The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 2, 1946, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devoted to the est interests of Key West VOLUME LXVII. No.2 Postal: Stamp St Business Fell Off Less: ° Than § pared With oo (hy Asuociated Press) Coccceesococcccacvescses| SHARE WITH EMPLOYES WASHINGTON.—Eric Johnson, who succeeded Will Hayes as the! country’s movie czar, said today: | that the best way to avert strikes! For Year Before i | | | | Despite the fact that many hun-! dreds of service men and women! left Key West at the conclusion’ of the war with Germany and Japan, the sales of postal stamp stock in the Key West Post Office! last year fell off less than $12,000; as compared with 1944, Postmas- ter Hollon R: Bervaldi said today.| He explained that, while army | and navy personnel did not have! to pay postage for first class mail, is to share profits with employes. Irvin, He told of a company that will} give its employes 25 percent of the! | profits this year. | AUTOi STRIKE CONFERENCE} | WASHINGTON? 2:18 was an-pinjuries to the head. nounced today that: Harry dknder+4 | son president; of General Mcitoxto} avarrant - issued by Officer « Gill, a large percentage of them bought! airmail stamps and_ registered} parcels and letters and also mailed y packages, for all of which had to pay. Receipts from! s se people, who went away,| would have been far in excess of} the decrease had they remained here, Mr. Bervaldi pointed out. | In 1944 the total sales of stamp | stock amounted to $263,438.00, and last year, 1,584.30, a de- prease of $11,8: 0. Mr. E valdi stated further that as last year’s receipts went over the quarter-! million mark, the post office re-| mains in the same bracket as it! Harbor, was last year | Postal savings deposits increas- | ed by $354,501 during 1945. At) the end of 1944, they totaled $1,- 810,158, and at the end. of 1945, | $2.164,659. However, there was a decided falling off of receipts from sales of postage stamp stock last | month as compared with Decem- ber, 1945, when the total set a monthly :eord ef $36,954.60. Sales last month amounted to $21,254.21. REPAIR LAMP POSTS SOON UNDETERMINED NUMBE R! automobile workers’ ‘union: ha’ consider the GM strike. TO TESTIFY AGAIN WASHINGTON, — Admiral been given about the Japanese sneak attack, has been recalled by the senate “KILL AMERICAN COMMANDERS” NUERNBERG,—It was testified today at the trial of the 20 Nazis, criminals, that Hitler, in October, 1942, gave orders to his troop: to ‘kill ‘all American commanders whe were captured. TWO ARE KILLED INJURED WHEN 17 CARS | NO LIGHTING YET, KING JUMPED RAILS SAYS; ASKS NO VAN- DALISM | | of the (ty Associated COLUMBUS, Jan. Seaboard Silver |train, consisting of 17 cars, Dav-d King an-| it; Way from New York to will take im-' Miami, jumped the rails at] mediate steps to repairing the |Blaney, S. C. today, resulting in’ dilapidated lamp posts along!two persons losing their lives the oe seas ane sou then | and an undetermined number repair those throughout the city. | injured. He asked that when the lamp| ‘Three Diesel posts are repaired that there be| used in the train, and the first no vandalism two sped about a curving safely, The posts now are in ter-| but the third engine jumped the rible state of repair. Mr. King] tracks and _,,tqok,.jifs.,, coaphes said that even though the lamp} with rolling 175 feet before Press) Meteor City Manager nounced that he engines were a it, on charges of having been war) IN TRAIN ‘WRECK 2—A part | on | posts are not lighted at this time at least they could be put) in good shape. Mrs. Harold Hawley Visiting In Key West, Mrs. Harold T. Hawley daughter, Carolyn Jaynne, visiting in Key West with Mrs Hawley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hattrick at the home on Fleming street. They are from Independence, Missouri. Upon the advice of a physi cian, that Ca yn Jaynne, who has been ill for two months, be sent to a warmer climate, it| was decided that there could not be any better place than Key West, and as a result thereof. it was dec:ded to make the trip| here. BACK HOME FROM VISIT TO MIAM Mrs. Ethel Roberts and daugh- ter Mrs. Elma Warren and children, the Orange turned over evening. While in Miami they were the house guests of Mrs. La Darna Daniels of Miami. Mrs. Daniels is the daughter of Frank Saun- ders of Key West. TUBES REPAIRED by the Dill Electric Vulcamzer Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming “Opposite Army Barracks” and Bowle the highway last who were in Miami for | varade re-| Phone No. § Ne came tp a stop and tearing | y. 50, ties and 90 sections of aie ‘AQUARIUM AND GARDENS FIRST | are |CITY MANAGER BELIEVES | THESE MOST IMMPORT- ANT NOW | City Manager David King said | today that he will take up first | |the most obvious projects which | will make the city better for ; tourists and residents alike. |. King inclined to the Aquar- j}ium and Botanical Gardens p1o- jects as the most pressing at this ; atmed He said he had visited }Mrs. | time. | the Gardens and.found them a | Mass “of overgrown vegetation ‘BIKE LICENSES | ORDERED SINCE SEPTEMBER. TAX COLLECTOR SAID: FOR 1946 Bicycle licenses for 1946 in the city have not arrived, City Tax Collector Sam B. Pinder said to- day. The licenses have been ordered since last September, Mr. Pinder revealed, and Waltet Reuther; heabeofthe was intoxicated. | agreed to hold a conference to model, had smashed into a drag-| Stark, who testified, several days} to witnesses, ago, that Admiral Kimmel had| twis' “sufficient warning’| and diesel oil sprayed over the car! Pearl Harbor disaster committee,; moned to the scene and Vernon to give further details about the| Bareo was taken out information given Kimmel short-/} ly before the Japs struck at Pearl} out himself. i i | Che Kry THE SOUTHERNMOST BARCO. BROTHERS... «INQ DRAGLINE | "« Objet i Comission ‘Basis VERNON H. BARCO IN HOS- PITAL, CONDITION SATIS- FACTORY: IRVIN BARCO, WAS DRIVER Warrant against Irvin L. Barco has been issued by Officer Jose L., j Gill which will hold him for in- | vestigation following an accident; that occurred about seven o'clock! last night at Stock Island Bridge. ; NE WSPAPER IN TH —. a KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1946 ee rr eres ee ee rem & ‘Of Salary, JOB WITH CIty: INSTRUCT *succeston’ City Tax Collector Sam B. Pin- j der will resign as soon as a suc-} | cessor can be fuund for his job; ; but he will remain until the suc-} ' cessor is fully quaiified to hold: down the position, ae has inform-! ‘ed City Manager David King. i Pinder brings to a close 17 years of service to the city. He a work in 1933 as a tax assessor {and served in that capacity for} | five years. For the next 12 years, Vernon H. Barco, brother of;he was the assessor and collec-' is in the Municipal Hos-} '°: City Manager King cult that pital, being admitted at 7:30 last he could not see continuing Mr.! night. He is doing well today, pinder.'on the commission basis, Superintenrent Miss Hartel, of the!.as in the past. He said Mr. Pinder ospital) said today. Hei suffered} receives 2%, of the collections inj {his department, which is over $450, a month. Responsible Position 5a | | «Irvin L. Barco,:according ‘to the | where the } passed a good night. { Mrs. i Walter Bergstrom i who was injured NOT HERE YET, | 4664044444444 4 SRR head Tealidetorthe B. & B. CYCLE SHOP, ».The car, an early Ford coupe} line equipment owned by Charles Toppino at one end of Stock Island Bridge. The car was wedged in} between the dragline, according | The front end is; ed sideways, glass broken presumably from the dragline. Pritchard ambulance was sum- from | the car. ‘He was too shocked to’ get! NO MARKER AT | END OF ROAD. | THIS’ WAS WHERE ARTHUR} | BERGSTROM WAS KILL- ED IN AUTOMOBILE Peace Justice Enrique Esquin- aldo, who, in his capacity as coroner, was summoned at 4:45 o'clock New Year’s morning! to! view the body of Arthur Berg-} } strom, 45, of 618 Ashe street, who was killed when his automobile went over the dead end of Roose-! velt boulevard on the south shore, said this morning that the mark- er, with the red glass on it, which was blown away during the Oc-! tober, 1944, hurricane, had never, been replaced. “What happened to Bergstrom} could have happened to anybody else,” Mr. Esquinaldo said, “for; {there was nothing to indicate; boulevard ended at; Bertha street. Had the marker} been in place, the lights from a car would show up the red on} it, so that a driver would know he} nearing the end of the boule- ; yard, but there was no such de- 1 vice to warn Arthur Bergstrom, | | and, as a result, his car went over | the end of the boulevard and he! was killed and ‘his brother was severely injured.” At the Key ‘West Muntéipal Hospital it was reported | today that Victor Bergstrom, 45, had His jaw was broken and he sustained multiple} 5! cuts on his head and face in the; accident tHat killed his brother. BERGSTROM’S BODY SENT TO HIS HOME The body of Arthur Julius Bergstrom. 47, who was killed in an automobile accident yes terday morning, was sent today by the Pritchard Funeral Home to Toledo, Ohio for funeral serv- | ices and burial. Survivors are, two sons, W'1-| bert and Arthur, Jr.. both in the services: three sisters, Selma _ Mercanto. EJlen Swanson, Toledo, O., Cecila, Gotberg, Detroit: brothers, Elmer, Carl an ot Victor Bergstrom of Key West, in the same Mrs. four accident. 822 Fleming Street Formerly C. & K. Bicycle Shop. 128 Simonton Street is NOW OPEN for Business at ‘THEIR NEW LOCATION. bald dn bt tntnttndntn tnd Penn.,! Detroit, | The city manager said that -Mr.! Pinder's job was a very respon-' ible one and that it necessitated quite a bit of experience. _ During the course of his ca- reer, Mr. Pinder estimated: that he: has handled about $5,000,000 in public funds and alway bal-! anced his books to the cent. “Il am proud of my record.” Mr. Pinder said in discussing the public monies he has han-. | dled during his career. } The tax collector said -that he, would not ask for a pension since he is not the 65 years of age re-! quired. Interviewed By Manager Mr. Pinder disclosed that he had been interviewed by Mr. King Saturday afternoon and that he had revealed to the city manager his decision to resign. He told Mr. would send him a written resig=| nation, and he has done ‘so. c | missioners shoulders, j [MAR amemenenedeemesnnennmemenennnnnnne | Sam Pinder, Jr., now. assist- | ing his father in tax collecting | office, will be :nterviewed by { Mr. King for a possible appoint- | ment to the job of city tax as- sessor. { Coming up before the city short- jy will be reassessment of the city’s tax rolls on a 100 percent gpwwwwww www yew rr ETON TOT VOC OV OO ON as ree 1 Pour All Day If_Chickens Remain In Rain basis. The county has already brought its figures to this basis. Under the new city charter tax millage total may be only 20 mills. The new assessment is expected , to bring the city’s books up to an It’ assessed ‘valuation of around $15,-; 000,000,- as ‘compared to a ma MAY Mi BAN COLD:SPELL ‘COMING : DOWN’ ARCA aK RAEA AOS OMA RAREERARR RRA Od $9,000,0000. No’ Detision ‘On Taxes Yet Asked by The ‘Citizen as to pos- sible ‘increase of city taxes, Mr.” King stated that he could not an-! ; swer this question at this time since he had not entirely made; up his budget for the coming calendar year. i All departments are submitting individual budgets, which are to , be tailored intv the whole. Mr. King said that he would make up ‘a tentative budget, compare this budget with present receipts, then possibly tailor dewn the individ" ual budgets again. _ “I will never operate on other | then a cesh basis,” Mr. King {| stated. - “The pay-as-you-go ba- sis will be used with expendi- tures fever exceeding receipts. When the new assessment is made up. Mr. King will then pre sent to the City Commission his recommendations for the new millage’ as based on the necds of his various ‘departments. the millage. In this way. most’ of thé responsibility will fall on; | At the same time, decision ,was ‘the city managér’s and the com-} j made to remain on the job = j a qualified successor is appoil a Mr. King Cb ena COLONEL GARDNER LORD) HAW. HAW GIVEN NEW: POST: | ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF NA..« TIONAL AIRLINES (Florida News Service) JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 2. Colonel George £. Gardner, for- mer vice-president of Northwest Airlines and an aviation pioneer, | was elected vice-president and di-' rector of National Airlines at a special meeting of the NAL Board \ | | | | | | {of Directors, according to an an- nouncement by president. Colonel Gardner, a native of | Fargo, N. D, and a veteran of ! two years, returned to his original! | ignment as - vice-president in charge of operations with North-' }.west Airlines June 1, 1945. He resigned from Northwest on.De-; ‘cember 15. Colonel Gardner has spent much time in Florida, hav-! ing lived in Lake Alfred for many; | years. ; Joseph A. Thomas, a partner of | Lehman Brothers, was appointed 'chairman of the NAL Finance | Committee and member of the: { executive committee at this meet- | ing. The appointment of Herbert C. Dobbs, effective January Ist, ‘as vice-president in charge of; traffic, was also officially con- firmed by the Board of Directors. “We believe that the early ar- rival in increasing numbers of our DC-4 equipment, | making advisable these very not-} able additions to our executive personne Baker said. C.'l. Baker, NAL | 46-passenger “SUGAR STAMP 39 ~ REMAINS VALID | TES t According to information giv- jen The Citizen by the local Ration Board. sugar. stamp . 39; regular } five pounds of suar at all stores,| without stamp 37. { There has been some confu- | jsion as to the validity of the- 39: ‘stamp, without the 37, in which! ‘he was, | broadcasts during the war {until Sunday when Mr. HANGS TOMORROW LOST LAST HOPE TODAY IN APPEAL TO HAVE DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED (By Axsociated Prexx) LONDON, Jan. 2.—Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) will be hanged tomorrow morn‘ng. His last hope ior mercy faded out today. the home secretary to have the penalty of death commuted to im-! ; prisonment, but the secretary re- fused to act on the appeal. Joyce is only a shadow of what his bitter tongue, one minute, denounced the Alles in, with Germany, and, the next minute, with his tongue then mellowed, praised the Nazi regime as, the only hope for the redemption of the world. Broken in mind,’as well as in body, Joyee now spends a great { deal of his time whining about his ‘innocence. He still claims that, though he traveled under a Brit-; ish passport, he is not a British | citizen, but, instead, became a} German citizen in 1940, when he renounced his allegience to the United States. (MRS. KING WILL ARRIVE SUNDAY Mrs. Virginia King will be unable to come-to Key West King, the .city manager, wll drive up fand bring her back. Mr. King had expected bring Mrs. King bapk during his. weekend trip with her in Miami but they were unable to eonclude their bus’ness affuirs in time to make the trip back here. We are distributors for Nar- ragansett Brand Beer and Ale for The! King. at that time. that he, €ormission will then decide on| ‘ probably be raining‘all day.” He had appealed ‘to! to! | Hest E U.S.A. we we Key West, Florida, tas tne most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahretihait a rate FIVE GENTS irae _ Tomorrow WT F \By ROBERT BERNICK AP Newsteaturas ' JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.) ‘Jan. 2.—I look for the signs—when} hogs carry sticks in their mouths,! we're in for a bitter cold spell. | That’s part of the weather ' philosophy of Benjamin Franklin Mitchell, 66, sharp-eyed son of; ‘generations of Missouri mers! and personal weather man for the] state supreme court, Frank, justices of Missouri's | highest judicial body call him, is a spare, bespectatled man who operates the supreme court eleva- tor. He says the ‘signs tell far more than most people imagine about the weather. “You just have to watch close,” he says. Chickens And’ Rain “When a chicken riins into a} coop of a mornitig to‘ get out of| the rain you can bet it'll only be, a shower. But if the old chicken} walks right out in the rain, it'll: Fink says he picked up { knowledge about what the weath.. | er is going to do next. from an. old’ | farmer in Morgan County, Mo.,' ‘on the edge of the Ozarks. ; My pappy used to run a corn grinding millon his place and this | old fellow would come, and sit ‘Ss SANDS CASE | UP TOMORROW INVESTIGATION OF POLICE BEATING TO BE HELD | LATER | |the:Key West High School. | Case, of Arthur Sands, -colored,! i who is ¢harged on four counts, including resisting an officer, will be up in city court tomorrow aft- ernoon at 2:00, City Clerk’ Roy? Hamlin said tocay. solod | The case has also beén refétted to the yestigation regarding an alleged | beating Sands is Said. to Have re-j fi | ceived at the hands of city police. : ' School, Douglass (Colored) High! BAHAMAS BIDDING | FOR SILK MARKET —— IMPORT WORMS AND MUL- BERRY TREES FOR MA- 1 | JOR PRODUCTION | (By Associated Press) | NASSAU, B. 1, Jan. 2.— worms. and mulberry trees have been imported to the Bahama Is- |Jands in an attempt to make the islands a major production cen- | ter for silk, About 15 months ago, the Brit- ish Caribbean Silk Co. launched the project, inging in cuttings from. Osigiar! inulberry | trees in South America and planting them, on one of. the 29 ‘islands. rane jcall: for more* €uttings , brought for ‘planting on |o s~ eye. Bahamas’ Semi- sédpical ali- mate is ideal for silk worm cul- | ture, and six crops of cocoons are ‘harvested each year—four more than the number usually collect- it has been stated by some PeT-. the State of Florida. We need a ed in Japan. ‘ sons that both of the stamps ; were needed before a purchase, ' could be made. but the Ration! ‘Board states that there is no, ae oon the 37 stamp along with} The 39 stamp alone is suf- \ ficient for the purchase of sugar , Wherever Presented. sub-distributor in your territory sufficient capital to finance | Sub-distributorship. Swed Distributing Co. P.O. Box 3069 Tampa, Fla. AA RAAARAABABRAABALAL PALACE THEATER ALLAN JONES in “HONEYMOON AHEAD” Swedther,” “he ‘recalls. ; When the i erally get warmer. ‘have \ neha Executive Of Na- tion Returned To Of- fice Today After Va- cation Of Five Days » (By Associated Prea®) WASHINGTON, Jan. President Truman will cast-tomorow night over all net- works, beginning at 10 o'clock and continuing for half an stance. That’s a little rainbow.! hour. He returned to his office sun dogs are laying! today after a five-day vacation. horizontal over the sun, it’ll gen-| The President is expected to But if two of discuss in detail the fact-finding ‘em are strung out beside the, boards he will appoint to con- sun, you can expect pretty cold sider present strikes and the weather.” } threatened steel strike, w The clderly forevaster dis-; would involye 700,000 workers counts the accuracy of his predic-,in the steel and aluminum in tions even though august judges dustries. n_ rubbe and carried! In connection with. his fact- umbrellas to work on the strength finding boards, he will advocate of his guess {a. 30-day ban on threatened “Probably ried some years stijkes, which will. afford an ago when I iold everyone if we opportunity for a board to avert 2. a¥6und ‘and tell me'all‘about the broad- Bogs And Sun “Take the sun dogs, for in- | had a thunderstorm on the fourth them day of January, we'd have a frost on the fourth day of May. I'll be danged if we didn’t!” | Aifazes Himself H KING +3 Frank says he amazed even! hiniself with that one. “JT learned about that when U WILL THEN SIT WITH CITY COMMISSION AS PLAN BOARD: MANAGER BUSY was a little. shaver and I just) { thought I'd try it out.” TOURING CITY Tho only, scientific instrument { Frank uses’ is an ordinavy ther- monicter. A. close observer of wind directions, he comes out of his house high on a bluff o looking the Missouri river, chec! his thermometer and the wind, then makes, his abit a All ‘Public Schools To Reopen Tomorrow | Asked when he weuld with the City Commission City Plan Board’ to. revise present complete zoning laws, Manager David King said y-he hoped first’ to get ac- quainted with ithe city. He said he is busy touring the city now and will soon have ideas more clearly as to zoning require- ments. Present zoning laws have been under fire frequently ‘new commission wert in and , eral of the commissione expressed themselves as ag the Jaw and declare them partial to groups instead of fair to all The new city manager re‘ ret All. public - schools: in Monroe | | County will reopen tomorrow j following the holiday closing which began several days before Christmay, according to -.en- nouncement made by Professor | Horace O’Bryani, principal of | There were some persons who were under the impression that the schools would reopen today. but tomorrow morning is the | time for the reopening at the} regular hour. * Monroe ‘county’s public schools inélude ‘Key West» Junior-Senior ‘ivil Service Board for i+’) High School, Divisiof' Street El¢-| mentary School, Hartis Elemen- | tary School, Poniciana Elementary eae and Elementary, Marathon (10th grade) school, (10th grade) school and-Marathon Elementry School. NOTICE! To Te Effective Janudfy 1st, 1946 FRONT PAGE ADVERTISING RATES Ate As Follows: Transient Commercial $ poo Fes Rate . : Column nee Inch TWO of MORE © C3 Columr - Inch two or MORE INSERTIONS WEK on Contract for ioctesea VE Per ys for eae one year on Front Page upon request ¥The publisher reserves’ the right to limit the size of adver- tising for any day to conform with space available on day of publication. Per Tavernier | | for a complaint from a resident a hole in a city street in the Mar- tello Tower section, and imme- diately promised action on it. START SIGNING», APPLICATIONS FOR HOMESTEAD EXEMS. This morning signing ~ of ap- plications for. homestead .excmp- tions began in County ~Tax “As- sessor Claude A.. Gapdolfo’s office, and during the first-hour 23 owners of homes in Key West had ‘signed. April 1 will be the deadline residents to apply for, ex- emptions, Mr. GandoJfo said he shortly will mail‘ exemption applications iy residents on the keys. In most . . he added, the appl'cations | an be returned to. him, filled out, but should that not be done they maybe handed to him when he spends ‘a week at Marathon and. Tavernier. HIGINIO NEBO. GIVEN HEARING Higinio. Nebo. -was arraigned this morning before Peace Jus- tice Esquinaldo on a charge of assault and. battery, preferred against: him by Elenora Diaz. The. defendant. was heid $250 bail for criminal court. in PPrPPrrrTr rT yr tt teterr oy ROASTERS and. FRYERS BRADY’S , (Live) Poultry ki t- 1214 thi 5 a :