The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 15, 1943, Page 1

s Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1943. |GUERILLAS ENGAGE NEGRO PREPARES ‘JAIL BAG’ AND NAZISANDITALIANS' GOES HUNTING FOR COLORED WOMAN Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, his most equable climate in the | country; with an average ' range of only 14° Fahrent =*t VOLUME LXIV:. No. 63. German Command Says French “Fac.CompletAaiiaon : | OF TRANSPORTATION | Ultimatum And Will) "LINES BY MOTORISTS | Continue Fighting —— PRICE FIVE CENTS ne ps rune nncacsovr anew, WHO WAS WOUNDED BY PISTOL Garman Forces Within Close Rang <a ao cc Of Kharkov Fighting ‘Fiercely 10 YUGOSLAVIA | With his sixshooter loaded andi. per bag on the counter, and said) | shaving cream, razor, clean under-| hunting, and I knows it’s going to | ~ Ground Said To Be Lit- ‘@y Aasocinted Press) LONDON, Mar. 15.—Fight- ing has broken out anew near Zagreb in Yugoslavia, result- ing in two signal successes for Guerillas against German and Italian troops stationed at that place. It was reported today that Marshal Hermann Goering, of ! pared on Saturday evening to go | “hunting,” as he said, and he knew took out of the bag was a tube | that the “hunting,” which was of toothpaste and the next Bi | shooting a woman, would land him! popes 2 2 Deputy} } (By Anssociated Prens) | Ernest Price, colored, was pr@-' Joe Knight, “Look at that.” The first thing Deputy Knight! WASHINGTON, Mar. 15.— | left home to look for his intended! to have everything I needs when swam | four extra cartridges in his pocket, | to Chief A. H. McInnis and Deputy | {wear and a clean shirt into it and/ land me in jail. so I makes ready | FIGHTING IN TUNISIA CONFINED } (By Associated Preasy LONDON, Mar. 1. state that the general has spurned the ultimatum and will, instead, con- tinue to kill and harass Italian ammunition and supplies to Car- dines’ men. RATIONING BOOKS MADE AVAILABLE) E. P. Winter states that there | was a shortage of institutional! ration books here recently, announces that an extra supply! has been received and can be} obtained by applying to the Ra-} tion Board in the P. O. Building, Room 220. REVENUE OFFICE-TO. BE OPEN UP TO MIDNIGHT Howard Wilson, deputy collec- tor of Internal Revenue, inform- ed The Citizen today that his of- fice will be Open) until midnight, | tonight, for the purpose of re- ceiving income tax payments. Tonight will be the deadline for filing and paying taxes, and Mr. Wilson states that those having occasion to file returns must do so between now and the midnight hour. The OPA announced today that supplemental gasoline rationing would not be given to those motorists in various parts of the country who are in a position to use trains, sub- way trains and buses to go to and from theit worl. _ He pointed out that; in some” Parts of the coiintry/ transpor-” tation facilities'were not be- ing = to their full extent yy the travelitig’ lic °Who own automobiles: they prefer to use their cars, and, where that circumstances is proved, they are not to be given ex- tra gasoline. VI CAIALE LSI CANDLE TO BURN FOR DURATION OF WAR AS SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL DETROIT, Mich., Mar. 15.—To make sure that members ofg St, John’s Episcopal Church, Detroit, will not forget men of the varish who are in the armed forces, seven-foot-tall wax candle a has but ; been placed in the sanctuary, to be H Tavernier are closed, is true, and | kept burning until the men come j back. On the altar lies a Service Book in which: is written the names of the men who are away, and prayers are said at regular Periods, mentioning all of the men | by name. The church is kept open jfrom 9 to 5 daily, and people of the community are invited to jcome in and pray for their loved | ones in the service. FLAT TIRE FINISHES CAR TOPEKA, Kan.—While driving home, the tiré on the car of Po- liceman Perry Helm blew out and the rim stuck between planks at a railroad crossing. While trying to dislodge the rim, a train.came along and demolished the automo- bile. Helm was not hurt. the German air force, hes de- cided to use Germany's big- gest air transports to rush troops to that area. Each transport is capable of carry- ing 80 soldiers and 80 more in gliders attached to each trans- port. j victim. She is Willie May O’Neil, col- | ored, and when he found her in her home at 320 Angela. street, he | whipped out his sixshooter and | began firing. | The first shot went wild, the tsecond grazed the back of her jneck, the third was off aim also. | but the fourth lodged in her left | shoulder. PARTY FISHING AT ;» TAVERNIER IS OUT: | She started to scream as soc FOR THE DURATION | ®s she saw the gun, but when the * bullet struck her shoulder, sie Justice of the Peace Edward R. | ‘tied out, “I'm dead, I'm dead; oh, a ng | my God, I’m dead!” Lowe, of Tavernier, who is in Key| “Brice broke into a run and West on a business visit, says that tnot stop till he reached party fishing at Tavernier and | sheriff's office. He threw the nearby communities, with one ex- ‘ception, has been abandoned, and ; {that business conditions there all} i wi j winter have been poor. i Guides in fishing boats, who, | before the war started, had prac- | ically as much business as they } {could attend to during the win-j | ter season, are either engaged in| | commercial fishing or are work-! ling at other jobs either at home | jor elsewhere. | At least one sailor in Key |. Judge Lowe said that the story ; si F Big iThe Citizen published, in which| West (his name is held in strict est confidence) is not going to jit was stated that all groceries in! miss his birthday cake, which has been made for by his mother since the first ap- did the pa- { i | GIVEN SURPRISE ; that the residents have to go to} |Homestead to buy groceries, |“When they can get them.” ONE SAILOR IN KEY WEST TO BE CAKE PRESENTED BY HIS MOTHER one of} him: | L comes here.” | “Hunting? What do you mean} | *hunting’?” “I shot a woman.” “Is she dead?” { | ‘to find out. All I wants to do was/ [to get in jail, and to have them! | things to take care of me.” | | Price then dropped four car-! from skirmishes, all ; tridges on the counter and said he a Se jhad thrown away the gun. | Tunisia since yesterday has been aid, confined to the air. t The woman was given fi | treatment in the Naval Hospital| General Bernard Montgomery's !and was then removed to a local! air squadrons today are bombing | hospital. | the Mareth Line -from end to |, She is expected to recover.! end. with the southern part Meanwhile, Price is held without; Pounded harder than at any oth- bail. | er place along the line. It is | toward the southern end that ; Montgomery's Eighth Army is | continuing to advance, and it | was predicted that what prob- | cbly will turn out to be one of | the greatest battles in Tunisia is | likely to start there any day. The British First Army is re- WITH BIRTHDAY TO AIR WITH EXCEPTION OF FEW “Thats one thing I didn't stop! SKIRMISHES BY GROUND FORC ES (By Associated Press) i ALGIERS, Mar. 15. — Aside, ported to be preparing also for action. in|.an all-out. offensive aaainst the! | Axis forces in northern Tunisia. | Yesterday) British bombers at- | facked enemy positions. during which Spitfires. shot down four German and Italian planes with- out the loss of a single Srit- fire. General Giraud’s speech yes- terday. in which he called on all Frenchmen to unite against the common foe, is believed to have struck a note that will result in better coordination of the French forces under his and General De Gaulle’s command in Tunisia. | | !and arrangements have been} made for its surprise presenta- | tion to the sailor boy. { “We can’t give name and/ date,” it was said at the cham-| ber, “because if we do, the ele-j ment of surprise will be killed.” | iThe speaker continued: LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press? AMERICANS AND RAF MAKE DAY RAIDS anoncemn \ tered With Thousands Of Nazi Dead Following | Engagement (Ry Associated Press) MOSCOW, Mar. 15.—Though Berlin cleimed yesterday that Axis forces had recaptured Khar- kov, as a result of an encircling | movement from the north, and the west, today’s Russian communique | asserted that the city has not fallen but that the fighting, just beyond its outskirts, is even fiercer than that at eny other time since the Germans launched their countor- attack. * The communique states that the ground is littered with thousands of German dead and hundreds of | motorized vehicles, including tanks, but still the Axis forces | push on. It is admitted that the Russians, in the western sector. fell back farther this morning, but that. in the northern sector. they are still holding the same | line along which they fought yesterday. Russian newspapers. particu!ar- The only party fishing in the jupper keys this winter, he said, hi pad Key. | MRS. LUCY PEKE DIES IN MIAMI News has been received by | niversary of his birth. F ; She is anxious to keep up the ‘been in boats going out from! record, so she wrote to the Key! West Chamber of Commerge. | explaining that her son is sta- | tioned here and requesting that lit do her the favor of having } delivered to him a cake on his | anniversary. She added that she has always i fh today raided parts of ma “After having read her-letter,| _. LONDON—RAF and American fiyets today Pai ly Red Star, today again called every word of which I felt was northern France and Belgium. and among the objectives attacked | on the Russians to fight to the actuated by the tense love only! Were four trains, which were blown up. Last night German planes; last man, if necessary, in defence a: mother-can- fetl;-it<-remindod,-Feided.the northeast.coast.of England-eng caused some casualties. | of Kharkov. “You held Stalingrad me of Rudyard Kipling’s great | So pete: = a remate ig > ay onl poem, ‘Mother O’ Mine’, and I | JAPS PREPARING AGAIN pte gy hee ake ¥ ee Saoton ihe pee at DARWIN.—Japs are reported again to be mobilizing forces north- | “The situation at Kharkov is ve a x >| west of Australia for a possible attack on this country or on New| ave,” the jaue stated. teen The Mfiret. thing as eel Guinea or the Solomons. American and Australian planes have, since ei i ich was rich- Mrs. Mary Bryant, 903 Francis} ™@de him one, whic sireet, stating that her sister, Mia.| eT and larger than the cakes she West, di iterd: i ; Fealizes that, were it shipped to Miata ‘ied yesterday morning 72 him, it ‘wonky funk Ne The body will be brought to | condition when it reached here. Lucy Peke former resident of Key | 0'dinarily makes, but that she| in good} I was repeating the closing lines: “Jf I were drowned deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, oh, in i | could not be seen, mother | | yesterday. raided Kiska, in the Aleutians, Rabaul. in New Britain, | and Munda, in New Georgia Island. The Americans attacked a small this morning. have started an- the | convoy near Kiska but visibility was so poor results-of the attack other offensive with Kharkov as | “but it has not fallen.” ; _ The Germans. it was disclosed | the objective. That offinsive is | coming from the southeast, 79 miles away, and is said to be as- SOME FLORIDA TOURISTS FACED WITH GASOLINE PROBLEM IN RETURNING HOME: 0.P.A. CITES OTHER RULINGS OF AGENCY (Special te ‘The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, Mar. 15.—Some Florida tourists,.will have a hard time getting back to their respective homes,,, No. .gasolineymay- be allowed for motor travel from summer homes to winter homes, and from winter homes to summer homes, used primarily for wana tion purposes;'says the OPA. Only two exceptions, are permissibler}: If the tourist is a resident of *. one of the 17 seaboard states, and has been continuously away from home since August 22, 1942, he can get a special ration to return home. If he is a resident of a state outside the rationed area and has been continuously away from home since December 1, 1942, he can obtain a_ special ration. New r Albert Vor Keller, former mayor of Melbourne and well- known Florida contractor, has been named War Manpower} commissioner for the Jackson-} ville area comprising the Second! Congressional District. Activities of the offices of, the U. S. Employment Service’ in Jacksonville and -Palatkd are expected to come understhe jur- isdiction of the new area com-| missioner. The Jacksenyi¥e U. S. Employment Servi un thi covers the counties “of oy Nassau, - Hamilton, _ Suwannee,! while the Palatka office, under the management of J. L. Stubbs, ——$—+— Johns counties. No Luncheon Ban Planned The report that OPA has placed a ban on civic club lunch- (Continued on Page Four) Closing Soon FOR THE SEASON OLD ISLAND TRADING POST North End Duval Street COME and MAKE YOUR ©. SELECTIONS: NOW! St. Patrick’s Day DANCE and FLOOR SHOW SPONSORED BY ST. MARY STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH Wednesday, March: 17th LA CONCHA HOTEL TICKETS: $2.20 PER PERSON For Table Reservations Call: Catholic Rectory PHONE 253 management ‘of FO Jamieson, Columbia, Baker and Clay; | AR nd EEA CLS IDEAS OEM RULER BATTERIES CHARGED The Modern Way Drive in, in 30 to 45 minutes and, your car can be on its way! Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE Phone No.5 White at covers’ Putnam, Flagler and St. | Key West, and funeral services | will be announced later by the Pritchard Funeral Home. SESS oases x4 TYDINGS IS AGAINST. ; BANKHEAD FARM BILL (By Associnied ~ ens) WASHINGTON, Mar. 15.— Senator Tydings, of Mary- land, said today he opposes the Bankhead bill, which Provides for the exemption of all farmers from military “duties. Tydings said that all farm- ‘Vers do not produce food- stuffs, and that those who ;don’t should not be exempt- ed any more so than any other class of workers. TIIDIIDI ISS ae helena rubenstein’s AQUACADE LEG LOTION Water resistant Jeg make-up for bare leg beauty. zs { a) Save your precious hosiery by using this natural looking make- up. | Easily) Removéd with Soap and Water *Federal Tax Extra. SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY. Inc. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Duval at Fleming “Phone 199 So she asked that the best cake locally available be bought and presented to him when his birth- WICKARD TO TELL ABOUT CROPS Sate = WASHINGTON.—Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, in a Smid Gangerous proportions. At | broadcast on Thursday, will tell the Ameritan people about the ex- of mine! } I know whose prayers would j come down to me, day anniversary rolls around. The money has reached here Mother o’ mine, oh, Mother o’ mine!’” "ALL ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR CROSS PARADE TOMORROW AFTERNOO The Red Cross Parade is def- | music setting the pattern for| initely set for 4 p. m. tomorrow| marching feet, will proeced up} afternoon and will serve. as. aj United to Duval street, down! | celebration in reaching the $5,000| Duval =, pots Barracks.| i Fe as ard to Army Barracks. papas the local chapter’s _ All the members of the parade to raise the $12,600 quota asked! wit! follow the company of sol- of Monroe County. ; diers, which will precede them, The parade will form at Unit-} into the Army grounds to wit- ed and Whitehead streets, and,| ness the drill scheduled to take with flags flying and martial (Continued on Page Four) INCOME TAXES PO JURING IN FROM ALL OVER COUNTRY WASHINGTON.—According to reports received by the Treasury | Department, income taxes are pouring in from all over the country. ed to the west bank of the Don- | tent of planting that has thus far been made by farmers for this sea- etz. and # large-scale battle was | son's crops. He will also speak about plans that have been made fo going on there when lest advises “—~——-—— | increase the nation’s productive acreage. were received hero. The Russians are sfill continu- ing to advance west of Vrazma toward Smolensk. the enemy's chief base in Russia. In one en counter in that sector, the com The opinion was expressed that the number of persons who will file munique reports thet $20 - Axis by the midnight deadline will total almost 40,000,000, the largest in forces were killed and eight the history of the country. The American people have been warned ©my tanks destroyed. end in 2- that they must file by the deadline, regardless of what is going on in ©ther sector 409 were sizin and th capitol regarding the pay-as-you-go plan, which may or may not *!* tanks put out of action. Southard and out! relieve taxpayers of some,of the payments covering last years taxes. HULL AND EDEN TO CONFER WASHINGTON.—Secretary' of State Cordull Hell returned today from Florida, where he had gone to rest, and will hold a con- ference late this afternoon or early this evening with Anthony Eden,’ afternoon at 1°15 o'clock at * ' secretery of Britain foreign affairs, (0 | Paul E, Christy, author of “Are You Listening” and other books and specialist in Audiometries, is pleased to an- nounce the opening of his new office building. 619 Duval Str PHONE 332 it 1 } i ' to the Hard of Hearing. or phone for home demonstration. *Hearing Aids in the Valdes eet Mr. Christy and his staff are equipped to give instant. service Come in for free demonstration and chart of your hearing | KEEPS AWAY FROM WATER MILWAUK | tinct wild geese of Hawaii lives fon arid lava, sleeps high in the ; mountains and rarely goes near The nearly ex- GRASS FIRE CALiS OUT FIRE APPARATUS A gra e discovered of White Ss called out the f which responded | diately. The blaze was and box 334, corner