The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 22, 1946, Page 1

VOLUME LXVII. No. 173 School Board To Meet Tonight To . . Consider Millage Tout, beginning at 7:30 o'eleek, om thf second floor of the courthomse building, Monroe eounte’s beard of public instruc- Gem @ill held « hearing on a pro- geeed budget that is the highest = the history of the county— Some. 67 we The beard’s millage for this fis- oat year, which will end on Sep- tember 30. is 10.2 mills on an as- | emeed valuation of $17,317,937, a eqeerd sasessment up to now. Explosion In Kills Eight * BOMB SAID), TO HAVE Undercover Agents On Shine Trail By FRANK I, WELLER AP Newsfeatures Writer { Je BEEN USED, BY JEW-' ISH _EXTREMISTS IN RESENTMENT "| (By Asnociated Press) JERSUALEM, July 22.—Eight were killed and more than 50 in-! jured by a bomb that exploded The seetement for the coming} wasHINGTON, D. C. — Two} in the British headquarters ana| (mee! year has been increased by $4,198,714, or @ total of $21,317,- 9? Despite that increase, the ethos! beard has raised its mill- oar t& or @ total of 12- mills, whieh means that the taxpayers, i the millage is approved, will be eeguived te pay $80,956.85 cents mre the coming fiscal year than | they G4 for this fiscal year. Gee of the reasons given for the ee rear @ 10 percent ad- wenee i teachers’ salaries. Dis- oommg that phase of the ques- om © county official told The Cteaen "The heard can give the teach- ome @ rele of 20 percent and have mere than cough money to pay ter the advance in salaries from te. county's race track fund. whieh & divided equally with the’| «feel beard. As to the school at Marethen, which was mentioned ty ® eeheet official in connection with the proposed increase bud- eet, money to pay for that im- eeetement was provided for in the test bedget, and, as for the eogeive te the Harris school, the herd reeetved $15,000 in insur-| one te take care of that work. "The high echool annex also em Mentioned. This is the build- et thet was constructed by the Poedersi Works Ag As many Key Weeters may rt 1, walls in the tetiding were cracked after % complemen, and there was talk whats § under the Fempmeetiat icons se of the verte But let's assume that the = > eansdition. The A will do the same thing for Merwe county as has been done ter other counties: give the build- ig t the county for a token pay- feet The FWA dees not u: pelory measures in réac! Gitements for the transfer of Selitimes thet it bas constructed = it organization » view of those facts, what % the beard intend to do with he chermeus amount it proposes @et for the maintenance and @eretien of the schools? = the time, with arrange- mets hewing been made to re- wae heemiveds of employes in the Maes i, we should give a eet t economy. I am not | “pee thet about the school =~ vione. Tt applies just as nat the county commission of the eity commission. A great he! of my adult life has been rad public office. 1 recall, vet not been many years m 1 had 18 months for; im the county, and in ditions were far at. County warrants im hundreds ‘of in- discount of 10 per-| ' wea i was pitiful at what ® eorpt or warrants “? 1 We heme thoughts in mind, ' * the me is opportune to het if we are not careful #0 again kill the goose that! > te golden eggs. That goose K pe ye SEEK AIRBORNE ENLISTEES : weed enlistments for the/ Hiewoeth Airborne Division of tj Puoelfic Theater and - the ae weand Airborne, Zone of | coyt open to qualified mad nen-veterans, Staff #.. Deloach, in charge of the local Army Recruiting Bu- ws ameunced today. Addi- ed efermation ean be ob- wee the reerulting office on Ge second floor of the post of- SMARGED WITH SPEEDING arrested ‘ & Jenkins was herge of speeding and/ rms without « license Satur-} Gey efterneon and is scheduled % eepeer in Munieips! Court to- - A BATTERIES CHARGED The Modern Way Bitee te fe 98 to 45 minutes and ‘peer cer can be on its way! Smith AUTO SERVICE Be 8 White at Fleming ‘ attending them. fishermen were crossing a Ten-! native, the other a guest. The guest saw a shore clearing and said it would be a fine place to tie up. “Turn this boat, brother, or I'm going overboard . that place nessee mountain lake. One was s is full of moonshiners,” warned ; the native. ' The U. S. Aleohol Tax Unit, headed by Stewart Berkshire, deputy commissioner of internal , revenue, says that “’shining,” which almost died out during the; war, is starting up again. f Sugar Shortage Felt the King David ‘Hotel last night. Fanatical Jews are said to have used the bomb to try to gain their ends for larger Jewish im- migration into. Palestine. A tele- phone call was received after the | explosion, ‘and the spokesman Said ,“We, the Jewish exvembtes| exploded’ the bomb to express their resentment over the way the British are conducting 'gov- _ernmental affairs in Palestine. _ The bomb tore a Hole 60 feet in diameter in, the' hotel and curried away a wing of the: YMCA building | adjoining the! The wartime decline was due} hotel. to sugar-rationing, Jack of copper for stills and lack of tires and gasoline for delivery to patrons or for patrons to come und get it. Most of those things are available now. “Revenue agents” prefer to re- main anonymous. One said he al- most got killed cleaning up that Tennessee lake spot but that the same gang comes back and re- builds every time the “reve- nooers” leave. s He said that so far 90 percent of postwar moonshining had been traced to the southern seaboard states, where it has been a tradi- tion since the Unit Was organized under the nathe of “Excise Men” in 1791, Bootleg Rings Reviving The tax-beating' liquor trade no longer is.limited to “small fry”, in the southern swamps and{ mountain-canyons. © Information, on which it has been too éarly for the Unit to act; shows that well-managed alcohol gang baeh as existed during prohibition are getting back into the |big' cities. ¢ but so far, in a small way. ‘This. time ,they, are. using »mo- lasses instead» of” scarce » sugar. Wifile the trade “bellyaches”, .it | buys just the same-Because of the shortage in “good” legal liquor. One agent told of four guests in a Washington hotel, southern- ers, who bought legal “green stuff” copiously for friends but} drank the “cawn likker” they'd | brought with them. They ex- plained “our bellies are kinda important to us.” He told of a young man from Washington visiting relatives in | North Carolina. They took him to an old-time moonshiner who had not operated since the war. He argued around for an hour, trying to settle on a piece. “Well, now son,” the “’shiner” said, “this is right, expensive. If I dig up that barrel I’ve had bur- ied for 10 years, a gallon’s going to cost you a dollar and a quar- ter.” Prices of “mountain dew” are increasing, the agent said, be- cause bootleggers trade on some public fear that diversion of grain from the alcohol industry is a plot to return to prohibition. The Treasury collected more than a billion dollars in liquor taxes last calendar year despite the alcohol shortage. Revenue agents are pushed extra hard these days to stop illicit deals which bring in no revenue. In 1945 they destroyed 7,521 stills and arrested 9,492+ persons They attached $2,000,000 of property where il- licit liquor was stored and con- fiscated $169,000 worth of illegal- ly held alcohol. ” oe FOR SALE! FOR SALE! 6 Six-year-old Palms J. D. BEARUP Rear 514 Margaret St. eee RAUL’S ON THE BOULEVARD __+ DANCING - NIGHTLY TO THE MUSIC OF MARK STANLEY cRuncH) and HIS ORCHESTRA Featuring Sylvia at the Piano Best Drinks—Popular Prices RESERVATIONS: PHONE 9287. Another explosion, said to ea een a mine, destroyed an auto- mobile in which British officers were riding, Thought Truman Will Sign OPA Bill (By Associated Presa) WASHINGTON, July 22.— Leaders in congress today have urged President Truman to sign the OPA bill, as it will be recom- mended by the senate and house conferees and presumably’ passed by the senate and house. The leaders. informed ‘the President that should ‘he veto the bill, there will’not be any further. action on it at-this session 2 gress. Asethe bill will come from’ ebiifetence; if will remove prices control on meat, poultry,. eggs: and dairy préducts until August 20, but, if at that time, it is con- sidered strictures are no further needed, absence of ceilings will be continued. Rent ceilings will be con- tinued unless a de-control board at any time should consider they are not further needed. The bill, if it becomes a law, will not be in effect until June 30 of next year. It is expected the bill will pass the house and the senate tomorrow. Monroe Idle Get Checks For $221 Unemployed in Monroe coun- ty received compensation. checks amounting to $221.00 during the week ending July 13, Carl B. Smith, chairman of the Florida Industrial Commission, reported. They numbered 15, of whom: 13 were men‘and two women, all registered as ‘available for suit- able employment. Payments throughout the state {amounted to $94,772 and were made to 5,935 persons, 3,076 men and 2,859 women. Total payments short of the $105,426 paid out during the week ending June 29. Chairman Smith explairted that those who leave jobs with- out sufficient reason or who re- |fuse offers of suitable employ- ‘ment are not qualified for com- pensation payments. Those compensated in this county during the week were classified as: Semi-Skilled: Service Men Cook 1 Women _ [Sounds Warn | Tollnvolve In W e ‘ Sun Yat Sen, widow of Chinese \republic, emerged ‘from Political obscurity today to warn the people of the United States of a movement by reectionaries to force Russia and the United! States into war. , She declared that the reaction- | aries also, were at work in China, | where they are attempting to. rouse the ire of the Russians by the announced purpose of the Nationalists to “wipe out” com- munism in China. Madame Sun maintained that every effort to stop the civil war’ in China will prove - unavailing as long ‘as the United States sup- : plies the ‘Nationalists with arms.’ A -quick' way to ‘stop the war, she asserted, would be for ‘the United States'to discontinue sup- ' plying the Nationalists with ‘arms, + As long 'as the United States sends military supplies to China, continue, for it will be an in} superable task for Generalissimo |Chiang Kai-Shek to crush the Communist army, though he is now waging an ambitious eam- paign in northern China with that end in view. That campaign would end and peace would en- sue, if the United States cut off | China’s military supplies. And no more money should be advanced to China by the Unit-j ed States, she concluded, until a| “real peace” is established. > Four Hundred Discharged Villarroel’s I Next Week At Sub Base BUDGET RESTRICTIONS | AND DECREASE IN| Syhmarine Base WORKLOAD NECESSI- TATES ACTION Due to Naval budget restric- tions and a decrease in the work load at the Submarine base, the od In Key West To Be Made Deeper The War Department has ar- ‘| lege professors and (By Associated = Presa) LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 221A revolution, engineered by uates, came to an end last with the killing of Pre Gualberto Villarroel, whom the Opposition hac cenvunced aga dictator. + They said the president overall force employed at the, Tanged to deepen the Submarine’ valiantly until his Submarine base has been re- duced by approximately 30 per cent, totaling approximately 400 persons, Capt. W. A. Saunders, y. The ‘reduction becomes effec- tive next Friday with the work- ers effected retained on the pay- rolis in accordance with Civil Service regulations regarding ac- cumulated leave. All depart- ments on the base are affected by the announcement. “It is with regret I have to announce that it has now become necessary to cause a reduction in employment,” Capt. ~ Saunders base in Key West to a depth of 28 ‘feet below low water, accord- ing to’ information received to- day by’ The Citizen from Major ‘ c N Blase Nemeth, of' the army's en-; , commanding ' officer, anhounced; gineéring corps, with headquar- | she stated, so long’ will the war ; ters in Jacksonville. He said that the material that will be dredged from the base will be deposited in an irregular shaped area above the three-~ rock. Major Nemeth said that. no hearing will be held on the War Department’s application for a permit to dredge the base and said. “Every effort has been ex- deposit the material on Kingfish tended to obtain sufficient funds, Shoals. He added that anybody and work to retain our present who wishes to protest agairist payroll, but we have now been the proposed work from a view- - notified that a reduction in ex- point of interfering with navi- REM SE, of the” Faber. I ap he Nelson Quits. Police Dept. For ' Private’ Employ, Patrolman John W. Nelson; penditure is mandatory.” lines, such ‘ as “yourselves,” he} teld the civilian employes affect- ed. “Your ‘government, your Navy. andthe commanding of- ficer.are deeply.gratelul. It is Civil Service Boatd last’ Thurs- sincerely hoped those of you who day after previous dismissal by. must leave the employment. of City Manager Dave King, today the several. departments of the resigned from ‘the law ‘enforce-' Submarine -base will gain early ment body to accept a position employment, elsewhere’ and’ ‘this on the USS ‘Willett. unavoidable : displacement will | No reason was given’ by Pa-' cause no hardship. for yourselves ; trolman Nelson’ for his resigna?' and your families,” | tion. Manager King hasstated:! News of the reduction came as thatthe only circumstances;un-° no surprise to workers at the | der which he would reconsider base, who were aware of im his decision to resign would be pending Naval budget restrictions the absence of the four patrol- regarding employment since the men in question from the pub- first of the year. lic payrolls on Aug. 6. —_——_——-. ‘Over $216,000 Net For National Air An estimated net profit after ‘taxes, of $216,350.29 for National | Airlines, Inc., for the fiscal: year | jended June 30, was reported to- day by G. T. Baker, president. ' The estimate, "Baker said, was {based updn actual net profits of Caleutta And Bombay Strike Spreading Fast BOMBAY, July 22.—A strike is spreading throughout this Jty | gation, should write the United “The war has been won largely States engineer office, Box 4,970, by ‘the labor and ingenuity of Jacksonville, in time to be re- the’ men and women behind the ceived on or before July 29. Siam’s | Feud With French In. Rice Bowl By CHARLES A. GRUMICH AP. Newsfeatures A remote “riee bow!” territorial wa’ bulging into’ the attention of being ‘waged ‘intermittently: along the. .Mekong (on the. .shadowy frontier between French “Indo- China and Siam. It involves a centuries-old feud with modern trimmings provided by a surge of Western imperial- ism in the 19th century and com- plications brought on by the dic- tates of the short-lived Japanese co-prosperity sphere in the 1940's. As peace-makers stepping into this oriental vendetta are first confronted with the fact that the disputed border territory was signed away to Siam, then be- coming a satellite of Japan, by the’ collaborationist colonial re- gime of Vichy France in 1941 un- der Japanese “mediation.” in sympathy with the telephone, telegraph and postal employes who are on strike. Conditions in Calcutta are re- ported to be worse than they are here. No mail has been delivered in that city for 12 days, and i i $111,362.17 for eleven months of | A Fifth of Cambodia the fiscal year plus an anticipat- Before taxes, National’s earnings ‘were estimated to be $360,583.82 for the fiscal year and $174,980,20 |per June, j. Baker said the strikes there are general. Margaret Perez Makes Solo At Meacham Field Miss Margaret Perez, 923 Sem- inary street; the second woman to solo a Cub at Meacham Field, headquarters from Jacksonville | to Miami, Florida, and to year- | made her first solo flight Satur- day afternoon. Associated with National Air- lines, Miss Perez is an ardent fly- ing devotee, and spends most of her spare time at her new hobby She is one of the four women fly- ing with the Faraldo Flying Serv- | ice,at Meacham Field. Watchman 1 Skilled: Cigar Maker 1 Carpenter 7 Plumber 1 Foreman, Retail Trade 1 Sefi-Skilled: Saw Filer 1 Unskilled: : Laborer, Construction 1 02£4444444444444444 PRESCRIPTIONS frercctence Ingredients Compounded by Experienced Pharmacists GARDNER’S PHARMACY. Delivery Phone 177 Free svve wvvEr - NOTICE"! Wish to announce a new service policy under the direc- tion of Mr, Ted Wellbrook, master mechanic for more than 30 years. We now will be able to offer Dodge, Plymouth, DeSoto and Chrysler owners better serv- ice than we have since the war, as we have installed new and modern equipment. NAVARRO, Ine. OPPOSITE BUS STATION | SoS ROR RRR ERE June estimate after taxes was lower than reported earnings af- ‘ter taxes of $143,125.81 for May was attributable to non-recurring texpenses due, in part, to the transfer of National end adjustments. He pointed out that NAL had ‘established a new all-time month- ‘ly high June of 17,154,224 reve- nue passenger miles flown, top- ping May by over 5,000,000 reve- inue passenger miles. In addition, he declares, the June load factor | was. 80flg-an.,increase of 2.53 per cent over the previous month. Meeting “To Appoint | New Solon Postponed { A‘ special city, commission meeting set for 5:35 p.m. today in the City Hall to ‘appoint a suc- cessor to Commissioner Clarence Sweeting, has been postponed until Wednesday by the absence of Commissioner John Carbonell from the city, Mayor W. W. De- merritt announced today. UB BUUUUUUUUUR A UER RR E ROASTERS and FRYERS BRADY’S (Live) Poultry fact that the. Norodom Sianhouk Varmen, | 25-year-old. king of Cambodia, ‘lost one-fifth of his realm to |Siam by.a treaty squeezed out of | the. French overlords of his pro- tectorate at Tokyo on March 11, | 1941. Pyior to the signing of the treaty by Admiral Jean Decoux, Vichy’s governor-general of Indo- |China, an undeclared war com- System | plete with aerial hostilities, had| been fought between French and! Siamese in late 1940 and early }1941 when the Japanese were \concluding their domination over Indo-China and wooing Siamese jelements into the co-prosperity sphere. 20,000-square-mile bite out of |Cambodia and a small section of |neighboring Laos colony on the basis of recent history; not going | into the many previous shiftings of frontiers along the Mekong. French Imperialism Recalled The Siamese cite the arrival of a’French warship off Bangkok in 1893, in the heyday of western (Continued on Fuge Zour) ee / PIONEER HOTEL 151 N. E. FIRST STREE! In the Heart of Miami The Revdexvous of Key West SERVICEMEN and CIVILIANS “BEST FOR A NIGHTS REST! | | | and Egg Market 1214 White St. Phone 54° RERARERAEEEEERAKKKEEEEER | One Block West of Bus Depot | Siam asserts her right to this | body collapsed. That | when a group of the ‘invaded his palace and broke , to his office, where he had ; to seek safety. After he was | ed, his body was thrown out of an upstairs window. © «© ' The revolution began six ‘ago. serces the frequent since then more than 500 were killed and more than 2,300 were {fathom contour of Kingfish/ Wounded, The president's oppor ' Shoals. He estimated that 80 per! ents declared that his | cent of the ‘material will be! ship had been designed by | in Bolivia and supported:by them up until a few months ago, © ~"** PAL Hobby 3 Show Is Set ‘ For Labor Day ss ' The Hobby Show the PAL (Police Athletic ») of Key West, will be pres¢ on Labor Day, it was a meeting of the Key West ter last night with R. C. | Sot chairman, pre Johnson has granted the 'St. Mary’s Parish Hall for presentation. Hours during which the show will be’ presented will be ‘cided at a final committee meet- ling. A check from the Florida Peace, Officers’ Association: as a contribution’ toward’ making": the Hobby ‘Show a’ success | was | sented by Chairman Hicken. |) Use of a bulldozer to ¢lear the ! vacant’ lot on’ Duval : street,.'do- nated as a playground for the PALS by Bob de Feo was dis- closed at the meeting. | In attendance at last night's gathering was J. R. Mar recently appointed Music Diree- tor of the Key West High School. He was presented with a mém- bership and appointed as a meéeni- ber of the Activities Committee. Expressing his interest inthe PALs, Marcellus stated he was | wholeheartedly behind any or- ‘ganization that worked for the benefit of young groups, giying j them activities to occupy their ‘idle time. He expressed the hope of organizing a PAL’s band soon, and outlined programs success- fully used in other cities appli- cable here. | Hicken declared the PAL. or- | ganization is fortunate to have Marcellus with them, pointing out that the cooperation of a _man of his experience in youth | activities will be of great value. ‘Ailing Swaaabae Is Taken Off Ship A Coast Guard crash boat Sat- urday removed Ordinary Seaman Donald B. Sandell from the tank- er USS Sachem after a call was ‘received from the tanker saying ‘that the seaman was suffering from an infection in his legs. The | coast guardsman was removed ‘at the sea buoys and taken to , the Naval hospital for treatment. | Satis a BRON NESS LIE (vanced REPLACEMENT += PARTS ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS 121 Duval Street weuwseues Phone 412 ae ! OTT LL | PALACE THEATER. BONITA GRANVILLE in | Senceite From the West’ News . Sports - Shorts PM