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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02
PARENTS AND
TEACHERS PLAN /.
FOR MEETING
CONVENTION OF FLORIDA
CONGRESS OF PARENTS
AND TEACHERS PLANNED
FOR DAYToNA BEACH

Program plans for the annual
convention or the Florida Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers
scheduled for Nov. SO in Day.
tona Beach were made by the
executive committee Tuesday
through Thursday in Miami
Beach.
Should travel conditions neces-
state cancellation, an announce
ment will be made September l
by the president, Mrs. Walter H.
Beckham of Miami.
The board of managers will
convene at the same time and
place regardless of the conven-
ton.
Among speakers on the theme
United We Build" will be Mrs.
L. w, Hughes, national first vice
president of Shelby County,
Tenn, and also DR.. and Mrs. Gary
Cleveland Myers, editors of a
children's magazine.
Mrs. Seward Lambright of Day.
tona will be convention hostess
and will be assisted by Mrs.
Frank D. Howard of Leesbuig
and Mrs. Earl Williams of Or
mond on local arrangements.
Mrs. Henry Pacetti of Lake
Worth was elected director of
region nine. and Mrs. Leon For
hes of Jacksonville, director of
region four.
Final membership figure is 3d.
$50 in $50 associations Throughout.
the state. an increase of 1900
over last year.
Ready for publication are two
pamphlets on laws relating to
in the state. arranged by
Mrs. Mary Dial of Miami and on
acts of the Florida PTA con-
sress prepared by Mrs. Malcolm
Mcclellan of Jacksonville. She
is national and state legislation
chairman and former state presi.
dent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02
Suit Attachment
Transferred To
Circuit Court

The suit in attachment. filed
~ Mrs. Julia s Williams against
Milton l.oWpatin. doing business
as the Milton Jewiery Company,
has bccn transferred from the
eounty court 20 the circuit court.
Attorneys for the plaintiff and
the defendant appeared this
morning before Circuit Court
Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr.. and
agFced on a hearing at 10 o'clock
Thursday morning
Mrs. Williams alleges that the
eompany owes her two months
rent. amounting TO $500. for the
store GA the northwest corner of
Dslval and Fleming streets.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02
Australian Troops Reported
1OHaVe Captured DdIkpapan
SHOWS STATUS OF RATIONING
IN PUBLIC FEEDING INDUSTRY
and THAT OF AMERICAN HOME

Public eating establishments,
including hotels, are subject to
such severe ration allotments that
only one person in 400 stands a
chance to obtain a serving of
steak.
Some folks seem to think"
said Joe H. Adams, president of
the Florida State Hotel Associa-
ton, and manager of the Ell Com
odoro Hotel, Miami, "that all a
person has to do is to enter res
taurant to gel what cannot be OBJ
tanned at home.
1.-THE fact of the matter is that
the public feeding industry has
even less ration points, per GUS
toner, than the American house.
wife. This means that the per-
son who eats in public resta;t-
rant gets less of rationed food
than those who eat at home.
The American. housewife gets
.644 of a red ration point, per
meal, on an average, as against
SIG of a red point for each Gus
toner that eats in a public estab-
hshment. This means, in our
opinion, that meals served in all
public feeding establishments are
now at a point which it would be
dangerous to 60 below"
The size OF tie puolic feeding
industry, which includes hotels,
can be seen from the fact that in
December. 1912, the industry pro-
, vided 2,86z025,000 meals during
that single month. For the period
of Aprns 40 December, 1914, the
monthly figure increased to an
average of 3,453, 798,8l5 as a re-
suit of the war program, For the
first three months of 1945, the
monthly average twas 3,412,54l.-
1872,
During all this period the aver
age food check has remained eX-
actly the same.
During the reconversion and
redeployment periods" said Mr..
Adams, both of which are upon
us, and will remain with us for
some time, there will be great
shifts in population throughout
the United Etaets; as there were
during the early days of the war.
A very considerable proportion of
this shifting population will be
dependent upon public eating eS-,
Establishments for their meals eth
er for long or short periods.
Accordingly, we are concern
cd, as operators responsible to the
public, to see that the billions of
meals served by us monthly re-
main at reasonable level, so
that the health of America will
not be impaired, Again, we are
convinced that any further low
ering of ration allotments will
only. result in even more wide
spread black market operations
than exist even today" y 81.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02
David Clack Of Poinciana
Place Arrested On
Charge Of Having Done
Slashing

Cyril (Beliss) Griffin was
cut so badly ON the shoulders
and back during a quarrel at
1880 o'clock last night il
required SO stitches to close
the wounds. Deputy Sheriff
VIII Archer said this morn
ing.
David G. Clack. 35, of 300
ID Poineiana place. was ar
rested by Policeman Frank
Jolly. charged with having
cut Griffin.
Giack was turned over to
Deputy Sheriff Arcner, VINO
said Clack told him the quar-
rel started in Whitney's
place. Greene and Simonton
streets. and wound up on the
sidewalk at the foot of the
stairs. where the cutting was
done.
Ciack also told me-" Deputy
Archer said, had he been home
wIih his wife. where he should
have been, hc would not have
Nniien INTO trouble.
Griffin was taKen 10 the Key
West General Hospital in the
eiiSs patrol wagon.
Deputy Archer said that, SO far
a. be- could learn, only cuts in
the lower part of the back are of
. eaf10tis nature.
Clack VAS held In $500 bail on
3 charge Il aggravated assault.
" win ~ afFaigned before Peace
Justice Ira y. Albury as soon as
Griffin h able to leave the hos
pital
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02
Cyril Griffin Badly Cut Up
In Quarrel HtTGfLatNight
BOMBER SQUADRON
BLASTS HONSHU
cry Associated PRESS,

GUAM. July 2. - Bombers
based on Okinawa and the
Philippines, today blasted
Honshu. north of Tokyo. For
mosa and the Chinese coast.
Along the coast one Jap
destroyer and 10 small cargo
ships were sent to the bot
tom.
The planes that blasted
II on hu concentrated on
works turning out chemicals
and railroad equipment.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02

Call Examination
To Be Held Friday

Willard NJ. Albury, supcrintcn-
dent of public instruction for
Monroe county. informed IRE
Citizen today that an examine
ton on the Constitution of the
United Gates VIII be conducted
on Friday afternoon. July q. be
ginning at 2 o'clock, in the super
in:endent's office on tho second
floor of the county court house.
Any information necessary re-
garding this examination can ne
obtained by applying at the SUI
pcrintendent's office.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02
SQUADRON OF SUPERFORTS STAGE
RAID ON FOUR JAPANESE CITIES
,By Associates press,

and Kumamoto, cities that
had not before been bombed
by Superforts, were given a
terrific blasting, spreading
destruction in a naval base,
an inland sea port, a major
coal and magnesium-produc-
ing center, and a training
center for troops and air.
men.
Those four cities make %
important Jap centers that
have been struck by Super
forts, and today's raid was
said to be among the most
successful. Firebombs, with
flaming gasoline jelly that
spread over a radius of 60
yards, were used exclusively.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02

GUAM, July "A record
number of Superforts raided
four of Japan's important
cities just before dawn to-
day, and left fires burning
that could be seen for 80
miles by returning pilots.
Six hundred big bombers
blasted the targets with A.
600 tons of firebombs.
1t was recalled that head
quarters here had declared
that, before long, as many
as 1000 Superforts would
pound Japan at one time,
and the increase to 600 was
a decided advance toward
that goal.
Kure, Shimonoreki, U b e
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02
FOURTEEN PERSONS INJURED, One OF
WHOM DIED, DURING FIRE in MIAMI
lnx Associates Pressl

air by an explosion. He was
taken to the Jackson Memo
rial Hospital, where he died
three hours later.
1t required six hours for
the firemen to get the blaze
under control, alter it had
done damage estimated at
half a million dollars.
The oil destroyed includ-
ed 275, 900 gallons that be-
longed to the Navy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02
Said To BE Most Import
ant Oil Center To De
Found In Dutch Easi
Indies

MANILA, July 2.--cen-
ersl Mac Arthur. headaaaF-
ters reported today that Aus
tralian troops had sapsuFea
Balikpapan on Bornea. shs
most importsnt oil center IN
the Dutch East Indiss.
The Aussies met with IA.
tie opposition. so thorough
had been the softeninm az
process by American wmT.
ships and planes. Many ul
the pillboxes and auNsTu
slong the shore bad been
evaeuat u by the laps. AID
not un... the Australians hasl
reac..'cd a ridge cid shel
meet with any op .'uulsion
Units OF several 1ap rem-
panies offered FeNissanee.
but they vrere wiped wai in
a short time By maehlne gun
bullAss.
MANY of the uil tApka ~
BalikI 81 had lseen de-
ctroyed BY Ans rieau huus
ing and she'll lire. mna fl
remainder had ,een go affe
By the -en1t beiafe p
treated iutn the wogsls.
Within a month of e H
was reported. oii at BALI pose
pan will be available uF
American aud British "a pA
and II was added tina 81 b.
So pure u can lsc used o. He
ships without being rsttnefl.
Ii was explained taat q Nni
save hauling several ih8H.
sand miles of much 81 the sll
that Is used b. Ameftran
ships. and that the oii flsia
at Balikpapan viii fiFufr in
"a great extent ~ the iut
sion of Japan.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02

GREAT INTEREST
in ELECTION In
GREAT BRITAIN

LONDON. July 2. - With
Thursday election day, eiee-
tiopserins in Great Britain.
in the closing days of the
campaign. is very much like
electioneering in the United
States when election day
draws near.
The conservatives. the lib
erals and the laboritss are
making charges and counter
charges, and as soon rs one
charge is answered. another .
pops into the limelight.
The conservatives declared
that they win win with loo
votes to spare, but tho labor
ties. while not so positive.
said there will be changes
that will surprise the gov
eminent"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02
PRESIDENT TRUMAN ADDRESSES
CONGRESS ON NATIONS CHARTER


In its adoption, he assert
ed, lies the hope OF the world
for future peace.
Comment here was that
the charter undoubtedly will
be approved by every nation
that had representatives at
the San Francisco Confer
ence.
There will be delays in its
general acceptance, it was
explained, but they will be
due chiefly to the slowness
of the machinery of govern
ment in some countries.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-02

MIAMI, July 2. - Four
teen persons were injured,
one of whom died, in a fire
that started yesterday after
noon in the Franklin Oil
Company plant at 10th ave-
nue. and Oath street.
James Edmund Nelson, a
IA year old youth, while
watching the spectacular
blaze, was struck by a disk
that was hurtled through the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Nagaski, Honshu
 Hit By 300 Planes
tcontinued from Page D

anese planes on and above the Cnirar and Kanoya airfields.
 Meanwhile. blockading American planes ranged over a wide area of the East China Sea and the Yel- low Sea, sinking or damaging 32 more enemy ships, including two destroyers bagged in an attack on Japanese convoy off the mouth of the Yangtze river near Shanghai.
 The sea sweep ran to 249 the number of Japanese vessels sunk or damaged by planes of the central end southwest Pacific commands in II days.
 Tokyo also reported that six large American bombers raided the Ko- rean cities of Dairen and Kaishu shortly before noon yesterday.
 Admiral Suzu Kurihari, naval spokesman for the Japanese imperial headquarters. admitted that Japan was in a most unfavorable" posi- tion for the coming showdown battle on the home shores"
 Kuhihari blamed the defeat on Okinawa on bad weather which, he said, hampered Japanese aerial at- tacks. At the same time, he con- ceded tacitly. that the Japanese fleet may have been too badly battered to play major role in the defense of the homeland
 "The battle for the defense of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05

ican battle units oh Northern Japan came from the Tokyo radio and there was no immediate confirma- tion from Admiral Chester W. Nim- itz headquarters.
 Tokyo said American surface units had broken through the Kurile island barrier and steamed more than 500 miles westward across the Sea of Okhotsk to attack Sakhalin Tuesday.
 Five warships of unidentied types steamed into Tarakai bay and opened 8 heavy bombardment of shore installations at Shikuka American submarines, which shelled and machine-gunned Kaihyo island south of the bay Monday, surfaced of Shikuka to join the attack Tokyo said. Tokyo spokesmen added the usual claim that no damage resulted, but their alarm over the United States spreading naval activity in their northern waters was evident. They said other American warshipS, in addition to the Shikuka attackers, were loose in the Sea of Okhotsk north of Hokkaido, in the same area where a five-ship Japanese convoy was smashed on June 25.
 The northern half of 5O0-mile long Sakhalin is owned by Russia. Shikuka lies 55 miles south of the Russo boundary line, FOG miles northeast of Vladivostok, and $50 miles north of Tokyo.
 Far to the south, almost 750 Amer ican warplanes, ranging from giant B-29 superfortreSS to long-range Army fighters, celebrated the Fourth of July with one of their heaviest night and day assaults on the Jap anese homeland.
 A great fleet of 450 to 500 super Actresses unloaded 5000 tons of fire bombs on the Shikoku island cities of Kochi, Tokushima and Takamatsu, and the Honshu port of Himeji.
 All four cities were brilliantly lighted when the giant B-29's are rived shortly after midnight, offer- ing an easy target for thousands of incendiary bombs. Smoke and flames shot i6,000 feet into the air over the stricken cities as the gaso- line bombs caught hold in the flimsy buildings below.
 Returning superfortress crews said all four targets were burning like all the fires of hell had broken loose"
 Hours later. two big fleets of Army, Navy and Marine planes struck In broad daylight ct the Japanese suicide plane bases on southern Kyushu and along the east coast of Honshu on the outer fringe es the Tokyo metropolitan area.
 AirfIelds Ripped Up
 The Tokyo raiders. about i2O strong, ripped ID six enemy cir. fields, radio stations and merchant vessels with machine guns and rock- cts, destroying eight enemy planes on the ground and one aioft. The six fields, forming the outer Alf defense Of Tokyo, were strangely deserted, suggesting the Japanese might have stripped their capitals fields to cover iIiyasien.t threatened Kyushu.
 Two Of the main Kyushu bases took a terrific pounding from ayis other i2o-oAa American fighter and b0mbers. including a 6orce ae Mit- ehell medium bomboFB operating 1hsg assssassd as isas. le ssp-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05

which he had no control at the time."
 Tt can't be other than man. slaughter, at the worst" Mascolo claimed.
 You haven't got a killer here. You have here a meek, poor devil, who in Is minutes has turned his whole lifetime topsy-turvy," Mas colo declared.
 Fitzgerald, in his closing argu- ments Tuesday afternoon, pointed out that Coscia made three state ments following the staying and that all three were identical. The pros- ecutor stated the jury couldn't be expected to swallow" the demon strably false, fabricated, and delib- erately perjured story, told by Cos cia in the courtroom.
 Referring to Coscia's repeated answer, T do not remember, when he was confronted in the courtroom with the statements, Fitzgerald commented, Anyone of course can see that that is just too much to swallow"
 The precise points to which Mrs. Cyr testified are the points which condemn this man." the states at torney stated. He referred to Mrs Cyr's testimony that Coscia shout ed T am going to shoot you". as he ascended the stairway in their home, that he shuffled with his wife upstairs, that coming downstairs he stated T am going to shoot you" and that as he broke the door he said T am going to shoot you, you -"
 Nothing Mrs. Cyr told the coron- CT was different from what she testified in the courtroom, Fitzger- aid pointed out.
 Coscia's hatred and animosity were shown when he gave himself up at police headquarters, the pros- ecutor stated. The malice was not implied, 1t "as expressed in words by this man repeatedly" he charged
 The states only intention is to see justice done in the case, Vitz- gerald commented as he asked the jury to be guided by the evidence, The prosecutor then added "by the credible, reliable, and believable evi- dence."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Comedian Soldiars Riot in AIdersl,ot

Aldershot. England. July S. UP)-military authorities today opened an inquiry into last nights wild street riot during which some 800 Canadian soldiers vented their impatience over the delay in get ting transportation home by wreck ing part of this historic military town.
 No one was injured and there was no evidence of footing or drunken ness, but the Canadians smashed windows in 2S shops and broke every automatic machine in local amuse- ment arcade, causing about $l,oo0 damage.
 The disorder was said to have been started by . false report tiaas three Canadians were being held in the town jail.
 After several soldiers had been permitted to inspect the jail the crowd broke up and the men return ed peacefully to thdr barracks, pausing only occasionally to over- turn 8 few automobiles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05

Earlier Australian radio reports o1 the capture of Manggar airfield' l2 miles northeast of Balikpapan, ap- parently were premature. But the Aussies had taken the Sepinggang airfeld, 5 miles east of Ballkpapan, and gone on to seize the village of Batakan- -Jetjil near the Batakan river.
 In Balikpapan itself they occupied the oil tank plateau, but probably most of the tanks were charred and twisted from the fires which have ragged through the town since before the invasion.
 In the center of the beachhead the Australians won Hill 99 after fighting of an enemy counter-at- tack. Long-range guns inland still shelled the beachhead occasionally
 Rear Admiral Albert G. Noble who commanded the amphibious group in the Balikpapan landing said today that the Japanese had used everything in the book te block the invasion. Among the de- lenses which may be published now were mines, barbed wire barriers underwater obstacles and an att tempted plane attack on the fleet.
 Japanese preparations to stop our landing were the most concert ed and aggressive action to keep us of the beaches that I have ever seen," said Noble.
 The Toyohara airdron1e on For mosa got double dose from bomb- CTS and fighters in an attack an nounced today. The bombers drop ped 4,200 Augmentation bombs on dispersed planes. then the escort ing fighters Strafed the field.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Soldiers Rop Dirty T rains
(continued from Page D

at the first division point. We never got them.
 we were crowded thre omen to seat so that at night one of the three had to sleep in the aisle while the other two tried to stretch out on the seats"
 DePaolo, who was senior officer aboard the first train, said the size of his group called for 17 Pullman Sleepers. Instead, they got eight commuter coaches in which insect life scurried in and out of cracks in the seats, he declared.
 The trains plumbing was % clogged, DePaolo said, he feared an outbreak of disease.
 At Omaha the men saw strings of empty PullmanS deedheading east, DePaolo asserted, and won- dered why the sleeperS weren't as- signed them.
 Rumors swept the traint hat Ger man prisoners of war had been seen riding Pullmans. But Brig. Gen Oscar Abbott, Camp Beale cornman- der. said he had interviewed 200 men from the train and that none had actually seen any German wal prisoners.
 A War Department spokesman ir Washington announced that an in vestigation had been started and pointed out regulations forbade use of Pullmans for war prisoners who were not hospital eases.
 c. H. Buford, vice president ir charge of operations for the Ameri. can Association of Railroads, said 1T Washington that there just aren't enough sleeping cars" for all ser. vicemen being moved cross country He said railroad executives will meet with Army and ODT officials te try to provide service personnel witt more adequate railroad facilities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05

on the West Indian island of Mar tinique) erupted some time ago, 1t killed all the 26,000 inhabitants of the town of St. Pierre but one. That one was a prisoner in the town jail, (Make your own moral)
 Our universe is one solid mass travelling at 100 miles per minute. Correct, Prof. Einstein.)
 Lack of common salt actually caused Napoleon's failure before Moscow. Because his soldiers didn't have sufficient salt in their diets, their wounds refused to heal and tteir systems were unable to repel disease. (Amazng what you can finc in books)
 Grasshoppers won't hop unless the temperature reaches SS degrees. (They must have a union, or how could they be so indipendentO
 This is the origin of the word "cop". London's first police force wore blue uniforms with large cop- per buttons. These buttons gave the police the name copper, later shortened to cop. (Ho-hum!!D
 Shaping turtles have been known tc bite completely through an oar. (Ain't that oarful?)
 W, Va. has a law which makes it illegal for an alien to own a dog.
 Thumbs are recognized By the law as being the most valuable part ot the hand. The U. s. Employes Compensation Commission allows a worker 51 weeks pay for the ac- cidental loss of thumb but only 2e weeks pay for the loss of a fore finger. with such knowledge you can be the star pupil in kinder garten)
 May is the only month in which 2 U. s. President has neither been born nor died.
 A halibut always lies on It's left side and both its eyes are on the right. (Gruesome, ain't it?O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Chinese ReeoptuFe Fohsien Junction

Chungking. July 5-(UPl-Chi- nese forces have stemmed the Jap- anese counter-o offensive driving north from the Luichow Peninsula by retaking the road junction of Fahsien, a communique reported today.
 The high command just two days ago admitted the loss Of Fahsien, which the Japanese took in a push evidently designed to screen the withdrawal Of theiy forces from Has inan Island, south of the Luichow Peninsula.
 Todays communlque also report ed the Chinese FecaptuFe of Ping. nam In southeastern Kwangsl Prov ince.