The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 19, 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. 119. > Counel Defers Action On Ordinance To Remove All Bars. From Many Addresses Made At Meeting Opposing Meas- ure That Was Presented Last Night The ordinance calling for the removal of all liquor, beer and wine establishments off of Du- val street, beginning with the new license period on October 1, was read at the regular meeting of the City Council last night, and after considerable discus- sion it was decided to, defer ac- tion on the document for further consideration. There was quite a number of citizens in attendance at the meeting, many of whom ad dressed the council on the sub- ject. A petition signed by sixty residents along Duval street, op- Posing the ordinance, was read. Fred J. Dion, agent for various Properties here, addressed the board, and stated that he. was opposed to the ordinance because he could not see where it would bring about the desired results. Mrs. Hugh Williams, of 400 Duval street, addressed the meeting and stated that she felt that the ordinance was very j and said that she felt that the council should be tol- erant of other people's rights. Providing that they are operat ing in a legal way. Mrs, Williams concluded her remarks by, saying that she was a resident of Duval street, and had never had any real com plaint to make about conditions along that thoroughfare. Chas. Salas, manager of the Hotel La Concha, said that he ‘was opposed to the ordinance, and stated that if it was passed that he would be forced recommend the closing of the hotel, which is located at the corner of Fleming and Duva! streets. Cecil Carbonell, who operates @ place on Duval, also addressed the board in opposition to the measure. to Allan B. Cleare, Jr., represent- ing many of the operators of sa loons on Duval street, addressed the board, and made a very (Continued on Page Four) GATO DORMITORY 1100 Simonton Street A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this Dormitory are extended to the following: CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES of the Key West Naval Station CONTRACTORS’ PERSONNEL of Army and Navy Defense Projects RA $1.00 Per Day $3.50 Per Week Duval Street |AMERICANS STILL ENCIRCLING JAPS TWO COLUMNS ON ATTU BELIEVED TO HAVE JOINED FORCES * (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 19.— American soldiers, fighting dn ‘through rain and soupy fog, are Key West, Florida. hes tne most equable climate im the country; with «nm sverace range ef only 14° Fahrent -t Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY British Wiv CLASS “A” (MANDATORY) | | | | i i MELBOURNE.—Big. tored Liberators yesterday’ ra: ed Munda, on New Georgia Is- land, and Rabaul, on New Britain Islands, and tore up the airfield’ at the former place and destroyed | harbor installations at Rabaul. At Munda the Liberators encounter- | ed no opposition in the air, and they were not molested until they | |had been bombing Rabaul for 10; | minutes. Then a flight of 13 Zeros j took to the air to challenge the Liberators. Two Zeros were shot down and four were damaged by the time the Japs withdrew from the fight. All Liberators returned to their bases. EACH ADD'T'L ONE CHD ENLISTED MAN PAYS $22, GOV'T PAYS BALANCE. DESTROYED 500 GERMAN .. PLANES i MOSCOW. — Today's Russian’: x stated that the Reds have destroyed 500 German planes in’ the last five weeks. The only’ continuing their encircling move-| ther mention’ was of the fighting | ment against the Japs on Attu in the Kuban area, where the re- in the Aleutians. The two American columns that invaded that opposite directions are now be-|Which they were making an at-; WIFE lieved to have joined forces, and, | tempted passage were sunk. | 1$21.66 it was said that, were such the case, the Japs will be annihilat- ed. The ridge that’ runs through; WASHINGTON.—It was report-' island from/ iver. and the four small boats on ONE CHILD ILD | $8.23 | $7.36 | port said( 400 Germans lost their lives while attempting to cross a THE COAL SITUATION Is | ‘STALEMATED | | ENLISTED MAN PAYS ABOUT BRITISH HAVE the island, and which the Japs | ed today that the coal situation has used as points of vantage play their machine-guns on the invaders, has fallen into Ameri- tan hands. But the Americans, ‘instead of using machine-guns, have brought up their heavy artillery and are blasting the Japs out of their rocky foxholes and dugouts. Radio Tokyo, recorded here, must have received depressing; news about the fighting on At-| “fight to the last man”. JOE LEWIS SLASHED — BY ANOTHER NEGRO AT MARATHON KEY | pat Joe Lewis, colored, was slash-} ed in the face yesterday after- noon by anotHer colored man, named Eghie Robinson, at Mara thon, and a telephone call , to Key West resulted in Sheriff Berlin Sawyer and Chief Deputy Sheriff A. H. McInnis going to that key. Seven stitches were taken in the wound. Both Lewis and Robinson were brought back to Key West and locked up, the former as a ma- terial witness and Robinson on a charge of committing the as- sault. He will be arraigned to- morrow morning before Justice | of the Peace Enrique Esquin- aldo. FRANK SPENCER KILLED IN ACTION Mrs. Blanche Roberts of 301 William street, is in receipt of a telegram notifying her that her son, Frank Luke Spencer, 23, USA, was killed in action in North Africa on April 23. Mrs. Roberts is Spencer’s foster mother, who adopted him when he was eight years of age. He is the son of Capt. Nelson Spencer, veteran sponge fisherman. Young Spencer, who was draft- ed in October, 1941, was said to be the first draftee and first sol- dier from Monroe county to be} killed in World War II. He leaves besides his father and Mrs. Roberts, two sisters, Mrs. Mizpah Graves, Los Angeles, Calif., Mrs. Theo Thompson, and eight brothers, Henry, William, Floyd, Warren Everett, Eugene, Roy and Jack. Eugene is in the Army in Utah. Mrs. Roberts has two other sons in the service, Carol in Africa, and Ormond in New York. JEAN PARKER in “HI, NEIGHBOR” NEWS and SERIAL OIL SPRAY Your Fenders and Chassis—it saves you buying a set of Fenders. Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE White at Fleming St. Phone No, 5 Opposite Army Barracks OGL LE, to| become a stalemate between the DEPENDENTS of British War Labor Board and John L.’ Lewis, president of the United Coal Miners of America. Lewis refuses to deal with the boerd and the board refuses to permit the coal operators to deal directly Gukeoee _ AP Features | FLOOD WATERS CONTINUE | i TO RISE The ministry of labor, elle COMMISSION TO mes, At Terre Haute’ Sees, 200 tuainer “have tees? -EXAMINE. SANITY __< driven from their homes. Thou- | sands of men are working in at-: tempts to hold back the waters! County Judge threaten scores of cities in five states. Raymond R. | apoint a lunacy commission 1 jexamine into the sanity of Sam JAPS TREMP UP LYING /yel L. Tift, who is held in jalf EXCUSE nA 7 PoP rcswage «i - WASHINGTON —The Japan- lepeninail st a charge 6f first ese governigent, as though asham-| Tift shot and killed Leslie ed of the savagery that led to the Newby, an innocent man, and. sinking of the Allied hospital F ap Centesr tn Suatralian wa) Celerina Rhodes. New- ters, replied today that the Unit-|p) and a 12-year-old girl, relat- ed States since the beginning of 4 t, Mrs. Rhodes, were on their the wer, has sunk seven. Jap hos-! way to ‘Tift's home to | get pital ships. That excuse WaS | three-year-old boy, son of dubbed as a trumped-up falsifi-) aq Mrs. Rhodes, when cation, Two hundred and twenty-j shooting took place. nine persons perished when the) p. JY. Porter, Centaur went down, Warren and Elinor NEGRO SHOWERED WITH POTASH IS BROUGHT BACK It developed yesterday afternoon ; | that Samuel Evans, the negro who! was showered with potash, and} | yelled. at.the county jail gate that he was burning up, was so attack-) led in self defense by a colored wo- man who resides on Emma street. She produced witnesses who swore that Evans had beaten her jup three times, and that it was during the third attack that she,!. ce ‘ jin order to protect herself, greb- BE TON A, schokehip ty De bed a can of potash and threw it) +" wise McFee taught Home on Evans’ head, face and down the | Eoshamics both in High Betoet | front open collar of his shirt. 1 penal When the ory wes told to 2 the University of ex-wife, Tift the Dr. William R. Larsen sion. Miss Larsen will act in a secretarial capacity. NEW MEMBER ADDED Miss Neta ‘Boyd MeFee, a na- tive of Tennessee, has been ap pointed asssitant director’ of ‘the USO-NCCS Women’s’ Residence lub at 303 Duval Street. Miss McFee is a graduate of the University of Tennessee. iHer master’s degree was gran {by Peabody College. After hav- SECOND CHI a weekly basis. In the chart the figures are converted toa monthly rate for comparison with U. S. dependency payments. j By BLAKE SULLIVAN INDIANAPOLIS. — Flood wa-, manpower repeatedly, calls up a family man as readily a tu, because the announcer said|ters continue to rise in Indiana,. any other unless he is in an essential industry. The war of- that, before the Americans take; [Jinois, Missouri, Kansas and) —— the island, they will have to kill! Arkansas, Thousands of people every Jap on it, as the Japs will’ have been compelled to flee from! ——efice does not even keep separate! OF SAMUEL TIFT jLord was petitioned yesterday to| Oo shot and: seriously. sounded hie each. If there were ten children al were appointed on the commis- | TO USO STAFF HERE\ #6 philegery, Tennes-! MAY 19, 1943 es Get Less CLASS "B” <OPTIONAL) ONE PARENT SECOND PARENT Churchill In ates All PAYMENT OF $22 BY ENLISTED MAN IS OPTIONAL. GOV'T CON- TRIBUTES ONLY WHEN EN- LISTED MAN DOES. Every fishing boat stayed in) 'port’today because of an order * jthat was sent yesterday to the Na- jval Station in Key West from | headquarters in Miami. | The order provided that each | boat must hoist three official code {flags before they would be per- | mitted to go to the fishing grounds. |The fishermen went to the Na’ Yard, expecting to get the flags, ; but were told they would have to | Provide them themselves. As they | were unable to buy flags or have them made, they had, therefore, to remain in port. The Citizen was infornied this afternoon that, as it was not the intention of the commander of j this naval district to stop Key West from obtaining supplies of ifish, every effort would be made |to modify the order. A few min- SUBSEQUENT OTHER CHILDREN DEPENDENTS $6.50 | $21.66 $3,. GOV'T PAYS BALANCE. NO CLASS “B” (4D Ar soldiers receive payment on | |; ONDON, May 19.—A man with a wife and ten children | utes later, The Citizen was further is as liable for military service in Britain as a single man. ; informed that Lieutenant Com- which has sifted the nati ‘German . figures on the number of married! | men in the army, but when such aj |man is inducted the government} ‘JAMES PENT, 84, DIED YESTERDAY | Ifa recruit*is married but child less, his wife receives $5 per wee! RAL SERVICES FOR 1.0- "CAL RESIDENT TO BE The government pays $4.30 of this and the soldier is obliged to ANNOUNCED LATER | contrébute 70 cents from his pay pf.$4.20 as a private. ditional. weekly allowances; s-Mmade “for children on this basis: {First child, $1.90; second, $1.70; third and subsequent, $1.50 { } | | the allowance would be $20.60. | . Wives living in the London area} j Teceive an additional 70 cents a | week to cover higher living ex- | penses. Commissioned officers re-j |ceive family allowances direct, tand are expected to make their town arrangements for mainten- | ance of their families. The allow-} tance for a childless wife is $5.60; a week in all officer ranks. Al-| lowances for children vary s [ly according to the father’s James Pent, 84, died suddenly yesterday afternoon at 2:15, at the Florida State Hospital. Funer- al services, under the direction of the Pritchard Funeral Home, will be announced upon arrival of the body. Survivors are two siste Mrs. ae paella Lanes, Mrs. Benjamin Fel- | but the scale is substantially this:/ tn; ene brother, John Pent; two | “Wife and one chil@}'$9.80; wife | grandchildren, and great \4-904 and for | grandchild. each additional Aa $40. | | . If others are depepdent upon a ‘recruit, such as his -mother and | a | father living along they each re:! MOULTRIE, Ga.—Seeking shel- eive $5 per week, including, the‘ ter in his tobacco packing hovse, soldier’s compulsory. allotment. of | 5 fire had di Pees geaent 70 cents. Unless they can‘ trim|#fter fire had destroyed tis farm: | their living expenses-by doubling! home and all the clothes he had up, most wives find it impossible{ except the suit he was wearing,, ito live on service allowances, andj John Suber, after returning, heard | | must supplement their income by | s ‘+ working ‘The government encour-{2 Scratching at tne door. Thinking ages this to ease the labor short-| ooanea pig’ ong bit eckty | pee jslammed it shut. He wasn’t quick | enough, however, because the} one DOUBLE TROUBLE | birthrate the past year, it still is iern-France, New Fishing Regulations Kept Boats In Port Today: Leaving Tomorrow, However Made Teday mander R. C the port, had boats we out tomorr Commande out a code of s used between the Coast Gui way to the sor land to fish buoy, and, w must stop t fish in the must stop, goi the Middlieground buoy This afternoon some fishermen expressed in learning from T! Commander Fou which will perm fishing tomorrow y, Northern France And Italy Bombed Again Kes. —— . (Dy Ansocinted Proms. LONDON, May 19 northern France and bombed again last night and 1 The RAF, in raids om darth destroyé¢ 20 trax that: were leaded witli sunpbe and the Ruhr Valley wes blasted lay. | ffom end to end It was officially réperted here today that there hae“never been any covenant that prohibits bombing of Rome its hould it G bomb that c terms, the be New. v described fears th Rome entertained « sible bombing speaker also related s unrest in Greece While nuthing was sa possible uprising in Italy was stated that thousand diers have been ‘rec = Greece to be stahened parts of Italy. TALKED TOO MUCH NEW YORK.—Because As zio Immediate, 26, ta sleep, he will have tim: Sing Sing pr with bigamy. Several he deserted his legal wife ried a second wom: returned to wife N e spilied the beans mediate drew a one t sentence * conference thet “pe 0 Staves take ower the mejor ser Sheriff Berlin Sawyer and Justice, of the Peace Enrique Esquinaldo, a search was made for Evans, and the sheriff learned that the negro had caused the arrest of the woman so that he would have; time to escape to Miami. i Last night Sheriff Sawyer drove! up to Miami and was back in Key West before daylight with) Evans, who will be arraigned on; a charge of assault atid battery! st Prior to her new appointment,| 0 low, in the ppinion of so- ekies “Miclna: Sak. ‘been doing | Ciologists, who say there is noth- Home Demonstration work. She|i"& in the child allowances to has also done field work in Par-|€Mcourage couples to have the wait: Waeradica® jbabies which are necessary to With her unusual background, *eeP up the population level. Miss McFee will be invaluabic| Se in rendering service to the wom-| *4 NEW RURAL SCHOOLS en she. will serve in Key Wst.| mexico CITY.—_Whett par- TSR PEE URE 65K FRI lents and teachers in the Sierra FED BY SPRING FLOW (de Zongolica district’ of “Mexico |recently complained of a lack of WASHINGTON.—Roaring Riy-) schools, the government prompt-! Despite a slight increase in the skunk, irked at Suber’s treatment, | rendered his last suit unwearable ‘LISH-LANG ac FIL MS and his temporary abode cate be : maces itable. BUENOS AIRES.—Nearly English - language DADE LODGE No. 14, F. & A. M.| 500." | “Ateenins im the is Regular communication will be held tonight at 8:00 o'clock in Scottish Rite Hall, corner Eaton! and Simonton Sts. All Master| Masons are cordially invited. Work in the MM. Degree. WEECH, a Ss were NIGHT CREAM ed by a-spring low of 20,000,000 gallons daily. b Ag tite ly ordered the consruction'of 34 3 } rural schools. AEE NOTICE TO ALL ODDFELLOWS There will be a District Meet-| ini at Golden Eagle Hall 8 p. m. tonight in honor of Grand Master JOHN C. PARK, Dist. Deputy No. 24 ESQUINALDO, D.D.G.M. No. 25 ions. | | ; Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2:30 to 4:30 | p..m., water will be turned off to-make exten- FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT COMMISSION — Rao Adress 6S Preparing For Power Thrusts At Japan Preme Minister Of Enc land Loudly Applanded agei® when be Seciazec te: she beig. m foodstuffs emt mubta: supplies. thet is mow enterine sion to strike powerful biow: 2t the Japs bicws tne wu a* mately drive them out of Chine He recalied that wner be we. im Washingice im January 1941 @ bed beer eqeesd ct ot . Geutes of the fighting im the Pacilic while Great Brieim would on centrate ber grestes: 9 steag-> reminded bss neerers tmer ae nex told them when he mede ms Sr speech im congress that by [342 the Alhes would be Sgttmeg = fensively enc be submettec tne