The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 8, 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. 34 President Truman Not To Make Trip To Key W. Press Of Business At Wash-| ington Forces Postpone-' ment; Would Have Come| Here On Yacht (By Ansociatea Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The White House announced this aft- ernoon that President Truman had decided not to visit Florida, as had been arranged, because of pressure of business. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Captain. C. E. Reordan, commandant of the} U.S. Naval Operating Base here, announced today at noon that the trip of President Truman to Key West had been cancelled. (A tour of Key West to see its quaintness with Mayor Wm. ‘W. Demeritt accompanying the Pres-| ident had been arranged ‘here.! The Presidential Yacht Williams- } burg was scheduled to dock at; Naval Operating Base at 10:30] Wednesday morning and leave; after the tour of two and one-half hours.) Pat Cannon In City Yesterday, REPRESENTATIVE IN CON-| CITIZEN OFFICE | GRESS PAI DVISIT TO Representative Pat Cannon, who has represented this district in congress since 1939, was in Key West yesterday, calling on ‘riends and acquaintances in var- jous parts of the city. He was ac- companied by Everett Russell, Representative Cannon, when} he-ealled at The Citiztn dffice,| spoke of his conunued opposition to the proposed barge canalj through Florida. He said that the} only good reason that had been advanced in favor of the canalj had ceased to exist—that of af-! fording safety to ships in going| from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic, and vice versa, during the war. It has been demonstrated, he contended, that no _ necessity exists for the proposed canal, and the digging of it he viewed! as a waste of taxpayers’ money. Photostat Machine For Clerk Hamlin; City Clerk Roy Hamlin said today that he expected to have a photostat machine in his office im the mext few days. Mr, Hamlin said that the mach- ine was handy in having copies of officiai the various HYDRAULIC BRAKE SPECIALISTS Let Us Check Your Brakes Lou Smith Auto Service | White et Fleming Phone 5 “Opposite Army Barracks” We Will Have P This Evening a MEAT! MEAT! MEAT! ---Meat for | both Pat |PERRY JOHNSON | turning to the states for discharge | rive at San Francisco, Calif., about es throughout the Pacific. est Wednesday VIDIO DIOIDD, No Improvement Shown In Meat Packers’ Strike (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.— Differences in the meat pack- ers’ strike seemed to be as far apart today as during any other time since the workmen began their walkout. Spokesmen for the Ameri- can Meat Industry declared that the latest price formula submitted by the OPA was not high enough to absorb additional expenses that will be incurred in granting the strikers’ demand for an in- crease in wages of 18%2 cents an hour. Meanwhile the government continues its'control of meat packing plants. } | Miss Acevedo Presented To Rotary Club PRESENT RCS WERE PAT CANNON AND GEORGE SMATHERS, CANDIDATES i FOR REPRESENTATIVES | Rotarians listened to a talk by General Motors men on their side of the strike of UAW-CIO against them in their dinner meeting yesterday. Present at the meeting were Cannon and George Smathers, candidates for repre- sentative from the fourth con- bressional district. f Miss Gloria Acevedo, Rotary Club’s candidate for queen, in the Sponge Festival, was intro- duced to! the club members. Guests were: Stanley R. Tur- ner, Ft. Lauderdale; John Deihl, | Jacksonville; Ralph Walker, Au- | burndale; G. E. Power, Jackson- ville; Arthur Eddins, Pensacola; | George N. Meyer and Wilbur C. | Bledsoe, Angola, Ind.; George P Weschler, Milwaukee, Wis.; A. R. Whisler, Oceanside, Calif.; Harold Schuler, Miami and Arthur Mulberg. RETURNING HOME (Special to The Citixen) PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 8.—Pfe. Ferry M. Johnson, Jr., son of Mr. ard Mrs. H. A. Miller, of 2119 Seidenberg Avenue, Kéy West, Fla; is one of 1,222’ veterans ré= aboard the U.S.S."Sherbune, an attack tramsport of the “Magic Carpet” fleet. f This ship left Okinawa on Jan- uary 21, and was scheduled to ar- February 6. The U.S.S. Sherburne is one of the Navy's fleet of transport and cargo ships which maintained the critical supply lines to U. S. fore- lenty of MEAT nd Tomorrow!! Everybody!! All You Want—No Limit COME GET YOUR SHARE VICTORY CASH MARKET | 1028 DIVISION ST. PHONE 1080 KEY WEST, FLA. Key | THE SOUTHERNMOST Overseas Army MC Presides At Social: Tonight TALK ON FISHING BY CAP. TAIN REAGAN; CONGA BAND; WILLIAM GARDNER SONGS Herbert Cohen will be master of ceremonies at the Winter Visitors Social tonight at USO corner of Duval and Caroline streets. Mr. Cohen has spent four and; one half years overseas enter- taining troops. He has entertain- ed troops. .He has entertained} 50,000 troops during his stay overseas. In ten weeks he en-| tertained 20,000 in field shows. Mr. Cohen, is a First Lieutenant and was in charge of a group which demonstrated entertain- ment education. to those in; charge of entertaining the troops overseas. Before. going into the’ Army he was master of ceremonies at | any well known hotels. A’ pub-! lic addréss' system will’ make the’ speaking tonight clearer. ‘Re-~ freshments are in charge of North Beach Inn. Other numbers on the program are a talk on fishing by Captain Bill Reagan of the cruiser Sea Raider, vocal numbers by Will- iam Gardner accompanied by} Mrs. Gardner and Pepi’s Conga’ band with their Cuban numbers. All winter visitors and friends} are invited to the social. Open Car Door | Causes Accident MIAMI AUTO STRUCK BY CLARENCE DOBBS ON WHITE STREET Opening a car door while park- ed caused an accident by M. W, Rashcae, of 174 N-W, 10th Terrace, Miami, on White Street, between Division and Olivia.“ . The car which hit the Rashcae auto was driven. by: Clarence Dobbs. Officer’ Albury investi-, gated. The vadcident occurred yesterday, 2 Collision ‘On Watson Street Another accident occurred Wed- nesday in which one car, driven by Juilo Quesada of 1016 Watson street, collided with another driv- en by Robert M. Drexel of 1609! Flagler Avenue at the corner of Duval and Louisa streets. Third Accident Another accident~ involved a Thompson Enterprises truck with Leland Sawyer of Sawyer's Cycle works the complainant. Thomas Wilson Died Last Night Thomas Wiison, 86, died last night at 11:45 o’clock after a long illness. Mr. Wilson was born Feb. '7, 1860 in Liverpool, Eng- Tand. Came to Key West when he was 16 years old after being, shipwrecked on the Florida’ Reefs.' He died-on his birthday.' He was the father-in-law of J. O. White and for a great number, of years ran the La Lega coffee shop on the corner of Duval and Greene streets. x Funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home, where services will conducted by the Rev. Grant w.' Duncan, pastor of the First Bap- tist Church. Burial will be in the family lot in the city cemetery. Survivors are: five grandehild- ren, Mrs. Benjamin Johnson, Mrs. Henry W. Pinder, Mrs. W. C. Wohosky, Long Beach Calif.; Wilson White, Leonard White, and 13 grandchildren. The Improved Order of Red Men will attend the funeral in a body, and pallbearers will be selected from the membership. 1 tenn tententontanatetentettetoto td PRESCRIPTIONS frstccicses ; Ingredients «*+Compounded by Experienced F Pharmacists “GARDNER’S PHARMACY Phone 177 | Genuine Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto Cerviee PARTS “Pests NAVARRO, Inc VV TV IVT VI VTC CTT T KEY WEST, FLORIDA, City Manager: Red Cap Loses « Watch; Sailor Bangs Door Florida Motor Lines Bus Station is having a tough time these days. First of all, a suspicious- looking couple were spotted around the bus station this week and later in the night disappeared. Also disappear- was a watch from the wrist of one of the redcaps who had been dozing between busses. Then at 12:15 this mornirig police were called to investi- gate trouble again. Officer E. Hernandez found William W. Prici, seaman first class; had been causing a disturbance at the station. Witnesses said the door at Florida Motor Lines had been banged: in an attempt by sailormen: to: get inside. g, SIOLO HLTH Boy Scout Week Started Today RENDERED AT HIGH SCHOOL TONIGHT A week of activities like never before seen in Key West is . Planned for the Boy Scouts. of Key West in observing Boy Scout feek; beginning today and ¢on- tinuing through next Thursday. The week’s program gets off to a flying start tonight at the High School Auditorium when_all scouts and scouters get together for an important, Awarding of Honor. | planned for every day of the re-} maining period’ of Scout Week except Thursday. The day-by-day. account, of how! ity will observe the wéek: fol-! \ wilh not | } Events: have been;.that either he or the Chief. of} “NEWSPAPER IN THE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1946 King Warns Of Future Raids: On: Bars: Here SOIL TOM S| Asks Minors Be Kept Out! Of Bars And Not Work | There: Also Observance Of 2 am. Closing Time “We will make these raids whenever the spirit moves us” City Manager King warned bar operatorsfin discussing the recent raids made on bars in which three places were “pulled”. Mr. King clearly stated further vio- lations would force complete shutdowns. All three were booked on charges of dispensing beer or liquor after twelve midnight. Gerald Ayala, E..M. Carbonell and, Charles Papy were fined $50 in city. court this week. They were all given $100:bonds at the time of arrest. “We have. laid down: three simple ‘regulations”.:: Mr... King said, “we will not. play. momma and poppa to them, these places should know how to conduct their businesses and we will not | be continually in and out of their February 20, with definite ar- places of business. It is up to \'them to enforce the regulations in their own manner. But if they do not we will raid them again.” “The requests are most reason- able. The businesses can follow these simple orders which are backed up by state laws and city ordinances and if they cannot they have no reason to be in business because they are not operating for the good of the community.” The three points stressed are: 1, Closing at the hour of 2 a. m. 2. \Minors working and drink- ing in: bars..Restaurant workers be bothered but. the Minors are not to serve drinks, Mr. King said. 3, Disturbances caused, such as fights and the use of profane ¢ by patrons. ie Mi: King-conchided by stating Police would conduct the. raids in the future. He stated that he did not. make the raid because of charges hurled at the Tuesday city commission meeting but that ithe Boy Scouts of this commun-|/he had had it planned for some. time and had decided to hold the z Key Weat, Florida, tas tne most equable*climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhait U.S.A. PRICE FIVE CENTS OPA District ele (PA Administrator Necls ee ee) Wilh Truman Again Today ‘Concerning Stel Strike * : ‘CHESTER BOWLES IN- No Notice Served ee boas: On Albury Yet On | HE HAD NOTHING TO Bond Validation| ®4¥ ABOUT MEETING |PUBLICITY CHAIRMAN HOR- | ACE O’BRYANT ASKS FOR QUESTIONS FROM PUBLIC TO BE DISCUSSED ' | OPA officials will be in Key West for two days to give more complete information on _ the: ; workings of that government; | agency in holding the line against) ‘rising prices. { Coming here will be District jPrice Executive and Economist | Harold H. Martin; Mr. Goodwin, | ; jl i ing | af *{iam V. Albury said this morning : board director; Col. J. L. suc he had not yet: been served with} Administrator Chester : district operations executive;| notice to file his answer to the! who conferred yesterday with John Castana, public supervisor, ! procs ange a ee aa ae President Truman, presumably Mrs. i icity | Stituted in circuit court for the! about the steel strike, was in con- siete’ cia teams validation of the bonds to build) ference again this morning with \ Local sponsorship will be by|@ beach in Key West. He added 7 uacat ‘an. OPA committee. headed by | that the course that will be fol- de hacen eae 7 Tack Sellers, with ‘publicity: un-j lowed willbe to have a ‘sum- Bowles entered the President's 01 i mons served. on him through the; office at 8:55 and left it half an der Horace O’Bryant, L.: P. ‘Art. | man,-Jr., John. Spottswood, Harry | Sheriff's office, ‘but no such sum-; hour later. He was met by a Frazier and Earl Adams. mons had yet been received) group of correspondents,» whom ‘ The group plans to. appear be- there. z ‘ he told he had :nothing to say fore the Jaycees on Wednesday,} At a sepcial election Decem-) about his talk with the president. ber 11, issuance of $250,000 of| Reports persist that Bowles rangements to be announced; be-| bonds was approved by a major-| will permit the steel industry to fore the Rotary. Club Thursday | ity of freeholders who were! advance its price $5 a ton on morning, Feb. 21; before the Lions} Qualified electors, as registered! steel, so that the companies will Club the same night; before the} for the election, but Mr. Albury} he placed in a position to grant Junior High School, with Senior| Maintains that a majority of the! the strikers an increase of 18% High students’ having | study| qualified electors in the county! cents an hour. hours, welcome to be present on} Who, as freeholders, could have) fyen if the strike is settled be- Thursday morning. voted, did not go to the polls. | fore the day is over, it was said Any questions which the speak- ae a a Ve WR j that it will require from one to ing group may answer can be Bicycle Thefts three weeks for the companies ° Here Mounting (By Associated Prean) WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—OPA Bowles, Assistant State Attorney Will-! submitted to local OPA offices {| affected to reach normal produc- for subsequent answering at the tion. various meetings, Horace O’Bry- In Minnesota a state law re- {ant announces. Citizens have ex- | quires that employes wait 20 days pressed much interest in OPA in after they express their inten- this city and it is thought that tion to strike before they leave {this is a splendid sppes tunis SOME RECOVERED: YOUNG | j),0i, jobs. As a result, one min have those.questions-answered di-| .,samoRS “BORROW” ute after midnight last night 29,- rectly, Mr. O’Bryant. stated. chy ABs 000 workers in that state. joined Bi +m ee mretieeee semen with the 750,000 workmen in the steel industry who were already on strike. MISS DOLORES THORNLEY TO Carey Threats REPRESENT CLUB IN Rash of bicycle thefts have been ‘reported to the police so keep an eye on your bike when you park it these days. e Betty Heath of 14-A Porter, place reported a bike stolen but it and a man’s bicyclé were re- covered ‘by police officer Bien- venido Perez. Six, other thefts of bicycles. Willard Carey is accused of have been reported to police. threatening to start a fire and In many of the cases young spill kerosene on two beds, | To Start Fire lows: raid Wednesday morning. He Key: West Lions’ Club, at ‘: FRIDAY (tonight)—Awarding/ conferred after the commission.neeting last night, chose Miss Court of Honor at the High School | meeting with some of the com- Dolores Thornley as its: repic- Auditorium beginning at | missioners and then decided to sentative in the contest for queen @clock. All parents are specially | make the raids anyway. Commis-, 9¢ neid in connection with the tinvited. An Eagle Scout badge! sioner Cooper accompanied him sponge festival that the Key } Sailors are believed to have taken the bikes and gone for a ride and . later left them at. various loca-} | tions around the city. i cording to a warrant issued’ by city police. The case will be u ip. in. city court today. . will be awarded for the first time in the Scout District’s history. SATURDAY—Field Meet of three troops at the City Stadium, | beginning at 9:30 in the morning. Various contests are planned. SUNDAY—Church Day. troops’ will attend their churches. MONDAY—School Day. All} scouts will wear their uniform at school. Special school. programs planned for that day. | TUESDAY—Government Day. } From 4 to 5 in the afternoon local scouts wil Itake over the city gov- ernment for one hour. WEDNESDAY — Home couts will Scouting — to frome. Individual troops will have va- rious window displays in the! stores of the city telling about} the work of Scouting... Prizes will be given for the most im- pressive and original window display. There are three white troops, one colored troop and two cub} packs in the city today. Troop} 52, Key West’s oldest troop of} Roy Scouts, is ten years old this year. HHT HTOACRNHETENONRNMIT FLOOR SANDING and FINISHING For NEW or OLD FLOORS Free Estimates J. M. BIGBIE__ P.O, Box 592, Key West. Florida ett LIVE POULTRY ROASTERS and Battery Raised FRYERS BRADY’S (Live) POULTRY and EGG MARKET - | All} own! Day.) show the value of their _ parents!. at { 1214 White St. | New Orlearis | and Chief of Police Eisner on the West Stadium Committee will! raids. Temperatures ‘Temperature data for the 24 hours endipg 7:30 a.m. Highest Lowest Station— last2¢ hours last night Atlanta «_ 55, 38 Boston 45 Brownsville 72 Charleston _ 63 Chicago 32: Detroit ... ee Galveston - 62 Jacksonville _ 64 Kansas City 62 KEY ‘WEST 80 K. W. Airport 81 Memphis 2 Be Diternt 3 T, Minneapolis ae 62 New York 40 Norfolk __. 62 Oklahoma City 65 Pensacola - Pittsburgh - St. Louis - Tampa — 52 20 39 56 NORTH BEACH INN COFFEE SHOP 711 North Beach Phone 453-3 eFull-Course DINNER. 6-8 pam! eSpanish Home-cooked DINNERS by Reservation : SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. " Prescription Druggists Graft Charge Main Subject Coming Before Grand Jury Past District Deputy Gerald} County Judge Raymond Lord amounting to $3,000, had been apes seal Ha pega nea said today that rumors are rife committed ie the a are Gabe j membership certificates to Lions 5 ji ;}) taining a license for the Gu |B) M, Forbes, Leo Cohen and’ teat he grand jury, ‘which will ch restaurangs/t@i proprie- | Louis J. Eisner. ; be reconvened on Monday, in-' tors of which I reprédérted. M A detailed .acocunt,of s-the’ tends to do this or-do that, when Crusoe, in turn, réqiiésted Cir- ' General Motors, strike was \givenNobody but the jurors themselves cuit Judge Aquilino “Lopez, Jr., | bya film shown, by ‘ohn | Dale; | know, what they will Ho. | to call the jury into session, and who is visiting in'Key, West.x; -;,.'Assembling’ the jury," Judge Judge Lopez set 10 o'clock next ‘The’ Lions voted’ unanimously, Lord said, ‘vesulted from a_re-. Monday morning for the jury to to request Florida representatives quest I made to its foreman, Hilowagsemble. °°” d in Washington to continue the ary Crusoe, so that an investiga-' “Rumors that the jurors will Monroe county lunch program at’ tion could be made of the Rev: ‘investigate’ gambling may. or may local schools, i E. S. Doherty’s charge that graft,’ not be so, but we doknow one Guests at the meeting were, _—————————____- | thing they will investigate is the | Representative Pat Cannon ard A 11) 0¢y charge of graft. If ther | City Commissioner W. C. Sweet- Hood’s Poultry and Eggs ‘has been graft, nobody is. morc | ing. 919 Southard Street ;sincere in his wish than I that SEE eBattery - Raised FRYERS | the grafters be punished, and it Degrees For | and ROAS | was for.that reason that I was 4 OES Members Fl 7 actuated to request that the Dai On Premises } grand jury be reconvened to Fresh EGGS | There will be conferring of de-| grees on new members at. the. afford Mr. Doherty an opportun- PALACE THEATER |e" PARTS "2" meeting of Fern Chapter, Order ity to prove his charge.” | BEEBE EDAD EEE TEE ES of Eastern Star at Scottish Rite BILL ELLIOTT in Auto Cars PARTS aan be eae Le foe ‘ o|’Wagon Wheels’ Westward’ Legh es palace isiting are vi | News and Serial Visit the Phone 442 attend the ceremonies. The Hall} ti eodes 2 116. Duval, Jefferson Hotel Bldg. ‘is at the corner of Simonton andi 7 ~~ © **Y YY)" — SIMONTON STREET at CATHERINE | Eaton streets. — cee “The Nicest Litile Bar in Town” ‘SWOPPY WOES BAR ‘A Place Where You Gan Bring Your Wile or Swesthecrt MUSIC. EVERY NIGHT | ee and Be YOU WILL FEEL at HOME in the BOTTLE CAP _ Drinks from 30c up : PACKAGE GOODS at CEILING PRICES OUR LUNCH COUNTER . Sandwiches and Best of + Woe Specialize in Seafoods ; conduct on March 15. ; Miss Thornley is a member of | the club’s basketball team, and jshe and other members were | entertained last night by the aameeeeeeeseeeeeee | t i 3 a POULTRY and STERLING’S "ouersx,.s 1318 Elize Street Phone 243 ROASTERS and FRYERS