The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 13, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Hest Cttize: Key West, Florida, his the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrent =*t Che Key VOLUME LXIV. No. 62. (a Has $3,257,739 In Road Fund For Surveys For Post- Wat Projects Federal Money Would = Utilized Under Terms Of Bill Sponsored By ‘Arizona Senator (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 13. Florida has a total of $3,257,739 in Federal road money which it will be permitted to utilize during the war in making surveys for post-war projects under the terms of a bill sponsored by Senator Hayden, of Arizona, chairman of the post office and post roads committee. Senator Hayden’s bill would: (1) include the cost of rights of way in the base for allocation of Federal funds; (2) suspend for the duration of the war and one fyear thereafter reapportionment of funds already apportioned to the various states for Federal-aid roads, for imrpovement of grade crossings, and for construction and improvement of secondary roads (availability of these funds under existing law would end June 30, 1943); (3) authorize allo- THE SOUT | | i (By Associated Predzy AMERICANS AND ‘RAF IN DAYLIGHT RAIDS LONDON.—American and RAF) flyers made successful daylight | | raids today on Liege, in Belgium, | and Rouen, in France, and some of {the military installations there ARES paloma struck and destroyed. The| ; number of planes lost were not! reported. { SAYS GERMANY IS HOLDING BACK AIR MIGHT LONDON.—A Berlin radio an- | mouncement today, recorded here | by the BBC, said that Germany was holding back her air might for resons best known to the Ger- man high command. When the right time comes, the anneuncer, declared, Germany will strike and j Strike powerfully. It is believed here that the statement was made for home consumption, as the G | man people, fuming over the RAF | raids of German cities, are d srg revenge raids on Eng: t |OPA BROWN ANGERS FARM! i BLOC ARRIVES IN U.S. | | WASHINGTON.—It was de-| | clared here today that Prentiss | | Brown, head of the OPA, has an- | | gered the farm bloc in congress | | by his refusal to grant a six cents! ' increase in the price of corn per bushel in fixing the ceiling for the | duration of the war. He added | that there can not be any perm-| anent ceiling on corn, GERMAN MANHUNT HARD ON BUSINESS, CAUSES 300.000 SMALL BUSI-; NESS CONCERNS TO CLOSE DOWN FORTIFYING BULGARIAN fe reported to be strengthening | e Bulgarian Black Sea coast de-' | fenses against rny possible attack | | by Turkey. Fortifications are be-| J. HERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1943. Pierpont Morgan, Widely Known Banker, Dies ‘Early Today At Boca Grande, Fla. DEAD i ‘By Asseciated Press) BOCA GRANDE, Fia., Mar. 13. —J. Pierpont Morgan, 75, of New York, widely knows international | banker, died at his winter cottage here at 3:15 o'clock this morning. | He had been suffering from a! recurring heart ailment and had been in a coma three days. Yester- | day he was put under an oxygen | j tent, but his condition continued | j to become gradually worse. : One son, Lieutenant Command- ler Henry Sturgis Morgan, USN./ jwas at the bedside when death! came. Another son. Junius Spen-} | cer Morgan, is overseas in the | farmed services of the United) | States. ! Mr. Morgan was born on Sep-; tember 7, 1867, anid was given his| [ethers name, J. Pierpont. The! heider' Morgan was the founder of | theHouse of Morgan, which is : | ainong tHe world’s greatest finan- | cian ee, | "The “Body was shipped to New) | York this’ morning. | Third in the line as head of “the; ‘house of Morgan,” J. P. Morgan) |steered the huge private banking | ‘firm bearing the family name} j through the world war, the pst] war reconstruction, inflation and {boom years and the depre: ssion | | period starting in 1929, maintain-! ling it in a position unparalleled | {in the history of world finance. Sa | When in 1933 an investigation (Ry Anneciateé Preend | by the banking committee of the} ALGIERS, Mar. 13.—Yesterday| United States senate turned a of American) fioodlight of publicity upon its} were seen to’ transactions, the firm was reveal- be headed southward, and all ed as the world’s greatest under- (Sorts of conjectures were enter-| writer and fiscal agent, its clients jtained about their destination. mbracing industry and banking} It was announced today that! and state and municipal govern- | | | | J.P, MMORGAN, ROUT AXIS UNITS; RESPOND TO HURRY CALL! MADE BY GENERAL LE CLERC city’s bonds refunded, so that ar- S. A. Soe FIVE CEN Five Hundred Huge RAF Bombers Shatter Essen, Germany, During Night; TWeaty- Thréé Planes Lost ‘CITY ATTORNEY TO ASK COUNCIL TO TAKE ACTION ON PROPOSAL TO HAVE BONDS OF CITY — City Attorney Thomas S. Caro,, He will suggest to the council- at a meeting of the City Council; men that they name a committee jto be held next Tuesday everfing,| *° 8° to Tallahassee to request the Florida Securities Commission | will ask the council to take ac-| to permit Key West to refund the !tion in the proposal to have the} bonds over a period of 30 years and to reduce the interest to two per cent for the first 10 years, a period of 30} three per cent for the next 10 and " four per cent for the remaining life of the bonds. “That is our only meeting that indebtedness,” rangements can be made to liqui- {date them over years. The bonds total approximately | $1,250,000, and the interest on! them is 6 per cent. Even should conditions continue good in Key Claro said. “Think of the city, un | West over period of several’ der the present arrangement, of years, Mr. Caro said it is prac-i having to pay $75,000 interest tically impossible for the city to! yearly, not to say anything about salvation in Mr |pay the bonds should the interest | any liquidation of the principal of six per cent remain in force. | It just can’t be done.” HARULD COLEE URGES RESUMPTION OF NATIONAL ADVERTISING PROGRAM ‘Na Planes hiieap To re4 London In Reprisal Met With Little “oT (By Associates Prees) LONDON, Mar. 13.—War end industrial plants in Essen. Ger- many, practically were wiped out last night by a RAF raid. the Air Ministry announced today. Five hundred Pounded the city. dropping ex Flosives ranging up to four tons in weight. The great Krupp and other plents that had made the City famous have been reduced to debris, according to reports of returning RAF pilots. Twenty-three planes were lost. Returning pilots stated that the anti-aircraft fire was far more in- tense than when Essen bombed 10 days ago, and ¢ seerchlights were far more numer ous. It was impossible, they said. for them to dodge the beams of lights. as the entire heavens over Essen were covered with them. It was the fifty-third reid on |inw constructed at strategic points |they were responding to a “hur-| ments in this country and national and big guns from Germany are yy ¢alj” made by General Le! ! exchequers in Europe. [bene installed. ;Clerc, of the French fighting or) ‘The house operated as J. P. Mor- | cation of funds for improvements of access roads without regard to the present $10,000,000 limita- BY FLORIDA IN POST-WAR PLANNING Essen since the beginning of the war, and destruction has been on (By Annorinted Preax) authorize agreements for post-war improvements of highways, which should have the force of contractual cies hin Road funds in Flo would be kept availab! a » whieh the’ duration of the war, and made available for post-war planning, under this bill, include $2,004,548 in regular Federal Aid funds, $389,541 in Federal Aid Secondary funds;and $863,616 allotted for grade-crdssing constriction and imptovement, a total of $3.257,739. Program embodied in this bill was endorsed by the American Association of State High of- ficials, and probably will be fa- vorably received in Congress. BUILDING MATTERS WILL BE DISCUSSED AT COUNCIL MEET Ralph Russell, building in- spector, states that matters per- taining to building operations in Key West will be taken up at the regular meeting of the City Council on Tuesday night, March 16. Mr. Russell requests all in- terested in this matter~to be in attendance at the meeting. SP ETD LEDER EAE FORA IIA TAI IA IIT IAI AAI III TONIGHT! For A BIG TIME. . .Try SLOPPY JOE'S BAR Largest Place In Town JOE RUSSO’S BAND “The Best Swing Band In Town” COME. .. HAVE A GOOD TIME! Music Starts at 7 p.m. Week-Nights at 8 o’Clock ABR BUUUGUOUUUUUU OUR LEE WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—El- mer Davis. chief of the Office of War Information, said in his! weekly talk today that coer | in her manhunt in countries to replenish Lig pe ies and war plant workers, has driven 300,000 small business! concerns to close down their places. Mr. Davis added that the op-| erations of small concerns here-| “The home of Raul B. Garcia at} tofore had helped immeasurably | 708 Eaton street, was broken into | | last night, and among the valu- in holding back the total: crash hic. sfolen was @ diemond ring | of the economic structure in cc- | valued at $900. cupied countries. | As usual, Mr. Garcia left his Davis added that, in a war of! ring in his trousers pocket for the attrition, Japan must ultimately night, and the burglar: stole the succumb to the powerful arm of! trousers. In a pocket also was his the United States, and said that! wallet containing, besides money, Germany is trying to save her | his identification card, his drivers’ face in Russia, without counting} license and his gas rationing book. the great losses of Axis men and) Mr. Garcia is in the phonograph supplies, by capturing Kharkov! record and cigarette business. In| and driving northward _ before! his car in the garage, he left five| thaws set in toward the last of cases of cigarettes after he had this month. (Continued on —_ Four) i REPORT ROBBERY AT GARCIA HOME: | NINE HUNDRED DOLLAR p1a-| MOND RING AMONG ARI TICLES STOLEN ANTHONY EDEN CALLS ON RUSSIAN — AMBASSADOR; SCHEDULED, T0 CONFER SOME TIME TODAY WITH ROOSEVELT (By Associated Prens) i WASHINGTON, Mar. 13—An-; He is scheduled to have a talk) thony Eden, British Foreign Min-! today with President Roosevelt, | ister, called on the Russian Am-' and will confer during the week-| basador today, but the nature of! end with Secretary of State Cor-| their talk was noi disclosed. dell Hull. { They are said to be friends, and| The cbject of his mission to the! it was added that Eden, because| United States has not been pub- of his attitude before the war! licly announced, though it is’ and since it has started, is exceed-' thought to be in amplification of; ingly popular among the Russians! the Roosevelt-Churchill confe: generally. ‘ences at Casa Blanca. HERE Now! SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Duval at Fleming 0 | | 6 VITAMINS and 3 MINERALS ! ‘ i ' i Free Delivery Service - Key West, Florida desert corps, which was en-| gan & Company, New York; Drex- 2 wider scale there than in any | PRENTISS circled by Axis forces south of jthe Mareth Line and was in dan-| ger of being annihilated. The planes swooped low in at- ee the troops and their. mo-. |torized vehicles, and half an hour (Continued on Page Four) el & Company, Philadelphia; Mor- gan, Grenfell & Companv, Lon- don; and Morgan & Company,! Paris. ~ Its assets reached $703,909. - 403.69 on January 2, 1931, and its; net worth a peak of $118,604,- 1183.75 on November 31, 1929. But! on December 31, 1932, the assets; had shrunk to $424,798,095.56 and the net worth to $53,194,076.80. } { Deposits on that dateswere $340,- | { 047, 701.88. For the fie’ year's end: | ing December 31, 193% daily aver-, age deposits of a ‘million dollars | or more were maintained with the | firm by 51 American railroad and industrial companies. | Directorships Touch 2,394 | Companies A score of men were partners} but J. P. Morgan, as senior pvart-| ner, held a veto over virtually all acts or policies of the firm. The senate investigation dis-: | closed that the partners held 167 | directorships in 89 corporations | Mf | which had total assets of $20,000.- | 000,000. The list included 15 banks | and trust companies, seven mis- | cellaneous holding comvanies, ten | railroads, five public utilitv hold- ing corporations, eight public util- | ity operating companies, 38 indus- trial,concerns and six insurance companies. On the same boards were 537 othef ‘directors, not con- | nected, with Morgan & Company, who sat on the boards of 2,305 companies in wHich Morgan part- country. It wes pointed out | nerships were not represented. that some communities will | It also was put on record that get their quotas before others, | in the years 1937-31 the firm par- but, by the time the ration- | ticipated in more than 50 pools, ing system is two weeks’ old, | Syndicates and joint accounts | in} all parts of the country will j he ee ris In ee i | also its profi ‘rom i sores | tations were $18,284,000. SEBS 2S SEBS A practice which attracted wide | attention was the offering to sel- ! (Continued on Page Four) LaCONCHA HOTEL | CHARLES M. SALAS, Mgr. PE PS SMS DS SO a a BROWN EXPECTED TO BE ON AIR TONIGHT} (By Ansociated Provs) ASHING » Mar. 13,— While no formal announce- ment has been made, it is ex- pected that OPA Chief Pren- | tiss Brown will make a radio | address some time this eve- ning or tonight, calling on the American people not to get panicky over rationing regula- tions. It is said that, aiter ration- ing goes into effect. far more meat will be available than is at present the case. Price ceil- ings will kill the bleck mar- ket, and the prewar practice of meat going from the farm- ers to the packers, to the wholesalers, the retailers, the: consumers, will be’ reestab- lished. Meats will be distributed in equal. proportion. on a per capita basis, to all parts of the ;_ Will pay $1.00 for a copy The Key West Citizen, da’ (RAINBOW ROOM :° eee LOUNGE AIR CONDITIONED Featuring .. . DANCING ST. eS a No Cover or Minimum Charge What will happen to Key West for the laying out of both copy probably will happen to Florida, and schedules. '* thece details are generally after the war, and for} attended to before the war ends, that. geason a letter received from | much valuable time will be saved, , other Germen city, except Col- ogne. Twenty-five German planes at tempted to raid this city in re- prisal, but less than one-half o- the Florida Chamber of Com-|and this action will help us to| them succeeded in penetrating the merce by ‘determine what financial backlog | should be set up.” Colee predicted that Florida | would be faced with the keenest | competition in its resort history | when hostilities come to an end the local chamber is considered pertinent to conditions that probably will prevail in this community when hostilities come to an end. In his letter, Harold Colee; ex- ecutive vice president of the state chamber, says: “Florida will be asleep at the switch unless, in its post-war plan- ning, it provides for the imme- diate resumption of its national advertising, declares Harold Co- lee, executive vice president of the Florida State .Chamber of Commerce, “Funds should be yethion now 500 hotels are now occu military. Scores of apartment! houses, likewise. Their owners load must be carried by others. Actually, it belongs on the shoul- idians derive more than half their income, in normal times, from the | j tourist business.” WARTHUR’S AIR ‘SQUADRONS — CONTINUE TO POUND JAPS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Mer. 13.—Gen-' bor, and she is believed to have eral Douglas MacArthur's airplane cone to the bottom. squadrons ere continuing ‘to S harass’ Jzp forces on land and at. Fiving Fortresses made suc- | sea im the Southwest Pacific. cessful raids on Rabaul, on New Ye y four-motored Libera- | Britein Island, and on Cape Glou- tors made direct hits on a 7.000-| cester on the same island. and ton Jap cargo ship in Dutch Har-) Munda on New Georgia Island. “As matters stand, more than! pied by the | and managers are not in a posi-! tion to make post-war plans. This} ders of all the people, since Flor-} | curtain of anti-sircraft fire thet thrown up from the city’s de- | fenses. Nine persons were killed by the reiders elsewhere in Eng- land. NAZIS PRESS ON TOWARD KHARKOV bpesoxes DEFENDERS ARE UNABLE TO TURN ENE- MY BACK (Be Ausocinted Press) MOSCOW. Mar. 13—Though the Russian defenders cf Khar- tkev have destroved 45 enemy tanks in the lest 36 hours «n4 killed thousands of German soi- diers, Axis forces stil] continue to press on in their atiempts to recepture that city. The communique denied Kharkov had fallen, as has been claiming since day, but admitted that the sit uation there is grave. The fight- ing at noon today was reported to have been as ferocious as it was at Stalingrad when the seig: of that city was at its height Red Star, the Soviet's sem official newspaper, today calied on Russian troops defending Kharkov, to die at their : rather than to retreat, as done by their comrades ing Stalingred. The Nazis also are northwest of Kharkov battles fought there since » day 23 more enemy reported to have been fests ed. was SELLING GAS Is Our Busine and the more used the better we MONDAY at 9 A. M. DR. J. A. VALDES OPTOMETRIST but to comply with the Fuel Program we must now ask you te CO! SERVE IT. And to use all appliances as economically as possible fer the duration. Key West Gas Co.