The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 20, 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. 68. bi Shown That Council Al- ways Has Power To Re- fuse Issuance Of Any License The City Council at a the war. Councilmen Paul G. Albury. John Carhonell, Leonard B, Grillon led On Fist Rainy § SBE SaaaaL. FIGHTING EFFORTS ON MOVE TO TRY TO PREVENT INFLATION (By Assucinied > ean) WASHINGTON, Mar. 20.— A. double-barrelled atteck is being made on the country’s efforts to try to beat down the tendency toward inflation, it fwas ennounced here today. | » Orie movement, which | swould help to bring about in- | \flationfi is the insistence of the | ‘farm bloc in t-e senate and | ‘the house to reise the parity | of grain, end the other is the opposition to the Labor Bill, expressed by William Green, Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1943. Key West, Florida, his most equabile climate in + country; with an average range of only 14° Fabrent & ‘OOF Soong HET MATES vs Lo Boos! ere Continue. Their Advance cuanence ices, susixess 10 RELEASE BOMBS ON GERMAN | WASHINGTON, Mar. 20.—| on the bombsight. Then, just as LACK OF PRIORITIES Hero Fatally Wounded By Anti-Aircraft Shrapnel AGENT OF CARPENTERS’! | Lieutenant Jesse Elliott. of Tal-| another shower of arpnel | j lahassee. Florida. who wes in a OPERATIONS HERE ee ages pee TARGETS UNION, SAYS CAUSED By| Fn 3 }struck the fortress. Mathews Toward Nazi Basé At Smolensk J of the local Carpenters’ Union, | Said today there has. been a de- | cided falling off in building in Key West due to the priorities set up in this area by the War Produc- | tion Board. About 50 carpenters stated, adding that they had eith- jer left the city or got jobs in lo- cal government work. Clarence Higgs, business agent; jhave been laid off recently, he | the target that had been BRITISH ROUT JAPS IN BAY OF BENGAL ELSEWHERE IN BURMA BRIT- ISH ARE FIGHTING OF- FENSIVE ACTIONS { : oe, uulled the le ; Flying Fortress that participated it eiahiekal the beat a Souk in a reid on Germany three days! ment later. expicded almost in aco, today told a story about the center of the target. Lieutenant Jack Matthews, of With his hand still gripping Texas, the bombadier aboard’ the level, Matthews slumped in- | the fortress, that is something of to his seat. and. when Lieuten- jen ebic. ant Elliott reached Matthew, he | As the fortress was nearing, was found to be dead from a | assign-| gaping shrapnel wound. i fed to its crew. Matthews stuck; Had the shrapnel struck a | steadily to his bombsight, with' second earlier, Lieutenant Mat- |his right hand gripping the lever’ thew would have died before af- (By Associated Press) jthat would release his ‘stopped on all “Were it not for priorities,” Mr. load — of! i , d soot Higgs declared, “we would have | bombs. Tinaeat Enises eat bat ine ee boom in this city, the! Suddently, there was @ crash\ond's delay gave hhith the. oppor- ih = eb s Tae occurred | of shravnsl from anti-aircraft) tunity to perform his duty be- Utfhand 15 oe aa poe ame | guns that shattered the class nose| fore he expired. © persons Who | cf the bomber. but Mathews still| The plane was flown safely wish to have houses constructed, | stuck to hi t, his © ued ; i but are unable to do so because } eee ee nlite | of the lack of material.” | He said that work had been | private building projects in Key West, except that | OFFICIALS LEAVING TOMORROW TO NEW DELHI, Mar. 20.—British forces along the shore of the Bay of Bengal, aided by the fire from naval v ay the Japs in that area into a head- long retreat. Elsewhere in Burma, British forces are fighting offensive ac- tions. In one area, the Japs made two counter-attacks, but were ch time. After the forced ; LATE BULLETINS (Dy Associated Press) PLANES SINK JAP SUBMARINE DARWIN. — A Japanese sub marine, which was attempting yesterdry to lend supplies to the Jap garrison at Lae, on the north coast of New Guinea, was bomb- ‘ed and sunk by a squadron of American planes, Unable to sup- | ply the garrison by using surface ships, the Japs are naw trying to j lend food end ammunition to their troops from submarines. The one ; Sunk tried to crash dive to avoid | the bombers, but was struck and torn apart before she could get below the surface. JAPS RAID AMERICAN BASE Moscow Admits Russians In Doneiz Basi Are Continuing To Fall Back Slowly (By Assortared Frees MOSCOW. Mar. 20.—Russicns are continuing to advance ward the greet German base at Smolensk. today’s commumqus Steted, adding that one cf the three columns thet heve mode thet city their objective is now from Smolensk and the third 2 Gistance of 80 mules. The commumique admitted ths: the Reds in the Donetz be and William A. Freeman voted ful attack, the! DARWIN.—Fifty Jap planes agzinst the adoption of the amend- ment to the ordinance, while Councilmen John Sweeting and Gerald Saunders voted in favor of its adoption, It was brought out during the discussion by those opposing the ordinance, that inasmuch as the Federation of Labor, and the companion movement, engi- neered by John L. Lewis, head of the United Miners of Americe, to raise the wage scale among soft coal miners $2 a day for eech worker. One representative declar- ed he felt confident that, if the bill providing for the par- ity raising of grain. is pass- , the President will veto it. ptesident of the American / which is in progress on the or CONFER WITH STATE COMMISSION PPB MB EE SM | sailboat about half a mile off the| make arrangements to defer busi- | agent. WEATHER SLOWS ‘| DOWN AMERICANS >Hi lution was adopted rela- tive to the agreement entered in- to between the city and the Stad- ium Committee for the operation of the stadium as a baseball park. with other sports to be put on af- (Continued on Page Four) annual beauty offer helena rubinstein creams, lotions make-up Buy now and save 20% on Helena Rubinstein's famous beauty aids. Don’t miss this once-a-year oppor tunity to get an ample sssupply of your daily essentials. Plan to include a set of fragrant | path accessories, a beauty masque, an exquisite ‘Helena Rubin- stein perfume. This special offer lasts for a limited time only! NOTE: Cologne, Eau de Toilette, Gift Sets and Beauty Luggage are not included in this event. SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Ine. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Duval at Fleming Phone 199 MUD AND RAIN CAUSE OP- ERATIONS TO HALT IN EN GAGEMENTS IN VICINITY OF GAFSA (By Associated Press) ALGIERS, Mar. 20.—Mud and rain have slowed the American offensive east and southeast) of Gefsa, which they captured two days ago without opposition. Today rain was falling *- tor- rents and had converted roads and fields into quagmires, Gen- eral Montgomery's Eighth Army, which has prepared to make an all-out attack on the southerly end of the Mareth Line. has been brought to a siancstill by the trequent rainstorms during the last 24 hours. It was explained today that shauld, the. American forces threaten the cavture of Gabes./ onthe eastern border of Tunisia. | Rommel either will have to evac-! uate it or have ais troops there; cut off from their supvly bases.! PRP AAA AR ITAA AA AAIIAI A 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 pm. Week-Nights at 8 o’Clock EERE RRR LL. ~ ON SALE ND.AY We have a large shipment of PORK arriving to go ON SALE MONDAY Come and Get Your Share Bermuda MEAT MARKET JOHN COBO. Prop. White and Eliza Streets the Fleming Street Methodist ; Church is having erected, | FIVE PERSONS CLINGING TO OVERTURNED BOAT id A Coast Guard patrol boat, yes- terday afternoon, rescued two women and three Navy men who were clinging to small overturned | West Martello Tower. | Carl Mitchell, Navy enlisted | san, of 595 Faton street. who with !Mrs. Mitchell and™\Mrs. Omer | Blockshire. same addfess, were {guests on the boat side. said the small boat shipped water and over- turned as she was tacking. “We were in the water for about an hor,” trol boat.” Mitchell said he and the two ramen wer> invited on the boat jride by James Tolbert and J. B. Albury, Navy seamen, who rent- ed the boat for the afternoon. SIX DEFENDANTS PLEADED GUILTY Six defendants pleaded guilty | yesterday afternoon at a special jterm of the criminal court, Judge William V. Albury presiding. | Their names and the sentences im- | posed are: Willie Peloquin, speeding, $1 and costs or 30 days in jail; Ralph ‘Wise, no Florida license tag, $5 jand costs or 30 days: Josenh P. | Wheeler, open profanity, $10 and jcosts; the latter were suspended on payment of the fine; Gonzalo Zarate, onerating a game of jchance, $50 and costs; John Har- costs; Albert Frazier,.$5 and costs. | COAST GUARD RESCUES we happy when we saw that pa- old, assault and battery, $25 and | Japs dug in and are now being blasted by British heavy artillery. \ ‘In those clashes, the report said, Five city and county of ik Ch , Jr., county solicitor and the Nipponese troops numbered | will leave on the 11:30 o'clock bus* attorney for the Local School! 10 ihousand. tomorrow morning for Tallahassee | Board. | In the northeast China area, the jto attend a conference with the! Of the $1,250,000 outstanding Chinese have launched an offen- {Florida Securities Commission,| bonds, between $300,000 and $400,-' sive that threatens to overwhelm |relative to refunding of bonds of ; 000 of them have not yet been re-! the Japs, who are the City of Key West. funded, and the object of the con-' aciously because that terrain is an ; Eight had been expected to make} ference is to have them included | ideal place from which ‘the Allies | the trip, but three of them said to-| in the general plan, of which the could conduct bombing raids on jday that they had been unable to | Crummer Company is the fiscal, Tokyo. \ The report concluded that the jness matters to which they have| _ It was because of the refusal of Japs have been beaten also in a jto attend. | j| the holders of the bonds, not in-i battle along the Yangtse River. | Those who will go are Mayor! cluded in the plan, to concur in| | Willard M. Albury, Councilman! the proposal, that led the city to {Gerald Saunders, County Clerkj start bankruptcy proceedings in: EVELIO NEBO, 28, jRoss C. Sawyer, City Attorney) the Federal court in this district. {Thomas A. Caro and Allen Bj The case is still pending. i HOSPITAL” EQUIPMENT trorenas semvices wus ot TO BE STARTED MONDAY MORNING conmucte> romonsow aes AFTERNOON |. Moving of the equipment and, must be dismantled before it: Evelio Nebo, 28. died this {furnishings in the Marine Hos-;can be moved and ail of it must |™orning at 7:15 o'clock at his pital, which have been loaned be checked and reinventoried by | Tesidence, 915 Duval street. to the City of Key West tobe Harry Rue, representing the’ The funeral will be held to- used in the proposed hospital’ Federal Works Agency, and Mr,/™orrow afternoon at 5 o'clock |that will be constructed in the Neil, representing the United from the residence, Rev. | botanical gardens on Stock Island,| States Public Health Service. {28 Atherton, S.J., of St. will begin at 9 o'clock Monday! Nothing further has Baas morning. ‘heard by Mayor Albury about , Officiating. |. Mayor Willard M. Albury said the application for $275,000 to| Lopez Funeral Home today that it probably will re-i construct the proposed hospital.|Charge of arrangements. |quire two weeks to move and The application has been ap-/ Burial will take place in the |store all the material in the proved by the Federal Works | Catholic cemetery. |Gato, brick factory building at Agency for this regional district, , Survivors of the deceased are Catherine and Grinnell streets. | with offices in Atlanta, and by|the mother, Mrs. Juan Nebo; a | It will require that length of the United States Public Health /sister, Miss Louise Nebo; four jtime} the mayor explained, be- Service at its headquarters in brothers, John | Nebo, Eugene jcause some of the equipment Washington. je Oscar Nebo of California = {and Pete Nebo. |PLAN CLUB IN ULSTER |WATCH DOG’S REALLY | PHELAN SECOND IN FOR A. E. F. BRIDES IN DOUGHOUSE NOW| COMMAND OF PILOTS | (By Associated Press) { (By Associated Preks) | Mar, is In a story in The Citizen yester- | BELFAST, Mar. 20. —Now, CHARLOTTE, N. C., Mar. 20—' gay, jt was stated that Lieutenant holding ten-! Thom-} been Star of the Sea Catholic church, | in! NEW ADDRESS 619 DUVAL ‘there's talk of organizing here a | club of war brides of United States Raiding a hen house, the thief} id si ‘ 4 lo¢ked the watchdog in the dog-| soldiers. Sponsors say it wow! i jhave a surprisingly large member- | iguse beioee Boing about the |ship, for~ American soldiers con- | business of picking off four hens} |tinue to wed Ulster brid ‘and a rooster. Commander Sharpley, of the Key West Pilots’ Association, is the second in) Command. That posi- tion is held by Lieutenant Com- | mander John J. Phelan. DR. J. A. VALDES | OPTOMETRIST eae Hours: sitet Se one 619 ‘Duval Office: 392 Street Residence: 351 FOR SALE To Highest Bidder Three one-story build- ings and one two-story ner of Catherine and Si- monton streets, Key West, belonging to estate of Rosa must be sealed and in the hands of undersigned by 12 P.M. Saturday, March 27th, 1943. Land 50’x100’. JOE PEARLMAN $20 DUVAL STREET Co-Executor of the Estate | building located at the cor- Levine, deceased. Bids |} , PALACE THEATER CHARLIE CHAPLIN in THE GOLD RUSH e : e Notice to the Public NEWS and SERIAL Beginning Monday, March 22, the Following Schedule for the Collection of Garbage and Trash will be Effective: MONDAYS and THURSDAYS: All streets between Southard and Front streets —from Thomas to White street—Francis St., Ashe St.,—White St., to Petronia, Angela St— Newton St. and Petronia St.—Francis St. to North Beach. : TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS: Fe All streets between Southard and Division from Emma to North Beach and up to Virginia St., from Windsor Lane to Varela. WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS: Division to South Beach and end of island. _LaCONCHA HOTEL CHARLES M. SALAS, Mar. THE BEST DINE ax» DANCE Facilities in South Florida / RAINBOW ROOM © ' COCKTAIL LOUNGE PAUL G. ALBURY, Temporary Manager, City Scavenger Service. raided the American positions yes- terday on the northeast coast of ‘New Guinea, dameged wharves and ctippled a small ; launch with a near hit. POLICE ARF INVESTIGATING COLLISIONS MIAML—Three collisions her? : in the last few days between mil- | itary and civilian cars are being tre continuing to fall slowly under the constant poun ims i ertiliery anc dive Toat is file only sector im the | investigated by the police. Three i ‘men were killed, including two who were in the ermed services. The lest collission was between (an afmy truck and a passenger eutomobile. SAYS OPA NOT COOPERATING MIAMI—Comolaint be: been made here that the OPA in Wash- | ington is not cooperating with this citys rationing boards in mskin > decisions thet are purely of a local nature, and that would, if adonted. ‘ lead to better distribution of food- | -tuffs in this area. It was said that if the Washington OPA office continues its opposition, some members of the local board are go- inj to retizn. MISSING’ SERVICE MAN DISCOVERED IN DAYTONA BEACH The report that became cur- rent last Tuesday that Claude C. Gerding, a civilian employe in the Navy Sound School, had disappeared, was cleared up this morning when information was received in Bey West that he was in Daytona Beach and was on his way to his home at | Newport. Ky. {| The report gained currency ‘because Gerding left Key West without his telling anybody that he intended to go aw ps | DOUBLES POPULATION | NEW YORK.—The town of, Kor ‘diak, Alaska, doubled its popula | tion between 1930 and 1940. APE EB BIG DANCE TONIGHT ULS CLUB MUSIC 9 to 12 by JOHN PRITCHARD’S | ORCHESTRA | OPEN EVERY NIGHT, 8 to 12 Reservation Suggested PHONE $287 | + honor roll and students Dean's List of Marion Instit students for the month of Febru which has just been » Lt. Colonel L. H. Baer, ci name of William Benj lons, Jr., son of Mr. and Mr B. Wellons, 1218 Mapgaret si = Key West. This list ithe acader wh tam the ratimg are grant cial privileges m the Cadet Is GIVE GENEROUSLY TO THE RED CROSS 1943 WAR FUND Make Your Check Payable to the local chapter of the Red Cross. Southernmost City Pharmacy, Inc. Seskiaiia tae Duval and Fleming Streets PHONE 183 KEY WEST Is‘Out Business and the more used the better we liked it, but to comply with the Fuel Conservation Program we must now ask you to CON- SERVE IT. And to use all appliances as economically as possible for the duration. Key West Gas Co-