The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 12, 1943, Page 1

Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with an average rauge of wnly 14° Fahrenhe*t Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West the Key West Citizen IN THE U.S. A. VOLUME LXIV. No. 10. Council. Discusses: Gar Situation: During Special’ Session Held Last Night Private Contractor Operat- ing Service Refuses To Continue In Making Col- OLD SS SEL SS s FROM WAR TO LOVE IS PART PLAYED BY LIEUT. JAMES DALE FANE, SONS IN “SINGLE FAMILY | SAID MISSING ALL WERE ABOARD AMER- ICAN CRUISER THAT WAS) THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1943 _ THUNDERING THOR LOST IN BATTLE OFF SOLO- | i MON ISLANDS (By Associated Press) i} WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The Navy today notified Mr. and Mrs. ; Thomas J. Sullivan, of Waterloo, | Towa, that their five sons are re-} Ported as missing in the naval bat- ! tle that was fought off the Solo- | PRICE FIVE CENTS Cavalry Drives: Germans Back Along Thirteen Hie Front LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Pre: | EXPECTS TO MAKE ATTACK | CAIRO.—The only report from General Bernard Montgomery \Reireat Of Nazi Forces | Turned Into Rout; Mid- die Don Drive Said To | Have Slowed Down lections mon Islands last November. _| The youths, embittered against Japan because of the Pearl Har- bor backstab, all enlisted in the! § (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 12. —From war to love, from the fighting front to the marriage | and the Eighth Army today is that he expects to fight a major battle | | with Rommel’s forces before they reach Tripoli. The Axis forces | | are fleeing so swiftly. the British army has been unable to mak2 | contact with them during the last four or five days. It is believed | (Ry Associated Press) 1"OSCOW, Jan. 12—Cossack The City Council met in spe- cavalry has driven back the Ger- cial session last night’ for the Purpose of discussing the garbage situation in Key West following | the abrupt discontinuance of the service which was being furnish- ed by Jesus Caraballo. who has! tefused to continue on in col- lecting trash and garbage throughout the city. | Mr. Caraballo. who was pres- ent at the meeting. was asked by} Councilman Leonard B. Grillon| On several instances if he had any} intention of reconsidering his ac- | tion. The former operator of the system said that he was not in-| terested any further in the mat- ter. This caused the council then! to adopt other methods making a partial toward | collection of, trash and garbage with the use} altar, is the procedure that Lieutenant James A. Dale is following today. - He arrived: here, after hav- ing peppered the Japs for several»months at Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians, and is hurrying toward Virginia, where he will meet and marry Miss Virginia Pace, t6 whom he was engaged at the time of his enlistment. After the marriage and a brief honeymoon, Lieutenant Dale will resume active mili- tary duties, TELL HARROWING EXPERIENCES IN DRIFTING BOAT RELATED BY TWO MEMBERS OF CREW OF MOTOR VES- SEL SINKING FOLLOWING ! of a few trucks to be operated under the’ direction of Robert J. Lewis. another former private | operator, | \ Mr. Lewis has agreed to lend his aid in the emergency, at least until next Tuesday night when the council will receive bids for the purchase of trucks to be op- erated by the city. When the question of the city | Operating the service came up| for discussion, Councilman Wil-| liam Freeman advised the body | that he felt that it was going to! be a tough proposition for the| city to take over the system due} to the acute labor shortage here} at this time. | At this juncture, Councilman ; John Carbonell, Jr., stated that! inasmuch as Mr. Caraballo had been asked if he proposed to car- ry on with the service, that he did not feel the council should beg him to resume operation of the system. Mr. Carbonell fur- ther declared that he was heart- ily in favor of having the city take over its operation. Councilman Grillon, who coin- cided with Mr. Carbonell, stated} that one of the main® reasons| why the city had been unable to operate the scavenger service in years past in a successful manner was due to the fact that workers | i | } employed to operate the trucks! and collect trash and garbage were givenva free hand to do as they pleased, instead of having a manager or someone who may have been vested with authority to see that the city was given the same amount of work for the (Continued on Page Four) Permit Issued For Buil Of Sixteen New Houses Here Ralph Russell, building inspec- tor, has issued a_ permit to the Taylor Construction Company to erect 16 houses at)a cost of $56,- 000. The houses will be constructed on what is called the lime grove property, off Flagler avenue, near the incinerator. Other permits were given to Archie Lowe, who will build a W. ANTED YOUNG WOMAN, Office position, permanent resi- dent only, Apply Mr. Pinder,| Western Union Bidg.. 2nd floor. | a SPRINGING OF LEAK Sinking only three hours after springing a leak which disabled} its engines, the two members of the crew of the Motor Vessel Majestic today told of harrowing experiences in a lifeboat in which they drifted for four days with- out food or water. The 67.3 foot craft, owned by}. the Majestic Ship Coropration of Miami Beach, was bound from an Amer.can port to a West Indian island with a cargo of potatoes and apples. The 30-gross ton vessel was manned by Captain Howard Rhodes of Beaufort, N. C., and Jose Alfonso Piard of Havana, Cuba. | Rhodes said that the Majestic] sprung a leak last Thursday about | noon which resulted in putting its engines out of commission. The ship sunk shortly after the crew took to the lifeboat. H With an improvised sail fash- | ioned out of an old pillow case, ; Rhodes and: Piard managed to} make their way to an island of the Cay Salt Bank where they search- | ed for water at, an old abandoned | lighthouse ‘therYé. They were brought to Key West this morn- ing aboard a small naval vessel. Prisoner Would Be Minister (By Axsociated Press) PLATTSBURGH, N. Y., Dec. 12.—& young inmate of Clinton | Prison recently confirmed by the} Rt. Rev. G. Ashton Oldham, {bishop of the Episcopal diocese ;of Albany, has expressed the de- isire to study for the ministry. ding business place at the cost of $2,000 on the site of his present fish- house, and to A. Einhorn, who will construct a hguse on, Duval street at a cost of $3,000. PROPOSALS | Sealed bids will be received by |the Board of Public Works, City of Key West, Fla., until February 12th, 1943, 8:00 P.M., for the pur- |chase of one (1) Dump Truck, 1% jtons, with cab and hydraulic ; hoist—alternate, without hydraul- J 18 to 30 years, for ic hoist. Also, one (1) Pick UP; tuesday, Jan. 12, and Wednesday.’ | Truck, %-ton, with cab. | The usual right is reserved to reject any and all bids. HAROLD PINDER, jan11,1943-2t Clerk. {Juneau was one of the 10 Amer- Navy shortly after that perfidy. | During the battle, the five sons; g were aboard the 6,000-ton light! cruiser Juneau, in command of | Captain William A. Kitts, 3rd. The : ican ships lost in that battle, which resulted in breaking up the Jap- troops on Guadalcanal. AP Features | that Rommel will make a stand 45 miles east of Tripoli, BRITISH SLOWED UP IN. BURMA CHUNGKING.—British forces in Burma. under General Wavel! | (HIS HUGE MORTAR, named “Thor” by its German crew, is of | were slowed up today by the Japs. who,have made a determined a type believed to have been used by the Nazis at Sevastopol, |Stand. There have been many clashes between the British and Jep Only one of the sons was mar-| midable weapons made of wood and cardboard, but the editors of ried. He leaves a widow and one! the Field Artillery Journal. in which this picture was printed, be- child in Waterloo. | COUNTY BOARD NOT | { ORGANIZED AS YET NO OFFICIAL BUSINESS CAN CARRIED ON BY COMMISSIONERS BE | | | | | “If it is the matter of the ap-} pointment of committees that Mr.! Bervaldi objects to,” J. Frank} Roberts said today, “I think it} can be settled easily. and satisfac: torily. He declared that he though’ it would be unfair to name com, mittees until~ ‘successors to Mr.’ Doughetry and Mr. Harris qualify. |! The easy way to overcome that objection is to let the committee- ships that would have gone ti those two electees, who are serv- ing in the army, be given to the men who eventually will take! their olaces. | “Meanwhile,” .Mr. Robert Ginted out, “The county is ithout official heads, and if we* wait until successors are appoint- ed and qualify before we organize, it is no telling how i long the; | present condition will continue. After the two men are appointed, they must qualify, and that may | require two weeks more.” i Not even a rumor can be heard at the courthouse about the men ; who possibly will fill the vacan- cies in the Board of County Com. missioners. One of them will be Key Wester and the other will be a resident of the upper keys, if the governor adheres to the prac- | tice in recent years of giving the upper keys representation on the board. AMERICAN ATTACK ON TUNIS DEFENSES BRITISH AND AMERICANS CAPTURE MOUNTAIN PASS IN TUNISIA (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. ported today that the British and Americans have captured an im- portant mountain pass in the Tunisia fighting. The battle for the pass was begun yesterday and came to aj victorious close for the Allies just | before nightfall. That is the only exception to land fighting in the Tunisia area. But planes, particularly on the {Allied side, have been busy al- most continuously during the last three. days. | ‘American bombers attacked enemy defenses at Tunis and Bizerte, and a squadron of Amer- ican Flying Fortresses went as far afield as Sahara to bomb Italian; installations. An airdrome and sev- eral ammunition dumps were de-| stroyed by the fortresses. SA REET SPECIAL MEETINGS | A.& ALS. R. January 13. at 7:30 P.M. ! All visiting and resident mem-| bers invited to attend. R. B. BOYDEN, Secretary. et LRT ES AN mA L lieve it is real. SAILOR EXPELLED | FROM NAVY PLEADS GUILTY IN COURT CHARGED WITH INDECENT. EXPOSURE: INSULTED MRS. ! BUSTO; ORDERED OUT OF KEY WEST John Louis Pezzote, the sailor) who was expelled from the Navy} for insulting Mrs. Lois Busto, pleaded guilty to a charge of in- decent exposure this in the criminal court aiternoon and was) sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs. z dudge Albury, after severely lecturing Pezzote, told Mrs. Busto that he was glad that the case| did not have to go to trial for; her sake. The plea of guilty, | Judge Albury added, saved Mr Busto from much embarrassment. | The sheriff was instructed to! accompany Fezotte to the bus station and see that he leaves Key ; West on the first bus that pulis| out after they reach the. station. ; “You are not wanted in the} i Navy and you are not wanted in! Key West,” Judge Albury ‘said,} ‘and the quicker you get out of this community the better satis- ficed every Navy man and every | MPG SI SF LIM announced yesterday, resident will feel. CLARK FAVORS NEW TAX PLAN WOULD WIPE OUT TAXATION FOR LAST YEAR: URGES ALLEN ORTIZ TIS ISLS SS SS OFFER MARINES DEAD JAPANESE FOR CANDY) ‘By Associated Press) GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Some- where in Australia. Jan. 12. Deat Japs for candy—that is an experience that United States Marines on Guadal- cenal have had with natives on that island. The natives don’t like the Jeps. and killed them every chance they had. When the Marines took Henderson Field from the Japs. the na- tives thought that the Amer- icans were the same as the Nips. but were not long in finding out that they were wrong. Shortly after the possession of Henderson airfield. the Ma- riners were giving the natives candies and other thincs that were delicacies to them, Then the natives yave the Marines to understand that they liked them but hated the Japs and were going to continue to kill as many as they could. Yesterday a grouv of natives in a large dugout paddled into Guadalcanal with four dead Jeps, whom they offered to trade with the Marines for candy. The natives were given the candy but were told to keep the Japs also. FOUND GULL | TRIED ON CHARGE OF AS- the American people at the out- { SAULT WITH INTENT TO | COMMIT MANSLAUGHTER ‘the war department through the 12.—Allied | 4 headquarters in North Africa re- | 5! | to carry war wo FURTHER VICTORY TAX i in the Court tried Allen Ortiz was Monroe Cou of Record 1 th ing on a » intent to commit manslaughte ar found guilty. Judge William V. Aibury has not yet sentenced Or- tiz. Emerson Ga ic y = old Negro boy 10 broke into the store at Simonton and United streets with the intent to commit petit larcency, pleaded guilty and! was sentenced to two years in the reform school at Marianna. \ Herschel Davis pleaded guilty {to a charge of vagrancy, and was} fined $25, or the alte tive of a; i sentence of 30 day t year’s imposing a further of 19 per cent on all wages the present $624 yearly The advance would above tory ta =s in the! percentage present t. lf the government s the Rum! plan, Se $ serted, it would b sured of practically 100 per cent in collec-} squny tions, whereas the present plan, many people have not the A CONCHA HOTEL money to meet the levies agai them and own no propert, “RAINBOW ROOM” which the government Air Conditioned liens. su Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner MUSIC by La Concha Trio H From 6 to 8 P. M. CHARLES M. SALAS, jai { | | can file‘ is. a | WOODEN BUS TRAILER } WASHINGTON—A new wood-; en bus trailer used in Washington, } rs, holds 141} persuns, and weighs less than a! standard 40-passenger car. ‘UTLARRLELESQORE ET UEg NOEL LAEES ATONE” | Escape Sisaa tie King |anese attempt to reinforce their |A mortar shoots shells into the air and drops them over walls and | patrols, and it-is expected that the main forces will come to grup9 \ fortifications. The Nazis have put out propaganda pictures of for- | 1" the next 24 hours. SIX RAIDS IN NINE DAYS LONDON.—The rich German industrial district in the Rlur was bombed again last night by RAF plancs. the sixth bombing in the last nine days. It is said that the British gOvern:nent, aware that vast quantities of weapons of war are being turned out in the Ruhr for use against the Russians, has directed the Air Ministry to | continue the raids in that section of Germany. SUSPECTED OF PLEASURE DRIVING ATLANTA.—OPA officials in this city said today that 2.447 At- | lantans are suspected of having indulged in pleasure driving since Leon Henderson issued his edict against the use of cars for that put- pose. The officials said that convictions mey result eithe: in sus- | pending gasoline rationing books or in revoking them. i ADVANCE TIRE INSPECTION DATE WASHINGTON.—The Office of Price Administration announced ; teday that the expiring date for the inspection of tires for holders | of “A” coupon books, has been advanced from January 31\to March | 31. It was also said that the further inspection of tires, after the first | tires, after the first time, had been increased from every three months to every six months. Holders-of “B” and tationing books must have their tires inspected by February 28. ‘MAJOR A. ROWAN ALLIES MAKE | DIED YESTERDAY FLANKING MOVE WIDELY KNOWN AS MAN AMERICAN P!.ANE MAKES WHO CARRIED “MES- SAGE TO GARCIA” ONSLAUGHT ON HARBOR OF RABAUL | | 1 (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12.— {Major Andrew Rowan, who car- jried the “Message to Garcia” during the Spanish-American !war, died in the army’s Letter- man Hospital, it was officially following a lingering illness that extended over two years. As a young army officer, graduate of West Point and ilieutenant, Andrew Summers Rowan fired the imagination of (Ry Axnectated Prensy DARWIN, Jan. 12.—Americar and Australians on } Guin.a are engaged in making a flanking ; Move near Papau in ar attempt | to rid that territory ot Ja communication lines Lae, 150 miles northw Ose tend to st of Buna It was officially reported todav ‘ that an American plane mihdc onslaught on the harbér ‘of Ra- baul, on New Britain, ahd rammed a torpedo inta.a Japanese cruiser. | The plane had to make so fast a | etaway, the pilot did not know whether or not the cruiser w sunk, though he did know t {direct hit was made. break of the Spanish-American war by carrying a message from a wilds of the jungle, at constant risk of his life, to the Cuban rebel leader, General Calixte Garcia His thrilling exploit was im- mortalized by the late Elbert Hubbard, whose essay, “A Mes-! sage to Garcia”, became famous | as one of the world’s best sellers. | It was translated into many lan-' guages and more than 30,000,000 copies were sold. ELIJAH SANDS BUYS STAPLES AVE. HOME, The site comprises a square that County Commissioner Edward | #4/0ins the United States com- Gomez had sold his home at 2746 ™Ssary and is flanked on the Staples avenue to Elijah Sands, north by United Street and on the of 615 Ashe street, for the| re, | °0uth by Seminary st ported price of $5,500. | Melvin E. Ru: super Mr. Sands is connected with “ent of public ‘nstruction, the Overseas Radio Sepyice; formed The Citiz-a *he* as ine Mr. Gomez has moved to his, Proposed schoolhouse will _ be house at 720 Duval street, and! built entirely by federai funds, Mr. Sands, his parents, Mr. and! neither he nor the Local School Mrs. Alexander Sands and two: Board had been consulted or giver isters will occupy the Staples |@9¥ information about the con- sis NOTICE Site For Government agents be morning to unload materi t site of the proposed high school | building to be constructed in Key West. avenue house the latter part of this week. PALACE THEATER i The City of Key West, Florida, ‘will receive applications for the {position of City Scavenger Mana- ‘ger. Applicants mus? state their | qualifications in first letter. Ad- \dress replies to City Clerk, Key NEWS and SERIAL i= Florida. ——Tonight Is Prize Night —— JOE JOHNSON. | ljan 12-1t City Clerk.' ; mens_13 miles along the railroad j leading towdrd Rostov in the last 24 hours. according to the Rus sizn comiaunique issued at noon todsy. The refort said that the retreat cf the Germrns. at first slow. was turned into a rout. so much so that the last of three villages they ebanijon-d was left intact. Not a louse is demolished or set on fire. it was reported. and vast suppl.es of food and muni- | tions were left behind by the exemy. The drive in the middle Don hes sl-wed down, though that in the eastern Caucasus is still con- tinuiug at 2 fast pace. the com- murique revealed. The Germans viewed them Caucasus rout so se- aicus, the Berlin radio, heard here today. asserted that every man Germany can spare must be sent to the Russian front. The radio was quoted as say- ‘ng, ‘We must make further sac Tifices and all of us should make them without 1 any complaint. The situetion ig Russia is such we must meet it and crush it promptly.” Aacther Russian force is said 100-mile front along one of Germany's im- lines. The Ex- chonge Telec-eph Agency to be « ivarcing over a portent surol~ said th-t in the eastern Caucasus Ger- mens are fleeing at some points without making anv attemot at rearguerd fighting. The Agency edded that cf the 300.000 Ru- maniens that were mobilized to ’| fight against the Russians. one- (Continued on Page F [Material Being Unloaded Oo School Building The schoolhouse » 000. and, so. far as is kr ly. 1 hae* 24 stan The work w direction of Acenc; money to construct Mr. Russell seid’ rer of the Fed. -i Works wer over th the proposed school ored ch ad work o next f 7 BUS DRIVERS WANTED Key West Transit Co. fimontcn Street at Beech