The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 7, 1942, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME LXIII. No. 238. City Council Rescinds Order To Remove bi One Application Granted CLARIFY STATUS For Beer And Wine Li-| CITING TAXICABS cense; Three Others! Denied | OFFICE OF DEFENSE TRANS- PORTATION GIVES EX- The City Council in regular PLANATION session last night, which was pre- | | A general order of the Office sided over by Councilman John | of Defense Transportation dated Carbonell, Jr., president protem, | August 29, 1942, affecting the op- i ‘ “fn | eration of taxicabs became ef- in place of President William A.| ¢rauion Ot taxicabs, became ef Freeman, who is acting mayor,| This order provides that in a | municipality or other govern- which was| mental subdivision requiring a : “ i | license, permit or other grant of issued at a previous meeting f0F| authority to operate a taxicab, |no person may under the order ; engage in taxi service unless he vision street, between Simonton ;had such a license, permit or | grant of authority on September and Duval, which was shown to!], 1942, and that no one may |have in operation a municipality jor other governmental — subdivi- The time given for the removal! sion a greater number of taxicabs 4 ; jthan he had in operation in the of the cabins at the time wasn unicipality or . governmental thirty days. ; Subdivision on September 1, 1942. The order further provides that The other three |the use of a taxicab far any pur- attendance were Councilmen Ger- | pose, including social or recrea- ald Suanders, J. Glenwood Sweet- 1 Foe eee oS oe ing and Leonard B. Grillon, with| Gasoline rationing regulations . i provide that no service ration Councilmen Julio De Poo and should be granted for the opera- Paul G. Albury being out of the tion of a taxicab by any person j who is prohibited by the order Freeman rescinded the order the removal of the cabins on Di- be a violation of the zoning laws. members in city. Acting Mayor The , portation from engaging in taxi ? ‘ _ |service. Any ration granted for meeting was opened with an in- | the operation of a taxicab shall Lyerly, ;expire and be surrendered to the __ {rationing board upon cessation pastor of the First Presbyterian |for the use for a purpose for ‘ twhieh the ration may be obtain- Chdrca. also” re- |” y bse - Any ration obtained for the quested the council was also in attendance. vocation by Rev. M. G. ev. Lyerly Ved appoint | operation of a taxicab by a per- son who did not have a license on iSeptember 1, 1942, to operate a churches to serve in the capacity | taxicab should be surrendered to 'the rationing board at once. Also ‘any ration granted to anyone for period of three months, with the the operation of a greater num- ber of taxicabs than he had in operation on September 1 should a three months period at the ex-;be returned to the board imme- nis | Uiately- This) The gasoline rationing regula- matter was referred to the Wel-| tions further provide that the | part-time taxi must now qualify |for a gasoline ration either as a The matter of rescinding the !private passenger vehicle or as - a full-time taxi. cabin removal order was brought | The ODT order requires any about as the result of so many | Vehicle operated as a taxicab be distinctly marked to indicate requests made by different trans- that it is a taxicab, and gasoline are | Tationing regulations provide that {no service ration will be issued occupying trailers, claiming thet to any vehicle as a taxicab un- if the trailers are ordered out |!¢ss it is so marked. | It is the local rationing board’s that they will be forced to move) interpretation of the order pro- | viding for the marking of ve- jhicles that the term “distinctly (Continued on Page Four) to one of the ministers from the local of offering the invocation for other ministers to be selected for | Piration of each quarter. fare Committee. ients, especially those who out of the city as there are no (Continued on Page Four) County Faced With Problem In Selecting New Constable Everybody in Key West, in and} to nominate a man for Perez’ of- aha Bs jfice. The story says the commit- out of public life. with whom The /1..°i, empowered to act if the Citizen talked | vacancy occurs “within 30 days”. about Bienvenido Perez’ resigna- ae oe Rae singe means 29 days or fewer, in any man’s country. The story further says that Governor Holland ac- cepted Perez’ resignation “last Saturday”, but, according to in- formation issued by the gover- nors office, the resignation was accepted last Friday. The Citizen received The Asso- ciated Press dispatch telling about reporters have tion as constable for the second district in Monroe county, re- gretted that it was not held up 3 | few days longer to obviate the possibility of holding a primary | at this late date, but that does! not smother the fact that no Key Wester wants to see the Monroe day afternoon, too late for that day’s paper. In The Citizen’s of- fice Saturday morning regret was expressed that the resignation an) Was not held up a few days long- er so that there would not be any necessity of holding a primary, County Democratic Executive Committee take arbitrary action that may result in bungling election, | ‘An out-of-town paper said to-|With the general election little] \ ae day that the committee is going |G, than a month away. BRING IN YOUR CAR for ITS NEXT LUBRICATION One’s regret or one’s wish is ‘not the law. Incidentally, the law says nothing whatever—not a single word—about informing a county democratic executive com- mittee that a vacancy has oc- \ of the office of Defense Trans-j; the resignatnon at 5 o'clock Fri-} LOU SMITH AUTO SERVICE Phone No.5 _White at Fleming | curred, or that the time of a va- cancy begins when the commit- (Continued on Page Four) Che Key West Critzr1 THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the | country; with an } range of only 14° Fahrenhe* } average KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1942 SURPRISE ATTACK MADE ON GE BRITISH MAKE DEEPER DENT IN CENTER OF EL ALE- MEIN FRONT (By Associated Press) CAIRO, Oct. 7.—British Im- perials have made a deeper dent in the center of the front at El Alemein, the war office announc- led today. ' The Germans were taken by surprise, and before the attack ceased they had been forced back along the entire sector. Besides, it was announced that Allied flyers had bombed an ene- my gayison a short distance be- hind the front. Several direct hits were made, it was reported. Allied planes have also made raids on the enemy’s bases at Bengasi and Tobruk, and at the latter place a large seaplane is said to have been destroyed. Three enemy planes are also reported to have been lost in a raid on the southeast coast of Crete. MONEY MATTERS CHIEF CONCERN AT MINERS’ MEETING (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—The chief topic of discussion at the session of the thirty-seventh con- vention of the United Mine Workers of America today con- cerned the $1,665,000 that the CIO owes the miners. " President John L. Lewis was unanimously instructed to sever relations with the CIO if it re- fuses to pay the money. No telegrams of congratula- tions were received from Presi- dent Roosevelt or from other unions, as had been the case be- fore when the miners held their annual ton’ A matter of importance © that will come up for discussion con- cerns the proposal to increase each miner's work-week from 35 to 42 hours. NEW FORM OF BALLOT TO BE USED IN KEY WEST Voters in Key West, at the general election in November, will vote a ballot that has never before been used in Florida. “Australian ballot” is the term generally used in speaking of the type of ballot that will make its debut in Florida at the next election. At the top of the two circles. the left, are the names of the Democratic candidates, and un- der the other circle are the names of Republican nominees. If a voter wishes to cast his ballot for all the candidates, he will not have to put a mark before the name of each one, but, mark in the circle and the vote will count for each candidate under that circle. DRIVERS MINUS OF LICENSES ARE PUT TO MUCH TROUBLE Drivers, who did not get their license before October 1, are find- ing out now to what trouble they are subjected in undergoing a test and an examination before a license is issued to them. Every day, since the regular is- suance of licenses~ stopped, the state highway patrolman in Key West has been busy making tests of applicants. There are only two ways in which drivers can obtain licenses without undergoing a test. The first is, if they were out. of the state from August 20 to October 1, or have a valid license from some other state. Captain Seneff, who is in charge of the state highway patrolmen in this district, has not yet been able to come here to make arrests, as he has been de- tained in Miami to straighten out the license situation in that city. ballot are PRT Ee APE eS L PIAA DIA A IAAI AA IAAI IASI IIA PALACE THEATER JOHN HOWARD in “A Tragedy At Midnight” NEWS and SERIAL Sa lome Made Gadget Makes diers, Better Riflemen — Soldiers get a few “pointers” on rifle shooting Wide World Features jgenious device which simply and CAMP LEE, Va‘, Oct. 7.—The' accurately tests a soldier's sight- American soldier prides himself;ing, aiming and trigger squeeze, on being the finest rifle matte ane basis of marks- man in the world, and his careful) 4), old es i clemes aaa Flor i ie soldier sights along his training has paid dividends on/rifie until the sights are prop- the world’s battlefields ever since; erly aligned with the far target. Bunker Hill. The instructor then adjusts the Now America needs trained small movable target, mounted riflemen again. Lieutenant Jerome OUTLOOK IS THAT ‘MARINES HOLD ATHAVE OPPosiTION SOLOMON AREA A rumor was current here | yesterday that a Key Wester had/ JAPANESE SNEAKING REIN- announced he would oppose Ray} FORCEMENTS ASHORE Atwell for constable in the sec- | 4 ,ond district, but Mr. Atwell says} DURING DARKNESS that man assured him, Atwell, } this morning that he is not go-} ing to enter the race. | ee Should Ray Atwell be the only! DARWIN, Oct In man seeking the nomination, then | southern Solomons, in the Guar the Monroe County Democratic the Committee, in accordance to the law, will see to it that his name is placed on the ticket. Similar action was taken two! though no out-and-out attack has weeks ago when only one candi-| yet been made on the United date filed for the office of mem-' States marines who are holding ber of the school board and only one for justice of the peace in the second district. Candidates in | that case were given till Sep-| Proved to be very im tember 25 to qualify by filing/a base for Allied pla jdalcanal area, {still sneaking jashore under cover of darkr Japanese ar¢ reinfore r ten square miles on that i including an airfield that portant as S in mak- PRICE FIVE CENTS Reds Stage All-Out Offensive Against Germans Along Thé Don Russian Sniper Unit Or- ganized Comprising 30 Men; Each Pledge Te Kill 300 Germans (By Asseciated Press) MOSCOW. Oct. 7.—"Time and Timoshanko declared today. are striking tell ing blows at the Germans in the of Stalingrad. Time. it was explained. is bring- ing colder weather. and Marsh! Timoshenko “is throwing every- thing he has” into his attacks to left flank it was unofficially northwest sector turn the Germans along the Don and thereby threat {on the base-board, until the small Roth and Sergeant Jack Monte- pointer is perfectly aligned with Under the first, at} Democratic } instead, make a} the bulls-eye on the target The instructor then throws the gun off the target and orders the soldier to put the gun “on the target” again. The pointer infal- libly indicates whether the sol- dier is sighting perfectly—and the kind of errors he makes. perto of Camp Lee's 8th Quarte§- {master Training Regiment agreéd! something was also needed to sup- ply quickly the training Amer- jicans hadn't received in two de- icades of peace. They went to work and pro- duced this whatsis. It’s an in- LATE BULLETINS Sooccevccveccocces (By Associated Press) WILLKIE WAS SPEAKING FOR HIMSELF CHUNGKING—Wendell Willkie stated today that he was speak- ling for himslef when he said that, after the war, every country in Asia should be free and independent. He pointed out, however, that ‘when some of them would accord with his about Asiatic freedom. RAF MAKES HEAVY RAID ON RUHR LONDON—The RAF made what has been characterized as a “devastating raid” on the Ruhr in Germany last night. The Air Ministry reported that many military objects were struck, but the German war office, as usual, declared that nothing of military value was damaged. UNREST IN NORWAY REACHES HGH POINT LONDON—News that has seeped into this country says that the unrest in Norway has reached such proportions that 10 leaders of the | anti-Nazi party there have been arrested and summarily shot. From i Sweden news was received that the Germans have intensified their |insistence that Danes participate to a greater extent in Germany's war-effort. FAVORS INCREASE ON 'HIGHER BRACKETS’ WASHINGTON—Senator LaFollette said today he favors in- creasing taxes on the “higher brackets” of income to relieve the bur- den that will be placed upon income payers in the medium and lower | brackets. Five per cent taxes on salaries and a sales tax were further discussed today by governmental experts. ‘OFFENSIVE’ ALSO NEEDED ON HOME FRONT WASHINGTON—Under Secretary of State Patterson declared today that this country. will have to condiict an all-out war to win the_ war, and that all the all-out presecution of the' ‘war must be on the ,; home front as well as on the firing line: > TOMMY MANVILLE TO MARRY ON SUNDAY HOLLYWOOD—Tommy Manville, Hollywood's much-married playboy, coyishly made known today that he will be married next Sunday. It will make the sixth time that Manville has taken a bride unto himself. FIVE LOSE LIVES IN PLANE CRASH SAVANNAH—Five army men, stationed at Camp Stewart, lost their lives in a plane crash near here today, and a sixth was seriously injured. SPINACH LEFT OFF RATIONING LIST WASHINGTON—About the only thing in the food line that will not be curtailed as the war goes on is spinach, it was announced her> today, though it was added that deserts will be the foods that will be chiefly affected by the increased requirements necessary for the war- effort. GORDON WILLMER> FINED IN MUNICIPAL COURT YESTERDAY VAN) NUYSCaL A Wawbe the pupils at the Van Nuys ele- mentary schools on the opening es eg ee rage be were six sets of identical yesterday by City Judge Ce Bites joi Archer on a charge of driving an | Hele Se a eer ain automobile while drunk and | ‘he six later. causing an accident. ! Harry Baker testified that Gor- | don’s car ran into his, Baker's, automobile and damaged it to the| extent of $65.55. jthe name that was gi H given to the That amount was deducted! language spoken and written by from the fine and used to pay for| descendants of Dutch, French and tepairing the damaged car, and|Germans who settled in South the remaining $36.45 was paid to| Africa before the British occupa- the city. tion in 1806. _ ous BEFORE OCCUPATION WASHINGTON. — Afrikans is their notice and paying their en- trance fee in the county clerk's office, which, on occasions of that nature, is kept open till mid- night. ROBERT DEAN | JOHNSON, 6, Robert Dean Johnson, died this morning. age be announced later. mother, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur P. Johnson; a sister, Fannie NINE NEW OFFICERS AT OPERATING BASE ALLAN ORTEZ HELD Names of nine new officers re- porting for duty at the Naval Op- erating Base in Key West dur- ing the past week are listed by Lieut. G. E. Barton, USNR, personnel officer. another has reported for further assignment, the announcement states. The officers and their new as- signments are: U. S. Naval Hospital—Lieut.- Comdr. Arthur J. McDowell, for- merly with the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md.; Lieut. Allen M. Hill, MC-V(S). also from Bethesda; Lieut.-Comdr. Charles M. Edelen, -MC-V(S), USNR, Norfolk Naval Hospital. Portsmouth, Va.; and Lieut. (jg) Ralph M. Caulk, MC-V(S), USNR, Bethesda. Dispensary, U. S. Naval Sta- tion—Lieut.-Comdr. James R. Sory, MC-V(S), USNR, first as- signment; Lieut. Bernard H. Shal- low, MC-V(S). USNR, first as- signment; and Lieut. (jg) Grover C. Collins, NC-V(S), USNR, of Bethesda. Industrial Department — Ma- chinist Arthur P. Laney, E-V(S), USNR, first assignment Lieut.-Comdr. Robert A Brown, D-V(Sp, USNR, tempo- rary duty. Officers detached are: Ensign James N. Stewart, D-V(S), USNR, Philadelphia, Pa., and Boatswain Sven O. Sand USN, Savannah, Ga. Ensign Francis L. Tindall, E-V(G), USNR, has reported for further assignment. JOHN G. MILLER GIVEN PROMOTION John G. Miller, USN, has been advanced in rating from aviation chief metalsmith to warrant car- penter, it is anounced by Com- mander J. H. McKay, of the US. Naval Air Station in Key West. Warrant Carpenter Miller, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller of Miami, enlisted in the Navy March 5, 1929, and for 11 years, from 1930 to 1941, was on trans- port duty to China. He reported |here Dec. 15, 1941, after being tstationed for some time on the U.S.S. Henderson. in- DIED TODAY 6, The funeral; Made the others seek arrangements, under the direction flight of the Lopez Funeral Home, will Survivors are the father and ahead May ; p thrall rater = Sterling; four brothers, Wilbur ; Australian: fan for the presidency in 1940, he was supported by mbre|p oe, Jr. USN, Howard,|miles away from the gap i than 23,000,000 Americans, and that he felt confident the views of Ray and Clyde Wayne Johnson. direct road that leads tc D-V(S), Two oficers have been detached and en to encircle the enemy that is in the Stalingrad ares jing attacks on enemy land and sea forces. Attacks by planes that t from that base resulte one direct hit on an enemy ¢ er and the destruction of of 30 enemy fighter planes of the ;Zero type That squad fighters was challenged by seve Navy planes, which, though « numbered more than four to 11 Jap plane fighting Timoshanko, today more 50 ave then at any other time since the **, Ot Germans started theiz drive to ward Stelingred. is using wave efter wave of divebombers in et d - tacking enemy troops and supply peered as lines in his drive along the Don on The Germans have brought when last edvices were received from the they were still felling back be fore Timoshankos «all-out offen up In the New the Australians 5 cautiously without challenge from the Japanese was announced today that only Guinea f : but. are reserves front. are now sive. jbase on the southerly side The Russian communique Owen Stanley mountains de clared that the Germans heave sustained the most enormous losses in men and equipment for | FOR COURT TRIAL Allan Ortez. by the city under a $25 b: charge of beating a w nie Cato, and the next c ly drubbed he n, ar rested by Deputy Sh Knight, was aigned t fore Justice of the Pe Esquinaldo and was held for tt crimir are negroes. Smith Jor with hitting E over the hea crank. was for action in the crim It was said in court are frequent blockings on Petronia street head, and th condition that Neily An automobile he |was stalled in the middie ‘street; Jones got into a over the blocking. |argument by hitting Ne head with the crank |testimony given b | Esquinaldo. every inch of ground they heve who was rele gcined in Stelingred then bas ever been exacted before. in the given space in any other wer. It was also officially said that 2 unit of Russien snivers. com 1 court in $200 bz BOND SALE RECORDS HERE ARE SHATTERED negr ar Navy Dept. Requests Cooperation Of City In Minimizing Fire Hazards A letter was read from assistant avy, at the me | Council last night. rh. requested that the City West cooperate to the fu itent with the Navy Depart suffici for protec waterfront and other se case of possible fires. The Department offered its hear | operation in conjunction with t city, in order that all coopera possible be given the Navy partment in th quest The appointment of George Acevedo as a special fire police was eonfirmed j It was ordered that bids be | called for the purchase of a second hand bulldozer to be used at the De 0 ope pasebal (Continued on Page Four upa Save Time and Patience, Use AMERICAN EXPRESS Medals earned by Miller incinerator grounds. The bids clude the Good Conduct Medal,|are to be returnable in ten days China Service Bar and the Amer-| It was agreed to purchase) ican Service Defense Medal. ‘twelve badges for the volunteer,