The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 11, 1945, Page 1

_— And Navy Contracs Running Into Bilions Of | Dallas Already Canceled ; | Stated That Six Months "S*IM ODM OMA, After War Eight Mil- WAR TOGO ONUNTIL' ORDERS ARE ISSUED TO HALT FIGHTING (fy Annoviatea Press) GUAM, Aug. 11.—General Le Mav said today that the wer against Javan will be continued ontil orders are re- reived from Washington to cease firing, Nothing was said aboht the Superforts, which were re- Ported to have remeined on lien Men And’ Women Will Lose Jobs (Ry Asserteted Press) i WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. lt was officially announced today that the Army and the, have already cancelled contracts amounting to four} ' billion dollars. | the ground yesterday, but Unel Zici . { § arcs from Gersrr] MacAr- ticially, it was stated) thurs command carried out that, six months after the war, is over, eight mil men and women will) several raids today on the Jap homelend. It was revealed that the taegchol ote. c | crews of the Superforts that Washington was| dropp2>d the two atomic pe sbewt reconversion| bombs had been trained; to PS ard the ii fj, perform that task for a year, though they were not told what the nature of the bomb would be. is Not so many yeu points). : er: be te EE wm as uymg ats an . ‘ ‘ foodsiutfs, and there, Lorenzo Gibson, '87 fa possibility that blue points may be discontinied Beeeroras 52 wotficial state Lorenzo. Gibeoil, STAdied at an Prat 5 early hour) this} morning; at his, it was said further that,t% see aa: Neth anomen Fun-| when the war ends, gasdline | eral s will be held; this aft-! rationing may be discontin-! crnoon, 5:30 o'clock at. the chapel 3 Lof’ the Pritchard Funeral Home, \ ; i Rev. Pipkin. pastor ofthe ‘Chtrch REGISTRATION AT | of God officiating. “ = : ' Survivors, one son, James Gib- CONVENT MONDAY | son, two daughters, Mrs. Daisy ; Turner and Mrs. Isabelle Ranger, be 11 grandchildren, five great grandchildren. | ! Dies This Morning he pia sick Monday August 13, Registration Day at th f Mary Ir tlate will Conven Student Fy » Grade One through Grade! \ morning between 9 o'clock and 11 | Veleck. Students who are in High GLORIA JEAN in | School es may register dur. 2 “DESTINY” News and Serial afternoon between und 4 o'ck ima tthe o'chock ALA A TOO TES | Club Sugaloa Key West's Most Exclusive Nite Club Stock Island Open Deily 12 Noon to Midnight DANCING Music by Sugaloa Orchestra | Daily @ to 12 — Sunday 6 to 12) hice bueno: 2' eo BROWN DERBY BAR Boece Chice Bus No. 4 to the Door| eeey Beees WIR Open Bo08 | vi itehead and Southard Sts. PACKAGE DEPARTMENT erm amen teen F : eaturin ROAD SERVICE |" line of g Invite Us to Your Imported and Domestic "Next Blow Out Wines and Liquors OVERSEAS HOTEL 917 Fleming St. Phone 9104 | Special Summer Rates $8.00 to $12.00 Weekly | \ \ | | | | | | Phone 9134 @ Whiskey @BATTERIES CHARGED @ Brandy FLATS FIXED @Gin @Open Sunday POOR OLD CRAIG | | All Sizes — O.P.A. Ceiling Prices VISIT THE BROWN DERBY BAR FOR GOOD DRINKS CHARLES I. SAUNDERS, Prop. Now Featuring DANCING EVERY NIGHT Music by meee Orchestra The New Cocktail ‘LA CONCHA SPECIAL’ * BREAKFAST Served from . aries nae pies Zs LUNCHEON Served from . a loon to h DINNERS ty . + + 5:30 PM. to 6:38 P.M. HUGH C. HODGE, Manager i! if LIEUT. COMD‘R BROWN GETS DUTY | ON NEW VESSEL GIVEN PLACE ON BOARD NEW AMMUNITION SHIP COMMISSIONED TODAY AT CHARLESTON (Special te The Citizen) CHARLESTON, S. C., Aug. 11. ‘Lieutenant Commander Harold V. Brown, USNR, 46, of 1125 United street, Key’ West, Fla., formerly of St. Joseph, Mich., as- sumed duty as executive officer on board a new ammunition ship, the USS Great Sitkin, when that vessel was commissioned today at the Charleston Navy Yard. Captain Guy E. Baker, USN, Captain of the Yard, presided over the com@issioning ceremon- ies. The Great Sitkin. named for a voleani¢c island in the Aleutians, was built and launched at the North Carolina. Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, N. C. Construction of the vessel was completed at the Charleston Navy Yard, where it also was fitted out. The shiv was christened, at the time of its. launching, by Miss Anne ‘Lillian Diamond, of Wash- ington, D. C.. daughicr of a for- mer “delegate ‘to Congress from Alaska, a Lieutenant Commander Brown, a Naval Reservist £6r°38"years, is a veteran of the ‘invasions of North Africa,, Sicily, Italy and Southern France, On active duty since October 1940, he commanded Fatrol vessels and minesweepers in Atlantic waters off Florida and in the Gulf for many months. After the invasion of North Africa, he was in service in the Mediterranean “area: mostof: the time until*last February. Lt. Comdr. Brown had mrnd of mifne-sweepers at the Yalta Conference of the Big Three. This included supervision (Continued on Page Three) ETE TREE RES NGAI Nightly 7:30 com- | DUVAL at SOUTHARD, Sponsored by the Elks MIDGET BAR The Friendly Little Tavern Simonton and Greene Sts. Open From 7 A.M. to MIDNIGHT SPECIAL VALUES WHISKEYS Prince George, 86 Pr.. Pt. $2.70 Dayton Club, 86 Pr.. Pt. $2.70 Roamer, 86 Pr., Pt. $2.80 | Sth $4.30 |Kinsley, Pt. $2.59 Sth + $4.12 Howard Canadian $6.54 |H. Walker Gin, 90 Pr., Pt. _ $2.10 Sth $3.40 Pedro Domeca Brandy 5th $6.00 | TOM COLLINS, Drink 30¢ eChoice Brandies and Wines WHAT YOU DON'T SEE. ASK FOR If - - - WE HAVE It CORRECTION {Through a typographical error in | FRANK WOLKOWSKY 'Suit Sale advertisement in Friday’s Citizen the sec- ond item read Regular $39.50 Values, Sale price $29.50 ThIS Item Should Have Read Regular $35.00 Values price... $295 PRICE . THE SOUTHERNMOST Y WEST, FLORIDA, SATUR NEWSPAPER —. KE oe The same. automobile stolen four times and recovered four times by the same policeman was ithe outstanding circumstance in ithe arrest, at 12:45 o’clock this ;morning, of Orion Demeritt, 18, 111 Thompson lane, by Policeman |Frank Caraballo, on a charge of | ing the property of another vithout his consent. The last time the car was stol- en, Policeman Caraballo said, the ; thief siphoned gasoline out of the tank in the Caraballo car to put into the tank of the car that was stolen. Alexander Motors, Duval and Division streets, is the owner of the automobile in question. It was kept on the parking lot at that location, and the first time it was stolen. Policeman Caraballo found it at the foot of Simonton street on the south side of the island; the second time he located it on Boca Chica; the third time at the foot of White street on the south shore, and this morning he found it at Royal and United streets, with four boys in it. Three of the bovs ran away, but Demer- itt, who, Policeman Caraballo id, had been driving the car, was arrested. In an attemrt to stop the thefts, the gasoline tank in the car was’ emptied last night, .and the igni- tion wires, connected to the spark plugs, were detatched. = Sipe perms 1128 Simo: Whi @ THREE @ DAYTO ~ RECOVERED AGAIN THIS MORNING The Bottle Cap SPECIALS On All Brands of At O.P.A. Ceiling Prices @ CHENLEY RESERVE @ CALVERT SPECIAL @ CARSTAIR, WHITE SEAL @ FOUR ROSES @ PAUL JONES @ GOLDEN WEDDING @ IMPERIAL @ PARK & TILFORD DAY, AUGUST 11, 1945 IN THE U.S. A. Policeman Caraballo had been in the habit of parking his car in the lot while he went on patrol! duty. At 12:15 this morning, when he returned to get his car, he} found that gasoline had been sip- honed out of the tank, and that the car that had been stolen three , times was missing again. He pre-| sumed that the gasoline had ‘been taken from his tank and put into’ the tank of the stolen car, the wires of which"had been attached to the spark plugs by’ the thieves. Policeman Caraballe put gaso- line in the tank of his car and started out to look for the thieves. He found the car parked at Royal and United street, with four: boys in it, but three of them escaped but he caught Orion Demeritt. This morning Demeritt was turned over to the county, and Peace Justice Esquinaldo issued warrants for the arrests of the other boys. Two of them, Ansenio Gzrcia, 19, 912 Simonton street, and Andre Zaldivar, 9 Thompson lane, were arrested and locked up in the county jail, and search is being made for the other boy. The boys will be arraigned be- fore Peace Justice Esquinaldo at 10 o'clock Monday morning. The fourth boy, George Garcia, 16, of J. Y. Porter Place, was rested this afternoon by Sacriff Berlin Sawyer and released on posting a bond of $200. The other boys were still in jail. ! | re cng, Inn nton Stree | | | skey FEATHERS | | N CLUB @ PRINCE GEORGE @ ROAMER LIMIT 0 One Case to A Customer TT | | | | | | J. . o.° "SHAE EHS#N ith Condition That » JAP CIVILIANS NOT Rule Under Di ti AWARE OF SURRENDER e Under Direction of aa Supreme Commander (My Ansoeiated Preand . GUAM, Aua. 11.—Japanese . " civilians evidently do not |GREAT BRITAIN, RUSSIA AND CHINA AGREE bs know yet that their govern- WITH VIEW EXPRESSED BY Set ee | THIS COUNTRY t. rendering ui{conditionally, | Tokyo newsparers that were | WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The United States included in broadcasts from ’ that city today. oi agreed today to the Japanese peace offer that Emper- Japanese people te be "en, 0%) Hirohito be permitted to exercise his authority tremely calm” in this “grav- | with the provision that he and bis government de a est hour in the history of the directed by an Al ‘ a empire.” iS lied we +, Cres ommepnnre sone re That would mean that every act by the emperor > im an ei © prepare eo . people for what is to come, jor his government would be subject to the approve! : reminded them that nations, H Allied commander. . ? 5 or disapproval of the b like people, have an “ebb and a flow” in their fortunes. | | That announcement was made at 10:30 o'clock 7 ithis morning by Secretary of State Byrnes, whe sit Vhdidddkddddéwe ne | —______—_~_~ ~~ ' that Great Britian, Russia and China had subscribed . 4 Town Hall Council ‘to the agreement. : Program Is Outlined | Shculd the Japanese accept the counter offer, whieh | was received through the Swiss legations in the capitels © Below is listed an outline of ine four Ailied powers, and the answers transm tted the Junior Chamber of Commerce ! 4 3 sponsored Town Hall Council pro- | trough the same medium, then the Japanese emperor must ; : gram, which is to be held, Mon-' immediately direct the commanding officers of the mit : po August 13, at the County | taxy,,.naval and airforce units to order the men unter thom 4 ‘ourt House. orks Pek ‘ , to cease firing. “ut o Subject: How in Key West » Obtain Adequate Beaches? joc. The Jag. government has already agreed te ef! (he Musical selcctions from 7:30 un..’ obber, points set; forth ip the Potsdam ultimatum, >) 4 til 8:00 by the City ‘Recreation R ‘ig tii arms to the Orchestra under the direction of aoe all Jap fighting men to surrender their - - Mr. Slate. i a3 Meeting called to order eight A statemort in the reply issyed by the four Alte 4 o'ttock bythe Chairmart* ~SP ove: nments today requires the Japanese governmen' © sf carne ‘of: tHe! Jaycens accelerate, the transportation of all prisoners of » Town Hall Council Committee such places where they will be able to embark uname Introduction of pers for their respective countries. ticipating in disc All Japanese war criminals must be surrend Price, William’ W. Demeritt, Earl Allied authorities, accor 7 to the Potedam requir Adams, W. B. Kirke. Monitor, The Allies will main troops of occupation in Bowman Cuttes, as long as they deem it ct and when the time com Monitor will open discussion’ withdraw the troops, the Japanese people themse!ve with a brief outline of the sub- threugh voting, decide what form of government they a Comment op the agreement was to the effeet th» Discussion by members scated japanese emperor will not exercise his authority t ae authority’as dictated by the Allied suprem= ma ournene tote tie audience; eo that the government in Japan will, therefore, coos to en ks from the Jay- cord with the policy the Allies decide to put into National ee ORS aRE: through their supreme commander. eee President Truman and Secretary of State Byr 5 "I RE nnounced at the White House, had kest in cle Woops ARRIVE HERE Ranihe British, Russian and Chinese gove nis FOR SHORT VISIT the 24 hou:s that elapsed at 10:30 o'clock this mo = — when Secretary Byrnes made public the Allied reply ' Lieut, Commander and Mrs. T.' Japanese proposal. ‘1 Woods arrived this week for Before the agreement was publicly announ a short visit in Key West.at their yetary, Byrnes. showed it to Senator Connally, chai home, 405 William Street. of the senate foreign affairs commie, and he said th Commander Woods: is: attached seeorded-with his views. 2 J to, the Naval Ain-Raree, and hi The next move is now up toydaven. If the ‘one 4 > been flying at the Naval Base at posal is accepted, Japan will lose alfthe territory oh eer en Ve. voodswentthrougns acguired through conquest, which is one of the oF th SoNaval flv ne ak Ready of the Potsdam ultimatum, and first set forth im the « eal Eley ais pera mis ence keld at Teheran. As a result, Japan will be ' ease : to the possession of her four large homeland island a few smaller islands. PEN u - (‘ ’ 8 to 10:30 P. M. Anchor Lodge No. 182, F. & A. Children’s Matinee Sat. M., Monday, Aug. 13th at 8 P. T N 2:30 to 5 P. M. M. 0 IGHT x Work in the Third Degree fol- Fe SERG STE ODEO lowed bv a smoker. i all members and visiting at ’ ERVICE masons invited to be present. cs BAYVIEW PARK (Complete Service for Your Car) S. W. DEMERITT, hao HY 1101 White St. Cor. Eliza GERALD H. psa , Phone 782 or 423 bei. es ey We Specialize In AUTO PAINTING | GULF STREAM restausanr ee J Operated under the personal management of 1 Weer BODY and FENDER Division at Simonton Phone 9106. Key West Work : 4 Expert eee o sfeun To Our ane apatite ond ne Con Public Service avs a Wee! : ri ee OPEN DAILY 5 P. M. TO MIDNIGHT Save Your Car by Having It _ Serving anything you may waat— : A Sandwich, Short Order or a Complete Mea! STEAMED CLEANED | - , o p 2 | and BEER and WINES SERVED DURING LEGAL HOURS Painted Underneath Aaaimacemenl With Rust Proof Paint We are now making alterations, improvements and des | orating and shall shortly open our new Restaurant and ° OPEN SUNDAYS Closed on Thursday Patio—it will be an innovation to Key West. 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