The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 26, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Diy Wire Service and AP Yeatures For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenk<t i Key West Citizen | Key West, Florida, hes the VOLUME LXIV. No. 152. Hope Of Recovering’ Bodies Have Been Aban- {By Agnociated Vrenny WASHINGTON,’ June 26,—; Navy today:,issued a communi- que in which it was said that the’ United States submarine.» R-12, while engaged in training Seer! cises, was lost recently off the’ east coast of this country. { Information, obtained from | rescued officers and men, indi-_ cate that the submarine was lost through accident and not enemy! action, Public announcement was with | held until the submersible was. located and it was determined hope of recovering the bodies! of the missing personnel have DEATH WAS SUDDEN; FUNER-| been abandoned. Names of the! »-missing-men have bee s¢ported | to the next of kin. | | i BOB RUSSELL, ANGLING uot Accident " Salvaging Of Ship And "Sor oweows. MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK RETURNS TO ALMA MATER June 26.— Madame... Chiang ».Kai-Shek, after an absence: of 30 years, returned to her Alma Mater today. Thirty: years» ago she was graduated:.-from « Wesleyan « College,“when she wes only 17, end shortly afterward,she returned to her home in China. Since then she has been in the United States several times, but never came back to visit Wesleyan until today. Governor Arnold was among the high officials who were present to welcome her and her two sisters. The col- lege conferred honorary de- grees on the sisters as well as on Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. LOWE DIES TODAY AL ARRANGEMENTS TO BE ANNOUNCED LAYER Capt. Arthur A .Lowe, 76, died suddenly this morning at his resi- DEVOTEE, ADDRESSED | cence, 706 Caroline street. Funer- ROTARIANS THURSDAY Visitors at the Rotary Clubj iuncheon Thursday were O, G. Lindsay of the State Road D: ; partment; Rev. Samuel P. Reinke, Fred W. Evens, West Palm Beach;! Charles Vetter. Wait M. Van Doorn, Miami; 3st ec al arrangements under the direc- tion ,of the Pritchard. Funeral Home will be announced later. Survivors are, the wife, Mrs. Lottie Ann Lowe; six daughters, M Alfred Johnson, Mrs. Stan- ley Saunders, Mrs. Tony Cane- jejo, Mrs. Earl Baker, Mr: spden, Mrs, Norma Cere: “4/008, Benjamin H., Arthur A., Jr.. st artil- | Charles P., Alfred A, Carl B., all lery, of Rochester, N. Y., and the | of Kew W* * except Mrs, Asneden, speaker of the day, Bob Russell,| who is residing at Miami Beach, a devotee of the fine art af ang-| "4 Benjamin, Fort Myers, Carl| with the giant ray off the coast | im the Armed service. One sister, of Old Mexico, and the great op- Mrs. Nettie Roberts, of Bahamas, portunity awaiting Key West N. Pp. Two brothers, Jabez and when once more the road would|©#™ Lowe; twenty-eight grand- be open to the vacationist and his pid family. The pianist was Stanley Plum, mer, a young man frém the Navy, who has been giving organ re- citals at St, Paul’s Poisedpat' Church. LEAVE ON TRIP children, and 14 great grandchil- FAITHS. FRATERNAL vi INCPAROFF CHINA PRS Awxddiated Ptewny HONAN, °China,'June 26.— in Honan _ sent. 4 THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1943 Woman Who Ju jitsu, an art that Sheriit | Berlin Sawyer has practiced dili- | sently, came in handy yesterday jafternoon when a negro woman ; entered the courthouse and, using | the hem of her skirt as a cloth, | rubbed out all the directions on |the air-raid blackboard, ‘legal notices eff the. bulletin ; board: at the’ main. entrance io tore \the courthouse and ihen went } into’ the: sheriff's office and start ed to tear to vieces:a police re- volver instruction chert. The woman has been a familiar |figure in the courthouse. Sev- jeral times 2, week. for more thar. ja year, she has called there and |smeaked into office after | and left diserranged numbers on | deck after desk. One day sho | entered the sheriff's office. rut office le rackage on his secretary's desi lend declared, “Das 63 bodies; | Fut No, 1 on it.” The secretary “hecitated @ moment, and the | women blurted, ‘No. 1; write it, \ write it!” ‘Ife secretary ccom- plied, and when the woman left the office, opened the package fad found @ variety of old knives | jend forks. County officials have {noticing that the woman was go- ‘SEVEN THOUSAND TONS OF BOMBS GERMANY DURING PRESENT WEEK Cy Associa LONDON, June 26.—In an- ling, who told of his experience |B» Alfred A.. and Charles P., are nouncing another air raid on | Wuppertal last night. the British | Air Ministry said that, during \this week 7,500 tons of bombs | have been dropped on Germany. | which are 900 tons more’ than i the total thet German flyers rained on England in the entire |three months of the fall of 1940, ‘Sheriff Berlin Sawyer Forcedi:- ‘ To Use Ju Jitsu On Colored | Became Unruly ing because, heretofore, she had been harmless. This morning, after she had torn notices: off the bulletin board and rubbed the diagrams off the air-raid board and started on the chart in the sheriff's office, Sheriff Sawyer decided it was time to lock her up and have her undergo: 4 | mental examination. | She is five feet 10 inches tall, ! weighs 175 pounds - and» is. as strong as a mule, officials saids | When she started to tear jchart, Sheriff Sawyer exclaimed; j “Hey, stop that!” “Who goin’ stop me?” “I am,” the sheriff. declared, grabbing, her by her wrist. “Come yn to jail.” “Who goin’ take me she demanded, as she attack the sheriff. He gave her wrist the. ju jitsu iwist, and, hardly before she knew. it she found herself flat mm the floor, face downward. “Lemme up, I'll go,” she said. The sheriff let her get up, and she tried again to come to grips with him, but this time he gave her arm the ju jitsu twist to the small of her back. | “Hi, youse hurtin’ me! Til Be Several times, on the way to a cell, she tried to break away, and up a litle higher went the arm, and she cried “Hi” again and resumed walking. men followed her and the sheriff and when he pushed her into a there?” tried to cell and stepped out himself, she ; tried to break out of the door, and it required the combined strength of four men to push to the door on her. This mroning Chief Deputy j Sheriff A. H. McInnis obtained been! papers from County Judge Ray-} mond R. Lord to fill out a peti appointed to examine her. FIVE HUNDRED ARE DROPPED ON ted Press) Germans are jittery when once they have heard or have had told ‘to them the deafening noise and the wholesale destruction that are caused by blockbusters and superblockbusters. Germany's '500-pound bombs in 1940 were thought big, but the ‘supers’, used by the RAF, are eighi | times larger.” ;: Details of the destruction caused last night at Wuppertal were not given, though mention was made of the bombing of a The’ Methodist and Roman Cath-| when the “greatest raids the world | Scries of synthetic oil plants. olic missions Mrs. Norral De Wayne Brom-| great baskets of roses for the *®d ever known” were carried J FC]QN MEMBERS ely and daughter, Sheila, have service at which a young Cana- jout against England. gone to Pennsylvania to visit Mr.\dian was ordained to the priest- Bromely’s family. Mrs. Bromely | hood of the Anglican Commun-} was, before marriage, Miss Eloise Beccaise. and the candidate was presented | hombings that the RAF is and: INEXPENSIVE for Everyone! Line after line, strike after strike,, bowling is an excit- J) ing but not - too - strenuous geme! Drop in tonight with your friends. Watch for a while + then bowl a line or two. BOWLING ALLEY ion. Bishop Lindel Tsen officiated, by a Canadian arch-deacon, but all the rest of the service’ was Chinese; language, Chinese bish- op; Chinese clergy assisting. GROWING ISLAND HONOLULU.—Visitors to this part of the. world can actually see F and growing to the southeast, d by volcanic eruptions un-! der the sea’s surface throw up huge quantities ‘of surging lava. RAUL'S CLUB BIG DANCE TONIGHT Music from 9 to 12 ay Those figures, it was pointed | out, provide a good idea of the lextent and the violence of the in- |flicting on Germany. What that ‘country did to England, during ; what was considered the worst | blasting that porsibly could be igiven from the air, pales into | insignificance when compared | with today’s blows against the | Reich. “No wonder,” “that the a spokesman German high | said, command has ordered the evac-} i Commencing Monda ys, | uation of 3,000,000 people from |the Ruhr’ Valley; no wonder the pat I ‘NOTICE tothe PUBLIC Due to labor and other condi-|0’clock are. requested to| ; tions beyond our control, on and | Wet Cleaning. } | Dry Cleaning and only one-day! TO ATTEND CHURCH Arthur Sawyer Post of the American Legion has decided to attend patriotic services on the ‘evening of the Fourth of July in the First Baptist Church. Members of the post and: also ‘of the Spanish-American War Veterans will attend the services in a body. The Legionnaires have invited local Boy Scouts fo be present. NOTICE! June 28, those subscribers to The Citizen who have. not received their paper by 6 iphone 51 and a paper will the: PRICE FIVE CENTS i The Key West Postwar Pianning }Committee took action last night, at a meeting in City Hall, on sev- eral improvements that will prove of inestimable benefit to the com-| munity in the event they are ap-| proved by the Federal Wor Agency. Most of the recommend: tions were in. accord with pr posals made by Ray Kirkpatrick, director of the labor division of he agency, and, judging from the ances he gave when he. w in Key West, construction work will be continued here when the war. 1s over. Stephen C. Singleton was chair- man pro tem: in the absence of 'Chairman Willard M Albury, who is ill with flu. j Tentative plans were made ‘for ja municival wharf and wareh< {another citv hall to be centr located, a beach, protected swim- iming pool, supervised _ play- By ROBBIN COONS I AP Features Writer HOLLYWOOD, June 26.—1 sat across from a one-man song factory and learned _ first-hand how the machinery operates. [ jlearned also that this particular factory—its name is Irving Ber- lin—expects to keep on func- Three‘ tioning, after 34 years and 800 published tunes, as long as_ its physical health endures. Some business men get tired of their jobs, writers have been | iknown to ‘dry up”, artists often ‘feel that they can never —paint'! another picture, and song writ-} ers? irving wanted to talk about This Is the Army,” despite my ‘ing deeper and deeper. into! tion to have a lunacy commission bjection that after two months lof preparation, 31 weeks on the |stage, and four months in Hol- ;lywood with the show he ought} to be tired of it. “Not tired of it! | —just tired,” he said. | “And song writers?” I | Sisted, and he yielded. “Well, I think my song-writing jcareer can be divided “into three i stages,” he said. |pretty cocky, thought everything |4 did was fine. per- of good stuff. frightened stage I had had some success, and was afraid. So I didn’t accomplish too much. Now is the third stage—the security of experience. I know enough about my trade to be sure that, when I have to write a score, I can do it. As long as my health j keep on.” A song-writer! builds up, along | with experience, a reservoir of jideas. Even from songs not good enough to. publish at the time | there wil come ‘inspiration—“af- |ter working so hard on a song ‘there’s almost bound to be one good phrase in it at least:” The revival of “God Bless EET, | Take Bexel Vitamins Daily |. McKESSON’S |e fe Ee a > - Potent, ri , made by a famous laboratory. 40's PBF 100: 91.98 \ ' after Monday, June 28. 1943, we) 5 t will be unable to continue doing} oe delivered. Please do not! | Phone complaints later than Our service will be limited to “At first I ‘was! At that stage I) turned out possibly 25 per cent! Next came the! | SOUTHERNMOST CITY | 7 o'clock, as the office will) PHARMACY, Inc. close at that time. grounds, sewer extension, combi- nation of the Y. M. C. A.; com- pletion and development of the Key West stadium and the devel- opment of Garrison Bight as a yacht basin. The Island City Civic League, composed of colored people, sent a letter to the committee recom- mending the incorporation in plans of the following projects: Playgrounds and ball park, streets resurfaced, beach, com- $, munity house and additional sew- e disposal plants. The letter was signed by W. L. Grace Palacios, Marie Kuckkhan, Susie E. Ballard, St Elmo A. Greaux and Louis Hep- burn. The committee decided to in- elude the proposals in its plans. ly adopted, as has been done in Dayton, Ohio. WAR BOOMS THE E BERLIN SONG FACTORY America”—written in 1917 as a finale for Berlin’s “Yip Yip Yap- hank” and thrown out as too corny—was a dramatic example. The time was not ripe for jit then he People wanted fighting songs, not purely pa- triotic ones. “Americans were a little embarassed about flag- waving at the time—they aren't any more.” Berlin never “‘for- got” his song, in fact tried to revive it on a couple of occasions before Ted Collins, Kate Smith's said. e Bill Overriding President's Veto Sf SSIS LA NAZIS REPULSED IN ATTACK ON RUSSIANS (Dy Asnocsated Preany MOSCOW, June 26.—Ger- man troops launched a large- scale ection against the Rus- sians along the north Donet= River yesterday and were re- pulsed, today’s communique asserted. Enemy troops made two at- . tem=ts to cross the Donetz in that sector, but. after killing 60° of them. they broke off th. action, the communique said. Another action was fought in the Orel area. . but there also, it was reported, the Ger- mens were repulsed TSX ISI IST SLD “LATE BULLETINS (Dy Assoristed Press) NO “ROLLING BACK” PRICES WASHINGTON.—It appeared today thet there will not be any “rolling back” of prices by the OPA, through the medium cf Granting of subsidies. The sesate. if was stated, was in a mood to day to cut out of the approprie- ticn, intended for the operation of the OPA. the money that would have been used for subsidies in decreasing the orices for meats. coffee, butter and other fats. manager, came. to him needing) apRial. RLOWS EXCHANGED a number for Kate’s next broad-: cast. But there were less dramatic incidents, as well. The popular aster Parade” was a re-write of an earlier song. “How Deep Is the Ocean?” was an expres- sion lifted bodily from an old song Berlin had written for Al Jolson to sing in “Mammy”. Once he had written “How Can I Forget When There’s So Much to Remember?” Years later, with a fresh twist, it became, ‘You Forgot to Remember.” And then there are the new ideas—the ones Irving nutures in his head sometimes for months before he goes near his piano to | write them. So it looks as if the old oné-man song factory will endure a whil ‘THINKS WEST IS STILL WILD (Special to The Citizen) other parts of the world, ' printed in a recent issue Scotland, The article custom of giving !pal ring, etc. and said | ments on these unusual with grave surprise: til 1924!” CRYSTAL’S RESTAURANT (Formerly Aubrey’s) 85e Coffee or Iced Tea Baked Virginia Ham SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June continues reasonably <good, I can | 26.=-People still have odd ideas} about the United States in — ,COUNT STANDS 2% °TO THREE ee Dee oe as ag a| pounced today that, since yester- !reriodical published in Dundee, |Cor. Simonton and Fleming Sts.| | “"Home-Like Atmosphere” on for | Choice: Roast Turkey with Chick- len Stew with, Hice oF DARWIN —The Jans end the Allies exchanged aerial blows in the Southwest Pacific today. The Allies bombed Jap bases on New Pritain end New Georgia islands and three Jap-cccuvied villages on New Guinee. In reprisal, the Japs attempted to reid Allied po- sitions on the Russell Islands, but were driven beck before they could reach tee bases. Sixteen bombs were dropped by enemy plenes, but no damage was done. MESSINA SHORE FRONT 1S RAZED ALGIERS.—AIl shore-front im- stallations on Messina. which lies only a mile from the coast of Italy. jin the toe of the boot. have been devastated, according to an of- ficial anncuncement mede today. | Messina was raided egein today. and photogravhs taken by Amer- ican flyers show thet wharves. | warehouses. gun emplacements |and all other installations along jor near the shore front are in a state of ruin. ALGIERS.—It, wasiofficially an- dzy, Allied . planes.. ower the Mediterranean, have destroyed 24 Axis. planes to a loss of three gs | Allied aircraft. The biggest baa ob- crated bishops of the Episcopal ssined by she Allies ee Church gifts, vestments, episco- that} “when Bishop W. F. Nichols was! elected in 1893 to be bishop co- laatater of California, his former} . | vestrymen presented him with a { rifle, a revolver and » | knife.” The Scottish newspaper com; | culars bout the battle exet “And the| Bishop remained in his see un-) | | planes were shot down. 1,900 ITALIANS KILLED LONDON.—One thousand Ital- ian troops have been killed in western Macedonia during the a bowie! t-c¢ two days. according to in- | formation received here. Parti- given. DETROIT STILL UNDER j CURFEW | DETROIT—Though quiet bas | been restored here, the city is | still being patroled and the cur- | few is still being enforced strict- iy. Saloons ere closed at 10 o'clock and places of amusement an hour ond. onthe dockets of white men and an equal number of negroes, to investigate the riot- ing. which, the mayor added. “has disgraced out city in the eyes Some Leaders Of Organi- zations Declared Law Will Be Fought In U_ S. Courts (My Associated Pr—s WASHINGTON. June 25.— Congress was violently criticized today by leaders of the Am cen Federation of Labor. Congress of Imdustrial Organi zations end the M. Workers of Ameria for be Rooseve United overriden President veto of the Smith-Commoily ant strike bill Some leeders declared the unions would Sicht the im the courts. Labor i tr by the lew. one scokesmer & end another esserted that i& © mos! drastic action that has ever been teken eqamst labor im history of # Other spokesmen said violates the constitutiomal mgr of en Americar to deade whe: S country tha: er cor not he wishes te work der conditions thet ere uniaw to him There wes conaressmen tude the veto. remarked lacomce ple forget we are 2t we: Whatever effect the aw > or mcy not have on labor. it was }Cinted out that thousands of c.2i miners, who did nct tefurn their pits when so ordered by Lewis, went beck to work today and the belicf wes exoressed that Fractically elf of them will beck to work by Monday crniny. MERVIN THOMPSON ARRIVES FROM CAMP -rivate Mervin Th son of Mr. and Mrs Thompson, of 220 street, former emplove Key West Citizen. tval_m the McQ: be believe little respons who voted + though one ~ 2 have gore F n Thompsor Mer Marz = TF was an last he like thing that goes with more than glad to the Island City again. Young Thompson town today meeting old and acquaintances, and wa: CHICAGO. — Frank found an abandoned pup. home and introduced the Mitzi, the 1 born kittens pup which is now fine with the three The privileges of this ‘caf teria are extended to the following: EMPLOYEES CIviL. SERVICE CONTRACTORS | PERSONNEL PERSONNEL of Army and Navy Defense Projects OF ARMY. NAVY. PALACE THEATER | Sons “** ~*~ GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ELLEN DREW in | “ICE CAPADES REVUE” "Snours “== *BOVE (NEWS and SERIAL EE DUVAL at ANGELA STS. Personal Management of JOE MEDINA ‘and 3-hour service work will be! taken. ‘ | WHITE STAR CLEANERS | Opposite Bowling Alley Prescription Druggists IRA F. ALBURY, PHONE 199 | Circulation Manager. | Duval and Fleming Streets il ay We JOHN PRITCHARD’S ‘ Sap eeu Southern Chicken ___ $1.10 ORCHESTRA FiBone Stes: Complete Daily Dinners from 6S SID CRYSTAL, Prop. a No Charge for Reservations INE 928% } i | ee