The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 8, 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. 7. American Planes Stage Moré Raids On Aleutian Islands * Attacks Made On Kicks; ar ' + ¢-atq CITY SETS HIGHEST And:On Munday Airfield “MARK IN HISTORY IN | COLLECTING TAXES Kiska Raided January 6 ae aE g | Collection of city taxes (By Associated Press) | esill continent) forge : WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The exceeding the highest amount ever before collected in the Navy Department reported today that of American! i history of the city. planes have made more raids on) In New Georgia Islands; squadrons in and | seen. further torn to pieces munition and gasoline tion of current and delin- The attack on Kiska, made on January 6, occurred during fog-| | West.” were struck and set afire. i Tax Collector Sam B; Pin- der said today that, since last November 1, the collec- Kiska, the Aleutians, quent taxes totals $153,000. | “lt i rape Munda airfiled in the New) It is the best showing in | that regard the city has ever Georgia Islands. ; made,” Mr. Pinder said,-“and | indications are that this en- tire tax year will be the best in the history of Key Gy weather and the damage| re, caused by bombs could not be) ee eee i SPANISH CLASSES At Munda, the airfield was | TO BE RESUMED | | ‘ and am-| ‘The Spanish ciasses for adults dumps | at San Carlos School will be xe- |sumed next Monday, according to | announcement made today. Miss Benildes Remond, instruc- LARGE CONVOY ROUTE tor of the classes, states that les- a sons will be given every Monday, LONDON — Eighty thousand/Tuesday and Wednesday from miles of convoy routes are patrol- | 2:45 to 3:45 p. m. for beginners led by the British Navy. -| and advanced students. Mrs. Busto Reverses Order By Beating Sailor Who Attacked Her; Assailant Is Identified Mrs. Lois Busto, who was at-|to me; it belongs to one of my tacked by a sailor,and who punch-| buddies, and you surely don’t Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1943 Hey, Soldiery:Who..You Wavin’ At? « eee eer Wide World Features THREE privates at Fort types of incorrect saluting ous index of the seven main kinds the florid class to the one a recruit starts when he mis- takes yardbird for officer. ‘correct | salute is shown at right. 12 — the-various of error.:They run from HI-YAH PAL NOT MUCH GROUND FIGHTING IN AREA AROUND TUNISIA THIS WAS BROUGHT ABOUT) BY HEAVY RAINS; FRENCH! STRIKE TWICE AT wo) ITALIAN CONTINGENTS | MOSCOW, Jan. 8.—The Ger; ; Mans have resorted to all kinds o} H 4 ed aes Oe ae to try = pete a | advance in the mi e Don, t fom ee ae ee a “said today | #4SH in Key * West is assuming been very little ground fighting Russian communique said todayy) praye proportions, it was said by in Tunisia in the last 48 hours,|bUt they have been unsuccessf ; a business man who called at»the due to the heavy rain and the and have been driven back at one; Chamber of Commerce to tell PEERS point to within 60 miles of Rostov,! about the lack of service at his gluey mud, but the “Fighting which is a gain of 15 miles made} place of business. NAZIS DRIVEN (MUCH COMMENT - BACK AGAIN, OVER GARBAGE GERMANS RESORT TO MANY TRICKS WHICH PROVED OF NO AVAIL I j | i i } | | | CLAIMED THAT MANY PAID FOR SERVICE IN ADVANCE; OPERATIONS CEASED ON THURSDAY The collection of garbage and PROBLEM HERE West, Florida, hs equeble climate in > with range of only S. A. PRICE FIVE CENTS United States Flying Scuadron— Attacks Jap Convoy; Nipponese Ships Sunk; Many Lives Lost LATE BULLETINS _ Tesnd: Of Japanese Seen Bobbing Up Or Went Down (By Associated Press) FOUR MINERS THOUGHT KILLED MORGANTOWN.—Three or four miners are thought to have | j lost their lives in a mine fire here today. Twenty-two were under- | ground when the fire started. but all of them, except seven, suc-/ ceeded in reaching the surface safely. Of the seven still in the mine. two or three of them are alive and mey be rescued. A fire | in the same mine on November 15 resulted in the loss of 20 lives. (By Associated Press) GEN. Maci “THURS HEAD- j Se | QUAKTERS, Somewhere in Aus- DEMPSEYS MAY SETTLE DIFFERENCES i i 5 NEW YORK.—The Jack Dempseys probably will discontinue | - « their court fight here over the possession of their two children. ican plenes heve been attacking Joan and Barbara. and settle their divorce proceedings in Reno. s Howeve; Dempsey insists on having the two children put into his |" 78P Convoy. 150 miles from custody. | New Guines for the last 36 hours. RE-USE OF CRATES PROPOSED eS ae TALLAHASSEE.—Re-use of orange and grapefruit crates wore ‘rom the front. the attack was proposed today at a meeting of the Florida Citrus Commission. Ac- continuing. cording to a rule of the commission, crates can be used only once. | ™ 7 | Final action on the proposal to permit their use more than. once was The cumy qusited of 00 | deferred, and the commission suggested instead that a trial be ships. with fighter plane escort. a a Cements wei cannes jens wen Sig inal. enen after the war. they will (resume putting apefruit juice in Beek i 3 ies — |Sent. two transports had been sunk, with the loss of thousands cf lives, and three other ships. one t-ansport and two cargo ves- ICKES WIRES TO MINERS WASHINGTON.—Secretary Ickes today wired to members of lex United Mine Workers of America. on strike in the Pennsylvania ' coal fields and else here, that they call off their strike and submi* sels had been struck and were \ their differences with their union to an arbitration board. The). | strike was called when the miners’ dues were raised 50 cents per |= “=e | The gilet of om American month, LIGHTER AUTOMOBILES ae Saat S CHEAPER, WASHINGTON.—Henry Kaiser, the shipbuilder. said today “#*ports erly yesterday. end that among the things this country will need after the war will its wires began crackling imme- ‘be lighter and-cheaper automobiles—automobiles that will consume - | tess gas for every mile they run—, and he added that if the present | ™ Somiing mows te -the | manufacturers will not turn them out, he will build ther. and put Allied base at Port Moresby on |them on the market. Shortly afterward. the roars ef planes begen and continued BRITISH DENY GERMAN CHARGE LONDON.—The war office today denied the charge that the ed him in the face and then beat him into submission with her} handbag, identified him as her as-! saliant yesterday afternoon at the Naval Station. Mrs. Busto is a cashier at the what to get an nto trouble.” The sailor “Ha-haed” again, and while he was chuckling, de- clared, “That hat’s got the wrong name in it. My name’s O’Brien, and I'm not in the; innocent man French”, who have trudged or ridden more than 1,000 miles through the desert sands from Lake Chad in Equatorial Africa, yesterday struck twice at two French contingents that had by the Reds since yesterday. Besides, the communique add- ted, the Germans left behind sui- | cide squads, who manned guns that were to be used in attempts! , to knock out Russian tanks. As_ ;soon as the German §artillerists! Further, ‘it developed today | that, though the contract with-the | owner of scavenger trucks had ex- ;pired on Thursday, there are many people who are paid up a month’ or almost a month in ad- Berlin radio has been repeating that the British fighting in Tunisia. | had been administered a decisive defeat by Axis forces. The office | said that British forces had retreated in good order at nignt from Positions on a stretch of hills. because they were too exposed to | enemy artillery fire. until several squedroms of Amer- ican bombers. escorted by figh:- ers. had teken imto the air and flew over the Owen Steniey Southernmost Pharmacy. While|Navy; I’m in the airforce.” returning home from work at} “All right,” Mrs. Busto said. night, she said she noticed that |“We’ll let it go at that, but by the sailor following her when/ this hat I'll find out whether it she reached the Key West Drug! belongs to your buddy or be- company corner. She continued | longs to you, and I'll find out too | up Fleming street, and in the mid-| whether you are in the Navy or! dle of the next block, the sailor} in the airforce.” stepped swiftly ahead of her and! Mrs. Busto left the sailor, still} hid between the opening of the’ begging for his cap, and went to two show windows of the Torano!her home. The next day she store building ‘turned the hat over to Ensign After she had passed, he came! Alfonso of the shore patrol. In out of the hiding and followed her | the cap was the name, “J. L. Pez- up to Skippens lane, where she} zote”, and yesterday Mrs. Busto turned in to go into ner home,|went to the Navy Yard and When she was half way up they identified Pezzote as her assail-j lane, he grabbed her, and she| ant. switched her handbag from he right hand to her left, and landed} two hefty punches on the sailor's 1 face. He released his hold, and then she switched her handbag back to her right hand and beat him over the head with it His cap fell off and she snatched it up and held on to it, despite the fact that he pleaded with her to return it to him. “This is for identification pu poses,” Mrs. Busto told him, while | she held her handbag poised to NAVY TO MAKE REPORT Naval authorities informed} The Citizen this afternoon that; proper procedure is being taken | against Pezzote, whose home is in Springfield, Mass., and that a public report about the decision of the Naval Court probably will ; be made tomorrow. Meanwhile, Sheriff Berlin Sawyer has a warrant for Pez- zote’s arrest and will be inform- L i ed by the Navy when he will be} strike him again if he attempted | turned out of the Navy Yard, so} to.take the cap away from her. | that the sheriff may be able to| He did not attempt to get the|take him into custody immedi-! cap. Instead, he said, “I'm a ately. married man, with a wife and a{ child, and you surely wouldn't want to get me in trouble.” “And I’m a widow,” Mrs. Bus- to rejoined, “with two daughters NOTICE The City of Key West will re- ceive sealed bids for the purchase! to protect against just such scum | of seven (7) new or second-hand) as you are.” | trucks, of not less than one and The sailor then took another | one-half tons each, to haul trash, tack. He tried to laugh, but his!and one specially constructed laugh was hollow and metallic. truck to haul wet garbage. Bids “Ha, ha! That cap don’t belong | will also be received on one new jor second-hand truck equipped | with a tank and pump. Municipal .,.. MOTICE ipriority rating A-10. These bids Complying wi restrictions | will be returnable to City Clerk, Dincea oul Sent tneg: the | Key West, Florida, not-later than weekly luncheons of the Key /5:00 P. M. on January 20th, 1943. West Yacht Club will*be discon- }The City reserves the right to re- tinued until further notice. ject any or all bids. KEY WEST YACHT CLUB. JOE JOHNSON, | City Clerk. jjans-1t —_—_————T AUGMENTED BATTERY | CHARGING SERVICE We Do the Job in 30 Minutes Lou Smith Al hone No. 5 Phone No. ere Notice, Legionnaires! | Special meeting, American Le- |fion Hall, 8:00 P.M. Official visi Der \Fifth District Commander Al UTO SERVICE Lambert. Please attend. Import- White at Fleming ant message, Ren Rod \tried to stop their progress. ito the blazing sun of Equatorial | o'clock. visit | vance. Further still, a collector, | were discovered by the Russians, | who said he represented the con used in each battle. In the first glice: ede tak ‘eklens planes, | Vo oe eae ear te cioke clash with the Italians, 200 of | dropping bombs at scores them were killed and the others Me the next da: points, and within an hour there-} ©. pee 5 vy. ‘ fae fled northward across the desert A Citizen reporter saw a toward Tripoli. after the tanks resumed their ad- | = j vances. | ceipt that read “for December and »|January.” Now, the Two hours later a column of. , In the eastern Caucagus also, the) ve _paid’in advance other Italians, numbering 400, | +. 4k, are driving into the German , Wondering if the city will honor clashed with the camel corps. | lines, throwing them back to newi their receipts or whether~ pay- When the fighting ended, 250, positions. At one point in the’ ment will be demanded again. Italians were killed and 150 sur-; Caucasus, the gain was more than| ‘The caller at the chamber’s of- rendered. Som: r that made by the Reds fighting in! fices said that he had paid $4.50 AR RET sa a latter] the middle Don. Twenty miles is| in advance, but that-he was not : heh caexeat the distance of the advance: made; bothering about that. This French army, in its day- {in the Caucasus, according to the}“This is a grave situation, and no after-day trampling back to} Russian communique. | time whatever should be lost by civilization through Sahara's sands, is the only one that, thus far in the. war, that has lent.any } Pravda, a semi-official color or romance to its action. | newspaper, said today that there is not stopping the Reds in their: garbage remain in yards or on Time after time, the army has} been “lost”, and just when it! advance toward ‘Rostov. »/That} sidewalks throughout the city for was thought to have perished} main German base. will fall into! day after;day.. The city should from the lack of water or food, | SEE RED CROSS SEWING Russian hands shortly, the paper}; act at once:” it has bobbed back into existence, ROOM IS REOPENED, asserts. —— POSTPONE MEET OF so far as the rest of the world} RECREATION UNIT was concerned. Critics say that| i the most remarkable thing about | : The Defense Recreation Com- the corps has been its ability to| The sewing room of the Key|mittee meeting, which is regu- carry water across 1,000 miles of; West Chapter of the American: larly scheduled for the first trackless desert and to keep it:Red Cross. located in the’ Wo-|Friday of the month, was post- fresh at the same time. "| man’s club building on Duval st., poned until tonight. As a rule, water becomes un-! is now open every Tuesday and! The meeting will be held drinkable when it is subjected) Friday afternoon from 2 to 5; the City Hall chambers. The change was made due to ;the rush of the season’s activi- | ties, according to announcement tmade by J. Glenwood Sweeting, acting chairman. in Africa for a week or so, but the} It is reauested that all who can, “Fighting French” have found j participate in this important work some way to keep their supply | which is being carried on in con- fresh. {nection with the war effort. They are now reported to be? only 200 miles west™of Tripoli, ' which city, the commander of! the army has radioed French! headquarters in North ‘Africa, hi hopes to reach in time to inte: cept Marshal Rommel’s who are trying to reach LA CONCHA HO “RAINBOW ROOM” Southernmost City Pharmacy Prescription Druggists PHONE 199 | MUSIC by La Concha Trio From 6 to 8 P. M. CHARLES M. SALAS, residents | are} He added, | Redithe authorities. in remedying it.! It’s ‘too dangerous a thing to let! DISAGREEMENT ON THIRD TRIAL SEBRING.—A jury reported today that it was unable to agree on a verdict in the case against oHward Terry. former prison camp guard, charged with having killed a prisoner. This is the third time 8 mistrial has been reported in his case. BRITISH PLANES | BOMB: ROMMEL’S MAIN COLUMNS, (By Asnocinted Presa) CAIRO, Jan. 8.—British planes { are bombing Rommel’s main | forces only 40 miles east of} Tripoli,-it was officially reported Mcuntcins to swoop down on the Jep ships. Since then. 36 hours ego, $4 separate attacks heve (Continued on Page Fou: { ! H { \Failure Of County Board To Organize Causes All Bills And Salaries To Go Unpaid While the formal organization; granted leaves of absence by G of Monroe county’s new commis- | «Tor Hol —— the durat: A ~d th> war, and them succtessers bh sion af neld in abeyance, Monroe ant poi Sees eeeell county's employes are going with- Same Keay Wet lawyer today, which makés military ex- aut thelr aalecics: 700 tats, marked yesterday, after read |peris here think that Rommefs} which discounts could be ot/ -' the story that was published ; ; nets | ed were they satisfied by Janu=:y The Citizer that the proper time reported stand in the dry river/ 19 remain unpaid. for commis mers to approv basins, 170 miles from Tripoli, was} It was explained that now is | bonds is whi.c they are im se incorrect. Either that is the) one of the few times in the history, Mr. Roberts and Mr. Gorm case or Rommel left behind aj of the ad that it ~ been in ' that they should not take « } ‘ of 4! financial condition to discoun* its: tion of an ~*ficial nature t jceenaet to fight a delaying | sins, and that probably it would board has been organized aoe: | not be able to take advantage of probbaly could approve In either case, General Mont-! the discount because no official before then, though that gomery is thought to have by-/ commission is functioning. a legal question that the = passed the small contingent of| Checks for all biils paid by the general should Gecide, but Germans and Italians in the dry | county and for salaries for ¢m- are powerless to act officially « river beds and to have proceed-|Ployes must be signed by the erwise, such as in making appx 'ed toward Tripoli. A major bat-| chairman of the County Commis-' ments and signing checks Itle there is expected between | sion, but the commission has 00 their organization has beer ithe Axis forces and the British | Chairman. Carl Bervaldi was the) fected. jEighth Army. ichairman when the commission! Today no definite date for th i | adjourned sine die on Monday orgacization has been Bacio night, and a new chairman must though a movement he be elected by the incoming mem-! cta-ted to get the three comm | bers, who comprise Mr. Bervaldi, <; ners together. provitied J. Frank Roberts and Eddie Go-' Mr Roberts, who was stil il mez. The other two men who) abed this morning, is able to leave were elected to the comm ‘ssict. bis home. — last November, William J. Dough- i | on \LIVE POULTRY MARKET j Tennessee Milkfed ROASTERS |Soft-Bone ROASTERS-STEWERS R. L Red Battery-Raised FRYERS and TURKEYS and we Kill and Dress Them Daily Phone 540 1214 White Street | SERRE UAE ANNE ARERR, .