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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-30

Monroe county can forget abou
its $4,012,766 road and bridge bono
Indebtedness incurred befor'
July 1881 and count on receiving
$8,836, $50 cash for its roads anc
bridges during the next so year.
if the proposed gas tax amend
ment is ratified by the people o.
Florida at the general election
next Tuesday.
This is in accordance with
figures released by the State AS.
ISOLATION of County Commission
ers in Tallahassee today.
The tabulation of figures also
shows that benefits from the
amendment for the entire state
will amount to 1913 122,517, Of
which $171, 1895, 1854 will go to wipe
out the counties bond indebted
ness for road and bridge con-
struction during the boom and
prior to July 1881.
The State Association of County
Commissioners estimates are
based on figures compiled by the
Auditing Department and the
Division of Research and Records
of the State Road Department.
Under the amendment, bonded
indebtedness of the counties in
Cured prior to July, 1881, is taken
over by the already existing Board
of Administration, for liquidation
from two cents of the present gaso-
line tax. After these obligations
are paid off by the individual
counties, they continue to receive
the same benefits in cash for state
and county highways within the
counties. The method of distri-
button of two cents of the gasoline
tax revenue remains the same un-
der the amendment as it has been
since the original Act was passed
in the famous l0O-day session OF
the legislature in 1881.
Governor Spessard L. Holland,
who submitted the amendment to
the 1871 legislature where it
passed by an almost unanimous
vote, recently stated that the
measure will eliminate ad valorem
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the brutal task of administering
New York's WPA.
Until 1886, there had been no
administrator there who lasted
more than q few months. Somer-
veil lasted Jour years.
He had his battles and his
shower of criticism. He was sup
posed to be particularly tough on
left-wingers. He was probably
the only man who invented an eff
fective method of breaking sit
down strikes. When WPA work.
ers staged big one, Somervell is
sued an order to lock up the wash
rooms. That ended that.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-30
MAMMOTH SARDINE NETS

observation-disclosures, a quar-
ter of a mile long and 100 feet
deep, sometimes catch as much
as 100000 pounds of sardines in
single haul.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-30
ANSWERS TO YOUR
WAR QUESTIONS

Q.-Is there an allotment for
the dependent mother of an
Army nurse?
A.-No, ma'am. She's a COM
missioned officer.
OWL men in the Naval Re-
serve be stationed only in the
u. S.?
A.-When called to active du-
ty, they serve wherever they
are needed.
Q.-Can ice exceed the March
price under OPA regulations?
A.-OPA says ice may be pric-
led at April levels plus a seasonal
MAKEUP. - '.'.'
Q.-My son in the Army is CIV
ing his allotment to his wife.
Can he also make one for me
his mother?
Aft you can prove actual
dependency on him, it is possible
for you to receive an allotment
of $40 a month.
/ Q.-Is it necessary for a sol
dier's wife to have his birth GER
tificate in order to get his in
surance in case of his death?
A.-No. ~ r.orr
Q.-Can ! send my son cam
EZRA? He's in the Marine Air
Corps,
Ayes.
y gFYX n.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
Headquarters Of Air Warning System Here
To Be Transferred to Roof of City Hall When Approval Is Made By U. s. Army Command; 'SpOtter"
 to Scan Skies

Transfer of the headquarters of the Waterbury Air Warning Service to the roof of the city hall is being arranged and will be effected once final approval has been received from officers of the U. s. Army h. terceptor Command at Mitchell Field, N. Y. The AVS consists of "spotters" who scan the skies A hours day for enemy planes.
 The local AVS headquarters has been located at the home of Chief Observer Wallace J. Inglis, on Bald win avenue. The army policy, how ever, has been to transfer spotting centers to public buildings wherever possible. Mayor Vincent A. Scully has given Chief Observer Inglis and Deputy Chief Observer Michael Toomey permission to use the city hall.
 Appeal for Volunteers
 An appeal for more volunteer spotterS was made today by MT. Inglis. Moving of the observation center, he said, will mean a neces- sary increase in the staff. The num- Der of observers will be increased from about 120 to about 170. In ad- dition a reserve list of 100 or more volunteers, for special service if necessary, is needed.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
TED WILLIAMS TO
 PLAY THIS YEAR
One More Season at Game He Says, Then Will En-
 ter Army
BY ROBERT INNEs

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Minneapolis, Minn., March = (UP)-Ted Williams, baSeball's lead ing hitter, announced today he would play "one more season" be- fore enlisting in the army.
 Williams, 23-year- Boston Red Sox outfielder notified the clubs General Manager, E6die Collins, at Boston that he would leave as soon as possible" for the Red Sox spring training camp at Sarasota, Fla.
 There's only one thing I can do and that's try and play another season." Williams told the United Press. "As soon as can adjust my financial situation I'll join the army"
 Williams was re-classefied from IA to 3A last Friday in an order by President Roosevelt issued through his local draft board. He had been placed in IA early in January by Hennepin County draft board No. 6.
 After the draft boards action, the case was appealed to the district ap- peal board which upheld the local boards decision. The appeal then was taken to President Roosevelt. Denied Any Appeal
 Last wek, Williams said he had no
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
Japanese Invasion Armies Push Pincer Attack Closer To Batavia
HENRY W. MINOR
 GIVEN FREEDOM
Will Leave Wethersfield This Afternoon; Fleming
 Case Delayed to April

Henry W. Minor, given his free dom yesterday after serving one year of one to five year term in states prison, will leave the Weth- ersfie1d penal institution some time this afternoon, Warden Ralph H. Walker said today.
 Minor, chairman of the boards of police and fire commissioners during the administration of former May or T. Frank Hayes, was officially discharged yesterday when the pris- on board of paroles approved his petition for release. At the same time, an application submitted by former Superintendent of Streets Thomas J. Fleming was deferred un- til the next meeting of the board early in April.
 Imprisoned March 6, 1941
 Fleming and Minor, together with six others found guilty and sen- fenced in the Waterbury conspiracy case, were taken to states prison last March 6. Fleming is completing the first year of a one to three year term. John s. Johnston, New York broker, was incarcerated March 8, 1941, and tenth convicted in the trial, former City Controller Daniel J. Leary, escaped on the eve of his transfer to prison. No trace of Leary has been uncovered since his escape.
 The deferment of approval in the case of Fleming was regarded as surprising in most quarters, in view of the lengthier sentence imposed on Minor.
 Questioned as to whether Minor would have to report back to the Wethersdeld institution within few days to inform the board of paroles about whether he had received en- ployment, Warden Walker replied:
 Minor Has Found Work
 Minor has already found work The board will not give a parole to 8 prisoner unless he furnishes proof that he has been offered job"
 Answering the other query, the prison head said, "It will not be necessary for him to report back here until the expiration of the first month after his discharge. Even then, he will not be required to appear in person. We send monthly report blanks to parolees which they fill out and mail to Us. He will, however, be visited reg uarly by prison official"
 Warden Walker declined to state with whom Minor had obtained en-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
S6O,OOO,OOO IOWAFACTORY
 IS HIT AGAIN Second Time in Three Months; Midnight Shift
 Just Being Made FORTY INJURED IN
 DEADLY EXPLOSION Fifteen Bodies Recovered, But Only Six of Them
 Were Identified

Burlington, Iowa, March 5. - (UP) - Authorities said today that a midnight explosion at the $60,000,000 Iowa ordnance plant-the second within three months had killed at least IS per sons. The blast at 11:55 last night, during the midnight change of shifts, rocked the flat Iowa farming country for miles around and rattled windows in this city, six miles east of the Mississippi river. Approxi- mately 40 men were injured, some critically.
 Col. Otto M. Jank, commanding officer at the plant, said the cause of the explosion had not been de- termined but that an Investigation would begin at dawn. He reported the explosion was in "the process building in one of the loading lines" and was similar to the one that took 13 lives at the plant last Dec, 12.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
Nazis Order Official Mourning For Paris
Orders Given Because One German Soldier Was Killed Sunday; Paris Already in Mourning for $50
 Dead By British Raid
BY RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent

Vichyz March - (UP) - Paris, mourning an estimated $50 persons killed in British air raid on its industrial suburbs, was placed in official mourning by German occu- patton authorities today for Ger man soldier who was killed Sunday.
 (The British radio, quoting Rome advices from Berlin, said that 20 hostages had been executed for kill ing the soldier. Twenty more are to be executed March 16 unless the killers are found)
 Gen. Ernst Schaumburg, deputy German military governor, ordered the entire city to observe mourning for the Nazi soldier on the occasion of his burial today.
 Movies, theaters and other amuse- ment places were ordered closed throughout the day.
 (Germany vigorously denounced the Briti-h bombardment and at the same time announced that 40 host ages, to be executed for killing the soldier, would be picked from Jews and Communists" and that the trial of seven Communist terrorists," 1" six of them minors. would proceed at Paris today and would end to- morrow)
 It was asserted officially here that four hospitals in the Paris suburbs were struck by bombs in the Brit flh raid a1ld it was admitted Chat "very serious" damage was done to the Renault and Salmson Motor Works and the Farman airplane factory.
 Denounced Raid
 Navy commandant Jules Fontaine, aide to Vice Premier Jan Francios Darlan, who returned from Paris
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
Drive Is Chiefly Aimed tC Cut Whole Island COnls pIetely in Two NIPPON PLANES NOW
 IN COMPLETE CONTROL Dutch, With Allies, Are Putting Up Heroic, But
 Hopeless Battle
BY W. H. McDOUGALL United Press Staff CcrrespOndentl

A we AAs AtANA(O V NNAAA<6 United Press Staff Correspondent
 Allied Headquarters, Java March 5. = (UP) = A furi- ous battle ragged throughout Java today after Japanese in vasion armies pushed a pincers attack close to the capital city of Batavia, struck to within 30 miles of Bar- doeng military headquarters and cut communications lines to the Soerabaja naval base.
 The enemy advance from the north coast of Java on a 1l0-mile route to the Indian Ocean on tho south had reached the halfway point of Soerakarta, vital com1nli- nications center controlling all regular railroad and highway routes to Soerabaja.
 The drive presumably was head- ed for Patjitan, about 50 miles away on the south Java coast, which would complete the Japanese objective of cutting this island in two approximately in its middle.
 Pincers Are Real Threat
 Enemy pincers attacks threaten- ed both Batavia and Bandoeng in western Java and enemy bonbers already have started attacking south coast ports, presumably in an attempt to prevent departure of allied ships.
 The Dutch news agency, Aneta. said that on the basis of latest re- ports the allied troops still were contesting the Japanese advance on Subang, 30 miles north of Bandoeng. Suband controls two roads leading to Bandoeng.
 Aneta's correspondents said Japa- nese dropped bombs on Bandoeng this morning but that he saw no columns of smoke arise after the explosions and presumed no im- portant targets had been hit.
 Anti-aircraft guns fired on the raiders, but there were no signs of allied planes in the air to combat them. It was impossible to count the number of Japanese planes be- cause of the low clouds that fre- quently hid them.
 Fighting Java Fronts
 The fighting fronts on Java showed:
 West-Enemy pushes close to su- burbS of Batavia, capturing Tanger- ang, IS miles west of the capital, and surging past Krawang, swhich lies less than 40 miles east of Ba- tavia, where the "scorched earth" program already has been applied.
 West central-Japanese force al- lied defenders from Purwakarta, 30 miles north of Bandoeng. This rep resented an advance from the In- dramajoe landing point along the main railroad and highway vest ward and thence north toward the Dutch military headquarters high in the mountains and gave the en-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
General MacArthur's Surprise Air Attacks Cost Japanese Severely
Three Transports Loaded With Troops Sunk With
 Loss of Many Lives
BY EVERETT R. HOLES United Press Staff Correspondent

'
 Washington, March 5 - (UP0 - General Douglas MacArthur's sur- prise air attack on Japanese vessels in Subic Bay cost the enemy three heavily-laden troop transports and probably thousands of lives, the War Department said today.
 A communique revealed that Mac Arthur had identified three of five Japanese vessels sunk in the March raid as transports and it is be- heyed thousands of enemy soldiers" on them either were drowned or killed.
 Many Japanese casualties, it was believed, were caused when am intuition aboard the ships exploded as a result of the bombing.
 The communique emphasized the surprise with which MacArthur's airmen, presumably flying small P- 40 fighters not designed for bomb ing, hit the invaders. Not single American aircraft was damaged, the communique said, and for the first time since December z no enemy planes were in action during an air operation.
 The fact that no Japanese planes took the air against MacArthur's attackers may be because the enemy is employing the bulk of its air strength in Java and Burma, ob- servers here believed.
 Lose Front Line Planes
 There also have been signs, nili- tary men said, that the Japanese are losing front line planes faster than their factories are turning them out. From the Philippines earlier this week came reports that the enemy was using some German type HoonIpers in Slat tlleaseR, and interpreters here believed the enemy may have been forced to dip into re- serves.
 The additional details on the March 4 aerial attack, one of the most spectacular enacted by Mac Arthur's men, came as military men were forecasting further surprises at
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
(By United Press)

The Japanese radio said today that 30 United Nations planes raided Japanese-held Marcus is- land (Minami TorD about HOO miles southeast of Japan and mid- way between Tokyo and the Mar shall islands, which the American navy raided several weeks ago.
 Broadcasts recorded by United Press in New York and London ad- mitted some damage, but quoted the Domei (Japanese) news agency that some Allied planes" were shot down. Eight persons were said to have been, killed and one building burned.
 The Berlin radios version said 90 enemy aircraft were sighted off the Cgasawara (Bonin) islands, about eco miles south of Japan, where q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
Japanese, German Radios Report Raids By United Nations Upon Marcus Island

against Japanese -mandated islands. The raids on the Marshall islands and the neighboring Gilbert islands are the only ones announced offi- cially in Washington, but it was disclosed Tuesday that another naval task force had been active west of tine Gilbert islands and that 16 Japanese bombers had been shot down from an attacking fleet of l5.
 The Japanese broadcast gave no details of the alleged Marcus island raid, but 1t appeared likely to have been executed by planes from an aircraft carrier.
 CThe broadcast, as recorded by the Columbia Broadcasting System. added ominously for its Japanese listeners: ~No enemy planes have yet appeared over the Japanese mainland, but we warn you to take precautionary steps1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
BURMA SITUATION
 IS INDEFINITE
British Forces Still Battle Against Jap Thrnsts on
 7O=Mile Front
BY DARRELL BERRIGAN

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Mandalay, Burma, March 5-(UP) -GE aesay S0fnErSlnfTNe $U6aS He- ported that British forces were battling against a Japanese thrust in the area from Waw to Pegu, roughly 70 miles northeast of Ram goon.
 The communique reported that six Japanese bombers attacked Waw and set the town afire.
 Dispatches did not make clear whether the town of Waw is now held by the Japanese or whether the British still have a foothold there.
 Little change along the Sittang river front was reported. A Japanese fighter was shot down by a Royal Air Force squadron. Rangoon was reported quiet.
 The imperial defenders, braced for days against an all-out attack, hurl- ed planes, tanks and infantry into the battle and were applying a ''scorched earth" torch to the Jap- aneSe path.
 An earlier communique said 'Ran- goon is quiet but the situation there admittedly was grave.
 On 7O-Mile Front
 Fighting on the 70-odd-mile front apparently was heaviest at Waw, and showed the initial Japanese thrust had carried halfway across the 15-rnile strip between the lower Sittang and the Rangoo1-to-Man dalay railroad portion of the Burma road supply route to China.
 OficiaI announcements gave no indication of the strength of the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05

Crosby High School. He was graduated from Holy Cross Col lege, Worcester, and thereafter studied theology at the American College, Louvain, Belgium. He was ordained in Louvain on July 12, 1914.
 Returning to this country. he began his ministry in the Hartford Diocese as an assistant at Holy Angels Church, South Meriden. From 1916 to 1880 he was curate at st. Peters, Danbury. His first paStorate was St. Mary Mazda lenes Oakville, 1930-1934. He took charge of St. Mary's, Bridge port, in 1884, and remained there until transferred to St. Peters, in the same city, in 1889.
 Founders Nephew
 Mcnsignor Finn is a nephew of the founder of the Knights of Co., lumbus, the Reverend Michael J. McGiYney. While assistant pastor of st. Mary's Church, New Haven,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05

Japanese naval base is located. It said slight damage was caused on Minarni Tori, which it described as one of the Ogasawaras. Mirami Tori, or Marcus island, lies 750 miles east of the Ogasawara group.
 Japanese imperial headquarters claimed that seven enemy planes were shot down in the attack.
 Army and navy circles in Wash- ington declined to comment. It was recalled that they also had refused to confirm Japanese broadcasts last Saturday telling of a fleet of two cruisers, six destroyers and an afr craft carrier-presumably American attacking Japanese-held Wake is- land Feb. A.
 It appeared likely that the raid on Marcus island, if true, was a1l- other hit-run attack such as Amer ican naval units have executed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
RUSSIANS TALK
 ABOUT SLAUGHTER
One German Garrison Is Marked for Death; 24,-
 900 Nazis in Circle
(NEA Radiophoto)
BY WILLIAM K. DOWNS United Press Staff Correspondent

London, March 5 - (UP.)-Rus- sian troops besieging Orel, south- west of Moscow, were reported to- day to be preparing wholesale laughter of the stubborn enemy gar- rison, while their comrades, pound- ing at Staraya Russa, annihilated third of the 18th German army en- trapped there.
 Dispatches from neutral Stock holm said the Red Army was ready for great frontal attack on Orel, where 24,000 Germans, under siege for two months, refused a Soviet demand for their surrender.
 They said the Russians sent one of their largest tanks toward the German lines under a white flag of truce. E carried an uitimatum from General Ivan Boldin, the Soviet commander:
 Surrender Orel and save a use- less waste of life"
 Colonel-General Heinz Guderian, commanding the German forces re- fused, the Stockholm adviceS said.
 Far north of Orel, the Russians
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
SYNTHETIC RUBBER
 FORCING AHEAD

Cambridge, Mass, March 5 --(U. P.) -- Eventual development of syil- thetic rubber "far superior to the natural grade" was predicted today by Professor Avery A. Morton di- rector of the Research Laboratory of Organic chemistry at Massachu- setts Institue of Technology.
 Writing in the Technology Review Professor Morton said that "the neds Of the day will stimulate a small army of chemists to achieve great results.s 'sT1ie synthetic variety of rubber is heer to stay" he added. Tt eventually will be superior to the natural grade"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
Rev. Leo M. Finn Is Appointed Rt. Rev. signor
Pope Pius XII HOnOrs Native Son of Waterbury; MOn- signOr Finn Is Now Pastor of St. Peters
 Church in Bridgeport

The Most Reverend Maurice F. McAuiffe DID,, Bishop of Hartford announced Wednesday in the Catholic Tran Bridgeport and national chaplain of the Knights of Columbus has been made Domestic Prelae of His Hol
 ness, Pope Plus XII, with the title of Right Reverend Monsignor. Monsignor Finn is native of Waterbury Born here in 1888, he attended St. Marys School and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
REMOVAL OF COX
 IS NOW DEMANDED
Attorney General PallOtti Has Filed New Charges
 on Highway Com.
BY JACK AMMAN

United Press Staff CorrespOndent)
 Hartford, Conn, March 5-(UP) Attorney General Francis A Pallotti today instituted removal proceedings against suspended Highway Commissioned William J Cox, charging misconduct, mate rial neglect of duty and mcompe- tence."
 Pallotti set Monday, March 16 as the date for a removal hearing before Gov. Robert A. Hurley and his technical adviser, Chief Justice William M. Maltbie. The hearing will be open to the press and "other interested parties"
 Cox was suspended last month by Gov. Hurley when Pallotti brought preliminary charges against him in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-05
CHURCH ORGANISE
 KILLED PARENTS
Playing of Hymns Inspired Him to Kill His Father
 He Declared

Los Angeles, March 5. = (UPO- Courtney F. Rogers, 24, bearded church organist who has con- fessed slaymg his parents, related how the playing of hymns "in- Spired" him to kill his father, police said today.
 It was months before he was ar rested on a minor charge and all- thorities obtained confessions.
 Rogers confessed Tuesday that he had killed his father, Courtney c. Rogers, 55, boilermaker, last Oc- tober s, leaving him to die in a gas-flled, burning home. Authori- ties had believed the elder Rogers was an accident victim.
 ne confessed yesterday that he had
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TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, March (UP)--ov ernment expenses and receipts fog the current fiscal year through Maj 3rd, compared with year ago: This Year Expenses Last Yeaf $17,106,121,17s.13 S7,494,S4O,6O2.5
 War Spending $12,751,5s7s56.s5 s2,ss4, ,o6s, ,2s1.e $ s,soS,s57,1s9.s7 $s,s6s,oss, ,15s.si
 Net Deficit s11,425S52,s2s.4s ss,5s5.sss.sss.s
 Cash Balance $ s,4O5.s4l,sSo.ss sI,S71.55e.ss
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