The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 28, 1942, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West Key West, Florida, hes the | most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe't Che Key West Crtizer THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1942 S. A. VOLUME LXIII. No. 307. Consolidation. Of Twos Frenel Armies 10 Aid Cause Of Alid Units *- VIIFOS Sf PRICE FIVE CENTS How To Care For Your Dog In Wartime AP Features THINKING of disposing of your dog beca of meat rationing and predicted food shortages? Think twice. Veterinarians say dogs can thrive on unrationed meats—horse meat and animal French Division Operating In === ae ‘Miica Thveatens 10 Encicle meat, all fed raw. will serve WARNING GIVEN TO |mest. all. fed raw. will serv BE AWARE OF MAN |eruts on wartec cae SOLICITING ADS\, The Chamber of Com- merce reported today that it had been called up on the telephone and informed that : hee pees pene veet etictt 2 : : cs | AMERICANS DOWN JAP PLANES AiangaResisiet ith ane a : . CHUNGKING.—American pianes, while raiding a Jap base in cdl atl thadi they iustoce: ee "4 | Burma yesterday. were attacked by a large force of Jap Zeros. cae Y . When the fighting was over, seven Jap planes had been downed, Secretary Singleton, of the two American planes destroyed, and what were left of the Nippon-|_ = . Chamber of Comerce, said ese fighting creft were flying with open throttles toward their|* °f France i manifesting itself he contacted the Navy Yard base. | today in four divisions of “Fight and explained to officials m there about the activity of — “om the Navy Register solicitor ee in this city. Circle the Germans and tiv jens in Tunis. In Meantime All French Forces In Africa Are t & as egeecnceqg DOUGHBOY DOGS—If necessary. you can give your dog to the 4 army. This is the official mascot squad on parade at Buckley Field, { near Denver. Moving Forward; Enemy Retreats | French Launch Attack In Enemy Toward Trenches On Front Line LATE BULLETINS | (By Associated Press) (By Associated Press) ALGIERS, Dec. 28.--It was of- ficially announced. today. . that General De Gaulle. head, of the “Fighting French”. has agreed to consolidate his forces with those of General Giraud, who has been mamed by the North African French council of war ceed Admiral Darlan. The two French commanders reached an amicable understanding that will redound to the power of the Al- lied forces in North and West Af- rica. General De Gaulle has (By Aamecinted Preas) ALGIERS. Dec. 28.—The spir BLOODY STRUGGLE PREDICTED DARWIN.—A late dispatch from Allied headquarters in New | Guinea today said that a “bloody strugsle” is in prospect as the Japs are making their last stand in Buna Mission. Allied planes have bombed and Allied artillery have pounded most of the strip into bits, but what remain of the Jap defenders are still holding out in their dugouts. to suc- = Mr. Singleton steted that sae naval officials informed him that nobody should pay for advertisements in the Navy Register without receiving the sanction of Key West naval officials. TF SSIS ILO SSS JAPS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN NEW GUINEA is OPS os BRUSHOFF—Dogs are happy when groomed. should be brushed daily. FALLING OFF SHOWN IN REAL ESTATE. SALES ex See eS This French force is only 35 are said to have SWEET SLUMBER—A dog also needs a vlace where he cen lie in the sun and dream of soupbones, as “Nipper” does here. mile from Tunis. directly in the NINE MEDALS TO AIRMEN CHUNGKING.—Nine American airmen. who have been operst-| ing in China and Burma the last three months were today awarted medals and given citations fori heroic deeds. southeast. and has twice. in the eerie last 24 hours. encountered the enenmy erd whipped him sound- ly im each instance. The last attack the French launched early this morning and drove the enmy precipitously towerd his front line trenches. |KEY WEST GIVEN U.S. PRODUCING MUCH PUBLICITY WAR MUNITIONS AT ‘amous ‘rons cance! RAPID-FIRE PACE IN ISSUE OF FLORIDA CAPPER SUGGESTS HOOVER WASHINGTON.—Senator Arthur Capper today suggested that | the President name former President Herbert Hoover as head of {the OPA to succeed Leon Henderson, who resigned early last week. | However, it was said that former Senator Prentiss Brown undoubt- given his solemn pledge to Gen- eral Giraud to act in with him, and that pledge will be formally sanctioned in a con- ference to be held 10 days from concert now, it was officially declared. Meanwhile, all the “Fighting French” forces in Africa are moving forward today, and two of them in offensive battles, have caused the enemy to The armies will be kept it re- treat. in action, was announced, though the agreement between Giraud and De Gaulle will not formally until go into effect January 7. RATIONING |BOARD ISSUES BULLETIN The Key West Rationing Board | has just issued a bulletin of im- portance to the residents of this community. The bulletin deals with sugar, coffee, gasoline and{ fuel oil. It is as follows: Sugar—War Ration Stamp No. THIS PERTAINS TO PROPER-| TOLL OF SHIPS AND ALSO|/ TY IN KEY WEST AND AL-| PLANES IN FIGHTING OVER 50.ALONG UPPER FLORIDA| WEEK-END eva | ALLIED FORCES TAKE LARGE} TEDL | (By Associated Prexs) DARWIN, Dec. 28.—Allied forces took a large toll of Jap- According to records in the | office of Claude Gandolfo, Mon-| anese ships and planes in the} the/of real estate in Key West and| communique |clsewhere in the Florida Keys week-end, disclosed. Bags not been as good this year as | tit was in 1941. | Allied planes went into the air} a, was pointed out | to attack Jep ships off Buna, }Gandolfo’s office, last year realty | end a squadron of 42 Jap fight.|in the Florida Keys had begun | ing planes shot skyward to beat |? show signs of a small boom,/ off the Allied attack, When the fighting was over 15 Jap planes New Guinea fighting over today’s jing and “paper” transactions | }that occured in Monroe county! | had plunged into the sea and 39,- |!" 1925. i 008 tons of Japenese iahipping/al: Last year the sales were not cepting those transactions of} acreage in the Everglades that} so went to the bottom. From a comparative viewpoint, HIGHWAY MAGAZINE Florida Highway Magazine, is- sued by the State Road Depart- ment, has so many stories about Key West in its December num- roe county tax assessor, the sale| ber of 52 pages, it would not be} altogether wrong to call it a “Key West Magazine.” Cochran Stephen Singleton, in Mr.| secretary of the Key West Cham- } ber of Commerce, has two fairly long stories in Florida Highway about Key West and the Florida Keys generaliy, and the are though nothing like the plung- several stories about the “Key”! of this year part of Florida written by former PA writers when they were stationed in Key West. And there is still another sto about the Gulf Stream as it pas made on a speculative basis, ex-| es along the shores of the Florida} November of 1941. Keys, with comments about the fishing in these waters. The con ~tedly will be given the appointment. | | EVEN AT THAT, HEAD Ory Sem eee i = | REPORT CHURCHILL IN AMERICA | PRODUCTION BOARD SAYS’ = WaSHINGTON.—Reports persisted here today that Prime | | NATION WII.L DOUBLE OUT-| Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain is again in this coun- | try. Inquiry at the Whte House broughf forth this statement from PUT COMING YEAR | | one of the President's secretaries, “I don't know if he is and I don't | know if he isn’t. and if I did know, I wouldn't tell you.” (By Associated Press) ee ee ee ee WASHINGTON, Dec. -28.—Am- WEATHER OUTLOOK IN FLORIDA ; .| LAKELAND.—The Weather Bureau reported today that tomor- | erican production of munitions of| pow and Wednesday mornings there will not be any danger to at a teriffic | fruits and vegetables in Florida. except in the extreme northern ee aeusa . ! part of the state. where there will be a slight frost on Wednesday jee Donald Nelson, head of the} morning. | War Production Board, stated to- | war is going ahead “wit douse te output he MOre Than 300,000 Germans | day. ‘nation will double its output the} lcoming year, The latest report production concern- that month, production of all types ot impl jed November. In | (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, Dec. 28.—Twenty-)started, that notable gains have not been made. id. The spearhe army is now ‘miles from Rostov. ments of war was four and one- third times as much as it was in| a a = two battered German divisions, i Mr. Nelson said the factories.| totaling more than 300.000 men. | the mills, the farms and the mines} |are reported today to be in dan- where If he is dislodged from those po Silions, the report said. all of the Axis forces holding Tunis either will be encircled or will be forced to retrest from that city. In the descrivtion of the two encounters. given out officially. was said that the French fought with abandon. as though it they were anxious to meet t Germans end show them the old-time soirit of France still lives. despite the occupation of the homelend bv The latest report said the French the enemy ere continuing to edvance resulted from the possibility! clusion of the writer is that the! are all joining in an ever-increas; Germans have their main w Hol Prodi cat AF bal | this was the most successful fight: | a , -| sult~-grocer}] (AGA 4] | Coffee—Copy good as stands. | Gasoline—,Rasig “A”, Gasoline: Ration Stamps No. 3 good. for 3) gallons each until Jan. 21. Stamps} Nos. 1 and 2 void. As of 12:01 a.| m. Dec. 21, “B” and “C” book} coupons reduced to 3 gallons each. | Fuel Oil—“Period 1” - coupons | good until Dec. 26. Period 2 cou-}| pons from Dec. 6 to Jan. 23. Unit} is 10 gallons, for coupons of; “Periods 3, 4, 5 coupons has not) been determined. | EIGHTY MILES LONG | NEW YORK—The largest river | in New Zealand is only 80 miles| long. | ing by Allied planes in the South- that oil may be discovered in| best fishing for sport in the world! ing volume in swelling the pri that locality. Acreage has been|is in the waters of the Florida/ duction of things that ultimately ger of being trapped by the Rus-|ter base in Russia | west Pacific. west ‘Pacific. Several of the Al-| lied planes, when they returned | to’their base, were found to be! riddled with bullets, but not a} single plane was lost. Reports from General MacAr-} thur’s headquarters say that the Americans and Australians are closing in tightly on the Japs at} actuating motives behind the} Buna Mission. Indications are eels : | the fortified strip there will be en-|*2!¢s._ But elsewhere in Monroe | A 4 county land was bought as an, Ly wean peony at the | ;ivestment, and, in a good many a linstances, it From Guadalcanal came a story !11.4 construction of buildings on today that planes from Hender-| son field scout far afield every |'* day in strafing Jap ships that ven- j ture into that area of the South- sold this year in that section at! prices that exceeded those charg- | ed for similar land in that area} in 1925. | and the reported presence of | Up to the backstab at Pearl | Harbor, realty was “picking up”,| ibut that treacherous blow put 2 temporary end to the sales. Since! then real estate has picked up! slightly, though not to an extent) that is comparable with the! Keys, Still another story about Key West deals with the supply of fresh water. The account gives The digging of two oil wells} particulars of how the pipe line: this country has been at war, and of water was obtained, its daily the steady burning of a gas jet! gallonage and the distance it trav-,; that month exceeded the anngeto | 000 squere miles in that area, near one of the wells were the| els from its source in Florida City | that month exceeded the tonnage; to Key West. One article by Mr. Singleton is entitled, “There’s Something About Key West”, and the other, was improved by|‘“A Dead End Waterway,” which! we will double the production of deals with the Inland Waterway + between Miami and Bahia Honda. | that produced in 1942.” There has been bloody: figh also in the Stalingrad area sir yesterday, the report | Twenty-two blockhouses. and dugouts are said to h captured by the Rus ‘that fighting, the cor jconcluded, 1,200 Germa: |were taken prisoners i S (oe win the war. The production | Sians who continue to advance ;of aircraft, aid, was 18 peTlin might bounds i AES cent greater in November than saad wots ae |Don sector. ! during any other month since In the last 10 days | |th i i ‘the tonnage of ships launched in|” Russians have regained 12, {for any other month by 26 per| ‘day's Soviet communique , cent. serted. | “And we are barely started yet,” | : | Mr. Nelson declared. “Next year] Jt was stated also that, ing that time, “tens of jsands” of Germans have killed, captured or wounded in the mdidle Don sector. The Ger-j | a aa | $1600 TO $40.000.000 dur- j — thou-| LONDON. — w: Gaunt, 69, who pyramided a Joan his father into a fc j war material as compared with been BROADWAY MARKET $40,000,000 and the mans, according to the communi- | jt in the depression. que, have not shown their old} fighting spirit in that series of battles, except in isolated in- stances. Their dominant idea, according to news from the front, | SUPER British Eighth Army Engages transactions in 1941. Formal Application Made For | rae hice . | Shortly after January 1, al Leasing Of Gato’s Hospital «:ss:scton: made up to Decem-} ber 31 of this year will be re-) corded, showing the parcels| 5. Winfield Russell, secretary of| Circuit Court Judge Arthur Go-' transferred in the names of the| Mercedes Hospital, Inc., stated to- Seite Sted aa te > Me ae vegshetleciris day that formal application has today,” Mr. : wages: ANNOUNCEMENT | sell said, “to make plans for ex- | been made to lease the hospital! tensive improvements to the hos- Beginning Monday evening, seems to be either to flee or to! surrender. j The Russian objective in the} Don fight is Rostov, toward; Duval and Petronia Streets | RE-OPENS | | | _ SPEER MARAE NEES | JUST RECEIVED a.Complete | | TOMORROW, TUESDAY, t of In Battle With Rommel's Units which city there has not been a or day, since this offensive was! CAIRQ, Dec. 28.—The British) It was | eighth army. under General Mont- ¥= ‘benapsn gr fought a furious reer- guard action yesterday with Mar- whi from Edward H. Gato, Jr. That! action was taken immediately after Mr. Russell had filed this morning, with the clerk of the cir-| cuit court, the charter of incor-} Poration, which was approved by BATTERY CHARGING Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE ! and the officers of the institution In 30 Minut While You Wait |hope the improvements will be; | Hospital in Key West is discontin- Phone No.5 White at Fleming ARNE te EER EES pital. It will be repaired and ren- ovated throughout, and when the work is finished it will be a small hospital, modernized in every par- December 28th, I will open my: office in the Dr. Galey Hospital, | 417 Eaton street. Hours 7 to 8} . ig p.m. Practict limited to eye, ear,/ euler: ; nose and throat diseases. H. E.| The work of repairing and ren- Canfield, M. D. dec27-1tx | ovating, Mr. Russell further said, | | will begin in the next few weeks, | piqnninirrsrerkerete PALACE THEATER JOHN WAYNE in FLYING TIGERS NEWS end SERIAL completed by the time the Marine | ued, after a highly creditable ex- istence of a century, lacking two years. | December 29th, 1942 We Will Be Closed All Day Friday, Jan. 1, 1943, NEW YEAR’S DAY “The Management.” | (i rT Assortment ELIZABETH ARDEN shal Rommel's men. 40 miles west ; Beauty Preparations | ° Sette. or 300 miles east of the « Tunisian border. i ss and Perfumes The British brought j j KEY WEST DRUG CO. jand planes into action trated attack on the ’ despite the all-out efforts of the British, the Germans and Ital BUS DRIVERS WANTED ) held their ground until they Dail: dently accomplished their pur- pe a ¥ pose, which is believed to have a | been the planting of mines. The Key West Transit Co. | Axis forces then retreated at so Simonton Street at Beach rapid a pace, the British have not