The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 21, 1942, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West Key West Citizer THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. VOLUME LXIII. No. 302. - Lightest Of Tanks Be Used By U. $. Around Guinéa To Wipé Out Japs VS ee Lieutenant General Hora, VILLI L LL dh Commander Of Japs In MANY SOLDIERS MAY That Area, Was Report.| BEDISAPPOINTED IN at Area, Was Keport-/ MAKING TRIP HOME ed Killed aonreres (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.— If you “soldier boy” has not arrived or does not arrive home at the time he wrote to tell you he would be home, don't .worry about him. was the advice issued here today, “because he may be one of the tens of thousands of sol- diers throughout the country who are unable to get accom- modeations on bus. plane or train for the homeward journey. Thousands of service men are crowding railroad and bus stations to try to buy tickets for home, but have been told all the tickets have been sold for the present, so they are being purchased for the next date when ac- commodations will be avail- able. At airports. according to reports received here. the de- mand for accommodations from service men who want to spend Christmas with their home folks, is more than five times as great as that during any other time in the history of aviation. resistance every time an attempt ELE SS Es bad been made to force their JOSE. FSPINOSA lines. GETS COMMISSION So Generai MacArthur sent a. (By Associated Press) | DARWIN, Dec. 21.—The light- | est tank the, United States turns | out, the General Stewart 13- tonner, is being, used today by| the American forces. on New) Guinea to wipe cut the Japs in! the Buna Mission area. Lieuten- | ant General Hora, commander of | the Japs in that area. ported killed today. After the capture of Buna and was re- | Gona by the Americans and Aus- | tralians, the Japs retired to strong | positions that had been prepared | months ago in the Buna Mission Those strongly fortified with concrete, | though pounded by shells and bombs - sector. Positions are and they have been since the fall of Buna and Gona, | the Japs have refused to be dis-| lodged and have put up a strong’ Jose Espinosa, member of the Key West Police Force, who was elected as constable in the cent general election, received his commission from Governor Holland yesterday. Espinosa succeeds Bienvenido Perez, who resigned his position to accept a position with the |fire department at the Army Bar- jracks. | VISITING KEY WEST | Manuel Ayala, formerly of Key ' West, but who has been making his home in Tampa for a number of years, was included in the ar- oy, rivals here last week to spend the Shopping Bays | cider Aneto ire wecther of Mrs. till Christmas Harry C. Galey and Mrs. Comal Lopez. 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BRTISHT “Lowe cot, To Guy onr ‘S8iaz & AGAINST (pF Annociated Pres) CHUNGKING, Dec. 21.—Brit- lish troops, under command of 'General Wavell, are said to have ee without meeting with any into It was added that, ease of their advance, advanced almost 50 miles | opposition. !despite the | the British are going along slow- ly to guard against any. trap that {might have been set for them by | the Japanese. British commanders said they were sure that behind them no Japs had been left to cause them, the British, any trouble. Meanwhile, American planes from airfields in this vicinity, ‘have carried out several effective raids against the Japs at Margwa field in Burma. Many Jap planes are reported to have been destroy- ed on the ground. During most of the raids, the communique said, the Americans met without opposition. but today Jap fighter planes tried to inter- cept the American bombers. In the ensuing dogfight, the Ameri- cans lost one fighter’ plane and the Japs one, but the bombers succeeded in dropping their loads on vital military targets and re- turning home safely. KRESS’ MANAGER TO GET HEARING THIS “ AFTERNOON CHARGED WITH’ USING PROFANITY John McLaughlin, manager of Kress’ store, will be arraigned at 5 o'clock this faternoon before Justice of the Peace Raul Car- bonell on a charge of open pro- fanity.” Constable Ray Atwell, who ar- rested McLaughlin Saturday, said that. when he entered the store, he found eight of the salesgirls crying, and that they told him they were crying because Mc- Laughlin had abused and cursed them. This morning Constable Atwell said, “The things that McLaughlin called the girls, according to them, of course are not printable. They were things that no girls, or men either, would stand for, and I feel sure I got in the store just in time to stop McLaughlin from getting a good beating, because fathers and brothers of some of the girls j had been told about the alleged } cursing and were on the way to the store. “It should be explained,” Con- stable Atwell added, “that Mc- Laughlin, at the time I arrested him, and also since he has been released from jail, that he had not cursed the girls. ;He said that he might have spoken ' abruptly, in directing them to per- form their duties, but that he most surely did not use the words they said he had used.” Kress’ store was closed shortly } after McLaughlin’s arrest and re- {mained closed for the rest of faturday. It was reopened this Christmas shoppers. McLaughlin was released from | jail Saturday afternoon under a bond of $100. BUS DRIVERS WANTED Apply 12 to 2 p.m. Daily at Car Barn | Key West Transit Co. Simonton Street at Beach BATTERY CHARGING ; In 30 Minutes—While You Wait | Peas Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE Phone No. 5 White at Fleming assured me} morning and was crowded with} S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1942 LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) : i “TRIPLE BLOCKBUSTERS” DROPPED IN GERMANY | { j | | | LONDON.—Western Germany was raided last night by the/ | RAF. who were reported today to have dropped “triple iockbest| | ers” and to have caused vast destruction in German industrial areas. | | Eleven bombers failed to return to their bases. American, Canadian | jand Czechoslovakian pilots, in bombers and fighter planes, raided | | Romily on the Seine, 80 miles from Paris, and. destroyed a group | | of buildings that had been used secretly to manufacture ammuni- | | tion since the German occupation of France. No bomber or escort ; | plane was lost. { | MEDAL FOR COLONEL JAMES ROOSEVELT | Key West, Florida, hzs the must equable climate in the country; range of only 14° Fahrenhe*t with an average PRICE FIVE CENTS Red Forces Seore Great Victory By Killing Or Capturing 44,000 Nazis; Wipe Out Thres Division WASHINGTON.—It was announced here today that President. Trujillo of the Dominican Republic had awarded the medal of | merit, the highest award issued in that country, to Colonel James | Roosevelt, son of the President, of the United States Marines. Presi- | | dent Trujillo explained that the medal was given for what Colonel | ; Roosevelt had done to better the understanding between his, Presi- dent Trujillo's, country and the United States, { j “BIG FOUR” MEET WITH PRESIDENT | i WASHINGTON.—The four tpp men in the war and rationing | Sheriff Berlin Sawyer, his reg- set-ups in this country met with the President today to consider | yjar deputies and special depu- |matters pertaining to general rationing. The conferees were Byrnes, \ties, believing that pickpockets Eastman, Ickes and Henderson.. The weekend suspension of gaso-!are in town and that possibly line for private motorists came up for discussion, ‘based on reports shoplifters have also come to received from all over the United|States. It was; decided o continue town, are keeping an eye on the the three gallons weekly to holders of A, B and C cards, with the Crowds in the department stores explanation, however, that drastic reductions will be made later on. |!" Key West. | ‘ 4 Saturday night was the first time that the sheriff and_ his ee ;deputies had been on the look- retiring from! He said this PAYS TRIBUTE TO BRANDIES WASHINGTON.—Senator Norris of Nebraska, + ae the senate after serving many years, paid a high tribute today Sole pe ee pleasantly Judge Brandies of the United States supreme court, who died last | surprised, after the stores had year. Senator Norris declared that Brandies’ life should be an in- | closed Saturday night, to learn spiration to every American. i WARSHIP LAUNCHING AT JACKSONVILLE JACKSONVILLE.—Three submarine chasers and one destroy- er will be launched here Wednesday from the Gibbs Gas Engine | dress at the launching. that not a single person nad been arrested for shoplifting. Tne sheriff went into several stores, some* so crowded that there was barely “elbow in them, and only once did he think he would apprehend any- body. He saw a man pick up articles off display counter and start toward the door with them, but, before he reached the doorw: he turned and went to a counter and asked a salesgir' the price of the articles, paid for them and left the store a ‘About Eighty Key West Men Leave Sunday For Camp Blanding Company's plent. Senator Claude Ppeper will make the chief ad- | Annee EM i MORE RESTRICTED AREAS About 80 Key West men will NEW YORK.—Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drum today an-| leave here next Sunday for in- nounced 898 new prohibited areas along the east coast from Maine | duction in the army. to Florida, Practically the entire eastern seaboard will be restricted! At the local draft board head- against use by the public. | quarters in tne federal building, it TIRES MUST BE INSPECTED was said today that the exact WASHINGTON.—If your tireshave not been inspected at a | because some adjustments are b°- designated filling station by January 31. 1943. you will not be able |ing made, but that it would ap- to buy any more gas and.,on detection, your tires will be taken | Proximate 80. away from you. The latest move’ is aimed to further ¢onserve rub-' The inductees at first were ber in this country. | scheduled to leave Key West on | December 23, but the date was NOW HAS IN MIND | WILL PRESIDE A HOSPITAL BLDG. FIRST CASE TODA {to be December 28...However, it | was explained at the draft board's | office that December 28 is the jdate the men are to be at Camp | Blanding and that they will leave here from in icont of the federai | building, at 1:30 in the afternoon | of December 27. SAID TO BE THREE-STORY,; NEW JUDGE RECEIVES HIS | STRUCTURE THAT COULD! COMMISSION ON a LEEING FORCES BE CONVERTED INTO NE-! DAY SUCCEEDING JUSTICE) OF ROMMEL ARMY CESSARY INSTITUTION | PAUL BOYSEN | | | BEING OVERTAKEN merce has in mind a building that | case as justice of the peace at 5| would make a fairly large hos- ‘clock this afternoon, when John | pital for this city, and action has; McLaughlin, manager of Kress’|BELIEVED THAT FORCES OF si ep a = i been taken in an effort to secure eee thi eiaeieigta ten see GEN. MONTGOMERY WILL the structure. ity.” | 'RIPO! It is a three-story building and; Carbonell received his commis- | a could be converted into a_first-; sion on Saturday, and as the term! U.S.-BRITAIN UNITS class hospital, providing sufficient} of Paul Boysen’s appointment | j accommodations for a city as large! read to be “till a successor, duly | gee ee a little Bese ; lected, had qualified for the of- enator epper, who tele-) fice,” he turned over all the rec-; CA d . 21.— i >m- graphed that he had governmental | ords of the office to Carbonell autora ee ret authorization in stating that an| when the latter showed the com- 'ca adequate hospital would be pro | mission he had received from Sec- uided for Key West, did not sai etary of State Gray. rom what federal agency th Carbonell is serving as justice ’s Ei : money would be obtained. How-| of the peace in the first district, phates oN be am aire ever, as he mentioned Colonel and the vacancy was made pos-|than 100 miles kevond Al Auken euere Merges in the A nae sible by Ira Albury’s induction ja. = a probably ie money Wi got-; into the army. Shortl. after- | is i ten from the Federal Works! ward, three candidates eee ee pr pes ee SS Agenty, because, when Colonel |ed for the office, Frank O. Roberts, ‘Tripoli befire tee Anican 4 |Osincup was in Key West, he as-| Paul Boysen and-Raul Carbonell, 'Britich forces that ee soso sured the physicians here that, if | put Roberts and Boysen withdrew |to the eastward through Tonlete the county commissioners would | from the contest, they announced | toward Tri oli oer supply a building, the Federal at the time, to save the county the| Fightin, pee ia today w: Works Agency would supply the | expenses that would be incurred jconfined chiefly to evtillene dua money to convert it into a hospi-| in holding another primary. As a/Snd airplane bombings the AL, tal. result of their withdrawal, Car-j ties continued tiseiee aaita den The bonell was nominated without the |Bizerte and Tunis, and squad- Chamber of Commerce j Necessity of holding a primary, as ‘rons of Allied plahes ot ory The Key West Chamber of Com-) Raul Carbonell will try his first | (By Axsocinted Prenn) jvarious parts of the we {desert by contingents from Gen three-story building the has in (number of draftees is not known | ! postporied to what was thought | 17/7/7///222) GUN PRACTICE HERE TOMORROW There will be gun-firing at Fort Taylor tomorrow from 4 to 5 p. m. according *"#m- | mouncement made by officers at the government tion. The danger area will be from Fort Tavlor te ¢ point two miles beyond Sand Key. thence six miles east and back to Stock Island. \I IIS aa LDL D \FIRST AID CLASS TO MEET TONIGHT There will be a ten-hour Aid Class for special po | police and any others interested in becom Raid Warden conduc ing, beginning at the No. 1 Fire Static to announcement Defense Counc! This class w nights, Mon a December 21 and 2: and Tuesday, Decer reserve- at ding the , acco! made by for four Tuesday ber BEFORE ~< Sheriff And Deputies Keeping Sem™as_ Leave Much Lookout For Pickpockets And Possibly Shoplifters In Town Equipment Behind; Mo- tor Vehicles Stalled By Heavy Snow (Ry Associnted Press) MOSCOW. Dec. 21—In middle Don area oi the fighting front. the Russian forces today the ®re scoring a victory well be considered as a “birth that may day present” by Premier Stalin. who is $3 years old today. In this offensive Josef the Russians have killed or cap tured more than 44,000 Germans. completing the destruction three entire divisions. The ad- vence of the Russians is contin | jective of Roster it «rill cut of all of the German army im that axee of Russia. the communique asserted. Thus far ir the drive along the 14 villages have been < tured, and in all of Germans left behind larce qu tities of foodstuffs and equip ment. Mane Cerman motorized vehicles, stalled im the have come imto possession of Russiens. including tenks, the communique The Red« also scored Don. them s undamaged revealed. successes in the fighting west of this In that area. the report captured 254 bores and dugouts. 16 guns much equipment. stated. the Russians pili “All the Credit You Warit «t People’s” n corps are being overtaken in| A fine Watch is 2 constant reminder of you and is welcomed by everyone! It's the perfect Christuas Gift for the one you want to please most. 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