The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 12, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wite Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME LXIV. No. 37. the Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1943 Three Boys From Tampa, tealing 4 Motor Cars, ested In Key West Youths Picked Up Here By Captain Of Police Camero And Officer Frank Jolly Three boys, two 17 years of age, and the other 16, stole three automobiles and a truck in a wild and wooly trip they made from Tampa to Key West, ac- cording to the confession of two of them, made to Police Cap- tein Alberto Camero and other The sheriff of Tampa, who telephoned to Cap-j local policemen. tain Camero twice today about) the boys, is on his way to Key} West to take them back to that city. Carl Waler Rice and Kenneth Green, each 17, and Raymond} Curtis, 16, ere the names of the boys. Rice and Green confessed that they stole a 1939 four-door Chevrolet rode Sarasota and abandoned the car in Tampa, to FOODSTUFF PRICES WILL BE UNIFORM WITHIN 90 DAYS Prens) WASHINGTON, Feb, 12.— Prices of foodstuffs through- out the country will be uni- form in the next 90 days, the Office of Price Administra- tion announced today. The order will contain three outstanding provisions: fixing of retail prices. a stendard table of wholesale prices, and the amount of production of canned gcods for home consumption, There will be a decided chenge in the prices of meats, and the OPA began today a movement that will drive the “Black Market” out of the meat trede. Every pack- ing house and every slaugh- ter house in the country will have to be licensed before it can handle meats. Ne further slaughtering of ccitle by unlicensed firms will be permitted, and it was pointed out that the sky- recketing in the cost of meat hes been due to that prac- tice. OE ee in that city, At Belle Glade they 1940 Chevrolet abandoned it West Beach. Thev hitch-hiked Lauderdale, from where they made their get- eway in a 1936 Dodge. They drove the Dodge to Homestead, stole a and Palm four-door at from that city to Fort left the car in a side street and stole a V-8 one and one-half-ton truck, which they drove as far as the toll gate at Lower Mate- Key. Thev their trip to Key West in a bus, cumbe continued paid for by money thev hed ob- tained from the sale of a gold wetch, which they had sold to a! negro in Homestead. Before uderdale they reached Fort in the second stolen , the boys, according to the confession, burglarized a house in Pompano, in which they stole a .38 caliber revolver, a woman’s old wrist watch and cash. The stolen wi one they sold in Homestead Captain Camero and _ Police- man Frank Jolly arrested the boys while making a search for the robber who held up a soldier en Eaton street. i saw the boys seated in the Side- alk Cafe and suspected them when he was tipped off that one of them w: med with a_ re- volve They were arrested on a charge of vagrancy, and one of them was found the L AMERICAN AND FRENCH PILOTS BOMBING ENEMY’ Key West, Florida, his tre | most equable climate in the country; with an average | Ss. Aq range of only 14° Fahrent s*t | PRICE FIVE CENT= Storage«Can Harm Your Car, Say Experts But If You'Must:Lay It Up, Here’s How AP Features. If you're discouraged by gas rationing and balding tires that threaten to blow and are thinking of putting your car in storage for the duration— Think twice. Storage may do more harm than good. That's the advice given by the car service department of the} American Automobile Association. | T. E. Allen, department manager, linsists furthermore that “placing your car in storage is not in itself | a patriotic contribution to the war | effort,” and that “maintenance of your car in proper and efficient running conditionfi available at all times to perform essential work of | which it is capable, is far more ad- | | visable.” The New York Motorist, pub- ! lication of the Automobile Club |of New York, warns that disuse is | the greatest enemy of your car. ; Club officials suggest that you} {sell it rather than store it. | But if you can’t use, can’t sell, land must store your car, here are } | some AAA suggestions that will at | | | { i Nazi Division Of Crack Troops most Anniilated In Attempt To Throw Back Russian { LATE BULLETINS | (By Associated Press) JAPS COUNTER-ATTACK. THEN RETREAT NEW DELHI.—Large forces of Jaos counter-attacked General Wavell’s advancing army in Burma. and, after 24 hours of intense_ fighting. withdrew teward their main base. 20 to 25 miles away. Other fighting in Burma has been confined to guerilla actions in the last four days. it was announced today. CONSIDERING HIGHER ALLOTMENTS Forces Praciically Entire Contin- gent Killed, Wounded Or Taken Prisoners Dur- ing Battie (By Assectawd Press) MOSCOW. Feb. 12—A division of Germany's creck troops was almost cnnihilated last night and this mcrning when it attempted least minimize deterioration: | Put the car in the best possible |the wood from drying out. } pan of water in the car to prevent ; so as to take pressure off tires. | Deflate tires and remove them— ‘mechanical condition. Wash it| Unless gasoline is drained from | with tubes inside—to a cool, dark | thoroughly, wax all paint, chrome , the fuel system, it will form gum, | iand nickel, and spray chassis and ‘ under-body with clean oil. Thoroughly lubricate the car. {Clean upholstery, floor mats and ‘trunk lining and treat them with {moth preventive. Then store the car in a clean, y building, preferably with a mperature of from 40 to 60 de- ! grees. Buildings occupied by ani- mals should not be uséd, and the| {col nd dampness resulting from funheated buildings may cause | wooden parts to warp. On the oth- ‘er hand, if the building is steam- Heated, it’s a good idea to place a ' varnish and wax deposits. Like- ; wise drain the cooling system, re- moving hose connections. All rub- {ber trim, hose, wiring, weather ; Stripping and mats light and circulating air. | No matter what precz | take, your chances of preserving ‘your battery for more than a year are slim. However, y long its life to some extent by re- moving it and having it recharged and serviced at least every two nonths. The car should be blocked up, | should be | | cleaned, dried and protected from } place where the temperature is | between 40 and 60 degrees. Wrap- | ping tires with heavy paper pro- ' tects them from light, air and dust j—all of which harm rubber. Keep out wasps and other in- | sects which often build nests in tengines, by placing rags over all : openings to the motor. i Finally, check your insurance | policy. While it is desirable to keep | fire and theft insurance in effect, many companies will allow you to discontinue collision and acci- dent payments when the car is laid up. ‘Statemen All CENTRAL TUNIS IS GIvEN | WORSE POUNDING’ IN AC-! >| ground activity j the Axis forces out of Lybia Camero said he; | ond {Dwight L. on} caliber revolvi At the city jail, Captain Ca-; mero subjected the boys to al barrage of questioning in regard | to the robbery, but they main-} tained that they had had noth-| ing whatever to do with it. They | made no admission whatever, during the first session of ques- | tioning, so Captain Camero left them in jail, and returned two} she was rescued nine days after | from the San Carlos School in at- (Continued on Page Six) 1 2 a We Don’t Have Everything B WE DO HAVE ELECTRICAL @EXTENSION CORDS TIVITIES CENTERED IN TUNISIA (By Associated “ress) ALGIERS, Feb. —American and French pilots, during the | 36 hours, have kept up a constan’ bombing of enemy positions in Tunisia, it was announced today. Central Tunis was given the worse pounding. Airfield a unition dumps a v re Unoffici: a those concentrated raids are the forerunner of the all-out offensiv that the Allies will begin to w: sometime within the next three weeks. With the exception of a minor clash in the Bizerte area, in which British forees dro’ ek two col- umns of Germans and Italians, is still at a stand- still in Tunisi because of con- tinued heavy rains or snowstorms. General Montgomery, who drove is in command of an army of 500,000 men in southern Tunis = ficially announced He is working under the direction of General Alexander, who is s in command General Eisenhow All the latter's commanding officers are Britishers. to CAT STARTS<LIVING ON TENTH LIFE «Ry Associated Press) SYRACUSE, N. Y.>Feb, 12— Annabelle, a cat, may be living on borrowed time from now on. Locked in a store during a fire, the blaze. many GADGETS, including @IRON CORDS @ATTACHMENTS @PLUGS, etc. @And the most beautiful line of LIGHTING FIX- TURES in South Florida @and we still enough materials to take care of your every need, @See Our PIN-UP LAMPS. SOUTHERN ENGINEERING COMPANY Key West's Leading Electricians Fleming and Margaret Sts. Phone 54 tal of 1,400, have been redeemed jin County Ross Sawyer’s office during the last month, he stated {this morning. The amounts of the redemptions total $6,484.17. | Mr. Sawyer said that he is mail-} ing a statement to every delin- quent. Heretofore, only those de- |linquents who requested _ state- ments ‘received them, but, it was Seventy-six parcels, out of a to-} become immediately available un- | der Florida’s new daw, he felt that everything possi should be done to inform F property owners who arezunaware of this {stringency of the 1941 tax meas- ure. Included with each statement is a printed copy of a story that was published in The Citizen, giving particulars of the provisions of the ts Being Mailed To [GOES THROUGH AIR Gounty Tax Delinquents Citing Stringency Of Law «Ry Ansociated Prexs) ! CHARLOTTE, N. C., Feb. 12. i Lloyd Zedacker was doing a ing repair job atop a 156-gallon | gasoline tank. ;. The ‘tank exploded. Tank and | Zedacker went through the air {with the greatest of ease,.When {they landed, the tank,..crinigled like an accordian, was atop Zed- acker. ¥ | They pulled Zedacker dtff —and found that he had suffered only two broken fingers and a bruised leg. “Three Jap Attacks Beaten explained, that, as tax deeds now, law. | Back By Australian Forces Sein MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR U.S. MAINE DEAD ¢SENERA“_ MacaRTHURS | MONDAY AFTERNOON “@2CUARCESS. Somewhere - : P Bishelic. Feb. i ieee Annual memorial services for ; the officers and enlisted men of termined Jap{attacks\on am airss| no | the U. S. S. Maine, who lost their i field’ formetly the location of {lives when the battle ship’ was oe mainins on New Guinan) were ; blown up in Havana harbor on | February 15, 1898, will be held Monday afternoon, at 5:00 o’clock ‘at the monument in Maine plot of |the City Cemetery by the local Spanish American War Veterans. ! | Members of the organization | and other patriotic groups who j have been invited to participate | will meet at the Maine memorial | in Harris School grounds, corner | Southard and Margaet, and pro- | ceed to the cemetery in a body. | Highlighting the exercises will ‘beeten back by Australians hold- | STAYS ON STAYS SMOOTH STAYS LOVELY ONLY 60¢ ALSO $1.00 Busy? Of course you are! Lovely? Always, with lips bravely beautiful, thanks to famous stay-on Revlon Lipstick. ling the field, it was officially re- !ported today. j Almost 1,000 Japs were killed | in the action, and the survivors} were driven back deep into the | jungles before the Australians; ‘stopped their pursuit. Headquarters also reported the | jloss of a small Allied merchant- j This city experienced today its! fed in 1941. ‘helped to fight the blaze. |was hard to get {because of the ifire, warehouses on e: {started, and no estimate has yet {been made of the loss entailed, WASHINGTON.—It was suggested here officially today that a! lotments to dependents of married men may be materially increased, *° **Tow back Russian forces im due to the orders that will be issued to draft more heads of familie: the Donets besin. near Kharkov. into the army. The 48-hour week will little more than offset the addi- Sovict counm tional men who will be taken from the ranks of labor for the armec a services, it was declared, ed today. GERMANS AFRAID OF NORWAY ———? — LONDON.—So far as can be learned here. Norway. as a possible killed, wounded objective of a second front for the Allies in Eurove, is causing the taken prisoners, according te the German high command more sleepless nights than all the other con communique. quered countries they occupy. German patrols of the shore fronts + in Norway have been more than trivled in the last month, atcofling to information received -here from reliable sources. was either or was further steted. that isemy“er-<he prison- ers said that they were in France ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH TONIGHT © saith ape a8 Bek een ee. WASHINGTON.—This city is buzzing with conjectures over what ferred to this country to try to President Roosevelt will say in his 20-minute radio talk tonight. be- hold up the Russian ginning at 9:30 o'clock. It is believed he will enlarge on some of the statements made by Prime Minister Churchill in his address in the House of Commons yesterday. advances. Theusands of Hitler's picked men fell in the battle or are now pris- oners of wer. FROM NORWAY TO ITALY ; _LONDON.—"Where will the Allies strike to esteblich_« second At the point where the fight ffont in Europe?” One Brilish official said it would be left to the ing occurred Russian forces are enemy to guess where that point will be. though it will be somewhere between Norway and Italy. 3 expected to cross to the west bank of the Donets River and then to split into two columns. one heeded westward the Dneiper and the other south wird by west towerd Voroshilov- toward Big Fire In Jacksonville Destroys Warehouses And Wharves On Waterfront _ ‘COUNTY BOARD TO REFILL JURY BOX ing the lest month. so the com- ! grad. One-quarter of the tens of thousands of German troops that were trensferred to (My Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, Feb. 12. Russia @ur- ni e 2 crtitire, sbieiis. Cipdeal|. 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