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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
New Unit Helps Cool
Attic After Summer
Sun Heats Il
Multi-Purpose Shelf
Available for Kitchen
And Bathroom
BY LAWRENCE CROLIUS.

Have you noticed how relatively
cool nights are after even the most
torrid of summer days? If you live
in the country, this is especially
true. In the city the temperature
will drop from 10 to IS degrees in
spite of the masses of stone and
asphalt which have been heated up
by the broiling sun. But are you
able to take advantage of this night
drop in temperature in your home?
Unless something is done to pre-
vent it, houses maintain an oven
like atmosphere long after the sun
has gone down. The air up in the
attic has been heated up to AS high
as 1876 degrees if it is 95 degrees
outside. So why not get rid of that
heat up there and circulate the cool
night air through the entire house?
Equipment Is Available?
It is simple to do that because
standardized units have been put
on the market which are quickly
and easily installed and will do a
good job inexpensively. One unit
which will take care of large and
small houses comes equipped with
sturdy vent box, designed to fit over
a grille cut in the attic ceiling. This
box could be placed over the open
ing for the attic stairway where 1t
can suck up a large volume of air
and exhaust it out into the open.
The fan for this unit is Of clever
design, utilizing a new type OF So
called ventura entrance housing,
combined with q special fan with
three deep-pitched blades. This en-
ables the unit to move a maximum
amount of air with minimum
current consumption, so that you
can run the fan and not worry too
much about the electric light bill.
We are also advised that this new
design lessons the amount of air
turbulence, so that all this air is
pulled around quietly and efficiently.
OF sheet steel with an arrow
flint gray finish the unit is made
so it should give service many years.
Particular care has been given to
the static balancing of the impel-
Ter. and its slow speed belt drive
enables it to reVolVe in a lelsurely
fashion with resultant long life for
the bearings with an absolute mini
mum of attention with the oil can.
The fans capacity is 1000 cubic
feet per minute and that's lot Of
air, hot or cold.
Multi-Purpose Shelf.
Bathrooms and kitchens seem to
be able to use another shelf. We
saw an all-encompassing, multi
purpose shelf recently which should
fill long-felt want. Not only does
It do yeomen service for anything
from a hat TO a suitcase, but it also
has a string of four bars in be-
tween the heavy metal frame pieces
which can be used for towels or
washcloths, or for drying milady's
socks and other light wash.
The frame is constructed of heavy
section square metal complete with
a strongly reinforced wall bracket
at each end. The frame and bars
are chromium plated, which not
only give it a fine appearance, but
enable it to resist rust and corroslon.
1t is 81 inches long and 9 inches
wide.
This new gadget has hooks on
both ends which can be used for
hanging almost anything. 1t costs .
about SIPS.
Note. For further information
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24

Note: For further information
about any of the products de-
scribed here, write Mr.. Crolius,
The Evening Star, and inclose a
stamped, self addressed envelope.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
FAVORABLE TO
SUNDAY CLOSING

Most Key West filling station
operators are in favor of COM
plying with the governments re-
quest that they close Sundays, but
only if they are assured that all
stations will close, Lou Smith ops
orator of one of the city's largest
stations declared today.
Smith said most of the operators
would be glad to follow any gov
eminent suggestion for a move
necessary to national defense.
The operators, he said, would be
just as ready to close Sundays as
they were to follow the request
that they close between Z p. m.
and z a. m.
Charging at least one large
station with remaining open at
night in violation of the operators
agreement, Smith said the other
operators would be unwilling to
stop sales Sunday unless they
could be certain there would be
no "chiseling" on the move
He suggested that Mayor AL
bury or some other official take
the initiative in getting the OPP
orators together for a Sunday
closing program.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
Claim Tourist Trade Will
Not Suffer Through Any
Restrictions On Gasoline

Florida's Tourist trade will not
suffer through restrictions on
gasoline, unless conditions grow
worse, the state chamber of COM
merce has informed S. G. Single
ton, secretary Of the local cham
Der.
The local board, which now is
affiliated with the state board,
was informed in a bulletin that
the state representative would eff
fectively represent its members
in handling the gasoline crisis.
The bulletin follows:
f'Gasoline: No commercial or
legitimate use is threatened as
far as we can ascertain The U.
S. is moving to curtail, if not stop,
joy riding. 1t is to our interest to
cooperate. Unless conditions
grow worse, Florida's tourist
trade Will not suffer.
''Your state chamber will eff
fectively represent you in this
crisis, if indeed the situation may
be thus labelled About aid to
Britain demands some sacrifice.
We will be fortunate if we are not
asked to give UP more than USE
less motor prowling."
The chamber of commerce bull
letin continued;
Fire Prevention Week (Oct.
SLID comedies with the anniver-
sary of that action on the part of
Mrs. O'Leary's COW, the story of
which has come down through
the years. She (the cow, not Mrs,
O'Leary) kicked over lantern
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
MRS, BERKOWITZ
RESIGNS POSITION
GIVES UP DUTIES AS re-
coRDING SECRETARY OF
DEFENSE COUNCIL

Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, record
ing secretary of the Monroe
county division, state defense
council, today announced her re-
signation from the post.
Mrs. BerkoWitz, who will con-
tinue her duties as chairman of
the councils first aid committee,
and as leader of Red Cross train
ing activities here, said her
health would not permit her to
retain the recording secretary
ship,
In accepting her resignation,
George L. Burr, Jr., executive
director of the state council at
Tallahassee, said in a letter.
"We regret very much to learn
that because of your health it
will be impossible for you to
continue serving the Monroe
county defense council as its
secretary. We are very grateful
to you for the excellent work
which you have done in the
formative days of the council
your numerous reports con-
corning the activities in Monroe
county have kept US well in
formed of the progress which
the council is making, and we
sincerely hope that you will find
it possible to resume activity in
the defense program"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
l6nhluad Prepares For
Expt1ted German Attack
tBy Associated Press,

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-"Dig
yourself in. The decisive moment
has arrived.
Thus Soviet Marshal Kliment
E. Varoshilov today called upon
the citizens of Leningrad to fight
to the death against a Nazi at
tack which may be launched at
any hour,
As Marshal Varoshilov spoke,
acknowledging the grave danger
to Leningrad, Nazi troops along
the entire Russian front were
hurting themselves into re-
newed offensive, said to over
shadow in ferocity and of the
fighting which has gone before.
Unofficially, Berlin claimed
te capture Of chernigov, Dnieperi
river city between captured
Gomel and beseiged Kiev.
In the north, Nazi columns
were declared to have crashed to
within few miles of Leningrad,
while far to the south, another
German column was smashing to
within nine miles of the Black
Sea port of Odessa.
Firms Break Through
Helsinki declared Finn and
German troops have crushed
Karelian isthmus defense lines
of the Red Army and are strik-
ing toward Leningrad, As miles
away.
The official German news
agency, DNB, describing enor-
nous Russian losses, said the re-
suit of the war now is a fore
gone conclusion, with the Red
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
MAN ARRESTED
HERE TO FACE
TRIAL in MIAMI
LOCATED LAST NIGHT BY
COUNTY OFFICERS; DEPUTY
COMING HERE TO RETURN
INRRIscsER TO MIAMI

SherhA kyptgles, alias "Coochie',
W w$sdg in county Jail today
.fH thesarrival of a Dade county
deputy who will return him to
Miami to face five separate
charges of breaking and enter
ing.
Outgles, whose picture and de-
scription were sent here by Dade
officials, was arrested last night
by Chief Deputy George Gomez
and Deputy Frank Stickney, who
located him through his social Sc
curity record.
The man was employed here by
the Hoffman Construction COM
pany, where he had worked for
the past six weeks.
Gomez said a woman at the
rooming house where Outgles was
staying told him she had never
heard of the man, but a few
minutes later the deputies again
drove past the house and saw him
peeking from front window.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
SAMUEL ROBERTS
DIED THIS A. M.
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL Be
CONDUCTED ON SUNDAY
AFTERNOON

Samuel Roberts pilot, age 80
years, died this morning at 1914
O'Clock at his residence, SIG Will
liam street Funeral services will
be held tomorrow, Sunday after
noon at 4::30 o'clock from the first
Congregational Church, Rev
Doherty officiating. The body
will be placed in the church at 2
O'Clock.
Survivors are three sons, S.
Winfield. j. Frank and j. Webster
Roberts; one sister, Mrs. Lille w.
Cole; one brother, Thomas FL
Roberts pilot: four grand chill
dren and two great grand chill
dren.
Z Pritchard Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
MIR. Roberts was one of Key
Vests Oldest and highly respected
citizens, and was looked upon for
a long number of years as Key
Vests Second Weather Man. ;"
The people of this city have al
ways had great confidence in
whatever information MIR Roberts
impaired relative to storms and
their movements, and during the
hurricane seasons his telephone
was kept constantly ringing by
the many who were eager to find
out what he thought of the
weather. In other words prac-
tically everyone called up Sam
Pilot" to find out about weather
conditions.
Aside from this, the deceased
was looked upon as being a man
of sterling qualities, being an ac-
tive church worker, and in fact
will be buried from the church
which he organized in Key West,
The First Congregational Church,
which is directly across the street
from his home.
Mr.. Roberts passing will be
keenly felt by the people of this
community among whom he num-
bered friends on every hand.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
Work On Lime Grove Housing
Project To Start On Monday

day took title to is of the Sc lots
in the subdivision, and an
nounced work would start at
once on the first 16 units.
Homes in the project will be
built to sell at about $4,000, an
officer Of the firm said yesterday.
Each unit will contain six rooms,
with three bedrooms. The homes
will be of frame construction.
Under present plans, the firm
win build homes in the subdi-
sion as fast as they are demand
ed, putting UP 100 if sufficient
buyers appear
The Preu company abandoned
construction of l00-unit, $780,
900 project at the subdivision
because of labor trouble.
Cheely Lumber company, Key
West, will furnish building sup
plies.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
ROBERTS INFANT
DIED YESTERDAY

Glenda Rae Roberts, age Z
months, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert a. Roberts, died yes
terday morning at Has o'clock
at the residence Of her parents
1913 Margaret street.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow afternoon at $50
O'Clock from the chapel Of Prit-
chard Funeral Home, Rev. Bryant
Of Ley Memorial church official
ing.
Survivors are the parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Bert A. Roberts, grand
parents, Mrs. Rosa Roberts, Mrs.
Homer Hernandez and Horatio
Nunez.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
SEED TERMINATES
AFTER 500 YEARS
I'm DESERT DUST
ass, Aasoe,a,.a rress,


ST. LOUIS, Aug. 23.-How
long can a seed retain its vita
lily?
Some light is being thrown on
this age-old question by a plant
terminated from seed 500
years old at Shaw's garden here.
The plant is a Chinese lotus,
scientifically named nelumbium
nucifera, closely related to water
lilies, the seed of which was
found in a peat bog in Manchu-
ria where dust from the Bogi
desert had covered it under sew
eral feet of loan.
Three of the ancient seeds
were planted June Is. One gr-
minated Immediately and now
has sturdy leaf about the size
of cup. One of the other seeds
rotted and the third one is still
dormant.
While doing research work in
Manchuria in the early eos,
Ichiro Olga, a japanese botanist,
found drieJ-up lake where
lotus seeds were so plentiful ma
tive children digging for peat
fuel hunted them for food. Jap
anese geololists estimated more
than 400 years has passed since
the lake disappeared.
Olga collected many of the
seeds and distributed them to
botanists in varions parts of the
world
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23

soldiers facing inevitable defeat.
Moscow, also describing huge
losses by the Germans, declared
1t is obvious that the war will be
a long one, with certain Russian
victory as its result.
Russian claims dealt with UNI
specified areas in which the Reds
were said to have held firm
against German attacks. AT ID"
probably Dnepropetrovsk, i'm
portant Dnieper river city, the
Russians said 1000 Germans
We're killed and scores of tanks
destroyed in a counter attack
launched by Red soldiers and
members of the citizens army
Wipe Out Army
In another unspecified area,
the Russians said nine villages
have ben retaken from the Nazis,
while the entire 161st division of
the German army was said to
have been annihilated.
Aerial activity on the western
front increased during the night,
with the Raj pounding Man
helm, LeHavre, Ostend and
Dunkirk, while the German luft-
waite struck back with attacks
on unnamed British airports.
Italian sources claimed the
destruction of 10 Raj bombers
as the British blasted Tripoli and
Derna in Libya.
Berlin, in describing the at
tacks ON Britain, said a 10000
ton merchant ship was sunk off
the south British coast by a
bomber.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
Germany And Italy Ad0a |
Harsh Measures To StbIlh
Rising Tide Of Revolt
tBy Associated pressl

NEW YORK, Aug 23.--Ger-
many and Italy are being driven
to increasingly harsh measures to
stem rising tide of revolt and
unrest among the conquered peo-
pies of Europe, according to in
formation reaching here today.
Following Immediately after
the German decree announcing
that Frenchmen would be held as
hostages and shot for acts against
German authorities, Rome today
announced it had been necessary
to impose military law to halt up
.risings in Croatia.
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain,
chief of the Vichv government,
announced the creation Of military
courts throughout occupied
France for the purpose Of melting
out death sentences to- Commun
lists, Jews and saboteurs.
Berlin said a Belgian mayor had
been shot for anti-German acts,
and reports have reached New
York of violent outbreaks on the
part of the Greeks which have
been put down by the German
army and secret police.
Decree Orders Death
The German death decree in
France followed the murder by
stabbing of an unidentified Ger
man staff officer in Paris sub
way.
The decree said all French
prisoners taken in the future
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
Property Owners Protest
Against Assessment Raise

Key Vests largest property
owners filed into the courthouse
this morning to protest to county
commission, acting as a board Of
equalization, the 100 per cent val
uations recorded against them by
County Tax Assessor Claude A..
Gandolfo.
William r. Porter, president Of
the First National Bank and d
holder in numerous other inter-
ests, protested verbally and holly
against the assessment recorded
on his property BY Gandolfo.
He was instructed BY the board
to put his complaints In writing,
as was Lance Lester, Jr., attorney
for Ke, West Electric company.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
BIG FIRE in
PHILADELPHIA
tRy 4 sraciatea r,ressl

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. %.
Another nillioa-dollar fire today
Quilted a lumber yard in north
Philadelphia, burning homes and
part of a factory in the area be-
fore it was brought under con-
troll.
The five-alarm conflagration
was the second big lumber yard
fire here within four months.
Authorities, investigating the
cause of the blaze, said damage
would run well over Loco. 900
The fire destroyed part of a fac
tory engaged in manufacturing
valves for defense machinery.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23

2 p Price. Trumbo island
property owner, and Julian Marks
filed their protests with the board,
while E T. Bennett. tax agent Of
the Florida East Coast railway,
already had protested against the
assessment on the Casa Marina
hotel.
The board will reconvene Tues
day night at 8 o'clock to continue
the hearings, meeting nightly as.
long as the taxpayers continue To-
come. At the conclusion of the
hearings, the board members and
Gandolfo will study the conn
plants and make adjustments
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
HAWSER STILL
HOLDING FAST

Officers at Fort Taylor shortly
after 8 o'clock this afternoon
waiting for freighter to move
off their range SO they could be-
gin firing at a destroyer-drawn
target with the forts l55 nam bat
terry
Col Webster r Putnam, ext
ecutive officer. said bit that time
that the rope supporting the
target still was holding fast. but
the army was making no promises
about how long II would continue
to do So.
The scheduled target practice
is the fourth planned here. ~
every other case the hawsef used
for drawing the target has parted:
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
TWO MORE BODIES
RECOVERED TODAY
BRINGS DEATH TOTAL IN
BROOKLYN FIRE TO
THIRTY-T THREE
,nr Associaaea rressl

NEW YORK, Aug. 30 Rec
overy of the bodies of two negro
stevelores today brought to SO
the total of known dead in the
fire which destroyed the Cuban
Mail line dock Monday in Brook
lNn.
Several men still are missing
and it is feared they, too. were
trapped and killed in the fire.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23

E. B. Anderson Construction
corporation of Miami will launch
operations Monday morning on
the Lime Grove housing project
abandoned in June by the Les
ter F. Preu company, also Of
Miami, it was announced today.
The Anderson firm, which
will finance the project, yester-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23

Few Changes Were Made
Before Adoption; Sew
eral Amendments Of
fered We're Killed

The City Council convened in
special session last night in res
ponse to a call issued by Councils
man Leonard B. GrilIon. presisl
dent protein. who presided. for
the purpose of taking up the orr
dinance which was passed on its
first reading Thursday night
authorizing the leasing of the
ciiY's unused underground water
system to the Florida Keys
Aqueduct Commission. William
Freeman. council president. who
is acting mayor in the absence
from the city of Mayor AlburY.
was also in attendance at the
meeting. with all other council
men present.
After adopting few amend
ments to the ordinance, with all
councilmen taking part in the
discussion, the ordinance, with
the appended lease in connection
Herewith, was passed on its
second, third and final reading.
Five members of the council
voted for its passage, while
Councilman Sweeting passed on
roll cali. Although Councilman
Freeman had no vote due to the
fact that he is acting mayor, never
tAeless was accorded tn e
courtesy by the presiding Of
fieer to address the council on
the subject, which he did. Mr..
freeman stated that he felt that
the matter should be deferred
until a later date in order that
4
the issue may be given further
study.
1t was the sense of the ma
jolIty Of the councilmen that all
members had been given suffi-
cient time to familiarize them
selves with the issue, which was
presented to the council several
months ago by S. p Robineau, at
torney for the Aqueduct Commits
sion, and again on Thursday night
past at the regular meeting of
the council. AT this juncture the
question" was put, and Acting
President Grillon ordered the roll
be called, with five out of the
six voting for the passage of the
ordinance.
Councilman Sweeting offered
several amendments to the ordi-
nance, one of which was to strike
out the section which read that
forty cents per thousand gallons
would be the maximum charge for
water" and also wanted to elm
mate any charge being made for
hydi liant service by the city, but
would have the city collect am
nually one per cent of the gross
receipts in the sale of water by
the commission. All Of the amend
ments offered by Mr.. Sweeting
were killed on roll call.
William Doughty, chairman of
the Aqueduct Commission, and
Mr.. Budd, attorney, acting for Mr..
Robineau, who is attorney of the
Commission, were present at the
meeting, both taking part in the
proceedings dealing with the or
dinance which was before the
council for consideration and dis
posal thereof.
u
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
MORE SHIPS FOR
GREAT BRITAIN
fRy Assoclnsed presnI

WASHINGTON. Aug. %.
congressman opposed to the adj
ministration's foreign policies to-
day were up in arms over re-
port that 100 more tankers soon
will be sent to Great Britain.
Leaders Of the opposition, who
already have asked a senate in
vestigation of the shortage on
the east coast, said to send an
other 100 tankers to Britain
would mean cuts Of so per cent
and up in gasoline shipments to
the Atlantic coast states.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
STOOD UP FOR DAD

CUSHING, Okla. When the
Rev w g Ferguson, pastor Of
the Gushing Christian church.
asked everyone to stand who was
present and accompanied BY his
father the 80 members OF the
w j Hubbard family ali stood.
The group included children and
grandchildren.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23

and Chicago's great blaze was on.
Warn your folks against gasoline
stored on home premises.
Earlier this year than usual,
the advertising and publicity
schemers are in our midst. Your
state chamber is turning at
least one away each week. Prob
ably two each week next month.
Florida can well rely Oh reeog-
nized media.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23
Great Britain Stands Rcd 10
Declare War Upon Japan Should
United States Become EInbrOicd
Promise Came When Presi-
dent Roosevelt Asked
How Far Would British
Go With United States
fns Asseelnaea Preas,

NEW YoRK. Aug. 2s.--priIne
Minister Winston Churchill has
assured President Roosevelt that
the British Empire will declare
war upon Japan automatically
should the United States becoms
embroiled in Far Eastern war.
ii was reported in London to-
day.
An authorized spokesman said
the promise came when Presl-
dent Roosevelt questioned how
far the British would 60 in back
ing the United States against
Japan.
Following on the heels Of the
Presidents order doubling the.
tariff on imported japanese crab
ilseat, the British government to-
paf,osed aissisis se.
on Japan, providing that all
goods to be shipped to the Asia
tic empire or its possessions
must be licensed by London.
Meanwhile. it was reported in
that American COM
panies are attempting to move
out of Japanese-dominated terri
tory in order to escape the
American freezing order on
Chinese credits.
Texas Oil company il was an
nouneed, will move les Asiatic
headquarters from Shanghai to
Singapore. !.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-08-23

viii be held as hostages, and
crimes such as mat against the
German officer viii be answered
by the Nazis with the shooting
of some" of the prisoners.
How many will be killed for
such an offense. it was declared,
will depend on how serious the
authorities believe the crime to
be.