The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 22, 1946, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devoted to the best interests of Key West LXVII. Beach Committeé To Urge Quick Action On Validation Of Bonds For New Project GROUP PROPOSES TO! SSS SISOS S&S APPEAR AT MEETING No Settlement In OF COUNTY COMMIS:| Sioht For Strike SION FEB. 5 VOLUME No. 19 Clem C. c membership hairman of the | (By Axsociated Press) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.— | Other strike news today: hundred . thousand General, Electric -and West- inghouse ,employes are still on strike,,with no immediate settlement.in sight. |, The impasse in the meat- packers’ strike.:is caused. by ~, these differences:..,CIO icis holding out for:an advancenes 19% cents an hour, A, EF. of L, for 172, while officials of meat-packing houses offer 15 cents. Two cents an hour separate the CIO and the Ford Motor Price, ¢ Committee, whose reprsenta- | Two tives from all civic organizations | in Key. West, today that! members of the committee will} app at the meeting of the county comm ay, Feb- tion to bonds validated be ac- Beach Centra inclu said ar sion Tues 5, to request that 2 the celerated Mr. Px though today is the ruary out that, forty-second ce pointed the bonds day since were ap- proved at the polls on December} 11, the first papers have not yet} Company. CIO asks 17% been filed in circuit court in the; Cents increase an hour in necessary proceedings to determ-! Wages, and Ford offers two ine whether or not the bonds are| cents less. valid and, therefore, marketable. | Ss. After papers are ‘iled,, MIMI I IT TD 4 the state attorney's office in this F Mi li district to file an answer, con-| our 1 itary testing the validity of the bonds. | ‘As the committee has no mon- | to wait till the bonds are sold to} 18 M k V i retain an engine to determine | t a € et) whether Rest Beach or the stretch | at the foot of the boulevard on} the more adapt- j able ot conversion into the tvpe we will acquire the site, as recom- mended engineer, either by or through condem- lin those AP Newsfeatures BALTIMORE, of excitement and a bad case of hay fever got Donald J. Robbins four discharges from three dif- ferent branches of the armed forces at the age of 18—two from | the Navy, and one each from | the Coast Guard and the Army. He enlisted in the submarine ) service at 16 and was sent to submarine school at New Lon- don, Conn. Things went fine for six months—practice escapes with a Momsen lung in the Navy's huge pr ure tank, prac- jtice dives in the school’s old S- ,type subs—plenty of excitement | Then, “somebody squealed, Donald laments. “They told me to re-enlist in six months when I turned 17.” But nine d wearing a Coast Guard uniform. hore helping s his unit prepared to ship over- mn book No. 3 to: Se a last-minute check disclos: The ration’ed again that he was too young. about obsolete; Came Jan. 12, 1944, his tank, but to-|birthday. Donald shipped into an is still busy! the Navy once more, this time away “iegally, but after a scant four weeks came hay fever and anoth: er discharge. “When I became 18,” he- re+ ‘calls, “I went through selective ce into the Army.” With the paratroopers hay fever: raised its ugly head in the middle of parachute jump, the boy’s se enth. The first sneez hit him just as he had fastened onto the static line, which automatically opens he ’chute. His attacks had been ng him to become tempor- hore is then the court will grant time to} Disch : ischarges At ey,” Mr. Price said, “we will have | the south cf beach we wish to obtain. Then by an purchase nation 5 Doliar-A-Year Man High Paid On This Seale oced al w BS features B/ ALTIMORE, und, c Jan. 22.—J. Al- retired Balti- arrier, put in 6,300, free. i volunteered for the 61, of cit yecoming iW ex-post post zens T filing the bo He sed pay pens explaining for his er H mick, Marylan:l says he bel-eves national record ours of work, d his volunteer January, 1943 300 worke' the ration book. Ek- vised and put into ation the filing system which oS ousy long after has become ex- with a card for book issued in ain well over 3,- m ars a m. H. McCor director, set a Leo OPA Vy. in $ amor files, blind,” ation he says ankle, I'll ‘break their eyes open. That's how fourth and why’ he about work funeral home. NOTICE There will be a meeting of the never know. 2 backs often with their usually works eight a day. But many times, things were more active ake work home and index cards until late OPA officials estimate contributed well 10 worth of his time. | he thinks he'll have completed in about mths. But he won't he garnered his final discharge, and his at a Baltimore jlows, Cuba Lodge No. 15, held} this evening at 7:30 at hall on Elizabeth street. | LUIS ALFARO, Noble Grand, | Santiago Rodriguez, Sec. ‘UNUM Miri tii LA CONCHA HOTEL COCKTAIL LOUNGE AIR-CONDITIONED for YOUR COMFORT low Featuring DANCING EVERY NIGHT Music by Barroso’s Orchestra and The New Cocktail ‘LA CONCHA SPECIAL’ BREAKFAST Served from . 8:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. LUNCHEON Served from 12:00 Noon to 2:00 P.M. DINNERS Served from 5:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. HUGH C. HODGE, Manager Ci they'll here OPA let me, I'd like working’ until closes down,” to the he Of Electric Units, Jan, 22.—Love | s later Donald was | 17th } “Halfway down I went totally; “Why I escaped} with nothing more than a broken! Guys | carries a cane as he goes | Independent Order of Odd Fel-| THE SOUTHERNMOST Steel At Its Lowest Ebb In United States ;SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND CIO WORKERS ARE NOW OUT ON STRIKE OVER COUNTRY (By Axsoci Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Pro- :duction of steel today is at its jlowest ebb in the United States jin 50 years, it was declared by representatives of the steel in- dustry. CIO steel workers are on strike, as a result of which reconversion is said to have suffered a decided setback. ! The strikers are holding out for President Truman’s recommenda- tion of an advance of 18% cents | an hour, but Benjamin Fearless, ; president of United States Steel, | who represents the industry; de- | clared that the greatest increase;i-. the companies can give, without» suffering financial loss, is 15 cénts{ an hour, Because of the walkout of steel , workers, the number of idle men j in the country reached 1,600,000, | a record high during the postwar! period. Settlement of the meat- packers’ strike is still at a stand still, and CIO General Motor employes, who had agreed to ai cept an advance of 19% cents an hour, today increase the amount | to 30 cents an hour on the offer’s | expiring yesterday without ac-! !ceptance by General Motors. Plate glass workers in Pitts-! burgh returned to work | this | morning after a strike that lasted three months. The men will ob- jtain an advance of 10 percent in| | wages. ee. Temperatures A Temperature data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. hest Lowest last 24 hours last night | 45 82 38 31 68 39 61 45, 21 1 24 2 53 40 72 50 28 18 81 81 36 ne 1 54 i | | be | Station j Atlanta ' Boston Brownsville Charleston Chicago Detroit Galveston Jacksonville Kansas City {KEY WEST K. W. Airport Memphis Miami Minneapolis New Orleans |New York 37 Norfolk 50 ! Oklahoma City g8 Pensacola 60 Pittsburgh 34 St. Louis 25 Tampa 75 EASON ON SNAP BEANS EXPIRED 24 72 «| The nounced local OPA office today that the sez or snap beans expired Janu 20 and will make a current | wholesale selling price of $4.62 on a 28 pound hamper. | In Key West the retail price is permitted to remain January 31st at 26c per pound. CROWLEYS HAVE VISITORS HERE Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cre of 800 Caroline street hav their guests, Jack Bazzanatti and | wife, of Boston, who will remain here for a visit of two weeks. Mr. Bazzanatti is operator of a night club in Boston. an- Seven hundred fifty thousand ! ! ‘MacArihur Issues SILI T ISS SS ‘Million Weeks, Putnam: only ! the EWSPAPER rH IN KEY W. ‘Coast Guard Officer Receives Citation’ AE Ait san Enmaceenababtens | sek areaaenesene VV VV IS TV IOV I | PRESIDE! “Barly Eaueution Reviewed by W Joa | | Navy'Photo + § LT. ALFRED J. HOGUEy left,: receives othe congratulations. of Lt,| Comdr. E. T. Piner, CQ.Coast Guard: Activities, right, for a citation | awarded him for services he pesformed,+as First Lieutenant of a United States cargo ship from April to October, 1945, during the assault and capture of Okinawa, Gunto, and the occupation of Ja- pan. The award was made in recent ceremonies here. j Shows Changing Of Street | Names Would Cause Confusion — In Description Of Properties _—_—_—"- esssoveees| “In your editorial about the | proposed changing of the names; | of streets in Kev West,” County! Clerk Ross C. Sawyer said this morning, “you. overlooked the ; New Directive On |. main argument against any, Jap Sicel Mills svc action: the confusion that would be caused in the descrip- I on in thousands of deeds rec- (Ry Ass 4 Press) i ; i TOKYO, Jan. 22.—General orded in the-county clerk’s office MaeK: z : a since. Key Weyet was founded,” acRsthar ‘issued a Otrective “) Mr. Sawyer then pointed out today that will culminate in the dismantling cf 460 steel | that, in a deed, the situation of mills in Japan. Meanwhile, a lot is fixed definitely by stat- | \ing that it begins on this or! the plants are being guarded by Ameyvican soldiers. that street so many feet from He also issued an order the corner of certain street; ‘with the particular corner speci- | | fied, as northeast or northwest, | that will dissolve 18 holding {southeast or southwest. companies in Japan, and an- other crder that will break the grip cf 14 Japanese fam- Besides, Mr. Sawyer stated, all | squares in the city are bounded ilies on industries in Japan. | by streets, and, were their names anged, more confus’on would be caused. “If proponents of the chang- ing of the names of Key West's streets are interested in fancy names. they can be found in {hundreds of platbooks in my office of subdivisio1 on the upper keys that were abandon- ed as such after the 1925 crash. Million Dollars ‘TEACHER OF 1800'S EARNED But if the proronents wish to find the | names i e that streets with fancy the subd'visions, I ad- | a square and a com- | pass, four engineers and seven jlinesmen be taken along to | locate them.” | JUST $10.50 FOR “TEN WEEKS (By Associated Press) LUNENBURG, Mass..—A Miss | who taught school in Lunenburg in 1827, didn’t get rich on the job, for she was paid $10.50 for 10 weeks—an: late as 1851, a dictionary aprarently v a rare and valu- able item, according to old rec- ords discovered here. The secretary’s record of meeting of the committee of thool Distric No, 7 in 1851 1ows that the thrifty town fathers were taking no chances. They “voted to have a drawer the teacher’s desk enlarged made suitable repository the dictionary belonging to district.” CAPTAIN REARDON | GIVEN MEMBERSHIP | IN LIONS CLUB, Captain. C. E. Reordan, com- mandant at the local naval; station, was informed this morn- ing he had been elected an hon- orary member of the Key West Lions’ Club “for outstanding service in this community.” Notification was sent to hira by Gerald Saunders, Lions’ secretary, who said the club hoped to induct Captain Reordan on January 31. Mr. Saunders , added that Captain Reordan i \the first man whom the clud even as a in and for | SALI IE LEE, SATE AS NORTH BEACH INN | COFFEE SHOP 711 North Beach Phone 453-J | eFull-Course DINNER, 6-8 p.m. Spanish Home-cooked DINNERS| by Reservation We Have A Supply of Zar Surplus FILMS | ALL SIZES SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY. Inc. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Duval at Fleming Phone 199/ QABAALAAALAALABALALD | has ad honored. Hy | tended him. | tween the stat | 40° } lin D. Roosevelt, Pri ‘ opening ' Aldan M. E U.S.A ST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1946 ‘Bickering Develops Between Great Britain And Russia At United Nations’ Mect (This is the second in a series of articles as written by Miss Marie Cappick some years ego for The Citizen on Key Wes! history). Unlike mosi cities of its size, | Key West has frequently had the honor of entertaining prominent personages. The earliest record is that of John James Audubon jwho came here in 1832, The world’s greatest _ ornithologist, Audubon was delighted with the island and the hospitality ex- He found the white headed pigecn here, and plenti- ful on the nearby keys. At the close of the war be- es, Jefferson: Davis and Mrs. Di arrived here on their way to Cuba. In 1880 Gen- eral U. S. Grant accompanied by General Phil H. Sheridan arriv- ed here on their world tour.; | From here they went to Havana thence to New Orleans. More recently Key West has been host eral Pershing, Mayor James Walker, Go’ ident Taft, President Coolidge and President Hoover. Distinguished Cubans frequently made v nd one of the of recent years Carlos International Cele- bration, which brought to Key} West a great many of Cubu’s! honored c¢ ons. 1631 Education To rever to the and their problems, one, it ap- pears was the education of their children. People of ducer mn and cult as were thesc residents, it is but to be peoede dd} that they should turn their at tentions to education as soon as », and it is recorded that! 1831,.two years afic the city had been survey¢ mapped, the citizens met adopted a resolution for of a school and Alva Bennett selec a position. Four yeprs; educator died and Jackson chosen as his} sor. It w not until, 1 ithat the public or tem was introduced in’ Key West, and’ the first school of it ‘kind was opened in the Masonic have s to outstanding is the San and the Reverend for the later this succes Temple on Simonton street with} ice, Eugene O. Locke as instructor.| Mr. Locke for many years wa an outstanding figure in the} legal profession, and clerk of the United States court in this city j until he moved to Jacksonville HAVE VISIFED ISLAND cITy, | A Pk A tn i mm { sisted)sby her niece, ‘Bethel Then there | Miss Young. The latter was for ! boys was conducted by Lieuten- , | ladies, nor Frank-! ! | echo! ; of the first settlers | first BETANCOURTS | ed and’ 370, take up dre free S¢hool! Who w | | | During the years between the! first school conducted by Rev- erend Alva Bennett, and_ the opening of the public school un-} of flow Locke, tions, der the direction of Mr. there were several private} schools. Of these one fondly re- calls the school conducted by PALACE THEATER BASIL RATHBONE in “The House Of Fear” News and Serial | “TONIGHT IS' PRIZE NITE” | S.PTERSCOMMINTY HL Colored - Center St. - Tuesday “HARMON OF MICHIGAN” with Tom Harmon vvwer i SER, NOWINTRODUCING the | “4 CATS” at Delmonico Bar | 5:30 to 7:30 COME IN... HEAR Cat Ruby—Base Cat Hector—Claranette | Cat Art—Vibras Cat Jack—Guitar Soon Reopen the Restaurant with same old crew The BEACH INN) RESTAURANT 800 Caroline at William St. HOT MEALS 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. 1 | | i | | | | | CASA CAYO HUESO (The Southernmost House) 1400 Duval at South St. DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE | | 1918 Eliza Street tananielane OF FORC- TS, FAMOUS MEN| ES IN DIFFERENT AREAS BY NATIONS LED TO ARGUMENT * ENevAmnoernied Preans LONDON, Jan. 22.—Bickeving developed today »between Great Britain and Russia at the con- ference of the United Nations organization. For several days Russia had been irked because of adverse comments that had been made about er maintaining troops in northern Iran, and today Rus- sia’s. representatives protested ainst the retention of troons Great Britain in Greece and Java, or Indones They declared that the pres- ence of the troops in thos countries was causing unr which might lead to serious consequences. Russia had believed that Great Britain had instigated the com- ment about the presence of Rus- sian troops in northern Iran. but Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin id that Great Britian had nc en concerned in in- itiating - Iran discussions. Bevin said he would make ¢ statement in detail before the UNO’s council of 11 about the Tran = affai but, meanwhile, Prime Minister Clement Attlee called > meeting of the British cabinet» this afternoon to con- sider the Russian charge. Attlee added that the matter will not come un for debate in parlia- ment. Another _ British spokesman, whose name was not revealed, rted there was nothing to fear about the presence of Brit- ish troops in Greece 1 Java, nodding that Great Britain was anxious to withdraw the troops soon as political conditions have been stabilize SEACOAST FIRING HERE ANNOUNCED cay seacoast | Miss Euphemia Lightbourne, Miss Melli school on Caroline street conducted by girls, while in 1852 as school for ant Daniel Beltzhoover, United States Army, this was held in the barracks. Many of the prom- inent business men of this city attended a school conducted by John M. Bethel. Sisters Arrive The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary saw the need here for a school for young and in 1868 a convent un- der the direction of sisters of their sisters of this religious or- der, was opened at the cor of Division and Whitehead streets. As the patronage increased the present location was purchased,’ and twice the convent has been enlarged to meet the needs of its patrons. In 1869 a Catholic school for boys was opened on Duval street, and there are yet living, men ¢ ! who call the days at this in- stitution which was under the direction of the resident pastor of St. Marv's Star of the Sea Church, pelian: J. Cappick, for ¢ on instructor jn d colleges in the north d to teach here, Later red to the Joseph’ Sister and ‘the school y building known as St and tanght by the Holy Names of Jesu Magy. These might bc ronside \ the pioncers in education in Key West. VISIT KEY WEST 1e announced today firing, sub-caliber (50 cal.) at towed target on surface will be held from in- stallations of Battery B, HDKW, spend Ft -Tavlor, Key West, Flor:da, ‘ from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on and 25 January. All aircraft ves warned to re- of the danger area, danger ar will bé the water area offshore Fort “Tay- natie acting. I » lor, forming a triangle the right ‘T/4' of the Signal joy of which extends 7000 yards Co has recently been dis- at'a bearing of 245 degrees truc charged from the Army, after from 24 degrees. 32 minutes 48 g 43 months in the ’- seconds North Latitude—81 de- of which were spent Over- srees 48 minutes 37 seconds in Africa and Italy. As @ wost Longitude, and the left adio teletype operator at Allied joy of wh'ch extends 7000 yard Porces Headquarters. at a bearing of 135 degrees true This was the first visit here from the same point. Maximum of the Betancourts since 1921. Grdinate: 900 feet. Danger to all ———— raft below this altitude over the danger area. E+ aes NOTICE Dolore Pons vd: court and her son, ancourt, morning a three day Mts. Chari: MPérter “Place. They left Sunday nigh’ New’ York, where Ignacio arrived here Friday Havana to Mr of from visit with Sturrup and 12-C els are for will NEW TREATMENT CLEVELAND. types ers, such as azaleas and can be treated now with ical compound which i= absorb- ed through their root makes } the plant toxic to insect pests. geranium a chem- Bicycle licenses have arrived. and a:o on sale at the Office of the City Tax Collector. Your name, address and serial number of the bicycle is necessary when applying for license. SAM B. PINDER, ‘Tax Collector. STERLING’S ("Scanner Phone 243 ROASTERS and FRYERS Dressed Daily We Have A Limited Supply of “BATTERIES © Come and Get Yours While They Last OPEN DAILY and SUNDAY from 7 A.M. to Midnight to Serve You Poor Old Craig Service Station Division at Francis Phone 9134 ee ae oe | SALE---25% Off CLOSING OUT ALL GIFTS - TOYS - ° :VELTIES TROPICAL TRADER Sawyer Radio & Appliance Company 718 Duval Street “ Phone 1000