The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 5, 1945, Page 1

SS Day Wire Service and AP Features For 65 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West | The VOLUME XLVI. No. 108 ~aae- +~-eel SePagdc tales ede eet emetenmanae _ Ameticarr Superforts Give Japan Heavy Blasting Today | ULF OIL COMPANY In keeping with his policy to dispose of most of his realty in- terests, William R. Porter, who Veterans’ Return }5°!d his stock in The First Nation- al Bank to the duPont interests JACKSONVILLE, May 5 (FNS):}for $450,000, yesterday transfer- Dean R. A. Rasco, state director |red what is known as the Porter peggy Siena eles eee Dock Company property and <u 5 cil ie openin; ‘ 5 of 12 additional USES ‘oftices,|Plot_ where, 1s located the One| made the following statement:| "0° isithe!G ae Cones oy Three Hundred Planes|Making Plans For Take Part In Raid; Japs Suffer Heavily In quate service for returning vet.} cently had made microfilm. maps erans and others who will be, of all the land in Monroe county seeking employment in the local-|for the possible ‘use in driling ity in which these offices are to} wells in search: of oil. be located. > Yesterday’s sale was the second “These additional offices are in-|largest in which Mr. Porter has tended to reduce travel distance}been personally concerned. He and to make it more convenient | was president of the Key West and economical to serve the rap-| Realty Company when its hold- idly increasing number of vet-}ings of several hundred acres in erans who will be seeking em-|the northeasterly part of Key ployment upon returning from}West were sold to fhe Meacham the service. Everything possible|interest for $500,000. That sale One wave struck at air- plane plants in the Honshu Province, and the other blasted further the airfields at Kyushu. From 150 to 200 Jap planes were destroyed in the air and on the ground at Key THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE ULSA! © KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1945 PURCHASES ~ PORTER DOCK CO. PROPERTY ON WATERFRONT; PRICE $145,000 |Woman Arrested By Officer Last Night Mrs. C. L. Cannon, 34, 641. Greene street, who is not a Key West woman, was surprised last; night by Deputy Sheriff Will Archer while she was under the} cork trees across from the bonded, warehouse building with fot “The War Manpower Commission 7 !},:lig opening 12 additional USES of-|for $145,000. pet ; e fices' to provide prompt and ade-| This is the company that re-] “The sailors ran,” Deput Archer’ said, “but I arrested and, as I saw what was goi: / I made that charge against” het. When the Monroe County Health | Clinic learned of the arrest, ad asked that she be turned over to finished with her, she was locked up to await arraignment before Peace Justice Ira Albury.” will be made to serve the nee is }gave an impetus to the Key West Kyushu, and at Okinawa of not only the veterans but ofjreaity market that took it to the 175 enemy planes were shot the non-veteran who finds him- peak of the boom, but among the Jabez Sawyer Has Returned To City PT PUTS OUT TO SEA i CLEAVING a furrow through the blue of the Atlantic. 2 Navy PT boat is snapped fromthe a: as-it heads out to sea off the Eastern | and in April, 1944, 28,598. them for treatment. When they; Coast. The photograph was made from a patrolling blimp. | *|Three Nazi: Armies In Czeth- *-| oslovakia Formally Surrender Unconditionally IODA MSL SIM M.\Only German Army Now COLLECTIONS IN| Intact Is In_Norway, BRIDGE TOLLS ; | “HOLDING UP WELL| A"¢ That . Reported Ready To Give Up The Overseas Road and ! Toll Bridge District is still <more.than holding its own in | ithe amount, of collections as ve Previous .oyear,. according, to. , an: announcement, made. to- | anngunced that all Germon (By Associated Proxmps » PARIS, May. 5.—General Eisenhower,,at supreme | headquarters afternoon, RESH | 5 day .by. Auditor Clifford’ G. i | Hicks: | organized 1 i epee last’, month theater., ] # $23,390.50, as com- i Official Navy Photograph. | pape: d " | ed, and added that three aes bepitd ae aka ; Yared with $21,688. Passeng: Nazi Sea ta Co vee it taled 31,470, Fy . are test mnon i peiee vakia and the remainder of | Austria, that still had been Number of uto- ; Using the bridges holding out, had formally NEGRO BEING HELD FOR COURT TRIAL Ambrose Cochram, negro, ar- rested by Deputy .Sheriff Archer mobiles using the bridges ian i j lest’ month amounted to | surrendered unconditionally. PRACTICAL GUIDE | as67, “April, ‘1944, 3706 | Field Marshal Albert Kes- FOR LEGISLATORS) other motor vehicles last selring, in command of Ger- ees month, 3,847, as compared man army group 3, header with 3823 in April of last year. .the Nazi officers in the for- \mal act of surrendering. | ‘TALLAHASSEE, May 5 (FNS).| } Prominent on. the desks of all) out of the air while attempt- ing to bomb American ships. Five small American ships were reported sunk or dam- é z ‘ | legislators and in the hands of 1 ; last night, admitted this morning | 1o.t jobbyists and state officials, | OMI ID MP I ITS The oy Mgt army when arraigned before Peace Jus-|is the 1935 edition of feb TEN E wie the ieobireaee poi ss ice i : rmment” issued bienniall, : whe e said to Clearwater, Homestead, Dake | whi hi brncpnwe: Rasa tind: bie ot!Company, but who is now cons tice Kaquinaldy, that. he pad Nida bahe al Bere alate i x D CANC R ‘number 200,000, and the City, Lake Wales, Miami Beach,| Sat Ore ou) ‘Poinciana Place | Re<te4, with the civilian’ depart-| salto os pe PPhis year's edition, in a strik- CONTROL DRIVE German-controlled Scandi Palatka, Winter Haven and Sara-|© field, Poinciana Place | ment at the ‘local Naval Station, ed the forehead of Alice ; ' ee self without employment. . ps . properties that were returned “The new offices were opened during several years after the| Jaber Sawyer, former employe May 1 at the following points: Bar- A tow, Belle Glade, Cocoa, Deland,| oer ig raise Bg: see of the Florida East Coast Railway American soldiers and ma- Z ing two-color cover, contains a} navian Telegraph Bureau vines were reported today to be 1,000 yards from Naha, oars! city of Okinawa, with Jap resistance not as intense as it had been for more than a week. sota. Each office will be staffed] Ubdiv: by a manager and a_ sufficient) ® ‘the Lime Grove subdivision. trained personnel to provide ade-|, A lot, wth a frontage of 72.6 quate and efficient service. “With the addition of these new 9m, Duval, adjoining the Porter | offices, the War Manpower Com- Dock Company property, finission will be Operating a total'sold' by. Hilario Ramos to the of 33 “public efaployment offices | Gulf .Oil Company for <$6,00%, 1 conveniently located to render'Johnson H. Pace, who represent- maximum service. ed the company in the ‘ransac- . tion, said that it does not contem- Norman. Lowe Is plate making any immediate im- Visiting In City that * two-thirds of the’ American troops in Europe, when V-E Day is declared, will remain! in service, a small percentage of whom will remain in Germany to join the patrol of that country, and the others will go into the Patific theater. (he troops number approxi- jely 6,000,000, of whom, 2,000,- will be released . to” retutn home. In practically all cases, the report said, a point will be made to release the older men, a policy that has been advocated by Army} leaders.) | $22 FOR ACCIDENT provements. DOG FINDS RADIUM ' Norman. Lowe, mailman first class, United States Navy, who Los Angeles.—While taking a has . been’ stationed at Pensacola, | walk with his mistress, Mrs. E. Fla. for the past two years, ar- H: James, Toby, a pet dog, ran rived in Key West yesterday, ac-|into a vacant lot and began dig- companied by his wife and baby.|8ing furiously. He uncovered a Mr. and Mrs. Lowe will spend|jewel box which contained four- a week here ting with Mr.}teen slim platinum tubes. Police Lowe’s mother, Mrs. Virgil S.|identified it as the $3,200 worth | Lowe, and other relatives, at the of radium which had been taken | home on North Beach. from a doctor's office. Rockford, Ill. — George Frey tried to avoid hitting an animal | that ran in front of his automo- , bile on a country road. He killed | it, found it to be a fox and col- | FOR SALE lected $11 for the ident, $5 | county and $6 for the pelt, ! W Bi T | | ‘ 52 feet. new ‘Chrysler PACKAGE motd! Excellent shtimu¢r. Owner GOODS leaving. city Wednesday. Details; Choice Wine, Whisky, Rum | and Brandy i 1% Pints — Pints and Quarts! “The Best of Drinks” The Friendly Little Tavern SIMONTON AND GREENE STS Complete Line of Known Brand: “GYPSY WILDCAT” News and Serial | upon request to | Box J. M. C. c/o’ Citizen EE ‘uvuuncuuneuvcvagcaiuscccctcatant BINGO TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT | Sponsored by ELKS CHARITY FUND | DUVAL at SOUTHARD ALL WELCOME No Admission Charge ‘wnuccaacccevunuvgectteacce cect ASNNOUNCEMENT! i NOW OPEN CLUB 116 Formerly Navy Club OPPOSITE WESTERN UNION Whiskey - Wine - Beer |; Best of Drinks BIFF Will Greet You! PACKAGE GOODS Cool -- Clean -- Comfortable’ 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 ELKS FRATERNAL CENTER DANCE AND FISH SUPPER TONIGHT AT 8 O'CLOCK § FOR ELKS AND THEIR GUESTS Dance On the Patio With An ORCHESTRA In Attendance At the Newly Decorated Club 313 DUVAL STREET IN SERVICE SPECIALLY INVITED KEY WEST LODGE NO. 551 — B. P.O. E. FREE EATS The Ration Board Office, will be closed all day every. Wednesday and also the first' working day of every month.) Effective Wednesday May 9th, 1945 and Until Further Notice Signed YVONNE BROWN Chief Clerk, Ratién Board EL Was j jj ision, Poinciana’ extension |ja5 returned to Key West from’ <1 negress, and ‘was held in $250 trip to Tampa and other sections|poi1 for. eri ; th rt, i fect on" Front street and 70: fect | 108 West coset, where he WAN Mr. Sawyer resides at 621'Caro:| Carey said he ided at 604 Whitehead FROM MONDAY,)’MAY),77H ‘TILL: WE'RE: PACKED BO OK SALE Reductions of 25% to 60% on ‘Overstock Bargains include: Technical Books, some recent fiction, a general selection of titles we do not expect will be popular when we re-open next fall. WE WILL BE CLOSED FROM PUBLIC NOTICE | May 23 to Oct. 15 PAUL BOOKSELLER 334 Simonton St. rege SMITH iminal court on a lcharge of-assault and®battery. S is 27, and re- street. mass of interesting) information! “TAMPA; May 5 (FNS):-Exten- announced this afternoon and to date is far more eomplete|sion of the cancer, control, cam- that that army group was ai respect ‘than BAY PreVIOUS | paign, through May, has been an- making preparations to ei ‘nounced, by | Mrs. A. Malcolm withdraw from the war. Just sboul everything a per!{ Row sdn wishes to know about Flor-)Smith, commander of the Florida, The surrender of the three _goverhment,.. state. county | Division of the Field Army of the armies. in, Czechoslovakia Le at Be. fiend “ine Nietericas Concer Society. » jand Austria were an the bat- helpful, ‘ practical. guide. It 1i Response to the naticnal drive Ulefield, the same us Was all state officials, legislators, de partment and bureau heads, coun ty commissioners and so on. «| | Cpl. Gerald Garcia MWC ATtHVes Por V re F cer | Corporal Gerald Garcia. of the } jay 4 ton Univer thest. (Sd coe to provide funds ‘for cancer edu- the case in the surrenders of tion, prevention, treatment and German troops in Holland, iirant ul! Guditfona Denmark and northwesiera epppiiee F Germany, ny’ people,” Mrs, Smith - ill do not know that can- EUROPEAN, WAR 15 PRACTICALLY OVER nh und is being cured and, (iy Ansocsn hese cures are dependent on} PARIS, May ress: ment. | carly diagnosis and t | yes-|'The disease does not announce ‘ At.2 = Jterday on a 30-day furlough,! itself by pain, and people must ™ today, with bells tolling which he will spend with his!pe educated to know its symp- and people rejoicing in |! |parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raul Gar-/toms. Only through education land and Denmark, the jcia of 1115 Catherine street. He can the disease be checked. Your render of Nazi armies in has been in the Army 37 months | contribution will help carry ON ¢hose two countries and also | this work. in North Germany went into effect, it was officially an- nounced. When terms of uncondi- tional surrender became e/- «© made by neer”, scen service in Dut the Phillippines, | mail acific ports. He is|of Ic campaign ribbon with|cent stamp aff hich was awarded ope. So great is the need that the ; Contributions may care {him for participation in three master general has authoriz- fective, Field Marshal Sir { battles. all postmasters to accept and Bernard L. Montgomery de- i a seqsic: fgryard finds. 4, 7) (Continued on Page Three) | ALLENTOW) : Mrs. Peter [i E Pi LI ‘'f AY jents, of 14 children, 1 f N oy 'whom ,was bern in 1931. id are four sets of twins fer-children in the fa ie i sot THE OCEAN VIEW -\» DINING ROOM Will Be Open Seven Days BRAKE SERVICE | Each Week Starting Peecs a uastisranalsetensooin| Monday, April 3} | Carbureter, Generator, | qs | We use a Sunnen Precision Hon- ing Machine in Our Ignition SUNDAY, MAY 13th 2 | We Have a Good Supply of Ch da fi SWEETING’S AUTO Our Nice Selection of SERVICE Official AAA Garage New Fist Grade TIRES In the following Sizes i MOTHER’S DAY CARDS 10c TO $1.00 Phone 53 244Hour Wrecker Service a eee x 19 — 475 x B. 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