The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 20, 1945, Page 1

- Amociated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features 665 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West VOLUME LXVI. No. 147 me OMING SUNDAY SET ASIDE AS DAY OF PRAYER FOR RAIN IN CHURCHES AND ELSEWHERE At a meeting of the City Coun-! cil last. night, the board was in- formed that the members of the old Country Club organization Mr Georee White Av-|URGES, SEWER were to hold a meeting and de- | cil At Meeting Last —— cide upon conveying the Country TIL Club building on Stock Island Night |back to the city, the original owners. This was brought about through the Junior Chamber of Commerce requesting permission appeared before the City for use of the building as their Council at its regular meet-| Two matters of decided impor-| headquarters, but due to the mat, ing last night, giving a de-|tance to Key West wete pointed }ter. of title’ and other entangle | tailed outline of the propos-|out last night by Clarence Sweet: |ments, the ‘city .was unable: to ed Program to be carried out|ing at a meeting of the Junion|S*4ht fhe request. Chambe i F .| 'W&eh’ ‘the: building is turned by the Humane Society|Chamber’ of Commerce in Stipack to the ‘city, which: will be which was formerly organ-|P3l’s Parish Hall. Jin avery short’ time, “it is pro- | ized here, and in which she He said that the State Road|Pposed to make it available to the | . hs .|Junior Chambe: f Ce ‘ is taking an active and prom-|DePertment has almost complet) oon other organizations of a iment part ed- the regrading and repaving of }ji,. nature which may desire to Mrs. White presented to the the Roosevelt boulevard along} hold meetings and give enter- ouncil the provisions of a tenta the north shore, and added that jtainments on the premises. tive ordinance which she has out- he thought every owner of a/ Upon motion of Councilman ined for tuking care of dogs and residence or business place along @0ts ond other animals running at Division street, as far west as WOULD NOT WAIT UN STREET PAVING IS COMPLETED Mrs. George Mills White THE SOUTHERNMOST KEY WEST,.FLORIDA, W. Gerald Saunders, it was ordered | that “Mayor Willard M. Albury - issue a proclamation setting aside large in Key West, and asked the| Whitehead street, then along that}this coming Sunday as a oe of council's considerati toward] Street to the courthouse entrance, the ordinance adopted and should make connections now at into effect covering the|With the sewer and ‘the water various operations of the Humane}™@in so that the paving will not Seviety, which is endeavoring to,>@ve to be torn up to make them prayer for rain in all of the churches of the city and else- where. An ordinance was passed on its first reading fixi about an improved condi-|When the State Road Department |of employes in diteeat cae the elimination from the]¢ompletes the job. of the city. *. of the city of the many} “It would be»a shame,” he de- unfed dogs and{clared, “for Division street to become a general}Whitehead and that part of various parts of the] Whitehead ‘to the ‘courthouse to be torn’ up after they have been} if vik rh TERS if Complaint was made at the meeting about the unsanitary Jot} on Elizabeth street, near the! corner of Fleming, where people . have been in the habit of dump- Fy = veal yo put in cme condition. We may ling trash. ahd other refuse on en, ‘eal rie a Sonera by: 4 look- 'the Property. It was also shown tundertak as}ing at other payed streets in thejihat the Reynolds building on SS ne city where trenches shave. been. Duvall street, between Front and erty auto tag license,/dug in them to connect laterals\Greene, was Also being used as been discontinued, in|to water or sewer mains.” la dump atte. The Geemcil ordered te obtain some revenue that i i t Sac taate The other matter he diseussed+ an investigation of both places. used in partly financing}concerned city prisoners. He! : program to be carried out. tf Fi pointed put that, in the old wre TTAY ry that someone cam be employed:to| <i” ra ate a rN known as @ humdne gyent; td) UP sree: S paved: sithevontks appre bral ‘work to - keep stfeets ous mags gee ar in a presentable condition, but thet > temporary shelter be af-,°”* he asserted, “The jail is! forded tor dogs and cats and other made a retreat or a sanitarium for animals in an outlying section of drunks, , ‘ the city At one time the city used to it was stated that it would re-|hire a man to take the prisoners quire about $3,500 annually to out to work them, and among take care of all expense, includ-| the latest of prison guards of ing the payment of the agent, use|that type was Herman (Peck); ~". th 3 of of trucks and other equipment, in| Roberts, who used to take the Pinion about conducting funerals | commection with the program,|Prisoners out at 8 in the morning, |°7 Sunday, a city councilman to-| Dogs with no owners would be| Work them till 12, take them ‘to !@ay told The Citizen: | offered for sale at a price accord-}lunch, and go out with them at| irst, city council has not ing to their breed, with no price}! o'clock and keep them working |Pssed any ordinance prohibiting | te exeeed $10 for the best breed! till 5 in the afternoon. burials on Sunday; secondly, the cage DISCUSSED COUNCIL ED ORDINANCE BEAR. ING ON MATTER ! In discussing the differences of of dogs Board of Public Works, under the| ‘The matter was placed in the! Musi y charter, has no right to say there! hands of the erdinsnce commi-| Hath Charms would: not allow any Sunday | i For The Enemy Guns} burials; thirdly, the city sexton! {bas no right to, maintain, that he} (By Associated Presa) tshould be paid extra, if there are! CHARLESTON, S. C.—German| Sunday burials,, because, that has troops facing him ,on the Italianjbeen the duty of our sextons eae | front sang to the accordion-play-|since, Key West has been a ‘Key ing of Lt. Clifford Yewdall, sol-|West and up.to the time the dier composer of “Hail To The|Board of Public, Works made its} Infantry”, but all his playing got, ruling. | | him from his own side of the war; Warren Sawyer, of Lopez; was a cussing from his top ser-|Funeral Home, said that if a geant. family wishes to have a loved “The Germans sang to my play-/one buried on a Sunday, he will ing of ‘Lili Marlene’, but 10 min-| carry out that wish and, if nec- utes later it drew box mortar fire!essary employ somebody else to! tives and friends, left Sunday on and after that was over my first'dig a grave, should the regular, the return trip to Texas, where | Sergeant pushes back his helmet) grave-diggers refuse ‘to do so. | he te ctattened. and leans over me. He says::” Reginald Pritchard, of Pritch-| I'd like to wrap that juke box ard’s Funeral Home said, that he | tee for investigation and consid- eration, with a report to be made om the subject at the next meet- ing ef the council LA. Jos, Knight Returns To Texas} Lieut. Joseph Knight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Knight, who} i «@ Thunderbolt Flyer with the Aviation Corps, who had been spending 4 vacation in Key West with his parents, and other rela- ees |@round your neck, Lieutenant, pimself is ready'to work 24 hours OIL SPRAY Your Fenders “stints 'a day, if necessary, and that if, and Chassis— Nha Brita. iit is the wish of a family to have | got from both sides, saves you buying a set of fenders , Lou Auto Service ommunity sing and bragging to White ot Fleming Phone No. S my sergeant afc peste Hts house and notify the sexton to Opposite Army Barracks charms!” {dig a grave in such and such a | A He nmap moran SRR ANNI D place, and the city should see to \it that the sexton performs his duty. W. B. HANSON the Phila-|; 2 : ira ‘hay vibe , its loved one buried on Sunday, } phia officer and former Mar nes willlece the, wishis camied led, “after giving the Krauts out, and will go to the sexton ' COMPLETE Our New PHONE Number | PLUMBING SERVICE @Supplies 284 @ Installations @Repairs RALPH FARALDO, Key West Agent Phone 29 1201 White St. night ; City” Sanitary Inspector conducted a fish market Curry's -wharf for almost<a' half century, today told The'!to Uncle John D.’s home and told Citizen an apt’ story about'him about their decision. pressed about. Governo Caldwell’s refusal to isste prayers will be answered.” praying for: rain, which is itimely today because of the for rain as long as the wind sticks differences of opinions ex-|up there between the east and r a proclamation, assigning a day of prayer for rain. When Mr. Roberts was a. boy,| persuade Uncle John D. to attend and up to the time he started to sell fish, he went fishing with \John D, Demeritt, who, in those! €4 4 days, was looked upon as one of|did not come, for the wind con- WSPAPE EDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1945 v OR y ‘ ¥ RA AAAARADAAARAAAABAAAAEEERAME RRA R DD Peter B. Roberts,.sho has they consulted their pastor, and| at; he approved their proposal. See ‘That was-early in the evening, and from the parsonage they went “My dear brothers ‘and sisters, , it won't do a bit of good to pray} northeast. Wait till it gets down’ into the south, and then your But the “brothers and sisters”, unsuccessful in their efforts to the meeting, held it without him, and they and their pastor prayed earnestly for rain, and the rain 3 WOMAN FALLING OFF LA CONCHA DIES THIS A. M. the most saintly men in. Key;tinued to shift between the east pony BEING’ PREPARED BY West.» Christianity | with him.was| and northeast. ot’ lip service”; it was:in living ‘Three mornings: ‘Tater, when ‘a Gddlylife, and ‘he stuck: firmly}UneleJohn BD. left bisihome to to the dictum. todo unto others! go down to ‘hisboat;"the wind}! as you’ would ‘have them do‘ tol had veered to the south.» He stop- you”, and his’ hearty “Amen! was famous in Key West for.sev: al decades. * In those days the Street Methodist Church wi ed Sparks’ Chapel, though it wa: referred to usually. as the “Uj town Church.” “Uncle John D.” M1 as he was called generally, was aj the market.” member of that church, so, dur. ing a drought, much like the one, street at Caroline, two blocks {Key West has gone through for|from the market, “down poured} several months, a group of Up-;the rain town Church members decided toj tinued” till every cistern in Key call a meeting to pray for rain.}] West was full. Fleming | S pedat the parsonage“and ‘sail to the»pastor, “Brother, lets offer a! few words in prayer for: rain.” | The pastor prayed, and John D.! prayed, and he remarked, as he; was leaving the parsonage: “I got to hurry along, for the ain may catch me before I reach When he turned into Elizabeth impetuously and con- TRAPS BY CITY OF- ~ FICIALS { ‘COMPLAINTS FILED. (RECREATION UNIT | | ' | The Council at its meeting last heard several complaints about old buildings in different Farts of the city which were termed..a menace - and: -fire : traps expire jon, Jind; 30. /Thé; Mayor ‘by Fire Chief ieroy Torres and|tecommended the. reappvintmeht Millara| of these members for the : that | ception. M. J. Horre. will be -re* HAS NEVER PASS- jfome action bé iaken in the mat- B. -Gibson - recommending ter. The places in question includes’ a small building on Fleming \street opposite Long’s Furniture Store, another is a building at! Margaret and Angela, a at 303 Whitehead st: ructure t, and a building at Bahama and Fleming street, Laundry. occupied by a Chinese The council ordered that the owners of these places be notified | that they must have the build ings placed in a safe condition and in, the event that this is not 741) meetings will be held next done the. Coundil will order | Monday evening “in the’ ceurt-| them razed. A letter was read from Cap? under thé direétion of a commit-| tain_C. E, Reordan, commandant tee that represents busifess men at the local Naval, Station stating! of various callings. that 90.000 gallons of fresi water was used in extinguishing a series of meetings, at which the fire at the old lumber shed plans for postwar projects in Key|ber of the department. The stating | West will be discussed. Civic or- that due to the nearness of the ganizations are expected to be sea that the engines should have| represented at the meting. building here recently, used the salt water instead o: the fresh water from the street) Business Men To Meet This Evening | hydrants which is very at this time. It was ordered | it f limited that Captain Reordan’s letter, along with one from the Council, be sent to the Aqueduct city may a Board, whereby scertain the amount of the Key West Business Men's Asso- f resh water that the city may use in fighting fir PALACE THEATER RUTH TERRY in “JAMBOREE’’ ‘News and Serial | ABOUT OLD SHACKS HERE REAPPOINTED TERMED MENACE AND Bike MEMBERS WILL SERVE EXCEPTION Mayor Willard M. Albury at a meeting of the City Council last night submitted the .names of the members of the City’s Recre- ation__Board,. whgse ; terms will! term beginning July 1, with one ex-' placed by Dr. Delio Cobo. The new board, with four of the old members, and one. new one will be composed of Coun- cilmen J. M. Varela, J. G. Sweet- | ing, Gerald Saunders, Vernon} Mickleberry and Dr. Delio Cobo. ! The mayor’s reappointment of | the board members was unanim- | ously approved by the council. | Townhall Meeting _ To Be Held Monday | The first of a series of Town i room of the county court’ house, It is. announced’.as the ‘first, of | |. BESUSHIPPED™ (TO? ’ PALM ‘sBBACH FOR BURIAL Mrs. Frances Larsey, who fell or jumped from the second story porch of La Concha Hotel at 4:30 Monday morning, died this morn- ing in the Key West General Hospital. Her bedy will be sent to West Palm Beach for burial by Lopez Funeral Home. Shortly before 9 o'clock this morning, Police Chief Joseph Kemp was informed that she had regained consciousness during the night, but, afier a snort time, lapsed again into unconsciousness. He was also informed that her condition was “extremely criti- cal.” Death followed shortly aft, erward. Policeman Harold Key, who had her taken to the hospital in a pez ambulance, ’said she called on him at the police station at 10:30 o'clock last Saturday night and saidy4:God told me somebody has murdered my husband.” ASK PROTECTION » FOR FIRE UNITS DEATH ALLOTMENTS FOR FIREMEN A letter was read at the Coun- cil meeting last night from John W. Roberts, secretary of the Key West Fire Department, ‘requ ing that the Council make some provision for continuing to pro- vide the $100 death benefit to firemen in the event that the Key West Volunteer Fire Depart- ment should be abandoned under the new administration that will take ovér in November under the provisions of the’ new charter. The Coungil voted to ‘take the matter’ under consideration. The resighati~n of Evelio Es- tevez as a fireman ‘was read and accepted, with Clarence Roberts being appointed as a new men- ap- pointment was confirmed by the Council. Mrs. Leroy Torres There will be a regular meet-| ing and dinner tonight of the ciation, beginning at 8 o'cloc at the Orient Restaurant, 629} Duval street. corner of Angela. EE LTE LE LEO EEE . HOOD’S POULTRY and EGGS | Large Supply 1 BATTERY RAISED CHICKENS 919 Southard Street ANNOUNCEMENT Effective Monday, June 18, there will be a doc- tor in Dr, Galey’s office daily from 7 to 9 P. M. except Sundays. Fe eee A one Mit mee | | i i SPAIN’S SERVICE (Complete Service for Your Car) 1101 White St. Cor. Eliza PHONE 782 Parts are available for your car. If we don’t have ‘em, we'll get ‘em for you. WELDING ?*Prenizes” Premises | Mrs. Le Torres, wife of Fire Chief T s, Who had been ten day visit in id friends, returned to the city last night. |DUVAL at SOUTHARD} TTT TTTTEETTETEA ATTA _ Returns From Miami BINGO Sponsored by Elks Nightly 7:30 EE + NOTICE Dr. H. C. McDermid has returned from his vacation and will be at office from 10 A. M. to 12 M. and from 2 P. M. to 8 P. M. 417 DIVISION ST. To Resume is Throng VDDD BLODAS. Claimed General Strike Will Not Ask Will Be Called in The Death Penalty For Polish. Leaders, Event That He Dees (By Associated Preest Return MOSCOW, June 20. — It ee ‘versive acts against Rus- | King Leopold express. eee dering nee eto the” (determination to pa ty death penalty, and Réd Star, {Belgium to resume his ‘paper, b © thet Sonia = ea . — awe it, bore ow > eat when it said that, “in | coun this day of rejoicing,” the |try is om the brink of elvil gern wmlty. First the communists, thea phi peptone |the socialists and now the Pi tee has epaeee Lone, ae Sone ‘ol pli ati teen ace po if the king returns, there will abroad over his ordering the Bel JUMP OFF CLIFFS AT SOUTH-/ ERN END OF ISLAND OF OKINAWA * gium army to surrender en © leve of the British detect: ot [iw | kirk. Belgium leaders anor communists, sorialint. one! als reassert that he much consideration fot the Ger (By Axntocinqed Preast of the remnants of the Jap) of peri: forces today began to leap) to death off the cliffs at the| They Just Happened southerly tip of the island, To See Kye To Bye American flyers reported in, P Ee oa. returning to their bases. | SPRINGFIELD, UA Rather than surrender, the! ance of double trouble Japs are fleeing over the jten r ntly inte thy F ' : : St. John’s Hospit ! plateau, which ends in steep) came in at three pm. f cliffs at the seashore, and] gency treater me Shee . Both had eye im are diving head first to theit| i), nearby Riverton # destruction. 58. Buth had the sa » But that is not true of all of} name, Roseett, « 2 christened Valentin them. Prisoners were captured er Joht Attache whe thad» separated from their) 4. twin 3 vbmradts, bent on destruction, were unrele and had mingled with civihan Lieut. Mulberg and,, whenever an vpportunity was afforded, raised their hand Is In Pensacola in token of surrender pe: A spokesman over Radio TokY®) qythur Mulberg said that, “with the luss of Oki | yesterday fro nawa, the people at home should ant Victor © M prepare themselves for greater who been im the Pacif bombings by American planes.” {two and one-half ye ' From Okinawa, U. S. bombers he dd that by of all types will be able to raid ed at the n in ote ’ Japan, Formosa and the east coust!sacola, He is im the . of China. jcorps, as a dentist, of the United = |States Navy CPPPEEEREEBERSSREBESEEEF |) TL ioriteor Mulberg is « gra ROASTERS and FRYERS wate ot the dental «-iiege om University of Loyola Ur BRADY’S (Live) Poultry in New Orleans, and he told t |brother that he and Egg Market jthat city to marr 1214 White St. Phone $4") 15) he met while SAEEBEEEE EE PERESE ES: oa" ATTENTION MEMBERS KEY WEST BUSINESS MEN’s ASSOCIATION Regular Meeting and Dinner Tonight, 5 O'clock AT THE ORIENT RESTAURANT 629 Duval, Corner Angela St. pe’ a