The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 18, 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. 16 Plans Fa Community House At Key Largo: BIG DEVELOPMENT IS CD LDEDLD LIE MD PROPOSED BYG.R.K.'Nqyal Men On | mo aps FORMER Sub Tender Here ' Need Apartments ! | | Submarine tender Howard | W. Gilmore will be stationed | in Key West, arriving next | Friday. City Manager Dave King has received a call from Chaplain Jenkins at the Naval Base that accommoda- tions are desired for 45 men on the ship. These accommo- dations may be apartments, light housekeeping rooms or utility apartments, rooms with kitchen: privile: The tender is coming here: with’ new: squadron of fleetee G. R. K. C Mililon Doll er, who built the Pier at Miami} Beach, and who was in business in Key West after World work Monday three will for War to community house the first Jenkins Curry Four sold for acres to years 1s begin | H construct a Key Largo, several Tt at ' of units, said today | ago Mr. Curry} George N. Allison 40! Mr. Carter on Black- Bay. The tract tween the former railroad trac! and the Caribee development: 4 | months } water lies been assigned to ‘the ':Ke¥¢ West base:' Six submarines haye errived here thus far. Housing is getting to be a problem in Key West and those who wish to rent to these navy men may call Chaplain Jenkins at Navy 790, extension 446. ded ddd del Fish Spearing, Diving, Sunday: arrange veloped and now has completed | his plans. The community | to buldings will be taurant, filling a seafood res- station, 22-unit} bungalow court, a 40-room hotel and 100 fishing lodges. The Overseas highway runs through and side will be 1 iness hous y said that the de-} nich will be called } Riviera Village, will obtain elec- tricity from Tavernier and water from Florida Keys Aque- duct stem. one b e ADVERTISE KEY WEST COUN- CIL TO HOLD SHOW AT4P.M. Many Eleciric Workers Strike THOSE OF WESTERN ELEC- TRIC NOW NUMBER * | i | \ ax Diving contest is on the books for Sunday sponsored by the Ad- vertise Key West Council. It will be held, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and in conjunction with it there will be a fish spearing contest,, The event, is, scheduled for the north end of Duval street. | Last week’s coin diving contest proved to be very successful with hundreds of visitors, gathered for the contest. : Camera fans are especially in- vited. Press) Tan: * -18+- employees now 17,000, it was Twenty-one n Electric ke number today. ted. »phone employees h had been on *k on their jobs: In the house of representatives it was said that action will be taken to legalize Truman's faet-finding ia Opposed To Making Change In Charter Of Nations French Sever Relations With France, Spain (iy Assoernied Preany PARIS, Jan. 18.—The French} assembly today severed . diplo- matic relations between France and Spain. rn Reasons for that action was the admission by Franco that he had been supported by Hitler and Mussolini .during the civil! war in Spain. Black Market On Beef Is: Started: «ay (My Axsdetated Prexs) WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. 1 the Russian delegat'on United Nations confer- here’ today warnéd the that Russia would op- movement designed to y provisions of the or- s charter. slid them that, though and Japan have been i, fascism has not been ted, and that the UNO bend its efforts toward ving fascism from the poli- of the world. | i i Associated, Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. ” opat officials reported today that black market in the sale of beet hag already started, as a result of the meat packers’ strike, now in its third day. In New York, OPA sa‘:d, the black market price for beef is $4 more a hundred pounds than the ceiling price. Conferences to try to end the! strike are still being held here. | RS RN NORTH BEACH INN COFFEE SHOP North Beach Phone 453-J eFull-Ccurse DINNER, 6-8 p.m. Spanish Home-cooked DINNERS by Reservation TEN PERCENT BELOW CHICAGO, Total demand } for petroleum products in 1943} is estimated to be ‘only 10 pet- SLOPPY JOE'S BAR: MUSIC EVERY NIGHT by Tommy Thompson and His Band TUBES REPAIRED | by the Dill Elecrme Vuicamzer Lou Smith Auto Service White st Fleming Phone No. 5 1944 and ‘22 percent ‘above 1940. | We Are Now Accepting COLOR’ FILM for DEVELOPING and PRINTING SOUTHERNMOST CITY . PHARMACY, Inc. Prescription Druggists i within a four |Com. Festival | type ‘submarines! which: hasiai ; and, j January 28. a Searching For Crashed Navy | F* GOES! IN| *FOURUIMILES FROM ‘BOCA: GRANDE: KEY? |\” 16°MILES°FROM KEY WEST|' PROPER { _— | Navy plane, an F6F, crashed last night off Boca Grande Key mile radius and Coast Guard boats are out searching for the plane today. Coast Guard Dumbo, the air: ; sea rescue PBY plane, has been ! up today searching. No trace has! been found as yet. | The plane dropped out of a formation last night and was seen to fall in the location report- | ed. | Coast Guard boats are search- ing south and west of the key. | On! Febuary 22 |STADIUM’ COMMITTEE” SAYS" be fur’ CONTEST FOR QUEEN WILL BE HELD In the hope of building up our community spirit, and thereby as- sure the progress of Key West, Paul G. Albury, chairman of the Key .West Stadium Committee, said today that the committee will give a Community Festival on the stadium on February 22. A contest for the election of a queen will be held in connection with the festival, Mr. Albury said, and added that preparations now are being paid to Have bal- lots printed to begin the con-} sidents will be nds! vised of the stores whete votes’ may be obtained, on making pure) chases, and the funds raised: in} that way, Mr. Albury explained,! will be used to’ lay a cinder track in the stadium, for’, use vof hig hschool and other athletes, should the fund be ity enough; a gridiron for sa de wil be byilt. The ‘young’ woman ete queen will-be provided with Cor | onation robes and will be given a week-end trip, free of charge,} to Miami. | Voting for begin i queen will United Street Repaired Next PETRONIA SCARIFIED THIS | WEEK, ROBERT DOPP SAYS TODAY | 1 Petrenia has been’ scarifiedi as far as Thomas street and work is continuing, Pubile Serv- | ice Head Robert Dopp, ,annoync- ed today. Next:‘street' whith‘ "fin be : paired ‘Will be the Btimpy, blo: on United street’ between White and Georeas ste streets. } |Papy oabies For May Primary | Bernie C. Papy, who an-’ nounced his candidacy ‘yesterday | to succeed himself for represen- | tative, today qualified with | County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer to} run for the Democratic nomina- tion in the May primary. “it cial event of the season for win- { j ter F evening feature. ‘shell colectors H ed (COUNCHL! TO BE ELEC TED tema t nahh at te eeheemetnmte mm 25 | } posed | Council. Che Hey THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER 1n. THE USA —_ KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1946 ‘Real a] Apps To Dion ‘Visitor Sacial ‘Planned Tonig hi | For Grand Tine HOTEL MEN'S ASSOCIATION | SPONSORING: SHELL coL-| ‘ Glares; Public ‘ ves On New Roll AS gees “Fred J. Dion fills a real 1 need in the city as tax assessor”, City Ol Increase For Manager Dave King said today | thanked | him for taking a job for which | there qualified in this, city, including myself.” “I have told him that real ap- | preciation for his services to the city will come from the thinking people of the city although there may ‘be: criticism from others,”; Mr:i King. said. Ast predicted Citizen; LECTOR TO SPEAK: WOLK-! “and I have personally OFF IN CHARGE Break In Keys i { are few “An Evening of Fun” to be; | held tonight at the USO Club, at the corner of Duval and Caro-' line streets will be the. first ee Manager For visitors. i The: event ‘is being sno sored | ee sips fe L.yéstdrday \!Mr. Dion took the! by! the | Hotél: Men's Association | 55th off éffice! shortly ufter three PA YENIDA™ CINCO:5"\VWOULD Jand=will’ be®a regular’ Friday... gtetack too late to do othetithan ‘estate that! Mr. Dion would be'ap-| BE’ FIFTH) AVENUE, pointed yesterday. The oath was, HE STATES giver by City Clerk Roy ' Ham- t lin, Rts Mr. Dion said that he Refreshments th's week’ will ed by >the Postoffice, Inn, Manager Wolkoff. One of Key Wests best known who has gather- 35,072 different shells and logued them will speak. He ank Smith. The most fam- nith has found cat’s eye’ shell, 1 tobe first te hemisphere, itors and new- comers to the city are welcome, publicity chairman Mrs. Mar- garet M-tchell announced to- day. Other hetel managers: in the city will be hosts in future weekly mects. | will co-; © ty Manager Dave King said | operate with County Tax As-' that his thought on the present sessor Claude. Gandolfo and in controversy to change strect| eases of disputatious assessments names to numbers is that the would ask that a board of realty- yomantic atmosphere should be men sit and determine the cor- kept. rect figure. ' we are half way between met- There will be a public hearing yopolitan Miami and Latin Cuba. | held after the new nent 7 would propose that the names | roll is prepared in which 'Y be changed to numbers but that} manager, city commission and the Spanish equivalents of the! Mr. Dion will sit and h ©oM- numbers be also used. Thus plaints. After all decisions are Avenue Five would be printed made at the public hearing the onthe corner |sign . tAvenida rolls will be closed for the yeat Gjneg.5” ; and no further complaints heard is c is Fr ous shell Mr. lo 2 be found on t All winter v. jwryererss ver revere eervevery error. HiGit SCHOOL'S STUDENT Gala: Dinner To Ballot Au ‘Day “Today Purchase tase Wagon » ‘ence between. Avenue or stveet, avenida or calle and the number would -be there to re to guide them.” 1 Casting POLICE EMERGENCY AUTO PURCHASE PLANNED e 2.IByi ERED MILLER, Jr. hc eee ens| When = voting »machines - were adopted in the city and county governments, the students in the High School expressed the de- i sire to adopt the same method of balloting: It was pointed out that the Dade county schools elect their council officers with voting machines. The members of the Student Council are: berg, president; Marion Solano, vite-president; Betty Burchell acting~recording secretary; Porter, corresponding se: and Catherine Symonette, urer. A cauple of weeks ago, the! nominating group met to nomin- | ate candidates for the “coming election. They tried to ¢hédse’ those’ people who they thought midst “Suited for! each, office: The! | following ‘persons were natried! idates: 1h There have cont @rroneous: re- ports about the elections’in the Senior High School, which is be- ing Id today, balloting C a t3 p.m. : enior High School Stud- uncil and the Social Serv- ice classes have bi educating the students in government ad- | ministration for several years. During the last municipal elec- | tions the Social Science classes followed the campaign very osely. Some students. ' inter- ed candidates. Others col- lected campaign propaganda. The promi and qualifications of var andidates was dis- Ss and a record of, promises > by the winning candidates s being kept.to see if the prom- os ig. kept. i v. charter wasustud+ ied and ssed. It. was also compared with the, old charter: ! The Student Council has been ¢€onducting’ regular elections:cof officers for several years: Thése: elections are held in the ‘same manner as city and county elec- | tions. In the past there have been regular ballots with names: of candidates and squares for making each vot preference. The candidates are nominated by a special student assembly com- of two representatives |from each homeroom and the | regular members of the Student. Gala ‘dinner will, be held “by the Lions Club on February 4 with purrose of raising funds to pur- on. The South Beach the south end of street. Tickets are being sold at present. club present Joyce Mul-, TEMPERATURES Rae ending 7:30 a.m. Highest Lowesi | Station ulew 2¢ hours last night we patee AS ae 24; cinenile. if Apr Tgston, Chicago,,, 7 | Detroit For. president; ‘Arthur Boza,! Galveston Galey Sweeting and Kitty Sym- ' Tacksonv ile. onette, : Kansas City? For vice-president: Clayton KEY WEST Papy. Joan Porter and Nancy; K. W. Airport Sterling. ; Memphis For recording secretary: Gerry! Miami. . Albury, Evelyn Skelton and’ Minneapolis Antonica Smith. ig | New York For corresponding secretary:' New Orleans Joan Lanier and Conchita Varela For treasurer: Andre Mum-, Oklahoma City ford, Patsy Russell and Cleora, Pensacola | Pittsburgh | St: Louis 32 20 47 35, 52 70 70 46 67 28 28 59 37 45, 50 38 47 Genuine Auto ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO Pabre, cent below the record year of | 118 t ROASTERS and Ba Raised FRYERS BRADY’S (Live) POULTRY and EGG MARKET | “Opposite A:my Barracks” | DUVAL AND FLEMING STS. 1214 White St. Phona S4¢ 56 i | ‘pREscRiPTiO inaveassate Ingredients Compounded by. Experienced Pharmacists GARDNER’S PHARMACY DNER'S PH | Phone 1 Free Delivery i UBANOE “TONICHT 7 Tiicaind (SATURDAY ‘NIGHT § M.A > d0.2IM. to 4 A.M. CLUB SUGALOA “Key West's Exclusive Night Spot” MUSIC By SUGALOA ORCHESTRA GEORGE - JOHN - GUS - JACK—SONGS. JACK CROWLEY eSaturday Night, Cover Charge, $1.25 per Person Reservation Suggested—PHONE 9190 800 Caroline at William St. HOT MEALS Served 5:30 A.M, to 7:30 P.M. | $3.00 weekly. HOT and CO!D WATER. Clean, New Beds and Mattresses: Spanish Names| Tourists then would; catch on quickly to the differ-/ at South Beach Pavilion for the} chase a police emergency wag-! Water Lines | __ Thursday Ca Cause Less s Supply. fae 797,000 Gallons Re-| ceived In City: Hold Fire (Reserve: Water ).Hours » Are Set | (By LPA. water situati misunderstood conflicting st atetnents This much very lare some i which should be tidied up. First of all by contract ihe city should ri e 900,000 gal- lons a day. Commander Allen | Hoar, Public Works Officer at | NOB, stated today that on an average the city has been getting that amount daily. He pointed out that in the last two days be- cause of breaks in the line that only 500,600 of water was available yesterday and for the two days before that betw 700,000. and. 800,000 as the water began to flow after the new con- | nection made up at j.creek. | Workmen ‘at the water plant ‘claim that during the month of December that water furnished was fine but that since the last break. to make a new connection eon they have never received the | 900, 000'galidhs daily Which they j need. | ‘Thus pressure’ is held down tp! a iminintiim $0 that all «he water }won’t"'Be'used. up. At‘. - hours of 6 am., 11 am.,'5 p.m. and 11 p.'m. the wa is turned on and kept on anywhere’ from a_ half hour to an hour according to water available. Duri ig the last 24 hours, y have gallons n \ plant only is’ at | Simonion | | for fire is held back, T! of five feet of wat foot or a j the Seach ca i the prese at nec ‘Temperature data for the 24 hours! Heys the Navy \ Station to's of the city. ed to get needed pply the ‘extra n This statioh is expe the. amount’ of we electrie pumps are pyolt tifa al. Flohitth City to 5 i ing? Betwéén 2.4 and 2.6 ,milljopns, gallons a day are phefpen t Florida’ City. The “new Marathon pumping station will be ready sometime next month and probably then Key West will have most of it: water blems solved. The one } big point which will still cause trouble possible breakag: in the lines up through the 8. These breakages lose a deal of water. + Another point’ which should be taken into consideration is the condition of the present water pipe system within the city Some of the engineering’ on this j6b has been questioriable and then the old salt water pive lines used in the city are in bad shape. Engineering heads might do well: to get together on these ' great the water ‘is being lost. sacbiipathpattinpthn Stir tt a ttn ind naa maha 2 “from YOUR DEALER | NAVARRO, In 022444444444 444444 PALACE THEATER Rod Cameron in “Renegades of the Rio Grande’ News and Serial VV VV VIC VIII TIT * Jewfish Marathon puede) Ppa Jaye questions: and see exactly where | @Piynduih, Dodge, DeSoto, ( AADAAAAALAAAAAAAA. | Va TIME FOR CALLING OF STRIKE BY WORKERS IS SET FOR NOON ON SUNDAY } (By Axwocis‘ed Press) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. — It was reported today. that Philip Murray, president. of CIO, had ac i cepted. the offer of 18 1-2 cenis { an hour advance, reported to’ be ' the amount fixed ‘in President Truman’s formula, in the wa ) of the 200,000 the United ‘Sta Up toate this afternoon, word had: not been received from Ben- jamin Fairless, president of Uni- ted States Steel, who represents steel. plants generally . in .this country. He flew from here to York to také up the matter executives of other stecl c rations. The reported offer is one cent under the amount demanded by by the CIO and three cents high- er than the offer made by Fair- New with Time for calling the strike is set for noon Sunday. Hundred Get Police Tickets TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. MOS''- LY ON ILEGAL: PARK- ING, CLERK SAYS Over one hundred police tick- ets have ben giyen out within the past two. weeks; City Clerk Roy amlin, reported;today on traffic violations. “Keep away from. yellow no perking signs” Mr., Hamlin said today in noting that most of the violations were for wrong, patk- ing. Announce Army Firing Practice The Army announced today Seacoast Artillery Firing ill be held from Salt West, Florida from 5;00 p. m. on 21 and All ‘aireraft and remaig. be the 25,000 are warned. to ar-of the danger area. The,, danger area will anea, extending off shore Salt Po: bounded by,, bearing 185, deg true from 24 degres 33» minut: 21 secands North, Latitude - 81 degrees 46. minutes. 15 West Longitude, west to be 175 degrees true from the,.samc point. MAXIMUM ORDINAT 2000 feet. Danger to: all ai below this altitude over the-« ger area. LE LE ELI LOIE EE STERLING’S POULTRY and GG Market 1918 Eliza Street Phone 243 ROASTERS and FRYERS Dressed Daily A TO AOHNNEOUFEN ENG HASESOLEUHNESESEL ASEAN MASONS, ATTENTION! 37TH ANNIVER i OBSERVANCE, | Anchor Lodge No. 182; #.% AM. A All Masons in’ good stand- ing in Key West ate cordially invited to attend with their wives. FOOD *% FELLOWSHIP MUSIC High School it “Cipalibesioz, 7:30 P.M. Saturday, January 1$th i ‘UEENASUEDACUASAGUOSOUUAA LEAGUES SEE