The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 12, 1945, Page 1

Associated mei Bey wise | Day Wire Service and AP Features For 65 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West The Key West Citizen U.S.A. . THE SOUTHERNMOST “NEWSPAPER IN THE VOLUME XLVI. No. 61 _KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1945 39,000 - —-* ©000000009000000 Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit AMERICANS NOW ACROSS RHINE Postoffice Dept Now iempaas Lend-Lease for the Fleet of the British Empire \Another Crossing Reported To e | secececcocee nenmennennenmes septal ssieies: Ser Se ae day Three And One- Half Faces Problem Dealing Wilh Dogs vs Postmen Dogs Causing Delay i STILL ‘UNDERWAY Mail greece OF BOOKS FOR ‘JAPS JITTERY | OVER INVASION | FOLLOW UP RIAD ON NA- | GOYA CREATES MUCH | | EXCITEMENT | (By Axnociated Urea) WASHINGTON, Mar, 12.' 'The Japanese press today is |in fresh throes of excitement | over the followup raiding of | | (Waeshingtoe ¢ orreapondent of The Ker West cistern, | FIRST TEN DAYS REVEALS: WASHINGTON, Mar. 1 $6,599 HAVING BEEN COL- ; Nagoya, after the heavy Some people complain a | blasting of Tokyo last Fri- PecrconL OFFICERS AND MEN of the United States and Great Britain Official Navy Photograph | day, home pc:ts. The value ‘of goods transferred and services rendered the United States mail is go- | unite in loading ships of His Majesty's Navy with provisions. . : to foreign governments during 1944 amounted to $1,534,485,232.33 | ing to the dogs; that is, that Aid such as this enables fleets of the Allied Nations to cruise to i 4 amount service is not what it should, _ Closing the books for the’ any part of the globe and obtain supplies without returning to as handled by the International Aids Division. : rug War’ Fund, dive it CEDD ‘NAGOYA STILL BURNING FROM (CORAL HOTEL ret ove reer de All newspapers, accord- ing to statements over Radio | Tokyo, said that Japan’s sit- ‘uation is now very serious, ‘and one paper declared that lections of $6,599 through| AT ST IN ARE ge after the United States Chairman P. J. Ross tas | WILSON, PAPY, ae After quoting the news- a 9 posial car- “pleased with the willing GUAM, March 12.—Na-; * were the preparations that have ' E ‘ wfacturin, Janits, -waes. still) satis of cased “Where mail have a tong pull ahead be-: NORTH TO. ASSIST co g~ P as. 8 PAPY; HOTEL peamenkaen Annericntieaehomial Whey. ae Well, that may be, says irae War Fund drive in! the Pest Office Department, Key West revealed total col- GERMAN LINES. but one reason for delayed noon Saturda: y, war fund of; VY H asians aie service is that too many dogs ficials een nanced: HEA RAID MADE ‘YESTERDAY APTS. SOLD T0 | begin in “the very near fu- mail. , in reviewing the efforts thus GIVEN BLASTING | x tard aeecclntsan beet { In 1944, 1,2 ‘far made, that he was well NEW RATINGS AT papers, the Jap announcer bitten by dogs. ' cooperation of Key | Westers, THRUSTS ALSO MADE AT ro NAVAL AIR AIR STATION goya, where were jocated BUILDING NEXT DOOR IS ‘then gave a description of And there were many thou-; “but,” he added, “we still POINTS 35 MILES Japan’s largest aircraft mi PURCHASED SOLELY BY ; been made to try to repel the ly today after was not delivered t .; fore we reach the $24,900 5 burning fiercely y H nai bd ae . pecause goalisccociMonrceiGauniy) mater DRIVE FIFTY-SEVEN ENLISTED PER- the 300-Superfort raid on! FoR $53,000 fone to mvade * ‘our nom ers, One speaker asserted that our “powerful my” will = frustrate any attempt at E.. K.- Wilson, Janding, and then added tha as conducted a groceryat should such a landing suc : “Our quota., is slightly f | SONNEL ADVANCED that city yesterday. : This situation has becaal rger than last year,” Mr. ; = is Pilots in observation) really dangerous, dewart-| Ross continued, “but . Red mg iAsanelpjea sirens) { IN RATINGS planes reported that Tokyo) Contract of purchase has been ment authorities said. Many, Cross activities have increas-- ‘LONDON, -March 12:—U. — was, slill. burning in seven) signed. whereby : @f the bitten postmen were! ¢t greatly during the past S. bombers today blasted the} 4))3jccinents in places as a result of. the, laid up for days; others had|¥&4hand we must help share German lines at Stettin and] yyieiy 1 for 47 onli as of iblasting of that city three the ‘| sing od fi {© be treated to counteract| yurden being used for 35 miles north of that city| attached to th d personnel, days ago. jAngela and Elizabeth streets for ceed it will give our “valian | our men in service’as well as Air Statioa! Smoke, billow in ve ast (28 years, and Bernice C. Papy, troops” the opportunity the tab germs. ‘the millions of other Ame with the object of accelerat-'i announced as follows: columns thousands of feet|¢Wwner of Saunders Wholesale have been “waiting for to Now the Post Office Depart- leans who derive the bene- ing the Russian drive in that! Ke Chaffee, Ce ard into the air and charged|Grocery, will become the owners Wipe out our ruthless en ment has told the Key West post-| fits of Red Cross.” area. ‘willit {who ratings , Cox.: Wi ivert,! with orange-colored tlame,|of the Coral Hotel Apartments, @m™Y:” Judging trom the tones of master that from now on mail| Small businesses located on the At the conclusion of the|GMle: Cecil Gurkin, GMc; Shir-) Was So dense it was impossi-|Simonton street and Rose lane, will not be delivered to patrons) Keys, as well as the outlying scc-| raids, the Russians resumed | ley Barber, Sle; Cecil Byrd, ble for the pilots to deter-!in front of the post office, at a t¢ Spexkers, Japan is sutter having s which are known! tions of Key West propcr, reveal their advance, ard Moscow} Clyde He h, Sle; Hoyt How-| mine the extent of the dam-|cost of $53,000. Mr. Wilson ana it& trom a bad case of 4it- ters, to be vic wd are not properly | an initial solicitation of $4! ained and muzzled Post-| cording to Maximo Valdi will not be guar mine whether ge on Nagoya, though it), was known from early pho- Merle Ross, tographs that tive miles in the heart of the air-| -! reported late this afternoon] cli, Sic( “{that they were now in sight|sic:; A pigs to}man of the small business divi- eS. : . s bite] sion Ss GI of Stettin and were enelne | He Mare:a Langert,! Papy have formed a partner- iShip on a 50-50 basis in the own- FIVE CA ership of the building and the S HEARD IN CRIMINAL COURT square ts worse than his t Officials of the local Elks Club: that ctiy. |F \Ric; Frank : lot The department has a motto:| Chapter presented war fund’head- Radio Berlin reported that | Te ig MeNally plane industry had been set. TI 7 : , Neither snow or rain, nor heat| quarters with a check for $100 asa ferocious battle was in i Mae. aire. ne sellers were Edward G. angel Torres, Harold Demeritt nor glo arth, MoMM-' “Coincident with the bomb-|Sanchez and wife, Mrs. Mary M Justa Valdez, Carlos Claytor anchez, and Mr. Sanchez’s sis- and Jackson Smith _ pleade Pearl E. Eggerton, has guilty in Criminal Court t Brugier, EM3c; tresses, based in India, had sold what is known as the Trevor Morning to charges of gambling blasted Singapore for the and Morris garage, adjoining the and each was fined $50 and cost lc; sixth time. Forty planes par-|#Pa*tment building, to Mr. Papy by Judge’ Thomas S. € ticipated in the raids, and 7,000 When those cases were itary objects had been hit. spit, on which the two structures others could attend funeral se1 J Only a few are situated, has a frontage of ices for the late Attorney Loui Japs remain on Iwo Jima,: 16 feet on Simonton strect and Harris, which were held in and advices trem Manila|a depth of 155 feet Pritchard's chapel und were con said that two air strips,and| One-half of the garage is now ducted by the Rev. Melrose, rec four villages had been cap-:being used by Saunders Whole- tor of St. Paul's Episcopal ? tured on Mindanoa, and that/sale Grocery, and under a part Church. Other seysices were held . the Americans had reached !of the Coral Hotel Af ants is in the cemetery, where Mr - the outskirts of Zamboanga, ‘ ge opening on Rose Jane, Harris’ ashes were buried. } A 1 . Trev This afternoon cou : the largest city on that is-|that was occupied by Trevor and tera land: Ss p to the time the firm vened at 2 o'clock, at which time Simonton strect the docket was sounded. expected that the deeds, WILLIAM RUSSELL ‘ord, Conn Turning on Conveying the property, will be aTT re . r for the first time in|turned over to Mr. Wilson and RETURNS TO CITY . Mrs. Meyer Tannen-|Mr. Papy in a few days. in the f broadcast, s TI Citizen, who had the mis hes ard how Private Max I. Tan- The aum, one of he ons in the We Are Specialists On fortune >f having his right 1 member of BODY and FENDER WORK amputated in Miami about tv group that had done a bang- Also Car Painting months ago, returned to Key m of night, stays the) their contribution to the drive, it! progress directly cast of Ber- couriers from the swift a was announced. lin, but the only Moscow tian of their Volunteer workers in the resi-! 4.” fish : re rcs comment on the fighting in MoMM- theringion. nDpiz ing of Nagoya, news was re- - ceived here that Superfor-'ter, Mrs. appointed rou pockets of to the INTUITION? , PhoM2c William R Phe motto has been effect a good | dential a under the direction 4 many years, and authorities say|of Mrs. William Warren reported that area was that the Keds they are not now going to add al total receipts of $505. | are now in ion of two- postserjpt about dogs. If neces-| Mcanwhile war fund officials: thirds of 1, which] sary, Uncle Sam will demand that} urge all volunteer workers to re-| flanks the Oder east of the local police and health aul newed effort in an a German capital. [Ma poset Peeremrey nev nited: Stats set the drive Commenting further on{J ———___—_ “We will continue until’ we the fighting ai Steltin, Mos- ae REVENUE OFFICE | have topped our quot Chair. COW siatedithet ane Reds ha: y , “= shih tate ‘man Ross said, “and the combined: penetrated the last belt of)” EXCEEDINGLY BL ‘efforts of all workers in continu-' the outer defenses of that eee | ing the excellent work of the past| city. With just three more days to/ Week should sce us well near, the| eae #0 to reach the desalline, the ee this campaign during |PETRONIA STREET jecal Internal evenue office in e as eve! > ‘4 the federal building was a busy! ,, Key West has never, fallen’ PLACE RAIDED BY scene today as the Seen work in an effort to win the wat DEPUTY SHERIFF tinues by the many who are ir | speedily and we shall not fail in eae ing their income tax payment! this." George O. Lucas, chairman! Deputy Sheriff Will Archer papers of the Key West Red Cross Chap-| raided Benny's place, Petronia The office tonight through) ier, said m reviewing the accom-| ctreet, S . q Tuesday and Wednesday willl piist 2 ie BIAS CTE Es | ne ee a ‘ ~ s |plishments of the drive thus far.! rested Jackson Smith, negro, on! pact remain open until 9 o'clock at} Donations are being received! > charge of gambling. Deputy | >» ace e » late! daily ei or . a c ersona . zs Se 7. Be cad em rhisrecday, itis | ciate (oa prarmucel ret amartares| Ateken aaidl a poker (genie vas] ever ueeaaeyaeyenaneetes final day, the office will remain|established in the Elks Club on/im. progress at the time of the, ROASTERS and FRYERS open until midnight, according} Duval street, between 9:30 a, m. p Bitte ser to a statement made at the office|and 1 p. m., or at chapter head-| iF ee ee eee ee BRADY’S (Live) Poultry 2 di 7 tedey on Front street between | Mor ee Oye Sele and Eg Market up job installing a communica- CITIES SERVICE STATION est Saturday evening, ; {9 a. m. and 5 p.m. \Esquinaldo and was held in $100 | and Eee Market... tions system in an Allied port in White at Catherine Phone 423: Mr. Russell is rapidly con- | bail for criminal court. GuuReeues Kouubyvecdeesy | EUrOpe. Next to Smith’s Grocery valescing from his illness, which ‘ lis gratifying news to his numer- Waar you boing ant onder WATER CONSUMERS | Elks’ Annual Charity Tonight and Every Night Lou Smith Auto Service | REPAIRS—48-Hour Service Ua Merch 8 DANCE eres RAD) White at Fleming Phone No.5) BONNER ainv ee P| | Wednesday, March 11th B I N G O Opposite Army Barracks 900 FLEMING, — Corner Water Will Be Turned 8:30 P. M, GIVE GENEROUSLY |! EVERYBODY Is WELCOME | Off, 2 P. M. to 3 P. M. jlks’ ». 313 val S x at the BINGO PALACE PALACE THEATER Gaagi niacin poe escined Elks’ Home, 313 Duval Street Rone for Hydrant Repairs. A Inte | Next to The Tropics. 700 DUVAI VERA HRUBA RALSTON in parma PUBLIC INVITED Florida Keys j at the Corner of Angela “Lake Placid Serenade” |GARDNER’S PHARMACY) Aqueduct Commission | WAR FUND DRIVE | Opening, Gameu7:450bsiM. News and Serial Phone 177 NO ADMISSION OF ANY KIND) ove | — ous friends. Keep the .AA444444444444444 | PRESCRIPTIONS friecatencs | Ingredients | Free Delivery ee Admission $1.20 Per Person—(Tax Included) | 000 Pe oe Miles South ‘Of Remagen [poms Third Army Advances Te Within One Mile Of Coblens; Enemy Fire Slackening (fy Assertetea Pree PARIS, Mar. 12.—Anoth- | er crossing of the Rhine wae made today three and one. half miles south of Remagee where the first landing o9 the east bank of that river was made three days age. Reports of corresponden! | said that troops and supplies still continue to stream across the Ludendor!f bride and that there are now © estimated 55,000 Amercions on the east bank of tt Rhine, with vast quantitix of supplies at their com mand. First Army forces pe trated 400 yards deeper to enemy lines on the bank of the Rhine, and havé a bridgehead miles deep and nine long. German hills, back of their infantry, which had tacking the bridgete most constantly, wa ed today to have of its fire, probably dm i iwwerin HH ell, employe of t PIONEER HOTEL 151 N. E. FIRST STREET In the Heart of Miami The Rendesvous of Key West SERVICEMEN and CIVILIANS “BEST FOR A NIGHT'S REST" One Block West of Bur Depot