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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
URGES ACTION ON
TRAINING PERIOD
SPEEDED UP
ARMY CHIEF MARSHALL IN.
FoHMED SENATE COMMIT
TEE OF NECESSITY FOR
FASTER PROCEDURE
fny A.seclatss lI.sessl

WASHINGTON, July IT,
Army Chief Of Staff Gen. George
&c. Marshall today told a senate
foreign affairs committee the
United States is aiding in the
promotion of South American
civilian airlines, and repeated
his request for quick congression-
al action on the extension of
training periods for draftees.
General Marshall said Pan
American Always had been as
sisted by the government in aid
ing the establishment and inn
prbvement of a commercial line
in Brazil.
Urging a quick answer to the
extension of time for draftees
General Marshall told the sena-
tors it is imperative that de-
cision be reached before August
l, when new men must be sent
to Hawaii to man anti-aircraft
/ defenses II the Selectees are to be
brought home.
The general denied charges that
conscripted soldiers had been
sent to distant outposts to force
the hand of congress in extend
ing their time. On the contrary,
he said, every effort was made
to weed out the draft soldiers so
they would not be sent to places
where they would have to be re-
placed.
General Marshall also termed
''unfounded" charges that he adj
vocates formation of an Ameri-
can Expeditionary Force.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
Royal Air Force Destroys Twenty
Two Merchant Ships At Rotterdam
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PAY A DOLLAR AND
PICK YOUR AUTO TAG
NUMBER FOR 1912

Monroe county automobile
owners who want to pick
their own number for next
years license tag, and who
would like TO contribute TO
the fund for the states needy
and crippled children. may do
both by depositing . dollar
at the office of County Tax
Collector Joe C. Mcmahon.
Under the FERNS Of new
law enacted by the legisla-
ture. license numbers may be
reserved for an extra dollar.
with all money raised in that
manner going to the depend
emf chiidren's fund.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
Key West Preparing For
Partial Blackout Tonight
- "a. - .fls 2. -. ~

Key Westers, as q class, were
curious today about how their
city win look when the lights
60 out tonight at 8 o'clock, for
the first partial blackout this
city ever has seen.
Boy Scouts distributed infor-
nation on the area to be dark
ened for the tests, and law en-
forcement officers and members
Of the county defense force
were getting ready for their first
experience with patrol duty in a
darkened city.
Capt. Russell Crenshaw, coTs-
mandant Of the navy station, and
Mayor Willard M. Albury issued
a final request to residents Of
the blackout areas to follow in
jstructions and turn out their
lights promptly at 9 o'clock for
the Commute test,
Most Duyal street merchants
were approached individually
With the. request that they turn
out elegfric sigps and lights In
large display windows dufing
the test, while merchants ali over
the city were requested 10 dark
en- their signs during the period
Two Areas Affected
The two areas where home
owners will be requested TO turn
out all lights. and where auto
mobiles viii not be admitted dur
ing the test. are near Fort Taylor.
the navy station and army bar
racks.
They win be defined as:
! AREA ~A---All area ncrth ~
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
Nazis Repofted .To.Hase
Captured Russianl CITY
235 Miles From Moscow
German Flag Said To Be
Flying Over Smolensk |;
Fighting Around Kiev
Dying Down
,By associated rres.,


Adolf Killers swastika flag
today was reported flying over
smclensk. 2as miles from Mes.
COW. while German soldiers in
The south were said to be battling
through the ouier defenses 81
Kiev. capital Of the Ukraine. ~
GermanY's high commend
claiming Important successes all
along the eastern front. said
smoiensk fell to the Maxi attack
ers yesterday.
a sresrhead Of the combined
German and Rumsnian forces In
the south. according to the com
munique. has broken through
Russian defenses west Of Kiev
and is fighting in the outskirts
Of the city today.
Another prong of the multi
headed Nazi attack was reported
racing across Bessarabia, after
breaking through Soviet lines in
smashing tank assault.
Fight Below Leninsrad
Soviet headquarters, in a morn
ing communique, admitted heavy
fighting around Smolensk, but
did not confirm the city's fall.
Fighting around Kiev, which the
communique said was on a huge
scale yesterday, was reported dy-
ing down.
Denying German claims that
the Struga river south of Lenin-
grad was crossed yesterday, the
Soviet communique said fighting
is going on $50 miles to the south
of the city, with the Red army
holding off Nazi thrusts.
Helsinki announced big Rus
sian parachute attack in the far
north, but said most of the para
chutists were captured or killed.
Rome, too, described Russian
parachute assault in Hungary,
where small groups of Red sol
diers were said to have been
scattered over wide area be-
hind the German lines. kzS XN-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
GEN. LEAR UPHELD
BY WAR SECRETARY
/, ON. ss.aelaaea rr.s.,

WASHINGTON, July IT,
LEES Gen Ben Lear today was
upheld by the var department for
ldlsciplining $50 soldiers. some Of
whom 4syoo-hooed's at girls on a
Memphis golf course.
Under Secretary of War Pat
terson said the department up
holds the general, and added the
incident now is closed
General Lear came in for wide
civilian and congressional criti-
.cisn when he ordered the offend
ing battalion to marco is miles
back to its camp after the golf
course incident
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17

Eaton street. between Margaret
and White streets. inrluSives In:
Guiding p. & Q. docks; also. all
sros north Of Angela street Be.
tween White and Truu1bo Hotel.
inclusive.
Area +B~-All area north Of
Caroline street. between Whiis-
Read and Duval sfreets. inclusive;
else. area north Of Angela street
between Emma and Whiiebesa
streets. inclusive. and inclu<iEss
Key West power plant. ClYas
Mallory and Porter Docks. Na-
rine Hospi1ei ana the Us. Wea
Their Bursau.
Residents and service person
rel will be warned when tire
nears for the blackos1t il the fol-
lowing manner
Warming Signals
-Four long blasts on The Ks.'
West army barracks and 'sas
station sirens viii BE- spnRds
at $50 o'clock. and the alert
signal (15 taps win be gisell o.
the fire alarm system, lrdleatzf,s
thai the blackouk win start p
10 minutes.
AL TIE conclusion of the tss'
!, ~, <..,1,.<1 xxxS<. 5f.4,o flAxt3 evf{I
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
RECREATION UNIT
MEETING TODAY
SUB coMMITTE HEADS Sc
LEcTED BY CHAIRMAN
ALBURY LAST NIGHT

Subcommittee cnalrmen who
will direct Key Vests recreation
program under the general pro-
gram of the state defense SCUM
Gil. this afternoon were schedul-
ed to meet at 3 o'clock with Ray
mond Novarine, field represent
tative of the district social secur-
ity board, to work out plans for
a local schedule.
The chairmen. who were nam
ed last night by Recreation
Chairman Paul Albury, were to
hold their meeting today at city
hall.
Col C. B. Hatfield, marine
corps commandant here. met with
Albury, sab Chairman William
Freeman, Treasurer Glenwood
Sweeting and Secretary Eva B.
Warner. WPA recreation direc-
tor, last night.
Subcommittee chairmen, who
win serve as members of the
executive board, will be John
Allen Long, facilities; Gerald
Saunders, club centers: Joe AL
len, information and publicity;
Roy Hamlin, sports and athletics;
Mrs. Ralph Miner, hostess and
date service; Eva Warner, camp
entertainment: Mrs. A. M. Hew-
lit, home hospitality; VIII Dough-
try, commercial recreation and
Delmar Butler, Junior chamber of
commerce president, social rec
reation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
GUARDS ASKED TO
TURN in UNIFORMS

Capt Fred MarviL commanding
officer OF the county defense
force, today urged all members Of
the old home guard which has
been disbanded. TO turn in their
uniforms at the national guard ar
mory tonight before 7::3o O'Clock
Members Of the defense force
will meet at s o'clock al the ar
mory. and Marvil seeks To get
uniforms for use By them ii TIE
biackout test tonight
Guard members who are not
uniformed during the test, viii Be
identified by an arm band
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
CLERK RECEIVES
COPIES OF new
LAWS ENACTED
JUDGE OF CRIMINAL COURT
AND SOLICITOR IN NEW
STATUS; OTHER CHANGES
ENUMERATED

County officials whose status
or procedure has been altered by
newly enacted legislation were
notified by County Clerk Ross c.
Sawyer today that his office has
received copies of the new bills
from Tallahassee.
Four new laws received here
for study by county officials viii,
u Place the judge of the GRIM
inal court of record and the coun-
ty solicitor on the same status
in the primaries as other state
officials;
q Provide for q simple meth
cd of voting a straight party tic
ket;
81 Require the tax assessor
and tax collector to pay to the
board Of public instruction q por-
ton of excess money. which has
been directed to a special fund;
a Set up a revised system for
the payment Of tax assessors and
tax collectors
Must File In February
County solicitors and the judge
of the county's criminal court.
under the new law, will be re-
unired to file their sworn stale
ments and pay their filing fees
not later than February |. pre-
vious to the first primary cleo
ton. and to pay or file receipts
with the secretary Of state in
the same manner as state Off
Gals, not later than March 81
The election bill provides that
in every general election in the
future. line shall be printed:
aTo vote straight party ticket
make a cross (xl within this
circle"
Voters thus NAV continue to
vote for the candidates individ-
ually. by name. or a mark in the
party space viii be understood
to mean a vote for each of the
candidates listed for that party.
The tax measure sets up a
system of revised rates for pay
ment of the assessor and collec-
tor-on the first $1,000, 10 per-
cent: the next $1,000, five per
cent. and on the balance of such
assessments or collections, two
percent, excepting those counties
with an assessed valuation Of
less than $4,000, 900, three per
cent.
The fourth law provides that
all money ID excess of that pro-
vided as compensation for the
tax assessor and tax collector
shall be divided into two portions,
part of which shall go to the
school board and the other part
to the special fund.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
Every Vessel In Harbor.
Including Large Passen-
ger Ships, Suffered Dam
age In Raids
mr. A..se:asea rressl

LONDON. July l7.-TwentY-
two Axis merchant ships in the
hsrbor al Rotterdam were de.
ssroysd yesterday in giant at
tack carried Out by the Royal
Air Force. an sir ministry bull
aefin declared today.
The bulletin said squadrons Of
British warplanes smashed at
the Dutch city and its harbor for
hours, leaving docks and ware
houses in flames.
Every ship in the harbor. In
Guiding several large passenger
vessels, suffered damage in the
hail of British bombs. according
to the report
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
HARRY HOPKINS
REACHES LONDON
anr A.seeIafea mann

LONDON, July IT, Harry
Hopkins. former director of WPA
and close personal friend of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, arrived in London
today for the second time since
the war began.
Hopkins is believed to be in
England to learn British needs,
probably in preparation for a
new slease-lend". which will adj
vance more money for the EN-
pire's war effort.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
EAzI PLANES BATTER
SuEZ; BAG TWO SHIPS
fav a..aetafed f,rez.g

ROME, July II. German
bombers Tuesday night carried
out a heavy raid on the Suez
canal. damaging British equip
ment and setting fire to two
ships in the canal. It was am
nouneed here today
Maxi planes, cooperating with
Italian flying forces. were said
to have carried out series OF
attacks on British troop coneen-
traitors iD ERypt
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17

Col. Webster F. Putnam, ex-
exutive officer of Battery ''E''
18th Coast Artillery, today warm
ed residents of the Fort Taylor
area to keep their windows open,
and to remove pictures from the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
NEWSMAN TURNED
LOOSE BY CESTAPO
snv A...e,s,es press,

BERLIN. July IL Richard
Hotelett, United States newspaper
correspondent who was held by
the Gestapo on charges Of espion-
age. today was released from pTis-
on to await transfer back to the
United States.
Hotelett is one Of four Ameri-
cans who will be traded for Ger
man prisoners in the. United
States.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
CITY COUNCIL oJ-
MEETS TONIGHT

There viii be regular meet
ing of the City Council held to-
night, beginning at 8 o'clock.
This will be the second regu-
lar meeting of the month, and
ii is expected that several mat
tiers carried over from a previous
meeting will be taken up at to-
nights session.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
COMING EVENTS
THURSDAY

Joint Session, Lions and Rotary
Club, TOO pm, Parish Hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-10
George Predicts
ok vi cid Hike

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 CUP) -
Chairman Walter George, D., Ga,
of the senate finance committee
predicted today. that the estimated
yield of the new defense tax bill
could be increased to at least So
5O0OO0,000 by lowering income tax
exemptions and raising surtaX rates.
These were two of the proposals
of Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., and Assistant Sec
retary John L. Sullivan in testifying
before the committee yesterday
Morgenthau said that if all treas
ury recommendations were adopted,
they would provide a yield of $780,
OO0O00 to S1,00O,0000O0, raising the
bills yield to over $4000,O00,0 900.
Sullivan estimated that the bill
as passed by the house would raise
236,7O0,000 It would have yielded
slightly more than $3,500,000O0O
had the house not eliminated a pro-
vision recommended by the ways
and means committee, to require
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-10
vichy Ponderin9
Grave Decisions

VICHY, Aug. 9 (UP) - Consul
tations on matters said to involve
"momentous" decisions concerning
Frances relations with Germany
and the United States were held to-
day.
Marshal Henri PHILIPPE Petain
met with Vice Premier Admiral
Jean Francois Darlan. Gen Maxine
Weygand, pro-consul for Africa,
and Gen. Charles Huntzinger, war
minister throughout the day.
A session of the council of mini
sters scheduled for 5 pm. was post
poned. No time was announced for
the meeting
Gen. Maxine Weygand, head of
the African armed forces, had flown
here from Algiers and Vice Pre-
mier Admiral Jean Darlan had re-
turned from a hurried trip to Paris,
where he conferred with German
military authorities, in preparation
for the meeting.
Darlan was said to have reported
on details on his conversations in
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-10
Famed Editor Asks
Pardon for Author

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 9. UP)-
William Allen White, Kansas edit
or, today was assured by Gov. Cul-
bert Olson that every considera-
ton would be given any request for
a pardon submitted by Richard
Krebs, author of "Out of the Night"
under the pen name of Jan Valtin.
White had written Olson, urging
clemency for Krebs, who was par
oiled from San Quentin prison be-
fore writing his famous book which
exposed Communist activities.
This book" White said, "has
stirred more people to the reallza-
tion of the dangers of the dynamic
philosophy of Communism than
any other one book that has been
published in this country hope
you can find your way to give Krebs
a full pardon"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-10
Tokyo Mum in Face
OF No-Aggression
Dicfuln by Allies
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be made. They pointed out that
Japan repeatedly has signified a
peaceful attitude toward Thsiland.
Is)kumin said insinuations by
Cordall Hull of the United States
and Anthony Eden of Britain that
Japan is threatening Thailand' S
independence are ito serious a
matter to be ignored in silence" "
The newspaper urged the govern
ment to break the silence and
torpedo Anglo American false prop
aganda."
1t charged that Britain and the
United States are the actual threat
to Thailand, and cautioned that an
over-long official silence might give
credence to the Anglo American
inferences and create a disturbing
influence upon unsettled East Asia.
In q dispatch from New York,
Asahi quoted authentic sources
that Mexico had decided to termi-
nate its long anG friendly relations
with Japan.
The dispatch said the Mexican
government is becoming a puppet
of the United States and asserted
that a dipHmatic break would re-
suit from President Manuel Avila
Camacho's complete pro-United
States policy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-10
Reds Join Rain
Blasting Continent

Germans claimed the capture of
100000 men, the killing or wound
ing Of 100000 and the dispersal of
the remaining $4,000 troops over
a wide area.
In another special communique,
the Nazi high command claimed
that Soviet force 60 miles south
east of Smolensk had been destroy
ed with the capture of $4,000 pris-
oners, $50 tanks and 359 guns.
Nazi spokesman insisted that the
fall of Kiev and Odessa can be
expected soon if the present pace OF
the German drive is maintained
and indicated that Russian ability
to defend the rich agricultural and
industrial area of the Ukraine is
being crushed Systematically.
BERLIN BOMBED
Against these reports London ana
Moscow revealed that for the first
time since the start of the Russo
German war a coordinating night
bombing attack on Germany is
being waged b. the Royal air force
and the Red air fleet.
For the second night in success
sion the Russians attacked Berlin.
The Raj concentrated on the
great Kiel naval base, the North
Sea port of Hamburg and the arma-
ments center of Essen.
1t was believed the Russian at
tacks on Berlin are being made by
long range four engined bombers or
possibly powerful single-engine ma
chimes OF the type which once flew
from Moscow to California.
London said reports from Russia
indicate that the Nazi thrust into
the Ukraine now is about rs miles
from Nikolaev which is go miles
northeast of Odessa, raising a threat
that the big Black Sea port may be
encircled from the rear.
Moscow's report on land opera
tions merely claimed that fighting
continues in Estonia, at Kakisalml
on the Finnish front, around Smo-
lensk and the vicinity of Korosten.
and Belaya Tsera0v IN the Ukraine
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-10
Strike Threatens
In 5. F.Hofe|s

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9 CUP)
-AFL Culinary Workers and Bar
tenders today threatened to call a
strike against 81 major San Fran
cisco hotels, AMIDST the unions ne
gotiations for settlement of a dis
pute which has closed 67 down.
town restaurants more than a
month.
The joint board of Culinary
Workers and BartenderS Unions,
which also represented Hotel Serv-
ice Workers, announced it will ask
strike sanction from the San Fran
cisco labor council next Monday
night.
Negotiations for a new contract
were broken off yesterday, with no
further conferences planned. Major
issues were over wage increases,
working hours, hiring and the clos
ed shop.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-10
Soviet
Bonn lbs
B G IiiE.

LONDON. Aug. 9. lUP)-British
and Russian flicrs hit Germany
from west and east again last night.
the British concentrating on the
naval base at Kiel and northwest
Germany while the Russians report
edly sent their giant, four-motored
planes all the way to Berlin.
The British air ministry said the
docks and shipyardS at Kiel were
subjected to an accurate and sus-
tanned" bombing and that "enor-
nous fires were left burning. The
attack was carried out in brilliant
moonlight. and was extended south
10 Hamburg and other places. the
ar ministry said. 1t reported four
British planes missing.
News that Soviet planes, follow
ing their initial attack of Thursday
night, again hau bombed military
objectives in lhe vicinity of Berlin"
first reached here in an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Moscow.
cat Berlin, where a raid last
night was admitted. the official
German news agency said German
bomberS last night attacked several
airfieldS in east and southeast Eng
land, scoring numerous hits on
landing fields and crews living
quarters and causing fires and ex-
plosions. The agency said other
German formations raided impor-
tant east coast and southeast coast
ports; that German night fighters
Shot down three enemy" planes
and that naval artillery brought
down a fourth.
"A communique admitted that
Berlin had an air alarm last night.
1t said enemy" planes flew in
from northwest and north Germany
and few attempted to reach Ber-
lin but antiaircraft fire forced them
back, and two were shot down.
Russia cleared up the mystery OF
Thursday nights raid on Berlin in
a oommunique last night. Germany
had admitted the raid and Brit
ain had denied making it. The Rus
sian communique said "a group OF
our planes carried out a reconnoit-
ering flight over Germany and
dropped a certain number of in
cendiary and high explosive bombs
on military objectives in the Ber-
lin area. The bombing caused fires.
Explosions were observed. All our
planes returned to their airdromes
without losses"
Reports from Stockholm said the
Russians used three squadrons OF
heavy T. B. type of four-motored
bombers in Thursday nights raid
and took off from the islands OF
Saare and Hiiu off the Estonian
coast. The islands are approximately
$50 miles from Berlin, entailing
roundtrip flight of 100 miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-10
Union Urges Govt
To Seize Struck
ShipbuiIding Firm

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charged the union had violated a
no-strike agreement.
NDAEB efforts to settle the dis
pute have failed.
More than 500 workers were on
strike at the Curtiss- Wright Corp.
propeller plant at Caldwell, N. J..
Workmen who staged a walkout
yesterday voted last night to strike
and establish picket lines.
Some members of the AFL Ma
chinists union said the strike was
called to enforce wage demands
but others said it was a protest
against recent National Labor Re
lations board election in which an
independent union won bargaining
recognition. The strikers included
some members of the independent
union, Propeller-Craft, whose Of
ficials said the walkout was un-
authorized.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-10

Paris with German military and
political authorities.
All indications were that the
meeting concerned the position
France took in a note to the United
States this week, replying to the
warning from United States Under
Secretary of State Sumner Welles
against letting Germany get foot
hold in Africa.
In its reply, France avoided a
promise not to let Germany share
in the defense of Africa, but she
pointed out that the situation in
Africa was different from that in
French Indo-China, where Japan
was given a share in its defense.
AS far as could be learned, today's
conferees had no intention of ced-
ing any French bases. 1t was made
known that Darlan brought back no
new agreements and no concession
plans from Paris, that his trip had
related merely to the next phase of
the French collaboration policy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-10
Ryan Joins Wage
Sterilization

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8. (UP)-Ryan
Aeronautical company today an
nounced an upward revision OF
wage scales in line with southern
California regional wage stabiliza-
ton plan for the aircraft industry.
The company concluded an
agreement with the united aircraft
Welders, ial independent union,
which provides a rs cent hourly
minimum for Welders after IL weeks
employment. The beginners scale
will be 60 cents per hour plus an
increase of five cents an hour
every four weeks until the rate
reaches rs cents an hour.
This wage structure Will be ap-
plicable to beginning production
workers other than welders as soon
as their representatives sign the
agreement, the company said.