The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 22, 1943, Page 1

‘ P y _ Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Believed That Coal Strike Will Shortly Bé Settled *& Conference To Be Held On| Matter By Harold Ickes Rid Miniciel cadet: Joke LATE BULLETINS (By Asneciated Press) Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. S A. es KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JUNE 22 1943 With Unarmed Placed Under $1,000 Bond The remarkable faculty of iden-; tification by a cripple. who was stricken with infantile paralysis. when he wes a baby, as result of which he can hardly make him- self understood. was demonstrat- jed yesterday afternoon, at a hear-; ing before Peace Justice Raulhi' Carbonell, in the, case against}she also identified the three men | last: night Sailors And Marine Charged Robbery Were 5 Mrs. Hilda Roberts, who resides in an apartment at Southard and Elizabeth streets, where Mitchel Albury was robbed, and who cried out “Isn't that horrible, rob- bing a cripple!” testified that she} went dawn to the sidewalk, while} theisailors were still there, and} AMERICAN BOMBERS POUND BELGIUM AND RUHR VALLEY (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 2—American)to pieces over a radius of big bombing planes today pound-|#¢Tes- But the bombs used were jnot all big. Some of them, in- ed Belgium and the Ruhr Valley,'cendiaries, weighed only two ‘pounds each, but they contained? thighly volatiled liquids — that that was made on/caused fires that spread over the in Germany, following up a raid , LOSSES SINCE START a a ee Key West, Florida, bes tne most equabie climate im the country; with am sverage range of only 14° Fahren? == Federal Troops With Rifles _ And Machine Guns Patrol Area ! / OO OIOIM EL! 3 Was Repied Beg 'NAZIS SUFFER HEAVY Quiet Today Wath Ne groes Generally Remax OF WAR AGAINST REDS (Bs Ansocunted Pre==) MOSCOW. June 22.—As to day marked the second anm a versary of the Russian-Ger Ame ee eb Liléwi ST. June 22 —Fedecst }water that was thrown on’ them! in» attempts to put them out, RAF j}much like casoline flaming ove? man war. the Russien com munique. after calling om the United States and Great Brit ain to open up a second from. was devoted almost entirely to a review of two years of undeclared war on Russian soil. It was asserted that. during thet time. the Gefmans have had 6.400.000 casualties and have lost enormous quantities three sailors marine, charg-) Mi a the ORR eda walk ombery <7 lero of oiber sallom. | ALGIERS.—Naples was bomb-|' The sailorsiand\the marineeach Dexter Philips, who was rebbed|mnamufacturing center, bv ou a ed again last night, and daylight was:held/in:$1,000. bail for the| of $5 a block from where Mitchel} ee the surface of water. apaidatincron, hey raids were made today on Sicily ‘criminal*court on charges of un-| Albury was held up, said he could] PO™bets- | Before the Americans. began TON, June 22-—| and Sardinia. While the day raics| armed:robbery. : jnot speak positively, but he point-|' ‘The British Air Ministry gave |their raids on Belcium, the peo- Confidence was expressed | Were in progress, Radio Rome said! The prosecution, wishing to be cd to a sailor Philips thought had = ple of that country were warne: aor that defense work on the entire fair to the accused men, pend that | taken his money. {no ferticulars ebout the number); jeave war and industrial: today that the coal ‘strike pr besa Coastline is still continuing/ their identification would be eesy! But “Mitch,” as he has been! of planes in the Krefeld raid, patie ota ayers not .; Fapidly. because of their soiled clothing j called by his friends in Key West} 3 only struck many military ob shortly be, settled at a confer oe es to their having been in jail,’ for many years, entertained no! though they are said to have to- jectives in the Ruhr Valley and ence to be held by Secretary of| U. goticead! ERTL SACK. | | taled 700 and to have dropped in Belgium, but also sank one j } 1d, i ™: wroops. with cities amc mecmome | Kretel an important German , gem ere seems = peobce force of 133 x = bal set ect ek =f (rowds or Sroups wnerewer =r ere tounc gatmeret sc mat =e: wii et be a Sete suggested thet other sailors put uncertainty. He pointed out the -much the same way as military Y +) Mea, end @ squadron, piloted by _ the Interior Harold Ickes, repre- senting the government, and LONDON.—It was officially an- nounced today that the United'clean and natty suits. That was him and the one on the clothing of the accused men and the latter be dressed in! John L. Lewis, president of the | States and Great Britain are baék-|done, and Mitchel Albury, with- United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, appearing for the miners, of whom 530,000 are on strike. Two million tons of much- needed coal in the war effort! are lost every day the miners stay out of the pits. Severa! other smelting and other plants Teported today that their shor- age of fuel will be acute in a few days and, that. “shotiia™the strike be prolonged a-week, they will have to stop operations. It was stated that Ickes, under | the present set-up, has enough Power to operate the mines for! the government, but some sena- tors and representatives said that a bill should be rushed through | congress strengthening. the President's hands. The bills di cussed would give the President / Power to operate the mines. in| | | organizations are conducted. « Steel mills that are more af-/ fected by the strike than any others are those _ Situated, in! Pennsylvania and Illindis... Meanwhile, the Connally anti- strike bill is still on the Presi- dent's desk. It'was said that! some of his advisers are aguinst| AT SNAPPER CREEK SCOUTMASTER REPORTS ALL | OF BOYS ARE HAVING | * ENJOYABLE TIME | | Police Captain Ray Atwell, who is scoutmaster of Troop 52, Boy! Scouts of America, returned yes- ferday afternoon from Snapper Creek, south of Miami, where the} Scouts are, ,palding their, annual! encampment. He ‘said thé boys| are having. an. .enjoyable time.’ They are now under the direction of Buddy Navarro, assistant, scoutmaster. They will return to Key West next Monday. { Members of the troop, which is| Sponsored by the Key West Ro-| tary Club, who are at Snapper) Creek, are as follows: | Buddy Navarro, Oriel Adams, Vincent Molina, Buddy Williams, | Billy Albury, Jack Smith, Leo Cooper, Billy Trembly, Leslie Sanders, Adolph Lastres, Arthur| Boza, Thomas Swicegood, Claude | Valdez, Adam Stenczak and | George Holben. 2 ing Giraud as commander in chief of the French armies in Africa,| three men who had attacked and giving her and suggested that General De} robbed him. despite the fact of the street t Geulle be put in command of the} changed clothing and their sitting marin | ouf any hesitancy, picked out the sailor who had asked for a cig-| arette, the one who had slapped; who took the} money. { It was due to Irene Soreman’s addres as 526 William| 2t led to the sailors’ and arrests. When she and} “Fighting French.” That arrange-|@mong ® dozen other sailors. In' the marine were taken to jail,! ment, it was explained, will re- main in effect as long as there are any Allied soldiers in French pos- sessions in Africa. SAYS CURTIN PLAYING DARWIN.—Prime Minister Cur-' tin was accused today by his pre- decessor of playing politics’ at the expense of the war-effort. In- stead of striving to do everything possible to defeat the enemy. it was said that Curtin wes more concerned in strengthening his own power in Austratian polilics, Curtin submitted military. re- | Ports to show thet the Japs hava | been so soundly whipped in the Southwest Pacific. Australia no longer is in danger of invasion. LIGHTNINGS OUTFIGHT JAP PLANES DARWIN.—A small flight of Lighinings. greatly outnumbered by 47 Jap zeros and bombers, in- tercepted the todav =nd shot “down 14 of them and badly. dam- aged two others. None of the| Lighthings was lost. Other Allied ‘plenes bombed Lae, on New Gui- Polish flyer’, raided Jap bases on Timor. DECLARE HOME EFFORT SAGGING WASHINGTON.—The ' senate sub-committee on military affairs asserted today that the war-effort }on the home front is beginning to sag and that morale has reach- ed its lowest level since the war began. It called on Economic Di- rector Byrnes to speed up produc- tion by vutting into play all the | Powers that have been given him, | SCOUTS ENCAMPED OPA MAY GET MORE MONEY WASHINGTON.—The OPA may get back the creater part of the money taken from it when its original appropriation was cut, It was stated that it will have a sufficient sum even to put into effect its subsidies. so that some food prices can be “rolled back.” MADE CAPTAIN News has been received in Key West to the effect that Lieutenant William T. Doughtry has been promoted to captain in ‘the United States Army. Captain Doughtry, who is a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Park of this city, is now sta- tioned at some point in Virgniia. FIGURE ON BIG PLANES NEW YORK.—Aviation spokes- men expect that 60 ton trans- ‘port planes will be flying regu- larly by 1945. ooo Attention, Legionnaires Regular meeting, Arthur Saw- yer Post, No. 28. night, June 23rd, at 8 o' 2 By order of the Post Com- mander. jan22-it SSR TTA 1 marine, who was seated with several cthers, and he had no trouble -in pointing out the wo- man who was with the marine tnd the sailors at the time of the robberv. The merine vel pil A. Hoge and “the sailors, in Pilgrim, Lester’ W: Thompson and Samuel M. Bayler;::Bhe woman, Irene Soreman, Was"held in $250 bail as ja material witness. the same way he pointed out the Police Captain Ray Atwell learn} ©*Plosion of a four ton ed from the marine that the sail-} ors were stationed at Boca Chica.} _ At the bus station, he was inform-} ed that three sailors had bought} tickets for that place, and, after a hair-raising ride, most of the} distance at more than 80 miles an} hour, he overtook the bus; as it) was about to start over the Boca Chica. bridgg, and he and Police. man Armando Diaz arrested thet sailors. | Drive To Raise | The executive committee, com- | rrising 12 members of the Arthur | Post, No. 28, the! American Legion, are | Sawyer of directing { the movement for the purchas | ing of a site and the erection of | la clubhouse for the post. | The present site of the club-| house, occupied by the Legion-! War! | Department, and, though they | H still meet there, they are uncer-| naires, is owned by the at any moment. started the building fund, and they will conduct a drive in the hope of obtaining sufficient}! money to make a down payment on a site and to arrange to have jthe clubhouse constructed. Committeemen are- Worth Donald Welch, mander; Herman R. Anderson, | vice-commander; George W. Sikes, second vice- commander; John W. Pinder, finance offi- cer; Veral C. Roberts, “post chap-! lain; Harold E. Russell, post _his- torian; William A. Gomez, sergeant at arms; 3 | : TENE 619 DUVAL STREET com- first} ‘American Legion Unit Starts — | | Erection Of New Clubhous as et Funds Toward William H. Piodela, ice officer; J. P. McDermott, post ad-| jutant; ! Horace O'’Bryant, past post} commander; U. John commander; Wm. R. Watkins, post attor- ney. { Ure ee rata rae | HONEYBEES NEST | IN QUEER PLACES | (By Axssactatet ~resa) } KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 22.—- Bees in the bonnet: { For several years a drove’ of} post. serv- | Delgado, past post j of.a 30-foot column in front of tne} partment may need the property Fifth Avenue Baptist Church here. | Mri Cargile owned a And not so long ago at nearby} Athens, a swarm of bees were] house dome—but not until a coun- ty official had robbed the bees of their honey for several years, keeping the secret to himself! Axis ship and many Of others along the coast land. ton: Wieck’ | Gaetan clone) nedc =. anal busters. Fourty-four RAF planes retaliatory raid on the southeast coast of England, but the British Air Ministry reported that no pilots, in describing the military damage was done and| only few casualties were caused. block- One of the raiding planes was buster, said that it tore buildings shot down by anti-aireraft fire. two Hol-| damaged 2,009 tons of bombs, of them two and four were lost. RAF FOI IIIS IIIS SII III IIS ISI IIIA SAIS SAIS IA ISA AI SAI A. TODAY'S RAINY WEATHER RECALLS Also Remind: Oldtiners Of Record-Breaker In 1927, HEAVY DOWNPOUR TEN YEARS AGO’ of equipment. The Russian losses in men were given at The communique commend ed the United States and Great Britein for the success ful battles fought im North Af- Tica, and commended them alse for the tremendous air reids that hrve been carried out over German and Italien territory. These raids heave gone fer toward weakening the Axn powers, particularly Ger- many. which is hard pressed for both men and material. Germany is so short of men- power. the communique ses. it mow has on the front in Russia boys in their mid teens. este ce eeesCCSECeSCCSteeeCelceeelirsltiris lille Gg @ 2 0 2 2 6 og 4 Is “10 Years Ago Today” going der if I'l get a squeak out of to repeat itself in the matter of er’ jrainfall? If it does then it will have “to’ tain much harder than when this was written. He walked through the water that came sup ‘above his. knees, ensconsed’ himself into the seat of his car and struck the starter KNOX SAYS NEW FRONT IS STILL breaks ct race momag Autheries sa thet “ee hec mot peer env seuperem « tempt to stert the motumg ewes thougr tmere mec peer sctaucos tense feehmgs between emo end negroes bere Sr Ge let theese peers. So fer a: could be learned. the cot bed ther & cerhen m - white man amc + megre oz Sus Gey aight A short Gee after Werd there were ocmer moeos-= fges mc sy Memtey mero. totes bed Pecks oot i cesen difterem: secuem > Peretze Ales : city. m= or seer es the negre cusrter s -eiec Twenty three men mere oeex killed 23 of tee aegeee ox 44.46 inches of rain fell in Key Ford jts editorial staff at the time. Beginning the night before Like a duck, the Model T seem- and concluding at 8 o'clock in ed to be in its element, for it hit the morning of June 22, 1933, on all four, and “the little old went rumbling right West. The dfought, however, along.” had not been extended over so _ long a period as it had been this spring, for a few weeks before, LODGES TO HOLD in 1933, another heavy rain bad’ [MEMORIAL SERVICE fallen. But, speaking of rain, Key AT PYTHIAN HALL Westers recall that record-break- sighs, i t er in July of 1927, when more _ Joist memorial services will be than nine inches fell in little held tonight bezinning at 6 more than two hours. The o'clock, in the Pythian pone: Ome Citizen never recalls that rain- Equity Lodge of Odd Fellows and fall without recalling also J. W Sparkling Waters Lodge of Re- Cargile, who was. a member of bec f As All along Duval street, as well Charles H. Ketchum, ort address will be made by and mem- tain of their tenancy, as the de- | bees have made honey in the top!as elsewhere in the city, auto: hers of the orders will conduct a)a Russian communicue urging mobiles; had been drowned out. candlelight service in a garden Model!: T’ S¢ene’in remembrance of depart- enough to ed brother and sister members. It was parked in front of _ It will be an open meeting, and Ford: that was old vote. located in the Reynolds Building vited to attend. on Duval street. He squinted at ne flood as erates at ts COMMERCIAL CAR aged car, and remarked, “Won AND TRUCK GAS BOOKS AVAILABLE Gasoline books for commercial ‘ears and trucks for’ the third quarter are now obtainable at the rationing board by those en- titled to them, beginning Thurs- iday of this week. The board advises that app! jeations for the new books should be made before June 30. GATO CAFETERIA 1108 Simonton Street A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this cafe- teria are extended to the following: PERSONNEL OF ARMY, NAVY, COAST GUARD and MARINE CORPS several numdrec neve Seer = yarec. The errests sumber 5 cf wheck @5 sercemt are negroe— While the MILITARY SECRET THIS STATEMENT WAS MADE FOLLOWING RUSSIAN COM MUNIQUE URGING SECOND FRONT IN EUROPE Fal acered tat irere bed met been asy puemme< °? orgemmec mnovemem =< uz ‘ne rom co wes sac ‘he here = 2 possuminty ther Stee sumo <Sv Senetete® Fem ints bed sfiered cm beted be WASHINGTON, June 22— tween whutes amc biece: tor 20 Today. the second anniversary x cther resson trex = velars oe of Germany's | te WSt) war-ciioct im this gua =__ — — Alls quset coGey wuth segram that a second front be started ix | Europe, declared that such action The committeemen themselves |discovered in the county court- The Citizen office when it was. the public generally has been in-| Will be teken by the Allies. | though. he added. the date om | which it will occur is naturally | Knox stated that have been preparing < = long time for |movement, and that the pilams ; are still in progress) He inti iMated that they are nearing [State of perfection as agreed on | by military experts in this coun-/ jtry and in Great Britain. | A reporter asked him ses } ae latively the second-frent if the Japs have ships in the Pacific, and be re- flied he had no knowledge of any such thing heving happen : a jed. He added that he thinks Specie ee Tie meee neither Japan nor Russia wishes} CAMP CROPT. S ¢_ Jame to do anything that may involve|—Pet_ Antonio Valier oon sunk Russien | Font PALACE THEATER