The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 8, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida. bes most equable climate in the country; with am sverage range of only 14° Fahren? -% Key Wresat Ctitern | ' THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. 8S. A. Che VOLUME LXIV. No. 136. “Solid South” Becomes Even More Possible In LATE. BULLETINS (By Axsociated Pres) PANTELLERIA GETS WORST POUNDING ALGIERS.—The most terrific raid on Pantelleria was carried out today by Allied Bombers from North Africa. Columns of smoke KEY WEST, FLORIDA, T City Can Still Acquire ‘Electric Co. | | | | | ‘The failure to have enabling Under City Supervision AXIS REPORT "ALLIES TRIED TO To Be Run | INVADE ISLAND ;NO ALLIED SOURCE HAS MADE ANY MENTION OF SUCH * Statement {chosen by them, so The Citizen: thas been informed by ,a local at- ATTEMPT AS THAT REPORT- ROVED Made In Howse Of Commons By Church furtherance Of rose to a height of 6,000 feet, and| legislation passed for the city ta’ ODI IIDISL* Prove Wiminter Of Eng- orney. Formed, To, Haye. In Washington, It)Is. vealed (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 8.— An even more solid “solid south” became possible today- with the informal organization of all Dixie economic and agricultural advis- ory councils which have offices in Washington, Purpose of the organization is to further the over-all advance- ment of Southern industry and agriculture. groups here will exchange infor- mation, assist each other in con- tacts with Congressmen and gov-; attempt to present a united south- ern front, H, K. Thatcher, dfrector| of the Arkansas Industrial and’ tural Council and origina-| H ef the plan, explained. | FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS | ticn commission. stated today that Although ‘lodsely organized, ! without a formally eiected presi-| dent or other officers, the new group is expected to give added strength to Southern demands for ! more equal freight rates, a “brighter spot” in the economic picture and aid in smoothing out inequalities in government agen- cy rulings. Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Geor- i | * Re-| : The various state|. aeaeatahentheadcnhealead nist | FEO MMM a LS 4 WEATHER; SUMMARY FOR:PREVIQUS MONTH The following is the monthly summary of the weather for the month of May as issued by G. S. Kennedy, meteoro- logist in charge at the local United States weather bu- reau. The highest temperature for the month was 88 degrees on the 26th with the lowest reading during the same month being 70 degrees on the 2nd. Greatest amount of pre- cipitation in 24 hours was 0.62 inches on the 13th. The prevailing wind w: from the east, with the high- est velocity 43 miles on the 2nd. There were 15 clear days and 16 partly cloudy during the month, MCCLINTOCK DIES TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER /Mré.; Bettha ~sMeClintock*-<66, Allied flyers said that it was vis-! ible to them while they were over Italy. Italian planes tried to inter-} cept the bombers, and 11 enemy, aircraft were shot down over Pan-| telleria and two others destroyed | over the sea. | FRENCH GENERALS ARE AT | PEACE AGAIN | ALGIERS. — Generals. Giraud} and De Gaulle today agreed on the! Fersonnel of a French committee) in North Africa, acting in the ca-) pacity of members of a cabinet. It} numbers 11 men, and it was said that thev will choose Giraud es commander-in-chief of the French forces in North Africa. De Gaulle said he had retired from the army and probably will fill some civil- ian post. ~ARGENTINA MAY TURN PRO-ALLY BUENOS AIRES.—Though Pro-| ll over the city streets have been under the law, has control of visional President Pedro Ramirez ‘°™ up and then covered up, leav-' street improvements; further, af- stated today that. for the time be-, 78 Mounds or ruts in the road; ter the stree : ing, Argentina would be neutral, telk in civilian and military cir- country probably will declare for the Allies just as soon as condi- tions become normal,- Ramirez re- | established the constitutional right jof choosing -public officials | RUBBER SHORTAGE MORE ACUTE i 5 | _WASHINGTON.—William, Jef- | fers, chief of the rubber conserva- the rubber situation in this cov try has become. ‘more. acute. He called on motorists to keep their old tires, with a view-of having them repsired, and not consign themto scrap heaps. Tires should buy the Key West Electrie Com=) °F) vaca that iy ee pany, under the set-up proposed} may be used in the saction, but | by fiscal agents, does not stop the;not through fiscal agents. He ex- city from acquiring the company} plained that the city could con provided the action is taken di-;duct the company, under the same! rectly by the council and the coun-! power, as it will the.municipal! cilmen direct the operations of the, hospital that is to be constructed | company. through representatives on Stock Island. !attempted invasion by Allied Poor Condition Of Streets on an se TS Brought About Through Lack “ona sal sig ies sents ED BY ENEMY FIGHTING IN RUSSIA STILL SEEMS TO BE CONFINED TO Aiz Prean) LONDON, June 8.—Radio Ber lin (By Aneoetm MOSCOW, June day's communique told abou several clashes along 898 miles of the front im Hussia. but the most desperate hgh! ing continued to be im the air. Germany is striving hard to establish supremacy and Radio Rome devoted much time this morning to de scribing what they said was an '\ be repdiredvané’revted as long as o'clock at the residence, Southard street. { Funeral arrangements under} 1009] motorists. H CHILE HAS CHANGE IN Of Aqueduct To Make Repair At Duval and Greene streets to- day is an old gasoline drum, stand ing on one end over a deep hole, to save automobiles from bumps ) that would break their springs; Eaton street, recently paved, has been dug up, at Margaret and al- cles was to the effect that this 8? @t Grinnell, and then covered; condition for ; with a loose fill. “What is the cause of that con- dition, a Citizen representative asked a city offieial today ” | “You den’t have to go far i find an am ‘was the reply® “The city has ew | law: that requires the gas, the elec- ‘tric and the telephone companies ito make application before they can dig up a street, and they are also required to put up a bond, but the city attorney has advised |the council that it would not be n y for the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission either. to make application or put up a bond. | “There,we bave discrimination, and discrimination is unconstita- to died yesterday afternoon at 5:45) they rre renairable, he cautioned tional, and you don’t have to be ja lawyer to know that. Why ; should! an exception be made of r to. that question. them. in the 2ir and the Russians are fightina beck just as herd in trying to retain the ad vantage they built vo smce the summer offensive starred There is a wide discrepen between the counties im en nouncing the destruction of planes. The Germans made heavy raids todey om plants, but they were beaten back, according to the com munique, which sari that the German pilots retired after right of their planes had been shot dewn. TI TIS OL OL SP 53. RAIDS MADE ON SALAMAUA AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN PLANES HELPING ALLIED GROUND UNITS . |Meciterracan, 110 miles west of ‘S| Malta. | The spokesmen declared that the water company? As matters ' the action lasted only two hours, now stand, contractors who are during which time the Allies were doing that company’s work in! either all killed or compelled to tearing up streets, say nothing to flee to their bar ; , ges. H of Pi niet) the Board of Public Works, which, iit 4s) AMIGA Soice tek nell anything about such an invasion, are” torn up, the 2dding, that the Berlin spokesman ditches are covered with loose {S414 the action still in pro- recks and soil and remain in that | 87€5S something that no enemy week after week,! COUNtY. would mention, as it i There are torn up stree would be aware that the Allies, | West that have been in that con-|Pe@ting then ‘dition for two months or so, and, |Teinfercements ‘so far as I have been able tion. ine effort has been made to repave| Both spokesmen stated that the iraiders comprised 5,000 men AI- }o“But*the big thing is this: the! iied military. circles here assert- ‘water company is a utility just the!ed that, if amy such raid was] same as are the electric, the gas!made, it w carried out by al and the telephone companies, and! small force of Commandos, prob- should be. forced’ to’ comply with; ably 500 men, and that its object the same jlaw that governs the Solely would be to test ‘the resist- other utilities. If the city council |ence of the enemy. does: not get busy and apply the, sameizuling to the water company SIG as is ‘applied ‘to the other three) utilities, our streets will continue | to get worse and worse, for the/ Board of Public Works, which two wer . would hurry » the point of ac NAL CORPS (By Associated Preset land Clams UBeat Menace is New Well in Hand &—Age= pees Luin suzy nas Deen mese at Prime Mamuszer Winstos lou: large wale nvesce the House of Com =<¥ m an eacres. thet we: pu uated with oud ap; ese begsmming tc ena What those poems are Oe actor bet be ste thet they heve seen worecd o= wm Ceted by the mubwery ecpers ct the Albed Nevoms He eis. decimed thet ss ret omee 5 =e bert = = Tee emmber =i cf Aled shims cere: the seven dey: ci Jume wes les t= ares ens simaier peewe 2a Germeny sterpet-cr ser a: © sea wertere. “May wes the be: mont + the Ales” be, emcerte: edded thet the Sipst June set e record m the 2> rex ed mumber of uskaeg. He goer should direct street work, is push- ed entirely out of the picture by the ruling of the city attorney.” TRAINING OPEN THOSE QUALIFYING WILL GO ON ACTIVE DUTY WITH MELBOURNE, June &—Amer and Austrelien ican bombing planes have mate 53 raids ox sbout mew weecoms thet arr b= img employed “most ‘the direction of the Lopez Fun-| eral Home will be announced} later. CABINET | SANTIAGO.—Chile had a cab-| | inet change today. but it was done | Selamaua. on New Guines, im milifery ressoms. be gia, Arkansas and Tennessee all have state-supported offices here. Other southern states usually have WAAC UNIT helping the Allied ground forces mo verteuiers xt Singleton’s Letter In The representatives busily engaged in boosting their areas’ needs in tht capitol. General purpose of the various} offices is to co-operate with their ; congressional delegations in the} development of the commercial, industrial, agricultural’ and other vital economic interests of their states. } The co-operative plan’is' expect- ed to aid each office increase the! work for its own state as well as greatly boost advancement of the south as a whole. The Florida office is headed by; W. D. Outman, director, and How- | land A. Sarr, assistant. Both hail the plan as a great advance in aid- | ing southern interests, An interesting sidelight in the development, in view of wide- spread gossip that the solid south may break from the Democratic party in the next national elec-} tions, is Mr. Thatcher's statement, that the organization is entirely, unpolitical. He said that the group was outgrowth of the various of: work with the Southern States In- dustrial Council, headed by Mr.) Tyre Taylor of South Carolina My. Taylor also is counsel of the House Small Business committee, * a-grdup»with which the new or-} ganization is closely co-operating, | a8 wéll as with the Southern Con- ference of Governors., Mr. Thatcher cited as an ex- ample of work in which the Dixie states will benefit by co-operation, | is in the fight to obtain the right for the states to regulate and in- spect seeds and fertilizers which/ Federal agencies send to the farmers. He declared that freedom of; Federal goods from the state rules were hurting crop produc- tion and reducing inspection fees. The state regulation bill was in- troduced in the House by Repre- i ! } { i Survivors are the Samuel McClintock; “a daughter, Mrs. Benjamin Lowe; a sistei, Mrs. Charity P. Bethel of Dover, Fla.; a brother, John Pinder; and | four grandchildren. CITY COUNCIL TO” ASSEMBLE TONIGHT There will be a special meeting ‘of the City Council held tonight, ‘beginning at 8 o'clock. This session has been called for the purpose of taking up com- munications and other matte that were deferred at a previous meeting. CLL ALS SaaS SS BOBBY WHITE IN CITY ON FURLOUGH | Bobby White, member of a gun crew in the U. S. Mer- chant Marine, arrived in Key West early yesterday morning on furlough. Young White, who assisted in the rescue of survivors off a large American liner sunk in the south Pacific last year, touched ports in Africa and Allied islands in the Pacific on his latest journey in that war zone. 5 Bobby brought back souve- nirs of his experiences 10 add to othe1\ gathered on previous trips. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. White of Yates-Porter Place. VV adehchdidh duh PALACE THEATER JOHN HUBBARD in — husband, | tising, as was the case in Argen- tina. The old cabinet in Chile re- ly afterward wes appointed. The change delayed the proposed visit of the Chilean president to the United States. ' STRIKE RUMBLING REVIVED WASHINGTON.—The outlook for the settlement of differences between coal miners and operators | did not appear as bright today as it was yesterday, it was announc- ed officially. Some operators de- clered thev wish the War Labor Board to settle the dispute, and that they, therefore. refuse to con- fer with the miners. Illinois was an exception today. There a pro- rosel was made to give each miner $1.50 as portal-to-portal pay, and it was.seid to have satisfied the June 20, FLAG DAY CEREMONIES BY ELKS ON JUNE 14 Elks Flag Day ceremonies will be conducted on the evening of June 14, beginning at 7:30 o'clock, the rear of the clubhouse on Du- val street. Speakers from the Army and Navy will be heard, with the Army occasion. EEOC WANTED YOUNG WOMEN DRIVERS sentative J. Hardin Peterson of| ‘Secrets of the Underground’| Apply Florida. Senator Claude Pepper offered a companion measure in the Senate. NEWS and SERIAL —— Tonight Is Prize Night —— without the semblance of an up-| signed and another cabinet short- | miners. The present truce lasts till; by the Elks Fraternal Center in| Band furnishing music for the; | Citizen About |. Stephen Cochran Singleton’s jletter “about » the -looking { penny, written to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and first published The Key | West Citizen. and used by the Associated Press, has elicited the information from Nellie Tay- lor Rose, director of the mint, that makes exceedingly interesting reading. |’ How many tons of copper went }into the coinage of pennies in 1942? To what extent could that | copper have been used in imple- iments of war? j s. Ross, who was among the | first women elected to the House of Representatives, says that last lyear 4,600 tons of copper were jused in the coinage of pennies. sufficient, she adds, to supply the | copper used in two cruisers, two | destroyers, 1,245 Flying Fortresses, dim in at j | | SPECIAL SKIN CREAM A “rich” iubri- Used By Associated Pres to The Citizen? June 8.—Lieuten- } White, WAAC & Recruiting Officer for southern “| Florida, states that plans have just been completed whereby qualified t women high school graduates may °"lreceive Signal Corps training in 250,000 shells for big field guns. | yadio, as Civil S » employes, Mr. Singleton’s . letter . was\end later go on active duty as couched in-a light vein, and: was{|WAACs assigned to Army Signal ‘Corps duties. “Only 120 women may be ac- New Pennies nt Elizabeth S. 120 field guns, 120 howitzers, ‘considered so good the Associated ! | Press put it on the wires after it cepted in the seven southeastern ‘had appeared in The Citizen.! states comprising the Fourth Ser- Among one of the things he men-| vice Cémmand, and these must out nine|enroll before June 15, 1943, ac- | cording to present regulations,” Lt. White said. “The women will be trained Mrs. Ross said tat tie new) from three to six months, unless, t the discretion of the Chief Sig- nal Officer, the training period whose sole object was to conserve !Should be reduced in individual copper. Stecl, she declared, “the C45°S Trainees will be on Civil! ieast scarce” of the metals, was | Service payroll at the rate of $1,- (used in the coinage of the new one ! 020 per year for the first three cent piece, and, as steel rusts easi- months training, and at the rate ly, the pennies are coated with ©f $1,440 per year for the suc- ‘zine. | ceeding three months.” st Mrs. Ross explained that, after! “Personnel will receive training the pennies are in circulation for! in one of the following special- ashort time, they begin to/ tics: Radio Operator, high speed; ! ‘darken and are then readily dis-| Radio operator, fixed station; Ra-| |tinguishable from the dime. How-| io tepairman; Radio repairman, | lever}; Mr. Singleton was shown ajfixed station; Radio telephone op- idarkened penny that had been °t@tor; teletypewriter operator. i i mistaken for a 10-cent piece. ‘Enrolees who have had pre-! But the inconveniences and the! VOUS training may complete the | {occasional losing of a dime are of Course in a much shorter time, un- | jlittle consequence, it was stated, | der provisions for special cases. iwhen-the American people are} “Upon completing the radio} {told of the use to which “penny”! tfaining, the WAAC is called to) fcopper is now being put in the 2ctive duty, and given the four) winning of the war. jweeks WAAC basic training,” | = Lt. White. AVANT ESTAUEDACEHGEET : DADE LODGE No. 14. F. & A. M..the WAAC Recruiting Office, 304 | {| There will be a called communi-| Post Office Building, Miami, Flor- cation TONIGHT at 7:20 in Scot-| ida. fish Rite Hall, corner Eaton and Simonton Sts. Work in E.A. Degree. | Refreshments. All Masons wel-| “ eece i ‘tioned was that he -w cents, because he had accetped one jof the bright pennies for a dime. | | penny was coined on orders issue by the War Production Board SELES SESE ey TEA DRINKING HABIT NEW YORK.—The tea drink- ing habit was largely responsible F. 0. WEECH, Secretary. tox ths ft of fine Eng z iin By order of the W.M. in their offensive to capture thet important Jeo base. The flyer Wewak other where important Guinea. The communique 2ate) Geter totlay of a fightbe¥webn 46 Ja 4 Allie Levene we othe: Zeroes and a squadron of planes. Nim were out of the airand four were badly damaged to’a los seven Allied planes. Three the Allied pilots were saved In the mopping up skirmushe on Attu, eight more Japs killed yesterday and 11 surrounded at Chichagof. mitted suicide by exploding hand grenade among themselve: GIVEN PROMOTION beer rr Announcement has arte of the promotion of Corporal Johr W. Thomson of the Unit Army to the rank of Staf geant. Sergeant Thor tached to Ordnance Unit 3444, at Fort Bragg, N. C 1100 Simonton Street A Stat { Ser ENSE PROJECT The--privileges of this cafe- teria are extended to the following: CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES of the West Naval Station Information can be obtained aes PERSONNEL of Army and Navy Defense Projects PERSONNEL OF ARMY, NAVY. COAST GUARD and MARINE CORPS EMPLOYEES GOVERNMENT FAMILIES OF THE ABOVE Churchill steted the more rrisomers then bed rerorted were covtured i= fell of Tummea He wed that the numoer totes 248.908 emo ecue. that the enemv soldiers killed numbered 50 988. The two worst set-betks Ger many has suffered umce the >= Ginning of the wer. Churchill tcld Commons, wes her defeat 2 the bettie of Tunisia and ber failure @ captere Stefingred. Those two defeats. be said. bec demonstrated to the world thet Germany cen be besten wher she is met on an equsi bests. He seid thet two major efforts the Allies heave determined om have to do with the weakening of the pressure on Russia and civing more aid to Chime He commended the Amerncan Army end Nevy fer the defeats they heve edministered fo the Japensse im the Pecfic” theatre (of war. When he leit the Houses of {Comte Chea net a | tectly to have luncheon with ths |kking and to report to kien the deusiuns thet bad been reached | during the series of conferences | EE erecicent Roosevelt