The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 19, 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 the most equable climate in the country; with an sverage range of only 14° Fahren? Key West Cit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JUNE 19 ,1943. U:.. S.A. VOLUME LXIV. No, 146. BATTLE Another Threaténed Walkou Of Coal Mine Nineteen Thousand Refus-| ed To Return To Pis| Because Of Labor Board | (By Ansoentiea Vrens: WASHINGTON, June With 12,000 coal miners in one! locality and 7,000 in miothor| having refused to return to their Pits today, because of the ruling | curtail many of its operations, | shortly lead to their of the War Labor Board against| The Office of War Information.|@ flank movement, Fortal-to-portal pay. the nation head. will have no money with/Nouncement continued. again is faced with the question, Which to operate unless the sen-| During the five days the ba HN Will the miners go on strike at the expiration of the midnight tomorrow? j John L. Lewis and other union, leaders have called a meeting! truce 1S Now Evident LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Prexa) ‘SENATE MAY’ NOT ‘CONCUR WASHINGTON.—The senate 1s not likely to concur in the action of the house yesterday, after 2 19.— | session lasting 12 hours, in which| making important gains, the amount fixed by the appro- Friations committee for thé op-! ration of the OPA for the next fiscal year was so drastically slashed the OPA will have to of which Elmer Davis is the ate restores granted it. the appropriation t) | REASON FOR BAD SITUATION | of equipment, the report. stated. I IN FOODS WASHINGTON.—Congressmen stated that the chief reason for the predicament in which the ‘RUSSIANS ARE STILL MAKING | RAPID GAINS BATTLES BETWEEN REDS! witchel Albury, who was stricken with infantile paralysis AND NAZIS IN OREL HAVE when he was « baby snd hes been | ENTERED INTO THEIR FIFTH a cripple all his life. and Dexter { Philips, a 64-year-old employe in saa ithe eer Yard, who was on his | way home from work, identified three sailors“as the men who had \By Associated Press) held ‘up ‘and’robbed them shortly MOSCOW, June 19.—Battles in after midnight today. it fe Mitchel; always beaming with the.Orel area entered their fifth dootihatare, wis abutting bons! day‘ today, with ‘the Russians stil! ward along Elizabeth street, and, acco#d: when he reached Southard, three sailors, who were accompanied by ing to the communique issued a marine and a woman, stopped him and asked him for a cigarette. | here. They have point in their reached that will! was handing it to one sailor, an- scution of ether gave me a clout that almost igned to| knocked me over; then another the an-|¢rabbed me. and, while he held ime, the one I was gcing to give tes the cigarette to, went through my | pockets and robbed me of $10.” Mitchel’s outery awakened woman in a nearby apartment, and ‘she put her head out of a window and when she saw what going on, cried ot n't that horrible—robbing a. ” le! now attac q lrecapture Orel itself, j have been in progress, the G ; mans have lost more ‘than 2,000! imen in killed and large qu tics n the air fighting, in the Orel jsector alone, the communique , aS ‘said, the Axis powers have lost) “I | crippl 24 hours. Three Sailors, Marine And Woman Arrested On Charge | BURMA IS NOW Of Robbing Crippled Man “At first,” Atwell said, “she told she and the marine were married, but when we got them in jail, she admitted, on further questioning, | that her husband is a chief petty | officer, stationed at New London, Conn., and that she gets a month-| ly-allotment of $80 “from him. I then asked them if they’ knew the sailors, and the marine’ said ‘they! were stationed at Boca Chic: ““Come on,’ i cried to Diaz, and we swung into our car. We sped ‘to the bus siation and learned that j thr ilors had bought tickets for Boca Chica and had left on the one-thirty bus. I didn’t think “I took 2 pack out cf my pock-!7 would be able t rtake the Claude tat et Mitchel shidi “ond while Vice ce it ted oo cee bus, as it had so long a start on but I decided to give it a try. When I struck the Boulevard, I pushed down the accelerator to the limit, and we shot along at better than eighty. It seemed to me we went over the Stock Island bridge at a bound. When we rounded the bend in the road and straightened out, we saw the bus lturning into the approach to the {Boca Chica bridge. The bus was tgust about to go up the bridge iwhen I stopped it, entered it, ar- rested the three sailors and } for late this afternoon to con: | food situation is placed today is: + sider the situation, Lewis re-| ‘Ue chiefly to the scliting up of | 53 planes in the jact Radio Berlin, re said that the Russ vast forces in ine here, ing Caucasus to ‘Jaunch an at'ack on the Kuban! William street.” Her The cry must have shocked the throught them back to Key West | woman with the marine, for yelled back, “Not me; I live at 52 address not only led to her own giving that! and locked them up.” After daylight Mi'chel Albury ‘and Dexter Philips identified the OFFENSIVE IN VERY EVIDENT | ooseeeeees ASSIGNMENT AND apPpoInt- GUN FIRING PLANNED MENT OF oFFiciaLs To HERE DURING MONDAY DUTY GIVE RISE TO RE-. pr. PORTS { According to information obtained from Army head- quarters here. there will be seacoast and anti-aircraft firing from Fort Taylor and West Martello Towers on Monday. June 21. between the hours of S$ a. mand 2 Pp. m The firing will be so com ducted as not to interfere with shipping or aircraft. "IIT IX LLL WAR WORK FOR THE HANDICAPPED By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June gress has spread on the provisions for taking care |physically handicapped w emerge from this wa Private industry, tions, has been deing job of tapping this pot power lode. Seme war plant being manned almost entire the “lame, halt and blind (Hy Axsocisted Creu) | NEW DELHI, June 19.—As- signment of Field’ Marshal Arch-| ibald P. Wavell as viceroy of! india, oficially announced today.! ‘and the appointment of General | J. E. Auchinleck as commander-in-chief in India, , have given rise to reports here ‘that 2 great offensive will be launched in Burma, as soon as weather conditions permit, to wipe out the Japanese there and reopen the Burma Road to carry supplies for China for the event- uel cpening of an attack on Ja- in some Fan itself. Reaction to the two assign- ments seem to have been felt in Tokyo, for Premier Tojo ended “ Pinos eche and ether coal | the authority in fixing fused to comment on the WLB’s and distributing action, but it was i leaders, after the meeting, will, denounce the board for its ac-_ tion, | ae } let one man handle the commo-’ Belief is general here today |wities situation. so that he can’ OPA result is 9 mix-ue that has cre- Pted confusion throughout the country. The wav to end the confusion, it was esserted, is to that the government will operate }e held personally responsible i! No other way the} | the mines itself. is seen at present to avoid threatened walkout. After news was received that | | in Pennsylvania | some miners had refused to go back to the pits, word was flashed here from Alabama that even some pump: | ers had not reported for work | today. During all the strikes or) threatened strikes at coal mines) recently, pumpers worked just | to keep the shafts from flooding, but substitut had to be press | ed into service in Alabama to have that work continued, SAILOR HELD FOR CRIMINAL COURT The sailor, who was arrested as was told in The Citi- charge of contributing yesterd zen, to the delinquen arraigned at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon before Justice of the] Peace Raul Carbonell and held for criminal court under $1,000. The defendant asked if he} would marry the ar-old gir! with whom he is alleged to have spent a night in a room in Gib-! son’s Hotel, and he replied affir-| matively, but her father! accord- ing to _ information given,.);The Citizen, refused to let them, get married, oabae on 1 y of a minor, was| a bond of 4 4-y \ i et WANTED NEWSBOYS Must Be Over 12 Years of Age t \ APPLY THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | anything goes wrong. MUSSOLINI INSTITUTES . | MARTIAL LAW LONDON —Radio Rome report- ed today that Mussolini has in-) law along 700) miles of the Italian coast line, and | stituted martial he has given civilians in those are ill July’ 10 to evacuate the coastal area unless they are en-| gaged in defense work, or are as-/ sisting in promoting that work. RAIDS IN AEGEAN CONTINUE ALGIERS.—Raids are continu- ing in the Aegean Sea, it was an- bridgehead, and added that Rt $iz’s heavy guns have opened fire! foodstuffs, Mat the Food Distlbation Seca “a f- ion the naval hase at Noverossiisk tration thet on the Black Sea. ‘ THIRTY-NINE AXIS: DOGFIGHTS TODAY | ONLY EIGHT AIRCRAFT OF ALLIES LOST DURING BAT-,| TLES OVER THREE DIFFER-} ENT POINTS (By Associated Press) ALGIERS, June 19.—In a se | of dogfights | Sicily, Pantelleria and Sardinia. ries today over PLANES DOWNED IN : end the marine’s arrest, but also !*ailors as the men who had com- to the apprehension of the three /Mittedthe robbery. Mitchel also dpointed out the man-who had gone, through his pockets and stole the money. ! The sailors, the marine and the! woman were transferred to the jcounty jail, and Justice of the} Feace Raul Carbonell placed the | bond of each at $500 on a charge | of unarmed robbery. They will be} arraigned before him at, 5 o'clock | | Monday afternoon. | » Captain Ray Atwell and Policemen Frank Jolly, Armando Diaz and Frank Catwell started » investigate thé case just as soon as it was reported fo the po: lice station. Atwell and Diaz,; working together, heard about the address the woman with the ma- rine had given, went there: and arrested both of them. Postwar Planning Unit Will. In Al Probability Decide To Hold Meeting Next Week Efforts are being made that said. “We named the officers of likely will result in the calling, the committee, and the presump- he session of the diet with the knnouncement that it will soon he reassembled to consider mat- ters that are vital to the exist- ence of Japan. He added that the war has ‘taken a turn that is ‘truly serious | Commission sir to Japan”, and that the entire country must be «mobilized to beat off the threatened blows. JAPS ARE BADLY __ MISREPRESENTED | | | THEY EVEN COMMIT SUICIDE | RATHER THAN STAND AND BE KILLED | | (By Asancinted Presa) WASHINGTON, June 19—A cording to the American Fed= tion of the Physically Handicap ped,-Inc., with headougrters approximately 92,000 physically handicapped persons have placed by the War Manpowe t med f j business. That sound. wait | Paul A. Strachan, presi | the federation, and bin says there are 23,000,000 ally handicapped persons. & country and that a large portier ‘of them are employable. If that jtrue, the 92,000 figure becom pretty insignificant wok as if the manpower agenc neglecting one of our be jin combatting the shortages Washington repeate ed stories about which blind persons |! adept “touch” inspectors; in wh | deaf persons, unperturbed bee nounced officially today. Shipping! the Allies shot down 39 Axis was attacked today and several | ranes and lost eight of their sailing vessels were struck and | eines | own, it was: reported by head- » | Quarters here. “BELL FOR LAST ROUND” | 5 , LONDON.—A spokesman. over! ‘The fight in thé Pantelleria area Radio Rome today. in appealing| resulted from an attempt made by to the Italian peovle to stand| Axis bombers to raid that former firmly and to fight fiercely to re-| Italian stronghold, but they were of a meeting of the Kev West nie ~ immediate action | wow. e taken to put us in a ! Post: Planning B we Seles: ating, Rous’ sous position to submit our plans to |evening next week. Construction the FWA, but since then nothing | men in Key West and civic lead-' further of a definite nature has jers believe that no more time °¢¢n done 1 “We are prosperous now, but ‘in the midst of our prosperity shculd be lost in preparing plans pel the enemy when he attempts to lend on Italian soil. stated, shortly before he ended his talk. “The bell has sounded for the last round.” DUESSELDORF IN RUINS LONDON.—The industrial in’ Duesseldorf are i i British Air Ministry declared to- day, and he explained that his statement was based on aerial photographs that had been made of the devastated areas of that city by RAF photographers. One thousand five hundred acres in what was once Duesseldorf’s chief ndustrial center have been reduc- ed to dust’and rubble, the minis- try said. GATO CAFETERIA 1100 Simonton Street A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this cafe- teria are extended to the following: CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES of the Key West Naval Station CONTRACTORS’ PERSONNEL of Army and Navy Defense Projects PERSONNEL OF ARMY, NAVY. COAST GUARD and MARINE, CORPS FAMILIES “OF THE ABO : beaten off before they reached for local projects and submitting | gcod ricture of Jepanese psych | aolecs af ieevy, maaies ology, which Americans can not) proved highly efficient im « -. ing machine tools. stamper comprehend, “was given 104%) Welders: and in which the that have been| less and legless have done every- . | thing from handling precisien from American <t;uments to driving truck officers who fought on Attu, in tors and cranes. Even partie 3 valids, whose efficiency plz hee | at the end of four or five worked from reports received here int been | their objectives. Nine of the Ax |losses in planes occurred there, | without the Allies losing a single| jplane in those dogfights. All the], ;Allied losses occurred over Sicily } ‘or in its vicinity, and it was there also that the Axis lost most of! their aircraft. | | In the raid on Messina, at the {northeasterly tip of Sicily, Allied | bombers made direct hits on three! ;Axis ships. and left them in a sinking condition. That raid was/ led by a flight of Flying Fort-j 'resses, and after the bombs in: |them had been used, squadrons of Mitchell medium bombers con- | tinued the attack. As the Mitch- ells were withdrawing, flights of |lightnings took up the task of blasting Messina. ORGANIZED IN 1787 NEW YORK.—In 1887 the first Shaker “’Society in “the “United! | States. was greanized, Ee ™ , we should do all that lies in our Works’ power to continue that prosper- jity when the war is over. Many “We should not delay further, | Cities have already taken the Clarence Higgs, business agent required action, while ours is of the Carpenters’ Union here; merely in its early stages.” them to the Federal Agency. Only 13 Japs‘ were captured on Attu. All the others were either killed in battle or mitted suicide when they were convinced that it was futile com to fight longer. The 13 Japs, after they had re- -overed from their dazed condi- tions, were as servile as coolies. They begged to do this and that for the American officers or men, and expressed their willingness (Continued on Page Three) . 40's 98¢ i . SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, inc. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Duval and Fleming Sts. PHONE 199 Key West, Florida PALACE THEATER GEORGE BRENT in ‘SILVER QUEEN’ NEWS and SERIAL RAULS CLUB Now Open Every Day, 3 to 12 BIG DANCE and FLOOR SHOW TONIGHT Music from $ to 12 by have | shifts. The done about | duction of joint \sponsored by Senator James J Davis, Pennsylvania's “Puddier | Jim,” to make the 1.500 U | | States Employment Service fices recruiting physically handicapped | Senator Davis, who is not phy |sically handicapped but whe started life as a Weish immigrant | lad, rose to be Secretary of Le j bor, and long has been a cham pion of the underprivileged | The law he wants enacted would establish a division for the (Continued on Page Three? only thing t it so far & @ stat JOHN PRITCHARD’S First Report On Guadalcanal Fighting Placed Loss At 77 American Plame Losses During Heavy Thrust Were Six; Ratio Of Six- teen Te One (By Aawwrteted Pree DARWIN. june 1$—The were besien worse thax wes = frst reportec m the battle i= :o- air in the vicamity of Gusceicane Jap in which it was ammounced they lest 77 planes t six Amer cam plames that did aot scefure fo ther bases. it was reported officially day that further news of the Jap detest, reaching here Guadalcanal stetes that the urs. report of their loss of 77 piace: Fertained only to the sumber that bed been shot down Amences fighters. But Jep planes. the report seid bed been destroyed. They bed Seco cm the ground and em Amer: a: stups thet fe Japs were afte k ans. br mort The total of ememy planes ics: S tow placed 2t Si with loss ct Amencen piames remac ing et to ome against the Japenese Hesdquarters eisc sad the two carge shims situck by Jep bombers heve been bee:- =< and will be saiveged. Americas iss = men were me sx. ¢ rame of eimos* al riled 23 wounded end 26 mics Ing. Act op wes crecititated >y Jeps when with Slight: of Flames they stiemotec 2 oes ~ American shims thet were oc chored Guadaicanel 9 SBetcre the Japs reachec ther <ojecive. Americas places swarmed io*> the am to beat them off end only @ few cf the bombers sucreece= at “lim reaching = point im the ai struck the cergo smDs one shot cut of the at before ter reached thew cbrechwes Severs. Jap planes were soem et Ge same time burting toward =