The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 26, 1945, Page 1

a Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 65 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Se | West VOLUME LXVI. Counsel For Yamashita Arrive In Washington To Argue Case Jen. 7 & Case Of General Tried| ODP OOLOLL@ A GERMANY IS TERMED ‘LAND WITHOUT TOYS’: (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Dec. 26.—"Santa Claus forgot to stop in Ger- many this year.” a German boy was quoted as having said today. Many thousands of Ger- mans had money with which to buy presents, but it was explained that there were no Presents to buy. Germany, once among the leading countries in the world in the manufacture of toys, was a land without toys yes- terday. and one of the Ger- man newspapers said, “Christ- mas was without life in Ger- many.” keh heck heads Mi CHAMBER ASKS | COVE DREDGING REFUGE NEAR HAWK CHANNEL No. 306 As War Criminal “ Be Argued Before Su-| preme Court (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. Three members of the counsel for | Lieutenant General Yamashita,! who was tried in Manila as a war criminal, found guilty and sen- tenced to be hanged, have arrived: here to argue the case before the4 supreme court January 7. Counsel challenges the author- ity of the court to act in the Yama- shita case. It was said that the supreme court will not have a’ precedent on which to base its de- cision, as it will be the first case of its kind to come up in that court. DOPP STUDIES SEWAGE SYSTEM POSSIBILITY OF FERTILIZER’ USE: SOME OB- STACLES | | L } | of Commerce has United States Engi- Chamber asked the Leveling of the asphal at the corner of Elizabeth and dredging out of the Pirates Cove Garoline streets is being done .to- o @ay, according to Department of channelsp that easy-eptrance gnd Pubic Service Head Robert Dopp. €Xit to the proposed, Intracoastal This is a spot which has occasi ion-| Waterway may be obtained. ed much complaint. Stressing the importance of the} Mr. Dopp is also inv jchannel becoming a_ possible citys sae “| refuge for boats using the outside} ly the system v | route to seek shelter through this use of the sludge as dri channel the Chamber asked for tilizer. There are some obstacles| the further depth. At present the) to this proposition at this mel channel is quite shallow. It is} Mr. Dopp said. adjacent to Hawk Channel, which There has been much complaint! is the main channel used by boats in the past in the dumping of| between Key West and Miami on; raw sewage into the ocean off/ the outside of the keys. Bertha street and into the water area north of Garrison Bight. RELATE STORY OF | NEW WAR DEVICE) | JOSEPH GARCIA ENROUTE HOME (Speeini to The Citizen) PEARL HARBOR, T. H., Dec. 26.—Joseph Garcia, Sie( USNR, (Florida News Service) ORLANDO, Dec. 26.—In a now- it-can-be-told story r Ps cently, the War Department said a device which is called a static} or “sferics” direction finder saved | States aboard the USS) Hunter countless lives and aircraft in the Pacific and holds great peacetime; possibilities. The device, a close secret dur-! ing the war, records static, can locate the position of a storm within a radius of 2000 miles. The finder consists of a cathode r indicating tube smilar to th used in television and radar sets and two mutually perpendicular] “| Fla., | of 721 Chapman Lane, Key West, is on his way home. Garcia is one of 841 high-point Navy veterans whom the “Magic Carpet” is bringing back to the Liggett. The USS. Hunter Liggett— one of more than 250 carriers, bat- cruisers, a! msports in the Nav “Magic Carpet” fleet—le! Décember 7 and was scheduled to rrive in San Francisco about De-} cember 20. Passengers go directly to the THE SOUTHERNMOST ‘LOWEST FINES AND FORFEITURE DECEMBER FUND , | SEVEN HUNDRED or IN FUND; POLICE CASES DE-! | CREASE; MANY PETS IN CITY COURT | Lowest fines and forfeitures’ j fund in the history of the city was j turned in for the month of De- | cember to this date, according to ; city court records in City: Clerk Roy Hamlin’s office. The amount was $700. Some funds have gone as high as $2,- 500 in the past. The police de-' partment turns in cases in city court to be judged by Judge Rog- er Watkins. Fewer cases than is usual been turned in and there hi been a great number of dismissed cases. ROAD DEPART PLANS NEW ROADS br 19. {in ol to in | | ve a Mt to’ is bre ing help him a lot in Key West is Cuba. Portugues j Was also city engine ‘DAVID KING TAKES OVER AS MANAGER OF KEY. WEST ‘AS WITH COMPANY IN HA- VANA, CUBA; SPEAKS SPAN- ISH FLUENTLY; SIX YEARS EXPERIENCE AS Manag fate King, Key West’s new , reported for duty city clerk's office. d in a white’ cogt and own trouse with white and own shoes, King was strik- in appearance. He weighs > pour and is six feet two ches. He is forty-eight years d. : Something which is a ur of duty with American Roll- z Mill Company at He can speak Spanish, German. He con- rses quite fluently in Spanish. Mr. King was five years city anager of Harbor Springs, Mich- igan, and one year in Berkeley, ichigan, as city manager. He ri, for five years. He M 3 red civil and electrical wn, a re | engine = vania, he graduated EMPLOYS OUTSIDE CONSUL.) eee TANTS TO ASSIST ENGI- NEERS IN SURVEY he (Florida News Service) | ct TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 26.—In' + an effort to step up its post war poo Program, the State eae Department has eaplveds | outis sde consultants St engineers in a surv 2 | fore road projects can be got under w. m: | W. Campbell, Zirs ber of the Board, agreed to hire consulting engin-| eers after Walter Parker, chief of the department's research and rec- | would be next June | fore his men could get j a Tampa-St Petersburg Surveys are already under in the Miami area and in Duval | County and with the aid of con- ; sultants should be undertaken in! the Tampa-St. Petersburg area} | shortly. : The Board had put in a -equ: ! for $4,836,000 in Federal | be released in the State ni | which supplements an application {for approval of a secondary road program cailing icr $2.1 ; nual share of Federa! funds that alregdy has been filed. The requests represent Florida’: sj $7,000,000 annual share of Federal ; funds for post war highway andj bridge improvemnt. The State ha plenty of money io match che} Federal contributions and more toi pe a big road building pro-| gram of its own. The action of the Board in em- | ploying outside help will mater-| lially speed up work and | 'bell contends that this is ti should be for it is strictly a busi-| — Ness proposition and should be’ handled on a business basis with} results the primary objective. i Road depgrtment chairman F.! Elgin Bayless said he would ac- cept the responsibility of selcting} the engineers who will be 0: from one percent of the $7,009,000; ment for Florida improvements. | This fund is matched by State, ni Gerald } ly connec! Born in Philadelphia, .Pennsyl- from All- ‘ollege, Myerstown; Penn- Ivania. City off ing at 2 A lett bri: niet this ee ing te Key West as cil y anager. December 17 he wrote a letter _ (Contin nued on Fage Four) ‘SAILOR CAR SMACKS INTO SOUTHARD ST. GAS PUMP, HERO OF JAVA, t street neers at Jacksonville to consider! ords division, had told-members it; NAVY HOSPITAL DENTAL OFFICER’ wavy Photo LIEUT. (jg) RICHARD W. WALKER GERALD MYERS OF MIAMI COMES HERE ; ed ¥ pany in th an insurance West, but who allotted by the Federal govern-| moved to Miami a short time ago, Of the fine was suspended by was an arrival in the city last Judge Roger Watkins. NEWSPAPER t going to Havana,: rat Sikes-! jicials were meeting Mr. ts, who was former- Key West, Florida, tas tne most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENT> franged Toward Ending Many Clashes Betweei Native And British Troops ONE OF SHIPS FOR KEY WEST HAVANA RUN NEARLY COMPLETED * ULF ATLANTIC COMPANY EXPECTS TO START IN APRIL OF 1946: $20 CAR AND FOUR PASSENGERS IN THE 'HLEVEN JAPANESE ARE FOUND GUILTY, BY NAVAL COURT GOVERNOR OF GUAM AND TEN OTHERS CHARGED WITH KILLING AMERICANS TO BE HANGED Dutch Colonial Officials And Indenesian Rep- (By Associated Press) | KWAJALEIN, Marshall _Isl- ands, Dec. 26.—Tre Jap governor of Guam from its fall to its re- ‘capture, and 10 officers under him during the occupancy, have been found guilty in a naval court here of having killed 96 Amer-can civilians on Guam. The Jap officers were sentenced to be hanged. | Testimony showed that governor worked the Americans tilk they were exhaugted and then issued orders that they be shot. One of the Jap defendants, ; angered by the sentence, asked, : “What court is going to try and condemn the American airmen who dropped the atomic bombs, on Japan?” | { resentatives Arrange TS SSI SaaS Ss. Meetings EXPECT RELEASE OF CONFERENCE NEWS AT: 6 O'CLOCK TONIGHT: ies (ny Amocsea Prey | MOSCOW, Dec. 26. — Re- lease of news ebout the con- ferences of the Biq Three here, is expected to be made at 6 o'clock this evening. A newscaver said this afternson thet the report will be “eloquent of promise of lasting peace.” ‘Shortly after the an- nouncement is made, Secre- ea of State Byrnes and Foreign. Minister Ernest Bevin will leave for heme. rep it of transport LID DDS SF 2 DR. WASSELL, 9 « cuit Four hull of one ply hundred between 90° ¢<. of ‘will Havana is retary S. Chamber nounced The line operation A second boat y the Gulf is exy round GREAT ACREAGE Baltimore,—Cuba has approxi- mately 7,000,000 acres devoted to _tre raising Sugar cane SAILOR ARRESTED AT BUS STATION Around six quired for the will be INSTALLATION CFFICERS OF THREE LODGES ARE TO BE In- STALLED | , NEGRG "T_UITTLE SHOT : VISITING cy DRUNK AND DISORDERLY , MBS... MADEMINE . WASSELL epnden Cased ALSO HERE: VISITING AT RESIDENCE OF MRS. GLORI- ANA BAYLY t i 1 | Z i Over the holiday weekend one ; Negro was shot and there was one accident in which a sailor figured besides four drunk and 'd'sorderly cases, according to - ! police records in the city. | In the acident Raymond Wall, | USN, was reported to have taken a mobile fire unit consisting of [truck and hose cart and gotten tout of the gate at the Navy | Yard. Speeding along Southard i going east the sailor struck the bump at the corner of Duval and 2,Southard and the mobile hose cart broke loose and crashed in- , to the gasoline pump of Antonio ;Gare'a’s garage on Southard. | The pump was knocked off its j base and glass scattered over | the sidewalk. | .Wall continued on with the truck with patrolmen,. Frank | Jolly and Hector Castro‘in hot pursuit but eluded the patrol- } men. Later he made the mistake ; of returning to the scene and im- mediately was apprehended by the patroimen. In city court to- day he was fined $100, but $50; Story of Dr. Was: ly picting Dr. in pep motion picture Wassell’s real-lifc wounded | y k recently be¢ ountry on bond-se and has been as not to iet down “budd: the soldiers and sailors of America. He has done ve fine work and helped materia in ali bond drives. Dr. and Mrs. Wa: four months in the were stationed here from tember, 1940, to October of 1941, and later the doctor was trans- ferred to Mrs. Wass is the of the motion picture. tne people spend | lon They | nic Junic Sr “Madeline” The ac- ;cident occured Tuesday morning ght TWO PERSONS GET ti UNEMPLOYMENT PAY >: § (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 26. —/ Delio C Payments of unempleyment com-} briel G pensation in Monroe county in;Cciano the amount of $30.00 were made Mora during the week ending Decem-, Diaz, ber 14 to two persons, Carl B.| Fernandez Smith, chairman of the Florida Jose C. Sane Industrial Commission, reported: Rev today. Gilberto Mun Throughout the state payments, Fer M ran to a total of $137,516.00, some- what more than the figure of the KENNETH NESBIT | Separation Centers nearest their homes to complete the formalities of obtaining their discharges be- fore returning to civilian life. ‘COUNTY BOARD | MEETS TO! TOMORROW | wartime development, the direc { tion finder was put to comba County commissioners will hold tests in a simulated theater of | @ special meeting tomorrow morn-) war at the AAF Center in Or-| ing. lando. | Reason for the meeting is to funds and covers the urban pro- f jects as well as the Federal < Mr system and the Federal secondary | pected to road system. M s expects to be joined’ at 12:50 o’clock. Naval authorit- Myers, who is ex-'ies reported that Wall was in ve at the week-end.‘ custody of his ship following{ before marriage'!another case in which he has a West, daughter of/ secured a car without permis-’ 1 Mr. and Mrs. John A. West of Mi-’ sion. 'H. DAVIS TO BE | ami, who formerly resided in Key! In the city hospital today is ARRAIGNED TODAY) West (Grady, Little, colored, with a 0 Sse | gun wound in his right side. The H. Davis, eet on complain | CHARLES PENT ; bullet entered the abdomen in of S. H. Drudge, a local building! ‘front and went out the back. | contractor, will be arraigned at 5} VISITOR TO:CITY ; 4 few inches more either way o'clock this afternoon before; | would have meant his life. Little | Peace Justice Ira Albury, on a! has not revealed who shot him charge of embezzlement. er, who is now holding the po- a eee | have County Tax Collector How- cr. COL. MOORE and there has been no arrest The complainant alleges that} sition of clerk of the circuit court in the case. Municipal Hospital Davis, in turnjng over to Drudge; of Hillsborough County, © with ard E, Wilson turn over to the} VISITS HERE | co"ections for this calendar year: c : authorities state his condition is previous week. $124.619.50, but That amount, plus $27,000 oa collections for contractural work; héadquarters in Tampa, was a re- GIVEN DIS DISCHARGE - receiving loops and amplifiers. Although developed in wartime, “sferics” began as a_ scientific project at the University of Fl ida in 1934, the aim being to track down hurricanes by means of the static associated with them. In the advanced stages of its; BLONDEL HANCOCK MADE LIEUTENANT — Charles Pentre former Key West- GRAVEL ROADS BEST | soi meee esessesseeeeee WANTED Chassis—| BEER SUB DISTRIBUTOR Give References . Write—P.0. BOX 3069 Tampa, Florida VV VV IVI TIT IVV Tsetenint: ” Colonel Alvin R.} Four drunk and disorderly $144,270.00, indicating that unem- Moore has arrived in Kev West eee ee Wilson since last) ¢ocp. the Christmas holidays with re- cases were also up before city ployment is fairly stable. for a visit with his wife Claudia. | | latives and friends. seourt today. i CHARLESTON. S. C who is spending the holidays at] 7 > a = | J, tT Tek or Ne her parents residence, Captain} WANTED BINGO Faton street, Kez West j bas been given his disci Lt. Col. Moore has been over-} : Ey BY REQUEST the Naval Separation seas fdr three and one half; Ore in extra — eae SECRETARY Open Nightly 7:30 j wear on tires ! — = = eclipan after his Christmas| car 10,000 miles on earth | APPly Manager. La Concha Hotel DUVAL at SOUTHARD By: — a y here will return to France | ds than on gravel. ill REPEAT Se rintok it good conduct, Ame to resume his duty. ae wees will Again Tonight, | fense and World War II Vict 7:30 o’Clock, | medal. _RAMSEY’S || — OUT OF DARKNESS —_| oustans'wat vn saves you buying sae tender | a ROASTERS and FRYERS PALACE THEATER oa Sith Ante Service Semteearc ery 8 Me ett Tee No. § ofaeins Renta Parrarks Attention—PHONE 444 * SPECIAL MUSIC * county $102,000 to be. entered as| satisfactory. less than that of the week before, viously reported. has been co) 4 he hadsdgne, failed to give him! cent arrival in Kev West to spend (Sancta! ta T= Cte een. eo Demeri NEW YORK. — It costs $70/ THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ‘p Sponsored by Eiks Club OIL SPRAY = a=" |BRADY’S (Live) Poultry) FELIX AYLMER ie and “MR. EMMANUEL” 1214 White St. 2 News: and Serial suslteasdeteasabeescees: |