The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 7, 1943, Page 1

_ } Prospective Debt Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West ~ Monroe County's Share Of ~ Three Hundred Bilion War Debt ine tS32,069 684 More Than Value Of) ALL EXCEPT 5,000: All Taxable Property In COAL MINERS HAVE Monroe County (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7. —In a campaign to make the Public conscious of the $300,- 000,000,000 war debt Government _ Officials talk about so glibly.! Representative Albert J. Engel (R. Mich.) said today that Mon-| , Foe County's share of that debt “would be $32,069,684. ’ This Prospective debt is much more than the value of all the; taxable property owned by the! residents of Monroe County. Florda’s share of the war debt! ‘Would. be. $4,321,309,082 or 209 per cent of its assessed valuation. | which, according to recent esti mates, is 82,126,823,048, ‘We are talking glibly about a mational debt which we are beta: wit reach or exceed 300/ billion dollars,” Represertiative | -dimaltaeae Page Roun) (By Asnociated Prean) WASHINGTON, June 7.— All except 5,000 of the 552,000 coal miners that were on a strike returned to the pits to- day, according to an official announcement made here. It was also stated that dur- ing the two weeks the truce is to last, the operators and the miners likely will agree on the points in dispute. The War Labor Board today issued, or- ders directing the operators and the miners’ leaders to be- gin holding conferences to settle the differences. From Detroit news was re- ceived that the strike has been ended at the Packard Motor Works, where 20,000 workmen went out in protest over the promotion of three negroes for merit. R. J. Thomas, a leader, said that indica: are that the Ku Klux Klan had instigated the strike. aROREY, PER CENT LESS NEW YORK.— saan consump- \tion of coffee under’ the rationing | program, is 30 per, cent less: than jit awas_in, 1941: hk we Key West Receives We 000 Pounds Of Meat Last Week Key West received a far pacrwih with Lieutenant Commander quantity of fresh meats last week | | Price, and their combined action than during any other week in| Fesulted in our ireceiving more than 17,000 pounds last week. Lieu- 4 more than four months, Paul G. Al-! tenant Commander Falcom even bury, chairman of the Key West! went to St. Augustine in our be- Area Food Commission, said today, | half. dade that the credit for the in- | “Of course, crease goes to Lieutenant Com-! not sufficient for our needs, as it mander Falcom, civilian relations| provides only about one-half officer in Key West, and Lieuten-| ound a week for our population, ant Commander Price, civilian re-j but it surely is a most enhearten- Jations office in Miami, both of| ing showing over the 5,000 we had | whom cooperated with the local! been receiving weekly. And I amj| commission. {sure the people of Key West will “We are grateful for what vari-|be interested in knowing that ous committees in Miami and'commanders Falcom and Price Jacksonville did to relieve the; are still helping us in getting our food situation in Key West,” Mr./ quota of this most essential food- Albury stated, “but we got our in-! stuff. creaseed poundage of fresh meats} Mr. Albury said that he knew of through the activities of Com-|:nany Key Westers who ate fresh manders Falcom and Price. | meats last week: for the first time “I explained in detail to Lieu-| in more than a month. He is tennant Commander Falcom our} hopeful that our food problem in acute shortage in fresh meats, em-| that regard has now been solved. phasizing the fact that we were receiving only an average of 5,000} pounds weekly, and he went to! Miami and discussed the matter! PEEL ES EE ER SQUIBB B COMPLEX CAPSULES Contain @ special B Complex extract of brewers’ yeast. WE ARE. HYDRAULIC BRAKE SPECIALISTS Let Us Check Your Brakes Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming Phone “Opposite’ Army Barracks” DR. J. R. PORTELA Now Located at 300 Simonton Street Opposite Post Office SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. Prescription Druggists PHONE 199 OFFICE HOURS .10 a.m. to 1 p.m. RETURNED TO WORK : | ila theatahcathatbceihrathwitheall | .LONDON.—An air armada, fly-;0f Key West at a mass meeting heard anything more from them. they. had; boarded 17,000 pounds are| Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1943 10: IN THE U. > oe Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country ; range of only 14° Fahrenb- with an average WAR IN RUSSIA CONFINED 10 AIR ISSUE REPORT ON women | OF PLANES LOST BY BOTH NATIONS { i (By Associated Presa) | MOSCOW, June 7.—War in | the air is still the dominant fac- | jtor in the fighting. along the| 4 Russian front, according to the | communique issued. here today. | | The war office gave out figures | febout the loss of Axis planes and 1 the loss of Russian planes during | the last five weeks. In that time, the announcement |said, the Axis have lost 2,821 | planes to 740 Russian aircraft de- | stroyed. Radio Berlin did not com- ment today on plane losses, but on | Saturday it gave out figures that { showed, according to the announc- ter, that the Russian loss in planes ad been far greater than the | German loss. | ‘The communique said that the | Russians had killed, in the last two ‘tempts to cross the upper reaches | {of the Donetz River. Red Star, semi-official Soviet | newspaper, stated that Germany lis on the point of starting a large- scale offensive all along the 1,800- jmile front. | LATE BULLETINS (By Ansocinted P an) | | AIR ARMADA HEADS TOWARD CALLAIS | | ing at so great a-height its outline barely could he, discerned, ‘passed over the Eng! Channel this | morning headed toward Calais | The mission of the raiders was not announced by the British Air| bi a! Oe (GIBRALTAR PORTS ALMOST | EMPTY LONDON.—It was revorted to-| day that the great fleets of ships, | jincluding men-of-war and mer- chant ships, that had been moored jin the harbor of Gibraltar, have | gone to sea, whither, it has not | been announced. All that is known is that practically every ship head- jed eastwardly through the Medi- terranean. i ferns | ITALIAN BATTLESHIPS NOT HIT | .LONDON.—The three Italian battleships that were reported to! | have been hit yesterday by Allied. bombing planes, are. still intact, | according to an official statement. | Photographs made by ‘Allied air- men showed that no direct hits had been scored, though there had/ been several near-hits that dam- | aged the batileshins. | TIME GOING AGAINST JAPS | WASHINGTON.—Adm. Ches-/ ter Nimitz. familiar with every phase of naval warfare in the Pacific since the United States’ (Continued on Page Four) 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 he- 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 \ jabout the telephone | which they would not have had | HARD OF HEARING? I SECOND FRONT OFFENSIVE .-- By Air Or By Land? AIR—Some airmen believe bombers can blast Germany to make fand invasion little more than a formality. RAF Air Marshal Harris estimates that to send 1,000 bombers into the air nightly would require flying crews of 18,000, ground crews of 500,000. LAND-—A conservative estimate is that af present at least 500,000 men would be required to secure conti- nental footholds; that five million—plus the Russians— would be needed to defeat Germany. OR BOTH-—Military. observers.say. that. as bombers soften up Europe, the needed land army. strength will go down, but. that.in any-event.at, least 500,000 soldiers will be required .to invade and. hold. AP Features PRIME MINISTER Winston Churchill has expressed a willingness to try the experiment of | jj. bombing Germany into subi Papy Wants To Explain ta Detail Electric Co. Matter To People Of Key West Representative Bernie c. ‘Papy, tell their employers if they returned last night from Talla- }would draw a contract favorable’ to the people of Key West, I! , would have passed the _legisla- he is anxious to meet the people tion they asked for. but I never! hassee, and he said this morning “That way .sound sensational, but itisthe truth,” Mr. Papy con-! detail to them how they would tinued: “The man who would have had’ the say-so, about everything have. besn ‘Ged “bend pertaifiitg to the company, with Fad the city purchased The Key nobddy élse able to change his de- cisions, would have been an engi- | West Electric neer, sifting in office up in the present set-up. Chicago. The contract even ae orded him that privilege—he “What I will have to tell the coat ae he Ke West people surely will open their }eyes, and open widely too They'll say such thin “What do you think of tt or, that’s what the wanted to in the City Hall to explain in and foot Company under his Com in his office ‘S01 permit PUL! operation assertions | City of I will tell them. in. Fu calls I 2, a just the fix e st would have been er than that, ev owned =the over on us’, or other to that effect. re- nd how! Chicago} allahassee ceived from Chicago, representatives of - the firm called on me in T pleading with me to have thi charter validated and top: the enabling act for the purchase of the company under the. con. tract that had been drawn up, and which would have bound the apy declarec 1€ oppe people of Key West to buy eq cit ane vebercoiatenaietan tir | Something, over the operation of’ were introduced in the lez designed to add il more taxes on a single word to say. I told! an already over-taxed public. He them to go back to Chicago and explained that no new taxation was Teally needed, as the State Road Department has a surplus of $3,- 500,000 that could have been used (Continued on Page Four) PALACE THEATER | FREDRIC MARCH in ‘IL MARRIED A WITCH’ NEWS and SERIAL ity it bought. many ll the people if nen invite me to meet them at a meeting in the City | Hall. I promise them 1 shall tell | them some things that will astound neo g more ‘MUST SELL TODAY, LEAVING TOWN 7-Foot Electric Kelvinator| Perfect Condition, Used Only Three Months SEE MR. ALLEY Car Barn, Simonton Street | PLEASE 'DO: NOT PHONE | =e i i GREE PRIVATE DEMONSTRATIO NEW EXCLUSIVE HEARING SPEECH TEST at LA CONCHA HOTEL Thursday, June 10th, 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. E. D, FOUTS, Acoustician @ Whether you are a mild. medium or severe case. 27 whethet you use a hearing aid or not... important dis- coveries make possible the greatest help ev ever ‘i offered to the hard of hearing. 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C. son, who were Key West by Sheriff Berlin Sawyer, | ‘ “My Country "T f {were arraigned this morning be-, Nfy yaumdy male of fore Justice of the Peace Esquin- and Roger Watkins ‘aldo and were held for the crim- Fijjogy in behalf of th inal court under $200 bail each ionnaires. The chief on a charge of assault with a made by Chaplain Ha deadly weapon. United States Army The testimony Frstk Spence ion int N Ander brought to congreg showed that boat at Tur-) ac key Island, in the Ten’ Thousand He Islands; bne with. a ‘knife and father, and --eight the ‘otier. with: a‘gun ‘and threat- brothers, he leaves his faster sack ene@ithe captain and the mate ¢r, Mrs. Blanche Roberts, av! of the boat. \jiam street. Italian Finues lake To Air To Combat Allied Invaders: Fight Enemy Planes Downed (By Assorvated Press) ALGIERS, June 7—Iltaly to- string cf oil storegs tenks were i day. for the first time sinte the destroyed. daily non-stop bombing of Sicily. Similar ‘opposition wes met at parts Sicily. and began Sardinia, Pantelleria and there again eight of Italy was started, to enemy planes were destroyed. In fight _ back Allied airmen. tose dogfights. the Allies Just’ befcre the raid on Pantel- The at : dad not lose a plane. raid im ‘Teria wes gotten under way, a! Sicily was concentrated on Mes- flight of Italian planes took te) sina. the intercept Serdinis and coastel towns in raiders, and in the ensuing dog-} Italy raided fights also were end eiabt enemy air craft} headquarters declared thet the were shot down to a loss of only one Allied plane. results attained were exceeding- jy effective. Besides, the raid was carried out according to instructions from headquarters. Naval bar- | For A NEW Radio-Phono- graph Combination SEE MR. REEVES LA CONCHA HOTEL racks, shore installations and a VV ITV VV TTT PRESCRIPTIONS) Pure Fresh its Com- | | ATTA Ingredient pounded vst salir Experienced GARDNER'S PHA PHARMACY GATO DORMITORY Phone 177 Merger erissrrteN 1100 Simonton Street | A DEFENSE PROJECT privileges of this Dormitory — of the Key West Nave! Station ERRAND BOY | Must have Good Bicycle APPLY THE KEY WEST CITIZEN, RATES $350 Po: weex! — ee Pedro Ramirez Immediately Took Over Reins Of South Ameri- can Government ae (By Assoctsted Crise BUENOS AIRES. The provisional government Argentina, which went imto after the flight of pr President Ramon Casiillo. « iis regime today, after being i power only 28 heurs, with resignation of President Rawsou and his entire cabinet. Appointment of two Na members to the cabinet was reascn of its downfall, it wes ficially amnounc of the first things the new governmeni ed did was to suppress « commanist newspaper and errest its ec amd 13 members of his sail nothing wes done to stop i, publicetien of two Nexi papers Instead. the edifor cf one tem was eppiniec to the Raw @m cabinet. which started = o; position moveweni that resu ed in the downfall of Whe pro visional government. General Pedro Ramirez mume the _ reums dietely took over government and i running # hemsel!, though he enmounced be will appoint « cabinet. Rawere is 2 stromg conservative. = theugh he wa many, he is sai Ally leanings. A spokesman whet interests Remix than enything ebe & have Argentma benefit by Lend-Lesse Act im effect m + United States. For that reso it wes added is Wkely to Peg attempted heve the Argentina govern™ with the Al was poms ovt that he. bes line u> with the Allies becers of the benefits it would receire @s other South tries ere receiving. by shipments of goods throug: Lend-Lease Ameren coat chennels. EVERY CAR on our lot MUST BE SOLD before June 15. Come, see the cars — make = bid! NAVARRG, inc. Opovsite Bus Stztor NEE WANTED YOUNG WOMEN BUS DRIVERS $1.00 Per Day Apply Cer Barn end of Simonton Key West Ti Co.