The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1942, Page 1

Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhe't Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West VOLUME LXIII. No. 308. Remaining Me Tuohy. Gar With Tuohy In Round-Up In Chicago Today Were Notorious Basil Banhart And Eddie Darlac (By Asnociated Press) CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—The re- maining three members of the Roger Tuohy gang, including Tuohy himself, were captured today by FBI men in an apart- menf.at $116, Kenmore avenue, The, FPL men, yong Jed by J, Ed ser, Hooyer. Bimal x: For almost a week, it was said, Hoover and his investigators had been hot on Tuohy’s trail, but it was not until early this morn- ing that they secured informa- tion that convinced them that Tuohy and the other two toughs were in the Kenmore Apart- ment. ‘There was not anything spec- tacular about the arrest. The three thugs, once they saw it was useless to attempt to shoot it out, threw up their hands and backed out of the apartment un- der the command of Hoover, who, with his men, gained entrance through a door that had _ been unlocked. With Tuohy were the notorious Basil Banhart and Ed- die Darlac. They, with four other mem- bers of the gang, made their es- cape after the kidnaping and murder with which they were charged. In the running fight that followed, two members of the gang were killed and two others were apprehended a short time afterward. Ever since that time a countrywide search .had been made for the other three men,' and it developed, after the arrest, that they had never left this city. Tuohy, Banhart and Darlac submitted meekly to being hand- cuffed. All the braggadocia and} supposed daring they had shown on other occasions were gone as} they were ‘led out of the apart- ment to cars waiting in front of it to take them away. g. Captured Ta a SS aaLa a. CONSOLIDATION OF FRENCH FORCES MAIN WASHINGTON TOPIC (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— Talk about the convening of congress next week, which had been the chief topic of discussion here for several days, gave way today to a discussion of the consolida- tion of the “Fighting French”, under General De Gaulle, and the “Free French”, under General Giraud. The opinion was unani- _-™ous that, should these two French leaders come togeth- er, as every circumstance in- dicates they will, and throw all their power into the Al- lied cause. it will mean the shortening of the war in the European theater by many months. It wes stated. though not officially, that General De Gaulle is expected to arrive here early next week, which will precede by several days the conference he is to hold with General Gireud, the French chieftain in North Africa. Whether he comes here or not. it is known posi- tively that American leaders are striving to have the two great Frenchmen consolidate their powers with the Allied cause. i-® SS SL Lb db hh dahd START MOVE TO MEN FOR DRAFT WASHINGTON GETS NUMER- OUS COMPLAINTS ABOUT CALLING MARRIED MEN OVER SINGLE ONES (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Thousands of complaints from all over the country have reached | here about the drafting of married men, as a result of which a move- | ment was started today to “pool” | all single men in every communi- (Continued on Page Four) Effort To Be Made Toward Having Grocery Stores Here Replenish Stocks Regularly The question of the lack of food- stuffs in Key West, while not ex- actly of a serious nature, is yet pressing enough to warrant Key Westers, through civic or public bodies, to try to offset the slow- ness with which stocks in local groceries are replenished. It was with that end in view that Key West oceryman has appealed to the Key West Cham- ber of Commerce to use its influ- ence to stop the continued deple- tion of stocks of foodstuffs in this city. Said the groceryman: “We are dependent in a large measure on foodstuffs from the wholesalers in Miami. Before the war, they were anxious to serve us, but at present they can sell practically all they have to re- tailers in that city and in nearby communities, so that their selling to us is little more than an accom~ modation. “I am aware that every other retail groceryman in Key West has just as much difficulty as I have in trying to keep up his stock. Gradually, it has become less and less till it has reached that point where we should begin to be anxious about our supplies. The PALACE THEATER JOHN HOWARD in SUBMARINE RAIDER NEWS and SERIAL Tonight Is Prize Night SOIR II AAI AAA AAAI IIAIASH | decrease has continued to grow, week after week, so that at pres- ent we are unable to supply this or that staple food, every day we run out of some es- sential food and are unable to get it except in quantities that are al- together too small. “Tt would open the eyes of Key Westers generally if they could see our order sheets after copies of them are returned to us. Some- times almost evey other item has been crossed off, and, after we have repeated the order, it comes back crossed off again. “Our trouble is our depending on Miami as our sole distributing area. Of course, we deal with lo- ‘cal wholesalers, but they can not fill all our needs, and frequently they are as unable as we are to ob- tain certain foodstuffs. While we continue’ to deal with Miami, we | should look about us and try to get additional foodstuffs from some other ‘large center.” The Citizen was ‘informed that the Key West Chamber of Com- merce is fully aware of the grow- ing necessity for the grocers of this city to be able to get larger stocks than they are getting at present. the ways at their command, but large stocks as they need for their still have been unable to get as’ large stocks as they need for their trade. That is the reason, the grocery- man in question said, that actuat- ed him to call the matter to the at- tention of the Chamber of Com- | | | | merce. and almost! They have tried in all} THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER Che Key West Citizen IN THE U. Ss. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1942 oe By THOBURN WIANT * PRICE FIVE CENTS Of (Meet The Fighting U. S. Fliers Who Blast Rommel’s Contingent t Artist's conception of how U. S.-British planes spearhead the rcut of Rommel’s panzer forces. | Wiete ‘World Features ~ CAIRO, Dec. 29.—Ten days of; rome. American fliers in the western! tain Glade “Buck” Billy, 23, of desert have made me fairly glow | Skidmore, Mo., tagged by friends with: patriotism. |“the Clark Gable of the Western | I am prouder than ever that) pesert.” I got up at 4 am. and! Be an Peete sone our/ate breakfast with them as they | joys and what they are doing.; we see They are flying medium bombers|‘#!ked about the job they were which are blasting enemy troop concentrations, motor ttansport, tanks and airports, thereby en- jperilous mission, but they dis- jeussed the last letters they had! : = ing the target, an enemy air-|received from home. We finished ! tary breakfast and they took off in a flying, eating and sleeping with! siept in the tent of one Cap-| purple haze. An hour and a half | The; later seven came _ beak. eighth had crashed in territory. We sat around the table and reviewed the mission. They didn’t say much about the eighth who didn’t come back. Instead they enemy going to do. It was a_ highly ‘talked about a blonde singer they | had heard in Miami, Florida. That is what it takes. abling the Allied ground forces} to advance toward the west. They are flying fighter planes which | protect bomber missions that are! scoring terrific records in the de- ° ° struction of enemy planes. ! P l F h g Talk Of The Desert | art In 12 tin Their achieverments are the talk | of the western desert, yet they ! are modest and reluctant to ‘talk about what they have done. They | prefer to listen to swing records such as Bing Crosby singing TH) See You In My Dreams” or Dinah} Shore crooning “I Wanna Go! Where You Are.” All are. young; their average age is 23. Col. Curtis Low, of; Needham Heights. Mass., execu-| tive officer of the bomber outfit | with which I spent several days, | is 30 years old. The men swear by him. As an} operations officer, Col. Low is| entitled to stay behind the lines) (By Associated Press) and direct the activities of oth-/ DARWIN, Dec. 29—A squad- ers. But he isn’t content to do} : | just that. The other day he went|0 of American planes took off | lon a dangerous bombing mission, flew into heavy ack-ack and dropped eggs. Some ack-ack knocked gut his right engine and he headed back for a landing behind our lines. When he put} he pene down, the left tire hit|they found a Nipponese cruiser a sharp stone and blew out. But). i he brought her in safely. Amer- | #" the harbor of Raboul. New! lican officers are like that—al-| Guinea, nose-dived toward her! ways doing more than they are and droppéd 500-pound bombs. supposed to do. = Morale of the boys I met was) Three of the bombs scored | igh. Captain T. S. Cordill, 36,! its. she! | of Los Angeles, who is our Senior | Poet hits, anal when the planes, Chaplain in the Middle East, told|RORe of which were damaged, ;me that they have no worries | Started their homeward journev,! except those caused by’ news in| the cruiser was a mass of flames their letters from home. {and was sinking by the stern. All Are Healthier | The fighting at Buna today is They are the healthiest bunch} confined chiefly to artillery. The I ever saw — rosy cheeked,|Americans and the Australians, tanned, clear-eyed. Captain O.|are concentrating their fire on! |H. Akre, 26, of Clarkfield, Minn.,|the Japs’ stronghold in the strip flight surgeon of one unit, told!of ground they occupy west of me the men are healthier in the/Buna Mission. | western desert than in the Unit- — | ed States. | DIDNT LIKE LOOKS | All these boys have What it] oe | NEW YORK — Overheard in aj it takes to win wars. | I spent 24 hours with eight butcher shop: “I’d buy some hali-} fighter pilots going out on a pre-| but but I don’t like the looks of} dawn strafing mission. In the) this stuff you have.” The reply | evening we briefed—that is, we was “Lady, if it’s looks you're received instructions about straf-| after, why not buy gold fish.” AMERICAN PLANES' SINK JAP CRUISER | } SQUADRON SIGHTED NIPPON-; ESE VESSEL WHILE ON ! SCOUTING TRIP | from Henderson airfield on! |Guadalcanal yesterday on scouting trip, looking for Jap) | { | Montgomery Is |! completely Where General Pursuing Enemy (By Associ CAIRO, Dec. 29. — American Lockheed pl portant part today in the fighting Gen. army is ted Press) planes d an im- in the western desert, wh Montgomery's eighth striving to keep up with the flee- ing Germans and Italians. The report said that the planes | had bombed and machine-gunned Rommel’s motorized forces that stretched over the desert for es.’ Twenty-eight mo- torized vehicles were seen to be smashed and aban- |doned, while a countless number | prisoners, | had been damaged in varying de-|tanks and 40 motorized trucks grees. Up and down the line, the ships, and before they returned | Planes flew while unloosed BIBz | cotys | ing death on men and damage on} | vehicles, including lorrics, tanks; 2 and gun carriages Despite the aying action , caused by this strafing, the Axis forces continued to flee at so rap-| id a pace Montgomery's tanks did not make contact with them. Military circles here say it is evident that Marshal Rommel will not attempt to make a stand at | Tripoli. That opinion is based on | far more limited scale, has quiet- | fact that the “Fighting (Continued on Page Four) the SER a, Place Your Order Early iNEW YEAR’S MINCE and} PUMPKIN PIES Closed All Day New Year's MALONEY BROS. BA. ELE RS 812 FLEMING STREET aaa Opposition In Engagin LATE BULLETINS (By Associated Press) FROM 1.000 TO A TRICKLE ALGIERS.—Due to the successes that British submarines have | Scored in the Mediterranean against Axis shipping and the further | Successes of Allied planes in breaking up Italian and German con- | voys trying to reach Bizerte from Sicily or Sardinia. the average of 1,000 reinforcements that was reaching the Axis forces in Tunisia daily has been reduced “to a trickle”. it was officially reported to- :day. The report further said that the enemy in Tunis and Bizerte jis sorely pressed for further supplies of food and munitiors. WAVELL KEEPS MOVING ON CHUNGKING.—General Wevell’s forces are continuing their | advance into Burma. it was officially announced today. The van- | guerd of his army is now only 40 miles from the Japs’ main base jin Burma. Yesterday there were spirited clashes beiween the Jas and the British, but it was evident the Japs were engaging «ly in | delaying rear-guard action. for they retreated each time afier littie | firing. SEIZURE OF TUOHY’S “ARSENAL” CHICAGO.—J. Edgar Hoover stated this afternoon that, after | the capture of Roger Tuohy and two other gangsters, a search of | the apartment they occupied disclosed that they had five revolvers, | five sawed-off shotguns and a powerful repeating rifle. 700 JAPS KILLED IN =. CHUNGKING.—A force of Japanese at to advance in the East China lowlands and were repulsed with the loss of 700 men. it was officially reported today. American planes helped mightily in putting the Japanese to flight. Small bombs were dropped into the Japs ranks. and the pianes nose-dived and ma- chine-gunned the enemy. Another squadron of planes bombed anid caused great damage to the Japs’ airfield in Nungway. WICKARD TO ADJUST WAGES connected directly and indirectly with his department. CASUALIY LISTS TO BE GIVEN IN FULL WASHINGTON.—The Navy agreed today that. in the future. casualty lists in naval operations will be given to newspapers for | publication in full. A short time afterward, the Army meade a similar statement regarding casualties among soldiers. NO FREEZING TOMORROW LAKELAND.—The Weather Bureau announced today that there will not be any danger from freezing to fruits and vegetab.es in Florida tomorrow. but cautioned care in the northern part of the state on Thursday morning. | DIVISIONS ARE NOW HEMMED IN stated that No. 12, good 31, should have | CORRECTION for 3 pounds REPORTED THAT 20,000 NA- ZIS EITHER HAVE BEEN KILLED OR TAKEN PRISON- | ERS IN RUSSIA Co mmerce Body been Ne (By Associated Preks) MOSCOW. Dec. 29.—The Soviet; noon communique said that three German divisions on the middle’ Don are almost completely rounded, that 20,000 Germa have either been killed or taken and that 20 enemy SI The of Commerce directors of the held last night to take action o proposal to acquire a hospital Key West to t that have been filled by rine Hospital, which closed in the next two or so. Chairman Eberhardt, if Hospitalization Committee, made a detailed report of the com tee’s activity to get a h. ; ifor Key West, including cor: spondence with Surgeon General Thomas ‘J. Parsan, Senator Claude Pepper, Governor .Spes- sard L. Holland andthe owners of the “Trust” cigar factory on Flagler Avenue, between Third and Fourth Strects. jhave been destroyed and an un- jdetermined number seized as war meet th y the Ma- The fighting ir. that area is still ontinuing, while the Germans |are retreating doggedly toward | Rostov, their centralized and most important base in Russia. The Russians today are reported to be within 70 miles of Rostov. | Battling in the Stalingrad area, | which was as furious yesterday as j | it had ever been there, though on 1.101 the of ti led down, according to the com- munique. Three more German | pillboxes and eight large-sized !dugouts were captured without; That building can be converted | much fighting, as the Germans:into a modern hospital, staffed | appeared intent on surrendering. 'by faculty detailed for that pur- Six hundred prisoners are repot-/pose by the United States Public ed tp have been captued in that/Health Service, provided that area. {city and county secure title to it ! Realizing the delay iat must jensue before the necezsary leg- siete jislative steps can be taken to SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—The fifthjenable them to do this, and the grade visited the city council asjnecessity for prompt action, the a project in civics. They had only Hospitalization Committee was one question to ask: How many’ empowered to act as 2c Ways and People are on the city payroll?|Means Commitee, and enlarged Not even the mayor could answer.iby the addition of Fred J. Dion, STUMP CITY COUNCIL | | WASHINGTON.—The War Labor Board has empowared Secre-_ of Agriculture Wickard to adjust the wages of 210.000 men. “Fighting Frenelt Meet With Stiff qi is Very Little Fighting Re- | ported Between Allies And Axis in Areas In Vi- cinity Of Tunis (By Associated Prens) LONDON. Dec. 28.—The col umn of “Fighting French”, which came into contact with the ene- |My southeast of Tunis two days }29°.. was reported today ; within 36 miles of that to be city. ; where they met what was char- “stiff The Frenchmen are an enveloping movement against ecterized as Opposition”. attempting the Axis forces in Tunis. and that object must have man \¢d itself to the Axis commanders there, beceuse. in the fighting teday. they had three or times when @s many men as they did they met the French yes- tezday end retreated. The enemy now is holding wes reported. and the battle that sector is still racing. There is liitle fighting between the Allies and the Axis powers in the areas west of Tunis end southwest of Bizerte. The ground in those sectors have been turned into quacmires by in the deily rains during the last nine days. Most of the action today was in the air. where the Allies showed a notable superiority They succesded in beating back Axis planes thet were attempting to raid the Allied lines and in .teadily pounding the enem advanced and t support. ions. News was received here today ebout the activity of still another “Fighting French” force. It has captured Somililand which trols the narrow straits between the Gy of Ardqn mut the Red as s Je, fa nsigsa Committee To | Start Immediate Action For Securing New Hospital Here Present at the Clem €. . Pr Fred O. Ebe: Grooms, En Everett was accepted Peirce has won Key West Transit Co. | ‘Simonton Steet at Beach