The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1945, Page 1

Associated Press nae eg | Wire Service and AP Features For 65 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of bc eras el ea oe | West Key West. Florida. tos coe | most equabie emmste m the / country, with an sverage range pt Gety 14° Fabreskat Che Kris | THE SOUTHERNMOST Hest Citizrn NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST,.FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1945 U.S.A. VOLUME LXVI. No. 310 SUGGESTORS AT NOB ARE GIVEN CERTIFICATES TTT TOae. CEASE FIRING PLAN EVACUATION ORDER ISSUED OF JAP SOLDIERS | CHINESE REFUNDING OF BRIDGE BONDS BRINGS ON SPECULATION OVER Byres Says Agreement Reached STILL IN CHINA| «Ry Axsocrnted Preset CHUNGKING, Dec. 31. — MAKING BRIDGES TOLL-FREE This Question Came | Me eweeeews At Recent Joint Meet-| HANGAR PAINTING. | CONTRACT AWARDED | AWARDS MADE AT REGULAR Neticnalist government an- mounced today that arrange- | MONTHLY MEETING OF ments had been made for COMMITTEE. ON BENEFI. the evacuation of the 733,000 | Japanese soldiers who are ; CIAL SUGGESTIONS still °n China. | The statement said that i} prensa aed 60 ships will be used to ~ i carry the Japs home. The arrangement is for.two ships | to sail every day over a By J. HARMON BRODOWSKI At the regular’ monthly meet-| HOPE HELD FOR COALITION | GOVERNMENT TO BE ES- TABLISHED SATISFAC-! i { | TORY TO BOTH SIDES CHUNGKING, Dec. 31. ; ‘Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, ~ At Moscow Will Not Interfere c=. Will Present Program in Japan ing Of Three Different | hing, om failure eeates he Key West Citizen) Agencies 31.—Contract for painting the seaplane hangar, NAS, at Key West, Florida, has been awarded to V. J. Hoecherl Company, Inc.. Miami, Fla., for $17,386, the Navy an- nounced. OKT TIIGIs Toa: NEXT SPONGE Will the refunding of the bonds of the Monroe County Toll Bridge District with making the bridges in county toll-free? That was a question tt up, Saturday aiternoon, at a meeting of the County sion, the Bridge Comn representativ: Department. To refund the bonds, cessary for the co’ deed the right of t road district to the § Department, which, in turn, will have the bonds inded the State Board of Administration. } When the bridge commission detided to turn the Overseas Highway over to the State Road Department, William R. Porter, a member of the commission, re- marked that it was equivalent to selling “Monroe county's birth- right”, and he refused..to — vat, when the proposal, which was carried, came up for a decisi It. was at that stage of the pro- ceedings that Representative Ber- miei C."Papy rked that, if the bonds are refunded. Road and| interf Commis- sion and of the State Road| it is ne- Mission to toll and ate Road SPONGEMEN REPAIR BOATS; LEAVE AFTER HOLIDAYS ed in late February or March, Hilary .Whalton, veteran sponge Situations. Some of the sponge boats have been anchored in the bhar- bor until after the holfdays.hen the spongers will return to their grounds. Other boats’are on the ways or drawn ub én_ beaches making” repairs and painting’ sides and‘bottome?? Shorth*! the “sponge” hookers. wll’ depart with a six weeks supply of ‘stores! the ‘shark oil which they use to make the water clear. their iong sponge hooks, and dingheys trailing far sion es made toll free Bridge and Dav Tampa and the Pe (Continued on cola Bridge e Five) | WASHINGTON, D, €. Dec. | | SALE FEBRUARY Next sale of sponges is expect-' buyer said in discussing sponge j ing of the Committee on Bene- “| ficial Suggestions, a surprise pre- sentation ‘was ‘inaugurated to Previous award winners. Com- jmander Walton Hall S sonnel Relations ae Chairman of the Comuaitttes: pre- ; sented the winners with an of- | ficial “Certificate of Merit.” These | certificates are beautiful in design id composition with d scribed in Old English Ser lj awards are truly a c itary to the talented b Mr. Register and Mr. Sikes of the PW Paint Shop. These commendations are a ; form of recognition to all gestors and an added incentiv create interest and continued sub- . mitting of more suggestions. Th {committee feels that all the ! vilian employes should put on | their thinking caps and cook up some worthwhile ideas from which they -may obtain cash awards ranging from $5.09 to $2500. After the initial accep- (Continued ;on Page Two) © o'clock Period.of 60.days. Pia w. TOT ees | ple of China,.said the order bad ; been. issued by him and com- Carlisle Monticeno,, ;|munists Jeaders. to. cease firing Dies In Miami, Fla.! in the hope that a coalition gov- | ernment could be estabished with le J. Monticeno, 45, died satisfaction to both s:des. Saturday morning inj -He added that the nationalist Fla. Funeral services government, “in frankness ani 1 be held this afternoon at!4™ sincerity”, hoped that the con- from the First Baptist ferences that had just begun Church, Rev. Grant: W. Dune: pastor. officiating. The body w : : Ghana be vlaced in the church aty2 198 Peace in. Uhina. o'clock. Pritchard Funeral Home! Chiang made every conc is in eharge of arrangements ai d for which the communists burial will be in the family Plot asked, except one, and it was aie ty CETTE i ‘feared that that one may bz Survi are, the widow, & : a . Maude Monticeno: parents, Mx. the cause of civil strife continu- and Mrs. W. P. Monticeno; three ing. He said that the nationa- sisters, Mrs. Camille Grey, Mig lists opposed irrevocably the Kathleen Nottage,- Mrs: Theitar*esablishment of two armies in Porch. ‘hina, one nationalist and the Pallbearers will be Ross Saw-/ Other communist: Were) that yer, Charles Lowe, Claude Gan-. done, he maintained, there ing dalio, Carl Beryaldi,;Woi@e COL eure tes ernment lin. d ina, like every other country, pe ond Hares) Sapoders: he said, should have but one army, functioning under one head, and he invited the red mi, had nae THE : “One. of, the: Finest ‘Nile Srots in South’ Flarida” DUVAL and ANGELA STREETS: armies to consolidate with the, + ‘hationalist sai i > It was fists Trdbabhy vould object’ to that arrangement on the ground that, when they no longer had fighting. men under them cém- mand, the loss oftheir military, ‘in a broadcast today to the peo-' ‘would result in restoring last- | said, that the: commag- spe ot 7 ‘WAR WARNED ON ‘SNEAK ATTACK’, STATEMENT MADE BY AD- MIRAL STARK TESTI- FYING BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE (Re Assnetsted Prean) WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Ad- miral Stark, testifying today before the senate Pearl Harbor disaster committee, asserted that Admiral Kimmel, in charge of the American squadrons in the Hawaaian Islands ‘on’ December , 7, 1941, had been “amply warn- ed” that the Japs might attempt a sneak attack. Stark said also.that neither President Roosevelt nor congress beers consider favorably his snitstion in 1941 that the Unitea Sfa We Pacific bres: ed «is that he recommended to Teresi. dent! Rotsevelt;-on the day Ge many Started its undeclaréd war on Russia, that the United§States power would resiiigin the joss sNAXx Seize the Azores apd use of. their’ political. power. it as.> base Yor of this country. the protection astern. The men one or WE ARE... HYDRAULIC BRAKE usually SPECIALISTS Let Us Check Your Brakes Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming Phone 5 “Opposite Army Barracks” work two to a dinghey when they arrive at the grounds. PALACE THEATER GINGER ROGERS ir “PLL BE SEEING YOU” News and Serial BRONZE SCREEN Strunk Lumber Yard Phone 816 ; Atomic Service DR. JOHN B. 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There is no blood on the seat, although the steering wheel is badly bent end the engine is upshed quite e wey back toward the driver's seat. The car must have been traveling st am excessive rate of speed and lost control when it swung #tound the curve just west of the Steck Island Bridge. It smacked info the sidewalk and knocked over e large coconut tree at the lo cation. First reports came in to “he Citizen eerly this morning by someone who stated that he heard the occupant of the car hed been trying to secure @ local doctor lest night. A check af the dactors «f the city eid st the Municipal Hos- pital revealed that mo one had asked for aid from them. 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