The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 26, 1943, Page 1

*. try a part of Rumania. The Ger- | hicles Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIV. No. 99. May Witran Fom Conic Underground Sources To-|\ O° @ OPI DMI LS a | day Corroborated Dr,;PAPY INTRODUCES Bene’s Statement Con- SALARY MEASURE | pa (By Ansocinted Press) cerning Matter TALLAHASSEE, April 26. —Representative Bernice C. Papy of Monroe County in- troduced ‘House Bill 358 fix- ing $175 as a monthly ‘sal- | ary for clerk ‘of the Crim- | inal Court of Record of Mon- roe County. | chictheneathentnateateaadeal AXIS AND REDS PREPARING FOR SUMMER DRIVE ‘ {By Associated reas) } LONDON, April 26.—Authori- tative underground sources to- | @ay corroborated Dr. Eduard’ Bene’s statement. over the radio in the BBC. that Rumania, | Bulgaria. Hungary and Italy are worked up to fever heat in their attempts to withdraw from the war. Particularly true is that of Ru: mania, Dr. Bene said, where the | RUSSIANS WILL STRIKE AS People are tired of the war and are demanding that Rumania send no more of her men to fight | Germany's battles on the eastern} t WILL NOT WAIT FOR NAZIS! TO MOVE iby havincwied Press) MOSCOW, April 26.—AlL along a ta iat the the 1.800 miles of the battle against that country’s = ping | On in Russia the Axis ae in the war is becoming so inc SOR Ie Rods schoo: pejeiiog _| @reat preparations to laumch their ‘summer offensives. — It was reported that this sum- mer, unlike the one last year, the Reds wili not wait for the Ger-; mans to strike, but will launch offensives along the entire ‘line but they,.are with re- justas, soon as, the condition of! is) ry % ithe ground permits, with .ex-! sentment by the / proposal that) - dingy heavy fighting ‘in the| has beert.msde that they give; Leningrad, Smolensk and Khar-| up part of their territory, so that | kov areas. Germany can reach an accord But while both sides are wait- 2 oy jing for the mud to harden so that With. Russia jn.qiving_that ‘coum {tanks and other motorized ve- may be used effectively, mans’ reported proposal to Rus- | the Russians today launched vici-! sia was refused. according to ous attacks against the Axi: z jforces in the Donets area, cap: rar igh a2 |tured a key position and killed more than 100 enemy soldiers andj | officers. { 2 coma Ci | There was slight action in the FORT SMITH, Ark.—Mr. and} Smolensk area, but the enemy re- Mrs. Tom Hampton recently Were | tired behind his fortifications delightfully surprised when their | after Pe a aa es ee son, Corporal Ellis Hampton, re-| tween patrols.” ported missing in action in North | | Africa, walked into their home at Bonanza. The young soldiér had | MEDAL (PRESENTED TO! been wounded and sent home on|L7T-COMDR. W. CURTIS leave and had not communicated with his parents, wanting to sur- prise them. front. { undercurrent | ian guards also have been rein- forced to frustrate any attempt at an uprising. In Hungary, the people not orly are tired of being at war. i { ' HAPPY SURPRISE Lieut.-Comdr. R. W. Curtis. USN, was today awarded the ea et Navy Ss Silver, Star Medal’ for "BABA OBA AEA | vavery and devotion to duty! PHONE 9150 WITH | ceremony in the presence ot offi-| PAPER COMPLAINTS| cers and enlisted men. The medal was presented to Citizen subscribers who Commander Curtis by Captain E. heretofore called ‘The Citizen | Jones. office on failure to receive Commander Curtis is a graduate their papers. are requested {of the U.S. Naval Academy in| heretofore to cal: the Isiand City Book Store. Phone 9150, the class of 1933. He is a son of} from which the service will be given. If you have not re- | Mr. and Mrs. A: E. Curtis, 11485 ceived your paper by 6 p. m. Sanford Avenue, Detroit, Mich., Phone your address to 9150. jand is now a resident of No. 7 Mystic Viek Terrace, Arlington, Complaints will be, accepted z until 7 p, m. Mass. | kd dish uh wh ateal VUVIN IIe. PRESCRIPTIONS) Pure Fresh Ingredients Com- | pounded by Experienced Pharmacists, GARDNER’S PHARMACY | Phone 177 Free Delivery | AAR aaa eases eeae 1100 Simonton Street A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this Dormitory are extended to the following: See ee CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES | of the Key West Naval Station OIL $PRA Y (CONTRACTORS: PERSONNEL Your Fenders and Chassis—it| of Army and Navy Defense saves you buying a set of Fenders.| Projects Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE) RATES 21:29 Fer De White at Fleming St. Phone No. 5) $3.50 Per Week ee A, | | fights, 95 miles northwest the Key THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER West Citizen IN THE U. S$: A. country; wit range of only 1 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, M BULLETINS CORSAIRS DOWN 5 PLANES! | MELBOURNE.—A squadron of | USN Corsairs, while returning to their base after having car- ried out a raid on Jap positions in New Britain Isiand, intercept- | ed a flight of 30 Jap bombers and fighter planes that apparent- \ ly were on their way to bomb } Henderson Airfield on Guadal- canal. In the ensuing dog- of Guadalcanal, five Jao planes were shot down and two Corsairs . failed to return to their base. LEWIS DESIRES WAR LABOR BOARD WASHINGTON.—Today John L. Lewis, president of the United Coal Miners of Amierica, retused: Ji! to find out if Samuel Tift had! sponding to treatment HOUSE OFFICES ONLY PLACES CLOSED OBSERVING CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY to submit to the’ War Labor Board the names of three men, from whom one would have been chosen to serve as the miners’ representative. Lewis refused to / make any comment on his action | | put indicated that he may mee @ statement tomorrow. | NO PREPARATION TO STRIKE| WASHINGTON.—A paegen| for, the coal miners in Pennsy}-! businesses in Key West were open;ed the bank to remain open on| executive vania said today that no prep-| today, which is Confederate Mem-: most of the holidays jarations ere being made to calljorial Day, exc ‘a strike, and added that no!county courthouse. | movement had been started to/ only office open was ‘SOON AS PRACTICABLE: | have the miners vote on a pro-|iff's. posal to strike. In western Penn- sylvania some miners did not go} City Hall, the post office and alf/at least a.dozen, probably mor to work today. SIX ARMY FLYERS MISSING MIAMI—It was reported of ficially, here today that an army plane. with six men aboard, that left here Saturday night for a flight to Key We&t, is missing. TAX ON PERSONAL PROPERTY TALLAHASSEE—A bill has been introduced in the house that, if it becomes a law, the exemption of personal property in Florida will be increased from) $500 to $2,500, Legislation is be- ing considered that would au. thorize the State Welfare Boar to adopt orphaned children in certain circumstances. BLAMES IT ON AMERICA LONDON.—Radio Berlin today) blamed the United States, not Great Britian, for what the|died this morning in the Naval’ was one of the speaker declared is an attempt) to create terrorism in Germany | by the continued “indiscriminate bombings” of that country. Eng- land, the speaker added, would| not voluntarily resort to such ex- tremities, in view of the fact}in 1939. The people of this city called back that she is open to reprisals by Germany. THIRTY-FOUR DRAFTEES LEFT FOR CAMP Thirty-four draftees left Key West at 1:30 p. m. today by bus for Camp Blafiding, where they will be examined and, after seven days, those accepted will be in- ducted. Both accepted and rejected men will return to Key West, but in the case of the former they will be given’ seven days to adjust their affairs. The Army band played several numbers before departure of the bus. WANTED PANTS and GATO DORMITORY COAT PRESSERS 50c and 60c per hour up APPLY NAVAL BASE LAUNDRY Building 181 ‘SAMUEL TIFT CHARGED WITH FIRST | DEGREE MURDER, REPORTED AS STILL BEING IN A DISTRACTED CONDITION Samuel Tift. who was charged | with first-degree murder at a hearing conducted late Saturday ) afternoon by, Acting Coroner En- irique Esquinaldo, Jr., is still in a distracted condition, according to reports at the Sheriff's office this: morning, and, from another source, The Citizen learned that he has not eaten any solid food since he was lodged in jail. The informant said that Tift has j been living on milk since his in- carceration. It was while his fa- | ther, Charles Tift, was taking the {first bottle of milk to~ the - jail | Friday_night, that the latter met the army officer. who called at the COUNTY COURT All official and semi-official pt the the! sher} those in where the | The First National Bank, the other - governmental agencies {were doing business as usual. | ‘The local bank used to close on Confederate Memorial Day, but ; that has not been done since the! | beginning of the war. The fact is the bank used to close on a dozen or more Florida holidays in the course of a year, but J. J. Trevor, | vice president, said today that the } i Captain Granville B. Hoey, USN, who. reopened the Naval Station in Key West on Novem- [ber 1, 1939, after having been on |an inactive basis for nine years, Hospital in Key West. He had been ill since last December. | Key West was in the doldrums! twhen Captain Hoey came here had. gone through the CWA, the |FERA, the WPA days, when | thousands of Key Westers had suffered and still were suffering {from the depression. But the Joperation of the alphabetica? } designations did little to relieve | the acute economical conditions in Key West, except to keep body and soul together, but from {the day Captain Hoey reopened jthe Naval Operating Base | | impetus was given to business’ jthat has continued, with every | increasing ‘force, ever since. Captairi. Hoey was born in Mil- ford, Deleware, in 1887, and graduated from the Naval Acad-! jemy in Annapolis in 1909. He! jwas active throughout the first! World. War from the time _ thi: j country entered it, and was as | signed at Brest, in France. | In 1917, he'was’made a full| lieutenant and, a year later was} WILL PAY CASH! | for LATE MODEL USED CARS | NAVARRO. Inc. Opposite Bus Station ; Office Rear Central Hotel ire aa an } } | | 1 ‘CAPT. GRANVILLE’ HOEY, USK, DIES THIS MORNING IN HOSPITAL ONDAY, APRIL 26, 1943. his discharge papers from the/| army. Charles Tift had the discharg in his possession and showed it t Allied Nations Strikin Q Teling Blows At Enemy On Every Front the oficer. The release eliminates |— the army from participating in Samuel Tift’s trial for killing Les- ter F. Newby on Friday night and critically wounding Tift’s former wife, Maria Celerina Rhodes. Mrs. Rhodes’ condition was re- ported at press time today to be slightly improved, and the opinion was expressed that she has a 50-50 chance to recover. She has _ bec given several .blood usions, and the three wounds in her chest and shoulder are gradually’ re- The Key Commerce portant iparticularly those pertaining to \the food situation in Key West, jand the chamber’s small back ‘office was too small to provide accommodations for | present | In’a bulletin, issued by the ichamber, it is stated, “We have jat present no assembly room ‘where you may all meet. We are looking forward to providing Key West with such a place.” Stephen Cochran Singleton, secretary of the and the bank! chamber, makes the following acceded to the request: {comment in the bulletin “I can't recall offhand,” Mr i Trevor said, “just how many E ALLAN B. CLEARE West, Chamber 0 has held several im- conferences recently, everybody federal government had request- times we closed to observe Flor: da holidays in a year, but it w But the only holidays the bank is{ now observing, or will observ for the duration of the war. are| Chri ’s, Fourth of | ‘S ing Day.” } Good Friday was anothe: day the bank used to observe, the only public building that v Glosed on that day last week wa Allan B. Cleare today became uperintendent of public ruction for Monroe county He letter this morning from Secretary of State {R. A. Gray, in which it tated that Mr. Cleare’s bond vhad~been=approved and filed, in- received a was ture, it was not necessary to is- {sue a commission. } Mr. Cleare will serve until jJanuary, 1945, in the event that |the war is not ended by that Promoted to lieutenant comman:|time, but, should the war be der. He received his communis: | 2 ae a siond as captain on February 24, "| AMERICAN SECOND FIVE MOUNTAINS 1942. | When he was lieutenant com- | mander in 1919, he commanded | the destroyer ‘Tar Bell, which! warships. that} convoyed President Wilson when! _ he returned to the United States | from abroad in July of that} TEMPERATURES year. i ae Captain Hoey retired from ac-! Temperature data for the 24 tive service in 1937, ‘but was| hours ending 8:30 a. m., April 26, into the Navy in! 1943, as reported by the U. S 1939, shortly after President! Weather Bureau: Roosevelt declared that > state| Highest of emergency existed. last 24 hours Captain Hoey was command- 57 ing officer at the Naval Operat- | Boston 75 ing Base in Key West from the 85 time of its reopening on No- 2 vember_1, 1939, till February, Ed 1940. = 62 ROGER HERRICK sets % IS MADE MAJOR | acksonville 76 | Kansas City _ 62 |KEY WEST _ 76 Announcement has been made {| K.W. AIRPORT 76 of the promotion of Captain Ro- iMemphis we ger Murray Herrick to major in} Miami poe ee the United States Army. He | Minneapolis _ 60 connected with the Air Corps. ! Major Herrick is a son of Mrs. lew Orleans _ 78 New York 77 M. E. Albury, 605 Love Lane, this city. Lowest { last night | Atlanta 58 Brownsville Charleston Chicago | Detroit } Galveston ' Norfolk 79 | Oklahoma City. 86 Pensacola 72 Pittsburgh 72 St. Louis 62 | Tampa - 80 CORRECTION The lists of membership we send out is publicly of real value to our members. We regret that; our last bulletin omitted the mame of one of our most loyal members, Lewinsky’s Men's Shop. 526 Duval Street. KEY WEST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LUXURIA by SUPERINTENDENCY OF SCHOOLS HERE and that, in a case of that na-; * IMPORTANT CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE != Tessin. Amicon DEMONSTRATES ASSEMBLY ROOM NEED OF KEY WEST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Britons And French Are Pushing Forward In Al Sections One By Aasortaten F soe WASHINGION. A place dance to have quet “By trange is what the Chi merce needs too “Being firmly convit if you want anything b: you will eventually rocking along dreamy paradise aith that Key West Chamber of Comm eventually make the Today's news from every thes a prayer politica a good a ter of wer repcris the Ail Nations are str kung tellang bio» a at the encmy on all fonts. In Tunwie the Ame>ncem Br.tons and the French are pu: ing forward on ad fronts. are Russia. the Reds awe stopped the German drive m@ the casu. with heavy enemy loses true.” TODAY ASSUMED and herve made caims in «reas: General MacArthur s ers have de.ivered more heov bkws irom ene the British m Burma cer the air on bases; Lieuter then, n Russ over before installakons. Commander Melvin E. will resume the office of s intendent, from which he Signed when he joined the Coast Guard Next year, regardl whether or not the war is candidates for superintendent will enter the Democratic pri- mary in May for the nomina- tion, and will run for the elec- tion in November, 1944 H the office for the term of f years, beginning in January 1945. ARMY CAPTURES IN MATEUR AREA acstroyed Jes cludim, two emmunition end the Chinese soomed & most decisive victory over f Jeps im the air. Zero fighters, the Chinese not only made the Japs turn tau! but also destroyed five «: Flanes and damaged others, wits out the loss of a single Ch to £* plane. (By Ansociiived Press) ALGIERS, April 26. erican Second Army, un< mand of Lieut. Gen Patton, has captured five M miles from Bizert« position. tains in the The advance during the ni ing the Am ered that the Ge ians had a deer 2 salient. driyep into the. ricar ‘ines, wad Widecneow an) inffensive | that.dtove bdek the ehpe defensive positions from | was operating. Many squadron: assisting the Am continued advance ine great Axis naval base Buzerte The British First Army and the French f 5 south of the Americ are pressing on cle |to Tunis. The Br ‘only 23 miles awa’ portant base. CIVIL SERVICE EXAM ANNOUNCED BIG MEAT STEAI SMITHFIELD, who stole 32 | about 13 pounds | shoulders, averaging ms seeneier | Pounds each, not « ——— se } z hams each abe | worth 3.794 cation points, pisses @)| 4 AUoyance of 24 yp ALFONSO IS two points The meat was stolen Smithfield Ham and Company.