The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 24, 1941, Page 4

& modest, told us not te mention z PES ‘Merry Chtismas, Commander Hilton, te you and your family”. +10 o'clock in the beautiful Rain-- [RAT REMINDS US: Mama, Ree i é ih a pl bow Room. to little gt “Did yor thank students home for the! La Concha Orchestra has ar your hostess for a lovely time at Admittance is by card ranged a splendid program of *€t party’ Litle girk “Well, if you dont mind, Fa rather not tell you”. Mother. insisting, “Why, for goedmess sakes?” Lit- tle girth “Well, if you must | told me not to mention it” | AT SAINT PAUL'S) Fg i fu} Hh ull |. MORE DEADLY THAN THE Services at Saint MALE: The Rance of Sarawak, }ewening at 11:30 o'clock with a/half a million people on the a | procession and singing of the! northwest coast of Borneo, is in of the Stork carols, followed immediately|New York. She says through- ight. tried to eliminate the head- Tomorrow (Christmas Day), a! hunting practices of the natives. with communions at! Now, when told of the Japanese ™m. will be observed, fol- | invasion of Sarawak, she says, lowed by the Morning Prayer at'“I hope to God they line their ra & 45 a. m. Sung Maass at 10:00! houses with Japanese heads and ~ m., and Evening Prayer at'smoke them”. “Another form of : ys 5:30 p. m. “cured ham”. Fi j a = | MRS. FREDRICK KNAPP: f ‘<r Insurance Agents | President of the Key West Wom- t 2 Enjoy Banquet |an’s Club, has been seriously ill ty a” for many weeks and her friends The agency force of the Pen-| are so glad to hear that she is insular Life Insurance Company/ recovering. Mrs. Knapp will i < and their wives were the guests | deny it, but her friends fear that oe of Manager and Mrs. H. A. De-jlong and strenuous hours of = meritt at a banquet given in the! work, getting settled in the new s La Concha Hotel Monday. | Woman's Club building had ts An announcement was made} much to do with her illness. Fg time of the winners in F “ imerease record for| ERNEST AVILA. Future : > local office. J. A. Taylor re- {successful business man in the . 4 Po ceived the prize given for his!making. . When a boy is proud ‘4 Industrial de-| that his work has increased and 2 Ff Wardlow, Jr.,| doubled in a year, he has char- i = as the leader in| acter and what it takes. Ernest a placed field. | is a newspaper carrier for The | Key West Citizen, where he has ‘ 12 ‘hecks earned by | worked since the age of ten. He j Ps foree for their suc-| is popular with the boys and Pd Fd attainmnets during the girls of this community and is oe op year 1941. jthe president of a religious and * i Sd Those attending were Mr. and | socal organization for young peo-! = Mrs..C. H. Wardlow, Jr., Mr. and | ple. + Mrs. J. T. Esquinaldo, Mr. and/ a Po Mrs. J. A. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.| WISHFUL THINKING: Our ed J. H. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. | city usually is badly in need of 4 J. G. Sweeting. M. Valdez and funds. If we take a moment to’ - the host and hostess, Mr. and! regard Memphis, Tenn. then, as a lie H. A. Demeritt. | a good example, it might be well < that |to. follow. Memphis, a city of| * will S.-FILIPINO } 300,000 persons, has never a/ F oi jhonk from automobile horns. - . Mrs. Harris and the| FORCES FIGHTING | Not a beep or squeek. The past | ye: will remain in Key) [caer | year that city has taken in $200.- £ indefinitely, | gee gece One) | 000 in fines from drivers who poe ge! Philippines. It to be| Violated its _ anti-horn-blowing « Jack Miller, son of Mrs. Thom- | headed for two points indicating | Ordinance. Practically- all fines ! arrive in the | that an attempt was being made | Start at $10 and range upward an City where! by the Japanese to di Gen. | A speed Imit of 30 miles an hour Ed Age cee ES eS cn a pal Rel foaled © Hadio and ision ‘School. | forces. boasts of being one of the quict- Jack will remain here a Washington esti1 tt more | &St, Most peaceful cities in the with rela-\than 150,000 —- been! World since the nuisace of horn Janded on Luzon and that 80,000; blowing has stopped. A numbe: \ of these are in the Lingayen Gulf | °f lives have been saved by area. that city’s all-out safety drive Already, American and Filipino} 294 in many cases the taxi cab |forces are outnumbered. The @ivers have disconnected their Rob-| numerically superior enemy is! horns altogether. He | apparently attempting to sweep : sty it . ~ then leave for Camp / Manila. Christmas to the telephone girl where he will spend a! ho do a swell job being pleas- © short time with his son, Tillman, i unications south of 2! all the year to a fot of ~ is stationed ‘ i ch. MENTAL MEANDERINGS |} Wondering if that nice young 2 . i sailor from Texas I talked to is bara ane icticake 1. | home-sick at Christmas. Hope obtained ‘s that 47 of the 80 he is having 2 good time and [aed gees pships which at- | meeting some of the boys and | — ends Eanes Monday | girls. He was lonely but cheer- ‘ *¥| ful and had been ill since com- had been sunk off - eal: | nig here. . Mary Sweeting and jher baby girl, Mary Theodora, | doing Christmas shopping. . Nice os KEY WEST READY } gentleman brought some badly ‘ FOR CHRISTMAS needed blotters. . .Catherine/ E | Conners, future Woman’s Club ipresident in the making . . (Continued from Page One) | Christmas, Christmas, every- mato salad, mince pie, fruit cake, where. Dr. and Mrs. Harty ;} ice cream, coffee or milk, apples. Galey have the most beautiful oranges, bananas, nuts, cigars and/is.. Tye seen in ages. Miss : : ; ; - | Deckers window thrilling the} : : ‘This bill of fare will be served | pocsorsby on the street. Lighted | to the soldiers at the Key West) candies in windows, wreathes, Army Barracks, Fort Taylor and) colored lights, trees. . .the Spirit those stationed through Monroe) 5? Good-Will. an ar- r | trom 3| “Wath jobs plentiful and pay en-| welogay buleing, this city is as-| drawn with anxiety that last gift; a blind man, t exposed, hat outstretched, that hearts full of Tp i i et i i be touched by his silent it, but we thought we coukt say, ; Christmas | Paul's Church will begin this’ who, with her husband, rules | ith Sung Mass at 12:00 mid- out their entire reign they have } S$ among the poor until nextidown the wide valley leading to HELLO! HELLO! Merryid = . RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN: NAZIS CROSS THE DNIEPER hotos Of 1941 SEA WAR: THE ARK RO YAL DIES MANY CHILDREN GIVEN GIFTS AT BAYVIEW PARK CHRISTMAS TREE PROGRAM YESTERDAY AFTERNOON SPONSORED BY LOCAL LIONS CLUB | | several hundred } D were made glad] yesterday afternoon at the Com-| munity Christmas Tree in Bay-; view Park when Santa Claus arrvied aboard one of the Key/ West Fire Department's “special limited”, laden with candy, fruit and toys. Gerald Saunders, immediate past president of the Key West Lions Club, the organization sponsoring the annual event, act- ed as master of ceremonies, in- troducing Mayor Willard M. Al- addressed the chil- a very Merry of the City F t and commending the Lions Club for work bury, who its the community. kiddi After distributing toys, candy embled, Lion with eyeglasse: from the Lions Club. Assisting the Lion: work of providing and distribut- ing the toys were Mrs. Eva Warner, WPA Recreational di- rector, and her assistants, Sheppard, Miss Hilda Y many others. Preceding the a on the scene the children in Christmas carols. Members of the Fire Depart- ment were of great assistance to the Lions in repairing the toys donated by the citizenry in general. Lon Vance Stirrup, chairman of Girls and Boys work. together with the members of his com- mittee, deserve commendation for the fine way in which they presented the annual event. INDIANS ALSO PATRIOTIC SEMINOLE, Okla—The Fed- eral Government has _ received @ Tequest from the busines: } committee of the Seminole In-j| dians to release $50,000 of their tribal fumds in order that this amount might be used to buy! | defense bonds. An Act of Con- | gress is necessary before any of the tribe’s $125,000 deposit can! be released. Barking from excitement Darkies, laughing, pushing, ni to apy kind of shutter. Get Japanese convoy and sank three euvering escaped in a hail of gun 7. home and under cover is still transports and damaged a cruiser fire. the proper and safe thing to and air-craft carrier. The Texas tanker Idsho ar- de. At Malay the Japanese were rived safely im port after being COUNCIL NOTES JAPAN FIERCELY NEW QUARTERS aa ouncil wores JAPAN FIERCELY U By E. P. WINTER wit he Creche will Eyocutive Sacrotery FIGHTING BEING CARBIED Driven out of the LeBiond * ON IN FAR EAST building by a fire Sunday, the Monroe County Health Unit will reopen Monday, Dec. 29 with tem- porary headquarters in the Del- (By Aasociated Press) monico Building, 218 Duval street SINGAPORE, Dec. 24—Great| All persons who assisted fire- Britain with the help of the) men by saving surgical imstre- Netherlands was battling Japan to ments, medical equipment and of- be safer to get outside and scat- |? Standstill in the Far East. fice supplies axe antee nail ter. This would be exactly the Hong Kong still held out des-| turn them to the Health Unit wrong thing.to do The tisk of perately. The fighting according | Dr. J.B Parramore, head of the any one house or building being ‘° the latest comymunique con-/orgepization said today that serv- struck is small—but remember ‘imues with undiminished inten- ice at the Health Unit will be re- that the Army and Navy defense é e forces are not going to be sitting} ‘The American consulate build- around doing nothing during a/'®8 at the 100-year-old crown the holiday, Dr. Parramore’s as-! raid. colony has been destroyed by|sistants and office sgaff are work- “ * | bombs, but the staff is continuing | ing overtime to have the new We can solve your heuning Se } i ‘headquarters ready as soon as pos- | shorwage for yam. In the event of a raid the air ts work in the basement of a/™ : BUY A TRAL sible. La over Key West will be well bank. } covered with anti-aircraft shells! Chinese relief troops were! and the danger of being out iM parassing the J cat NAVAL WAR (Continued from Page One) Additional inquiries are made at the office of the Monroe SECTION County Defense Council con-/ cerning what to do in case of an air raid. Some of them take exception to the advice to get home and under cover. They are of the opinion that it would the open is the very great prob- = wid ability of being struck by frag-/ Dutch Planes continued to take @ pedo, but the crew escaped in life-|] "#"iius Seneest diseie-aif ments from shell bursts. These | heavy toll. boats. Setiens t fragments are generally small, Bangkok reported that Dutch) The Richfield tanker Lary Siiver Dermes a oe and will do little or no damage : planes and submarines attacked’a Doheny by dint of clever man- The Division of Civil Protec-|Britain’s imperial forees have marine which stalked it night and tion advises all residents with! been reinforced and are expected day. telephones to call the central air to start a counter-offensive from| Enemy submarines have been warden station, La Concha Ho- | new and fortified positions. active off the west coast ever tel, phone 160, and report any i fire or casualty that May CCCUr ——=——— ——__- The lumber carrier Samoa was near them during a raid. If you . vessel = at- have no phone, try to get a mes-/ sage to the sub air warden sta- tion near you, by runner or mes- senger. There will be messen- gers on duty very near your residence for this Watch The Key West Citizen for a Nasi Dr. J. B Parramore, @irector more information on the pro- army is retreating im disorder, It of the Monroe County Health Sor Four Ryes tection of ourselves and prop- amnounced the capture of $4 Department, extends his thanks —— es ory, Populated towns since Manday 2nd deep appreciation to Fire [Mw Sfvoe Fairies Bessey 2nd said that the Germans have Chief Harry Baker. and-his ef gun or giue on CLARENCE CRUSOE __ been driven $0 walls from Lpn- ‘cient crew of Srv fighters ont seesnealie'gioe / Seaeatieinl | Donel and others for their vain SS000e sas estat Sor sem ee LONDON.—The RAF bombed|able assistance im preventing {2 eee Curry’s Brick Garage, corner Cologne and im northern |further damage to the equip- ~~ Simonton and Greene streets, | Germany. t of the clinic during the” has been leased for a large auto- mobile repair business, it was! BA’ VIA—A announced today.” The garege] Indien, hawhag tome "eta, was used 2s a WPA storehouse | hit Sens Poets Concentrated aff Borneo. Clarence Crusoe. member of were enlightening details. the firm which will operate the = garage, returned last evening from Miami, where he has been tive Service Board is Speeding | ft H 5 | : | UNCONDITIONAL (Continued from Page One) given a deferred sentence for non- support of his wife and child. Daniel Bloodworth had his sen- tence halfed from 6 to 3 months.