The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 17, 1942, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME XLIII. No. 299. Russians And Nazis Struggle Bitterly In eavy SHOW Soldiers Of Both Armies | TIE SIE ILS, Very H Up To Armpits In Snow Drifts South Of Stalin- grad (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, Dec. 17.—Russians and Germans are fighting in waist-high snow. the war office reported today. In some of the the soldiers of both armies are said drifts, south of Stalingrad, to be struggling up to their armpits. But the fighting is still going | on, and at one point, the com- munique said, the Germans lost more than 2,000 men and 24 tanks in trying to force the Russian lines. They were driven b; to a point beyond that from which they started, the communique said, adding that the Russians captured eight field pi and three ammunition dumr Elsewhere along the fronts in Russia there was fighting today. In the Cauca A the report said, there had not been any movement of troops on either side in the last 48 hours. ‘VAGRANT’ GIVEN DISHWASHING JOB GETS DEFERRED SENTENCE IN CRIMINAL COURT THIS MORNING Pes Judge William V siding in the Albury, pre- Monroe County Criminal Court of Record .this morning, “got a dishwashing job for $25 a week for a defendant who had been fined $25 on a charge of vagrancy. The defendant was Henry Cogswell. He pleaded with th court to give him a chance; d that he was not a vagrant and had not been a vagrant at the time he was arrested, and added that he had been willing to go to work then and willing to go to work now, if he could get a job. “I'm going to take you at your word,” Judge Albury id. “Will you take a dishwashing job for $25 a week?” “T surely will, Your Honor, and I'm ready to go to work right now.” Over the telephone, Judge Al- bury got the $25-a-week dish- washing job for Cogswell and de- ferred the sentence of 30 days in jail and suspended the fine of $25 on condition that Cogswell would stick to his job.” The first announcement of a $25-a-week dishwashing job in Key West, made through an ad- vertisement in The Citizen on De- cember 3, resulted in the story be- ing published throughout the country by member papers of The Associated Press. The city’s finances are even better now: than they were dur- ing the boom year of 1925, it was said at the City Hall today. Be- sides the record that has been set in the collection of realty and personal taxes, the collec- tion of occupational licenses since October 1, 1942, exceeds by more than $5,000 the amount that was collected last year up to the close of business on No- vember 16. Occupational licenses collected last year from October 1 to De- SEITISInoIninnninininininininin: PALACE THEATER SHADOWS of the SAGE with the Three Mesauiteers NEWS and SERIAL III OI II various | littl City Finances Reveal That Municipality Has Taken Jump “From Poverty To Riches” Che Key West Cit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE. Us. Si. A: KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942 ZPi Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with am sverage range cf only 14° Fahrenhet INCOME GROUP FOOD \CITY FORCES TO GET | PAY THIS AFTERNOON | | { This afternoon is pay day | at the City Hall. The city’s | finances are so good. former | employes, whom the city | | HOUSEHOLD OPERATION HOUSEHOLD FURNISHING owes, will be given a full month’s pay. and present | active employes will be paid | up to date. as of December + 15. H In the event that the ac- tive employes are owed back salary by the city» they will be paid. in addition to this | fortnight’s salary, one month’s | back salary. or a total of one month and one-half. | The amount of the payroll totals $7,732.05. TSITITII ISS 8 TUNISIA BATTLES | MOSTLY IN AIR: FLYING FORTRESSES CON- TINUE RAIDS ON AXIS IN TUNISIA. BIZERTE PORTATION MEDICAL CARE — RECREATION PERSONAL CARE TOBACCO, < EDUCATION" - SAVING y Anmociated Press) LONDON, Dec. 17.— Fighting in Tunisia during the last 24 hours has been confined almost wholly to action in the air. One excep- tion was an American attack on German position east of Tunis, but even then the Allied planes play-! «ed an important part in helping to force back the Germans. "| Flying Fortresses, accompanied | by the swift and deadly P-38 fight- | ers, have kept up an almost con- tinuous raiding of Axis positions | in Tunis and Bizerte during the last three days. It is reported that ! a force of Italian troops, who were compelled to leave their po- sitions because of the bombing, were thrown into panic and had not reformed up to the time they were last seen by American air men. isn’t due until March 15. come in a normal year. RECEIVES REPORT No indication was given out to- day when the all-out attack by the Allies against Tunis and Bi-! zerte would be made. It was said | that while German superiority in PERTAINS TO X-RAY TESTS the air has been cut down greatly, | yet they still have the “edge” in| FOR TUBERCULOSIS CON- numbers over the Allied squad-} — pycTED IN KEY WEST rons. SEVERAL VISITORS AT ROTARY MEETING Visitors at the Key West Rotary | Dr. J. B. Parramore, director of {the Monroe County Health Unit, !has received a letter from Lynne | E. Baker, M. D., director of Tuber- jculosis, Florida State Board of Club luncheon today were Lieu-| Health, in regard to the X-ray ex- tenant Arthur Jones, Jr.. USN.,/@minations made in Key West, by L. B. Allen, of Leland. Mis: nd {the Mobile Unit, on November Arthur L, Murray, of Key West. |23 and 24, showing the following Everal James Kerr beeame a| fesults: new member of the club. He was | Number of films taken introduced by Dr. Warren and|Number of — unsatisfactory was given the classification of; films - vocational educator. {Number of satisfactory films The program was a round-table | _ (100°) cussion, in which a good many |Number of films showing no ers participated. | pathology - | Number of films showing pa- "4 pathology | Arrested pulmonary tuber- H culosis | Suspicious of i tuberculosis (3.9/+) {| Enlarged heart and or aorta { hology (buckshot) i It is imperative that each case |whose miniature film was inte jpreted as suspicious of pulmonary lcember 16 totaled $23,635.82; this| tuberculosis be studied further year for a similar period the sum! With a conventional 14x17 _ inch amiounte te $28,829.45. { film, numerous sputum examina- The latest sum is in addition | tRs: and history and physical ex- ; is ..; amination to determine if active to the $111,043 in taxes that have | tuberculosis is present, it is stat- been collected since November ; ed. 1. The total collections from/~,. parramore says that all ; those two sources for this fiscal | those x-rayed and found to have year amount to $139,871.45. Add .,y evidence of tuberculosis will to that sum, $7,281 for automo-{}..” ‘be notified by one of the public | Bile Hicenses.,and the grand total health nurses within the next two {weeks. Only those who have a The feeling in the City Hall suspicious lesion of tuberculosis now is something like that of) will be notified so anyone that an exceedingly poor man who! was x-rayed and not notified in has been left a fortune by a rich |two weeks. will know that they juncle, for the city surely has!do not have tuberculosis gone through some hard times, | with salaries of employes unpaid | for years, in some cases. But all} city employes are now perked; WASHINGTON — Soldiers, on up, and they have every reason} organized troop movements in the to be so, with a hefty balance in|U. S. Travel approximately 700. ‘the bank, {000 Ppassenger-miles a month pulmonary DISTANCE IN TRAVEL Finding The Money For Your Inco IT’S not too early to start thinkina about how you will pay those creatly-increased taxes. even though the first wage deduction for the Victory tax won't be made until after Janu- ary | and the first main income tax payment This chart shows how the average American family budgeted its in- (Figures are from fed- eral government survey for 1935-36.) Compare 281 | ‘BUS DRIVERS WANTED ee American me Tax $394 39.4% $176 17.6% $118 11.8% Number Of Casés 10.4% Mamie Betts, charged with hit- ting Robert Turner over the head with a bottle and inflicting deep gashes on the forehead and the top of the head, pleaded guil- ‘ty this morning in the criminal court and was fined $50 and costs or sentenced to serve 90 days in jail. The testimony showed that Turner was thrown out of Pimpe’s | Pla 1011 Division street, and {fell on his back on the side- {walk and that, while lying in ithat position, Mamie -Betts struck {him over the head with a Coca- Cola bottle, hitting him so hard ‘the bottle was broken. ! Other cases that came {fore Judge Albury j Were: Eugene Francis Moore, reck- less driving and thereby causing up be- this morning in jail; Clement Theodore Acos- jta, $25 fine or 30 days in jail; {Mabel Reece and J. W. Woods, | fornication, $25 each or 30 days | i jin jail; Dixie Hunter, vagrancy, | fagreed to leave town and Judge j Albury suspended sentence; Bet- ty Thompson, vagrancy, held | without bond until State Board jot Health reports on her case; ;Lula Mae Lawson, vagrancy, $1 jfine or 30 days in jail. $480 | $1,500 a) Criminal Court Session an accident, $50 fine or 60 days, Planes Continue Raid On Where aps Have iri * Fighting Near Buna And Gena, Captured By Al- lies, Reported To Have Died Down Aré Heard SESS SDSS aD 4 CLAIM BRITISH HAVE , REACHED AGREEMENT | WITH ADM. DARLAN (By Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 17 —The British are reported to have come into a working agre>- ment with Admiral Darian. which will result in his be- coming provisional governor of the French possessions in Africa for the duration of the war and his giving all- out eid to the Allies in their cempaign in North Africa. Besides, so the report goes. the Allies will heve the uso of the French wecships in- terned in Egypt and Dakar in western Africa. and also all French transports and cargo ships. It is declared also. though not officially. that French troops now in Africa will be Pressed into the ranks of the Allied armies to hel» in ridding Africa of Hitler's and Mussolini's forces. BOIS S SLL Ss (By Assectated F DARWIN. Dec. 17.—Ame planes are continuing to raid Munda where the Japs have az airfield from which frequent reids ore made on New Guines end Guadalcanal The Munda ficld is 150 miles rorth of Hen dersen field. held by the Unite: States Marines on Guadalcanai end has proved to be effective sending out smal and Aw Buna captured bv the tralians and Americans on New Guinea. has died down to occa sional firing by into American hands cufvosts since Buna fell four days ago. The Jans now are based 55 miles up the coast fro 16.0% 30% the tax-gift line above which (includes charity and religious contributions as well as income tax) with these figures on how 1942 incomes are being taxed: a single person earning $1,000 will pay $81.70; a married person with two de- pendents $10.53; in the $3.000 bracket the same persons pay. respectively $496.90 and $192.33; in the $5,000 group, $957.10 and $607.53: in the £10.000 group, $2,407.50 and $1,878.53. ROMMEL’S FLEEING ‘FORCES PARTLY CUT OFF BY OPPOSITION Two DIFFERENT BRITISH CONTINGENTS CONTINUE ADVANCE: MANY OF ENE- MY FORCES TRAPPED income LATE BULLE (By Associated Press) TINS | ; CAIRO, Dec. Montgomery's Eighth Army is 17, — General JAPS MASSING TROOPS FOR ATTACK | reported today to have cut off a CHUNGKING.—The Japs are reported to be massing troops ei | Part of Mershal Erwin Rommel’s ther for a large-scale attack en Yunan province or on India in the; vicinity of Burma. There has been a continual stream of troops, : leading toward Burraa for the lest four days. |of El Agheila. retreating forces 55 miles west GUADALCANAL WAITING FOR JAPS j WASHINGTON.—Amercian forces on Guadalcanal are on the Be ? alert. it was announced here today, to forestall any/ attack by the |'°@4S: and thet British contin- Japanese, who are believed to be getting ready to make the seventh , gents. consisting of tanks and atteck in the hope of recapturing the Henderson airfield on Guadal- i cttine. sueterinn @ébdidee. Souk canal. | fe It is said that. at that point in the western desert, there are two AMERICAN PLANES SMASH JAP BASES {while the main British forces CHUNGKING.—American bombing planes have made four ef- lon a . s x ; continued in a westerly direction. fective raids on Jap bases neer Canton and have destroyed an un- ' ick the road leading to the southwest | disclosed number of Jap planes on the ground, according to the of- | Sevéral thousand Germans and ficial report made here today. \Italians are said to have been THREE DEGREES BELOW AT BOSTON | repped between the forks of the BOSTON.—The temperature in Boston was three below zero British army. today. and the mayor said that if the cold continued at that tempera-| Both sides of the forks ture for any length of time he would open the public schools to the people who were unable to keep warm at home because of the shortage of fuel oil. He added that the shortage is growing acute in Boston. though he saw no reason for that condition prevailing, other than poor distribution. are gradually coming together, with \continued greater pressure Hundreds | these caught in the trap have been killed. the on |Rommel’s men. of GASOLINE “DROUGHT” IN NEW YORK NEW YORK.—A gesoline “drought” was reported here today, and the OPA authorities were appealed to in efforts to keep enough gasoline on hand for essential or emergency purposes, Leaders wished to have the OPA stop the sale of gasoline at filling stations for general use to avoid a shortage until such time as large ship- ments are received. official report said, and the remaining members of that part of Rommel’s ermy face either annihilation or cap- | ture. the |seid that squadrons communique of British |planes are keeping up an inces- Z | Meenwhile, LIGHT FROST TO FLORIDA CITY LAKELAND.—The Weather Bureau. in its report to fruit and vegetable growers today, said that light frost may be expected to- morrow morning from Delray Beach as far soutli as Florida City sant bombing of Rommel’s mech- at the Dade-Monroe county line. North of Delray, in central and | snizeg troops who are fleeing to- northern Florida. 2 heavy frost is expected. H ward Tripoii. They are scatter- jed. the report said. over 150 miles on the desert in Tripolitania. NEW YORK — The chief health! | CAUSED BY WINDS | | WATER IS MAIN FACTOR Apply 12 to 2 p.m. Daily at Car Barn Key West Transit Co. Simonton Street at Beach problem in the North African war ‘zone is the proceurement of wa-| ¢Tiy winds largely account for | the differences in temperature on iter. | the Atlantic and Pacifie coasts. Bune, They have been sttecked MUSSOLINI HAS — CANCER TROUBLE HIS CONDITION IS AL- MOST HOPELESS im their new positiem: by Amer: czn plan: yet been th.ucl, there has not eny clashes at that point between them and the Al lied land forces. ANNCUNCE DEATH IN VIRGINIA OF MRS. BLANCHE WHITTED Benito I the stomacl ace gt ed liable It is physician } thorough exami ly declared that ! hope Meanwhile, I des i} an authoritat source. xed wreck, declaring the Axis forces will | win, and that God i and they can't lose In addition to those decl. tions, in the last two or three he has geen appealing to Hitl compel France to turn over N and Corsica to Italy. It is s that he is making those dem to try to raise the morale of t Italian people, which ha carried to its lowest depths sir the RAF began its concerted |continued raids on Italy important cities, excepting R as an alm requently on their THIEF STEALS PURSE. ALSO GOOD NAMES Ry Associated Pre VENWOR ‘County Takes Lead Over City In Tax-Collection Race With Margin Passing $2,000 Mark The county yester w in front with a much over the city, in the taxes for any oth last month. days ago, larger collectior in fi year, t coliected by’ City Tax Sam B. Pinder and Cou Collector Frank H. Ladd the close of busine: yesterday the county took a lead of $2,331.- 74. At that time the amouni lected by Mr. Ladd ta November 1, 1942, totaled = 423.74, and the total of Mr. Pin- der’s tax collections at the end of business yesterday was $111,042 “We haven't given up the ship yet,” Mr. Pinder said this morn- ing. “Who knows but that we may take a spurt in collections that will put us ahead of the coun- |ty at any moment. Anyhow, it is| ‘ of very little consequence wheth-