The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 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. 18. City Decides Available Trucks tn Service At Once To Cllect Garbage Councit Has Tentatively | Agreed To Make Pur-} chase Of Trucks; To; Meet Friday Night The City Council met in spe- cial session last night for-the pur- | ! | | | i 1 Pose of devising ways and means} for the operation of the scaven- ger service. While no definite arrangements were made. it was tentatively agreed to purchase the necessary trucks and equip- ment for carrying on the work. Jesus Caraballo, the operator of the service. made an/| former offer to resume operations, pro- viding that the city give some protection in making col- him} lections for the service rendered. It was shown that the city could ndt give any individual contrac- tor the protection as required inasmuch as that is simply a mat- ter between the users of the} service and the cortractor. The offer of Mr. Caraballo was voted down. - After quite a lengthy discus- sion of the matter during the session which lasted until mid- night. it was tentatively agreed that the city purchase the neces- sary trucks, but final ,action..was deferred Until, Friday night. when another meeting will be called to complete the procedure for |WARFARE JACKED UP |AGE TO CDSS SISSIES SS YOUTHFUL VETERAN OF FIGHT JAPS, (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21. —A 16-year-old veteran of the warfare in the Southwest Pa- cific, landed» here. taday. He is Earl Griffen,: who» jacked: up his ages whenshe wasel4) so that he could enlist-in:the United States:.Mariness: .; He was among the first Ma- tines to fight against the Japs. Not till a few weeks ago did the Navy learn his true age, and orders then were issued to send him back home. Earl had many a clash with the Japs, and was looked up- on as a “man” of courage and initiative. He said, upon his arrival here. that his most fervent wish is that he were old enough to get back into the fighting. ws GIDE ES SS RECEIVES LETTER OF 1941 TAX LAW County Clerk Ross Sawyer re-| ceived a letter this morning from E. R. Bennett, chairman of the legislative committee of the State | | Association of County Clerks, in} reference to the 1941 tax law, as{ it pertains to delinquent property | j and the issuing of tax deeds in the} sale of it by county commission-+ ers. Mr. Sawyer is requested to offer j fany suggestions he thinks may: strengthen the new law. Chairman ; | Bennett writes: “Make notations of those sec-} | tions you consider to be defective | and set out any suggestions of im- | provements which will be bene- |ficial to tax accessors, tax collec- \tors, clerks of circuit courts and! jto the people of Florida in gen-| 1 The {case against THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. NEGRO CHARGED: PLEADS GUILTY JOHNNY BOSWELL, SLAYER OF WILLIE GLENN, WILL BE SENTENCED AT SESSION OF COURT TOMORROW Assistant Lancelot Lester represented the ‘state before the grand jury in its] captured Henderson Airfield last August. examination of witnesses in the Johnny Boswell, negro, who stabbed Willie Glenn, Jr., another negro, in a boarding house on, Pauline street a few weeks ago. ‘The jury returned a true bill of murder in the first degree, and Boswell, when arraigned before Judge Arthur Gomez this morn- ing, pleaded guilty to that charge. Judge Gomez deferred imposing sentence until tomorrow’s session of the court, after witnesses to the murder have been questioned. Court will convene at 10 o'clock | tomorrow morning and the ques- tioning will begin shortly there- after. The grand jury found “no true bill” against Douglas Kimball, negro, who was arrested on the receipt of information here from Miami that a man, with whom he had fought, had died in that city, evidently as a result of wounds he received in the fight. Testimony before the grand jury showed that the fight occurred on the night of July 14, that a lamp Kimball had thrown at the other negro had been thrown first by him at Kimball, who picked up the lamp and threw it back. The lamp inflicted a scalp “wound, which was not considered serious on the negro’s head. He left for Miami the next day and died there on August 2. SALIENT POINTS IN JUDGE’S CHARGE TO GRAND JURY HERE The following points were stressed in Judge Arthur Gomez’s charge to the grand jury yester- day: State Attorney J. } Key West Citizen S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943 LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Presa) 18 AXIS SHIPS SUNK LONDON.—According to information received from Allied head. | quarters in North Africa, 18 Axis ships have been sunk in the Medi- terranean during the last four days, Most of the ships were on their | way to Tunisia with supplies for Axis forces there. American, as well as RAF planes. attatked and sank the ships. SOLDIERS NOW ON GUADALCANAL WASHINGTON.—The War Department announced today that| | American soldiers have replaced the United States Marines on) | Guadalcanal. The marines had occupied their base there since they | BOMB HITS JAP DESTROYER DARWIN.—A bomb dropped by an American plane yesterday scored a direct hit on a Jap destroyer off Bougainville Island in the | Solomons. The pildt did not know whether the ship sunk, but, as | he flew away. he saw a large column of fire coming from the de- | stroyer. FLYNN COMMITTEE RECESSES WASHINGTON.—The senate committee that is taking testimony { to determine the fitness or unfitness of Edward J. Flynn as minister | afterward. Several witnesses, including Mayor La Guardia, of New York, have been subpoenaed to testify at the hearing. TO REDUCE TELEPHONE RATES WASHINGTON.—As a result of the hearings before the Federal } Communications Committee telephone charges in this country. a re- duction of $35,000,000 will be made in tolls on an annual basis. It was shown at the hearings that the income of telephone companies is now larger than during any other time in many years. ‘ i TO DRAFT SAILORS AND MARINES WASHINGTON.—It was announced today that the first sailors and marines to be drafted since this country entered the war will begin service on January 1. FOUR FALSE AIR-RAID ALARMS LONDON.—Londoners ran to cover four times today when air-raid sirens were sounded, but all of them turned out to be false ; alarms. Long strings of RAF fighters were on the ground and other ; squadrons were in the air to attack immediately any Axis bombers | headed toward England, but none was seen up ito the time the last Are Now Converging On MUCH DISCUSSION RELATIVE TO NEW BILLS ON TAXES CAPITOL HILL OBSERVERS PRETTY CERTAIN SOME- THING WILL BE DONE SOON ABOUT MEASURES By JACK BENNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—As ao A SORE RIES a! uniil-tom yr a short time | the new Congress ‘settles down to} work, the income tax pay-as-you- go bandwagon is becmoing heavi- ly freighted and Capitol Hill ob servers are giving heavy odds that something will be done about it be- fore the first 1942 payment be comes due March 15. This would mean dropping en- tirely the 1942 tax and collection at the source of a certain percent- age of the income. at the end of the year, an adjustment would be made equalizing the tax on ail earnings. Don’t get the idea that you will pay any less to Uncle Sam. The Treasury's collections will be just as much in 1943 as if you were paying on your 1942 tax, perhaps more (since incomes are steadily mounting). But it would equalize the tax on a month-to-month} basis, spread it over the year, and | provide relief for the man whose | Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate iu the country; with an average range of-only 14° Fahrenhe't PRICE FIVE CENTS fl Amy Ti RAF BOMBERS FLY Streams Of Rommel’s Men HANN ass ripoli ACROSS Ct EL “os rie SQUADRONS HEADED IN | Tunisia RECTION OF DIEPPE | IN FRANCE | | | | | | (By Associated Press) CAIRC. Jan. 21.—Two columns (Ry Associated Press) jot the British Eighth Army. un- LONDON, ‘Jan: 21.—Squadron|der General Bernard after squadron of RAF bombers: % and fighters flew across the Eng- ‘abs are converging list» Channe} ‘today in the direc- | Tripoli, que feom the cnst tion of Dieppe in France. The Air; Ministry did not announce what the other from the southeast. military objectives would be at-: " oes CM cogQtimhehd | se jformetion received from the Montgom- today on and | would be somewhere in France. Meantime, debris is still being front. is meeting with much op- cleared away at the site of the! elementary grade schoo] that was Position, and this afternoon both struck yesterday by a Germen' columns are believed to be with- bomb. Thus far the bodies of 48) : : children and teachers have been |in sight of the stricken city. recovered, and 28 other people in| ay) —— a | other parts of England were killed | “1-08 SR Se — during the raid. The number of POTNRE to st +: qwotuded waa placed at 50: that Rommel’s men are not Throughout England today is an PM in Tripoli, but streams oi insistent demand that the govern-|them have gone through the ment start an _ investigation toiand are proceeding toward Tu- learn why the sirens were not nisia. Those columns n sounded until the raid had be.uP. under @ constant Somebody, several newspape™s é said in effect today, is to blame British Plenes. Gencral Montgomery i ' ! f strafing | ‘ not ex- for not detecting the on-coming bombers in time to give the alarm, so that the people of London and pected to stay lorg at ali, but wiil continue on toward T operations, of ‘ly repayable over 15 years. McGrath, Arraigned For Trial On Murder Charge, Acquitted yearly and loans of $667.50 year-| On Directed Verdict By Court. Yesterday afternoon, shortly af- ter 4 o'clock, in ordering a direct- ed verdict of “Not guilty” in the case against Edward McGrath, charged with murdering Robert Massi, Judge Arthur Gomez, presiding in circuit court, said that when the hypothesis set forth in circumstances forms a perfect link that eliminates all doubt from the mind, circumstan- tial evidence is then as strong as direct evidence, but when doubt continues to exist, then evidence of that nature is of no avail in meeting the requirements of the law. In the case against McGrath, Judge Gomez pointed out, there; were many breaks in the cirg. mn; stantial evidence. Any one of at least four men could have=béen guilty of slaying Massi, and,.in view of that outstanding fact, the court had only one recourse, and that was to direct the jury to bring in a verdict of “Not guilty.” Bart A. Riley and Thomas S. Caro represented McGrath. After the state had closed its case against the defendant, Mir. Riley request- | ed the court to have the jury re- tire while he presented and ar-| “You may make presentments or indictments based on - facts | which are within your personal | knowledge, or upon facts proper- |ly made known to you by others. | “Grand jurors are required to take an oath of secrecy and it is well settled that the proceedings before a grand jury must be kept strictly secret and that no infor- mation must be given out pending their deliberation concerning the eral.” This action was '5-/ SOUTH AFRICA AIDS en due to the fact that ‘the coun- | STUDENT SOLDIERS cil desired to obtain further in-| ‘ : i (Ry Associated Press) formation relative to the ‘type of PRETORIA Jan. 21--South- body and other equipment that} African stucents from the army goes with the trucks, which are | going into University can obtain to be fully equipped for handling | government grants $223.50 (Continued on Page Four) | i jgrand juror who violates his oath of secrecy and oath taken in qualifying as a grand juror, is in contempt of this Court, and sub- ment or both fine and imprison- ment. “While you are organized by this Court as a grand jury you are not under the directions of the Court or the State Attorney.-You ; are in an institution *within your- {| self. This Court stands ready to matters brought before them. A|more all-clear was sounded. “Boni” -Found-fh Yard-One== Fleming St. Being Examined RUSSIAN: ATTACKS NOW WIDESPREAD THREE HUNDRED AND SIX- TY NAZIS KILLED; 300 CAPTURED (By Asi d Press) MOSCOW, Jan. 21—The Rus- sian offensive, at practically every point along the front of 1,- 200 miles, is now being waged on an around-the-clock basis. In the important _ sectors, fighting during the night is now nearly as widespread as it is in the daytime. Last night, the communique ject toa severe fine or imprison- {said, the Russians scored several important gains. In one small gued a motion. After the jury had| advise you publicly, while the retired, Mr, Riley made his mo-j State Attorney is available to you tion for a directed verdict of} for counsel and advice in matters “Not guilty” and pointed out his} of law, and he is at your service reasons, which he contended, con-}in the matter of procuring wit-| clusively proved McGrath was not! nesses for your examination and’ connected with the crime. The} the drafting of presentments, in- jury was then recalled, and the! dictments and reports pursuant to directed verdict was ordered by! your wishes, and as an aid to you Judge Gomez. in discharging your duties. Most of the testimony in the}. “I am advised that several of- case was read to the jury, as those! fenses involving capital punish- | witnesses were absent, some of| ment have been committed in the them having ‘enlisted in’ the coun-| county since the discharge of the try’s armed,. services, Witnesses last grand jury of this Court and Hy ve. | County. who testified were E. R. Lowe, il] investigate. The Siatfberdd Sie that Barty Holt, Charles EvCurry, Fred-| _ “These you wi die, Argher and Ray Miller, The | State Attorney irr last-named is a special investigator, his witnésses vat 1 here, and he in’ the! state ‘attorney's office. is familiar with — their testimony and can present it to. you in a very Massi was murdered in the fall sector, in the central Don, 360 Germans were killed and 300 cap- tured and more than 1,000 Hun- garian officers and men also were taken prisoners. are headed toward Rostov, the all reported to have made “not- able gains” in the last 24 hours. That was particularly true of the Red force that is driving to- ward Rostov from the southeast. area are reported to have been recaptured by the Russians, who also came into possession of such vast quantities of equipment and supplies there has not yet been time to classify them, the com- munique concluded. FACE THE PACIFIC NEW YORK.—The important cities of Nicaragua lie on the western plain, facing the Pacific. The three Russian armies that | Germans’ key base in Russia, are | Three important villages in that} of 1940, and his body was thrown into Card Sound, near the Over- seas Highway bridge. McGrath short time.” \ NOTICE was arrested at a Boston race} This is an appeal to truck track, and an attempt was made|owners of the City of Key West also to find one Henry Bell, alias |to rent or lease trucks to the City i { LA CONCHA HOTEL Air-Conditioned DINING ROOM and fl | Is it a bomb or is it a sweeping compound that adherred to two electric light bulbs? That is the question oi the lo- cal ONI, with offices in the Fed- eral Building in Key West, will determine in examining a suppos- ed bomb that was turned over to them this morning by Fire Chief Leroy Torres. Chief Torres and Charles Cre- mata found the contraption beside the garage in back of the house at 410 Fleming street. Occupants of the house said they saw smoke issuing from a box, in which was the “bomb,” at 3 o'clock in the morning. Water was the! poured into the box and the fire|Doughton (D.-N.C.),_ chairman of j put out. Later in the morning | Chief Torres was told about the | incident, and he took the box con- i taining the “bomb, to” the ONI. | Mrs. Arthur Mulberg, whose mother, Mrs. George Kantor, re- cently purchased the house at 410 Fleming, said this morning that a sweeping compound, containing | age, but added that she does not know how the compound, stuck to two electric light bulbs, came to be in a box outside the garage. She does know, though, that a few days ago two burned-out electric light bulbs had been thrown away by the occupants of the house. Mrs. Mulberg’s conclusion is that the bulbs were thrown into the compound, after it had been swept up in the garage, and that the compound, because of the grease in it, had adherred to the |} bulbs and had been set afire in | some way. However, all that may be, Mrs. the house, on several occasions, have seen a man at night prowl- ing in the back yard at 410, but every attempt to catch him has thus far failed. { grease, had been used in the gar-j Mulberg added, the occupants of} | “Buster” Bell, who, besides Me-} Grath, was indicted by a Monroe county grand jury. Bell has not BUS DRIVERS WANTED for the purpose of relieving the jdeplorable garbage situation ex-' jisting at the present time. Those ' COCKTAIL LOUNGE OFFERS DELICIOUS MEALS and income suddenly collapses due to inability to find work or loss of job. | “The- pay-as-you-go plan was first proposed in a Senate finance committee hearing by Beardsley ;Ruml, New York financier and treasurer of one of the nation’s | largest department stores. The Rum! plan was something of a bombshell and it has been explod- ing at intervals ever since. The ; Treasury department at first hit, | the ceiling, but Secretary Morgen- thau and his aides now favor the | plan in a modified form, their| imain point of difference with all- | out advocates’ being only the ex- | }tent to which (or percentage of) | the surtaxes are deferred. | Since in the matter of taxes, the | Treasury proposes, and Congress | deposes, most differences such as | this are unimportant. A compro- {mise is considered certain because | Senator George (D.-Ga.), chairman fof the Senate Finance committee, lis keen for a pay-as-you-go plan, |and would like to see it pssed be- | fore March 15; and Representative f | the House Ways and Means, com- | mittee, has announced that he ‘is | studying ways to defer part or all of the 1942 tax. é é | | | Several members of both com- mittees have bills in the offing, and Republicans and Democrats | are not far apart on some adapta- tion of the Ruml suggestion. If the new bills are amend ments to the 1942 bill, they will in !volve 1942 incomes and can be| !passed before the first quarter | due-date March 15, If they are in- ; corporated in the 1943 tax bill, it’ junlikely that they will become ef- fective before March 15 payment is due. The figure most often referred |to at the moment is 15 per cent. Less than that might result in a | greater readjustment payment due jat the end of the year. More, in ! some instances, could possibly re- sult in the Treasury's having to pay out small sums to compensate for overpayments. 127 8 iy Annoeinted Press) OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 21.— The Kiwanis club president called for 27 members to step forward | to be honored for one full year of perfect attendance. Four failed to respond They were absent. Charged, had attempted to enter “se Nadi ENJOYABLE DRINKS its vicinity would have time to Tisi# to join the Allied force enter air-raid shelters. that French protectorate The roads east and west Near the schoolhouse that was Tripoli are iittered with bombed, groups of children, it was winless shelters and had found them 0 = locked. While the children were 'sntccht to hove salseaay. running about, trying to find © Biserte some place of pretection, a Ger 5 Bee RS ease man plane swooped down and CHANGE HOURS AT Protests were made also in the REVENUE OFFICE House of Commons today for the wardens. Several speakers de- coljector of manded that the government re- gover everybody who is found to be at oper in the future fault for the delay in ar either in Tur machine-gunned them. apparent carelessness of air-raid Howard Wilson, sort to stringent measures against zen warning from 9 o'clock in the r the populace against the raiders. +i] 5 in the afternoon. cluding Saturday : The noon hour ¢ dispensed with 19.— busine: and these returning from a skating perty, hours v ‘. t Billy Ward and Calvin Care *, 11, March 1 locked themselves accidentally in a five-foot ice box which they found on a scrap pile. W) ‘ their worried parents searched furthem,| CHICAGO. — Se the boys worked hard to nm cenit of the people their,freedom, which they did, by farmers. most prying aff the ice box door with mul-walled, that their’ ites. rces Have Driven Wedge Into French Lines ALGIERS, Jan. 271—Germans jhave driven a wedge seven miles deep into French lines, 40 miles | west of Tunisia, by using from | BOYS LOCKED IN ICE BOX / VALENTINE, Neb., Jan. w MOSTLY FARMERS est cains » sde in Tunisia by them The tanks were divided fcur colu.ans. end all of |60 to 80 tanks and squadrons of *tt#cked at the seme time Gita ieemebers: every point the ranks Officially. it was noted that Frenchmen were broken enemy tanks. as well as those of ‘er fell back in disorder. |the Allies, have been bogg:/ Elsewhere in Tunisia there he. |down in the areas of Tunis and |"°t been any ground fighting © last 24 hours. r lanes, Bizerte, but the ground is firmer |** aust 9 in the sector where, the Germans }°#¥ #04 night. continued to bomb and the French are fighting," but *¢ enemy lines in Biserte and int them At of the and iniigh ‘gia! Ge % warrant |? have attscked = Marshel the use of tanks. Romme!'s forces that are fleecing The Germans, however, pent See disregarded that boggy condition yet been apprehended. who are willing to lease or rent} Apply 12 to 2 p.m. Daily The two years’ delay in Mc-'their trucks will please communi-! at Car Barn Key West Transit Co. Simonton Street at Beach | eC RUNS Grath’s trial was due to the state’s cate immediately with Chairman wishing to find Bell before pro-!of Sanitation Department, John ceeding with the case. Meanwhile, Carbonell, Jr., at Strand Theater. McGrath was released from jail JOE JOHNSON, under bond, jan21-1t City Clerk. Service Men As Well As General Public Invited MUSIC by BARROSO and HIS FIVE-PIECE ORCHESTRA Chas. M. Salas, Mgr.