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

VOLUME LXVIL No. 157 New OPA Bill Seen K THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE ———————$<—— ~ KEY WEST,.FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1946 Navy Housing Project. Work | By Sen. Taft; Texan} To Start Soon To Oppose Measure EXTENSION INADE-* QUATE, OHIOAN TMI ISS SS Ss. SAYS; PRICES OF AUTOS ARE TO REMAIN SAME (RY Asmectated Press) WASHINGTON, July 2—Sen- eter Tett said today the senate prebebly will pass a new OPA ll i two or three weeks, and te and other senators declared thet the house's resolution for al -dey extension of: the prneedt | lo wee inadequate. It is pro- pesed to make the senate mieas-| wee effective for a year. ‘The mew bill, Taft said, will be witreduced Friday or Saturday. Seaeter O'Daniels, of Texas, as- worted that he would fight nay measure designed to revive the OPA Bikini A Bomb Lacked Power Of ' Nagasaki Blast (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 2.— Vice Admiral Blandy report- ed from Bikini today that nucleus scientists had in- formed him that the bomb that exploded over Bikini was not. as powerful as the one that fell on Nagasaki. Despite that difference in the power of the bomb, he stated that five jships, had been wrecked in 'the lagoon, six severely damaged and the remaining ships damaged to some extent, one-half of them so badly they could not be, operated without extensive repairs. Diepetenes received here today ; trem sutemobile manufacturers | VILL LA LL LL opemee prites, except in cases to = shpasz"ss2| Dokey Ceremony emere owes = received from: postponed ceremonial of Kaaba eethime = industries regarding Temple, No. 89, Dramatic Order eh products, but other mes- Knights of Khorassan, will be seem seid thet In many parts of held in Key West just as soon as’ country prices on clothing ' further danger from fi 7 polio has howe been Imereused in the last been declared to have ended, J. twe days ; Winfield Russell, secretary of Seeeesive inereases in rents in the Key West Dokey Club, said | tleted cases were said to be “welte” raises, due to previous equmbtles between landlord and temente Imereases of several theemdred per cent were made by lemtilerds, it was explained, in offerte t get rid of tenants with whem the landlords had had dis- eaneentente during the-time rent exibngs were in effect. iho killed OPA?” @uestion was answered in eeveret different ways today, om tection accusing the other, end view versa, of having killed ® A eometor asserted that it had teem killed by pliant New Deal- % en@ a representative coun+ tered that @ had been killed in te semete through pressure grape sponsored by manufac- wearers. RS. SABINI IS ILL Suddenly stricken ill, Mrs. Prank Sebini, 124 Duval street, oe rushed to the Municipal heepitel at 2:30 o'clock this morn- we for medical treatment and ob- servation. She is a sister of Po- thee Chief Louis M. J. Eisner. Her eomditien was reported satisfac- tery this afternoon. today. Mr. Russell explained that representatives of various tem- ples in Florida were ready to make the trip here for the cere- monial, scheduled for June 29, when officers of the temple de- cided to postpone the affair in- definitely,”-depending .on how | jyouth, Officer Jolley’s shirt, was \Bethel had been, Construction werk on a $265,- (000 Navy housing project here, is expected to get underway im- mediately, Clarence Higgs,. busi- ‘ness agent for local Union No. ,655, United Brotherhood of Car- penters and Joiners of America, announced today. ij \ Contract for the project, to aes clude 70 housing units to be ,erected on a site near Ft. Taylor, | was awarded late yesterday by | the Navy to Charles Toppino. & ; Sons of Key West. The contracting firm submitted a bid of $341,000 for 80 units but funds in this amount were, not available. Following a conference between Navy public works offi- cials and the contractor, it. was announced that the $265,000 con- jtract had been Jet for 70 units, , The , housing units will be available to families of Navy personnel assigned here. These will consist of one, two and three bedroom. units... The, site of the jproject has been sought for some jtime by the city as a locat)pn for a negro recreation park. Cop Loses Shirt Making : Arrest City police. were called to! quell a disturbanec at No. 2 Pearl) street: at 3:30 a.m. today, follow- ing reports that a gun had been fired in the neighborhood. They arrested James K. Bethel, ;19, who was charged with as- saulting an officer and resisting jarrest. ” Police Chief Louis M. J. Eisner {said he and Patrolman Frank Jolley answered the call and, as they entered the house the youth’s mother shouted, that young Bethel was trying to kill his brother. ‘ In the struggle to arrest the torn from his back. No gun was found, police said. _ drinking, ac- cording-to officers... ais long polio continues in this area. | Officers of the Key West Do-' key Club,. besides Mr. Russell, are; president, B. M, Forbes; vice | president, A. T. Sjursen; treas- | urer, J. Lennine Curry; master- at-arms, P. T.. Rutrough, ‘and guard, A. H.: Williams. * WOMAN'S PURSE STOLEN Mrs. G. M. Vhich of the NAS unit No. 24 reported to city, po-; lice today that a negro stole her daughter’s purse containing $4 and a house key while the daugh- ter was downtown last night -at 10:30. Sgt. H. B. Boykin said the girl) told him she dropped her purse and that a colored man sitting in a parked truck nearby, got’out | of the machine, picked up the purse, reentered the truck and arove away. Poinciana Polio Patient Regaining Use Of Muscles Preef that infantile paralysis, | the @reet crippler, does: not al. were leave its victims helpless is) erewen by the case of Edward! Hert Bewer, 10, of 31-1 Poinciana, | whe & @ police patient in Jack-j; see Memorial hospital in Miami. | Oe June 6, Edward was ad-/ ¢ to the hospital and for wee at the point of death, ons despaired of his life. | Then he rallied and his im- grewement has been steady if not) raped Whether or not Edward will eowner entirely is problematical, His tet the signs are hopeful. tether. Edward, says his son is @redually regaining the use of} me muscles and is able to use ght hend slightly. Frightened when he was first gheced im an iron lung, the strick- om bey has regained his youthful @muberance and is cheerful most of the time nbw and this, physi- } Have Your Car GREASED and SPRAYED after 6 p.m. DAILY or SUNDAY We Are OPEN 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Poor Old Crais Service Station Division at Francis Phone 9134 cians told the father,’ aids Tecov- ry. His pafents are confident he will recover and are reasonably sure all the Key West patients in the Miami ‘hospital will yeturn Brought»before Judge Enrique’ Esquinaldo in city court this afternoon, »:the defendant ‘was, fined $100 and: sentenced to ‘30 days in jail. The time, and $75 of | the fine were suspended and; Bethel was placed’ on a year’s probation. WINE, BEER, SLOT ‘AMPS BEING ISSUED BY U.S. Filing period for obtaining federal stamps for the sale of beer and wine and the operation of amusement devices, started today and will continue through- | out the month, Charles W. Ward, deputy , collector of internal) revenue, announced. The devices for which the U. S. stamps are required include “juke” boxes, pin ball and slot machines. After July 31, penal-| ties will be assessed in cas where the operators have: failed! to obtain stamps, Mr. Ward warned. - Stamps must be purchased by’ the owner of the business where | the maghines are located and not the owner of the device, Mr. ard explained. SIS SLMS SSS 4 home. Their confidence may help out, doctors say, as an example of hope and courage to other par- ents whose children are in the clutches of the dread disease. We Will Hold the Line O.P.A. OR NO OPA There Will Be No Increase in Prices at WING LEE’S FOOD CENTER or LEE’S ORIENT RESTAURANT MTT Marriages Exceed Divorces The ratio of divorces to marriages in Monroe county during the month of June ‘was approximately three di- vorces granted for every five marriage licenses issued, a study of the comparative fig- ures revealed today. n Circuit Court Judgé Aquil- ino Lopez, jr., signed 27 final divorce decrees while County Judge Raymond Lord issued only 48 marriage licenses: during the month, CLII IIL I aD ithat careful consideration would }today. ltaly, Yugoslav Frontier F dkedddddd, Postal, Receipts. Show Sharp Drop Post office receipts here’) for June were approximately 50 per cent less than those of the same month a year ego, Postmasi}{ Holion R. Bervaldi reported today. The June, 1946, receipts to- taled $10,603.42, compared with $20,888.63 for June, 1945, the postmaster said. ‘The sharp drop was caused by the exodus of military and navy personnel from the area during the past year, Post- master Bervaldi declared. - 0 AAAS bh heh hdd Meacham Goes Back To Owner; The Key West Realty Co. yes- terday re-assumed ownership “ot Meacham Feild . on Roosevelt Four, as proposed by Molotov. boulevard after having been un- der lease to, the Navy for the past! four years, William R. ne ost Hospital. WAVE, if president of the firm, said today. |. ("i Polio H Patient Asked whether any plans were A 20-year-old WAVE is the contemplated for making Meach- Porter said future plans for the latest polio victim in Key West} field had not been decided but ;the Naval hospital here reported (By Associated Press) in the disputed frontiers of Italy | and Yugoslavia were agreed on today by the Big Four, with Yugoslavia favored in 86 percent of the cases. With Molotov joining with the other members of the Big Four on that question, hope ‘was ex- jpressed that the dispute may be [settled regarding Trieste, with France’s proposal of internation- folising Trieste for 25 years being reduced to 10 years. 3 However, Secretary Byrnes and Foreign Minister Bevin were reported to favor tne operation of the affairs of Trieste, by the Unit- ed Nations, and not by the, Big i am Field a municipal airport, Mr. be given for its use. Attached to the Naval hospital, Permission to use the field as ,the WAVE is thought to have a landing base has been givenjeontracted the. disease while ‘Accord: Reached | PARIS, July 2.—Adjustments | 4 Tobocak \ Official Advises < #4U, S. BUREAU TO STAY : we SOESS LEG S.| OPEN UNTIL FURTH NAS Commandant} ER NoTICE—NO EVIC- With the final status of the Teaneterrent OPA’ ‘wachething slit dendeake ae? adquarters oi the com- cluding i i Ciba) thas et: ig increases and evictions, GS eat ial. dike a pees is up to local law, N. D, Keye, transferred from the Naval | "sional OPA rent director, an- Air station, Key West, to the nounced today. Naval Air station, Jackson- He was thus advised by Alex- ville, Navy officials said to- |@nder Harris, regional OPA ad- day. ¢ ministrator at Atlanta. ¢ Admiral Davison is com- In Washington, the House yes- mandant of the district and | tetday voted a 20-day e: _ chief of Naval Air Advance j|of the OPA, after President \training, Four staff officers | Truman had vetoed the extension Were affected by the change. | bill. VOI IIIS GMM) io vs ianiliaive thansives Late Bulletins with the local rent law, Mr, (By Associated Press) Keye said. . fo “Any demands for increased © rents or threatened eviction actions should be referred to SEEK BOMB CONTHOL NEW YORK.—The Australian’ representative on the UN Secur-} the Faraldo Flying Service and, Aerovias-Q. National Air Lines have been using the field also. The Weather FORECAST Key West and vicinity: Partly visiting in Miami, following a | ##¥ Council said today he favored vacation spent in. Chicago. She | the UN taking action to try to was admitted to the Naval hos- | bring the United’States and Rus- pital here late yesterday, Dr. | Sia into agreement regarding the William Dayis, hospital comman- | disposition of the atomic bomb. der, said. —_—_—- The WAVE was assigned to 33 DIE IN RIOTS ward. duty but did not work in}. NEW DELHI. — Thirty-three the polio ward, Capt. Davis said.| were killed ‘and 250 injured. yes- A Key West waitress who was|terday in a riot: that resulted | yecently discharged, from the] from Moslems’ throwing stones this . office,” Mr. Keye said. “We are still functioning until further notice,” he added. In a lengthy telegram to Mr. Keye, Mr. Harris had this to say about rent increases: “Validity of demands for in- creased rents will depend on the. terms of the tenant’s lease and on local law. In many states, a notice period, usually 30 days, is required before rents can be raised.” . “Evictions also will be gov- cloudy. with. widely scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon . through Wednesday, | Gentle moderate , variable’ winds. Florida: Partly cloudy through . Wednesday. Local thunderstorms’ and showers mostly. in. the after+ noons. f “Jacksonville tfrotgh We For ida Straits; Gentigsto moderate: south and southwest winds through | ‘Wednesday. Partly cloudy Weather with widely scat- tered thundershowers, | East_ Gulf of México: Gentie.to | moderate’ ‘southwesterly winds ; through Wednesday. Partly cloudy weather with widely scat- tered thundershowers. Jacksonville to Apalachicola: No small craft or storm warnings have been issued. REPOHT Key West, Fla. July 2, 1946 Observation taken at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time (City Office) Temperatures Highest yesterday -_. Lowest last night Mean .. Naval hospital polio ward, was ve-admitted this morning when she suffered an apparent re- lapse. , There are“35 polio cases in this area now, Dr. James B. Parra- more, county health director, re- ported. to Two. Are Fined In Sunday Sales Two, defendants pleaded guilty in criminal court today on charges of selling wine on Sunday, and Judge Caro fined each $75 ,and costs of court. Eddie Linton, who conducts Eddie’s Bait’ Basket at Pirates} Cove, was one of the defendants, and the other was Julian Ca-} macho, of Rock Harbor. HOG, CATTLE PRICES | FALL IN CHICAGO } (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, July 2.—The sec- 80 ond day of OPAless dealing in 4 hogs and cattle resulted in lower | prices at the stockyards today in | terday’s Citizen, City Manager } Dave King said today, as the tax ! BANK CALL I os re had been paid. (By Associated Preés) WASHINGTON, July 2.— Preston Delano, comptroller of the currency, issued a call today for reports of national banks as to their financial condition at the close of busi- ness on June 29. | POINCIANA FIRE The fire department was called , to Poinciana last night when a ‘hot water heater flared up in a |home, but the smoke was gone by the time the firemen arrived. AS ene : 2 CASA CAYO HUESO |STERLING’S “3uc"Wance® (The* Southérnmost House) 1918 Eliza Street Phone 243} 1400 Duval at South St. DINING ROOM and »COCKTAIL LOUNGE ————Opens 5 P.M. Daily. Also at Margaret and Fleming Sts. | Sele Distributors of Our Freshly Dressed CHICKENS lefiaciee FRESH EGGS: FLORIDA WANTED Ist Class Mechanic "General Repair Work 60/40. ‘Basis Come in and talk to us NAVARRO, Ine. ’ With or Without OPA BAER’S MARKET Will Do Everything In Their Power to Hold Prices Down We Will Always Give QUALITY MERCHANDISE Opp. Bus Station LALLA RT LE TIES at the Lowest Possible Price |MIAMIANS PROTEST Normal 5 8 hod inna s PRECIPITATION | Hogs fell in price as much as ance 2e pou ending $2.10 a hundred pounds, com- | :30 a.m., inches ft ot i ’s higt » pared with yesterday’s highs, and eben rteee MIDIS. there were decréased prices also vo i a jin the sale of cattle. TOMORROW: Ss. ALMANAC ‘Livestock’ arrivals at the stock- ee (Daylight Savings Time) yards were reported the largest Sunrise —..___.... 6:42 4.m. ‘since last January 6. Sunset ..-.-- 8:20 p.m. pital? Ses Moonrise 11:15 a.m, NOT DELINQUENT SOR ORA NaS TIDES } Through error, the name of the High Tide Low Tide ; Lopez Funeral Home was listed 281 arn mnaacit jamong the unpaid delinquent! 1:49 pm. 8:35 pm. personal property taxes in yes- “NOTICE erned by,loeal law,” Mr. . Harris ‘advised the local rent director, Mr. Harris said: eG PE “Evictions will be governed by STATUS: CHANGE local law. Area rent directors WASHINGTON, | — It was ae should determine the local law nounced - today » “e waren -and publicize the protection af- Mozaball's, status, “lagged forded tenants, by that law in aa nan a ina yes in LF ape ran-dey. special newspaper announce- nt m ye : status, present rent ceilings ant Pe seid erent ee wail confine eviction ‘controls will: be rein- his activity to Chinese military stated, Mr. Keye said. affairs. re | No new actions establishing or THUR IN MANILA ! modifying prices or rents may be ice nh — General MacAr- Undertaken until the final status thur, Mrs. MacArthur and their a) the i ay et Seen ae son arrived here today to be Keye was advised. ait present, on July 4, at the inaug- ‘ Both County Judge Rayriond uration of the recently elected R. Lord and Mr. Keye said no president of the Philippines, eviction actions had been: filed General Roxas. with them up to today. : Mr. Keye said that numerous ‘cases, charging OPA violations, - ; OF PA pending in federal court here, ENDING OF 9 ; would be tried at the regular MIAMI, July 2.--Several civic court ierm. organizations have arranged to! The OPA office here still is hold a mass meeting tomorrow “standing by” and will operate night in Bayview Park to protest gs usual until otherwise in- sea the discontinuance of structed. A ‘petition, styled “a mile of names”, is being signed in many sections of the city, and the in- tention is to send copies of it to | Senators Andrews and Pepper 198 and to Representative Pat .Can- city hall, King said. Jews Stage Mass Escape From Palestine Prison (By Associated Press} LONDON, July 2—The gov- been kill ernment reported today that! 000 arrested for questioning dur- there had been a mass escape of | ing raids in the last two weeks. Jews from a prison in Palestine.} Object of the raids was to try They tunneled under the wall! to find the three British officers at a funeral procession of Hin- dus. eo. CITY BOARD TO MEET The city commissioners will hold a regularly scheduled meet- tonight at 8:00 o’clock at the City Manager Dave ed, 80 wounded and 3,- of the prison, and through the|who had been kidnapped by tunnel 54 crawled to safety. As| Jewish extremists. The officers soon as the ruse was discovered, | still are held as hostages, with British troops began an_ inten- sive search, as a result of which 30 of the fugitives were appre- hended. ithreats to kill them if two Jew- ish extremists, now in prison, are ecuted. Two hundred fifty Jewish lead- } Search is continuing for the re- ‘er, announced today that they maining 24, rouse after house is|wjj] advocate ¢ivil disobedience being Searched in an effort to jamong their followers if the Brit- find them. lish do not stop the raiding of Jews throughout Palestine were reported to be enr d to- day when the British iss a re- port $tating that four Jews had Jewish homes. WV VV VV TV Palace Theater LON CHANEY in “PILLOW OF DEATH” News and Serial & be be te he te te te te he hen he ee tr the on hh to TAXPAYERS Ti | All persons desiring to have Large Stock of ‘ correction made in the City As-' Genuine Chrysler, Dodge | Sessment roll must file their and Plymouth Parts written objection on or before Expert Mechanics to Install | July 7th, 1946. H at Once | NAVARRO, Incorporated | | ROY HAMLIN, City Clerk. Opposite Bus Station | ‘SSREUUDLLUUTESUUUESUOTUSUSUEOUEEOTGGSELLOEELUOSEEN LUNES EAN GALEN? Rater ere ete