The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 18, 1947, Page 1

Basan eacea ELLUM SEEKS CITY William O'Dwyer. » Ir. will be used te: Bee hooey hy tH oie « Lorraine Nottage, 16, has been Help In Bringing jchosen winner of the $25 savings bond offered-.as.a- prize in the essay contest on the life of Jose tity iH All i r a ie tpipiter Li “e wd The. first. of; these. would have | bees in the amount of — Dorothy Parker, ;} $11,000. for prod ‘od tate: Lillian Hellman, tion ‘of: four 48 KVA:-voltage reg- ulators: and ‘related ‘equipment. | Marti, Cuban patriot in whose completed ut it 7 = honor this ci j : War Dead Home «one-week testivel The Key’ West fed Cross Chap- {West High School — 2 oe : : ter is ready to assist families in! the winner. by. Municipal hers Hanter Harden A. Roosevelt Here preparing documents for the re-| Bue Esquinaldo aed i ¥ gaid'vat ‘the ‘commission ‘meeting’ Although the. ‘Winter Season” **" Of American war dead from! Weal Cilio dudae Eaquiach’, hey: would ‘not support: the ‘first- may be over so far as the’ calen- | OVETSe2s ° cemeteries, Earl ' E. because of his reputation as a kno’ lamilton, Home Service chair-'student of the Cuban revolution & & t if il z i inl il 7 Pr : | held”at“‘Tampa next month the measure ashe ‘did not Ww dar is concerned, celebrities con- |’ what the money’ would: be: used’ for. Pritchard ‘said ‘yesterday he- did not ‘think .\Thehmeasure receiv- oF lest Lodi ‘ampa: next month: to. bring the 1948 -state convention of the or- ganization ‘to the city, it was an- i at last night’s meeting of the group in the Duval Street Clubrooms. “Whentthe state convention is Key ‘West’ Elks willbe strongly represented in: an effort to get next‘ year’s convention in the face if. strong. opposition from : St. Augustine. ; “Members of — the _ convention committee are. Frank Bentley, William V. Albury, John Rich- ardson, Earl Adams and Paul “)- Sher, It is expected that several other members of the local lodge -+4will be sent to Tampa to get the €onvention for next year. Y Several new members of the local’ Elks were initiated last night. Included -were Joseph Si- igo, Dow Thompson, Herman Urion and Paul Monsalvatge, Jr, f : APPLY FOR FOUR « LICENSES TO WED Applications for - marriage _li- censes were filed yesterday with County Judge Raymond R. Lord by Walter R. Conley, 20, U. S. Navy and Dena E. Odden, 18, La- Concha ‘Hotel; Henry W. Poole, 22, U. S. Navy .and Irmadell Lockwood, 22, of 2800 Seide: berg avenue; Aaron L. Billings- ley, 21,/U. S. Navy and Kath- Jones, 22, 411 William st.. id! and Hoyt B. McLendon, 23, U. S.° Navy. and Shjtley J. Moore, QED EF ARD tinue to. be. attracted, to Key West’s balmy shores. Latest to- artive .are three. prominent. lit- erary, (figures,.and' the. grandson of President’ Theodore. Roosevelt, Capt, Archie’ Roosevelt. : Best, known, of these literary péople) is Dorothy Parker, famed poct ‘and short. story writer..Lil- Jiaii “Hellman, ‘playwright - and Makes Sammy Run” ate the other. writers visiting. here. ‘Capt. Roosevelt is a guest ‘of Gen. and; Mrs. Alexander ‘Bar- mine. Barmine, author of, “One é and. Roosevelt Best ion as the recently returned from Teheran, Iran where he was mili- tary attache. Barmine was in the. Soviet Union diplomatic service in the same area before he left Russian service during one of Stalin’s periodical purges. Poland Moves" 40,000 Germans WROCLAW, Poland—(AP)— Forty thousand Germans on farmlands of state-owned estates in Lower Silesia are shortly to be repatriated to Germany and their jobs, taken over by Poles. The Germans represented 70 per cent of the total working upon approximately } 2,500,000 acres of land. AUTO. DESTROYED IN FIRE YESTERDAY An automobile owned by T-S George D. Peck of the Key West Barracks was totally destroyed by fire early last night seven miles from Pirates’ Cove. The loss was etsimated at $695. Sgt. Peck’ and Sgt. William Allen and Pvt. George Gardner went fishing near Pirates’ Cove and turned around to see the car on fire, Before the men got back to the car the 1937 Pontiac was destroyed. LILLE T TIED, For A Good Time, Visit the V.F.W. Clubhouse Guay han AVE. and 2ND ST. Monday thru Saturd FE Poinciane Bus Passes De POOR OLD CRAIG’ SERVICE STATION J. H. Brady, Mgr. Phone 9134 Division and Francis Streets Your PURE OIL Dealer——— CHAMPION OUTBOARD MOTORS Charged While You Wait an announced today, after re. in which Marti figured so prom- iying information frem the or- inently, had the final word in the nization’s Southeastern. Area headquarters in -Atlanta, . Home «Service~ workers In the ‘ey. West Chapter shave>-beeti (Mt an was as ‘runnertip, to” ine, | * ‘says were said-by) plicil with information ‘to!help be ‘excellentinsolar. ab) compesi- xt-of-kin in. completing othe ‘government afest Unmivon nit Tis the’ War Department. , According to information (re- ceived, the first 20,000 forms wére ‘tion | went, but: Lorraine | adhered ord; ‘closely: to, historical: facts, ovis stude ‘ nts with “Ji Jauinaldta MaysaNWiliceh We ok Mh gént to next-of-kin by’ the War’ merit Pane digrees OPareely Department beginning ''Matth “1. dirggaok, Yan (terstge:\ Shes bead Before the initial inquiry’ letter’ her essay to the aud and ‘forms ' are ‘received!’ from Washington, relatives of the war dead have been urged not to make inquiries of the War and Navy Departments. Because of the magnitude of the project, it is expected to be several months or more before all next-of-kin re- ceive the forms. At a recent conference on Red Cross Services to Veterans held) ed. in Atlanta; Col..John H. t, director of the American Grave Registration Service, and Col. Matthew H. Jones, of the Third Army Quartermaster Corps, out- lined the War Department's pro- gram for returning bodies of those men who lost thet? lives overseas during the period from September 3, 1939, to July 1, 19- 46. é While the war was on, most of the more than 300,000 Americans who died overseas were buried in temporatay ¢enicteries’ thru- out the world. The Government feels it is the right nad privilege of the next-of-kin to decid: where the final resting place of these war dead will be, the Army officials pointed out. The War Department, througn the Quartermaster Corps, will first determine from its records the person authorized to decide the question of final burial, ac- cording to the Atlanta spokes- men. Then the letter of inquiry and necessary forms will be mail- ed to the authorized next-of-kin, who indicates on the forms the Rat's Club EVERY: NIGHT THIS WEEK The Finest Floor Show in South Florida ELSA VALLADARES The Cuban Bomb Shell JOSE MARTINEZ Magician CECILE DANCERS A Beautiful Dance Team ' DANCE to MUSIC by Mark (Crunch) Stanley and HIS ORCHESTRA No Minimum or Cover Charge — Your Check is All You Pay Reservations Suggested Ph. 9287—Cloned Sundays —_—_— 1 | LONDON.—When the clothing of Herbert Winston Philpot, 31, caught fire while he was burning ; trash in a factory lot, he jumped! into reservoir, stuck in the mud and drowned. ! i Place of permanent burial desie-| 4. Families have the following op- ' claims tor tions fram which to select final’ tion and other burial of their war dead: Return | fits more of bodies for interment in a pri-! such cases vate cemetery in the United Sta-| against 171 tes or in the. deceased’s or next- | seeking jof-kin’s homeland in a foreign! dance in country, burial in a permanent; problems United States military cemetery , 405,000, overseas, or return to the United ; States for burial in a national ce. ; mpm 0S coon! Musie im The Wind will bear all costs of transfer of \y aX war dead. Upon oetival int this | , a a country the bodies will be ship-' } ped under 24-hour military |B Happened fa 8 areester guard to distribution centers, | from which a military escort al-! so will accompany the body to the place of burial. Military honors will be per-| formed for all dead to be! WORCESTER, Mass.-(AP).ft} buried permanently in ce: ies | , overseas. If i 4 Worcester'’s wintliest corner. private of national cemetery in! a girl's hat blew off. A young) wer Mew the United States, the next-of-kin ‘man with a trumpet case grabhed bie ceeruit may request such military hon-'for the headpiece. The cave hit| Trene ors. In these cases, the Army of-| the sidewalk, out tring the woe ficials pointed out, families are|trumpet followed by sheet after | being asked to eee a veterans’ rusie, I 30 seconds tant | © i in the vicinity, pedests chasing —— which will render such a service. rie of hoe Pinson ‘the | Distribution centers in south-| young lady who lust her hat ‘eastern states include Charlotte" P.sShe got her hat . Quartermaster Corps, Charlotte,| Ppg.—He retrieved must of bin! N. C.; Atlanta General Depot, At-' music, | Ga.; and Memph: ‘al CHARLES STARRETT in ‘TWO FISTED STRANGER’ News and Serial - BATTERIES |. | White and Pleming Phone 5