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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
COMMANDER CORYDON WASSELL TO
Give TALK AT NAVY YARD MONDAY

Comdr. Corydon M. Wassell,
MC) USN, whose heroic exploits
were filmed by Paramount and
titled "The Story of DR.. Wassell"
will speak in the Naval Station
hall park Monday afternoon at
Sis o'clock.
He is expected to tell about his
experiences in caring for wound
cd Naval personnel in Java and
getting them safely to Australia
following the Japanese conquest
of this island in the early days of
the Pacific war. For this feat,
Doctor Wassen was awarded the
Navy Cross.
All civilian employees attached
to the Naval Operating Base are
invited by Captain c. E. Reordan,
Base Commander to hear DR..
WasselPs talk and to give all en-
ployees the opportunity, those on
the day shift will be let off duty
before Sis and those on the
evening shift will be permitted
To report in Immediately after the
lecture. Captain Reordan has also
invited the families of civilian
employees to attend.
Doctor WasSell is widely known
IN Key West having formerly
been attached to the Naval Oper-
ating Base. He reported for duty
here in September, 1910, and was
assigned TO the Naval Station
dispensary. When it was evident
That this country would become
involved IN a war with Japan, he
requested duty in the Pacific, but
being in his late fifties, the Doc
tor doubted that the Navy would
assign him TO combat action if
real war emergency should arise.
This doubt was dispelIed in
September l94l, when he left
Key West with orders for Cavite
and was 10 have sailed from San
francisco ON December z, This.
sailing was delayed and that des-
unatiOn changed. Al the end of
January he began his Java as
Segment.
ON February 4, the cruisers
Houston and Marblehead were in
aeiion off the Java coast. Badly
battered by a much heavier Jap
aacse force, they yet managed to
hmp into port, and Doctor Was
sell, Just arrived on the island,
vas among those detailed to care
fOr the wounded
Dr Wassell remained with
these men, knowing that he
would be captured by the enemy,
bat he decided to make a desper-
ate attempt TO get the men out of
Java. Tie asked all of them if they
wished 10 take the chance and
all agreed. He first had to get the
" men TO the seacoast. The men
were suffering severely but Doc
tor WasSell kept them alive with
mas skill and inspired them by his
own courage.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BY ARLENE WOLF
Alp NnWSfcaIIreS Writer

NEW YORK, April 81 Even
if you don't know a soul in New
York, you have a friend in the
big city in the form of the Inter-
city Service Bureau of the Com
munity Service Society.
Devoted to helping people sep
arated by geography to solve
their mutual problems, the bu-
reau has been called upon TO do,
and has done, all the little things
a friend might do. '#H@
In 80 years of the bureaus OK
istence, these little things have
included everything from inform.
! ing Detroit war worker that his
child was recovering satisfactor.
lily from a tonsil operation and
that there was no need for him tc
throw up his job and come east
to sending a duplicate set of eye.
/ glasses to a Puerto Rico house.
wife, who broke the. ones, she got
in New York. 81 8
/ Hound the World Service
I Supported by funds donated tt
the CSS, largest private family
) welfare and health agency in the
United States, the bureau han
dies an average of four or five
hundred cases a year. These days
however, it has grown a little toe
big for its name, and instead OF
being called "Intcrcity' it should
! be named international" For
in war time, it is handling prob
lens for clients as widely Scpa-
rated as England and Hawaii.
! The transportation of American
troops to II corners of the globe
has provoked problems just as
widespread. Sometimes the prob
/ lens are forwarded by social
agencies in other countries; some
times they come directly from the
people involved. And they arc
solved in anything from an hour
to several years. .,.
! Recently, for example, Miss
Margaret Funnel, bureau direc-
! tor, received d cable from the
| American Relief Society in Lon
don, inquiring about an English
girls husband who had died in
ia U. S. hospital without leaving
any will. Miss Funnel traced the
dead husband in one morning
The hospital told her the body
had been taken to the morguc.
The morguc supplied the name of
the undertaken who took charge.
The undertaken reported the place
of burial, kind of service, and
other details a wife would like to
know. And the public admins
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
Three Realty Deals
Are Recorded Here

The following really transfers
were recorded today in the coun-
ty clerks office:
Bertha j. Symonette tc Frank
P. Mendcz, a lot on Amelia street,
adjoining the convent property,
$500. The lot is 47.6 by 8l.6 feet.
Forty acres in the Everglades
section of Monroe county were
sold by William H. DcrbyShire to
|. A. Morris for $500.
Harry Trofford sold IS acres
in the Everglades to Wesley G..
Cook for 5000.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
Bremen Tea Party
Really Got Hot
nv Annotated Tresn

LONDON-Thc Briton's incvi-
table tea came in handy when
British bomber caught fire over
Bremen. Sgt. G.. w. Lane of the
r. A. F. won the D. F. M. for US
ing tea out of TASKS to cxtinguish
the blaze
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
GERMAN PRISONERS

A rccapitulaton Of the latest
official figures, up to and Includ-
ing March 3lst, shows thai,
Allied armies on the Eastern and
Western fronts have captured at
least l,l43,224 German prisoners
since the battle of the Belgian
Bulge which began on Dcccmbcr
10th. Since the landings in Nor
mandy, American, British, Cana
dian and French forces under
General Eisenhower have Cap
tured 1853, 1868 prisoners.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
PYTHIAN GROUP
GOES TO MIAMI

Several members of Key West
Lodge, knights of Pythias, left
thls morning for Miami to attend
meeting tonight of Kaaba Tenn
pie. Dramatic Order, Knights of
khoFassan.
ln the party were J. Winfield
Russell. Aren't T. Sjursen, J. r.
Dei.and. Morris Cochran. Arthur
J Odds. T. Il. Gibson. DR.. Delio
Coho. Leo Cohen and J. F.
Spivcy
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
Harold Shapiro
Admitted To Bar

st. Harold Shapiro, who passed
an examination a short time ago
to become a lawyer, this morning
took the oath before Circuit
Judge Joseph Otto and, on mo-
ton of Attorney Enrique Esqui-
naldo, Jr., was admitted to the
Florida bar.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
A SINGLE BIRTHDATE

Los Angeles, Calif.-April the
4th is really celebrated in the
Earl E. Qusley family. Three of
their children, George, 8, Gail,
2, and Dennis, |, have April the
4th as their birthday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
Mrs. VIM. Jackson
Going To New York

Mrs. William Z. Jackson.
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
N Baker. Is leaving tonight for
New York. where she will join
hct husband, Commander Jack
son. who Is now on duty there.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
Officially Announced Today That
East Meets West And Cuts
Germany In Two
President Truman Com
ments On Great Event
Declares European War
Nearing End
1ar Associated Pres,


WASHINGTON, Apr. ~.
The governments of the Big
Three, the United States,
Great Britain and Russia, to-
day simultaneously announc-
ed that American and Rus
sian troops had formed a
juncture rs miles south of
Berlin.
The great event occurred
yesterday afternoon shortly
b fore President Truman
called at the Pentagon build
ing to confer with the War
Department and heads of
the American military
forces.
GuesSes were then made
that the Americans and Rus
slams had met somewhere in
the vicinity of Berlin, but it
was not until this morning
that the juncture was Off
cially announced.
President Truman, in corr
menting on the news, said
that u. S. forces and troops
of the Soviet Union had met
in the heart of Germany and
had cut that country in two
from east to west, isolating
dwindling Nazi forces in the
north and other units in the
south. While the European
war is not yet over, the Pre-
ident added, the end il now
not far away, because the
Germans at no point have au
organized front.
/ ANY nope that Hitler ana hl
fellow gangstcrs might hstr .H
about their ultimate dcIvri. l,t
/ is now at an end, President Iu-
man said, and then Ga, OIL.
counting is not far off, 10. ...
pics Of tho United SlaIr.. ,r..
PIlta ! and Russia hav, .uu
been waiting iuI thus day. l, .u
ed, and We may WoU oulDt.. .
spirit Of qualification u.,. ..
we'll done.
II was TIC American b''h I..
SION that established Duura. ..
the Russians. Tho Aw,a.. H
vanccd from two ruuir 'u ..
the Elbc and the Russian .
back ruadWays thH tu .u .
rivers bank. American uru.H
+ dots reported Yesterday u...
ny 'ht thev had seen % It.uia.
bridge ~ opurso OF ruu-t.a,s .
cycl fbc kibo from 'hD ,a.' loo '..
west and stated 'h1t % N.. '..
opinion The Russian. HoI, ftu
IHg % across tho iitrr.
The conjecture turned SAL FOO
true. fol f,N Huw. 3l,l t...
can patrols ard Russian la'..
"claspcd hands, &c. ri,m,H
Truman SAID. and Hu
later the commander su|
Stats of tho .wo DIVISION. ur
hands and exchanged aIeIH.
over on, of Tine most ,spu'iu
uuus duIuE the uu
Tho roadWaye uH buN .iHt ..
'hr ugcr wen, crowded vIi4 60.
nan fugIuycs ana fuImp ...
l.pmols. and drivers OF n..a
lIcd vehicles we've iuI,ed 600 ...I
a. an exceedingly sluN pa,.
II is believed trtf .uu.nH ..
of other American and H..ss
forces have u,. .u.. 'NU. ia.
The movement cd Allied um...
divisions reached as hugh a 1870
miles yesterday
To make the Iunctup, G,uH.'
Omar Bradley pointed Uui t..Ir..
Confined on Page ThIccl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27
%ll[lIlll
INTRODUCE NEW
BILL FOR MONROE

MY ASsOetAteO FFensD
TALLAHASSEE. April 81.
Representative B. c. papY
today introduced HB42s. pro-
viding for the appointment of
an assistant State Attorney
for Monroe County.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-27

Associated Press Day Wire
Service and AP Features
For 65 Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
Bob Teller
Seeks Revenge
AGAINST TIGERS

CLEVELAND, Aug. % - P)
- Bob Teller, strikeOut king OF
the major leagues, came back to
Cleveland today-back to the
scene of some of his greatest
pitching triumphS.
The 26-year-old fireballer,
released yesterday by the Navy
after "A months duty, arrived by
plane from Chicago with some
sad news for American League
pennant contenders.
To reporters who met him at
the airport, Teller said. II think
I'll surprise a lot of fans who
expect me to fill the bases with
walks. I've been working out
every day at Great Lakes and
am exceptionally well pleased
with my control"
Recalling that the Detroit
Tigers defeated him 2 TO 0 in
the third last game of the 1910
season, the game which clinched
the pennant for Detroit and
stranded the Indians in second,
Bob said, If l can dump them
out of first place tomorrow night
it would do me lot of good"
Teller said he was ready to
take his regular turn every
fourth day.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
Michigan Opens Sept: Is;
Begins Practise Monday

Louis, Mo-; Eugene Hinton,
Drumright, Okla, and Al VAIL,
Oak Park, ILL.,, all newcomers.
Freshman ends in the running
are Ed Mcneil, Toledo; Ed Bah
low, Springfield, ILL.,. Don Hersn-
berger, Freeport, Ill.,, and Louis
Brunsting. Rochester, Mimi.
With the exception of Warren
Bentz at right half and Henry
Fonde, Knoxville, Tenn. other
backfield posts appear to be in
hands of freshmen. Bentz, d
letterman and Fonde, N w
.ransferee who joined the squad
last November, other halfbacKs
are newcomers including Pete
elliot Bloomington, Ill; Walt
Tcninga, Chicago; Yves Muelder.
Colfax, H., John OFT, Traverse
City. Mich. and Leonard Do
valovsky. Cleveland.
Fullback candidates are all
newcomers, including George
Chiames, Freport, H.. Jim Foltz,
Toledo. Dan Dworsky, Sioux
Falls, S. d., and Dick Davis, Al
tea, Kans.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23

Trainer Dwayne (Spike) Dix
on of Marquette U. athletic
teams still claims three-sitting
record of 1903 hours he estab-
lished at Champaign, H., back
in 1880 when Dixon re-
Gently learned that the old pine
many happy hours was to be
tree in which he had spent so
cut down to make room for
some college buildings, he per-
suaded the Illinois U. Alumni to
save him the trunk Spike
plans to use it to build himself
q chair.
SHORTS/AND SHELLS
In the two years the foot
ball giants have trained at Bear
Mountain, N. Y, only publictor
Bill Abbott and trainer DOC"
Sweeney have summoned the
strength courage to walk
to the mountain top land
you'll notice l took my doctor
alng." commentsBill Ted
Del Guercio, the Newark, N. j.,
kid who received a reported
$4,000 for signing with the
Red Sox system, collected IS
bucks more recently when he
belted a 40O-foot homer for
Durham in the Carolina league.
The fans passed the hat for that
feat. Mexico's Hippodrome
De Las Americas has boosted
purses again and plans to dis
tribute six million pesos to
horsemen next winter.
EASY EXPLANATION
When Ty Cobb and Babe
Ruth were sparring verbally
for the benefit of reporters the
other night, Ty remarked: you
remember Babe as a hitter, but
he really was great pitcher,
too. / never could hit the Babe"
Ruth then came back:
when / was pitching, the only
time I knew Ty was not going
to hit was when l had him 2
and O. Then / made sure he hit
the dirt"
SERVICE DEPT.
Capt. Floyd Burdette, who
managed to play basketball at
Oklahoma A. and M. while on
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
FROM LES ETTER

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Aug %
Michigans 1945 football ma
chine will start tuning up for d
ten-game run with the opening
of all practise next Monday, Al
gust 81, with approximately rs
candidates expected to report %
Coach H. O. (Fritz) Crisler.
In asking candidates to report
next Monday, Crisler has urged
all athletes who expect to make
the squad to report on hand
II dy to give everything
they've got right from the start.
He pointed out that in exactly
I9 days after start of the fall ses-
sion the Wolverines will be II
action against Great Lakes in
Michigan Stadium. The Septem-
Der Is opener is an extremely
early one for an inexperienced
squad, the Michigan coach also
said, and that success or failure
Of the season will hinge largely
on progress made during the
three weeks before the opener.
In addition to Capt. Ponset.o
and Jack Weisenburger ace
ground gamer, other lcttermcn
reporting include Harold Watts,
Birmingham, Mich, center; John
Lintol, Detroit, converted from
center to guard this year; John
Meyers, Page, N. D. guard; Cecil
Freebooter, Indianapolis, convert
ed from end to guard; Howard
Yerges, Point Pleasant, West
Va, quarterback and Warren
Bentz, Washington D. c., half
back.
Two spots, quarterback and
center, appear to be Wolverine
strong points with all others as
yet uncertain. Backing Captain
Ponsetto, one Nations better
quarterbacks last season, IS
Yerges, who Crisler has praised
as the most improved player in
summer practise.
Watts at center, heavier than
his 1877 pounds Of last season,
is virtually certain to start be-
cause of his experience and
steadiness His smashing tackl-
ing was a feature of summer
drill. New players behind Watts
are Tony Momsen Of Toledo anil
Bob Swanson of Lansing, Mich.
In other line and backfield
spots new men predominant.
Lintol looks like a starter at one
guard with several newcomers
competing for other berths in
Guiding Dominic Tomasi, Flint,
Mich, Stu wilkins, Canton, O.,
and Joe Soboleski, Grand Rap
dis. Mich.
Tackles include George John
son, Navy athlete from)Colum-
bus, o.; Jim Rehberger of West
Allis, Wis, Bob Callahan, St
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23

day that he still has a first rate
Chance to reach the charmed
circle of 20-game winners tor
the third straight season.
Hurting one of his better
games, Dizzy shackled the Macks
to / with a seventh job yes
terday, hanging up his second
verdict over the cellar dwellers
in five days and running his sea-
son total to 13 victories against
IL losses.
With prospect of starting ap-
proximately 10 more times be-
fore the end of the season, Trout
easily could hang up the neces-
sary seven additional wins with
continued batting support from
MS Detroit Tiger mates. In his
last four starts the Tigers have
punched across SO for the Dizzy
one.
Detroit, chalking up its fifty
victory in seven starts against
Philadelphia during the current
series, was outhit but not out
powered. Four of the six Tiger
blows went for extra bases AS
Rudy York drove in two runs
with a triple and Hank Green
berg provided the other two with
a double and his seventh homer.
The Major League pitching
Debut Of Philadephia,s -l9-year-
old Bill Connolly, Alberta, Va,
Highlander just released from
The Navy, left much to be de-
sired.
Connolly walked Ed Boron,
Roy Cullenbine and Skeeter
Webb and fell victim of extra
base poison from York and
Greenberg as Detroit chased
across three runs in the opening
inning Luther Knerr took over
tire Philadelphia pitching in the
second frame and gave only four
hits the rest of the way.
The only run off Trout came
in the first inning when Ernie
Kish doubled and Mayo Smith
and Dick Siebert walked to fill
:he bases. Buddy Rosar punched
single into right field, scor-
ing Kish, but when Smith tried
to score from second on the hit
Cullenbine threw him out by 20
feet.
The AS filled the bases again
in the sixth with the aid of two
infield hits and walk but Dir
pitched his way out. In the
eighth, with men on first and
third, Trout famed Siebert TO
end the inning.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
Cooley Girls
WIFI DeSoto
Club Will Foes
St. Clair Tonight

After handing the De Soto
Girls of Detroit a decisive de-
feat Tuesday night. The d. N.
Cooley Softball girls will jour-
ney to st. Clair tonight to try
to get revenge for a loss several
weeks ago.
Backing the three-hit tWirling
of Jean Randolph the Morticians
pounded out 10 hits to beat the
Auto Girls 10 to 2.
The final outcome was never
in doubt as the Cooley team
scored four runs in the first and
the second frames.
After pushing two more runs
across in the fourth frame the
game was on ice and although
the DeSoto girls nicked the
plate twice in the first half of
the fifth the game was called
because of darkness.
Carmaine Jamrus swung a
mean bat for the Funeral Di-
rectors by clubbing out two hits,
one good for three bases. in
three tries. Doris Krause and
Betty Engelman also knocked
out two clean hits in three trips
TO the batter's box.
Gloria Moore smashed out a
hard double and Irene Osiwala,
Lillian Horon and Jean Ran
dolph got the other hits off of
Beaubien, Detroit hurler.
Helmsman Bill LaCroix re-
vealed today that he will take
the Cooley girls to The Armada
Fair on Saturday afternoon
when they will tangle with Port
Huron at four o'clock.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
Sports Roundup
sy HUGH FULLERTON. JR.

duty there for the Army, is
looking for a coaching job when
h e gets out. Floyd thinks he
could take a college that never
has been a court big-timer and
put it right up there in four or
five years. Sgt. Johnny
Sturm, touring the Pacific with
a group of Big League ball
players, writes back from Tinian
to his old post at Kearns, Utah:
There were no diamonds here
when we arrived; in fact, high
Army officials didn't even
know we were coming. We fell
lows went TO work and now we
have two fields and three teams
made up of strictly Big
Leaguers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
.(H0W MY|
i8SJAND|

wednesday, RESULTS
Detroit I. Philadelphia I.
Chicago u, New York ; It inninEN.
ST. Louis ~, Boston ?-j.
Washington SO. Cleveland O-J (second
game II innings.
THURSDAYS GAME
Philadelphia at Detroit
Only game scheduled.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
L. o. o. F., Gardens
Tangle TONIGHT

The Undefeated I. O. o. F.
combine will tangle with Ter
race Gardens tonight at Grit
fifth Field in the second Junior
league playoff tilt. The game
was originally scheduled for
Tuesday night but had to be
called off due to inclement
weather.
Both teams are urged to be
present in ample time so that
the game can start promptly
at Gas. The winner of to-
nights game will face Mes
bits on Monday night while
the losers will play Tuesday
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
NrW WORK. Aug. 23-CR)-

NEW YORK, Aug. 23-CR-
Harry Carlson, Colorado u
coach, has written every high
school principal in his state
asking them to insist that base
ball be put on their schools attn
letic programs .Ihat SOUNDS
like the most constructive step
taken since the college coaches
association was formed, though a
committee has already confer
red with a Big League group 10
explore the possibilities OF keep
ing college ball players in COL
leae and Ogden's Al War
den, here for the All-American
kids game, reports that college
ball died out in the mountain
district after the First World
War and that only five high
schools in his state support
teams.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
Ladies League
OrGaniZeS Friday

Managers of Ladies' Bowling
teams wishing to enter their
teams in the Ladies Minor
League are asked to be present
at an organization meeting Fri
day night at 1880 in the Bowl
O-Drome.
The league is scheduled to be-
gin during the first two weeks
in September, Mrs. A.. E. Jeffrey
revealed today. Bowlers may OBJ
tain additional information by
contracting Mrs. Jeffrey or Mrs.
Perry Dubay.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
Cows Give More Milk

SEATTLE WH-Washington
states cows evidently have
caught on to the all-out-for-pro-
duction idea. In May, they sur
passed 1914 production records
for the eighth consecutive
month by psoducing 100000
pounds of milk. The cow popu-
lation has not increased, farm
experts point out.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
FOREST GROVE, Ore, Al

FOREST GROVE, Ore, Aug.
% - (Ap, - Gene Shields, As,
one of the University of Ore
CONS all-time football greats and
former line-coach, was killed
near here yesterday when log
rolled from a truck and crushed
him at timbering operation.
Gene was third of a gridiron dy-
nasty of four Shields brothers
who held guard position on the
Oregon u lineup from 1920 I'M
til 1929 He played from 1923
until rs.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
JUNIOR LEAGUE

Last Nights Result
Selfridge Field 2, Andy's Tex
AGO !.
TOnight's Game
IOOF VS.. Terrace Gardens at
Griffith Field.
Fridays Game
Andy's Texaco VS.. Hubarth &
Schott at Covered Wagon dia-
mond.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
Texacoans i'm Seventh Inning, Il
Trout SkackIes Macks
To Extend Win Streak

DETROIT, Aug. 23-(R-Paui
Dizzy Trout, riding his victory
string to four straight games at
the expense of the last place
Philadelphia, AS served notice to-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23

WEDNESDAY, RESULTS
No games scheduled.
THURSDAYS GAME
Brooklyn at New York. night.
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh.
Only games scheduled.