The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 23, 1943, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 63 Years Devoted to t Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME LXIV. No. 20. Council Provides: Fopi Fives: Trucks To Collect Garbage. During Existing Emergency Action Taken At Special Meeting Last Night In Effort To Clean-Up City Of Refuse The City Council met in spe- cial session last night, with Coun- cilman Gerald Saunders presid- ing in the place of President Wil- liam A, Freeman, who is acting mayor during the absence from the city of Mayor Willard M. Al- bury. The question of the city making a final decision on taking over complete operation of the scaven- ger system, with the purchasing of new trucks, was deferred until Monday night, due to the fact that at the meeting last night there was only four votes, with Councilman J. Glenwood Sweet- ing being absent, which also left Acting Mayor Freeman without a vote, Councilmen Paul G. Albury, John Carbonell, Jr., and Leonard! B. Grillon, were also in attend- ance. It was the sense of the council that the matter of passing on an} he ‘ITEMS IN.10 YEARS ie ‘SHERIFF'S OFFICE TO MAKE INQUIRY ABOUT NAME PRINTED IN ITEM | | i } This has happened before, but} j never, so far as The Citizen knows, | thas it caused anybody to cry, | WILD BEASTS «<= and become hysterical. i Yesterday afternoon two color- ed women called at Sheriff Berlin SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWEN- TY-FIVE KILLED ON Sawyer’s office to inquire about NEW GUINEA HUNT JAPS AS j one James Roberts, Jr., a self-con- fessed murderer, who was sup- ;posed to be lodged in the county jail. A clerk looked up the records, ‘and assured the women: that no Any Aaneetnted Zxees) }man of that name. was:confined | DARWIN, Jan. 23.—It was of-}in jail. | | i COLORED WOMEN CALL AT ' narcotics. | by the ministry. German planes last night, raided the northeast coast Che Key West Citizes RIPOLI FALLS UNON JACK HOISTED IMMEDIATELY IN EARLY siORNING KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1943 ., UATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) SOLDIER GETS ONE YEAR MIAMI.—Michael M. Ryan, of Tennessee, who was aided by Mrs. Usula Parrott to esiape from an army stockade at Miami Beach, was sentenced today, after a court martial, to one year’s mprison- ment. Ryan. formerly a member of Benny Goodman's band, is wanted in New York, in connection with charges of trafficking in RAF BOMBS COLOGNE — Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with on average range of only 14° Fahrenhe*t PRICE FIVE CENTY ANE) HANDS OF LONDON.—The RAF raided Cologne, the German Cathedral City, last night, and scored direct hits on many military objects, the Air Ministry announced today. The number of planes that partici- pated in the raid and the number that was lost were not announced of England and killed one woman and three children. PAY-AS-YOU-EARN DISCUSSION WASHINGTON.—The pay-as-you-earn plan was widely discuss- ed here today by Democrats and Republicans, and the opinion was ALGIERS, Jan. 23.—Yesterday American and British troops join- American And British Units Join French Around Tunis (By Associated Press) ‘Large Detachments Of ' Marshal Ro-umel’s Army | Shattered As Men At- they began a retreat that had cov- tempt Te Stop English !ered four miles when ie com-; more Japs have been killed in the jungle and cocoanut grove fighting on New Guinea. The Japs are hunted much in the ;same way that wild beasts are slain. American and Australian troops who are tracking the Japs are using as much caution as jthey would were they stalking jlions or tigers. Jap snipers, it jwas declared, are even‘more dan- gerous than either of tho: beasts. Because any tree is likely to advance of the Americans and | Australians has been slow, but, it |was said, they are making thorough job of annihilating {Japs on New Guinea. Similar tactics are being pur- ficially announced today that 725} »| he committed the crime, his father ;be occupied by a Jap sniper, the} */ tended, that “put over” a story. j “Oh, yes he is!”s one: of the | women protested, “His mother is {home crying and screaming and | goes off into hysterics every now and ‘then. See here, the paper says | so.” 1 The woman handed to the clerk} ja clipping of the 10-years-ago ;column that regularly appears in The Citizen. The item in question ‘told the story of a triple murder | }at Tavernier. James Roberts, Jr., ; confessed that he had killed his | wife and father, and that, before {murdered a “friend of the fam- lily,” one Leroy Woods. ! | Josephus Daniels said, “Let me write the headlines of a story, and you may write the rest of the pa- expressed that the plan probably will be adopted before congress takes action on the Roosevelt request to appropriate another $16,000,- 000,000 for military purposes. No decision has been reached over the Proposal to cancel the collection of 1942 income taxes in the event the proposed pay-as-you-earn law is adopted, ¢ FOUR JAP SHIPS SUNK successful surprise. raid yesterday on the Japs at Rabaul on New Britain Island. Four large ships were bombed and sunk and several others were damaged. 2.800 MINERS ON STRIKE WILKES-BARRE.—Two thousand eight hundred coal miners went on strike today till they are given definite assurances about the advance in wages they have asked for. The output of the strikers totaled 7.000 tons daily. HARD MAINTAINING CEILING PRICES WASHINGTON.—It was stated today that the OPA is finding it r.” It is the headlines, he con- | However, it happens many a! ! time that some people do not sense {fully what appears in a headline. ue of such great importance, |S¥ed by American soldiers who! ‘They glance at it, get what may j have relieved the marines on! he called a half-picture of it and | Guadalcanal. The 15,000 Japs! ¢ on with the story. That must who occupied that island at the} he the case, for The Citizen has time the marines captured Hen- told many a story o! ple derson’ airfield have been reduc; 202% told many ® story of per ed to 4,000, nearly all of whom! umn and concluded that the hap- are in poor condition. All the! )..: ecorded therein occurred prisoners that have been taken serosa ‘on Guadalcanal recently were} fever-ridden and in need of med-! BOSWELL WILL BE ‘SENTENCED LATER i | ical attention as well as food. “ROLLING” DICE prisoners at the city jail were pes OE JUDGE (CAURES placed on the five trucks which! See | HIM TO HOLD OFF ON started out*this morning to help THREE OFFICERS CLOSE IN: the other laborers who have been COURT ACTION employed under the direction of ON DEFENDANTS IN SOLANO'S ALLEY that of deciding as to whether the city would take over the operation of the scavenger system or not, that the matter should be defer- red until there was a full member- ship of the council present, or at least five who would be able to vote on the question. The Council decided to place five trucks on the streets this morn- ing to work in the meantime in collecting garbage and - trash in making a clean-up of. the city of the much refuse matter which has accumulated since » the — service} was stopped a short time ago. The; Robert J. Lewis who is performing ! this work for the city during the emergency. { Johnny Boswell, confessed mur- derer, was to have been sentenced difficult to maintain ceiling prices on some foodstuffs, and that a change in prices may be announced later. i To Judge Of Circuit Court County Clerk Koss Sawyer eon- a special effort to correet and jvened circuit court at 10 o’clock|¢liminate this nuisance. this morning, read the grand; ae epg se ac Mad {jury report and recessed court to Rant oF ee kare eieenians some day next week. School property be repaired and The presentment of the grand;that the tree roots which appear jury follows: to cause damage to the sidewalk To the Hoaorable Judges j be cut out and that such further of the Circugt ‘Court of the ~ ,/$teps bes taken ‘as may be neces- Eleventh Judicial Circuit |sary’ to eliminate the tree roots of the State of Florida, breaking up the sidewalk. In and For Monroe County: | Having concluded our work, We, the Grand Jurors, duly we wish to thank the Honorable jempaneled and sworn at this Arthur Gomez, Judge _ of this Fall Term of the Circuit CourtiCOurt the other officers of this waz |COurt, and other officials for their iat pe ents oudicial real courtesies ahd assistance in the 5 performance of our duties. in and for the body of the Coun-'""h2tcG this 22nd day of Janu- the in | } | | | ithis morning in circuit court, }ty of Monroe, respectfully submit ary, A.D. 1943. | There are games of solitaire in| put Judge Arthur Gomez was too |this, our report: | Respectfully submitted MRS. M HAMMER | cards, but, contended a defendant, } jj} to appear in court. { This Grand Jury was impanel- B. J. WAITE, = = - | ‘ed and sworn on the 20th day of ee ee arraigned yesterday afternoon be-! From his home came the infor- fore Justice of the Peace Enrique | mation that his condition was such, | Esquinaldo, “nobody rolls de bones | no definite date was to be set for alone, ‘cause there ain’t no fun in!}jim to impose the sentence. it” | Judge Gomez has had a severe Constable Joe Espinosa, coming} cold recently, with | from one direction; Policeman. El- | mittent fever, and has not fully re- ;mer Del Pino, approaching from! covered. He showed the effects of | another, and Special Policeman | his illness when he presided in | Frank De Armas, closing in fropg court earlier in the week. ja third direction, trapped thrall Al} eases; on the docket, DIED YESTERDA FOLLOWING SERVICE, BODY WILL BE SENT TO MIAMI FOR CREMATION how- Mrs. Minnie Bell Hammer, 76, died yesterday afternoon at 3:50 o'clock at the residence of her son, 3050 Harris Ave. them were murder trials. The first Maxwell Powell and Sam Wil-| was against Edward McGrath, liams. who had been charged with the Mrs. Hammer had been a resi-} , Powell and Williams _ insisted! slaying of Robert Massi in the fall dent of Key West for four months.; they were not shooting dice. | of 1940 by a grand jury in session Funeral services will be held| though they and Rasberry were | at that time, but, as all the evi- Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock | the only men in the group when } dence was circumstantial and dis- at the chapel of the Lopez Fun-| the policeman encircled them and | connected, Judge Gomez ordered a eral Home. jfound dice and three small piles | directed verdict of “Not guilt; Chaplain Glasgow, of the Unit-| f silver, forming a triangle. In another case, the grand jury ed States Navy, will officiate at! Rasberry was the last to be ques-} did not find a true bill, and in the funeral services. tacce and he replied, “Guilty,; the third case, Johnny Boswell After the services, the body|ijudge, and lemme say I never in} pleaded guilty to murder in the will be sent to Miami for crema-| all my life shot bones alone, ‘cause ' first degree. tion. Then it will be sent to|dere ain’t no fun in it. It takes| Greensburg, Penn., where the|two or more to make de bones in- NIGHT HOURS FOR FINGERPRINTING ashes will be placed in a mauso- teresting, and dese two gemmen The hours to be observed in leum. are de two odders that helped, Survivor of the deceased is a| make de bones talk.” son, Stanley Quay Hammer, war-| Each of the men were held in $50 carrying on fingerprinting at the identification bureau establish ‘}by the city at the police stati rant officer, USN. bail for the criminal court. will be from 8 to 11 p. m,, inste: oftfrom 8 a, m¢ fo’ ll p.m, ; stated yesterday. F aliey. They were James Rasberry, New Shipment Received—A Gréat Variety of TONIGHT! For A BIG TIME. . .Try SLOPPY JOE'S BAR Largest Place In Town JOE RUSSO’S BAND | “The Best Swing Band In Town” | COME. . HAVE A GOOD TIME Music Starts at 7 p.m Week-Nights at 8 o'Clock PEREEPP EEE RA EERE REE EER CHOCOLATES America’s Finest Candy 3 “The Famous Sampler” Get Whitman’s Fresh Today -................25¢ to $3.50 SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. “PRESCRIPTIONS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED” Duval at Fleming Street Phone 199 Key West. Fiz. inter- | | negroes shooting dice in Solano’ | ever, Were disposed of. Three of | > that the police authorities make pyewerewrorererrrrrrers: Foreman of the Grand Jury. ELWOOD CARBONELL, Clerk of the Grand Jury. January, A.D- 1943, at the Fall |man, B. J. Waite, appointed EI-! jma,n B. J. Waite, appointed E!-! iie'Gaand dues, Clerk” ANNOUNCE DEATH OF | MRS. G | We proceeded immediately with ‘the investigation of capital cases. } {We have heretofore returned one Bs |indictment for murder in the first; Announcement, has been nee jdegree and one “No true bill”. ‘of the death of Mrs. Gertie Cur- It has come to the attention of: {this Grand Jury that a nuisance, | \consisting of drunkenness and {the use of profane language, fre-i {quently occurs on and about the | public streets in the vicinity of} : ped icrd |the premises numbered 1011 Dis oe ee eee eee = {vision Street, Key West, Florida, | ico one son, Wm. Branley Cur- jand accordingly we recommend | 7 ‘Jr, and seven grandchildren. Se at RE 20. Funeral services were held in that city yesterday afternoon. The deceased is survived by her husband, Cecil Pattono; three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy eT {BUS DRIVERS W. Apply 12 to 2 p.m. at Car Barn Key West Transit Co. Simonton Street at Beach AnTeD| PALACE THEATER CARY.GRANT in TALK OF THE TOWN NEWS and SERIAL 2INo Pleasure Driving ¥OU CAN HELP by Buying ‘A’Ticke' Toward A War Bond Award GARDNER’S PHARMACY, KEY WEST DRUG CO. and SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY —Benefit— THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR 4JNO PRESIDENT’S BIRTHDAY BALL 7 For Sale at You May Deposit Your Ticket Stubs at the Above Stores . INFANTILE PARALYSIS nahe rene i) miles etre unig nig — at mene =f } iy Raectntes Poems of Tunis, and today it was report-}day. Instead of widening the sal- * ed that ‘the Allied Armies had re-| ient the Allied command is deter-|_ “ONDON. Jam. 23-—The Union gained four of the seven miles the |mined to so nacrow it that thou- , Jack was hoisted im Tripoli at S$ DARWIN.—A squadron of American bombers carried out a most Germans captured in two days of fighting early in the week. that sector is to widen the gap ! Marshall Rommel’s army, which had been retreating in Libya the last three months, could pass to} he Germans and Italians in object the Allied command rein- forced the French with large de- tachments of ground and motor- ized infantry, squadrons of planes and many units of tanks. The Ger- mans and Italians were unable to beat back the tanks and motorized infantry, and they were harrassed so persistently from the skies, Reds Administer Decisive The object of the Axis drive in; {through which the remnants of | ; Sands of Rommel’s men _ will be | caught in a trap and forced to sur- o'clock this morning (EWT). render or be wiped out. Before the cuty fell into British Four armies are now hemming Rommel’s remaining forces. Be- |®#"4S. large detachments of Mar- sides the British army, going in a | shal Rommel’s men were shatter- northwesterly direction, that by-j passed Tripoli, another of Mont-|@@ @s they attempted to stop the gclnery’s forces is advancing west, | British as the wane the French, British and Amer-| i — icans, southwest of Turis are Tripoli. driving ea: and the French Mest . camel corps that crossed the des- lost of their tenks and guns ert from Lake Chad in Equaioria! | Put out of action and many of Africa, is headed toward the nor‘h. | »- 95 i The four armies will converge, ’‘“s* ™en ‘Killed er wounded, but it depends on the swiftn-ss Remmel’s reer-guard fighters fled of their movements whethe~ or \; - jnot they will trap the Rorume’: “idly toward the city. but shot ‘forces that escaped from Tripoli. | and shells and bombs from RAF "anes so shattered their ranks thet only a remaant of them ; Succeeded in reaching the city ERTIE PATTONO} ry Pattono, in Miami on January’; Defeats CITE PERIODS WHICH | WOUED MAKE A CHILD: BONAFIDE DEPENDENT | caucasus, the hussians adm: —— tered decisive defeats against the The Local Board is in receipt Germans, Rumanians and Hun- of a communication from Nation- | garians during the last 24 hours, al Headquarters announcing that the Russian noon communique an- it has now been determined that, nounced today. a child born after September 14, The advance in one sector was 1942, or more than 289 days aft-/ 19 miles. In that fighting more er December 8, 1941, may not be! than 1,000 Germans an‘ their al- jconsidered as a dependent. | lies were killec and several thou- This. determination by Nation-!| sand were wounded or cantur-d. al Headquarters definitely chang-' Five villages, one of them large, es the policy heretofore adopted; were recaptured, and the Ger- ! mans’ flight was so rapid thev left behind them much equipment und other supplies, including 10od- On Axis Forces * ee (By Associated Press) 600-mile front in the soul! and all furmer bulletins are here- by rescinded. Local Boards will reopen and tuff reconsider the classification of SUS. those registrants who were mar-|_ 4 still grester advance’ in. the tied prior to December 8, 1941,| Southern area was annoirced by and at a time when their selec- Le war office At a ,vint the tion was not considered immin-' Russians are said to ha’ g_imed ent, and who, because of the 25 miles, over a front nearly 100 showing that’ their wife was| Miles wide, in the last 48 hours. pregnant or the birth of a child,! An unannounced number of vil- were placed in; Category 4 of ages were retaken. Glass 3:1) ere | Three forks of the Rucs J j armies, which advancing or . Rostov, are all said to-have n «dc |“notable gains.” The southern- {most of those armies scored the | greatest suctesses, (he report said { In the eastern Caurasus, 12 vil lages were evacuated by G mans, and in mopping-up act ities in Stalingrad and in the « skirts of that city, 1,000 Germans } were killed and many captured, | according to the communique |PLAN STARTING FIRST AID CLASS FOR RAID WARDENS ON MONDAY There will be a ten-hour First Aid Class for air raid wardens tand messengers starting Monday jnight at 8 o'clock at the No. 1 Fire Station in the City Hail Building, according to an an- nouncement made today by A. L. Murray,.chairman of the D-fense Council. '| A SOUTHERNMOST TEMPTATION —YES! NINE PIECES of Golden Fried | NO SHORTAGE ON FINGER BOWLS! SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY CHICKEN in a NEST of FRENCH FRIES INDIVIDUAL BOWL Creamed CHicken INCORPORATED PHONE 199 Duval and Fleming Sts. Key West, Florida | Gravy—if you like to dunk TOAST. Tea or Coffee $125 SERVED 11 a.m. ~ -# LA CON _ they ho _|in Tunis and Bizerte. Some to 10 p.m. open to aty-} YES! Eat With c vintesertedyingtaking part in Your Fingers oS ae epee = | Yond its west-rn border. | While Ge_er.] Bernard Mont- MOSCOW, _Jan..23-x0AlOng..@ gomery.end a gett of his army were eriteri.- Tripoli, word was thet by-passed the city in a southerly direction yesterday. They said that they had made contect with Rommel’s men who were fleeing toward Tunisia. 109 miles awey ard were ennihilat- ing them. Thousands of Ger- mans and Itelieans hed tried to es- cape in bert:. but thev were at- tecked bv British planes and ar- tillery and .nly a few of the dcats succveded in getting away. . The berbor at Triccli was full of fleeting wrtecksge end its queys were torn to bits. Sot of General Montgomer ho had Tripe ained ‘here only two hours when they also took up the pur suit of the Germans and Ita! . most of whom were fleeing di- rectly to the west toward eastern Tunisia border, ! te join the Axis forces entered rera: them veered to the northwest t ward ta. shoreline in the hope ‘ectaping in boatd ae | Today there is jubilation ;this city. Military experts were quotei as declaring that 1 not be long before all of Ne jAtrica will be im Alied ba | Montgomery's feat of adv ing 1500 mi'<s in 9 devs desert roads from Ei Alem the Egyptian border. .to was classified as one of * jgreatest military feats im all b jtory. For three years the Brit jarmy had wdvaneed and retres* jed, and three months ago Mar jaa Rommel! drove :t back jx Ajemein im what appeared & jan utter Just a Eittle mor | (Continued on Page Four) HA HOTEL Air-Conditioned DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE OFFERS DELICIOUS MEALS «<4 ENJCYABLE DRINKS Service Men As Weil As Generz! 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