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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
BUILDING PERMIT
QUESTION CLEARED

/. According to information -. re-
ceived at the Key West Chamber
of Commerce today, all misun-
derstandings are now brushed
away regarding the issuing of
building permits by Building In
spector Ralph Russell.
In letter to. the chamber, H.
E. Enyeart, priorities manager
of the War Production Board in
this area, states Mr.. Russell was
right in the conclusion he reach
ed about the limiting of permits
to $500. However, that ruling
has been superseded by another
one that places permits on prac-
tically the same scale as they
were before the WPB orders
were issued. 40,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
BRUSH FIRE SET ON
KEY DESTROYS TREES

M. Matcovich, who has a grove
on No Name Key. was in Key
West today and said that, on
Thursday of last week, somebody
set fire to brush on his land and
the fire spread to his fruit trees
several of which were destroyed.
Mr.. Matcovich's grove is on the
south side of the County Highway,
near the old ferry landing. He
said that, besides the trees he lost,
a part of his fence was burned.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
Sixteen American, British Ships
Lost In Invasion O. North Africa
Pearlman's Store BurgIarized
Tuesday Night; $500 Stolen

hind a safe, and nobody in tie
store had noticed that il had been
pried open until the time the loss
of the money was discovered.
The burglary was reported to
Sheriff Berlin Sawyer and he had
Roy Harnlin take photographs of
the finger prints Of the window
that was jinamied.
Sneak thieves have been oper-
ating to a great extent in Key
West during the last two weeks
or so, and their success, Sheriff
Sawyer said today, has been made
easy by the carelessneSs Of some
people in handling their money.
He cited several cases Of the
losses that had been reoprted to
him and had resulted from care
lessnesS. A sailor said he left his
wallet at table where he was eat
ing in a restaurant to put coin IL
the slot Of a music box. He re-
manned beside the music box for
five minutes or more, and when
he returned his wallet was gene.
Another man left a locket open
and had a suit and some jewelry
stolen.
Sheriff Sawyer said he is han
dicapped in making thorough IL
veStigations of the cases reported
to him because he has only one
deputy and has been unable for
several months to hire another.
He added that his difficulty in
employing deputies lies in the
fact that workers in the Navy
Yard and on defense jobs are paid
twice as much as he is able TO pay
them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
Several Heavy Assaults
Made On American And
British Lines In Vicinity
OF Tunis
(By Associated I'reNsl

Wy HSSONh"tCO
LONDON. Dec. 3.-The Nazis
have landed large reinforcements
of men and tanks and planes in
Tunisia. according to reports re-
cefved here today from Allied
headquarters. There have been
several heavy assaults made on
the American and British front
lines in the fighting in the vicin-
itY of Tunis mad Bizerte. but in
no area did the Germans succeed
in driving back the Allies.
Probably the fiercest battle
waged in Tunisia is reported to
be still in progress between Brit
ish and German tank forces.
That the Germans had succeeded
in getting many tanks to Tunisia
during the last few days was ap-
parent by the large number they
have in this battle. but they are
inferior to the British tank in
striking power and in arma-
msnt.
The tanks, until developments
last night, were supposed to have
been flown from Sicily to Bizerte
or Tqhis, but contingent of the
Royal Navy last night sighted a
German and Italian convoy of
four supply ships and two de-
stroyers that were trying to reach
Bizerte and sent them scurrying
back across the Mediterranean
Two of the supply ships are
thought to have been loaded with
tanks.
While the ships of the Royal
Navy were firing into the convoy,
German planes went out from BIZ
zerte and Tunis to try to drive
off the warships, but it was not
long before the German planes
were engaged in dogfights with
Allied planes and the warships
continued their havoc among the
ships of the convoy, not one of
which reached Bizerte.
Fighting today in the vicinity
of Tunis and Bizerte is still in an
indecisive stage, though the Al
lies have made some gains. par
ticularly east of Tunis.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
JAP CONTINGENT
ALMOST WIPED OUT
BY U.S. PATROL
AUSTRALIANS AND AMERI-
CANS ARE STILL TAKING
OFFENSIVE AT BUNK, AND
COMA eaq NOlTI3'

DARWIN, Dec. 3.-Americans
and Australians are still taking
the offensive in the fighting at
Buna and Coma on New Guinea,
with the Japs, protected by nat
ural defenses, still showing stiff
resistance. In the vicinity of
Buna. an American patrol sur
prised Jap contingent and al
most wiped it out before its rem
nants were able to get back to
the front-line defenses.
Jap navy men are still making
strenuous efforts to relieve the
Jap garrisons at Buna and Coma,
and, with that end in view, four
destroyers attempted yesterday
It4Ho continued on Page Six
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03

Joe Pearlman'S store on Duval
street was burglarized sometime
Tuesday night and 5000 was
stolen, but the burglary was not
discovered until 4 o'clock yester-
day afternoon.
Mr.. Pearlman explained that
the money that was taken includ-
ed an accumulation of Social Sc
curity funds and rents that he
collects as administrator of an eS-
tate.
1--WE deposit our store receipts
daily" he said. land our only
loss, so far as store funds are con-
cerned, was composed of change
of quarters and half dollars. The
dimes, nickles and pennies were
not touched"
Mrs. Pearlman. on entering the
store in the morning, noticed a
$40 bill lying on the floor and a
memorandum book in which Mr..
Pearlman kept an account of the
rents he collected, but she thought
he had dropped them there the
night before. She said she was so
busy and Mr.. Pearlman was so
busy throughout the morning
and afternoon, it was 4 o'clock
before she spoke to him about the
matter. An investigation then
was made and it was learned that
all the Social Security money and
the rent collections had been stol-
en-.
How did the burglars get into
the store? was the next question
to be answered. 1t was then found
that a window had been broken
open. The window stands be-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
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0UESTIONNAIRES
TERMED RACKET

WASHINGTON. Dec. a.
Eric a. Johnson. president o.
the United States Chamber
of Commerce. branded. at a
session of the Byrd Commit
tee here today. as a racket"
the issuing Of an endless
number of questionnaires by
a multiplicity of government
al bureaus.
Johnson declared that the
business men of this country
are being bounded to death
by the questionable fad that
has grown TO be a racket.
He said that when a bust
ness man goes TO his office
today and does not find a
pile of questionnaires he is
called on to answer. he
breethes thanks 70 God that
he will have at least one day
of freedom from unnecessary
probing by governmental
agencies.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
U. 5. Lost Six, Five OF
Which We're Transports;
British Lost Ten War
ships

WASHINGTON. Dec. a-Ths
American and British navy de-
Partments announced today that
they last Is ships during the op-
ersticas that resulted in ths in
vssion Of North Africa.
The United States lost SIX
ships. of which five were trans
ports. The number Of lives lost
in the sinking Of the transports
was not given out.
The British lost 10 warships.
including a small sirpIane car
rier. All the American ships.
except two. were sunk during
the naval engagement eff Casa
blanca between the French war
ships and the British and Amer
lean warships. However. the
sinkirgs were not caused by
shellfire frcrn the French ships.
but. instead. by Axis submarines.
The total loss of ships by the
Americans and the British
Continued on Page SIX
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
MARINE HOSPITAL
WILL BE CLOSED
ON DECEMBER 81
INSTITUTION WILL CEASE
ADMISSION OF PATIENTS
ON DECEMBER 81: TAKEN
OVER BY NAVY DEPT. d.

DIR? T. H. Rose, medical officer
in charge of the T.. S. Public
Health Services Marine Hospital
here, announced today that the
institution has been entrusted to-
the Navy Department for the pro-
motion of the war effort" and that
it will cease to function as a hos
pital on December 81.
DR.. Roses announcement was
given in letter to Capt. c. E.
Reordan, commandment of the Key
West Naval Operating Base, COL
r. L. Arlington, commanding of:
ficer for the U. s.. Army here,
Comdr. c. H. Hilton, Coast Guard
commanding officer, Mayor Will,
lard M. Albury of Key West, the.
President of the Monroe County
Medical Society, the Chairman of
the Monroe County Community
Clinic and the County Health Of,
ficer.
The letter said:
''It is hereby announced that
custody of the U. S. Marine Hos
pital site. Key West, Florida, to-
gether with improvements there
on, was entrusted to the Navy De-
partment for the promotion of the
war effort on November 20, 1912.
by reason of agreement with
Capt. c. E. Reordan, commandant
of the U. S. Naval Operating Base,
Key West, Florida, and approval
of the Surgeon General Thomas
Parran, the U. S. Marine Hospital,
Key West, Florida, will cease ad-
mission of patients at the close of
business December Fl, 1912 and
will cease to function as a hos
pital December 81, 1912"
DIR. Rose declined to discuss de-
tails of the agreement with the
Navy Department and said that
he presumed announcement would
be made by the Navy Department
later on.
Meanwhile, Captain RE0rdan,
who announced several weeks ago
that the Navy was negotiating
with the u. S. Public Health Serv-
ice for acquisition of the hospital
site, said the property was badly
needed for construction of addl-
tional buildings which have been
of an emergency
nature for some time.
Naval officers also reminded
that practically all available
space had been used inside the
local Navy Yard for construction
of new buildings in connection
with the huge expansion program
which has been in progress Tor
nearly two years. MANY OF the old
buildings in the Yard have been
remodeled and enlarged with
vacant spaces having been used
for construction of new barracks
shops, and other such houses con-
sidered vital to the war effort.
No announcement was avail
able today with reference to the
type of buildings or their use
which are planned on the Marine
Hospital site. 1t is presumed that
the hospital building proper will
perhaps be remodeled and put to
use in the Nays program OF ex-
pansion as rapidly as propitious.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
Duncan Says Fresh Water
Flows In Uninterruptedly

B. M. Duncan, who began his
new duties this morning as con-
struction engineer in charge of
the civilian line of the Florida
Keys Aqueduct Commission, said
that it will be two weeks tomor-
row since water has been flow
ing uninterruptedly into Key
West, and that nowhere in the
main has, any other break de-
veloped since the last repairs
were made. s. ~ -
While civilians are supplied
with water, they have net yet
been given official permission to
drink it. The chlorination of the
supply is still continuing, Mr..
Duncan said, but drinking the
water will not be permitted till
approval has been received from
the State Board of Health. The
boards experts are now analyz-
ing the water.
This morning the placing of
forms for the 1,000,000-gallon
reservoir in Jackson Square was
started, and Mr.. Duncan said
that work will now go on apace
to an early completion. The
reservoir, he added. was not
Immediately essential to supply
ing civilians with water, as the
400, 000-gallon tank at the Fort
Village Housing Project tank at
the j. Y. Porter Housing Project
would be connected in a few
days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
N9l Forces Land Immense
RGinfOTCt|ItutS Of Troops
[ And Equipment In TuIiSia
~ ~ ~ ~ ~. ~ ~
MARINE HOSPITAL
NOT TO BE RAZED

The Marine Hospital is
NOT to be raced as was
stated in story published in
a Miami paper today.
The building is to be used
by the Navy. for what pur-
pose the Navy knows. but
has not been made public yet
and probably will not be
made public for a week or
more.
The report that the build
ing was going to be pulled
down did not come from an
official source, The Citizen
was requested to state posi-
lively.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
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BELGIANS TO BE
SHOT AS HOSTAGES
ny Associated Press)

LONDON. Dec. 3.-News
that reached here from Bel
sium through an undisclos-
ed source said that az Bel
CLANS were arrested today
by the Gestapo TO be shot as
hostages. $780,. IL
Eight of that number were
killed by a firing squad this
afternoon and the other Is
will be shot tomorrow morn
ing. the report said. ae
Another report stated that
24s Belgians have been de-
ported to Germany for forced
labor in war industries on
charges of being Communists.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
MEAT SHORTAGE IN CHICAGO

CHICAGOThs city the center Of the largest industries
the world is experiencing shortage
of the 5000 meat markets in the
of the inability beef
10 to IS the
porarY if the shortage continued week.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
BEARS HEAVY TRAFFIC

WASHINGTON = The Geor-
gian military road. 1870 miles long,
is the only paved highway suit
able for heavy motor traffic
through the Caucasus mountains.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
TRAINING WORKERS

NEW YORK - Soviet wartime
vocational schools are designed to
bring 900, 900 new trained workers
into industry every year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
RAJ BOMBS WEST GERMANY

LoNDoN-RAF planes took night off from bombing Italian
cities last night and made raids The
planes involved and the extent Of the
nounced Germa planes for the month
southeast coast of England but dropped only bomb
Ministry reported damage DONE
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
TRAPPED AT REVOLVING DOOR

BOSTON.-Fre Commissioner William
today the cocoanut Grove night
loss of nearly 500 lives stated that probably
lives lost by the iamming Of revolving
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03

WASHNGToN-A committee. representing the CIO and the
AFo considering proposals today that expected
suit in putting strikes country
those union bodies is concerned.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03
BUT FEW PERMANENT

NEW YORKr-ThelAr coast
of Alaska is Inhabited by fewer
than 1000 permanent residents.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-03

Kew West, Florida. has the
most equaDis climate i'm the
country: with Al average
range Of only IL Fahrenhest
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07

July or August.
The board also discussed the
matter of requiring the mayor of
West Jefferson to collect Jail fees
from all persons tried in the
mayors court who spent time in
the county Jail, but action was
deferred because of the absence
of Commissioner Brown.
For some time Jail fees in the
amount of so cents per day and
6O cents for lookup, were collect
ed in the mayors court here. but
Judge Tucker discontinued this
practice because he said, "there
was no law for it,
county Attorney Johnston
pointed out to the board that the
tax payers of the county should
not be required to pay the jail
keep of ''West Jefferson drunks,"
and others arrested in the county
and tried in the mayors court,
but that the cost should be passed
on to the law violators.
A number of routine business
matters were discussed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07
Judge Johnston
Died On Tuesday

Funeral services for Judge A.
Hall Johnston, go, superior court
jurist who died in a hospital in
Asheville Tuesday morning, will
be conducted at 3 p, M, today at
Lewis Funeral Home, in Ashe-
vile.
Judge Johnston, who was con-
sidered one of the able trial law
yers in North Carolina, collapsed
from a heart attack Monday at
noon as he entered the office of
his physician where he had gone
for an examination.
He was a native of Buncombe
county and during his long poll
teal career he served as solicitor
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07

for the fourteenth (now the
eighteenth) judicial district, rep
resented Buncombe county in the
state senate for two years, serv-
ed the city of Asheville as cor
poration counsel, and had served
as a judge Of the superior court
for a number of years. In 1882,
he was presidential selector at
large from North Carolina.
Judge Johnston had often held
court in Ashe county and has
many friends here.
He is an uncle of Josephine
Johnston, of the FSA office staff
here.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07
JAPS HAVE TAKEN
FAMOUS BURMA ROAD
CONTINUED from Page II

bad for the Allies, where their
withdrawal is in progress and it
is reported that a number of both
British and Chinese forces will be
captured.
The British, however, made a
gain in the Indian ocean when
they moved in on Madagascar's
Diego Suarez naval base. This
brought a series of protests from
the Vichy government which sent
notes to the U. S. They did not,
however, announce any definite
break with the U. S. over the
matter.
Before Australia, Allied airmen
still appeared to be having the
better of it. General Macarthur
headquarters announced that an
enemy air raid on Port Moresby
New Guinea, had been driven Oft
and rendered ineffective and that
five japanese planes had been
hit. Allied pilots bombed the enc
my base at Lac, New Guinea
damaging grounded aircraft, and
directly hit three planes at Ra'
baul, New Britain.
In Europe, the British aerial
offensive is being carried on
Zeebrugge in Belgium having
been the chief target yesterday tt
cap strong overnight raids on the
Skoda arms works at Pilsen in ole
Czechoslovakia and war factorie:
at Stuttgart in Germany proper
From the Russian front there
are fresh indications that the Rec
armies are opening their owr
major spring offensive ahead Of
the much advertised Nazi thrust
Heavy Soviet ground forces
supported by planes are said tt
be advancing on three major
southern German positions -
Kharkov, Kursk and Taganrog.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07
sss { aass'
.Ashe Civilian
Defense News

Twenty-Five Ashe county boys
are scheduled to leave Jefferson
for Camp, Friday morning, May
8, at 300 o'clock A. M.
+ believe that more interest
should be taken by our people
when thes boys are going away
to- defend us and defend our
country. l remember when we
a3aTS Left for Camp in 1917 and
1913, although transportation was
gckyf as easy as it is now and there
sere very few automobiles in
-Ashe Cnnnty and very few good
roads large crowds of people
would gather to see the boys en-
train for Camp and to express an
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07
Stiff Regulations Issued By
Federal Reserve. Details
Are Given

Stiff regulations controlling the
installment purchases of nearly
every article in common use in
the American home were made
Tuesday night by the federal re-
serve board, which in addition,
ordered that ordinary charge &C
counts Evolving such articles
must be paid up relatively quick
ly.
! The charge account rules, first
ever issued governing this type
of buying, provided that an arti-
Gle must be paid for by the 10th
day of the second month follow
ing the purchase.
| The regulation was issued in
response to the Presidents re-
quest that people pay off their
bills and stay out of debt as much
as possible.
Hitherto, the purchase on Gre
dit of a score of articles had been
regulated, but the new rule
lengthens the list to IS classifi-
cations.
The new list includes all civil
ian clothing, kitchen articles and
dishes, linens, jewelry, auto &C.
cessories electric appliances, U.s.
ed furniture, etc.
There will be no restrictions on
ca sh purchases. In connection
with installment credit, new reg
ulations were issued as follows:
Any person buying a listed item
on the installment must pay one
third down and the balance in IL
months, except automobiles may
be bought one-third down and
balance in Is months, and furni-
ture and pianos, one-fifth down
and II months to pay. Regard
less of the total price, payments
must be at least SIS per month.
The ruling also frightened up
conditions under which cash
loans up to $1,000 may be made
by banks and other lenders. It
provides that if the loan is to be
paid in lump sum, it must be
paid in 80 days. And if the loan
is to be used to buy a listed ar
ticle, the amount of the loan must
not be more than the purchase
price of the article, minus the
down payment. If the loan is
to be paid in regular INSTALL
ments, it must be paid up in IL
months, except that if it is used
to buy an automobile, it may run
Is months.
The most drastic feature is the
requirement that $500 per month
be paid on installment buying.
If a charge account is not paid
within the required time, the
merchant can arrange for it to
be paid during the next six
months on the installment basis
of not less than S. per month.
Until such arrangement is paid.
the merchant is prohibited from
charging any more listed articles
to such account. A few exemp-
tons are made and these include
farmers whose incomes are sea-
Sonal. Exceptions are made for
borrowing to meet emergency
conditions.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07

interest in them and give them
encouragement.
am hoping that large crowd
of people will be out Friday
morning to see the boys leave
and give them a hand.
And to really show that we are
! interested in them, we can pledge
this week to buy War Stamps and
Bonds to provide the equipment
with which these boys and many
others like them can defend us
and our country and our liberty
Have you signed a pledge?
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07
Government Clamps Down
On Credit, Installment
Buying & Borrowing Money
FOUR BOYS IN AKRON

Joe Garvey, Buck RAIDER, Tom
my Little and Tam Mcmillan,
four Well-known West Jefferson
boys, left last Friday for Akron,
Ohio, where they have secured
jobs in the Goodyear aircraft
plant. They are now taking six
weeks of training and have tc
sign up for three years work.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07
ATTENDING ROTARY MEET

Four members of the Jeffersons
Rotary club are attending the
188th district conference that is
being held this week at Pine
hurst. Those are John Reeves,
Sharp Shoemaker, Hoyt Wood
and DR.. J. K. Hunter. Mr.. Reeves
attended the assembly for incom-
ing officers Wednesday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07
EDUCATIONAL CAMP is
OPEN TO ASHE GIRLS

Mrs. w. B. Austin is now &C.
cepting applications for all young
girls who wish to attend the Wa
tauga county educational camp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07

at Camp Yonahlossee from June
/ to June Is, at a cost of only $40
for the two weeks period. This
is regarded as an exceptionally
fine opportunity.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07

The supply of food in the u
nited States is expected to be the
greatest on record, with a 3 to
4 percent increase being shown
over last year in total crop avre-
age.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-05-07
WOMEN APPEAR BEFORE
COMMISSIONERS MON

Continued from Page y
county's part, which amounts to
$500 per year, was raised this
year by private subscription.
The board took no action, but
promised to give the matter con-
sideration when the budget is
made up in June and adopted in