The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 1946, Page 1

— Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devoted to the best interests of Key West Vii. Key West, Florida, bas tne : st equable climate in the country, with an ‘average ‘range of only 14° Fahrenhait Che Kei West THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1946 IN THE No. 18 PRICE FIVE CENT: INVITE NIT wr Vr rrr rr | KEY WEST.SUNSHINE SARA AAAAADASAAALRREADAE DABABBAABA [Red Cross Unit. | To Attend Meet Pca ror F; Sik Caled By Stak Workers Went Intov fie At Fay Hour Of Mo TIE-UP INVOLVES MOST} OF PLANTS IN COUN-| TRY WITH EXCEP- TION OF VERY FEW (My Assocraled Presny WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The H 1 workmen went in-j at 12:01 o'clock this n all piants in the coun-; 1all ones, in- mills in theij the Kaiser % of plants began at} with pickets carrying | various devices. steel plants inj on which that the disaster said it will re-| of 200,000 tons of | enough to make one nillion refriger- were . and Wear- kers crashed ning to get back Sawyer Gets | Letter About Juvenile Court COPY OF INSTRUCTIONS SENT TO ROBERTS TO TRY COLORED BOY HELD IN COUNTY JAIL ng Announces For Senate “BOB” KING Bob hing, who arrived in Key West Saturday and will. remain till tomorrow calling on many friends here, today announced his candidacy fer the Democratic nomination for state senator from this district in the primary to be held. May 7. Mr. King has visited Key West on many occasions and has a wide | acquaintance here. He said today |he gratefully recalled that ,;when {he ran for the same office in 1942, he carried Monroe county over the same opponent he has now. “The people of Monroe county who” know me,” Mr. King said, aware Iam a man who sticks ord. I told’ them four years ago, and I am telling them| | now, that, in the evnt of my elec- tion, I shall be keenly alive to the interests of all the counties: in my district.” Mr. King’s home county is Lee, jof which he was sheriff for eight a copy of a nk O. Roberts, authorizing | to try Philip Bailey, a color-| s been confined inj ail since July 26 of | in Mr. Roberts’ capacity | enile judge in Monroe coun- Roberts is ill in pital, and Mr, Sawyer did not know when N wiil be able to preside in Hi Mr has been appointed | Yy genera Mr. | » handle the sta jure ne if the law, passed session of the legi ¢, abolishing the Monroe coun- | court, is valid or un- tries Bailey, institute quo ceedings in. circuit ng Mr. Roberts to right he had to try} the juvenile Raymond Lord} will prepare Mr. » the suit, and it will be e law is uncon- ng that conte of the supreme} concerning ws in the | Judge he er, BATTERIES CHARGED | The Modern Way Drive in. in 30 to 45 minutes and | your car can be on its way! | Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE| Phone No.5 White at Fleming | The BEACH INN “RESTAURANT 800 Caroline at William St. | HOT MEALS ss! Served 5:30 A.M. to 7:30 P.M. | We now HAVE BEDS in our! Dormitory for MEN ONLY at! $3.00 weekly. HOT and COID WATER. Clean, New Beds and} Mattresses. | letter sent }~ years. After he has made the rounds of Key West, he said he would spend: two or th days calling on friends and acquaintances on the lower and upper keys. |Truek Accident Case On Today Case of W: ored. who c am Johnson, col- ed into a fence end/0n the property of the U. S.| coun Naval Hospital on Highway No. One last week will be up in court today. 1 Johnson ‘is charged with be- ing intoxicated, atricky Ef... Take Quarter From March Of Dimes Stand Meanest Man In Town is the fellow who stole a quar- ter out of the Girl Scouts March of Dimes stand at the corner of Duval and Southard streets in the current Infan- tile Paralysis Drive. Furthermore the quarter was from the pocket of March of Dimes’ Chairman Ralph Sierra. The girls had gone home during the lunch hour today ,and while they were gone, Mr. “Sierra passed by the stand and dfopped in a quar- ter. Returning later he found that someone had taken the quarter from the stand, COCPLELE Ld Bendix WASHER On Display Wednesday RADIOS REPAIRED Yates Refrigeration Service PHONE 203 800 White Street Ss GE a He was driving | | — ——e LB GILLS SSIS S| In Lauderdale: |DELEGATION |. WILL ATTEND REGIONAL CONFERENCE WITH MANY OTHER OFFI- CIALS | | | | | | | \ \ { | A delegation from the Key !West Chapter of the American Red Cross will be in Fort Laud- jerdale on January 22 to attend regional conference with | Southeastern Area officials on | plans for the 1946 Fund Cam- | paign which js to be held in j March, Allen Hampton, chapter’ | |chairman, announced. The meeting is. scheduled to} begimnat: 9:30 a.m. at Sea: Horse | Restatrant, 900 East Olas Blvd.,! “Regional Director), Allen eleading the discussion of fmapaign plans. After luncheon ;the*group will hear Helen Cas-! \sidy, Red Cross, hospital worker, ! | in a talk on her experiences in | Serving hospitalized servicemen. 1 Miss Cassidy is the Red Cross , {Field Director at the New Or-| jleans U. S. Naval {where she directs and super- vises all Red Cross activities, including recreation and_ social | work, Since joining ‘the organ- jization in August 1943 she has also worked in the U. S. Naval ; Hospital at the Norfolk, Va. loperating base. She isa gradu-! ate of- Ursuline College in her! home city of New Orleans, and | she holds, a master’s degree in! social work from Tulane Uawerei| | ja sity. The local delegation will con- sist of’ Mrs. Florence Dulion, vol- | unteer, special service chairman: ! Mrs. Polly R. Collins, home service secretary and Mrs. Opal | Van’ Deursen, executive secre- tary, Chairman. Hampton stated. Representatives of the areaj | headquarters who are experted to be present. include Clifford B. Fegg, director Of public in- | formation, and James H. Smith, ! | Seneral field reptesentative. i Goal of the 1946 campaign ‘has | been set at $100,000,000. Red Cross postwar services are vital to the _ nation’s well-being, | Chairman Hampton pointed out. | Ovr armed forces are still de- | ployed all over the world, and» our wounded are’ still entitled to! the same grateful service as ever. The campaign slogan, “Your Red Cross Must Carry | { On,” ‘is particularly appropriate, | |he added. Other chapters of the region | |which are to send representa- | j tives to the meeting are: Clew Collier county, Glades! LaBelle and Martin ; ton, | county, t+ Temperatures | Femperenie data for the 24 hours | ending 7:30 a.m. | Highest | Lowest | last 24 hours last night 45 33 . 32 14 9. 53 | 51 44 mS? yf 6 27 a1 | 61 47 | - 74 57 32 18 KEY WEST .. 80 67 K. W. Airport 79 66 Memphis __.. 48 32 Miami . 14 68 Minneapolis. .. 16 -9 New Orleans 69 51 New York 30 25 | Norfolk 50 37 Oklahoma City 43 26 Pensacola... 62, 52 | Pittsburgh. _/* 37 27 St. Louis 32 13: | Tampa vey 62 | Station ‘ Atlanta Boston | Brownsville ; Charleston __ | Chicago | Detroit Galveston Jacksonv:lle Kansas City ! Te | Vewevwwwwvvwvevywe Geituine Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto! and -from-¥YOUR Chrysler DEALER NAVARRO, Inc 2£44444444444444. jAmmme. | PALACE THEATER BING CROSBY in ‘EAST SIDE of HEAVEN’ News and Serial VV VV VV ANN MONOHAN) Yic, and SHIRLEY KOLDERUP, 5Kic, NOB WAVES, feel no little compassion for their northern compatriots as they relax on the beach.and take advantage of Key West’s perennial sunshine and balmy breezes. Message in History To United States Congres © Conch Lives On Clams, Conchologist Smith Says Did you know a conch lives {on clams. Our well known pink | conch sits patiently bythe side 4 of a clam.until the clam opens Navy Photo | its horny foot inside ant shits: the’ clam muscle in half for-the day's meal. aaa camer aco and a score of other in- ing ¢onchology points of in- terest were told last night at its. shell to breathe! when itiputsr ounty Jail Restricted For Hospital, | winter visitors social by Frank | Smith, well known amateur con- chologist who has given valuable ‘ADVOCATES . TWENTY - | ONE PIECES OF LEG- ISLATION IN STATE OF t'NION MESSAGE from a 1/8 inch size in three and one half years. The pink. conch belongs to a. different family, the strombus; gigas. and beadeces ed his message to.congress on the pink -pearls:, Queen.» Alexandria state of the Union and in advo- of Egypt hase perfcetly: matched cacy of 21 pieces of legislation. set) ‘of «these little pink pearls It was the longest: presidential which are worth about $25 a- message in the history of the piece. The oyster borer has United Staies, containing 32,000 thousands of little teeth and is words. responsible for the hole bored He declared he favored the through the shells of oysters and cutting of government expenses clams through which it feeds on alinost in half, and called for a the shellfish inside. reduction of debts as fast as is (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, dan. 21— President Truman ioday deliver- The American stone apple dig practicable. jfought at the Marshall Islands, _ Housing Fe Government To — | Take Over Meat Packing Plants (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.— With the surplus of meats in the United States already cut to 25° percent of normal, it’ was reported today that the | government is getting ready ** to seize meat-packing plants to put an end to the strike. It was said that plants may {| be seized by early this eve- | ning or probably tomorrow. President Truman said that if it becomes necessary to seize the meat-packing plants that action will be taken on | the ground that a national .| emergency exists. COIPIS IS MIM Will Roberts Enters Race PERRIS | | QUALIFIES AS CANDIDATE! FOR REPRESENTA- TIVE Will E. P. Roberts, who, as\, captain, wag released from the! army yesterday after five years’! service, today qualified with| County Clerk Ro: a candidate for nomination for s C. Sawyer as | the Democratic representative ,from Monroe county in the May | Pervisor of jail inspection. “Pris: primaries. Three of Captain Roberts’ five | years in the army were spent in the Pacific theatre, where he| Saipan, in the Marianas, Leyte, in the Philippines. He joined the local company | of National Guard in 1929, and| and | | been made since that time. | proved by the Federal Govern- ;ment, children are often mixed | usually found under grass, it has | often |that they turn their own. jobs |cumstances should they be giv- | jon their cleanliness or lack of, deral Prisoners. and unknown information — to Smithsonian institute on the hab- its of shellfish in these waters. isaac oa Gostouccnacks Mr. Smith has collected over of The Key West Citizens | 3,000 diferent species. WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 21. The Florida clam is from 6 to —The Monroe County «| 17 inches across, the tulip conch jail is ranked as “| feed on clams, the turkey wing for the | shellfish are of five varietics all housing of Federal prisoners, it looking much like Noah Ik, was learned today. This means/ there is a bloody.clam, there are that Federal prisoners are not’ four varieties of star ‘shells with | marble like pedestals but which to be housed. there unless other | cannot defend. themsclyes in the “restricted” jail facilities are not, available.) battle of the sea. The most Of 3000 county. jails inspected | amazing thing about them is that by . bureau. officials, only 509! if one has a foreign body in one's hi + Federal andarae | oXe the star shellfish may be rae aes . Soere a ae. | placed against the eye and in The, ..remainder.. according. to Lfive: minstes.274 have made | Justice Department officials, are the cireuit of the eye and gath- | not fit to house any prisoners, j ered up the particle without pain 4 naa ar het. | t0. the eye: and should be placed under bet | ‘The: fifetghell cin’be used as a ter management and cleaned up. | sije in an.emergency. The mol- The rating:<of the Monroe | lusks can grow to.as big as 12 ‘rating is based on an inspection | to 14 inches. The flaming ton- ' gue shell is found on sea fans , eas pull a8 - Percent. This nd can absorb itself throvgh its made Jan. 11, 1944. It is pos-| own shell, The leopard skin is sible that improvements have | found under rocks and has beau- | tiful mother of pearl inside. ie > jai .|are found near mangrove roots se say Ok te dalla Db, APs are arte toepull oft withant | breaking. The pink radiata is un- hardened crimin- ‘the rays of the setting \sun on Most of its back. The bleeding tooth pe. “kangaroo longs to the whelk family an . i may be eaten. There are a num- court#”, impromptu courts set | her of varieties. It is a food deli- Pein Stage ie ~ ee Be cacy AOE the poorer class in ein order an tne Jal DUE fairy ip Lemegn: 4 for the benefit of the The tassela besicola antillarium ance ely the pale _ or horse conch is one of the eh vullies in ie prison and some- in the sea. Its amperculum times murderers or degenrates. | ae honry, and.the-sbeldalarg- The Bureau of Prisons wiff’'6. ve is 22 inches. tt grgws not approve any jail where aj ,, sy kangaroo court operates. i iH pr “I am appalled that. some 2d, AT AAT AEAE AD officials are so criminally lax ‘ A ‘Wires Burn In Short Circuited Car Yesterday with drunks, als, and sex perverts. these jails have n over to the prisoners.” said M:ss Nina Kinsella, for 15 years su inors are not competent to gov ern themselves. Under no cir- | Short circuit in.a Lincoln car yesterday caused a small fire in the automobile but the blaze was extinguished quick- ly. en author. over other: County jails are also judged | it, the quality of food served, | and attention given the jail by the sheriff and the jailers. po siti J into stones and cannot be taken One of the measures he advo- out with ease. The cone shells cated is the appointment of fact- can sting onc. An albino shell finding boards that will be im- was. shown.. There are coffee powered to.examine companies’ welks, golden limpids, chinese books to determine their ability hats and slipper shells, which take. to pay wages and. also to pro- the shape of. the creature it lives vide for a 50-day “cooling off on: ctfect. There are , fig Another measure: concerns un- shells,’ periwinkles, employment, a second, the is the enemy. of ¢ posed merger of the armed borers. er dentallia, ells vices,. and another that are of the same chemical compo- signed to ex:end selective serv- ition as* one’s teeth. Of coral, ice. there are honeycomb, or pipe or- Coilective bargaining, he gan, brain coral and scores of oth- rted, is the best way to av ers. strikes. Fair wages for employ When the Navy marine railway and fairness 40 private capit was dug here, crystallized cor with as: ces of fair profits on wassent by Mr. Smith to. the | investments, are csential to- the Smithsonian Institute, which an-} industrial world, alyzed ‘some as of the prehjstoric! “He advocated that the mini- Miocene age.. Sand samples fromitmum wage scale be increased the strata were also sent and this| from 40 to 65 cents an hour, Pleiocene another of the! added thai proposed incr Miocene age. Sand samples from} gould be made without endan- also sent! gering. the profits of either bus- st| iness. or industry. statements coral was, is,| He commented on the critical and alw: will be,” Mr. Smith) housing ‘shortage in the United said. _ T rt coral is like a] States, and advocated that the ballet dancer’s skirt. The purple! government adopt a long-range and gold found on séa fans are of | policy for’ relieving that situa- animal life, although the vegeta-| tion. tion. is of plant life. At the end! ‘Though he spoke about cutting of February and the beginning} gown government expenses by of March the violet snail shells| Gne-half, he. strongly advocated starting coming into the beaches, | jyereases in salaries of all feder- with Gulf weed. It has real dye] a1 employees. shell ~ get owe has Atlanta Woman To Talk On Leprosy garded as sacred in h and finaliy the price went down, after it was found easy to obtain. | Finally there are coon oysters | which are said to climb trees by putting their feelers out. |wiLL BE HEARD AT, FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | HERE SUNDAY Two mail Fires On Duval Street Mrs. Mamie Gene Cole Husk of Atlanta, Georgia, Southeast- 3:30 / erm secretary for the American iei | Mission to Lepers began an ex- {| tended tour in Flor-da, starting in Ja wille the weekend of ‘Januar, -14, Her Jacksonville meetings w arranged by the Jacksonville Executive Board of |the Florida Chain of Missionary | Assembiies. Her itinerary in this been arranged by Yesterday afternoon at the Fire Department was calle. to the north end of Duval stree'! where an automobile was found afire. The small blaze was quickly extinguished, with minor | damage resulting to the car. At 8 o'clock last night, the firemen responded to a call sent |entired the army before the | The election as sheriffs of men Jags’ attack at Pearl Harbor,|U"Skilled in institutional man- December 13, six days after the | #8¢ment and the fee system are attack, he volunteered for serv-|f@tially responsible for the low jices in the Pacific, but his re-| quest was not granted till July} 4, 1942 | “i shall make the formal an- nouncement of my candidacy in} The Citizen in a few days,” Cap-| tain Koberts said, at which time| I will outline my position on matters vitally affecting Mon- roe county.” Genuine for All Auto Cars ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS Phone 442 116 Duval, Jefferson Hotel Bldg. “GE TS SNARE EN ACER EERE ROASTERS and FRYERS BRADY’S (Live) Poultry and Egg Market 1214 White St. Phone 54" PEEMAERERERER SHER ESSERE {rating of the average county { Due to the ignition being left on the wires, the car be- | gan to smoke when Patrol- | men Frank Jolly and Hector Castro investigated and ex- in from box 23, corner of Duval} and Southard streets, and upon, j arriving on the scene found a ple'of trash afire in front of the | distriet hag } E. D. Gooding, district chairman. Sunday, January 27th, 2 p.m., Mrs: Husk: will speak in the }in county jails, the jail, department officials claim,! tinguished the: blaze. | By half starving prisoners, some sheriffs can pocket most of the © POM DOM D fd money, in some cases up to $50,- | \#*saseaseseaeadsasee 600 a year. | Pure, F To bring about improvement PRESCRIPTIONS Tecan ‘ST PETERS COMMUNITY HAL people can | Compounded by peverienced hg Strand Theater, whieh was ex- tinguished in short order with no damage to nearby property. | First Methodist Church in Key West. Mrs. Husk is well known as a speaker and writer through- out the south. She is a former Christian Endeavor, director of reigious education in two demand regular state-wide in-| ie eign spection and they can. force the! GARDNER'S PHARM. CY county government to establish | Phone 1 satisfactory...-personnel ‘standard: and prescribe » sptnd«:rules } for;; operation of ‘the jail,)depart-; ment, spokesmen say. Something | must be di fe hi ‘we a fl lone, for the record of j ‘ bi « degeneracy, thievery and mnie Special Communication of An- der in county jails is appalling. chor Ledge, No. 182, F. & A. M.. jE, os cat 9 aa OTS See i setaneeneeinnmmienlanmimmanianl ‘Monday; January 21st, 1946, 7:30 | p.m. NORTH BEACH I Nok | COFFEE ign All members and ees | 711 North Beach Phone 453-5 , Masons inyited to be present. } eFull-Course DINNER. 6-8 pam.| BY order W. P. Williams, W.M.| @Spanish Home-cooked DINNERS GERALD H. ADAMS, | ——————— Free Deilvery}. ered - Center St. - Mondi Pe BLOOD OF JESUS” is churehes, and field secretary for | two church related colleges. She ‘ (Continued on, Fage Four) ‘Wo Hove A Limited Supply of ‘BATTERIES Come and Get Yours While They Last OPEN DAILY and SUNDAY from 7 AM. to Midnight to Serve You Poor Old Craig . Setvice Station Division at Francis Phone 9194 J-Negro Cast “Rex-and Rinty” ee PIONEER HOTEL 151 N. E. 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