The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 27, 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. 74. American Troops In Tu-| nisia Carry Spearhead To Within 28 Miles Of Rommel’s Stronghold (By Associated Press) ALGIERS, Mar. 27.—It was of- ficially reported today that Gen- eral Montgomery’s shock troops raided the southerly end of the Mareth Line and wiped out its defenders at the point of the bayonet. While the Montgomery attack ‘was under way, American troops, in south central Tunisia, launched an attack that carried its spear- head within 28 miles of Rommel’s stronghold at Garbes, That point lies east of the Amer- ican attacking troops and north of Montgomery's Eighth Army; which also ‘is reported to be 28 miles from the same objective. Offensives of these two armies | have been designed to converge at | the Axis base at Garbes, and Rommel, evidently sensing the denger his forces face in being cut off in southern Tunisia, is striking wildly at the Americans in the west and the British in the south, i Allied military circles describe Rommel's rearguard actions as fruitless thrusts, adding that if he oes not order a general retreat} in the next few days, his southern army faces either ennibilation or capture. His supply line from Ty- nis and Bizerte is already in dan- ‘of being cut, it was asserted. | PHILLIP ORTA VISITS FATHER HERE WHILE ON 12-DAY FURLOUGH Phillip Ota, son son of Frank Orta of 1028" Whitehead street, is spending part of a 12-day fur- lough with his father in Key West. Orta joined the U. S. hospital corps June 22, 1942, since which | time he has been advanced two! ratings, his present rating being| pharmacist’s mate SC. He is sta- tioned at the new naval hospital, Norfolk, Va. ODDS EDM Me « JOHN MENENDEZ GIVEN TWO AWARDS FOR HIS CONDUCT UNDER FIRE Two awards ards for conduct under fire have been receiv- PIAA AZZA A? |LOCAL AQUARIUM TO BE CONVERTED INTO INDOOR RIFLE RANGE Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. Key West, Florida, h:s most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrent =*t S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH -27, 1943, PRICE FIVE CENTS [RUML PLAN BEING! HOTLY DEBATED BY| MEMBERS IN‘ HOUSE PROPOSED MEASURE REACH- ING CLIMAX WITH GIVE- AND - TAKE ARGUMENTS BEING PRESENTED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Mar. 27.—The The Key West A West Aquarium is | Rumi plan is reaching its climax to be converted into a rifle range, according to a telegram received this afternoon by The Citizen, from Congress- this afternoon in the House of; Representatives, with give-and- | men-at-Large Lex Green. The message follows: “The secretary of Navy has just approved a project in the amount of $1,500.00 for alteration and equipping of the Key West Aquarium, leased by the Navy, Key West. for an indoor rifle IIIa D a FOD JUNIOR RED CROSS ==: ‘DOING GOOD WORK: MANY ACTIVITIES ARE DEDI-| CATED TO HELPFUL CAUSE | (Contributec> | Our Junior Red Cross is one of | ‘the busiest groups, and one that has done continuous good work}; {for the Red Gross Chapter. On’ Wednesday afternoon eight | Junior Red Cross girls from the | | Division Street School met at the home of their Chairman, Mrs, J. A. Valdes and worked like beavers. cutting out 300 Utility im. These bags were requested for the men at Lafayette Field in Tallahassee, and the pupils of Di- | vision Street School are going to make them all, and have ordered material for 309 more. These eight girls who volunteer- | ed to do the cutting and who were assisted by Mrs. J. R. Valdes, were: Lois Diamond, Nellie Men- endez, Joan Marshall, Patsy Schu- macher. Connie Goering, Betty Cruz, Thelma Ogden and Phyllis Soper. In addition to this volunteer work by the Division Street | {School, the Junior Red Cross Chairman is proud to announce that the pupils and teachers of| {the Harris School raised $67 for | ‘the present War Fund Drive, and the High School has turned in an 'additional $11.00. The Chapter | points with pride to such out-} {standing cooperation in the effort | to raise our quota of $12,600. NAME OMI OMITTED } In the program pipeainy Ah at appeared | lin The Citizen yesterday, relative | little | bags from three bolts of blue den- | lof his death, and the ents. _Repersentatives opposing lace plan, declare that. in the event| of its adoption, it will not help any American. except the: rich: man, while other assert it .'wilt benefit every taxpayer regard- less of the amount of his. ‘pay- meni. The’ only thing the bill will ac. complish, one opponent stated. ar millionaires”. ‘E. D. SHORT DIES SUDDENLY , SUCCUMBS WHILE RIDING IN AN AUTOMOBILE THIS MORNING E. D. Short, who was engaged; jin the business of selling en-| larged pictures about town, died | suddenly this | making deliveries to different parts of the city in an automo- jbile. He was taken to a local hospital where a physician pro- j nounced him dead. Mr. Short made his residence at 535 Francis street, corner of Southard. His wife, who resides} in Florence, S. C., was notified! Pritchard Funeral Home, which has the body, is awaiting word from Mrs. Short relative to funeral jarrangements, and as to what disposition to make of the body. NEGRO CHARGED WITH | VAGRANCY WILLING TO RETURN TO HiS WORK “I been working five on six months steady, and I quit ’cause I kinda nedeed a little vacation.” yesterday when he was arraigned before Justice of the Peace Enri- que Esquinaldo, Jr.; on a charge of vagrancy. Davis worked in» the Navy Yard and threw up his job with- out giving notice to the authori- submitted as an “absentee’ to Judge William V. Albury, of the criminal court, who take arguments going on be-,__ tween its proponents and oppon-| would be to fill the country | morning while! So said George Davis, colored, } sont early-in.the war. The ties. In due course, his name was: passed on} the information to Justice Esqui-} AMERICAN AND GERMAN PLANES = | © BATTLE: IN AIR OVER: TUNISIA; NAZIS LOSE: 8 PLANES, US 3 (By Assoeiated Press) ALGIERS, Mar, 27.—An official) bombing .Axis positions in that {area. American pilots continued [gaan rt er bine Pies ol their raids until all the bombs had minute fight in the air over |been dropped and then engaged sia between a squadron of Amer-! rschmitts in the most ican fighter-bombers and a souad-! r air battle that has oc- tron of 109 Messerschmitts, Ger-|CUtTed in this theatre of the war. : At the end of 35 minutes, eight many’s latest, fastest and most! German planes had been destroy- | powerful fighters, jed and three American planes Messerschmitt pilots took to the} | jair near Bizerte to challenge the were shot down. The Messerschmitts then {American planes, withdrew which wére| trom the action. WONDERING WHAT HAPPENED TO MEAT ‘SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN SENT HERE i “If he shipped that amount;of { but that he doubted very much the jmeat to Key West,” Paul Albuxy jfigures on meat. ‘I, myselfysent} (said this morning in commenting j 10,000 pounds to Key West on on a report that was published: in| Tuesday,’ he declared. When told !a Miami paper yesterday, “then it}that might not go far with so must have ‘evaporated’ along the | im any people, he shrugged, but in- way, because the meat market m ed the 750 figure was wrong.’ in this city have not received it. “What happened to that 10,000! Mr. Albury has prepared an af- | pounds?” Mr. Albury demanded. fidavit, which was mailed today | “That’s what I want to know; it is to the Food Distribution Admin-| what every meat dealer in K istration at its headquarters jn wants to know, and I am j Jacksonville, which is signed by | it is what every consumer in | meat market men in Key West, to- {Key West wants to know. The | gether with their addr Sy that | truth is that it has been assumed they have no beef in stock Across | that we were getting this and that ‘from the name of each signatory| when we were not getting it. appears the word “None. “It all boils down to what Mr. The article in the Miami paper, ; Miller, of the Food Distribution | to which Mr. Albury referred, is; Administration, sad when he was jas follows: jin Key West: ‘Why didn’t the peo- “J. G. De who presided, re- [ple of Kev West let us know about ported a serious food situation nis condition six months ago?’ ted in Key, West. He said he hai “But with the FDA and the OPA} | been informed there was no can-| now active in our behalf.” Mr. Al-; jned milk in the city and that it; bury concluded, “we will get our thad only 750 pounds of meat for ir anita of commodities. regard- population he estimate: s of reports of 10,000-pound “Nargle said he w hipments that never reach us, or quainted with the milk sj nything else.” { stabs Be PROBS { |STALIN'S SONS ‘ALSO-F FIGHT.-INVADERS: By HENRY CASSIDY father remained in the Kremlin. } | AP Features Since then, she has returned to} | NEW YORK, Mar. 26.—Joseph | the capital, and has been seen iStalin’s family life, long conceal- from time to time, quietly attend- {ed behind the Kremlin walls, has|ing the ballet or opera with been made an open book by his: friends. country’s war with Germany. Vassily, a dark, lively youth, is The same great struggle which: popularly supposed in Moscow to {has laid bare the power of the|be his father’s pet. As a boy, he Soviet Union has di: sed that| was the ring-leader of a group of its leader, Stalin, is the father of|sons of Soviet leaders. Like many two fighting sons. | American boys, they were pas- The elder, Jacob Josefovich! sionate followers of flying. One of Djugashvili, in his thirties, bears; their number, Mikhail Frunze, son his father’s family name. He serv-j of the late commissar of war,! ed as an artillery officer on the] died in.air combat. Ger-| Vassily has keen interest in {mans claimed his capture. Al-| other hobbies, including jazz. With though this has never been con-|a number of friends, he once in- firmed by Soviet authorities, he vited the leader of a prominent So- | has been cited for staying with viet jazz band to his Kuibyshev his battery “to the last round of apartment to play, and then dis- ammunition.” j cussed music avidly with him. Pretty Daughter | What the boys at the front want Stalin also has a » pretty red-/ to hear, he said in effect, is some dish-haired daughter, Svetlana, in| hot numbers. her twenties, who is_ living in) No Special Favors Stalin’s children neither. ask} Moscow. She went to Kuibyshev{ at the time of the 1941 evacua-!inor receive any special favors. remaining | Russian Troops Break azi Fortifications Through Built Up In Outer Districts Of Smolensk 7 EATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) RAIDS ON JAP BASES CONTINUE DARWIN.—Allied planes are continuing their daily bombing of Jap positions in various parts of the southwest Pacific. Nineteen tons of bombs were dropped on a Jap base along the northeast coast of New Guinea, and a 4,09-ton Jap ship off that point received two direct hits that left her in flames. Rabaul, the northern Solomons and Munda. on New Georgia Islands, were other Jep bases raided. RAF RAID RUHR VALLEY LONDON.—RAF planes carried out a full-scale raid last night on the Ruhr valley area of Germany, It was reported that the reid wes almost as severe as the one made on Essen on March 12, when 1.000 tons of bombs were dropped on that city. Steel works were among the objects struck in the Ruhr valley, from which four planes failed j to return to their bases, LAVAL ORGANIZING “PROTECTION” LONDON.—According to a radio report recorded by the BBC. Pierre Laval, the German puppet in Vichy. is organizing 2 “militie to protect his government and to “repel any sttempted Allied im vasion.” Laval reported, and his report was announced over the Ber lin tadio, that Marshal Petain has called on all Frenchmen to joia with their captors in protecting France, because the future imterests of his country are centered in them, not in the Alied Nations. “ARMY OF GHOSTS IN NORWAY” LONDON.—Radio Stockholm reported today that an “army of ghosts” is being organized in Norway to strike at the Germans when the Allies begin their attacks to open up a second front. The “ghosts” are fully armed, it wes stated. and are hiding out in hundreds of places in Norway, The radio announcer also said thet 17.000 Mor- ‘weyian men have fled from Norway 16 Sweden. PRESIDENT ACTS ON FOOD SHORTAGES WASHINGTON.—President Roosevelt has taken a hand im try- ing to relieve shortages of certain types of food im various Parts of the country. The most acute shortage is meat. Chicago reported thet 30 per cent of its 6,000 butchers had not opened today, and thet many of those who did open closed up shortly afterward because of the sale of all the meat they had. BERTHS IN SEABEES, FIGHTING CONSTRUCTION BATTALION OF NAVY OPEN TO MEN BETWEEN 17 AND 50 (Special to The nem) MIAMI, Mar. 27—Berths in the) bravery, resourcefulnes Seabees, fighting consrtuction bat-| ity of the Seabees. talion of the U. S. Navy, are now| , No branch of the ser better opportunities t open to all men between the ages |the thick of - things of 17 and 50, according to Lieut.’ ore valuable work thas M. C, Rhodes, Jr., South Florida! jos Lieut. Rhodes p Naval Récruiting Officer. | “The Navy's fight The sweeping change of policy, nips tesa hatin Alse Scere Successes During ed by John Menendez, USNR, son of Mrs. Angel Menendez, who resides at Flagler and First avenues. The awards are for conduct aboard a mine sweeper in to the Lions Club meeting, the} name of Mary Ann Matchett was} omitted. Miss Matchett rendered | three vocal solos, the titles of which were given in the write-up. are sent into action wi which enables all men within the| 6. in one ha ; one hand and selective service range of 18 to 37) other” the recruiting off years of age to choose his branch | “and they hi prover of service, and virtually insures again that they can {the enlistee of actual experience | naldo. Constable Joe Espinosa was then sent out to look for Davis and shortly thereafter returned with him. He was held in $50 bail for the tion of the canital to live with hen»Thév-receive no publicity. When |brother Vassily, who was, then Jacob was cited, and Vassily was j working on. the Moscow-Kuibv-}deesrated, their names appeared i at Bvergiades shev military air line, while thei}: (Continued on Page Four): and Tampa new amend time and use both with equal efficiency the North African campaign, one of the decorations being the North African Campaign Bar and the other the Thea- ter of War Bar. The young Key Wester served as coxswain on the warship. Menendez, who joined the Navy on June 22, 1942, has been visiting his mother while on furlough the past week. He left today for the United States port where his ship is now stationed, SAM hh head wheal CLINE BB. GATO.. CAFETERIA 1100: Simontow Street A DEFENSE-PROJECT The privileges of this cafe- teria are extehdearte'the following: CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES! of the Key West Naval Station CONTRACTORS” PERSONNEL | of Army and Navy Defense: Projects PERSONNEL OF ARMY, NAVY, COAST GUARD and MARINE CORPS | GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES FAMILIES OF THE ABOVE) GROUPS LAW ON SHOES LONDON.—A law prohibiting} shoes which extend more than; two inches beyond normal foot} |length was passed in England \ during the reign of Edward IV. SEE. RED CROSS BENEFIT DANCE Wednesday, March 31, 9 p.m. La Concha Hotel Ball Room Sponsored by Junior Woman's Club and the Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce TICKETS, $1.00 | {criminal court. The bail was pro- vided, and Davis said he would return to work. ANNOUNCE DEATH OF SEFERINA FABAL News has been received in the city announcing the death of Seferina Fabal yesterday in Brooklyn, N. Y. The body will be brought here for burial, with funeral arrange- ments to be announced later. 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And to use all appliances as economically as possible for the duration. | ® isee some real action in thi jare needed in the Seabees, sand dunes of Africa and the ice- capped slopes of the glowing reports have come of the in the battle zones, was announced Friday morning. | “Red-blooded men, who want to war, There are no restrictior listment for the construction & | talion. ;| Men within the range are required to meet certain | physical requirements, not as those in the regular na the Naval Reserve, and for (Continued on Page Four) SQUIBB HIGH POTENCY on er selective se Lieut. Rhodes. “From the palm- fringed islands of the Pacific, the Aleutians, LaCONCHA HOTEL CHARLES M. SALAS, Mgr. “THE BEST DINE «xo DANCE Facilities in South Florida RAINBOW ROOM COCKTAIL LOUNGE AIR CONDITIONED Featuring ... 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