The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 22, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West Vv | Outer Defense Of Tipo Crumbled Under Artillery Fire Of British Columns *. Wel Outi Have (COURT HEARS Already en nto Brit- WITNESSES IN ish Hands; City Proper BOSWELL C ‘ASE Penetrated ) |DEFENDANT WILL BE SEN-| (By Associated Press) CAIRO, Jan. 22.—The main outer defenses of Tripoli have been crumbled by the fierce ar- tillery fire and the bombing by | planes, under the command of | SENTMENT BY GRAND JURY EXPECTED TODAY | This morning's session of the ., {circuit court was devoted to General Montgomery of the Brit- jhearing witnesses in the case of ish Eighth Army, today’s official | first degree murder against Johnny Boswell, and at the con-i jclusion of the testimony Judge/ /Arthur Gomez said that he will sentence Boswell at 10 o'clock Tripoli have alrealy fallen into | tomorrow morning. Ss sc a Boswell pleaded guilty to the British hands, and official circles| nares Gf teat ciegeecistineien ta said the presumption is that'Wednesday, .but Judge Gomez : | wished to acquaint himself with} Montgomery's main force has al-/the nature of the testimony be- jfore imposing sentence. | Eight witnesses testified, three | advance, |of them eyewitnesses. The latter | in |told of the quarrel and fight that} {Boswell and Willie Glenn, Jr., of fire thrown up by their artil-|had had, and how Glenn was heer stabbed when he entered the : kitchen of the boarding house a} Another force of Montgomery's few minutes after he and Bps-, | well had come to blows in a bed- at! room. | ; 5 The grand jury is expected toj the south in the hope of trapping PakeCite soressauments 20. 4.00! part of Rommel’s|o’clock this afternoon. shattered army before it reaches | CONFUSING the Axis defenses in Tunisia. | report said. The westerly outskirts of ready penetrated to’ the city it- As the British they are preceded by a curtai self. men have by-passed Tripoli the greater 1 !war office announced today that! Pes American heavy,« four-mo- | TENCED TOMORROW: oe THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE JU. JAP PLANES ARE , ROUTED BY U.S. HEAVY BOMBERS NIPPONESE MADE FIRST AT- TACK; TWELVE OF JAP PLANES PLUNGED INTO SEA; OTHERS DAMAGED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The } tored bombers, while attacking Japanese ships yesterday in the sea directly north of New Guinea, were challenged by 25 Japanese Zero fighters. In the dogfights which follow- ed, 12 Zeros plunged into the sea and six others, with fire streaming from their tails, were not expected to be able to get back to their bases. The other seven Zeros turned tail and es- caped in a northeasterly direc-! tion. Not a single American plane was lost. Two of the bombers were hit by the Japanese, who were quick to see that those planes were in difficulties, and the Japs rushed in for the kill. | But the American flyers were quicker thinkers. They had pre- pared for just such a _ contin- gency, and circled around the damaged planes, while they poured lead into the approaching Japs. Four Zeros in that spuad- ron were downed and another ly damaged. The others with- drew, but while doing that one of them came within the cross- fire of a bomber and was brought down. The bombers, before they start- ed their fight with the Zeros, at- tacked three Jap ships, one of which was sunk and the other two were set afire. The damaged planes, flying at reduced speeds, were kept under ithe “wings” of the three other bombers, and in that formation re- turned safely to their base. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1943 GERMAN LINE IN RUSSIA NOW CRACKING ALONG MAE FRONTS; (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, Jan. 22—The Ger- man line TDS SIS SES. TARGET PRACTICE HERE TOMORROW Major Walter A. Shaw of the coast artillery announced today that the guns at Fort Taylor will be fired at in- tervals from 5 oclock tomor- row afternoon until 7 o'clock in the evening. The danger area of the tar- get practice will be bounded by a line from Fort Taylor to a peint one mile south of © Sand Key. thence east four miles. thence north to Stock Island. TIS aS! Sm PROPOSED BILL WOULD DECREASE | MUCH OPPOSITION IN CAPI- TAL OVER DRAFTING SO MANY MEN NEEDED ON FARMS in Russia is cracking | along the entire front, the Russian | communique said today. The com- munique pointed out that that con- i dition is particularly true in the i southern area, where tens of | thousands of Germans are in head- | long flight, while other thousands, with sprinklings of Rumanians and | Punasrien troops, have surrender- { In one large village, the com-j munique stated, 1,500 Germans} were killed and more than aj thousand threw down their arms | and submitted to capture. i The Russian southern army al-! so has as its objective the recap- ture of Rostov, and their advance } toward that city is far faster than | that of the Russian army in the; central Don. Gains by the latter! army have been “limited” in the jlast 48 hours, the ComMSOTUE:| said. Berlin’s radio today admitted that the Germans had been unable to stop the Russians at any point along the 1,200-mile front} |The announcer told of the Gee | ' continuing to advance in the face | jof “withering fire,” and added ; that the German command had used every means, including the | mining of the ground, in attempts to hold the Reds, but still they go on and on over the fallen bodies of their own men. NERVES OF MANY ‘LONDONERS UPSET ‘THROUGH BOMBINGS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—So decided has become the opposi+ tion to the inducting of any more men in the army, it was declar- ed here today that a bill prob- ably will be introduced in ‘con- gress putting a limit to the num- ber of men that may be called for Che Key West Citize: S. A. Axis Units Launci LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) but nobody was killed or injured and no damage was done to p=ep- erty. Australian fighter planes took to the air. as soon as the Japs were heard approaching; and drove them back t> sea after = few bombs had been dropped aimlessly. MAKE SUCCESSFUL RAID ON MANDALAY CHUNGKING. — American and British planes last Tuesdey carried out a successful raid on Jap-held Mandalay, it was ennounced today. Bombs were dropped on an immense warehouse and it was a mass of flames when the bombers withdrew. All planes returned to their base. ALLIES CONTINUE MOPPING-UP ACTIVITY DARWIN.—American and Australian soldiers are continuing their mopping-up activity in New Guinea. Yesterday 150 more Japs were slain. PLANES ATTACK REBAUL WASHINGTON.—The war office announced «day that \_er ican bombers yesterday made a raid on Jap shipping in Febeul ber bor at New Britain Island. One Japanese cruiser was sunk end three other Jap warships were damaged. RUHR VALLEY BOMBED AGAIN LONDON.—The RAF again bombed Ruhr Valley last night. The damage done was not stated, nor did the Air Ministry say how manr planes had participated in the raid, It was stated, though. thet «ix planes failed to return to their bases. Four German planes were shot down while raiding the southeast coast of Englan<. NEW GAS RATIONING BOOKS WASHINGTON.—The OPA began to distribute new or distribution in the rationing of gasoline, _ y Cftensive In Tunisia That Threatéas Allies Enemy Using AB Kinds Of Equirment in Drive Ex- tending Over Front Of More Than Three Miles Be Remmeen Home ALGIERS Je Daas © De,ar an cfiemiwe ses mors tpg i Tome the <oeeem =e ktiek «& Jie im wiles west of Tami & was oft aely anncumces wer Tne enemy + ammg oreccos seis at cf aa at (cms = morruee Fete wacec wit guanty = aorug egmestt the Ales ore «¢ Soot ine cf mure mer cree mum In some places 2 Se eco tenes nave Drogen sarouge =f me. but & a such ieeteeces the Lae was resc-mec amc -sus- r etecks with glee ond tangs. st (ec che Ax acvance While ima: pete 2 sung = the Fremct 43 = ies southeast a “Tumia, have act omiy stovpec “ne Germans. wo> adwemcec seven miles beyond the Bench line “yesterday, But Sewe wage nes GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Jan. 22. army: duty: | FURTHER RAIDS. OF GREAT- (uch at thee geeund «in = Those Imperialists passed beyond the confines of the city yesterday afternoon and are now well on their way toward what is called the “small Maginot line” near —The hotel clerk became slightly {confused when Mr. Thursday {came in and registered on Wednes- |day. He became dazed, however, | When, on the same day, Mr. Sun- |day also registered. He gave Mr. Tunis. | Sunday a room next to Mr. Thurs- | day, all on Wednesday. Chairman Of Rationing Board Issues Stateme Order On ‘Pleasure Driving’ B. L. Groom, chairman of the Monroe County Rationing Board, gtoda yissued the following state- ment relative to “pleasure driv- ing:” On January 7, 1943, all “pleas- ure driving in the s ern states and the District of Col- umbia was officially banned by! procuring medical attention, at-| an emergency order frmo the Of- fice of Price Administration. This order, together with very specific definitions of its terms, has been widely publicized in the press, however, based on the number of ; inquiries received by the Local Price and Ratoining Board as to} nt Relative To ) by civilmns are: family or per- sonal necessity driving for which j no adequate alternative means of transportation are available and occupational driving. Family or personal necessity enteen East-| driving is definedas driving for | j purposes of essential shopping, ! tending religious services, attend- | ing wakes or funerals, attending | meetings directly ited to the | occupation or pro: ion of the | owner or person using the ve- NEGRO SNATCHES WOMAN'S PURSE JUMPS CEMETERY FENCE AND FINALLY MAKES HIS GETAWAY At 1 o'clock this morning a woman was attacked by a negro on White street, near Angela, and her purse was snatched from he Her ‘ams were heard a jblock or more away, and it was not long before a large crowd was collected at White and An- gela sts. It included Merlin Al- bury, a special policeman who got there in time to seethe fleeing jnegro. He ran down Angela street, and, on reaching the cor- ner of Francis, jumped over the Catholic cemetery fence. The negro was a hundred feet! jor more away when Mr. Albury jarrived at the fence. He whipped jout his revolver, but, instead of shooting at the fugitive, he fired Senator Bankhead is one of the leaders of the movement. He said that the farms gradually are being drained of manpower, and that if something is not done shortly there Will be an acute shortage of food in this country in the next year or so. t tas: d S, Besides, he pointed out that| LONDON, Jan. 22— Londoners, i ij laxed th i .; Whose nerves had been _ relax Sines ae the umben | many months during which Ger- at 12,000,000, will have a ten-|™@" planes had not made raids on dency. to disrupt economic con-| this city, are again tense over the ditions at home. Such an out-| Wo raids that were made as a come, he concluded, would affect | Tesult of RAF attacks on Berlin. : : | Tt was said today that London- adversely, in a great measure, serge: our fighting ayaa the front. Jers are anticipating the Germans * | will make other raids, probably on a much larger scale than the re- MAYOR ALBURY cent two, because of the demand of Berliners that reprisals be ex- MAY GO TO JACKSONVILLE acted for the hundreds of Ger- mans that were killed last Satur- AND WASHINGTON ON BUSINESS i | ER MAGNITUDE BY NAZIS | ARE NOW EXPECTED MO- MENTARILY (By Associated Press) iday and Sunday nights by RAF bombers. A movement, similar to the one ! in 1940, is afoot again to evacuate | | children and old people from this city to various points in the coun- "The number of children and| | teachers killed in the schoolhouse | DOUGHBOY LOSING BRASS BUTTONS WASHINGTON.—No more brass buttons will be put on the coats of doughboys, and the buttons he now has will be removed and will be replaced with plastic buttons. In that way. the government will save many tons of brass. ANNOUNCE LATEST CASUALTY LIST WASHINGTON.—The Navy today announced the latest casurc ity list of 18 dead and 37 wounded, which brings the total to 6.386 dead and 3,900 wounded since December 7. REALTY TRANSFERS ! HERE TOTALED 625 = tablished an Identifica’ m Bu- |reau at the Police Station, which THIS WAS NUMBER RECORD- wit) be presided over by Roy Hamlin, fingerprint expert, who ae ee has agreed to perform these du- THE WAR ties. — ; Fingerprinting vill be made of Despite the fact that we were/all persons having a crin ‘nal at war last year, the number of/record, and they are to report a: realty transfers in Key West to-/the station ‘sn accordance with talled 625, which was almost two-|a ruling recently raade for the thirds of the sales made in 1941,|purpose of identification. when realty was beginning to! The bureau wil] oe open irom show a bit of its 1925 activity in|8 a. m. to 11 p. m. daily. NTIFICATION BUREAU CRFATED | | The City of Key We-t has es- Mayor Willard M. Albury left this morning for Miami, \ that was struck by a German from | bomb on Tuesday mounted to a this city. Anyone having reasons for ob- The homestead exemptions filed | taining identifications or other- hicle, or necessar yto the public}into the air. welfare or to the War Effort, or} The sound of the revolver did which city he will returh Sun- |day afternoon, provided he is not {called to Jacksonville or Atlanta. Motal of 57 today, due to the finding | with County Tax Assessor Claude | | of three more bodies in the wreck- | Gandolfo up tethe closing of the) wise interested in this matter, driving for the purpose of mecting | not stop the negro. rahe e the provisions of the order and the| an emergency involving a threat P ‘ETO, a mo. A aa ment later he had disappeared. violations of the provisions of the} to live, health or property. Pee A search was made in the Catho- The mayor said there is a pos- | 2£¢ of the schoolhouse. sibility he will go to Jacksonville | i office yesterday amounted to 834. part cf the sector. the commun- aque reported that the Germans ere “2 flight. The French are usiny the same tactics as the Americans and British are in the fighting west of Tunis: opposing )tonks with tanks and divebomb- ers with divebombers. Fighting .. both sectors was $34 going on at the time the communique was issued. SPECIAL COUNCIL - SESSION TONIGHT y Council will meet in spe- al sion 8 o'clock tonight in the City Hall The ..eeting has been called for the . le purpese of complet- ing arrangements for operation of the scavenger service. No other siness will be transacted | should call at the police station.;during the session. In the, city, the number approxi- mates @ like figure. order in Key West as noted and reported to the Board, there ap-} pears to be a great many who are not familiar with the provisions of the order. In issuing this emergency order the Ofifce of Price Administra- tion defined “pleasure driving” sa including riding to places of amusement, recreation or enter- tainment (such as theaters, amuse- ment parks, concerts, dances, golf courses, skating rinks, bowling alleys, night clubs, etc.) or sport- ing or other athletic events (such as raves or games), or for sight- seeing, touring or vacation travel, or for making social calls. Attend- ing meetings of fraternal organi- zations of all kinds is construed as | The Director of the Office of the | Defense Transportation has call-! jed on taxicab operators and thej general public to halt all use of taxicabs for pleasure in the East-j} ern oil shortage area, which pro- hibits the general public from uscing taxicabs for purposes Pepito De Poo, assistant sani- i which the: han on pleasure ao jtary inspector of the city, has ing” prohibits the use of Private jtendered his resignation to eewarinasel Darke Sm F |Mayor Willard M. Albury, due to | Notwithstanding instructions to the bad condition of his health, j the effect that action should be!}. informed The Citizen today. jaken by the Local Plice and Ra-|"" Mr. De Poo has just returned tioning Board on all reports re-|from Havana, where he had been ceived on éars being used in Key undergoing medical treatment in West for pleasure, up to the pres- the Cuban capital, and also visit- ent time no definite action has! ; A oe ‘ing his brother, Dr. Julio De Poo, -been taken, principally because} “d lic and Protestant cemeteries, but no trace of him was found. PEPITO DE POO HAS RESIGNED POSITION to attend to a matter of great importance to Key West. In the event he goes to Jacksonville, h stated that, after attending to business there he will continue to Washington, and will not re+ turn to Key West for a week. ROTARIANS DISCUSS SCAVENGER SERVICE Visitors to the Rotary Club at the luncheon-meeting yesterday were Charles Salas, manager of the Hotel La Concha, .and Arthur M. Schliesinger from the Office of War Information. The meeting .resolved itself |GARBAGE DISPOSAL | RESOLUTION PASSED BY COMMERCE BODY The Chamber of Commerce to- day adopted the following reso- lution concerning the garbage ‘collection situation in Key West: |. “Whereas, the City of Key West, Florida, has now been | without any systematic collec- :tion of garbage for a period of 14 idays, and | “Whereas, in this climate, with ithe temperature today at 80, this ‘eondition is an invitation to pes-; :tilence; a threat to life itself and an offense to the. nostrils from Mr. Gandolfo stressed again the | Aact that every year there are some Key Westers who fail to file | their exemption applications, as a result of which they have to pay} the full amount of taxation, which this year is the difference be- tween two mills and 16 and seven- tenths of mills. “Saving the difference is just like being given money, not earn- ing money, because you have to work for that. In the case of ex- emption: it requires only a mo- ment,to have the application fill- ed out, and in that moment one is { | week’s salary even in these days ‘Cuban Village Uses Goats To Haul Off Garbage; Had Same Situation Experienced Here E! Diario de la Marina, one of the foremost newspapers in Ha- | vana, publishes a human-i.ierest story about a serious garbagé sit- uation that faced a viliage in yhorse, so the trash and garbage piled up in the yards of the co munity. There. ss is at presont the case in Key West, flies bred by the millions in rotting garbage Corralillo is noted for its herd Cuba, similar to the situaticn that | of goats, so a herdsman made this now exists in Key West, du* the y-oposal] to the residents: “Pay me in pocket sums ranging up to a! manner in which he problem ~vus|a penny a dey and 1 will use my the Board felt that the violations reported were due to ignorance of the provisions of the order. would be military or naval per-| Hereafter the Local Board will sonnel on leave or furlough. take definite action on all reports The few specific purposes for|received from insepctors of the which A, B and C ration cards}OPA and others authorized to re- may be used during the emergency | port violations. MOTOR TUNE-UP | PALACE THEATER SAVES GAS JOHNNY MACK BROWN ist Lou Smith Auto Service |«T,. Qld Chisholm Trail” White and Fleming Sts. Phone 5 Opposite Army Barracks NEWS and SERIAL “pleasure driving.” One exception to the rule who is now recuperating in that city from his recent illness. BRADY’S LIVE POULTRY MARKET Tennessee Milkfed ROASTERS Soft-Bone ROASTERS-STEWERS ln. L. Red Battery-Raised FRYERS Our Chickens are received alive} and we Kill and Dress Them Daily Phone 540 1214 White Street ee into a round-table discussion of the piles. of “decaying animal the proposed ordinance establish. | vegetable matter breeding swarms ing a city-operated scavenger de-{of flies in many scattered locali- partment, and the seriousness of! ties, now the existing situation was fully | “Theerfore, the Chamber of ized. Commerce of Key West, Florida, A resolution authorizing a!does most earnestly petition your statement to that effect met ‘honorable body to shorten as with support. jmuch as possible the time inter- After the luncheon, the Board! yening between the reception of of Directors of the Chamber of authorization for priority to pur- Commerce authorized a like reso-!chase the necessary equipment lution from that body. jwith which to remedy this dan-; Mrs. K. M. Fenwick, pianist, situation and the grant- received the congratulations of ing of authorization and priority, the club for the very fine man-jthat a very real peril to this im- ner in which she conducted the/portant Military and Naval out- musical part of the progarm. post may be averted.” of high salaries.” solved there cannot be adopted in | rams to haul away the trash and Key West. wagon, drawn by a mule, had been NEW. YORK.—The Arm - : i ae used for many yéars. Recently, the termaster Corps has developed a goggle with five interchangeable lenses. lage folks could not raise enough BINGO PARTY Auspices Catholic Daughters of America USO Bldg., Duval Street Monday, Jan. 25. 1943. 8 pm. 6 GAMES ___________ 25e NARELLAN LS In the little town of Co1._. Ile./ in Cube's midlands, one scage.3<} of which he hitc caved tof billy gcats. mule died of old age, and the vil-; A bargain was struck, and the *uilt small wagons, to m Every day since then the trash ~nd garbage e been hauled awa, from every yar4, H story seid, “Everybody abit te tants encther. iia dale = is hapvy in Corralillo.”