The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 14, 1946, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devoted to the Best interests of Key West VOLUME LXVII. No. 12 Plan Devised To Get Juvenile Court Here Functioning Again): John Carbonell i: Comes: Out For Matter Taken» Up By Attorney General Watson STATE OFFICIAL ON CASE IN INTEREST OF COUNTY John G. Sawyer, attorney for Philip Bailey, a colored boy who has been confined year, on a charge of juvenile delinquency, because there has not been any court in the county in which to try him, said today that he had a long yesterday, in Miami, with At- torney General J. Tom Watson about the casé, and that the lat-} ter had deviséd ‘a plan whereby the court would be functioning in a few days. “I had intended to begin a mandamus suit in behalf of the boy,” Mr. Sawyer said, “but Attorny General Watson decided that we could settle the matter in far less time by quo warranto against Juvenile Judge Frank O. Roberts. “Mr. Watson told me that, shortly after his return to Talla- | in the, county jail since July 26 of last: conference | instituting | proceedings | | | Representative |Announces He Will Not In The Guise Of A Gen- eral Law” } i Today John Carbonell, Jr., for- mally announces his candidacy, in the May Democratic nomination for rep- resentative in the legislature from Monroe county. In discu: ing his candidacy, -Mr. ell said: “As Iswas born and grew. up: in | Key Wést, and as practically everybody -in Monroe county ‘knowsme;'I feel there is no need for: me to go into a lengthy ac- count of my moral, business and political life. Sufficient to say I have lived uprightly and have never broken my word, as every- | body who knows me intimately knows is true. “I am aware that the practice | of making promises when one is} running for office is frowned o1 but this promise I am going to Father Any “Local Law! Primary, for the! Carbon-} : : ‘the area where a conversion, is} & n,| Fosion of the plpe make I feel confident would be; made by every conscientious sen and woman in the county: i promise that, if I am elected, I, will not father any “local law, under the guise of a Aaae al law”, as our supreme court has! referred to one of Monroe Coun- ty’s laws passed at the last ses- sion of the legislature. One of, these so-called general laws has; had a most.pernicious: effect in; Monroe county. That “local law! under the guise of our general! law” abolished our juvenile court, and since July 26 of last; year a colored boy, charged with juvenile delinquency, has been! ept locked up in the county ; jail because the court, in which| ie would have been tried, was| abolished, not to save the people, money, because the’ salary of the} juvenile judge was continued, even though’he did not serve. the supreme court for final de-| “And for what reason was our! cision, and Mr. Roberts will, juvenile court abolished? For} serve as judge while the case is| What reason, I repeat, You know, pending.” | and I know, and hundreds of| hassee, he would write to Mr. Roberts instructing «him to try Bailey, and that, when he did so, I, as an assistant attorney general for the non would bring the suit in circuit court, requiring Mr. Roberts to show wherein he has the power to act, as his off:ce was abolished | by a legislative act in 1945. Mr. Roberts will then file an. answer} declaring the law to be uncon- stitutional and basing his de- claration on decision of the supreme court in a similar case, and then we will have a hearing jn circuit court. Should the} court decide the law is uncon-7 sittutional, then that will be the end of the case, because I} know of nobody who will appeal | from the decision. “But should the law to be valid, then we a be held | will go to/ Water Pipeline Conversion In Advanced Stage All Pipeline :Aba Above Water. Except Drawbridge At Moser, Jewfish, Channel Five Work on converting all pipe- line sections of the water pipe- line from Florida City to Key West to positions above water is in an advanced stage, Command-} er Allen Hoar, NOB Public Works Officer states. There are three drawbridges which will require thé under- water sections. These are Moser Channel, Channel Five and Jew- fish Channel. These are only short spacings. Moser Channel is completed. At present 6,000 feet of pipe} which was in reserve are laid in planned and, then, the Florida| Keys . Aqueduct Commission warned a week in advance that the break will be made and the water shutoff to make, a connec-; tion so that the Commission may| fill its‘tanks. Then the connection, is made. The pipe is being laid mostly; on piling but also alongside; bridges. The conversion is done prin- cipallly to eliminate undue ‘co uhderwater | | i 1 | | j due to electrolytic action, Com- mander Hoar said. Last week work was Broees| ing at Stock Island Bridge and at, the same time additional work at] Jewfish Creek on pipelines was taking place. Roosevelt Boule-j vard bridge is another spot where the conversion will have to be made nearby. The work is cost-! ing about $1,000,000, Commanoey| Hoar said. | Recently Tavernier Creck,; Snake Creek, Whale Harbor and} Jewfish Creek have been con-! verted. { | COTIIIILS 4 ‘Coin Tossing Brings Back The Old Days: “Just like the old days.” Key Westers and visitors alike cried as little colored boys put on a grand exhibi- tion of diving for coins at the NE WSPAPER IN TH — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1946 Recall Weekly To City, Wea (ED. NOTE: This is the first in a series of articles as writ- ten for The Citizen some years ago on the history of Key West by Miss Marie Cappick, well known local writer.) In writing of events of import-} ance during the past century on this island, sentimental attach-! ments are apt to blur one’s pi spective, and deflect the accura- cy of one’s aim in’attempting to cover in allotted space the spirit and setting of a dearly loved! spot where friendships thickly cluster, and myriad ties of tend-; er intimacy bind the affections, in loyal conspiracy against those, | ; who would compare the old Key West with its leisure and charm with the more modern city. In both the old and the new have been found the panoramic fresh- ness of its tropical setting andj happiness in the cordial warmth and neighborliness of its friends inhabitants, ‘ Througout, the years from the; ; time of the first settlers to the} present, the charm lingers, draw- ing back, again and, again, those, who wander away, holding. those who remain in willing captivity.! The first outstanding event in, the history of the island was the purchase of the island by John! W. Simonton, a shrewd business} man of Mobile, from Don Juan| Pablo Salas to who the island had been granted seven years , wind swept island in the ocean.) Mail Service ther Permitting However this may be the Spani- ard and Simonton met in a Hav- ant cafe one evening and the, | transfer of the island to Simon-| { | ton was formally made on Jan. 19, 1822. The price paid was equi- valent to $2,000 amienean money. If Don Juan Pablo regretted’ : his sale to the American we have no way of knowing but it is safe | to say that Simonton did not, for! he very promptly sold portions} | of the island that paid him 100; per cent on his investment. The following month Lieutent- | tant M. C. Perry, comanding the! } United States schooner Shark! took posession of the island in the name of the United States ‘and the first American Flag ; raised. This must have been the first event tnat brought together | the few residents of the island. The date is commemorated in the Pent family ''as the birthday of Anthony Pent whose descend-| ants resided here, at this time. Far from home and loved ones' ithe first settlers who came from‘ the ,Carolinas, Virginia, New| pork Connecticut, with a few rom France and Ireland, must} have longed and waited expect-, | antly for those vessels that would, bring tidings from the outside’ world so it is likely that mail’ days were gala days in the cal-| endar of those early residents.; There are many residents of | ; third of the water produced andj Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST ES USSEA; TELEPHONE TIE-UP THROUGHOUT COUNTRY PRETTY WELL BROKEN Commission Gets Marathon. Pump More Water Than | Station Ready In In Original Plan} Another Month Receives 1,000,000 Gallons Or About One-Third Daily: Contract Calls For, 900,000 Daily | Breakage i | According to the agr eement| New Marathon pumping sta-; with the Navy and the Florida’ tion is expected to be placed in Keys Aqueduct Commission the! commission probably next month, | Commission, which supplies the, NOB Public Works Officer Com- City of Key West, one! mander Allen Hoar announces. This will result in an increased most of the time receives an ad-' output of water for the city, ; ditional amount of water which’ which the city needs at present. is not needed by the Navy, Com-; At present there are 220 pounds ‘mander Allen Hoar, NOB Public, of pressure at Florida City and! Nwarks (Officer saidi |there has been ‘some trouble| | With lines breaking. with’ this; Similarly the Commission by high _ pressure. With! 'thé!:new | the agreement is required to sup-; pumping station the pressuré at | ply one third of the monies for Florida City will start at 180) upkeep, repair, maintenance and pounds and will reach Marathon! improvements. Navy may ask for at 25 pounds pressure. Then the meee ‘ Marathon pumps will pick up the these monies in the future. Main- water and ‘send it on to Key | tenance and improvements have West at 25 pounds pressure. cost the Navy about the same as Thus there will be more water the original cost of building the at a lower pressure through the receiv Will Give More Water To; City: Less Pressure, Through Lines Lessens | previously The grant was made, Key West at this time who can to Salas by Don Juan de Estrada,| recall when Key West received then governor general of Florida.) a weekly mail (weather permit- In bestowing the island on Sal-' ting) and old inhabitants fre- ! as, who was an officer in the quently recount how their par-' ! Royal Spanish dartiliery, it is ents and grandparents put aside stated that it was in recognition all work from the hour the mail for meritorious se-vices render- vessel was sighted until the last ed. letter had been handed out, and The grant must not have been the newspapers a month or so old greatly appreciated by Don Juan’ had been read by everybody on} {and he must not have considered, the island. it more than a wave washed (To be continued) line, » Commander Hoar said, which is about $3,000,000. The Navy in the agreement pays for two-thirds of the improvements and repairs, but in been paying for all. Key West when the line is operating receives 1,000,000 gal- lons of water a day in addition to; the surplus Navy water. Since about 2.3 million to 2.4 million is produced daily the Commission actually is entitled only to 900,000 gallons. The lin reality has’ lines. Aqueduct Commission has asked for 1,250,000 gallons d where they are getting only 1,- 000,000 gallons now. A three hundred and seventy- ! five horsepower ‘engine has been brought down from Florida City and is being installed in the Marathon station. New electric | pumps at Florida City have re- leased this diesel. The present water line is 18 inches in diameter and water is | pumped from three 10-inch fifty ‘Greyhound’ To Be Sold Soon’ Scavenger Boat Has In- sufficient Horse- power City Manager Dave King said’ |Arrest P.O. -Aute- Parkers Those Parking On West), Side Of Street To Be Excused City Manager Dave King said} since the N: is essentially a mili-, foot whels tary line, Commander Hoar said, at Florida City. New electric pump at Florida and probably the Navy will not) City is expected to be ready to-; turn it over to the city. This will} morrow and the’ new diesel en- work--to.the benefit of the city, gine is being assembled at, Mara-! ‘avy now has a larger! thon now. share of the expenses. Job Bi Lions Taking ee Street Poll Convened Today, "Only Two: Cities Being Picketed UNION STILL ACTIVE IN NEW YORK CITY AND CLEVELAND, O. { 1 | (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan: 14.—The telephone tieup was pretty well ‘broken throughout the country | this morning. In only two jplaces, New York. City, and | Cleveland, Ohio, were telephone plants still being picketed. | It was said that probably |there were a few other outlying districts in the county where cket lines’ still’ were “formed, ! becau. the order, calling olf the pickets, had not been receiv- | ed there. The strike, if it comes, has been postponed till February 15, assuming that there are no wildcat walkouts. Opinion was general here that differences between the compan:es and the workers will be settled 1 | before ly, the extended deadline. hundred thousand CIO | electrical workers in parts of the country are slated to go strike at midnight to- morrov * Wedne «ay 235,000 CIO and AFL meat packing workers are , scheduled to go on strike, and ‘experts estimated that, if the str:ke occurs, there will be 2 meat famine in the United States in a week. Differences between the workmen and packing house officials were considered at @ conference held yesterday, but , it was reported no progress -had been made. - F Action on the threatencd | strike of steel workers, which | would involve 700,000 men, has | been postponed till next Sunday ‘night. Efforts are being made {to settle the difficulties before | that time. Two various ‘Purpose Is To To Determine Sawyer, Albury Sentiment On Chang- | Ott To Confab | ing Of Names | | | Sheriff Berlin A, Sawyer, ac- anied by State Attorney | Wiliam V. Albury, left this morning for St. Augustine to at- tend the annual sheriffs’ con- today that he would recommend today that arrests on the al to City Commission that the Side of the block between South:| wasHINGTON, Jan. scavenger boat at the foot of pe canceled following mistake Congress was convened i i ; lowing 2 vacation of 23 d Simonton street be offered for| of city patrolmen in interpreting fo a SEE ia city ordinance. for senators and representativ ale. 5 se“ ieee j i With imrovtant — legislation Mr. King discharged operators! Mt. King said that all arrests ‘racing congress. it appears. that of the boat last week and today tnotsnct side of the street will be iS members will have little time | said that the boat did not have’ continued and those made last this vear for campaigning. All suficient horsepower to tow a’ week will be held correct. jTepresentatives are up for eal large scavenger barge and serv-| The area affected on the east ‘lection, and or-third oe ice the city and that it would, of the Post Office. The curb members of the senate will be soon deteriorate if kept by the! side of the blocks in question in-, Candidates to succeed themsel- | city on dry dock. | cluded the curb directly in front) Y°* The boat is named the sgl: across the street is free for park foot of Duval Street Sunday (Ry Associsted Press) in an exhibition sponsored by the Advertise Key West Council. The colored swimmers who are crackerjack am- phibious men carefully coached the audience into throwing the coins and mak- ing it a colorful'show. One lady was exhorted to throw three coins at one time and when she did the colored lad dived deep and finally came up. “How many coins did Attorney Sawyer has been! Key Westers, including m:; elf, | among a large group of | who have been trying to get back} Key We including A, H,| our juvenile court, know. Parrish chairman of the board “IT have always believed that; of county commissioners, and|the people should “decide what} the Rev. John E. Pickens, pastor ' type of local laws we will have, | of the Poinciana Community regardless of what they may be. Church, who have been endeav- | For that reason, if I am elected, | ering for several months to I will introduce a bill designed; straighten out the juvenile court ; to consolidate the city and coun-| snarl in Monroe county. They| ty governments at a saving of} take the position that, as the| tens of thousands of dollars to/ abolishment of the court was | taxpayers dnnually. But to that} done bv local law under the | bill will be, attached a referen-| guise of a general law”, as the | dum which will let the people of A poll to determine public sen-; com timent relative to the idea of} wij changing the names of the strects of Key West to numbers was; started today by the Key West! yenton to be held in that city. Licns Club. Some three thousand! ‘The convention will be con- families will receive question-} yened tomorrow morning .and aire cards wtih the request that| will be adjourned Thursday they check either “yes” or “no” | evening. Sheriff Sawyer is the on the question and return j cha rman of the in, the supreme ar case, ets law stit r know receive General xpected days, the him, where were used Passed, ‘the tional. Saewery sib when Mr. his letter Watson, but that it would be in a few basing his opinion on what attorney general had told | population. brack- in having the law is ‘uncon-, he did not Roberts will from Bailey Funeral court ruled in a simil- | Attorney | he | the county themselves decide the | proposal.” City Water Will |New Filter And Sifting Plant Completed This Month New filter and sifting plant at Be. Softer. Soon’ This Afternoon! sX%. for Key West's} Funeral servic Bailey, 39, morning at Angela street, s for James B. who died Saturday his residence, 1414 will be held this) afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the! chapel of the Pritchard Funeral) Home, Rev. E. S. Doherty, p: tor of the Ley Memorial Chur and Rev. W. F. Bowery, ing. : Survivors are the widow, Mrs. yrell Bailey; one daughter, Mis: a Bow Bailey, and one son, officiat- . Billy Bailey, of Kéy West; foster} mother, Mrs. Carrie Shaw Miami; one sister, Hoard of Persia, Tenn., brother, ia, IIL of | and one TUBES REPAIRED by the Dill Electric Vulcanizer Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming Phone No. “Opposite Army Barracks” a, | elements Clarence Bailey of Peor-} City ' water pipe line is expected to be jcompleted next month, NOB | Public Works Officer Allen Hoar | said today. This will soften the water and | take away some of the brackish- ness, Commander Hoar said. ® There has been some com- plaint in the past as to corrosive in the water | caused razor blades to rust and | made soaping difficult. \ | NORTH BEACH INN COFFEE SHOP | Mrs. Stella} sFull Course DINNER. 6-8. Home-cooked DINNERS = ‘Keser vation a, |Aemse4444444444444. | PALACE THEATER CLAUDETTE COLBERT in s| "INVITATION OF LIFE” | News and Serial | FE eee | Seoccccevecsooccccsosoes which! | | | Genuine |Kitchen and Dining Room you throw lady, boys asked. “Three”, came back the answer, with the thought that probably one of \itthe coins had- been lost. Whereupon the swimmer put threeshining coins, one after the other, into his mouth to the delight of all. Ten dollars in silver, with some fifty-cent pieces, were thrown into the water by the Council members, headed by Oliver Griswold. Tom Wil- son and E.. Wolkoff. Mad scrambles after the coins re- sulted. Some of the coins were thrown to the “little boss”, who could not com- pete with the larger boys. Photos were taken by the city’s best photographers. LSS SIL SSS Ss for All ‘Aue’ PARTS “Ca: ROY'S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS Phone 442 116 Duval, Jefferson Hotel Bldg. Secececesececscocoococes WANTED Help of All Kinds Apply to Chef LA CONCHA HOTEL hound.” Il. To Monroe County Med To My Patients: and I have been ernor of Florida of Medicine as of ary Permits to practice Medicine, the Civilian State Defense Council, will not expire until six months after the Gov- E. GONZALEZ, M.D. KEY WEST, FLORIDA January 14th, 1946. ical Society, To City and County Officials, On December 3i1st, 1945, I published a notice that I would discontinue practic- ing medicine on that date because Dr. H. C. Galey had ordered me to stop practicing. I took my case to the Secretary of the Florida State Board of Medical Examiners, advised that all Tempor- given by declares that the Emer- gency is terminated. Therefore I will resume my Practice this date. DR. E. GONZALEZ. SSS SSIS S S48 Maues Bring - Cruiser From oH udson: Ri iver, or Brooke Maue, survivor of one of the war's most heroic actions, is visiting in Key West and caught a 41-pound jewfish recently. Maue was a member of the ski-troopers of the 10th Mounted Infantry who fought in Italy. Out of his group of host Yee eee: nday On Division Street to the Club Secretar Saunders. dfhay, * Mrettion’a v2 the cnposie with the 2 esighdted asfcourtpeand t 1 For example Front Street would| | be designated as First Street, A fire was discovered at 1:20 | Greene Street, Second, €aroline,| o’clock Sunday morning ‘in Third and so on out to South) two-story apartment building at | Beach, Emma Street would then| the corner of Division street and | be designated as First Avenue,| Eneas Lane, just a short distance | Thomas, Second Avenue; White-| from Fran street. Considerable head, Third Avenue; Duval,| | damage was caused by the blaze | Fourth Avenue and so on io/to the furniture in one of the North Beach and on out to Poin-} rooms of the building, with slight 38 men only four came out unscathed. Mr. Maue is here with his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Phylles. The Maues came to Key West in their cabin cruiser. having journeyed all the way from the Hudson river in New York to Key West on the Intracoastal Waterway. They are from Ossinning, N. Y., where they are engaged in the oil business, . eNO K Lan heheh haha ETE rs ‘PIONEER HOTEL: 151 N. E. FIRST STREET In the Heart of Miami The Rendezvous of Key West SERVICEMEN and CIVILIANS “BEST FOR A NIGHTS REST“ One Block West of Bus Depot Tuesday ‘For Auto Licenses) As soon as County Tax Col- lector Howard E. Wilson opened | his office at 9, o’clock this morn- ing,, a.line began to form of persons who wished to purchase Ce Diep lates. ie ene edie pe and this ita [ise ce “ape to stretch out: Site! thes Jobby,!ifar- tomor- “the bp Prove «is the dast daysdhat plates’ may be bought without running | | the chance of being penalized. ‘ST. 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