The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 10, 1946, Page 1

oa rn VOLUME LXVII. No. 215 Future Of Key Discussed od TOmOrtOW In County Courthouse Here SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED~ STATES West 0B BENNY FERNANDEZ*— MAKES PERTINENT OBSERVATIONS, ABOUT OUR CITY Key West Business Men’s As- sociation will hold a meeting at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in| the county court house to dis- euss the future of Key West, Benny Fernandez, a member, said today. | “What is in store for us in the; future?” Mr, Fernandez stated. “What are our prospects? Is! there anything of a progressive nature that we can put our fin- ger on as regards the immediate future of our city? “Nature has blessed us with; many advantages, one of which, climate, is incomparable, yet what are we doing now to pub- licize those advantages? Are we up and doing, as are the people of other cities in Florida? Or are we doing nothing, except hoping that our city will progress along substantial lines. “All Key Westers I know are devoted to our city, but few of us are alive to its potentialities as a winter resort. While we love Key West, we sit idly by and let! Key West take care of herself.} ‘We may be sure of this: if we don’t work to promote the inter- ests of Key West, we will go right back to where we were be- fore World War II. “In view: of that fact that should be apparent to all of us, I beseech every business man} and other resident ‘to be present | tomorrow night at the meeting in the, county court: house.” 2500 OPA Agents Lined Up Against Black Market (Ry “Associnted Presa) - WASHINGTON, Sept. 10— Two thousand five hundred OPA agents throughout the . United States are on the alert to arrest anybody selling or attempting to sell black market meats, it was announced officially today. Spokesmen for the OPA said) also that, in all cases of violation, extreme penalties will be im- posed. It was said further that the OPA does not know what quan- tities of meats will be on the market, but that, regardless of their size, they will be meats legally offered for sale. Under ceilings that went into effect at 12:01 this morning, prices for meats average three and three-quarters cents more a pound than ‘were in effect on June 30. “Sell at ceilings or not at all,” one OPA spokesman asserted. PROPOSES UN SET WORLD HOLIDAY KENNEBUNK, Me. —(AP)—} Mrs. Alma Wells Levinson of Princeton, N. J., and Kennebunk, proposes that the United Nations declare a world holiday “for a lasting peace,” With advice from the State De- partment, Mrs. Levinson, travel- er and artist, says she has sug~} gested to the United Nations that “Peace Day” be declared “upon} the occasion of the dedication. of | its permanent site or upon some equally appropriate occasion.” Mrs. Levinson said she had re- ceived letters approving her pro- posal from Mrs. Eleanor Roose- yelt and Bernard Baruch. « DANCING ~ Nightly tc the Music of MARK (CRUNCH) E and His STANLEY Orchestra Featuring SYLVIA at Piano Best Drinks— . Popular Prices Reservations: Phone 9287 SLE de bd dk Keep Atomic Bomb Secret, Rankin Says ‘(By Ansocinted Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. » —Representative John E. Rankin of Mississippi declar- ed today that if Russia, and not the United States, knew the secret of producing the atomic bomb, that country would be at war with the United States within 60 days. Rankin ‘stated that the United States is ‘sitting on top of the world with the secret of the atomic bomb. "Let's keep that secret,” he said, “and share it with no other nation. While Great Britain’ is said to know the secret, yet that country could not produce the machinery to manufacture the atomic bomb in less time than five years. Let's keep the atomic bomb to ourselves. It is our protection in a disputatious world.” SOILD IDS SID Palestine Jews, Arabs Not At Meet Rye Agnocinted DPreae) 4 bs LONDON, Sept. 10.—No repre-/| sentatives of Jews and Arabs in Palestipe were present this morn- Ling. when the conference. was started to try to find a way to settle the differences between those races in Palestine. Other Jews and Arabs were present, and Prime Minister Attlee told them it was impos- sible to settle the Palestine ques- | tion unless both Jews and Arabs make, concessions... If . both. sides insist on being given everything they ask for, then, he added, re- sults of the conference will be nil. While the conference was in session a dispatch was received from Jerusalem, in which it was stated that Jewish extrem- ists had continued their work of sabotage for the third successive day. The British security office, near Tel Aviv, was blown up and the manager was killed by the} explosion. USO Will Have Wiener Roast The Jackson Square USO will feature a wiener roast no Wednesday evening at 9 o’clock. There will be a- jam session around the piano and group sing- ing, it was announced today. Servicemen and their families are invited to register for the Friday evening classes in Spanish at the USO Club, which will commence next week under the! instruction of Miss Benildes Re- mond. Miss. Remond, who has been the Spanish instructor at the USO.Clubs for the last four years, will teach conversational Spanish. $ The weekly USO-NCCS. dane for servicemen, their friends and families and adult parishioners of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea will be held at the NCCS Hall, 1021 Duval street, every Tuesday at 8:30 p. m. John Pritchard and his Orchestra will furnish the music. ayggtnagnvencnceectergungnenuecneaee ttt Wanted! Wanted! WAITRESSES : Apply Hostess La Concha Dining Room “eyneuuaennnaguteereenageeqateoeaeeeegteenenaest® PALACE THEATER JANE RANDOLPH in “SPORTING CHANCE® News and Serial TONIGHT IS PRIZE NITE 1 Sweeting. The present election 16 Will Take... | Exam For Cops the-High: School Saturday at, 9:30 la. m., it was announced toda: oe KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1946 Unofficial Precinct Vote Gives Carbonell Victory By 281 Votes Unofficial returns. from yester- at Conminioner ‘give. Louis, Car OOS TA Doughtry, 496 votes a majority, CATDonell To Take Commissioner Oath Today of 281 for Carbonell. City Commissioners will The count reveals that Car- bonell carried every one of Key meet in City Hall this after- noon at 5:30 o‘clock. At that West's six precincts, and defeat- time they’ will canvass. the ed Doughtry in his own precinct, the fifth, by a count of 93 to 49. ballot of yesterday's special election and City Clerk Roy City Commissioners at a meet- ing in City Hall this afternoon Hamlin will swear in Louis Carbonell, successful candi- at 5:30 o’clock will make an of- date for the vacancy on the ficial canvass of the vote cast yesterday. Immediately after the City Commission, immediate- ly after the meeting, meeting Carbonell will be sworn BPEIIIOID Sa S. lane in as the new City Commission- er, The unofficial count of the vote cast yesterday in each of the city’s six precincts is as fol- lows: Precinct No, 1, with 577 quali- fied voters, gave Carbonell 73 and Doughtry 49. Precinct No. 2, with 909 quali- fied voters, gave Carbonell 154 and Doughtry 97. Precinct No. 3, with 414 quali- fied voters, gave Carbonell 84 | To Represent USO | In Chest Drive and Doughtry 29. At the September meeting of Precinct No. 4, with 1,238 quali-' the Committee of Management of fied voters, gave Carbonell 169 the Jackson Square USO, Capt. and Doughtry 84, | Carl Hilton, USCG, chairman of Precinct No, 5, with 927 quali- the group, was appointed repre- fied voters, gave Carbonell 93 sentative of the United Service we berets ee oak ii aah to the Board of the recine’! o. 6, wi 5 ey West Community Chest, qualified voters, gave Carbonell| rs. Bileen Coughlin and -Miss the election, which turned out to/ eae walelar savas poeta se ae be one of the quietest in the his- \ Seca Pie dae pit ane tory of the city. No disturbances | 44 on club activities. of any nature were reported to} police. Offices at City Hall were | Adams stated that program closed all day yesterday, and | participation was greatly ‘in- beer, wine and liquor establish- creasing and there are days that ments kept their doors closed | attendance a 9D. B/DSe with bis from<7 a. m, t0.7 Pp. m. time members, This, he stated, is Carbonell is to fill the vacancy soe eumbdde result of tg ieeamest on the City Commission made by and cooperation this, operation ignation of Clarence | Teceives from the military and She, a tesiene! citizens of Key West. Three members of the cominit- tee have left Key West since the last meeting. They mag a Smith, U.S. A... @hatplain. Neil, N. O. B., and Stephen © Singleton. Words of appreciation: | for services rendered were en- | tered in the minutes, Members present. at: tte ‘meet- ing were Mrs. Eileen*Coughlin, | guest; “Mrs. C. Bowery, Miss | Mary Baxter, Capt. Carl Hilton, ‘Capt. J. R.. Reid, Jr. Dwight Hunter, Fred. J. Miller,, Paw L. ssa, Jr., Rev. Jotin Pickens, Di- was his first venture in politics. t Here Saturday Mental examinations for ‘fill+ ing three vacancies on, the Key ‘West, poliee force will be held-in by Jack Murray, director of civil Sednd wank Adama. service personnel: There are 16 applicants for the three vacancies, Murray said. | Agility tests for fhe ions oat, i, Work Is Begun i jon-! ° held in Bayview . be On New Airport the examinations } day. { After are | completed, Murray stated, the, Rogelio Gomez, local manager | applicants will be graded and the of Aerovias-Q Airlines, said to- three men making the highest. day that work started yesterday scores on the mental and agility *6n construction and repairing of tests will be named to the police | units at the East Martello Tower force by City Manager Elling- | municipal airport and port of en- son, or his delegated authority. ; try. | He said that Aerovias-Q would HELPFUL POLICEMAN }probably begin charter flights from the field within the next GETS JOBS FOR BOYS {07.70 EVANSVILLE, Ind. —(AP) —, ~ ; Patrolman Leslie Kittinger is' roud of a 10-year record of ; x Puig eh neve tes act|- . “FOR BOCA CHICA ted a criminal. This sleuthing, ; Truman P. Dingledein arrived aside from his regular duties, has jin Key West today and reported NEW WEATHER MAN jobs for boys to enable them to /reau. He will be stationed at attend school. ; Boca Chica. He was accompanied Kittinger, a native of Calhoun, | here by Mrs. Dingledein. They Ky., says he took up his hobby; were very enthusiastic about because once he almost had to Key West, and hope to be Sta- drop out of school for lack of tioned here for a long time. money. He finally found a part-} EERE SENG: time job that enabled him to fin-! Louis Carbonell ish high school and business col- | - Om \ To. Leave Tomorrow Now W. M: Wooton, president’ Louis Carbonell, successful can- of Lockyear’s Business College, didate in yesterday's election for and C. C. Robinson, principal of the vacancy on the City Commis- Mechanic Arts High School, tes-/ sion, will leave tomorrow to tify to the policeman’s prowess drive his daughter, Mitzie, to in job-getting for the other fel-| New York City, where she will lo enter Columbus High School. Thank You, Friends!!! lam deeply grateful and appreciative of the splendid support you gave me in Monday’s election. Throughout the city, you gave me a splendid vote of confidence by giving me a majority in every precinct. This support certainly will inspire me to justify the confidence you have shown in me by your vote. LOUIS CARBONELL. Hilton Appointed {him that A. H. McInnis died of a/ found more tHan 500 part-time for duty with the Weather Bu-; | q E Today As It Was Six L - Was Reported By Maritime A. H. Mcinnis Died Last Night Of Heart Attack In Asheville J. Frank Roberts ; telegram this morning informing} heart attack last night in the home of his sister, Mrs. E. L. Ray, | in Asheville, N. C. McInnis, 71 years of age, came | to Key West in 1901. He was ac- tive in several types of business here, chiefly novelty stores, the largest of which he conducted for several years on the southeast! corner of Fleming and Simonton streets. For several years he and Au- relio Torres operated a motion picture show in a building on Duval street, situated on the} westerly side of where the Kress | store now stands. Among the{ serials that ran in his show} fwere “The Clutching Hand” and “The Perils of Pauline,” in which Pearl White starred. At one time MelInnis was deputy United States marshal in Key West, and in 1916 he was | élécted as a member of the city . council. In that year he was the | local manager of the campaign | that was conducted for Sidney | Catts, candidate for governor, in | both the primary. and general} election. Catts was defeated in; [the primary by Knox, but ran as ; m iridependent ~in © the’ general! élection and was elected gover- | nor, It was due to Catts’ success in | the general election, after he had | been defeated, in: thé primary, | that led to the:passage of a. law | that a candidate,. who loses in a' primary, can not. get’ his name | printed on the ‘ballot in the gen- | eral election. | In 1917, a few months after | Catts had served as governor, he , removed from office. Ciements Jaycocks, serving as sheriff, and appointed McInnis to the posi-, tion. McInnis named Roland Cur- fry as chief deputy, and in 1920 Curry ran for sheriff and was elected. He appointed McInnis as chief deputy. | McInnis served in that capacity until Roland Curry died as a re- sult of an accident while at the Dog Rocks, where he had gone to gather birds’ eggs. He was overboard in rough water, trying fo save a dingey from being beaten to pieces against the rocks, when he was caught be- tween the dingey and the rocks and had his chest crushed. He was rushed to Key West but died at 10 o’clock on the night of his arrival. McInnis served as acting sher- iff until Governor John W. Mar- tin, a few days later, appointed Cleveland Niles to serve out Ro- land Curry’s unexpired term. McInnis served as chief deputy undér Sheriff Berlin Sawyer from the time Harold Russell re- signed until February 28, 1946,' when McInnis retired and was succeeded by Moreno Wallace. ELLY EELS OEE TL | STERLING’S POULTRY and EGG Market , 1318 Eliza Street Phone 243 Also at Margaret and Fleming Sts. Sole Distributors of Our Freshly Dressed CHICKENS STRICTLY FLORIDA vs i - BATTERIES CHARGED Flats Fixed - Gas and Oil Mechanic to Serve You OPEN °TIL MIDNIGHT DAILY and SUNDAY POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION t Al Armengol, Owner | _ Division at Francis Phone 9134 | { | | received a & | Again Shows | appreciation for the vote) Printed Word Great Power That age-old saying: “The pen is mightier than the sword”, is expressing in fig- urative language the truth of the power of the printed word, William T. Doughtry, de- feated in yesterday's election in his race for city commis- sioner, elected to ignore The Citizen in his campaign. That was his business, and none of ours. Further, we don't know if he pursued. that course of his own volition or was advised to <lisregard The Citizen and use the radio solely in conducting his cam- paign. Conversely, Louis Carbo- nell, keenly aware of the power of the printed word, used the columns of The Citizen day aftér day to pro- mote his candidacy and did not employ the radio in his canvass. Results: Carbonell, 717; Doughtry, 436, Since ‘Key: West has been” Key West, local politicians have used the home paper in the’ interests of their candi- dacies. Lédtébkéitihéd i} { 1 | Count Is Given On Enrollments Of City Schools Official total enrollment fig- ures for Key West public schools wes announced today by Willard M. Albury, Monroe County Su-| perintendent of Public Instruc- | tion. | All city schools showed a de- crease in enrollments with the | exception of Division Street} School, which had a gain of two} students over last year, Albury said. | \ Official Figures Official enrollment figures for } Key West’s five schools as re-j leased by Albury are as follows:} Junior - Senior High School! Horace O’Bryant, principal, 623, with 355 enrolled in the Junior department and 268 in the Se: department. Harris Elementary, W. E. Fow- ler, principal, 390 -pupils. Poinciana Elementary, Albert H. Carey, principal, 149 pupils. | Division Street Elementary, £.} E. Hamilton, principal, 557. pu-! pils. | nior | Colored School Douglas High School, (colored), | St. Elmo Greaux, principal, has a total of 376 pupils, with 240 en-! rolled in the elementary depart- | ment and 136 in the High School | department. | Only one school, Tavernier, | had been heard from on the! Keys, Albury said. It reported an enrollment of 43, Charles A bury is the principal at Tav nier. RE ETRE REET TIO Appreciation This is to express ne received, in yesterday’s special election. My best wishes go to my' successful opponent. William T. Doughtry: polly; | will be appointed, TRUCKMEN’S STRIKE IN NEW YORK DEPLET- ING STOCKS OF GRO- CERIES THERE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.— ") The seamen’s. nationwide. strike entered its sixth day. today, and union leaders here declared that no progress whatever has been made toward settling the. differ- ence between the strikers and the War Stabilization Board. No statement mas come from jthe board as to whether or not it will revoke its ruling that caused the -strike—the ‘board’s refusal to approve an agreement that had been entered into. by the National Maritirne Union and owners of shipping. interests. That agreement had advanced the wages of seamen, but the WSB set aside the agreement and put the scale of wages back where it was last June. CIO seamen are demanding the same wage scale as A. F. of Li, seamen are getting, asserting” ; that there is nq.sound reason for ; the federation’s workmen to be given more than the CIO work= men, doing similar labor. Conditions in New Yotk are grave, according to reports from that city today. regarding the truckmen’s strike, in which’ tug- boatmen have joined, * Grocery stores reported that they are short of many items of foodstuffs, and 740 of them reé- ported today that they will not reopen next week if the strike is. not settled by 6 o'clock Satur- day afternoon. Several industrial plants have already shut down because of-+the strike. Added to the gravity of the situation: in-New, York was the annoyAcemént this rofriing . of the National’ Sugar. -Reéfining | Compuny that. it hadstlosed ‘its Long Island borough _ of refining plant. in in Queens Greater New sYork. Car Turns Over, No One Injured A light green Plymouth sedan owned by Paul Thompson and used as a taxi overturned yester- day evening on the curve gcing to Stock Island Bridge from the Boulevard. Officer M. E, Santana, who in- vestigated the accident, said he found the car turned upside down at about 5 a. m. No one was in- jured in the accident, he report- This morning the car was towed to a local wrecking gar- age. It appeared to be badly damaged. V.F.W. AUXILIARY MEETS THURSDAY All members of the V. W. F. Auxiliary are urged to attend a regular meeting to be held Thursday evening at 8 o’clock in the Cigar Factory on Flagler ave- nue, at which time new officers district Myrtle Vann, fourth will resident, of Homestead, preside at the mecting. co AE ANT RATS FALLOT RIS A CASA CAYO HUESO (The Suuthernmost House) 1400 Duval at South St. DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE ———Opens 5 P.M. Daily. SCHOOL CHILDREN! WATCH for the OPENING of the Ne SUNDRY STORE 1019 WHITE STR’ This Store will cater + in a big way WE WILL OPEN