The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 12, 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. bes most equable climate in the country; with an sverage range of only 14° Pahren? he Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. * Se SELES. “SER VOLUME LXIV. No. 87. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1943. Men Who Became Fathers in Last Two Years Given Draft Deferment OO Sele New Regulation In Statuieeeaeaaeaa\(ITY CHARTER IS. Today By _ Selective bideepelbinidcse aa aree 29,829 gallons of kerosene. was | . COUNCIL MEETING TO BE used during the same. period. 5 (By Associated Press) : HELD FRIDAY EVENING TO | OSS STS SLM M. WASHINGTON, Apr. 12.— z The Selective Service Com- HEAR COMPLAINTS | GIVES INFORMATION ON CEILING PRICES mission. under Major Gen- E. P. Winter, executive officer { eral Lewis B. Hershey, start- ed action this morning that will result in delaying the drafting of fathers until all other men, eligible for the army, have been called to the {city charter published in full for! of the Monroe County Rationing That rule applies only to { ‘he benefit of the general reading | Board, issued the following infor- men who were fathers before | public. City Attorney T. S. Caro/mation this morning about the} the attack on Pearl Harbor. | and Attorney. J. Laneelot Lester ; ceiling prices of beef, veal, lamb, } In other cases, concerning have been busily engaged for; and mutton: fathers, they will be moved {tie past several weeks in prepar-! “On April 15, ceiling prices for up in the classification to | ing the document. | beef, veal, lamb and mutton cuts follow men who have moth- A special meeting of the City, become effective: ers, or other near relatives, | Council will be held on Friday, “Prices on Grade AA beef range} other than wives and chil- | evening, April 16, at which time from 21 to 68 cents per pound, | all citizens will be given an oppor- | lamb and mutton, 25 to 69 cents! tunity to register whatever com- per pound, veal prices range be-} }plaint they. may have with the tween 25 and 56 cents per pound.! ; provisions of the charter. |Kosher cuts range fractionally i At the conclusion of this meet-| higher. a4 ing, if-the document meets with} “The Rationing Board will haye| dren, as dependents. Then men, who have become fath- the approval of all concerned, it | on hand schedule of all meat prices } so busy fighting th ir bombs ‘less! j will then be forwarded to Repre-|for retail stores on Wednesday, | 7 OE et Coppel ae ee Lillie May Jackson, ers since Pearl Harbor will sentative Bernie C. Papy at Tal-| April 14, and store £.000:ton freighter was:struck sid tops bedehed by hee crow. morning be- be drafted. war work. is i | was arraigned this lah 4 Soles a 4 2 ee ges is a aes te ae es ioe Seen the Benen Mase Ld Ld [eee i Se catia Beil eee eee theiegy : nee oe ae ae CUBAN : C0 LONY lesan aha $100 tail for the criminal court. 196,269 GALLONS OF IN ALL SECTIONS OF COUNTRY GAS DURING FEBRUARY | i In accordance with the re- | WASHINGTON, April 12.—The War Bond drive got un- port issued for the month of | CHAS AS Saas i 3” der way throughout the country today, and in some cities This Is Axis’ Mest impert- | i | CITIZEN TO HANDLE PAPER COMPLAINTS 7“ Base ‘= Tunisia Seaicerens Aside From Tunis And The Citizen has made er- rangements to hendie com- Bizerte plaints from its subscribers. and those not receiving their papers between 6 and 7 o'clock are urged to call No. 51 February on the consumption of Gasoline end kerosene by ecceinest nt pec alae it was formally started with speechmaking and parades. Tallahessee, covering the va-_ All reports received by the Treasury Department up to early this afternoon indicated that the drive is meeting with » Success, throughout the country, and opinions were expressed H that.the.goal of! $13,000,000,000 set by-the-Treasury will be | i is shown, that. Monroe Coun; ty consumed... 196,263 gallons of gasoline during that period, tious counties in the state, it: exceeded. The renort also shows, that | )Chief,arguments in urging Americans to buy bonds in- «i ¢lude-the waging of war on inflation. It is pointed out that no | :)ether.one thing will curb inflation more than for the people | ; generally to purchase war bonds, ‘ {;—— PLANES DOWNED IN DOGFIGHT anyway, He's | LOYAL HUSBAND { (By Associated Preas: | CHARLOTTE, N. C., April |A girl had a date with a |man and “he failed to show | That had never happened to her before. He was not that kind. Then | came the excuse. The young man |married the night he failed t | show up. That was all (Dy Ansociated Press) WASHINGTON, April 12— Thousands, of men who became “dads” jn the last two years were given draft-deferment sta- tus as fathers for the first time in a new regulation announced by Selective Service. today. Local boards were told to classify as fathers all those; whose children were born before last September 15, Fathers, now! the only men deferred solely be-| caus of family relationship, can- | not be drafted under further or- ders are sent to the boards, | Under previous regulations de- Pendents acquired at-a time « did not count toward deferment H i | In today’s issue of The Citizen; will be found the new proposed; (By Ansoctated Presa) MELBOURNE, April 12.—The highest dogfight that has yet occurred in the southwest Pacific toak place yesterday in the stratosphere above the northeasterly tip of New Guinea. in which two squadrons of American and Australian fight- ers engaged 45 Jap planes. * Most of the fighting was waged at a height of 35,000 feet, from which 23 out of 45 Jap planes plummeted into the sea with smoke streeming from their tails. The report did not say how many Allied planes were lost, other than to state that the number wes “comparatively small.” The Japs were attempting to bomb Allied ships in the sea off the northeast point of New.Guinea, but they were kept ‘COLORED WOMAN HELD FOR CRIMINAL COURT colored. Other exceptions for de- ferments apply to farmers and men engaged in essential win. Kut this rule is now eliminated, Thus many fathers whose enit | dren were born during the pe-|EVENT TOOK PLACE SATUR- riod since drafting began late in| DAY MORNING AT BAY- 1940, and especially” in the last} VIEW PARK psd cigpeggear | two yours of heavy draft colle) a> morning, April 10,|than 300 acres. which, if they are| were subject to the draft be- the Cuban colony commemorated | Purchased for the army, will! eS z Se DE Oe | a Ideen Kenny, colored, is the , REALTY : APPRAISER INVESTIGATING | LAT E BULLETINS ; complainant. The defendant tes- STAGES PROGRAM LAND VALUES es | tified that money was stolen from A realtv appraiser, represent- | ing the. War *! nt, is FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT’ ~ cause of the “imminence of se.| its anniversary event with a pa-|ive the army and the navy all) i lection” rule. just so they became fathers be- fore last September Fave. the same status as parents of three, standing. four or more The preferred draft-status of year struggle for farmers, whose 2-C and 3-C clas- Now, however, 'in front of the Jose Marti monu- 15 they | airio Cubanos,’ years | 1869, the first Cuban Constitu- | \ thet stretch of land on the (Dy Aunociated Presad | ! tract, :which” has! is at the souther-| PLANES BLAST RETREATING FOES The navy. ALGIERS.—Allied planes ere sweeping the Tunisian coast north! been: filled in, Dennis street, which is on the! Of American planes this morning destroyed 50 motorized vehicles in| south side of Flagler avenue a! one attack, 11 mtiles north of Sousse, Yesterday Allied planes raided | short distance below what is! Caproni, in Sicily, and. in dogfights that ensued, destroyed 41 Axis > ON’ planes and lost 14 of their own. nue. | known as the Trust Factory, the other side of the ave her ‘by the complainant, and it was brought out in the testimony that, during a scuffle that follow- ed, thé defendant cut Ideen Ken- ny with a knife. Joseph M. Rodriguez ,charged making an. investigation today | ly end of the property, abutting} of Sousse, blasting the retreating Germans and Italians. A squadron with reckless driving, was held im $50 bail. TEMPERATURES army swung to the west of Sousse and overwhelmed the se fenders of Kairommg 27 miles front state that the fleeing Ger- triotic program at Bayview Park! r f 1 ea south side of Flagler avenue,'None of the land, included in} from Dennis street to the head the tract, is on the Trust Fac-: of the island. | tory side of Flagler. { A few months ago the Navy! Th, i ki 2 Department brought 85.807 acres,!. . baa araseavg —_—o te known as the Salt Pond, from|#ate investigation of the lots the Key West Realty Company} Where is situated what has been |for $30,000. The additional land known for many years in Key} under consideration is owned! West as the Miramar Club, own-| ment, in honor of the patriot who! founded the “Partida Revolucion- in this city on April 10, 1892. On that same date in the year} in Quaimaro, itated the ten- reedom, The committee in charge of the. tion was adopted Cuba, which preci 1 NOT TO EVACUATE TUNISIAN FORCES ! Temperatvre data for the 24 | hours ending 8:30 a. m. April 12 | 1943, as reported by the U.S LONDON.—Information was received here today that Hitler and weather Bureau: Mussolini, during a conference at Brenner Pass, decided not to make; any attempt to evacuate the Axis forces in Tunisia, other than those who will flee in planes. It was said further that many troops have al- ready been evacuated in big transport planes. ORDERED TO SETTLE POLITICAL DIFFERENCES ALGIERS.—Exiled French leaders in North and West Africa have | Detroit tifications were left intact. was celebration was named by Cuban, emphasized as the regulation: Eliminated the nine - month -) old 3-B classification, which had | put all men having depe | end holding any job in an essen-) tial activity behind 3-A men of ; like family relationship in the! order of call. Ordered reclassification to 1-A cof all men outside of farming! except those personally esential to essential activities and those whose induction would mean “extreme hardship and privation” to dependents. Reserved exclusively for fath- ers the 3-A classification, which has been open to childless mar- ried men and hardship-case sin-| gle men engaged in activities, outside both the essential non-deferable lists. 2 Created a new classification. | 3-D, for deferment of anyone. whose induction would “result in’ extreme hardship and privation’| to a wife, child or parent with | whom he maintains a bona fide! family relationship in their. Selective Service spokesmen | said farmers who have been in 3-A,, including childless ,arried men, would be ‘shifted automatically to 3-C ‘for contin- uance of their deferment. The 2-C classification defers farmers without dependents. { Men who are peronally essen-, (Continued on Page Six, i YES! We have New Batteries! i le In Stock at ALL Times. Lou Smith Auto Service | White at Fleming St. Phone 5 Opposite Army Barracks {San Carlos | take this course but we are | i Consul Berardo Rodriguez» ‘Val: dez, who represented General Ful- gencio Batista, the president of | ‘Cuba. : Other representatives were Al- lan B. Cleare, , the new superin- . i? her tendent of schools; Raul Abiser| Lizutenant Wreath.A. Fields, of Poyo, vice president of the Cu-|the. Women’s Army Auxiliary} ban Revolutionary Exiles; Dr. ; Corps, popularly known as WAAC, | a Poe Se ce Sin | was at her desk, at 9 o'clock this s Ins e; Stephen C. Sin- . EES gleton, secretary of the Chamber |™0Fné, In the lobby of the Fed-| of Commerce; Miss Benildes Ra-|¢?al Building to consider the ap- mond, principal of San Carlos! plicants of Key West women who School; Jose Robrero, captain of| wish to join the corps. a steamship; Louis Martinez, of-! ficer of ship, and others. VienaT HE Miss Fields conducts the men- | tal examination, but applicants The program was rend must undergo physical examina-} accordance wi ¢ 9 . ith the occasion. ‘tions in Miami. Luis Gonzalez, president of the & Information issued by Miss Institute, wishes to thank all who took part in the| Fields describes the WAACS as “A corps of women in military program. Ae ae | uniform and under military disci- pline, organized for noncombat- ALE BASIL RATHBONE in, | GATO DO ‘VOICE OF TERROR’ J 1100 Simonton NEWS and SERIAL aw A DEFENSE PROJECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE "ss. ceantea we me WE WILL NOT BE OPEN| following: ON MONDAYS |CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ih 6 with aah! | of the Key West Naval Station course ‘hat “2, ™Ust CONTRACTORS’ PERSONNEL’ | of Army and Navy Defense 1 in unable to get help. Open as | usual other days of the week. | OCEANVIEW Restaurant RATES $1.00 Per Day 520 UNITED STREET $3.50 Per Week| WAAC OFFICIAL ARRIVES IN: CITY: TO CONSIDER WOMEN APPLICANTS!7‘7™ | creed, an tity for service.” : special training of the women of. pin in committee. | by the same company. ed by Raul Vasquez. 3 | | bee Bizet by General Giraud to settle their political differences! | ii ily arid to join with the Allies in helping to crush the Axis JAPS STOP THEIR OFFENSIVE j CHUNGKING.—The Japs have stopped their offensive along the j the ‘chiy” wothens sapemuation:| igs River and are confining their activities to the west bank.) exclusive of the Army Nurse Radio Tokyo, in an announcement recorded here, seid that the Japs; Corps, authorized to serve with; ded the action because they had attrined their objectives. 1 the army. It offers Americen wo-| men, regardless of race, color or! exceptional opportun-} ant service with, the army. It is Sal: PAY-AS-YOU-GO STILL SLEEPS } WASHINGTON.—The House Ways and Means Committee today | flatly refused to resurrect the proopsed pay-as-you-go tax bill. The “The Army has announced that{ pressure to act on the bill became so great, the committee put the! it needs the knowledge, skill, and’ matter to a vote, with the result that 16 to 9 voted to keep the) the Nation for the war effort, and the women of the Nation are re-| FAVORS HIGHER DOG TRACK TAX sponding in thousands by joining; TALLAHASSEE.—Senator Greham, of Dade County, today ad- the WAAC. There are scores of yocated an additional levy on the operation of-dog tracks in Florida. | Jobs, from typing to driving, which ’ p49 favors increasing the tax from six to 11 per cent, basing the pay- the Army feels women can do to) ments on the income of tracks. He added that the additional income | release the men for combat duty; 5 —and all women ask as they sign; would: help the state to pay old-age ¢ up_is: ‘Give us a chance to help | any way we can!) : EPs We' women prov- stlvés’ that tow, “by Ex-? Seutive order the President au-) WA bn ase six) } Highest last 24 hours ci) 46 97 69 57 49 16 73 Lowest last night 62 32 | Atlanta Boston Brownsville Charleston Chicago Galveston Jacksonville 3 Kansas City 72 KEY WEST _ 83 K.W. AIRPORT — Memphis mp Miami 87 Minneapolis 43 New Orleans _ 84 New York 53 Norfolk Oklahoma City 7 Pensacola Pittsburgh Tampa mens and Italians are stopping at the Axis base at Exfidevilie. 28 miles north of Seusse. American forces, under Liu tenant General George Patton captured the Faid Pass. sorth west of Sfax. and are comtimucg their advance toward the cost according to headquarters repor* issued today. it was said further thet tbe British First Army. under ge mand of Genere] Anderson ooo jtimues its advance toward Tunis and Biserte Bommel sow bes the British Exghth Army bei ot tam om the south the Ameri-=cs cn the west and the Britub First Army in the sorthwest so tt he now has left only & tisogie . we im Kev West 8 next Prete Seturdey. when be woll B ieee