The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 18, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Hest Citizen Che Key VOLUME LXIV. No. 42. War Secretary In Tunisia Was One-Sidé * Also States That There! Has Been No Attempt To Minimize American Losses (By Asnociated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—| Secretary of War Stimson said today that no attempt has been made to minimize American losses, in men and equipment, in the battle of which was started early Sunday morning and discontinued this but he added there should not be any attempt either to exeggerate the losses. Claims by the Germans that they had inflicted 8,000 casualties among the Americans are grossly exaggerated, Mr. Stimson stated. } He added that the losses were | by no means confined to the American. The Germans, too, he said, lost heavily, both in per- sonnel and in equpiment. The fight appeared to be one- sided, Mr. Stimson explained, be- cause the lines in central Tunisia were lightly held, and the Amer- icans had not had time te fortify their advanced positions. Besides when Rommel struck, the British | Eighth Army, south of _ the Americans, were consolidating | their positions. and the British} First Army, to the north, was} mudbound and could not render any aid to try to beat back the attack. And it was not a major battle, Mr. Stimson declared, adding that the advance of the enemy in no way endangers other Al- lied-held positions in Tunisia. HOLT STILL HEADS' CHILDREN'S HOME MARCUS (DADDY) FAGG RE- ELECTED STATE SUPER- INTENDENT central Tunisia. morning, JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 18 (FNS).—Francis M. Holt of Jack-| sonville s re-elected president} of the Children’s Home Society | of Florida for the 11th consecu- tive year at the annual meeting | held here last week. | Other officers re-elected were R. V. Covington, treasurer, Mar- cus C. (Daddy) Fagg, state super- intendent and Frank G. Johnson, secretary. Plans for the coming year were! discussed and officials expressed | their appreciation of the splendid! support given the society in the! recent drive for funds. SNAKE-BITE. KITS IN GREAT DEMAND SHOWN TO RANK IN IMPORT- | ANCE WITH FOOD AND AMMUNITION i i i} TARPON SPRINGS, Feb. 18 (FNS).-Ranking in importance; with food and ammunition,! snake-bite kits are in demand by our armed forces and Florida is playing an important part in sup- plying that need. Last week the Saunders Venom} Extractor Company of Tarpon} Springs supplied 500 kits to the} U. S. Coast Guard and is work- ing day and night on an order} for the Army. A total of 17,133 such kits; have been delivered since last! November. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Says Battle |DR. OSINCUP ARRIVED IN| CITY YESTERDAY FOR CON-| SBS 8 S&S GM &\| FERENCE WITH HEAD OF| TO EVERY WOMAN WHO} C!TY WANTS TODO HER PART IN THIS GLOBAL WAR; ©. Gilbert Osincup, who rep- {resents the United States Public: | Health Service in Florida, arrived ' jin Key West yesterday afternoon, | and conferred with Mayor Willard‘ M. Albury about the loaning of the | {equipment at the Marine Hospital | j to the City of Key West for use j jin the hospital it is proposed to; construct in the botanical gardens | on Stock Island: vet ; Dr. Osincup’ said that, in view, of the fact thatithe Federal: Works? | Agency and the United States{ |Public Health Serviee -have ap-| | proved the application forja grant jto construct the hospital, it is! likely to receive approval in the; next few days. i | He will leave late this after-| jnoon for Orlando, where he has headquarters. He stated that, up- on his arrival in Orlando, he will ;communicate with authorities in | Washington regarding the re- quested grant for the erection of the hospital. | Mayor Albury said that, while of | {course he can not say anything definite about the grant until it is j made, he feels confident that Key | West will receive good news by | the end of this week or early next | 1 Never in history have American women be2n offer- ed such a chance to serve their country. and never has there been such an urgent need for their service, states Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Knox further states: “This is total war.a war in which every woman as'well as every man must play avpart. The men in the Navy end Coast Guard are in for one reason alone, to fight. They are in to fly planes, man the ships and smash the Nazis and Japs. “But to keen them fighting, there are important service jobs that must be carried on at home, man-size, full-size full-time jobs which you, the women of America can fill. Jobs in which you can serve your country in your country. and release the men to fight at sea. “That is what you, as a member of the WAVES or SPARS can do to help win this war. How you can do it will be explained by contact- ing officers in charge of re- voaweeoe ee CLENISTON FACING RUSSIANS KILL HOUSING SHORTAGE MANY OF ENEMY raxustes ARE CROWDED INTO| | | CONVERTED GARAGES AND | ANOTHER SLASHING OFFEN-| LIKE PLACES SIVE AGAINST NAZIS) | STARTED TODAY week. | GLEWISTON, Feb. 18. (FNS)— inns Anes Geastiveas) | Despite the erection of over 100 MOSCOW, Feb. 18—Another| ew homes the past year, Clewis-| slashing offensive, with dive{ ‘0? is suffering from an acute; Reranbre Secunia’ aearsillecvmeand housing shortage with families! motorized infantry co-ordinating, | CTowded into converted garages | was launched this morning at | and makeshift lodgings. Orel, the northern cap along the|,,=xPanded operations of | the front of 450 miles of the present | United States Sugar Corporation, intense activity in this country. jcoupled with the establishment of Geel which lies 166 milesmoact aoe eee eee KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1943 Flere Battie Fought dll ND. COMMERCE RTS TO OBTAIN FOR CHILDREN ODS OOS OASM &| Key West grocers, through the| CHINA’S FIRST LADY | cranes, s Commerce. are still TALKS TO CONGRESS a monthly consignment cf Nestle’s: (By Associated Press) brand condensed milk for chil- dren in this community. Today} WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.— ithe chamber wrote to Senator! Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. equesting him to; first lady of China, early this r again with the ailecrioon camila atidvess a | food distribution commission of congress, which was punc- {the Department of Agriculture. — tuated, time and again, with loud applause, H The letter follows: { H sr at in warn Dest Ses Pepe LATE BULLETINS | Chinese have waged for more | “I want to thank you for your | than five years, despite the | @ttention to our last lament, which ——— } fact that they were poorly | Was on the subject of condensed | equipped and fought an en- | Milk. The letter that I received | emy that.brought into play | from the Department of Agricul every. weapon of modern war- | ture did not make much sense to} fare to try to crush her coun- ; Me. | trymen. i With the promised aid from j (By Associated Press) AUSTRALIANS CONTINUE TO ADVANCE . GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS. — It was official- “For one thing, we,are advised | ly announced today that the Australians on New Guinea have beaten that on account of the, shortage | back, the Japs nearer to their base at Salamau. The Australians ace ay country, she declared she Bede esas Pee use sxaporated |,new only 12 miles from that village, which lies on the northeast coast id not entertain a passing | milk, instead of condensed, and, as’ o¢ . “ : doubt that the Japanese even- ; it is oneof those self-evident facts ! of New Guinea, It was also peperted thet Acuuticen plones anak a0 tually will be decisively de- that condensed milk takes much | 8-fo0t schooner near New Britain Island. feated. less tin than evaporated, we do! ee It was announced that | not feel that our problem is being | NET INCOME LIMIT DOOMED FOR DEFEAT Madame Chiang Kai-Shek j aproached with the direct atten-} WASHINGTON.—It was stated today that indications are thet will be a guest at the White | tion for which we had hoped. | the President's request to limit the net incomes of individuals to $25.- House for the next two weeks. “For another thing, evaporated | 000 each is “doomed to be defeated in congress. From there she will visit {milk is not, definitely not, a sub-} Wellsley College, of which {stitute for condensed milk when H she is an alumna. then will it comes to feeding infants. I am j stop at Chicago on her way to} told it has a constipating effect on j San Francisco. |an infant, which condensed mil | does not have, and for that reason resume work on farms. It was said the likelihood is they will be re- FB. GB sct0rs prescribe condensed milk.| leased in time to participate in spring sowins. —_— Hy “We are informed that the quota | got condensed milk to be manufac- ; COAST GUARD, ? T0 j tured is 80 per cent of the normal | CONTROL PILOT | product. Here in Key West we are! and, as far as it is humanly pos- | and the wound in each case had been inflicted by a bullet of that sible, it will be confined to fam-| Size. COVERS FIVE PORTS IN SEV-| ilies having infants to take care | of. cent of the | PETERRAVAL/ DIS: i = Sonat euppose Wore iSa great! WASHINGTON.—Beginning next Monday, the TRICT deal we can do about it, bu jo . aR: | goel if thevels is somebody. to cit San een ee ee eee j down across the table with the au-! Sie ee te thorities, there would be no trou-, The Coast Guard this weekiijo in ‘our getting this small | moved to assume control of com-| amount of milk, an article which | mercial piloting in five Florida| the newspap ate will be sup-; ports under seventh naval district! plied to the babies in Africa. I SOLDIERS TO SOW SEED WASHINGTON.—Efforts are being made to have several thou- TWO KILLED AT SANITARIUM jonly asking 25 per amount we had been receiving, | in this city. A .22 caliber rifle was found near the scene of the murders. BAN ON CANNED VEGETABLES “4 ELEVEN MILLION MEN TOO MANY — is altogether too high. Several million of those men. the speakers i . m definitely prejudiced in favor Cain, chief pilot of the Miami Bar| of the Kev West babies. | = Big ae pncauae se cri is said to be against any re- Pilots Association, was enrolled; “I have no lack of confidence | @UCHOn OF That number of selectoes. Tuesday as a lieutenant com-| in the good faith of the authorities | mander in the Coast Guard tem-! upon whom so many heavy bur- | porary reserve. tdens rest, and I appreciate the LeCain will serve for the dura-} fact that it is physically impc tion as senior officer of the Mi-| sible for them to meet and under ami group. The first of 29 such|stand all of the detailed problems specialists in the seventh navalj that confront us. But no matter district to don the Coast Guard| what rebuffs we may meet (and _ PRODUCING CROPS BRIDGE, CAUSEWAY PRICE FIVE CENTS Between And Axis in Tunisia; Heavy Losses On Both Sides Three Airfields Fell Into Engagements In Past Four Days \By Amseriated Preae: ALGIERS. Feb. 18—Acxis forc- es. under the command of Mar- shal Erwin Rommel dtowe beck American troops. im central Tu- mitia. en extreme distance of 55 miles by the time the four-day action was broken off tts mora- ing. j sand soldiers, who were formerly farmers released from the amy to ORLANDO.—Two persons, a man and a woman, were shot “’ throuhg the head sometime last night or this morning at a sanitarium “* sale of canned | WASHINGTON.—Some senators and representatives declared to- Av day that the Army's objective to induct 11.099.000 men into its ranks | said, could be used effectively to bolster up the manpower shortage _ PLAN FOR FIBER GOVERNMENT SEEKS = | court. bekinkay. © Hakala = Prova a large ae | William C. Owen, vice-president ‘of the Clewiston Realty & Devel-} |opment Company, stated that 50 additional homes are needed at once. The difficulty in securing tured last Sunday by the Rus- sians is an important pivot in the objective the Russians have of driving back the Axis forces to the Dneiper River before the snow and | ice begin to thaw. The drive had been only a hours old before the Ru: captured four villag one of which is important as a base of operations in the advance toward | Orel. Meanwhile, Russian forces are continuing their advance north west and west of Rostov. In thi fighting in that sector last night | and today, 2,100 Germans, Hun-! garians, Italians and Rumanians were killed and 2,300 taken pris- oners. MANY ARRAIGNED FOR FAILURE TO OBTAIN DRIVER’S LICENSES ; Activity against automobilists who have not yet obtained their drivers’ licenses are still being continued. Yesterday seven dr ers were held for the crimina court, and today five more cases came up before Justice of the Peace Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. In leach case the bond was fixed at $25. The defendants are Fred C. Adams, Maurice C. Crims, Bill Rauleson, Wallace O. Burton, Jr., and Ambrose J. Klunk. James Gibson was arraigned on a charge of vagrancy and he was held in $25 bail for criminal B. P. O. Elks No. 551 IMPORTANT MEETING ‘TONIGHT 8:00 P.M. was recap-! _ {materials for building due to prior- ities, to say nothing of labor, has H ‘ved to retard building, and the | only hope is some form of govern- | mental relief if essential workers are to be housed, he said. FARM PRODUCE 1 i | i POMPANO STATE FARMERS’ MARKET SMASHED ALL RECORDS LAST MONTH i JACKSONVILLE, Feb. 18. (FNS)—AIl records were smashed } jby the Pompano State Farmers’) | Market for the month of January, | according to figures released last} week by Marflet Director William | L. Wilson. Beans led all other commodities ; with sales of $1,275,759; peppers |ranked second with $437,750, for ja grand sales total of nearly two : million dollars. | The Pahokee market reported sales totaling $294,162 for the isame petiod? Plant City moved | $165,840 worth, of strawberries at an average of 20%c per pint. The cabbage movement at Pa- Jatka is improving daily and should | reach its peak in March. Sanford reported sales totaling $269,847 t with celery leading and cabbage | Second. WHO SURPRISED WHOM? | GOLDSBORO, N. C.-<Not hav- ling seen his wife and small son ‘ for some time, Private John Hann, | of Flemington, N. J., stationed at Seymour Field, got a five-day furlough and headed for New Jer-} SELL RAPIDLY! jin Key West, uniform, he has lived in South} rebuffs is not the correct word) Florida for the past 17 years, but! no matter what bart we may was at sea for 20 years previous-| encounter, I am always impelled ly, including a hitch in the naval} by forlorn hope to keep on trying reserve during World War I, as a lieutenant. He has a son in| myself drops dead the navy now, “somewhere in! tion. the North Atlantic”. “I am sending a copy of this According to Capt. J. E. Whit-|letter to Assistant Secretary of beck; .district Coast Guard offi-| Agriculture, Grover B. Hill, and cer, who administered the oath! am closing with thanks for your of office to LeCain, four | unfailing attention.” from exhaus- other | members of the Miami Bar Pilots| Ass¢@iation will be taken in im-| medigtely, fhree as leutenant-) commanders, one as a lieutenant.} > Suv ts, upon being en-; Proll S$ 4umhem bers the tem- porary reserve, will wear the! Coast Guard uniform and oper-! of ; 1 ate under the district Coast Guard! FORMERLY ACCEPTS FUND officer and various captains of} ports, but will subsist on piloting fees, as previously. All seventh naval district pilot | boats including two in Miami,; were taken in last May. Other} The Local School Board hel crew members have been given! 5 la meeting yesterday afterno tne rating of boatswain’s mate. jj, Meee, formally the $40,000 second class. oe r lfrom the Federal Works Agency There are similar units located!to pe added to the fund that the Port Everglades, |poard has provided to construct Tampa and Boca Grande. ja schoolhouse for colored chil- Leer Ft |aren. Melvin E. Russell, superinten- DR. R. A. WILLIAMS: ADDRESSES ROTES ° that bids for the erection FOR BUILDING OF COL- ORED SCHOOL | 4 dent of public instruction said ‘of the building will be called for (not later than April 1, an@ pos- ‘sibly before that date. The school- ‘house will be ready for occupan- SEVERAL OTHER GUESTS IN {cy by.) the ‘beginning . of the! term next fall. ie ‘site’ for the proposed ' schpolhous¢: has a frontage of 376 ‘feet on Fort street, between j;Olivia and Petronia and a depth Dre Rass Ac Williams made an[e See eee inspirational talk today, in dis- |e pam ai gre ae are cussing various phases of the}, < eo 8 i whee war, at the weekly luncheon of building will be $83,500, of whic the Key West Rotary Club. Local School Board. Captain William W. Demeritt | I REC SER ES PALACE THEATER ATTENDANCE AT REGU- LAR LUNCHEON Guests at the luncheon, besides | until either my correspondent or | }$43,000 will be provided by the U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRI- CULTURE WILL EXPERI- MENT ON GROWTH | | | | | WEST PALM BEACH, Feb. 18 | (FNS)—With the world demand | for new sources of fiber becoming }more acute each day, the U. S. | Department of Agriculture will supervise the planting of an ex- j Perimental 10-acre plot of sanse gn the Oscar Winchester (HAS government offic in the produc- {tion of sansevieria for fiber i In the meantime, experiments with ramie continue and it is felt that th efforts will result in| Florida eventually taking her place as a producer of both root stock and commercial plantings of ‘fiber producing crops. ! Ramie seems most promising in! view of the fact that practically ; Mea » already available for |separating the fiber from the stalks in a marketable condition “SELLS FLORIDA’ TO. SERVICEMEN ATTRACTION OF STATE BE- ING ADVERTISED AT | 18.! “6 | SILVER SPRINGS, ‘Feb. jpublic relations for Silver Springs, is now on a tour of Army camps showing movies of Florida attractions, including the 1,200-! foot film of the National Editorial | Association's Florida-tour. | | These Florida films, which in-! ‘clude shots taken at Cypress | Gardens, Marine Studios, Wakulla | Springs, DuPree Gardens, Orien-} tal Gardens, St. Augustine, Miami,! | Clewiston, Ft. Myers, Tampa and | |\FNS)—Peter Schall, director of ™ Sami” VISITING ELKS WELCOME A. B. GOEHRING, Esteemed Leading Knight. time he arrived home, Mrs. Hann |reys, Robert M. Haines, J. N. M arrived at Seymour Field. They|llister, Vincent /McDezitt, Ed- got together after Hann came back|ward C. Salvator and David D. to camp. A. Rambo. sey for a surprise visit. About the Dr. Williams, were C. E. Humph-; | many other points, are helping to sell the real Florida to hundreds | of thousands of servicemen, and} Schall reports that their recep- | tion is most enthusiastic. submitted a comprehensive re-} CHARLES STARRETT in port of the last meeting of the; ‘Riding Through Nevada’ club’s board of governors. | t i NEWS and SERIAL } { CONSIDERED VITAL MOVE MENT IN PROSECUTION OF. WAR ACTIVITIES a —' ar acqu a RECEIPTS TO BE TURNED OVER TO DEMOCRATIC (FNS)—With two or t services backing feder tion of Gandy Bridge vital to the presecution of t Pinellas and Hillsborough officials expressed confide: week that a joint progra purchase of both the ( and Dayis Ca and federal g 2 | patang, would result have time Commission sed appre f the two arterir tolls as’a war ne expected that the cur. It is proposed that up one-third and ernment the and that main ation be borne t ernment JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB WILL MEET THIS EVENING The Key West Junior Wo- man’s Club will hold a social meet ing this evening, from 6 t& o'clock, in the Woman's clubhouse on Duval street. Mrs. Andrew Elwood and Mrs. Arthur Humphreys will be the ostesses. B Flonda’s quote hic 2. Seen Steep — Me Seatnarees race BREAKFAST, 8 to 10 am—LUNCHEON, 12 to BAR and COCKT. Open from 10:30 A.M to 12 BMidmight ——_—__— DANCE Every Tuesdey. Thursday and Seturdey Uncll Midnight — No Cover or Mimimum Charge