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

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUMELXIV. No. 30. CITY 10 USE CARABALLO’S TRUCKS’ UNDER LEASE FOR COLLECTION OF GARBAGE | | OPO IM SOS SS | |BRITISH SUBS SINK MANY ENEMY SHIPS" (By Associated Press) ALGIERS, Feb. 4.—British submarines are exacting a hesvy toll in enemy shins in the Mediterranean, accord- ing to reports from Allied headquarters. issued todav. In the last two days five British submerines have sunk 10 enemy shins and so badly dameged two others they are believed to have gone down also. Of ‘the shins pesitively sent to the bottom. nine of them were heavily laden with sup- : plies for the Axis armies in Erivilege of renewing the lease} Tynisia. All of them were | headed towerd Bizerte. in the northeasterly tin of Tu- nisis, when they were inter- cepted and torpedoed. The other shin sunk is cf a typ2 esrecially designed by the Germans to attack enemy submerines. FATS, CARBC HYDRATES j PROTEIN Council Employs Two Co! leciors And Clerk To Handle City’s Business In Operating Service ALCIUM IRON The City Council at a meeting VITAMIN A held last night. accevted a pro- pesal presented by Jesus Cara | RIBOFLAVIN ballo, former private contractor of the scavenger service, to lease his trucks to the city for a pe- THIAMINE (B ricd of three months, with the ASCORBIC ACID (C) NIACIN at the expiration of that period. In connection with the argree- take | care of the trucks by making the | ment, Mr. Careballo will necessary mechanical repairs and! also the upkeep of the vehicles, S77 Mi 7S He will also use another ‘suck RUSSIANS STRIKE 8? de 0. | ample, halanced diet, actordin shows the nutritive value of | | i { HARD AT GERMANS | asae mals in the street. iam BUTTER, ANIMAL & VEGETABLE OILS, RATIONING of almost all types of food in 1943 is to help assure each individual getting an of the Department of Agriculture. This chart daily per capita consumption by the civilian IN THE U. Krey West Citizen SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1943 FRUITS, BREAD, CEREALS, NUTS, MILK MILK, CHEESE, GREEN VEGETABLES GLANDULAR MEATS, MEAT, FOWL, OYSTERS, EGGS, GREEN VEGETABLES, DRIED FRUITS, WHOLE GRAIN CEREAL, FLOU! FISH LIVER OIL, LIVER, KIDNEY, GREEN & YELLOW VEGETA! si Se MEAT, FOWL, FiSH, CHEESE, BEANS AND PEAS, EGGS, CEREALS, DAILY MINIMUM. R bo BUTTER, CREAM, EGGS, MILK, CORNMEAL GLANDULAR MEATS, MEAT, MILK, EGGS, GREEN VEGETABLES LEGUMES,: i FRUITS, CITRUS FRUITS, MELONS, BERRIES, PINEAPPLE, VEGETABLES (ESPECIALLY RAW) g to the plans the estimated rs] PORK, GLANDULAR MEATS, MEAT, POTATOES, GREENS, “LEGUMES, WHOLE WHEAT OR ENRICHED: FLOUR AND BI READ ESEE : GLANDULAR MEATS, MEAT, EGGS, LEGUMES, Un licchilalieee- Neate pig | WHOLE WHEAT OR ENRICHED FLOUR AND BREAD Bureau of Home Economics population in ‘43, compared with the National Research Council’s recommendations of mini- mums for maintaining health. In all but three requisites is the supply more than adequate. The foods shown in each bar are main types rich in that particular_nutrient.. himself in picking up dead ani- | | The charge to be made will be} Japanest A In Pacific Key West, Florida, his the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe*t PRICE FIVE CENT: Show-Down Naval Battle Between nd American Warships Expected Momentarily $$$ $$ $$ ee LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) | Various Units, Including Planes, Jockeying For Southwest Posiiions In | { | | i WARFARE ON | sional opposition to the measure. | | tingent, west of Henderson Airfield | hold and killed 60 Nivponese. | | UNEASY OVER MINERS’ DEMANDS | WASHINGTON.— Official Washington is uneasy today over the .j demands of 450.000 soft coal miners that they be given a wage in-| crease of $2 an hour to offset the demands of the higher cost of| | living. ‘It was stated there is a possibility that final decision will | : ‘ | be made by the Président in this matter. a ae GUADALCANAL JAPS BEATEN AGAIN DARWIN.—It was officially announced today that the Jao con- | with American troops, who advanced half a mile into the Jap strong- MORE RECAPTURED THAN LOST MOSCOW..—The Russian communique, noon, said that the Germans, in the Kutst theatre of war. have lost) Area | | (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGION, Feb. 4 — warships and | Flenes are still jockeying for po- sition for the naval battle that the South- 100 miles BUREAUCRACY WASHINGTON.—A house committee will shortly conduct hear- ings on a bill\designed to wipe out what is considered the growing | | menace of bureaucracy. The measure will be drastic and far-reach- | ing, it was said. Repreentative Howard! Smith, who is solidly be- hind the movement. says he believes there will be little congros- seems imminent in Pacific, ebout frcm Gusdzlcanal. | The heerd agein today. blaring about west Jep official redio wes the victories the Japanese planes cnd werships had alreedy scored but the Savy ‘cherecterized the claims as on Guadalcanal, had clashed again in the fightine. i“grossly exaggerated”. this after-| novia | Besides the claim made two ON WIDE FRONT COMMENTS ON [Harry Bell, Who Surrendered — $8.00 per truck per day, to be more territory, since the winter offensive began, than they captured d¢ys aco by the Jep propaganda Fayable weekly. The city is to EDS REPORTED TO ae OIL SHORTAGE KILLED THOUSANDS OF} DIFFERENT VIEWS ARE EX- ENEMY TROOPS, MAKING, PRESSED ON REGULA- CAPTURE OF OTHERS TIONS OF WPB furnish the gasoline for the eaiz eretion of the trucks. The city | will also put on two additonal | trucks, making eight in all. which will be used in operating the! (ust Amdetinved Exean)™? | MOSCOW, Feb. 4.—nussian {troops are striking tellmg plows | | today against the by the city under the manage-j|a 45U-mile front, extending from |es ment of Millard B. Gibson, sani-| KUrst south to Rostov. | bazidied | In the former area, the Russians, | tary inspector. assisted by Ray-| according to today’s communique, | have advanced seven m \ | yesterday, killing thousands of receives | enemy troops and capturing oth |thousands. Among the detach- 'g ments killed or captured was a German column of 600 men, who, jjack of transportation facilities. in trying to escape from an at-; The big steel companies, Unit- tack by Tommy-guns, ran into a'ed States Steel, Bethlehem and | nest of Russian machine guns that |Republic, were said to have been! killed one-half of the Germans by jreceiving governmenta fer- | R. Deland were employed as col-| th. time the other half had sur-lences over’ smaller a aeal rendered. but it was agreed generally that The Ru: the companies should be com- avea, cut mended for turning out 90,000,000 from that city, and are now ad- ‘tons during the first year of the vancing at a pace that threa war. | to encircle the Germans fightin, in that area The communique stated that the Russian forces, fighting south- east of Rostov. are now only miles from that k ity.Germans,! phe members of the Key West! Rumanians. Hungarians and Ttal-|} jong Club will meet at the cor-| ians are retreating headlong t nd Southard Streets! ward Rostov in the southeas: g at 5:30 o'clock for tle area. Tanks, field guns » of boanding the "Liona chine guns and other equipment a. horse-drdven vehicle have fallen into Russian hands in) ang will then proceed down Du- the last 24 hours, the report said. | yi to Eaton. up Eaton to White Unofficially, it was: declared | nd out White to Seminary to the that Rostov probably will be re-! Den. Lions will be picked up en captured by the Russians within | route. H the next week or 10 days. | The purpose of this caravan is to |conserve gasoline and tires, the Lions leaving their autos in their | garages. TWO GUEST SPEAKERS AT ROTARY LUNCHEON Guest speakers at the luncheon of the Key West Rotary Club to- | day were Harrison Reed, Jr., Navy recruiter, and Winslow ‘Baker, radio operator of the = United States Navy. t JOE Sonn ork Mr. Baker volonteered to take “jcharge of the Club’s Troop, No. 52, Boy Scouts of America. 5 Guests were Egbert E. P. Ball, a former Key Wester, who was jone of the organizers of the Ro- jtary Club here, and Edgar E. B. Montague, district traffic mana. ger of the Southern Bell Tele phone Company. PALACE THEATER JOHNNY MACK BROWN in “Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground” NEWS and SERIAL | i | service. These trucks will be operated (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.—Charg- and counter-charges today ebcut fuel oil. gasoline and ‘steel. were in discussions Regulations made by the War Production Board were said to have caused shortages in oH and | gascline, while, from another} source, blame was placed on the mond Delgado. assistant to Mr. Gibson, until the city the new trucks that were order- ed purchased at the previous meeting of the council. J. Winfield Russell and James lectors for the sanitary service. | ; Zs z in the Kurst with Miss Marie Knowles, -who railroad line 20 miles is now employed in the office of | the city clerk. named to act as office clerk at the City Hall to pe eee | ‘LIONS WILL RIDE HORSE AND WAGON | receive complaints and keep a city’s record of the | scavenger service collection system. The appointment of Raymond Delgado, as assistant sanitary in- spector, was confirmed by the council lest night after Mayor Willard M. Albury had decided to make the temporary appoint- ment of Mr. Delgado a perman- ent one. CALL FOR BIDS It was ordered that bids be called for the erection of a con- The City of Key West, Florida, will receive sealed bids for the construction of concrete bulkhead } 16 feet x 70 feet, on city scaven- ger dock at foot of Simonton} street. Bids to be returnable at} office of City Clerk, City Hall, lat 5:00 P.M. on February 16th,| 11943. The City of Key West re-| Iserves the right to reject any or ge bids. crete wall around the city dock ' i (Continued on Page Four) STARLITE CLUB 713 DUVAL ST. JOHNNIE NEBO THE ONE AND ONLY PRESENTS PRINCESS MOANA Darling of Hewaii in the STRIP POLKA and NATIVE DANCES Floor Shows at 8:30, 10:30 and 11:30 Continuous Dance and Entertainment Frem 8:30 Till Midnight NEVER A COVER CHARGE |feb4-It EP, OCEAN VIEW RESTAURANT {520 United Street Key West | MEALS SERVED DAILY from 12 to 10 p.m. SPECIAL 60¢ Pyotr 35¢ to ‘omplete DINNER 09° 49125 |The Finest Quality Foods, Prop- erly Cooked and Served in a Pleasing Manner ' | H | | | | | 1 ‘ To Authorities Released By Police Last Night with Edward J. McGrath, were in- dicted by a Monrve county grand jury on September 21, i940, for the killing of Léon Massi, a la- bor leader, w sleased by the police in Jerse elf up to the po- lite in‘ that. cif} > in Key West. A:4vire was sent to the It seems reasonably sure today that Key West wili get a hospital, modernly equipped. It is a as anything in the future ca The regional offices of the Fed- eral Works Agency for the south- castern es are located in At- lanta, Ga., and it was from those officers, at noon tod that May- or Willard M. Albury was inform- ed over the telephone that the agency had approved the applica- tion for a grant to construct the proposed hospital, and ‘that the approval wa: ent to Washington on Monday, Februarv 1. It was the same offices that ap- | proved the applications to build another high school in Key West, the one that is now in course of construction immediately west of the United States - commissary, and the proposed schoolhouse for colored children, which was given final approval yesterday by. Pres- ident Roosevelt. The proposed hospital will be constructed on a site in the city’s botanical gardens on Stock Ts- land, a short distance west of the fifth fairway of the municipal In New Jersey, ! McInnis telephoned State, Attor- ney Worley about it. Mr. Worley said he would ‘ecide | later what action he would take. His decision was t as he had ‘no more evidence. against Bell jthan had been produced against it would be futile | brought to trial. to ‘Application For New Hospital For Key West Given Approval golf course and only a stone's throw from the waters of the bay that lap the strand farther wes At first it was intenaed to draw plans for a two-story structure, but because of the priori vators and other steel fixture the plans were changed to provide ‘for a one-story building, covering }a much larger area than the two- ‘story structure would have cov- ered. { The building will cost approxi- mately $240,000, though it is ex- | pected that it will slightly ex- ; ceed that sum. This afternoon Mayor Albury | wired Senator Claude Pepper, ad- | vising him of the sending of the} approval by the Federal Works Agency to Washington and re- i questing him to attend td the mat- ter for the City of Key West. Yesterday, as told elsewhere in today’s Citizen, Senator Pepper wired information to the secre- tary of the Key West Chamber of Commerce, informing him of the presidential approval of a grant for the school for colored ‘ (Continued on Page Four) LA-CONCHA ‘HOTEL ‘AIR CONDITIONED. DINING ROOM BREAKFAST — 8 to 10: AIM. ‘| DUNCHEON — 12 to)2:30 P. M. DINNER — 6:30 to 9:30 P. M. Aa MUSIC by Barroso’s 5-Piece Orchestra EVERY NIGHT BAR and COCKTAIL LOUNGE Open from 10:30 A. M. to 12 Midnight DANCE Saturday Every Tuesday, Thursday and Until Midnight NO COVER or MINIMUM CHARGE i | Maximo Valdez From The In this morning’s mail Maximo} | Valdez received his; commission | | from Secretary of State Gray as | commissioner from the fourth dis- \ trict, during the absence of Wil- liam T. Doughtry, who is a lieu- | tenant in the army. \ Mr. Valdez said that no other) commissioner is mote anxious} than he to organize, so that the ‘ business of the coufity may be at- j tended to promptly, Immediately jon receiving his commission, he ‘ communicated with W. A. Parrish, {at Marathon, requesting that he send information to Key West as soon as he receives his commis- j sion. Parrish represents the fifth district. “When I hear from Mr. Parrish,” | Mr. Valdez stated, “I am ready to! | agree with any or all of the other | | commissioners to call a meeting for formal organization. You may | say positively that I am not a4} member of any clique, and that I} am actuated solely to serve the| people of Monroe county. 1 know | there has been great talk about! this or that combine, but I am not a member of any combine.” A reporter of The Citizen this | morning remarked to a man who {is in a position to know, that he,| the reporter, had been informed,} that the way the commissioners are now lined up, Carl Bervaidi will be elected chairman. The re- porter remarked that “a good ci- gar tells me that will be the The county officer replied, “How about making it a box of good cigars that that won't be the case.” The reporter then observed, “If it isn’t Carl Bervaldi, then it's Maximo Valdez.” ———— DANIA DeBOIE { } | during the entire campaign they waged last summer. LITTLE GROUND ACTION IN TUNISIA minister thet two American bat tleships and a heavy cruiser had Commission To Serve County ALGIERS.—There has been litt!e ground action in Tunisia since been sunk. the redio asserted to- yesterday. American troops captured a hil). in an attack led by @ 4, thet auctor codiber hed } i spearhead of tanks, and, at last reports, were holding it against « a Last night Harry Bell, wi 10,; sheriff's office, and Chief Deputy | counter-attack launched by Germans end Italians. HAMBURG POUNDED AGAIN | LONDON.—RAF planes raided Hamburg again last night. War | plants and industrial objectives were struck by “block busters” and before anv of the three naval | great fires were started, the Air Ministry said. While the ministry did bettles in which the Japs were not make public the number of planes that participated in the raid.| McGrath, who was discharged by | it was placed at 300, 16 of which failed to return to their bases. ind said he was' a directed verdict of “Not guilty,” } have Bell! | sume and still another had been ‘badly dam, yd | It wes pointed out here that. ‘eerie defeated in the Pacific 4 |bad come to an end. their propa- * . cenda minister had made similar No decisive action has vet been teken. it was steted though seems thet a “show-down battle™ will be fought im the next day it Fourth District There was no further comment about the matter. FOR Meanwhile, some Monroe coun NEW STRUCTURE TO HOUSE ty employes have begun to los« patience over the non-paym COLORED CHILDREN OF KEY WEST so. of their salaries, due to the f. ure of the county commissioners to organize. This morning at the cou house, a Citizen reporter heard several complaints, and one em ploye apostrophized, “When. when?” Bills owed by the county which now has a lIrage ba . in the bank, also are unpai cause the c@unty has no tioning government. NOTICE OF CITY SCAVENGER SERVICE Scavenger service in the Cit of Key West is now under the control and operation of the City and beginning Monday ice will be made by duly appox ed city collectors. Service charg- es are payable one month im ac vance as follows: Each Residence, Dwelling Unit or Apartment Each Restaurant ch Hotel Drug Stores Drug Stores with Restaurant or Soda Fountain Grocery Stores Theatres _____ Trailer Camps $20 per month for the first 16 trail- ers on the prem- $ 1.00 per m 10.00 : 20.00 5.00 Ag @ Pesult of the gc 4 approx =— 25.00 3.00 150 additionaitrailer. All other ‘business places not here- tofore enumerat- ed Five and ten-cent = &: