The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 12, 1943, Page 1

AL Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with an avero>> range of only 14° Fahrenb -#t | Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE SPAPER [IN THE US A VOLUME LXIV. N IK LXIV. No. 164 PRICE FIVE CENI> KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1943 ~ or < ~ CARO ARGUES CHARTER ISSUE IN 2 Important Advances Are Made SUPREME COURT; NOW AWAITING By Allied Units Since Sunday DECISION FROM HIGH TRIBUNAL y* ap ALLIES BLAST Number Of Ships Used Ip Of Florida Has Enormous By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizes Casoliné Reserve. Suppl Efforts Are’ Being Made’ Toward’ Having More Of Produét Made Avail- able (Washington Correspondent ot The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON. D.C. July 12—"We have millions of gal joms of extra gasoline piled up im our state—gas that we can't wee under existing regulations and gas that isn't being sent merth” Florida congressmen bluntly told the petroleum ad- ministration. Af a hearing atiended by ail Plerida congressmen or their representatives, they asked Ralph K. Davies. deputy petroleum ad- ministrator, to shift Florida from District One to District Two! where gasoline coupons bring approximately twice as much as im Florida and other states listed ‘under the Eastern seaboard clas- ‘ification The Fierida congressmen, in Gtuding Representative @enducting the hearing elfice of Representative Hendricks, seid thet the had Cannon. in the Joe states teserve supply of gas in creased from 27 million gallon: *® year ego to 62 million today. ‘They claimed that the increas od consumption caused by the redistricting would this surplus and defied the pe treleum edministration to prove that the wer effort being sided by its restrictions. Results of the hearing will be eperted to the delegation late petreieum agency officials ster the meeting JOHN'S SUIT CASE BEING HEARD TODAY enly touch said A K=IGURES ON PLANE LOSSES Attorney Thomas S. Caro re | with little opposition from the WORLD WAR | VETERAN ‘IDEAL ——— MARINE’ AT 53 LATE. BULLETINS — oa ‘ MASTER GUNNERY SERGEANT LELAND ‘LOU’ CITED FOR FRONT-LINE AC- TION AT GUADALCANAL (By Associated Press) AMERICANS IN DAYLIGHT RAID LONDON. — American tiyers ——. today raided northern France and By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE Belgium. No particulars were AP Features Writer given of the number of planes WASHINGTON, Juiv = that participated in the attack or was a grizzled Der the extent of the damage that was World War I, one done. soldier in MUNDA TO FALL IN WEEK DARWIN. — Alhed military experts stated today that Munda. on New Georgia Island. is likely to fall within a week. Fighting there is extremely difficult be- ceuse of the swamps and junzles, and the advance of the Amer- icans and Australians is slowed up even though they are meeting in his pl s helping his on ship when suggested that 52 might old for front-line service perhaps it would be sergeant to use his valuable in training Marine He exploded, and fc low Marines of Master Sergeant Leland “Lou” Diam tell vou that a Diamond exp sion is something to behold. when the ship shoved off for th South ific, ©! with b and convalescing f th outfit get an offic be better in th expe remained recru Japs, who apparently are waiting to fight a last-stand battle. MAY COST AMERICAN LIVES WASHINGTON. — Senator Ho- mer T Bones esserted today that the finding of many airplane en- ,,,., gines with weak parts in at least one plant may cost “many Amer- ican lives’ by the installation al- ready of such engines in some planes. The Federal Bureau of In- vestigation has been called on to determine the truth or falsity of exacting the reports. see a he fac xander ideal Ma conduct at A. Vandegrift lagi On the wien vod, very 1 OIL SHORTAGES NEXT YEAR outstanding.” Sergeant D WASHINGTON. — Oil short- © a é ages are likely to become acute in 1944, it was stated today. While production has increased and will continue to increase. transporia- ion facilities are not sufficient to . get all the oil to market in time ~ to avcid the shortages. ALLEN AND BEZANILLA ‘ CHCSEN DELEGATES TG CONVENTION OF LIONS GATO DORMITORY 1100 Simonton Street =* A DEFENSE PROJECT ,.*.° oS). : The privileges of this Dormitory ‘'s *" aM are extended to the aad © a following: sode Mar CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ~ of the Key West Naval Station © CONTRACTORS’ PERSONNEL =\\+s We of Army and Navy Defense into G Projects O RA $1.00 Per Day $3.50 Per Week DIAMOND | ENGLISH SPEAKING U. & BOMBERS SET HECORD ‘tuned this morning from Talla- t italian . the supreme court to obtain a hassee, where he argued before J stroyed fron tart war decision in the matter of the pu Unit- 1919 and the 1939 charter. The aly 9,906 vine, ©oUrt, Mr. Caro said, has taker f Axis the matter under advisement destroyed t end he will be informed by tele- gram when tke decision has been handed down. © Euror here the RAF hoses NAMIS MAKE DETERMINED ATTACK ON REDS BUT ARE THROWN BACK sss: 0: eter 1 2x om Attorney Caro took the posi- tion that, Invasion Said To Be Greatest In Entire His- tory as several important Frovisions of the 1939 had been lost. after it had been JAP GARRISON PLANES AND SHIPS STRIKE HEAVY BLOWS AT MUNDA charter gassed by the house and the senate and before it reached the the (By Associated Peenes LONDON, July 12. Brite and American troops iwday cap the ancient city of Syre engrossirg room, entire - (By Anse d Vress) WASHINGTON, July !2.—The tured Jap garrison at Munda, on New charter had been made inopera | tive. If bis ‘contention is up- cuse on Sicily’s southeastern together with the big s+ base established there. [ is also among the foremosi sup ply bases on the island. held by the court, the city will Georgia Island, cut off from sup- | then act under the 1919 charter. coast, Plies and hac been blasted with 378,000 pounds of bombs reinforcements, plane from Allied planes Heaquarters in souk A reports that the Americans, Brit Besides, % UR: Ansociated Press) American naval ves! : is cow. ts 1 ¢ a I MOSCOW, July 12—The Ger- iages. after ferocious night fight- sels, in full control of the seas" “™d Camediama slong i mans, led by a tank force nm- ing. in which the bayonet played fronts in Sicily. have made we bering 400, made < determined at- - tack today to the Russian * line in the vicinity of Belgorod. but they were hurled back, after 2 the destruction of many of their aga tanks and the. dispersal of the; wa > Beg motcrized intantry, the Russian cut the Ax 2 * communique stated. oe In the Orel sector the Reds are a: a reported to have retaken two vil- TWO HOTFLIERS HERE HONORED - ZABETH PEOPLES CONCEPTIONS ARF EVIDENT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THE GARDEN “gr RESTAURANT 609 DUVAL STRE OPENS THURSDAY JULY 15 5:00 O'CLOCK under the P, mal Manager of EDWARD A. SNYDER —000 REGULAR DINNERS and A LA CARTE PALACE THEATER RICHARD DIX in ‘AMERICAN EMPIRE’ NEWS and SERIAL ng Lang: CRIMINAL COURT WILL CONVENE IN <0... "REGULAR SESSION ON NEXT MONDAY a big part. Tanks were used also, i? thet vicinity, have steamed in in this enemy drive, but they close fo the shore and have show were caught in a hail of withering artillery fire and were forced to €red Munda with tons of shells. turn back. Munda The report further said that the ary: total of enemy tanks put out of ‘'¢ source action in the seven-day fighting 0" Rendova exceeds 2,200 and the planes lost away Fortant advances since yesterday. in the southerly sector, the tii ans end Germans made « tens attack, which wes broken wp. and elsewhere in the more then 100-mi.e bridegheed. the caemy is being blasted fr the h less th y artille: five miles by the enemy in that time num- It was stated today that Munda bers 1.068. is bound to fall, though its cap. | ¥®% Tepulsed. 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