The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 24, 1943, Page 1

Key West, Florida, hes most equable climate in the country; with an average Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West J VOLUME LXIV. No. 123. | WPB Report Emphasizgss::. Importance Pat Cannon And Other’ Officials Are Instru- mental In. Establishing | Fact (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C.,.May 24. —A War Production Board re-; Port today emphasized the im. portance of the Florida sponge in the war effort, Earlier the WPB had declarec | that synthetic was | equally as good as sponges, but | assailed by| Representative Pet Cannon ea other members of the Florida! delegation. After they presented new information as to the use of sponges the WPB “backed wa- i ter”, and today reported, “Best known the public! through their household uses, sponges have long been vastly important ‘in arts and industries” and now are serving a variety oi: material this position was wartime purposes. Surgical opt erations and the cleaning of| many instruments and machines | of ‘war require the absorptive- ness, durability and softness _ feund only in sponges. | The Florida delegation, after’ biaining a ten to 14 per : cent! inggease in the price ceiling of: sponges recently, also is attempt- | ing to gain a relaxation in the Coast Guard’s night time fish-! ing ban which would permit. much greater operations. Meanwhile fewer sponges | were sold in the Tarpon Springs the U.S. in 1942 than ir Exchange, center of sponge business, any other year in the history of! the Exchange, according to Har-| old L. Ickes, co-ordinator of fish- | eries. Only 184,280 pounds, $1,700,247, were sold in the Ex.) change last year, i worth } in contrast to! 500,000 to 600,000 pounds in good years. Demand for sponges this small commanded a higher price than any since the Exchange was or- ganized, { is so great that crop! The scarcity is due to short-} age of experienced divers, who| (Continued on Page Three) BATTERIES CHARGED | The Modern Way | Drive in, in 30 to 45 minutes and your car can be on its way! Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE! Phone No. 5 | NOTICE Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2:30 to 4:30 p. m., water will be turned off to make exten. sions. FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT COMMISSION ‘ters of the Japs, over the threat- | retordations here of broadcasts , BROUGHT ON DUE TO FOOD Ate American dish: White at Flemin3;tecent he Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1948 “OF Florida, Maj. Gen. D. Johnson Maj. Gen. St. C. Streett Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce Brig. Gen. W. E. Kepner Lt. Gen, G.C. Kenney _H. R. Harmon U.S. Army Air Forces Girdle Globe Maj. Gen. __ Maj. Gen. Willis Hote BEING BOMBED CLAIM THEY WILL GIVE UP THEIR LIVES IN DEFENSE OF THEIR) HQMELAND;, RUN HEAD-LONG INTO ENEMY (By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Mey 24,—Jit- ened invasion of Japan, are growing apace daily, judging by Mai Maj. Gen. ‘ C.L. Bissell _1.C. Eaker Maj. Gen. L. H. Brereton Maj. Gen. W. O. Butler over Radio Tokyo. The latest threat from Tokyo, heard here today, came after the speaker said that Japan is keenly aware that it can be raid- {ed from the air, but he warned Allied bombers that there are thousands of Jap flyers who are ready to give up their lives to protect their homeland from bombings. “These flyers will run’ head- on into any enemy planes that ‘attempt to bomb Japan,” | the | spokesman stated. “They will be proud to give up their lives in such a cause,” he concluded. Comment here was that Japs, many times. during the? war, have tried to run head-on into AP Features THE combat task forces of the Army’s air wing are centered in 14 strategic lo- cations and battle areas thrcughcut the world, Shown are the commanding of- ficers, their command headquarters within continental United | States and aprfroximate .combat territories else- where. Maj. Gen. Air Force, Maj. Gen. J. H. Doolittle N.F. Twining C.L. Chennault In the Maj. Gen. Maj. Gen. North Africa theatre - Doolittle commands the 12th and the Strategic Ajr Forces, the heavy bomber group which in turn is under the North- west Africa Air Forces command of Lt. Gear. Carl A. Spaatzy Northwest Africa Joint Committee Meeting Held: Yesterday To Plan Postwar. Planning Program | American planes but the Japs ‘were blasted out of the air be- fore they could accomplish their purpose. The same thing, it was stated, can be done, by Allied | flyers: when, they. bofnb. Japanese HOLLAND YOUTHS NOW TUBERCULAR subrr ion to the FWA. Ray Kirk- patrick, of the puolic labor di- vision of the Federal Works Agency, assured me, when he was Yesterday morning the com- mittee, representing the city and the committee appointed by the local Carpenters’ Union, held a joint meeting in the Carpenters’ y West, that several projects Hall to make further arrangements |. that we need will be constructed for post-war planning in Key ar. They include four West. Ss, and the committee It was decided to call a general Will appreciate the presence at meeting to be held next Friday| ¥riday’s meeting of the members night in the county court house, to/of the local School Board, so that which is invited all civic bodies in: they can give us necessary parti- Key West, ci councilmen and | CUlars about the congestions in our county commissioners and. the aes and a ee sity of build y generally. ing other schoolhouses. Soon eee Mr. Kirkpatrick told me we should apply for another city hall, larger sewer disposal nlanté and a much larger hospital than the one that shortly will be built SHORTAGES, REPORTS REVEAL (By Associated Preas) LONDON, May 24,—Informa- tion received here from Swiss sources states that. due to food | shortages, at least one-fourth of the youths in Holland and Bel- ‘gium are now tubercular. ber of the committe: lahasgee;Satundeyymight. The C: # ogonupitiee. Higgs, chair ed Wee s Porter. Boys and ‘girls, as well adults, aré’’so'’ emaciated can barely walk, the stated. as they report com- MANY EXPECTED TO ATTEND PAN-AMERICAN prised renc Verdin Mickleb Meanwhile, the Germans have|"""0!d Sawy called up 200,000 more men in| Mr. Hig Holland to join the already}|two committee | 400,000 who are working in Ger- | man war and industrial plants. | the Key West Chamber of Com- The number from Belgium has}™erce, the county commission and been increased from 250,000 to| the city council and Mayor Willard 350,000. M. Albury be present at the meet- ing Friday ning. | CHINESE GIRL CALIS -_ |riges ois “tad T hone orares CHOP SUEY PET DISH | ments will be mace Friday night nd I hope so that we can immediately ap- (iy Associated Press jPly. as an organized body, to the CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.,. May | Headquarters of the Federal Works | 94. Mai-Mai Sze, daughter of aj Agency in Washington for appli- former Chinese ambassador to|Cations and general particulars as the United States, has a%favor-|to the way we should proceed to ry peffect our post-war plans for sh e said én a | 520 United Sireet Key West here, possibly with the scrap \MEALS SERVED DAILY, cas e }metal drive in mind reached! | Ene NORST eet tie tence ak mer gee y that the particu anxious that representatives from’ Judging by the spon: thus far will be a large rer the second nation: American press con held in Havana from June inclusive. The purpose of the congre promote the most represent rs assembly possible of the press i this hemisphere, in order to faci litate an exchange of views re- garding the moral and material sues that affect the press as a ve hicle@f public opinion. ELEPHANT. HELPS IN SCRAP DRIVE. (By hoovcaied. Press) j ASHEVILLE, WO iC May 24— Betsey, an elephant at the zoo favorable received. there ntation at 1d =Pan- to be 7 to 11, to lose,” M “It's chop sue’ visit here. is hamburger-, - from 12 to 10 P.M. j Snatched the top off an automo-j We Are Closed Mondays i bile parked nearby. SPECIAL Lunch DOS ,. 75° Cdmplete DINNER 75¢ to $175 | The Finest Quality Foods Properly Cooked and Served in 2 Pleasing Manner. 04444 4444444444448 Wvvvvvvvvwwwwwrwws | ‘PRESCRIPTIONS, PRESS MEET IN CUBA : NAZIS ARE CAUGHT IN HEAVY BARRAGE Two THOUSAND LOSE LIVES) “IN RUSSIA SINCE YESTERDAY (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, May 24.—Two thou-! sand Germans are reported to have lost their lives in fights in since the central {rent yester- day. Advancing Germans, ‘the communique said, were in a heavy Russian artillery ba: rage and were almost annihilat-| ed. In the Leningrad’ area, ‘tl communique continued, 490 Ger- mans have been killed in the last; “24 hours. Si force the Ru: that area w heavy enemy 4 Fighting in the Kharkov area still continuing, though on a smaller scale than during the early part of last week. There has been little change of positions of the enemy in Kharkov area in the last days. eral attempts to jan positions’ im thrown back with the three NUMEROUS "PHONES NEW YORK.—There are about 0000 telephones in the Unit- ed States, with 1,670,000 listed in New York City alone. i | GATO DORMITORY 1100 Simdnton 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 $1.00 Per Day $3.50 Per Week IN: THE J. ‘of Mayor Willard M. Albury to ob- caught | the | range of only 14° Fahrenb 2 S. A. More Than 2,000 Tons Of Bombs ‘Tuned Loose Over Dortmund And Rul Valley Mayor Albury Leaving For Miami To Gale With FWA Regarding Incinerator paN giahee ae Ore Thou sand Bombers Part In Last Night Took Atiack Made The,development of the effurts|day morning, wit head of the Fec in this area Mayor Albury received yesterday from Mr. Hack E. I Bark tins (By Associated Preas. : LONDON. Ma 24—The grea jiain.a grant to construct an incin-; ,erator in. Key West has reached , SO encouraging a , the mayor | questing the mayor's ‘this morning requested the city! Miami Wednesday to c council to call a meeting for to-j| proposal to erect the inciner ; morrow night to consider the pro-! “To what extent | position in detail. tion has zeen con: ; The mecting will be held in’ Federal Works A, ity Hall, beginning at 8 o'clock, | Albury said today, : and, immediately a its con-| but I believe it | clusion, Mayor Albury will leave} promising for the cour jfor Miami to confer, on Wednes-! formal action on it est air raid of the war. on ct bomb basis ot the tonnage Grogped, was carried ut —— night on Vorrmund and the Rutz Val'ey by the Royal Air Fo More than 2.900 toms of bom were dropped. and returni Filots reported that columm | LATE BULLETIN S (By Associated Press) smoke ascended as high as 15.090 feet end tongues of flame lic! the skv at a height of more ¢ 808 feet. Flames were still "i ible to pilots when tf ha ney covered more then 100 miles o MUSSOLINI MASSING MEN LONDON.—Radio Rome, recorded by the British Broadcasting | Corporation, said today that Mussolini has mobilized 1,500,000 men | along the coast of Italy as a precaution against an Allied invasion. | The radio said also that Mussolini had appealed to Hitler to send more guns, large and small, to Italy. their return trip. Approximately 1908 bombe took part in the raid. and British Air thet ! Ministry reports Sei BLASTING JAPS OUT OF POCKETS MELBOURNE.—The few remaining Japs on Attu are being blasi- {ed out of their rocky pockets by American artillery, shellfire from warships and American bombs dropped from planes. A flight of 35 Jap fighter and bomber planes attempted today to bomb American | Pesitions'on Attu, but they were driven off after four of their number dove into the sea. with smoke and flames streaming from their -tails. three bombers Th rty-eight vlenes cout of every f { were four-motored. were k most of them shortly after the raid started. “When the raid staried> on- flyer said. “the anti-airetalt fire wes the fiercest I have ever seen. BIG JAP ARMY ADVANCING CHUNGKING.—Six Jap divisions. are gradually advancing on | this city, according to official.information released today. Orie column | of the army is little more than 200 miles away fromm here and the , other about 300 miles. American and Chinese planes are attacking the Jan forces. } ] Banana =X Soren { i but after the explosion of a f-= blockbus!e: end 8 super-biock busters. nearly all the guns cea ed firing. Every blockbusts GESTAPO CHIEF RECALLED TALLAHASSEE.—Governor Holland is expécted to sign the tax on cigarettes some time this afternoon. The tax. which will go into | effect on July 1 and is to run for 2 period of two years, is expected fo j return $3,500,000 annually. Representative E. P. Martin. of Hills- borough, who fought the tax in the house, announced thet the fight jasainsc it will be continued in the courts. was en and bec “earthquake cr anything else littie cherce crerating im such deve fatiny exp'osions. The a ions were so great my plane | Sd 13 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK ATLANTIC CITY.—Thirteen persons. eight men and five women. were killed in a train wreck last night shortly after 10 o'clock. The } train, with 1500 aboard, left here for Jersey City, end four of its cars overturned on a/sharp curve. The engineer is said tp have exceeded ; the speed limit set for trains passing along the curve. ticked like s ship et sea i& siormy weather.” The bic bombers that parti pated im the raid were Lances ters. Sterlings nad Wellingions and their loads were composed PRESIDENT AND CHURCHILL CONFER WASHINGTON.—The President and Prime Minister Churchill held a conference which started early last night and was continued | till 2:30 o'clock this morning. | of two- end four-ton bom bombers ied The smelier flight end. by the time the big bombers arrived over Dortmunr CONFINING | CHANGE NEEDED the ABILENE, Kan.—On the second PUEBLO, Col —When Liciew day after Kennet Rich joined tei Hurrizar Mee rye e1zn urrizzesstu7Z: app: j the Army. be “eame - down: with at the Patio Ardnance De scarlet fever. After recovering he ek: he was told | was sent home for a three week’s'O. K., except his i quarantine period. When he re-| and that he would hav j turned, he was sent to the army / that. He did, to Leo Ward |hospital for a check-up, after} __ {which he was transferred to Cali- | j fornia and placed in the customary | paige Just as_ this period | ended, a soldier came down with] pinal meningitis, and so Rich,; with his entire outfit, was quaran- | } tined. In his entire two mont he | spent only one day-on duty. | eee | PALACE THEATER | GEORGE SANDERS in ‘The Moon and Sixpence’ | NEWS and SERIAL | MASONIC NOTICE Regular meeting Anchor Lodge with the moonhgn: plain as targets and a bright might were eimost as would have been on « clear day Block after block of wer and industrial plants wes fern on Page 5 | | | By order of the worshipful Masier. JOHN C. PARK, Sec.