The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 21, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key Wiest THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN: THE]U. Key West, Florida, hrs the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahren? +t Citizen Ss. | A. VOLUME LXIV. No. 121. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1943 MINERS’ WAGE DEMAND - Second Chapter Opens Sy Lost At Sea In 1941 Government Agency Re-/ OD PIPPI LDS opens Case With Impli-- HOUSE PASSES TWO cations Of German Es- MONROE MEASURES: (By Assoc, ted Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 21. —The Senate passed House Bill 811 authorizing the Mon- roe County Commissioners to include in its annual ad valorem tax levies a special levy to raise $15,000 per year for a hospital. \IIOITIL TIS |MRS. VIRGINIA PORTER ‘GOES ON TRIP-TO MIAMI”: Mrs.. Virginia Porter, © nee Pierce, left this morning» for: Mi- AP Features ami where she will spend sev-;.- THIS isimplified chart helps show in essential eral be Rese with relatives’ ferm what the current: wage demands of America’s So coal miners are all about. United Mine Worker union | Mrs. ‘Porterrhas accepted a pies | position, in City 2 officials contend the workers spend an average of an | position, in City Clerk Joe John- * - | }son’s office here and will enter’ hour and a half daily underground going to and from learned that a powerful govern. ! aetna call upon her duties as soon as she work—but get paid only while actually on the job. | returns to the city. Chart shows how workers at different mine levels spend varying time getting to jcb. Most of the time is con- ment agency has reopened the MISS BETTY SMILEY Mrs. Porter was formerly em- case, with implications that it IS GIVEN POSITION in sesizn on See ee sumed on the horizontal levels, getting to work loca- has the earmarks of German lake at giniaiaer ty feb el a number 1 UMW demand is for a $2 basic wage in- Fionage. (Spectal to The Citmen) |Station. She has severed her crease, $8 daily minimum. The Citizen of March 1, 1941,| , (By Axnociated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 21. —The House passed House Bill 811. introduced by Rep- resentative Bernie C> Papy: authorizing a Monroe County- levy for a hospital tenance fund. The House also passed’ House Bill 812 granting re- tirement benefits to Key West city employes. | | | | | | The greatest mystery in the history of the Florida Keys,! which began on March 1, 1941. and resulted in a hundred and one conjectures. for several| weeks afterward, started its sec. | ond chapter today when it was! Sempecepacespesss >paseadaasd | | | | | es-/ i | first-page | (Bs Associated Press) paRERaa Se SESS i BETWEEN EYES | WASHINGTON, May 21.—Ad-; terms of veace in the miral Yamamoto, the Jap who! House, but convinced also, raid, after the Japanese adj couse of the mishty blows the Americans have dealt the Japs Has jin the Southwest Pacific, that ithe Japs must | Wkite House, is dead, and there! ms aptured Singapore, he would | j write the peace terms in ultimately j are two how he versions of }in hari-kert. Where is the admiral’s body? Radio Tokyo, said that the admiral, i | who was/a crash in tne Southwest Paciic, in command of ail the Sapanave| Sh the Jap radio announcer stat- beach to pick up sea shells. “Why go in the boat.” demanded, “when we can walk there?” But the day came, Tssabee iplake crash during a tour of in-| tom of the sea. put the announc- spection in the Southwpst Pa- | cific, but it is believed here that! ‘Ye jer continued to say that ar guilty and rangements ere being made for and that committed suicide in @ great state funera'. so the as- day was March 1, when Armour sumption is that the Jap mili- agreed to ao fishing with Esser. Esser wore only trunks, and the only thing he took along with tarists have Yamamoto's anj $1 and costs) Japs resort to it only on two oc-| mit hari-kari. 35. casions: when the hand of de- | | feat Presses heavily on them or| Zokpo said. will be declared 2 | when, im the case of high offi-|day of mourning throughout the | | | cials, they commit suicide when | Japanese emvire. It was further | seid thet Emveror Hirohito had or peaihidaiiacty created Yamamote | him, besides a fishing line, a bulging brief case. . He and hi: brief case were inseparable. was LAKELAND, May 21,—Miss| Connections there. 3 etty Smiley, Key West student Published a story at “Ford” Southern Coleg, ARRIVES ON VISIT Ja ap Abed Who Said He *, inager i wo! ns; about the disappearance of Hen-| intramural archery next year, it! Maitland Knowles, chief of the | | \ : P = ry W. Esser, of Cleveland, ang is announced by” the college's Fire Department at sarasotr Would Write Peace Terms . intramural board. Fla., was among the recent ar- Robert Armour. of Detroit, who} miss Smiley, a daughter of rivals in Key West for a visit of went out from the fishing camp»Mh. and Mrs. H. L. Smiley, is several days. { {completing her freshman year Chief Knowles was about that Stephen Bergdall conducted! on the campus. jtown today meeting many of his te Bees Chica, lold friends and acquaintances. | Fi * Esser, a German, day atier pase WELCOMED AS A ‘CURE day for several days, as Sheriff | CHICAGO.—The distance be-} GLASGOW —Clogs have been s | tween a man’s eyes is about the welcomed in Scotland as a cure Berlin Sawyer recalls. tried to| width of an eye. for cores and flat feet. persuade’ Armour, “an America Crating ta sa esate ee =f ot DRUNKEN DRIVER GIVEN STIEFEST and day after day Armour per- swnty nit wom | FINE AND SENTENCE EVER IMPOSED According to a story that Mrs. terme st sit sere! IN MONROE COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT after the disappearance, \Esser | even tried t d | BaD PRE AOE ATMOUL She ca 6 Case folie te the arrested’ by Sheriff Berlin Saw- to go in the skiff to a point of criminal court, said this after-! flyer and “Deputy Joe Knight. : noon, in commenting on the: Judge Caro fined Perez, | stiffest fine and sentence that! pleaded guilty, $250 and sen- has ever been imposed in Mon-'tenced him to serve 120 days in roe county for drunken driving,’ jail. that a drunken driver not only} Other pleas of imperils his own life but the’ sentences imposed: lives of innocent people. George Whitten, drunkenness, the “This particular defendant,”) $5 and costs’or 30 da~- im jail. | 3 : the judge explained, “not. oniy! Luthea Kelly, vagraniy, $i.) Well-known Jap fashion—ripped was driving a car when drunk, and costs or 30 days. }open his st h wit ;: but he also was driving despite! Raymond Dwight Smith, op-| ie ‘ Susgienie hates gf the fact that his license had erating truck without valid, Hari-kari, the Japs call it, been revoked for drunken driv- | chauufeur’s license, ing.” or 30 days: The name of the defendant is Otto . Roberts, vagrancy, Isaac Perez, a negro, who wees and «¢osts can6, days. mere: iar WOTSMIHS : Criminal Court ’To: Convene | Monday; 20 Jurymen’ "Drawn left his money, his high- WAR watch, his German service cap, | | their emperor dies. Yamamoto, aware that dictate which was so thickly covered | | only would he not The following 50 jurors were}Sawyer, Louis B. Richardson, Al-’ —~—~—— not left room for another as bis) a, this morning for the regu- \fred Baker, Ricardo Roche. Jr.; VICTORY PUP | with German medals, there wes the | a marshal of the empire. (Continued on Page Four) lar term of the Monroe County | Criminal Court of Record, which} 2: ®: Jackson, John D. Stirrup, will be convened at 9:30 o'clock | Henry W. Weatherford, George B. 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If he died in} who | squadrons, was killed in en air-|ed, then his body is at the bot-/ at | and that he did, therefore, com- | The day of the funeral, Radio | 9] Destroyed On — Ground Out In Mediterranean ~ Manned Bs Americams Made Sar- —EATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) MOSQUITOES STING BERLIN AGAIN LONDON.—Flights of Mosquito planes raided Berlin for the sec | ond night in succession Thursday, and, as before. every plane return } ed safely to its base..The extent of the bombing wes not disclosed by t the British Air Ministry. i j t ITALY WILL RESIST BUT LITTLE * LONDON.—It was stated semi-officially here today thet. should | the Allies decide to invade Italy- they will meet with little resistamze | It is known positively that the itaiien soidiers are weary of war. The ; Jalian army that is guarding the French border is reported to be in ; a state of unrest. Soldiers are openly declaring they will flee just es | $0on as an invasion starts. In Yugoslavia and Greece, the Itelies high command is continually changing contingents of the Italian army im i the hope of easing their irritability. | j stroyec om the qroumc—tre | the record yesterday American enc Brrtusz Sardime anc ehewnere OF! FENSIVE IN KHARKOV AREA } MOSCOW.—Today’s brief communique merely spoke of clashes | in the Donetz basin, but the Russian newspaper Investa said thet the Reds have started a powerful offensive southeast of Kharkov. and that in the Caucasus, Russian heavy guns were pounding enemy po sitions night and day. It further said that along a 110-mile siretch | in that area the Russians were fighting furious battles. were destrovec tresses) mannec attack om en aurieit = Sarco The Amercens seed the ed 128 tlames: on the gram se DAVIES CONFERS WITH, STALIN MOSCOW.—Former Ambassador Davies, sent on e special mis- sion to Russia to deliver a letter from President Roosevelt to Premier Josef Stalin, was given an audience last night. As e rule. Stelin newer ! confers with any foreign rerpesentative without the presence of his foreign secretary, Molotoff- but last night Molotoff left Devies and Stalin alone in the conference room, and the letter was delivered while they were alone. fcre the bombs were supe After the reid. another | was med: amc = wes tous: $i eut of the i28 pieme: nec Gestroyes. aud “ees Som stroyed ae Tipmes were irreeaicg ROUTING JAPS FROM MACHINE GUN NESTS MELBOURNE.—With only one-third of the Japs. who had orig | inally occupied Attu remaining on that island. the two American | columns are gradually closing in on the enemy. He is now hemmed m one narrow strip of rocky ground at the end of the island of Holt= Bay. But the holes in the rocks ate infested with Jap machine gun nests, which have slowed up the advance of the Americans. Bomb= dropped from planes and shells from American naval eraft-ere blast- | ing the Japs out of their positions. fo set ablaze the silences were not struck ltelien end Geemes pieoe from another axrfeid on Cinia eMcegec im sestget <=) the Fortreses as ‘hey =_— i about to beta ther bowewert trip. and before the Gqbt cam ENEMY'S ONLY ADVANCE CHUNGKING.—In only one of the many theatres of wer is the enemy reported to be making any advance, and that is along the front | 180 miles from this city. The Japs are reported to have brought up | an army of 60.000 men, well equipped with tanks and planes. 23.000 ON STRIKE " DETROIT —The number of strikers at the Chrysler plants here. fc which are turning out tenks, reached 23.000 this morning. Negotie- tions are continuing, and it was said the strike shortly will be settlec. GOOD AND BAD RATION NEWS WASHINGTON.—The War Production Board announced today | that i it rationed this year. 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