The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 5, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIV. No. 31. Che Key West Citize: THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1943 Russian Forces Said T0 Be: Within Ten Miles *. ! Red Armies Reported To Have Captured Two Vil- lages With Enemy Sur- rendering (By Associated Press) MOSCOW. Feb. 5.—Russia's southeast army was reported to- day to be only 10 miles from the important German base of Rostov. In the drive toward that city the Reds have captured two large villages, in the last 24 hours. in both of which several thousand Germens and their allies sur- rendered. The enemy losses inj that area, including killed, cap tured and wounded, number 17,- 000 since yesterday morning, ac- | cording to the official communi- | que. The Nazis are not offering tny stubborn opposition in any sector along the 450-mile front} extending from Kursk to Rostov. At Kursk. the Reds are reported | to have penetrated to the out-| skirts of the city with a spear-} head of tanks that has beaten down all opposition offered by Nineteen tenks and 68 field guns were cap- the enemy. enemy ; | tured intact by the Russians in thet drive. the communique as-| serted, | Near Kharkov, toward which the Russians are driving furious- | were taken with 54 field Pieces and 85 machine-guns, the ly, 1.500 prisoners i | | | today, together report said, Other news was that all. the Germans and their allies in the | Caucasus face either annihilation | or capture. Their only avenue! of escape. uv to yesterday, had been by boat. but Russian Cos-} the months of De secks and other Red contingents this morning frustrated whatever hcpes the Germans might have hed to flee from the Caucaus by sea, E. J. KERR HEARD IN TALK TO LIONS The principal jspeaker at the Lions’ Club’s meeting last night . J. Kerr, coordinator of the National Defense Training Pro- gram in Monroe county. Mr. Kerr outlined the activities of the pro- gram and requested the whole- hearted cooperation of those pres- ent. Joe , of the Public Rela- tions Department at tne Naval Station put on a program of short movie reels on the following sub- vage,” “Manpower,” Rollin’” and “Lake The Lions arrived at meeting on Tommy Otis Sweeting’s horse- drawn truck, thereby saving gaso- line and tires by leaving their cars at home. Ladies’ night was announced for two weeks hence. STRONG CURRENT NEW YORK.—The of ships. Y White at Fleming St. Opposite Army Barracks |speech. On all other occ Humbolt current off the coast of Chile is} strong enough to change the course | | i | We have New Batteries! | fe In Stock at ALL Times. Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE Phone 5 Of Rostov; Key West, Florida, hzs tne most equaBle climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe't S. A. altel PRICE FIVE CEN¥F> East sea more open, convoys avoid main Axis power by hug- |HITLER LOOKED UPON AS VERY INSIGNIFICANT LONDON FEELS THAT EVEN IF HE IS DEAD THAT OTHERS WILL CARRY ON MORE EF- FICIENTLY (By Ansocinted Press) WASHINGTON; : Feb, Hitler dead? Joseph E. Davis, former Ambas- sador to Germany, said today that possibly that Hitler has died and | that the German leaders are keep- j ing his death a secret. Mr. Davis pointed out that, the tenth anniversary of the organiza- tion of the National Socialist Party, known to the world genet ly as the Nazis, was the only an- niversary, during the observance of which Hitler did not make a ons, Mr. Davis stated, Hitler was the cen- ter of the celebration, but that last Saturday he did not speak and the German public itself did not (Continued on Page Six; EXPECTED COUNTY. BOARD WILL GET ORGANIZED SOON MUCH SPECULATION AS TO WHO WILL BE SELECTED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE COM- MISSION That thing hope, which, as the poet says, “springs e' human br ,” was evidence in the county this morning as a result of the story that wa y much in D Maximo Valdez having r mission as county co: from the fourth district. The expectancy is that the com- missioner mission will be formally organized } early next week, and, immediat ly after it begins to function, ac- tion will be taken to approve the salaries due county employes for ber and Jan- uary. The commission also will or- der the payment of bills incurred durring those two months. As a result also of the story pub- lished yesterday, the opinion now is that Mr. Valdez, instead“of Carl Bervaldi, will be e ed to the chairmanship. However, Valdez refused to discu ject, and added only t will be taken care of at the proper time.” One official in the county still holds to the belief that Mr. Ber- valdi will be reelected chairman. wee FEBRUARY 14th A Huge Selection! GORGEOUS NEW VALENTINES GROWN UPS and KIDDIES Many Especially for SERVICE MEN PRICED 2 for 5c to 50c SOUHTERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Phone 199 Duvel and Fleming Sts. Key West, Florida Free Delivery Service i 5.—Is 1 nal in the } :| quent | NOTICE OF CITY that sub- | coast COMPARING SHIPPING DISTANCES [VIA MEDITERRANEAN: | VIA CAPETOWN: NEW YORK-PORT SAID 5,800 NEW YORK-PORT SAID 11,900 NEW YORK-BASRA (IRAQ)9,300 | NEW YORK-BASRA 14,700 PLYMOUTH-PORT SAID 3.400 PLYMOUTH-PORT SAID 11,500 PLYMOUTH-BASRA 6,900 PLYMOUTH-BASRA 14,300 ALEXANDRIA AP Features 'HE circle'of battieiin Tunisia has as one major objective ‘breaking: the: bottle- neck. which ‘divides: : the «Méditerranean into two seas. forthe Straitof Sicily'is only 80 miles: wide ‘and «in: its center: is the ltalian island of :Padntelleria which affords even shorter-range facilities for bomber at- ‘Mayor Albury Confers With | Dr. Rose About Equipment To Be Loaned To Hospital Mayor Williard M. Albury had} vicinity for the proposed hospital. MERATES NUMBER THAT |a conference yesterday afternoon; Some Key Westers are under the | impression that the city does not ARE ON COUNTY'S DELIN- | with Dr. Rose, surgeon in charge | wn the property, but that is not pu Lneiaee of the Marine Hospital, regarding} the case. The city purchased the the equipment, furnishing and fix-/ land at the time it acquired all tures in that institution that will | of the northerly side of Stock Is- be turned over for use to the pro- land, with the exception of a few County Clerk Ross Sawyer to-! posed Key West Hospital. | tracts, for the municipal golf day enumerated the number of! Mayor Albury stated that the} course. in Key West | equipment and other articles were; The site is in the midst of the j not a gift, but were a loan, in-| botanical gardens, composed of tacks on Allied convoys. Pushing the Axis from its hold on the African mainland: at this point would enable the United Nations to establish a continuous umbrella of fighter-plane protection from Gibraltar to the Suez Canal. How this would save con- voy distances is shown in the box above. } | ‘VALUABLE PARCELS INCLUDED IN TAX DELINQUENT SALES COUNTY CLERK, SAWYER ENU- parcels of realbestate palate ccleeoe ang also_the! stead An inventory is now being | natural and cultivated vegetation, number elsewhere in the county. | made in the Marine Hospital, and | which is among the beauty spots In the eity, there-are 135 par-; when the inventory is completed}on the Florida Keys. Besides, the cels, 12 of which are homestead | it will be sent. to Dr‘ Parran,jsite is far enough away from the exemptions, which will be sold | surgeon-general of .the United}highway to be beyond the sound and have tax deeds issued against | States Public Health Service, for| of automobile horns and other them just the same as other delin- | his consideration. traffic noises. quent property, in the event they | ‘This morning Mayor Albury “A quiet and beautiful spot,” | Parcels in Monroe outside of Key | of what is probably the most ideal ; the speaker who discussed it this West number 1,300. |Site in Key West or its immediate | morning with Mayor Albury. Mr. Sawyer explained that the} 1941 certificates against the delin- | property represent 1940; After July they will be ad- | vertised in The Citizen and then; sold to the highest bidders at an! auction to be held in front of the! Collection In Tolls On Bridges Show An Increase main entrance to the court house. Drei ae ew bl Seer Tolls collected at the Overseas, 096% while the number in Jan- coming sale, in the event there are| Highway bridges are still keeping; Uary of last year was ee aa no bidders for some of the par-|pace with the large amounts that) the trucks last month numbere sof the 4 hat 5.143% as compared with oni {cels, deeds to them will be issued|were taken-in during similar] 3°98 in January of 1942. x to the county, which, under the Z | periods of 1941, which was one of | — , from a viewpoint] ASSESSOR CHECKS Clerk Sawyer added that, among | of finances, since the bridges were } NEW STRUCTURES the parcels in Key West offered | erected. Hl for sale, are some very valuable} The amount of collections last| ‘ ones, which,,under, a,forced 'sile| month was slightly more than) qooun® 7a ssor Clauge | would bring several thousand dol- | emcie © tan Gandolfo, having acquired a list liars. ; 5: isan jduring January of last year,| of all the building permits sisued ; though there was an appreciable! in Key West. last’ year, ‘ted falling off in the number of pas-{this morning to make the rounds ? Senger automobiles and other ve-{ of the city to inspect the buildings SCAVENGER SERVICE /hicles) with the exception of} that were erected or are in epurs@ Scavdaeer eeruice hike City trucks. ; of construction in this city. ‘ s ae | Collections last month totaled} He was accompanied by his as- of Key West is now under the s96413, and in January of 1942! sistant, J. Frank Roberts. control and operation of the City) they amounted to $26,334.25, Mr. Gandolfo and_ his clerk But the number of passengers} have completed the enterprises of and beginning Monday, February | 8th, 1943, collections for this serv-| 1.-+ month were only 26,731 as/| the transfers of property that wer: ice will be made by duly appoint- ed city collectors. Service charg- 'es are payable one month in ad- {vance as follows: jEach_ Residence, | Dwelling Unit or Apartment ‘Each Restaurant jEach Hotel {Drug Stores ;Drug Stores with Restaurant or Soda Fountain - ‘ocery ; Stores eatres — a railer Camps $20 per month for thé first 16 trail- ers on the prem- ises; 50¢ for’ each |. additionaltrailer. iAll other business places not here- tofore enumerat- OE es \Five and ten-cent stores — |Coffee Shops _ law, will acquire good and suffi- | Li | cient title to them.” | oe ebest ve in January, 1942. Passenger automobiles | other vehicles that passed gver|his assessment roll for tn!s year’s the bridges last month totaled 10,- | taxes. i ICABANA CLUB 605 DUVAL STREET: Now Offering... Gontinuous.. All: Girl ENTERTADNMENT 12 NOON ’TIL 12 MIDNIGHT AFTERNOONS: New York's Sophisticates of Piano and Songs LYNNE JAMES and DOROTHY MURRAY AT NIGHT: THREE GIRLS OF NOTE THE FOURTH SEASON FOR THESE SWEETHEARTS OF THE CABANA | $ 1.00 per mo. . 20.00 5.00 feb4-3t PALACE THEATER JOHNNY MACK BROWN in \“ Tenting Tonight on the | Old Camp Ground” NEWS and SERIAL | | j i are not redeemed before July.| was commended for his selection] was how it was characterized by | Planes Reported. To éd Mnnda, Japanese Airfield, And Other Points * feed \Navy Department Reticent In Regard To Naval Bat- | tle Being Fought Off | ~ LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) Solomon Islands BRITISH PLANES POUND JAP BASES CHUNGKING.—The most devastating raids on Jap positions! since’ General Wavell invaded Burma have™been made by British | {bombers during the last two days, it was reported officially today. | Jap bases have ‘been raided several times. and among the objec-! tives hit were two ammunition dumms that exploded with detonations that could be heard over an area of several miles. (By Amsociaced Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—The Nevy today maintained its policy \of issuing no further information Seon ess 1 TRYING TO PLACATE ITALIANS | — LONDON.—Premier Benito Mussolini evidently is trying to put “f *he Solomon Islands in the heart into the Italian people, whose morale is said to be far lower than Southwest Pacific between Amer- that of any other belligerent power. Today it was announced officially over the Rome radio that Italy is on the point of making peace with | the Vichy French, and to include in the peace treaty co-occupation | by the French and Italians of Corsica and Tunisia. «bcut the reported naval icen and Je" anese forces. But an ¢ ficial statement said that United States planes have ARE RUMANIANS SEEKING PEACE? jTaided Munde. the Japanese air- LONDON.—it was stated here today that the Turkish A‘mbas- | field on New Georgia Island. Ra- sador to Rumania has made a hurried trip to Ankara to submit terms paul, in New Britain Isl one which the Rumanian government will accept in making peace with’ the Allied Nations. No official news about the report was #dued in ™*"Y Jap objectives elsewhere jin the Southwest Pacific. Turkey. 2: Cea ee CELEBRATION IN CHINA Bisex ree: Sees eee WASHINGTON.—Secretary of State Cordull Hull announced ,5everal attemvts to damage Hen today that China is celebrating the announcement of the Umited derson eirfield on Guadalcanal s> States and Great Britain trat they had renounced all extra it will be unfit for further use by rights they had had for many years in China, Hull said the celebra-j tion started this morning and will not be concluded till Sunday |Allied plenes. but every enemy afternoon. ‘attempt to tear the field te piec- ous TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE jes has been frustrated by Amer MOSCOW.—In official military circles here early tonight, it was i ican fighter pilots. said that German soldiers at Kursk, Kharkov and Rostov are geiting; a dose of their own medicine that they administered to Belgians, | Hollanders, Frenchmen and cther nationals, including the Russias ¢@ minister has been giving out themselves. Germans in those three key cities in Russia are being reports over the official radio in blasted by Russian dive bombers, then Russian artillery and then! mowed down by the crushing power of monster Russian tanks. The blitzkriegs are commparable to any the Germans have engineered at any time during the war. the officials said, Allied Units Bring Down 22 Enemy Aircraft At Tunisia ALGIERS Feb. 5.—Twenty-two ery’s Eighth Army shot Mernwhile. the Jao propagen- Tokyo. intended solely for home consumplion, warning ie Jap- battle now in prosress. Jepanese ships énese thet in the naval and plenes are “greatly outnum- bered”. The which Asociated Press. recorded the broadcast. believes thet the Jao ministry of war information probably bas re- has joined about ; ceived unfavorable news forces with an American army enemy planes were down 4 The compared with a total of 35,404, made in the county last year, and, |their purpose without the loss of |bers of the British Eighth Army and 26 others badly damaged in deg-fights over Allied | reeaquarters announced today. Most of the Axis planes were i} i t hen. a hornet’s nest of them ean ry feausdion oF hei V {thet were raiding enemy posi- Tunisia. allenge a ying © Fortresses ' Fortresses accomplished | H were shot down. j The most inspiring news to |the Allied Nations issued today | jby the headquarters here was ;that General Bernard Montgom- j in the southerly part of Tunisia. Comment on that statement was an answer to a Berlin broad- cast that many of Rommel’s men are now fighting in Tunisia, and that, therefore, the driving of the army from Lybia was not of as great consequences as it was reported to be. It was noted that, despite the number of Rommel’s men who had escaped the British wrath they entered Tunisia as members of an army that had been ad- ministered one of the worst de feats in history, while the mem- | when he finishes inspecting new |# single plane, though 10 Ameri-;came into Tunisia with the high and| buildings, he will begin to make |¢@9 and British fighter planes;morale that characterizes mighty conquerors. The opinion was advanced that Montgomery's ar- rival will, accelerate the move ment to drive the Axis forces cut of Tunisia. ty ry Traffic regulations in Key jare going to be enforced, s ly, Mayor Willard. M.. All {termined to make driving in this jcity as safe as it is elsewhere in! the country. Complaint after ‘complaint has been made about | jthe laxity of enforcement with jall types of regulations. | | Asa result of the campaign! hes make Key West a, safe place | i | 1 i i v Pure Fresh Ingredients Com- pounded by Experienced Pharmacists. GARDNER’S PHARMACY, Free Delivery ‘Traffic Regulations In Key | West To Be Rigidly Enforced | which to drive, 35 cases for tratl/redulations were heard y y afternoon by City jsaid this afternoon, as he is fle-|Judge W. P. Archer. Most of the ; (Continued on Page six) BRADY’S LIVE POULTRY MARKET | Tennessee Milkfed ROASTERS PRESCRIPTION Sis-Sem noastens-stewens Our Chickens are received alive Phone 540 the conflict. MEN HURRY TO GET ESSENTIAL WAR POSITIONS NEW YORK CITY LEADS ALL CITIES IN COUNTRY IN AP- PLICATIONS BEING RECEIV- ED (By Associated Pressy WASHINGTON, Feb. Assciated Press survey 6—An of key cities in the country shows that m tried men. employed in what Ctairman Paul V. McNutt of the maerpower commission designates as non-essential work. are seck- ,ing to get work in callings that are included in the essential list. New York City led all othe ; (Continued on Page Si TE Seat ‘OCEAN VIEW RESTAURANT {520 United Street Key West SERVED DAILY from 12 to 10 p.m. SPECIAL 35¢ 60< Complete Pe. Comp! DINNER to | vad | i | and we Kill and Dress Them Daily | ™s Finest Quality Foods. Prop erly Cooked and Served in « Pleasing Manner ‘ee: SS