The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 12, 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. 242. Fighting Around Stalingrad | Reduced To Infantry Clashes (lashes Both Sides Are Are Kept On: Alert For Any Possible, New Attacks That May | Be In Making : (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, Oct. 12.—The fight- ing in and near Stalingrad has! died down to a few clashes be- | tween opposing infantry, and the | enemy is continuing his attack on} that city chiefly with bombs and | shells. used on shipping in the Volga in| | His artillery also is being/ the vicinity of Stalingrad. But the Russien artillery fire| is just as intense as is that of the! enemy. It is being concentrated on his supply lines and his for- mations of reserves. The Russian communique add- } ed that. despite the let-up in the | fighting to capture Stalingrad, | the Reds are not relaxing their) efforts to be on guard against}; any sudden outburst by the ene- my in renewing his efforis against that city. the 2 | communique Timoshenko’s | Meanwhile, asserted, Marshal men continue to make gains the Germans in Stalin- | | claim ad-| against fighting northwest of grad. The Russians vances all along the line in that | sector, and deny that the Ger-| "HINTS GIVEN ON GIVEN ON CURTAILMENT OF MUCH BUSINESS SHOWN THAT SMAL{. BUSI- NESS OPERATORS IN VA- RIOUS FIELDS WILL BE FORCED OUT OF BUSINESS A summation of a number of recent government reports adds up to bad news for many of Flor- ida’s small business men; but, if: they realize what is coming in| time, some way of avoiding disaster. Almost 5,000 Florida retaile: labor shortages to “close their; doors by the end of 1943, on the! basis of estimates made for the whole country by the U. S. De-'that the tins of all ri partment of Commerce. Dealers in “consumer s” — furniture, electrical household ete.—will be hardest hardware, hit, in wholes: ’ hands being ex- hausted rapidly. More than 20,000 persons prob- ably will be released from dis- tributive organizations in Florida by these closings, which are es-} timated to be over and abo’ the already high “mortality rate” in this field. Studies of inven-! tories, large segments of which| the ,can not be replaced, reveal that | | most ‘of the “fatalities” cessarily be in the {employing only persons. In Florida such closings follow the pattern set by will ne- small stores: three or four will jneeds of the state's r mans have made any gains in the; tomers—the armed servi they may be able to plan| s | Fred E. D'Amour of Denver uni- will be forced by material and | versity and discovers it is an ex- durable | says scholarly Dr. appliances, |of light is focused upon with jof a rat’s tail it will burn him andj production in a number of their, when it burns he gives his tail a! lines already stopped and stocks! i quick flip. | [OPERATIONS TC TO BE CARRIED} of eating and drinking places are} running 50 per cent ahead of last | southeast of Novorossiisk in the/year. Drug stores are 50 perl cent up, well ahead of the aver-| }age for the country as a whole. In one attack in that area, the; Loss of part of the tourist dollar will bear heavily on _ specialty shops and the already hard-hit! (Continued on Page Four) last 24 hours in the Mozdak area, Caucasus. communique said. the Russians) (Continued on Page Four) ‘the State Road Department, says ithe Overseas Highway will Captain Jess e Allen Will Command Naval Hospital Opening Here October 19 Captain Jesse W. USN, of Kingsville, Ohio, will command the new U. S. Naval Hospital at Key West which will be formally, commissioned Oct. 19. The hospital, for which ground | was broken last December, rapidly being rushed to compl tion. Minor installations of medi- cal equipment and clearing of the grounds are virtually the only re-| maining tasks to be performed be- |! fore the new unit will be fully prepared to handle all hospital cases of Naval personnel in the! Key West area. The hospital staff of approxi-} mately 200 Naval and civilian pe r-| sonnel will be moved to quarters} on the grounds October 15. The; staff includes 12 medical officers! and one dentist, four officers of! the Hospital Corps, 13 Allen (MC),, Navy} nurses, 76 hospital corpsmen and 93 civilians. Six doctors and ali supply officer are expected to re-| port later in the month. i Captain. Allen, who will direct} thisolargest Naval hospital south | LAE CL TS SS OYSTER SUPPERY $1.00 Woman’s Club Building | ST of Jacksonville, was from the University of Michigan in 1915 and reported to the Navy Medical School in Washington two years later. Commissioned a lieutenant (jg) in the Medical Corps of the Navy, he was sent to Queenstown, Ire- land, on May 22, 1917, serving there until September of 1918 when he went aboard the U. S. S. | Birmingham. It was aboard the | Birmingham that Captain Allen ; became a shipmate of Captain G. |F. Bogan, recently commanding j officer of the Naval Air Station at Miami. Since has that time Captain Allen n shore duty in the Naval | Philippine Islands; and Washington, D. C. In 1935 he was Chief of Surgery in the Naval Hospital at Philadel- |phia and later held the same pos tion in the Naval Academy at An- | napolis, Md. Before coming to Key West last January, he was executive officer roene his seven years spent at} pital, received a commission as |sea and on foreign shore stations, | lieutenant in the U. S. Army En- Thursday, Oct. 15 — 6 to 8 P. M.! Captain Allen served aboard the gineers Corps and for the pres- AUSPICES WOMAN'S CLUB iy_S§, S. Melville U.S. S. Birming- ent is stationed at Ft. Belvoir, Iham, the U. S. S. Relief and the]Va., U.S. S. New Mexico. RRR RR PH SEL RNAS BATTERY CHARGING | In 30 precarer You Wait Lou Smith AUTO SE SERVICE “Remember Pe Pearl arl Harbor’ SIMONE TOURS Phone No.5 White at Fleming “PALACE THEATER ALAN CURTIS in graduated j jot the Naval Hospital at Norfolk,|Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Berkdwitzs sr aN ESSE FS Gaddis | Save Time and Patience, Use a jof West Palm Beach, has already Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1942 WHAT'S NEW IN SCIENCE ? ee. Wide World Features DENVER, Oct. 12.—Consider the | rat's tail. For years scientists, | using rats in their myriad experi-| ;ments, looked upon it only as aj convenient handle, the easier to lift the rodent. Now comes Prof. Valuable} the lcelient Ouch! Meter. |for studying such things as effects of opiates. “In is a peculiar scientific fact} tails hav of sensitivity,” D'Amour, For instance, if a warm beam} the tip| the same degree H “All normal rats, under light) of the same intensity, will flip; their tails at the same moment. In} other words it always takes the} jgreat value to him in his research | Fats’ tails. |And so Professor D'Amour aaucoeeeoece New Contraption |F or Research Wo k same number of seconds for them pendable as the sunrise; some- to register their displeasure. Sort! thing that would measure the po-| of a measurement of sensation.” Studying this scientific fact, Dr. | D’Amour decided it would be of | D'Amour proposed to mix. Dr. D'Amour thought of his} He snapped his fingers | concerning the power of various|in the manner of a fellow saying analgesics. | “Eureka.” Analgesics are the drugs that; deaden pain. In war time they| Measuring device which he calls are of great value on battlefields. | his ouch meter. Likewi: in war time the supply| -First he focuses his light upon of analgesics may be decreased.|a rat's tail and with a stop watch and | yasures the time it takes for the assistants were seeking to in-j first twitch. crease the effectiveness of smaller} By injecting various analgesics doses of analgesics by inténsify-|into different rats and then sub- ing them. This can be done by|jecting them to the same degree various processes. of light he can measure the anal- What he needed for his experi- | gesic’s power to delay the rat’s re- ments was some yardstick for} action as revealed by the twitch measuring sensation; some mus-jof his tail. cular reaction in man or beast; Dr. D’Amour reports progress. that was as accurate and as de-| It’s a swell Ouch! Meter. ROAD AND BRIDGE ‘WORK WILL START AT TWO POINTS: ON SIMULTANEOUSLY AT KEY WEST END AND FLOR- IDA CITY O. G. Lindsay, a member of that the work of reconstructing be started simultaneously at the Key West end and at the beginning of the road near Florida City. He speaking about the work that will be done under} the direction of the department, as Cleary Brothers Corporation, was begun to construct some of the bridges under a contract receiv- ed from the department. The latter will build three short bridges and rebuild and re- pave 83 miles of roadway. When the department arranged for the work, it was stated that the bridges and roadway will be com- | pleted within a year, and an As- sociated Press story from Talla- hassee about that decision was| — published in The Citizen at the time. Representatives of the Federal | Bureau of Roads have already | inspected the project, and the State Road Department has ob-j| tained bids on material. In order to avoid having to contend with a labor shortage | that may delay the completion | of the roadway, the State Road Department is considering em-! ploying, should the occasion arise, from 100 to 150 prisoners | from Raiford. JEROME BERKOWITZ. . IS NOW LIEUTENANT: Jerome I. Berkowitx ‘son . ofl formerly at the U. S. Marine Hos- | | | } | i as instructor. AMERICAN EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS On Sale at ‘the jungles. istruck by two bombs and was wi Allied Bombers Continue To Pound Jap Bases; Nipponese Supply Ship Heavily Bombed (By Associated Press) DARWIN, Oct, 12.—Allied bombers in the southwest Pacific SESS EES SS 4 ROOSEVELT HEARD IN WASHINGTON. IN COLUMBUS DAY TALK (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.— In a short address today, commemorating the 450th an- niversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, Presi- dent Roosevelt said that the Allied Nations are not fight- ing only for the liberty of their own peoples but also for the liberty of all people throughout the world. Victory of Allied arms, he stated, would mean that no People enywhere would be oppressed and enslaved, and thatiin the new world that is to follow the crushing of war- like nations, freedom would be enjoyed by the Peoples of the world. VIDIO III DLS. continue to pound Japanese bas- es on New Guinea. the Solomon Islands and New Britain, with an occasional raid on the Jap base on Timor. The war office today said that the once important Jap base at| Rabaul, on New Britain, has been “pulverized”, and that the Jap forces have vacated it and} have sought safety in fleeing to Buna, on New Guinea, has been devastated, too, and north- west of that base yesterday a 10,-; 000-ton Jap supply ‘ship was} left ablaze and in a sinking con- dition. Flying....Fortresses have been | used chiefly. in. the.\ bombing raids, and. the Japs,-;-with! their} Zeros, which they claim is the most efficient fighter in the; skies today, have not met with (Continued on Page Four) ¢ mania ging mime DELMONICO RESTAURANT Announces New Hours Beginning October 11th e OPEN FROM 4 P.M. TO 12 MIDNIGHT, | DUE TO SHORTAGE OF HELP @ Come In and Hear the NEW NOVO-CHORD the WONDER MUSICAL INSTRUMENT —the First in Key West CL Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe't IN THE U.S. A. PRICE FIVE CENTS chill Paints Very a Gloomy Picture OF Hitler's Calamity And Germany's Final Downfall LATE BULLETINS COCCCCOCOEOOS OOO SOOHOSSOOSOOSOSESESEOOOSEOSHLOOES (By Associated Press) WOULD HAVE ONE AGENCY HANDLE MAN-POWER WASHINGTON—So that farms as well as industries and defense Projects will not suffer from a shortage of man-power. several lead- ers advocated today that the question of man-power be placed in one agency. Were that done, it was added, it would obviate the confu- tency of pain killers that Dr. | sion that is sure to occur if several agencies handle the matter. CHILEAN PRESIDENT CALLS OFF HIS VISIT WASHINGTON—The state department was informed today that President Rios of Chile has called off his proposed visit to this coun- try on October 21 because of derogatory remarks that were made by Forthwith he created his rat tai] | Undersecretary of State Sumner Wells about Chile and Argentina. Rios said it was “with regret” that he felt it was necessary for him to defer his visit. Wells declared that Chile and Argentina were as sisting Axis agents to stab the Allied Nations in the back. WOULD PATCH UP UNION DIFFERENCES TORONTO—The American Federation of Labor, at its conven- tion here today, seemed to favor patching up its differences with the CIO, provided John L. Lewis, president of the United Miners of Am- erica, has nothing to do with the “patching”. Green, president of the A. F. of L., declared that Lewis always destroys what he creates, and that the federation does not want to have anything to do with any ar rangement with which Lewis is concerned. KEEPING LOOKOUT FOR ESCAPED PRISONER FORT WAYNE—Roger Touhy, the bad man who escaped from the Joliet penitentiary, today is said to have threatened Monsignor Conroy of the Catholic Church, as a result of which FBI agents and the police are keeping guard on all roads leading from this city and have intensified their search for Touhy. NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR t SCRAP DRIVE) Because of the ta the inability of the | io Two Key Westers were Monroe County Salvage Commit- \ men who enlisted in t tee to get volunteers to load metal |GUtNé the past few day 'TWO KEY WESTERS SIGN UP IN NAVY ' Prime Minister Claims Nazi Leader Weakens With Victories Instead Of Strengthening (By Associated Press) EDENBURGH. Scotland. Oct. 12—Prime Minister Winston Churchill today painted a biack picture of the calamity that Hit- ler and his werlords see growing lerger and larger every day till it reaches tnat point m its growth where it eventually “will crush them. Every victory Hitler has won, Churchill said. has weskened him and has added to his defeat. whereas the defeats the Allies have sustanied have resulted only in increesing their strength assure their ultimate victory. Hitler and his cohorts have claimed this and have claimed that only te have their claims repudiete themselves. they really have never confound- ed Hitler because he has been to though ever ready to sdvance other claims, as he did im the autumn of last yeer when he said the scrap into trucks, the drive that was scheduled for yesterday did! not meet with success. Chairman Joe Pearlman said this morning that he has been assured the use of trucks and drivers, but that he is in need of men to gather the scrap from sidewalks. “The committee needs about 50 volunteers to do that work,” Mr. Pearlman said, “and as soon this area. The local enlistees -are |M. Arias, 1422 C: ” and Floyd B. Sands, 1114 Watsor street. Thirty-three Russian army had been leted”. or as he did. little more annihi. than a week ago, when he assur- men enlisted Fri- day, bringing the total to 94 the two-day period. Most these enlistments were for struction battalions, k called ‘‘Seabees”. This announcement by Lieut. M. C. Rhode ed the German peovie that Stai- (Continued on Page Four wa: Whit as we can get them we will ar- range for another drive that, 1 fier in charge of recrui ting for believe, will be almost as suc-|5°Uth Florida cessful as the one we held re-j cently, because there is still large | BIBLE IN 1 IN THREE ¥ WARS quantities of scrap in Key West that have not yet been collected STOCKTON, Mo. —Way ne “The date on which the second ‘lows, recently inducted inte drive will be made depends on Army, carried with him the the success of obtaining volun- year-old Bible that his gr teers to gather the scrap. I think father carried through the it would be a good idea for some | War and his (Continued on Page Four) | War 1 Fel- uncle during Work Democratic Executive Board Will Name Candidate Tonight To Succeed Constable Perez The Monroe County Democratic the indications Executive Committee will hold a will be close. meeting tonight to name a candi-; Tonight the County Commis date for constable from the second | sion will meet to make arrange- district to succeed Benvenido ments for the final preparation « Perez, who resigned to accept a the ballot to be voted on in the job in the Key West Army Bar-;November election. Everything racks. | has been prepared, with the ex- Atwell and Joseph Es-!ception of the candidate for con- a are the two candidates as-' stable. piring for the office, and a Citizen! The ballot will be different this repérter learned this morning, in year from what it was at other ‘the’Vicinity of the county court- elections. 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