The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 8, 1947, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the mom equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. XLVI. No. 161 RUSSIA AT ODDS WITH SATELLITES 16 COUNTRIES ACCEPT *- CUSS EUROPE’S RE- HABILITATION To Address Saturday in Paris to consider ap- plying the Marshall plan to re- building Europe Radio Moscow announced to- day that Romania, Poland and Yugoslavia would not send repre- sentatives to the conference, but Poland and Romania promptly announced that they had not yet decided whether or not they will have representation As for Yugoslavia, it has not definitely announced what it in- tends to do about the invitation to Paris to discuss the Marshall plan However, the Finnish govern- ment stated that its cabinet had voted, four to two, not to partici- pate in the Marshall plan dis- cussions. News was received from Hun- mery that it will make its de- Cision tomorrow Thus far 16 countries ha - cepted invitations to the confer- ence. Rehabilitation of Europe under the Marshall plan will be undertaken only in those coun- tries that take part in the Paris sessions Local Service. Provides Jobs For Eighty-Nine im suitable work by the local ¢ fice of the Florida State Em- State House“ of - Representa- tives and colonel during the War in the Seventh Army, arrived here today to address the Junior Chamber of Com- merce at its installation of officers ceremony tonight. The visitor will be the prin- cipal speaker at the installa- tion dinner to be held at 7:30 p.m, at the Fort Taylor Offi- ers Club. Joe Pinder will be installed as president, suc- ceeding Jack Delaney, who will deliver a brief address as outgoing president. SRE ODL LLL :| Scout Voyage To Cuba Asked Of Coast Guard MAYOR, McCURDY , CONFER WITH LT, MUSE; BOYS TO ATTEND NAMING OF PLAZA; DE KEY WEST City and Boy Scout officials are attempting to secure Coast | Guard transportation from: Key | West to Cuba so 24 Scouts and four leaders may accept an invi- | | Squares will be named after Key ; ployment Servi during the West. month of June, Jeff Knight, Jr.) Ma: W. W. Demeritt, Scout Manager of the local off Commi: founced today. He urged ner Pot- ployers to make sl effort ter, confer ieutenant | to employ on veterans Luther M Coast Guard -com- the manding officer here, yesterday with regarding use of a Coast Guard vessel for the trip. Muse, officer in harge of aids to navigation, jed that he is in no position fo grant the request and is occu-' nt said that during June, registered for work and that employment was found : for 23, of whom two were dis- nied with nayigation work. * abled. The total number of ap-| He suggested, however, that slicants registered for work at McCurdy write Commander J. J. the hecinnine of July. at the Key ,Woodbeck, his superior in Miami, West office was 428, including 2"4 make the request. The Scout fallen whieh is higher Commissioner wrote the letter than at the beginning of June, of the Key West the Havana ceremony, | js said, is highly desirable | in order to observe adequately , Job applicants in the local of include professional and al, 26: clerical and sa 115; service, 92; skilled, 71 the naming of Plaza de Key skilled, 114; unskilled, West, formerly known as San agriculture The most Sig- Francisco Square. ' nificant of veteran applicants by Mayor Demeritt, former _ of- individual occupation are found ficer in charge of the Coast | in clerical and sales, skilled, Guard installations here. ex- semi-skilled and unskilled pressed the hope that permigsion | of unemployment compensation ahounting to $206.50 were made in this county during the week ending June 28 to 14 persons. State-wide pay- ments amounted to $154,930.50, and were made to 10,151 persons. Payments for use of the necessary transpor- tation will be granted in order that the city may be well repre- sented at the christening cere- mony. ‘ Demand Lends in reverse gear. Many are buying | old-fashioned, nineteenth centurv residences in a time weathered section of Lincoln Park. The an-: tique houses are being put into, shave for modern living. but; their quaint architecture is ‘be-! k ending June 28, and were Je to 14,585 veterans Knight requests communica- tion with the Key West office of the Florida State Employment Service, located at 314 Simonton street, or telephone 489, to ar- range to give jobs to veterans or ing preserved. P employed. Job applica- ° sous 1 ther ut be taken at the same Reception Tonight office ___. For Baptist People. Members of the First Baptist. Church will give a reception to- j night, beginning at 8 o'clock, in; the Baptist annex for the Rev. and Mrs. Bronnie Nichols and we " ETE. NAN and CLINT GIESE INVITATION ‘10 DIS. CO POMMMMMAs racse annest case MADE! Mce€ warty Arrives »| AGAINST HECTOR CASTRO, \grancy. tation. from Boy* Scouts of Cubaj American Legion; -is-going ahead | is based.on service to the Amer- to attend a celebration in Havana | with reconstruction of the Coun- jican Legion. It is expected that \July 15-20, when one of the city |try Club as its future home, Com- |@ large class of Key West Legion- said today. sioner David C. McCurdy | sponse to reports that because the | {it has been given use of build-! jings and a large site at the Army | These figures do not include al- i lowances paid te unemployed | veterans from federal funds Enchantment. which are tabulated on a state- : z wide basis. These payments CHICAGO.—(Ap). — The de-| grounted to $307,089 for the mand for new homes is moving ! PHOTOGRAPHERS the Rev. and Mrs. Negrene. Have Opened Their Portrait Studio PALACE THEATER: 613 Fleming Street APPOINTMENTS—PHONE 837 RICHARD DIX in “SECRET OF THE WHISTLER” e Key E SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. EE Oe = st Cf KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENIe Hearing Is Set|“Air Power Is Peace Power” [Coal Miners Crippled Ship Towed For Girl’s Suit)To Be Discussed Tomorrow OVER CONFERENCE|Against Officer] Night Before K.W. Legion Post CIRCUIT COURT TO SIT ON/LT. COMDR. ALBRIGHT&——————— OF NAVAL AIR STA. "\OMOOOL@ OOM, AUGUST 4 TION WILL BE GUEST ; DE 7 ey, al J T. i“ he i Hearing of a $3,000 personal SPEAKER Mead Asserinted Press) aycees tonigh damage suit filed against Police r ssi Albri LONDON, July 8.-—Russia and ay 8 {Officer Hector Castro by an at- ce pie glee so ee gine several of her sateliite states are Dan McCarty, 35-year-old jtorney for Miss Ethel Rota peralione, aval ey GT reported to be et odds over the} citrus grower from Fort {Plaisance, 17, for false arrest on |B0c@ Chica, will be the guest fonference to be convened next! Pierce, ex-Speaker of the |June 3, was set for August 4, by |Speaker at the regular meeting Circuit Court here yesterday. of Arthur-Sawyer Post No.“ 28, anne Paul Plaisance, who {American Legion, to be held to- was described as Miss Ethel R. 7 i "clock i Plaisance’s best friend, who filed aay ae es Seca the suit, charges that the plaintiff {""° “Coton Home, corner . White in the action was arrested June {274 Southard streets. 4 by Castro on a charge of va-| The subject of Comdr. Al- bright’s talk will be “Air Power Attorney Tom Watkins, who!Is Peace Power.” Comdr. Alé was acting city judge during the ! pj i i- absence from the city of Judge eee tee cane cf une ve Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., dismiss- Laon ae Sena = nallye ed the charge against the young jof St. Petersburg, Florida. He woman. was flight instructor at the Naval City Clerk Roy Hamlin ex- jAcademy for two years and has plained this morning that the city ‘served in various theaters of the is protected against suits of this : war during the last conflict. type by explicit legislation which! A class of veterans of World holds that the municipality can- War II will be given the obliga- not be held to blame for actions ,tion of the American Legion by of its police officers. | ri The case is believed to be one eeaey ets meter wee of the very few, if not the first,| Commander C. B. Harvey re- to -be brought against a police ‘quests full attendance, as many officer here. The young woman matters of importance are to be was arrested by Castro who said discussed at. this session of the post. 3 he stopped a car containing some The monthly meeting of Voi- sailors on the night of June 4th } isin aavapany: 3 re Locale No. 728, 40 and 8, fun ‘. | american Legion, was held last Legion Post Is levening at the Legion Home. jpresided at the session. | It was stated that the local an initiation or “wreck” this fall lu s Quarters in the city. Membership in the and found Miss Plaisance in ‘ty and honor organization of the jChef de Gare Robert D. Smith ° oe Going To Finish | Voiture is planning to sponsor Arthur Sawyer Post 28, the ,40 and 8 is by invitation only and mander C. B. Harvey of the post Hl He made his statement in re- | National Guard unit in Key West would evacuate the armory at Southard and White: streets, Ar-” Hl thur Sawyer Post intended to re- main in the structure. ! Capt. E. E. Roberts, command- | er Of the Key West battery of the ! National Guard, is reported to have said the armory would be | abandoned by the guard because | T vss the street | | years ago. Barracks, just ac! frcm the armory. Closely tied with “We have put in a considerable , throughout this period, the Army has compiled an enviable rec- jamount of labor on the Country | ord of achievement ever sincé Maj. James Glassel arrived with | the first troops—two companies of infantry—in Fberuary, 1831. The soldiers had been precéded by both sailors and marines In fact, a company of marines jthe town, In 1861, General John | ; had even erected barracks be-4———————__________ Club and we are definitely go- ing ahead with the entire recon- version of the building for the Legion home,” said Commander Harvey today. s ‘Approximately $10,000 will be | tween Duval and Whitehead spent by Arthur Sawyer Post | streets in 1824 but the buildings getting ready to move into the | were not long occupied. eeantey Club building. . (Credit for all this informs: tion goes to Jefferson VOOOOOOOOS: i ; some eight to ten years before. Browne, author of “Key West, the Old and the New”, publish. ed in 1912.) That first contingent of two companies set up camp near {North Beach about where the Key West Barracks are now. By 1836 a number of large lots front- ing the bay (and probably Garri- json Bight) had been deeded to the United States by the original proprietors and occupied as an army post. Six buildings were erected for officers’ quarters, three on the {northeast and three on the south- west side of the parade grounds. {Two soldiers’ barracks and a guard house were put up 40 feet apart southwest of the parade grounds, each 125 by 20 feet. With an eye to the climate the Army engineers built the living quarters of both officers and enlisted men high off thé ground, with piazzas on all sides. Made of wood, the buildings stood on stone and NOTICE Marian Arango, of 220 Simonton St., was awarded the Maytag Washing. Ma- chine on Saturday, July 5, 1947. Every time Steve Gellis tried to make love, Susan shied away. But Steve was not to be denied and love finds the way after gil care Read Dear Susan Brown The Love Serial Starting News and Serial TONIGHT IS PRIZE NITE — A ‘ (Signed) Today in The Citizen NT ALUMNAE col CDDDI OD DLL) cc mmempeninnatecs CE By JOHN RA. VOSBURGH City Editor of the Key West Citizen marks the closing of a proud, old outpost founded here 116 Returning To Jobs Today 150,000 MARCHING BACK TO WORK IN NORTHERN AREA; NOW GETTING HIGHEST WAGES IN HISTORY (By The Associated Presa) ( WASHINGTON, July 8—One hundred fifty thousand soft-coal City’s Smallest [Delinquent Tax List Tomorrow The smallest delinquent tax list the City of Key West has ever published will ap- pear in the Citizen tomor- tow. — e In bygone days it was a common thing for a list to run more than three pages, afd sometimes as long as .four pages, but tomorrow's list will be only two columns t miners, now receiving their high- est wage in history, are returning in to their jobs this afternoon the northern area. Their wage scale now amounts to $13.05. a day. Another 150,000 are scheduled to return to pits tomorrow in the | long. * f {middle and far west. As a result of the miners going DOLLA EMA M 4,» 0 their jobs after their 10- { aay “vacation period,” steel mills jnaires ‘will be ready for the ini- ;"eported today that they are re- tiation’ this fall iturning to full-scale operations. Z The only area in which a set- A 14k ‘40 and 8 lapel button |tiement has not yet been reached with. a. diamond will be offered between miners and operators is the Voyageur who brings in the in the South. most new members and renewals Southern operators and union during the coming year in the |"epresentatives are due to hold American Legion. a conference tomorrow afternoon, ’ : beginning at 2 o’clock, to nego- Plans are proceeding for the |tiate for a settlement of differ- construction of a Locomotive for the local Voiture. ences between them. -The next meeting CARBONELL is set for | August 4 at the Key West Yacht | Club. uy | MAKING $5 000 A regular meting of the Key IMPROVEMENTS West Guard of Honor, American A Legion, will be held this evening Improvements costing $5,000 0 ii i !commenced yesterday on: Car- ad ge ea Rea |bonell’s Luncheonette, 602 Duval full attendance, as many plans |Street. Louis Carbonell, owner, for the future activities of the |Said that he is installing con- Honor Guard will be discussed, |¢rete floor with asphalt tile, a Arrangements will be complet- |R€W counter, stools, tables, chairs, ed for the Honor Guard to pro- | sa: vide.military funerals for the lo- | Ceiling. taliservice personnel who lost! Sam _ Drudge, theif lives during the last con- | flict“and who will be returned * to the city for burial. contractor, ‘weeks, Carbonell said. Closing of Army Post Here Recalls Grand lory Of The Service And Its Influence | In Shaping The Development Of Key We ithe barracks the troops had HE Army's departure from Kéy West, now being completed, inarch the mile and a half distance daily. “AL the time of the Civil War,” the development of the city! MGitea ene ae roads or streets directly connect ing the Army post and Fort Tay- lor, which could only be reached by marching the troops through Browne write \M | ficer {from a point about . Brannan, the commanding of- cer, cut a road across the island a thousand | prick foundations seven feet | high. if Construction of Fort Taylor pe started in 1845. It was complet-! fort ed 16 years later. The hurricane '¢,; of October 11, 1846, destroyed) most of the structure completed | up to that time but work was! immediately resumed and the fort ; was ready for occupancy in 1861.1 Browne describes Fort Taylor as “a double casemated brick fort of the Bauban plan.” Its arma- ment consisted of 152 guns and howitzers, ranging from 15-inch pieces on down. The fortress commanded the entire water entrance to the city. Built on a sand spit about a quar- ter of a mile from shore, it fea- tured four bastions and four cur- tains. During the Civil War roomy quarters were constructed in Fort Taylor and occupied until hostilities ceased. The military could march his troops to the without going through the The road was so filled with coral rock that it became known as Rocky Road but was later changed to Divisi street, since it was a dividing line south of which few. if any, per sons lived. | Because of the strong Confed- ferate sentiment in the city, it ;was expected that an attack {would be made on the fort by the citizens, Browne relates. Capt. {Brannan reported that he had ;“four months’ provisions and sev- ‘enty thousand gallons of water ibut could not stand a siege un- less he was reinforced immediate- ly ly. | “He was strengthened the same year by the 5th U.S. Artillery un- | der a Maj. French, who had avoid- post in Key West had the dis- (od surrender in Texas and sailed tinction during the Civil War | for Key West. of being the only one in the | Fort Taylor, well supplied South remaining in Union | with artillery and ammunition, hands. displayed so formidable a de- Sentiment in the city was over- (Continued un Page Four) whelmingly Confederate and: when Florida seceded in January, 1861, Gen. J. M. Brannan marched his entire command from the bar- racks to Fort Taylor while the city slept and took possession of | Uniformly Delicious Yep, Brother, We're Talking it. Incidentally, since the forti-| About Them Steaks Again. fication and Army post were on| s4 Tender, So Juicy. Such H Ourselves!! SANDY'S GARAGE | 'e, ———-— Sandy Caraballo ! 404 DUVAL ST. — PHONE 501) NATURALLY Body and Fender Work CARS PAINTED from $35.00 CARS PARKED By. t to t northeast of the post, so that! |Twice Sume Day Into Marathon; Boat Is Found In Straits ———--- *P HO 'T OGRAPHER FOR MOOLaOOOB) vi, NATIONAL GEO- Wallaces Become GRAPHIC MAGAZINE Grandparents IS ABQARD Robert Connert, a photograph er for the National Geograph Magazine, brought inte Marathan yesterday afternoon af | Mr. and Mrs. C. E, Wal- lace, 608 Ashe street, be- was { | | kitchen equipment and a celotex |rnty deed doing the work. A grand re-open- jrecorded the following real estate ; ‘ing will be -held: in about two |deals: I ter being picked up in the Flor ida Straits shortly after night Monday by the SS lusa in a disabled motorbe Connert, who hails from Fort Worth, Texas, was sailing in the |straits when his 65-foot_motor boat, Gypsy Mid, suddenly de veloped “engine trouble. Unable to start the motor again, Connert hailed the master of the Tuska lusa and asked for a tow In a few minutes the disabled boat was taken in tow. The ma ter of the Tuskalusa reported to Coast Guard headquarters her Both births occurred in the (Yesterday that he had picked up Key West General Hospital. \ the vessel and would leave it with Connert, near Sombrery II OMI MI MG MM Vib vouse. ; A keeper at the light house Key Acreage Sold, iit no2'vcen taken in tow bs» Other Properties Change Ownership out" rescue see trom ‘small motorboat from the |house and had been towed to Marathon. | The Coast Guard did not Thirty acres of Riviera Village | “The motorboat was towed in was sold yesterday for $4,300 by |te Marathon and w i not G. R. K. Carter and wife of Dade | think it necessary county to Frederick Bowen of | vessel out came grandparents twice yesterday. Their first grandchild, a * daughter, was born at 8:39 a, m.. to Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly. The newcomer weighed eight pounds, eight ounces. Mrs, Kelly is the for- mer Beverly Verne Wallace. At 1:15 in the afternoon, a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. James Hyde. The new arrival weighed seven pounds, five ounces. Mrs. Hyde is the for- mer Dennie June Wallace. mid Ke Coral Gables, according to a war- | Official of the Coast Guard at filed with Circuit |Key West. Court Clerk Ross C. Sawyer. | <a _ is}* Other warranty deeds tited |New Drilling . Betty Gayle Llanes, Hill Cuts Diamonds 4 borough county, sold 98.85 ae é . on Plantation Key to George W I W » D \Langford and others of Miami | or Wire Pies fo. a nominal stun, and 31 | acres on Long Key to John ‘AP Newsleatures F. Carter and others, of Miami, EW YORK. A new method fot a nominal sum. of electrical drilling shay 600 John F. Carter t|diamonds into tiny wine ala to Delbert L. Layton, /forms in one-fiftieth of the time E acres on Long Key, lit formerly took Mr. and M Ghailesiees The wine qlass diamonds cre mann sold to James H. Semple, ‘diamond dies used for meakine extremely hard and fine wire Miami, property on the mainland r, a fo. a nominal sun many other electronic device strands, important in radar For $2,000, Anna Hanker and) Developed at the Nat husband sold to Mr. and Mrs. |reau of Standards. the Fred E. Saunders, 1315 Olivia |has revolutionized the street, property near Elizabeth | diamond die inedutr duced it into the United 00 Esther A. Harriete | for the first time Miami, sold! nal of the Franklin Institut 3owen, Coral! Wires finer than 15 rs Of land at Rock andths of an inch in diamete Harbor. i j be drawn only by diamond A one-half int st in 3.79 land they are essential al of land at Rock Harbor | precision of size and rou old by Allie M. Allen and! Before 1940, such dies wer others, Miami, for a nominal sum. | ported frot John M. Marzyck sold to Mar- | took 100 or more man ber st Mae Acosta, 1501 Von Phis- | make, and labor costs here er street, property on that street, | too high for $3,000. With electrical dvillin eee | wine-glass die can be m y - | about 10 hours, and multiple p jabout two man-t nal said. The die ter than those mad ical drilling, it cess was dey ers, W. B. Emerson, K. F len, F. K. Harris, and 1 L. ¢ 2. W. Lowe Dies In Miami Again, Declares W.C.T.U. Head J. H added i ASBURY PARK, N. (AP) —Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president} er C ristian the go- of National Women’s Temperance Union. United States is voluntarily ing dry by local option. One-fourth the area of the U M S., containing 28 million popu-| lation, is now dry or bans hard ; liquor,” she told a W. C. T. U.'__M Wilhelmina 1 convention. “Eventually, as th« died in . : ‘ revolt spreads, entire states wil] #1 Sunday morning go dry and, ultimately, the na-;# lingering illness. She tion.” native of Key West, and hw sided in Miami 13 ' Survivors are: Widower, Pa S. Lowe; two sons, Morga ' NTED Eugene Lowe; thre tin Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, Mrs. | James and Mrs. Ca » B At O la brother, Will Re { Ke nce West, and three g tren ve < : Funeral services be con Girl for Secretarial jducted at 2 p. m. Wednesda and Office Work the Gerhardt Funeral — Hows MUST BE chapel, Miami, with the Rev. Las LOCAL RESIDENT ingston Munro, former pastor o' jthe First Methodist Church, Ke West, officiating, with interment jfollowing in Woodlawn Cemetery. Park