The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 28, 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. 127. Usges That Emergency Be. ~ Deca In Meat Shortage * Manpower Utilization Con- sultant Claims This Will Help In Getting More Meat LATE BULLETINS (By Asnociated Preas) | LEWIS HOPES FOR SETTLEMENT |. WASHINGTON.—John L. Lew; Henry C. Ball. manpower utili-| is, president of the United Mine Workers of America, expressed zation consultant of the War confidence today that a settle- Manpower Commission, at a con-| ment will be reached in the min- ference . r ers’ dispute before the deadline this morning in eel next Monday ‘night under the ex- Chamber of Commerce's offices,| tended truce. said that if the Monroe County Rationing Board will make a recommendation the OPA; that an emergency exists in Key West in the matter of fresh meats, he believes that this city} i . ip. {tion employes in Chicago were will 'yeceive much lager ship. | allowed an increase of nine cents ments and at more frequent in-!an hour. tervals than we are getting at present. ADVANCES IN WAGES © WASHINGTON.—The War La- ‘bor Board today granted the) re quest of 60 workmen in the Everbest engineering works in New York City that they be giv- |en an advance of 10 cents an hour. Five thousand transporta- to THREE BILLION MORE WASHINGTON.—It was an- |Mounced today that an addition- Bascom L. Grooms, president! aj $3,000,000,000 more, as. com- | pared with this fiscal year, will ‘of ‘the board, told The a that the board will be glad to'for the fiscal year houlening make such a recommendation, if| July 1. 3 it came within its power to do 3,000 CALORIES FOR 80,, because it is anxious to have EVERYBODY HOT SPRINGS.—The Interna- the commodity situation in Key West put on a far better basis than it is at present. Mayor Willard M. Albury, | who has_ been corresponding! with Mr. Ball, was present at| the meeting, as also was Pail; G. Albury, chairman of the Key} sion here, announced today that & program has been worked out ‘whereby everybody, after the ‘war, will be assured enough foods to give him or her 3,000 calories daily. MORE MEDITERRAN: BOMBINGS -- int tional Food Conference, in ses-! Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U S. A. Key West, Florida. bes ize most equable cimmate ie the country; wih an sverage range cf only 14° Fabren? == KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1943 CANADA’S FIRST mun, ESS6N: 19 GivGH THROUGH RANKS | a —k COTTTIITM & t ‘FUNERAL RITES FOR EDSEL FORD TODAY (By Associated Press) DETROIT, May 28.—Edsel B. Ford, wko died early Wed- nesday morning from undu- lant fever. after an illness of 18 months, was buried this afternoon at Grosse Point, Mich. Telegrams..of condolences from all over the country and from. abroad are still being received. by his father. Henry Ford. who-is almost 80 years of age. (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 28.—The Brit- jish Air Ministry announced to-! |day that Essen, in the Ruhr Val- | By ADELAIDE KERR | AP Features Writer Open the office door of Can- ; ada’s first woman diplomat—ana :you will see a quiet brown-hair- ed woman poring over papers. Try to talk to Agnes McClos- ;key about herself and you will | jbe lost in a maze of Canadian | jhistory. Not because the first! | ley of Germany, after last night's jraid by the RAF. is the worst | | i} { ' {blasted city in the history of the | world, { { The ministry said that more. than 10,000 tons have been dropped on Essen dur- jing the 56 times it has been of explosives jraided, which are more than 10 j lterrible and terrifying days the latter cart of 1940 and times as many tons as were! dropped on this city during the of the of emergency has been declared Canadian consul in New York: {certainly not anxious to talk | jabout herself). But because. for! woof of her life fabric have been | "woven around Canada’s Depart- | ' {began work there as a kind of glorified office girl, and worked JAPS NEED MORE ically up through the ranks. | MONEY FOR WAR”. ceil isen She talks of developments in‘ Last night Essen was given one with the same warm glow ‘in try said, though articulars of whi wt. STATE OF EMERGENCY -DE«{ “Y 2d. though no particulars ich some women recall ‘past | the number of planes participating high points in her life and She j will say “When we opened the | NATION seven planes were lost in the raid, “iin which the bombs dropped wer the shining eyes some ; women | might show when they —recal!| WASHINGTON, Mav 28.—Ra:|Smoke, as had been the case at} ! | Dortmund, rose to a height of 15,-! John”. I till the fl ' nes. McCloskey is mn-{@d here, said today that a state; they still saw the flames were} Agi loskey is a brown-! ‘leveled, and fires in one locality {medium height who likes fem-| ae ais mile ini ‘ ' throughout Japan. ce H inine clothes. She favors dress- ig) Field Marsal Goering was quot-! ee feat veils. After she puts has been called to be convened blasting of German cities is more | ler work aside—it never ig:real- ton June 15, when the most press- than the people here can be ex-) tries to balk you (though she is} nearly 35 years the warp and! } ment of External Affairs. She VP ODP OIMOL IS LID Blowly, steadily and undramai- the department over the years, hoe its worst poundings. the minis- | romances. Ask her about the’ ¢CLARED THROUGHOUT jin the raid was given. Twenty- offices in Paris and Japan” witha | Sag Ss ae OnE benictiy: two aia. foGr tonnere j“the year I was in love with j die Tokyo, in a broadcast record: q99 foot and returning pilots said | |haired, green-eyed woman of |stretched over a distance of more| maker suits, pastel blouses and| A special session of the diet!ed here as having said that the iy finished—she --likes tebe} West Area Food Commission,! which has done so much to re-' lieve the food situation in Key West. It was through Paul Al- bury’s efforts with the-OPA andj the FDA in Florida and Mayor Albury’s efforts with Mr. Ball; that more condensed and evap- orated milk and other commodi- ALGIERS.—Sicily, Pantalerria and Sardinia were bombed again | last night by planes based in| North Africa. A flight of 30 Ger-! man and Italian planes tried to! intercept the Allies when they | were on their way to Sardinia, and 13 of them were shot down. | ‘The Allies lost one plane. Two, waves of bombers, it was report: ed, passed over Pantalerria. bridge. She was born in Chesterville, Canada (near Ottawa), and was | schooled in an Ottawa convent. | Then she took. the civil service examinations and soon _ there- after landed in Canada’s Depart- ment of External Affairs.( It has just been eréated to serve as a liaison ‘betweeh various govern- ment branches and the Gover- [me need “Wo be disciissed” is the} raising of more money for Japan to carry on the war. Comment here was that Japan may well declare a_ state of emergency, because it will not | be long before it will. begin to| “emerge”. It was added that the plans that were decided on pected to stand, adding that they | could not be blamed from trying to seek havens of safety from death from the skies. Z i The ministry said that the de-| vastation in Dortmund and Dues-! s extensive, but that it is arably worse in Essen. The! indlstrial part of the latter city, | ‘by President Roosevelt and Prime | it ‘wags added, has been reduced : | Minister Churchill for attacks on | to #tins, with hundreds of build-’ REGULATIONS Key West's Ne Proposed Cy Charter Will Not Be Vaile H. J. Metzg Back; Bullet Was From Gun Provissen Embodied Reis twe To Gey Taking Over Electr Company rer Shot In Going Off In Nearby House mais Objection Mrs. H. J. Met of the late Pat in the back 3 while crossing Fleming stre: Simonton, and nobody was behind her with a revolver port of a revolver was hez some bystanders and people ing in that vicinity expressed opinion that the bullet had from the sky. It developed that of Benjamin awyer, about 150 feet from the corner, 32 automatic fell from a dining room table to the floor and -went off. ger Stickney esterday was shot in the home daughter Ti afternoon ai ing through n boardin, Mrs an aliber ¢ ‘Roosevelt Today Created War Mobilization Board TRS AAAS SE. ANOTHER MONROE BILL BECOMES LAW (By Associated Presa) TALLAHASSEE, May 28. —House Bill 550. which was introduced in the House by Representative Bernie C. Papy of Monroe County, which pessed both the House and Senate, providing for * (Ry Anseciated Freee) WASHINGTON. May a President Roosevelt todey cree: ed the War Mobilization Com mission end pieced James £ Byrnes at the head of it. Judge Fred M. Vinson was e@ppointed to head the powerfu: Economic Stabilization Comms | Siow. from i Byrne. «+ Key West city candidates’ — qualifying fee, became a law without the signature of Governor Spessard L. Hol- lanidi A De of se , te en economist of note and i Signed to accect his mew posstion Judge Vinson. whose home in Kentucky. wes 2 member the federal circuit cout of - ep- Feels in this city. He is séid ¢ ties have recently been receiv- ed i Key West MIAMI HAS BIG FIRE ‘Japan have been well rounded | ings completely demolished and ‘out by military experts in this | the stark walls of other hundreds | nor General, who then repre- GOVERNING FISHING well fitted for the office to which as been named. sented only the Crown.) Her sal- country and from Great Britain, |e remindful of a city that has Mr. Ball stressed ‘the state- ment that he was not talking for the OPA, and did not know what action it would take in his attempts to get more fresh meats for Key West, but he added that he too could make recommendations to the OPA, and that he will recommend that, after the Monroe County Rationing Board takes the prop- er action, more fresh meat, par- | ticularly pork, be shipped to Key West. The present local acute short- age in fresh meats, Mr. Ball ex- plained, is due to the fact that if packers in Miami ship meats to, Key. West, under the present pegging of wholesale prices, they will lose one and _ one-quarter cents on every pound they send here. When the board makes Yts recommendation, he added, he will request the OPA to per-} mit the packers to ship beef to! (Continued on Page Three) We have New Batteries! le In Stock at ALL Times. Lou Smith Auto Service | White at Fleming St. Opposite Army Barracks | WANTED Phone 5; | MIAMI—The second floor of | the Red Cross store at 51 Eas Flagler street was damaged to the extent of $400,000 by a fire j which was discovered there at | 11:30 o’clock last night and | which firemen foucht until 2:30 o'clock this morning before they | of the fire was the storeroom, all | goods in which were destroyed. BOMBS DROPPED ON LAE MELBOURNE. — Twenty-eight tons of bombs were dropped to- day on the Japs’ positions at Lae, jMnd Salamaua was reked with machine-guns by low-flying Al- Yied planes, none of which was |Bost in either attack. It was said the raids were made to help the (American and Australian ground ‘forces in their advance on Sala- maua. EDEN ON ITALIAN IMPOTENCY LONDON.—During e speech in the House of Commons today, | Foreign Minister Anthony Eden \ said that Italy lies “wide open” | to air raids by the Allies. Tha: country, he said. has neither the |men nor the planes. or anti-air- craft guns either. to bother Al- |lied bombers during raids on any vort of Italy. ll Kinds of Help Experience Unnecessary Will Teach You While Paying NAVAL BASE LAUNDRY, Building 131 |got it under control. The scene! ry was so small—$500 a year— hat her family, which did not | approve of her working, had to help support her. In the newly ,opened office nobody gave little ‘Agnes much direction. She scur- jried around and found jobs for ‘herself, taught hersel \to type- write, kept records and read | proof on treaties. j In that connection, -it was an-| been torn to pieces by a terrific} | nounced that Major General Rob- | tornado. ert C. Rehardson has been plac-| Mosquito bombers, which attain ion = oenianad of the military |@ Speed of more than 400 miles an titoda ih Hawai © and’ he hour, vombed Yenner, a manufac. t city nez e Czechoslo’ leuoted as declaring that Hawaii | 70% Bs nese the ¢ zechosl - is already well prepared to take! “!@n border, last night at am in the action when the “al!.| ime that -n_was being blast- ries eats led. Plants that turned out air- jou ol J . The young generation, looking} | plane and tank parts were struck ; EEE =e and set afire, and two large air for secrets of success, might take | WATCH HAS LOT OF \a tip from what Miss McCloskey; TIME TO GET AROUND fields in the city’s outskirts were told me of those days. |pockmarked with bomb holes. “Nothing was beneath me,” Rlomrp ep owey l INSTRUCTED NOT TO tholé | things. T don't 3 yet.” SEND TAX BOOK AS As the Department of Externa SS AdhAfhisinidtine.In'the sandé of | YET TO COMPTROLLER Affairs progressed and jinereased |G yadaleanal last. January, has eae tae : [1D SCO pe, ene eet World Waricome home after a circuitous 1 Spaniels + Aédbmor” Claude pressed en sy : eenentiaal af. (ney, of thousands of miles. \Gandolfo said today that he had P : ah se a a Ga decoded: ite! 0s watch, dropped bv PEC received a letter from the comp-' ee eos a reais the | Lee M. Schneider, Jr., as he leap-| trolier's hekica, aioe hiss he. wak rales be a eibeed mouth. (She has |£2 ashore, was fauna mre “Tater |bnstructed not to carry or to ! 4 ie iby a marine captain wno later! xpress the book for this year's not forgotten it to this day.) Ati” od it over to a Red Cross |the end of World War I she went! Worker in a San Frarciseo hospi: @Xe8 to Tallahassee until the jinto the finances of the depart- lee Es nee ere Rage Seis ment, looked after accounts and _ Be rina} ‘omptroller Lee said that sev [__ the Red Cxges worker, Vintinis | <i tex Ubille have become. laws the | at this session of the legislature — qeiay lists, _,.|Benham, traced the watch from Recently Canada, whose consu-! 1). inanufacturer. through o r lar affairs had been handled by! wholesale distributor and jewei-|4nd that he wishes to review; the Canadian Trade Commission-/,, firm finally to Schneider's par- | them before acting on tax books’ jers Office, decided to open its first! ents here. from any county. — H {consular office in the United! The watch, still in good shape,| Mr. Gandolfo said he does noi; iStates. H. D. Scully was named| js being saved for its marine; know yet whether he will take | consul general and Agnes Mc-/ owner who has some _ unfinished | the book to Tallahassee or ee Closkey and Hugh Cole (the for-| business in the Pacific | Press it. i mer trade-commissioner) were ap-} 1 (Bd Wixoeinted Presa MEMPHIS}) May, 28.—A wrist} Lwatch wathout inscription, lost by | | 1 NIGHT CREAM, Soft, Fragrant. - Aids skin to look smoother —fresher. 1.00 SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. PHONE 199 i $1.00 Per Day Duval at Fleming Key West! $3.50 Per Week Ci ay ~~ Sw “We have an American wo- man consul in Canada—Kath- erine O'Connor,” she said. “So by appointing another woman Canada has repaid the compli- ment.” | less nights. | | ‘1100 Simonton Street placed a woman in its first su- are extended to the of the Key West Naval Sl pointed consiils: Miss McCloskey! EI She takes® an > old-fashioned | A DEFENSE PROJECT | | \CONTRACTORS' PERSONNEL, accepted after ‘a good’ many sleep-' | ORY GATO DORMITORY | | pleasure~in-the-fact~that. Canada/ The privileges of this Dormitory CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES, of Army and Navy Defense wWevvvvvvvvwwvvrrre PRESCRIPTIONS Pure Fresh Ingredients Com- pounded by Experienced Pharmacists. GARDNER’S PHARMACY Phone 177 Free Delivery 02444 6444444444446 , at any time, not ; with the laws of the State of Florida, in the following des- | ignated area: ' Ward and westward from Gov-. | ARE AMENDED "* ™ ir. Byrnes. in his new posi governing | tion, will merge many of the pow the Sev enth Naval District, dated April 2 6, 1943, have been amended, ac-|"*7#045 bureaus. He will have cording to headquarters the district in Miami. The amendment “Fishing will The regulations fishing operations in ers that are now in effect through of full control of production. pro | Gurement. transportation. distr: bution and related activities. He is now second to President Roose velt in the power that he will follows: be permitted in conflict | now wield. “A strip extending south- The ides of creating the new office, the President said. is fo | Streamline production. both |do away with interminable red tape and to unify action on the} | ernment Cut, Miami Harbor, to Key West, Florida, provid- ing said fishing operations be conducted. not more than two (2) miles distant from the line of Keys.” The announcement was made public by Rear Admiral W. R.| 5 Munroe, USN, commandant of | ™0st important things the Seventh Naval District with | promotion of the war effort. At for to im the ‘headquarters in Miami Fresent much time is lost through | sequiced ections through various « sicliakes before decision is * | reached: now 2 decision may be reached immediately by the War RAUL'S CLUB Now Open Every Day, 3 to 12 | Mobilisation Commission. 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