The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 10, 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. 138. GERMANS FEAR OVERPOWERING RAID Che Key Wiest Cittzern THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER PN THE -U.. S.A. Key West, Florida, hes most equable cimmate in country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrent = KEY WEST, FLORIDA, 1HURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1943 ‘LITTLE DANGER | OF AUSTRALIA BEING INVADED EXPERTS. STILL MAINTAIN PANTELLERIA HAS FALLEN \ Want ea PRIME MINISTER CURTIN JO WELLS DIES | Biases CONFIDENCE DURING MORNING THAT THERE'S NO FURTHER JAP THREAT |FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE! CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON Asserted That British Troops From~ Malta Made Successful Land- ing On Island (By Associated Press) MELBOURNE, June 10.—Prime | Minister Curtin, for the first (By Associated tress) LONDON, June 10—As they jtime since the war with Japan declared veperda, London mil: John Wells died this ona started, expressed his confidence fary experts maintain today that! + 5:15 o'clock, at his residence, |*098Y that Australia is no long- Pantelleria has been invaded by | 900 Southard street. The funeral’ er in danger of invasion by Jap- the Allies, and it was asserted|Under the direction of the Lopez} He declared that that British troops from Miao soinep wit bey Held t0- | the Japs in the Southwest Pe- morrow afternoon at 5 o'clock. which lies southeast of Pantel-} The funeral will be from the | cife have been definitely Jeria, made a successful landing Lopez Chappel to St. Mary’s Star) ped. on the latter island as long ago|°! the Sea Church, Rev. Father] , Murphy officiating. {as 3 as Sunday night, Risin aoe ‘eis Mix. An-| tious to the point of uneasiness This city’s newspapers this! nie Wells; one son, Bryan Wells;|#bout the state of the warfare eecind Bock j./one brother, William McHugh,|in this theatre, but today, i @Meclared that the offi jand. his sister, Mrs. Katie Law- | owing a conference with Gen- lal announcement of a success- | rence. ;eral MacArthur, the first in sev- ful invasion of Pantelleria will be issued before the end of to- day, ‘ anese forces. stop » Heretofore he had been cau- BUILDING ROAI S ‘eral months, the prime ministex \ Meanwhile, official _ reports fol- | |AMERICANS. TO OCCUPY ATTU PERMANENTLY |SATEMENT MADE TODAY BY SECRETARY OF WAR STIM SON AT PRESS CONFER- ENCE NAVAL INPROVEMENT FOR EY WEST IS APPROVED | eae (By Ansoéiated Press) | WASHINGTON, June approved construction of | | | |10—Members of the Flor-' hree high explosive. magazines and fuse and lida Congressional delegd-} z \ ° ‘ | detonator 'tion were notified today} i i jthat Secretary of the 5 (By Anseciates rena) magazine at! WASHINGTON, June 10.—Sec- the Naval Magazine at retary of War Stimson, at a press conference today, said that } | Key West at a cost Of she army is ‘Navy Frank Knox has|$54,000. | ants eae _______ | tensive installations are ‘Key West's Red Letter Day | Recalled In Copy Of Inter | ee ids pad dsc be j Ocean Published In 1905 °™ from which bomber planes will take off to invade Japan. | He stated that there may still house and! be @ few Japs hidden on Attu, ., and added that a constant search dence closed its i being made for them doors yesterday in order that all| ‘The most important happening might join in the festivities. By in the war today, from an Allied noon every vehicle in town was, viewpoint, is the shattering defeat Baily decorated and flags and that is being administered by the ‘bunting gave evidence of the gay|Chinese and Americans along the spirits of our people. It was truly | Yangtze River in China, Stimson going to occupy | Attu -permanently, and that ex- to be made to increase its defensive and offensive strenqth. His statements revived the "KEY WESI"S RED LETTER ; DAY: The First Spade of Dirt | Thrown by Hon. Geo. W. Allen | Amia the Wildest Enthusiasm.” i “Every busines: nearly every re | The above is a part of a five- | decker headline that was pub- PRICE FIVE “Inactivity Of sort (By Associnted Press) CHINESE ARE MOPPING UP CHUNGKING. — The Chinese are mopping uv along the south shore of the Yangtze River, where the Japs lost three divisions of Picked troops. It was emphasized further today that the Japs have suffered their worst defeat since they invaded Chine. COMPROMISING ON STRIKE LEGISLATION WASHINGTON. — It was re ported today thet committees rep- resenting the senate and the house are nearing an agreement on dif- ferences that hi existed about the Connally anti-strike bill, and | that the house probably will pass en amended bill tomorrow and the senate a day or two later. One 1 |said. He asserted that the defeat Provision empowers the govern- {was plainly pleased over what FOR PEACE TIME from Algiers today confined he learned from the American ‘commander - in - chief in the Southwest Pacific. their information to stating that/POST-WAR PLANNING MOVE . Pantelleria_ had been’ “isolated” | PREVAILS THROUGHOUT Pantelleria, lying directly west| COUNTRY of the southerly tip of Sicily..will be used as a stepping stone for the invasion of the latter island, the same experts declared, After the capture of Sicily, including } By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 10,— | There’s so much talk of post-war planning these days, it’s hard ‘to see the war, through the clouds j over the future. It is believed that he heard/lished in The Key West Inter. jfrom General MacArthur of; Ocean on November 3, 1905, Pepe isome of the decisions. that had | Palaez, in rummaging through been reached by Roosevelt and/o1q collections of his belongings Churchill in their recent confer-/ today, ran across the copy of the [ences in” Washington, “one OF | Inter-Ocean that gave lengthy which was. the continuous in |stories of the beginning of the | ereasing of the Allied: power. in| work: that resulted in. brirei ithe Pacific. Tt was intimated |the railrcad to Key West Allen, George L. that the Allies are now on the The spadeful of earth was dug@Bowne Patterson, Cantain W. H. jthréshold of launching a mighty|}y Mr. Allen at the head of the. Beehler, W. Hunt Harris, Consul “push” against the Japanese t0|icjand, and the lead st 3 ie , clear them out of the islands! and the lead story says: Carrasco and Dr. J. V. Harris. a red letter day for Key West. “Not only was the spirit of re- joicing evidenced by the people of Key West. The Army and Navy posts in this city regarded’ this event as of national importance, | and joined with the citizens in the| elebration.” Babcoek, G. of the Japs is traceable to the! supremacy of the Americans and in the air. Due to that su-+ ity, every attempt at ad- vancing by the Japs was frustrat- ment to seize anv plant that is out war goods. and an- other impceses a fine of $5.000 and imprisonment of one year on any- instigates @ strike im) -d, and when they began their re-‘ # |treat they were harried by Amer~ Addicsses weremade by Georgéfitan-and:Chinese planes. The ti nese, he declared, has wrested the control of the south bank of the Yangtze from the Japs, and continue té push them back in headlong flight along the entire front. POLIFICAL CONTRIBUTIONS 7 WASHINGTON. — A provision in the Connally anti-strike bill. which is expected to pass both the house and the senate before the end cf the week. promibus s- Messina at the northeasterly tip) But don’t get me wrong. The in this area. When the ey ¥ i | i great offen- of ‘lack of post-war planning has|¢omes to begin the grea Se Oe AFTOW | been the prelude to more wars sive, it was said that General Sicilian straits will have to be!and more economic disasters than, MacArthur and Admiral pee ssed a pg all other factors combined. The will present a closely knitted ” raise paabewned °F trouble is that most outlines for front that will overwhelm the the “boot” of Italy. Peace are nebulous ideologies Japanese. Sicily was pounded again last | Which are not backed up by hard- | | headed, _two-fisted, _ practical | NF ANT night and this morning by Allied | blueprints. | LUNDBLUM ! oe AY pee |" Wilson’s 14 Points, President | DIED YE. P sein gota ose? oosevelt’s Four Freedoms, the} — sides destroying many military | Atlantic Charter — with its Pa-| Shirley Jean, one infant i . |cific extensions and the Good! twin sisters, daughter of fargets, it was annoynced offi: [Neighbor Policy—are wonderful and Mrs. Emil Lundblum, dies cially that 24 Axis planes were} Be- 2, of moons to shoot at, if somebody | yesterday afternoon at the Naval back home is building the rocket | Hospital. ships that will get us there. | Burial will take place That's why I want to tell you! afternoon at 4:30 o'clock from ._ |about a little movement starting yy. Lopez Chapel. Rev. A. B. Sicily was pictured as having here in Washington today. At the PE AEG ti's’ Episcopal been “softened” also for'invasion ™oment, it doesn’t amount to Ghurch, will officiate. much, In the scheme of things! ‘The .deceased: was and Sardinia has been pretty 3 |to come for a U. S. A. at peace, it old well pulverized along its shore ;"@V amount to a whole lot. | Mr. Lumblum, the father, is The movement is simply one to ig Be hae ‘a |save our present federal-aid high- /@mPloyed as a cavilan | gust |way system and to blueprint a erect the parents, Mr. |network of shuttle roads between | _ SUIVIVOrS a06 1 num: grand. traffic centers that will take care | 24 Mrs. Emi “a Landblum: of every center of traffic conges- ; other, Mrs. Re ey hes Mr. \tion from Four Corners on market | 8t@ndmother and father, Mx day to New York on Sunday night. | 2nd Mrs. Ralph Fine. ii | Just getting established in| Burial will be in the | Washington now is the Automo- lot in the City Cemetery. | bile Safety Foundation, headed by | Pyke Johnson. Surrounding it are) > \the federal road agencies, certain 3 cae a THE NEW sympathetic highway leaders, in; | Congress, the American Associa- | | tion of State Highway Officials, under Chef Management of Edward A. Snyder |the American Automobile Asso-| 416 SOUTHARD STREET ‘ciation and several other road | groups. On Johnson’s staff is S.! Next to Skating Rink Where It’s Always Cool | Donald Kennedy, former Mic and Comfortable igan highway commissioner, who WILL: SERVE MEALS will devote his full time to the fu-; | ture modernization of the nation’s Daily Except Mondays i Tomorrow \highways and the elimination of | ‘traffic snarls. Starting Tom 6 A.M. to MIDNIGHT _ Club BREAKFAST blown to pieces on the ground | this and 11 were shot out of the air.| a month fronts. ‘NO TRUE BILL’ IN SUGAR CO. CASE TAMPA, June 10. (FNS)—A federal grand jury, whose mem- bers were drawn from 14 coun- ties in the Tampa district, return- ed true bill” against the United States Sugar Corporation and four of its superintendents who had been indicted by an im- properly drawn jury last Novem- ber on charges of peonage. The grand jury, al! from Hill bor county, charged the Corpora- tion and its superintendents with transporting negroes from Ala- bama and Tennessee and forcing them to work on its plantations in the Everglades. f ) In addition to the corporation, | the faulty indictment names W. E. Von Mach, Evan Ward McLeod, Oliver H, Sheppard and Neal Wil-! liamson. Judge Barker threw out! the indictment after Attorney | RIVE i Pat Whittaker contended the 6 bp ie preva oom bas grand jury was illegally drawn. The new grand jury was sworn in last week and after careful con- | sideration of the evidence found no basis for the charge and exor- erated the Sugar corporation and | family “no Mr. | north of Australia and elsewhere | He 1 : . aera = af Half-Year Auto License SPOT-WELDING, Tags Go On Sale June 15 NATURAL STYLE | (By «A mE 2a WITH THE IN TENNESSEE, June Mama Nature went in for fancy electric spot welding here during a problem recently but an uniden- \ tified soldier failed to appreciate ithe demons’ ra*i The doughboy had fixed hims up on the ground in his waterproof sleeping hag and was catching a little shut-eye in spite of a heavy rain- storm. There was a blinding flash and a loud crash followed by loud vells and violent wriggling from the soldier. Lightning had struck the zipper of the sleeping bag and run all the way around it, welding him in. His buddies had to slit the bag with knives to get him out automobile license) Charges will be one-half of the 19— yearly license, except that in no case wiil the amount be less than $5. The only exception to that ruling concetMs small trailer and “X" lice , the latter being of- ficial tags. It will be necessary for a per- son before he can obtain a half- year license.to sign an affidavit that his car has not been in use in this state during the first six months of the year. | | Half-year | tags will be placed on | the office of County Tax Collec- tor Frank H. Ladd, Tuesday morning. June 15. sale ir beginning Mr. Ladd this morning received a letter to that effect from Henry J. Driggers, head of the Florida | Motor Vehicle Commission. HUGE SQUADRON OF AXIS PLANES CARRY OUT RAID ON UPPER VOLGA 15 MILES DISTANT FROM MOSCOW (By Assoc: MOSCOW, June 10.—One hun dred and fifty Axis planes carried | out a raid last night on the. upper; | Volga, 15 miles from this city, to- 4 Press) | re Russian front most of the ace | tivity was confined to the air., The Germans are striving fo es-— tablish supremacy in the air, but bor unions from contributing to Political campaign funds. TAXES. STILL MURE TAXES WASHINGTON. — The Treas- ury Departments statement that $16.000,000.000 should be raised by taxation the coming fiscal yecr, has precipitated further comment about the country’s tax structure. Besides the withhoid- | ing tex of 20 per cent. it is expect- ed taxes of various other kinds will be imposed. It was suggest jed thet 2 10 per cent sales tex be adopted, but it was stated that President Roosevelt opposes taxes of that type. ZOOT SUITERS’ RIOTS SPREAD SAN FRANCISCO. — Zoot Suit ers’ riots spread today from Los Angeles to this city. Almost as fest as one uptisine was sup- | Pressed, another broke out. It was teported that the movement is losing force in Los Angeles. | FLORIDA KEY FISHERMEN STRIKE MIAMI. — Twenty-five fishing boats, owned by Florida Key fish | ermen, remained in nort today be | cause ef a cut in wholesale prices for fish in the Miemi area. Whole- i day’s communique reported. Flights of Russian fighter planes intercepted scme of the raiders and destroyed 21 of them the re- Pert added. No information was, | issued about the damage that was caused or how many Russian planes were lost. At other pleces along the en- LAUNDRIES AND DRY CLEANING SHOPS NOW ON WARTIME BASIS Laundries and dry cleaning establishments in Key West have been put on a _ wartime basis by the War Manpower Commission, effective today. in effort to helo them overcome of the difficulties which | the Reds are fighting back so hard, | the Germans. have not attained! their aim at a single point elong} the front, the Russian high com- | mand reported today. The only land fighting reported | | was southwest of Kharkov, where tbe Reds are said to have beaten back an ettack launched by Ger-| | ™an end Hungarian troops. | This has been accomplished by! an order, issued by Russell a.) | Rasco, Area Director of the War| Manpower Commission, received | | this morning by William V+ Lit-| jtle, manager of the local office! G Vitamins i nan | penses have forced them to lower and | their buying prices. ‘BARK LEAVES TREE— 'NOT DOGWOOD, EITHER (By Ausociated Preset ; KNOXVILLE, Ténn., June 16 — | This is a tall story from the tum bers and lumberman Harve Rog- ers swears by it. His workmen |felled a large tree im Claiborne County. The tree fell up the moun- tainside. After a 16-foot log was its officials, | Duval at Fleming Phone 193 of the United States Employment) bases? i < — ‘ (Continued on Page Four) Nazi fligh Command Fear Bombers Is ort Of Calm Before Storm Of Allies is Said Te Be Shattering Nerves Of Nazi High Command By Aamwctmred Frese LONDON. June 16—Why the RAF bi; four-motored & ers remamed grounded eleventh successive might? That question. it wes asser here today may be thought cause some concern among the and act m Ger Alhed Natons. many. But the leaders of the As lied Nations. aware of the reason for the plenes not taking bembing ra:ds. mamtem « con! dence tnat. accordima to reports received here trom Swiss and Swedish sources. is shattering the merves of the German high .om- mand Tt in ig Germany. the comes! ran today. where the worry cver the grounaes org bomber: Swiss eccoun’s the German 7: command fears thet the inectiy: of on r even hinted that the Nazis be. that the power of the bra bomb is being ccmserved for tne = most devesiating si 1 world has ever witnessed. And whet will be the objex such 2 raid? The answer has > ed over the Swiss Frontier m @ tached noorts that pieced gether. bear out the conch: that the Germen high com is convinced that the gigen: will be the prelude to vasion of Europe by the Allie forces. It was pointed out cant thet. dey after img night efter night when the British Air Ministry istued a> Rouncements thet the bes plames bad not taken to the au Becruse of unfavorebie weather tha! er Brith clanes have been - finuing their overahons on firpe* in meny imstences. es jong 2 ¢ heve the = wont dey follow Cn tom of thet announcement official informaten was reicrre bere from Wastungion the: (Continued on Page For== GATO CAFETERIA A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this cafe teria are extended to the following -