The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 13, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIV. No. 114. Roosevelt. And. Ghurcil. é Today Several. Oiher Represen- SDOIDOEIE SS) tatives Of Allied Na-| SENATE PASSES THREE tions Are Included In Group (By Associated Prenn) TALLAHASSEE, May 13. —The Senate body of the Florida Legislature passed the following House bills which were introduced in the House bv Representative Bernie C. Pansy of Monroe County, which Fad already passed the House: Bill 546, relating to Key West City Council salaries. Bill 549, relating. to tax levy for Key West City Hos- pital. Bill 551, relating to upkeep tax on buses. (By Associated Preas) WASHINGTON, May 13—A conference was held today by President Roosevelt, Prime Min- ister Churchill and representa- tives of Australia, China and the Netherlands, severat of whose! colonial possessions \are in Jap | anese hands, :and, whileino pub- k Bek vwas:mnade,, of VOOM MELAS I SG? | the matters ‘discussed, it is be- lieved that they pertained to the | waging of powerful ottesives| ARE BEING 3 SOUGHT against the Jepanese in China and the Southwest Pacific, iNAVY HAS REOPENED EN-! Burma is another place from! ys ierwENTS FOR NEW which the Allies are determined | q 9 SSIGNMEN' to drive the Japs, but it is not/ - e expected to begin the drive egainst them there until'the end. The Navy has reopened shore; , patrol enlistments, and 119 men; of the monsoon season in Sep-: ‘with police experience are being | tember. More heavier against the Japs, | sought for » immediate | ments in the Seventh Naval Dis- trict, said Lieut. M, C. Rhodes, Jr..! | officer in charge of South Florida | assign- | and blows | carrying the: fight to Japan itself, have been! recruiting. The age range is from : scheduled, and the opinion here | 38 to 50 years. is that final action is now being | Men accepted will re ings of chief specialists, or spe- taken with thet end in view, hcialists first, second and third What is considered in the na- | |class, The base pay rate is $126: in- monthly for chief specialists, $114} tfor first class, $96 for seennd class | ture of 2 confirmation of crease activity against the Jars and $78 for third class. Generous! janitor. A janitor has not vet been| Waltham, Mass. is the calling of a conference of allowances for dependents, how- ever, increase these sums by a the Pacific War Council, witi! considerable amount. whom President Roosevelt wilt, Qualifications vary, It was announcd that Mr. Churchill’ meet sometime next week. of recom- ical rve. de- ience, provide letters mendation, and pass the ph. tests set up for the Naval Re: probably will not be at the con-! The only physical waiver is fective color perception. 24 ane | Chief specialists and first cla council, as he will be attending. specialists must have mili‘ary e R i perience and an honorable di to other matters at that time, Eratge fn atthue the Ne ‘Army. Marines or Coast ( Second and third class spec are not required to have milit: e: training background. The amount of police experi ence needed varies. Chicf sp ists must have 15 vears, with f' second and third class specialis' required to have ten, six and two years, respectively. Followng enlistment the men will be sent to the nearest Naval training station for outfitting ference with members discussion tons of will be There was further today of the 2,000,000 shipping, it was said, used to send supplies to China, the shipments passing through their initial stages in the Medi-' terrenean. °°» 1° Prime ‘Mimister.>': MacKenzie King, ‘of: Canada,| \iti was stated, will arrive in Washington ‘next: be returned to the Seventh Naval District for assignment Those who have previo: been rejected for shore patrol signments are urged to ask ‘reconsideration, said Lieutenant Tuesday to teke partiin the dis- | cussions. Other matters that are being discussed, it was ,losses on. enemy ‘SHORE PATROLMEN ve rat-; although — all men must have police exper-| jis not and indoctrination. Then they will! “ for regard further supplies to Rus- } (Continued on Page Four) , any Navy ' Florida conjectured, | ) Rhodes. made at station in Applications can be recruiting Announcement Mr. Glen Kilpatrick, formerly connected...with£thePeople’s Credit Store, is Manager of the now General KEY WEST JEWELRY & LOAN CO. Che Key West Cittern Lee SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Key West, Florida, hes t>e most equable climate is the country: with an average range of only 14° Fahrent -t ‘SPECULATE ON NEXT OFFENSIVE BELIRVE THAT ARMIES win! STRIKE FROM CRETE | AT ENEMY (iby Asmoctated Prensy LONDON, May 13.—Crete was | probably the vlece where the | Allied Armies in North Africa | will strike next against the Ital- lians and the Germans. | And there are 30,000 Greek jSuerillas in Crete, and, despite | the ruthlessness of the warfare \that has been waged against them ;by German and _ Italian forces, j they still continue to flare up jhere and there, inflicting heavy troops. and de- istroying many military. installa- tions almost as fast as they can ibe erected by Axis engineers. | But Hitler is reported, -to be more perturbed over the probabil- | tty that the Allies will strike first at one:of, the. channel, ports or mewhere in the Balkans. Mar- shal Rommel is said to have been appointed by Hitler to take full | charge of the preparations that are ; being made to try to withstand jinvasion at any point in eG Se ol code ‘MARIO GARCIA IS 1 i { | i | | WILL CURRY STILL HOLDS POSITION OF ASSISTANT JANITOR i aes he i Commissioner Edward Gom f the first district, who war named ehairman of the buildings {and grounds committee at the meeting of the commission ov ‘Tuesday evening, today appoint- ed Marie Garcia as prison guard ‘to succeed Lerov-Torres, resigned. Will. Curry, a carry-over from the other administration, — still helds the position assistant | j ned to succeed Leon Roberts, resigned, and Mr. Gomez said it | probably will be t before that vacancy will be filled. It used to be a standing joke in the county court housz:—a joke that clused many a chuckle. of; pointed in the Navy, and he was there, also four emplc watching two prisoners work—, but that, | condi’ion has come to an end. Mr. , Gomez said today that he demands service among the employes whom he appoints, and if service given, the jobs will be, given to somebody else. | RUSSIAN THRUST | TERMED NON-STOP. | (By Asscciated Press) MOSCOW, May 13.—The Rus- sian high command announced to- |day that the Russian offensive in‘ the northwest Caucasus will be non-stop,” with the object in view of frustrating German:at- jtempts to launch.a mighty piten-} sive in the Donetz area. Russian planes and artillery are pounding almost incessantly at the network of trains that the Germans are using to bring up re- |inforcements and supplies. Today three trains were hit by bombs jand destroyed, and attacks also }were made on enemy gun em- | placements. |four county TRACTOR PINS BOY KAN: jing a neighbor with the plowing, | Ray Firkens, 12, was pinned be-| |neath, the tractor, when it turned | jover. Bobby Rice, 9. ran a half- | mile for help and he and Mrs. } Pauline Hastings, with their fin- i gers and a butcher knife, dug for! ! more than an hour to extricate the | boy. He emerged with only cuts | and bruises. | WE HAVE A LIMITED SUPPLY | ' of DUCKS, GEESE and Large TURKEYS j PLACE YOUR ORDER EARLY!) BRADY’S (Live) Poultry Market 1214 White Street Phone 540) ee | ical \ request of Mrs. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, T \HEAVY RAID MADE LAST NIGHT ON DUISBURG;«GERMAN CITY; (iy Apnocipted Press) LONDON, May 13.—The -heav~ jiest load of bombs that has. fal-j \len on. anv city during one raid #t any time since the war was ‘started, was dropped last night MONROE COUNTY BILLS |riaved u» prominently today as ° Duisburg, the lerqest inland industrial city in Germany. The British Air -Ministry said today that the RAF loosed 2,000 tons of bombs on Duisburg over Pail Lawson, Youth, Res HURSDAY, MAY 13, 1943. Leet area \offive square miles, | | where most, of that city’s indu: | teies were situated. The fires | ; Were turned into seas of flames, billowing high into the air} Bridges and canal locks, in addi-} tion to war and industrial plants, | were bombed. i Between 600 and 650 planes participated in the raid, and 34; of them failed to return to their | bases. It was the sixtieth time | Duisburg was bombed, and April _ ;26 was the last time it was at- ‘ tacked. cues Two Boys At Poinciana bake Two boys,.one. of. them sever and the other;J0, stepped off an embankmznt, Lake, unaware that into Poinciana the water was as deep as it turned out to be, and as they could not swim ihey cried Justily for help. Paul. the 10-year-old son of S. ; W. Lawson, 28-1 Poinciana Place, responded to the calls and res- cued one of the boys without Dies At Lieut. Stephen M. Douglass, 77, United States Navy, retired, died last night at 9:10 o'clock at the United States Naval Hospital here. Funeral arrangements, under the direction of we Lopez Funerat Home, will be announced later. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. May Louise Douglas. and one brother, James Dyugld ada. LIFE SKETCH Lieut. Douglass was born He spent tea years in China and Japan as Apothecary on the Omaha, Lan at ‘0 or three days caster and Detroit, making three ant surgeon. successive cruises around the world. He was one of the first twenty-five -Apodnecaries ap- the last living member. He was at Guantanamo on the Mathias, and at Sree Island at Portsmouth, H., Navy Yard Hospital, with the Spanish pris oners all during the Spanish American War. In 1898 when the Pharmaceut Corps was created, he wa one ‘of the first appointed. .He ata two years at the Boston Navy Yard. In 1900 he was sent to Key West Naval Station in charge of the Medical Dispens- lary. He served sixteen months at ROTES' HONOR iy MCCONNELL WORKS)-@N BOOK : WILLIAM OD. ADDRESS AT LUNCHEON TODAY cake A birthday at the Rotary luncheon. Mr. Mc- | ‘ Connell’s daughter, Mrs. Gloria S. AS CITY.—While help-; Bauer, was a guest at the lunch-' Friday of next week, eon. William D. Keis, ‘the draughting school in the Navy Yard, made interesting ad- dress on that occupation. The death of veteran Rotari#n Stepben Douglas s formally Te- {ported at. the meeting,.. At;the Doughas, -itowas instructor in an jdecided that the paH«bearees: be! ti mayiremain there for only a ‘few days or as long as twa, weeks, will beredié; Rotarians. Funeral services ducted on Sautrday, but where j and at what time will be announc- {ed later in The Citizen, it was | stated at the meeting. any. cifficulty. the other had gone down the third time before Paul grabbed him, bythe back of the collar, pulled his head above weter and swam safely to the embankment, only a few feet awey. i “The water locked so shallow - we thouzht we could stand in it easily.” the first boy said, “but it was over our heads.” { Naval Hospital Indian Head, Md., Otficer in charge, also at Iona Island Naval Magazine, New York, in the same capacity for five yeal He spent two years at the Mare Island Naval Hos- jital, two years at Canaco Ho. pital in the Philippines. He was; erdered home via of Lurope, as Medical 3 of Cay-smaking his fourth complete cu-{ renit of the globe. He served ail first world war at the Nava) Hospital at Newport, R. L, and wie there was transferred to: the Medical Corps as an assist He was detached igom there in 1920 and sent to the Naval Academy Dispensary, having had four years of duty years at the Washington Navy Yard Dispens- ary. He was detached and Sent to Parris Island, S. C., Marine Base, where he retired in 192. In 1901 he married Miss May Louise Johnson at Key West, where they have lived for the past eleven years. ‘wo children were born to them, Florence Stapleton and Maicoim Farle, both of whom died in an_ epi- demic at fona Isiand, N. Y. He was a member of the Span- ish-American’ War Veterans and also a member of the American Legion and the Rotary Club. i TAX ASSESSOR through the KEIS GIVES MAKING F\INAL ENTRIES; as to gain power ; Lewis. WILL BE DELIVERED TO 1 | ‘ful. speech, Senator Commander Of Axis FOrcES In nisia ‘Stormed And ‘Stamped hen Compelled 10 Surrender LATE BULLETINS {By Associated Press) THOMPSON NAMED MIAMI'S MAYOR MIAMI.—Leonard Thcmpson was named this morning as mayor of this city by the commissioners who were elected on Tuesday. “Thompson received the highest vote, and. as is customary. wes made : mayor.’ He succeeds C. H. Reeder. Thompson wes appointed to « ve camcy on the corcmission lest year, and gained populer favor by his adherence to: the duties of his office. PRIME MINISTER TO ADDRESS CONGRESS WASHINGTON.—Prime Minister Winston Churchill Frise visit to the United States was announced ye: aati by the ' While House, wi!l address a joint session of congress ' beginning at 12:30 o'clock, next Tuesday VICTOR EMMANUEL TO ABDICATE? LONDON,—Reports reached here tocay that King Victor Em : manuel is on the pcint of abdicating as @ result of Italy's losing alll of NOW PRISON GUARD Lieut. Stephen Douglass : | her African empire. It was stated also that Mussolini is reorganizing the Itelian high command for the same reason. CATHOLIC PRIESTS WARN NAZIS LONDON.—Some Catholic priests in Germany todey werned the } Nazis that their anti-religious mcevemoents are losing them the respect of the entire civilized world. Catholics at home, they said, can not wholeheartedly support the Navi cause when they ere persecuted by the Nezis themselves. 13 KILLED IN ENGLAND LONDON.—Ezcrly this morning German plenes raided the sowth | cast coast of England and killed 13 persons, The British Air Ministry said no damage was done to military installations. BED WEATHER GROUMSsROMBERS MELBOURNE.—Bad weather. durina the lest few days. heve kept Allied bombers on the ground.* Today's report said thet three ciarhes have occurred since yesterday between the Japs and the Al lies in the Salamaua area of New Guinea. Sehitor ‘Pepper. Denomabiis Lewis For Recent Actions In Strike Against Nation have ar ‘The Clizen this morning fe- we are not going to dictators here. ceived from Senator Claude “Lewis has done b Pepper a, copy of the speech he sib: eatin sak delivered acainst John L. Lewis. other man in the head of the striking United Mine ‘We might as well Workers of America. Bed more to than al labor cour whether any individual, any group can with Here are some excerpts from sabotage the war effort what probably is the most force- cannot settle that, Pepper has win the: war. ever. delivered: “The Congress, and the cour “John Li. Lewis has not only try will stand behind the Pr oprdsed. the Government, he fias dent as he ‘with malice efied it: ‘In time of war he none; with charity j planning a_rebellion, not so much|iv mantains the to gain advantage for the minersjest and squelches for John L.| insurrection impunity If we canno’ toward for all or all’ clea national this inte incipient “However worthy the claims PROOF of the miners are, it is not de- * Requesied Thai He &. Permuied To dead ssage Te Huler, # Master megmery ice # time be decided i yecterdey. knowing thet it vse'ess to comfinue te fight euse thet wes ist He refuse? m Geep gutters. to seam the egreement for -s a= ccndition=i surrender, end - quested he be permicted t= 2 message to Mifler iciorm ny hum the! the Axis troops fought io ther ost coritidcs He e\so msisted thet be surren der cg, to.@ guerd vi Gener i_ontgomery s wich bed esd Mersre Hicmemel 1550 aiies fom Al:mom, on the border ef Ee, pt to she Mereth Line te. Tumis2. But only one of Von Arnims u wes crented: be w= rermitied to send his mmcez o Hiller. but while the messe wes bint written and while Wes goin, tirouch the aiz. th and: of Germens ard lteli fully equipped wiuk rifles anc cartr dg_s were surrema::: - fast es the Allied Ocficia hoy could pass z lines. informet.on 59d alll Von Arnim wes teken t “Sri ish feadq@utricrs”. bul it wes act explained whether it pert ne to the First or the Eictth Army. All ocrgsnized resistence over in Tunisie. Todey there wes @n occasional shot from © sx for Rotarian: | Aaron McConnell was cut today Gandolfo said today he and his set up by the President and ac COMPTROLLER mocracy for all other claimant; ito submit their cases to the War Labor Board and John L. Lewis! County Tax Assessor Claude 4, seorn and spurn this Board, | clerks are making final entries in' quiesced in by the country to !the 1943 tax book, and that, on ‘handle disputes relating to wage} he will | mereases. 2, i “The time has now come forj either express it to Comptroller J.ig showdown. We are fighting M. Lee or take the book to Talla-/gictators abroad. It is up to the! | President to show the nation that hassee himself. Because of congested traffic,| er, in a fox hole rock, but Tunisia hes come to en end BOSWELL, N. M.—In order to = san j Prove his point, Dayton Tal madge, president of the New Mex ico, Funeral Directors’ Associa \tion, built several caskets, cerding to OPA specifications. He took them to a meeting with OPA officials and association meni and asked the members to them out. The caskets were rmall for more than half of the men. otherwise the war Besid-s capturing more 168.009 prisoners. then approximateiy 1,000 field quns, 250 tenks and many plenes, not vet enumers ed. all in usable condition. here too , Gandolfo said that probably the? {book will be expressed, aitnougii' the decision will be made by Mr.{ Lee whether that will be done tae Mr, Gandolfo will make the trip. ‘The book! must be in the ee troliet's office before June 1, andj | The Whenwit igireturned to Mr. Gan-| dolfo, it will be presented for fi-| nal approval to the county com-} mission, sitting as an equalization board. LEPC. 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