The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 24, 1946, Page 1

sean acne ema meno VOLUME LXVI. No. 253 Jaycees Opposes Navy In Acquiring Poinciana S08 CRUSOE TELLS OF* BMMO NEED HERE; OPPO ILLL 4 TAKES NO BLAME FOR) Parade To Include lan . SromM REPORTS = Champ Majorette emer Chamber of Commerce, | <3 ie | And Conga Line @ & womeler weekly mecting tot eet eight in the Monroe) ety Meatth Chittice Auditorium, weet @& reword as being opposed the United States Housing Au- | The national baton-twirl- ing champion, Miss Betty Lou Whitehouse of the University of Miami, will lead the Key Geet termine over Poinciana wes: High School band in the Pears te the Navy | Navy Day Parade Saturday Tne feason that the morning, Gerald Saunders, emma of service men Navy Day Committee Chair- @nperted here will not create man, said today. rh © housing problem as Miss Whitehouse, widely known drum majorette, is four times winner of the acrobatic baton - twirling championship. Another colorful addition | tothe parade ranks .is the famed conga snake - line led by Elbert and Edna Boza, King and Queen of Rhumba. All those who took part in the Labor Day P wee pormted out that durine| fe er many thousands more} reer Gen were here and were Stepeetety accommodated Gee Segmested that the city ieee & purchase the project Geteet of wetting ft go from one feieret agene9 to another | Peete eemement ameinst the) Conga line are asked to meet Were ee dene the lines of) Mr, and Mrs, Boza today at Se feremee «The present proj-| 7:30 p. m., at the corner of of pee © meffietent amount off william and Catherine tees, wheres « Navy - owned reper would pay none fomh 8 Pepper and W. W Weed, Heth residents of Poinciana, | streets for rehearsal and in- structions, Meanwhile, the USO an- nounced that a large float 7 Seed af & committee to will be entered in the parade, — wh other civic groups to! featuring 14 girls amid a pa- ) nme . Ge shove wend bal triotic color scheme. Report On “Hams” |COOOexr ea Ts ho Comme geve @ report on ay “metewr radio wetivity jin the F T d ty te twited all members of France Loday te depewes tw visit and pos-| mhty jim the mewly-formed group | Key Reported Acute ” atte “Nemes” known as Bet Ameteur Radio Operate + ~~ iaas a aerton Beef Shortgae eo wteresting sidelight on (hy Associated Press) t Cresee’s report was that he et ee ether eperstors main- | beef in France is becoming acute. = © somstant vigilance at | Government officials said to- setton during the recent day that the reason for the qaue Revrteene. During their |age is because French farms re- Dee B pe ne yluse to sell beeves on the hoof at (eeugheut the country who $21 a hundred pounds. wore te learn that The farmers are holding bac! hey een an on the map. for higher prices, but a govern- Tee cepert that emanated ment spokesman stated that an trem Key West itself claimed advance would not be granted, thet the city, at the “height of and that the government would the tereieane”. was six inches | ‘licve the shortage by- ordering euiee @ater. Mr. Crusce and ee! from Argentina and else- ee fellow workers were quick | Where. demy et) euch reports. te felted out that a group) PP $ Pees ear Beef Production mums i times of emerg-| gy « = Ser wer con'waintsn Tripled Recently; —aetetion bnes open where emviet tectiities may be in hf < ill Hi | Sone eee dering Prices Still High ee oath He asked for and ae Bt cccy ed al pe 0 ie diiielcclee in, this os caliby WASHINGTON, Oct. eu hattesan af the Packing houses throughout the Hutheween Ball, reported to the United States have tripled their —- & het tet success. production of beef the last week ea er serving #8 compared with the week im a ate of pre-war mediately preceding the removal " we other things to be | of OPA ceilings, the department for the best cos- Of agriculture said today. ieomonatrated by the Even with the stepped-up pro- fell He also duction, a department spokesman thet Jaycees said that prices likely would con- ganization in tinue to be high for several thus f te be given months. He explained that pr Len. the es probably would not reach te ‘ Wficially “reasonable levels” until next we wd om Page Four) spring PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, Navy Day Nineteen Hundred and Forty- ee attends the people of the United States an opportunity setete the achievements of our Navy, and; WHEREAS. this first Navy Day following demobili- ettee fem mankind's greatest war offers an opportunity te public recognition of the peacetime mission of the Mevy. t quard our nation’s freedom, and; WHEREAS. this year is an especially appropriate eeewsten te honor the veterans of World War II and to otaphasise the importance of maintaining a strong peace- ome Mewel Reserve. trained and ready to man our fleet «= the event of national emergency, and; WHEREAS. the slogan for Navy Day, this year is Your Nowy. Victor in War, Guardian in Peace.” THEREFORE. |. William W. Demeritt, Mayor of Key West, Florida, hereby proclaim Sunday, October Twenty- Seventh, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six, as Navy Day ead call upon all citizens of Key West, Florida, to take part im observance of this day through the many chan- sete open to them Herein unto | have set my hand this 24th day of Ceteber. 1046 WM. W. DEMERITT, Mayor, City of Key West, Florida. short. | Commander W. R. Yankey, Hous- 24, —|use it as part of the Key West rer os + tg TE Poinciana Committee ‘ Sees Cooper, Wires — Appeal To Washington KIRKE TO LEAVE FOR®*———— NATIONAL capital; Police Radio Plan |. - Further Attacked NAVY OR GROUP PRIVATE| MUST EVEN. = The Key West Citi SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1945 y RIC came nc en ie ti type erent eR tt SEO NETS ONS IN THE UNITED STATES GIs Who Make Unprovok« Attacks On German Civilians Cited As “Young Hoodlums” 413. ARRESTED; AGED GERMAN AND CATHOs LIC PRIEST AMONG Mayor's Change of Vote , 7 on > : o-0 TUALLY TAKE OVER By City Official Broucsht Purchase of USO: victims 5 | ur ! PROJECT | Criticism by a e¢ity official of | te) ‘ ae a a “~~ The committee representing the proposed $10,000 expenditure | ae 1 » < 2% irteen Bini ; ibs dae : ~ | The city’s purchase of the some of the context of papers Gls were arrested by th - 2 iaine i ne cars i papers ere arrested by the Amer the Poinciana Housing Project for radio-equipping police cars in! 3.04 con Square USO property connected with the purchase, ad- ican military police last night and conferred with Capt. Henry M.| Monday’s Citizen was followed today by further comment. The same official told a Citizen reporter that the city is contem- plating placing six radios on cars, three for the poliee department ‘and three for the fire depart- Cooper, commandant of the Na- val Base, this morning. After as- | certaining the Navy’s position in the present problem which in- volves possible seizure of the 210 family units of Poinciana, the committee sent the following tel- egram to Wilson Wyatt, Housing Expediter,, Washington, D. C.: | “We, the residents of Poin- ciana Housing Project, Key West, Fla. who are veterans and civil service employes, strongly urge the FHA to hold transfer of this project for a period of six months.” (sd.) E, F. HAURY. Chairman of Committee for Veterans’ Housing, In_ the meantime, Wallace | Kirke, director of the Key West Housing Authority, completed plans to leave Key West tomor- row on a trip which will take him to Washington on Monday. There He will see Abner L, Sil- verman, deputy assistant on the Committee for Management, Fed- + eral Public Housing Authority, who has charge of transfers of FPHA projects to the Navy. Kirke said he was going “to try to hold Poinciana project for the civilians.” At the meeting with the Naval Commandant, the committee con- sisting of Haury, chairman; N. H. Pepper, Mrs. Mary A. Barrett, PARIS, Oct. 24,—Shortage of| Mrs. Earl S. Keirstead and Mis. | Lucille Calverly, was given some revealing information by Lt. ing Officer. Yankey was correspondence in .pessession of which showed | that the Atlanta office of the Fed- eral Public Housing Authority had oraginated the move to dis- pose. of Poinciana Project. Un- der the Lanham Act such proj- | ects must bé disposed of; Yankey | aid as Ronn ts possible: “+s i Apparently after _ receiving ! word from the Atlanta office, | the National Housing Agency in Washington, in a letter signed by | Neil Dalton, Deputy Expediter, informed Admiral J. F. Jelley, Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Depart- ment, that it was necessary to} dispose of Poinciana and asked j Base. The Navy Department then ment. “Now, here is the catch,” the “All of these cars | are placed near City Hall so the | individual who is at the police | ! desk will get the call over the radio and will then contact by | radio either of the six radio cars, j all of which are within a hundred | feet of him. Or elsé he could for- | get the radio, step outside the ! door and give the message as he | has been doing in the past. “I don’t know who gains by this move, but I do know that | who an honest, are deprived of doing so, and the ; , taxpayers will be out $10,000.” Landlords In Two Cities Not Joining Strike official said. four made people vocating the clarification of | this morning on charges of brutal tain ambiguities chiefly in re- , attacks on Germai spect to whether the building | The American command em could be used for other than re- nounced that it is going to com creational purposes after the USO ' tinue its action against mresper relinquishes it. The deed says sible GIs until an end is put to that the building must be used their brutal and unproveked at for five years for recreational tacks on German vitizem purposes. This caused the mayor “Young hoodiums” is the way to point out that if the city the Gls arrested were character wanted to give the Chamber of ized, Spokesman for the military Commerce offices in the building police declared that the “heed it could be restrained from do- lums” had not fought im the war, ing so, and that they are now teying to Brennan shook his head and show their bravado by lightoung said that as long as the building against inoffensive Germam is used for recreation it did not make any difference what else was done with it. Lester said the yesterday is described by several | officials as one of the best bar- gains Key West ever made. i City Commissioners Hunter Harden, John Carbonell and | Louis Carbonell made no efforts to hide their pleasure at the ac- ‘quisition of the fully-equipped building and extensive lot for _ $10,000. H Both Frank Adams, USO di- rector here, and J. R. Brennan; fof the Federal Works Agenc ‘who negotiated sale for the gov- , ;ernment, commented that the price paid by the city covers jonly a fraction of the normal jvalue of the property, which is estimated by one official at $40,- Among the men whom the Gis beat up last night was an aged German, and this morning they , 000. | question was open to various In- brutally attacked a Catholi Mayor William W. Demeritt terpretations as worded mi ee priest without any provecetion would have | was lauded by the three commis- deed, and advocated changing} whatever. He was walking along decent living | sioners for volunteering to change ‘¢ wording. a street when he was stewck by Brennan, however, who had to take a plane for Miami later in the afternoon, told the Commis- 5 rding to one of the ioners, that if the pur- ! chase was not accepted yesterday the deal might fall through. He ‘explained that an order has al- ready been issued to “fre all isuch buildings in their present one GI and, before he recovered from his surprise, was punched by another. Warnings have been ised to all GIs in the Americé 4 occupation that they be punished severely fo civilians without provecation Military police is original vote against acquir- |ing the property. When the roll was called, Harden and the two © Carbonells voted “yes,” Commis- | 7 ! sioner Albert Cooper was absent and the Mayor voted “no.”. City Attorney Attorney J. L. Lester immediately arose and said that ‘he would kill the issue since the will attacking nen have been or. | ordinance authorizing the pur) ° {dered to keep a watchful eye f (By "The Associated Press) chase was an emergency measure | SQ0US. ccionere were the “héodiums” among the Amer ATLANTA, Oct, 24.—Land-' and required a unanimous vote. ; Theptires oes etten opinion ican army of occupation lords’ Association in this city an-| ‘The mayor then remarked that! Tre cap denne ae oem Acre eee peers ;nounced today it will not take | while he felt that the purchase | 1, the governor Bc had | 3 | as ;Part in the strike against OPA ; should not be made until various | 2°Ke4 ie meee tae ree Pertnaal es Sane ie” hheteas rent-ceiling prices that was start- | clauses in the deed were clarified, | phese nee Coe titigati jee a § “ ed in Seattle yesterday. that he would change hisivotc.w [inc eNO anor Sac aves From Police Foree (Miami reported that landlords | «]f my: werthy colleagues,” he ; ie wie eee oy ane opinion ; jthere and in Miami Beach would ! said, “cain! place themselves in sn ee Ge cay aaa nae City Manager O. J. S. Elling jnot join’in the strike movement. | jeopardy in an effort to help the | OVC" tO Me CAMMmot sont | Son today stated that he cischang iIt was-explained that at Miami jey, I certainly can also.” There- jing ne unos eapediiaties au] cd PatrolmapyEngene Sanches for ‘ Béuch “many apartments ~ have higpai he: changed his vote and) SPPLOva’ © é es on willing a insubordination: oh- recommen been kept vacant by landlords {he measure was carried, 4 to 0.. ;£00rizing Purchase, Enennan Wat! tion of Chief Bienvenido Pere Gurngtihe summer and will Ge tee ee ee iiven a check for $10,000 ened ub eaeespatreneapis < available for occupancy when |: e Titec | by City: Mandger O. J..S. Elling-| (vod Chief Perez’ orde pa the winter season begins, | at | The city attorney criticized son. trol Beat’ No. 2 at 12:10 @ much higher r tes). ' | S ee a ioe ee ea "i arn ‘Tuesda Sgt jovkin had a“ ~~~) Prime Minister |“Navy Night” ashe Santee take he Nav Commandant: s © y rales a) ordered by the’ chief Ly, Leip ricer Sark by ‘ . a hl . | A The result was that Chief Pe i ome | Says Russians Tonight At had to take the beat himself. & nd Adams Spea ‘ | sei Parie: Sanehee t/a hanged | : under Rule 19, Paragraph 4 ITo Rote Members| Kept Ignorant: Lions’ Meet) 7", "1% (By ‘The Associated Press) This will be “Navy Night” at} _ Sanchez has been lotarians at their weekly| LONDON, Oct. 24—Prime Min- | j for four and one-half mon WHGEdAG lantheant Hel Anat me ce Clemens A ulcominuangad: | ice ee ere neces that time Paul’s Parish Center on Bahama | dress today to the representatives | Key West Gions nehez turne ¢ street, heard President Earl Ad-' of the 7,000,000 members, of the} Addr il be made by the . cap and summon i ¢ ms speak on the importance of | trades union in Great Britain, de- | commanding officers of the vari order of Chicf Perez if the Navy desired it and could | congressional committees during | clared that the Soviet govern) ys naval activities in this area leged insubordinat budgetary time rather than after | ment is keeping its people behind | 44 by the commanding officer |. S¢DCRe% Has not stat reductions have set in. la wall of ignorance and sus- {° oe Z ni er he will appeal t The President turned the pro-_ picion of the Army Barracks. | civil service board or not, § to Captain Tucker] He asserted that the Russian] Joe Allen will be chairman of | ing first to learn asked Capt. Cooper here if the project. was desirable. Cooper} Gibbs, USN, who introduced the people are unaware of anything | the program committee and will| had a study made and in his re- ply that it was desirable pointed} out that 40 percent of the re dents were key naval base pe sonnel, 30 percent were other vilian employes, 20 percent were not connected with the base and} 10 percent were service person- | nel. Yankey explained that if the; Navy did not take the project it} (Continued on Fage Four) SARA eS Palace Theater SUNSET CARSON in “Alias Billy the Kid” News and Serial i thernmost Garage In U.S. | | TWINS GARAGE 1130 Duval Street Phone 169 Auto Repairs, Painting, | Body and Fender Work | Genuine Auto Parts for All Cars RAUL’S on the BOULEVARD -- DANCING -- Nightly to the Music of (CRUNCH) MARK “and His STANLEY Orchestra Featuring SYLVIA at Piano Best Drinks— Popular Prices Reservations: Phone 9287 gram over commanding officers of the vari-' that is going on in the world out | introduce the speakers. installations. | ous naval which he public view after the submarine! cause their though | i base activities have concluded. He further added that anyone! the world are throttled. would be allowed to look into the | | planes, but not to enter them, for he said he can remember the experiences suffered by the Mis- souri when that ship was board- 'ed by school kids, costing dam- age of $50,000. aid would be open to ' also the freedom of thought, be- were presented against Among jside of Russia. The controlled t will complete ar- | Lions tonig those introduced and who gave | Russian press, he added, pub- rangements for their participa. | . comprehensive talks were Cap- ' lishes fantastic stories about! tion in the Navy Day parade} I ENA IS -'tains Cooper, Saunders, McFad-! events or supposed events in for- | 4) Saturday. | \ den, Dav jeign countrics, all of it design-} ‘pPhey also will make further | “ The Naval Air Station com-jed to keep the Russian people iN | preparations for the presenta ‘COMI N C s mandant, Capt. Cooper, invited the dark tion of “Key West Capers” on the | all Key Westers to view the sta-| They are not only denied the Qyenings of November 14 and 15. ae tion’s plar and __ installations, | freedom of speech, he added, but; é | si is about what | ee earn tine remade of} OWE AN] VIEW. \ Dining Room and Cocktail Lounge | 520 UNITED STREET BREAKFAST, 8 to LL A.M. | | LUNCH, 12 Noon to 2 P.M.| °Auto Accessories: s pS | EXPERT MECHANI DINNER, 5 to 9 P.M. soasgap arg ore Also a ta Carte Specials |PHONE 9134 Fon youn can COCKTAIL cack YOUR CAR CHECK mu eMotor Tune-Up eFlats Fixed eBatteries Charged eCars Greased and Sprayed The Soviet press, he conc luded, ‘under the direction of the Rus sion leaders, gives purported ac- ; counts of what happens in the irest of the world that are as fal- | |lacious as lurid dreams. WHERE TO DANCE The Public Cordially Invited to DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT i SATURDAY NIGHT Hallowe’en Dance MUSIC by JOHN PRITCHARD and HIS ORCHESTRA From 9 P.M. ’Til 1 A.M. at the VEW Clubhouse FLAGLER AVE. and 2ND ST. Poinciana Bus Passes Door Open Monday thru Saturday No Admission, Cover or Miaimum CAYO RUESO TOO cockran. rouncr | PQOR OLD CRAIG a | (The Southernmost House) Gad Rarer era aie SERVICE STATION 1400 Duval at South St. KR RVATIONS CALL | Division and Francis Stree ‘ EY eer | DINING ROOM and | COCKTAIL LOUNGE ———Opens 5 P.M. Daily- the Announcement of GIGANTIC CLEARANCE SALE Everything Priced to Clear! SALE STARTS TOMORROW 9:00 A. M. NEW PIONEER HOTEL 151 N.E. FIRST ST. In the Heart of Miami The Rendezvous of Key West SERVICEMEN and CIVILIANS “Besi For A Night's Rest” i Block West of Bus Depot :