The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 14, 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, 141. Mrs. Mary MeKnight Aitacked By Burglar Sunday Morning [oo Intruder Who Gained En-| * Who Gained En-' vores ON DOINGS trance To House At- AT SERVICE CLUB ERVICE CLUB tempted To Choke Her Samuel Nock and George Bran- tigan have just concluded -a ‘visit | with Jordan: McInnis, Director of} the Jackson Square U. S. O. Club.| Mrs. E ; The purpose of this visit was to}! SE: Te MER OIGRE ROT Le inal pine’ for. atablishing is staying with Mrs. John Mane-ja colored extension ‘from the} gold, 1405 Newton street, was Jackson Square U. S. O., operated by the Army and Navy Y.M.C.A.! attacked by a burglar at 3) rat Cittern | THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1943. reser coe mec SE SE LATE BULLETINS ‘Further Information Given | Out Concerning Carbonell's | { | { | (By Ansocinted Presa) MUSSOLINI FEARFUL OF INVASION. ALGIERS.—Rome Radio szid; The Citizen today received fur- In the other case today that Mussolini has issued 1)... information about the Raulsiudged guilty on three counts, drastic orders to step up the work Carbonell case teak came dpah te tined $240 and committed to the of fortifying the entire Italian ©@!Ponell case that came up l custody of the coastline, The loss of three islands federal court in, Miami on Satur-' for confinement for six months on in the Mediterranean in as many day. {each count to run concurrently, days are believed to have caused; Laurence A. Schroeder, attor-'and in those instances also the | ney-director.of . the rent-control sentences were suspended and he Mussolini to issue his edict. fe j office in Key West, received a tel, was placed on probation for two APPEAL.TO YOUNG: WOMEN tegram from Melbourne Martin, as-; years; making a total of four sistant enforcement attorney, ‘in WASHINGTON. —:An- appeal! which the sentences imposed by was issued here today to the) Judge Holland were given in de- young women of America to join {,jj, : the classes that shortly will be| In one case Mr. Carbonell was) year without any further trial. organized to graduate nurses for fined $150. and was committed to duty among men in the armed! jhe custody of the attorney gen- ervice. It was said that 65.000 craj of the United States for con- nurses are urgently needed. Wo-' finement for six months and put ; that, in’ the the case bec: \ | ' | | | i Sentence In Miami Court attorney general ! JAPS LOSE SIX PLANES DURING BATTLE TODAY i abies aks he was ad- EIGHTEEN ALSO DAMAGED IN ATTEMPTING TO INTER- CEPT SQUADRON OF FLY- ING FORTRESSES (By Associated Press) DARWIN, June 14.—Forty Jap . Years’ probation. ‘Mr. Martin said fighter planes today tried to inter- event that Mr. Car- cept a squadron bonell violates his probation, he resses as they flew over Rabaul, jeould.be confined to jail for one on New Britain Island, to pound of Flying ‘ that important enemy base again, Mr. Martin added that the gov- and when the fighting was ov r, | ernment was much concerned in six Jap planes were shot down, 18 se of the fact that others were badly damaged, the Mr. Carbonell is a justice of the remaining ones turned and flew * Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with an sverage range of only 14° Fahren?=t | Fifty Milion Pounds Pet Day Outlined In Program LOCAL PASTORS Awcrait, Naval Vessels ~ RETURNING. HERE And Ground Treops Be Coordinated In Ai REASSIGNED TO KEY WEST j FOR ANOTHER CONFER- | is tack ENCE YEAR (By Aseo-micd F 1 LONDON. june i¢— f.ve thousand toms of Advices received land, Fla., last ven the Methodist Chur day! Theat u the tremendous Mr. Nock, who is employed by the! o'clock Sund: is National Office of the U S. O., to} Mrs. McKnight had tne light on in her room, as she thought she heard a rat, of which she seid she dreads, when she heard @ noise at a screendoor. Going out of her room, she was con- fronted by a man, who had broken into the house through! the door, and he sprang at her! and tried to choke her. “I don’t know where I got my strength from,” Mrs. McKnight stated today, ‘-for twice he at- tempted to choke mo, and twice I beat him back. After he fell back the second time, he saw my handbag, grabbed it, but, as it was opened change in it fell to the floor. He ran away with the bag, but I'm sure he got very little money. seven certs. think. anda quarfer more at the moti.” Last night City Policeman | Armando Acevedo, who had heard | about the Manegold burglary, Saw a man prowling around a yard on White street and peep ing into windows. Acevedo ar- rested him and took him to the Manegold home for identifica- tion. Mrs. McKnight said that it ‘was impossible for her to ide’ tify him as he was dressed, and then she described the cap the| burglar had worn. A search was made of the room the man occupies on Ashe street, and a cap was found that answered the description given by Mrs. McKnight, with the dif- ference that she had thought the! cap did not have a visor. She| (Continued on Page Four) THE NEW RESTAURANT under Chef Management of Edward A. Snyder Formerly of Miami Beach and Atlantic City Now Serving, Meas Dal eg eto Club BREAKFAST | Full Course | LUNCHEONS DeLuxe DINNERS Specializing in WAFFLES and HOT CAKES 416 SOUTHARD STREET Next to Skating Rink Where It’s Always Cool and Comfortable {rector of |second Street” at eight-thirty. rf }men who are high school grad-' approve all plans and equipments} for buildings, was convinced of | U#t® and. whose ages range from the need for this operation andj will bend every effort to get the | DUTS5 riers + classes may be obtained by writ- building which has been chosen|‘ k into shape for an early occupancy. | 79 eionest Nurses, Box 4q.. New Though there is not a great num- | York City. ber of colored service men in Key Are West Mr. MelInnis feels that this! LOSS OF JAP PLANES extension of the work will fill a! -WASHINGTON. — It was an-: very definite place as there has! nounced today that. up to Satur-| been no special provision for the|day, the Japs, in the last 19! recreational needs of these men. | months, heve lost 1,038 planes in er, | the Pacific warfare. To that num- A luncheon was given at the! ber must be added the 25 planes Jackson Square U. S. O. by Mr.\that were destroyed yesterday. and Mrs. Jordan McInnis, on Wed- | Eight other Jap planes. in yester- nesday, June 9th, to honor Mrs. | day's air combats, are believed to Bertie Higgs and Mrs. Ralph’ have been lost by the Japs. Stewart on the completion of 50 if hours of volunteer work. card were given _ special pins which 4 have only been awarded to four! WASHINGTON. — Flags of the’ other ladies in Key West, all of|22 Allied Netions were massed to- whom were present. They were| dey in various parts of the United Mrs. Louise Alber, Mrs. Robert| States in observing Flag Day.) Jones, Mrs. Gloriana Bayley and! They waved side by side. as a| Mrs. J. H. McInnis. Also present} "signal of free men j were Mrs. Jerry Middleton, Miss; ‘ Jean- Morgan, her sister, Mr. and} FAVOR DISMEMBERING OPA | Mrs W. E. Fowler, Mr. Jones,| WASHINGTON.—Senator Ho- Hugh McInnis, Jerry Pinder, and | mer Cummings. of Michigan, in| Mr. McIhnis’ two nes#, Staff As-| an attack. teday on the OPA, fa- sistants, MraeBvily Fst guson and | vored putting the rationing of ga Mc. Desmond Murphy. | under the direction of Secretary agai | Ickes, automobiles under another Special features of the program | direction, end the rationing of during the week June 14 through | commodities under the direction of 21, included a Wiener Roast on the| the Food Distribution Adminis- Patio on Tuesday evening. The tration, roasting was.done on open char- chal grates. Twenty-five poun of wieners with all the trimmir 17 to 35 are eligible. to become Information about the AMERICANS BOMP SICILY h ALGIERS.—Sicily was ‘vlasted were consumed along with several lest night by wave after wave of gallons of hot coffee. | American bombers. The raids were | The regular weekly dances on! cayricd out at several points on! Monday and Saturday were well’ the island, but chiefly on coastal attended. The music was furnish-| installations on the Sicilian ~1 by the Navy Dance Band. On! Straits, directly ccross from ttie turday evening the jitterbugs | toe of the Italian boot. tered on the main dance floor sees nd in the Patio where lights were ypu POST SURGEON AT LOCAL BARRACKS dimmed and Royal poincianas gave a colorful background. On Sunday afternoon the com- esr : vlete Symphonic — recording of Major re uby. Tschaikowsky’s Fourth Syniphony | 9999 ‘GRe re rage in F Minor was broadcast. | vite: Penns ie the paar iat The present week-includes a} con for the Rey West Bar- peal epiion. te Te Di |tacks Station Hospital, it has Wotan cs to) Been announced by the com- mect with her on Tuesday eve-|™M2nding officer of the Harbor ning and to include attendance at Nefenses of “Key West the feature motion picture, “Fifty- Galloway succeeds Major bert Gross, who has been itrans- Yerred to another station. The Sunday Java Club and eve-|' Major Galloway entered activ ning Sing Song and Coffee Hour “duty with the Medical Corp: are popular among. the service the U. S. Army last June. Pi men, A real service is rendered to that he kad been director of | by the Ladies Sewing Club every} the Nashville Public Schoo! | Thursday. Much mending and ‘Wealth Service. | sewing on newly earned rating RUSS Aronia: Se nace | badges occupies this group of| YY¥YYYYYYT YY T rT. | ladixs throughout the day. iP RESCRIPTIONS:! LICENSE INSPECTOR | / WANTED | Pharmacists. é ; GARDNER’S PHARMACY ceive written applications for! Phone 177 Free Delivery the position of license insne-tnr| gaammseesmaeaeaesndea up to and including 5 P.M., July | t 6, 1943. Applicants must NETTLES ELE state qualifications in first let-! W NTED i ter submitted at City Clerk’s Of- YOUNG WOMEN The City of Key West will re- fice. juni4-1t JOE JOHNSON, City Clerk. | Lou Smith Auto Sexvice Opposite Army Barracks sembles volunterily weekly The sus- on probation for two ye confinement sentence was pended. Ru (Bs Associated Press) MOSCOW, June 14.—The Rus sians definitely aained the air su- premacy over the Germans and their allies along the Russian front, according to slatements is. sued today in Red newspapers. | SHEE | Using figures that were issued by| that have been shipped to Russia OBSERVANCE OF FLAG DAY. }4he Bussien high command, it was! and the manufacture in Russia of | asserted fhat. in the . lest ty weeks, » the Russiens have destroy: | jatest type are given as the rea-/ SCHEDULED TO COME BE-’ Jed 1,300 Axis planes to a loss of | 365 by the Reds, a ratio of almost ascendancy over the Axis flyers. | four to one. The Soviet’s rise in air: power is said to have so astonished the Germans, they are no longer em- ploying the air “umbrella” to pre- cede attacks, as had been done éaiainis : Destroy 1,300 a Planes In Two-Weeks Period: peace and assumed attitude toward the rent-control | program. a belligerent | back to their bases. It was officially reported that jthe raid was successfully carried jout. Ships in the harbor were hit jand bombs exploded among an jundetermined number of Jap j planes on an airfield in Rabaul 'Flying Forts 5 > fully raided Jap ba Jap flyers, in trying to make reprisal raids, twice attempted to {reach Port Moresby, on New |Guinea Island, but they were was pointed out driven out to sea before they suc- theretofore. It |that the last {was launched southwest of Khar- 'kov, when only a few of the at- tacking planes escaped destruc- tion. American COUNCIL TO HEAR LIQUOR ORDINANCE and British planes "ge mumbers of planes of the! jsons for Red airmen gaining the} FORE REGULAR MEETING Only one ground attack w TOMORROW NIGHT mentioned in today’s communi-, que. Last night and this morning, | in an offensive south of Orel, the! Russians recaptured four smail villages. The amended liquor ordinance | that<was présented at a previcus i | meetitig of the City Council, is, | seh led to come before the SAILORS. SINGING HYMNS A BRITISH PORT, {Delayed).—There’s no chaplain June aboard a big Liberty freighter which arrived here this week but a rugged Navy gun: crew as- to keep the Navy tradition: of divine worship. Willard E. Thomas, Seanijah, First Class, 38, of 363 North Ever- ett Avenue, Scranton Penn. a graying, soft.spoken bluejacket. | is responsible for the services, “Bill’s a good gunner in addition to being a nice guy,” explained a | burly shipmate. “He came aboard | ABOARD SHIP- ENJOY regular session to be held to \morrow night, which it is und stood will be presented in ‘rodified form, with several oi its provisions, which were con- a AND LISTENING This is the only matter out- side routine business that | scheduled for tomorrow evening session. this trip and got a few boys to Sether the first Sunday we were MCG at Icame off £ TRANSACTIONS heard a lot 0 inging a hymn! IN PROPERTY SALE at far) Two other | from harbor you may guide across| been made in the sale thie“Bar.”’” I thought it was a rib|Rosa Ettinger estate, Simonton until kjogked into the crew’s mess|and Catherine streets, since and found the whole of the wateh | was sold hy Joe Pearlman; *'@s gunhcrew. singing away just like administrator. they were race meter ae | Whe bts Zaratte and wate and! —thal, one a ‘Someone transactions of — th Mario Another gunner added his com-| Mora bought the property from ment: Mr..Pearlman, and Mr. Mora sol *Y‘ou Know, the entire watch! his undivided half to Mrs. Zar below turned out when they heard atte. On Saturday the latte the singing. Bill led the hymn,| conveyed one half of the prop- ; then read some Scripture ana ay j erty to Mrs. Sarah Gavilan ot us a simple explanation of it. Since | Ta™pa- {We never miss a Sunday.” | | Thomas was modest about his! ; unofficial service. “I'm not a_ preacher,’ he ex- (Continued on Page Four) GENEROUS STORK | Diebolds were hoping the | proaching stork would bring them SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, inc. | PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Duval and Fleming Sts. PHONE 1s9 a baby girl, especially in view of the fac tthat their first two chi dren were boys. The stork obl ed generously—he brought th ; three girls. i j CALL FOR BIDS The City of Key West will re- |ceive bids for the complete jclearing of the grounds located t the Incinerator and 14th tréet. Bids receivable at the ..Clerk’s Office up to and in- |fluding June 24, 1943. | The City reserves the right to [reject any or all bids. JOE JOHNSON, City Clerk. toke Bexel for ten days. If at the ~ end of the time you don’t feel bet- ter, we will refund your money. 40s 98B* 100: *1.98 juni4-It EVERY CAR on our lot MUST BE SOLD before June 15. Come, see the cars — make a bid! NAVARRO, Inc. Key West, Florida success- | mn Timor. A “umbrella” attack ceeded in releasing their bombs. = | ,. | Band i ‘sidered drastic, to be eliminated | KANSAS CITY.—The Lawrence | had beer ” all during the effect that all just ended th be reti for in ned t Riviere, r W. B. Mundy Street Methodist Churck liam E. Bryant Meme Church, and Gr Salvador Cuba sion The announcement by Bishon Arthur Atlanta, Ga ‘FLA OF c Church Ley J The local order of Elk lon a Flag Day ceremony: | at the club house on ning at 7 Mayor Willar give the address 0! | several othe: | The-f 'that wall be i casion Star Spangled | Address o} iM. Albury. { Introductory ruler and officers | Frayer, Chaplai is | Patric’ | Waite, U | missioners | Spani 40 and 8 § {charge « Club, Mrs. | Woman’ | Wardlow Miss Alice ' Guard, Com: lu.s.m ner, and Representative B s Papy BCY, 6, SUFFOCATED i eas ae | ADRIAN, Mich.—While w of the Bli ling in an elevz e € Loren R. E ied when he fell int | beans. ee | PALACE THEA i DIANA. BARRYMORE in “NIGHTMARE” NEWS and SERIAL Sooperat © DAY CEREMONIES ELKS THIS EVENING <... isoue ix aac a nena 0 purty r} wt | fortificatiors, no armies circles discicsure thet the Alles be in Englend. heve aches brought te perfection the ¢ ination of eucraft, neve! and ground troops that w Zt used im the invasion Though not a word ebout the etl & time when the ~~ will be struck cererelly bebeved here the The eit eMech wore then imes es rowerful ex any bes yet been delivered dread br the high commend cdimg + formetion thet reeched bere ih en wey ‘of Switreriend. 2 tempt to try to withstes en eftteck, Hitler Field Marsha ut the on solders n meneuvers he de en The G-rman iso realires that suck « of bombs, dropp-d im « dey le the =s of many brideghesds im France vil weke p- or elsewhere elonz the mvs front. Here it was deciered thet => withstand such stettering. e=rth shaking attacks. It was out thet more then 50,099 rounds of exvlosives worl rained on the imvasion front by RAF and Americen bombers. “softening” and thet the proces would be fer more pronounced then it wes at Pantelleria, where not a single field aun or for cation wes found intact (Continued on Page Fo wher COOKED FOOD SALE ~ BY WOMAN’S CLUB Tuesday, June 15, at 3:30 o’Clock CLUB HOUSE On Duval Street CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES of the Key West Naval Station | CTORS’ PERSONNEL | of Army and Navy Defenses Projects RA $1.00 Per Day $3.50 Per Week