The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 15, 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. 90. More Planes For MacArthur A Now Beng Dispatched Other Military Supplies Proceeding To South- west Pacific Theatre Of War For Allies (iy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 16.— General Douglas MacArthur's cry for “planes and still. more planes” is being met by the War Department, Secretary Stimson declared today. At a press conference, he stat- ed that a constant flow of planes and other military supplies is Proceeding to the southwest Pa- cific theatre of war for use by the Allies. Secretary Stimson added that not only are plane losses being replaced, but that the Allied air force in the Australian area is growing steadily. It was disclosed that, in the lest eight days. 118 Jap planes have been destroyed by Allied fighters and anti-aircraft fire. The belief was expressed that the Japs are not trying to regain ‘TAXES CAN STILL BE PAID WITHOUT ADDING PENALTY, CITY TAX COLLECTOR SAYS) MANY UNDER WRONG IM- PRESSION RELATIVE TO} DELINQUENT DATE | ROAD OFFERS City Tax ssor-Collector | “POOR PROSPECTS. {the impression that the delin-' AP WRITER HITCH-HIKED | quent date on the payment of | {taxes begins on‘ April 1 in the| | OVER NEW MILITARY HIGH: | city, a | s it does in the county. WAY IN ALASKA; TELLS; But such is not the case, he ; EXPERIENCE j | j j {pointed out, because city taxes) lcan be paid up to June 1 with- fro the imposition of penalties. | “This is already our. record | year,” Mr. Pinder stated, “but | »we are trying to go as far as} possible beyond any other year —So when the wi over you're }in the collection of taxes. There- going to fill up the old gas buggy |fore, I would appreciate The and drive to Alaska, eh? Right) Citizen's informing those realty over this new military highway,/owners who have .not yet paid; eh? \their city taxes that they still) Well, maybe, and maybe not. t}have time to do so without be- | can tell you something about ing penalized. | that. I have just hitch-hiked the! | Alcan Highway. i The distance over the military; %* . highway proper, between r-| G: banks, Alaska, and Dawson Creek, | BE Gd British Columbia, is 3,362 miles} round trip. Tha considerably | en oe | further than going from St. Louis} DEFENDANTS TO BE HEARD ; to New York and back. { ; to New York and bac on CHARGE GE as- Then to get to Dawson Creek ; you have. a 1,280-mile round trip} SAULT AND BATTERY | between there and Edmonton, the | | capital of Alberta. { From Edmonton, if you want to | | get home quickly to the U.S. A,! . : i | you've ir Oeste round trip | W. White arrested on a charge of; fous : Silere:veaid thatl !to the nearest town of any s ze { 2S ault and battery, said tt j inthe states, Shelby, Montana. | White, when refused a drink That adds up to a minimum of jo liquor, punched him in the eye, By SAM JACKSON AP Features Writer EDMONTON, Alberta, April 15. | | j 1 { i \ ilar F: 1 FelipesCarbonell, who had J.! } KEY WEST, FLORIDA, T GERMAN COLUMNS BY RUSSIANS SUFFERING HEAVY CASUALTIES Che Key West Citize THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE WU. S. A. HURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1943. ARE REPULSED DONETS BASIN * (Ry Annoeléted Presa) MOSCOW, April 15.—The War Office reported today that columns of Germans, who téied, in two fierce attacks, to dis- lodge «te Russians in the Donetz basin, south of Kharkov, were repulsed with heavy enemy losses. In the same area, the réport stated, German reinforce- ments, rolling up to the fron’ masked Russian artillerymen, column, killing 150 soldiers a trucks. it in trucks, were surprised by who poured their fire into the ind completely destroying five Fighting bas died out in the Leningrad area, but it was stated that the Germans are messing troops, evidently for the purpose of trying to capture the corridor that connects Leningrad with the rest of R jussia. This is the same sector where light actions were reported yesterday. ‘CITY COUNCIL TO MEET FRIDAY NIGHT TO HEAR ANY POSSIBLE OBJECTIONS There will be a special meeting of the City Council held on Fri day night, beginning at 8 o’elocl for the main purpose of heat any possible objections that be offered against adoption the proposed new city charter, which was published in full in The Citizen on Monday. : Since everyone interested the document drawn up for future operation of the city government has had ample time to read its JUNE PENT GREATLY PLEASED WITH ‘TO CITY CHARTER ; contents, the meeting tomorrow | night will be the final session held } for this purpose inasmuch as sev-} eral meetings have already been conducted with an invitation ex- tended to all citizens to attend. At the conclusion “night’s session, the document will Ibe forwarded to ‘its presentation before the legis- j lature for its consideration as to jits adoption or rejection. BOX OF JAP SOUVENIRS RECEIVED of Friday ; the offensive, which they lost in| 5.596 milcs. ; fights. | Seen the scenic part of Alaska. recent sea, air and land fig) | Fairbanks is a little city far in but that they are resorting to (Continued on Page Five, aggressive defense actions. And still you haven't! while he had on his glasses. cut the} eye slightly and blackened it. “I told him,” Mr. Carbonell stat- “it was a quarter of 12 and I was closing up for the night and FROM SOLDIER HUSBAND IN PACIFIC; | The pleased smile June Pent,:the real McCoy and a curious plas- | jattractive young helper-trainee tic bracelet which, Private Johnny Key West, Florida, bes most equable climate country; with an range of only 14° Fabren? lied Armies Continue | LATE BULLETINS {By Associated Press) WORTH OF FLYING FORTRESSES ALGIERS.—The Flying Fortresses have demonstrated again that | they are the outstanding bombing-fighter plane that has been de | veloped during the war. Yesterdey, while squadrons of Fortresses | were attacking enemy positions in Tunis and Bizerte, four flights of German and Italian fighters took to the air to try to drive off the | fortresses. When the dogfights were ovet. 10 enemy planes had been | destroyed and six others badly damaged. Not a single fortress was lost. [ RAF RAID STUTTGART LONDON.—Between 300 and 400 RAF planes raided Stuttgart in Germany, last night and destroyed many military objectives, in ¢luding chemical works, according to the British Air Ministry. East | | Prussia was raided also, pretimably by Russian planes. German * Representative | iff} Bernie C. Papy at Tallahassee for bombers attacked several points along the Thames estuary. but did little damage. Three enemy planes were shot down. AIR ATTACKS DECREASING U-BOAT MENAC® LONDON.—Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of | Commons today that air attacks by the English and the Americans om | U-boat centers in France and Germany have helped appreciably in decreasing the menace of the German submersibles. OWI “SUGAR-COATED” STATEMENTS , WASHINGTON.—Fourteen writers in the Office of Wer Infor- mation, of which Elmer Davis is chief, resigned today and. among the reasons for‘that action, stated that the OWI is issuing “sugar- coated” infcrmation to the Americen public. One writer said the OWI is supplying the public with ballyhoo instead of “truth.” character ized the “news” that comes out of the OWL, another writer declared. j SEE } Axis Into Comer Of Protectora J more BY terday the Japs lost is planes in an attack on Allie Fositions on New Guinea. FOOD CEILING PRICES, HAVE BEEN DEFERRED, E. P. Winter, executive officer of the. Monroe County Rationing Board, states: that all prices that were effective today;have been deferred to May 17 on beef, lamb and veal. All dealers will observe the ceil- ing prices of March, 1942. The dollar-and-cents ceilings on beef, veal, lamb and mutton were suspended until May Administrator Prentiss Brown ex- plained, to permit “a full re-exam- ination of the ceilings to insure they are in accord with the di- rective (from President Roose- velt) requiring a tight holding of the line on cost of living items.” PRIVATE CONTINUES WORKING REGARDLESS (Special to itixen) CAMP BLANDING, April 15.— Pvt. Michael Bodner, scrubbing the section washroom, in the 37th General Hospital quarters, was spied by First Sergeant Harold Krepack, who gaped in disbelief. “Don’t you know you're on your own time?” the Sergeant gasped, “your furlough started today! “I forgot,” muttered Private Bodner, LaCONCHA HOTEL CHARLES M. SALAS, Mgr. THE BEST DINE «x» DANCE Facilities in South Florida RAINBOW ROOM COCKTAIL LOUNGE AIR CONDITIONED Featuring... DANCING Every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday Evenings MUSIC By BARROSO’S 5-PIECE ORCHESTRA No Cover or Minimum Charge i seleenlieathsebensdianeentannerainaaeniaiaeamenienmmenaalll 17, Price, ‘would-make no nire* sales, writ then he punched me in the! ; gla: smashing them. } White, who is in the county} | jail ,under $250 bajl, will be ar- raigned this afternoon before Jus- ROTES “HEAR WAR BOND ADDRESSES SEVERAL VISITORS. IN AT.|‘'¢ of the Peace Riley Carbonell. | PAG Se aden TENDANCE AT TODAY'S GOOD NEWS FOR | sSes i i ——- i | At the luncheon of | the Key! West Rotary Club today, J.J. Tre- | Lightning struck twice in the same eet Sok und A.C. Johnson, {pice with good news for Private | | spoke about the War Bond drive a's aes rod ag mayen and pointed out the necessity of vate First Class 10 days after he! every American to invest as much } pecame Tice De Young, Sr. as he can in bonds to assure vic- | ie H tory for the Allied Nations. Dr.', Pf. De Young was informed of | William R. Warren ‘spoke on -Pan- the birth of a son, Tice De Young, ; p eareaanai | Jr. on Match 21, and received his Visitors at the luncheon were} Promotion to Private first class William G. Blanchard, J: P. Me- |" April 1. J. C. Bured, James’ F; Bal-| He is a member of the 227th lowe, Harold C. Adams and Stan tion Hospital at Camp Bland- ‘ley R. Plummer. . COLORED DEFENDANT EMPERATURES WILL BE ARRAIGNED Temperature, data for, she 2+ Vd, neuro, of ;POUES ending’ 8:30 a, m., “Appil 5. SHIT he ar. |1943,'as reported “By ee | Weather Bureau: | Highest last 24 hours 50 (Speetal ‘ne Citizen) CAMP BLANDING, April 15.— j ij } | i | | i \ ! Thomas J. Whiteh 319 Virgini | raigned at 5 o'clock this afternoon before d > of the Pe rique E lof a | The defendant's wife, Mattie | Lee Whitchead, the complainant, states that he beat her, threw he down and bit her cheek so savage- | ly a deep wound was left in it. | Galveston |. Constable Espinosa arrested} Jacksonville _ 70 Whitehead, who is in jail under | Kansas City _ 47 a $100 bond. |KEY WEST _ 81 | | K.W. AIRPORT — | | street, Lowest | last night | 32 | 28 66 36 25, 23 55 41 32 1 69 31 55 23 47 28 33 43 50 20 29 54 49 81 60 36 35 75 | Brownsville Charleston Chicago | Detroit CARO OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED OF POST |v cap 3 ik lew Orleans 8 Thomas S. Caro this morning|New York 41 received a letter from Secretary ‘ Norfolk 51 of State R. A. Gray, officially in-|Oklahoma City 58 forming him of his confirmation! Pensacola __. 66 and appointment as judge of the| Pittsburgh » _. 31 |} Monroe County Criminal Court of |St-. Louis 43 | Record {Tampa 78 | Mr. Caro this afternoon sent hisj oath of office and letter of ac-} ceptance to Secretary Gray. 1 May 6 is the date on which Mr. Caro will begin his term of office,| which lasts for four years. {Memphis 52 | Miami 85 ; Minneapolis 37 eT: | WILL PAY CASH! | for LATE MODEL USED CARS NAVARRO, Inc. Opposite Bus Station Office Rear Central Hotel WAITRESSES and DISHWASHER —Apply— 416 SOUTHARD ST. | | | | | | Stone, set with a pi WANTED| the Industrial Electric Shop Sup: ply Store, wears these days has to do with the box of Jap souvenirs she has received from her soldier husband, now the South Pacific. A letter which arrived at avon wal aled little of fighting in the same time the details concerning the con- tents of the + el-stained bo: but the Oriental nature of the ticles indicate most e: sively that June's distant six-foot hus band has had traffic with the en- emy, very likely close range, for the gift package containe among other things, a small fer inine locket of semi-precious jewel, ap- parently a Jap good luck tali: man taken from a Nippon invade There also w sizeable p of Japanese pi ute silk. and ring that had been ripped from. ent instructed his wife in the letter, “could be moulded to fit her arm by placing it in hot wa- ter.” June and Johnny were married only nine months ago and the war has since kept them apart all but two weeks during the period. Mrs. | Pent, formerly Miss June Zepp of | Orlando, Fi is carrying on by | working in di tivity in the |Navy Yard. She is encouraged by {frequent letters from ‘her hus- band, a native of Key West. Private Pent has been serving with the Allied armed forces in | the South Pacific for six months. | Formerly a member of Battery E, | 265th Coast Artillery of Key West, he now serves with Battery A, 192nd Field Artillery. He trained tat California and Texas before | Shipping to foreign duty. A recent letter to June, sent by one of his buddies, informed her that he had been injured slightly ! but Was well on the road to re- covery. Money” five 7 ir Tou ‘Lei Se ara BUY MORE «WAR ‘BONDS: 4 DUVAL STREET OP: DRESSES POSITE LA CONCHA HOTEL Key West Newest Shop with a Complete Line of Fashions Latest ©. Creations . Specializing: in © (EXCLUSIVELY) -..-. will open within a few days, in time for HULL ON GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY WASHINGTON.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in discussing teday the food parley that will be held by the United Nations on | May 18, stressed the importence of the good neighbor policy with the entire world. The Latin-American trade treaties, he added. will prove of inestimjable importance to the United States after the war. He concluded that the good neighbor policy in the western hemisphere will be open to the world at large at the conclusion of hostilities. BOND SALES EXCEED ONE-THIRD WASHINGTON.—Secretary of the Treasury Morgentheu stated todey that considerably more than one-third of the War Bond total of $13,000,000,000 had been sold up to the close of business yesterday. The total to date is $5,253,000,000, and, he pointed out, that sum does not include approximately $1,000,000,000 that has been bought by insurance companies. MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK RESTING NEW YORK.—Madame Chiang Kai-Shek is resting today at « villa somewhere along the Hudson River before she leaves either for England cr China. In further pleeding the Chinese cause. she said that much of the munitions of war that had been intended for China had been diverted to other Allied countries. She pointed out parti- cularly that many planes at.c other weapons that were to be sent to China were insteed shipped to Egypt to be used in General Montgom- ery’s offensive, started at El Alemein. ‘3 SEE GREAT FUTUREJEVICTION CASE FoR FLORIDA KEYS' HERE SATURDAY | SIMILAR -CASE WAS HAND- LED YESTERDAY BY JUDGE LORD |MESSRS. BLANCHARD AND McCORD INTERESTED IN DEVELOPMENT William G. Blanchard and J.| A case of eviction, in which Mrs L. McCord, who are interested in the development of the Flor- ida Keys, are visitors in Key West today. They believe the keys are destinéd to have a great future | not only because of their excel-|™mons in the case yesterday lent climate and the good fish-} Mrs. Torres states that the house ing afforded in these waters,! in question, at 1210 Knowles lane bat for other reasons also. Their present stay will be short, but they intend to return} in at an early date. Ruby Torres is the complainant against A, Alvarez, will come up for a hearing S before County Judge Raymond R Lord: Judge Lord issued a sum- turday morning which she owns, she wishes to oc- cupy herself. Judge Lord issued a possession order yesterday in the case of Laura Russell against El Pelley for an apartment at 1124 Division ; Street. Pel\zy had been ordered by | j the court to vacate the apartment | by April 14, but the order has not | been complied with. B. P. 0. ELKS INITIATION TONIGHT ‘co rough. modern Advan “In Tunisia; Squeezing Troops @ | | | | . Tiurty Thousand Prison ers Captured Since Brit- ish Eighth Army Smash- ed Mareth Line Aawere ALGIERS. Acril American the British and th- French are all advancing to in Tunisie im further squeezi= Axs troops into east corner of that prote: it the north ctora’ was officially announced since Montgomery's Eigh* Army smashed the Mareth Line the Allies have captured 30,000 Frisoners, 7.008 of whom Germans and the remainder Ita! ians. The British First Army, me img in from the west tower Ten's and Bicerte. tedey reached the rugged hills that stand a natural barrier between British and their objectives. was explained that the hills wearons war. such as the tank and other motorized veticies. can used against the Axis force: that. therefore. the advence will be’ slowed ur. The Britich this Morning captured the fig#t of ine long line of bills. andfare fom there blasting the enemy po:i- tions with heavy artillery The French yesterday. 2 smashing etteck ageinst enemy, slightly south erea where General A: ast of a of operating. killed end wo many Germans and Italiexs ani captured 408 prisoners. Gereral Eisenhowe- statement issued yesterday. said that the enemy is now im much stronger positions then af any other time since the war in Te nisia started. He added ‘that the Axis forces are men and are superbly led. acd the task of routing them from the northeast corner of Tunisie will be difficult and will ented much loss of life. im 2 seesonc 3 RETAIN SHAPES NEW YORK —Greer impregnated r twisted when heated hapes whe GATO CAFETERIA 1100 Simonton Street A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this cafc- teria are extended to the following: CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES SS bent