The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 13, 1946, Page 1

VOLUME LXVII.__ No. 270 Drive Of Chamber ey pi t Ci SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES Of Commerce Starts. On November 22, 50 TEAM CAPTAINS ARE cnOsEN = TO LEAD CAMPAIGN, PRICE DE- | SRIBES OBJECTIVES Tine of Commerce started mobilizing on an impres- 30 were chosen to be- Chamber ve yesterday when team «eptarns @ © eetematic drive for mem hereite end funds to be used fo! af Key West. wt the County Court Board members the the betterment Meeting rs aved poe the Ate: 80 of Directors set Novem- opening date of the Memberships will sell annually. Larger firms to subscribe to than member- n ser pangn tor 925 a he tut ged hep President Clem Price, newly- eheeted head of the Chamber, preteted out that “over 900 occu- potions! licenses have been is- were i Key West. Of this num- ter of businesses, approximately 1 belt in the € areite Thies terre membership condition he must be core asserted. “The Cham- merce is the logical to the work of induc- i money into the city. do this, funds are nec- with which to work, Cites Tourist Trade of the ” te eesay Cre of the trea © wnization is to bring tets here,” Price said. in to more tour- tots te come to our city, we must ee out end dig up this source of even tt with have to be ac- anp! i by-means of adver tetmg, sending publicity material te Nerthern papers and maga- eeee end erecting signboards on “qetate highw We must dis- wel all t €¥ Wet litera- tere thet we can publish. “H om aggressive campaign i ede among prospective vaca- temiete in the North, we can se- —_ «= tourists for Key Wat & we possibly accom- muetiete, The Chamber of Com- guliee organization is willing to @ te bet for the city and asks that citizens stand behind them © their efforts.” Cor missioners Award Contrac For Four Roads mmissioners last awarded four contracts regrading, resurfacing and oiling of three Marathon and one at induce he s. c nght t ant « the ending streets at Tavernic ' the ch Toppino and Sons was contract to repeir the treets at the follow- give Ma mg bi T Fourth street, et $4.056 Louisa i tre ot $3,063 2 $3,305 65 Alona wthron was awarded thee tract to improve Preston » Upper Matecumbe at a { $4,354 street ts Tomorrow meeting of the Stephen R. Chapter, United Daugh- f tb Confederacy, will st 4:30 p. m., tomorrow at me of Mrs. George Archer, Newton street. All members urged t present. t.p0.M A Malt snes cece ANNALARA THT TTT, Oil Spray wi'cuassis- Ht seves buying a set of fenders! Sou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming = Phune No. 5 Opposite Army Barracks 2H The Op primary functions | Approval Of Liquor Licenses liquor licenses, as follows, | were approved last night by the county commissioners: Max Herman, Overseas Hotel. Leonard Guerro, Steak Inn, 208 Duval street. Byron Baird, Three Bees, Up- per Matecumbe. John Paul Hawthorne, Trades- wind Club, 502 Caroline street. Park Alan Buck Grundy, li- quor package store, Islamorada. Henry J. Dohrman, Dillon's Fishing Lodge, Snake Creek, | Islamorada. McCarty Urges New Constitution | ST. AUGUSTINE, Nov. 13.; 1(FNS)—Dan McCarty of Ft. { Pierce, former speaker of the ‘House of Representatives, this week urged members of the Flor- { ida Junior Chamber of Commerce | to exert “strong pressure” to help effect a complete rewriting of ; the state constitution. The address by McCarty con- cluded the business session of the Florida Jaycees Fall conference in St. Augustine. The governmental affairs clin- ic of this group has as its project for the next quarter a survey on} taxation and financial problems of Florida municipalities, particu- | larly in communities without ' revenue from city-owned utilities. McCarty urged that Jaycees ad- vocate the creation of a state tax commission, possibly as partrof-e- hew constitution, with 100 per ent daxation on valuation en- forced throughout the state. The next quarterly meeting of the state organization”. will be held February 15-16 in Palatka. USO Stage Numbers To Be~™ In “Kapers” Three numbers from the Jack- son Square USO musical com-{ edy, “Best Smile Forward,” will be produced at the Key West High School Friday night in con- | junction with the High School) production of “Key West Kapers.” “Key West Kapers,” produced by High School Music} Director J. R. Marcellus, will be shown at the High School Audi- | torium next Thursday and Fri- day evenings. The program describing al radio and television broadcast, | with transcriptions and overseas broadcast, is entertainingly pre- | sented by a large cast of High School students. NAVY OPENS BIDS ON MOTOR BOAT The Submarine Base is offering | a 16-foot, 20-knot per hour motor boat for sale on a competitive bid ; basis. Bids will be opened De-} cember 2, 1946. ! The boat is available for in-, spection at the Supply Scrap, Yard, 8:00 a. m., to 4:15 p. m., Monday through Friday. Bidding | papers are obtainable at the Sub- | marine Base Supply Office,; Building 124. { | | | | | In Monroe County | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1946 epublican Senators Talk On Labor Bills (By Associated Press) \ WASHINGTON; | Nov. 13.—Re- publican Senator Ferguson said yesterday that, so far as he knew, the Republican congress, after it convenes next year, will not fa- ther any drastic anti-labor bill. However, he said he will spon-| sor a bill outlawing jurisdictional | strikes. - Senator Ball, who spoke about his intended labor bill yesterday, isaid it will deal with the closed shop. He declared that the closed shop is out of line with a democ- «VUUYAUNHVUGH4O4440440400 008980040 UCEEUUUEEUETOSEELEEESEEOOREERORSERs, KEY WEST VETS START RECEIVING TERMINAL PAY At least four Key West veterans have received their terminal leave pay, in ac- cordance with a law passed by the 79th Congress, The payments are madé for unused furlough time ac- cumulated by enlisted men. Amounts under $50 are paid in cash, Payments of larger amounts are made in $50 war bonds. If, however, the payment is more than an even multiple of 50, the bal- ance is paid in cash. In other words, a veteran due $145 receives two $50 bonds and $45 in cash. A man due $155 dollars vacy or any other type of free; three $50 bonds and $5 cash. Rogelio Gomez Envisions Shore Front In Key West Comparable With Any In U.S. *# EXPLAINED HIS PLAN LAST NIGHT AT SES- SION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Rogelio Gomez, at a meeting Key West Yacht Cl Pulsing With New Life; a ahs ae To Arrange For Races, ; resort on the south shore in Key | West that would be comparable Key West Yacht Club, which’ the election of officers, and the, in attractiveness with any other result was as follows: government. ST Mad Watson Described As ‘S vage was held under wraps during the | war and by scarcity of materials! since the conclusion of hostilities, decided last night, at election of officers, to discontinue merely its social activity and to become ac- tive in yachting and racing. Commodore, Lee Pierce; commodore, John U. Delgado; rear commodore, Julius Bard- well; fleet captain, Captain Carl Hilton; secretary and treasurer, Aquilino Lopez, Jr.; director John K, Clemmer and Andrew vice in the United States. | His suggestion was an out {growth of the unsuccessful ter- | mination of the proposed transfer | of the William R. Porter land, in that vicinity, to the duPont in- jterests at a reputed price of , $170,000, {Guntub 43. ‘Regular JA Summarizes In a relentless summation of | the Government’s case against David Joseph Watson, of Norfolk, | Va., former Navy cook on trial j for first degree murder in the} U. S. District Court here, U. S.1 Attorney Hayford O, Enwall told! a tense jury this morning that! the defendant was guilty of the! “savage, barbaric, wicked, evil] killing” of his shipmate, Benja-| min Leroy Hobbs, Nebo, N. C.,| aboard the U. S. S. Stribling,; July 25. H “There isn’t a parallel in any ; murder” with which he is fa- { miliar, Enwall said, which can compare to the killing of Hobbs. Speaking brusque terms, the husky young prosecutor stated that Watson “intended to destroy | his victim if he would not consent to his unnatural sex | desires.” Shaking his finger repeatedly. | Enwall struck-again and agains any theory the defense may pre- | sent that the defendant commit-; ted only second degree murder. He cited Watson's confession that the cook struck Hobbs on the’ head with a wrench and then tied a rope around the victim's neck when Hobbs cried out, pull- ing it “tighter and tighter and tighter.” eer | “After he took the rope off,” | Enwall said, “he felt the body) and it was still warm. It was a deliberate, premeditated act. “Watson must have had wrench in his hand when he went over to Gun Tub 43,” En-j{ wall continued. The prosecutor said the wrench was supposed to have been hung in a certain place and was not readily accessible to the As the prosecutor continued vehemently, some of the jurors leaned tensely forward on the edge of their chairs; others rest- | ed their hands intently against their heads. Judge W. Holland faced the north windows of the courtroom, leaning back in his chair. i Enwall mentioned Watson intercepted letter to his mother, in which the defendant said he would commit suicide, as damn- ing evidence of his guilt. “An innocent man,” he said, “would | fight it out.” Shortly afterward Judge Hol- | H _AUUUUUUUATUUUTONUNEUENEUUS UHURU | YCEES Business Meeting | Tonight, 8 o’Clock MONROE COUNTY CLINIC— BPO OL LLL prevrrercectirl sist tio ‘ROASTERS and FRYERS | BRADY’S (Live) Poultry and Kgg Market 1214 White St. Phone 54 Pee et 2 ok AAA dk hahaa ening of DOLORES SHOPPE Dolores E. Thornley, Mgr. DRESSES LINGERIE 719 Duval Street Wanted! YOUNG WOMAN for SECRETARIAL WORK High School Education Required | Apply NAVARRO, Inc. Opposite Bus Station —[—$—$$S$—$— CHRISTMAS GIFTS GALORE Make Your Selection Now at This Friendly Neighborhood Store Moderate Prices “USE OUR LAY-AWAY PLAN” | POOR OLD CRAIG Service Store Al Armengol, Owner 019 WHITE STREET 1 | He showed ‘King Georg Barbarie’, Killer As U.S. Case To Jury land called the 12:30 p. m. re- cess. It was expected that the ! rest of the prosecution’s sum- mation and that of Defense At- torney John G. Sawyer would take most of the remainder of the afternoon. It appeared probable that the jury would be given the case either late today or early tomorrow morn- “ing. Enwall also attacked the fense contention that the Gove ment did not have jurisdic Pier 8, where the Stribling was tied at the time of the murder. 1845 maps dese ing land acquired by the United | States at that time and said that in sharp, |the purchase included land in| ‘the contiguous sea as well as that j actually de e Tells Parliament. Ahout British Labor Aims: (By The Associated LONDON, Nov. addressed 1 Ge orge yesterday on further plans of the Labor to socialize industries in Great Britain. He Stated that the govern- ment’s next move is to socialize electricity and transportation, in- cluding the operation of trains. government STENOTYPE STOLEN FROM COURT STENO REPORTED FOUND Mary Fee, popular ex- WAVE and U. S. District Court stenographer, reported the recov- ery of her stenotype yesterday. The device, used for taking a verbatim record of court proceed- ings, was stolen from an automo- bile the first day of the murder trial of David Joseph Watson. It- was found yesterday on the porch of a Fleming street home. Following the theft of the enotype, Miss Fee was sent two substitute machines by plane from Miami. Miss a ORCHID Key West Players Appearing Nightly at the Barn Theater LEO BRAXTON WARRED | Key West Players j Present - + a “ANGEL STREET A Thriller in Three Parts at the Barn Theater 319 Duval Street 8:3 P.M. at Ve! Daily Week of November 11th “TICKETS ON SALE at Paul Smith’s Book Store parliament } The club was kept alive, since the beginning of the war, by holding weekly luncheons and an occasional social affair, but from i now on, its new officers declared, | {it will live up to its name. Gomez proposed to the com- own seven} Missioners that the county buy yachts, all of them small except | the land, approximately 600 two 30-footers, owned by Fleet | acres, to be used for a hotel, Captain Hilton and Vice Com-| partment and cottage site, to- {gether with a beach that would Fraser. Club members Management was { Thirty members were present | modore Delgado. Other members | 8 lat the meeting last night, the intend to have yachts construct- , extend from the south end of jlargest number since the club) ed. and, as as soon as the num-} Bertha street to the head of the was organized, except at lunch-j ber is considered _ sufficiently | island. éons or entertainment. It was de-j large, yacht races will be held at! He produced figures to show cided to cast secret ballots in regular intervals. that the county, in making the ee te RC ik proposed improvements, would - - be able to sell lots at prices that f i : would total $300,000. Carl Hilton Is Elected | As to hotels, which would je | string out along the entire beach a ; |front, he advocated that the Community Chest Head |, give any person or com pany a lot with a 100 feet beach Carl Hilton, president of the, of Directors will be completed at | front and a depth of 175 feet that Board of of the | an early date. Three committees | agreed to construct a hotel of at . GAG he _| will be named shortly by Hilton | least 100 rooms. Twice the foot- United Service Organizations, to start preparation for the en-; age would be given for the con elected President of the) suing year, one on Budget and/ struction of a hotel of 200 rooms, Community Chest of Key West! Admissions, one on Publicity and} and three times as much for one yesterday afternoon at a meeting a Campaign Committee. j of 300 rooms. of the Board of Directors in the Those attending the meeting,| Could Sell Lots | City Hall. | with the organizations they p-! Inside the line of hotels, lots Hilton, captain in the Coast! resented were: Vance Stirrup, could be sold for the construction Guard Reserve, succeeds George American Legion; Joe Pearlman, ' of dwellings or apartments. The Mills White, who was elected Merchants’ Association; Mrs. Dan county would sell one lot for vice president. White also led | Navarro, Municipal Hospital Wo- | $5,000, and if the buyer com- last year’s Community Chest men’s Auxiliary; Miss Marie Har-! structed a $20,000 dwelling, an drive. L: ‘tell, Municipal Hospital; Rev.| ,djoining lot would be given to Other officers elected ‘ were| John E. Pickens, Council of So- him, Dwight Hunter, City Recreational cial Agencies and County Ww That gift, Gomez pointed out Director, secretar id Jerry J, fare. Committee; Mrs. Helen Mc-| would be an incentive to buyers {Trevor, Florida National Bank Neil,. State Welfare Board, and to construct first-class how president, and for many years | Joseph A. Boza, Boy Scouts. Hil-} winter: residencés, He stressed president of the Monroe County ; ton represented the USO, White | the fact that a natural beach ex- Tuberculosis and Health Asso-| the Key West Housing Authority ; jsted along the south shore from cidtion, treasurer: ‘and Hunter the City Recreation the time Key West was settled Membership of the new Board Department. white men a century and @ ~ | quarter ago until the boulevard { was built over the beach | Further comment, thoug! t ; by Gomez, that the sand dunes behind the boulevard, tes ' tified to the type of beach that ran along the shore the construction of the boulevard. It was recalled also that now called Rest Beach ered, further into than at present, by a far greater depth th and that thousands 0: of sand was trucked the beach and sold for purposes. Remove Boulevard Gomez’ idea is tea boulevard from Bertha s a point in the vicinity of the se ond Martello Towe Ra Club and use the marl and to fill in the jered with br ' the boulevard maintained that n was Expert To Discuss Coal Crest U.S. Employment Meeting Put Off For Veterans Here Until Today Gon G@halmers, (By Agsociated Press) ne ee WASHINGTON, Noy. 13—The m- conference between Secretary of before | | what Franklin Veterans Federal Col Regional ployment | Representative, will an it is now the Interior Krug and President meet with heads of local veterans Lewis of the United Coal Miners at the of America, scheduled for yester- aft- day afternoon, postponed cubi and civic organizations as a Base was i" Submarine tomorrow ernoon for the purpose of. giving until today. | information and advice relative _ It will be the second meeting | to federal employment of vet- between them on the contract be- erans. ween the union and the govern The meeting will be held at 2 Ment. The contract will expire on p. m, in the training room of November 20, and Building 132, Industrial Relations threatened a Division. Letters from the com- acceptable to hin manding officer of the submarine by Krug. base went out last week toa, It he Laumber of local civic leaders in- Closed viting them to be present. it is known Colonel Chalmers was shorter hours ed to be in the city today oft ing to information received from O. E. Myers, director of the Fifth Civil Service Region. He may be reached by calling the Secretary of the Board of Civil Service Examiners, Submarine Base. ‘ ok strike 1 land, 1 publicly dis it of the hat the t s are, though they will call for and higher wages. not been a nat would form alon ine ach similar mé the \ the boule “In ed, “in property into po: (Continued on -{| fore addition BUY YOUR TOYS for Christmas Now Use Our Convenient Lay-Away Plan at the Kenyon Auto Store PHONE 166 524 Southard, Opp. Bus Station purc the SEAT COUERS ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS 121 Duval Street a a ri Palace Theater NINA FOCH in “My Name Is J ulia Ross” News and Serial | | | ~wamere. Phone (42 ee wee AERA AACE Sa RR SIE BLANKET SPECIAL Any Wool Blanket Dry Cleaned 20 Week Only LA wa : HELP BUY UNIFORMS FOR THE BAND! Attend Key West KAPERS (Auspices Lions Club) High School Auditorium Thursday and Friday, 8:00 P.M. | oaG This COLUMBIA (DRY Admission (Tax Included)