The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 14, 1945, Page 4

YORK, May 14.—Prefab- floating drydocks and re- centers have provided phar.- homeland, 4 Chester W. ‘Nimitz; Pe commander in, chief, them “gne.of of théligreat- weapons,” but recent disclosures have permitted of part of the fabu- sory. moye ship repair int ag the front lines, elim- the task of sending dam- warships back thousands of toa yy drydock. This be~ ane important as Paige a can be only reptired, but usually suffi- work can be done to permit to get to land under their power. Many are rehabili- iy. ~ In a war waged over the long- gore lines in history, some the daring exploits of fleet ‘and individual skippers in - : the! remote la- a damaged he only a ary i piers ee ae from other types ot sections. The facilities for handling me-} chanical problems are similar to; those in. a Navy..port at home.! Only these facilities are set against a background of jungle the streets are water,’ with stoi of smalleraft dodg- eat pos eH ike trucks and automobiles while, the flags and‘ blinkers of the fips become al amid service and Quonset huts! jouses. Many details of how the ary | docks are organized and operat- ed must wait until the Pacific war ends, but the American Insti tute of Steel Construction says the types of equipment now func- tioning vary enough to accommo- date anything from “tin cans” to big battleships and aircraft car riers. One type of dock is a, vesscl made of a pontoon hull and car- rying upright walis which form an, open-ended trough. It is sub- merged by admitting water to! compartments in the hull. A war-j ship then floats into the dock.! The water is then’ pumped from} the compartments so hat the! dock rises until the warships bot-! tom is exposed—ready — exam-, ination and rep: ‘ks for’ fat a vant Base vessel to the! a of foe Secti ) is nb ned in two sizes—for battleships and cruisers= and cam | Pythian Sisters . To Entertain | “Key West Temple No. 20 will hold: its regular annual sock so- cial tonight, 8 o'clock, at the hall’ on Fleming street. Everyone is invited to attend: The following program will be resented: Pecies song—America. Flag presented by Roger Arch- er. Salute to the flag—Zola Marie Camus. Instrument 1 duet = Nottage and/Faye Berval eading—Bertie Higgs. Sclection—Robert “Archer. Songs — June and Ann Yates,’ Elsie Thompson and Zola Camus. ‘Solo—Rev. Reinke. rrain Violin solo-Gerald Saunders. , — Mother — Lillie: Reading Kemp. Reading—Florida Thompson. MARINES LOSE (Continued from Page One) cause of the difficulty in | capturing it, as had been the case at Iwo Jima. Naha, though a smolder- ing ruin, is still being fanat- ically fought for by the Japs, who are under constant shell bomb attacks. | Despite e barrage of shells poured int6 the city by American ar- tillerists, the Japs .are still eplying with agtillery and I lengths ‘up . tox 40 ccc ‘mi r fire. giv with a lifting capacity of 10-thou-+ per fi Tokyo repor ted sand ‘long tons. A urfit of 16 sections when, as-j .sembled takes an effective lefgth of 827 feet and will clear a bat- tleship. Seven sections measure, about 725 feet and will take a jas or aircraft carrier. A YFD (Yard Floating Dock) is’ & 14,000 to 18,000 tons capacity’ and has two ends ‘of shorter sec-} tions which fit-into a center span, approximately 375 feet long. . An ARD (Auxiliary Repair k). takes care of destroyers, nding ships.and similar craft. An AFD (Auxiliary Floating Dock) handjes yard and patrol eraft, mine layers a cert and various smal that the Americans have 100,000 men on Okinawa, and that the airfields there are being enlarged to accom- 'modate as many as 400} {bombers at a time. It will be , from these fields that Flying :Fortresses and Liberators | will take off to bomb Japan. Two columns of American soldiers on Mindanao are within 40. miles of cutting that island in two from north to south. In capturing the largest airfield on the island, ithe. Americas seized air-! roughly , plane, parts that val at $1,00 ‘ cedeccccccccccccccccececcseccs Song—What A Friend We Have} | ;In Mother. GUARDSMEN CATCH TARPON eg b a. i aN al _|liver extract. Vy te | i Games and music—Earl Yates! ( * and Mr. Sjursen. i | Official Navy Photograph TWO TARPON weighing: 79 and 81 pounds are the trophies of three Coast Guardsmen in Key West. Left to right are: R. L. Lee, BMlc. of Tarpon Springs; D. I. Green, BM2c, Fort Myers Beach, and C. E. Hovatter. Ylc, Grafton, W. Va. "| ANNOUNCEMENT OF | LOCAL ‘WEDDING | Betty Jean McCants and Joseph y J. Villareale were married on Sat- urday evening, at the city hall, by Notary Public Roy Hamlin, ‘Witnesses to the marriage were rlen Lee Bach and Frank Cara- ballo. JOSEPH FRAGA IS NOW RECOVERIN (Special te The Citizen) THE 828TH CONVALESCEN’ CENTER, . England, May 14. Wounded in the right thigh, leg, | shoulder, and hand by sharpnel) la as an 88mm. shell, fired from a! tank, burst nearby, Private First | Class Joseph Fraga, 31, of 515! Division street, Key West, is now/ recovering at this United States Army ‘convalescent center jEngland. ‘ | “We had just crossed the Saar River into Germany, and I was {digging a foxhole in open country when I was wounded,” Pfc. Fraga said. “Within 45 minutes I had been helped to a jeep: and taken frantically looking. . \back across the river ona Hoey |mounted on the jeep.” | Subscribe to The Citizen—25c/ i After receiving treatment. at weekly. * , jan evacuation hospital, he was! ysent to England by “hospital ship. | | was eniployed as a clerk for the} He has been awarded the Purple, sPuperiaarket Stores. His mother, | fit Heart. : |Mrs. Teresa Frega, lives} at the Before entering the Army, he Division beady address. x x “GETS $1,000 IN ERROR _— St’ Louis. — After buying two| in pairs of hose, Mrs. Boyd Rogers| ‘received a paper bag from the clerk. Returning home, she open- ed what she concluded was the bag containing the hose but, in- stead of hose, she found $1,000; for which the store had been joil an AP Newsreatures as a substitute in human diet un- The carp and the dogfish, once| til the war. ~ known as somethingsto keep Jade Since 1941 dogfish liver prices catching, are climbing the pisca- have jumped from five to 38 cents} which had e a pound, and witH that the social) pefore it torjal ladder to respectability in ae of fhe once-scorned fish hasithe alarm by fi the United Siates and Canada: | come full circle; the British Co-| wires, At Lansing, Iowa, the corn that! jumbia fisheries are now prepar- made Iowa famous is being fed to! ing conservation asi to ssissippiRiver cary rendeyjikeep thelispeeits AR eas Keir normally flabby flesh pala-' table, w Bri Columbia's} YULE TREE CAUSES DEATH fish oil industry’ is entering its pits Peis fourth year of traffic gs dogfish} philadelphia, Pa. — Entranced the shiny objects of new- The carp: long: & “trash fish” to ian Christmas on little Sportsmen, is getting royal treat-|Carleton Adams, 2, alone in the ment at the Lansing fisheries, liying room of his home, climbed whose proprietors, Jack and Cy/on 4 chair, reached tei a shiny Ehrlich, let the fish live in clean,| 164 ‘opntiniiat! dev the tree. Losing |* ‘An “Ae ican Baw cold, artisian spring water and feed them Iowa shelled corn daily. fertdirsestes: he fell and was fa-|Coming: “Sweet and Low Down” Two of :the . Ehrlich’s artesian HE SAID A POTFUL PREP. Do you believe in women? Yes, if kindness fails. ponds produced a quarter-million pounds for the market last year. Firm-fleshed and clean after their corn diet and artisian' baths,| “Why did you throw the pot of the carp are shipped alive to New geraniums at re perant ELSA LANCHESTER in York and Philadelphia markets} “Because of an advertisement, “PASSPORT DESTINY” by special rail cars, and to middle |your honor.” <0 “Murder On The western cities by tank trucks. “What advertisement?” mn =o soma = MLA Mirena The average fish weigh three to] “Say it with flowers.” TED IN HEART OF *crr | five pounds; some weigh 30. A earn future development at Lansing is WITH BATH and a brine formula for curing corn- fed carp, after which they would besmoked, like hams, over a a et fires, ideo lambia’s di h, colisi neo ue ei e na varia of the Pa-| cific because it ‘only Bare and, often ruined fishermen’s, nets,’ n'a il cont ing itac!| in’ if “AM has rep! cod! liver, oii ish diéts oad the | war interrupted cod shipments from Norway. It is ‘also used a live stock and poultry feeding in: Canada and the United States. | Fliers have found dogfish liver} _—$—_—$_—— important medicine for. night blindness, and Canada has! already exported 21,000 gallons of the 100,000 gallons of the stuff, $ she promised the starved nations’ of Europe through the United Na-' tions Rehabilitation and Relief Administration. | Scientists in British Columbia were Studying the properties of! dogfish liver as long ago as 1932. They developed a blend of dog- fish oil and pilchard oil which Sand the necessary vitamins} ” and “D” iva} thir}, potenay sila ae of Pp roduct |was nop ppl ‘used | ~~ 4 i ROCATI RATIONING TIMETABLE WER cinpon oape eis _ June 2; N2-S2 through June 30; T2-X2 through July 31; Y2 - Z2- Al - Cl through August 31. Red Y5, Z5 A2-D2 through ‘0; K2-P2 through July 31 ; K2-P2 through July 31; GASOLINE Q2-U2 through August 31. 15A through June 33 ‘Ration Beard Office, Post Office Building 9000 00000000000000000000 0000800800080 S88 -— = Ne poy Bs, FUEL Old period, 4 and od Ls through Bn Starting Tuesday, (Tomorrow) at 10 A. M. Porterhouse Steaks T-Bone Steaks ub Rib Roast Round | English Cut” : Miovound Beef Hamburger SPECIAL SALE OF FRESH SHIPPED GRADE “A” EGGS. doz. 52c Trop ORANGES doz. BRING YOUR RATION POINTS ical Quick Freeze Comp Corner Grinne’l and Caroline Streets “Opposite City Sponge Dock”