The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 1, 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. 104. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1943. Americans Continue Advance, Toward Bizerté Naval Base But Nineteen Miles From Seeseesaes ' dered |KEY WEST EXCEEDS What s. Considered WAR BOND QUOTA BY Most Important. Axis} "MORE THAN $60,000 Base In| Tunisia Key West went, went over the top by slightly more than $60,000 in the sale of War Bonds, which came to a close yesterday. The quota for this city was $310,000 and the amount sold totaled $370.046. J. J. Trevor, vice presi- dent of the First National Bank, gave out the totals this morning of sales at the bank, the post office and the navy, yard. They are: Bank, $232.458.10; post cf- fice, $60,431.25; navy yard, $77,156.25. (By Asnociated Prewsy ALGIERS, | May 1-—Ameri- cans, under Lieutenant General Patton, continue to smash their way toward the naval base at Bizerte, and headquarters Ported _that the vanguard is now only 19 miles from what is considered | the most important Axis base in; Tunisia, PPP Pd The Americans captured Hill WOMAN FALLING OUT 89. 12 miles west of Mateur, and) QF WINDOW SAID TO | have almost reached the shores) BE SOME In IMPROVED Mrs. Gober Boose. Boone, who fell out) re: in today’s communique 1 | i discern the white houses that of a second story window at the; | order of the German high com-‘close of business, | Jefferson Hotel last Tuesday are characteristic of Bizerte. Pato All ‘ast night and up’ to time advices were received from | slightly improved. i > ‘ae Micnk tile: road _ i Her husband, L, Ri Goce. was! peceretert by City Patrolman Elmer and Italians launched attack aft- } Del Pino, and lodged in, the county | er attack in trying to stop the jail to await the outcome of his ‘advancing Americans, but every | wife's injuries. one of them was beaten beck SWEDISH COMMITTEE with heavy enemy losses. During the last 24 hours, the, AIDS POLISH CHILDREN: rerort stated, five enemy ships’ (By Associated ¥ have been sunk in the Mediter- ranean between Sardinia Tunisia. Two of them were car-/‘en. Marika Stiernstedt, author and feminist, and chairman of the go vessels and three destroyers new group, stressed Sweden’ that were acting as escorts dur-| ditional friendship for Poland | said - ways and means 3 send, Tu- |; i mittee to aid the children of Po- ing an attempt to reach nisia with supplies. PANTS and COAT PRESSERS 50c and 60c per hour up APPLY NAVAL BASE. LAUNDRY Building 131 If It’s EAT you want, see us! OPEN LATE TONIGHT! BEFE LAMB PORK PIG HEADS .. Ib. 10c PORK STEW .. Ib. 20¢ Just A Few of Our Prices WE WILL HAVE MEAT MONDAY BERMUDA | MEAT MARKET JOHN COBO. Prop, White and Eliza Sts. Phone 52 ‘ 2 - NOTICE Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2:30 to 4:30 p. m., water will be turned off to make exten- sions. FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT COMMISSION and jand has been organized in Swe-| LATE BULLETINS «By Annostated. ed Presn) } | ! j 900 MORE TONS FOR ESSEN | LONDON.—RAF pianes. raided Essen again last night for the fif-! ty-fifth time since the beginning} of the wer, and 900 tons of explo- sives were dropped on the city.} chiefly on the great Krupp work | A similar tonnage of bombs were} raised on Essen during the last’ raid on that city on April 3, and| the Air Ministry reported that! practically all of the repairs made, to the works since then were de-| stroyed again. Another contin- gent of RAF planes raided the! | | Ruhr. | STALIN PRAISES RAF RAIDS} | MOSCOW.—Premier Josef Sta- | |lin teday declared that the devas-' ‘tating raids that the RAF is car- ! rying out on Germany are greatly : decreasing the production of war | material in th’ country. | He tov! | the people of Russia they can not | attech too much importance to the ; | great work the RAF is doin~ to, ihelp to defeat Germany. “They aie! ener. hand in hand with " he stated. i } i FORCE UNREST GATHER H IN HOLLAND | LONDON.—Unrest is gathering | force in Holland, it was learned here today from authoritative un- dercround sources. The cause of | the intense bitter feeling against Germany is said to be due to the ‘mand ot intern 400,000 of former Dutch soldiers. | night, and was taken ‘to the Navaki See f the | Hospital, is reported seed to be|MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS a BERLIN.—Hitler today issue-i | an order benning ell May Day cel- | ebra*ions net only in Germany but also in all the countries occupied | by her: Premies Laval of France, jin commenting on Hitler's orders, | Said-he had been advised that! | Frenchmen would be permitted to | observe Mav Dav quietly. GIRAUD TO MAKE RADIO ADDRESS. MELBOURNE. — The Japanese STOCKHOLM, May 1.—-A com-| have ceased trying to make any/ afternoon, during which time he / mere air raids on Allied bases in this theatre of wer and seem now to be concentrating their efforts | on preying on Allied shipping with undersea boasts. The Japs ‘have carried on very little air ac- tivity since. two weeks azo, Al- lied flyers destroyed 90 planes out | of a total of 120, FOUR-POWT RATIONING PROGRAM WASHINGTON, — Prentiss! Brown, OPA administrator, sid today that he wil: shortly put into effect a four-point rationing pro- gram that will keep ceiling peices) (Continued on Page Six) IT with the | , made a complete Che Key Wiest Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. ‘Three New Naval Projects For Key West- Get Approval (Special to The Citizen) WASHINGTON, May 1.—Sec-j Construction of retary of the Navy Frank Knox ©ut Training Building at Naval has just aoproved the following | Receiving Station, [amount $6,000, ; Construction of an addition to; ;the . Administration building! at and guard. house at the Naval, Naval Hospital. Key West, amount | Operating Base, Key West, $11.- $17,000, tooo. ‘Million Dollar Mark Passed In Postal Savings Deposits The Key West Post Office went; Sale of postage stamp stock in over the million-dollar mark in’ April of 1942, amounted to $7,- Postal savings deposits ade | 075.17. ‘last month, In passing that sum. | projects for Key West: “Construction of quarters for | Hospital Corps WAVES. (24) during Other comparative figures for the savings advanced more than. the two months are ‘as follows: half a million as compared with | | Money Orders Issued— ithe “eiid. of bidchdess April, 1943 $263,174.01 end of business in) Abril, 1942 Pes {Money Orders Paid ptt 3982. } April, 1943 $47,516.39 The the Aatises April, 1942 $39,435.95 month showed the deposits to be; War Bonds sold in April, 1943, $510,519, ond yesterday, at the} purchase value, $60,431.25. War ‘ 4) Stamps sold, $7,231.90. otale: War Bonds sold in May, 1942, . purihase value, $34,818.75. last month figures for they essa sce Under Seateiuey Of Navy , Inspeets Naval, Activities) under-;comyanied by — his secretary of the ‘Navy, Was «|John Gingrich. guest of Capt. C, E.- Reordan. The Navy under-secretary gees }metat Boca Chica airport Captain James’ V. Forrestal, aide, Capt. | Commutaiicantt of the Key Mest Friday! Fo jJones, Comcr. D, L. Conley. | j Lieut-Comdr. R. B. Stratton and inspection of | | Col R. T. Arrington, tommand- naval activities of the isiand, : Secretary Forrestal Tieorca DI, | Naval Oreraeting Base, Z oe er of Army activities here. to) | Shortly after their arrival, Sec- Key West shortly after noon Fri- fretaxy Forrestal and: Captain | Gingrich were guests of Captain the came day aboard a Navy plane from) West Palm Beach. He was 2°, Reorden ‘ad a tancheon: at FOLIO bite | | Officers Recreation Canter, TONIGHT! | Foop 61 For A BIG TIME.: (Try: B&LTIMOR: SLOPPY JOE’S BAR ASA Largest Place In Town JOE RUSSO’S BAND | “The Best Swing Band In Town” | COME. .. HAVE A GOOD TIME! Music Starts at 7 p.m Week-Nights at 8 o'Clock | _WAS-FOOD STAPLE In the loth contuty. = Pecetecerist reste Merry rr | | NOTICE! EFFECTIVE MONDAY, MAY 3, and UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Garbage and Trash will be moved as follows: From Aneela to the Gulf and from the Navy Yard to Elizabeth | Street —Monday and Thursday. From Catherine to Angela amd from the Navy Base to Simon- | ton—Monday and Thursday. From South Beach to Cathesine@nd from Fort Taylor to White | —Monday and Thursday. From Elizabeth to the Army Barracks and from Angela to the Gulf—Tuesday and Friday. From Angela to Catherine and from Simonton to White—Tues- | day and Friday. * From Atlantic Boulevard to Catherine and from White to | | Georgy T oeaay and Friday, FAiMILY SIZE $4.79 | SOUTHERNMOST CITY | _. PHARMACY, Inc. ' | PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS | | Duval at Fleminz Phone = H i ‘rom Angela io Catherine and from White to Garrison Bight) —wednesiey and Saturday. the ielands Wednetde SUL ree SSE OU te ae ae eee CITY HALL ON or BEFORE THE 10th OF EACH MONTH. KEY WEST SCAVENGER DEPARTMENT PT Hl territory | between George Street and the head of inal e | Night Look. | ; last month it totaled $15,-| $126,033.07 , by! H.} — Buffalo meat} le of piongers, mov- | TO ROUT AXI 5 | | congas ete: COLUMN OF GER- MAN TOMMY-GUNNERS ANNIHILATED Key West.) { ! (By Annocinted \ MOSCOW, May jare bitterly fighting to try | recapture their lost naval =) 1.—Russians to base | |on the Black Sea, today’s com-| | Banique asserted. Since yester-| | day the Reds have recaptured | | four important points in that sec- | tor, and are today using their , heavy guns end wave after wave | in bombarding the| enemy Black Sea positions. | ‘of p'anes / It was also reported that a com-| {plete column of German tommy-| gunners—their number was not given — were last} jnight when they attempted to} cross the Donets River in the vi | cinity of Kharkov, | What appéared at ‘first would | | develop into a major action was a; series of attacks launched _ this} morning by Axis. treops in the Leningrad area. But when they were beaten back the fourth time, they discontinued their offen- sive. ‘CITY GRGUP. MAKING. TRIP TO TALLAHASSEE | City Councilinan John Carbon- ell, and Gerald Saunder: acgom: | panied. by City Attorney. Thos |S. | Caro, will leave early tomorrow | | morning.on the Florida Motor | Lines -bus enroute to Tallahassee, | where the ‘will consult-Represen- | «tative: Bernie @. Papy on matte: rélative to the proposed new ci y| charter. |. While in Tallahassee, annihilated the com- j mittee will attend th other mat- | | ters in the interest of the city, and expect to be absent 4for several | ; days | HUNTED BUFFALO NEW YORK.—In the 19th cen- tury, members of European royal- | ty often came to the United States to hunt buffalo. PMI MLE ES Ss PHONE 9150 WITH PAPER COMPLAINTS | Citizen subscribers who heretofore celled The Citizen office on failure ito receive their papers are requested heretofore to call the Island | ; City Book Store. Phone 9150, from which the service will be | given. If you have not re- | ceived your paper by 6 p. m., | Phone your address to 9159. i Complaints will be accepted until 7 p. m. LaCONCHA | HOTEL CHARLES M. SALAS, Mgr. “THE BEST DINE axo DANCE RAINBOW. ROO COCKTAIL LOUNGE AIR CONDITIONED Featuring... DANCING Every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday Evenings MUSIC | | | | 4 | i pase | | set by the Office of Price |day morning for Miami to Key West, Florida. b= most equable climate im the country; with am sverage range of only 14° Fahrent 2 + KES OVER MINES |REDS CONTINUE Harold Ickes Placed In Possession VIFSISAL SSF LONE AMERICAN DOWNS FIVE OF ENEMY PLANES By Am ALGIERS, May 1.—What is considered the outstanding aerial feat in downing ene- my planes since the begin- ming of the war. was fer- formed this morning by Ser- geant Downing. an american wkose base is somewhere in North Africa. Flying in a fighter and looking for prey. he was high above the Mediterran- ezn when he spotted five mammoth Junker plenes tak- ing off from Sardinia, with men and supplies for Tu- nisia. Downing Iet the planes get 30 miles or so from Sar- dinia when he dived to at- tack them. In less than two minutes after he opened fire, four of the big Junkers exploded in the air and the fifth. with smoke eud flames streaming from it. nose- dived into the sea. In sir combats today the Allies destroyed 18 enemy planes and lost seven of their own. SSF SOTO TOS RETA! PRICE FOR POTATOES IS FIXED E. P. Winter, price officer, Mon roe Courity Rationing Board, 2 | nounces the maximum retail pr Adm istration on potatoes for Key West lis 42 cents for five pounds This price includes the re allowable profit and | Key West. from Miami. The Key West wholesaler ma obtain his ceiling price, in eff today, by calling Mr. Winter a the Local Ration Board LEAVES FOR MIAMI Miss Beatrice ian aidens left Fri- the evening plane from Havana thet broughtsher sister. Miss Bliza Moreno, in company with Dr. and Mrs. Julio De Poo and also Mist Mercedes Pereira of Key West cumeemenomEie ST PALACE THEATER “DRUMS of the CONGO” ‘with Don Terry and Ona Munson NEWS and COMEDY BIG DANCE TONIGHT _ RAUL'S CLUB On Roosevelt Boulevard ‘OPEN EVERY DAY from 3 to 1? MUSIC 9 to 12 by trae PHONE 9267 | President ‘ailer’s ireight ‘to * sume work will be fully Of All Mines Troops Will Be Called Out If Necessary Te Patrol All Of Mining Areas in Natien (By Ansuctated Prone WASHINGTON Aprd at Rooseveit o'clock this morsang, placed Sec Interior Hercid all Tetary of the Ickes in possession of coe. mines in this country. That ection was taken 1 heur and 44 minutes efter the deadline at Wocktk this mcrning for the miners to resume work. with the a> the naming cf Ickes to teke control of White House In connection nouncement eoout coal mines, the a | stated thet the President. st 10 | o'clock, Eastern War Time. to- morrow night. will talk about the mining situation over the r2 | dio. Ickes i im charge of very thing perteining to the mines. including the sale of coal. was said that there is only about a month's quantity of coal above cround to keep im operation al war industries that use it for mo five power. Some plants, it we aided. may teve to close in two weeks if production stopped. All miners who wish to It coal Fr tected. Ickes is empowered 2 call on Secretary of War Stim son for troops. and. should be have to resort to that measure. coel mine areas throughout the country will be nut under martia! SRS te Settee «b GAD Ae |i? was said that the strikers-ere (Continued on Page Six GATO CAFETERIA 1100 Simonton Stre-t A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this caf: teria are extended to the following: CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEE: of the Key West Naval Sti CONTRACTORS’ PERSONNEL cf Army and Navy Defenco Projects vrEeeeE Og Aner OAST GUABD CORPS GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES |FAMILIES OF THE ABOVE GROUPS School Boys--Make Money After School—Easy, Pleasant Work BOX XO—THE CITIZEN