The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 1, 1943, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ~ EGBERT P.. BAUL HERE FOR FORMER KEY WESTER AN WIFE TO REMAIN FOR WEEK'S STAY = Egbert P. Ball, an’ oldtime Key soy Wester, who has)peen absens fr the city for 25 years, arrived here Saturday morning, accompanied by Mrs. Ball, for a stay of a week: Mr. Ball is a son of the late James Thomas Ball, founder of. the Key West Advertiser, a weék- ly, that was published many years = ago. At the time Mr. Ball started that paper,,Key West was the largest city in Florida, and‘its per capita wealth was the largest in the country. Egbert Ball has been in business in St. Louis for many years, and company in that city, in a mana- gerial capacity. Since his absence he has fre- INVESTIGATION MADE) 5 AWAITING DRIVER €RASHES INTO ANOTHER VE-| HICLE ON ROAD LOADED WITH PAPERS A Key West woman called at the sheriff's office Saturday and in- formed Chief Deputy A. H. McIn- nis that she had left her pocket- book in her home, which she had carefully locked, and that, when she returned the pocketbook was The drives 55-2 yygk,,in the| y custody of oast.,.guardsmen at An investigation showed that! Marathon, either will hayeto come the house had not been broken | back for his tr; apd be arrest- | ‘open, and that there was no trace ed on a charge of, drunken driv-| ph eaytods's having entered it] ing, or leave the truck awhere it is while the owner was absent. The | now till the owner show: and woman admitted, Mr. McInnis} from him the name of the driver | said, that the house was in the} can be learned. ze game condition as it had been; Saturday night, it was said at when she left it. the sheriff's office, a drunken Mr. McInnis said today that it| driver crashed into a truck at was evident the woman, in hiding | Marathon and delayed the truck’s | the pocketbook from possible! coming to Key West with a load of | thieves, had hidden it from her-| papers. self, as sometimes happens, or Sunday night, the sheriff's of- out with her and unthinkingly left! driver was drunk again, and | it somewhere. ‘ Deputy Joe Knight went to Mara-' “We have had cases reported to! thon, but by the time of his ar- | ! . : | mentioning. Practically at present is with a refrigeration] that she had taken the pocketbook | fice was informed that the same’ gresses are like that. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN VARIOUS BILLS BEFORE SOLONS IN WASHINGTON ar sonm HOWEVER. »LANY GF = Our great “American industry calls out to civilians to replace HUNDREDS INTRODUCED) the men daily inducted into the }service. Yet too often those civil- MAY NEVER BE HEARD aay ians who patriotically respond to CONGRESS i this call meet with a cold rejec: tion. One may ask the reason for} I should say it is because pa- triotism, as yet! is in the stage of shouting, broadcasting and flag “wav- CALLING DRAFTED MOTHERS By ERAINE TURIN 1 | | By JACK STINNETT ‘AP Features Service Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Be- fore the 78th Congress was much! Over'a Week old, more than 1,000 . 5 bills and resolutions had been in-| pgp and ota troduced | epmeaorseees the stage of an - | all-out doing. To a lot of the old-timers on, Because pa- the Hill, triotism, as yet, is wanting the cooperative ef- fort which and working avenue on the that’s not even worth! all Con-} i 1 se bills will) ERAINE TURIN means sacrificing y AE A great chunk of th | neyer reach the House or Senate} floors. They will die in commit-| together in ev MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1943 SIDNEY ARONOVITZ HONOR ROLL FOR AMONG GRADUATES) SAN CARLOS SCHOOL ASpecial 10 The Citizen) The following is the honor roll GAINESVILLE, Feb. 1—Uni-!tor San Carlos School for. versity of Florida will graduate} jast semester: the largest mid-term class in its: 6th Grade — Rose history on Feb. 5 when 113 per-|Ajeida Spencer i ‘ sons will receive degrees and, in} 5th Grade—Blanca Leon, Alba the commencement program, will | Rodriguez. 7 . hear an address by the Honorable! 4th Grace—Gloria Elwyn Thomas, a member of the!Rose Machin a | Florida Supreme Court bench 3rd_Grade—Sylvia Hernandez. Three giadudtes will receive} Josie Rodriguez. doctors'of philosophy degrees, and| 2nd Grs there are ‘six ‘candidates for mas-|Danny Valdez. ters’ degrees. The remainder are} 1st Grade— candidates for bachelors degrees. |cy Valdez, Mi Z Among the candidates are Sid-| © Perfect Attendance ney M. Aronovitz, LLB, from Key} Perfect attenda West: the last six wt (2 ae | Charle PRISONERS’ KNIVES 83°: TO STAB JAPANESE 've:'0 Pon ——— eida Spe a Press {Guillermo Fer , Feb. —Pris-|varez, Idilio V oners in the Harris County jailidez, Rose are helping Texas soldiers i/Gloria V marines come out on top in hand-jand Yo to-hand scraps with the jabs. i “ : Alfonso. Watson M Rodriguez, Bi berto Pons (By Associz= HOUSTON, Te: ja divorces vali ‘MOTHER-IN-LAW . | They GETS A RIDING (By Associated Press) Feb. Tor we reveal bis real rving along when an OPA agent. r pleasure?” rll tel you, going to visit my and if nk ration didn’t take the book Relief At Last For Your Cough cause it fon night oa wet of Se trouble to help loosen p= — phiegm, and aid Soothe and heal raw, tender, flamed bronchial mucous < —— Tell your & bott qui to have A score of illegal “frog-stickers” | _ and one hand-made dirk taken | Stat from the prisoners have found, = their way into a box of knives} contributed by Sheriff Neal Polk} to the “Save a Life With a Knife” your money back. CREOMULS! jtees. Some will expire because} {fronts of home. their authors are unable to make} Obviously there are many men their pleas heard above the tu-|im our great American industry | mult and shouting of more impor-| Who, pe ce are not yet draft- | tant legislation; some because! ed, pref uming larger respon- | their authors don’t care much an: bilities eive larger salaries, , the Supreme STRAND THEATER quently written to friends here,] us,” Mr. McInnis said, “of men rival, the driver had disappeared. expressing a lively interest in ev-] and women who have left their) ee betterment of Key West, or relat4] tables. Not only in these times | SCRAP DRIVE TO BE ing interesting facts in its history but at all times also, one should} that is-particularly true of condi-| The metal scrap drive, whieh way, they having introduc an permitting others to assist ery movement designed for theq purses or handbags on counters or | RESUMED- TOMORROW ee guard his money carefully, though | MISS ANNA SMITH, tions in Key West now.” THEODORE ROBERTS RETURNS TO CITY; LET OUT OF ARMY Theodore Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Roberts, 1111 Southard street, returned last : night from Fort McClelland, Ala., Miss Anna Elizabeth Smith,| after having been in the army for 18, died yesterday at 7 p.m. at a’ four months, lacking a day. local hospital. Mr. Roberts submitted a re- Miss Smith has been living} quest for discharge a week ago, in with her aunt, Mrs. G. W. Reyn-J which he stated he had engaged olds, for the past two years atj asa fisherman in Key West waters her residence, 1409 — Reynolds} tor more than 20 years. That asser- shiget tion was backed up by a Key Lopez Huperal Home Wester, who had sold Mr. Roberts charge of arrangements. the boat in which he fished, and The deceased is survived ‘bY4 who knew that, since that time in her father, Manuel Carrero, Sr.; 1922, it had been used regularly two brothers, Manvel, Jr.; “and ee ‘a fishing foot Howard Carrero; two” ‘sister$.4" “Fishing is considered an “essen- Georgetta and Henrietta‘ Carrera;} tial’ war job,” and it was on that ™, grandmother, — Mrs. Margare' ground that Mr. Roberts was re- ~ O'Brian and aunt, Mrs::-G. - Ww: Teaged. His discharge included the Rernoloy : «3.4 phrase, “as a testimonial of hon- The remains will be seit: Wed: est and faithful service, you are ~ nesday morning to © Baltimore, hereby. honorably discharged.’ ™,Ma,, for funeral services; and" mye Citizen has stated, on sev- burjal in the family plot there. eral ‘accasions, that .the fishing aes'| fleet in Key West was being grad —*1 ually-depleted because of the in- :~ 4 dttctior of- fishermen, and that, bevtause-of a shortage of beef, fish is essential to the economic wel- ; fareoF th® community. PUMP QUESTION Is SETTLED IN COURT The “pump” question was amic- ably settled this morning in the court of Justice of the Peace En- rique Esquinaldo, Jr. Adolfo Pazo, 1115 Margaret street, had been arrested ona 18, DIES $ SUNDA REMAINS TO BE SENT | TO) BALTIMORE FOR SERVICES AND BURIAL is in Deughter To Del _ Announcement Has heen ‘mad of the birth of a daughter: yester. « day afternoon at 2 o'clock at: d local hospital to Mr. and Mrs.’ * Francis X. Delaney. The new arrival has been giy-' en the name of Francine Leon- ~ ella Delaney. Mother and baby are reported to be getting along nicely, |has remained dormant for sorte |them only because of pressure jtime, will) be resumed tomorrow, | from impart constitucnty.cy ~) jaccording: to announcement mage Another & Penta by Joe Pearlman, chairman pf so-called “(pity * bills” —Spriici- |the scrap-collection drive ‘com-! pally meagyrgs to settle individual Se cc ainn Poon in | Saute agains the. governm for | Mr. ‘ Ss 1ere; damages to property br persons. will be five trucks on the streets/ Still that lgaves méte bills than jomornaw, end requests all who! any newspaper could itemize a | y refuse scrap to have; explain. In Tuskegee, Ala., thi jsame placed on the sidewalk. _ | probably know there are three bills | A telephone call to Mr. Pearl-| pending to establish memorials to man, whose number is 59, will! the late Negro scientist and edu- result in haying a truck call to | cator, Dr. George Washington Car- pick up the scrap. ver, but I doubt if much of the | aa ESE oe a rest of the United States ever ‘TRASH FIRE ON | heard about them. | BIMONTON STREET propaviy no one has taken the = | trouble to report that Sen. Pat Mc- * The fire apparatus was called) Carran has revived that ancient out last night shortly after 10) battle between the Commonwealth | o'clock, and responding to the/ of Virginia and the national capi- alarm, discovered a barrel of trash | tal by introducing a bill to estab- {on fire in the yard of a residence | lish (once and for all) the boun- on Simonton street, between Oli-| daries between Virginia and the | via and Division. | District of Columbia. The same | The alarm was sounded from)senator has another meas- | box 225, corner of Simonton and! ure that might stir up a storm— | Olivia streets. ja bill to establish a federal De- | ‘The numbers sounded on the | partment of Aviation. | bell were very irregular due to} Sen. Li: {some interference with the fire| sal service and total mobiliza- alarm system, although 225 was’ tion” bill and Sen. Hattie Caraway the number registered on the indi-| has one to establish preparato: |cator at the fire station. schools for West Point and Anna- WOMAN’S CLUB DEFERS ee already are at least two MEETING THIS MONTH jto provide for rehabilitation of | wounded veterans of this war (one | Mrs. Dan Navarre, acting pres- | ident of the Key West Woman’s * also includes rehabilitation of in- jured war workers) and another would pay a $69 “bonus” to men Club, announced that there will) honorably discharged from mili- be no meetings of this organization | tary service. during the month of February. bd | The meeting has been deferred ‘on account of the rehearsals that jare being held at the club house | for the Cabaret which will be put lon shortly under the auspices of es In both’ chambers, bills breve been dropped into which would “authorize” the President to make the late Col. William (Billy) Mitchell a postbu- { ster Hill has a “univer; the hopper | & *“,. Miss Herminia Leonella « Lancelot Lester. J charge of “unlawful possession” of | a: ae formerly] an electric pump, which had : FALLING BIRTH RATE Mrs. Delaney was Lester, | been removed from the propert} daughter of Attorney and Mrs. J. igen Bota Dock Gane y, Pazo showed a receipt for $75! which he had paid for the pump, ' and the man. who sold it to him; It goes without saying that Grandpa Lester is the happiest] (By Aspos ied Press) TROUBLES BRITAIN. mous major general. Both House and Senate have a resolution pending which would extend the right to vote to all per- sons 18 years of age or older. There are bills to ¢ i training schools for civ | them. And while they 9ften.jeo- | pardize a iness peftinent to ‘the wat-by so doing, ghey:kee éthers fiom posts which ‘could} better be effectad by the aitl of } those others. Moreover, 4sidesfrom | th ne re is the draftyangle. If] w workers prove to be exceed- ingly adept, ther greater like- | ihood that those selfish unpatrio- | tic ones no longer can be proved | essential, and thereby, be drafted that much sooner. , | In either case, real patriotism is |lacking; for there is no cooperative ! effort practiced here. Let me tell you of one particular ituation that has come to my at- | tention. | | A friend of mine, a most pa- | triotie woman, felt she must re-} | spond to this call from our great} | American industry. Even though | j her husband underwent a serious} {operation to make himself accept- | able to the armed forces, and be- j cause of this, is now fighting on } some frreign shore, she desired to | do something to aid her country f. She had to give more— give vice where service is needed. She, like you, drafted mothers of our na under- stands what real patriotism com- prises. And in spite of the fact that she | is occupied in her own profession | of writing, she wrote a letter of- fering her services to a certain busin engaged in war produc-+ tion. For she knew that this con- Jorn has lost many of their men! |to the armed forces and was cry-| ,ing out for help in the type of work she could do. Almost at! once she received a telephone mes- | sage from the manager of this| | business, who made an appoint-} | ment to interview her. | i lingly she left her typewrit- i d unfinished copy to keep! |that appointment. In this time of { s, nothing was too much for; | her. If she could take a post to.re- | place an fighting for his coun- | would be happy to double ‘Work like the devil,” as jer ;,cific where jungles ‘have been captured and much drive. } The knives will go to Texas sol- | GARY COOPER im i ‘PRIDE OF THE YANKS’ ‘HONROE THEATER BARBARA STANWYCK ir | “GREAT MAN’S LADY” Barbara as Queen of the Gambling Halls diers and marines in t outh Pa- } so dense rifles and bayonets are vihtually useless in hand-to-hand combat SOLDIER PAYS DEBT FROM NORTH AFRICA (By Associated Press) CODY, Wya., Feb. 1—Two years ago a Cody youth joined the Army} ‘and left without paying an $8| debt to Mildred Parr, the operator | of a motor court. Recently she received a new $10 bill from North Africa and a let- ter from the soldier. ‘ He explained that the $10 was part of the first pay he had re- cewed in Africa; that it was to! pay the debt and the extra $2 “should take care of the interest.” ONE MILLION (Continued from Page One) ing back the Germans toward Otrada. In all those ereas. prisoners JOB PR Modern machinery and efficient methods enable us to offer you superior printing service at fair prices. Consider us when you place your next print- ing order. booty has fallen into Russian THE CITIZEN BUILDING hands, the communique stated. Anncancement H. H. COOKE, M.D. GENERAL SURGEON PHONE Office 763 Residence 160 Hours: 8 to 10 am. - 6 to Spm. 211 DUVAL STREET Pe INTING The Artman Press «uguugasacarpeguanetcaanczroeassagcneeaana rata acautsn nat man in town, wearing a smile asserted that he had a right to sell; LONDON, Feb. 1.—Possibility er pilots; to call an international | tin Smith puts it. « that won’t come off, and @uring Shis stride about town. today “was. + .so buoyant in his step that he was only hitting the” groufid in, « high spots. ~ & oe Congratulations, “Lance” and also Papa Delaney, who is equal- ly as jubilant over the mpw ar- vival. it. } In court a renresentative of the W...T. Price Construction Com- other equipment to the Porter Dock’ Company. gave Pazo the. $75 he had paid for the pump, }pany; whieh had sold the pump and. and the case against him was with-) some experts on the basis of that Britain may, have a popula- tion of only 27,000,000 in 2003, ; against today’s 47,000,000, is | among suppositions expected to; |be raised in connection with th}, | debate on the Beveridge plan. These.estimates are made ternational co: ” to count out allaliens in enumerating con- gressional districts; to grant free p td @WAACS,. Waves and + i He controversial rheas- lires, and the 78th Congress Se could still hagie:a merry time and convention for drawing up “an in-; ived for the ap- | | pointment, s told that all | positions were filled — without; even being intervis told what could have ‘been ex-} plained: over the - telephone—, without’ being: called) away from ' her work. To Her, this always*will : \ pane eaca Deughter To Betanhcourts* .. Announcement has been -made ee of the birth of a daughtér, weigh- *ing close to eight pounds, to “and Mrs. Arsenio J. Betancourt, » Jr, on January 28. “. The new arrival has been giv- en the name of Christine Betan- court. Mrs. Betancourt before mar- » riage was Miss Celia Vargas. Son To Richardsons Announcement has been made of the birth of a son, weighing seven and three-quarter pounds, to Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Richard- son at the Jackson. Memgrial Hospital in Miami on January The new arrival has been giv- > en the name of Gene © Bryan « RicKardson. . Mother and baby are reported s to he getting along nicely.. | KNOX ARRIVES... (Continued from Page One) again, but that it would be “darned soon”, he said that that = remark still held true. Secretary Knox stated that he had found conditions far better for the Allied Nations at the fighting fronts he had visited in the Southwest Pacific. T! was particularly true at PR hes and New Guinea, from which ~places the Japs were bei - tematically wiped out. fe pre- ~ dicted that the Japs will be an- <nihilated on or driven from ~-Guadalcanal in the next 30.days.: drawn. *) rent; trends in births and Sake, i men regard the falling birth ;rte! 1 ne of e major problems tha Fe OnLENS BEADED! must eae aa it i the Beveridge or any other long-| term social security’ plan is to Albert: B. Cooper, recorder for! have any genuine success. i ‘the’ Labor Board in the Federal | Building. announces that appren- tices, mechanical trades, both MARRIAGE MART } male oe SNS ate neon | Marriage licenses in County| eS as the aval Operating Base, | Judge Raymond Lord’s R. office) ‘ : 4 |‘ show that John W. Wilhelm, 24, pase West, fr eqpsideraion for | and Mary A. Da Lesio, 28, were i 64 per | married by the Rev. W. B. Mundy, | ee ger oe | pes ot the Fleming street Meth-| f pay fo ‘oath odist Church. ‘ ame pr, fos See sex Bey or ans | The Rev. A. C. Riviera, pastor | file ‘application at the Labor| of the First Methodist Church, | Board, Room 107, Post Office’ married Curtis Lee Limburgh, 22./ Building, immediately. « jand Ruby C. Lachey, 21, both of . 2 | Talladega, Ala. — 4 > ? | A marriage Ji issued ene = | by en 2a Ve By Le OLD ¢ HER veiller, 24, of Mo Bnd, Rita (My Associated Press) | sda. 5 <s SOLDIERS GROVE, Fla. Feb <> 1.—When a group of.people who | r+) attended Soldiers Grove schoois} 2 2 ES i from 1888 to 1886 received a ching that had been lost in the Pinder, 1438 Fptronis seek, for | Jand, Calif., and is 83. 3 GREATEST OCEAN RACE | DAY) YORK The mreates | Corporal Muench was station- | when eleven large yachts 2 |e wey Wet hese ihe Ae op Sendy Hack, N. J, to Land’s |quainted with him. He was known England. among his friends as “Tex”. Mrs. E. C. Muench arrived poral E. C. Muench, USA, who} t !cently in Taunton, Mass., to Cor-} jhas been ordered for duty over-| seas. } leave its footprints off the degisla- tive record. © ¥ TACT Up to the attic went old Fritz, One dark.and rainy day; And tied a clothes line ’round his neck To end his earthly stay. appointmenfiumade in {thefir | place?” Of course this is the same old story that so many of our civilians! have been told so many times. Our t great American industry cries out! to men and women to come to the ! aid of their country, by taking jobs | it is unwilling too often to give. | Drafted mothers of our nation, | Stepping on a trunk he tied the|our great American industry} Clothes line to a rafter; H would do well to consider that the Took one step on air and crashedj flag which is worth waving is The gate of the hereafter. worth supporting — that, in eager- | Ness to wave it, industry is likely When neighbor Patrick heard the| to disregard the cooperative ef-{ news, | fort which is required to eee He and his battling spouse | it. Put on their Sunday clothes and} made { i R AM A Toward the: widow's housed # | AMATEUR D watt | "BOOMS IN BRIT: Said Pat: “Now ast ae oe, ‘yet tbngue. Annoc| 2 ie ~ LONDON, Feb. 1.—Wat hag And while we'ze there-I-hope j i |Ye'll have the sifse: to make'no}Vived amateur drama irf Britai It is. figured there ake abor mintion ere Of hanging or ‘of rope,” 15,000’ amateur societies, . comppai s : ‘ed with 3,000 before the war. Maggie, find Ther eh} Z {She comforted the widow but When just about to leave | Her Pat’s advice went through! her head { Like water through a sieve. FICTION - NON-FICTION TECHNICAL BOOKS Open 8:30 A.M. to 7 P.M. Said she: “This weather's For ee IF You'Re Loong. Sure the rain’s a sin; But ye'll not mind, ye’ve such a nice Big a attic to hang things in.” MARGUERITE CROLLY. 1109 Stump Lane, ey West; Fiza. bad | i H see PAu SmuitH 334 Simonton sr. remain an enigma. AKways shegim will ask herself, “Why Swag’ pe ‘| land, are constantly against severe odds to keep long distance telephone lines i: | Fhese “soldiers on the home front” are unceasingly on guard ) Prevent troubles. that might disrupt this vitally needed sery- ice, at a time when Uncle Sam is depending on it most. They are carefully protecting the equip- ment we have, knowing that enough new lines cannot now be ! = Soldiers on the Home Front Telephone crews, throughout the added to meet increasing de- mands because the needed ma- terials are going to war. 0 ut You, too, can help by making tance calls so that your calls may not delay important war calls. And please make a special effort not to call war industrial centers and avoid using the “long haul” fines, because the greater the distance you talk, the greater the chance of delaying vital war calls. fighting work- SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH Company INCORPORATED