The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 4, 1943, Page 1

Key West, Blorida, bis the | moet equate climate in the country; with .n average range of onl 4” Fahrenhe | Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West Che Key West Citizer Ss. A VOLUME LXIV. No. 3. Rommel Making Determined Stand. Agzinst Opposition [INVESTIGATION _ Denso 1 LIMINATE Up Much Equipment a FALSE PASSES Engagement | Montgomery Not Hurrying Into Battle; Bringing NAVAL AUTHORITIES HAVE (By Annociated Press) CAIRO, Jan. 4—One hundred and seventy miles from Tripoli, | in a dried-out basin, a large force} CARRIED ON | | of Marshal Rommel’s men | | making a determined stand day against>the forces under | are/ A sweeping investigation de- signed to eliminate use of illegal Navy identification passes by civ- to- General Bernard Montgomery, it | today following the arrest and; | subsequent preliminary hearings: was officially stated here. of two Georgia Negroes taken The official statement explain- | i"t0 custody by the FBI and Na- ‘val attaches. ed that, despite Rommel’s stand, ! Henry Rucker, 24, Negro resi- ‘de nt of 811 Thomas st., was placed } } under $100 bond and bound over tying into battle as he intends to | {o the U.S, grand jury on a charge| bring up more tanks and planes | °f “ill€gal possession of a Navy |pass for fraudulent purposes.” the engage-' at the same time John Deeren! It was pointed out that/Dent, Negro, also of 811 Thomas | t., was placed under $25 bond and | bound over to the U. S. grand jury pied by the British Eighth Army |0n a charge of. “illegally furnish- | ing a Navy pass which had been General Montgomery is not hur- before beginning ment, from the present position occu-! to its main supply base at Ben-j j<cued to him to another person.’| then routed them out of those | i strongholds. gasi is a distance of 350 miles. | Both Rucker and Dent. the lat- ter a mess boy employed by the The only clash the British had yg avy, Ww given preliminary today was with Italien forces, 35 hearings before U. S. Commission- th jer Rodney Gwynn after an in- e miles east of Montgomery | probe resulted in the The point was { tensive occu-| questioning of a number of per-; a | sons by FBI, deputies of the U. S. fighting. by! j,arshal, city policemen and Na the Italians | val officers. | In this connection, Naval au- | thorities warned that persons who jare fraudulently using tempor- were either killed or captured. ary identification pass the Navy would be vigorously MW NUTT HEARD HEARD ON , prosecuted in Federal Court. MANPOWER ISSUE warrants SERVED Deputy United States Marshal Myrtland Cates served warrants Position. Pied, after fierce the British, and SAYS ALL AVAILABLE MEN | THAT CAN BE REPLAC- | ED TO BE CALLED NEW CONGRESS T0 _ MEET WEDNESDAY WILL LIKELY CLAMP DOWN ON ALL UNNECESSARY commissioner, declared tod | He explained that if a n | EXPENDITURES irreplaceable on the farm or in in-! an is} dustry, he will not be inducted into the services uni another man, who is not fit for military du-; WASHINGTON, ty, can be found to take the va-jnew congress, which cant position. jon Wednesday, McNutt said further that. in the | dawn on all government expendi- | protection of industry and. busi-|tures except those designed to as great an extent as pos-! further the:war-effort, several of » had decided ‘that en jthe congressmen who arrived | when a man placed and is call-| here today declared. ed into the armed se! s,he will! The opinion generally among be kept in his position until such|them was that the coming con: time his successor becomes fam-) gr will keep a tight hold o1 iliar with his duties. jthe public purse in every matte! TWENTY-FOOT PIPES (Continued on Page Four) (By Ansociated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Eve available man who can be replac- ed in indus will be called into} the armed services during thi (By Axsociated Prexs) {that has no connection with the nina | war. Expenditures, it was stat- NEW YORK—Wooden pipes 20/ed, will be much lower this year feet in diameter are being used to; than they have been in any oth- carry water to U. S. militar can-| jer ar for a long time for what; tonements. |may be styled civil purposes. Colonel ‘Ellsworth Young Is New Commanding Officer Of Key W est Hart Harbor Defenses Colofiel ,Ellsworth Young. Ing. 8 yar _| War I and six years of foreign} veteran ‘of 25 years’ commission. Lesevicn. fot Jeaupalett haga. years in’ France furing World TAKEN UP MATTER TO DO! AWAY WITH THE PRACTICE, | ilians in Key West was announced | s issued by} jon four offenders during the week | Jan. 4.—The | convenes | is likely to clamp | ‘that comes up for consideration | JAPS POSITION AT BUNA MISSION NOW "HOPELESS" | M’ARTHUR SAYS AMERICANS AND AUSTRALIANS WILL BLAST NIPPONESE OUT OF | ENTIRE AREA (By Associated Press) GEN MARTHUR’S HEAD- | QUARTERS, Somewhere in Aus- {tralia, Jan. 4—General MacAr- thur himself today said that the Japs’ position at Buna Mission on New Guinea is “hopeless”, and that it will be only a matter of a few days before the Americans and the Australians will blast the | Nipponese out of the narrow, | fortified strip of beach they still | hold in that locality. ! It was further stated by Gen. eral MacArthur that he did not propose to waste the lives of any of his seasoned men at Buna Mis- sion to dig the Japs out of their } Stronghold, adding that it could |be done effectively by bombing |and artillery action with a mini-! | mum of loss of American and Aus- | | tralian troops. In announcing that he himsesf had taken personal command of the Allied troops in New Guinea, ! General MacArthur said that since | | November 19 American and Aus- | {tralian forces have driven the Japs up the mountain side of the Owen Stanleys, down the moun- ‘tain side to Buna and Gona and Military experts, in commenting on the general’s statement, said that the defeat administered the Japs on New Guinea is by far the | worst they have suffered in any other area in the entire South- | west Pacific. BRITISH ADVANCE | INTO NAZI LINES | | TANKS ARE USED IN MAKING THRUST IN TUNIS AND | i BIZERTE AREA | | ' (By Associated Press) ALGIERS, Jan. 4.—Despite the sea of mud in the Tunis and Bizer- | j te area, a force of British tanks | ' yesterday penetrated 5 miles in-! to the German iines and held the newly acquired positions. | Before the advance of the tanks} ' the Germans fell back in wild dis- \ order, and while they were re) ; treating wave after wave of Brit-/ | ish planes dropped bombs among them and dived low and machine- | | gunned them. | That was the only activity in | the entire ground fighting in that | area, but Allied planes kept up their attacks on enemy aircraft | and positions, both in the Tunis} and Bizerte areas. Dogfights were not nearly as extensive as they were on Satur- day, when Allied planes destroy- | ed 28 enemy planes and damaged '34 more. But few German planes | today were met over Tunis or Bi- erte and no Italian aircraft was een by Allied pilots. ‘ENLISTED MEN GET PROMOTIONS | | The following promotions of| enlisted men have been made pub- lic by the commanding officer of j }the Harbor Defenses of Key | West, Florida: To be corporal: Technician First Grade Eugene G. Haggard, Pri-| vate-first-class Edward M. Moore and Privates James H. Cornesli-/ son and Victor S. Otero. To be technician fifth grade: Private Hugh T. Meade. To be private-first-class: Pri- j vates James K. Faucett, Walter J. Kantecki, William D. Thomas and Es D. Wagon. j absence for the duration KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1943 WAR WIFE: KEEPING BUSY _IS HER SECRET MODERN MADONNA: Betty Davis with son, Johnny. By ADELAIDE KERR Wide World Features Writer INTRODUCING Betty Ingles Davis—war-wife, worker. A woman who is mecting the mother and same problems millions of others have met—and meeting them in a way tnat can give you a few tips. When Bernard Davis went to more than cut in two, Betty Davis gave up their seven-room house | in New York’s suburbs and moved x: into a four-room apartment in} Jackson Heights She has kept her! own job as a case worker in the) Community Service Society and! cares for Johnny (who is almost four). while she awaits the birth} of another baby in Januaty. { Betty Davis is a daughter of the! South — tall, dark -eyed, soft-! voiced. She was graduated from! Hollins College (Virginia) and} took her Master’s*Degree in So-} cial Science at William and Mary. In 1935, while she was’ doing so- cial service work in Baltimore,} she was married to Bernard Da-| vis, who left his job as personnel} director. with the New York State! Employment Service to enter the; Technical Training Division of the ; Army Air Corps at Miami Beach. That left: Mrs. Davis alone to run the houséhold. But don’t pie- ture her as a worried, nervous war-wife. She sits quietly, ; gently, asoning her words with a warm, wide smile. (Only her dark eyes hoid a hint of stress.) “It's a difficult, adjustment to | ifast herself while Johnny sete! PRICE ASSURED | talks | h: war and his family’s income was | make — and it doesn’t get any easier,” she says. “But I've just accepted the fact that it's part of the times and I have to ad- just to it. “The job helps. of course, First, it keeps me busy. And then in my work I come in con- tact with many people who are in difficulty. I have heard the Stories of so many women | worse off than I am that I don't seem to be having a bad time. “Their greatest difficulty is economic—the problem of pro- viding and caring for the chil- dren.” Mrs. Davis solved her child care | problem like this: She gets break- around on his tricycle. During tl morning she leav im in a nur ery school. The colored maid she as had for years cares for him in the afternoon and gets dinner. Then Mrs. Davis takes Johnny in charge for a story hour before he goes to bed. New County Board To Take Office On Thursday Night Monroe county’s new commis- sioners will assume office Thurs-| that Commissioner W. A. Parrish, | j day evening, but, so far, a , Mr. Harris‘ vacancy, it is thought! | who opposed Mr. Harris in the pri- LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) HAS NOT REPLIED TO DE GAULLE LONDON.—It was stated here today that there is very little ; truth to the reports that General De Gauile. commander of tue | “Fighting French”, and General Giraud, French high commissioner of North Africa, have had some differences. It wes asserted that | Giraud has not even replied yet to De Gaulle’s proposal made on Christmas that they hold a conference somewhere in North Aiy‘:a. CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF LEND-LEASE LONDON.—Some congressmen asserted today that they will | start a movement, shortly after congress convenes, to mame a con- gressional committee to inquire into the ways that the lond-lease law has been operating since its adoption. To whom have supplies been sent and in what volume are among the matters it is pruposed to investigate. HIGH WATER CAUSES $3,500.000 DAMAGE CINCINNATI.—Flood waters of the Ohio River have thus far caused damage estimated at $3,500,000. No extensive damage has been done to this city. where the water has attained) a height of 50 and 9-10 feet. The water at Portsmouth reached 61 feet 3 incaed and is now receding slightly. BING CROSBY'S HOUSE BURNS‘ HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Bing Crosby's 20-room house at Tuluke Lake was destroyed by fire early this morning. The fire is thought to have been started by a short circuit, due to Mrs. Crosby's having Christmas trees dismantled. which necessitated the cutting of many j small electric wires. MOTORBOAT FIRE CAUSES DEATH MIAMI BEACH.—An explosion aboard his motorbo-t. «ith re- sultant burns from flaming gasoline, caused the life today of Charles Cashman. He jumped into the water to extinguish his flaming clothes, but he failed to come up and his body nas not i7t be - | recovered, though search for it has been made by coast guardsraes and others, « PRESIDENT MAY INTERVENE WASHINGTON.—It was stated here today that President Roosevelt may intervene in the strike of machine workers in plants | in San Francisco. Word from that city is that there is > prospect of the immediate settlement of the strike. SUBSTITUTES FOR | OF PROTECTION RUBBER WILL EF. NEAR HIS HOME MADE AVAILABLE ‘|INFORMED THAT PATROL- OPERATORS OF SUGAR MI".LS CLAIM CANE AND SWZET POTATOES WILL REPLACE OTHER PRODUCTS MAN WILL BE PI.ACED IN| VICINITY WHERE ATTACK WAS MADE BY SAILORS { | j Clem C. Price, who, with Mrs. eae Breet Price, was beaten at midnight on| CUEWISTON. Fla. Jan. 4— |New Year's Eve near their home | Operetors of the large sugar mills at 411 Fleming street by six sail- in this place ennounced today ors, said today he had been as-}| that they make sured by an aide of Captain c.|™™ nea Sui known here, instead of five newly | mary last May, may seek the ap-| Reordan, commandant of na-|P@? Substitues out of cane aad elected or re-elected commission- : pointment. He was named by |val operations in Key West, that | sweet potatoes ers being present at the meeting, |Governor Holland to fill the va- {hereafter a shore patrolman will | there will be oniy three, Carl Ber- | valdi, Eddie Gomez and J. Frank | Roberts. The other two commissioners, William T. Doughtr of the! fourth, and Harry Harris, of the fifth district, are in the armed; sevices of the country and are not OMIM SI IMI IS | ISSUES CALL FOR aenecied to be at the neetiie: Both those commissioners will | ask Governor Holland for leave of ; of the! war. i At the county courthouse this; morning, it was said that, thus far, no Key Wester has publicly! announced that he will apply for; appointment for commissioner of} jthe fourth district during Lieu-} tenant Doughtry’s absence. | While nothing definitely has/ cancy caused by the resignation ‘of R. W. Craig, who entered the coast guard service." The only action at the meeting | will be the election of a chairma d the appointment of commit- ees. BANK STATEMENTS (By Axnotiated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4.—The Comptroller of Cur- rency has issued a call for a statement of the condition of all National Banks at the close of business December 31. jbe placed on duty every night on| Jt was said that if pr ;Fleming street, between White-|Could be ob‘ained to build plan‘ [bess and Duval, where the Prices} and instali machinery, 80,900 | resi le, to take care of the sailors toned Pasties ereede aaa eater tons of rubber could be ut:ne quarters in the Navy Yard, 2s meats ae {through the Fleming street en-! |try. The aide also assured Mr. Price jthat, were he or Mrs. Price able} Ito identify any of their assail-! jants, the commandant would see ed it that they were | punished. | However, Mr. Price said that | neither he nor Mrs. Price would |be able to identify any of pee | jas they, the Prices, were jonly struggling against the six | men to protect themselves but! that also it was altogether too | ‘dark at the point where the at-| tack occurred to see an. outline | out here yeariy operations began Word received here was ithe government.was not inclined to agree to the proposal, as it was intended to continue the efforts that have thus far proved to be So successful in obtaining -ubber Properly |fzom grain alcohol and coal tars Commanding PRICE FIV: FIVE CENTS Russian Units ontinue Advance After Routing German Contingent Nazis Bring Fresh Troops into Batile But Have Very Little Effect On Russian Drive (B, Assoc Press) MO.COW, Jen. 4—Russian troops. after having routed the Germans irom the important strategic city of »Mordak.. have Swept forward 28 miles beyond thet peint. killing end capturing so much bocty. Today's Soviet ccmmunique asserted there has not Seen time to classify it and enumerate it. The communique also said that the Germans are mo longer a threst to the oil fields in the wi- Cimity of Mosdak. One column of Russians, having passed trough that city. have advanced in a direct westwardly direction. soutawestwardly. It wes ammcunced also that the w st cil field- et Baku om the south side of th» Caucasus, which , the Germans had tried te reach. ‘ae mow also 7ut of danger. “not only for th: winter” the com- munique declared. “but also for the duratioa of the war™. Red pepers, commenting on that assertion. stated that the Germa-s heve lost whatever chence they had before set in. to come into possession of the Baku o_ fields. edding that ty enemy ill be cif the east Caucasus” before the present to a. end In t + fighting. outside of Moz dak, the communique said. the Germens threw 6 000 fresh troops imto the battle to trv to stop the R.ussien advance. but it wes add ed the reinforcements were beaten back. Amoxg the munitions that were ceptured were 15 heevily loaded supply -rains and 20 big guns. Fighting in the middie Don 0 cortinued todey. with the Bus sians Continuing to advance. ac comdarg to the war office. which added that =m all their offensives aleng the 1100-mile front the Russians cleared the wey {or their troops with spearteed unit: of tanks winte: “swept clean Russian cifensive comes Lieutenant-Commander Foutter Relieves Commai.cer Hilton As ‘Officer Of C. G. ed sebvice with the U.S. Ammy.|' Colonel’ Young’s } Mt 129! [Lee sada on ee ee of one’s face. |BUS DRIVERS WANTED; IN | Bernard Street, Fort Monroe,| is the newly-sppointed " c7G*1 Vv, and isithé son of Mrs" PW | the Harbor /Young, 815 East D Street, On- Defenses of Key West. » jtario, Calif. | He is a graduate civil engineer Colonel Young’s military ca-|of the University of Iowa, class| reer has included one and a halt of 1916. VULCANIZED and TIRE REPAIRED (By Dill Electric Vulcanizer) —o-— Lou Smith Auto Service Phone No.5 Whi Fleming manding officer of 1 prersety Sore! eT TAS “PALACE THEATER Andrews Sisters and Others in | PRIVATE BUCKAROO | GARDNER'S PHARMACY NEWS and SERIAL nackte | =. I, \ Elks Fraternal Center § N ENTERTAINMENT N TUESDAY, JANUARY 58 P.M. . ; Lieut-Comdr. Richard C. Fou jter, USCG, has relieved Comdr TT | NOTICE | Carl H. Hilton as commanding cf- a of the Key West Coast Guard Base and captain of the port To C | Washin; D.C. fi i. to tor, lor tempor- and Public | ary duty at headquarters there. Until further notice we) A native of New Bedtord, Mass. will close at 6:00 P.M. promee | SWEETING’S \.0% soos: Comdr. Foutter frequently vis- AUTO SER' | : Ni N ae 313 Duval Street All Elks Ia Service Invited WO IDPS PAPAL LE LLL LE Fo Key West during the years Foutter is a graduzte of; bat Hilton was iecently called | 934 to 1937 when the U. 5. CG! {Ser. Pinde Waters Union Bids. Picts ee ogling a Sa ami and patroded the W3ters 2 A ase