The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 12, 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. 113. Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. Key West, Florida. bes the most equable climate in the country; with am svrerage range of only 14° Fabrent -t §,..A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1943. SECOND Bish Fist Amy Beats Down All Enemy Resistance Eighth Army, However, Is Reported To Be Ex-| IN HEAVY STORM periencing Great Resist-| ance = Ae eas | THRUST MADE AT TWO OF BASES OCCUPIED BY (By Associmtea Press’ NIPPONESE FORCES ALGIERS, May 12.—The Brit- ish First Army has beaten down all enemy resistance in that sec- | tor of the Cap Bon peninsula | where the First Army is operat. ing, except for occasional bands of guerillas that are either kill- ed or taken as prisoners in the scrubby hills of that district. But the British Eighth Army,| Were taken by surprise both at Rabaul, on’ New Guinea, and at headquarters said, is meeting! the Jap air base on Timor. with far greater resistance. The| At both those points many Jap \ ra (By Associated ene) MELBOURNE. May 12.— Through a fierce tropical storm. Allied flyers in the southwest Pacific crrried out two destructive | terday. fi | It was stated that the Japs evi- dently did not think that the Al- | lied airmen would atack with so heavy a wind blowing, and they planes are believed to have been Axis forces in that area have! destroyed on the ground. Because bee: \of the heavy wind and rain, Al- m called on several times to/ ji airmen could not see clearly surrender, but they have spurn-| the results of the attacks, though te planes at both places were seen ed the: afters and are biog bimeiarored the ground and bombs were to fight ferociously. But it will | seen to explode among the planes. Fighting flared up yesterday be a matter of only @ short time | for the first time in many days in when they will be forced either By 4 - - eS nea. ustralians to surrénder or be annthilated. | captured Jap outposts in the Green because they are not receiving Hill area, onlv 10 miles from Sal- maua: ¢ any support from German or) °° WINDOW SERVICES AT snd sxe. POST OFFICE TO END supplies AT NOON SATURDAYS Italian planes and they lines of communication therefore, receiving no of food or ammunition. Italians, according to received here, are more reports | Postmaster Fred J. Dion has | informed The Citizen that he has disposed received instruction from the fo surrender than the Germans, Post Office Department requiring ; {reversion to the summer sched- This morning thousands of Ital-! yj¢ which will necessitate closing ians, with their arms uplifted, prabtnl sy all window services at the Key West office at.noon on Saturdays. surrendered to both the First and) = This new order will go into ef- itis i, fect beginning Saturday, May 15. i i ie ma with no window ta he Thirty-eight thousand more given after 12 o'clock. Other ser- ‘ vices will be as usual, with one mers have’ been caphired carrier delivery service and~ box since yesterday, and the opinion service. was expressed that, when all Ea Se of them thus far taken are count- SOCIAL EVENT AT ed, the totel will exceed more SERVICE CENTER than 150,000, many of them of Marshal hard-bitten members Erwin Thursday afternoon from 4 to 6 7 o'clock, at the Afrika | rrnech Service Center on Wik: liam street, which will be put on |; unuer tne auspices of the Church | Missionary Society. Mrs. Schmitt of the Red Cross, | Naval Hospital, will be the guest REILLY INFANT BURIED TODAY | beaker on the occasion An eniovable afternoon's enter- Patrick tainment is promised all who at- tend. Rommel’s Korps. Funeral services for Reilly, infant son of Mr, and Mrs John Patrick Reilly, were held | this morning at 11:30 o’clock from | the Chapel of the Lopez Funeral | Home. Rev. Father King officiat- ed at the services. Burial was in the Catholic Cemetery. EEE EEE. GATO DORMITORY 1100 Simonton Street A DEFENSE PROJECT The privileges of this Dormitory, are extended to the following: CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES of the Key West Naval Station Projects Drive in. in 30 to 45 minutes and RA $1.00 Per Day your car can be on its way! $3.50 Per Week Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE esis aie CHANGES HIS MIND FRANKFORT, Indiana.—Evi- dently changing his mind, a con- science-stricken burglar who had robbed a drug store of $50, sent a note to the proprietor stating, “I thought I wanted to be a thief, but | I guess I don’t.” The note was ac- | companied by the $50 and an ex- tra dollar to repair the frontdoor lock. 33 CARGOES FOR ALLIES CHICAGO. — Approximately 16,000 Norwegian seamen are en- gaged in carrying war cargoes for the Allies in Norwegian vessels. raids ageinst the Japanese yes-; the Samamaua area of New Gui-' POST-WAR MONEY FOR WORLD TRADE MUCH DISCUSSED (PROPOSAL EVOKES HOPE THAT MONEY WILL BE MORE PLENTIFUL IN ALL SEC- TIONS By CLAUDE A. JAGGER AP General Financial Editor | NEW YORK, May 12.—There is something fascinating about any | proposal for new money. Maybe it is becaus@ it always ; evokes a hope that money is going } to be more plentiful. In any event, the American pro- posal for a new world currency to be called “Unitas”, and the British “suggestion of an_ international money to be known as “Bancor” eem pretty exciting. Actually it is the firm objective of both proposals to make money ‘more plentiful. But before your, hopes are rai: ed too high, just remember th. You won't get any unitas or bancor bills to carry. around in your wallet. If. these proposals make money more. plentiful, you will get your share by hard work just as before, and you will get the same old dollars. What Monev Is What the economists keep tell- ing us—and they tear their _ hair ‘because they say nobody pays much attention — is that most }people have the wrong idea about ‘money, think money’ is wealth. |. Money, they--say,. is_net..wealth, | If there were a lot more money | around, that would not mean that! it would be any easier to get, or th su could buy any And the reason.is: Money is not wealth, but just a medium of- exchange. Actually, in this country, we do about 90! percent of our business with bank } | checks. Money, or ¢urren¢y, is just ' the small change. We could do all ofir business with checks, but that would be a nuisance. But checks are reckoned in terms of money... We have to use a unit of value to exchange our | work for groceries, and > further- more, our géneral system of ex- ‘change in terms of money units has to work smoothly and effi- ' ciently. International Complications Now the situation gets compli- cated when you begin exchanging | American money for British mon- ey, or Argentine or some other | kind, because there is no interna- {tional money. | In normal times, exchange pe- itween countries has worked out j |pretty satisfactorily by measuring i more. A silver tea will be given on/théit relative currency values in tonight. ‘terms of gold. But by speffs, it Congregational /has worked very badly, as during | pe discussed. those bleak years a decade ago. Brazil, for instance, was burning | its coffee, although it wanted and {needed American manufactured jgoods. Millions of Americans, | meanwhile, were out of work and tcould not get a cup of coffee. ; American factories to make goods \ Brazil wanted were idle. What was jthe matter? The exchange sys- tem, among other things, had brok- en down. New Plans’ Aims Now what Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau is driving at with the unitas plan, and what Lord Keynes of the British Treas- ury is talking about with the bancor plan, is a method of assur- ing a smooth flow of goods and services after the war,so we can all work and preduce.for ourselves and each, other. A special;mechanism seems. to be called. for gn many counts, In. the first.place, most of the world’s monetary: gold has,come to the; United States. Officially reported jreserves of money gold in. the world, and that is most of it, come to only about 28 billion dollars, jand of that, 22 billions are in the ; vaults of the U. S. treasur: |Plurbing Is A Public Trust | For FIRST-CLASS WORK by 4) Master Plumber and Heating Engineer—Call - F. A. DUFFY ; Phone 598-Rear 326 Peaton Lane | the great naval base on the Black’ in ‘called to order by Chairman Carl, Reds Are Hammering Hard Against German Bridgehead (By Assocvated Press) MOSCOW, Mey 12.—The Reds, today that the Russians are sure ,._|to capture both objectives, de be hemmering) spite the hard fight, regardless of the loss of men and equipment, that the Germans are making. ere reported to hard todey against the German bridgehead in the northwest Cau-, Several thousands are reported to | have been slain in fighting to de- casus, while another Russian army fend the bridgehead and the na- is continuing io advance toward V@! base. : The communique reported that the air fighting in the last 24 | hours, the Russians have downed 56 German planes and lost 11 of newspaper declared their own. Sea at Novorossiisk. Red Star J, FRANK ROBERTS ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF COUNTY BOARD J. Frank Roberts is the new!and Gomez voting in favor of it. chairman of the Board of Monroe: Bervaldi passed and Maximo Val- , dez refused to vote. Roberts then was nominated by Gomez, with a second by Harris, and he was elected chairman by the same three votes that favored the former motion. Again Bervaldi passed and Valdez refused to vote. Roberts of the County Commissioners. The Citizen, in a story yester- day, said that a report per the county change would sted in that chairmanship at the meet- ing, the " fact’ that one commissioner stated, “I don’t know anything about it.” Shortly after the courthouse a the made despite in be Chairman the chairmen committees: Bervaldi, airports; Gomez, build- ing and grounds; Harris, roads, and Valdez wag named the chair- man of two cdmmittees, welfare and finance. He was also elected temporary chairman of the com- } mission. appointed following meeting was Bervaldi, Edward Gomez, com- missioner from the first district, made a motion to declare a vacan- cy in the chairmanship. Harry Har- ris seconded the motion, which was carried, with him, Roberts The remainder of the business transacted was routine. . ONLY TWO CASES IN FEDERAL COURT WHICH: OPENS MONDAY Thus far there’ are two casé#2% ‘Raul Carbonell is the defendant one civil and one an OPA prose="in a case brought against him by cution, on the docket of theHed-. the OPA on eral court in Key West, rs charge of violating to come the rent control act. Specifically, up for trial when the court is con- the allegation is that he charged vened next Monday. more rent for a house than he r=- Ramon R. Delgado is the plain- ceived on October 1 1941, the date 'ilt-in trie civil case. He is suing on which rents in Key West were the United States Fire Insurance pegged by the OPA. t ‘ompany, of New York City, for A small class of applicants for $6,000 in connection with a fire citizenship will.be naturalized by insurance policy. _Judge Holland. ; ‘SEVERAL SCOUT OFFICERS NAMED All members of the Key West At a recent meeting of the of- tadium Committee are request-'ficers of Troop 52 severa new of. STADIUM COMMITTEE MEETING TONIGHT S fd to attend a_.meeting to be ficers were appointed. held in City Hail at 9:00 o’clock Buddy Navarro, former assistant utmaster, wiil | pointed assistant ‘scoutmast junior ap- and | George Holben, former senior pa- | Gol leader, was appointed junior assistant scoutmas'er. By troup vote, Leo Cooper was Miss Sallie Russell has been ap-: elected senior patrol leader. and rointed District Dep Grand | Myrtland Cates was elected patrol Chief of the Pythian S: rs, hav- | leader. ing received her commission yes-| Troop 52 had visitors at terday from Grand Chief Clarice! their last meeting, Don Sherouse W. Brown of Bartow. and Frank Sands. Sherouse is an Mrs. Brown expects to pay a. Eagle scout with 32 merit badges. visit here shortly. Assistant Scoutmaster Archie | Potter has gone to Camp Bland- ing, and-was transferred to Sey- |mour Field, N.C. Before leaving —_ Potter appointed George Holben TORONTO.—Two boys, playing , as troop reporter. near a dismantled truck in a va-/ cant lot, threw a lishted match; into the gasoline tank. The tank exploded. sendine flaming-sase-} WASHINGTON. — In four line over Bruce Lebar, 9,.one of/.months more than 18 million pairs the bovs. The child was taken. to} of-disearded silk and nylon stock- a hospital, critically burned about} ings ‘were contributed by U. S. the face and body. }women to the war effort. st was Business of importance GIVEN APPOINTMENT two SHOWERED BY FLAMING GASOLINE STOCKINGS GIVEN OVER 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 “ROBERTS RITES RECEIVE TABLE Believed Churchill's Visit | OF PRICES FOR = To U. S. Has Great Bearing COMMODITIES On Much-Talked-Of Invasion BEES SEED LHA Bitch Pree Mmeier “SENT OUT FROM OPA RE GIONAL OFFICES PERTAIN- “ HOUSE PASSES : LOCAL MEASURES ®*™s* Military Leaders ——. Gver For Conference ING TO SEVERAL KINDS OF MEATS. With Rooseveit TALLAHASSEE. Mey 12— The House passed the follow ing bills introduced by Rep resentative Berme C. Pepy House Bill 546 fixing com rensation of members of the K--- Weet City Council Bill 549 providing for a hos- Pia. wa mty West not exceeding 2 1-2 mills. Bill $50 previding for quali fying fees to be raid by candi dates for Kev West elective offices. Fill 55] imoosing repeir and upkeep tax on buses op- erating cn Key West streets. Bi:l 598 requiring that all legai counsel or attorneys em ployed by Overseas Road ani Toll Bridge District be quali- fied registered voters of Mon- roe County. t to Of great importance the pocketbooks as well as the palates of all Key Westers is the table of ; prices The Citizen received today from the OPA regional offices in j Atlanta for beef, veal, lamb and | mutton, fresh, cured and frozen, lin Zone 10, which includes Key West. In connection with these prices, OPA Chief Prentiss Brown has called on the housewives in the United States to to it that they are not overcharged by deal- ers in those meats. He requested that wife, upon going to a meat t and noticing that the price list is not posted conspicuously, report that irregularity to the OPA. And what is still of greater importance, Brown said, is for housewives to be sure that they are not over- charged. Penalties are providéd in ! both cases of irregularities, though the penalty fer overcharginy is i the more severe. The list in The Citizen today is devoted to the prices for various ! kinds of steak. Readers will find it to their advantage if the list is ' clipped and kept for reference Toworrow the list will be de voted “toroas!s, and, before next «We os n the prices become | effective, all of the lists will have been published. Today's list fol- | lows: | Steaks: (Ry Sevectetes Pree WASHINGTOS. May 1—Prme Minister Winston Cpurci: ai Fresence im the White # which marks his { fth conie-e with President Roosevelt * this country entered the war umjocsed 4 flood af 2 see spe: ulatic not only amore the Axis powe but also among the Allied N= tions. any house- What does the visit forzsh= That question birth to several conjecture ow? has given chief of w ich is the cp-ning of LATE BULLETINS second front in Eurcpe To berr out thet opinion. roted that Churchill is raed by military leaders on THREE INCUMBENTS ARE except Lord Beaverbro>k REELECTED “ : MIAASI—This city's these com-; "TS? Prominent members of missioners, Leonard K. Thompson. Congrets of India. Fred W. Hosea end James A.Dunn gp a were re¢-ected in the run-off rece yesterd-y. The lesers were Abe been among the foremost ¢, Arcnovitz end Owen W. Pittman. . | Thompson led the ticket with 11,- = ™e™ who. 028; Hosea was second’ with’ 8.432. and Dunn ‘reetived.3,445 ‘votes. E . highest grade, 6 for more than ® \? bone, highest, 6! j-aChub, highest 66; Rib—10-inch cut. lowest, 28. Rib—T-inch lowest, 30. Sirloin, highest, 5 32 Pin bone, highest, 50; I 2 Sirloin (boneless), highest, 62: lowest, 40. Round (bene-in) (full cut), ! est, 52; lowest 33. Round (boneless) (top andl bot tom). highest, 55; lowest, Round tip, highest, 55; 35. } Chuck blade (bone-in), highest. 36; lowest, 25. Chuck arm (bone-in), 36; lowest, 25. Flank, highest, 46; | ert, bas demended the up ci 2 second front m He made that proposal vest 42. est, 42. highest;"49; opening OE RTF Europe “MORE COFFEE FOR I, 8. WAS!-INGTON.—The OPA an- nounced today thet. beginning @rivr June 1. one pound of coffee for beck the Russiens during esch rerson will be provided ev- ee 'y month. instesd of every fi weeks. es is at present the case. On thet da‘e a'so the prizes of oil meats will be reduced 19 per cent : et frst cut, highest 45; when the Germens were est, summer of 1941. his stend then f the Alles In supports be declared ¢ struck in SENATE DERATES TAZ Bia WASHINGTON.—The = senate ioday been its discussions of the Pay-as-you-zo tex bil’. which he been changed towerd the Rum plan sincs i's passage by the house. t-e7 woult relieve ‘ on the Rucsiens. Th-n. in the winter when the Russie h teir greet offersives HOUSE DEBATES TRADE beck the Axis TREATY BILL WASGHINGTON.—The hows to dey is debeting the trad> tro-t bill. orpesition te which is cor fined almost wholly to the Re rublicens. To gein Republican|., coke ot G - support. it was seid thet Demo ~ HERE TOMORRO SERVICES TO BE HELD AT the measure effective for only frenticelly trying two years. instead of three. CATHOLIC CHURCH AT 10 O'CLOCK IN MORNING terces elons the fer-fienz & in Russe. Beeverbrook demeni ed thet the time wes wierter Reds. HOUSE CHANGES CONNOLLY BILL Agein. when the Germess = | WASHINGTON.—The Connolly ‘ iL wb hls ee Funrral services wii! sa ti os agcinst strikers in war time. has ™*t. which led to the qetes morning at 10 o'clock from bois stdighd toate the Mary's Star of the Sea Cathalic severity of the punishment since Salmgred. Beavecbrose was sc Church, for John Peter Rob-| is discussion come un im the erts, age 41, who died Tuesd#¥) house. The changes will have t morning at his residence. 1111] 6 ironed out bv senate and house Southard street. | committees in conference. should Reanier Mass will be held at the | the bill be pessed in the house. Church, Rev. Thomas Atherton eT west S. J., officiating. Burial will be in| NEGRO ARRESTED the family lot, Catholic Ceme-j tery. Lopez Funeral Home has AT RAMROD KEY charge of arrangements. Yesterdi azernoon Si Berlin Sawyer received imsistent on sterfieg «¢ second fromt im Europe Englith sews (Contamued on Pag- F-~ AYERIST@C RAT FACE POWDER , Survivors: Mothér and father, Mr. and Mrs. Peter 'B.' Roberts; one brother, one sister. Mrs. Latira L. Johnson. | Pallbearers: Harry M. “Baker, Noel Baker; Hollon’ Bérvaldi Raymond Curry. William M. Free- man, Allen B. Cleare, Jr. * BEAVERS BUILD DAM DETROIT.—In_ Estes Park, Colo., beavers built a dam more than one thousand feet long. _ PALACE THEATER “MOSCOW STRIKES BACK’ NEWS and SERIAL Theodore’ Roberts: | phone call from Ramrod thet |megro was driving an automobile | wildly on the road on that ke The sheriff .responded te | call, and arrested Isaac Perez jcharges of drunken driving anc \for not havine » driver’ Smooth Cinng- ao licens+ Pe ite = He was locked up in the count | =i0-and his- vail | $200. ee hip Mette Z \ EEE ! 1 SOUTHERNMOST CITY Bye ay PHARMACY, linc. USED CARS) =—mxescarmos oavoomrs NAVARRO, Inc Duval et Fleming Phone 1% Opposite Bus Station ae Office Rear Central iscrei