The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 26, 1946, Page 1

a Loca { Interests VOLUME LXVII. No. 203 Chinese Communists Assert. Will Appeal TO UN If U.S. Sends More Arms To China BECAUSE: OF WAR MA.*— TERIAL SENT NATION. ALISTS, CIVIL WAR CONTINUES, COM- MUNISTS SAY (By Ansoctated Press) NANKING, Aug. 26.—Com-! munist leaders threaiened today to appeal to the United Nations if the United States does not dis-| continue sending arms to the Na- | tionalists in China. The Communists asserted they | have appealed to the United States to stop the shipment. of war supplies to the Nationalists, for the reason that, using these! supplies, they continue to wage! war even when there is no provo- | cation. for it. Due to.the shipment of those supplies, the spokesmen added, civil war is raging today in 10 provinces in China, with no im- mediate prospects of establishing | peace between the contending, forces, t The Communists pointed ou4 that, on several occasions,' they have expressed their willingness to submit the question between themselves and the Nationalists to the United Nations, but added that Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek, instead of agreeing to sub- mit the question to arbitration, put more soldiers in the field, with the avowed purpose of crushing all opposition in China that does not see as he sees. Issue Warrant For Johnny Cates’ Arrest i i | | James McKnight, 1405 Newton | street, Navy World War Il vet- eran, was severely beaten in front of Johnny Cates’ Fish House on Front street last night at about 7 o'clock. McKnight SOUTHERNMOST 900 Have Signed Merger Petition Here Nine hundred Key Westers have signed the city-county merger petition at Earl Higgs’ service station, Duval and Division streets, since publicity was. given the peti- tion in The Citizen. Mr. Higgs stated today that “with The Citizen giving us the publicity, we will make the goal of 5,000. petition- ont.” “We Will Win,” States Welch of | tees tz critic 2 = 2 of | » for the expressed purpose of Union Picketing, signing this worthwhile mer- ger petition, and he has had people ask to be given per- mission to carry the petition around .in a door-to-door campaign, Higgs is enthused over the response the petition has re- ceived from all the general public of Key West. Only two persons have fold him that they would not sign, As soon as the list reaches 5,000 signatures, Mr. Higgs will submit it to Bernie C. Papy and James Franklin, state representative and sen- ator, respectively, in Talla- hassee. Donald Welch, business agent of the Fishermen’s and Seafood Handlers’ Union, infromed ‘The Citizen this morning that “before | the dispute with thé A & B. Fish| Co, is concluded the men who fish for Felton will join the union.” Mr. Welch added, “We are go-} ing to stop the practice of pur- chasing fish indiscriminately from | civilians and servicemen.” The union started picketing the } A, & B. Fish Co. last week for} the reason as stated above by} Mr. Welch. The, owner of the | 4ish market has announced that | he will continue to operate an} “open shop”, regardless of the; action taken by the union. j Mr, Welch has said that “in-} discriminate buying of fish even-' tually leads to the ‘beaching’ of trade fishermen whose only, means of livelihood is through the plying of their trade”. i The union's business agent con- | tinued by declaring that “no! more of Felton’s men have joined { is is “toying with the idea” of having it placed in the November county elec- tions, this year. He believes and the petition response bears him out that if placed in the November election for the people to vote on, they will overwhelmingly be in favor of consolidation. “For.” NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED § KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1946 _ "SMOEELL SH 1) Million Bushels of Wheat | “To Be Exported “(BY Ansociated Pregs) i WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Thé Department of Agriculture an-} ° | nounced today that 410 million bushels of wheat from the next crops im this country will be ex- ported... It said that the only delay will ‘be caused by lack of transporta- ltion facilities, both on land and at sea. The aim of the, depart- {ment is to ship 37 million bush- {els a month, but a mbly wil ‘Seems Impossible That Such} '."0sst oF mposs : ING YUGOSLAVIA e “4 eae | AGAIN AND A Climate’ As Key West’s Can ST GREECE ANE TURKEY eee Wheat is now bringing via Be Ignor Very uch, nger LONDO: N, Aug, 26—While a prices in foreign markets, the | ¢ : Yugoslavian cart winds its wi spokesman said, adding that oth- | Herchel Lutes, former ex-j have rain also? Friends of ours! today from Bled down ,er countries that are exporting. ecutive in the J. L. Hudson Com- | Rasadena, a suburb of Los trails with three bodies of five Angeles, spend the whole sum- | American airmen aboard a plane jlarge quantities are Argentina, pany, second largest department : . : ne Australia and Canada. An * ; mer without being able to sit on! that was shot down by Yugo- wads Store in the United States, who/ their porches. unless they wear’ slavians in fighter planes, a Municipal Pay “ > So jexplained that goal probably will GREAT BRITAIN AccuS- not be attained because of a shortage in boxcars and ships. It was estimated that 21 bil- lion loaves of’ bread will be} made out of the 410 million} bushels of wheat, seven million ibushels.. under the shipments during the last fiscal year. "(By Associated Presn) resigned and retired because of} wool, They go io Palm Springs spokesman for Great Britain’s the condition of his health, has to get the desert heat in the/ foreign office declared that, -to i arrived in Key West and is stop-' winter. Such a life, for the way try to offset the reflection cast | He is troubled their publicity runs, it sounds so,on Yugoslayia by the attack, is iW : ping at La Concha. In Key West with arthritis. in an interview different. pitting that. country with The Citizen, he said: ‘ “Their nights are cool on the Greece and Turkey, because they i s “Key West does have a long’ coast from the Pacific, which is oppose Russia’s attempts to have way to go, but, it seems impos-' very cold. Farther, up in San free admittance to the Eastern ‘* sbile that such a climate can be Francisco, one could better live Mediterranean through the Dar. WASHINGTON, August 26.--jignored very much longer by so in Maine. In Los Angeles in their ,danells, + Key West Municipal worker,s; many in this country who are hottest summer day it does get‘ The spokesman said that, while i except school employees, receive | suffering or tolerating such cli- cold at night, too cold for a Flor- he was a member of the foreign * better than average pay for cit- heeweatd conditions as they have idian. And in the desert, it was office, he was not speakingtof- < °* ies in it; population group, it jelsewhere. Rough and tough as it not at all unusual for the win- ficially, but, instead, was eX: was learned today at the Census/is, I like Key West and am for ter days to be 100 or 101 and pressing his own views. He de- fit one: hundred per cent. ‘drop to 50 almost every night, clared that, as always, when Higher In Group! tWeaningros Correspondent of ‘Whe Ker West Citizen? !the union”. Asked by The Citi-} ' zen whom he meant had not join- | ted the union, Mr. Welch replied, ; “The men who catch Felton’s fish said Mr. Higgs, “who doesn't want to save money?” HIDIOL LDS. | for him.” | Welch pictured a glowing fu- ture for Key West, and declared that’ “we (union members) are citizens and are trying to do the public good.” Will Never Accept Union's Demands: sshormen and ‘spongers have Is Felton’s Answer “signed up” with. the. union, MrA-« Precast - Welch reports. He added, “Fur-| Berlin’ Felton, “owner of the; thermore, a local chapter will A. & B. Fish Company, stated soon be gotten. Our money will ; remain in Key West.” , today that he had “no comment” | The business agent pointed out to make’ on the statements pre-- i |that “none of his pickets had jever stopped any cars; asking the occupants not .to .patronize | the A, & Be Pish.Co", | “Nor would they ever do this,” | Mr. Welch declared. He wanted t received a badly! to make it clear to the public at. public knows me better than they senting the Fishermen's and Sea- | food Handlers’ Union's side of their argument in The Citizen; Saturday. FS Seualos { Mr. Felton said, “The general | do Mr. Welch, for I am a native j Bureau. vey made|. “California is greatly overrat- and to forty many nights. A Russia feels. that she or % 3 greay Suave. cade ed. Southern California is foggy sixty degree change -during the her get = is Peston ray for Key West's non-school , #4 much colder than Florida, day. is*normal—that is why the some qi ion, she tries to de- city employees is lower than the even than northern Florida. They western cowboys wear wool flect interest to some other qi . average pay of such workers in}mever swim in the ocean — use shirts even in the hot summer ter in the . the eaaiont all cities of the country, but pools heated near the beach, and days with temperature at 120 in charge will be overlooked and iim the desert around Palm the shade. t forgotten. eS higher than in cities which wy 1940 had populations of between; 10,000 - and 25,000, Key West's | size group. The Census Bureau made its! survey using number of work-} ers and pay Tollfor October 1944: | At that time, Key ‘West*had Bly non-school city employees “and raid thema total, of $9,100 for the month, or slightly more than $112 each: we ; & é, the average monthly pa‘ all non-school city employeés'in the United States was slightly more..than $146)samd ip Octebér 1944, non- | school employees in the cities of Key West's group received an “All in all, I am_ willing to, Springs, use sun-heated pools. I leave California to those who! saw many Women at Malibou and ‘other so-called fashionable like«it, and there are many out beaches, walking around with there who say they like it, Of bathing suits and fur coats over course anyone from Michigan, ;them, headed for heated..pools, the Dakotas, Maine, northern | ‘and they call that fun! |New York, ef¢., and” who has “And the sun among the fogs, never: 5een Florida, would think is funny. Sunkist is right, just it a marvelous climate. But’ until about enough real.sunshine on they try Florida, they ‘ain’t seen | the :coast to kiss. thg oranges. Of nothin’” ' Mr. Lutes says he is especially, Tito, he’ asserted, is trying to smooth over the against his country for the wanton shooting down of the v by. refegting to is'-apha é military-.escort to is bringing -the bodies down mountainside. : Rusgia’s:.aim, he said further, is to thy, to\¥ét political and eco- ‘course they raise! the citrus on the slopes farther back of the fog, by irrigation. Fruit in the desert has no taste to it. Their oranges do not compare with’ ours. “Up the coast from San Diego it gets foggier and colder. In Los Angeles the climate is cold, {fisherman here. nomic “control of the Balkan states.. The Yugoslavian charges against Greece and. Turkey; he added,, ure: trivial, “though “Yugo- slavia is striving to build up a have some disadvantages, but he | Mountain out of a molebili: Ade says he will take them any time | bania also, he concluded, is fall- fond of deep sea jishing, and as soom as his: héalth permits, ex- peets ‘to ‘make: himself ‘quite’ ‘a, He admits that we in Florida; bruised and cut right eye and. large, he said, that no union men a left eye and lip cut and other | “had asked of Mr. Stone whether Key Wester.” The A. & B, Fish Co., owner ling in line with Russia, to try facial injuries from blows’ re- ceived at the hands of Johnny! Cates, j This morning, Roy Hamlin, di- rector of public safety, after a personal inspection in company | with Police Chief Bienvenido; Perez, announced that McKnight was in no condition to swear out | a warrant and so he issued aj warrant’ charging “assault and battery” against. Cates on Mc- Knight’s verbal testimony. The argument grew out of “per- sonal differences” between M Knight and Cates, and the form is alleged to have struck first at Cates due to a “statement made by Cates” and then Cates knock- | ed McKnight down and beat him unmercifully. PUPILS ASKED TO REGISTER | Pupils from out of town who | plan to enter. the Junior-Senior High School (grades 7 to 12) this | year, starting September 9, are advised by Principal Horace O’Bryant to begin registering this week and the next. | “Those pupils concerned must register in that time,” stated Mr. O’Bryant, but this does not apply | to those who have been promot- | ed from the sixth to seventh grade by the Poinciana, Harris, | or Division Street schools, as these latter have already been registered. |e REA a ATE TEE BE Special Meeting Tonight East Coast Fishermen’s Union | Red Men’s Hall | MOTOR TUNEL? SAVES GAS Lou Smith Auto Service | White at Fleming St. Phone § Opposite Army Barracks | ‘committee on decoration. ! committee plans to decorate a re- ary fund for the library of chil- ‘Palace theater where the judges he, Stone, was guarding the fish | company at night”. Since Mr. Stone told Mr. Felton that two correct a number of assertions; unidentified men ditt ask him made by Mr. Welch in the ar- that question, Welch feels that it ticle, but at this time “it is bet-| was some “curious” individuals ter to just let things ride for a | who did so and not any of the while.” union men in the fishermen's or-| ganization. Parade Plans For Labor Day Plans are rapidly shaping up for one of the finest parades stages 10. ey. sna = usta Union’s demands?” interposed gegre 20. cegpheceon (cw the The Citizen. “Emphatically no. I} went on to say that he could! Felton added that “Saturday's | | business” was the best Saturday | jhe had had in the past two and half years. i When asked. by The Citizen was this accomplished with the | same prices, Felton replied: | “Yes. Prices have remained the | same.” “will you accede to the! forthcoming Labor Day Parade, SAYS Bang 5 which a part of the city-wide phat will, replied the fish ebservance being planned here COMBERE: OWREF, by a representative group headed 5 by City Public Service Head F di B ks Dwight Hunter. | un or OOKS Mrs. Ruth A. Higgs, parade ia al i chairman, recently announced; To Be Greater | the appointment of Mrs. Leonard ; Curry as chairman of the sub-; GAINESVILLE, Aug. 26 (FNS). | This'The American Legion Auxil- | in front of the dren’s books of the General Ex-} tension Division of the University | and local dignitaries will view of Florida will be enlarged ma- the parade. { terially during the coming year, ; All organizations and places of according to Mrs. A. J. Ryan, | business planning to enter floats Auxiliary president. or marching units in the parade The books are provided fdr the are urged to contact Lt. Ray At- benefit of children in rural areas! viewing stand well of the City Police Depart- where library facilities are limit- | ment who is acting as Parade | Marshal, in order that he may ed. They are delivet2d through rural schools at no cost other} assign definite places in the line, than transportation. of march. | PALACE THEATER: CONSTANCE MOORE in ‘In Old Sacramento” News and Serial ae 5 ae + DANCING ~ Nightly to the Music of MARK ‘sna ii STANLEY, vse nee ff WANTED! cov Best Drinks— Popular Prices Reservations: Phone 9287 Apply Hostess, Dining Room LA CONCHA HOTEL Survivors of the deceased in-| clude four sons, Paul, Ellis, Mer- vin and John Archer; two broth- ers, Wilsion and Milton Russell, } and two grandchiicren. Hi Ellingson Returns From Miami Meet City Manager O. J. S. Elling- son has returned from a weekend conference held in Miami to aid municipalities and was at his; desk in City Hall today. The city manager is still look- ing for a suitable apartment and ; has hopes of finding one in the near future. Ten Applications Received To Date Ten applications have been re- ceived from individuals desiring the two vacant police jobs on the Key West force, City Personnel Director Jack Murray revealed today. H Last Saturday the total of ap- plications was seven, including; one from a former policeman ‘gn the West Palm Beach force. arated REPLACEMENT =— PARTS ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS 121 Duval Street \ewwemueee Phone 442 aE ian Stl, ALBERT G. ROBERTS; or City Commissioner (Paid Politteat Advertisement) | made to 11 persons, six men and Band Rehearsals wes stated that a former vet- eran and newspaperman was expected to file with Roy Hamlin for commissioner to | fill the unexpired term of W. C. Sweeting, resigned. He was contacted today and re- | vealed, “I am giving the mat- ter considerable thought.” but “I have not made up my mind to de so.” Numerous Key Westers, he said, had told him to file, but he wasn’t certain he Maia (2 pilings of ew and foggy. And do they compared to California. bes aise hae odie by creating { — ——— mS prrenere erir ‘| tension between the western Al- Laura Archer Dies 9 CIS IILITS A lies and the Russian bloc. Grec- - Here This Morning M ‘Reynolds Cc ee eT he ee Ptgengy 5 aura Jane Archer, 67, passed ! onumiisstoner OF ae a ; swan this morning at a local hos-{ Funeral ln H i Li t two British cruisers in: that pot od ; pital. a PP tcean | Funeral arrangements, undér * : Bs . the direction of the Lopez Fun- Elkton, Ky. Not Yet Certain Building Materi J {eral Home, will be z d : i ae ; $ hea 01 e announce ‘as kaskouneed. Bteadh | In Saturday's Citizen, it | Prices Are Highest 2 WASHINGTON, Aug. 26— Funeral services for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice James C. McReynolds wiil be held to- morrow in Elkton, Ky. McReynolds, who was 84 yeats of age, retired from the Supreme Court in 1941. He died in the Walter Reed Army Hospital, | where he had been under treat- | ment since early this month. | From the birth of . the New; Deal until his retirement, Mc-} Ne aor se a Ate, tuaplacaiis would do so, However, he de- hela clared. he would definitely ee ee have filed were Albert G. UNEMPLOYMENT Roberts to be the lone can- COMPENSATION | didate, for, he said, he did f § COU! >; not believe in letting any- IN THIS cou NTY | one aspire to this important Payments of unemployment | position without a contest. compensation in Monroe county | | during the week ending, August TAA AA LE £ hod 17 amounted to $226 and were five women, Carl B. Sura Start Tomorrow | chairman of the Florida Indus-|~ }yorace O'Bryant, Principal of | trial Commission, reported today. ‘the High School, announced this | pound bag of roofers’ asphalt is In Key West Area Hard building materials in Key West are “somewhat higher” than in other parts of Florida, Harold H. Martin, OPA district price executive, with offices in Miami, has informed The Citi- zen, Increases are general in Fiot- ida, he said, with Key West lead- ing all other places in advances. Increases resulted from the new price control law passed July 25, which required that dealers be allowed to maintain their March 31, 1946, prices, Martin explained. He sent a list of 37 items to The Citizen on which there have been increases, some of them decidedly so. A 100-pound bag of Keene's cement, which sold for $2.62, is now $3.45; the price, per 1,000, of common red brick has jumped from $32 to $48; a 100- Throughout the state $127,474 morning that band rehearsals | up from $2.25 to $2.85, and fin- was paid in compensation to 3,663 | will start tomorrow morning at} ishing | lime for a 50-pound bag men and 3,023 women, a total of 10 o'clock for the Labor Day j from 65 to 90 cents. 6,686. | parade next Monday. new PIONEER HOTE 151 N.E. FIRST ST. 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