The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 25, 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. hes most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahren? st re Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. — Troopstave Whiphand Over Jap Forces On Attu Istand * Claims Fighting Still Con-| OOo eoagaa,| tinues Regardless slloeys ppt geld Exiallent Progress Made LANDS AT U. S. PORT By Americans roapeae (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 25.— Poon Limm, a Chinese cook aboard a merchantman that was sunk in South American waters, landed today in an American port, after having been adrift for 132 days. He said that an English- man, who was on the raft with him, was able to hold out 54 days ageinst the ordeal, as long as the bully beef and hard tack held out, but that he found it impossible to survive | when the diet was reduced to fish. A bf Poon Limm said that after he had been eating fish, most of it rew. for day after day, more days then he had been | &peeding advances in air able to keep account of, he was. jPort. They visualize the picked up by a fishing boat [of an air age when feace KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDA'Y, MAY 25, 1943 Two Towns In Heel Of Italian Boot Also Ai- tacked By United States Flyers F ZEPPELIN; 1929, 20 DAYS. — APPROPRIATION BILLS RECEIVE c | ATTENTION OF LEGISLATURE (By Assoc.ated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 25.—The, appropriations committee is ‘day devoting all its time to the | i Stage Heavy Raid On Sardini i H | [[lriest wortd cinCUMNAVIGATION BY MAGELLAN IN 1522: 1100 DAYS: An FBI to jin the proceedings today the testified before senate that concerns the ousting of Sheriff Clark Governor Holland as sheriff Broward and Dade county, the FBI took a hand trying te suppress it “TS Bj powaro Hucnes; man 1938, 3 DAYS, 19 HOURS. Gh anvesace ON EARTH IN 2 DAYS, 12 HOURS. (By Assuct. ‘ed Press) ALGIERS, May 25.—Squad American by of and that appropriation bills that will come up for debate and pas- sage in the last days of the les- islature. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 25.—Sec- retary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that, while fighting still continues on Attu, every thing is going well for the American soldiers, and that they have a decided whiphand over the Japs. The secretary confessed that it is still something of a mystery | as to the two attempted raids on} the American positions on Ate | fu, regarding the base from! which the Jap planes came, as the nearest island to Attu they How the world has gotten small ... and will get smaller. ASL PA Satire : « By JOHN L. SPRINGER | France flew to 73 points on earth. AP Features Writer |The Royal Dutch Airlines served NEW YORK, May 25.—One of the great air battles of | 13 points. World War II will reach full fury after the Armistice. ‘ Germany and Italy operate for The batle is for supremacy over the peace-time air | controlled 26,000 miles of air Siiseai? maiias routes of the world. It will be fought with air transports—! within South America mee 3 ; ; including huge monsters of the skies now carriyng men ard //ines Which have now fallen into and it was said the senate will | munitions to warring fronts. It will be,fought to some éx-|*°" riencsne bane | bold a special session tonight. jtent, probably, by every country ®& ‘Air Freedom’ Debated i twith goods to send outside its | borders. Airmen say the javiation’s normal development during these years of | eight = rons bombing planes, numbering 200 and in various types. from Curtis Warhawk because it led t> = crimes against the United States Sheriff ‘Clark testified had done all in his power to try to stop gambling in Broward The hearing was still continuing | this atfernoon. to big 1 or ys S 8 “° the introduction of Tomorrow is the last day that be| motored bombers. lest raided Sardinia and two tows lie Ma in the heel of the boot of urder the command Doointtie World War I fame. of rs . |__| Airmen say these nations may Saas tar service along 100,000 miles’ hold an ace card in their owner- war—and | ‘hroughout the world. chip of the air over their terri- To meet this competition tories. By forbidding planes of] Shrill Cries On Dark, Stormy atl Plamen meine gewoon eee! Seas Heighten Key Mystery aS Ses General James the " Serdinie wes given the ! blasting it hes yet received dawn creaky, outmoded ships over only! ports, they could restrain any na- ar {a fraction of the territories cov-4 tion's claim to air supremacy off the coast of a South Amer- |rives—an age when men canj‘red by American lines. Debates) qirect route from the U. S. ican country. When he was |step out within 60 hours in deep-|in the House of Commons have! China lies over Russia. If the So- taken aboard he was licking |est Africa, innermost China, or|*evealed that the British agreed Yiets prohibited American planes Ships im the harbor were struc) to one of which was seen to sink SSSI SEES Sa LOCAL BILLS BECOME ‘i 240 shrill, terror-striking Grandparents on a honeymoon while several others were bu his chops fcr a change of diet, {| anything except fish, when a plete of steaming stewed fish was placed before him. Since his landing Poon has had his dish after dish of his occupy is 620 miles away.) Should that be the case, that is- land will come in from bombings | from American planes, which! any other spot on earth. They’ foresee the mation holding the! major air routes also holding the large measure of trade suprem-) acy. American airlines, say these beloved rice, and is happy have a far longer again, range, with! their four engines, than the Jap| bombers, with two motors. ennthteh acheatbeatac Secretary Knox also said that; virmen, are more than ready to: thold their own in this post-war | by struggle. But recent debate in the’ British Parliament, warning of the “spreading tentacles” of U.S. transport power, and decisions of | to concentrate on fighting planes from flying it, air transport would while the U. S.. produced trates be hamp sae! eras ae erny: the “freedom of the air” prin- trade nation in the flood of Amer. ciple has been hotly debated. Vice pecee S :Fresident Henry Wallace advo-| ican transport production. , : vates it. Some Americans—like | rivecSeal, indicstes.dheHeitsle onc’. oeue. that with air. free-| are not content with that pros- gogo U.S sitlines would: fall be- pect. He warned that “if other}/{re the cheap labor countries of . ee — tr “ ey care Aimee eomfthe world as U. S. merchant ship- aes Ue i ping fell in the pre-war years. i ed. | LAW MINUS SIGNATURE OF GOVERNORHOLLAND (By Ansocluted Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 25. —The following bills intro- euced in the House of the Florida Legislature by Rep- resentative Bernie C. Papy of Monroe County, and which passed the House and cries at sea on a derk and stormy night, are other elements in the | disappearance of Henry W. Es- sar and Richard Armour from # fishing cemp on Boca Chica, as related by Harold E. Russell, who was chief deputy sheriff in Mon roe county when they went ou: ing fiercely: docks and ciher harber installations were hit 2 set fire, ammunition dumps were exploded end two airfe.t: were bedly torn uv. Not a single American pis was lest, despite the fact the Italian and German squadr that government to speed civil} petition, we are quite ready to “}geronattical production, indieateLenter the fray against them.” Soon, In both Lendon and Washing- | , there is strong support for, Senate, became a law with- out-Governor Spesserd L, took te the eir to try to int _scAmerican~ planes yesterday* car iNOT ONE. NAZI to be! ried out a raid against Rabaul, on New Britain Island, for 99 minutes, leaving behind fire that, Sl bie seen big Americus plicts| 160 miles away. | Regarding the raidfon Attu on| the British are determined ‘not to lose out. | SUB TURNED OUT. i=" IN SIX MONTHS). v. 2'trancpors’sre'now sarge lly military, operated with civil tairline personnel by the Army’s THIS, HOWEVER, PERTains Ait Transport Command. Great 6 : jeargo ships are streafhing out, in TO PLANTS ON BALTIC;! untold numbers, to Britain, Africa, | ‘secret plan for civil aviation—a; after, he announced that the Brit- ish government was working on a\ Post-war cooperation on air trade! —some arrangement, possibly— plan believed calling for immedi-} whereby nations would be alloted ; certain. percentages of the inter-| ate commencement of work: oni“ i the design of civil aircraft of all! tional air transport business. i types, and for the converting of! ‘Airline spokesmen in the U. S.; military craft to transport uses. | belies: some ‘Kind of cooperation: Other countries now stifled by | is mecessary/and inevitable. Be-| Holland’s signature: House Bill 546, relating to Key West City Council com- pensation, Bil 549, authorizing a Key West hospital tax. Bill..551,. authorizing an upkeep tax on Key West city in a 14-foot skiff, never seen again in the Uriited Sistes et least. “Of course. I don't know if men heard. cries for ‘help on @ Ccast Guerd boat, who were out |cept the raiders. | plenes Eight of ener were hit, four wh were destroyed. while the of jfour flew ewey with smol steaming from their wings > | tails. buses. searching for Esser and Arm Bill 598, relating to Over- Dect & i seas Road and Toll Bridge in e stormy sea. on the night District attorneys’ residence. ‘tha followed the afternoon TPF Para OS FSM eit disoppearence, but 1 i | ———— know that Mrs. Armour's daugh- "| i SENATE PASSES tela RETIREMENT BILL' (ls Associated Press) ! TALLAHASSEE, May 25— | i rapmiaase nc coms eaocee The Senate passed House bill 8}2, introduced by Represen- tetive Bernie C. Pepy of Mon- roe County, granting employes or officials of the City of Key West, who have had 20 years active service, the right to re- tire at 50 percent of their pay. Hitler may make their entry in, fore it comes, however, they fore-, the post-war air transport: strug-}see°a fierce struggle for bargain- | Before the war Air ing position. Durimg the ettack om the three shit .{to outposts in the Atlantic and FEAR \AND SHORTAGE OF | Pacific. In addition American MATERIALS IS CAUSE assem lines are giving regu-,gle, too. Monday, it was said that seven Jap aircraft were shot down, | Hteliem towns. but it has been ci others sunk and several do ‘ damage’. learned since | that five more were destroyed, Among the istter 16 (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 25.—Not has been. i | turned out in the plants on the; Harris Reports Excellent | Baltic during the last six montks, Progress On Highway Work according to information oe SEATTLE, Wash—With Harry Harris, county commis- ; ple anywhere else on the keys accute shortage of help, Ray Mor- sioner from the fifth district,| through which the road runs. ; T 2 “As ki y and as every rowich, réstaurant owner, was| workmen, caused by their fears whose is in Tavernier, brought ae dre firactical Key lid! faced. with, elosing when he hit! of air their poor diet, /£00d news to town this morning! 1445 many people are averse) upon a-solution of his problem. He 454 A’ ¢ abbbtage ok jabout the progress that has been now to driving over the road, with now lets his restaurant customers | 7 89* Sn4 & Shortage of COP i de in rebuilding’ the over- its ruts and tortuous turnings and help themselves to the food he Fe and zinc are the reasons 9i7-| seas Highway. its rickéty wooden bridges, but T stays | it will be in the nature vf a pleas- serves. They cut their own cake,!en for the slowing up of the| “Aside from those Key Westers, * ™! aS! 3 dish out their own soup and other ‘9 UP uré“difye when the present di I : a r 5] who go over the road at fairly prevements are completed. A road Sgr eS be “4 ws aie cnet egis- : : regular intervals,” Mr. Harris said,! as smooth as the top of a table, be se Ap feaid sean Reo Heinrich Schmitt, speaking to i“others in Key West will be pleas- | with all the curves taken out of it, duatimare are fine pacble “any | day over Radio Berlin for the} yrably surprised to learn the great| anc with solid concrete bridges, would not cheat me.” German government, said, things’ extent to —— the work eo Pe eae of Monroe county * are now going fairly well for; been completed. i 5 z lthe Allies in the undersea war-| “take the stretch of road that | “I don’t know exactly what dis- ve couldn't understand why y fare, but that it shortly will turn | Stats on Big Pine at the Big Pine/ tance the people of Key West will! on the surface. while on patrol. but the British Air Ministry did step-father and Esser were i eal o* | a ete, . of ‘UFP ‘Inn. It is completed except for the | save in driving over the new road} Bread, pies and cakes are baked "Ot issue any information 1a 0 -Cone p e* |/in favor of Germany, when all] Gijing and sanding, for 12 miles| to the mainland as compared with |and other foods cooked, there be- their mission. ee ns eee its U-boats are operating effi-|or so down to Mary’s Place on) the present road, with all its loops; ing no cooking or baking while . ia: «ase = ; Guardsmen had done all thet admitted that! Ramrod Key. And the three con-| and curves, but I do know this: ; submerged. i [APS ADVANCE TOWARD | s lost |many U-boats are now. being|crete bridges in that stretch are! we people of Tavernier will save| | CHUNGKING was humanly possible had began ; “din, | finished also. | 12 miles in driving to Homestead! CHUNGKING. — One column jhe missing men.” sis RIA ROR IEE cred “You know, I am a subscriber) over the new highway as com-, MAJOR CURRY HARRIS of the Jap army of 100,000 men, |of them: has been interferred| +, The Citizen, and I noticed in it! pared with the roundabout route’ ARRIVES IN AFRICA beaded toward this city, gained ; d with by the constant bombings | a few months ago where the chair-| we have to go over now. I think | 20 miles since yesterday, while the ecb ae ch & 1941, and oe Stays On ‘by the RAF. man of the State Road Department the residents of Key West will Mrs. W. Hunt Harris of 425 other column is practically in the ©Tmment agents are now inwesti- Stays Smooth The Britsih Admiralty, i: (aia that the Overseas Highway | save as much or more distance ov- | Caroline street, is in receipt of S8me position. The former fork of —e = case. Mr — wes Stays Lovely, | commenting on the undersea| probably will be completed by jer the new road that will run.as| word’ from her son, Major W.|the &tmy is now reported to be “sKed if he shought th: govern, warfare today, said that indica-; Labor Day. I think what he said/ straight as an arrow between here! Curry Harris) of the 534th Anti-| only. 180 miles from this city.| men $r arane _ = “$1 00 tions are there will be less sink-| will turn out to be true. Lundeen,| and Big Pine. You will have no; Aircraft Regiment, United States| Where the cavital of China is es- C@5© at this |than there were during April,!tract to build 35 miles of roads REVLON and the admiralty added “April} from Lower Matecumbe to Jew- NAIL was an exceedingly Roget —— ara rag the yey —— vat for us.” Secretary 0! ar Knox|Grassy Key or ey acas, on ENAMEL | was quoted as aving said inj which is situated Marathon, are 5 | Washington that the battle ofjfar advanced in their work. The} 21 Enchant" |i the Atlantic “is coming along|same thing is true of the large| ‘very satisfactorily for the Al | bridges that are being constructed *60¢ Aies.” at Snake Creek, connecting Plan-| cons, } tation Key and Windley Island, and} the one at Jewfish creek. | SOUTHENRMOST CITY |! PHARMACY, Inc. Phone 199 Duyal and Fleming Sts. leaving only four of the a tanker, from whose planes ter, by enother marriage. so. She the Coast ‘Guardsmen heard cries for heip. but could not locate the Personally, I feel confident that a skiff could not have lived ir that went through the| German submarine S tonsves of flemes leaped into t me fight undamaged. = air. A railroed ststion struck end two bombs di ee SH: | scene freight and paseege | IL. RAID anit here from Sweden. | oes ne oo { The nervous strain on the on sidings. LONDON.—A squadron of 25 large Germen bombers last night £0 rough a sea. ettacked a town on the southea! coast of Englend and caused some | casualties among civilians, mpc wester, I _ing four children, One of the raid- SI ID DMS FSD = was shot:-down ‘by an | would have swamped between craft guns The biq RAF bombers the time the northwester broke SUBMARINE BAKERIES! ct tw ttt Slcrgg tnd sedows. but she ise ORKING AT NIGHT heir herviest reid o! © war e night before on Dortmund, where that she was told the cries (By Assoe' Press) ‘more than 2,000 tons of explosives jwere dropped. This morning,Pelp were heard aboard PEARL HARBOR, May 25. — fights of RAF fighters and small Coast Night time is baking time on sub- bombers crossed the channel. Guerd boat. And marines, when they rest or cruise headed towerd northern France. CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT If Armour anc Esser were caught in that norih- believe raids, their boat work, y for the she ‘ her not ciently. It was pee Esser and Armour disappear |turning this way.-and in — North} a | NOTICE Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2:30 to 4:30 p. m., water will be turned off to make sions. FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT COMMIS The ‘pfivileges of this cafe teria are extended te ti following z vale pemdomire SESS SSS, PALACE THEATER “THE OLD HOMESTEAD” with Weaver Brothers and Elviry NEWS and SERIAL — Tonight Is Prize Night —— ings of Allied ships this month} Cox and Grove, who have the con-| more Dead Man’s Curve, no more} Army, announcing his safe ar-/| purely a drowning, and he i ie “The opening of the new road} Liew turning brivai: “somewhe \plied that, in that regard, which will be among the finest! Ba ee ‘felt as everybody else woul! Africa’: STILL FIGHTING ON ATTU \geel—that Uncle & cmeneaal in the world, with its concrete} bridges, will mean a long stride of} progress in Key West’s history. as! it is the economic life blood of this! city, yet it means just as much, to us on Tavernier or to the peo- |