The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 7, 1947, Page 1

Years Devoted to the Best Interests { of Key West VOLUME LXVIII. No. 6 Republicans Determined To Reduce Tae De President’ CONGRESSMEN RECEIVE* TELEGRAMS, ASKING Chamber Expected TO END LUXURY TAX. ATION (By Associated Press) hd q WASHINGTON, “Jan. 7—re-'Service To Cuba publicans, commenting today on President Truman’s message of yesterday, agreed that he did not go far enough in his recom- mendation regarding labor, and 4 + City Commissioner Louis Car- j bonell is scheduled to appear be- |fore a meeting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce late To Act On Ferry ' KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1947 Two Men Held After 30-Mile ; Snake Creek by highway patrol- men yesterday. They identified themselves as Robert Thompson, 37, driver of | the car, who said he had escaped from the Kentucky State Pris- cn, recently, and W. R. Whitaker, | 30, of Homestead. \ Shortly after Highway Patrol-' man Warren Bateman received a radio from Georgia that a new 1946 car had been stolen at Val- dosta, Ga., he perceived an auto-: jmobile on the highway which answered the description. |Chase On Florida Keys; One | Says He Escaped Kentucky Jail Two men, one a self-confessed - sy ee 1 Wey escaped convict from Kentucky, | ( a} {were arrested in a car stolen in! my Georgia after a 30-mile chase at City Commission Faces Full Agenda In Session Tonight Indications point toward a busy session tonight when the City ;Commissioners hold their first a meeting of the year at the City Hall at 8 o'clock. Whether the question of liquor sales on Sunday will be brought up hangs largely on the results of the meeting of the Retail Liquor Dealers Association this afternoon Foes Of Sunday Liqu Remind Three Commissioners Of Pledges; Threaten Election Boys Are Put On Probation | For Vandalism At Airport Judge Frank Roberts of the report to him on the first Mon- luvenile Court sentenced ‘five/day of every month for 12 Key West boys to a year’s prob months and to-be in their homes tion yesterday for depredations at 9 p. m., daily until the fol- committed Saturday on property lowing morning. Judge Roberts of Aerovias Q. airlines at Mea-jsaid that in view of the com-, cham Field. | plaining witness, Gomez, being Meanwhile, sanitary conditions absent, he could take no action | 1 declared that they did not see | eye-to-eye with him regarding; income taxes and taxes on so-| called luxuries. ; Senators Taft and Smith stated today and lay his plan for the Key West-Havana automobile ferry | before them. Carbonell has said he would present a resolution to the City} Commission offering the ferry that the Republicans will pass company a 20-year lease, free from an income tax reduction meas- ‘rental or taxes, tonight. ure, and another bill that will} Directors of the Chamber of provide for the elimination of |C@ommerce are expected to act on luxuries taxes, | the suggestion and to present some Republicans feel that the Pres- !sort of resolution for the commis- ident probably will veto these |sion’s approval. bills, as his aim is to apply the; The directors will also act on a surplus income to the reduction | number of outstanding bills. Har- of the public debt. old R. Laubscher, acting manager As to proposed labor laws, }Of the Chamber of Commerce, is Taft and Smith expressed the |€xPected to report today on the opinion that President Truman |#™ount of money he has collected will probably sign labor bills, ag to date to settle the expenses of his views on the labor situation | sending the Key West erouD to are somewhat similar to those |Miami for the New Year's cele- entertained by Republicans, ex- | bration. cept as re Is punitive pro- visions, particularly for unions | More State Aid that violate contractual .obliga- | 1ons. | : Senator Taft said that the Re-} Needed By County ublican majorities in the house ; ° : Health Services and senate are determined to end luxury taxes. He explained sf i that many telegrams had been| Monroe County will , require received by congressmen from |State aid this year in the sum of business men, in all parts of the |@Pproximately $12,000, instead of country, declaring that luxury $8,274 appropriated last year, Dr. taxes are curtailing husiness. The ‘James B. Paramore said today. words, “tax added,” some of the! He brought this word heté from telegrams stated, kill many a ‘Jacksonville, where last, week he sale. Besides, it was pointed attended a, conference, df all tha out in other telegrams that the county health . officers of the volume of “bookkeeping” — in- Ste. ee (ii volved entails much work and a/ There the health: officers Were great deal of expense. i informed that the state legislature, must appropriate at.) least. one- third more money this/year, than it did last if the counties are to Toll Bridge te) maintain their medical and in- ° % ill ‘spection services at a high plane. Receipts Sti | Dr. Parramore said that tuber- ’ culosis was the biggest problem Show Advances that Monroe County has to face. He added that there were several cases that should be sent at once to the proper state institutions for treatment. “The state should appropriate more money to enable those suf- fering from tuberculosis to be sent Last month's receipts totaled to state institutions,” Dr. Parra- as compared with $31,- more said. cted in December, Collection of tolls on the Over- Highway bridges still con- tinues to show gains in monthly comparisons with immediately preceding years ae of $2,256.25, ek Key West Men Return ing to figures issued today’ OY ig Steamship Florida Auditor Clifford G. Hicks of the s : . Overseas Road and Toll Bridge For Havana-Miami Run District Ralph Russell, Kiki Carmona, Motor vehicles passing over Eddie Roig, E. Chavez, Frank wv iges last. month number- Marrero, and several others have ths Ur idee ed with 13,- left over the Overseas Highway ed 16,038 as comp a “for Miami to join the crew of the 023 in December, 1945 8.8. Florida The only falling off was in the The Key Westers are former number of passengers. Last members of the P. & O.’s luxu month they liner crew that will again ply be- mpared wi tween the ports of Miami and ber of 1945 Havana, Cuba, after seeing serv- ice as a troop transport during the past war. Releasing War RIES Key West Jaycees To Hold Dinner Meeting Crimes Suspects Joe Pinder, vice president of SINGAPORE —(AP).—Of 9,000° the Key West Junior Chamber theast —¢ Japanese a ed in Southe ‘A of Commerce, announces a din- Asia as wa mes suspects ae ner meeting tomorrow night at about 4,500. st are In custocY* 7:30 o'clock in the Ocean View ylicy bring- argely due to Restaurant | was sentenced to serve five ad: | Bateman gave chase to the car, but lost it in the Poinciana sec- | tion. Later he returned up the keys. While he was standing at ‘Marathon the car came through jat a high rate of speed. Bateman ; Notified Sheriff's Deputy D. M.: | Andrews and Highway Patrol- man Charles Reynolds. - Andrews saw the car racing along the highway, but had no chance to throw up a barricade. Reynolds later sighted the speed- ing machine and gave chase. | Bateman came from the other di- | rection. | Near Snake Creek, the car, j caught between the two patrol- men, left the highway and swung around on the old road. {The car stopped and Thomp- son ran into a swamp and took refuge in a tree. Whitaker was caught by Bateman as he was getting out of the car. Then Bateman and Reynolds went into the swamp after Thompson. He finally left the tree and was taken into custody | without a struggle. | Thompson, held in county jail, ‘told’ Chief Deputy Sheriff Mor- j.eno Wallace that he had served aeterm of 15 years in Kentucky | prison for armed robbery and | ditional years for stealing cars. He fold bow he usd a wire to! by-pass a locked car and get it started..That is how he stole the ear, in Georgia. He said Whitaker ‘had hitch-hiked‘a ride from him in South Miami and said that he }did not know the car had been ' stolen. 1 Thompson will be held for the Georgia polic He violated the | Dyer federal act by driving a ;stolen car from Georgia into, Florida, and it is possible that the FBI will investigate. | Whitaker is held on a tentative | charge of aiding and abetting a| felony. ‘Antonio Carvoza Dies After Short Illness Yesterday Antonio (Tony Head) R. C voza, who was one of the stat baseball pitchers, 20-odd years ago, died-last night after a short illne | Garvoza was released from Ki West Hospital yesterday. Accord- ing to County Jailor M. A. Mesa Carvoza was brought to county . jail at about 6 p.m. yesterday. “He was a very sick man,” Mesa said. “He complained of a stom- ,ach condition, I went and brought him a glass of water and later made a report to Chief Deputy ‘Sheriff Moreno Wallace. When {I came back to see Carvoza I ‘found him dead.” Coroner Ira Albury was called and pronounced the man dead. The cause of death was not im- mediately known. Carvoza Once pitched for the Red Stars and made a record as a best pitcher of his day. He was also an expert carpenter and made ng tot n ye at See The Jaycee dinner meeting is )- hieineiadthathwark: Asia Land Forces has @ monthly affair. His survivors are one daughter, ee ee ‘Mary, and several aunts and ee dopted, he Mitzi Carbonell At School luncles. Funeral services were to Such a policy was Wiehe ‘im. | Miss Mitzi Cartonell, daughter be held this afternoon from the cae ant ny such a hum- of City Commissioner and Mrs. Chapel of Pritchard Funeral Fees ane eae ty a reasonable Louis Carbonell, has returned to Home, with the Rev. J. H. Wool- ves maaan New York City after spending the | ridge, pastor of Glad Tidings Tab- bee , i rt ays here with her parents. | ernacle Church, officiating. Burial Legnctd ect Yann Va ne Miss Carbonell is now in her sen- | will be in City Cemetery under have tried Fe acer Lea 963 ior year at Columbus High School; direction of Pritchard Funeral ing peee ‘pee nt a in the metropolis. j home. to imprisonment he nl Palace Theater MARTHA O'DRISCOLL in “BLONDE ALIBI? News and Serial TONIGHT IS PRIZE NI" | CASA CAYO HUESO | (The Southernmost House) 1400 Duval at South St. DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE —-—Opens 5 P.M. Daily. | AVNNVVNONT4V4440000000049 004040400044 400100UUEREEEOERODOEDELORLEAA IND | PARKING 25 CENTS 4 HOURS 50 CENTS ALL DAY jand the informal meeting of the ‘commissioners at 6:30 p.m. eause of lack of water for the i Rev. E. S. Doherty, president of toilets. Among the other damage ‘the Ministerial Association, prom-j Which the young vandals caused, ised strong representation if the] was the wasting of 100,000 gal- liquor question is brought up.|lons of water used for the sewer at the field became serious be-' on the damages. Gomez stated to The Citizen (this morning that he had not , been notified when the hearing was to be held or that he should ; be there. He carried a similar } RESOLUTIONS DIRECT- ED TO COOPER, HAR- DEN, DEMERITT, “LO- CAL OPTION’ PRAISED Church forces, mobilizing here to oppose sale of beer, wine and liquor on Sunday, drew cheers last night at the Fleming Street | Methodist Church when they threatened to force a “Jocal op- tion” election on the question if Sunday sale is permitted. Rev. E. S. Doherty, pastor of the Ley Memorial Methodist Church, and president of the Ministerial Association, present- ed and received unanimous ap- proval of three resolutions aim- ed at liquor retailing sales. The The real fight against sale of j beer, wine and liquor on Sunday, however, he said, would be made at the second reading of whatever ordinance is offered to repeal Or- dinances No. 19 and 420. He said that unanimous con- sent of the commissioners would be required for passage of an ordi- nance tonight repealing Ordi- nances No. 19 and 420 and he doubted seriously that unanimous approval would be forthcoming. Also slated for consideration are resolutions of Commissioner Louis Carbonell, which would grant the Gulf Atlantic Transportation Com- pany tax-free, rent-free facilities here for a Key West-Havana fer- ry. Commissioner Carbonell also planned to bring up an ordinance reducing the penalty for bréaking parking meters from $250 to a fine more at the discretion of the municipal judge, ranging from $5 to $250. Wilson To Make Heavy Tax Report To,County Boai In the last. three months of last r, County Tax Colector How- ard E. Wilson collected a total of $222,285.24 in taxes of all kinds and will make a report: tonight for.the Monroe County. Commis- sion. The sum collected amounted to $68,960.31 more than the total of axes collected in the county dur- ing October, November and De- cember in 194! The total col- lected in the three months of 1945 was $153,324.93. The $222,285.24 represented all ed in the county, in- cluding automobile, real estate, personal, intangible and occupa- tional A total of $68,778.03 was collect- ed by Wilson and his staff in De- cember Quislings Getting Their Jobs Back OSLO.—(AP).—A report from the employment bureau -eveals that the Quislings in Norway have far better chances to get jobs now than at any time since the war ended. In the months following the Allied liberation of Norway, both employers and employes boy- cotted Quislings who were forced to live on their own savings or by support from their friends. Whenever a Quisling got a job, the workers called a_ sit-down strike. During the war there were nearly 45,000 Quislings in Nor-} way. At the end of 1945 most were idle, but the latest figures show that 71 percent are now back at work. SAILOR ARRESTED ON SPEED CHARGE Walter E. Ashby, a sailor at- tached to the U. S. Naval Sub- marine Base, was arrested for | speeding on Roosevelt Boulevard j by Deputy Sheriff William Ar-| cher last night. Archer says the man was clocked at 70 miles an hour. He will be arraigned later today. eae eaeeeriianiemteeniee STERLING'S *Scaworeer | 243 1318 Eliza Street Phone Also at Margaret and Fleming Sts. LARGE SHIPMENT of FRYERS Ambler’s Service Garage and SOFT BONE ROASTERS: |!!!) |) 11111111101 , action was taken in conjunction system at the field. ! protest to City Manager O, J. S.| Rogelio Gomez, local _repre-| Ellingson this morning. Gomez sentative of Aerovias Q., said was dissatisfied with the court's that actions of vandals “were verdict although he admitted the seriously endangering" the air-} fathers of the boys had express- ' line's service in Key West. He eq willingness to pay for the said that “unless some security damage, estimated at $300. is given Aerovias property at the} Chief of Police Bienvenido field, it may not be possible to! perez said later this morning continue service as in the past.” that he had personally notified | The boys brought into court ;Gomez last week after the boys} were Aurelio Villate, Flagler Ave.; Bruce Watson, 13, ing would be held at 3 p. m, 1920 Staples Ave.; Albert Snell, 13, and Donald Snell, 7, 1920 with a church service addressed by W. D. Upshaw, former Geor- gia Congressman and 1932 can- didate for President on the Pro- hibition ticket. Doherty said the meeting pre- sented “an opportune moment” for passage of the resolutions. Some 250 persons attended. The first of the resolutions 14, 1900, were apprehended that the pat wonded Mayor W. W. De- meritt and City Commissioners Monday at the Juvenile Court. | Albert Cooper and Hunter Har- He said that he went to Gomez’!den of their campaign pledges. Seidenberg street, and Fausto] office yesterday morning and al-|The second promised a “local Renduelles, 13, 1925 Flagler Ave. | so left. word when the hearing Judge Roberts admonished the | would be held. parents of the boys and told} Meanwhile, Gomez asked for a them that he could, under the! postponement because of heavy law, fine each of the fathers $100 | flight schedules and at about 2:45 and sentence them to 90 days in| p. m., yesterday Chief Perez told jail. In view, however, of the! Judge Roberts of Gomez’ request, first offense nature of the case, |The court, however, said that the he said he would not go to that parents and defendants: were extreme. present for the hearing and’ he The court ordered the boys to could not postpone it. Preasmen Siiihe-1 Frank - B. i Shutts, ‘In Miami Ended Former Owner Of This Morning Miami Herald, Dies (My Associnied Press) Strike of pressmen at the Mi-| Sreanar Gener Frank |B ami Herald and Miami Daily | : News, ivhich began 15 minut Shutts, who owned The Miami before préss*” time * “Saturday , Herald for 27 years, died here to- night, ended at 8:41 this morning. | day. Pressmen at the News returned Shutts bought The Herald in to work at 9:15 o'clock, and those 1910 from the late Judge Frank ed from a telegram sent by Under the Shutts ownership, George L. Berry, international The Herald grew rapidly, and! president of the union, to Ha during most of the real estate | | B. Reece, a Herald employe. sus BET Ne hich ended in a crash in | gesting that the pressmen returt t of 19 a The Herald is- jto work. ed more pages than any other newspaper in the United States. Negotiations to settle the dif- Even at that, the management |ferences between the pressmen announced, evgiy day many pages and publishers will be continued, of advertisements had to bd. Jeft it was announced. out of The Herald | ‘ Shutts, who was 77 years of ; od age, sold The Herald in 1937 to Woman Arrested 36,°3 Wares | owner, . For Passing Cheek) tesices 1s newspaper. activi jties, Shutts was a practising at- Mrs. Margaret Sh« ker,}torney, head of the well known } Williamson, W. Va., was j firm in’Miami of Shutts and Bow- | ed yesterday by Chief De en, which later enlarged its part- Sheriff Moreno Wallace after a| nership jlocal grocer allegedly identified | - -~ — {her as the woman who cashed| THREE POST BOND a worthless check in’ his place)" Qn © 4M ING CHARGE Hl | |of business. | | | Arraigned before Peace Justice N. L. Smith, A. Pazo and J {J. Y. Porter IV, Mrs. Shoemaker od gueZ posted $50 bond apiece | pleaded not guilty and was held ; 1st night at the police station under bond of $150 for action of | 0" ch of gambling in a ‘the Criminal Court. She was un- | Public place. The men were ar- | rested about 8:45 p. m., at Bow- | vow's Cafe, corner of Havana able to furnish the ba spent last night in County Last week another and Division streets | Louise Rose, also of Willia: Patrolman W. H. Carr made W. Va was arrested by the arrests after he heard a com- | sheriff's office on a mot inside the cafe and in-} igated it. Carr confiscated for 80, which. he} i on the table where the had been playing Chips and cards were al » taken as evidence | charge. She was allege {company of the Sho jman. She was relea bail of $100 RAUI 1S Pazo. who said he owned the raigned in Muni on the BOULEVARD Ral Court, tt 7] s afternoon, was ~ DANCING -- $50 by Municipal Judge Nightly to the Music of squinaldo. He pleaded MARK ae RUNCH) the police $ | H ith was fined $15. Rod- and His 0 said he had not been STANLEY Orchestra id was merely shuf- Featuring SYLVIA at Piano . was also found guilty | * g and fined $15. cea iy yuinaldo ordered the Reservations: Phone 9287 .ds destroyed and the i ; option” election if the bars are j opened on Sunday. A third asked | Governor Millard Caldwell to en- |force the State Law prohibiting ‘liquor - selling establishments. |from being within 300 feet of a school or church. 4 Other Speeches Heard Doherty’s threat to organize ‘for a “local option” election brought cheers and loud ap- plause. Others speaking in be- half of the resolutions were Rev. \J. C. Yelton, pastor of the First {Baptist Church; Rev. W. R. | Smith, pastor of the Poinciana oy ek Church; Rev. J. B. Reid, {pastor of the Fleming Street | Methodist Church; Albert Carey, 'Mrs! Minnie Robinson, . Mts. |Mary. Thompson and Waliam Collingford. ayy Doherty said this ‘mor ning; that “it may take a long time to or- ;8anize, maybe a couple of ‘months, but we won't leave a house uncanvassed. Every pre cinct will be organized.” at the Herald are expected to,B. Stoneman, when The Herald ‘The: mini Tena contin resume their duties tonight was barely a shadow in siz and | og: “I personally h sa Conclusion of the strike result- | ‘itculation of what it is today. | used the threat of ‘local option’ before but it has been forced up on us. I am not sure it is the best way to handle it. It does not benefit Key West to have it known that there ts a battle be tween the church people and the liquor interests here. Most of the people who come here are church people.” “ Regarding the lettér sent to him by President Joseph Sirugo, of the Retail Liquor Dealers As sociation, published in yester day’s paper, Doherty said he had no comment to make other than it was not his “policy to bring personalities into the dispute.” RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED The resolutions read as follows: “(1) To Hon. Mayor W. W. De- meritt, and City Commission- ers Albert Cooper and Hunter Harden. “Dear Sirs: “We, the citizens of Key West, who desire better gov- ernment and law enforcement, respectfully remind you of your campaign pledge which reads as follows: “If elected will you support and seek to have enforced the present laws in regard to Sun- day closing of pla that dis- pense liquor? Please answer Yes or No,’ Your answer was yes. Therefore, we respectfully call upon you to make good that pledge by voting against the opening of such liquor dis- pensing places for the purpose of selling intoxicating bev- erages on Sunday. "(2) Be it resolved that we, (Continuea on Page Four) itt a _ For Sale! For Sale! ’40 Chevrolet Panel Truck Apply Navarro, Incorporated Opposite Bus Station ay ven ag =