The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 28, 1945, Page 1

ass Pia tetas SOC evr ane Che Key West Citizen’ NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1945 ted Press Day Wire and AP Features FOr 65 Years Devoted to the terests of Key West U.S. A. IE XLVI. No. 51 1 naman oie wt: ROOSEVELT BACK |Their’ Collapse Considered So IN WASHINGTON; Near At Hand, Blackout Of WILL MAKE REPORT TOMOR- News In Effect : ‘LIEUT. SAUGSTAD | RUSSIAN FORCES DRIVING AT GIVEN N NEW DUTY GREAT PACE TOWARD BALTIC Red Cross War Fund Drive To Cet Underway Tonight = nn | (By Associated Prens) LONDON, Feb. 28.—Mos-| tin area are encountering lit, PROCUREMENT OFFI. | oe THR i | |cow reported today that a'tle opposition, and that the BOM ORES a - i ae ——_——_________, CER AT NAMI | gecbtyRustian \forceis driv. Nazis joe iatos back all] CONFERENCE OBE SBMS SS 4\ Americans, Canadians | oor Rally Inaugurat-|C@PPLQ LD LMI SS ing at a rapid pace toward| ne pitt” (Rossianeanmne Immense Area Of ing Campaign To Take ‘Place At La Concha Hotel ee | Music by the Hedron 12 Rhythm, Bombers will be a feature of the outdoor rally which will be held by the| Key West Chapter, Ameri- €an Red Cross, at the La Concha Hotel tonight, “Cross War Fund campaign. oe! of the drive here is WP OO III MM S| NEW RECORDING} $24,900, and all committees to; ‘open officially the 1945 Red! Discussion On ‘ Big Conference Still Underway, (By Asnoctated Press) LONDON, Feb...28. — De- bate on the Yalta conference and the progress of the war is still continuing in the House of Commons, It was’ announced this afternoon that Prime Minis- ter Churchill will make » another address on those subjects when the debate comes to an end tomorrow. have been fully organized jand are ready to get under} Way tomorrow, P. J, Ross,| ‘chairman of the War Fund| Committee, said today. The rally will be held om the balcony of the La oncha, with .a public ad- MACHINE USED ON QUIT-CLAIM DEED’ First document recorded by the photostatic machine in the claim deed from Leslie L. Biffle, | ress system carrying jhe | Lt. E. V. Saugstad. USCG, a! | veteran of six major invasions in \the Pacific, has been temporarily |assigned as Seventh Naval Dis-! et Coast. Guard personnel pro-) jcurement officer with headqua ters in Miami, Coast Guard head-! quarters announced recently. i { Lieutenant Saugstad, a mem-) ber of the merchant marine be-| fore the war, recently returned! from Leyte where General MacArthur's initial inv ;Sion of the Philippines. He w: aboard an LST which made eral trips to the beachhead, tak- ing in men and supplies. Before j Leyte he participated in landing! | Operations at Cape Glouc 5 the Admiralty Islands, Lae, Fin-! schaven and Hollandia. | Lieutenant Saugstad first cn- | tered the Army in January of ; 1941. He transferred to the Coast Guard in June, 1942, when it was} decided his pre-war marine training could be put to better use in that service. A na- their home in Fort Lauderdale. n taking over his temporary! he took part in Red Spearheads in the Stet-' enemy. merchant’ Duval street between midnight and dawn Tuesday morning came tive of Washington, D. C., he and|'® @ startled halt when they county clerk’s office was quit- Mrs. Saugstad are now’ making! Teached the intersection of Flem+ , ing street. the Baltic with the object in| ies are poised on the front| view of cutting in two the’ cast of Berlin, awaiting word| WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. corridor which leads from from the north before! The White House announc- Danzig to Stettin, great Ger- launching an all-out attack! eg today that President! man port.on the Baltic. to capture the German cap- Re It h. t Reuter's reported that the ital. The, Russian left flank|Reosevelt has returned safe- Reds, had. already shut off is considered,secure, but not}!y to Washington. ‘ that.avenue. of escape. for/until the corridor between' He. left. here on January comets troops Bie wi passenger Shite has been!.22 to attend the conference ut there was no official con; cut will the right flank be} Hy = in} firmation, of that statement.’ comparatively safe against’ Hy the Big eae ” Malte, ae Reuter’s said further that a turning movement by the ‘2° Crimea, -and itr was said; ! i that he traveled’ by ’ship, mae | Plane, train and automobile. | “| Beginning at 12:30 p. m. | tomorrow, he will make a re-} ‘port to congress and the na-: jtion about the Yalta confer-| jence, and it is expected that} the will discuss military as! |well as political matters! |that were considered at the | Big Three meetings. Wan omund | campaign Unofficially, it was stated | $24,900 here. , that the President, either in| And Tuesday morning war late spring or early summer, workers and service personnel Will make another trip out: alike were forcibly reminded by side the confines of the Unit-+ the cross that their dollars are ed States. urgently needed to help our (By Associated Vress) MOTORISTS COME TO HALT UPON — SEEING HUGE RED CROSS PAINTED AT INTERSECTION OF DUVAL S ———— Motorists driving through to raise Tokyo Now In Smoldering Ruins (By Asacetated Preas) . GUAM Feb. 28.—American airmen, .in reconnoitering 2 planes, said today, after re- turning from a trip ‘over Japan, that 260 blocks in Tokyo are .in> smoldering ‘tuins, as result of the com- bined air raids Sunday by. carrier-based _ planes’ and American Superfortresses, Advices were «eceived here today from Manila y ing that Japanese troops, of thet city. made a suicide attack yesterday on Ameri- can forces, and that almost the entire enemy force was wiped out. TI III ISS SD County Clerk To Attend Meeting In Jacksonville And British Advancing | Fast In Every Area Of Front (My Asnwetated Press) PARIS, Feb. 28. — Col- lapse of German forces on the western front seemed to- day to be near at hand. An Associated Press cor- respondent said that the Nazis apparently are so be- | wildered they are evincing no effort at any point along | the line to make a determin- \ed stand, Other advices said that Colmar, key city held by the | Germans at the northwest | of the line, was captured by |; Canadian forces withou’ | meeting any resistance wha | ever as they closed in on ‘city, which Hitler had o: i ed to be “held to the di + Another indicatoin For shortly after midnight a It is known that he intends| County Clerk Ross Sawyer left the Nazis are not secretary of the United States : : senate, to Joe T. Biffle, and the duties, the lieutenant pointed out; huge splotch of brilliant red be- property concerned is ‘the Boat’ that the Coast Guard has recent-| gan to take form under the traf- reet. Bar on Duval, near Fleming ly enlarged its quotas, allowing fic light. : (Comb, NOB; Assistant Field dition. to the-Rhythm street. The lot has a frontage pf yim 0 accept for enlistment a, Early, motorists were bewild- rector Van De HAS Ne” direction Of!29-teet on Duvai_enc® “ae ptht youths than fheretofo: “eeegt-ote de -mney wouter net ths be tarenrritenr : . , . F, Casey, ACMM, Boca Chica|74» feet. The consideration was “ -We'ye been having to use the through the paint being applied Muncey, Capt. Martin Hahn, both Cl 4 aval Air Station, Mrs. Emily nominal. quotas as a brake lately,” he ex-' energetically by nine men and ‘f the’U. S. Maritime Service; J. that France has decided to Goddard will sing The second deed recorded on pjained. “But with the additional, two women. +k. Franklin, AMMIc, Boca Chica; become a .co-partnerm in the Banner, the . photostat concerned the number of men we are now al-, But as minutes sped by, and M. ‘E. ‘Hansford, civilian.em- agreements’ reached’ at the!. a and other same property, and in this con- Jowed to enlist each month we|the.red began to become’ recog-. ployee of ‘the’ Navy Yard; Mr.’ Yalta conference in Jacksonville fighting men all over the. world. The “working party” consisted of Field Director Glenwood M “to visit London and possibly Paris. From the latter city ofticial information was re. on He 11 o'clock bus this morn- with their old time sp! ing for Jacksonville, where he ivi will attend’ a conference of are LOR Se DSL Any a county clerks from all. over the eakers’ voices and enter- inment features to the Alhed. to their baseZen, that they had Wis « fleeing across britQe,, ern bank of the Rhi , motorized vehicles, of @ o conference in April and be held Friday and Saturday. Mr. Sawyer said he expected, to‘ be back in Key West next Sunday Other conferences will be held by... representa- “i tives’ from» county ‘ cémmissioners, the and: Mrs: H. Stuart: Morrison and by John L. Malin, Sic, USCGR. | First report of the advance ‘huge clock which has been ere de on the balcony can be mo to record these donations. The clock has been divided into time segments, because the quota for| Monroe County equals exactly one hour of Red Cross operations | 5 all over the world. When the Key West Chapter has attained its goal, the people of Key West will have paid the cost of global ‘Red Cross opera- tions for one hour—and mov- able hand on the big clock will have traveled around the circle and reached twelve. Major .Robert F. Spottswood, chairman. of the advanced gifts committeé, will move the clock hand to record his committee’s} (Continued on Page Four) PALACE THEATER MICHAEL O'SHEA in “MAN FROM FRISCO” News and Serial | ee NSS LANA PSE SEASON A BATTERIES CHARGED The Modern Way ed to Leslie L. Biffle. The latter owns considerable When he was last here, he said excellent climate and fishing, is | bound to be become a great win- ter resort. NFANTRY FLIES WHEN BLOWN UP ' (My Associated Prens) | SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIF- | IC.—Engineers of the Fourth M rine Division marvel at the phra ing of citations for bravery. Thi were credited with placing demo: ition charges where they would “neutralize” nese \ in caves, pillboxes and dugouts. “Neéutralize!” one veteran ’sput+ tered,,“‘They mean we blew the | Japs ‘to hell.” e POULTRY MARKET 1320 ELIZA STREET ROASTERS | HENS and FRYERS | i} | | STERLING’S | positions} | RADIO | REPAIRS—48-Hour Service) BONNER RADIO 900 FLEMING, er Margaret | Drive in, in 30 to 45 minutes and j your cpr can be on its way! Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE| Phone No.5 _ White at Fleming | GULF STREAM HOTEL-TRAILER Restaurant ‘d'veyance Joe T. Biffle quit-claim- have been able-to. ease the’ pres- nizable | mystery A He urged that any 17-year-old eleven w jgifta committee will be made .to| property in Key West, and has a: interested in joining the Coast Red Cross across the intersection Mr, Ross‘at the rally, so that the) good many friends in this city. Guard see him at once in order)as part of the 1945 Red Cross sure slightly.” to be placed on the list of cligi- d\that Key West, because of its|bles for the March quota. | ;COAST ARTILLERY | FIRING PLANNED) Coast Artillery firing {will be held from West Ma jon March 1, and 2, from 9 a. m. ito 11:30 a. m. and 1 p. m. to 4 |p. m., weather permitting or first subsequent day weather permits The Army announced today. All vessels and aircraft were warned to’ remain clear of the danger farea. The danger area will -be the jwater area offshore West Mar telld forming a triangle the r leg of which extends 6,000 5 jat an azimuth of 190 degrees |from West Martello and the left Hleg of which extends 6,000 yards jat an azimuth of. 130 degrees from the same point. West Mar- CARD OF THANK We wish to thank the Key West Fire Department, Army, Navy, and friends for their work during the fire which destroyed our building Monday morning. MR. AND MRS. men the ‘by jtello is 24 degrees 32 minutes 47 4, , W.. D. Horne, - war: worker. And. all through the night, un- til the Duval street traffic be-| (Continued on Page Three) to later motorists, —S————__—_———. was dissipitated. The | COPY OF ANDREWS’ WILL FILED HERE) e “building” a huge i | Because of the sale anieue Alen andre’ by Mr: of ne — | Je . home on Laird avenue,, in Mar- i | Transit Company, a copy of the ‘will of Lt. Gen. Frank M. An- NOW, THEREFORE, I, Willard! arews, wuo lost nis tue in an a M. Albury, Mayor of the City of} plane crash on May 3, 1943, wa: Key West, in accordance with the | filed day in County Judge proclamation of the President of Lord’s office. | the United States of America, The will is dated November 13. naming March as American Red 1929, and all of General Andrew Cross Month, do here and now) property, real and personal, we urge all citizens of this commun-| !eft to his widow. It included the ity to contribute without reser: | home in Key West and real estate tion to the 1945 Red Cross War! in Miami Fund through the Key West Chapter; I further urge that they remember that the war is not yet won, and that when the b peace comes the Red Cross must | 620 Fleming St. still, through its War Fund, maintain itself to work for the better interests of the American people in the postwar werld. — IN WITNESS WHEREOF | «eco. have hereunto affixed my hand CALL FOR BIDS and the official seal of tne City, WHEREAS, American fighting world over are giving t ounce of their strength in the effort to free the world of dictatorships, and WHEREAS, the American home front is striving through its war industries, its manpower and its moral support to stand firmly behind the armed forces, and WHEREAS, the American Red Cross i: ing our fighting men at home and overseas, as well, means of understanding, friendly men and women trained especially for their duties, and WHER the American Red servicemen’s fam- nited States as well g those in uhiform, and to the 1 ELECTRICAL PAT’S- Phone 780 REPAIRS on types of i Electzical Equipment Percolatoz: Motors, Irons, Fans, seconds North Latitude 81 de- EAS, the Key West 2” i £ iNeed grees 47 minutes 15 seconds West Chapter of the American Red Key West this 26th day of The City of Key West, Florida, Longitude. Gross is embarking upon its an- PePruary, 1949. will receive sealed bids up to Maximum altitude of the firing ' ya) campaign, seeking this year WILLARD M. ALBURY, | and including 4:00 P. M. March [RE Te EID oS a total contribution of $24,900 (SEAL) Mayor) 6, 1945, for furnishing the Cit here feb.28-1t of Key West with one Polic F Ldiatead whale ale den : Patrol Wagon. The City reser Fa Sil = res the right to accept or reject an, CR Nc SOR TTTEL or all bids. ROY HAMLIN City Clerk St ced SR PRREREPee ns — BERMUDA MODELS (Each complete ready to wear) Operated Under Personal Management of I. Wiener JAMES K. BRADY A R K E 7 Division at Simonton PHONE 9106 Key West Florida — EET BIRO TG ATER A MODEL FOR EVERY CORRECTABLE TYPE OF HEARING LOSS! You Can Get A SANDWICH or a-MEAL at Any Time , hchadadeadeahediadiatal 1 Mode! A:z-A. New, improved most difficult conditions! 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Shrimp, Steak and Chop Di: tion ae 4 Tad z { n a 3) ER NRCRINGO PALACE | | fexteeto susie maumumdariy Eomplce ready to mean only 930. || On $ AFTER MIDNIGHT Facet ee ee Duvar| | asd tone quality even under che Thursdays e Next to The Tropics. | : i f Sandwiches And Short Orders 3 at the Corner of Angela | SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. All Summer 3 All Kinds of Sandwiches “Aa $| Opening Game 7:45 P. M. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS EFFECTIVE TOMORROW : BEER and WINES Served During Legal Hours 3!NO ADMISSION OF ANY = Duval and Fleming Sts. Phone 199 —— : ae ) jand county attorheys also» will, hold sessions. JOHN LEWIS DAY John Lewis D: Mes. H. E. [ y, son of Mr. an of 1003 Southar« street. was included in the recent arrivals here from Camp Hood iex., where he nad becn station- ed with the government force At the termination of h's siay in Key West, young Day will pro: ceed to Fort ade, Md., wherc he will be igned to further duty ARRIVES GN VISIT * ceivable type.:. Columns of Améticans, having crossed a bridge “over the Erfi@ i | River, have reached tS which front, ny city of Cologne, blaze along its entire ,{ing the west. ;| Jn this connecticn, it was stat ed that, despite the ferocity the Allied atack, which the fall of Cologne, the German in tat area was istance onl modera It to € absence of resistance (Continued on Page Three) and Egg Market 1214 White St. Phone 54’ [evenerrrneeererenseeter You are meeting FRANK i POPPE T rrr Err r rT rere 7| ROASTERS and FRYERS contractor BRADY’S (Live) Poultry cities SERVICE STATION ATTENTION ELKS Nomination of officers for ensuing year. AUTO BATTERIES Charged The Right Way—Slow White at Catherine Phone 423 Next to Smith’s Grocery urged to attend regular on Thursday, March Ist. BENTLEY, Secretary eecerscccecscescoesencocs e e ° 2 ry e ry e ° ° e ° e e e e ° ° ° NOTICE Effective March 1, 1945, all bills due the Scavenger Department are to be paid at the City Tax Collector's Office. | SAMUEL B. \ PINDER, SR. City Tax Collector a point only miles from the great Ger- } —*