The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 23, 1943, Page 1

& fe & feat Citizrit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1943. EXPECT LARGE — |SURVIVORS NUMBERING TWENTY-NINE SCALE’ FIGHTING (OFF AMERICAN SHIP TORPEDOED. IN AROUND PACIFIC' CARIBBEAN ARRIVED AT THIS PORT SECRETARY OF NAVY SAYS ENGAGEMENTS LIKELY TO BE STARTED MOST ANY TIME Associated Press’ Day Wire | Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida. most equable climste = country; with am svrerace 4 IN THE U. S. AmeriganForcesUnder Command Of Caribbean area during the first) believed to be dead. ae Fart of March, are missing and) W. W. Fawkes, 3rd mate, of} believed to be dead by the sur-/ Port Arthur, Texas, who was o! TWENTY. THREE KEY ; vivors of the craft who arrived! watch at the time of the attack,| a WESTERS A. VOLUME LXIV. No. 70. ae C Seven members of the crew of|no fire after the attack and they an American Merchantman,|were all convinced that the sev- Hundreds Of Tons Of Ex-\ O@ #9 IS IO #4 Forty-Fifth Attack Since gr rice; MUST IDENTIFY Germans Make Several Fu- tile Attacks Toward here aboard a U.S. Naval ves:|said he was almost positive that sel. !three men in the engine room Fred C. Vosloh of Houston,!of the ship were killed outright} (ly Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Mar. 23.—/} War Started ab (By Associated Press) INDON, Mar. 23.—In fighting determinedly the sub- marine menace at its source, the RAF last night made another raid on the German U-boat base at St. Nazaire, in France, and it was re- a i rv ly Ee Ey Hi : : 5 : ft Ee : H Not only was the raid more suc- cessful than any other on that ob- jective, but the loss of planes was far smaller, Only one bomber fail- ed to return to its base. A third raid last night was made by RAF planes on Naples, which was the fifty-second on that city since the war started. ONLY TWO PURCHASERS OF HOMES IN LIME GROVE. HAVE FILED APPLICATIONS THUS FAR County Tax Assessor Claude Gandolfo said today that, so far as he can learn, from 18 to 20 houses }|> etermine,if any of the bicycles Five bicycles, belonging to Key Westers, are in the possession of Sheriff Berlin Sawyer, awaiting for their owners to call for them. Sheriff Sawyer added thet the bicycles must be. identified. He stated that he often sees classified ad- vertisements in The Citizen about Jost or stolen bicycles * and declared it would be an easy.matter for him to de- » were in his possession if their dk he ddeked i RUSSIANS GOING AFTER GERMANS | | IN HARD DRIVE REDS BECOME VERY OPTIM-| ISTIC IN OPERATIONS NOW| CARRIED ON IN VARIOUS SECTORS i i | ! ! i | | (By Associated Prean) MOSCOW, Mar. 23.—The Rus- sian communique was more op-; timistic todey about the fighting in the’ Donetz basin ‘than it had been at any other time since the | Germans launched their mighty | counter-attacks in that area. Russian heavy guns, brought up close enough to blast the Nazis | front lines, have completely halt- ed their advance, the communique stated. It was added that the Reds | are now preparing to ‘launch a counter-attack in the hope of re- gaining the ground they have lost! in the last five days of fierce fighting against heavy odds. { The Russian army in the north, under command of Marshal Timo- shenko, is attempting to cross the | have been sold in the Lime Grove | upper Dneiver River in the ad-/ subdivision to Key Westers and| vance toward Smolensk. That others, yet only two of them have} army, the revort added, has re-| as yet filed a statement that will} captured $0 more villages since | give them the benefit of the Home- stead Exemption Act. Those people as well as almost 200 more, who have the privilege of benefiting from thé Homestead law, have only eight ‘days left to file, and if they don’t’ attend to the matter by that timé;'Mr.°Gan- dolfo stated, they will be forced to pay the full taxation: ‘ He added that the law compels him to chrage’ the ‘full amount, and that he is going to abide strict- ly by the law. Mr. Gandolfo has tried in various ways to have owners of property, on which declarations have not} been made, to take advantage of} the Homestead law. He said to a reporter of The Citizen a few days ago, “If you see So-and-So, tell him if he doesn’t file his exemp- tion taxes will cost him $84.” The reporter passed on the in- formation, and So-and-So rushed up to the office and had his home exempted. REGISTRATION FORMS FOR FOOD RETAILERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE [yesterday and hes come into pos- session of the northern spur of a/ {railroad that runs to Poland and jon to Berlin. » Two other columns of Russian | Stitt a ot onc el | ported'to be only 7 miles away! | ftorn its objective. MANY KINGFISH | CAUGHT MONDAY CATCHES BROUGHT IN DUR- ING DAY AMONG BEST OF PRESENT SEASON } 1 Yesterday kingfish were run-j ning fairly well off Sand Key, to the south of Key West, and catches made by local fishermen ranged from 400 to 700 pounds a boat. The scarcity of fish in Key west, an experienced fisherman ;said today, is not due to any} | of white gladioli and red and flag- jback in Australia. Secretary of the Navy Frank | Knox hinted today that large| scale fighting is likely to break out any time in the Southwest Pacific. He stated that the calm of the last few days may be similar to! a calm before a storm. It was| disclosed, during his press con- ference, that planes in the/| Southwest Pacific yesterday for| the first time used Peiboknurt-| ers” in attacking Japanese posi- tions. Bombs, weighing 2,000 pounds, were dropped on Jap! bases on New Britain Island. Shipping and wharf installa- tions at Rabaul on New Britain were devastated over a large! area. Secretary Knox said that! American and Australian troops are now conducting mopping up operations on New Guinea. ; Recently 700 Japs were killed) there and hundreds of others, who fled into swamps andj jungles, have either died of ma- laria or starved to death. FAREWELL PARTY FOR SHIPS’ CREWS AFFAIR GIVEN AT FLEET| CLUBHOUSE LAST WEEK Good neighbor _ hospitality reigned at a farewell party, given last. weekvat. the .Fleet Reserve Clubhouse, Branch No, 56, honor- ing the crews of two ships recent- ly turned over to the Brazilian Navy by the United States. The party was given by Chief! Signalman George Jennings and Mrs. Jennings and Chief Signal- man Rober Jochems and Mrs. Jochems. Among the guests.of honor was First Sergeant Jose Rodriguez! Negras of the Brazilian Navy, now assistant to Chief Jennings in} Forces Afloat at the U. S. Naval} Operating Base here. Toasts during the evening, given ! by enlisted men of both navies, | evidenced the cordial relations ; between the two allied nations. The evening's festivities were cli- maxed bv the guests’ rendition of | the Brazilian National Anthem. | After the ovations, the American j hosts and club members respond- | ed by singing the American Na-| tional Hymn. i The colorful decorative eras blue silken streamers arranged by | Evelyn Jochems added a festive} touch. The Brazilian guests car-| ried back to their homeland sou- | venir ribbons #s a memory of the | enjoyable evening. They presented { their hosts with handsome black | enamel and gold smoking en-; sembles. TROOPS RETURN TO AUSTRALIA (By Associated Press) DARWIN, Mar. 23.—The ninth division of the Australian army. which gained fame for with- standing the siege of Tobruk ove: a period of several months, and, later, the part it played in driv- ing Rommel's forces out of Tu- nisia, was reported today to be Members of the division, be- | CONTAINERS Texas, master of the medium- as the torpedo struck near the} size vessel, said the torpedo, engine room. struck the ship on the starboard) Survivors of the side about seventy-five feet from) members of the gun the stern. |latter group suffering no cas-|} “No one saw the torpedo be-|ualties, took to three lifeboats! fore it struck on the starboard | and two rafts as the ship was} side near the engine room,” the; sinking. They drifted for about | skipper said. “The sub did not/ forty-five minutes before being} surface after the attack. The} picked up by an American naval | ship sunk by stern in about an! vessel and were later landed at! hour but about twenty feet ofja Cuban port. The group was the bow remained above water.;then brought to Key West That later disappeared.” | aboard another ship. The attack Several ‘of the survivors, in aj was the first reported in the; group of twenty-nine, which jar-}Caribbean area in several! rived at this port, said there was! months. crew and} crew, the! FOR CANNING FLORIDA OF COPYRIGHT BY JOS. JOHN Deputy United States Marshal Myrtland Cates began yesterday afternoon and is continuing today to serve summons on 23 prominent Key Westers in connection with a suit filed in the Federal court in| this district in connection with a suit for infringement of copyright. by Joseph William John against the Oversezs Road and Toll Bridge | District, the County of Monroe, and the Chamber of Commerce. John charges that his copyright- ed “Tropical America Photosco- pic Mapguide and Roadlog—Flor- | ida Keys, Overseas Highway and Key West” was copied largely in Helding Up Advance Of U. S. Treops the defendants be enjc distributing any more a be awarded $1 damages a total of individuals complaint, whom are residents of Key West. The names of the jatter are as fol-" lows: ) pounding the German lines Carl Bervaldi. E. C. Gomezhard and successfully his spear Ernest A. Ramsey, . Norberg: head is mow only 50 miles ¢ Thompson, R. W.: Craig; Ross C. gos. : Sawyer, Benjamin D.!. Trevor,’ - ab Deals 24 hours ago. Willard M. Albury, Armando Cobo, William W. Demeritt, C Axis forces have made seversi G. Hicks, Everett Russell, Wi liam T. Fripp, Melvin E. Rus: (Ry Ansocimted Press ALGIERS. Mar. 23.—Lueuten-n General George S. Patton with x named in the mtantry E A | preparation of a map known as the Overseas highway, Key West j and Florida Keys and distributed | by the defendants. The plaintiff copies were distributed, asks that FRUITS WILL BE MADE AVAILAB (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) | WASHINGTON, D.C. Mar. were nutritional foods that! _ 23.—Allocation of containers for, Should not be wasted. rts that 200,000 | Stephen C. Singleton, Strunk, Jr. Maitland Adams, Joseph Alien, Bascom L. Grooms. Albert E. Peirce, Clem C re, Julius F. Stone, Jr., and Charles 'S. Taylor. 5 * = Mr. Hill advised Florida can- camming 06 -cthacwise Preserving | ners and food processors to di- Florida fruits was promised to-' rect their requests for containers! day bv Assistant Secretary G. B.’to the Department of Adgricul- Hill of the Department of Agri- ture, | culture. | Mr, Hill also promised to co-| LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) In a letter to Leroy Lamo-/ operate in seeing that each op- reaux, of Estero, Fla. Mr. Hill erator received his proper shares | said that he agreed with the! in the allocation, Rp. J. Hardin! farmer that such Florida fruits Peterson of Lakeland announced! BRITISH BLAST JAP BASES NEW DELHI.—RAF planes. assigned to the British army in Bur- ‘CASA MARINA TO CLOSE APRIL 10; as papayas, mangoes, and guavas today. ~NAVY- MAY TAKE: OVER -HOSTELRY Approximately two hundred in an effgrt to continue operation and fifty persons, including of- of the hotel. ° ficers of the Army and Navy and! , It is understood that there are their dependents, will be seeking Shee orate. tec Aree eed va ee in Key West with the clos- Navy residing at the hotel, along ing of the Casa Marina Hotel with approximately one hundred scheduled for Apyil 10th, it was dependents. There is a waiting list announced today. {which has been estimated at ap- The Casa Marina Hotel has’ proximately two hundred and fifty posted a notice that the hotel will’ persons. While a great majority be closed despite vigorous pro-| of the officers of the Casa Marina tests of the Navy, due to the al-' are in the Navy, there also ar | ma, carried out a series of successful reids yesterday on Jap bases _ {in that country. Garrisons, radio stations, ammunition dumps and | supply depots were torn to pieces by heavy bombs, The Japs are | reported to be falling back gradually along the entire line. _ PRESIDENT FIRM_IN, -INFLATION FIGHT WASHINGTON.—The farm bloc and the advocates for higher | wages will, according to reports issued here today. be opposed by | President Roosevelt, because of his stand that increases in wages and | the upping of farm parity prices will tend to bring about infletion. It ! was reported that the President will take a firm stend in the anti- | inflation fight the government is conducting. The President. accord- | ing to the report, has gained his fight against the threatened strike of soft-coal miners, who have agreed to defer action on their pro- | posed strike on April 1. i AFTER FEDERAL AGENCY WORKERS WASHINGTON.—General Hershey said today that there are | many men who are doing non-essential government work who should | be inducted in the country’s armed services. Elmer Davis, chief of the ready over-crowded conditions in Key West. | approximately twenty-five Army! ofsice of War Information, said that aside from techniciens and lin Com- the hotel management to continue; Operating Base, declined to com- | operation of the large hostelryand | ment today on the possibility that | officers as well as a small number : guists, who could not be replaced, he was agreeable to inducting the It is understood that high rank-! of Coast Guard office: lective boards, ing Naval officials at the Naval'” Captain C. E. Reordan | men in his bureau, adding that the selective ee mess {Operating Base here have urged! mandant of the Key West Naval | the men in deferred classes. ee (By Anmovinted Preas) MORE, Mea CORPORAL ARTHUR ARMAYOR IS MADE STAFF SERGEANT only last week agreed upon «“n in-j the Navy may be forced to take crease in rates which were to be/ over the hotel in order to provide | charged officers and their depend-| homes for the present residents ants. ; seeki laces ive hotel were paying three dollars!" ‘There was considerable specu-j (Special to The Citizen) cae WhRE ten. seeaaes Hemel Gar hate ete a ieee ee wa a the same room. The new rate al-|to take over the hotel to provide | met 2 eoreoral Arthur V. Ar- lowed the management to increase! homes for a large number of of- | ™M@Y0F, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ar- the rate on each person twenty-) ficers who are stationed here and | turo Armayor, 746 Windsor street, five cents per day. This was done| have no other place to live except | Key West, Fla., has been promoted tas hotel. |to the grade of Staff Sergeant in ee N aap ny ee |the 14th Training Regiment of the | LIEUT COL. CLAIBORNE | Branch Immaterial Replacement H | Training Center, Camp Joseph T. | GOING TO FORT DEVENS | rovincon, Arkansas, | aye é Staff Sergeant Armayor has |} Lieut. Col. John W. Claiborne, | heen at Camp Robinson since Jan- | Jr., post surgeon for the Harbor | uary 16, 1942. As a member of the | Defense of Key West for the past} permanent cadre of the Branch | year, has been transferred to Fort! Immaterial Replacement Training | Devens, Mass., it has been an-| Center, it is his duty to instruct brcunpeds ba: the GansBAee Oe and train men in the basic training be (By & Of | subjects taught at’ this Replace- | ficer of the Army post here. | ment Training Center. | Colonel Claiborne, im charge of | ithe Army medical facilities here, ! | supervised the 50-bed expansion | of the Key West Barracks Station Hospital. last year. A graduate of Vanderbilt Uni-j; Camp Robinson is one of two Branch Immaterial Training Cen- ters in the United States which prepares men for duty with any one of the many branches of the service. (BLAS SANCHEZ MADE | AIRPLANE MECHANIC (Special to The Citizen) GULFPORT FIELD, Miss. Mar 23. Pic Blas, Hegnandez;'torinerly | of 507 Louisa. street,..Key West, 'Fla., has been deaduatest from this big Army Air forces Technical Training Com U oo! for airplane mechanics and is ready to take his place on the farflung ser- vice lines of this global war wher- {ever the biggest American planes are based, at home or abroad. He has received a course of in- tensive training to fit him for his important task in this war. His training has also fitted him for an ‘important job in peacetime avia | tion. | In private life Pic Sanchez was i head barman at Hotel La Concha, |Key West, Fla. | He is the son of Mrs. Rita San- | chez, 507 Louisa street. Gulfport is producing an end- less stream of airplane mechanics | to service the biggest bombers and cargo and transport planes of the | Army. Students attend clagses in} North Afric breakfast Steward Emory Coast Guard Ward w on. a transpe dreds of Amer ficers at Casabi before they scram sides of the weave a we - —orange coffee. at Lazarettc base tapering before bre their with a BOOM IN MEMPHIS (By Associated Prean) MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Mar. 2 rural, you city « chickegs jn the bagk yar own meat-and egg | scarcity in the sea hereabouts,) -cuse of their adaptability to in 1932, _ Prior to his induction at Camp! shifts around the clock: every! Thats what sags , Regulation forms are now available at the Rationing Board for processed food retailers. This registration must, .be, completed between. April’ 1 and April 10. The Rationing Board also has ceiling price schedules on pork and pork products for distribu- tion to retailers operating meat departments, SoA SEMEN COSTLY KISS COLUMBUS, Ohio.—James Del Gregg was sentenced to serve one year in jail for stealing a kiss from Christoleen Goodwin, 17, thus contributing to the delinquency of the girl by kissing her without her consent, ‘but to two’ main’ factors: by far,! qesert warfare, were dubbed fewer fishermen, ‘and military) «qesert rats’ by their comrade: restrictions that ‘keep’ fishermen! jn arms. Many a surprise sortie in certain areas: __.|they made while holding out at An ADLBLA HT BA Phe first| pobruk, after every other Brit- cause was, shawn in, the small! i, stronghold in the desert had number of boats that wett/jouti boon ‘récaptured by Axis forces. yesterday. Only six were at the! The trip to Australia was made {fishing grounds, whereas, in| without any unusual event. jnormal times, they would have} ‘The announcement of the safe numbered several dozen. arrival in Australia . also stated Benny Demeritt, who has/that the ninth division will be been fishing in local waters for) put into service against the Jap- 30 years, said today’s cool wea-| anese in the Southwest Pacific. ther is likely to keep kingfish | versity Medical School | Colonel Claiborne was a member | of the staff of Harper Hospital of | Detroit before entering active “| service with the Army jn January, 11940. From 1933 to 1939 he had been on active duty with Civilian! Conservation Camps. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Claiborne, Sr., of Dyers- burg, Tenn. PALACE THEATER Family Size . ians are planning set food rationing ; Memphis hatchers reper ders are 75.per_ cent ahove | of last year. Distributers sa | were booked a month aheo | FOR NAME FOR BABY o2c= [oS = sess | fertile eggs to the hatcheries PONCA CITY. Okla. Mar. 23.—| ©n0ugh to meet the demand When the thirteenth child arrived! GIVEN PROMOTION ress) j ABILENT, Kas., Mar. 23—In} for Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Brown,| | ary Kansas, Sheriff J. E. Perkins! their supply of names was ex-| Word has been received here * | the effect that Charles Feit: | Blanding, Fla., on September 10, 1941, Staff Sergeant Armayor | was employed as a U. S. Customs |Inspector for .the Port of Key | West, Fla. ' hour and every square foot of ispace being given the most thorough utilization. | SHERIFF SHOULD KNOW THE STILLS IN TOWN awocial tells about the farmer who barged; hausted so they offered a $5 prize! into his office the other night and ‘for a name. ‘Jonger in local waters. He add- jed that he has seen times when kingfish ran in local waters as late as the middle.of April, and expressed the hope that the same thing would occur this year. 2 MILLION CHICKS BURN BISHOPVILLE, Md.—A fire of undetermined origin destroyed a large hatchery, burning up more [than 2,000,000 chicks, said his kids were down with whooping cough. The doctor, he said, had recommended a touch of whisky as a remedy. Did the SOUTHERNMOST CITY | PHARMACY, Inc. | RALPH BYRD in PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS ; §0.§. COAST GUARD Duval at Fleming Phone. I NEWS and SERIAL his hands on a drop or two? Z ge Forty-five names were submit- ted by nurses and hospital em- Ployes. The prize went to Mary H. Powell and the thirteenth child “Jerry Dean.” been promoted from privat sergeant in the United Stat Sergeant Felton is with th« sheriff know where he could lay| will be known henceforth as| Eighth Army Division et Camp Polk, La.