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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
NINE SOLDIERS
WERE HURT WHEN
TRUCK CRASHED
tBy Associated Pressp

BATON ROUGE, La, Aug. 4.
Mine soldiers in convoy en-
route to western Louisiana man
euvers from Camp Blanding, Fla,
were injured in the overturning
of their truck.
The men, several believed seri-
ously hurt, were members of the
18th Brigade of National Guards
men from Rhode Island. The
truck was one of 100 en- route from
Florida to Dry Prong, La.
State police said the truck
swerved at an intersection to
avoid a stopped civilian car, be-
came entangled with a motor
cycle and hit curb and rolled
over.
The injured men were iden-
titled by Capt. George Bezina as
William Ferrucci, 81; Stanley
Tamnlewicz, Anthony Nora, %;
Joseph Wurzycka, %; Michael
Cerio, 81; Joseph Lamareaux, %;
Charles Nichols; Joseph Cento-
fanti, and Francesca LomaStro.
Captain Benzina said he could
not give out detailed information
concerning their injuries or home
towns Immediately.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
KEY WEST PLANS
FOR INCINERATOR
CITY WILL SPONSOR PROJECT
TO AMOUNT OF TEN THOU
SAND DOLLARS

Mayor Willard NJ. Albury has
received consent of the City Coun-
ell to notify Lestel Af Marx. re-
gional director Of Defense Public
Works Administration of the
city's decision to sponsor the con-
struction of new municipal in
Generator to the extent of $4,000,
which is based on twenty-five per
cent of the total cost of the prof.
ect, which is $4,000, the govern
ment to finance the remaining
amount necessary.
The incinerator would serve the
permanent population of the city
as we'll as the defense population,
and would be Of lasting value to
the city. The project cannot be
handled in its entirety by the
PWA.
The $4,000 would be. paid by
the city at the rate of $1,000 a
year, and it is likely that revenue
certificates will be issued to OBJ
tain the money under the agree
ment as adopted.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
TAX BILL WILL
STILL RETAIN
JOINT RETURNS
OPPONENTS STILL CONF
DENT THEY CAN DEFEAT
PROVISION EMBODIED IN
MEASURE

WASHINGTON, Aug. A
controversial plan to require
joint income tax returns from
married couples will be retained
nj the $3,5oO,OOO,oOO tax bill
when it goes 10 the floor for de-
bate, the house ways and means
committee reported today.
The report came after it had
been understood that the pro-
vision would be dropped in order
to limit expected debate. Adj
ministration supporters predict
ed that in spite of the measure,
the house would vote on the tax
bill before night
Opponents of the bill, although
conceding an administration vic
tory in most provisions, are con-
fident they can defeat the joint
income feature
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
VETERANS OF
FOREIGN WARS
TO ASSEMBLE
ORGANIZATION WILL CON-
vENE IN PHILADELPHIA
FOR NATIONAL ENcAMP-
MENT ON AUGUST "a
Especial 20 The Citizen,

PHILADELPHIA Pa, Aug. 4.
Philadelphia, where the nation
had its beginning, and where the
Declaration of Independence was
written, will pour the greatest
gathering of Americas fighting
men, who have waged battles on
foreign soils for several decades,
when the Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States stage
their Forty Second National En-
campment in Philadelphia, begin
ming on August Oath.
One of the most amazing mill
tary spectacles in peace time will
be a feature of the convention,
which is expected to be the mag
net to draw several hundred thou
sand people from all over the
United States, in addition to the
tens of thousands of members of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
This parade, starting at noon on
Tuesday, August 18th, will roll
along Broad Street and along Ben
jamm Franklin Parkway in a
seemingly endless line 1t is an
ticipated that the parade will con-
tinue until midnight or later.
Leading it will be large detach-
ments of United States Army,
Navy and Marine groups, all men
on active duty in Uncle Sans
fighting forces In the marching
ranks will be some of America
outstanding public figures and
military leaders.
Another glittering spectacle
that is expected to draw more
than one hundred thousand peo-
pie into the huge Municipal
Stadium, which yearly is the
scene of the Army Navy football
game, will be the competition OF
the musical units from all sections
of the country.
More than $50 different musical
units, including famous drum and
bugle corps, will begin their COM
petition at 8 o'clock on Wlednes-
day morning. All through the
day the elimination competitions
will proceed until, at 8 o'clock in
the evening, the final competi-
tions are to be staged for a four
hour period
1t will be the greatest gathering
of musical units in competition
ever staged in this country, and
will provide an amazing COM
petition between the different sec
tions of the country.
The Philadelphia Citizens Com
mittee, headed by Albert NJ
Greenfield as chairman, the group
which SO successfully handled the
1896 Democratic National Con-
vention and the 1910 Republican
Convention, has arranged huge
program of entertainment paral-
leling the amazing military spec
tacles to be provided by the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars.
For the entertainment of the
Veterans and the Ladies Aux
iliary, and the tens of thousands
of visitors who will flow INTO
Philadelphia during the week of
Continued on Page Four)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
LIQUOR SENTENCE
TOUGH ON THIRST
(ny AssocInted Presnl

HIGH POINT, n. c., Aug. A.
A man charged with liquor law
violation told Judge D. c. McRae
that he was a wow at making
homebrew. He was so good, in
fact, that his friends and neigh
bors annoyed him no end by fur
nishing materials.
Judge McRae gave him a
choice: Six months or $25 fine
and disposal of his brewery"
The defendant took the latter.
sBut my friends won't like it, /"
he said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
SOUND EFFECTS
JUST TOO GOOD
ans Asseclated Pre..l

NEW YORK, Aug. 4-For a
Ratchet murder scene in a radio
broadcast, the sound effects man
bought half-a-dozen. melons. a
lusty whack on melon being
the nearest thing to realism avail
able. But when the sound man
returned from dinner to put on
the program, no melons remained
only their rinds. Hungry actors
had eaten the sound effects. With
only five minutes in which to
do it, the Ratchet murder was re-
written into shooting.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
u. S. ZOOS CONSIDER
ANIMAL ELLIS ISLAND
any Asracinlra Pressl

NEW YORK, Aug, Amer
lean ZOOS, faced with a shortage
of animals formerly imported via
Europe, may set up an Ellis Is
land" off the east African coast.
Animals have to pass so days
in quarantine in their native land
before they can be brought into
the country. Directors of leading
American ZOOS are looking into
the possibility of setting up a
quarantine station on the island
of Mombasa. The animals then
would be brought directly to this
country. 5a afs
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
u. OF HARD KNOCKS
WILL HAVE DIPLOMAS
0nv AsAncInfeh I,ressl

BALTIMORE, Aug. 4.-Mary-
land is opening long list of pro-
fessions and vocations previously
barred to self-educated persons
unable to produce high school di-
plomas.
Examinations leading to di-
plomas, as authorized by the last
legislature, will start in October.
A three-man committee is draft
ing the tests to determine whether
the adult applicants measure up to
high school standards.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
RAILROAD MEN
VISIT KEY WEST


Lester L. Sargent and c. Dan
Schooler, railroad passenger
agents whose headquarters are
in Miami, visited Key West over
the weekend as the guests of
Glenn Price, local travel agent.
Sargent is travelling passenger
agent of the Louisville & Nash
vile line and the Nashville,
Chattanooga and st. Louis Rail-
way, while Schooler is district
agent of the Florida East Coast.
The pair arrived here Satur-
day, calling on local business OPP
orators and visiting The Citizen
office.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
Unconfirmed Reports Are
To Effect That British
Battleship Warspite l.
In Gulf OF Siam

NEW YORK. Aug. 4.--uncon-
firmed reports that the ss.ooo.iOn
British baftleship Warspite has
been sighted in the Gulf Of Siam
today added weight to the belief
that Great Britain is ready to
resist with force Of arms any
furthsr Japanese expansion 10
The south.
Reports scnchius ihis srounrrY
from Thaiiand indicated the
warspiie and other British nav
al units have taken up stations
near Singapore after secret
voyage from the Atlantic. II the
Warspite actually is in the Pa
eifir. she IS the firsi capital ship
Ct the British navy 10 enier those
waters In recent ysars.
Admiralty officials in London.
holding to the geeral rule against
discussing the whereabouts OF
any ship, refused to comment.
Adding to the rapidly mount
ing tension in the Far East,
rumors from Shanghai tell Of
border clashes between japanese
and Russian troops in which s
500 japanese are said to have
been killed.
Although there is no confirnla-
ton of the border incidents rum
or. it is reliably reported that
Japanese troops by the thou
sands are being rushed into po-
sitions along the Russian from
tier.
Tokyo today announced the
cancellation Of all sailings for
the United States. leaving some
800 Americans stranded as they
were on the point Of leaving The
country.
~ + As..4 8 49, a. ! f41xxsa
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
CUTTER PANDORA
HAS SHOOTING
EXPERT ABOARD
MELVIN WILSON. GUNNER's
MATE. FIRST CLASS. HAS
MEDALS AND TROPHIES
GALORE

If Lieut.. Comdr. Carl H. Hill
ton attempts to cook up any
craftsmanship contests between
his coast guardsmen and mem
bers of the other armed services
here, the navy sailors, marines
and soldiers deserve warning
that it is not an even-money
bet.
Commander Hilton, in such
contest, would be banking on one
of the deadliest rifle and pistol
experts in the world, and he
would need to send no farther
than the Cutter Pandora to get his
meal ticket into action.
Melvin 0. Wilson, gunner's
mate, first class, aboard the Pan
dora, is the expert, and there
doesn't seem to be much he can't
do with a rifle or a pistol.
A native of Cedar Grove, Tex,
he has been drawing his extra
pay as an expert with rifle and
pistol for most of the IS years
service he has put in with the
navy and coast guard.
Winning the southeastern
championship at Jacksonville
last month with As ca1ibre
pistol, Wilson stayed in town
long enough to pick up the all
around title for the AS, .38 and
% calibre grades, winning three
trophies and Is medals during
the three-day match.
Medals, as a matter of fact,
have reached point where they
constitute transportation prob
lem. Wilson has $50 of them
now. and has won 20 trophies
during his career.
Until he was transferred to
sea duty for the emergency, Will
son had been putting in his
service exclusively as the coast
guards representative in the
circles of fancy shooting. In re-
cent years, he had spent the five
winter months as an instructor
for. the White House guards and
secret service in Washington.
taking part in tournaments dur
ing the summer.
In 1884 and 1885, he went back
to his native Texas to act as in
structor for the border patrol.
A member of the u. S. Inter-
national pistol team in 1889, the
coast guardsnan helped the squad.
walk off with the worlds title at
Camp Perry, o., breaking the all
time record for the event.
The previous year he had been
rated No. 4 in the United States
with pistol, and in the same
season won the all-around pistol
and rifle championship at Camp
Perry, and the all-around eastern
pistol title at Camp Richie, Md.
At Camp Perry in 1886, Wilson
broke into big time shooting when
he won the navy cup for the rifle
in national matches.
There's no immediate danger Of
the Pandora ball team going to
the world series, but if you want
to discuss shooting, that's the
record of Commander Hilton's
boy.
He and the Pandora are open to
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
WORMS DISPLAY
SUNDAY MANNERS
tny associated presal

PRATT, Kas., Aug. At Ed
Noble could create a new species
of worm embodying the peculiar
characteristics of those he has in
his backyard tub he probably
could build lucrative business
with fishermen.
Every Sunday, says Ed, the
worms are on top of the dirt
waiting for him. just when he
wants to go fishing.
On other DAYS of the week they
bury themselves and seldom are
seen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
--------------'- -----~--
THERE'S GOLD
i'm THEM LAKES

TORONTO, Aug. Caviar is
black gold to Ontario sturgeon
fishermen since shipments of the
delicacy have been shut off from
Russia. Worth So a pound as it is
taken from the sturgeon, caviar
is worth 81 an ounce BY the time
il reaches the consumer. Ontario
fishermen have been quick to set
additional nets in northern lakes
and rivers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
MOTOR FUEL

WASHINGTON. The goVef
nors Of sixteen states on the East
Coast have been asked by the
Defense Petroleum Coordinator
Ickes to cooperate voluntarily III
reducing the consumption of mo
tor fuel by one-fhird in order u
avoid rationing Of petroleum
products on the Atlantic sea
board.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
PROBING THEFT
AT TOOL PLANT
ony Associated Pressl

DETROIT, Aug. Agents of
the FBI today were investigating
the possibility that a robbery at
the Majestic Tool and Manufac-
turing company here yesterday
was a deliberate sabotage at
tempt
The plant was forced to call
off all operations after the theft
of precision tools yesterday.
Watchmen were overpowered
and the tools removed by band
of masked robbers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
GREEN TO REPORT
ON DEFENSE WORK

CHICAGO, Aug. A.. William
Green, president Of the American
Federation Of Labor, this after
noon was slated to 60 before the
unions executive committee here
with a report on the state of the
defense program.
Green has declared that an
agreement against strikes nego-
tiated by the union with OPM
has been @99 per cent effective.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
Na1 Units Stage Offensive
Smashing Through Russians
a
RATION CARDS ISSUED
BARNARD FAMILIES
tny AssorIated Press J

vICHY. France. Aug. A.
Animals now are going to
have ration cards in unoc-
cupied France. They will be
issued for livestock of public
utility" including cows. draft
horses in mines9breeding ami.
mails, and SO forth. Animals
kept merely to meet needs of
their owners will have TO get
along the best they can.
Livestock which can be fed
only by the hand of man."
viii be entitled to full ration
cards; animals like goats.
which pick up part of their
sustenance by grazing. will
get half ration cards.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
MussOliniI Places us.
AS Enemy OF Axis Trio
fBy Asseciated Pres.l

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Italian
Premier Benito Mnssolini, in an
address to Italian troops leaving
for the Russian front, definitely
placed the United States among
the enemies of the axis, it was
learned today upon transmission
of the speech to this country.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04

nitted the death Of II civilians
and injuries to So others in ! Ger
man bomber attack last night on
the Suez canal
No damage to the canal was adj
n1itted.
Berlin, describing a heavy raid
on the Suez said two British de-
stroyers were damaged BY bombs
off the African coast
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
YShiD Movements indicate Great
Britain Is Ready To Resist ANY
Japanese Expansion In Pacific
1SSS 49, sSssS ~ .SSSs ~ ~ ~ ~ -
WHEELER SEES MOVE
TO SEND ARMY UNITS
ANYWHERE In WORLD
tRy Assaelntea pres.l


WASHINGTON. Aug. A.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler.
Montana isolationist. today
warned that the adrninistra-
tion will ATTEMPT to get au-
thority for sending the army
"anyplace in the world and
promised to fight such q move
with every possible means"
Wheeler said President
Roosevelt would ask author
ity for an expeditionary force
after the pending fight for
extension of training is won.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04

In his speech on July 20, Mus
solini told the soldiers the lineup
is now complete for a clash be-
tween two worlds, with Rome,
Berlin and Tokyo on one side,
Washington. London and Moscow
on the other.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
British Submarine Reported
Destroyed In Mediterranean
tBy Associated Press,

ROME, Aug. 4,-Destruction of
a l,50O-ton British submarine in
the Mediterranean was claimed
by the Italian navy today.
The submarine was said to have
been destroyed when she was
rammed by an Italian torpedo.
The 81 officers and men of her
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04

crew were SAID to have been
saved.
AT the same time, it was admit
ted that an Italian submarine OPP
Grating in the Atlantic has failed
to return and has been listed as
lost"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
Russians Claim Two Regi-
ments OF German Infan-
try Have Been Wiped
Out Near Kiev
Gny Associated press,

(By Associated Pressb
NEW YORK. Aug. 4.--German
troops. begged down for more
than two weeks in the Smolensk
sector. today were declared in
Berlin to have smashed through
the Russian lines in a new often
sive blow south of Kiev.
"A Maxi communique said me-
chanized forces have sIashed
through the Red defenses to with
in so miles of the Ukraine capital.
while in the south. joint opera
ton by Germans and Hungarians
is said to have broken off i'm
portant rail lines behind the Red
armies.
At Smolensk, the Berlin COM
munique described a continuing
operation in which Russian troops
are said to be trapped in ring of
steel from which there is no pos
sibility of escape.
Moscow, denying the stories of
German progress. insists there has
been no important changes in the
lines for two days.
Two Regiments Destroyed
Red soldiers are said in a Mos
COW communique to have wiped
out two regiments of German in
fansry near Kiev, and both wings
of Nazi encircling movement
are reported driven back.
Moscow said one German
spearhead to the southwest of
Kiev was broken up and hurled
back, while another has run into
heavy fighting in the southwest,
about 80 miles from the city.
Tying in with predictions of a
joint Russian naval often
sive in the north, Moscow re-
ported the destruction of a Ger
man vessel yesterday by Red fleet
units off the Norwegian coast.
London, meanwhile, continued
to buzz with rumors that Britain
may attempt to render real as
sistance to the Russians by open
ing up a new theater of war 10
the north, possibly through an i'm
vasion of Finland. aA Il aAs
Although there has been no
confirmation of impending land
operations in that area, powerful
British warships are admittedly
operating in the waters of the
Arctic ocean.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
COULD SINGAPORE
HOLD OUT ! AS FAR
EAST CIDRALTAR?I
CONTROLS NAVIGATION IN
MALAccA STRAITS RUN
MING BETWEEN INDIAN
AND PACIFIC OCEANS

(AssOciafed Press Feature Servicel
The British naval base of Singa-
pore has been called the Gibraltar
of the Far East. But except for
size and strategic Importance, it is
literally half world apart from
the Mediterranean stronghold.
Only q miles long and IA miles
wide, the island at. the southern
tip of the Malay peninsula con-
trolls navigation in the Malacca
straits between the Indian and
Pacific OCEANS. 1t is hot, humid,
swampy-everything that Gibral-
tar is not.
With Singapore, the British are
able to service a full fleet of war
ships, defend India, Burma and
the Straits Settlements, and main
tain a Royal Air Force squadron
of growing dimensions. Without
it, they would be both literally
and figuratively at sea.
Acquired BY Purchase
British control of Singapore
dates from Feb. 6, 1919, when the
island was purchased from the
rulers of Johore. The capital of
Singapore was founded the same
year.
Trade rivalry with the Dutch
hinged on control of the Malacca
straits and the narrow passage
between the large island of SUI
matra, west of Singapore, and the
island of Java. After long diplo-
matte sparring, the English left
Sumatra to the Dutch and the
Dutch relinquished Malacca on
the Malay peninsula. Thus
neither nation could exclude the
other from passage between the
India and China seas.
Singapore's first great impor-
tance was as hub for trade. A
free port from the start, it drew
commerce from Borneo, the Mo-
luccas, the Philippines and Siam
(now Thailand). Eventually it
became the most important port
of call on the Far East trade
route, with a good harbor, docks
and coaling wharves.
Has Huge Tin Smelter
Natural advantages further
helped the island to prosperity.
The soil is poor, but the climate
is hot and humid with little sea-
sonal change, and the land is
diversified by low hills. The Brit
ish cleared the jungle and planted
rubber. On the adjacent small
island of Pulau Brani is a tin
smelter which for many years
provided more than half the
worlds output. Singapore also
has pineapple cannery, rubber
factory, biscuit factory, shoe fac
tory and cannery.
Although it presumably was a
trade center as far back as the
18th century, only fisherfolk in
tContinued on Page Four)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
Raj Bombers Pound Heavily
Along French Channel Coast

LONDON, Aug. 4.--Bombers Of
the Royal Air Force this morning
were pounding the French cham
mel coast in what seemed to be
one of the heaviest attacks they
have carried out in the war.
Thunderous explosions rocked
the English countryside for the
second straight day as heavy
bombs crashed along the French
coast.
New attacks along the German
occupied coast opened only a few
hours after the Raj bombers had
returned from night-long sweep
of north Germany in which
Frankfort-on- Main and Hanover
were pounded
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04
IL KILLED IN NAzI
BOMB RAID ON suEz

fEly Associated PxeeHb
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Aug. 4.
British headquarters today adj
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-04

Key West. Florida. has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only ID Fahrenheit
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-03-13
PARTRIDGE TOWN
BOARD PROCEEDINGS
March II, 1941

MARCH IL, 1871.
Annual town meeting was held in
the town hall in Askov on this day
The meeting was called to order
by the town clerk.
The clerk called for a motion to
elect moderator to preside at the
meeting, and on motion made and
carried, Julius Slot was elected as
moderator and c. Flint was elected
clerk.
The clerk read the minutes of the
last annual town meeting which were
accepted as read.
The treasurer's report was also read
and accepted as read.
A motion was made and carried
to levy the following sums of money
for town purposes: $500 for road
and bridge, $500 for town revenue and
$500 for snow removal.
There being no further business, a
motion was made and carried that
the meeting adjourn.
An organization meeting will be
held on Tuesday, March ID, at p. m.
c. FLINT, Clerk.