The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 26, 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 (rc most equabie climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrent =*t VOLUME LXIV. No. 49. Che Key West Ctttzeen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 194: IN THE U. Ss. A. PRICE FIVE Russian Armies Slowed Down By Adverse Weather ke Reds Recapture Village | "ARGET PRACTICE And Put Enemy Troops) Found There To The, Bayonet Coast Artillery Target Prac- tice will be conducted from West Martello on Saturday, 27, from 4:00 p.m., to 6:00 p. m, The danger area will be {By Associated Presn) ; bounded on the east and west MOSCOW, Feb. 26.—Rain andj by lines 1,000 yards on each : ___ | _ side of an anchored pyramidal mud in one area of the pabung | target at azimuth 165 degrees true from West Martello and on the south by a line 11,000 yards south of Key West. line in Russia and swirling snow | and blizzard temperatures in| another have slowed down the! Red armies’ advance during the! EGISTRATION last 24 hours. it was sopeesal A etary stowsem soon, FOR RATION BOOK 2 VERY HEAVY the enemy soldiers found there | TOTAL, NUMBER HANDLED AT | to the bayonet it was snnouncsd: | of Orel, the Russians this morn-| ing recaptured a village and put, ALL SCHOOLS HERE YES- TERDAY WAS FOURTEEN THOUSAND Eight enemy tanks were ‘:nock- | ed out of action in that encoun- ter and 49 machine guns and 28 motor lorries were captured by’ : ¥' Fourteen thousand Key Westers the Reds, the communique stat-! local jregistered yesterday ed. ! schools for Ration Book No. 2, and Twenty-six re-| today the registration continues ‘apace at the high school, the Di- | vision street and the Harris public Rostov. school and 26 enemy tanks were de- ! De In tanks were Ported lost by Axis forces in the Donetz basin. west of for white and yuglas school for colored people. B. L. Grooms, chairman of the stroyed during fierce fishting in| yonroe County Rationing Board, people mud and rain, In that action, ; Said today that he is confident the - i number of No. 2 books received the report said. three more Rus-i here will be adequate. A report sian villages were liberated from| was going the rounds of Key wise ‘o™ | West today that there is a short- the German yoke. CARLOS CARRERA, 62, DIES THIS MORNING age of books here, as is the case in | some other cities in Florida, but }Mr. Grooms stated the report is | untrue. | There could have been a short- | age here, he added, had the board . 7 cked the foresight to get a suf- Coreescarterss died this! ficient: number, and had he not morning at his 1 sidence. 1193 | refused to give any of the Key Virginia street, at 6:20 o'clock. | west books to the rationing board The funeral will be held tomor-! jn another city, whose chairman , noon at 5:00 o'clock | wired him for books. Chapel of the Pritchard! “The people of Key We: Funeral Home, Rev. G. Perez of | Grooms said this morning, “sure- the Latin Mission Church officiat-| jy should appreciate the effective ing. work that has been done and is bi Survivors are, one daughter,| ing done by the registrars. Con- Mrs. Margaret Alfonso, one sis-| sidering their number, they surely ter, Mrs. Josefia Saladriga, two} had to be prompt and efficient to brothers, Silvio Carrera and Guil-j issue 14,000 books, which were limero Granda sed out to registrants in a steady stream from the time the schools were open until they closed. Despite the crowds, no- | body had to wait unduly long to KINGSTON, Tenn.—Five years! get his book. The registrars work- ago, Felix (Uncle Bush) Breaze-} ed hard and long, and the Monroe ale, then 71-year-o' Negro farm-; County Rationing Board is grate- er, sat before his come-made wal-} ful to them.” nut casket and heard his funcral; Mr. Grooms said this afternoon preached while several thousand! that the schools for white regis- invited persons. |trants will be closed at 5 o'clock on February 9th, this y this afternoon, but that the Doug funeral service ants voMer. FUNERAL SERVICES 5 YEARS! BEFORE DEATH 1 There at his/las school for colored regis | will be open tomorrow was no burial. Grand Opening at 4:30 o’Clock TODAY KEY WES' ONLY MINIATURE GOLF COURSE Fleming and Elizabeth Streets COME and PLAY GOLF Instructions FREE to Beginners COMFORTABLE CHAIRS FOR SPECTATORS 10c Till 7 o’Clock —— 15c Thereafter OPEN EVERY DAY—4:30 ’TIL. TONIGHT ALL ESCORTED LADIES PLAY FREE! Full Line of CANDIES, CIGARETTES, and SOFT DRINKS (Coca-Cola) CLOME PAY HERE TOMORROW ~ tland. HAVE — i ae AMERICANS DOWN|SALVAGE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN MANY JAP PLANES) PRESENTED WITH FLAG AT ROTARY. WITHOUT ANY! AIRCRAFT BROUGHT DOWN IN CHINA AND BURMA INCLUDED DIFFERENT TYPES MEET; APPRECIATION OF WORK Arthur L. Murray, chairman of; could not have succeeded had not the Monroe County Defense Coun-; the people joined wholehearted- cil, at the luncheon of the Key] tine noan baleses ee West Rotary Club yesterday, pre-| sented to Jpe Pearlman, chairman j similar flag, Mr. Pearlman point- |! of the Monroe County Salvage; ed out, ceremonies were held at| Committee. a flag that had been} the time the flag was first hoisted | sent from headquarters in appre-! over the city hall, and he thinks | CHUNGKING, Feb. 26.—Amer-| ciation of Monroe county’s hav-} that the same thing should be done ! saheing |ing gone over the top in the re-iin Key West. fighting | cont scrap metal drive. | “While we went far ov in Chinaj Mr. Pearlman said today that,! top in the scrap metal drive,” Mr.| though he feels highly honored| Pearlman resumed, “We are lag-} by the presentation of the flag to! ging far behind in the collection him, he will give it either to the! of fats that ultimately will be! city or the county to be flown from | turned into munitions or medi-! the flagstaff on either the city! cines for the use of our men at the | hall or the county courthouse. | front. If we exert ourselves as} “That is what has been done in, much much in this drive as we did ! other cities and counties that at- i in obtaining scrap, we can go over | tained the distinction of exceed-! the top als | ing their quota,” Mr, Pearlman4 The Broadway Supermarket stated. “Even though I worked! and Lee's grocery store are the} hard ‘as chairman of the salvagej only two places in Key West that | committee, I feel that the honor of | are recciving fats, Mr. Pearlman} having served our government $0} said, and added that he would ap- } well in this very important mat-j preciate other owners of store ter belongs to all of the people of! joining in the movement to ac {the county, and not to me alone, Ij cept fats from customers. TRUCK OVERTURNS ON HIGHWAY SPILLING ITS FRUIT CONTENTS Yesterday at Craig,|of them struck him, and he es- in the upper chain of keys, the}¢aPed from the wreckage _un- ground, on the north side of the | Scthed. j He was arrested by a state high- way patrolman, who at first in- tended to charge Pippens with applies, potatoes and cabbages/| reckless driving, but when it was that fell from a truck that ran in-| learned the steering gear had be- to and knocked down five tele-|come jammed, the charge was re- phone poles before it finally over-| duced to operating a truck with-| qatieds jout a driver's license. EATON STREET 1S) ithe truck plunged wildly over| Peace Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., and jhard and bumpy mud and crashed | was held in $25 bail for the crim- i THOROUGHFARE WILL BE IN/ int, the poles, and he was still! inal court. 1 lican airplane pilots, against the Japanese and Burma. have come out on top time and again, but today they scored their most decisive victory. Forty-six Japanese planes at- jtempted to raid the Allied lines, jand a squahron of American jfighters took to the air to drive i ithem off. i When the dogfights were over, jonly nine Jap planes were seen ito fly away with their throttles ;wide open as they fled from the 'scene of action. | | The planes shot down includ- jed bombers, fighters and recon- noitering planes, equipped to take photographs. The only damage done by the} Japs was hitting a tea plant- er’s hut with a bomb and injur- ing him fatally. The Americans did not lose a single plane. afternoon | road, was strewn for 200 feet or! so, with oranges, strawberr Within a few days now Eaton street will be in as good condi- tion as it has ever been. Con-| tractors are today sanding andj oiling the street from end to end. The work is being done under} an allotment by the Navy. Three} times the street was torn up by jthe Navy in laying mains be- ‘tween the Navy Yard and the; Navy Air Base on Trumbo Is- re- | \a practice to stop at the Leam-j The drive against automobilists|ington, that he has been and is r/Still appreciative of their pat-j| |ronage. i 1943 license tag is now on in earn-} BEST OF CONDITION gripping the wheel when the | The fruit and vegetables were ! truck capsized. “Crates dropped} brought to Key West in another | ROUNDING UP «LEAMINGTON HOTEL AUTO LICENSE , TAKEN OVER BY NAVY DELINQUENTS ceived today by the publisher of The Citizen, the Hotel Leaming- —_ jton, in Miami, which was patron- ARESP GIP A BOS SOD os has been taken over by the | The Key West Board of Public} BE OPERATING WITHO! Alfred Simons, the m anager, j CURRENT TAG laren: aes 2 =| |quested that he wished ‘to in-| pair Eaton street, and, on the |form Key Westers, who made it} recommendation of the com- mandant, an allotment was made | The grading was finished two ‘months or so ago, and the con- ‘tractors waited for the marl to WITHIN FEW DAYS around him and smashed, but none | truck. | According to information ORDERS ISSUED TO MAKE ized extensively by Key West-| Wate eee iheeNe ay One| in a letter to The Citizen, re- to pay for the work. ibecome compact before oiling it. | who have not yet bought thei i est, Fred Eberhardt, local repre-| NOT NEW TO HIM sentative of ‘the Florida Motor At tinme HAMILTON, Mont i onry rigge sad of the'| Koch, 23, a Midway battle veteran, | commission, has sent notices’ te; picture, to his surprise, proved to | deputies in all counties in»the| be Navy films of the Battle of Mid- | | TELLS OF ACTIVITIES IN NA- j state to begin arresting Cyely NEN: ers fi a without the ewe | TION'S CAPITAL ae ae have thus far been {lta iiitnaiainaity | city | arrested in Key West, and each of } them has purchased | i ‘license. However, the cases against | | | . - Vatts. raduate | them are still pending. | | een Wem EeneSchiel clax |e ln addition to, the. activityiot jof 1917, and who resided here|deputics in arresting moterists | ry, 9 : city edj. | Without proper tags, . Gilliam, | | from 1908 till 1920, now city edi: | read of the Florida Highway Pa-| | fon of thes SWastine ony WUC has also instructed the men 6 Vitamins i | ! : trol, ; Tim Herald, is recuperating from | fats nto a recent operation at the home of {Under him to make arrests cot | his mother, Mrs. R. W. Cranch, {drivers of all cars found to be 106 Simonton street. He said today | Without the 1943 tag. H ! he expects to remain here two or; 3 Mit | | i | three months. {_avusrveseusevoneusungneeeeengsengeneteaeT tet, i . Since his graduation from the| Midway Poultry Market jo ' since a local high school, Mr. Watts has{ 1105 Division Street ‘had 100 short stories publishedgn# » Just Received Shipment of pet | magazines in this coun and}, “Strictly Fresh RGGS and \has had five plays produced. Be Selected FRY! i; The late President Theodore} ined an@ Dressed to-Order | Roosevelt, who put the word Meke Your Selection Barly | “strenuous” into. jhe mouth of eee amin as | every American faenptived in a|_ a lame age compan °c and bustle of Washington today. | H BRADY’S (Live) Poultry and Egg Market | PHONE i We have New Batteries! | 1214 White St. i je In Stock at ALL Times.| Battery Raised Rhode Island 1 * ema | Red Fryers Lou Smith Auto Service ‘ | White at Fleming St. Phone 5) Pennessee Milk-fed Roasters, Mr. Watts said that the capital} | city is something of a madhouse, | | but that a tremendous amount of} ! work is being done there in fur- j thering the war effort. SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. Prescription Druggists i Duval and Fleming Streets | PHONE 199 540 Alied Forces In other cities that received aj ‘Pass; ROMM NURENBERG, GERMANY, BLASTED HEAVILY BY RAF DURING NIGHT (By Associated Press) LONDON.—Nurenberg, in Germany, was blasted lest night by many squadrons of the largest RAF bombers. the Air Ministry an nounced today. ‘Parts of the city were seas of fires. returning pilots reported. Two-ton blockbusters tore to pieces entire blocks in Nurenberg’s in- dustrial centers, the report said. It was the first time that German city has been bombed in six months, and it was the fifth raid that the RAF has made on it. Nine plenes failed ta return to their bases. LATE BULLETINS © (Dy Associated Press) PRESIDENT SLIGHTLY BETTER WASHINGTON.—President Roosevelt is reported to be slightly better todzy. He is still suffering from an intestinal disorder, and his personal physician has ordered him to remain in bed at least until to- morrow and not to transact any business during that time. BRYAN GIVEN iMMUNITY MIAMI.—Micheel Neely Bryan, the soldier Mrs. Ursula Parrott is charged with helping to escape from an army stockade at Miami Beach, was granted immunity. from testifying in the case egainst her. by Judge Holland in the federal district court here today. Bryan is un- der a one-year courtmartiel sentence. from which he has appealed. and Bat A. Riley, Mrs. Parrott s lawyer, in requesting that Bryan be excused from testifying, said that evidence he might give in the cese could be used against him when his appeal is considered. BLENHEIMS POUND JAP LINES NEW DELHI.—A squadron of Blenheims. operating with Gen- eral Wavell’s army, todry flew over a radius of 200 miles in carrying out a series of raids on Jap lines and bases in Burma. Ammunition dumps-and barracks were bombed indirailroad station was set afire., PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES MacARTHUR WASHINGTON.—President Roosevelt, it was announced today, has sent a message to General Douclas MacArthur, congratulating him en the destruction that has been inflicted on enemy positions the | last week by bombers under his command. OFFENSIVES TURNED INTO SETBACKS CHUNGKING.—The offensives that the Japanese had announced they were preparing to launch in China have been turned into set backs in every sector it was officially announced today. “THE PAST IS PAST” WASHINGTON.—"'The pest is past.” Donald Nelson, chief of the War Production Board. said today. in commenting on the reports last week about the differences that had existed in his office and the | supposed attempts to force his resignation. Nelson, who hes stepp2d up production 20 per cent since he was appointed head of the WPB. added that “The only job that counts is production.” FIVE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH WEST PALM BEACH.—Five men lost their lives in the crash of a medium bomber near here todzy. Their names will not be made pub- lic until the next of kin have been informed of their deaths. THREE EXECUTED FOR MILEY MURDER EDDYVILLE, Ky.—Three men were electrocuted here today for the murder of Marion Miley, the golf star, and her mother, during the night of September 28, 1941. [ers U oii ihe Nothing But Harmony | - In This Ex-Marriage (By Associated Press) KINGSTOD C., Feb A lawyer served notice on a Phil- 26 adelphia woman that her husband was instituting suit for a divorce and got this reply. “He can have it with best regards. All I want is a copy. I hope this will help get it quicker.” PALACE THEATFR Valley of Hunted Men with The Three Mesquiteers ‘| NEWS and SERIAL my COUPON NO. ll SEER EEEERESERESSESEESSES LANDLORDS-Take N Last week at a meeting held under the auspices of the Southernmost Realty Board and attended by spproximetely Recapture Kasseving. Gls Units Driven Back Recaptured Point Prac- tically Littered With L Enemy Soldiers; Equi ment Destroyed Renee ALGIERS. d Preses Feb. 26.—Allied forces have recaptured Kasserine announced have driven Marshal Pass. headquarters today. and E¥win Rommel's men from 10 to 15 miles farther since yesterday. Kasserine Pass, where the Axis forces tought a delaying action. is littered with dead enemy sol- destroyed In a stretch of little diers and with their equipment. more than a mile, 26 Axis tanks were found destroyed or so bad- ‘ly lamaged they were unfit for service. Advance by the Allied forces delayed by Germans was numberless mines that the and |Itclians had laid during their fields Kasserine Pass. according to in- Allied retreat. The maine in formation received at headquarters, were only 10 feet epart. Whije Allied engineers de- stroyed the mines, American and British tanks gingerly picked their way through the field. fol- lowing closely on the heels of the enemy. he Throughout the Allied night vy the of artillery pounded Fass. and wave after wave Allied plenes plasted heavy bombs from end Allied it with to end. This morning the forces learned that the bombardment had been so Rommel's the intense. men withdrew from bass during last night and not a shot was fired in taking possession of it. today the British Eighth Army is on the point of attacking the north end of the Mareth line. There It was announced that is intense patrol action im that sector, it was stated with the British continuing to force them wes closer and closer to the PAID VISIT HERE Among Key West son of M Higes of Gra Hogg: p n jorade Aur Force otice 20 Key West landiords. it was decided for the protection of ISLAND CITY BASKETBALL LEAGUE Friday, February 26 7:00 P.M.—N.O.B. vs Air Station Np. 3. \ 8:00 P.M.—Varsity vs. Section 9:00 P.M.—Receiving Station vs. Air Station No. 2. High School Gymnasium and elect its officers. All Key Key West Landlords Association” eral and so many landlords have expressed the desire to be come members, that 2 meeting is being held at the County 1943, at 8 o'clock p. m. formally to organize an estociation West landlords are eligible to: membership and are invited to attend