The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 9, 1941, Page 1

planes Reported Locked In Combat Over English Channel (Hy Associated Presa) NEW YORK, Aug. 9—Russian bombers, for the second succes. Sive night. have bombarded the German capital at Berlin in a joint aerial attack with the British. Royal Air Force warplanes last night are reported to have| Swept north Germany with a series of heavy attacks, while| Russian long range bombers dropped incendiary and high ex- plosive bombs in Berlin and at-! tacked troop concentrations and factories in east Germany. German and British ‘fighter planes today were reported locked in Combat over the English chan- nel, with Berlin claiming destruc- ing the morning and London ad-! Tnitting the loss of five planes, but claiming 16 Nazi fighters. Adolf Hitler’s headquarters in the field, meanwhile issued two, more war bulletins claiming sen- sational successes. against Red‘ Armies on the ground. Sweep Into Ukraine Three Russian divisions north of Kiev are said to have been smashed in fighting yesterday, with a total loss to the Reds of about 45,000 men, while in fierce battling on the central front near Smolensk, Hitler's headquarters said 38,000 Russians have been captured and thousands more killed or wounded. DNB, official German news agency, admitted ferocity of the fighting in one of the first offi- | cial mentions of German casual-| ties. The news service said a/ single Nazi squadron has flown 280,000 wounded Germans out of the Smolensk area in week, Admitting a’ strain onthe lines of communication and supply in the terrific. battling © before Smolensk, DNB planes have carried 3,000 tons of; material into. the area, returning} with the wounded, Reds See “No Change” Moscow, describing resistance on the part of the Red defenders, said there has been no important change in the battle lines and scoffed at Nazi claims of enormous Russian losses. A Russian communiaue said} three divisions of infantry were smashed and put out of action near Smolensk, while another four panzer divisions are said to have been wiped out. Moscow claimed captured rec-| ords of German field hospitals re- veal that 10 divisions have suf- fered losses ranging from 20 to 30 per cent, enough to force all of them out of the fighting until they | are reorganized. In addition, Moscow — claimed naval units operating on. the Black ‘Sea carried. out a surprise attack on a Rumanian port, cap- turing 600 Rumanian and German soldiers and carrying off stores of supplies. OCTOBER SAID NEW DEADLINE FOR NAZIS Ry Ansociated Prensa) BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 9.— Informed quarters here today said they have been reliably in- formed that Adolf Hitler has re- scheduled the campaign in Rus- sia, setting Oct. 1 as the deadline {Continued On Page Four) 2 German And British Air-| the past said transport! stubborn | Berlin And Other Nazi Points Congress Takes Recess For | Wetk-End; Look For Bitter (By Axsvetated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Re- cessed for the | houses of congress today looked forward to bitter debate next! week when the controversial draft! fextension bill comes up in the} house and the senate tackles the ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY | $3,500,000,000 defense tax bill. | NEWLY ELECTED CHAIR- The draft bill, passed by DEFENSE JOB NO | EXEMPTION FROM _ CALL TO SERVICE the MAN OF COUNTY SELECT- bring on one of the sternest tests { of administration power since the | IVE SERVICE BOARD | war emergency began, ministration leaders admit they may be forced to agree to a com- Clem Price, newly elected promise. chairman of the Monroe county, Isolationist forces, apparently iselective service board, today gaining in strength, are | warned employes on defense pro- for abandonment of the proposal jects that their work does not to increase training time exempt them from army service. while most administration men Workers. on defense jobs or feel that some compromise _ will jeivil service employes will be' be adopted even if they are un- exempted only upon the recom-j|able to get passage of the 18 mendation of Capt. Russell S.| months’ additional time approved \Cretshaw, navy “station com- | in the senate. |mandant, Price explained. Such! Some observers now are pre- recommendation would be given dicting that the senate will be. ‘only if the worker could not be asked to increase the tax bill to replaced. {five billions, and it is virtually The board, revamped with the} certain that the upper house will | resignation of former Chairman | attempt to make up the $300,000,- Horace O'Bryant, Earl Adams /000 cut out of the original bill by land Clerk Miss Eliza Barroto, | the house. now is made up of Price, Fre-; Another bitter fight is promised derick Knapp, Arnold Curry and by Republicans when the rivers Mrs. Cressie Scooler, former clerk | and harbors bill comes up, bear- of Board No. 4 at Miami. ing appropriations for the St. Nembers of the group during Lawrence River shipway. and the the week checked their records Florida canal. Both were spon- |with Maj. Aupert Smith, state sored by the administration and coordinator of selective _ service,’ were approved yesterday by the }who returned to St. Augustine house rivers and harbors commit- with Mrs. Smith this morning. (hee Japanese- Dominated Shanghai Cental News Bldg. Wreckéd CONVICT SHOT DURING BREAK AT KILBY PEN (My Axnoctated Press) MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. 9. —One convict was shot down and three others recaptured within Kilby prison walls in an attempt- ed escape. The wounded convict was listed by Warden Earl Wilson as Carlos Wilson, serving 20 years for rob- (By Asscciated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—A huge incendiary ‘bomb today turned the Japanése-dominated Shan- |ghai Central News building into ia flaming inferno, destroying the building and exacting an undis- |closed toll of life. j Terrorists were believed to have set off the bomb as a grim reminder of the anniversary of the first clash between Japanese troops and Chinese in Shanghai in 1937. Heightened by the bombing and the probability of Japanese reprisals, tension in the Far East ;mounted with reports that Lon- don has sent Tokyo a curt warn- ing against aggression in Thai- land. Japanese officials refused to discuss the note, or to verify the (fact that one had been delivered, Pbut it was said in London that} ‘Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden has warned th2 Tokyo regime in! blunt language that a new move! to the south will mean war with Britain. Japanese newspapers, mean- while, abruptly halted their at-| tacks.on Great Britain and the United States, adopting a concilia- tory tone in discussions of thé Far Eastern racial problem. MUST MILK HIS COWS WAUSAU, Wis. — Gustave ‘Dehnel, farmer of this place, was fined $10 for cruelty because he‘ ‘did not milk his cows. from the sheriff of Walker county against him.. A bullet glanced off his hip into his lower intestines, but prison physicians Sapreard | ; belief he would recover. The abortive bid for freedom| from the quartet's cell as the reg-| ular Sunday night moving picture }show was in progress. Clad only in black-dyed “shorts and their ; bodies coated with coal dust, the; convicts crept across the prison yard. But before they reached the wall, a.tower guard spotted the prisoners with his searchlight and opened fire. They fled toward the prison dining hall and were re- taken by guards notified by tele- phone from the walls. The convicts carried @ crude rope ladder with an 18-inch hook, which they apparently hoped to catch on the top of the high wall. Debate. On Draft Extension weekend, both! and ad-} fighting ; at all) bery and with a holdover order} was. made through “Bars saWed | | tors, today were fined $5 and) he Key West Ci THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1941 “am cram reece | RATED TOUGHEST SEA DOG! | AMONG HIGH-RANKING OF- FUSSY OVER RULES By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE AP Feature Service Writer Back in 1901 when handsome, very serious Ernie King of Lo- jrain, Ohio, was graduated from Bag recording was: “Temper? Don’t fool with nit- | roglycerin”. | Now rated the toughest sea Ine among the Navy’s high rank- Ernest J. King commands the | United States forces which guard the Atlantic all the way to Ice- | Jand. The tall, |King is no “apple polisher” for | Navy brass hats, His assignment; jto the critical defense outpost ;caps a career of outstanding com- }mand performance, particularly jin the aircraft and services, Qualifying as a naval aviator senate last week, is expected to|at the age of 48 and holding al succession of air commands, hej is said to have done more in aircraft to the fleet other man in the Navy. He has |stressed the use of the Navy's air force as a powerful offensive —rather than defensive—weap- on. of the fleet. ice, brilliant supervision ‘of the salvage of the sunken subma- tines S-51 and S-4 won him the Distinghished Service Medal with Gold Star. call him in the Navy, drives his men and himself at a hard pace. Many a junior officer has cussed him as an. “unreasonable, hard- bitten, son of a sea cook”. Most of them admit, however, he had considerable service with | him, says: “King’s a pleasant | gentleman ashore but a tough hombre at sea. a very quick emergency, to command a fleet in war- |ships. The axact makeup of the .thinker in an confidential matter. Some time ago it comprised three old. bat- |Stroyers and some long-range bombing planes together with other aircraft. Admiral King saw service in the World war when he was as- sistant chief of staff for Admiral chief of the United States fleet. For tht service he was awarded the coveted Navy Cross, Six feet 2 inches tall, fairly broad-shouldered and slim waist- ed, King is an imposing figure in of decorations. He is the father of six girls and one boy. Dancing with one of his daughters, he | appears as sprightly as a young ensign. He likes golf but |fussy about the most minor rules of the game. ‘SEVERAL CASES | IN COURT TODAY | Florence Nealy and Edna Gon- zalez, negro beauty parlor opera- | costs in Judge William V. Al- | bury’s criminal court on charges {of failing -to ‘secure "state licenses ; for their work. 0G.c: The two women were this morning after affi filed by State bathers RW. ; Rauenbuehler. este | Judge Albury, accepting guilty } pleas in chambers, handed $5 fines to May Sawyer and Tina Falco, negro women who were charged with assault and battery. fines and costs or serve 60 days in-county jail. Santiago with reckless driving, was ordered \to pay a fine of $15 and costs. 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