The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 10, 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. 293. Council Meets With Aqueduct Board On Matters Bearing On Water Supply For Fire Dept. — * Manager And Engineer Nh hk TARGET PRACTICES Commission States Sup- | | SUNDAY AND MONDAY) ply Is Always Held In pevislaii i According to announcement made by officers at the Army Barracks two target practices will be held, one on Sunday December 13 and the other on Monday, December 14 Fol- lowing are the notices issued: Coast Artillery target prac- tices will be held at Fort Tay- lor, Sunday, December 13, 1942, between 9:00 a, m. and 2:00 »,m.E W.T. The danger area will be bounded bv a line from Fort Taylor to a point six (6) miles south. thence east five (5) miles, thence north to Stock Island. Anti-Aircraft Artillery at Fort Tavlor will fire a prob- lem between 9:00 a. m. and 10:30 a. m. Monday, Decem- ber 14, 1942, The limits of the danger area will be four thousand yards on each side of a line extending due south of Fort Taylor for six miles. The dancer area will extend up- ward fo twenty thousand feet. PLL SS ST SNOW HAMPERS Reserve For Fire Needs The City Council met jointly last night at the City Hall with | the Aqueduct Commission for the purpose of discussing mat- ters relative to the city’s water supply for fire-fighting purposes. | At a former meeting of the; council it was reported that tho| fire department had been handi- | capped for several deys due to} the lack of water through the | fire mains, which it was claimed. | was brought about through a| the which had caused the water to_ be shut off. However, E. A. Ramsey, eral manager, and B. of the aqueduct board, | explained the matter in detail in| which it was shown that there | had been some misunders anding | about the city having been cut off | from its water supply. These two officials stated that there alw certain | ° amount of water kept in r rve | in the tanks, guarding against any | USS break in the main supply line, and | also stated that in the event of a} DESPITE ADVERSE WEATHER break in aqueduct line, | gen M. Duncan engineer, was a possible conflagration that other | _. GERMANS BRINGING UP stored. up.xeserve-water would be j made available at once. It was said that by the first of | the year the aqueduct will have! reservoirs sufficiently large to| store about two million gallons of | water, which will also be used in| supplying residents of the city in general. The question of installing addi- | tional fire hydrants in Key West for fire protection was also dis- | ria during the last 24 hours. In cussed but this matter was de- ferred until a later date at which | the fighting northwest of Stalin- time the council will decide on! gred, a column of Germans re- the number of new hydrants that | are necessary to take care of the | treated to their prepared defens- city’s needs in the way of fire pro- | and south of the city there tection. LARGE NUMBERS OF RE- INFORCEMENTS (By Assoemied Press) MOSCOW, Dec. 10.—Huge snowdrifts, piled up by heavy | winds, have hampered operations [in every area of fighting in Rus- ‘es, ———_ | were clashes between the Rus- BENGTH STANDRAD | sians and Germans, and, in every NEW YORK—The oldest known, ease, the war Office here says, standard of length, the cubit, w the distance between a man’s|th® Germans were hurled ers elbow and the tip of his middle finger. Despite the cold weather and (Continued on Page Three) | oe ‘All the Jewelry You Want On Credit” WE PRESENT: OUTSTANDING JEWELRY VALUES! She Expects Her WEDDING DUET To Come from PEOPLE'S A. glorious’ Wedding Pair for the biggest event in your life! DIAMOND WEDDING RING SETS Open Evenings for Your Convenience JEWELRY DEPARTMENT PEOPLE'S CREDIT STORE “The Friendliest Credit Store in South Florida” OPPOSITE THE BUS STATION 514 Southard Street PHONE 25 Key West, Fla. BIER IIS IIIS IIIS ISOS IA SOS SSA SIS ISI SH ISS SOI S ISIS SISSSISIA: * |}HEAVY RAINS REPORTED TO IO I I I A RRR RU OR I THE SOU TURIN IS BOMBED ECOND TIME IN’ PAST 24 HOURS’; ROME RADIO ADMITS SEVER- ITY OF RAID: BLOCKS OF BUILDINGS RAZED; 65 PER- SONS KILLED (By Associated Prexs) LONDON, Dec, 10.—Turin was! bembed again last night, the sec- ; ond time in 24 hours. And again, the War Ministry “super-block-busters” were used | announced, | to wipe out what remained of the motor, airplane and gun fac- tories in that Italian city. Returning pilots reported that the fires started in Turin two- nights ago were still burning in many places. At one point, the airmen said, the blaze looked -as though it had been recently re- plenished with inflammable ma-; terial, such as oil or powder. The Rome radio today admitted } the severity of the raid. The an- nouncer said that many blocks of buildings had been razed, 65 per- sons had been killed and many wounded. The war office here said that the raid on Turin was repeated because it had been the chief Ital- ian port from, which suppli been sent to the Axis for North Africa. The war office added that so widespread has been the damage in Turin, it will j not be used, for a long time at least for the, sending of supplies to the Axis forces in Tunis and Bizerte. AMERICAN UNITS HOLDING LINES EAST OF “TUNIS in HAVE SLOWED DOWN BATT-| LING IN TUNISIA AND SUR- ROUNDINGS . (By Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 10.—Torrential rains have slowed down the fighting in Tunisia today, word from the Allied headquerters re- | ceived here said. The British, however, are pounding the defenses of Bizerte with heavy artillery, and it was stated that an advance will be at tempted when the weather clea American forces, east of Tu are holding the same lines tod: that they occupied yesterday, and there has not been. any activity in that area in the last 24 hours except for several artillery duels. | Allied headquariers announced ; today that they are now daily in- éreasing the number of their bombing and fighting planes, and | that they shortly will equal nu. merically the German and Italian } planes, based at Tunis or in the } vicinity of Buzerte. Radio Morocco said today that the Allies have also been strength- | ened in men and guns, and that! Allied commanders © are getting | ready to carry out general attack: with the aim of capturing Bizerte and Tunis. In south Tunisia, it was an- nounced today that a column o' American troops is crossing the | country without encountering any opposition. SCALED BY ENGLISHMEN ¢ © vssusassusassusuosessesaediBaseoessusesascwsnsaes eooce BALTIMORE — Twin-peaked Mt. Victoria; highest..summit .in the Owen Stanley ‘Range, was first scaled by Englishmen) -in 1889. SELECT YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE , Just Received A LARGE SHIPMENT of Northern Christmas Trees Choose Early for BEST TREE! | A. VILLATE 8 FRONT: STREET ‘where the tunnel ended and dropped a bomb there too. Both the | the records show that lately the Japanese have been losing on an Che Kry West Citizer: THERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. Key S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1942 LATE BULLETINS _ —————_ By Ansoclatea Press) LAKELAND.—The Weather! there is not any danger of frost to Citrus fruits anywhere in Florida during tomorrow and Saturday. MOSQUITO PLANE BOMBS TUNNEL LONDON.—A RAF mosquito plane today sighted a railroad train “somewhere in France”, but before the plane could reach the train, the latter diseppeared in a tunnel, so the plane dropped aj bomb at the erftrance of the tunnel, flew southward to the point entrance and the outlet to the tunnel were smashed and cluttered | with concrete, so that, the report said, if ‘the train was not damag- ed, it will have a hard job “digging out”. MILITARY HEADS IN CONFERENCE WASHINGTON.—President Roosevelt today had a conference cussed during the meeting was not announced, but it was said that | average of one ship in every 24 hourg in the southwest Pacific, RATIONING OF LIQUOR RALEIGH, N. C.—This state. which has’ 75 “dry” counties, an- nounced today that liquor will be rationed in the other countries, | beginning on December 15. On that. date, two quarts will be given to each person, and on December 30, one quart. Beginning on Feb- ruary 1, only one pint a week will be sold to each person. EXPECT JAP SHIPS TO RETURN WASHINGTON.—In connection with an announcement here to- dey about the quietness that now prevails at Guadalcanal, it was stated that another attempt likely will be made by Japanese ships | to contact the Jap garrison southwest of the Henderson airfield on that island. As a result of their inability to get supplies or rein- fercements for several weeks, Japs on Guadalcanal have been forc- ed to retreat into the jungles. Mercedes Hospital Officer Takes Issue With Commerce Body On Hospital Movement: An officer of the Mercedes Hos- not in December, as the chamber’s pital. which is in process of being | stdétement intimated. incorporated, had the following | in other words, it was’ seven to say today regarding ‘the state- | months ago that the City Council West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the | country ; range of only 14° Fahrenhe*t with an sverage PRICE FIVE CENTS fralans Capture Gona On New Guinea After Long-Fought Battle Congressional Committee Makes “tee “Reports State, Inspection Of Naval Activities Here; Much Pleased With Work: committee,| Station on Trumbo. They ther Pat| visited the convoy control station, A congressional comprising Representative the the | resentative George J. Bates, ofjject on Flagier avenue and Massachusetts, W. Sterling Cole, | Naval Hospital at the head cf of New York, ang Ward Johnson, | island. of California,..and Lieutenant! The committee and the naval Commander: Clark, of Miami,| escort then returned to the were in Key West yesterday to; Yard, where the representa make an inspection of naval ac-} were guests at luncheon of Capt tivities here. | Reordan. They arrived at 11 o’clock in a| Before they left here at 3:30, on navy plane, coming from Miami, | their return trip to Miami, all the ere met by Captain C. E.! representatives expressed much! , commandant, and Cap-! gratification over the extent of tain E.H. Jones, of the sound! the defense work in Key West school. |The plane passed over the islands | Those two officers and other na- | in the Dry Tortugas group so that | val officers conducted the com-/| the representatives could get an mittee through the various plants | air view of the old fort there that | in the Navy Yard. aboard a sub-' has been converted into a natior al} marine and out to the Naval Air! monument. Willie Glenn, Negro, Stabbed And Killed By Johnny Boswell, | Also Colored, ed, Early Last Night ~» After a knife had been driven; aged ee Boswell left the room, and eight and one-half inches into his} Glenn, as well as several witness- chest, severing the main artery | shouitkt thee tine hada leading to the heart, Willie Glenn, |°* )ought the fight had engea, Jr., a negro from Quincy, Fla., ran ie room in question opens into from a house at 920 Pauline lane,, the kitchen. and, according to | millimeter guns in eftempts (Blast the Japs from their ma jon by the Key ,West| Chamber of Commerce in yester- | day’s Citizen: | “We surely are not going to en- | ter into any controversy with the Chamber of Commerce, and we! most surely are willing to do what- | ver we are able to do to help the | chamber to get another hospital | for Key West, and we most as-! suredly would not have said one} word about the chamber’s state-| ment had it not contained. two misconceptions. “In the first place, the chamber | intimates that the movement to! rehabilitate the Mercedes Hospi- | tal began at the meeting we held December 7; secondly, the chamber intimates that we do not ead The Key West Citizen. “Both of these misconceptions} can be answered with one state-| ment: we may say in return that} we wonder if the chamber reads he Citizen, or. in having read it, | remembers what it contains... ‘The | movement, as was published. in} The Citizen*on sev occasions, to rehabilitate the Mercedes Hos- pital began in May ‘of this year,| | nerica’ s Favorite | “Christmas Box” caramels . sxeet fruits . An exciting selection of nutty covered nutmeats .. . liquid pieces! liant Christmas wrappings! Duval at Fleming Street Soecccccccccocoecesceses | Hospital $1.50, $3, $5 and $7.50 sizes . Get WHITMAN’S Fresh Today _.... SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. Phone 199 ment made and the County Commissioners appointed committees to act with representatives of otner local or- ganizations to try to obtain funds | to thoroughly overhaul the Merce- ! des Hospital, and to enlarge it al- | so, provided enough money could} be obtained. We worked for sev- | eral weeks, but did not succeed in getting the required money, and the matter remained in abeyance. It was revived when the Navy announced that the Marine Hos- |Pital in Key West would be dis- continued. “I may say, in all truth, that the | incorporation of the Mercedes} would have been done j had the Chamber of Commerce not said a word about a hospital | ; Movement of any kind. To put it | pointedly, what the chamber has done or will do about the hospital situation in Key West has not in any way affected what we have done -and are going to do. The movements” were entirely unre- lated;) To prove that as a fact it! may be said that our movement |! was started seven months ago, (Continued on Page Three) . all nicwite in bril- 25c to $7.50 Key West, Fla. SCoSosocccooocsooeosoee five or six hundred feet to a back | witnesses, when Glenn stepped yard on Olivia street and dropped | dead beside a cistern. wound of his muscles. | of Police Alberto Camero, had a {Pauline lane address, which neither of them was hurt | LAWYERS PLAN TRIP TO MIAMI OF ABSTRACT COMPANY IN THAT CITY Eight Key West lawyers and Ross Sawyer, clerk of the circuit court, will leave here at 8 o’clock Saturday morning for Miami to visit the new building of an ab- stract company in that city. This company has photographed all the real estate records in Monroe Co. and will shortly open an abstract office in Key West. The trip will be made in Julius Stone’s station wagon, and, be- sides Mr. Stone, the other lawyers who will go to Miami are Judge William V. Albury, Allan B. Cleare, Jr., Aquilino Lopez, Jr., Roger Watkins, Enrique Esqui- naldo, George Brooks, and J. Lancelot Lester. While in Miami they will They will return to Key West Sunday afternoon or early even- ing. SO tel dothdotedchdotaied PALACE THEATER ch ‘Johnny Meck Brown in Little Joe,: The. Wrangler NEWS and SERIAL into the kitchin, Boswell sprang at him and drove a butcher knife e Literally Blasted Out Of Their Strong- hold (By Associated Press) DARWIN. Dec. 10.—Official ; with military heads, the first held in two weeks. What was dis-/ Cannon, of this district, and Rep-| the Royal Poinciana housing pro- @mmouncement was made today that the Australians. fighting on New Guinea. had captured Gona | after a battle that had lasted for | shree weeks. The Japanese. the report said. were literally blasted out of their stronghcid, so much so that when the time came for them to sur render only a handful of were left to give up the fight. the beachhead that runs to Bune. 14 miles them Gona is away |where American troops are fighting the Japs. They have been driven from Buna with the ception of a narrow strip of their airfield. today's report | said, end this strip is infested with meny nests of Jap machine- iid inenidiiltianty to chine-gun nests. It was believed today two, had been obliterated. “at all the nests. except a guests of the abstract company. | Glenn also had a deep knife deep into his chest, just over his in the back of his head, | heart. ‘and it was said he was practically | Boswell stabbed him a dead man running, carried for- jot the neck as he rus ward by the flexind and reflexing | a doorway { Glenn and Johnny Boswell, ac-|saw him drop dead b | coding to the story told Captain | tern in an Olivia str WILL VISIT NEW BUILDING) A coroner's jury was convened SACOG SSIS GOI SEIS ISSA IAI IIIT I OA IIIA AA IG | Police Captain Camero had reach- | ernoon. jheld in jail. General MacArthur made no enmouncement ebout the fall of Gona, even though he directed the action that resulted in capture. He left it to Prime Min- Sister Curtin to inform the Aus Glenn turned and ran, and in the back red through leading to the yard. Several men followed Glena and ide a cis- et yard. chest its The wound in his w ifight last night in a room at the | probed and found to be eight and during | one-half inches deep. tralians of the success, and he formally did so today in perlia ment. His dramatic fent resulted in enthusiastic sp Plause that lasted several min- The stabbing occurred at 8:30 }oclock, and five minutes later announce je 920 Pauline lane and had ar- ‘rested Boswell When Acting Coroner Enrique Esquinaldo | reached the scene at 8:45 o'clock, |Camero also had detained all the witnesses. utes. CAUSED BY VOLCANO at 11 o'clock this morning, but was adjourned till tomorrow aft- Meanwhile, Boswell is DETROIT of the southy made by volcanic action. “Visit Our Ready-to-Wear Department” Select Your Practical . . . CHRISTMAS GIFTS USE YOUR CREDIT - PAY LATER CLOTHE the Entire Family ON CREDIT! 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