The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 3, 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. 132. Key West, Florida, hs the most equable climate in the country: with an average range of only 14° Fahrent st Che Key West Cittern THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN -THE-U..°S: A; KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1943 PRICE President Roosevelt Calls Conference Of Labor Board And Heads Of Two Unions xr Meeting Being Held In In- ~=-------seeea00 terest Of Putting End SITTING IN To Existing Strike Of THE LAWMAKERS Coal Miners . By RUSSELL KAY (Florida Press Association) (By Associated Press) | On tatiana tint tantantntntntnd WASHINGTON, June 3—Pres-| ident Roosevelt, at noon today, called a conference at the White House of the members of the War | Labor Board, William Green, | ort to create a new congres- {sional district fails and the Hon- President of the A. F. of L., and/orable Lex Green relinquishes his Philip Murray, president of the | the jady plans to toss her sombrero CIO, to take measures to put an | in the ring as a candidate for Con- ‘uel io. Ue ool ditike: | gresswoman-at-large. Other names “The Lady from Pinellas” is am- bitious and admits quite frankly that she is toying with the idea of going after the illustrious title of If a guy were to jump up in the House and scream “Fire” or “smallpox,” he couldn't cause any more excitement than does mentioned as possible candidates Up to early this afternoon it] ere Senator Ernest Graham of Mi- j ami, and Mark Wilcox. From west ‘was not publicly announced wit, Florida comes talk of opposition action the government had de- | for the Honorable Bob Sikes, who, rumor has it, will be opposed the cided to take, but, unofficialiy.|next go-round by Representative it was declared that the Presi | Dave Thomas of Escambia and ; : e. | Parkhill Mays of Monticello. dent «is going to “crack down”) Others reported to have congres- the size jsional ambitions are Senator oa era. It wae furthee | Franklin of Ft. Myers and Repre- said that the decision reached |sentative Buck Hancock of M a | Son. It is possible, of course, that the conference probably wil {none of these aspirants will be not be announced till late this|at the post when the race starts, {but they are putting out feelers evening or early tomorrow morn: . 4 counting their pennies, and ing. all of them will bear watching. Stephen Early, spokesman for “the White House, said that the order issued by the War Labor) Board, prohibiting the operators and the miners’ representatives a red flag at a bull. During the from conferring in an attempt|past week evrey bill that even to.make a settlement, still re-/ “The Lady from Florida.’—If the i House seat to run for Governor, | (By Associated Press) eee | LATE BULLETINS | | | 17,083 AMERICAN PRISONERS | WASHINGTON.—Secretary of | War Stimson announced today | that since this country’s entrance ‘in the war 17,083 Americans have {been teken prisoners. Of. that 'mumber, 13.307 were captured j by the Jans, 3.312 by the Ger- ;mans and 2,500 by the Italians, with e few prisoners not yet ac- lcounted for. Packages are being ‘sent to Americans in German and Itaiian prison camps but ar- | rangements have not vet been | completed with the Jap govern- | ment to send packages to Ameri- can prisoners held by the Japs. | es 1 ALL SET FOR JULY 1 WASHINGTON.—Ali that is | mow necessary to make the new | tax law effective is the Presi- dent's signature, and it was said | today it probably will be signed ‘to the measure shortly. In that ; event, the payment of the 20 | percent withholding tax will go | into effect on July 1. PROMOTION OF NEGROES ; CAUSE STRIKE | DETROIT—Employes at the ; Peckard Motor Works here went ‘on Strike this mornino. It was | said they numbered 20.000, but ‘it was leter stated that figure is | altogether too high. The cause of ‘the strike was the advancement of the ratings of three negroe ‘employes in the plant. The man- ‘agement declared they deserved | the higher rating because of their seniority and training, i | DIFFERENCES PATCHED UP | AGAIN | ALGIERS—The political dif- ferences between General Giraud,’ | French high commissioner, and General De Gaulle, leader of the fighting French, have been patct- | jed up again, it was officially an-, | nounced today. The trouble start-| fed when the provisional governs? of Algiers sent his resignation to| the chap who mentions “State ' General De Gaulle on Monday af- | (7NS)- Welfare Board.” It is like waving | jernoon and another resignation ',,. pianned Parenthood has an- to General Giraud the next morn-| | ing. DeGeulle accepted the resig-| | sounded like it might be remotely | nation and Giraud directed the! drive for funds connected with the welfare set-up | governor to remain in office. De! work .uroughout the state. {J. M. Varela. [Many Have Signified Their Intentions Of Paul G. Albury stated today that he will be a candidate for mayor in the city election to be) held He is at Fresent a city councilman and is in November. tke chairman of the Key West Area Focd Commission. The councilmanic race, de spite the entrance fee that mu: be charged for this, as well for all other city offices, is like- ;ly to draw out as big a field, in ithe coming election, as has ever The Citi-j been the case before. zen has heard of a good many Key Westers; who have said they intended to be candidates for members of the council, but they added they did not wish to make} their announcements now. Two, however, who have pret-} ty well made up their minds to run are Mrs. Hugh William and ness woman and has been a re: dent of Key West eight year She has been active in local ci ic work and has written and had published a good many art- icles booming Key West. Mr. Varela has been a candi- date for councilman before, and in each instance made a credii- able showing. He is hopeful that STATE UNIT PLANS DRIVE FOR FUNDS apm > PETERSBURG, June 3. The Fiorida Federation ~ ST. ! nounced the organization's annual to carry on its } Mrs. Williams is; ‘a Floridian, an experienced busi- County Commissioner Edward | Gomez Buys Maloney Building |= :-. On White And Division St Cees a a ae | Running For he will make the grade thi: There has been talk about a government office holder that in-| tends to enter the race for chieij of police, but he informed The Citizen this morning that he does! not think he will be a candidate’ for that office. j County Primary Japs n Cline Arca Experience City And County Positions) = Great Setback; Nipponesé Troops Are In Danger Of | In the coming primary race, a ~~ = well known business man _ said . . 4 that he will probably run for the P ] : ( < * nomination for tax assessor, but, once aptain he added, with Primary Day 11 months off, he thought it was too early to make an announce-} ment. i Another Key Wester, who, has had much experience in what may be called accountancy work, ' has decided to run for the nom ination of tax collector. He, too,! said he will wait till later to an-; nounce. | But for the office of sheriff, there will be at least three can- cidates in addition to She Berlin Sawyer. His announced opponents thus far are Tax As-! sessor Claude A. Gandolfo, Har- old E. Russell, business agent for the local labor union, andj City Clerk Joe Johnson. But Sheriff Sawyer insists that there!) g'ciock in the morning is going will be a fourth opponent, who} {, be stopped and questioned, was referred to by the sheriff @s ang if he can not give a good rea a “dark horse”. H . Police Captain Ray Atwell! said todav he is determined to Put an end to petty thievery in Key West. As he pointed out, practically every crime of that nature in re- cent months, has been committed by a sneak thief. Captain Atwell stated that, found prowling the streets a hereafter, evervbody i !son for being out so late at night, _—.— jhe will be arrested | “I believe,” Captain Atwell ‘“that the people of Key West ‘approve my taking this 1 to break up sneak thievery who has the inter jests of the city z , will re jsent being questioned if he ound out after 1 o'clock, no mot jthan he would resent being asked |to be finger printed if he opens a {postal savings account in the post Building, | office. He feels that such a proce White and Division streets, was! dure is for bis own protection, and i I am_epnfident that he will fee soideyesterday afternoon for | that our diligence is the only wa j we can effectively stamp out the $12,000 cash to County Commis-| work of sneak thieves in this = | community will ; The Malcney Stone sioner Edward Gomez. The sal = sheak thieves a uni was made by J. Otto Kirchhein-! formed policeman coming toward er, administrator of the estate | them: naturally they will ert t | themSelves to get out of his sight, Atwell Says He Is Determined To Put An End To Petty Thievery Here Have Been Routed FANTALERA 1S SHELLED BY SHIPS ALLIES SINK TWO SUPPLY SHIPS AND DAMAGE DESTROYER (By Axsuet. ALGIERS, June warships have ‘ed eens) 3.—Alhed again shelled Pantalleria, Italy's island speck. considered of great importance strategically despite its small ness in the Mediterranean, a short distance from the Cap Bon ren insule. After as happened on a previous occa sion, Allied from Africa jsubjected Pantalleria t blasting. Headquarters announced today that, during a raid on Tuesday, Allied planes sank two supply ships, loaded the naval bombardment planes Nortt a. beavy Sardinia with -muni tions, and so b damaged Italian des he was ‘beacis Aninlation From Eighty Te One Hundred Thousand Mer Conimgents (Ry Aemeetated Prowse CHUNGKLIM June setback of the Japanese estimated fo range from 80.900 190.030 men to the which began Chinese theater a wees o9 bes mow become « rout the wer office here anno ced totter Ge jeraimssimo Shek Chiang Ka of the Chinese forces clared thet the Jap columeus fighting north, south and wes of this wartime capital of have not only failed miserat but lave been batten they are in danger complete anrihnation The Chinese troops ere tari back the Japs m duorder on ground. while Chinese and An an armen are shattering thet ranks from ite iz. All slong the lime. the Jepanese are 2 treating prec-pitrously. The nese are launching powert “ frontal attacks as well as cutting the Japs to preces on the: flenks. fhained in force. ed-while flames were’ ‘shooting r RUSSIANS DOWN 123 NAZI PLANES FIVE HUNDRED STAGE AT-) TACK ON KURSK YESTERDAY | \ | (By Associated Prens) MOSCOW, June 3.—Germany’s air power is still strong on the eastern front, today’s Russian communique declared, in refer- ring to the raid of 500 German planes on Kursk yesterday. The planes came in five waves,| each comprising 100 planes, but the communique claimed that the Germans lost 123 planes in the at- tack. The Russians gave their losses as 30 planes, but radio Ber- lin, heard he maintained today that the Russians lost 80 aircraft. On all fronts, in the last 24 hours, the Russians claim to have} destroyed 200 German and Italian planes. Yesterday the Reds con- ducted 1,000 air sorties. In the fighting in the Leningrad area, the Russians say they have recaptured three villages since yesterday, and killed 1,100 enemy got in the ash can. Even if a bill’ Gaulle was criticized for not con: | was good the boys didn’t like it,| and they even went so far as to; try to kill one previously passed | and signed by the Governor. The! Welfare Board went haywire this. session by presenting a raft of! bills designed to give them more! power and control of more money, | Things went all right for a time,} but when the boys woke up to the fact that about every other bill on; the calendar had to do with “wel-; fare,” they began holding their | noses and pressing red buttons. SSR | { Sectionalism, which has beew! more or less dormant this ses-} sion, broke out in a big way! last week-end when a bill to es-! tablish a University of South Florida at Miami, at a cost of two million dollars, reached the} floor of the House. Amendments | piled up. on the clerk’s desk so fast he couldn’t keep track of, them. They called for everything from striking the enacting clause to striking the word “Miami” and inserting “Jacksonville” or} “Tampa”. Just about everybody; had something to say and before! the fireworks were over some of the boys got real personal. The; melee occurred during the Sat urday morning session when only the consideration of sup-j} posed uncontroversial bills was, | i DAVIES BACK IN AMERICA (Jacksonville later this year. ‘ about its contents has been divulg- j The T.orida Medical Associa- sulting the French executive com-! tin has endorsed the principle of | mittee before accepting the resig-| pjanned parenthood and the State nation. : |Board of Health has sponsored | child acing services in mater- EDSEL FORD'S WEALTH nity clinics within its jurisdiction GOES TO CHARITY | This year the organization plans DETROIT.—The bulk of the late to continue its program of medi- Edsel Ford’s fortune wes left to! cal education, and thus far more the Ford Foundation, a charitable| than 400 doctors | $e requested institution, and is. therefore, not information and literature. A post: subject to taxes. it was announced| graduate course in techniques here today. will be offered doctors at the an- {nual Medical Society meeting in} MINNEAPOLIS. — Joseph. E, 4 eee oe Davies. the President's special en- | WATERWAY ASSN. voy to Moscow. landed here in a/ 1S ORGANIZED plane today before beginning his; next hop that will take him to) 8 } Washington. Davies has a letter | (FNS)— from Premier Josef Stalin, of | Im- Russia, for President Roosevelt.! provement Association, embracing The letter is sealed and nothing| counties in central Fiorida with! the purpose of seeking improve-; |ment of waterways and creating j mew ones, was organized here this’ | week. i Spon: of the movement said \their plans would include the de-} | velopment of the Titusville-San-, REQUIREMENTS ON LITERACY PLANNED | 5-3 canal, leading from Sanford se ee {to Titusville via the St. John’s! WASHINGTON, June 3. (FNS)| River and connecting lakes. j —A change in Army literacy re-; The organization hopes to enlist | quirements, so that men will be j the support of the half-million peo-{ accepted for induction or enlist-! ple living in the affected areas, ment without regard to literacy.| TITUSVILLE, June 3. ntral Florida Waterw CHANGE IN ARMY ‘of EupHemia Maloney. } H wes mayor of Key West for sev- eral terms, started in business as: , ture business. and the other, on the purchaser. o THave arranged to have several ap of the. city’s regular policemien The building was constructed | , ar civilian clothes while their be: Besides, I am receiv ting the support of special $22,009, but its replacement would! volunteer policemen, and w . 5 {sure we will make it so hot for exceed thet figure by a Inight prowlers they ee margin today because of the de-/ tually be driven off the streets.” about 37 years ago at a cost of e feel large cided increase in the cost of both | NEGROES ON JURY | IN JACKSON COUNTY The late Leslie A. Curry, who’ labor and material. MARIANNA, e 3. (FNS) Setiing a precedent in kson County, negroes were drawn for jury duty here last week by court order and served on both grand and petit juries. Departing from negroes were drawn as the result three of a petition from County C missioners, who, having been in formed that in some inst*nces pied by Mr. Gomez in the furni- courts have held that discrimina- ‘tion against negroes in the prepa- ration of jury lists, where names tke corner, by the Home Drug @re purposely omitted, any convic- tion that might be obtained would known ‘be nullified. as the Stone Hotel, containing 10 The commissioners, believing = {that negroes who commit crimes rooms, and is conducted by Fos- in the county should be punished ter Gomez, who is not related io In the same manner as whites, pe- jlitioned the Circuit Court judges for the action. a pharmacist in. the Maloney | Stone Building the latter part of the first decade of this century. Spee The building includes stories, two of which are occu Store. The upstairs is soldiers expected, as many of the mem- now appears certain of early ap-} bers were absent. Representative |Pproval by the “War Department, | Dowda, chairman of the House,;according to Congressman Bob) Appropriations Committee, hed! Sikes. Heretofore only ten per) the question brought up with|cent of illiterates have been in-; the view of gettng House reac | ducted, and the Army has defined} tion to the question of arpro-! literacy as the ability to read and’ | priating the two million. He sure| write English at or above a fourth! | got it, but after it was over|8rade school level. “This policy | | TT, | F iisic more than hie had has had the effect of deferring| CATO CAFETERIA in the beginning. There was|Many able bodied men, particu-} no particular occasion for the, arly colored, who otherwi: vould 1100 Simonton Street ‘ruckus for the bill simply pro-| be subject to induction,” said} | vided for the establishment of a} Sikes. A DEFENSE PROJECT | school of medicine and dentistry! E> The privileges of this cafe-|at Miami at some future date,/ teria are extended to the ‘and called for a “when and if” following: \ appropriation. All agreed that! EP oe es ' Un Gn ae sa ‘CRYSTAL’S CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES|such a project could not be ur-| of the Key West Naval Station| dertaken until after the war, butt RESTAURANT (Formerly Aubrey’s) CONTRACTORS’ PERSONNEL) from the debate one gathered | Cor. Simonton and Fleming Sts. of Army and Navy Defense: the impression that if the pi DIN in dhe; coolest’ ‘and Projects F | passed work would start the next E cleanest spot in town PERSONNEL OF ARMY, NAVY.! morning. “Home-Like Atmosphere” COAST GUARD and MARINE! BEST QUALITY FOODS Coarse Reasonably Priced GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES FAMILIES OF THE ABOVE LS IDINNERS ‘= 65c _SeEECreMnI en? SID CRYSTAL, Prop. MADE WOODEN MODEL Colt, in- made a CHICAGO.—Samuel ventor of the revolver, wooden model in 1829, se EEE SS | POPULATION INCREASES NEW YORK.—World popula- tion has increased from an a mated 1,009,000,000 in 1945 to about 1,900,000,000. Strunk Lumber Yard will CLOSE on JUNE 10th to give all their employes ten days’ leave. If you need anything they have, you should place your order before the 8th be- cause their force is limited anc a last-minute rush is to be ex- pected, Lumber - Sash - Doors Blinds - Screen Doors Upson Board - Insulating Board - Plaster Board Roofing - Nails - Paints Hardware STRUNK Lumber Yard PHONE 816 Near Clyde Mallory Dock \GILBERT V. OGDEN ""1§ NOW CORPORAL * + | Gilbert V. Ogden, the popular | Frankie of the not to be forgotten} '“Pena’s Garden of Roses,” is not; a bartender any more, but is now; a corporal in the U. S. Air Corps. } He was inducted and sent to Camp: |Blanding, and then to Spartan | Aero School at Tulsa, Okla., for 12} weeks’ training and graduated! |from there with high honors and | | was sent to Willow Run, Ypsilan- | | ti, Michigan, where Henry Ford | | makes big bombers. He will grad-| , uate on June 5, as a full fledged (airplane mechanic. He will come {home fora furlough, before going} j to his new station for the dura- tion. me PALACE THEATER | SQuIBB HIGH POTENCY WILLIAM BOYD in ‘The Undercover Man’ ‘NEWS and SERIAL from her hold Sicily also was attacked agam Sterday by Allied airmen, oncentrated the explos shipping and shipping facilities y whe BUREAU TO SET UP ITS CWN COMMISSION . June 3. F County Farm legislation wh vegetable marketing of f the er the citrus the bureau i stting up it the final at the J will be attended by secretary of t F u Federation own col reached vhich Ford, Farm Bure COLLEGE CADETS MOORE HAVE} (FNS)—Cours: Tw Riddle-McKay Aero gradu dier eral John G AAF’s principal speaker ; Wings Cere the ceremony mander M. W. Boviill, « Included in the at the They were led unwittingly sto treys, particulerly im the mour tein rasces, and ere now ing their worse defeat simce thoy sterted thew undeclared war China. It was said further thet outlock is the Japs will be so decisively defeated. the Chinese forces on the ground and comrades in the @ir. toget with the American pilots. shortly will be able to strike et the Japs on their cwn territory. SUMMONSES SERVED IN SUIT AGAINST DRAINAGE DISTRICT ARE GRADUATED *" ending ~ class, which has heretofore been! _ made up of British cadets, was a small group of American cadet . t who received the coveted wings _ of the AAF. Somewhat of an experiment, Course Twelve trained both Brit ish and American pilots together for assignment te their respective aed commands. in which to f defendant. th ira C