The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 2, 1946, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devoted to the Hest interests of Key West VOLUME LXVII Steel Workers: Still; Om; No. 29 Strike With No: Immediate! Séttlement In Sight Yel * STEEL INDUSTRY STILL QP QP QO DSS S's INSISTS PRICE MUST Jy-yman Gives j Many , Defend.,,,, Bradley, From Legion. Attack GENERAL EISENHOWER AND CONGRESSMEN RALLY TO, HIS DEFENSE IN WASHING- TON (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Gen- eral Eisenhower and many con- NE | | i There is a sort of happy, tee age philosophy :n ine Florida air these days—cheerful, hopeful, ‘and spiritedly confident of the fu- ture, according to an analysis of |the state’s early stages of postwar {edjustrment contained in an art- licie by Oliver Griswold, featured {in the current issue of the AMER- ;ICAN MOTORIST, official publi- ‘eation of the American Automo-! bile Association. Mr. Griswold is now in Key West. rent. American, Motorist Carries Story Of Key West Che Kei West Citizei THE SOUTHERNMOST WSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1946 one season. Some of the concen trations of Armed Forces have als ready been disbanded, but in oth- er places vacationers will have to share the total housing accom- modations with remaining uni- formed personnel and war work- ers who have not yet gone back to peacetime jobs. “Although a number of re- sorts will have room for many vacationists, some of them that | | used to Provide spotless and ef- IN THE + ah Key. West, Florida, bas tne mést &quable climate in the country,’ With an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit U.S.A. PRICE FIVE CENT: ¢ sory Daring 1941 d By Senate Committee —* DiScusse | gressmen_ today. rallied to‘ the! The article, entitled “Reconver-' fortless sitvice have gone @ bit BEINCREASEDTO| Gon, Bradley OFFSET WAGE BOOST | ‘Full Suppor v | a. (By Assorinted Prens) 1INGTON, Feb. 2—The entered its thirteenth! (By Associated Presns i WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.— President Truman gave his “complete support’ ‘to Gen- trike ! today without any immedi-) in sight, as the, still insists that,| unt a wage increase | 1-7 cents an hour. as rec-, President Tru-! ettlernent | ndustry conducting the | Veterans. Administration bu- reau under almost r- mountable difficulties, | House secretary, Charles Fi stated, ; : Veterans of Foreign Wars in Michigan said the “Amer- ican Legion is leading with its chin” in its attack on Bradley, and United States veterans in Seattle, Washing- ton, wired General Bradley: “We resent the unjustify- able attack made on you by the American Legion.” Every veterans organization in the country, except the American Legion, announced its confidence in Bradley and his ability to conduct the af- fairs of the Veterans Admin- istration. Home Nursing, Class Planned; WILL BE Pee ON MON- DAY BY RED CROSS ORGANIZATION fact-finding of steel must be increased! board, the » at least 5 a ton to offset dvance in wages. Hl | bright in the report that the 1 OPA i Administra-! to hold a umably about tel companies to product the Inland em- Pp in that the; y stalling nt of former their [| came the re- ce erted i el, Pathetic Pleas Made For Ships SBURG, South Af r bottle-neck is 200 South Europe to g next-of-kin, | tt 10,000 n England for pas- eceive path nmigration “but there allocation t 50 berths a month, urgent business rities must be than H P waiting : Red Cross Home Nursing} Class will start Monday at. the! High School Annex and will run} the full semester. Instruction will! be given one hour each day. Mrs.! Evelny _ Connely, sgistered | Nurse will ieach ihe class The Red Cross Chapter, at all! times, maintains a fully equip-: ped home nursing room in the! annex. The room is equipped: with hospital beds, baby bath-| inettes and all the equipment 1eeded to use while studying the course. Miss Catherine Lowe, Home! Economics Teacher stated H the enrollment this semes larger than any previou nt so that it was nece; Y, 10; minate* all) enrollicents with! > exception of uhé! Senior girls in’ the’ high ‘schodlv The, twenty, girls’ that will) ‘be ‘given, ih course -are_as' ®ollows: i Dorothy Hobbs, Amparo, Ovide, Beatrice Armayor, Betty , Sue Jones, Anita Aguilar, Bertha, Perez, Marion Solano, Phyllis Roberts, Mildred Tift, Olga Al- var Annie Russell, Winnie May Young, Catherine Ross, Ro- salie Camalier, Mary Spencer (Continued on Page Five) Fersons n do. Our c- South Africans children in nd are young s because of to return home.” Africans waiting e are mostly from the es, many of whom ilies behind. The and other organiza- made. «strenuous ome trace of their uecess, unat; © was WANTED Kitchen and Dining Room Help of All Kinds Apply to Chef LA CONCHA HOTEL OPEN EVENINGS To Serve You DAILY and SUNDAY We Open at 7 A.M. and Remain Open ‘til Midnight ... 7 Days A Week POOR’ OLD CRAIG © SERVICE STATION Division and Francis Sts. Open Sunday Phone 9134 | NORTH BEACH INN COFFEE SHOP 711 North Beach Phone 453-J! eFull-Course DINNER, 6-8 p.m., Spanish Home-cooked DINNERS. by Reservation | | t \ 02422444444444444444 | | PALACE THEATER NAUGHTY 90%" ONtewSand Serial wrevvv vv ervviewy | TT iti [ACONCHA HOTEL COCKTAIL LOUNGE AIR-CONDITIONED for YOUR COMFORT Now 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 defense of General Omar N. Bradley, veterans’ commander of ihe American Legion, who complained about the “antiquated and inefficient, the run-down, and the jittery, 88° ourtesy, for instance. methods” of the Veterans Admin- istration under Bradley. Genera! Eisenhower declared he was ready to, “fly to ihe defense of.Bradley, whom_ he eonsidered “one of the greatest living: Americans.” Several congressmen said that the administration was being conducted ably and capably by Bradley, and added that an at- tempt was made to “smear” Gen- eral Bradley because the legion wanted to “regain its lost con- trol” over the Veterans Adminis- tration. General Bradley said that Steel had asked that the proposed site for a veterans hospital in Illinois be changed, and that he had been told that he, Bradley, would abide by the decision of a com- mittee that was considering the matter, of a site, adding that the site tHe’ committee chose’ was not the’ ond’ that Steele hdd .recom- mended: Several congressmen declared they felt confident that 4 great majority of Legionnaires were not in sympathy with Stecle in his attack on Bra@ley, (Mrs. Agnes Pinder Dies This Morning Agnes .Pinder, 85, died this morning at ‘7 o’clock at the fis Mrs. Il! residence of her daughter, Mrs.! Harold R. street. Mrs. Pinder was the mother of Sam B. Pinder, former tax col- lector of the City of Key West. Funeral services will be held tomorow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the F tev. C. T. Howes, pastor of the church, will officiate at the ser ices. Lopez Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Burial will be in the City Cemetery. Survivors are, one daughter Harold R. Pinder; three so! Samuel B, Pinder, Waddell Pinder, and Randolph Pinder, of West Palm Beach,, Fla; eight grandchildren, one great grand- rhild; one brother, William Saw- yer. Pallbearers who will serve, at the funeral are Fire Chief Leroy Torres. Captain W. W. Demeritt, Ress © Sawyer: Sr., Archie Rob- erts, Thomas Kelly and Sheriff Berlin A. Sawyer. GULF STREAM RESTAURANT Management of I. Wiener Division at Simonton Ph. 9106 Pinder, 611 Frances Featuring A SPECIAL Sunday Dinner Bring the Family—the Children— Gét a'Full-plate at Reduced Price SERVED'FROM NOON | * to MIDNIGHT ; SNACK BAR OPEN { Daily and Sunday 24 Hours A Day Around the Clock SERVING eBreakfast 5:30 to 11 A. M. eLuncheon 11:30 to 2 P. M. eDinner 5:30 to 9:30 P. M. Meals a la Carte, at All Hours We Cater to Weddings, Parties and Fraternal Organizations BEER and WINE SERVED DURING LEGAL HOURS rst M. E, (Stone) Church,! oe sion to Leisure”, which is illus-; trated with Mr. Griswold’s photo- adimistrator, graphs, goes on to state that this’ safest (as a result of ari attack made on philosophy ; ! | him’ yesterday by John. Steele, dient to mix with the bright sun- is an excellent ingre- shine, the brilliant flowers, and the never-aging, shining sea. It is good atmosphere for the weary, well as’ for’ thos Ito. pla: ‘Of iti? Written to indicate to potential tour what they may expect td find in ‘post Florida, the art- icle continue: Florida Went Military H Like many spots on the globe, Florida was d to the depths of her economy by the war; the e was as much, if , of an armed camp than some resort areas. Huge flying fields and training schools, tak- ing advantage of the year-round | cutdoor weather, swelled little | jecmmunities with vast, milling! populations. The swarmed with planes of shapes and{ sizes. The airports bustied and! rumbled, and the sidewalks of} villages, towns, and cities looked | s¢ who just ‘want y for a while for the fin like Times Sauare on shore-leave |ture from the swift operation of | multiplication tables among the | week-ends. Hotels and beaéhes: were populated largely by drill-/8@msters, and the reefs and bays | ing, studying, serious-mirded ; young men and women who had 4. little enough time to look up at, | the star-velvety sky, even fot ce- lestial navigation practice. i ‘But General MacArthur had | hardly gotten ashore in Japan { | before the citizens of Florida H were whipping qut their rein! ' | brushes, lawn mowers, praning shears, hamniers, and trowels to pretty up for the tourist sea- $n. “Labér, a3 '@lgewhere,: has been” ‘starté'for ‘tconversion. Yasks.’°t myst ‘Be’ ¥ethembered tha¥ th? folk’ wie’ ued to zum! the charter ‘béats, cut bait, wait on table? ‘run’ Sightseéing tours, | and make fishing ‘tackle, have been in airplane repair shops, | USO canteens, shipyards,~and | the Armed Forces. H “This has meant that ever since | | the war ended, the owners, them- Ives, have been working, and| | working hard. Helping, are many 'young men and women from oth- er parts of the coun who train- ed or served in Florida, who grew 0 love the piace, and are staying fon. Still more are coming back ; to go into business and make the {state their home. .All of these {together are working with vim ‘and. vigor to put Florida’s house in order. Lots To Be Done Yet “Nevertheless, there is still a iJot to be done. Reconversion to leisure will be €potty—more rap- id in Sorne"places than others, and not to be fotally aceomplished iin { ie j | 1 We Have A | Supply of | War Surplus | FILMS i ALL SIZES | SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. af fe down at the heel and out at the elbow. In any event, it will be to make happy to render. “Some things in Florida have | changed little, if any. There is If you are Weary of Sassy clerks and wai- tresses, and the general level of rudeness on the part of others who serve ‘the public, it will be like’ a lullaby to hear again the sincére politeness of the South. It still has not returned to its pre- war level, but since courtesy and hospitality were a stock-in-trade, it mever sank to the abyss crudity observed elsewhere, What a Floridian might consider diffi- dence today will still sound like smiling solicitude to a Washing- tonian. Florida Keys Fishing “Among other things not chang- ed—except for the better, in some ways—is fishing. It is still won- derful in Florida. Neither sub- marines nor bombing practice nor mines seem to have deterred na- are teeinmg. The charter boat situdtion is not so \good. Many boats ‘were laid up or worn out in the war, and there will be a startity until new ones are built, despite! ‘the, feverish activity of boatyatds' to repair and recondi- tion everything that can carry an eng: It. logpksas though you will able to get out to the Gulf Stream and the reefs, all right, but not so. often, ,... 34h hoe "Hence bridge fishing’ anc skiff fishing. have increased in Popularii hat .is.one bff fd | reasons, that, many, first“ ‘post- _War tan ° burned on trips down the Over- seas. Highway, whose many bridges link the myriad Florida Keys south of Miami clear to Key West. This highway, one of the relatively few to benefit from the war, has new wonders to offer the motorist. It now Passes through much new ter- ritory on a magnificent road- bed with a superb surface. “After the war started, Key formed almost overnight from quiet, restful island communi to an over-jammed hubbub of Army and Navy activity. To sup- ply the. quadrupled population and the construction expansion, the Overseas ilighway roared night and day with heavy trucks. New Highway “The.older parts of. the road (Continued on Page Five) OTST OTT S OCEAN VIEW DINING ROOM 220 UNITED STREET Near Corner of Duval St. FOR the BEST of FOODS at REASONABLE PRICES eBreakfast, 9 to 11 PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Duval at Fleming Phone 19¢ AROUND THE CLOCK eLuncheon, 12 to 2 eDinner, 5 to 9) “Key West's Exclusive ‘Night Spot” OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY — WE NEVER CLOSE Featuring BAR-B-Q MEAT Charcoal Broiled CHICKEN - STEAK - C HOPS DANCE MUSIC. — GEORGE - JOHN - GUS SUGALOA GRCHESTRA—Songs, Jack Crowley For Reservations PHONE 9190 SL Te i SE a [Semen Bes Chica Bus Ne. 4 to the Docr EEE reservations | well in advance—a service that | the AAA, needless to say, is 1 of} th fuls..of gasoline were | xpense (Special to, the’ five West Western states } gained population so | during the war will! probably continue to grow, at the expense of the rest of the country, says Dr. Vergil D. Reed, associate di- rector or research of J. Walter Thompson Co., and formerly act- ing director of the Bureau of | Census, in a booklet “Population {and Purchasing Power”, based on government figures and made public today. Jacksonville is one of the sixteen U. S. citics over 50,000 population listed by Dr. Reed most apt to retain their wartime growth and +o con- War migration to Florida ely speeded up a civ- jilian population. ‘shift. which | started in 1935, Dr. Reed) points i out. New favorable freight rates, ‘the writer adds willbe an im- ‘portant factor in the docation of new industry:in tho South. With a birthrate .which has acclined to 17.6 per thousand in i540 From 27 in 1916 doa re- stricted flow of immigration, ‘the iWAited,, Statcp as, c,fyjhole will, be ect gm ane 4 y Teach’’a pogwation pak of slightly over ) after which there may be a slow Meantime, there will © a sharp in_the’ number of old peopl by (1980, persons | of over 65 ye’ of age will num- | ber 22,051,000—more than three | tires ns there were in number of those over d by about 35 per and South which i “as ; tive to gro’ i | | | 65 {cent between 1930 and 1940; dur-| | ing the 12 months betweer. July, | 1943 and July, 1944 ihe number lof those over 65 increased by 1 213.0090—the equivalent of 14 and 24 years of age, left the farms and larger towns ‘and 1944, nad most of the jReed thinks, will remain in ‘th cities. ‘ phe Pb | oF 9} between 1940 m, Dr. ents "6r future’ exvansioy condmy ate’ séen in’ these dation “trends "by Dr. Réed ‘o writes that “the standard of living, “can ‘inerease to’) Very great heights even’ in 4 declining population”:''He points out that the i ing number of old ‘people will bring about a tre- mendeous rise in the number of special goods and services for ies aged, such as. hearing aids, medical care, travel and resorts. | As for the 1,000,000 women who {left the farm, they will continue eae van eae me aE RO CASA CAYO HUESO (The Southernmost House) 1400 Duval at South St. DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE ——Opens 5 P.M. Daily. Florida And Other States Will Continue To Grow At Of Other Sections rapidly’, =| {West, the sunny Southernmost! Dayton. Ohio or a Syracuse, New| jcity in the Uniied States, lying at; York. Nearly 1,000,000 American! ‘the end of the highway, was trans- , Women—most of them between} nd moved into the cities ! | { | i i | | "The Citizen) ~ducts' to which they ‘have be-) come accustomed in the cities.! ‘Another’ promise for continued expansion of production which Dr. Reed points out is the fact that families are increasing at double the rate for individuals, and because families are many products the basic unit of consumption th be “in- creased demand for many types of goods at a greater rate than indicated by population increas-} es alone.” | In conclusion, Dr. Reed wirtes: ‘We have natural resources, the industriay facilities, labor force, capital, and management to turn out a national product of $200,- 000,000,00 a year, We can do it because we have already done it. But one further important fore should be considered in gonnec-! tion with our population and the‘ possibilities ,of maintaining the ‘high ~ standard © of , production which we have attained. This is the psychology of the pepulation Hf the people feel s in th jobs and*secure as: to the 7 there is, -little reason th be o cerned bout depression. If Ypebple “ute -tidden with-fear a to the loss of their jobs or ‘ag to! the security of the peace, they! will not only hesitate to sb ,from their savings, but the try to hold on to thei , income. Industry as" Government must keep in mind this factor and create the great- est feeling of security possible, | the ‘climate’ for prosperity. for e will Confuse George Reese Persons Monday there was an arres an employee at Elks Bingo Game of a George Reese who held jon $75 bond which was cstreated e| when Reese did not show up at Miami icity qourt ‘Tuesday... i2 Did, you, know. that, there are two.|Gaorge Reesea in, towns The other George Reese. jis, orge W ' Reese. who isa st ‘ling | man in the Inside, Machine Shop jat the Naval Station, and who | states very emphatically that ‘he jhas never been connected with {the bingo games on Duval. | George W. Reese, Jr., finds | now that many persons are con- |fusing him with the other George Reese and what first an amusing coincidence in |mames has now become quite | embarassing. } ) EE CDE. + TENET WANTED Telephone Operator Apply Manager LA CONCHA HOTEL i | | ' co shy “ Package’ Goods Specials 'Park & Tilford....: 5th $3.65 |Golden Wedding | Paul Jones ... Sunny Brook . 5th 5th 5th Imperial pts Ron Zorro Rum .. 5th Old St. Croix Rum 5th DRINKS at the BAR Straight Drinks | Mixed Drinks — Full Line of Package Goods '$ ii VI ewes the Arrest and PER Pk. -ON SUBJECT INTRODUCED BY CAPT. STAFFORD DEALS WITH DECOD- ING OF MESSAGE (iy Associated Press) WASHINGTON,... Feb. Japanese. message, 2—A war in. the NEW YORK, Feb, 2.Florida. ‘to demand the services and pro-! guise of a weather advisory,-sent Coast far, out on December 4, 1941, three days before the’ attack on Pearl Harbo. ; discussed this morn- ing befc 2 senate Pearl Har- bar disa: committec, The subject was. introduced by Captain L. F. Stafford, who was nnected with the decoding of the message, the purport of which was that Japan had decid= ed to go to war with the United States and Great Britain but was Russia. Committee members said there wa discrepancy between Staf- ford’s testimony today and that which ‘he had given at a secret hearing early in 1944, At- that time, it v sserted, fhe said the time the Japanese. message was intercepted: was pn, the evening of December 3, 1941, but today he gave the time as 8:30 o'clock en the. morning of December 4. The committee decided to ad- n before: cross-question of ford was concluded, and he will be ediled to the stand again when the committee resumes its hearings next week: unxious to remain ai peace with ETE EE OA TE Temperature Lemperature dala tor the 22 nours ending 7:30 a.m. Highest Lowest last 24 hours last night 48 32 34 22 66 57 53 37 40 — 38 16 56 48 58 34 45 30 77 66 16 66 55 27 714 13 56 35 48 52 5 Statioa Atlanta Poston Erowhsville Charleston Chicago Detroit Galveston Jacksonv Ile Kansas City KEY WEST K. W. Airport Memphis -15 47 30 31 44 23 27 48 Minneapolis New Orleans New York Norfolk Okle’s ma City Pen...s la Pittsburgh St. Tovis Tampa Junior Woman's Club CABARET “SIME OUT FOR MUSIC” 9 P.M. VALENTINE’S DAY February 14 at «> Sugaloa $1.50 Reservetions Call 752-3 or 627 De ae ann go 500 Reward SD ML Ls RN for ‘Information Leading to Conviction of Person or Persons Who Set Fire to My Building on Stock Island. MARK A. DUFFY