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i | ; , } } | THE VOLUME LXIL No. 192. x re ee enn a Fighting Ag a Would Provide Six Bil- lion Dollars For Food! _ And Supplies to do. Pinder, who had two {My Acnoctated Prenad terday to find a battered was torn down, ing against Germany, it was be. | lieved here today. Although no definite informa- tion on the supposed bill has been forthcoming, i har been suggested | | unofficially that as much as two. | billions might be set aside for food | [iam | | tire partly ripped off, a jammed and the fenders in. EIGHT-HOUR DAY purchases. Informed quarters still are of | the opinion that Russia will not! Premier Marshall Henri Phil Pe: | ask d- i i ippe Petain, leader of the French | for lend-lease aid, but will. ‘ he? appointment of Admiral Jean! pay for her supplies with money | (My Axuociated Press) |pension of the eight-hour }jobs was announced a 1 secretary. { By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer j ; NEW YORK. Aug. 13--Tokyo | COMING HERE The change, made by presi-| WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—One{he said, the only strong opposi beta ane far ees of Troop | Pee Te Sears Davis. and newspapers today warned Thai-' jdential decree, was declared |of the duties of the departments tion leader to Stalin in the’ | Wining Dy @ it 10 | See | land editorially not to accept of- | ena Te on Stee ee Greut Britan, | WILL ARRIVE TUESDAY; PRO- fense. United States and Great Britain, | but to rely upon. Japan as the; GRAM TO BE ARRANGED ENS GK ag LY Protector of “Asia “against ‘the { a « (C10 TO. HELP IN white races. j FOR ENTERTAINMENT | At the same time, a Japariese | naval spokesman deelared that’ the democracies would be making a fatal mistake if they should un- bearing a complement of 18 of- Gerestimate the strength officers and 148 naval cadets, will Japan's armed forces. Japan, he said, is “riding the calm before a storm.” aid to an atrive in Key West Tuesday of displaced ¢gemporarily because next week, according reaching the navy station here to- fonce program day. stopping at 'Y- ers, joined in acelaiming the plan | on the President's desk. }How lore the vessel will remain qrawn up with aid of the office of jin Key West has not been deter- production management and large | one expert, out of all the score | The navy department's program’ mined. for registration of homes in Key, Mayor Willard M. Albury, with West is expected to pick up speed Capt. Russell S. Crenshaw, navy this week after a meeting tonight | station commandant, will work of the housing registration com-/ ,; a program of entertainment mittee at which plans for new ac-| which is expected to keep the tivity will be completed. lvisiting naval men Members of the committee are through their entire visit. scheduled to meet at the chamber of commerce at 8 o'clock. pected to hold a luncheon for the | jngustry Registration of homes up to now visitors, and the navy and city | & has been carried out only through Buffalo area defense factories. Meanwhile, the sixth owners in bringing information to ¢ginment. the committee office at,liaConcha hotel, but it is understood plans ¥1 for speeding up the werk will be SMAI L FIRE A completed tonight. , RICHARD LIGHT, JR,| ARCHER'S STORE oii: coeur | “present gigantic surge” | fense preparations. ’ i j helped formulate the j tem “is going to be extremely im- | | jon Fleming street last night about ! Richard L. Light Ir., age 14, ; 10:30 o'cock, which was caused by died this morning at 5:45 o'clock a short-circuited wire connected at a local hospital ‘up to the refrigerating system Funeral arrangements under | There was practically no tages the direction of Lopez Funeral resulting from the small blaze Home, will be announced later.|which was quickly extinguished. MANEUVER AREA Survivors are the mother and; The alarm was sounded from father, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. box 125, corner of Fleming and in time of emergency” defense to defense industries.” Light, Sr, one sister Miriam; William streets, which called the 16s Aue Bee Light. i fire apparatus to the scene. LAKE CHARLES, La. Aug. 13. RS ee ee ae were LR ARASSR RNR UAC Gage. 5 VAG Carrying out the army (By Associated Press) Au. 3.— Vice | synchronizing the LONDON, he a i Jean Darlan,| France. High officials in the gov-|troopers began immediately Premier Adm. through his appointment to the |ernment said there had been /|close up honkeytonks, juke joints, 'or anti-Stalin; but once the in- post of defense minister, has be- | mistake in announcing that Dar-} gambling houses and houses of | vader set foot on their soil, they come “dictator” of France, Lon-|lan now has control over French | prostitution reported by military | would be Russians. don diplomats charged today. colonies, and predicted that a/ police. Under his new powers, Lon-|new report from the cabinet would doners said Darlan would be able rectify the error.) to set up a government modelled } (Berlin spokesmen, The army headquarters Italy, swinging his country def- | collaboration with the Axis, said ' stroyed. initely into the Axis camp. jenigmatically today that the were bestowed for the purpose of | determined exactly.) the military area, SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Luther Pinder, operator of the | executive seizure order permit: Ocean View hotel, would like | the government to take over Frank Knox} oe ; ,and Associate OPM Director Sid- | ° ° s a ney Hillman were scheduled to} ¢ to catch the person who tore up|StTikebound Federal Shipbuilding ‘meet with company officials dur- | : his cecal ented a ¥P | plant at Kearny, N. J., is being! ing the day to discuss the strike, , ¥ not | prepared for President Roosevelt's situation. i entirely for the sake of punish- signature, it was announced here | ment, but to find out what the | today. mysterious driver was attempting | New sex SCOUT TROOP cars | would be taken over by the gov-' quested that the state of New Jer-| wrecked on the same day several |ernment, White House Secretary | sey be permitted to enter negotia- | | i months ago when a negro em- | Stephen T. Early said the papers’ tions. j COMING HOME MADE LAST NIGHT ploye smashed one, then return-|would be on President Roose-} The plant employs 17,000 men! j | ed for the other, went home yes- | Velt’s desk when he returns to'the | and holds defense orders of al- -_ \ cocoa i car , capital this. week: | parked in an equally battered ; ————___..... The f side th " 4 i fence ou © garage js E i «ee More Than: Forty: Dead In tracks zig-zagged up and down; : } | +the driveway, and the front of} : . i i, } the garage*was caved in nel ] Fr ‘He y’ Sto m i the driver had atempted to plow | I ee om: av r Ss through the wall. The car had a ean etessice ceemarmanasa door caved WASHINGTON, Aug 13.—Sus- igcsion of te canoe “0 GUESSED® WRONG ON NAZI-RUSSO WAR: today by | Stephen T. Early, White House} necessary for speedy completion! of government is to keep the Ukraine committer suicide six) i = ‘8 : : YMCA. offic: were mpting |“ . |of war department orders for de-| President informed. When any years ago, leaving a note that his SCE: oleae, sone ,Suilty. before Justice ¥ ZO, ie to line up another game for them) REPLACING JOBS |< ave tumed out a clear sum-|°f this expert was that the Ger-/ ‘The Mexican gunboat Durango,’ BUFFALO, .N, ¥., Aug. 13.—|dums of fact and . probabilities | by this that the German transport | CIO leaders pledged immediate |that ‘the policy of the United | problem in attack was far greater | industry-government | States is shaped. plan for re-employing workers} to word plant conversions under the de-}marched on Russia. ieee 6 aes ade f | Walter P. Reuther, director of | authorities on labor, iculture, | di ever REGISTRATION OF seers 3a srt Lich igi am the CIO's General Motors depart- owe cir ba political seueity, in- oe saad 5 gin ‘diers between the ages of 18 and | po ee cruise GOWN ment, and Nathan Cowan, sub-re-|qdustry and military and naval | grasp the enormity of a traffic | 22 who Jack sufficient formal | HOMES PLANNED | several ports en route to this city. gional director of CIO steel work- | affairs, went memos to be.stacked ' problem, the like of which they ‘schooling to become _officer- | national 'mated the course of the Russian- farther and faster than it has. Hi convention of the newly-broaden-/German war so far. All the rest even thought the Nazis id be ed CIO union—the United Auto-!said, in effect, sei arpaned and noe poy |would do just what they said they | have the Ukraine. On this score, 4 mplement workers—pushed steps | would’ do, and in record time—/eyen he has been surprised—but | ‘ove y occupied ' to organize a million members by | annihilate the Russian armies and not as surprised as path ib. who (the training of enlisted men as : : 1945 with special attention on Chi- | take Officers stationed here are €X- cago, New York and the aircraft! short of the Volga river. The convention also called for! disclose his name) figured it .dif- | * Me Z r will cooperate in staging dances, | unionization of 70,000 white collar pce Rena te body of opinion here still holds the cooperation of some property 4 ball game/and: similar enter-j ctrice workers within the organ- sions Sage thal the Germans feb ear a ee ization’s jurisdiction and of any| would win smashing victories, | esting stan wat oak and | new industries arising from the |that somewhere this side of the | 4, know that his lasidnd and | of de-/| Ural mountains or in them, the ; Arthur S. Fleming, chief of the ;down and stall, and that ulti-| that on some major points, his | who | mately the Russians would win | observations so far are holding | re-employ- | the war. ment program, asserted the sys-: | | IED | Hi RNIN ; There was a smail fire dis- " D hy MO CG covered in Archer's Grocery Store | Portant to our national ae ged - t and un- a doubtedly will be duplicated else- where as an “effective cushion for | steps by which he arrived at these workers transferred from non-|conclusions are interesting. } CLEARED OF VICE — = : ane. ees Ter passivity by Hitler’s overtures of | e gj} here to join military police and j friendship and cooperation. They gateline, said these sources added S ‘Dictator health officers in wiping out pros- | expected attack and they built up | 04 pind Japanese troops had ad- L titution and other forms of vice jand trained their army to meet it. vanced in southern French preliminary to army ‘maneuvers starting next week and lasting! with an observation about Rus-| T ance, ays n ion through September. i sian morale—namely that ce) . is ; £2 48 i ict Russians are Russians first a x a Ltr that “vice is out” for the duration anything else (including Con | heipess duce of the simulated warfare in which 'munists) afterwards. They might; 2 defense of | 500,000 troops wil participate, the | be Georgians, Ukrainians, White | Camp Polk reported that already | would be no defection in the obviously | $160,000 worth of gambling equip- | Ukraine. Reports of what had after those in Germany and in pleased over signs of new French |ment had been seized and de- happened to some of their rela- ‘The most difficulty for the law |the Ukrainians that ‘the (Observers in Vichy said today | measure of warmth between Ger-|enforcement officers was expected | would never leave their Admiral Darlan’s new powers/many and France still cannot be to be prostitutes, already invading resources and their KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1941 War Last nt Now Being Prepared idee 2 Night; Russian Fran ‘oe New Jersey Gov. Charles Edi- son yesterday addressed a plea to Although there has been no def- : Knox, urging him to refrain from} 2 . ee Secs linite indication that the plant/taking over the plant. ‘SEVERAL ARRESTS | Various Points t 4 D * A ti iti ’ most a half billion dollars. ae |CAPTURE DIAMOND BALL | FOUR WOMEN PICKED UP BY | HONORS: EXPECTED TO | CONSTABLE BIENVE RETURN TOMORROW NIDO PEREZ { (iby Amsociated rena) |_ NEw YORK, Aug = ‘dreds of Royal Air Force: Key West boy scouts of troop; Four more women charged with | ors, carrying out their vine No. 51, expected back in this city | prostitution last mght were ar-| ss dove { af‘ raid of the war, thundered. |tomorrow after a two weeks’! Tested by Constable Bienvenido’ Bertin last night and sm i Perez, following up two raids of! ‘ cities ~~ and- «By Assoctated Press) !camping trip through the stat F ; sia ¢ previous. night in which six; SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 13—, ‘Several towns in the south were;have defeated three diamondbal Germany, | Chile counted more than 40 dead Said to be flooded, while others |teams without a loss, and may | Women were held and a man W@S'tojiand and beegnns panes after a week of violent, @ the mountains are blocked with | tackle another squad in Miami to- | Charged with selling liquor to; “phe attack on i ‘ : ‘ ‘ snow. i day. | minors. hi es storms in the interior which havé “Landslides and floods have! Albert E. Peirce, Jr., who made| Pearl Thomas, alleged operator ever hurled. against the Getma broken down railroad and airline’ smashed railroad lines at nine’ the trip with the scouts, said the | of & bawdy house at Olivia and} capital, followed by only. WORK SUSPENDED service and isolated some towns. | points in the interior. ° boys have enjoyed their tour and | Fort streets, was held under $50 ours an attack haive-awell and happy. }bond with Marie Powers, aad " ue : a iki 3 : | ‘The local scouts won their-first | Atkinson and Dorothy WASHINGTON EXPERTS-ALL BUT ONE~ sos," cinp oversea igi he scia jnear Tampa, defeating Troop 401 gerne sear with ! i re of Tampa in a doubleheader, 4-2 porate singe i j . limirary. hearing before Peace beens up next, and was turned Sustiee Seclcein rs goa &: j back with a 31-2 defeat. { ——— i i: Moving on, the boys met the and was bound over to ¢riminal jand 8-4 Troop 16, also of Tampa, vital issue arises, the experts 0 fight oti and were placed under § ints bie Od ated oer cal statistics and knowledge until; : today. mary and their best conclusions. mans had failed to compute ba CAREERS COLLEGE Often, it is from such memotan-|risks by the cube root. He meant ite Auancinted Prewat {than the Russian one in retreat | WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Fol- Such a matter of vital im-|—that the Germans would have! - He ; of|portance arose when Germany io create an endless belt of sup- Pee bape pe sarscarty aoe \ R The experts’ plies and reinforcements on a} affe, the army offered military went into their huddles and, from vaster scale and for far greater | H°OF Coe. to airminded sol-| ‘had never faced, he said. geste i naiekad ay ent | in anawce aed, Gnciec 4 Oh ax jeellent character and sound phy- sique, and graduates of a high! school or other secondary school. | {They must agree to serve at least |. Approved recently by congress, As nearly as I can find out, only | Allowed For More Sveed This man figured that the or more, even closely approxi-| initial German drive would g that the Nazis ‘in Moscow by now, perhaps even { they wanted foretold complete Russian col- ‘pilots is to start Aug, 16, with the | s jlapse in six weeks. | asstgoment bet initial contin | 3 But this one. fellow (can’t) | must pomt'out’that the main pornos, men to primary OLD AUTO T king im ll TQ. BE everything conclu- | with the other éxperts—not with | saments went to the Presi- | *™ }Nazi war machine would slow | dente desk almost in full : and | Wings | against all the others. Saw Russians As Russians Even his timing erred in favor): r I o u | ot the Glemuans ana of course now |e a CHARGE SIAM |pleting flight i right he is from here on rests, 4 WOOED BY BRITISH | wit! sti be relied on for most ith the future. But some of the te Sees military pilots. (iy Ansociated Press) e new regulations TOKYO, Aug. 13.—Domei said that enlisted men winning In the first place, he believed ' that usually reliable Thai sources | Wings should hold ratings of |that the Russian army was much | paq informed it that the British | technical or master |better and more effectively me-| government recently approached | | chanized than anybody suspected. | Thailand secretly for use of mili- The Russians, for years, had been; bases there in return for a/ positive that some day they !<consideration” regarding lost} BA would have to right the Germans | Thai territories in British Malaya jand they were not lulled into: ang Burma. 3 The dispatch, under a Bangkok | He buttressed this reasoning! China there had been in in to Russians or Siberians; pro-Stalin | tives in Poland would convince |