z5oz-
1000 O'Clock. the strange malay
passes and they can hear Zure
distinctly. especially the s01r1s
Of q radio
As 70 the last. the Writer p-Do-
ably Is referring 70 1O1e1En b-os5-
casts which now nus D. 1ou.-
legged"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09

WASHINGTON. Oct 9. = A
perfect explanation of what
makes the wheels of Nazi econ
Omy 60 round has been received
by a local resident of Dutch ex-
traction from a friend still in &C
cupied Holland
Included in 2 letter which IN
accountably got by the German
censor. II reads:
We have been a very stupid.
lazy nation. but now all our IN
employed have work For years
our best thinkers and economists
tried IN vain TO solve this prob
lem, although the way to do If
seems to be 50 very simple All
you do Is to ruin entire districts
in some towns For instance.
here we have 100000 buildings 70
be restored Magically. all IN
employed carpenters. masons,
bricklayers. contractors fact
all people who are concerned
with building-have work for
years TO come
STUPIDITY. We did not see
where we had money 10 pay for
all this This trouble. however.
also Is easily solved We print as
MANY notes as We need 10 pay
wages. The idea that other ma
tons would not give cent for
these notes Is very silly As We
shut our frontiers and do not al
low our citizens 70 travel II other
countries, these notes circulate
only in our own beloved land and
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09
ELECTION BOOKS
CLOSE SATURDAY

County Supervisor of Registra-
ton John England reminded The
Citizen and residents of Key West
that but three more days remain
in which to register for the cleo
ton November 5th.
Books at the county courthouse
and in each of the cOunty'S Is
precincts will be open for regis
trations until next Saturday at
500 o'clock.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09
STARTING ARRESTS
FOR NO AUTO TAGS

City police department has
started arrest OF auto drivers IN
the city who have not purchased
their city auto tags
Ordinance requires that these
tags be purchased by October
1st Following the one-week
grace period. the police have
started their drive to roundup
delinquent drivers
Less than 300 tags have been
sold. clerk Archie Roberts re-
ported today, out Of an expected
1900.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAYS

FULTON. Ky.-Dr. r. T. Rudd
recently had a birthday party,
but not for himself. He was
celebrating the birthdays Of the
2.418 children he had brought in
10 the world during his IS years
Ct practice. The oldest present
was A, the youngest II weeks.
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90 Days.!

City laws now require all resi-
dents living on streets on which
sewer laterals have been installed
TO connect up their house lines
with the system
Ninety days from date of pub
lication-S September o, 1940-is
the time limit.
SIXTEEN DAYS HAVE
Elapsed
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BOYCES ON VISIT
TO SAILORBOY SON

MIR. and Mrs. w. Howard
BoYce. of Chicago. Ill. were
errivals In Key West Yester-
day afternoon for a stay at
the La Concha hotel.
The BoYces came here 10
visit with their son. Herbert.
who Is a seaman connected
with the Key West West Gulf
Patrol They are fishing today
and stated that If our catch
IS satisfactory. we will stay
On for a few days.
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EsquinaIdo Defers
Hearing Decision
Won COsel Returned To
Jail On Original Bond !;
Session Lasted Three
Hours

Carl TanzIer Won Cosel was
still confined in Jail today on the
original bond of $1,000 set by
Peace Justice Enrique Esquin-
aldo. Jr- Sunday. following the
three-hour hearing held Yester-
day afternoon and evening at the
county courthouse. The hearing
was scheduled TO determine
whether the 70-Year- old scientist
should be held for Criminal Court
trial on charge of violating a
cemetery vault and removing The
dead body of his sweetheart.
Elena HoYos Mesa.
Justice Fsuuinaldo indicated at
tho end IF the hearing, which
lasted from $50 o'clock to short
" before 900 o'clock last eve
ming, that he would take the case
under advisement for a few days
and then make known his de-
cision.
Hundreds Of Key Westers and
visitors strove to gain admittance
to The chamber in which the
hearing was conducted yesterday,
but many were denied the priv
ilcgc. All present listened with
awe as Won Cosel related, in a
low. steady voice. the strange
story Cf how he had attended his
sweetheart during her fatal i'll
ness and promised her the day
before she died that he would
take care of her no matter what
happened.
Questioned by his defense at
tOrney. Louis A. Harris. who
volunteered his services. Won Cosel
revealed how he had hired a taxi
driver to remove the casket to
his house. how he had rebuilt
Elcna'S body to its present state
of wax and plaster of paris and
how terribly he would miss her
If her body was taken from him
now.
The chief witness appearing
against him was the dead girls
sister Mrs. Mario Medina. She
told how she had become sus-
pIcIous about ten days ago that
the body OF her sister was not in
the vault erected by Won Cosel.
by permission of her father. now
dead. and. when accOsting Won
COsel with her belief. she later
discovered the figure at his
home The warrant. she ex-
planned. was sworn out after
weeks period of grace and re-
fusal Of the aged scientist to re-
turn his sweetheart to the vault.
Mr. Medina and a friend. Miss
Celinda Medina. gave corrob-
Grating testimony for Mrs.
Medina.
Officials Of the cemetery. Mrs.
William Sawyer. custodian. and
Otto Bethel. sexton. reported on
the broken vault door and Reggie
Pritchard. local mOrtician. told of
the original burial and disinter-
ment for removal TO the vault.
Following the hearing. many
observers were of the opinion
that no trial would be held.
rather that the defendant would
be ordered confined in a sani-
forum This. Mr.. EsQuinaldo
refused TO comment on.
Authorities were investigating
other angles Of the case today in
effort TO determine if others, be-
sides the relatives and the de-
PENDANT. were implicated in the
strange case.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09
RETAIL SALES
UP IL PERCENT
34s FIRMS REPORTED IN
CREASE TO BUREAU
OF CENSUS
Especial 10 The CitizenD

JACKSONVILLE. Oct. g
Florida independent retailers saw
their dollar sales during August
jump more than II percent ahead
of the same month last year, the
Florida State Chamber OF Com
merce pointed out today
Total sales of the 348 firms re-
porting TO the Bureau Of the Cen
sus amounted to S3.076.73O. a gain
OF III percent over August, 1889,
Continued On Page Four
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COUNTY BOARD
MEETS TONIGHT

Second meeting of the current
month for the Board of County
Commissioners will be held to-
night in clerk Ross c. Sawyer's
office at the county courthouse,
starting at 300 o'clock.
Chief item of importance to be
considered will be setting up of
balloting machinery for the cleo
ton to be held November 5th, it
was announced.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09
Fear Double Slam
May Bring Jap War
Developments In Far East
Take Spotlight Affen-
ton From EurOpes Ar
Wars

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MONROE COUNTY REGISTRATION FACTS!

WHAT-Selectve Service Registration.
WHERE-At any school building in the county.
(Colored men to report to Douglass school).
WHO-All men between the ages of Fl and IS,
married single, citizens aliens.
WHEN-October Is, 1910 ZOO A. Nj. to 800
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WHY-To fulfill Monroe County's obligation
in the Peace-time CONSUMPTION Drive for National
Defense.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-09

ST AUGUSTINE Fla Oct g. registration machinery through
Prominent display RegSra
Day OF ne nations Tag by completed organization extends
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Associated Press Day Wire
Service
For 60 Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
Evening star., 1940-01-16
Meeting to Discuss
Shorecroppers Plight

Pressing issues facing agricul-
tural labor and sharecroppers will
be discussed at an open meeting
at 8 o'clock tonight at Pierce Hall,
Sixteenth and Harvard streets NV,
Gardner Jackson, sponsor of the
washington Committee to Aid Ag-
ricultural Workers. announced to-
day. The committee is sponsoring
the meeting.
The Rev. Owen H. Whitfield, or
ganizer OF the United Cannery, Ag-
ricultural, Packing and Allied Work
ers OF America, will discuss the
shArecroppers' plight. Two field
workers, Josie Hart Of Alabama and
Mollie Robinson Of Texas, will speak.
Evening star., 1940-01-16
Ban on Employment
Af45or 0yerHit
As Short::S
Session on OId-Ass
Problems Told Age GrouI
Has Productive Assets

An industry which bars employ
ment of persons over IS years Of
age sacrifices its own interest and
does a grave injustice" to those
disqualified, Merrill Vincent, direc-
tor OF the Hearings Branch, Wage
and Hour Division Of the Depart
ment of Labor, told an institute on
old-age problems yesterday.
Speaking at the afternoon session
Of the conference, sponsored by the
Health and Family Welfare Com
mittees, Council of Social Agencies,
Mr.. Vincent said that 1t is not un-
common to find employment rules
barring persons over IS. Such q
rule in many instances operates to
deny employment to men and wom-
en- in the prime Of their productive
ability" he said.
Their skill has been perfected
by experience, their judgment
ripened, and when they have had
incomes suf1icient to afford healthy
standard of living, their physica.
resources are frequently equal tc
the demands made upon them in
their earlier years." the speaker de-
clared.
Cites "Inalienable Right"
Discussing the Nations RESPONSE
bility in caring for the aged. he said:
I'VE tolerated too long the social
philosophy that If the rich mans
table is filled high with the luxuries
of life, enough crumbs will roll OH
to keep Lazarus alive. We must now
replace the tolerance Of charity with
the inalienable right to live dignified
and happy lives"
Sigmund Feinblatt, director of the
Hebrew Home for the Aged and In
firm in Baltimore, enumerated three
points on which programs Of care
for the aged should be based. They
were:
l. Keeping the aged person in his
own community as long as possible.
2. Institutionalizing only those
aged infirm. and chronics requiring
routine medical and nursing care.
3. Meeting the needs Of each on
an individual basis.
Lists Three Handicaps.
c. Earle Lamson, director Of the
District Employment Center, said
that of those his organization serves,
a large proportion are over 40. This
group is handicapped in three ways,
he said, listing general unemploy-
ment, re-employment policies and
their own fear of the future.
Speakers at the luncheon session
were P. K. Whelpton, consultant Of
population research, Central Sta
tistical Board, Bureau of the Budget,
who discussed Population Trends" !"
and George st. John Perrott. chief
of the Division of Public Health
Methods, United States Public
Health Service, who talk on public
Health Aspects Of an Ageing Popu-
lation."
The morning session heard pa
pers by Miss Miriam Birdseye, nu-
tritionist, extension service of the
Department of Agriculture: Miss
Beatrice Mullin, director of the So
cial service department, Georgetown
University Hospital; DR.. Winfred
Overholser, superintendent, st. Eliz-
abeth's Hospital, and Miss Amy R.
Cowan, supervisor Of the, Bright
wood Center, Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society, whose paper was read
by Miss Marie Wallace, director Of