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Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIV. No. 125. Council Instructs..Mayor... To Enter Into For Securing Incinerator: 'WILL RUSSIA Chief Executive Left Last Night To Contact Fed- eral Works Agency Of This Area The City Council met in spe- ,Sial session last night with _ Mayor Willard M. Albury con , Serning matters dealing with}. the new proposed incinerator for Key West.’ Mayor Albury apprised the council members of the latest information he had received from the Federal Works Agency in this area bearing on the nego 1 tiations now being carried ee with the city for the installation | of this new project, one of many which is now under considera. i tion by the government agency, with sponsorship by the City of! Key West. The city has agreed to sponsor the incinerator project to the ex- tent of $10,000, with the govern- ment to furnish the remainder of the amount necessary for its installation, When fully. com- pleted the incinerator plant will cost approximately $60,000, and is to be constructed at some point on Stock Island. ‘After going over the matter) tharoughly last night, Mayor Al- bury was instructed by the} council to proceed to Miami and contact E. L. Hackney, head of | With the government to see that! tories” the Federal Works Agency, and, enter into a tentative agreement) for obtaining the incinerator s ATTACK JAPAN? THAT QUESTION WAS FREE- LY DISCUSSED IN WASH- INGTON TODAY (By Associated “reasy oni WASHINGTON, May *26.— What is the prospect of Russia’s: here semi-officially today. conclusion was that, if the Allies invade Europe and the Germans; are defeated, Russia likely will declare war on Japan, but that if the Russians do all the land fight- ing against the Germans, in an ef- fort to drive them: back to their own soil, the likelihood is that Russia will not go to war against Japan. Conditions on the eastern front and conditions in the European theatre generally, it was said, will have much to do with the decision the Kremlin will make against the} Japanese, fs entering the war against Japan?) That question was discussed; The; REPORT ALLIES MAKING: READY: FOR « INVASI } INTENSIVE ‘ AERIAL © WAR- FAR) IN MEDITERRANEAN DECLARED PREPARATORY TO OFFENSIVE (By Asnociated Prexs) LONDON, May 26.—Radio Ma- drid, in a broadcast recorded by the British Broadcasting Cor- Foration, said today that the Al-| lies are waging an intensive aerial warfare in the Mediterran- | ean preparatory to Italy. Sicily, '\y Sardinia,» Pantelleria and: Italy “itself,” the Spanish | spokesman asserted, are being “softeried’’ to assure''the’ success lof an invasion, probably’ of Italy | itself, instead of one of the sinall ; lislands held by the Axis powers | jin the western Mediterranean. Radio Madrid said further that! invading | unrest is becoming more intense daily in Italy, and that it is on | the Point of “toppling”. All the pessible invasion fronts Mediterranean, the added, are being feverishly for- tified. in the} spokesman lWar Food Malidtaiauntion Issues Orders Controlling All Storage Of Shell Eggs) The War. Food Administration has issued orders controlling all | storage of shell eggs, said Paul G. Albury, chairman of the Mon- roe. Courity ‘Food: Advisory: Com- mittee today. Monroe is working closely | all persons storing eggs are mo- tified of new controls. The purpose of the orders {to protect civilian egg supplie: ,ers, wholesalers and other dis- 'tributors in this county that they :may not keep shell eggs in stor age after June 15, with the fol- ! lowing exceptions: To cover existing contracts} tes governmént agencies. for production .of.spray diied whole eggs, and a-small specified vol- ume of eggs may be accumulat- ed and held for “working inven- of dealers, wholesalers, and others. | Under terms of the original | order, set aside eggs might have; been held into winter months. | The amendment, however, pro. Plant, which is badly needed in anq supplies of dried and frozen hibits storage after June 15, ex-| Key West at this time, ! The council voted last night to allow Frederico Fuentes to transfer his beer and wine 1i-| production this year civilian and sis. \ military cense to Mario Mora at his ¢: tablishment on Division street.: This license was revoked recent-| ly following a case tried in city Court, but the council was ap-; pealed to for a reopening of this| case. | Judge Wesley P. the municipal court, who revok- | ed the license, was present at! the meeting last night, and the Archer, 3 | councilmen took the matter up| 00n by Judge Thomas S. Caro,! 3.5, with him, due to the fact that} colored, for not having a driver's! le there appeared to be some mit (Continued on Page Four) WE ARE... HYDRAULIC BRAKE | SPECIALISTS Let Us Check Your Brakes Lou Smith Auto Service ja negro undertaker in? Miami, | White at Fleming Phone 5) “Opposite Army Barracks” 1 jamount of a fine, eggs for military needs. Specu-; ‘lators have been turning large quantities of eggs into storage, | expecting to sell at higher priees this fall and in spite of record, supplies were being, threatened. Monroe County Food Advis- sory Committee is eae deal- cept as expressly provided in: ‘the order. | Under the amended order, the| |WFA stands ready to buy ail} | Storage eggs offered on this ba- Recognizing that certain; quantities of eggs must be car- ried for: normal business. pro |cesses, WFA through the amend- peau Bn ae Four) \Niixsnacin Fitie Negro In Six with costs of} court, umposed yesterday after- | | in criminal court, on Hardy Ward, license. Ward was a truck driver for! Bonami, a former Miamian, who! conducts a store on Division street, | near Francis street. With Bonami! in the truck with him, Ward, while | on a trip to Miami to get commod- ities, had a collision ‘a ;cas with an ambulance, owned by while it was on its\way to that! city withg@ body it hadsobtained in Key J ae truck me the} 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 hundred and nineteen dol-: ‘lars and seventy cents—that is the, was to blame for the sideswiping}{ Ingposed” On Criminal Court’ ambulance sideswiptd, but who | was not. brought out in the testi-} ‘mony. As a result of the accident, | j ‘a man in the ambulance lost ed Ward was tried on four charges, vaving the scene of the accident, | ‘ reckless driving, failure to report! an accident, and for not having a |driver’s license. The jury found Ward “Not guilty” on the two first charges ,and Judge Caro fin- ed him $500 and costs for failure! to report an accident. William V. Albury, attorney for Ward, pointed, out that the law fixed a maximum penalty of $100 for failure to report an accident, | but the maximum penalty for not sp eaeing a driver's license is $500, land the judge imposed that | amount. ! | In deciding on that sum, Judge | Caro cited the cricumstances of the accident, but Eurique Esqui- lnaide Jr., who also represented | Ward, objected on the ground © (Continued on Page Four) PALACE THEATER | “THE OLD HOMESTEAD” , pocketed Japs is still continuing ; ployes in KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1943 EDSEL: FORD, SON OF AUTO Funeral Services For Only Son Of Owner Of Huge Motor Works To Be Held Friday "INDUSTRIALIST DIES | (By Associated Pre: LAKE ST. CLAIR, Mich., May | 26.—Edsel Ford, :@nly son of Henry Ford, Bryant the died early this morning of undulant! ‘fever in his home here. death came. On Monday attending physi- | | cians reported that Edsel Ford's | ‘condition had shown some im- EOSEL B. FORD LATE BULLETINS weorlated Press » came alarmingly worse yester-' been 50 years of age next November 6. lay. He would have The family announced SEA BATTLE OFF ATTU? WASHINGTON.—Radio Vichy | ? reported today that an extensive On Friday. sea battle is being fought off DSEL FORD Atta in the Aleutians, but the) AREER OF EDSEL F report has not been confirmed; Sole heir of one of the greatest by any Allied source. The only and most rapidly official mention of Attu today. fortunes ever amassed and one of was that the fighting against the’ the most talked-of but least- known figures in an industry in gradually Which his name was a by-word, of his; was Edsel Bryant Ford, only child jot Henry and Clara Bryant Ford. ; 1 Appearing in public even less! RUSSIANS CAPTURE ifrequently than did his father FOUR VILLAGES ia was noted for shunning the! that funeral services will be held with he Americans blasting the enemy out rocky positions. MOSCOW.—Russian troops, inj spot-light, Edsel Ford was always! a series of sever thrusts, recap-) yreserved, taciturn and aloof, tured four villages, southeast: of thuch-so in fact that for years one this city, last night and this | of the common questions concern- morning, today’s communique | ing him was whether he was a real ' reported. It was further said! or an adopted son of Henry Ford. : that Russian naval forces have} What kind. ofa ian is Edsel - regained control of the Black) org was a question heard fri Sea, and that they sank a Ger-| | questly. both in an out of automo- man transport of 12,000 tons. jive Gireles;: Few could answer it. | Ri t. by-his father with a great | objective of fitting him to manage | théhuge Ford industries when the elder Ford might have to shed these responsibilities, Edsel Ford grew up apart from the ordinary; MUST PAY INCOME TAX JUNE 15 WASHINGTON.—Tte __ Treas- ury Department warned the pub-| lic today that. whether or not; th i SG bai hs spa peled walks and activities of life. quarterly income taxes that faii) At 25 he was made vice pr due on June 15 must be paid. dent of the Ford Motor compan: ! |The 20 percent withholding tax Three years later he became treas- | will become effective on July 1.|urer. This was in 1921, the year ronnie | Wall Street unsucessfully sought ADVISED TO RETURN control of the Ford company. The TO WORK | elder Ford probably could not AKRON.—The 57.000 men on have selected a time of greater strike in the rubber industry|S‘ress in which to test his son’s here and elsewhere in Ohio were| ability. ordered today by their leaders | Edsel was not quite 24 when the to go beck to work. It was re-| United States entered the world perted that a shortage of rubber war. The Ford company was.en- has caused the shut-~wn of a} aged in the production of steel plant in Toledo that was produc-! helmets, airplane motors, artillery ing jeeps. A strike settlement) caissons, Red Cross and army med- in the rubber plants, it was pre- ical ambulances and “eagle” boats dicted, will be made shortly. —an effort to apply the principles PEE of mass_ production of motorcars 1,100 STRIKE AT PACKARD to the manufacture of naval craft. PLANT When the general drafts of the DETROIT.—Delay in upgrad-j nation’s man-power were made, ing workmen was given today | counsel for the Ford company ap- for the walkout of 1,100 em-| peared before the draft board and the Packard plant. jasked exemption for Edsel on the Negotiations were started imme-' ground that his presence at home diately to try to get the men to! was essential to a war industry. return to work. | Many: men close to him pictured Edsel as wanting to go overseas with the A. E. F., but staying at 3 cna gaat home at the stern dictation of his WASHINGTON.—Following an father. After being made more or avalanche of parcels contaiming/| jess of an issue in congress, the everything from single strands to exemption was granted. sizeable hanks of hair, the, Office) ~ Eqse} Ford was born on Novem- of War Information announces’ per 6, 1893, in a two-story, red, | that, while they like blondes, they | (Continued on Page Four) GATO DORMITORY 1100 Simonton S$! A DEFENSE PROJECT | The privileges of this Dormitory are extended to the following: peo SERVICE EMPLOYEES soviet tint West Naval Station tbe NO NEED FOR HAIR jdon: 't need any of their hair. PERSONNEL | Navy Defense} SOUTHERNMOST CITY. PHARMACY, Inc. Per Day Soe Week Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahren Henry | || Ford was at the bedside when | : \ provement, particularly over the! - | week-end, but his condition be- i today | accumulated so! The Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. A. | Dr. J. Y. Porter liam R. Warren, and Dr. Wil-; who, with Miss Elinor Larsen, were appointed on a lunacy commission to examine jinto the sanity of Samuel L. Tift, that his insanity is gerous and’ murderous.” He will {be confined to the ward “for the j criminally insane in the asylum at ' Chattahoochee. At 9:30 o’clock''on the night of ; April 23, Tift shot and killed Les- | ter F. Newby and_ seriously | wounded his former wife, Mrs. ; Celerina Rhodes. | Tift, in his home, had his three- | year-old son by his marriage with} | Maria Celerina Garcia, who, after she divorced him, married Fern F. Rhodes on March 2, 1942, two months after she divorced Tift. | Newby, Mrs. Rhodes and her 12- | year-old niece, were on their way} | to Tift's home to get the boy, when! \they were met by Tift on Watsin street, 20 feet or so from Division, who whipped out a revolver andj began firing. He shot three times at Newby and three times at Mrs. Rhodes, who ran into a corner, saloon to try to avoid him. New- jby died while he was — taken! “violent, dan- AMERICAN PLANES | | PANTELLERIA JAP ARMY. SPLIT | quarters reported - today” ifidt! the «| ‘INTO’ 2 COLUMNS ': _ NOW HELD BACK TWO COLUMNS PRESSING ON TOWARD CHUNGKING HAS BEEN HALTED BY CHINESE | Rhodes" life was ‘several days | reached the conclusion» yesterday | a }did the PRICE Five Hundred RAF: Bombers Pound ay, Last Nigh Lunacy Commission Passes | On Samuel Tift; Will Be Taken To State Asylum and Mr ired of for to the Naval Hospital, despa found Tift first de case came up for hearing before Justice of Peace Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., William V. Albury, attorney for Tift, wa ed examination It was a chilly night when 100ting, but he was spiring freely wh taken to the sheriff's office. Sheriff Sawyer questioned Tift repeatedly, but when he was found te be incoher- ent, he was locked up in the coun ty jail Just before midnight, officer called on Tift to if he had received hi from the army, but Tift know whether or net he had re ceived it. However, as the army officer was leaving the jail, he met Tift’s father, Charles Tift, who showed the officers the discharge papers. At 2 o'clock in the morning, an army doctor was called to the jail te attend Tift, whose condition was vidlent. After the treatment Tift calmed down, but was report- ed to be in a daze. STAGE HEAVY A coroner's jury guilty of murder in the gree. When his rift per an army ascertain ischarge did not RAIDS ON ITALY. AND... SICILY; IS ALSO BLASTED (By Associated Prepay — -<> ALGIERS.,, May 265+Head “most successful’ air raid ~ yet carried out by American ilots, based in North Africa, took place when 400 planes bombed parts of Italy and Sicily and blasted for the second suc Mast night ; cessive night Pantelleria, which IN MOUNTAINS jis considered the first stepping |ttome for the Allies should they (By Associated Press) | CHUNGKING, May 26.—It was officially reported today that the Jap army, split into two col- umns, each of which is pressing on toward this city. the wartime capital. of has ed in. the Lan nity Lis itt a natural barrier against the enemy. H of protection | : Chinese guerillas, in the moun- | tain passes, have caught one of! the columns between a crossfire that compelled the Japs to fall: back in one sector, while the reg-/ ular Chinese army, in the fighting} elsewhere in the mountains, has} been holding its present positions for the last 36 hours. i The Chinese are bringing up! ‘great numbers of reinforcements and adequate equipment with! ; which to wage a powerful defense‘ | against the Jap army, estimated! — jat 100,000 men. ——_-—-— | eee PLACE TO PLAY CHICAGO.—With nervous s tators looking on, a 6-year-old girl cavorted on a narrow. third- | floor ledge of an apartment build- ing. The child’s mother, who told | police that the child could not un- j derstand that climbing out of win- dows is dangerous, promised that she would not let “play cleaning windows” any more. { POCO CC CCC CCC OCCT CCE | BINGO PARTY ‘Sponsored by Junior Woman's Club, May 27, 1943, Club, House, Duval Street, 2:00 )P. M. Admission 35c per per- | again. decide to invade Italy or any oth- er occupied enemy territory bor- ; dering on the Mediterranean. said to have been re ble, Vee the airfields Por to be so badly ré not usable ntti and other waterfront th vockmatiged stallations in Sicily were bombed * One ship was sunk two others were badiy damag In that raid, the Americans not encounter any opposition, a | they did at Pantelleria, and, an hour later, along the shores Italy, where one feces small boats were sunk “RETURNS HOME Miss Dorothy Pierce, 1424 Pe- tronia street, has returned from a delightful trip up the Keys and to Miami. and |some of the "tated “in Dortmund two Most Of Planes Making Up Squadrons Said Te Be Four-Motored Bomb- ers (By Associated Press; LONDON, May 26.—Duessel dorf, one of Germany's important industrial cities. was ‘pounded lest night by 500 RAI ' bombers. It was reported three-quarters of the were four-motored bombers. Trying two and four-ton busters. The British Air Minis said that many blocks of indu trial buildings in Duesseldo }were completely destroyec badly damaged it will requ several months to put them int Condition to be used again. Among the lest pilots to re froth the raid, scitié Gf them said that more than a score of fire were going cn in Duesseldorf «! the Twenty-seve seme time. bombers failed to return to _ bases. Other pilots reported fires that day ago were still burning fiercely One rilot said thar by jest night. tke flames were seen he from a distance of 60 miles. MAKES APPEAL FOR WOMEN TO HELP IN RED CROSS DUTIES Mrs. L man of Red Cro: remind Key Post Office open Wedn 10. M gica A ss, wishe the Workroor sibly cooler ho for the ARC. a HALF-DAY CLOSING STARTS TOMORRO‘; during that clerks gene: en 2 half holiday All Kinds of Help Experience Unnecessary Will Teach You While Paying NAVAL BASE LAUNDRY, Building 131