The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 18, 1941, Page 1

Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 300. Found in Bathtub Last OOTP OII OSS 4 Night At Ocean View KEY WEST ASKED elk isting Prise) en OF ly President Roosevelt wants | $50,000.000 for the American ; ‘Red Cross to be used for The FBI was summoned today relief purposes incident to the to investigate the sirange cir) cumsiarces which shroud what eppeared to be s suicide attempt | by Ralph A. Lehman. prominent: Key Wes: hotel manager. ; The 47-year-olg director of the! Ocean View Hoiel is in critical. _Sendition at the Marine hos- | pitel When George Gomez Deputy Sheriff; afrived shortly k last night he an bleeding profuse-’ led with water Sheriff ssatisfied d- from EMPLOYE ON ACCOUNT OF JURY DUTY three cuts on 3a: epee J. B. Symmonette, an execu- tive of the Gulf Life Insurance Company, was summoned to i court this morning to a2xp) the charge that he had dismissed an employe -ordered to jury duty. The summons was issued on complaint of Howard England. who told County Solicitor Allan B.Cleare, Jr. that he was dis- charged wh reported for work this morning because he Was unable to get excused from jury duty. Presiding Judge William V. Albury imme ely ordered an attachment returnable instanter. Symmonette explained that he had dismissed England for negli- >| gence and inefficiency and not - because the employe did not re- t turn from court at 1 o'clock as charged. Judge Albury placed the men under oath and after hearing both th Statements, declared that he would notify the central office of the insurance ecompany of what had taken place in his court. Waring Given Reatve To Unusual Cbjects That May Be Seen Floating At Sea the _scen esses that Lehman ing cver the week. man had cor that be was be- aw with information released by " The Citizen thet army pursuit DISTANCES AND TIME IN THEATER OF WAR 6 pm Honolulu-S. Fran 2495 6:30 am 6 pm Manila-San Fren 7.400 6 pm (next day) Tokyo-Aleutian Spm Islands.____ 2.900 2:00 am 5 pm (mext day) 5 pm Tokyo-San Fran 5,550 10 am Viadivostck-Tokyo 700 1:00 am noon {next day) noon Singapore-Manila 1500 12 3am) (midnight) Honolulu-Panama 5,388 6:30 am' Calutta-Singapore 2.000 10:53 s s -New York 4026 Oslo-New York _ 4,147 Reme-New York 4.915 Lendon-New York 3,847 Litbor-New York 3.890 L744 1,862 4.300 L168 3:08 am || $e es i eee THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. Che Key West Citizen Ss. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941 = ALASKA and the _— By SAM JACKSON } AP Feature Service Steff Writer JUNEAU, Alaska, Dee. 18.— The largest richest area of un- | developed territory in the world, ; mot even excepting the interior | of Africa and South America, is ja stake in “the war between ' Japan, the United States and CROSS WAR DRIVE) Great Britain. Inhabitants of the eastern sea- | board states and even of such ; huge areas as Texas and Cali- | fornia find it hard to grasp the | immensity of Alaska and British ; Columbia and the Yukon and Northwest Territories. ' | to which the Nippon tation so | They ‘constitute a great fron- , tier, comparable to that which | | American pioneers found when they invaded the West. Nothing is so erroneous as the inhospitable regions of perpe ice and snow. The wa! To protect key positions in Alaska the Navy has established powerful bases at Dutch Harbor, Situated on the distant Aleutian island of Unalaska, and at Kodiak and Sitka. The Army has has- ably unique in warfare. tily constructed airfields at An- akin cf the population” is |Chorage. Fairbanks and Annette confined to a few small, wide- Se Out- | This capital of Alaska, which y a segees saenes. ~ | has a population of only 5,748, is side of these is wilderness. ‘virtually defenseless in itself. Alaska has about one imhabi- However, it is bulwarked by tant to every ten square miles, rugged Baranof Island. where and uesrly balf the population ,the Navy has wonstructed a base. | is Indian. The vest, sprewling ' Should an enemy succeed in - @tea of Canada’s Northwest | teking such ports as Seward. i resources. Both the conquest and de- | femse of Alaska and western id tim Canada present problems prob- once the tempe zero it doesn’t make much prac- tical difference if it goes to 40 to e inks, The riches of this land cons of fish, timber, various minerals. and furs: Under American own- ership the tourist attractions are Ve ished Blood-Stained Automobile Work Being Rushed — Found On Boulevard; Police Are Making Investigation On Plane Landing Field In Key West arcnc porr CHURCHILL AND NOW REOPENED STALIN TO MEET WAY OPEN FOR U. S. TO SEND Construction workers on a 24- hour a day shift are rushin completion of an emergency VITAL SUPPLIES TO i RUSSIA landirg field on the site former- MUCH SPECULATION OVER PROPOSED CONFERENCE NOW IN PLANNING iy eccupied by the Pan-American Airways. (By Asseciated Preax) MOSCOW, Dec. 18.—The arctic port of Murmansk has been re- opened and now the United States (My Associated Press} can continue-te pour important, LONDON. Dec. 18.—Just as the Military supplies through this : Seaport. The surprising Russian offen- Prime sive continues to exact heavy toll Churchill qm the retreating Nazis. Hun- hurchill and’ Greds of villages have been re- so is the captured and the Moscow-Lenin ‘or a similar! grad railroad cleared. mn Churchill and} -Red Star, official army organ, |said that Germany's manpower is eae fast being depleted while Rus- kes over the | .:.’s reserves have yet to be tap- es when hei ped Nazi losses were said to be -d today that}three times as great as that incur- ‘Continued en Page Four: red by the Soviet. A lighting system has been in- stalled so that work can continue throush ‘the night. A special. army officer has epared for the his- beer rushed from Washirgton to between supervise the work. It is under- “ stood that ke has been ordered to _ complete construction within 10 days. The project has been contract- ed to the Mackle-Leach Con- - struction Co. The larding field coincides Blackouts in Key West To Be Discontinued Saturday planes made their appearance in Key West recently. FOR RENT = tinued Saturday night BRICK GARAGE, Greene and— Simonton Streets. Apply Wm. | Mayor Willard M. Albury this | Curry’s Sons Co. Phone 18. deci3-tt moon released a notice from Lt. 1941, the nightly blackouts will be Se Yee ae is 5 = | nouncing that there will be mo tory and no further tests are re- more blackouts until further, “<4 = this time. notice. } WANTED DELIVERY BOY Apply at once MONROE MARKET 510 Fleming Street “However, it must be strongly | # WAR PRINCIPAL BASES @® us. navy RUSSIAN MAIN HIGHWAYS =—_ RAILROADS te __LATE BULLETINS — (By Associated Press To what extent the Army and Navy regard Alaska as a base for offensive measures has never been divulged. Dutch Harbor is, @ great deal closer to Tokyo than Tokyo is to Honololu. The Jap- anese capital is, in fact, in easy range of a modern bombing plane. ; Whether we merely defend Alaska or use it as a springhoard toward Japan would seem one of ;the major questions of current VERDICT RENDERED ON AS- SAULT AND BATTERY CHARGE | ALL FRONTS SY TS AED FIIPINC FORCES | A jury which was semt beck Police were busy today trying twice to deliberate until o Ge~ to pierce the veil of mystery | cision was reached found Leonard covering a blood-stained, over-Guerro guilty on an assault and turned automobile found early — charge yesterday ae on Roosevelt Boule- | ad veto An anonymous telephone call assault on at 3 a. m. notified George Gomer, ! the Navy chief deputy sheriff, of the cap-| The defendant was accused of "Tavemigetian @inchioal a a oe nvesi USC! a man’ 8 blood-soaked shirt but there al ee ae a no other -evidence ‘to inditdte 2 | Judge struggle or possible collision with | siding another automobile. A County law enforcement agents the magistrate made the rounds of the hospitals back to the jury but found no.one who could be! He explained associated with the overturned | was reported tp Willem V. Altary. pie- Teor Police discounted the possi-' bility of any connection between | the blood-stained car and R A! Lehman, hotel manager who was | found bleeding from several! wounds in his bathroom. niet et Winter Replaces P. Albert Mills On ii. ; brit | Eiie