The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 13, 1943, Page 4

7 : : : : Bounce the marriage of their , Marjorie, to M. R. Ren-| wedding taking | im. New York on July 8./ of war warned what we were up} . mother of the bride, ac-| froe, U.S. N., the by another daughter, tain Roberts, who is stationed the United States Army somewhere in the Pacific. and sister, Helen, here for Mrs. Ren- before she left to meet her pros- husband, who is stationed with the United States Naval COLORED COMMUNITY BUILDING DEDICATED. There were about 300 perso including white visitors, in 2 femdance at the dedication cere-! monies last night of Fort Village | ity building on the prem- fees of the colored housing project The affair was sponsored by the | iT f Inland City Civic League, with an sembly lines in 1943 exeelient musical program ren- about 43,000 combat craft. dered. including § several vocal | being Winnifred Sands gave the dedi- address, while talks were @iven by Acting Mayor Wil- by the name of Dean, of the addresses being much by the large number in, | comparisons, the leaders of Each of the speakers expressed fighting forces acted on the idea Army pleasure at the rapid pro- that we weren't preparing that had been made in the any push-over. noted in connec-| the project which was Sees tame ago 7 entire assemblage express- of the manner in premises ii been | MIRACULOUS STORY | fighting force of 11,000,000 men jof the Army. There were con-| jtentions that manpower needed | Mr. and Mrs. Staniey Key an-|to run the production machines | deft recently for New York | Purpose of attending the| Nazis and their satellites was| | 14,000,000 men—including 300 Renfroe is also a sister of | divisions of Germans, 80 Italian| Mrs. E P. Roberts, wife of Cap- | divisions and 80 divisions of! estimated figures of the Axis air) strength—20,000 planes now, with! can soldiers needn't worry about a combined production ane a month. And hopeful signs|at home when they return from ota . | Reich's air strength were seen in|Held has it all figured out for the weakening ot German repris-| them. rope in the first six months of 1943. | erator (Continued from Page One) by the close of 1943. Criticism Of Army's Size There was criticism of the size and till the soil of our great) farms was being taken away at/ too fast a rate, but the secretary; against. | He pointed out that in Europe, ; the estimated strength of the other satellites. i He declared at that time: “Our/ plans are to produce about 100) American divisions of ground | forces, together with their aux-} iliary troops . . . These figures | certainly make our ground forces’ seem of very modest size in} , comparison.” collected. and aluminum drives. But optimism even then was ee a mv held out in some circles on the score that Hitler had lost hun-| dreds of thousands of his best troops in the Russian adventure. Comparisons mounted, too, re- garding our air strength as com- was pointed out that on the basis THE KEY WES? CITIZEN pared with that of the Axis. It) Dogaghboys Now Governed On Acting By Printed Page | * xk &k . of Patterson's figures on plane! production, we might send ap-! proximately 70,000 down the as-| including Against this, observers poised| AP Features NEW YORK, July 13—Ameri rate of| getting readjusted to conditions possible waning of the the wars abroad. Sgt. Le is for the Allied attacsks on Eu-| Sgt. Held, 24, was a radio op- for The Associated Press wave listening post But, arm-chair | short the North regardless of picked him up and for him down in the Southwest Pa cific war theater. Rigid Training Enforced The men were trained to meet|away forever,” be branches of fighting | havior governed by the printed and congratulated those, es-_ to combat on wind-swept moun- | ways. , who were instrumental | this housing project ‘Which was so badly needed by the; @elored residents of this city. | seen | taken at 8:30 a. m EW. (City Office) | ‘Temperatures last 24 hours 89 last night 78 a4 - 84 f Precipitation Rainfall +24 hours ending @ m., inches O11 rainfall since July 1, ; 35 since July yy | 0.18 rainfall since Jan. 1, since January 1, Relative me Tomorrow's Almanac 6:46 a. m 8:19 yp. m 5:32 p. m 3:53 a. m 12.61 Base) Low Tide 12:52 a.m 2:35 p.m. 7:26 am. 2:16 pm Key West ani Vicinity thundershowers th and possibly tor temperatures } Plovida: Continued warm t Gight; widely scattered thundk dershowers this afternoon. if Apalach: been TEMPERATURES Temperature data for the 24 hours ending 8:30 4 m., July 15. 1963, as reported by the U.S Weather Bureau: Highest Lowest last 24 hours last night 66 71 92 75 ory 80 90 73 91 71 as 69 i 7 | 91 76 95 76 WEST 89 78 AIRPORT 90 7 90 7 89 93 88 87 8B 84 80 88 eo | 2 74 salesman from Hartford, Conn.,|entitled ‘A Short Guide ‘a railroad of a kind that might be |the kid from tain ranges. “That is why I have compiled The former Wyoming cow- the following ‘ist of do's and puncher was trained to drive a/don'ts for the returning soldiei, tank. The onetime insurance-;to be included in a handboos to the became a Ranger, drilled to steal | United States.’ through underbrush and plunge a| “Americans usually stiletto into the heart of an enemy. | Conversation by asking The brakeman of the Northern} What's new?’ It is not necessary Pacific who used to work out of St.|to reply to this except by say Paul joined the Engineers andjing, “Well, what's new with learned to construct and even run | You? “The monetary system is rathe placed in newly-won territory. Confusing. Regardless of their The student, the school teacher, hesermge nag five, ten and the New England /twenty dollar bills are ail the textile town, the gangling youth Same size. A nickel (worth only open a from the prairies of the Mid-West, | five cents) = alme-* ice as the boy from the rolling slopes of |#@™8€ a3 a dime (worth ten i oe nee care (cents). Two dollar bills are ta the Pacific:—all of them became tough, fighting timber whether they wore the uniform of the sail- or, infantryman, parachute troop- er, cavalryman, artilleryman or marine We have land commandos and air commandos, and of the latter, Lieut. Gen. Arnold, commander of the air for ays: In size, equipment and fire- power, the airborne army will ex- ceed anything of the kind th world has yet seen.” Chemical Warfare We have men trainel to offset sas attacks the enemy may con- ceive, men equipped with protec- tive clothing and drilled to de- tect even gases that have no xdor bu and the natives are e: Superstitious about them “Listen patiently when v ans of the first World War You how much tougher things were in their day. Remember they had to listen to the Spa American war veterans, who in turn had to listen to the ivil War veterans. “In some parts of the tates, eggs in powdered re not obtainable, and you have no choice but to eat directly from the shell. Howeve it is always advisable to them first. In the rural distr it is also difficult to get d vegetables owing to a | dehydrating eqifpnient “You may ke shocked beets, turnips ati potatoe United will ied have artillerymen trained re a 450-pound charge from 2 240mm howitzer with only a and for keeping | lines of communicat el open. Africa Taught Lesson We learned our lesson we Africa. It was estimated that 70 per cent of the hinges upon production and su jply. and one estimate was mad that it takes ten tons of equix ment to land one Ameri sent into! dier on an invasion front 4 Secretary ton and a half of of War Patterson had said, “un-|™onth to keep hir til he has had every single op- At that time. portunity to learn all there is to food and equipment to « about the business of sol- different fronts throughout few yards as the margin of error. We n ‘and tre have men expert in the ‘i of camouflage and smoke ns with which to outwit the aircraft and submarines. even have officers who prepared to go into foreign ands with the armed forces and up local, regional and en national governments in ed territory man will be battlefield, Under to set and a equipment going we were know diering. world, some of them 17.000 mile No American soldier, if we|from home port, and the drain can help it, is going to become, on shipping facilities had to be casualty through lack of divided. chooling for combat. Every one Evep though an of f men is going to have the Europe may be the task est possible chance for sur- of thefigment, the hes vival fronts must also be ied. Preparations to care for the Difficult Tranporta’ wounded of an offensive opera- tion moved apace with the growing of the fighting legions. Even early in the war we had great transports that could car- y 40 wounded men hundreds of les in a few hours, and Briga- er General David Grant, the surgeon, envisioned the day when we'd have facilities for the transport of 100 wounded in one In a European was true in the paign, the enemy transport task; ours cult one. In Africa, the foe to cross about 150 while we had to transport anywhere from 1500 mile 3} 000 miles of ocean Again, we're faced with invasion, African has the s the ship. porting supplies ac : And, the blueprint for invasion of miles for our o called for many months of plan- ary force, even as we keep u» ning for the transport and main- our supplies to Russia, to Brita tenance of of our men,/and to China supply = © “HOW 10 LIVE IN PEEEPEEEEEEEEREREDEEEEEPESERESESESESSESSERERESERBI: With them. They are really a, Yet been forced to retreat. played in the market in natu soil still chnging to them. when mashed and properly pre-} mem pared, these vegetables can bene oagal eon D. quite seem to thrive and other p at Often see Castle, N. Y., before the S!pping set shoes “But they aren’: going to stay “!8!ficance Sgt. Held wrote; colored people aja foe experienced by years of|his ex-boss. “When they return,! war, and they were schooled in/ accustomed as they are to various ranging from tactics that char-| Page, they may not find it easy acterized the Indian wars of old! to adapt themselves to our quaint “Well,| AMERICA” their 1 state, with bits of garden Yet The on them palatable natives In churches and auditoriums lic places you will women surreptitiously their feet out of their nd wiggling their toes This is ictly a nine pre- gogative. nd has o religious Do not attempt to FOR SALE | Jr., executive director aad Salvage chair- | Donald | Florida Honored For War Salvage Record M_ Nelson, chairman DIDI IE III III III IOI TOIT IA I I ttt imitate them. Always be tactful.| ¥@% Teported today, had return- y i SOLDIER COMPILES CONCISE GUIDE {If, for example, you notice tha‘j fyour Aunt Beulah has had her! jextra chin removed by plastic; jsurgery, don’t congratulate her-| | This operation is known ‘los-| Jing face’ and the natives are| very sensitive about it. “But, after all, the best way} to understand the Americans is {to settle down and actually live) lvery friendly people despite the! lapparent ferocity of their hand- :shakes and their violent back-| slapping. They mean well. Re-! their civilization be} much younger than that of Eu-| flew across the Strait of Messina ;rope and Asia. They are just] great big overgrown children at heart and should: be treated as} such. + “In fact, any woman under 35 may safely be addressed as ‘baby! and when you can do that, bud-} dy, you know again.” you are hom WANTED RENTAL LIBRARY BOOKS. Li- brary copies of latest best sell- ers at reduced prices. 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MISCELLANEOUS ltsc a nger. Phone 282, we) —— hes wil White Star Cleaner YOUR LITTLE ONES St jlv1-tf A chance to bid on printing order. THE " jly9-tt UNFURNISHED HOUSE A tment. Imme ct n, ages 13 and 15. Re d $25.00. Box G-2, Na Au Stat jy 12 to de F | scored in every sctor on Sicily. s four other squadrons of planes ALLIES CAPTURE (Continued from Page One) German and Italian aircraft that have attempted tc bomb Allied) ships shuttling back and forth along the communication line | Once upon a time, as all stories bet i See Rien and aol a happy ending vegin, there was a session in the Key West Ro- Allied bridgeheads on the Sicil-! try Club when each “ember was }called upon t ynfess the nature jof his prevailing hobby. Present Attacks by enemy planes) was Colonel J. D. MacMuillen, U reached ir high mark is/5- A. then commandant of the = |Key West Barracks. Out of the jan coast. morning, without, however, | sadinage that followed the vart i 5 . jous revelations by members of the scoring any direct hits, The) ciub, there was evolved in the planes flew high because of the| fertile mind of the Colonel, ent backed by his boundless energy curtains of anti-aircraft fir®. | the idea of the Key West Yacht and this afterncon their activity | Club. Gathering around him a !group of men who readily saw that without a Yacht Club Key Briish fighter planes pounced on| West was like a beautiful frame ee |without a picture and most of the Axis level and dive bomb- | whom have maintained through fair and foul weather their loyal allegiance to the Key West Yacht Club flag designed by the Col- onel, the club has progressed 1" der its progressive and popular ed to his Feadquarters:in North |commodore J. K. Clemer, it ts able : : . to undertake a movement which Africa. He said he was highly {or the Post War Prosperity of Pleased with the decided suc pad West ranks high in import ance. cesses that the Allied forces had! Recognizing the fact that Key West must sink or swim after the var on the strength of its ability to compete with all rest of Florida in extending an invita |tion to the most worthwhile class Two railway bridges were de-|°f visitors and that this class comprises the yachtsmen of the country. the Key West Yacht Club has formed a Post War Planning and Building Fund Committee with the announced object, “Ways and means to perpetuate the Key West Yacht Club. erect a perman ent building and provide , modations for vachtsmen The committee t is associated in t Key West people witt tion of responsibilities ar ers. General Dwight Eisenhower, it Not a single Allied column has, stroyed today in Messina, and and raided Reqgio Calabria in the Italian boct. acee local and ¢ R. E. CRUMMER ze On r of assistance to it S . cscertaining the facts. with ©StMess in an unremitting effort OO frend esas . ~ +, 19 achieve the tasks committed to reference to this unfortunate: |, situation, and which may them: This: committee. consists. of vealed by the old files of the See Dee :. Crummer & Company —-—- —__— e made le to you ati ny time r request to the Crhr Company of O. (Continued from Page One) other provisions that had been left out of it after its passage. particularly the one that had to do with the collection of city taxes. Relief | Different That's —==— | Center for camp.” “Well, | AT one telephoning casier and STRAND THEATER JACK BENNY in “MEANEST MAN IN THE WORLD’ Coming: “HENRY ALDRICH GETS GLAMOUR” 2 MONROE THEATER EDW. G. ROBINSON in “UNHCLY PARTNERS” and “PIRATE of the PRAIRIE” Coming: “SYNCOPATION exer snes: Se es ee FICTION - NON-FICTION TECHNICAL BOOKS new Telephone stem has spen at camps and naval bases. Special telephone Ne installed, with attendant nagers camps. Some of the calls go there's a wait, 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. ead IF YOU'RE Loonie Fon You can help 5 less delay if y make avoid calling Z shen SEE Pau SmitH 334 Simonton $T. ae hrough all right SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHOME AND TELEGR aPCRaTeo TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1943 MUCH INTEREST STILL BEING MANIFESTED IN YACHT CLUB (By Club Reporter) vor, A. Maitland vor, Chair Ad- Fripp, Secretary. Key West is possessed of a pr less asset in Garrison’ Big as « safe harbor for small mats and 1s accessible to the city. The task ot developing the possibilities presented by this beautiful land- locked harbor in connection with the Yacht Club is in the hands of the planning committee. Already the club is functioning as a social asset of no small im- portance to Key West. The month- ly suppers given when the waters surrounding the present Club House are glorified by a full moon have proven to be popular. Every Saturday noon there & @ stag party where the settlement of af- tairs of city, county, state and na- tion afford wholesome oratorical exercise to assist with the diges- tien of a bountiful lunch. Sun- days by common consenty seer to have become women’s and chil- dren's day, when the families of members pack ly und go out to tailing breeze at the club house. The club has a secure place in the hearts of many and, with that as, sured, the members see fair sail- ing ahead for the club in days te come and believe that it is freight- ed with joy and prosperity im the years ahead when Kev West shall realize its destiny as a gracious host to the seekers for health and creation in this nation Or The:eavouts 5 Keezer: “When this depression s over the rich will be ncher and the poor poorer.” zer: “Yes, and I presume the ones that are neither will be nei- ther “It’s the new Telephone the men in what do you know.” Center 1s only a part of it mullions of dollars to make more comfortable for the boys ire assigned to all the larger r telephone quarters are being operators. But sometimes and sometimes they do not get through liers’' calls through and with fewer calls and especially most soldiers’ calls are made Company