The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 5, 1946, Page 1

ee Fifty-Seven Lose Lives In Chicago Hotel Fire WOMAN LED TO SAFETY * OWN Fine Escare! ee nce care Bridge Receipts ees, wan rounn Continue To Show smumine ew RooM | Large Increases (Re Rewwrteted Preast | OREO deme S—Number| Collection of tolls. on the Over- deathe & the La Salle Hotel | 5¢45 Highway bridges still are ee et nigh <4 « total of |Showing substantial gains, in @ he stern, whe three | Comparison with monthly re- Gee Hedee bed been discovered,| Ceipts of a year ago, according Srensth | to a statement issued today by Ques reg | Clifford G. Hicks, auditor of the teat As Monroe County Road and Toll re ee Bridge district. wort Le Last month collections totaled eatin Veet etre $29,131.25, as compared with $23,- Thiet ¢ 006 in May of last year. Gut tates Passengers last month num- ae eee | bered 32,331, and in May, 1945, werenme ait h 435 ” eet imetences, the | jue to suf fer room was | were driven of wpon them. foemen hy the mm volume ome sought to despite smoke, were to be rushed to | 3% police 9. Decided gains are continuing in the number of passenger auto- mobiles using the bridges. Last month they totaled 11,515, and in May of last year, 4,358. Compari- canta tay | 808 of other motor vehicle is Seal tens 3,653 last month and 4,009 in May of 1945. treated for near- « occurrence the fire was md wo . The wn wwe et Miami Visitors, — Including Mayor, Entertained Here Perrine Palmer, mayor of Miami, and Mrs. Palmer, and John B. McCloud, sales manager of the Orange State Oil Com- pany, and Mrs. McCloud, have returned to Miami after what they characterized as a most de- lightful visit to Key West. While here they were enter- tained by Captain Willard Saun- ders, commanding office at the submarine base,,and-Mrs. Saun- ders; Captain W. H. Hamilton, commanding officer at NAS,.and Mrs. Hamilton; Captain R. B. Nickerson, commanding officer at Sonar ‘school, and Mrs. Nicker- on, and Representative and Mrs. Bertie C.: Papy. Coektail parties were. given for wver his; the visitors by Captain and Mrs. wn the! Saunders and Captain and Mrs. Hamilton. They were entertained | at dinner by Captain and Mrs. !Nickerson and _ Representative and Mrs. Papy. One of the objects of the trip, Mayor Palmer and Mrs. McCloud told Mr. Papy, was to fish in local waters. “And you may say,” Mr. Papy told The Citizen, “that they pulled ’em in to their heart’s con- tent. We caught about a hundred fish, most of them what we call bottom fish, for this is not the %, pertel Legistation For | jime of the year for surface fish- Neterefisation Of Aliens) ing. Mayor Palmer and Mr. McCloud told me that it was the most delightful fishing trip they had ever had.” Mathews Family Having Reunion and Mrs. Jack F. Mathews yesterday from Norfolk and are visiting the former’s mother, Mrs. Marjorie Dyson, 2213 Staples avenue. Mrs. Dyson’s other two sons are isiting her, Fred Mathews and Dyson, and the family is having a reunion. Mrs. Jack Mathews is the for- ner Doris Borden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Borden, of Key West fouting ep. ad the hirec t be antil und Be ferent are with the ¢ te ' le Re ta ty meat the hg fe m connection peculiar, tassel fast wes then ‘ wan wak 1 was convine wer ted special ine 2 ee Mr arrived i hip John 1946, to t n ature ign-b wlve the Visitors To Attend Orange - Vosburgh Marriage In City Mrs. Edith Orange, of Poin- ani as as her house guests this week her twin sister, Mrs. M. A. Gemricher, and mother, Mrs. Leo J. Allen, of Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Gemricher came for the iding Friday of Miss Shirley Fay Orange to Phil- ip Vosburgh, Jr., of Great Neck, N. Y., which will be held at the ho of Mrs. Allen’s sister, Mrs. T. Roy Dulion. | nm. Inter way their tt at oC CLL, BATTERIES CHARGED | The Modern Way = e 4 98 to 45 minutes vale oer can be on its way! Leo ! va Smith AUTO SERVICE| White at Fiemin3) ee iemeneneceen | ee | Palace Theater WARNER BAXTER in “The Crime Doctor’s Courage”’ News and Serial = Saeaeaaaan THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1946 | INTERPRETIVE. 2 Shintoism Defies Extermination; Still Flourishes Both In and Out Of Japan| ‘Carl Brill, 16, LE. Youngest Pilot To Solo Over Island | Carl H. Brill, ‘called “Shorty” and who resides * By DON WHITEHEAD and HOYT WARE AP Newsteatures HE Shinto cult, inspired by reverence to the spirits of Im- perial ancestors, still flourishes ‘both in and out of Japan despite Emperor Hirohito’s admission of Suggestion Made County Take Over L oca | Hospita ee County commissioners, at their] Brazil. with 300,000 Japanese meeting last night, irfformally | has uncovered a secret organiza~ discussed a proposal for the coun-| tion with some 100,000 members,’ in Poinciana, won the Piper ty to take over the Key West ‘led by fanatically patriotic Jap-' safety Award Trophy presented General Hospital. anese youths pledged to preserve; by Faraldo’s Flying Service for It was explained that the pro- | the Shinto beliefs. In the Ha- flying fifty hours or more in a posal, made by a former member |Waiian islands are 26 private. piper Cub without any. accidents of the board of governors of hang Peo shrines oes by alien’ 9. any violations as the Civil hospital, was merely a suggestion, | Japanese priests av enaathtod aa te mates ee bee ote def. | State Shinto, abolished by Mac- [ind ol Administration rules inite nature was discussed by the |Arthur in Japan, is moribund in latinas : commissioners, but their discus- Hawaii. Many residents of the is-| Brill will take his private sion disclosed the chief reason lands have demanded official a pilot's license Thursday, which, why the hospital authorities have | tion against Shinto, although the if successfully passed, will en- been unable to offset all expens: | | executive board of the American title him to carry passengers. es by receipts. |Veteran’s Committee opposes'. Flight Instruetionress Cather- It was stated that, were the |some of the proposed measures as ine S. Loft, a former WASP who board able to get a large enough an abrogation of religious free-| will soon be appointed a CAA number of physicians to serve at dom. | flight examiner for private the hospital, probably the expens- | “We are in favor of legally de-| pilots and who flew on WASP es incurred would be met. But porting any alien who is disloyal’ duties P-38's, P-39's, P-5l’s, P- in Key West, as well as else-ito the United States, whether he 47's, P-61’s, B-28’s, B-17’s, DC 3’s, where in the United States, it is a clergyman or layman, re-' B-25’s and UC-78’s, has Brill un- was pointed out, there is an acute gardless of his religion or ances-|der her supervision for the hortage of physicians, a condi-'tral origin,” the board said. “We license-check tomorrow. tion that has been in effect ever }do not favor condemnation of a taking the test tomorrow will be since the hospital was opened. religion because of the disloyal Donald Roberts, Tom The Citizen was informed that |acts of certain individual mem-| Frank Alward, all in service with the operating expenses at the hos- bers. We believe the fathers and the U. S. Navy and stationed pital total about $85,000 a year, of ;mothers of American boys who Jocally. which sum there is an assurance died fighting on the battlefields : of only $30,000, one-half paid by of Europe and the Pacific are en-!,, 1h¢ trophy won by rae oo he city and one-half by the titled to worship as they please.” * HEH ONG 15 MOUNIER AD: an. ie That leaves a balance of! There are many, however, who Vory base with a Piper Sio-| $55,000 that the hospital must ob-;do not regard Shinto as a reli- Cycle of bronze on the top, which | tain from patients treated there, ‘gion. Dr. E. Tanner Brown, rector but the staff of physicians is not of St. Clement's Episcopak parish, large enough to operate to an ex- | Honolulu, Shinto is a “false tent that would bring in that sum front for to the institution itself . or Japan.” The commissioners were advis-|_And while the dispute con- ed legally that the county could ;tinues in Hawaii, Brazilian police not take over and maintain and are studying ramifications of ter- operate the hospital without an roristic outbreaks in Brazil’s Jap- enabling act passed by the state’s ,anese centers. legislature. | Within the Shendo’ Remmei,' most City Pharmacy. Young Brill started to fly fanatical | Pergeant in the Civil Air Patrol. is the youngest youth ever to solo in Key West, and should he pa his flying examinations tomor | ow, he will be the youngest pos- en. Claude Pepp er Housing Authority. Pays County $1,312 Clerk Ross C. Sawyer notified the county commission last night | that he had received from the! A local housing authority $1,312.92, PRIV in lieu of taxes. ALL. Payments were made cn ie Joseph Yates Porter Place and! Fort Village. | Key Westers Reteased By U. S. Navy Today The following Key Westers have been released from the! Naval Service at the U. S. Naval Personnel Separation Center, U.| S. Naval Air Station, Jackson- ville, Florida, it was announced by Capt. M. M. DeWolf, USNKE, commanding officer of the cen- ter: Robert L. Tull, chinest mate third Poinciana place. Earl H. Parker, aviation metal-' smith third class, 914 Watson street. Richard T. Steadman. second class, Yates Porte Joseph A. Boza, jr., first class, 908 Packer street. the county sale of 214 acre for $69,800. The seller \ Watkins Properties, Inc., lthe buyer was Jeff Gautier, Miami Beach. The tract formerly was by Griffin Watkins, who sold it | during the realty boom days of August, 1925, to the Watkins Properties, Ine. and of | tion ma- s, 222 A. av. ‘James FE amil y When the discussion was con- the Shinto secret organization in Key West. cluded, the-preposal still remai: }with ~its 100,000 members, * of ie ieee {40 young men pledged to kill or N) |die for Japan and an auxiliary of * Cheeks Ready For young women pledged to ist ‘ Japanese has been killed after-he | Election Inspectors: attempted to spread the news of A by NAL Servie e Japan's defeat ‘About ervice ounty Clerk Ross Sawyer} Police said the terrorists work! 4 ‘, + County Commissioners _ last for distribution among the inspec-! where a “traitor” re 2 raitor” live: Afte: tors and deputy sheriffs who serv- killing their ein a they leave ie yer a telegram that had been re- ed at polls in Monroe county dur- ‘yellow caps of their order near ceived from Senator Pepper, in ing the first and second primar- the body. which he said he was working The total sum to be paid is $1,- |are suspected of inciting their Mit of the National Airlines be 500, with $40 to each inspector ignorant countrymen to murder, ‘ween Miami anc Key and deputy for serving at both: in order to obtain more farm-, Changed to a permanent s S. | primaries. land or business gains. | He said he had contacted the | Industriou seem- ingly tircless, the Japanese were|Vocated the change be made at} welcomed to Brazil beginning in. the earliest possible date. 1888 when that underpopulated , ae ° ier ge a ae ee Key (Continued om Page Three) | - ‘N NOW ‘IN ISTRES |estate have now reached the pro- ,|portion of a boom, according to Now serving with the Army Vcleik 2 office and negotiations be- | Air Forces in Istres Le Tube,/ing made for the transfer of | France, Pfe. Emerson Allen, hus-j#¢reage on that key. 'band of Mrs. Winifred Allen, 808! Yesterday a deed was one of the newest units of the the UnUNpEOye Army Air For the European ©d Me Aviation Engineer command. | Charged with the construction | and other Air Force installations | in the European Theater for the| Occupational Air Force and all} |other AAF organizations, the Command activated on the first of January, this year. Pfc. Allen, who is assigned to} the 837th Aviation Engineer Bat-| Return Home eaman’ pean Theater since October 25,!ters, Josephine and Gwenc place, 1945. Before joining the European | James, 512 Caroline street, man Aviation Engineer Command,)returned home, after . Allen was stationed at Drew|three weeks in Los ed ina SUREEBLIVe stage. discovered a suicide ecpiis the terrorists. At least one older eule wodey jie checks, are ready jby infiltrating a community | ihe "heard read by Clerk Saw- ies. | Police said some of the leaders hard to he | frugal and ' Civil Aeronautics Board and ad- nation esbe ately. needed agri- | Realty Boom LE TUBE, FRANCE | jecds recently filed in the county Elizabeth street, is assigned to; With clerk showing and maintenance of all airfields| European Aviation Engineer) talion, has served in the Euro-' Mrs. Thomas James and d Field, Fla. Long Beach, California have visiting SUMMER SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE JUNE 5, 1946 10 Departures Daily, Every Two Hours on the Even Hour, With the Following Exceptions: 10:00 P.M. and 2:00 A.M. SCHEDULES DISCONTINUED for SUMMER be SATSANG RE ci ASTI OUR FACTORY METHODS Can Show You Real Performance and Economy HAVE YOU CAR TUNED TODAY FOR SUMMER DRIVING NAVARRO, Inc. | 601 Duval Street 4 { 16, affectionately | Also | Webb, ; was on display at the Soythern- | nationalism! about six months ago, and is a| Brill stands only 5’ in height. He! i S| Sessor of a private pilot’s license } Wires Commission ° the temporary per- | West | in? real | ¢ filed | owned | Angeles and | Florida Greyhound Lines, Inc. THE city IiNeDoes, Also Will Tender His City Commission Not Out To “Get” Manager King By L.P.A., JR. Many persons have been asking there is no move to oust the me for the straight information city manager among the com- !on the present crisis in the city) missioners and that they have manager form of government in! a high regard for the efficient which it may be possible that Key | work of his administration dur- | West will lose its first city mana-| ing the past six months. This Weer: Dave King. is encouraging. You can thus |" "The rumors today are “hot and’ put back into your pocket all jheavy” over the dismissal of six those rumors you heard about ' police officers this week by the | the city commission being eut \city manager. Those rumors! to “get” King. It is not true. range all the way from talk of Now, following the dismissal of | graft charges to talk of the city the a commission being “out to get” the sion at the city commission meet- city manager. ing last night in which the legal I do not know how it will turn ity of the move was questioned. jout. I hope that matters can be In my opinion, the city manager | straightened out-so that we will had no right to “fire” the six po- ;continue to have the services of licemen. He has a right to “sus- ja highly capable, efficient and pend” them, I believe. .This is hard-working city manager. common sense. If there was | Police Trouble someone in your employ who was The six police officers have 2° performing according to your Hfiled affidavits charging various ers you would stop his per- things against Chief of Police formance at once. That is sus- Louis Eisner. Following — their pension! The charge: Insubord- ipresentation, City Manager Dave pation which in a letter to the !King “dismissed” them on charg- civil service board by Dave King is further explained as an at- tempt by the six policemen to dictate who their chief of police shall be with the further infer- ence that if the chief of police does not. follow their wishes he can be called down means of similar affidavits in the future. According to the city Tanager itis aruttempt to “gang up” on the chief of police. Some of the six policemen were insti- gators of the last police strike ' | jes of insubordination. The matter started way back when bingo was closed down in the town. There has been considerable strife between the police chief and his officers. There have been numerous sus- pensions and some reinstate- ments, I have mind yet IESE not fully becaus made up my you do not things uniil you get full evidence, but my be Tidue cite that the police chief is not tak- It is also understood that graft. | City Manager Dave King is | On the considering resignation as city | tion, how manager in the event the city Jone gambler who has said that| police exe reinstated by the jgraft has been given, although| civil service board. inot directiy to the police chief. ' Thus enters another | That business is significant. ‘the situation. As far as I know, there is no | Legality Decision affidavit charging Chief Eisner | Mcanwhile, as the fate of the with TAKING GRAFT. That | present city manager hangs pre is significant. Much talk, no |cariously by a thread, the legality proof! jof the move will come before the In the background in this mat- {civil service board with the ques- too, are many groups and |iion to be raised by the, six offi- jmany individuals who jcers who have been suspended j have been moving for quite some| Before the board will be filed | time to “get” the police chief. Butlthe affidavits against the chief this is only a background ques-jof police; before the board will tion right now lbe filed charges of City Manager No Commission Ill Will {King insubordination by the From information told me this|six officers in question. This morning, I can tell you that there |board is composed of Chairman scems to be no ill will among the} Ralph Sierra, Mrs. Wilhelmina y commissioners toward the|Harvey and Jeff Knight, Jr city manager In this moment of great de- With this information, I do | cision it is to be hoped that all not believe that any majority | parties—the city commission, of the commissioners, figured | the civil service board, the po- on the old majority basis or the | lice officers and the city mana- new majority, are out to “get” |\ger—think clearly and calmly. City Manager King. Rather, | These matters comprise deci- | this eau I found out that Isiuns strong in the city’s future! sc {kn jit other side of the ques- ver, I know of at least! phase in | sore” | re Maraiec *k, m4 Tey Here From College John Marzyck, Jr., 1501 Von Phister arrived Monday after receiving his degree from the University of Miami, He majored in psychology (anes Mr. Marzyck will continue his } : __| studies at Columbia University, leita sag alecedecids d to have New York city, next September, the repaired and where he will begin studying for painted. | his master’s degree. Accompanying him and to be his guest here is Roscoe Thomp son, who recently was discharged from the Navy. Mr, Thompson last tour of duty was with the occupation forces in Tokyo. County Gandiome ill Be Painted Last night ceunty commission- bids to county courthouse | \ers decided to call for | paint the and county garage (Navy Recruiter In | Kev West Tomorrow Barth, CBM, of the | recru station in Miami will | be in Key West tomorrow, June 6 at the local post office building Mr arth states that that vill interview all those to join the vy, and any and all questions re- |lative to Navy enlistments. JL Ws Navy Mimi SUM Masonic Notice Call Communication of Anchor Lodge No. 182, F. & A. M., Thursday, June 6th, 8 P.M. Conferring of M.M. degree. All members and visiting Ma- sons invited to be present. By order: W. P. Williams, W.M. GERALD H. ADAMS, Secretary. N JOO | ROASTERS and FRYERS |BRADY’S (Live) Poultry: and Egg Market 1214 White St. Phone 54! | | UU Raa a a apg ag agg Ui THHHHLIIEALNHLUUULGAUU UH TUESEEEETEE EELS x policemen came a hot ses- | again by! Resignation *KING INTIMATE { Because of the cumtert nn chet | eum last might | Manager King’s iefereens City Commissioners te het missed from the polite foee Ge , Six men who had samed atte | its against Chief Laws Bee sae | Lieutenant Ray Atwetl, te look is to day that Ree @@) & sign, and, if he does, Clee Sweeting said he tise well tent ‘er his resignation as comspitm er. When King informed te som mission of his action « Gathers ing the six polices, Come sioner Albert Couper questeeed the authority of the ques taking that action, amé Coxe sioner John Carbonell, # it was his opinion thet Kame © exceeded his suthorttiy The mut ter was then referred te Cl torney J. Lancelot Lester tee opinion about the Gauet the policemen. Attorney Lester ext Wat Ge city charter did at gh OO Manager King the authestty & discharge the policemen teeter explained that, a» they eo fe service employes, the sulherr® for their dsmiaal q Settee was vested in the ity ©» ice board. King then declared thet ¢ _ board. reinstated. Wee Wy iy men, it could ‘reiastate’ Wie oe That assertion was consti? & mean that he would Hewitt Today Commissioner Sweeting said there was no dowlt whghewe? over what King meant “You can put # headline,” Mr. Sweeting “that he will resign reinstates the plow he resigns, you will tender city commis time he resign Commiss explained his p the dismissed pol his sympathy cause they he “tool” by sons who w end to the government Asked who sons were reveal who he Citizen tried tain who were, because that the po! of their « found man ot You to top ee a, the ae » my one was the said, trying de will | pricked bale In reporting t about the af that three acts that before he ¢ that point was unable the police awe gations waited till t on don't run K t purst { made formally makir One of the ager t igned, said, and t of nu conseq had been « had police to It was lings at cee t Cooper matter be service Sweeting (Continued « Genuine kee” PARTS AUTO ABRIAL® ROY'S KEY WEST AUTO PANT 121 Duval Street ae for A” Care