The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 3, 1945, Page 1

——_ ee Le Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 65 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME XLVI. NEWSPAPER THE SOUTHERNMOST KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 194 IN THE Che Keri West Citizen U.S. A. 5 range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS AMERICANS REPORTED Voting Machines Arrive; To Bé Used In City Election enone ————<$<$£$@@<_—_ — Papy Plans Introduc:' OD PDD aII ADS ing Bill In Legisla-| Weather Summary | During February ture For Reregistration The following is the mete | ie following is the Of Voters orological summary of the | Weather for the month of February as issued by G. S. Kennedy, meteczologist at The seventeen voting ma-| 4, Key West Weather chines, which Monroe Coun-| Bureau; ty had purchased for $20,-| 600, were received in the eounty courthouse yester- day. Fifteen are stored in the office of the supervisor of registration and the other twe in the county clerk’s of- fice. During the summer, a rep- resentative of the company will be in Key West to give! demonstrations in the use of the machines, and, a short time before the city election FPDP MI De’ FS ID in November, he will be back © Ser West to ave instruc-- ALL-WEATHER MAN ti to voters in the opera- Talay ) tien of the machines. SCOFFS AT COLD A county official, while looking at the crated ma- chines, said to a Citizen re-| Darter: Watts wears no overcoat, muffler “The greatest thing in the ; ER world te-stop erooked wets] ov gloves. He says be doesn’t mind tions, but they will be handi-! capped in that regard unless we have a re-registration.” Representative Bernie C. The highest temperature for the month was 82 on the 18th, with 57 being the low- est recorded on the 2nd. The greatest amount of Fvecipitation in twenty-four hours was 0.05 inches, which occurred on the 28th, while the prevailing wind for the month was from the east. There were 26 clear days, one partly cloudy and one cloudy. (By Associated Preas) LYNCHBURG, Va.—No matter how cold it gets, Sgt. Charles M. the cold and is “just used to it.” “T bought an ov oat when I was 18, but I wore it so seldom the moths ate it up.” Somebod: gave him one, but he didn’t we Papy was told about that re-" ji He also has a lightweight rain: mark, and he replied: |coat, but never wears it and sus. “You may be sure we are} pects it’s full of moth holes too. woing to have a re-registra-| He makes one concession to the tion, and it will apply to the; Weather: on a rainy day, sum- city election in the fall as|'™e" % winter, he carries a large well as to the primary and unbrele weneral election the follow- New York Post ing year. The bill, provid-| ing for the re-registration, Is World’s Largest will be introduced by me in = the next session of the legis-| (By Asnoclated Press) lature and, as it will be a| NEW YORK.—New York har- ae , 4 bor, the world’s largest and busi- local bill, it will become a! ae ene law and approximately 2,000 You may be surprised to wharves and quays. Eight know that a certain group 18 OP- | Jarge bays, four rivers and four posing reregistration, but what) aiaits help give the “Port of does that mean? So far as I can) ports” 1,500 square miles of ter- (Continued on Page Three) | ritory MIDGET BAR The Friendly Little Tavern SIMONTON AND GREENE STS. Complete Line of Known Brands PACKAGE GOODS Choice Wine, Whisky, Rum — TOMMIE THOMPSON * ‘ | and HIS ORCHESTRA 1 —_ | . % Pints Pints and Qeerty| Reasonable Prices - No Cover “The Best of Drinks’ | MEET US AT ' SLOPPY POE'S BAR and | DANCE to the Rhythm of Announcing THE GRAND OPENING CENTRAL PHARMACY AT THE CORNER OF DIVISION and WHITE STREET TODAY Here you will find a complete stock of Proprietary Products and Medicines, Toilet Articles, Etc. Specializing in Fiiling Prescriptions PHONE 754 We Call for and Deliver Prescriptions VICTOR VARGAS, Proprietoz, at ‘HIGH PRAISE FOR NATIONAL AIRLINES ARE WORKING SUGAR OPERATIVES — ON PLANS FOR SHUTTLE PLANE TO 5 { BONUSES DISTRIBUTED TO | KEY MEN DURING RE- | CENT DINNER | Plane service matching bus Valdez, chairman of the Board ‘service in Frequency is a possi- of County Commissioners. In his j bility for Key West in the very lefter Dane said: : jmear future. | “We wish to advise you that CLEWISTON, March 3 (FNS).! National Airlines, it is learned, we are endeavoring to work out High praise for outstanding work|is working on a plan which will plan whereby we can use one jand accomplishments in the Ev-/ permit a shuttle plane to operate of our planes ona shuttle basis erglades during the past year in| between Key West and Miami between Miami.and Key West, : }on a schedule which will paralell with departures approximately : jthat of the Florida Motor Lines— every two hours. was said by Clarence R. Bitting, | plane every two hours. ' ; president of the United States: G. T. Baker, president of Na- able to give the average business Sugar Corporation, to | Airlines, is intensely in- man a whole day’s work either of the compan) the face of wartime difficulties OPERATE BETWEEN KEY WEST MAMI “In -this way we hope to be} [MAJOR SNIDOW | DIED ON FRIDAY | BODY WILL BE SENT TO ARLINGTON CEMETERY FOR BURIAL 1 Maj. Robert C. Snidow, USA, (Ret.), aged 55, died at 0 Fri- day in the U. S. Naval Hospital from a heart attack. Major Sni- dow was born in Pembroke, Va., yand attended V. M. L, and upon his graduation was comn ioned a captain in the Virginia National Guard in 1917. Later he was com- CROSS RHINE ” News Based On Advices German Correspondent Sent To Ber- | lin Newspaper * soba Allied Headquarters Say othing About Report; Fighting On Appreach- es To Cologne J. CARBONELL DONATES IRON | LUNG TO CITY FIRE CHIEF LEROY TORRES LUNG: TO BE MADE AVAIL-|\Berlin reported today th members | tional 's organization at}terested in improving the serv- in Miami or Key West, and still jthe annual dinner which he give here in honor of members of the j executive staff. Bonuses ‘were distributed to | the key men during the dinner, {held at the Sugarland Park audi- | torium. , At the same time that the or- ;Zanization has cultivated, and is |now harvesting, its 14th sugar ‘ane crop in the Everglades, oth- lice here just as speedily as pos- ible, and while wartime limita- jtions are a great handicap, he jfeels that considerable progress }can be made even now. One of the handicaps to im- fozaren Key West service is the |line’s lack of hanger facilities in Miami. Hanger space is needed ‘for adequate servicing of ships on a turnaround basis. At pres- ent most of this is done in Jack- sonville, which means planes provide transportation back to! Missioned a second lieutenant in his home town the same day. {the Coast Artillery Corps, USA. “If the’ hotel situation was a| He was promoted to first lieuten-' alee reniahe than a is ucla ant and captain the same year. ee! at many passengers wi Bees met a not mind Dae in either He was a graduate of the Coast, city, but as the case is now, very ter of the motor transport school.! few of them are able to acquire 3 He was retired for disability as a; ABLE TO ANYONE John Carbonell, Jr., has purchased an iron lung, at a Artillery School and quartermas-' cost of $1,043, and has pre-| sented it to the city of Key "hotel aQ:ommodations without previous reservations. : Major Snidow was a winter v “We are also making every) itor to Key West from date of r effort to secure hanger facilities] tirement until 1939, when he built in Miami. As soon as this is ac-! his own home at Von Phister and major in 1936, West. Fire Chief Leroy Torres has been made custodian of the lung, and he told The Citizen today that it will be | a Nazi correspondent on the | western front had wired his | newspaper that American forces have crossed the Riv- er Rhine at several points. Headquarters here did not comment on the story, bul, unofficially, it was sau the patrols might have crossed to the east bank of the Rhin erman news age! r outstanding work has been ac-’ Must go on up from Miami., With complished we will have equip- complished. In the past twelve adequate space and facilities ment in Miami and will be able months construction of a $1,000,- lable in Miami, National to use this equipment to shuttle 000° starcli house Ha aa: t *|would be in a better position to between the two cities as often wed andiiveede nica ing can, Sive Key West increased service. as necessary regardless of wheth- pictich. Mawel. polsin aceace a And as soon as those facilities er or not other cities to the north supply the raw material hastieen are available, Baker intends and west of us are closed due to prepared. The company’s re- that National shall step out in) weather. ; < ;Search and experimentation have this area. _ Supplementing Dane's explana- continued gteadily, plantings .of' Disclosing that a two hour(tion, Ba ‘ ramie have been made. near shuttle service is on the agenda Commissioner Valdez: “ nal Point, and the cattle program for Key West, Baker explained ‘We plan to operate a shuttle has expanded. the situation in a ietter to Max- plane between Miami and Key ir his. annual address, Bitting’™% Valdez, chairman of the West“ with several round trips said in part: “It took a mighty Board of County Commissioners. rer day, beginning around six in fine organization to achieve the In his letter, Baker said: the morning, southbound from results of this past year. I know George P. Dane, district traffic Miami, and terminating at 9 or the headaches, the heartact manager, disclosed the shuttle 10 p. m. with a northbound. flight nd the sweat that have gone letter to Maximo from. Key West.” © your achievements. In addi- tion to the hard work, the in-! enuity, the resourcefulness, thc héadaches, the heartaches and the sweat you have -put into thc S, in-plane in a Three Boys Are Released At City SWELL FISHING, BUT N Baker said in a letter to’ E SAVED} Grinnell streets. He was a recip- sient of numerous decorations! ‘from several countries in Europe} land was also awarded a World! War I medal with defensive sec- tor clasp. While in France he married Yvonne De Clert, who survives him. The body will be sent by the Pritchard Funeral Home to the Arlington National Cemetery for full military burial. COLLECTOR FINDS DOLLARS IN COINS { i (By Aan ited Presa) | ROANOKE, Va.—Inflation has so inereased the price of old coins that it has brought a bright busi- jess future to bedridden R. Cecil Hall, World War I veteran. | Hall conducts a mail order coin 1 t | : business from his bed, and now job, an intangible something, a Court Hearing | SS _, jemploys a full time secretary to something you all ‘possess, but a This is a true. fish story. Fish! handle orders. jsomething -which I cannot find (5,105 Higus, Earl Griffin and Were biting unusually well when} He estimates that within the ware te ae f Charles Gardner, the boys who Comdr. C. P. Ramback and Chief; Past four years the selling pricc Some, voroughly famil 5 : i ne een of most rare coins has advanced iar with your accomplishments, ¥¢"¢ @ ie ted as members of the Carpenter's Mate E. H. Spratlin 500 per cent. Sume Indian head and achievements, might cali it) °W4™P & a oe threw in their lines by the mole’ pennies which sold for $6 a few special and outstanding abil-ty.. 39 70 Archer and, oy out in the bay across from the years ago are t ng $50 now eee ae calle z nyalty é MT ne romisiniz tt would Administration Building, ier says. Con remorative half ie a ee si ic et “ty wand; Pretty soon they had 24 beauti- dollars. first in 1918, arc tr ie ne ae : mean eee aoe ye-!ful blue runners on‘a string ov skyrocketing in value. " ae cased in the custudy of their par- the side of the boat. Suddenly- : Secunia ae pine ont swish—along came a barracuda FIRE IN REAR OF : ie Co enence eee the; bo: @ to have and with one gulp he had all but DUFFY’S TAVERN bjective while an ordinary or|bcen ieaders of the gang, were one. Then he came back for that.! een | ganization would be explainmg! @!" st night, and their) So-0-0-0-0, swell fishing, but A small blaze was discovered [how impossible it, was. Under ses will come up Monday utter- no fish, re) Genie AU 42 oO clockn tht ordinary or normal conditions HCN before Judge Archer 3 ae ue pully rep eaa fee “ !what you have put into the job Juvenile Judge k O. Rob Ee ew ela ce ave ane Bee a ran Aa cUe Ue CHT eciecnls ueatdte eduys etter ey PAT 6 ELECTRICAL Simonton, where a small pile of ‘the greatest financial results in| boys will be arraigned before CONTRACTOR ‘sh Neer une eee Fe bias ‘the history of the corporation,” @ter thei causes have been dis- 620 Fleming St. Phone 780 we auielly reine! ished, with Bitting said posed of in city court i REPAIRS on types of Sea ea Geen atrin |) Atite@raphed! 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Prices subject t0 tax Phone 199 DNB said that Germar ers had seen preparatior that Several points along the we available for use by any res- ident of Key West. Chief Torres added some people are under the bank of the Rhine aoe impression that the lung is CYossing of that river. I ageney said that in the vi used only in cases of inian- j tile para , but such is not; the case .It is used in cinity of the Canadian bi and American Ninth arr cases of near suffocation; V@St quantities of pontow from smoke or gasoline | Were in readiness to (i | fumes or anything else. Its bridges across the river function is to breathe for the German armored div ‘sufferer until such time as! 2? trying “desperars he is able to breathe for! Step the Canadian Pir himself. ; Americ an Ninth Ar Demonstrations in the use! {Tem making ‘ of the lung will be given) {DY Were reportec next Wednesday at the No,|t@ be less tha 1 tire station. Chief Torres “D8! said that he will have sev- eral firemen trained in the operation of the lung, anc whenever a call is received from anywhere in the one or more firemen will re spond with it to render fir aid. Mr. Carbonnel he had intended to raise the money for the lung b ing benefit but that as the mid and it wa trap visions four city t nat la G stated tha entertainn law interferred with that proposal, he decided | buy the Jun; ( give it to the city closing } ims UNCOUNTED MILPSs YORK l t mie ‘ the brait } an PALACE THEATER MICHAEL OSHEA “MAN FROM FRI News and Seria First Grade Tires, Tubes and Accessories POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Division at Francis Phone 9134 iis ti: Sa ae ELE AIENE TB © SP stn JALA-LAL RESTAURANT (Formerly Bak NOTICE Margaret and Fleming Sts. GULF COAS1 9 A, M.to 1 P, M 5P, M.tu9 P. M DINNERS—STEAKS March 4th, 19 CHOPS ECG CUSTARD ©. RABELLO == - Ms Le GEORGE BS LA CONCHA HOTEL COCKTAIL LOUNGE AIR CONDITIONED for YOUR COMFORT . 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