The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 27, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIV. No. 50. Che 4 KEY Wks1', FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ry West Cittern THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Key West, Florida, h:s most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrent =‘t 27, 1943. PRICE FIVE C ENT: AXIS FORCES ATTACK. BRITISH ENDEAVOR TO RELIEVE PRESSURE ON ROM- MEL’S UNITS ° Russian Forces Score Victory : | Over Germans One Thousand Nazis Are| atciens, Feb. 27—Axis forc- Kille d Me fd Rourteen | today launched three attacks jon British troops in northern Tanks Destroyed Dur- \Tunisia to try relieve the ing Engagement (iy Associated Press) to | pressure on Marshal Rommel’s Afrika Korps in central Tunisia. and when last advises were re- ‘ceived from the front, the enemy had been thrown back with heavy losses in two sectors and had made slight qains in the third. But the fighting against the! British did not help Rommel’s jmen, who continued to fall back} in the face of heavy attacks by a combination of Ameri planes, tanks and motorized fantry. In one attack on the British, they captured 140 Nazis and de-; stroyed seven enemy tanks, and fighting was waged|in the second sector, where the! Kharkov, where Red |Nazis were repulsed, they lost are nearer to the Dneiper|thtee tanks out of a flect of 20. River than at any other point} Both sides lost heavily in the along the Ukaine front. Three |Sector where the enemy made times the Axis troops counter at-!8ins._ The British were counter- tacked in attempts to stop the attacking when the last news Russian advance, and in each in-iWas received from that al stance they were thrown back!, 19 central Tunisia, the ateaucibody stcuceles, icans are still advancing east The Russians admitted that 2nd north of Kasscrine Pass. the gains in that area, due to a the counter-attacks, were slight RENT CEILING i | "HELD ILLEGAL H compared with the advance to- (Ry Associated Press) (By Aswociated Press) MOSCOW, Feb, 27. — In a} heavy snowstorm, northeast -of | Orel, Russian forces today scor-! ed a decisive victory over the) Nazis, killing 1,000 men and de- stroying 14 tanks, today’s com- munique said. ( Another village in that sector} was recaptured by the Russians, ; and six more enemy tanks were | destroyed in that battle, it was| stated. Fierce a in- ward Orel from the northeast. SEVEN OFFICERS GIVEN DUTY HERE, ens BEND, Ind., Feb. 27. ge Thomas W. Slick ofthe Gees Indiana United States GIVEN ASSIGNMENTS FOL./ “istrict court Friday held uncon- stitutional the delegation of rent LOWING ARRIVAL IN | control powers to the Office | Price Administration. CITY DURING WEEK | In dismissing a tenant's suit against a Sovths.Bond landlord, ' Judge Slick said in his ruling that congress never intended to dele- gate this omnipotent power (the right to arbitrarily fix rents at jcertain leyels) to the administra- tion of the OPA, and if it was , intended, the act, under such con- Those reporting are: i struction, is unconstitutional.” Captain John E. Brannon toi The decision was given in a suit the Marine Barracks of the Na- filed against Dick M. Johnson, by val Station coming here from a tenant who alleged Johnson the Marine cares Reserve Train-! charged $10 more a month than ing Center, Camp LeJeune, New the rent allowed under the act. River, N. C. Lieut.-Comdr. Edmonston 7 ——— Coil, USN, as Ordnance Officer, NOB, from the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia. Ensign Marie Rossmond Von Gal, Nurse Corps, USNR, to the Naval Station Dispensary from the Naval Hospital, Jacksonville. Ensign Harold C. Adams, SC- V(S), USNR, as officer-in-charge of the war bond office, NOB, from the Seventh Naval District. Ensign Howard H. Hess, SC- V(S), USNR, as stant to the Commiss Officer,»: from the Great Naval | Training School. { Ensign Kenneth G. Dixon, SC- V(S), USNR, to the Disbursing ; Office from Norfolk, Va. ‘ Ensign Melvin H. Peters, CEC-V(S), USNR, to the Public Works Department from Nor- folk, Va. | Officers detached follow: Lieut. Comdr. Rees Morgan, | MC-V‘S), USNR, from the Dis- pensary to Norfolk, Va. H Lieut. (jg) Hardy M. Williams, D-V(S), USNR, from the Nav Station to Third Naval District,! New York. | MOST COMMON DISEASE The arrival this week of sev-j en officers for new assignments in this area and the departure of two for duties elsewhere we announced today by Lieut. G. E. Barton, personnel officer. Stays Smooth Stays Lovely *$100 REVLON NAIL ENAMEL 21 Enchanting Shades! “60: *Federal Tax Extra SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY. Inc. | Prescription Druggists | PHONE 199 CHICAGO —Teeth decay is the'|__ Duval and Fleming Streets most common disease of nee an SPECIAL PROPHETIC LECTURES in Harris School, Southard St. By JAMES F. SPINK, F.R.G.S. Noted World Traveler and Bible Teacher Contmencing SUNDAY, February 28, at 8 P. M. Every Night, Excepting Monday and Saturday SUBJECTS: SUNDAY: “Calvary” TUESDAY: “The Signs of the Times” WEDNESDAY: “The Coming Translation” THURSDAY: “The Coming Tribulation” FRIDAY: ‘The Coming Supreme Dictator” sua CSS RRR All Welcome. Special Invitation to Service Men NO COLLECTIONS “UNTAMTTUUTUVUEvtUgdcarseUseneanopioeannasnnaenseeneeeeUes teat ence Amer- | “As to selling liquor from auto-;Key Wiest and the County of Mon- j enbach said. “Its heavy equipment | | mobiles, he said, he will make ar-|roc far excecding their quotas, a|has been of the greatest help.” | of| CLAIMED LIQUOR IS BEING SOLD | FROM AUTO CARS; OTHER VIOLATIONS SAID = OFFICE WILL MAKE RIGID, INVESTIGATION 1 | Sheriff Berlin Sawyer said to-} iday he had been told in a general! | way that soldiers and sailors are| being served with liquor from ' automobiles on Sundays, that mi- \ and that saloon keepers in some} are drunk, all of which, the} j sheriff added, are violations of the | {State Beverage Act. | Sheriff Sawyer added that he! has employed deputies to work ; tsecretly to acsertain if the law is} | being violated, as he has been told is the case. The trouble has been, ‘he declar d, that informants have {not been — speci When they! were asked to name any particular } violation, they continued to talk in general terms. Sheriff Sawyer rted that he is ready to make arrests on the complaint of any resident who gives him specific information, and that he is unable to do anything where the informa- tion is mere heresay. rests in | whether Sunday or any other day. Liquor | cases of that nature, mobile: or on the street in any; \adding that the only places where | its sale is legal are those that have , been duly licensed. FIRST WHITE VISITOR { NEW YORK.—The commander Vitus Berin, vice of Russia, to visit Alaska was, a Dane in the ser-; MEN QUITTING EDICT ISSUED BY OFFICIALS Loafers in Key West are now} a bad way because of arrange- | in BE CARRIED ON: SHERIFF'S] ments that have been made by) Judge William V. Albury, of the; | Monroe County Criminal Court of | fecueh which { Record, and Justice of the Peace} West can avoid going to work,” ; of the! Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., second district, to receive the names daily of all workmen who; j fail to report on their jobs. The information comes from an authoritative source that keeps closely in touch with labor in Key ! nors are permitted in some saloons! West. Today Judge Albury and! Work. Justice Esquinaldo received the| cases serve men liquor until they | names of 18 men who quit their} ege of choosing jobs yesterday. Those men will be arrested on charges of vagrancy, if they are unable to give sufficient reason for not reporting for work. Judge Albury said that the | names of delinquent workmen will| provided men who are willing to j be supplied daily to the sheriff LARGE AMOUNT OF OLD METAL — STILL BEING COLLECTED HERE Despite the fact that the nation- wide, formal drive for scrap metal ended in October with the City of} [large amount of old metal is still | the violation occurs on} being collected here, according to | local salvage committee, Major George F. Breidenbach, can not be sold legally from auto- | quartermaster at the Harbor De-, metal and 35,000 pounds of scrap fense of Key West, who has been} other way, Sheriff Sawyer said, | co- operating with the civilian com-; since the drive began last fall. mittee in this effort. Major Breidenbach, i been furnishing men who and trucks \for the continuing task, declared | he stated. today collections here have includ- | led a daily average of 25 old auto-! Board awarded a pennant to Mon- ! first white | mobiles in addition to other ma-' roe County for rials. ‘SE ; te jal thanks are due the Na- {val Station which has been repre-! has} \STRICT CHECK TO BE KEPT ON JOBS TO LOAF; | 9 DIVISIONS IN RECENT FIGHTS or his Pee aiee the constables or! city policemen who call at his of-! fice or Mr. Esquinaldo’s office for them. “There are |HITLER DEMANDS THAT | CROTIANS RAISE ELEVEN | loopholes now| DIVISIONS TO REPLACE loafers in Key! LOSSES no Judge Albury said. work today, we will know their names tomorrow, and they will be} | arrested in all cases where arrest is warranted. If they want to leave town, okay, but they are not going to stay in Key West and not! “If they stop} (By Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 27,—Berlin of- the ‘poration, today said that the Germans have lost nine divisions in recent fighting in Russia. and |that Hitler, in putting into ef- fect the first of his orders that “They will be given the privil- | any of these! things: go to work, get out of town, be arrested and jailed, or join our|™Men in occupied countries must! ‘country’s armed forces, The town | fight for him, has demanded that lis crowded, and there is no room|the Croatians raise 11 divisions ‘here for loafers; the accommoda- |t0 Teplece Nazi losses in Russia. Denmark, Czechoslovakia reece are the next countries, ‘the Berlin announcer __ said, !where troops will be mobilized ~|to bolster up the Nazi forces. {Labor too will be conscripted in |the occupied countries. The commentator declared that the fuehrer actions to strengthen the Ger- jman armies to the men in the} nant {occupied countries. In Germany itself, every available man who jean be spared is being inducted | into the army. The speaker said the call af- fects every trade and every pro- fession. In illustrating his point, he mentioned that a good many German newspapers and periodicals have been order to close down, so that the men employed on them can be in- ducted into the army. | tions they are occupying can be! work.” ea in this work by Lieute iM. L. Brown and Chief Machini Mate E. M. Means,” Major Breid- chairman of the report- of scrap Joe Pearlman, Fed 1,000 to 1,200 tons rubber have been gathered here | Awaiting shipment at present to the steel mil of the nation are 600 tons of scrap iron and steel, FIELD OF GREEN Recently the War Production ; WASHINGTON The Bra zilian flag is field of green with a yellow parallelogram in the center, on which is superim- posed a blue globe. having exceeded! a its scrap collection quota The Army, Navy and_ civilian (Continued on Page Four) 4 | ® i) . N 4 ‘ a N) i) iN \) iN IN) ® & N N) \ ) \) ‘ N) N IK) N KN) N I) IN N) \ \) N N N \ N) \ \) N wa for some year: tained at all times. To Our Gas Consumers There seems to be some misapprehension about the Stability of the Gas Service in Key West, caused by the shut-off of gas last summer, and more recently, the rumor about our supply of fuel oil and coke. The Gas Company has been serving this community for over 30 years, and last summer was the first time the gas had ever been completely shut off. This was due to a stoppage in our main pipes at the plant, caused by a change, at the Government’s request, to a grade of fuel oil with which we had had no previous experience. Since then we have been using it very satisfactorily, and no more trouble of that kind will occur. We always carry Mechanically, our plant is in and we assure you Key West Gas Company VAPAAAA ALA AA dd dh dbb dd hdd dod do dididided, dodecdiedchadutade an ample stock of coke on hand, but our January shipment was lost when the barge sand, and the replacement shipment was delayed when the second barge went aground. There was never danger of shutting down as coal was procured to be used if neces We now have an ample supply of coke and there is no likelihood of any recurrence of such an emergency. i ¢ PP ST POPPED DAT i | FLORIDA'S ; COLD WEATHER , adn better shape now than it has been that the gas service will be main- W. B. BRADY, General Manager. ) ficial radio reports, recorded by, British Broadcasting Cor-! and} is not confining his} L kkk ht tehbbhh ddd dd hide ded dididedidedidadididedididideudeds RAF Stages Heavy Raid On Cologne Hundred Bombers Participated In Attack Over German City Last Night ‘LATE BULLETINS ABy Asw casiapns Pecans JAP SHIP LEFT SINKING GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS.—In the face of sustained anti-aircraft fire, a squadron of American plenes to day attacketi a 5,000-ton Jap troop ship off the northern New Guinea coast, scored several hits and left her efire and gradually sinking. | Though the planes flew low, ali of , them succeeded in returning to their base. i Five FARM BLOC MEETS WASHINGTON, — The farm bloc met today to make arrange { ments to have farm prices revised | and to get sufficient help to také care of the crops this summer. «By neiated Prise) LONDON. Feb. 27.—Five hun dred RAF bombers raided Co logne last night and ieft death and destruction in their wake. The Air Mimistry revorted it to have been among the most devas tating air attacks that have been made on Germany since the be ginning of the war. | CROWDS MEET MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK WASHINGTON. — A reception was held yesterday afternoon and evening at the Chinese embassy in honor of Madame Chiang Kai- Shek. Receiving began at 5:30 and |it was intended to end at 7:39, | but when that hour arrived, sev j eral hundred were still weiting in |}ine. At $ o clock, when the recep | tion ended, there were still many ¢ j others who had not had an oppor j tunity to meet her. Callers in cluded members oi tue supreme court and of congress and men w« | holding other high offices in Wash ‘ington. It was said to have been the most outstanding embassy re ception ever held in the capital j{ city. H = 1B, RILEY WAIVES PRIVILEG' | MIAML—Bart A. Riley. | mey for Mrs. Ursula Parrott, wriv | ed his privilege today to adress | the jury in the case agains | The three counts, under w' is charged with having aided t | Michael Bryan to escape from an go ! 'y stockade at Miami Beach entail a compined sentence of 13 MAKING THE VEST years and a fine of $12,000. OF A BAD SITUATION att (By Assocamte4 Perse LAKELAND.—The office of the United States Weather Bureau im this city issued a bulletin today. in which it wes said that, in the northern prrt of Florida, tempera. © tures will range tonight from 26 to 30 degrees above zero, the tem Fercture will fall to freezing in the central vart of the state. and there will be frost in the Okee chobee crea. PALACE THEATER “MISTEK V” With LESLIE HOWARD \ and MARY MORRIS Elusive Mr. V—He's E » NEWS and SERIAL teeeeeee TONIGHT! 1 For A BIG TIME. . . SLOPPY JOE'S BAR Largest Place In Town JOE RUSSO’S BAND “The Best Swing Bend In Town COME. .. HAVE A GOOD TIME! GARDNER'S PHARMACY Music Starts ot 7 pm Phone Pree Delivery Week-Nights at 8 o' Clock Sees ip REL: ay eee SESESEESSSSSSESSES ESSERE wyvvvw rrr RIPTIONS Pr BPO Ls ae LA CONCHA HOTEL Charies M. Salas. Manager. — Air Conditioned Diming Zoo BREAKFAST, 8 to 10 am—LUNCHEON, 2:30 p-m.— DINNER, 6:30 to 9:30 p = MUSIC by Barroso’s 5-Piece Orchestra Every Nig» BAR and COCKTAIL LOUNGE Open from 10:35 A. M to 12 Miduiget DANCE Every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturdey Ua Midnight — No Cover or Minimum Charge SULODNEDALSEOOTMAINNNE EL LSEEE SET MARTIAN TOIT STUER eT Ea ae au i t ¥ iz ad SELLING GAS “Fg Our Business) and the more used the better we liked it. but te comply with the Fuel Conservation Program we must now ask you te CON- SERVE IT. And to use all appliances as economically as possible fer the duration. Key West Gas Co.