The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 3, 1942, Page 1

|Associated Press Day Wire | Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the \Best Interests of Xey West Nazi Forces Land Immense Reinf » And Equipment In Tunisia Several Heavy Assaults Made On American And British Lines In Vicinity Of Tunis (By Associa 7 LONDON, Dec. 3.—The Nazis have landed large reinforcements of men and tanks and planes in Tunisia, according to reports re- ceived here todey from Allied hefdquart ws. There have been ral heavy assaults made on 2 ‘American and British front! lines ‘in the fighting in the vicin- ity of Tunis nad Bizerte, but in! no area did the Germans succeed | in driving back the Allies. Probably the battle waged in Tunisia is reported to fiercest 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 bottle. but they are inferior to the British tank in striking power and in arma- j ment. i The tanks, until developments last night, were supposed. to havé } been flown from Sicily to Bizerte or Tifhis, but a*contingent of the | Royal Navy last night sighted aj 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 Bi- | 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. | id ae a | BUT FEW.PERMANENT | NEW YORK—Thej Arctic coast | of Alaska is inhabited by fewer than 1,000 permanent residents. | ELE ETE IE DOES YOUR HUSBANDY | KNOW e | That he can buy you a new| DODGE or PLYMOUTH for} CHRISTMAS.. The Rationing Board for some- timeshas left the bars down on purchases of NEW CARS. WE HAVE MANY IN STOCK INVESTIGATE TODAY NAVARRO, wc. posite Bus Station OFFICE in Central Hotel {8 Of Troops STS II SSS SSS MARINE HOSPITAL NOT TO BE RAZED; The Marine Hospital is NOT to be “razed” as was stated in a 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- tively. = REDS LAUNCHING ATTACKS AGAINST GERMAN COLUMNS RUSSIANS HAVE SUCCEEDED IN ESTABLISHING BASE ON EASTERLY SIDE OF DON RIVER (ity Axsocinted Press) MOSCOW, Dec. 3.—The war office announced today that large Russian forces have suc- ceeded in establishing a base off the east side of the Don River and from it are launching suc-j} cessful attacks against the Ger- man forces in that area. That drive, should it continue successfully down the east bank of the Don, will result in the Germans having to withdraw their forces south of Stalingrad or run the risk of having them encircled. Heavy fighting was reported | today northwest of Stalingrad, with the Russians having the up- perhand, according to the war office claims. The battle in that area started yesterday and is still in progress. The Germans have tried repeatedly to recapture positions they had lost, but in every case, the war office said, they were driven back with heavy losses. LEAVING FRIDAY Mrs. W. A. Crosby, of Tampa, and Mrs. Bernard Cruz, of Dania, who were here to attend the funerdl of their mother, Mrs. Emma Louise Lowe, will leave over the highway” tomorrow morning with W. R. Holt, who was here at the time of their mother’s sudden death. They will be accompanied by an aunt, Mrs. Belle Snell, of Mi- ami, who came to attend the funeral. A niece, Mts. Wm. Saunders, will remain for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Susie Cas- sidy. Mr. Holt, who came in Sunday, left Tuesday evening for his home in Fort Lauderdale. BAIRIIDIISIIIIIIN III PALACE THEATER DON (RED) BARRY in STAGE COACH EXPRESS NEWS and SERIAL pores SUASTALULLNAEELAEULGD UEHARA, Dancing EVERY NIGHT 8 to 12 SUNDAYS 5 to 8 Music by the RYTHMAIRES No Cover No Minimum hdd dd do ddd | ! /MARINE HOSPITAL WILL BE. CLOSED ON DECEMBER 31 ON DECEMBER 21; TAKEN OVER BY NAVY DEPT. Dr> T. H. Rose, medical officer in charge of the U.. S. Public Health Service’s 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 31. Dr. Rose’s announcement was | given in a letter to Capt. C. E. Reordan, commandant of the Key West Naval Operating Base, Col.; R. L. Arrington, commanding of-: ficer for the U.S... Army _ here, Comdr. C. H. Hilton, Coast Guard commanding officer, Mayor Wil- 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, 1942. “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 21, 1942 and will cease to function as a hos- pital December 31, 1942.” Dr. Rose declined to discuss de- j 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 »\Rgordan, who:anndunced 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 addi- tional buildings which have been considered 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 for 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. It is presumed that the hosiptal building proper will perhaps be remodeled, and.put to use in the Navy's program of ex- pansion as rapidly as propitious. BRUSH FIRE SET KEY DESTROYS 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. WANTED Dishwasher $25,00 WEEK DELMONICO RESTAURANT —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, T POOSOCCOSO TCT TOTTOOSOOLESOOSOOOORODETEOVTLCAOODD LATE BULLETINS ? slated Press) FET Totti tii ti ey Me ; , The term was first he | > fitid’ any more Japs to engage le Japs last Tuesday, the Ma- g the number killed in the last cts Been tines killed $1 of them, ‘ two weeks to 206. RAF BOMBS WEST GERMANY i LONDON.—RAF planes took a night off from bombing Italian | cities last night and made raids in west Germany.. The number of i planes involved and the extent of the damage done were not an- j nounced, Germa planes, for the first time in a month, raided the | southeast coast of England, but dropped only one bomb. The Air; Ministry reported no damage was done. TRAPPED AT REVOLVING DOOR i BOSTON.—Fire Commissioner William A. Riley, at the hearing | TREES ‘ today into the Cocoanut Grove night club fire, which caused the loss of nearly 500 lives. stated that probably two or three hundred lives were lost by the jamming of a revolving door. i MEAT SHOR’ Ee. H }0.—This city, the center of the largest mea! industries in the world is experiencing an. a fe meat shortage. Five hundred of the 5,000 meat markets in the city have had to close down be- cause, of the inability to get beef, jand it was stated) today that from 10 to 15 percent more of the markets would go out of business tem- Pporarily if the meat shortage continued another week. i PROPOSED PEACE IN LABOR RANKS WASHINGTON.—A committee. representing the CIO and the AFofL. are considering proposals today that it is expected will re- sult in putting an end to strikes in this country in which either of those union bodies is concerned. Duncan Says Fresh Water _ Hows la Uninterruptedly B. M. Duncan, who began his CIIDIIS LIS « mrictloy engineer in shane, ot| BELGIANS TO BE SHOT AS HOSTAGES the civilian line of the Florida | (By Annociated Press) Keys Aqueduct Commission, said that it will be two weeks tomor- tow since water has been fldw- LONDON, Dec. 3—News ing uninterruptedly into Ki pcg lye from val West, and that nowhere in > ae as = Jam shas’ 94° Bel- gians were arrested today thé main has, any other break ae veloped since the last repairs}- by the Gestapo to be shot as . hostages. were made: While civilians are . supplied Eight of that number were with water, they have not yet| killed by a firing squad this been given official permission to| ' #ftermoon and the other 15 drink it.. The chlorination’of the| Will Be shot tomorrow ‘morn- ing, the report said. supply is ‘still “continuing, Mr. Duncan said, but drinking the Another report stated that 245 Belgians have been de- water will not be permitted till approval has been received from} Ported to Germany for forced labor in war industries on the State Board of Health. The = board’s experts are now analyz- | charges of being Communists. ing the water. i} This morning the placing of "SOO OM@O DOL? iS forms for the 1,000,000-gallon! reservoir in Jackson Square was J AP CONTINGENT started, and Mr. Duncan said that work will now go on apace to an early completion. The ALMOST WIPED OUT reservoir, he added, was not! immediately essential to supply-| BY U S. PATROL ing civilians with water, as the! . 400,000-galion tank at the Fort} Village Housing Project tank at: { the J. Y. Porter Housing Project: AUSTRALIANS AND AMERI-/' would be connected in a few days. CANS ARE STILL TAKING! OFFENSIVE AT BUNA, AND) | GONA . Wwortes a ete ! According to information re-| (Ry: Ausvetited: Press) ceived at the Key West Chamber; DARWIN, Dec. Hage See of Commerce today, all misun-|and Australians are still taking} derstandings are now brushed/the offensive in the fighting at} away regarding the issuing of|Buna and Gona on New Guinea, building permits by Building In-|with the Japs, protected by nat- spector Ralph Russell. ural defenses, still showing stiff In a letter to.the chamber, H.|resistance. In the vicinity of E. Enyeart, priorities manager; Buna, an American patrol sur- of the War Production Board in\prised a Jap contingent and al- this area, states Mr. Russell was;most wiped it out before its rem- right in the conclusion he reach-!nants were able to get back to ed about the limiting of permits {the front-line defenses. to $200. However, that ruling; Jap navy men are still making has been superseded by another {strenuous efforts to relieve the one that places permits on prac-|Jap garrisons at Buna and Gona, tically the same scale as they|and, with that end in view, four were before the WPB orders|destroyérs- attempted yesterday were issued. (Continued on Page Six) xX. “CHARITY BALL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5th HABANA-MADRID DANCE to RYTHMAIRES Floor Show 8 Until 12 BUILDING: PERMIT QUESTION CLEARED 1 | S. A. 'HURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1942 Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. PRICE FIVE CENTS Sixteen American, British Ships Lost In Invasion ¢f ‘Nort fia Pearlman’s Store Burglarized Tuesday Night; $200 Stolen Joe Pearlman's store on Duval street was burglarized sometime Tuesday night and $200 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 Se- curity funds and rents that he collects as administrator of an es- iate. “We deposit our store receipts | daily,” he said. “and 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 $10 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. It was then found that a window had been broken! open. The window stands be- i | { i i ! | | West during the last two | He added that hind a safe, and nobody store had noticed that it pried open until the time of the money was discov The burglary © | Sheriff Berlin Saw Roy Hamlin take photograph the finger prints of the wi that was jimmied. Sneak thieves have beer ating to a great ex } wee or so, and their succ Sawyer said today, ha easy by the careles people in handling their He cited several cases of losses that had been reoprte him and had resulted from lessness. A sailor said he left his wallet at a table where he was eat- ing in a restaurant to put coin m the slot of a music box. mained beside the music bo: five minutes or more, aad when he returned his wallet was gone Another man left a locket oper and had a suit and some jewelry stolen. Sheriff Sawyer said he is han- dicapped in making thorox a vestigations of the cases re od to him because he has only one deputy and has been unable for several months to hire ancther. his difficulty in employing aeputies fact that workers in the Yard and on defense jobs a: twice as much as he is able them. HUEY LEE KIRKLEY NAVY MAN, KILLED. | Officials of the ,Naval Operat- ing Base here today annouriced that’ Huey Lee Kirkley, 21, gun-| net’s mate second glass, of Tus-| caloosa; Ala. was killed while} inthe performance of his duty | by an accidental éxplosion. , No: details were revealed with ref-| erénce to the blast. | Naval officials said the enlist- ed man’s wife, Mrs. Pauline Eliza- beth Kirkley of 2020 Twenty-/ fifty Avenue, Tuscaloosa, and his | father, Marion A. Kirkley, of Route Two, Tuscaloosa, had been notified of the man’s death and | that the body would be sent to} Tuscaloosa for burial. BEARS HEAVY TRAFFIC WASHINGTON — The Geor- gian Military road. 130 miles Jong, ! is the.only paved highway suit- able: for heavy ‘motor traffic trrough the Caticasus mountains. } * Chrtetenas poets Weil bold your selection or send it anyuhert. GET Whitman's Fresh Today 25¢ ‘10 $7.50 e SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. Duval at Fleming Street [JZ ASLS LL 2 £4 IN AN: EXPLOSION I" QUESTIONNAIRES TERMED ‘RACKET’ (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.— Eric A. Johnson, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. branded, at a session of the Byrd Commit- tee here today. as a “racket” the issuing of en endless number of questionnaires by a multiplicity of government- al bureaus. Johnson declared that the business men of this country are being hounded to death by the questionnaire fad that has grown to be a racket. He said that when a busi- ness man goes to his office today and does not find a Pile of questionnaires he is called on to answer. he bresthes thanks to God that he will have at least one day of freedom irom unnecessary probing by governmental agencies. DIDI ISIS LI, MAN WANTED IN MIAMI ARRESTED Deputy Sheriff Joseph Knight last night arrested Lerc s y who is wanted in Miam charge of having comr amy. Deputy Knight rant for O’Berr; to the sheriff's c by a justice of peace in Knight found ovt that was living at 718 Olivia and went there last night made the arrest . O’Berry is being kept in-jail till some officer ar- rives here to take him back to Miami. Miam o's: street and TRAINING WORKERS NEW YORK — Sovie’ im vocational schools are design: bring 900,000 new trained workers into industry every year, HELP WANTED Naval Base LAUNDRY Markers, 59¢ an hour Press Operators, 60c Experienced Help Only —Apply— | }NAVAL BASE LAUNDRY BUILDING 131 _ | ports. lies im the U. S. Lost Six, Five Of Which Were Transports; British Lost Ten War- ships (By Anseciated Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 3—The American and British navy de partments announced today that they lost 16 ships during the op- eraticas that resulted in the im vasion of North Africa. The United States lost six ships. of which five were trans- The number of lives lost in the sinking of the transports was not given out. The British lost 10 warships, including a small airplane car All rier. the American ships. except two. were sunk during the naval engagement off Casa- blanca between the French war- ships and the British and Amer- ican warships. However. finkings were not caused by shellfire from the French ships. but. instead. by Axis submarines. the The total less of ships b and the Br | (Continued on Page Six Pe Americans WE HAVE A DEAL! With an out-of-town agency to buy their complete stock of USED CARS as they are closing out their entire line. 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