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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
Stone And Duncan Going To
Washington To Confer With
Road Commissioner Hector

julius r. Stone, Jr.. acting
county attorney. and u NJ Dun
can, general manager Of Over
seas Highway, will leave for
Washington tomorrow morning
10 meet Harry Hector. newly -ap-
pointed state road commissioner.
II was learned today
Hector. who paid visit 20 Key
West this week. informed Mon
roe county commission this morn
ng that he had conferred with
Governor Speszard l. Holland
and believed the county would
be- served by sending FepTe&en-
sstlve 10 the capital
Stone and DUNCAN wiI canvass
army ard navy officials and all
departments ~hics might take a
hand in financing extension of
road facilities in the county.
Stone ~ the same time wfil
push other matters I'm which the
county Is affected.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
Laval Makes Statement
That He Will Not Ac-
cept Any Compromise In
Issue
tBy Associated Press)

(Dy Associated Press)
VICHY. Feb. 8.-French polit-
ical leaders today waited for the
next step in the struggle for pow
er between former Premier Pierre
Laval. backed by the might of
Nazi Germany. and the aged
Premier Marshal Henri PHILIPPE
petain.
Laval, standing firm in his de-
mands for the premiership and a
hand-picked cabinet, announced
he would accept no compromise.
Petain, waiting for the last
word of Adolf Hitler, expected a
call from Admiral Francois OAR
Ian, who has been in Paris con-
ferring with Nazi leaders.
An emergency session of the
cabinet was reported imminent,
but no one could tell if the cab
met members would give in to
Laval or attempt a new compro-
mise.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
Attacks Made All Along
French And Belgium
Coasts; Ships And
Docks Wrecked
tBy Associated Pressb
British heavy bombers flashed
oui of murky. rain-filled sky
last night TO hammer for hours
German invasion points along the
French and Belgium coasts.
tBy Associated Press,

Speeding up the tempo of at
tack in one of the longest raids
they have staged since Septem-
Der, the British bombers left huge
fires which could be seen glowing
out of the fog along the chalk
cliffs of Dover.
Official sources in Berlin said
the weather had rendered the
bombing so inaccurate that explo-
sives had landed in open fields
and gone off in the water.
Returning British fDers claim
ed, however, to have wrecked
ships and docks at Dunkirk, to
have destroyed barracks and
warehouses at Ostend and Calais,
and to have smashed a supply
house at Boulogne.
No German bombers were re-
ported over England during the
night and both Royal Air Force
and Nazi planes gere inactive
this morning.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
French Await Show Down
For Power Between Laval
And Pctajn Governments
WINTER HAVEN CHIEF
HAS GREAT PROBLEM

WINTER HAVEN. Feb. 8.
tFNS).-Chief of Police earn
of Winter Haven inherited
$3.50 and a headache from for
mer chief Dewitt Sinclair.
He is now consulting the city
attorney seeking a cure.
Sinclair employed a Spot
ter" TO buy a baseball pool
ticket as a groundwork for
an arrest. The ticket won.
and the operator paid $3.50.
which was sealed in an en-
velope and put in the petty
cash fund.
Now if the city accepts the
money. ii becomes an acces-
sorry to the crime; if il doesn't
accept il. what is TO be done
with it?
OF course. he can buy as
pirin with il.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
STRIKERS TO
COOPERATE in
RUSH ORDERS
WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICERS
CLAIM THEY HAVE PROM
Use FROM WORKERS IN
CHALMERS PLANT
my Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-War
department officers announced
today they had obtained coop
Grafton of striking Clio auto
workers and of company officials
to rush delivery of manufactured
goods from the Alice Chalmers
plant at Milwaukee.
The strike has been in progress
for more than a week, but gov
eminent representatives told both
union and company officials the
manufactured articles were me-
cessary for completion of a pow
er plant which is vitality import
ant to national defense.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
DESOTO PAGEANT
FOR BRADENTON

BRA,DENTON, Feb. 8.-(FNS)
The story of the landing of Her
nando DeSoto near Bradenton
will be told in a brilliant outdoor
extravaganza during the DeSoto
Pageant here during the third
week in February.
A cast of several hundred per-
sons, automatically costumed and
professionally directed, will de-
pict, in a series of episodes and
interludes interviewer with music,
the landing of this great Spanish
explorer near Bradenton on May
80, 1889.
A gigantic, 300-foot stage,
equipped with colorful scenery
and special lighting effects, will
be used in the presentation. The
story will be told in pantomime,
dialogue, and dancing, and prom
ises to be the most colossal enter
tainment feature of its kind over
produced in Florida. e,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
DEMONSTRATION
in ROME ENDED
CRy Associated Pressb

ROME, Feb. 8.-Italian police
have broken up another student
demonstration against the United
States, it was announced today.
High school students, who pa
raded in front of the American
embassy last week, were driven
off when they attempted to re-
peat the performance.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
MORE Time FOR
DIES committee
IN. Associated rrss.,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-The
powerful House Rules committee
this morning agreed TO another
years activities for Congressman
Martin Dies committee on un-
American activities. but turned
down a measure which would
have increased House representa-
ton TO $50.
Congressman Dies had asked
two years extension Of time for his
committee TO continue investiga-
tons.
The bill for increase in the
House, based on last census re-
ports OF increased population.
was shcIved by an almost uani-
nous vote.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
CITY employees
PAID YESTERDAY

A payroll of a quarter month
was made yesterday afternoon
for all city employees.
This payroll was ordered fol
lowing a check made, which
showed that there was enough
money available and therefore
the payroll was made up and this
morning was distributed at once.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
PROBABLE CAUSE

CHICAGO. - Research CON
Quoted At the University Of Chi
cago indicates athletes feet may
be caused BY nervous exhaustion
and inability 10 relax properly as
well as by a skin fungus Of the
toes.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
HALT TRAINS
in BULGARIA

BUDAPEST, Feb. 8.-Continu-
alton of an order hating all trains
in Bulgaria was announced Off
cially this morning as a measure
for the transfer of Bulgarian
troops within the nation.
Observers here have felt the
continued ban on train travel
might mean the arrival of a Ger
man army to cross Bulgaria on
the way to Greece.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
CEKELER BURIAL
This MORNING

DR.. John Christian Gekeler, 68,
who died Tuesday at his residence,
Glib Eaton street, was buried this
morning in the city cemetery.
Rev A. c. Riviere of the First
Methodist (Stone) Church Of
ficiated at the interment. Funeral
services were held Thursday aft
ernoon at p. m. in the First
Presbyterian Church of which he
had been pastor for 10 years
Pritchard Funeral Home was In
charge of arrangement.
Warren Smith, 80, who died
Tuesday in the U. S. Marine Hos
pital was shipped Friday morn
ing by the Pritchard Funeral
Home to Salem. N. j., for funeral
services and interment.
Funeral services for Ann Rus
sell, 90, were held yesterday aft
ernoon from the chapel Of the
Pritchard Funeral Home at 4:30
o'clock. Mrs. Russell died yeSter-
day morning at her residence, 626
Olivia street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
SNOW STORMS
HALT FIGHTING
(Ry Associated Pressl

ATHENS, Feb. 8.-Violent
snowstorms have brought fight
ing in Albania almost to a stand
still, a communique announced
today.
Greek troops are reported
blowing slowly forward south of
Valona, but all actual combat has
come to halt
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08
British Keep Behind Fast
Retreating Italian Army
(By Associated Press)

Rome admitted the fall of Ben
gasi, but announced its troops had
been ordered not to defend the
city in order to spare its native
population from the horrors of
bombardment.
On other fronts, British troops
reported they had occupied an
important market town north of
Lake Tana in Ethiopia and forces
of the Army of the Nile continued
to sweep rapidly into Eritrea and
Italian Somaliland.
British bombers were reported
in heavy raids on Italian troop
concentrations near Asmara, CAPT
tai of Eritrea.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08

Victorious British soldiers today
speeded hopping up operations
south of captured Bengasi and adj
vance units were reported har-
RAISING the retreating Italian army
of General Rodolfo GRAHAM as it
hurried along the road to Tripoli.
German dive bombers, mean
while, came to the assistance of
their ally in a devastating night
attack on the British naval base
at Malta Incendiary bombs were
reported from Berlin to have left
great fires burning along the
Malta docks and heavy bombs
ratified windows on the island for
hours during the night.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08

Key West. Florida. has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only Ia Fahrenheit
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-02-08

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Evening star., 1941-12-23
North and South Grid
Talent Is Pleasing
To Rival Coaches
Both Bell and Waldorf
Rate Squads Tops for
BIue-Groy Contest
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY Ala, Dec. 23.-1f
comments from rival coaches are
any indication, the two squads drill
ing for the annual Blue-Gray game
Saturday are the best ever assem-
bled for the match.
Matty Bell of Southern Methodist
University and head coach OF the
Southern group, said after yester-
days workout:
"I have seen plenty Of all-star
SQUADS, but this bunch OF boys has
shown me more pep and hustle than
any other.
"It is the most hustling bunch OF
BOYS that I have ever seen or
coached. I would like to start on
next season with them as a team. /
wouldn't be afraid OF any schedule
they gave me"
LYNN Waldorf, Northwestern men
tor acting as co-coach OF the North
ern team, commented:
II am satisfied with the squad,
and believe we have the best team
that we have displayed in the an
nual game" he said.
Both groups arranged heavier
work today after practicing on rain
soaked gridironS yesterday. The
Grays continued to experiment with
passing, while the Blue squad con-
fined it's activity to ground ma
neuvers.
Lloyd Cheatham. Auburn quarter
back. and Bob Guide, Vanderbilt
center, were named co-captains Of
the Rebels.
Evening star., 1941-12-23

U. as all-America football man
ager, since he chaperoned the
Tide to the Sugar Bowl (Tulane
Stadium and the Orange Bowl
Ito play Miami U0 in November
and will head the march to the
Cotton Bowl game New Year
Day.
A catch ALA deer trap which
was placed on Drummond Island,
Mich, last fall did a thorough
job. Besides catching deer, 1t
trapped one dog, one cat, one
snowshoe hare and one curious
hunter who wondered if 1t would
work. When friends got him out
he reported that it did.
Service dept.-The Montgom-
cry (Ala.) Advertiser has scooped
rival papers by signing up Corpl.
Geotfrey A. H. Brit, former Lon
don Times sports writer who now
is a Royal Air Force cadet at
Maxwell Field, to do q piece on
his impressions Of the Blue Gray
football game. Commander Of
the 372d Infantry Regiment, re-
Gently assigned to guard duty
around New Yogk, - COL Edward
Evening star., 1941-12-23
BY HUGH FULLERTON,
Wide World Sports Writer.

NEW YORK Dec. 23.-The
Louisville Colonels have grabbed
of the brass ring in this winters
baseball ivory hunt by signing
Pete Layden, who is supposed to
be better as an outfielder than he
was as a Texas U. ball carrier
last fall. He was a standout in
the national semipro tournament
last summer after hitting 1897 for
the college season. TickliSh
moment turned up at Madison
Square Garden last Friday when
the fans spotted Joe Di Maggie
(Who seldom misses scrap) 9nd
demanded an introduction. The
baseball bosses don't like to have
their boys climb through the
ropes and only fighters are sup
posed to be introduced at fights.
Joe finally stood up and bobbed
his head quickly.
Frank (New York Sun colum.
nist) Graham, who made his
debut recently as q f1rst-class
fiction writer, has . biography
Evening star., 1941-12-23
Luyden, Ace Texos Back, Signs Louisville Outfieder
Including Mon; Koo Buys Poot Automobile

o. Gourdin, who is remembered
as a record breaking broad
Jumper for Harvard 20 years ago.
Although the football game be-
tween Fort Story CVa0 and the
Norfolk Shamrocks drew only
1000 fans and the pros won 27-0,
the soldier team made such an
impression that the sponsors
want to stage a defense bowl"
game next year. San Francisco
Chronicle lists nearly two dozen
former University of California
athletes now in the service every
where from Florida to Alaska.
One of the defenders of Wake
Island is Lawrence Hayes, former
Georgia Tech halfback.
A Kehn sportsman &C n e t
Kehn, the rookie pitcher coming
up to the Dodgers next spring,
has taken up golf and bowling
for exercise since he was for
hidden to play winter baseball in
California. In three years he
has brought his golf score down
to "a and In two seasons he has
hoisted his best bowling score to
100,
Evening star., 1941-12-23
Successor to Kiernun
SOUGHT by Brewers

Replacement of Jim Herman. for
mer Georgetown University basket
ball star who has quit the Wash
ington Brewers to rest up for a
baseball tryout with the Pittsburgh
Pirates, is expected momentarily.
Coach Mack Posnack hopes to sign
another player before Christmas
night when the Brewers 60 to New
York to meet the Jewels in an
American League game. They'll be
back at Turner's Arena Friday night
for an exhibition with the Renais-
sance, colored five which battled
them to Q 32-32 draw here hst
month.
Evening star., 1941-12-23
Peterson, Billiards Ace,
Named on Sports Board

Charles c. Peterson. former world
three-cushion billiards champion,
and Robert Walton Mann, noted
bowling authority, today were
named to the Hale America Sports
Advisory Board by John B. Kelly,
United States director Of physical
fitness.
Peterson will serve as billiards
representative and Mann as as
sistant to Ralph M. voorhees,, bowl
ing representative.
Evening star., 1941-12-23
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Davis and Elkins VS.. Columbus
o., Tech gym, $50.
FRIDAY.
Hockey.
Jersey Skeeters VS.. Washing
ton Eagles, Riverside Stadium,
$3.50.
SATURDAY.
Basket Ball.
Indiana VS.. George Washing.
ton, Riverside Stadium, 8:45.
Roosevelt VS.. George Washing.
ton Freshmen. Riverside Sta
dunn, 7:15.
Hockey.
Washington Lions ". Cleve-
Ind BaronS Cssvoland
Evening star., 1941-12-23

tWlrlerS IN tne major leagues III DOCIl
earned-run average and winning
percentage, bringing the pitching
championship to Cincinnati for the
third straight year.
Riddle won 19 games and lost 4
while achieving the low earned-run
average of 224 per nine-inning
game for the best mark of effective
ness since Carl Hubbell set the league
record for lefthanded pitchers Of
166 in 1888. Grover Cleveland Alex
ander, while pitching for Philadel-
phia in 1915, set the mark for right
handlers at 1.22.
The young right-hander had to
win IL straight to pry the public's
attention away from the Willow
Wyatts and Bobby Fellers, and even
then his real value scarcely was real
ized.
Reels Of II Straight.
Elmer was even riddle to his own
manager till the teams were deep
into the schedule. He rode around
with the Reds for the entire 1910
season and got to pitch only "a in
nings. He hurled one complete
game and appeared in a relief role
in IA contests. IL of which he fin
ished.
For that freshman year, largely a
tour Of observation, Riddle had the
spectacularly low earned-run aver
age of 185. This intrigued Man.
ager Bill McKechnie, but not enough
for him to give his quiet, almost
bashful sophomore a starting chance
Evening star., 1941-12-23

this year until the Reds were hope
lessly out of the race and the Bos.
ton Braves were in town on May 20
Riddle won that game and 10 more
before he was defeated by Brooklyn
July %. From the time Elmer start.
ed his string till the end of the
season the Reds were the most con-
sistent club in the senior circuit.
Altogether Riddle started o
games, relieved in II others and
pitched pit innings. He had only
four shutouts, but allowed just Sc
runs. both earned and unearned, for
the lowest total of any pitcher who
worked in more than 200 innings.
Dodgers Slab Staff Best.
Riddles fine National League per-
formance compared with a 2.37
earned-run average for Thornton
Lee and the 15-won, 5-lost record
of Lefty Gomez, the leading pitchers
Of the American League.
The official records today showed
the pennant-winning Dodgers hac
the finest pitching staff in the
senior circuit, led, of course, by
Whitlow Wyatt and Kirby Higbe
Each of these sturdy right-hander;
won % games, the only hurlers ir
the league to get into the 20-game
bracket. Wyatt WIS second to Rid.
die in effectiveness, with an earned
run average of 2.34, and Higbe
ranked second in winning percent
age with his % victories and
defeats.
Ernie White, ace of the st. Louis
Cardinals, was third in both de.
partments, winning II and losing
7 with an earned-run average o.
2.40.
Bucky Walters, who topped tn,
National League pitchers last year
and his Cincinnati teammate Johr
Wander Nicer, tied for fourth in tn,
earned-run ranking with 2.83, Will,
Curt Davis of Brooklyn completed
the cast OF pitchers under the 3.0t
level with a 2.98 rating.
Higbe Is Workhorse.
Walters, for the second straigh
year, pitched the most complet,
games, az; the most innings. 302, anc
allowed the most hits, 292. Bu
workhorse honors went to Higbe
who pitched in the most games, 48
started the most games, 80, ano
faced the most batters, 1856. Fol
the third consecutive year he gave
uo the most bases on balls, 1872
Wyatt led in shutouts with seven
The only no-hitter was achieved
by the veteran Lon Wsrneke of st
Louis August 80 at Cincinnati.
Evening star., 1941-12-23
Successor Of Nelson
AS Yale Grid Coach
Is Hard 10 Guess
Quits to Enter Service;
| Action Awuits Return
Of Athletic Heed
Nv the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec. 23.-
Yale, which tossed aside its gradual
coaching system a year ago by hirinI
Emerson w. (Spike) Nelson, forme
University Of Iowa star lineman, a.
head football coach, was in the mar
ket for a new gridiron boss today.
The 36-year-old Nelson, whose El
eleven won only one out of eigh
games last fall, resigned yesterday
ito be free to join the staff of The
procurement department Of tn.
United States Engineer Corps il
Philadelphia"
Il leave Yale with regret" sale
Nelson, but in these times of ma.
tional stress I cannot refuse the op-
portunity to serve which has come
to me-"
Nelson's resignation, effective Jan.
uary /, came with Director of Ath-
letics Ogden Miller en- route to Chi
cago to address a Yale alumni
father-and-son dinner
Miller Issues Statement.
Miller knew of the resignation
however, having left a prepared
statement in which he declared that
Spike Nelson's plans to enter ma
tional service is one which Yale has
no right to oppose" He added that
yale plans to fill the position of
head coach of football and to carry
out its intercollegiate football sched-
ule next fall. ="
With Miller, who has the final
say, out of town and the campus
bare of athletic leaders, one guess
was as good as another as to who
would be named Nelson's successor
The uncertainty of the times kept
the speculation down to virtually
zero.
The fate of Nelson's assistants
also was up to Miller. They were
Ivan Williamson, Ed Howell, John
Sabo and Bob Voights.
Nelson, who was named head
COdCIl mere early laSC January, was
the first non-Yale graduate to boss
Ellis football since the Blue began
playing the game in 1872 He sue
ceeded Raymond w. Ducky) Pond,
now of Bates, whose 1910 team also
lost seven out of eight games.
Holder of Phi. D. degree, Nelson
came to Yale three years ago after
a season as head coach at Mississippi
State College. For two years he
served as Ponds assistant here.
Was to Have Been Retained.
Despite Yale's poor gridiron rec
ord, Nelson had the complete sup
por of Miller, who several weeks ago
told Connecticut sports writers that
there will be no change in the head
football coaching position for 1912 >
Reports had been current here re-
Gently, however, of alumni demands
for a coaching change.
With subpar material. Yale last
fall defeated Virginia, 21-19 in It's
opening game and then lost to Penn
sylvania, Army, Dartmouth, Brown
Cornell, Princeton and Harvard.
Evening star., 1941-12-23

of Lou Gehrig coming out in
February. He also is working on
a magazine profile" Of Eddie
Brannick.
Today's guest star-Art Cohn,
Oakland (Calif0 Tribune: "In an
outburst of patriotism, Frank
Kovacs just bought a CUSTOM
built car-done in red, white and
blue. The guy must be punchy;
obviously he still thinks he's on
an amateurs expense account"
Postman's paragraph-Bernard
A. Lang of Lafayette, La, writes:
"Since the East-West football
game is being played in the South
and the teams are coached by a
flock of damn Yankees and it
is a charity game to care for
crippled American children, Id
suggest that we call it the 'Ameri-
kids Bowl"
Jim Rasmusen of the Ironwood
(Mich,1 Daily Globe figures the
transplanted Rose Bowl should be
simply called: Bowl Durham"
Sid Sloane Of Tuscaloosa, Ala.
nominates Joe Baker OF Alabama
Evening star., 1941-12-23
There's Nothing Like Clear Cry Of the Wolves

"You think Won Brauhih had Hitler looking his shoulder?
don't Could be- Listen,
40 ought something about Connie
Mack know anything about baseb7 Clark Grinth9 Does
class Washington ball club tell Bucky Harris pitch
Di Wllams?"
you're going All right Harris hasn't been
Grf from
Washington greatest the world? Does he he'll
world championship within year? Certainly not He knows
Maybe when Grf
National
frontshe do little yode
the Old
% wolves off his neck"
think maybe Adolf hearing the wolves
and -
hope If the wolves start bowling from the
Adolf will something about
anything happened Cleveland
manager"
you always nothing Especially
ladies day in Cleveland"
May day be ladies day in
petition against the
manager Dumbo sarted?"
Evening star., 1941-12-23
Nozis Have Been Leuvinq Men on Bases

figure it the
pitching
$50 the began"
They haven't bad stealing,
They've
A
club can't consistently
Adolf fires his That's old trick
Maybe from Hlers point view, I hope
of
have fired about Mccarthy?
Yankees?"
Exactly. material
the solid support of the club
world crackpo looking
shoulder telling
crackpot doesn't know when