The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 28, 1946, Page 1

Associated Press Day rion een | Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devoted to the best interests of Key West President Of Root Out FELIX GOUIN SAYS HE SPI DOI OL 4 WILL WAGE RELENT- 928 Bicycle LESS FIGHT IN MOVE-| ! |U.S. Employment Office Doubles: trance. To. Licenses Sold | (By Anno PARIS, Jan. 28. — President Felix Gouin today announced he Nine hundred and twenty- eight bicycle licenses have been purchased since being put on sale last week, Tax Collector Sam B. Pinder said today, with the figure expect- ed'to go over the 1,000 mark today. Over 300 were sold in seven hours in one day alone, Mr. Pinder said. ‘There are+2,500 bicycle: li- consté: ini Mr: Pibspe wisitice:: CIITOeOe es No, Service ‘Station. Will Inspect Cars' had completed age a relentless fight in France | against the black market. He said the market had pene- trated to every city and village and that he was de- termined to root it out. He further stated that his gov- ernment js determined ‘to’ prac- tice the strictest ¢conomy, and ih an effort to bring all’ Frenchmen to a realization that they‘ had-a hard fight to bring about the:re- habilitation of France, he favored a decided incre in taxes. arrangements to in France, Owner Of Transit Co. Visits Here MR. PAGE, OF GASTONIA, NORTH CAROLINA, PRAISES | EDITORIAL IN THE ciTi-| Asked current rumors’ | that one service station had been! ZEN | designated as inspecting station | for cars to receive a safety ‘in- spectién and buy a city semi-an-| nual.‘ tag, City “Manager ‘King; stated’ that the city police de-} partment would conduct the in- ) j | { | |WILL BE DONE BY POLICE DEPARTMENT; ANY SERV- ICE STATION OR PERSON! CAN MAKE REPAIRS about Visiting in Key West is C. D. P. owner of Key ‘West Tran-j} { Company, who was making a} periodic v-sit. inspecting — hig y here. | pséctitig. Page was very much taken! Psy ith Key West gnd has. stat- ie ihat his thought is to pre- designated a inspet- ts quaintness as a selling tion for cars to enforce the re- cently passed ordinance and none, will be” Mt. King said. Mr. King stated’ that ‘drivel!’ may have any Station cheek, their: ears and as fa ice station has, been about The Cit:zén’s Page said that « they were among! m in)ithe countty. He Led one ‘on Rhode Island and it to the Charlotte Observer ted from it. \ from Gastonia, | ahd has exten-} in dairy and ice business. He owns other} é large coal mine. | anager of the Mr. he is concerned one may, do ihe job himself. He pointed out that the dead-} line for having this service -ready | and sec a lice i hj 15, Which gave all a six weeks} warning. Copies of the requir the ordinance are available at the} Company, is, city clerk’s office and may be; Page on hs secured there or by calling the ex clerk, Mr. King stated. Arrest -st Employe ‘Tax Collector Of Elks Bingo| Office Begun ther arrest on the charge | GROUND BROKEN TODAY BY of .disorderly proceedings; al- lowing. a crowd to collect took! |S. H. DRUDGE, AWARD- Flace | in. the of George Keese who is under $75 bond. Lae cacsaitangs ee Reese is an employee of thet a Elk’s Bingo game. ige is ina holdings ements of} of the city. case ~ 2 Ground, was, broken today on} jthe northeast side of the city jhall for the small brick anné: | which will be built as an offic: for city tax collector and treas- urer. The contract was awarded at city commission meeting Friday night to S. H. Drudge and Com- pany, contractors, who put in « low bid of $1,318. The old ladies toiling up the {long stairway up to the present tax collector’s office were cheer- |fully told, “Well this may be | your last trip up these stairs to make payments” and they as | cheerfully answered, “We will be very glad of that”. The long jclimb up. the stairs to make ‘scavenger and tax payments is very trying oni elderly folks, CT BATTERIES | tor PORTABLE RADIOS: Duval Radio Sales --Service 211 Duval St. Phone 574! = IOS. CSL Ss A Sailormen Get Overnight Liberty Here} According to a new direct- iver issued by Captain C. &. Reordan, commandant of the Naval Operating Base, lib- erty may be granted by all commanding officerr oi the naval establishment here ac- cording to their discretion and the fleet regulations, Norma! liberty will be gtanted tc Nava! Operating Base personne! unti! 0745 each morning. This is the first regular overnight lib- erty which wil! be granted tc naval personne! since the war ended. The directive will go into forc.Wednesday night SFL hk, hk uheuke deude WE ARE... NORTH BEACH INN HYDRAULIC BRAKE "COFFEE SHOP ee Coe )7iL North Beach Phone 453-J| au Smith Auto Service peda shite te md Pig 3| ¢Spanish Home-cooked DINNERS pe posite Army. arrache” | bia anes \ SU OE | |= { | 1 | | In One Week w jemployment have ifrom the county to jhad THE SOUTHERNMOST Interviews Held OVER 2,000 PLACED IN JOBS IN YEAR; VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II THRONG OF- | FICE Since December veterans orld War II and others seeking increased in numbers, Jeff H. Knight, mana- ger of U. S. Employment Service here, reports. fe From .January to December last year, over 2,000 persons were placed in jobs.. There were 200 veterans of World War II so placed, Mr. Knight said. The office has been averaging 50 persons a day but since De- cembet began’and a large num?} ber ‘of*Veterans of'World War' IT; | began to ‘comeback, the number of ' thés#? Séeking employmeit has gone“ ups 50%; Mr. Knight said. et “Jobs are getline searcer,” Mr. ‘Knight said“akd’ asks employers (to take advantage @f°tHE 'U: S. Servite ‘by’ calling or writing their heeds to the of- fice. In this way the employer gets the benefit of interviewing from 50 to 100 persons a day, Mr. Knight said. A system of inter- with employers over town. will be instituted shortly, the lo- cal USES manager said, but add- ed that calls directly from the employr to° the Employment Service would speed up informa- tion as to jobs. available. Employme, The office is at 314 Simonton! ‘Two Hundred And Seventy Thousand:Meat)Packers | Resumed' Qperations| Today Nts is Prensa) |Street, tele. Blvd. Leveling Is Completed in front of the Postof- TWENTY-FIVE FOOT ROAD- WAY ON OCEAN SIDE INVOLVED H. B. Elliott, sub contractor to Toppino who received a contract fy part of «Roosevelt. Boule: reports that: this has been accomplished The project was to scar é twenty five foot section of Flagler Avenue and the Boule-! vard to a location 1,500 feet west of the East Martello Towe This section of the Boulevard been storm ravaged two years ago. Under consideration now is a plan for this section be-} {coming an alternate route to U. S. I and the State Road Depart- ment taking up upkeep a ma ntenance, The scarification ordered a light scarifying to smooth out a route on the ocean side of the} Boulevard. Other projects com- | pleted by Mi!’ Elliott was Grin: | nel, and Virgitiia stteets tor the ety. COTO Te TS. See Another _Contference-On Steel Strike' (By" Ansocipced Prean) WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.— Because of the presence here of Benjamin Fairless, presi- dent of United States Steel, and Philip Murray, head of the CIO, it was reported to- day that they are going to hold another conference with President Truman about the steel strike. When asked about the re- port, Murray said that he had no appointment with. the President, and Fairless declar- ed he was here on other busi- ness. TI IILI is SIS 32£4244444444444444 PRESCRIPTIONS farscaicr7 b Ingredien' Ci inded Experienced sale ad s eats, GARDNER’S PHARMACY Phone 177 Free Delivery e ewwwwww ewe cwwee Genuine Auto ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS. Phone 442 116 Duval. Jefferson Hotel Bldg. CEE: SRA of} zi was} NEWSPAPER IN TH KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1946 and Bobbie Reord commander here overseas in Korea. By Aw WASHINGTON, Jan. -26—T morning 270,000 meat packers 434 houses in. the 'countiy “ufider the direction ‘of Seeretary. of) Agriy {culture And Ande warned would be almost | the supply of meat. would be n At the acking houses, it said that it will be Tiniraday tsumed | woix..in packing in. that. it a weék before Bridges S Collections of tolls on yer Ove Highway bridges are decided gains, and al- last month, with $31,- showed an. inrrease of {more than $7,000 over Decem+ ‘ber of 1944, the receipts, ,up to erday, for this month, «had exceeded the total collected, last | month, B. M. Duncan, engineer | for the Overseas. Road . and ; Br:dge Toll District, said today. | Mr, Duncan added that he | thought the collection this month will range between $38,000 and | $40,000. This month will show by far the largest collection during a Janua: in the history of the | Ove: as Highway. The former record for January was in 1941 when collect.ons totaled $31,- 694. Mr. Duncan also said that, be- | cause of the excellent condition of the highway since the recent | improvements that totaled more than $4,000,000, as many as 3,000 | motor vehicles could be accom- modated on the highway every | day. Facilities, he stated, are such that the collections could amount to $109,000 a month without | creating any condition that would resemble a’ traffic, jam. When the old bridges were in use, he expiaine vers. | hae tp Stop, chao Vans approaching from the. other di~ ; recton and give the “Come on” signal, but today vans pass one 02£2444444444444444 PALACE THEATER TURHAN BEY in “FRISCO SAL” News and Serial | i i ia i il i i tinh oie | i COMDR. FRANCIS P. GARDNER, chairman of the NOB drive for the March of Dimes, annual appeal of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, January 14-31, n, grandchildren of Capt. Their father, Lieut. Robert E. March Of ee Is Opened At — 8 Ii ‘County. Chapter’s National Foun-;{ / Navy Photo { accepts the contributions of Kay C. E. Reordan, b: Reordan, USA, oc Pritay > before meats .to..butchers would begin.: CIO workmen, who at ' first said they'would not’ go back to work .even, though the: govern- all Tent had taken. over, the ne over, to te local chapter as; une | houses, but changed their min and resumed work today, made a further announcement that they. would strike again were not their wage dispute settled’ by the time the governement re- turns the plants to their own- ers. \Gelbeertivis Of Tolls th le 'approx.mately $700 in purchas- | Show Big Gains enother on the bridges without hevine to slow down. In the time of the old bridges,'! during the early days of thet war, when collections were a! good as they are now, and the ¥ecord monthly collection of $40}590' was’ established, many‘a | hight; Mr. Duncan sa‘d, he was) ‘fearful’ of ‘traffic jams, but,| he added, with the bridges , and} highway in the condition they j are now, twice as much traffic | could be accommodated without running any danger of a iam occuring. Three thousand cars a days| 90,000 a month, are the number | cf motor vehicles the Overseas | Highway can accommodate, Mr. i Duncan concluded. Small Fire On Sunday ay Morning { At 5 o'clock on Si Sunday morn- ing, the Fire Department was called to the Charles Hotel at 525. Eaton street where a mat- tress in one of the rooms was found to be on fire. The small blaze was siutickly extinguished, with no damage aes aii PIONEER HOTEL | 151 N. E. FIRST STREET In the Heart of Miami The Rendezvous of Key West SERVICEMEN and CIVILIANS “BEST FOR A NIGHT'S REST‘ One Block West of Bus Depot H End With, President's Birth: Hotel. = | distributed shipmdat® of = will, shoW a. moving , thercon, lege | Atlanta - Key West. Florida, bas tne most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit E U.S.A. PRICE FIVE CENTS UD ; Represetives To UNO I Funds For Polio Relief Swell : As Drive Goes Into Full Swing —-. VOTO OI TIS. day, Ball At da Concha, Development Of Hotel, Thursday. Night:|, Atomic Energy To. 1500 eee Cards Out (Open: Vast' ‘Hels. (iy Associuted Pres) .MOSCOW., Jan. 23.—A Rus- sian physicist, in an erticle in local newspapers today, as- drive which wll culminate in) gerted that the development the FPresident’s Birthday Ball of atomic energy will open up Thursday night at the La Concha! vast fields of endeavor in ‘ | Russia. He did not say anything about the atom bomb, and only inferentially did he re- veal that Russia has solved the problem of atomic energy. He pointed out that energy obtained from smashing the atom could be harnessed to serve mankind in practically every industry. , In. full swing is the Monroc dation for Infantile Paralysis} March of' * been mailed Fifteen hundred’ Dimes Cards have cut, Ralph Sierra, chairman stated. Coin cards. have been also to all school} | chilaren, Working hard on the March at Dimes phase are the Girl Scouts under Scout Mistress Mrs. eae w.th their stand ‘on al street ahd at the Posts, CMM MMS STS LID cit ie, aT Local theatres ‘are also ‘co- operating by taking up colle@, G) Sweeting Gets Ne w Lacerated | Finger, Naval _ activities are in 1! | drive w.th Commander Gard. {in charge of collections ftom = An - peaaae. ate Rev. “Williamson, colored, hi iniurined wir, ~Srerra inate he 4 picture’ eo CRASHES igi CAR DRIVEN! the colored folk of the eevee and 1 | recoipts wilt ohare Lures BY MRS. MARGARET MITCH- | ELL:''NO”'ONE' SERIOUSLY | “HURT | Auto ) Accident, negro contribution .to ithe: dri Mr. {.erra said» ‘that: those | people who rece.ved the March} of Dimes cards .will help the | qiive greatly by mailing back! the cards with their contribution Only a small percent-~* In an accident in. which police action was required, Galey ‘of scarde have Wecthe <back Sweeting, 15, suffered a severely | thug far. j lacerated finger when a sedan/ ‘Ine local charter has spent. in which he was driving crashed ring the past twelve months with an automobile driven by Mrs. Margaret Mitchell at the corner of Georgia and Olivia, streets Saturday. | Mr. Sweetifig’s hand was driv-| en through the windsheild and resulted in the laceration, which | was" treated ‘at the funicipal | | Hospital and requiree titches. | cre isa; most worthy: cquse No one else_in the acc the centr-butions of me thfiredy oN Behe#il” ‘public is not only? ap-| preciated by the local chapter but mgiiie,, “little chiidbestRh Se hike —FS4eTHOD walk “ag ain | Sea S SSL SM, we to the, HY eget Mr. Siciia tee '|Against Cut OF’ Forces Now On German Soil: no ing braces, specially built: shoes end medical atterition given polio victims of this city, .n-| cluding among others, Bernard Waite, Jr., Jimmie Alvarez, Neli ieee Sanchez and Robert Thohi- ;Patyolman Franix Jallye was at, the"scene ‘of the accident. . Temperatures (Ry Assocraied Press, WASHINGTON, Jan, 26.— The stat: departmen: today askec the war department | not to decrease the number of American troopt in Ge-- meny to @'policing force. as | it intended to do by next | July. | The state department as- serted tha* politica! and | economic conditions ir Ger- many ‘ete such that this country should maintain an etmy of its present strength dn Germany for anothér year, Cemperature data-for the 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. Highest Lowest Statioa last 24 hours last night ae 26 Boston —_ 17 Brownsville Charleston —_. Ch'cago - Detroit a Galveston __ Jacksonville _ Kansas City KEY WEST K. W. Airport Memphis __. | Miami ‘i Minneapolis - New Orleans New York Norfolk __ Oklahoma City 43 Pensacola 59 Pittsburgh 22. Si. Louis 39 Tampa 72 wewvwwwrwuryvevvee Genuine Plymouth Dodee- Desoto ST. PETER’S CONMUNITY HALL P from YOUR|Colored - Center St. - Monday poet DEALER rhea bells Hokies and NAVARRO, Inc Buster Crabbe Serial: “Rex and Rinty” 32 27 18 46 49 29 67 } and Egg Market | 1214 White St. Aegetenetncecsiiorsees? 53 | to ' Britain, | edra Hoa vas} | York, serene AT CON- FERENCE CONSIDER MATTER THREAT TO WORLD PEACE (By Assveizted Press’ LONDON, . Jan, 28.—Delegates the NOQ_ considered dis- pute involv: ng Great Britain, + asia, Tran and Greece, as something ‘of a, “threat, to a ; world peace’’,, although, Foreign fl ¥ Minister Ernest , Bevin, of Greats remarked that Brit-s: troops in Greece are there with the full consent of the Greek government, and that no difter- ences whatever have arisen be- tween the two governments about the troo Matters regarding Gr Tran and Russia are now considered. by the UNO ity Coune 1. Russia comy about the British troops Urcece, and representatives. of ihet government replied that i. is not, against the presence of the troops in Greece, and added that they are not the source o/ any unrest that may exist in that country, Russian representatives heave asserted thit’ Britian had initiat- ed the dispute ahout. Russian trdops ‘in northern Iran, The representat ves ‘said further that the new government in Iran had announced it woild revoke _in- | structions: to Iran's deleg | the UNO to’ ask Russ Grew; ‘the ‘troops, but Sates said they have reegived any sath orders. Greece protested today to the ion ‘of Albania to mem- bershp ‘in’ the UNO, pointing out thie Albania had allicd her- j Self to Italy during the war, ‘Discuss Place For USO Capital SENTIMENT APPEARS TO FA- VOR AREA IN VICIN- ITY OF N.Y. (By Anw ted Prens) Le, 44Sentiment oi a ...jority of delegates to the y United Nations Organigatiéi' con- ex here appeared ttday to the permanent capita! of JNO to be in the vicinity of New instead of in the Boston area. It was said that»Russia’s dele- gates favored the New York arca The conference is scheduled io | end on February 10, and it was said that the various “Mmaltefs |on which decision has not. yet ben reached will be settled by that time. a ° e Sanitary Measures Shorily Sanitary. measures will be strictly enforced ‘in the. near future under present plans, city | manager King stated today. Dyght ‘Hunter who-was ap- } pointed-director of public welfare Jast, week: willbe in charge of | enfereing Ahe ordinances “pertain- HANK sto, this subject. Millar Gib- song .sanitany< sinspecton” wall as- | sist Mr. Hunte: inde cba akan a Dance Recital ‘ Presented. by BARON SCHOOL of the DANCE . Tuesday Evening, Jan. 29th KEY WEST HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Children 50c_ _ Adults $1.00 Tickets On Sale at SOUTHERNMOST FLOWERS 616 Duval Street eee