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

' t t t @ me 5 Ww | i Key West, Florida has . " th mow equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit re TRUMAN IN MERRY MOOD, WEARING SIX-STAR CAP, ABOARD USS. MISSOURI ee. Che HE sou Bridge Tolls Monthly Jump Nearly $7,000 Collection of tolls on the Over- Due To Arrive At Norfolk :seas Highway bridges continues {to show decided increases over 6 Entitled To | (Wy The Asenrinted Prean) Go To Schoo ABOARD STHE BATTLESHIP | H MISSOURI AT SEA, Sept. 8.—| } President Truman today appeared! on deck, wearing a cap with six stars, and laughingly declared that he outranked the admiral. He was in a merry mood and seem- ingly was enjoying the trip very much He is due to leave the Missouri at Norfolk on September 19. from where he will go to Washington, arriving the next dé The President sailed from Rio de Janeiro yesterday after re- Viewing, with President Dutra of September 19 And im Children Of Washington Following’ Day { i | (Special so The Cittzeay H TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 8.—Chil- | dren who will be six years old on! or before January 1, 1948, are en- titled to be enrolled in the first grade of common school in Sep- tember, Attorney General J. Tom Watson has ruled. Replying to an inquiry from Colin English, state school super- intendent, the attorney general declared the 1947 legislature re- peated without change the pics| wording of the law when it en- comparative months last year. Last month's collections totaled $33,734.25 as compared with $26,- | 906.75 in August, 1946, an increase | of $6,827.50. Passenger traffic also showed a large increase, with 38,251 using the bridges last month, as com- pared with 29,699 in August of 1946, an increase of 8,552. Total number of vehicles pass- ing over the bridges last month! was 18,203, and in August of last year, 13,883, an increase of 4,307. | Dr. A. H. Hamilton: Named Chairman Of A.V.C. Chapier a THERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN Key West Citizri THE USA KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1947 TOKYO VIGNETTES | ' kk kk BUSY CITY PLEASED AT MacARTHUR VOTE (EDITOR'S NOTE: William C. Barnard, 33, Texas- born staff member of The Associated Press Dallas Bu- reau, went to Japan to cover the recent record-breaking flight of B-29s to Washington. Here he describes con- i ditions in the country as they appear to a newcomer.) | By WILLIAM C. BARNARD AP Newsfeatures 'OKYO.—The Japanese were overjoyed when General Doug- las MacArthur was “re-elected.” It is one of the first Mac- Arthur stories a new visitor to Tokyo hears. Ballots in the Jap- janese free election were inscribed-“by order of General Douglas Pe nec me : e esagees mete cm, { i | 25 Members — In Audubon nd AP Features s Devoted to the s of Key West Jews Fight Against Removal From Ship Society Here’ ‘STRENGTH CLOSE TO 41 AS j | FAMILIES HAVE ONE REP-| | RESENTATIVE; OPEN FOR C on viction | CHARTER MEMBERS i ° Membership in the new Audu- ; Second Time boh Society has increased to 25 | paid members, President Oliver | Made Felony Griswold announced today. | Actually the strength of the! (Special wy The Citizens organization is almost twice that! TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 8.—A number since most of the mem- person who is charged the sec- bers represent married couples. Mayor and Mrs, W. W. De- felony if coavicted, Attorney 'meritt, 920 Fleming. street;: Mr, General J. Tom Watson has ad- and Mrs. C. Rodney Gwynn, 914 vised County Judge Howard G. Elizabeth street; Mr. and Mrs. ‘Livingston of Sebring. Norman D. Artman, 524 Elizabeth } ! ; The beverage laws were amend-! street; Mr. and Mrs. Burt Gar- ‘eq in 1943 to make the local op- ond time with viclating the dry In Hamburg Harbor. ¥FIRST GROUP WENT ASHORE PEACEFULLY, THEN, SEEING WIRED’ TRAIN, REBELLED (By Associated Presa) HAMBURG, Germany, Sept 8—Seven hundred Jews, who will be returned to France after an unsuccessful attempt to en- ter Palestine, disembarked peace fully this morning from the Brit- ish ship Ocean Vigour, when a cry went up that they were going to be put aboard a train in wire enclosres, and the majning 800 on the ship refused re- Brazil, an Independence Day pa- Dr. A. H. Hamilton was elected ' acted the new common school* law. On the basis of old’ as well as new law, both Attorney Gen- eral Watson and his predecessor had ruled that a child must be five years and eight. months old | rade of 3,000 Brazilian troops. A division of more than 300 medium tanks and heavy artiller which Brazilians saw for the fir: time in public, featured the rade of the land, sea temporary chairman of the newly formed American Veterans Com- mittee chapter of Key West at a meeting Sunday afternoon at the Jackson Square USO. Membership in the new chapter and air ne first da f an ey forces. pine bakes ee cecal ae is restricted to veterans of World At the conclusion of the re-'ing registration of all those who! War II, Dr. D-H. Prensky, chair. ich ended Mr. Truman’s are six years old on or before the | chapter and. diso Florida. -area six-day visit to Brazil, President following January 1. | Dutra escorted him to the har- eel ae | "i Earl Higgs Out Mr. Trumna gave President Du- For Commission tra Latin American Pledging economy in city gov- p—as they said farewell and shook hands. Mr. Truman boarded the Mis- souri, anchored in Guanabara Bay, and the great ship sailed for home, escorted by a sa ron of Brazilian destroyers and a forma- tion of planes of the Brazilian air force | Sunday's celebration, the 125th anni ary of the 1622 revolution in which Brazil threw off its ties with Portugal, was one of the Higgs said he felt that an economical program of benefit: to the taxpayers could be inaugurat- ernment, Earl Higgs, service sta- ;Chairman Hamilton, wei tion operator, announced today ‘Carey, vice chaiman; Jayne R. MacArthur," and it seems thgt many Jap voters checked his| his candidacy for city commis- Sears, secretary; Stan Hodes, treas- Name eagerly. sioner in the November election. tyre Idesignated the Whitehead ed without hampering the effi- |home of the VFW and the Amer- occupation force cient operation of the city gav-|ican Legion home as its regular by their industriou councilman for the AVC; W. F. Haegman, chairman of the Uni- ‘versity of Miami chapter; E. J. |Piezo, chairman of chapter, and Pyliss Cohen, s {tary of the Miami Beach chapier, jhelped form the local chapter here eee the Miami re- Elected temporary officers with Irvin J. nd Leon E. Kelly, publicity chairman. The new chapter yesterday street most brilliant in the 400-year his- tory of the capital. _ i It was the first really clear day since the President arrived last *' Monday to attend the closing ses: sion of the inter-American conf ence, which wrote a defense treat binding the American repub! to resist all aggression against West to bring tourists to West are also two of the main planks in Higgs’ platform. ~ their hemisphere. Prezident Dutra escorted Pres- ident Truman to the reviewing stand in front of the war office | in the Central Place. President Truman wore a blue serge suit, President Dutra, the full-dress uniform of a Brazilian general. They received a tremendous ovation. ernment. i | | THE GINZA, Broadway of Tokyo, showing how busy Japanese ' have been pushing construction work in their capital. His popularity, Americans in Tokyo say, is due to the fac’ that “the Jopanese never had it so good.” . The people. look ade-' quately fed and very busy. { Col. William C. Horne of the: “The Japs are mak- yard and up—but you had bet-' , know your silk. American civilian residents buy e: ;Lazarovici, 623: Margaret street; ;Mr. and Mrs. William Lee, 736 | Olivia "street! nett, 1015 South street; Miss Grace Crosby, 1417 Ashby stre Schultz, 905 Angela street; Mr. -jand Mrs. Oliver Griswold, 1307 jtime he is. ar ‘Division street; Miss Gertrude offense he shall be charged with other company was sent into the Laubscher, 408 Eaton street; { Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Laub- scher, 1224 Seminary street. Mr. | Simonton street; Mr. and Mrs. , Dan L. Navarro, 424 Elizabeth | street; Mr. and Mrs. L. H. fae dard, 417 United street; D. P. Baillod, 1001 Von Phister street; | ;Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Stark, 1229 Von Phister street; Rev. J. H. Johnson, S.J., 1010 Windsor Lone; | 'Dr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bowser, 1501 Olivia street; Mr. and Mrs, Jerry J. Trevor, § 225 Division street; Mr. and Mrs. C.. Freneh, .229-C Poinciana \ Place; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph | é #4 : general beverage law. Thus if a :Miss Marion Vories, 168-J Poin- person has been convicted once hold and were followed by ‘ciana Place;-Mrs. Frances Hames, since 1943 of selling liquor in a/company of British troops, armed 914 Pauline Lane; Richard von dry county or otherw the |to disembark. They rushed tion liquor laws a part of into the sh se violating | with rubber clubs. In a few mo- the local option law, the second|ments the commander sent up ested for such an word. for further help, and an- a felony, according to the attor- hold. ney general. ' One by one, the Jews were Thus second offenders since dragged out of the ship's hold ‘and Mrs. George Mills White, 508 '1943 are liable, if convicted, to and put aboard the train. At least do a stretch in the state prison. two troopers handled each Jew, Shs et but in some cases Jews fought ‘so violently as to require as many St. Augustine ‘as four soldiers to handle a single Jew. The Jews did not attempt Observes [ts | to injure the soldiers and none of 'the soldiers used the rubber 362nd Birthday “x: n rt ay As the Jews were taken toward the train, Red Cross workers of- Apeesni to The Citreny ‘fered thém food, which they ST. AUGU INE, Sept. 8.—To-' grabbed and threw back into the day is a normal working day in faces of the Red Cross worker the life of the nation’s oldest city, Even when the Jews were aboard - the coaches, the seats of which St. Augustine, where not even 4 hag been removed, they contin- i ; smail brass band will turn out to Miss Louisa’ V. i herald the city’s 38&nd birthday lued to refuse to accept food and operate: busines {blood will be at a low ebb,” | Higgs: said. The candidate said that he jwould also ask the support of | jother commissioners as “® believe that: a commissioner hould see that city affairs are .” Higgs said. Close Kty , “Without the Navy and tour-| list. trade our economical life {been promoted to the position of setts told me. well as mecting place, The next meeting ing a marvelous comeback. They, | ig Scheduled. for Monday. das he would his own fe urged to attend the meeting. haven't the building materials to cooperation with the Mrs.: Navy and the publicizing of Key + Tax Office Position long way from down.” office of the tax collector-treas- Mighty mean to civilians. Jap civ ¢ Sept. are. sis ns at hs to imported U,_S. food cheaply at All veterans of World War II rehabilitate themselves. They cents per gallon, purchase cloth- ing and household necessities at restore gutted buildings but they reduced rates at the Army post | are stripping their forests to pro- vide secondary construction, They are defeated but they are a Porter Takes \ulously low wages. And have noi income tax. ' i Black market exchange for yen ! o help liking these goes unchecked but the Army is! P. Porter has Japs,” a private from Massachu- really making an effort to halt | I “They seem to like ithe resale of ‘post exchange ar- ; billing and posting clerk in the US. Their old military crowd was ‘ticles, mi 4 Night baseball game between e ilians m just as glad the mil merican troops. . . Japanese sit | itarists are out as we are.” in a bleacher unit to themselves. | “You fellows from the states |They love baseball. 1 50 percent of! Taxi dance. Heavily rouged “You can’t Mrs. Virginia uré?f,~T-"H. Goddard, execut secretary of the Civil Service, Board, said today. Mrs. Porter has been serving as a clerk-typ- forget that almo: ee halaeed behgaile ap adams list. She succeeds Mrs. Angelina Tokyo was d ved by bombs ' Japanese girls in colorful Ameri- he stud, s of the operation of : ; e ae Pe sey ornmante in hopes ;Maloney, who resigned. and fire,” the colonel says an CeueH Ing ARa cso: | City Commission sean NDS aS ltl via| Bernard White, 1707 Von Phis-! Around broken foundations} “Just a minute there,” the mil- | Meets Tomorrow | City commissioners will hol? a recessed meeting tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in City Hall. They will hear the arguments of At- torney Vince Giblin regarding as-| sessments of his client’s property, the Casa Marina Hotel. The commissioners are afford- ing Giblin this opportunity of} presenting his case for lower! assessments. Also to be taken up at this meet- | ing will be the re-issuing of liquor | applications. | Advisory é | ther Bureau New Orleans We: | Advisory No. 2, 9 a. m. EST, Sept. 8, 194 The small tropical storm is | central at 9 a. m., EST, near lati- | tude 30.2 longitude 88.3, or about | 100 miles east of New Orleans, | La. It is moving northwestward, | 12 to 15 mph. Strongest winds are estimated | between 50 and 60 mph. in heavier squalls within 25 miles | east and north of the center. In- | dications are the center of the | storm will pass inland between | Biloxi and P goula, Miss., | about noon today. Southeast storm warnings are, displayed from Pensacola to Val- paraiso, Fla., and northeast storm warnings west of Pensacola to Biloxi, Miss. STEVENS, Weather Bureau. jthat some U 'be consolidated, thereby creating } of the offices could a saving in money, as well as | providing a more efficient ad-| ministration. “Some of the large cities in; Florida have consolidated some | of their main city and county of- i ter street, has received a proba- and chimney stumps, the gardens | itary policeman at the door says. | tional appointment as junior grow. An impressive connected !*Gotta frisk you for knives be- | sewer plant operator in the De- archway opens into a cornpatch. |fore you go in. Don’t want any | partment of Public Services. Sweet potato vines crawl along ‘trouble here.” i John H. Rankins, 2438 Patter- a rich entrance way that now| Western clothing predominates | son avenue, has been given a‘ eads nowhere. | but many, women, some men, | probationary appointment as! The Nipponese driver of the U. cling to traditional garb . .. No | senior sewer plant operator. He’ Itwa saccurate bombing. The !matter how hogish or dangerous Bet-gasoline for-10.,David PB. sBodwin, exchange, hire servants at ridic- jhas sent in the names of mem- White, 914; Windsor Lane; Mrs. Washington, D. C., and Mr. and Mrs. John R. Vosburgh, Miami. Secretary, Harold Laubscher bers to the National Audubon ! Society, all of whom will receive } membership cards, the bi-month- ly Audubon Magazine on wildlife and use of Audubon facilitics, outings and sanctuaries for wild- life study and photography throughout the country. Treasur. er Norman D. Artman has start- ed an ,account for the Monroe County Society from funds sub- ! mitted by members. i Further charter members will | be accepted for some _ time, at j least until the charter of the chapter here has been approved. | Flies 6,000 Miles To Pay 90 Cent Debt COPENHAGEN.—(AP).—Ei ty-one-year-old Peter Je H | 1565. threw sandwiches and other pa seat , mae eet through the meshes in . Augustine was foun the wi onlookers. tember 8, 1565, by the Sponish emcee Jews sais ‘ae Captain General Pedro Menendez | cepted chocolate bars that were de Aviles, who stepped ashore at passed through the meshes to the present site of Nombre de them. The bars were given them Dios Mission in the north part of ‘by correspondents. the ciiy. The mission, establish-| “The British have two other ed upon the day of Menendez?" | shiploads of Jews to land ‘here landing, owes its inception to One ship is scheduled to dock to Father Francisco Lopez de Men-|morrow and the other on Wed- doza_ Grajale America’s first nesday. parish priest, who is distinguished) ‘The Jews, numbering 4,500, at for having celebrated the first 'temped to land in Palestine from mass upon our national shores ON the stear hip Exodus 1947, when that same famous September 8 of she was intercepted off the coast of Haifa, and were returned to The Catholic Diocese of St.'France, with a British crew in Augustine will re-enact the first charge of the ship. The Jew mass today as Father John W. were kept there 28 days when Love, vice chancellor of the dio- they began the trip to this city cese, celebrates the Mass of the in three ships. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin at Nombre de Dios. In modern times the mission is best known | as the site of the Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche, the national shrine of Christian motherhoc USS. Adax, a submarine, back at Key West Submarine aren Kjeldsen of Sufria, Wis., recently ved which was established about|Base Saturday afternoon after on ‘ty deed filed Saturday with Ci fices, and if such a program CaN | previously held the position of be efficiently operated in the ‘junior sewer plant operator. The large counties and cities it can in promotion is effective as of Sep- Key West,” Higgs declared. tember 1. Higgs also said that he believed ; that a capable, efficient manager : should be placed in absolute {LOLlege Students charge of the city Feted Tonight “To have an efficient govern- ment the city manager must have | University of Florida Conch reins to do as the charter pro- |ciyb will hold a wiener roast and vides. He should not have to take jdance party tonight at the Sun ‘ from members of the com- | and Sand Club, beginning at 7:30 mi Higgs said. o'clock. Music will be furnished Higgs is a native Key Wester. |by the Three Sharps. He said he believed in inducing new industries to come into Key jin college and those intending to West, as well as making condi-jenter college this year. Pictures thions pleasant for those who jwill be taken and permanent rolls desire to build and make this|;made. The affair, according to Island their home. |Ernest Avila, publicity chairman Gio ee, {for the club party, will be in- S ] formal. Property ales Avila wishes to make clear that ithe party is not exclusive for J. Winfield Russell transferred Florida students, but for any stu- dent entering any this year. to Joseph I. Russell, Miami, prop- college ty on Big Pine Key for a nom- inal sum, according to a warran- Seeks Divorce cuit Court Clerk Ross C. Sawyer.; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Key | A petition for a divorce was uansferred to Mr. and Mrs. Tom filed Saturday in the office of Cir- |O, Watkins, 1012 Fleming street, cuit Court Clerk Ross C. Sawyer {streets for $2,000. ‘les against Jerald Otis Brayles. Hydraulic Brake Experts Lou Smith Auto Service a nd tnd tnd tndndadnael '_ BRADY’S pa | | TED DONALDSON in White at Fleming Phone No. 5 “Opeosite Army Barracks’ EEE a e for- “For the Love of Rusty” CHOICE POULTRY News and Other Features \1214 White Street Phone 540 { The party will be only for those property near Ashe and Petronia by May Katherine Bateman Bray- ' LACE THEATER |»... S. Army staff car was in the B29 !the motorist, the Japanese pedes. raids. ‘trian never changes expression. “What were those raids like.;Many Jananese pull carts, e i drive jing the burden with a headband | | i yoo’ he grinned. ‘harness. Purchase by an Amert- | It was acurate bombing an of any foodstuffs from a na |Ginza, Broadway of Tokyo, tive is forbiden. Nipponese cops protected. Only one building in/direct traffic but the boys to} the palace area suffered. |fear are the white-helmeted, | Tokyo is crowded—poulation | jeep-riding MP's who hate 4,000,000—and you wonder where) speeders. Note to veterans: Yo- ; the pre-war 7,000,000 found room. |kota airfield mess hall There » no beggars. The Japa-| place where a soldier doesn’t) rt Id does not ask the tour- {have to wash his tray—there’s | ist for money. ‘a surplus of Jap labor to do the! The yen has various values. At jJob. a the official finance office, one! RSE mT | unrealisitic A traveler canj | easily get 100 yen for a dollar. If U SED CARS ! and if he setties down to stay he wil soon be getting 150 or bet-} 1942 dolla: buys 5 yen, a thorough|y | i, he has a friend he can get 130} ey Chrysicr Royal that used to sell for a song now bring $25 in American money. | Cotton is more precious than silk din this land. Silk is 150 yen per 1940 “ATTENTION "22° To All My Friends and Customers | jy I have moved in with Jane and | |Shine, where I will greet you! 1937 ‘with the same service and cour- | 1937 tesy that you always got from me. | “ JULIO PEREZ. 1178, Day or Night ANE and SHINE 1942 1942 1941 Nash, 4-Door Ford Tudor Ford Convertible Ford Club Coupe Pontiac Tudor Pontiac Tudor Pontiac Fordor Ford Fordor 1201 White Street ;come by air from the States to} is one js What about prices? Coolie coats Convertible | |Monroe Motors, tn! made a 6000-mile air trip to pay !1620. a debt of less than one dollar | contracted more than 30 years | ago. i Jensen told reporters he had ! Brady Leaves ° finda weiter fom wom eis | City Saturday he borrowed four kroner (about { | 90 cents). | W.B. Brady, president and gen- “I left for America complete- {eral manager of the Key West ly forgeting my debt,” Jensen ;}Gas Company for the last six id. yea has resigned his position | and will become identified with the Union Gas & Electric Com-! pany of Bloomington, Ill, he an- nounces today. He leaves the city on Saturday. Berlin Children In Black Market BERLIN.—(AP).—Rolice raids |” py against blackmarketers now ex-!, - i ait eae anager tend even to Berlin schools, where [eee int and géne a manager ot children have been found who |t2@ 8a company by Albert E. as althtivingibuat inicigarets Peirce, chairman of the board of | Fat ear ae * tthe company, who will come here The police department's juve- [from a Maryland. jnile section reported that a recent Mrs. Brady left for Blooming- iraid at a high school caught a ton some time ago. The Bradys |group of children in possession of {have been living at 1101 South $1700 which they admitted ob. [Steel Peirce will occupy the jtaining through blackmarket op- !S@Me quarters. (erations. SPECIALIZATION! PARAGOULD, Ark.—(AP).—An advertisement in the Paragould !Press read: “Wanted: Washings but no ironings.” i SEAT COURS ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS 121 Duval Street will be succeeded as LEE LED EL EDEITD CIES, | POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION | !Division at Francis Phone 9134 |CHAMPION Outboard Motors $127.00 SPE LE TT AA*AAADAAALABAAALA PRESCRIPTIONS frescatenee Ingredients Compounded by Experienced Pharmacists GARDNER’S PHARMACY 1114 Division St., Cor. Varela | 1502 BERTHA STREET F ae 725 Phone 177 Free Delivery vwamuieen Phone (42 cums YY Vw vervws? extensive overhaul at Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard. The Adax is permanently based here. £ $5333. san 7 w . “wer jee ear re Son To Moores Dr. and Mrs. Herman K. Moore. 507 W shead street, announce the birth of a boy, weighing s« en pounds, seven ounces, at 3:21 p.m., Saturda September 6 Smiths Have Son Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Smith an nounce the birth of a bey Satu day, August 30, in the Miami V toria Hospital. The new arri has been given the name of L« Gordon Smith, Jr Mrs. Lew Smith is the forme Mary Louisa Porter, daughter Dr. and Mrs. J. Y. Porter, J f = ——EXPERT—— Auto Repairs at Reasonable Prices We Have Testing Machines That Leave Nothing to Guess Work PROMPT SERVICE NAVARRO. Ine. Opposite Bus Station TS Re ae eI mite *eee6 ae