The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 8, 1942, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME LXIII. No. 291. , RUSSIANS AND Navy Seoretary $ajS.Jap.. hans ram. Have Lost 25 Percenteog "=" "xu Merchant Feet Thus Far THAT. ‘THERE HAS BEEN Knox Claims Nipponese| OOP DMM MLO LA BUT LITTLE CHANGE IN SITUATION JAPANESE APPRISED BY THEIR MINISTER OF TROUBLE AHEAD (By Ansocinted Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—Ja- pan’s propaganda minister was heard over the radio here today appealing to the Jap- anese people to gird them- selves for what is likely to happen in the years to come during the war, because the United States and Great Britain are now ‘teaching (By Associated Press) | - MOSCOW, Dec. 8.—The Rus- sian communique reported coeey| that there had been but little change in the fighting anywhere in Russia in the last 24 hours. Russians have been busy con- solidating their gains of the last two weeks, the communique ex- plained. In __ several sectors, while the consolidating was go- ing.on, the Germans launched fu- rious, attacks, but they...were beaten. back.-on- every occasion by the Reds, according to the latest report. During one of the German as- Are Becoming Desperate Over Huge Losses Dur- ing Conflict (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Sec- retary of the Navy Frank Knox announced today that Japan has lost about 25 percent of its mer- chant fleet since the United States entered the war. and that their peaks of production of war implements, saults, Cossacks were thrown in- Che Key West Cittzern THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. KEY WEST, FLORIDA LATE BULLETINS. (By Associated Press) “EGGS” FOR ALEUTIAN JAPS WASHINGTON.—Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, at his Press conference today, was asked if Japs were still occupying any of the Aleutian Islands. Japs are still on one of the islands, he said, but their operations have been nil for several weeks. He added that “every now and then, American bombers drop “eggs” on the Japs in the Aleutians. CRUISER MIAMI LAUNCHED WASHINGTON.—The cruiser Miami was launched this after- noon at 2:30 oclock. It was the first cruiser built at the Cramp shipyards along the Delaware River since 1924. The ship was christened by Mrs. Reeder. wife of Miami's mayor. 15 FRENCH SHIPS AT TOULON INTACT WASHINGTON.—Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said to-| day that a series of investigations made by air by Allied pilots dis- closes that about 15 of the French ships that were supposed to have been scuttled at Toulon are intact and have fallen into Axis hands. had been at Toulon had succeeded in making safe escapes. FOOTBALL RELICS HELP BOND SALE SDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1942 ‘Mies Bring Mobile. Artillery Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with an average | range of only 14° Fahrenhet | S-) A. PRICE FIVE CENTS “Into Play in “Efforts Towards Recapturing Much Lost round Proposal To Improve Mercedes = Se™=2"* Still Have Su- . : riority In Air In Vi- Hospital Taken Up At Meeting no. ros aap. Held By Committee Yesterday zere aa ee ae HOLD CONFERENCE A committee, representing the asc pee r2 (By Associated Pren= | City Council, the County Commi: IN. —T | sioners, the Knights of Pyt LONDON, Dec. 8.—The } and the Mercedes Hospital held a today brought up their mobile | conference A s- y erday afternoon |with E. H. Gato, Jr., in the office | “*#illety to being it into play on ATLANTA.—Sale of sweaters worn by football heroes and of the footballs they played with resulted last night, in an auction held } in the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, in selling $500,000 of United} {to the fray, and the war office said they wiped out German forces numbering 3,000. ARMY AND NAVY WILL HAVE) of the Gato Realty Company, in| ground that they have lost tem FIRST CALL ON | reference to a proposal to improve FORCES |extensively the Mercedes Hospi- the loss is of quence to her, “This is our holy war,” he said, “and we must be com- serious conse- considering her far-flung possessions. He said that it that thought he had in mind when he asserted yesterday that the was Japs shortly will be desperate in} trying to relieve their garrisons on the many islands they occupy. | At the beginning of the war,! Secretary Knox said, the Japan- | ese had about 6,000,000 tons of} merchant shipping, and added! that at least 1,500,000 tons of it | has been destroyed by American naval and airforce, including the many ships that were sunk by American submarines, some of which, he said, had gone virtual- ly to the shores of Japan to prey on Japanese ships. It will not be long, if the Americans maintain their aver- age of sinkings of Jap merchant ships. before Japanese forces, occupying all islands in the Pa- cific, will find themselves in the same positions as are the Jap} Garrisons at present on New Guinea and at Guadalcanal. HIGH SCHOOL ROOM MOTHERS TO MEET There will be a meeting of the Room Mothers of the High School P.-T. A. held Friday aft- ernoon, beginning at 3 o'clock, at the High School building. The study group will partici- pate in a round-table discussion : of matters of much importance to the school. All members are requested to be in attendance. Wire Wheels Three new wire wheels of a Ford V-8, from which the tires had been removed, were found this morning in shallow water on | the north side of George Gomez's home on Palm avenue at the foot of Newton street, by Ernest San- chez, who took the wheels to the sheriff's office. Deputy Sheriff McInnis said that a theft of tires undoubtedly had been committed. He added that it seems clear that somebody removed three wheels from an automobile, took off the tires and then threw the wheels overboard. Search was made for a fourth wheel, but it could not be found. and Chief McInnis stated that there is a possibility that the thief NOTICE TO ALL CONCERNED Make no connections to} meters until authorized sen Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission OOP RR Se ip RN RLENAMT EE AER BME I Taken Off Ford Automobile Found°@verboard | might have been scared off before j pletely mobilized in every way, even in our very thoughts, Let us not even think of defeat. and ours will be the victory, despite the increasing might of our ene- ies.” The minister was evident- ly worried, not only in his repeated appeals to the Jap- anese people to stand firmly together, but also because of the anxiety that was clearly heard in the shaky tones of his voice. ; TIL SSIS aS MARINES HUNTING JAPS IN JUNGLES | | BUT LITTLE FIGHTING RE- PORTED TODAY ON GUI- NEA OR GUADALCANAL (By Ansoctated Presa) DARWIN, Dec. 8.—Little fight- ing is reported today either on New Guinea or at Guadalcanal. At the latter place, United States | marines are in the jungles hunting | Japanese, but no reports have been received from the marines \in the last 24 hours. At Buna and Gona on New Gui- |nea, the Japs are still separated, with the Americans hammering | them at Bona and the Australians attacking those at Gona. The fighting at both points is chiefly | in the jungles. No clashes of pa- trols have been reported since (yesterday. ; he had removed the fourth wheel. Discharged From Army Sanchez, the finder’ of _ the wheels, is the first Key Wester armed services of the United States for complete disability. He, was a member of a patatroop corps that trained from a camp near Gulfport, Miss. One day, when his plane was at } 2,800 feet. it developed serious jengine trouble and, when it was: ! apparent the plane would crash, {Sanchez and all others aboard jumped. . (MUNICIPAL UNITS j to be sent back home from .the| In Stalingrad, the fighting has been intermittent, and in the Caucasus everything has been! almost at a standstill since yes- terday.. ARRANGE SESSION LEAGUE OF MUNICIPALITIES TO HOLD CONFERENCE IN JACKSONVILLE JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 8. (FNS) The Florida League of Municipalities will hold a stream- lined, war-time conference here on Dec. 9-10, according to an an- nouncement by E. P. Owen, Jr., league secretary. Terming this session as the most important conference ever} held by the league, Secretary Owen said that the most repre- sentative group of city officials ever to gather for a league meet- ing will participate in the Jack- sonville meeting. The major item on the program will be the framing of the league’s legislative program for the 1943 session, and invitations have been sent to officials of every Florida | city, whether members of the} league or not. 2 | Mayor R. E. L. Chancey of | Tampa, president of the league. | will preside at the sessioms, and } Governor Spessard Holland will! be the principal speaker at the luncheon on Thursday. Dec. 10. Among important topics to be! considered will be a clarification | of the State's emergency war powers over municipalities, pro- | tection of municipal sources of | revente from inroads by other} branches of government, the adj valorem system of taxation and other important phases of ae problems. COLORED MAN, STABBED IN EYE, LOSES HIS SIGHT Austin J. Newton, colored, 716 Elizabeth street, who says he was stabbed in the eye by Amie Johnson, colored, 212 Southard } street, called up Chief Deputy | Sheriff McInnis from Miami last | night and said that an occulist j there informed him that the sight of the eye was lost. Newton said that Amie John-} Sanchez’ parachute made a per. ) fect opening and the landing was) | Perfect, too, Sanchez, says,, but, 35-mile wind was blowing, whi made it impossible foritiny 43 t! | the parachute tg repens tof. | wind that bellied ‘it. The ‘resul! {was that Sanchez! Twas:, drag; {almost half a mile through stum- | py land and had his left foot brok- len, his right leg sprained, his left arm broken and his right © arm | badly sprained and also. received | a deep cut in the back of his head. | Sanchez was confined in La | Garde Hospital, in New Orleans, } for three months. He is still un- | able to walk without limping and has not the full use of his ieft arm. | His letter of honorable dis- | charge for permanent disability | commends him highly for his de- i votion to duty. son sneaked into the house at} 716 Elizabeth. street and stabbed ! him in his eye as he was coming out of a room. That was ‘on! Sunday, and he went to Miami to have his eye examined by a, specialist. When Newton returns Miami, Amie Johnson will arraigned before Justice of the! | Peace Enrique’ Esquinaldd. Mean- i while, she is held in jail with-; “YOU'RE TELLING ME” Hugh Herbert - Anne Gwynne H Robert Paige - Esther Dale out bail. | | \ with Tonight Is Prize Night States war bonds. One sweater brought $20,000 and a football $60,- 000 in the sale of bonds. ——— KEEL FOR OKLAHOMA LAID WASHINGTON.—It was announced here this afternoon that as soon as the cruiser Miami hit the water in the Delaware River off the Cramp’s shipyard, arrangements were made immediately for the laying of the keel for the cruiser Oklahoma. BATISTA ON WAY TO WASHINGTON MIAMI.—President Fulgencia Batista of Cuba and his party | of 10, who had spent the night in Miami, left today by special train for Washington, where President Batista will have a confer- ence with President Roosevelt. VARIOUS FIELDS | AUTOS TAKE LEAD NEW YORK.—American mu-! WASHINGTON — Travel by nicipal and county parks contain| passenger autos in 1940 was about seven times the mileage of all oth- 10,891 tennis courts, 9,103 picni¢ fireplaces, “and. 3,587 oot a means of transportation com- bined. diamonds. Porarily to columns of German | troops, who captured after the ground had been clear ed for the atteck by squad: of dive bombers. The Ge ority in that condition to reports j tal. It was decided to organize a non-profit corporation , to be known as the Mercedes Hospital, Inc. The application for a cha ter will be made immediate J. Lancelot Lester, attorney the corporation. (By Asnocinted Press) scat WASHINGTON, Dec 3.—Paul| !V. McNutt, head of the manpow- jer committee, today held confer- jences with representatives of the | | Army and the Navy over the man- | power situation it affected! 'them. At the conclusion of the conferences he said that the Army! _ The charter applicants will be jand the Navy would have first] President, E. H. Gato. jr; Vice |call on the manpower of the na-| President, James R. De Land; = i tion. | Secretary, J. Winfield Russell; | ‘ers, that the Brit | McNutt said that voluntary en-| Treasurer, Frank O. Roberts; Di- | ican armies have not listment in the Navy and the Ar-jTectors, Carl Bervaldi, Paul G.! to make any gains of my had practically come to an|Albury and Gerald Saunders. in th. vicinity of Tu jend, and that the strength of| Present at the meeting, besides nee aces | those two arms of the government | those named above, were Mrs —— | would be increased by the selec-|Eva Warner and Mrs. Alvarez, | days. (Se pHs who is in charge of the Mercedes} From Sicily, Sardinia Farm labor and labor generally | Hospital. |planes arrive daily t were also discussed by MeNutt,| With Carl Bervaldi represent-/G onan airforce at i who. said that action would being the County Commission as aj =e itaken immediately in every areai director of the hospital, it would ,¢@ting condition, | where acute labor shortage occur-|be an easy matter, it wasepointed |Allics have a lack ot planes red, | out this morning, for a loan to be|have not airfields suffi obtained from the Federal Works | ¢ai¢0 | i oy for as the ai four w care of all the Practical Gift Sets she'll use and use—given an air of luxury by Coty. We've many others, ot many prices —all charming. Five U'Origan Luxuries. . $5.00 $2.85 $3.75 Compact, Toilet Water Emeraude Quartet “Air-Spun™ Make-Up Set, $2.25 $3.95 “Vigilante” Travel Kit All prices plus tax SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. “PRESCRIPTIONS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED” Duval at Fleming Street Phone 199 eens ates planes |Agency to repair the hospital thoroughly and possibly enlarge! it. | have It was stated tc The application to the agency: the air i for a loan, through the County '™ans in Z Commission, would be in kecping {there will not be with the recommendation of Sur-/offensives by the geon General Thomas Parra. of ; there. the United States Public Health| A tank battle. Servic However, whatever| which started on course is followed with the Mer-} not yet reached cedes, the outlook is good for Key | Neither s 3 ' to have a hospital that will | today, dal ie fill the needs of civilians that the |and the fighting i Marine Hospital had done for al- | intermittently most a century | A a de le, it was INCREASED OUTPUT PHILADELPHIA—In the first seven months of 1902, 300,000! ed more tons of steel plz were produced in the United Stat than in all of 1941 vived by sylvania State | farmers es Induction Of Teenage Youth Will Begin On Friday, Dec. 11 Induction of teen-age youth As long as the present war | will begin in the postoffice build- | Continues. those who were born | ing here Friday. Dec. 11, and will | ©" or after Jan. 1. 1925, must reg | end Thursday, Dec. 17. for young | ister on the day they at |men who have ettained their |!8th birthday 18th birthday and were born on|the anniversary occurs on Sur Jor after July 1. 1924, but not aft-|4@y. or a national holiday. regi ler August 31, 1924. f- The second will be Friday, Dec. including Thursday. | Dec. 24, for youth born on or aft-|%0 the number expected to jer September 1, 1924. and not|ffected in this county by | #ffer October 31, 1924. i Thesthizd: registration day will | Pected, however to excee [{be' ‘Saturdily. Dec. 26, and con-/ AS most of the county's yo | tinue: until Thursday, Dec. 31, for | Sters already have registered | young men born on or after No- | lective service officials said. | vember 1, 1824, but not after) | December 31, 1924. | The induction will be held in| |Foom 206 in the postoffice for Key West residents; at Marathon | |for residents of that section by Miss Sue Moore in the school | | house, and at Tavener by Rev. | Mr. Parker. anniversary | tration must take place j registration day |lcwing day at a selective sex 18, and | beard office. continue No estimate was availzble new registration. It is Key West, Florida