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

LL Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devote Best interests ea Wer . VOLUME LXVII. No. 105 Oil Concern Building | Distribution Station GULF FIRM PROJECT WILL INCLUDE FOUR 15,000-GALLON TANKS i The Gulf Oil Co. today began} construction at its Duval street} docks on the installation of four} 15,000-gallon tanks in prepara- tion for the establishing of its | Key West distribution center there. Charles E. Taylor, -dock super- intendent, said that the transfer of the distribution center from its Navy Sub Grounds On Uncharted Bar Tug “Captain Tom” returned to the Duval street Porter dock early today with one of the two old model subs it was attempt- ing to tow to Miami, leaving the other on an uncharted bar just East of steamboat channel. The tug had towed four of the old style subs to the Miami base, and was on the way north again with two more~when both the, | tug and the subs were grounded. e Kry THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1946 ———— FISHING LODGES TO DOT * * * * * * Vacation Paradise Visioned By Tax Assessor Gandolfo * * * * * * ENTIRE “KEYS” DISTRICT s % “Fishing lodges, with connect-| by Ralph B. Pinder, formet chief ieee t aee ba stk rank: | ing cottages. or cabins, mat the Key West Fire depart- jin connection with his candidacy | springing up all over the keys,”| ment, and the other by George lfor re-election to. the State Sen-| County Tax Assessor Claude A.| Robinson, ips | Gandolfo said today, He added} After the 1943 session of the| that indications are that, within; |Legislature, the Army sought the| the next few years, scores of lservices of Senator Franklin for |such settlements will be con-| service in its military government | structed between here and the branch. Though past military| mainland. The Citizen has been )26¢ and a veteran of the first| predicting this for several years, } world war, Senator Franklin did'‘and it is being realized now. {not feel that he had the right to] decline the call of his country’ and volunteered. He was serving | in Germany when the war end- | Island City Visitor! SOLON EXPLAINS VACANCY OF SEAT IN SESSION OF 1945 LEGISLATURE ‘Fract Readied “The lodges and the cottages are comparatively small develop- ments now underway on the Florida Keys,” Mr. Gandolfo | tract is being readied for hotels, __| pavilions and cottages io be Mr. Gandolfo. and his chief; privately owned, and on Key clerk, J. Erank Roberts, returned | Largo several other large de- late yesterday from Big Pine’ yelopments are underway. The and No Name Key on the last of Florida Kesy are growing fast said. “On Lower Matecumbe a! Caroline street docks to the Du- {The tug and one of the subs were | 4. val street location was in prep-|soon refloated. Attempts will be aration for a contemplated in-} made soon to float the other one. j crease in business it. Key West.| A member of the tug crew said | ‘The change of the distrIbution lo-' the bar was caused by the dump- In an interview today, the sen- j ator was asked. about his seat be-, ing vacant at the 1945. session of | ithe: Legislature. He pointed out | their check-up trips beofre be- and, from now on, I predict, will ginning to make up their next’ grow faster. They are destined assessment rolls. | to be the country’s foremost rec- Mr. Gandolfo said he found! reation center during the win- cation here will in no way affect ing of several-barge loads of rock that early in 1945. he sent his; two recently constructed fishing ier.” A Construction Here Exceeds $90,000.00 Commercial and home con- struction in Key West during the ‘past month totaled over $90,000, {OPA Rent Director N. D. Keye announced today. A construction survey was ‘made with the assistance of City ‘Building Inspector Sawyer, OPA {Rent Executive Louis E. Lebel and by checking lumber yards here. Commercial construction total- ed $45,000, all on Duval Street. Houses costing less than $6,000 fave been consiructed totaling , $25,000. Three houses. in the $6,- ;900 also have been erected on Avenue E costing $20,000. _ In Appeals To Up the continued operation and serv-! there. Since then ;the navigation: resignation to {he governor ,and, lodges on No Name Key, one! The survey was made follow-; S4 Schooner Dock; With 200 Turtle Looks like turtle soy turtle steaks would beg ful here for a time. The Schooner Jimson, skippered by Capt. Osbert Eubanks, docked late yester- day with 200 turtles. were consigned to the A. Granday Canning Co., (part of the Thompson Enter- prises, Inc.) where, attaches said, some will be trans- formed into steaks, while others will end us as canned soup. III IS LIDS. ction Against Franco aes NEW YORK, May 2.— A spokesman for the UN Security Council’s sub-committee of five, before it reconvened this after- noon, said that the group had re- cived 461 telegrams and letters about Generalissimo Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, and that all of them favored the council’s: taking immediate action against him. The spokesman said that the messages advocated action, rang- ing from collective severance of diplomatic relations with Spain exhibited ‘a letter from him dated ,owned by Charles Wesley Gib-’' ice at the Caroline street dock. Besides the installation of the four tanks, Taylor said many other pieces of additional ma- chinery—such as pumps, loading | menace has not. been charted, he | said. MARINE CONTINGENT equipment, etc.—will follow the erection. SIGNS OVER SEVEN Seven men from the reserve April 8, 1946, written to a friend in Lee county, in which the gov-! )ermor Says: son and the other by Carlton Craig. Mr. Gibson’s development, | * 3 consisting of the lodge, four cot-/ |. Early in February of 1945, tages and a large restaurant, | |Senator Franklin, then in Bel- faces Big Pine Channel. Mr.| igium. with the American Army, Craig has four cabins, besides! jmailed his resignation. Under- Jaycees Praise Newsmen, Radio At a dinner meeting last night of the Junior Chamber of Com- The total cost of the construe-| and SS status to the régulars ‘standing that men in the armed tion work was not revealed by; were signed over at the Marine ' services were generally permitted Superintendent Taylor. It is ex-| contingent at Boca Chica this’ to serve in legislative sessions, I his lodge, and in that immediate vicinity are four large cottages, owned by out-of-state persons who spend four or five months ing a request for such informa- tion from regional OPA offices. Cancer Fund 2222eseeeeeeeeeea/ to the imposition of economic Late Bulletins (By Axsociated Press) os de tn dn ttn ttn tn tntntntindl ONE BILLION, ONE YEAR Exceeds $917) merce, certificates of apprecia- Nainialaesii tion for publicity were awarded} Memberships in the current | John Spottswood, of Station 'cancer prevention drive in Mon- | | WASHINGTON.—Senator At- kins of Vermont said today he will offer an amendment to the pected that the completed job; week, | wrote to the Secretary of War will run into thousands of dol-| Men signing-over in this fash- asking if it would be possible to lars, and will amount to one of ing. receive a 60-day furlough. 'arrange for the return of Senator WKWF; L. P. Artman, Jr., of roe county have exceeded $917, The Key West Citizen, and Earl\Clem C. Price, county chairman, | Adams of The Miami Herald. jamnounced today. there every season. Gandolfo stated that he found Mr. Craig |that one billion be granted for bill ,which provides for a loan of $%750,000,000 to Great Britain, sanctions. Most of the messages also advocated the taking of im- mediate action. ‘ Scores of the letters and tele- grams favored the return to power in Spain of the Spanish government in exile. It was as- serted that that government had been driven from Spain with the help of German and _ Italian troops ahd airforces. Others stressed the charges made by Poland that Franco’ is the largest commercial develop- ruiti ti o- Franklin to Florida for the to be enthusiastic about the de- x a ments here in many years. Bele saateas even Marine ‘sion of the Legislature: gre velopment of the keys. President Jack Delaney prai Contributions include: one year to ascertain if Britain.’ harboring in Spain hundreds of The erection of the four tanks| nit. but the Florida Marine }considerable delay, a letter was'| Yachtmen Visit ‘ed the cooperation of the local! Previously reported, $55. |during that time, would put into| 177i scientists and former war- will be in addition to the two! pyIRS at Jacksonville still leads |Teceived from the Secretary of! “Here at my place,” Gandolfo | P¥ss and radio in the campaigas/ Florida National Bank, Linds- | effect the promised trade agree-| 1114. who are making prepara- tanks ne o thie! pre vi ‘ley Lumber Co. and Lopez Whole-' ments with the United States. ee large now on- the’ property | sale Liquors, $25 each; Order of Eastern Star, $15; Charles Taylor, : Wm. R. Porter, Baer’s Market, W.. Curry. Harris, . Herman's, * e Pearlman’s, ‘Pollock’s, Beldner’s, spoke on the mutual, benefits of Lewinsky's, Kantor's, Appel- there. OVERSEAS HOTEL SOLD FOR $50,000 the state. Electric Shop. Valuable Public Works department at Boca Chica Field has many. valu- able departments of which one ¢ 4 H “many | 224 projects of the Junior Cham- said Craig told him, “many | 224 yachtmen come down from} her me Pb aSe Life on the Miami through the Inland Wat-/ 0rgin of the. Chamber and stressed more out of town politi- erway and remain here to rest °” aay % and to. fish for two or three ®@! activity. Mr. ' ‘Spotswood War about the time the Legisla- ture convened, advising that un-' der existing regulations Senator Franklin could not be returned at that time. Should Britain live up. to her! agreements, Atkins m ded, he will or granting her the baliface of tions for another war. said the scientists are feverishly at work on the development of an atomie .bomb that will be comparable at least with the “Since the Legislature was then weeks “at a time. What is now STRIKES AT RACE TRACKS | bomb that was produced in the of the foremost~ones is the elec- in session. and the Secretary. of radio. and press to town with | WASHINGTON. — Dispatches United States. routh’s. and Lee’s Grocery, $10 each; Delmonico’s, Aronovitz De- tore, White Laundry, happening here will happen gen- erally through the Keys in the next few years. Many of my War had adversely ruled on the request for a legislative furlough, nothing further, was done and Transfer of Overseas Hotel each produtimg its own, effective! from Sam Cohen and Michael ‘were received here today about| Besides, the committee was benefits to the co: ri ith its many. civilian doainry, Nassar! employes at various race courses| told, the scientists. are develop- electricians _ and _refrigeration Bonamy to Mi Herman, former- jy. of “Hermty*s Restaurant’ in Atlantic City, New Jersey was being completed today in Judge Raymond Lord's ofifee. The con- sideration was $50,000. CONCHS TO MEET BOMBERS. SUNDAY The Key West Conchs will meet the Morris Field Bomb- ers, West Palm Beach, in a professional basebal] game at the stadium here Sunday aft- ernoon at 3 o'clock, Roy Ham- lin, manager of the Conchs, announced today. tn, TO THE PUBLIC We wish to correct an error which appeared in The Miami Daily News of Wednesday. May ist—which stated that Miss Betty Whidden is the President of the Key West Parent-Teachers Asso- ciation. Miss Whidden is not President of PTA. LOUIS CARBONELL Campaign Manager for GEO, SMATHERS (Paid Political Advertisement) <eunmanesgeeneon0aun an a sonnRgETELOU UAHA OCEAN VIEW RESTAURANT 520 UNITED STREET Pp | Saturday, May 4, REO at 8:00 PML SERVING FULL-COURSE DINNERS From $1.25 Also Service A la Carte Breakfast Served 8 to 10:30 Luncheon Served 12 to 2 Dimner Served... 5 to 9 DANCING, 9:00 to 11:00 Management Capt. Luther Pinder RL LL HEAR GERALD SAUNDERS CANDIDATE County Commissioner 4th District FRIDAY--6:35 P.M. W.K.W.F (Paid Political Advertiseemnt) ‘Segsecnnae eH HEAR HIM TONIGHT OVER WKWF men. The base is dependent ion 4i@&Meri for the-upkeepvof all electric installations. The department is one of the éssential ‘factors in maintainthg Boca’ Chica’s electrical system. NORWEGIAN SHIP DOCKS HERE TODAY The Norwegian ship Borgfred put in at the Porter Gulf dock today for water on its way from Baltimore to Havana with a car- go of coal. Captfin Roe of Bre- vik, Norway, is the skipper of the ship carrying a crew of 29. Gabrielsen-Farsund. are the owners of the ship. The skipper said the ship has been out of Nor- way for nearly seven years POSTON Qualified by Experience A. A. ‘Barney’ POSTON Lake Park, Fla. CANDIDATE FOR STATE RAILROAD COMMISSIONER Group One Subject to Democratic Primaries “The South Florida Candidate” (Paid Political Advertisement) Fri. Night, May 3rd 34 ROUNDS OF BOXING Main Bout—10 Rounds BABY JOE DIAZ (Havana) Vs. ERNEST NOGUES (Tampa) Semi-Final—8 Rounds CHICO MORALES (Havana) Vs, RAY JACKSON (Orlando) 3 MORE BOUTS 8:30 P.M. — Municipal Stadium | Tickets On S10 Sate a General Admission DEWEY’S CIGAR STORE 610 Duval Street WHEELER and GANDORF 729 Thomas Street at 7:15. o’Clock Artman spoke on the he town. of, having oO and a newspape: visitors speak of the Keys as re sembling the South Sea risky and it will not be long before thousands will entertain similar vie’ We have the climate and we e the best fishing in the country’s. coastal waters, and those two facto! will be out- standing in the development of the Florida Keys.” At Big’ Pine, said, he found under construction, Senator Franklin’s seat.was va- tant during thé sessiow.” Senator Franklin stated he re- gretted very much that his seat was vacant, but he states that’ he did all he could to avoid this, and thé result is just another situa- tion chargeable ‘to the war. 'S GET JOBS THROUGH USES HERE 110 VE The United States ment service placed 110 veterans on jobs in Monroe county in April, Jeff H. Knight, Jr, USES manager said toda Of the 110 vets placed, 45. of PEREZ LEAVES NAVY Mr two one G olfo e e: Charles W. Perez, yeoman 2c, 923 Seminary street, has been honorably discharged from Navy, the separation center Jacksonville announced today. Meme NEW eens. PIONEER HOTEL 151 N. E. FIRST STREET In the Heart of Miami The Rendezvous of Key West SERVICEMEN and CIVILIANS “BEST FOh A NIGHT'S REST" One Block West vi Bus Depot owned the at eos UE CASA CAYO HUESO (The Southernmost House) 1400 Duval at South St. DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE Opens 5 P.M. Daily—— — Knight said. William B. Klugh, supervisor discussed - ment program, with emphasis being placed on veterans’ em- ployment. ELECT STATE ATTORNEY There Is No Substitute for Experience (Paid Political Advertisement) Re-Elect JAMES. z (JIM) SPEER ERS SSH eee ee vopFRANKLIN, | FAIR PLAY | YOUR STATE SENATOR | Some of Key West's Leading Citizens Take Up | Friend of Monroe County | Pat Cannon’s Cause Veteran of both World Wars | “G | ” Joe Allen | Able... Successful Lawyer and Will Speak to You Over | Business Man . .. Experienced | W.K.W.F. HEAR HIM OVER | = TONIGHT at 6:35 Ovido Valdez WKWE AT 7:15 P.M. FRIDAY via neat So There Is No Substitute Ernest Ramsey for Experience Monday, May 6th, at 8:25 P.M. Void tor Baths Qs PAT CANNON will speak in person at a Rally to be held in his et Government {1 CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS, NAVARRO BUILDING, COR. Vote for JIM FRANKLIN SOUTHARD and DUVAL STS., at 8 o’Clock Tonight, May 2nd. (Paid Political. Advertisement) | UNITED STATES SENATE | _An Experienced Legislator (Paid Political Advertisement) | | | CONGRESSMAN CANNON personally invites all local candi- dates to speak at this rally. (Paid Political Advertisement) Employ- | ;, them were from World War Il,| Arnold Currie eintraub, $5 each; look Store, Spea’s Key West Venetian Blind and | Key, West Auto Parts, $3 faculty and personnel of Division | Street School, $29; pupils of Di- ion. Street School, $47, and | h;|day that the terms of the mem- in, the country who had gone on strike for hig mr wages. MADRID, — Generalissimo Francisco Franco announced to- bers of the Falangist council, having expired, new members were appoirited: \The\ names of| ey West Yacht Club, $25. MODEOUUEHALAEULEGG oA AALS HANES Tune In WKWF at 6:45 TONIGHT to HEAR John Carbonell Who Will Speak In His Own Behalf for State Representative (Paid Political Advertisement) ‘onmeftvararantagngsnaeesnnnaessncstciancanti | | oe eee BOBKING YOUR SENATOR Qualified Fearless Honest | (Paid Political Advertisement) | | { | Experienced | | | | | | | } TTT LLL LLL DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT at 9:00 o’Clock ADMISSION FREE V.PLW. HALL in the | Santaella Cigar Building | Flagler Avenue ard 2nd Street Open Monday Thru Saturday Newly Renovated | | | (Paid Political Adv | RLS PAT ER YES, WE HAVE HEAVY-DUTY and Decorated | Rest Rooms for Men & Women) Poinciana Bus Passes Door “UAT the appointees were not divulged. CHICAGO BROWN OUT CHICAGO.—The brown out will go into effect in this city to- night, and it was said it will be darker than at any time during the war. Reason for the action is a shortage of soft coal. DELIO COBO'S record of service to this community assures you [t hat ‘a vote for him for ; | State Representative is | for the best interests of | our people. | (Paid Political Advertisement) | | | | | ELECT PAUL G. ALBURY Your County Commissioner PULL LEVER 32A A Qualified, Experienced Business Man isement) BATTERIES Come and Get Yours NOW They Won't Last Leng OPEN °TIL 10:00 P.M. DAILY and SUNDAY Expert Mechanic On Duty POOR OLD CRAIG Al Armengol, Owner Your Pure Oil and Gas SERVICE STATION Division at Francis Phone 9134 Glass Co., Home Sundry, Store,| NEW FALANGIST COUNCIL “Sugar” Sweeting, Duval Radio, } ing other mew. war weapons. No comment was made about ‘the -action the sub-com- mittee will take on’ the tele- grams and letters. t JEWS, ARABS ARM AS WARFARE LOOMS (By Associnted: Prexs) PALESTINE, May 2. — This city is in. the throes of disturb- ances. that may lead to warfare between Jews and Arab: A Jewish army of several thousands drilled this morning in the out- skirts of the city, and Arabs were preparing to mobilize their forces. Messages» were sent by Arab jeaders to the headquarters of the Pan-Arabie League in Cairo, ap- (Continued on Page Four) Palave Theater 3 STOOGIES and HOOSIER “Rockin’ in the Rockies” News and Serial TWINS GARAGE 1130 Duval Street Phone 159 Auto Repairs, Painting, Body snd Fender Work Plenty of Auto Parts We Eliminated Dictatorship MONROE COUNTY ¢ A VOTE FOR To Represent YOU at the STATE LEGISLATURE is a Vote for... DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATION (Paid Political Advertisement) FRANK O. 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