The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 29, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, h: most equable climate i country; with an ay range of only 14° Fahr The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE, U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1943. —t [PROMISES RELIEF | ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR SHIPPING’ a RAF Pla. Bi Eighth. Amy Has Captured al ¢ ! | ON'SOME CLASSES | SUPPLY OF CANNED MILK TO KEY WEST bi 1 “ Naraire: Fra OF COMMODITIES Sy ones = . : . - bd 3 |sraremenr comes FROM {°° Batol | pn ' : { Miami, said on Saturday he had} 15,000 pounds of meat, which Key ? DAVIS, NOW IN SUPREME} arranged to ship two carloads of| West is to get, will begin to ar-| | He explained that the shipments} An affidavit, signed by all meat) — : * teed 1 pst leclar- “Lacie del cna | will total 2,700 cases. It is expect-| Matketmen in eee Serer ra ee * Eee tae General Montgomery Al so Makes Capture Of ed that the milk wiil begin to ar-' stock, is to in the hands of J.| jtive in Key West in the next day|M. Williams, state supervisor of| Six Thousand Prisee ers VOLUME LXIV. No. 75. CE FI | J. G. Deriso, chairman of the Thu | Food Distribution Administration ] row. 3 for this district, ‘with offices in}, He added that he had not yet have no beef in} LATE, BULLETINS (By Associated Press) (Dy Asnocintea Pres.) WASHINGTON. Mar. Chester Davis. now in supreme control of food distribution, said today that the United States This Raid Followed Up. GUEST AT LUNCHEON Closely Heavy Bombing , nae Of Berlin On Saturday “Night i 29,—' °F two. the Food Distribution Administra- ; Paul G. Albury, who has been| tion. { in active contact with the Food! Mr. Albury pointed out to Mr.} Administration in Miami and at} Williams that the supposed ship- te es its headquarters in Jacksonville, ment of 10,000 pounds of meat, would make long strides this. said today that he expects that} which a Miami dealer stated had} |year toward relieving the short-/ the 5,000 pounds of pork, which] been sent here, last Thursday, has | i of some types of commodi-}was promised Key West last! not reached this c: y. at Americans will continue se feel the pinch for some weeks,! but a gradual improvement will | begin to make itself felt after; i that time. { CHINESE DRIVING JAPS BACK CHUNGKING.—It was officially reported today that that the Chi j nese have driven back the Japs in the southern sector, where the en- ——— | emy launched a heavy attack four days ago. Last advises from that INTANGIBLE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY ‘7.7! 22% 2 stesso = soem: headquarter tkat the Britush Eag der the command of Bernard Montgomery. bas (By Assectuted Prear) e QUISLING WARNS NORWEGIANS LONDON.—information has reached here that the puppet Premier crossed the channel and furthér’ blasted the German ‘submatineé) base at St. Nazaire in France: No particulars about the ‘raid were given, except that it was “successful”. It was declared here today Nhat Berlin is probably the most devastated city in bg ace a oH war, not excepting Warsaw Rotterdam. dropped on Berlin Saturday night was, twice as much as was dropped on this city during the worst raid it has experienced since the war began. The outside world will not know until after the war, it was stated, about the vast ruins that have been piled up in Berlin! during the 59 raids it has un- dergone by RAF bombers. _ _ Of all those raids. the one| Saturday night was on a far greater scale than any of the} others on Germany's capital) city. Nine hundred tons of; bombs fell on the city from 300 planes that flew over it in three The Air Ministry stated that the largest planes dropped four- ton blockbusters that tear acres of buildings to pieces and whose concussions are felt several miles away. One returning pilot said) he saw flames shooting up high in the/air from a dozen different; quarters of Berlin when he was 125 miles away on his return journey. CAUTION HOUSEWIVES: ON STAMP HANDLING: 1 3B. L. Grooms, chairman of the | Monroe County Rationing Board, | today cautioned housewives to! exercise care when removing} stamps from their War Ration Books Two, foilowing reports} that large numbers of incorrect) series stamps have been deposited | in ration bank accounts in the} southeast. | Regional Office of Price Ad- ministration officials said this app), parently came about because; of being stuck together and both | were torn at once. 4 Mr. Grooms also,pointed out) that “A,” “B,” and “C” ar coupons are not valid after, Me ‘I 31. Prompted by reports that point values and processed foods might be lower in April than at present, many housewives have been reported to be saving their} currently valid coupons for use} then. While rationing officials would; not comment on the likelihood of s in the April list of point emphasize the fact and “C” coupons will not be valid in April. “D,” “E,” and “F” blue coupons, how- ever, became valid on March 25, thus creating an “overlap” period of one, week, when both March and April stamps may be spent for rationed items. GATO DORMITORY 1100 Simonton Street "A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this Dormitory; 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 RE Not only will American sol-! diers, who are farmers, and are/ still in camps in this country, be} ' fari the thou: w eater 2 bnstepetl AF thot" | Gandolfo said today that the filing! tions filed for par led--cut for Canadian ff rs to|°! intangibles and personal prop-j cluded in the Home help A fs dt the fime of | erty returns took a spurt last{tion Law totaled 1,681, with | their: hervest-erid: the: latter! to} Week. jslightly more than 100 still out- er of applica- that are in- ead Exemp- Quisling, of Norway, has warned Norwegians that. if they do not com form with his latest orders to remain on theif jobs and not resort to | any subversive acts, he will mobilize 300,000 of them to fight im the | Germat armies. Norwegians’ reply was to attack a squad of German ; guardsmen and kill 14 nf them. { GERMANY'S NEED OF MANPOWER LONDON.—Despite the countless thousands of men and women \J. l., McMULLEN WILL BE | Junior Chamber of Commerce, will Fer | White at Fleming Phone 5 J. L. McMULLEN President of Florida State Junior Chamber of Commerce JAYCEE STATE HEAD TO PAY VISIT HERE GUEST AT LUNCHEON HERE APRIL 4 J. L. McMullen of Live Oak, } president of the Florida State be a guest at a. luncheon to be held by ‘the Key West Junior; Chamber of Commerce at La Con- cha Hotel on April 4 at 1:00 p. m. President McMullen, who Clerk of the Circuit Court of; Suwannee County, and President | of the State Association of Coun-} ty Clerks, has been active in Jun- ior Chamber of Commerce work for several years. He has served’ as chairman of the board of di-| rectors, Suwannee County Jay- cees; as chairman of the state committee, and. is a_ past vice- president of the state organization, He has a timely message for all Jaycees. All members of the local organi- zation are urgently requested to} in attendance at the luncheon, especially to greet the — visiting | state official who will be here| at that time. if CONTRIBUTIONS TO WAR FUND DRIVE} a | -Rearmey Bechwan, Post { oftice Tift $200.00 | fs. U, Henson, 5.00 E: ne) fs. Ci 5.00 | W. A. Clark Line 5.00! 3.00 Mrs. E. H. Gato III 2.00 Mrs. T. C. Gibbs 2.00 | Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Leuthi — 2.00} Mr. and Mrs. Harry Egan 2.00; Mr. and Mrs. A. Pastain 2.00 | Mrs. E. Alburtus 1.00 Mrs. O. Davis 1.00} Mr. and Mrs. M. Cates 1.00, Mrs. S. Mintzer 1,00 | Mrs. Gato 1.00; Ray Harris 1.00) Mr. and Mrs. Baer 1,00} Mrs. E. J. Bayly Anthony Bauer 1.00 1,90} Kenneth Archer 1.00 1.00} 1.00} 1.00) 1.00 rs. Louise E, Pierce ‘s. Luther Pinder 's. Eola Swicegood: ‘s. Ross Sawyer, Jr. Mrs. A. M. Hewett lati tte a a tt eee RED CROSS Benefit D: Wednesday, March 31, 9 aang La Concha Hotel Ball Room Sponsored by the Junior Woman's} Club-and the Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce TICKETS, $1.00 WE ARE HYDRAULIC BRAKE SPECIALISTS Let Us Check Your Brakes Lou Smith Auto Service “Opposite Army Barracks” COUNCIL MEETS SPECIAL SESSION TO BE HELD | is ; tive Bernie C. Papy will present! | with the provisions of the charter | assist the Canadians when their} Ninety per cent of intangibles| standing. } }and 85 per cent of personal prop: erty returns, as compared ‘with; jast year, have been filed. | harvest time comes. In ell crops, harvesting begins in the United States before it does in Canada. so that farmers; in that country while awaiting) their harvest, will work. in the; United States, and. when the karvest is over here, American; farmers will go to Canada to help, TUESDAY 10 TAKE UP NEW CHARTER IN ORDER TO APPRISE| PUBLIC OF ITS = VISIONS A special meeting of the City} Council has been called for to-) morrow (Tuesday) night for the] main purpose of discussing the provisions of the new proposed city charter, which Representa-j at the coming session of the leg- islature for passage. The entire public is invited to be in attendance at this meeting in order that the citizens of Key West may familiarize themselves which will be read in full dur-j ing the meeting. The charter will be completed at tomorrow night’s meeting, with | possibly a few added provisions, | and the public will have a chance | to register any complaint they may have in connection with its | presentation to the legislature. j Representative Papy will be in| attendance at the meeting, and, will be presented with the charter | at the conclusion of the session ; inasmuch as he is leaving on! Wednesday for Tallahassee pre-} paratory to the opening of the | legislature on April 6. | POINT VALUE CHARTS ARE MADE AVAILABLE Monroe County Rationing Board said today official APA} | point value charts for meats and'from the residence, Rev. G.'could not be noted, but prepara: |£dna Wolf on a charge of vag-| fats and the second table of values‘ for processed foods are available j{ to retail food merchants at the! local post office. j The tables are printed on op- posite sides of the same piece of cardboard. Merchants are urged to obtain} the new charts as point values of} meats and fats and the new values | of proceesed foods become effec- | tive today. PLACE OF ORIGIN DETROIT.—Southern Asia elieved to have been the place Capable of Servicing Bus Equipment; Excellent Wages PHONE 1057 After April 1, awners who have} | SPONGE CEILING failed to file will be obliged to pay the full taxation. RECEIVING STATION FOR WASTE FATS OPENS HERE TOMORROW Joe Pearlman, chairman of the; collected or will collect will be Monroe County Salvage Commit-| bought by Albert Shore, who has tee, said today that ~ while Key) eel to this city for that pur- Westers went far over the top in)" ‘Tomorrow. morning Mr. Shore the scrap-metal drive, they have} will open his receiving station in doné practically nothing in the} the building on the south side of collection of fats to be turned over! Front street, between Duval and to the government for conversion; Ann streets. Mr. Shore said today into munitions to be used in the | that he has applied for a telephone war. and hopes to have it installed “I tried in a dozen different} shortly. ways,” Mr. Pearlman said, “aad | He further stated that he walso hone of them was successful, but! will buy old rags, including dis- I am glad to assure Key Westers| carded silk hoisery and under- now that all the fats they have! wear. w OS SSE LSS SF 8 \JAPANESE LOSE 25 PLANES IN BATTLE RESULT OF RAID MADE BY NIPPONESE ON NEW GUINEA PRICE 1S RAISED (Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, Mar. 29.— OPA has advised Represen- tative Petersen that the sponge ceiling price has been raised from ten to fifteen percent. (By Associated Preany DARWIN, Mar. 29.—The Japs CLD ML LIM DBS BGI essayed yesterday their largest-|send their contributions to the| scale raid in several weeks on Allied positions on New Guinea, and, when the fighting was over, 25 enemy planes had been shot down, most of them by Allied ’ flyers. MRS. A. A. MACHI ‘ | Many of the Japs’ large squad- ron were beaten back before it FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE reached the Aiiied base, and those that got through the ring of fire CONDUCTED TOMORROW {succeeded in sinking @ small car- AFTERNOON eg sect E 1 After the Japs withdrew, Al- lied planes again raided Sala- . | maua, blasting the garrison and Machin.’ other military installations there. 3 ng at 6:00; In the Aleutians, American o'clock at her - residence, 508 | planes attacked two large Jap Petronia street. {cargo vessels escorted by four The funeral will be held to-| cruisers and four destroyers. Be- morrow afternoon at 5 o'clock | cause of the heavy fog, results Mrs. Agueda Andrea 68, died this morning Perez of the Cuban Church officiating. Lopez Funeral Home charge of arrangements. Burial will take place in the} CSCS Sek family plot in the city cemetery.| BALTIMORE. — International Survivors are the husband,|control of Tangier, opposite Gi- Francisco Machin; a son, Rene F.' braltar, was established by treaty | Machin, and four grandchildren.iin 1911. Methodist tions have been made for other _ jattacks on the convoy. in Sear ESTABLISHED IN 1811 HARD OF HEARING? FREE ACOUSTICON DEMONSTRATION | La Concha Hotel, Tuesday, March 30th, — | 1:00 to 9:00 P.M. Learn about the U.S. Government National Deafness Survey and how it resulted in the greatest help ever offered to the hard of hearing. Obtain a FREE dem- onstration of the new Symphonic Acousticon which is based on the findings of the U.S. Government Deaf- ness Survey. Don’t miss this opportunity to prove to yourself what the new ACOUSTICON can do for you. Acousticon Institute ofi Miami 715.SEYBOLD BLDG. E, D. FOUTS. Manager, Miami i in occupied countries that Germany has forced-into slave labor, the manpower problem there still continues to be acute. According to in- formetion that has reached here through Sweden, Hitler has called up 14-year-old boys and girls to work in war and industrial plants. | | eae A kee EXTREMISTS ON RUML PLAN WASHINGTON.—A Democrat asserted today that were the Rum! | plan to go into effect by discontinuing further collection of last year's taxes, it would help a millionaire to the extent of six years, compared | with normal levies, while it would benefit a man, with en annual in ‘ come of $2,000, only four weeks of the amount he is called on to pay. A Republican, at the other extreme, declared the Rumi plan is “the | only way out” for the country asa whole. ‘RED CROSS DRIVE ENDS WEDNESDAY: ‘$5,000 NEEDED 1) REACH QUOTA 07722222224 |nesday, and, the latest tabulation | ‘shows that Key West is approxi- | SPRING THAWS SLOW | mately $5,000 behind its quota,| FIGHTING IN RUSSIA | which is $12,600. Up to this morn-| | ipts. totaled only $7,- (Ry Associated Pr. ing the receipts totaled only | MOSCOW. ti, 2 — totes Spring’s thaws have slowed ‘That sum includes a contribu-| g's " tion of $1,000 by the Navy, which! UP fighting along the entire eastern front. today’s com- i y vhat will be received lee ne oY e Ms at aks Z Hs ' munique stated. It added, ‘rom that source. The balance will “Nothing of importance to {be given later. No report has|_ report”, and Radio Berlin. been received from the Army!” heard here. stated, “Only lo- about the amount it will con-| ¢@qy engagements have oc- | ribute. curred in the last 24 hours.” Headquarters ask those who! In two of the patrol clash- jhave not been contacted in the} es in the Smolensk area. house-to-house canvassing, to! four more small towns were liberated. Tanks and other mechanized vehicles on both | sides are bogged down in | mud, H West of Rostov. while the | infantry is imactive, the | Germans and the Russians are engaged in artillery firing. John Counts, colored. Sun-! } chapter, or take them to the Red/ | Cross booth in the post office. ‘COLORED WIFE CHARGES HUBBY - SLAPPED FACE long-range while ; out riding with his wife CP DED i s' FOO day, slapped her face, she al-; leges, while they were on stock HARRIS WILL TAKE Island. They were detained) { i Deputy Sheriff Joe Knight drove | OFFICE to Stock: Island and arrested} and battery His bail was fixed / wit JOIN COMMISSIONERS at $50. AT REGULAR MEETING there by coast guardsmen, and} NEXT WEEK Counts on a charge of assault! ie Deputy Knight also arrested | ON TUESDAY NIGHT bail was set at} | Sheriff Berlin Sawyer and j Deputy Knight arrested H. Rob-| Harry Harris, county commis- erts, colored, whom they charge} sioner from the fifth dist was conducting a gambling, said, during his short vivit in Key rancy, and her $25. |game behind Shorty’s Place on| West, that he will be back here j Petronia street. His bail was} to assume his office at the meet ing of the commission to be held on Tuesday of next week. Mr. Harris stated that he ha ee, written about his return to Gc BALTIMORE.—The potato was} ernor Holland. . introduced to Europe from South} © Before Mr. Harris was inducter placed at $100. ORIGIN OF POTATO | America by the Spaniards soon af-| into the army, he had made all/ sobnd even teeth) ter 1580. arrangements to serve as com- er” “incladi: obtaining is tormrmnission from retary of tured 25 miles of the Marer- and has teken more tran 6.900 <i Marshal Rommel!s men as 5: ers. That pert of tallen into Monts—mery s was reduced to cust the lime the enc before his iczces ‘enced and took possession of it at point of the beyonet. The Axi troops. who survived the hom>-- ment. surrendered comrades. who had bee Pass through the north Of the lime are in headior toward Tunis. The bombardm=-nt and heavy artillery ceded the onsieugnt have been fer hecvier than Other blasting that has Plece in the African theatr war. It was pointed out that M gemery, before be succeede routing Remmei from the E] Ale mein front in Esypt. kept constant bombardment for |! . but so manv more bombers «nd so much more heevy artillery was used on the southerly en¢ of the M@reth Line Rommel stertcd bis. retreat yesterday, efter two days of intense and constant at tack with shells and bombs. While Montgomery was makmg his successful zssault, the Amc-r- icans, in south centre] Tunisia. under the command of Lieutenant General Patton. are ad¥ancing to- ward the cost in colum: each of which is a distinct threat to the fleeing Germafs and Ia!- ians, It is 7 race between them and the Americans. and should the latter reach Garbes or its vicinity first. many mere thousands of the Axis troops will be taken Prison- ers. a TWO NEW BUILDINGS FOR NAVAL SUPPLIES The Surply Department ready one of the largest depart- ments of the Naval Operatir Base here, is soon to have new buildings right in the heart jof the Yard One of the buildings, inciden ally being rushed to comple will house a portion the force while the used as refrigerz Where thousands of dol of foodstuffs l be men aboard ships th their stores here Those me the watchfdl eye of Capt er Gibbs, are doing a job and everybody knows 1 Supply SQUIBB helps baby - in building strong legs : 12 oz. Bottle 9 24 ez.