The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 10, 1946, Page 1

re VOLUME LXVII. No. 163 Price Violation Hearings Slated By OPA Panel Hearings on OPA ceiling vio- tetiegs are scheduled to be con- @ueted im the federal building to- morrow afternoon. Numerous complaints have teem filed against alleged viola- ‘mR, attacnes in the OPA price penel office asserted. Many of the complaints were et ageimst Key West restau- rents following an investgiation eomtnted by the price panel , whieh resulted in the uncover- ie of price ceiling violations prier © June 30 when the OPA otthietaily ended. i The hearings, scheduled to sent at 2 o'clock, will be con-! @ueted by Albert Cooper, chair. man of the price panel. MUNITIONS MEN ARE SUMMONED IN PROFIT | PROBE (fy Assecinted Press) WASHINGTON, July 10—The Meat senate committee, which is ‘evestigeting excessive profits of seme manufacturers in pro- @eting wer materials, announced today that the executives . of there prominent mid-western plemts, which turned out muni- theme during the war, have been @atmened to testify before the comnutter wes charged that in these came not only profits were high tel expenses charged the gov- erament also were excessive. COUNTY APPROVES 2 LIQUOR LICENSES Applications for liquor licenses were approved last night by the eelmty commission for Curo’s pethege store in Key West and (George Lee Crim’s saloon at Rock Harbor. The commission also approved the transfer of © licenses from Gey Tipton to Ira Mitchell Sul- (Rar ent from ‘Raid Vasquez -to M.D. Stanicy. , #, fh SURPLUS MATERIALS FOR SALE BY WAA ONVILLE, July “10.—| Lerge quantities’ of, sur- Severament material ré/be- effered for sale, in Florida the regional. office of the Assets Administration. — . County and city govern- apie! units and GI's have a pre- tettnece rating and those interest- e@ im wseeuring such supplies ————— PORE SRE SELLS NONE ODOT ses q 4 f THE KE County Budget Set At $235,000; Lease. BOARD SETS ASIDE $5,-* -000 FOR RENT OF Army Announces MEACHAM; CITY TO GIVE LIKE FUND County commissioners, at their bd meeting last night, adopted a ten- | F or Enlistees | tative budget for the fiscal year| New monthly rates of pay for {beginning October 1, 1946. The enlisted ee un hs A oe i A announced today’ by gt. budget, which totals $235,500, Lacy Deloach, in charge of the , will be published, in compliance recruiting substation in the post- with a state law, in itemized a office building. form in The Citizen. | The pay rates are: Included in the budget is; Base $5,000 for the leasing of the Pay Meacham airfield in conjunction Less with the city, which is expected than3 Over3 Over6 to provide a similar sum. Grade years years Mayor W. W. Demeritt, repre- Ist grade $165.00 $173.25 $181.50 ' senting the city, and Clem C. 2nd grade 135.00 141.75 Price, representing the Chamber 8rd grade 115,00 120.75 126.50 of Commerce, appeared before a pene ae aes 110.00 the commission and urged that ee ie mis "80.0 b at8 4.00 88.00 $5,000 be included in the budget 74, grade 75.00 78.75 82.50 for the airfield. ——$<$_—_—$$ ‘City Board Meets | Tonight On Air Plan In his capacity as acting city manager, Mayor De- meritt has called a special ses- sion of the city commission for 5:30 o’clock tonight to act on the proposed joint leasing of the airfield. Death Claims Mrs. Lydia Louise Adams, 78, died early today at her home, 1020 James street. She is survived by four sons, Hamilton, Dewitt, Lyman and O’Neal, a daughter, Mrs. Ethel Bethel, and six grandchildren. Services will be conducted at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow from -the} chapel of the Lopez home with the Rev. G. Leon Wells, pastor of the First Metho- dist church, officiating. — | Mayor Demeritt explained that, were the field not operated by ‘either the county or the city, the CAA likely would frown on the , continuance of the permit to Na- {tional Airlines to use the field. | He said that he did not know} exactly what the CAA attitude ‘ would be, were the field operated : oprpuellbcys teary ; Privately, but ‘said he did know i A at thatj.were it. operated by the! iy Associat enn) city.or county, as was explained | WASHINGTON, July by Mr,. Berringer, representing ; OX ent he wat there Bs edi te ing in, cy POSS esident Tru- the airlines, at a meeting in, city ean anny Visto" ddan, the GY hall yesterday, Key. Westers'’” 4 P could ‘feel certain’ that the CAA ; ill. because: of the: weakening, pf| \bermit will be continued. ! its: powers: by” amendments that | ‘After Mayor'Demeritt and Mr, !Pave. been,.made' inthe senate, , ‘Pride ‘concluded their addresses, ' particularly ‘the one that removes \'the commissioners decided to in- porte of prices‘of meat, poultry clude $5,000 for the airfield in geverdi sok Mnievsiiihe cad oe ee {be removed from OPA rule be- ;fore the senate passes the meas- | ure. i ;No New Polio Cases Reported In 2 Days Y WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, Of Airfield Okayed, New Pay Scale | jspoil or had been used to influ- |UNRRA director in China. Chaing | \charges that had been made by years |Rae and Kaiser were true. 148.50 Chinese government, Lydia L. dite Funeral } IN. MASSACHUSETTS; BODIES FOUND 300 FEET FROM CRASH (By Associated Presn) HOLYOKE, Mass., July 10.— } IN TH ULY 10, 1946 UNRRA Accuses I Baik ig baat $ n Food Seandal| | HLItS (By Asnoslased, Preas) ; a a ‘ai-Shek, generalissimo of the Chinese Nationalist forces, is un- UNRRA supplies has | handled by the Chinese govern- First to make the charge that! supplies of foodstuffs of UNRRA. i “ gg = : China’s |NANKING, | July 10.—Chiang der fire today. because of the, way: ment. in China had been allowed to’ ence communistic centers to, give their support to the Nationalist government was J. Franklin Rae, dives last night when a B-17 Rei-Shek then eaked tc Rawal homber, converted into a trans- recall. but Benjamin Kaiser, who’ Port plane, crashed into ‘Mount succeeded Rae, reported similar |-Tom in the outskirts of this city. mishandling _ of foodstuff. to} Six army and,14 navy men and bak aeons arp me of UNRRD. five civilians lost their lives. China sit LaGuan Sie herent a _The pilot was circling to make ‘at thed a’ landing when, unable to: sce {Mount Tom because of a fog, the ‘plane crashed. into its side. An explosion followed the crash. Flames‘ from the | explosion atop the many instances, they asserted, the where it ,Was unable to attain its end, per-| mitted many tons of, foodstuffs} Were seen by . boys '99.00!to spoil rather than to distribute ; Mountain looking for snakes. They reported the accident to ithe. police, and searching parties ywere formed to look for the bodies, some of which were found more than 300 feet from 4 where the plane crashed. jit generally among the people of ‘China. ‘Corresponder’ Tom Payne Has His Own Style} By KYLE VANCE ta th last: night orts current here last ni AP Newsfeatures that the barge Ohio had sprung CARLISLE, Ky.—Tom Payne’siia Jeak’ and lost a large quantity newspaper career began at the,of gasoline at the Porter docks at iage of 65, but now, at 67, he is|the foot of Duval street were dis- flirting with fame. Y Payne spent less than a year ,authorities. in a one-room log schoolhouse,|_ The reports grew jas a_ fire and, he is putting every ounce |fighting unit from the Navy of |that ‘education behind his}Pumped quantities of foam into work as Pleasant, Valley “cort/jthe, water’ and) fiskermen and respondent” for the weekly Car sightseers were barred from the lisle. Mercury, i edeck fficial eee rts eran fi ; i officials said) the ,barge Siete poate pon) was being unloaded and that the paper are sldughlérhouse. for Precautions. were usual im. such grammar and spelling: But he’ is|°*5°S: one ,of the. most quoted writers in Kentucky.” *')"* * His @ first-*1étter, written in longhand,, was turned over by«a ‘0. Key’ ‘West seamen_ have befyddled editor ‘to, ‘the: linotynejreceived *"their’ honorable: dig- operator with the. . notation; ‘to | charges, ‘the: Jacksonville.separa- “seé: What you can do. about #t”?|tdin center announced today. The fe piece was put into’type as|sailors were | Carl D. | Russell, ‘ritten’ and) it: immediately hit'}M3c, 1106 “Olivia street, and the fancy of Mercury readers. Harry E. Evans, S3c, 716 Olivia “Carries His Fame Lightly _| treet. The “correspondent’s” new place in the spotlight has made Deckmen Deny } ! Gl ast. Mase ‘wo Sailors Receive Discharges From Navy, BOY HURT IN FALL Pi nanan Killed As Plane alee: _ Servicemen Victims CRASHES IN FOGS— Twenty-five persons lost their; Boat Lost Oil; jjcounted this morning by dock: shoud contact the WAA regional | ffiee, P.O. Box 4129, Jackson- No polio cases have been re- | ported here in the past two days, ville Details concerning the ‘ 7 ode variate Media listed and inforiia- | the county health office said this ; | morning. tem as to where they may be! seeured will be given on applica- tee officials announce. . “Never Underestimate Power Of A Woman’? a idemic. DENVER.—(AP)—Mrs. L. D.! Weetly left a purse containing 9 im ber home when she 5 : stepped into the backyard. She’! Back From Hospital ; eetermed to ff hd the purse rifled,! J. Carlyle Roberts was return- © renee man leaving through ed yesterday afternoon to his the front door home, 625 Francis street, by Le- She van after the thief calling,; Pez Funeral home ambulance sharply, “Come back” here!” | to complete recuperation from a The fugitive stopped, retraced Tecent surgical operation in Jack- be steps, handed Mrs. Woody son Memorial hospital at Miami. the $8.50 and resumed his flight.| Mr. Roberts, who says he is a “doing as well as can be expect- PARKERS PAY $118 | ed,” was accompanied on the re- Miss Angelina Maloney of the! turn by his ‘wife. He is chair- { Dr. Edwin Riley, state epidemi- | ologist, is still in the city confer- | ring with Dr. James B. Parra- | more, county health officer, and >| Navy authorities on the polio School Board Official © tex collector's office reported ™an of the Monroe County Board * erm that parking meter, 0f Public Instruction and em- Heetiems here for the past week ployed in the office of City Tax . 'Collector Archie Roberts. totaled $118.24 Return Of Boca Chica Area Sought By County The county attorney was in- etrected last night by the county “eteetion to write to the CAA amd request it to use its infli- “mee to have the Navy return thet pert of the airfield on Boca angular strip of 62% acres that | the Navy wishes to retain. When {the county turned the field over to the Navy, the government paid | $2,400 a_year for the lease, but ‘for the past three years the pay- lees that belongs to Monroe!ment has been only $1 a year,! “eeety © « civilian status, so; which the commission agreed to} he eeey be used as a com-jaccept in view of the fact that when the county gets back the ‘field it will be worth approxi-! {mately $2,000,000, as was said} jwhen the new lease went into effect, BATTERIES CHARGED ; According to a stipulation in} The Modern Way the lease, the government does Debee be. in 90 to 45 minutes and not have*io return the field to, eer cer can be on its way! mereael field The county's share of the field owns to 1,900 acres, less a tri- ;the war has been declared by the AUTO SERVICE United States to be terminated. jthe county until six months after} * Conductor Candidate For State Senator! ARCADIA, suly 10.—(FNS)— C. A. Boyd, Seaboard Railway ; passenger conductor and resi- | dent of Arcadia, has announced he would be a candidate for state ; senator from the 27th senatorial district, for the seat vacated by Senator Wilbur C. King, who was nominated for state railroad com- ‘missioner in the May primaries. The 27th district embraces DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands and Glades counties. Boyd served as a representative in the Legisla-' ture several years ago. Cinderella’s Slipper Will Give You A Fit “ROCKLAND, Mass. —(AP)— A modern Cinderella’s to help romance but to aid in fitting youngsters properly with everyday leather shoes. Devised by Dr. Joseph Lely-— veld, chairman of the National Foot Health Council, the transpar- ent and flexible vinylite shoe will show the correct fit around | the heel, under the arch, over the instep, at the little toe, at the large toe, and the space over | the toes and beyond their end. The method is applicable to men and women also. TIMBER TIEUP TOKYO. —(AP)— Allied head- quarters plans to revamp Ja- pan’s system of lumber produc- ‘tion and distribution, snarled in ; government controls. An Allied report mentioned “gigantic” na- tionwide log jam in the lumber industry.” CENTRAL HOTEL : WEEKLY RATES Downtown Location ACROSS FROM BUS STATION om White at Fleming That official action hes not yet been taken. ON SOUTHARD STREET glass ! slipper has been developed—not ! little change in his everyday life. Wearing his hornrim spec- tacles, he is still the community sister “in a little house on the side of the road whare the , school buse turn a roun in the yeard.” | Payne is his own best source ‘of news, judging from the fre- quency he uses his name, but? the .“correspondent” believes lit-} ‘tle personal items ‘are of interest to his readers, He wrote: “Mrs. | Addie Hunt’ who lives on the noftheast side of ‘Mrs. Mary F.; Campbell washed for herself Monday.”, His column reflects his posi- tion as community handy man: “Tom Payne has taken a contrak } ;cutten thorn trees and he sed he got stuck 10 thousand times ; with the’ thornes, He said he didn’t want a job like that any} more.” All of his columns begin with: } “Tom. Payne is the correspond- er,” and many of his tall tales end with the assertion, “This is | true,’® or “I don’t know whare it is true or not.” Asked for a sketch of his life, , Payne covered it in five short paragraphs: , “On the 12th day of March, 1879, Tom Payne was borned. in| a two-room log caben on the Clay farm near Myers, Ky. Then I was mostly. raised there. His Marital Adventures» “My first’ marriage was Jan. 19,! 1910, at Lexington. We had no children. Then. we separated seven times in 11 months. Then we divorced a few years. I: mar- ried again in 1917 and still had no children. Then in 1939 I mar- ried a woman from Wayne coun- (Continued on Page Four) PALACE THEAT: OTTO KRUGER in “They Live In Fear” Coming: “Song of Arizona” Ronald Crosby, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Crosby, 184 Poin- ciana ‘place, was* painfully in- handy man, and he lives with his jJured when he fell while climb- ing on an iron pipe, yesterday afternoon. The child suffered a severe laceration on his back when he slipped and fell against a rusty nail. A physician gave the injured boy anti-tetanus shots this morning. Hospital Patient Builds Business In Coin Jewelry AP Newsfeatures MADIGAN ARMY HOSPI- TAL, Wash.—While still a patient in Madigan General Hospital, Pfc Glenn Seals of West Salem, Ill, has worked out a job for himself. In the hospital he fashions and sells jewelry from unusual coins, making from $50 to $100 a week. Seals caught shrapnel in both feet and one hip during Patton's drive on Metz. Dur- ing months in the hospital, _ he began making coin jewel- ry as a hobby. Fellow pa- tients, the hospital staff and their friends came to him with orders. Soon he found his hobby taking most of his “time. He is a careful crafts- man. Seals gets little chains, fasteners and oil coins for his work from friends. He buys eld coins from collectors, and banks send some. [SAS bE bad hb hadead Fiber Seat Covers ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS 121 Duval Street aS Phone (42 4 IIIS TOM, Atomic Blast *~ | Radio “Storms” (By Associated Press)” BIKINI, July 10,— Vice Admiral Blandy today pre- dicted some things that may happen when an_ atomic bomb is exploded slightly below the surface in Bikini lagoon July 24. He said that a volume of water, one mile in diameter, is. likely to ascend from eight to 10 miles; that jets of steam will go as high as four miles, and that frag- ments of ships that are torn to pieces may be hurled into the air as high as a mile, Blandly also stated that radio thunderstorms are likely to be created west of where the bomb explodes, as far away as 250 miles. Sh hud heh uh hed al 17 Included In Army Call Fourteen white and three col- called to take pre-induction physical examinations July 18, Mrs. Marian Caps, clerk of Sel- ‘ective Service Board No. 1, here announced today. Included in the white call is Eugene T. Hernandez, former | ‘ Key’ West police officer. . Others on the white call are: * Jack W. Knight, Joseph R. Lo- pez, Daniel Pumar, Gerald A, Perez,, Arturo A. Henriquez, Dur- ward 'E. Russell, William Boyd, Charles W., Goethe, Jr., Floyd S$: Gardner, Frank E, Hosten,’ John B, Pittman,- Enrique . Sunti'and i Jack G, Lopez. ue {In the colored call are John Wi Smith, George M. Wilkinson and Arthur L. Dorsett. 7 OF 8 BAVARIAN YOUTHS JOBLESS 87 per cent of 81,000 Bavarian youths, boys and girls, leaving school this term will go jobless, |according to the Bavarian labor ministry. The government employment agency has been able to find only 11,000 vacancies for ap- prenticeships. Plans are being made hurriedly by the Bavarian Youth relief or- ganization to put the majority of the school-leaving youngsters’ to work on farms and in bombed cities clearing away rubble. Most of the job-seeking girls will be- come housemaids in farmers’ households. VETERAN JOURNALIST DIES MIAMI, July 10.—(FNS)—Wal- ter H. Grubbs, 77, widely known journalist, lecturer and business executive who established the first daily newspaper bama and widely publicized the work of George. Washington Car- ver, noted negro scientist at Tuskegee institute, largely re- sponsible for the development of the peanut industry in the South, died at his home in Cocoa- nut Grove recently. | Likely To Cause | that tne tund. will not be used ; Unless the city and the Overs", “seas Bridge | ored Key Westers have been | MUNICH. —(AP)— Roughly| in Ala-| County the coming fiscal year, ) as” a provisional fund for advettis<_ ing Monroe county, with ject of attracting tourists to West and other parts of The commissioners ¢3 Pay commission should each set aside a similar advertise the county. — ¥ The object is, during: the tour-. ist season, to’ advertise Monroe - county in such resorts in Flor- — ida as St. Petersburg and Miami, in the hope of attracting tourists to this part of the state. ~ Ro Should the bridge commission ‘and the city agree to provide | $2,500 each for that purpose, a . committee of » representing the city, .the county and the . j commission, will handle the fund. * State To Survey Roosevelt Blvd. County , commissioners” were. notified last night by the State Road Department that it shortly will send a division enginger to Key West to make a survey of. | the south shore of the Roosevelt - | boulevard to determine the. im= provements that will be neces~ sary to put it in first class con-_ tion. ortees' That information from the de- ' partment is in accord withthe : recent agreement with the coun-. {ty commission to repair the i boulevard, which was. damaged by the hurricane on October 18, - 1944, which, passed 40. miles west. !of Key West. It was further- agreed by the © commission to reimburse the de- { partment. with surplus gasoline funds that, the county has or may haye. available. eet gore) Hospital Sale Parley’ (3) | Scheduled For Julv} 23 Ernest’ A. Ramsey, head of thé Key West General hospital; ‘iné | forméd ' county » commissio last night thati J:) Fs Brennah; 0! the Federal Works Ageney, j ! not be able to be here until July 23 to discuss the proposal of the | agency's selling the hospital and ‘the Monroe county clinic to the | county. ‘ The commission; asked Mr. Ramsey to inform Mr. Brennan that the commission will meet with him either on Aug. 6 or , Aug. 13. It was said Mr. Bren- inan probably will be here on the earlier date. | County Board Denies 3 Tax Cut Requests i The county commission con- cluded its sessions last night as an equalization board to consider complaints that came before *it about the assessment of realty in Monroe county Three complaints were ‘filed with the commission, and reduc- tion of the assessment asked in each case was refused. The .com- j mission then approved the tax jroll, which is in excess of $21,- | 000,000 in ssments, as pre- | sented by Tax Assessor Gandolfo. { SAILOR FINED $50 H. Dunn, a sailor, was fined $50 by Ji4ige Enrique Esquin- aldo, jy, in city court yesterday ‘afternoon on a charge of having operated an attomobile while funder the influence of intoxi- jeants. Dunn was arrested by atrolman Eugene Sanchez: Of County Ralph Sierra was -~ re-elected |chairman of the Monroe county chapter of the National Founda- here last night. Other officers named include John Gardner, vice-chairman; Mrs. Wilhelmina G. Harvey, sec- retary and Charles E. Smith, jr., treasurer. Walyice B. Kirke, head of the Key West Housing authority, was named county chairman of the 1947 March of Dimes drive, Sierra Renamed Chairman tion for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., | Polio Chapter to be conducted in January. He succeeds John Spottswood. | Means of combatting the polio | epidemic here were discussed at the session, which was attended |by Dr. James B, Parramore, | county health officer. IO RO OR OF | ROASTERS and FRYERS BRADY’S (Live) Poultry |: and Egg Market: 1214 White St. | \ AR IAAI IAAI AIIISHIRN.