The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 22, 1945, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire | and AP Features Por 65 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West The Key West Citizen IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1945 U.S. A. VOLUME XLVI. No. 70 —-—-- ‘HOWARD WILSON |SMALL FIRE AT OPA Officials And Food Dealers Discuss Shortage MiaméiGroup At Coun- Seviets In Control ty Court House Here! Last Night (By Associated Presa) MOSCOW, March 22.-Red Star, Russian semi-official newspapez, said today that OF Meat Supply In ity ; DUVAL AND EATON The Fire Department was called to the corner of Duval and ‘Eaton streets at 9:15 last snight where a small pump,house in the rear of the house occupied by | Mrs. Hugh Williams was found jablaze. The fire was quickly ex- tinguished, with no othér dam- age resulting. The alarm was sounded from }box 21, corner of Eaton and Duval streets. i The department was called out bood Handlers siet With 72 ra MM scsic. 3 midnight to the corner of Emma and ‘Catherine: streets, |where: a grass. fire was dis- extinguished. without any dam- jage. to. property. PAPY HEARD’ ON’ HAVE MONROE In future Democratic primaries j Monroe County, candidates {for county commissioners will jrun at large, instead of in each jof the five districts, as is at pres- lent the case, Representative Bernie C. Papy declared today. He will introduce a bill in the next session of the legislature to make the change. jin Of Most Of Baltic | covered: which» was -also: quickly; | He pointed out that: for many years candidates for that office lran at large, and added that:a |group, of Key Westers had ask- hed him ta restore that condition on the ground that a candidate PAPY TO INTRODUCE BILL TO 8=8SC, taccording to information recelv-) OPERATED UPON COMMISSIONERS Howard E. Wilson, county tax | ed here today. . | His condition was brought} jabout by his ieaving bed too soon} ‘when he underwent an operation’ ‘for appendicitis a little more than, law, because a nomination on the Democratic ticket is) equva- lent to an election. Exceptions may occur occasionally to that circumstance in Flordia or else-|@ Year ago. : ere iwhere in the Solid South, but! It was said that his conditon| we go year in and year out with- is good, and that he is expected | out a defeat of a Democratic can-, to return to Key West in 18 days ‘didate. !or three weeks. i “In view, then,’ of. those: two|_ - eee ee Ea EE ABE | ; outstanding;:, conditions, reer OBRMAN CIVILIANS senting :the:.entire county and!’ 1 ! ‘nomination being ,equivalent » tos . (i ‘an election, ‘I believe that; in he REPORTED FLEEIN | interests of representative gov-| i ‘ernment, all the people. of: Mon-| | roe should vote in a primary to,;IN*WILD DISORDER AS UNiT-| commissioners, as_ is | | | | t ‘In Same Area 23,000 Germans Surrender To American Seventh Army * — TDD A DMA AAS Pocket After’ Pocket te FRANCO IS ASKED TO Saar Basin Has een RESIGN AS DICTATOR Cleared Of Beeny (By Axsnociated Press) LONDON, March 22, — Troops By Yank Forces Prince Juan. a son of the former. King Alphonso of Spain, said today that he had cable on Generalissimo | Franco, to resign as dictator of). thet country because of the infiltration of focmer Re- publican soldiers into Spain. Prince’ Juan added that should Franco not take the (Ry Assectete@ Press: PARIS, Mareh 22. — Ger ‘man troops in the Saar Boom tion to surrender rather the» fight, as a result of whieh .. | the Reds are now in control | |regardless of what district he ‘aominate : ts . Ree General Patton's Third Arm, je from Miami! + practically all of the Bal- CUSTODIANSHIP comes from, represents the en-/done in every other county office! ED STATES FIRST ARMY peavey civil war is likely has captured 88,000 prison and half a hundred Key) tic, and that they have cut : tire county, and, for that reason, where the candidate represents! ADVANCES ba rs out again in Spain. eve fp he r West food dealers and res-| Danzig in two. after killing | OF MACHINES should be a candidate in the en- the entire county. It is different: ao Pricing Poetics Path oy ait teawrant owners: met last! or capturing thousands of | itire county. with justices of the peace and! eee | - it developed that Arue ho ie might at the court house in| Germans. | ee ; “Of coui ” Mr. Papy contin? constables who run in districts, | Geese ca cae ‘ owes it i be a good pr _ —. pony ffort t | th b. Elsewhere along the front, |; ‘ued, “com sioners are voted for, when elected, they represent! 1 QNDON, March 22.— lea, in order to bring about » ges a le helper eee FEO TR , “ |SAYS HE WAS ASKED TO oy 2t jarge in a general election, only. the district in which they! |... pia *) Peace among all Spaniacds. 23,000 Germans. lem of Key West's practical-| ay’s Russian communique | onal varee A ae > i ivilians in Essen, Bochum,) INTRODUCE BILL FOR! Which, as all of us know, is little were nominated ‘and ran in the for him to be placed on the Troops of the twe Aw said, the Reds aie advancing | : i i ' ' y eem-enlstent meat supply. or ave consolidati siiene 4 ‘more than complying with the general election.” ; Dortmung Geisenkirchen throne that his father abdi- = can armies today he However, the food dealers ‘ing pos: ; = | and other cities east of the’ cated. ed and crimseronsed each ott shat thepucantleicsined CHANGING POSSESSION OF | ‘ : uo ere and crisscrossed each we inéeomed by the OPA phe ee | ---— ceases | Rhine are fleeing in wild di \ He declared that, were that cr's jines and, in dei representatives that OPA) secon hea sie repeiaaeena VOTING MACHINES RED CROSS WAR FUND DRIVE ‘order, as the American First action taken, the Spanish have encireled score cannot regulate supply. a8) of terrific fighting, ese H - | | Arthy advances, Swedish government unquestionably pockets in which (ert that is a matter for the War; > | Representative Sernie C. Papy correspondents reported this, would be anti-Axis and Ppro- | Wire hiding. In every ee Food Administration. O. [arrearage as sta said today that he had been ask-i morning in Stockholm news-| Ally. following the encire lie in ual aoa incor cal the other hand, food dealers stated the War Food Admin-| PAPY LEAVING FOR istration had failed to pro-| duce any assistance Key West's food shortage is as-! suming acute proport-ons, when the Nazis were called on to surrender, they out of the pockets with th arms upraised Two German armies xception of ,ed to introduce a bill in the next! NOW NEARING $12,000 | Papers, jsession of the legislature, de- | | The correspondents ssid Oa aI Ia aa 4 : jsigned to change the custodian-j preyits of Key Westers to pur-} “By rail, air, sea, truck, jeep,' the civilians are seized with! >. eae LEGISLATIVE MEET? {ship of the voting smeaines I ace an "Hour of Mercy” for bamboo rafts sled ‘or whatever, terror, which is intensified PVT. JOSE PONCE “The law says that the super-|new high, P. J. Ross, chairmahtys well as actual edibles. by bedraggled groups who! (An it was atte pointed out. Dealer after dealer ee fit | i F 4 iti arer tho ‘ have been @& fold of nat being obi “y Rerresentative Bernie C. Papy visor of registration in each] for the 1945 Red Cross War Fen “Items include everything trom tled from cities nearer ihe! ‘The Citizen is in receipt of ‘a rw “ Pied a meat for weeks, and gen- | requested The Citizen this after- county is the custodian of voting | drive here, said this morning afi fite.hogks tg,hard candy., Ip Au- h tt ie attempts to escape liewer trom Private Jose S. Ponce pracy ¢ral discussions which*took place;noon to inform the people of Machines and Why should we! cojiections thus far approach the; 8USst of 1944, a typical month,2,-, shelf fire and bontbmgs trom ty isd states Arms Various cau ted pba omle | Ot aire anuecetptisn| injikcnros??)| ey a 300,000 pounds of doughnut flour,! the air. : - Chief cause of the shortage | Monroe county that he will leave ir. Papy said. RS s 5 ying gum,! Cne correspondent said, “How|S¢"ving here, some of the ekeepers| for Tallahassee on Friday, March’ «“{ was as a sorm.| _Yesterday’s contributions, turn- cigarettes, 13,096,000) Jong this can go on, nobody can] in the Atlant y, March, “] was asked to make the cor- BERS aU PTenE STITT Te ERE CERES ET SLT AT: ” declared, lie th the packing|30, and that he will be BARE Ss wid eae ~jed in by the 100 volunteer wor plades and 160,151 phono-! say difinitely, but it appears that} In case an f ry and at he will be pleased missioners the custodians of the are Who are icanvanine Ghee . records “were: bought by| the Germ Aye mere nous The 5 accus- | 4, Fas F ai : at oun ane wees bgt chanted 3 i rds ¢ |the Germans in that part of the] yee Ka vate : be to discuss legislation, affecting machfnes, but what would hap-|totaled $1,548.82, br:nging the;Red Cross for ‘distribution. by & Reicha have hed [ere Lintecng| municate is came to Key West to more lucra-|Monroe, with any resident of the|PeM if that was done? They) huge scoreboard a on_ the! work military .inptallations| human endurance.” is. given P tive markets elsewhere, princi- | county jwould appoint an assistant cus-| balcony of the La Concha Hotel and at home: « Another correspondent said it{Ponce, 34796: B . * ¥ todian, so let the supervisor do} {o $11,787.78 dditionally, on the’ month’s Seen j. i k pally in Mis and Miami Beach. “ Sar PAs | 5 24 0 , * itionally, o te will not be surprising to hear that, APO 450 Pechers they |____t 18 impossible for any man,’ the same thing, as he is empow-| At {he rate of $7 per second,| “shopping” list were coffee, pock-| within a week or so, spearheads|ON, ro 2". gut the highest , L. B. Ed-| 'e8@rdless of hew wide his ered under the law to do. which will enable to An an| etsize books, shortening, choco- Faun Ty ee a k Y wards, operat tt E 1ana/ acquaintance may be in a! “While I accuse nobody of; Red Cross to carry on its uncount-| late bars, hard candy, handker-| juncture with advanced units of FIRING PLANNED Market, declare I county,” Mr. Papy said, “to be Playing politics, I may say that|ed missions of mercy during the} chiefs, hospital slippers, bath) Americans. > PL -D Sia proof, OPA F hiecitinr with cindibnns sneral- | John England, our supervisor, g year, the Key West share; towels, 0,. playing ee | BY ARMY FO a a . <4 ewes ona eral Rurngithedentceltume abe) hast : pao! the national goal of gaa heck erboardejharmont ‘a SALVATION ARMY liane though these belo. OuPS WN° | been in office, has not ‘nly been | $200,000,0 ibles, badminton and volleyball) : 1. “Ay hous) 4 are directly concerned in various| Pct in office, has not nly bee our quota,” Mr./scts, fish hooks and stationery, all WORK GOES ON), prohibited e tte a forth ee 1 |Cfficient but also has been fair zea i a meat market ers, and for that teason 1) candidates and to the voters: | we not only maintain} in tremendous lots. (ucea teat eee Jlor, We , which shall esteem it a favor to have |r), “UntGdie dine ache | activities here in time} “Red Cross clubmobiles the| LONDON, — Salvation A lon Ma M vst, |Fesidents discuss with me any). °° Sea eee mi high ‘nds |of -hurricane, disaster or other|world over need tons of doughnut} jeaders now are prepar ; Ps v! ate IS a Sy eg 7. ‘ > . ~ oP: o West's meat be |Froposed legislative acts they |e Me nae can thas wall be |Reed for a helping hand, but we} flour for conversion into the] their own “invasion of 1 - ‘ ts in Mi- {believe will benefit our county. |22¢ while I may say the of 5 | also keep unbroken the Red Cross} “sinker” the Gls clamor for. Field | Europe.” “The two most important! Safe in the piped ae ands supply line: to our service menj directors going right up to the) “The first British Salvation| of talk here, tonight, or|things that have yet been dis-|2!8° yet what good reason can! and women all over the world. firing line with combat troops] army man to establish direct we can buckle dc and do some- |cussed with me are the proposed |D& given to change anything} “The Red Cross supply line is} must have ‘supplies of toilet ar-| communication with those who| — — thing. There man who has Inew charter for Key West, whieh | When it is all right as it now is?” | almost synonymous to the mili-| ticles on hand, for the soldier get-| continued ther A,my ¥) \ ' t n | ary ly line, for the Army ting out of a tight spot in a skir-} throug he Ge ee dior Ee ' dome more in Key We lan ANY ) will give us a manager form of ett | tar pI through the German occupation] ANNOUNCEMENT! Ll i ‘ee | and vy are > s keep’ mis! arely returns with full}/pos "i met onde ether, and he is| government, and ja bill which GPM LDS SE Sa BA 106 Rear Gs sa Jon a ly returns {has. apes Feuimnet te epee ~ NOW OPEN problem fo t wa) y : ‘ Sj equ . | » is Commissioner R. M. ] , ggg al the Will provide for candidates for] ISSUES CALL FOR |men, to-whom the items mean al. “Red Cross supply service is al-| pury,-snternational secke 5 President's Con on. commty commissiog ;td run at BANK CONDITIONS °&'t of home. | (Continued on Page Three) | he brought: back information gested Areas. 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