The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 25, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, hes tre most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrent +t Che Key West Citizen : THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN: THE. U:. S.A. VOLUME LXIV. No. 48. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1943. PRICE FIVE CENTS “OTHER NATOMAS. "ON NAVAL INSPECTION rou AmeriGal and British For A) Rear Admiral W.B, Young, #ay-; NOB and Capt. Tucker Gibbs spe- | Reds Using Alligd Tanks INTO NAZI , In Beating One Russian Column Is Using American Tanks Battles Exclusively In Around Kharkov (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, Feb. 25,—Today's disclosed that American and British tanks are being used extensively by the Red Army in beating back the communique enemy toward the Dneiper Riv-| er. One column of Reds is us’ .g American tanks exclusively, and today, in the fighting in the vi- cinity of Khakov. a spearhead into the Axis’ lines, killing 300 soldiers 175 prisoners. they drove and taking northwest captured In another sector, of Kharkov, the Reds 214 supply vehicles and_ routed Axis forces of 3,500. At that point, the Russians are closer to the Dneiper River than anywhere else along the 450-mile _battle- line in the Ukraine. The com- munique said that the advance forces have approached to: with- in 60 miles of the Dneiper. News from the front said that the “breath of spring” is begin- ning to be felt in the Ukraine, and the war office, in menting on that ‘report, stated that the high command is striv- ing to drive the enemy com- pletely out of the Ukraine be- fore spring thaws turn the roads and fields into quagmires. WILLIAM KNIGHT DIED LAST NIGHT FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON William Knight, 63, familiarly known as “Bee,” died last night at 11:05 at the residence, No. 1 Nassau Lane. Mr. Knight had been ill for the past 18 months. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o'clock, from the First Bap- tist Church, Rev. Ted M. Jones of- ficiating. The body will be placed in the church at 3 p. m., the Lopez Funeral Home is in charge of ar- rangements. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Julia Knight; three sons, Kenneth Knight, Key West, Blondel! Han- cock, U. S. Army; Manuel Han- cock, U. S. Navy: two daughters, Mrs. George Holm, Corpus Christi, Texas; Mrs. Ruth Thompson, Key West; two sisters, Mrs. Chas. Falk and Mrs. V. A. Johnson, Key West; a brother, Joseph Knight. Key West. Burial will be in the family plot in the City Cemetery. master for the U. S. Navy, of} cial aide to the commandant, and com- | POLES, FRENCHMEN AND THOSE FROM OTHER CON- QUERED COUNTRIES TO BE TAKEN OVER ‘Back Enemy SCHOOLS JAMMED “WITH APPLICANTS FOR RATION BOOK (By Associated s) LONDON, Feb. 25.—Following ese on Hitler’s declaration that ‘he is going to press Poles, French- men and the nationals of other conquered countries into the Ger- man armies, was an announcement made over the Berlin radio today, that the German high command, fearing outbreaks in Croatia, has almost doubled the number of ris and Division street elementary |G°"™an soldiers stationed there. schools and the Douglas school| It was also stated that the Ger- for colored people have been pret- | Mans have executed 22 more hos- ly well crowded since they were | tages in Greece in reprisal for the jopgned shortly before 9 o'clock |Killing of a German guard, and | \that three young Germans were this morning for the issuing of Ra- | <hot for activity designed to cause jtion Book No. 2. i unrest. |__B. L. Grooms, chairman of the} The Brrlin radio, in comment- | Monroe County Rationing Board,! ing today on Hitler’s speech, said jsaid this afternoon that there are|that the Germans are determined two things he wishes to stress|to exterminate Jews in Germany about the present rationing: ! and in all the countries it occupies, First, no book will be issued to’ and the commentator added it is anybody who does not bring hisj just that the nationals of those No. 1, or sugar-coffee rationing | occupied countries that were re- book with him; secondly, owners ; sponsible for the war should now of restaurants, hotels and similar! fight and die to help protect Ger- places will begin to register nex any. Monday morning, beginning at ee, o'clock, in the rationing board's! offices in the federal building. ‘REAL ESTATE , | Mr. Grooms said he visited the! }four school houses shortly after | jmoxcow mocn ine: APPRISED OF FACT THAT IF | TAX CERTIFICATES ARE noon and found that the registrars { were doing prompt and efficient | W I B OFFICIAL ; NOT REDEEMED PROPERTY DEFERS VISIT) wx : rose ATTENDANTS AT FOUR IN- STITUTIONS KEPT VERY BUSY ISSUING RATION BOOK NO. 2 | | | { | | i | Key West High School, the Har- | | be resumed at the same places to- } work. Registration for Book No. 2 will t | Owners of real estate delinquent for 1940 taxes covered by 1941 | tax certificates will lose their lands this summer — two years PRIORITIES MANAGER OF | THIS DISTRICT WILL AR- f RIVE NEXT WEEK | —unless all delinquent taxes are {paid by redeeming the 1941 certi- {ficates. The statutes, themselves, s 4/ distinctly set forth that the land | ve ads areal itself covered by such delinquen- jtion Board in this district, who | tot oral Beredverueed ne eu jsaid that, because of the pressure] tite will clearly pass from the +of business, he would be unable/ owner to the machaser Sinay ioe arrive in Key West at noon to- be any individual or the county, Y servations had been made| St#te Comptroller J. M. Lee has advised the county officers. for a hotel room for him, and the} U . 5 ? Inder > new ta ws lands secretary of the chamber had ar- ee Ee a | ' : under certificates issued in 1941 meniged for tit to hold conterences | will be offered for sale to any and Pr She ane County ucla’) St lal) personsvand.thejsale «will ac- | residents generally who are inter- pes pe ~ | tually pi merchantable title’ to eee building situation iN | the property — just as a foreclos- Mc UEuyeart said) berwouldube ic ney a ee eee | Late yesterday afternoon, the | Chamber of Commerce received a or after date of the 1941 certificates | in Key West some day next week, and that later he will send infor- |mation here of the day he is ex- ipected to arrive. Ralph Russell, city building in- spector, said today that, because of priorities set up by the WPB, | there has been considerable delay in the construction of some build- ings in Key West. A good many! Key Westers and people from else- ! | where also, Mr. Russell said, woulc | start building immediately were | they able to obtain material | { RENT-CONTROL DIRECTOR CLARIFIES POINT COVERING Laurence A. Schroeder, direc-|and a tenant or prospective ten-|4' tor-attorney of the OPA _ rent- ceiling office in Key West, issued the following statement today, clarifying a point in the rental of rooms by hotel and rooming houses with which the public generally is not familiar: “The Key West area rent of- fice thas been informed that a few operators of thotels, room- ing houses and tourist cabins in Key West, who have at all times been renting or offering for rent rooms for a weekly or monthly term of occupancy, are now re- RENTAL OF ROOMS } ‘ant, wishes a weekly rate, the} landlord may not refuse to rent} a room merely because the ten- ant wants to rent on a weekly |basis, and it is a violation of law jto so refuse. “Of course, a hotel or rooming} house may refuse to rent a room{ jto a particular applicant because of his personal characteristics. {It is, however, a violation if the} thotel or rooming house or tour- list cabin operator refuses to rent a room to a particular applicant because he wants to rent on a |weekly basis. If a landlord is title to the purchaser. Discussion of this point at the recent meeting of the circuit court clerks in Orlando developed the fact that property owners will have to act promptly to protect their title to any property on which the 1940 taxes have not been paid or redeemed The provisions of the statute are “the teeth” that were so much dis- ussed during the 1941 legislature when the tax program was adopt- ed as law in an effort to make tax collections sure and certain against | all and do away with the “free and easy” methods of the past which had permitted “writing off” delin- quent taxes every so often and adding that burden to the shoul- ders of those who pay every year. NNOUNCE DEATH OF MURRAY ATWELL News has been received in Key West by Mrs. Marjorie Lopez announcing the death of her uncle, Murray Atwell, 51, Tues- day ‘morning in Nassau,» Ba- hamas. ’ - Mr. Atwell was a nativg of Key West and a son of theg late Thaddeus Atwell. He wasj emi? ployed for many years at* the Curry Sons Store in Key West as a machinist, but had been making his residenie in Nassau for the past twenty years, where fusing to rent on other than a/willing to rent to a_ particularjhe operated several sight-seeing daily basis. “The director wishes to make it clear that, as the hotel and rooming regulation now vides, a landlord has no choice in renting either on a daily or weekly basis. (If an establish- ment has daily and weekly rates, pro-} {tenant on a daily basis, he must jrent to that tenant on a weekly basis, if the tenant so desires. “Futhermore, a tenant of a froom on a daily basis has a choice to change to a weekly } basis, which wish the landlord ;must recognize.” yachts for tourists. The ‘deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. Priscilla Atwell, Nassau; a sister, Edna Virsida, Tampa; two nieces and a nephew of Tampa, and two nieces of Key West, and also a number of aunts and uncles of Key West. a large party of -highwanking Washington, arrived in Key West naval officials of Key: West. by plane this morning for a rou-} While in Key West,Admiral tine inspection of naval activities | +4 | | Young will be the guest ®f Cap- jon the island. Admiral Young Was| tain Gibbs, who he has known for accompanied by Lieut.-Comdn. J.j;many years during his naval W. Boundy of the staff of Rear; career. j Admiral A, B. Cook of Jackson- Admiral ville, and Lieut.-Comdr. C. T. Ab- | ficers in charge of the NOB sup- bett of Washington. | ply department late today and will The party was met at the Boca} make a routine inspection and jChica airport by Capt C. E. Reor-! tour of the naval activities during jdan, commandant of the Key West’ the day. ung will meet of- t i i - Mal CITY HAS BEST TAX COLLECTION ~ MONTH OF FEBRUARY IN HISTORY City Tax Collector Sam B. Pin- “The people in Key West toda | der said today that, as a rule, the|Mr. Pinder asserted, “are surely fcollection of taxeeiini abet | se minded. We have not only had Key, West falls nolfiitosagmiccete ee os nisioEy, < in collecting general taxes, but trickle, and added that the amount j the sum paid for sewer service is collected this month is larger than , far larger than ever received dur- | during any other February in the; ing any other February. That sum history of the City. }is/in excess of $700, which does Up to today, Mr. Pinder stated, j not look large, but it is excep- the amount collected thus far this} tionally large when it is realized month exceeds $10,000, and the re-; that it is made up of individual ceipts are continuing to pile ups nounts of 50 cents in most cases.” AGAINST DRAFTING INVASION NEEDED OF MANY FATHERS, TO ROUT ENEMY SENATOR WHEELER WILL IN- \ POUNDING SECTORS FROM TRODUCE BILL FOR | AIR DOES NOT BRING THIS PURPOSE DESIRED RESULTS (By Asnvci, ted Press) (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Sen-| WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — ator Wheeler today said he will | though ates introduce a bill that would make | — ee it illegal to draft fathers who had; children under 18 before the at-| tack on Pear! Harbor. H Meanwhile, it was announced | that Senator Bankhead’s bill, ¢e- American poundiAg Munda airfield, in New Georgia Island, and the Jap base hard and frequently, military signed to reniler There eerie jopinion here today is that the ticularly that on farms, will come | MY Way the enemy can be driven up on the floor of the Senate for’| from those islands is by invasion discussion tomorrow. lforces, as was done at Guadal- The fight against Manpower j canal. Commissioner Paul V. McNutt was; Munda, it was stated, was raid- jcontinued today by va¥igus sena-|ed twice yesterday, but, it was tors and representatives. It was; added, the airfield there cannot even advocated that hé) be replac- | be made useless by raids, because, ed by William D. Dotiglas, asso- | as soon as the raid is over the Japs ciate justice of the supreme court.| begin to repair the damage that Secretary of Agriculture Claude} has been done. Wickard has been requested to} The same thing applies to Ra- testify again- before the house! baul, which has been bombed agriculture committee, which is | dozens of times. On several oc- considering a bill to release thou- ; Casions, American pilots, on arriv- sands of farmers in the army in| ing at Rabaul, have found fires time to get back to their farms to! still burning from vrevious raids, participate in spring fighting. | but the Japs work day and night ‘TAMPA INSTITUTE REVIVE BARGE | CANAL PROJECT UNIVERSITY STRUCTURE. TO. BE USED FOR FLEING TRAINING COURSES HEARINGS OF COMMITTEE TO "BE STARTED VERY SHORTLY | TAMPA, Feb. 25. (FNS)—Uni-; versity of Tampa co-eds sadly packed their belongings and gave WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25. up their rooms in the dor mitories | (FNS)—J. Buell Snyder (Dem. bere to make way for army air| Pa.) is expected to start hearings force cadets who have moved in| of his appropriations committee to take flying training courses un-| on the question of the north Flor- der the government's college} ida Barge Canal this week. training set-up. Proponents of the bill are hop- | ‘The detachment at the Tampaj ing for an appropriation of $44, | University will be headed by First ; 000,000 for the project. Lieutenant William F. Wright, air} Congressman Joe Hendricks of force commandant | Florida introduced the bill and a The training course will be con- | pressure group has been organized ducted without interruption to the} to fight for its passage. regular college curriculum. Its} South Florida, lukewarm on the purpose will be to train men for} proposition, is mustering opposi- service in the AAF flying training; tion led by the Florida Taxpayers i command. | Association and other groups. POUT ‘LANDLORDS-Take Notic “Last Week at a meeting held under the ayspices of} the Southernmost Realty Board and attended by, approximately. 20 Kéy’ West landlords, it was decided for the protectio! 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 ittee. + i] i # are ! ‘at Rabaul, in New Britain Island,! LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) JAP BOMBERS SHOT DOWN j CHUNGKING..-Thirty Jap bombers ettempted yesterday to | raid the British lines in Burma. Six of the planes were shot down. nine others damaged and they and the undamaged planes turned teil before they reached their objectives. ROOSEVELT SLIGHTLY ILL WASHINGTON.—President Roosevelt has canceled all engage ments because of a slight illness. The report said he is suffering from an “intestinal upset.” WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE PAID TALLAHASSEE.—It was announced today that, had the federe! government paid the seven-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax im Florida last year, a tex, Attorney General J. Tom Watson says. can be legally col lected—the amount would have been $7,342,000, almost as much as the schools obtained from that form of taxation. The tote! last year collected from that tax for schools amounted to $7,514,000. | FISHING REGULATIONS RELAXED TALLAHASSEE.—Fishing regulations between New Port Richy and Deer Island has been chenged. it was announced today. Fishing | is now permitted five miles off shore. URSULA PARROTT ON TRIAL MIAMI.—A jury, composed entirely of men. was chosen today to try Mrs. Urusla Parrott, novelist. in the federal district court here. on a charge of encouraging 2 soldier to desert from the army and for impairing the discipline of the army. Michael Neely Bryan. the sol- | dier who rode away with her from an army confinement camp at Miami Beach, stood near the entrance to the courtroom, guarded by two soldiers. He has been courtmartialed and sentenced to one years | imprisonment. = 'WOULD PREVENT WRITER SWITCHES ‘W OPA ATTORNEY SUGGESTS THEODORE PRATT DESERTS JAIL SENTENCES AS FLORIDA STORIES IN FA- REMEDY VOR OF THE WAR LAKE WORTH, Fet Theodore Pratt,, wel tion and feature write sides at Lake Worth ha! given Florida nationwide pw licity through his books and na tional magazine articles, now member of the War Writers Board has deserted his Florida storie: favor of the war His latest book, Feb 5. (FNS JACKSONVILLE, 25. (FNS)—“A jai! | would prove effective in breaking up the black market op: 1, according to Geo knowr wh j few ntence and who rating in OPA Couper tate rney, Judge Gibbs. | He of executives in breaking up black urged cooperatio store ust publi ing Rommels Al BLACK MARKET TO WAR STORIES: Using Troops and Planes, Are frika Korps Other Axis Units Keep Up Headlong Flight Te Po- Before (By Associated Preas can and Sritish Feb. troops anc planes continue to pound Mar shel Rommels Afrika Korps rearguerd. composed of Italans while other Italians and Ger mens keep ther heedicng flight to the positions they occu- fied before they started their of the Americans im Central Tunisia a week ago lest Sunday The punish up femsive against ing or has not the steady ac keeping uf from tillery and airp Headquarter: the present Al remain intense will not be ¢ form tis His strategy swiftly back ha milstary pointed ourse was that Montgomery Romme ert, gave to regroup hurr his DISCREPANCIES IN STORY YESTERDAY jly in trying to markets in meat which have been reported C. B. Treadw retary of the Florida Chain Store Association, which comprised largely of food chains, assured OPA officials that “our people will cooperate with you thorough- solve this prob- executive lem.” is called “Mr : . War.” and wa of his work a: Writers Board a member of the Mr. Winkle Gor to War” is the story of a group of ‘average draftees from an average | American town from the time they go into the army until they see action overseas. Material for the book was gathered by Pratt last Instead more than $ The the House of proposed Saw n bil Judge Gibbs d the OPA,Summer when he made a tour of would “proceed at once to obtain al camps. convictions.” The book gives an EES a picture of som i, ‘CITES FAILURE | splendidly written, and st |. ON PRODUCTION ihave an equal appeal to suldier and civilians. ~ PERTAINS TO UTILIZING CA-! PACITY OF MANY SMALL PLANTS mteresting i Joseph Zorsky, chairman of the ’ |temporary organizing committee, WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25| has'called a meeting to be held in (FNS)—Rep. Wright Patman/| the county courthouse tomorrow (Dem. Texas), Chairman of the! evening, beginning at 8 o'clock, House Small Business Committee, | for the purpose of organizing the made a scorching report last week | Key West Landlords’ Association in which he pointed to the testi-| to. try to effect a fairer equaliza- mony of Florida concerns as “hor- | tion of rents in Key West. rible examples” of the govern-| Julius Stone, in commenting on | ment’s failure to use productives the proposed organization of the capacity cf small plants in the war | landlords, points out that the set- effort. ting back of the date to peg the | Senator Claude Pepper, a new! rent-ceiling in Key West from |member of the Small Business; March of 1942 to October of 1941, | Committee, has requested Senator! has caused inequalities that ad- James E. Murray (Dem. Mont.),| versely affect a good many own- chairman, to resume where Rep.}ers of rentable properties in Key | Patman left off and proposes that West. j he be allowed to serve his chair-| Laurence Schroeder, head of man of a sub-committee to hold the rent-control office im Key} hearings in the state in the near | West, states that he is obliged to/ future. ja with the OPA law, gov-’ BE FORMED AT MEETING abolishme 5 2 Monroe ¢ of justice: ter court state cor abolished t ture erning rule ha not given any from it. He added thet fixing rents had not been October, 1941 rents, anc Key West stabilized by cevting. ‘he he j acted until a thorough mvesti: tion has been made, and ther placed the reftal on a basi parable with the October rate PALACE THEATR Valley of Hunted Men with The Three Mesquiteers NEWS and SERIAL