The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 3, 1945, Page 1

VOLUME LXVI. No. 158 ~— Reds Will Probably Ente Into Treaty With Chinese pr EESSIORISSS es ES ec C Chinese Foreign Minis- "pS9OOODOI@®. ter Has Had Two|NO PAPER TOMORROW Conferences With Stal- In accordance with a cus- in é tom of long-standing, there will be no issue of The Citi- zen tomorrow, Fourth of July, in order to afford its employes an opportunity to Participate in the celebration of Independence Day. The Citizen will appear again as usual on Thursday afternoon. CROW: | thats 1andvevery ex iethas Ae a ere, and every Friday we have (Wy Associated Press) LONDON, July 3.— More cause for worry by Japanese warlords came from Moscow teday in an official an- 3 mouncement that the Soviets| SHOPS OOa a a4 Probably will enter into a|——————————— treaty with China, ax » re-/ MARATHON C. OF C sult of the visit here of the . Chinese Foreign Minister T-/ PUSHING FORWARD V. Seong, who has had two conferences with Stalin. Last night Foreign Comis- SETS RECORD FOR MEMBER- ear Molototf gave a banquet; SHIP CONSIDERING COM. in honor of Soong, and it was| MUNITY'S SIZE attended by all high govern-| . mental officials and also dip-| asia " is from the Allied Na-! larathon Chamber of Com- jmerce probably sets a record for At th lusi |membership in comparison to the > Season of the ‘number of men in a community, banquet, Soong and Stalin,|W. A. Parrish, chairman of the together with their staffs, minree 2 he es a ara * \acetiey yesterday afternoon. held another conference, the “ “Practically every man, who is mature of which was not a resident of Marathon’, Mr. made publi | Parrish said, “is a member of our Chamber of Commerce, and I may say that every one of them SHRINERS PLAN TO jis enthusiastic about the good ENTERTAIN YACHT iat we intend to do to promoie ’ the interests of our small town CLUB TOMORROW “Despite the fact that it is a — small community, our members ; “b will en-|number. 67. At present we are a Wen Yat Clb chiefly ffiteregted in putting’ our s club house in the community center into good con- Garrison Bight, tomorrow after- dition. We are having it painted moon and evening. Members of and otherwise improved. On Sun- the families of the Shriners and|days we have Sunday school anc yaebtmep will be present at the! church services in the hall; the — beet cilia desea 246 vice. first Thursday in each month our y pa start at 5 o'clock ¢ or erce ec! when conch and grouper puemben oF Commerce. meats ders will be served. u ture si » taimment and a dance 5 : een ere Snow: followed by a wien Deed Filed For JAMES GOODSON BACK IN STATES Property Bought By Bernie Papy Mrs. James E. Goodson receiv- A. deed transferring to Bernie ed word this morning that her C. Papy the lot and building, for- husbend, who had been in the merly the Trevor and Morris ga- ordnance department of the Army was filed this morning in 35 months, most of the time in t! county clerk’s office. service in the European theater, has arrived in this country. Mrs. Goods« Hotel Apartments, recently pur- daughter of chased by Mr. Papy. Pearl E. Eag- Mr. and M Kelly, 522 erton and Carl N. Eagerton sold Grinnell street. $ id she ex- the former garage property to peeted Mr. Goodson will arrive Mr. Papy for $7,000, and he is us- home within a week. ing a part of it for his wholesale —-_-e—e—s oo" grocery business. SHERIFF SAWYER The lot fronts 56 feet on Simon- RETURNS TO CITY eet. ton street and has a depth of 145 Sheriff Berlin Sawyer, who lett SPECIAL SESSION here Friday with a man who had =) been ordered taken to the state OF COURT TODAY hospital at Ocala by the Monrce County Health Clinic, rerurned to Key West early last night. City Council To Meet This Evening A special session of the crim- inal court will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon to receive pleas of guilty, Clerk Harry Don- | go said this morning. REPLACEMENTS There will be a regular meet- ing of the City Council held this eveniny be; ji at 8 o'clock. This is the first regular meet: FOR YOUR CAR ing of the month. | @GENERATORS an @STARTERS and @ Electric Equipment B ] N G 0 Also An Expert Mechanic sponsored by Es —-»- POOR OLD CRAIG : SERVICE STATION Nightly 7:30 Division Se Francis Sts. DUVAL at SOUTHARD Open Sunday Phone 9134 TA CONCHA HOTEL COCKTAIL LOUNGE AIR CONDITIONED for YOUR COMFORT e Now Featuring DANCING EVERY NIGHT Music by Beavece ‘s Orchestre The New Cocktail ‘LA CONCHA SPECIAL’ | e + .7:00 A.M, to11:00 A.M, « 12:00 Noon to 2:00 P.M. DINNERS Served from .. . ~ 5:30 P.M. to 0:30 PA HUGH C, HODGE, Manager peek ential WSR RR a a JAPS' SHIPPING SUFFERS HEAVILY SUNK WITH SIXTEEN BADLY DAMAGED . ABy Assuciated Press) GUAM, July 3. — Oki- nawa’s role in the air war against Japan and Jap-held Possessions has reached a stage where it is playing havoc with the Japs’ coastal shipping. Rlanes from Okinawa, while patroling the Yellow Sea, along the Korean and Manchurian coasts yesterday sank 18 small Jap craft and badly damaged 16 others, two of them destroyers that! were escorting a ‘convoy. One of the destroyers was left in a sinking condition. It was believed that the ships were in the process of evacuating Jap troosp from} the Chinese coast. MOST BUSINESS PLACES WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW The Key West Post Office will be closed all day tomorrow, ex- cept for the opening of the stamp window from 8 to 9 o'clock in the morning, but Postmaster Hol- lon R, Bervaldi said that mails will be received and dispatched and distributed in lock boxes, but that there will not be any carrier delivery. The. bank, the courthouse, city hall, and all stores of the Key West Retail Merchants’ Associa- tion will be.clesed.- ted Meat Distributing Picture Improves After two experiences with its new meat tontrol authority, OPA has found the meat distri- buting picture is improving. Surveys made in fourteen key cities of the Southeast show that more meat is reaching retail stores. It isn't as much as we would like to see, but it show decided change for the better, with still more improvement ex- pected in the coming weeks. “Reasons for the betterment in meat distribution are OPA’s quota regulations on slaughter- ing, control distribution The property adjoins the Coral]OPA’s heightened prosecution of West cha and; THE SOUTHERNMOST KEY WEST, FLORID. INCREASES STILL | parisons, still continue at the Key West post office, ac- cording to figures released today by Postmaster Hollon R. Bervaldi. Gains are not so outstand- ithe office is still doing more business today than it did a year ago. Sales last month totaled $20,888.63, as com- {pared with $19,625.01 in |June of 1944, a gain of six percent. Postmaster Bervaldi today com- 'piled figures showing the gains during the last fiscal year, which jended on Saturday, over receipts in the fiscal year that ended on ‘June 30, 1944, and they show the \largest volume of sales, for the’ jlast fiscal year, in the history of jthe Key West post office. $ During the 1945 fiscal year, the sales totaled $295,812.74, as com- pared with $217,418.93 in the fis- cal year that ended on June 30) fof last year | The gain for the year was $78,- 393.81, or 36 percent. compilation of POST OFFICE, REPORTS REVEAL EIGHTEEN SMALL VESSELS Increases, in monthly: com-|LAVONA ASHMORE ing as they used to be, but] WSPAPER T 2 AT GIVEN PROMOTION — Lavona R. Ashmore, formerly of George and Rosemary street, Key West, Florida, who is now stationed in London at the head- quarters of the European Divi- sion, U. S. AAF Air Transport. !Command, has been promoted; jPrivate First Class. Pfc. Ashmore is assigned at the’ headquarters supervising the 14,500 mile network of air routes spread across Europe by ATC’s European Division, which is com- manded by Brig. Gen. Earl S. Hoag. Her organization before VE-Day, costributed to the defeat jof Germany by transporting 300,- 000 key passengers and 71,000,- 000 pounds of strategic cargo and troop mail to the European theatre; receiving 16,000 ferried tactical aircraft; and evacuating 30,000 wounded soldiers by air to the U. S. Now Pfc. Ashmore will play a part in the big share of the re- ideployment program assigned to nd Fine |Air Transport Command. Air sane no Suen transfers of certain personnel and 1944 1945 combat aicraft to and though the July $ 14,832.53 $ 19,542.68 United States for the war against August 14,019.29 21,083,4/J8Fan is increasing European September 14,170.42 20,880'75| Division operations by some 300 October 15,405.07 _ 24,611.73, Per cent. : {November 15,418.83 23,573.58|. Pfc. Ashmore entered the serv- December 26,627.43 36,954.60, ice in March, 1944 and was sta- January 17,211.23 26,439,30| tioned at Ft. Oglethrope, Ga. and February 17,695.41 25,290.91 Grenier Field, N. H. before ship- ; March 19,461.66 28,309.52; Ping overseas in February, 1945. ' April 20,497.59 24,395.51 At present she is a member of ‘May 22,454.45 23,842.95 the S*otisticol. section. June 19,625.01 20,888. iq. poe vo~eTItering ‘the service, Bis a Ashmore was employed as a | Total $217,418.93 $295,812.7: record clerk for the Con- | $1,263.62, or 6 percent. | Gain for fiscal’year ending June 130, 1945, over June 30, 1944, $73,- 393.81, or 36 pereent. x MICHAEL BONAMY BUYS PROPERTY The Gato Real Estate and Im- provement Company has sold the southwesterly corner of Simon- ton and South st 's to Michael A. Bonamy for $7,000, according to a deed recorded this morning in the county clerk's of! The plot has a frontz of 100 feet on Simonton nad 141.3 feet jon South street. ‘War Veterans To Meet This Evening Gain for month of June, 1945,/3 4 Chemical Ind. Inc., of. ouston, ‘Texas. She attended Alabama College at Monte Uallo, Ala. bi [FRANK S, HART | NOW IN HOSPITAL ‘Special to “itizen) i DAYTONA BEACH, Fia., July 3.—Pfc. Frank S. Hart, formerly of 822 Fleming street, Key West. Florida, has recently arrived at , Welch Convalescent Hospital, the Army’s new reconditioning center in Daytona Beach, Fla. The car fully planned r itioning pro- gram here will speed his conval- and assist his return to the best of health. | The | 28th | escence son of F. S. Hart, 1009 avenue, Tampz entered the Army April, 1944, at Atlanta. Ga., and has since ved 6 Veterans of Foreign Wars, Key} months in the European theatre ter, will hold a meeting of operations, where he was black-market operators in meat. | tonight in their hall at 218 Duval) awarded the Purple Heart for street. } wounds received in combat. H Six hundred meat retailers in the Southeast have been sub- poenaed to hearings in various Southeastern cities in the past week, said the OPA District be given tomorrow night at the U. S. Nav. Office today. “These dealers are not neces- sarily suspected of any ove! charges or other black-market activities,” said the announce- ment. hey are being called to those hearings so that we may investigate reports that many meat wholesalers have been working a ‘squeeze play’ on deal- ers and forcing them to pay ov ie prices for meat bought at wholesale. “Information secured during these hearings will be thoroughly checked and our enforcement division is ready to follow through with vigorous prosect tion wherever necessary,” the r lease concluded. PALACE THEATER ROSEMARY LANE in “TROCADERO” News and Serial Tonight Is Prize Nite Veterans of Foreign Wars DANCE FOURTH OF JULY 9 P. M. to 12 DELMONICO BAR 218 Duval St. MUSIC GIFTS Phone 518 for Reservations | nn’ | Arrangements will be made at wife, Louise A. and child reside the meeting, Commander Ed-jat the Fleming street address. He ward Haury said, for a dance to same address. SPOT DUVAL AND CAR ALEXANDER NOT ; CASH IN 5 MINUTES H NO RED TAPE :| CEILING PRICE FOR LATE MODEL CARS Hl former the was by Station in Key West prior to his entry in the Army. y employed ition assembly lines at the Rouge, CASH 0000000. 2eeeesseeseiian DIVISION STS. IN THE USA | ‘By Associateé Press) DEARBORN, Mich., Jul 3.—Four years of research by Ford Motor Company ex- perts culminated today when the first of the 1946 models began to roll off the assem- ly lines. Company officials stressed the point that the products were not related to the last cars Ford turned out before) this country entered the war, but are brand new models with dozens of changes which, the officials declare, make the car the best the company has ever produced. Even the radiator cap has been improved. It develops five pounds of. pressure which stops the water in the FIRST OF 1946 FORDS WAS DRIVEN | OFF FINAL ASSEMBLY LINE TODAY from the grade of Private to | BYRNES SWORN IN AS ,; SECRETARY OF STATE | H (By Answatatee Presst WASHINGTON, July 3— James F. Byrnes was sworn | in as secretary of state late | this morning in the White | House in the‘ presence of | ® id ; high United + on ; oil, ,| DOOD IIAS, Cities radiator from evaporating as SaiVarI—rsws | owonailp, will knock ra rapidly. as it did in the old models, and also prevents freezing of the water. The first car was driven off the final. assembly line in B Build- ing, at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant simultaneously with the announcement of design ani engineering improvements to be incorporated in the forthcoming 1946 Mercury and Lincoln. ' Civilians with essential trans- portation needs who are engaged in war production will require will those fore ed production make cars available for without priority ratings. The Ford Motor Company w:'l build about 40,000 of the indus- ‘y's over-all allotment of 200,000 in 1945. Emr loyment in the giant Rouge plant now is down 30 per cent from peak wartime lev and is per cent under normal pic- ar employment. If government rictions on volume of auto- production’ are lifted, r mobile however, company officials ex- pect that normal pre-war emplo; ment status will be reached sometime next year. Ford Motor Company officials today said that 1946 Ford cars eventually will be produced :n Super DeLuxe body styles and three DeLuxe styles. The an- nouncement was qualifeid by the disclosure that only a few boty styles will be produced among the first cars vo roll off produ beginning today. JAYCEES WILL MEET TONIGHT Key West Junior Chamber otf Commerce will hold a meeting tonight, at which recently elected officers will be installed. The Jaycees also will to conduc drive deigned put the sale of war bonds :n seventh war bond drive o' top. Retiring President Jeff Knight, said that the Jaycee. arrange to Jr ce that Key West will go over he top in this drive, as it has in very other le of war bonds. ROASTERS and FRYERS BRADY’S (Live) Poultry and Egg Market 1214 White St. Phone BARBER EREEEEEREREREEEEE Veterans of Foreign Wars DANCE Wednesday, July 4th at V. of F. W. CLUB ROOMS 218 Duval Street Veterans, Their Friends and the General Public WELCOME Admission 50c Per Couple ed are de-! termined to do all they can to! QUICK USE TO BE {Americans and the British out they were on the point of a cob Japse. One spokesman also said thet fant jan troops on Borneo an- i» Japan. He seid thet the Jem nounced today that, strate- #"¢ obtaining starches from 1 gically, that island is in pos-| “ session of the Allies. He said that most of the rubber trees on Borneo are intact, and added that, with- in a week after the Aussies have consolidated their gains, rubber will be from the island. Petroleum shortly will be ready tor shipment from Borneo, despite the destruc- tion of many storage tanks and the demolition of wells before the Japs retreated to the woods. CHOOSY PICKERS ALBANY, Ore. — Unable to make his weekly quota of eight cartons of cigarettes go around cafeteria owner Ray Cox tossed all the cigarettes into a bow!, jmarked, “Free Take One.” He reports that people take them but before doing so, they pick around in the bowl until they find their chosen brand. BOY, 14, KILLS BROTHER, 4 ; RED OAK, Iowa.—While play- ing in the basement of thei home, James Askey, 14, accident ally shot and killed his 4-year oa old brother, Clark. | y _ SPAIN'’S SERVICE | Complete Service for Your Caz 1101 White St. cor. Eliza PHONE 782 Parts are available for your car. if we don't have ‘em, we'll get ‘em fer you. We specialize in general si AUTO REPAIRS| | FOLKS HER BUDWEISER ipped local « of leaves ont vines, rent types A rrange Party For Lt. 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