The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 12, 1945, Page 1

VOLUME LXVI. No. 165 Wlatecumbe Land Consisting OF 456 Acres Disposed OF: Consideration Was $56,250 Another Site On Same 'SOOOODS, Key Im Process Of he CLAIM BRITISH ARE |“ MAKING READY FOR | ~ Sold For Like’ “STRIKE AT SUMATRA. (ity Asnuciatea Press) GUAM, July 12. — Radio of me - Tokyo said todey that the The lower pi British are preparing to make cumbe was sold yesterday), ® mejor strike at Sumatra, for $56.260, and tne upper + Yo oar sith aor a bi part & in process of being; That city lies at the south- mid for « like sum, each of; easterly tio of Malaya, across which ¢ ee * ,| from the easterly coast of Bamenction te the | Sumatra. Between that island largest thus far made in} Singapore is the narrow strait Monree county du of Malucca. ng the! i Tokyo said that 260 carrier- besed British planes raided the Sumatran coast yesterday, Prevent activity PF. M. Hudson, i Miami and, well havea! i meny years and thet the raid had been | ame, & senator from Dade,| resumed today. | aed FW. Cason, of the law For several months Jap fem of Hudson and Cason,| Sefere ce both Sumatra and | Malaya have been blockaded, | Music by ar i The New Cocktail ‘LA CONCHA SPECIAL’ e (JAP PLANS FOR ; Ports was of 20,000 ‘That ship and others were THE SOUTHERNMOST MOVING TROOPS GIVEN SET BACK: TRANSPORTS WITH TWO DI- VISICNS TRYING TO CROSS SEA OF JAPAN ARE DRIVEN BACK (My Anneotated Prene> { GUAM, July 12.— Based on reports made by Ameri- can flyers, it was learned to-; day that the Japanese com-' mand has been frustrated in repeated attempts to build up the strength of her garri-. sons in the homeland by hav-| ing troops shipped there’ from Shanghai, on the East China Sea, and Korea, on the’ Sea of Japan. | Yesterday two divisions of! Japangse on transports that were trying to cross the Sea: of Japan were driven back to Korea. One of the trans-' tons. struck by bombs, but they managed to get back to ’38 - 39 - ’40 -’41 MODELS All Makes Will Pay Ceiling Price According to Condition Opposite Bus Station IEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1945 [KEY WEST JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HOLS ANEERESTING MEETING; GOMMETTEES NAMED VIEILLE EBB M| Vw Key West Junior Chamber AD. IN CITIZEN of Commerce held the first business meeting of the 1945-46 year last Tuesday evening, witn the new president, Dr. Delio Cobo, presiding. The main part of the meeting RETURNS KEYS IN VERY SHORT TIME “Just two hours after the advertisement appeared in The Citizen, I had back my bunch of keys,” County Judge Raymond R. Lord said this morning about a classified advertisement he had in this paper. A friend, he explained, while fingering the keys on a table in Judge Lord’s office, unwittingly put them into his ing of all books and rds from the old to the new officers and committeemen,. After dispensing with all old jbusiness, the club discussed the kind, the size, and the number of projects that work on during the new year. pocket, Upon the suggestion of C. __ “And the worse thing about | Wardlow the members whole- it,” Judge Lord explained, {heartedly agreed to channel the “was that he told me he was unable to determine where he had obtained the keys. Then he saw the advertise- | jmajor part of its energy during the new year on those projecis that would have a permanent and far reaching effect not only ment in The Citizen and told, jon Key West but on the state me over the telephone that jand nation as a whole. he had the keys.” - | The first project that was ac- cepted under this plan was the ODDIE SIS DB one suggested by C. Sweeting which was to do everything pus- ROTES DISCUSS jsible to brake up the deadlock jin the state legislature at the present time. WAVE Helen Curtis’ Her Highness $5900 PERMANENT WAVE LA CONCHA BEAUTY SHOP La Concha Hotel Bldg., Fleming St. was taken up with the transfer-} it would like to notified the Key West Chamber | U.S.A. Report Rioting In Tokyo With More Than 400 Civilians Killed WILLIAM: CURRY’S SONS CO. TO BE AWARDED CENTENNIAL PLAQUE: in which a general outline will} be given of Key West of many) ‘years ago. The secénd number’ on } the proposed program will be an address by a member of or an em-} ploye of William Curry’s Sons, ' telling of the work that has been {done by that industrial organi- zation. “Key West Today and Tomorrow”’ will be the subject of another address. Mr. Colee informed Mr. Single- ton that only two other firms in the state, one in Tallahassee and the other in St. Petersburg, have been in continuous existence for 100 years or more. . ’ William Curry’s Sons was founded in 1842, 103 years ago. The plaque will be 16 by 20 inches and will read: | Honoring William Curry’s Sons , For More Than 100 Years | Of Continuous Service A centennial plaque of polished brass will be presented to Will- iam Curry Sons by the Florida State Chamber of Commerce, Harold Colee, executive vice president of the chamber, has of Commerce. Board of directors of the local! chamber passed a_ resolution, thanking Mr. Colee for the offer to present the plaque, and Mana-; ger Stephen C. Singleton has written Mr. Colee, informing him of the directors’ action and re- questing him to name a date when it will be convenient for him to come t6 Key West to! make the presentation. Mr. Singleton also enclosed a tentative program in connection with the presentation. It was sug- gested that one of Key West, oldest residents make an address, : \tion. Must be an efficient || |typist. Stenography, not! essential. | Apply: Auditor’s Office La Concha Hotel GROC ARCHER’S “The Store That * Exact Cause Of Report- ed Rioting In Japa- nese Capital Could Not Be Determined (Ry Asnecinted Preass LONDON, July 12.-— Ro- dio Helsinki, in Finland, said today that there had been rioting im Tokyo, during which more than 400 civil- ians had been killed by ma- chine-gunners. The spokesman said that the report had been rece ed from Radio Stockholm, and that it probably wa based on information the Swedish government had re ceived from its diplomatic representatives it has in To- ERIES GROCERY | Serves You Best" | aukd 456 _— — lower _ ive only soanection | port. \ YOUTH MOVEMEN pA, committee headed by ace ee ee see i kyo. seetion of Lower Matecumbe! japan maby | <i5b wanisuid thatthe only laney was appointed to draw E: 7 5 xact cause 0! eport- te Millie Giddens and radio, | ray - . a y —_—_—— up appropriate resclutions that OTIS OG SOM, wh 4 se of the repo way the Japs are able to ; - could be sent to the state repre- . ! ed rioting could not be de- phine Giddens for BALA L ea aaa cither of those seas are ALLAN CLEARE, JR. GIVES senative and all others that they SCONG CONFERS termined and two stories in Hereuek the agency of W. A. ————_____________|in_very small boats, which’ oytpine OF WORK AT thought might aid in ending this DIES IN MIAMI: WITH STALIN AND _ ,that regard were related Partich, chairman of the are able to find anchorages *, senatorial deadlock. i the Helsinki spokesman. i Sano fe ee ALSO HARRIMAN ve Menree county commission in a maze of inlets. \ B JAY'S MEETING e | ie presiverft trien listed his = | ! The first was that civilians in " | ms (eight Fermanent committees and FUNERAL i - \Tokyo had been terrorized te esate" BEING PREPARED Waywarp waLLer ae all present agreed to serve on the nn een cee WEE BE) cuz amoceter Prem? | great an extemt by the combine wo! ® Marathor | | Amplification of the youth following committees: HELD THERE ON SATUR- | MOSCOW, July 12—Prem- [raids of land-based amd carne: WANDERS TO WAR v4 i ry had ‘ bs — 8 at movement in Key West was the’, Standing commits as ap-| pay apTERNooN |i ™-¥,Seomsh of China, had | based “American bombers th . eof COM WILL IN ALL PROBABILITY | ae wae subject discussed at _ today's how ack oie mich of ba | night with Premier Stalin, grou! vy Gary ‘ten they = ir eeesaranian Coun: | LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Herman luncheon of the Key West Rotalyi Governmental affairs: Isadore! Fs heey| 204. thia morning he confer- | were repelleg by machine ur © narr ' | Meyer, employed in the Louisville Club. | Weintraub, chairman; I. Rodrig: ' ews has been received in Key} yed with Ambassador Harri- ire. & Id not d CIL ON TUESDAY {plant of Curtiss-Wright, was sur-' Allan B, Cleare, Jr, chai uez, F. Edwards, €. Sweeting, J.’ West annopycing the death of ‘men from the United States. Another rennet <> oe hr gage + gee ab meena Tea eatamer ci the Naary youth movement Bec ACHR Edith” Mosher Luethi, this Pb iter pip may pn A Jepntele taabans pe. ne pends J Pe ee 4 fi outh welfare, Wilbert J. Moc- s at 9 o'clock at the h as delayed his depart s a ge rim a ‘ con a i .| But he was éven more surpris-'8ave an outline of work that pine dacdnenae Bean merning at 9 o'clock at the home t ences of the is man was quoted as having Ar Par~' CY Tas Assessor - Collector icq when he opened it and-found should be done in Key West Sierra Fact Ay (ent ae Re of her son, Harry Lucthi, in Mi-| 2h® conferences thwest | that Premier Suzuki and is for 5am B. Pinder said today that hej a wallet he had lost in Louisville Sierra, 4. ¥ort, A. Carey. Three) at Potsdam se eee vt were k s the J , ha f his tax books ready for \inst duly 6 NRE NE ROMS among youths, with the object Finance: C. Sweeting, chair-! 2" of Berlin to) cantinue| ile one loa By the dom aaa the coming fiscal year for presen-| Accompanying the wallet was a 17 View of decreasing juvenile He etc Zoe Ee cinayh, HG ae Z ne we : ares Versations)) witht) Esemerih) i siasser ak ae ee the presen ‘ietter from Cpl. Nicholas L. Kor- delinquency. : : jdueted in that city at 3 o'clock: Soong. lhed boun: sulieeet tae tie dation to the city council at its, c1; who found itiwhile working! Mr.’ Cleare's remarks resulted’ Social affairs: 1 Rodriguez,'on Saturday afternoon, _ afte rj No official announcement |... ground, wir and f ’ Mr Par- meeting next Tuesday evening. | witha ground crew in a Curtiss in a round-table dicussion of the C-Wardlow, Sierra. _ |which the body will be shipped} 585 been made by the Rus- [hie uid ‘that the J i, “I am not sure they will be|Commando. He wrote: movement, and the Rotarians , Public health and safety: K. 14 Mr. Luethi’s home in Ohio, | %88_S0¥erAment or by Prem- | minimized " ve veady by that time,” Mr, Pinder| “The billfold was in a very odd were unanimous in their beliefs b¢Win» chairman; C. Sweeting Me Gndsirs Ducthi lett Key| eee nee t ! nd end M soaiaes j|Place. I found it in the belly for- that either the organization of .,Membership: | Chas. Roberts,’ woo py plane quite cecrntiy ce,| Jeet of discussions but it was kno put a Mid, “but we are working hard | ard compartment beneath the more Boy Scout troops or the chairman; R. Favaldo, R. Sierra, oa : De Xe Suite Nene y en| said that, apparently, China , f and ©M the books to present them at] floor boards alongside the trailing strengthening of the present & Lewin ree tree und Rapids, Mich.,/ and Russia have reached an ' ~ : : . as.! The wallet, traveling from Lou- : Rares eriaine any W. Moehrke, Ko Lewins Bae te wes ae ‘ oe be Philippine fe i Mie mane meine teat le eee can ee abeaing the siturilon Derg Oy laughter, Mrs, Cornelius Herz att-| OMIM MM | The pren get s year w » slightly | 9 . BSW » juvenile {UCN} » oa. ter having residea in Ke tattor Fe ee ees | , ad at thi ms ar will Ue algntly| ce in many missions aboard the Key West House nel grounds: R. Far Stebauncoure ne Lucthi! Mf Ella Pinder, 69 erted, 1 pee igher than last year and may /}Commando, on whcih Meyer had “The Rev. John Pickens, head #40, E. Sanchez, W. F. Domin- n ill upon the ival off A aaa i ; “ ‘ under possibly make the millage slight- | been working when he lost it. of the Cub Scouts in Poinciana, 84% C. Wardlow, W. Mochrke: » at Miami, where shel Died In Miami Monday | very } " ill ly lower, though, he added, he} For returning his plant identifi- George Billingsby, scout master _ PiSt special committee ap. p until the time of her] _ nd E hat ti} | Cation card, draft card and gaso- ¢¢ Boy Scout Trooy in Poin. Pointed July 10, 1945, “| Mrs. Ella Pinder, 69, former The r mee ee esate et etnet anil | linewratinni coupons «Meyer wrote cee og ac ee Boza, Jr. head , TOWN hall committee: J. De-! the deceased ; Aprii;Key Wester, and a sister of Mrs. | been confirmed bably one council has prepared the budget. | Cpl. Korecki apd sent him cigar- Of "Troop 52, sponsored by the EtMe¥: chairman; 1. Weintraub, St. Albans, Vi. ena{ Martha Wells, of this city, died shines gs he | na: present -mullages is) 58 ee Sen ens cern ® Rotary Club, told of the benefits “> Dominguez, Knight. icd to A. D. Luethi in| Monday nigh in hospital in}™mment. ; Last year’s assessment on real |‘ Y : lthat have accrited through Scout aeyg 9 3 1896. ‘They came to/ Miami. Funeral services were | py ou ; Pasian TeOperty amounted to $7,642,925, nea a on a iwork, and declared they felt con- MINNIS LEFT [Key West in (yz, and. resided held yesterday afternoon in the LEGION Al NIIARY " osha the assessment on personal | De endant To Be 'fident that a broadening of the ON TRIP TODAY 0! continuous ‘ince that time|Shenandoah Presbyterian Chureh TO MEET TONIGHT . perty was $852,517. Arraigned Friday seers. of Scouting in Key West ss “XT | until leaving receptly with the in-| Mrs. Pinder, who left here in eben: ie" 4’ Mr. Pinder stated that the bud- | ;Would be mighty means in : a {tention of making their home in|! tO csi lee tie NETAI R ORV ES | recs Jaaih We site. auatiy willbe ready cnore| +2 — 'counteracting juvenile delin- _ Chief Deputy Sheriff’ A. H.| Michigan [the widower, ‘Thomas Pinder;! There wal ‘ ly after City Auditor Charles R.|,.%csterday afternoon Deputy ciency McInnis Icft this afternoon for! Survivors are the husband, A./two sons, Joseph and Willard, (21 j olerts returtis from his vacation Ponce Stoner, arrested Don ae se ‘Lakeland to visit relatives in the: |D. Luethi; diwgbter, Mrs. Cornel-|two grandchildren, and_ two sis- | tomight. beats a {Rich on a charge of disposing of city. He said he expected to bej ius Herz; son, Harry Luethi, and} te firs. Wells and Mrs. Mary |‘! 7 tive on July 20. 2 Rich}: elie Tt BE REE NE ON LY ROR, A i White 2 POET OD WIth: Wasa Hen, sine 7 Jabsent a week. ny other relatives. Knowles, of Riviera Beach . the charge was preferred by Cecil WAN TED We Mies Uden: end «aureus von r ' i | vad numerous oe Cecbonell Sak Re ener i ‘friends in church circles as well BUSINCSS AS USUAL aa. , © says he had a chattel mot DiningRoanWaitresscs,. | ae ine peanlélot Key Weel q “ Motscsi WANTED Kage on fou cash maaiiers, 8 Ree eee SPAIN’S SERVICE in general, all of whom will be pe IEC ee Ula neg usey Sate is Cooks and Kitchen Help ;*t#!nicss steels Se sees 5 ‘ | exceedingly grieved on learning, Manager Gomer Peaco male en WW yom Florida ee RE P lbar or counter, which, he alleges. LA CONCHA HOTEL | Complete Service for Your Cat erates Het the groom, the best man and HOOD’S . 4 A 1 “Th es ae us Ee th 1101 White St. cor. Eliza } ———__._____________.;the maid of honor off for the POULTRY and EGGS pply Chef. 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