The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 1, 1945, Page 1

. wounded of the island. Day Wire md AP Features ests of Key West UME XLVI. No. 104 Devoted to the Commander Wassell Relates ‘Experiences Yesterday At Naval Base Covering War Claims, Everyone .Should: Pat: Forth Best: Eff Toward: Keeping Pro-' duction Going H “When you take time off from you are letting: boys like those on the Mar-/ blehead down,” Command-| er Corydon M. Wassell. USN, j told 1,500 war workers at! the N. O. B. ball park yes-! terday afternoon. f The Arkansas doctor, hero! of the motion picture, “Dr.! Wassell,” is touring the U.S.! dustrial Incentive Division, U.S. 'N., one | several million. war workers! in over 600:owar. plants in| ’ the United States and Can-} ada. ter production, he said, “I a whale of,a good job, based n the foundation that we ave furnished all of the Al- lied | nations» with fighting materials and’ supplies. “I do not believe any.man or woman has the right to stop pro-ta duction in strikes or time: off. Ms. are striking against~ boys like], those ‘who brought the crippled Marblehead through Jap infested waters of the Indian Ocean, baled water out of her with buckets and dishpans, but brought her safely to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to be reconditioned to float again’ by just such home-side buddies as you.” Relating his experiences in as- sisting in the evacuation of Java in March of 1942, he told of tak- ing the last 10 of the seriously “Most of the civilian passen- gers left the Dutch ship, M. S. Janssen at the first island haven, but those’ 10, mess, boys and offi- cers alike, begged for the chance to get through to Australia where they could be mended to fight again. “We lost one man at sea, one was so badly injured he had to accept a medical discharge, but the remaining eight are still a fighting, and when you take time d ,off you are striking against boys like them.” Commander Wa Iso told his listeners that ‘$25. War tond bought now, will be worth $125. to $150.” in trading value after the war. “We must work now to win the war, but we must also save our money to build a better and stronger nation after the war. The good times which always fol-| low war willbe followed by de- pression and that’s when the war bonds you buy now come in handy to tide you over the lean period of readjustment.” Dr. Wassell also pointed out that the one other great service (Continued on Page Four) pa Sait ETE, te i HAVE YOUR CAR SAVED BY | Having It GREASED and SPRAYED | @TIRES and TUBES SERVICE STATION Division and Francis Sts. Ph.9134)_ A 5 o' believe oon the’ whole” the tbe home-side buddies have done Quee the, Flowers,. the Nymphs, thé First Day ‘of May Dance, the Spring Dance, and the finale, will be; the winding of. the ar jin regular sé ning at 8 o'clock. This is the first regular meet-; ing of the month, and aside scheduled thus far, although oth- | er matters may come up during the course of the s GRASS FIRE :AT Pfister str Yelock,- where a grass fire LMT TO REMOVE: | BRIDGE ‘TOLLS IS): *: (By Associated Pree), TALLAHASSEE, May 1— A bill by Rep. B. C. Papy of Key West to provide for the State road department and State board of administration to take over the Overseas highway to Key ‘West and free it from tolls was approv- ed by the house public roads committee “after it was amended to make the pro- Posal a request instead of a Hasina Provision of state we’ ' -under the direction of the We A AAAAA AA 2 has talked to May Day Festival The. opening event will. ning: of the King and followed by the Dance of Naughty lay Pole, f The program and dances were anged’ by ‘Mrs. Lora’ Beesley sted by Mrs. Vitginia’ Jirus, and / Miss. “Jacqueli Dough (“When you take time off you} df thes; grata beeat BS aff.of ae Recreation De- if coop artim! Street thool, — Harris School and Poinciana School. Music will be by the high school CONVENE TONIGHT The City Council will convene ssion tonight, begin- nothing from routine business on. 10:50 LAST NIGHT The fire department was called » the corner of Ashby and ‘Von “ts last night at 10:50 iscovered, The blaze was quickly extin-' guished with no damage to adja- cent property. SDL LIS SIL La LL | MEASURE TO AID HOSPITAL PASSED (By (Asnociated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 1.— The Senate passed HB386 in- troduced by Representative B. C. Papy authorizing that one half of Monroe County's racing funds be used for Key West's Municipal Hospital. VL dh hud huh whe utheuthea Johnnie Nebo’s STARLIGHT CLUB 713 Duval St. DANCING Nightly—7 to Closing Johnny Dias and Orchestra enny Cocktail ‘Hi P 708 P.M. Daily GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER - | QUESTION ARISES AS T0 WHETHER SPARKED HIS WAY TO By RICHARD TOMPKINS. AP Newsfeatures Writer The Allied armies on the west- ern front and in the Mediterran- ean theater were commanded en- tirely by career soldiers of the United States and Great Britain. These were the victorious top Generals of the Allied command: Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme eommander, It was.the cool, calculated | judgment. iof«a professional Soldier ~that .. coondi- nated the: Americanwand isl forces ees athe’. ,machine .:that}:beaches: of the. Riviera’ to the s GIVEN}APPROVAL! ni G@eral_ Eistnhower was born} was Deputy! Supreme Comman: ja Tekan, October: 14, 1890, and/or of all Allied forces in the Medi reared in Kansas. He is a gradu-|terranean theater, to which area t: across the continent: toi fi- ietory in.Germany. ate of West Point. Promotion Rapid Rapid promotions took him injy, S: troops in the United King- 35 months from lieutenant colo-\dom for the Normandy invasion. nel to full general. He first was sent to Washington to work on| 187, in York, Pa. He became a war plans, to London as com-) soldier at 18, when he was ap- mander of the Army's European| pointed to West Point. ; theater of operations, to Africa for the Mediterranean campaign'omith, chief of the staff of Su- jand finally back to London as preme Allied Headquarters, cogr ;supreme commander. roms he “beg Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law ‘Montgomery, commander of the) ast. i i i 2ist y GIGS the Netuesis peared officer in the U.S. that prevailed over the German; = ; field marshal, Erwin (Desert Fox) ; i Rommel, At Park Tomorrow orthern - | Consid { r The Department of Reercation! Calling on his “home-side | announees. that.a May Day festi-i Pe ival will be held at Bayview Park ! buddies” for more and _bet- tomorroweafiernoon beginning at in North Africa and France. + Montgomery first to fame at El Alamein when jan, pushing Rommel out of North Africa. From there he went 0 in. to Sicily, with his Eighth. Army which was the first ‘Allied’ force to invade Italy. Sandhurst Man He attended Saint Paul’s school in England: and then Sandhurst. in World War I he rose to lieu- tenant colonel and won the DSC. mander of the 12th Army Group, ; pethaps America’s most ficld. gencral, Gen, Omar ‘N. Bradley, com- proven led the Second Corps to victory in Tunisia and rim ation with’ the Sig rrincipals and teachers of the Di- vision c American ground was senior commander of forces ,in the band, directed by Sylvester Slate. | CITY COUNCIL TO” 1g ~ 1 } “NOT FOR THE TIMID” was TO GIVE...OR TO GET! jter D ! This provocative perfume is the gift that says most! Be man enough to make DANGER your watchout word! Yet be safe—for un- doubtedly it’s the perfume she hopes for! $12 + $2790 @ magnificent bottle of cut-crystal blocks, in a Danger-red box. Ciro’s SURRENDER? $5 to $32 Ciro’s REFLEYIONS: $5 to $35 Ciro’s NEW HORIZONS: $6.25 to $27.5¢ Plus Tax SOUTHERNMOST PHARMACY, CITY Inc. Prescription Druggists PHONE 199 Duval and Fleming Streets “THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE lered Britain’s best gen-: eral and its most spectacular field aaa KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TI “?, MAY 1, 1945 4 4 = = % BN | While Celebrating May Day, They VICTORY: EDDIE THOMPSON WAS DROWNED OR | Momentarily Expect Fall Of- Trormanay invasion, otgonraint MET DEATH FROM OTHER CAUSES German Capital — the Nazis with the breakthrouglt; SAR ae siuabisiioine at £1. Lo, and went on to com-! SS OI beat ic 4 + “How could the body of a man,)ter without inhalation, such as . . mand four armies. } been drowned sapere when'a man is drowning. SDD IBDATL LS Premier Stalin, In HAROLD L. ICKES Bradley was born at Clerk, Mo.,’ 3 » Lord said that, when he Feb. 12, 1893. He w ned 10 be floating the next| | sUeee ee ee Sunday morn: NOW IN CONTROL OF COAL MINES training duties during the first ling to view Thompson’s body, the any cele - : ‘ * iface and neck were bluish black, ‘orce Exper! z ii as tand the judge was informed to- Gen. Jacob el. Devers, com. ted to him. yesterday afternoon) a. ‘that that. condition pet —o— mandet.of the Sixth Army Group,, While speaking with a relative of; 116 heen veaused either by cere- (My Axsocinted Previn) WASHINGTON, Mav 1. — ‘Harold L. Ickes, secretary of ‘the interiot, today took over ‘control ofthe hard coal'mines,,, Mar- shal’s Uniform, Reviews Parade In Usual May Day Fiesta ae jo en who had That question, County Judge Raymond Lord said today, occur- i > Sexpel vhose’ Charles: Edward ‘Thompson, » F Asheniadu snSewenti wand. French erally » €alled roe 'Phompson| {4, cist ain eg pregie ‘Bist “Armies: fought from ta ne ae Se OTM Es tiovea that 'when ‘Thompson’ 'felk Judge Lord/said he realized the: mt? thé’ water: probably it iwas body of a man,’ who has: ‘been | yr enislinitl-s ne aeat- , } This morning a coroner’s jury! ena = sonny ayer noe ee viewed the pody in the Lopez! eat Funeral Home, and tomorrow the! ‘Before the question occurred to, . i i him, Judge Lord said that there! jury and Judge Lord will go to, had not been any evidence of Marathon to hold an mq i ; | The jurymen are J. Winfield} foul play and he did not think an i inquest. was necessary, but the Russell, Charles T. Archer, Chas. } Curtis, S, Francis Barry, Millard! with Ickes. jwere 100,000 troops, com- iat a tee share Y eter Thom. {Gibson and Russell Kerr, | posed of youths, women snip- son had been scen alive, led Juda. Members of the jury examined | OPP MIMS LF 4 | ers, men who had fought in the body closely, and found a} —————_——_—_———_—-—- | the First World War and Lord to believe that. death had} A ‘ H come before Thompson. fell over- ane aos Fog whe in the dete! BRITISH 2ND men who had been wounded got ABE Ge aieae se Oates / in the defense of this city board. 4 plained that a man who! Skull. Otherwise, there were no ARMY CROSSES and Stalingrad in this war. He ex i 2 has his lungs filled fresh marks on the body. ; ses arid that betinains! The bank draft for $4,500,! Behind the troops followed submergeu until his gall bladder which Thompson is said to have; bursts and thereby inflates his had in his possession when alive,’ V I stomach, which brings the body has not yet béen found, Judge) ABS : while fighter, to the surface. Water, however, Lord said. He added that he had} ee bombers 00! docs not eater the body of a man heard that some woman in Mara-'REPORTED TO BE DRIVING! crowds. ho di m land, and, therefore,|thon had said that the draft “is} whh wee 2 TOWARD’ BALTIC To Iso-|. Just before a in, wearing a mi ‘DENMARK | FROM/ form, walked up viewing stand, a {spread through the jthat, before. the (By Associated Prexa> ‘over, he would annd eos i LONDON, |May. 1.—- The. fall of Berlin. . admitted his guilt by suicide thi PBetale pecoud ay nee repent pee pm r ‘ s cide ox i ig | command in the 1 licd ground forces in the Sicilian Once the Allies started moving towing the July revolt. | Geiein, the Eide River and #4 1 nat only aang rive or ar : i Id War II, German gener-| ,. * _ | driving toward the Baltic to {i oii) Still remaine (drive. In World War I, he won in Wor! . & Field. Marshal Erwin..von Wit-! late D. the city still remai, a citation at the Marne and the als were neutralized’ almost. as! zjehen, reportedly hanged. as the} es 'e Denmark from Ger-| ,,: hands. Beginning at d iSamme and was wounded twice. 54.24 ac Japanese admirals. Kishan re s jMany. In Denmark, it was and continuing till mid-afternoon, oy ’ j fast as Japanese admirals. chief defendant irk the»bomb plot id: th i The fourth son of the: Earl of i i ae ore said that there have been! thousands of Nazis streamed froin vledon of County. Tyrone, Uls-} Their departures ftom the te kill Hitler. Others hanged On| several: ‘uprisings and. ‘that| their hideotds afd 'sirrendoved ter, Alexander followed tradition scenes of frustrated Nazi con- | 86 ae ee ve ee Gen | thousands of Germans who|2s bluck after block fell into Ras to. Harrow, and Sandhurst. quests were chronicled varioysly VE MT Suet ane Mt Gen: 1S" had -occupied that country *!? hands after slight resistance. Rhine: and:on {nto Germany. Before these operations; 'Dever's miners“<went on strike at.; | bunting,’: flags are ‘flying thidnight last night. :}from poles and windows and John L. Lewis is expected, | millions of people are in the to vrrive here late this after- | streets celebrating May Day. noon to hold a conference Among the paraders here he was sent after he had reorga- nized and schooled thousands of Devers was born on Sept. 8, Gen. Walter Bedell (“Beedie”) idinator of the entire invas® i; planning and said to be the haru— Started In 1917 ‘ splanes: and Smith, who was born in Indian- apolis on October 5, 1895, joined ithe Army in 1917 as a second lieu- tendnt of infentry, discovered he liked the Army after the war was over and in. et Field M. 1 Sir, Harold Ru-' 994 pert Leofric eorge Alexander, supreme Allied commander in the Meditcrrangan. theater, w age v uty commander in pict an grape a Te Ap Stee nhower in the North African, , lei edad a {campaign; later commanded Al- AP Newsfeatures lungs cannot be filled with w: | Submarni> Trip in. such- reports as the: oe z | A A Fires burning in Berlin last ! (Gens Mark W. Clark, command-| “x jlled idles er ea stured| Field Marshal Gen. Walther, have fled into Norway. night, Red Star, a Soviet news- Ver of the 15th: Army Group, laid!py the encmy,” ‘“replaced by |‘0" Brauchitsch, former com- Reports persisted that) her, said today were as “dazz {the ground work for the North! ae ees, “has left age mander-in-chief of the German) Count Bernadotte son his fing a the ooh an ae | African invasion in October, 1942./«qied of wounds, tid tobe ae are sks Cen pra y to Stockholm with new city is almost completely in rains, Arriving on a Br itish submarine,| victim of Hitler's purge” “met eee pegs He ie ei) ort sroposals of surrender from) Red S' added. Block afte: he made contact with French pi hero's death,” “crowned the aise. aie Pt taee Fa acl Heinrich Himmler. It was block, with an exception here and Htriots who cased the way for the/riont for the Fuehrer and the!//°Wing the revolt. Der Fuehrer) said that Himmler, in the there, has been reduced to broken November landings: Ne aL Socialist fatherland |° doubt aided the Allied cause! tinct offer, had : concrete and twisted’ stecl. He went on to command the) National | Soctalis atherland | inwittingly by removing euperior| 84 Offer had) agreed: only [0)t oa leu erent aati U.S. Fifth Army in Italy, won his |“) his death” irate tablula.(8enerals simply because they} OM unconditio surpender’| ... still-standing 49: she ele three stars at 46 and became one|,, There 6 no eter as ula | Could not agree with his amateur- | t0 the United States and Eng- | or paliament building, antl of the youngest lieutenant gener-} tion cf t 3 number S i rman ish strategy. Onc of these was land, but today the offer, ine} jy ea pte ei enaared: Ax als. [gengrals w i were Ba ae cay {Field Marshal Gen, Wilhelin report said, included Russia. | jaye dacrdundell 4h aad wanton The general was born at an{Naai fiasco, but it-is safe to say | Keitel, . The procedure, as described in| q.. o, ? tak Army post, Madison Barracks, Ns|that the best went to the Nazil™ An -cttempt- was. madeto. as-| the advices, is for Himmidt to 76-| ane 1, 1896, Valhalla, or were captured. | sassinate Keitel in. November,|lay the report by Count Berna. |p ocyond, uetlin | weatwaraly, cr his graduation from} Among them were these dis-!1944°° No details were ,made| dotle to Stockholm, and then for | RYSSER TORTCS SUN Cen nee ot Hl Point-he was made a tem-|ciples of Prussianism or Nazism: | known. Later he was, reported the government there to send it joan . fi se paete igi |poraryseapiain and served at the} Field Marshal Gen. Freidrich navipy inspected the last stand|to the United States, Great Brit Fetch ee hei ee ete jfront in World War I, where he] Paulus, commander of the crushthyofenses of the Nazis in Bavaria. | #in and Russia ures : y ne Hee Saar ‘ Y tras wo ? e > armi fore Stalitrel & ‘ : “ ae crossed to the at bd ft the was “wounded. Later he went, ed German armies before Stalin) Following -the Hitler revolt in| Swiss reports said that) Laval Elbe Hiver.:Gerrtiatia: {ound ‘ie through ad@anced: schools of in-| grad, captured with 16 generals, July, 194, Keitel was listed} and other German collaboration-| | t dermans; found’, | faittry, general staff and war col-|early in 1943. Paulus later joined Smong Junker generals who, at| ists in France during the occupa. ‘htt locality’ were in disorgan- lege. “i the committee of German officers |Gads with Hitler, had set up a| Won of that country had arrived “ed units, and theusands, of Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, su-]in Moscow and told the Germans} «ival regime.” hice Vied emens at the frontier ef Ewitzerland, but, them, the rep id, had thrown preme deputy commander, Medi-!the war was lost 3. did not say whether or not they’@Way their, weapons and had 1 an tt P i Re cae Tr the leaders of the new regime | i ney | ninglod: itis teen cervel f eee the cr, West oint in-} Marshal Erwin Rommel (the was Field Marshal Fedor von | bed been granted permission to ming. 3 eeing civilians. ‘ant ‘a . netinoorite genet sic | cross at cou y a pantry, ott » Hitler's favorite gen-" Bock who resigned in 1942 in EUs eset a Wl We Noe } lly reported in the) ,ow with Hitler over the Stalin-| Be eo eee ee | Adolfo; BOZaseD the pionecrs of Army aviation. Hes venavingiaiedon wounds ed with the Germans in Hungary, . srad debacle. \ : ; es Followed Devers received on the Western Front. A in Gi apiy | Was captured today by American Died Last Night i Another, whom Hitler probably | As a lieutenant general, Mc-lrater reports said he was one of pother, whom Hitler probably | forces at Munich, and is now un 3 OA a Senne OES regarded as a patist, was Gen. ES : imaeroaeaae ae E rved as deputy supreme ithe conspirators in the assassina- , der guard in, that city. Adolfo Boza, Sr., 75, died last Ritter yon Thoma, Romm tion plot against Hitler in July. onq in command in Egypt, 1944 tured by Marshal mmander in the Mediter- ranean theater, under Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, succeed-j night at the resitlence of his son, 800 Catherine street, after a short Benard 1,/5cout Unit Will ing General Devers when the lat. Field) Marshal Guenther von Montgomery (then Lt. Gen.) in Assemble Tonight ‘2° ter took command of the Sixth; K!uge, former supreme command- (CanL ELL Gna eee OUD) Funeral services will be held laciege tr of German forces on western | -—— Presa pema a Sir nul j Army Group. | The nem onthiv bos norrow afternoon at 6:30 0 McNarney was born in Empo-'front, reported to have killed ee ee egu ao onthly board of clock at the Chapel of _ the Hie himself in remorse over his re- [review of the Boy Scouts will pritchard Funeral Home. Rev rium, Pa., August 28, 1893. graduated at West Point in 1915 fusal to join the July revolt ‘and was commissioned a second |2gainst Hitler, which brought his lieutenant. The senate confirmed|old comrades to death and tor- > held this evening, beginning jat 8 o'clock in the athletic build- jing on the Stadium grounds on Samuel P. Reinkie, pastor of the rst Congregational Church, of- ting. B. ASHMORE Operating sioner. jhis appointment to full general, ture. | Flagler Ave., according to an- | Survivors are, one daughter, along with those of Bradley, Clerk} Col Gen Ludwig Beck, former N jcunceMent made today by Wil- yrs Mary Vinci; three sons, and Devers. ‘chief of staff, who reportedly; LAI bert J. Moehrke, district commis- Joseph, Adolfo, Jr, and Alb | ' Boza and twelve grandchild: n. [TACONCGHAHOTEL COCKTAILLOUNGE ) awens AIR aang for YOUR COMFORT ELECTRICAL { CONSTRUCTION | eaturing DANCING EVERY NIGHT Music by Barroso’s Orchestra AND | PRE CE NO mainTeNANcE | PALACE THEATER Ph FRANK ALBERTSON in ELKS CHARITY FUND and The New Cocktail ‘LA CONCHA SPECIAL’ 5 JREAKFAST Served . s+ 7:00 AM, to 11,00 A.M. 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