The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 4, 1942, Page 1

{ .ESQUINALDO PASSES Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME LXIII. No. 288. Seven Thousand Japs Go Down On Ships Sunk In Engagement Off Solomons Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1942 OO iiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrririiiiiirrr irr iiy SSS a SL Saa D4 EIGHTEEN MEN FOUND GUILTY ON Nipponese Forces On New Guinea Stand In Danger Of Being Annihilated In Near Future ; (By Associated Press) UTICA, N. Y.. Dec. 4.— Eighteen men were found guilty in federal court here to- day for operating a lottery. It is said that the lottery was conducted extensively in 13 states. with many offices in the larger cities of those states. The most extensive operations were in New York City, where the scale of tic- kets sold ran into the mil- lions in the course of a year. The fines imposed on the men found guzity ranged up (By Associated Press) DARWIN, Dec. 4.—It was an- mounced today that 7.000 Japan- ese soldiers, intended as rein- forcements to the Jap garrison on Guadalcanal, lost their in the sea battle off the Solo- | lives mons that was officially report- ed yesterday. : Two Japanese troopships were | among the nine ships that were | | H to as high as $10,000. | \ sunk by the Americans, and it| Cleats was from those troopships that | seat! OUTLOOK BRIGHT e number of Japs illed in FOR OBTAINING that battle far exceeds that to- tal, which does not include the men who went down on one Jap! cargo ship and six Jap warships. The United States Navy lost only | one ship, a cruiser, | LIEUTENANT COLONEL GIL- There has been little change] BERT ORSINCUP HOLDS} since yesterday in the fighting at Buna and Gona on New Guin- COREEBEN CEAWIRHELCCAL ea. The Jap forces at those two! PHYSICIANS places have been separated, and each is in danger of being anni- hilated. The outlook today is that the shortage of doctors in Key West will shortly be ended. Yesterday Lieutenant Colonel Pilbert Orsincup, chairman of health and procurement commit-}! 5 jtee in Florida, with offices in Esquinaldo received a telegram!Orlando, was in Key West visit- at 4:30 o'clock yesterday after-|ing the physicians in this city. noon, informing him that he kad! While here he saw Dr. J. Yates sucessfully passed his bar evam-|Porter, Jr., Dr. William R. War- inations. The telegram cameiren, Dr. Harry Galey, Dr. J. B. from Neil Ferguson, chairtnan of |Parramore of the State Board of the Law Examiners Cornmission | Health and Dr. Rose at the Ma- in. Tallahassee. lrine Hospital, Justice Esquinaldo left here on; Colonel Orsincup said that if November 19 for Tallahassee, |the secretary of the local med- where he started to take the ex- ical society will write to him, Srominetions tases [ater |The lgiving full information of the BAR EXAMINATION Justice of the Peace Enrique j 1 | i i i LOTTERY CHARGE | 3. Move through Spain to nip off Gibraltar and fore- stall an Allied invasion? Your flanks then will be wide open on the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Can you be sure Franco won't jump out of the Axis? He is re- ported to be leaning toward... the Allies, you knéw, and threatens to fighteven -you > if you start somethitig. It’s Your Move, Mr. Hitler 4: Invade Englarid? this might be a stroke of genius but-dare you pull power out of Russia and Italy to gamble against 4 million armed Britishers? 2. Throw everything at the Caucasus, driving for oil af Russia, Iraq and fran? This may be the best way out of the Allied steel ring around the Reich. Turkey? Could you break through if she resists and be strong enough to sweep on to tran, Iraq, maybe cut over into Egypt? Britain's Ninth and Tenth Armies lie beyond Turkey; her First and Eighth Armies:probably will be finished « with? Rommel and ready for action when | «recaptured 450 Allied troops, and that the Allies, in the fighting in to outwait the enemy? This will be tough on the home folks, may be tougher on you. And if you don’t man your defenses and wait for the Allies to come get you— you promised you wouldn’t run like the Kai did— what can you do? It’s up to you now, Adolph. What'll you have? OTHER DOCTORS| a the Allies struck in Africa with as much power end imagination as Hitler once used ex- clusively, they captured the initiative for the first time in this war. Hitler's forces are buck- ing a solid Red wall in Russie. The Channel crossing to England still looks awfully rough. And the situation in Africa is not very encouraging—for a Nazi. It is time now for Hitler to follow the three | days. Ever since his return Justic conditions that obtain in Key! West relative to the shortage of hysicians, he will assign doctors Allies’ land. erboard were yours? What would you do if you were A. Hitler and the next move on this wartime check- BIG CONCERNS IN | STATE PAYING UP | DELINQUENT TAXES, COMPTROLLER URGES COUN-| 1 TIES LOSE NO TIME IN) MAKING COLLECTIONS or! MUCH-NEEDED REVENUE Suggestions from State Comp-! troller J. M. Lee that counties lose no time collecting delin-| quent taxes have been accom- | panied by plenty of activity at] headquarters—the latest evidence | being the announcement that the } meeting last night, dacided Esquinaldo has been on the “pro- ltczenttie to tuiavcit verbial “pins and needles” about |’ 5? William RW ee the outcome of the examinations, | ss . aaa etren ieee and the subject was taboo among | Secretary ans the Monroe County his friends at the county court ee SUSE CAE) i Ee oo house, who were anxious. too, so | Pacity. will explain in full to! that there was general jubilation | Colonel Orsincup She: sttustion of afternoon when |the medical profession in Key the telegram was received. Since | West- then all of Esquinaldos _ friends | have been calling him “Attorney | Esquinaldo.” New Doctor Arrives Dr. J. Silverio, of Tampa, has | jarrived in Key West and -will| ‘ten years of litigation over the Florida East Coast Railway will pay $123,851 this weekend, bringing the comptroller’s delin- quent tax collections for the past 30 days to more than a million; and a half dollars. { The East Coast's payment fol- | lows the Seaboard’s payment of $851,517 two weeks ago after! method of assessment and“alleg:* edly illegal levie: ‘practice at Dr. Galey’s Hospital on Eaton street to help out in| en the emergency existing here. i NEW YORK.—Coca leaves! Dr. Silverio is a member of the | which have a narcotic content| Association of Military Surgeons | from which cocaine is derived,|of the United States, and ie di. | have been grown and chewed in' rector of the Children’s Health | Peru from early times. (Institute of Tampa. Toll Collections On Highway Bridges Reveal Substantial | Increase For November Period. \ Though the number of all types} ber of vehicles last year ran up motor vehicles passing over | to 8,849, while those in November, ie Overseas Highway bridges | 1942, totaled 4,747. s less in November of this year. Twice during the month the pamela with November of 1941, | tolls exceeded $1,000 in a day. On ‘he number of passengers was | November 8, $1,078.25 was taken lager and the collections of tolls! in and on November 20 the col- higher than the amount taken in| jections amounted to $1,062.75. BRADY’S Collections for November of | his year totaled $26,715.00, while } POULTRY MARKET Tennessee Milkfed those for the same month in 1941! Wwete $20,499.00. The number of ¥ ROASTERS Soft Bone PisSengers last month was 19,718 | ROASTERS — STEWERS DATES FAR BACK ®@scompared with 19,099 in No- vember of last year, but the num- | i VV VV TIT T IIT ‘Phen while the Seaboakd’s'$a; 1 ment was being audited’ the’! doughty comptroller stepped out and put the final saueeze on the estate of James H. Nunnally, At- lanta’s candy millionnaire, for another $593,003.24 as the final payment on > taxes which | the estate’s law have been contesting for more than three years. Another $325,000 had pre- viously been paid. While all of the Nunnally cash went to the state—only about | $50,000 of the delinquencies col-! lected from the railroads goes for state functions, the remaind- | er of approximately $1,000,000 | being distributed to more than; 50 counties. KNIGHT INFANT DIES | News has, been received in the} city annoyncing theideath of the | infantison.of Lieutenant and Mrs. | | Joseph, W.. Knight, Jrj, at Wood- | worth, La. } Lieutenant Knight will accom-j pany the body to Key West for | burial. | Lieutenant Knight is the son of | Deputy. Sheriff and Mrs. Joseph ; Knight. Hinintinigininininininiqininiininininit cick | TIRE REPAIRS 82¢tmc'sassrey sic PALACE THEATER | FRYERS |Our Chickens are received alive and we Kill and Dress Them Daily Phone 540 1214 White Street OAM DN CT TR Electric Vulcanized) Log Smith Auto Service No.5 White at Fleming #4.4444 DON (RED) BARRY in STAGE COACH EXPRESS NEWS and SERIAL Russian Cossacks Wipe Out Entire Column Of Germans | (By Associated Press) Hl MOSCOW, Dec. 4.—A bulletin jissued early tonight by the war office here said that a COUNTY’S FINANCES ARE IN FINE SHAPE ss ALL INDEBTEDNESS WILL BE southwest of Stalingrad, and ;when the fighting was over not {a single German had escaped, ‘and that every one had either ‘been killed or wounded. The | fighting started with rifle fire, Monroe county is in such ex-it€ communique said, but ‘the cellent financial condition, the | COSSacks closed in on the Ger- covnty commissioners, at their Pret and put them to the bay- to jonet: Pay every debt the county owes} Heavy snowfalls during the by the twehtieth of this month, |J@St three days are said to have In other words, as it was ax a the Germans. The Rus- plained at the meeting, the coun- ,S!@"S have air superiority in al- ty will have a “clean slate” on MOSt every or, and the snow December 20, regardless of 8S kept their planes on the whether or not any race track 8'und, so that their attacks on money is received by that time. German dugouts and__ pillboxes, If, 4hat money does come in, it Preliminary to the Russian in- will be so much “velvet”, as a:fantry advances, have ‘been held county official, remarked. The county’s,,healthy financial | Russians on the ground édndition is due, wholly to own-| The Red _ Star, es of real estate paying their "¢WSPaper, commented’ today on taxes. promptly. Last month, in |the heavy fall of snow. It said the payment of taxes, was one that while it was keeping Rus- of the best Novembers in the his- |S!@9 Planes on the ground, it tory of the county, and Decem-|™eant more severe weather to ber has started out to make a {CMe for the Germans. The snow record for that month. | would harden, the Red Star said, All commissioners, Carl Ber-/2d the planes would take to the valdi, chairman; Eddie Gomez, tnest Ramsey, Norberg Thomp- | son and W. A. Parrish, were present at the meeting. The commission approved the bonds of J. Frank Roberts who be- comes a commissioner in Janu- ary; Carl Bervaldi Clyde M.} Knight as jailer and Frank H.} Ladd, tax collector | contin- Cossacks at- PAID BY TWENTIETH OF DECEMBER the snow meant a falling tem- perature that would make the suffering from cold more acute among the Germans. NAVY RECRUITER AND ASSISTANT TO up, resulting in ‘slewing’ up the| sémi-official | air again, but the hardening of | Complaints were received from! |three out-of-town owners of real} | estate in Key West and elsewhere GET NEW TRAINING Harrison M. Reed, chief re- cruiter for the Navy in Key West, } Key West, Florida, hzs the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe*t S. A. PRICE FIVE CENTS mans Put Up Terrifig Fight Against Allied Units in Tunisia | LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) SCOHSHASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSESESESESEOS SIGHT TWENTY JAP WARSHIPS CHUNGKING.—Information has been received here that @ | fleet of 20 Japanese warships have been at sea only a short distance j south of Shanghai. It is believed the presence of the warships in that locality foretell fighting on a large scale in many sectors in China, as the ships are said to be bringing reinforcements. Both Sides Battling Hard In Engagements Along Entire Front During Past Foriy-Eight Hours (By Amsociated Frese LONDON. Dec 4—T! were not going so well Allies in Tunisia today ing to information received Allied headquarters in Nec Africa. Not thet the Allies | /UNCONFIRMED REPORTS FROM ROME ts LONDON.—Two reports came out of Rome early tonight. rei- ther of which received any confirmation from Allied sources. One ; Teport was that. in the fighting in Tunisia. the Axis forces had } lost ony ground but that | the same area. had captured 300 German paratroops. tad not game” any either despite WPA IS NOW NO MORE WASHINGTON.—President Roosevelt tnnounced today that he had completely liquidated the Works Progress Administration. The reason for his action was because. due to the great amount of work in war industries. and a shortage of manpower in meny fields. there was no further need for the operation of the WPA. the terrific fighting Germ:ns during the lest 48 The Ailies. in that net gone forward but heve they fallen beck Sa a an out-and-out assault was made BUS DRIVERS ON STRIKE BOSTON.—Three hundred, fifty bus drivers in this city went on strike today because several of their number had been discharg- ed. The lines over which the buses affected operate total 1200 miles. All the drivers are members of the American Federation of Labor. CURFEW IN CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO.—The curfew lew. as regards the sale of liquor, went into effect in California today. From now (till the end of the war and as long thereafter as the legisleture deems it is necessary. liquor in packages may be sold only until 8 p. m. every jery came into full piey setting day and saloons must close four hours later. =p es curtin cf fire through DIMOUT REGULATIONS UNCERTAIN ee Say See ee JACKSONVILUE—It was announced here today that there is no certainty yet about the extent of the dimout regulations in various parts of Florida. The last official notices turned out to be incorrect, and no further information about the regulations have yet been received from Washington. When the regulations are re- | ceived at headquarters here they will be relayed to every part of ° | the state affected by the orders. Ppess. PRESIDENT BATISTA COMING HAVANA.—Presiden Fulgencio Batiste. it was officially an- nounced here today, will leave for the United States early next ‘" week. The exact day was not given. His purpose for going to the United States is to have a conference in Washington with Presi dent Roosevelt. ‘REPUBLICANS - JUBILANT OVER | on his tattered i PLAN CRACKING DOWN ON that wasn’t what made MANY NEW DEAL DOMES- a TIC POLICIES AND VARI- patches on it OUS OTHER ISSUES PATCHES ARENOW COMING IN BATCHES (By A ted Press) WHITE STATION The ‘Government Pays Within Five Percent Of Valuation Placed On Property On Florida Keys By JACK STINNETT AP Fatures Service Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—It ai-} ready is plain to be seen that the Republicans consider the late jelection as a mandate “to get the job done” as quickly and effi- jciently as possible; that they fecl they have a ticket from the v ers to crack down on many New Deal domestic policies; and that checking up on how the billions for war are spent will be one of their theme songs. Senate Minority Leader Mc- Nary, Senator Vandenberg, House |Minority Leader Martin,-and s i the keys that question in Monroe county complaining about the “high assessments”, but the commissioners could not do anything in the matter, as the books are closed for this tax year. i said today that he and his assi: ant, Charles G. Mendoza, j man, third class, will leave tomor- ; rowmorning for Miami, where they: will undergo special train- i ing for fWo days. During their absence the recruiting office in AMMAN. | Ios West will be closed. | When the office is reopened on = | Monday, Chief Recruiter Reed | said, it will be much more difficult Dancing ; to pass the examination to enter ! the Navy than it has been hereto- { fore. The Navy wants men, he EVERY NIGHT 8 to 12 SUNDAYS 5 to 8 | a Music by the } USED IN INDUSTRY | added, but men who are fit, men- ! tally as well as physically. 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