The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 4, 1947, Page 1

Eg PPR ces careers Key West, Florida, has the Most equable climate in the with an average country, range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Keiy West Citizr: SOUTHERNMOST THE NEWSPAPER IN VOL. XLVI. No. 184 Island Can Be Focal Point For Observing Birds, Ex pert Says \Ford, II, who is in Southampton, ‘Long Island, ‘eleventh-hour appeal of i jleaders to part. ONES ORB BDA MADAMA ercnce to try to avert a Ford plants that will affect 104,- 000 workmen. ONLY PLACE IN COUN-* TRY CERTAIN CAN BE SEEN; AUDU- $99,420 Worth Of BON UNIT FORMING Building Approved ciarea’ that the ¢ wanted tract with the union a protective | clause that offset a provision of the Taft- Hartley labor law. Advised by experts that Key Here For July West can become an outstanding focal point for observing birds, a group of c ens took rare City building permits for 54 buildings costing $99,420 were issued during July, City Ford Resents KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1947 QUALIFYING JURY FOR FEDERAL COURT TRIAL Using Him To Oppose Law (iy Associated Preany DETROIT, Aug. 4—Henry! Adin Former Navy Man Charged*¥ ; refused an union a con- eat ipate in der In Death Of Ship-' Recognizes aaesake Friend After union leaders} Qualification of a jury to try Forty-Four Years m to insert in the con- ja 23-year-old negro Navy cook jfor first degree murder in ed H. W. Urion, of 1415 Unit- i mate Ford, in a scathing would attempt to jnection with the death of Benja-| ed street, returned home last min Leroy Hobbs, 19, aboard the: Week after a 4,763-mile trip With First Degree Musk weesecrrrs ING FOR DUTIES AS EXECU- ears Devoted to the erests of Key Weat THE U.S.A. ICE FIVE CENIe Mrs. MeNeil Takes Gffice HERE OF NEGRO COOK! AtRedCross Increased In ,COMPLETES COURSE PREPAR- TIVE SECRETARY OF KEY, First Half ’47 *DEBT RETIREMENT, HIGHER PRICES, SAL- ARIES ACCOUNT FOR MUCH OF SPENDING | WEST CHAMBER | Mrs. Helen E. McNeil, newly- the Key Wert Chapter American BUEtON, Out For Attorney General, jties at the chapter's headquar- | ters, 301% Front street. Mrs. McNeil was appointed in; Saturday afternoon at the Woman's Club to form an Audu- | bon Society here. ' Harold Laubscher, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, was elected temporary chairman and named a nominating committee to propose officers of the Key West chapter of the National As- sociation of Audubon Societies. Mayor W. W. Demeritt, Mills White, Miss Laubscher and Oliver Building Inspector Errol Saw- j yer has reported to City Man- ager, O, J. S. Ellingson. The figures verify reports that |the law. _ 3 k i Key West is enjoying the big. | Meanwhile, union leaders and lin gest building boom in years. [Eon representatives are still in| Building permit fees for Session to try to reach an agrev- July totaled $255, plumbing | fees $116.00, electric permit fees, $78, and an electrical journeyman examination fee $5.00, deadline . George |Egyptians Plan i Ford asserted that his agree- |USS Stribling, July 25, 1946, oe- | ling to such a clause would be jcupied the entire day today. in| equivalent to his striking against Federal Court here. in the case by ment before noon tomorrow, the jneys indicated that they feared} the jury through membership in the KKK. the Knights of of 36 days to the eastern sea- board, with stops at the Po- cono Mountains, Atlantic City and other summer resorts. Urion visited friends and relatives in the north. He had a reunion with four class- mates, whem he had not seen for 44 years. He says he rec- ognized one of the four, de- spite the almost half century ; since he’ had seen him. May and meanwhile spent a va- cation with her parents in Cali- | fornia and completed an inten tion course in Red Cross work in | the Southeastern Area headquar ,ters in Atlanta. The special course familiarized her with de- ‘ tails of Red Cross policy, opera- ! ions, and procedures. Until her resignation from the ,State Welfare Board last spring, she was for a year and a half the Early questioning of the 12! en who will hear the evidence defense attor-| might be prejudiced “Were you ever a member of the Ku Klux sive orientation and indoctrina- |attorney general in Florida, is in he) ete Key West making the rounds to; ™onths statement of meet the voters. j17 months during the first world were named on the committee. Charles M. Brookfield, of Mi- ami, Audubon tropical Florida representative addr group ,and enlightened sia iste Lobster Take ers on the excellent possibilities which Key West has for becoming Drops Sharply IIIA DZ 22 2 L | e a center for observing rare birds. The Miamian, who conducts bird lovers on trips to see birds On Maine Coast in the Cape Sable and new Ever- i AP Newsfeatures |Key West, one of the defense at- ‘ torneys, of every New Industries iland to interject a Klan?” asked John G. Sawyer, erga gy, He Prospective turned to County jai! here from ground of social-welfare training | ;juror. Punta Gorda jail vesterday. and experience and has been ac- ! Based On Dam Further questioning by Sawyer. With Sawyer the other defense a niga agi {led Federal Judge John W. Hol- attorney is A.‘C. Dressler of of community activity. : statement Miami. United States District At- | 1 'AIRO.—(AP).—After 18 years ‘covering the law relating to the torney Herbert S. Phillips was in ‘lege, Los Angeles, with a major of study, the Aswan dam jfindings a jury may make in the charge of. the prosecution. electrification scheme has been case. district welfare supervisor in Key i West. She has an extensive back- | tively engaged in many aspects Graduated from Chapman Col- Es ke in social work, she had exten- Watson was found guilty of sive experience with the Califor- glades Park region, said there is AP Newsfeatures approved by the Egyptian par- ; mo reason why similar tours by car and boat cannot be nged for which Maine is famous, OCKLAND, Me. — Lobsters, |!iament. The Nile dam, one of|that a jury “The law specifically eat states Hobbs’ death by a jury which did nia State Relief Administration may in a man not recommend mercy, Dressler As a volunteer, she also worked Red Cross, today began her du- | Visiting In City The increased cost of running L. Grady Burton, candidate for a city during a period of mount- ing prices is reflected in the six revenues and expenditures now being pre- Mr. Burton resided in Key West pared by City Finance Director- Comptroller Charles Roberts. Ex- |penditures this year for the Jan- |uary, to June period totaled $249,- 515.36, compared with © $201,- !472.57 last year. A good portion of the increas ed costs, $27,000 went to reducing the city’s debt, but the rest was in increased running ex- penditures. About $16,000 of the in administrative and financial costs while the Public Service Department ex- |penditures jumped close to $6,000 and the Public Welfare Depart- iment more than $3,000. Public some increase was her He said he had received have been taken in greatly de- numerous inquiries regarding the creased numbers this year, pos-! ida keys and said that many and Shore Fisheries Depart- wished to come here to observe ment and resulting in leaner the winged creatures. pocketbooks for fishermen. Brookfield id that Key Wes Prelimi is about the only place in the is Cates, United States where the snowy- partment, crested dove is found. He s reeently found several themselves at home in the Botan- was 4,261,725. Dollar ical Gardens here. Near Key West, he said, is the only place in the World Whore “the white heron can be nesting. You would have no trouble in stician for the de- this. year comparing -with $1.4 BrEAL O99 Last year. ae observed “Cates says the department can offer no definite reason for the nu) tad bers sople decrease but that it was investi- States,” Brookfield said, “The fishermen, discouraged by Audubon Society might send return, have removed their gear somebody and organize tours out from the waters although at mid- of Key West if the interest is suf- year the catch was picking up in ficient.” some areas. The Audubon Soc does not The total 1946 catch exceeded care about making any profit but) 18,000,000 pounds and the pre- c 3: ir it must “break even”, Brookfield vious year saw 19,000,000 pounds eabillty added. The society would supovly taken. the boats and a paid supervisor, Maine doe here would greatly encourage es- toy industr . Maintaining a rear- y estimates of Lew- |¢ePted bids for machinery showed a total first }POwer which could be produced id he months catch in 1947 as 2,877,-|@nnually at 1.645 making 965 pounds while the 1946 catch | Watts, equal to the power from volume. is ]590,000 tons of crude oil cust- off, with the total of $1,327,914 |ing $8,000,000. be produced in the carly stage the jof the new industr. would grow to 435,000 tons per . year. : its of iron ore. further to determine the practi- | s much to aid its lob- |80V' : ence) bids on the establishment of « tablishment of tours out of Key jing station at Boothbay Harbor {Plant to produce 915,000 tons of | pital punish- on the ground that jjournment late this 1Questioning of the prospective States began arriving here yes: ey ijurors was still under way at edi- terday fer the trial. “*” |tionu time. + Watson is aceused Experts estimate the elect: miilion | Joseph es jbrought Watson, colored, {heavily guarded when he was re- strangled. Buys Silk Handbags and that this | For Faye Emerson, al production — estimate that 20,000 tons of fertilizers wot The Aswan region has depos Foreign experts | eported these should be studied | of developing a steel in| with Aswan power. The | ernment announces it will ask | JUDY COOKE, ACTRESS,* the court | Hollenbeck Community migrations of birds over the Flor- ing a problem for the State Sea Hee Glee Gna eo ener oat amen” in its finding,” said Judge erred in not instructing the jury ‘all ‘i sist | Holland. afternoon. from many sections of the United of having | Defendant in the case, David murdered Hobbs aboard the USS ! was Stribling. Hobbs’ body was found | into. the courtroom be: in a gun, turret of the ship the | Meyer Testifies Today 2 = \ . svernment, that he spent $115 IN ON HANDBAG PUR: fot silk handbags for Faye Em-! Mr. and the placest in pnenweorey was gully of first degree murder and succeeded in having the verdict jin the All Nations Foundation, Safety Department costs showed ondinally ocnstructed to save that the jury can insert the set aside and a new rial granted | e 4 | athe ee a “3.60. water during the flood season.| words ‘without : & Sunset Community Center, and a decrease of $873.60. Center, organiza- | The city’s cash balance as of active California July 1 was $191.55.14 as com- eas Doreen ; on sanity. tions. : red with $201,472.57 for Jul pepused in ine neiceirification | Tt is not expected that the jury “Judge Holland admitted he "Mrs. MeNeil today was busy | l Aearhi aca oud fF ¥ ae jwill be completed before ad- erred in this regard. Witnesses taking up the numerous ph L. GRADY BURTON | Comparison of 1946 and 1947 of local Red Cross work — in - preparation for forthcoming pro- grams of activity. Candidate for Attorney General | expenditures follow: Departme: of Administra- i tion and Finances, $24.780.13 in During 1936, when he w: 1946 and $34,615.53 for 1947; De- eandidita for Bovernor, he came | partment of Public Safety, $52,- Ai ann ne 1947; Department of Publie Serv } rite Dewosgia sl eh a Cs A for 1946: £64:116.16 years. He is a restdent of Wau. ifr 1947; Department of Public jchula, and has been state attorney | Welfare, $15,294.34 for 1946, and in the tenth judicial district for 1 )$18.574.97 for 1947. \ years. Outlays for pensions dropped from $9,008.88 to $8,445.18. The |debt retirement expenditures jsreased from $11,769.58 to $3% a7 A) . _ 418.16. Name Committees, IAT IHOUBHIE eeneraIl epropatty 1 Southernmost Detachment, Ma- |t@ showed an increase for the i Ao eee = ea frine Corps League, will meet to- [fitst six months from $69,580.31 \Williamses Retirs | morrow night ot 130 ct thecteg, {in 1946 to $13,883.76 tn lon the é rooms of the Veterans of Foreign [total revenue receipts of | the jf rom Tour OF State wars on Second street, just off jCity at the year's half-way mark Fi. avenue, el jare $166,739.79 npared to $200, eval items of business will 290.13 for the first six months of war, and knows many Key West- Property Sales * ferred to Barbara Glaske, Port Chester, Mass., property on | \the mainland for $500, according ito a warranty deed filed with Circuit Court Clerk Ross C. Saw- yer Saturday. 5 ay [Mtr and Mss. Chavies A. An- | Marine League To derson transferred to R. H. Baze ‘ :more, Miami, property on Key ‘Largo, for $500. Mrs. Jack Williams, \ . ; z is steel annually. { , 1 I gS clpn, now Mrs. Elliott Roose- 809 Ashe street, son, Don; daugh-jbe handled at this meeting and |1946. D teiyccg Deer jurpelaed a) Wheres ene vesting =lemnale 3 i CHASE, IN eS a) and Judy Cooke, an actress, Jacqueline, and Mrs, Ma- {committees will be named for | This decrease appears to be of those present With his sees eee ee eeve they ate| OOM LG OMS XPENSE ACCOUNT [21 charged it to the Hughes ex. vereen Meador, sister of Mia, {the eninina cour. ‘centered in the item, “other local store of knowledge of bird life, 2'owth stakes ee ‘ore y ( Pase account in connection with Williams, returned yesterday af-| At the last regular meeting |taxes"” which realized $57,112.56 He explained how he had once Planted in the sea. French-S veakin , (iy The Assocmted Pres) (th expected plane contract. iter a two weeks’ auto tour of /permanent officers were elected |in 1946 and 88 this year banded 10000 Exstern mourning ? pearing WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. —: feyer appeared to be in a Florida and southern Georgia, /48 follows: Comma-dant, How- {and in “interest and penalties" . doves and reecived replies from ¢C He many parts of the country where apt. arrington his banded birds had been shot or ° ° A M caught.” Died This A. The mayor said that Key West is for a few da the stopping Captain Charles Dayton Har- point for many types of birds on rington. 63, died this morning at their north-south migrations. He | 1:05 o'clock in Key West Munici- said he once caught two tawny- pal Hosp! : shouldered blackbirds, the only Funeral service is to be held at s ever found in the United 5 o'clock this afternoon in the States, to his knowledge. He sent chapel of the Lopez Funeral them to authorities in Washing- Home. Rev. Melrose Avery, of ton, the Presbyterian Church, will of- Brookfield reminded his listen. ficiate. : es that Audubon himself consid-, The body will be sent tomorrow | ered Key West an extraordin: to Micanopy, Fla., for burial. (Canadians Arrive jJohn W. Meyer, publicity agent mrry mood. He answered ques- |for Howard Hughes, testified to- | tias and admitted he iday before the senate ‘sub-com- |hd been instructed by Hughes to jmittee, which is investigating the g¢the limit in entertaining El- Hughes plane contract with the (Continued On Page Two) Grooms Flies Model Plane On Motorcycles Four French-Canadian youths roared into Key West today, completing an eight- ada, Members of the Three | Rivers Motorcycle Club, the cyclists had a burning desire to reach the southernmost tip of the United States by motorcycle. This accomplish- ed, they were to wait until {KEY WEST LAD LEADS* ! SKY SLICERS SHOW; on the edge of their seats. T! show lasted for some time 101 Miles PerHour At Meet: The Key Westers vis most |a@rd S. England; vice comman- | which dropped from $13.137.25 to sof the outstanding educational j dant, Hugh A. Moore; judge ad- | $2.871.68. institutions in the state, including | p Florida State College for Womer . Roland M. Smith, at Tallahassee, the University of |and chaplain, Harry B. Johnson, |8 Florida at Gainesville, Univer-| Any person interested in join- jsity. of Miami, Stetson University ‘ing the League is cordially in- | . in scavanger fee re from $ 21.74 to license and permit from $15,884.51 to $17, and fines and forfeit : at DeLand, and University of Vited to be present at the session |from $14,629.75 to $15,521.60 day imotorercle tay (con {Tampa. and transportation to the meet- | Revenue receipts also inclurted Three Rivers, juebec, Cal Mrs. Meador, Harris School ‘ing may be secured by contacting }$2.047.35 in rents and other ‘teacher and graduate of the {any of the officers or membe sources. 'State College for Women, took! All retired Marine officers! In preparing the group on an extensive tour of ;#nd visiting Marine Corps League | port, the school. imembers as well as all Marines {that the | Also visited on the trip were /0M active duty are invited to at-{“is very favo \Marineland, St. Petersburg, Bok (tend and learn what the Marine! - his semi-annual ated financial position ble.” Roberts s spot for observing rare birds and: Survivor of the deceased is the this isin appertedieiniThe LARTER ET-PRO-# many hadiidenartea’ wien owe” at Lake Wales, lear Wa- |Corps League has to offer, ‘Carbones Returned ence saw the European green-| widow, Mrs, Pauline Peace Har:| (io then start off for the “AUNCHES —JET-PRO- Goins cut loose the big alumi. ite. Silver Springs, Daytona | REHABIL j iF hi oer Be eer En Tah ctetyocn| cantina aHaringionegwarieine | aaotht | PELLED PLANE a ee ee ee) ge ee aman Whe ever seen in this country. Captain Ha as the! a {LLED PLANE |wgspread and jet propulsion {Snville. . ee "ING TOMORROW ; ante e i | The Lads, Jermain Gui i™gspread and jet propulsion iS°0V''* : NG i WW Beroees ves hunting ot ceietslon cap aloe NS Ae Gaeen aces | uetsaepeatissenarsatatiens || ‘Ajiodel/airplane Waveling 101HaChiment | DEBE rj One rem c ize n aang sie (ps oe i 1h: and Mrs. John Carbone and keys off Key West was perhaps he became ill recently. n Wall Gace ll: i . he terrific roar of the pl family, visited relatives in Tam-; Edward L. Miller. counselor of | little daughter, Margaret Dologe the most ‘important factor in He was on the Key West-Tam-| Blais and a cena the Miles an hour ‘round and ‘round laa eaneerab cenit Ae Sie pa, Miami and Jacksonville. {the Florida Vocational Rehabili- | arrived in Key West Friday night bringing about the founding of the pa-Havana run for 37 He and mould ave ae Lean were |the Bayview Park softball park MN Use itation Service, will be in Key|from a visit in Mr, Carbone 1 Cen peered aaas Ube Sn Foaiinu caer reine ern Pa es "Yeys in New had many a Key Wester spell-;"he Sky Slicers’ gave ample | FAINT INTERRUPTS JUDGE West office of the Florida State {home town Chiewe Tite ne eld wi : } S| 6 field said. The society had Fed- ing between these ports. includ- eral laws passed and found con- ing the Olivette, Mascotte. siderable opposition from plume- Cuba. Florida, Estrada hunters in enforcing it. Parrot and Henry M. Flagler. “Guy Bradley, a warden, was’ K West Lodge B.P.O. Elks, shot in 1905 up in southern Flo . and Anchor Lodge. F. & ida,” he said, and another was|A.M., No. 182, of which the de- shot a few yei later at Charlotte ceased was a member, will hoid Harbor. Only recently a warden services at the funeral home. was shot while attempting to en- force bird laws in southern Flor- CHIEF’S CAR ON FIRE ida.” POTSDAM, N. ¥. — When Brookfield said that President James J. Doyle. Jr. chief of the Baker of the National Audubon potsdam Volunteer Fire Depart- | Society, is coming to southern ment. led the way to the scene in the near future and o¢ 4 blazing automobile, he was eh Tie ae ers amazed to find, on stepping out e bird tours, he explained, ie hat his auto was on which are being conducted out of Of Pis_car, that Hs alle wag on (Continued On Page Two) _{ite. Firemen exting i blaz PALACE THEATER DON AMECHE in PELE ao ANGLIA, Hydraulic Brake Experts Lou Smith Auto Service Palmer, | their Harley York to fix Davidsons. The Canadians, who speak i French more than they do | English, carry their own tents ‘bound yesterday. The craft. a pf of their status first-class ‘small brown monoplane, was op- @rtainment as well as mechan- ‘erated by Bascom Groc .s, Jr.,/#! Organization. The _ stre Tapidee oi thenslprial speed ree: je filled with cars containing jStators and many used the | and sleep by the wayside. jord. | ; hchers. Except for mosquitoes on the Young Grooms was the lead- | pmmander George Grider and | way down, they said they had ing figure in the Sky Slicers-Po- 'Gmander Laird expertly flew | a fine trip. BBG ADMD FF» joo which bad the spectators sit- fer, an ex-Army Sergeant, = : iliched a big new monoplane AEE. NEW fithe mect with the paint still C '@) L U M B | A — PIONEER HOTEL Von it. The craft flew perfect- | In the Heart of Miami of the day. The Rendezvous of jentering a massive jet-propelled |, One blond lad and his! lqpleted only half an hour be- 151 N.E. FIRST ST. q one of the best demonstra- | Restaurant streets /ing a Communist meeting in vio- jlice Athletic League Show. also | 931) monoplane with a tircless | When she revived, he Employment Service and on August |Carbones entrained to Miami an Jeff Knight, Jr, man-|came on home from there on a unced today |Flovida Greyhound bus. LOS ANGELES.—Convicted of Idistributing handbills announce [tionORtaC ie cilicancemenie! y disabled srson, sixteen | Mrs. Carbone, before marriage, {Natalie Shapiro, 20 - year - old s old or older, who is voca- |Was the Miss Gloriana ama jstenographer, heard the judge Wonally handicapped in earning a |Curry, daughter of Mr, and I say. “One hundred and eighty livelihood and who appears ca-|C- P. Curry, 321 Peacon lane. then fainted dead away. able of being rehabilitated is en- | finished titled to ccive th vice i USS butethen = eeesen —— OOOO AU A Ra . 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