The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 6, 1943, Page 1

« Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 68 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIV. No, 82. Red Forces:Have Improved. "y Positions On Donets River” * This Has Nee Attained SOO eee ea ax Despite Many Attempts|SECRETARY KNOX pyy West Citizri THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. TE SET ‘TRIAL! TWO ARE RELATIVES OF MAN'| ELECTROCUTED ON CHARGE OF SABOTAGE WITH SEVEN, OTHERS KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1943. Key West, Florida. ee mest equabie climate in the country; with an sverace range of only 14° Fahren? .* S. A. {Wm. R. Porter, Monroe County APPEAL MADE!) ‘Chairman Of Second War lid “Campaign, Relates Great Need The people of Monroe county | the everlasting credit of a will be put to the acid test during} American people—that there are| ‘the Second War Loan, beginning} ™9Fe People today who own Gov-| ernment securities than at =| April 12, it was announced today j “| time in the history of the nation ~ | by Wm. R. Porter, County Chair-' or the history of the world—the ht Axis’ Planes Shot ‘Down In Bitter Aerial Battle man. | simple facts of the matter are, it i Attorneys Complete Changes In — Took Place “The United States Treasury | not enough. By Nazis: To Destroy ie MENACE GRAVE! Bridgehead (iy Sanaiies Press) WASHINGTON, April 6— Secretary of the Novy Frank Knox, at his press confer- U-bowt menace to Allied shipping increased during last. month and hes now teached (By Associoted rosy MOSCOW. April 6—Russia‘s brief communique today | said that the Reds have improved their positions on a brideghead they have on the Donets: River, despite many attempts’ of | the Nazis to destroy it duting the last week. trisha destbous) athiinods were made today. and each of them was unsuccessful, the report said, During the week the Nazis have been trying to destroy the brideghead. many thousands of them have lost their ives, the communique declared. Other fighting today that-was! cluded. * commented on regarded Marshal/, —.* Timoshenko’s slow sdbsece: stele the northern area of the batile- front. One village was “ seized by his troops during the night and its defenders were put to the bayonet. FORMAL OPEN OF NEW USOC SET FOR TONIGHT MUSICAL NUMBERS TO BE American destroyer * Phat type of-ship has al- teady® preved its worth. he stated, and added that their mumbers are being increas- ed rapidly. U-boats, fearful of attack by planes, are operating chiefly now in the mid-At- lantiq, the secretary con- JAP PLANES ARE ¥ BREAK-UP.DALLY, SERIES OF AIR ATTACKS BY BRITISH PLANES | (ily Associated Press) CHUNGKING, April attemptéd to break up the daily |. \PROGRAM; SP EAKERS TO BE) ccries of air attacks made by Brit- HEARD ish planes. on enemy positions in the central and southern parts of} that country. The formal opening of the USO} Fifty Jap planes, in thre forma- Club at 303 Duval street will be tions, attacked — squadrons of; held tonight with a dedicatory re-} British bombers and fighters, but! ception from eight until ten | the Japs turned tail-after a few o'clock. The Club is operated by | es of shots. bay . Catholie Communit; inthis country, the Japs trie hats eine aie and will be} aBain today to bomb air fields, used for a Club and residence for| from which the « Nipponese fear Allied planes will fly to bomb Ja- wives of service men and for | pan this spring and the coming women war production workers! summer. ‘ % American and Chinese fighters for a period not exceeding two ig! | drove back the Jap planes before weeks. The house has been com- | they reached their objective pletely renovated and rooms will} TEMPERATURES be available. aiter the opening. Reservations may be made for the} Temperature data for the 24 | hours ending 8:30 a. m., April 6, guests prior to their arrival in Key West by friends or relatives. The evening’s program will fea- ture musical numbers and speak-| Weather Bureau: ers. Following this the guests will | Highest Lowest be shown through the house and last 24 hours ‘last night refreshments will be served. The 12 47 public is cordially invited to at- 52 23 tend the reception. _ 82 64 Arrangements for the opening of , 81 43 the Club have been made by the 51 81 following committees: 45 22 Steering committee, Miss Mar- 76 66 garet Lacedonia; Invitations, Mrs.! Jacksonville 80 55 H, R. Demeritt; Program, Mrs.! Kansas City _ 64 48 Virginia Baker; Refreshments.| KEY WEST _ 76 65 Mrs. Pauline Hemmingway; Dec-|K.W, AIRPORT 76 63 orations, Mrs. A. M. Hewett;| Memphis _. 67 46 Aide, Miss Dora Medina. Miami... 76 53 Miss Anne Sarachon Hooley,| Minneapolis _ 50 36 assistant director of the NCCS,;|New Orleans _ 82 _ and Miss Charlotte Ford, Regional| New York __ 51 25 Supervisor, arrived in Key West | Norfolk 69 40 52 64 Atlanta Boston Brownsville Charleston Chicago Detroit Galveston yesterday and will be guests at the| Oklahoma City a reception. Pensacola & Miss Alice M. White and Miss! Pittsburgh __- ri Verla G. Doherty are co-directors; Re Louis 61 of the, Club, Tampa . 80 ibis 7? ESS DR.. A. M. MORGAN Announces the REMOVAL of his office to 219 DUVAL STREET | Garo CAFETERIA PHONE 281 1100 Simonton Street White women dishwashers, No experience necessary. Salary $90.68 per month and meals. Colored kitchen men. Salary | sense per month and meals. Report at Once to 1943, as reported by ‘the U. S.} | H DRIVEN OFF BY jz |DEFENDANTS IN NEW JER. BRITISH FLYERS, NIPPONESE ATTEMPTED TO, - i 6-The| connected with seven slaughter RENDERED IN’ EVENING’S Jap command in Rangoon today hovises.: were eae for black (ity Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 6—Hans }Max Haupt,’ father of . Herbert Hans Haupt, one of the eight men who landed in this country from a :Getman U-boat, and were elec- trocuted on a charge of sabotage his uncle, Walter Froehling, and a friend, Otto . Richard Wergin, who were sentenced to death for treason by Federal Judge William J,Campbell in Chicago last .No- vember 23, lost their appealtoday” fora new ‘trial at a, hearingtin:a federal court of appeals. Their attorney said he would ask ‘the United States supreme’ court to review the decision, but added that he thought there was little hope for the defendants. Hans Max Haupt’s mother, Er- | na, and two women. friends, Lu- cille Froehling and Kate Martha | Wergin, tried at the same time! with the three men sentenced to death, were sent to prison for 25 years and, in serene: each was! fined $10,000. | ELEVEN MEN ARE MARKET T PRACTICE SEY CHARGED WITH {FIx-| ING PRICES IN EXCESS OF OPA RULING i 25 WASHINGTON. ‘April 6.—The OPA’s heaviest blow at the | black market was struck today | in New. Jersey. where 11 saga. i . The (OPA atserts ‘thal from |December 16 to Februaty 1, the| defendants. ‘distributed — 10,000,- 000 pounds of beef: at’ wholesale prices in excess of the amounts fixed by the OPA, which was 23% cents a pound. | According to the. allegations,! the owners of the abbatoirs sold! ‘beef at prices ranging from 28 to. 33 cents a pound to retail markets in. New. Jersey, New York and Connecticut. The books showed that the! ceiling ptice was adhered to,! but the OPA’ alleges the over-! ages, paid to wholesale dealers} and shared between them and | the defendants, did not show on, the books. CITY. COUNCHL MEETS TONIGHT There will be a regiilar meet- | ing of the City Council held to-} night, beginning at 8 o'clock. | Nothing aside from routine) business is scheduled for to-! night’s meeting, : although other! matters may come up. during; the proposed session. 1 The proposed new charter, however, will be taken up. for discussion. SMALL FIRE TODAY IN CARSON'S. LANE The fire appardtiis rebelien. to a call this motning about: 10:30 o’cigc! mid ti tabla on! the sceng dist 1 3 small | blaze. in one ,of, Carson. i garet street m cemetery mae an caused by a kerosene with practically no damage re-j| sulting. The alarm was. sounded from box 124, corner of Southard _ Margaret streets. f } { | — TWO BAR WAITRESSES for La Concha Hotel LOUNGE Wanted! oS | | must raise 13 billion dollars during| vat the |people of Montoe Coun-| yy, and every county and town in the Second War Loan, and a sub-| the nation, ar2 to meet their full Stantial part of this money must measure of responsibility, they be loaned to our Government by, must loan their Government every j people in ordinary walks of life—’ cent not needed for the essentiais | you and me and the fellow next, of living—and we have to revise! door,” Mr. Porter declared. It is ob-' downward our ideas about what} vious to ‘every thinking man and! are essentials. In other words, you, | woman that as the United Nations’ and you and I must go on an all-out! take the offensive against the Axis: war basis. ‘dictators, the cost of wari opera-! “This is not only:a patriotic duty, ' tions’ inerease in: proportion. ; but a duty to yourself as well. Ev-| “THE staggering sums ‘of mon-' ery dollar which you: have. ava ey necessary for the victory drive| able now and do «not invest in of the American and other Allied! Government securities is a’ ‘wild’|ing tonight will discuss the pro- visions of the charter that have | armies and navies .: . the task and/:dollar which may, together with | the costof providing food, tran: its billions of brothers, turn in-! | portation and munitions for mi © a Frankenstein which Will raise! lions of men, over and above the! your cost of living to the point cost of equipment in planes, guns, | where your dollar will be worth tanks, ships and other material no more than the paper it is writ- - must be borne, in large meas- | ten on. In short, this loose money | ure, by the American people left; is likely to be the cause of a wild | here at home. inflation that will sweep away! “It is not. only necessary and] your savings and send the price of | right that we should assume this|a loaf of bread beyond what you; additional participation in the war | now make in a year. It can't hap- | effort—it is an honor to do so. We} | pen? It did in Germany! And that | who are left here on the home! could happen here. front can do no less than attempt! “So let’s not quibble about it. to approach the sacrifices of those | Let’s not shilly- Shally and debate. | brave men out on_ the fighting | Let's dig down into our pockets;} jfronts to whom the last great} let's root those dollars out of the great measure of sacrifice is but a| dark today and invest them in this! daily offering. They give their | S@cond War Loan. Remember | lives. We lend our money. those boys out there. They give “While it is true—and this to their lives—you lend your money.” | | Proposed Shipment Of Ganusd Milk Has Not Arrived As Yet Stal Vl hkehedebheded LEGISLATURE NAMES PAPY ON IMPORTANT COMMITTEES TODAY (By Associated Prenn) TALLAHASSEE, Apr. 6.— Representative Bernie CC, Papy of Monroe County was appointed on several im- Portant House committees at the opening session of the Florida Legislature today. The committees are: banks and loans, conservation, la- bor, public amusements (chairman), public roads and highway3, public utilities, temperance. eadhahertiendeedhutbaaheakadl ANTS BUILD HILLS A week ago today a wire was} received in Key West that a car-! load of canned milk was being | shipped here, and a week ago last Saturday J. D. Deriso, chairman of} the Food Distribution Administra- | tion in Miami, said that two car- loads, or 2,700 cases, would ~be} sent to Key West, but some local | grocers said this morning they have not heard anything further! about either promised shipment. | Yesterday, in some stores, cus- | tomers who had been allowed to{ j purchase one large can of evap-| orated milk, were either not sold! {any at all, or given one small can| j apiece. As for condensed milk, it | is still unavailable in Key West. Those promised shipments of! beef had not reached here up to; this morning. The only promise; {kept thus far, regarding food-| — | stuffs for Key West, was that made | CHICAGO.—Tiny ants in Aus-' by the Dirr Sausage Company of | tralia build ant hills three’ times Miami, in sending here 5,000| the height of a man. pounds of pork. vel H Bot onlpa few filnien a day —you can make sure your whole family gets all the vita-_ as.and minerals they may Each tasty Vimms tab- * Tet all six vitamins se BBO, toattoer | ag fee peiny eg Guard against vitamin de- ficiency. Get Vimms for low Ld hkl hdd charter {morning by Attorneys S. Caro and J. Lancelot Lester. Land the city council, at its meet- | vote, which is in co: | the selective service, said today that the drafting of fathers may be | expenses of harvesting this year’s crops. that if the bill became a law it would be a spur to inflation. DIOP POLED GREATER NUMBER OF |CITIZEN TO HANDLE City Charter To Be Prescined = ek Be a = ; eg er a At Meeting Of Council Tonight Tunisia Proposed changes in the city fa z< | Present tl P - is permit Thomas | elections, > Anmoctmted Prene were completed on the city v a ruling made {preme court If the changes and jments are approved posed to have the c jlished and then it well be se | to Representative Bernie One proposed change should{Papy for its validation by meet with the approval of every | legislature LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) by been altered and amendments that have been suggested. For more than am hour the mechatical birds of the air spat Fot lead at ome ancther over the Sic lian Straits and ower the sea off Tunisie. Germany's pride the 108 Mes sersc’ mitt was inchuded in the number of Aszus planes destroy - = Two Meserschmitt. one | only = few yerds ahead of the terrenean with smoke and fire streemins from their tails. Thirty - one of the enemy Planes were destroyed ower the c DEATH FOR ATTEMPTED SURRENDER LONDON.—According to reports from an authoritative source, Marshal Erwin Rommel has issued orders that all Germans who are | caught attempting to go beyond their lines to surrender to the Allies. will be summarily shot. The order is said to have resulted from the | surrender, without attempts to fight, of several thousand Germans shortly before the capture of Gabes by British troops. ROMMEL, HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE Sicilian Straits amd the ether 17 ALGIERS.—News reaching here from the front lines says that eff Tunisia. Rommel is changing his headquarters every day because of the con- ; Stant bombings of Allied planes, as though they were searching out tial pictures of the results the place where he is encamped. The gradually closing-in om his lines. oh te cttack cf Americat by the Americans, the British and the French, is said to have eeetes ‘ —— at Nepi him into a highly nervous state. poe sere ee eens OL | two davs ago were developed AMERICANS MAKE TWO MORE RAIDS LONDON.—Squadrons of American planes carried out two more)” “"* = effective cir raids today. They bombed Dieppe, and the shore along | entire waterfront insteliations | Dieppe, where three enemy ships were attacked. One of them | at Naples im 2 stele cf devaste- was struck by a bomb and left in flames. The Americans also de-| Headquarters | | stroyed a plant in Holland, in which German planes were repaired. _ the destruction on the port is far more @xfensive than it wes thought to be et first. Serties of Allied planes. based in North Africe are averaging 1008 a day. according to hesd- quarters reports. RADIO BERLIN REPORTS COMMANDO RAID LONDON.—Radio Berlin reported today that British commandos attempted to make a raid on Norway yesterday, adding that the at- ‘ tempt was frustrated. Allied headquarters said the commandos have not attempted any recent raid on Norway. DRAFTING OF FATHERS MAY BE DELAYED WASHINGTON.—Major General Lewis B. Hershey, director of delayed, as a result of a volume of protest that has been made hrough- out the country. It was intended to begin drafting them in July. but. he stated, the action probably may be posponed to an undetermined date. $40,000,000 TO HELP HARVEST CROPS WASHINGTON.—Chester Davis, chief of the Food Distribution | Administration, today was given $40,000,000 to go toward paying the FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMOR- BAN APPARENTLY DEAD — ea - WASHINGTON.— igh the Bankhead bill, which would raise | | farm parity 15 per cent, was passed in the senate, 78 to 2, it was said| Uriah E. Curry, 82 | today that it is unlikely Bankhead will be able to muster a two- .. ght at his residence: thirds majority to override the President's veto. The President said | Ojivia street, at 6:00 o'clock dies Funeral services will be he RY Ee | tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock AXIS PRISONERS MAY WORK ON FARMS from the First Congregations: WASHINGTON.—Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard| Church, Rev. S. P. Reinke | proposed today thet German and Italian prisoners, many thousands ‘or. officiating | of whom are in this country, be put to work on farms the coming The body will be placed t | summer. In proposing the matter to the Wer Department, he said Church at 2.00 ‘o'clock tomorse: | he was aware that some difficulty may arise in employing them for pre en ee eae + Sheet work, as they would have to be kept under guard. charge of arrangements. Survivors: Widow, Mrs. Uriah Curry; a daughter, Mrs. James 8. | Herring; a grandson. Jam TAX CERTIFICATES bere and a brother, Jeremi ARE BEING REDEEMED ae County Clerk ests laa ot sanya} said this morning that a good idea | 1106 Simonton Street jof the extent to which tax sale} certificates are being ar The privileges of this caic j may be gained from comparisons! nt tha aap vi in the daily use} teria are extended to the following: » PAPER COMPLAINTS | ‘to record the re- / deepen. Heretofore, the sheets ran only | two or three a day, but now the daily average used totals 11 sheets. | The collections, most of which are/