The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 30, 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 im the country ; a an sverage Key West Citizen === tN THE USA Ay West’s Bond Issue Amount of Mi Million te Half.\; Dollars: Involved: ' THURSDAY NIGHT ‘ For Acquiring. Electric}: | Ay Ansocinted Press) TALLAHASSEE, June 30.— The Supreme Court reversed Judge Williams’ decision in his validation of the $1,500,000 City ‘of Key West bond issue for ac-! quiring the locai Electric Light and Power System, The court held that the bond ordinance, “insofar as it author- izes the city to acquire the con- trolling capital stock of the Key, West Electric Company.” violates the state constitutional prohibi- tion against any county or city becoming a stockholder in any company, association or corpora- tion. ‘ The state attorney represented the state, and T.S. Caro and Miller Walton the city. Two local lawyers informed} The Citizen that the city acquire the property by issuing bonds as ordinarily is done in matters of this kind, that is, sub- mitting them to a vote of free- holders. In that way the bonds can’ be {COUNCILS ANDO PUBLIC TO}: MASS MEETING a gitaey? HEAR) PAPY' ON ELECTRIC COMPANY ISSUE - The City Council has called a mass meeting to be held tomor- row night, veginning at 8 o'clock, jat the City Hall for the Purpose | of hearing Representative Bernie ; C. Papy explain his reason why he| refused to embody a provision in| the city charter “in connection! with the City. of Key West pur- chasing the Key West Electric Company through a bond issue. Others interested are invited to address the meeting on the} subject, and the entire citizenry | of Key West is invited to be in attendance. RECAPITULATION OF TAX ROLL SEN; TO COMPT: | 2 = This morning Couny. “Fax sessor Claude A. Gandolfo mail- ed to Comptroller J. M. Lee a recapitulation of the 1943 / as-' sessment roll in Monroe county. | Despite the fact that the Navy acquired, through condemnation proceedings, \ between $250,000 | and $300,000 of asessed property ‘in Key West since the roll was made up for 1942, the ‘assess ments this year will exceed+ those of last year by approxi- | mately $200,000. The increase is due, Mr. Gan- dolfo said, to the several hundred H houses that have been built in; | Key West during the last year, | and advances in the payment of personal property taxes. | i [in the Southwest Pacific. THE SOUTEEENMOST 2 NEWSPAPER U.S. SOEDIERS SEIZE RENDOVA KEY WEST, FLORIDA, < FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1943 [Another Building Bisken Into Claims That Allied | Units Are ISLAND IN NEW GEORGIA GROUP D uring Night; Twenty Second Now Masters Of North A\ Atlantic (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, American soldiers, surprise attack, succeeded Seizing Rendova Island, New Georgie group, this morn-/ June 30,— following a in| in the) ing, it was officially announced | today. | Rendova. lies ‘110: miles’ north- | West of the Russell Islands: and five miles*south of Munda, | where the Japs had or had one| of their most important airfield} DEED SIGNED CONVEYING STOCK — ISLAND TRACT TO GOVERNMENT. Mayor Willard M. Albury, with City Clerk Joe Johnson attesting, signed a deed yesterday convey-| ing to the United States of | America the tract on Stock Is land on which the proposed mi nicipal hospital will be con- structed by the Federal Works| which has. alloted. $200, Saar 4 000 far, the building a its | equipment and furnishings, | The resolution ,adopted by the} City Council, empowering the mayor to sign the deed, reads as! follows:” ‘WHEREAS, Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) | has been alloted by the Federal Works Agency for the Federal construction of a war emergency type, 56-bed hospital building,} including necessary surgical, | clinical and obsterical faciliti nurses’ quarters, offices, kitchen/| ;and service rooms, and all ne- i H quently by Allied airmen it is al longer ‘usable. The building at Whitehead and, The experts also tried to figi}Petronia streets, occupied by Gon lure out the value of Rendova ad|zalo Zarate, was broken into last a’ strategical base, and their con. | night, but, so far as can be learn- {clusion was that it was captured’ ed. nothing was stolen. It made chiefly because of its nearness'the twenty-second —burglary _in to Munda. It was added that/Key West since the beginning of the capture may be a prelude to| the yeer. an all-out. offensive against! Petty thievery, all reports Munda. | show, hes been the object of ev-| With the Russell Islands “and ery burglary. and in almost every’ ;Rendova now in Allied posses- "ase where it was successful eith- | Burglary Since First Of Year struggling with the burglar on om porch, threw er the rail but he succeeded in getting away At the sheriff's it was said this morning that if reports of burg- $ were made immediately to the sheriff, the chance of making arrests would be much better. ; “LATE BULLETINS (By Aecocinted Preant ROME MAY BE BOMBED LONDON. — Foreign Ministry Anthony Eden told the House of sion, Rabaul, on New Britain "@r @ handbag‘ or trousers;tontain- Island, which has been pounded i a wallet, has’ been stolen. repeatedly,-may now be attack from bases nearer than Henderg, son ; Airfield on Guadalcanal |The latter’ place’ came into pos |session of United States Marin Mili- Jon August 7, 1942 and since ther itary experts here said that ine lit has been coverted into one of the burglar twice attempted to airfield nas been blasted so fre-! the most formidable the Southwest Pacific. bases Mayor of the City of Key West be and he is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to sign! in the name of said City a deed! of conveyance, in three coun- terparts, to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. And Joe Johnson as City Clerk! of the City of Key West-be and he is hereby authorized, em- powered and directed to affix, and. attest. with. his .. signatured the common seal of said city “7 said three counterparts. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED’ CHURCHILL CLAIMS THIS bee a Miaini to pay delinquen that said Mayor and said City} Slerk do acknowledge the exe- \ cution of the aforesaid deed in} three counterparts in the man-; ner and form required by law, ! and that upon such execution) and acknoWledgment the City! jClerk make delivery of said deed! in three counterparts to the: | grantee therein. THIRTY-FIVE WOMEN FROM FLORIDA JOIN | U.S. MARINE CORPS fin two cases, a’ burglar in one} and a» would-be’ burglar'in an- ‘other, attacked “occupants of! ‘houses. Mrs. Mary J.” MeKnight,) _who resides in the Manegold home} ‘on Newton street, reported that’ ja would-be thief grabbed Percy! |Lones by the arm at the front on White street. Mr. Lones, while’ More Money To For Settlement Of Property Taxes That JAPAN IN LINE TO GET WORST POUNDING EVER’ WILL HAPPEN IF GERMANY|. AND ITALY FALL BEFORE! JAPANESE | | West is for the ourchase of ce (Dy Asnociated Press) LONDON, “June 30—Japan | stands to get what probably will! | be the worst blasting in the his- | _~& | jdollars more is Chief Deputy Sheriff McInnis said |Commons today that. if at any the sheriff's office is never closed, | time the Allied Nations deem it and that if Sheriff Sawyer is necessary to bomb Rome to pro- alled either over telephone 13 or ™mote their war-effort. Rome will 9, immediate investigation can | De bombed That city, he declared. | be made. is now occupied by many wer ac- Chief McInnis pointed out that | tivities. and that. should their de- \Manuel Castro, from whom $1 030 Struction be essential to the cause was Stolen, has not yet reported Of the Allies, they will be raided the theft to the sheriff by Allied airmen. “We have no way of knowing Pm tig these things athens pe are ving| REDS PROBING ENEMY LINES about them.” Mr. McInnis said,! ~MOSCOW.— Soviet troops were if choke her, and in the other-case,| ‘and we will appreciate our being reperted today to be probing en- informed at the moment about arliest possible emy lines at many places along burglary or a the iona frort in attempts to find | door of the Carlyle Williams home j hold-up or the commission of any, weak spots before beginning of iensives on a iarce scale. Fighting on a limited scale wes reported northwest of this citv. in the Orel area and in the Donets basin. northwest of Kharkov. other crime.” Be Sent Hie REGGIO CALABRIA BOMBED ALGIERS. — Allied bombers. based on North Africa, today raid ed Reggio Calabria. in the toe of | Italy's boot, and shore installa- tions in Sardinie. The raid on Calabria was @ surprise. and the planes had drovred almost all of their bombs before the anti-air- craft batteries opened up. No fighters took to the air to chal- lenge the raiders. Are Delinquent Seven thousand five hundred ng here from Miami to pay for certificates on | delinquent property, County Clerk |Ross C. Sawyer was informed over the telephone late yesterday ; pec a | NERS STILL IDLE The Sum makes a total of°$22,-| toca Sis |500 that will come into the coun- Fi he rig tra tig Frere teday to be still idle in Pennsy!- “The $15,000 reported yesterday | V@nia end Alabama. by Clerk Sawyer is for the re- cemption of certificates, and the; THREATENED RACE RIOT $7,500 now on its way to Key! PASSAIC, N. J.—Troovs. were ti- | dispatched here today from Pat- ficates. In the former case, the | terson to disperse crowds of whites owners of the parcels in question | and negroes who apparently were act, and in the latter case certi-|on the point of starting a race riot ficates are bought by persons; The trouble grew out of a false re- jother than the owners. Port that a white soldier had Mr. Sawyer said today that) struck a 16-year-old negro girl. j tory of the world should Germany | more certificates, both as to num- - ‘and Italy fall before the empire of ko and the amount involved, ave been redeemed or purchased the Rising Sun surrenders, accor jin the last month than during any jing to a statement made today in| other six months period in the his- SHUT DOWN FRENCH PAPER ALGIERS. — The Oran Repub- lican, a French newspaper, was “ws Boat Activities, lt Was Claimed By Prime Mm- ister, Have All But Col- lapsed (My Aesoctnted Press: LONDON. June 30.—Prime Minister Winston Churchill ‘oid @ chering House cf Comumons today that the Allied Nations hsve definitely won the Battie of the Atlantic. The U-boar me zace “ to 2 few months ago. was com sidered the qravest that threat- ened the Allies. hes now been which overcome, adding thet the Allies are now | masters of the North Atiantic. U-boat activities im the North Atlantic, the Prime Minister as collapsed. Their successes Albei shipping since the middle of Mey heve been fer less than during any other similar period in the 46 months England been at war. the middie of May scarcely a sincle ship has beet sunk by U-boats in ell of the many convoys that have crossed and recrossed the Atlantic, certed, heve all but evainst bes Since and while. as short a time ago as six or seven months, Germany wes sinking boats fester than they could be built, the sinkings have dropped off to so crest en ex tent, the croduction is now from seven to 10 times creater than the lesses. When Churchill made that stat>- i 3 : - £ raided Irst night by an unidenti- Assessments for this year total|cessary equiprnent therefor, un-j (special to The | to The Citizen) used, provided they meet with the | approval of the stockholders ot! the company, to purchase the} plant and all its belongings, with this difference: had the revenue bonds been approved, the aA of the company alone would have been = held’<responsible for | ‘the liquidlatibn of ‘the bonds, but under the other Procedure, | all taxable property in Key West. in addition to the com- Pany holdings, would be liable (Continued on Page Four) Let Us Check Your Brakes Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming Phone 5 “Opposite Army Barracks” | $16,211,589 for real and personal Properties and railroads , telegraph. | ‘B “oO | : a | is | L r \ for FUN, EXERCISE and EXCITEMENT BOWLING ALLEY Duvel and Angela Sts. OPEN DAILY 12 M. to 11 P.M to Accommodate Those Who Work Late Shifts Management of JOE MEDINA. i NOTICE Change Of Bus Schedule, Effective July 1st, 1943 ALL DEPARTURES on even hour—Every two hours BUSES LEAVE KEY WEST- 12:01 AM. — 2:00 A.M. — 4:00 A.M. — 6:00 A.M. 8:00 A.M. — 10:00 A.M. — 12:00 M. — 2:00 P.M. 4:00 P.M. — 6:00 PM. — 8:00 P.M. — 10:00 P.M. Buses Arrive Key West 40 minutes past the hour, every 2 hours BUS STATION SOUTHARD and BAHAMA STREETS ‘and. der Project No. Fla. 8-906 | and|(F-PBA) Hospital Facilities, Key, Ihirty-five Florida West, Florida; and | WHEREAS, the City of Key} West is to donate the site for! said project; and WHEREAS, the said site has been location of; determined | survey ‘and plat ‘thereof, have been made by H. B. Her-| rick, Fla. Reg. Land Surveyor! | No. 191; and WHEREAS, the description of the land in the deed hereinafter referred to is in accordance with | }the said survey and plat; . now,' therefore BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Key We: in special session duly assem- | ; bled: ! That Willard M. Albury as PALACE THEATER | i CONSTANCE BENNETT in | “MADAME SPY” } NEWS end SERIAL ! GATO DORMITORY A DEFENSE PROJECT | The privileges of this Dormitory) of the Key West Naval Station of Army and Navy Defense Projects RATES $555 Fo Bi 3 $3.50 Per Week ATLANTA, Ga. June 30.—! Minister Churchill. women al-! ready have enlisted in the -U. S.' Marine Corps, the oldest branch Germany and Italy collapse before | of service and the last to open its Japan falls, Great Britain will | {ranks to the fernale sex. jsend all her planes and warships; They are: into the Japanese theatre to force | From’:Miami—Roberta Claire that country into surrendering or} Bailey, Alice Martha Dorn, Lura to reduce her ‘to! dust. Dell Gillett, Amy B. Green, Doris |: Britain, he reiterated; will mar- Georgia Harris, Mary Florence shall all of her power to join the | Dorothy Smith Warner, and Helen war or industrial plants are lo- Stanley; Jacksonville—Bessie M. cated, will be devastated and her | Bailey, Arlene Henn, Nancy Ruth Murhee, Mar- the seas. |garet Robertson, Mary Gloria Tor-: ——— | da, and Catherine Slater Wate: 7 man; Clearwater—Margaret E! IT’S sa 5) zabeth Myers; Coral Gables— | Eleanore Mayo Kern; Daytonaj H | Beach—Harietta Frances Crosby ; sity Associated Prean) | volume of applica-} janother clerk today. DANCING CLASS DIRECTED BY MRS. DOROTHY PETERSEN The dancing class, for service | Hall, Jennie Oropesa, Edna Johan- United “States and China in the: men and women being held at the na Stamford, Betty Jane Stelle,! war on Japan. Her cities, in which! ‘St. Paul’s Parish Hall every Thurs- j day evening willjbe under the di-} rection fo Mrs. Dorothy Petersen | Braddock, Alice ships will be sunk or driven from | of the Casa Marina j week. Hotel this The free dancing lessons are , being sponsored by the Young} ; People’s Service League and be- (ing well attended. Chaperones this week will be! }Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Patramore, jand Mary Leon Hamilton; Fort! WHEELING, W. Va., June 30— Mrs. Hugh Williams and Joe Al-| Higlideatnie Piorcrke Lena Blan- John Gornik, Jr., figured he had len, chard; Fort Worth—Helen Ber- | had more than his share of ups; nice Clager; Lake Worth—Nor-| and downs and .so today he is aun dell Lucille Dugger: Lakeland—! working as a substitute mail car- A | Floy Oleta Mize: Lakeworth— rier. CR Bertha Mae Perkins; Orlando—: Gornik traveled a little over Mary Rose Bartlett; St. Aveus-; 16,348 miles on the elevator at the | tine—Nettie Jane Sabate: St. Pet-' Wheeling federal building and) ersburg—Freda Burnett; Tampa— admitted he was getting a bit Ethel Taylor Cotton, Katherine tired of it. Lucille Wolfe, and Ethel Jean! During the eight years he served Bigham: from Vero Beach, Bar-| cs the:elevator operator he said bara G.. Adams; and West Palm {ne had made more than 2,499,995 Beach—Kathryn Weiland Lanier. trips. a. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO CITIZENS OF KEY WEST) You are cordially invited to attend a Mass Meet- ing called by the City Council for Thursday night, at 8:00 o’clock, July 1st, 1943, to hear discussions by members of the City Council and Honorable B.C. Papy; State Representative, relative to the acquisition of the Key West Electric Company Plant and Distribution System by the City of Key West. es (Formerly Aubrey’s Restau Cor. Simonton and GOOD EATS - SHORT O | Dinners served daily Open AM. to 8 P. Subscribers to The Citizen, the House of Commons by Prime |tory of the county. So great has fied crowd. had its plant closed |become the ‘tions, Mr. Sawyer had to employ +. + rut. It wes al t three hours He said that, in the event that a wes almos . = | before work was resumed. The down and ell the wires leading move is thought to have been an ‘outgrowth of a clash between civil and military authorities. APPROPRIATIOIS. D WASHINGTON. dead- line on the sopbipitinan bill is midnight tonight. and§ = the senate and the house have several differences to settle befure the bill is passed If some chentes"are not made. 16 war agencies quotas will be curtailed in theiropera- | tions or will not be able to con- tinue, The OPA and OWI have had (Continued on Page Four* ment, the House broke into cheers thet continued for three minutes. while he stood waiting. with sugrestion of a smile playinz on his lips. to resume his speech. It was then he raised bis hand and exclaimed thrt the Allies are now undisputable mesters of the Nerth Aflentic. More wild cheas- ing felewed that declaration. an< when, it cem2 to an cad. he said that the creat and devestetiny rower of the Allies in the Medi terrenean is growing dcy after day, end thet it would resch that point. “before eutumn leaves be- (Continued from Page Une Take BEXEL Vitamins Every Day!