The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 23, 1946, Page 1

pcre aI VOLUME LXVII. LXVIL. re A ee ee 174 Operating ra Autos ATTEMPT MAY BE MADE, COMING FALL TO TRY | Atomic Bomb To TO RUN Aeel ARE WITH ATOMIC FORCE Explode On Time (Ry Annertated Press) WASHINGTON. July 23.—Oak Ridge ecientists, who produced the atomic bomb, announced to- @eyo thet experiments are being seelie &© Gperste automobiles and | pended on the ewplanes with atomic energy. They explained that experi- mente hewe reached that stage (By Associated Press) BIKINI, July 23. p.m. tomorrow in Key West) where 4 may be possible by the slightly below. sea level in the comeing fall to give a demonstra- ; Bikini lagoon, em of & meter that will be oper-} He added. that wenthien condi- sted by atomic energy. | tions at present were not favor- te the field of airplanes the| eet experiments of using atomic | feeee te operate motors will be mmo. The only limit to speed, the ettentints stated, will be de- termined by the resistence of air- ereft atmospheric pressure. te commection with that dis-/ cumin, the scientists said that! @ the MeMaheon atomic control) tall dees mot become a law during | thee ceeeton of congress, the serv- en of many of them will be lost t& the Government. They said, for; thee @@8 protection, they must “=e® employment in private en-| j be exploded on time. Political Exiles Hurrying Back Into Bolivia (By Associated Press) LA PAZ, July 23.—Bolivia’s | political exiles have begun to re- turn to this country since the penn = — + wl pnt ye successful revolution, which re- yy es Snersy |. | sulted in the killing of the pres- Gis euteomn, 2 Moll da ident and many of his adherents. tee Om the dispute about the plac- a of St least one army man and gee’ te on the proposed) feedmen etemic commission, that the @emey keew nothing whatever emt 4gteeiic energy, a that ered torees could use it only Secheee ef the scientists behind) all the, shops. that tasefeeture. The army has | closed during the six-day rebel- ot ot the “Keew how’; that) lion have been reopened. ) coheely witly the sclentists,, Reins of government are. now te Que lacied Jerusalem Bambing Dead Mount To 41, 8) Acewriated Press) who were with him when he was killed were hanged to lamp posts 'were cut down this morning., Peace -has been. restored gen- ‘erally throughout Bolivia, Nearly Chief Justice’ Gutierrez, and one of his first agts was to’ restore dom’ of ‘speech, He will remain at the head ‘of the, government until a ‘president is elected, Arrangements for’ the election are being made. Brit 30705 In Gambling HRASUALEM, July 23 eh Seetee are in full war “dress” | > see © find the men who! Fines Under Eisner. oeeeered the twin bombing cx- as ghee © Britieh headquarters; As a matter of public informa- end Ge King David Hotel tion, records of the Municipal The Se of dead is believed to | Court reveal that under supervi- <<: Seeented te 83. Bodies of | sion of Police Chief Louis Eisner «| @emeeee whe were killed by | since he took office Nov: 13, 1945, teve been found, and |81 arrests have been made in believed to have suspected gambling — establsih- ere still missing. | ments of Key West with fines and severely wounded#forfeitures for that period : } amounting to $2705. fhe peADeNs In commenting on the arrests “Jewish extrem-| and: fines made, Chief Eisner cheracterized the? pointed out that the gambling lid out- has been on tight fot ‘the last | three months of his term:of office. dant ‘ er teday blame noon poop o “ ermminal Sharkey Loses Cab In Early merping Blaze DEADLINE FOR GI BILL With ‘Oct.°5 the deadline: on which army énlistees and re-eny listees can take advantage of the educational and economic oppor- THE -|proposed by Superintendent a If Weather Good - Ramnirel Blandy. said today that it de- weather as to whether or not the atomic bomb will. be expioded Thursday (5:30 {able to making, thé experiment, | but that if the weather turned out j to be favorple, the bomb will He and three of his lieutenants during the night. Their bodies Veta! careful had_ been), ‘tures Tor ;the. years in the hands of Supreme Court $320, dico7 Le coinpared to igel |freedom of the press and free SOUTHERNMOST KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, sr 1946 |Unions To Call - Buyers’ Strikes I School Board Last Night Accepted Tentative Budget AsProposed By Supt. Albury} ‘By NINA LESLIE CALLEJA The tentative school budget as thereby reducing the Sits bonded debt and further saving Public Instruction Willard M. Al- taxpayers at least one-half bury at last night's meeting in! year's interest or about .$1,125, the court house was accepted by | Taking this into consideration, | the School Board, Mrs. Jennie | Mr. Albury again this year bud- | Pierce and Dr. F. S. Carbonell,'geted 2% mills for the Bonded and given unanimous approval | Debt, and set up in the budget ' ent. The general reaction seemed‘ proximately $35,000 to $45,000 to indicate that this proposed, by July Ist, 1947. budget for 1946-47 was. not too| This is undoubtedly sound fi- high, as recent public discussion nancing, and it may be mention- might lead one to believe, but, on ed in this connection that the the contrary, too low. only change made by the State It was suggested, in fact, that’ Superintendent of Public Instruc- the budget be increased in order tion in the budget as submitted to allow a 15 per cent increase , by him last year from Monroe in teachers’ salaries instead of | county was the raising of the the proposed 10 per cent. Mait-' millage on the bonded debt from land Adams, representing Thomp-'2 to 21%. son Enterprises, stated that in} In explaining the 1.5 mills, his opinion teachers were en-| Superintendent Albury pointed titled to an additional 5 per cent, ia that the last session of the and asked the Superintendent of |State Legislature passed _ a bill Public Instruction whether or not; whereby counties could vote to the reyenue derived from the | budget as a special millage from race tracks would be sufficient the ten mills set up under the to cover this further increase.} Constitution for the purpose: of Mr. Albury responded that in all! creating funds known as_ the likelihood more than the antici-! Special School Building and Bus! pated $16,500 from that source’ Reserve Funds, these funds to be! would be received, but declined | used specifically for sites, new to rely on this eventuality, at the | buildings, additions, alterations! same time pointing out that he! and buses, but not for payrolls, ! too highly favored the additional] maintenance and operation or increase. 3 , jany other purpose. Authority | In connection with the ques-| must also be asked of the State | tion of teachers’ salaries, Mr. Al-| officials to expend any of these! bury stated that Monroe county’ funds. Brought to a vote on De- | is among the thirteen in the state cember “4th, 1945, in Monroe of Florida paying the highest|county, the ~ public voted this | rate to teachers, these counties} millage in by 68 to 4, and it has | including Dade, Palm _ Beach, Broward, Pinellas and Volusia. A light note was struck during this portion of the discussion ; when a spectator observed that ‘it was up to Mr. Albury to be} since the (Presi-} dent. of Bolivia had just been shot ahd killed for refusing to raise teachers’ pay.” In’an exhaustive ‘review of the fore it can be voted out. Explaining each separate it m, of the proposed budget in = tail, Superintendent Albury jmade mention of the fact that the salary of the’ Superintendent jof Public. Instruction depends upon last year’s revenue, and al- | so stated, that he had made!.a cut in the traveling expenses al- tentative budget, Mr. Albury) lotted to him. Other changes in gaye the proposed. total expendi-| various items included: an appto-. 946-47 as} priation for:the Monroe County, 1 $3004171. 0 last | Health Sine’ $2,000, .as eom-! ‘ear’s figure o! , i! pared to $1,500; year, a sam : Rerotoke Hé Seer that’ the - to pay PaO, $4:500° hemes crease in, this year’s budget ° IS} on fire andistor actually the surprisingly ‘small jcies this . yepty, sum * of *$10,635:26, BE Poinciana schwil, and plans .for Commenting on the 2% millage providing sewerage for the sev- rate set up in the budget for the | eral city"S@hools that are without Bonded Debt, Mr. Albury stated ' sewerage at the present time. that upon his entering office inj In a discussion concerning January, 1946, the bonded debt Jjast year’s surplus, carried over for Special Tax School District’ and included in this new budget, No. 1 was $295,000, interest-bear-! jf developed that the amount of ing 1937 to 1947 at 3 per cent,! this surplus was $95,660.05. Vari- the following ten years 4 per ous figures have been quoted in per cent and the next ten years, the past as representing this sur- 5 per cent. This debt was cut’ plus, but the above figure is the down last year, permitting the true and correct one as given at Board to call in the sum of $75,- jast night’s meeting by Mr. Al- 000 on or before July Ist, 1946, bury. } | Publication Of City’s Delinquent | Taxes In Citizen The city delinquent tax list will be published in The Citizen four times next month and property that is not redeemed will be sold at public auction on August 28. Leo Warren Given Award Chief Ph. Mate Leo B. Warren, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee H. Warren, 412 Elizabeth street, was today presented the Award of Merit ‘at ceremonies conduct- ; ed at Union College in Schenec- 1 tawyer petter , dies: “a ae nnn “ city’s delinquent tax list was | tees © Mey Weeters ax “Shar. | charge of the local Army Recruit- Commended for action above published annually: But ea very unhappy cab/ ing Bureau, urgedyall planning} and beyond all call of duty” in practice, through a legislative act, | ning or more ex- | enlistment, to act by that time. |saving a life at the college a; was discontinued. Now, under ay. & cab driver without a cab. | 9 I i AR FD month ago, young Warren has|the new charter, it is required We ue Kiuws exactly how it| RETURN FROM CANADA | Or Navy since Septem | that property of’ delinquents be | # Sharkey parked the! Jonn Romero, Jr, and Charles published and offered for’ sale, a . a Green ‘and | Warnuck, returned to their er, 4040; ered enya fe TOTES as used to be the case before a ss morning | homes in Key West Sunday af-| Overseas. He was wounded three | the legislature's 1933 act went in-| ficient water for use in case of e® only to return | tor a two weeks’ trip through| times and is now a patient at the | to effect. raiste ter to find the Canada and New York state, on| U. S. Naval hospital in-Sampson, | —— oe re ee : quite d by fire. | which they visited popular points New York. He expects to receive * Geithberate or acci- ; i ; his Naval discharge next Sep-! r % was still smoul.| Of interest and~ enjoyed the . : d i te: 1g ring and the Fire jseenic beauties of that famous isporentl he will return to Announcement ead Heperteent wetered the smoking | Vacationing area. y; y ame V wtien of the taxi has | e ween drt me | AS TTT aa ve » determined. __-} For SALE! FOR SALE! CASA CAYO HUESO (The Southernmost House) Ps |) 8 Six.yeur-old Palms 1400 Duval at South St. he . BEARUP. Rear 514 Margaret St. “sranceyonce Sylvia at the Piano lar Prices PHONE 9287 “CRIMSON CANARY” News . Sports - Shorts | | NOAH BERRY, JR., in ' “TONIGHT IS PRIZE NITE” PALACE THEATER DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE ——Opens 5 P.M. Daily. ee Me Cordially STERLING'S “Sre| inveed to DA 1318 Eliza Street Phone 243/ Also at Margaret and Fleming Sts. ler Avenue Sole Diatribut: Our Freshly Dreneed "CHICKENS { iCTLY FRESH smFLORDA EGGS, by the interested spectators pres-j| sufficient monies to retire ap-| Is Not Eisner To Visit Mayor O’Dwyer While In N. Y. The big city, a new grand- child and Mayor William O'Dwyer were all on the agenda of Police Chief Louis isher when he leaves with $s. Eisner for a month's visit to New York. "My very good friend and former police officer, Bill O'Dwyer, has invited me to come in and see him when I get there and I’m planning to do just that,” said Chief Eis- ner, a former member of the New York police force him- self. “I've a grandchild my wife and I have never seen and a host of friends who have Prepared a beautiful party for us when we arrive, so we're looking forward to a wonder- ful time,” he added. ‘Gutierrez Is Suspended 30 Days By King’ Patrolman George Gutierrez, ' urday night'while on duty. Reported by Police Chief Louis ‘Eisner and. Lt. Joseph Kemp who! saw Gutierrez two blocks from his post a couple of hours before | she*: went - off deity at~ midnight Saturday, the BEEBE ee suspended only three: days ‘after | his ‘reinstatement: "John W.. -Nelson, rental. of the yA Bowrd, resigned from the | force: yesterday to accept employ- | ment on the USS Willett, a mer- chant ship. The other two police- men reinstated are Eugene Her- nandez and Carl Ingraham. Upon submitting his resigna- tion last Thursday, Manager King had declared that the only cir- cumstance under which he would reconsider his decision was the absence of the four from the payrolls on Aug. 6. Fifth Of Eight Fire Wells Dug} Robert Dopp, director of pub- jlie service, announced today that the fifth fire well had been dug ‘at the corner of Duval and Pe-| tronia streets. This well has a depth of sixty-five feet while the , other four have averaged sixty | ‘feet in depth. The wells were dug at the corner of | other four Watson and Catherine; Virginia {and Grinnell; Tropical and South; Division and Elizabeth. The re- ,Maining three wells to be dug are {at Louisa and Simonton; Thomas that | and Division and in the Lime; Grove area in Poinciana. These eight wells have been dug, Mr. Dopp said, “To supple- ment the aqueduct water. sup- ply. In case of failure of that sup- ply, Key West still will have suf- fires. | JOHN PRITCHARD and HIS ORCHESTRA Will Play at the V. F. W. CLUBHOUSE i Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and Have a N CE Giooa Time and 2nd Street ‘oinciana Busses Pass the Door OPEN MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO ADMISSION - NO COVER or MINIMUM CHARGE patrolmen Signed B Sweeting Wil Remain Until : King Lodi City Commissioner Clarence (Sugar) Sweeting stated today that the resignation he submitted Friday in protest over City Man- ager Dave King’s resignation was! not effective immediately. but ened a nationwide buyers’ rather on Aug. 6, the date of, if the bill is not approved. King’s resignation. “I intended to have read my resignation Thursday night at the same time as King’s,” Sweeting }. declared, “but due to the confu- sion at the meeting it didn’t hap- pen that way.” Pointing out that his resigna- ‘tion was in protest over that of | the city mahager, Sweeting stated that it would naturally become effective at the same time, icon- ! took place immediately. | As a result of Sweeting’s clari-| fication, Mayor W. W. Demeritt ; has postponed the special meet- | ing called for tomorrow evening to appoint a commissioner to re- place Sweeting, forty-five days following, which a special election jon be called. “The misttnderstanding regard- | | ing my resignation was partly my} ! fault because I didn’t stipulate a date,” Sweeting said. “But I to be levied for two years be- one of the four policemen rein-’ thought it understood that inas-| throughout the country, ‘stated by the Civil’Service Board last Thursday after dismissal by City Manager Dave King, was resignatoin wou'/ ‘take place at; many cities in the United suspended for thirty days yes- the same time.” terday by the city manager for beittg absent from his post Sat- much as I resigned in protest | over King’s resignation, my own, Sweeting also added that’ if) Cuban ‘Airline ' Begins Bi-Weekly ‘ats the ‘Cuban’ Inter. national “Airways arrived, ; Meacham Field this caning | from Cuba with the presidént of | the line and other officials aboard. The plane ‘carried a cargo of plantains, avocado pears} and other goods for ‘local mer- chants. It. is expected ahat this morning’s flight will initiate a bi-weekly trip here to deliver produce for the local market. Watkins Assumes Duties As Chief | Dispelling rumors of the im- | pending resignation of Police Chief Louis Eisner, acting Police | P | Chief Tom L. Watkins, former city Trip] To Mooi! | judge of Tampa, today asserted jhe would “try to take care of | problems as they arose” during} | his thirty-day reign of office, and that he was not anticipating | any overwhelming difficulties. | Not committing himself on po- tential candidates for police chief should the Eisner resigna- | tion materialize, Chief Watkins who came here from Tampa fol- lowing the untimely death of his | brother, the late Judge W. R. ; Watkins, has opened his ofifce at 1010 Fleming street, in the same building occupied by his| brother. A native of Key West and member of one of the oldest fam- | ilies here, Chief Watkins has re-| turned to this city to make it his | | permanent home. “I've naturally | a great interest in my home town,” he declared, “and want to} see it progress and develop in | an orderly and efficient man-| ner.” 4 st We have not been Open Evenings On Account of Sickness. Effective Tonight DAILY and SUNDAY We will be _ Open Until Midnight — To Serve Motorists POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Al Armengol, Owner | measure will’ be considered” |trary to the impression that it| official administration | should OPA be killed, Division at Francis St. Ph. 9134 | Se ED POC tesa png de gressional leaders today three chief reasons why thought President Truman sign the OPA bill: 1.—Labor leaders have 2.—Should the President | the bill, he will alienate a’ alerts st On A 3.—He has been informed” jhis leaders in the house and senate that, if he dods not | ‘prove the bill; no other” this session of ‘congress. The general ‘sentiment that the will bill. They declared that, he veto it, prices will throughout the country. OPA ministrator Pau} Porter said. ‘manufacturers in some lines ; been purposely keeping sprices since OPA expired on 30 to try to lead the publie lieve that OPA control ef was not. needed. He added skyrocket in many hy Meanwhile, buyers’ continuing to gather force » Housewives ‘are ‘greatest pressure’ King ‘were’ induced to:remainias tind ‘butter,’ both of whieh, City Manager, he too would rel now ‘plentiful, but» Tt was said that p ny ,storés’ were Dp at tered ary to and butter, ‘bat thatthe ¢|Peported to them fy Be but. house. leaders. and, ‘Leader Barkley said that would be swift and that the probably will reach the Président by late this afternoon. Terminal Leave Pay For GI's To Be Acted Upon (Ry Assoctated Press) WASHINGTON, July 23.—It was announced today that con- gress will not adjourn by the end of this week, as had been antici- pated, as there are several more bills that must be considered, chief among them the GI fur- lough bill. Officers were paid for what was: termed termirial leave, but the enlisted man did not receive anything. Now it is proposed to | pay him proportionately for ter- minal leave, or final furlough, as officers were paid. It is estimated that it wilt re- quire three and a half billion dollars to give every GI termi- nal leave money. Bullet-Riddled Car MISSOULA, Mont. — Mau- rice Weater, student botanist, | parked his automobile in nearby foothills and went in search of spring flora. Returning, he found |33 bullet holes in the car, and three tires flat. 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