The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 27, 1942, Page 1

Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe*t ) : Press Day Wire | a and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Beat Interests of Key West i ; eat Citizen VOLUME LXIII. No. 282. Two Allied Armies Have’ Clashes Wit Showdown Fight In Tuni- ‘sia Expected For Some ‘Time Has Not Yet Taken : Place (Bx Aasectated Press) LORDON, ‘Nov. 27—Four Al- lied atmies are on the march in Tunisia today, and two, going in a ‘southeasterly direction, pot meeting with any opposition, but the other two, one heading} toward Bizerte and the other to- ward Tunis, have had several Cléshes with Axis troops in the lest. 24 hours. But the showdown fight in! Tunisia has not yet taken place, thdugh: it was predicted that it} would occur b ythe end of last| are th Axis Units (Lb dL dh dk WAR SECRETARY SAYS EVERYTHING FAVORS ALL ALLIED NATIONS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Noy. 27> Secretary of War Stimson declared today that j‘every- thing looks favorable for’ thé Allies in every theatre of the war. In North Africa, despite the slowness of the Allied advance in Tunisia, the secre- tary said that everything was “proceeding favorably”, and that in Lybia the British Eighth Army had Rommel's forces running so fast the pursuers could not keep up with them. On New Guinea and in the Solomons, he continued, the Allies ve the upper hand. He added that the fighting at Buna had been slowed down until Allied planes have carried out a series of raids week. The Allied advanie has; beén slow since then’ no defin- | ite time is set for the struggle, that. is sure to ensue in capturing | nis and Bizerte. At the latter | lace, where there is a well equip- | ped naval base, thousands of Gétmans ‘and Italians are report-| ed. to,have landed in the last two days. It-was-said today that at Bizetté alone the Axis now have mote than’ 12,000 men. *, Yesterday and today there were ogcasional dogfights between Axis and Allied planes. Twice yester- day and once today Allied planes from Algeria bombed airplane baSes in Sicily, and on one of the raids. Axis planes are Said to.have been destroyed on the ground. _The aim of the two Allied arm- ies southeasterly is to cut. off bed ‘possible aid reaching the} tis garrisons at Tunis and Bi-! #erte from the big Axis base at Tripoli: EATON STREET TO BE | OILED AFTER SURFACE OF FILLING HARDENS | “L thoyght The Citiztn said| the Navy is going to pave Eaton | street,” a Key Wester remarked | to a Citizen reporter this morn- ing, and the reporter replied. “That's just what the Navy i going to do.” It-seems that many Key West-| es think that Eaton street is to be ‘treated only to a coating of! marl because no oil has yet been | put on any part of it. For their benefit it may be explained that the grading is far from being finished, and even after that work is done several weeks, pos- sibly four or five, will elapse be- fore oiling will be started. jhusband is Major Thomas Sills that ha been planned against the enemy. Lakh dided Ld CONDITION OF ORTIZ REMAINS ABOUT SAME The condition of Allan Ortiz, who swallowed bichloride of mefcury tablets in the county jail yesterday morning and was removed to the Marine Hospital, is reported today to be little changed. His wife, at whom he shot on | Tuesday night, has been to the | Which may_supply as much Bs #4, hospital to visit him. She was; in a forgiving mood and was} tearfully concerned over his re- covery. The sheriff's office was in- formed today that there is a slight hope that Ortiz may recov- er, though it was added that nothing of a definite nature will be known for several days be- cause bichloride of mercury is a! slow acting poison. VISITING KEY WEST Mrs. Thomas Sills, accompanied by her son, Tommy, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Alice Russell, } Ashe and Petronia streets. Mrs. Sills formerly was Miss Alberta Russell of Key West. Her f the United States Army. She nd her son will return to Mi- ami on Sunday so that he may resume his studies Monday morn- ing in the public schools in that city. DEVELOPED IN EGYPT | NEW YORK.—Use of cosmet- ics was highly developed in Egypt as early as 1350 B.C. i jp Che Key THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER INTHE U. S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 194 LEET ~|ET-COMDR. PEPPER} MAKES INSPECTION RECENTLY - PROMOTED NAVY | OFFICER CAME IN YESTER- DAY FROM MIAMI Lieut.-Comdr. W. M. Pepper,/ Jt., public relations officer for the} Seventh Naval District at Miami, made a routine inspection trip in; Key West yesterday shortly after | his promotion from a full lieu-} tenant was announced. \Eartier tnis. year Commander was stationed in the Navy td here before the district of- fices were moved to Miami. He is; well known among both naval | officers and enlisted men as well as Civilians in Key West. Commander Pepper was. guest | of several friends at a luncheon given at the Officers Club at noon before he returned to Miami. Pep- | per was formerly connected with the Associated Press in Atlanta before he entered the Navy. He is a native of Gainesville. SAYS LEGISLATURE WILL NOT HAVE TO PROVIDE NEW TAXES| TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Nov. 27. .FNS).—Speaker Richard H. Simpson predcits that the 1942! legislature will not have to pro-! vide additional taxes unless Present conditions and prospects | are radically changed. “I say this in spite of the fact that some“people predict a need; for as much as $10,000,000 in new| money,” he said. There have been sharp de- creases in many tax revenues, but there have been: proportion- ately sharp upturns in others, particularly beverage taxes, H 000,000 or more for public schools, to offset declines in gasoline tax- es_and automobile license taxes. “As I see it now, we will need no additional taxes during. the; 1943 session,” he stated. SEABOARD LINE TO PAY BACK TAXES TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Nov. 27 (FNS).—Delinquent taxes ap-/ pfoximating about $850,000, owed | by the Seaboard Airline Rail- way, probably will be collected | by the state within the next) few days. State auditors have now completed their work and Comptroller J. M. Lee said col-| lection would be made shortly. State and “railroad officials} came to ‘an agreement on the payment last August but details of the transaction called’ for vol- uminolis ‘auditing and checking before settlement could be made. TYPICAL HOME WASHINGTON — The typical} American home is a wooden two- story structure containing five or six rooms and occupied by a single | family. | The delay will be caused be- cause no oil will be put on the street until the marl is compact, and it will require several weeks of traffic to bring the surface to the required compactness. So Key Westers who feel any uneasiness. over the oiling of Eaton street may be assured that it will be oiled when the proper time comes. " VISITING HERE Mr .and Mrs. Joaquin Cueva are spending a visit in Key West | | | MOSCOW, Nov. 27.—The Rus- \Sians are exerting themselves to their usmost today to crush the German left flank along. Stalin- | grad, while another Russian force |is driving relentlessly the Don in an‘attempt ‘to pocket’ ‘the | Germans:ifighting in’ that’ area. Northwest of Stalingrad, the Russians Making Every Effort To Down|Nazis On Two Fronts: (By Associated Press) | | sians made a frontal attack on the Germans and killed 2,600 of them. Besides, the report said, many enemy tanks and. motorized ve- hicles were destroyed. At Nalchik the Russians ered: back a fierce enemy attack; with the aid of a squadron of Soviet 2 GOOD NEIGHBOR ROAD ‘EXPLAINS STATUS ‘OF PRIORITIES IN _ TRAVELING BY AIR | OFFICIALS OF EASTERN AND | NATIONAL LINES MAKE JOINT STATEMENT COVER: | ING SITUATION | pate MIAMI, Nov. 27 (FNS).—Con- jcerned over the lack of under- {standing of the priorities situa- {tion as it relates to air travel, ‘officials of the Eastern and Na- |tional Air Lines made a joint | statement this week in an effort | | to clarify the situation. The mo&st important thing -for | |@ person to know is that the Air |Force Air Transport Command | reserves the right to establish Priorities as to all material and | | Passenger cargo. | would be required to give it up! At present, business men and other civilian passengers may make reservations and airlines | will respect such reservations, ; but it must be understood that in | the event of an emergency, should jthe Air Force need that seat or such space for the transport of |an officer on some special mis- )sion or for important military cargo, the civilian passenger and take a later plane. Air Force control offices make 3 | reservations for military needs AP Features }and these have priority over | civilian transport. Civilians |mzke their reservations as usual | through airline offices. While a great many private |citizens may travel without pri- jorities and experience no diffi- {culties in sécuring reservations jand seats, officials recommend jthat persons who are entitled to porine for either citizen or cargo transportation secure them jin advance through the army of- fice. | In any case, reservations jshould be made as early in ad- | vance of the trip as possible and we * PRICE FIVE CENTS N UP IS Adin HITLER WILL GET A LETTER SOON (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. D. Cc. Nov. 27.—The Louisville, Ky. Post office, built in 1883 at @ Cost of $1,125,000, will de- liver messages to the Axis when its metal parts and fix- tures go to the steel mills as scrap. The War Production Board says that when the long- vacant structure is demol- ished, it will yield 4.500 tons of wrought iron, 40 tons of copper, 20.000 pounds of lead. and 10 tons of bronze. FIFTIES’ j j CHECK POINTS | OF ATTRACTION | ; SURVEY MADE TO DETERN- | INE HOW MANY WILL | REMAIN OPEN | SILVER SPRINGS, Nov. |(FNS)—The Florida Publicity and Public Relations Association has just completed a statewide 26 Some Of Ships Scutled ted. By ‘ie OBIE AL LEE \French Admiral Asserts That All Of Vessels Making Up Fleet Were Sunk (us Annotated Press) LONDON, Nov. 27.—Vichy in sists. in a brosdcast wssued early tonight. that the entire French fieet in Toulon harbor was de stroyed, and that the Germans rave not come info possession of a single ship. Those shizs that were not scut tied were blown up. Vichy s: The first shi> to be blown was the battleship Strassburg 26.600 tons. then. following quick succession. every ot warship in the harbor was blown up. The number of ships that were destroyed. Vichy seid were tw battleships. including the Stress burg. seven cruisers. light and heavy 25 destroyers and 27 sub merines. Eight of the ships. before their crew blew them up. attempted to escape from the harbor but |survey to determine what.Fler-i Hida attractions plan to remain jopen for the duration, and Pe | Schall, chairman of the survey ;committee, makes the following interesting report: | While Marine Studios at Ma- |rineland and Eagle's Nest Orie tal Gardens at Clearwater are jclosed, the following major, at tractions all report they | ar THIS ‘is how the Pan-American. Highway stands today. When/ i? the event the reservation will/ open and doing business: Sil completed it will run more than 15,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina | Ot be used it should be prompt-| Springs. McKee Jungle Ge —through almost every kind of climate and terrain.’ Total cost of the | ly Teleased so that it may be) Muma Isle Indian Village ns Lost road, nineteen years in the building, Will be almost half a billion dol-| assigned to someone else on the | Lake and Caverns, St. Petersburg lars. _ will ease the strain on shipping lanes, make strategic raw materials from South America more available for our war industries, and in the:post-war years open up Vast possibilities for tourists. LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) COOCCOREES SOLO SELESESCOTECOSOSESOEETOOOHOOSSOEEES AMERICAN PLANES BOMB JAP BASES jlist. Civilians not entitled to ' priorities because of direct con- |nection with vital war work, |make reservations through air- line offices as usual. | COMMERCE BODY Is _ CONTINUING EFFORTS | ON DOCTOR SHORTAGE The Chamber of Commerce is |Reptile Ranch, Alligator and Ostrich Farm et St. Augustine Sarasota Jungle Gardens jkulla Springs Fountain Youth, Turner’s Sunken G2 :Oriental Gardens, Stowe Cypress Gardens, Ra Springs, Sanlando Springs, D Pree Gardens and Monkey Ju gle Attraction managers ‘steadily increasing number | report CHUNGKING.—American planes continue to go far afield to |ontinuing its efforts to relieve |Setvice men among their vistiors bomb the Japs and their bases. Yesterday and today American planes bombed military objects in Indo-China and Thailand. SAFETY PATROL GUESTS OF NORTH MIAMI.—All the members of the Safety Patrol in this city were guests today of John Ringling North at the matinee of thé Ringling Brothers circus, RIVERS DENIES GUILT AT TRIAL ‘ATLANTA—In a tone heavy with pathos, former Governor E. D. Rivers told the jury, sitting in the case of embezzlement against him, that he did not “embezzle or steal $66,000 from the state of Georgia during the two years he was governor.” All the charges for oil, gas. flowers and other things were legitimate, he added. FARMERS AND WAR WORKERS-TO GET GAS WASHINGTON.—Farmers and war workers were assured today that they will be given all the gasoline they need in the perform- ance of their work. This assurance was issued by Chief Jeffers aft- er his annuoncement that, beginning December 1. gasoline will be rationed throughout the country, despite all the complaints from the west and the middle west. ROMMEL’S FORCES CONTINUE FLIGHT CAIRO.—Rommel’s fleeing men are still beyond the contact of the British troops who succeeded, early yesterday. in surprising a small number of 1! belieyed that only a few of the Axis forces have stopped at El Aghé- hem on the roadway near the Gulf of Serta. It ié [dec the shortage of physicians in Key. | West and to assure better , hospi- | talization. | Today Seciptary Singleton, in | behalf of the hospitalization com; mittee, wrote a letter to Lieuten- jarit Colonel 'G. S. Osincup, chair- {man of the Division of Health and | Housing of the State Defense Council, with office in Orlando, | requesting him to assist the com- mittee in its efforts to have more medical help in Key West. jand Special entertainment ing provided and in mam | stances. rates. are reduced jSuch patrons. j. The government is coming ¢ 'realize the advantages that su ‘attractions offer from the st. point of entertainment and ition of a wholesome and ficial nature in the ma jof morale of over-w {zens and tired traine |armed forces, Schall pc u U. S. Bombers Brought Into Play To Softening Up Japanese DARWIN, Nov. 27.—The Jap- | anese resistance at Buna on New | Guinea has been so fierce in the jlast,day or two the American and Australian land forces have! | decreased, their, assaults- while N Mnérican Sombers have been | Units At Buna, New Guinea (By Asseciated Press) ;Jap sniper in almost every tre< jand'a Machine gun hidden in al |most every clump, cf bushes. It iis in this wooded area that plan: are dropping their. .bombs :in jtempts to drive:the Japs the open. into n- | Shore-front and for The cavtain of every ship bis life. and merv of the office and crews eiso went down w their ships. or were killed when | their macezines exploded. The shore oatteries were be outdone. After they had centrated their fire on proaching German iherdes swept into Toulon. Sopi ture the t. charges were put under the batteries and thew also went up in viclent exp'osions Tonight these skics that net yet gone to cttom f\om their sides while flame a-e pouring out : DAYDOCK DESTR An OYED expiosion t socired the many bi inland destroyed the Toulon Gock. which had been one ~ largest in the world LONDON Nov. 27.—German ~ forces entered Toulon this morn ing and seized that citv and part of the French fleet tying in Toulon harbor. Just how many ships the ¢ mans captured is not known imitely im Allied countries ue some of the shius were scutt!ed as the Berlin radio itself admit ted. Then still another report wes received here. It Vichy and quoted Admiral de Guarde as ststing that ail French ships in Toulon “scuttled themselves from came harbor that ell of them had gone to the >: tom by 19 o'clock this mo: ed ila, and that most of #liéin have continued on the road to Tripoli. “ttaitling the Jap positions. The} No clashes have -been: neported of the . |planes are being used, the report at Guadalcanal since yesterday a BRADY’S HABANA - MADRID BRADY'S Opening “ROASTERS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28th Make Your Reservations Early PHONE. 9157 with Mrs. Cueva’s. brother and) * a sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs, Pepi-| ¥°* es ee to De Poo. They have been vis-| iting in New York, and are on! their way to Cuba. They report | that Dr. Julio De Poo, who has | been seriously ill for some time} : nt Saturday, November 28th New York hospital, | %, whee paptoved: eee. | Pete Morales, Your Host , TIRE REPAIRS RAUL'S CLUB (Dill Electric Vulcanized) under Auspices of Catholic Lou Smith Auto Service | BARROSO'S ORCHESTRA planes. 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