The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 8, 1945, Page 1

The Key UW THE SOUTHERNMOST .NEWSPAPER {N..TH ——————— - KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1945)... "POOP HOLLS. Wi) HUNDRED PLANES STAGED RAID France Called On To Alséelated Press Wire Sindee ab veers Ly A, Years Devoted to the of Key West voLu K LXVI. No. 137 E USA PRICE FIVE Japs Begin To Feel Increased Representative Bernie Pap Remove Troops From (Ry Ansoctated Press) CARIO, June &—At a con- ference af the Council of Arab States held here, France was called on today to re- move all her troops from Syria and Lebanon. Repre- sentatives at the council Pointed out that the Atlantic Charter had assured the in- tegrity and independence of small countries, and that the occupation of Syria and Leb- anon by the French was a violation of that assurance. In Damascus, many priv- ileges that had been accorded the French have been revok- ed. Frenchmen have been barred from the customs, and have been stopped from deal- ing in wheat and other com- Gives Outline Of Operations | i City’s New Government Feels That New Charter|Ramos Rites To Be Will Work For Better- Held Here Saturday ment Of Municipality Funeral services for Vicente Ramos who died yesterday morn- la General ting in Miami, will be held tomor- row afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Chapel of the Pritchard Funeral Home. Father Atherton of St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic Church, officiating. while legisl ves nse be in the Catholic) modities. Officials arbors: cessed, said today that, be-' cus issuedan announcement, lnnli N ber, t —_— warning French troops. to "keep off the streets.", ri FORECAST“: way they wish! Key West und Vicinity: Clear} Mrs/ Fox To Install to have it conducted. to partly cloudy with little change " Mr. Papy in temperature this afternoon, to- said, “that opponents of the! night and gentle to a commission-manager form of | Moderate cast to southeast winds,|_ Mrs. C. J. Fox, West Paln government in Key West Flo ida: Partly cloudy today Beach, Fifth District President Revs called me a ‘cxar’ through ‘Saturday, h scattered] will be the installing offi Va" +) afternoon showers over south and{the Auxiliary of Arth but let's see who will have] central portions. terme in each city have been {No small craft or storm warnings Mrs. Key West,Fla., June 8, 1945 an to choose | Observation taken at 8:30 a. m. opportunity “HE HEART OF THE PHONE 199 Duval and Fleming Streets Syria And Lebanon hb hd bd ded Legion Unit Officers | r Sawyer Post No. 128, American Legion, the say-so in determining) Jacksonville through Florida|when they join with the Legion! Bailey, Pc how the affairs of the y | Straits and East Gulf: Gentle to/Post for a gala installation on will be perated. moderate variable winds, mostly|Saturday evening at the Legion “Jacksonville and Hialeah |©#St to southeasterly over south}Home, Southard and White Sts. had charters adopted in this| Portion and south to southwest-) The officers to be installed are session of the legislature,| though north portion today /President, Mrs. George W. Sike and the five commissioners’ weather. si aia Aaa me Pre ae pee Balph Saw for the first alternating! Jacksonville to Apalachicola: Miss Gretna McClain; Chaplain, Previous to the meeting Mrs. TODAY ON AIRFIELDS ON KYUSHU (By Auagelated Prean) 3 GUAM, June 8.— Today|cut into two groups, neither 200 carrier-based American planes blasted airfields on Kyushu, where the bases of suicidal Japanese flyers are located. Hundreds of tons of bombs were dropped on the air- fields, and many Jap planes were destroyed on the ground, and hangars and air- dromes were torn to pieces and set afire. On Okinawa, the remnants of the Jap forces have been of which is able to receive aid from Jap troops else- where, and both of which have their supplies cut off. Two huydred thousand Japs, according to advices received here, have been iso- lated in Burma, ‘Thailand and parts of China. A Chinese army was re- ported to be on the point of recapturing an airplane base in that country that had been occupied by Americans up to eight months ago. FLORIDA’S WAR CASUALTIES Tne Navy Department an- wunees for the United States as a whole. 579 casualties for June 15, 1945, of the U.S. Naval Forces [tlavy, Marne Corps ,and Coast! Guard) not heretofore-released on Navy Department total casualty] lists, consisting of 121 dead,, 400; | wounded, and 58 missing. The: casualties bring the total repor |ed to next of kin and released for | publication since December 7 941, to June 5, 1945, to 115,618. FLORIDA Navy Wounded ton Garnet, Jr., Fire- Iman Ic, USNR. Wife, Mrs, Ruth | Bailey, 616 S. Orange St., Ocala. Parents, Mr. and Mi Peyton Garnet Bailey, Sr., same address. | McGovern, AllensJ., Pvt, US- MCR. Wife, Mrs. Allen J. Me- Govern, 310 E. Pine St., Lakeland. } USM- Phillips, James C., Cpl. Mr. and specified in the charter, In, have been issued. gean eens Nie tree Ps LBL SW. 3 Pat = eS od rs in WEATHER REPORT ie ell and Historian, Mrs. Geo. sell, Hugh, Gunnery Sgt,! rcher. USMC: ife, Mrs. Mary H. Ru: Wi sell, 816 E. Jackson St, and by Appointment USNR. Deborah Day, Ocoll. 1 Mother, Mrs. Fannie Woyas Oswell, Basign, Power Of American Forces Now ‘Striking At Their Homeland LARGEST TRANSACTION IN REALTY ON|%ipvons Are taced with KEYS NOW IN PROCESS * The largest transaction in realty on the Florida Keys is now OF COMPLETION 0224242422444 44444 To Visit Lions Clubs Threats Of Com plete Destruction Of Country in process of completion between] WYVwwvrrvr errs ews =e the Island Holding Company of (Ry casectated Pree Florida and the Perky Properties, | GUAM, June 8 — With Inc., as sellers, and Raymond E. Crane, as purchaser. All capital stock in those corporations are to be conveyed to Mr, Crane. The two corporations owned acreage on practically every key between Buca Chica and Key Largo. The listings are so many the tide of war rising om! nously against Japan, the Japanese Domei news egen- cy said today that a move- ment is coming to a head in that country whereby the dict will be temporarily St ecke 3s FI oe USNR. Parents, Mr. and. Mrs it required 13 pages to enter) iil " George; Bisha Woods, Highland tian. ‘ abolished and all gover ae z . Dead—Eur: i : a , i ‘ lias Rl epee nae pany of Florida and Perky Ie by imperial decree. SET EME EIR ce San cess, ince whereby, te prop-| | The ageney pointed ot 1 Dumora Aven Coral Gabe. i ty is a ; dl fonist ae MOG Tr that the future of Japan Lc arlos Hensley, Robert H. Harris so acutely aff i by the Army Dead, Pacific Area jand B. L. Whitten, as executors continued bombings by | Whitlock, Samuel H., Pvt. hus-land trustees of the will and testa- fl i . band of Mrs. Myrtle P. Whitlock,{ment of R. C. Perky, ‘who de- tig gel Gen. Del., Bay Harbor, veloped the place on Sugar Loaf! for the government to wait Wilkinson, Roy D., Sgt., son of that was named after him fon decisions made by th Tom Winkinson, Lacoochi Mr. Pe experimented for diet before taking action. ' Army Wounded—Ewropean Area Ward, Henry M., Pvt., son of John P. Ward, Bay Spri Army Wounded—Pacific Area Cook, James F., Pfe., son of Mrs. Edna Helwig, Route 4, Mil- ton. Edenfield, Robert A pt., son of Mrs. Mary K. Edenfield, 438 St. Francis St., Tallahassee. Etheridge, Oscar D., Pvt., son of Virgil D. Etheridge, Booker St., Crestview. many years in the growing of sponge in Sugar Loaf Sound, and he had a bill passed in the legis- lature giving him full control of the sound, but residents of Key; West, particularly seafaring men, protested so strenuously, with The Citizen strongly supportitig their views, the Jaw was repeal- ed, and the Internal Improvement Fund returned the sound to the people of Monroe county. 1214 White St. Phone S4Q GERALD SAUNDERS ' Gerald Saunders, one of the charter members of the Key West Lions Club, will leave tomorrow morning to visit all the clubs in the ‘lower east coast of Florida, of which he is district deputy. | Making the row Phone 29 1201 White St. Bia Ses oan ae “jour country is of the clubs: ' “We need immediate a tion, faced as we are wiih threats of the destruction of * Domei onic, “to try rome thane threats, only way immediate action can be takd jen is through imperial de+ | cree.” ; It was pointed otit here, where the Domei broades Will veceive @ large shipment of Whiskey early next “eck their tirst commissioners, | Eastern Wer Tine. (Clty Office) |¥0x pnd the ‘honored: guest of | “GREEN, Dewey’ F., Sgt. son of] noe bec piven Mr, Craiy he the, Will Keep iin away mime days, i recorded, that this tei who were named by legisla- Temperatures the Legion will have dinner at!” Strickland, Rey L., Cpl, USM- Mrs. Mattie Green, Box 956, Key lirestece, cy cll th, Crain by the Sunday, June 17, ‘he will speak @st move of the Japs, sauce tive act. | Highest last 24 hours gg|Casa Cayo Hueso and following|CR. Cousin, Watson Martin, Oak-) West. ito a on all the holdings: of at the conference of Lions Ciubs the bombing of Japan began, “Florida Law empowers; Lowest last night gu {the installation ceremonies alll | and. ' | Long, Hareld D., Pvt. son of|*B® Corporations and all interest jn this district to be hell at West! is of litthd consequence, be- the legislature to name com-| en — * . a4jmembers of the Auxiliary and! Sumler, Henry L., Pfe., USMC.' Arthur Long,. Raute 2, Orange}? the holdings, except a one- palm Beach, and the following! cause the alle well a e ; the ad | Normal 81{Legion wifi enjoy a buffet suppér | Motficr, Mrs. > B. Sthhler, Ave, Fort Piers. * “fhalf interest. in mincral rights day be will Jeave for bome: ry other, . govermmental eee om We asoption —— and dancing. 1519 Celery A nford Rowe, Perry, Jr, Cpl, husband {that had cicen: soll to Joe M. Other clubs tint he will yisitier® Tr Hf 4 of a charter, but I refused to Precipitation Mieahioeaullvattive un: the city, Navy Missin SEINE IDOLOLNG, we. 1727| Dawson, and two. Ic ROL mibe, nieve Lake Pornpano, #2euey, is subhibsiye ty i =A Y ig rs. Dorothy M. Rowe, 1727 : u the do that; 1 insisted in letting | Rainfall, 24 hours ending Saturday noon accompanied by! , Robert Leroy, Radioman SW. 18th Ave.) Miami. erals that had’ been given Will- Coral Gaby ch and WI of he ginpEerar the people of Key West) 8:30 a. m, inches 0.00|her husband, Chas. J. Fox, and Se liam G. Blanchard. and J.P. Miami Sprit speak of the digt 4 choose their own commis-| Total rainfall since May 1; Mr. and Mes. R. R. Brown, i Eh nee To | Scranton, iepresentative. of com- 2 . any directive pow i | . ' pines Trace] Mr. and Mrs. Brown are respec” MAKES REPORT ON’: RECEPTIONAGIVEN —_ |!imles that have been obtaining Tiong Club Held icles pour wes are tow erippled t phic tively Post Commander and Past ¥ ee . leases on the Florida Keys = nd the obsect Raniah cone ak. Anerm had Slice Jun. 1, 021 [ President of the Fifth District | HANDLING SNAKES; FOR JUDGE LOPEZ {the last four years \ Meeting | Night Jap war lords in ey wm the rumer that had bee ‘otal wainfall since Jan. 1; i pales Pie an Pru ial . ! for impreial er a Smaak. ttmokeon | mally é a B95 1 et @ ae Ole | HERE LAST NIGHT prouy Defendants aes Boy PAP e irae ype: ; Deficrency since January 1; ~ 1 SILVER SPRIN Tune = eet ‘ The Key West Lions Club held mo he le ‘ n Tallahassee that T 3 Ae | A oy, ER Hy une 8. 2 irriedeUhursdavel igo See eG of « teed wl wll te nan fort} IMM ay Helena Rubinstein’s: |:0cs Atten announced at his Rep- Pcie Mears: Gounty au) eee incite eh aud ante Japa pice pemeren: jee [er ee \ . bl itile Institate here today that he{Asseciation held a reception ih] Criminal Court goowing guests: Theodora R consider ~ - ” Ps a sgh — ne i | eee | incompara e thad handled — 73,960 poisonous |*"® home of County Attorn ileaea f xe ler, Edward T. Richter, USN, carrying: out th lon they must be chosen p ee Weta ial 9 Julius F. Stone, Jr, and a ban-} Billy E. Brown, 20, and Rufus vernon Fi q , Tomorrow's Almanac snakes since January 1, 1942, Julius Vernon reople hes by the people, and as the com-j}, 1 yo cn ‘ a x Jones, Je, re convicted ye es NMAC peepiy,, wae chiasioners will chum » manager,|cUnrise | APPLE BLOSSOM |wheh he begun to be swamped |uet in La Casa Cayo Hueso il iciiay” atiernoon in crinin Sa u ae dues as the war ts tean be seen readily how ridicu- | = f: leith war contracts for venom |ner of Circuit Court Judge) coi ono charge Gf having con iad 4 itteodol tt yn a a i ee roland 7 id a - fused in making the life-saving |*Tiline Lopez [mitted an immoral act, but the yy Mitchell, as their med ssaatnaby'y. a whe the ran-) a | edreat Racretrin ©) At the banquet County Judge jury recommended that, in the cate of Mi Jay aa <A tK Tomorrow's Tides’ | aay cecerittey ARE ume in_[Raymond 2. Lord, president of mse Claw tall Be Grilled) 107 Mies ties lor hy er ‘ Wea I I tuced ob (Naval Base) é fr the ociation, called on cach wn, is the jury consider- ed several vocal i i High Tide eae jfermation, Mr, Allen pointed out} ; ee io neaideune en preaee ds aT anon a Bygerterd| ES TEST: 2: \ that be had personally produced Memento make a belek addiess ed to dee t r ‘ul 1 ‘ pete Woof us, who are fa . Neast one-he ve Wrasse ar Peake leu Principal basin A : nd a : = Aig | TEMPERATURE BULLETIN ie ao ae of the vengin eup quet were among the most pleas- | Jones was figed 42 the gopug and packing ree sana ait Temperature data for the 23] plied to the -nativn’s laboratories jant thv-bar has ever held flut was perimifted to rere ing donated by residents for th ww Se ed hasuee ait the city's| Hours ending 8:30 a. m., as report since January; 1942. Present. besides dudges Lepez}key Weak tgough Judge opis cto ty Monit, | be tical I vb tantron hooks that should not|ed by the U.S. Weather Bureau “Each snake was handled four: #4 Lord: and Mr. Stone, were Ayaayed i, at if, he wa chaicwnan 4 2 ation iguest aLawest f i Roger Watkins, Allan B. Cleare, iy feted: agtih on a cimilar ehiige, | 1 that) W have the \ Ge ‘ Ge there. They have orc peg last 24 hours last night tines," he pointed out, “three Jy. "Enrique Esquitialdy, Jr, Willé]he too: would. be PDE RAT Cees ecaiie: Ganidl stand eat Bug: (db Of Me tot atonn oe . oto igo | Atlanta Pee sei times while being ‘milked’ and jam V. Albury, George Brooksi¢the communit ? cho digs oe fa a : ; : wnd they include » names 5 . 1 1 ‘ark, next ea evenin : Sr eeie keae diiet dead, ac Rome 55 ence while being uansierred to, John G. Sawyer, retiring Judge ER Munninganuatecs Stan she ieee aan ae ok ie de well as hundreds of names of) Brownsville rest. pens. Now that the war E Circuit Court Clerk | y Bien costs wea ate the cooperation of resi-} Nazi warloards, abette r Key Westers who have, Charleston - Europe is over at least half er, Judge Thomas | in jail, on a charge of “oper ;dents in completing, the let, told the German a gone elewhere to reside Chicago 50 | the job of supplying venom Lancelot Lester and | profanity”, and George Cohen, | ————___ do under threat f A third measure to protect the | Detroit 48 completed.” ;Captain Paul Sawyer, USA, whojcharged with failure to detiver| Isquads or the hangman i 5 a | nterests of Key Westers is a law,| Galveston 19) j Mr. Allen bitten twice intis a member of the bar and ista certificate toa car he had sold} : if they didn't de i, vad the ) whieh [ introduced in the House, aeeeeyle ee jhandling this unusual war home on furlough found not guilty R pS p J O tondition wil w mains equiring that City elections be apseoald ue 7) jtact, the second bite, on Ke 2 ee eee toe Japan, with the rest that t hele oting machines. 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