The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 6, 1946, Page 1

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Ammociated Preas Day Wire Service and AP Features "Z. Ss, Years Devoted to the of Key West VOLAME LXVI. No. 83 “a Driling. For. Oi! On. Sugat. Loaf To Be Started Shortly By Gulf Oi) Corporation *-—— HAS APPLIED 10 Wt weer eews WAR DEPARTMENT 13 Billion Yen POR PERMISSION TO Found Under Mud SUED ROAD TO SITE In Bay AM Tokyo (My Associated Prens) Tokyo, April 6.—Investiga- tion directed at trying to find the vast gold store Japan was thought to possess, which had been goimy on ever-since the American occupation of Ja-— hee sent The| pam began, culminatedvtodays:| + following informe- | an finding thirteen billion yeas) | im gold end silver.in: Tokyo: > Bay. The metal is worth two bil- lien dollars in American 4 Gall O8 Co oom Grilling « well in 8 om Big Pine Key, has app! «i! & the War Department for po | construct & rowdwey | structure fer tine} OPS well en Sugar Lowi | eration, which earch of “Apptration has been the Wer Depertinent by Corporation tor permit to con The Key THE SOUTHERNMOST LARGEST TARPON thus far this season was caught recently . by: Bob: Pollock of Pollock's Quality Jewelers of Key West. It was caught aboard Captain Jakie Key charter fishing boat Legion. left to rgiht. above, are: Fred Key, mate: E. S. MacFarlane, Associ tarpon and a 110-pound tarpon (also caught by Pollock), Bob Pollock and Captain Jakie Key. | NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1946 ‘Josep h Spelock |Wreeker From $S Willett Died ‘This Morning In; Hospital; Auto Travelling Slowly | Navy Li | + Joseph Spelock, 54, died at 6.15 | this morning from’! | fy fall offan automobile’ at the, jeamer! of ‘Grinnell and ‘Caroline | streets. {Mri Spelock was: asmember oi the wrecking crew on ‘the’ fig’ Willett, based at Craig’ Dock. He From resided at 106 Simonton street. d Press reporter: the 123-pound; According to police, Mr. Spelock riding on the running board an gutomobile driven by Her- struct @ rock fill cousews ®| money. oppetiing structure for we'll It was divulged that a ei de eater So @rtiieng martin ad mek sili Geisha girl tipzed off the in- 0 | Wend, 200 feet by 200 feet vestigators to the place where rganizations San, ® Sugarival Sound. Sacdc the gold and silver were hid- Will Protest fomh Keys, M Cour den. She said that her reason Pier ide for divulging the eeemation : The she had learne: = © orapeaed thet sy ce sed warlords had Bridge Removal Gerrigk structure would be a hidden the money in the hope 1A04 feet north-northwest of using it es a neucleus, after | fom UBC. & GS. triangulati American troops had been |BUSINESSMEN, JUNIOR CHAM withdrawn from Japan, to be steven * loaf 2 nana gin preparations for another and about 2588 fect erty from Sugariow Y ee |. ae BER OF | COMMERCE ' To week, on the northerly side of The ingots ‘yore found bur- ont femmeriing with, the aban-; ied in mad in six feet of wa- PROTEST\ TUESDAY Gemed highway on Ploride Keys | ter at. the’ vexact location where the girl said the money was hidden. It required but one dive by en American of- ficer to come into contact with some of the ingots. A thorough search was made, and when the last of the ingots were brought to the puriecn, Pll of them were weighed .and their worth was ante “The proposed causeway woud emtend inte the waterway abvuit Ae fork mn & Rorth-porthwenter sy | Giretion, #he would terminal: in be J islend, the baywar a would be about 7'5 feet from center line of the seid Highway, and about 550 on the county proposal ta..destrey.. the. Chica bridge with the work by the State Road Department. Key West Businessmen’s ciation Board of Directors have BER, POSSIBLY SR. CHAM.) Public \opinion is: crystallizing commissioners’| Boea| heywerd from the mangve estimated at thirteen billion beep at of the county meet- Swamp which fringes the sno | yen, ink” ‘Patsday “at 730 p.m, The Gemeway would be 16 ict and will be present to protest wide iALLAALLAA A Sieatiahe a Te : the destruction of the bridge. supporting structur tla at : ee is Mikes Gaeid be of « iS 4 | FE: st Key West Junior Chamber of crete Shout 9 feet by 33 woo. OCHOOL Laster Commerce will have a delega-| “Tie deck of the causeway! Hl li ki i S tion at the’ meeting to protest ident Jack Delaney said today. Key West Senior Chamber of | "The said mochinery structure! Would support eo well-driliing dc | | On April 17t!. . ) Boa Commerce President Maitland ve, engines and other Gee? s Week iewed. bis 3 machinery. The apex of the de. |HOLIDAYS WILL BE UNTIL Adams will be interviewed by a delegation from the Chamber and it is probable that this or- ek Would be about 150 feet : meen tow water FOLLOWING MONDAY: AL!. — “2, nem may PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN COUN-| ganization will. have a group to teal the maincer Ofik . ore r Z Ss Saemaeares,| Tt tO cose alg iar eee al ibe wd at the office of th s st res S. eal Mamiasee, U. a Resins _.The..county..commission last >) Tyesday, were Joe ea at a two lip henring op this applicadios siete, of, Monitae’ coufity, Witt bs fageanehe coe oling jon Ae pubis hearing on this application ror ‘Wednesday, April’ 17,’ udtil ? Aupome desiring to protest th the foflowing Morday, accord z question of allowing further de- repeeet work from the stead-! Wy an ‘annodncement ‘trom the bf. | struction of the bridge. ae Pent of mierieernce with. fice of the superintendent of pub.| Pridge is about one-third demol- effect upon, navigs should jic instruction, Willard Albury ished now. Probably. half .of the csteomat ‘ ' The schools which will get this| bridge can be saved by public with ¢ me im sufficient detail holiday will be Key West Junicr-| ction with the bridge over the t permit intelligent nid Senior High School and Annex,| ™ain channel about 26 feet deep tem Protests should be mailed pivision Street and Harris El2.| still intact and at the present t the Destriet Engineer, t mentary Schools, Poinciana Ele-| Spee y the State Road Geet Office, FO. Box nentary, Douglass School (Color. | Depé s remaining so sackatewille, Fla, in time and schools at Tavernier,! by next Tuesday free twed on bet Ap 2 umbe and Marathon on the| | TWINS GARAGE {1130 Duval Street Phone 189 Auto Repairs, Painting, Body and Fender Work Plenty of Auto Parts vee eememmeneensieentiiciaadacnel ?7?..April 22 omer T SPRINGER | HIS ORCHESTRA | Palace Theater JOHN WAYNE in “Flame of Barbary Coast” News and Serial — Club Tropics WHA BE THERE! !:: AOR snc my ‘SLOPPY JOE'S BAR MUSIC EVERY NIGHT by Tommy Thompson and His Band | Package Goods Specials WEAVER’S STOCK ISLAND: |Park & Tilford .... 5th $3.68 Golden Wedding pth 3.65 | Paul Jones .. Sth 3.65 Sunty Bropes. Bru 438 mperial ...... s pts 2. Enlarged and [enoagil aaa Be See | Old St. Croix Rum 5th 3.00 | DRINKS at the BAR | Straight Drinks 25c to 40c AIR CONDITIONED 3:2: | Full Line of Package Good SOPSESESORESOC ESP O ORO O Cee OOo eROeeeeeenoOeeCOON® SR ; to Division, along Division to < nment Monday before Peace Denies Red! Char: me aie and thence to the F squinaldo. aie ge School gymnasium, where the s street, and Tony | ceremonial will, be held. Brown, 23, 616 Mickens lane. [ONLY 800 AMERICAN TROOPS; Dr. John K. Clemmer, who) ___—————— ‘organized the Key West Shrine ats ICELAND OUT Club, said tod: that the num-! Temperatures OF 40,0000 | ber of novices has increased ifrom 23 to 30. ! | ae | He also stated that 175 uni- Temperature data for the 24 hours (By Associated Press) | formed. Shrine ve i ending 7:30 a.m. WASHINGTON, April: 6.—The to come.to Key West, at Highest |‘ Lowest War Department, in replying ‘to: other reservations Station— last 24 hours last night day to a statement made by In- made, total 45. {Atlanta 41 Veztia, Soviet semi-official ne i 26 paper, that the United States is b t 69 acquiring land in Iceland for Charlest 58 fe | be srt Williams of 167-D Poinciana jand while the car was going north (on: Gunn: Eales at fifteen mi!es |pe r hour Spelock suddenly {fell off onto one street. Pritchard Shriners T rt Ask Police Fire ‘ambulance responded to a cali 1 © J j ie : In Air, Arrest \ Display of Bag: ‘and carried Mr. Spelock to che Sailors | On Parade Route! Navy Hospital, where he died this | morning. ! Preliminary diagnosis revealed | that he had a fractured skull ant internal injurie ae af ff Yesterday a call came from Mrs, James Matheson of 1411 NUMBER OF NOVICES FOR Olt Running Board of Vehicle he ‘effects’ of” |IRAN - RUSSO QUESTION CONSIDERED AS SET: TLED; RUSSIAN FORE: ES LEAVING FAST velock Killed Falling (By Associated Presse NEW YORK, April 6.—Tt wes indicated today that no com troversal. subjects will be dix cussed at the UN Security Coun cil meeting to be held Tuekiay Sailor Makes Poor Turn In Auto Crash ew i he would not be présent of conference, and that Edward & Officer Gene Hernandez ar-| Stettinius will serve for Byrnes rested M. S. Carvill for driving} It was said that members of while drunk and causing an acci-} the council are averse to the die dent at the corner of Elizabeth} cussion of any subject of a frie and Eaton streets this afternoon! tional nature. The lran-Rue« at 12:50 g’clock. | question is apparently settled Officer Hernandez said that because the Iranian represents the sailor was driving in a car} tive announced that his govers owned by Chief Carl Weidetz| ment considers it got the better and that while traveling south! of the bargain in the treaty mode ;on Elizabeth the sailor made a) with Russia. ‘left turn and landed up in, the} News from Teheran today said yard at 709 Eaton street smack| that constant streams of Russien \ up against a coconut tree. troops, including mechanised " TERETE Chief Weidetz told Officer i re passing ‘ond the Division Street \to ‘police sta CEREMONIAL © INCREASED | Hertiauider that. he “had. allawedl tasgepash elaine ang 3 tion that two sailor men were TO ..3034 MANY MIAMIAN the sailor ta drive the car. Car-| \ Another, story said thet Mus trying to steal her-car. COMING i clock is: survived by the Vill -had« no. driver's: license. sian engineers are preparing to Rushing to the'scene, Chief |widowy Mrs. Anne: A. Spelock.! |The. car is pretty:badiy:broken| drill wells: in northern Iran i of Police Louis’ Eisner and | jThe deceased/had been avresident ‘up in the front) end. search of oil, and that the Rw Licutenant Joseph Kemp gave ( : ., }of Key West for the’ past six] chase as they spotted the two ‘A committee, comprising EV- year sailors, pursuing them through | ¢ett Rivas, Clem C. Price anil} eral: services will, be be¥i ~back yards, The sailers con-+%Fentando anus, nexe week Wirt Oday. ahernoed at p48 -clelanic.. tinued at a good clip until the | request business houses to dis-|{'™ the chapel of police fired shots into the air imeral Home, with ®ev. Cox of to ‘frighten ther. The saticrs play flags oy ,decorations alo Fler Street Methodist Church fhenitnme:4o/alitdp. the line of march of the parade off They were George A. ta be given Saturday ‘in oor lea | O'Conner, 20, and F. J. Preg. | Hebtfor) with F 3 vith the cere: enzer, 18, of Boca Chica. They Be ae, 6 Re aa monial were placed /1 the city jal |” a a mm Key and warrants made out for | Shrine Temple, of .N | to Two hie ed ¢ On st by Mahi ami, with ity ¥ h cies which the Key West Shrine Club prance b/ C wk a Als car number is 88-D | is affiliated H 67. | The parade is sched 1 to kkk dd dette al. o'cjoak in! the. after V% RS aan noon at Eaton and Duval stre ; The paraders will go up Duval Chief Deputy sted two negre agrancy and a ing each under $100 bail Sor War Department | military bases, declared there For Mature, | ras = ~ . D was no truth to the story. sgressive Common Sense ; on The department plained R : wy 67 further that the charges about eH peseninnon Ksonville . the large number of American! pL GALY BO troops in Iceland is also false. VOTE FOR WEST ed It was officially stated that, of | OORT Ha the 40,000 men the United Stz aenee. 7A had in Iceland during the war,! RAE 2 only 800 of them remain, and VALDEZ sett a all of them are technicians. j 2: | eS RR RRCEEED CASA CAYO HUESO (The Southernmost House) 1400 Duval at South St. | DINING ROOM and | COCKTAIL LOUNGE | ——-Opens 5 P.M. Daily———} your COUNTY COMMISSIONER Ath District “Paid Political Advertisement” SOUTH BEACH Restaurant - Pavilion Located on South Beach, Simonton Street ITI Easter. Curls for Little Girls Glorious.New To Accent 241 FEET ON THE OCEAN Hair Beauty? Your Own Phone 458 $10.00 Cream Loveliness Featuring: Half Southern Fried Chicken in the Basket WAVE Cold Wave $10 Up $5.95 We onan Fen, in Hair Cutting S aa Shampoo § 00 and Set... 4 up Seafood - Gieas - Steaks OFEN 11 A.M. to 9 P.M. BEER and WINE SERVED During Legal Hours Operators Ruth Higgs and Kate Able RUTH SALON of BEAUTY 409 GRINNELL ST. PHONE 863 poten Failed To A pply Sheriff Moreno | Deputy Will Archer, | $1.15, sian government already is ob taining Iranian oil. Nice Weather For Weeke:! FAIR WEATHER TOMORROW LIGHT VARIABLE WINDS 100: Realty Owners For EE x emptions er SO SAYS \ asanseon GANDOL- FO, WHO EXPLAINS THAT FULL TAXATION MUST BE PAID —- | Nice prediction for weathe County Tax Assessor Claude! for this week-end from the: % | A. Gandolfo said today that ap-| West Weather Bureau whieh ¥ | proximately 100 owners of realty |in Monroe county, who had the} ports that it will be few tod ind tomorrow with light bi ! privilege to file for homestead! winds. exemptions, failed to take ad-| Other Florida forecast vantage of that reduction in} low taxes. As a result, he added,| FLORIDA: perally , they will have to pay full taxa-) with | tion. ture today, tonight and S Mr. Gandolfo said he began) JACKSONVILLE THRO this morning to file assessments} THE FLORIDA, STRAITS “A® for those residents, numbering} EAST GULF OF MBNMM 150, who failed to file a state-| Gentle variable winds ‘over’ Gat about the: ir personal prop-! portion and gentle to mod lerty..They, will be obliged to pay} west to northwest wind ‘ taxes on the, amount. fixed by! north portion today, the . assessor's, office, .in com-| inéreasing tonight beg nm pliance with the law, and also} moderate west to sout! | will be a ed a penalty of 10) south poftion and mo | per cent : | fresh southwesterly | Sunday, (¢ little change in t portion by fair weather | PMSA, PIRI eA LEI TE R DANCE JACKSONVILLE TO jor storm Again | “TONIGHT — | and EVERY FRIDAY and OPEN SUNDAY SATURDAY at 8:30 o'clock From 7 A.M, to Midnight to MUSIC by the To Serve You HOTTEST BAND GAS - OIL - PARTS In Town Ratna Enos atthe GREASE and SPRAY JO® American Legion Home | | cong ot suns) POOR, OUD, CRAIG | ADMISSION FREE Ai Areuhesh, © | Division at Francis St | LACHICOLA: No warning Ph oie | Trott i west LA CONCHA HOTEL COCKT AIL LOUNGE | AIR-CONDITIONED for YOUR COMFORT | Now Featuring | DANCING EVERY. NIGHT | Music by La Concha Orchestra | : aa ; | The New Cocktail ‘LA CONCHA SPECIAL’ BREAKFAST Served from. . . 8:00 A.M. to 10:00 AM LUNCHEON Served from . . . 12:00 Noon to 2:00 P.M DINNERS Served from . . . . 5:30 P. to 6:30 P.M. HUGH C. HODGE, Manager GT TTI ' + : © = = : ra 2 oo

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