The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 26, 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. 281. British And Americans Are Axis Forces, Principally HITLER CALLING aa Brn ON MUSSOLINI FOR | yang on are Nom)” ADDITIONAL MEN’ bers At Both Points | NAZI LEADER NEEDS THEM FOR DEFENSE OF TUNIS,! BIZERTE; YOUTHS OF. 19! CALLED IN ITALY (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 26—Most of | the fighting in| the news about Tunisia today comes from Allied-controlled radio in Mo- rocco, which said that the British and American armies (By Asnociated Press) LONDON, Nov. 26.—According | information received here, ! but 22 miles from Tunis and 24| Hitler has demanded of Mussolini; miles from, Bizerte. |that he provide more troops for Axe & aia _.n. {the defense of Tunis and Bizerte, roneyf, chiefly Talians) and two things have happened} are concentrated in large num- Since yesterday to point out that! s a | the reports are, true. . bers at both points. and military Hitler started yesterday to re- men here today warned that it ‘urn to the Russian front thous- ands of troops that had left there will not be an easy matter for for possible fighting in North ; ;, Africa, as a result of the Allied in- the Allies to capture either Tunis \vasion of that territory. Shortly thereafter called to the colors longer cars of age. The militar: that Hit! ing in Ru inter will be} as general as it was last winter, ! which means he must send to the! | Russian front everv man_he can | It is for that reason that are now], or the naval base at Bizerte. The be and fiercer too than is generally enticipzted. it was declared here, chiefly becruse the Axis powers Mussolini | fighting is likely to eubsrote comment h ®re able to reinforce the garri- sons continucusly from Siciliy SPare- he has called on Mussolini to sup- and parts of Italy, despite the at- ply the bulk of men for fighting! tacks of American and British in the Mediterranean. area. DEFENSE WORK bombed Tripoli last night ial IN USUAL WAY caused great ,devastation atong' " the waterfront, Several~ Axis: MANY PUBLIC BUILDINGS Planes in Algeria and par:s of Tunisia and the assistence from ships were hit and either sunk or badly damaged, and several mili- tery objects struck, in Tripoli were THREE CASES ARE HEARD IN COURT Mamie Be ho beat up Har- old Pinder ( el”) on Tuesday night, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery in criminal court at a special session at 5 o'clock yesterday —_ afternoon. Judge Albury fined her $5 and costs, with the alternative of serving 30 days in jail. She paid the fine. Margaret Larsen, who was ar- rested Tuesday night by Con- stable Ray Atwell, pleaded ruilty to a charee of v nev, and was . or 30 days in Willie Warren, negro, with assault and batter tenced to pay a fine of costs, or serve 30 days in jail. was still in jail today. He HIGHEST MOUNTAIN WASHINGTON — The highest mountain of Europe is Mount Elborus in the Caucasus. Reports State That Allied Fleet Left Gibraltar Today - house, were closed.’ The only of- ARE CLOSED FOR THANKS- GIVING; SERVICES IN FEW! OF CHURCHES j | | H { | | Work went on as usual today in defense projects in Key West, and there was no difference in the line-up of automobiles on | Whitehead street, from Greene; to Fleming, and on Fleming; street, from Duval to Emma, which showed there was no let-} up in work in the Navy Yard. Work proceeded apace in the; barracks also and on every de-| fense project in Key West. Thanksgiving services were | held in some of the churches! this morning, and the attend-; ances were good, considering | that the heads § practically all families in lest! were Work- ing. Service’ will be held gens} erallyy tonight ih eghprcties} all: ‘over the city? i The rost office, the bank, the | city hall and the county court: fice open.in the latter’ place ‘was | the sheriff's. | REALLY BROWN ST. LOUIS — Though often! called “red,” the American Indian | is really brown. Warpaint was | ‘sometimes crimson. Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE. WSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, POSvoccevsseececceseavescessenesseeeee Twenty-Five Years Of Russian Revolution Sesocesvaveseccscvesess Early Soviet peasants used crude agricultural methods. Soviets built tractors. developed large productive farms, In 1920. almost half the Rus- sians were illiterate. Now education is comoulsory. Czar’s army was ragged. ill-equioped. Communists pushed universal conscription, secretly built tanks and planes, were reaiy to fivht when Hitler came. Tiev have killed legends of his invincibility. Wide ‘World Festures {ment stretching across two con-} At its birth, many The Union of Scviet Socialist. tinents, embracing | one-sixth of; looked upon Soviet Russia with Republics ‘ig _.elebrating this} the earth’s land surface, and. af-!ridicule; as it ruthlessly developed month the 25th anniversary of her fecting 190,000,000 people. The| Massive industries and, indoctri- reyolution, whose goal is cum-}£oviet’s testing erotnd énjoys (or, nated aS wrdple, witt! fear: as it munism. ; endures) every climate extept the,’ wifration. During. that time Russia has | tropical; hes virtually every raw These pictures. tell some things carried on the largest-seale social |:naterial, and lahd to grow every ‘the Soviets have done with their experiment in history—an experi- |kind of cereal; vegetable, fruit, {quarter-century of power. hi AUSTRALIAN “AND Poisoning Cases Gall Out’ MSTza, | Sheriff In Early Morning ADVANCE ON JAPS IERCER FIGHTING GOES ON | : BETWEEN OPPOSING FOR-! Allan Ortiz, a negro, was lock- was pumped out, but his chance | of recovery was said to be slight. CES AT BUNA AND GONA ON| Another “Poison” Case j NEW GUINEA | When the sheriff returned to | shooting st his wife, and at 5/his office from the hospital, he | : e i was informed that a white woman, o'clock this morning he aroused caljed Tillie Lane, was screaming ; at ing iD her room on the second floor of stepr body in he all Be ccr dies | puliaing atten ail Whee out that he had swallowed ahead strects that she had taken poison and wanted to die. Sheriff Sawyer went to the room, saw the blood on the floor idently had come from the ed up in the county jail at 10 o'clock, last night on a charge of (Hy Associated Presx) DARWIN, Nov. 26. — Nearer! and nearer the American and} Australian forces, advancing from | aifferent quarters, are approach- | ing the Japs at Buna and Gona on! New Guinea and firecer and fiercer are the encounters be-! tween the contending forces. Much hand-to-hand fighting is 2n’s mouth, which was badly Teported. today, with neither side Her arms were bruised, and 8iving-or asking for any quarte ff-suid that instead of It was believed, judging from the | on, she apparently had latest accounts of the fighting Sherift. Saw-| been agling witht sudeehody. raise surrender or 2 ee yer said he tried fro: eR He saw sailor's clothes in her Of the Japs is now a matter of on- ; . Jay’ til o'clock to get the woman was married to a yeo- few hours at the least. { a doctor to treat Ortiz, but was! man in the Navy Yard. The sher-’ Commanders of Japanese ships } unable to find one, so he called) iff, therefore, reported the case in the ae Penne bat xe v3 “eee .x.| to naval officers, aware of the almost forlorn hope | ae ene ere nach | that face the Japs at Buna and Go- ! plained the situation to the doc-| “PEARL HARBOR” BABIES ‘na, and attempt after att¢mpt has | tors there. ao ; been made recently to relieve the | Sheriff Sawyer was permitted; WASHINGTON — The month garrison there. The last attempt! to take Ortiz to the hospital, buat | Of September set a record for the was made yesterday. by two small | 9 tyear in the number of births.;Jap troopships and two destroy-i by that time he had begun to ‘The September rate, figured on! ers, but all of them fell prey to| bleed at the mouth. His stomach zn annual basis, was 22.9 births ;Ameriean planes that flew to sea | }per thousand population. the| from Port Moresby to bomb the} ATES SDE highest ratio of any month since} ships. bottle of bichloride of mercury teblets, ; The jailer called pate who was at his c: home, and:he-arrived at the jail a | he s taking up Sheriff Berlin Sawyer, few minutes later. occccccccccccccoccccs| | | outsiders | Mights- to crush the Axis, with ad- | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe*t U. S. A. PRICE FIVE CENTS Russians Building “Ring Of Men And Stee” Around German Forces LATE BULLETINS THANKSGIVING DAY DINNER SERVED LATE WASHINGTON.—The nation today, with some exceptions, ete, or will east. its Thanksgiving Day dinner late. The reason for that is because everybody in the country whose work is contributing to ‘the wer effort remained on the job today. 1942 Over 300,000 Men Are Be- coming Trapped; Great Losses Suffered By Nazis In Past Six Days Seecccccvvescceceeneeseeescs (RS Associated Pres) MOSCOW. Nov. 26.—The Rus- j sian war office characterizes the | AMERICAN SOLDIERS PASS UP TURKEY j action of the Rumson esmy to |. LONDON.—American.soldiers. in. this country»could have had | their turkey dinner:today,-the:same as:American soldiers tisewhere | in the world. but they~preferred to give their turkeys to hospitals end steel” eround the German ‘in England end eat; instead, baked. pork, apple sauce and sweet forces in the Stalingrad potatoes. 1 Mcre than 300.000 men will be dey as building @ "ring of men area. i pate | EIGHTH ARMY CONTACTS ROMMEL’S UNITS | CAIRO.—For the first time in four days the British Eighth army j succeeded today in contacting Marshal Rommel's fleeing forces. | But even at thet, the clash was brief and resulted only in a few i casualties. It was a rearguard action near the Gulf of Serte road, the report continued, and brings | but the Axis contingent broke off the action and fled toward El the number German : in killed, wounded and to 250.000 in the last trepped. the report said further. Five thousend Germans were killed in thet area yesterday. total of lesses, DARLAN CAN EASILY EXPLAIN HIS POSITION LONDON.—News received from Admiral Darlan in North Afri- | a today was to the effect that he feels sure'he can explain his po | Sition, in aligning French West Africa, particularly Daker, with the | Allied Nations, that will allay any fears that may be entertained in | Allied countries. He further said that he feels confident that his | explanetion will put to rest any fears that may be entertained by | the “Free French” forces. ‘ ceptured. six days. There has not been any let-up in the intensity of the Russian | rive, Red Star. Soviet semi-of- | ficial mewspaper, said today. add ing that the drive will imcreese in scope and pres- sure than decrease in the next more likely JAPANESE DRIVE ON CHINA HALTED CHUNGKING.—The war office reported today that as a result | of bombing, day after day, for six days, by American planes, the | Japanese drive southward in China has been stopped. The planes / wreaked havoc to the Jep supply lines, the report stated, few days. Meny columns have sireacdy \isen ‘cat off completely in the Stalingrad aree. the official re- HOLD CONFERENCE ON MANPOWER ISSUE WASHINGTON.—Tension over the manpower differences be- ; tween the army and the navy on one side and the War Production | Board on the other continued today to be as pronounced as it was | | port said. A new movement of Russian $50, | yesterday. Donald Nelson, head of the WPB, had a conference with the President, but no statement was made by either of them when the conference was over. Probably in the next day or so it will jbe decided who will get first call on the nation’s manpower, the WPB or the navy and the army. CASE AGAINST RIVERS RESUMED TODAY ATLANTA.—The case against former Governor Rivers, charged with embezzling state funds, was resumed) in court here today. The | prosecution produced witnesses who testified that during the entire time Rivers was governor Mrs. Rivers’ was paid $150 a week from the state treasury for keeping house for him in the executive men- sion. rural mail carrier his hand Senator Pepper into the mail box of Mrs. Claude | Vanderslic mouse skipped out.! Ins were the tattered remai of a letter containing a check for nibbled down io the iast} cent. | le Realizing the se: shortage of doctors’ in Ke jthe directors ot the Chambe! Commerce appointed a ho: ization committee, comr Fred Eberhardt, chairm: \lius F. Stone and Everett Rus: jto take up the matter further ¥ {the United States Public Heal i Service. ! As Senator Claude Pep j already brought the juation in Key West to the |tion of the United States i |Health Service, jcalled up the s phone and requ ! new his efforts in this part: | matter. | Senator Pepper said he would jsee Surgeon General Thomas | Barran and present the case to , hardt recei - with . cies troops was reported today along {the Stelingrad-Rostov railroad, end they were driving back the Germans ei] along that line, it was asserted. MOSTLY AMONG FARMERS DETROIT co My Unit Joins With In Endeavor To that would e of protection of war workers eli as for our citizens women and _ children ij, crowded city This morning Chairman the fol gram from Senator Pepp You know I have been ir Dr ing vigorous] Claude Pepr > noon tod umber of C gram from S Shortly yt Key West Ct recieved a te To Engage Italian Vessels es /COLUMBIA LONDON, -Nov: 26.—Two re-| destroyers left » Gibraltar today, | ports from Spain today, dealt with |@nd it was assumied that this was RESTAURANT { afta, . pthe fleet that had gone out to meet + at as the purported activity >of: war- | ihe Italian fleet that was reported n7y sr. ships, troops and planés‘ift the a C ; SPECIAL. j yesterday to: be seeking action Mediterranean theatér of ‘war. : | front to fight in the Mediterran- he Russian winter oes. | Ty | ; | with Allied warships. One report said that two Allied jean area, is.now rushing back to ‘of the Russian winter offensive. PALACE THEATER DON (Red) BARRY in Outlaws Of Pine Ridge NEWS and SERIAL Li The other report stated that airplane carriers, two Sepeattend) Hitler, having brought many hun- two heavy cruisers and several | dreds of planes and many thous- i ands of troops from the Russian es Russian front many of those 7 FULL troops and many of those planes | because of the critical conditions COURSES that face the German armies in| Served 12 Noon to 12 Midnight i Sa i February, 1924. These Septem ber babies are being called “Pear! Harbor” babies, as they were born nine months, after that his. toric event. BANA Ope After the ships went down, the | airmen said, the sea was crowded | in the vicinity of the sinking with lap seamen and soldiers strug- :gling for their lives. - MADRID ning SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28th Make Your Reservations Early PHONE 9157 said b ¥Y ; \him, but suggested that the int_r-| Pepper, in which he gf he > +, pest of Key West in the matter be Contacted'Dr. Parran ar America’s fay Cy forwarded “to him, Pepper, im-'asencies and. gave ‘add “ . = Pina se 8S. Christmas-Box ‘mediately. ance that he would contin The secretary of the Chamber! Work to relieve the, shortag« of Commerce told our civic or-/ Physicians in this city Yes—it’s the worll fdr SAMPLE! crisp, i ganizations about Senator Pep- per’s request, and Chairman Carl Bervaldi for the County Com-! mission, president William Free- | jaent Chem c. Price of the Cham. |Saturday, November 28th | ber of Commerce. President How- Pena Morales, Your Host jard Overlin of the Rotary Club 6 and President Earle Hamilton of | the Lions Club, put their organi- | zations on record by sending to} On the Boulevard Under Auspices of Catholic Daughters Senator Pepper telegrams setting BARROSO’S ORCHESTRA of nutty chocolate- We'll hold your selection or send it anywhere. ; SOUTHERNMOST CITY | PHARMACY, Inc. Duval at Fleming Key West, Fla. iforth in detail the urgent need of | more local physicians, from an economic as well as from an hu- manitarian standpoint, for some