The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 8, 1942, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIII. No, 239. Twenty-Four Norwegian sales Stu By’ Action Is Brought About’ EIGHT NEW OFFICERS Through Great Unrest) That Has Gained Much Momentum (By Aswociated Press) LONDON, Oct. 8—Unrest in Norway has gained considerable momentum, resulting in the lin- ing-up and shooting of 24 Nor- wegian leaders, since yesterday, ; REPORT FOR DUTY AT LOCAL NAVAL BASE | Eight have re- 'ported for duty at the Naval Op- {erating Base here and two have \been detached, it was announced today by Lieut G. E. Barton, per- |sonnel officer for the U. S. Naval | Station. Those reporting and their new assignments are: Convoy Center—Lieut.-Comdr. {Dallas Wait, USN, (Ret), NOB, new officers jthe Key West High School by ;Captain Henry E. McCracken, STUDENTS THANKED . IN METAL DRIVE The Army’s appreciation of the Ppart’played by the school ‘chil- fdren of Key West in last Satur- day’s successful scrap metal drive was expressed this morning in a} speech before the student body of Public Relations Officer of Harbor Defenses of Key West. Captain McCracken pointed out that just as the children in other sections of the nation have done a great part in similar drives, the! children of this city responded to the local appeal for scrap metal. The children not only gathered and brought to the schools a large collection of metal of all types, but they also carried news of the drive into the homes of the city, and in many cases the huge piles of scrap metal in front of homes were collected and placed there by the children. the Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe‘t Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1942 FOR PART PLayep | Australians Continue To Advance Minus Resistatice I IIIS IS IS SY DELMAR BUTLER DONATES SALEABLE | AUTO CAR TO U. S.: Many an automobile in Key West found its way into | the scrap heap during the drive that was conducted here last Saturday by the Monroe County Salvage Committee, ably aided by Army and Navy officers and men in this city. And, with a few exceptions, the automobiles that event- ually will go to the smelter had not “run their last mile”. Delmar Butler had a 5,000- pound Lincoln that he could have sold for $30, but, in- (By Associated Press) DARWIN, Oct. 8.—Australians are still continuing their advances down the northern slopes of the Owen Stanley Mountains on New Guinea toward the Japanese base at Buna without meeting with| any resistance. It was stated, though, that the} Australians are timing their! march with the receipt of sup-! plies from their base at Port | Moresby over rough and tangled trails. j Unofficial oninion was ad-! vanced here today that the diffi- culty of receiving suppiies in their climb over the top of the Owen Stanleys and down the southern slopes might have had a great deal to do with the unresist- PRICE FIVE CENTS Russians Fight Germans Furiously Despite New Divisions Brought UD LATE BULLETINS © (By Associated Press) SENATORS STRIKE AT WILLKIE | Nazis Fail To Gain Any Ground In Encounters In Vicinity Of Stalin- WASHINGTON—Senators Connolly of Texas. Willis of Indiana,| grad Area Wendell Willkie’s home state, and Smith of South Carolina were among the senators who today took flings at Wendell Willkie for what they called the indiscreet remarks he has made about the Allied | war effort since he has been abroad. His second front talk, while in| Russia, came up again for condemnation; he was rebuked for some things he has said while in China, and Senator Smith, among other things, remarked, “Willkie is getting just what is coming to him.” REPORT UPRISINGS IN INDIA (By Axsociated Press) MOSCOW, Oct. 8—The “Ave- nue of Death” in the northwest |sector of Stalingrad. leading to | the heart of the city, is strewn received | Norfolk, Va. The local Salvage Committee,| sse24 he consigned it to the |ing Japanese retreat. It was| | BOMBAY—Indian-leaders today spoke about other with German dead. the war of- according to advises Convoy Center—Lieut.-Comdr. |Howard M. Ernst, D-V(S), USNR, search for | Washington, D. C. | U. S. Naval Hospital—Lieut.- Cone Edward H. Major, MC- i i case | V(S), USNR, Portsmouth, Va. ere en ae eUeeP Ie? | US," Naval’) Hospital—Lieut where weapons are found the! william J Cobb DC-V(S), USNR, | Miami. | Military Duty {Gg) Robert E. s |D-V(S), USNR, Little Creek, Va. Submarine Division — Ensign is being prosecuted so intensely,|Thomas W. Boynton, D-V(S), | USNR, Ist assignment many of them have escaped to | Industrial Dept. — Machinist Sweden to avoid arrest, so re- | James R. Mechan, E-V(S), USNR, ; | Philadelphia, Pa ports from that country said to-| Naval Air Station—Gunner Al- |bert A. Jacques, USN, NOB, Nor- : | folk, Va. it was} ‘The two officers detached from luties here include: Ensign Glen E. Warner, USN, attacking the Nazi rulers in Nor- jand Boatswain Jonn D. Roge in| USN, both of the U. Station. Ensgin Warner has gone resi- | Pudget Sound and Boatswain | Rogers is to report for further dents of that country, women erin ionic iokin apa children as well 35 mon, The dis-| wie approval of the Swedish pre: HARRY i BEAVER IS GRADUATE AT TRAINING SCHOOL Harry Leonard Beaver of 1704 | Waddell Avenue, this city, was graduated from Pan American Air Ferries Mechanical Training ; School on Saturday, October 3, jand received his diploma from !Major General Harold L. George, 'commanding general of the Air ‘Transport Command, while John | A. Steele, operations manager, jand Oliver H. Clayton, Jr., super- ‘visor of Pan American Air Fer- here. A house-to-house” arms is now being conducted by men occupants of the house are Oni Lieut arrested. In Osla the search for leaders day. Swedish newspapers, stated, are not mincing words in d\ way for the cruel manner which they are treating the report said. has developed in- to a “roar of condemnation”. The unrest in Denmark also, has become more pronounced in the last 24 hours, the report con- tinued. Hundreds of them have been arrested for failing to re- spond to the order to increase their activity in behalf of Ger- many’s war-effort. ase RCE i | sisted. MANY NAVY RATINGS j Mr. Beaver, together with more STILL REMAIN OPEN | than titty other roiferatt and air- plane engine mechanics who were graduated, is now taking up his open in the famous Fighting Sea-|work in the company’s regular {domestic and foreign mainten- bees of the Navy it was | ti nounced today ‘pas sts rae 1 ACCEPTED BY NAVY and color blind men, who can be used in any capacity that they | can qualify for, even as plain! Men accepted the local labor, and foreign ser > is as-|Navy* TRecruiting | Sub-Station sured in the far-off islands of! erday were Harry Maitland the Pacific. | Arias, 1422 Catherine street, and Lieutenant Bonnacci will be inj Bernard Richard Willin, Ocean Key West Saturday, between 10} View Hotel, and Joseph Euell a, m. and 4:30 p. r for inter- | Dye 3 Elizabeth street, all of views with possible recruits. Ke et More than 125 ratings are still an- is of by Wilkie Expresses Hoe That Allied Nations Send Chinese And Russians | More Supplies (By Associated Press) CHUNGKING, Oct. 8—Wen-:he was confident that that would dell Willkie left here today, pre-|be the most effective way to shat- sumably to return to the United | te, the Japanése wat'spiri States, though his destination was}. Patni eo cite Their not disclosed. jcities, with their myriads of light- An official Chinese spokesman | |Y built houses, chiefly of bamboo said, just before Willkie left, that! Construction, were far more sus- “he is the most popular foreigner |CePtible to destruction than the that has ever visited China.” buidings in any other Axis coun- The same spokesman, through| try, he said. Mr. Willkie, implored the Allied} Willkie, before departing, ex- Nations to start immediately to! Pressed the hope that the Allied bomb Japanese cities, declaring|Nations should do all in their | Power to give China and Russia WE PAY CASH far more supplies than have been Funkhouser, | i!see Charley on the streets in civ- Training School, Miami, as-j headed by Joe Pearlman, had jrealized the importance of getting children interested in the drive, and had made special efforts to lenlist the cooperation of school children. The part played bv the children j was greatly responsible for the huge amount of scrap gathered, and the local salvage committee, as well as army officials are high jin their praise of the cooperation jof the Key West school children. |MENDOZA ASSIGNED TO LOCAL STATION Charles Gonzalez Mendoza, 416 Bahama street, Key West, who {recently enlisted as yeoman, third felass, has been assigned to the! local Navy Recruiting Sub-Sta- tion. The local office says, “If you 1 ies, just remember this is war and the size uniform that would fit jhim, fits hundreds of thousands built just like him”. Mendoza, who is also. the as- sistant recruiter as well as a yeo- man, says, “Men in Key West who feel the ‘draft’ tn theis backs are mising a good bet by not in- vestigating the opportunities of- fered by the Navy. Many choice ratings are still open, and, then, too, there are those 47 trade schools for the fellow that wants to start off fresh again”. Men speaking Spanish as well as English are very important to the Navy and have better than average opportunities of- fered them in some departments, especially those that bring them in contact with our neighbors to the south, reports Harrison M. Reed, Jr., CSp(R)USNR, who is the recruiter-in-charge here. JOHNNY YATES MAKES) HIGH SCORE DURING |PRACTICE IN GUNNERY Johnny Yates, of. Key | West, whois connected with the Jack- sonville Naval Air, Station, has} written an interesting letter to his- mother, in which). he states that he made the highest score recently in gunnery practice of! his unit. That paragraph reads: “We were out on the firing range yes- terday. We fired .50 calibre ma- chine guns, .30 calibre machine guns, .30 calibre rifles and .45 calibre Colt pistol automatics. We stayed out there for about four -hours. I made the highest score in the class, 196 out of a possible 200 points. I am rated as a sharpshooter now. Our sec- tion starts guard duty next week. T'li be wearing a forty-five all the time then”. Yates sent a clipping from a Jacksonville paper of an official United States Navy photograph, showing him in sparring trunks pointed out further that their ob- taining supplies was harder than it is in the case of the Australians, ‘|}because American bombers kept !up an almost constant bombing of the Jap lines from the base at Buna to the ridge of the moun-j tains. In connection with the Jap re- treat, the war office said that their “land thrust” on New Guinea had been “completely smashed.” The report said that the Japs had succeeded in establishing a bridgehead in northwestern sec- tion of Guardalcanal Island in the jSolomons. Practically all the re- |inforcements the Japs have put LID DS SS J SF BD. asrore there, it was stated, have —} been landed at night. RED CROSS MAKES scrap heap to help out Uncle Sam. R.M. Valdez, who was among the active workers, succeeded in getting 34 old cars from Dan Navarro and 16 from Vincent Cremata. According to Mr. Pearlman and Mr. Ginsberg, L. L. Star- ling has agreed to match each car given to the drive with one of his own. so that the Navarro and the Cremata number will be doubled and a car will be given by Mr. Starling to match Mr, But- ler’s. B ‘ upris- ings in various parts of India, as a result of a deadlock between Great Britain and the Nationalist Congress, though no place was named where the tioting is supposed to have occurred. Afier talking about the uprisings, the leaders urged that an effort be made to have the United States break the deadlock between Britain and India. "GO TO WORK OR GO TO JAIL” NEW ORLEANS—"Go to work or go to jail” is the gist of an ox- der issued today by the police of this city. James Purcell, in speaking} about the order, said there is an acute need of men in the cane fields and on the farms generally in Louisiana, and added that. if men co:- tinue to loiter around the city, they positively either will go to work or go to jail. DISTRIBUTING COUNTRY’S MAN-POWER WASHINGTON—Chairman McNutt of the man-power commit- tee said today that some way must be determined on to tackle the job of the distribution of man-power equitably throughout the na tion. He said he did not think, in solving the Problem. it would be necessary to resort to compulsion. CALL FOR NURSES, Local Red Cross workers an-j nounced today that “the Army} and Navy are calling for trained nurses at the rate of 3,000 per month. “Tf you are between 18 and 56, if you are in good health, if you| © have the equivalent of a high school education and if you are willing not only to take the 80-} hour training but to work a minimum of 150 hours in a hos- pital, there is no finer service; you can offer your country. “Applications are being taken! at the local Red Cross office in; the Art Center Building, phone | 890. The class, originally sched- uled to start Monday, October 5, has been postponed to Monday, | October 12, to allow for those en-| rolling to complete the physical | examination reports required. i “The first class will be held} Monday morning, October 12, at! the Red Cross office, upstairs, in, the Art Center Building, -at 9:30 o'clock.” | ‘the scrap will be handled. STATES HOW MONEY - IN METAL DRIVE IS TO BE HANDLED Joe Pearlman, chairman of the| Monroe County Salvage Commit- tee, said today that the people of Key West;* who responded so; enthusiastically and generously in last Saturday’s scrap-metal drive, undoubtedly would be in-} terested to know how the money | that will be obtained in selling OUT STATEMENT ON THAT NOW EXIST IN RE-| SPONSE TO INQUIRIES RE- CEIVED First, a committee, consisting of Captain McCracken and Lieuten- ant Mitchell of the Army, E. P. Winter, R. M. Ginsberg and Mr. Pearlman, will strive to obtain as much as it can in the sale of the! scrap. When the money is paid, it will} be deposited in the First Nation- al Bank of Key West and will be! divided among the USO and the Army and Navy relief funds. Thus, Mr. Pearlman concluded, Key West people are helping the; war-effort in two ways: giving scrap that will provide arms for} our forces at the front, or pre- paring to go to the front, and! money to be used in entertaining | or caring for our fighting men. Stephen C, Singleton, executive secretary of the Key West Cham- ber of Commerce, is sending out the following statement of condi- tions here to persons out-of-town inquiring about accommodations: This mimeograph will, we hope, be an explanation and an apology to the many who write to us pecting to receive our usual en- thusiastic welcome to Key West We are at war and “Busine: Usual” is out for the du The position of Key West is euliar. Our population has tion pe- ae customers swear by lined up against Jerry Schwartz, a Brooklyn boy. LEO GONZALEZ MADE SERGEANT Private First Class Leo Gon- zalez, son of Luis Gonzalez, 1216 Angela street, has been promot- ed to sergeant. Sergeant Gonzalez was induct- ed into the Army on March 4. 1941, and is now stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass. RAIA RIAA IIAIRI IN PALACE THEATER NAIL ENAMEL e@l4 No wonder Revlon is the pet of our‘ @¥ customers! Every single color is actuallys® “PREVIEWED” or pretested 160 times on busy’ “fingertips just like yours before it is bottledbil forxyou! Tested and retested for that un<~' rivalled “stay-on” quality . . . brilliance and beauty of color . . . fast sistent with longest wear! And how you'll thrill to America’s best loved fingertip colors . .. Windsor or Scarlet Slipper or “1942”... or any of Revlon’s 21 - SOUTHERNMOST CITY “|most trebled in a little o twelve months While the “rent, ceilmg area” holds rents at a nor) mal levelj'it does not ‘provide ad- ditional accommodation for the Army, ‘Navy and construction! men; we can not conscientiously | invite the world and his wife to) come here for rest and amuse-! ment as we have done in the past. | This does not mean that there are no accommodations. Those who for reasons of business or health need to come to Key West| will find places for themselves. But to those who would escape | the rigors of a northern winter, and to those whose main object is a vacation where the entertain- ment of visitors is a leading oc- cupation, we offer the reminder that there is the lovely “Ridge Region” with its beautiful, well- ordered little cities, its rolling landscape, its orange groves, and| thousands of lakes alive with big-| mouth bass. To name one section when there are so many others, equally desirable, would be un- fair; but, from Tallahassee . to ke... Qkeechobee, the winter fist will find joy and health and recreation in its finest sense. There is a bright side to the picture. The old torturous, rough highway will be a thing of the past within less than a year and a broad, modern highway describ- ing a long arc to the southwest, will bring fortunate visitors from | the mainand to this frost-free is- land on which modern homes are rapidly being built. Al- ready, artesian well water 1s flow- ing into Key West from the main- land, 123 miles distant. | No wonder our est drying time con- enchanting shades! MAKES KNOWN CONDITIONS | their application . skilled or unskille MANY RATINGS ARE OPEN IN SEABEES Lt. E. R. Bonacci, the Navy con- ACCOMMODATIONS sz: engineer, stationed at jie will visit Key West on Saturday, October 10, for the pur- bose of interviewing all applicants for the Seabees, 1 is announced today by Lt. M. C. Rhodes. Jr., of- ficer in charge of Navy Recruit- ing fur South Florida — All men in the Key West area who are desirous of enlisting in the fighting Seabees should make at the new Navy Recruiting Station in the Key West Post Office before Saturday. Lt. Bonacci is visiting Key West for the first time. This is a radical change in recruiting "plicy because he has visited only Miami in the past and men in {Monroe County had to travel to Miami to make application. Now they can apply right in their own city “Lt. Bonacci has ratings for all men from 17 to 50 rs of age”, states Lt Rhodes, “and we are expecting a rush of applications from Mon- roe County and Key West” Henry S. Hames, 1129 White- head street, and Herbert R. Kint er, Porter Place, Key West, were among the recent enlistees. HIGHLY INDUSTRIAL CHICAGO.—Before the war Switzerland was one of the most highly industrialized states of Europe, with only great Britain and Belgium having a relatively greater industrial population. fice declared today. yet the Ger- mans have not gained “one inch” in the last 72 hours in any sector of the front in the Stalingrad fighting. The war office pointed out, in making that statement. that it was true despite the fact that the Germans, since yesterday, have brought up three more divisions of infantry, numbering 45,000, in their death-defying efforts to take Stalinarad. Unofficially it was said that |deed Germans are falling like leaves from a tree in autumn but that, unlike the leaves, there seems to be no end of Germans, for as fast as they are wiped out in any given sector it % not long before others ere filling the gaps only to be wiped out again. over and over. The communique today said that. regardless of the men and equipment that the enemy has lost in its attacks on Stalingrad. there has not been any appre- cieble let-up in the determina- tion characterizing his assaults. An illustration wes given of that factor in the enemy's fighting. Russian big naval guns on ships in the Volga are keeping up a barrage in the southerly sector. but still Germens come forward to try to get through the “hell of fire”. Meanwhile, Timoshenko’s men continue to roll along the Don in the attempt that is being made to turn Nothing was said by command here that the enemy's left flank. the high some of Timoshenko’s men had crossed to (Continued on Page Thre« Laval Much Perturbed Over Lack Of Cooperation From Frenchmen To Help Germans (By Asnociat LONDON, Oct 8. — Laval, } Vichy’s pro-Nazi premier, is heaping threat upon threat today because Frenchmen in unoccupied | France have not shown a broader spirit of cooperation with him in his attempt to raise a force of 150,000 skilled workmen for Ger- many’s war plants. Pres) Up to t volunt Hitler, z what he that, i to ra tinue D go to Germany to work would put “on France's blacklist SPANISH CLASS IS ORGANIZED Last night a class in Spanish was organized in the Jackson Square USO under the direction | of Mrs. Helen Hoagland. It start-j ed out with a membership of 20. A meeting will be held every | EEREREREEREEEEREREEE DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT (OCTOBER $) RAUL'S CLUB PHARMACY, Inc. DON (Red) BARRY in Sent to those countries thus far, and he pointed ovt that the | Chinese and the Russiang are con- for U S ED CA R S ltributing unstintingly to the NAVARRO, Inc. | Allied war efforts in fighting the | Japanese in this area and the Ger- OFFICE IN CENTRAL HOTEL | mans in Russia. Pant di a Bin ahararht bimbo “DEATH VALLEY OUTLAW” NEWS and SERIAL “PRESCRIPTIONS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED” Duval at Fleming Street Phone 199 Key West. Fiz. So, when this bloody business Wednesday evening in the same of war is over, Key West will be| place. It was said today that more and more the desired haven/the class is expected to become) of the weary and heavy laden, S| much larger than it is at pres-| (Continued on Page Three) ent. ] Music by BARROSA PHONE 9287