The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 16, 1946, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devoted to the best interests of Key West YORUME LXVII. No. 41 ome OnPearl Har BOARD ACCORDING TO |\COSIIL MS: SCHEDULE WAS DUE TO END HEARINGS NEXT WEDNESDAY (By Associates Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The| senate Pearl Harbor disaster committee began its fourth month of hearings today. The committee had expected to end the hearing next Wednesday, but congréss extended ‘the time to June I, after thé testimony Biv: en by Lester R. Sehiuiltz' about ay conference “he said‘ he’ had’ with’ the late’ President’ Roosevelt antl the late Harry Hopkins’ in ‘the’ White House on’ December 4, 1941, the.day before the attack on! Pearl Harbor. | Schultz said that he arrived at the White House at 9:30 P.M., and that he showed the Pres dent an intercepted bulletin that} the Japanese had sent out to| their army, navy and air for i Schultz added that, after President had read the me he remarked, “This means war.” | As nobody is alive to deny or} cortoborate what Schultz said,| Admiral R. Stark, who, presum-! ably would hav een the me: | sage, will be recalled by the com- mittee. Regarding Stark,, Schultz, said, the President tried to ea him by telephone, when he le: ed the contents of the messaj but was told that Stark had gone, } i me | 1 stated that ithe Presi- dent decided that, instead of ha ing Starke paged at the theatre and thereby possibly causé."¢ citement among ‘the audiéncé with resultant conjecture, he de-| Would Move Troops From The Levant (By Ansociated Press) LONDON, Feb. 16. — The Mexican delegate to the Unit- ed Nation: Organization re- newed his. plea today about the proposed evacuation of | French ond British troops’ from the Levani. French anc) British repre-: selttetive: assertéd that Dae counitties” were’ retdy:y to” withdraw, ‘the: Anas athe rH Mexican insisted thit-a defi nate date’ be: fixed ‘for ste evacuation, Representatives from Syria end Lebanor in the Levant eppealed to the security counci! to name e time limit for the withdrawal. y Lhuheatudeudubeududeas Story Starts "DARK POWER” APPEARING TODAY FULL OF IN- TEREST The Associated Pre rial story, “Dark Powe in The, Citizen today. In. this ifferent” mystery novel, Elisa- beth Sanvay ‘Holding has" written a powerfuJ] story that will grip, new se~ ”, begins cided to wait till the next day to!yoqur interest from the first chap- }, consult Starke. So far as he knew, Schultz con- cluded, Admiral Stark was. not, consulted by the’ President, be- cause at dawn the next day. the Japs made their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. jconies and gables, Temperatures Temperature data for the 24 hours ending 30 a.m. Highest Lowest Station— last 24 hours last night Atlanta 46 31 Boston 37 4 asp nsville 66 57 55 43 24 18 19 14 61 53 62 40 43 63 61 Galveston Jai Kansas City KEY WEST K. W. Airport Memphis Miami Minneapolis New Orleans New York Norfolk Oklahoma City Pensacola Pittsburgh St. Louis Tampa 68 68 51 67 30 61 34 38 60 60 19 40 65 | CASA CAYO HUESO . (The Southernmost House) 1400 Duval at South St. DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE ——Opens 5 P.M. Daily-——— Notice to Subscribers If the carrier has not delivered your copy of The Citizen by 6 o'clock each evening, please tele- Phone 51 and it will be delivered to you. An as- sistant remains in the of- fice for this purpose un- til that hour. Circulation Manager. \of paint. Antaribat gag r today and hold it until, the ) Very. last installment. A: synopsis of ‘the story: + The Chalet, , East was a large wooden building, lav ishly ornamented with little bal- a forlorn old place, with uncertained windows, weatherbeaten and in great need. house, plain, everyday Diana Leo- nard is marooned for a terrifying short week among her new-found relative: week full of horrible experiences and physical vio- lence. Circumstances force her into a strange and unpleasant house- hold made up of Aunt Emma, a professor of psychology, who per- forms experiments upon idiotic children; Uncle Peter, a high- grade moron, who is capable -of astounding ‘brutality;; Comsgsin Miles,,;,a, | cdntitmeéd “ aloohalic, whose contindéd ariviingnwould soon send him-over the! brink ef; sanity, af viel ther Rufus, a mutrder him. {ist Start redding this gripping mystery story today. First chap- ter elsewhere in this issue of The Citizen. is rélatives will For Your Safety — RIDE| «a——ee Radar Taxi Cabs | Phone 334, Day or Night 042444444444444444 ———— PALACE THEATER JACK OAKIE in “On Stage, Everybody” News and Serial bo te Arden tn tytn tet ttn teed From 7 A.M. to Midnight GAS - OIL - PARTS Batteries Charged Flats Fixed GREASE and SPRAY JOBS POOR CRAIG SERVICE STATION Division at Francis St. Ph. 9134 Al Armengol, Owner Hazelwood, |; In this very peculiar’ THE SOUTHERNMOST ar ($5,573. 80 3.80 Taxes Deliniuent ‘Paid’ In’Feb.-Roberts ONE HUNDRED STATEMENTS Nees OUT ON REQUEST: |10¢ ‘MORE SOON: DEADLINE Ot FEBRUARY 20 Delinquent tax payments ar? coming in nicely, City Tax Collec- tor-Treasurer Archie Roberts re- \ported today, with $5,573.80 col- lected thus far this month. Over 100 statements have been} sent out on request, Mr. Roberts said, and about 100 more are yet to go out. According to a ruling of the city commission recently all de- linquent taxes’ must be paid by | February 20 or a contract made } with the city to make the pay- ments in seven equal installments starting February: 20. ‘ q Deductions ‘are based’ on’: the years in whith the taxes are due. | The Weather’ REPORT Key. West and vicinity: Partly cloudy this afternoon; increasing cloudiness tonight and Sunday. | Warmer this afternoon. Moderate to fresh northeast and east winds. Florida: Increasing cloudiness and warmer today through Sun- day. Moderate easterly winds. Jacksonville through the Flor- ida Straits and East Gulf of Mex-' ico: Easterly to northeasterly winds, moderate over the north portion and fresh over the south portion, occasionally moderately strong through the Florida Straits today and tonight. Sunday mod- ertae to fresh southeast to south- erly witds. Partly cloudy over | the:rextrome -south ‘portion ‘and élotudy' over the north and: cen- tral) portions. SLES TTL LS S48 Warn Realiors About Bad Check Racket. Realtors Key West and! Filgsida, in general are warned iby/ the FBI thet theyomay un-.,, knowingly help 'spretd:2 bad; check racket how being oper- atee ir, this state. The federa! mer -eveal that ep. 59-year-old woman is “bouncing” checks back at victims on whom they are pessed on the sirength of 4 bona fide receipt she obtains from a rea! estate agent. FBI says the racket works like this: A woman enters & rea! estate office and decides on 2 piece of property she wishes to buy. She gives a substantial check as down paymen? end receives a re- ceipt from the agent. Dis- playing tho receipt as proof of credit, she) passes more cheek: for automobiles!iand, experisive “metchandise and then‘disapptiirs, with her put, chasés. Al checks: other :than., the ‘éne! sheo gives; ,the-real - estete egent/are/ worthless. ,., The?) woman, the. PBI | chetges es. operating! ithe, recket uses 60 different MASONIC Ni NOTICE Special Seanmahiea tes of An- aliases. IIIS ISS IP chor Lodge No. 182, F. & A. M., meray, Evening,. Feb. 18th, 1946, | 7:30 P.M. ees in F.C. degree. All Members and Sojourning Masons invited to be present. By order W. P. Williams, W.M. GERALD H. ADAMS. Beach: ‘Ginb. FEBRUARY 16th Music by “NEWSPAPER RECENTLY APPOIN' D to. head the Red. Cross Fund Campaign. Ygnacio Carbonell (above), who served with the Army in Honoiulu. Guam and Tokyo, states that the Red Cross has helped him in locat- ing his buddies throughout%the war and that he feels that the Red Cross should be kept by the aay ot at servicemen, Coral. Carl W. Rooney, Officer) Th Charge Boca Chica, Decorated OM TE TMD Mi: icra s Golds {Stare In Some Want It 4, dow Ot Fourth: Distin ———_ 3, aca? eee Just to show you how dif- - ‘Fifth AirsMédal were “present City officials’ have received Fast, Some Want, Paw Flyinigt AF ifthiAdg Medal Ii Slow | Gold stars’ in liew ‘of 'a fourth ficult to pull all ends together: ed Flying Cross and a ray hatige ee basa this amass a Gomdr...Carl_W: Rooney..U: i Complaint from the i 3 he gece ios’ ‘Were recom- complaints have) been. receiv- Sea oe ach gins ang , od by’ them oma “spend trap” «+ parbdn fighter, swoeps, over Ky~: (which “has ‘béen ‘set by the’ h numerous aircrafts: city,on Roosevelt Boulevard : nall vessels. just beyond , Stotk’’ ‘island tio wee destroys Bridge. The SRD letter suggested that since the highway is state-maintained that itmight be better to use the regular highway speed limit on Roose- velt Boulevard and allow!cars to travel faster than the 25 miles now reauired. Signs at this intersection call for a'speed of 25 miles an hour, but city officials promptly advised the state road department that no ar- rests were made at this inter- section unless the car was do-:: ing over 35 miles per hour and most of the time arrests were >| Acade made at,45 miles per hour. +. . (Shortly after this letter was~. )Feceived from the’ ‘state bead oi|.Wwi department, a ‘phorié’ callewas’ made to city officials asking why cers wi “speeding: ' fast at this intersection. ye, was conimander 46—"Men" 0’ War” — operatin, from the carrier USS Independ ence. Naval Air Commander * Bases, ; Manding officer of Naval Air Sta-} i at captain's inspection. Comdr.. Rooney. reported td. Boca Chica field 29 September; } 1945 for his first tour of shore! duty in almost twelve years. Then, he where. hi ‘as graduated fromthe }: chlorite ele Boon, oe Wavy) ARES SRN He and Mrs. Rooney, HINTTNENNNNTNATNMN, formerly of Orlando, now reside FLOOR SANDING and | * NAS, Key West.» FINISHING For NEW or OLD FLOORS Free Estimates J. M. BIGBIE P.O. Box 592, Key West, Florida ST TUT Us We Are Now Accepting COLOR FILM for DEVELOPING and PRINTING ;|| SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. ie ate INN SHOP 71 Rate? leg Phone 453.3: IN THE i U.S.A. |Lieut. Virgil Shepard Hopes For, ‘Peace Ih “Remembering Maine” ISIE SSS DM) Polish Troops Moving Toward ‘Yugéslav Border “UNO eporind today. that the vanguard of troops was only 13 miles from the border. He charged further that 700 Polish soldiers, dressed in ci- vilian clothes, had entered the city of Trieste. STITT ILS TS, Believe Dare Devil Made World: wld: Record, FEET, (THROUGH SPACE: AT “RODEO: HEE: ‘FROM’ OLD INJURIES ~ Iron. Head Decker, dare devil with) the rodeo and thrill show * day: Wreaths At Maine Plot ent. a ae re icervand: een E..ByRebdr;), Cnet Base at. 6 morial exercises. yy. at) Maine plot asked | just as the vidlence of the ex-! plosion of the Maine precipitated ia sefies of evénts that ended in \ the liberation of Cuba, would it be naive or wishful <hinking <o surmise that the force of the {| atomic: bombs dropped on Japan to accelerate the end of another war, might possibly mean a per- " manent peace and freedom for all the peoples of the earth.” “To those men buried in this hallowed ground who gave their last full measure of devotion— we mey have forgotten their Mathes, their faces, -but’ their "deeds will. live on~ forever,” Lieutenant Shepard . said. ‘Albert J. Mills, commander. of reduced the, memorial program invotation was ha uriced by Lieut. (jg) Navy chaplain, cnt a Navy choir led in the singing. 1 Jesus Alvarez, Cuban consul, delivered a+ message from the Cuban government on the, oc- delivered a cornet -solo. baits Address At Me-| morial Exercises Yester- | Tt: > thé American; Legion. here,. in-: |mon.aiean pecksitcors:16) t MeNeil, } caston. Billy Ladd of High Scar OPERATIVES GRANTED INCREASE: CORPORA. TION PERMITTED TO ADVANCE PRICES , (hy Ansovinted Preant WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Ore hundred and twenty-five thous- ! and United States Steel workers will, return. to their jobs at mid- night tomorrow, it. was.an ed offitially today.» Benjamin, Fairless, “ag Steel igaid that the’ wé ¢memichad bean »granted:.an.'} ‘peants amahoursinerease ‘ins wand thatywthe © government permitted the: corperation, to ~ vance the price of steel $5 at Fairless. declared that the in- crease in wages would cost the corporation an additional $100,- 000,000 a year, and that its in- crease in earnings by the price boost would net the company $48,000,000 annually. Queen Vote Book Prices Are Reduced PRICE NOW. ONE DOLLAR PEN): BOOK); STADIUM. COMMIT. ||, {pred \CHAtHMAN © STATES CONTESTANTS SELL THEM Books of Volct, 50 shetts to ' pook with each sheet ;counting {én Yotes, Will be sold at one -iol- lar instead of » the “ive -lollars previously asked. by he Stacir Committee in their Sponge Quec y “ssl Festival, Chairman Paul Albury at the Muhieipal \Stadim joday’¢ Wreaths were laid at the plot Seventh Naval District and com-} jand baandich Os cll of the most senatiorialsi of ‘his career ‘yesterday afternoon at the’ Musielpa adn whet he sent, his feet j:theough <p The impact of the at’s wheels. made an impression ten inches: deep in the ground of the stad- ium. The car’s axle was bent like, out, into a ribbon. Iron Head Decker was momen- | crash, but regained his senses’ ; long enough to leap ‘out on top} ence. Immediately after, Ftwouyears sate “ldap e beter, one .6f am-t'they mosh fi of all-dare sor gney mosh ‘sie He had « recovered thou by. thé’“time'sof the night show to again get in a'car and make the “leap of death”. 4 | GULF STREAM Management of I. Wiener | Division at Simonton’ Ph. 330 Featuring A\ SPECIAL Sundav Dinner | Bring the Family—the Children— | se | a Full-plate at ‘Reduced Price SERVED FROM NOON to MIDNIGHT wate ih 5g 7 bare, ground, 2 rey fet beyond, ed. Contdr. "Roonéy: at: that time’ the last. parkefl ‘Car! } of. Air Group# Capt. W. H. Hamilton, USN,} a U, both front tirés were blown| Thére is a bronze. statue of arid the frame was twisted, sailorman | iby, The American ‘Legion, Veter-, ans of Foerign Wars, Spanish War’ Veterans ‘and Daughters of the Confedera¢y. » A volley was fited over''the!: Braves by a squadof marines: as taps were played. Ih the graves ate ‘laid sailors, from the Battleship Maine which’ was blown up in Havana harbor, forty eight years ago. The ship’s company comprised 352 men. a in the uniform of | Spanish American War days in the plot and the whole is sur- tion, Key West made the awards! tar) ily dazed by the shock of the, rounded by a metal fence. On the Harris School grounds there is a turret from the Maine) of the car and wave to the audi-' and at the Convent of Mary Im-! how-| matulate there is a flag of the + ever, he collapsed into the arms; battleship Maine with a smaller, His Naval career began a8 a’ of John Byron, bronc rider with! number of stars than we now | Seaman Ic at’ Pensacola in 1929. i the... show, suffering a relapse Have. as sent to Annapolis,'¢,om_ internal Ane sustained shells and muskets from the, ‘Chicago. Later; Majne as, presented by Captain| s the ‘hdvddy P. (Ly. Agen in veg Open $0, There also are pieces of, rove, This museum is sbhe, public. ont Adm a cris: Here On On Trip 10: ISCO REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT Pp. BRISCOE INSPECTS AsDevLant On a field trip here this week } was Rear Admiral Robert P. Bris- coe, USN, inspecting AaDevLant at the Section Base. Admiral Briscoe .is commander of Operational Development Task Fotcee and under him comes sucn activities as AsDevLant. “Full name of AsDevLant, is an ti-submarine . developments, At- lantic Fleet, said ioday, All those. .who have purehnsed books at, the Jar price: will receive, five bool ‘instead of. one, Mr.. Albi yi Each merchant may aémount:of merchandise for ‘each ten-vote. sheet. is Merchants: are, attempt serve all customers, so. tha coming into the stores will have a chance. to obtain the votes. At the discarded price the “be would have been’ too exoc: mefehants - stated,- and Mr bury decided to make the char Queen candidates, of the ious clubs are selling the books, which have been distributed. 40 them li Mr. Albury. Chas. s, Richardson Died Last Nighi ; Charles M. M.._ Richardson, | died last night, at 7:45, o'clock | his residence, 1320 Afigela stv Funeral services will: he | morrow afternoon at, 4 0" | the Fleming Stteet. Method | Chure, Rey. A..G. Cox, pastor officiating. , The will : | placed'in the church’ at:2-o’clock. Pritchard Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Survivors are, the. wife, Mrs Sudie Richardson; . two sisters, Mrs. Charles O. Drake; Mi Gladys Jolly; three ‘Brothe: Harry, Herman and. Paul Rich- | bury, . Carl Bere Chester Sawyer, C; Sam_B. i