The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 11, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, his irc most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrent =*t Wrst Cittze VOLUME LXIV. No. 36. Work On Expansion Of New Naval Hospital To Be Started Immediately Che Kry THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. S.. A. | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1943 How,.Europe Has Bee n Invaded * Improvements Will Call OP OPO. SISO REMEMBERING MAINE, | PEARL HARBOR OF 798 The story of the USS Maine and its connection with the U. S. Naval Station here is vividly told by W. Ekin Birch, an ex-Gob, ex-Marine and ex-Doughboy, World Wer Reg- ular Armv officer who is now serving in the Civil Guard of the Naval Operating Base while trying to arrange to re- up in the Marines. A former Chief of Bureau of the Associated Press in H2- vana, he served aboard the USS North Carolina at the time of the removal of the Maine from Havana harbor, on February 15, 1912. For Expenditure Of Ap-! proximately Hundred And, Seventy-Five Thousand | Expension work on the new: U. S. Naval Hospital in Key West | to cost approximately $175,009 will be started immediately, ac-' cording announcement | to an meade this week by Lieut. Com. | F. M. Fenwick, public! | mander works officer. Additions will consist mainly cf four new wards. and the con- struction will be one-story con-§ O&O MPMI LDS IS SS RECEIVE WORD st min mass | COVERING SALE OF GASOLINE j ! | | | crete block buildings, connected H by*a covered passageway. adjoin- | ing the main building. | U. S. Naval Operating Base dur- ! j ing the past several months and j i the closing next Monday of the | Marine Hospital have made- ‘it | advisable tHat additional facili- ties be provided. i The Key West Naval Hospital | was commissioned October 19, | 1942, at a cost of approximately ! $1,300,000. It is the largest na- } val hospital south of Jackson-! ville. ! The 13 filling stations in Key It is ideally situated on a spa-| West that advertised in The Citi- cious four-acre plot. The main. zen of yesterday have received the hospital building is surrounded | following official information re- by palm trees and a large lawn, | garding the sale of gasoline under a perfect setting for convalescent} “We have just received Petro- patients who need plenty of fresh | the rationing svstem: air vand sunshine. Ottr build-' Jeum Directive No. 62 as amended, ings on the grounds include of- January 19, 1943, contents of which ficers and nurses quarters and are outlined as follows, as it af barracks for the enlisted person- fects our operations. nel. | “Effective February 1, no credit Captain Jesse W. Allen (MC),’ sales can be made of any petro- USN, of Kingsville, Ohio, is the Jeum products by or through any commading officer. retail outlet except: “1. Vehicles displaying “T j tion card sticker and using “ coupons. “2. For use in motor boats used FILLING STATION OPERAT- | ORS PROVIDED WITH IN| FORMATION ON STATUS OF RATIONING i | | WHERE MEN ARE MEN McGREGOR, Iowa.—Although he is entirely bald, Arthur Durr for comm al purposes. rural mail carrier, makes his' “3. Governmental Agencies for rounds without a hat, no matter) their exclusive use. how icily the Iowa prairie winds! “‘Governmental Agencies’ blow. (Continued on Page Five Montgomery’s Eighth ‘Army Has Now Entered Tunisia) (By A ited Prean) ALGIERS, Feb. 11.—The British the British Eighth Army and Eighth Army, which, under the! Axis forces composed of the rem- command of General Bernard ae pf Romined ey) army yand | lazis that were already in Tu-| Montgomery, chased Marshal Er-'pisia, The report said that the win Rommel from El Alemein,! Eighth army has brought up its at the Egyptian border, to the heavy guns and is pounding the Tunisia, 1,300 miles| fortified positions along the east- ered Tunisia" Tunisian border preparatory enter eee undes to a move to turn the flank of| aecrt the Axis forces _ entrenched there. Meanwhile, American air forc-} around- | border of away has now and automatically comes the command of General Dwight L. Eisenhower, it was announced | officially today. i British General Alexander is,es are continuing an General Eisenhower's chief assist-| the-clock bombing of Axis posi- ant, and he will be aided also by tions in Tunis and Bizerte, and } two other British generals, who jare attacking Axis ships that at- will have charge, respectively,|temtp to reach the ports of those! of the fighting in the air and on| tw ities. Yesterday, it ell the ground. j offi ally announced, a German The only ground action today jtransport, with 250 soldiers among Allied troops is confined|aboard, was sunk in the Mediter- to a battle that is raging between ranean off Bizerte. LA CONCHA HOTEL Charles M. Salas, Manager AIR CONDITIONED DINING ROOM 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 Midnignt Every Tuesday, Thursday and DANCE Saturday Until Midnight NO COVER or MINIMUM CHARGE | | | | jstreet. \for Rome. { ONLY FEW STRAGGLERS ARE |few stragglers who are wander- lficially, do not inclide the Jap GERMANY *MAN} [*) 150 30 MES The area held by the Nazis in Europe has often been invaded in the past. This map shows eight of the great invasion routes AP Features From whichever direction the United Nations sweep into the Nazi-held contitient of Europe they | will find an historical precedent for their invasion. If they choose to invade by way of North Afri- } ca, they can profitably study the past campaigns of Hannibal, the Moors and the Vandals. Hannibal, starting from Carthage (now Tun- | is) in 221 B.C., crossed into Spain, went through | the Pyrenees and the Rhone. with his elephants pushed through the Alps in 15 days, and headed The Romans routed him in 207 B.C., however, and then struck across the Mediterran- een at Carthage, successfully invading the in- vader, The Moors, holding all North Africa, conquer- ed Spain, breeched the Pyrenees and aimed at northern France. At Tours they were defeated } Normandy to th cease his attack: Across the 1453). and Agincourt, tering the Nazi: tribes were the united with the chased back into Spain. |. Vandals Seize Rome The Vandals, originally from what is now Germany, went via Spain to North Africa, sub- dued Carthage, gained control of the Mediterran- | ean, and in 455 swept into Rome. For 14 days held that city, committing history's first act ; ndalism”—looting all the great treasures that covld be removed. The Vandals also estab- lished themselvts in Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearics. Invasion via Norway has a precedent in the Norsemen. Sea-going raiders, they moved onto he French coast in the ninth century and_estab- lished bases from which to pillage Paris. Charles the Simple of France in 912, gave the duchy of | native populatio! son Ogdai, also in 1241 but did ing in China. The Middle }Ynsula. In 1521, and besieged Vi: ; them back .at Troyes. | in 732 by Charles Martel of the Franks, and were | {board for the Ottoman Turks, Morthern Asia Minor to conquer the Balkan Pen- of history. ¢ Norse Chief Rollo as a bribe to S. English Channel, a possible ave- | nue of invasion today, the English swept onto French soil during the Hundred Years’ War (1337- They took Calais, battered Crtcy, Poitiers | and had victory in sight when Joan of Are turned the war tide by raising the | siege of Orleans in 429. The Hordes Of Asia The mightiest invasions of Europe have come by way of Asia—across through areas in which the Soviets are now bat- the plains of Russia, is. Among the many _ invading Huns, who came from behind the Volga under Attila to ravage the area between | the Black Sea and the Mediterrnean. Huns invaded Gaul but Rome’s Imperial Forces Visigoths and the Franks to hurl Next year, Attila swept into Italy’s Po Valley but was persuaded by Pope Leo. I te retirepehind the ually tamed and submerged themselves in the Alps. The Huns grad- ns. The Mongols, under Genghis Khan and his swept in from Asia. They sub- dued an army of Poles and Germans at Liegnitz not advance farther, choosing in- stead to return to aid another Mongol army fight- East served as an invasion spring- who _ came from under Suleiman the Magnificent, | they took Belgrade and later conquered Hungary } ienna. They were not pushed out | of Hungary until 1687. GUADALCANAL 1S CLEARED OF JAPS ‘PICKS OUT CLASS OF | , WORK HE WOULD LIKE | IN MANPOWER RULING (By Associated Press) PORTLAND, Me., Feb. 11. —A 39-year-old dencing mas- ter ran an advertisement in the Portland Press-Herald today, in which he outlined the type of work he would like to do to conform to the rulings set us by Manpower Commissioner Payl V. Mc- Nutt, as to what is and ! what is mot. essential war work. Said the dancing master, whose name was not disclos- ed, he would like to get @ job on a farm, provided he wes not hurried in his work, end given time, now and then, to rest until he became accustomed to his new call- ing. 3 He specified too that, in no circumstance, would he work more then nine hours a day, and added that his work should not bring him into contact with “barn odors”. LEFT WANDERING ABOUT THROUGH JUNGLES (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. Major General Alexander Patch, | the forces on Guadalcanal, i1— eee) in command of American reported | | | | today that that isldnd has been freed of all Japs, except for a ing about, hungry and Poorly | clothed, in the jungles. General Patch said that Guad-| alcanal cost Japan 20,000 soldiers, who perished on that island, be-| sides the tens of thousands of! ethers who lost their lives in at- | tempts made by the Japanese | command to land supplies and} reinforcement on Guadalcanal. The entire Jap seventeenth army, comprising 75,000 men, lost their lives in the fighting on Guadal- canal and in the Pacific in ‘that immediate vicinity. Besides the Nipponese' lost 150,000 tons of warshipsand 1,- 000 planes in the sefies of’ bat- tles for Guadalcanal: | Those figures, it was statéd of- ROOM MOTHERS UNIT TO MEET TOMORROW There will be a meeting of the jHome Room Mothers of the Jun- jior-Senior High School held to- ships and men that have been|morrow afternoon, beginning at lost in the fighting of the last|3 o'clock, at the school house. two weeks. All members of the organiza- tion are requested to be in at- EQUIT Y LODGE ; tendance. MEETS. TONIGHT | Three candidates for member-; PASTE TT | DADE LODGE No. 14. F. & A.M. There will be a Call Com- |ship will be initiated tonight by| munication tonight at 7:30,/ Equity Lodge, No. 70, at its]| Work in M.M. and F.C. meeting to be held in the Knights | 3 WEECH, Secretary of Golden Eagle Hall on Petronia‘ s SS mtn of the W.M. SMALL FIRE ON | 'UOR STORE ON MAIN THOROUGHFARE Apparatus from both Fire Sta- tions were. called. out last night about 9:30, o'clock’ in‘ réSponse to an alarm sounded from ‘Box 12, | ‘ ; } { \ corner of Duval and Front sts. Upon arrival on the scene, a small blaze was discovered in jthe rear of the liquor establish- ‘ment on Duval street next door !to Sloppy Joe’s Bar. The blaze jwas quickly extinguished with a few buckets of water, practic- jally no damage resulting. John Lord, driver of the No. 3 iFire Station apparatus, which re- ' sponded to the call, stated that the had one of the drives last night from the sta- IDS SS BF BDF BB sion to the scene of the fire since! against it.” he has been answering cals in shis long service -with the. depart+| ment. . ‘ T “Fireman Lord*said wHat sut- |prised him most was when he hit into Duval street, which! is al- , ways crowded with traffic, it i seemed that everyone just pulled} their cars up to the curb, with Pedestrians also keeping the street clear, allowing him to ikeep the truck at a fast clip, with practically no slow-downs ‘during the entire run. | Mr. Lord concluded by saying {that he hopes the people will ;show the same cooperation in the future when they hear the fire alarm, which may be the means jof saving someone from being ge or possibly killed while the appagatus is on its way to a fire. In 451 the | LOWER DUVAL smoothest ; PRICE FIVE CENT: ~ LATE BULLETINS (By Asnociated Press) PRESIDENT IN RADIO TALK WASHINGTON.—Tomorrow night, beginning at 9:30 o'clock, in a nationwide, hookup, President Roosevelt will talk 20 minutes over the radio in.observance of the birthday anniversarv of President Lincoln. It wes stated that the President will soeak about foreign affairs, and that among the latter he will discuss the 48-hour week. He will also make an address on the anniversary of Washington's birthday, February 22, but the time of that address was not given. HERSHEY OPPOSES SOLDIER LEGISLATION WASHINGTON.—Major General Louis B. Hershey, who was the first person called to testify before the House Military Affairs Com- mittee on the bill that would provide for the drafting of all elizibic | single men before calling up married men, said that he was opposed to such legislation. He added that, so far as the war effort is concern ed, he thought it was wiser to defer men on the ground of the na ture of esscatial war work they are doing rather than to be guided | by their marital status. He concluded by saving that he wished to make it plain that he was talking for himself and not for the mar- Fower commission. " “REMEMV!BER” AS APPLIED TO WAR RESENTMENT LONDO!’.—The United Scates has its ‘Remember Pearl Har- bor” and Great Britain has its “Remember the Repulse and the King George.” though the people of this country are not as outspoken as are the people of the United States. But the feelings of the peoples of both countries can be sounded easily, as was demonstrated in the House of Commons today wien Prime Minister Winston Churchill \ was wildly applauded when he spoke of the crushing of Japan by ‘the United States and Britain. When the time for that “crushing” | comes, Britishers will demenstrate that they remember keenly the | sinking of the two battleships by Jap bombers and torpgdo planes. | i] | | j { New Administration Of County | | Board Gives Promise Of Being Void Of Personal Grievances unison to promote the interests of Monroe county, so that the re- mark today about “silken wings” apparently is true. “Without growing poetical,” it | was remarked today at the coun ty courthouse, “The Citizen may jsay that peace, like that well- | known dove, has descended and) | spread her silken wings over our County Commissioners.” That statement, some on Red Forces Onl ate, is borne out by what Edward ; i Miles Away |Gomez, commissioner from the | first district, and Maximo Valdez, | who represents the fourth district | on the board, had to say about the county administration. Mr. Valdez made his statement} jin connection with the appoint- ment of two janitors at the court- house. “As chairman of the building land grounds committee,” Mr. Val- |dez said, “I am empowered tO) sued here today stated. One tank jname janitors, but, before I took | / ‘that action I called on Frank )Column, used as @ spearhead, is | Roberts, a minority member of the | reported to be only six miles from committee, and told him that if ithe two men I had chosen did not | suit him, I would name any two} jhe felt like suggesting. He said the | itwo men I had avpointed suited |him, so I therefore informed |them to appear at the courthouse | to assume their duties. | “The fact is, I hope there is an jend of all petty differences !among us. Time will prove that I am not a member of any cliaue.; | and that I shall always be guided ‘in my vote by my interests in my | county. If something is designed MOSCOW, 11.—Russian forces are only 15 miles away from Kharkov,, the key city io Feb. ‘ t the Ukraine, the communique’ is that important Nazi base. German troops are pouring out of Kharkov in retreat. the report edded. Their flight was begun yesterday shortly after the Rus- \sians’ big guns started to bom- bard the city. Today, more heavy artillery has been brought up and is lay- ing down curtains of fires that to help my county, I shall vote | 4re tearing up enemy entrenched ‘for it: if it isn’t, I shall vote, Positions and at the same time | protecting the motorized columns as they advance on Kharkov. Many villages have been cap- tured in this drive, but tht most) jimportant gain, as cited by the! high command, is the capture ef Mr. Gomez stated, “I had my say ‘on the night we organized, and that’s the end of it. I am. frank { and-plain;spoken. and as, the other {members of the board now know iwhered-stand, they may be sure | {1 shall not.do. any stalling; in- Stead, I;shall always be ready to join with them in working for; { Monroe county. I am tired of any {disputes or differences, and I hope there will not be any occasion for them to arise again.” The aim of the other three mem- ‘bers of the board is to work in H ‘ “PALACE THEATER | RUSSELL HAYDEN in THE_LONE PRAIRIE NEWS end SERIAL | B WE DO HAVE ELECTRICAL @EXTENSION CORDS | } | Fleming and Margaret Sts. chil Declares Greatest Dr Antistory Wil Be Made On Axis Powers Within Next Nine Months *® We Don’t Have Everyth @IRON CORDS @PLUGS. etc. @And the most beautiful line of LIGHTING FIX- TURES in South Florida @and we still enough meterials to take | care of your every need. @See Ofr PIN-UP LAMPS. SOUTHERN ENGINEERING COMPANY Key West’s Leading Electricians VG Prime Minister Relates In Part Results Of Confer- ence With President Roosevelt LONDON, Feb. 11.—“Burn and bleed"—thet is what is gping 10 happen to the Axis powers in the next nine months, Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in a speech delivered im the House of Commons today. He related. except as to de ils, t the results of his confer ence with President Aoosevelt at Cisablanca in Morocco, and was tcere that the Prime Minis ter and the President decided to it lunch a campaijzn of a sea of fire end a rainstorm of steel on Axis powers in the next nine months. The world has never experi- enced an offensive comparable with thet which the Allied Na- tons will wege against the Axis Powers, Mr. Churchill seid. And the time will come soon. he as- serted, when the full force of the United States and Great Britaia will be put into play to crush the Jap-nese in the Fer East. All detzils were settled, Mr. Churchill stated “polishing off". at the Casablan- (Continued on Pag) except for the Six y Fifteen From Kharkov (Ry Associated Press) hills that dominate and the fighting field be many miles the capture it explained, the an. that theatre are now freed ny other natural obstructior until the Dneiper River is reach ed 200 miles to the west. Because of the flight of Germans, according to the munique, only 1,700 of killed in the Kharkov tor. But in the fighting at Ro tov the Germans counter-atta ed, and before they were beattn into submission more than 6,000 of them were slain. Fighting s still continuing fiercely at three points at Rostov, the east, the southeast and the northeast A vital railroad center Orel, 120 miles north of was captured today, the munique said The Germans greater opposition im the in that sector, because of the portance of the railroad to the line of communications, than they did at Kharkov, as a result of which 3,200 of them killed. a stretch of the city yond Witt of Ri hall in the th the were Kurst, offered fighting were many, ‘ GADGETS, including @ ATTACHMENTS Phone 54