The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 26, 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. 22. Planning. To. Expand Key: West's Wartitne’ Training In Vocational Program For Purpose Of Meeting REDS CONTINUE Increased Demand Of WITH VICTORIES Aircraft And Shipbuild-' REPORTED TO BE SCORING ing Industries } SUCCESSES ALONG ENTIRE FRONT (Washington Corespondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON; D. C.,; Jan. 26. —Sharp expansiowof ‘Key West's wartime’ vocational ‘training pro- gram -to'meet-the increasing de- | | | (By Axsociated Press) | MOSCOW, Jan, 26.—The Rus- |sian communique at noon today Stated that the Reds are continu- mand of the aircraft and av | building industries for skilled | workers, was predicted today by| the U. S. Office of Education. The important role of women ing to score successes along the entire front. but particularly in the southern Caucasus. Three Russian armies are ad- vancing on Rostov, the gateway ; . city that has been held by the in war work will become increas- | Germans since last summer. Ros- ingly evident in the Key West | tov is the key to the entire Ger- schools, where particular stress an forces in Russia and its fall, e ‘which the Russians claim is im- is to be placed on training cours-! . ‘ P 5 it a jminent, will be the worst blow es for the skills necessary for /that has been given Hitler since aircraft maintenance, frame andthe Reds started their winter of- | fensive. Today the war office summar- \ized the success of the Reds since \their winter campaign was start- Women today supply about 50 ed. At that time the Germans, elcent of it e-employment |it was asserted, had 240 divisions Ben Cant -of he Oren | fighting AUR Gecias and of that students and 25 per cent of the! number 107 has been “completely routed”. | The war office explained that The schools are conducted by !that number included Hungarians, the Florida vocational. training ; Rumanians and Italians, and said that “Hitler’s statellites”, from a motor work and shipbuilding op- erations, the Office said. supplementary training enrollees. The authorities with local school fa- cilities under the administration of the Office of Education which furnishes the funds for the cours- ; es, i Of First Importance Expressing pleasure at ‘the Progress madé.by the Key West schools in supplying. men. and women for war jobs, “representas tives of the Office of Education | asserted that the training of peo-| ple for aircraft and shipbuilding! jobs is “of first importance” to | speed the building of planes andj} ships. During the fiscal year} 1942, they explained, the schools} throughout the country provided; regular instruction for 76,000 stu- dents in aircraft subjects, while; under the wartime program more than 1,000,000 men and women} were trained in skills used in the; construction of planes, more than ; (Continued on Page Four) | | Council Reaches Deadlock _.On Purchasin Operate Sc The City Council, at a special ; | \ attempt to order the purchase of} the} meeting last night, failed in an seven new trucks to have scavenger service operated by} the city. The vote on the question was a tie, with Councilmen Paul G. Albury. John Carbonell, Jr., and Leonard B. Grillon voting for the purchase of. the trucks. and Coun- cilmen Gerald Saunders, Glen-/| wood Sweeting and William Free- man opposing the proposition, viewpoint of numbers, had been beaten far worse than the Ger- mans. Six out of 10 Italian divisions have been annihilated; nine out of 13 Rumanian divisions, and 18 out of 24 Hungarian divisions have been put out of action. JAYCEES SPONSORERS OF PARALYSIS FUND The Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce will conduct an af- fair on Saturday evening, Janu- ary 30, at La Concha Hotel, in connection with the Infantile Paralysis Fund. The affair is being held under the auspices of the junior com- merce body at which door prizes will be awarded and a_ general good time promised all who at- tend. ¢ Trucks To avenger Service a scavenger service for the re- moval :of garbage and trash throughout the city. Harry Gwynn, a former opera- tor of the scavenger service, told the council he may become in- terested in operating the service, provided the city would purchase the necessary trucks. During the discussion of the matter, Councilman Carbonell stated that he had been told that when Jesus Caraballo, last opera- tor of the service, was approach- ed on the subject of leasing a truck or trucks to the city that he, Mr. Caraballo, said he would not do so, unless he was made general manager in the operation ofthe! service. Councilman Grillon contended GOEBBELS WARNS GERMAN PEOPLE OF AID NEEDED FICES OR GO DOWN TO DIS- GRACEFUL DEFEAT (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. ganda Minister Goebbels exhorted the German people today, over the Berlin radio, to prepare them- selves to “make further sacrifices or go down to disgraceful defeat.” He said the enemy was exert- ing himself to his utmost to ad- minister decisive blows to the German soldiers but that he had not succeeded in doing so and would not succeed if the people at { home gave all-out aid to the men at the front. “Our soldiers are fighting val- iantly,” Goebbels blared, “and it jis our duty as Germans to be {valiant at hbme also.” IPLANS FOR MEETING WITH CAMP OWNERS LOCAL RENT-CONTROL DI- RECTOR RETURNED FROM MIAMI Due to the absence of Lawrence Schroeder, the local rent-control director, who was in Miami, action on pegging the rents for trailer camp units in Key West was de- ferred, but he returned yesterday afternoon, and on Thursday he will hold a conference with own- ers or managers of local camps, preparatory to making his de- cision. Camp managers in Key West had been informed that the rents probably would be stabilized at $3 for each (unit, but at least three managers declare that they would not be able to operate at any such figure if it was decided on by the rent-control office. One manager pointed out, and gave figures to bear out his con- tention, that it cost him more than $3 a week’ to operate each unit, and that, if the amount of rent was pegged at that price, he would immediately close his camp. VACANT LOTS ARE [BEING CLEANED UP Eight men, under the direction of Russell B. Swift of the Federal | Security Agency, are cleaning up vacant lots in Key West. Mr. Swift said this morning} that the-work will not cost the owners of the lots a penny, and} that the only thing required to do is for them to sign an agreement! permitting the Federal Security | agency to have the lots cleaned. | ‘The aim of the agency is to eli-! minate all possible breeding places in Kev West for mosquitoes. : Every lot thus far cleaned, Mr.! Swift stated, had containers of} some kind that retained water, and it was in that water that mos- quitoes breed. In conclusion he said, he shall be pleased to clean any lot, the owner of which authorizes him to do so. ANNOUNCE DEATH OF DAVID SANDS| A telegram was received in Key; West last night by Romie Tynes} announcing the death in Miami of} David Sands. H Survivors are his wife, Mrs. { i 26.—Propa- ; | | AP Features KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 194 FEI IIIT III A TA A A I FIVE ROADS. TO TOKIO FOCI RE Epa. PEE OR jee eee the Japanese have carved out a huge empire since | Pearl Harbor. they still find themselves endangered by possible | attack from five directions; three over long sea routes, two from the Asiatic mainland. This map shows the general directions of such | attack, But at present the United Nations are on the outer edges of | all five arrows. and each road is filled with difficult strategic handi-{ caps and problems of supply. | | STALIN CALLS ON SOLDIER T0 RID RUSSIA OF ENEMY DOUBLE EVENT IN AUSTRALIA CELEBRATE ENGLISH POS- SESSION AND MacAR- THUR’S BIRTHDAY 5 (By Associated Pi MOSCOW, Jan. 26.—Premier | Josef Stalin, enheartened by suc- ‘cesses of Russian arms along the j entire front, sent a special message | to his soldiers today, in which he | ‘called on them to drive from the }motherland every desecrator of ! her soil. Stalin ‘declared that Russia’s } soldiers had performed almost in- superable tasks in administering defeat after defeat to trained and well-supplied enemy, ‘who, though thrilled by victory, was smashed at the very gates of Stalingrad. The detense of that city, Stalin added, will go down into history as one of the great- =) (By Associated Press) DARWIN, Jan. 26.—There is something of a double celebration | going on. throughout Australia today. Australians are celebrat- ing the 115th ‘Anniversary of the English possession of Australia, and in observifig that event they are commending General Mac- Arthur, whoris 63 years of age today. | est acts of that type in warfare of | However, General MacArthur ' all times. is not celebrating. He arrived at a See his office as early as usual, and MAN REPORTED | a well- forthwith went-. into conference with his staff about the perfect- ing of arrangements to intensify ; the attacks on the Japs. ' REPORTS ON AUTO LICENSES SOLD NUMBER OF TAGS OF “D”: CLASS SOLD ONLY FEW FLAVEL LEACH FOUND CON-: FINED IN HOSPITAL UN- DER TREATMENT Flavel Leach, an elderly man | whose home is at 1427 Pear! stree' LESS THAN LAST YEAR | was reported lost yesterday to the! - sheriff's office, but within an hour, At the office of Tax Collector | after.the report was_ received, Frank H. Ladd, it was said today | Deputy Sheriff A. H. McInnis} that the “D” automobile license ; found.that Leach was confined in| tags sold this year are only a few} a local hospital from injuries he} less than the total for last year on| had received when struck by a this date. | motorcycle. At the completion of business on! Mr. Leach, who is a former rail- January 26, 1942, the number was; road man, was crossing a street 1,898; this morning the number/ when he was hit. At the hospital | was 1,840, which will be increased | an X-ray examination showed that | before the office is closed for the| his right shoulder and leg had ; day. | been fractured. Fred Eberhardt, deputy motor! vehicle commissoner, stated today ! that he has issued about 200 cita-| —_ { tions to automobite owners to pur-| CHICAGO, Ill. — While hunting! chase licenses, and that in only one} rabbits with a companion, Henry} case has he been forced to make} Westerhoff, 18, heard a rustling in| an arrest. That defendant a the brush a few feet from him. Notj held in $25 bail for the criminal! knowing his companion, Walter} court. i Ernst, 18, was nearby, he fired in-} Mr. Eberhardt added that in all; to the brush. Instead of hitting a/ cases where the citations are dis-! rabbit, the load struck Ernst in the; BOY HIT FOR “RABBIT” | Lizzie Sands; son. Charles James Sands; daughter, Miss Ada Sands; sister, Georgie Bethel, four grand- children, and a number of nieces and nephews, all of Miami. { | | regarded, he will make arrests. | chest, fatally wounding him. } New Shipment-Receivedi4A Great Variety of Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. 3 {By Associated Press) MYSTERY OF BERTH 13 SAN FRANCISCO.—The “Mystery of Berth 13”. which wa: the killing of Mrs. Martha James. the four months’ bride of am army lieutenant. while in her berth in a train passing ‘tifougn Czegon. was intensified today by the testimony of a colored porter on the train. who told eight different stories about his being or at bring in the vestibule of the pullman at the time the murder wi. com- ; mitted. An investigation of police records in Los Angeles showed that tne porter had been arrested twice in 1940, the first time for attacking a white woman and the second for trying td break into a house. FRENCH CAMEL CORPS REACHES TRIPOLI LONDON.—Information was received here today thet the Frencn Camel Corps had arrived at Tripoli. The feat of the corps in treveling 1,300 miles from Lake Chad in Equatorial Africa in 39 days was com. pared favorably with the British Eighth Army's advez.ce from the Egyptian border to Tripoli in a little more than 90 days. SPECIAL RADIO MESSAGE TONIGHT WASHINGTON’—A special message will be given the American Feople at 10 o'clock tonight by the government. It will concern what probably is thus far the most stirring event of the war from a view- point of the Allied Nations. All radio stations in the United State: . il give out the message, beginning at 10 o'clock. LITTLE “MAGINOT” LINE ALGIERS.—Axis forces are preparing to receive tis remmants of the Rommel troops at the little “Maginot Line.” which the French built along a section of the eastern Tunisian border as a protection from the Italians in Tripolitania. Three Allied armies are on the point of coming into contact with Rommel’s forces, CONVOY ARRIVES INTACT MOSCOW.—There was jubilation here today over the arrival of | a big American convoy without the loss of a single ship. The convoy: the report said, had reached Murmansk in safety sometime during the last 24 hours. As a contrast to that arrival, the war office stated Allies Are Now Laying Trap ~ For Remnants Of Rommel samy LATE BULLETINS =omers fei 1 my Wil Sewe Te Ex Italian (y Ramertetet ohne LONDON. Jan. 26.—Accorcing to cformaticn received nere from Nort. .frica. the Americans. the Briliss and the French are saying @ trap te corral what is je‘t Gf Remmel's army that has Pot yet sesched the Tunisian eastern bor jer. Anticipeting such a trap. Ger- man forces. five days ago. crove @ wedge after fierce artillery and deep into the French line. 40 miles south of Tunis. It was throuth the cap the Germans in- tended t widen in that area thet Rommel weery men were ex- ‘Fected tpiescape into Tunisia. but yesterday American forces not only wiped out the German gain | but drove 22 miles deep into the German lines. almost closing the sp. Thet American forces. General that Russian planes had blasted and sunk nine transports aad one Montgomery's Bighth Army. com- supply vessel of a German convoy in the North Sea:*“* ~~ se Greer he et eed a There was no proposal ‘received } u from any individual to: operate|that:imasmuch as there was no -BENEFIT- TO PUT JEFFERS ON THE SPOT WASHINGTON.—William Jeffers, who is in charge of rubbe | conservation in this country, is being called to account for remetks | he made yesterday, in a speech at Cleveland, in accusing army and navy officers for their failure to join the mc vement to conserve rub- ber. Instead of conserving it, Jeffers said, they are using it much in the same way as though we had an abundance of it. Chairman Vin-| son, of the house military affairs committee. said he would demand that Jeffers explain where he got his supposed information on wnich he based his charges. ROOSEVELT SENDS MESSAGE WASHINGTON.—President Roosevelt sent a message today to the mayor of Belfast, Ireland. in commemorating the first anniversary of the landing of American troops in British territory drring ce Present war. The President said that the soldiers were ser* to fight ; defensive battles but that they are now engaged in fighting offen- sively. TO CARE FOR STRANDED HORSEMEN MIAML—A movement was started today to care for the many | horsemen who have been stranded here as a result of closing local race tracks when the OPA order was issued ageinst “ploasure driv- * ing.” The horsemen are not blaming either the Tropical Park or " | Hialeah tracks for their plight, end they added that they are surely not blaming the government. because they are wh: vor with anything the government does to help win the war, in fe- KILLED HUSBAND TO KEEP HIM OUT OF WAR WASHINGTON.—Information was received here todev ti.at he | wife of Lieutenant E. Silberwstein, who was stationed somowhe-e a Grane. shot and killed him and then shot herself beceus- as she was due to have a child, she could not bear the thought of her hus- band’s being called to the front and leaving her ull alone. TARGET PRACTICE STARTS TOMORROW | The following Coast Artillery | practices will be conducted by; units of the Harbor Defenses of Key West beginning tomorrow: Coast Artillery target practice Completion OF Key West Is Recommended According to a letter received ;today by the Key West Chamber of Commerce from Representative at Fort Taylor, Wednesday, Jan-| Pat Cannon, Florida's two sena- uary 27, between 1700 and 1900! sabes g ee = a E.W.T. The danger area will be! uary 20 with “interested Federel bounded by a line from Fort Tay-: agency representetives” at which lor to a point two (2) miles beyond !it was agreed to recommend =the Sand Key, thence east seven (7)| completion of the Imesacoastal miles, thence north to Stock Is-; Waterway from Jeckstmille to? land. i Key West. Coast Artillery target practice, . That means thet the swatcoway ether French force edvancing from the scuth are the pincers end the center that will strive to encircle the fleeing Germans and Ttelians, No werd wes heard today from Montgomery. other than that he |hed contectes Rommel's ning battle with it. ARRANCE TO REGISTER CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL W. E Fowle~ Grammar head rear- of the £ principa: School, of the School an rents are request- and Dr mar f the child ejii be six years « by, March ~%, 1943, it may ente Birth certificates are secessary oof of age February 15 is the announce< deadline for enrolling begimocr in either of the schools. Waterway To written scores of betters to our representatives im Wa ton, to waterway org Boara of Army engineers ing Ou. the umportance of comp.< ing th- waterway to Key Wes a milita.y as well as an econ Recesstt;. Senator Claude Pepper anc K tesentative Cacimom have act }Suppoited tne project im Was ; ingter., but until mow they the service, which left no other course to pursue except that of taking up the matter of purchas- ing the trucks in order to furnish the residents of Key West with proposal from any individual. to operate the service, he felt that it was the city’s duty to purchase the trucks and take over the service in order to give the pub- lic relief from the serious situa- :tion that has been brought about jsince discontinuance of collection several weeks ago by Mr. Cara- | ballo. Councilman Saunders suggest- ed the matter be deferred to a later date, and, in the meantime, advertise for bids from any in- (Continued on Page Four) PALACE THEATER DON TERRY in “Danger in the Pacific” NEWS and SERIAL —Tonight Is Prize Nighti—— (2 TE AN for Infantile - Paralysis Funds Auspices of Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce SATURDAY. JAN. 30 Admission LA CONCHA HOTEL Air Conditioned Rainbow Room Door Prize Time 9 to 12 p.m. 5 eeepc omar rece CHOCOLATES ;at West Martello, Saturday, Jan#|from Bahia-Honda ‘to Key West | had .o untangle bails of red ta luary 30, between 1500 and 1900 | will be completed, a project for) that seemed imterminabie. 'E.W.T. The danger area will be | which The Citizen and the Cham-| Representative Cannon infor ; bounded by a line from Fort Tay-| ber of Commerce, besides other | ed Secretary Singleton that Ser lor to a point six (6) miles south, | civie bodies, have been working! tor Pepper and Representative ; thence east five (5) miles, thence} | north to Stock Island. { Coast Artillery target practice} at Fort Taylor, Sunday, January | 31, between 1000 and 1900 EWT.| The dangér area will be bounded | by a line from Fort Taylor to a! point six (6) miles south, thence/ east five (5) miles, thence north! to Stock Island. : America’s Finest Candy Sampler” Duval at Fleming Street Phone 199 Key West. for many years. It was diffucult for The Citizen and the Chamber of Commerce to understand why the waterway had been extended to Bahia Hon- da and stopped there, which, as is “nowhere.” Stephen C. Singleton, secretary of the chamber, ; Peterson, who is a member of t | waterways committee in ; Sary legisiation to obtam funds : det,en the waterway from Bat.