The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 7, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME LXIV. No. 6. Botting Up Of Germans In Lower Don River Area Has Now Become Imminent Another Offensive Gaining | FEW MARRIED MEN In Volume Against Nazis ' Is In Black Sea Area Of Caucasus (By Associnied Prexs) MOSCOW, Jan. 7.—The threat of bottling up the Misemans in the lower Don River area has} now become imminent unless the Germens should begin a general ! withdrawal, the Russian noon communique said today. Spearheads of Russian tanks, fighting furiously along the Don end driving the enemy before | them, is now only 75 miles away | from Rostov, the most important | Point held by the Germans in} Russia, Once driven from that city, the communique stated, the | Germans will be forced to begin| retreating from all Russia. Another offensive that is gain- | ing in volume against the Ger-| mans is in the Black Sea area of! the Caucasus. There, attacks be- gun on a small scale by the Rus- |quarters.of the local draft board | today that only a small part of jthe inductees who left by bus} |H. Knight, Jr., Ralph W. Turney, | terson, | Stanley E. Lewis, IN GROUP LEAVING FOR CAMP TODAY ARMY BAND ON HAND REN- DERED SEVERAL SELEC-/ TIONS; GIFTS DISTRIBUTED AMONG MEN It was explained at the head- this afternoon for Camp Bland- ing*are married. A band was present to play shortly before and while the bus was drawing away from in} front of the federal building. | Packages were distributed among } the inductees by the local order of Pythian Sisters. The inductees were, Jefferson Floyd K. Miller Charles R. Wal- James M. Greene, Ray-} mond E. Biazel, Robert L. Fla- herty, Leslie Karnes, James E. Michael, Arent Sjursen, Jr., John Pritchard, Earl Julian, Jesus, R. | Caraballo, Helio Esquinaldo, Clifford Mc- Lowe, Ernest E. Graham, James C. Donaldson, James B. Knowles, Peter San- chez and Enrique Solano. Neil, Virgil sians, have expanded along the entire front in that sector, The advnace of the Russians, it was RENT CONTROL OFFICER | TO BE HEARD ON RADIO; seid, was designed to trap the | PROGRAM THISEVENING, German forces along the coast’in| the Caucasus. H Russian Black Sea warships | are engaging in the battle in that} area, the communique said, and} | have | among the German installations | inflicted heavy damage along the shorefront and have broken up one concentration of German troops, i BECOME SATURATED} NEW YORK—At great depths a diver’s blood vessels become saturated with nitrogen. Illness Of Two Members Of County Board In Organizing Commission The new board of county com- missioners will not be organized | tonight, as it was thought they | would when the old board ad- journed sine die on Monday night, if what Carl Bervaldi and J. Fran! Roberts said this morning re-} mains in effect. Mr. Roberts stated that he is still ill from a cold, and would not risk coming out at night, but that he would attend a meeting were it held in the day time, and Mr. Ber- valdi, who is ill himself, stated | that it was “impossible” for him | to be present at-a meeting either this morning or this afternoon. It was reported at the county | courthouse today that appoint- ment had been offered by Gover- nor Holland in naming a succes-! sor of William T. Doughtry, who} has been given a leave of absence} for the duration of the war, but that the appointment was refus-| ed. } The-man who refused it stated | that he was not the least concern- ed in any “politics” that may be} involved in the present situation] (SRO REIN REN AIEEE AE AA BUS DRIVERS WANTED Apply 12 to 2 p.m. Daily at Car Barn | the j anything that could be viewed in Lawrence Schroeder, head . of rent-control office in Key | West, was officially notified this} morning that Paul A. Porter, dep- uty administrator of rent control, | will talk over the Columbia radio network, beginning at 6:30 o’clock this evening, in explaining in de- tail the question of rents. Mr. Schroeder suggested that, | as landlords in Key West, are con- ; cerned in rent control, the subject will be important to them, and re- quested that they listen to Mr. Porter. NUMEROUS VISITORS ‘ NEW YORK —The New York Aquarium was visited by 84,000,- 009 persons from 1902 to 1941. Causes Delay ees i of the county commission, and that his only concern, in that re- gard, was the interests of his county. His accepting the ap- pointment, he added, may be viewed by a political move, and he declared he most positively did not want to become involved in that light. But there are not going to be any new commissioners until the present board of three meets and is duly organized. Before a man can become a-commissioner, even with the appointment by the gov- ernor, three of the commissioners must-approve the bond. Mr. Rob- erts and Mr, Gomez said today that they felt that any such action on their part should be deferred until the commission is organized. As the matter stands now, the commission is powerless to take any official action in conducting the business of the county, and it is with that point in view that, although they- have their commis- sions, they feel approval of bonds should be deferred until they for- mally begin their official duties. A reporter of The Citizen made inquiries about the possible suc- cessor of Harry Harris, of the fifth distict, who has also joined the ar- my. As the man appointed in this case will be a resident of the up- Key West Transit Co. Simonton Street at Beach eae eA RRM per keys, no news has yet reached here about anybody’s having as- pired for that office. Che Key West Cttizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. C. OF C. URGES LAW:BE ENFORCED _ MOREESTRICTLY ee RESOLUTION ADOPTED CALL- ING ON “SHERIFF; MAYOR AND CITY POLICE HEADS: COPY SENT TO GOVERNOR A Chamber of Commerce com- mittee, comprising Fred J. Dion, Fred Eberhardt and Maximo Valdez, adopted a resolution yes- terday afternoon, calling on the sheriff, the mayor, the chief and captain of police to put into effect a stricter enforcement of law in Key West. The committee points out that robberies, burglaries and other crimes have been committed "in Key West recently, and . that heroic measures should be:adopt- ed to crush out the crime: One paragraph of the resolution reads: “The Chamber of Commerce of: the City of Key West believes that the radical change in life in Key West calls for recognition, and that it has become imperative that all laws of both state and city be enforced, and that life and property be properly protected by those charge with this duty.” A copy of the resolution has | 9rease, scrap metal. paper, etc. Hobby Museum suggests the closet been sent to Governor Holland. CLAIMS JAPS ARE KEPT ON THE RUN ADMIRAL HALSEY SAYS AL- LIES WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP THEM RUNNING (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Ad- miral Halsey, in command of all Allied naval units in the Pacific, stated today, “We have the Japs on the run one front,. and we are going to cofitinue keeping them_on the run until they aré driven back to Japan. And then we are going into Japan and beat them there.” Admiral Halsey added, us a little more weight and we'll perform that task in 1943. The fact is, the Japs now see the ‘handwriting on the wall.” B-27 American bombers today made six runs over the Japs base at Lae on New Guinea and spread devastation among the mil- itary objects there. Bombers al- so made another flight to New ; Britain and bombed Jap ships in the harbor of Rabaul. The extent of the damage caused by that raid was not announced. No American planes were lost in either attack. At Lae, the official announcement said that among the Jap weapons destroyed were four anti-aircraft guns. BATTALION COMDR. TAKES UP DUTY HERE Recently assigned to the Harbor Defenses of Key West as-a bat- talion commander is Lieut.-Col! Clifton E. Singleton, 112 Douthitt st., Greenville, S. C. Colonel Singleton was appoint- ed a captain in the South Caroli- na National Guard in 1936, and made commander of a searchlight battery in the Coast Artillery Corps .of that organization. In- ducted into federal service Janu- ary 31, 1941, he was promoted to major in January, 1942, and to lieutenant-colonel last August. Colonel Singleton is a graduate of the Small Arms School of Camp Perry, Ohio, the Chemical War- fare School at Edgewater Arsenal, Md., and the Command and Gen- eral Staff School of Fort Leaven- worth, Kans. ‘The son of A. W. Singleton, 203 Douthitt st., Greeriville, «Colonel Singleton was educated at Easley High School, Easley, -S.:C. In civ- ilian life he was;2” ive ini the’ ille Police. t. DETROIT—The percentage of brown hair is 75 among Spaniards, 39 among French, and 16 Scandi- navian. PALACE THEATER JOHNNY MACK BROWN in ‘THE SILVER BULLET’ -NEWS and SERIAL KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943 Home-Made Scrap Depot fe Wide World Features National Hobby Museum of American home. The closet conta’ be “cleaned” for local salvage dep Monday Morn CAMPAIGN AGAINST| PARALYSIS IS NOW WELL UNDER WAY t t if £ é EVERY COUNTY HAS BEEN ORGANIZED FOR EVENTS | ;New York has created a “Victory Closet” to pattern an orderly salvage arrangement for every Criminal Court: To Convene. * pthe use of bogus rationing books. It was said that { | ‘ims compartments for rubber, tin, | ots every week. ing; Jury Drawn The Monroe County Criminal j Court of Record will convene in a regular term at 10 o’clock next Monday morning, Judge William V. Albury presiding. Among the cases that will come | up for trial are those of a negro} who shot at a negress, a negro| woman who stabbed a negro man! in the eye, destroying the sight, and afiéther negro chargec”with robbery. The last-named is the “Give | IN CELEBRATION OF PRES- j 2&st° for whom Judge Albury, after suspending sentence, ob- IDENT’S BIRTHDAY tained a dishwashing job at $25 a ——— week, JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 7]. Following is a list of the jury eas 9 - : | impanelled: (FNS).—The 1943 campaign} Eauie against infantile paralysis is well; _ Charles E. Smith, under way in Florida, according | to an announcement by Paul E.} Reinhold,. state chairman. | After several weeks of inten- Sive effort practically every county has been organized and is preparing a varied series of; events to celebrate the Presi-" dent’s birthday as a part of the! nation-wide campaign to raise | funds for the fight against this! ‘dread disease. | As has been the custom in past | years, fifty percent of all funds| raised will be retained by local { chapters for use at home; the re-! maining fifty percent will be! sent to the National Foundation! to be expended in giving aid to } those who have already been stricken by infantile paralysis and! in a nationwide campaign to reduce the number of cases through financing ‘research into the ‘cause and prevention of this disease. “We realize that this is a war jyear and that many worthy causes are asking for support,” | Reinhold said in his announce- | {ment, “but the President has ap- | pealed to us not to relax the! jfight against infantile paralysis. |For this, too, is war. And we! are not going to let him or the} thousands of little, innocent vic- tims of this terrible disease down even if we have to dig a little deeper than usual.” INVITATION RECEIVED | FOR INAUGURAL EVENT The Citizen is in receipt of an} invitation to attend the inaugura- tion of Ellis, Arnall as governor of the State of Georgia. A copy of the invitation follows: “The Inaugural Co: | | | | | i vites you. tion of Ei Arn the State of Georgia on Tu the twelfth of January, one thou- sand nine hundred and forty-three at twelve o'clock at the State Capitol in the city of Atlanta.” The invitation was issued by Clark Howell, chairman of the in- augural committee. WOODEN WHALESBOATS NEW YORK — Wooden whale- boats. are now being used in the United States Navy. \ | Kingman G. Curry, Leon Myers, jter O. Jobnson Jr., Milton Hen-| M. Johnson, Clarence V. Thompson, | P. R. Monsalvatge, George J. McDonald, Adrian O’Sweeney, Paul B. Russell, Clyde M. Baker, Rafael A. Henriquez, Willie Hall, Frank Thompson, Eduardo Her-} nandez. | Wm. G. Richardson, John Rus- ; sell Kerr, Enrique Henriquez, ; F. Doughtry, Jr. Milton Raberts, Charles L. Pinder, Mal-| colm Roberts, Richard A. Knowles, Leland R. Sawyer,! Charles E. Curry, J. O. White. T, L. Adams, Garland Richard- son, Charles O. Cale, S. Owen Sawyer, Francisco Machin, Wal- riquez, Frank W. Johnson, Har-/ ry (Paso) Albury, Herman Saun-) ders, Jeff H. Knight, John. Fii Blackwell, Jr. 4, G. W. Sikes, ,Adalbert .G. Rus~ sell; Dario Garcia, Merville. E. Rosam, Leon Roberts, John Webster Roberts, Harold Cruz, | Frank Jolly, Elijah Cates, Her- | man F. Roberts, Alberto Garcia, Myrtland Cates and Harry Wick- | ers. GROUP ARRIVES Mrs. Thomas Curtis was a re-/ cent arrival in Key West from} California, where she had been } making her home for several years, where her husband, the} late Captain Curtis, was station-| ed with the Lighthouse Depart-| ment. Mrs. Curtis will remain here indefinitely. Accompanying Mrs. Curtis to} Key West, were her son and daughter-in-law, Captain and Mrs. Elmer Curtis, who will spend a short vacation here. ay HELLO! MACK Have You Tried the New 3 HOURS DRY CLEANING and PRESSING SERVICE? WHITE STAR CLEANERS | Duval Street, Opp. Bowling Alley county and was a trustee of Stet- PRICE FIVE CENTS President’s Message To ongress Highlighted With “Will To Win The War’ LATE BULLETINS “a (By Associated Press) lin, Rome And Tokyo By End Of 1943 ' —— “BLACK MARKET” OPERATIONS | WASHINGTON.—It was stated officially here today that the | arrest of a man in Miami. Florida, for obtaining and storing gaso- (My Aécosinted Peeus) line through -’Black Market” operations has \led to what is believed | WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The to be the illegal acquisition of 2,000,000 gallons of line through | - f nmert of- | P?@sident’s message to the seven- icials had been working on the tase'since shortly Christmas, | ty-eighth congress, and relayed and that:not even the police in‘Miami knew anything about it un- | id 4s “til two days before the first arrest was made. yr pada by mars ; | only one high mark—the will to FOOD MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM win the war. And the President WASHINGTON.—Represenative Bankhead saic teday that the cited most important problem facing this country is the prodvction ~‘ ay ew chew tat food during this year. He recommended that no more men should | that aim will be accomplished. be inducted from the farms, and many of those who Mave been! While he asserted taken from the farms to enter the military services of the United , ees | would not make any prediction ; when the war would be won, he seid he was confident that. by States, should be returned to their former occupations. 5.494 CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS WASHINGTON.—This far. since the war started, there have been only 5.494 Americans who have objected to going to war on | the end of 1°13. we would be the grounds that they are conscientious objectors. All of them have | “well on the roed to Berlin: % been sent to concentration camps in various parts of the COUNT: | as tins - NEW YORKERS KEEP ON OVERCOATS | 1£ the applause in congress is NEW YORK.—Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers kept on 4, .. tal i their overcoats in their offices today, due to the shortage of fuel | on: —— oil. As the winter pole: it was said that the shortages of oil | Chia is our most popular Ally. will cause some churches, schools and theaters to close. In the case When the President mentioned of churches. it was recqjmended that union services be conducted, | so that only one church, here and there, will need to be heated. sees United Kingdom. there was : ___ | ®pplause, and, there were clap- ; Ping of hands and cheering too ‘SUGAR CANE CROP %: he mentioned Russia. but \@ppkuse was continuous and | tremendous, THIS IS SHOWN TO BE FACT} It was also demonstrated, by ithe same measuring rod, that {Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, |of the Chinese armies, is the most popular of the Allied lead jets. Prime Minister Winston jChurchill’s and Premier Josef Stalin’s names were applauded MUCH PROGRESS ON FORESTRY IN SOUTH SECTION MAJOR REASONS FOR ITS aD.| VANCEMENT IS WAVE OF} PULP AND PAPER CON-) STRUCTION | DESPITE WORST FALL DROUGHT CLEWISTON, Jan. 7 (FNS).— Despite the worst fall drought in the history of the Everglades, the ; wildly, but when Chian; ¢ » » bi ee Kai- JACKSONVILLE, Fis, Jan. 7|record sugar cane crop has not Shek’s name was mentioned, the (FNS)—The south has madel|been adversely affected, Jay W. President had to stop for a min- more progress in the advance-| Moran, vice-president of the U.S. Ute or longer while the cheering ment of forestry during the past | Sugar Corporation, reported this [274 spplause burst into enthus- tivésyeassl than Geers ner tine TEL i2sm and mounted and mounted oe , |in volume. in :5 nistory, Warren T. White,; While winter vegetables in the! The President spoke of the p gencral industrial agent for the i area have suffered, the cane has, year as “crucial”—one of the most Seaboard Air Line Railway, claims in an article on the forest been kept in good condition by | serious = 3 wr ared of the na- PTA jtion—-, but he added that wh resources and potentialities off wage — levels! there would be widespread the south in a recent issue of the| ‘Tough interior pumping fatili-| ing in the coming year, every day Paper Trade Journal. ties, which also have provided | would bring u8 closer and closer to One of the major reasons for} satisfactory moisture condiftons| ultimate v.ctory. his yadvancement is the wave of; for young cane planted this fall,) What American arms have pulp and paper construction from | Moran said. | ready accomplished, he dec . 1935. to}1941 and the sound for-| As the same time, he announc-/ should be inspiring to every Am- estry ‘practices they instituted,|éd that the crop, which is expect-|€"c1n. We started the year ‘White says, and predicts that/éd to produce more than 1%v,00)|tue defensive, but we have 1 Yrore willibe built in the post|tons of raw sugar this year, has| assumed the offensive and War area. been showing a high sucrose | Making it more ifttense every The greatest enemy of forests | yield to date. | He spoke of the battle of Midway is fire, he says, but “when one} The Proper supply of ,abor as one of the outstanding everits compares the situation today|must be maintained, Moran 22d-| of the war thus far, from an Am with that of twenty years ago,|ed, if the record crop is to be, erican viewpoint. Before that or even ten years ago, very def- completely harvested, and the! battie, the Japanese looked upon inite and encouraging progress | company is still in need of addi-}themse'ves as invincible, t ft can be noted, enough in fact to/|tional labor in order to insure a! er that fight was over, their de warrant the prediction that the proper flow of cane to meet the|sive defeat must have surely cumulative efforts of all con-jsugar house’s grinding schedule. | (Continued on Page Three) cerned will in the future solve : the forest probems of the south.” He also points out the many newly discovered uses of pine wood in the manufacture of plastics, rayon, explosives, and for almost every human need ex- ; cept food, and concludes that our fast growing pine seems destined to bring almost fabulous wealth to_this area: tacsibs } Fi ALO! V. les have been compelled to aban- i Pdagalmage Y.1ITZOM | OCALA, Jan. 7-(FNS).--Florida | lost an outstanding Citizen‘ last week in the death of John L. Ed- wards, 71, pioneer cattleman and banker. t on British Forces Compelled To Abandon Hills Captured; Too Exposed To Enemy Fire (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 7.—British forc-,the British. This morning, when the enemy discovered that the British had retired during the don the stretch of hills they! night, the arti'lery fire that had it the G and | been continued throughout the night ceased, and German and Italians in Tunisia yesterday. (Italian troops started back to The war office said that the their former positions on the Long a leader of the cattle in-| hills were too exposed to enemy se dustry in the state, Edwards iefed Peers fire, and eggs gr stmbantmitiaetimmepden: one of the organizers of the/ish, after oceupying em for = Ocala National Bank and served|less than 24 hours, withdrew! YOUNG WOMAN. as its president until it was re-|during the night te their former! 18 to 30 years, for organized as the Florida National | front line trenches. office position, permanent resi- Bank. He*served several terms} Fighting in Tunisia, which iS | dent only. Apply Mr. Pi as a commissioner of brTHP [ies od abet fre eae amie on | Union Bldg. 2nd fi enemy artillery action St son University.