The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 25, 1947, Page 1

Truman Appeals | To Americans To Kat Carefully POINTS OUT EASY WAY*————- ———_——_—— TO SAVE 70 MILLION Special Sale pp evs Warehouse Here (87 Aenwctated Frees) The War Assets Administra- WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.— President Truman, in appealing ' te the American people 0 ition will conduct a special sale Pointed out that if every |of set-aside items for veterans oi ste one slice less of World War II only, in the Gato Gaily, the amount in wheat | warchouse, Key West, October be * |1 and 2, it was announced today. | According to George W. Pen- man, manager of WAA's cus- tomer service center at Miami, |. |the merchandise, which is in ;f a2 rit © equivelent to 76 million bushels | limted quantity, may be inspect- Pickering of Worth, Mo., who of wheat « year ed September 29 and 30 from appested further to Amer. |9 & m., until 3 p. m. Sales will ared thi a. Sn ales cutestion in buy- | Start at 9 a. m., October 1, he Se RIED to the rescue ing toudstulfs, and not to pur- | added. By HOWARD DOBSON chase anything just because they Included in the inventory are AP Newsteatures thought they may need it. For | typewriters, office chairs, straight yjchairs, executive and typists Geetered, “Vightening the belt” a desks, office tables, office and tH would not be injurious, but, records safes, filing cabinets, mest cases, would be bene- men's bicycles, folding cots, ma- ftern) to health. chinists vises, pattern makers him. The stustion in Europe in | Vices, winter helmets and a small of foodst og. (Supply of 7-power binoculars. }: om dndby demands imme-| Veterans need only present uns - dia attention. Some of his ad. |¢¥idence of honorable discharge Louisiana to China and Serbia. wleows stated that, even if it from the service in order to buy,| The Red Cross depends primar- deciied Ww call @ special session | Penman said. ily on its local chapters—one in of congress, action cannot be i+ ae every county, at least—for its ph, taken im time to avert widespread Purchases Bibles prepardeness. Each chapter has a hanger in some areas. He said disaster chairman in charge of latest reports he had received in- . surveying local resources and deated that foad should be going With Bad Check getting them lined up for emer- i te Barepe now in larger quanti. gency use. | ee te curd aimant famine con-| SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Police are ditions in some of the Buropean |jooking for a man who bought |is in Florida, the Dade County wilt be assisted |$42 in Bibles ‘from the American | organization in Miami,” Herrle aneter all plan. Bible Society with a worthless |told me. “If they had a hurricane ‘These Geentiol steps must be ' check, from which he also re-;this morning they could put 30,- token soon, the President stated: jceived $8 change. ~ ,000 people under shelter tonight.” agains’ possible food Disester ‘business in this coun- from small firés up to floods, ey- clones and hurricanes. It still is ° With Wheat oi {paying for the care of people in- CENTERVIEW, Kans. — The |jured in cyclones 10 years ago the plan & Bring down the prices of commodities in the United States. ‘The President said thet he dor REBUILDING: Funds provided by the Red Cross aid in recon- struction of homes at Ripley. Ohio (above), of residents whose houses were destroyed by floods. COMFORTING: Right, a Red Cross worker comforts Mrs. Ethel equipment and stock in a tornado. The Red Cross must be pre- istrator of Red Cross disaster services, nothing that man or na- berg ay ture may cook up in the way of devastation can surprise or dis- makes daily rainfall noon, to Red Cross headquarters : ted, sometimes a half-dozen times a day, on the storm’s progress “One of best setups we have for Florida and the Weather Bu- San Francisco vreau thinks it will hit County fir: Cross area office, at Atlanta, Ga., makes sure the local chapters time. His first. big job with the have been warned and are get- Red Cross was to work on Study piversary, of. working toward |. sf de Mgt Re Sree ft Se ST nal pease Sitcom mera: W tg |osensing. hg well at ged — srrag Whe ta to ica the work of chapters out “te Feturtied to this: co in several counties or even sev- and in 1915 went abroad. with the contenerncen ¥ lost two. children and farm in emergencies like this. = - : PAR Ree Hog: | tocal chapter even plans’ truck routings in advance. After the storm, “specially ASHINGTON.—All you can do about a disaster, says Colin t'ained disaster workers go into Herrle, is get ready for it. And he is. the area and‘ miake a rehabilita- The... people .. help themselves as much as_ possible, then the Red Cross ‘carries on ‘from there with gifts of: money As national admin- Herrle, a tall, gray native #f Washington, is 55 years old for hospital care, to replace fur- and has spent 37 of those years with the Red Cross—33 of them niture and clothes ‘and ‘¢ven to getting ready for, and getting over, disasters from Vermont and repair or rebuild houses. Some- times the gifts run into thousands ‘of dollars for a single, family. reports, /At | “For years that rehabilitation jwork ran about year,” Herrle said. “Last :year it was $5,000,000, and the Lord only i knows* what it -will -be ‘this. year.” ind probable: path. i "On. the -wall, behind . Herrle’s Suppose a hurricane is headed desk is a 1906 photograph ‘of: the earthquake and Dade fire and an: artists’s darwing ‘of the Louisville, Ky. cyclone: tor- nado and fire of 1890, : Those were a little before his ere. When a hurricane is spot- t The nearest Red ‘Wart broke Rockefeller Foundation’s - war relief commission. ft Herrle returned .to. the. Red ral states. The local workers get their net consider & qpectal session of once thriving Centerview State and expects to be taking care of machinery in operation and make Cross alter Vai’. war: He 146i the congrem: te be mperetive, yet, he |Bank, which was liquidated fif- {injured from the Texas City, s commended, legilative action have fe be resorted t@ in decreas: ‘deposits—in the form of golden | hence. ion the cot of living in this}wheat Lacking granary space, | t e ra |wheat-growers leased the build-!Red Cross goes to work on a dis- ’ w he appointed a commit }ing and filled it with wheat. (Th tee of 38 to consider prices of fo detadte in the United States Advisory WASHINGTON WEATHER) CHICAGO.-Henry Packer. 74. BUREAU, ADVISORY NUMBER became dizzy, fell out of a win. 7 100 AM. EST. Sept. 25. dow of his second-floor apart. | ion? ment and landed in the grass | The storm pased inte the At- below. Examinations as a hospi- tents feet couth of the Virginia | tal disclosed he had suffered only Capes end at 10 « m. EST, was/# cut on the face. comtered ehout 8 miles enat mutewet of Ne ik, moving | ite Street | Navy Recruiter we Earlier this morning winds ARRESTED AT TAVER- - Here Tomorrow, were 33 te 40 miles per hour in the Norfolk area, with gusts up NIER SUNDAY te & mtles per hour at Chambers This Old Man bac MRS. MARION PEYTON,* A reeruiter from the U. S. Navy } s Mrs. Marion Peyton, 22, of | Ube | Reeruiting Substation, will be at Nei dennville ES dimibatnashed int ee, eens ne Pam Ottice Bulking tn Key County Jail here on an open | corth nerthenstward movement West tomorrow to take applica- charge pending an investigation; © Germs today end tonight with |tions for enlistment in the Navy. bathe: “FEE. (thet ehetallegediy | ~ ir oe "| te moe poms ws stole the automobile in which she | asvemant lll ai Los J 1 Ba d was arrested at Tavernier Tues- t: rnyar cay night. Nertheast storm warnings re-/ é worth of the Vir-| MURPHYSBORO, I1!—(AP).— Joe beget cach ean atnte Capes to Eastport, Maine, Anybody seen Ed Hines’ barniot? eputy eri is x oth eel craft wermings on the Where it was is now just a hole Tavernier, Mrs. Peyton got the Deleware Baye and in it is a barn, the roof of ;tank of her automobile filled with | pe te cones ee Virginie Capes to| which is about level with the ‘gas in Tavernier and then drove; | ‘ Matte a» top of the hole. It all resulted off without paying for it. ; - RAMPEY during the Mississippi river flood | Peilecier caught the machine recently when a swift current of she was driving and took Mrs.! rushing flood waters literally Peyton back to Tavernier. Under gouged the ground from under | questioning, Mrs. Peyton revealed | the barn jthat sHe did not have title to the et ae car, Pellecier checked with Madi- 4 sonville and notified the FBI. Silence Is Golden An agent of the FBI wes here . |yesterday and he questioned PINE BLUFF, Ark.—(AP).—Si- Mrs, Peyton. He learned the auto- ; lent fishing long has been the! obile is owned jointly by her | practice of most followers of the |i isband and another man. He| sport, but it would appear one learned that Mrs. Peyton had the | owner of property near here in- |... of the car and after a quar-| sists on it : on his land reads: No fishing aloud.” Weathe: Bureau “m call at your “Keep out. ie | Mrs. Peyton is being held while | a those in Madisonville make up! | LSE TTL ES re . ‘ar penter: and Joiner: their minds whether to Car - J w' Icharges against her or not.; Welwood Waterproof Glue Charges would have to be filed! 18 HERE AGAIN STRUNK LUMBER YARD warrant for the woman would be | ‘ Telephone 816 Mina ! en a TER, wy . i i Tex., explosison and fire 10 years have bhai eager pel oma s out. If necessary, the Red Cross Here roughly is the the way the ™oves them. gency aid—food, shelter, The U.S. Weather Bureau and medicine—is Tough Fellow Investigate Charges ‘That Woman Held In County Jail Stole Automobile She Had A large sign posted |e) with her husband drove off |tione file |she had been held by high winds | lat Louisville, Ky., and then ajtvom the harbor, the Gilmore had forwarded the U. S. marsha! at jand engaged in firing practice off | ure that families along the coast been warned and moved Dis, leagues | in Disaster Reliei with the 1926 Florida hurricane and has been at it ‘since. His toughest jobs have: been two 'Flo- “When the storm strikes, emer- yida hurricanes, two Mississippi clothing yiver floods and the - 1927 ‘flood on hand. The gn Vermont. : lLavtun Sean te. Head Of Florida Drive On Cancer (Specint to The Citinen> TAMPA, Sept. 25. —-Lawton Swan, Jr., St. Petersburg insur- anee executive, again will head MADISONVILLE, KY., HEADS CANCER DRIVE) Florida’s financial drive in 1948 {for the American ciety, Mrs. ecutive director for the society’s Florida division, announced to- tday. Cancer So- re —— + emer g April. Swan served as state campaign chairman in 1947, making one of the outstanding records in the country in the drive which raised $160,000 in Florida. Finds Ring In Hamburger itrouble Mrs. Thelma Braise, a ‘meat butcher for the last four and ‘a half years, has had, she says, “ jwas the time she lost a valuable % ring. A customer, however, ee found it in his hamburger and returned it. Mad As A Beaver Gilmore Finally Returns To Base USS Gilmore, a submarine ¢ “Eager” isn't word “Red” Evans tender and the largest ship sta- thas for a beaver since he parked at Key West Submarine /pis automobile and returned to Base, tinally was moved into the find that a beaver-felled tree had base today from the anchorage|caved in the car top. cutside the Naval harbor where} for more than a week. During her enforced absence PALACE THEATER GENE AUTRY in . “SADDLE PALS” News and Other Features been taken on a training cruise Key West. _. Marshall Under $4,000,000 aj. Malcolm Smith, ex-! The drive will be- held. nextj | TULARE, Calif, — The most]#™i, a property at Key Largo, ROUNDUP, Mont. — (AP). — AMERICA’S “NO. 1 PESSIMIST” Director of Red Cross Disaster Corps Always Is Ready for.the Worst ‘Truman Planning On Coming To Key West _ Soon, —— President And Russian Attack’ i (By Annociated Presa) » WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. — A} troadcaster in Muscow today at-; ‘tacked President Truman and} Secretary of State Marshall as! fostering “international reaction ; no less. dangerous than was} -Naziism.” . No official comment here was imade regarding the ~ broadcast, though, unofficially, it was assert- ed that Russia. is turning loose {more lying propaganda to try to cover up her own misdeeds, par- ticularly. among her satellite na-! {lions she is grinding under her | iron heel. { Mrs. N. Pepper New Chairman \Dedication Of Smathers Says MONROE COUNTY’S REPRESENTATIVE IN CON. GRESS ADDRESSES JAYCEES AND ROTARY CLUB President Truman is planning to come here for a week in No- vember, Representative George Smathers, who leaves tomorrow morning for Miami, told the members of the Rotary Club at the noon luncheon in St. Paul's Parish Hall today. Smathers, who will speak tonight before the Lions Club ahd the before the Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce in which he spoke of the Marshall plan for the reconstruction of Europe. In the company of City Commissioner Louis Carbonell and his secretary, Grant Stockdole, Congressman Smathers appeared before —-ythe Rotarians and made thes: remarks: ‘ That President Truman if he came to Key West, would come ° {right after his visit to Puerto Rice Legion Home On ir'xevemver. isti Day sin vant at Arm Ss) AY ‘nia, Undersecretary of : ce hee coming to Miami in A regular meeting of Arthur|#0d that, as his guest, Sawyer Post No. 28, American | "ke a trip to Key West, Legion, was held last evening at } That the the new Legion Home on Stock 'School of the U. S. Navy, Island. t ' Alian Hampton, chapter chair- man of the American Red Cross, jannounces the appointment of Mrs. Nathan Pepper, 17-1 Poin- cianz Place, as the new chairman Cansus, who resigned at the end of ‘the school.. year. a succeeds Mrs, Fernando In celebrating the thirtieth an- underst 88. well as ee citizenship, the Juntor Red Cross fhas -Blans to make this the most productive year in its history. In- ternational aotivities of the or- ganization include’ exchanging correspondence albums and art anaterials’ with chYldren of other nations. The members have also set a goal of 1,000,000 gift boxes to children éverseas. { William Hodson Dies In Miami William Francis Hodson, of 62-2 Poinciana, died Monday af- ternoon in Miami from a heart attack suffered while visiting relat'ves. ° He was a Civil Service employe in the U. S. Naval Hospital in |Key West. Funeral ‘services will be held {Saturday at 10 a. m., in Miami. Survivors are: Widow, Mr: {Louise Hodson: son, Dickie; step- daughters, Jean and Catherine; brothers, Charles and Kaieb; sis- jter, Margaret Noonan. Property Sales | Adrian Rollini, Westcheste, iN. Y., paid Ethel M. Coles $23,500 jtor five lots in.Tavernier Cove, Key Largo, according to a war- |ranty deed filed yesterday in the office of Circuit Court Clerk Ross C. Sawyer. Mr. and Mrs. Leon A. Ybanez transferred to Mr. and Mrs. James R. Henderson, North M {for $2,000. Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Scud- Henry E. Albury, Islamorada, a Property on Upper Matecumbe Key, for $900. Mr. and Mrs. Cyril H. Lowe, transferred to Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Robel, Islamorada, property on Van Phister street here, for $3,000. Charlotte H. Mitchell trans- ferred to M. Louise Curry, 724 Eaton street, property on Key Largo, for $400. ithernmost Garage in U. S. : Jr. Red Cross Commander C. B. Harvey an. |" of the Junier Red Cross. Mrs. der transferred to Mr. and Mrs, |PUrial. ;grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil jnounced that the new Home will \be formally dedicated on Armis- by tice Day, November 11, with}. 4 ‘elaborate ceremonies and cele- |i sould with Key West so thet bration. Details will be announc- lea shortly, he The applications of Michael L. {cian housing Shes, Peter P. Perez, and Or- | tteq " . F ville Smith were approved for! ‘That whole. tneimbership. Phe obligation cere- | ¢, ~ on etttnne 4 mony will be conducted by the ididn't see the: fuse made avail. ‘Key West Guard of Honor. able for to Key It: was stated that the 1948 West of Waterway “memberships were progressing ' within & ‘ ivery well. ‘smhembership~con- |i ~ Marahet! test *will efficially close April 1, | Plan, Congressman Smathers said 1948, Prizes will be presented “i by 19 billion | winners. |Gulars for relief in ove: A very interesting sound film | period of four years would net of the 1946 National Legion Con- |help the situation with reference vention at San Francisco, Calif.,|t0 the high prices im this coun was shown to the membership in ; try. attendance by John J, O’Conner,| “But we must remember thet chairman, house committee. the gost of war is a great desl It was stated that the Post /ove tham that sum,” Smathers wouid again sponsor an American |t0ld the Jaysees’ and the Re. Legion Christmas party at the |tarlans. “We have got to bleck Naval Hospital for the enjoyment tas Prien tan pperynes = of the patients. . y id ive eo ‘ ' the countries of Burope enough The Department Mid-Winter | Conventions scheduled for 'Tam- MEY 8° they can eat and can pa, January 17-18. | U. J. Delgado, Grand Chef de train —- 40/8, announced that-the Department Aerial Round-¥); thers said he hoped thet Fete controls would not be re istered in this counary | “Right yw will be held in Sanford, Satur- | onnnitiees ap pve on noe day, November 8. - Igating the causes of inflation»: \ The Post gave endorsement to ; prices and will make revemmen the Southernmost Cushman jdatieons to Congress, anid Scooter Club which was recently | Sroathers. organized, | Grant Stockdale, secretary t Commander Harvey announced |Congressman Smathers in Weer that the Key West Lodge of Elks |ington, was called upon by Pros will conduct a 2eremony in the jident Joseph Pinder of the Je» auditorium of the Legion Home on Saturday, October 4. liarn T. Archer, and Mrs. Anna} 1180 Deval Street Phe 10 Auto Repairs, Painting, Body and Fender: Work Genuine Auto Parts for All Cars teh nae A 1 . ina rather Burne ous vein pictured the triah: end Motorcycle [\chaon., $4: tee Seemed e Vi ° 9 B. d is — telling the ww : \dience that, among other things ichim's 0 y jhis office ‘namie 15,200 - S H jters last year. ent ome; Then he went on to state thet Smathers has been picked upor Body of Miss Gloria De Liber-| by numerous writers of metione tis. 27, who died from injuries re- |note as the coming men im th» ved in a motorcycle accident | Political arena the Overseas Highway, was} Smathers was thee called upon seat yesterday afternoon to Phil-;to make a talk adelphia by the Lopez Funeral’ “I am for the Marshall olen ¢ home for funeral services and | the rehabilitation of Burope.” seed | Smathers. “It offers the only Survivors are her parents, Mr.|!ution for the people of the of and Mrs. Bernardo De Libertis. | flicted countries to get upom the feet an an economic sense | “I shall vote for the Mavshw iplan when it reaches the ( )Bress. I believe President Tru Archer Infant 202! <0" », see! j \¢ Ongress with special imetry A |tions to adopt the Marshall pier Funeral services for the infant 'to aid Burope son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Franklin| Smathers then told wh Aicier, who died Monday in the lin favor of the Marahall ples Key West Municipal Hospital,{ (Continued On Inside Sti ip were held Monday at 2:30 p. m.} Burial was in the family plot, in City Cemetery. | OAD SERVICE Survivors, besides parents, viet PHONE for Our 2a eDAY Phone 50! Sands: NIGHT Phone 10s0W Lopez Funeral was in| SANDY'S GARAGE ed Home arge of arrangements. i