The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 25, 1947, Page 1

| VOLUME LXVIIIl. No. 48 Flyer Rescues Il Men Stranded On Greenland (fr The Assorinted Press) 4 WASHINGTON, Feb, 25.—) the city with DDT/\1as.\pre-* Braving the icy, slippery surface} dicted in cma eee om the northerly tip of Greenland,! will be supervised in’ 4 Liewtenant Bobby Kavnaugh to-| Peinelana area iby atanl tete day landed his plane and rescued; Mills White. ry the 11 American airmen who hadi West Housing, ‘Authority. \ been stranded ever since last} Mayor 'W. W.' Deitteritt Pridey. It required three andj *4 this morning that he ene-half hours for the intrepid | would sign the pétition for Kavnaugh to make the rescue. all his and his wife's prop- i The 11 men were forced down| ¢*Y- which is abundgnt with ® thelr plane, following enginc| ‘ees and foliage of many trowble. Simee then food, medi-| re types. All property own- ome end blankets had been|. et must sign the petition if dropped to them by parachute.| the city is to be sprayed with | Yesterday it was decided to try] DDT by the Navy. t© reseue them with a glider JAS ILA + 4 fi plane but that proposed under- ae apes hae we neat co ae ered the see | : @uished Flying Cross with one lLiqu uor aii a mi 4 oak leaf. : ye Losley, ‘bartender at’ the Tourists To Be Driftwood Cafe) was. fined $150] . 7 by Municipal Judge‘ Enrique: Es-4 Feted By Chamber | csinaiao today. when tourd gull ° ty of selling intoxicatin ‘bever- Tomorrow Night | ges atter 2am. The Driftwood Tourists and winter visitors to; liquor license was ‘also suspended Key West will be entertained to- | fr 10 days. merrew evening at the Chamber! . Officers Frank Jolly and’ Hec- @ Commerce “Fun Night” in | tor Castro said they, entered the Jackson Square USO at 8 p. m | Driftwood at 3:05 a.m. and Under the direction of Yvonne | found a number of persons at the Patten, the Douglas High School! bar. Castro said he saw a man we! Club will entertain with a|and woman consuming mixed half hour's progr am. This glee| drinks, He testified he. tasted etuh has made several public ap- | the drinks and found they con- \CODaIOHaLS ‘WHITE SUPERVISES POINCIANA ie 'TO ALLOW Petitions| beinig'4 among Key: West. owners relative to ‘ pearances this season and has a! tained liquor. Jolly. said he ar- Piendid program to offer | rested Losley. Of particular interest to visi-! Losley said he had served the tars here will be a talk by Don-!drinks before 2-:a.-.m., and elt Welsh, loca! sponge fisher-| pleaded not guilty. He said he men, whe will explain Ure sponge | expected to appeal the case to the iniuetry ae it exists in Key West | Circuit Court but would have to: uate (By SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1947 IN THE UNITE 163 Killed, 249 Hart In Tokyo - Weeek Of Train | ‘The “Ansovinted Press) {TOKYQ, -Feb. '25.—One hun- | dred sixty-three killed and 249 injured was the toll today when: if expiess train jumped the tracks ‘at a curve near this city; ile traveling at high speed. j Six coaches left the tracks and; plunged into a former ravine. | Seventy of the injured were re jported in critical condition. No Americans’ were aboard the train. The government explained that} practically all passengers were on their way to country districts to} try to persuade farmers to sell some of their produce. gio” i Residents of this city are-press-| the probability that the decrease | Station, Boca Chica, will be re- | ed hard in finding enough to cat, | despite the fact that they have} the money with which to pur-| cline it. GHECKING PIER. cgyy ESTIMATES TODAY ity Manager O. J.:S. Elling- | son said this morning that the | city is soliciting estimates of the eost_of building a pier at South! Berch. Particular attention is be-! irig’ paid the piles to be dri iven | for the: pier uprights, and ma- terial with which to construct} the dock, The 1947 budget ear- marked. $2,000 “for®, bier, ete.” BOREAL BOX SEAT > NEEDS A THEATER | TULARE, Calif—(AP).—When! the Lippert Construction Co.,| started an $80,000 outdoor thea- ter, a 10-year-old neighbor boy began nailing steps to the only tall tree near the walls. His tree house is nearly finish- ed, but he'll see no free shows. The civilian production adminis- tration called the theater non- essential-and stopped the con- today and as it was during the| wait for the return.:from Cuba }struction: meet, when the city was one of} of Hector Baroso, proprietor of the feeding sponge centers in the/the Driftwood. City: Clerk Roy ocer tel Hamlin told Losley,~ he would | divergent Favor F ixing Rent Ceilings By Home o Units (By The Associated Prens) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.— A senate committee is still hearing views about rents, Several witnesses testified ‘today that they favored an increase of ; 10 per cent, but one senator ad- vocated turning over to home-| town boards the power to fix rent ceilings. Another senate committee was | reported to be on the point of} declaring in favor of turning over | sugar control to the Departnient} of Agriculture. Senators are expected to vote on the budget tomorrow, with approved will be 4% billion dol- lars. Chairman Tabor of the House Appropriation Committee, who is still advocating a reduction of six billion, said that the government could save 100 million annually by abolishing soft-snap jobs in the Department of Commerce. He declared that hundreds of em- ployes are finding a “haven” in that department. VIII ELS SL) NEWS THAT BENNIE ANDRADE DROPPED DEAD SHOCKS FRIEN The sudden passing of Bennie Andrade, former Key Wester, who dropped dead in Miami on Saturday, has surprised his many friends and acquaintances in this. city. Bennie was for many’years secretary of the Cigarmak- ers Union here and was well- liked throughout Key West. He moved to Tampa, Fla., about 10 years ago. DS hh heh hhnchncdh T. T: Phi illips, President Of Culf Life, A “Queen of the Island” will have to post $300 if he expects to ageie be chosen and some lucky | appeal. tety will be ewortled tickets en-| A. similar charge against T. E.- etiing ber to @ full day of activ-| Pratt, part owner of the Two! ty te Key West, as no cost to| Friends Bar on Front street. was. tn addition, a service man in} dismissed ‘by. Judge Esquinaldo, the USO will er ree long'| Attorney John G. “Sawyer ap- Hivtenee phone call home as a] peared for the . defendant and ® commection with a quiz} produced | as ;.witnessés ' Eric eg! an Gwynne, employe; Fred. Taylor, ‘ anit singing will be] bartender and Crip: Roberts, part earmts ‘ efreshments do-| owner. The defense, Wwithesses ated by the Overseas Hotel and veatbicdnecketol warren = con- Apartments will be | sumed after 2 a. m., and that they, . remain every morning ,,until the janitor comes since, , the estab; | lishment has no night watchman. | Jolly said he entered. the place t 3:20 a. m., and found 7 to 10 persons around the bar. drinking. ddmiral Visits Island Briefly Ralpt Davison 3% Legionnaires | To Nominate a A regular meeting of Arthur ncon-| Sawyer Post, No, 28, American Legion, will be held tomorrow at 8 p. m., in Legion Hall. | Delegates to the tenth district here | conference to bé held at Miami tely went! Beach March 16 will be selected. Nominations i cussion | the coming Legion y Capt. Coop- | will be held March 28. (Open All Night 24 Hours A Day BRITISH EXTEND PVEITATIONS TO ery S OFFICIALS eceivec 1" |GAS- OIL - TIRE SERVICE “por PARKING “| AMBLER’S SERVICE .{of Chairman of the Board | announced at the annual mect- Navy received at this meeting. Election i ing of the company’s directors, And: Founder, Made Board Chairman Elevation of President T.°T.1 Phillips, chief executive of Gulf! Life Insurance Company, Jack- sonville,. since aesi to the post yee { T. T. PHILLIPS | February 20. Mr. » Who was Gulf Life’: and only president, | was succeeded by his brother E. !L. Phillips, who joined the firm | Charles ; Jackson and Jerome A. Wate ;man, Tampa, vice 1S. Niehaus, Ja | Jacksonville, act’ ; Phillips, Jr., presented ‘at the meeting. réveal- ed a gain in anslrance in force of $60,402,214 ge During the same period ‘ $6,994,007 to a total of $4 080. Sums paid to beneficia and policyholders and added to policyholde reserve in 1946, amounted to $9,124,451. Other offi elected at the directors’ mecting were:.S. Ken- drick Guernsey and E. L. Phil- lips, Jr. Jacksonville, and Mullen, Frank D. president; William J. Hamrick, Jackson- ville, agency vice president; M. sonville, se Harrell, Dorothy M. | Hardy M. and Mrs. Wetherington, sistant secretaries; J. E. Hy Jacksonville, treas % and W. H. Langford, Scott M. stant treasurer: | when it was a few months old.} He had served continuously as} vice ‘president since its first| year. | “It is a pleasure to be able to relinquish some of the duties; and responsibilities connected with the job of President,” the new Board Chairman declared. “I promised myself many years} Bay 104. DUVAL STREET t that Adjoining LaConcha Raul’s Club ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD by the SEA GRAND OPENING TODAY DINNER SERVED from 6:30 SUPPER SERVED, 10 P.M. to CLOSIN Cuisine by Duffy's Tavern 3 Complete Floor Shows Nightly 9: - 11:30 - 2:00—— DANCING ... MUSIC by MARK (OC rnnch) STANLEY and His Orchestra With SYLVIA at the Piano Re t Phone 9287 lago that I would retire when | Gulf Life became a million-dollar } company. That milestone was} passed a very long time ago; now : I am not thinking of retiring. I! am happy to state that at the | close of 1946 our company hi a more than $370,000,000 of insur- {ance in force and more than 000,000 in assets. This has bi ‘accomplished largely due to the loyal activity of the more than}; 1,275 co-workers in Gulf Life { “The wide acceptance of this }company as a leading Southern; | financial institution has influenc- led its spread from the states of } {Florida and Georgia into Ala-| bama and South Carolina. I pre- | dict that by the end of 1948, Gulf Life will have one-half billion n| | of insurance in force and fifty sets.” he concluded. | The annual financial statement! E. L. PHILLIPS Loftin, Jr., counsel. Elected to the board of direc- |tors at the stockholders’ meeting were: Robert H. Anderson, Mi-! ami; W. T. Gary, Ocala; Kendrick Guernsey, Albert H.! Laney, Scott M. Loftin, Sumter L. | Low Jr., M. S. Niehaus, H. T. Parker, E. L. Phillips, E. L. Phil-| lips, Jr., T. T.. Phillips, William | H. Rogers, Lawrence K. Tucker, | Jacksonville; H. C. Culbreath, F. | )D. Ja on, Loper B. Lowry, | Charles G. Mullen, E. P. Talia- ferro and J. A. Waterman, Tam- pa; J. Frank Kelley, Jr., and A. | P. Phillips, Atlanta: and J. S.i McEwan, Orlando Jacksonville, general ‘ Sawyer said. Carbonell And Harden Oppose Naming Of Del And Young lear 5 File For‘License ‘Post To Receive Navy Bids For Sale Of; Surplus Buildings Bids for the sale of 31 surplus barracks, water storage tanks and sctub sheds at the Naval Air ceived by the officer in charge of construction, Key West Naval Submarine Base, on March 17. The surplus buildings cost the government about $30,000 to build. A total of 25 of the build- ings were once barracks struc- tures about 20 feet wide and 100 feet long. Water storage tanks and scrub sheds comprise the other buildings for sale. Comdr. J. H. Lefland, Civil Engineer Corps, of the Navy, is the officer in charge of construc-! tion. He states that within 60} days after the sale is consumma-} ,| ted by the Navy, the purchasers ; shall remove all buildings and clean up the site of them. A considerable number of bid- ders are expected to place bids for the buildings, because, it is -said, some of them may be con- verted into homes, with the ad- dition of new construction. 3 Plead Guilty In Court Today Criminal Court Judge Thomas S. Caro received pleas of guilty of three men to driving a trash truck from which drepped boxes on the highway, driving while drunk and plain intoxication to- day. Robert Skinner, colored, driv- er for the Navy of the garbage truck, pleaded guilty ta dropping the boxes on the highway. He} was fined the costs.: Judge,.Caro issued a warning to the Navy to be, careful not to dump trash on the highway. Travis King, Ojus, was, firieiht $50 and costs and his. driver's license was suspended for. driv- ing his car while intoxie Marathon. State Highway Pa trolman Warren Bateman arrest ed him. William Reifstock, also of Ojus, | was fined $25 and costs for be- ing intoxicated in the car driven by King. Sheriff Sawyer Will Run Again Sheriff Berlin A. Sawyer said today he was going to be a can didate to succeed himsclf in the spring of 1948. “There are a lot of rumors that I was intending to retire.” Sheriff “I do not intend to reti and will be a candidate foi the office of sheriff again next year?” serving his scc ond term as sheriff and has until Jan. 1, 1949 to serve. The pri mary for sheriff will be held in Sawy: er is now | May, 1948. GULF STREAM RESTAURANT and SNACK BAR Division and Simonton Streets OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY Serving... @ Breakfast @Luncheon, 11-2 @ Dinner, 5-9 After-Theater Supper or Snacks Also Service a la Carte At All Hours We Specialize in... KEY LIME PIES and APPLE PIE We Cater to Parties, Weddings and Fraternal- Groups (Key West Pen Pal Wri rites! Pe RE | Wanted By Dane ‘uuuvanuveracaeganecaaeincenacencagnsencsnnngnnanagetn Any Key’ Wester desiring pen-pal in’a foreign land cani start writing to Walter Th. Rohde, 33 Farogade, Aalborg, ;Denmark. The Citizen recently | received the following letter from Walter: | “Dear Sir: “I beg you to do me the fa- { vor of helping me bv an ad- | vertisement in your paper to | get one penfriend, living in Key West, Fla. “PENFRIEND: “Danish citizen, American disposed, Roman Catholic, wants a penfriend, in Key West, Fla., 30-35 years of age. Inter- ests: geography, stamps. Lan- guage: American. “It is impossible to sehd } money out of this country but possibly the applicant you choose can pay the advertise- | ment for me. "T thank you very much be- Seren “Callector if my matter. | “Sincerely yours, “WALTER TH. ROHDE.” The Citizen is taking care of the advertisement thusly but is leaving the choice of a: penfriend up to its readers. fi Cop Finds Job “MARINE OFFICER AP- PLIES ‘FOR: FINANCE JOB, EISNER FOR CI- VIL SERVICE City Commissioners Louis Car- jbonell and Hunter Harden said today they would vigorously op- pose the appointment of Ramon Delgado as city inspector of li- censes, weights and measures, and of M. Ignatius Lester as assistant icity attorney. Both jobs were set jup by the 1947 budget passed last week by the City Commission. Delgado, former assistant sani- tary inspector and supporter of | Commissioner John Carbonell, is widely rumored to be in line for the inspector post. Lester has been appointed by his father, City Attorney J. Lancelot Lester, to the position which the city at- torney advocated ,be established. His appointment is subject to con- firmation by the commission. Both positions pay $150 per month. Meanwhile, applications for va- 'cancies in City Hall continued to be received. Five men, includ- ing Delgado, have applied for the license inspector post. C. D. Hat- field, retired Marine lieutenant- colonel, has applied for the fi- nance director’s position resigned jby Charles R. Roberts. Former police chief Louis M. J. Eisner forehand for your trouble with ee Willard T. Cook, 24-year-old former Coast Guardsman, joined Victor Lowe as applicants for the ivacancy on the Civil Service Board, a $15-per-month job. "Job Set Up” In respect to the license in- {spector position, Commissioner Louis Carbonell’ said this morn- ing, “It is my belief that the job of license inspector was set up \for one particular. person.” With- ed at} ‘Exciting When Its In Story tap Newsfeatures | PHILADELPHIA. — When _ Pa-/ trolman Bill Beyer sits down at his desk, machine gun plasts | ‘echo, _ sinister creeping out of and_violence and sudden death ; sare bout. i Ss pihgbo 's nothing te w about, the genial. poli | ma “I've been on the police force | for six years and I’ve yet to | fire a shot—except for prac- tice.” “But,” he proudly admits, | “there's plenty of fireworks in | my stories.” | Beyer, who admits his police duties are relatively prosaic com pared with his stories, has au thored aprpoximately maga- zine stories and two detective novels in his spare time, The patrolman - author, who} had been selling fiction for a figures come, bonell the. shadows) *‘ out naming the person, the com- missioner then said, “You can ,quote me as saying that. I will not vote for Ramon Delgado.” Har- den also said he would not ap- prove Delgado's appointment. In 6pposing Lester, Louis Car- explained, that he has psolutely nothing against the boy”, a’ clean-cut 1947 graduate of the University of Florida Law chool, “Ti have all the confidence in the world, both in Mr. Lester and his son,” the commissioner added, “But T have been against setting up this job from the start and would vote against appointing anyone.” Harden, who voied in favor of setting up the office, said he jcould not vote for young Lester's appointment “TL just don't like th et-up”, he said ‘he appointment of Lester ap pears to hinge on the vote of | Commissioner Albert — Cooper since Mayor W. W. Demeritt said this morning he would vote for couple, of years before he. took his appointment and John Car his frésent gob, said, “I was writ- |bonell’s extensive defense of the ing detective stories all the time|¢ity attorney at the recent bud- and it struck me that getting a job as a paliceman would be’ secure authentic good way to background. “I thought I'd stay ,on the | police force just a couple of | years; then I discovered I liked the job.” | 3eyer docs his writing in the | basement of his home where he| I has set up his desk and type-|~ Seat Covers writer so that he can work after his patrolman’s hours. - jan par ane re | When Its Dangerous To Use Your Head DU QUOIN, Ill (AP)— The patient fared well—and so did! his doctor, after identical mishaps. V. C. Morris, pushing his son's car off ige, slipped and. usfered 1 painfulf head cut SI his father to Dr. who sutured the ¥ n ‘the Morris gar -e ahd this time Dr.’Stevens assumed the af doctor glipped AD, out a fellow physician ’’to” tend his heagl wound. UT SO Sayre map Palace Theater BASIL RATHBONE in “DRESSED TO KILL” News and Serial TONIGHT IS PRIZE NIGHT | ;John Carbonell at — the get heaving indicated his probable Stand. Cooper could not be ached for comment this morn ! ing. License Applicants Delgado, a former employe of Strand Theatre, is said to be sure of the latter's vote, thus leaving it up (Continued on Page Four) FISHING TACKLE Household Supplies - Toys - Tools Kenyon Auto Store 524 Southard St. Opp. Bus Sta. ART Phone’ 5 eRe SRMNERE | NOTICE Applications will be eived by the City Clerk for the pos as.Member of Civil Ser- vice Commission of the City of Key West. Flor- ida, up to and including 8 p.m, Tuesday, March 4. ROY HAMLI City Clerk. deat 7 eS Le r Ome: te wv @ & mh