The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 18, 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. 274. Che Kry Council Takes Up Milk And Water Ordinances At Mowing Last Nigh Garbage Disposal System Also Brought Up; Many Other Matters Heard During Session The City Council at its regular meeting last night, took up the proposed recently-amended milk ordinance for discussion, but finally decided to defer the mat- ter for further consideration. The main provision in the ordi- nance would make it prohibitive | to sell any milk which has not been pasteurized. It was shown that there are two! local dealers who would be forced out of business under the provi-} sions of the new measure, and this was one of the main reasons for its deferment. Dr. J. B. Parramore, of the) State Board of Health; J. Roland | of the} and others Adams, operator of one largest dairies here, addressed the council on the sub- ject. An ordinance that was pre-) sented, which “ould require all residents near the water pipeline]. to connect up, was discussed at great length. The provision which would do away with the use of cisterns was the main issue in the discussion, many feeling that this would cause a hardship in the event that | the water supply is cut off due to some possible break in the pipe- line, which would leave the resi- } dents without any water what- | ever. S. C. Singleton, executive secre- | tary of the Chamber of Com-| merce, addressed the council on the subject in the capacity of a private citizen, and stated that he) was not in favor of having his cistern condemned. There were| many others of the same opinion, and at the conclusion of the dis- cussion, it was decided to defer action until a later date in order! that a further study can be made | of the matter. Julius F. Stone,| attorney for the Aqueduct Board, also addressed the meeting on the subject. Dr. Parramore addressed the board on the subject of sanitation, | and stated that he was in receipt) of a letter from C. L. Williams, medical director in New Orleans in reply to one sent by Dr. Parra- more bearing on the subject. | The letter was read in which Mr. . Williams stated that he thought that the best way to dis- | pose of garbage was to place it on} barges and have it taken out toj sea and dumped in the gulf. He stated, as was said before by the Navy Department, that barges| would be furnished for this pur-| pose, but failed to make any) i in Key West SDL SES O REGISTRATION FOR YOUTHS IS SET FOR COMING DECEMBER (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.— President Roosevelt issued a call today for all youths who have attained 18 years of age since June 30 to regis- ter for the draft from De- cember 11 to December 31. It is expected that the num- ber of registrants will total 600.000. The last registration was on June 30 when a total of 700,000 signed up under the age limits prescribed for that date. AS AAA AAS 2 FIGHTING IN STALINGRAD _ INCREASES GERMANS MAKE NEW DE- TERMINED BID TO BREAK THROUGH IN NORTHWEST SECTOR (By Agaociated. Press) MOSCOW, Nov. 18.—Fighting in the Stalingrad area has in- creased greatly in the last 24 hours. In the northwest sector, the Germans made another de- termined bid today to break through to the frozen Volga, but they were thrown back for heavy losses. The Russtan war office said that in that fighting alone the enemy lost 1,400 men. In the fighting in the two main sectors in the Caucasus, the Rus- sians claim to have defeated the Germans in a series of clashes since yesterday. At Nalchik the Russians say they broke up an attempted Ger- man counter-attack by concen- trated artillery fire. Meanwhile, Timoshenko, north- west of Stalingrad is said to be |gradually working his way down along the east bank of the Don. MOTOR MECHANICS CLASS IN MEETING TUESDAY, FRIDAY The class in Motor Mechanics convenes every Tuesday and at the Army Barracks Garage, and it is still possible to join, according to announcement made today. Lt. Barefield has just returned from a special course in instruc- tion of Motor Mechanics, and it is said that this class promises to be one of the most interesting to date. CDI IS SIL mention of a boat being made|/NAVY YARD TO TEST available to tow the barges which | left the matter just where it started. Mayor Willard M. Albury ad- | dressed the council briefly on the | subject, and stated that while the government appeared to be will- ing to cooperate with the city in outlining a system for. garbage disposal, nevertheless nothing had | been done in the way of providing equipment, except that cz offer- | ing the use of barges. The mayor said that we were just simply los-| ing time in discussing this matter, because there was no headway (Continued on Page Four) BRING IN YOUR CAR for ITS NEXT LUBRICATION LOU SMITH AUTO SERVICE Phone No.5 White at Fleming NEW SIREN AT THREE O'CLOCK TOMORROW | One of the new air raid si- | rens recently installed at the Key West Naval Operating Base will be sounded tomor- Tow afternoon at 3:00 o'clock in a test which may last sev- eral minutes. With a range of three or more miles, it is expected to be heard in all parts of the island. Lieut. Jotham Johnson, as- sistant Captain of the Yard, explains that there will be mo need for interruption of activities at this signal as it is only for the purpose of testing the equipment and is Not meant as a regular air raid drill. ILL LD LD BD DD | joy. US STARTING TODAY Friday afternoons at 4:30 o'clock | pat Citter: THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1942 BRITISH. ARMY STILL CHASING: AFRICAN’. AXIS MILITARY EXPERTS SAY AMERICAN NAVAL VIC- TORY HAS OPENED THE WAY (By Associated Press) CAIRO, Nov. 18,—The British | Eighth Army, still on the heels | of Marshal men, are said today to be only 70 miles from Bengasi. Rommel's fleeing | If that report is’ true, then | they are still 720 miles from Tunisia, where the Allied arm- ies are operating toward Tunis! and Bizerte in one instance and toward Tripoli in another direc- tion. The junction of the Allied | forces in Tunisia and Lybia are} thus said to be a good many weeks apart, even assuming that } the Eighth Army’s advance will continue as it has during the last fortnight. Reports today said indications are that Rommel has decided on a showdown fight at El Agheila. Besides the natural defenses} there provided by the salt marsh- es, Rommel’s men have planted mine fields and have thrown up barbed wire entanglements. Alfi@d headquarters here an- nounced today that since the be- ginning of Rommel’s retreat from the El Alemein front he has lost 75,000 men in killed, wounded and captured, while the number} of Allied casualties total 14,000. NEW SERIAL STORY: “TWO GIRLS AND A MAN” THRILLING LOVE STORY It all began when Rita Ral- ston’s father started a plant to turn out an orange juice concen- trate, because his neighbors were suffering from hard times. He had to mortgage his own Cali- fornia ranch to do it—and one day the New York bank that held the note threatened fore-, closure. Because her father was too ill to do it, Rita herself went to New York for the argument. On the plane she met Clark Pasquin, the actor, and Clark decided al- most at once that he must know Rita better. The difficulty about that was that Gloria Cunning- ham, daughter of the banker Rita went on to see, was just] as determined to have Clark for | herself. It was easy for Gloria to pre- tend she was her father’s secre- tary, and send Rita back to Cal- ifornia believing the home ranch was lost. And it was easy to alter Clark’s warm telegram of sympathy to Rita when the pa-/| pers carried the story of her} father’s death. i But things thickened up later, | and one scheme added up to an-j other scheme, and at the end} there was more than the breath | of tragedy hanging over Rita. over Clark, and over Gloria her- self. Lois Eby and John Ches- ter Fleming have provided a suc- | cession of climaxes for “Two} Girls And A Man”, a Wide World | serial starting in The Citizen | today. Read this exciting love} stories in installments to be pub-/| lished in this paper daily. KEY WESTER WRITES| j HOME FROM OVERSEAS | Word was re ly, ived by relatives of: H¥am |G." Fulford|}Key West than in the case ofjsaid that death had been due to who at the time of, his writing was located in “England. He has beeh living in Miami for, automobile in which to sleep, or } Acting a number df years and was draft- | | WPB has ordered, New Stages For War: | Wide World Features TRIPOLL largest city in Libya, has a population of 108,000 and the best harbor between Alexandria and Tunisia. well-to-do sit on hills overlooking the shore. NIS ia Bs native, with most buildings dating from the 13th to’ 15th century. ¥ Its population totals 220.000. Homes of the ind gay; the other Business Agent Of Union Says Order Limiting Building Here Will Affect 300 Carpenters, Clarence Higgs, busine of the local Carpenter: Union, said today that the action of the War Production Board in limiting building permits in Key West -to $200 will throw at least 300 car- | penters out of work im the next week or 10 days. Instead of stopping building in Key West, Mr. Higgs added, the War Production Board should en- courage it. He said that many men who are working here on de- fense or war projects are sleep- ing in automobiies, and that four or five men are sleeping in one room that was intended to accom- modate only one man, The ter condition (Mr. Higgs said ap- plies to hundreds ot cases in Key Wests « “Since this eountry’entered the war,” Mr. Higgs continued, “tt number of carpenters employed in Key West has ged about 800. That number is employed now, but, because of the drastic action of the War Production Board in directing the local build- ing inspector not to issue permits for more than $200, th falling off in employment of will begin in a few d the end of the week t out of work may total more. "What we need in Key West is more building, not . as the because prac- tically all building here is tied in with the war effort.” Conditions in the lack of sleep- ing accommodations are far worse among the colored population in 300 white people. agent, e number ! 5 or| any space at ali inside a house— even the packed space of a “sar- dine”—as a result of which they sleep on porches and a good many men sleep in vacant lots. Efforts“are being made to re- lieve that condition among the! colored people, but those efforts+ will now have to be discontinued | because of the WPE orders. In- cidentally, aii those colored men} who sl on porches or in vacant | lots are engaged in defense work. The men newcomers, that is, they have arrived here since this country entered the war, and so | many have come to Key West sev- eral hundred are unable to find iceommmodations. RAY VOGHT DIES | SUDDENLY TODAY, |SUCCUMBED IN BUILDING AT NAVY YARD WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED i Ray R. Voght, 47, of 925 Semin- ary street, dropped dead in the y Yard this morning. With other employes, he was {going up the stairs of a building at 7:50 o’clocw, 10 minutes _ be- jfore the time he was to start to ; work when he slumped on the jsteps and died immediately. He was picked up by fellow} | workmen, and Dr. Rees Morgan, ja Navy physician, was summon- jed. After an evamination, he {County Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe't RICE FIVE CENTS ish Armies Rolling Into ‘Tunisia; Expected 10 Clash With Axis Forces Within Short Time * Meeting To Be Held Tomorrow American Forces Reported To Hear Representatives Of | OPA On Maximum Price Control State representatives. of the Office of Price Administration have requested the local price and rationing board to cai} a meeting of all merchants in Key West in order to give them, the state rep- resentatives, an opportunity to talk to them on the subject of “Maximum Price Control’ The local board has arranged to hold this meeting in the Monroe courthouse tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock. It is urged that every merchant of Key LATE BULLETINS | West, whose business is subject to the maximum price control, ‘present at this meeting. “This is a subject on which merchants of Key West unques. tionably need enlightment,” B. L. Grooms, chairman of the Monroe County Price and Rationing Board, said today. “Any mer- chant who does not attend the meeting is likely to find himself in trouble later on, and my advice is that all be present in the court- house at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning 2 nae wwecevcvcecccececesecesececsceeses (By Associated Pres: sevce . EIGHTEEN JAP PLANES DESTROYED BY AMERICANS DARWIN.—Reports reaching here from Port Moresby on New Guinea say that 18 Jap planes were destroyed two days ago im an encounter with American planes. Americans in the encounter was not given. The Australians are. said to be only 34 miles from the Jap base at Buna on New Guinea. | The number of planes lost by the To Be Marching Unop- posed Through Same | Place Toward Tripoli LONDON, Nov. 18.—Two Brit ish armies are rolling into Tun be | isia today in the direction of Tunis and the naval base at Bi zerte, and it is expected that there will be clashes between them and the Axis forces within the next 24 hours. Other forces, composed almost entirely of American troops. are unopposed Tuhisia. It is believed that they number at least 10,000 men and that they ere about equally di vided between the Germans and the Italians. Axis troops are still being flown from Sicily to Tunisia, and it is thought that some of them ; marching through while the Americans, coming from the southeast, are reported te be | “iso arrived there by bost dur- even closer to Buna. HEEL OF ITALY’S “BOOT” CLOSE TO TUNISIA : LONDON.—The heel of Italy's “boot” from any of the 15 air- that the Axis powers have in- fields on Tunisi reasons for Axis movement in seizing those airfields. more than one-half of which are in direct line of march of the two British arm- | Tunisia. but no reports of dam ies going toward Tunis and Bizerte. REPORT AMERICAN NAVY MAY MOVE ON RABAUL DARWIN.—It is believed that the next move of the American last week. naval forces will be toward the important Jap base at Rabaul, which lies northwest of the Solomons and is at the northeast tip of New Britain Island. The Rabaul base is said to be more strongly fortified than eny others the Japs have on the islands lying east and northeast of New Guinea. AXIS CONFERENCE DECISIONS MAY BE ANNOUNCED LONDON.—The result of the series of conferences that repre- sentatives of Germany, Italy and France have had since November 8 is expected to be announced by the Axis powers in the next day EIGHTH ANMY REPORTED or so, and it is believed here that one of the agreements will be the extension of Laval’s powers over the people of France. RICKENBACKER DESIRES TO WASHINGTON.—While the COMPLETE SECRET SURVEY whereabouts of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker has not ye{ been disclosed, his condition is said to be good,.and it is reported that he has expressed a desire to complete the survey tha he started for the War Department and which end- opi ed when he ran out of gasoline on October 21. said that Rickenbacker stated that he would be ready to resume th« the trip in three weeks. The report further SOLDIERS INJURED IN ELEVATED TRAIN COLLISION CHICAGO.—Thirty-six persons, most of them sailors connected with the Great Lakes Training Station, were injured in two rear- end’collisions of Chicago's elevated trains today. One crash oc- curred on the south side and the other on the north side. None of the injured is in a serious condition. SEARCH EVERGLADES FOR LIGHT ARMY BOMBER FORT MYERS.—Search was started today in the Everglades | for a light army bomber that has been missing for two days. The a plane, with six men aboard, left Page Field at this place Monday ! and has not been heard of since that time. rn TEACHER MAKES HOBBY OF. SUBBING Many of the col-| heart failure. ored people can not even find an | The body was turned over to} Coroner Paul Boysen who, {after hearing what Dr. Morgan ed from there. Mr. Fulford is a) @NNHIiIiiiiiniIiniiinMOMMMMNUNM, | had to say about Voght’s death, son of Arthur Fulford and a} grandson of the late Fire Chief) Hyam G. Fulford. A Key Wester‘ by birth, he mioved to Miami a! number of years ago and has held | a responsible position at Bur-/ dines for fifteen years. } His many friends will be happy to know that he was well and! enjoying good health. He said that they were being treated royally and had made a visit to} London which he thoroughly en-| ATTENTION, LIONS Bring vour favorite Lioness to a Fried Chicken Dinner at the Den on THURSDAY. NOVEM- BER 19. 8 P.M. Each Guest is Only 50c BOB BLAKE. District Gover- decided there was no need of sum- jmoning a coronér’s jury. Mr. Boysen released the body of Voght’s to family and it was re- moved to Lopez Funeral Home. Mr. Voght leaves his father, Fernando Voght; two brothers William and Von; a sister, Mrs. Camille Ferrell, and a daughter, Miss Jacqueline Voght. All mem- bers of the family, except the fa-! | ther, are absent from Key West, and funeral arrangements will not | (By Associated Preany BLUFFTON, 0.,° Now. Wilford Geiger, science teacher, has made a spe- cialty of substituting. He is sub-! big as deputy village clerk for Jim West, now in the Army. He is driving a school bus for one of} the drivers who had an oper tion. In his spare time, he clerks) in a clothing store evenings and paints houses during vacations. high school | 1 SUICIDE RATE WASHINGTON — The annual| suicide rate in the United States) is 14.4 persons per 100,000 popula-{ RU be made till the yare heard from. | tion. | EARLY NATIVES ATE MEAT NEW YORK—Studies of ani- mal bones near the Tigris as well as game and fish < CUUUVUUAREDECDEOELANUALLYASSGAAGOOEUERDOUOLLGOAEASMESEAGLLSED, Pre-Thanksgiving Dance Thursday, Nov. 19. 8:30 P.M. RAUL’S CLUB on the Boulevard Sponsored by Jr. Woman’s Club PRITCHARD’S ORCHESTRA Featuring Fashion Show $1.10 Per Couple | Japanese people | Rome radio reports said today is not more than 20 to 30 minutes’ flying time by creased their U-boat activities in a plane of moderate speed, and that knowledge is one of the chief, the waters along Algeria and of Allied ships have been made since late ages to or sinking GENERAL ALLIED THRUST AGAINST JAPS PLANNED TO BE SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILES FROM TUNISIA WASHINGTON, Nov it experts here expre ion today that the victory in the v mons have opene | way for a general Allied against the Japan northerly direction in the In such an operation, pointed out, the Henders: field, held by the United marines on adalca: figure prominently, 4 nation to hold airf been stressed by the r ting near it has sed ni now w Japanese These s that the Jap ar trying to reinforce whe surprised by the Amer: ships in the first of the 2 that resulted in the defeat Japanese. Despite that sweeping def ‘| indicated that the earliest natives|the Japanese propaganda mi 18,— | of Iraq ate pork, mutton and beef |ter is trying to turn it into a vi tory for the consumption of The mir is telling the Japs at home they lost only eight ships. as they lost 23, and that the A eriean ships destroyed number 13, when as a fact the Ame lost only eight ships. REREEEREREREERERET REET _ PALACE THEATER CHESTER MORRIS in