The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 8, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to t Best Interests of Xey West he Key West, Florida, hes ‘=c most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe’t Che Key West Crtize THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. VOLUME LXIV, No. 33. S. A. KEY. WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1943 PRIC E FIVE ¢ EN? Wat Success Of cia Due To Fact That Banks Don’t Want Money To Make! Investments (Washington Corespondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 8. —War has had little effect on Key West's postal savings tem. in spite cf increased in-| vesiment in war bonds. At the end of the 1942 fiscal} year, the Key West Post Office | held $568,081 for 2,350 residents, as compared with $408,413 saved by Nine ‘years age. during the de- 1975 depositors in pression, 699 depositors entrusted , $334,927 to the post office. More people use this system than is indicated by these pee for there are many with- In Florida, paited in postal savings 904 was tak- en out, ‘yet there was little change in the aggregate overall deposit at the end of the year. Present success ings, it is said, is due partially to! the fact that many banks do not want money, because there is little opportunity to invest it profitably in war years. At the end of the 1942 fiscal} year, the Post Office Department had 15,410,402 outstanding ia postal savings accounts of 2,812,- 806 people. The principal was larger than in 1941 or 1940, even; though in 1942 postal savings | were used by the public to pur- chase a billion dollars in war; bonds. Funds in postal savings do their war bit, too, for almost all this money is invested in Treas-! ury bends and notes. COUNTY BOARD CALLS MEETING — FOR TONIGHT REPORTED PARRISH HAS RE- CEIVED COMMISSION: SES- SION THIS EVENING MAY EFFECT ORGANIZATION At 2:30 o'ciock this afternoon a missioners was called for this evening, beginning at 8:30 o'clock. It was reported that W. A. Par- rish, commissioner from the fifth district, received his commission yesterday from Secretary of State Gray. and that Mr. Parrish had | arrived in Key West this after- noon. If the meeting is called, Edward ! Gomez will be unable to attend, | as he is sick abed. He was taken ill yesterday, and came out this morning, When he was seized with another attack, had to go back home and ordered to bed by his doetor. Cne commissioner said that, it has been declared by another re- peatedly that he did not wish to organize until the five commis- ioners cold be present. This in- formant added, however, that he will be present if the meeting is Shown To Have Ha Little Effect On Key West's Postal SAVINGS | sys- 1941. ; banking | $30,292,875 | of postal sav-} meeting of tne County Com-' | nautical Plant, I was assigned as | to 4 p. m. shift. of us. was, going to win. The first | thing to do, its ten cups. me “you've baby”. That to be cleaned, and the coolant (a ‘cooling solution of oil and water) changed every day. I learned, was to oil One of the girls told got to treat it like a "TWENTY. TWO AXIS VESSELS SUNK B ALLIES PAST WEEK | MILITARY OBJECTS ON SAR. | DINIA RAIDED BY AMERI- | CANS PLANES; ! DAMAGE INFLICTED aircraft engine cylinders, one every 35 minutes. After trying to HEAVY | | By Assoc | ALGIERS) Feb. See neccening ito a report issued by Allied head- | quatters here, 22 Axis ships were | sunk in the Mediterranean last | wesk by British submarines and! | Allied bombers. i So widespread end sustained | ere the Allied attacks in the air added, | thet only approximately 30 per-| end undersez. the report \cent of Axsi ships thet are at-| tempting to deliver supplies and | | reinforcements to enemy forces; jat Tunis end Bigerte succeed in| i Rae | {reaching their destination. i Besides the attacks shipping while at sea. American (ON THE JOB: | bombers are elso preving on them ,in the harbors at Sicily. 80 ann ‘Altotment Made aol on Axis; |cross the Mediterranean from | the northeasterly tin of Tunisia. | Three ships were struck during | a rrid on Sicily yesterday. and Mayor Willard M. Albury ceived a letter today from .O. T ‘the pilots began their homeward pay, regional director of the Fed- ae Works Agency for. the south- were in a sinking condition when | | trips. | Militery objects | also were raided by Sardinia | c@Stern stat | formation that, American ; on : besides approving an applieation for a grant to con- struct the proposed city hospital jon the botanical garden site, an additional allotment of $41,750 has been made for the construction of “A” Health Clinic Jackson Square. s letter, which contains of interest to Key in the: important matter patties tion is as follows: | planes, which are reported to jhave inflicted heavy damace on wherves end shivs at their moor) OT Gard. type « Sardinian harbors.) Buil in raided ana| ME Re ! particulars the ground, We: of he jings in the An airfield elso was several plenes on were smeshed and set afire. the | In the Sicilian and | Project No. Fla. 8-150 Hospital Facilities, Key West, Florida PP&C:FLK;jm report seid. Serdinian actions. onlv one Allied sans, | perts to be the best artillerists in Flane was lost. | ‘ Hon. Willard M. Albury, | Mayor City of Key West, REDS MOVING = 'wce' vice UP BIG GUNS Dear Mayor Albury: ! With further reference to the | above identified project, in con- |MAKING READY TO OPEN) nection with which an: allotment . | was made in the amount of $41,759 EINELON NAZIS AES ‘for the construction of a standard | BASE AT ROSTOV USPHS Type “A” Health Clinic | Building, we are pleased to inform \ you that this office has submitted (By Associated Press) an amended recommendation to MOSCOW, Feb. 8.—The Rus- | the Federal Works Administrator ‘in Washington providing for an seid by some military ex-/ additional Grant in the amount of } $245.000 for theFederal construc- {tion of a Masonry one-story Bar- ithe world. ere moving up their | racks Type Hospital eansisting Gt of '56 hospital beds, surgical, clinical big. guns te egen Bre on. ive Str nd cpbetztical facilities, nurses’ mans’ main base at Rostov. ac-/ quarters, kitchen and necessary | service rooms and fatilities, as oazei fel to, commie ue: ame | well as equipping, landscaping and here today. | grading. The site for the project is to be donated by the City of Key Stockholm reports, according to | wast. listening stations here, state that! This amended recommendation ‘there is already street fighting in| has been based on the additional page ch Ba aR RO [interegcquate hospital facies, er affirmed _ nor confirmed that c a statement. The fighting, according | due to the Navy taking over the put it mildly. It had, Vivian grinds all ders.fo» containing the in-! held. ' to the local version, is in small vil. The commission has several im-’ lages near Rostov, several of which | (Continued on Page Six) (Continued on Page Six, “MOTOR TUNEUP PRESCRIPTIONS Pn eh en | SAVES GAS Pure Fresh Ingredients Com: ka, aie pounded by Experienced h Wan runkase pene i CAMMEIS STARMACT| Pharmacists. Opposite Army Barracks | Phone 177 Free Delivery 2244444444. present Marine Hospital. It is | Health Clinic Building will be constructed with PALACE LOU COSTELLO in “PARDON MY SARONG” | NEWS and SERIAL the allotment By VIVIAN BROWN. AP Features Writer ATERSON, N. J.—Here’s a prescription for jangled nerves—aA'the assembly line. nice quiet job grinding airplane cylinders! As soon as I had attended training school at the Wright Aero- a grinder at Plant No. 2 on the & One look at the machine with its 800-odd gadgets and I took a deep breath and wondered which® lift the 50-lb. cylinder, only up to 25 pounds Girls like to be glamorous even in factories. uniform: ie Of two supplied, dark and light blue, th |dark is preferred. They wear low- The machine grinds the bore in|heeled shoes and @ visor cap cal!- Those with mice ankles roll their slacks. ed the “Delly Dawn” * |$3 into war bonds, and $3 in sav. bombers. nsers For Health Clinic In Jackson Square originally made thi and the quested vy, tion pital fi If the hospital project i approved, you will be sdon as notice of the al received in this office. Sincereiy your (s) O. T. RAY, Regional Director. on additional fl of the above facilities and equipmen wroject ih } VUQ4Q000004002000ESUUAOUU HAG UUEL ASML EEN ENNENNEEAEE AE | contemplated that the I learned this was a man’s job. Women lift amount re- finally | ised as! Cliff, of otment is! father and sister of Mrs. Norberg | Our Vivian:Keeps ‘Em ‘Blying Il | é i | i | | | , | In all departments, including packing and inspection, and on every type machine, women are working. ,Qne, a 220-foot machine, is oper- ‘ated by three women. In_ the {foundries women are working as core makers—muking the ‘sand molds in which molten aluminum | * is poured to cast cylinder heads. Mobile canteens appear day and night with hot and cold food, ice-cream, coffee and desserts. | At 9:30 a. m., we had milk, and jat 11:30 a half-hour lunch. Elea- nor LaRue, my co-worker, intro- jduced me to the cafeteria. The food is good and _ inexpensive. |For 5 cents we had a large to- |mato juice, meat, vegetable andj dessert. Eleanor every week put: S ings, pays $7 for board, spends | $4 for bowling, and sends_her husband, a Chief Petty Officer | at the Great Lakes Naval Train- ling Station, “whatever she can jafford, sometimes $5, sometimes! |$10.” She was glowing because | ishe’d gotten production up to 17; clinders a day. “Now”, said she,! j‘I'm entitled to a bonus.” The girls know they are pro- {ducing an important part of air- craft, and are proud of their in- ‘dividual efforts. Though the work is not difficult nor over- fatiguing, you are still surprised thow unruffled girls can look | |doing a man-sized job. | They are not all young—there lis Ma Reilly, whose daughter, 19, and husband, w in the plant |There is Eve Casanova, former ; actress. | Most girls take their work in| ‘stride save their money, and say! they weuldn’t like to work in a factory if they were drafted. With jothers it is a necessity. Helen ‘Barone, for instance, a grinder, leaves two youngsters, one five months and one four years old, the Memorial Day Nursery, ‘which shé says is “wonderful”. She payS 15 cents"a day. But Helen says she got in there “by the skin of her teeth” and that ;more nurseries are needed. Jimmy Ridgwell, the instructor in charge of seven of us, wont commit, himself, but grins broad- ily when asked whether he pre-| fers working with women. He did concede “he’s surprised they | are so smart.” ARRIVE ON VISIT and Mrs. T.j NY W. C. Trageser New Rochelle, Thompson, arrived in Key West; on Saturday to spend some time 'with the Thompsons at their} {home at the head of the island. j Story that the Taylor Construction | Company of Miami, ha | building permits to ere { proposed stadium, will is (American Troops Trap Re Of Nippon Army On Guadalcanal ~LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) AIR ACTION INTENSIFIED NEW DELHI.—The air arm of Generai Wavell’s army that is in vading Burma has intensified its action during the last two days. Night and daylight attacks on a large scale have been made on Jap ‘olumns and bases, Today almost 30 tons of bombs were dropped on a small village, that the Japs were using as their most important advanced base, and the report says that the installations there were completely devastated. Last night a transport was sunk and other ships attacked along the shore front. 200,000 SHOE STORES CLOSED WASHINGTON.—Two hundred thousand shoe stores were closed throughcut the country today. as a resu!t of the order j issued yesterday by the OPA. placing shoes on the rationing list. The stores will be reopened tomorrow, and anybody mav purchase a pair of shoes by presenting coupon 17 from the No. 1 rationing book. A Pair of shoes bought now must last till June 15. when an order will be issued permitting the buying of three vairs of shoes a year. NEW NAVY CASUALTY LIST WASHINGTON.—The Navy issued a new casualty list today. containing 53 nemes, with 15 killed, 22 injured and 16 missing. That brings the total casualties since December 7, 1941. to 22,832, of whom 090 were killed. 4.665 injured, and 12.077 missing. GETTING. READY FOR CIRCUS SARASOTA.—Ringling Brothers. whose circus is in winter quar- ters here, said today that they have started to make preparations for the 1943 seeson. Word from Washington was that owners of circuses may give performances the coming spring and winter with- out any interference bv” the government. RECLAIMED RUBBER SUFFICIENT WASHINGTON. — William Jeffers. head of the rubber conser- vation comirittee, sau .oaay twat, with due care. a sufficient amount of rubber has been reclaimed to supply the demands of automo bile owners this year. Synthetic rubber. it was announced, reach the peak of its préduction during the fall of 1944. DECORATE OFFICERS AND MEN WASHINGTON.—Thirty-eight, United States Army officers and men have been decorated for the rart thev played in wiping out the Japs at Buna on New Guinea. One of the cfficers is Colonel Clarence M. Tomlinsor of Fort Lauderdale. Fla. will Lime Grove Area Expanding Rapidly With More Building What is known the Lime, in Key Wet since Grove property, norin of Flagler toyed the war, th avenue and west of the site for the f “ 20n be as a —_— large as a gogd-sized viliage. dation in the city. The In January, The Citizen ran a, tended tenants, in m range to rent hor ruction of them is start nated shortage accor fact is, ir in many c taken out t 16 hou j at a cost of $56,000, and today per- ' more that will cost a like sum. Be- | the construction of 38 houses. {the Taylor Construction Company | in course of construction. Arrange- ; Struction of a total of 174 hou: | occupied. { school building that is now being {constructed by the Federal Works | Agency. obtain permits from Building In- ks houses have been constructed A HUGE SELECTION of Ciconeus Valentines for Grown-U and Kiddies . .- Also for SERVICE MEN Priced 2 for 5c to 50c | SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, ine. Duva! and Fleming Sts. UL TTI PHONE 188 Key West, Florida |zcn, the same company had begun j{ WRIGHT FAMILY ARRIVES IN CITY Cc. daught ed in Ke ypping 2 mits were issued to construct 16 fore them, as was told in The Citi- Commander-and Mrs. G Wright, US.N.R, and {Miss Ann Wright, ar: West Friday and are the Casa Marina. Commander Wright has assigned to duty at the local Na 1 Station. He is a graduate the Naval Academy. He resigned from the service in 1919 to € private business. Mrs. Wright and daughter were winter visitors in Key West du: ing the years 1939 and 1940 The number of permits issued to total 70, but the company is going to erect 104 houses in addition to those than have been built or are con- o ments thus far call for the on the Lime Grove property All the houses thus far completed arg Still another company has ar- ranged to construct 20 duplex houses,.a total of 40 units, in Key West. Those structures’ will be erected east of the site of the high THE ORIGINAL BAKER’S RESTAURANT Mergaret and Fleming Sts. TOMORROW Tuesday, February 9th at 6 A.M. for BUSINESS 000 SPECIALIZING in— SEAFOOD and Spanish and American COOKING The Stewart Page Company, of Miami, will have those houses | erected. Joseph Camner, a repre- { sentative of the company, was in Kev West last week and he said he would be back shortly to spector Ralph Russell. Despite the fact that hundreds KANTOR’S MEN’S SHOP | | 517 Duval STREET i will accept | STAMP NO. 17 { | Ration Book No, .1, and sell. you a pair of SHOES | * é Somewhere i United States And Austra- lian Forces On New Guinea Advancing On Japanese (By Annociat ALLIED HE A ADQL After mil Guac have t throug! Icanal, apped among has t Gu: nm ued ag ther amage fight RAF STAGES RAID ON U-BOAT BASES DEVASTATING THRUST MADE AT POINT ON COAST OF FRANCE rT LONDON. Feb. 1 Preaed —RAF bomb- Aenarinte ers last nivht made their ninth znd most devasteting reid on the U-boat the beses cn French Air Ministry steted to- en planes we Ruhr, but nothing was any of the pl U-boat bases ing to fr This mornimg, shortly daybreak squadrons of RAF bombers and fighters cressed_ the English Chanmed and beaded t ward Boulogne. a ieee i OCEAN VIEW RESTAURANT 520 United Street Key West SERVED DAILY from 12 to 10 p.m. SPECIAL 35° ‘é 60° PLATES DINNER 65¢ to $125 n ——eEEy es come