The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 10, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West THE SOU Che Key West Citizrir THERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1943 TWO MEMBERS OF AMIS WAKING PLANS FOR LAUNCHING BIG. SUMMER |R. Lord have resigned as mem- ® |bers of the Key West Zoning | Board. Proposed Offensive To Be PFIFILALI SF Mr. Ladd, who was chairman of On Much Larger Scale|JOHN LEWIS OFFERS Than Any Yet Attempt- Toca the board, and Judge Lord, stated INCREASE 0 ed f | MOSCOW, April’ 10. — {By Associated Press’ NEW YORK, April 10.— John L. Lewis, while discuss- | ing here today the freezing of | wages by the President, re- Greater part of today’s marked that he would with- munique dealt with the Nazis’; activity in the Ukraine, where they are making preparations to! launch their summer campaign. The communique said that, Key West. Neither of them wished to dis- {cuss the matter further, but a re- | porter of The Citizen learned that | houses of all types have been con- |Structed that do not comfort } with provisions set up in the citv’s fzoning laws; that no regard has (By Associated Pros) The com- U.S. GOVERNMENT TO ESTABLISH WATER PUMP STATION { { | | 1 | | |CANCELS SUIT FOR draw his demand that the | members of the United Mine [been given to building lines, and Workers of America. be given | that builders have made it a prac- a raise of $2 a day eech, if j tice of going around and seeing mine owners will agree to © members of the board individually caer miners endgtec * | to get their approval for the erec- a year on Migees tS an eight-hour dav. ! Were thet request granted, fudging ~ from the number ve he declared, the average sal- mechanized vehicles, big guns, ary of a miner would amount to $2,300 a year. and troops that have been} He also advocated that brought up to the front in that) . miners be naid “travel time,” e: | that is. the time they use in area, the offensive will be on | going down shafts into the far larger scale than any the, ines end returning to the “a | surface after they have com- Nazis have launched since they} pleted their work. ths de ma | Pea thelr undeclared Wat Ce OT OOM SOO All B. = Particularly in that true ot/ THREE ARRESTED ON | ‘Alan ®. Cleare, Je. who pad GAMBLING CHARGE * arted a suit for Charles Top- the great number of tanks the ~ pino with the object of annuling Nazis have assembled. It is the Deputy Sheriff Joe Knight, yes ie a fe son, Private largest tank. armada that ~has|terday afternoon, arrested Willie McCargo nee peek wae “ been brought together as a sin-|Jones, Elijah Burton and Mattie! motion to cancel the suit. Strong, all colored, on a charge of} The marriage was performed time, ‘Mar ee a oar gambling in a house at 228 Julia|°n March 5 last by Judge Jol- along any front, since the war} street, [ley of cone eco . “5 A | ttorney Enrique Esquinaldo. began, / i Deput# Knight said he caught! Jr, who represents the bride, The communique reported two them playing a simplified form) said this morning that, so far as Gib nines ade as was of monte, which is dubbed as{he knows, young ‘Toppino _ has beishy sh “Negro monte” by the initiated. | 2° exprened Swish. : 0. ‘have stated that the Russians, south! Fach was held in £25 bail. jhe and his -bride are very much of Kharkov. killed 1,400 enemy! L. M. Browley and Leslie Carn) in love. t nd “destroyed a number | Were arrested yesterday by Con-/ SSeS a = | stable Ray Elwood, who charges! TEMPERATURES of tanks", and repulsed an at-)them with indecent exposure. | SES tack on the shore of the Lake| Bail of each was fixed at $50. | ‘Temperature data for the 24 | hours ending 8:30 a. m.. April 10, 1943, as reported by the U. 5. ehverate | POINCIANA PLACE | Weather Bureau: STORY WAS PRINTED ASSN. ORGANIZED: pact»: twee | last 24hours last night IN PART OF ISSUE) Residents of Poinciana Place | Atianta 55 |met in the Administration Build-| Boston = j ‘ ished yester- | ing Thursday evening, April 8th, | Brownsville — ave Cie eae inte jand organized... The organization | Charleston day, in a part of its.edition, a dis-| wa, named “The Poinciana Place | Chicago patch from Tallahassee stating | Community Association.” The,fol- | Detroit that Governor Spessard L. Holland } lowing offic were. | Galveston . 45 84 84 . 64 Bes Ppa 79, 35 70 65 RESIGN; SEE NO FURTHER NEED FOR ORGANIZATION AT PRESENT’ }in their joint resignation: to May-; \or Willard M. Albury, which they! requested to “take, effect. imme-} jately,” that they. saw no neces-' | sity of a zoning. organization. in} TAKE OVER PROPERTY ON KEY LARGO ~ | ANNULING MARRIAGE. ithe marriage annuled, and that} 'Vage 19. of 811 CP | ZONING BOARD | LATE (By Asnoctated Presa) | AIRCRAFT CARRIERS HELPING , tion of buildings, instead of mak-j ing applications at regular meet-| the western Mediterranean, are cooperating effectively in the almost ings of the board } incessant attacks that are being made on the Germans in Tunis and Another complaint is the matter) Bizerte and also along the coastal road as far down as the spearhead of meetings. The Citizen was un-! ge aaa ws gble-to. learn this ‘morning when} of the British Eighth Army. A squadron of those planes participated Sie tite Areld tte teat meeting. | 32 attacks that were made yesterday afternoon on Sfax. Some county officials said they felt | sure that no meeting has been held in the last year or so, while! one official gu ten months ago. Several instanc zoning Jaw vi gone unchecked. ITALIAN GENERAL CAPTURED ed, “Oh, eight or} Sfax fell tp his forces this. morning,, was.an Italian general. Most of | rata eer | ceed the Germans.to.se great an,extent as.at Gabes, when the Ital- One of them | #228 outnumbered the Nazis by four.to one; The average at Sfax was {concerned the. building of houses | t¥ to.one. j little larger than cabins, on a} {main street next to a structure} | that recently was improved at aj i oe Aas! $4,000. The little houses! perg, in the Ruhr Valley, was bombed again last night by the RAF. e built of salvaged lumber,| = ive |which resembles patchwork, and | housands of incendieries and hundreds of bombs were dropped on | the occupants of the house, which | W@¥-Production plants. The number of planes that participated in the jis a credit to the city, complained | raid or the number that was lost was not announced. It was the fifty | unavailingly about the patchwork! eighth time Duisberg has been bombed. j construction. | . » DUISBERG. BOMBED AGAIN ee ee AMERICANS BOMB JAP BASE | MELBOURNE.—A squadron of American planes bombed a Jap- PROPOSES T0 [ nese base on the northeast coast of New Guinea yesterday. Six Jap } Planes were destroyed on the ground and an ammunition dump was | exploded. | SERS RISE ETS AMERICAN NAVY TO BE DOUBLED IN SIZE WASHINGTON.—Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today | that the American Navy will be more than doubled in size by the end | of this year. He stated further that, by the end of 1944, the compara- Deputy United States Marshal | ive increase will be even greater. | Myrtland Cates has served notice, Fee eed {in condemnation proceedings in-} ELMER DAVIS DENIES RUMOR j stituted by the United States | WASHINGTON.—Elmer Davis, head of the Office of War In | Government, on K. O. Thompson, | formation, denied emphatically today the report coming from the ithe Islamorada Investment Com-t Southwest Pacific that more-than 10,000 war planes are not in use in pany, Harry A: Robinson, Etta: ‘the United States. He declared that every plane is being pressed into Rosenthal, Carl Harwell and Alec ori | De Brocq, to acquire 6.15 acres on| 2ty a5 soon as it is turned out, jKey Largo to be used as a site for {3 pumping station in connection | with the supply of water, through the mains of the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission for the Na- | val Operating Base in Key West. } In serving the notice, Deputy | Cates had to visit four places, Key West, Key Largo, Tavernier and | Pelican Roo: | This proposed j station, when it is in operation, | will materially increase the | pressure of the flow of water to | Key West from the commission’s | wells in Florida City. } JAPS' CLAIM DENIED LONDON.—Radio Tokyo claimed today that the Japs have anni- hilated a British brigade in recent fighting in Burma. The British war office said the claim was preposterous and that the Brtish are holding at every point along the front. FOOD AND PRICE CEILINGS WASHINGTON.—Prentiss Brown, OPA chief, ennounced today that the new price ceilings on food would be extended gradually to all parts of the country. Food Administrator Chester Davis said that a floor, as well as a ceiling, on beef and pork will be fixed. The price of pork from producers to packers will be 14 1-2 cents a pound. extra _ pumping SEBASTIAN CABRERA, ‘PROPOSE ABOLISHING UNITED STATES DEPUTY COURT CLERK OFFICE HER | Ill, TAKING TRAINING | COURSE AT COLLEGE WASHINGTON: Apsldh Clee Bey West are essential to the | | ing of the oiiice of deputy court Operation of legal matters, per- clerk at Kéy West, Fla., as an! taining to this community, that economy move was provided in an are to come up in the federal court | al to { | SE ROVE. Pa. April 10.) |—Private Sebaslian Cabrera, III, Southard street, | Key West, Fla., has arrived at Sus- hanna University for a coarse sed Thur: ALGIERS.—Planes from British aircraft carriers, operating in| ALGIERS.—Among the prisoners taken by Montgomery when | the prisoners taken. were, Italians, though..theirmumber did not ex-; LONDON.—The important German steel production city of Duis- | had appointed Dr. F.'S: Carbonell] as a member of the Monroe Coun- ty School s stopped on the receipt of the message, and the | story of the appointment was, boxed on the front page. i Chairr David EB. Secretary—Mis. Sharp. ¢ u ray. B, Chair of Religious Activ- ities—Mrs. David E. McCurdy. Chairman of Recreation—Mrs. O. Leroy Strong. Chairman of By Law Commit- tee—H. F. Flourney. BREAKS TROLLEY WINDOW PHILADELPHIA. — When the motorman of a trolley he had been waiting on for twenty minutes refused to admit him because the car was over-crowded, George Switt pounded so hard on the door that he broke the glass. He} was fined $2.50 to pay for the} broken window. j Chairman of Lunch Committee —Mrs. Gilbert Day. Chairman of Publicity Commit- tee, Mrs. Harry Joslin. The organization will hold its next meeting Wednesday even- ing, April 14th, in the Adminis- trative Building. Plans are going forward for a house warming, which will be held when the new Recreation Building is completed. Your Gas _ Appliances” We are all being called on to make sacri- fices and to do without things we took for grant- ed, so will you please, for the duration, use your gas appliances just a little less? Key West Gas Co. ~~ 86 cs 82 | Jacksonville ‘Kansas City . |KEY WEST _ Board to succeed Allan} ‘Treasurer—Earl E. Kierstead. | KW. AIRPORT — =< St 81 -. 69 83 _ 57 64 75 vi) 67 81 eee | Memphis Miami Minneapolis New Orleans |New York | Northik ' Oklahoma City } Pensacola | Pittsburgh | St. Louis ! ‘Tampa _LaCONCHA “| HOTEL | of* instrdétion, lasting _approxi- | mately five months prior to his ap- | pointment as an, Aviation Cadet in the Army Forces Flying Training | Command During this period he will take: numerous courses, as well as ele- mentary flying training. Upon ppropriations bill. p: day by thé house and sent to the senate. The bill sets up $40,659,273 for the legislative establishmen and federal courts. ip this district, and also to act in conjunction with the duties of the deputy United States marshal in Key West. ~ . Gwynn’s opinion turned out to be right, as the commis- Key West, Florida, his most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrent =*t PRICE FIVE CENT> BULLETINS Axis Stronghold Lies | Seventy Miles North Of SSSI SE SLES S *& CITIZEN TO HANDLE | PAPER COMPLAINTS The Citizen has made ar- Tapgements to handle com- plaints from its subscribers. and.those not receiving their papers between 6 and 7 o'clock are urged to call No. 51 and carrier will bring paper. Please check carefully your Premises to be certain the paper has not been deliver- ed. TST Ss Tae sass WM. W. STERLING DIED FRIDAY NIGHT \FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE | CONDUCTED SUNDAY | AFTERNOON William W. Sterling years, died at his residence 1027 Virginia street Friday evening at 6:55 o'clock. Funeral service will age 62 be held Sunday afternoon at 5:00) o'clock from the Fleming Street Methodist Church, Rev. William dy. officiating. Survivors are the widow, hrs Elizabeth Sterling, four daugh- ters, Mrs. Cora Rivero, Mrs. Rose Spencer, Mrs. Reonette Uhie and Mrs. Lora Brown. Three sons, Curtis F., Hamilton C., and Harry Floyd. 18 grandchildren. Three sisters, Mrs. Lula Thompson. Mrs. , Carolina Elizabeth Cocorine. Mrs. |Laura Russell. Three brothers, Mervin, Frank, and Urie. Pritch- 'ard Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. The body will be placec in the Church at 2:00 o’clock DENNIS JULIAN IS | STAFF SERGEANT is A. Julian, husband of Mrs. Yvonne P. Julian, 1107 Southard street, Key West, ha , been promoted from the grade of , Sergeant to staff sergeant, it has !been announced by- the Com- manding Officer of the Harbor Defenses of Key West where Sgt. Julian is stationed with the service command unit Sgt: Julian is a son of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Julian of Knoxville, Tenn: and has two brothers in {the armed services, Ted im the Army and. Herbert in the Navy WIDTH OF AMAZON Denn | artillery, sionship, which was established! in Key West in 1828, 116 years] —— ago, will continue to function here.|_ NEW YORK —The Amazon is A report was current in Key; West today that the office of United States Commissioner in} completion of the course he will Ke i | oa wi'*| Key West was to be abolished. | Saas eee be classified as a navigator, pilot,! ~@ Rodney Gwynn, who is! RESCUES 3-YEAR-OLD BOY or bombardier, and go on to | schools of the Flying Command | S¢PUty, Clerk cee | for training in these specialties. SoS eee ee ae heard anything about the report,! Carol Plate, 12, saw the uncon- but that it was his opinion, if| scious form of a small child ap- either office is to be abolished, it is, pear from a 150-foot culvert. Car- that of the deputy clerk. | ol jumped in and carried the child A commissioner’s services in/out. It was Jimmy Webb, 3, who 2 | had fallen into the water and was i swept through the pipe. He was revived through atificial respira- j tion. IKI A I IAA IA TONIGHT! | For A BIG TIME. . .Try ENSE. P privileges of this cafe- _ teria are extended to the following: 1c} said this morning he had not) near a water-filled drainage ditch, | Helena Rubinstein ;more than a mile and a half wide jin some places. Gabes, Lately Captured —e Many Prisoners Captured But Bulk Of Rommel’s Army Got Away And Are Still Fleeing (By Associated Press) ALGIERS, April 10—The Brit ish Eighth Army. under com- mand of General Sir Bernard L_ Montgomery, entered the Axis stronghold at Sfax at 8:15 o'clock this morning. Sfax lies 70 miles. along the eastern Tunisian coast north of Gabes, which fell to Montsom ery a little more than a week ego. The conjecture. expressed in military circles here yesterday that Marshall Erwin Rommel would net sttempt to make 2 stand at Sfex turned cut to be true. Following a short blasting by bombing planes and besvy i Montgomery's tank Corps sterfea to move cn Stax and continued rolling until entered thet important seaport town. Fd Many prisoners. the communi que stated. were <@ptured bet it was added the Buyjiict Rom- mel's men got awiy ‘and are Pow fleeing toward El Djem. How many prisoners were taken today. net state. but it was said that. Since Montgomery made his at- teck on the Mereth Line. be has ceptured more than 25.008 Ger mans end Italiens. During thet seme period the Americans the announcement did op erating in central and souther= Tunisia. have teken 1399 crix oners. Montgomery. im commedifing teday on the enemy troops thet have fallen into his bands. ssid facetitiously that Rommel can: have many more men to surres der. considering the many offer Three Continued The Fragrant Protective . does not harm clothes It's delightful to use...and insures deylong daintiness. The