The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 9, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME LXIV. THE SOUT Che Key West Citizer HERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. -KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 194 Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe? | Ss. 4.2 s 3 PRICE FIVE CENTS America Ad British Plans Launch’ Attack At Bizerte * Except For hatdlety And ARMANDO MACHIN Air Action There Has} PLACED IN JAIL Litile Fighting | | Since Yesterday YOUTH RESISTED ARREST AS| SHERIFF TOOK HIM INTO CUSTODY Been (By Associated Press) ALGIERS, Jan. 9.—Except for artillery and | i | 1 \ | ' | | airplane activity, | Armando Machin, who says he in| 's 14 years of age, resisted ar- |rest when Sheriff Berlin Saw- since yes-|yer took him into custody, and | 2 ... {told the sheriff, “I'll shoot you Resumption of rainy ‘if you have me sent off to reform , school.” fields and)“ sheriff Sawyer said today | dirt roads into mud wallows, and ; that, though Machin is as tall as the, he could have handled him not only tanks but smaller mo- ily, but he had no desire to OS been | be rough with him. So Constable | Jose Espinosa, who was present.,} | grabbed Machin by one arm and| the sheriff clutched him by the , other and took him to jail and bombing in the last 24 hours has | locked him up on the charge of been directed at Bizerte. Military | akin wasune aes being led into the jail, declared, in direct- | ing his remarks to Sheriff Saw- yer, “just as soon as I get out of jail I’m going to beat you”. Sheriff Sawyer stated that he had received several complaé about Machin. He made it~ a | point, with several pals, to play ,poker behind San Carlos Hall, so | ;that children, who attend the jschool there, saw Machin andj Artillery action by both idea) the other boys at play. The} Py ‘ «, |sheriff went up the alley, in have been going on intermit- | hack of San Carlos, and sure enough found Machin at his old ost. This afternoon Machin was ar- ‘raigned before Justice of the} {Peace Raul Carbonell and was RATIONING UNIT HEAD| ccc” action in the juvenile FEELS CONFIDENT OPA EDICT WILL BE OBEYED EUSEBIO VALDES B. L. Grooms, chairman of the | DIES THIS A. M. Monroe County Rationing Board, | said this afternoon that he, felt confident that all Key Westers} Eusebio Valdes, 67, ee: cee | morning at 5:40 o'clock, would obey the OPA edict not to | Fiizabeth ee Use any gasoline for pleasure driv- | Key West ing. { ago. However, Mr. Grooms added,} Funeral arrangements are in should there be ‘any infractions of Charge of the Pritchard Funeral | the order, the board would act to; {© 4nd Will be announced lat- er. have the gasoiine rationing book! ‘The Jone survivor is the widow, of the violator revoked. City : And County Officials Give Warning Relative To Applying For Tax Exemption Liter. year some Key Westers Taxes on exempted realty in if to ‘take advantage of home-|the city run from two to three stead exemptions, and County; times as much as~in the county, Tax Assessor Claude Gandolfo | despite the fact that the county’s and City Tax Assessor-Collector sment of real estate in this | Sam B. Pinder warned this morn- | city is more than $2,060,000 in ex- ing that anybody who does not} cess of what it is in the county. file his exemption application by {City assessments total $7,369,120; March 31, will be compelled to p: county sessments of realty in taxes on a full assessment basis. | Key West amount to $9,829,550. Mr. Pinder and Mr, Gandolfo! In the county, owners of ex- | talked in similar strains about this | empted property pay only two matter. Both said that there may | mills; in the city, seven mills. The | be property owners who feel that; county payment goes to the pub- there is “still plenty of time Jeft” | lic schools, and in the city the to get exemptions, and both add-|:xoney is used to pay interest on ed that, in the pa there have' bonded indebtedness. A parcel, been Key Westers who have taken | cn which one pays five or six dol- that view but forgot to attend to} lars in the county, costs $15 or so there has been little action the Tunisia fighting terday. weather has turned vehicles have bogged down, The most intense airplane | installations there have been pounded in three heavy raids by American and British planes. One heavy raid was directed against Tunis, where several emmunition dumps were seen to be set on fire. tently all day today, but infantry on both sides have remained inj? their protected positions. ’ died this at (916 Mr. Valdes came to} from Tampa, a year ,ently drunk. jhim into custody and called, up| NEW YORK SCHOOLS| TO CLOSE TO SAVE: USE OF FUEL OIL ORDER WILL REMAIN IN EF- FECT ON CURTAILMENT PROGRAM DURING WEEK STARTING FEB. 1 (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—It was officially announced today that the public schools in Greater New ; York will be closed during the week, beginning February 1, in order to curtail the use of fuel oil. It was said that the week’s; closing would save 195,000 gal- lons of oil. The Board of Education ex- plained that school children would not miss any days in this semester, because the proposed closing of school from April 26 to-April 30, inclusive, for the Easter holidays, will not be ob- | served this year. It was further explained that a further conservation of oil will be made, because in closing now, instead of during the last five days in April, when it will be warmer, not so much oil will be used in keeping the schools open at that time. Only nine arrests have been} made here for pleasure driving, | and in each case the rationing; board found the persons guilty | and revoked their gasoline ra- tioning books. The board said it had listed 46,000 holders of auto- mobile licenses, whose driving would be checked up. JOE DE ARMAS UNDER ARREST, DRIVING AUTOMOBILE WHILE DRUNK | | Joe De Armas was arraigned this morning before Justice of | the Peace Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., on a charge of driving an} automobile while drunk, and was | held in $100 bail for the crim- inal court. It was brought out in the tes- timony that two coast guards- men, Operating a jeep, found De Armas driving on the high- way on Stock Island while appar- The guards took the sheriff's office. Deputy Joe! Knight then drove out to Stock } Island and brought De Armas to the jail. James Yelvington and Robert j Brent, charged with reckless | driving, were held in $50 bail } each for the criminal court, and ; Eddie Alfonso, arrested for not! having ‘a driver’s license, was placed under a bond of $25. UTTHNETvE Aenea avec the matter until it was too late. in the city. Up until noon today, 222 realty; That discrepancy was pointed owners had filed exemption out today by Collector Pinder, and pers in the county and app -| he explained; in discussing in- mately 300 inthe city. In the! creases in the last two or three county there are 1,800 owners who! years, that the city had to raise have the privilege to get exemp- bond millage from five to tions and in the city about three-| seven to meet bond payments quarters of that number. | that had been enforced by courts. ofA NEUUUUELLHUL LLU ALES TEL! cen ; LA CONCHA HOTEL|«™ hours Sentice Air Conditioned H for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner MUSIC by La Concha Trio } its SOUHTERNMOST CITY PHARMACY PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Duval and Fleming Sts. | | } H | wholehearted swpport ofall other} {members of the council.” War.Bird’s View Of Africa ‘ ATLANTIC OCEAN SAHARA WASTELAND» Hard desert soil for mech» anized movement; little water, intense heat. LOOSE, HEAVY SAND DUNES, raise havoc with mechanized equipment. TROPICAL RAIN FOREST —Military operations hampered by rains, un- healthy climate. ATLAS MOUNTAINS— Rugged peaks, fertile valleys adapt region to guerrilla fighting. SAVANNA BELT—ftat grassy plains — water a Drotlens et foity bette: ul. A SWAMPS or low grass lands; in west» coastal area changes to higher plains. Wide World Features HIS IS HOW the north half of Africa looks to a United Nations commander as he plans possible offensive in any of a half dozen! directions: not a vast arena cut carefully apart by political bounda- | ries, but a crazy quilt of varying terrain. Some sections—like the hard-packed sands of the southérn Sahara—are surprisingly adapted to mechanical warfare. In some areas lack of water is a serious ob- stacle. Example of the role geography can play was afforded by the Qattara Depression. where bed terrain forced Rommel’s army into a relatively narrow front which the British were able to defend | effectively until ready to strike back. President's Budget Measure Of One Hundred Billion To Be ‘Closely Scrutinized’| THREE TRUCKS ARE HANDLING REFUSE SANITARY COMMITTE MAK- ING EVERY EFFORT TO RE- LIEVE SITUATION (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The} bill that would fix the country’s! budget at $100,000,000,000 for the! inext fiscal year, and which will be submitted by the President to | congress on Monday, will be “scru- | | tinized closely”, several senators | ! and representatives declared to- | day. The proposed budget will in-} Key West's sanitary committee, | crease the country’s indebtedness | John Carbonell, acting chairman, | by $75,000,000,000, which, added; and Paul G. Albury, with the/to the present debt of $113,000,- backing of Mayor Willard M. Al-! 000,000, will make the total $183,-| bury and the entire City Coun- j 000,000,000. i | cil, started yesterday to put an, Every item of expense, it was | end to the growing seriousness in| Stated, will be.gone into thorough- | the accumulation of garbage andj ly with the view of keeping down } trash in this city. the country’s expenditures chiefly | The committee began thé ‘op-| to those things that are mental eration of one truck yesterday, | to winning the war. ee and’this morning two trucks were! Congrsesmen, too, it was .as- | put into service. Mr. Albury |serted, will consider in detail what said today that, as promptly: as; foodstuffs the ~ government in-} other trucks can be obtained, | tends to send our Allies under the { they will make the rounds of the , Provisions of the Lend-Lease bilt. | city to relieve the garbage situa-|Opinion was widespread that, if / tion as soon as possible. | | H i j the government ships as large vol- | ~We are not waiting to con-|umes of food to the Allies as were | sider what charges will be made |sent out last year, there will be an | by the city in taking away trash‘ acute shortage of food in the Unit- | and garbage,” Mr. Albury said.jed States during 1943. i “Conditions are too bad to defer; The sentiment was that the/ the collection of garbage until! United States should help the Al- some arrangements of that na-/lies as much as possible in the ; ture is made, or until the City | matter of foodstuffs, but the help | Council determines whether the}should not go to so great an ex-, city will make collections or aj tent that the people at home will; contract will be awrded to priv- | have to suffer for the want ate individuals. _ | food. “The big thing is to begin op- erations immediately, and that is} just what we are doing. Later on,; the matter of charges can be aut WASHINGTON, D. C—Amer- of } ! is Major General Harry B. Hal faster “ | For many years General Hale had | him ee face twice cx = a winter home in what is known | Por han ce over the bend wi locally as the Reynolds home at| iia bap me oft, and Mrs. Buste ae street ‘and “Reynolds | seatched it up, so that she would! : : ’ 3 +t | Major Hale, according to the in-| one Seid telah ee MOTORS ARE SEALED tended to. It should also be said}ican military plane motors that the committee-is having the} sealed. by government inspectors when crated for shipment over- Seas. SESSILIS aa SSS ID DBs, NOTICE! It has been brought to the attention of the Stadium Com- agencies using the recently cleared Stadium Grounds adjoining the City Incin- taking a short cut for their trucks the dumping bd THE PROFESSIONAL MAN THE SERVICE MAN From 6 to 8 P. M. { CHARLES M. SALAS, |WHITE STAR CLEANERS Manager. i Phone 189 Duval Street. Opp. Bowling Alley Seer ee TTT hus Free Delivery Service Key West, Florida MUUULLEUALLUELEUON EAE STADIUM COMMITTEE. By: GERALD SAUNDERS, President. UTD IITIIIEIIISS: Russians Making Wide Sweep In j tured. ‘Roving Nazi Units In Caucasus LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) raid was not given. but the Air Ministry said that the RAF five planes. A small squadron of German planec rai towns in England and killed three persons, but did | damage, the ministry reported. BURMA ADVANCE RESUMED munique said todey. The oom CHUNGKING.—British, under General Wavell. have resumed | their advance in Burma, after spending the last two days in consol- ““™qee added thet Eitier’s =e | idating their positions. Planes, accompanying the British. have made im attempts t tewert whet =p repeated raids on the Japs’ main base in Burma. destroying the i . ears an exciting ten. greater part of an airdrome and exploding gasoline and munitions » oe i dumps. ROMMEL’S FORCES HAVE REACHED TRIPOLI CAIRO.—The bulk of Marshal Rommel’s forces are believed to have reached Tripoli already, according to opinions expresse. here today. Some of his troops have made a stand 45 miles east of *® communique added Thee Tripoli. but they comprise only a small part. so British plane pilots sands of Germans have been kill reported. General Montgomery's army is continuing to advance slowly pecause of the many mines Rommel’s ‘forces have planted in the main roadway. iz ed, wounded or captured im the eastern Caucesus and tens a thousands of cthers are retreet CAMEL CORPS WINS A GAIN an i anen LONDON.—The French camel corps in Sahara clashed again tai today with a contingent of Italians, and captured 177 officers end F men and forced the others to retreat. An Italian hangar was|) Im that drive the Russians are bombed by French planes and what remained of it was later Cap- seid to have captured 19 vil | lages. In every one of them the PAY-IN-ADVANCE BILL ADVOCATED ee aa WASHINGTON,—Leon Henderson, the OPA chief advocated °¥* from the front ssid that today that congress pass a bill that would direct the people to every available house,was con- pay their federal taxes in advance. Such a system, he asserted. verted tate a 9am me would be the best possible one to kill inflation. Secretary of the = oy Treasurer Morgenthau said he did not favor such a measure. Nazis. — A radio report from Stockholm PLEASURE DRIVING IN TAXIS today said that the Germans are heli eae sont peices onions of 2 cap penic-stricken over the possi- today called on the people in nit tates to stop every form a ss of pleasure driving. He said he had heard that many people had ility of their being trapped. In stopped using their own cars for that purpose and were now doing one sector. according to that re- their pleasure driving in taxicabs. Such action, he maintained. port, the Recs have within would partly defeat the purpose of the order against driving for pleasure. ot €8 miles of Salz and in another CTR TP es ee e2rea are only 60 miles from that HULL TO MAINTAIN RECIPROCAL TREATIES city. Tie Stockholm version of WASHINGTON.—Secretary of State Hull said he heard that the fichti ie es efforts would be made to try to disrupt reciprocal treaties the fis — S rate United States has. made with some nations, but added when the the Russians have edvenced 10 time came he would fight to maintain the treaties. (Continued on Page Four) Sailor Who Insulted Mrs. Busto Put Out Of Navy; ro Key Wehbe Turned Over To Sheriff ay. John Louis Pezzote, the sailor/dy”, and, when that story was One of them, Benjamin M.|who insulted Mrs. Lois Busto, scoffed at by Mrs. Busto, he as- Strawbridge, who, as was related | was discharged from the Navy serted that his name in The Citizen, sent money here jtoday as “undesirable” and was! “O'Brien”, and that be was at- to pay his taxes on two lots in!turned over to Sheriff Berlin tached to the airforce and not t Martello Towers, has since then’ Sawyer at 1 o'clock this after- the Navy. been promoted from a colonel to| noon. Mrs. Busto gave the cap, wh a brigadier-general. It is Brigae| - ens taney = ies ne had — — - it, to i Rica's tha m given to him by sign Alfonso of the shore pz Cit wee Ko (County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare,!and Thursday Scien. |Jr., charging Pezzote with “in-| identified Pezzote as the man West. {decent exposure”. who had followed and insulted The other man high in the mil-| It was éntirely through Mrs. her. itary service of the United States, | Busto’s courage that Pezzota/ Court mortial proceedings wer COLONEL STRAWBRIDGE | MADE BRIGADIER GEN.; HALE COMMANDS UNITS News about two friends and ad- | mirers of Key West, high in the i was identified. She punched are} | was | formation received here, is now inj command of the air forces on one | of the islands in the Pacific. a coeteeehieeiaeeeimianemeieinaiatiamemeeenenaan |BUS DRIVERS WANT:D, FAIA AII IIIA II IGAISISII SAS TONIGHT! For A BIG TIME. . .Try | | | } started yesterday against Pezzote and were concluded today which he was expelled from Civil authorities will now tak action against Pezzote. He will be tried in the Monroe County Cru inal .Court of Record, which convenes on Monday. * RAULS CUB