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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
Lieut.. Stephen Douglass
Dies At Naval Hospital

Indian Head, Md, as Medical
officer in charge, also at Iona
Island Naval Magazine, New
York, in the same capacity for
five years. He spent two years
at the Mare Island Naval Hos
ital, two years at Canaco Hos
pltal in the Philippines. lie was
ordered home VIA OF Europe,
his fourth complete CIR
cult of the globe.
He served all through the
first world war at the Naval
Hospital at Newport, R. l., and
wnile there was transferred TO
the Medical Corps as an assist
ant surgeon. He was detached
from there in 1920 and sent to
the Naval Academy Dispensary.
having had four years of duty
there, also four years at the
Washington Navy Yard Dispens-
airy. He was detached and sent
to Paris Island, S. c., Marine
Base, where he retired in 1923.
In 1901 he married Miss May
Louise johnson at Key West,
where they have lived for the
past eleven years. Two children
were born to them. Florence
Stapleton and Malcolm Earle,
both of whom died in an eFi-
demic at Iona Island, N. Y.
He was a member of the Span
h-American War Veterans and
also a member of the American
Legion and the Rotary Club.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13

Lieut.. Stephen NJ. Douglass. II,
United States Navy, retired, died
last night at $40 o'clock at the
United States Naval Hospital here.
Funeral arrangements, under the
direction of the Lopez Funeral
Home, will be announced later.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
May Louise Douglas. and one
brother. James Douglas of Can-
ada.
LIFE SKETCH
Lieut.. Douglass was born at
WaItham. Mass. He spent ten
years in China and Japan as
Apothecary on the Omaha. Lam
caster and Detroit, making three
successive cruises around the
world. He was one of the first
twenty-five Apoinecaries ap-
pointed in the Navy, and he was
the last living member.
He was at Guantanamo on the
Machias, and at Seavey's Island
at Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard
Hospital. with the Spanish pris
oners all during the Spanish
American War.
In 1898 when the PharmaceGt-
ical Corps was created, he Wa
one of the first appointed. He
served two years at the Boston
Navy Yard. In 1900 he was sent
to Key West Naval Station in
charge of the Medical Dispens-
airy.
He served sixteen months at
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
BELIEVE THAT ARMIES WILL
STRIKE FROM CRETE
AT ENEMY
tiiy AsSocfated FressI
LONDON. May l3.-Creie was
played un prominently today as
probably the place where the
Allied Armies in North Africa
will strike next against the Ital-
ians and the Germans.
tiy Associated Press,

And there are 10000 Greek
guerillas in Crete, and, despite
the ruthlessness of the warfare
that has been waged against them
by German and italian forces,
they still continue TO flare up
here and there. inflicting heavy
losses on enemy troops and de-
stroying MANY military installa-
tons almost as fast as they can
be erected by Axis engineers
But Hitler is reported to be
more perturbed over the probable
fty that the Allies will strike first
at one of 8 the channel ports or
somewhere in the Balkans. Mar
shall Rommel is said to have been
appointed by Hitler to take full
charge of the preparations that are
being made to try to Withstand
invasion at any point in Europe.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
TRACTOR. PINS BOY

KANSAS CITY. While help
ing a neighbor with the blowing,
Ray Firkens. IL, was pinned be-
meath the tractor. when it turned
over. Bobby Rice. 9. ran half
mile for help and he and Mrs.
Pauline Hastings. with their fin
gers and butcher knife, dug for
more than an hour to extricate the
boy. He emerged with only cuts
and bruises.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
HEAVY RAID MADE LAST NIGHT
Il ON DUISBlRG GERMAN CITY
tns As.ocI-,ea Prrnnl

LONDON. May 1.-THE heavr5
lest load of bombs that has fall
len on auv city during one raid
at any time since the war was
stsrted. was dropped last night
on Duisburg. the lsrqest inland
industrial city in Germany.
The British Air Ministry said
today that the Raj loosed 1000
tons of bombs on Duisbtrg over
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
Several Other Represen-
tatives OF Allied Ma
lions Are Included In
Group
oBy A..oelatea Press,

(By Associated Pressp
WASHINGTON. May IA
conference was held today by
President Roosevelt. Prime Min.
ister Churchill and representa-
tives OF Australia. China and
the Netherlands, several of whose
colonial possessions are in Jap
anesen hands. and. while no pub
lie announcement was made of
the matters discussed. it is be-
lieved that they pertained TO the
waging of powerful offensives
against the Japanese in China
and the Southwest Pacific.
burma is another place from
which the Allies are determined
to drive the Japs. but il is not
expected to begin the drive
against them there until the end
of the monsoon season in Sep.
TENDER.
More and heavier blows
against the Jsps. carrying the
fight TO Japan itself. have been
scheduled. and the opinion here
is that final action is now being
taken with that end in view.
What is considered in the ma :
lure of confirmation of in
crease activity against the Jars
is the calling Of conference Of
the Pacific War Council. with
whom President Roosevclf wilt
meet sometime next week. II
was ANNOUNCED that MIR. Churchill
probably will not be at the con-
ference with members of the
council. as he will be attending
TO other matters at that time.
There was further discussion
today of the 100000 tons OF
shipping. it was said. will be
used to send supplies to China.
the shipments passing through
their initial stages in the Medi-
terrsnesn. ae&s asw ~
Prime Minister, ai1 Mackenzie
King, of Canada itiwas stated.
will arrive in Washington next
Tuesday TO tske part in the dis
cussions.
Other matters that are being
discussed. it was conjectured.
regard further supplies TO Rus
Continued on Page Four)
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an area of five square miles.
where most of that city's indus
tries were situated. The fires
were turned into seas of flames,
billowing high into the air
Bridges and canal locks. in addi-
ton to war and industrial plants,
were bombed.
Between 900 and $50 planes
participated in the raid. and "a
of them failed to return to their
bases. 1t was the sixtieth time
Duisburg was bombed, and April
26 was the last time it was at
tackled.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
Roosevelt And Churchill.
Held Confidence TODAY
SENATE PASSES THREE
MONROE COUNTY BILLS
CBy Associated Press,

Wy hSSOGtuttu AFtSNb
TALLAHASSEE. Nav Is.
The Senate body of the
Florida Legislature passed
the following House bills
which were introduced in the
House BY Representative
Bernie C. PAW of Monroe
County. which lad already
passed the House:
Bill s46. relating to Key
West City Council salaries.
Bill s4s. relating to tax
levy for Key West City Hos
pital.
Bill Ssl. relating to upkaep
tax on buses.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
The Citizen this morning re-
ce;ved from Senator Claude
Pepper a copy of tie speech ms
delivered AGAINST John L. Lewis.
head of the striking United Mine
Workers of America.

Here are some excerpts from
what probably is the most force
full speech Senator Pepper has
ever. delivered:
John L. Lewis has not only
opposed the Government, he hds
defied it. In time of war he Is
planning a rebellion. not so much
to gain advantage for the miners
as to gain power for John L.
Lewis.
However worthy the claims
of the miners are, it is not de-
mocracy for all other claimants
to submit their cases to the War
Labor Board and John L. Lewis
to scorn and spurn this Board,
set up by the President and &C
guessed in by the country to
handle disputes relating to wage
increases.
THE time has now come for
showdown. We are fighting
6ictators abroad. 1t is up to the
President to show the nation that
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
GREAT VARIETY

WASHINGTON.-In the vicin-
ity of Tunis. Africa, more than a
hundred varieties of dates grow
On a million palm trees. . 8
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
cATHoLIC PRIESTS VAIN NAILS

LoHDoNSome Catholic rrests Germany tOdsY warned IN.
Nazis that their anti religious losing them the
civilized
intellectually the they by
The Nezis
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
10 KILLED IN ENGLAND

LoHDOE-Etr this raiaed the s0uth
killed The British Air Ministry
said damage done to military installations.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
VICTOR EMMANUEL. TO ABprcATE7

LOHDON~-Heports reached to6aY En-
manuel The point result ItalY ali
African that Muon
Tor
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13
Commander Of Axis Forces In
TuniSia StOrnlGd And Stamped
When Compelled To Surrender
LATE BULLETINS
THOMPSON NAMED INFANTS MAYOR

MlAFdlLeonsrd named
of this city by the commissioners elected TuesY
Thompson received the highest s6s
He succeeds c. H. appointed
the POPusr
adhe o o. office.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13

WASTiINGTON.-Prme
Prise visit to the United States announced yesterday Ire
House will address joint congress TusasY
beginning 1850 o'clock.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13

MEgoURNE-Bad weather during the last few days have
kept ground TodaYs
yesterday between the Js the Al
lies in the Sdismaua OF New Guinea.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-13

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most euusble cil-aEa = EEs
country: with an sv=zzs
range Of only Il FzErszt=T
Evening star., 1943-02-23
$500 Refuse 10 Take
Jobs in War Plants
Fuce Induction if They
Ignore Second Requests
BY the Associated preya

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23.-The
War Manpower Commission dis
closed last night that $500 Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware and New Jersey
men have rejected requests that they
transfer from non essential to war
jobs in compliance with the work
or fight" order.
II they ignore second requests
soon to be issued, the commission
will ask local draft boards to re-
classify them for immediate induc-
ton into the armed forces, a spokes-
man for the VINO regional once
said
The spokesman also announced
that 676 men who responded were
rejected by the war plant personnel
managers to whom they were re-
ferred.
Those reflections are making a
dinnicult situation more difficult"
he said. Employers fail to appre-
ciate how critical the manpower sit
uation Is. This is no time for rejec-
tions except for unusual reasons"
A total of 1877 requests were
mailed out between January | and
February 5, it was announced, but
only 8 500 needed the suggestion
that they communicate with United
States employment Offices, and, of
these $500 flatly refused jobs.
Many of those who did not com
Evening star., 1943-02-23
I'D Rather Be Rioht'
Major Political Parties Should Offer
Concrete Proposals for Postwar Action

than the administrations program.
1t distrusts planning and it has
found a device Qet Congress do it,
by means Of which to express that
distrust. 1t distrusts international
reciprocity, and has found a num-
ber of methods for expressing that
distrust, as outlined above. It's pro-
gram may not be good but 1t is
clear; and where it Is unclear, 1t
Is brilliantly unclear.
Against all this, the administra-
ton has offered little that is definite.
The unfinished state of it's post
planning allows raising the irrevel-
ant issue of whether Congress or the
administration ought to do the plan
ming; whereas If the plans were
finished, and known, then we would
be debating the plans, and not the
methodology. The administration
dream of "postponing' planning
creates a vacuum, into which the
opposition's plan are rushing pell-
nell.
The only way to save the situ-
alton may we'll be TO take up Sum
ner Welles' suggestion that a treaty
be negotiated. now, among the lead
ing United Nations. for exchange OF
goods, mutual economic assistance,
mutual military assistance, recipro-
cal air rights, etc. Then we might
discuss the treaty, instead of dis
cussing discussion, as we are doing
now; then we might avoid that dan
gerous stroll up the garden path
Evening star., 1943-02-23
22-Million Deficiency Bill
Reported 10 Senate

The Senate Appropriations Com
mittte yesterday reported favorably
the first deficiency bill of the Sew
enty-eighth Congress. carrying s22,-
100000, after adding these two items
TO the House total:
For salaries ad expenses OF the
Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial
Commission, $4,000; to continue
various Senate Investigations for
the remainder of this fiscal year,
100000. At the same time, the
committee cut S250,000 from the
House item of 81 900, 900 for salaries
in the Offlce of Treasurer of the
United States.
Most Of the money-s21 100, ,O00-
is for the expenses of the Selective
Service System.
Evening star., 1943-02-23
Zionists to Be Guests
Of B moi Israel Group

Members and officers Of the Ha-
poel Hanizrachi, religious Zionist
youth group, will be guests Of the
B'nai Israel Congregation at serv-
ices at $50 pm. Friday in the Bnai
Israel Synagogue.
The program will include ad-
dresses by Rabbi Henry Segal on
who Is on the Lords Slider" and
Harry Klavan. speaker for this
forum which Is to follow the serv-
ices. Mr.. Klavan is one OF the
leaders OF the local Hapoel Hamis-
rachi organization.
Evening star., 1943-02-23
BY GOULD LINCOLN.


The makings of one of the hot
test political campaigns-for the
Republican presidential nomina-
ton next year-between Gov.
John w. Bricker of Ohio and
Wendell L. Willkie. New York
Hoosier or Hoosier New Yorker
and 1910 COP standard-bearer,
are already under way. With
out outward fuss and feathers,
the friends Of the Ohio Cover
nor are very busy-making other
friends for the Governor in as
many of the other AZ States as
possible. The Governor himself
is sticking close to Columbus
and will continue to as long as
the State Legislature is in ses-
sion. The Legislature, however,
is due to wind up its work within
a short time.
Gov. Bricker is known to Re-
publicans and Democrats sin
Congress and in other public
ONCE. Men high in the indus
trial and business circles also
know him or know of him. But
to the run-of the mine voter the
name Bricker thus far means
little.
Gov. Bricker has se4ved as
Ohio's Chief Executive for two
full terms and is beginning a
third term. He has given good.
ef1cient government. He has not
been spectacular. He is not
known as a racket-buster of ma
tional fame, nor as a promul-
gator or promoter of national
and international policies.
Time in His Favor.
The Republican National Con-
vention, which will select the
party's next presidential nominee,
will meet In all probability a year
from June. There is plenty of
time for the Governor Of Ohio
to get himself around the coun-
try, therefore, and to become
known to millions Of Americans.
Mr.. Willkie, 1t may be remem-
bered, did the job in far less
time in 1910.
However, the days when presi-
Dental candidates were selected
by certain powerful leaders in
the COP and the people had
little to say in the matter, or even
the delegates to the national con-
vention, are some time back. A
candidate must be pretty widely
known If he is to go into the con-
vention with large block of
delegates back OF him. So, in a
measure, 1t becomes necessary to
make the name OF Gov. Bricker
known to vast number OF
American citizens.
There are plenty Of signs that
the Willkie candidacy is not to
be allowed to languish for lack
Of proper watering. Mr.. Willkie,
1t Is now reported from Indiana,
has retired to his home in Rush
Vile to consider" whether he
shall be candidate. To many
people who know Mr.. Willkie this
will seem strange-for they be-
heve he has already determined
to be candidate. He has been
much in the limelight. The very
fact, however, that the report
emanates from Indiana that Mr..
Willkie is thinking OF becoming a
candidate for the presidential
nomination Is sufficient.
Congress Point Of View.
Republicans in Congress, If you
ask them, are likely to say these
Evening star., 1943-02-23
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.

The opposition to the administra-
ton has q set Of war aims. They
are more specific than those Of the
administration.
The opposition wants permanent
possession of the air and naval
bases leased from Great Britain; it
wants compulsory military training
in peacetime; it wants some form of
union with Canada; 1t wants to
dominate the commercial air lines
of the world; it wants friendly re-
lations with Latin America, but dixie
George III in another case) no de-
velopment of Latin-American in
dustry. These are war aims so hard
you could crack tooth on them.
Now another item has been
added. The opposition wants Con-
gress to take the entire field of post
war planning away from the admin
istration and do it itself. This idea
was first broached in the Scripps-
Howard press. Senator Byrd, Dem
ocrat, Of Virginia has taken it up.
The theory has certain winning
plausibility. Congress Is the peoples
branch of the Government; the
people ought to do their own plan
ming, etc. But the theory lacks
substance and collapses under even
a tentative touch of the thumb.
Party Plans Needed.
There Is no such animal as Con
gress," in the agency sense, in the
sense of a working body to do a
specific, creative job. There are two
major political parties. Each ought
to have a postwar plan. The two
plans should be presented to the
public at the next election. The
party which wins the greater public
Endorsement, and therefore the ma
jority power in Congress, should
then carry out its plan, under the
mandate thus given.
In the absence of such a presenta-
ton of clear alternatives to the
people, the proposal to have an
agency called Congress" do the
planning, as distinct from an agency
called the administration" is. sim
ply and precisely, meaningless.
Yet 1t is kind of meaningful
meaninglessness, for the men max
ing the proposal that Congress do
the planning are, by and large, op-
ponents OF economic planning. SEN
ator Byrd has long shifted at the
planners" and planning" has long
been an amusing word to the
Scripps-Howard newspapers; they
have got off some of their best
anti-administration jokes on this
theme. When, therefore, those who
are not, by and large, fond of plan
ming ardently propose that Congress
do 1t, are we not entitled to ask
whether that proposal does not lead
us up the garden path, away from
planning toward planning
When, instead OF clear choice
between plans, we are offered an
obscure choice between agencies, we
must ask whether the effort is not
designed to stop long-range plan
ming. And, In fact, the effort to
stop long-range planning is actually
one of the opposition's plans; it is
implicit in the word "globaloney";.
it Is inherent in the jokes about
milk for Hottentots.
Discussing Discussion.
The important thing is to note
how firm the opposition's program
now Is. 1t has matured more rapidly
Evening star., 1943-02-23
WPB Hears Shortage
OF PIywood Is Critical

By the Associated Press
The softwood Plywood Industry
Advisory Committee told the War
Production Board yesterday the sup
ply Of that material has become
critically limited"
The committee, reporting that de-
creasing production would not meet
increasing demands, suggested
further simplification Of production
methods and substitution Of other
woods for Douglas fir.
The committee said the log supply
situation remained critical but pre-
dicted some relief with better
weather.
Evening star., 1943-02-23

municate with employment Offices
also are presumed to be unwilling.
OF the $500 who responded, 1854
were referred to war plants, 802
were hired and Ats were told to file
applications. Those rejected at the
plants will be referred to other en-
ployers. A total of 1000 others still
are considering" a change to war
jobs, the VINO announced, and LIS
were not referred to plants because
of imminence Of induction or physi-
cal disability.
Evening star., 1943-02-23
Russion Beur Surrenders
TO Lure of an Apple
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Tufy, 300
pound pet Russian bear, feeling the
call of spring, numbered from his
cage and ran away, frightening
hundreds before being lured back to
captivity with an apple. 9a
Tuffy dispersed a park full of
sitters and picked up a large follow
ing, which, however, kept well be-
hind him-and had 20 policemen
armed with rifles on his trail. He
Evening star., 1943-02-23
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN,

nf toNs AN lNE nhoWN,
So that a Separate peace can
be negotiated with Russia, Presi-
dent Ryti OF Finland is now at
tempting to form a new cabinet
with Finnish political men who
have kept aloof from Axis CO.
operation and are known for
their liberal ideas.
The military situation on the
eastern front has become such
that the Nazi armies may be
forced to lose contact with the
Firms. Under these circum-
stances there is increasing fear
at Helsinki that although the
Germans may maintain one or
two divisions on that front, Fin
land stands a good chance Of
being overrun by the Russian
armies and becoming a part Of
the Soviet Republic.
Although there is small party
in Finland which is In strong
sympathy with Moscow, the bulk
of the people are ardently wed
to the idea of independence.
The aim of President Ryti is to
form a cabinet which might be
able to negotiate peace with
Moscow through the good Offices
of the United States. The little
republic on the Baltic Sea Is said
to place in the United States it's
last hopes that 1t will be permit
ted to continue to exist as an
independent state and is looking
to President Roosevelt in partic-
ular to exert his influence in Mos
COW to prevent Finland from
being swallowed up by her strong
neighbor to the east.
Must Take Losses.
The Firms realize they will
have to pay a pretty heavy price
for their excursion in the Axis
camp and are reported to be
willing to do so, provided their
Independence Is safeguarded.
They will have to yield to Russia
the territories they lost after
their first war with the USSR,
and probably add more territory
In the north. But painful as
these losses may be, they will
have to take them in order to
survive as an independent ma
ton.
Their diplomats hope that on
the basis of the Atlantic charter
and in spite Of the fact that
Finland has been a belligerent
in the enemy camp, they have
strong claim on unrestricted in
dependence. 1t Is considered
likely in some Washington diplo-
matte quarters that after Fin
land gets out of the war, and has
paid the price which will be
exacted from her, she may de-
eide on union with Sweden. At
present, however, the main pre-
occupation OF the Finnish Prest-
dent is how to approach the
matter OF peace.
According to reports which
have not yet been confirmed,