The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 19, 1942, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME UXIII. No. 275. Faty-Two, mates. OF How The Eggs Became Poisonous No One At In- stitution Has Been Able To Learn (By Associated Press) PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. Forty-two inmates of the Oregon asylum had died. ‘up: to 4 o'clock this morning; from ‘eiting seram- bled eggs for supper last night. |: The toxic effect of the eggs was so strang that, within two hours after supper, four of the inmates } had died. Despite heroic treat- | ment of the other inmates, they continued to die at intervals, so} that, by midnight, 28 had suc- cumbed. From then till 4 o'clock | this morning 14 more died bring- ing the total to 42. How the eggs came to be pois- onous, nobody at the institution} seems to know. It is thought that H ptomaine poisoning alone . could! not have had so powerful effect. A chemical analysis of the re- maining eggs will be made. LAUNCHES ‘DON'T | TRAVEL’ CAMPAIGN (By Aunociated Prens) WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.— Joseph P. EaStman, head of the | Office of Transportation, today} started a “Don't Travel” move-! ment that he hopes will spread! over the entire United States. Mr. Eastman asserts that many people travel who really don't have to. Traveling with them is mostly a habit that they have long since contracted, and many times! they make trips that they really | don't have to make. It is people of that kind and oth- ers in this country to whom Mr. Eastman is appealing not to make any trips by train or bus unless they actually have to travel.” He advises to “stay at home; it helps the war effort to stay at home and attend to your busi- ness.” CABANA CLUB RAIDED BY DEPUTY SHERIFFS Chief Deputy Sheriff A. H. McInnis and Deputy Joe Knight | raided the Cabana Club\orl Du:! val ‘street last night. Ghief Mc! Innis says no gambling was go- ing on in the club, but) that she: found a dice layout, which was! confiscated. Whitney Papy, said to be the} owner of the club, was arrested) Poisone * t 19,— | ADDRESSES ROTES' Eggs VT ZLLLLELLA MINERS FAIL TO AGREE ON 6-DAY WORK WEEK: i (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 19.— The United Coal Miners of America, in session here to- dey, failed to agree to a six- day week for soft-coal min- ers. ‘ “The union wants: time and a half foniall: time, over the: . present’ five-day ‘week, and the operators «would © «not agree to that proposal. ACALAL ALA EXPECT JAPANESE i | FORCES AT BUNA i ' | TO CRACK .SOON COMBINED PRESSURE OF AU- | STRALIANS AND AMERI-| CANS IS TOO GREAT TO) OVERCOME, BELIEF. (By Aswociated Pres) DARWIN, Nov. 18.—Indications | are that almost any day now news | will be received that the Japanese | forces at Buna have cracked un-j; der the combined pressure of the Australians and Americans. Added to that pressure is the fact that the Japs have not been| able to receive suppiies or rein-| forcements for more than two} weeks, during which time half a| dozen attempts of Japanese ships'| to make contact with Buna have failed. The Australians have cut down their distance to Bune to a little more than 30 miles to the north- } west. The Americans, coming, from the southeast, are said to be closer than that to the Jap base, } though the number of miles has at no time been officially an- nounced by MacArthur's ‘head-; quarters. CAPTAIN WINTER Capt. Everett P. Winter was the | }chief speaker at the luncheon of! the ‘Key West Rotary. club, today. Captaiti Winté¥ spoke about the. functions of the civilian defense | corps, the chief aim of which -is! preservation of te Lapa Guests today wéré . MMIcAllis- } ern Bell Telephone Co.; Corporal} John B. Pagano and a well-known | Che Kry | If Allies Capture The Mediterranean British Army By-Passed Bengasi |BUSINESS MEN'S rat THE SOUTHERNMOST. NE WSPAPER IN THE U. KEY WEST,.FLORIDA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1942 GIBRALTAR, only Allied bridgehead 1 on the north coast of Mediterranean, ‘4 may be the start of a new overland ‘invasion highway across Spain and France to Germany. TENUOUS VICHY-ALLIED relations 2 broke over American invasion of northwest Africa; this may make 2 direct invasion of southern. France pos- sible and practical. : FR. WEST AFRICA AP Features ITALY MIGHT BE bombed out of ait: war, then used as the land and air base for a frontal attack against Ger- many across the Alps or for sweep through France. WITH CHETNIK ARMY still fight- ing in Yugoslavia, Balkan invasion may be feasible through Greece or, with Italy already knocked out of the war, an encircling i through Yugoslavia. - In Attempt To Cut Off Some Of | MEETING DRAWS’ Fleeing Germans And Italians LARGE NUMBER | é ! (By “Ansogtnted (Press) ADDRESSES MADE BY OUT- _CAIRO, Nov. 19.—The sviisn ATTACK BY NAZIS | OF-TOWN OFFICIALS’ IN atsieiieken ct tacesg ad IS THROWN BACK! EXPLANATION OF PRICE) Rommel’s men, are reported this | morning to have by-passed Ben- | CONTROL. | gasi in an attempt to cut off some ; of the fleeing Germans and Ital- | CERMANS. ians. No wora was received here! if that movement met with suc- cess. General Alexander, comman- der of the British troops, said to-! day he expected the Axis forces | to make a stand at El Agheila, 400 ! miles f12m Tripoli. |launched by the The Eighth army is now 230; miles from El Agheila and about 800 miles from the western boun- | dary of Tunisia where the British j SIX THOUSAND STRONG, MADE ATTEMPT | A meeting of grocers, depart- ; ment store owners and oiher busi- | | SOUTH OF STALINGRAD ness men in Key West was held} | \in the county courthouse this! Gun ychunciktantwrcads | morning under the auspices of the 1 MOSCOW Nov. 18.—An attack} Monroe County War, Price and! | Rationing Board, of which Bas-| Germans, 6,000/com L. Grooms is chairman. H was| Mr. Grooms presided at ;meeting and _ introduced strong, south of Stalingrad, et thrown back with heavy losses of | speakers, all of whom were from | the | Key West, Florida, his the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe't Citizen S. A. Four VRICE FIVE CENTS “At Now Marling no Tis ‘Part Of Contingents Are LATE BULLETINS | tikey te ciash With | Axis Forces Before The | HITLER GIVES FULL POWER TO LAVAL | Week-End LONDON.—Informetion was received here today that Hitler amet has given full power to Laval in France and that Marshal Petain Pe Spe eM has been shorn of all his power. Laval, in dealing with Frenchmen, j LONDON, Nov. 18.—Allied now has the power of a dictator. | | armies, forming four columns, are ; Row, merching into Tunisia,.and it, was.announced today that one (By Associated Press) DARWIN.—During the last, 24 hours there vhave been a few clashes between Japs and marines in Guadalcanal west of the Hen- derson airfield. It ‘is said that the Japs are running, short.of. food and supplies, and that, should they be unable to make.contact with their ships in the next week or so, their condition will be pre- carious. ij or.more,of the columns are like- ly to clash with Axis forces by the week-end. Paratroops from the Allied bases in Algeria have seized two LAUNDRYMEN IN MIAMI GO ON STRIKE MIAMI.—One hundred laundrymen in this city went on strike ss - 4 today because owners of laundries here refused to recognize their °° airdromes in Tunisia, it wes union. Government agencies and union men are said to be com- | announced today. According to ing here to try to settle the strike. Meanwhile, owners say they are {reports received here, now operating on an open-shop basis. the troops cee met with little opposition in tak- RAF BOMBED TURIN LAST NIGHT ing the airdromes, and it is ex- LONDON.—Turin in Italy was bombarded last night by the pecteq ‘wo more fields will be | RAF. The Air Ministry did not say how many planes participated in the raid or how many, if any, were lost. but it did announce that **i#¢d in the next 24 hours. vast damage was done to military objects in Turin. French fighters are also mov- {ing into Tunisia with the Allies | The Frenchmen are under the 9 command of General Henri Ho nore Giraud. The war office here said that heavy fighting” is likely to b jmet with by the Allies in the |next few days, as Hitler is known JAPS PLAN ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE IN BURMA. INDO-CHINA CHUNGKING.—Japs in Burma and in Indo-China are said t be planning an all-out offesive that they hope will result in the cap- : ture of this city. In Burma alone the number of Japs that will tek: part in the offensive is said to total 30,000. | HUNGARY AND RUMANIA SECRETLY HAIL ALLIED SUCCESS to be massing large squadrons of LONDON.—Allied successes in North Africa are being hailed, | planes, as many as 1,000, one . % soauelty Sascoens lecioniess mith ior Br toe seevle oh Eutenon EEC aren’ Wo cle comtio~ Rumehia? fifi Tirkey ho attempt has been made to screen : ‘ "7 uing to ferry men across the satisfaction of the Tarks aver the success of the Allied arms. | Mediterranean from Sicily, using large transport planes, for that rurpose. FOUR NEW OFFICERS REPORT FOR DUTY AT LOCAL NAVY STATION thi WOULD PROVIDE SERVICE MEN WITH NEW TESTAMENTS! osu, | ATLANTA, Nov. 19. — Paul TAMPA, Nov. 19 (FNS).—Co-| Sawyer, son of Mrs .Reva Saw- operating in the nation-wide| yer of 925 Southard street, Key; Four otncers reported this movement of the Nationa Bible; West, has been promoted to the Week for assignments at the Naval Society to place a New Testa-\rank of first lieutenant in the Operating Base here and two ment in the hands of every serv-| army of the United States, Head-| others were detached for duties ice man, former Governor Doyle quarters, Fourth Service| Com-|€lsewhere, Lieut. C. B. Barton, E. Carlton accepted leadership mand announced today. | personnel officer for the U. S. of the movement in Florida andj |, gee t | Naval Station, announced today offices were established here in|, Following his graduation. from| “Reporting were charge of campaign director Har-)2¥ School at the University of} Second Lieutenant Harold F lorida in 1941, Lieut. Sawyer|,,”~ ents éccin | the ry Jaeger. practiced law in Key West. Hig | eee ete es Religious leaders of the state Gas appoint city htcence, for| Marine Corps School at Quantico, are being appealed to in an ef-| 0) West in November 1941 and} 2: the non ae nea: fort to acquaint the public with} erved in this position until helen sr Lessee air the program which provides for} 2 prog P i was called to active duty with the |weifare Department as his first \dssignment to active duty. ‘PAUL SAWYER MADE FIRST LIEUTENANT the furnishing of Testaments to! { soldiers at very small cost, fi- Army last May. First army and the American col- umns are pressing eastward _ to- ward Tripoli. Twelve Axis planes were de- stroyed yesterday at Bengasi without the loss ‘of a single Allied plane. |ter, district manager of the South-! FOUR CASES HEARD men and equipment by the enemy, i {the i Russian communique an- nounced today. | For a time, the communique said, the impact of the Germans |threw the Russians back and gains were made by the enemy, but the lost ground was recaptured by the Russians, the report stated. on a charge of having the gamb-{and highly-esteemed Key West) ling layout in his possession. He ; was released on putting up aj} cash bond of $100. | at Fort Lauderdale. young man Carpenter's Mate Ed- ward J. Gasselin, who is stationed Sheriff Finds Driver of Car Who Struck Bassett; Soldier, Who Also W <i : Late yesterday afternoon Shi iff Berlin Sa Ck directiny an all-day seaktte uAd the auto-' mobile that struck ‘William V.! Bassett and broke his.ankle while} he was “attemiptifig to. push,...his car on White!’ street on Tuesday.j;not fully cofsciots of the serious-;Tu evening: Sheriff Sawyer also. found “out the name of the hit-and-run dri- ver, who is himself confined to a! hospital. The car was found in the army | barracks. The owner of the car, a sergeant had loaned it to a soldier, | and it was the latter who was) \concerned fn the accident that! resulted in the injury to Bassett. | It is Sheriff Sawyer’s opinion that the soldier was so badly in- jured himself he wasn’t fully, in a civil court. ij { as Hurt at Time are of what hé was. saying or | ing imniediately after the acci* ent. He exclaimed, “My car); won't run!” and then jumped into it-and drove off, cut and bleeding}. himself, though he was probably, bs ness of his condition till his ex-! citement died down. He then went to the hospital in the bar-{ racks -and is still treatment. Sheriff Sawyer says that he will: apply to Col. R. T. Arrington to} have the soldier turned over to| the civil authorities for trial when | he gets better. As this is war | time, a long string of red tape will /tors of three American presidents j have to be gone through before | the soldier can be brought to trial | \ jeharged with reckless driving. ! wo IN LOCAL COURT The Ru: for the third oe straight day, beat the Germans in Two cases of reckless driving | * aie 7 A undtiwo ‘cases ‘of & ing were | tne vicinity of pais the com- Sete hefore Tiel ok he Peace | Munique declares adding that the Enrique Esquinaldo late yester-| German losses totaled at least @ay, afternoon, {1,000 for each of those days. Edgar W. Bare, according to al —_—_—__—— state highway patrolman, was CARPENTERS GIVE FUND TO USO UNIT speeding on Boca “Chica at 55, miles an hour and passing cars} on curves, when he was arrested. | He pleaded guilty to a charge of| Clarence Higgs, business agent reckless driving and was held in| of the local Carpenters’ Union, $50 bail for the Monroe County yesterday turned over to the USO $175 that was part of the wages of form workers on Armisti Highway by ! Day. eg Criminal Court of Record. Joe Knight,/ Mr. Higgs said that carpenters rking on tank forms for the at the case against | Mackle-Leach Company volun- pastponed until next |tarily agreed to give one-half of fequest was gtaht- their earnings on November 11 ed and ‘he Teleased after put- ito the USO, and, having been ting up $50 bail. j paid for their work on that day, Raymond Warren and Joseph! they commissioned him to turn Robert R. Aaron was arrested | on the Overseas Deputy Sheriff Aaroh asked himube there under|Camner, charged with speeding, |over the sum of $175 to that or-/Of enlistments showed that forty- were each held under $25 bail! ganization. for the criminal court. | : Aalichichabetiahehahehted PALACE THEATER WESTWARD HO NEWS and SERIAL | THREE DUTCH { WASHINGTON — The ances-! | Roose- | : were Dutch—Martin Van Buren, Theodore and Franklin D. velt. | out of town. They were J. F. Selle, | | state price specialist; A. W. Pier-| i pont, state price officer; Mark! | Max, field represenattive of Mi-; jami, and his assistant W. Bates! Coles. | | Mr. Selle’s address explained | jevery feature of price control, | } both in the retail and the whole-| |sale field. Mr. Grooms remarked | _after the meeting thai anybody | who did not understand the func- | | tioning of price control before the | meeting, surely understood it well | after he had heard Mr. Selle talk. | Mr. Grooms said further that! the response to his call for the j meeting was excellent among Key } West business men. Between 90 | and 100 were present. j - SESS | TWO KEY WESTERS AMONG ENLISTEES IN NAVAL FORCES Among the recent enlistment jof 38 men in the Navy from the { | lower east coast of Florida, were | William C. Reordan, NOB, Key} | West, and John L. Stimson, Jr., | | 1229 Grinnell street, Key West. | According to announcement made by Lieut. M. C. Rhodes, |Jr., navy recruiting officer, the j}young men making up the bulk | jfour percent were in the 17-20 | age group. | “This proves that young men jare investigating the opportuni- | ties offered: by the navy,” Lieut. ; Rhodes remarked. | "He also’ stated that high school j boys may apply ‘for free exam- jination to determine their fit- mess for the navy with no obli- ‘gations to enlist. | ;the plan and state that soldiers; FATHER AND TWIN nanced through personal sub-! Since Ma¥ ‘he has been assigned scriptions of those sympathetic | to Headquarters, Fourth Servic with the effort. “Army and Navy | Command. chaplains are enthusiastic over; - j j deeply appreciate, such help. SONS ARE DRAFTED’ MEE. | 8M ERIDGE George 1. Wil liams, 45-year-old defense work. er, and his 20-year-old twin sons Richard G. and John M. Wil- the rnsign., Russell B. Clarke, J(S), USNR, from the Bu u ‘of Ships to the Industrial Depart ment Ensign Cecil'P. Jones, SC-V(P), JSNR, to the Supply Department s his first assignment to active duty. Those detached are Ensign Lionel M. Katz, D-V(S) USNR, from the Naval Station the Sub-Chaser Training Cente liams, were inducted into Army at the same time. The father was delighted, declaring, “T'm especially glad I'm going |with my boys. I'd love to be with them all the time.” Miami Ensign Robert A. Rogers, C-V(S), USNR, from the Cor munication Office to District Communications Office, Miamj lil \Joint Meeting Will Be Held - Tomorrow to Consider Action On Limiting Building Permits City Officials, directors of the; encourage it, for the. simple ree ‘Key West'Chamber of Commerce |son that’ constrictign of hoysarve and itermbets of the local Carpen- | accomodations in Key West i Ages’ Union will hold a meeting | essential to the war effort, ‘tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in| City officials and directors the Chamber's rooms to consider; the chainber take the stand that j the action of the War Production | building in Key West is exceed + Board in limiting building per- ‘ingly important to the war effort | mits in this city to $200 each. As It is a fact that men working ‘ ‘was stated in The Citizen on| Uncle Sam in Key West are ur i "Iuesday, that order was givenjable to find proper sleeping a ito Building Inspector Ralph Rus-|commodations. Some of them ;Sell by a WPB representative. |My. Higgs has declared sleep : The sentiment of the Carpen-! automobiles. SOUTHERNMOST CITY ‘ters’ Union has already been ex-| “These men work for the go» ; Pressed by its business agent,| ernment, and the government PHARMACY, Inc. {Clarence Higgs, who takes the|should help them to find a pla Duval at Fleming Key West, Fla,| position that the War Production; to sleep, not stop them, as the ESE Board, instead of stopping build-|War Production Board proposes to ing of houses in Key West should! do,” Mr. Higgs concluded. i 1 4 We'll hold your selection or send is anywhere.