The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 28, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West Che Key West Crtizern THE SOUTHERNMOST NE:WSPAPER IN THE JU. S. A. VOLUME LXIV. No. 24. Conterenge Under Way Studying War Strategy Grand Drive Against Axis Forces In Algiers Hinging On * : High-Ranking Military Of Hoysing Shortage Increasing ficers Of United States, And Great Britain In At-; tendance | On Account The housing shortage in Key Due To Many Places Closing Of Ceiling Price: in Key West, accor ing to resorts KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943 ess FAIS III I III III III IIIS IIIS ISSA ISSA ISIS SS SASISI AA Friendly Prentiss Brown | FRB EGUB BOER OO | PRICE FIVE CENTS 12 THOUSAND GERMA CAPTURED OR WOUND TO RID STALINGRAD OF ENEMIES LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) |Many Germans Are Hidden ‘a Luildings Which Are Being Blown Into Bits By Russian Guns «By UNION REPRESENTATIVES TO MEET WASHINGTON.—Representatives of unions in this country and | of the British Trade Union wiil hold a joint session in this city on February 10 and 11. Associated Press) MOSCOW, Jen. 26.—Russian (Soldiers se making » thorough > ee ana al West is becoming more acute, | that have been made at the Cham- BUGIERSA Men: | 28-—A. confer. and the main reason ‘iur wat con-! ber of Commerce and elsewhere in ence is being held here that is| ation is tat, wuen a ienant MOVES! the city A woman caller at the j out of a nouse or an apartment)! amber yesterday said that she the owner, in a good many cases, ; s . 5 : closes the house or apartment ana} W@5 sorely in need of housing ac. said to rank second only in im- 1 | AP Features STILL HARASSING ROMMEL’S MEN CAIRO. — Rommel’s rearguard, whose purpose was to delay the | than bands of stragglers, who have surrendered by the thousands in | British Eighth Army's advance toward Tunisia. is now little more! | Cleaning out of all Nazis in Stal- ingrad, todey’s communique re- vealed. 1 portance to the one in Casablan- |refuses to rent it at tne ceiling | price placed on it by the local OPA rent-control office. | At the ney West Chamber of | Commerce this morning, a Citizen reporter was informed that sev- eral persons have called there re- ca between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. The conference here comprises high-ranking military ofticers of the United States and Great) ae a a 1 | found vacant houses and apart- Britain, with Averill Harriman,! ments in Key West, but that, on representing the Lend-Lease lead-| Calling on the owners, were in- png the: lane renret | formed that it was more profitable 'to keep the places closed than it s¢2q | Was to rent them at ceiling prices. pate How unfair the rent-ceiling ers, also present. The officers from the States are headed by reat Heel GR ea | bly illustrated today by Pablo Ca George C. Marshall, chief of) Ieja, a young Key Wester, whose taff, i | father conducts a grocery at Eli- ine iene eesecond bin eovemmaer ee pein aay caroline wets Bab only to President Roosevelt him-| jo is a carpenter’s mate in the ! : Navy and is stationed at Fort Lau- self, and General Alexander heads | ‘erdale. ie cas te bes a ros the’ officers from Great Britain. | and a bath in the woods, Half an | hour's drive by bus to town, and; They are said to be making! 112+ the rent he plens for puiting into effect what | month. is $50 a was agreed on at the Casablanca! West, up-to-date in overy respect, conference, and the first offensive! With all modern improvements, {and the. local. rent-control office move, it is believed. is to drive) compels him to rent them at $40 . a month each. “Comna: out of North Africa the Germans said, “with the $50 I haye to who hold the, for one room and bath or: i ._ | woods, half an hour's dri’ narrow strip of territory at Tunis! from the city.” c Pablo declared that, were he ci totale | stationed in Key West, he would pay end the Italians “ne y bus Already an offensive has been! reside in one of the apartments! | himself and take the other off the started on a large scale by Amer- | market as soon as it became va- Their ad-| cant. With his investment taken into account, his insurance, j upReep and the hich t to nav, he considers he would he ican forces in Tunisia. vance has resulted in cutting down to less than six miles the corri- cently and declared that they had| General | prices are in Key West was forci- | He owns two avartmentsin Key | > that,” he | his | es he has | | commodations, and that, in mak- | ing the rounds of the city, she had | run across several houses andj | apartments that were vacant, but 'that the owners refused to lease {them because of the low ceiling | that had been placed on the rents. That unsatisfactory condition jhas been brought about by two | things, it was stated in the cham- | ber today. Continuing, the speak- ler said: | “Undoubtedly, there was some profiteering in Key West before } the OPA began to operate here. There were some owners of houses | and apartments who were actuat- | ed by that old saying, ‘The sky’s : the limit.’ Their rents were exor- bitant—there is no doubt of it. We !needed a ‘doctor,’ but we didn’t 'think that when the doctor came he would prescribe strychnine, but that is just what he has done.” The other factor is that the OPA | pushed back the rent-ceiling date , trom March 1, 1942, 40 Octgber 1, 1941, which, as has been said over ! and over again, was probably un- | fair. October is an off-season in | Key West, as it is in every other city in Florida, and to pick that month for setting the date of the ceiling resulted in unjust losses of money by many owners of rent- able houses and apartments. The {fact is, there were instances in Kev West where people were'per- mitted to reside in a house or an anartment to take care of it till the renting season begins in No- vember or December. That prac- tice is followed in Miami on an ‘even larger scale. “So we were thrown back to a ate before the war started,” the} Chamber of Commerce speaker RENTISS BROWN. regarded as most likely successor to Leon Henderson as Price Adminiftrator, is hard-working, undramatic, and looks like what he is—an' economist, business man, lawyer. Friends say they have never heard him lose his temper. He is tall and broad, a conservative dresser, and makes and keeps friends eas- ily. He is married, has seven children. Brown has served in the Senate, hails from Michigan. RT 13 NIE SLE; NEGRO COOK CONFESSES HAVING NURDERED MRS. MARTHA JAMES FIVE JAPANESE PLANES DOWNED BY AMERICANS |eboard the train in which Mrs. UNITED STATES BOMBERS Marthe James, a four-month bride (By Associated Press) ANGELES, Jen, 28,—"The § Los | Mystery in Berth 13” Was solved | today. Robert Folks, a negro cook || MAKE RAIDS IN LAST TWO of a lieutenant in the army, was DAYS FROM MID-PACIFIC murdered in her berth, confessed TO AUSTRALIA |tedey that he had attacked her end killed her. The confession (By Associated Press) _ } came after DARWIN, Jan. 28.—The .war three days of questioning, in office anncunced that which Folks told a dozen differ- Americen bombers today + have made ent stories. scme cf them fan- the last two days, according to reports received here. It was stated Thousand: of Nazis are hidden futher that the vanguard of Rommel's army is thought tc have reached in buildings or parts of buildings. Tunisi : ‘unisia. ead the structures are being | blown into bits by Russian artil- lery. used at poirt blank range. Tm the last 24 hours, the report said, more than 12.000 Nazis have , been killed captured or wounded |imside Stclingrad and its imme- WHAT TOJO COULD HAVE TOLD THE DIET | diate vicinity. DARWIN.—One bit of news that Tojo could have told the diet, | = | in his opening address in Tokyo today, official circles said he miei German soldiers have mutinied | the attack that 32 Jap Zeros made on a squadron of five Flyin i= lange groups, the communique | Fortresses, during which 1¥ Zeros were sent plunging into the som and, descite urging | and not a single fortress was lost. — _ - | Officers threw down their guns and su-tend.ced. But the com- WARMTH PREFERRED TO FOOD MOSCOW.—The war office said today that the shiverir.g, starv- ing Germans and their allies that have been captured in Stali | since the present drive to rid that city of them started are more) concerned in getting into a place where it is warm than in eating, | though their rations had been cut down to a mere subsistence in the | last two weeks. \Prime Minister Tojo Declares That Japanese Have Completed Plans For “Certain Victory”; commissioned | privates. The ceptused men in- * —————_| clude one ge. eral. three colonels CML MD FLEA Mg \erd meny cavtains and officers | ef lower rankings. Three Pus: -n armies are now (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 28—At his! opening address in the Japanese ‘WHERE WERE THE diet, heard at the British Broad- i ARI | casting station here today, Prime! M INES ?—FIRST battli toward Rostov. the re- QUESTION ASKED, i | Minister Tojo declared that the; Japanese had completed their! port said. one from the east. an- {plans for “certain victory,” and| * that they held strategical bases in| cther from the southeast and the all areas of warfare in th Pacific] |third from the south. Since yes- | terday, in those battles, the com- | mun ique #teivd. more than 12.009 (special to The Citizen) ORLANDO, Jan. 28.—Inci- dentally, did you happen to see this in the new Readcr’s Digest? It was cuntributed by Dr. Joseph L. Cochran. Quote: “The nine-year-old that would assure “complete suc- ; cess.” | | “Our arms are now supreme,” he blared, but failed to say in far better off to close the apart-| ments, aid, “and in hundreds of cases}raids in the last two davs from. tastic. Thet view evidently is enter-| Owners of houses and apartments | tie ;, ee se weer tained by other property owners (Continued on Page Four) | ‘82. ™id-Pacific the remnants of Rommel’s Lybian | The} Germans and their allies have |been killed. but the number of | priscners taken have not yet been enumersted. During the drive from the scuth foward Rostov, the Russians ceptured a village in which were many lerge storage tanks, contzining gasoline of high what theatre of war they were | supreme. He said nothing about! ithe recent Jap defeats at Bona,| Gona and Papau, in New Guinea, | for at Guadalcanal, in the Solo-/| mons. He was silent,’ too, about} |the smashing defeats that have | | been administered to the Jap ships | | off Guadaleanal and in other areas| _ tin the Southwest Pacific. { tecked a small scuadron of Fly-|he had murdered her by slashing; Nothing, nothing at all, was said | H about the devastation that has} been caused by American plane: , at Lae, in New Guinea; at Mun: H ida, in New Georgia Island; at Ra- baul, in New Britain, or on- the; dor thet had been prepared by Teday, when the ques- son of Commender of the Nantucket American Legion Post listened open-eyed to his Sundsy-schoo] teacher's vivid description of the rail- ing of Christ to the Cros: tke Germans as the place where to Australia, | tioning was resumed, Folis. who arid the only challenge offered | has a criminal record in this city, forces would enter Tunisia, |by the Japs to the suoremacy St] Geckedidimaniand icontessnd/exelnt Man ‘Arraigned In Miami Court : Pleads Guilty When Key West | Official Appears To Testify, The time comes sometime when - dents, his wife and two daughters, first objective of those two the air was at an unannounced'ing in detail what had led him American armies, it was abst point, where eight Jan plenes at-|/to commit the crime and how fists, the nune-yeer-ol¢ kid shouted: ‘Well, where <x. hell neunted is to trv to trap the| Rémmel!'men. fleeing from Trip-| gee oli g Tunisia. end. if that is | done, they will join the British | ing Fortresses. of in the battles aimed at annihilat- Tunis and Bizerte or forcing them | into surrendering. RAMIE ROOTS ARE NOW BEING SOUGHT TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 28. (FNS) —Growers of Central and South America are reported to be in the market for unlimited quantities of ramie roots. Florida farmers can grow them at small cost and net a handsome} profit, at the same time by devel- oping a commercial . planting of ner own for’ the future..sale, aft iber. I (Ry Associoted Prenes EXAMINING BOARD | LONDON, Jan. 28—The Ber-, ei ee 1 a TALLAHABSER, Fla. Jan;.28| 0" Se moweces sali “sat (FNS).—William R. Fielding, St.| Hitler had dug up a law thet was" Petesburg attorney 0 recently | | entered the military. service, has;> : 4 in Germany in 1608, whese- ; {resigned as a member of the by the government could draft State Board of Law Examiners, ! F 1 shag at ams for the First Congressional Dis-|D0YS more than 14 years of age| He J Five of the. Jap planes were} Folks was examined by a psy- sent headiong in flames into the| niarist, who seid thet Folks was ; phan cra ae ee re ib Ge f turned to their base. |sane. and that he was : | is useless rotes' cense! naido had evidence to prove that Seana cases ' 3 % {silent also on the fact that, be- jfurther, and that is what happen-/he was not supporting any ot lk ae Gaeen eae anced “emctional bragsart type”. Haas tie repeat failure of| ing the Germans and Italians in|ed when Justice of the Peace! them, and had not supported , = y Peewee Sees his ships, no supplies or reinforce- Miami y day morning. | West, hence his decision to plead ae wpepeL pial Woe ae NEW COUNCIL TO AID garrisons on Guadalcanal and} One Eugene Peroy Dull was to! guilty. lasses ‘vAAERSIvG MOORE aaRToe | New Guinea, as a result of which, | | be tried before Judge Holland of” After he had made his plea,!tr ss on the latter island, the Jap force! on a charge of falsifying his draft! until he had received th rt of; 1 the Aleutians, two float-|. JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 2)! questionnaire. He and his lawyer! the probation officer “in Dull's|*¥Pe Jap planes began an attack’ (FNS)—A new state council under | bytes ca oo fecaraa fieaginn im a ed were ready to goon with the case, | case. on a squadron of American flv-| 4, sponsorship of the Florida So-| jn’ the jungles. LAW PASSED IN 1688 TO Justice Es-| available the records of | i i hdr \ . quinaldo, his, Duli’s complexion| against Dull to cherarsbatnn on ne range, they turned tail and|Ciety for Crippled Children was} — : bi began to change. Then he asked| ficer. went back to their base at Kiska.| organized here this week to aid| Yesterday. the Casablanca confer-! | oooay Justice Esquinaldo: — | physically handicapped young-| €M¢® as “talk, nothing but talk.’ TOO BIG YAWN DOG DIES; MAN DIES ' Seng RCT ERE tify against me?” | ‘Fhe following were named of-| DEWEY A. DYE ON | _ Esquinaldo said that was the ob-|_ DENVER. — Jack Harrington,|_. NEW CASTLE °K | ficers'of the council: Claude M.} ject of his mission. | 34-year-old bartender, yawned | the death of his pet dog caused} Andrews, Tallahassee, president; j need to testify,” and turning to his to-a hospi lif ith a revolver bullet. The} iee- ident: Judge W. S.| . rai ! pital where he was given; life wi'h a revolver. bullet. The first vice-president: Judge W. S. attorney, added, “I'm going. toj a, anaesthetic while oe re-| dog, which died recently. had).Criswell, “Jacksonville, second| plead guilty placed his dislocated jaw. béen Shephard’s companion . for | vice-president; ‘Mrs. Jane Fleet- * 1/Pteason for that decision, Dull re- 7 =TsPplied, pointing to Esquinaldo, -BENEFIT- =! *This man knows my record. I ap- . Key West.” Paralysis Funds) “The fact is Dull and wife also Auspices of Key West Junior | Were held by Justice Esquinaldo. | | court of record. They pleaded guil- i SATURDAY, JAN. 30 ity in each instance, and the last | $100 time they appeared before Judge! x ‘ ‘ 4 tsea, and all the Fortresses_re-} and other American contingents | anybody who is guilty realizes it) but he knew that Justice #squi- | the | Japanese bases on Timor. He was 7 i i s: ans at Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., arrived in| them when he resided in Key za eur cevens aad) Aaeoom ments had been sent to the Jap| CRIPPLED CHILDREN 5 them. | the federal court for this district,| Judge Holland deferred sentence ie | has been reduced from 15,000 to; Justi ; but when Dull saw e the recouis of the cans [ers but, before they came. with-| He poopoohed again, as he had! CALL UP YOUTHS OVER — | “Did you come up here to tes- | sters. Dull commented, “You won't! tremendously ahd had to be taken | Thomas Shephard, 62, to end his| Dr. Gilbert Qsincup, Orlando, On the attorney's ' asking his lyears. wood, serretary-treasurer. DANCE for Infantile | peared before him three times in Chamber of Commerce }in three cases, for the criminal Admission a eatin William V. Albury, he fined Dull! Pee RA |$250 and MYs. Dull $50, and gave LA CONCHA HOTEL them 4 hours to get out of town. | < *e Thev abided by the order, and went | Air Conditioned Rainbow Room tp Miami. Hl Door Prize Time 9 to 12 p.m.| Dull, in filling out his question- Se naire, said he had three depen-| Bere epee OGEAN VIEW RESTAURANT | 520 United Street Key West SERVED DAILY from 12 to 10 p.m. SPECIAL -omplete The Finest Quality Foods, Prop- erly Cooked and Served in a Pleasing Manner LA CONCHA HOTEL [| Air-Conditioned DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE OFFERS DELICIOUS MEALS and H ENJOYABLE DRINKS i if Service Men As Well As General Public Invited MUSIC by BARROSO and HIS FIVE-PIECE ORCHESTRA | i trict. ‘to serve the unexpired term. hy for military service in tires of | stress, and yesterday he issued and edict calling to the colors all | outhe who have encvednd thes] | age. | Governor Holland has appoint- ed Dewey A. Dye, Bradenton, former state attorney and presi- dent pro tem of the 1941 Senate, i ei a i al f i i k a tive | It was explain-d thet the boys will be used only for “sec- ‘ary | military service”. They will tc- i