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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19
COOPER DROPS BOMB

Last night at the city commits
sion meeting it was proposed to
allow restaurants with 100 seats
or more in any area of the city
to serve liquor. Attorneys for
Luther Finders restaurant and
the Gulf Stream restaurant led
the attack to allow relaxed liquor
laws regarding hotels and res
taurants. Rev. Howes and Rev.
Doherty led the attack for the
Ministerial and church groups.
For awhile it looked as if the
ordinance was going through as
an emergency measure. Then
Commissioner Cooper dropped
the atomic bomb in the assem-
blage. According to this ordi-
nance it must be unanimous to
be passed as an emergency meas
ure," he said. And so it had to
be. Attorney Lester ruled that
the ordinance was void and failed
of passage. The vote had been
Carbonell yes, Cooper no, Harden
yes, Sweeting yes, Demeritt no.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19

Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Duane. Jr.,
$50 Eaton street, announced today
the birth of a son on December 10.
The newcomer weighs seven and
One-half pounds and has been
named James Edwin Ill.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19

Key WesterS. who had objected
to the spraying of trees in their
yards, were informed by Chief
Deputy Sheriff Bernard Waite
that a recent circuit court decision
gives the State Plant Board the
privilege to spray trees in Key
West yards.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19

A Christmas fund of more than
$4,000 has been allotted to the pub
lie schools in Monroe county by
the state board of education.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19

Today The Citizen says in an
editorial paragraph:
There are some men who are
too old TO run but young enough
to stand and fight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19
KEY WEST In
DAYS GONE BY
FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN
OF DECEMBER ls. 1895

Thirty couples participated last
night at the cake walk held in the
armory. First prize was won by
Victor Larsen and Ruby Fabal.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19
SOCIAL CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY
Classroom Christmas Parties
tor Public School Children.
All Public Schools. Morning.
Christmas Program. Residence
of Mrs. Stark.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19

Some of the county employees
were paid back salaries today and
others will be paid tomorrow.
Payment out of fine and forfeiture
fund goes back to February Of
this year. 't.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19
CORAL ROCKETS
BY L. P. ARTMAN, JR.

nasty at this location for a bit
but when the wind shifts to the
north why it is protected once
again.
KEY WESTER PRAISE
N. D. Keye had a bit of praise
for apartment house and hotel
owners the other day. He said
that he found Key Westers very
willing to cooperate in all things
once everything was carefully eX-
planned to them. 1t is only as we
have always known. The sick
ening thing about the flash judg-
ments some pseudo minds make
when they come to Key West and
call us bunch of crooks, sWind-
lers, immoral persons, murderers
and uneducated folk has always
burned me up. Mr.. Keye has been
here four years. He has learned
the Key West character well.
Even Ernest Hemingway has a
wrong impression in the back of
his head. In his famous water
front character in ITO Have and
Have Not, one got the impress
sion that the man was quite a
criminal and a thug, but the
more read that book the more
l became convinced that he had
brought down preconceived no
tons of Chicago gunner from his
police reporter days In the Chi
cago area. No, the folks of Key
West are far more gentle" than
those of most towns l have been
in.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19

William Il Malone was the
chief speaker today at the-lunch-
con of the Key West Rotary Club.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19

arrangements were made for a
Christmas tree party.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19

Key West Junior Woman's Club
held meeting last night at which
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19

WPA employees will hold a
melting tonight to discuss labor
conditions in Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19

Telephones set up for home
calls by U. S. soldiers in Ger
many.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19
WILSON YACHT BASIN

The Wilson project was up for
consideration last night and OBJ
tanned permission for licenses to
operate the Yacht Basin in CARR
son Blight if he could secure title
to the land. The county has en-
dorsed his proect. There is a lot
of work ahead TO this project.
There is not universal deep water
in the Blight. The area which
was dug by the WPA was dug ir-
regularly and there are several
dumps" in the dredged area. Also
the entrance through the road
bed is rather narrow and finally
there is a low rocky area directly
in front of the cut in which a
ship can pass only with diff
Guilty. This project will take
great deal of dredging yet. 1t is
hoped that the Intracoastal Wa
terway project will come through
shortly and then a channel can
be cut from it to the Blight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19

Bradley seeking release OF
teachers needed to train veterans.
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PUBLIC REFERENDUM

Before Cooper made his asSer-
ton, Rev. Howes had informed
the Commission that he would
start proceedings Immediately for
a petition to throw the question
open to a public referendum.
Thus came the first great OppOsi-
ton to the present Commission.
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BIG BILL" SLOWS DOWN

one man VINO Will De glad 10
give up the strenuous work of
acting city manager will be Big
Bill" Demeritt. Mr.. Demeritt,
because of great ice cream
eating days, has quite a tumny
out in front and usually solves a
ticklish question with reporter
by stating that he's mostly in
terested in obstetrics and pats the
"basketball'' he carries around in
front. But, really, Mr.. Demer-
lit has worked awfully hard at
his job of acting city manager
and it has been no picnic First
of all, he comes down in the morn
ing and interviews the scores of
persons coming into the mayors
office. first door to the right up
the city hall steps. Then he COM
mences studying out projects and
matters which have been adyanc-
ed by city commissioners in their
daily civic thought and Bill, by
the way, is quite an engineer. He
seizes upon plans with good
knowledge and confidence. Fin
ally come around the reporters
asking the dynamite-loaded ques-
tiens of politics and garnering the
elusive facts and data about the
city administration. No, Bill will
be glad to slow the pace a bit
and let David King take over.
PERCY PIES" ONE
Well. Percy Curry. the foreman
and makeup man of The Citizens
Typography department, makes
the Rockets at last. Percy has
worked at The Citizen for more
years than anyone can remember.
He has operated the linotype,
typesetting machine; draw S
proofs, puts the type in the big
forms, lays it to bed" on the big
press and runs the paper off. In
stinctively he knows just what
articles will go just where, hardly
without the editor marking the
copy. Well, in all these years
Percy had never pied" a galley
of type. Pieing a galley means
to drop it so that the linotype
slugs or handset lines are scat
tered every which where and
everyone pulls his hair out Last
week Percy was passed a galley
and promptly he proceeded to pie
it. Each line you see in The Citi-
zen is a separate metal-caSt slug
Thus in galley, which IS one
column long. there are about 100
or more separate slugs. Well, as
these slugs sailed through the air,
Percy put his arm out carefully
and the long line of separate
slugs laid out on his arm in per
feet order. William Russell, the
linotype operator, rushed to Per-
cy's assistance and soon removed
all the lines safely back into the
galley pan.
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NEED TWO YACHT PROJECTS

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Another very important point.
| was waterfront reporter during
my first reportorial years on The
Citizen starting in 1887 and be-
lieve me the Blight itself will not
dock half the yachts which come
here during the winter season.
Such large yachts as Commodore
Arthur Curtis James beauty, the
Elfreda, and Vanderbilt's yacht,
among the big ones, and scores of
smaller craft filled the old sub
marine basin in the Navy Yard
when it was thrown open to CT
william use. So Garrison Blight
alone will not hold all these yachts
unless there is widespread dredg-
ing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-19
wAYLAY DISBURSEMENTS

incidentally, as the meeting
dragged on and began to 60 into,
late hours again, passage of many
important disbursing bills failed
since there was no unanimous
vote present, These disburse-
ments will now await the next
regular meeting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27
Raid
In Daylight
Raj Attacks
Railway Stations Blasted;
Opposition Termed
Very Light

LONDON, Tuesday, Feb. 27-(P)
-Refugee-choked Berlin was the
target yesterday for the greatest
daylight raid ever made on any
city, with nearly 1000 American
heavy bombers and fighters drop
ping 5000 tons Of explosives, and
last night British Mosquito bomb
ers followed up with two-ton block
busters.
Three of Berlin's downtown rail-
way stations were the primary OBJ
jectives in the great American
raid, in which is bombers and sew
en- fighters were lost.
Crews Of the Raj Mosquitoes said
huge fires still were burning in
the city when they swept across.
The mighty American armada
smashed at Berlin without Interior
ence from a single enemy plane.
Flax was described as only mod
crate.
81 never thought ! would see
the day when we could attack Ber-
lin with so little trouble" COM
mented Capt. Joy Smith OF Weep
ing Water, Neb., pilot of a Liberia
tor.
Mai. Eugene Roverson, Temple,
Texas, group air commander,
said "it was one of the easies,
missions I've flown. The Germans
put up no fight and we just breez-
ed over and dropped our bombs
It was as simple as that"
Col. Anthony Mustoe OF Bellevue,
Pa, who led the first division OF
bombers spearheading the assault.
said 1--WE met some flax, but it
was nothing compared to the pre-
vious attack February 81 on the
capital. We didn't see an enemy
fighter all day."
Mosquitoes also bombed Nuremberg
during the night.
The German "Achtung" air raid
warning service also tracked other
formations of bombers over west
ern Germany early in the night
and radio stations at Hamburg,
Stuttgart and Frankfurt-on-the-
main suspended broadcasting. The
long-wave Observation-Disclosures sta
ton which supplies news to most
German cities also blacked ont.
More than 1850 Flying Fortres-
ses and Liberators escorted by 700
fighters streamed in a straight
line, which frantic German air raid
warnings said stretched for $50
miles across northern Germany
and made a Decline for the Reich
capital whose population has per-
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27
First Army Sb@!s Cologne, II Miles Away
Marines Use \T5o Airfield Gain 400 Yards
Berlin Is Pounded By 1000 American Plane
H. s. Takes Verde Isle
OHLuzon, Mindoro
Latest Invasion Takes Enemy By Surprise
and Secures Western End of Shipping
Route from Manila to the United States

MANILA, Tuesday, Feb. 27.-(P)
Veteran oath Division troops, SAX
ing the japanese completely by
surprise, invaded small Verde is
land between Luzon and Mindoro
Sunday to secure the western end
of the vital shipping route through
the Philippines from the United
States to Manila.
The Eighth Army Yanks went
ashore with practically no loss, :"
Gen. Douglas Macarthur said in
his comnunique today.
He termed Verde. which lies
midway in the narrow Verde is
land passage. the key 70 the
control OF the main navigatiCnal
route through the central Philip
pines"
With the battle for Manila crd-
ed. Macarthur announced that g.
056 Japanese dead had been count
ed on Corregidor fortress, besides
the sealed-off enemy troops Who
have been blowing themselves up
by touching off underground i'm
munition stores. go.
Far-ranging American bom5ers
hit Formosa and north Borneo in
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27
WPB CFFERSPLAN
TO SAVE WORKERS
Move Would Keep Some In
1929 Age Group
From Draft

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-W.1-
The War Production Board today
outlined a program to save the
most essential young men IN war
industries from being drafted.
War industries will submit lists
of their occupationally deferred
men in the 1929 age group. Then
WIPE, will decide which ones are
SO vital that they should be defer,
red. The rest will be up TO local
draft boards.
The idea is to prevent the draft
ing of what WPB called the vital
hard core" of war workers. unoer
the program, WPB hopes to get
deferments for 100000 of the 49,
600 wokers 10 through ~ VINO NO"
are classified IA and 2-B.
WPB will weigh the value OF
workers only in Industries 1or
which it is the manpoWer CLAIMANT
agency. Such industries lhcluoe
makers of steel, aluminium, tires
and components for important mu-
nitions. WPB is one CT several
draftable men through ~ for de-
ferments.
The program was announced
two DAYS after SelectiVe Service
ordered local draft boards to star,
Inducing a large number OF inc
! 50O. 600 deferred men in the 3O-3a
age group. Hereafter, these mer
will be deferred only if they are
necessary to- as well as "regu
larly engaged i'm essential work
Previously, the test was whethe'
man was regularly engaged II
an essential activity.
To qualify for certification for q
defernent, an employe must:
1. - Be doing work included
within the list of essential activl
ties set forth by the War Man
power Commission.
BE irreplaceable from within
the plant or by recruiting from
without.
3.-Not be considered replace
able by a recruit or transferee who
can qualify to perform his work
nv three months of intensive tram
ing.
Mot be engaged in planning
research, development or produc
ton for postwar purposes.
In other moves to alleviate the
manpower shortages, the Kilgore
manpower bill was exposed to its
first day of. Senate debate today
and before the oratory ended, II
was both praised as essential te
Continued on Page Three; co... 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27
Lewis Hints NMew Strike
By United Mine Labor

would be held in 80 days. 1t would
be the largest such poll the board
has undertaken.
The UNIV contract with the hitu-
minous operators expires March
81, and negotiations between Lewis
and the operators begin Thursday.
A month later the anthracite con
tract will come up.
Lewis has not divulged what
wage demands he will make, nut
it is generally believed he is con
sidering something like a 25>cent
general increase in the present pa
sic rate of 81 an hour, plus other
concessions.
Lewis voiced his criticism of the
Smith-Connally Act in lette, to
Secretary OF Labor Perkins, to
whom the strike notice was sent.
He quoted President Roosevelt
with whom he fell out aftel the
steel strike of 1897, as saying the
act would provoke strikes in vital
war plants which otherwise would
not occur
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

Lhelr preSlOenI, 0SrSlO OSlHendN LII
a ceremony before wildly cheering
Filipinos.
Macarthur, after bitterly de-
nouncing the japanese for wrecking
Manila churches, monuments and
cultural centers, lifted military
rule from the freed sectors and said
the Commonwealth is "at liberty tc
pursue its destiny in the family Of
free nations"
Men who fought with him at Cor
regidor and Bataan clustered
around him and Filipino soldiers
formed a guard of hono-.
Osmena in replying, spoke OF
MacArthur's military operations
as a crusade urged all Filipinos
20 submerge political differences
in quickly reviving their common
wealth and expressed the hope
that the United States can accord
full freedom to the Archipelago
this year.
The colorful ceremony, broad
cast to the United States and con-
Guided by the playing of the Star
Spangled Banner, took place in a
fire and bomb ravaged city where
even yet a few Japanese groups
Continued OIL Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27
County Commission Backs
Campbell ForU S. Bench

The Board of New Hanover
County Commissioners opened its
session yesterday afternoon by
endorsing City Attorney w. B.
Campbell as candidate for APP
pointment to the Eastern North
Carolina Federal District judge
ship to be vacated by the resigna-
ton Of Judge Isaac M. Meekins.
In telegram prepared for i'm
mediate dispatch to U. S. Attor-
ney General Francis Biddle and
to North Carolina Senators Josiah
Bailey and Clyde R. Hoey, Mr.
Campbell, nominated for the Fed
eral bench by the local bar asso-
citation February 20, was describ-
ed as "eminently fitted for the
said position by reason Of his
legal learning and judicial tenn
permanent" and "a man of the
highest character and standing in
the community"
Asked by Rep. ]. @. Legrand
for Qualification of their stand on
the abatement of back taxes on
the new American Legion nome
at Fourth and Dock streets, the
Board passed a motion combining
refusal to endorse tax-forgiveness
with a request for legislative au-
thority to make contribution to
the Legion from County funds.
Explaining the groups opinion,
Commissioner Louis J. Coleman
said, 81 would do anything in my
power for the American Legion,
but abatement of taxes lies out
side our authority Chairman
Addison Hewlett, Sir, asking in
sertion of donation-authority into
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27
U.S.. PRESENTS
ECONOMIC PLAN
Delegation Confident OF
Support On Hemis-
phere Stability Move

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20 R -
The United tates laid before the
Inter-American Conference today
a broad economic and social pro-
gram aimed at promoting free
trade and private enterprise in the
Americas.
The U. S. delegation expressed
confidence that support will be
forthcoming quickly from the 9th
err 18 nations represented here.
At the same time, Ecuador pre-
pared to introduce resolution
which would enable Argentina to
adhere to all the acts of the con-
ference in the event the Argen-
tine problem remains unsolved
when the session ends.
Qn Buenos Aires, Col. Juan Per-
on, vice president of Arguentina,
declared today he desired full res
toration CT cordial relations with
the United States and Russia but
said the possibility was unlikely
that his country would find tot
tering Germany's behavior suffi-
cient cause to declare war against
the Naizs.)
The cure of the economic pro-
gram came in a resolution entltl-
ed "An Economic Charter For The
Americas" which was described
authoritatively as a fundamental
expression of United States for
eign policy throughout the world.
Tied to the economic charter
were several specific resolutions
Continued on Page Three; Col. a
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27
COMMONS MAY GET
BIG THREE FACTS
Churchill Expected To Dr.
vulge Results In Con-
fidence Debate

LONDON. Feb. 26-U.R-Prime
Minister Winston Churchill, open
ing a three day debate in Com
mons tomorrow, is expected to
give the world the first full ac-
count of the Big Three Crirea
conference by one of the princi-
pals.
The debate will be based on
Churchill motion: THAT this
house approves the declaration OF
joint policy agreed to by the three
powers at the Crimea Conference
and in particular welcomes lieir
determination to maintain unity Of
action not only in achieving the
final defeat of the common enemy
but thereafter in peace as in War."
Continued on Page Three; COI<6)
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

Red Army thanking forces to the
north had speared to within % miles
of Stettin, Pomeranian capital and
Baltic port at the mouth of the
Oder.
Moscow did not confirm the Nazi
Transocean agency's report OF
spreading tank and infantry actions
on the main front-possibly a pre-
Jude to an about Soviet offensive
by upwards of 100000 Russians
veterans in the crack First Russian
and First Ukraine Armies.
Transocean said the First
Ukraine Army now had reached the
Neisse everywhere" along a 60
mile front south of the Oder con-
fluence, so miles southeast of Ber-
lin, and that German and Russian
armored forces were locked in a
Merry go-round of DEATH as the
Soviets attempted to force the river.
A brief Soviet communique, an
capture of five localities
in East Prussia during slow one
mile gains, and the seizure of IS
more blocks in besieged Breslau,
did not mention any fighting on the
main front inside Germany. Dis
patches from the Soviet capital,
however, told of heavy reconnais-
sance and the usual activities pre-
ceding a major offensive.
Continued on Page Three: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

the motion, said the County's gift
to the Legion, if approved, would
be made on a 'basis of the SER
vice they render to returning
veterans
The Board approved the ap-
pointment by County Solicitor
James c. King of Cicero P. Vow
as assistant solicitor, and them
selves reappointed Mrs. Tom
Cause as their representative on
tine New Hanover Welfare Board.
This was preceded by receipt of
notice from the State Welfare
Board that it had selected R. B.
Roebuck as its member. Mrs.
Cause and Mr.. Roebuck will de-
eide on the third member.
A notice from the State High
way and Public Works Commits
sion that the 200 block of Park
avenue, in the Oleander area, had
been approved as neighborhood
road and would be machined prob
ably within the week. In the same
letter the Commission described
Brandon Road, in Princess Place,
as not being part of their system
and hence not subject to state
improvement. The Board franz
ed a reply requesting that the
classification of the street be
changed to permit it's being work
ed by State employees.
Adjustments were outlined in
answer to a number OF tax-as-
sessment complaints and juries
were chosen for a civil session of
State Superior Court, scheduled
for March u and criminal
session scheduled for March 10.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

their relentless campaign against
enemy airdromes and shipping.
In the Marakina watershed reser-
walton, First Cavalry and Sixth
Division troops driving southeast
of Manila easily repulsed three
Japanese counterattacks as they
encountered increasing enemy re-
sistance."
Northwest of Manila, 40th Divi-
sion troops which earlier in the
campaign captured Clark air CEN
ter, went after enemy groups in
caves and ravines of the Zambales
mountains.
Northeast Of Manila across the
central Luzon plain, Yanks of the
25th Division. moving toward the
Cagayan valley, captured Lum-
boy on the Balete Pass road. They
also took Luna, within three miles
of Carranglan. The latter is on a
road forking east off the Balete
Pass route.
The 32nd and 33rd Division, op-
Grating extensively in the sur
rounding mountains, raided enemy
camp areas along Balete road.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. - Pj -
John L. Lewis opened his 1915 cam
paign for more pay for coal miners
today by serving formal notice tha@
a strike of nearly 100000 miners
may be just around the corner.
Lewis acted under the Smith
Connally Act, which requires 30
days notice and Government
poll of workers prior to strike
The act, which Lewis denounced
today as "a grotesque slave stat
ue," was passed over Presidential
veto in July, 1913, amid wave of
reaction to United Mine Workers
strikes that year.
Hurting charges that governr:e nt
officials and operators are engag-
ed in conspiracy" against the
UNIV, Lewis and his policy COM
mittee served the formal notice
that a labor dispute exists and
strike may occur in 30 days.
A National Labor Relations
Board. spokesman said a poll Oh
the question of striking prot ably
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27
Philippines Are Returned
To People By MacAnhur

Tuesday, Feb. 27-LTp-Gen Douglas Macarthur,
Palace today turned
government the Philippines
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27
Foe Announces Mew Battle
Along Oder Meisse Fronts

Tuesday, 27-PeGerman broadcasts said last
night that heavy battles had 00e
Berlin