The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 8, 1943, Page 1

ae TES, ARMIN Sov neeoe ONO Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIV. No. 110. ~ Council Secret Ballot Taken To| Select Successor To Al- berto Camero, Who Re-' signed Position ' SICILY, SARDINIA AND (By Assuch, ted Presn) LONDON, May 8.—Semi- official comment here today was to the effect that Sicily, Sardinia and other islands in the western Mediterranean now have little !mportance in that theatre of war-since the fall of Bizérte: and:Taniis. « Those islands; it:wastadded; > will be continued tobe pounds» ed by Allied:planes;with the‘: Possibility of cimvasion;>:but >: that they easily*dquld be by- passed if the ‘Allied command: elected to strikeateItaly itself. It was further stated that here may be as many as three Points of invasion in that the- atre, but that, where they would be, is a military secret. With the cepture of Tunis and Bizerte, the Allies now may use the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to the Suez Canal with little molestation. Figured on a basis of shipping facilities, ¢ne exvert asserted that it was comparable with adding overnight 1,000,000 tons of ships to the Allied strength on the sea. PISS TMM ID AYCEES LEAVE FOR CONFERENCE AT MIAMI BEACH , | The City Council, with ‘| members in attendance - except Councilman Julio De Poo, elect- ed Ray Atwell as captain of the night police at a special meeting last night held mainly for the Purpose of filling the vacancy created by ‘the recent tion of Alberto Camero, resigna- The selection of Atwell as po-| lice captain was made by secret | ballot behind closed doors in the | city clerk's office. None other | than councilmen were present at: the voting. ‘ | Mayor Willard M. Albury was invited by the council to meet with the body during the ballot ing, as @ matter of courtesy, but! the city’s chief executive declin- | ed the invitation. Mayor Albury i 1 ' said he did not care to have any-/ thing whatever to do with the, selection of Camero’s successor, | The mayor was asked on sev. TIF IPLITAIS (OTHER ISLANDS NOW OF | LITTLE IMPORTANCE | THE so Che Kry West Cit UTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1943. U.S. A. Key West, Florida, h:= most egquable climate in the country; range of only 14° Fahrent .*t with an average _PRICE WPA., BIGGEST: * EMPLOYER POF | DEATH OF POPULAR AGENCY, ITY, 15 ENTIRELY UNMOURN- ED By JOHN GROVER (By Axssoctated Press) | WASHINGTON, May 8.—There | wasn’t even funeral se when they buried the biggest em- ployer of labor in U. S. history. If there were a grave }defunct federal bureaus, there'd | {de a new tombstone inscribed: ; f“Work + Projects* Administration | | (wPAy; killed ‘by ‘war prosperity j May Fy 1943, aged«seven years.” WPA ‘was: ;centervof the’ New Deal’s contro-; a ‘ [versiat socialprogram in its hey-! it jay Conservative Congressmen | | purpledto near apoplexy about it. | Ultra- -liberals hailed it as a long {step toward the millennium. ' Most important, 8,500,000 U. S. jresidents, supporting 30,000,000 {U. S. dependents, got their daily other after 1935, when it was e: |tablished under the Emergency | | Relief Act. | WPA was a direct offshoot of, {the first federal work-relief plan, ; and now almost forgotten CWA, | established in 1933. | A lot of current big shots served ; lin WPA. Harry Hopkins, the pres-! \idents alter ego, was an unknown social worker when CWA pitch-| forked him into the limelight. Gen. {Brehon Somervell, pri t head: ,of the Army Service Forces, won late Hugh Johnson had a crack at} ithe same job. Aided Millions KILLED BY WAR PROSPER-! vice! "| people that the two cities had/ \T the:'stormiest storm | ———— oread from WPA at one time or an- | | plaudits for his able administra- | ition of New York City WPA. The} ‘Rome And Berlin. Give Out Different Stories Bearing On Allied Victory Friday, | (By Associated Press) LONDON, May , 8. — Radio, cf Tunis adding that Rome and Radio Berlin, accord- Axis any the forces there had not by ing to recordations made by the! means been overcome. British Broadcasting Station, | Comme nits jgave different versions today of | {rom headquarters lrica, about what the Berlin an- ei th said, declared that the only thing that was going on in the streets of Tunis was that the The Rome announcer told the French girls there, overcome with truth, admitting to the | joy, were kissing the British Tom- ies as they moved about town. report said that the kissing as not exactly the only thing, and that there was singing also, fighting | and that the song that was heing | throated was the Marseillaise, the |still was goingvon in the streets och national anthem. received here in North Af- ‘the fall of Tunis and Bizerte | yesterday. Italian | j been captured by the Allies but | | Redio Berlin said that \First. Regulars Gesalein’ Of. | Criminal Court With New | Judge To Convene Monday till June 1. That will be determin- ed, he added, by the cases, if any, that are on the docket. {instead of holding special terms | at irregular intervals, Judge Caro The fiist regular term of the | Monroe County Criminal Court of | Record, since Thomas S. Caro has assumed his duties as judge, will be convened next Monday morn-/ stated that a session of that na. | ing at 10 o'clock. {ture will be convened, to hear Judge Caro said today that he} pleas of guilty, at 10:30 o’clock does not know yet whether court!every Tuesday morning, provided |will be continued or adjourne@|a regular term is not in progress. ie Se ey eee City Ass essor Sam Pinder | Sees No Aflvance In Taxes, eral occasions if he had anything | to say on the subject and Ke re-| Plied he desired to leave the matter entirely in the hands of | the council. i The other candidates for the} Po:ition, whose’ applications were read in open meeting, were \Myrtland Cates, W. J. Walker. | Robert J. Lewis, Hector Castro and Eugene Hernandez, A petition, signed by a large number of citizens, was read by the clerk. The petition endorsed | Eugene Hernandez for the posi- tion of night police captain. It was also read+in open session. Mrs. Nina Calleja, assistant in the city clerk's office, was grant ed a fifteen-day furlough. Howard McCann’s application for a plumber's license was tak en up again last night, and it was ordered that'the applicant Bey examined by Ralph Russell, | | building inspector, and if found | to be qualified, that Mr. Mc- Cann be issued a license. This action was taken due to! the fact that there is/no plumb- | ing board now active. The board | (Continued on Page Six; ~ LaCONCHA HOTEL | CHARLES M. SALAS, Mgr. THE BEST | } DINE. DANCE Facilities in South! Florida RAINBOW ai COCKTAIL LOUNGE (AEE, | AIR CONDITIONED Featuring... DANCING Every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday Evenings MUSIC By BARROSO’S 5-PIECE ORCHESTRA No Cover or Minimum Charge Demnnirnnneniemtenesne nell Jeff Knight,. dr, Jr., Isadore. Weintraub, © Hunter Harding, secretary; director, and president; ; High point of WPA’s life came in ; 1939, when an average of 3. 104.090, ; Americans were on’ the poyroll.} PP SRE PS PERIPS | Sam B. Pinder, city tax asses- Sor-coliector, said” this morning |Kismet Lewin, Earl Fowler and |Then war boomed industry after: | THREE ALLIED ARMIES {2°00 0,089", afternoon for | Roosevelt in any step he ta | war and have John Borden, members of the Key West Jaycees, left yesterday Miami Beach © to attend a war conference of the} Florida Junior Chamber of Com- merce to be held-in the Macfad- ‘den Deauville Hotel in that city. The conference began _ last night and was resumed’ this morning. Two session will be held tomorrow, the concluding ‘one at night. As the bulletin about the con- ference states, members of Florida Junior Chamber of Com merce are active in the armed: services,,and the object of the meetings is to spur on to a great- er war-effort of the members that remain at home. All over the state, the Jay- cees, after the conference, will renew and expand their efforts to promote the war-effort. Meet- ings, with that object «in | will be held .at. re; sul inte for the duration of t SENATOR ANDREW. 5 DENOUNCES LEWIS Senator Andrews menting on the coal strike "situa- lion, said on Friday, April 36 “John L. Lewis is getting to be the greatest menace this country faces at this time, Axis powers.” The Senator told a reporter that “in my judgment an overwhelm- ing majority of the people would undoubtedly back up President! sto; see that coal needed by the nation will’ be produced.” The Floridian also expressed the conviction that most of the min- ers would be willing to continue’ work, ‘but for the bad advice and | bulldozing of Lewis. “The situation Lewis is: bring-! ing about is going to require dras- | tie action,” he added. “But we shouldn't conde! the miners,” he ' said, cause many of them have sons in: this) been doing theit The New RESTAURANT — 416 SOUTHARD ST. (Next to Skating Rink) Will Be Open for All- Day| Business within a few days coME. .. HAVE A GOOD TIME! | Wetch This Paver for the Date the } view, | paves { s pumped’ new life into the legiti- mate theaters Some of today’s top! ‘ed employment to increasing num- | bers of workers. WPA contribut- | | ed to i's own demise by instituting {training programs that prepared ‘thousands for defense jobs after | 1940. | Construction work’ always ac- ‘counted for the bulk of WPA ac- tivity, but»the cultural and com- munity service enterprises, culed as “boondoggling” by poli-i | tical enemies, caused the most con- |‘ troversy. Looking back, WPA left a per- manent imprint on the culture of the nation. More than 2,500 mural | paintings, 16,500 pieces of sculp- and 108,000 easel works for buildings—some works of real art—were completed ‘py WPA arts projects works. No other agency ever gave such a ip ture public boost to so many struggling ar-; ‘The WPA theater _ projec ave Federal Theater » paradyate The, writers’ projec’ compiled the American Guide- book — series, © that introduced vf Young star Americans to their own country. A! folklore and future | muss Ot ‘invaluable {| history’ was collected for tudy. In construction of public build- ings, WPA made an important outside of the contribution to present day life. ; Some 664,000 miles of highway,' 'much of it strategically important jin war time, was built by WPA; labor, 200 new hospitats, 140 li- i braries, 8,100 parks, 950 sewage-; treatment plants, 16,000 miles of} water mainsand 15,000 miles of; | drainage ditches for malaria mo: | quito control are WPA contribu- | tions to urban life. Living in many | congested areas, tough as can be: now, would be almost impossible | without facilities built by WPA | | labor brigades. Held Invaluable Discount allthis, though. Say; nae that all the public construction: and publie. sel wasted mi , itary authorities: who\argue that); | Wea sone SSR if for no} i (Continued on Pag Six) | TONIGHT! For A BIG TIME. . .Try SLOPPY JOE'S BAR| | Largest Place In town JOE RUSSO’S BAND "The Best Swing Band In Town” Music Starts at 7 p.m Week-Nights at 8 o’Clock ORR EE EI ridi-| of them! ryice pecs cts were | ioriey: e\still mil- | ARE HELD IN RESERVE |tbete: will not be’ any. hdvahee in , taxation for realty this : ‘compared with last vear. He i ed, “I think the taxes are high! enovgh now.” | Just what figure the sments : | will-reach this year, Mr. Pindey | said he had no way of determin- | the battles that have practic. | ing at this time. Some property, ' bought by the Federal govern-| aly rowed) the stemy, trot 1 enti will be taken aff the: books yp - Tunisia. | but the a: ments on lots, on | which buildings have been con-: ;Structed, will be incr ed. And more buildings have been erected} ‘in Key West during the past 12{ months than in any other similar | period. There is a ssibility that the. ment for 1943 will approxi-} mate that of 1942. which was $7.- 369,120. Assessments on personal property in 1942 totaled $1,666,445. ; 4 (By Axsocint reNN) || ALGIERS, May 8.—"Some- | where in North Africa” the Al- lies have three powerful arm- ies that did not participate in These armies have been held in reserve, for what purpose has not been officially stated, but conjectures are that they will be pressed into service when Italy or some other Axis country is invaded, The First American Army, under commend of General Mark Clark. end the British Ninth and Tenth Armies are the ones that are now on tip- toe to strike at the enemy on his own soil. LS LPS DT i leaileadl ‘CASTRO AND JOLLY | QUIT POLICE FORCE: ae j Hector Castro and Frank Jol-! lay, city patrolmen, have quit the force, having turned in the ' paraphernalia. i Mayor Willard M. Albury stat-} ed today that he has not re- ceived any formal resignation, 'from the two men, who are no! Hlonger doing duty with the city.! i P | MSP LILI LIS LI SI SS ‘MONTHLY SUMMARY _ | OF LOCAL WEATHER ‘Néddratdg'te. the ito the’ monthly summpry for. the month of | Aprilissued@by G.S. Kennedy, | meteorologist in charge at the | Key West Weether Bureau, the | highest temperature for the | month was 85 on the 13th, with the lowest reading, 65 on the 6th. The greatest precipitation during the month was 0.48 inches on the 19th and 20th. The prevailing wind for the period was from the east, the highest velocity being on the Ist, 45 miles per hour. There were 15 clear days, 6 partly cloudy and 9 cloudy. Pet neCaacicrsn inal PALACE THEATER | GODFREY TEARLE in May 10th | “ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT Open Frern 11 a.m. to 8 p.m: 1S MISSING” SRR 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 { DUKE'S BAR-B-Q WILL OPEN MONDAY 22, was recertly granted divorce ifrom William Rude, | driver, : improve after their second mar- th Army Aided By Tench Troops Hemming In Axis Flesing After Biter Detea LATE BULLETINS — (By Associated Press) “WHERE WILL'THE ALLIES STRIKE?” LONDON.—"Where will the ‘Allies strike next acainst Hitler or | Mussolini or both?" That question elicited- various comments here to day, and the:general opinion was that they may strike from any cf ; four places or from all fsur plates at prectically the same time. Those poinis are England, northern Ireland, Iceland and North Africa. Four | thrusts, with but a stngie’object ir view, :the comment ran, may be made and lead to the ultimate defeat of aly and Germany. LIBERATORS DROP 21 TONS MELBOURNE.—Liberctors yesterday dropped 21 tons of bombs on Jap bases in the Salamaua area on the north coast of New Guines. An ammunition dump and other installations were struck and set afire. FOUR JAPANESE LAUNCHES SUNK CHUNGKING.—American and Chinese flyers yesterday attacked a convoy of Japanese launches in a river in south China and sank four of them, The other launches scurried back to their bases. RAF ATTACKS NARVIC IN NORWAY LONDON.—RAF- heavy bombers, flying 1,000 miles from north Scotland, Jast nght raided Narvic in Norway. The extent of the dam- age done or the number of planes that took part in the raid was nof given. NINE COUNTER-. ATTACKS REPULSED MOSCOW.—The Russian communique wes brief today. It said | that, in the Caucasus area. nine German counter-attacks were repuls- ed; with heavy enemy losses, last night and today. Following the last of the counter-attacks, the Reds cdvAnceu end recaptured two small towns, the report said. CONFERENCE oN POLISH- RUSSIAN QUARREL LONDON.—A conference will be held here tonight to try to ease | further the tension between the Russian government and the Polish government in exile. STRIKES IN THREE MINES WASHINGTON.—Strikes are reported today in three coal mines. one in Pennsylvania, a second in Ohio and a third in Indiana. Union- ‘ ists elsewhere said that union men are likely to strike generally if an agreement is not reached by the time the truce expires on May 18. ' President Roosevelt reiterated today that there will not be any strike | against the government, and that the coal mines are now being op=r ated by the government. , RUML PLAN IN SENATE WASHINGTON.—It was said todey that the Senate, which pre- ' fers, according to its finance committee, the Rumi tax olan to the Robertson-Forand bill which pzssed the house, will debate the meas- jure next Tuesday. HEARING on OPA MATTERS WASHINGTON.—A senate sub-committees is arranging to call hearings on compleints made by small merchants against the OPA. | which is charged with sintrensd ie IAG the expense of small | business houses. 2 MAY MODIFY OPA REDUCTIONS WASHINGTON.—It was stated officially today that the OPA or- der, reducing prices on foodstuffs by 10 per cent, may be modified be- | fore it goes into effect on June 1. The nature of the proposed modifi- | cation was not made public, CHICAGO.—Mrs. Doris Rude OBEY SPEED LAWS asocinted $3 stack (By a int ram) because his habits didn’t’ Wien ngineers of te | Highway Departmer to determine how many ‘complied with the war |mile-an-hpur speed regu they reported: Percentage observing ‘the rub 21. Average speed of all vehuc' : 39.5 mph; Arkansas vehicles. 39.4 | Out-of-state passenger cars, 443 {pick-up trucks, 35.7; Jarge tracks riage. He agreed to stop drinking and beating her if she would re- /marry him. TONIGHT RAUL'S CLUB On Roosevelt Boulevard | OPEN EVERY DAY from 3 to 12 MUSIC $ to 12 by ee CITY | Peed nag Doo PHONE 199 Duval and ‘Streets nes Still ars Itai- ians And German Pris- oners Taken In Victory Drive (BY Anmectated Freee? ALGIERS. May 8—The Brits Eighth Army. under command of General Bernard Montgomery which did not participate capture ot and Bizerte Tunis jete yesterday. today. aided b Freach troops. is hemming tle fleeing Axis troops on Cape Bon penni-uis. Genera] Eisenhower. communique today. steted tha: » many thousands cf Italiens « Germens were taken in prisone im yesterdey's drives on Biseric by the Americans end Tunis b the British First Army. the pr cedure of enumerating them rot yet been finished. He then spoke of the mor up actions that are takumg cloce nas »among the hills. leading to Tun: and Bizerte. where enemy iroors hed been cut off from their es, end of the movement of British, under Montgomery the Frencir contingents. begin nitg the movement thet ith will annihilate the Axis force on the Ceo Bon peninsula or capture them. comprises The peninsula square miles cf rocky terme which afford little opportunity for motorized vehicles to orer+:> at Meanwtile. Allied their maxcoum pianes tinue to blest the widly retre ng troors. A spokesmen thet probebly at mo other t during the been harnessed so con.tanily ferociously as are the Germ=r ard Itelians im their flight Cape Bon. The narrow roedweys. wi'h rocks. some of them as as tenks, are strewn with cart Cesd piled up im the reeds wer have 2 fies and rcettered among the rocks. The chief couse for turried retreat from Tunis Bizerte. with but little the Axi - tiem to the Americens. the Ex ish and the Freach =er x . 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