The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 10, 1945, Page 1

; 5 Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features =F ears Devoted to the re of Key West VOLUME XLVI. No. 112 400 S Amendment Proposed Today To Legislature To Give Monroe Senator Of Its Own Measure Was. Introduc- ILPILAS LL 45) SHIPS REACH County ed By Representative|BILL TO CREATE ° Bernie C. Papy Of Mon- UTILITY BOARD roe County — ‘TALLAHASSEE, "May. 10. —Representative Bernie C. Papy of Monroe County to- day introduced HB657, creat- TALLAHASSEE, May 10.| 08 3 City of Key West Util A constitutional amendment to give Monroe County 3|\ OM DOGO OL #4 the new oth attic wee LT, RALPH BASTIAN SEES MUCH ACTION Proposed in the legislature teday by Representative B. C. Papy from Monroe OFFICER FORMERLY SsTA- TIONED HERE WRITES TO FRIENDS (By Asscciatet Press) County. The amendment, if ap- proved by the legislature, would be subject to ratifica- tion at the 1946 general elec- - a if aaeried, ee ‘or a special election ; : within 75 days to elect a new, Lieut. Ralph W. Bastian, USNR senator. who left the Key. West Naval Under a proposed general |Operating Base last June and senatorial redistricting bill|was assigned to’ duty aboard the THE SOUTHERNMOST : KEY WEST, FLORIDA, PERFORTS BLAST JAP PREPARING FOR — EVACUATION OF | AMERICAN UNITS |SOME TROOPS IN EUROPE! i REPORTED TO BE ON| THEIR’ WAY TO PACIFIC} | | THEATER | ‘ (By Axsociate? ream) | WASHINGTON, May 10. 'Preparations are being jrushed to evacuate Ameri- jean troops in the European! jtheater, except the Ameri-| lean army of occupation, | Gas keecema cas | which will number 400,090.' LONDON, May 10.Fivel Some troops are already} ships, loaded with food- on their way to the Pacific! stuffs, have arrived in ports theater, and others are get- in Holland, and other food- ting ready to leave for the} stuffs thave reached that United States. : country by motor truck. | Of the latter, 50,000 will | Despite the flow of food be brought to this country thus far, the people of Hol- monthly in transport planes land were reduced to a ra- and 200,000 in ships. Of the tion that was so scanty they 2,000,000 to be released, are not yet receiving all they. many of them after replace- need. It is being issued in ments, 700,000 of ‘them, small quantities to all the whose cases will be attended people. ‘first, will be the sick, the: Reports that proved to be! wounded and the older men facts after careful investiga-} PORTS IN HOLLAND OTHER FOODSTUFFS HAVE REACHED COUNTRY BY MOTOR TRUCKS Other soldiers who will ret intrdduced in the’House Mon-|U. S. S. Massachusetts as a gun- day by Representatives Cobb nery. officer, has. seen action in ( rand. Bur-. many.of the Pacific battles which well of Broward County, have ‘made newspaper headlines, Monroe County would re- according to letters he has writ- ceive a district of its own. - :'P friends here. in his native Liutenant Bastian, |district attorney HUDSON D. BAYNE Phone of Fort Dodge, Ia., before FINISHES TRAINING entering the Navy, was aide to Capt. C, E. Reordan, base com- tencsial to ‘Tae aay mander, for more than a year, He ‘ort Benning, Ga, May 10. was officer in charge of the Com-| » Hudson D. Bayhe,’son of missioned Officers’ Mess and. the | . and Mrs. D. F. Bayne, 227-D.U:.S.. Hotel Casa Marina. He was Poinciana place, Key West, has popular among scores of Naval won the right to wear the “Boots personnel and civilians in this and Wings” of the United Sta’ area, i Army Paratroopers. He has com. In one of his letters received pleted four weeks of jump train-'here, Bastian relates some of his ing, during which time he made‘ experiences up to March 5. In fiye jumps, the las’ act part, he writes: jump at night involving a com-! “Since bat problem on landing. ‘have traveled many miles—first Jumping at the parachute to the Marshalls, then it was: school has been steadily develop- | Palau, and on the first raid on! ed to a recognized war science. the Philippines and it might be| American paratroopers have been’ <iq the second battle also. Later | recognized throughout the world we took part in the battle at for their meritorious actions in Formosa, Okinawa, ‘up to-Saipan a former leaving Key West, 1, tion, showed that hundreds of thousands of Hollanders hatl--been* subsisting on a mixture of potatoes and su- gar beets-tor several weeks. ' home will remain for furlogy for the Pacific theaic: No men will be reiieveu o1 duty in the Navy, except those of 42, , j jyears or more after they have Four Realty Deals ' been replaced by younger men. | Are Recorded Here: 1» ‘London Prime Minister! Churchill announced that con) 2 ‘ “\ scription will be -continued in Following are transfers ole 1 Britain, and that a large realty recorded in the county percentage of the men conscript-; clerk’s ‘office. ed will be used to replace those Cleveland “Nilés*-has - sold” al who-have long been in the armed house and lot on the southeastly , services of their countr side of Olivia street, near Simon- — ton, to Ellis L. Bradley for PIPPOP OL OL $4,000. The lot has a frontage of Be oie and a depth of 100 feet. TWO MONROE BILLS | Henry Ol Jenks has bought | RECAME LAW TODAY: a house and lot on the southwest- erly side of Grinnell street, near | Catherine, from Charles I. Parks for $2,300. Dimensions of the lot are 26.77 by 93.5 feet. Carlton L. Craig has sold a tract on No Name Key, measur-! ing 123 by 1,320 feet, to John D.' Dillon for $1,200. ‘ Claude L. Lowe has sold a lot (By Anscetated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 10. —HB239, which relieves for- mer Monroe County Tax Col- lector Frank H. Ladd of all liability of refunding fees | that had been collected in NE WSPA : | SIDI TIOI LDS. | tance has ended all over Ger- { } i who still were holding out oh. tv, sisters; Anita Cuervo and only, when they will start to leg ugetbitteen, grandchildren and, seven SABA LL FERE TODAY £680) PER IN THE U.S.A THURSDAY,’ MAY 10; 1945 THREE OF HITLER'S HENCHMEN ad (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 10.—Ra- ‘dio Luxembourg announced ALL RESISTANCE IN "Just A Taste Of What's To REPORTED AS BEING CAPTURED! Come”, Admiral Nimitz De- clares About Attack COP ML SOMA dixticlds And Oil Refin- GERMANY HAS ENDED ey that three of Hitler's (By Associated Vrens? co prerets and wnt tans T ON jincluded Conrad Heimlein, who stirred up. revolt among German nationals in Sude- tenland just before the Ger- ;mans marched in and took | Possession of it. Radio Paris announced the capture of Maximo Wey- tgand and John Borotra, 'ecrack tennis player in the prewar world, who are held ‘for trial on charges of col-! | laborating with the Germans ‘during their occupation of , France. MOSCOW, May 10.—Resis- many, headquarters reported today. The report said that the 100,000 Nazi troops in Latvia, till the announcement that, | if captured. they would be | considered as outlaws and treated accordingly, had marched forward, headed by units holding up white flags. VL hn hd ddd tf) i Vidkin Quisling, puppet gover- ; 0 Mrs. Dolores Cuervo {nor of Norway during the Ger-! Died Last Evening . man occupation, has been captur- led in that country. It was from his name that collaboratignists in} other countries that had been con- quered by Germany -were called | quislings. j The question today has switch- ed from, “Where is Hitler?” to “Where is Heinrich Himm the butcher who put into effect Hitler's commands or killed civil~ ians of occupied countries on his. on initiative. One report today said Himmler was in Norway, another that he was in Sweden, and a third that he is dead. ~ Mrs. Dolores Maria Cuervo, 83,' died last night at her résidence, 624 Louisa St. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 6 o'clock at the residence. Father Johnson of St. Mary’s Star of Sea Catholic Church will offi- ciate. Prichard Funeral Home is in charge. of arrangements. Survivors are, one daughter, Mrs. Maria Villazan of Cuba; one son, Manucl Cuervo of Key West; Manu@la “Tero. of Cuba; one brother, Migucl Calvo of Tampa; gfeat Brandchildren. i GEORGE RAMIREZ 7 >| IN BOMBER GROUI ito the colored section of the city today at 11 k where a small fire wi; liscovered in one of the} idences in Fort Village which Ci The fire department was called; (Speciak to “The Citizen) ! WITH A.d2TH A. _F. B-25 GROUP IN THE MEDITERRAN-;} EAN THEATER, May, 10.—Serv-! as a B-25 armorer, Pvt. First, ass George W. Ramirez, Key! | Lis a member of « 12th Ain {ished with an estimated damage! oe ‘of about $150°to the property. ¢ Mitchell bomber group which has been fighting over the! The alarm was sounded Fon ani ed by the explosion of a! kere stove. ! pne Hi % The blaze: was. quickly exting:| Acquisition of bases within 400/ that they had no troulle in Italian Alps in the greatest acrial box 222, corner of Division campaign in the Mediterrancan|Thomas streets. theater, the Battle of the Brenner Pass, i Every day when the weather) permitted, this group plastered! the key Brenner line targets, sev-! ering the German artery which} ends in a plea for more dogs.!plznes, as well as Superferts, had been supplying the enemy, There are more than 1500 now;phased in the Marianas, will be troops opposing the American on duty in the Pacific. Jused to blast the Jap homeland Fifth Army. The Coast Guard is responsible Since coming overseas, Private Ramirez has been awarded the| | IN COLORED TOWN], , headquarters | hearing lives are being made in inc ing numbers, + | for uses and for the Marine Corps.| within range of carrier planes Formerly this program was hand-| RECENT CENSUS Mrs. V. W. Hutcheson, cen- sus enumerator for Monroe County has furnished The Citizen with a compilation 4rom various districts, which is, however, an‘ report. The list follows: First precinct 749; second. 2,109; third, 1,039; fourth, 1.- 328; fifth, 1,540; sixth, 1,410; seventh, 981; eighth, "1,233; ninth, 955; tenth, 1,213; elev- enth, 385; twelfth, 1.279: twelfth A, 2,803; . thirteenth 328; fourteenth. 135; fifteenth, 446, The fifteen precincts show @ total of 17,924, Fh hake uhe uheubeutadeateas WAR DOGS ARE BADLY NEEDED SINGLE ONE WORTH SIX MEN AGAINST ENEMY INFILTRATION ee (Special to ‘The Citizen) MIAMI. — War Dogs, “a Single ne of which is worth six men in guarding against enemy infil- tration in the Pacific war, are néeded badly in the stepped-up} « Coast. Guard | Japanese “conflict, here — announced Thursday. miles of Javan proper, and forced retirement of many canines who} have completed three years duty makes the need doubly impera- tive. Reports of incidents where a dog’s keen sense of smell and Ame: helped save and each report recruiting dogs for its own| -'stepping-up to the In addition to producing jump- ers, parachute specialist training is given to qualified men in com- munications, demolition, riggers and parachute maintenance, vital skills for airborne troops. SATE Ze TRE IE NORTH BEACH INN COFFEE SHOP Serving Excellent Meals at Reasonable Prices eae Seeery; (the latter for a day and it was already taken.) The China Sea raid was next, French Indo China (Saigon)—Hong Kong—Iwo Jima and both Tokyo raids, and this is a brief up to March 5, and as far} ;as we can mention.” | In that one ‘short paragraph, ;Bastain related action that few | officers and men have experienc- jed. Since many of his friends are istill on duty here, they will wel- |come the news that Bastian is on Key Largo to Harrison R. | Williams for $400. FLAGS WRONG MAN CLOVIS, N. M.—When the en- gine of his automobile developed trouble, Ekie Large flagged a passing automobile for help. The driver happened to be Deputy , Sheriff Charlie Witherspoon, who ; was glad to stop. It just so hap- ;pened that Large was the man BUS NUMBER 3 TO DOOR “carrying on” in the usual Navy|the officer was looking for—the The Palms the demand of our f 917 N. BEACH DR. AIR CONDITIONED Have instalied another machine to supply tradition. Frozen Malt ‘amous confectionery. AT THE BLINKER for YOUR COMFORT e ‘ Now Featuring | DANCING EVERY NIGHT | Music by and The New Cocktail ‘LA CONCHA SPECIAL’ e BREAKFAST Served from . 7:00 A.M, to 11:00 A.M. 12:00 Noon to 2:00 P.M, 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 PIL | stalled car had been stolen. 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 aE | PIONEER HOTEL {151 N. E. FIRST STREET In the Heart of Miami { The Rendezvous of Key West SERVICEMEN and CIVILIANS One Block West of Bus Depot “BEST FOR A NIGHT'S REST“ excess- of commissions, and | European, African and Middle; HB269, which relieves | ast campaign ribbons. | County Tax Assessor Claude Prior to entering the Army,| A Gandolfo of refunding {Pvt. Ramirez was employed by! the McWilliams Dredging Co. of Key West. His father, G. M. Ramirez, re-} |sides at 1209 Margaret street. ’ DILITIIET ———e CONNIE BROOKS| | 728 Fleming St. / \ NOTICE | CLASSIC SCHOOL OF | DANCING Also | similar excess fees, became a ! law today without the gover- | nor’s signature. ; Effective Thursday, May 10, DEVELOPING AND REDUCING! WE WILL CLOSE AT 1 P. M. |KEY WEST WHOLESALE | GROCERY CO. | “PALACE THEATER ROY ROGERS in The Yellow Rose of Texas News and Serial i | | | Duval and Olivia Sts. AND BEAN SUPPER SATURDAY NIGHT AT 8 O'CLOCK eee FOR ELKS AND THEIR GUES Dance On the Patio With An ORCHESTRA In Attendance At the Newly Decorated Club 313 DUVAL STREET ELKS IN SERVICE SPECIALLY INVITED KEY WEST LODGE NO. 551 — B. P. O. E. FREE EATS, -|led by Dogs for Defense. Appli- |eations for enlistment should be forwarded by owners to U. S. /4'Coast Guard headquarters, Wash- DEODORANT CREAM Regular aud Ceiling Price, $1 Limited Time! SALE PRICE @ Buy your summer supply now! Creamy-soft, smooth deodorant keeps you well groomed. Checks under-arm perspiration, stops odor. Men ikeuinesy, Deddaeadt Gres too! Get yours today and save half! SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. Prescription PHONE 199 Duval and Fleming Streets ey jington, D. C. Only German Shepherds and Doberman Pinschers, or a posi- tive cross of the two breeds, will be accepted. The dogs should be 14 months to three and a half ‘years old, at least 24 inches high jat the shoulder and weigh at jleast 55 pounds. No waivers will ibe granted. CARBONELLE’S 602 Duv OUR KITCHEN @PLATE LUNCHEON, Served 1! to 2 P.M @COMPLETE DINNER, Served 5 to 9 P.M. @TASTY SANDWICHES of All Kinds @'Homemade Pies and Cakes Ice Cream Let @Motor Tune-Up @ Batteries Charged @Flats Fixed @First Grade Auto and YOUR PURE Al Armengol. Manager Us Check Your Car POOR OLD C eries Among Military Targets Struck By Big Bombers (Ry Anenctated Press) GUAM, May 10. — The | ku, Admir nounced today, that those a taste of what's to come. Four hundred of the bombers devastated oil fineries and tore air fields | pieces on the three dropping 2,500 tons of high explosive bombs, Object of the raids was to knock out the Jap fields and gasoline and oil supplies, though oth- er military installations were pounded, Fires bw were airmen at a distance of me could-be miles. On alighting at their j bases, th irmen said that the Jap ircraft fire wa ineffective”, and that only a few enemy fighter plane were encountered, The pilots said further {unloading bombs on the tar gets that had been sched uled for attack Bomb after bomb fell on refineries, airfields and war, and industrial ple It was indicated at edgum ters that there will be a decided air warfare ne on Japan "* proper, As was stated several days age by Admiral Nimitz, Japan is now Naha, capital of Okinawa now in full view of Amer soldiers and marines fighting that island, and it was stated that that city is composed piles of flaming or emoking It has been under fire fy air and on land and se ma 2! bombs and shells, poured on &® in many thousands of round ducing practically every butl to ruins. So far as could be from the American line , civilian population he evacuated. 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