The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 25, 1945, Page 1

“Service sod AP Bostaree" Years Devoted to the of Key West "eat VOLUME LXVI. Now 151 Admits Loss ——_____. That information was giv- en the Japanese people dur- ing @ radio broadcast, in which the spokesman said, “Imperial headquariers an- nounced today that it Had not heard anything fronr the! Japanese garrisons on Oki-! nawa, since June 22, and it is tnai island is in Pomession of enemy forces.” | In another statement Domei, aj Jap mews agency, was quoted as! saying that many Japanese may} think that their country is more vulnerable since the fall of Oki- fewa, but such is not t 2 MANY JOBS NOW AVAILABLE ANNOUNCEMENT MADE TO- DAY BY HEAD OF LOCAL EMPLOYMENT OFFICE mand, discounting the further use! of that island, has made prepara-| tiem that will withstand every | onsiought by the Americ: Apprexim: jobs" Meanwhile, U. S. Planes toaay' 8 Ree WO aiobssars blasted Kyushu and also islands *Vailable for Key Westers, Jett im the Ryukyu ehain, which lie Knight, Jr, head of the United southwest of Okinawa jStates Employment Service, 324 Planes from the Philippines at-'Simonton street, said thi: = tacked military objectives in Foc- ing. i coe ee eee and Hong Kong, and re = turned pilots said they had sunk That many positions are open, severe! Japanese junks in the wa- he added, with few takers, re- ters m those areas. {gardless of the reports about REP. PAPY ARRIVED {Cares : Setitolns.easing in, IN CITY ON SUNDAY Civil guards, stenographers and ar other employes are needed in the Florida senate dead- army, and navy, Mr. Knight said, With the jand clerical help of a general na- wer the porti P Fy reapportionment ‘ture is needed outside of the exentative Bernie C i armed services. rrived here yesterday for He explained that Uncle Sam is looking out for the men re- turning home from war, more so than local orga’ are doing, and for that reason} {veterans will be given prefer- enc My. Knight concluded, prenere are many jobs available.” |MORE PROPERTY SALES ANNOUNCED visit. He expects to begin wen trip to Tallahassee to-, no indication i north Fi ak their of yet that sena rity to ionment to the oth agreeable NEGRO HELD FOR GRAND JURY ACTION last two months an occa- The Rng | sional visitor has called at the . _ eg pase ae county courthouse to ascertain ee. bat Pride winht, was nin | what keys in the Floride chain negro last Friday night, was BIV-| were for sale, as a result of which on « hearing this morning by | negotiations are in process, with ase Ju om rE gg and the announced purpose of pur- wee held without bail ior act " chasing them. Thus far only one has been sold, of the grand jury Testimony was that Kennon| according to recordings in. the eppeeied te Williams, who was! county clerk's office, and ‘that is beating his wife in the home of | Big Stirrup Key, comprising 47.10 two whom she was visit- when he | $15,000 by Sanford B. Chandler pick from an inside| and Joseph C. Mackey to Sher- und stabbed Kennon | man M. Fairchild. James Dean has sold a lot on Emma street, near Olivia, to Wil- liam F. Sawyer, senior and junior, PERSISTENT BURGLARS —— for $600. Dimensions are 44.9 by Los After burglars} 97 feet sis cafe three times,| Eleven and three-quarter acres} « 1 installec aera on Plantation .Key have been} Sinan eee vught | transferred by Charity Johnson to} ‘ teeta Goodell wishes |G. B. Smith for $5,000. | that they would stop, because! is interfering with| NEW USE FOR BIG FEET Helena, Mont. — When Repre- ee sentative Larry W. Gusch, of WE ARE... |Baker, Mont., planked his No. HYDRAULIC BRAKE 13's down on his desk in the {Montana House of Representa- SPECIALISTS Let Us Check Your Brakes Leu Smith Auto Service White et Fleming Phone 5 ed Army Barrecks” | Se Scan OR I, |tivse with “Vote 110" on the sole: it h jwai | for House Bill s in white chalk, | ad the desired effect—the bill | passed. NEW HOUSE FOR SALE Two Rooms 12 x 26. Reasonable Price. Built to be Moved. 1 Apply: DAN L. NAVARRO Honduras Bananas —= >= | PER RUPERT KNOWLES |“San Diego I Love You” James Street | News and Serial \ | The Key | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE af By JACK STINNETT: ‘ (By Atncciates | Preaines** WASHINGTON, D. C., June 25. fe are some red faces: these days over in the War Department and on Capitol Hill too. The Army Nurse Corps put them there. It has hardly been more than a few weeks since War Department officials, particularly those in the Surgeon General's office, were telling members of Congress that unless we drafted nurses for the Army our wounded would suffer immeasurably. A good many congressmen ened shortage of nurses. In the House, some even voted for the draft who didn’t-believe that any single group should be spotted the Army’s word for it that the nurse. shortagewas critical. heh} ‘beford+the- bill: had ‘made bar tment:started ‘passing the word around: The! pressure for a draft Of jmirses suddenly) Jightened. ‘he! Othér day Surgeon Genér?| al'Norman T. Kirk’s office cam j out with the flat-footed announce- ment that “the progress of the THREATENED SHORTAGE OF NURSES FOR/ARMY: THOROUGHLY DISCUSSED were as sincere as could be in’ “viewing with alarm” the threat-! for a special draft. They just took | any:ireal /headway, ‘the’ War De-| ‘I (7772222224 N PAPERS HAVE’ BEEN SEIZED | ‘By ‘Anedelated Press) - LONDON, June 25.—It was | revealed today tiat German diplomatic papers had been seized to demonstrate con- vincingly that Generalissimo Franco, dictator of Spain, had been lined up with the Axis Fowers during ie war in the European theatre. In February, 1941, Franco declared he was with the Axis ‘to final victory,” and asked to be permitted to an- nex Gibraltar and Morocco when the Axis won the war. In return, he stated, he would help the Axis powers by playing the role of a neu- tral, and, in taat way, would be able to get goods from the United States and Great Britain which he could re- ship to Germany and Italy. gress had battled the War D | partment draft plan with the ind 1 Sistence that nurses would rally | to the colors as soon as they real-|/ ized the situation was becoming critical. They were thoroughly vindicated. i | Rep. Frances P. Bolton, the con}! | gresswoman from Ohio, ‘said “It ; was exceedingly gratifying to those of us who, because of strong statements of the war Depart- |ment, voted for the draft legisla- tion to find that our contention that the nursing profession would furnish an adequate number of, nurses by the volunteer method) tonce they were adequately in-| ;formed of the need, has proved \itself true.” What the public doesn’t know; generally is how the nurses an-! swered that call, once they were’ really informed. In 1940, a year, | before Pearl. Harbor, the Army | Nurse Corps consisted’ of tewer DOM” MM MUM than’1,000 nurses. In 1944, -when War Department officials first be- APPEARS REDS WILL ENTER WAR Ld list. Army nurse recruiting program; In addition, there are.2,139 sen+ has reached such a favorable} ior cadets serving with the Army. stage that intensive recruitment: measures are no longer neces-| Corps will see nearly 3,000 grad- This month the Cadet Nurse. AGAINST JAPS mately : 42,300 ‘were serving. LEND-LEASE SUPPLIES TO | BELIEVED KEY WEST MAN {state attorneyship, sary.” In other words, the War De- partment not only was abandon- ing any idea of a nurses’ draft, but was having to relax’ its re- cruitment. program to keep from getting more nurses than needed. A few courageous souls in Con- T day the ‘number is more than yi RUSSIA CAUSES THIS 700, with about 2,000 more volut tary applications on the waiting BELIEF IN MANY QUAR- TERS | uated; 550 more in July; another, 3,000 in August, and in Septem-; ber a record total of 11,000. | There are other professions which have rallied nobly to the, war cause, but few who have, come through to date like the i ‘ .By Asaoerstea Prean) WASHINGTON, June 25. nurses, SPECULATION OVE ASST. To -MINCER snail WILL BE NAMED TO POSITION Appointment Saturday by Gov- ernor Caldwell of Glenn C. Min- cer of Miami as state attorney in this district, succeeding, Stanley | Milledge, who was. named. a cir- cuit court judge, started specu- n in Key West as to the local Mr. Mincer will name as stant in this county. nobody locally While anything of a positive nature that went on behind the scenes in the conferences that were held to de- termie on the judgeship and the knows yet informa- tion, not official, ha eped into Key West that So-and-So will be named as: ant. His name is not used by The Citizen for two reasons: the re- port mgy not be true and, if it is true, it would embarrass him, be- cause Tallahassee may think he had given out the mformation. While’ discussing the appoint- ment of a local man as assistant to Mr. Mincer, this Key West at: R PROBATION JOB. An announcement today by Administrator Crowley con- cerning the shipment of ‘Lend-Lease: supplies'to Rus- IS ABOLISHED COPY oF mae pomna awar’ offietal>statement about the re y that Russia will WITH JUVENILE JUDGE "* ALSO RECEIVED __ He said that not a single Vitem “of Lend-Lease good was being sent to Russia by way of Europe, but that all of the supplies, consisting of Copy of the law abolishing the juvenile court in Key West and transferring it to’ the’ county judge, to obtain which, as re- ported The Citizen, Judge Raymond Lord had written to Secretary of State Gray, was re- ceived by the former Saturday afternoon and, according to its provisions, he has been juvenile judge ever since June 11, the day the bill became a‘law with- out the governor's signature. Juvenile Judge Frank UO. Rob- erts, who, according to a pro- vision in the law li continue to receive his y for the re- maining 42 months of his tenure of office, bad been awaiting word from Tallaha about his position, but, when he was shown the iaw, he said he would not ,hold any more trials. The frobation office in the county salso was abolished on June 11. along the ver. ments are going to Siberia by way of the Sea of Japan. In veaching their destination ;the ships, presumably Ru: ‘sian, pas the west coast of and churia, along Korea the northern border of Manchuria the Jap command has concentrated an army of m™ than 1,000,000 men to be re should a war break out with Russia. {has more than a million troop: well equipped, in Siberia along the Manchurian border. Several ! times, while Russia was at’ brips torney said: “I have not heard)a (Under the law, the sheriff's with Germany, Russian and Jap thing about it.” office will take over the duties troops clashed! in | bordet'» dis- Stahiley “Milledge; ‘who made formeriy performed by the pro- putes. acres, which was conveyed for! many friends in Key West during bation officer. his visits here, will assume the office of judge on July 1, and on that date Mr. Mincer wi begin his duties as state attorney. Jaycees Group To Hold Installation === Tuesday night of next week. the Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce will install their recently elected officers. They are: esident, Dr. Delio Cobo; vice Jack Delaney; secre Wilbur Moehrke; treasurer, {Charles Wardlow; state director, V!sion stree Jeff Knight. Jr.; board of direc- tors, Ralph Sierra, Kermit Lewin, Fred Edwards and Ralph Feral- do. DUVAL at SOUTHARD, GE HOOD’S POULTRY and EGGS Large Supply BATTERY RAISED CHICKENS 919 Southard Street ‘GRRE | CALL | 9 _SPAIN’S SERVICE | w. Bp. HANSON (Complete Service for Your Car) : . 1101 White St. Cor, Eliza | Pic ALONE a8 PLUMBING SERVICE Parts are available for your car. . Hf we don’t have ‘em, we'll @Supplies : | get ‘em for you. @ Inst. lations Let GREASE & SPRAY ¥o"" eeerae Comment here was:that Russia j may be viewed now as a “passive t Man-! The latter country alsoj © To Pepa Tne Navy Department an- rounces for the United States as a whole 374 casualties for June 25, 1945, of the U. S: Naval Forces (Navy, Marine Corps and Coast /Guard) not ‘heretofore released on Navy ‘Department’ total: casualty lists, consisting ‘of 73 ‘dead, '294 wounded, and‘ 7: missing. |These ‘asualties’ bring’ the’ total’ report- ded to next/of kin and released for publication: since December 7 11941, to June 25, 1945, to 121,705. FLORIDA Navy Wounded Buchanan, Bonnie Bronzell, Pvt., USMC. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie Buchanan, West Bay.| Edwards, Jack Clark, P-Sg USMC. Mother, Mrs. Anita Ed- wards, 404 S, Melville Ave., Tam-) pa. | Hamilton,, James Joseph, Cpl,’ UEMC. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Hamilton, 118 S. Tampa; Ave., Orlando. | Harris, Richard Earl, 2nd Lt. vyvvvvvv—" - *By°BOB THOMAS +4: Aspocinted Presnt HOLLYWOOD, June 25.—To- ‘enter the war against Japan.| day's citation for brotherly love < es to Jack Hope who «reads 8,000 ran “Terters Witla’ vorne™ every | week to his brother Bob. | Jack, who is moustached and three years older than his come- {dian brother, is personal business ‘materials of war, were being | manager of the Hope ‘organiza- q, shipped’ to that country) liom" That includes everything stance, there might be a thousand , but nothing ts from managing the Hope Metal of! Co, and Hope Productions, which three Japan; that is, all the ship-| handles the radio show, to acting hurses’.” as custodian of the gag file and tending to the fan mail. “I read every single letter Bob jreceives,” Jack said. “The mail ‘gives me a v accurate indica- | tion of the public reaction. If Bob makes a good picture or broad-' Z or one that is not so good,’ oon hear about it.” ! Recently in Kansas City, Jack illustrated, Bob did a war bond 'she The ticket sale was set for 8:30 one morning, but because of |the crowd, the booths opened ! and were sold out by 8:15. iSeveral thousand bond buye re disappointed when, they jrived too Jate and they wro ‘Bob abpyt it. Jack will see {no such situatign will occyr,z | “Almost half.,the,, fan, , | now, come, from -England,” | said, Sinée, Bob, was ,over, there and the people found, out he, was; re For. Another Conflict FLORIDA’S WAR CASUALTIES VIV VV VV TV T VT TTT C TTS PONS Of war, JACK INVOLVED IN HOPE BUSINESS ja came far neater than any RAseeha sd ddaaeessaeessssssseseeeeee | Latin-American | Z owners oval eh 0 SEA SRL ON A oe ' * Statement Made Hefore ET USMC. Father, Robert P. Harris, mittee By Asst, See Graceville. Keen, William Earl, Pfc, US-| retary Of State MC. Wife, Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Keen, 300 SW. 59th St., Miami. Winder, Alexander F., Sr., Pfe., \husband of*Mrs. Dorotl, | Pin- der} Riviera’ Beach. band of’ Mrs. Margaret son, c/o C. H: Stevens, Star Route, epushed there is Bayard. | of its isi ARMY LIBERATED PRISONERS years as a« military OF WAR—FLORIDA Bozeman, Mahlon, Pfe., son of Leon H. Bozeman, Route 2, Box 194, Panama City. Duckworth, Milton H., Capt., husband of Mrs. Hazel Irene Duckworth, 8217 Klondyke St., Tampa. ' Hever, Jack B., Jr., T-Sgt., son of Jack B. Hever, Sr., 320 Mth Ave. NE., St. Petersburg. | Besides, Mr, Cla fied, the Nazis ha lished hundreds of = : i : i “If a gag is not so good, he that may be used leaves it unmarked, If it is good,' ing weapons for it is checked; very good, double- iv ilitary machines in checked; okay for the show, oe pores ti cled. All the unused gags are put! le said that in in the file, which 1s only uséd in! @e" | WO*-Nashcontrattet ' j turing out matermly that cout case of an emergency just before) jo used as “industrial spearhen a show or for non-broadcast per-' for another bexteten formances.” | those plants been bro Jack said all tie jokes the As lexed and cross-indexed. ere F ? there plows war gover been done gags under ‘horses’ and perhaps imate them ten thousand under ‘Bing’s from Nav co However, t As any Tuesday night listener already taker may have suspected. that —-s j them ANNOUNCEMENT TO | %2?i plants in Braz! BOAT OPERATORS | tng, liquidated With the lifting of most of the; “* wartime restrictions on fishing," ala boats and other small craft, the ‘coast Guard Identification Office, loc in the Federal Post Office building, will be clo: nently, effective Tue: 26, according te anne HOTCHKISS RITES SET FOR TUESDAY Incement b: Funeral services 'S direction of the captain of the Hotchkiss, 74 . te Port. Friday aftern Operation ot boats under the! gt the residen ylatest) vegulations is subject to Mrs, Agusti " # few minor conditions. E t must comply with special directives: that may be sued by the captain of the port d must ol © the regulations SMALL FIRE HERE ! ally,” because the: prestrice of her; bSrn in England, they ‘have taken governing the areas restricted f pe : great armies in Siberia are forc- im to their’ hearts. ‘military operations. The area Net ON SUNDAY NIGHT ing the Japs to keep great fore A good percentage of the other +i} restricted are those in the SEFViTes. B ‘ hn jin reserve in that area, which, | letters are from parents with sons vicinity of Snipe Keys, Woman {ily lot im the Cys The fire apparatus was called “therwise, would be used against |i ite service. They say eh sons Key and New Ground, all of wheh | bors pire a. to the corner of Division and Du- | te Americans, the British and|had written of. seeing Bob and, pave been previously described! Chark peggy ET val streets last night at 8:30 o'clock’ the Chine Na tact ar ord on DHnEINES 2 yin the public print. ‘There are a ee ‘ i" where a bunch of dry leaves were io “oo ee oan, tt a Pe jtour, there are 42 members of the|” Otherwise all wartin restric-/Coast Guard, 5 gran a y \troupe. Unlike Bob's groaning , have been a) end 2 great grandchildrer tinguished upon arrival of the fire’ apparatus. he alarm was sounded from tered the Jewish Synagogue, co {Citizen today that burglars en- box 223, corner of Duval and Di-|ner of Simonton and Southard] {streets, on Saturday night, steal- ing quite a number of v able j articles, amounting to $300 i more. The burglars are said to ha ‘entered the place through a win- dow. or PATRIOTIC HEN Roseau, Minn.—It’s a very pa- triotic hen that John Nalerai has Twice this Winter she has laid two eggs in one day. Car Us Phone 29 1201 White St. Rev. L. Lehrer reported to The, colleague, he has only one rel tive working for him and that Jack. One of Jack's main duties is [librarian of the all-important gag file. He explained the procedure jof writing a broadcast. | “Each of the six writers com-, | poses a complete script. It has to ibe. original, because the other, writersor: Bob can deteet joke Then Bob edits) i file material. them, . AE PIONEER HOTEL 151 N. E. FIRST STREET In the Heart of Miami The Rendezvous of Key West SERVICEMEN and CIVILIANS “BEST FOR A NIGHT'S REST“ One Block West of Bus Depot It Will Save Your Car ans bard identification ¢. ore 300- YEAR-OLD ALLIGATOR longer required. All boats, how- ever, must comply with the peace 18 DEAD time navigation and motorboat auuniaate laws. Applications for a tifi Jacksonville A fig cate of Award of Numb for two er allige motorboats may be obtained by the death of Big J writing to the following addres: it estunated to te ‘ l Coast Guard, Motorboat Reg- 00 y Efforts to treet istration Division, 512 Profession- allig juries pre al Bldg., Mi availing AAA DAABARD DRE Pare, Freet Wma rr dienes ompoonded Phe: | | FOR SALE 1941 Ford Convt, — 1939 Ford 2-Door \GARI-NER’S PHARMACY 1941 Plymouth Coupe 1940 Buick Super 1938 Chev. 2-Door 1936 Buick ALL CLEAN CARS NAVARRO, INC. Opposite Bus Station | Phone 47? 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