The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 18, 1947, Page 1

a “ . . — a # : : ome E & Key West, Florida, has the a mos equable climate in the . country. with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. VOL. LXVIIIl. No. 224, KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1947 C 0 ¢) f S t. Y Di Gas eri | U.N. Facts and Faces . . . . . . « LIBERIA Denies Re rt | ° usi k “? | : SS ‘ ® 4 D ] li ATLANTIC ' a " Is In Key West With | 2ectres Me || = Ration Books Key West Crawfish, Won't Resign’ Being Printed Boats Of Cuban Navy wocnnne | of oe Tl ' S uban Navy (i urtie soup 10 Jax Y | one RIOTS, ENGINEERED BY | A guy MONROVIA FEDERAL PRINTER POINTS RELATIVE OF FAMED* COMMUNISTS, BROKE ouT) 1 Sari OUT NEITHER MONEY it — ¥ENDS INSPECTION OF WORLD WAR I SOL! VSI MDODOMM IMM, A OVER ITALY: UNREST, y AUTHORITY PROVIDED FOR OM MO DMOL& LM OB) NAVAL BASE; ENJOYS DIER EXPECTS TO BE| ‘Jj ; INCREASES AT MARSEILLES < SGREENVILL BOOKS 5 . | FISHING TRIP YES. — iG ittle Below INy Aasociated Press) * (Ry The Aaanciatfed Presa) Did Afric an i SEES | ie? Spreads ROME; Nov. 18-—Mare riots SSA | WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—A| Snider Scare | eee A. J. York, et | have broken out in various parts ) r Foe spokesman for the government we ~ | Read Admiral Ralph Davison, the Cuban Navy who arrived! Among Boys of Italy. The riots are engineer- | ; = printing office today denied that| Miss Muffet? LUSN, commandant of the 7th Ft re Mies ue jed by Communists, who are | GABRIEIRCLOENK rationing books are being print- | Naval District, Jacksonville, who Tennessee, who was much dec- OLNEY, Ill—(AP)—Olney = aking speeches opposing Italy's | (osprey t dennis, LIBER 1A ed. A rumor that work had been STOCKHOLM. — (AP). — has been in Key West since yes } orated for his exploits during de School boys protested — pafticipation in the Marshall started on the books gained cur-| Wes it a Rhaebothorax that jae ee nagar on ‘a io the "1 look” of di: par- Pla = 3 2 5 4 i: i crawfish so we hat when his World War 1 | S _— - —— ewer a ‘ cormmneemnnue) Liberia, whose 350-mile coast line on the ('ency as a result of what the stidows beside) litte Miss i airplane left hdre this aftdr- ‘ Lt. York came here with three ing long skirts by wearing | Communist speakers assert- | 4 py 2 5 - pan iS ig is by ig | i Pre: Ss BS > Muffet? A five-man expedi. Cuban Navy ships which will] .their trousers rolled to the oq that the riots will not cease, I frmmmmnermren| South Atlsntis! Ovean| 1s) backed) ap with | Fresident cald, in his/message to). ion to Central Africa in Jane, | 0007 it) was ‘welll supplied. with i Te eae : fee pee roe nore En OW CESSES an . aa avy tropical fores' e a {congress yesterday, about the ; ~ |the succulent edibles. Fees atelier p ; than | Until Di Gasperi and his cabinet | [MON was founded more than 100 years ago by [food situation in the United, Vary may find out. | When his likes were made (ies prane user aivision of the Aneeae mners ranger ba seciun, Im xeply, Di Gaspari an :cciceaneR CARON) freed slaves from the United States. With | States, __ These zoological and botan. lknownlto the UThompson Enter: Poe ited States Nate bate | contended oy HAE MEY nounced that neither riots nor | [psetmumamanansanem] the help of colonization societies the freed-. | “The spokesman said that, in the} Kel experts, headed by Dro | 20" 0. “the admiral was giv- ved abasic oG cers 1 8 4 a violet ae | men settled at Monrovia, Liberia’s capital. | fip<t p). k : ke Holm or Upsala Univer- Reisen ee a sold to the Cuban government \DFIOIVIIIOLLS s Sa Senora Lear | Today an independent republic, Liberia includes among her leaders aa ae eines one sity will climb the Killman- | ©? suppiles of Grendey ure 4 “My father was a brother of | sil ae ee : "| many descendants of the original settlers from the United States. | rint the books: secondly, no| 3870 and Kenya to see if plant | SOUP and a number of crawfish. Set. York's father’, said Lt (Marseilles noted — intensifica | Most of Liberia's 1,500,000 people are occupied in agriculture and / joney has been appropriated to! ang [animal iiiebe read ony, \hnesels Sania ay racial York as he sat in the office of! Cree ote Blast HG UGE AL IEE thin cehiat city The | “orest industries. Among the most important products are piassava, ng fouithie printing; and, thirdly.| connections with that of Swe- ! Sor ce Bs to eat”, sail Fi dhe infucmotion officer of the rete Anat city, The | palm oil, eoffee, rubber and timber. Her delegation to the United oven had work been besug) den. in prehistoric times. jthe Admiral. “I like turtle soup NavalicBaceutoday en, report stated that it was due en-/ Nations General Assembly is headed by Gabriel L. Dennis, Her flag a ae Pee neacigeae: They know that the Rhae- | and crawfish. I think the craw- Kills 1, Hurts 1 AHOSKIE, N. C.-When a bar- rel of creosote exploded, one man was killed and another seriously | injured, suffering from shock and the loss of his left leg went to Cuba after the Span: American war and helped | ganize the Cuban Army. “He was a major in the Cu- | ban Army, and established the pe} Cuban Army’s Signal Corps. La- a ter he took out citizenship pa- pers in Cuba. His had number 2 citizenship paper. No. 1 papers | were issued to the President of | father "| -| i 3 * Guba.” t Lt. York speaks English with ; ‘ =) a Spanish acent, but it is read-| : t . ily understandable. He is a gvad- | €¢us uate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and took a post graduate course at the Univers: ty of Michigan. Then he also > 4 fs graduated trom the Cuban Na| TEND IMPORTANT Plan To Film Film val Academy. | : " J At present, with degrees from | > ca SION IN CITY HALL i] both American universities, he CHAMBERS | enginering inspector of the Cu- | workers strike.) ‘Christmas Tree Group s Tomorrow Night PUBL IC INVITED TO AT-* Pe an | ban The ships he brought | Christmas Tree Organization 4 to Key West are the Cuban Na- | meets tomorrow night at 8:30 in vy’s Coast Guard vessels, 106, i : 4 107, 108. city hall.chambers to discuss | York expects to remain here} plans of aiding the needy at u] about two weeks during the in- | Christmas time. ; stallation of the radar equip- With Christmas approaching, mepe ane ee nets the organization is calling upon >. fall civic-minded individuals te Problems Of lhelp in this charitable endeas ‘ hr . for Lunchrooms |" eyuriman — gonn Glenwood Bs isc Sweeting reminded citizens to Discussec iday that a goal of $600 is the ‘Ys > meetings to discuss school minimum requirement to. insure lunchroom problems were held a happy Christmas for those in recently at the Division Street need amongst us: and Poinciana Flementary schools, Sweeting today called on all Mrs. S. J. Lawrence publicity citizens who desire to aid to be chairman for the Poinciana in- jin attendance at the meeting to stitution, reported today, morrow night so as to help in Miss Florence Wagner, state this project which was success supervisor for school lunchroms.) fully done last year, and must said at the meetings that it is a) be repeated this ye: known fact that malnutrition ex The organization does have a ists in the southern states. She} cash balance from last year’s ac suggested an educational pro- tivities, but neverthel the | gram, which was unanimously ap- 600 collection goal set this yea proved is necessary to insure a happy The children will take part in) gay December 25th, for tho« the program by helping prepare! jece’ fortunate in the etty the menus. By this method they will learn the value of different 4 a 4 fods, Miss Wagner pointed out. | 3D Nations Invited The children will be reminded} } of table manners by the teachers,! 7m ‘ { ‘ M who will eat with their own pu To Sea Sa ely t pils Miss Wagner stressed the fact that there must be cooperation of | parents to make the program’ aj suecess Willard M. Albury, superinten dent of public instruction for the he would county, made it clear do all he could to assist in the successful culmination of — the program J. FRANK ROBERTS 1 GREAT-GRANDEATHER J. Frank Roberts, chief clerk in the county tax assessor's of- fice, is a great grand-pa He was told over long-distance telephone trom Atlanta last eve ning that his grand-daughter, Mrs. Gladys Mae Wheat, had given birth to a daughter at 4:- 30 o'clock in the afternoon, The newcomer weighed five and one-half pounds. WEAVER'S ALPHABET U is for: 1 DE hen us, thank you. Our last hotel commis- sion rating was 97%. 2. UNGILDED—Our modest ads in The Citizen. 3. UNSATISFACTORY FOOD— | An impossibility at WEAVER'S Completely Air-Conditioned LONDON.—(AP).—Britain has invited 32 nations to send repre sentatives to conference opening, April 16, 1948, to revise the 1929 international convention for safe ty of life at sea, the government (has announced s a preliminary to the confer ence, Britain invitag experts to submit proposals from the Inter national Civil Aviation Organiza tion, the International Telecom munications Union, the Interna tional Meteorological Office and the Provisional Maritime Con sultative Council High School PTA Meets Tonight The Junior-Senior High School PTA wil hold a meeting tonight beginning at 8 o'clock The meeting will held in the high school auditorium, Mrs Robert Dopp, president, will talk ‘about her trip to the PTA state convention held in St. Peters- burg be FOR SALE ‘47 Buick Super, low mileage to the activity of Commu who are urging dock as other workers to continue the ir | strikes. All ships in the Mar- seilles harbor are tied up, await. | ing a settlement of the dock | tirely | ‘has red and white stripes and a blue corner containing a white star. nists, ‘Tiial Of Four Men For | Unarmed Robbery Begins | In Criminal Court Today, <i one “DD WITH ROB-«© 4 ' i BING 2 NAVY CHIEF ‘Trailer Units PETTY OFFICERS’ OC:! q TOBER 25 Ready On No l Andree Death Trial o¢ four iocal men charg-| First 14 trailer units placed ed with unarmed robbery after in the Fort Taylor reservation, cq) S al Cen jtllesedly beating and robbing by the Navy Submarine Base ny pilz pergen: two N. chiefs got under way | will be ready for temporary em- | today in Criminal Court before ergency, homes for enlisted per- STOCKHOLM. — (AP). — The) a jury and Thomas S. Caro. sonel of the Navy on November arctic balloon expedition andj On trial were Frank (Baby) 19, it was andunced today. tragic death of the polar explorer! Fraga, Woodrow Niles, Kirk-#~‘The units will vent for $22.50 Salomon August Andree on the! 8d Bethel and Evelio Estavez.’a month, including payment of The complaining witnesses ave water and lights. but not includ ice northeast of Spitzbergen will) Chief William R. Krause and ing gasoline for the stove and be filmed by an independent com-| Chief Edward Cynat ice. The units are assigned to pany early next year They accuse the our men of . the varioys activities at the Na The Swedish actor, Arnold’ assaulting them nesr Greene val Basej!so: that each will get Sjostrand, announced that he will! 14 Whitehead streets the night @ share 6f the trailer direct, produce and play the prin. | Of O tober 25 and sceaiing a to’ 4 @tuary 1 there will be cipal part in the picture about tal of $53 from their clothing. | 40 Whits-in the trailer section of Andree, who, torether with two' Fraga, Niles, Bethel and Esta- the base. companions, succumbed on Viton! Y4 Pleaded not guilty when af- ao — in 1897 after abandoning their ice} '4lsned before Judge Caro to- of charges of larceny of an au covered balloon | day tomobile and using the property The adventurous balloon expe Prosecution is being handled ‘of another without the owner's dition and the three men’s. fatal) by County Solicitor Allan lconsent, respectively wandering across the ice made!Cleare, Jr. while the defense} They were found guilty of tak front page of newspapers again! rests with William V. Albury! ing the car belonging to Mal 33 vears later when a Norwegian} and Enrique quinalde, Jt ‘vin G. Breme and driving it up ship discovered the remnants and Yesterday a jury in Criminal near Bahia Honda viaduet where the last camp of the three men. [court brought in findings of [it was wrecked The picture will, be synchro-| guilty against Stafford Ward} Judge Caro will sentence — the nized in Eng ind Lloyd Webber, beth colored, later h | j Pair Manila Newspaper Of Foreign Wars Veterans Gets A New Home: NV ANILA.—(AP).—The Ameri-j can owned Manila Daily Bulletin whose prewar plant was burned | by the Japanese, is moving into! permanent quarters The Bulletin, owned by Carson Taylor of Los Angeles, recently | received long awaited press and mechanical equipment. from. the US. It has been using borrowed editorial and press ed publication in Februa space sin it | resuim 1946 Jr. Womaws Club | Meet Cancelled, Won ind | ade | Sth, | this until At the | the Jr the stores The meeting of Club with models tor the Fashion Par Dance on December which was scheduled — for ening postponed 8p rsday Duval an's and | is evening m street stresses. yhouse on All stores models who desire to participate | in the attend this meeting { There will be a meetng of the | board of directors the Junior | Woman's Club, 6 o'clock tonight Any models who pre: them selves et be accept: st and | how are urged to ont wil the PALACE THEATER: JOE KIRKWOOD in ‘47 Olds, Club Sedan, 4,000 Miles *Joe Palooka in Knockout | NAVARRO, Incorporated Opposite Bus Station News and Features | ‘TONIGHT IS PRIZE NITE | Where Can You Get | —VISIT OUR RETAIL DEPT.— et eee PT I Jeny Fight Senn red In Club Officials of the ac of {the club rooms side the club. The statement that “about one hundred men all engaged in throwing bottles and beating one another” was also found to be incorrect as there were only about 75 men at the party.” sh Eggs isp Bacon - Toast rgia lee Coffee For Only 35¢ Duffy's Tavern Division and Simonton Streets A.M. - 10 A.M. DAILY and SUNDAY | We Bake All Our Own Pastry, in- cluding Fresh Danish Pastry Daily Monroe Motors INC. 1113 White Street tHONE 725 | was filed yesterday before CES erat | quire three months would be ready for to the public. Republican leaders indicated that they would not follow the President's suggestions on the food situation. It was not likely that price controls will be estab-, lished, except in a few specified | ‘tt was added that Congress probably will give the President the $597,000,000 for which he asked as a stop-gap in providing supplies for western Europe until the Marshall Plan goes into effect. However, it was added that the President likely will not get the $6 billion to pay for the operation of the Marshall Plan for the first year of its existence. (All London newspapers com- mended the President for what he said in his message for the relicf of Europe, and 21 of the 23 Paris dailies also heartily approved the President’s statements, The two dissenting Paris dailies are Com- munist-controlled.) 4 Key Westers ~ Aboard Gilmore | the Citizens LAKES, Ill, Nov. 18 For Key West Navy men, Don ald W. Faulkner, chief shipfit: ter of Forty Taylor; Rob L. Stevens, chief Aap REE mate, of C nt Taylor: Frank E. Lugwig, machinist’: 2 nd class, of K-1 Fort Taylor and Richard J. Melton, chief gunners mate. of 698 Olivia st are crew members of the subma mate, rine tender USS Howard W. Gil more which recently visited New Orleans. The home port of the Howard W. Gilmore is Kes West The ship's most. distinguished isitor at New Orleans was the vidow of the late Navy Con mander Howard W more, af }ter whom the ship was named Mrs. Gilmore was the sponsor of the Howard W. Gilmore at the launching 1942 in December, with the excep- |) e : Foreign Wars toc dentec val ee ‘4 q feabn Wars today dented thavi tion of the washroom where «! Swiss Cheek Lost VeLE Va. an qu re side H / x ; th Yo ae inside ‘few windows were broken as a their club Plaglet jreenue and iesuliea (Ob carciesenees, Gaal EF Gif P: ; | ‘ several sailors were arrested by | ""s3 ‘Number of are t ! city police SEU Ola tre ae BASEL, Switzerland..(AP) The fight that took places ac- |) Teasire i the size of the dis-lrhe cantonal attorney general’ urred outside the clubrooms”, ; Ubance is standard proce: | office announced that 2,000 p 1 Commander Jack Clark of |Wre fer Naval Shore Patrols | ons who had ordered food pack the VEW. ie 4 and civil authority to take inte: sees sent to other countries had He issued the following state aa custody alll | i filed complaints that im 3,400 B personel in any way connecte as (here were nol teceipts cor ment in conection with > af- {cases there were ni } 1 en ee ieee with a disturbance I firming delivery. Approximately LENO tiene comin rbannoure There was no throwing of | 1.400 complaints were against one lquiting the serviews of the eivit Bottles during the disturbance. | shipping firm Loilite: toni tha ithe “the Any bottles thrown were thrown!” ‘The attorney general's offi ee cee : before the disturbance started! js investigating to determine 3) Now da nite: wae edi as the party was then over andj whether the shippers were at ae died tee no bottles: were permitted out- | fault or whether thefts oecurred in transit Throughout Switzer! firms have gone into the bu of supplying food ind, 16 shipment to central and ‘Santibenn rane Seeks Divorce A petition seeking a div with C ‘ourt Clerk Ross C Thomas F. Canavan against Lo- retta A. Sullivan Canavan WANTED cormanace smal hotel . . . WRITE POSTOFFICE BOX 708, KEY WEST, FLORIDA they | | bothorax—a species of spider {fish is better than the lobster. —exists only in the Swedish |The crawfish we get at Jackson- and East African mountains. | ville doesn’t taste as good as those you have in Key West.” "SIO DIO IID After the day’s work was done yestereey. Admiral ps eyent Russia Plans 20 jit Grau uSt, “Sansnee “ort: Plants To Make Prefab Homes |cer of the Submarine Base, and his aide, Lt. C. A. Merryman, MOSCOW.—(AP).—In the Rus: sian Republic alone, one of the USN. They came back later with a sixteen republics making up the Soviet Union, it has been decided number of barracuda and three amberjack. This morning the admiral in- spected the personnel of the Key West Naval Base activities ;At 9 a. m. he appeared at the to set up twenty factories for] Fleet Sonar School, at 9:15 to acture of — prefabricated! the Submarine Base, at 9:35 at according to the railway|the Operational and Develop- newspaper Whistle. ment station and the Naval Ord- Many of the houses which will! nance Unit, at 9:50 at the Na- produced there will go tol yal Air Station, at 10:10 at the paper added.) Naval Hospital and at 10:40 at |Boca Chica Field. y The admiral was accompanied by Capt. Harold A. Houser, USN, | commanding afficéirof the Key ‘West Naval Base, Capt. W. W. ' Angerer, USN, general inspec ‘of the 7th District and his aide, Lt. Merryman. They were met at variou stages of the inspection by Cap tain H.»F: W. McFadden, USN, Capt. Williard A. Saunders, Cap be railway workers, the CHAPERON ‘YOUR CIGARET | SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—(AP).— Springfield Hotel Association: n etiquette tip for fire pre- vention {Each hotel in the city, displays a card that recommends-="Chap- iS evon Your Cigarettes.“Do — not! 5 om 2 2 a ‘ tain Henuy W. Cooper, Capt. O. let them go out alones VA ‘Smith, USN, Comdr T. HL D — —s j Suddath, USN, and Lt S. E. Clark, USN etermine | The admiral had luncheon at {noon today in the Officers’ Club at Fort Taylor. He and his in- ! specting group left Key West at Fisherman ST LOUIS.—When a four and’ 1:30 p. m. for Jacksonville 1 half-pound bass snapped the} line held by Dr. Vincent Jacobi, | 7 Dr. Jacobi, without waiting to Ve nes laiar, take off his coat, plunged into the | lake and grabbed his fish before! ‘hool Anne il became aware of its freedom X u MAN and WIFE ; : > Al Police today were investigat I roperty Sales | ing a report that the Key West | High School Annex, United and | Warranty deeds filed yester-; Seminary strets, was entered day with) Cirenit Court’ Clerk |Saturday or Sunday and near! Ross C. Sawyer transferred {four cases of soft drinks stol property it® Dennis stret from |e ; Norberg Thompson and others to gj A preliminary examination of j lA. Maitland Adams for $200,; the premises by Patrolman land from Frank S. Petty and!Frank Jolly revealed se |‘ eife to Robert R, Williams, Mi-; barefoot and finger prints on the m ini, property an Big Pine Key floor of the economics room of for $800. {the Annex. The soft drinks were 2 ee taken from the Teen Age soft MEETING * , ! drink bar MEETING OF DAb | Evidently the work of bo TONIGHT AT 8:30, REI Lbedanithemmoot ofthe build lection of a permanent meet will mark the session Disabled American at 44-1 place tonight of the Veterans 6:30) o'clock Poinciana Place > members of the tion will also consider the enter- tainment to be given by them at the Naval Hospital some time in the future Tr Won't You Please? ae. ELVEDA RAY in Celebrating Her a THE DUVAL BAR | TONIGHT i organiza Jing and plugged the drain FEA Meeting In Miami Tomorrow ,; Williard M. Albury, superit ;tendent Monroe public schools ‘expects to leave for Miami to | morrow to attend the meeting of the Florida Education Associa tion, including the sections fo jthe superintendent and men {bers of the school boards of the | state | “I have been subpoeuged to be j witness in the suit of the Ke est Realty Company versus |the City of Key West which {opens tomorrow, and 1 may not be able to attend the meeting”, Albury said today try to be excused” ‘Tm going to “Roa SERVICE PHONE for Our WRECKER DAY Phone So? NIGHT Pyone 1053W SANDY'S’ GARAGE QUEEN 404 OVAL ST. ee