The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 5, 1942, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXIII. No. 289. TUNISIAN HILLS. NOW IN HANDS’ OF ALLIED UNIT "es = Counterattacks Launched jixely to be drafted, it was an- . |Mounced here today. While the By Germans Frustrated; |decisions rest with local draft LATE BULLETINS (By Axsnociated Press) FARMERS TO BE EXEMPTED | WASHINGTON.—Farmers who Heavy Fighting In Bend >oards. it wes explained. farm-| ° jers who are producing 16 units South Of Bizerte |of foodstuffs. which includes ce- |reals and milk, undoubtedly will be placed on deferred lists. LONDON, Dec. 5.—Allied forc-! es in Tunisia have captured a stretch of hills that the line of the Axis’ front in the TIRES FOR ALL AUTOS ORLANDO. — All owners of automobiles in Florida, |those who hold “A” books, will ibe able to get tires, an OPA jagent announced here today. He ‘said that the reclamation cam- | paign of old rubber had been so | successful, tires would be moving through the usual channels of command Tunis area, and headquarters re- ported that the Germans made a series of attacks in try- ing to recapture the hills. All attacks were frustrated with heavy enemy losses, added, and the Germans retired to their main defenses. Meavy fighting have |the winter is over. wa PLANES DROP SUPPLIES’ DARWIN.—Nine big Japanese transport planes. escorted by reported | Zero fighters, succeeded in drop- also in what has been termed |Pi2@ undies of supplies to the ze | hard-pressed Japs at Buna and the horseshoe 20 miles Gona yesterday afternoon, But south of Bizerte, where the Brit_| the Japs in those areas are giv- ish and the Germans | American planes fought |en little rest. their stalemate tank battle two,8%@ @ropping 500-pound bombs days ago. The British gained a| ‘on the Jap positions in attack slight advantage, but the Ger-| after ettack. The condition of mans, aided by some Italian\ the Japs at Guadalcanal is said columns, are fighting furiously |@ be growing desperate because to regain their lost ground, — |0f the lack of supplies. particu- In the Tunis irea the Allies the report) was bend, ‘larly food, are now only 10 miles from that! city. No attempts ace been | ADDUUUELIGUUGEUSRAEOUOELGELAAEUGEEORUAEEOEEARLAAEA made to advance further since | ¢ AUTION The Supply of yesterday, as the Allies are con- CANDY for mplichiing their positions until) CHRISTMAS will definitely cements come up. en The outstanding handicap. | be limited . . we suggest you with which the Allies are meet-| buy yours immediately. ing, the reports said today, is the | lack of air fields. The Allies| ° ean Cor have the planes, it was stated, és . De oh eters Whitman’s and Gobelin but they have not sufficient fields to pat all the planes that CHOCOLATES KEY WEST DRUG CO. are needed into the air. In ef- STITT LL forts to relieve that condition, the Allies today .are building makeshift runways so that more! Naval Base planes can be used to pound the (Continued on Page Four) Markers, 50c an hour Press Operators, 60c Experienced Help Only —Apply— NAVAL BASE LAUNDRY UILDING 131 ISIS IIIS IAI PALACE THEATER IRENE DUNNE in LADY IN A JAM NEWS and SERIAL MATINEE SUNDAY No Show Monday | CUBAN MEMORIAL) FERRER OOOGOOO OU ULES | RE-OPENING MONDAY NOON-DAY LUNCH, featuring PLATE: LUNCH, 60c EVENING MEAL A LA CARTE DELMONICO RESTAURANT 218 Duval Street Key West, Fla. | | ry ) ) & ® N ® » % N) & ) % N) : N) e VALALLALLALAL Lf (Ab Aided deeded MP HELLO, AMERICAN! ELKS Sszms* ANNUAL CHARITY BALL TONIGHT! HABANA-MADRID DANCE to RYTHMAIRES Floor Show 8 Until 12 SUIT I MIL even| |dealers to owners of cars before/. Che Key West Citizri THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN: THE U- Su A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, DACEMBER 5, 1942 FURIOUS FIGHTING KEY WEST CAN OBTAIN HOSPITAL | | | | | IN RUSSIA “TODAY BY SIMPLY MOST OF ENGAGEMENTS ARE) Key West can get a hospital to \fill the place of the Marine Hos- CARRIED ON IN LOWER pital in the treatment of civilian HALF OF DON | patients, if the Monroe County Commission can find a building javailable for conversion into a | structure tor hospital use. war; That information comes from none other than Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the United (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, Dec. 5.—The joffice announced that the ‘furious fighting in Russia today jis in the lower half of the Don, | River bend, west and southwest ‘of Stalingrad. Along a front of} ;80 miles, the Russians have idBrown squadrons of planes and | can find a building, that can be : “| turned into a hospital. All the hundreds of tanks, besides a_vast jcost for the conversion of the number of infantry, structure into a hospital will be {tack on the Germans, who a paid for by the Federal falling back along the entire line, | Agency. the war office declaed, so intense | That favorable outcome of the lis the Russian dive. j hospital situation in Key West is i¢, Russians’. ultimate object | due, primarily, to the hospitaliza- iostov, and should they reach/ tion committee of the Key West that point it would mean the fall- Chamber of Commerce. The com- ing back or the capturing of a! mittee wrote to Senator Claude quarter of a million of Germans.! Pepper about the proposed clos- That drive has gone on without! ing of the Marine Hospital and interruption for almost two days, the war office announced. a result of which many vi have fallen in Russian hands. Meanwhile, fighting goes on} “Above, below and inside of Sta- | lingrad,” the communiaug read, adding, “We have captured 20 pillboxes, five tanks and 24 field guns, south of Stalingrad, and al- together in the area of that city we have killed and captured 1,500 , Germans in the last 24 hours.” | most County Commission, he says, can apply for a grant of funds to the Federal Works Agency, provided the commission has a building, or into an at- CAPTAIN JE eS | W. Allen (MC), reelected president of the Officers Club at a meeting held yesterday afternoon at the clubhouse, foot of Whitehead street. Report .of the nominating com- mittee, consisting of Capt. E. H. Idoddad adda dada Jones, Comdr, W. E, Martin and Lieut..Comdr. F. R. Scholly was TONIGHT! ves: | read and accepted nominating For A BIG TIME. . .Try ;the following other officers: | Lieut.-Col. Wm. Waite—Vice- LOPPY JOE'S BAR ss" § ! Lieut. (jg) Leslie T. Hart—Sec- Largest Place In Town rapes CR eee ieut. Gg . Hatch—Treas- JOE RUSSO’S BAND turer. “The Best Swing Band In Town” | Comdr. B. C. McCaffree— COME, . HAVE A GOOD TIME Chairman Board Directors. iz i | Lieut. R. L. Higgins—Bar Music Starts © at 7 p.m. chairman. Week-Nights at 8 o’Clock H JERR UURUUBUOR URE upE ne. tainment Chairman. States Public Health Service. The! Works ! SSE ALLEN REELECTED PRESIDEN Lieut. George Lawson—Enter- | TO REPLACE MARINE INSTITUTION « FURNISHING BUILDING requested him to take up the mat- ter with Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the United States Pub- lic Health Service. Senator Pep- |per wrote to Dr. Parran, who re- \plied that the closing of the Marine Hospital had been fixed for December 31, when it would ibe transferred to the Navy, and | added that nothing could be done ito alter that decision. Then he pointed out that Key | West could get a hospital, if the } ‘County Commission desire to do iso”, by apply for funds to the Fed- eral Works Agency. However. | before that application is made, ; the commission must have a | building that is available for con- | version into a hospital. The chamber’s hospitalization committee is going to take up the matter with the county commis- 'sioners. There are several build- ‘ings in Key West that could be ‘turned into hospitals. The fact | that some of the buildings are old ! is of no consequence, as the funds for repairs will be provided by ane agency just the same. T OF OFFICERS CLUB Lieut..Comdr. R. B. Morris— |Maintenance Chairman. Lieut. Geo. Minter—Restau- rant Chairman. Newly-elected _ officers will |take office immediately and will !serve for a perioid of six months. |Capt. Allen plans to call a meet- ing of the new officers in the }near future to formulate plans \for the operation of the club ‘during this term of office. WOMEN OF ST. PAUL’S CHURCH WILL MEET The Woman's Auxiliary of St. | Paul’s Church will meet on Mon- |day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the homeof Mrs. Jeff Knight, 1217 ! Washington street. All members of the organiza- | tion are requested to be in attend- | | | | A satin-lined treasure chest of seven $ UOrigan luxuries plus atomizer. 00 plus tox Dusting Powder, T 8 plete “Air-Spun” Make-Up. The quintet is ‘oilet Water and com- 00 plus tox Ss Another assortment of the famous “/ Spun” Make-Up, plus delicate, $375 rich UOrigan Toilet Water. aise Compounted and Copyrighted by Coty, Inc. im U.S. A. SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. “PRESCRIPTIONS CALLE D FOR AND DELIVERED” Duval at Fleming Street Phone 199 Key West, Florida Contains “Air-Spun” Face Powder in the famous powde puff box. Also $395 Rouge, Lipstick and Compact. ag BRITISH STILL AT EL AGHEILA | IN ALL PROBABILITY THIS Is! PREPARATORY TO ALL OUT) TANK AND INFANTRY AT- | TACK | | (By Associated Press) | CAIRO, Dec. 5.—The British eighth army is still pounding the | defenses at E] Agheila with shells and bombs, preparatory to a tank | and infantry attack. According to information re- ceived today, the British proba-j} bly will strike within the next 48| hours. | The approaches to El Agheila | is a virtual mine field, and Allied | bombs and shells have exploded | jhundreds of the mines in the,last | three days. But the firing still] continues It is believed here that Rommel | has left only a part of his small} | force to fight a delaying action at} {El Agheila and that he and the rest of his force have gone up to Tripoli ALLAN ORTIZ HELD FOR COURT TRIAL COLORED DEFENDANT HELD| ON CHARGE OF ASSAULT, | INTENT TO MURDER Allan Ortiz, charged with as- sault with intent to commit murder, was arraigned before} Justice of the Peace Enrique Es- | quinaldo at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon and was held in $1,000 bail for action in the Monroe County Criminal Court of Rec- ord. Ortiz did not provide bail and is locked up in jail. Ortiz, colored, is charged with} shooting at a colored woman, | Johnnie Cato, who conducts a cooldrink stand at Whitehead | and Petronia streets. He walked up to the stand, she testified, ; and declared: “If you don’ make up with| me, I'm going to shoot you and kill myself!” | “Go away and leave me alone,” she replied, whereupon, she al- leged, he whipped out a pistol, stuck it in her face and pulled the trigger three times. The re- \volver didn’t go off, and he hit jher over the head with the butt, but she partly warded off the! !blow, grabbed a bottle and threw | it at him. He leveled the re- volver at her again and pr the trigger, but she dropped down behind the counter, and! two shots went wild. | Ortiz was arrested by Deputy (Continued on Page Four) B.P.O. ELKS. Number 551 | ELKS’ MEMORIAL SERVICES SUNDAY, 3 P.M. ELKS CLUB 313 Duval Street Go Where the Crowd Goes III IIIAI IIA IIA AAAI AAAAI AIA {CLUB SUGALOA: TONIGHT! 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Such a spirit; backec uv by’ ever-mounting deadly implements of war. meant victory. sure victory. for the Allies.’ Churchill assured his hearers, who greeted his as- sertion with loud and tinued aprinnse. One woman worker cried out, “Good old bulld~g!” TID LDS GE SE FSF con- ‘ANNOUNCE DEATH CF i. MRS. E. O. LEARY News has been received in Key West announcing the ath of Mrs. Erin O. Leary hospitai in San Antonio, Texa: em- She had attained the age of 36 years. The deceased is survived by } husband, Sergeant J. D. Lea mother, Mrs. L. S. Petty of an Antonio ‘ter, Mrs. M. R. Piere of Iowa. res were conducted chapel of the Almo Funeral Home in the Texas city, with Chaplain Matthews, officiat- ing. Interment was in Fert-Sam ner ; Houston National Cemetery. Before her marriage to Sergt. Leary, she was Mrs. Erin Plant, wife of Master Sgt. 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Rome itself admits today the severity of the raid. The Reme radio announced that many jbuildings anc military objects | were destroyed and that 159 per {sons were killed and 358 some of them s~ iy | aples is the third largest city jin italy, ara Jialians were \minded today by the British | Broadcasting Station that Italy's |bombing is in line with what |Prime Ifinisier Churchill said |almost two weeks ago about the systematic bombing of all ian cities, unless Italy sues a separate peace. Today, according to informa_ tion received here by way of Switzerlard, an air of doom has settled over all Italy. People, in ‘following Mussoini’s advice, are jmoving from the cities, yet their nervous state is such they dor ‘know where the “Allied planes | will strike next. | The Air Ministry did not s anything about the loss of plz the Naples raid, but Rome radio declared that 2 Flying Fortress had been shot down Re AE REESE SCRIPTURAL GIFTS Suiteble For Sunday School, Etc. 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