The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 2, 1943, Page 1

Key West, Florida, hs most equable climate in the country; with an sverage range of only 14° Fahren? t Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen | THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE u. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1943. } Allied Bombers Blast Port Of noe a NOT ARRIVED; NO CONDENSED MILK This Was Second Ove-/EICHT JAPANESE BOMBERS ARE S. A. PRICE FIVE CENT NEW HOSPITAL. Call For Expendiiure Nazis Bringing Up Powerful Cal Fer End -e, Retiforcéments For Spring.) 2 Offensive SING In The Ukraine = Tt Institction Ts The Cit |zem received a telegram from Senator Claude Pepper. stating | that the propesed new hospital for Key West has been approve” | Albury that arrangements bagels is supposed to ha to aa | been made with the Dirr Packing | West, or whether the supply will! |Company, of Miami, and Lykes| be limited, like that of the Lykes | |Brothers Packing Company, of} Brothers, or whether the ship- | | Tampa, to ship beef to Key West, | ments will be continued regular-| | adding, « ‘it should Campaign: Bovile®) it ¢4 ALGIERS, April 2—One hun- dred Allied. bombers last) night blasted the port of Sfax, 90 miles north of Gabes. and left it in a sea of flames. It was the second 100-plane bombing attack, engi- SHOT DOWN BY BRITISH FLYERS (By Associnted Prens) CHUNGKING, April 2.—Advises received here state that 30 Jap bombers, in attempting to make a raid southeast of Bengal, were challenged by 15 British Spitfires, and were not only driven back before they reached their objectives. but eight of the bombers were shot down. British planes also meade successful attacks yesterday on Jap bases in northern Burma and in central China. In the latter area, after the planes had blasted the bases, Chinese troops started an offensive which drove the Japanese back at two places along their front. meered by the Aliies, in the North| African campaign, and the first in Tunisia. The other was on shipping and military installations in Sardinia. two nights before. Airplanes are playing a most important part in the Allied tri- umphs, it was stated today. Ad vances by Montgomery. in the south, Patton. in central Tunisia. and Anderson. in the north, have been due largely to the effec- tiveness of planes. Sfax. which sy Swaw bombed lastnight, is’ ofle of 4 Rommel’s most important bases along his line of flight toward Tunis, but the airfied there.was so badly torn to, ieees it can not be used again until it is repaired. It was anriounced today that Rommel succeeded in getting the bulk of his army out of the Mareth bottleneck. and it was added it probably will be kept intact until a stand is made against the British Eighth Army. under General Montgomery, and the American forces, under Gen- eral Patton. who are chasing the Axis trocps up the coastal road. It was reported today that the Montgomesy | and aba n.. forces had conversed. b pul Shoat yseport was officially Genie. dh was said that they are still 40.mijles, apart. ~ London military commenta- tors, recorded by Radio Algiers. stated today there is little like- lihood of Rommel'’s evacuating Tunisia at an early date. They asserted that he had been order- ed by Hitler to hold Tunisia “to the last man”. SRE A ATES TEESE. OL 8°PoR Ay Your Fenders and Chassis—it saves you buying a set of Fenders. Lou Smith Ali BABY Ti bores Capable of Servicing Bus Equipment; Excellent Wages PHONE 1057 LATE BULLETINS {By Associated Press) 263 JAP PLANES. 35 SHIPS DESTROYED WASHINGTON.—General McArthur’s headquarters disclosed to- day that, during March, the Allies in the Southwest Pacific shot down 263 Jap planes and sank or badly damaged 35 Jap ships, some of them warships. Today American planes effectively bombed the Jap positions in the northern Solomons, NAZIS ON FORTIFIED HILLS * ALGIERS,—A late bulletin announces that the British First Army, ander General Anderson, has driven beck the Italians and ‘@@ine Of fortified Billi. British heavy ertiliery has opened up heavy firing on the fortifications. SAYS MID OPERATING IN COALFIELDS WASHINGTON.—John L, Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, stated today that agents of the Military Intel-; ligence Division are operating among workmen in the coalfields, in- forming them the coalfields will be converted into military districts. DISTRIBUTING BRITISH PAMPHLETS LONDON.—Swedish sources report that anti-Nazi pamphlets, dropped in Norway and Denmark by British flyers, are being surrepti- tiously distributed among Norwegians and Danes to aid their con- tinued propaganda against the Nazis. JULY 1 FOR MARRIED MEN WASHINGTON.—Major General L. B. Hershey, in charge of the selective service, announced today that the calling up of fathers, whose children were born before December 7, 1941, the day Pearl Harbor was attacked, will begin about July 1, 1943, Reclassification of them and other registrants was begun all ever the country on April 1. PAPY STOPS OVER SCHROEDER WILL IN MIAMI ON WAY NOT RETURN HERE TO . TALLAHASSEE BEFORE SUNDAY REPRESENTATIVE TO LEGIS- HEAD OF RENT-CEILING OF- LATURE FROM THIS DIS-| FICE WENT TO ATLANTA TRICT WILL REACH CAPI-/ TO CONFER WITH REGION- ' TAL. ON SUNDAY AL DIRECTOR THERE | Representative Bernie C. Papy, | Laurence Schroeder, who left here yesterday on his! | the rent-ceiling office way to Tallahassee, will remain | West, in Miami till tomorrow morning, |tyrn to Key West this morning, when he will resume his trip to} will not be back . until Sunday the capital. afternoon, according to informa- He expects to arrive there (Continued on Page Six) Sunday, and on that da Monday he will hold conferences; with colleagues from all over the! state, pertaining to matt that! will come up in the legislature, whit’ convenes Tuesday. | , he left, Mr. Papy said: retell what will be BPC align Pane sin | ger’ RAGES “CLUB NOW OPEN EVERY DAY FROM 3 TO 12 BIG DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT Music from 9 to 12 by JOHN PRITCHARD’S ORCHESTRA Reservation Suggested PHONE 9287 head ot| in Key “THUNDERING TRAIL” with Three Mesquiteers and Nell O’Dav | BRADY'S | smu ey Rhode Island Tennessee Milk-Fed ROASTERS and STEWERS Phone 540 1214 White St. who was expected to re- | PALACE THEATER | ‘Live Poultry & Egg Market Our Chickens are Received Alive) | and we Kill and Dress them Daily | phere by this time.” But the beef has not yet come | to town, though Mr. Albury was} j informed today that Lykes Broth-j lers are supposed to ‘ship 4,000 pounds of beef on each successive Tuesday and Friday until 16,000 pounds have been sent here. Nothing has been heard from the Dirr Company, except that it will supply oleomargerine to any have reached | is Neither has” anything turther| OMS” ocdaaidials | been heard from the 2,700 cases; of canned milk, which J. G. De-} riso, chairman of the Food Dis-; tribution Administration, in Mi-} jami, said last Saturday would! | shortly be shipped to Key West. | Condensed(milk is not available} in Key West and stocks of evap-! |orated milk are so'low only one} lean is sold to a customer. |BRITISH PARATROOPS (By Associated Press) LONDON, April 2.—Ger- man radio reports, recorded by the BBC today, stated that British paratroops have land- “MRS. JOHN “ARCHER LIKELY 10 BE -| NAMED AS SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT | The Citizen was informed today; that Mrs. John Archer most; likely will be the successor of} Lieutenant Commander Melvin! E. Russell as superintendent of public instruction in Monroe county. Mrs. Archer, formerly Miss Ellen Caviness, niece of County Judge Raymond R. Lord, is at present Mr. Russell's secretary: She is a graduate of the Key! West High School and is said to! be thoroughly familiar with the} duties of the office of superin- tendent. ‘The Hews “about” Mrs. Archer's being slated for the position re-| sulted from an interview Mayor Willard M. Albury had with Mrs. the Local School Board from the! first district. Mrs. Pierce called | up Mayor Albury and requested him to-come to see her. She told him frankly that she! }was exceedingly sorry she had j !to withdraw her promised sup- port of him for the superintend- cy, as she had been requested by i Mr. Russell to vote for Mrs. John Archer. She explained that Mr. Russell and her late ‘hus- band had been close friends for many years, so close, she added, she felt obliged to accede to his request. One other member of the! board, it was rported, has agreed to support Mrs. Archer, and, as —|there are only three votes those! is going to acquire the airfield. | two will elect her. The other member, while ad- jmitting that Mrs. Archer has Look Lowel ANE FACE POWDER SOUTHERN PHARMACY, Inc. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS | Duval at Fleming Street Jennie Pierce, member of! | ed in Denmark and are being | hidden in the homes of faith- | ful Danish patriots, { | | : German announcers added that every Dane who is found to be harboring the British will be shot forthwith. It was further stated that the para- trocps were landed from RAF planes while passing over Denmark. - Reports irom Swedish sources state that the Germans are fearful that the para- troops ere the vanquard of Allied armies thet will open their second front in Den- mark. been a capable secretary, and is familiar with the functions of the| effice of the superintendent,| added there are some duties of | the office that really require the activities of a-man. | | That member of the board said) | this. afternoon that he is going ; to suggest to the other conte imhember that he himself accept| j the superintendency. His own! Vote and the vote that will op- lerdal den osSeatinns Ah pose Mrs. Archer, it was explain-| . would place him in. the of-| FABAL: FUNERAL Pies Archer made ~ no satel} . HERE ON SUNDA | whatever to obtain the position. ; |Indeed, she was surprised. this} The funeral of Sefferino Fabal, morning when she heard that) 48, who died in Brooklyn, N. Y., jshe was being considered for | will be held Sunday afternoon at 15:00 o'clock from the Chapel of the Pritchard Funeral Home, Rev. Ted Jones of the First Baptist, Church, officiating. Survivors are two daughte: Mrs. J. W. Coulter of San Diego Cal.; Mrs. R. A. Fernald, of Ma ‘aryle Fa- jthe superintendency. | APPEARS BOTH ARMY |.AND NAVY ARE AFTER AIRFIELD TRA TRACT HERE H | chusetts. One son, Pvt. | A month or so ago, real estate| | bal, of Seattle, Wash. Two sisters, appraisers, representing the War! nec Ruth Smith of Key West, Mrs. (Department, were in Key West! nica willis, New Orleans. Two checking up on the airfield at the! brothers, Eugene and Russell Fa- Second Martello Tower, and the bal. of Key West; three grand- report then was that it was to be| | children. purchased for the ee . | Today, appraisers rom the | Navy Department are checking | TT OTIIITH S on the same tract, owned by the; Key West Realty Company, and | Big- Town Glamour | Or the report now is that the Navy} Small-Town Wife ? At the Naval Operating Base in| Key West today, no comment was made regarding the matter. ier AleDay This superior powder spreads smoothly, clings RESTOCRAT S wonderfully .. . Flattering shades aid your skin to look naturally lovely for hours. 50; 1.00 It was the old story with Kathleen.. Vaughan... (Should she follow the theater career she wanted or lose the man she loved?) But Watkins E. Wright packs a lot of new meaning into this story of a girl who found herself torn be- fees two worlds—and be- relief and you shouldn't miss it. MOST CITY Phone 198 Key West, Fla. LANDED IN DENMARK! 7 | Roads Crowded With Mo-| | iorized Vehicles To} And From German Con-' centrations (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, April 2.—Pravda. newspaper, | said today that the Germans are semi-official Soviet | bringing up powerful reinforce- j ments and vast quantities of sup- | plies to start an early spring of-! jfensive in the Ukraine, or the! jsouthern theatre of the war in | Russie. Roads are crowded with motor- | ized vehicles, going to and re-} , turning from the German ae | trations in that quarter, the news- [poe ee of the too. iy 2 PENS - It was in that same sector where the Germans launched their first attacks in the offensives last sum- ; Mer that took them to Stalingrad. | many parts of which they enter- »,ed but which they were unable -, to capture. That drive, Pravda Peinted out today, cost the Ger- mans more men and more materia” than any other offensive actior they fought in Russia. The Germans are still trying to cross the Donetz River, but, aside ; from a few sorties made by them. H they are confining their ection i chiefly to long-range artillery , duels with the Russians. BLACK CAT STARTS | TRUCK OF TROUBLES i conspeaeeice (By Associated Press) BUTTE, Mont, Apfil 2—Truck Driver Wilfred Tarrow says a black cat ran across his path, just as he stopped his freighter near the railroad depot. Then a tiny spark from a small fire, burning yards away, floated through the air and came neatly , down in the middle of a tiny spot of gasoline on the running board The next moment the truck was in flames. Most of the paint burned away but the fire left intact the truck's stenciled number. | _ It's No. 13! beaten tintinatintintintintin tinted tnt PRESCRIPTIONS | by the Federal Works Agency « ®@ cost of “about $300.000". Mayor Willard M. Albury said a few days ago that be expect- ed to hear “any day” that the application for the hospital to be erected in the botanical gardens would receive its final approval. Mayor Albury tock up the matter with the Federal Works Agency. at its regional office in Atlante. then appealed to the United States Public Health Service to give its approval of | the project. A few days later he |learned that the USPHS had ap- | proved the application, “subject to an imvestigation being made by its engineers. With the application success- fully reaching so advance « Mayor Albury said he felt thet en appropriation would be granted for the con _ struction of the hospital The telegram from Senator Pepper cpeaks of the project as the “new Naval Hospital”. but that designation is considered Furely an oversight. as no =sp- plication has been made to con- Struct avother naval hospital in Key West. and. as was explain ed to The Citizen, had such a= application been made. the Fed erel Works Agency would not have anything whetever to do with it. es it would be a matter ttat would be handled entirely by the Navy Department. The telearem reads as follows: Washington, D. C_ April 2 1943. Key West Citizen, : Key West. Fila. Pleased to advise that new naval hespital has been approved by Federal Works Agency at Key West to cost about $300,080. Regards. CLAUDE PEPPER. U. S. Senator. COVERAGE OF AREA CHICAGO.—Chile has @ rai way system of 5.750 miles and 20,000 miles of highway.