The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 10, 1942, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME LXII. No. 241. Fighting Insidé: St Dies Down Co | puBLic WORKS BOARD | WILL COOPERATE IN| BUILDING OF STADIUM, A canumitice eeene representing the Key West Stadium Committee, met with the Board of Public; Works last night and received the assurance of the latter that it {would do whatever it could to inside Stalingrad has died down | promote the efforts that are be- {ing made to build a stadium in | this city. The board agreed to let the \committee use a roller, a grader land a truck in grading the tract at any other time, the Russian where the stadium will be con- structed. City Engineer Curry Moreno! }agreed to stake off the tract, and city in two by using tanks and | 2s soon as that is done the com-! ie | mittee will begin the grading continues work. only along half a dozen streets, | eee “ Report Two Russian Gun- boats In Volga Have! Been Sunk By German Artillery (Ry Asxociated MOSCOW, Oct. exe) 10.—Fighting to a great extent in the last 24 hours, but it rages just as fierce- ly in the outskirts of the city as communique announced today. Instead of trying to cut the infantry, the fighting Seunders, chairman of! committee, said another and in the northwest sector the :™eeting will be held next Wed-! jnesday to make further ar- their /rangements to improve the tract troops and are pounding the city PHILIPPINE LEADERS into dust with mammoth siege | Germans nave withdrawn guns, . Today since the (by Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Ac- intensified | cording to information given out; is the forty-seventh; Germens their drive to capture Stalingrad, | here toda; but: the city still holds out with- |22P in the He (have been uprisings in various out any sign of falling. The Red! parts of the islands and many said ; 2cts of sabotage have been com- | mitted. In an attempt to crush the an- 'ti-Jap sentiment, the informa- tion said, 34 Philippine leaders }havé“bBen arrested in the last few days and 14 of them have | jbeen sentenced to death by a the firing squad. Star, Soviet official organ, today that the Germans object to, drive through Stzlingrad has’ utferly failed. The communique admitted that! two Russian gunboats in Volga had been sunk by — ‘FURTHER ACTS OF srtilery fire, but added the; SABOTAGE REPORTE made to cross the river has been! eevee evesiated Breas) i | LONDON, Oct. 10.—The ;tapo campaign in Norway to! the Russians crush out resistance to the Nazi say that they have driven back Tule in that country has instead resulted in the commission of every attempt the enemy has Ges- frustrated. In the Caucasus. the Germans three times in their was begun. Among the things important to {the German war-effort that have | been destroyed are large deposi’ ed jof iron ore near Tondheim. DETROIT.—Much as they are; Quisling, Hitler puppet in Nor- unlike in appearance and _ taste,' way, is reported to have appealed potatoes and tomatoes are both to him to relax the severity of members of the nightshade fam-' the Gestapo in its treatment of ily of plants. [homers leaders. Commitee Avs From Cuba To Observe El Grito de Yara; ‘Entertainment This Evening Though El Grito de Yara was} The committee went from Ha- not celebrated in Key West, today, |vana to Miami by plane and a@ the anniversary had been for |rived in Key West this morning on ears on each October 10, aja bus. At 9 o'clock this evening committee from Cuba arrived this | they Will be entertained at a coc’ morning to join local patriots to} tail party in San Carlos Hall. observe the day quietly. No ela-} Members of the committee are borate program was arranged be- | Sub-secretary of Education Ruben cause of the war. Dario Rodriguez, as personal rep- This morning the committee, to-| resentative of President Batist: gether with the teachers and | General Loinaz del Castillo, C: pupils in San Carlos School, the|cencio Cabrera, Alberto Jan Cuban consul, ditectars of San! \ Plut: Villalob Raul Alpi Carlos Institute and other Cuban) spits a jeons Ie patriots visited, the cemetery and |J°S¢ placed wreaths.on gravestin the} The two last named are tT Maine plot andthe Cuban plot. «+paper.men of Cuba. eee cence ren aerenene AF B. P.O. ELKS — Number 551 You and your family are invited to attend the church service by Chaplain L. Blake Craft Sunday, October 11th, 7 p. m. Meet at Elks Club, 6:30 p. m. VISITING ELKS WELCOME! _ GEO, O. LUCAS, Secretary MUU ttt the road to the Grozny oil fields. CLOSELY RELATED tbsielats CESh Ss Wega BA as pert Sencase | GIVEN HEARING ARE UNDER ARREST 13 , all is not quiet for the i more acts of sabotage than before | attempt to capture a village on widespread arrest of Norwegians $ THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER The Key West Citizen IN THE U. S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1942 TREVOR RETURNS FROM VACATION 2 OF HIS SON EDMUND BEING PROMOTED TO CAP- TAINCY IN ARMY 1 Benjamin D. Trevor, who re- ee yesterday after an absence of three weeks, arrived } at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland just in time to see his son, Edmund F. Trevor, pro- jmoted from first lieutenant to; ‘captain in the ordnance corps of \the army. Mr. Trevor was riding with Lieutenant Trevor, when they isaw a gathering on the grounds and, arriving there, bars were | Pinned on the latter, promoting} him to a captaincy. | | After a stay of a week with |Captain Trevor, Mr. Trevor went {to Hendersonville, in the moun- {tains of North Carolina, he spent two weeks iSamuel D. W. Light, who was a resident of Key West for 15 | years. | Mr. Trevor says that Dr. Light} ‘looks better now than he has at! any other time during the last io nei Cie ieee HAROLD DAVIS where} | | Harold Davis was arraigned erday afternoon before Jus- {tice of the Peace Enrique Esquin- {aldo on a charge of reckless driv- ing and driving an automobile without a license. Davis pleaded guilty to not having a driver’s license, but said that he was not driving reck- lessly. He was held in $50 bail for the criminal court of rec- ic ‘FIRE CHIEF ORDERS DRILLS FOR MEMBERS Chief mero Torres of the Key “West Fire Department issued -an lorder this morning for the mem- | bers of the eight volunteer com- panies in Key West to hold a fire drill every night next week. | Drills will be conducted at the No. 1 fire station and also at the |No. 3 fire station. Chief Torres said that the pur- pose of the drills is to have the local volunteers in a high state of efficiency in the event that an emergency occurs in Key West. THE ORIGINAL BAKER’S RESTAURANT Margaret and Fleming Sts. OPEN EVERY DAY 6 A.M. to2 P.M. and 5 to8 P. M. TODAY’S SPECIAL! APPETISERS T-Bone Steak | French Fried Potatoes ‘Two Vegetables care 156 SUNDAY | DINNER with all the trimmings Celery Hearts Olives APPETISERS—(Choice) Chicken Noodle Soup Shrimp Cocktail Fruit Cocktail ENTREES—(Choice) Roast Young Turkey Dressing and Cranberry Sauce Golden Fried Chicken Chicken with Dumpling Roast Lamb Roast Beef with Dr. ‘circles, Commander Martin was assigned to duty here almost two KEY WEST OFFICER GETS PROMOTION *WOcwcecccccccsessoocossoececes | COMMANDER WINIFRED E. MARTIN, USNR. executive officer, chief of staff, operations officer and ceptain of the yard at the Na- val Operating Base here, has been promoted from the rank of Lieu- tenant Commander, according to the announcement of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. A well-known figure in Key West naval | years ago and has played a vital role in the rapid expansion of naval operations in this area. —Official U.S. Navy Photograph (By Associated Press) STRIKING AGAINST GERMAN MANUFACTURE LONDON—Information reaching here from Belgium says that | there have been recurrent strikes in factories in that country that aro turning out munitions for the German armty. Threats of arrest and confinement in concentration camps, which are now overflowing, have not had any effect in stopping the strikes. WENNDELL WILLKIE NOW ENROUTE HOME WASHING TON—Wendell Willkie is on his way home, but what route his plane is traveling has not been divulged. It was said today that, while he was in China, the Japs made several attempts to locate him, all of which were unsuccessful. GIVES ITS SUPPORT TO MUSICIANS UNION 1 WASHINGTON—The American Federation of Labor, now hold- ing its sixty-second annual convention, went on record today in sup- porting the musicians’ union in its ruling against the playing of musi- cal records at concerts or over the radio. The government is now pro- ceeding against the union in what is termed its highhanded efforts in prescribing what shall or shall not be played. REPORT SINKING OF AMERICAN VESSEL WASHINGTON—The navy reported today that a small Amer- ican merchantman had been sunk by an enemy submarine in the At- | lantic in mid-August. The ship was torpedoed three times, but, as it; showed no indications of sinking, the submarine came to the surface: and sent the ship to the bottom with shell fire. All the crew of 36 was saved. i ! | FOOTBALL GAME IN MIAMI TODAY MIAMI—A football game will be played here this afternoon, be- ginning at 4:30 o'clock, between teams representing the University of Miami and the University of Tampa.. The betting favors the Miamians| to win. WAR DEPARTMENT MOVING IN NEW BUILDING WASHINGTON—The War Department today started to move into its new building on the south bank of the Potomac. The build- ing covers 42 acres of ground and when it is completed in December, will have room for 40,000 workers: The cost of construction is $49,-/ 000.000. | Another Scrap. Metal Drive | To Be Conducted Tomorrow’ Another drive for a round-upjview, the Mackle-Leach Company | of scrap-metal will be conducted/has loaned the committee a crane! in Key West tomorrow. While that will be used to pile up the this campaign probably will not;scrap higher and more uniformly! be as successful as the one that | than it is at present. | was held a week ago, yet it is ex-| The Mackle-Leach company al- | pected that many thousands of |5° has given 10 loads of scrap that pounds will be added to the dump | WS collected at the projects on on the lot of’ the former Con- | which the company is working in sumers’ Ice Company. {Key West. VEGETABLES—(Choice of 2: Mashed Potatoes Candied Yams Green Peas Corn on the Cob Turnip Greens Steamed Rite SALAD Pineapple Ring on Lettuce Lettuce and Tomato DESSERT—(Choice) Key Lime Pie Pumpkin Pi Raisin Pie Tapioca Pudding Hot Rolls and Butter Tea or Coffee, Hot or Iced Sweet Milk 5c Extra WE DO OUR OWN BAKING cree Set ness e 's 3 [sssateneatamencscceoctcs i 3 : The Monroe County Salvage}. Mi Ginsberg, who is super- Committee is going to rearrange | Vising the drive in Key West, said the scrap on the lot, so that more | today eat Nespas pct knoe art room will be provided for further | when ghe swipment of, the scrap | 1, | collections. With that end in: Mr. Ginsberg says that . be | wishes to extend thanks to the of- |ficials of the Naval Air Station for { he use of the working crane that BS brought into service in lifting | | the heavy pieces of metal during | the recent collectoin of scrap | ‘ metals. ee ISSIR C IC oie | DANCE TONIGHT! FROM $ to 1 A. M. RAULS CLUB Music by BARROSA Reservation Suggested PHONE 9287 | kk RRR RR PALACE THEATER ALAN CURTIS in ‘Remember Pearl Harbor’ 1 world get more satisfaction than jbe held, according to Flying Fortresses | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14” Fahrenhe’t PRICE FIVE CENTS Dump Sixty Tons Of Bombs On Mikado Base Forty-Six German Planes Shot Down During Allied Daylight Raid Yesterday FACTS PRESENTED | IN STORY CITING CONSTABLE CASE < NOTHING "MENTIONED IN ARTICLE IN NATURE OF ATTACK; SIMPLY PRESENT- | ED FACTS ON LAW i No other peopie in all the do Key Westers out: of keeping | the records straight, so when an out-of-town paper said today that The Citizen “attacked the announced intention” of the | Monroe County Democratic Com- mittee about nominating a man for constable, the record is not by any means straight. Not a single word of attack against the committee was made} by The Citizen; neither did The; Citizen advocate the holding of the primary; all it did was to caution the committee to act in} accordance with the law so that there would not be any bungling Here are two paragraphs from The Citizen’s story: “The Citizen received The As- sociated Press dispatch telling elso pointed out that it was the | first time since the United States has entered Australian Forces Are Ad- vancing Down Northeast Slope Of Owen Stanley Mountains (By Associated Press) DARWIN, Oct. 10—The most devastating raid Flying Fortress- es have yet made in the fighting in the Southeast Pacific occurred yesterday when they dropped 68 tons cf bombs on Rabaul the UBy Associated Press) LONDON, Oct. 10.—The Allies |great daylight raid yesterday on 2 big Jap base on New Britain Is- | Lille resulted in the wiping out ie end. of many German industrial and The airfield was tern to pieces. r plants in that city and in barracks were shattered and am- disrupting its transportation sys- = ee munition dumps were set on tem, the Air Ministry announced a ire. | today. Raids also were made on Jap Besides, 46 planes beses in the were shot down, with a loss to New Guinea. and not a single Allied plane was lost. the war plane. office announced. thougt the latter type numbered “ The Australians. 500. slowly down the aortheast slope It was due to that ring of pro- of the Owen Stanley Mountains bombers in New Guinea. finally have ‘i caught up with the retreating so low a figure. Japs and have had several clesh- The raid was characterized by i - ‘ the War Ministry ies of the-°* With_thelr patele: seme wich was of a major nature. vw: oe REPORT LOSS OF 56 AXIS PLANES German Solomons and on |the Allies of only four bombers {and not a single fighter advancing tection around the which kept down their loss to | Most successful that meade during the war. was the war that its about the resignation at 5 o'clock | fighter and bomber planes, op- ‘Friday afternoon, too late for that day’s issue. In The Citizen’s of- fice Saturday morning regret was in such large numbers. expressed that the resignation was not held up a few days long- er so that there would not be any necessity of holding a primary, with the general election little more than a month away. “A primary at this time would | purchase ; Price of Alaska. be unfortunate, but bungling would be still more unfortunate. | The Citizen feels just as strongly against holding a primary as do Japan dropped 45 per the men in the county court- house, and we believe the latter ‘feel just the same as The Citizen does: that it is precarious to monkey with the law, and that when athing is to be done it} should be done rightly”. Finally, Bienvenido Perez’ re- signation was accepted by the | governor on-October 2, not Octo- | ber 3, as was said in the out-of- | town paper, and from October 2, | the date the resignation was ac-! cepted a a vacancy was created, | to November 3, 31 days will have ; elapsed, and the law reads plain- | ly: “.. . less than 30 days before | election day”. | If the vacancy is less than 30 jdays, the committee has the au- | thority to name a nominee; if| not less than 30, a primary must | the law. They were the points brought | out by The Citizen’s story, and nobody and no committee was “attacked”. Those are the facts, and they) keep the record straight. WE PAY CASH for USED CARS NAVARRO, S| TONIGHT! For A BIG TIME. . .Try SLOPPY JOE'S BAR | Largest & Coolest Place In Town! JOE RUSSO’S BAND “The Best Swing Band In Town” COME. . 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