The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 20, 1945, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 65 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of ney West The Key West THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESD/ Y, MARCH 20, IN THE 1945 Se Key West, Florida, has the ri tz Pit most equable climate in the country, with am average range of only 14° Fahrenheit U.S. A. PRICE FIVE CENTS AN FORCES 2OSOTOD000000CCO0200008 @e0eeesce200 TRUCK ELEVATOR : | | ©@900060 0086060006 0040000009900000000900000000000 ‘AIR ASSAULTS | ARE CONTINUING | Award Of Contract By County On Road Work 8ouNo Germany: | RECORD-BREAKING NUMBER Sennietains Fail To NEW STORY BEGINS PASSED TODAY (By Assucinted Uren) LONDON, Mar. 20.—Air Advertise For Bids IN CITIZEN TODAY: jassaults on various parts of| Required Number Of 'Germany: continued today! | for the 28th consecutive day,| Times “YOUNG DOCTOR MERRY“, ‘and it was said this after-| = , | noon that yesterday’s record- — EXCITING AND CHARM- | breaking number of 7,000 ING STORY | sorties is likely to be equaled County commissioners, at or surpassed today @ recessed meeting last night, Tr | Fires caused by explosives learned that they had not) ie: New York honeymoon and incendiaries are raging complied with the law in ad- | with Hugh Prather broken up by 12 central, western and south-! @ for bids for the re-! the death of the old Doc, her be- C&#Stern Germany. Some of} of a roadway in the vi-! loved grandfather, young Doctor the cities « ze gumcst wholly; einity of the Key West Naval Merry Blake and Hugh returned aReABIGE Meet, eo) Hospital, and this morning|'” ‘heir small Georgia town, vow- rubble. Chairman Maximo Valdez! ins that never would anything Mosquitoes were over Ber-| was fearful of a suit being interfere with their marriage. -ilin again last night and re-{ filed against the county by! Yet almost immediately Doc- turned pilots said that fires, the company to which thejtor Merry was working frantical- started the night before, still | contract was awarded. ly with patients dying of an un- were burning. | Mr. Valdez said he regret-|*newn disease and Hugh, di: Thousands of pieces of] ted the circumstances very /8runtied at the demands made German military equipment much, for he had hoped that /4P0" his wife, was giving more have been blasted into bits, | no suit would be brought and more time to stemming a and many miles of trackage | a ,|Shocking wave of juvenile delin- «| Eon onl Sees against the county or the auency) anaking war mdaneerhie in enemy territory have been RED CROSS WAR FUND CAMPAIGN commission while he was in torn up and hundreds of lo- Official Navy Photo; raph FORD TRUCKS with savers of time and manrowe: second deck of a Navy storehouse. fable elevating attachments are : enemy. in Dan, Lacey, perous roe office. We said that*a taw-{onen eat ho Patras nea comotives, freight cars and, WORKERS URCED T0 PUT F RTH yer had advised him that the (oy .,y turn. coaches have been destroyed county could not be sued, but Conscious’ of his growing re- by air attacks, Hl Cireuit Judge Joseph Otto} sentment of Merry’s profession, ena | informed Mr, wales on ti Hugh was bitterly hurt when MORE PROPERTY gounty can be sue and adk he left hurriedly upén.an unex- - a] "i ‘ ed that Dade, for instance,|plained trip to Washington. In CHA S HANDS: is sued practically every day./her absence he . accepted. the ae running The two buildings and lot at BEST EFFORTS 10 REACH GOAL renew- in ervice as well as our fellow » the 1945 Red citizens if every man, woman Commissioner Valdez sa:d the, nomination, for mayor, commission had been legally ad-| against Jerry Butler, hero of the Duval and Catherine streets have | “ ipaIB ARO na and a child Sina ic con a vised it w necessary to adver uth Facific and the fiance of been sold by J. Markovitz, War Fund! given their opportunity to con-! tise only « for bids, and that,|Dan Lacey's daughter, Isabel through the Johnson and John today urged tribute to this most humanitarian under tha ! n, the cc Home from Washington, Doc- Son -Agency, to Idelio and Anth NOTE 7 = cuuses tract had been awarded 1 E.itor Merry “courageously broke ONy Salinero for $3,500. ve rly percent—c S199 E. Collins Cor n Compa ur fearful news to Hugh and One structure is at 1201 Duval 0! L we ,990 quo! vains | of Miami, to rey A str re Jerry Butler: Jerry was the car- and the other at 405 Catheri hing © r here in Key West to carry | a ge ie hs ‘ pn t ii. {tiee of the tropical disease which street, and the owners said th Jon the work of the chapter for and running the| had caused the mysterious deaths they intend to improve both of the year, war fund ce 5 Deseial tothe hig? : and Doctor Merry had accepted them. The Duval street house advised. The re ) pel Fae compar hid /@M assignment to takeshim to a two stories high, will be remodel cent MBBS American fighting forces on all fronts of the world ue SA.006 to acarif i i, {government hospital in the ed into apartments. anal te’ a) Caribbean — —_ —_—_ re cam} with rest homes, recreation and width, of 1 and neth of! The effect on Hugh, the dra- City Council To BS Ons » blood plasma. The ot ee 2,000 feet, but ir tract the | matic reactions of Une RE ua- A ae Aue WS ent Plasmid, according | tol army) ant the specified ' ie-| Jerry's departure, endlsiboe is — We can ar duced war casualties and plays) creased the Merry's valiant battle for Hugh’s There will be a regular meet ition to women) — (Continued on Page Four) ly e-half of t igncl love make YOUNG DOCTOR ing of the City Council held this amount MERRY an exgiting and charm- evening, beginning at 8 o'clock. | ——__—- Cha Toppur s ‘ing novel of today This will be the second regul contracting firm of nC) This interesting story starts in session of the body for the month ow, bey tay i “ ea bene ean The Citizen today Pe j f March yr al . hh 4 tract or the ground t Lass = 4 (?) Ves a pest cn tlieipioun: COAST ARTILLERY (e 4 CG LAE, | pase cayen FIRING PLANNED CS bhel U 4 was f nd to « uw i oe H . eat Ay) y \ ‘a posses ac dthat atel-| The Army announced today; Lelephone Operator | Use it with 2 \N Ue egram be sent to E. E. that Coast Artillery firing prac- Apply Manager | ; Vt Ay Y Construction Company to cease! tice will be held from Stock! LA CONCHA HOTEL water instzad ( 7”) bs ‘ontinued on Ps e Four) Island on March 20 and 23 from a —— —— ——— | 8:00 a. m. to §:00 p. m. All vessels and aircraft were warned to re- main clear of the danger area ELKS CHARITY FUND The ger area will be the water ¢ between Stock Island TONIGHT B ] N CG Oo and Raccoon Ki \ Senet The Key West Players EVERYBODY IS WELCOME | “QUTWARD BOUND” corel ulate SAVE YOUR CAR | earn THEATRE Next to The Tropics. 700 DUVAI | at the Corner of Angela | by Having Us Grean Spray it Rear of Woman's Club—Duval St. Opening Game 7:45 P. M. CITIES SERVICE STATION tickets On Sele at Paul Smith's NO ADMISSION OF ANY KIND|White at Catherine Phone 423° Book Store and at Door Next to Smith’s Grocery | CURTAIN AT 8:30 P. aie THE TROPICS| 700 DUVAL STREET at ANGELA “Key West's Most Beautiful Nite Spot” NEW MANAGEMENT NEW POLICY Continuous DANCING 8 O'CLOCK TO CLOSING MUSIC and SPECIALTIES by THE THREE MOODS NO COVER - NO MINIMUM SERVICE STATION The Best of Nationally Known Package Goods {Division and Francis Sts. Ph.9194; Duval at Fl ES Les ACK THE BATHING CEACH PROJECT cy of soup — PSS EM EE EEE SS Tonight and Every Night very softs First Grade TIRES New We Have A Good Supply—Sizes 500 x 17 — 500 x 18 500 x 19 — 475 x 21 | SQUTHERNMOST CITY -PHARMACY, Inc. POOR OLD CRAIG i PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS 7 PHONE 199 NAZIS TRYING ‘the German ‘waging a battle of extermi-| Here a load is being lifted to the | ‘in the renewal of the Russ |DECIDE EX ‘Third And Seventh Armies Re- HARD TO HOLD =§= duce Strength Of Enemy To BACK SOVIETS Less Than One-Half is alle REDS ARE NOW REPORTED TI PIRAL 2 A TO BE 'WAGING BATTLE NDING us In Saarbrucken PLANES POU? Area Cuts Down Nem OF EXTERMINATION ON JAPANESE. CITI GERMANS : ber (Ny Associated Press? Of Nazis From GUAM, March 20.—Radio 80,000 Te 45,000 Tokyo reported today that American carrier - based = planes are pounding Jap- ome anese cities for the third con- secutive day. Admiral Nimitz latest re Port stated that the planes have made attacks on two successive days. Tokyo also Kobe was attacked by car- rier-based planes, and admit ted that the citv was still smoking as a result of the * ae | | Action (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, Mar. 20. Beas command in, Koenigsberg, capital of East Prussia, has refused to sur- render, the Reds are now| Aewrinted Preaes PARIS, March 20. — Ad- vices received from the com- manders of the Third and the Seventh U. 5. Armies te day stated tuat, in the beet that | Seven days, the streagth of the German forces im th Saarbrucken area, weet of the Rhine, has been reduced from 80,000 io 35,000, nation and the Nazis are frantically trying. to hold) back the ever-advancing Russians, today’s communi- que said. | fire bombs, totaling 2,500 One report said t Several dams have been; tons, dzopped on it two days ‘Third Arm i broken, flooding the ground; 49% 20,000 and the Seventh prisoners in that tim along which the Russians are Ve btiddddted advancing, but still Red ar- tillery is creeping nearer and! CARRIER MIDWAY sal Es a q os nearer to the center oi the * city, stopping regularly lob shells into Koenigsberg. ther with the killed LAUNCHED TODAY 3")! 9:0" Radio Berlin, according to Sala n whieh he Th a broadcast recorded here,|LARGEST AND, FASTEST OF Arm is fighting seems to be much concerned mans som te be « é 4 THIS TYPE OF SHIP chiefly with surrend an They have come forw iighting in Hungary. Doz-| IN WORLD jens of villages have tallen in-; hs ith arms upraised, b "to Russian wands, aad Berlin! °“< - ——— hendmeds, und appeared id that advanced Red units (Ry Asnoctater Prem) be happy over their are now only 84 miles from NEWPORT NEWS, Va., “'!! the Vienna. March 20.—The largest and The Russian communique said that the Reds havc stépped up their action in si the fastest airplane carrie: in the world, the Midway, jlesia, and that all of that was launched here today ; German province shortly will, amid the huzzas of thou be in Ru n po ion. sands of spectators. She w : _ | christened by Mrs. Bradley BINSIONS inlays daughter (af /Jsm AT COURTHOUSE IS Cox, former governor of RATHER TOO SMALL Chio, candidate for pr dent on the Democratic ticl County c BONO ! et in 1920, with Franklin D janceting last n t, were the extension it was ir provide Mate, and publisher of a Roosevelt as his running (ed tended to build to vault for the count tu house the chain of newspapers, The carrier is n Midway Island Where the seored its first: gre “ over the Japanese. She isco Outone asi [a n x, Mightiest another clerk and a_ plece 17 voting er too sme The size a 40 feet, but John J epr ntative of the chine Company in Key West pine Her speec t ae equipment she + ee comma ee Se 1 nd he gave the n- secrets. 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