The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1942, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and Wide World For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Xey West Key West, Flonda, hes the | most ecuable climate in the | country; with am average § vange of only 14° Fabrenhe* VOLUME LXIII. No. 310. Alied Units in Southwest: Pacific Continue To Hold Upper Hand Over Japanese _——— In , UH Mission Nipponese Have Been Further Blasted Out Of Fortifica- tions (By Associated Prenn) DARWIN, Dec. 31. — 1943, which is several hours old in the Southwest Pacific, finds Allied unit holding the upper- hand over the Japanese. every In the Buna Mission area of | New Guinea, the Japs have been further blasted out of their nar- row strip of fortifications, that one part of their there is 800 yards from the oth- er, with the force on the western bank, near the water, in immin- ent danger of annihilation. At Guadalcanal, the Marines, after their decisive victory over a small contingent of Japs on Sunday, have not made further contact with them, They retreat- ed deeper into the jungles. and the Marines are cautiously pur- suing them. American forces took the lead in driving the wedge between Be- fore the final action was taken by the land forces. shells from the American the Japs on Buna Mission. artillery and bombs from American planes “softened” the Japs’ positions, so that there was little opposition to the charge that split them in “two. MAKING PLANS FOR SURPRISE BLACKOUTS The Defense Council has been advised by General A. H. Bland- ing, coordinating director of the Actions Division, State Defense Council, that the Army authori- ties are planning to call surprise blackouts and air raid drills cov- ering this district. It is expected that their plans will be completed at an early date, and that they will call such sur prise tests at irregular intervals. FT Father Fulton J. Sheen Renowned Radio-Speaker Narrates “The STORY of the cVATICAN” With Intimate-Scertes of His Holiness Pope.Rins XII A: PullAcenigtht Reabire Produced by The March of Time STRAND THEATER NEW YEAR’S DAY 12:30 P.M. ADMISSION: Adults Children - 25c ij forces SSIS OSL LS: CITY POLICEMAN VERY WITH PARKING RULES Judging by unquestion- eble information that The Citizen has received, one city policeman evidently thinks that the treffic regulations that he is expected to en- force do not apply to him. The first story about him is that he parked his car on the wrong side of Duval street and left it there for at least two and . three-quarter hours while he stayed in ‘the back room of a coffee shop, doing what, The Citizen does not know. This same policeman, on the second occasion, again ed his car-on the wrong side of Duval street and left it there while he went into a saloon with three sailors and had four rounds of drinks. In the first instance, the car wes his own; in the sec- ond. it was the city’s patrol . ‘wagon. H SEES IES F& NEW AIDE NAMED | FOR COMMANDANT. LIEUTENANT RALPH BASTI-| AN TO SUCCEED LIEUT. | RUSSELL MORROW Captain C. E. Reordan, com- mandant of the Naval Operating} Base here, 'y announced the| appointment of W. Bastian, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, ! as his new aide and legal officer (j.g.) Russell O. Morrow, who has been assigned duties elsewhere. Dodge, was county attorney (dis- trict prosecutor) at Fort Dodge and only this fall was re-eiected to the post for a second term, al- though he had already been com- missioned in the Naval Reserve. A temporary appointment was then made but Lieut. Bastian will return to his old position when discharged by the Navy. Commissioned a lieutenant,jun- ior grade, in the Naval Reserve on August 3 of this year, Bastian re- ceived his indoctrination at the Naval Training School at New- port, R. L, after which he was as- signed to Key West. Lieut. Bastian will soon be join- ed by Mrs. Bastian, the former Miss Rechel Baughman of Fort , Dodge, and their two-year-old {son, Ralph, Jr. | CUSTOMERS a HAPPY and VICTORIOUS NEW YEAR LOU SMITH AUTO SERVICE White and Fleming Sts. Phone 5 OO hb bh bn bi i tn INCONSISTENT DEALING | }have abandoned far more equip- ieut. (j.g.) Ralph the last Friday of the month, will ‘ be held at the City Hall chambers, for N.O.B. succeeding Lieut.; Lieut. Bastian, a native of Fort, THE SOUT REDS CONTINUE | ROUTING NAZIS) | RUSSIAN ARMY HAS DIVIDED) ITSELF INTO TWO | “FINGERS” || (By Associnted Press) MOSCOW, Dec. 31.—The Rus- sians continue to beat back the Germans in the middle Don, the| war office reported today. The) that itself into! two “fingers”, with one finger the Russian army. fighting in sector, has divided thrusting itself directly south and the other to the south-/ to | west, swerving gradually toward | the west as it advances. | The object in splitting the; army into two forces, it was ex- | ;Plained by the high command, is! in accord with plans that had; been made -to encircle the Ger-} mans in that theater of war and | Stalingrad area. ‘ In efforts to frustrate that} movement, the Germans today} brought vast reserves from their! ; base at Rostov, as a result of which one of the bloodiest strug- gles of the war is now at_ its height, with the Russian advance slowed up but still continuing doggedly. Losses on both. sides have been heavy, but the Ger- mans, besides losing many men, ment than during any Other time since the war in Rw: was started by them. fa? The amount of booty that the Russians have captured is too vast to enumerate now, the high command added. All sorts of implements of war, including tanks and planes, have fallen into Russian hands. RECREATION UNIT POSTPONES MEET Secretary Eva B. Warner said today that due to the rush of the season’s activities. the Defense Recreation Committee meeting, which is regularly scheduled for jnext Friday evening, January 8, ; beginning at 8 o'clock. SiS SiS Sa 4 iBIG DECREASE ~ IN ACCIDENTS } (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.— Due to the war, with the re- sultant rationing of gasoline and tires, deaths from auto- mobile accidents in the Unit- | ed States this year fell off approximately 12.000 as com- pared with those of last year, In 1941, 39,900 people were killed in automobile acci- dents; this year, up to today, CHIT III ILS “PALACE THEATER Heart of the Golden West NEWS and SERIAL ‘ successful. | tween Thailand and Burma, and nothing has ‘been heard from it in the Hey West Ciftzen HERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE JU. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1942 LATE BULLETINS | (By Associated Press) RAF PLANES BOMB JAP BASE vell’s forces in their advance deep into Burma. today carried out 2 | PRICE FIVE CENTS Three Divisions Converying On —eoesees. __ROMMGLS Forees Now Retreating successful raid against the Japs’ chief base in that country. The | were sel are, ‘The Brlish land forces are now only 23 mier om | LACK Of City Police Covering the Jap base. . i WHAT HAS HAPPEMED DW mDO.ciama? Regular Beats S LONDON.—Something has heppened in Indo-China, and the Allies are trying to find out what it is, but. thus far, has not been! That country, which is a French protectorate, lies be-' | several days. It is believed that the Japs. wha occupied a part of | Indo-China, have now assumed control of the entire country, which | this crime wave in Key West.” may account for the stoppage of Frecnh broadcasts there. “If you want to put a stop to said an official this morning. i INSISTS ON COMPLETE OBEDIENCE “then let the police operate as ALGIERS.—General Giraud, in command of the French 4nd /they did in the old days. native populations in French North Africa. announced today that | he insists on complete obedience from them. There must not be} any intrigues or any stall, he declared. It was to put a stop to civil|zre aware each policeman was disobedience, he stated. that resulted in the arrest ctisyelveErac a ee and later of four policemen. who appeared to have inclinations to- ward the Axis powers. “In those days. as oldtimers |ceptain of the night police made |his rounds of those beats several Lise during the night. and there NO DANGER FROM FROST LAKELAND.—The Weather Bureau here reported today that thereby trap all of them in the! there will not be any danger from frost to fruits and vegetables in were certain hours when every |, need for the police to Floida during tomorrow and Saturday mornings. foliceman blew his whistle to ARABS NOT FRIGHTENED BY RAID let the coptain demow he, the po- LONDON.—According to information received here. the Arab liceman, was on the job. lation in Casablanca showed no fright when that city was’ ., E ears night by Axis planes, That pen is in keeping -with| _ If the time passed for The what members of: the Allied forces said, when they invaded Casa-|D!owing of the whistle by the blanca: that the Arabs went about their business, with bullets / Policeman, the captain blew his whizzing by them, as though no war was going on around them. Whistle, and if he didn’t get |response from the policeman on that particular beat, he would be required to give a reason, and it had to be a good one, why he didn’t respond to the captain's call. “But what the procedure |now? Practically all the police- men are lined up on Duval street, ALPINE DIVISIONS IN ACTION MOSCOW.—The high command heard tonight that Hitler. be- cause of the snow-covered terrain over which his troops are fight- ing in the Don arez. has thrown two of his crack Alpine divisions, into the fight in attempts to stay the Russian advance toward Rostov. is PROTECTION FOR MURPHY ALGIERS.—General Giraud, in his determination to crush out lawlessness in North Africa, has taken precautions to see that Robert Murphy. President Roosevelt's personal representative in this French protectorate, meets with no harm. The general took immediate action to protect Murphy when he heard that the lat- ter and the general himself were marked for assassination. | British Torpedo Planes Blow | ak en ee ue p . league boots and bounded far e h D g d ahead of Monroe county in the col- Up Axis Ship; Others Damaged s\n cun os. | from November 1, 1942, up to to- (By Associated Press) day. The record now stands ALGIERS, Dec. 31—Britishjouf that information, comment) Key West, $127,456.86, Monroe i Al | county, $122,000. torpedo planes, operating. -from wes made that the Allies This race, as followed closely bases.in North Africa, >vtoday<thave a superiority in the~air: so | by The Citizen, has been nip and = x | . | tuck between the county and city blew up an Axis shio that was|much so that Allied planes now | ee ene ee ce apparent trying to reach Bizerte, and dam- | meet with little opposition in an| that both of those subdivisions of aged several others. In giving| (Continued on Page Four) \ oa ges in Eeeentiertion ot fa jes. CACTI, | §=Monroe county is far ahead of y Z any other sum collected in real and December in the history county. As for Key West, the to- tal of collections show an even greater difference than the county does in the excess over any simi- lar period. Both the city and the county are ' now operating in the black. The county, as was before mentioned in The Citizen, has paid up all its bills . However, the same thing cannot be said about the city | While it owes a few small amounts | for back salaries, it also owes a | good many bills, one for a very | ERATE, WE SHALL CLOSE at 1 o’Clock on NEW YEAR'S DAY WHEREAS; The President of the United States, Franklin * D. Roosevelt, has proclaimed to all the people of this Country that the First Day of January, 1943, shall be made a day of Prayer. and. WHEREAS; The Ministerial Alliance of the Churches of the City of Key West, has also requested that this day be made a Day of Prayer. and that all churches of this City remain open from early morning until late-at ‘night that ctr citizenry might provide themselyes-a,quiet place of meditation ‘aiid prayer at any, time,during the day, and that all of tis may ‘Ravé faithful adherence to this proclamation, { 95919 ADHERERORE; By -virtue of! authotity' and tirdagh con- Ist, 1943,,t0 bea solemn Day of Prayer, and ask the people of this community to assemble sometime during the day at their | church, or place of worship. and further the Ministerial Al- |! liance has designated the First Baptist Church, at Seven-thirty o'clock for the public to hold Prayer Service. where at such time we shall cffer up our praise and adoration to our God. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereto set my hand and seal this 31st day of December, in the Year of Our Lord, 1942. WILLARD M ALBURY, Mayor, City of Key West. Florida. RAIA IRI EE ‘SULSSTLEUAASALED AEGAN? and personal taxes for November ; of the | KEY WEST DRUG CO. | hown As Reason where there | them, of the trol f that order [service men successful the have been is shown in that, this country en jthe war, there have been two occasions when there trouble among sailors, and a ;time has there been any serious !trouble among Army men “The Army and the Navy pa- trol have unquestionably taken care of Duval street. There is be con- |centrated on that thoroughfare It may be okay to let one or possibly two of them stay there, but the majority of them should |be elsewhere in the city, keeping \their eyes peeled for the law! ss 'men who are among us, peeping into or breaking into houses, attacking our residents, men and women, to commit thefts “Key West has enough po! men to cover the city weil it hasn't, let more be employ —Key West has the money to that—and let them cover (twnj. dad not concentrate ;Duvat Street. If that am sure they wii for sneak thieves they wil ‘their depredations.” o service since tered only w City Takes Long Lead Over County In Tax Collectioas The belief is gem city would have more thousands of do! published its Many persons pay up, rathe: see their names published | umes in a delinquent tax list VERY HIGH FLOOD WATERS REPORTED RISES TO HEIGHT OF OVER THIRTY-SIX FEET iv PITTSBURGH (By Associated Press) PITTSBURGH, Dec ters in some pa: isen to 36 feet above stage and have sons from their home | Four persons have lost lives and another is said been drowned. The waters high and still getting higher parts of western New York, whe many residents have had to aban- don their homes. | The height of the flood bh still nine and one-half feet that attained in 1936, when ; to 46 feet above flood levels. is low rose ALL-DAY NEW YEAR’S January Ist, 1943 — THE — | j ! t sions. ¢ Vancing to mest Bommei 7 cutting southeasterly across CLOSED Pursuing Contingents in- clude Americans, Enz- lis And French; Enemy | Why Crime Goes Unnoticed nesded Toward Tepe By Sesecisted Pres, CAIRO. Dec. 31 —Three ene American anct Eaghch and the third French ° Er converging on Marshal Er win Rommel's forces as they re- treat i,ward Tripoli. General Momtgomerys after a hold-up of two days by rearguard ection br the Axis forces. are again speeding ward Tripoli im atfempts to over take the enemy again. Accordins to reports received bere today what is left of Rommels armor: ed units are spreg? out. -ver ser ere] miles the desert road that leads to Tripoli. The Americans. who ere men to misie: the French are advancing over the desert. ferther south and are nearer to Tripoli the Americans, and behind Rom is Montgomery's Acmy. whose pursuit mel Eaghtn is greatly aided by bombing anc British back to El Alemien. will succeed ir reaching any part ,/Tumisia. The French speeding forward to intercept them now only 68 miles frem the me = roadway be-ween Turttisic Tripoli. ‘THE CRAZY SHOW’ AT FORT T-.YLOR TONIGHT Appl; 12 te 2 pm. Daily at Car Bara Key West Transit Co. Simonton Sareet at Beacc “SEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATION and DANCE RAUL'S CLUB Music by BARROSA | Cover Charge. $1.00 Per Couple