The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 2, 1947, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the Most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Associated Press Day Wire \ Service and AP Features for 67 Years Devoted to ¢: Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Cit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1947 U. S. A. VOL. XLVI. ——— — No. 183 PRICE FIVE. CEN1e OVERSEAS CO. SOLD; ‘Meyer Tells Of!Ford Asserts Union Trying {Labor Day _ [CGC Grants Permit NEW OWNERS NOT TO ‘Money Used On| To Use His Company As | Celebration For Barge Service MAKE ANY CHANGES Elliott and Wife “Guinea Pig’ In Labor Law| Plans Formed Miami To K ey West TOTAL AMOUNT FOR ENTER-/ISSUES STATEMENT ON* eoaee FRATERNAL, YOUTH,! TAINING THEM, $5,083; ONE} [jNJQN’S REFUSAL TO *BARGES WILL BE OPER- BILL FOR LIQUOR, $115; ONE Chamber To Meet Norberg Thompson And A Maitland Adams Sell Dise Shown RELIGIOUS GROUPS GIVE, (From Washington expondent, Key West Citizen) Garbage Fees: WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 2. i the Key West area are contem- , r E : die appre ata ies Sts Ann’s Parish Hall for the; plated at present by the new | pesnced today reas tne senate ing statement: jan s Miller were appointec purpose of organizing civic | owners of Overseas Transporta- |BRONZE SEAL OF CITY TO BE jinvestigating sub-co:sinitiee that ‘We were informed Wednesday .to work with USO and city offi-i ! i 1 N iy t a total of $5,083 f a ‘ 3 : é . _:Sroups for a proposed Labor Day | tion Co. Inc., who acquired the} LAID IN SQUARE DEDICAT- |"°SPent @ total of $ or en- in Detroit by the members of the cials in connection with fu: i | e Pt 7" .2 oy Line To Tr: riati AVERT IMPENDING! pe ENCOURAGING RESPONSE | ATED THREE TIME Sree | NIGHT IN HOTEL, $92.11 z i City-U.S.0. Heads | 10 savcees City Arrests 4 | WEEK C ; Men For ew Ke eI ih asi GENERAL STRIKE | i WEEKLY, ACCORDING y | WASHINGTON, Aug. 2-—John’ — cesecmnt te ybe cut On USO’s Future! 22. 7csins attendance | Deli I TO APPLICATION a epandes in the operating | :W. Meyer, publicity agent for DETROIT, Aug. 2—Henry Peal ,marked the special meeting of : e. inquent n | 4 h schedules or in the personnel in West Plaza ower Hughes, millionaire [1, president of the Ford Motor, ‘the Jayshees held last night at | sportsman and airpiane builder,'Company, has issued the follow-' i Application of Louis Berger, do- | AT LEAST 20 MORE FACE WAR ‘img business as Miami-Key West ture use of the Jackson Square |Barge Terminal Line, to engasc i tertaining Elliott Roosevelt and ,UAW-CIO negotiating committee celebration. company, in a stock transfer con- his wife, the former Fay Emer- jthat they were powerless to con- son, at the time Hughes and gov- sider our suggestion for averting ernment officials were negotiat- a threatened general strike in our ing aircraft contracts totaling plants next Monday. I telephon- $40,000,000. ‘ed Philip Murray requesting a summated at 4 p. m., Friday, at Miami, it was reported today. New owners of the company ED BY HAVANA TO ISLAND CITY The bronze disc to be formally are E. Ray Siddall and John M. !laid in the new Plaza in Havana Cochran, two well known figures \to be named, after Key West, |Roosevelt expense bill for enter- held in New York. Present, in in the motor transportation field. Siddall has been elected pre: dent; Cochran is vice presiden and Neil M. Knowles, of Key West, is secretary and treasurer. } Knowles has held that position | under the old owners. H It was reported by A. Mait-; land Adams, general manager un- til yesterday of the company, August 14, was on exhibit in the office of City Manager O. J. S. Ellingson and W. W. Demeritt this morning. A Key to the city, symbolizing the first word of the city’s name, underneath a setting sun bolizing “W. provides the disc | Myers said that in 1943 the conference. A conference was tainment amounted to 1944, $2,304; 1945, $698. Dinners at swank night clubs ‘and Er accounted for the expenditure of S. Bug most of the money, and one item Ford sj for liquor, during an evening's, “In this connection, may we say entertainment. totaled $115. that we sharply question the wis- Meyers spoke about a hotel dom of a strike or a threat to bill for one night, amounting to strike under these circumstances. $32.11, and added, “I consider ;Our customers, our employes, our $2,080; addition to Murray ‘and myself, iwere Leo Pressman of the CIO est R. Breech and John of Ford Motor Company. building by the board of directors ; of the Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Norma Dopp, president | of the Jayshees, presided over | ie, chambers committee hopes ithe meeting and introduced Ivan | to have increased tourist enter- Bassett. director of the recent | tainment activities at the USO sthreesday Fourthvot July celebra- | Center next winter. It was decided to hold a con- } Frank Adams, director of the test to choose a “King” and | USO, and the present USO staff |“Queen” for the celebration, the | were congratulated by the cham- jformer to be selected from mem- | ‘ber directors for their offer to‘bers of the men’s organizations, | throw the USO facilities open to!and the queen to be chosen from | Key Westers and tourists a$ wellithe women’s organizations. Coro- | as servicemen, beginning yester-;nation of the couple would fol- | day. {low the Labor Day parade to be | Manager Harold RANTS FOR NOT PAYING jin operation as a common carric SCAVENGER BILL; SOME »Y with use of towing vessels, in t! BACK FULL YEAR The city started cracking down ‘dities between Miami for non-payment of scavenger , West, has been granted by the fees yesterday, arresting four Interstate Commerce Commission persons for arraignment in Muni- |ICC said today. cipal Court on Monday. Applicant expects to City Clerk Roy Hamlin said ‘three trips a week with two tugs, that Robert H. Dopp; head of the | moving 12 barges a month and Scavenger Department, as Di-; making delivery in Key West rector of Public Works, swore | within 48 hours of loading in Mi- non-self-propelled — vessels, transportation of general comimo- and Key make Laubscher, jheld in the morning. that was very reasonable. Imanagement—none of whom ‘is at ,out the warrants and has at least | ami: Interchange of traffic will with an original design and the who with Norberg Thompson, president of the company. sold their stock interests, that Siddall will make his home in Miami, but the main office of the com- pany will remain in Key West. “The new owners will con- tinue to have their offices in Key West at 813 Caroline street, Ad- official seal of the Island City. Mayor Demeritt received an- other urgent invitation to attend ;the ceremony in Havana but said that personal commitments will probably prevent him from at- tending. . ams said. “The new owners of the company realize the company supplics a vital transportation | line to this city. and we are, sure the people of Key West will ' continue to support the company. i “I know that no changes in personnel or anything else will “The Mayor pro-tem,” the ‘mayor said, “will represent the city at the event at which some 25 Boy Scouts will also be pres- ent from here.” He said City Commissioner John Carbonell would probably act as Mayor pro- tem. The Mayor's invitation was re- be made by the new owne Approximately. 100 _. pie: of rolling equipment were turned over to the new owners in the deal yesterday. Much of this equipment is now regarded as ceived from Ramon Alpizar Poyo, attache of the Cuban Con+ sulate here, who described the elaborate preparations for the dedication cevemony and the ne- who was in Miami seeking sites He testified that héither he nor fault—will suddenly suffer loss of !fo rthe tourist information booth, Hughes sought Elliott Roosevelt's cars and trucks. wage, and in-/ported the results of his findings. assistance when they were trying come. mply because Ford Motor |Several locations are in process to get a contract for the construc- ‘Company has been chosen as the of further investigation. The} tion of F-11 photo-reconnoitering guinea pig in an effort by UAW- chamber directors hope to estab planes, and that the first time CIO to veto those parts of a fed-|lish the booth in Miami next sea- they heard about Elliott Roosevelt, ‘eral statute which it does not'son, in connection with the Hughes happen to like. In our opinion, it] National Audubon Society offi- plane-building activities, was is things like this which cause |eials will be in Key West Satur-! when Hughes received a telegram people to lose confidence in labor | that Elliott was on his way to leadership, which we will Hughes’ office in California. have cause to regret. |terested persons are asked to Information received by, the “We do not want a strike. We |come to the Woman's Club in Du. sub-committee today from Cali- believe our employes do not want}val street late today ot meet the fornia was that Hughes had not a strike. To avert a strike we|society officials. “Chamber of yet been served with a subpoena have made a proposal which we|Commerce reports that it has to appear before the committee, sure you will find fair andjbeen in touch with the society but that he had said he would be, nable in every respect. for several weeks. in Washington next Tuesday to! — ~ testify. : 43 | St Paul Auxiliary leet Of G day for the purpose of organizing both }a group of the society here. In- as-Motored Mode Each organization will be call- | ed upon in some way to parttici-; pate in the Labor Day events | either in the parade, the contests | or the concessions. Plans advanced by the Ja shees and Baggett give every i - | dication of assuring the most out- j standing event held in this city | in many years. One person at the meeting ated, “What Key West needs is / one of the old-time parades, I: remember.” She added, “How ex- cited I used to become when the Red Men's Organization took part in our parades, dressed up in Indian outfits with faces painted. The same applies to all those other organizations used to participate, all these add- éd color to our parades.” Organizations not represented {Those arrested yestera. \the above amounts. All-four have that {delinquent tax 20 more to be served. Residents arrested must pay full back fees pius 10 per cent. ibe made with all common car- riers. Key West has been without rail or water service for several ICC said, and there is no tion that either of these services will be resumed. Key West City Commission proved the establishinent of the proposed barge line because of "|the belief that it would be to the benefit of the city and its in tants. The Board of Monroe ( ty Commissioners also endorsed the proposed barge line. Granting of the applic: opposed by the Overseas portation Company ope Btween Key West sath provides ade- jay were s, 220 Simon- Mrs. Aurelio Last ton, whose unpaid’ scavanger fees total $10. Mark M. Duffy, 506 Fleming, who owes $55, in- cluding penalty; Mrs. L. Ovio, 204 Simonton, $11; and E. R. Rivas, 2870 Staples avenue, $13.20. Municipal Judge Enrique Es- quinaldo will assess the persons their unpaid fees and penalties in not paid their scavenger fees for |, a full year. . Warrants on the remaining | Tan payers will be A808 ot Ke served in small numbers of two |#™i. claiming it or three at a time. Scavenger | date service. fees are $1.00 a month for one To Meet Monday A program on Christian social | velations will mark the regular | PUL L-SCALE SHOW monthly meeting of the Woman's surplus and it is not believed the cessity of the Key West chief company will purchase any new executive being present. | Seen Pl: Fl A P: k S d at last night's meeting are urged !collection of garbage and trash « sonny anes Bly At Fark Sunday) wicca’ atee soreenen soma nt =" Capt. Arrowsmith IS* 49, or Norma Dopp. Phone 1094-R, | lections. “| president of the Jayshees. equipment at present. The Miami terminal of the company will be maintained at 236 S. W. North River drive. Zone Change Auxiliary of St. Paul's Episcopal | PLANNED; B ASCOM Church to be held Monday at Funeral Monday |Sellers Head Of | ‘stelle B. Sosa Davi Estelle B. Sos: Cochran is president and : D ied Mears 3 p.m. in the Parish House. GROOMS, JR., TOP EN. qn os Di d Thi A M | At Hospital eral manager of the Lyons Mrs. Dan Navarro will speak < Rae? \ ‘ is 88 le oy Sees ea SS Transportation Co. Inc., th en 9 about the work being carried on TRANT i For Harry Stirrup C. Of C. Training i - iat apt. Thomas apo e ni headquarters at Erie, Pa., operat- at the Municipal Hosp and | ‘ { Dp |USN, executive officer at the Na ing principally from ie. Buffalo and Cleveland. Siddall has bh identified with the motor freight business in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York for a number of | years, | Adams said that he and Thomp- en Plans Appeal PLANNING COMMISSION RE- FUSES "B” FOR CORNER OF VIRGINIA AND FLORIDA Mrs. Ruby Morgan will tell of } welfare work Refreshment: At least 19 gavoline-motored in progress here. | model airplanes will buzz around will be served. Bayview Park's softball diamond —__ jtemorrow afternoon when the _ Property Sales :Sky Slicers, Key West model plane organization affiliated with | Funeral services for Ha Stirrup, 46, who died Thursday, will be held Monday afternoon at Site Committee! The McGowan Baseball School jresidence, 27, died this jyval Hospital since April. today jrelieved Capt. W. D. Davis. USN, 1209 Margaret street. commanding officer for the lst Funeral services will be held /15 mopths. Capt. Davis has by morning at 8:15 o'clock in he 5:30 o'clock from the chapel of and Milwaukee Brewers, an- the Pritchard Funeral Home. nounced in The Citizen Rev. H. Fields Saumenig, of St.;this week as interested in setting ! earlier | tomorrow. Burial will be in the |ovedered to the Naval Hospital family plot, in Catholic Ceme- ; Pensacola. tery. Lopez Funeral Home will) Capt. Arrowsmith took over ithe Police Athletic — League : cou be in charge of arrangements acting medical officer in command lh deviein ‘thet eatire time rs, ie Elvina Lo ; ; : aul's Episcopal Church, will of. [up winter training camps in Key ;be in charge of arrangements ie se son will devote their entire time | grapes Mis. Annie Elvina Long Mills (PAL), hold a full-scale model Paul's Episcopal Church, will of-|up winter training camps in Key jDe in charge oF atvanuene of the hospital pending to other inter of the Thomp- has sold to Albert J. Mills, 526 plane snow. ficiate, Burial will be in the| re ie ort. of the Chamber of /Sosa; two brothers, Peter and {Ment of a permanent comman son Enterprises, Inc. The Over-' Refused permision by the City |Angela street, for $25,000, 4 prop- ‘Top entrant is Bascom Grooms, family plot in City Cemetery. Comimere: : lgoceisc i eae seas company began operating Planning Commission last night|¢rty at Angela and Simonton 9, Winner of the recent. Miami | : aU ferberiol : | Tn turning over — commane efter the 1935 hurricane washed to ‘change the zoning of a corner els, according a warranty model plane contest and holder Mr. Stirrup w Jack Sellers, president of the; | Capt. Davis said, “I don't like to ane aaa reets | dee A yester vith Circuit ™ allero de Marti lodge. Key West Transit Company, has | Le ee eS Roth Mis. Da away the roadbed of the Florida of Florida and Virginia streets {deed filed vesterday with Circuit or eed vceord for Florida, alle See || beantnameda needa ay Ce chic! VISOry seocy Gey Wes ue Hat nas Dew East Coast Railroad, It has been {rom Residential B to Business B.|Court Clerk Ross C. Sawyer. Grooms will enter three planeg, Survivors are: Mother, Mrs.}> ead of a C -| i and I have enjoyed it very much mast Coast Ra ad. It has Allan Mar 1320 Virginia strect The property measures 189 by, 3rooms will enter three planes Seca laaehterss (Mi committee to take whatever steps | here and we had hoped to the only transportation com- -* States ak te appeal to|70 feet, according to the deed, | |—&n original Model C with Hor- \Ivene Stirrup; daughters, Marie | °C, Necessary to bring the school! New Orleans Weather Bureau |lonuen" Peny operating between Miami fig eeay gens Pe For $10,000, Mr. and Mrs. I. W. net engine, a sport biplane with ‘Ralph Faraldo, Mrs. Rose Waticland the crack Class AAA balli advisory Number. Eight, 8:30|. Capt. Davis was senior medical and Key West. nGhaiman C. B. Harvey, Mrs.|Riges have sold a property at McCoy Engine, and a World War Bales sister, Bes Chas ee Olver o: club to the Island City ea OAC UTel a Sboetdithe: ameter Among the contracts held by 7 “ir Goddard and Charles E.{Marathon to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph ‘I scale model Forster, all Jet PX, ; brother, Fernany : City Commissioner Louis Cat-|+-opical storm has moved inland |USS Yorktown| when it was sunk the company are for carrying mail between Miami and Key nning Commis- application last Garing, of the P sion, heard M T. Mangold, Marathon, a warran- | ty deed sets forth. Arthur Hicken, aviation grad- juate from Miami Tech High this have sold to M two grandchildren. bonell, who was contacted by the | Umpire School regarding a site! commanding officer of the Key}with Roy Hamlin, Wickers Field! 8:30 a. m., est, during the battle of Midway, June 1942, after having been inst and is located at near latitude 26.2 longitude 97.8, 4 West and intermediate points S0i a de 2 : and Mrs. Hoke S. Hen-!year, also has entered three ¢ S d ; here, appeared before the cham-|he# ile oa mental through its own airéraft in and one for moving all tonnage nigh i anda declined sax eban tine dricks have transferred to Mr. Tnlenes: vapt. aun ers ber. The chief problem appears ; Or apous 0 ty les ETRE, sinking four Japanese carricrs. Ut > , © zoning chang x Sal M ra aH aivey Nis Lan tcck \ to be assuring rooms for 110 men! Brownsville, Texas Tae nye atnenoeee @f the Railway Express Agency. has been severely critized for al-)and Mrs. Harvey T. Laubscher.!” The event will start at 3 p.m, Off To N folk |: $1.50 per day per man for 10) Squally weather will continue ibis se tor pedoses anaiateniavi lowing “spot zoning” on a few | ot Piste eee endesaplenare. jon a surface carefully groomed { 0 INO weeks, starting about January 1,{along the Texas and extreme | 212 ue sink hee US. carrier previous occasions. City Manager|” "ro gveng, * ave= for the occasion. — | Sellers will work with Carbo. west Louisiana coasts until late |C@ph Davis relates, PALACE THEATER The session DESOn was Present at)" N4,."and' Mrs. Alfredo Sanchez! Entrants in addition to Grooms} Captain Willard A. Saunders.incl lon the school _ matter and |today and small craft in that area RiGee ch eee ee DON AMECHE in “THAT’S MY MAN” News and Serial ——— PTT) EL Pasaje Restaurant 1022 United Street Today and Tomorrow PECIAL CRAWFISH SALAD and FRIED CRAWFISH In Addition to Our Delicious YELLOW RICE and CHICKEN : | Glenwood Sweeting and Bow- ‘man Cutter, other members of the ion, did not attend. id today that he has a petition bearing 67 names, includ ing those of 44 property owners, all living in the neighborhood of the property in question, who fa-| vor the zoning change. He s | he has a building on the corner in} ‘Lots 11 and 12, Square 2. Tract }14, and wishes to start a retail | ‘grocery there. Mears added that when the re-! port of the Planning Commission + jis made to the city commission hel ‘will appeal to the latter for a! veversal of-the former’ ‘no report is made, he ppeal to the commission, sitting Ss a Planning Board, anyw: are as follo nd Mrs. Paul D. {#7 48 ; Herrick, 1801 United street. Comdr. R. F. Cook, entering i 3 : oroperty in the Salt Pond district An Acrobat. McCoy Engine 49; for $1,100. ;Commander George Laird with a BES Class B Original and Trimmer } _ (Continued On Page Two) Sunday Dinner Served from Noon Every Sunday pen Daily 7 a.m.-12 p.m. Our Speciality for Saturday and Sunday wfish Enchilado @ Turtle Steak @ Arroz con Pollo Child's Plate Hal¥ Price Suver Spanish and American Meals - Sea Foods - Short Orders and Sandwiches Announcing ... eo. 2 2222444444444444444444444444444444 Vr vvevvvvvvyvverer ver rererr rr rrerrrs | The Opening of the Overseas Cycle Store 920 DIVISION STREET On Monday August 4th, 1947 ; West Submarine Base. has left on ‘an official visit to Norfolk, Va \ land New London, Conn, it v announced by the base here to- day. Sonthernmost Garage In U. 8. | i committee head, on bringing the} Milwaukee club here. as | 1130 Deval eet Phone 168) duto Repairs, Painting, | Body and Fender Work | Genwine Auto Parte for AU Cara | ADAMS | DAIRY LUNCH { x White St. Under New Management | eed Phone 43 aug2-It should not venture into the open | Davis was among those who had Gulf before Sunday. , to swim several hours before be- No further advisories will be; ing rescued issued for this storm. | Capt. Arrowsmith is a gradu SS - ‘ate of Jefferson Medical Colicy ELLE TLE, of 1924, and was sen IN MEMORIAM m ical officer on t Dr. Harry C. Galey, family USS Augusta in the Th. Casublanca. He se doctor, always willing, always, 70.41, Wa A ready, no matter the hour or) pheate; weather. ee eres He gave his health and life Gam sandy Carn we, to restore the health of others SANDY'S GARAGE that Dr. ley. Renn ee Good friend of 404 Duval Street Phone 501 i Estimates On Repair Jobs mine. 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