Panama City Pilot (Newspaper) - September 20, 1940, Panama City, Florida us VOLUME 82 CONSOLIDATED WITH LYNK HAVEN lu of Lower So PANAMA BAY SEPT. 20, 1940 NUMBER 1 ties ain Into BROTHERS GO TO TRIAL TODAY ON Judge Rum Called Before Grand Purpose Is Unknown Joe Frank Hill and Coot went on trial In circuit here today on charges of perjury based on their testimony for the defense in the trial last March of Perry young for the murder of Aubrey state forest Information charging the brothers Hill with false testimony in the trial of the young farmer convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years in prison was filed by State Attorney L. Related To Hammer The companions of ments on the afternoon last January when he fatally wounded the forest ranger at the Blackwell home at specifically charged with false testimony regarding a hammer allegedly used by Clements in an assault on before he was shot through the head with a calibre If the Hills face prison terms of from one year to life in ' Plan Final Report The circuit court grand jury completed hearing iip testimony of witnesses this County Judge Russ answered a and is expected to make its final report today or tomorrow The testimony of the county judge was apparently in line Sth other testimony given here the jury in its probe of the recent elections which were called to the attention of the body by Ira Hutchison in his charge When they went into session Sept. 11. 8tlll Not Arrested ' edlO persons on charges of on evidence put of. an ibut up to this morning no returns hid been made on issued in the case had been Bond for each of 10persons was set at by Judge was later reduced to Circuit Clerk Pledger ' said this morning that bonds the men had not been submitted to him for approval and the jail fail to show the arrest any of of the men indicted can not be made public until returns on the papers are il RULE CHANGED ON DEFERMENT OF MARRIED MEN Will Not Be Deferred As A Draft Boards To Get Needed Cash WASHINGTON a previous selective service officials stated that married would not be deferred automatically as a class from compulsory While it was expected that most ' fathers and husbands would be the deferment decisions must be made by local draft boards on the merits of each individual they in the World war 344,872 men claimed deferment because of recent but 122,563 of them were after investigation and placed in the first group subject to Draft selection regulations as originally planned would have instructed local in view of the small number of men to defer all married It was found that such regulations conflict with which requires that each case be decided on its with the final decision resting the local unless The question of dependency will be and the boards wide latitude in whether relatives or wards actually are dependent upon the earned income of claiming New Clerical Help Preliminary estimates indicated today that a month would be distributed among local draft boards throughout the country for clerical help In the task of registering and selecting men far military Along with other arrangements for the I went forward at full These Exclusive NE A Photos Show British In Action DANGER red flag warns Londoners away from where bomb buried itself in the and failed to DEATH hangs on the thrust of a shaft is dug until bomb is 28 feet Recent exploit of Royal Engineers in removing 200-pound bomb from in front of St Paul's Cathedral focussed attention on these Official Road Map Is Ready line new official state ' road map of Florida is now ready for James W. chairman of the State Road announced this t Published by the State Road Department for free the latest addition is different from former issues of official state road Routes through the larger cities are shown in and a table 6f cities with key numbers makes the locating of any city an easy ' V A sufficient quantity of these official road maps now on hand at the offices of the State Road Tallahassee may be by chambers of automobile tourist centers or individuals upon written This here election contest reminds one more of a game than a suit hi many people are interested in it we like to think of it What's In the like Bridge Falling maybe that's ' We send out an invitation to everybody go week and that Day dinner on the Instead of box lunches we could take box Sunday class pf church will celebrate home apd s the order formally setting up a draft T * Selective officials said each of 6,500 local boards Would have at least one paid Allotments for clerical help for the rest of this year were figured tentatively 10 cents a month man The Bureau estimates that 16,404,000 were In the draft age limits of 21 through 35. Serve Without Pay While thousands of short-lived jobs will be created by the literally a million men women will serve in the selective service system Without All members of. the local their legal business advisers and administrative i In all 200,000-will work for In it was estimated than 700,000 regular election serving without te required to enroll Oct. 16. With the exception of the local board who are expected to become the active a dm In officials in the local board only full time workers in state and national draft headquarters will be Case b intention is to let local decide how many it will employ and subject to the amount of money the boards are allowed by the Washington of The question of housing for the thousands of men to be got speedy House attention It rushed through and sent to the Senate a appropriation providing for barracks and other construction at t army Approximately was voted previously for Army and National Progress also was reported last night In the placing of orders for the arms and equipment which will be needed tor the expanding Donald M. coordinator of defense stated that over in contracts had cleared by the National nse Commission since Its Ion late last Made For Clothes The Welfare committee of the legion Auxiliary for clothes school children and Ml can donations to call Mrs. L. E. |M A. VOLCANO squatting on diggers grin after unearthing unexploded 500-pound Detonating fuses is gingerly raised to the surface with block and INDIANA STILL TO BE IN CENTER OF POPULATION Midwestern States Lose As South Atlantic States Gain WASHINGTON population center of the United States has moved eastward for the first time In preliminary census figures Indicated Experts said It would be several months before the exact location be as as they could tell from early ures from almost every state in the the center would be miles southeast of Its 1930 location 2.9 miles northeast of Ind. Biggest Gain They based their calculations primarily on the fact that while the total population of the United States apparently gained between 7 and 8 per the South states gained 12.5 per cent. The most Informed estimates place the national total at approximately 132,0Q0,000. or about 7.5 per cent the 122,775,046 count in 1930. Figures so far available point toward these general The South Atlantic states apparently have had the largest numerical population The Pacific states lead the percentage The Midwest states from North Dakota to i have lost The New England states have a but less than the national Cringe Much of the i population the v .it .Is not likely to i be many miles and probably will stay in Indiana where It has f beeh since 1890. ' v At the time census in 1790-with virtually all of the country's inhabitants living eastern the center of population was 23 miles east of Since westward migration has moved the point steadily generally about 50 miles a It reached in 1890 and since has moved only 87 does not end bomb is removed to a safe as seen exploded Two Army Killed in Crash The Air Corps training center counted two dead today in its first accident as an Army Board surveyed the charred wreckage of a plane atj nearby seeking the cause the The dead Second Lieutenant Pleasant G. a reserve of Flat and Flying Cadet Daniel W. 21, of N. Devil's Island Revolt Is Feared NEW - j WILLKIE MEET HELD for a series of conferences to boost the campaign of Republican Presidential Wendell L. Willkie in the South were formulated yesterday at a meeting of ln tne western Hemisphere the European war sponsored the Is expected momentarily ln Dutch whose residents HERE awaiting the Washington n C the will be at the city fire French just across the ment section of city hall until according to W. B. 5 p. m. persons who Courtney of Collier's who has have not dogs fmm an and obtained licenses trom an to do so tlon in South * CLUB OF YOUNG DEMOCRATS T O MEET REGULARLY Plans for a membership drive cy the Bay County League of Young Democrats were made at i meeting of the organization last night at city hall and it was announced that meetings will held weekly at 7:30 p. m. on Carl Grav and were named delegates to the national convention of young Democrats at Miami 26-28 and Ed Mack Strickland was named publicity director of the local Herbert president of the local presided at the meeting last night and announced that all between 21 and 45 years of both men and are urged to attend the league SPUDS GIVEN AWAY Charles state director of the Commodity Distribution of the State Welfare announces that the Surplus Marketing U. S. Department of EXCESS PROFITS TAX ACT GIVEN LAST TOUCHES Joint Croup Seeks to Iron Out Differences - Poles apart on the terms of excess profits tax House and Senate today turned over to a joint the task of compromising their Leaders conceded that the task would be for by the time the Senate gave the legislation its 46 to 22 approval late it had drastically changed the measure from the form in which it passed the the Senate tacked on a rider for the purpose of boosting individual income and corporation taxes sharply upward in time of Speed Is Urged Nevertheless tne conferees sought as much speed as possible because of those sections of the which were requested by defense officials to speed up production of Another consideration was the fact that final action by both Houses on the measure also would help clear the way for adjournment of Congress by the end of next of the changes made by the Senate was the provision adding a 3.1 per cent to normal tax rates thus increasing the present 20.9 per to a 24 per cent levy for corporations earning more than a An equal percentage was added to the rates paid by smaller Method Revised The Senate also revised the method adopted by the House for computing excess profits and for applying the excess profits The tax range from 25 to 50 por cent. Less at varian were House and Senate provisions for speeding up Both approved suspension of existing profit on government contracts against ' a - five-year period the since Jan. 1, to meet of defense ' Party The f Senate - vote on the was alpha party with the lone Republican supporting the and only five Democrats voting against it. Before final passage the Senate 44 to 30, the controversial amendment to make income from future ' state and local bond issues subject to Proponents contend that tax securities afforded the - rich an opportunity to escape tax while termed the amendment unconstitutional and an encroachment on state Also rejected vote was the proposal by Senator Lec to compel persons financially able to do so to lend money to the government In wartime at a maximum interest rate of 1 per cent. NAZI INVAD SURPRISED RAF SKY Ribbentrop And Ciano Discussing African Division has allocated to the Commodity Division of the State Welfare which will be distributed to certified clients through regular It Is necessary that all clients bring containers for their which will be today Noon Stock List Hr VICTOR Eli BANK NEW over h slightly route lu today's The proceedings were of the type the Fractional price changes either way ruled near the fourth The approach or week-end apparently Inspired some further cashing ot profits on the 4-day but growing optimism over the home business brokers served to make War and political news seemingly left speculative forces unperturbed at the there was the Usual lightening of commitments In preparation for unexpected European developments oyer Saturday afternoon and passage of the tax by the Senate seen as although Wall Street reserved Its cheers pending final congressional action on were steady and commodities a trifle AS Chem & bye Am can 130 98 3-4 Am Smelt & 39 5.1 TALLAHASSEE prob turning WPA workers into skilled defense industry employes hua become almost as much a matter of as D. state supervisor and industrial said of the men who ic fUst training courses in state Already were trained Questioning they had the first when they they actually were being prepared to hold in the regular Industry and had chances of getting the men perked up and began to take WP A rolls an interest in ' was a ' When the WPA them they leaning at it didn't be taken back within 90 lost their confidence and were afraid they would be able to hold the new positions and would .be Forty if they were dls ' of pay they would receive if last long and thp men be came their the the came around to some of In were surprised 3qbs that had becu for by the State of were many people | in cooperation with amount days after they wire the men went and took the Most of them still are The defense traUUng is offered they were still on WPA jobs A new this time for three already has been opened In nine Florida being and training is given in j unman corp 15 The schools arc in Ocoee and A school at St. Petersburg tVJ because placed no men in jobs and it got 5?Lrt J into financial NJ and the school transferred to Ocote because the state felt It was not getting er cooperation m Am Tel Am Tdb Am Woolen Arm Atch T Si S r Ail Refining Beth Sleel Crucible Steel DuPont De N Oen Elec Qen Motors T At R Mot Illinois Cent Inc Penn R Radio corp of Am Reading Co Reo Motors Ct Reynolds Tob B Seaboard Air Line Sears Studebaker Corp * Cp Pac U Steel J w 183 3-4 i-a 9 33 4 3-4 16 S-l lo i-a 30 1-3 no i-a 34 ' 48 1-4 18 1-4 8 til 3-4 35 5-8 31 1-f 4 3-4 13 1-1 v 1-8 38 83 7.8 13 34 3-4 ' The Associated * Indications that Italy are trying to Into the war against with French Morocco the great rock Gibraltar as a were reported by foreign Rome By this it was that the Axis hoped to gain control of the Mediterranean - probably by storming the through thus a blockade bn British r German Foreign Joachim Von Ribbentrop Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo meeting - in | were also reported discussing a post-war oil Hidden in Clouds v1 A mass assault of 200 German warplanes ran into a V deh ambush of RAF fighters the Dover while London's Jra huddled In the dim light of read in their morning newspaper a pledge Minister Winston Churchill ultimate retaliation for war get iij Churchill was asf raying crowds manded reprisals as he was homes in the Battersea area Spitfires each plane its n tlon irom the Scattered birder toward A $ porter said the RAJ den In the waiting for the big tacking force and ItM as soon as it reached the coast headed Coincident with the RAF stepped tempo of its assaults on many and bombing the the strategic Ems other road communications and Nazi vasion ports the m Germany Claims Edge It t W Berlin reported 10 killed in the night eluding three at tht versity city of 8lnceJ the start of the 600. German civilians killed and 1,400 wounded ish air raids on This figure contrast with 3,500 British killed morel than 8,000 ' * ' fM jRain swept the Straits of during the night as southwest gaie waves against the white cliffs of but the ebbed this morning became Visibility the stage was better ott for a NasS invasion attempt than it has 1 been for nearly a only turee days before the arrival of the 1H equinox with its Fears Eased Now that the ter has considerably of the British ment began to that the nightly 8gfm man raids will continue Warm ters for the winter and Lord Express that the the all those whose lauor As not to the the should be sent to at ' London's tlon of 8,500,000 has already vmm reduced to 7,000,0uQ by and with 1.00Q dren the npw under an official Railroads ait crowded 1 amines moving to but so far there has the ty announced ' Sturgeon a. 27
