The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 6, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME LXIV. No. 32. Laboratory 10 Bé Set Up, Here Monday For Purpose Of Testing Water Supply paebkte ra Two Officials Of State NAZIS RECAPTURE | Board Of Health Are! Coming Here In Interest: Of Matter | WAS TAKEN OVER BY BRIT- ISH FORCES JUST TWO DAYS AGO J. B. Miller, acting chief sani- tary inspector of the State Board (By Associated Treas) of Health, and his assistant, F.) : Tunisia that British forces cap- tured two days ago was relin- |quished by them erday, of- j ficial headquarters repor' to- day. | The Germans, in retaking the F; ao | hill, employed t same tacties the ida Keys Aqueduct Commission. | British had taken in capturing it Immediately after the labora-|During the night, German and tory is put in readiness, chemists | Italian forces hid in tie scrubby from the State Board of Health| growths in the side of the hill, will arrive in Key West to make | when dawn car burst suddenly | from cover and either overwitelm- thejed the British or made them re- latter, when they offensive, gained r the A. Eidsness, will arrive in Key West Monday to set up a labora- tory. in which tests: will be made d of the water supply of the Flor- by flushing, | treat, as the Jaunched their now supplied commission is used for bathing, washing, lawn- -sprinkling | and similar purpos but the’ the whiphand ov: commission has not yet issued a The commun to notice permitting it for drinking | the activity as a small-scale action, ing purposes. jand added that there has not been Such a notice will be sent toj any change, with that exception, consumers immediately after the; in the positions held by the Al- State Board of Health makes its | lies and thé enemy in the last 24 report, a ming that the report} hours. will be favorable. | Inclement weather, NAVY SILENT ON acs: PACIFIC BATTLE It was reported that four Amer ican planes that were reported | | missing on Thursday, have 1 | turned to their bas ONLY REPORT CAME FROM) MRS. a . J. ROBER BERLIN, CLAIMING SIX DIES THIS MORNING: U. S. SHIPS SUNK ees SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED SUNDAY AFTERNOON headquar- ited practically Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The Navy made no announcement| today about the reported naval} battle going on in the Southwest | acific betweén American and | Japanese forces. Even Tokyo was silent the battle o jpposed battle, an the only reference made to it by any belligerent power came from Parmms mth residence. Rev. Berlin. randcasic = > on iA. C. Riviere, of the First Meth- A broadcaster in that city, on 9s, GUN isting. three different occasions today, blared to the Allied world that Eo. four song, John the Japs had sunk six America ; Sie ee warships in the South Pacific na. W= Ernest, George, and Philiv | vali hatile: , Roberts; _ two, daughters, Mrs. It was recalled that the same John B. England and Mrs. Tallian. radio, while the battles of Mid-|Albury; a brother, Philip Pecne|h way and the Coral Sea and the 'S0"_ of Miami; eleven aoa first naval battle off the Solo-;fen nd eight great-grandehil- mons were in progress, asserted |“ pritchard’s Funeral Home is in that the Japs had di yed the S Aneta flock | charge of arrange mene q The only official statement! EH III III III III. made here about the fighting in‘ ENE: the Sou t Pacific concerned the many destructive raids that have been made by Flying For- tresses. Rabaul, in New Britain Island, % You are cordially invited tor the south side of New Guinea,' *be at the Men's Bible Class to- ;| where the Japs have a base, and 4™morrow morning at 10 coat even enemy installations on far- 4Harris School Auditorium. away Admiral Island have been % Mr. James F. Spink. noted * pcunded by Flying Fortresses in, $evangelist, will bring the mes- * the last three days. | Esege. teeny |% All men of the city. ndeee DURING FIRST WAR | xwith those of the armed forces} ee \tef the country will do well tof NEW YORK.—During the first gcreit ‘themselves of this oppor-¥ World War, nitrate exports we’ tunity of hearing this out- the chief source of national in- gstanding speaker. come in Chile. [Meeeeneeeeenneenseeneet LA CONCHA HOTEL AIR CONDITIONED DINING ROOM Mrs. Sophia J. Roberts, 84, died | about !this morning at 11:25 o'clock at d her residence, 923 Southard st. The funeral will be held to-j morrow, Sunday, afternoon, at 5} : * * \* ly * * BREAKFAST — 8 to 10 A. M. LUNCHEON — 12 to 2:30 P. M. DINNER — 6:30 to 9:30 P. M. MUSIC by Barroso’s 5-Piece: Orchestra EVERY NIGHT BAR and COCKTAIL LOUNGE _____ Open from 10:30 A. M. to 12 Midnight Every Tuesday, Thursday and DANCE Saturday Until Midnight NO COVER or MINIMUM CHARGE Che Key t HILL IN TUNISIA, ALGIERS, Feb. 6.—The. hill in! and,! Hest THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1943 HARRY. HARRIS, IN ALL | FRCS Teta. FILL _ OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER Harry Harris, who was elected, SS SEE after his honorable dis—' TER OCCUPIED. HOME AT|county commissioner from the) charge from the army. LAIRD AND WHITE UNTIL! fifth district last Nuvember, nae ane Geet Ged hen Saar : | likely to assume his office short-} Hershey in releasing from the ly, according to a letter received! army men who are more than 38; jtoday by a Monroe county of-!yeas of age and who would en-| ficial. 'gage in essential war work when Several Key Westers had said | they are released. jAndrews, who succeeded Lieu-} that Mr. Harris’ office had been! Mr. Harris is more than 38 and ‘tenant General Dwight D. Eisen-| declared vacant by Governor Hol-' he has two affidavits, showing he hower yesterday as commander | land and that W. A. Parrish had | will engage in war work as soon f United Stateai¥érées in the been appointed to fill out the un-|as he is released from the army. of Unite STAE Res | expired term. Such is not the case,; The first Key Wester who came! European theatre: of war, has @{ however, as is clearly proved by/out of the army under General | |home in Key “West ‘at; Laird and | the original of Governor Hollands; Hershey’s order is Theodore Rob- White streets. General Andrews) letter sent to Mr. Harris. | erts, who was 38 last September, ‘had the house constructed in 1938,| The letter is dated January 18,!and who returned home last,Sun- |Mrs. Andrews and Miss Andrews|and the governor informed Mr.}day evening to engage in essen-| loccupied the home until. last Harris that he. had been granted | tial war employment. July. a leave of absence for as long ashe; On Mr. Harris’ return, the county While General . Andrews . was} Was in the, country’s armed ser- | commission will comprise, besides ; stationed in Syria, as head of the| vices, and that he would be eligible ; Mr. Harris, Maximo Valdez, Carl Ninth Air Force, he .was awarded {to assume office immediately, in| Bervaldi, J. «Frank. Roberts and the Distinguished Service Medal. the event his term had not ex-| Eddie Gomez. He was in charge of the air-force ee that operated in conjunction Soon; No More Patients To Be Accepted / After Feb. 15: Alemein across the desert _to| ;Tripoli and then on to the Tu- ‘nisian border, a distance of 1,300 Acceptance of patients at the; mendation of the Federal Works! Marine Hospital in Key West will: Agency, with offices in Atlanta, be discontinued after February 15,| that a grant be made to construct mile General Eisenhower, | whom! 5 i and the hospital will be closed as|a hospital in Key West, has been soon thereafter as is practicable. General Andrews succeeded, is} now Allied commander in North Africa. confirmed in Weshington. That order was received today! Mayor Albury, as was stated in} by Dr. Rose, surgeon in charge, | The Citizen on Thursday, is not! from Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon- | sure what the hospital will cost, general of the United States Pub- | | though the amount originally re- Le uested is $240,000. It probably will | After it is closed, the hospital |4 pubes proven ys will be taken over by the Navy, ;©*ceed that amount. which will use the building for| The hospital will have 50 beds, } \from now. sibs pues |but the number can be increased ‘onfidence was entertained in} to 60 in tim f ree Gen. Andrews ‘was born in| Key West today that Mayor Wil. (0,000 ti ee |Nashville and graduated from) jarq M., Albury shortly will re-} oo sai |West Point in 1906°as a cavatry | are A y pee ‘ceive information that the recom- | WAR QUESTIONS | a Q.—My husband has been class- Hieutenant, He served szround | 11 id joined the air) n soot anes. NOTICE OF CITY | SCAVENGER SERVICE jeq in 3-A and we have five | children. He is working in the ae in 1907. Scavenger ‘service in’ the City Navy Yard: “Should he be re- 'STRANGE KIND OF 7 DESERT CAMOUFLAGE |<: Ke hy West is' now under sty | classified? A.—No. jcontr nd. operation of the Cit (By Aniociathd Preiay” |andy, ‘ginning Monday, Fe' bruary | WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY |8thy 3;-collections for this serv- | IN FRENCH MOROCCO, Feb, 6.— | lice be made by duly appoint- A soldier's soldier is Major Gen- led city collectors. Service charg- eral George S. Patton, Jr., com-|€S are payable one month in ad-j manding general in the Moroccan | V@nce @s follows: campaign. During the- hottest|Each Residence, fighting at Fedala he drove-up in| Dwelling Unit or his tank to a group of officers} Apartment | conferring by a grove of trees. He |Each Restaurant. was dressed in old overalls and|Each Hotel packed two ivory-handled pistols. | Dene, Stores |He beckoned to him a bemedaled {Drug Stores with colonel clad in dress uniform and | oan urant or wearing bright red and green | joda Fountain fourageres — citation cords — on lerhbetics Stores his shoulder. T aes “What are you?" the Generajj Taller Camps $20 asked, “a Christmas tree?» the. ft 18, ie ers ‘Unt the AN “SAS adi ‘All other v4 4 Te usiness uplaces nob*hére- Bey enumerat- GEN. ANDREWS - | |MRS. ANDREWS. AND DAUGH- | Lieutenant General Frank M. General Andrews is among ad turemost believers in the potency | of »ir power in this war. In 1937, he ceclared: “Air attack cannot; be stopped by any means now} known. The main reliance to defeat an enemy air force must be bombarément aviation direct- ed against his bases and his air- planes on the ground. The air- power of a nativn is what it act-| ually has in the air. That which on drafting boards cannot be- come its airpower until five years} j { { Q—My husband makes 764.36 a year, and we have one; \child. How much income tax | will we have to pay? A—Depends on other exemp- |tions. Positively nothing or a jvery small sum. WE'VE HARPED On Our ! | | | ~$ 1.00 per mo. | 10.00 — 20.00 5.00 | i | 25.00 5.00 1.50 PIECES of Golden Fried | IIIT III III IIR | TONI | For A BIG + SLOPPY JOE'S BART Largest Place In Town | JOE PUESUS RAND COME... HAVE A GOOD TIME! Music Starts at 7 p.m. Week-Nights at 8 o’Clock AUG UR UE | 4 e and ten-cent ee — i Coffee Shops feb4-3t | PALACE THEATER LOU COSTELLO in Am, |“? ARDON MY SARONG” | CABARET seitncnc: | TOMORROW, Sunday. will be al SPECIAL MATINEE at 3:30 p.m.| Directed by MRS. CONNALLY Sponsored by WOMANS CLUB February 9-10 8:30 P.M. Admission $1.65 per Person Call 881-w or 874 for Club Breakfasts Start 30 Yes. we have Genuine Te i: HAM, BACON and SAUSAGE and HOT CAKES sy- RUP’S REAL! BUT- TER helbs a little. too! | j and NATIVE DANCES Floor Shows at 8:30, 10:30 and 11:30 From 8:30 iill Midnight NEVER A COVER CHARGE $1,-| | Hospitel in the campaign recent- | Key West, Florida, his tne . most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe*t Citizen S. A. PRICE. FIVE CENT | Three Most Important Bases Held. By Germans In Russia In Imminent Danger Now Of Being Recaptured Se Te Be Ex- tending Lines In Various Areas As Fighting Con- tnues LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) CIO WANTS WAGE INCREASE WASHINGTON.—Philip Murray. president of the CIO, said here j today that unions, affiliated with that organization, would seek to j get 10 per cent increase in wages to offset the higher cost of living. (BZ Assoriuicd Press) MOSCOW. Feb. 6.—Kurs: | = ee Kharkov and Rostov. the three ! “HARD-SLEDDING” FOR ROOSEVELT oe Sy oat most important bases held by | WASHINGTON.—The Presiderit is in for “hard-sleddin;” xt | was declared here today. in his effort to have a measure passed ‘® Germans im Russia. are | that would limit salaries to $25,000 a year. Also Paul V. McNutt, the imminent danger of being recap i manpower chief, is going to be the object of concerned opposition in tured by the Red: the RB communique stzted today ia | his latest declaration about drafting married men, with wives and children, into the army. One congressional spokesman said that Mc- Nutt’s order embraces constitutional rights that are properly the While the communique did not | function of congress. Clem that Russian troops ure JOBS FOR FLORIDA WAR PLANTS JACKSONVILLE.—War plants in Florida will obtain their | share of the contracts to be given out shortly to plants im the south- | ensues states for war material, it was reported here today. The | amounts will be on a proportionate scale that Florida plants obtain- | ed recently when orders totaling $30,000,000 were issued. now fighting in the outskirts. of Rostov. as a Stockholm report said. a semi-official statemen wes issued in which it was stet ed thet the fall cf Rostov. the Germans’ key bese. is likely ‘te occur within a week. This morning. Red columns dri Restov captured a tion and a train, which wa ith tanks, ferries and « faa ss EE Senin Y. c= icles. The STOCKHOLM’S VERSION OF MUSSOLINI'S Was $6 rapid, the feport said | _ LONDOY.—Stockholm reported today that Migsolini had sheken Germans did not have tim {up his cabinet because the German high command had forced “ge na = z Se nt ; to do so. Stockholm said that Count Ciano, Mussolini's jaw, ae on eee , s | was the head of a proposed peace movement in Ttaly. and that the jn on a German garrison i high command told Mussolini that, if he did not dust Ciano, the Ger-~Kursi, ei capturing man army would take over the control of the Italian government. onetting of its occupa cording to the Soviet repe It was explained that the AMERICAN BOMBERS DEVASTATE AXIS BASE rison was taken by surprise ALGIERS.—Aliied headquarters reported today that squadrons of ). ;),. American bombers had carried out a sustained attack on an Axis i, grins. | base near the eastern border of Tunisia, and had completely destroyed {he encirclement it. It was said further that Tunis and Bizerte are now the only bases Russians are thunde the Germans and Italians have in Tunisia. outskirts of Kharkov communique _ stated lages, one of them recaptured by the little opposition in that dri tt have not yet been MADE LIEUTENANT | NAVY WILL EMPLOY RELEASED SOLDIERS WASHINGTON.—Men more than 38 years of age. who are hon- orably discharged from the army to enter essential war work, will | | be accepted by the Navy for jobs they ara capable of it was announced today. The same order applies to boys of | from 38 to 50. i | one t prang pleted leted the the today, GIRAUD REORGANIZES HIS COMMAND | | { ALGIERS.—General Giraud, French high commissioner in North i Africa, has reorganized his command, and has included in its mem- j bership several of the “Fighting French.” I Pris report enumerated | NO OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION i CAIRO.—It was announced today that the war office here has Mi | not confirmed the report. issued yesterday, that General Montgom- ,¢ i; | ery’s Eighth Army had formed a junction with American troops in : of | southern Tunisia. comm th Mary Thompson, daugt and Mrs. Julian Tho South street, ha ioned a second Nurse Corps of the Army utenant ‘i nompson duty the on Monday so be RAILRCAD FINDS i een A LOOSE LIVER VAMiies ST. LOUIS, Feb. 6.—At the St Louis station's lost and found de- partment they have filled with liver | they did until it began to turn sour—and a fellow’s pants. at Ke port fc Barracks ee OCEAN VIEW RESTAURANT $20 United Street Key West MEALS SERVED DAILY from 12 to 10 p.m. SPECIAL PLATES 39° to OOF Complete DINNER 65¢ 109125 The Finest Quality Foods. Prop- erly Cooked and Served in 2 Pleasing Manner Av PER thane our friends | who contributed to the Mercedes jly conducted by the ?Knights of Boe MERCEDES ORrTT | By J. Winfield Russell. a suitcase sausage—or Those are just a couple of the | items that have turned up re- cently. Boss Checker L. J. Mey- er says “it must be the war: peo- ple leave their belongings rigit | and left.” GOSPEL HALL 720 SOUTHARD STREET Special Evangelistic Peer Udona sas AMES, Bren Author-Editor-Radio Speaker EVERY NIGHT, 8 o’Clock Excepting Monday and Saturday IMPORTANT NOTICE In order to maintain the pressure necessary to give our customers adequate service, we are obliged to ask all of you to conserve fuel whenever possible, and es- pecially on Sundays between the hours of 10 and 12 Noon for the duration. Key West Gas Co.