The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 22, 1946, Page 1

ile i a et Devoted SSeyce voltae xvi No, 251 ~ § Support Claimed In Move To Have Bond Issue Provide Paving All Streets THREATENS* home RIS PNPUNCTION IF UN. PAVED STREETS NOT male, HAS 100 NAMES ON PETITION The soppert of Mayor William 7 feewertt m opposing any feet eee fer peving city streets ee «68 prevides for paving oof He streets has been se- wet, Alert G. Roberts, terpet the Rey West Suniere’? Amen totem weed bday The phumtene secretary is se- oe petiiiems throughout the om t ek am mijunction in the oomete & the cfty attempts to float * pew bend teeue which docs ot cower afl the streets. 6 coer Mn the “etteete tor peving only str pave econtly brought fheth fr public discussion by ty Mereger Ellingson, Roberts Marer Demeritt is of the ginton | that all| . nome should be paved.” ted the ma as faver of includ-{ under The hes approxi- signed to a used in on eae ot ewt Pvt ot ae | — a a tenet momar cor rent photog otf matety ie ertttem ah ereting an mquetion Robert Protests aut 1 100 per cent! tavmel to repair | it requires a 1 will not which does | which we the ects at all val | bh would be tt be bested ony nue vet doiiar> e paving i fhe et f But nyect aor ef cecabte eceguye st a4 Fiestas te wane ® vwre one house | o® © Gewed street and four on) anpewed strects He added that/| he Ree Cotterted many property oweers being on unpaved strects, ete Heel eetered residents, | ~ we ot & &-prepered to request —> wunetion from the! <i: © ony plan meterializes toe pare em the elreets now gered Geterte peented out o vital im-| preseieert whieh he said the city on ed at mee, namely Ce mnections of la onl pep «t they join the iy fetes Present connections ae u enter af the shee ede spleined, making it an ee » ap half of the 4 + te ' m be made tr * howkd be shifted curbs, he ty Meneger Comments eestead tax,|of the rodeo. the city man t that Key West Florida should ‘ grants-in-aid from The League of Muni e ty Marwgers’ As king toward that e * He mentioned | * - ‘ the « s should : u s high- ' of the ties. State tes should neasure Ellingson ex h to make ty beses on such property owners et valuation . debt service the city loses enue be tead exemp ES, CASA CAYO HUESO vy ~athernmest House) $680 Devel at South St pinwinG ROOM and COCKTAM. LOUNGE ‘nome 8 PM. Daily =: HAVE A SHIPMENT of vel TIRES and ' “ TUBES ous «nd GET YOURS POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Al Acmenge!l, Owner Qeemson ot Francis Lk hh head de ded) Phone 9134, CL hk hd hdd ‘Through’ With Hanging, Sergeant, John Woods Says (By Associated Press) NURENBERG, Oct. 22.— American Sergeant John Woods, who has tripped the trap in hanging more than 300 men, announced em- phatically today that he is “through.” He said he had had enough of hanging and will never spring another trap. Further, he concluded, he does not even want to talk any more about hanging, as he has had “enough” of it and does not wish to hear the word again. »| Terminal Pay Delayed By Lack Of Envelopes: (fy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Ma- jor General W. S. Caston an-}{ | | ‘nounced today that the distribu- | tion of terminal pay, totaling! three billion dollars, to enlisted men has been delayed by a lack ‘of envelopes to send out the bonds or checks. He added that it will probably ; ‘be the middle of next month ficial, nothing was before all checks and bonds have | been mailed. At first a delay was caused in engraving the bonds, and, after they had been issued, there were | | not enough envelopes to send all of them out. Enlisted. men, whose terminal : leave pay is less than $50, will | but others whose pay-! exceed that amount will! five-year bonds, bearing | cent, receive interest at 2% .per Governor Speaks At New Smyrna| (Special to The Citizen) NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Oct. 22.-Millard Caldwell, governor of Florida, will be guest speak of the New Smyrna Beach Sports Bowl November 10, as part of the | | | big two-day Armistice celebra-' tion and rodeo being staged by the American Legion post of New ; Smyrna Beach. Other dignitaries present will | include Mayor Whitehead of, Jacksonville, States Attorney | Pat” Sams, Judge Her- bert Frederick, City and} County offic The bowl planned to seat 10,000 persons with ample park- ing spac and Legion officials expect a capacity crowd each day NO INTEREST IN ABSENTEE VOT JUDGE LORD SAYS | Electors in Monroe county were accorded the privilege yesterday to begin to cast absentee ballots, but County Judge Lord said to- day that not one vote has been cast A county official, who present in Judge Lord’s office, remarked that there is little in- | was | terest in the election next month, } because there i¥ no opposition to the Democratic candidates. He was informed by a Citizen reporter that, 10 years ago, only }one absentee ballot had been cast in Monroe county in four a Wanted!! Wanted!! YOUNG WOMAN for SECRE- TARIAL WORK High School Education Required and Must Know How to Type Sabotage Continues In Jerusalem (By The Associated Press) JERUSALEM, Oct. 22.—Two coaches of a train were derailed 10 miles from here today. De- railment is said to have been caused by saboteurs. A near riot was caused at; Haifa today while 500 Jews were marched aboard a ship to be de- ported’ to Cyprus. One Jew jumped overboard in an attempt to escape, but was caught and taken back to the ship. Radios For Police Stirs Oppo sition Of City Official A city official told The Citizen today that he is of the opinion that the present plan to spend approximately $10,000 on the radio-equipping of cars is not practical for a city, the size of Key West. For practical reasons he requested that his name not be published. The official explained that to equip the cars with radios will prevent four Key Westers from making an honest living and will ;retard police protection. Under present conditions, he stated, a person can secure an officer in at least 10 minutes by telephone, but under the pro- ; posed new method, it would first be necessary to make the call in- to the sergeant’s desk at the po- lice station, and then the sergeant would contact the car, which might be on the boulevard or some other far-distant spot. His answer to the City Man- ager’s proposal stresses the mon- ey would best be spent by em- ‘ploying three’ or four more po- jlicemen who are urgently needed. Furthermore, added the of- said about j the expense of maintaining the | esichiey equipment. He éniphasized ; that maintenance will require a technician and not any amateur service as.is now being consider- ‘ed. In a city the of Miami, he said, the installation is practical because the city is sprawled over a wide area, but in Key West, which is well-contained, the use of the equipment is entirely un- | necessary, said the official. | i | STATE GI SERVICE MAN TO BE HERE FOR THREE DAYS Mel Friedland, state service for GIs, will arrive here tomorrow and remain until Saturday, Ed- ward F. Haury, commander of {the Key West Post, Veterans of | Foreign Wars, stated today. Commander Haury said _ that Friedland will be stationed in the ‘lobby of the Monroe county court house to attend to all mat- ters pertaining to service men under the GI Bill of Rights. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1946 [UN Canfertace Begins Tomorrow Seamen’s Strike Is Settled Along Atlantic Cars (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—The 22-day-old strike of engineers,! !masters, mates and pilots has | been ended on the east coast: of the United States. The formality of ratification by union members is expected to be concluded by! | Thursday. Forty-four shipping companies also must vote on the agreement before it becomes ef- fective. The settlement was reached | after a thirteen and one-half hour continuous session between union and company representatives. The settlement affects 18,000 men in 24 ports along the codst. Out on the west coast in the United States, the strike of mavi- time workers continues. Cuban Navy Band To Be In Parade Saturday Morning The Cuban Navy Band will be here. for the Navy Day parade, Saturday morning, Gerald Saun- ders, Navy Day Committee Chairman said today. In a telegram from Commodore of the Cuban Navy Jose Aguila Ruiz, Saunders was informed that both the band and the Cu- ban Navy All-Star baseball team will come here on the cruiser “Cuba.” Saunders urged today that all} civic organizations and business | houses participate in the parade. | He said that some organizations | had questioned him at not having ; been invited to participate. Saun- | | co} d explained that no specific} invitations are being sent out,; but that all organizations are welcome to take part. In fact, he | said, their participation will be appreciated. Tentative speakers at the Navy Day dinner at La Concha Hotel, | Saturday night, are Mayor Wil- liam W. Démeritt and pt. Henry M. Cooper, Saunders said. | 5 NE ee Jay shees To Enter Float In Parade Members of the Jayshees, Wo- men’s Auxiliary to the Junior) Chamber of Commerce, decided to enter a float in the Navy Day | parade, Saturday, at a meeting! held last night at the home of Miss Anna Delaney, president. It was also decided to employ and a painter to erect paint a| “Welcome to Tourists” sign on : Roosevelt Boulevard. A rummage | With C. of C. Today sale will be held November 22} The first steps to draw up a | and 23, the proceeds to go to the | 1946-47 budget for the Key West children’s ward of the Municipal! Chamber of Commerce will be | Hospital. taken at 4:30 p. m., today when | A committee was named to}the Board of Directors meets with ‘make arrangements for the an-| the incoming Board of Directors nual Jayshee dinner on Novem-|and the Citizens Committee ber 18th, when installation of of-| named at the open meeting last ficers will be conducted. Visit-| week. The meeting will be held ors present last night were M in the office of Secretary John Jessie Rodriguez and Mrs. Phyl-| Spottswood, Spovotswood Build lis Higgs ing { eee ‘Navy At Four o’Clock With Address Of . Welcome By President Truman U. N. General Assembly’s Meeting Hall The United Nations General Assembly meets in general session in this blue, gray and gold hall at Flushing Meadows, New York. CBB IDIDIDS A Poinciana housing front today. 55 Motorists Face Fine For Lacking Inspection Permits | Motorists who have failed to get theur city auto inspec- tion permits can take heed from the three residents hail- ed ‘into Municipal Court this afternoon and fined one dol- lar each. City Clerk Roy: Hamlin reports 52 additional car owners will ke served sum- mons to court for failure to have stickers, They also will be fined a dollar apiece. If apprehended again without a sticker, offenders will be subject to re-arrest, | PPD aAT ST SS si | Citizens To Meet Submerged 35 Hours, Men Held Pr 000000097020 008 80800000 “Pr compartment.” That is the Franklin G. Hess, submarine bh experi- meetings in every ' describes his unenviable ence on submarine when it was held under water for 35 hours by a Japanese sub- chaser. Commander Hess is in com- mand of the U.S.S. Corporal. the submarine open to visitors Saturday from’ 1l a.m. to 4 p.m, at the Sub Base in observ- ance of Navy Day. The commander's fellow offi- cers assert that the 35-hour sub- merging of the U.S.S. Puffer, of jis reluetant to talk about the in- ‘morning in 1943. | While cruising for Jap shipping | ‘neo, the Puffer sighted a Japan- torpedoes into her. The tanker’s Apply NAVARRO, Inc. Opposite Bus Station escort, a Jap sub-chaser. , attacked the Puffer immediate | way Commander ‘0, | which Hess was executive officer, ! set a Navy record. Hess himself , cident which began one October | in the Macassar Straits off Bor-} ese tanker and promptly sent two! vith | yer Meetings, eer depth char which sprung |leak in the submarine. | The Puffer’s commanding of- ficer submerged as best hoe could to escape further dam- age. It was then ll am. All during that day, the following night and the following day he kept the sub down as the Jap ship continued to cruise back and forth dropping charges. In the meantime, Commander | Hess supervised frantic repair ef | forts. Water continued to seep in through the leak. The pedo room became on full of water. The buoyanc: batteries of the craft were riously affected and the men be- gan to wonder if they could sur- face even though the Jap ship should leave. ' “We all had our doubts,” Hess } says. “We were holding prayer meetings in every compartment! and working like the devil close the leak. The water was 2,000 fathoms deep so we couldn't rest unm the bottom—had to keep! nily | ay | | | se to the engine going Conseque | ing Hero Relates ee2cceccceses” where the most of the Finally at 10 p.m. on the sec- ond dav, the Jap escort appar- Jap knew time.” we ently having departed, the commanding officer tried surface. Reluctantly, at first, then gradually, the tanks emp- tied and the Puffer rose to the top after having been under water for what is believed to be a record time on a combat mission. Hess had already been award ed a letter of commendation for participation in the Battle of Mid | way on the submarine Nautilu j which was awarded a Presiden tial Unit Citation for sinking the big Jap airplane carrier, Soryu He received the Bronze for his work on the Puffer and in July, 1944, was given com mand of the U.S.S. Angler on {which he won a Letter of Com- | mendation for wolf pack opera- | | tions and a Bronbe Star for trac- | p Task Force during the Leyte Gulf operations. He been in command of the U.S.S Corporal since January, 1946 Wants West Daineinads Mass Meeting Held Tonight =: —-W Developments continued to ml = | to | has | *BUILDING IN WHICH DELEGATES TO MEET IS 176 FEET WIDE, 400 LONG (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—General j assembly of the United Nations will be reconvened at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in a former World’s Fair exhibition hall at ; Flushing Meadows with an ad- dress of welcome by President Truman. He is’ expected to discuss the foreign policy the United | States, which, it is said, will be in agreement with that set forth by Secretary of State James F. , Byrnes. | Despite the strike of pilots of ;the Trans World Air Lines, a plane, belonging to that company, lis today winging its way across the Atlantic from Paris with 20 delegates to the | United Nations, Pilot of the plane is a com. ; pany official, and he explained i that the company, in agreement | with a request of the State De partment of the United States, is Sone ne the delegates to this of session of the The. ‘building in which the conference, which will last seven weeks, will be held, is 176 feet ‘wide and 400 feet long. It has been remodeled and renovated at an expense of more than $2. 000,000 to accommodate delegates to the UN assembly jeur in rapid-fire fashion on the Residents of the project an- ;nounced d mass meeting to be ‘held at 7:30 tonight in the Poin- | ciana Community Hall. Edward |F. Haury, Commander of Vet- ‘ye UN assemmly. an | erans of Foreign Wars, Post 3911, ! in essere ie fee. i - in a verbal statement to The ia prs bas ect: wie Citizen, asked why the vacant eet long, decorated in gray haat gold and capable of seating 2,000 delegates, their advisers, | members of the UN staff, press, West Poinciana units couldn’t be taken by the Navy instead of the | old project, Almost before he had | completed his remarks, Wallace | Taio and film correspondents B. Kirke, Director, Key West | The meeting hall is domated Housing Abshority, reported that | PY # mahogany dias for the presi he: hid regsived’a request for use | Tent of the assembly and, the of West Poinciana by Naval per [ce general a sonnel, statidned at Boca. Chica, | behind the platform is @ map o The mass meeting at Poinciana | Pe ee ag ae aa tonight will consider sending 4/6 0° The seats of the delegates delegation to confer with Captain | 2° placed behind rows of long Henry M. Cooper, Naval Base | © aah Commandant, on the question of | ity-four radio, movie eh the Navy's possibly taking over j vis sion and still photo booths lit the 210 permanent units of the the walls of the hall which has old portion of the project. The ifficient lighting to permit the units are constructed of concre operation of motion picture amd blocks e vision cameras | “ie uis) pointed outiathat then eae bres ks from a ga |\Navy apparently contemple lery which overlooks the entire taking over the old project, n¢ delegation area of the fileo adapted as permanent residences | Press offices are behind the by civilian personnel, when the | S#llery West Poinciana project is vacant.| 4 new building bas been cos He also said that the Poinciana | S!tucted for cafeteria and dining extension 10 to 60 vacancie room facilities ; 3 Haury said that he will see Con The City of New Y a ha gressman-elect George nathers | anted UN the use of the sild in the r future and present | '98 and grounds without charge the project’s case to him pees : navy arveas Smathers Attends Meanwhile, the has ap- pealed to the Key West Hou ue ¢ | | KE Se he iecler ce | Lions Ciup Event { enlar staff ‘on: Boca newt > | Director Kirke said that the only | . Congressman - elect Ge a |housing which the Authority has | Siathers will speak Lior k wvailable consists of the 140 tem-| Club Ladies N “gran | porary demountable, partially La Concha Hotel a week f | sa units of West Poinciana,| Merrow night which the Authority already had| Lions Club officials ex {declared surplu ithe belief that the gre ar ; Upon the Navy’s recent request | Jelect may have seme co nt j for housing, h er, he contact- | to make on the Poin ‘ed National Housing Agency | N68 ct The event in Washington, notifying it that] in the nbow Roon it will be necessary to open West | tel. 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