The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 10, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, hex most equable cimmate is the country; with am sverage range of only 14° Fahren?=% Che Key West Citizen ty VOLUME LXIV. No. 111. Housé Committeé Has Been Called Upon To Investigate Florida's Gasoline Supply This Is For Purpose or! Determining Why State Is Now In District One For Rationing (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10. —The House interstate and foreign commerce committee has! been asked to investigate gaso- | line supplies in Florida with a| view to determining why the! Petroleum Administration for War has placed the state in Dis- frict One for Poses. rationing pur- The request was made by Representative J. Hardin Peter- son when he learned that the Petroleum sub-committee of the interstate and foreign commerce committee was to conduct a sim- ilar investigation into the situa- tion in Western Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, Representative |’ Clarence Lea (D. Cal.) informed Western Pennsylvania Congress- men, who were seeking an inde- Pendent investigation of PAW and why it was allegedly dis- criminating against what is claimed to be a producing area. Representative , Peterson — said he would request Roeoseistalice. Lea to widen the scope 6f the sub-committee hearings teive testimony purporting to! show that Florida should be in District Two. where gasoline is rationed only as a rubber con servation area. At present the difference be- tween Districts One and Two is that in the fotmer the basic coupon is worth 1% gallons a week, while in the latter it is) worth four gallons. Peterson also said he planned! to instigate an investigation by a sub-committee of the merchant marine and fisheries committee, of which he is a member, to de-| termine the number of available for barges hauling gasoline and other from the Gulf fields into Florida and further east by way of the petroleum products intrecoastal waterway. THROWS ITS VOICE NEW YORK.—The pika, a Rocky Mountain rodent, can} throw its voice like a ventrilo-| quist when alarmed. i (Le kt LL aS PRACTICE AIR RAID ALARM HERE TUESDAY Comdr, W. E, Martin, Captain of the Key West Navy Yard, announced today that a practice air raid alarm will be sounded tomorrow between 3:00 and 3:30 p, m. Civilians and military per- sonnel are reminded to fa- miliarize themselves with the rules covering air raid alarm signels immediately. Since this is only a prac- tice air raid alarm, all per- sons are requested to carry out all rules with ‘the excep- tion of seeking shelter. Signals will be sounded from the Naval ‘Operating Base, Naval Air Station and ‘new Naval Hospital and should be audible on all sec- tions of the island. CSI ITI IL ISS CRIMINAL COURT CONVENED TODAY. ADJOURNMENT ORDERED SHORT TIME AFTER UNTIL MAY 24 Judge Thomas S. Caro vened the criminal court regular session today and -ad- journed it to May 24. Court was opened with prayer by the Rev. W. B. Mundy, pastor of the Fleming Street Mi ist Church. athe & A ‘special, term, will be held on Tuesday ‘morning, May 18, when Judge Caro will receive pleas of guilty. At that timé a jury will con- in to 1 re-}.be_drawn’to serve at;the. regular term. OMA EM MM eg) SIXTH FED. RESERVE DIST. LEADS OTHERS IN WAR LOAN DRIVE (Special to The Citizen) ATLANTA, May 10.—In ratio, the Southern states, comprising the Sixth Federal Reserve District. have amassed wer bond sales in the Second War Bond loan drive, which at present give them leader- ship over all other banking districts of the country, ac- cording to figures released here today. Figures to date from the Federal District of Atlanta show that the area has raised $452,080.00 ageinst 2 quota of $250,000,000, or 189 per cent of quota, the highest per centage of any Federal Reserve Dis- trict in the nation, on the basis of the latest returns. IPI SS ILS SS } MOTOR TUNE-UP SAVES GAS Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming St. Opposite Army Barracks We will remain closed all day Tuesday, May 11th, on account of the death of Mr. Mar- vin Bronner, a beloved partner of our firm. THE MAXWELL CO. Phone 5. THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE. U. REDS WIPE OUT TWO COMPANIES OF ARTILLERY RUSSIAN FORCES CONFINE FIERCE FIGHTING IN AREA| AROUND NOVOROSSIISK: NAZIS DESPERATE (By Associated Press) | MOSCOW, May 10.—The Rus-| sian communique again today | confined its information to the fierce fighting in the Novoros- siisk area. The aim of the Russians fs to/| }recapture their great naval base | jon the Black Sea at Novorossiisk, | but the report said the Germans | ere clinging desperately to every rock and every trench of their! defensive positions. the fighting today, the communique stated that the) Reds had annihilated two enemy | In } companies of artillery and de | | stroyed six guns-and mortars. | COLORED MAN DROWNED SUNDAY i ANOTHER NEGRO DIES AT! MARATHON WITHOUT MEDICAL AID ! | | Robert Jenkins, a powerful col- ored man—those who saw him said ‘he was built like Joe Louis—w: drowned yesterday when he step-j ped into an looking for crawfish. Jenkins and several other col- ored men weit on an outing: yes- ferday-at Bafiia?#orida. While the | otHers fished, Jenkins, decided: to try’ his. lick “crawfishing.” He ‘was; walking alorig‘a bar, with the wa- jter slightly above his knees, prob- ing under shelves in search for crawfish, when he stepped into the hole. | His companions told Sheriff} Berlin Sawyer that Jenkins did {disappeared, they went in search of | him and found his body in the bot-| Sheriff Sawyer was returning | from Marathon, where he had been alled in the case of another color- | ed man who had died without} medical attendance. Sheriff Saw-j} {caused by tuberculosis. and he | is driving back to Key West} when he heard about the drown- | ing. Jenkins’ body brought to | this city in the ambulance of the | Lopez Funeral Home. | | | WILL PAY CASH! | for LATE MODEL USED CARS N AVARRO, Inc. Opposite Bus Station Office Rear Central Hotel SQUIBB spc Oil | father, | these 18-foot hole while | - not know how to swim. When he |r tim of the hole. - yer learned that death had been} | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1948. [FRANCO CALLS ON WARRING NATIONS! TO LAY DOWN ARMS FOR RESTORATION OF PEACE T0,A WAR-TORN. WORLD, eh Reeees ae (Bz Associated Press) LONDON, May 10—Generalissimo Francisco Franco. of Spain, announced today that he is‘in/full accord with Pope Pius 1X “raid | ing that the war be brought td an end. Franco called on the Allies and the Axis powers to lay down their | ~ arms and to begin forthwith to re-establish peace j world. He warned the Allies that they should take that action before | it is too late to stop communism from destroying western civilization. While Franco did not mention Russia. | thrust was directed at that country. Attorney John G. Sawyer Seeking Data For Address In Eulogy To oJ udge Locke: Attorney John Sawyer tc ‘ote to Mi E of Jacksor f c n from he life the e James W, during the many 3 he lin Key West, to use in a data of her Lor resided short ad deliver jwhen a Santis nit is unveiled in tt in Key West with Jo! | brick, one of Key We ing business men in tho: the other was William Curr: clerk, working 10 hours a | studying law at 1 | Mr. Philbrick ‘ coal shed, ic and wharfs, vaged from wrecks on what is now the Porter Dock Company’s property. As though undertakings were ~ not; enough for one man to condu Mr. Philbrick established the first street car system in Key West, when the were pulled by} on wi in a war-weary; t was apparent that his | tructed La Brisa on | eventies Locke, bar eral s before, w: pointed a Federal court judge. courthouse w ed by t big fire in 1886 convened court upstairs in brick building at Front patrick streets. owned father. afte by Mr. nortly eward, court w Id in et, and, office 1887, the was finish-! late in building Locke’s and Judge was wrec legal salvage, ly quoted until today. Julius Stone and Allan B. Claire, } Jr., are other committee attend that the was unveiling 138 eenvened hele by Tide Hol- !land on May 17. TIRES | gest raid of the war yesterdey. when 400 bombers of all types blasted Said To Be Bete Watcher Th en On Beaches) Mrs. Aleda Chamberlin Pi 802 Eaton street, writes The tizen about the great wor hat dogs,,under the American 2 doing in this war, and she also encloses a_ bulletin from the Humane Society of New York and an article, in SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Duval at Fleming Phone 199 | | Heading For ‘WORK 1 COUNTRY’S WAR ACTIVITES which Gabriel Heatter is quoted at length about the parts dogs! are playing in the Dog: the Navy, the Marines, and they Shepherds, Retriever: (Continued on Page war. include Setters, Three) that happened when she flew to the Alcan country in the northern wilderness of Canada and Alaska. Penny sought her brother, lost in a plane crash while making newsreel shots of the new Alcan highway. Penny almost lost her life and her heart also—but not to the man she thought she was marrying. Her story is told in the new serial starting in this newspaper soon— as timely asthe latest news. Highway To Her Heart Starting in The Citizen Wednesday, May 12 Judge ving been admitted to the I: ap- | walkout when the two weeks’ truce expires on May 18. His} which hej} the! and Fitz-j a building on Whitehead ; old jed and the courtroom in it was oc- | |cupied by Judge Locke. specialty | and his| >| volume on Admiralty Law is wide- | members of the | Florida out of the Easterg and place it in the Centre] Time status. will the Monroe County Bar Associ in| be voted on in the senate late this afternoon. The bill passed the house. appointe ‘CLAIMS DoGs ARE PERFORMING. GREAT | are serving in the Army,! Bulgars have not shown any disposition to make that move. the Coast Guard and: — | | | j Japs have lost so many large | dently have changed their policy pa la e3 | CONTRACTORS’ S.A. Twenty-Five Thousand More Axis ops Captured Today By Ali Total Of Seventy-Fix Thousand Taken Sec Big Push Agaimst Tuni And Buerte LATE BULLETINS WASHINGTON.—The OPA announced that the prices of milk | butter and cheese were decreased in 130 cities in the United States to | day. That was the first move of four to lower price ceilings om com | modities. the last of which is expected to go into effect on June | when prices on coffee and five different kinds of meat will be re Besa by 10 per cent. { i | | PRICES OF FOODSTUFFS DECREASE | five thousend more Axs were captured & MINERS RETURN TO WORK WASHINGTON.—It was reported today that the comperatively 7 | few coal miners that had been on strike in Pennsylvania, Ohio and In diana mines, have returned to work. There is still talk of a general HEALTH CERTIFICATES BEFORE MARRIAGE TALLAHASSEE.—The senate is considering a bill today that | would require couples wishing to marry to obtain certificates of good health before licenses are issued to them. Another bill, up im the Senzte, would turn over unclaimed balances in banks in Florida to the state. The amount of unclaimed accounts is $3,000,000. am the outskirts of Tunis and Bizerte. with a constant siream of captured enemy cld marching to the hard fighting im Tumusia toda between the British Fiest Ar and contingents of Germans a. Italians on the Cap Bon penin j Sule. rear. the LELAND HARVY BACK IN JAIL TATNALL., Ga.—Leland Harvey, the leader of the gang of des | peradoes that escaped from the penitentiary here. was captured to- | day and wes placed in solitary confinement. Governor Arnall is of- fering a reward of $500 for the capture of other convicts still at large. CENTRAL TIME FOR STATE? TALLAHASSEE.—It is expected that the bill which would take It is estamated that there ar- 50.000 Axis troops in that area and. while they are fighting des Perately, the defensive tact are reported to be disorgenized Word was issued by headquer ers that every German and ever Italian has the alternative o! surrendering or fighting* to the death. and the senate has received many protests against its enactment, one AMERICANS MAKE THEIR BIGGEST RAID ALGIERS.—American flyers in American planes made their big- | Palermo, i in Sicily, for more than an hour. Ships in the harbor were | susey idl shore installations were destroyed. There was little enemy yesistince in the air. Two squadrons of enemy planes attempted to in- i — raiders; did 13 oF them were shot down. | we ere aa oe TURKEY MAY/ENTER WAR : Pauerter i | given by the vic {5 LONDON.—Reports were ctirrént this inorning that Turkey ani totious Allies in — eriter the war on the side of the Allies. The capture of Tunis and Bi-| se. #® wipe out the jest zerte had a tremendous effect on the attitude of the Turks. who even! a before the victories, leaned toward the Allied side: Whether or not “! A*i¢ comtrol of amy part of Turkey will declare war on Germany and her Allies is a question. but Africa. Headquarters announce | it is known positively that Turkey is now taking a firm stand in her that there will not be any Dun diplometic relations with Germany. Hitler is reported to be trying to | egg on Bulgaria to attack the Turkish possession of Thrace, but the querke at Cap Bon. Large jcen not enter the waters at any -| place slong the peninsula, ar enemy troeps who are striving Jap Losses In Large Ships escape im small boets or barge Cause Change In Operations «= sis siesta oy ames 2» ers. who have complete Left the air. All along the shores contro: (By Associated Press) MELBOURNE, May 10.—The | the Southwest Pacific, they evi of smal |ships in their attempts to keep Md are now using smal! bosts. + i. ciled uo om the shores | some of them not much to their | larger ' foating in the shallow sea motor- upa flow of supplies islands in| | boats, in attempting to keep in- than the usual run of lied aircraft pilots, returnins their beses this morning. 7 Paw | as = Fee ee tact their lines of _communica- ported they ssw teundseds of ti awe diers clinging to wreckage. 9 DUKE’S BAR- B-Q | Allied airmen today made four jheavy raids on a small eer ee the Japs are holding sage ye mile from 11 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. | base at Salamaua. Australian troops are holding GODFREY TEARLE in ithe front in that and, after; “ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING” 300 FRONT STREET wevvvvvvvwvwrrores Wanted! Wasedl PRESCRIPTIONS 2 WAITRESSES | |the raids, they resumed their of NEWS and SERIAL LA CONCHA HOTEL | 1100 Simonton Street lfensives, the objective of which | Dining Room ‘GARDNER’S PHARMACY SEE MR. SALAS Phone 177 Free Deivery A DEFENSE PROJECT T privileges of this Dormitory NOTICE Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2-30 te 4-30 forces,on the many area, |CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES| of the Key West Naval Station PERSONNEL p. m., water will be turned off to make exten- sions, FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT COMMISSION of Army and Navy Defense RA $1.00 Per Day $3.50 Per Week SR