The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 21, 1946, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devoted to the peech nard B.Grillon, Citizen City Editor, \Died This Morning Lebnard B. Grillon, 66, who KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 2 PAPER Le ; aaa COLORED GRUNTFIS ne Sam Wallace's Bahama Sloop Run By Earl Higgs * RETIR SHER a Sey THE, Regarding Big Four Conferences’ MOLOTOV, RUSSIAN EN.* ED; SLOOP’ CONTINUES ON ABAADASAASAABAAASBAR had been connected with The Citizen for many years, died this morning at 5:20 in Key West AAaae VOY, BLAMED BY U.S. "@ BBD a aaa ea) General Hospital. BYRNES FOR FAILING TO REACH TREATY (0) Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 21. — earning the conferences held in Paris by the Big Four, represent- img this country, Great Britain, Russia and France. He blamed Molotov, the Rus- representative, for the fail- ure of the foreign ministers to agréement over the and treaties for four ed that, if the Big ould not reach an agree- r next sessions, on June 15, the to prepare s that Italy and the Beiken states may begin to function again as independent nations Byrnes explained that he will invoke the application of Article { 4 of the United Nations in call img for the consideration by them of the treaty preparations. Molotov blocked every move- ment by Byrnes or the represent- atives of Great Britain and France to have the treaties pre- pared and adopted. While comment was favorable, Geneter Pepper of Florida, among ethers, svid that the progress of the questions taken up at the conference was disappointing, and that Byrnes’ statement was Zetia Cabrera Wins First Prize In State Contest Sister Mary Roselina, Sup- ervisor of Convent of Mary Immaculate, received news yesterday that Zetta Frances Cabrera, class of ‘46, has won first prize in a state- wide essay contest sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. The title of the essay was “The History: of My | Parish” and Miss Cabrera did a yery | fine piece of work, weaving into the parochial. story, much of the early history of Key West. Zetta Frances is the daugh- ter of Mr, and Mrs. Sebas- tien Cabrera of 811 Southard street. She will be graduated next Thursday evening from the Convent of Mary Im- maculate. She is valedictor- ian of her class. Miss Cabrera’s essay will appear in the “Florida Cath- clic’, a weekly paper, pro- curable at the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea. It will be interesting reading for all those who enjoy rem- iniscing in the “good old days”! . POLL hdedededede American Soldiers Seize 400 Ships. In Two months’ ago, because of illness, he discontinued his work as city editor on The Citizen. He was treated by local physicians and went to Miami on several occasions, but his condition grad-} ually became worse. Mr. Grillon had been a printer and later a newsman for almost half a century in Key West. He worked on the Equator Demo- crat, then the Herald, Inter- Ocean, The Cigarmaker and then on The Citizen, when it was own- ed by T. T. Thompson and the late W. W. Thompson. When, the present ipublisher of The Citizen, L, P. .Artman, came to Key West in 1910. Mr, Grillon was make- up man and foreman of the com- posing room. Some years later he entered the newsroom of The Citizen and had continued there, with occasional intervals, till he gave up work two months ago. Frequently, he recalled his early experience in the composing rooms of local papers and printing places. He said that, in those days, the merchants entertained a keener appreciation of advertis- ing than do the merchants of to- day. Sometimes, he said, as many as 20 page advertisements had to wait their turn-before they could be issued. As for the issuing of circulars or dodgers, merchants in the old days had printed many {thousand more than at present. The same thing that applied to advertisements also applied to circulars or dodgers—merchants had to wait their turn for their orders to be filled. | Mr. Grillon leaves the -widow, Mrs. Daisy Grillon; two daugh- ters, Mrs, Leota Somers and Mrs. Mary E. Sawyer; two. brothers, Milton and Webster Grilion, and Sam Wallace has retired! Remember the days when you would walk out on one of Key West's docks and there at the en- trance to Northwest Channel anchored over rocky bars and shoals, was the famous Key West grunt fishing fleet? Famous among them all was the Bahama -dinghey owned by 1 who daily sailed out to these spots, without benefit of motor, and daily brought back catches of and sold to the women of the town who, came down to the.old Lowe’s pier. One of the few survivals: of this pleasant Key West custom, which ensures fresh fish, is in the Peter Roberts fish market. at. the foot of Front street, where a riot of colors expressed in fish bodies swim lazily in fish cars awaiting the housewives’ choice. Demeritt Brothers have moved on the Top: pino property and their fish ca { 4 held off for the present., Well, to return to Wallace. No! matter what kind of day it was; whether the tide was roaring out to sea through the main — ship channel; if there weren't a breath, of wind stirring—Sam, the color- Sam Wallace, colored fisherman, | grunts and grouper and yellow-/ tail to be skooped out of a well} days seem numbered, or to be} Germans Starving, ed fisherman,’ got his Bahama sailing craft out to the spot of rocky bottoms. When there was no wind, he manned the big oar and skulled out where he could catch a bit of fol’bwing breeze or in outgoing tide. Oftentimes, fishermen returning cast a line to ;Sam and pulled him back into port, Navy craft did this quite often during the war rather than let the old fisherman skull his {way back. The sail was a bit patchy but was strong. The boat itself is of mcient vintage. Some say it is just a babe, about forty years old, and others say it is 60 years ‘old. & Bahama-built bodt never. wears out. As a frame or plank becomes jrotten it is replaced and like the ; cells of our body every few years jthe boat is an entirely new one along the same’ lines. Who rides Wallace’s boat now? Well, Sam first sold the boat to @ tourist and recently Gould Cur- }7¥Y, who had returned from the ; war, bought it and turned it over ‘0 Earl Higgs. Higgs, who calls himself “‘Two-by-Four”, will car- ry out the ancient tradition of ‘furnishing fish to Key West houséwives at the foot of Front street, fresh from the sea daily, fresh and swimming about in the big well in the center of the Ba~ hama boat! Some Black Warming Up the Melting Pot By BRACK AP Newsteai G. CURRY tures Writer TO CONTINUE ASHINGTON.—War-imposed restraints on immigration 8008} ivi} Aeronautics Heard hes will be eliminated. In a short time a trickle of war refugees} sent a letter to National and displaced persons, pushed or the Nazis, will start entering the refugee camps. Orph man’s December 22 immigration directive, -a -government commit- tee will give on-the-scene assist- ance to help speed the movement to this country of European ref gees and displaced persons! refugees will come in‘ under &x- isting immigration laws. Headed. by Ugo Carusi, com- missioner of naturalization and immigration of the Justice de- partment, the committee will set up five or six offices in the | American zone of Germany. Staffed by representatives of the Justice and State depart- ments and the -U. S,_ Public Health Service, these offices will pass on the qualifications of refu- gees and displaced persons seek- ing to enter the United States. Why They Stopped During the war very few per- sons came to the United States! from Europe. The reasons: trans- American consular offices and obstacles imposed by enemy’ na- aned children probably will dominate. Acting under President Tru-%. i anked from their homes by} in which the United States from the Navy contacted national | H | i | | Late! Bulletins \ (By Associated Press) i Fi i RUSSIAN TROOP: MOVEMENTS LONDON. — Complaint was made about Russian troop *” movements in Europe, but Mos-| #irline cow replied that the activity was permit. confined to the Russian in Germany. The Russian spokes-| man added that there was not : significance to the movement the troops. E ' FEE Hf i F [ STILL FIGHTING IN IRAN TABRITZ.—fighting is con- tinuing in Aberjaiban between ta troops of that province and Iran si) government forces. Iran again. A stated that activity was confined of Commerce phoned to skirmishes. It was added that chamber Russia is giving moral but not military support to the Aberjai- ban troops. if Marketing, Doctor Here Says % The Gérman people are going Local Shriners {through an. alarming process of slow starvation, J.. W. Knapp, Lt. (MC) USNR, new Ward Medi- tions. In 1942, for example, about 10 percent of the immigration quo- tas wee used. In 1943. the fig;|ernmeat announced today that ure slumped to five percent. It!its military headquarters in! rose to six percent in :1944 and | Egypt are being moved to Pales-! MOVING HEADQUARTERS LONDON.--The British gov- To Go:To Miami the report of another failure. al Officer at the Naval Hospital le,eeven nercent in 1945. n Pleas of Guilty In Criminal Court ‘The following pleas of guilty were made in criminal » con With the imposition of fine @ntence by Judge Caro in each case BR. L. Been, sailor, petty lar- ony: fined $50, with the alterna- tive of serving 90 deys in jail. Ross Dodd, vagrancy costs, or 90 days in jail. George Perez, $10 and costs on @ charge of vagrancy Prank Caraballo, improper motorcycle licenses, fined cost of court, which amounted to $20.36. Charles Whitman, vagrancy, ordered pay cost of court, amount) to $19.06, 4AP “GHOSTS” EAT TOKYO.-An intensive house- te-hewse search has been inaugu- rated in this city to find, if pos- sible, the city’s “ghost popula- tion” of several thousand persons whem ne one can find but to whom been tasucd CAT GETS LIFE-SAVING MEDAL LEBANON, Pa.—Nig, a black recently the National Prevention of The cat ewakening its Miller, when the Mille: cat frown Society for Cruelty mals master, William fire broke out in home on February. Strange Fish PRINCETON, J.—Work- men, digging in a 290-by~400 foot exeevation for a new college lib- ¥y at Princeton University dis-| covered a of petrified fish skeltons. Most of the fish small, about six inches long, and belong to a group called = crossopterygians. These fish had lungs and nos- tril, large heads and oval scales bearing needle-like spines. Out are $50 and} ‘Waters of Da + {By Asnoriated: Press) WASHINGTON, May 21.—Four thousand American soldiers in Hungary today seized and search- ed 400 river boats. in the Danube that were believed. to be trans; porting fugitives. . Aboard some of the boats were found machine-guns and other wdapons and also _ fugitives, some of_whom were fleeing from Hungary and others -who were trying to enter that country. ) The seizures were made © at Wilshafen.. The boats” were -cs- corted by three German craft, but none of them replied to the shots fired by the Americans as) | warnings. "7 The three escort boats were too slow in conforming with the warnings, and one of the’ boats was struck, wounding a German, though not seriously. 1 Scholarship At Barry Miss Barbara McCraw, a senior of Convent of Mary Immaculate is one of the lucky winners of a scholarship to Barry, College, the lar food rations have| Dean of Women announced to| Sister Superior yesterday. Miss McCraw, along with representa- tives from every Catholic school in the state of Florida, wrote the test some three weeks ago. Her wved a medalj teachers, her classmates and the; pupils of Convent of Mary Im- to Ani-| maculate are proud of Barbara ; was honored for} and happy over the honor that she brings to her Alma Mater. Miss McCraw is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Crawford Mc- Craw of 79-1 Poinciana Place. She has been a stduent of Con- vent of Mary Immaculate since | she came here with her parents from South Carolina some four years ago. She is and has always 175,000,000-year-old| heen an honor student. She is} hirery im the form of thousands) Salutatorian for the Class of '46,/ thaving obtained ‘the ‘highest average during her senior year. { PICK FISH FROM TREES HONOLULU.—The tidal waves) which battered ' Hawaii cast thousands of fish ashore. Some } Won By Convent Pupil | wo sisters, Mrs; Gract’ Afbury: and Mrs. Louise Sheppard. He had served three terms. as city councilman, the last two con- tinuous. * Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon, beginning at 5;30 o'clock, from the home, 1014 Southard street, tothe Fitst Methodist Church, with the Rev. C. T. Howes officiating. Inter= ment will be under the direction of Lopez Funeral Home. The pallbearers are William A. Freeman, Paul G. Albury, Glen- wood Sweeting, Gerald Saunders, Leroy Torres and Charles J. Cre- mata. Sailor Who Broke Into Cabana Bar Pleaded Guilty |W. P. Forehand, 18, sailor, who was arrested on the roof of the Cabana bar by Watchman Willie Gwynn, pleaded guilty to i | raigned yesterday afternoon be- fore Peace Justice Ira Albury. County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare, Jr. said that as Fore- hand was charged with a felony and was not represented by counsel, the plea should be changed to not guilty. Forehand was held in $500 bail for criminal court. DOUBLE TROUBLE KALKASKA, Mich. — When fire broke out in Ray Carlisle's farm home attic, his troubles be- gan. He chopped a hole in the roof to put out the fire, the wind blew down his barn and then the roof of his house burst into flames. A spark from the fire set his hay on fire. His —one barn, one haystack, one roof, four cows and two horses. SAVED BY PLANE KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — When little Eddie Silani, 2, be- j came lost in brush, his father, Andrew™ Silani, an ex-Ferry t behind the tail fin, like a thin| people picked fish up from the}Command flyer knew exactly bhede projecting beyond the mid-| ground but many picked their's; what to do. He borrowed a plane @e of an open tan, is a tapering after-end of the fish's body. 1918 Elise Street Phone 243 Azo at Masgeest end Fleming Sts, s | from cocoanut trees. The fish j had gotten caught in the trees. SURPRISE FOR SURE! ORLEANS, Neb. — Mrs. Ben Cunningham is wondering who was the more surprised recently when friends walked in on her for a surprise birthday party. After the callers finished shout- | ing “Surprise!”—it wasn't her birthday. and flew low over the area. Sure enough, little Eddie came out of the bushes to gaze at the plane. | Ww vvv vv VT rrv VY rr Palace Theater TOM NEAL in “THOROUGHBREDS” News and Serial PRIZE NITE TONIGHT (\$224444444244444444 breaking and entering, when ar-| net loss | for Ceremonial 'Kéy West’ Shrine :.Club’ will hold a meeting tomorréw night ini the yacht clubhouse to ar- range to attend a cefemonial by Mahi Temple, scheduled for Sat- urday, June 1, in Miami. ‘ Dr. John K. Clemmer, organ- izer of the local club, said today that he expected two bus loads of Key West Shriners and their, wives will make the trip. Arrangements have been com- pleted, he added, to charter two Greyhound buses -for local | Shriners. WRONG WAY WINDOW PORTLAND, Ore.;When thé E. A. Renquists built their home, they had one-way vision glass put in their bathroom, facing the street. It was the kind of glass that you can see out of but not into. The only trouble, work- men installed the glass back- ward and, six months later, the Renquists found out that it was clear glass to passersby and ; opaque to users of the bathroom. FAITHFUL FRIENDS HIAWATHA, Kan.—Wheu the John Warren family moved to |town from the country, they brought their dog along, but left their cat behind. After keep- ing the dog tied up for several weeks, they released him and immediately the dog left home. He returned a few days later with his feline pal. The two had grown up together and were in- separable. “H. WATTS” NUMEROUS KINSEY, Mont.— Anyone ad- dressing a letter to.anyone in the Watt's family has to be specific. All of the eight sons.in the fam- ily has a name beginning with “H”, as follows: Harold, Henry, | Harvey,, Harry, Homer, Herman, | and Howard. | SOOUUTEOREOOUGOOUREOUUOAGNSAUUONAAUCEEA AEGEAN SWIM and PLAY AT WEAVER’S OPEN ALL NIGHT Air Conditioned For Your Comfort FOOD - DRINKS - GAS and OIL TTT TT said today. Reportirig hete | Monday after more than a year’s duty at the Naval Dispensary in Bremer- haven, Germany, Dr. Knapp said that “for nourishment, the Ger- mans rely almost entirely on left ‘overs from American food stocks coupled with what food relief the UNRRA can furnish, There are virtually no native stores to draw upon. Declaring that the average ‘} meal in the former Reich con- sists of erstz coffee and food scraps, Dr. Knapp asserted that the insufficient qaulity and the unbalanced quality of food will soon result in marked deteriror- ation of national physical stand- ards. However, anyone with money to deal with the Black Market is’ assured of ample food supplies, he said. While stationed in Germany, Lt: Knapp was quartered with another Naval Officer in a private home that once belonged to a Nazi Army captain. Dr. Knapp’s first assignment after only four days of active service was the Normandy invasion. This was followed by duty in England, France and Germany. He was and his wife has accompanied him here. Vandals Destroy 8 Parking Meters Last night vandals destroyed eight parking meters on White- head street in front of court- house square. Between Fleming street and and eight from their standards. The vandals evidently carried off the meters, because there w no trace of them in the street, on the sidewalk or in the courtyard. CALIFORNIA WEATHER TOMORROW! President Sam Goldsmith of the “Civic Weather Bureau, Central Organization”, as Pelican Bill ealls it, predicts “California” weather for tomorrow: Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday. Occasional show- ers. Moderate, occasionally fresh southeasterly winds. High tide will be at 4:05 am. and 2:15 p.m. Low tide is at 7:45 a.m. and 9:58 p.m. married in New York last month | the main entrance to the court-| house yard were nine meters,! of them were torn} ow President Truman ‘say the United States “shares the re- sponsibility to relieve the “ap-| palling dislocation of populations in Europe.” | In his directive Mr. ‘Truman! said: | “To the extent that’ our pres- | ent ‘immigration laws permit, | everything possible should be} done at once, to facilitate the en: | trance of some of these displaced | persons and refugees into the | | 1 United States. The .President’s directive prin- cipally affects two groups: 1, Natives of Central and Ea: ern Europe and the Balkans, since most of the refugees and| displaced persons are from these areas. H 2. Persons at the Oswego, N.| ;Y., war relocation camp. The total annual immigration quota for the countries of Cen-| tral and Eastern Europe and the. Balkans is about 39,000, says the Immigration and Naturalization Service. i Under the law, no more than} (0 percent of the annual quota jcan be admitted in any month.) |This' limits the number of per-| jsons who can be plucked from camps in Europe and moved toy this country to about 3,900 a month. Some of the Quotas A quota of about 25,900 of the 9,000 annual quota for the coun- ies of this area is allotted to |Germany. Poland has an annua’| quota of 6,524, Ai 1,413. | Yugoslavia 845, Czechoslovakia 2,874, Bulgaria 100, Hungary 869) and Rumania 377. Visas issued to refugees and idisplaced persons will be charg- Jed to the country of birth. For example, a visa issued to a Pole! in Germany will be charged to the Polish immigration quota. | Immigration quotas do not jcumulate in ye: | fail to me ing the war. The Immigratior zation Service s all persons accepted must pass the physical and mental tests set out in the (Continued on Page four) ac when countries their quotas, as dur- id Naturali BOSS Eee e eee We Have A Limited Supply of Side Car Carriers Open Daily and Sunday 7 A.M. TO 10 P.M. Batteries Charged, Flats Fixed, Grease and Spray Jobs. Oil and Gas POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Al Armengol, Owner Division at Francis St. Ph. 9134 BES EBB RR BR Bae | fixed by a fact-finding bos { Boulevard Repair | treasure TRYING TO AVERT STRIKE WASHINGTON. Govern- ment officials are striving today Latter to avert the railroad strike,| chairman of CAI which is scheduled for Saturday | follows in part: “Servier t new if the differences between train- | being operated by your company men and engineers, on one side,| between Miami and Key Wert and company officials, on the| Flotida, ander an suthertesien other, are not settled. Unions are} abted by the Board's Order Ne demanding an increase of $2.50) of January 14, 1944, te mort a day in wages; owners have! the needs arising out of the agreed to an advance of $1.28, as| emergency conditions. This sults rd. orization was to remain in effect until such time a8 the Board de termines that the need for authorization in the tterest national defense i terminety Consideration is now bein en to whether this servicer longer required, and. service was authorized © certain natignal deletion ments brought t© our Proposition To Be Acted On Tonight Many civic workers are ex pected to be present tonight at) py the Navy Department a meeting of county commission-| writing to the Seeretery ers when the proposal to have! Navy to ascertain the the State Road Department re-| that Department pair the south shore of the) whether such Roosevelt boulevard will be con-| requirements necessltet sidered. tinuance of th it? The object is to have the de atter will he @ partment put the boulevard in afte good condition with surplus} repty the gasoline funds belonging te Mon- | mont "Stn wero! Rath Ruel Dies Suddenty ' ed, the department also will maintain the south of the boulevard, as that part of it on KRaiph Bertrar iddenly last might he left b attes The consideration shore the north shore is now a part of the state road system, which re cont th in the ! quires that a highway e to the entrance to the cot in each of the 67 counties state FIND $20 IN THREE MAIL BOXES N. 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