The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 29, 1943, Page 1

A \\foPresenting the city Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIV. No. 128. Che Key West Citizen ge SOUTHERNMOST NS WSPAPER IN THE U. A. Key West, Florida, hes the most equale climate in the country ; range of only 14° Fahrenk st with an average KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1943 PRICE FIVE ae Postwar Panning. Commitee Organized: lei Mayor Willard M. Albury MRS, ‘ELVIRA HERO Named Chairman; Many, ‘DIES THIS MORNING Other Committeemen Ap- | pointed To Serve FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW | AFTERNOON Key West's Postwar dorset Committee was organized at "| meeting held last night in the| Mrs. Elvira Valdez. Hero, died this morning 7:20 o'clock at County courthouse. The meeting | her residence, 1219 Duval street. | The funZal will be held tomorrow was celled by a joint committee! afternoon at 5:30 o'clock from council! the residence, Rev. Guillermo | Perez of the Latin Mission church, officiating. Pritchard “Funeral Home is ments. Survivors are four daughters Mrs. William Satinders,- Mrs: | Amando Gandolfo, Mrs. _Marco{ | Mesa, Mrs. Berlin Sawyer and six } | grandchildren. | OTHER CITIES’ LOSS, KNOXVILLE’S GAIN (By Associated Pre KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 29.— The Civil War and a showstorm : were responsible for two business- men settling in Knoxville. Jesse E. Miller came from a small Illinois town 50 years ago ‘and the carpenters’ union, V. A. Mickleberry, -zepresent- | ing the union, outlined the pro- that was proposed to Clar- mce Higgs, business agent of the union, by Ray Kirkpatrick, direc . tor of labor relations of the Fed- ‘ekal Works Agency, when he was in taken for a ride recently by Mr. Higgs along the more important streets in the city. Mr. Kirkpatrick told Mr, Higgs that tke city should have least four more at public school the Civil War. He stopped by a milling firm, was offered a job,} and climbed to the general man- agership of the firm, j Florenz Rebori, who had just! houses, because of its recent growth, more than doubling its (Population; a new city hall, a (arger hospital than the one that will be constructed on Stock Is- ‘and and other proposed grovements. caught in a snowstorm that delay- ed his train, en route to Memphis, im- in Knoxville. He strolled down } ‘moved to Memphis yet. ‘BRITISH TUGS SAVE TORPEDOED SHIPS. (By Annociated Peewn) LONDON, May 29. housands of tons of war cargoes which Ger- | after | man U-boat commanders have reported as at the bottom of the sea have been rescued by thousand | ocean-going tugs of — Britain’ Royal Navy. The little ships sometimes go as far as 500 miles out to save many ; merchant ships which otherwise | At the conclusion of Mr. Mic ‘leberry’: Mayor Wil. ‘rd M. Albury was named| whairman. He and Paul G, Al-| dur explained the benefits taat! would acrue to the address, city, the war is over. in giving em-| flayment ta several ‘en who will be thrown out of «work by the decided decrease in he number of men needed in recent of their ex- rescuing of a mer- port. Most \overnment work or on defense ploits is the srojects. | been sheared off by a torpedo. tief summary of what the Fed- | DOCTOR ‘SUGGESTS ral Works Acency has siready MEAT SHORTAGE CURE ‘one in Key West and has ar. | Mayor Albury also gave a He mentioned | a Alf Landon had site abe meat situation witht Dr. C. D,! | Blake of Hays, and indicated some | anged to do. After work in constructing ‘hool annex and a school for ‘olored children, the appropria-| sent him a big’ female. chinchilla! rabbit, suggesting he try that for a meal. ions that have been made for the building of a hospital on Stock Island and a clinic in Jack-| ‘didn’t relieve his hunger one bit since his. children, Nancy and: John, promptly appropriated it as la pet. So Dr. Blake sent Landon | a big chinchilla buck and suggest- ed that the Landons grow their }own rabbits. on Square. He said that Archi ect John Allan Long will coop- | tate in preparing plans for post- | war projects. Stephen C. Singleton was nam (Continued on Page Three) ORGANIZED IN 1903 { a | CHICAGO.—The United Sta |Navy League was organized in SQUIBB | B COMPLEX CAPSULES Contain @ special B Complex extract of brewers’ yeast, in naval preparedness. NOTICE CITY TAXPAYERS The deadline for payinent) of City Taxes is June Ist. 8% Penalty begins after that date. SAM B. PINDER City Tax Collector SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. Prescription Druggists PHONE 199 Duval and Fleming Streets «| the main street, liked it, and hasn't i ps } discussed! : the | i | charge of atrange-- | i | | | would have been unable to make gobs credited the Ameri | chant ship, part of whose bow had | Was born in France { i { i additional meat wouldn't be out of | i.Boston, place in the Landon | diet, Blake! prownsville Alf wrote back that’ the rabbit Gjiveston iNew York /1903 to awaken public interest | Pensacola | | | | | 129.—“You might. pray first to visit the old battlegrounds of | rned cin inches |Tampa DOES GOOD JOB OF RAIN-MAKING Press) INDEPENDENCS? for said Lieut. Col. * Ricard gomery to Miss Olveta F ley when she reported to tk cers’ club at the Independe base as hostess and asked assignment s deep. The next day the ¢ the new he said: “I appreciate your response to orders but dor think you're overdoing it arrived in America from Italy. was little?" iat night i 3 May rain. Br 1e offi nee air for her ™m el orempt vt you ju 'WAAC MAKES SALE ony Aber tet Prem) NORFOLK, Va... Three French _saiior jbuy a watch in ewelr {here but they could s English, and the salesman know a word of Fronch. The disappointed ood in the store May wal a st doorwe the | Chattered about their predic in French. Simone Adams, conversation. few minutes later the WAAC Au Campanardi_ of » listened in an st in the puret Auxiliary with one a a watch. and ‘French fluentiy: reak TO Poggesaer 4 23. MRS. AUGUSTINE SHEA, ited to sto no didn't ay and nent xiliary Ni on the French | and co-author n-army , of Campanardi speaks TEMPERATURES Temperature data for the May ‘hours ending 8:30 a. | 1943, as reported by Weather Bureau: Highest last 24 hours 83 7 81 90 79 72 84 91 m., the Li las ; Atlanta Charleston | Chicago ‘Detroit sonville as City — 87 KEY WEST _ 87 | K.W. AIRPORT 87 Memphis 83 Miami 89 Minneapolis _ 87 New Orleans _ 90 7 12 87 83 7 84 93 Norfolk Oklahoma City , Pittsburgh iSt. Louis U. S. PRODUCTION WASHINGTON.—. Amel ric. duces 40 percent of the te lion ton annual world p tion of phosphates. a4 Py U.S. owest t night 52 57 ‘a -pro- an mil- roduc- Tn pga” the— NAVY CHOI at the FIRST METHODI fess in the elub and ron raided the Jap base on north- WChinese Said To B Frenchmen) Air Force, jher own car ; Combs charged. jto Key West American Soldiers Continue Clearing Out Japs On Attu (By Ansocated Press) WASHINGTON, May 29.-Two fourth raid on the short bulletins were issued today days. about the fighting in the Pacific. American oldier ar One of them said that Allied gradually cleaning out the J dropped 19 tons of bombs Attu. Because of t hilly ap positions at Lae and Sala a rocky terrain, it is a slow and te a ,and another Allied Sauad-‘dius process of literally _ blasting the Japs out of the natural pock- ets in which they are hiding. base in three still plane re and east New Guinea. It was. the “qual Of Japs In Air Fighting ak (By Axsociated Presss CHUNGKING, May 29.—Head quarters announced t that for the first time since Japan has been at war with China, the Chi- @ are now as strong in the air who has been on dut he e y is. Chinese flye ahaa i with the Japs during et with night at La Conciia Hotel, to spen Anroaal nK posi- ary cireles of the is the author of “ yt with wife of Vice Admiral W. S. at present commandant of the val War College at. I port. R. L, of “The Navy Wif Mrs. Shea has just completed a new book about the Women's Ar entitled "The WAACS' is under contract to write a com- pation. book which w ill be titled “The WAVE SPARS and th: MARINES. She 1 ing her home in’Palm Beach at the pres- ent. AUTHOR, VISITOR HERE Mrs. Aug Francis wife of Colonel Shea of the Army Shea, in the Pacific, “ the last fev ue Known in the bombing » tions, two Jap columns ach thi and have of the stopped th a enenr ady that are two da liter he Army Wif Anne Brisco ing ci also destroy- Pye all of operati in that ground fi Ken un tw en hi front. NEGRO IS CHARGED WITH ‘OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC’ GN ROAD Olen whio re at M hon, said ! to have drunk, but that i re-4, 4 >on whicl and, my, are reported to have d all along the 100-mile MRS. HARVEY REITH ARRAIGNED IN COURT Mrs. Harvey Reith, 10 sides in Upper Matecumbe, went for a ride, but not for a ride in Deputy Sheriff Bob AN 1 Ww he was for to beer 1 totin. Patrolman é r said that when he hon, Register ed out ere reported have a beauty.” Deputy Combs said : was taken in Ivar without Ivar Mrs. the ride Olson's ¢: Olsen's consent, so Reith was arrested, brought | ing it off pleaded guilty order to a fore Justice Esquinaldo and was! had to s held for the criminal court. \the other edge of the roadwa Olsen says she hopped into} the “obstructing traffic” his car at Matecumbe and start- Revister was arraigned ed toward Tavernier. He tele- Justice of the Peace Enri- phoned Combs and the arre sauinaldo, Jr., and held in resulted. "$100 bail for the criminal court. s strech- Drivers of cars, in vid Tiding him y up and pull over to be- over = WANTED z All Kinds of Help ST Gtone) CHURCH Sunday Night, 8 oC lock War Veterans - Special Guesis Experience Unnecessary Will Teach You While Paying NAVAL BASE LAUNDRY, Building 131 ,/ and gains were made in the Smo- * some time to be decided on later. * The cction was taken arrived | One Hundred American Planes SRS ESSE SSS TUESDAY DEADLINE FOR PAYING TAXES Sam B. Pinder, city tax assessou-collector, announced today that the deadline for the payment of city taxes is next Tuesday to avoid the Properties concerned being put on the delinquent list. After Tuesday an eight percent penalty will be as- sessed against all taxpayers who have not paid their 1942 taxes. ener cnathaal Sas STALIN'S MAIN OBJECT IS DOWN WITH HITLERISM CLAIMED THIS WAS MAIN REASON DEALING WITH DISSOLUTION OF COMMUN- BELLEAU WOOD LATE BULLETINS (Ry Axsorinted Presa) SIX GERMAN GUNBOATS SUNK LONDON.— Planes from the fleet eir arm this morning attack- ed and sank six German gun- clon as 9a geataea boats on-the French side of the LONDON, May 29 — Harold English channel. Other flights of King, Moscow corresvonsien* of « Flanes made a raid on undisclosed local newspaper, stetes. in a siory enemy cbjects in northern France. published here. that Premier Jo and so powerful were the explo- | sef Stelin has qiven ¢ series of de sions they shook the southeast end tailed answers to questions deal of -Enaland, ing with the recent dissolution of ithe Comintern Internationale. The most important questior concerned Stalin's object for dis ©, munique stated that the Reds, in solving the comintern. His an ythe last 24 hours. heve destroyed Vv that he was actuated by 7297 Gétinan and Italian planes It th@dedite to build ~up a commor | was stated also that the Reds front in a unified fight against have mad> gains in the fighting at Hitlerism thg Kuban bridgehead in the Cau- Stalin us. Twenty-two German hat- is a threat to the stability of al feries in the Leningrad area were the United Nati and in that quieted. 4the communique said, Common fight no question should be permitted to arise. that cause any internal disturbar and for that reason he ptt ah et to communism, so far as Ri concerned German pr clared, have been since Germar on Russia, to among the Allie harping on Russia munistie country lin said, will now be to trump up some that he hopes may interf the unity of the nations t fighting against the tyran Germany would impose ALL CHANGED IN TELEPHONE SYSTEM (By Asseet ISTIC BODY RUSSIANS | REPORT GAINS MOSCOW.—Today’s brief com- asserted that Hitlerisn ma lensk érea. . 10 PER CENT CUT HELD UP WASHINGTON.—The OPA an- nouncd today that the 19 per cent cut in the prices of fresh meats. butter end coffee. which wes to have gone into effect on June 1. has been postponed to ypagandis's, he striving. undeclared war dis: continua cause b ett "s being a cor Goebbe! forced te other defer yo ence to Jemes F. Byrnes, head of |rrices will be made after Mr. Byrnes hes. been able to study them thoroughly, in FIGHTING FOOD SUBSIDY ASHINGTON. — The — fiaht against the subsidization of food- stuffs is said to have gained now adherents in both the house and the senate, Final action on the _) subsidy mepsure is not expected AN ALEUTIAN Jo ke taken for a week or longer, BASE, May 29.—T planned that the names LEWIS IN ALL- DAY MEETING telephone, exchange WASHINGTON. Join? BBB with, Lewis, president of the United °° Mine Workers of America, is in’ J* is changed conference today with union ©onel of infantry chiefs from various coz] centers. an, the colonel The matter thet is under discus‘ @rtillery exchang sicn has to do with the truce that [°U!d see-nothing th will come to en end at midnight .!7, for the quarter . for the engineers. But cn Morday. Morday was going too far, said the colonel to expect him to answer the tele phone, “jerk No. J Press, COMBAT > Army + of 3 but it berause He o aid, calling FRANK BERVALDI ; DIES IN CANADA County Commissioner Carl Ber-| valdi is in receipt of CARRIES HIS WALLET ON RUNNING BOARD a telegram! from Montreal, Cans Asapeleted, ing the death of tis uncle, -Prank| KNOXVLSED Temp, May Bervaldi, yesterday in that city.. —W. D. Kelley, driving to The deceased, who was a former Office, honked his auto’s horn Key Wester, had been making his a downtown ifitersection home in Canada for the past thir-; A boy , exclaimed: ty years. He is survived by his there’s a waligt om that wife Wilgeaid peven chHGreD. ode seven children. ‘running board.” iy RAILS cB S| 8 passerby, Mrs, J, B Carden (ae a. look and dashed tele- Now Open Every Day, 3 to 12 phone her sister, Mrs. Kelley, who in turn called her husband at his office. | JOHN PRITCHARD’S a, announc- rene’ man's running board—money and ail | | | i | He found the wallet on the ORCH: b Blast Leghorn North Of Rome Te Air To Intercept invad- ers But Are Quickly Driven Off lias Flyers Take ALGIERS. Mey 23—One bun ¢red Flying Fortresses. by manned Americen airmen. demon strated the truth last night whet Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said in Commons yest that Itely lies “oven to attack y Allied bombers. for Fortresses blasted Leghorn the miles north of Rome, and one of them returned to bases. Ten Itslien flvers tock to the air to intercept the bombers when one Italian plane was sho down, fled, the others scattered ar like birds thet ere fright ened by shot from a gun. Allied headquarters thet the report Italian = anti-sircraft defense The wes “week end cuny Fortresses flew compere tively low before droping bombs end teering to pieces military objectives. Orlando, the name of the of Leghorn. was struck directly by bomb after bomb. Docks railroad yards. railrocd sideimus. frsight end pessenger cars were Direct hi were scored on three the harbor end they were left in flames and in sinking condition including raided other cities end hit end set efire. sip & Returning flyers. British. towns in Itely. one of them 12 m from Rome. They too with little resista: end all © turned to their bases. Leghorn is situeted on @ pen insula that sticks far out into the sea and hes three filet. sandy beaches. which heave been r= ferred to frequently as affording i¢eal vleces for the invasion Italy. The beeches ere so poor ly protected. one writer has said that mefnbers of the crews British submarines made Trectice to co ashore and lie on beach themseives. a « the sunning BRITISH FILMS NOW TAKE A CUTTING (Ry Asanciated Preess ON, May GATO CAFETERIA 1100 Simonton Street A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this caf teria-are extended to following : CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES of the Key West Naval Stebor of Army end Nevy Defense Projects PERSONNEL OF ARMY. NAVY. COAST GUARD and MARINE CORPS