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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
One Hundred Tons Of Ex-
plosives Dropped On
German City; Krupp
Works Set Attire
(By Associated Press)

my
LONDON, Jan. l4.-One hun
dred tons of high explosives
were dropped on Essen last night
by Raj bombers. according to
a report issued today by the Air
Ministry. which added that vast
destruction was caused. particu-
larlY to the great Krupp works.
Factory after factory, operated
by the Krupp interests, was hit
and set on fire, the first report
stated. 1t was one of the most sue
ceSsful raids that the Raj has con-
Quoted on munitiOn plants in
Germany since the beginning of
the war.
1t was the eighth raid that Raj
planes have carried out in the
Ruhr district of Germany in the
last IL nights, the ministry said,
and it probably was the most de-
vaStating.
Continued raids on the indus
trial and war plants in Germany
are beginning to be felt by the
German armies in large measure,
the British War Information Of
flee asserted.
Last night the planes attacked
in three waves, the bombing last
ing for IL minutes. i
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
SPEEDING CAUSES
ARREST Of THREE
PICKED UP BY HIGHWAY
PATRoLMAN YESTERDAY
AFTERNOON

Highway Patrolman Walker
arrested three men on charges
of speeding yesterday afternoon
H. M. Strickland, one of the
defendants, was held this morn
ing in $50 bail by Justice of the
Peace Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr.,
and the case against the second,
T. S. Tomilson, will come up for
a hearing at S o'clock this after
noon. The third, Wade H. Putt
man, a navy man, was turned
over to the Navy.
Another navy man, whose
name was not given, was report
ed to naval authorities yesterday
by Fred Eberhardt, deputy mo-
tor vehicle commissioner in Key
WSet. Mr.. Eberhardt said this
driver rounded a corner at SO
high a speed, his truck skidded
across the street to the opposite
sidewalk. "'' -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
TOMORROW IS DEAD
LINE FOR PURCHASING
AUTOMOBILE LICENSE

Fred Eberhardt said this after
noon he he'd received word from
Motor Vehicle Commissioner
Henry J. Driggers, whose office Is
in Tallahassee, that the January
Is date for the purchase of this
years automobile licerse tags
positively will not be extended "
THAT means" Mr.. Eberhardt
stated, that tomorrow is the last
day on which to purchase liceEses
without running lhe risk Of being
arrested. My advice 10 the people
of Key West / to getitiaein LICENSES
before the office of the -Anty tax
collector closes tomorrow eve
ming"
MFR. Eberhardt represents the
motor vehicle department in
Florida as deputy commissioner
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14

FIGHT Is EXPECTED
ON SALARY LIMITS
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND IS
AMOUNT AFTER lakes
ARE DEDUCTED

WASHINGTON. Jan. l4.-Sev-
eral senators said today thsl there
is going to Re a powerful fight
against the Presidents recon-
mendation to limit all salaries a;
$4,000 a year, after the deduc-
ton of taxes.
1t was asserted that such a law
would kill initiative and persever-
ance, which have been the bed
rock of the nations growth and
progress. The will-to-do has been
the outstanding factor in making
the United States the greatest ma
ton in the world, and the pres
ence of that will-to-dO was due e
the knowledge that he who nus
ties and strives will be recon-
pensed for his efforts.
Limiting ones possible earnings
in salary to $4,000 a year, was
stated, will curb the anbitlDr OF
a man, when he knows that what
ever success may crown has ef-
forts, his earning capacity has been
stabilized by the government. Let
the government tax a man 70
whatever extent 1t is necessary TO
satisfy the governments REQUIRE
ments, but don't peg his efforts,
as a commodity may be peggcd,
were points embodied in the com
ment that was made against the
proposed bill.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
Two Murder Cases Scheduled
For Trial In Circuit Court
Which Will Convene Monday

Circuit court will be convened
in Key West next Monday morn
ing at 10 o'clock, with Judge Ar
thur Gomez presiding.
Two murder cases are expected
to be tried during the session. One
is against Johnny Boswell. negro,
SO, charged with fatally stabbing
Willie Glenn, negro, Is, shortly af-
ter the conclusion of a dispute they
had in their boarding house.
Glenn was stabbed in the heart,
and ran 500 feet or so before he
dropped dead.
The other murder case will be
against Edward McGrath, who was
indicted by a Monroe county jury
in 1910 for the Staying of Leon
Robert Massi, a New York labor
union official.
Massi is said to have left Key
West with McGrath and one Henry
Bell, alias Buster" Bell. His body
was found two days later in Card
Sound, near the Overseas High
way bridge that spans that body
of water.
McGrath was arrested at a race
track in Boston, but Bell has not
been apprehended. The state at
torney's office requested that the
case be postponed until Bell had
been found, but decision has now
been made to go to trial with Nc
Grath only.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
ADVERSE WEATHER
HALTS FIGHTING
GIRAUD FORCES HAVE MADE
CONTACT WITH FRENCH
DESERT CORPS
tBy Associated PressI

ALGIERS, Jan. 14.-The only
official comment made here to-
day about fighting in North
Africa was that General Giraud
had issued a statement that the
men under his command had
made contact with the French
desert corps.
The corps is still travelling
norhward toward Tripoli. They
have met and defeated three
Italian contingentS, but the last
three days they have continued
their advance without opposi-
ton.
Bad weather in Tunisia ac-
counts for the let-up in fighting
in the Bizerte and Tunis areas.
Airplane activity was resumed
today, but not on as large a
scale as that on Tuesday, when
81 Axis planes were destroyed,
80 of them by Flying Fortr$ses.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
CAPT. SWEET MOVED
~ TO BARRACKS HERE

Recently assigned to the Har-
Dor Defenses of Key West as a
battery commander with the
Coast Artillery is Captain Viii
liam r. SWEET, son of Everett H.
SWEET, 81 Webster Street, Nashua,
n. II.
A graduate of the University
of New Hampshire, where he
was a member of Lambda Chi
Alpha fraternity, Captain SWEET
was associated in civilian life
with Nashua Gummed & Coated
Paper Co.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
|RIVIERE FOLKS
HOLD FISH FETE
(By Associated Pressp

RIVIERE, Fla. Jan. 14.-Folks
in this city are holding what may
be called fish fete.
The enthusiasm is the outcome
of a record catch made in two
days. Vast schools of mackerel
and kingfish showed up in this
vicinity, and, after hauling and
trolling for two days, the catch
was brought to town and found
to weigh 208, 900 pounds.
The fish was packed and iced
today and sent to market to be
sold at the highest prices in many
years.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
new METHOD TO
INCREASE AUTO
FUEL MILEAGE
ASIDE FROM SAVING GASO-
LINE NEW INVENTION ELI
INMATES NECESSITY OF
cARBUREToR

DELRAY BEACH, Jan. 14.tFNS
While the gasoline shortage may
be too much of a problem for Mr..
Ickes and the petroleum industry,
it has only served to sharpen the
wits of a Palm Beach county
farmer who has developed a meth
cd whereby a carburetor may be
eliminated in tn cooperation of a
gasoline engine, with the resultant
elimination of heavy and expen-
sive motor parts, and at the same
time give double mileage per gal
Ion of gas,
The Delray Beach News reports
that Marc Genton, local farmer,
conceived the idea of filling his
gas tank with absorbent material
which completely absorbs the tank
of liquid gasoline. When the en-
CINE is started, air is pulled through
the porous. spongy material In
the tank and takes with it vapor-
lied gasoline. Thus air and gaso-
line vapor are mixed directly from
the tank and the necessity for a
carburetor is eliminated.
BY the use of this method, Mr..
Genton states that he has doubled
his mileage per gallon of gas, US
ing it on his own car, and has
found that it has no disadvantages.
He points out that with this meth
3D., simpler, less complicated and
costly engines could be devised
and that the danger of fire is great
ly reduced as there is no liquid
gasoline in the tank to spill or leak
in case of accident.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
RAJ Stages Heavy, Raid
Over ESSGnnL5St NlQht
MwMwAwwAw q
AMERICAN PLANES
DAMAGE AT LEAST
TWO JAP VESSELS
By Associated Press)

DARWIN, Jan. l4.-Amer-
lean planes are reported to
have damaged two and pos
siblY three Japanese destroy
ers that were conveying
troopships that were trying to
land reinforcements to the
Jap garrison on GuadalcanaL
After the attack made by
the bombers. the convoy
broke formation and the ships
turned and headed in a north
westerly direction.
Fighting on Guadalcanal
has been confined to scattered
patrol action for several days.
No further attempts have been
made to attack the Henderson
airfield. which the United
States Marines captured from
the Japs. after they had al
most completed it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
open HOUSE TONIGHT
AT CHURCH CENTER

open House" will be held this
evening in the new Recreation
Center of the First Congregational
Church, at SIT William street.
The hall or parish house has
been thoroughly repaired and
renovated and new furnishings
have been installed.
The committee, comprising the
pastor, the Rev. s. Reinke, Joseph
Boza and Percy Roberts, invites
residents and service men to be
present at the opening this eve
ming.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
NAwAwAw&wAw. -. ~
'McGINNIS' HAS BIG
PART In MARRIAGE
tBy Associated Press)

CAMBRIDGE. Ga. Jan.
IA soldier. named McGin-
mis-. stationed here. had a date
to marry a girl in Tallahas-
see. Fla. but he did not
have sufficient gas to make
the trip in his car to that
city.
So two friends, also named
McGinnis. got together just
enough gas for him to make
the journey. He met his
fiancee. on his arrival in
Tallahassee. and they were
married by judge named
McGinnis.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
TRUCK HELD
UP BY BANDITS
(By Associated Press)

KINGSTON. r. l.. Jan. IA
Armed bandits held up and
searched an army truck here
last night. While one bandit
stuck a revolver inso the Griv-
er's ribs. the others made a
hurlied search of the truck.
TT isn't here!" a bandit ex-
claimed as he ordered the
driver to proceed to Mare
gansett. At that place the ban
dts left the truck. bSaroed
what evidently was heir own
Car and sped away.
FBI agents are today con-
Quoting an investigation.
What the bandits were look
ing for is not known by the
authorities.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
KEEP YOUR cHINs UP"

WATERLOO Iowa.-Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Sullivan today
permit be built this community
five who have
Solomons November Sullivan
given yet
letters invariably
Keep your up trying
Mrs. Sullivan concluded
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
LATE BULLETINS
FEW MINERS RETURN TO WORK
tBy Associated Pressl

WILKES -BARRE-onlY about 1000 1900 striking
today having
adversely last night against made them by the War
Board said that the striking
against so
of day in wages. government
preparing TO action against he miners
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
DIES IN ELEVATOR SHAFT
MIAMI BEA

MIAMI BEAcHInformation received here today that
James Roger Mills of this city last night fell down elevator
Hudson City
instantly could determined thought
fell stories.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
LEAVE ON TRIP

Mrs. S. P. Waldo, accompan-
led by Miss Lilly Mae Fry, left
during the week enroute to Del
ray, Fla, where they will visit
for several days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
INCREASE PREDICTION

DETROIT - Canadian shoe
factories last year produced 3D.
100000 pairs of shoes, an increase
of % per cent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14

SAFETY PIN CHANGES PLANES COURSE
PHILADELPHIA big plane. its to San
Francisco changed today Youngstown Ohio when TO-
monod Judith Strong Wing swallowed safety that lodged
in her Phila-
dephia. where Judith taken hospital for treatment
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
STOCK MARKET QUIET

NEW YORK-The Stock Market quiet today. with few
gains
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14

Key West, Florida. has the
most eQuabie climate In the
country; with an average
range Of only Is Fahrenheit
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-10-08
Italia rs
Concerned
Over Pope
Fate Of Ponfiff Uncertain
May Be Taken 10
North Italy

BERN. Oct. 8.--The Pope Is q
prisoner OF an undesired protecting
power" and the Catholics In Italy
are concerned over his possible fate.
A Swiss weekly quoted a writer
recently returned from Rome, APP
parently prominent person, who
declared that he had spoken with
the Pontiff, and said, Whispers,
worry and concern have circulated
In Rome since the Germans an
nounced their assumption Of pro-
lection of Vatican City.
People ask: will Rome be sack
ed? Will it be a second Naples?
VIII the new protectors of the Vat
lean feel it incumbent upon them
to rescue their Holy Charge in their
own way?"
A Reuters dispatch from Zurich
said It is reported in Switzerland
that the Germans are planning to
remove the Pope to North Italian
town offering greater security" be-
cause Rome is in danger of capture
by the Allies
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-10-08
FOR
PEACE GIVEN
OUT BY NAz|5
Tried ArmistiCe with Rus.
sia, But FaiIed-Now
Trying Allies

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 8.-New re-
ports of German peace overtures are
being circulated, according to the
Stockholm newspaper, Social Demo-
kraten.
The newspaper said it learned
that efforts OF some Nazis to discuss
an armistice with Russia collapsed
when the Soviets demanded custody
of Hitler and the withdrawal of the
German Army behind the old Ger
man frontiers.
The reports were attributed by
the paper to information given by
high German military official men
in one of Germany's satellites.
The report added that Nazi ennis
saries are now making attempts to
contact the United States and Brit
ain through Madrid and Lisbon.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-10-08
HITLER SAYS TO
LOSE MORALE IS
TO LOSE WAR
Warns Nazi Leaders that
Home Front Spirits
Be Kept Aloft

LONDON, Oct 8.-Adolf Hitler
told Nazi leaders, gathered at his
headquarters, that the German
people must not be permitted 10
lose their morale and If they do
the war will be lost.
In a patent attempt to whip up
tagging spirits on the home front,
Hitler is quoted in Berlin radio
saying: Weapons alone will not
tilt the scales unless human will
backs them, and the party never
allows itself to be discouraged by
set backs to it's powers OF action
Hard resoluteness and extreme
readiness to help provides the Ger
man people again today with moral
backing and support, particularly In
the difficult hours of air attacks"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-10-08
BIG CITIES
IN GERMANY
ARE BLASTED
Powerful Raj Bomber
.Foees Make Extensive
Raid-London Attacked

LONDON, Oct. 8.-Ranging over
great area of Southern Germany
last night, powerful Raj bomber
fleet pounded three important cities,
Stuttgart, Friedichshafen and Num-
ich, while much weaker force of
German bombers hit London and
Southeast England in the sharpest
retaliation blow in several months.
The British said that heavy cloud
formations prevented full observa-
ton of results of the Raj opera
lions. But, according to the COM
munique, a German radio said lex
tensive damage" was inflicted at
Stuttgart, where the junction of
eight main line railways rival its in
dustries in importance as bombing
targets.
The Air Ministry said that the
Germans were able to push through
to London but only Is of 60 raid
ers crossed the English coast before
midnight and dropped slightly mole
than 80 tons of bombs in London.
Mines Are Laid IA
Besides blasting three important
German cities, British planes laid
mines in enemy waters the air
ministry said. Seven aircraft are
missing as a result of last nights
extensive operations.
The London alert lasted approx
imately two hours, the longest one
since May, 1912, when raiders came
in two waves and were exceedingly
small by comparison to the great
Allied Armada which has been
steadily blasting the Reich for
many months.
British officials described the at
tack as a propaganda raid, OBJ
viously intended to take the Ger
man peoples minds off their
troubles.
Bombs fell in several London dis
tricts causing damage and some
casualties. The last great raid on
London was on May 10,1941, when
$50 tons of bombs were dropped
and nearly $500 people were killed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-10-08
GEORGE WIG
IS MISSING
FROM BOAT
Disappears Near Marmion
Island : Coast Guard
Makes Long Search

George Wig, age 55, gasboat en-
gineer, was lost overheard last night
from the gasboat Pirate off the
south coast of Douglas Island. Coast
Guard boats searched the area all
night and today without success,
returning here early this afternoon.
The 53-foot gasobat, owned by
Capt. Andy Gundersen, left Juneau
shortly before $50 o'clock last eve
ming enroute to Excursion Inlet.
About an hour out of port, as the
vessel was rounding Marmion Island,
Wig went ON deck for some stores
and after considerable length OF
time had elapsed without his return,
Gundersen went in search of him.
He found the supplies on deck but
there was no trace of his engineer.
Gundersen spent over an hour
searching the stormy waters, but
poor visibility slowed any progress
and the boat continued to AUX Bay,
reporting to local Coast Guard Of
ficers from that place.
The Coast Guard boat returned
early this afternoon, reporting no
success and the search was aband-
oned. The waters in the area were
patrolled and search was made
along the shoreline from Marmion
Island to Midway Point.
A Ketchikan man, George Wig is
survived by brother and family,
all residing in that city.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-10-08
FORCES UNDER
CLARK MOVE
IN RAIN, MUD
Montgomery cling
on Adriaiit Coast Can
adams Under Fire

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA. Oct. 8.-Battlins
In heavy rain and mud. 1t. Gen.
Mark Clark's Fifth Army forged
ahead and has reached the Vol
turo River. the German defense
line north of Naples and on a To-
mile front from Capua to the sea,
the Allied communique says.
Capua was captured on the south
side of the river and crossing has
been made at Castel.
The line is now 81 airline miles
from Rome.
Capua Is the main town on the
Mazzoni plain on which the first
phase of Clark's battle for Rome
is being waged. The town was taken
in l0-mile advance along the two
roads leading from Naples to Rome.
The other road is nearer the coast
on the right where the British
Eighth Army Is fighting another
battle which approaches the side
door to Rome.
Montgomery's forces have beaten
back more fierce German counter
attacks and have taken the often
sive in the occupied important high
areas along the Adriatic Coas.
above Termoli where six German
Divisions are reported.
The Germans are reported to be
throwing tanks. including Cotton
Tigers into the fight with infantry
making stabs on Montgomery's
thanking force.
Montgomery's forces are now
holding the area and threatening
Pescara, the coastal terminus of the
broad highway across the Apennines
to Rome.
Dispatches from the front dis
close that Canadians are in action
with the Eighth Army and mounted
in strategic positions facing a
steady fire Of German artillery and
mortar batteries, the heaviest the
Canadians have encountered but
late reports are the Canadians con-
tinue to force the Germans back.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-10-08
TAKE
SINH ISLAND
IN ADRIAT|(
Situation on Coo Island Not
Explained in Toddy's
Communique

CAIRO, Oct. 8-British occupa-
ton of the Island of SINH, only 25
miles north of German held Rhodes
Island in the Dodecanese is dis
closed today and German attempt
to retake the Island was beaten off
with heavy losses.
The Middle East Communique
makes no mention of the situation
of Coo Island in the Dodencanes,
occupied recently by the Allies and
severely attacked over the weekend
by German forces who later claimed
control of the % mile long Island
OF SINH, about half way between
Coo and Rhodes Islands off Wes-
tern Turkey.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-10-08
vIN50N AGAINST
FORCED SAVINGS,
U. ). SALES TAX

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.-Congres-
sional opposition to any program for
compulsory savings developed to-
day when Economic Sterilization Di-
rector Vinson told the House Ways
and Means Committee it would be
better to raise a $500 900 900 adj
ditional tax on the revenue of indi-
viduals without any post war credits.
Vinson, appearing the second time
before the committee considering
new tax legislation, renewed opposi-
ton to the Federal sales tax. He
said such tax would break the
hold the line" policy and open the
way for dangerous initiation.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-10-08
HAMBURG ATTACK
IS DESCRIBED AS
MAJOR HOLOCAUST

BERN, Oct "a terrific Allied
bombing on Hamburg. which leveled
that port early in August was de-
scribed here as a holocaust in which
men, women and children fought
against fire for oxygen and air.
Fire won the battle as flames
scared to height of three and
seven tenths miles, the Swiss news
paper Allgemeine Volkszeitung said.
Almost no one escaped in the
heavily populated area OF many
square kilometers in which planes
planted a carpet" of hundreds of
thousands of explosive incendiary
bombs
The phenomenon resulted when
fire drew oxygen from the sur
rounding air. forming a constantly
increasing air chimney in which the
flames mounted higher and higher,
increasing in violence, finally form
ing compact roof OF fire. the
newspaper said.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-10-08
MORE RAIN
KEEPS CITY
CREW BUSY
Gold Creek Threat MOI
0ver-Water Rising
Again Today

More rain kept the city crew busy
hauling rock to Gold Creek again
today as the water in the creek
began rising once more, but there
were no reak-throughs in evidence
City trucks we're hauling more
rock to the breach near the Home
Grocery and the Willoughby Avenue
bridge, where another few feet rise
of water might cause trouble.
Part of the baseball park fence
was torn out to give trucks another
avenue of access to the creek.
1t was learned today that between
the hours of 4 and pm. on Wednes-
day, when the water was highest
some 800 cubic yards of coarse rock
was placed along the washed out
banks of the stream.
This huge amount of rock was
transported by "a trucks, mostly
under the direction fthe U. S. E
D. and was supplied by the Alaska
Juneau Gold Mining Company bins
which were kept full by the COM
pany's crew working overtime in
the emergency.
BY the time this supply was used
up at 8 pm, a power shovel was In
operation and it supplied the bal
ance of the rock necessary.
The downpour is reported as gem
eral In this region.
At Skagway, passengers arriving
here said. it is possible that the
White Pass and Yukon Route will
be out of commission for 10 days due
to slides and washouts along the
track of the raging Skagway River
and in the mountains. Several hum
dred men have been working
frantically to repair the damage and
prevent further destruction.
Passengers said they walked
through water in Skgaway to reach
the docks.
Heavy rains and slides were re-
ported at Excursion Inlet and one
report was that stores of filled oil
drums were washed away. Many
slides are also reported there.