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

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the with an average country, range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che HE No. 238 BAN Mi Truman Spends Quiet Day In Key West; Suns | - Himself At Ft. Taylor PRESIDENT MAY GO FISHING TOMORROW; WILL*-— | GO OVER SPEECH HE WILL DELIVER Fran ce Will AT EVERGLADES DEDICATION President Truman spent a quiet day in Key West today, resting, ' Hike Wages For Strikers; sunning himself on the beach at Fort Taylor and aenerally taking SCHUMAN CALLS SPECIAL it easy. Feeimaees | SESSION OF CABINET TO VOL. LXVII. ference at 10 a.m. in the Bachelor Officers’ Quarters in the Subma-! + two hours. a resolution passed today by! consisted mostly of bacon and fried mush. It was really good that sion of chis “cabinet, wand) added proposed increase would be ac- “He is wearing a tan outfit, | pted and thus avert a strike. - Key SOUTHERNMOST COMING ! Bardwell. i NEWSPAPER.IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1947 } KEY WEST Many Nias, Coming Up At Tonight’s Meet ~ OF City AT LEAST 11 RESOLU-* 103 Residents TIONS AND orp! NANCES TO BE CON., SIDERED ' Several ordinances and reso- lutions will be considered at to- night’s meeting of the City! Commission, it was announced | today. i These are the measures due | for consideration: A resolution to refund $50 li- cense fees charged by the mas ter electrician’s | examination! board to.R. C. Virgin and V. B.\ A resolution for the return of a fee of $50 to Edward K. Smith, ! paid for a beer and wine license. ! A resolution to pay the Mon- | roe Motors, Inc., $1,515 for a, new Ford two-door sedan. A resolution to pay William! A Freeman $1,483 as agent for i the American Surety Company. ; A resolution to pay $720 to the Florida State Board of | Health as payment for Key; West's mosquito control. A resolution reducing the as- | sessed valuation on part of lot, No. 6, Tract 3, from $2,000 to! Commissioners Placed In Jobs By Service Here During last month 103 people were placed in suitable work by the Key West office of the Flor- ida State Employment Service. Of that total, of World War II, and nine. wer handicapped, Jeff Knight, ; Manager of the local office, said oday. Knight further stated that the local office had placed 352 vet- | erans in suitable employment since January 1. Of this total, 38 were handicapped veterans. Veteran readjustment “‘allow- ance claims for unemployed vet- erans in the Key West area to- taled $2,769,000 for the week ending November 29. Statewide payments to veterans for the week were $223,705.00, reflect- ing a 21 per cent decrease from those on the last week in Oc- |tober when benefits were $283,- 535.00. Veterans and non-veterans in- ee Jews And Arabs Carry On Fight From Rooftops GUNFIRE STOPPED BY BRIT- ISH SOLDIERS; JERUSALEM, TEL-AVIV AND JAFFA UN- DER CURFEW (By ‘The Axsoctnted Press» JERUSALEM, Dec. 4.—Jews and Arabs, kept off the streets by British troops as a precaution against rioting, today engaged in a gun fight from housetops in a section of this city. As soon as firing was heard, British troops went into action, | land in 15 minutes the fighters were driven from the housetops. | \The only casualties Jews, whose condition | ported not to be serious. | British troops and police to | day are patrolling the area along ;the boundary line between Tel- , Aviv and Jaffa, where fighting joccurred on a large scale two | i days ago. Due to the tense situation in | Palestine since United Nation: oe | were two! was re- ' j voted to partition it between | | Jews and Arabs, British author- | ‘ities’ disclosed today that 200 | i Jews succeeded in ill ly en- tering Palestine. | (Cairo reported more rioting a a tae aa ERNE SREB OLE RIS ELT EE q Associated Press Day. Wire | Service and ‘AP Features For 67 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West ODAY Group Will Be Met Here By Chamber Of Commerce Officials ——-— ————-* INVESTMENT POSSIBIL- Soviet Whalers ITIES OF CITY WILL Off To Antarctic, BE POINTE ovr To | OFFICIALS LONDON.—(AP). — A Soviet} whaling flotilla has left on an-; Approximately 100 members other trip to the Antarctic where ; Of the National Association of it will spend about four months, | Investment Bankers, which held Moscow Radio reports. The flo- | its annual convention in Holly- Ms tilla returned to Odessa a! W00d, are coming to Key West couple of months ago after bag- ; this afternoon, and will be asked ging more than 600 whales, the ; £0 look over the investment pos- broadcast said. { sibilities here. >: — =: SS They are coming here in two I 1pe Hits Wire: | buses furnished by the Florida p 9 ‘Greyhound Lines, Inc., and will 9 be met by the directors of the 2 Electrocute Key West Chamber of Com- imerce, headed by Edwin Trevor, NEWARK, N. J.—When a pipe president of the organization. they were removing from a tank; While they are here they will ell against high tension wires, | inspect the Porter Docks at the Fred J. Phelan, 32, was in-: foot of Duval street, which will tantly electrocuted and George ! be the site on which the terminal Roehrig, died soon after be-jof the Gulf Atlantic Transporta- ing admitted to a hospital. The | tion Company will be located. accident occurred atop a 25-foot| The bankers were invited to tank at a nt plant. come here by H. G. Williams, P operty Sal president of the GATC, becau: . he says, many of them were as- r operty ALES ociated in financing the opera- tion of the ferry system from Theodore Houston and wife Key West to Havana and outfit- | transferred a property near Gal- ting the ferry, now undergoing | veston alley and Elizabeth final construction at Jackson- | street to It was the first time in weeks that the President really could! rest, and he made the most of his holiday, which will come to an_ end Monday. Charles G. Ross, Presidential press secretary, held a press con- | rae REACH DECISION FOR AD- rine Base. “Mr. Truman really was tired when he arrived yesterday aft-! VANCES IN WAGES ernoon,” Ross said. “He went right to bed shortly after his arrival! (By Associated Press) i at the commandant’s building at the Submarine Base and slept for! PARIS, Dec. 4—As a result of | “Last hight he went to bed again at about 11 p.m. and slept right S0vernment employes to go on, through until 7 a.m. today. He looked rested and more relaxed Strike ius aay Premier Schu- | than he did yesterday when he got up this morning. d hae Reyneatea ae Sehieoe “Just. before 8 o'clock this morning we had breakfast, which {8 Ne Bad called a special ses- 7 , that he would recommend that mush, really good. ar the workmen be given an in- “He is going out shortly to the swimming beach at Fort Taylor. crease in wages. I don’t know whether he'll go in swimming or not. I believe he He stated that he hoped the will just sun himself. ~ 1 with a sleeveless: sport shirt and ; terday and found a field there | Troops were called out this . $1,200. 4 ioe ecu employment Alfred Allen, 711 Eliza- tan slacks.” | to land on. !morning to stop rioting in. the; A resolution granting home- y “What color will be his swim- “I understand that today Col.° vicinity of the central post of- ming trunks today?” asked one ; Myers will fly to Immokalee, an- fice in Nice. It was said that Brava, stead exemptions to Vencio/ A ae | Susie A. Gardner and An ivag job openings may come to:|to attack the American embas stud 2 od | ville, for the services. today: G ee of students stoned beth street, for $700, according; The entire party was to have p the British consulate | in’ tht to a warranty deed filed yester- juncheon at the Greyhound Post 1 West office of the F.S.E.S. at 314 | : city, and then began their march | Circuit Court. Clerk ‘House, about 50 miles up the Simonfon strest. Employers hav- day with "1 A ' i ad: sti LOZ. i i hE aes i ;.» Ross C. Sawyer. i ; Keys, and then, came here in the ot the, Relwapager cOreeepondints | ther, Mite town fUFEheY UD in rie of strikers to riot agen | An ordinance 10” chanige’ "thé ME ettlee-or-ealletslephne num eyy.but- the rioters were dis-t theSdore Sands (insteANWH pec mS eS «| who are traveling with the Pres- | the Everglades, Ross explaine "i demonstdation that they were] present city ordinance fining | ber. 489 to list their openings. | persed by - 80) aeres bef re Mr. and Mrs, William Strachen| They will come along to Key ident. Weill know. more shouts sane determined not to return to| anyone. guilty of breaking. a' So threatened eau pene ae | a property near Thomas and} West later in the afternoon. The “Well, I'll see what I can do| we're going to fly to and when’ | oi nti their demand for| parking meter $250, to not’ less Bee that curfew had been | Angela streets for $700. |Chamber directors were sched about his wearing blue trunks,” | after the colonel returns.” |higher wages is granted. than $25 and not more than $250. nounced eae ee Aviv |, William W. Stanton and others! yied to meet -foday, and were to responded Ross, Ross sald the plane ‘ride to| "T ‘hilis are before the na:! An ofdinance | glving"*addi- oe ta, The curfew begins at t#nsferred to Dorothy H. Stan-/ meet the banker's upon their ar- “I'm rather partial, to green Naples or Immokalee would aimed at! tional privileges to the’ board and Jaffa. The curfew begins ati ion of Miami, a property on! sival, tional assembly, one sundown and lasts till dawn. ones,” said the newspaperman. | take about half an hour. The | (00%) Ghee Ay) o ; aminers of the charter boat. | Plantation Key for $200. Tee pect werereitievariventio the as; ' : H gators: and the other | of examiners 0! e eee ed d ; cane hey .were,to; be Tal Sera wont pwe cal co! te. | ae ge abo miles from |‘at ‘saboteurs. Both bills, which, ' fishermen. 4 SEEK DIVORCES Mr, ‘and Mrs. Walter 'K’ AC'Ng ; Porter Dock, and thence araund { morrow to have him wear green | Everglades, led it ke a 20-| it ‘was said, will become laws,| An ordinance to change the SE UES [transferred to Mr. and: V seal : ‘a sighting trip.“‘The trunks,” said Ross. ,_ {dent is schedule a 0 aap 2 Ah ;- | provide for heavy fines and im-| zoning laws making property. , Petitions seeking divorces were | Frank A. Gwinn,’ Miami, ‘prop: ;Chamber‘:fficials. planned to | ring tT a nat Paneer ae Se tive ts Ever { prigonment up to 10 years. owned. .by Jessie Porter Aeéaton filed yesterday with Circuit | ay on Key Largo for-a*nomi=! have .certain of their members, party woul pare melincay) | None oe lat Whitehead and Caroline ‘Court Clerk Ross C. Sawyer by | nal sum. who are familiar with the real to dedicate: thesEverglades Na-/ glades. he President ma; FN streets from resident B to busi- Caridad Vargas against Victor |-~— aes lestate situation here, to accom- tional Park, but wasn’t sure yet; Tomorrow the Presiden A ness B. SHOPPING DAYS | Vargas: by Harry C. White | pany the bankers. They will be where the party would land| possibly go fishing, with a Key in the Sacred Cow, the airplane | West fishing guide. Several of of the President. them have offered their services Lt. Col. Hank Myers, the pres-!to Mr. Truman without charge. ident’s official pilot, flew the Edward (Brau) Saunders, who large ship over to Naples yes- (Continued On Page Five) JUST RECEIVED! Blue and White Marbelle ASPHALT TILE Key West Floor Covering Company PHONE 1042 Key West, Fla. An ordinance amending ihe (Continued On Page Six) PALACE THEATER “SMOKY RIVE!) E. Sterling, Manager SERENADE” | 904 FLEMING STREET With The Hoosier Hot Shots | Large Supply of SOFT-BONE NEWS and SHORTS ; ROASTERS, HENS and FRYERS able to point out the investment possibilities of the city. “This looks like a grand op portunity to point out the pos- I erbuitaes of Key West to a group of men who may themselves be interested in investment oppor tunities here, and may be in position to point out to othe the same possibilities,” said official of the Chamber of Com ‘merce today. “We'll do our best to promote Key West.” ‘against Hattie Mae White, and} SHOP AT | by William Bosch against Mary aE if . 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