The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 23, 1942, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Kez most equable climate in the j country; with am average | range of only 14 Fahrenhet Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE VU. S.. A; —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1942 Giarencs Alfeld, Owner Of Trailer Clarence E. Alfeld, owner of} acting coroner, that it was not the Gulf Stream Trailer Park, Di-| Necessary to hold an inquest in vision and Simonton sts., dropped Yew of the reports made by the dead at 5:30 o'clock this morning. | Funeral Services PRICE FIVE British Naval Planes Stage. Raid On Istand Of Sumatra VOLUME LXIII. No. 304. City Council Confirms Appointments Of Three Men As Special Police * RAF STAGES HEAVY! RAID ON MIN INDUSTRIAL PLANTS, | ARE DESTROYED (By Associnted Press) | City Employes Will Be Given Extra Day For Celebrating Christmas Holidays At a special meeting of the City Council last night, | the names of Bennett T; Kennedy, William Ward and Charles M. Carey were submitted to the council by Mayor Willard M, Al- bury for confirmation as special Police officers. The appointments were approved. It was agreed to give the city) employes, except those who have to stand regular watches, an e: tra day to celebrate the Christ- They will have from noon Thursday, mas holidays. Eve, until Monday morning to} Participate in Yuletide activities. The council also agreed. upon request from several of the sa- loon keepers. owing to the holi- day season, to allow them to re- main open until 2 o'clock in the morning, beginning Christmas Eve and running until New Year's Eve. Christmas | | I BRING IN YOUR CAR for'| ITS NEXT LUBRICATION | LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) “LABOR CURBS” WASHINGTON.—The coming congress will not be as “soft” in dealing with labor as was the congress that has just gone out| Munich. destroying many blocks of existence, it was said here to- day. It was pointed out that the congress to meet in January will have a bare Democratic majority, but it will not be a “working majority”, it was declared. to offset the labor legislation that will be proposed, There won’t be any “labor baiting’, the report said, but what overtime pay- ments labor insists on will be | Paid in war bonds. not in cash. OIL SHORTAGE WASHINGTON. — Some con- 'gressional comment heard here today wes to the effect that the | OPA is to blame in a large meas- ure for the shortage. or pur- ported shortage, of gasoline and fuel oil. The biggest problem in connection with oil and gasoline, it was said. is not supply or pro- duction, but distribution. SHORT ON SHORTENING WASHINGTON. — Shortening fats. such as vegetable oils and oleomargarine, are likeiv to be- come short next year, Secretary of Agriculture Wickard said to- day. Early next year. he added, shortening fats probably will be rationed. TO BUILD BIG TRANSPORTS. WASHINGTON.—It was an- nouned today that the govern- ment has awarded contracts to Andrew J. Higgins for the con- LONDON, Dec. 23.—Munich, the birthplace of Nazi bombing. was subjected to a large-scale bombing last night. Many RAF|“* Planes, each carrying an 8,000- | pound bomb or super-“block- busters”, dropped their loads on ca of war and industrial plants and causing fires that returning pi- lots said could be seen 70 miles away. Vast columns of flame and smoke ascended ~ hundreds of feet into the air, the pilots re ported, and one of them said his plane rocked like a ship in a tumultuous sea after the explo- sion of the bomp he dropped. Two hundred and fifty raiders took part in the attack on Mun- ich, the Air Ministry reported, and 12 of them failed to return to their bases. AUGUSTO AGUERO DIES: THIS A. M. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE} CONDUCTED ON SUNDAY | AFTERNOON Augusto Aguero, 79, died this morning at a hospital in Miami. The funeral will be held Sunday | afternoon at 4:30 o’clock from the chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home, Rev. W. B. Mundy of the Fleming Street Methodist (Up- town’ Church officiating. Esquinaldo, park shortly after Mr. Alfeld’s | Ruth Alfeld, and sister, Mrs. Jean-} death, decided, in his capacity asjette L. Fraser. RAF) Planes Strafing Japs Quite , Often 'SSaiSSOSSSa i: SIX FLORIDA CITIES sonable hours abandon seemingly has grip- ed many youths. so that the | law has been compelled to step in to curb their inclina- tions of a mischievous char- acter. under the curfew law are Key West. Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, St. Petersburg, Leesburg and this city. Here ; the curfew law has been in effect one month and its op- eration has been beneficial in curbing or stopping de- linquencies among minors, warned in some of the cities that the fact they are with escorts will not preclude their He had just finished stringing} up his shoes, after having dressed, | will be held at the Lopez Funeral and when he was seized with a heart | Schultz, after which the body will} stood up to go downstairs! tack and died suddenly. | Dr. Harry E. Canfield and Dr.} Eduardo Gonzalez, who examin-} was a local business man and was! ed the body, said death had been | the owner of the Gulf Stream: used by heart failure. | Justice of the Peace Enrique who arrived at the Funeral services for Mr. Alfeld ; Home Chapel by Mrs. Genevieve rf ed be sent to Miami for funeral vices and burial. The decea Trailer Park, hotel and restau-j rant. He was 57 years old. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. HAVE CURFEW LAWS; (By Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 23. Six Florida cities now have curfew laws to compel boys and girls to be home at rea- every night. Due to the war. the spirit of { The six cities operating Girls under 16 have been come into contact with the Jap-| H anese within the next day or so. -Arovad Burma (By Associated Press) CHUNGKING, Dec. 23.—RAF planes are strafing the Japs! RUSE BY JAPS NUMEROUS NAZIS Many Nivponese Militar FAILS TO WORK AMERICAN BOMBERS SUC- CEED IN SENDING DIS- GUISED SHIP TO BOTTOM (By Ansociated Press) DARWIN, Dec. 23.—The latest | trick by the Japanese, in an at- tempt to get supplies to their be-| leagured forces at Buna Mission; on the island of New Guinea, was to cover one of their supply ships | with limbs and branches of trees, so that the ship would resemble a! small island, but the ruse was: found out by an American pilot} in a scouting plane and reported, to headquarters. Result: a squad- TAKEN PRISONERS MANY TONS OF FOODSTUFFS ALSO FALL INTO HANDS OF RUSSIAN FORCES MOSCOW, Dec. the thousands of Ge were killed or wounded in th fighting between the Don the Volga, 23,600 prisoners ave been captured in the days, the said today. It was stated that in a to the capture of guns and sup- two Russian communique tion several nmes a day in Burma,|!0n of American bombers took to! plies of munitions, many tons of | ithe war office announced today.) made several the air and, a few minutes later, | direct hits on the foodstuffs hands. Russian fell into soldiers t« and are assisting General Wav- | floating “island” and sent it to the |are “eating Dutch chocolates | ell’s ground forces in their! penetration through swamps and; 1 jungles toward the enemy's main | Japs have been as insistent and as | out of base. | At the rate of the progress of the} | British forces, they likely will! | \ { Thus far, with the exception of fire by occasional snipers the Japs} have not shown any opposition.' bottom. ‘ | In commenting on the reports from New Guinea today, one wa office spokesman said that the} persistent as mosquitoes in at-| j tempts to help the Japanese con- |sians Jhave coi tingents on New Guinea and the} Solomons. The latest failure, that | of the disguised ship that was sunk. will not stop the Japs from | further attempts, the spokesman ' concluded. : Fighting on New Guinea today was confined to the strip along the beach at Buna Mission, from! ; Which the Japs have not yet been | dislodged. | drinking Rhine wines from the Germans,” said. Having driven k the and ons, the nued their vance toward the enemy’s important base at Rostov, which is only 82 miles away. The Ge mans are reported to be show- ing only feeble resistance. for that reason, it is believed that they intend to make a de’ an ed stand in the fortified positions north of Rostov. Besides Kamensk, have captured what dated their po mos’ Reds de. the they scribe as “eight mogt_important! In all of “these “towns,! towns”. the communiaue said. mans left behind large ties of supplies. the Ger- quanti- Installations Destroyed ; Not A Single Plane Lost By Invaders (By Asseriated Press) LONDON. Dec. 23.—The Min istry .>f Information announced “|teday that British naval planes yes‘erda, raided the north end cf the island of Sumatra and de s.oyed man; Japonese military installations there. The Japs were taken by sur prise, and the planes, after drop- ping their bombs without any anti-aircraft planes, returned t their parent ship without the loss of a single plane. It w:s the first time Sumetra ;;had Deen bombed by the British siuce last March. Simce that time the Japs have extended their military overations et the northerly end of the island and it wes at that point where the planes concentrated their at tacks. The raid. the ministry decilar- ed, was a contradiction of the Jep=nese claim that the have full control of the Bay of Jeps Beagal. It was not stated from whet British airplane carrier the Enjoy Your CHRISTMAS DINNER DELMONICO RESTAURANT Complete Dinner Served from 12:00 Noon Until 9:00 P.M. 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