The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 1, 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. 78. OF Organ Aecount Of Its Activities phe 2 a pte American Flyers Raided Rotterdam Last Night; 180 Civilians Killed, 400 Injured DUE TO MUD AND WATER (By Associated Preas) IN MANY PARTS LORDON,: Apeit: Tid opin (Oy Asbiclateae bres) Air Force today ‘celebrated’! thé} | MOS LOW, twenty:fifth anniversary ’ of - itd{™ighty Russien organization, and. in cofinection spring rains and thaws, afe cot with ‘the celebration, the British | tinuing to push their way today’ Air Ministry made public inter- | "ype cre aca esting data regarding raids that| {unable to discern abandoned en- a résult of which Reds sometimes step into were made last month by Mey any trenches, as RAF and also American operat | eck-deep water USSIANS PUSHING TOWARD SMOLENSK RED ARMIES SLOWED DOWN | vulge the distances the Americans, | by mud and water, as’@ result of The water so completely covers ' jthe terrain that the Russians are; Che Kry West Citizen } THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. Key West, Florida, his ‘=< most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrent =*t S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, "THEIR. ADVANCES | GERMANS AND ITALIANS RE- PORTED TO BE FLEEING TOWARD TUNIS It Took A Heap Of Ancient Fooling To Make It A Day To Remember By JOHN L. SPRINGER AP Features Writer int dealt saa | TODAY is April Fool’s Day and, as everybody knows b ALGIERS, April 1.—The Amer-! now, there’s no fool’s. day like an old fool’s day. Anc ican divisions in central Tunisia. April Fool’s Day is eld—so,old, in fact, that historians are the British Eighth Army in the UNable to tell when it actually begun. southern area and the British) Some First Army in the north continue Hindus, held on ch 31, when. — to advance rapidly today, as the gullible members of the tribe were | students’ blame that spring feeling, | Germans and Italians flee toward sent on foolish errands. Others’ were annual April feasts of fools, | Tunis, from the central and south trace it to the ancient Romans,}clowns and jesters. But nature | sectors, and toward Bizerte. from the northern sector. The official report did not di- j under Lieutenant General George |S. Patton, and the British, under |General Bernard L. Montgomery, | have ‘advanced ‘since yesterday. The only commtént ‘about their April * 1—Two} movements was that their forces armié# slowed up probably will c¢oriverge at some j point? in the Tunisian’ eastern coast line* ndrth’ of Gabes. GANDOLFO TO CHECK ON TAX EXEMPTION | APPLICATIONS FILED , | County Tax Assessor Clavite| | Gandolfo’s office will be closed to- THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1943. y it is derived from the Huli feast among the} } | of flyers displaced the usual guard in the palace grounds and will a4 PRICE FIVE CENT> Bombers Stage Heavy Raid On and OF Satin |One Hundred Planes Fly Across Mediterranean To Blast Objective In Great Thrust | i y d LATE BULLETINS _ (By Associated Press) RAF IN BUCKINGHAM PALACE | ' LONDON.—The king and cueen reviewed R.A.F. flvers today as | they paraded in the grounds of the Buckingham Palace, which was} (Bs Ansociated Press) | one of the events held in connection with the celebration of the) ALGIERS, April 1—The le | twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of the RAF. A contingent... 01 si: said in the Nerth Af frican campaign occurred | might when more than 100 Allies j remain on duty, as a mark of honof, for four days. last ’ JAP OIL’STORAGE TANKS DESTROYED | | (NEW DELHI+British ‘flyers, operating in Burma, today destroy-| bombers flew across the small | ed’ many*Jepanese’ oil storage tanks at the Japs’ chief base in that stretch of the Médilerrancen to | country. Severe] airdromes ‘were struck and a radio station was de- . | Stroyed. Sardinia, where destruction was rained on shipping piers, ammun: non dumps. oil tanks and airfieids. Shortly after the raid started. TURKEY CONGRATULATES RAF LONDON.—The Turkish Ambassador to England today congrat- ‘ulated the RAF on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its organization. He said that members of the force, because of their daring and courage ed planes. German batteries, in attempts to | Morrow and remain closed for two i stop the Reds, have kept up de-; or three days while he and his as- 'sistants check their books to de- in the face of death, and the many deeds of valor they have perform- 'ed without ostentation; have “gained the admiration and esteem of squadrons of Axis planes took to the air to try to drive away the During March the United) cujtory firing night and day, as States sir force. cperating from! they fall back closer and closer toward Smolensk. England. maintained its five-to-! one average over the Germans | Munique stated, Axis forces have } not yet sreceeded in crossing the} in the number of planes destroy- | Donetz River. Three attempts this }motning to span the river were} ed in fights over Germany Hself frustrated, the lest by dive bomb- : or over German-occupied terri- | ers as well as heavy artillery. } The repopt added that German tory. dive bombers attempted to br The Germans’ stot down 19 un the advance of a Russian spe , head, but 11 planes were s' American planes. and the U. S.;down by anti-aircraft fire, the flyers’ record is the positive de- | statement concluded. struction of 94 enemy planes. MRS, HARRIET BUFFUM, % par | hot! with several othess | probably| COMPOSER OF SONGS,’ shot down. But the “probables”’.: it ‘was explained. were not in- ae | i n interesting visitor to the cluded in the. summary. which city jg Mrs. Harriett Dustin Bu Jacked: one German plane of | fum who is one of 26 persons in |the United States to receive hon-/ making the average exactly five | orable mention in the Song Hit) to ae in favor of the American | Guild Project in search of talent. E ‘The advisory board was compti flyers. jed of Paul Whiteman, Kay Key-| zi | Ser, Billy Rose and Guy Lombardo, The RAF, during last month. | dropped more than 15,000 tons of} manuscripts showed —_ unusual! promise despite the fact that she, In the Donetz Basin, the com-, NOW VISITING IN CITY | LOCAL GROCERYMAN termine how many _ taxpayers. x who could have obtained exemp- | tions under the law, failed to file Something Old... ... Something New the required information, and how many failed to make returns SAME OLD STORY: The young toughies ruffled Victorian on intangibles and:personal prop-' dandies on April Fool, as old-time sketch shows; and the s'Mr. Gandolfo explained, all 8888 they used were just about the same as those practiced iovmation musf he obtained | by the youngster of 1943. from the records before he can bevin to make up‘his tax roll for. Who are reputed to have spent the this vear. day in pursuit of Sabine women. Just how manv taxpavers did) When later Aprils rolled around, inet obtain exemptions, Mr. Gan- and while their boy friends were | dolfo said he did not-know exact. off at war, Roman ladies sat un- ' ly, but that he thought the num- der the mayrtle-tree; bathing, {ber ranges from. 50 to ‘75. Under | crowning . themselves with _ its ¢ Jay they--will be obliged to leaves: and offering . tribute to | Pay full taxation on their prop- Ventis—all because once, when | erties. | Venus -was drying her hair when The number of e: r “1nq taking a dip, a satyr peeked from total 1,741. arama, TUES Dehn the bushes. Bashfully ;the poe ‘with myrtles j beauties veiled, from whence this custom was entailed.” Plainly, tyrday SUMMGNED TC MIAMI this did not happen on x Satyrday. AS COURT WITNESS _ sae enaissance times there ‘ADMIRAL MUNROE “ARRIVES IN MIAMI TO ASSUME DUTIES AS COMMANDANT celebrations of the vérnal equinox en April 1. Whatever its origins, April Foo! Day was widely celebrated for centuries throughout Europe. In France the oaf who was sent to for old-time sson davril” or April Fish: to you. April Fool’s prank: } in Scotland were known as hunt r, cuckoo. Fools in England were sent on “sleeveless errands”—maybe be- cause they had'to make the vest of an awkward situation. Deputy United States Marshal Myrtland Cates served a sub- poena yesterday on\Michael A. Bonamy, who conducts a grocery and meat market on _ Division | the bookstore for the “History of | Eve’s Grandmother,” was called a; y ing the gowks or; if you prefer, the entire Allied and id.” | e entire Allied and neutral wor! Allies. but enemy attacks, follow- jing a series of dogfights. wers thereafter confined to anti-air- craft fire. as the Allied bomber- fighter planes shot down 14 enemy craft and inflicted damage on many others, HARDEST FIGHTING YET TO COME | ‘Returning flyers declared that | WASHINGTON.—Secretary of War Stimson, while lauding the) fires were left burning in more | Allies for the successes attained in Tunisia, particularly in capturing) the Mareth Line and Gabes, said the hardest fighting probably will| "2" © score of pisces take place in the triangle in northeast Tunisia, with Tunis at its and Bizerte at its apex. He also said thet, during the recent nied ROTES CELEBRATE offensives, many Germians and Italians either were killed, wounded i, ‘ AY RECLASSIFICATION BEGINS TODAY i WASHINGTON.—Selective service boards throughout the coun- | try begin today to reclassify married men and men in the age bracket’ j ranging ftom 38 to 46. Fethers, with only one child each, who are en- | gaged in non-essential work, will be placed in the 1A classification. | provided the children were born at any time since the attack on Pearl ' Harbor. Otherwise they will be placed in the 3C designation, together | with farmers and fathers whose work is deemed essential. i] SCHROEDER, HEAD OF RENT-CEILING OFFICE, WILL BE GIVEN TRANSFER or taken prisoners. | z i | i { i The Key West Rotary Club to- ;day observed the eightieth birth- | Attorney Laurence Schroeder,; According to the state law, day anniversary of Willi: 1 is ; . a L |head of the rent-ceiling office in'@PPertaining to this matter, six and who announced Mrs. Buffum’s| : iE bombs on Germany itself and! just missed top honors and the street, opposite Francis street, to jappear as a witness at 9 o'clock} | Bates, a charter member, |months’ residence is necessary 27 Wi ‘for many -ye cake: toe | Key West, is to be transferred) qualify a voter to cast his ballot several more thcusands on Ger- | Publishing of her song. man-occupied countries. More than 3,000 tons of the 15,000 fell en Berlin, which, according reports received from Swiss and to Swedish sources is now a city of desolation. Berlinets are said to be stuuned by the vast destruc- fion the HAF has caused in their city and to be in a state of jit- ters “over futher aerial atidcks. At night, the reports said, ‘hiin- dreds of thousands of Berliners. fearful of the sounds of sirens at any moment. sleep in cellars and in airraid shelters, In the day-time, the destroyed areas are roped off, and nobody, with. out an official permit, is allow- ed in the enclosures. In the suburbs of Berlin frame structures, lightly built for tem- Porary occupancy, are being (Continued on Page Four) SSIES AICTE. GATO CAFETERIA 1100 Simonton Street A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this cafe- teria are extended to the following: CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES of the Key West Naval Station CONTRACTORS’ PERSON! of Army and Navy Defense, Projects PERSONNEL OF ARMY, NAVY, COAST GUARD and MARINE CORPS GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES PAMIL: cr IES OF THE ABOVE INEL | $123,111.84; Mrs. Buffum has been publish-|this morning in a case that is Jed, in five national anthologies! being tried in the federal court, | ‘composed the lyrics to twenty! in Miami, against J. Kallenberg, Saher Seve $ | songs, one of which was broadcast|a meat dealer. fee cel Wea Sabert lovee aiktional hook-up, ‘She won| | Munroe has arrived in Miami to a prize for a poem on Armstrong) WINS FIGHT OVER DISEASE ‘become Commander of the Gulf rugs. t i Sea Frontier and Commandant Poems and songs by Mrs. Buf-: MONTGOMERY, Al Stricken of the Seventh Naval District }fum have apr ed in numerous| with infantile paralysis when he: succeeding Rear Admiral James | newspapers including those pub-!,was two, Martin Umanoff, of L. Kauffman, who was assigned | lished in New York, New Hamp-‘ Lati'relton, LiL, has won his long new duties several _ weeks — ago. ' shire, Florida, and had presenta-“battlé against the ‘prospect of life; Admiral and Mrs. Munroe will ; Hons over radio. fas’ aceripple! "He learned to walk i: ‘when Hé wis fen ahd'fow, at 22, he) fis 'd'cadét in the pre-flight schol — ‘for pilots, undergoig' a’ rigorous | CHICAGO.—The common cold toughéfing' program’ for which; } may originate in any part of the’ dnly the physically perfect are upper respiratory tract. accepted. | i RELIEVING ADMIRAL JAMES KAUFFMAN reside in Miami, where son, Wiliam R. Munroe, an Ensign at Training School. Admiral. Munroe held his first press conference on. Thursday, shortly before noon at his quar- ters in the duPont building (Continued on Page Four) their Jr., is the Subchaser IN ANY PORTION ‘RECEIPTS AT KEY WEST POST OFFICE SHOW LARGE INCREASE DURING MARCH ' i Receipts in the Key West Post! Office still continue to surge far ahead cf what they were in com- parative months in 1942. The sale of stamp _ stock, which the classification of office is based, took a decided spurt in March af this , year, as! compared with*thé Same‘ ‘month | in 1942. Duripg thé atten, b, | 4948 the sales totaled $9,123.5 }~ 1942 - mong they amounted , to $14, beanie sold— 814,29, an, advance ‘of $5,690.70. | War, Savings Shae 1943 Sot ss Follownig are the comparative , records: ; Money Orders issued— ; 1943 $312,520.05 on| 1942 ~ $123,111.84, the|Money Orders paid— 1943 ss 1942... Postal Savin, | $56,911.75 vw $39,475.78 | gs due depositors—! <a ¢e—.. $986,217.00! $488,745.00 ~ $51,950.01 id $ 5;703.65 | The outstanding . amount in} sales, was that, of postal money orders } rina is ‘a reliable batome-| TOtal Bonds-Starnps $57,653.65 ter of how Key West is booming. Total for 1942 _—-_ $25,025. Last month’ the money orders} sold were $189,408.21 in excess; <i aaa. of the sum that was purchased ‘WANTED! : here during March of last year.| In that month, they totaled only} EXPERIENCED ‘ last month they climbed up to the _ dizzying Capable of Servicing Bus Equipment; Kathleen Vaughan but little did she dream she'd be picketed for love. Just how is told ina new romance ought to be read by | anybody who ever ocd arkages height, for a city the size of Key} | West, of $312,520.05. | Postal’ savings, another good | barometer, were more than dou-} ble the amount on March °31,} 1943, as compared with the same; time last year. The deposits latk only $13,783 of reaching the million dollar mark. ‘office in Washington, !to reports that have persisted for a week. bese | i> Schroeder is expected to return to Key West from Atlan- ta tomorrow, and at his office {this morning one of his assistants ‘said he. had no_ infarmation ; about, the. reported change, , de jstated further that .Mr.,.Schroc- 'der may,,have, something to,say {about, the, matter, on ,his. return j from, Atlanta... | The report further says... that {John W. De Bose and Henry ‘Jones, Mr. Schroeder’s assistants, | will be transterred also. | Mr. Jones, a Miami attorney, tarrived in Key West shortly aft- jer the last primary, in which |Stanley Millidge was nominated jby the Democrats for the office of State Attorney for this dis- trict, and it has been said, many { ; times since then, that Mr. Jones, came. to Key West to establish jhis residence here, as he was Mr. Millidge’s choice for ‘assistant state attorney in the Monroe county area of this judicial dis- trict. jeither to the regional OPA of- jfice in Atlanta or the national) according lin any given county, and Mr West two months longer | the required time. If he so wish jes, he can now claim Key West as his residence. Jones has been risiding in Key than time of his illness, was the fi and only treasurer of the club Ten years ago the club ob- served the anniversary, and, at that time, a big and delicious cake was cut for the Rotary members. Today another birt } However, Mr. Jones has not’ day cake was served said anything publicly about the ‘report that connects his attorney, and Mr. not made any public ment about whom he point., 1 comm; will aj the office. In connection with the rent- ceiling office, the report says that Fred Eberhardt is to suc- jcess Mr. Schroeder, but Mr. Eberhardt, when questioned about the matter, said he had no comment to make. Mr. Eberhardt worked local rent-ceiling office for sev- eral months shortly after it was opened in Key West. Informants of The Citizen state that Mr. Eberhardt’s appointment to the position is now under ccnsidera- tion in the OPA regional office in the Candler Building in At- | Janta. name |with the office of state assistant Two Key West attorneys are knoWn to be aspirants for in the} The club elected the follow | cfficers today: President, Ma land Adams; secretary, Clem Milledge has) price; treasurer, Charles’ Sm Directors will be named at club’s luncheon next ‘Thursday | FUNERAL FOR JOHNSON | BABY THIS AFTERNOON / | Funeral services were held- tis | afternoon at 2 o'clock, frumr twe Chapel of the Lopez F |Home, for Katherine Jo! months, who died yesterday af ternoon at 5:45 o'clock, with Kew. | A. C. Riviere of the First M (Stone) Church, officiating. Survivors are the m father, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Johnson. LaCONCHA E. P, WINTER ISSUES | SMALL FIRE ON UPPER HOTEL ORDER ON RATIONING DU¥ AL IN’ AFTERNOON, cuanzes m. SALAS. Mor. ) Bo Py Winter, executive officer! "The fire apparatus reSpondded to! THE BEST of the; Monroe. County, Rationing a call this afternoon at 1:45 otiock, , DINE «x> DANCE Facilities in South Florids Boprd, issued the following an- and upon arrival on ‘the ‘Svene, | snouncement this afternoo ‘found a pile of old diseatded tum-! tion Order No. 13, dated Feb. 9,/ the southwesterly side of Duval RAINBO’ 1943, requires that all retail estab-' street, at the corner‘of United. = |. Ww ROOM fishments selling processed foods| The booster hose from No. 1 COCKTAIL LOUNGE must register at the local Ration- Fire Station was used, and the! between April 1 and April 10,| guished, without any further dam-| Feeturing . - - 1943. | 8ge except that to the lumber that | DANCING “The order further provides| was burned. » “THUN! with Three | unless he has “Office of Administration Ra-| ber afire oni the yacant Jot on} ; AIR CONDITIONED ing Board on Form No. R-1302' small blaze was quickly extin-! ing Board has IDERING TRAIL”