The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 9, 1946, Page 1

he VOLUME LXVII. NO. 292 County Polio Fight Gets $15,000 More; National SCIENTIFIC RESERVES* Fund NOW BEING USED; St Says Stranger ERRA EXPLAINS TER- RIFIC LOCAL COSTS A check for $15,000 was re- ceived today by Ralph Sierra, chairman of the Monroe County Chapter, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., from the national office df the Foundation in New York to help fight polio in and around Key West. The check makes a total of $95,000 which the National Foundation has advanced the Monroe County group since June to combat the local epi- demic. In its accompanying let- ter the Foundation said: . “Im this, one of the greatest polio epidemics in history, we have exhausted our reserve fund of $4,000,000 in advances te chapters since June 1 and @re now compelled to draw upon reserves set up for scien- tific research. _ professional training and education. “We are sure that you will rec- ognize the vital neecssity of” keeping requirements to a mini-! mum, reducing expenditures and postponing payments till after the} March of Dimes Campaign. | Robbed Her Of $75 From Purse Betty Brown, 18, who says her | home is in Alabama, was arrested ‘en a bus at Marathon at 8 o- clock Friday by Deputy Sher- [iff Doyglas Andrew on a charge of grand larceny, brought to ; Key West and locked up in jail under a $500 bond. | Mrs. Marian Schaub, who | signed the warrant against Betty ‘told Sheriff Sawyer and Chief ; Deputy Wallace that she had $75 |stolen from her because © she j tried to befriend Betty. “I was in a store,” she ex- planed, “When she approached me ‘and said, ‘Oh, I’m so lone- ly! My husband’s in the Navy and I’m alone and don't know | anybody in Key West.’ She fol- lowed me from counter to coun- j ter, and, when I was leaving, I ' } Hl i sone Key We: SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1946 IN TH (Coal Miners ‘Four Victims Of Streaming Back | Atlanta Fire Not To Their Pits Yet Identified (By The Associated Press) (Ry Associated Presa) WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Tens; ATLANTA, Dec—All but four of thousands of soft-coal miners, ' of the 120 victims of the Wine- many of them sullen, are stream- ing back to their pits today. The ‘eoff Hotel fire have been identi- sullenness was caused by an 18- | fied. The four charred bodies day payless “vacation” taken by | are those of girls, and four fam- 400,000 members of the United ilies in Gainesville, Ga, each sacri trl Lea ee us. ;has reported the loss of a daugh- : re! ter in the blaze. Court is expected to announce’ Lite ‘this cafe: sometime this week whether or | 4), wate this afternoon. oF early. not it will review the proceed-| ‘7/8 ¢véening, members of. the ings against Lewis and the mine | families will examine the charred workers, in the *federal district} "°™'PS. eo determine whether court, presided over by Judge pio not identification can be es- k Alan Goldsborough. j feblished: 4 : Many thousands of men in| =ighty-nine of the injured are other . occupations, laid off be-‘Still in hospitals, and the condi- cause of the scarcity of coal, re-| tion of some is critical. turned to work today, though! others will not return for several | C ub Gi ; days. It was said that the et Beach I iven, shortages will be overcome by the end of this week, except = Back To Sweeney the steel industry, where it will e require a fortnight for the fuel S B N condition to become normal. isters iy ay y Should the United States Su-| 7 ee Fe | preme Court decide to revoke the ere NEN EN IETS Vole) case, it was estimated that prob- club, located at the south end of; ably a month will elapse before | Simonton street, is being return-} a decision is rendered. ‘ed to the owners of the property | today, according to an announce- Two Injured As E UNITED S@A 64-Foot Wa ‘Channel And ue English ),000-Ton Ship Capsizes In Port Of La Havre 4 Si tan tani De lanl inclin fin fin nn nnn intineelnnind REALTY SALE REMINDFUL OF * * * * * * . = | Chris Kemp, Blind, Saved By Dog From Flaming House} * * * * * * TRAINER SEEING-EYE DOGS Sale today of the Benjamin ened by the dog’s: barking, and,’ Kemp homestead, southeast cor-|by the smell of smoke and the ner of Eaton and William streets, :crackle of burning wood, became recalls the first trainer of seeing-|aware the house was on fire. He, eye @ogs in the United States, the |attached a leash to the dog’s col-, late Christianson Kemp, called,lar and was led down. the stairs; “Chris” by his friends, who was ;to the first floor, where he felt led safely out of a flaming build-!the heat of the flames. Reaching ing by his faithful canine friend. ; the front door, the dog jumped Chris, son of Benjamin Kemp,!up on it, scratching and barking, was born in Key West and resid-|and Chris ran his right hand over ed here many years after his fa-|the door till he found the kob. ther’s death 52 years ago. {He turned the key and then the In those days stock companies knob and opened the door, and came to Key West every winter, Was led across the street by the to give performances in San Car- dog. los and Odd Fellows hall. Besti Newspapers, particularly in Los rethembered member of those Angeles and San Francisco, gave} @émpPanies was Frank Hayes, a long accounts. of Chris’ rescue by: i THREE OTHER SHIPS REPORTED AS LOST: WAVES BREAK OVER BULKHEADS ALONG CHANNEL (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 9.—A fifty- thousand-ton ship has capsized, with unconfirmed reports of three other sinkings, as a result of winds of hurricane force lashing the English Channel since yester- day. Gusts exceeding 75 miles have disrupted shipping in the channel for 24 hours. The former Europa, now named Liberto, of 50,000 tons, was hit broadside by the northeast gales while tied to a wharf in the French port of Le Havre. .One after the other of the lines*was broken, and the ship was blown into the center of the basin, where she capsized, tearing a hole in her starboard side from her main deck to a point off her engine room. All members of her crew had been rescued before she sank. It | told her.I was going to the home | @fedian, whom Mrs. Kemp mar- the dog. It then occurred to Chris! was said that the chances are good of a friend on William street, and she begged to along with me. She accompanied me to my friend’s home, where I entered No Time Limit !a bedroom and dropped my hand- No time limit is set on repay- ment of the loans. Settlement is undestrood to be effected when- ever circumstances and funds permit. President of the Foun- dation is Basil O'Connor, friend; and ex-law partner of President | Roosevelt, founder of the Founda- | tion. The terrific cost which the epi-} demic in Key West has caused! the Monroe County Chapter is! evidenced in some of the bills} whieh’ Chairman Sierra has re- ceived. A payment of $9,000 must be | ‘made-to the Jackson Memorial | Hospital in Miami where three’ patients are under | bag on a bed. A few minutes later she asked if she may go to the lavatory, and when told yes, she passed through the bed- room on the way to the lavatory. A few minutes after her return, she said she had to leave to meet her husband.” Mrs. Schaub said that, as she took up her handbag off. the bed and was about to walk away with it, something struck her ‘to open it and look inside.’ She opened it, and the $75 she had in it. was gone, she told Sher-| iff Sawyer... , The! case “against Brown. will come up at a hegring before Peace mt at a cost of $1,000, Justice Ira Albury Monday af? Per month each. Two county patients at Warm Ga., require financial of $47 per week apiece. t month alone the county chapter had to pay the Naval Hospital here $627.74 for rooms for six county patients. This fee does not include the salary | of three nurses at $12 per day and a physiotherapist at $300 per month. “The expense of securing prop- er care and treatment for polio patients,” Sierra said, “is so high , | a that it would be impossible dont At R di the average family to meet them| mateur a 10 without help. Only the extreme- ly wealthy could afford the tre- mndous cost. Consequently, any- one can see how indispensible the county chapter is here and how much depends on strong support te our March of Dimes Cam- paign.” ROSS, STATE ELK VICE - PRESIDENT, ON OFFICIAL TRIP P. J. Ross of the Key West Lodge of Elks, Vice President of the State Elks Association, left this morning to make an official visit to the following lodges: Fort Lauderdale, Monday; Lake Worth, Tuesday; Beach, West Palm Wednesday; Pahokee, i e, Friday. aturday he will attend a directors’ meeting of the Harry- Anna Crippled Children’s Home at Umatilla, Florida, of which he is a director. RAADAAAASASLAALASSS MOTOR TUNE-UP SAVES GAS ' answering the description given ‘him by the sheriff. ternhoon. a When the case, was report to Sheriff Sawyer, he said, from) what he was told shortly: after- ward, that Betty Brown had boarded the 7 o’clock-bus-owt of Key West. He telephoned to Dep- uty Andrew, giving a descrip- tion of the woman. He stopped the bus at Marathon till he had search it and found the woman Station Proposed The Key West Radio Amateur !Club and School, bership of 12 licensed and 13 non-licensed operators, is taking steps to set up a permanent sta- tion on the air here, The sta- tion would be for use and listen- ing pleasure of club members. Meetings are held every Mon- day at 7:30 p. m. at the school, on the corner of Reynolds and South streets, and may be at- tended by any persons interest- ed in amateur redio work. Fun- damental courses in radio and Morse code are offered. SELLERS SE DEEDES, IB, (uavented REPLACEMENT le PARIS ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS 121 Duval Street mums Phone 442 sameewems Palace Theater MARGARET LOCKWOOD in Lou Smith Auto Servite White at Fleming St. Phone 5 Opposite Army Barracks a ahaa NEW PIONEER HOTEL 151 N.E. FIRST ST. In the Heart of Miami The Rendezvous of Key West SERVICEMEN and CIVILIANS “Best For A Night's Rest” 1 Block West of Bus Depot “THE MAN IN.GREY” * News and Serial ed} dyer’ the ‘seat. with a mem-/ | ment by Captain W. A. Saunders, | Cars Sideswipe At Sugar Loaf, USN, commanding officer of the ; Two automobiles, in one of | Naval Submarine Base. which were Berlin A. Sawyer, Jr., and William L. Young, mana- ! ger of the Pirates Cove Fishing | Camp, and in the other, Mr.| and Mrs. Thomas Grady andj} Frank J. French, 1 Denham Terrace, Key West, sideswiped | on the Overseas Highway, Sugar Loaf, at 7:30 Saturday evening, and Young’s left arm was bro- ken and Sawyer was cut on the hands and forehead. Occupants of the other car were uninjured. Sawyer and Young were driv- ing to the fishing camp. with 150°pounds of ice, while the other car was coming toward Key West pe the . accident happened. by ay yer ¢ar turned over and rolled into water that came ,up Sawyer crawled out of the car and then pulled out Young. Both were taken to’ the “KéyWest General” Hos- pital. Mr. and Mrs. Grady and French came to town in another car. It was not long after they | left their damaged automobile | that ‘vultures,” as Sheriff Sa yer characterized them, began Leased by the Civilian Wel-|#@@ several years after fare and Recreation Committee the beach club was a favorite recreation area of hundreds of Naval employees and __ their guests during the peak of war- time employment here. Use of the beach has decreased in recent months because of from the Sweeney sisters in 1944, | curtailed employment, and it was, i jain Kemp’s death. The last him other dogs could do for other company in which he performed blind people. So Chris began to tin Key West was the Charles W. train .seeing-eye dogs for the Chase Stock Company. Chase was blind. : the father of Charles, Jr., gen-! His understanding of dogs was érally called “Pete” Chase. He Said to be uncanny, but he claim- left here 23 years ago to work for €d no unusual ability in training Carl Fisher, developer of Miami them. He did maintain that, with Beach, and still resides in that Patience, he got so close to “dog city. ;nature” he could make them un-/ A few years after Mrs. Kemp derstand almost anything. A book! recently determined by the com-/ matried Frank Hayes, they and Was written about his experiences | mittee to comply with the re- | Mis. Kemp's children’ went quest of the owners and return: California to make their home. It had a wide circulation in western| the property to them. was in that state that Chris be- States. The committee will, continue; came totally blind. For atime he Chris’ mother, Lottie H. Hayes, to function and provide recrea-| was at a loss what to do, then sold the homestead to Ellis Owens tional activities for Naval em-} he decided to train a dog to be- for $12,500. The lot has a front: ployees, Captain Saunders said.j come his “seeing:eye”. age of 95 feet on Eaton street ani Next activity planned is a Xiias It was one of those dogs that a frontage of 44 feet on William party forthe chifdren of Uivfttan } saved Chris’ life. He-was awak- street. employees. 27 New Members - Elks Contribute Apply To BPW. $250 To Charity ° te ‘fF Petition For oy he Building Of The j fast growing Business| Welfare institutions will 9 sional Women’s “Club' ceive $250 thhough the’ generosity “i tyaha [and Brofe: : i Lateral Roads|* Key West has received 27 new of the Beneficient and Protective | Bis tes oo “Order of Elks, Lodge 551, of Key Frank G. Sutton, 411 William} 4PPlcations for membership i West. The donations, recently ads a committee that} fhe last few days. The applica-| authorized, include $100 to the the | tions will be voted upon Wed-{ Elks National Foundation, $50 to nesday at 8 p. .m at the club, the Monroe County Tuberculosis meeting in the Municipal Hospi-j and Health Association, $50 to | Father Flannagan’s Boys’ Town, street, hi will present a petition to county commissioners, at the meeting - tomorrow night, | questing them to build lateral} ta), to strip it. They had taken eral things and had broken open the trunk when they were | frightened away by the approach | of a wrecking car, driven by W. | C. Sweeting. | He said today that he immedi- | ately noticed that “vultures” had | cluding a radio, that they we likely to try to get when they i radio had been stolen also, and told by Sweeting that he had the! car is a_ total Grady car has a , The Sawyer wreck. The fender and a running torn off and a bent axle. tet tte ten tate ERS—at the RIGHT PRICE!!! 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Ply’ Tmic, USN, for service aboard | mouth or DeSoto Car REPAIRED | the destroye: EFFICIENTLY AT YOUR DEAL. | Edwin Street, CMoMM, for serv- Inc.| ; Upon induction of the new, 4nd $59 to the Harry Anna Crip- lower and upper chains of the’ members the club will have a to-| pes Children's Home at Uma-, Florida K , _ {tal strength of 85, the largest | Ulla. Sutton declared he felt confi-; women’s organization in the city.| The Elks also have returned roads at various places on the dent that, were the roads con-! Fach member must be either in| With an expression of apprecia- | structed, developments would be an employer or employed ca-, tion, a $150 donation of the Jun- made. | pacity. ior Woman's club to aid in the At Wednesday’s meeting each, purchase of an iron lung during |member is to bring a new or old wae e nt poke eoeea ae! Five Men At Base toy for contribution to the Com- | Pus’ was made out o| | Unit Commendations! munity Christmas program, The, *'*S 'T€@ enlisted; club also is engaged in a project’ | eae aus men and an officer at a Captain's to place benches throughout the CHARGES DISMISSED AGAINST SAILOR | Charges against R. E. Finch,; la sailor, accused of trespassing, | Capt. W. A.jtal patients on sightseeing tours, officer, | of the city. ubmarine Base. commanding | bonell, who preferred the charg-, , claimed Finch was on the; ' stairs of his apartment above the | ees | Bahama Bar, Duval street, in the; Pye oe eance Gee aes of sovenber - : 4 Sh a Do you have that wonderful el- | inch, who was it over e | Sea : es haceree ower? d hours of w alla spitalize: 8 A | CFC, for sefvice aboard the sub- rt dip into ¥ g| elt and hospitalized, Glegee ne ‘marine, USS Darter; Reese Dale » forced ite make E . claiming he was on the ie , a ather allow the aa fi tcc |Osborne, SKle, for service aboard | Insurance. « SI CCR oma neee jthe battleship, USS South Da- sibility " x ices: appeared, the charges were dis- | kota. your family whe e missed. si = TTD LALLA LLL LLL LoL Agent, ©. H. Wardlow |914 Fleming St. Key West, Fla. Phone 1019 or 748-W service aboard the Swordfish; Carl submarine, Edward Long, USS Bailey; John \ | | i | Celebrates 82d Birthday { ! Anderson “Dutch” Lones was | Tradewinds Club | 87 ‘Friday night with a party at- Announces the Opening of Its tended by many friends and rel- Mermaid R ermal oom | atives. Open at Eleven Daily Cocktails, Four to Six At the Piano LEO DEMARIS HOPPING DAYS © CHRISTMAS || Duval and Caroline Phone §19-W_ |j 3 | AWN Ben- that what his dog was doing for! of refloating her. | A tugboat, while towing a ship {to port on the English side of the | gianbel, is reported to have turn jed over, and it was believed that jthe four members of her crew {lost their lives. Two other ships, ithe names of which were not re. | vealed, are supposed to have gone jdown in mid-channel. Waves reached a height of 64 feet in the channel, and on both to in training dogs for the blind, andj '®¢ English and French sides wa- ter. swept over bulkheads. Hast- ings and Cornell reported water to be four feet deep along the ee front. Turning Car Hit On Bridge By Another Neil A. Sherouse was in the act of turning his car on the Sévéen-Mile bridge at midnight Saturday when his car was struck by an automobile driven by William L. Hunter As a result of the collision State Road Patrolman Warren Bateman arrested Sherouse on a charge of reckless driving and Hunter on a charge of drunkeri™ Both defendants are Hunter a ing a $50 bond and bond for $200. Many Trying Out For Roles In Play Preliminary casting tryouts for the next production of the Key West Players drew a_ record turn-out Friday night at the Barn Theatre, more than 50 persons attending. Thirteen men and six women Submarine Base, bestowed the | “tama mmnmmmninnnninniintiitm, | Were dismissed by Judge Enri-; sought parts in “The Night of honor ribbons on the following | que Esquinaldo in Municipal! January the 16th”, 3-act com- | PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE | (ie eae manera i CORPORATION ; Court Saturday. R. A. Car-'edy drama by Ayn Rane e Lt. (jg) Curtis D. Breeding for} play calls for 14 men and 8 wo- men in the cast. No decisions on the cast will be made until the final casting. All parts in the cast ; are still open. The final casting will be held tonight at 8 o'clock, also at the Barn theatre. Announcement will be made at that time of the next production. SREREEBEEEREREEER ERE ED ROASTERS and FRYERS BRADY’S (Live) Poultry and Egg Market 1214 White St. Phone 54° wre a iefiataettaatatall aU AULA rAANHVLASES URES, "EverybodyiKnows Brady” J. H. BRADY WHO AGAIN OPERATES POOR OLD CRAIG'S SERVICE STATION PHONE 9134 Division and Francis Streets Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires — Tubes — Batteries Auto Accessories SQUDEUENLAUUUOEEAAAOTELESREOUOAEEENAA Cnn Tene