The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 31, 1942, Page 1

Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the | country; with am average | range of only 14° Fahrenhe*t Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West Che Kry West Citizen IN THE U. S. A. reeUne LXIII. No. 259. Uniled States Court To Convene Here On On Monday Thirty-Four Jurors To Ar- rive Here From Miami To Serve During Session | Thirty-four jurors from Miami and vicinity summoned to serve! at the session of United States | Distict Court. which convenes, Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock, will errive here by bus tomor- | row, according to Rodney Gwynn, | U. S. commissioner. | Three navy suits and a personal condemnation damage suit will be tried at the session’ over which Judge John W. Ho1-! land will preside. | Condemnation suits involving | acquired by the | Navy will be tried Monday and Tuesday. Ww. special agent of the lands divi- lend already Stuart sion of the department of justice, | | was learned this morning when al will represent the government’ in the hearings. Sleted for trial Wednesday is the $25.000 personal damage suit brought by Mrs. Julia F. William- | that the doctor Vatwowaeee Polls will open at 7am. and close at sundown for the general election to be hed next Tuesday. according to Ross ©. Sawyer. county clerk. TDI IST IL La! D SHORTAGE. OF DOCTORS HERE, IS REVEALED , SHOWN THAT THERE ARE BUT, THREE PHYSICIANS NOW AVAILABLE FOR ENTIRE POPULATION With oniy three javailable for the civiiian popuia- |tion of Key West today, this city! pabepase| Patton, |faces one of the worst crises in its | \of Japs” history when the welfare of local residents is considered. This fact report was receivsd at The Citi-| zen office that on Friday a mother had phoned one of the physicians seeking medical aid for one of her children and was told in reply | would not be! available until next Tuesday or THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1942 ON THE FIGHT. lING FIELDS OF RUSSIA: This is an artist's concep- pen of a Russien ee in battle; a defender of Stal- Tomorrow 'P OLLS OPEN AT 7 A. M.' |ingrad, grenade in fea throwing himself under an | approaching Nazi j tenk, \JAPS USE TRICKS TO SLAUGHTER MARINES | | IN SOLOMONS FIGHT, (By Associated Pres) + WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—The Navy Department has issued a {report on a dispatch written by/ |Sgt. Richard T. Wright, Marine 'Corps combat reporter on Guadal- jeanal in the Solomons, which ‘tells of the treacherous misuse of the flag-of-truce, through which ithe Japs massacred 28 of a de- \tail of 30 American Marines. A Japanese officer bearing a |flag of truce came into a Marine jcamp and reported that a “bunch on a neaby island were ‘isolated and wanted to surrender. The 30 Marines were sent for e “Without waning they were jmet by a terific burst from sev- jeral machine guns hidden in the | underbrush,” the dispatch con- tinued. i “They were mowed down like so many stalks of corn, except ‘for the two who escaped and son against the J. B. Williams | Wednesday because of previous swam to safety.” Co, H urelization will begin at 9 a. m.' Friday. CAPT. BREIDENBACH APPOINTED MAJOR The promotion | to Mader of Cap- tain George F. Breidenbach has been announced by the Command ing Officer of the Harbor De- fenses of Key West, where Major Breidenbach is stationed with the! Marine hospital are available to|™man U.S. Army. ' Major Breidenbach was a resi- | dent of Pensaco! to his en- trance to the es, and resided at the San C Hotel. He is with the Corps at the Key and is Post Quarter Transportation Offi BUT ONE ABSENTEE BALLOT CAST HERE One absentee vote was polled for the November 3 general elec- tion. Claude Gandolfo, county tax | assessor, who left Friday for medical treatment in Miami, poll- | ed that vote, County Judge Ray- | mond R. Lord reports. | Absentee voting ended yester- day. Ss aster ation, and VISITING HERE Leander Albury, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Albury, who is now | in the United States Navy, has completed his training at Nor-| rolf, Va. | Mr. Albury is at present visit- ing in Key West with relatives, and will leave shortly for the! Great Lakes, Illinois, where he} will be assigned to duty. SARDINES NAMED AFTER | MEDITERRANEAN ISLAND | WASHINGTON.—Sardines were | named after the island of Sardin- | ia in the Mediterranean. FOIA IAI III ADA A AIA IAAIA | DANCE TONIGHT! from 9 to 1 RAUL'S CLUB Music by BARROSA Reservation S: juggested PHONE 9287 | RO RO commitments. j It is not believed there is a city Hearings on potitions for natin the United States the. size of iThey Key West living under ‘the same condition. It has been estimated Key West today has a civilian ropulation of 30,000. Taking | figures supplied by a medical au- | thority, one physician is capable ef taking care of 800 persons and! |no more if they are given proper attention. It will be readily un- derstood then that the city’ is | facing a hardship medically with 2 proportion of one physician to 0,000 persons. It is true the facilities of the civilians. but only in cases of emergency. The nearest hos- pital to the city for other civilian needs is at Homestead, 135 miles! distant. This is a small hospital facilities of a found. It is understood Army officials larger scope are located here have started an in-| | vestigation of the situation with the intention of finding imme- diate relief. Until this relief comes, however. Kev West is suf-} fering a hardship, the like of! which cannot be remembered by any of the older residents. SIX MEN ARRESTED Charges of driving cars with | improper license tags were made egainst six men, workmen on the !Boca Chica airport project, HA pnp dela arpeapiap ag | Fla. i |Road Patrolman Ben Porch, helt arresting officer. The names of the sextet fol-| low: J. J. Cataldo, Alfred A. Fritz, Edwin Stiles, Eugene R. LeBlane, Wm. J. Auld and Dale R. King. The men were bound over to Criminal Court on $25 bond each} and later released when the amount of the bonds was paid. PATA ITAA AAAI AAAI IIASA IAA PALACE THEATER JOHN WAYNE in IN OLD CALIFORNIA NEWS and SERIAL | RRMA R RR FOI TIT I IAAI | TONIGHT! For A BIG TIME. . .Try SLOPPY JOE'S BAR Largest & Coolest Place In Town | +t JOE RUSSO’S BAND “The Best Swing Band In Town” COME. . HAVE A GOOD TIME Music Starts at 7 p.m. Week-Nights at 8 o’Clock Wright also described other treacherous Japanese strategems, included fixing ~ “booby | jtraps” to their dead, so that when | the bodies were removed bombs | | would explode. | ‘ATTACK AGAINST NAZIS CONTINUES (By Associnted Press) | ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 31.—The eighth army continued its attack | which started from the main Ger- lines this morning was jthrown back and all the ground |gained by imperial forces is being jheld. Allied fliers bagged four Nazi planes at El Alamein and continuc | rtermaster| and for this reason it is necessary |to hold air superiority. to take patients to Miami where ; In the Mediterranea: area, United Nations planes battered land_ forces on Crete, inflicting jreturning fliers said, much dam- age on shore installations and ; Military supplies. | The Nazis are rushing plane | reinforcements to North Africa, realizing their position becomes more desperate cach day unless | they can regain mastery in air. Some of these enemy plancs are getting through, said a com-| | munique today. The Allied high commapd satisfied with the progress made so far and is sanguine of further successful developments. is {CLUB SUGALOA: { TONIGHT EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT at 9:30 o’Clock JOHNNY PRITCHARD and HIS ORCHESTRA (Two Years at Pena’s Garden of Ag macarevin SUNDAY Beoieunc i DANCING by zPritchard & Leen] $ AMATEUR and JAM = PEREr Tener enne rere rer: Serrer ert . a ee a) | | — | | | | SPECIALS er GOODS DEP. OPEN AT POPULAR, PRICES Reservations Phone 9190 JAB R OOOO OOOO fa “voluntary basis.” the} = | Fort Crockett, T: \appointment of 13 deputy |the election polls. LATE BULLETINS SCHHSOSSOESOOSSOVESEOES i (By Associated Press) CONSIDERING CREATION OF NEW OFFICE WASHINGTON.—The President is considering the creation of | the office of war-time food director, War Production Board head, Donald Nelson, is leading the movement for the office, which it is; j tornado swooping down PRICE FIVE cuts Allied. Nations’ Fighting Air Force Follows Up Withdrawal Of Japanese From (Guadalcanal Death Toll From Tornado In Ozarks Mounts To 38 (By Assoctoted Prensa) BERRYVILLE, Ark., Oct. 31.—|found. Plans are being perfected The death toll resulting from aj| today for hou on this;The Red Cross worke little mountain town in the Ozarks; on its mission of alle’ Friday mounted to 38 dead today | suffering of those with six persons missing and! A community s scores injured. ~ | been placed in Workers already have begun to, side understood, ,if created, will be under‘the head of an expert on farm’ unpile the debris in which it is’ the temporary work of rehabilita- problems, www! ONE-CENT MORE A PACK FOR CIGARETTES WASHINGTON.—Cigarette smokers will pey one-cent more a pack for their fags. starting November 1. when the new excise tax goes into effect. tax with an appreciable increase. MRS. ROOSEVELT WATCHES RED CROSS UNITS j LONDON, Oct. 31.—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. on a visit to Eng- land. today watched Red Cross workers in their daily activities, which included preparing packs for soldiers who are prisoners of ; Thirty-four hundred rioters were war in enemy countries. Before leaving the scene. Mrs. Roosevelt | donated 2 pound to the fund. SPECIFIES TIME FOR RECRUITING WORKERS | LONDON.—A radio report from: Switzerland heard here today |,, stage a celebration’ prior to said Vichy had reported that Premier Laval will be given two more weeks by the Nazis in his attempt to recruit French workers to go | to Germany, The Vichy report SAYS WOMEN MUST BE CALLED FOR SERVICE i WASHINGTON.—Secretary of Labor Perkins stated today | of the city.” that between now anc, December 1. 1943. thousands of women must | be recruited for war service work to take the places of men called to the armed services. Whisky drinkers also will fee] the effects of the | far the efforts have been on ‘ball game today. 1 1 | ‘CAPTAIN SAMUEL Coes Toe aA PASCO RETURNS TO | Bus TRIP LENGTHENED) *ieing water rom the POST IN KEY WEST Samuel Running t time between Key West and Miami of the Flor- ida Motor Lines buses has been lengthened to five hours end 55 minutes, caused by a recent Federal ruling that restricts buses. passenger cars and trucks to a maximum speed of 35 miles an hour. The running time before the 35-mile restriction went into effect was five hours and 20 minutes, Otherwise, it now takes nearly six hours to make the trip going and coming between the two cities. Captain Jr., has station at of Key West, a course at the nti-Aircraft School Pasco, whose home is in Pensacola, recently returned to his e Harbor Def conzpletine at Camp D. ptain Pa ho is an of- ficer Branch Harbor Coast is how equipp field of Anti-Aireraft.| in Pasco entered the armed! with the) National PPI SI ISI SIS Ds ioned first at | MORE STRENGTH (By Associated Press) ‘ MOSCOW, Oct. 31.—The pos: jtion of the Russian forces in the ' Stalingrad area becomes strong- jer day by day. The setback of {the Germans in recent fighting an-; has been the greatest since they the} were stalled before Moscow last sher-| year. The Soviets are holding iffs. who will serve Tuesday at | everywhere. ; Pravda, the Russian govern- Albert DiNegro will be chief|ment organ, said today 5,000 Na- deputy. The other officers will{zi troops are being killed every be Reggie Griffin, Peter Matco-;day and that the enemy is losing vitch, James A. Curry, Esau | much valuable equipment. ;Mesa, J. W. Hattrick, Sam _ P.j are more confident of victory to- |Higgs, Alton Roberts, Victor!day than at any previous time the the in Defenses rtillery © of Corps, to c so the Pens Guard. He wa Fort MacArthur, Cal fore going to his acne station. { He is the son of the late n} | Pasco and Mrs. Pasco of Pensacola, | |NAMES DEPUTIES TO SERVE IN ELECTION Sheriff Berlin nounced Friday Sawyer afternoon |Russell, Frank O. Roberts, Rut-|since the enemy invaded our! ledge Curry, Charles Richardson j country,” said the newspaper in} fand Eugene Albury. ‘its leading editorial toda: TVUADOODAAGLE EAR GUARANTEES SATE BiG DANCE = “CUBAN cu SUNDAY, NOVEMBER ist STARTS 8:30 P.M. UNTIL 1 A. M. CUBAN and AMERICAN MUSIC By JOE RUSSO and His Famous 5-Piece Orchestra From SLOPPY JOE’S BAR EVERYBODY WELCOME ADMISSION $1.00 Plus 10c Tax | | | “We|s “ jrounded un last night by feared many more bodies will be} tion Thirty - Four Hundred Rioters Rounded Up In Madison, Wis. ; II SASIS LLL S| MADISON, Wisc. Oct. 31.— HERE’S HOW TO TELL WHEN BOMB WILL HIT SHIP (GY Axnocinted Press) BALTIMORE, Oct. 31.— Merchant Seaman J. C. Cour- son, who has made the peril- cus convoy wovage to Russia. has a formula to tell whefier e@ bomb will hit your ship. “All you have to do is watch it. If you cam see any pert of the tail and if the bomb Icoks oblong there's nothing to worry about. It'll miss. “But if vou see only the Points and it looks like a prefectly round dot .. . well - then it’s time to stand from under.” Coursen should know. He saw hundreds of bombs loos- ed upon his and other Liberty ships for five consecutive days during the trip to Rus- sia. He saw more fall in Archangel. (By Associated Press) the disorderly which resulted from an attempt police #r conduct, the Ohio State-Wisconsin foot- The incident is called “the worst of its kind in the history STILL FLUSHING MAINS Salt water is still being used io ,flush the pipes to be used for main- jland which does not change this condition that has prevailed for several days. THE ORIGINAL BAKER'S RESTAURANT Margaret and Fleming Sts. —————— Open Every Dav 6 AM to 9 PM DINNER. 606 with all the trimmings pee Seas APPETISERS—(Choice) Grapefruit Juice ‘omato Juice Apple Juice Chicken Soup ENTREES—(Choice) Baked Turkey, D: and Cranberri Southern Fried Chicken Corned Beef and Cabbage Roast Veal Roast Lamb Roast Beef SEAFOOD—(Choice) MAJOR WAITE NOW LIEUT.-COLONEL eo} Waite, ecutive Harbor Defens« has been announced b n manding Officer of that Statior Colonel Waite at 3408 Alta Vista tanooga, Tenn Officer with NE career in the armed his country . He Army, September rved as an enl i May 11, 1918, wher ioned as a He was promot: tenant in & advanced to cz On June 30. j service, and at his | he was retired as a captair Sunt Gime Bens 2 8] On June 18, 1940, Captain Waite e| was recalled to active , EGETABLES—AChoice of 2)¢} \.. 22, 1941 he was da Creamed Potatoes h lee ak sae Treen Peas Steamed Rices| ‘he grade of may Candied Yams Colonel Waite Black Beans deal of foreign vice during h: S. er. At various periods be- Combination Vegetable >n 1904 and 1921 he was sta- i tioned in the Philip, Islands. Fruit Sala DESSERT— (Choice) 1 He served in China in 1916 and 1917. In 1918 and 1919 Colonel Key Lime P’ a Alberta Beeches Waite was stationed in Siberi $ apple Pie Fruit Jello$| He served in Hawaii in 1921. and in Panama from 1929 to 1931 b Hot Rolls and Butter PL $ Tea or Coffee, Hot or Iced ATTENTION, VOTERS Sweet Milk 5c Extra on Lunch-Dinner When vou cast vour Vote for Justice of the Peace for the First District on Tuesday. No vember 3rd. write in the name of PAUL BOYSEN and put ar X in front of his name. This ad is sponsored by friends is z <a own req = re. Kt £ e = 3 a" au wn & 5 5 3 as seen a great w eh = French Fried Potatoes _ Salade lenie:Sttieas dai ie verely Damaged In Its Attempt To Make Es- cape (Bs Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Oct. 31.—The Allied Nations’ fighting airforce is following the withdrawal by the Jepanese in the Guadaicana area and it is reported today that cne enemy battleship wes severe- ly damaged in its attempt to es cape. The withdrawal was made ut der cover of darkness. says t.e report, but was disco~e--4 befoe the enmy forces could get b> yond the range of Allied flying wtween the Accerionstiangd wemny is hourly expected DSIIIITI LI, URGES JAYCEES TO VOTE ON TUESDAY said J Fr rida am Knowles was Friday night by Motorcycle liceman Ray Atwell charge with vagrancy Knowles was lodged county jail, where he is being heb on a $25 bond. He was rele: on condition he stop drink: WAR WEEK OCTOBER 26th to 31st