The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 27, 1947, Page 1

oo VOLUME LXV Il. No. 23 ————- Four Found Guilty Of Selling Liquo Sunday; Fined POLICE STAGE SWIFTX Fe RAIDS ON SLOPPY eres si, | al | FIRE DEPARTM. ‘NT 4 CRO SOEs, CROWS BAR, cers 2 CALLS GRIPFFIN’S, WHITNEY’S AT SAME TIME Operstors of four Key Wes The Fire Department re- hem were arrested by city police’ ceived two calls almost sim- last night in a swift series of! Peeteny Saturday about faites on establishments suspected | A telephone call took them a selling beer, wine liquor on} to 1420 White Street, property Sunday in vi om of a city ordi-| owned by Mrs, Clara Peacon, where a blaze had started nan : i} o <s stiy a __| when a stove upon which a 1 “| ham was being cooked caught weeed on $250 bond each wer fire. It was necessary to use Suguetine Crespo of Sloppy Joe's’ the booster to put out the fire. Bar on the corner of Greene and} At the same time an alarm Duval Streets, owned by Joseph! was rung from the vicinity of B. Roberts of Whitney's! the 6@0 block ' of mala . wner of Greene and Si-! Street at Ella Ba tta Village Menton Street wned by Whit-| where a grass fire endanger. ney Papy: Donald Marsh, of the ed dwellings of the area, The'' ws Ba m Caroline Street! gj, seer Grinnell, owned by William cabheae quickly extin- | Cate and Cynmi! Griffin, owner end eperetor of Griffin's Beer ST TTTTUTI ULC ILL Garden, 1105 Division Stre All four defendants were Sailors Arrested found guilty by Municipal | Judge Enrique Esauinaldo this @tterneon and fined $50 apiece. As evidence the police produc- | @@ three bottles of beer, three For Stealing Car bettie: of whiskey and several @iasees of beer and liquor. Two Key West sailors were! Maximum pen for v ee held on the charges of automobil Ordinance No. 19, w sale of beer, wine or liquor on Deesnectesy $250 fine 60 days ” Betancourt, 713 Windsor Lane {Company To Bid. Reniscuis On Removing City | Kidnap Judge * Fire:Belt Weights: i, Tel-Aviv i city Manager O. J. S. Ellingson | (By ‘The Associated Press) y,.that Joseph Doff, of | JERUSALEM, Jan. 27—The n of i Tower Clock Co., Elm- kidnapping of a second British "Hurst, N. 7; had informed him| officer in the last 24 hours has this morning that ‘the company | stirred British troops into wer | sif he a for replacing the weight-system | cas for the lan fire bell apparatus in the City | Early this morning aaa Hall, with an electric device. ‘Windham, president of the Brit-| | The fire alarm bell is operated ish court in Tel-Aviv, was kid-! | napped, and, up to late this after- by heavy weights directly over noon, no trace of him had been {the city manager’s office. Elling- | found. son said Doff had never made aj | previous recommendation. to him resulted from the announced de- that the fire-bell” system should termination of British authorities be replaced. ;to hang a terrorist, convicted of} | participating in a bomb explo-! Doff told The Citizen on Sat-' sion, tomorrow morning. 3 urday that the heavy weights j H. I Collins, a former British constituted a danger to the City major. kidnapped yesterday, may Hall rooms directly beneath the be killed in reprisal if the ter- ower. | roist is hanged, ait 2 authorities said that City Mechanic Horace Averette! puters x said this morning, however, that may also be murdered by the the weights are only 900 pounds ,terrorists if the hanging occurs. theavy, instead of 1800 pounds, as Arrives Here chain holding the weights and did | not believe that there would be are pemage patho cent Irving Pflaum, foreign news ed- It is believed the kidnappings; and British} Windham } Brea \Of Groydon And Crashes EDITORS BELIEVE THAT Gulf Quits Oil Wikre House HAVE CAUSED «0n} Operations On. |Denies Truman Sugar Loaf Key \Here In March (By The Associated Press) (By The Anserteted freee WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.— LONDON, Jan Tite Ge plane that crashed yesterday @ President Truman has no plans for a vacation at Key Copenhagen, entating the iat | 22 lives, and the plane that oe Dae te <a. wee | destroyed Saturday on Crerpéen House said today. Presidential Press Secre- | airfield, causing 12 tives, @ore } 6,000 feet. ‘The drilling rig is on| S*¥ Ross said a:redio beead- | Dakotas, 4 variation of the Acser | ican D-C 3, local sewspepere its way toward the Mississippi Sort: tan that; efioat, wee aaa Valley. rect. today editortallly demanded thet an investigation be held + dete Gulf Oil is still drilling for oih| CgQU MM ST a a. on Big Pine Key. The hole is mine if that type of plone tee down to a depth of more than} 44 not been overloaded i» the Bw 14,000 feet without finding any 34 ‘Apprentices pean grea. The Helland cone oil. It is not known how deep DC-3 that crashed at Copenhag the hole will be dug. ed | en carried 26,628 pounds W. S. Smith, connected ce | To Be Promot | The papers pointed out thet the land and legal deartment of l B in the United States, the leet tee Gulf Oil, in Key West today, said At Nava ase | @ Dakota is 25,000 pounds, soenee he was uncertain whether heav- j ier oil drilling equipment would; jes i Greet Givtate & pong { i 1 Wate flows } Gulf Oil Company has aban- | doned oil drilling operations on j Sugar Loaf Key, it was learned | The oil drilling rigging has been torn down and the dry hole | capped. The well had been sunk In ceremonies conducted at the, | On State Highway “If they were to fall,” he sai “they would be held by the ceil- ing. All 900 pounds fell two years ago and didn’t break through the floor. I just put ’em back up.” Ellingson said the city would; le }consider Interstate’s bid but as a ch prohibits theft Saturday following their/general rule, Key West purchases arrest in a car belonging to A. J. yall fire alarm apparatus from the !Gamewell Company of New Up- Doff suggested an electric lace the 900- pound weight apparatus. “celonoid”, after the car, but it eluded him, k He stopped at the gate veoting Dar | Bro en Inte; Whiskey Taken he Y n : we a ie yates Sheriff Berlin A. Sawyer was | Per Falls, Mass. the heemse. of. violators found @iVing along the upper keys late jthat a quit ‘ a # a Saturday when an automobile | magnet switch, re aie extiinen None He ‘the Sind passed him, going at a high rate! named have a previous vista: of speed. The sheriff took out{ tion on the ecord The raids were made by Chief 4 Police Bienvenido Perez and, ‘© Overseas Highway and learn-, Ldeutenant Ray = Atwe who! 4 the car had turned around eweoped down on Sloppy Joe's at and started back toward Key 6 pm. «4 short blo from the police station At 7:30 they, OM the side roads but’ caught no; Silver Dollar Bar, wided = Whitney ulso. only ,a bert block f Head later Ve 1A n raced ' D ns nd raided bei Bee n at 8 pm ’ v ed veral ‘ evidence ng on PESSEL ARRIVES iT Vib Ab BAS M YMS-446, ars West Navy PRESCRIPTIONS (recat: Compounded by Experienced Pharmacists GARDNER'S PHARMACY 1114 Division St., Cor. Varela Ceene 177 Five Peiverz! “SSERVICE STATION sical Ns oes OO Division andi Peauete Rtrests WE ARE... vur PURE OLL Dealer. HYDRAULIC BRAKE | SEAT COVERS SPECIALISTS | White Walls for Your inal Let Us Check Your Brakes Lou Smith Auto Service | White et Fleming Phone a! “Opposite Army Barracks” TLL ASPHALT TILE Limited Quanti PLEASE PLACE YOUR ORDER BEFORE 5:30 P.M., TUESDAY, JANUARY 28TH Corner S: jnemonnnge eennagg eng i gNN U0 04014 NAL ALAH TTA MULAN AHL CHH HA 1 UNEMPLOYME! West. The sheriff looked around; A. M. Alfonse, owner of the 109 Duval up. About this time Moreno Wal- | tablishment had been broken in- lace, chief deputy sheriff, receiv-| to and a bottle of whiskey sale | ed word of the theft of an auto-;Later, on making inventory, A’ mobile belonging to J. Roland fonso found that another bottle at Adams. Later he learned this car; whiskey had been taken. answered the description of the} “Alfonso said he had painted the automobile which passed Sheriff’ counter until about 30 p.m., Sawyer. ‘when he closed the place. After Then came word of the theft of! returning from a movie he found} Betancourt's car. State Highway ithe window in the rear of the! Patrolman Warren Bateman was, bar broken and the glass top of ‘notified and told to be on the’a pinball machine broken by a footstep. Lieutenant Ray Atwell an- NT swered a call for police and left COMPENSATION IN tae scene of the bre -in intact x8 Bee .y, for fingerprint expert: MONROE COU office of the county sheriff. The Monroe county unemployment ‘pinball machine bears the im- compensation payments for the print of a shoe. week ending January 18 amount- | ed to >is and were made to five, S Roberts T To Return’ B Smith, pveneran of the Flo. , rida Industrial Commission re- ‘To Desk In? Weeks ported today Payments throughout the state | City Comptroller-Finance Di- totaled $68.452'50 and were made vector Charles Roberts said this/ 4 |morning that his physicians had total of 4.229. igiven him permission to resume Persons in this county com- jwork at the City Hall in two | pensated as unemployed through ! weeks on a half-day basis no fault of their own and avail-| Roberts, who was taken ill on able for suitable employment | Novembei 17, has been able occa- were Ccalssified as: Clerical and Sales, 1; Service, ‘suiting purposes for the last few | illed, 2. jweeks but was cautioned against’ resuming his usual work sched- le. Until he returns to his desk! POOR OLD CRAIC’S ° on a regular basis, he will serve in a supervisory and organizing, capacity as his health permits. The finance director's illness j was diagnosed as a general run- ‘down condition. Palace Theater DAN DURYEA in “BLACK ANGEL” News and Serial | hein SALSA REE ERENT (Continued on Page Four) Tires - Tubes +Bat Spraying, Oil and Gr i Auto Pree = { 5 phe » wi3e Auto Seat Cushions Auto Seat Covers White Walls Chrome Side View Mirrors Chrome Bumper Guards Chrome Grill Guards 32 Pl. Muffler, Model P.B. at the ' Kenyon Auto Store '§24 Southard Opp. Bus Station euummees Phone | 66a ties of 4 Colors Order Office imoz.ton and Fleming Streets PHONE 360 POUT LALLA sight of the car, Then he gave aimee reported to police about! from the: tsionally to visit his office for con- i itor of the Chicago Times, arriv- ed here this afternoon with his wife for a few days’ visit as the guests of Mrs. Hari Kidd. 1401 United street. The well-known { newspaperman will soak up some Key West sunshine prior to fly- | ing to Moscow to cover the For- eign Ministers’ Conference there, | Pflaum, who will return to the ' United States in the Spring, serv- ed in Washington during the war as Foreign News Chief of the} Office of War Information. des| foreign news coverage includes be used on Sugar Loaf Key to office of the Industrial Relations } sink it beyond the 6.000-foot lev- Division on Feb. 3, 34 veterans of “Drilling on Big Pine Key is continuing”, Smith said. County Gets 60 | , World War Il who have been ‘taking the apprenticeship courses at the Navy Base, are to be pro- | moted from 4th class to 3rd class, The following apprentices will ‘be promoted: Machinists (Inside)—Frank L. Aritas, Joseph R. Cook, Ray E | Johnson, Francis J. Noel, John D. pounds, end in Helland, ft e08 pounds Ten Dekotas. the seuupepere pointed out, hewe met eth Ge avtrous accidents im ofl party of the world in he last theme qeertite yet, one editorial dectered the Oe kota has proved te te sneng the best commercial last 14 years The editeral tee added that ther Packages Of War ss: Surplus Plasma | wacMachinist (Outside)—Geo. W poten Lae ay = tm . oe Thomas A. Hooper, 5 . ed on the Croyde CP ad surplus Harry B. Johnson, Aubrey N. Lee, on off Ang rs ans 1 — be Sixty packages of ‘an assignment in Spain during}blood plasma on hand at the end DeWitt E. Roberts, Wallace F. 4) Copenhagen erase onty 3 few the Spanish ol he made a spectacular 10-} through the Red Corss by the! mile dash under fire with an-j Monroe County Health Depart- ; other reporter which proved to}ment from the Florida State Bd.! the Loyalists that .Madrid hadj of Health, it was learned today. not been cut off by General Fran- cisco Franco's Insurgents | the Board of Economic Warfare | uring the war as well as on | OWL. Police Break Up | Navy Men’s Fights, | Police were kept busy ae breaking up morning among Naval personnel. Be- tween 1:30 and 2 a.m., Officers ‘Hector Castro. and Frank Jolly were called to Caroline Street, between Simonton and Elizabeth | Streets, to quell a brawl. revolution during] of the. war have been received , Vinson. Pflaum is also a well-known} Red Cross. explained that the Jack R. Hyman, Paul K. Richird- | Lt o'clogk last night that his es- | magazine writer ‘and served om: plasma, packed to forestall ‘dete- fights | The policemen found two sail-! hundred feet when | Gene’ Funeral eT age rnet tow Grace Moore and the feet prince, Gustaf Adeigh, teow a been made, though Grace Baers + | husband in Framer seed (het tie body probably eeli te omeneetens Pipefitters — Hector D. Pita, | Daniel Vargas. “Urls octtayes L. | Bareo, | Martin R. Brogli, Sidney R.. Allan L. Hampton, chairman of Bullman, William pT Marcus the. Key. WestChapter.of the, W. Ellis, Chas. B., Garitg, Jr., son, Iver P. Russell, Charles ¥.| &4 buried ot i SOS rioration, is available to hospitals Salas, Jr.,'Millard F. Sawyer pc — sg : and physicians. Henry ‘F’ Sawyet, Harlan FO PP ed we ; “ Dr. James B Parramore, head i pei ggg _ s rician (Electronies)—Chas of the county health department, K, Brown 0! beky 4 Pens oR paler et Auto Mechanics —- Verdun FE Mrs. Lucrecia Aeokn and one of 500 to the Key West) Mann, Neville R. Russell and Died Saterday Nigh Municipal Hospital as well as a Glen F. Short. Mrs. Lucre K ’ j quant y to Dr. Galey’s hospital. Joiners—Harrison A. Miller, gaturday might Physicians have also been noti- Andrew M. Navarro, Henry Ro 4i7 Catherine Ogden and Albert Rodriguez F The blood plasma, itself, is| The Apprentice Training P ? 8 . y gram, which was initiated at the atients, t hospitals and penee tonpabientsy but Dos : base in January, 1946, now ha j physicians may charge for the (°"" alt Pp service of administering it. The 87 €nreliment of 99 : allocation to Monroe County was ELLIS ABOARD t A a » estimated needs for ia a) . ni based on the es' e t . BUMPER : t coming from a tota fied of its availability. a year, ors fighting on the ground, two; 15,000 packages transfc GREAT loff-duty shore patrolmen wit- | the American Red Cross to the Fleet ‘ |nessing the fight and another j Florida State Board of Health for this item today of i to Key # aad {sailor also looking on. All were; ribution to hospitals and phy- Westers satan t taken to the city jail, where the} sicians throughout the state. Ap; . James .McGil) Ellis, 25, chef pK two who had been fighting, C. A.] proximately a million and a motor machinists’s mate, son Of Kg K “ {Donnelly and J. M. Bolster, were| quarter packages were ‘made Mr. and ¢Mrs. RB. E. Ellis of 191 yg. Pras locked up. One of the shore pa-j available throughout the hation, &*Poinefama (Place, Key West, Fla, , rolmen, Richard Barter, showed | five-years supply going to vete! s stationed aboard the bina R ’ jevidence of being under the in-/ ans hospitals. USS Bumpe 7 fluence of liquor, police said, so} Through the wartime blood Ellis, who entered the N m 5 t he was also locked up and his} gonor service. from February 4. 1939, has spent 56 monfhs 2 w taken away. The sailors w ithe custody of Navy officials and | were to be brought Municipal Court this afternoon. Between 2:30 and 3 a.m., Offi- jcer Castro answered another call | ,to the corner of Greene and Si- }monton Streets, where he found three Marines fighting. ‘the m was bleeding from a severe head cut caused by being hit with la bottle g others. All were released. asardted REPLACEMENT fl = PARIS ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS 121 Duval Street uum Phone 442 one (EE 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 a \ | 1941 to September 15, 1945 released inj Red Cross collected throughout before the; One of| o said, but refused | to press any charges against the i the seas. During the war t ‘ in the Philippine, Asiatic and Pa cific theaters. Before assignment to the Bumper he ed STUDENTS btstt to the submarine U: CITIZEN COFFE : t ae the nation 13,250,000 pints of blood in 35 fixed centers and 63 mobile units. AVARRO, Inc. ae AO ; itrection on - DeSoto - Dodge I arking Meters Betty Whig | and Plymouth ’ | FOR REAL, EFFICIENT, The pay irs at parking me jal ' HONEST SERVICE ters are 8 AM. to 6 PM, Mon | Oposite the Bus Station days through Fridays, and on Sat- y urdays from 8AM to9 PM he 2 - * ae BG PEREZ ERREEEERRE EET ORE EERE ED ROASTERS and FRYERS |i ...o7-081007 ° Ot BRADY’S (Live) Poultry a” and Egg Market PMN CHUM Men — DANGING ‘wun 9:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. 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