The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 24, 1945, Page 1

‘Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 65 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West The Key West € THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE. U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945 i VOLUME XLVI. No. 98 Pap Introduces Ch rf ANNOUNCEMENT MADE HEREWITH — (GOVERNOR ISSUES PROCLAMATION ‘Traffic In German Capital Di NY GOS UildI(GE or ARMY-NAVY WAR CASUALTIES) FOR OBSERVANCE OF V-E DAY) rected By Russia Girls With Red Flags ‘ The Navy Department an-; Servo, Bert W., Sgt. son off A.L. Murray, chairman of the; not be marred by porous oa ag | iounces for the United States as}Mrs. Susan A. Servo, 620% 15th}Monroe County Defense Couneil, duct cand parc yehe /Liolbeger tims penvaaaanecen. SS ja whole 274 casualties for April St. N., St. Petersburg. today requested all members, : 5 ¢ Florida, (JS SALSA LAL EMMY | Of City Expected * ees 1945, of the U.S. Naval Forces; Terry, Walter E., T-Sgt., son of who have been appointed special, «NOW THEREFORE, 1, Mi REC API | A 2, (Navy, Marine Corps and Coast'Mrs. Daisy C. Terry, 213 SE. 2d policemen or special deputies. to lard F. Caldwell, by virtue of the ALL POINTMENT | Momen With Also Introduces Bill For| OM OOOO OD MOA (0.5, 101 heretotore released on‘St., ‘Fort Lauderdale report to the mayor's, the police authority vested in me as Gover-| QF MRS FLEMING AS | _ — Raising Funds Toward |POLISH QUESTION [Rsay, pepe tenent satal casualty! Warden, “Alexander. FLO. sonics (0° Se. SREUIEE ASRS noe nbithe: Siete ae PCa PROBATION OFFICER #2i Warlords Report- Mainténance Of K. W.| TO BE SETTLED AT Say and 0h. aioe. These i ae eet ae Lakeshore Key West that the Allied powers, twenty-four hours next succeed- 2 )casualties bring the totat report- Sivd., Jacksonville. jhave declared V-E Day. fing announcement of the. sur-! Hospital COMING CONFERENCE hea to next of kin and released for! Woods, Kenneth W., Pvt. son! Mr. Murray said that the Mon- render of Nazi Germany or thej when the news is received in ‘claim V-E DAY in Florida as the ed In Plight j 2ublicatioti\’sinee “December 7! of Mrs. Maggie “A. Woods, Gen; Tee | County * Defense Council proclamation’ ‘by the military ov) " Mis. Belle Fleming, who was reappointed a short time ? Governor Caldwell as % PASSH (Ry Aanoctnted Proadt "11941, to April’24, 1945, to 100,139. Sort Pi wishes ‘to cooperate » fully with civilian’ authorities of this Nation} «i. by officer Mone: Br Aamatnted Premee CHARTER € PASSED WASHINGTON, April 24°! < This list ihelides ‘only toooe! FE rot cede. dcwclneverase Millard Calctoen "ia uel nGMTses Agree? cee eal See nee an nee | | pgpeneee ie tmy meteors prety pide thre onei tare at hatte bai | Stewart,’ David: E., 'Sr.,” Pvt: observing’ V-E Day as set’ forth urge that all’ liquor* package} =.¢geqpied today by Secretary | With the German warlord: TALLAHASSEE, Apr. ie ‘isting over ’ FLORIDA ‘husband of Mrs:'Thel in his’ proclamation; which is as stores, bars ahd’ taprooms and} ‘9 State Gray. 24. — This ‘aft the Russien proposal to’ permit" | Arig” Wounded Europea area {Shand of Mrs. 'Phelnia Stewart, soy ows: ‘other places! dispensing’ alcoholic “4 in flight toward Denner’. > ernoon the Satie " wsfe f : 768 W. 'State'St, Jacksonville: *j7°UOWS SP ing] At the time Mrs. Fleming | House passédPapy’s H.B. | i2° in * government’ 6: Biylock, Lawrence; ‘brother of A riviy” Wi i" “<Buiroy ‘Area’ WHEREAS, it ‘is ‘highly’ de+‘beverages,’ remain closed during) was reappointed, much sur- | according te advices receis 286, introdiiced this‘ morn: Poland to have représenta**| Mrs, Margaret Jefferson, 1485 'W. WGertag we sirable that our’ Victory against ‘that’ period: ‘prise was expressed in Key ed from the Russian 7 tion in the conference in San~ | 23d St., J&cksonville. ! lerman, “Gotdon W:, T-Sgti, > celebrate so ci fi 1 _— ing, providing a new Ke . St son of Mrs. Clyde Alderma Nai Germany be celebrated in I also call upon the Sheriffs,; West over the Governor's West ph oe stag am easel Francisco, scheduled to open | Lundy, John E., Pvt., husband * oe rma, an atmosphere of sobriety, in heir deputies and other Law, action, as Mrs. Julia Will- in Bertin, thee oon Leonard J. T4. -hus- keeping with the solemnity of Enforcement officers throughout | tand ob. Mie Gacal M Allison, the occasion and in respect for the state to cooperate in making! Frostproof. ‘i the sacrifices made by! many of V-E Day orderly, digrtified and | Bond, Alex, Pfc. husband of our young men and wémen in law-abiding in accordance with; Mts. Atm L Band Box a attaining that objective, and the spirit and intent of this pro-| Babe Per i +, “WHEREAS, the day should clamation.” Cannon, John E., S-Sgt., son} -—-- | | | | | 1 tomorrow, would be settled (of by the delegates at the con- ference. Mrs. Evelyn Lundy, ,1906 Weber Ave., Orlando, t Pemberton, Hinson E. Pfc., husband of Mrs. Evie L. Pember- 191, relating to Criminal | DOOD ODM GM h\ ton, Route 1, Box 8, Leesburg. Court bailiffs. | Wheeler, Maxie, Pfc., husband | CRE Cp y cura ge ae | S — | ;of Mrs. Louise K. Wheeler, Gen. (By Asnoccated Presns iSAY NAZI SUBS 'Del., Lake City. , , TALLAHASSEE, Apr, 24.; was H.B. 240, fixing com- pensation of Monroe Cir- eit Court clerk, and H.B. Now it develops that Gov- ernor Caldwell’s reappoint- ment of Mrs. Fleming hed been made through a mis- " take in considering the | Fighting in the city & ot names of the candidates for | {urious af seme pelein, Se Ste” Se “FILIPINOS OFFER AMERICANS THEIR — = | GERMAN ‘LEADERS FOR JAPANESE PORT } | White, Jefferson, Pfc., son of 2. °° Representative Bernie C. AT COPENHAGEN ™:. Carrie White, 921 N: Atlan Smee =e gical : “ETERNAL GRATITUDE” IN STIRRING which provides for a new of Mrs. Millicent Montdto; Route z he plane pilots have reported charter for the city of Key M=*= 70 . TAKE ABOARD 4 50." 3445, West Tampa. Davis, Foster G., Ist Lt. hus-; SLEDIIL SLs ; i x “ Eckles, Ralph B., Pfc., son of ert he cit & left Key West to return to} Zorian, 224 E. Robinson Ave. wig Fanni ; ; Py | erly out of the ety, a» Be Teichanels: (3D Hage sux. | Oblamde: rs Fannie B. Bekles, Route 2,; MARSHAL PETAIN sian tanks, followed by & > ; brother of Louis F. Erckert, Gen. America Idie: 1d another! scraper, which’ stands , for the! os fleet rman marines Diamond, Jack J., Pfc...son of xt, Gen.jAmerican soldier and al +" 7 t @ commission-manager Torm 45 pe oir news in the Mrs. Ella’ F. Diamond, 1528’ D¢ly West:Palm Beach. ‘taste, of “sweet freedom” after NaS piri oc) peggress.’ For the svenpe HIS EIGHTY-NINTH slight. life’ that is., big, and fast, aad BIRTHDAY IN EIGHT “Street fighting & ihe Papy, Monroe couniy, today! tic Ave., Dayton Beach. husband of Mrs. Gladys B, Cole: set oO orien oof Goreme 1 Peneege wea dcp bm eng. eM Ma PAGEANT WRITTEN BY YOUNG NATIVE ANNIVERSARY OF icct=s= tes é Sanford. By WILLIAM RUSSELL | that he would submit’ the Reiter ror sitaroares Arig. Pleitatk of Wer fantrymen, push deeper i» of government, to the legis- Drexel Ave! Miami: Beach. Hartsfield, Cecil G, Sgt.,./son the pi f ion ad- ’ harbor of enhagen,: aed STEXe’ Ave, Miains Heaeh. the bitter dose of oppression ai ee es ¥ for a.life:that is_ o4 a ito continue several dare introduced House Bill 356,' Wise, James D.,. Sgt., brother man, Route 2, Box 60, Starke. | (Mr. Papy said, before he; |husband’ of Mrs., Kathryn M, 722 ©. 1st’ Ave. Tallahassee. : [have been seen fleeing west LONDON,‘April | 28; —A Erckert. Charles A., T-Sgt..) Imbued by the gallantry of the comparable to the American sky-| chartes, which provides for epinena ene ‘ Berlin with the opepeities “with two weeks.” of Mrs.’ Mildred W. Hartsfiel -byithe Japs, a yo small and quiet, but happy and, Berlin.” the Rustian see i A ine. v2 son,! Henry, RP... Cpl. hus- ss = arter wil go from the ~their--reason -for tie band ‘of Mrs. ‘Nancy M. Lawson, | $i a = Tatlaliassee: \Filipifo ‘has, put ‘into words the jouse to the senate, and, if there was to take aboar Box, 562, Haines City. b: eyets Frank R., Jr Pfc., hus- | deep, reverent feeling his people contented ro i " » A J Py , = " e : +bba 7 he ~ | deep, 2 A i 7 « “ adopted there, will be sent Nazi leaders, who, probably; 42 SW. ee Se tea MEYer hold tor this great land of ours. Home -of Free ee ee ee Rhett, William H., 2d Lt., son 3342 SW. Ist St. Miami. to the-governor for final val- idation.) Representative: Papy also fntroduced House Bill’ 353, which authorizes Monroe eounty commissioners to raise $15,000 annually to- ward the maintenance and operation of the Key West General Hospital. (This bill is similar to the one Mr.. Papy jntroduced in the 1943 legislature.) WILL OF SNIDOW - FILED HERE TODAY The will of Major Robert C. Snidow, USN, 55,. who died Mareh 2 in the Key West Naval Hospital of a heart attack, was filed today in the county ts office. He left his entire estate, real and personal, to his widow. The appraisal of the estate has not yet been filed. Major Snidow came to Key West in 1939 and had a wint home constructed at Von Phister and Grinnell streets. He was buried, with military honors, in the Arlington National Cemetery. WOULD LEASE WAR PLANTS TO HELP SMALL BUSINESS (My Asnoctated Prenny WASHINGTON, April 24. —Attorney General Biddle said today that he believed @ good way to helo “little business” during the recon- version period would be for the government to lease war plants, in which billions of dollars have been invested, to business men. with a pro- vision that they be permitted to acquire ownership when they are in a position to do so. = = 708 Duval St. Now Open Daily @SANDWICHES We Specialize DO-NUTS ~ arrested S man S. W. Walker on a charge LA FIESTA SANDWICH SHOP |) Serving American and Kosher @ DELICIOUS SALADS “THE BEST COFFEE IN TOWN” Served in a pleasing manner on Fiesta Dishes | will attempt to reach Japan. 'of Mrs. Pauline H. Rhett, 613 San i, Other advices, Which cor-|Antonio Aves, Coral \Gabies. ftoborated those received! from . Moscow,» said-‘‘that,' since Sunday;.82 trains have | left Berhin with high German ofticials, who are believed; to be on their way to Den-} mark and then would cro: , the Skagerrak to Norway, | King Leopold of Belgium, who surrendered to the Ge mans in 1940, is reported to ‘Robinson;, John, | dis, Pie... son of Mrs, Isdbella Robinson, 1201 Ss, Lincoln,Ave., Lakeland. Navy Dead { i Rowe, “Fred R.,’Pfe..’ USMCR. | (Previously reported wounded on! report of naval casualties for, 1, 1944) Parents, Mr. and! Theodore L. Rowe, Orla Sochner, Walter Herman, De! USNR. Wife, Mrs. Ruth ‘Tyndall have sought refuge in the Soehner, 4458 Irvington Ave.. Duchy of Lichtenstein. Jacksonville. | Mu : { Navy Wounded ‘Three Cases Heard In Criminal Court | H. M. Tillingsworth, who was by State Road Patrol- of reckless driving, pleaded guilty this morning in criminal , court and was fined $75, with the alternative of spending 60 days in jail. He paid the fine. Frank Sawyer, negro, charged with beating his wife, was fined ($250 or six months in jail. He did not pay the fine. Y Barney Jackson paid a fine of | $1 and costs for not having a driver’s license. ) {Scavenger Notices Are Being Mailed | | The Citizen was informed tor |day at the City Hall that about | {75 notices are being sent out to | persons delinquent in payment of s vice. | s inform those in- jvolved that they will be subject ito arrest for failure to pay up, ‘and will be brought before the icity court, if they fail to heed \the warning as sent out through} ithe Scavenger Department. | Key West, Fla. 2P.M.iol A.M, {fi in Oh-So-Good . 3 for 10¢ (ents, Mr. and Mrs. | Sarasota. Hawthorne, Blantford William, | Boatswain mate le, USNR. Par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alden| Hawthorne, 156 NW. 16th St. Miami. | Hubbard, Miles Jackson. Boat- swain mate 2c, USNR.. Mother} Mrs. Katie Hubbard, Millville. | Pempey, Charles H., Sgt., US| MCR. | (Wounded... second, time! Last. reported, on report of naval! casualties fox, Jan..2,. 1945) Pz ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry’ K. Pempey, 2904. N. Orange Ave., Orlando. Thompson, Harper C., J MCR. (Wounded time. | Last reported on report of nava! casualties for Sept. 5, 1944.) Par- Clarence L. Thompson, Old Bradenton Rd.. Army Dead—European Area Conner, Alfred W., Pfc., hus-! band of Mrs. Mae F. Gen. Del., Conner, | Johnson, Edward S., Pfe., son of Mrs. Louise Johnson, 1803 Jetton Ave., Tampa. | Keeves, Max, Cpl., son of Mrs. Rose Schiwartz, 2157 Queensboro Ave., S., St. Petersburg j Patterson, Daniel T., Pfc, son} of Mrs. Mazie George, 466 65th 4 in this pageant because they of Mrs 464, Eust | Podmore. John A., Jr, Pvt., son of Mrs. Mary B Podmore, 511 E. Jackson St., Orlando. Mattie Patterson Box! t | } Tonight and Every Night | ELKS CHARITY FUND | BINGO EVERYBODY IS WELCOME at the BINGO PALACE | Next to The Tropics. 700 DUVAL at the Corner of Angela Opening Game 7:45 P. M.| NO ADMISSION OF ANY KIND) Owen, Perry L., Sgt., brother of| 5 {Mrs. Margaret Bryson, Park Ho- tel, Tampa. P St. Augustine. . Parker, Louis’ J., band of Mrs. Route 2, Box 309, Pensacola. Pitt, Martin C., Pfe., son of Mrs. Carrie Pitt, 208 Great St, Or Jando. Register, Johnnie, Pfe., husbanc of Mrs. Attrice C. ewton Ave. S., St. Petersburg. Thomas, y R., Pfc. hus: band of Mrs. Box 200, We S-Sgt., nitchka. St., Jacksonville. Huelsman, Donald Lt. son of Mrs. Le (Continued on Page Fr Johnnie Nebo’s STARLIGHT CLUB 713 Duval St. DANCING Nightly—7 to Closing Johnny Dias and Orchestra Penny Cocktail Hour 7 to 8 P. M. Daily etti, Lavern A., Sgt., broth-| -|er;in-law: of Isadore S. Stratton, | Ruth Le Barke,,| birth. He dedicated the pageant] er, the Register, 788} Opal B. Thomas, | 2n¢ The stirring words, written by] | «yet, althotigh the nipa hut and erry Montemayor, were €M-Ithe skyscraper ‘are. vastly: differ- jbodied in a pageant entitled,|ent, they. ar y much ‘alike in |“And Quict Stands My Nipa Hut.” Ithis: that both are inhabited by Young Montemayor attended a} men created to be free. Within *| Catholic. college before the Jap-/the sim, le fragility of the one and }anese conquered the land of hisj}the massi Neti Ob the ou: > beat hearts that are one and the same; hearts that are softened into gratitude by kiad- ness, struck with pity at human suffering, set on fire by oppres- sion, or moved to devotion by love. In the nipa hut lives the Filipino; by herilage a farmer, ‘by trade a hard-working ferm- er, by nature a peace-loving */to the common Yankee soldie ithe late President Franklin D.! Roosevelt and that gallant liber- -/ator of the Filipino people, Gen- jeral Douglas MacArthur. | A copy of the pagéant w: ent ant Matthew 1 jhere by Staff Sc! |A. Zaeal, who is stationed some- "| where in the Philippines. It was contained in a letter written his Tonens, Marvin W., Pfc, hus-[™otter, Mrs. Corine Zacal, 1315) farmer. Does this farmer want band of Mis. Lucille V. Toenes, Matern street, and received last! to own Asia? No. Does he as: 214 Main St., Jacksonville. ee pire to rule the world? No. He ee a ot ee apne: | Sgt. Zacal Suffered, Too just wants to be lord over his of F. E. Zane, 109 Harwood A In the liberation of the Philip-| nipa hut lord over his little Orlando. pines, Sift. Zacal himself has been] piece of land, lord of whatever oo | wounded, stricken. with malaria] fittle. things he owns by the saved Charles E,, TeSge, aon ot MC® and once became lost from} sweat of his brow. In other Mrs. Mary Fitch, 7907 “13th st,,| US buddies following an inva-} words, lord in a little corner of \'Tampa. : oe Thus it is easily seen why these isles described by Rizal Halliburton, Charles, Private,| this Key West boy was moved bY}. ag the: Pearl of the Orient Seas. friend of Lona M. Span, Gen. Del.,| he Slowing tribute paid. Ameri-) “And he was hapry « - - | Alachua "jeans by a young Filipino. And there one has the picture Roberts) Sammie, Pe. son of! _JUSt where the pageant was | of the Filipino befire the little Sam Roberts, Route 1, Box 75, Presented cannot be told. The | yellow men invaded that hom Reddick . ij *| name of the place of its pres- |The Japs conquered the land on Trice, William B. ,Jr., Pfc. son ntation was included in the | which rested that home and even of Mrs. Ovie L. Trice: 611 Pal.| pening paragreph as read By [took unto themselves the things mettolGr, New Syina Beach the narrator, but in the copy |inat were in that home, but they Thompson, Harold R., Pfe., hus-! 88 his mother by Sgt. Zacal | joyer conqucred the spirit. within band of Mrs a B. Thompson,! ** Was deleted by the censor. | that home. Only the United States Route 3, Box T-43, Orlando. Se ermayehs Ht Hee ne para did that, as Montemayor so clear- reali graph, explainec na te peO-liy sets forth in this manner Army Misslog— European) Ate8)| cic of (censored), one wilhythe;|” “netics conquered Hearts of Mrs. Ethel L. Daughterty, 318 SPH ef the whole Filipino peo-| From. the beginning. of this N. 18th St., Palatka ple, the spirit of profound grati- | .ountry’s history, the Filipino has Diaz, Alinibal C. tude and cternal loyalty to the} met and fought every foreign Mrs. Maria A. Diaz, 906 | United States of America, humbly | invader. And America was not Tampa reseAts tonight to their visitors jan exception. But only America erell, Thurman D., Pfc, son 224 friends, a pageant entitled| can be said to have really con. 148, Orlando. The Citizen believes that many| America alone conquered not only George, William L., Pfc. son °f its¢readers would be interest-| his arm aiso his heart “Yet. in America, the Philip- pines really found not a con- queror, but a saviour—ea sav- iour wiio promised to give, after teaching her how to preserve it (Continued on Page Four) have loved ones who helped free| , the Philippins from the Japanese , and herewith presents excerpts from this stirring drama Nipa Hut Filipino Home } The nipa hut referred to’ in the |title of the pageant is the home of the Filipinos. Around it re-| volves all they hold so dear. But! let Montemayor describe the nipa BATTERIES CHARGED While You Wait pe THE MODERN WAY “The night had been dark—so; @NEW BATTERIES dark as to darken the memory of that bright yesterday. But an- In Stock All Sizes other dawn is coming. And with @TIRES and TUBES its increasing lght comes again| a picture of that life that we once| POOR OLD CRAIG possessed —lost — and now have regained SERVICE STATION ‘This is the nipa hut, the sym- loa and Francis Sts. Ph.3134 bol of that life. [1 is not at all , “but the capi of Narutow (By Associated Poems is practically all conquered PARIS, April 24.-—Teday + is the 89th anniversary of (4 the birth of Marshal Petain, and he passed most of the day traveling in an eight- coach train toward the Swiss border, where he was seek ing a haven. Abaard the train were several panies of German siorm troopers and former Premio: Pierre Laval of France, who also was intent on escaping from Germany into Switzer- land. Marshal Petair mitted to enter that but Laval was Further tain was that he would willjngly retu t this city to be tried “4 charges of high trea was said here that Ge r DeGaulle has assembled t vast that strating that Petai with the Na officially, it wa aid tt com hews number of will be used orated several documents vy that Petain had comr ed with the German | command before entered France i It had be try Marshal Peta tia, but when ne 1o40, ceived of his ret : ern camer rm owes me ingness to return t Fra the trial until h LEON ERROL is 4 a oo) mae oa “Twilight On the P alive, he will ha oa News and Serie also to charges Tonight Is Prine © son, LA CONCHA HOTEL COCKTAIL LOUNGE AIR CONDITIONED for YOUR COMFORT . Now Featuring DANCING EVERY NIGHT Music by Barroso’s Orchestre and The New Cocktail ‘LA CONCHA SPECIAL . BREAKFAST Served from LUNCHEON Served from . 12:08 Neon te 268 FP. DINNERS Served from 30 PM. te O58 Pe HUGH C. 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