The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 24, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Russias MaKe Suce Attacks On: 6 Sct Fighting Ae MSP MIL LI LS LSS ST ‘ENEMY PLANE LOSSES FOUR TO ONE OVER AMERICA LAST YEAR (By Asso ted Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.— Undersecretary of War Ralph Patterson said today the rec- ords show that. during 1942, four times as many enemy planes, in combat with Unit- ed States aircraft, were de- stroyed compared with. this country’s losses in that branch of the service. He added that. in spite of that . success. Americans should not be too optimistic about the superiority of the Allied forces. Americans, he stated, must steel them- selves now for the great losses that the United States will have in the fighting this year, and they must steel themselves also against the greater sacrifices tHat must be made on the home front to helo the Americans on the firing line. e777 722222 ‘CUBAN SCHOOL | CHILDREN VISIT in the last of which the tii : BAYVIEW PARK ‘was overcome at the point of the | PUT ON PROGRAM IN OB- SERVANCE OF "GRITO DE BAIRE”; NO CELEBRATION HELD VOLUM ssiul Soviets Report Having Killed 650 Enemy, Be- sides Having Captured | Six Hundred (iy Associated Prens) | MOSCOW, Feb. 24.—Red arm- ies are striking successfuliy in| all sectors from Orel to the Sea of Azov, 450 miles to the south, today’s communique said. Red forces, fighting north of | Orel, crashed through enemy | lines, killed 650 and captured; 600 Germans, Italians, Rumanians | end Hungarians. Russion forces} are hammering their way to-| ward that city from three direc- | ed that it is in imminent danger | of falling in the next few days. tions, and the communique stat- In the Voroshilovgrad area. a small Axis force was surround- ed, and surrendered, and north- west of that city Russian troops recaptured three small villages, bayonet. Another success was scored in| the Stalino area, where 300 ene- | | | forces counter-at- | my soldiers were killed and more than 700 taken prisoner. _— The Axis tacked, in trying to recover their closed to- anni- San Carlos School ‘day in obsei nce of the |versary of “Grito de Baire”, the positions, as a result of which.'cry for freedom which w the : 4 {beginning of the war instituted the communique said, 11 enemy !py the Apostle of Cuban inde- destroyed and 35/pendence, Jose Marti a monu- |ment to whose memory _ stands planes were shot down either by |today in Bayview Park here. | ‘The school activities yester- day were devoted to this great Cuban day. The executive secretary of the !Key West Chamber of Com- |merce, Stephen Conchran Sin- |gleton, was present in the morn- ANOTHER GROUP GOES TO CAMP} ei:t0n, was present in the, morn, SS |shots of the acts presented. Shortly before 1 o'clock this af-/SHOIS OF Tin ae PCr war exist- ternoon, the Army Band, in front|i,¢ now, there will be no public of the Federal building, played a|celebration of the event by San series of inspiring airs as a pre-|Carlos Institute, except that lude to the latest group of Key |some of the pupils staged a pfo- West. selectegs’ leaving for Camp |stam at Marti’s monument in Blanding. \Bayview Park. Members of the Monroe County Defense Council were present to/Kids’ Hard Work Buys A Book For Soldiers distribute packages among the} (By Associ, ted Press) selectees, and members of their families and friends were present CAMP PHILLIPS, Kas., Feb. 24. —In the place of honor in the li- to wish them good fortune. brary of Maj. Gen. Harry J. Ma- LEONARD PINDER ILL IN HOSPITAL torey of the 94th div book presented the soldiers Word has been rceeeived from | third graders of Lincoln School, i i i 7 . | Wichita, Kas. popienape eros ane Aes anit In the book are the scrawled sig- fect that Mr. Pinder's nephew,| "atures of 42 children who also Leonard F. Pinder, is critically| enclosed a note explaining how ill in a hospital in that city. |they raised the money to buy the Young Pinder joined the Navy, book. sal ; on November 5,, 1942, and was} Such as: “Lois Myers — sham- formerly a messenger boy at the Key West Naval Station. pooed a pup for a quarter. 0- | corra Galvan—washed dishes for Mr. Pinder is now a secon class seaman. tanks were Russian fighters or by anti-air- craft fire. d-| teacher.” “Donald McCurty—did lk’ P. duty for mother.” ML LW LANDLORDS--Take Notice Last week at.a meeting held under the auspices of the Southernmost, Realty, Board and attended by approximately 20 Key West landlords, it was decided for the protection of the landlords, to organize an association to be known as “The Key West Landlords Association.” The enthusiasm 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. All Key West landlords are eligible for membership and are invited to attend. JOSEPH ZORSKY, Chairman, Temporary Organizing Committee. “SUMTUEMETOOUUEREOUOTULUUERE TUALLY Che Key Key West, Florida, hes Most equable climate im the country; with an average range of only 14° FahrenF t a THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE. Ua S- Az DRAWN INTO WAR PRESIDENT ; OF NATION CLAIMS EVERYTHING POS- SIBLE BEING DONE TO KEEP OUT (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—The, \Office of War Information inj le city. today recorded an ad- dress made by the presiderit of |Turkey to his people. in which |he said that. despite the fact that he and his associates are doing | all in their power to keep Turkey out of the war, it looked now); that she would be drawn into the conflict. He called upon his people not} ‘to shirk their duty, in the event \Turkey is invaded. He said that} the country’s defenses had been | greatly strengthened since the beginning of the war, and that | 'Turkey, were she attacked, } would surely give a good account | of herself. Turks were urged neither to! be too optimistic nor too ‘pessim- | istic, and that, above all, not to} circulate any idle rumors. The government, the _ presi- dent asserted, would keep them informed, and, if the time came, Turkish soldiers would be pre- pared to strike back hard at their enemies. WPB OFFICIAL’ COMING HERE WILL_ANSTKTUTE. NEW. PRO- GRAM ON BUILDING OP- ERATIONS HERE H. E. Enyeart, priorities man- ager of the War Production Board in this district, with of- fices in Miami will arrive in Key West at noon tomorrow, ac- cording to a letter received to- by the Chamber of Com- i i i | ‘day merce. | In his letter, Mr. Enyeart stat- ted that the WPB has instituted la new pprogram, pertaining to !building that will prove of in-; iterest to those Key Westers who are engaged in that activity. | He requested that Mayor Wil-| jlard M. Albury, heads of depart- iments in the city and county |governments and Key -Westers generally, whose activities are! {governed by the WPB, be pres- | ‘ent at the chamber to meet him. |He may be conferred with there either tomorrow afternoon or Friday morning. The change in the program concerns the procurement of ma- terial for repairs. maintenance and proposed new construction. COUNTY OFFICIALS TO MAKE COVERAGE OF MONROE COUNTY | Claude | 1 County Tax Assessor {Gandolfo and his assistant, J. |Frank Roberts, will leave _ to- |morrow morning to visit other parts of Monroe county to attend to matters, as required by law. that pertain to the operation of their office. They will stop first at Mara- jthon to have residents of that place file their Homestead Tax Exemptions and returns on per- ‘sonal property and widows’ ex- emptions. Stops will be made at other keys, and when that work has |been completed on Key Largo, ‘they will go to Pine Crest and Flamingo on the mainland. On their return trip, they will |chetk up.on new buildings that {have been constructed in that area of Monroe county since the last adsessment roll was made up. | WE ARE... HYDRAULIC BRAKE SPECIALISTS APPARENT THAT | ‘cause their work, which piles up KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, GOVERNOR HOLLAND CONTRIBUTED TO DRIVE | — | | ‘i ‘ ~ LATE BULLETINS Governor Spessard L. Holland of Florida is shown above receiving his receipt from State Treasurer J. Edwin Larson for his contribution to the Washington Day Com- mittee Celebration staged to raise funds for the National! Democratic Party, President Roosevelt delivered a special | radio address Monday night, Feb. 22, when dinners and dances were held throughout the nation as a climax of the celebration. REPRESENTATIVE PAPY STRESSES — NEED OF ECONOMY BY COUNTIES INSTEAD OF HEAVIER TAXATION “What Florida is not; county more taxation but more economy,” | month. i Representative Bernie Papy said|_| “But what happened to the bill | Ijhad passed iff the house? It was | today. jiscussing the lose baelcE was ‘oday, in discussing the loss of| Killed in the senate by the senator } race track money by the 67 coun-! representing this district ties in this state. “Why should we 1 | needs approximately $1,000 a i as a re- j sult of which Monroe county con- | depend on: tinues to pay out unnecessary | money derived from race tracks | money, in some instances in cases to run our count; Mr. Papy/} of a petty nature. In some pi demanded. “Some counties, in the! of the state, justice of the pea central, northern and western part | courts have come to be a racket. of the state paid for the greater! “We can get along without race- | part of their operations by money | track money, and won't have to] received from the tracks, If acoun-| pay any higher taxes cither, if} ty is good enough to live in, it] we eut out all wasteful expendi- | should be good enough to pay;tures in the county. In my at- taxes in, and not to lo out-| tempts ‘to do that very thi side sources for op RS en: been accused, time and ag: penses. ‘ ee playing politics, when anybody “Let us take our county of | who knows the least thing about} Monroe. Were it run economically, | paljtics would be able to deter- H we wouldnit need-race-irack inon-pniihe-that the economies I advo-| ey to help pay our operational | cated would hurt me politically. | costs, and we wouldn't have to} “We are at war, though, judg-; be taxed any more than we are/ing by the way some people talk, | now taxed. they don’t fully realize that fact. | “Consider only one office, and} And we are tax burdened as a re- | what applies to that applies to all! sult of that id, as good other fee offices in the county.) Americans, we should pay those! The salary of that office is $150,| taxes uncomplaining. But why! yet in one month recently the fees ; should we be taxed further by} received by the man in that office | the state or by the county, or the i increased his earnings to more! city, for that matter, when w an than $800 a month. | save thousands of dollars by prac- | “As the people of Key Wet may | ticing economy? recall, I had bills passed in the “I am against higher house in 1939 abolishing the of-!by either the county or the stat fices of justice of the peace, be-| What higher taxes we pay should ' go toward promoting the -ef- \|fort and not to keep the coffers full in city, county tate, that the present waste in oper: tional expenses may contin- _ued.” LOCAL RATIONING BOARD GETS INSTRUCTION ON TIRE REPAIRS ee the folleuee tatat| PLACED UNDER BOND has received the following latest | official instructions pertaining to! George Robert Knowles, charg- the repair of tir S : ied with driving a car while Efective Febru y 20, the ra-idrunk and not having a license, tioning of Grade “F nelback | was arrested yesterday afternoon will be discontinued. This will per-| by a state highway patrolman mit any person (including opera-|and was held in $100 bail. tors of light trucks,) to have his} pejix Hopkins, who had been cel recapped with passenger-' wanted by the sheriff's office on ae camelback without local, charge of drunken driving on ard authorization. January 16, was arrested by De} A person having a recappable/yty Sheriff Joe Knight, and w carcass, cannot exchange for a re-|peld in bail of $250 for the crim- capped tire, except on certificate'inal court by Justice of the |Peace Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. { taxation fees of hundreds month, is not essential to the en- forcement of law in the county. What they do can be done by the county judge, thereby saving the of dollars ‘a or so issued by the board, as a recapped tire is Grade II A dealer, who is not a recapper,! will no longer be required to sell his recappable carcasses to a re-|_ LOS ANGEL! capper. Dealer may now have re-} Carroll, 55, told her doctor cappable carcasses recapped with! she had opened her apartment DEEP BREATH FATAL | | i | Passenger-type camelback, and re-| window, breathed deeply, lost her capper may return to dealer with- out certificate. Inventory limitations on pas-} gency hospital. senger-type camelback stock will! be retained. Amendment and fur-} ther instructions will be scent A PRIORITY? boards in near future. { This order should relieve the; boards of considerable work and| Priority Manager H. E. Enyeart will be at the Chamber of Commerce balance and fell three stories. She j ped when needed. A person not having a tire recapped will mean} tire abuse. This order applies only | Let Us Check Your Brakes Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming Phone 5 “Opposite Army Barracks” to passenger-type recapping and | does not apply to truck-type re-} capping. Truck-type tires can only recapped on certificate as is- sued by boards. should save a number of replace- ments on tires, as there will be no Thursday P. M., and Fri- day A. M. excuse for not having a tire recap- | having dopped their loads of bombs, left to return to their base. No | army's demand for a force of 11,000,000 men, on the ground that there © | they would get more znd better food in that country. , that the crushing of Germany is not yet in sight. The senator de- livered against Axis COMMANDER TUCKER GIBBS, LOCAL ‘of the Gibbs has had {died soon afterwards in an emer- | 1943. American | Tunisia PRICE FIVE CENT= ps In Central it Fitoely At tis Enemy Forces Sent Reel- ing Back As Far As Eighieen Miles At One Point (By Associated Press) | | CHINESE REPULSE JAPS | CHUNGKING.—Yest-rday and todey the Chinese repulsed the| Japs in all sectors, and ii one of them 400 Japs were killed. Today. the Japs again attempted to cross 2 river, but they were driven back before they had reached midstream. (By Assoctuted Preece) ALGIERS. Feb. 24.—American jtroops in Central Tunisia hit DIRECT HIT ON JAP WARSHIP GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS. — American! bombers today made three direct hits on a Jap warship in Rabaul beck fiercely yesterday and to- day at the Axis forces and sent | harbor at New Britain Island. The pilots said the shin was either a/them reeling back as far as 13 large destroyer or a light cruiser. She was in flames when the pilots. mijes at one point in the line. plane was lost. Artillery, tanks, other motor- ized vehicles and planes coord- inated in pounding the Axis WASHINGTON. — Accoding to reports here today, some con- gressmen have started a drive to force Menpower Commissioner Paul forces as they fled back V. McNutt out of office. The same group, it was said. is opposing the much of the terrain they had the Americans over captured from is not sufficient shipping to tcke them to the fighting fronts, and also because of the shortage of men on the farms and in production centers. carly week. last Among the VICHY'S APPEAL FOR CONSCRIPT LABOR —? LONDON. — The Vichy government today. in appealing for were 300 Italians sought French: conscript labor to help Germany in her war-efforts, told refuge in a small village *hat the Frenchmen that, if they registered, they may be used fo work at home. instead of in Germany. On top of that statement, it was asserted that Frenchmen would be better off if they are sent to Germany, because Possession, the communique said. the Italian had sufficient small SENATOR GEORGE ON WAR'S END j®rms and other weapons to equi? WASHINGTON. — Senator Walter F. George, of Georgia, said a battalion. today he thought the war will end late in 1944. He stated that Japan! could be eliminated speedily, after Germany was crushed, but added | prisoners who were who Americans surrounded. In their While this blow was being de troops clared that Russia, despite her edmirable successes. can not knock |Central Tunisia, American and Germany out of the war. and that the Germans can shorten their! lines and hold out indefinitely egainst the Russians, He concluded | Ptitish forces in northern Tu- that there is always the possibility of Germany’s collavsing suddenly. }nisia drove back other columns as she has done before, and. should that happen. the Allied Nations | will be able then to give their full attention to Japan, in jof Rommel’s men. The report stated that the Axis commander jin that sector must have realiz- Jed he had exposed his flanks by |edvancing too far. without prop- er consolidation. into the Allied RESIDENT, PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN Notice of his promotion to cap- tain has been received by Com- mander Tucker C. Gibbs, USN, special aide to the commandant U. S. Naval Operating Base here. Captain Gibbs, Key West, wa: active duty last October and signed to the staff of the com- mandant to assist in coord- ination of the variou: supply, accounting, disbursing and com- missary activities in their rela- tion to the other activities of the base. A graduate of the Naval Acad- emy in the class of 1912, Captain more than 30 y the navy. His fir sea duty was aboard the USS Raleigh as_ senior supply corps officer before World War] In March, 1918, he was as-| signed to the northern bombing group as supply officer in! France, after which he was on! Jacobs, Democrat, made a w special duty with the Hoover] to register as a Republican if Li Relief Committee as liaison of-|€ll Stockman won the Cor ficer working with French and|Sional race in Klamath County Belgian officials. j Stockman did and Jacobs registe Returning to the United States| 4 a8 a Republican, only to re-| While Rommel still has much in 1920, Captain Gibbs served as | ‘Urn and re-register os @ Democtats 6 a secritory he gained in his supply officer for the navy de-j the following day. However, the stroyer division and was later | OM€ day a Republican cost cffensives of a week aco. he is the officer in charge of activi-|J@cot the appointment to the lta ag a law now paying a fearful price. ties in connection with the com-| legislature because the la Fate missioning of battleships and | Wired the appointment to Zo to 4) qhe joss of men and personnel. zg P: destroyers at the Philadelphia {Person who had been a Democrat Navy Yard. |for the last five year | In China, Captain Gibbs was; on duty as a member of the staff! of Rear Admiral W. H. G. Bul-| lard, also serving as senior sup-| ply officer for the Yangtze Pa-| trol Force. Returning again. t9} | America, he was assigned 10; du-| lty as disbursing officer a .the| |Naval Training Station at .New- !port, R. L, followed. by, duty, as} \Supply officer for the Naval Sta-| tion at New Orleans. Captain Gibbs served as sup- | officer at the Naval Air Station ; at scola, Fla. before being assigned as senior supply officer for the aircraft carrier USS Sara- toga. He also was on_ special duty at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Captain Gibbs is a native St. Augustine, Fla, and attend- ed Georgia Tech at Atlanta be fore entering the academy. While on duty in China, he met and married Estelle Warlich of Child- with dead end wounded Axis re who was visiting brother, Captain Walter theie tonks and Warlick, now on duty as a staff jorries littered the roadway and officer for Admiral Ernest J King in Washington. Mrs. Gibté fighters and d in Key for over two years. Theitthdmeis Mt the: tb:-qbeibbers, swooped down low and ner of Wate and dohrgon @ ? \spattered the fleeing men with TECHNICAL The KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.—Lee treat in this sector and also in nex Pei The Axis forces had ony a nar- row roadway along which to fail beck. and tresting, Allied planes and heavy while they were re- of to a resident called back of guns created devastation in the ranks. The road. extending back littered as- the for several miles, was scldiers. and both sides of the roadway. Captain and ha Axis planes, ars duty in machine-gun bullets. re- “ Central Tunisia was continuing when last advices were received from the front. as in (Continued on Page Four ply officer aboard the USS M sissippi and then as executive PALACE THEATER Affairs of Jimmy Valentine with DENNIS O'KEEFE NEWS and SERIAL | Southernmost City Pharmacy } | i