The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 15, 1946, Page 1

Associated alee Day Wire Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devoted to the Best interests of Key West VOLUME LXVII. No. 116 Waterfront Improvements In Key West! booming cITy HARDEN PROPOSES, $50,000 CHARTER! BOAT DOCK TO COUNTY COMMISSION City Commission Hunter Har- @en appearing before the Board @ County Commissioners last! might, which had only three members in attendance, with a plan for building of a $40,000 to $96,000 charter boat dock in the Gromnell street area was told that the proposition would be given seribus consideration at the next meeting of the county when a full beard would be present. Mr. Harden was told to pre- pare more specific plans and to then present the ideas to the Guunty beard. Question of the @wnership of the property was eee brbught up. The city owns the Municipal Sponge Dock property but if the docks were t be built along the Trumbo| Readway then the question of} property ownership would have t be brought up. With the news of Mr. Harden’ proposal, news that the city eng whead rapidly at present with its plans to buy the Bight bay lands, and; announcement of Adams. manager of Enterprises that deepen- Garrison with tie Masiand Thompson dredging ha ing the Dock blocks struction of serve begun for longside of Gulf bulkheading of two later con- docks to marine station yacht the city’s water- fromt situation is improving rap- idly Mr. Toppino who property adjacent to Elizabeth street has announeed plans for} Whe time row to bulkhead that | shaltow water. “graveyard” area } ef boats which will soeaidarabty.| improve the waterfront. Berlin Felton owner of A. and, B. Fish Company has announced | that this summer he will con-| struct a mew dock at the foot of | front street where an old ram- shackled dock is at present. Old buildings on the marine railway have been torn down and are rapidly being moved away. Boating, commercial and yacht- | ing, in Key West seems to be} booming’ | area ami possible two more as service docks, owns the Trespasser | bbed Here, With two previous complaints of wespassers and peeping toms im the property in the rear of the Campbell Building on Duval | street, Patrolman Hector Castro | received third complaint and | laid in wait last night for possible trespassing Two sailor lads stood on the sidewalk for a long time while | Castro watehed and finally onc | of them walked = the yard. | When he did Castro: sallied forth and nabbed him. The lad| was J. W. Marcheck and a war- | rant was issued for his arrest on | charges of trespassing. His case is up in city court to- day Visits Sunday The many friends of Rev, Ted Jones will be happy to learn that | he will be a visitor to our city over the weekend. Rev. Jones will speak at both the worship services at the First Baptist Church on Sunday, May} 19tt | it w recalled that “Ted”, he is familiarly known, was of the First Baptist Church for years, he having left to avcept the pastorate of the Peachtree Baptist Church, Atlan- ta, Georgia, last September. Im the advices concerning his contemplated visit, Rev. Jones expressed a keen desire to meet all his old friends in Key West ull be past _aeaseaneasaaneanna aT ATU AAAANARE, 3 t FENDERS Oil Spray Nacnassis-- it saves ing a set of fenders! Lou Smith Auto Service White et Fleming Phone No. 5 Opposite Army Barracks “commenennnnnonsegnonn en r0n NNR UEATEOOHEEDAHO OHNE? COMMISSIONERS’ ‘Wanted! ISIS LSI SS Sa) Schoolboys Take Mangoes, Lose PAL Badges Six boys who were accused of taking mangoes from the yard of Halley Cremata in the rear of the Division Street School today lost their police athletic association badges, Officer Frank Jolly reported, The boys who had been using a stick with a nail on the end to secure the man- goes were spotted in class rooms of the school and. severely reprimanded by the principal. Ld he hed hehe whudh No Word Received From Gray About Absentee Voting Absentee voting in the second primary, May 28, should have be- gun in Monroe county May 13, County Judge Raymond R. Lord said today, but’ delay has been caused by the failure to hear from Secretary of State R. A. Gray about the nature of the bal- Hot. Supervisor John England said that he can not prepare the ticket until he receives the necessary information from Secretary Gray. Both Mr. England and Judge Lord said that the two primaries too. .close.. .together..to give Secretary Gray’s office sufficient time to compile returss and pre- pare the ballots for the second \ primary in time for absentee bal- loting as ‘specified by law. + The secretary’s office ,prepares ballots for .67 ,counties,, and few @f. that! mumber : begin | alsientee Voting on the Specified date. “We can’t do anything until we hear from Secretary Gray,” Mr. England said. “I have been mo- |mentarily expecting to receive a telegram from him the last two days, but it has not yet reached me.” e | NAVY $30,000 DEBT NEARING SETTLEMENT FWA’s Mr. Brennan is in the city today conferring with Cap- tain C. E. Reordan, commandant | of the Navy Base, on settling the sewerage bill with the city. Recent conferences with the city manager was held in which the gallonage used was further | proved by a comparison with the motors run to pump the gallon- age and the efficiency of the pumps. Amounts owed by the Army and the Navy which are fast ap- proaching solution amount to $30, 00032 Girls’ Clothes WASHINGTON.—The Bureau of Standards is trying to set up a |method of sizing young. girls’ | clothes on the basis of body meas- {urement rather than ages. It is hoped that manufacturers will jadopt the standard when estab- jlished. The new measurement will use height as the primary guide with waist and girth meas- | urements as secondary guide. Wanted: EXPERIENCED AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS Apply to NAVARRO, Inc. 601 Duval St. Special Communication of Dade Lodge No. 14, F. & A.M., Thursday evening, May 16, at 8:00 P.M. Work in the M.M. gree. All Master Masons vited to attend. L De-| . | in- CONNER, W.M. F, O. WEECH, Secretary. j G08, approved within a short period | of time. | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER In TH KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1946 Another Alumnae Picture Ju IS ANOTHER VIEW of the Convent of M. ey | Immaculate’s recent annual alumnae meet. Beach Bonds Valida Gan Hearing Set For Tomorrow Hearing on the validation pro- ceedings of $250,000 of bonds for the construction of a beach iene} the south shore of Key West will held morning, be- ginning at 9:30 o’clock, by Circuit Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr. Petition to validate the bonds was filed in circuit court January 24, and February 11 notification of the institution of the proceed- be tomorrow ings was served on the state at- | torne, in this district. Publisher’s affidavit was filed : on February 21, and the county clerk’s certificate on the same date. February 25, Assistant | State Attorney William V. | bury filed his answer, ing with it a motion for dismiss Today bury agrc ing tomorrow mornin Geailetic Radar Station For Key Permission,-togrect.2 radar © perimental station on-Key Largo which expected to prove great asset to future Goast and Geodetic Surveys on the Key: was granted by the county com- mission last: night: Commission- ers Higgs “and. Bentley were ab- sent from the meeting. First Lieutenant Edward B. Mastin of MacDill Field present- ed the request to the county board. By means of the radav station the terrain below may be photographed at 20,000 feet and at the same time accurately ed in latitude and longitude bearings. It will greatly speed up geodetic development and is an- other great advance for radar use. Mrs. Singleton Probation Officer With the information that Miss June Williams previously ap- pointed by the county board to the position of probation officer did not further wish the position. Mrs. Isobel Fleming was_ pre- viously appointed by: the gover- nor’s office. The Board with Par: rish and Valdez voting yes and Gomez passing moved that Mr Elizabeth Singleton be endorsed by the county board. The county board merely endorses these is a and Boza Appr ‘oval fix- ! Largo Okayed angidates. with the making the appointment. ter was read from Rev. Pickens of Poinciana in which it was stated that Monroe can go far in controlling juvenile delinquency if a proper active probation offi- cer sis appointed. Judge Frank Roberts is..juvenile judge. Rev. Pickens. also suggested juvenile delinquency council. School Board Money Monies from the city electric ystem in lieu of taxes will re sult in half given the school board. Amount is $8,500 Islamorada Voting Machine Alonzo Cothron, it was report- ed by County. Clerk Ross Sawyet o the county commissioners last night, wanted to why Islamorada, which was first voting precinct in the does. not ‘have a voting machine. The Board stated that it will not be until July when action could be taken on this matter and ferred action to a later date Four Machines for Keys Proposal to allow only machines to go up the keys was not thought practicable by the county last night. Spare machines in case of breakdown thought best. The total will thu continue to be four machines, govemer A let- know the Keys two First of Veteran Job Training Joseph A. Boza and Associate is the first Key West firm to be approved ing agency. Mr veteran in training accountant. Approximately lishmentS have grams thfough' the county super- intendent’s office to. Paul Eddy, Boza has one as a senior 11 other estab- submitted pro head of on-the-job training for the State Department of Educa- These ‘programs should be Willard Albury, county intendent of public instruction, super- as an on-the-job train and Jeff H of the U. E. are much intere Knight Employment S 1 Jr., manager rvice very nt sisting local employers up an | on-the-job ; their training program in business establishment for returning veterans. M: ts all employers use the services USES Knight aiso reque that NOTICE. A special called bu meeting of the m r | | | Al- |turities incorporat- lof the attorneys for the county biter and Assistant State Attorney Al- |lishod $500,000 rdserve, 1 to conduct the hear- Throop told’The Citizen’ today. } { | | | | j cuts | sidewal of | | ness | ber-| wvvvvvvvvvvvvverves ship of the First Baptist! | Church will be held Wed-} Palace Saas ROBERT LOWERY in “ROAD TO ALCATRAZ” News and Serial “TONIGHT IS PRIZE NITE” AAssasesessae hain nesday evening, 8 o'clock. in the church, Board of Deacons’ * | TICKETS NOW ON_SALE | Is {proximate $200,000 « }1947 to \Williams F uneral |be held this afternoon a de- {Placed at 2 p.m land | bones. TUCKY MILLINDER E USA _|Wants No Japanese Communism; Korea’ Stripping Investigation ‘—kGEN. MacARTHUR: ae INVESTIGATE IF NIPPONESE » ASSETS ‘ARE | SAME AS WHEN | RUSSIA ENTERED AREA (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 15.—In- formation was received here to- day that Edwin Pauley, repre- senting the United States, said he will fly tomorrow from: southern to northern Korea to ascertain the condition of the! assets the Japanese left in that) area when hostilities ceased. Northern Korea is occupied by Russian troops, and Pauley said he was going there despite the fact that he had not yet received | permission either from Moscow or the Russian military governor in northern Korea. Pauley added that he assum- ed the Russians would accord Retiring Risks: By Everglades ; Drainage Dist. Drainage District retired by purchase in 1945, $350,- 000 of bonds callable April 1, {1947. Funds on hand and tax lcollections will retire fixed ma- nd $340,000 remainder $690,000 callable April 1, }1947, leaving a su ntial antici- surplus above the estab- K. M. Everglades 1950, Since debt will ap- snually from 1950, #t obvious that acreage tax collections at rate of present $500,000 per annum, would enable the district to retire all bonds callabic in, 1950. If all anticipated calls on April 1, 1955, the have retired 000 by annual payments, $690,000 and $920,000 by. call. On that date, the re- mainder of the issue amounting to $1,940,000 callable. With maintenance of a substantial re- serve, and an excess: of $300,000 af collections over annual require: ménis ‘for’ the five-year period, there is sound reason for antici- pating that the district will be f current bond debt on April Bonds callable April vmount to $920,000. requirements 1, service re met, ict will is : ind Services At} p.m Funeral service for Bertram B. Williams, 52, who died yesterday morning after a short illness, will 5 o'clock Mectho body was from the Fleming Strect dist church, where the Rev. A. G. Cox, pastor of the church, will officiate at the serv ice. Burial will take place in the family plot in City Cemetery. Lopez Funeral Home charge of arrangements Survivors are a orge C. Russell of Key West, three brothers, Herschell Williams of Tampa, Leo Williams Miami and Franklin Williams of Covington, Ky Lucky Man! SBERG, Ind. Roy fell 65 feet from the of a church and suffered and bruises but no broken His fall was broken when he plunged through 30-foot maple tree and landed on a lawn between a conerete street and a} in sister, Mrs. « PETER, Owens steeple a and His 16-Piece BAND he 2 VOCALISTS Will Appear | ONE NIGHT ONLY SATURDAY - JUNE 8th at 9:00 0’ Clock at the V.F.W. HALL in the Santaella Cigar Building Flagler Avenue and 2nd Street | at V.F.W. CLUBHOUSE and BROADWAY CIGAR STORE 610 Duval Street Poinciana Bus Pi Door him privileges in northern Korea tas had been given Russians in the southern area of that country. It was explained that Pauley’s | object in making the trip is to try to learn if the Japanese as-! sets are the same now as when} the war ended, or whether Rus- sia has stripped much of north- ern Korea of much of the ma-| chinery and other installations | that the Japs left behind them. Czechs-Poles ly Boundary Question LONDON, May 15.—News vas | received here today that Com-! munists in Warsaw have insti- tuted repressive movem ents} against members of all other | political parties in Poland. Action, it was announced, will be taken to try to forestall fur-) ther activity in that regard by the Polish Communists, who are! in accord with Russian leanings‘ town;d .a_ eymmunistic. govern- i ment in Poland. It was said that Czechoslovakia and Poland are negotiating about | the re-establishment of the boun- dary line in thé former country. The Czechs state that the part of their country that was taken‘ over by Germany is now under } the control of the Poles, and, for that reason, frontier divergencies | Coast Guard after serving in two strike, have not been rectified. | City Different Than Stories Mrs. Irving Herman of New k City arrived last night for with Mr. and Mrs. Hy Alt- man, manager of the Maxwell Company, and will spend some time in Key West with the in- | tention of making Florida her Upon arrival here she that Key West was much differ- | ent than as pictured in the stories | told her upstate. | | found | Chicken Coop Funeral Pyre NEW YORK. Three small boys, playing “Buffalo Bill in| an abandoned chicken coop they used as a “Frontier post” were burned to death when the boys apparently built a bonfire in the | coop. Firemen and members of | the family, fighting the fire,| were unaware that the children | were trapped in the coop until | after the fire was extinguished and their bodies were discovered | I Harry T. Russell for , STERLING'S | POULTRY and EGG MARKET Announces the Opening of Their | BRANCH MARKET MARGARET | and | FLEMING STS. Sole Distributor of Our FRESHLY-DRESSED | CHICKENS | STRICTLY FRESH EGGS, FLORIDA PSS eseeeeOeES | West, jof the | American books | der COTTSTOI MM 4 Jayshee Name Original With Key West The honor of founding the “Jayshee” name rests with the Key West club, it was re- vealed today. Ata meeting held this week Mrs. Jack Delaney, who at- tended the Jaycee conve: tion in Fort Myers recently, said that there are only two Jayshee clubs in the state, one at Fort Lauderdale and one at Key West. ‘Scores of Jay- cee wives were greatly inter- ested in the Jayshee move- ment and promised early or- ‘ganization of clubs in their towns. State Road Department has been contacted and permis- sion is awaited before flow- ers are arranged in the plot at the entrance to the Boule- vard. Also, a large sign with Key West's points of interest will be placed at the turn of the road there following SRD approval. Mrs. Edah Dominguez and Mrs. W. F. Edwards were hostesses to the club at the meeting this week. SIIIIIITLs iL Y. Porter, Jr., Appointed Peace Justice Today In a letter reczived today from 'Governor Caldwell’s office, At-! torney J. Y. Porter, Jr has been , advised that he has been appoint- wed .to the office of justice of the peace, second district. The letter is from John T. Wig- ginton, who is Governor Cald- well’s executive secretary. Mr. Wigginton is a former classmate of Mr. Porter at the University off Flowida. Attorney Porter, who has re- ntly been discharged, from the ocean: itwo y and putting in more than ars in overseas service on the practice of law at 413 Flem- {ing street on Monday. Courthouse Notes Applications To Wed The following appiications for marriage licenses have been filed in the county clerk’s office Ralph F. Owens, 21, McRoberts, and Betty Sue Jones, y West Ygnacio D. Carbonell, st, and Paul Jean Gilbreath, 17, Wichita Falls, Te J. Joseph Pinder, land Marie J. Morrison, 25, Flust 97 jing, N. Y Harry E. Wagoner, 22, and Haz lel M. Staats, 20, both of Parker burg, W. Va Midget Bar Sold Yesterday a deed was filed for recording in the county clerk's office for the sale ef the Midget bar, Greene and Simonton streets, by Alfred A. and Juanita $9,000. The lot on which the situated is 55 by 134 feet specified in the deed that one-story frame building in back bar is not included in the transaction bar i It i BOOKS TO SWEDEN STOCKHOLM.— AP — An hibition than opened here l rk of more an nited Asse the Bo rown the sponsorship of States International ciation. Swedis C Gustaf Adolf attended ing, which marked the of promotion of an inter pen national 18, oye key ally 3,000 beginning NOT FAVOR MUNISM IN JAPAN NOR IN U.S, TELLS 4-POWER COUNCIL (By assorrated press? TOKYO, May 15. — General MacArthur's headquarters today informed the four-power couneti, lin session here, that he neither favors communistic teachings im Japan nor in the United States. It was said that the Russian representativeton the council hed j been making efforts to assist Cor jmunists in Japan. The MacAr thur statement declared that he favored the establishment of « democracy in Japan. All, Russian | MOSCOW, May — Radio Moscow made two statements of worldwide interest today, ene concerning Manehigia and the other Iran. The spokesman stated thet Russia has withdrawn all troops from Manchuria, except Port Ar jthur, and that 90 percent of the ‘territory that the Russians hed levacuated in that country hes {been taken over by Chinese ;troops representing the Nationa! ist government. | The statement about Iran was |that the Sinclair Oi Company of the United States has begun the | dayelopenans of wells in. Iran. ‘English tnd Debate Hot INDON —h was an | nounced today that former Prime Minister Winston Chutehill wilt jlead the opposition tomorrow when Prime Minister Attlee ex plains in the house of comy : the measures the government hw taken toward the ultimate este! ‘lishment of national indepen dence in Indi Delay, in giving India indepen dence, has been caused by in ternal strife, but news me tirat country indicates that the M lems and Hindus are settling their differences satisfacteri! ‘ Averting RR Seri WASHinGTON, May appeared today that the re called for Saturde: averted Representatives of the ( be |vessels, will open his office for road brotherhoods and e officials have been given ¢ {day by President Truman t tle their differences It was said that the Pre named Friday as the deadline that the government will he hours to take over the re in the event an agreemen reached After w progres port ha’ conferences ia progre yesterday's conf announced that had been mad yet been released Collects | $23,321.23 In Month of April Mf $23,321.23 wa 27, Key West, | Total ed of } the fir n the city Ap office of nce director Collection: Delinquent taxes terest during were a $2 m taxes, . $10.99 sidewa street p apsensment ccupation: 1 bicycle licen $i 4a0 “ $4,039 88 Bit plun nse $2 $3 building ving, ete, & SHOWERS AHEAD! er Sam G Pel B t will have da te ar »wers and th tor w _land 5:21 pam exchange of literat | Genuine Auto SEAT COVERS | ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS 121 Duval Street Cars for Alll D het SE EERESESESOSES | ROASTERS and FRYERS {BRADY'S (Live) Poultry | and Egg Market | 1214 White St. acces isnt uu Phone 442 ame vesuesesssoosanensaceees