The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 25, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West THE SOUT VOLUME LXIV. No. 202 COMPLETE OL SURVEYS ON FLORIDA KEYS ras | OPERATORS NOW HOLD oOP- Immense Number Of wewewreee ea ee or exeen MILLION ACRES OF STATE vilian Population Are MAN WHO SUFFERS | Lanps | FROM ASTHMA BUYS | Mosquito Bombers Raid Berlin; Fires Started | Monday Stull Burning Rapidly. Fleeing. From » HOMESTEAD, Fla, Aug. 25 F PINE KEY! TRACT | \(FNS)—The Redlands District News revals that wealthy oil op- jerators now hold optional oil matic people’that is the (leases on five million acres of rerson that actuated W. H. (state lands. Perrins;*of Midmi, to buy a | The newspaper also reports 60-acre‘tract on Big Pine Key. , that surveys in the keys area acceding to a letter received | between Key West and Home- from him bv S. C. Singleton, | sieed have been completed executive secreterv of the Key | with a geophysic survey show- West Chamber of Commerce. ing several promising loca- German Capital “Splendfa.climate-for asth- (iy Ansoctuted rrexs) | was raided last night by RAF) Mosquito bombers, and the pi-| lots, on refurtiing to their bases. “I nearly died of asthma tions. about five years #70, but It is understood that the group said they encountered great dif- found immediate‘relief in Key operating in this area are amply arm . West. owing to the lack of (iinanced and if the decision 1 ficulty in finding their targels, pojten in the air.” Mr. Perrins* [reached to drill one or more wells because ‘ writes. He adds that the tract [no outside finances will be re- of vast billows of —, he bought lies on one of the | quired and no stock would b thet drifted into the air from ‘southerly tips of Big Pine, sold prectically in the center of | Interest in the po of the fires that had been siarted Newfound Harbor, andthathe (il in Florida has been steadil __| intends to develop it after the =| increasing. It is known that big the night before, when Berlin war loperators have been securing Mr, Perrins further states that he intends to provide a site not only for asthmatics but alsc for persons who have their own planes to fly, and who wish to reside in a south- Ed Hamilton, attorney of West ern region. Palm Beach, commenting on ac- ‘IBD a aL GMM \ivity 4 few weeks ago, hint jat startling possibilities, while able to paces bright 2 FIRE :Senator Pepper echoed this te esx OQN CATHERINE ST. geht in # Sécent broadcast. burned in the bombed area. 'RICH MAN GOULD JUST From other sources, the Brit-| ; leases all over the state Most drilling activity of late has been in north Florida, but geological surveys in the Everglades amd Key area are reported most favorable. was given its worst blasting since | the beginning of the war. | One pilot said that the scene reminded him of @ large volcanic, crater belching forth flame and/ PLAIN GEORGE IN ARMY |RESIDENCE OF ARCADIO Ministry ‘ (HERE IN NEW GUI- ws aed learned that) ewRIQUEZ BADLY DAMAG- Nps tau ds In sean hi seviral’ eledtric flower’ plaitts ED EARLY THIS MORNING (he may have been heir to and many gas plants had Sisal great fortune, but in the Arm especially in the Army in New torn to pieces the block- | 3 a—he’s just a guy named by the block) rhe building situated at_519| Georg. _ . 4 busters ana super-blockbusters | Catherine street, between Duval! Gory, Go and Simonton, and occupied York City and Pa’ Gropped on Monday night. nota a residence by Mr. and Mrs.! jt a mnainter @ building was ieft intact in the | Ar dio Henriquez, was badly} togio derartr damaged by fire at 4:30 o'clock | jombardment four square miles of the Berlin | (his morning ick ry a liste industrial area that was attacked. | The building is owned by! the | Amelio Romero, and is said 0 the Women and children and men | have been insured to the Fa a jamount of $2,500. The damage mot ‘in the military service oF | 1, the structure 1s estimated at unfit physically to work are re-| approximately $1,500. : The alarm was sounded from ¥ Ce ported to be streaming out of |x 224 corner of Duval nd | pPem Rca Berlin. Dread there, according | Catherine streets. with the ap- ig Officers jparatus, from both fire stations ¢. fo reports from Bern. is stamped | | responding to the call on every face, and last night | ‘ i GOVERNOR HOLLAND. when the air-raid alerms were | . ected as the Mosquitoes ap-} GOES ON VACATION A proached Berlin shellers and) Le decane. — ¥ cellars were packed with dis-/25 (FNS).—Governor mss | Holland le! oft last week for a tracted people. Even after the jiu, week vacation in the moun- “all clear” was sounded, tens of tains of rth Carolina He will join Mrs. Holland and the thousands of Berliners remained | chijdren at the vacation spot Governor Holland is scheduled im the air-raid shelters. to speak before the Asheville The raid by the Mosquitoes. Rotary Club on the occasion of built for speed and not to carry their annual “Florida Day pre Wanted! Wanted! gram. He expects to be back BOY FOR GOOD NEWSPAPER heavy loads, is reported to have at his de: esk in Tallahassee about, poyTE. Must have bicycle. t September 1. Apply Circulation Department. been successful. pared with the one wer BATTERIES CHARGED before, was on a small scale. The} ihe te crm ot CATO DORMITORY ® Drive in. in 30 to 45 minutes and few 1100 Simonton Street German plenes, and all! your car can be on its way! Mosquitoes returned safejy to Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE; A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this Dormitory Phone No.5 __ White at Flemin their bases. ? are extended to the following: CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES The raid, com- Key West Citizen. the ELKS FRATERNAL CENTER PARTY TONIGHT, 8 to 12 for ELKS in SERVICE and of the Key West Naval Station THEIR INVITED GUESTS CONTRACTORS’ PERSONNEL of Army and Navy Defense Projects Masic - Dancing - Eats ELKS PATIO IN REAR OF CLUB RA $1.00 Per Day $3.50 Per Week Key Wiest Ci ENTOMOLOGIST TELLS OF METHOD HERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1943 IN GETTING RID OF CATERPILLARS J. R. Watson, entomologist al the trees, and fasten the sacks | head of department of the Flor- | with cords. I turn up the edges. | ‘and et night when the Fillars try to go up the tree to ‘feed, the in under th sity of Florida in Gainesville, in!” eee eee. the morning i a letter to Stephen C. Singleton, siaciuiiiamaiedi executive secretary of the Key eee A coroner's jur i West Chamber bears out what Ariuro Lujan, of cater- ‘ida Agricultural Experiment Sta RENDERED VERDICT tions, with offices in the Univer- sacks, and in ER NAVY NEGRO them.” Mr. Watson, in writing about the experiments of @ St. Peters- of Commerce, Esquinaldo acting as coroner, Southard:camdnF'rancis streets, DUrS man, says: dered a verdict of murder ix H “He is sure that at least the first degree against tierbert told The Citizen about the way well-grown caterpillars feed only Smith, pgro sailor, who wa ig i ph tsi a cardboard ... He then de- j..king for another man wher “The caterpillars come down ‘!foys the caterpillars by brush- oan across » Smith an ing them off into 2 dish contain- embers of the tacked him before daylight to hide in the ing » little kerosene... If this Gner's jury ad de i banding method ‘will work. it s id, n had st in the Srcund, so in the fternoon F win be much cheaper and safer Snouider, under the heart ar wrap sacks around the trunks of than spraying the trees.” the back of the head. TRUE FACTS SOUGHT 79°24 SOLVING LABOR ON BONDING ISSUE ge PENSACOLA CLAIMS TO BE ‘HOME TOWN’ OF STAR JUDY CANOVA PENSACOLA, SOLA, Aug. 2s. (FNS)—Not content to sit idly | by end permit Jacksonville - ham. Statke to grab off any PAT WHITIKER TELLS OF IN- FORMATION SOUGHT BY COMMITTEE TIES ARISING quesiionable glory as the birthplace or “home town” Re ‘ef Judy Canova. stage and ee Se y radio star. Pensecola joins the po fuss this week with a claim _ DENVER that everybedy knows that : Judy is 2 Pensacola cirl. According to a story in the Pensacola Standard. folks knew ker “then” by the name of Suzzez. : THREE PROPERTY DEALS RECORDED few war K Shar Aq Log ‘ We a . t time, wh , } I Ww t t A final : Good Year Seen TWO WOMEN, 92 AND 78 desiccated suens ; t KILLED BY GAS ( iiccenad “of t “ Eg t — t ed Kk , se — Deny 0} c 0 fk Bur ~ oe 2 . ri prox : : : Si - : r “ gas k r F ‘COLORED SAILOR “180 Declared President Roosevelt | HELD FOR FIRST | In Speech Made Today. DEGREE MURDER _ CORONER'S JURY YESTERDAY | KNIFE SLAYING OF ANOTH-! esterday after- noon, with Peace Justice Enrique’ are reported to be racing through | Ki bo SQUEEZE, TOUGH WESTERN RANCHERS BATTL! WITH MANY DIFFICUL- pleasure type Ottawa, Canada @ ‘Twisted Minds’ In Ger- LATE BULLETINS easy And Japanese IN; i] (By Asnociated Prens) | Fanatic Militarism‘ Will Be Wiped Out For All Time | GERMANS ENTERING ITALY | | LONDON. — German soldiers| ren- the Brenner Pass into Italy in an-; 1 the ticipation of the invasion of that) tL. | country by the Allies. The Italian’ high command today issued or-| ae Aannetatnn. Fmggns ders recalling to the. colors all) WA, Aug. 25.—Applause. ee ee} | mingled with chuckles, greeted IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC | President Roosevelt, during his WASHINGTON. — Under Sec-| retary of Wer Patterson and Gen- j address here. when he said that S| eral Newton. it wes disclosed to- dey, have left for the Scethwest) OS eee See Pacific in connection w ith the reeched by the American, British stepping-up of the offensive; against the Japs in that area. it; and Canadian muiitary straiegisis | will not be long. it was said, before | + @ | Gffensives on e brozdzr scale and| i" Quebec, but that, —saturaliy, nd 1 | cf greater power will be launch-| they could not be divulged at | ed against the Japs. j this time, but that their secrecy become known in due sigh Itelians of the 37-year class. a : ‘ _ at night and come down and rested on a charge of killing § he succeeded in ridding his poi- citer the ground in the morf-!Smith, another negro sailor, ciana trees of the caterpillar ing, and he thinks he got good vatd on Emma street control by banding the tree Acemding to Victoria —. with sdhesve tape. Of course. ,, acigied the 4 Mr. Lujan. who is now on a the sticky side must be out. and e the murder just above this tave he placed «mit ert Smith was n he di at-} cor- WEWAK RAIDED AGAIN | 4; DARWIN. — Wewak, the big Jap base on New Guinea's north! time to Germany, Itely and Ja- ccast, was raided again yesterday | by American bombers, it was of-{ ticially announced today. omen He spoke at the entrance of Jap zeros arose to try to intercept E the -zeiders. but after one sero was |‘'* Parliament buildings to = | shot down the others fled, and the | crowd of 25009, and his speech | raid wes comoleted without fur- | ; was broadcest or relayed to ail ther interference from the air. DEEPER INTO DONETZ 7 foe MOSCOW. — The Russians are|itter Meckenzie King, an old reported today to be striking ,.. deenes and deener into ihe Doneis! ne St Se SaeaiaEe. sae >s he stepped Basin. One armv is striving to forward, he was given tremend- | pan”. duced him, ard capture Poltave. which would re- sult-in cutting off 2ll roads of re- ‘:eat Cf thousands of enemy sol- by diers Elsewhere. in the Don>tz, y the Germens ere revorted to be fleeing toward the Dneiper and are fighting only rearguard ac- are tions. fcr all time, cus epvleuse. In the course of his eddress. he said thet the Al- bus- lied fowers wiil end. once and international gang- SOVIET PAPERS CALMER sterism of twisted minds, and that LONDON. — Soviet newspapers were caimer todav in discussing the conferences that have just end ed in Quebec. Invests, among the ) foremost newspapers here, devot- ed two columns on the front pege the miittery feraticism of Japan wi'l be destroyed. While on the subject of Ja- ran, ke dechred that the war in to 2 constructive consideration of; the Pacific will be stepped h c pped-up, the conferences. In the article it ss was said that there is a report thai *‘" @n ever-IMcreasng tempo. President Roosevelt and Prime) which will root the Jars from » Minister Churchill will visit Pre- mier Josef Stalin in Moscow. TAXES AND POLITICS WASHINGTON. — Taxes and the Folitics were the chief subjects wsint. Of discussion’ here todey. Sena- tor George. of Georgia. said the new tax bill will be ready by November 30 and that it will greatly simplify many of the complexities in the present bill The political discussion centered the islends in the Southwest Pa- cilic by blows fer more power- ful than eny that have yet been struck ir that theater, and that the mighty Allied offensive will be cerr.ed to Japan itself, and the fight will ao on until Japan's militerists heve been wiped from the fece of the earth. President Hoosevelt begen bh by lest remarks saying that five years ago Wednesday he came to Canada to be honored which Queens University. before ie at ia jel ounce ™ Stays On Stays Smooth Stays Lovely Germany veded Poland and three year Jans backstabbed et Then. before the Pearl Harbor. as now, he Dr. Harry H. Young CHIROPODIST — FOOT SPECIALE OF MIAMI Will Operate In Key West 3 Days Only At The LA CONCHA HOTEL Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 26th, 27th and 2th Please Call the Maurice S!-op, Phone 169, Today (Wednesday), or Call La Concha Hotel, Phone 160, Thereafter For Appointmen: HOURS: 9 to 5 SPECIAL EVENING APPOINTMENTS added, the British, the Amer *$100 and the Canadians were not only anne € a ee NAIL CASA CAYO HUESO ENAMEL mt 21 Enchanting LUNCH ftom 85 Shades! DINNER from $1.03 SERVED DAILY 1400 Duval at South St. = ‘60 SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. 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