The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 31, 1943, Page 1

Beet tnterest. “4 MELANIN Semoieted Press Day Wire Service and AP Features Per 8 Years Devoted to the i Key West THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER “¢ Che Key West Ci ‘es Te ad E U.S.A. — ae, Key West, Florida, hee (he — most equable climate i the | country; with an avererr range of only 14° Fahren? i ane KEY W FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1943 CE American T-P Boats Clas Nazi Vessel Is Destroyed Thewe Others Are iii eenaneneeeienelse V. Litthe sae whl ed, Encounter Takes Piece in Strait Of Messina Oy Aewwctnted Press) C8ERS July 31.—American °. See bewe hed several ehee @ the Strat of Messina ~ Geeeeten with the figthing © Sey A squedron of P-Ts © (perted te beve run through ret eed to heve encoun weed ent @efeted « squadron of Geemee BE beets. One E-boat is wt © bere been destroyed and Sewe sthers demaged. Pwhees om lend still finds the Serer and Crnedians § con- eee wteence toward the | eet eed cast coasts Sete «Phe Americans § captur eererel willeges end 900 more and to eee ince yest ay. ee Oemeteers ere reported tote Beeten beck two counter- ee The Brteh Eighth Army is — ceteiee shells from its big om oe Cetenie end has made —— © ree sectors § directly —_ « thet cr v ' 1 THOMPSON SAYS & STILL § POSSESSES “© = DEAL DOLLAR” SREAT VOLUME OF KEY # ( LA CONCHA HOTEL. ©8CH. CARBONELL President . ; ; ; , ; reerrrr TTTrT TT tii tt iit titties steels) Sunday. August | ALLIES ADVANCE CLOSE TO JAPANESE (By Assocumted Prem) DARWIN, July 31.—Amer- ican and Australian troops have advanced sufficiently close to the Jap base at Mun- da to use flame throwers in routing the enemy from his pillboxes and dugouts. The throwers were used for the first time yesterday. following 3 heavy raid made on the base by American flyers. As soon es the raid was over. American troops advanced and launched the flame throwers 3st the Japs with telling effect. Tongues of flames licked into tke Japs’ dugouts. and when the Javs tried to run to safety they were greeted with hails machine-gun bullets. Fhe headed (My Assorinted Press) DEGAULLE IN COMMAND ALGIERS. — General DeGaulle has been placed in supreme com- mand of the Free French military forces. and Generel Giraud still retains his vosition as head of the civil government in North and West Africa, it was announced to day. HONG KONG BOMBED CHUNGKING.—Am2rican fly ers cerried out @ successful raid on Hong Konq yesterday. Jap shore instellations were struck and one Jen shiv was sunk in the harbor. All planes returned safe ly to their bases. LEND-LEASE TO SICILY WASHINGTON. it was re Forted today that arrangements are being made to extend Lend Lease assistance to Sicily. It will be the first enemy country in which Lend-Lease operations will be conducted. HAMBURG RAIDED AGAIN LONDON. — RAF raided Hamburg last night and. because of the clearness of the weather. are s3id to have found it easy to vick out and strike their objectives. One thousand five hundred tons of bombs were dropped and 15 nlanes were lost. Hamburg is reported to be but a shell of its former self, the second largest city in Germany. FORTRESSES IN RAID LONDON. — Flying Fortresses raided the Ruhr Valley today. Clouds of German fighter planes. chiefly Messersmitts, tried to in tercept the Fortresses. and in the ensuing fights 26 enemy planes were destroyed and six Fortresses were lost. Thunder (Continued on F F ROE E EEE EERE REE EEE EEE E EEE EESEEES ULAR MONTHLY MEETING of the LIQUOR, ®@E ER and WINE DEALERS ASSOCIATION WEST 1943, at 11 a.m Pee eee eee erie CHARLES M. SALAS Secretary-Treasurer * * * * * * MASS MEETING 10 BE HELD MONDAY AUTOPSY REVEALS THAT WOMAN NIGHT AT COUNTY COURT HOUSE IN FOUND DEAD YESTERDAY DIED With German F- Boats; ()fpe INTEREST OF ADEQUATE MEAT SUPPLY Ball, manpow sultant the a mas employment Manpower meeting will be held in the ¢ BASE AT MUNDA Cour! Hos At the f Henry lizatior of the regiona Mat meet Cc equest ut War yV quate and meat, has t edt 1 office of ATM ISS1On, 1 August Tt i EUGENE DULL DEFENDANT bomber; m FOUND GUILTY BY MIAMI JURY WAS ARRAIGN- ED ON CHARGE OF MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS IN HIS DRAFT QUESTIONNAIRE West f M CLUB SUGALOA Under New Management PRESENTS BIG DANCE SUNDAY SIGHT 9 to 12 o'Clock MUSIC By JOHN PRITCHARD and HIS ORCHESTRA om bomrpetate: SESS SEF STs MERCURY IN KEY WEST REGISTERS 94 DEGREES BUT ONCE SINCE 1886 Ten years aao today The Citizen received @ rerort of s freta the loca! which complsints Weatter Bureau con firmed the of residents thr “Ooof. it's residents complained on July 30. 1933. as they mopped their brows. “This is the hottest we've had this summer.” seid truth the hottest The official report showed that on July 30, 1933. the thermometer registered as high as 94 de day before. hot!” day They could have fully that it wes day in 47 years. grees. G. S. Kennedy. offi cial in charge of the local bureau, locked back through his records to 1886 before he ran 3cross another day dur ing which the mercury cymbed uv to 94. Tre temperature has not reacted thet height again since 10 years eqo. so the record stanc 1 Kev West that once in 57 veors have we had it as hot as 94 de gree “BSD Ps t] the : TABU- more dis when fi it remains s— ever rhavet « s TABU from M 1 yeu heady, sultry wore FROM HEMORRHAGE OF BRAIN} Hemcerrtage of the brain, coused by @ blow that might have knocked her down, without necessarily siriking her head. or @ blow with sufficient shock ‘to have caused hemorrhege, was the Cause of the death of the woman found yesterday in a room in whet is termed the southernmost Fouse in the United States. That is the revort made today to Corcner Raul Carbonell after @n autopsy performed in the Na 1 Hospital. The woman is described as a tail, healthy-looking, striking b’onde, 2bcut 27 years of Ske hed been in Key West year age. last this and several months year. working as @ waitress, She had worked in several places in Key West. lest job about 2 week and a half and she gave up her ego. Lest Saturday night a cashier the place where she ‘Why did and the in . worke} lest said to her leave us, Wilm>?” cash-er seid she replied. “I can't tand the uncouthness of some f the oirls here.” Wren William C. King was ar rested for investigation in con nection with the finding of the dead body. he told State Attor | | | | ney J. Lancelot Lester and Coro- | *« Populace _ PRICE rive CES: till Hollering For Peace Throughout Reon tk SLB IL ISLE Tension Eases tn Stee GERALD SAUNDERS TO Activi s Involving Tee ner Raul Cerbonell that the|BE MILLIONAIRE FOR woman was his wife. Later Kin: admitted to Coroner Carbonell that he King. and the woman! were not married. } It developed today that her! neme was Wilma Alberts and that her mother is Mrs. Peter! Hendricks. 2814 South Rose, street, . Kalamazoo, Michigan.! Today Sheriff Berlin Sawyer! received a telegram from Mrs.! Hendricks, requesting that the, body be shipped to Kalamazoo. | Mr. Lester, Mr. Carbonell and Rey Hamlin, Monroe county fin- cerprint expert, said today that King admitted striking Wilma Alberts but that he insisted he did not h:t her hard enough to cause death. Her lips was swol-' len, indicating she had been runched in the mouth. and there | were marks on each side of her} neck. Wken Mr. Lester entered the, room where the dead body was yesterday morning, several bot tles, some of which sill contain- ed liquor, were still in the room.} end Mr. Lester said that King admitted that. after he and Wil ma Alberts had entertained at a party. they continued to drink! after they returned to their rcom. It was during that second) session of drinking, King said.| that he struck the woman. Wilma Alberts was born Holland, put she came to country with her parents she was a child. Ccroner Carbonell said today that he will conclude the inquest into the death of Wilma Albert on Monday afterroon. and that next Friday. in his capacity of Justice of the Peace. he will con duct e preliminary hearing in the} case. in this | when SUCCESS OF EXPERIMENT TOWARD REPLACING MEN WITH WOMEN AT SHORE STATIONS CLEARLY SHOWN The success of the first year experiment of making trained men lable for fleet duty by eugmenting the service ashore with Navy women is vouched for by the fact that the Women p eS Aen jerk. wey fragrance—even non gowns or furs where weeks. Acd now you no cone to bri . Cuba or Spain—we have SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, inc. PRESCRIPTION PHONE 189 FRED TAYLOR. Manager. Duval and Fleming Sts. DRUGGISTS Key West, Florida Pecerve will be intreased to 9 060 bv the end of 1944. Present enro'iment is 27.006. NAZI ERIOD OF TWO DAYS Councilman Gerald Saun ders will be a millionaire for a short time during the transaction of conveying the Key West Electric Compcay to the City of Key West on August 12 and 13. The negotiations will be held in the office of Attor ney Miller Walton in Miami. Mr. Walton was assoc.ated with City Attorney Thomas S. Caro in having the bonds validated. After Mr. Saunders has “purchased” the company, he will pay to the John Nuveen Company. of Chicago. Sl, 500.000 in revenue bonds. and then, for a few minutes, ke will be a millionaire while the proceedings are being concluded in his trans ferring the company to the city. Mayor Willard M. Albury. City Clerk Joe Johnson and City Attorney Caro will be in Miami during the pro- ceedings. County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, whose presence is also essential to the trans- action, will be in Miami on August 13. Mr. Sawyer re ceived 2 teelgrar. from the John Nuveen Company today. inquiring about kis qoing to Miami, and he wired back that he would be there or August 13. PI SS SS FS DB REDS REPULSE GERMAN TROO ANKS AND 31 MU BILE GUNS SARS Ge RAULS CLUB OO ELD. GATO CAFETERIA. 1180 Simonton Street A DEFENSE egrenae a ege VIL SERVICE EMPL. Ss of the Key West Naval St CONTRACTORS PERSON of Army and Navy Defe Projects PERSONNEL OF ARMY. NAVY. 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