The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 2, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features Fer 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIV. No. 52. (By Associated Press) GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, March 2! A fet of 14 Jep ships is lurking | somewhere today off the north- ern New Guinea coast, under cover of a heavy tropical storm. The fleet was sighted shortly! before the storm broke by a re- | connoiterng plane, but when the | Port Moresby. the wind was so intense and the rain so torren- tial they kept the bombing ' squadrons grounded. | News from the. front added that the planes are poised, ready to fly to the attack as soon as @ lull in the storm begins. This fleet is one of several| others that the Japanese have based in an arc of islands off the northern Austrelian coast. Opinion was expresed here again today that the Javs may be planning fo attack some-/ where along the long Australian coast line, : H nities £ BUILDING REPAIR WORK — SLOWED DOWN, CAUSED BY PRIORITIES SET UP PY WAR PRODUCTION BOARD FOR THIS DIS- TRICT i Ralph Russell, building inspec- tor in Key West, said today that applications for permits for pro- posed buldings and for repairs to buildings have died down to practically nothing because of the priorities set up in this dis- trict by the War Production Board. | At the Chamber of Commerce, Secretary Stephen C. Singleton, stated that, bétause of the con- dition now existing in Key West, due to the WPB's orders, build- ers and other” residents _ inter- ested in construction of houses, are anxiouly awaiting the ar- rival here of H. E. Enyeart, pri-| orities manager of the WPB in this district, with offices in Mi- ami. When Mr. Enyeart said he | would be here last week; caller) +41) higher, and because of that} after caller visited the Chamber of Commerce | office. inquiring about him. Secretary Singleton says he expects to receive a wire from Mr. Enyeart, containing the in- formation of the time he will arrive here, and that he, Mr.| Singleton, has invited Mr. En-| yeart to attend the luncheon of; the Key West Rotary Club on} Thursday. ee r. KNOX CLAIMS AXIS STILL HAVE LARGE NUMBER OF SUBS wane INGTON. bray “Gh Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that the ene- PAPY STILL URGES ‘STRICT ECONOMY FOR COUNTY OFFICIAL REFERRED TO IN RECENT STATEMENT CLARI- FIES MATTER ON FEES COLLECTED Representative Bernie Papy flushed a rabbit when he spoke about a county ‘official who re- ceived more than $800 in one month, chiefly from fees, as the salary of the office is only $150 monthly. The man concerned said that he received $805 one month, but that it included fees for three months, and he asserted there was no truth whatever about the sum exceeding $1,000, as another county official later informed a Citizen reporter. However, Mr. Papy still sticks to his assertion that the county, should economy be Strictly prac- ticed, could get along on its pres- ent income without raising taxa- tion, despite the loss of race-track money. More Key Westers today are paying es then during any othr AP the’ bi a ‘of the citys er time Mr} Pape, dédlareqy avid if care is} exercised now in making expendi} tures, as.it bas,to be exercised int hard times, he firmly believes that the ‘county ‘can make both ends meet without having to re- sort to increasing taxes. “Taxes will eat us up,” Mr. | Papy said, “if we are not careful. in Monroe county for the All of us should gladly pay federal taxes, whatever they may 3 and they are going to be high and burden we uncomplainingly as- sume to win the war, city or coun- ty taxes should not be increased also.” THE SAME IN EYES WASHINGTON—A recent sur- vey showed that about 70 per cent of the persons with dorm+ ant right hands also have dom- inant right eyes. Z CHOCOLATES America’s Finest Candy “The Famous Sampler” Get Whitman’s Fresh Today SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. “PRESCRIPTIONS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED” Duval at Fleming Street Phone 199 Key West, Fla. Pat THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1943. Split-Second Sharpshooter AP. Features QUICKIE—A fast-action camera catches a fast-action FBI man who can throw and fire in two-fifths of a second. D. A. Bryce, special agent in charge of the FBI office at El Paso, Tex., reaches for his gun in the first picture, comes up for a bead in the second, and points the gun upward after firing in the third. Prospects Loom Brightly For Formal Opening of Improved Overseas Highway Labor Day REGULAR FORMS FOR REGISTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL USERS FOR RATION - BOOK NO. TWO ARE NOW AVAILABLE Forms for the registration of industrial users and __ institutions |for Ration Book No. 2 are now available in the office of the .Monroe County Rationing Board jin Room 220 in the federal build- jing, it was announced today. | B. L. Grooms, chairman of the {board, said this afternoon ar- jrangements have been made to iprovide Ration Book No. 2 to \Grand Celebration Will Be | Held In Connection With Outstanding Event Of | Present Year : istrations of white people w be conducted in the Key West the State Highway Department, High School auditorium and for'came to Key West unheralded colored people Public School. It is not known, even approxi-|until yesterday, and while he mately, how many residents | failed to get Book No. 2. It ig; Was here he told Major George required, in obtaining that book, for the applicant to have Book No. 1. A good many Key West-!Johnson for a ride through the those Key Westers who failed to ers, who did not have the latter; iget it-duting ihe regigkrations book, were unable to obtain | FeY® that all the bridges that last Thursday,.and Friday. ..;Book No. 2. .So No. 1 and No. jjjare now being constructed wii On Friday, March 5, from 1 to will be given to those residents" = 4 o'clock in the afternoon, reg- next Friday. ; ———-+——- |which time he hopes that a big | nection with their formal open- | BEHIND FUND FOR NEW HOSPITAL iss. 2. sonson wae accom jFanied by Mrs. Johnson. Senator Claude Pepper, in ‘a Atlanta, and bv the United} telegram received this morning States Public Health Service. |L,.C. Hagler, mayor of Pensa- by the Key West Chamber of The last information Mayor! iCommerce, said that he is keep-| Willard M. Albury, who started ling in close touch wiin the ap- jplication that has been made closely through every for, money to construct a hospital: was that it had been |for Key West. iover to FWA engineers for their} He said that as soon as_ the approval. project is approved by the Pres-| Dr, Gilbert Osincup, represen-} Z ident; ,he will wire the informa-|tative in Florida of the United |Hetel of Major and Mrs. Breid- tion to Key West immediately. 'States Public Health Service, has enback while they were in Key The project has been approved ‘assured Mayor Albury the likeli-! |by the Federal Works~Agency |hood is the project will b> ap-| West. for this district, with offices in proved. 5 | “I thought Key Westers would cola, who is and has followed the application} 5 channel,'Hagler is Mrs, turned first cousin, so he and the John- "|be delighted to know that the ‘NEW DELINQUENT TAX LAW {bridges wi be finished by La- {Said this afternoon. “so I came \ down here to give you the good County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer buys certificates on the property | jis a busy man today because of of another Key Wester who has|"*"* T took Tom Johnson for jthe new delinquent tax aw, not enough civic pride to do hisja ride through the keys, and he {which shortly will go into effect duty to help to pay for the func-; % first tioning of our state and county |@ssured me he is confident that jtime. | governments. This law has teeth that are as! “Why should the taxpayer bared and as sharp as the teeth who meets his civic obligations of a snarling ‘wolf,- and delin- have any consideration for jquent taxpayers all over the state taxpayer who spurns his civic; jare awakening to that fact. obligations? Besides, the greater there is mo reason now to be- | Every day delinquent taxpay-jthe number of delinquencies, | ieve that any such difficulty ers call at Mr. Sawyer’s office the larger the amount the faith-; | 2 ito clear up their property, and, re piese™: Bes to Pay, year pel arise. - in many cases where that is not after year, to make up for ej os s a fo tax certificates are being losses of revenue that delinquents} ee we teal week peo extensively purchased. should have paid. |gressing rapidly and j Discussing the latter phase of “But they'll pay now or lose} {the tax situation, a Key Wester their property. My. prediction is! jremarked today in the office of that, whee — se on to believe all the an organization that is trying to again, this new law will result!) = 8 |benefit the community in every in decreasing the amount of | bridges will be rtady to be jway possible: jtaxation on fealty throughout opened to the public by Labor ‘ “There seems to have been the state, because of the greater! _ ‘something of an’ unwritten ~ equeieeation aa receipts of Day. A great work is going on amor Key Westers not to buy revenue from taxation. : 4 cortitiestes on” ‘the delinquent; “Those delinquents’ who are: *t every eS property of other Key Weer re bred ae ca of bene ee constructed, and. I may {but I maintain that’ any ‘Key, benefitted again by a law similar) cs \Wester, who steps up to the line'to the Murphy act, will have to|*0¢- # % being done rapidly and jand pays his taxes regularly, toe the mark now just the same jefficiently.” rates a pat on the back if he as the consistent taxpayer has/ : ? fbeen toeing it for many years.” | qmmmmmmunmmmmmmnmnnmNTasN. \ DADE LODGE No. 14, F. & A. M. BONDS UNBURNED : j wer ie Ee t communication will be KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Only one | held White remained intact when fire will con- “Wednesday at 7:30 p. m., in closet in the home . of Scottish Rite Hall, corner. Eaton = Secretary. Key West, Florida. hee most equabie climate is the country; with an sverage 4 Tromezs Johnson, chairman of } : | in the Douglas! is Sat fF cok ceed hese! Breidenback, USA, who took Mr. | ibe completed by Labor Day. at| | The Johnsons arrived here with | being quietly | ithe movement for the hospital! groomed for governor, and Mr.| Breidenback s | jsons were guests at La Concha, |the bridges will be completed by | Labor Day, unless, of course, la- | the |bor trouble should develop, and | tinue to progress. so that he has’ Witize S. .A. range of only 14° Fahren Bevlin..Bombed Heavily Killed, 200 OF LENINGRAD CRUSHED; ELEVEN THOUSAND: ENEMY TROOPS KILLED (By Associnted Press) MOSCOW. March 2.—Marshal Timoshenko has crushed the Nez sixteenth army in the Leningrad area; today’s communique seid. kill ing 11,000 enemy troops since yesterday and sending the others ree! ing back in disorder. The victory has been so overwhelming, it was added. Leningred & now on the point of being relieved on all sectors from besieging troops. Timeshenko’s onslaught will cut the German and Finn lines in two in the next few days, it was asserted. so that Finland will be isolated from her powerful fighting partner. It was surmised in military circles that. as 2 result of Timo- | Shenko’s victory, the recent peace talk in Finland will now take on the shape of a movement for that country to withdraw from the war against Russia. Fighting in the Donetz basin, northwest of Kharkov. has resulted in minor reverses to Russien arms, according to advices received from that area. The Germans have launched several ferocious attacks that resulted in the Russicns losing some ground. But. elsewhere im the | Ukraine, the Reds continue to beat back the enemy toward the Dneiper, In one of those battles, a “string of villages” were recap- tured by the Reds. the communique concluded. | LATE BULLETINS j NAPLES BOMBED AGAIN LONDON.—The RAF bombed Naples for the fifty-eighth time last night, and the Air Ministry said today it was the worst blesting | that city has yet received. Nothing was said of the number of plenes that participated in the raid or if any of them were lost. ALLIED SECOND FRONT DISCUSSED LONDON.—Discussion that the Allies are on the point of stert- ing a second front persisted here today. It was given impetus by the | raids last. night on Berlin and on Naples and by attecks, earlier in the night, on coastal towns in France and Holland. : HOLLAND TO.CONFER WITH LEGISLATORS | TALLAHASSEE.—Governor Spessard L. Holland will hold « conference Thursday with senators and representatives to discuss the gasoline situation as it affects this state. TO MOBILIZE ALL AMERICAN LABOR WASHINGTON.—A still more far-reaching mobilization of labor was discussed here today by congressmen who are actively interested in a manpower bill that is now being prepared for presentation to | congress. AMERICAN TROOPS Fart Commander W. W. Weeden iu { IN, Production Officer, and BRITISH IN TUNISIA STOP Lic eut. G. D. Roberts, USNR. as AXIS TROOPS IN IR sistant Design Superintendent ; ADVANCE Public Works Department of the U. S. Naval Operating Base jhere, left Sunday for an officia —_— | coca trip touching various } Fi points north i (By Associated Press) | Commander C. Q Wright ALGIERS, Mar. 2.— Allied'Machinery Superintendent, headquarters reported today that dustrial Department, is a lamerican ‘foops have madejPreduction Officer during ‘ gains 20 miles southwest and 14 absence of Commenter. Castes miles north of Kasserine Pass. | | The British in north Tunisia} oneniebs |have stopped the Axis troops in| CHICAGO.—Wormseed oil jtheir advance jn one sector, and: been found to be valuable jin dogfights im that area the treating intestinal ailments im Germans lost 27 aircraft, and‘humans that are caused by m- 18 others were sq badly damaged ternal parasites. jthey withdrew from the fights. 1 General Bernard Montgomery jEighth Army continues to pound | the Mareth line with heavy ar-} tillery. The, heaviest, bombard- | ment is. occurrng at the northern! ‘sector of the line, through. which | In VALUABLE OIL has ~ By Ales; 89. Persons Wounded NAZI SIXTEENTH ARMY IN AREA Cemex Radio Admits That It Was Werst Raid Of War On Capital City Of Naziland oe LONDON. Merc ss mgt: Berbe was gve= che wor begimning cf the mar bembers amc Ses tour -momcrec = Cenedar piemes et oesc- and seas of fire = me aoe Parts of Beteraiss lots seid thet ce feck rete the oty. ip. whee they were peuizs over Bremen end 4 Hesorer mos: 200 mules ewer Gey ss could see tfogess of Gene shooteg utc the ar over Bez an Even the Serle cedio | sodey edmitted thet c wes te worst teaxc Beran nas been subjecec fe since the start of Gee wus. The broedcaster ssid Get & persons Bec beer gliec amc mors ten 23 wounded aome of whom were mot expected to == cover. The broadcaster eded chet while much demsged bet been dome. mo muligary obectves no- been struck. He sax that thse hosprta!s. two sao incuses terms had been destroyed anc that im the latter pieces the oc cupents either bed Seen killed wounded. The Britet Ar Micietry commenting or the stetement made bv the Berim oroedcaste: Geciarec that the much: was sec with mot « Goud Secking or visible as though && Sed Sere éGaylight, The wiibiiity. te =d¢ wes so good «= Clearly visible as were sie the es. er wes Montgomery expects to pass to hammer at Marshal Erwin Rom- mel’s rear. FRANK BOWERS | Frank Bowers, CCStd., who has served the U. S. Naval Operating Base here as Chief Commissary Steward since November, 1939; has recently been transferred for duty at Tampa, Fla. The Key West February 26th, 1943. We will not defend low citizens who urgently need shelter om cur property. the Government, whose efforts are to prevent imflatios cf the 4