The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 4, 1941, Page 1

Colonel Putnam In Command — Of Amy Barracks: Succeeds Colonel Penton Retiring Named Adjutant Assum-, ing Former Duties Of Colonel Putnam Lieut.-Col. Webster F. Putnam, formerly executive officer of ermy batteries stationed in Key West, bas been made command- ing officer, relieving Col. Louis L. Pendleton, who will be retir- ed from the service Oct. 31. Lieut. Frank M. Means mamed adjutant. assuming the former duties of Colonel Putnam, | and another officer will be or- dered here within a few days to replace Capt, Richard Barnes. who will be transferred to Hono- lulu Monday. Colonel Pendleton, who was 59° ‘last ‘month, asstitfied command of the army barracks in Key West last year after having serv- ed at army stations throughout — the world. f A West Point graduate in 1908, (Continued on Page Four) Red Army SmashesF innish Units North Of Leningrad ‘By Associated Wrens) 5 NEW YORK, Oct. 4—Red army forces north of Leningrad have .smashed Finnish defense lines, routing a powerful attacking force and inflicting losses of more than 20,000 in kilied, wound- ed and captured, Moscow declar-' ed today. Russian reports of a victory in the north came as DNB, official German news agency, said Nazi troops haye forced their way six miles closer to the city from the. south in a new series of attacks. The German high command, echoing the words of Adolf Hit- ler that “giant operations” are under way, gave only scant de- tails of fighting in the south. Nazi troops were said to have moved closer to Leningrad after routing an attempted landing of Red marines on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, south of the city. ARMORED DIVISION MOVES AGAINST SERBS (By Ansoctated Press) LONDON, Oct. 4—An entire mechanized division of the regu- Jar German army has moved into south Yugoslavia to aid the Ges- tapo and Storm troopers in wip-} ing out Serb resistance to the German rule, it was reported to- day from Zagreb, capital of new- ly-formed Croatia. Two small towns in Yugoslavia are said to have’ ‘beeti’ bombed by the Nazis in Warning against, continued guerilla warfare by the Serbs. London heard reports from Poland that the Nazis have exe- cuted 30 Polish citizens in retalia- tion for attacks by citizens 30-MINUTE BATTERY CHARGING Lou Smith Auto Service Phone No.5 White at Fleming el | Arenberg. {grees 30 minutes lalso be on the alert. in} whch German soldiers were kill-| ed last week. | :1941. Immediate application for | { SAM B. PINDER, ‘oct 4-1¢ Che Key West Citize THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. : KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, i941 IJ SPSLLLL LA |NORMAL WEATHER DURING SEPTEMBER Key West last month ex- Perienced almost ni weather. slightly warmer than the average and slightly dryer, but about what the weather bureau has en- countered in September throughout its 70 years of cperation. ‘The mean temperature. 83.1 degrees, was an average of 0.9 degrees warmer than normal. and the precipitation. which COMMERCE BODY PLANS ELECTION i DIRECTORS TO BE SELECTED 1.77 under the normal. i Greatest 24-hour rainfall of AT MEETING THURS- the month came Sept. 30-Oct. DAY NIGHT i | 1. when 2.16 inches was re- *; corded. The stormy day of Sept. 18 brought only .86 inches, and the wind on that day reached a m2ximum velocity for the month of 30 miiles ver hour, its prevailing direction. scuth-south-west. Highest wind ever recorded in September was in 1919. Ballots for the annual election of Key West chamber of com- merce directors have been mail- ed tc members of the organiza- tion. Twenty-four names are listed, nen it reached 84 miles an with the members instructed to hour. select 12 before the election, which will be staged at 8 o'clock 7 OOMPD LS LS Thursday night. The candidates are A. Mait- land Adams, Joe Allen, William M. Arnold, Carl Bervaldi, Gon- zalo Bezanilla, Allan B. Cleare, Jr., Raymond Curry, Fred J. gen William T. Fripp, Bascom’ OVER FIFTY THOUSAND DUM- . Grooms, John A. Gardner, Frank H. Ladd, Dan Navarro, A. ME OE OF Ae £. “Peirce, William R. Porter, | MUNITION FIRED Clem C. Price, Ernest A. Ram- sey, Everett W. Russell, Melvin E. Russell, Elizabeth Sharpley, | Julius F. Stone, Jr., E. A. Strunk, Jr., Charles S. Taylor and Ben D. Trevor. : {Special to The citizen) CAMP BLANDING, Fia., Oct 4—The 74th Field Artillery Brig- jade Thursday completed a brief __!maneuver in which 57,000 dum- ;my rounds of ammunition were | fired—the first time the brigade |as a whole had placed emphasis jon supply from ammunition | dump to a smiulated line of fire. i The brigade left early in the {morning for the Penny Farms jmear here in 1,000 vehicles—in- cluding 24 .155 the problem of organization and ARRAIGNED TODAY 2". of ammunition sections. |Col Thomas L. Alexander was 'commanding the brigade whose Louis Caraballo, charged with {Personnel comes principally from ise New England, Georgia a ew assault with intent to commit} yor, murder after an alleged knife at-! Principal problem was the ex- tack Monday on Luis Avilo, will | peditious transfer of simulated appear before Peace Justice En-|@™Mmunition from dumps to the rigue Esquinaldo this afternoon | 2? °f fire and while this was. in aaa | progress, the remainder of the at.5 o'clock for a preliminary j brigade was engaged in camou hearing. {flage and organization designed The hearing has been twice;tc reduce as much as_ possible psstpgned because physicians ad-j| Casualties and detection by howitzers—for the ; vised Awilo not to go out in the | °P¢™Y rainy weather. | SS ae ae driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, will appear | RECEIVING PA before Peace Justice Franklin | Henry Thurston, negro, was ar-! rested on an ult charge last} County Clerk Ross C. Sawyei night and placed under $100; today was making county bond. {roll allotments for March, Apri y and June from the gener: fund. r Pay- ADVISORY 9:30 A. M (EST)—Tropical dis-| turbance central 7:00 a. m. «sT)| about latitude 23 degrees 30 min- utes north and longitude 67 de- LEAVE ON TRIP Mr. and Mrs. John England, ac- companied by their son, Howard England, left yesterday over the - |highway for West Palm Beach west-northwestward and increas-} where they will spend a visit with ing in. intensity. Caution ad-| relatives. a vised vessels in. path and the} outlying Bahama Islands should ; || FOR THE LOVE OF PAM Don’t miss the grand new serial by that name coming to this newspa- per. Anybody who ever loved or hopes to love and procurement of a license | cught to read this story. epoized. It begins Monday, Oct. 6. west moving WEATHER BUREAU. CITY MOTOR VEHICLE | LICENSES DUE! } Operators of motor vehicles in; the City of Key West are hereby | notified that City of _Key West 1941-1942 Motor Vehicle Licenses | were due and payable October 1,j Tax Collector. mn Rumored Hitler Demands Return Of Hess; Plans For Transfer Of TT Prisoners Break Down As LONDON, Oct. 4.—Sensational iTumors that Adolf Hitler has de- manded the return to Germany of his No. 3 fuehrer, Rudolf Hess, j Were current today as it was an- {mounced officially that plans for the transfer of wounded war jprisoners have bro London’s foreign o clined comment on the He: | ture, but admitted th jthe wounded prisoners h. :delayed indefinitely because new, and unacceptable, Ge: | demands. Fifteen f diers, wou! a being held aboard Br pital ships at the port of Haven when word was received ed G d in Result that the transfer had been post- poned. The hospital ships were to have sailed tod: returning r of wounded (By Associated Press) informed quarters in London Geclinines to be quoted, hi that Hitler demanded the Bi give up Hess, whose lone flight quoted by a B: weeks as his status 1s should be trea ed as an envoy from Germany ARTILLERY FORCE Japan’s Premier Receives HOLDS MANEUVERS Answer From Roosevelt On Proposal Sent Last Week (By Amnoctated Press) TOKYO, Oct. 4. — Japan's Premier Prince Fumimaro Ko- noye has received from President Roosevelt an answer to the pro- posal he forwarded to Washing- ton last week, informed quarters here declared today. Terms of the premier’s pro- posal or what the Aunerican Presi- dent answered have not been made public, however. TENSION MOUNTS AS JAPS PLAY AT WAR (My Associated Press) NEW: YORK, Oct. 4—Far East- ern tension was reported mou! ing today as Japan began m; moth war games in F: h and reported new pressure to Th Thai troops were moving into positions Indo-China border anese troops, equipped planes and armored div poured into the country for a hi war test. JOE CATALA WAS IN PLANE CRASH |. Joe Catala, 28-year-old son of Cesar Cat 1104 Margaret reet, was serving .as purser laboard the Pan American clipper plane which crashed late Friday night at San Juan, Puerto Rico, his sister, Rose Catala, revealed today. The Key Wester, along with ti other members of the definitely reported uninjured, although early reports from San Juan differed be Status of several of the passen- gers. The giant plane v said to have “waterlopped” it dropped in for a landing, bound for San Juan, Trinidad and Rio de Janeiro frora Miami. Catala has been an employe of the line for the past three years. with * " :compulsory as is .typhoid vaccinations. The tetanus vaccinations—com-! BRONXVILLE, N .; camps RECEIVE SERUM FOR PNEUMONIA TO BE USED FOR VOLUNTARY VACCINATIONS AT CAMP BLANDING (Special (2 The Citizen) CAMP BLANDING, Fia., Oct. 4—The Station Hospital has re- ved a quantity of pneumonia _' serum for voluntary vaccinations of Camp Blanding personnel as the first series of tetanus vac- > cinations was ending. The tetanus vaccine given officers ani men who have been om the post for a year and is smallpox and is Paratively new in widespread usage—are being given far™ the purpose of enabling the body to id up resistance slowly and acquire immunity naturally, thus obviating tetanus antitoxin which often has severe reactions. Regarding the pneumonia se- rum, Col LR. Poust, Cam geon in charge of the hospit- observed much experimenta- tion as medical inspector for the 5th corps area and found in CCC and other groups that both imcidence and mortality rates were cut considerably from use of the serum Thus, he be- lieved that use of it at Camp Blanding would reduce mate- cially’ possible cases here. There are at present only five Pphumonia cases in the hospital but last month there were 12 at one time, highest in the camp's history. One shot of the serum is good for a year. al eee oes = JUAN DIAZ CUBAN REVUE e STARLIGHT CLUB ==" JUAN DIAZ King of Cuban Bongo Direct from the New York STORK CLUB SENORITA LUPE Famous Pianist from DEMPSEY'S PAGO PAGO CLUB NIGHTLY 8:00 O'CLOCK HEAD OF LABOR UNIT ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WHITE LABORERS GROUP IN SURPRISE MOVE LAST NIGHT <a pleasure at Weaver's election and predicted that the present confused status ,of the laborers would be cleared |up soon. j Wages Under Study The organizer this morning told members of the group he has posi tive knowledge that their de- mand for a pay increase from 50 to 624% cents an hour is being con- sidered by the bureau of yards and docks at Washington. and he predicted it will be approved within a few days. Weaver, who was forced to.give up a $95 a week job as a carpenter foreman when he was barred from the navy station by Capt Russell S. Crenshaw last week, stil] is un- able to enter the navy grounds. Accused of taking part m a2 group of carpenters whe are al- leged to have threatened. civil service men, Weaver's conduct is being examined by the navy judge advocate general's office. Far merly, he was a member of the carpenters’ grievance committee Schools Close Early To Save On Gasoline (Re Acne'sted Press) ¥., Oct. 4— Classroom schedules have been changed in the Bronxville public schools as aresult of Secretary Ickes’ gasoline economy program. Tt all started because 50 of the. {1,400 pupils were unable to catch a train that left at 3:34 p m. four minutes after the previous dis- missal time. Asa result many Parents drove several miles im their automobiles to pick up the youngsters. The school officials decided to let classes out 14 minutes earlier And because there couldn't be any discrimination, the other 1,350 students just have that much more time for play. ‘WEAVER NOW ALSO Russo, Brooklyn Boy Pitches Four-Hit Game For Yankees FLORIDA REALTORS CLASSIFIED Ria. = TATE ADVEETISING thf Hi i ' i if, | | ‘ itt fl i F | | ! ' } a [ilps HH | it