The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 3, 1946, Page 1

VOLUME LXVI. —— oe anne. NO. 287 Bill Calling Scene MN ete RI IN A = os : Tobacco Tax To Be: Offered Commission), HARDEN TO INTRODUCE ORDINANCE TONIGHT; 10% LEVY TO BE USED FOR PAVING, SEWERS An ordinance calling for a 10 percent city tax on cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, snuff or any other tobacco products will be offeved for adoption to the City Commission tonight by Commis-} sioner Hunter Harden. Harden said early this after- noon that all receipts on the tax! will be earmarked, under his pro- posal, for sidewalks, paving or! sewer extensions. “For no otner purpose,” he said, “will I support a tobacco! tax.” A 10 percent tax, he said, will! mean only a cent and a half more! on # pack of cigarettes, and half ® cent on a five-cent cigar. It should yield the city roughly $25,000 a year, Harden added. The commissioner said that he would offer no other meeting, scheduled for 8 o'clock at the City Hall. the advisability of taxes on va- rious utilities is being carefully considered Ordinances which would au- therize a tobacco tax and various other levies were prepared yes-} terday by City Lancelot Lester in the event! Harden wished to use them to carry out suggestions which he introduced at the last commis- sioners’ meeting calling for ad- ditional types of taxes. New Fire Alarm Boxes To Be Tried: Two new glass-type fire alarm boxes will be installed shortly in the Poinciana and MacArthur ; Homes projects, City Manager Q. J, &, Ellingson said this morn-| ing. If the new boxes prove satis- factory, this type of alarm may be installed on a city-wide basis, | he added The present alarm box is op- erated by a key, Ellingson said, line arrangements will be made He said that] many than is now being mined. ‘On Collision Facts! Attorney J.| Expect Germans | To Support Self In Three Years, (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—James F. | Byrnes, Secretary of State of the United States, and Ernest Bevin, Great Britain’s foreign minister, j today agreed to a proposal to liane 40,000,000 Germans self- supporting in the next three years, The question has not yet been! ; discussed with Molotov, of Rus- sia, nor Bidault, of France, but ; Byrnes and Bevin said’ they ‘ “hoped” that France and Russia would enter into the agreement. Increase of the purchasing ; Power of the Germans «was said to be an important factor in the | Byrnes-Bevin plan. Along that to mine far more coal in Ger- Drivers In Debate’ Sharply conflicting evidence between a Ford and a Packard} made yesterday at Police Head- quarters by two men, each of whom was driving somebody else’s car. Lt. (jg) Richard McCann said} a Packard driven by Francis} Mancino of Stock Island, side-) swiped him as it pulled out from! the curb at Eaton and Simonton: streets, Friday’ evening. Mancino said he not‘ only did not side- | swipe the lieutenant, but he was not even moving. if Mancino was not moving then: feet, nine iithes out from the curb, because taken after the accident. show | which is retained by a resident of the neighborhood. He granted! that this is a less efficient meth-! od than the glass type under! which an alarm can be set off merely by breaking the glass and | pulling down a lever i The reason that the key-type; as installed here many years! Torres ago, Fire Chief Leroy seid, is that the glass-type boxes | previously used resulted in so} that the Packard was that far} from the-eurb.-Furshezmore,, Me- Cann says, the Packard had been! parked in a “No Parking” area. The Naval officer asserts he was proceeding quietly south on! Simonton at about 15 miles per | hour in a 1942 Ford coupe own- | ed by Lt. (jg) James A. Flenner. As he neared Eaton street, the Packard, owned by Leroy Tor- | r 1022 Grinnell street, pulled appears in the report of a brush Cutting Down McCann, in rebuttal, ‘says =} regional office of the OPA. he must have: béén parked four | closed, and 70 employes in the | measurements |.that théy. will be reteased on De- | ! date, number of OPA employ¢ cataills Indicates Still In Business In Key. West; C.of C. Manager Protests ) Harole Hauticner, acting man- &—. er of the Key West Chamber af Commerce, sai today ve = Moslems And Hindus Refuse company in Tampa and to the! editor of the Magazine “Tobac-} conist,” protesting against the) % company indicating in its adver- M © 1 S y= tisements that it is still manufac- | utua Session turing cigars in Key West. | (By The Associated Press) Carl Bervaldi, who was a book-| LONDON, Dec. 3.— British keeper with the Santaella com- | cabinet members met Hindus and pany when it operated in Key West, stated that the company discontinued the manufacture of Moslems separately here today in discussing affairs in India that cigars here since shortly before ave in dispute between those two | has started a wave of “pen-pal”{ are very thank fully for your | letters from Key West to other! sending tooth brushes and schol-' the 1935 Labor Day hurricane’ religious ‘actions. struck the Matecumbes, more: All attempts to bring the} than 11 years ago. | Hindus and Moslems together In the advertisement in “To-! have failed thus far bacconist” for November 16,; Each of the factions was. re- 1946, the company sa “Tampa | ported to have entered into dis- and Key West, Florida.” jcussions readily with cabinet “In reading that advertise-; members, except when any sug- ment,” Laubscher said, “anybody | gestian was made that had as its would be led to believe that the! obje company has a factory in Key) the factions. West. Though this city is far! from what it used to be in the manufacture of cigars, the name Monroe County | ‘Key West’ is still remembered | . by the trade, and it must be} S : R 4 d 4 considered an asset by Santaella! = * ets ecor n or it would not be used in its ad- aa Y ° vertisements” | Tax Collection Bervaldi further said that the | company sold its factory and the | Tabulation today of the taxes land on which it stood, and that, | Collected in Monroe county dur- so far as he knows, it does not; ing last month shows that the| own real estate in Key West. | total was the largest ‘in the his- | tory of the county for one month, Tax Collector Howard E, Wilson id today. | Not only is it the largest col- Forces Of OPA j lection for the first month when ‘ i |taxes are payable each year,” . | Wilson said, “but the record is i aalcph pu Squecinteds Prens) | From ‘November 1 to November MIAMI, Dec. -In keeping | 29 receipt: amounted to $13 with President Truman's an- | 2! Wilson stated, out of a nounced plan to end OPA activi- | total roll for the current fiscal | ties and let them be taken over , ¥¢!", of $309,228.64 by the Rations and Priorities | In the county, taxes become Board, this city today changed|‘¢linauent on April 1, 1947. its status from an area office to} ery) ae ieee tate ( ‘ounselor To Attend Clinie E. L. Miller the Florida Vocational and Re habilitation Service. will be at} the Monroe County Clinic, Flem The office in Jacksonville was local’ office were given notices cember 24 counselor for the After the paring down ‘by that in Florida will have dwindled down to 143. ng strect, from 2 p. m., Wednes- | See lay, Decemb: +, and all day . Tt lay, Decemibe 5. Find Employment) 0+» Pied rembe of the The organization of vunselor will Jeff Knight, Florida State director of the f-sust Unemployment n many false alarms that they had] out from the curb, catching its} Service, stated today that h to be abolished. Ellingson said} jeft front bumper in the Ford! office had placed 107 residents in PUN tificial limbs, eyes he hoped that this would not! fender, ripping it off so that it! employment during the month other d for those need happen with the new glass-type| dragged on the ground, said Mc- | of November. Two were handi-, P81 Reimbursement pay alarms ; Cann. The bumper was sprung | capped veterans, and two handi- be discussed with The city manager and the) and left a dent in the left fender ; capped civilians. Twenty-eight Mall fire chief said that they had re-/ of the Packard. ; | others were veterans, of World = Full t may be ob- eived a visit recently from; War WI, and the temaining 75 ined | nt ng Miller Wed r tay O Tt Committeeman Murphy of the; Junior Chamben ef Commerce who was investigating the fire- alarm system and who said that | the system was antiquated. El- lingson said it was true the s and some of the wiring is in need! { replacing but both he and the | fire chief said that the system is| in first-class condi- nevertheless oy josie To Be Held, ‘Tomorrow Evening | A gala fiesta will be given to-, | morrow under the auspices of tem has been in use many years! the Catholic Daughters of Amer-| ment service director 1 ‘ica at the Parish Center, Duval ; street, formerly a USO. Chairman of the event, Rita Del Villar announces that a very | ton | enjoyable evening will be had by ‘ The city manager said he in-j all those attending. Miss Beatrice isted that Murphy's comime (Moreno, well known musician, try the system at any time at any box and suggested that a J. C van be at the fire station at the time that a fellow committceman ! pulls the alarm in order to check hether or not the system is op- erating properly legitimacy In Berlin BERLIN (AP) Official} tatistics showed that 21.4 per ent of all babies born in Berlin 1945, until last Septem- born out of wedi n 5 aie from Oct ber were WHY ™ i 2 We Can Give It Our Full Attention AMBLER'S SERVICE GARAGE 404 Duval Street —— Adjoining La Concha —— and Jerry Henriquez, will pro- | vide the entertainment, During | | the evening, free refreshments of cake and punch will be served Mrs. Del Villar states that the jfiesta is being given for the | benefit of the St. Mary’s Church \and the Diocese orphanages for | boys and gir ‘BERLI NEEDS YEAR | | FOR DENAZIFYING | BERLIN. —(AP)—Berlin city authorities predict that the de- nazification of the capital's popu- | | lation will require at least anoth- er year. | Forty-two denazification com- missions complete between 1,8) | and 2,000 cases monthly. { | Palace Theater | BILL GOODWIN in ‘HOUSE OF HORRORS’ News and Serial {| TONIGHT IS PRIZE NITE i were civilians. Knight states that-he still ha 354 active applications listed at Syl) Base Opening his office on Simonton strect, oi | which 203 were made by World. Recreational Halli War IL veterans. The unemploy-} sates a tion hall for that employers list their job ay ay ane plicants with his office, and nueeG 3 BRON Ser ae thorough effort will be made t WW Eee ae place the right ma V 9:30 with an on the job. a e eae aa Local Resident's Husband ‘8: One ee tationed At Norfolk ik Wey Lysle T. McCown, aviatior machinist’s mate, second "husband of Mrs. Jacqueline M Cown, of 821 Georgia street, ‘ i ieee Key West, Fla. is stationed at) 00} eee tee the Naval Air Station, Norfolk, |)" : mar checker Virginia. i me Sedce ae McCown, who entered the : ib Navy on, February 25, 1943 PLENTY OF FOOD ceived his recruit. trainir the Jacksonville Naval Training Station. Before entering = the Wice WASHINGTON.—No_— country- paign to t the bringing together of} y “IN THE UNITED STATES KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1946 : { | { | | | j | ( be solicited. It is hoped that suf- the City )Caesar’s Landing Craft | tender care of scientists. service, he attended Corne s in C ) i of the gency t un STERLING'S “See wear’ 1318 Eliza Street Phone 4a we Also at Margaret and Fleming Sts. | SHOPPING Ee pAYs LARGE SHIPMENT OF TO ¢ "HRISTMAS 18° FRYERS and ROASTERS | Van Nierop, and she lives in| Many Greetings. | Nijmegen, Holland. She wrote to jreligious, fraternal, civic and} PRICE FIVE CENTS John L. Lewis And Soft-Coal Miners Found Guilty Today Of Contempt Of Geurt By Striking * Little Dutch Girl Writes Key West Schoolgirl, Giving Thanks For Gifts A letter from a 12-year-old are more girls who want to cor- Dutch girl to little Shirley Rose|?@spondent her are some girls Melson ‘of :1100\ Virginia street, | Suites mors whe) should. like: to have a pen-pal in America. We Furopean youngsters. astics, Dear frind I am sending The Dutch child is named Mimi | this letter, next time more. Your's affectionate | Shirley, who is about the same MIMI. | age, saying she had received the! My adress: Friendship Bag which Shirley |Mimi Van Nierop, Rose had sent her as part of the ; Palestrine Straat 35, local Girl Scout program. Nijmegen, Holland. Mimi's letter (and there are I hope to get a letter back ina j only a couple of misspellings— short time. i which is pretty good for a little girl writing in a foreign language) The word “scholastics” refers follows to school supplies which Buen Fi Nijmegen, Sunday, 10 Nov. ; Rose sent her. Dear Frind: Last spring the Girl Scouts I've received your picture. 1) of Troops 5 and 8 sent 55 Friend- ! hope you can read my letter. I am | ! ship Bags to foreign children. | twelve ‘years old and you? Have, The bags were filled with a you more brothers and sisters? | number of useful items impos- | I've only one brother, he is, sible for the children in war-torn twenty-five years old. tt there countries to obtain. Bye, Bye. ©. oe —— Community Mikes Program To Be Planned Tomorrow A community Christmas pro- &: j evidence, ‘made in a news reel device JUDGE GOLDSBOROUGH DEFERS IMPOSING OF SENTENCE TILL TO- MORROW MORNING (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers of America, of which he tis president, were found guilty today by Judge T. Allan Golds borough, presiding in federal court here, of contempt of court because they disregarded a re straining order ssued by the court November which pro vided that they not declar a strike in the country’s soft " mines. Judge Goldsborough defe ] sentence until tomorrow morn ing. The court admitted into the against protest by Lewis’ attorneys, remarks Lewis st May 29, in which he said that disputes in the coal mines had tbeen settled for as long as the government maintained control of the mines. To remarks by Lewis’ attor neys that the statement should be excluded by the court, Judge | Goldsborough asked if Le \nied having made the stat t to which the attorneys replied that he did not. After the rendition of the ver jdict, Lewis addressed the court He reviewed actions by courts 1 labor injunction cases that went back as far as 1912. He asserted | that he and the members of the United Miners of America we ject which is planned to provide fruit, candy and Yuletide ca Driver Found ae Guilty In . Aute ta night at 8 o'clock when a general | meeting will be held of all; ’ business organizations in the city. The meeting will be held in' driver of “an automobile, which the City Commission ehainbers totally. injured Charles F Mar- jof the City Hall. All’-organiza- 1 ahs are urged to. be represented | | for participation in’ Key: West's | was not guilty of hegligence, And first community Christinas, _pro- | the case against him was dismiss. | QV AM rwve ee County Solicitor Allan B. Tentative ‘plans ‘call for two 30-!Cleare, Jr., said today, foot Christmas trees to be erect-| He added that four witnesses jed, one in Bayview Park and) testified that Marsey was fish- another for colored children at, ing from a catwalk at the bridge the colored school. On Saturday and placed his left foot on the morning, December 21, a Christ-| ground in front of the approach- mas program is planned for Bay-, ing automobile. His left leg was view Park at which Santa Claus torn off and hurled 70 feet away. will arrive in a fire truck and He died three days later in a Mi- distribute fruit, candy and! «mj hospital. Christmas stockings On Monday, December 23, a similar program would be held Commission Room around the tree at the colorec er May Be Improved 30th trees would be lighted throughout Christmas week and} Ay appropriation of $4,000. to it is expected that various £TOUPS' }edecorating and equipping the will sing Christmas carols around Commission Chamber of the, City the trees each night ‘Hall is being requested “in the Funds for the program will not 1947 budget to be submitted to Manager, City Clerk ficient contributions will be vol- Roy Hamlin said today unteered by the various organl-, The renovating project would zations to carry out the program. ¢ajj_ for installation of large ‘electric fans, fluorescent lighting and a complete redecorating job. Ps led, Is Found In England The present somber green in- HULL, Engiand—(AP}>—Plank [o1! eee Se eames Host 00 vears old, imbedded poth walls and ceiling, and the see iutiber River Gaddi anen Obete bulb lignts (Would (bey re- i jandedeinepricain placed with modern fluorescent ceavated under the /Xtur us Caesai e being ¢ Efforts are being made to dig STORM CAUSES CAPTURE out the boats in a solid block of SALEM, Ore.—The recent ter- d haul them to dry rific coastal storm caused the ground on a steel sled. return of an escaped prisone: About 30 feet of one boat re- who stumbled into the jailhous mains: and the other is some 37 of Reedsport, Ore., wet and hi teet long. Scientists said the dis- gard, and pleade d with police to was of “great importance “feed me and lock me up . ! history of European water just can't stand this.” sport.” | The convict, John Tuel, 47- ' year-old life-termer, told of hav- ‘ing walked, 80 mutes: from Eu- | gene to Reedsport in Storms with winds so strong he Opce. had to Heavy Cream = | crawl on hands and knee for Whipping a railroad bridge. He escaped on November 10. i clay covery across Is NOW pn aa OBTAIN SEE. CASA CAYO HUESO i | (The Southernmost House) | 1400 Duval at South St. H ADAMS’ “eee rEes DAIRY LUNCH | COCKTAIL LOUNGE ——901 White Street —.'———Opens 5 P.M. Daily-——| a A coroner's jury at Tavernier ; brought, in a_ verdict, etane | sey. at the Conch' Key ‘Bridge, ' atheis., peak being deprived of their constitu- \tional rights by bemg adjudged in contempt of court. Authorities in this city repor ed that they had only a 20-day supply’ of coal, and news fror Denver said that city was with + out coal and that wood was be ing , burned to keep houses my A. dispatch from Lansing Mich.,.g4jd public schools in tha city had. been closed for thre weeks because of coal shortages Fourteen thousand students at , tend, ihe schpol The White that shortly after congress convenes on Janua the President will send essage to congress advocating t lawing of | strike n in where their operation tial to the pubhe we Vandals Sought As Rocks Clog “Pipes Of Plumbing Job Albert G of the Key We eigtion reported four drain pipes or Wa Building: ob filled with rock Roberts said he ar ner, A. H. Willian work at 8 a. m., and ging for catch ba are to. instal later they notic which they four vertic been removed an ! | Hotise hy se. rock had been each pipe for its t length The associz he would ai controversy t Commission meet DAIRY PRODUCTS WASHING ry produc should begin to de ‘duction starts crease within a tk cording to the Depa Commerce : ai ny ass RAUL’ on the BOULEVARD - DANCING Nightly to the Music of MARK ii STANLEY Orchesy Featuring STIVIA at & Best Drinks» Popular Pry Reservations: [ny