The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 26, 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. 73. Russian Forces Continue Advancing Toward Smolen Other Red Armies Report- ed To Have Scored Vic- tories In Caucasus Sec- tor (By Associated Press) Mar. vance toward Smolensk and oth- er Red armies have scored vic- tories in the Caucasus and still other forces have regained the offensive in the Kharkov area, according to information releas: ed in today’s communique. It was said also that Red troops, after a series of attacks spread over a ‘week, have suc- ceeded in In the Caucasus, the Russians are reported to have driven back the Axis columns more than two miles in one sector. MAKE PLANS FOR = ii VICTORY GARDEN SUGAR CORPORATION WOULD! HELP ITS THOUSANDS | OF WORKERS» i _ CLEWISTON, Mar. 26°FNS).— With the view of providing its; several thousand workers with an ample supply of canned vege- tables, the United States Sugar! Corporation nas appealed to the! OPA for pe=mission to establish! @ cooperative “Victory Garden” and canning plant, where em- Ployees would grow large quanti-! ties of fresh vegetables to be can- ned and used by them in the sum- mer months when fresh vegetables | are not available. Under the company’s plan, land would be provided without cost as well as supplies and equipment, a canning factory set up and em- Ployees would get their vegetables and canned gdods at actual cost. The company is also prepared to} extend such cooperative operations to include cattle and butchering if the OPA approves, this meeting | the actual food needs of the ‘sev- Che Key West Citize THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Key West, Florida, his most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrent =*t KEY WEST, FLORIDA, /FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1943. PRICE FIVE CENTS GHER WAGES IS ILL IN BALANCE | SUGGESTIONS AND COUNTER SUGGESTIONS ARE OFFER- ED FOR CONSIDERATION IN LABOR BILL Sass SII 2 S4 SAYS DRAFTING MEN IS UP TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ALONE | (Ry Axxocinted Press) WASHINGTON, Mar. 26.— The annuoncement of the governor of Colorado that he had ordered selective service boards in his state not to draft any more men who are working on farms, had its repercussions here today. General Hershey, head of (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Mar. 26.— The fight by labor for higher {| wages still continues acute, with suggestions and counter sugges- tions offered for conideration in the pending labor bill. Representatives of the Metals Union suggested today that the War Labor Board be suspended for the duration of the war, and John L. Lewis,*head of the Unit- led Miners of America, declared ‘that the government is exces- the selective service..declar- (sively rewarding industry and governor jis doing nothing for labor. Sealing is authority, a | A sub-committee of the. sen- that the law. governing se- j@te, which is considering the lective service, does not ex- Complaint of labor about fend its power beyond the | igh cost of living, adjourned. to- jurisdiction of the federal |%@y until next Tuesday in order government. ~ |to get further information on The Bankhead bill, which | that phase of the economic sit- would defer all men work- | vation. se geromuen cor" | GROCER PULLS FAST ther opposstion today. and substitute measures were suggested, ‘TWO OF PRODUCTS |TELLS AT LEAST TWO CUS- | TOMERS THAT SOAP AND SOAP POWDER WOULD BE FROZEN LAST NIGHT LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Prens) | NAVY NEEDS FOR 1943-’44 | WASHINGTON. — The senate, and the house naval affairs com-| mittee aré holding a secret ses-| Yesterday afternoon a Key sion todey with Navy leaders re-| West grocer, who has been in garding their needs for the re-|uSiness here about a year, told mainder of this year and in 1944, | *t least two of his customers that The committees are considering | !¢ had received a the offers of the 15 foremost air- | the Rationing Board that craft industries in this country to|221 soap powder would supply the Navy with all types of {"0zen at midnight last night. planes, ~~ Among those to whom he gave {that information are two women DAVIS IS CZAR OF FOOD) Whose husbands are in the Unit- DISTRIBUTION soap be jed States Navy air force in Key WASHINGTON, — P res ident: West. : Roosevelt sad today that Chester! E. P. Winter, executive officer C. Davis, who replaces Secretary of the Monroe County Rationing of Agriculture Claude Wickard as , head of the Food. Distribution the grocer’s statement Administration, will have _ full; that the board has not i charge of supplying the coun-\such notice, and that no suc try’s needs for foodstuffs, It was Notice has been given out by the is false; added that Prentiss Brown, head OPA. | of the OPA. will cooperate with! He further stated that if any Davis. {person or persons, who heard Scie tan jthe grocer say that he had re- HARD FIGHTING IN’ / | ceived notice that soap and soap TRIANGLE ‘powder would be frozen at mid- LONDON. — Military circles|nigt last night, will submit af- here, in commenting today on fidavits to the board, they will General Bernard Montgomery’s | be forwarded to the law enforce- gains along the Mareth Line in ment department of the OPA in declared that. after| this state for further actian. Rommel’s men are driven out of; SS | that position. there will still pe SURVEY INDIAN much hard fighting in the. tri angle that is formed in the; (LABOR FIGHT FOR| | , the | e-wo ONE TO DISPOSE OF notice from; ‘Boand, said this afternoon that} ' On Food Pork And As a result of the action of thejlief from the shortages of some | Food Distribution Administratio ppnoaeutts une bars eae few 4 sller,| months, but, he added, he would Shoes seoreventa tive. 5: MDT ig all in: his power to. have the was in Key West two days a9® | <hipments started as soon as pos- | Paul G. Alburv was informed this’ sible. morning by the Dirr Sausage Com-) In keeping with that state | pany, of Miami, that 5,000 pounds, Mr. Miller left Key W _ of pork will be sent to Key West) o'clock 3 day morning to have next Tuesday. ja conference with the Food Com- Further good news was received ; mittee in Miami. The result of th {from the Dirr company. Its man-; conference is arrangements are a jager said that the Food Distribu-| ready made for the shipment of tion had asked him to atend to the; the pork and the consignment of {shipment to Key West of 15,000} the beef for local consumption. pounds of beef, but that he had to “The Dirr manager,’ Mr. Al- refuse because he was unable to’ bury stated, “told me that the handle it. Arrangements, there-| Food Distribution Administration fore, are being made with another | insists that no discrimination Miami company to ship the beef to; whatever will be permitted in the this city. distribution of the pork and beef R. S. Miller, when he was in Key | in Key West. Every store. how- West, was cautious about naming! ever small it may be, that has any particular time when this|been handling those commodities, community would begin to get re-| must get its fair quota.” |AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN UNITS CONTINUE TO BLAST JAP BASE (Ry Associated Prenn) GENERAL MacARTHUR’S; opportunity of repairing the air. | HEADQUARTERS, Australia. fields, from which they may March 26.—Americans and Aus-' launch attacks against American traliens continue to blast Jap ships and land positions. bases at Rabaul, on New Britasn; Rabaul, the largest base, is the Island. Salamaua. on New Gui-'most frequently attacked, and nea, and Mundz. on New Geor-' the airfield there is torn up from gia, and are keeping them in @iend to end. Allied flyers, state of shambles. j they approached Rabaul _ today. It was reported that the raids saw fires still burning from the jare being cqntinued daily, so' waves of attz made on the that the Japs will not have the] bases there yesterday. _WHY THE JAPS HOLD ON By JACK STINETT (By Axsocinted Presny | in favor of new electric techniques WASHINGTON, Mar. 26.—If on which the modern development Representative John E. Rankin of ; Of chemicals, light metals, alloy | Mississippi hgs his figures right, ;@"4 machine processing depend. there should no longer be any| In 1 {wonder why Japan was prepared|€se manufactures amounted to jto go to war against the United} $1,644,000,000. In 1937, the last sued any | i ‘ ! ype ich | States, nor why it has been able; year for which figures are avail-| jto maintain all-out war for more} able, that value had _ increased than a year. {more than 2 1-4 times, with whole- Since Mr. Rankin claims only prices practically stationary. jthat his figures came from con-| In 1926, only 28 per cent of Ja- jsular reports (gvailable to all gov-j Pan’s total manufactures were in ternment agencies, including the; Chemicals, modern materials, m | Army and Navy) and from studies|Chinery and aircraft. By 1937, |made by “one of our leading uni-; these industries accounted for 81 { versities,” the natural implication | per cent of Japan's total produc- is that a lot of people must have! tion and 20 per cent of the incre |been asleep for a long time inj Was in airplanes alone. Much of if ling to recognize the Japanese j this increased production, says Mr. menace. Rankin, can be traced directly to As far back 1935, for ex-! the expanded volume of electric |ample, Mr. Rankin states that he} power. By 1940, Japan proper had pointed out that 90 per cent of the! expanded her power capacity to farmers of Japan had electricity,| about —_70,000,000,000 _—ikilowatt | sale | as Key West Gets Quick Action | General Montgomery's Eighth Army ans In Maréth Line Arca ‘KEY WEST DELEGATES ASSURED Beef To Be Shipped At Ones conventional industrial’ processes ! Makes | BOND REFUNDING | Mayor Willard M. Albury, City , {Attorney Thomas S. Caro, Coun-| jcilman Gerald Saunders, County {Clerk Ross C. Sawy. ; Solicitor Allen B. C i turned last night from na | where they went to ha confer- | yence with the Florida Securities! !Commission regarding the further | jrefunding of bonds of the City of | iKey West. ! | While the mission did not suc- | jceed in its primary object, because j (of the failure of the R. C. Crum- | and County | re —j;mer to mect the demands of the | have a fis | state government that all liabili- {ties of the company in Florida be | j adjusted, the-rep ntatives from {Key West were assured by Attor- ; ney General J. Tom Watson that, jif the company did not act in the} jtime that has been given it by the} {commission to meet its obligations he will send a man _ from Tal j > another from West {Pa ry, to as-} { sis! s in making | othe ngements to refund the; ‘city’s bonds that were not includ- Jed in the first refunding plan | The conference held on ' Wednesday, and members of the commis: were so provoked by; | the R. C. Crummer Company to comply with repeated requests to jelear up its busin in Florida be- {fore its successor, the Crummer | Company, will be license: or | Hl —— ‘ORVIS KEMP_ WILL, | | | A |GRADUATES FROM AVIATION the value of all Japan- | MACHINIST’S MATE SCHOOL RECENTLY AIR STATION, | Jacksonville, Fla., Mar. 26—Orvis j Maynard xem. son of Dr. and iMrs. W._P. 3 William | street, Key Wes , recently graduated from the Aviation Ma- chinist’s Mate School. |. He enlisted in the Navy July ent to Norfolk, Va., al training before be- Air at j U.S. NAVAL ; 1942. and w ; for indoctri ling transferred to the Na {Technical Training , Center | Jacksonville. Kemp is now qualified to repair jand keep airplane engines in top be. PROGRAM WILL BE WORKED OUT SATISFACTORILY ate, they decided forthwith to giv the R. C. Crummer Company t months from that date, to file with the comm: atement required of the com- pany’s financial condition If the R. C. Crummer Company does not file within the given time, its. license, the commission stated, to do business in F' will be revoked, and no will be granted to its succes the Crummer Company In that event, Key West will not agent to take ca the refunding of more bonds amount to $ total of $1,250,000. The diff between those figures is | amount of Bonds that have already been refunded, and on which im- terest payments are two per cent for the first 10 years, three for the next 10 ye di T cent for the cor The $439,000 includes inte The coupons of the latter bonds call for interest at the rate of six per cent annually Meanwhile. Key West must wait three months to see what the C. Crummer Company is do. Tf it fails to act as requil the Florida uritie: ion. then Key West will be given sistance by the atternev pen eral's office in having the remain- ing bonds refunded. Cor Diving Aviater Helps in Extinguishing Fire eoncinted Pecan? HA. Okla. Mar. identity unkno dived on the grade school how: Verden and undoubtedly the lives of a number of children who might have been trappe 9 flames that were consumin building. The pilot appare smoke coming from the building. He dived attention. Softball ¢ school ground loc plane, saw smoke the building and Pp soun¢ , | alarm. The.281 children in ing reached safety : minutes ahead of the spre flames. The plane flew on Claimed To Be Using His Heavy Artillery And Also Largest Bombing Planes (Bs Asnoriuted ALGIERS, Mar. 26.—While lit- 24.' tle official information was is sued today about the fighting in Tunisia, it is reported that Gen eral Montgomery's Eighth Army has made gains. ranging uc to ing up a devastating atteck the entire southerly pert of the line. MEDICAL HERBS eral thousand workers, at the same | northeastern Tunisian area. with’ ; working order and will probably HARRIET HUBBARD while at that time rural electri-| hours, making her rank_ third time giving these employees full! Tunis to the south and Bizerte| benefit of the saving that would ,in the north and’ northeast. With’ result from this non-profit opera-| the fall of the triangle. Axis’ oc tion. ‘cupation of North Africa will Company officials point out that |have come to an end, such an operation is much: more | practical and economical than in trying to encourage several thou- sanr employees each to grow their own garden plot and do their own canning. j Congressman J. Hardin Peter- son has personally laid the plan before OPA officials in Washing- ton and expressed the belief that some such plan will have to be adopted at many isolated spots throughout the nation if ample food is to be available where large numbers of workers are concen- trated in such areas. ! | EA AIRLLINES MEE BATTERIES CHARGED The Modern Way Drive in, in 30 to 45 minutes and your car can be on its way! Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE: slavia had blown up a_ bridge! ‘Phone No. 5 _ White at Fleming TOWNS NEAR ROME RAIDED ALGIERS.—Allied planes, bas-! ed in North Africa, last night raided three small towns in the/ vicinity of Rome. and, among military objectives destroyed. was a power station. The planes also struck and sunk a small ship that was crossing the Mediter- ranean from Sicily to Bizerte, in Tunisia. A large ship also was hit but was not sunk. GERMANY DRAINING RUMANIA LONDON, — Radio Stockholm reported today that Hitler has sufceeded in draining from Ru-; mania half a million men for his armies and vast quantities of foodstuffs and oil. The same ra- dio said that guerillas in Yugo- that had connected the most im- portant road in that country. OLD ISLAND TRADING POST Foot of Duval Street Opa Saturday Evening SPECIAL SALE OF DRESSES PALM BEACH, Mar. 26 (FNS). —The ancient wisdom of | the Florida Seminole; as’ manifésted jin ther knowledge and use of a | variety of medical’ herts is be- jing carefully investigated by jmodern scientists’ who have gone deep into Everglades trail lin search of all available data. From Seminole medicine men j they have secured many plants ives remarkable curative quali- ies. These are being tested at {th Institutum Divi Thomae here, {which is under the direction of | Dr. George Sperti. | A number of the plants are jreported to have quinine-like qualities and it is hoped that a will be developed as a result of | this research. IND WN KIDS | AW ews and SERIAL persicae Nyy eee (ui NOW OPEN EVERY NIGHT FROM 3 TO 12 BIG DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT Music from 9 to 12 by JOHN PRITCHARD’S ORCHESTRA | fication had reached only 10 per] among the world powers in the cent Of the farmers of this coun-} Matter of power. production. y. “Although the intervening! Mr. Rankin thinks ,that Japan jyears Have brought electricity toj recently has..been producing, jin an farmjher own and conquered _ terti- }and herbs to which Indian lore} substitute for his important drug | [40 per ‘cent’ of Ami jhomes, thére’s ‘no reason to be- lieve that it isn’t almost universal among Jap farmers today. H eee | In 1914, says Mr, Rankin, Japan 1 started modernizing its industry, and ten years ago the present rul- {| eAUOUUUUUUUUNNANENREURERETUEULUUT UAT anAEEAEREETY TENE, Midway Poultry Market 1105 Division Street Just Received Shipment of Strictly Fresh KGGS and Selected FRYERS Killed and Dressed to Order Make Your Selection Early 1100 Simonton “Street A DEFENSE PROJECT) The privileges of this ‘Dormit are extended to the following: CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES of the Key West Naval Station CONTRACTORS’ PERSONNEL of Army and Navy Defense Projects $1.00 Per Day $3.50 Per Week ing military party tossed out all! « “UOUUUUNONENERSOUUEEOEUU UU UAA EA A AENEAN ETT 'GATO DORMITORY. }tories 103 billion kilowatt hours, a | year, while the total production of ; the United States in 1941 (it has’. | been stepped up since then) was jonly 139 billion kilowatt-hours. ere 8 The two great mysteries of this war have been how Russia was ! able to build a war machine that jcould hold the Nazis and how (Continued on Page Four’ FOR SALE To Highest Bidder Three one-story build- ings and one_ two-story building located at the cor- ner of Catherine and Si- H belonging to estate of Rosa Levine, deceased. Bids must be sealed and in the 12 P.M. Saturday, March || 27th, 1943. Land 50’x100’. }see service with a naval air unit Adolf And Tojo Moan — |) When U, S. Horses Die t j (Ry Ansocisted Press) LEXINGTON, Ky ;If your horse dies, be felt more severely by mans or Japs, according to a farm} j bulletin issued by the University | of Kentucky. In reducing the value lof dead animals to terms of waste | fat for glycerine, farmers were told a dead horse would supply jenough fat to make glycerine for! 75 anti-aircraft shells; a dead sheep, 15 shells; one 100-pound pig; 50 shells; a cow, 80 shells; a! |small calf, five shells. ‘Special collectors pick up stock} | which dies on farms. | Sdn Antandn Antti tandontandntintintn tend PRESCRIPTIONS, 1 ‘Ingredients Com- Experienced || fitjonton: streets, Key West |) «+ hands of undersigned by | LUXURIA FACE POWDER in bright, radiant shades lends a look of dewy fresh- ness—a flower-like bloom. Clings closely. Keeps your beauty well groomed