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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-01
MADAME CHANG KAI-sHEK IN NEW YORK

YORK-Madame Chang Kali hek arrived here today
greeted Mayor Lauade and other officials She
bouquet
sulate of this city.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-01
LARGEST IN AMERICA

ST. LOUIS.-Cahekia Mound, in
Illinois, is the largest prehistoric
earthwork in America.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-01
IN SOME FORM

CHICAGO.-All animal and
plant life is believed to contain
in some form.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-01

Key West, Florida. has tee
most equable climate in the
country: with an average
range of only Ia Fahrenr It
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-01
Benson Christy, Quadruple
Murderer, Was EIectrocuted
At Raiford During Morning
AP Features.
,py A.sos.ated Prersl

Associated
RAIFoHD. Mar. l-Benson j. Father Murphy Fl am not a
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Peoples Counsel Job at 81, 800
Appears to Be D. 6. Founding

District Committee, which recreated
the position at the urging of citi-
zens.
Any one there having anything
to say to the President about it?
Seemingly not. The committee
has had no formal applicants for
the place, it was added.
One last chance. The Budget
Bureau often knows the answers.
Not this time. The Budget Bu-
reau prepared its customary report
on 'the District appropriation bill
when 1t went to the President for
signature, but made no special men,
ton Of the counsel item for the
Presidents attention. It was not
considered of major Importance, 1t
was said, and further, had been the
subject of thorough discussion in
the congressional hearings. The
bill was signed some time ago.
President Roosevelt vetoed a bill
for a peoples counsel when he was
Governor of New York, considering
the ofnce unnecessary. The position
here has been vacant since the res
ignation Of william A. Roberts
seven years ago.
The Job viii pay t7,50o-if and
when.
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Vatican Brands Axis
Reports on Protest 10
Roosevelt as False
Pontiff Does Not Think
U. S. Airmen Hit Shrines
Intentionally, Rome Says
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, July 24.-The Vati-
can radio, in a erman-language
broadcast beamed to Germany,
tonight branded as entirely un-
founded" German and Italian
news agencies reports that Pope
Plus XII had protested to Presi-
dent Roosevelt over Mondays
bombing of Rome. 1t also said
the Pontiff did not believe Amer
lean pilots Intentionally set out
to damage holy places,
The broadcast. which emphasized
that the Pontiff is impartial in the
war, denied the Axis statements
that after the raid the Pope called
to the Vatican Harold H. Tittman
jr., United States Charge d'Affairs.
"a portion Of the broadcast re-
corded by the United States For
eign Broadcast Intelligence Service
quoted the Vatican radio as saying
1T would have been possible to
make Rome actually an open city,
"a goal sought by President Roose-
welt. The broadcast then said 1T
must be regretted that at least up to
the present moment this had not
been done.D
Text Recorded in U. S.
A partial text as recorded by the
Associated Press:
Reports put out by DNB Ger
man official news agency, accord
ing to which the Pope had made e
personal protest to President Roose-
welt about the bombing Of Rome, as
we'll as a report that United States
Charge d'Affairs Mr.. Tittman had
been called to the Vatican on the
evening of the day the bombing
took place, are both entirely un-
founded.
LAS the Holy Fathers movements
after the bombing of Rome have
been subject to many incorrect in
terpretations in the foreign press, it
See POPE, Page A-I5J
Evening star., 1943-07-25
u. S. Makes First Norway Raid
Trondheim Base and Factorv Hit;
Z Sici|ian Ports Reported Taken
Fleet of Fortresses
Makes 1,800-MiIe
FLIGHT From Britain

NAlI INSTALLATIONS blasted in
100-plane raid on Crete. Page Az.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sunday, July 25.-In
an unprecedented 1900 J. mile
round trip almost to the Arctic
Circle. a strong force of Ameri-
can Flying Fortresses pounded
Trondheim in Norway by day
light yesterday, leaving that big
German U-boat base raging
mass of exploding bombs, fam
ing oil tanks and black smoke
which mushroomed up several
thousand feet.
The attack, announced early today
In a United States Army head
quarters communique, was the first
American one on Norway, and ore
Fortress formation also smashed
an aluminium plant at Heroya in
Southern Norway, within 100 miles
of Oslo, the capital.
A French colonel who rode to
Heroya said the factory there went
"poof" after the American precision
airmen had planted their bombs on
it. This formation made a 1,2oG-
mile round trip to reach its target.
The communique said bombing
results were good at both targets"
II Nazi Fighters Destroyed.
Seventeen German fighters were
destroyed by the Americans.
One American bomber failed to
return out of the big force used in
the operation. 1t landed in Sweden
safely and its crew of 10 was in
termed.
The returning flyers were oracti-
cally unscathed after catching Nazi
defenses off guard.
Photographs of the damage at
Trondheim, called the German Oh
braltar of the NORTH confirmed that
Evening star., 1943-07-25

The re-established Cor Is it?)
Of1ice of Peoples Counsel for the
Public Utilities Commission seems
to have become a Capital found
ling.
A query at the White House yes
terday as to the status of the posi-
tion-a presidential. appointment
for which Congress supplied funds
in the current District appropria-
ton bill after a lapse of several
years, brought the response that
there was nothing there on the
subject.
A suggestion was advanced that
the Justice Department might know
something. No result. The depart
ment, a spokesman explained, has
no interest in such legal appoint
ments as peoples counsels.
Then a clue was sought at the
District Building.
Were the Commissioners doing
anything in connection with the
legislation?
Again no, with the added state
ment that 1t was not up to the
Commissioners. Word was that the
PUG, too, was not doing anything
about It.
The trail next led to the Senate
Evening star., 1943-07-25

submarine repair shops. docks and
other naval installations were heav-
lily damaged by many thousands of
pounds of high explosives, a jubi-
liant intelligence officer said.
1--WE really hit it on the BUTTON"
he said, for pictures showed that
not single bomb was wasted.
Trondheim, sheltered by it's fjoro
approach. is the lair for Nazi war
ships and submarines that prev on
the northern supply route to Muir
mansk. 1t was the last reported
maven of Germany's great battleship
the Tirpitz, and the two 10,00O-ton
cruisers of the Admiral Hipper class
New Phase of Operations.
"Tooay's attacks marked the be-
ginning Of new phase of opera
tions," said Brig. Gen. Frederick l.
Anderson, new chief of the 9th
Bomber Command
The attack upon Trondheim in
volved the longest journey under
taken to date by the 9Th Air Force
heavy bombers carrying full bomb
loads"
Eighth Air Force headquarters said
the Nordiska Lettmetall plant at
Heroya is a subsidiary of the Ger
(See NORWAY, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Nazis' July Offensive
Completely Smashed
Stain Declares
Abortive Drives Toll
Put at 10000 Men;
Reds Moving on OreI
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, July 24.-Premier
Joseph Stain announced today
that Germany's abortive sum-
mer offensive was smashed COM
pletely with a loss of 10000 Of
the 100000 men the Nazis had
hurled against the Red Army
beginning July 5.
After Stain had congratulate ted his
generals in an order of the day for
proving in the third year of war
that German summer offensives are
not automatically successful. a spe-
cial Russian communique an
nounced that Soviet troops in their
own swelling counteroffensive had
captured a number Of villages out
side Orel, including zmievka. IA
miles south of the Nazi bastion. The
Russian wise squeezed tighter with
gains Of three to five miles from the
south.
A violent air battle was raging
east of Orel, where the desperate
Germans sought to stem a head-on
charge by Russian fighters with the
waning Nazi air force. The Soviet
midnight communique said Rus
sian airmen were meeting the Ger
man fighters plane for plane and
inf1ictlng heavy counterblows.
Red Reserves Poured in.
An admission of Nazi Withdrawals
near Orel was made in a Berlin
broadcast recorded by the AS
sociated Press.
The broadcast said that south
east and north of Orel the Germans
made partial withdrawals as
strong Russian reserves poured into
the area ''in an attempt to widen
the ak-through at any COST
The Soviet midnight communique
said that north of OreI the Russians
beat back numerous German
counterattacks and advanced to oc-
cupy a number of enemy points of
resistance.
Other Red Army columns were re-
ported smashing at the Germans less
than miles northeast of Orel and
miles on the east.
The communique emphasized the
Stain statement by announcing that
in the Belgorod direction, south of
the Orel sector, the new five-day
ICoo pTICCTA pace A120
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Artist McCIeiIond Burc|oy
Missing in Action in Pacific
Had Been Making
Sketches for History
Of Present War

BY the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, July 24.-Mrs. Rob-
ert Barclay said today she was
informed her Stepson, 1t. Comdr
McClelland Barclay, nationally
known artist, was missing in ac-
ton. He lived in st. Louis as a
boy.
She said she had received tele-
gram from Hamilton Barclay. broth
er of the artist, saying that as next
of kin he had been notified by the
Navy that his brother was missing
The date and place were not given
but Comdr. Barclay has been in Aus
tralia and New Guinea making
paintings and sketches for a perma-
nent historical record of the war
Comdr. Barclay, 50, was a men,
ber Of the first unit of the War
Art Corps" to arrive in Australia
He made portraits of Gen. Douglas
Macarthur and other top ranking
Army and Navy officers.
The artist left st. Louis at is
lived In Chicago during the World
War and made many recruiting
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Army 10 Re-examine
Limited Service Men
Discharge All Unfit
Broader Opportunity
For Others Sought;
Virginia to Sift 4-Fs
By the Associated Press.

1s INC hSsOSldlcu EItSS
The War Department an
nounced yesterday a re-exami-
nation of Army men who are
classified under the designation
limited service" and whose rec
ords show they cannot meet
general service requirements.
Those who fail to meet minimum
standards for induction will be dis
charged with exceptions for men
physically qualified to perform their
present duties and whose command
ers desire their retention.
The War Department said elimi-
nation of the special group will pro-
vide broader opportunity for serv-
ice among those enlisted men now
marked as limited servicemen."
Inductions Will Continue.
Inductees who cannot meet cur
rent physical standards for general
service will continue to be accepted
in limited numbers on the basis of
ability, special skills, intelligence and
aptitude in relation to their physical
ability, the department said.
Every measure will be taken to
place individuals in positions where
their particular skill and ability will
be of the greatest use," the depart
ment announced. commanders
will exercise personal supervision to
this end.
Soldiers not retained because of
physical disability will return to the
(See LIMITED SERVICE, Pg. A-6.)
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Wallace AssoiIs u. S. Foscists'
Proud to Be Called ?deoIist"
Says Big Business Hates President Because
He Does Not Cater to Wall Street

mean what is implied by the term.
but mean the situation that existed
when great corpora tions rose to
power economically and politically.
The reason Mr.. Roosevelt is so
hated by many big businessmen is
the fact that he stopped making
Washington a way station on the
road to Wall Street.
War Output Called miracle"
II am a believer in old fashioned
Americanism and what Wall Street
can do for the United States =
to build new Americanism on be-
half of the general welfare"
Mr.. Wallace termed accomplish
ments on the domestic front in the
production of food and war goods a
modern miracle"
MI. Wallace predicted that if
tSee WAII,ACF Page A-12)
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Publisher McCarrens
Dies Of Gun Wounds
Five Trunsfusions Fail
To Save Ohioun's Life
BY the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, July 24.-John s,
McCarrens, "a year old general
manager of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, died tonight at st. Vincent's S
Charity Hospital from bullet wounds
inflicted Thursday by gunman who
then killed himself.
The publisher had been given five
blood transfusions.
Mr.. McCarrens was shot last
Thursday afternoon by Herbert L.
Kobrak, 50, as the publisher sat in
his ONCE on the fourth floor of the
Plain Dealer Building in downtown
Cleveland.
Kobrak, formerly affiliated with
Hungarian and German language
newspapers here, placed his pistol
to his head and shot himself in
the right temple. He died at the
same hospital 80 minutes after the
shooting. y
Mr.. McCarrens, twice president of
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association and ar ANPA director,
told associates on his way to the
hospital that Kobrak had made an
appointment with him to discuss
starting a graphic newspaper in
Cleveland.
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Voiding No Strike Pledge
Authorized by Rail Union
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 24.-President e.
E. Milliman of the Railroad Broth
erhood Maintenance of Way (AFL)
was authorized by the union today
to withdraw its no-strike pledge
to President Roosevelt any time
he deems fit.
The authorization was given at
the concluding session of the week
long convention of 500 delegates
in a resolution also empowering
Mr.. Milliman to order whatever
further action" necessary TO en-
force wage increase demands.
Originally, the union demanded q
20-cents-an-hour increase. An g.
cents-an- hour award from a special
railway labor panel was denied by
Fred M. Vinson. director Of eco
nomic stabilization. The Mainten-
ance Of Way Brotherhood claims
1000 members.
Evening star., 1943-07-25
10 Yonks Interned
As Fortress Lands
In Bog in Sweden
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, July 24.-A
Flying Fortress, the first Uni
ted States warcraft to make a
forced landing in Sweden in
this war, skidded to a halt in
a bog IS miles from the Nor
wegian border after partici-
pating in today's bombing of
Norway.
The crew had a close call as
the plane nipped off the tops
of a couple of trees and Just
missed a 10,000-volt high ten
sion power line. A few minutes
after it made a belly landing in
the mud. soldiers arrived and
took the 10 crewmen to a mill
tary camp for internment.
Their names were not dis
closed.
The bomber was reported to
have run out of fuel. 1t carried
no bombs, indicating they had
been dropped in Norway.
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Restaurant RoIIback
Enforcement Here
Will Be Delayed
Will Sturt Late in Week
After Copies Of Order
Are Distributed

Enforcement of the order roll
ing back restaurant prices here
will be delayed until late this
week because copies of the new
regulation have not been dis
tributed to the eating establish
ments, spokesman for the
District Office of Price Adminis-
tration disclosed last night.
The spokesman said the rollback
order will become effective tonight,
as scheduled, freezing restaurant
prices at the April 4 to 10 level
throughout the District, Maryland,
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey and New York. He added,
however, that compliance will have
to be on voluntary basis here
until each of the approximately
$500 restaurants, hotels and bars
in the District has received the text
of the new rules.
Printing difficulties are respon-
sible for the delay in distributing
copies Of the regulation, the OPA
official said.
viii Be Mailed Out.
Scheduled to be in the hands of
the District OPA more than a week
ago, the printed regulations still
had not arrived by late last night.
The spokesman said he understood
they were being shipped by parcel
post last night from the national
OPA's distribution center in down.
town Washington, and would reach
See RESTAURANTS. Page A-7l
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Two Britons Convicted
In Conspiracy Case
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LEEDS, England. July PA
former lord mayor Of Newcastle and
an admiralty official were convicted
today on charges OF conspiracy and
bribery in connection with the
awarding of contracts for the con-
struction of minesweepers.
Robert Stanley Dalgliesh, II, now
an alderman, was sentenced to Is
months in jail and fined $4,000 on
each of five counts of giving bribes
Charles j. Butt, IS, the admiralty
official. was sentenced to three years
penal servitude for accepting brides
and up to ls months imprisonment
on other counts.
Mr.. Dalgliesh, managing director
Of the Blyth Drydocks and Ship
building Co.. Ltd. was accused, along
with Sir Arthur Sutherland, direc-
tor of giving money to Mr.. Butt as
an inducement to show favor to the
Blyth company.
But Sir Arthur, rs, likewise a
former lord mayor Of Newcastle, was
exonerated of all charges.
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Two Big Jap Bases
In Southwest Pacific
Hit by Allied Planes
Buiroko-Mundu Area
And Lue in New Guinea
Are Blasted Heavily
JAPS ON KISKA BATTERED in
Joint Air and Sea Operation.
Page A.

| JAPS ON klSkA BATTERED IN
Joint Air and Sea Operation
Page A.
BY the Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC
Sunday, July 25.-Continuing
their heavy aerial blows against
principal japanese bases in the
Southwest Pacific, Allied bomb
ers yesterday hurled 80 tons of
explosives against the Bairoko-
Munda defense on New Georgia
and so tons on Lac, New Guinea
Two heavy attacks were made on
enemy positions at Bairoko and at
Boblo Hill, New Georgia, by torpedo
and dive bombers from the South
Pacific command of Admiral Will
lam F. Halsey. Bairoko is situated
on Kula Gulf, about miles north
of Munda airbase, and Boblo Hill
is l mile northeast of Munda.
The communique from Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's headquarters said
one of our planes was lost in the
raid against New Georgia but that
the crew was believed to have been
! rescued.
The ground situation is un-
changed was the only official word
concerning positions of American
troops who have the Japanese
pinned inside the airbase defenses
at Munda. The latest specific re-
ports said the Americans were with
in two miles of the airbase.
i Flying through bad weather
which frequently limits aerial oper-
ations in the Southwest Pacific
four -engined bombers dropped 60
tons of high explosives on Lac in a
morning attack. The bombs set off
heavy explosions and started large
fires.
The japanese struck at two AL
lied positions-Bena Bena, 80 miles
(See PACIFIC, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1943-07-25
By the Associated Prsss.


DETROIT, July 24.-Vice Presi-
dent Wallace, arriving in Detroit
to deliver a major speech tomor-
row, said today at a press con-
ference that certain American
Fascists claim I'm an idealist.
ask them to look to themselves
and ask if they have done as
much to put their ideals into
practice"
Mr.. Wallace declared he was
proud to be called an ''id>alist.'
Although he used the term "Ameri-
can Fiscists" several times during
his press conference he did not
identify any individual as such.
fashioned Americanism is
the last refuge of the Fascists," the
Vice President said. But by old
fashioned Americanism they do not
Evening star., 1943-07-25
Nuzi Radio Stations Off
limiting Attack by RAF

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 24.-Deutsch-
landsender, main radio station in
the Berlin area, went off the air
tonight, the Federal Communica-
tions Commission reported, indicat-
ing that the Raj against was at
tacking the continent.
Evening star., 1943-07-25
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Evening star., 1943-07-25
Gen. StiIweII's Daughter
Is Married to Cuptoin

BY the Associated Press.
CARMEL. Calf. July 24.-Wini-
fred Stilwell. daughter of 1t. Gen.
and Mrs. Joseph w. Stilwell, and
Capt. William Ellis Cox were mar
ried today at the Stilwell home on
Carmel Potut
Evening star., 1943-07-25

1t. COMDR. McCLELLAND
BARCLAY.
posters. Later he moved to New
York.
The son of the late DR.. Robert
Barclay, he received his early train
ing at the st. Louis School Of Fine
-(see BARCLAY, Pare A-l.)
Evening star., 1943-07-25

(See RUSSIA, Page Alb,
Evening star., 1943-07-25

(See SICILY, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1943-07-25

The Evening and Sunday Star IL
delivered in the city and suburbs at
8oc per month when Sundays; 9Oc
per month when Sundays. The
Night Final Edition and Sunday
Morning Star at 90c when Sum-
days; $1.00 when Sundays.
Evening star., 1943-07-25

(See WALLACE, Page A-12.)
Evening star., 1943-07-25

(See POPE, Page A-l5D
Evening star., 1943-07-25

,(See BARCLAY, Page A-4.)
The Valley settler., 1943-09-10

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
This Weeks
Market Report

HERE IS the latest market
report according to the Detroit
Municipal Bureau Of Markets.
Shipments of fresh asparagus
from California are plentiful
this week and the quality is ex-
cellent. Increased supplies Of
green beans from Florida and
carrots from Arizona, California
and Texas, are reaching the city.
and homemakers should find
them reasonably priced.
AVOCADOS CAN be found in
large amounts.
There is a moderate supply
of: apples, lemons, pineapples,
strawberries, beans, beets, cell
cry. cucumbers, onions, rhubarb,
radishes. rutabagas, shallots,
spinach and tomatoes.
THIS WEEK finds a moderate
supply of pork on hand, includ-
ing sausage and loaf meats.
This weeks fresh fish con-
sists mainly of blue pike and
perch from Lake Erie and yell
low pike from Lake Huron.
HomemakerS who want low
priced fish should find mullet
and sheepshead in fairly good
supply this weekend.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17

Nothing makes woman more
lovely than fine clothes and Cor
geous Furs. If you want to look
your very best select a smart suit
or coat (2t75 up), then get pair
e beautiful skins) OF genuine
SILVER FOX at the lowest COM
petitive cash price in town, of
only s9S on budget payments at
FRANKLIN'S during their daring
Spring sale Here is very special
offer made in a drive for 500 new
customers. A smart new pair OF
shoes or a clever new hat ABSO.
LUTELY FREE (VALUE $50 with
your purchase of a pair of GENU-
me SILVER FOXES at only $9s.
or any other Fur or Chubbies
priced "a low as $39.95, with a
large selection TO choose from.
Just So reserves any Fur. Take the
choice Of the friendly FRANKLIN
credit plan that suits you best.
with UP to 50 weeks to pay, or a
charge account with NO DOWN
PAYMENT. No red tape. no delay.
Hurry and get your FREE hat or
shoes during this drive Use your
credit as always AZ FRANKLIN'S
DEP ARTM ENT STORE, 316
MICHIGAN AVE. Shop any eve.
ming till o'clock.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17

FROM THE Arnold arho-
return comes a real innovation
in determining correct planting
times for various vegetables.
The bulletin Of the srhoretum
"Arroldia" takes issue with the
usual planting tables which give
exact dates of planting and
then state that allowances must
be made for variations IN the
current season.
why not, says the bulletin,
watch some plant growing IN
the open IN a situation COM
parable 70 that Of the vegetable
Carden7 When this plant IS IN
full bloom. or the leaves are
appearing would be the
time 70 SOW certain seeds. The
idea. Of course. is that the