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Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West ee LXIII. No. 236. Asan Stil Routing»: “Japs In New Guia ha : leaden ROOSEVELT 0 AIR (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.— President Roosevelt will make an address over the radio to- night, beginning at 10:50 o’clock, EWT. It is said he will Berlin isses cs American} And Jap Fleets ‘Have Fought Great Battle; No Confirmation €, — (By AssociatedPress) SYDNEY, Oct, $—Australian troops, who are driving back the| pout three! minutes. Japs in Now Guinea, thaye been! H divided inte” ‘two columns, the! eee ee | wer office emmounced today, each| UNITED STATES-VICHY ef which has reached or has al-/ RELATICNS TAUTENED the| Aare { (Ry Axsociated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. jalready strained relations |tween- the United States Vichy are freported to have tauntened today because of Pre- 32 mier Laval’s decision to conscript 150,000 skilled Frenchmen to work in Germany’s war plants. Reports were that the state |department is going to adopt stearner measures in dealing with Vichy. Lavais acceding to Ger-} many’s wishes, ‘aside from his latest step to conscript. labor for her, is viewed here as an open disregard of this country’s inter- ests or sentiments. i ad-; A REMEMBRANCE vencing, as thev suspect the Japs | _.. ,| SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The | opinion 1s jSquadron mates of Pilot Thomas the way the Jens have freely jOelberg subscribeg a total of $1,- 00 of war bonds to pay for part probably |of the education of 3-months-old + }Carol Ann, who was born on the to give the idea that their fligh |same day that his plane bombed is precipitous and in that way /and sank an Axis submarine, but scree ae a few weeks’ “liter..in’ line of duty, before having a The big Douglas A-20 bombers ‘chance to see his baby daughter. are still pounding at the Jap bas- | WRONG NAME USED IN CHURCH CASE speak most reached the ridge of Owen Stanley Mountains. down | which the Japs started their ad- vance toward Port Moresby three weeks ago. Jap patrols got as near miles to Port Moresby but as they have been driven back until they are now 70 miles away. j The Australians are meeting with little oprosition. end the: only Japs they have seen are oc- casional stragglers, However, the Australians are cautiously may be setting a trap for them. . One reason for that abandoned equipment, lure on the Austfalians. es on Port Moresby. particularly ! the main base at Buna. Jap bases} urrance, pastor of the on some of the Solomon Islands|Church of God, informed The |Citizen today that it was not his jchurch that was concerned in the ouster suit that came up before }County Judge Raymond R. Lord jon Saturday. Assembly of God, The Citizen! jlearned, is the right name of the 9 church that figured in the pro- . | ceedings. pote | Quintan Shortes; whose name as} mons, but the Allies have said) pastor was used in tne story, is,} and instead, the pastor of the As-| |sembly of God. not even Tokyo, from where | are also undergoing periodic : x. raids. se Berlin radio reports heard here | still are saying that the Jap and/ American fleets have fought great battle north of the nothing about such a clash, Berlin said it got its news, has} FINGERPRINTING | made any comment about naval | DENVER. — Fingerprinting of or 15. /all_ Denver children for identifi-| cation purpose is being done by ithe Colorado D.A.R. Key West Goes Over The Top {n Collecting Scrap Metals Saturday's collection of scrapjever participated. He highly metal for the gévernment has put| Praised the response of residents, | Key West 2,520,000 pounds over! but pointed out that, had it not | the top. Key West's quota is 1,-}been for the great assistance from | 080,000 pounds, and before the|the army and the navy officers | drive was started Saturday the|and men stationed in Key West, | pounds collected totaled 1,600,000. |the volume of success would not | In Saturday’s drive 3,000,000 | have been as pronounced as it has pounds were obtained, so that|turned out to be. Key West now stands with 4,600,-| Besides, the 20 trucks, each 000 pounds to its credit, or 2,520,- manned with five soldiers, Mr. 000 beyond its quota. (Goebere stated that more than M. R. Ginsberg, who is con-/1,500,000 pounds of the scrap that nected with the naval operation!has been collected came directly} base in Key West, supervised the :from the army and the navy in drive, assisted by Millard Gibson! Key West. and L. L. Starling and the cap-; But the people of Key West, he tains of each zone, whose names|added, shoWed far more en- were published in The aes on|thusiasm in a matter of this kind{ Saturday |than it has ever been his privilge Mr. Gi berg. who has had!to see before. That enthusiasm, many years’ experience in col-|he added, ranged from tots to old! lecting junk, ihduding that, from| roeple of both sexes. They were! wrecked ships,» said, jtoday that|determined to put Key West far} Saturday's drive,’ cohsidering the| over the top, and they succeeded size of the community, was the|beyond. his expectations, ©Mr. most successful in whieh he has|Ginsberg declared. It is his opinion that Key West! | will not only exceed every other} ‘ER ARERR BATTERY CHARGING \city in Florida, figured on a basis i of population, but every other city | Bao —— You Wait In the country in the amount of scrap gathered to promote the Lou Smith AUTO 0 SERVICE| war effort. He pointed out that battles near lands. Soiomon { 5.—The ; be- | and! | morning jPressed the hope that nobody else ; nomination, } How You Get Your News | 4.. ‘PUT ONTO THE PRESSES. . . RAY ATWELL ONLY CANDIDATE SEEKING CONSTABLE’S PLACE Only one E announced he will man for the Democratic nomination for | :constable trom the second district, to whose succeed Bienvenido Perez, resignation was accepted by ae Holland on October 2, according to an Associated Press dispatch published in The Citizen At the county courthouse officials generally will declare for the secause, aside from the thousands of dollars that a primary will cost the county, it wiil be a most dif- ficult matter to hold only one pri- mary and, should two be nece sary, nominee would not be time to get his name on tt John England, supervisor of! registration, is now working hard to prepare the disqualified and qualified lists for publication for the general election on November 3. Should a primary be found necessar, the bulk of work would fall on him to make the preparations; Regrets too was expres: the Perez resignation was not held up two days longer. Had that been the cas the Monroe County Democratic would have had _ the name the nomince. od that power PINTS A WAR CASUALTY BATH, England—Public houses here have put their pint glasses in | storage until after the ar be cause of the acute beer shortage. A half pint a serving is the limit for a customer. SMUNUUAAUOUGGAAAALUEAGEAUUOUEESEUOUA ALATA ERSTE NOTICE! Property owners who are ‘connected to the Water System are requested not to use any water for drinking or cooking. You will be notified when water will be available for such purposes. Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission ho! . ming this city has already tripled its storable ig te (Continued on Page Three) STIMULI LT ta y Atwell, has } be a candidate j Committee ; to; KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1942 Wide World Features HERE’S the progress of a typical news story from the time it happens until it reaches you in your favorite paper. President Roosevelt meets Washington corre- spondents at one of his regular press conferences, gives them facts of nation-wide importance as they take complete notes. They wire or phone story to press as- sociation headquarters, which sends it by special wire into office of every member newspaper. Paper's edi- tors decide page it will appear, write headlines, pos- sibly cut it to meet space requirements. It then goes to composing room, is set into type. Make-up man fol- lows editor’s instructions, places type into page form. Matrices are then made of whole page and cast into circular metal plates. These fit onto presses. Presses spin. In a few minutes, newsboys are shouting “Extra.” The entire process—from President Roose- velt to you—often takes less than an hour. 4 5 ...AND IS READY TO READ. LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) STEINHARDT WASHINGTON-BOUND MIAMI—Ambassador Steinhardt, who represents this country in Turkey, arrived here today and shortly afterward continued on his way to Washington to report to the President on conditions in Turkey. The entire trip from Ankara here was made by plane, some- times in army planes. The only thing he said. when questioned about Turkey, was that he had come home to confer with the President and | H ‘the state department. this; ex- | U. S. SUB PRESUMABLY LOST WASHINGTON—The Navy announced today that the 1,526-ton submarine Grunion is overdue and is presumed to have been lost in Pacific waters. She was launched on December 22. 1941, and had a | complement of 139 officers and men. it was figured out that the! known in| ticket. | RAF DROPS 5,000 TONS OF BOMBS LONDON—The Air Ministry announced today that in the last 10 days 5,000 tons of bombs have been dropped by RAF planes on Germany and countries occupied by her. ARMY BOMBER LONG OVERDUE TAMPA—An army bomber thai ieft McDill field on Saturday was reported today to be overdue and is presumed to have been lost. “ALL-OUT” ON HOME FRONT ESSENTIAL WASHNGTON—James F. Byrnes, who was appointed Saturday by the President as director of the country’s economic life. said today that an “all-out” on the home front is exceedingly important in co- ‘ ordination with the all-out by the fighting men of the Allied Nations | on the firing line. REGARDING PENSIONED TEACHERS TALLAHASSEE—The board of trustees of the public schools in | Florida said today, basing its conclusion on a ruling made by At- torney General J. Tom Watson, that former teachers in Florida who | are now receiving pensions, may return to their duties in schools without endangering the pensions they, the teachers. are now getting. However, in each county it is left to the superintendent to decide | whether or not he wishes to employ any of the retired teachers, « HIS OLD HOME TOWN | Goop NEws FOR. MAILMEN SAN JUAN, P. R—From The; AZUSA, Calif—With the regu- | Thunderhead, weekly mimeo-'lar postman in the Navy, Mrs. !graphed newspaper of the An-!Leonard Netzley has taken the tilles Air Task force: “First Lieu-} mail carrier’s job, walking a j tenant Marshall Groover had aj; long route in the morning and {hard time convincing the long-} making RFD calls by car in the | distance operator that his home} | afternoon. “Believe me, it isn’t jtown existed. He’s from Ball-! any harder than keeping house”, { ground, Georgia”. she reports. Che Hey West Citize Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe‘t PRICE FIVE CE Nazi Units Make Every fot. To Take Stalingrad By Siege SSSI LISS SS THREE PIECES FROM | SCRAP SALVAGED HERE | WEIGH 92 TONS EACH Those Key Westers who may marvel over the millions of pounds of scrap that have been collected in this city should be informed that the as employed by the salvage committee, em- bodies the idea of meaning anything that is useless in its present state. So in this drive, scrap may range in weight from an ounce to a ton, or a good many tons. Three pieces of scrap obtained in the drive, each weigh 92 tons. They are cumbersome cannon that go back to the Civil War period. Together they weigh 276 tons or 552,000 pounds. i, thaathachernttartiaaheatastlel| FRENCHMEN TO WORK IN NAZI CONSCRIPTING SKILLED WORKERS IN UN- OCCUPIED FRANCE (By Associated Prexa) LONDON,..Oct: 5.—Pierfe La val, premier of unoccupied France. 150,000 men to work in Germany's war plants. As an incentive to their ac- cepting the jobs, he has pointed out that “food is plentiful” in Germany, whereas it is scarce in unoccupied France and will be ‘scarcer as winter draws nearer. | Opinion voiced here is that, de- spite the “bait”, Laval will be able to get comparatively few of the number of men he will con- script, unless he is aided by the German soldiers to force the men to work in German munition plants. From another source of infor- mation, the war office said here man soldiers, stationed “some- where in the Hague” have com- pletely disappeared. It is not known whether they ran away martialed. NEGRO ARRAIGNED BEFORE JUSTICE Allan Ortez, a negro, was held in $200 bail today by Justice of the Peace Enrique Esquinaldo on a charge of having beaten John- morning. It developed in the testimony that Ortez had beaten the same woman on Saturday evening, was arrested by city policemen and turned loose on putting up $5) bail. showed, he gave the woman far worse beaten than he had on Saturday. She testified said that three ligaments in her abdomen had been severed. Ortez is the same man who; was arrested about a month ago: for a shooting a negro known as! “Fat Head”. When the case was called, Fat Head had left town. However, Ortez was fined $50. PRESCRIPTIONS Pure Fresh Ingredient pounded by Experienced GARDNER'S PHARMA pn SE PRI OPCII 17 | ee |has issued an order conscripting | that three officers and 32 Ger-j; or have been arrested and court! nie Cato, a woman, on Sunday! { Sunday morning, the hestimony | aj ROOKIE VS. VETERAN | ay WAR PLANTS LAVAL ISSUES ORDER FOR. 150.000) H Lie ‘CHARLES RUFFING {MANAGER BILLY SOUTH- | WORTH of the St. Louis Cardin- {als sent Johnny Beazley to the mound this afternoon in an at- temft to win the fifth game of the 1942 World Series and with it the championship. The outstand- ing rookie righthender conquer- ed the Yanks 4-3 in the second battle of the classic in St. Louis lest Wednesday. Veteran “Charlie (Red) Ruffing. who set a record when he pitched no-hit ball 7 2-3 irinings of the opening game but who was knocked out of the box in the ninth, opposed Beazley when “Play Ball’ was sounded this afternoon in the Yankee Stadium. JOHN ROBERTS JOINS FIRE FIGHTERS’ CREW | of De John W. Roberts semrethey the Key West Volunteer Fire partment, and former cit cilman, has accepted a position a fire fighter at the No. 1 Fire | Station. Mr. Roberts was Fire Chief Leroy Torres, to the confirmation of Council, j Session. tomorrow The Victor to accept a position at the West postoffice. the City which meets in regular night new appointee succeeds resigned Lowe, who has German Forces Are Driv- en Back Despite Addi- tional Equipment Now Placed In Use (By Ansociated Press) MOSCOW, Oct. 5.—Using 100 tenks as a spearhead and wave after wave of dive bombers to “pave” the way. the Germans are through trying today to go a nerrow stretch of roadway eo would cut Stalingrad imstwo, but. according to latest advices re ceived here, the Germans have been driven back, time and again, znd are now being held at prac tically the same point where they started the drive. Along that roadway. the Soviet statement said, are heaps of Ger men dead end dying and many tanks in various stages of de- In Russian troops for stopping that struction. commending the attempt to cut the Pravda, through Stalin- grad, Russian newspaper concluded, “Stand firm. fulfill your sacred duty!” In the northwest sector of the fighting, the communique admit- ted that the enemy has made stré®t, German slight gains along one which, according to a who was captured, the enemy hes named the “Road of Death”, due to his unsuccessful attempts to capture the entire street. The communique stated that the Russians have made “not- able gains” in the fighting along the Don. but said the Germans are intensifying their drive in the vicinity of Leningrad, evi- dently in an attempt to take that city by siege. COUNTY BOARD WIL MEET. THIS EVENING County hold 2 the wi recessed mi night county The clared available commissioners money payments for two months general the ies from the fund and one from fund s for July paid out of the eiture Saleri and will be gene fund and for June out forfeiture fund revenue the fine and Key West's Rent Ceiling Date that a} doctor who had examined her} Fred Eberhardt, who is spector for the OPA in Key West, {said today that the extension of a ; Tent ceiling throughout the na- tion does not affect the decision that has been made regarding the stabilization of rents in Key West. The date set for the ceiling in | | | rent in-,the nation is March 1, {because the Remains Same, October 1, 194) 1942, but the date in Key West remains tie same, October 1 1941. The le ter date applies to 48 other arezs in the country. and was set five months ahead of this year’s date defense activit’ started in the 49 areas before i did elsewhere in the Unite States. | Save Time and Patience, Use —— | AMERICAN EXPRESS On Sale at SIMONE TOURS) a Devel St. ee | REAR ED © ae ORDERS | PALACE THEATER JOAN BLONDELL in “LADY FOR A NIGHT” NEWS and SERIAL andl