The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 4, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West YOLUME LXIV:. NO. 106. Che Key West Citizen | THE- SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN: THE: Ux Key West egést country ; © range of Florida e climst an average y 14° Fahrent with Ss. A. KEY WEST FLORIDA, SEI wees 4, 1943. Miners Will Be. Placed — On Sit Operatives Will Time And A Half For All Overtime Work In Future (By Associated #rean) WASHINGTON, May 4,—Fuel Co-ordinator Harold Ickes an-; mounced today that coal miners, | who have been working only five days a week, will now be plac- ed on a six-day week basis, with time and one-half for over- time. Ickes stated that the increase | of the working time, together with the time and one-half pay-! ment, would meet the demand of the miners for a two-dollar a day increase in wages. the operators had been permitted ral increase the price of their prod-! He explained that uct, and he added that, in every case, where the operators refuse to conform with kis order to: increase the working week of miners, he would revoke the pre-| centage of increase of price that! had been granted them, the coal came in for a great*deal of) dis- cussion in congress, where it has! been proposed to introduce bill that makes it a felony for| Meanwhile, strike | any company or individual that’ endangers the welfare of the country by refusing to comply | that| ma- terials that are essential to ht interests of the United States, | with government orders ccncern the production of John L, Lewis maintained si-! lence today over Ickes’ order in adding a day to the miners’ wort: | week. Lewis said he had not} been given any official informa tion about the order and all thai; he knew concerning it was whai| he had been told unofficially. A the hard) spokesman: for | coal thet, Ickes’ edict/ did not effect the! producers °’ declared working time of miners in! with a few mi- He added that been| working six days a week ever) anthracite pits, nor exceptions. hard-coal miners have since January 9, 1943, | SCHOOL BOYS — MAKE MONEY | AFTER SCHOOL Easy, Pleasant Work } BOX XO—THE CITIZEN Rk ea ‘Week Basis Draw’ VISAS AZAP AA) | MESSAGE FROM MORGENTHAU TO ALL NEWSPAPERS The following message from Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Sec- retary of the Treasury, to the newspapers of the United States, was sent to Frank Tripp, chairman of the Allied Newspaper Council, and read by him at the convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: “May I ask you to express to newspaper publishers our thanks end appreciation for the truly remarkable contribu- tion they are making to the Second War Loan? We feel quite certain that never be- fore has any cause received such complete and effective support from the newspapers of the country, and we are grateful for it.” TS III LISI ES SS _ JEFFERS — ASSERTS : RUBBER ESSENTIAL HEAD OF PQNRERVATION COMMITTEE. TESTIFIES BEFORE ‘SENATE ye (By Ansddiated Penns” WASHINGTON, May 4,—Wil- jliam Jeffers, head of the rubber | conservation committee, testified | today. before the Truman Senate | the. aj Production of rubber interferred januen is revorted over practical- Committee, asserting that in no way in curbing “the pro duction of 100 percent octane | gas. On the contrar: the chemical. wor thas been undertaken’ in turning out syn- {thetic rubber has helped in in- creasing the amount of octane gasoline by the adoption of im- proved processes, Nothing is more important in the United States, Jeffers aver- ed, than rubber. The country’s economic life denends on rub- ber, the country business life “rolls on rubber”, and the in- » he declared, | dustrial life in the United States out fighting, j would be mightily curbed in some cases and_ stopped alto- gether in other cases were ru ber not available. “If we had to depend on ‘ing on steel,” he concluded, would be in a sorry state | deed.” e The [PROPER USE OF iJ. B. Zeller And Wife "ae Dan Purchase Oversea Hotel OFFICIALLY STATED THAT)ney for the buyers, he Ove | Hotel was sold yesterday after-|JObnson, but has -been enu THEY ARE NEEDED FAR sea i se ‘ several times. It now has 80 rooms | | noon by L. S. Gruber and his wife, | | | | and a frontage of 150 feet (fi Flein- | | MORE IN EUROPEAN OR}j ouise Gruber, to J. B. Zeller and! ing i} Oversea was constructed by the late William and Copeland | wife, j chase price Mr. Zelle reet. Its depth ranges on NORTH AFRICAN AREA Mildred M. Zeller. The pur-| to 132 feet, which p\ves the was $40,000, rage depth of 110 feet whose hometown is! The hotel has passed through | | Los Ange! is an experienced ho-| good hands since it was built. At} ‘tel man. He has operated hoteis one time the First National Bank ; [2 WASHINGTON, May 4—The»;,, «nat city and three other cities! owned the Oversea, The bank selt | j9reat American Flying Fortress- ij, California, San Diego, Long! it to Mr. Robb, from whom Mr.| es, with their precision bombing ' Beach and San Jose Gruber purchased it. | ‘from lofty heights, are needed! |far more in the European or! | North African theatres of war {than they are in the southwest} | Pacific, it was stated officially | nen today. | The Fortresses have {Plished feats that have ‘destructive to Japanese ships and! = planes on many an occasion, but jas high-flying bombers are not! jneeded in the southwest Pacific | jNearly as much as they are in !Europe, and as the Liberators, | which carry a much heavier load | of bombs than Flying Fortresses, , and also bombs of far more di structive power, they will be ave (By Associnted Press) LATE BULLETINS — | i i accom- | proved ONE OR BOTH LONDON.—Radio Berlin declared today ‘vast reinforcements” in North Africa that will be used in attempted invasions of Sardinia or Sicily, or both. BLENHEIMS BOMB. JAP SHIPS CHUNGKING.—British Blenheims are reported to have made Gey ii blasting. the. Jane aiid | successful reids yesterday on Jap ships in the Bay of Bengal. Parti- | I Wideleices (HAIL. be switehied sto'l culars of the cutcome were not announced, Chinese and American England and North Africa | 2irmen raided Jap positions and installations without losing a single | The displacement of Fortress-| Plane. és in the southwest Pacific by Liberators has already been! arted. The devastation of the | big Liberator bombs has been} noted at Jap bases in New Brit- ian, New Guinea, the northern; ; Solomons and New Georgia Is ‘lands. —_—— i PRELUDE TO INVASION? ' MELBOURNE.—-A government spokesmen said today that the | raid on Derwin two days ago may be a prelude to an attempted in- | vasion by the Japanese. He reiterated the statement made yesterday | that Jap bombers were forced so high up into the air they dropped | their bombs aimlessly and caused no damage whatever to military | ppirers: installetions. JAPS MAY STRIKE AT GUADALCANAL MELBOURNE.—The Jars’ sudden thrust at Darwin may be the ; v0 AXIS PLANES. forerunner of what they intend to do with their planes elsewhere in, j | the southwest Pacific, it was stated semi-officially today. They may | even elect to strike again at Guadalcanal, spokesmen said, but any, such attempt will prove futile. it was added. American forces have | | so thoroughly consolideted their positions on Guadalcanal, any thrust RUSSIAN FRONT | by the Japs will be beaten off, it was stated. j — sata ot Set eee | (By Axsociated Press) | BAD WEATHER CONTINUES MOSCOW, May 4.—Airplane LONDON.—Unfavorable weather again was given as the reason ‘ for no further attempt to raid Germany. All big RAF planes were, | grounded agein last night. Smaller bombers braved the weather to! make raids on enemy installations in Holland, but the attacks caused the loss of 11 planes, | AIRPLANE “ACTION REPORT \ ED OVER MOST OF hy the entire Russian front, anc | in one sector in the Caucasus | |the Soviets are reported to have destroyed 70 Axis planes ‘| TODAY'S ELECTION DAY IN MIAMI MIAMI.—Trirteen candidates, and the number 13 will be lucky loss of only 21 of their own. | for more than one-half of them, are engaged in a municipal election The air activity is considered today for nominations for city commissioner. The six highest today in official circles as an indication | will run in another election to be held next Tuesday to select three that big-scale land fighting will! commissioners. shortly be in progr rticular ly in the Leningr: Smolensk } and Kharkov are And the big gest of all offensives, that in the Ukraine theatre, is likely to be un-| der way in another week. Both sides are on tiptoe for all- and it has been de ed here freely that this mer will witn the most gi: offensives since Germany strucl:| suddenly at Russia. | Fighting today was racic. Russians’ continued their) !§ ' heavy bombardment of the Ger-! man bridgehead in the Caucasus to p ses NAVY HOLDS RUSSELL ISLANDS WASHINGTON.—The Navy announced today that the Amer- ican forces captured the Russell Islands, 30 miles northwest of Guadal- | canal, last February. The action met with no enemy opposition, The: announcement added that the islands form a most valuable chain in protecting the Americen bescs in the Solomons. MARKETED IN U. §, TALLER IN MORNING ST. LOUIS. CHICAGO.—A :nan is tal the Nova Scotia catch of tuna fish wnen he awakens in the morning| marketed in the United States. than when he goes to bed at night. | A iarge part of |WORK STARTS ON 4 NEW BUILDINGS Yesterday aielou tion Company, work on four erected at Angela pts. ach structure will be | stories high and will contain units for occupation by people. It is the intention of the pany, should the successful, to erect similar build- ings in Key West. “PALACE THEATER EDDIE FOY, JR., in “Moonlight Masquerade” NEWS and SERIAL “Tonight Is Prize Night” Cone Construc- of Miami, began bulidings and two 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 to be} Emma | colored i 1 com- venture prove SOITIIT IM. \ |PHONE 9150 WITH PAPER COMPLAINTS, Citizen “subscribers who heretofore called The Citizen office on failure io 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 9150. Complaints will be accepted until 7 p.m. LMI IIL LSS | | ! | { GET THAT VIMMS FEELING for cnly a few pennies-avtlay—you can make sure your whole family geis all'the vitamins and minerals they may need; Bach tasty: Vimms tablet ‘supplies x vilamins (A, Bk} B2,.C} D, P-P), together with vital minerals, Calcium, Phosphorus and Iror. Guard against vitamin de- ficiency. Get Vimms for LOW-COST VITAMIN IN- SURANCE Southernmost City Pharmacy, Int. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Duval at Fleming Street Phone 199 1100 Simonton Street A DEFENSE PROJECT |The privileges of this cafe-/ | teria are extended to the | i following: } CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES | | of the Key West Naval Station CONTRACTORS’ PERSONNEL) | of Army and Navy Defense Projects PERSONNEL OF ARMY. NAvy,| _ COAST GUARD and MARINE | CORPS | GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES |FAMILIES OF THE ABOVE GROUPS EEE LE ~GATO CAFETERIA Key West, Fle. i meeting 1 (By Associated isi eeteee | { j commiss that the Allies have “TWELVE DEFENDANTS ENTERED PLEAS | inal ‘CITY COUNCIL | didates ' police will be chosen then ‘1 jto wait for Americans Make Advances Ranging Up To Twelve MiléS In Tunisia "Talked Of Changes 9 Set Up Of County Commission tt Looked For Tonight More H And Are Reported Be Within Two Miles { Lake Bizerte ye Two The jik County Co y to change MINISsION 15 no! its set-up at its! so tonight, according te what one of the majority id this morning r since Hatry Harri from the fifth 1 from the army ommi onsiderable the memb the ioner dis-\* rict, was rele, and assumed hi sioner, there ha k about char n's chairmanstip. FLORIDA'S POPULATION, BASED ON RATION BOOK REGISTRATIONS, SET AT 2,084,500; 10.4 PERCENT RISE The Key West Chamber of ’ merce today a bulletin from the research division of the Flot ide of Com vas slated i ra ations for in March, population — is aptured i" and are now within in, commis: | —- t Leke Bizerte. W n thear possesszon. now sméshong herd toward F ryville. directly to the tach is the only umportant be the Axis forces new hold tween ihe Americans and Biz Ferryville thus morning wes ee dergoing en intense bembera gein iz Nay, 1942. larger— 135,414, « In gencral, er ecorded in the received from the land and from *hamber The Brilish Firs. Acmy it report-d to heve made impor ang greatest Seims im their edvence 1943, the ral farming placed at 10.4 per cent since / Between April 1942, the state's tion is estimated to have Tun’s.. Germans ond it unties, Gu od little ct period of only two-te heve launched feromous cous shov three creases -| per cent @ttecks im attemcts to b the British, but they heve i up their slew progress their cbjective. The British Eigtth Ax which hes been conscisdating OF GUILTY IN CRIMINAL COURT MONDAY Judge William V. Albury, George siding ata special term of the crim-| in count; court received | be pleas of guilty from 12 defendants | and imposed the following sen-} gams du:ing the last two w pre-] has b-come active again. gomery’s toughened rete yesterday, . ’ Gus heve started whet « license, tern mto 4 big-scale ectiofi J driver's license William E $15 fine s Wil sentence de Earnest H » petit b wv 30 day Vernen entence deferred ward Becker, speed 30) day jail e Lewi Scott, no! sentenc Willic 30 d Mattie St gamblir Bett days mey tene them to Heat querters sued an fecm todey that outbred » profan the ceny, Mportant assistanc mn . Fiying Fortresse: ity 3 Amrricens im northy the British and French eat 5 ‘RATION ENVELOPES READY FOR LOCAL FOOD RETAILERS The Ration Board | for distribution to and others coupon envelopes for coupons. Thesé enve be obtained by calli Ration Board Office, eral Building. Institutional May-June allotment foods should apply the local board If Group I user ready filed copie or price list fo: 4th to 10th May-June & accompanied | price list Retailers’ Registratic R-1601 is now due and must filed before May Sth for meats and fat tbe issued after that in exceptional case: Tusisia end the Enchth thet is pushing forward MEETS TONIGHT APPOINTMENT OF NEW PO LICE CAPTAIN NOT LIKE- LY TO BE MADE tke eastern Tumsien coest, 2 Enemy positions im tho=- tors have undercone reid that 4 red. amd the fortresses Only five of th cilmen will> attend 3 ill held tonight, and one of them said this afternoon that the likelihood is that none of the can- for of the night struck. foo et the very be Tun s AS city coun the meetihg and Brrerte ter place the mevel Bece aser derqone many devasts* captain The jetties at Bizerte. and other he had id be wiser dance be- The counc ord have been so matter ilman vy d that } beavis ed they ere now of the alle by a full att ARCHER'S GROCERY 214 Fleming will CLOSE at 1 o'Clec> on Thursdays through the SUS" elfectsve May © r,” he conclude, “I can elf. 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