The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 13, 1945, Page 1

Service and AP Features VOLUME XLVI. No. 62 YANKS THRUST DE Associated Press Day Wire For 65 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key Wiest Citizen (FRE THE SOUTHERNMOST Dortmund, Cer hubr Basin, Now Nothing More Than Blackened Ruins Bertin Blagted Again coves iadaa™ !glements fronting their position, Last Night In Twen- - Third Attack Successive (My Asnoeimted Prone) LONDON, March 13. — Dertmund, once Germany's second largest city in the Ruhr Basin, is now no more. Such was the announcement made here today when 1,100 RAF bombers returned to their bases after blasting what was left of Dortmund with 5,000 tons of bomb: It was the largest daylight raid made by the British since the beginning of the war, the announcement said | noon, man City In Plan Demonstration i Of Voting Machines “| Here This Afternoon | John J. McCormack, repre- sentative of the American Vot- ing Machine Company, James- | town, N. Y.. erived in Key West on the noon plane and, | late this afternoon, will give | demonstrations in the way to | operate voting machines. The demonstrations, which will be held in the county courthouse, will be repeated to- morrow merning and after- and Maximo Valdez. | chairman of the county com- mission, has requested that as many Key Westevs as possible be present to witness the dem- jof the jless, the tank would pursue a ‘course dead ahead. They had welded a long steel “feeler” to {its stubby | Doughboys took | ingenious RELATE ACTIVITY | OF ARMY GROUPS CHARLES FRAGA MEMBER OF FORTY - FIFTH ORDNANCE CO, , France, arch =13.-—— The Krauts were | amazed when a lone, Swastika- marked: planc lumbered from Al- lied lines toward barbed entan- Mud and stone, wood and wire boomed skyward with a rumble »9f, ‘explosions as the monster crunched into the booby trap ! barr! clearing a path for Amer- HMean in antrymen. No ordinary tank, this, captur- ied by Allied rtoops, it had unde gone a face lifting by specialis' 45th Ordnance Comp: currently operating on the U. £eventh Army Alsace front. These ordnance men first had anchored controls so that, drive snout, for snagging mine detonating trip wires. Thi had detivered their completed! handiwork to the designated spot, heading it toward Germany. over from ther The robot tank is one of m improvisations made NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1945 R INTO ZTAMBOANGA TAKEN BY U. S. FORCES MARINES NOW ENGAGED IN MOPPING-UP PROCESS ON IWO JIMA BOCA CHICANS HONORED | Ruhr ane VASSAL LLL LL) Russian Armies (By Associated Press) Sti anci PEARL HARBOR, March| Still Advancing '13.— American forces that! landed on Mindanao have) | captured Zambcanga ‘at the, ‘ southwesterly tip of the is- ‘land, advices from Manila | | said today. | From Guam _ information ‘was .received that United States Marines are now nay (Ry Axnoointed ase MOSCOW, March 13,—To- day's communique issued by the Russian high command ‘was brief, and merely noted ‘that all of Kustrin, on the | Oder directly east of Berlin, is now in possessions of the Reds, and that other Russian armies were advajacing in gaged in mopping-up opera-| the nectheat and in the ; tions on Iwo Jima, | southeast. tf: Radio Tokyo announced | Correspondents _ reported that Stettin. important Ger- man port on the Baltic. is now under siege. ‘that the Am ns are plan- ‘ning the recapture of South} ‘China, and added that 1,- 000,000 Japanese troops are jheld in readiness to resist, Fach achirith cal hatha |such an invasion. iain ee isc smoldesine MORE CASES IN CRIMINAL COURT » | Nagoya, according to re-| gies made by American pi-| TWO DEFENDANTS DRAW FINE ON CHARGE OF | Official Navy Photograph i Presentation of the Purple Heart Medal to Pfc. Vincent Saia, | H | ‘lots in observation nobscnyeuonsplanes: USMCR, of Houma. La.. right. and announcement of the oe Star award to PlSgt. R.C.Me.vitt, USMC, of Tampa, heralded the world’s champion sharpshooter. was made Saturday at RUNDSTEDT OUT a First Army Only 2 Miles From Super-Highway That Links Frankfurt — Planes Playing Important Bele In Ad- vance Of Allied Armies Kast Of Rhine (ty Ansecteted freee PARIS, Mar, 13.—Allied forces are thrusting deeper and deeper inte Germany and are meeting with om”! resistance except at th northern end of the tie where the Canadians «© faced with stiff opposition The German high mand is believed te bev transferred thousands troops trom the central aed southern end of the front te the northern, because im the former areas the Allies ore advancing at a rapid pax while in the northern the Germans are fighting te ically in attempts te held up the Canadian advance Contingents of the can First Arm oem Ar Boca Chica Naval Air Station by Major: William H. Cobb. on \ GAMBLING it was pointed out that Dort- onstration. workable by the 45th Ordnance mund had been plastered | Company, a medium maintenance many times before because 7— MIO IDL MM MB | nit now supporting Lt. Gen. Ja-| of its importance as a war and industrial center, but the nes went out at dawn to- @uy to tinish the job, and re- M. R. Scammons Returns To City ' Scammons, turning pilots reported that MR who served the city is now nothing but 14 months in the United States} blackened ruins Army, and. has been honorably; Berlin was blasted again) discharged because of physical] lagt night by Mosquitoes, | disability, returned to Key West| which dropped two-ton “Nine months of his service asl bombs. It was the 23rd suc-! 5 dental technician in the Amer- cessive night that Berlin had! ican Genreal Hospital in Eng-| béen raided land. When he became ill, he! Bombs used in leveling transferred to the United) Dortmund ranged trom six-| St#tes and was treated in the) his jiaries to 12,000, Fibaey General H Thom-! oer snr me ss sville, Ga. Tt was there he re- pound “earthquake” bombs discharge, after a ph Pinder Infant Died Here This Morning Miamians Were Visitors Here fs M Mi sad Meal for technicolor movie mak-! ay Mrs F t Mi. 29g. has more than 1,500 exper- | . y ienced film players on call in one b Mi M B region, including Paiute and Na-| ' jvalo Indians. Ik: nation showed he aS unfit further duty in the} | Arm | Mr. Scammons, who has resid- iin Key West eight years, c | iucted a jewelry store here for} »st of that time. At present he | riner in the firm of John- n and Scammons, which con- ets a grocery at Southard and inc’s streets. uid today that he intends » make Key West his home, but undecided what kind of busi- he will enter after he has ently recovered to return \ 1 MANY FILM PLAYERS NEW YORK, colorful scenery Kanah. r Utah, | it} manding Officer of the Marine teob L. Devers’ 6th Army, Group.) + ed during the initial phase of the Guam invasion and first saw But like other outfits of its type,, @¢tion against the Japs at Bougainville. Serving as chief of the the 45th prides itself principally! Tenge section in the Solomons. Platoon Sergeant Merritt estab- on the speed of the repair tech-} nique that keeps the 155s thun-| Barracks, Private Saia was wound- | OF NAZI ARMY \ « ‘"KICKED OUT’ FOR AL: Two more defendants, charged the hub of a super high that connects six roadea. of which are important dering, the M-1s pinging, vehic-| les moving, and even Army time- pieces ticking. Daily the th Ordnance Company sends a crew to inventory repair needs at gun positions. On the spot repair is made during lulls in firing, when- ever possible. | “Each of my men is ecial- | ist,” said First Lt. ordon L, Smith of Lometa, Tex., command- ing officer. “And each is tops in} | his specialty.” With few exceptions members were experts upon activation of the unit in June, 1941 In 29 months of overseas service, tHe 45th Ordnance Company up shop in England, Afr the Tunisian campaign, Italy, now France. Pvt. Charles M. Fri uval street, Key West, is of the 45th Ordnanee a fc and 1119 mem- Com-} Di | ber pany Poole oe ooo Marathon Donates $400 To War Fund The Citizen was informed this afternoon that $400 had been raised in Marathon for the Red Cross War fund. That sum will be credited to the Key West Chapter of the Red Cross. V Lh Lhd uheukuteued s’ Annual Charity! ANCE Wednesday, March 14th Elks’ Home, 313 PUBLIC INVITED 8:30 P. M. 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M. {No ADMISSION OF ANY KIND lished a record by bringing ave 19 cnemy planes with 88 Hounds i j;with gambling, pleaded guilty in the traffle between tt of ammunition. . j -LOWING AMERICANS :T9 this ‘morning in criminal court, Ruby and Frankfurt ae SWARM ACROSS RHINE jand Judge Caro fined each $50 Germany's rich Ruby te COLLECTIONS IN RED CROSS WAR jand costs. They were Alfredo Sin is threatened from « CRY Axnvoiated Brews ‘Sanchez and G. Perez, and, like Quarters, and with its LONDON, Mar. 13.— Re- the defendants who’ pleaded Hitler's armies wil FUND DRIVE TOTAL $8, 453.3 ports reached here today : Gityito bl jay, Able to reee the ty | from Switzerland that Mar- . gambling’ yedterday, | wantities of wae Oe tienen shal Von Rundstedt has been 'hey-were charged with conduct- tha: have been com : West's Red War Key West Chapter has attained] “kicked out” of the Nazi ie ee oe Ber that are th Ft a campaign picked : $ 2 of its $24,900 elie | army for his failure to have gate at "the Big. Sarena ning and, thereby, permitting $25 ea Coa nae troops of the American First to pay the expenses Army to swarm across the incurred in 1 Rhine to the east bank. | Evidently, cot Radio Berlin has not con-' settle firmed the Swiss report, but and Be: Committee, announced that the (Continued a re) BANANAS| a far We Have Matec PI f it Was pointed out that Von home énly 0 Rundstedt’s name has not When their case : h been mentioned in connec- ; Phey had been GREEN BEANS 2 he: 19 tion with the fighting on the pola sees western front since the day after the crossing was made. 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