The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 27, 1946, Page 1

Se eet A tb 4 set ne sent VOLUME LXVII. No. 307 5 Rebels Driven. | \ “hina Three former Key Westers— In’ ndo-C in all born and raised here—return- (By ‘The Associated Press) lea to their boyhood haunts yes- PARIS, Dec. 27.—Reports re-!terday in a 14-foot canoe and ceived today from Indo-China | found they could not find their said that fierce fighting has oc-| way as they did in the days of curred in the vicinity of Hanoi. | their youth. In short, they were Rebels met with a series of | lost for 10 or 12 hours. successes in that area until this| Waldo Leon of Coral Gables, morning, when a French’ force,|@ former bank employe here; supported by planes, drove them!Denham Bernreuder of Miami, back. All the ground the rebels'and Ulmond Boyle, of Jersey had gained was retaken by the }City, N. J., are guests of Charles | French. ;Mackey, 1700 Flagler avenue. a a aa to hi st eed Che Key We SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1946 |. JExKey Westers Return To Boyhood 40 Injured As. Back At Hanoi’” |Haunts And Become Lost Among Keys! Streamliner ‘ miles out. After darkness fell, however, they could see lights along the Overseas Highway and made their way in that direction. It was wet work as the canoe had to be waded over the banks, but shortly after midnight they Reached Big Coppit Key and plunged through the mangroves! toward the highway. Leon hitch- | hiked back to Key West‘and summoned help. The other wet, ' weary and hungry men were! : Jumps Track (By The Associnted Press) NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27.—An; Illinois Central all-Pullman! streamliner, on the way from Chicago to this city, was wreck- ed today 31 miles west of here, | injuring 40 passengers, who were taken to hospitals in Hammond. Five cars of a train of 13 were derailed. \ It has not yet been determined | IN THE UNITED STATES PRICE FIVE CENTS |Republican Leaders Suggest President Not Interfere In Their Legislative Program MEANWHILE, Seven-Foot Sailfish Caught By Ohio} NOT CONSULTING RE- Man Doing First Salt-Water Angling PUBLICANS ABOUT HIS MESSAGE picked up by Mackey soon after definitely what was the cause of } Leon reported where they were.!the wreck. An Illinois Central Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hollinger of Hollansburg, Ohio, accompan- pe Moods Fe * Ee mare ea 3 Abaut 9 o’clock yesterday morn- 14 Are Approved jing the three visitors set out on By Civil Service For Police Exam Thirteen of the. 14 applicants to take the city policeman’s ex- amination 6n December 30 were approved Tuesday by the Civil Service Board. ‘The applicants approved are as follows; Gabriel Lastres, 22, 220 Simon- ton Street, Navy veteran (boat- swain’s mate, second class). Mario Santana, 35, 817 Georgia Street, former patrolman. a fishing trip to Saddle Bunch Keys by canoe, They were due back at 5 p. m., but did not appear. Mackey as- isumed they had hit some good ;fishing. As a matter of fact, they had lost their way some 14 miles up the keys and three or four ago. He is a machinists’ foreman. | —_——_—_—- Leon moved between 15 and 20 MS! years ago, and Bernreuder, pub- Many Vets Using warded with a day of splendid ai Woe an Ee tne toe a| Tereataal Paver eo ir Base, le ey West about 15 ermina ay or catch included a seven- foot, two-inch sailfish; two am- under the captaincy of Reggie Only 51,000 Vets Use Up | 52-30 Rights By ROWLAND EVANS, JR. Gilbert Weech, 30, 1021 Olivia} AP Newsteatures Street, employed at Submarine Base. : Jose Soriano, 23, 1200 Packer Street, cigar maker. Benjamin J. Pierce, 36, 512 Ba- hama Street, former civilian guard at the Submarine Base. Michael G. Ontolchik, 25, 18-D Porter Piace, former tool and die maker, Navy veteran (water-ten- der second-class). Hampton T. Kelly, 22, 134-B, Poinciana Place, Navy veteran WASHINGTON. — Only 51,- 000 veterans of World War II have drawn their full quota of the $20 a week readjustment al- lowance provided under the GI Bill of Rights. Under the law, veterans who served ten or more months may draw the allowance for the maximum 52 weeks. Veterans who served less than ten months but more than 90 days may draw the allowance (sometimes called (radar man first class), former ci- vilian radio laboratory man at the Navy Yard. Frank Curry, 22,, 1024 Packer Street, former patrolman. Wilson Jolly, 33; 1-F Porter Place, Army veteran (military policeman, private first class). Perez,,.36, 1009... Watson t, Coast Guard veteran (wa- r sécond class},, foymer + a maker at Navy vane us “Dermis Upchurch, 21, 130-A Poinciana Place, Navy,.veteran (motor machinist’s mate second) class). Oliver C. Kemp, 33, 1213 Dun- ean Street, former dragline oper- ator at Boca Chica. Perez is no relation to Police Chief Bienvenido Perez, accord- ing to the Civil Service office.! Kemp is the son of Lt. Joe Kemp / and Jolly is the brother of Patrol-j} man Frank Jolly. The only man! rejected was a diesel mechanic, who failed to meet the height re- quirements of 5 feet 7 inches, The applicant, a veteran, measured 5 feet 6 inches. He submitted a waiver application but the board | | rejected it because of the large number of men available for va- canicies. unemployment pay) a_ propor- tionately shorter length of time. The 52,000 who have ,already exhausted their R. A. benefits are only about four-tenths of one per cent of the more than 14,- 000,000 World War II veterans, almost all of-whom are eligible. Of those who actually began drawing allowances—soon enough to‘have ‘exhausted them—they are 2.2 per cent. More May Follow Actually few of the 14,000,000. tion program. was just . getting underway a year ago’and didn’t }reach its peak until mid-winter. Other veterans may now be. well on the way toward’ “using up their benefits. To date the readjustment al- lowance program has cost taxpay- ers 1% billion dollars. That’s al- most half as much as the total cost of the World War I veterans’ total bonus. Last summer well was paid to unemployed vet- érans. To be eligible a veteran must Jack Murray, city personnel|be out of work, looking for director, was authorized to write a letter to the City Comfjiitsion asking that they amend the city civil service regulations to give five points extra credit~to vet- erans and 10 for widows. Seven of the original 14 applicants were veterans. work and able and _ willing to take any “suitable” job offered him. California has ‘had the lowest percentage of used-up benefits. veterans’; Only slightly more than one out of every hundred veterans dis- charged a year ago have drawn The policeman’s examination} the full duration allowance. will be held at the High School. Successful entrants will be placed Tennessee Was High Tennessee has the highest state on the eligible list for vacancies ! percentage. Almost five out of on the police force. Chairman Myrtland Cates, Mrs. Isabel Fleming and L. H. God- dard, board members, were pres- ent at the meeting, held in the City Hall, Mrs. Almeda And Two every hundred Tennesseans who j used up the works. But the record shows that Ten- nessee is far behind Puerto Rico. More than 40°per cent of Puerto Rican veterans who have been ceuld have exhausted their right! to the allowance. The demobiliza- ; over $100,000,000 every month | were veterans a year ago have} ae Army Insurance! inert tenon ana” the other { the other W. TL Porter, Vet, os ‘cr wee four. feet, one and one-quarter have used their new ternjinal inches long; a three-foot dol- \Receives Ter minal jicave bonds to convert or rein- phin, a large yellowtail and }state their Army life insurance: barracuda. | i Hollinger, who is a brother of ‘Leave Pa Of $743 policies, Eugene Anheir, contact Mrs. Rutrough, was the lucky representative of the re who landed the prize istrati i jeatch. His sail was said to tip the Before Christmas D: Administration, reports. {eal a io tip Hen PRS aA Ulead echoes |" “‘anheir said that three veterans scales at 58 pounds, just a pound jhad hardly died away, Wilbur H. | turned over a $50 bond apiece for ,4Md a half short of a reported rec- Porter, 13-H Porter Place, re-! this purpose and one other did so Ord sailfish caught recently in the ceived his best gift of the season | with a $250 bond. Terminal leavé ee Lauderdale fishing tourna- when. hi is paid by Government bonds ex-} Ment. — i if x a 1 — ay envelope | cept for the odd amount over an|_ Hollinger had never before rom Uncle: Sam yesterday and|eyen bond figure. For example, |fished in salt water, having been| |found his terminal leave pay of’, man getting $207, gets a $200 cofifined to fresh-water streams! $743.06. ° bond and seven dollars cash. Where his catches were limited to | The payment, believed to be| By using their bonds for con- small pike and northern bass. His j the largest yet received by a Key | verting their policies and paying |0Utstanding sailfish catch led him West veteran, consisted of a. War | premiums in advance, the veter-{t0 remark, “The size of fish, we Bond of $725 and the balance!ans save money because of the} Catch up there, you folks catch jin cash, Announcement of re-{reserve that accumulates for |for bait here. receipt of the check was made |them, Anheir said. The visitors arrived Saturday today by Jack Saunders, County! Many veterans have long been; afid will leave Monday for their j Service Officer. _ |suspicious of National Seca ope home. Rutrough is employ- ot = Life Insurance because congres- at the U.S. Submarine Base} i Sauesiins peed pay the | sional law fixed the method of here, having worked there for the | +iigaddo. mayer re may be payment of death benefits and | past five years. tional ales eg ea fic a nies bi ils - a. a : 4 | ¥ |ficiaries who cow named. y fy ag t ean eee or keane teams OM t Jap " 5 ; Know” * ‘ . the ‘amount required when .con- = axe iow long a matter ‘of the verting term insurance t6é perm-!past. ' | anent,form,) to, .repay policy |. National Service Life Insurane®} Jesus Caraballo has sold a loaris made prior to July 31, 1946,,,is. now just like any other com-/house and lot on Newton street, | or to} pre-pay the premiums that! mercial policy, except that‘ its| gar Pearl, to Rosa -M. Caraballo, -” -will become’ due. icost_ are, cheaper and its terms : a Se ineeal, “Hevauce off tie aur for $5,500. The lot has a front- | The, County Service Officer, !MO%e eral, Because oF the new age of 55.6 feet and a depth of sage liberal provisions of NSLI,. many. { whose office is: at the county: | cierang. will want oli neinabete 84.6 feet. : ' court house, also said that to-! Caraballo also has. sold part of Rian 3 P jtheir old policies; ns r la- i tal disability insurance income |ter, most a them ae grb oF Lot 2, Square 6, on: Simonton: veterans veterans if they can prove good! All NSLI permanent policies feet. health and pay an extra premium have lower premiums and high- ranging from 6 to 94 cents a/er cash values than any commer- Funeral Of Mrs. Eliza month _ber $1,000 of insurance, |c al policy which can be bought. McClintock To Be Held | depending upon the insured’s} Lower premiums are possible ay dt; f policy. j for NSLI because the government : we aie . ee i M f ‘pays the administrative costs and’ Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Disability benefits are at the he : papas . assed awa |there are no agents’ commissions. McClintock, 78, who passed away rate of $5 per month for each{" “no holder of an NSLI policy! early yesterday morning at her $1,000 of insurance and are pay-| Rees benahigiar he ' residence, able after the veteran has been po lig cia cea agp eisai Gee ? totally disabled continuously for | as long as the insured remains jtion of both. Like commercial in- | that afternoon. totally disabled. ‘surance firms, NSLI can and will Pastor, will officiate. i = |pay dividends in the future. (RAF Airmen Search For | Mystery Plane, \filed in the county judge's office B Graham and Mrs. Gena Myers at the City Cemetery. Lopez Fun- IF ° ti S ° eral Home is in charge of ar- 5 rangements. | VIC ion uit Survivors of the deceased in- ‘clude a son, William McClintock, In County Court Cincinnati, a grandson, Wil- ‘liam R. McClintock, also of Cin- | (By The A: inted Press) airplane has disappeared in the James Nash, who conducts the and Robert Lee McClintock. English Channel. | Key Largo Grill on Key Largo. An SOS in French was receiv-!_ The property is owned by ed from the radioman on the sup-' Turner, who rented it to Nash Wanted! posed plane at midnight. He said for $300 a month. Turner alleges ! WAITRESSES his position was about 16% miles ' that Nash is one month in arrears | jin rent. | benefits may be added to na-jconvert their basic’ term insur-|-Street, to Rosa M. Caraballo, for scenes in which e tional:-service~life-insurance by ance to a more permanent policy. | 91,500. The lot is 61.9 feet by 113 of even oldtimers, | ject of the chief address yester- jday at the luncheon of the Key | West Rotary Club. wishes, including his own estate, | will be held Sunday afternoon at jsts are inte P3 The proceeds from an NSLI pol-; 4:30 o’clock at the Fleming Street realize. six months’er more. The monthly |icy may be paid in a lump sum,\Methodist Church, where the he said, are interested in plant benefits will continue to be paid on a monthly basis, or a combina; body will be placed at 2 o'clock jife and they find Rev. J. B. Reid, West has many trees and plants | e here in the Burial will be in the family lot eee pe ele wnereon A suit in eviction has been cinnati; two sisters, Mrs. George | which | ; Hunt, 19-5 | LONDON, Dec. 27.—A mystery, by William S. Turner against two brothers, Samuel McClintock class, Submarine {merchant se aa =| Mademoiselle © MVMAUNATAAALUGEAAUSAUAAUAADNATAAUT AAA Bizarte, Tunisia, here soon to be Wanted! | yarried. Fortunately they had water with! official said that possibly a ied by their hosts, Mr. and Mrs.| OM@™M@Q°YMOO MD DMD 4 them, although no food. coupling had broken or a rail P, T. Rutrough, of Poinciana ’ or Boyle left Key West 22 years; had become defective, |Place, chartered the “Osprey II”, Wanted! One Ciwil 'Trevor, yesterday and were re- War Cannon F or - Washington Statue Wanted! A Civil War can- non or one of earlier vintage. Lieutenant Commander John Van Ohlen, legal officer atthe Submarine Base, is not exactly submitting an ad for, the above item, but he is badly in need of said cannon. It seems the Navy Depart- ment curator in Washington, recently sent Capt. E. M. Cooper, Naval Base Com- mandant, an official request for an old cannon. The piece is needed to complete a monument being constructed in Washington and the bur- den of the search has fallen upon Van Ohlen. Van Ohlen said he had ex- pecter to contact The Citizen and other newspaper offices as to where he should direct his search. Editor Sam Har- ris of The Citizen pointed out that there are two 12-inch Civil War cannon in front of the Army base on Southard . The trouble is, how+ they are imbedded in eve: concrete and the Army might not- want to let them go. Real Estate. ey Key Westers Hear About Key West interesting pe the notice Key West, many Some members said afterward re Sunday Afternoon they were unaware of many a Heke J f tractions that the speaker, Ray Navarro, described in detail. He maintained that there are 723 Flemnig Street, more things here, in which tour- ed, than residents generally, Newcome that Key FRENCH GIRL IS ENROUTE TO MARRY KEY A French-American romance when Alden E r-old seaman first Base, was a will bring Fenice of Irene Hunt announced his engage- ment today to the 19-year-old was the sub-| WEST SAILOR} (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Re- publican leaders, including Sena- tor Taft, said today that President Truman, after the eightieth con- gress convenes on January 3, should not interfere with —the GOP legislative program, because of the majorities the Republicans will have in the house and sen- ate. A short time later today, Taft observed that, evidently, the President was not going to- have much to do with the Republicans, despite their control of the house and senate. He observed that ‘Truman had not held a conference with Republicans regarding the tenor of his message he will send to congress on January 6. Cutting down _ government spending and reducing taxes are the main items in the Republi- cans’ program. Their leaders have declared that a good many billion dollars can be sliced from the 41 billion budget, particular- ly in reductions in Army and Navy spending, and that an aver- age of 20 percent should be made jin decreasing the income tax. It was said that the President favors the reduction of expendi- jtures, but that he thinks this is jnot the time to reduce taxes, be- cause of the increase spending it | would cause among the people, x distinct threat of inflation, Butter Retails As Low As 65 Cents A Pound (By The Associated Press) t «4 @HICAGO, Dec. 27.—Crash ‘in thé wholesale: buiter market yes- \terday reacted on retail prices in }many parts of the nation. | Reports from large cities said that there have been de lcreases in retail prices. Some cities reported that butter had dropped to 69 cents, and in a few cities it was available at 65 cents |@ pound. | Opinion was that there will be further decreases, because high butt prices had been created ; artificially. | Portal To Portal Suits Still Mount (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.— j Suits for portal-to-portal pay en- | tail damages that are approach- jing the billion dollar mark. A suit filed today against the | wright Aeronautical Corporation brought the total to $854,000,000. Union leaders revealed that many more suits are to be filed, and that, when the last of them is brought, the total of damages will be near six billion dollars. ct | Have your Dodge, Chrysler, Ply: mouth or DeSoto Car REPAIRED | EFFICIENTLY AT YOUR DEAL- out a year have used up their | off the coast of Devonshire. Children On Way To Lt. Almeda In Germany Mrs. Charles Almeda and her two children left Sunday night, | Dec. 22, en route to join her hus- ; band, Lt. Charles Almeda,* who} is stationed in Germany *tRas-| san). . Mrs. Almeda was, beforé“her marriage, Miss Louise Nunez of | this city. 44 RAARDAAAALALADAAAASD 7 Pare, Fresh PRESCRIPTIONS irercaicai= Compounded by Experienced ° Pharmacists GARDNER’S PHARMACY 1114 Division St., Cor. Varela Phone 177 Free Delivery ec vewwwwrwrrrrr~ —— BATTERIES CHARGED | The Modern Way | Drive in. in 30 to 45 minutes and your car can be on its way! Smith AUTO SERVICE Phone No. 5 allowance. Low wage scales in Puerto Rico are given as one reason. Largest single month’s expen- diture in the program occurred in April, when unemployed vet- erans received $160,071,000. Dur- ing: the first week of November the number actually drawing the allowance fell below the million tmark. Effects of the coal strike Seep commoabent (Works webbed = tary or civilian, was missing. may, .reverse the downward trend. Inventory Sale Fri. and Sat., Dec. 27-28 SEE PAGE 4 Kenyon Auto Store SLOPPY JOE'S BAR Where They Entertain Gould Curry at the Piano White at Fleming Frank Duffy the Genial MC | . E T | RAF scouting planes left short- lly after the signal was received | to search for the plane, and, be-, ginning at daybreak, a score of; ‘boats went out to join in the |search. The last message said the |plane was sinking fast. The French Ministry of Marine: headquarters reported at noon | that a thorough check-up showed | that no French plane, either mili-| SEALED BEAM HEADLIGHTS ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS 121 Duval Street j emeesess Pnone 642 mui ee ea Palace Theater CHARLES STARETT in “ROARING RANGERS” News and Serial al Hearing in the suit has been set for next Monday morning. a RONG A, | STERLING’S ra 1318 Eliza Street Phone 243 Also at Margaret and Fleming Sts, FRYERS and ROASTERS | SMALL TURKEYS, 9 to 10 tbe Every Friday m LA CONCHA HOTEL THUAN PUNE AUT TAAA ANTE i French girl, daughter of M. and RAINBOW ROOM DANCING 9:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. MUSIC BY Dez Butler’s Orchestra LA CONCHA HOTEL (french oe nice, of Bizerte. His [EEE ing will take place the latter Sonthexnmest, Caras te 10. 5 part of next month in New York City. 1130 Daval Street Phone 169 Hunt first met Mlle. Fenice Auto Repairs, Painting, when an American merchant | ship on which he was a seaman a war. Correspondence — followed. | nm and won the hand demoisclle. _ census. LIVE POULTRY ROASTERS and Battery Raised FRYERS | BRADY’S | (Live) POULTRY and EGG MARKET 1214 White St. Phone 540 Saturday Night @J. D. MCANDREWS, Manager MAOQOAULUAUUGONUOUARANOUAUUUUOUOUAOUUOUOUUAESALE CLEANS “uacaubaatnds me : -/ NAVARRO »mber Hunt dropped in; \ERS—at the RIGHT PRICEI!II Inc. Opposite Bus Station DANCE Tonight 9 UNTIL?” to-the Music of _ HANSON'S 8-Piece Melody Makers ORCHESTRA i at the VFW CLUBHOUSE FLAGLER at 2ND No Cover — No Admission