The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 22, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key Wiest Citize THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. § A. Key West, Florida, bes most equable climate in country; with an range of only 14° Fahren? OLUME LXIV. No. 45. MANY AXIS TROOPS' KILLED WITH MANY TAKEN. PRISONERS RED FORCES MAKING HARD DRIVE AGAINST IMPORT- ANT INDUSTRIAL CITY OF DNIEPEROPETROVST Vv (ily Associated Preas) | MOSCOW, Feb. 22.—Red forc-| es are driving hard today against Amphibious Surprise Attack, 1776 Washington crosses the Delaware Dnieperopetrovst, the great in- dustrial center, whose ‘were operated by the power from factories AP Features. GEORGE WASHINGTON, born. 211 years ago to- day, knew the tactics of so-called modern lightning war when he was leading the American colonies in their strug- ties of aluminum was manufac-| gle for independence. Surprise attack, flanking move- tured in that city. | - ments, pincers, jungle war—all were part of the strategy aikcti ad oa how Seete| of the Colonial Army. Tribute was recently paid by the town from two points, the ee southwest and the northwest. In the fighting last night and today. the Russians report having killed 1,800 Axis troops and having! captured 2,800 others. Intense fighting was reported again today in the Orel area.} Three Russian forces are reported | today to be converging on that city, and an advance in each case has been made since yester- day. | With the probability that Fin-| land will withdraw from the war against Russia, the opinion in military circles here is that the Germans will abandon their line: in the Leningrad area, as Fin. land’s withdrawal- would give} Red forces the opportunity of) turning the enemy’s left flank] and entrapping tens of thousands | of Axis troops. It is believed} that Hitler- will anchor his north- ern line in Esthonia, instead of in the Leningrad area. Russia’s great dam, which was destroyed in the first year of the Soviets’ retreat. Great quanti- bz Indian Style Fighting, 1753 Washington raids French along Ohio KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1943. sk Amphibicus Surprise Attack, 1 U.S. Marines landing operation 943 Gen. Alexander Vandergrift of the Marines when | Wars and bring them up to date by making full use of | modern weapons you have what I consider a solution of fighting jungle warfare.” The picture comparisons here | of old paintings with recent photographs show two close parallels of Washington’s methods and_ present-day fighting technique. re | Pichtes 1943 Army somewhere in Solomons Jungle Styl U.S. Ss. JUDGE GOMEZ NOW wserwwwmes ABLE TO HOLD COURT WASHINGTON’ IN MIAMI TUESDAY GTON'S DAY According to information re- ceived in Key West today, Cir- jeuit Court Judge Arthur Gomez,! jwho has been ill for several weeks, will be able to preside in court in Miami tomorrow morn- ing. When Judge Gomez arrived in |Key West for the McGrath trial, |he hada severe cold, which de-} veloped into his contracting in-; termittent chills and fever. He was still ill when he returned to Miami two weeks ago. ‘di - The next term of circuit court that building for the trip t0 |; Key West is scheduled for the i second Mon in April. Thus Da DBE ES SMM iar vo case is docketed. "SOB aaaaLa Ls SELECTEES TO LEAVE WEDNESDAY FOR CAMP The Rev. William E, Bryant, chairman of the Monroe County Draft Board, said to- day that the next group of selectees to go to Camp Blanding will leave Key West Wednesday, February 24, and not today, as was stated in The Citizen Saturday. Monroe County Defense Council started today to pre- pare packages to be given the selectees as they board the busses in front of the Fed- Washington's Birthday an- niversary was observed quiet- ly in Key West today. The First National Bank was open as usual, and all stores represented in the Key West Merchants’ Associa- tion will remaln open the entire day. Only the post office, the county courthouse and the city hall were closed all day in observence of George Washington's birthday anni- versary. The stamp window in the Post office was open from 8 o’clock this morning, and the only exception to the closing of the courthouse is the sheriff's office. The Key West Electric Com- prny kept open from 8:30 o'clock this morning till 12:30 this afternoon. FIRE DAMAGES PILOT BOAT THIS MORNING: Engineer Tammy Cain sustain- ed burns on his arms and back} in a fire that did $100 damage} QUIETLY OBSERVED. Troops Thrown Back | tn Thee Sectors: In China 3 NEW. comM |ANDANT ~|Nippenese Attempting To Come Over Mountains | | | | Lee From Burma Lose Heav-| ily (By Associated Press) CHUNGKING, Feb. 22.—To-! day's communique announced | that Japanese troops have been) { thrown back in three sectors in| their attempts to advance deeper | into Chinese territory. | Jepanese columns, in an at- jtempt to come over the moun- ‘taizs from Burma, were forced |sey, wife of the cc back with heavy losses. REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT | 1 another ares, the Japs tried I PRICE FIVE CENTS Axis Contingents. Driven Back During Three Attempts Made To -. LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) RABAUL ATTACKED AGAIN GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS. — American | four-motored bombers made another attack on Rabaul yesterday. the fourth in as many days. Returning pilots reported that fires were still smoldering from former raids. 102ND RAID ON BREMEN LONDON.—RAF big bombers reided Bremen last night which was the 102nd raid on that city since the war started. Vast destruc tion of military objects, the Air Ministry said, wes caused by the raiders, which dropped two and four ton bombs. The attack on Brem en, it wes added, was in keeping with the ministry's policy to strike at all key cities in Germany. RATIONED FOODSTUFFS LESS THAN HALF WASHINGTON.—The OPA announced today that the latest ra tioning edict will reduce the consumption in this country of the food- stuffs affected to 13,000,000 cans, as compared with 30,000,000 last yeer and also in 1941, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO MEET TALLAHASSEE. — County jioners from all over Florida will hold a conference Wi Tampa to discuss ways and means of raising money to from horseracing sources. Each county received from $31 yeagly from race tracks. but the income now is confined racing, and that hes been de- creased materially, it was stat HOPE FOR FL MIAMI.—Hope was cba! American airplane that disappe: of the_plne were found at sea off VEGETABLES LOSS NOT SO HEAVY JACKSONVILLE. — The State Marketing Bureau reported today that the losses of vegetables during the cold weather last week are not as heavy as they were reported at first to be. Loss of young plants. however, ranged from 60 percent for tomatoes to 85 percent for stringbeans. TWO DIE IN FIRE TANGERINE, Fia.—Authorities today are trying to determine the cause of a fire last night in a saniterium, which resulted in two persons losing their lives and injury to four others. [NAVAL PERSONNEL REGISTRATION ON RATIONING STARTS TOMORROW Elaborate plans which arc ¢x- F@aI POGOe pected to simplify the registering Df Naval pessonnel is Sey. West RICKENBACKER TO for ration book No. 2 were an- ADDRESS NEWYORK nounced today by Mrs. W. L Cau- LEGISLATIVE BODY (Ty Ansocintea Pretan, ALBANY. WN. Y.. Feb 22— Members of the she, senate and house of assembly ere ®gog today over an address Eddie Rickenbacker will make in the legislature this eve- 2 were an- ianding of- ficer of- Craig-Doek of women — wives of v ficers — had volunteered to take charge of the registering of beth officers and enlisted personnel and that the work would get un- { ire. Lines MUNROE ‘three times to ford a river. and| der way tomorrow. No wonder our to Pilot Boat No. 3, shortly be-: The announcement was con- ning, beginning at 3 o'clock. in Tunisia One Thrust Made On Amer- ican Front; Thirteen Enemy Tanks Lost in At- tacks (By Reweriated Pree: ALGIERS. Feb. 22 —Axu troops were driven back im threes at- tempts this morning ‘© pierce Allied lines im Central Tunisia One attack was made on the American fromt. and by the time it was dispersed the Axis lost six tanks. Im the other two sec- tors. seven more enemy tanks the Axs bere that Marshal Erwin Roo mel is trying to cut the Allied forces im two im Tunisia before can bresk through the Mareth line to come info comtect with Rommel's men iz Central Tu- Today Montgomery's mex were reported to heave forced their way to the southerly coastal end cf the Mareth line and are pound- ing it with heavy artillery. Rommel's quick thrust t cut- flank the Allies and thus force them to retire to Algeria = be- | lieved today to hewe ta:dec the unfavorable wes- bombed Sicily and included @& the dame-e sD sunk in the herber. Another Axis ship was sent to the bottom by Alied torpedo slanes. It was 2 supply ship fat was trring to reach a wort im Tunisia. In the aerial warfare. the Al- lies lost twe planes end the Acs four. WOULD HOLD MERIT SYSTEM EXAMS done was @ Rear Admiral Robert Munroe. cach time they were beaten back new commandant of the Seventh under withering fire from Chin- Naval District and the Gulf-Sea : Frontier, replecing Rear Admiral °@ artillery. James L. Kauffman, is a veteran’ The Japs were completly out- | U. S. Navy submarine officer and maneuvered in the third sector. former assistant director of naval intelligence. He will succeed Capt. iH. HL J. Benson, acting comman- learned that they had been oul-/2 book is for all food prod eae : : |which are included in the March | | dant since the transfer to sea duty flanked by the Chinese, whose |} rationing program. This includes| bers of the house and the lof Admiral Kauffman and former Japs | wi = «| senate solely because he is A PS °T surprise attack caused the JapS/ canned fruits, vegetables, juices, 4 j chief of staff. Admiral Munroe is WP i A ight, _|SUPS, chili con carne, catsup, etc.| & national hero. end thet ie. | a native of Waco, Texas. to retreat in headlong flis! Persons who register for the No.| the senator, believed z 2 book mustalso declare the num-| ¢@nbacker would not touch on | ber of cans bottles and glass jars! my Political qu Florida In (Continued on Page Four) SPIE IL LA (Continued It is feared that he will discuss the labor situa.ion. and that his remarks will in clude statements that do not ccincide with the opinions of some legislators. However a senator remark ed that Rickenbacker wes invited to speak before mem- sidered by the Key West ration board as welcome news because | of the vast increase in p lation | as result of the ever growing Na-/| val colony here. Persons who already have ra ; tion book No. 1 must present this | certiifcate in order to obtain bor {No. 2, Mrs. Causey said. The fore 11 o'clock this morning. ! Firemen in No. 1 station re- sponded promptly to a telephone eall and extinguished the blaze in a few minutes. A coast guard boat drew near ,to the pilot boat to render assistance in case it was needet A back fire caused the blaze, and the engineer was burned be- fore he could leave the boat. MOTOR TUNE-UP SAVES GAS Lou Smith Auto Service » White at Fleming St. .Phone 5 i Opposite Army Barracks* | THIS WILL BE DONE PRO VIDED ENOUCH APPLICA customers swear by i | ! While they were advancing, they NAIL ENAMEL elf No wonder Revlon is the pet of our @¥* customers! Every single color is actually “pRevieweD” or pretested 160 times on busy “fingertips, just like yours before it is bottled for you! Tested and retested for that yn~ rivalled “stay-on” quality . - brilliance and beauty of color . . . fastest drying time con- pi with Jongest wear! And Tamesyou lls: 7 thrill to America’s best loved fingertip colo . .« Windsor or Scarlet Slipper or “1942”. . . or any of Revlon’s 2 enchanting shades! { _sfmemrinvwntcevveurnvugvittistd stent Ue MEESTER LANDLORDS--Take Notice Last week at a meeting held under the auspices: of the | P. ALACE THEATER | Southtrnniost Realty Board and attended by approximately t i 20 Key West landlords, it was decided for the protection of JOE E. BROWN in j the landlords, to orgenize an association to be known as "The Key West Landlords Association.” The enthusiesm for this organization has become so gen eral and so many landlords have expressed the desire to be- come members, that a meeting is being held at the County Court House, on Whitehead Street, on Friday. February 26th. 1943, at 8 o'clock p. m., formally to organize an association and elect its officers. Ali Key West landlords are eligible for membership and are invited to attend. JOSEPH ZORSKY, Chairman. } ISLAND CITY | BASKETBALL LEAGUE SOUTHERNMOST CITY | “rea te 108 PHARMACY, Inc. | 2" 1 N.O.B. H 8:00 P.M.—Air Station No. 2 vs. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS B. Team DUVAL AND FLEMING STREETS KEY WEST. FLORIDA B. P.O. ELKS, Ne. 551 ‘9:00 P.M—Receiving Station vs. | : 313 Duval Street ! PHOME 120 High School Gymnasium! eae a iy