The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 14, 1946, Page 1

VOLUME LXVII. NO. 297 Pittsburgh Pirate Official Due J. Y. Porter, IV, Next, Week; Browns, Bues y To Play Six Cames Here Her ST. LOUIS CLUB REPRE-* Key ‘ Src aie SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1946 Named Head Of Red Cross Drive The four major offices of the Key West Chapter, American Red Cross, were filled for 1947 last night at the chapter’s annu- 7 IN TH 1 - $304 Is Reported | In Contributions For City’s Xmas A total of $304.03 has been: contributed by Key West organi- | zations and individuals toward SENTATIVE HAS EX- Red Cross Loaned AMINED FIELD HERE; LIKES IT Ray Kennedy, general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is ex- pected in Key West next week to look over Municipal Stadium and consider other details involving a! Cross, had 307 active cases during visit of the Pittsburgh club to this city next spring. Roy Hamlin, president of the stadium committee, said that a representative of the St. Louis Browns has already examined the field and expressed approval of it. Both the Browns and the Pirates are seriously considering playing three games here apiece, | inquiries and messages, informa- in March, Hamlin added. | Both clubs asked Hamlin to! make offers, specifying what ar-| rangements could be made _ re- @arding expensse, gate receipts, ete. Today the committee head sent letters t9 Kennedy and Chas. ! DWitt, traveling secretary of the the community Christmas pro-' E UNITED .STATES Winecoff Hotel Fire PRICE FIVE CENTS Either \Deliberately Set Or Had Been Burning Long, Expert Declares al meeting in the auditorium of the County Public Hedlth unit, 203 Fleming street. Allan L. Hampton was reel- ected chairman, and J. Y. Porter, $488, Handled 307 Cases Last Month The home service unit of* Key West Chapter, American Red ; Mrs. Wilhelmina Harvey was el- | treasurer. ed as chairman of the chapter’s fund-raising campaign will be held in March. Committee chairmen and mem- bers of the board of directors will Financial aid was involved in' be announced at the first meet- 27 cases out of 17 different cate-| ing of the officers to be held in gories of service which included , ten days. . Service ribbons and certificates tion giving, social histories, fur-; were awarded to approximately lough and furlough extension! 76 volunteers who contributed to verification, reports of health of; the work of the Red Cross dur- the month of November, accord- ing to a monthly report made public today by Earl E. Hamilton, chairman, Home Service com- mittee. ous special reports requested for:H. Goddard made the presenta- servicemen, assistance with gov-}tiorls. ernment benefits, consultation! Certificates were presented to and guidance, referrals to other | 13 Grey Ladies by Captain W.i Browns. Six big-league games in Key| West would be such a benefit to: the community, Hamlin said, that it is feasible to ask the Pirates and Browns down here with no expenses to them but gasoline. The ballpark here would be turn- ed over to them, together with re-| ceipts and expeness for the! trip. On the basis of other big-league contests in South Florida, Hamlin’ agencies, assistance with claims) Dalton Davis, commanding offi- for disability pensions, assistance | cer of the Navy Hospital. with claim for death pensions,! Cards of merit were awarded assistance with insurance claims, |}, 93 graduates of the home-nur- hospitalization and home care,|_; A onrntl = «Henge *!sing course taught in the high vocational rehabilitation, and re- school by Mrs. L. H. Conly and 1V, was elected vice chairman. | ected secretary, and Joe Pinder, ' J. Y. Porter, 1V, was announc-! serviceman’s family, miscellane-;}ing the war period. Mrs. Leland | ted 3 i) ineedy families will run as high! go into effect. It was said also ports for Veterans’ Administra- tion. Thirty-nine cases were closed} during the month, so that the home service unit started Decem- |. ber with 268. Financial assistance extended Miss Katherine Lowe. Music was furnished by the Key West High School band un- der the direction of J. R. Mar- cellus, The slate of candidates was |; said, Key West would be more than repaid by the fans traveling here to see the series. He cited examples of fans driving all the ; loans. BRS DS te AE oat are XS way to Tampa to see big-league | ‘P4ed to help in family emer- teams in action. | gencies, such as delays in arriv- The Browns will train i Mi}! of allotment checks to depend- ia j during the month totalled $488.- 70 and $280.97 was repaid on ami and the Pirates at Dates for the prospective con- 4 tests have nptabeen set. _ Other| their. preponderance in K whether the con-| was ten times greater 4 i Key West, } personnel. o r-squad mes or between ste Pirates, and Browns, also re-| ANGLER’S LUCK IS, main to be ironed out. ‘)) U4 LWAYS GOOD WITH ee JUDGE WILLIAMS conference held on the West or their dependents, because of West an to Assistance to Navy personnelj recommended by Earl E. Hamil- | ton, chairman of the nominating | j committte. Brief talks on the work of the American Red Cross were made by Mrs. Hampton and Oliver Griswold ,director of public re- lations, | ARGUE MOTION THIS MORNING IN Circuit Judge Ross Williams, sitting in chambers in Key ‘West: this morning, heard arguments by attorneys for William R. Porter and Norberg Thompson, in the Circuit Judge Ross Williams, | suit instituted by the city against} cou . GITY. TAX.SULP Sha critical item, were |gram, Mrs. Wilhelmina Harvey, treasurer, reported last. night at 'a meeting of committee heads at {the City Hall. The Christmas pot on Duval; street, adjoining the Kress build-! ing. has brought in $103.08. Other | { contributions not previously van-! nounced were made by the fol-} ! lowing: Hotel Association, $15;' which! American Legion, $25; Business | and Professional Women’s Club, + $30; of Foreign Wars | Auxiliary, $50; Veterans of For- !eign Wars Colored Auxiliary, | $10; Regular Fellows Club (col- ored), $21.65; Lions Club, $50; |M. D. Ellis, $10; Vernell Hut-' { chison, $5; Coral City Elks Lodge (colored), $3; Veterans of Foreign Wars (colored) $26.30. The of baskets for number John E. Pickens, the Distribution as 70, Rey: chairman of | Committee, reported. He said he a numerous calls announcement | had received since the recent worthy families facing a menges| Christmas were wanted. H The general chairman report’! ed that Christmas stockings can- not be acquired and suggested’ using bags. Mrs. Harvey proposed | using durable cellophane sacks to thold the candy, fruit and! nuts to be given each child to ap- ar at the community programs, Dec. 21 at Bayview Park and | Dec. 23 at Douglass School, the, latter for colored children. The, chairman also reported that a recalculation of the number of individual gifts to be made shows that 2,500 would be a closer esti- mate than the original 5,000 planned. Accordingly, plans are Difficulties in securing, can | and it was decided to attempt to secure it from several different; sources if necessary. roy Pickens said that the toy-col-} lecting program is showing’ en- aging results.,He reported ; *BLAZE COULD HAVE | should the CIO proposal to in- in the press that the names of KATHLEEN YATES Increase In |Unlighted Parked Living Cost (Car Forces Three Up Percent More In Accident (By The Associated Press) An automobile, parked on WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—The | Roosevelt Boulevard without cost of living in the United) ,.,... f States has increased 17 percent Hanis, caused accidently ones other cars last night, sent a wo- this year, the Department of Ag- riculture announced today. Two! man to a hospital reportedly with per cent of the increase was from} a broken nose, another to her home with four teeth knocked October 15 to November 15. out and resulted in three drivers (In connection with the high cost of living, a statement was ‘ being charged with reckless dri- ving. issued in Pittsburgh that there wolild be decided advances It all started, police said, when F. J. Brownlee, a sailor, parked his DeSoto on the boulevard after being apprehended by po- lice at 11:30 p.m., Arthur Middle- ton of 73-2 Poinciana Place came along in his Ford sedan and hit the. unlighted DeSoto. Mrs. Middleton suffered four teeth knocked out. Shortly afterward Ojcoe Hub- bard of 23-A, Naval Air Station, stopped at the accident in his crease wages 25 cents an hour that the proposed advance in wages, would put out of business good many industrialists in Pittsburgh). FILES SUIT FOR $10,000 DAMAGES Kathleen Yates filed suit yes- terday afternoon for $10,000 dam- ages, through her attorneys, Tom | Watkins and Raymond Lord,| against John C. Scribner. She alleges she was injured in 1941 Plymouth to se if he could help. When Bernie C. Papy, Jr., Key West High athlete, came by {a few minutes later in a 1940 3 mi «1, ; Chevrolet he ran into Hubbard. jan accident of an automobile, | In the collision, Mrs. Hubbard being made for 2500 of the sacks] fOSE TORRES HEADS Coast. senior judge in this judicial dis- \them for collection of taxes on} {hat many members of the B, P., — ors fo ager goog received a broken nose and Miss a wale ; Kitty Symmonette high school Three persons were in the auto-| panying Papy, was badly shaken fuphile/ dictuding "Misa Yates, |UD: = were Papy and Hubhard, The defendant has till January Young Papy, police said, later col- @ to file answer. lapsed when being questioned. Patrolman Frank Caraballo, Eugene Hernandez and Paul Sto- ~vgp*fer rushed to the scene. Mrs. F. AND A.M. LODGE | yyiadieton would not go to the wvent ‘Torres -was elected bea hospital arid was taken home. shipful Master of Felix verse Mrs. Hubbard was taken to the —— EN ede ast Naval Hospital and Middleton, the lodge rooms Other officers | Hubbard and ESDy were, changed lGimotedi.were: with reckless driving. The charges Worshipful | will be argued in Municipal court Master, Jose Tor-/| ae res; Senior Warden, Dr. Delio; Monday. Cobo: Junior Warden, M. Mo-! Brownlee had parked the car | BEEN EXTINGUISHED READILY HAD IT BEEN REPORTED PROMPT- LY (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dev. 14—John L. McCarthy, who had 32 years’ ex- perience as a firefighter in this city, and is now a consultant of insurance companies on fires, said jto day that, after his investiga- tion of the Winecoff hotel fire in Atlanta, where 121 persons lost their lives, he has reached one or two conclusions: either the ~ fire was deliberately set or had ben burning a long time before it was discovered. He pointed out that, with a fire company about the corner from where the Winecoff stood, the blaze could have been confined to the-floor where it started had it been reported promptly. In- stead, he added, a negro elevator girl reported to a clerk that. she had smelled smoke and the clerk transmitted the night manager, who, when he reached the third floor, found it to be a roaring inferno, Even faced with that condi- tion, he added, many persons who lost their lives would be alive today had the hotel been properly equipped with fire es- capes and a signal system. Instead, he concluded, the manager began to warn guests, ane after another, by telephone until it became inoperative be- fore one fifth of them were given warning. | ‘ at Unemployed Get : Pay In This County employment compensation pay- ment sin Monroe county during report. to the | trict, arrived last night to attend’ the Porter realty in the eastern] W. at a recent meeting brought| “O00; s "Ue sre. | about 6:27 p. m., when arrested by \to official business this morning,| and northeastern section of the! new toys from their stores, and Tales; treasurer, G. Sue PiPatrolman Hector’ Castro, who | the week ending December 7 | but will remain till tomorrow, island and on the Thompson! he was given some 30 others secretary, F. Castro; marshall, P. stro, Lens) fa SEG) cast es l S Negro rne z; che y !then turned him over to Deputy ! 6 | evening before he begins his re-jhome, off the head of the island. | from stores. These, he added, did See Becca ete Gs Sheriff Jose Genie i a made to 11 persons, 10 men and | turn trip to Miami, so that he} J. Lancelot Lester, city attorn-| not even need repairing. With Kea taee: Tunion Danae De J. C.len driving, speeding and no driv-| 1 women, Carl B. Smith, chair. may enjoy several hours fishing} ey, appeared for the city and op- | paired toys, being fixed by ser- * ”, % Florida Industrial Saved F i av rom Fire Sanch Senior Steward, M./er‘s license, | mang ot the } in local waters. j ee mate | wicemen 2 th S ai Commission reported today. posed the motion to strike made | vicemen at the U. S. O., he said, Benetiz: Junior Steward, E. Cor- AN “tour | 3 F In New Orleans. Judge Williams will try his, by attorneys for the defendants. | the 1 of 170 toys will un- ales; Tyler, G. Munoz. See Throughout the state, he said luck with Criminal Court Judge} (By The Associated Press) } ; Judge Williams took the case} doubtedly be met if conditions aoa [pees ane eee | rf i i {under advisement. continue at their present rate. Funeral Tomorrow se Se - iv made to 3,72 ersons, NEW ORLEANS, De Teoma eer gaene ————————— conta Claus will appear Get eae tecre ape wed eee |men and 1,451 women. This was Three negroes lost their lives early atter’s boat. ‘ GRAY TAXIDERMY toy-collecting point today for the | tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 o’- | OUT AFTER FALL | an increase over payments of $52,- this morning in a fire that des-. That luck has always been EXPERT, DIES HERE {first ume, Miss Ruth A. Higgs.! clock from St. Paul's E| iscopal | ON PICKET FENCE |395.50 the previous week. ‘ troyed the attic and roof of the good during the many times sudge) Funeral services were held! secretary, reported, and daily, Church for Mrs. Jessie Adal w. L. Harvey, 612 Simonton| Compensated unemployment in Southern Hotel, on South Ramp- | Williams has ished tanec We this morning for Cecil Gray, 62-| thereafter. It was also decided} Jaycocks who died Wednesday at | Street, aged 6 received a badly | Monroe county, Ree ulered a8 ot art street, and a legless negro '*'s- ; year-old Taxidermist, who sdied| to make a general appeal for her residence, 1100 Division st.,'torn right eye at 1:30 a.m. today] °! monk throughino faultioh Sie was rescued by a passerby, who | “It’s one place I feel confident | Fyigay in the Municipal Hospital. | contributions by check or money after a short illness. |when he fell into a picket fence} WP and available for suita le heard the cry for help. that, when I go angling, I'm Gray was considered one of the | order, made payable to Mrs. Bee The body will be placed in the ,near the corner of Simonton and Srey en porcine tA It was a hotel for negroes, and | SUTe to come back witha String | finest taxidermists in the state} vey. Clerica’ , Skille , Semi- i | ' church at 2:00 o'clock and burial Southard Streets. \ pan e one of the men who lost their | iPro nae Ran gy gee once stuffed a sail-fish for; A choir from the Douglass, will Frank killed 3, Unskilled 9 lives was a brother of then man- | “@entally, ager, who said the blaze was not Pastime. Harry Hopkins, confidential aide School will sing at the toy sta-| City Cemetery. to President Roosevelt. {tion on Duval street tonight, ren- } Funeral home disovered till the attic was in «t 4 flames. MRS. DAUGHTRY RETURNS HOME He. was born in England and) dering a Christmas carol pro- } arrangements. came to this country as a small! gram to start about 7 o'clock. Massey Wilson, while passing the hotel, saw flames shooting Mrs. Edward ‘Daughtry and| boy. He is survived by one son, (2 fakes i Stanley, of Georgetown, Sec.) | from the roof, and an instant son, Edward, Jr., who had been : later saw a man on the second visiting Mrs. Daughtry’s father, cars were badly be in the family plot in) Patrolman Jolly was The Pritchard called and took the Lopez am- County Is $10,814 see ito the Municipal Hospital. Most (Special to The Citizen) WEATHER FORECAST (01 the flesh above and below the Key West and Vicini Partly eve was torn away, apparently TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 14—The installment of 10 payments cloudy with a few scattered show- | PY ae pokey Jolly ciel ; ie jers, Gentle to moderate north-}C¥e-Dall, however, was intact. Hey easterly winds through Sunday. |'$ being treated at the hospital. | 5th The funeral was held from the| Hello! Hello! Chapel of the Pritchard Funer-} Hello! Rev. J. H Woolridge, j ee nS floor and heard his cries for help. William H. Boll, 525° Duval stre: Wilson climbed up a fire escape | the last six weeks, left yesterday and brought to safety a legless | for their home in Plainfield, N. J.} ‘al Home. pastor of the Glad Tidings Taber- | man. It had been 15 years since Mrs. Daughtry was in Key West. nacle, officiated. WE HAVE MOVED KIDS SANTA CLAUS | | } | Florida: Partly cloudy and cool- | : er north portion, considerable} Stewarts Return Here cloudiness and mild south por-) Captain and Mrs. D. H. Stew- art and daughter. Mrs. Lightbon, jtion today, tonight and Sunday Will Visit ;Few showers south portion to-| nd grand-daughter, Carol Stew- have returned to Fe LL LLLP PRL ee DANCE TONIGHT 7:30 "Til 11:30 Poinciana Community Hall SLOPPY TICKETS 25c, Tax Included JOE’S B. AR wurst ae The Spot ete alan Onvouen rT l Time Seasonal Special $350 gpg ay Yourselit Lubrication Oil Change and Wash Ambler Service Garage NB 501 Music by GOULD CURRY at the Piano and Gong Never A Dull Moment RAUL'S “DANCING ~ Nightly to the Music of MARK (CRUNCH) and His STANLEY Orchestra Peataring SYLVIA at Piano Best Drinks— Popular Prices Reservations: Phone 9287 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS from 711 Duval Street to the LA CONCHA HOTEL BUILDING————_ See Our Announcement on Page 4 E. Morales, Dry Cleaner Southernmost Garag? In U. 5. TWINS GARAGE 1130 Duval Street pmone 169 Auto Repairs, Painting, Body and Fender Work Genuine Auto Parts for All Cars Cowboy and Son @ Landscaping @Lot Cleaning @ Dray Service eSidewalks *Driveways Write or Call 771 - Free Estimate JOHN R. WATSON 807 Eaton Street eTree Removal and Surgery | TOYLAND IN PERSON Come, } Missa at 6:00 P. M. \ || A Biz Surprise for Everyone | POOR OLD CRAIG j SERVICE STORE 1019 WHITE STREET SEE PAGE 4 IN THIS PAPER E2200 3ring the Kids— QUT Every Friday at LA CONCHA HOTEL PUDUUOQQQ044000000000 0000000 00UEEEEEOESEETOEEE UN ANUTEUOUU AOA MUM nn RAINBOW ROOM DANCING 9:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. MUSIC BY Dez Butler’s Orchestra jart Lightbon, night and Sunday. | Apalachicola: | Key West where they expect to Jacksonville to y No small craft or storm warnings, spend the winter. Th have been issued. the Silver Palm guest house while they are remodeling their For A Good Time, Visit the) j,ome on Eaton street. y are mak- ing their temporary residence at) Fund to the county will be made today. According to figures released yes jay by superintendent of public instruction Colin English total payments to the 67 counties this month is 782.912.89. Monroe county will receive $10,814.66, of whcih $10,713.17 is for instructional salaries and $101.49 for transportation. V.E.W. 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