The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 27, 1945, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features 65 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West VOLUME LXVI. No. 153 Veterans Administration Now over Al Considering Renting 25 Beds In ‘Local Municipal Hospital! - WAR QUESTION; Would Be Used By Vete-'COOOOM OO aa \"2KES SOME STATEMENTS — tame Accerding To TR TO Hs HOMETOWN nowEvEn. To. MOND Telegram Sent Here By ‘SOME HAPPENINGS (Ry Ansociated Treas) \JAP PREMIER Pat Car WASHIN : ae c President coment had (Hy Asscelated Presa) | pony erag BUAM, June 27. — Pre-| east, The Veterans Administra-| this morning for his home. nee kyo today, in an address to! THE SOUTHERNMOST NEW —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1945 Squadrons Of Superforts Strike ~ In Industrial Areas Near Nagoya MR. HEDENSKOG HUNGERS FOR ARGUMENT St hl to tnd bb tnt fob brnhnnlntadntindn ind Patients Chat With Movie Starlet or SPAPER IN THE U.S.A we tion in Washi: i town, Independence, Mo., 5 , j o> * ae p. ‘ea where, it was said, he will |the people of Japan, said a By JACK STINNETT |availabte at retail counters for Ss ata ‘S} make a “most important an- {good many thi hat AP Newsfoatures lthe average ration book holder.” | in the Key West General] nouncement” at a press con. | © Za cngaatatnare WASHINGTON, D. C—A col-: . eae Hospital for the use of vet-| ference, which begins at 5 | ‘Tue though he attempted to| umn here a few weeks ago has| That, of course, still doesn't | erans, according to a tele e'clock this afternoon. No |minimize at least one on bregatna in some interesting mail.|take into consideration the dis-/ ils, fifth di hint was given about the sub- {them, which pertains to the . \1 have picked out the letter that 'ibution problem I previously gram Al Mills, fifth district| ject he will discuss. . % [mentioned here. Mr. Bowles, commander of the A i He said today, before leav capture of Okinawa. habe nsian ana ae of the points to be answered. It doesn't see how it can be made Legion ona poh vas ag eg ing Selt Lake City, that he Suzuki told the Jap people | HER FIRST visit to a Naval-Hospital was the end of a two- |best sums it up and raises most much more equitable but he is! ; ts ‘the Unit i i ir | months’ tour for Lynn Merricx, Hollywood film starlet, who ex- |i; from Carl F. Hedenskog, Pueb-| very frank in saying that OPA mander of Florida, received| Sxbect tt soar pedal that an invasion of their) Tietsed enthusiasm over the Navy set-up as she chatted with See is weighing every possiblity of esterday from 1 oe pemeoen Soy wee! homeland is “imminent”, al- i Naval Hopital last week. Her USO- {'% ©0l0- onde . ine Pat eae. Representa-) charter at an early dats, edie tbc Frollywood Vencey Corning ae Bok te chigugi Aes hos- | Mr. Hedenskog says: “I note Climinating the black market and Mr. Mills also received a copy of a telegram that Representative Cannon, who is convalescing in a‘ Washington hospital from an at-' tack of trichinosis, had received’ from Cotonel Bryson, who heads: the Veterans Administration in| Florida, and is stationed at the; veterans hospital in Bay Pines. Aj part ef Colonel Bryson's message | deeds “Porwarded contract today to central office for consideration of eereptance.” Should the 25 beds be leased, the administration will pay ren- tal for them whether or not trey are used, and will also pay for every veteran who is treated at! the hospital Ernest A. Ramsey, chairman’ of the board of directors of the, Key West Geneval Hospital, has been corresponding with the Vet-| will end their study here this erens’ Administration for several Week weeks to have it contract to rent! qualifying them for special pub- the tieds As Mr. Mills stated,! their rental will contribute ma- fo fhe support of the has-iof the course, said today, . <r f The “course, starved three’ SOUTH FLORIDA though there is a possibility : British may strike first at the san ed ee STATE SANITARY : coast of China to provide OFFICERS T0 END them with more extensive bases for the campaign that STUDY THIS WEEK ';... be waged against the; Jap homeland. He said that Okinawa is “unsuitable” as the base for large-scale attack against Japan, though, he added, KERMIT H. LEWIN OF KEY WEST AMONG CLASS TAK- ING COURSE AT FLORIDA UNIVERSITY the Americans already have Special H ae Gainesville, Time ere The {ing used and are repairing and building others, some of them with runways suffici- ently long to be used by Su- perforts. e Another thing he said that was untrue was that the state sanitary officers enrolled in the University of Florida's short course for public’ health officers and receive certificates | lie health sanitation work, Prof. D. L. Emerson, assistant director entire Chinese coast, and that at” whatever” point the Americans strike the coast they will find Japanese sol- months ‘ago ‘was offered by the University through the joint co- operation of the: State Depart- ment of Health and the Alachua that, the Americans and the; Japs are in control of the! County Health Unit under the direction of Dr. F. M. Hall. Designed to offer instruction and special study together with directed’ field work, the course provided study in public health}| sanitation in the fields of bacter- | iology, general science, biology, and public health engineering. All ten sanitary officers en-j} rolled in the course were here under scholarship provisions of the State Health Department and | the Veterans’ Administration, | Dean Joseph Weil, of the College | of Engineering, explained. The! GETS DRENCHING RAIN RIDING ON HURRICANE WINDS BRING RELIEF FORM DROUGHT TAMPA, June 27. (FNS).—His conscience hurting, Old J. Pluvius attempted to make amends for his jong neglect last weekend and, riding in on hurricane winds, he opened bombbay doors to drench fouth Florida with the heaviest was under therdirect{ rain in ye . While wind damage was neg- Sonate B. Beelps, lible, t played hob with. Soritary officers roads bridges, flooded town certificates a = ee and country alike to leave in its si i ee ae Otis Sessler, C, W. Mols, and wake thousands of drowned out Si a Slants all of gig ears, disrupted light and phone ¢ emun lerbert, all of Tampa; R. E. Henshaw, and G. ‘C.'Han- | son, Miami; Kermit H.* Lewin,! Key West; S. H. Colson, Tren! { ton; J; V. Minor, Daytona Beach; and D. E. Murray, Bartow; Faculty for the course’ were drawn from the College of: ‘En- gineering and the College of Arts and Sciences. Present plans in- clude another short course in| public health sanitation sometime | in the fall HURRY — HURRY Your Lest Chance to Purchase AT Sc A LB. service and stranded citizens. Tampa and Hillsborough coun- ty counted road damage in the thousands of dollars with 47 bridges washed out, roadways un- a vined and low areas inundat- ed. The Alafia river rose 12 feet im five hours, flooding large areas local weather bureau re- @ total of 11's inches of 48 hours. A 100-foot from Cuba ran aground near Gadsden point ing in from the Gulf in ighbeorhood of Dunellon, " swept across the state to theroughly drench parched cit- us groves to the delight of grow- reported wind damage of and viewed the as the corded rainfall in lumber schooner ers wh ho consequence { disproving defend it. It was pointed out here, in Suzuki's _ state- meent about the Chinese coast, that the Chinese are! J now in control of 400 miles’ army Wounded—Euzopean Area Tampa. ot the coast line and are con- tinuing successiully in their drives against’ the Japs in adjoining areas. Suzuki also said that the Americans. are preparing to capture a small island, 10 miles west of Okinawa, to protect their western flank when the drive on Japan be-|+ gins. "\WRITTEN REQUESTS FOR PERIODICALS ARE NOW REQUIRED, ve July 1, subscriptions apers and other period- icals intended for personnel of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard must be accom- panied by written requests from jaddressees that they desire the publications sent to them. The Post Office department in announcing. that it had issued the order, No, 27,851, at the request of the Navy department, stated it includes renewals as well as new subscriptions. Payments for may be made by any person pro- viding written requests from ad- dresses are attached to the sub- benefit from the rain offset such The Best Eatin, AA ea wind damage many times over bs |scription applications. reported over eight B A N » in in 24 hours but no EEE ertous damage. The storm en- mica Shanaccces tewed the Atiantic near St. Augus- POULTRY and EGGS RUPERT KNOWLES JAMES STREET time and picked up velocity as it swept north along the coast ay at ies Phone No. § W. B. HANSON opasececs aeRMN NRE, COMPLETE PLUMBING SERVICE B ] N ¢ 0 @Supplies @ Installations Sponsored by Elks Nightly 7:30 DUVAL at SOUTHARD SA RET @Repairs Large Supply BATTERY RAISED CHICKENS 919 Southard Street TEE TTI ES Dies et CISTERN INN RESTAURANT Green Street STEVE FROW. Proprietor (Formerly with White Inn) Open-€ A.M. to 1 A.M. Specializing In Conch Chowders and other > Phone 29 1201 White St,| chowders, Sea Foods, Steaks > and Chops subscriptions Marine Division and veteran of « Pacific, and Roy W. Kramer, Slc, coo Tne Navy Department an- | aounces for the United States as ia whole 278 casualties for June air fields there that are be-|27, 1945, of the U. &. Naval Forcts | Tallahass \(Navy, Mar:ne Corps and Coast! Guard) not heretofore released on} Navy Department total casually ilists, consisting of 105 dead, 242 j wounded, and 31 missing. These, rasualties. bring the total repegt-' ed to next of kin and released for ' {publication since December 7} 11941, to June 27, 1945, to 122,654. FLORIDA ; _ Navy Dead { | Green, sO, PBR |USMCR. ; ‘ampa. ' ‘ Navy Missing diers there well prepared to| Terrill, Royce Bernard, Machin- pye son of Mr USN. Wife, Mrs 2527 Biscayne list's Mate le, ;Ruth Dow Terrill, 'Blvd., Miami. |. Army Dead, Pacific Area Yates, O. B., Pfc., son of James A. Yates, Southport | Fore, Walter H., Pfe., husband ‘of:Mrs. Lucy Fore, 1668 S.: Pine (LL, Ocala. \ SLOVAKIA UNDER |"'2eewrwweue: TWO GOVERNMENTS |OPERATING WELL IN 2E- CONSTRUCTION OF j COUNTRY | | (ity Anncctoted reas) i j LONDON, June 27.—Slo+! ivakia, whese economy was! badly upset by the war, is! now operating under two governments, with demo-) cratic and conimunist pre-| miers, and they appear to be operating well in the recon- , struction of that country. | ' Both are practising the stiffest sort of economy, and the declared air of the dual} governments is to try to} build up the status ot Slo-| akia to the point it had at-! tained in the postwar world. Both branches of the gov ernment have declared re peatedly that there has not, ibeen any waste in conduct jing governmental affairs, H and have called on the peo- | ple to practice a similar kind} jof economy. i Eo : Se i . EASTERN MOVING fs | pitals in Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa and St, Petersburg. Miss Merrick is shown above, right, with Pic. Douglas D. Lightheart, center, of Jackson, Mich., member of the famed First + is demostrating his newly acquired skill in making a tufted plllow- top. FLORIDA’S WAR CASUALTIES y Green, 888 Flora § . e | AAAAAAAAAAAASAAALALAALABABAAAAAAAAAS | LONG DISTANCE MOVING RE eta m ENGEL BROIHERS,. sof ENGEL BROTHERS, INC. fe f America’s Best—Over 60 Years of Service N. y. Office, 1819 Broadway, N. Y. City NUE AGENTS PHONES 4-7554—7557 & 1028S. W. 25th NE ey eee veyyveverewrerre : —.. |making it possible at least for with interest and envy your arti \the housewife to feed her family icle in the Pueblo Star-Journal) something better than a pound jthat we still have 125 pounds of} and a quarter of rationed, red-| 25 ths’ action in the South months’ action in the blooded meat a week. USN, of La Crosse, Wis. Kramer }meat per person per year. k e “My bitter (sic) half says the! As for the salad oils, vegetable | compounds, etc., now under red average pound of meat takes points, OPA just hangs its head leight red points. That means 125 in shame. Strictly off the record times eight red points is 1,009 they wish it had never been points, The allotment is 50 red| started that way, but think it's points a month. Twelve times 50'tgg late in the game now to red points is obvious (600 for change. Poccccccccesecccoceocese jthose of you who read faster than, As’) have said all along, te." Paschal, Fletcher A., S-Sgt.,!¥eu multiply). higher (Hedenskog (and you others who husband of Mrs. Agenoria L. Pas-| “Pethaps some of the higher’ have written in) the situation is chal, 433 W. St. Augustine Strect, Mathematicians can figure out’ going to get worse before it gets e. : ow (tne average person is going ‘better, but don't take all of it out at a to get his share of meat, to saY on OPA. Sometimes it the Army Wounded—Pacific Area ; a on seems y Tacguias: Raseel as Bie sane cf nothing of a little cooking fat, can't add two and two, but often Russell” Brown, Box 399, Mana-° little “pat Py butter py hoaeal their problems are practically in- tee. , San thetarple: piscit she nad cere calculus, with almost . as into! Kc Pvt, son of WU Me a many, unknowns as there are Robert 3. Misvos, Biigiol jthe grease to make the crust. 'meat-eaters, producers, distribu- ‘Seriously though, butter is tors, and merhbers of Congress. Sharp, William Mt, Pfe., hus-'94 points; cooking fat 10 (now: band of Mrs. Evie L. Saarp, Rt.'y2) points per pound. That leaves BUYING OF WAR w 3, Bonifay 16 red points and if one buys two | . Ware, Earnest, Sr., Pfe., hus-\ pounds of meat, he’s done for the band of Ms.€errie Mac Wate, manth. Believe. our nutrition ex- Tallah: - perts would classify that as a de- Army Missing—European Area | ficiency dict. Van Gorder, Clarence E., Jr.,' “Do you supp this might be | Da A. Van one of the cau that make PERTAINS PRINCIPALLY TO Gorder, 3S. G St, Pensacola. ‘black markets flourish?” } ARMY LIBERATED PRISONERS siieale | PURCHASE OF SERIES OF WAR—FLORIDA To that last, Mr. Heden: k E BONDS Hero, Albert, Pvt, nephew of the answer definitely is “YE! Joe Jimenez, 2135 Chestnut St, You are also right in your re joning about the rest of it. But| 7 > 2 -on in that other column, I was talk-! Foes eect eo eiaad Hee ing about something else—dis-;Key West War Bund Committee, pee nare: sd | tribution, jsaid today that residents are 4 : 1 eel with your letter and lagging in the purchasing of omnes Ae suas ai OPA. | Series E bonds, but added he is pre’s their answer. e firs’ lace, the “official” estimate. T, hopeful thats Key “West will ge d for the 1945 meat supply |OVer the top again. J. Trevor, chairman of the of Ge tel, s ju GOVERNMENT SPENDS {came from other sou’ The; This city’s quota is $574,000, of HUNDRED BILLION IN jopa says their “official” esti-| which $484,000 is in Series £ T bonds. HIS FISCAL YEAR mate on per capita meat supply | for 1945 is 115 pounds, but that ‘actually “only about half of that meat As the army and navy person nel in Key West will nounce the amount of bonds sold (ity Associated Vream WASHINGTON, June 27.— Department of’ the Treasury reported today that the gov-, ernment has svent one hund- red billion dollars during this fiscal year, which ends on not will move agi (for civilians). e are OPA Adinjnistraty: ter Bowles own words. He explains it thisl way: () ‘Figures on available meats (this deals only with the red blooded nst ration luntil the drive ends, Mr. Trevor |said\.he did not know exactly the totals of sales that have been made thus far, but, basing hi )opinion on what information he Carried Out Were Reported Te Be Suc- cessful AP Neowe?os aren Wr GUAM, June 27.— Two drons of Supertorts struck today in industrie! areas 18 miles southwest ov! Nagoya, and each raid wee reported to have been »« - cessful. The targets were 10 of th largest ot) retineries m Japan and three of them were « pletely destroyed and others badly damaged Flames and great color of smoke enveloped the tar get area. Some columns of smoke ascended more thon 4,000 feet. Radio raid age that determined to MANY T | CITED IN ' WORLD CHARTER om the NEXPECTED To COME UP FoR | CONSIDERATION sEron | APPROVAL BY LEGISLA TIVE BODIES (Ry Asevetated freee WASHINGTON, Jue Several difficult question» world, ide importence «© xpec .4 to come up for co sideration before the World 27 Ch is approved by the legislative bodies ene tory nations, tt w id b today, and it was added (oe! they will be considered conferences tu be held Big Three up to the te the adoption of the ch» One of the moet th June 30. hag question th Of that sum, forty-eight meats—beef, pork, veal, lamb,/been given him, he estimates that) i the Darden billion |has ie A jand mutton) are based on “car-!only 65 percent of the quota he th “ pos asalise, . icit of {88S Weights. Shrinkage, trim-| been sold | cA gs aioe Sniae 8 deficit of Triage, etc, take off at least 15| ‘The drive will end on July 7.| Turkish gov ‘ jper cent before the meat ever|In the Navy Yard one bond rally rig pact VIS ABARL LLL fhe the retail butcher's coun-/has been held, and it is intende || ane irkey } ter. to hold another before July 7/end, and it is re In addition, millions of persons|In other drives, Navy personnel NEGRO PLACED Jin this eountry get their meat in'has always exceeded its quota ] x AQP vestaurants, hospitals, school: to larger extent than any other UNDER ARREST }lunch rooms, war plants, on unit locally |farms, in stamp-free processed ees James Evans, negro, was ar- foods (soups, baby foods, pork Four New Members rested this morning by Deputy and beans, pharmaceuticals). The heriff Will Archer on a charge black market gets the rest. ' On Citrus Board of aggravated assault. “Thus,” says Mr. Bowles,} James Moss, negro, the com-|“instead of 115 pounds or more) TALLAHASSE! FNS—Gov plainant, alleged that he was'on civilian ration points, it is|ernor Caldwell appointed four struck on his head and back with likely that only about 60 pounds new members of the Florida Cit viece: of lumber, wielded by on an annual basis will be|;us Commission to replace thos vans, who is held in $250 bail; © arraignment tomorrow MOrn- | S###FEPEEEREREREBAER EE BD ig before Peace Justice Esquin-| ROASTERS and FRYERS whose terms expired May 31 and reappointed J. J. Schumann o Vero Beach. The four new men aldo. — bers named were Rollie Tillman BRADY’S (Live) Poultry | Lake Wales; Latt Maxey, Frost and Egg Market |proof; J. J. Taylor, Ocala, and 1214 White St. Phone 549)C- C. Commander, Tampa | a , SPAIN’S SERVICE (Complete Service for Your Car) 1101 White St. Coz, Eliza overhaul. 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