The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 19, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Hey West Cttize THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Key West, Florida, hes tne most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrent =*t at What War Bonds: AndStamps Buy | There Were No Casualties OPO DI SI SSI 4 On Vessel That Went PROVIDE ey Down In Caribbean Sea’ FOR TAX ASSESSO! Area Hey West Realy (Ry Assoet: rene? TALLAHASSEE, April 19. —Representative Bernie C. Papy of Monroe County in- treduced House Bill 256 providing for payment of $2,500 annually to the tex assessor-of Monroe County, with payment to be made by the County Commission- ers, { : | Fifty-six’ “persons, includiny thirty-nine members" of «the merchant crew, sixteen members: of the gun crew and one ‘passetr- ger, arrived ‘in Key West ‘re-’ cently, after their medium-size merchant ship had been tor- Fedoed early in April in the Caribbean sea area. | Lieut. ‘jg) J. D. Copeland of ___ Bamberg, S. C.. Commanding Of- ficer of the Armed Guard aboard OWNERS the vessel, said there were no} WASHINGTON. — Pleasure 2 | boating will be curtailed the com- casualties because there was; ing summer where gasoline is sufficient time for members of | used as the driving power, the the crew to take to life boats|OPA announced here today. No after the torpedo struck on the|©x'ra gasoline will be given: | starboard side at No. 5 hatch. ¥°chismon, The ship sank in forty-two min-| FROZEN JOBS TOTAL 27,000,090 i | WASHINGTON. — Twenty-sev-| ee eee paar million men and women em-| made its attack. | ployed in the United States are’ | frozen in their jobs, beginning to- , Lieutenant Copeland express- | day end continuing for the dura-' ed the belief that delayed action | tion of the wor. It is ileal to 4 |leave one job to go to another, torpedoes were used by the sub: | where eitker of theni is pn the re. marine in view of the fact that! stricted list. : na the explosion did not occur until) WHISKY TO BE RATIONED ! "a few seconds after it struck| DETROIT. — War Production’ ea Board rerresentatives warned dis- | the vessel”. He said that both| tillers here today that whisky: sides of the shiv were damaged | Probably will be placed on the ra-/ y tioning list in the “next few | months.” ee + | The sub was not seen before! Parrish DESTROY SMALL | cr after the attack although at) ENEMY SHIP { ; LONDON, — The Admirelty an- levst one memiber of: the crew nounced today that a British de- claimed he saw the torpedo wake | stroyer yesterday torpedoed and ;,| Sank a small enemy cargo ship that. sheet twenty, senoeey: belore it was irting the shore of France struck. At least three members in the English Channel. of the merchant crew received | injuries and are expected to re. ! cover. 2 LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) NO EXTRA GAS FOR YACHT | almost equally. eaIene Sp i SKODA WORKS STILL i BURNING ! LONDON. — Pilots of British | scouting planes reported today. treatment | that meny squads of men are still They were given KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1943. TWo 25* STAMPS WILL BUY FUEL To RUN A DESTROYER ONE MILE = / FOUR #18.75 BONDS WILL BUY A GARAND RIFLE Cesar awe: FAVORS WAR CABINET, OF WILSON’S TYPE: (iy: Aanoctated Pres) WASHINGTON, April 19. —Alfred-M. Landon. who, as the Republican candidate for Fresident in 1936, carried Maine and Vermont against Roosevelt, today advocated that 2 war cabinet, organiz- | ed along tke lines of the | one that President Wilson | formed in the first World | War, be called - into, power now. + His proposal was} greeted hete with general approv- ai, lt was pointed out that the (Wilson ‘svar cabinet op- erated effitiently. and. it | was added. that a war cab- | inet today would prove ef- | fective in attending prompt- ly to many pressing prob- lems in the present war. | "SOTTO TS CHESTER ANTI UNDER ARREST | Chester Anti, former membe: of the Key West police force, wa atrested on Saturday by Deputy ! | TWENTY - ONE $13.75 BONDS WILL BUY ONE MOTORCYCLE ELEVEN ast STAMPS WILL BUY ONE STEEL HELMET WILLIAM V. LITTLE TO ATTEND | CONFERENCE IN MIAMI BEARING ON FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM William V. Little, manager of;such as Key West, which have office of the Uniteajbeen designated “defense States Employment Service of the | *"* War Manpower Commission, has the local as i “For some time,” continued Lit- jtle, “we have been making de- been called to Miami to attend a, tailed reports to the War Manpow- conference which will be held on} er Commission, through our State Tuesday, for the purpose of cOn-{Office, regarding the Key West sidering ‘the — food. distribution’ food situation, in’ the home’ that rroblems of this area. } some solutien to what is admitted- “The War Manpower Commis-, ly a very serious problem could ' sion,” Little stated, “is very much | be found. It is presumed that some interested in food distribution and | definite results may be expected} supply as it affects those localities, | from Tuesday's conference.” SAIS PALI ES ALLIED PLANES (ores HIT JAP BASES ‘rcoosrurrs WiLL BE .| FELT THIS SUMMER SMALL ISLANDS SITUATED —— (By Associated Press) OFF NORTH AUS. WASHINGTON, April 19. TRALIAN COAST —The Office of War Infor- mation stated today that the PRICE FIVE CENT= British And Americanlyers Down 74 Axis Planes; Allies Lose Seven “NAZIS ATTEMPTING COMEBACK IN CAUCASIAN AREA MOSCOW, April 1° —The the Germans are desperetely the Caucasian area. After a series of attacks, in which many men and much material were breaking throtigh near & bridgehead which the Russians hold. Enemy Is Given Drubbing Over Mediterranean Be- iween Tunisia And Sic- ily TO STAGE war office reported today that 7 (By Associated Press) trying to stage a comeback in ALGIERS. April 13.—Britich lost, the Germans succeeded in end American fivers today ger? ‘hy Anis airmen encther drub but were driven out, the report added, by Russian counter attack, In enother area in the Caucasus, the report said, the Ger- bing over the Moditerreneen between Temisia ond Secu mans threw wave after wave of troops ageinst the Russian lines, but withdrew after the: killed. Italian and German warshi | { | | { | cessful.” Military objectives, i i industries, also were razed. / { 1 of the city. chickens in their possessions. ! { who is presiding in the city | Archer, said that he will see ed Russian’ positions along the shore, but no lend attack was attempted after the firing ceased. ‘RAF STAGES SUCCESSFUL RAID LAST NIGHT ON SPEZIA, ITALY German planes made what were described as two | “feeble” riads on the cutskirts of this city last night. In each instance they were driven off before they reached the heart FIVE COLORED BOYS CAUGHT WITH STOLEN CHICKENS ARE ARRESTED City Policeman Eugene Hernandez, at 2 o'clock this morn- ing, arrested five negro boys on United street with stolen The boys were brought to the city jeil, but as they were too small to be locked up, they were taken to their homes. + In commenting on the theft, Judge Williem V. Albury, preferred ageinst the parents of the boys, one for stealing chickens and the other for the violation of the curfew law. At the City Hall this morning, it was said that the arrest Y lost more than 1,500 men in shooting down 94 plames anc osna only seven of their own ips in the Black Sea today shell- Alicd Paanes r2comeitering spotted an armada of big Ger man and Lialen tramspor: plan=< ceded with supplies and rein forcement for the Axis forces in the northeast corner of (By Associated Press) LONDON, April 18.—The RAF last night made one of its longest flights in carrying out a successful raid on Speiza, in Italy. a distance. both ways. of 1.400 miles. The Air Ministry reported that the raid was “most suc- including plants that turn out airplane parts, were destroyed and many buildings. housing shot imto the air to imtercept the etemy aircraft ebout mdwaey between Sicily and Tunmia end an <verege more than two enemy sienes «= with smoke end streaming from them nosedive: into the Mediferrenean durin: ihe 32 minutes the cigghes were im progress. % For spectecuinr figfiilieg ani results. it wes one of the most successful hebts Allied have engaged im simce the mvs sion of North Africa and with minuie. court in the absence of Judge to it that two charges be. pre- airmen United States Marshal Mytland Cates, charged with false state-! ments before the authorities at} Camp Blanding to evade the draft. | He was placed under a $1,000! bond before United States Com-} (By Ansocinted Premey i MELBOURNE, April 19.—Al-| lied planes struck yesterday at! many Jepanese bases on small “pinch” in some foodstuffs would be felt in this coun- try the coming summer and Cleude Wickard, secretary of ihe Department of Agricul- cf the boys may solve the mystery of the frequent stealing of chickens in Key West. Among those whose coops were raided are the Rev. William E. Bryant and Benjemin D. Trevor. Eighty chickens were stolen from Mr. Bryant. at a Caribbean nort after being Ficked up by. a %. § Navai vi 5 sel from life-boats where had drifted for about three hours after the abandon ship order was given. big raed an cared for in Key West of the were the survivors at Naval Receiving Station. PALACE THEATER CONSTANCE BENNETT in ‘SIN TOWN’ NEWS and SERIAL BATTERIES CHARGED The Modern, Way Drive in, in: 30,to. 45 minutes. and | fighting fires caused . by Friday , night's record-breaking. raid on the | Skoda Steel Works in Pilsen, | Cgechpslayakie. To’ milgt§’ said’? that’ pHofographs showed the en- | tire works have been put out of i¢emmission for many months to 4 come. missioner -G. Rodney Gwynn, and unable to’ *meet' the bond, was! jaced «in, the county jail . | i ‘He Will *he'tdken to Miami by Marshal Cates. within the next! few days, and turned over to the} authorities there, after which he | Will go to Jacksonville to be ar-| WHAT A BIG RAID Costs Hees va pe aie States Court’ WASHINGTON, — In urging “" ‘?#! ity for trial. {the American public to buy Wart Bonds. statisiics were given today | EEE as | to show what e lerge air raid costs. | 'T | A raid of 1,000 planes, ti was said, ( ON Cc R | costs $375,000 for gasoline alone, | |8nd the bombs used cost more 7: i tae eLObiae | Zion Methodidst Church Whitehead and Angela SEEN, | CHIEF OS-KE-NON-TON |UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE 4, MOHAWK SINGER” 'WE WILL NOT BE OPEN) on wane rrisnas nico ON MONDAYS Cordially Invited See News Story on Page 6 It is, with regret thet we must if ss take this course but we are unable :to:get help. Open as | i { | lands that form an are off the north Australian coast, Planes also raided Jepanese beses'at Timor, New Gtiiliea ‘and New Britian Island. : Rabaul, oné of- the Japs®'chief bases:in the southwest Pacific, {on New Britian, underwent a se- “ries of heavy raids. The bombings the first anni Doolittle raids on jectives in Japan. the ob- y of military Helena R APPLE BLOSSOM C’ The Fragrant memorated ture, said that, with fairly good weather, shortages in some commodities will not be acute. : He. explained thet probably there will be a shortage in some fresh vegetables and fruits, but thet an ebund- ance of them will be avail- able in cans. There will be less beef and fish. but cereals will be plentiful. { SS MLL ST SSL ‘ ubinstein REAM DEODORAN, ‘LAXITY IS. SHOWN A county official slammed |down an envelope this morning, j containing a bill for garbage col- ‘lection, and exclaimed: “T've been ready to pay that | bill for two weeks, and now I am told I've got to trot down to the ‘City Hall to pay it or I'll be ar- { rested,” | Someone else remarked that j residents on his street have been i waiting impatiently for collec- {tors to call for the garbage. Tie fact of the matter is, a city | councilman pointed out this morn- ling, the city has two men who are | supposed to collect for garbage re- imoval. A reporter of The Citizen j knows of residents who paid five has called again to get the money. j weeks ago, but; since then, nobody | usual other days of the week. i } IN COLLECTING FOR GARBAGE AND TRASH SERVICE | The city has three persons em- ployed to take care of the financial end of the removal of trash and garbage. A young Pe up the bills and answer plain‘s, and the duties of the two men is to Collect bills. The same city councilman said he thought it should be an easy matter for the two men to make the rounds of the city once a month one exception. when 84 Axis plenes were downe: the successful. Im ome respect. the }roport onete number ef pviane= lost by eech side. it was greatest Allied air battle smce the Tumsian cameaicn occurred. Major General Ker] A. Spast reiterated todaw that the Allies not only have superiority iz the air in this area of the wer but is also increasine thet sucerar ity daily. He pointed out thet since March 20. the Allies have destroyed 513 enemy eircraft » a loss of only 175. ATER | We Have A LIMITED SUPPLY of DUCKS, GEESE and Large TURKEYS for Easter | PLACE YOUR ORDER | EARLY! 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