The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 8, 1941, Page 1

| Matlin 04 SENG aan se VOLUME LXIL. No. 239. Within 130 Miles OF Red Capita Claims German And Italian Troops Have Both Germans And Reds Describe Fighting As Grimmest Of Entire Eu- (By Assoctated Press) Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted te the Best Interests of Key West ee | * ropean War | NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—German | armies on the central Russian front today were credited with| LONDON, Oct. 8—Tass, official x “i ;Russian news agency, today de- Sensational gains as Nazi mec-jcjared German and Italian troops hanized columns hurtled toward have lost hundreds of officers and 3 ;men in a fierce battle with Serb Moscow across plains littered ‘guerillas west of Belgrade in (By Associated Press) with dead and the wreckage of | shattered tanks. ! Moscow admitted the Germans have reached Bryansk, 130 miles south and west of the Red cap-: ital, and Adolf Hitler's head- quarters in the field told of a war of annihilation on two Rus-' Sian armies trapped behind the rolling German advance. Both Germans and Russians described the fighting in the central theater as the grimmest and the largest scale of the en- tire war. | DNB, official German news; agency, said one Nazi army corps; destroyed 180 Russian tanks in} fighting east of Bryansk yester- day, while another report said! ‘an -armored- division captured 3,500 Red prisoners in destroying — a powerful defense position. | Nazis Drive Wedges The Moscow communique said German panzer columns are driv- ing deep wedges in the Red lines, then fanning out to force the Russians into retreat from at- tacks on their rear. Moscow bulletins stressed the enormous loss of German lives, however, declaring the Nazis are advanc- ing at a terrible cost. Berlin admitted Red forces are on the offensive south of Leningrad, but DNB said the Russians are suffering heavy losses, and countered with the claim that Nazi armies are pur- suing the Reds across the steppes of the Ukraine and forcing their way into the Crimean penin- sula. With the statement of Hit- ler’s generals that their attack toward Moscow began Oct. 2 on the central front, neutral observ-| ers were puzzled over the fate of the Red armies which at that time were within sight of Smo- lensk, * + Nazi,attacks since then have} ‘ing to the Red agency, Yugoslavia. Fighting in that sector, accord- is ap- Proaching the importance of a full-scale war, with the Germans sending regular troops and dive bombers into action to rout the embattled Serbs. DNB, German news agency, re- Ported no details of fighting in Yugoslavia, but announced 32 more alleged Communists have been executed in the past few days in two Yugoslav villages. Spreading revolt through oc- cupied Europe was described in ASKING CERTAIN TARIFF CHANGES JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 8 (FNS).—A_pequest by the Flor- ida Motor Lines to the Florida Railroad Commission for certain tariff changes, including a pro- posed reduction of rates between Tallahassee, Tampa and St. Pe- tersburg and between Tampa, Miami and St. Petersburg, has been set for a public hearing at Tallahassee on Oct. 28. | This hearing will be a matter |of interest to communities along the routes of the Florida Motor Lines from Miami to Tampa via Okeechobee, Sebring, Avon Park, Lake Wales and the ridge section, and to those cities and towns between Tampa and Tal- | lahassee. | ‘STUDENTS TO HEAR CABINET OFFICIALS GAINESVILLE, Fia., (FNS).—State cabinet officials are scheduled to speak at the | University of Florida this week to give students more authentic information concernng _ state Oct. 8 ,government. carried far beyond Smolensk, in-#" secretary of State R. A. Gray dicating the Red armies there either have been trapped or made a precipitate retreat to get out. of the range of the Ger- man pincers movement. Aerial activity over the west- ern side of the continent - con- tinued in a lull yesterday and this morning, but Berlin report- ed air raids on Suez and the de- struction of a British merchant ship there, while London claim- ed raids on Tripoli and Rome told of an attack on the British navy’s base at Malta. FIRST AID PINS NOW AVAILABLE Pins and Advanced First Aid Certificates are now available at the American’ Red Cross head- | quarters here in the Postoffice Building, Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, ARC First Aid Course committee chairman, announced today. Those who have passed the standard and advanced courses may now get their pins or cer- tificates. Otto Kruger—Gloria Dickson in THE BIG BOSS i SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS will open the program, followed by Comptroller Lee, Attorney General Watson, Superintendent THE SOUTHERNMOST NEW Che Key West Citizen SPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1941 Its force diminished to winds of }40 and 45 miles per hour, the hur- ‘ricane which struck Fiorida’s | Atlantic coast Sunday and blasted the Tallahassee area yesterday, is :moving back toward the Atlantic |south of Charleston, S. C. ; Storm warnings have been run tup along the North and South {Carolina coasts, but weather re- {ports indicate the force of the dis- Lost Heavily ‘still is uncertain, but other fisher- imen in the area have laughed at ;Teports the men are lost. Accord- {ing to residents of the area, boat- . ° |turbance is dropping rapidly. | Fate of 20 fishermen missing (near Carabelle Island yesterday news reports from Sweden today, telling of the arrest of 22 Nor-! ‘Tropical, Storm Moves Back Neth Ad South Carolina (Ry Associated Press) CUBAN GUNBOAT TO TAKE PART iN CU- BAN CELEBRATION men in that section are accus- th tomed to ducking into isolated! sa si inlets during storms and it is! @™ freely predicted they will return |h tonight or tomorrow. }morning to take part im the Pecan growers near Tallahassee | pration of “El Grito de ¥ today predicted their crop loss, iS will run to 50 per cent, but dam- | ¥™4¥ age generally was light. { A police radio tower knocked down at Albany Cuban C riquez said th was Ga afterno: details mce>ming and both Cairo and Cordele, Ga.,! receive sau =e cig with ia the name of the guubu , noc! own wn ows | ss — = _ jmames of those in broken. as } Army planes at Savannah were y Silitery and civil suthorities flown out of the storm's range to ene will jcin with the Cutan ‘hangars at Tampa. consulate staff im a program wegian trade union leaders by the Gestapo. The Swedish reports! said the men were sent to a con- centration camp near Oslo. where two other trade union heads are said to have died in the last week | after prolonged ill-treatment by | the Germans. i Stockholm papers said several German soldiers have been killed recently in Oslo, and the Oslo- Trondheim railroad line is said to have been broken by Norwegian guerillas. Gestapo officials, according to the reports have threatened death to all Norwegians living in the neighborhood of the line if sabo- tage continues. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—Your Uncle Sam nas come through ten Major war scare crises in his time, without once stepping off the deep end. There were two tangles with France, two show- downs with Germany, an armed intervention in Mexico and an incident with Chile. Like the current situation, {most of them had to do with free- dom of the seas, preservation of tke Monroe Doctrine and sundry {angles of the neutrality ques- tion. The little American navy had ARE CALLED UP a shooting war with the French {in 1798 without a declaration of = ee thostilities. When Jay’s treaty ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Oct. With Britain committed us (FNS)—One thousand three | 289MSt intervention in the war inindbodetitieair sekecadiss waret = behalf of France, the French 3 ee ‘directory severed relations, de- called for service ir Flérida this} manded abrogation af the treaty week by Brig. Gen. Vivian Col- and a large sum of money as a lins and will be sent to Camp peace prerequisite. Blanding in November. i President John Adams sent the White selectees number 1,082, UNCLE SAM HAS BEEN ‘ON BRINK OF WAR’ TEN TIMES By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE. AP Feature Service Writer French consuls home. Merchant to be inducted between Nov. 3 palit pele aciaahige py ington called from retirement to | command it. The fracas never got beyond a few sea fights, the ;U. S. Navy doing itself proud. Napoleon came into power the and 12. Tne negro total is 233, to be called up Nov. 14-17. As in previous calls, Miami (Dade County) leads the list with a quota of 230 whites. Duval is second with 161 and Hillsborough third with 112. Three counties were exempted | next year and renewed the peace. | Oregon Compromise | “Fifty-four Forty or Fight” twas the cry of supporters of —Pasco, Citrus and Okaloosa. i President Polk who demanded |that latitude be fixed as the! FIV E MORE NEW inorthwest boundary of Oregon territory. Secretary of State! ater feared that the Presi- dent’s sharp demands would bring on war with Britain but Building Inspector Y. D. Car- Polk said: bonell today issued building per-| _ “I will do my duty and leave mits to E.B. Anderson Con-| the rest to God and the coun- struction company, of Miami for) s ae x erection of five new homes in the, The British diplomats kept Lime Grove project, , cool, and the dispute was com- The Anderson firm already has , Promised by giving Vancouver to five homes in the section near- ) Canada.” P ing completion, and addition of} The Lion roared in 1863 when the five autharized today will’ # U.S. war vessel stopped the bring the total of the construc-| British mail packet Trent and j which includes a dance tomorrow jmight at the Cuban eiub, pe rade Friday morning . |velada Friday night “great feat” but the English peo- ple hailed the action as “a wan- cai? 3a ton insult to the Brjtish flag”, demanded release of the prison- ALFONSO THOMPSON NAMED ers and a proper apology. The TO SUCCEED WILLIAM British navy was put on a war footing, and a band played Dixie A. KEMP as English troops sailed for Hali- fax. | Queen Victoria softened the; Wiliam A. (W Kem British demands, President Lin-!county jailor since January coln regretted the episode and signed today and the Union government finally A. Sawyer ap disavowed the action as unau-' Thompson to f the | thorized and released the pris- Kemp, who served 2 oners. city jailor during the term of father, the late Wil $15,500,000 Indemnity The U. S. and Britain were ‘on the verge” during and after the Civil war in connection with de- predations of the famed Confed. erate raider, cruiser Ala bama. The North was incensed |COMPLETES TRAINING because the Alabama was built | in a British shipyard, occasion- ally displayed the Briitsh flag and was welcomed in British Kemp, said in resigning that the county post was too confining {Special te The Citizen) MIAMI, Oct. 8.—Alfred Alonzo Baker, Jr., rts. Ardent unionists urged war against Britain and General Grant was reported as favoring (Continued on Page Four) GROUP GOING TO y Recruiting Station im the Office Building here on Post August. 19, has just completed a jSix weeks’ recruit training pe- jTiod at the Navy Training Ste- jtion in Norfolk, Va. and return- {ed home on leave. | Upon his return to the Train- ing Station he will enter the TRAINING STATION '2:.2:i.05..22 ss jers’, Radio and Ordnance School, S as he has successfully passed the ENLISTMENTS “ MAVAL UNIT, examinations for this school, it TO BE MADE BEGIN- bees announced today by Guy F. NING OCTOBER 20 | Hull, Navy Recruiting Officer for this district. Navy recruiting officials have | advised The Citizen that Navy | recruits from Monroe county = who are in all respects ready for}, MACON, Ga—l H Grant of enlistment during the week of ‘Ss city ‘claims record for October 20th to 25th will depart /SPeedy service when his car together for the Naval Training |°¥S%* fire recently. While fire- Station and will be known,.as; men were | extinguishing the the Monroe county unit. Sane, the inapecter: apeoleme This unit will have the assur. |4#™&ge. and the insurance agent jance of remaining together dur-: “#5 0" hand to pay off ing their period of training at | — the Naval Training Station. RECORD FOR SPEED tion program to about $40,000. = SEPP IBOEB! 2 Comes mew Pac oo s— Preuden: Rocsewer: Si 20t SClL28 suppers ther et a el — a SS eet cet oe Ge ee ‘Wes aporowec >= Se Sue (“2 prOpTigtiecm somos sO meee Se ecmumsirancr eae Se - i Seetee a SC See iy i Ser see as ee wil succest 2 aempeg = at = 2 ae Re Comgressioma meme cs ir he a uw ——_- —pr eo lL TD IDIIIIIS Ee Ee ee = = SECRETARY OF Ba¥Y FRAmE ESWOX GsUr cac0ess ‘MOONSHINE STILL of Public Instruction Colin Eng- lish and State Treasurer Larson. about $4,500. Japanese Newspapers Launch Attack Against Democracies (By Associated Press) NEW; YORK, Oct. 8.—Japanese newspapers, reflecting alarm at “FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN |FINLAND AND UNITED ‘STATES ENDANGERED ‘ (Ry Associated Press) - i This advance information is Amate Radio - S. marines arrested Confed-! furnished due to the fact that | ur mamng The homes are built to sell at ¢fate envoys James M. Mason it requires about one week to me ;and John Slidell, en route to! complete the investigation of ap-| al |England and France respective- plicants for the Navy after they | e io ests = i om ily. have been found to meet the | i Northerners applauded the physical and mental require- 77D 2 oe Amatens silo spe Git The Citizen would like to have the names of those who desire to become a part of the Monroe county unit and every effort will be made to have the Navy Recruiting Service complete | | United States and its insular pos- ‘Sessions will be given a chance by; |the navy department Oct. 27 to itest their skill in competituon, ES rt 5 | Lieut. Comdr. Henry L. Naff, pub- FOUND BY FORCES. BARTOW, Oct. 8. — (FNS) Moonshiners in dry Polk county, resenting the inquisitiveness of State Beverage inspectors here last week, met the investigators | with a hail of bullets which caus- ed state officials to appeal to the sheriff's office for help. Deputies reinforced the posse and the illegal citadel was stormed to take the culprits into custody. The still, located near Auburn- dale, was being guarded by Mrs. Ione Green who is alleged to have fired the volley at the officers as they approached her house. A still was discovered nearby and 20 barrels of mash and 20 bar- | ee |tels of moonshine were destroyed. ! whatever comes. i United States-British military ASHIN‘ talks in Manila, today loosed aj cota prick hioal ph oe concerted editarial blast against! dicted an end to the long- the democracies, their bitterest: time ip bet Fin- since _ conversations between 5 Whshington and Tokyo were! launched several weeks ago. ; Nichi-Nichi, influential Tokyo paper, declared editorially that} “conceited leaders” in Washing- | ton are seeking war with Japan! as part of a program to dominate} the world. The paper accused the | United States of attempting to] “suppress” the Japanese, and} many as the price for con- warned that their country must be; tinued prepared to resist aggression che any quarter. Finland's withdrawal from Other papers castigated the| js thought, the United States “arrogant” attitude of the United | may join Great Britain in Finland as one in the same vein as Nichi-Nichi, States and Great Britain, nich | a that Japan must be prepared for (222222222. {their papers without delay. ; SARASOTA Oct & — GE | Prominent citizens of the coun-|i¢ relations officer at the local! Preceding tne sotims: by = seule | ty will be on hand to give the |*t#tion, announced today. marge. Weuer lous naw a \first Monroe éounty unit to be} Part of the national observance ready established « second ax Miee~ lenlisted in the Navy a big send-|°f Navy Day, the radio tests will | ide fer an unusually carly sem i off. be made by the office of neval'with most Fleriis trader packs | The second unit - wil] leave |CPerations at Washington. and reporting 2 greater meseese = iduring the ‘week Jencing |1€tters of appreciation will be volume as compared sch dhe | October 27th. = a Sent to those operators who sub-'same period last year eee mit perfect copies of a test broad- Trailer park FOR EIGHTY-SIXTH TIME [| Cast. : that the fear af i ——e 2 Transmission will be at the has been @ | WELLMAN, Ia—Mrs. Patience | Brown and Colett Sitler, twins, re- | cently celebrated their birthday ; together in this city for the eighty- |sixth time. - NOTICE, ROTARIANS! | IMPORTANT Please Attend eal th at supply of ae ; ‘The Worlds Greate: City at Sarasota. reports nl i 4 i 1 |