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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24
Navy Base Here
To Receive More
Appropriations
SENATOR PEPPER ADVISES OF NEW BILLS
BEING CONSIDERED BY SENATE GROUP

News that a supplemental ap-
preparation bill prepared by the
national defense council now be-
ing considered by the United
States senate appropriations COM
mittee will make this naval base
one of the most important on the
Atlantic SeabOard is contained
in message received by The
Citizen from Senator Claude Pep
per at Washington.
Senator Pepper informs The
Citizen that the bill includes ST.
100000 for rehabilitation of the
naval station and SIPS, 900 for the
purchase of additional land for
the navy. The bill would also
provide for commissioning the
submarine base and construction
of marine railway.
The telegram sent by Senator
Pepper to The Citizen stated:
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24
CONCERT PROGRAM

The band concert by the 265th
Coast Artillery Band, FN.G-,
Warrant Officer Caesar La Mon
AGA conducting, at Fl. Taylor to-
night, 7:45 o'clock, will feature
the following program:
March, 'On the Mall" Goldman
Star Dust" Carmichael Yoder
Humoresque, who's Next
BelIStedt
Popular, Begin the Beguine"
Porter
Overture to Tampa" Herold
"On The Trail, from the
Grand Canyon Suite"
Ferde Grofe
The Donkey Serenade from the
Production, THE FREELY"
Friml- Stothart
Descriptive Fantasy, "a Day
At West Point" Bendix
The Star Spangled Banner Key
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24
Duncan In Washington
On AQueduct Project
KANSANS SPREAD
FLORIDA GOSPEL

In a letter received re-
Gently from Mr.. and Mrs r.
c. Machette. of Wichita.
Kansas. by Rev. A. L. Maui
reau. S. J., of ST. MarY's Star
of The Sea Church. the
Kansans tell of the boosting
they have been doing for
Florida and Key West.
Visitors here last year. the
Machettes are hoping 10 re-
turn this coming Fall. They
have been telling all their
neighbors about Florida and
feel that they have created
an urge 10 spend the winter
here in the hearts of many
of them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24
NAVY TO BUILD
OFFICERS CLUB
LOCAL OFFICERS ASK FOR
$4,000 APPROPRIATION
FOR BUILDING

Plans are being considered by
the navy department for an of
ficers club in the naval station,
according to a preliminary an
nouncement by Capt. Walter F.
Jacobs. chief of staff of the sew
enth naval district and COM
mandant of the Key West naval
station.
The estimated cost of the build
ing, which would be located in
the naval station, is $4,000.
Whether the navy will grant the
request of the naval authorities
and make the appropriation is
not known at this time, accord
ing to Capt. Jacobs.
Capt Jacobs denied reports
that the money was available. He
said the navy had been requested
to make an appropriation cover
ing the cost of the building.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24
Navy Insists Key West
Adopt Sanitary Measures
One Supply Contract
Cancelled Due To In
sanitary Conditions;
Officials Confer

Acting on the suggestion of
naval officers. city officials in a
conference this morning agreed
10 cleanup and make sanitary
every manufacturing plant and
every public gathering place in
Key West.
This action was taken after
Lieut.. Commander Ray w. Byrns,
naval supply officer, had can
celed $4,000 contract with a
local manufacturing plant be-
cause IF alleged unsanitary con-
ditiOnS found in the factory.
Commander ByrnS made a trip
of inspection with Lieut.. Com
mander F. S. Bowser, NC,
U.S.N., chief sanitary inspector
of the navy here. Commander
BowSer is also assistant medical
officer in charge of the naval sta
ton diSpensary.
Attending a conference with
Commander Byrns and Com
mander BowSer were Capt. Wal
ter F. Jacobs. chief of staff C the
seventh naval district; DR.. Viii
liam r. Warren, city health Off
Ger. and Willard Gibson, CITY
sanitary Inspector
key West has got to clean up
the establishments that cater to
the navy department or navy
personnel, Commander Byrns
told the gathering. "The navy
insists upon clean. sanitary goods.
The contract cancelled today was
with firm that had been warned
previously.
1T will pay good dividends to
the city to put its house in order.
The navy personnel is increasing.
It will grow larger. 1t will mean
better business. Key West is
large enough to insist upon 100
percent cleanliness in its plants
and its places of business cater
ing to navy business.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24

Supplemental appropriation
bill national defense council now
under consideration close hear
ingS appropriations committee
provides S1,25O,00 for rehabilita-
ton of Key West navy yard in
Guiding submarine base and ma
rine railway, and Sl25,000 for
purchase of additional land.
AS you know, Congress has
already provided for S2,0OO.-
900 for construction of a pipe
line from the mainland to Key
West. Glad to advise that sub
stantial progress is being made in
the direction of financing mod
ernization and the building of
stronger bridge approaches to
center of cauSeWay through the
Bureau of Public Roads and De-
Tense Council at an estimated
cost approximating S4,000,000."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24
NcarS For
Tax Roll Complaints
'~~~~~~~~~l
BERVALDIS RETURN
FROM LONG TRIP

MIR. and Mrs. Carl Berxaldi
and their daughter. Fay
Elizabeth. returned 70 Key
West from an extended vaca-
ton trip on Monday Of this
week. They left On July
9Th.
The trip took the Ber-
valdis 10 various cities slonr
Florida's east coast. thence
up 10 New York City and the
Worlds Fair and On up 20 .
visit with relatives IN Spring
field. Mass.
A side-trip 70 Niagara Falls
was made before they hlf
for home.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24
Ten-Day Period Ends At
500 O'Clock; Council
Will Meet Tomorrow
Night

Deadline for filing of COM
plants against the new S3.5s3.-
075 tax roll of the City of Key
West is tomorrow afternoon.
Thursday. at 500 o'clock. accord
ing to warning issued today from
the office of Archie Roberts, city
clerk.
The period of ten days speci-
fled by the City Council in ses-
sion on July II, in which proper
ty owners may register protests
on their tax assessments, will ex-
pire at that hour To date. only
one complaint has been filed, ac-
cording to Roberts.
Protests were to be presented
in writing to Mr.. Roberts. No re-
course to the tax assessments are
allowed, according TO city laws,
if not presented before the 500
o'clock deadline tomorrow.
City Council will sit in special
equalization hearing meeting to-
morrow night at 800 o'clock TO
consider any complaints present
ed before the deadline hour.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24
RITES TOMORROW
FOR U. B. ROBERTS

Uric Bernard Roberts, 40. died
this morning at 1000 o'clock at
the Marine Hospital.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow afternoon, Thursday.
at 500 o'clock at the Congrega-
tional Church, in which the body
will be placed at 200 o'clock.
Rev. E. S. Doherty will of
ficiate.
Only survivor is Mrs. Patrick
Sands, sister. Lopez Funeral
Home is in charge of arrange
ments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24
CURIOSITY DEsTRoYswHEAr

LONDON.-Declaring that the
crowds who over-ran a twenty
five acre wheat field in order to
see the effect of a bomb did
more harm to the wheat than
the bomb did. the Agricultural
Ministry called attention to regu-
lations under which it is now I'M
lawful for any person to endan-
ger crops, especially food crops.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24

Nv JAth S1IN y EFT. A
WASHINGTON, July 24.-The
ways of democracy, like the ways
of the heather Chinee, are often
strange-but somehow they are
mighty effective-or should 1 just
say potent.
1t was the methods of democ-
racy that made it possible for
Wendell L. WilIkie, with his
short-term campaign, to be NOM
mated at Philadelphia. 1t was
those same methods which form
ed the foreign policy plank in the
Democratic platform.
Convention delegates and even
politicians in office cannot stand
the pressure from back home.
The most effective lobby or pres
sure group in the country today
is that which bores from within
IA cOngreSSman's own district
with a flood of kilograms, letters
and phone calls to urge or de
mand some particular piece of
legislation or the nomination of
some particular candidate.
Know What They Want
Twice in the last few weeks, !
have seen this thing at work. In
Philadelphia, delegates were
stunned by the overwhelming
verbal and written demand for
the nomination of Willkie. His
opponents insist that it was a fic-
titious thing that it existed
only because of a planned cam
paign to snow the delegates I'M
der with cries from the hinter-
lands / wouldn't know. I'm no
detective. But whatever its
source. its effect was immensely
successful.
In Chicago the same thing
happened. Let me say right now
that / am not even limiting that
the Democratic party was COM
mitted to fighting on any front
but our own. But if there were
any so-called ''war-mongers''
with any influence when the
Chicago convention assembled
they were beaten. down and out
by the very same thing that
picked WiIlkie, a demand from
the hinterlands that we stay out
of any foreign wars.
1t isn't within my province of
passing along the inside facts to
say whether I think this good or
bad Like a whole lot of readers.
l don't know. But I do know that
an active portion of the vociferous
public demanded a Stay-out-of-
war declaration from the Demo-
Gratis and that they got it in no
uncertain terms.
No Argument
Taking their cue from the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-07-24
YESSIR. IT'S A BIG STATE

FORT WORTH, Tex.-Thirty-
nine student ministers at Texas
Christian University travelled
463,lS2 miles to preach 1882 SER
mons to scattered congregations
in the school year 1939-40. John
Hughes, graduate student from
Dallas. alone covered 1850 miles.
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No Argument

Taking their cue from the
Presidents statement a few days
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-07
House Rejects
Intended Move
Against Russia

Washington, Feb. 7.-(AP)-The
House refused today to withhold
money intended to pay the salary OF
an ambassador to Moscow.
It turned down, l09 to los, a pro-
Dosal to eliminate that item from an
appropriations bill-the first of sew
eral proposals planned by a group
seeking to shut off this country's dip
lomatic relations with Russia.
Representative Mccormick, Demo-
crat, Massachusetts, VINO offered the
defeated motion, *erved notice that
he had another and similar one to
present. 1t would provide that none
of the funds appropriated for the
State department should be used for
the maintenance of an embassy at
Moscow or for the payment OF SAL
aries of anyone attached thereto.
Representative Andersen, Repub-
lican, Minnesota, commented that
the close vote indicated that "a
large number of members Of the
House favor severing diplomatic re-
lations with Russia even though the
vote was not on that specific ques-
ton
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-07
Committed
To Assist Russia
Russians Lose
1900 Dead In
Last Few Days

Helsinki, Feb. 7.-(AP)-Today'S
Finnish army communique stated
that the Russians had lost 1900 dead
in the last few days in fighting at
Kuhmo in north Finland where the
invaders nave been making re-
peated efforts to advance.
Northeast Of Lake Ladoga the de-
tenders dispersed an entire Rus-
sian ski battalion, killing 300 men.
On the Karelian Isthmts, said the
communicate. the Russians failed
Yesterday in attempts to carry IN
fantry troops into battle on sledS
drawn by tanks. The Firms SAD
they destroyed or put out OF action
20 tanks during the day.
The Russians we're reported 10
have attacked near Summa WITH
all attempt: un5GcceSsful.
The enemy launched four at
tacks during the day bat was beaten
back each time with heavy losses,
INC CCHMun!que said.
In NJ fi'htin7, TIE Firms al
they shot down six Red planes anC'
1ne balloon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-07
Aid Finland
Sentiment
In France
Paris Newspaper AS
serts Aid to Finland
Must Be reflective,
Complete And To-
tal"; Movement Gains
Momentum.

Paris, Feb. 7.-'(AP)-A popular
movement to sweep the government
into complete" aid for Finland in
her war against Russia assumed q
steam roller proportion today,
me authoritative newspaper lie
Temps devoted both its editorials t0
aid for Finland asserting this must
be reflective. complete and total"
The newspapers demand for quick
no longer possible to separate the
"Russian-Finni@h war from the
European war, properly speaking
The newspapers demand for quick
aid to the Firms came on the heel
of in&istancc by Premier DaladcrE
own radical socialist party that
France go to the aid Of the little
Baltic state.
ct is under different name one
and the same conflict which had its
origin in Russian-Germ"n col
lusion," the newspaper declared.
Amy blow against the aggreSsor in
Finland is against the ally and
helper of Hitler and directly af-
rects him."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-07
Japs Debate
Of
9-Power Pact

Tokyo, Feb. 7.-(AP)-Foreign
MlnlS Ter Hucnlro Aria lOlu 1 al Lao
mint louly mat the government /
veigun,s the advantages anL dis
advantages oil aprogation' Of the
nine-polJer treaty OF 1922 Concern"
ing nina. ...
"Some OF its provisions oDvi2''s
" are ncongrous'', Arita said of the
pact which pledged Japan, ul~
United States, and six other powers
10 respect the integrity Of China anu
the poncy Of the open door" .
O,ncr government spokesman SAID
,Javan was preparing Tor "anlicipat-
ed ulfiicGltles' in economic re-
Iat,ons win the United States now
thai their Z3-ycar-old trade treaty
na, been ended. One official speaker
referred To preparations icr the
worst.
..Thc government is dcVijin.
netuods OF industrial cHp.n.Io:.
and other rearrangcment5 IN ordc.
10 prepare lor aucn dllIlcGltlta.
tspecla:ly in importation I'll nee'~-s
,iupIles", the speaker said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-07
Would Subject
Bureaus 10
Court Review

Washington. Feb. 7.-{An)-Lcg'S-
lation to subject tho orders ana re-
o,l,aticns OF all federal bureaus to inc
rnvie,y Of the c. 1 tS--a kind 81 pro-
D0.at which drew criticism from some
senators year ago
was cleared 10 the House today ny
tire unanimous action OF lis Fulc@
committee.
At the %2nqc tine th2 House re-
cai,c1 = report on inc measure IRON
the judiciary COMMITTEES which safe
that there are Approximately $50 Gil
.,r,nt federal agencies IN the gov
eminent, and added:
Tine law must provide thai the
governors shall be governed and the
regulators shall be regulated Ii our
present form OF government IS 10 on
dure." .-
oThe phenomenon Of the admin
;strative officers and employees-the
so-called MISUNDERSTANDING u
control all process oil government Tor
their selfish ends i not new eltfer III
H,.e country CT in the history OF me
world" u.o
During the explanation OF me
measure to the rules committee, he
y, sentative Walter, Democrat, Penn
sylvania, declared that Chester l.
T,ane, council for the securities COM
mission, had once said he was per
ter Judge Of what Congress lntenoeo
than any member OF the judiciary
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-07
u. S. Drive
To Buy Arms
For Finland

Winston Salem, FEB. 7.-iAp)~-h
,a.jnrv,idc drive ia trrni"h military
id to Finlnnd v2s rc"e'!cd il"rc TO-
Law bv 7-rs Inhn GrahHm. daughter
of Col. Henry Breckenridge, promrI-
1rnt New York attorney who mas
cen undertaking a drive to raise
noncv for military aid to the rims.
Without formal organization with
ut executive Or even Puoilclly
n;.entS. thol~ands Of Americans arc
ending money directly to the Fin
IN min s;rv in Washington for the
nccific purchasc Of military supplies
. be used against Russia.
The extent of these contributions
occt,er with complete nrice list
If Finnish equipment purchased in
re United States was made public
o>,av by Mrs. Graham with the per-
mission of her father.
The drive is being carried for
ard "yyithrut the official knowledge
Of the Finnish legation" although the
Finnish m:ni:ter is known to appre-
c;ate and encourage the activities in
solar as his position permits.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-07
Minister of Education
Issues Order Tha t
Children In Danger
Areas Must Attend
Schools; 100000 Af-
fected.

London, Feb. 7.-(AP)-The Brit
ish government served notice on
100000 British school children to-
day that their wartime holiday must
end to save them from a growing
decentralization"
Lord De La War;, president OF
the board of education, announced
in the House of Lords that school
attendance Of children still living in
the so-called danger areas will be
made compulsory.
Out of nearly 100000 children
now in the danger areas-those
from which children were removed
early in the war to places safer from
air raids-about 100000 are getting
10 schooling, De La War; said. ..
He added that whatever the FISK
of air raids-and he said he thought
they still were creative must see
that every child goes to school
somewhere.
"If parents are not willing to
send their children to the COM
Darative safety of safety areas, ther
they must send them 10 school in
own, he said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-07
Daily Dgpatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Feb. lyon can't find
anybody at the Highway Commits
ion who will come right out and say
so for publication, but you can't talk
to officials over there for as much as
five minutes without getting the very
definite impression that the commits
sion holds a grudge against the
weather for not doing thorough job
and completely dcmolishing the
Wright Memorial Bridge across Cur
rituck Sound.
Truth of the matter is the commits
son has never held the bridge as one
of its greatest assets. To begin with,
the road body bought it from private
ownership more through political
pressure than because Of any genuine
belief that it was making a wise eX-
penditure OF public funds. The price
pa:d-S125, 000-Was practically dou-
lie what commission experts thought
was adequate and fair
Chairman Dunlap and his aides al
ready had made plans for new
fridge at some undetermined date in
he future; and they would not have
been disappointed beyond consoling
if the ice which took out a span or
so had tumbled the entire $4,000 foot
structure into the sound. Then there
would have been nothing else to do
except build a new bridge; and that
would have been that
AS the case now stands, however,
the commission finds itself on the de-
fensive against series Of charges
that the brides partial destruction
was due to failure of the commission
10 "take proper measures" to relieve
the bridge OF tie weight Of lce jain
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-07
British Children o
Return To School
Increase For
port-Export
BankApproved

Washington, Feb. 7.-(AP)- The
Senate foreign relations committee
approved an increase Of Sl00,000,000
in the capital Of the Export-import
bank in order to provide additional
loans of S20,OOO,O0O each for Fin
land and China.
The committee vote was y to
6. Majority Leader Bailey, Democrat,
Kentucky, said the Senate would con-
slider the legislation tomorrow.
Chairman Pittman of the commit
tee said the bill was amended 10
provide that additional loans of $780,
100000 may be made to any one
country. Finland already had OBJ
tanned a Sl0,00O,00O advance and
China has received S25,000.000 of
which more than S2,OO0.O00 has been
repaid.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-07
Lewis Hits
At Wagner
Act Changes
Offers documentary
Proof" That Pro-
posed Amendments
Were Prepared With
Aid of Corporation
Lawyers.

Washington, Feb. 7.-(AP)-.Iohr
l.. Lewis offered documentary
proof" to the Senate labor COM
mttec today that American Fed
Grafton Of Labor proposals to amend
the Wagner act we're prepared with
the aid of attorneys for reaction
airy and anti-labor" corporations.
The Go leaders exhibit APP
pearcd in a long statement pre-
scntcd by Philip Murray, Go vice
president
1t charged that Joseph A. Pad
way, AFL general counsel. prepared
the Federation's amendments after
series of secret conferences with
Gilbert H. Montague of New York,
Earl Reed of Pittsburgh, and Ernest
S. Ballard of Chicago.
The three attorneys were de-
scribed by Lewis as representatives
of ''many corporations which have
been the most fragrant and notorious
volators of the National Labor Re-
lations Act.
Lewis listed ID companies which
he said were represented by Mon
tague, Reed and Ballard and added:
'"The anti-labor activities of many
of these corporations have been re-
vealed through the LaFollette civil
liberties committee which disclosed
their widespread industrial espion-
age and purchase and use of guns
and ammunition in industrial dis
putes.
These same corporations and
! their heads have also been active
members of the National Association
of Manufacturers and actively par
ticipated in determination of the
policy OF the National Association
of Manufacturers to advise industry
generally deliberately violate the
! national labor relations act"
In its October, 1898. convention
the AFL voted to ask Congress for
a series of amendments to the Wag-
ner act.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-02-07
HighvayComnoission Wishes
W'eatherHadDone Thorough
Job With Memorial Bridge

mod against the spans.
W. Vance Baiyc, Highway Com
mi,SioH engineer, was particularly
irkcd by a statement accredited TO !.
p. Davis Of Mantco, Dare county well
fare officer.
Just what Mr.. Davis means by
proper measures is d matter of con-
jecture", Mr.. Baise said in a state
n!ent on the subject. But | presume
he had in NINA lne use of dynamite.
When it is remembered that the
structure is $4,000 feet in length, the
iutiIity Of such an operation IS APP
parent on its face. Furthermore, pre-
Stunning that the surrounding waters
could have been blasted from shore
to shore, the effect would have been
entirely negligible. The loosened ice
would merely have lain in the &ound
together with the miles Of unbroken
ice to the northWard, both awaiting
the shifting wind which later drove
it against the bridge. O. F. Yount,
brioge supervisor for this district,
was on the scene and prepared to do
anything humanity possible. l sub
nit to Mr.. Davis that the re-shifting
Of the wind WIS a matter which
could hardly be numbered amongst
Mr.. Yount's anticipated duties"
The Highway Commission had al
ready made plans to spend some $50
ITO on repairs to the bridge, and what
it will now have to do is add about
$4,000 TO $4,000 to this amount in
order to repair the damage done by
the ice.
The best commission estimates gre
that q properly constructed bridge
CT this type should have lasted ap-