The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 30, 1946, Page 1

SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES ~ th | Honor Is Given Past Presidents At its regular meeting this % | Week the Key West Lions Club will have as its guests the High Sehool band, and Nathan Hale Pepper, athletic director of the dunior-Senior High School, will {forces will do their share in ex- ’ KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1946 U.S.ToKeep Naval Forées In Mediterranean (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.— James Forrestal, secretary of the Navy, announced today that the United States will keep warships in the Mediterranean to protect the interests of this country in that area. He pointed out that the United States has troops in Mediterran- ean countries, and that naval ercising control there. Cheeks Will Go To Vets Oct. Ist Regular subsistence chécks. will Trying To Stop oo Due At Midnight (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 30— Various governmental agencies are striving to find a way to! stop or postpone the imiitine| strike that is set for midnight to-| night. All that union leaders would promise this afternoon that none of the seamen would “try to jump the deadline” set for midnight. | On the Atlantic and Pacific coasts conferences are being held in efforts to reach a settle- | ment. Nazi Defendant At N DOCUMENT 1% 75,000 WORDS LONG; VER DICT MAY NOT S&F RENDERED THA WED. NESDAY 5 Ancient Ship, Which Rescue | Key West, Is Readied For Sea be the principal speaker, it was| go out October 1 to’all veterans amnounced today. participating in education or At the meeting last week past | training under the GI Bill in the | “has presidents of the organization | ey West area, but many will be were presented with past presi-|Tequired to return all or part of dent certificates. Those so honor-| their checks to the government, ed were Gerald Saunders, who Gene Anheir, officer in charge of served as president from 1940-41;| the Veterans Administration con- John Coster, from 1940-41, and/ tact office in Key West, announc- By FRANK W. LOVERING Declares Jews Using Tax Money To Break Quota; Naval Training Station. (Special to The Citizen) as Sept. 30.—The frigate, Constellation, | the United States Navy, which once came to the rescue | Key West when Seminole Indians threatened from the islands at the northeast, is being readied for sea at the Newport, R. 1, oldest ship in of (Ry The Saserteted Preeey NURENBERG, Sept 8 —As master novelist | dread in a story, | there about the ult | but saying nothing | that regard, se the Nurenberg court house, Allen Hampton, from 1942-43, To Get Licenses For Car Driving When County Judge Raymond KR. Lord opened his office at 9 | @eleck this morning, he found a lime of persons waiting to buy| | drivers’ licenses, as this is the; ~) test day on which one may ob- tain leenses without penalty. | The line continued throughout the day, sometimes shorter, 2 c z = : : i fi fl al f, il t mM ia’ i a¥f i | HE i ti : + . : f 3 a 4 i 3 a y ed today. Recent Congressional action amending the Servicemen’s Read- justment Act banned the pay- ment. of subsistence to married veterans with claimed income of more than $200 or single veterans with salaries of more than $175. The VA regional office in Mi- ami is now checking its subsist- ence rolls to make adjustments in accordance with the new law, V. S. Parker, regional manager, notified Anheir. All veterans drawing the sub- sistence allowances will be re- quired to forward the VA cur- rent information as to the status of their income. A form to sub- (By The Associated Press) JERUSALEM, Sept. 30. — Sir Allan Cunningham, in charge of British forces in Palestine, warn- ! ed the Jewish National Council today that it should discontinue the practice of increasing taxes to provide funds designed to help} illegal emigration of European’ Jews to Palestine. He said that the Brotish gov- ernment will exert its power to. stop the illegal entries, and that: the action of the council con-} tributes to the unrest in Pales- tine by bolstering up hopes of Jews that they may be able to evade the British blockading ports to keep the number of emi- | grants down to their legal quota. | She will be towed to the Boston Navy Yard soon after Octo-| ing at 9 o'clock thie ber 4 and will go on permanent exhibition there beside her sister i stopping only @ short ship, the Constitution, which was &—-_— | Juncheon and dimmer, are saved to America and history by; __* i dread upon dread on the Hf Oliver Wendell Holmes’ deathless zi defendants, charged with poem, “Old Ironsides.” { ing been war criminals, bat gay The Constitution, after being | ing nothing definitely about restored by the pennies of Amer- what the verdict will be ican school children, visited Key But hope has faded stree the West for four days, beginning i reading began. Herman Geer December 31, 1932. i] and Rudolph Hess, at the end a The Constellation was saved two hours of reading, eughed because of the love for ships of nervously, and Hess erase aud the late President Roosevelt. On jf walked out of the courtrese August 12, 1940, ‘he inspected the | And Goering, after bie serveum, vital defense area of Newport, broken laughter R. 1, paused in the shadow of lost all hope ‘of owe aping lee the frigate, said the Naval Train- death penalty, for his chin drome ing station should again become ed and his eyelids almost eaamt one of the Navy’s principal as the droni of the remeiieg training centers and promised continued on FE f ® | sometimes longer. mit the necessary information that the Constellation should be , , will be enclosed with checks ere’ licenses after tomorrow will | mailed the first of October. Vet- fet be able to obtain them until | erans who fail to submit the re- they undergo an examination. | quested information will be cut/ There are a few exceptions to; from the rolls, Parker stressed. t thet rule, but generally it holds er ee good. And Judge Lord has ex- Adams To Tell | ~ Life Of Roxas pleimed that the examination this year ip more extent than ~it hes ever been before in Florida. Intimate glimpses into the life: of Emanuel Roxas, recently in-| augurated the first president of whe owns! . a. ony of theme keys te able Big Sum Spent 2 m4 ° J, | the Philippine Republic, will be To Fight P olio given’.by prank Adare aie he ' ri " appears as guest speaker at the: Ralph ta, chairman of the " j Monroe Coulty” Chapter “atthe | penis ae als | National Fdundation for Infantile} py. 1, at four o'clock, at the Club| femts be cleared through the Paralysis, disclosed today that | House. Mr. Adams’ subject int and then | $2.492,281 Boned oo cangonp gad A oe “The USO Overseas During the - . | War.” His own war service with the Naitonal Foundation to its izati je eithie 86 states. that organization took Adams to! . Persons who do not have driv- i "| ; will te retarded fe eee paved lateral roads, but” @ te ceety con't we its way! ee te tekt that type of road, | on August 24th. The vessel has been moored at Newport 52 Former Captain | Of WACs Gets 5 | scx. ue Years In Prison' Contrary to general j based on a_ splendid historical Cy Ansociated Preway~ >] legend, it-was: the - constitution} KRONBERG, Sept.30.—Former which hurried to Key West from | WAC Captain Kathleen Durrant West Indian waters in 1836. But! in 1931 this writer, with the aid of Navy Department officials at today was sentenced to five years in prison at hard labor for steal- berg castle. She was expelled from -the Constellation.was the frigate United States Army. and forfeit- | which sailed -iate the: Harbor af- ed all claims that she might] ter its commatidér ‘received an haveultad ae-an-offieer, «ns... | urgent letter Mrs, Durrant shuddered as the ; Whitehead»-@eHector“of the port prosecutor called her a thief and , (1831-1838). Whitehead, asked for her expulsion from the | name is a vital part of the yes- army and a sentence to prison at | teryears of the Island City, wrote hard labor, both of which re- H Capt. Alexander James Dallas, quests were granted by the nine ; commanding the opinion |, | that reached Key West, until Decem- | from - William, A. | whose | Constellation, | recommissioned. This was done — wen FRANK W. LOVERING ¢eruise ‘continued’ from 1835 until 1838. There is no record at Wash- ington to indicate that Capt. Dal- las of the Constellation ever ing the Hess jewels in the Kron-‘ Washington, dispersed the leg- i served. on the Constitution as he {end and it .was shown that the! is, credited with having done by several -historians.. It_ is ‘certain the Constitution never She arrived int tow eper Grebe. During President Wilson's ad- ministration the Constellation served as a training ship for re- cruits: On November 22, 1894, a mem- ber 31, 1932. of the mine It was said that possitdy « few of the defendants may eooupe ee death penalty, but thet the few will not include any of the ae jor leaders Sir Geoffrey Lawrenme @f |Great Britain began roading the j findings of the court. Me quaie of the ruthless, aggressive War the Nazis conducted, was scathing in bis lenge when he spoke about 88 troape ‘and the Gestapo. Ther teats were “brutal and inhuman” amd disgusting to any man whe of tertains the least regard for pigit and justice. The reading was Justice Fr Biddle of the United State who told of the many crimes the Nasties hed eam mitted without any thought of humanity, of their heaving exact ed a toll of from 50 te 100 Alfie: for every Nazi was bilded. are t conto ty nets whe : lis Miseeaial deniots ,<| Alaska as well as to the Philip- the tawer have jut | s i assistance was matertal t available necessary to replenish chapter | Githecens @ tetera! road treasuries depleted in providing | te other countion.” Rob. | eatment and care of infantile ff biti ii under fox ied Ten aay be paralysis patients stricken this © mam highway in | SUMMer and in aiding victims of Gurts of the mainlend| Prior outbreaks. “ore Ge and then you! Slefra made this disclosure fol-| game @ ieterel ceed. As 0 result lowing receipt of a statement <4 the teterals on the jana, | from Basil O'Connor, president of Pp bes teen built the National Foundation, which o emphasized the fundamental pol- ad tey followed by the Foundation | “s J and its chapters in providing ACs igible care and treatment of infantile Fr | paralysis victims. or l ly Charles Culmer, 67, P cap ay My a = = Died Here Sunday | amties Get area, VU. & Army Charles Culmer, 67, passed | erates Gtetien announced @W8y Sunday m ng after a cues Geet the Army i long iliness. Funeral services will Gin 6 pram te cnlid fer |be held this afternoon at 3:00} sae WAGs Ge duty im the Carit-| O'tlock at the chapel of the Lo- Gin Mies Gonment | pez Funeral Home. Rev. John E. Cele ©) cecenetes exiet af this | Pickens will officiate at the serv- ee ant eole WACe who pos-| es. Burial will be in City Ceme- deemed MOR of 212 Stenographer ‘TY ae ctalite ter thes ecignment.| Survivors are one brother, J. ited «6 WACe with the D. Culmer; one sister, Mrs. Sara sieve quabifwotaome are urged to Mingo, and numerous nephews “het Gee eearest Army Re and nieces. ug Matow without delsy. as We teeth enlistment in Geter & Geteber © In Pal Th op Set comtectnees wall be ace Lheater BASIL. RATHBONE in A the Post Office ‘every aes Woectnewday hes Nightly to the Music of (CRUNCH) MARK ‘ona Hi STANLEY Orchestra Peatering SYLVIA at Piano pines, where for more than a: year he was closely associated! with Roxas. He will describe life | before the Japanese invasion and ed from her in Chicago last June | vana or cruising in the area. She during the invasion, as well as changes that have taken placej since the Islands became inde- pendent. Mrs. Dan Navarro, president! of the Club, will preside. She} will announce appointments of; chairmen of the Departments and | Committees for the coming year. Miss Minnie Porter Harris will report on the National Conven- |! tion of the General Federation of | Woman's Clubs in Chicago in; April, at which she represented | Key West. A social hour will fol- low the speaker and the business meeting. John A. Carey, 75, Dies In Hospital John A. Carey, 75, passed away this morning at an early | hour at the Key West Municipal Hospital after an illness of sev- eral weeks. Lopez Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. ' Burial will be in the family plot, City Cemetery. Funeral arrange- ments will be announced upon the arrival of his daughters. Survivors, the widow, Mrs. Ida Carey; two daughters, Mrs. Mar- garet Reece, and Mrs. Gladys Thrower; two sisters, Mrs. Maria Stirrup, Mrs. Agnes Cates, and three grandchildren. | ——— | To Pupils of Division Street School and Key West High School We Specialize In Serving Your School Needs Come In and Let Us Help You | BICYCLES STATIONARY | BICYCLE TIRES and TUBES WEDDING GIFTS CANDIES POOR OLD CRAIG | SERVICE STORE 1019 WHITE STREET TE TR” men who conducted the court | martial. { The jewels that were recover- are said to be worth $2,000,000. | | Unemployed Get $126 For Week! { Payments of unemployment compensation in Monroe County } during the week ending Septem- ber 20 amounted to $126.50 and were made to nine persons, five men and four women, Carl pt ' Smith, Chairman of the Florida! ‘Industrial Commission, reported. } Payments amounted to $104,- 451.50 throughout the state and were made to 5,673 persons, 2,- 970 men and 2,700 women, re-! flecting no significant fluctuation ' in recent weeks. Announcing. . . Te GRAND OPENING of Ocean View Dining Room and Cocktail Lounge 520 UNITED STREET WEDNESDAY - Serving AMERICAN and SPANISH STYLE DINNERS and SEAFOODS MUSIC for the Opening by JOHN PRITCHARD John - Gus - Jack and Nobie DANCING 9 to 12 TICKETS for Opening Night, including Dinner, Now On Sale at the Ocean View Dining Room 'Capt. Jesse D. Elliott and her orandum from Training hip Constellation dated at | Washington and signed by Capt E. W. Hinton, ordered the frik- ate to Newport, R. L, “before De- cember 5” of that year. She put out of the Potomac and had a mighty narrow escape in a storm, being driven ‘ashore | poaeiy - Similarity in names doubtless} With 20 men aboard. Following | peache gave the credit to the Constitu-| her salvage she was taken under | gp. tion for an act not performed) tow to Newport, having lost two 959 , by her. Captain Dallas of the| anchors when cast adrift in Constellation was called “Com-| Chesapeake Bay. "we modore,” according to Naval| A scrap book owned by Mrs.’ will records; but that must have been! James Adams, of Key West, who mornir a courtesy title, for the rank of} moved to Miami some years a0. will n Commodore was not established, and died there, contains several | Tuesda until 1862. | references to the Constellation Constitution Was in East | which was a sister ship of the The Constitution was in the! Constitution and of the United Mediterranean when the Constel-| States. The United States lation iled to Key West. “Old | long been out of human ken, her Ironsides” was commanded by | name stric ken years ago from the Navy roster. That the Constellation was on | the active list as late as the wil son administration is indice by one clipping in which Secre tary of the Navy Josephus Dan iles refers to the frigate a ‘the most ancient of vessels in use | the Navy.” She then was at ip for recruits the cond world war port, R. I. A chipping with Baltimore date indicates the close call the poyg epy r ~~ | (Continued on Page Four) po ae = ARTS - cmmeeasemms: BONER and of their butchering tome of thousand ombatants, re aon, with chi n and old meee vaths ant that Indians were threatening the | little settlement. | The Constellation was at Ha- f non gardless of se na women and ran to the rescue without de! and after completing her tour of duty was released and proceeded | to Pensacola, base of her opera tions. | murdered, well as en French oncluded youn The dle « tet ntinwed words } Mrs. Benham Returns To Make Home Here WA B wid ' has by the 21D New- as at ing a OCTOBER 2nd Have your Dodge, Chrysler, Ply mouth or DeSoto Car REPAIRED | EFFICIENTLY AT YOUR DEAL. ERS—at the RIGHT PRICE!!!! NAVARRO Ine. | Opposite Bus Station NEW PIONEER HOTEL 151 NE. 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