The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 4, 1946, Page 1

- $OUTHERNM Trieste At UN Session SENATOR TOM CONNOL-4— dy City Resignations Commissioners meeting at last night refused to accept. the written resignations | of Ralph Sierra and Jeff Knight, until “further consideration is given them.” No letter had’ been received from Mrs. Wilhelmina Harvey, Jt., from the Civil Service Board, | OST NEWSPAPER IN TH KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1946 Comptroller “Jim” Lee is con- ‘siderably more than firm in handling the financial affairs of Florida’s 67 counties; as county commissioners are all*“aware. The comptroller has been character- ized frequently as “stubborn,” and that term is complimentary, because what he does redounds to the interests of the counties. But local t | UNITED LY PLEADS WITH OSS OOOL M4 , commissioners the third member of the board,!thought he would permit them ~~ Naked Swimmers DELEGATES TO DIS-| Mayor Gives Ham CONTINUE DISPUTA- And Pecans To Lisl County Home (Hy Asnociated Prens) PARIS, Sept. 4—Yugoslavia, On the first south-bound flight of the National Air at a session today of the 21 na- Lisea te ati tion3, protested against the in- rpeeagatorae Bostic Sareilapabitcation of Sriesie, cna SMigart an ont ot Neldoste oy Georgia, a very fine ham, a asked that that action be defer-; bag of pecans and a bottle red for a year. It was said, how-| of turpentine were sent to ever, that the assembly will take; Mayor William W, Demeritt the Jacti ; by the Valdosta and Lown- ion that was decided ©) des County Chamber of Com- several weeks ago — to interna-} merce. tionalize Trieste and have it Mayor Demeritt received function under the direction cf| the, three packages in Key the United Nations. West Monday and presented It was reported today that! the ham and the pecans to Molotov was back in Paris, after} the County Home, the in- mates of which are all his his leaving unexpectedly for Moscow, personal friends and in whom he is very much interested, Senator Tom Connolly pleaded! today with the delegates to the V ck Bake heueabecdeuthens assembly to try to cénduct their. ——. .. SS session without so much dispu-| Declares He a. cin rei ss more could, accom, ed if fewer cl. | were cade and more pedis Was Robbed At discussion prevailed at the meet- oe 8 ° “<. Knife’s Point py ~ 9 ni ah Poke ba Deputy Sheriff ha aoe dress to the American, occupa- said today that Aquila Lima has tional, forces in that. city. It is sworn out a warrant. charging expected that © he' will discuss robbery against a man for whom yo age Sl ae Lowscee ui rah Archer ‘nd Policeman Perico tions. Perez are. seagching, |. lima.-conducts a lunch. stand at Rest Beach, Archer stated that {hima asserted that the man ‘wanted placed the point of a knife against Lima’s stomach and ‘demanded he be given the con- tents of the till. At first the amount was placed at $80, Archer said, but ex- plained. he. was informed later that it was $96. City Will Ask Secretary of State James F. Caught In Net "The tired old eyes of Police Officer Sanchez nearly popped from their sockets last niyht at about midnight when he beheld four‘nude bathers at South-Beach, two of them women. Summoning the Black Betsy, Officer Sanchez herded the naked swimmers into it and had them driven off to the station— sans clothing. i One of the women accepted a; aa Aquarium Bids blanket from arresting, officers, | ‘i but the other decided to see it’ The City Commission — voted through to the bitter end just as last night to ask for bids on lease she was—naked as a jay bird. of the Municipal Aquarium. A The offenders were released on notice asking for the bids will bond for trial in city court this be published in The Citizen on afternoon. They gave their names September 5, 7 and 14, City Clerk as J. W. Smith, R. P, Olson, W. Roy Hamlin said today. W. Ellison, J. H. Reynolds, Marie According to the resolution, all Smith, and Celia King. ; bidders will be required to post a check or cash in the amount NTNU, ' OF $500 as evidence of good faith. Oil Spray your FENDERS ‘The successful bidder, the reso- and CHASSIS-~" jution also points out, will be re- It saves buying a set of fenders! quired to stock the Aquarium Lou Smith Auto Service | with fish native to the waters of White at Fleming Phune No. § Key West, make g¢ertain repairs, ‘Opposite Army Barracks and carry a certain amount of TTA insurance on the property. YOUR RADIO is A Wonderful Instrument It brings you many happy hours of Entertainment, Recreation, New Avenues of Good Music, Infor- _ mation and Pleasure .... 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Sierra’s Letter _Sierra’s letter to the Commis- sioners, mailed yesterday, gave | personal reasons for his resigning from the Board. “It was a pleasure to have been of service to my home town,” express ‘my appreciation for the cooperation and support the Com- missioners gave the Board.” Knight's | letter, also mailed yesterday, said that he had ; Served as a member of the Board to the best of his ability from the first days of the city manager form of government. What Knight Said “I realize,” he wrote, “each and everyone cannot be pleased with the results of the efforts put forth by individuals serving the public interest, but in view of jcontinuing criticisms of dissi- dent elements in our city I de- sire my resignation be accepted who is also said to be considering i ithe letter stated, “and I wish to} eral revenue account, let them 1 to transfer an average of $2,015.17 from the airfield fund to the gen- eral revenue fund, because the former is a closed transaction. ‘The airfield has been bought and paid for, and. the overage is so much idle money, But Comptroller Lee said “No.” If the commissioners want the fund transferred to the gen- | have it done by a special ai | lative act. Division Street School Students Still Registering Street Elementary School will continue until noon Saturday, September 7, it was announced today by Professor Earl E. Ham- ilton. immediately in order that the present City Commissioners may appoint another . member more | ‘acceptable, perhaps, to every- one concerned.” | Preparing To. Make Plates For County Commissioners, at “a ; meeting last night, granted a {request made by Tax, Collector | Howard’ E. Wilson that he be per- mitted to rent an Addressograph to make metal plates until the machine of that type, which the ; county has bought, is delivered. Wilson explaingd that. it. will require four or fivée.“nibaths to make platéS“for* the tax liSt; between 40 and 45 thousand are required. “The only way,” he concluded, “we can use our Addressograph for the tax books next year is to ; begin now to make the plates.” The company has stated that} an Addressograph can be leased and sent here from Miami, prob- ably from the office of Tax As- sessor Newton Lummus. The Addressograph the tounty , purchased will be delivered in | four months. | ° ° Recruiter Will ee Visit Key West | Tech, Sergeant Ralph L. Brant- jley, of the Miami Military Sub- | District, Organized Reserve jeranehy will appear in Key West at the Post Office ‘Building, ‘on the sixteenth and seventeenth of : |September, to accept enlistments lin the Enlisted Reserve Corps. | Applications for Extended Ac- | tive Duty for members of. the \ Officers Reserve Corps will also be available at this time. | For former Flight Officers there will be available applica- ‘tions for 2nd Lt. Air-Res., for- members of the Army Nurses’ Corps and Warrant Officers are also’ invited to make application ' for active duty. Former Officers who hold a Reserve Commission are urged to make application at this time. | » Office hours will be from 10 to ‘3 o'clock Monday’ and Tuesday, September 16 and 17. do not! The school office will be open from 9 a. m., to 3:30 p. my closing one hour for lunch, Ham- ilton said. The State Depart-. ment of Education will not per- mit registration of pupils who will not be six years old until after January 10, 1947, Hamilton asserted. A birth cértificate is necessary to verify the age of beginning pupils. Pupils who were in this school ut the close of last term need not tion of beginning pupils will be resumed at 1 p. m., Monday, September 9, he said. The first teachers’ meeting is called for 2 p. m., this Saturday. City Will Buy Ten New Bonds City Commissioners last night ; passed a resolution authorizing the city of Key West to pur- chase from B, J. Van Ingen & Co., Inc., ten bonds at par value of $1,000 each, with coupons matur- ing January 1, 1947, and subse- quent coupons attached, for the j price of $925 and acérued inter- est for each bond. The resolution authorized the City Comptroller to take neces- sary action to'pay for and com- plete the purchase of the bonds. SATURDAY HEARING IF REQUEST MADE | A statement was made to The Citizen this morning that if; someone were arrested on Friday, August 30, that person would; have had to stay in jail until; Tuesday, Sept. 3. This, question was then asked Director of Pub- lic Safety Roy Hamlin, who answered: “Yes, providing they did not raise their bond, or did} not request a hearing on Satur- day.” Should the arrested party at | any time request hearing on al Saturday, Hamlin said, they would have to be granted this| request. IID Da Special Meeting There will be a special re- cess meeting of the Key West City Commissioners to be held Friday at 5 p. m., City Clerk Roy Hamlin informed The Citizen today. Fd heacalenateatae Registration for beginning and Mayor and City Commissioners, transfer students at the Division|and dated August 27, says that jorial Methodist Church, Division} Williams Seeks Expense Money For Coming Here | In a letter read before the City | Commissioners, at their meeting } last night it was disclosed that | Eugene M. Williams, of Clewis- | ton, Fla., is seeking $131.84 from! the city of Key West in payment | for expenses he incurred in com- ing here to be interviewed for | the job of city manager. The letter, addressed to the “Yn light of recent events, it | would appear that the writer is: entitled to, full reimbursement for monies expended and time! Jost on furtherance 6n his part! of an agreement to become your} city manager. Contents of Letter “This agreement,” the letter | continues, “entered into by your? mayor, orally and in writing . . .| was not carried out; nor was any | explanation offered for your non-! compliance.” ; After itemizing expenses to-! taling $131.84 Williams requested | that “immediate attention” be! given the matter. { Mayor Demeritt told the Com-! missioners” that “neither.-he nér” anyone else had guaranteed to pay the expenses of Williams here for an interview, and that} it was explicitly understood that all applicants for the position of city manager of Key West should } come here for interviews at their own expense. Will Advise Others The Comm oners voted to so advise Williams, and also to send out letters to all other ap- plicants for the managerial job advising them that the place has been filled. i Annex To Be Built To Local Courthouse commissioners last night awarded a contract to John W. Sawyer, the lowest bidder, to construct an annex to the county court house to be used to house an Addressograph and _ other equipment. Sawyer’s bid was $3,874.20. The annex will be built be- tween the new vault in the county clerk’s office and the of- fice occupied by the tax assessor. County MED BY YOUTH BODY | The Youth for Christ elected , several new officers at a meeting | held Saturday’ night at the First | Presbyterian Church. The ele tions became necessary because } of vacancies created by members ; who are leaving for college. The following were elected: John E. Pickens, Jr., treasurer; Miss Ling Tee Schribner, secr tary, and Robert Felton, pub-j| licity director. The next rally of the organiza- tion will be held at the Lee Mem- | OFFICE street, next Saturday evening, with Rev. Harry Gregory, of} Salt Lake City, Utah, bringing the message. } | PALACE THEATER WHITE INN RESTAURANT 1018 DIVISION STREET (Under New Management) Enjoy Real Spanish Dishes at ‘Reasonable Prices eee ee JESS BARKER in “IDEAL GIRL” Wews and Serial Have your Dodge, Chrysler. Ply- mouth or DeSoto Car REPAIRED EFFICIENTLY AT YOUR DEAL- ERS—at the RIGHT PRICEI!!! NAVARRO Ine. Opposite Bus Station Lo a pe SEAT COVERS | 121 Duval Street ~weeesers Phone 442 aE Perrrrrrretrryre rere rs gl ROASTERS and FRYERS BRADY’S (Live) Poultry. and Egg Mar *BASE REMARKS ON tI ISDS Sas: Ambassador Changes Mind, - Saves His Life {By Apsociated Press) PARIS, Sept. 4.—The Greek Ambassador, Constan- tine Zoldaras, probably saved his life this morning by changing his mind. He was booked to leave here in a plane at 9:15 o’clock for London, but, at the last minute, cancelled his reservation and decided to make the trip by train and boat. The plane, on which he had reserved a seat, crashed into a factory in ‘the out- skirts of Paris shortly after the takeoff. One of the engines died out and the plane dived into the building. s Aboard the plane were 26 persons, and 20.of them were killed. The other six, four passengers and two crew- men, were severely injured. It was the second plane tragedy in Paris in the last 24 hours. Yesterday a plane, on a trip from here ito Den- mark, crashed and killed 22 of the 24 persons aboard. he dear hacdacdhahdhe Jobs For 108 Found Here By US. Service Jeff Knight, jr., manager ‘of the ‘United States employment service in Key West, said today | that during last month his office found jobs for 108 Key Westers. Of that number, he added, 39 were veterans, two of whom were disabled. Both skilled and unskilled ap- | plicants were placed, most of them in clerical, domestic and service work. Junior Woman’s Club Will Meet The Key West Junior Woman's Club will hold a social meeting tomorrow evening at the Club- house on Duval street beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Hos' s for the evening will be M Edward Johnson and Mrs. Harman Moore. All members are requested to at- | tend the meeting. TWO MEN SIGN FOR ARMY DUTY Two Key West men enlisted in the Regular United States Army yesterday. They are George E. Charlow, 17, of .800 Georgia street, and Charles E. McCoy, 18, of 517 Bahama street. Both men signed up for three year tern They will leave here to- day for the induction center at Miami, accompanied by S. Ser- geant. Lacy DeLoach, in charge of local recruiting. Board Will Convene For Tax Hearings The Equalization Board will sit to consider tax assessments, | hearings and complaints on Sep- tember 17, it was made known missioners last night. at the meeting of the City Com- MONTGOMERY'S GQ: ING TO CANADA AND WHAT WAS SAID IN ARGENTINA (By Associated Préas) MOSCOW, Sept. 4—Rusgian | Press and. radio declared today a3 {that the Western ‘Allies are pre- paring to wage war. against. the Soviet Union. Pravda, a semi-official _Rus- sian newspaper, stated that: thé reason for Field Marshal Moi: gomery’s trip to Canada is to make arrangements for the for- tification of the Canadian border across the Bering Straits from the Russian border. p “But we know how to fortify, too,” Pravda commented. Newspapers and radio com- mentators here said that Geotge. Messerschmitt, the American ambassador to Argentina, had made an address to American Legionnaires in that city in which he said that war with Russia was “inevitable,” (No report has been received in the United States about Mes- serschmitt having made any such remark). Pravda, in commenting on the alleged statement, said it won- dered why the American diplo- matic corps was allowed so fuch } “scope” in’ discussing ‘interna- | tional questions, : ; The same newspaper remarkéd ~~ | that it was “sure” that Montgom- \ery’s trip to Canada was desigt- jed to make “defensive plans” inf | that country. | Pravda concluded that. the Western Allies apparently were convinced. that they must go to war with Russia. Plea Made For Aid To Airline Rogelio Gomez, manager of thé Aerovias Q. Airlines, which have ‘been operating between Key West and Havana, but which. re- cently was grounded by the Civil Aviation Administration at Wash- ‘ington, appeared before City Commissioners last night to: re- quest them to use their influence in having the passenger flight service restored. Mr. Gomez told the commis- sioners that he felt the service is essential and definitely in thé public interest. He requested that they pass a resolution which would call upon Florida congress- men and senators in Washington ! to make an appeal to the CAA for ' restoration of Aerovias Q.’s flight : service. A resolution to this effect. is now being drafted and will be presented at the special recéss meeting of the City Commission- ers to be held at 5 p. m., Friday, City Clerk Roy Hamlin said to- day. ~ DANCING ~ Nightly to the Music of MARK (CRUNCH) and His STANLEY Orchestra Weaturing SYLVIA at Piano _Best Drinks— Popular Prices Reservations: Phone 9287 | | | i i | | | ! ‘ket 1214 White St. Phone 54f EER ARARRAAARRAAAE ARR te certain atamensenttomes Business and Professional Women’s Club Key West Hotel and Restaurant Association Business Men's Association SPONSORS OF “NIGHT OF JOY” Express Appreciation to those who contributed their effort and time towards ° its success and to those who participated in the Fiesta