The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 11, 1946, Page 1

VOLUME LXVII. No. 164 —_——— Black Market Movie Defies Ban On Polio Late Bulletins (By Associated Press) —wsCHILDREN UNDER 16 ARE ADMITTED TO SHOWS, COMPLAINTS ALLEGE } A “black market” motion pic- it HILLMAN’S FUNERAL : NEW YORK. — Funeral serv- ture theater is operating here, fees for Sidney Hillman, head of WS learned today. the CIO Political’ Action com-; The theater, according to re- SOTITMITLs PAL» Hobbies Are Displayed — An exhibit of hobbies by members of the Police Athle- tic league was set up in the Southernmost Pharmacy to- day. The exhibit includes shell craft, tarpon scale craft and other hobbies followed by the PAL members. Mrs. Bet- ty Widden is in charge of the display while R. Hicken com- pleted the decorations. The display, PAL officials said, is an example of what mittee end president of the ports, is admitting children un- Amslgaied Garment Workers of der 16 in defiance of a ban pro- America, will be held tomorrow jipiting the youngsters from stternoon in Carnegie Hall, with~) thering in publie places dur- Be. Stephen F. Wise officisting. ing the infantile paralysis epi- RUSSIA SILENT ee AGE CER MOSCOW. — Russia continuea OF am emer said he had received numerous te be silent today about the four id Americans who were arrested in Complaints about the the Russian zone of occupation Which is said to be operating on tm Germany. The Russian gov- Catherine street between Duval ernment admitted that the Amer- and Whitehead streets. feans were arrested, but did not Police Chief Eisner said city hat , police, are supervising the oper- coy Ses {ation of the theater, which re- ons on | portedly is holding shows in a TRUMAN"S PROPOSAL tent, to prevent children from at- WASHINGTON. — President tending the performances. Tremen'’s proposal for repara- a Se duectly te tne Acctrice pee OUtbreaks Seen miler by General Mark Clark movie im session in Paris. Direct nego- tiations are considered as show- country’s displeasure | ection of Russia in seiz without consulting the Bis Four! Ty Egypt Areas (By Associated Press) CARIO, July 11.—Demonstra- tions were expected to occur in that the Nazis | 84th anniversary of the occu end f ; . ._|tion of this country by the Brit- instelied in eastern Austria... wh! fan ex: jish, but. the only untoward in. cident was the explosion of a ROCKETS IN SWEDEN bomb near the British headquar- ters. Ten persons were injured by STOCKHOLM. — The Swed- the bomb, | Elsewhere in Egypt the day @bout six rockets, similar to the passed quietly, according to in- that have fallen {0'mation that was received here up to late afternoon. ‘Polio Survey Underway Here A comprehensive survey of the infantile paralysis _ epidemic is, China To $22,000,000 worth of machin- | Various parts of Egypt today, the ) Food Deliveries, (Ry Axmpciage’ Pres, ‘ WASHINGTON, July 11.—Fol:| lowing the dispatch of a message} being made here, it was learned today. In an effort to trace the cause of ‘the polio, Dr, Edwin Riley, state epidemologist, is: visiting all homes: in the Island ‘area, ‘wHere the disease; has. been \reported: te Washington by the 360 em=. The householders” are being ployes in UNRRA in China, in| questioned about their recent whieh they substantiated the contgcts in an attempt by the charges of the two American di-| health officials to stop the spread vectors about the contracted dis-|of the disease. of foodstuffs. sent ial Following the check-up here, | . ‘ * . | Dr. Riley will report to the state = Ne pe ea aaa health board which, in turn will we Shang Kai-Shek. announced’ toward the findings of the medi- | teday that supplies would be sent . te @ny part of China where they ; cal mgs to the county health of- were reported to be needed, i fice. He added that trucks are pow; With no new cases reported leaving with loads of foodstuffs! since Monday, the polio total for delivery in many parts of here is 37 cases now, Dr. James Chine. He said he also would. B. Parramore, county health of-! speed up the delivery of suppli’s. *ficer, said today. Lions Club Will Install New Officers Here Tonight will be ob- local club, He succeeds Gonzalo of officers ' Benzanilla. erald Saunders, county com- missioner-elect and a past deputy ‘| district Lions governor, will in- ceremony ar- | troduce Mr. Robarts and will al- ramged by the Key West Lion’s so «ward 100 per cent attendance elwb at La Concha hotel tonight buttons to 32 members of the club. Mr. Saunders also will re- ap ee ‘view the club’s accomplishments view the club's acco: shments Principal speaker at the exer- 3 toibe tien “Ladies Night” served, installation will be conducted and the eighth | eherter anniversary will be note: at an elaborate during the past year. eises will be Chaplain Willard B. Smith of the Ft. Taylor army in- Committee completing plans for the event is composed of Dr. | #aliation near here. He will’ Delio Cobo, Allen Hampton and | speak on “World Peace.” Mr. Saunders. Wilfred T. Robarts, S sota, a aoe ed pest district governor of the ————E EEE Lions, will be master of cere-] CASA CAYO HUESO monies (The Southernmost House) More than 100 persons are ex- 1400 Duval at South St. DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE Opens 5 P.M. Daily-——— pected to attend the exercises at which Fred Miller will be seat- ed as the new president of the OPEN EVENINGS TO SERVE MOTORISTS DAILY and SUNDAY Open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Batteries Charged - Flats Fixed GAS and OIL POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION oo ee PIONEER HOTEL 151 N. E. FIRST STREE! In the Heart of Miami The Rendezvous of Key West SERVICEMEN and CIVILIANS “BEST FOR A NIGHT'S REST‘ Division at Francis Phone 9134 Block ‘Al Armengol, Owner | One ‘Wert of Bus Depot will be exhibited at a PAL hobby show to be staged here soon, [SALES Sf bd Buyers’ Strikes Broaden In U.S.' (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 11.—Buyers’ ‘strikes are continuing to broaden resolution sets out. in scope inthis and many other cities in the United States. News received from Philadel- phia today indicates that that city is leading in the buyers’ strike movements in protest against the arbitary increase of prices for many commodities. Meanwhile, news from Wash- ington was to the effect that’ the senate is further weakening pro- visions in the OPA bill, and in- Truman will veto the bill. Editor Elected Ruler Of Elks Charles E. Broughton, newspa- per editor and publisher of She- boygan, Wis., has been elected grand exalted ruler of the natior® | al Elks at the first full convention of the order since Pearl Harbor held in New York city. A mem-' ber of the Elks for 43 years, Mr. Broughton’ had previously served as chairman of the board of grand trustees. He succeeds Wade H. Kepner, ef Wheeling, W.:Va., as leader of the more than 800,000 Elks .carrying .on activities in more than 1500 lodges in all of of the 48 states and American ter- ritorial.-possessions, ‘ @Qne ‘of the mid-west’s: mos’ prominent editors, the recérd of’ Broughton’s benevolent activities is legion, In.1926, through ‘his pa- per, The Sheboygan Press, he founded the Sheboygan Kiddies camp, a unique project in which the city and the citizens cooper- ate to give more than a hundred needly children a_ free eight weeks vacation. He was a co- founder in 1929 of the Wisconsin Elks Crippled Children’s commis- sion and for many years was a director of the Wisconsin Asso- ciation for the Disabled. In 1942, the new Elk was one of the first eight persons throughout the world to receive the Salvation Army distinguished service award. He has served as an official of the Wisconsin can- cer drive, the YMCA, and is a vice-president of the trustees di- vision of the American Library association and also of the Wis- consin State Historical society. Among the other community activities of Mr. Broughton are the American Red Cross, the Na- tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the Wisconsin Con- servation commission. DEPUTY ON VACATION Deputy Sheriff A. H. McInnis left yesterday for ‘a summer va- cation in Asheville. N. C. He ex- | pects to return about Sept. 1, friends said today. He plans to visit a sister, Mrs. John Powell, and other relatives Carolina. DANCE Every FRIDAY and SATURDAY NIGHT On the Finest Dance Floor in South Florida JOHN PRITCHARD and His Orchestra 9 P. M. Until “?” The Public Cordielly Invited V.F.W. CLUBHOUSE. Flagler Avenue and 2nd Street Poinciana Bus Passes Door Open Monday Through Saturday NO ADMISSION - COVER or MINIMUM «KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1946. IN. THE Meacham “Lease Gets Approval Of City Board A resolution authorizing the joint leasing by ‘the city and county of Meacham airfield, was} passed by the city commission at a special neeelniedaat night. The session was called by Mayor W. W. meritt, acting ‘city. manager, wlio reported that! the owner of the airfield was willing to lease it jointly to Key West and sionroé county to pro- jvide a permanent landing field jfor airlines here. William R. Por- ter heads a firm which owns the field, Under the terms of the ordin- ance, city ‘and county taxes on |the airfield will be remitted and jan annual rental of $5,000 is to jbe paid by the city in addition. County commissioners yesterday provided a like sum for the air- | field rental. Maintenance of the field will Il be up to the lessees, who may use jfor any purpose they see fit, the (LLL LLL SE | Jaycees Hosts To Hospital Vets Service men at the Navy hospital here will be guests ef the Junior Chamber of Commerce on a tour of the city this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. The Camp and Hospital Ccuncil committee of the lo- cal chapter of the Red Cross sponsors these tours which are held every two weeks. Gerald Saunders is chair- man of the committee. National Airlines, Faraldo’s Flying Ge: vice and Aerovias “Q”,! tthe three airlines using the field, have expressed a willingness to join in the lease agreement. Nine .To_ Attend Lion. Convention Dopp To Scold OPA Causes Black Marts, VISA hd Ledeuld -W Speaking on the subject of} OPA at Rotary luncheon at St. Paul’s Parish hall today, eight Rotarians gave an opinion which in the main was against contin- a of government control. William R. Warren, jr., said that he believed there would be less strikes and less black market if the OPA was discontinued per- manently. ‘his opinion was that the buyer was for OPA and the seller was against it. L. P. Artman, jr., called atten- tion to the law of supply and de- mand with the thought that this is a good time to roll up one’s, sleeve and get to work on pro- duction. .. Horace O’Bryant said that 'meat was the big question now r Rotary Members Charge pant Associated Press) ‘Four, hoon, were reported to be consid- ering what action to take toward Germany preparatory to drawing up a treaty with that country. It was said that Molotov fa- vored giving the Germans in the occupied part of Germany within. the Russian zone the. | age of voting to decide whether they wish to remain a part of Ger- many or to ally themselves, as a republic, with the Soviet gov- f Edward Strunk, je, said that} ernment, He was also against the pro- ° posal of the western powers re- garding the length of time to occupy Germany. He added, however, that Russia was against a treaty of revenge with the Germans, though he favored a supervised peace. Molotov also favored making of Germany an agrarian state, which also was opposed by Sec- Nine members of the Key West | retary Byrnes and Foreign Min- Garbage Driver »‘* possibly all government controls to be released except; ister Bevin, who favored the re- represent the local group of del- jdications were that President} egates, plan to attend the inter-iand a garbage truck dyiver who Bryant said. convention in; dumped part of a load of refuse | national Lions’ and 19. The delegates are Gonzalo Benzanilla, president of the club; Gerald Saunders, past Cobo. W. M. Forbes will repre- sent Key West in the Florida all- |} state Lion’s band which will play at the convention. Other Key Westers who.will at- itend include Louis Carbonell, Herman Urion, Arthur G. Blies- ener, Lee Cohen and Milton Lobatin. They will leave Miami train for the convention city. oe Lions club, three of whom will! Philadelphia July 15, 16, 17, 18|0n South street between Ashby . would always be black market as deputy ' district governor, and Dr. Delio, at 11 a. m, Sunday ona special City Service Director Robert that on meat. The meat black| Dopp today planned to reprim- miarket is serious nqw, Mr. O’-! Ernest Ramsey said that there and Thomas streets, last night, long as there was OPA, especially Mayor Demeritt, acting city man- in meat and cars. He said he! lager, reported today. |thought OPA should be. discon- The. driver, who operates truck tinued and-let prices level off of | No. 7, apparently was in a hurry , themselves. to get home and dumped the gar- Mayor W. W. Demeritt said bage on te street, according to that he was against OPA and a complaint registered with predicted that the high salaries of Mayor Demeritt by John B. Jabor will be a question for the} Welt, special police officer. jfuture in the law of supply and Webb saw the driver dump the demand. He also said that hous- refuse on the street and forced ing in Key West was very plenti- storation of industrial plants and the establishment of ‘a central government in Germany when the Allies deemed it necessary. Byrnes asserted that it would: not only promote the economic progress of Germany but. be - beneficial to the rest of the world for that country to have a strong centralized government, Police Hearings To Be T nai him to reload the garbage and ful with many vacancies. remove it to the incinerator. i S. C. Singleton said the law PS Ae onal of supply and demand is alright YOTE REGISTRATION except for the fact that there’ are t; six million housing units immed- ‘ I DEEN: HERE fe jately needed’ in. this country. The cases of four Key West policemen, discharged by City, Manager King on charges of in- subordination, |; be aired be- -fore the Civ: rvive commis- county’s.” ¥egistration leader | : * PRICE VIOLAFION. s books for the “November general CASES 8P TODAY election will be opened in the Hearings of seven Key “West: county, ‘court house. Aug. 5, John usifess men, charged with‘ hav- | England, . supervisor: of registra- lolated .OPA ‘price ceilings ‘tion, ‘said: today: F . pridf: tp dufie 30, got underway! “Tt ig:not expected that the ad- bef ie price ‘panel in the fed-} gi¢ional registration will be large, oe ety cee shi afternoon. jas the interest in county and our Festaurant men, a grocer.’ -1at0 elections is centered chiefly \the proprietor of a laundry and aye ea oe ee a dry-cleaning plant operator! in the primaries, and residents were accused as alleged violators. Who registered for this year’s | Albert Cooper, chairman of the; Primary will not have to qualify jpanel, was to have conducted the | for the general election. — ihearings. As for the election, prac lly John F. Castano, Miami, dis- no interest locally is shown in it, trict price, board supervisor, was as a nomination is equivalent to to attend the hearings. {an election. 1 — Notice to | MILK USERS The increased charge of Milk Prices is due to the dis- continuing of OPA and the subsidy payments to milk pro- ducers. Instead of making payments in taxes which in turn are paid to farmers in the form of subsidies you now will Honored at the meeting were Charles Taylor, Horace O’Bryant and Louis Cruickshank for . per- fect attendance last year. , A visiting Rotarian. was Henry , Starling! of Ho1jestead. ‘Anthony ; Johnson was a guest. Castro To Suvervise Police At Poinciana Police Chief Eisner today as- signed Patrolman Hector Castro to supervise ihe Poinciana volun- teer police department during the absence of Capt. Bernard Waite, who leaves Monday on a two-weeks vacation. | | i NEWHOUSES ON VACATION Mr. and Mrs. Paul Newhouse ; and family have teft for Ligonier, Pa., to spend their summer va- cation. They will be gone until late in the season. Bridge Group. The Overseas bridge commis- sion is likely to match the coun- ty’s $2,500 to advertise Key West | jand the rest of Monroe pouty | in tourist the coming winter, The Citizen was informed \ today. | The informant said that mem- centers ‘sion at 4p. o.,“tomorrgw: in. thes ~~ city hall. Z ‘Fhe hearing, according to-mem? bers’ of the. civil ‘service: gro will be public. ; «-, te Palit City Manager, King is’ attend, | ing! gneeting of municipal of; Hy ficials; in. Tampa and will not;' be} present at the hearing. Thé discharged officers are George Gutierrez, Eugene Hernandez, John Nelson and Carl Ingraham. Civil service officials who will conduct the hearing are Ralph Sierra, chairman; Jeff H. Knight and Wilhelmina Harvey. PEREZ OUT OF NAVY Miguel L. Perez, “Motor Ma- chinists Mate 3/c, 1009 Watson street, has been honorably dis- charged from the Navy, the pub- lic information office at the Jack- sonville separation center an- nounced today. May Help. County Attract Tourists the city and the county now rests on what action the city com- mission will take on the pro- posal, The informant cited the com- | Plaints of Key West hotelmen and restaurant keepers over the poor tourist season last year. He added that he knew from per- ' pay direct to the distributors. in North; If milk subsidies is ever restored by act of congress the price of your milk will be adjusted accordingly. H The new prices for retail milk distribution are: Adams Dairy Land O’ Sun Dairies "canna | bers of the bridge commission j are aware that the more tourists | that come to Key West the great- ler will be the traffic on the} | bridges, with resultant higher; {collection of tolls. | { It was pointed out that the! jcommission not only will help | | i { unless | proposal. The sonal investigation that what the {hotel and restaurant men said | was true. Even during week-ends last winter, he explained, only a comparatively few tourists were in Key West, and he main- tained that the reason for their not coming was because the city “Those men pay city taxes and he concluded, “and I should use some of the money it gets from the money }them to join in the advertising publicity, if the |the bridge commission and the! proposition is approved, will be like| carefully placed in the Citizen was in-j| tourist centers in Florida during chief Homogenized Milk ______ Qts._ 27e ‘the county and city but will| was not advertised | Grade “A” Milk Qts. 26¢ ‘help itself also by increasing its ! Grade “A” Milk Pts. 15¢ receipts. | licenses,” i = “Ge Monroe's commissioners speci-j think that t 3 Buttermilk 5 Qts - \ fied, in agreeing to give $2,500 { Chocolate Milk Ps. 15e Nin cihes finde Git | Heavy Cream 37e | would not be available Light Cream 14-Pts. 27e h Sour Cream a 2 \4-Pts. 27e jcity each contributed a * = amount. The formed that, if the commission; the winter season.” | decides to assign $2,500 to the | fund, the agreement will be on the same basis as the county’s, \that is, the money will be avail- able only if the city also appro- priates $2,500 for the publicity fund. As the matter now stands, the raising of $7,500 for advertising | ONUUORHGHAVS000E 000 0TEEEOUDEAE AERC | PALACE THEATER: ROY ROGERS in ‘SONG OF ARIZONA’ ' Coming: “That Night With You” 2 nH