The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1947, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXVIII. No. 244 AVERETTE RESIGNS AS MECHANIC ON TUESDAY} | 23 0f 29 Die | In Plane Crash | In Labrador 222,05, "22". ‘executive secretary of the Civil Service Board, announced. today. There will be no hearing by the Civil Service Board Friday jat 10.a. m, of the charge of RUSHED TO SCENE ‘ derelection of duties filed against (By The Associated Press) | Averette by Robert H. Dopp, di- Bs Fey Benny, OTP RTELD, Leab- rector of public service. Dopp eeived here at noon’ trom one of filed his charge against Averette the doctors at the scene of the With Acting -City Manager Ed- crash of the ATC transport plane ; ¥!0 Trevor. Tuesday night, said that 23 of! The resignation of Averette the 29 military men on board Will be considered by, the Civil the plane had been killed. {Service Board at 10 a. m., Friday. —~-¥*There Will Be No Hearing By Civil Service Board Of Charge Against Ayer- ette Horace Averette, city me- DOCTOR SENDS REPORT TO GOOSE BAY GIVING AC.) COUNT OF TRAGEDY; HELP Medical men, other rescuers | and medical supplies were tak akon Lewis Arrived plane went down, by a Kelicop- | ter that was brought. here hres. | terday by a big transport plane. Here Yesterda was not given. The crashed plane, a C-54 Sky- sesiopal RUperyiete ne oy a . “| aun avy epartmen' ol ne master that was capable of car- | YMCA, arrived in Key West yes- five minutes Tuesday night af- connection with transferin, Fi g the ter it took off from here for property over to the Army and} Westover Field, Massachusetts. | Navy branch after the USO fin- can Air Force personnel, are| ing later this month. among the rescuers. Though the; Lewis visited Eugene D. Eddy, ! weather. continued cold and |director of the USO, and will work was continuing successful- | acting city manager, and othgr ; Ween officials. 9 Outstanding Feature Of State's Everglades National Park OLIVER GRISWOLD, PRESI-4——______________ to the icy wilderness where the | ondition of the six survivors} ” Charles M, Lewis, Atlanta, Ga, rying 40 men, crashed within | terday” to see about. details in Canadians, as well as Ameri-’ jshes with Jackson Square Build- | windy, it was said that rescue | meet later, with Edwin Trevor,” Conservation Of Wildlife DE OF AUDUBON SOGIE- county, and a high percentage TY, 8 YS GREAT DAY FOR WILDLIFE Oliver Griswold, president of | of ‘the birds and other wildlife ; that, will form the main attrac- tion for visitors are in our | county. “It will be mainly this beau- the Monroe County, Audubon So-, tiful, protected wildlife that. will ciety, who at Governor Cald- ! bring the ‘estimated’ one million well’s invitation represented the | visitars a year to, the park, in- society at the dedication of the | creasing the tourist Everglades National Park, today spreading the fame of the State described the event as a “great and South Florida, day for bird and other wildlife} “Here on the Florida Keys conservation with special sig-;and in Key West we have, not nificance for Monroe County.” Griswold said: “Because the that are the main attraction in whole movement to pre: wildlife of the area now includ- By applying the protection that the National Au- | Keys and in Key West, we, too, dubon Society began giving the can maintain and improve our rare birds in the early 1900's, ; tourist attractions. Birds'in Key special praise was given the so- ; West and on the Keys are just ciety by the numerous speak- | as important to the tourist busi- | ers. John Baker, president of the ness as the great bridges, our National Audubon Society, was | superb sports fishing, our tropi- there on the platform in a spe- | cal foliage and flowers, and our cial place of honor to receive | sunshine. it. “Not only are the birds of “It was a great day for bird the Keys and Key West protect- | and other wildlife conservation!ed by State and Federal laws, with special significance for! but they are the property of all Monroe county. Many of the best the public. Whoever illegally parts of the park are in Monroe’ (Continued On Page Five) _ Here A Some ee x For Mother .. . 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Xmas Tree Lights Toys eLionel Trains For the Home... eLaunderall Automatic Washers eSimplex Irorers, $50 to $200 eYoungstown Kitchen Cabinets and Sinks ¢Hotpoint Flatbed Ironers Electric Brooms eGE Vacuum Cleaners GE Coffee Makers, Glass and Stainless Steel ¢Westing- house Vacuum Cleaners eChemex Coffee Makers ¢Hotpoint Water Heaters HOME APPLIANCE CO. 605 Simonton Street PHOWE 11 Key West, Florida eed eXmas Treé Holders ¢Mechanical business, ! | only. many of the species of birds ; rve the the park, but numerous others. | same kind of ; ed in the park started with the protection to our wildlife on the ! |Police Ride In Jeeps To aay Up Rome Strike: GENERAL STRIKE ocean THERE BY COMMUNISTS, TO PROTEST AGAINST MAR-} SHALL PLAN (By The Associnted Press) ROME, Dec. 11—A_ general i strike was called this morning in this city and 109 small cities or villages in this area. It was estimated that more than half a million men and women are on strike, which was | instigated by Communists in protest against Italy’s receiving | assistance under the Marshall Plan. The government was quick to! act to break up crowds that had | formed in industrial centers in| this city. Forty agitators were arrested within an hour after the strike went into effect. Hundreds of policemen are} riding around in jeeps, dispers- \ i ing crowds and ordering strikers | to retura to their homes. | Nine jeeps ,occupied by po- licemen, crashed into a large! crowd in that part of Rome where Rightwing newspapers are | published. The police had heard : ithe strikers were going to at-! tempt to wreck the newspaper | plants, and the nine jeeps, slow- ing up, drove through the crowd‘ and broke it into segments. Then the policemen jumped from the jeeps and began to} wield clubs among the strikers. Within 10 minutes the street w: cleared, with many of the strik- | jers crying. out that they hadi {been robbed of their liberty. | It was the first general strike ; in ‘this city since 1921, when | workers’ walked out in protest ; against Mussolini and: his black { shirts taking. over. the. control, of | }the government. | \Old, Past Will Be Pictured In | Vespers Sunday | The “Key West High School Vespers on Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. will picture a present- j day Christmas scene replete | with grandmother, grandchil- dren, Christmas tree, and Chr imas poems. This _present- day |p, scene introduces the Nativity | picture which brings to the au- nce the story of the birth of | Christ in story and in hymns. | Effective lighting arrange-| j ments enhance the beauty of the} performance. For several yea ; the Christmas Vespers program } brought enjoyment andi | spiritual uplift to the people of} Key West. This year, Miss Marjorie Co- burn, director of Choral Musi has arranged a program that in-' cludes all the melodies with > which the community is famil-} iar. Those who attend will ex- | perience a thrill when “Silent ; Night, Holy Night,” from piano! and harp, fill the air. Since the seating capacity is limited to about 500 seats, ! promptness in arrival is essen- tial. i has ao p Sandy Caroboll SANDY'S GARAGE i Next to La Concha Hotel | 404 Duval Street Phone 501 | Body and Fender Work CARS PAINTED from $35.00 | DC ars Parke SA aba b bbb bd bbbtetttrind ~ New SLIPCOVER A Collection of Those Hard-to-Find 223 ANN PV OV ITTV VIII ITI SII VIII TS | regular meeting Wednesday eve- | Lopez, William C. Henderson, ; ceremony was conducted by the Toward an Independerit Holy Land _ Agere creme Final plans for the partition of Palestine into independent Jewish and Arab states—developed after months of discussion in the Second General Assembly of the United Nations—are studied by delegates of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. From left to right, the delegates are David Horowitz; Emanuel Neumann; Dr. Zalman Lipschitz; Moshe Shertok, political department chief; and Dr. Nahum Goldman, Ten Members. es By Arthur Sawyer Post 'KEY WEST GUARD ———_ HONOR CONDUCTED! ¥¢#"s Eve patties at the Legion CEREMONY LAST EVE- wre NING AT HOME Ten new members were ; ceived into Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, American Legion, at the ,ed from the Key West Guard of | Honor. It was ‘Honor Guard had rendered final military rites at the funerals of | Mario Castro on November 29, and Eugene Wells on December 7, 1947. Commendation has been re- ; ceived from the Commanding Of- ficer of the Atlanta General Dis- tribution Depot, U. S. Army, At- lanta, Georgia, for the revererg and dignified manner in the Jock F.. Mittner, William W.j Came Ranors. for PEC Manto E were conducte y the Sestiay and: Requsin et caut he) Hanon Ghard: ThesHonor Guard participated in the recent Presi- dential visit to the city. Ivan. Baggeft,, campaign di- rector for the “March of Dimes” re- ning. Those received were Nor- man E. Riley, Stanley Hodes, Charles A. Pent, Lewis J. Wol-' j cott, Jr., Elio Bollo, Manuel M. ritual team of the Key West Guard of Honor. Jack A. Salinders, Post Serv- An excellent report was receiv- | ‘rangements had been completed ice Officer, announced that ar- for. the annual Christmas Party at the Naval. Hospital. The party will be held December 24, 1947, ave a resume of plans for the 1948 drive. mittee Kermit Richardson , was appointed chairman of the to work with! FABRICS for Your (MANY HAND-BLOCKED PRINTS) ‘Original GIFTS for YOUR HOUSE — THEIR HOUSE CAROLINE SHOP Corner of Ann and Caroline Streets RAA+ASAAAAAABASADAEADADAAAASDEAS* at 7 p. m. An excellent program of ‘entertainment has been pre- pared for the patients confined to the Hospital. This is an annual project of Arthur Sawyer Post. In addition Christmas gifts and cheer is taken to the inmates at the Monroe County Home. John O'Conner, chairman, house committee ated that a rangements had been completed {for gala Christmas Eve and New It ‘was announced that the D partment Mid-Winter Conferenc would be held in Tampa, ida, on January 17-18, 1948. Robert D. Smith, Chef de Gare, Locale 728, 40 and 8, gave a resume of the activities of the “wreck” to be held in the city this week-end. John Stout, Sons of the Legion Squadron, stated that the Squ ron conducts regular * meetin, each Monday evening. The first Monday of each month the meeting is held at the Legion Home, and the other meetings are held at 3625 Flagler avenue. The next regular meeting the Post is scheduled for Wed nesday, penuan ya 14, 1948. | PLYWOOD —— at TRUNK LUMBER YARD TELEPHONE 816 Zee nie pe with our DEPENDABLE FORD Brake Service | Monroe Motors, INC. L113 White Street PHONE 725 | eee PALACE THEATER Allan Lane and Bobby Blake in Marshall of Cripple. Creek News and Features verve rrr rrr rer ees 4) 4) gar = =60AN IDEAL S & DRAPERIES %* GET THE LATEST Guaranteed 24-Hour Formerly Al's 629 EATON STREET STREET LP OP POCO OC OCC COC CCC CC CCC ‘2 Flor- } of! e Key West Citize SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, THE 1947 u. S. A. ! ‘State Highway Officials Come Here Yesterday More than 400 members of the; Southeastern Association of State; | Highway Officials arrived in | West yesterday afternoon were taken on a sights through the city, members of the Commerce. The oficials came herve in eight buses furnished by Florida G: hound Lines, Ine. ries of private cars. They s ped at Pigeon Key for lunch the guests of Overseas Highway Bridge Commission. They all enjoyed the visit to Key West. Nearly all of them never before had been down here. They were loud in their praises of the highway bridges and of the sights they saw while !in Key West. Chambe r Xmas Activities Outlined By ARC Paul Sawyer, chairman of the Red Cr Community Service Committe: mnounces that the following Christmas activities have been planned members of the committee for patients at the U. S. Naval Hospital: December 11, the Douglas High Choral Group will present a Christmas concert sponsored by the Junior Red Cross. December ple of the First Congregational Church and the First Methodist Chureh will carol in the wards. December 19, the V.F.W. Aux- iliary will sponsor bingo parties in the wards. December 22, will be song fe: stated that the, and 23, in the wards, Hall with Helen McNeil, e | utive retary, will be the companist. Christmas Eve the patients will be entertained by the Amer ican Legion and on Christmas Day they will receive presents from the Rotary Club, the Wa man’s Club, the Lions Club, tir Jaycees and the Elks Club. The Officers’ Wives Club will be al the hospital from Decem ber 17 through December fur nishing gift wrapping to the patients. The La Concha Navy Wives Club will make 15 dozen home-made cookies provide gift-wrapping — service Dec. 11 through Dec. 1 The Junior Red Cross will as- sist in wrapping the Christmas. gifts as well as provide Christ andy cornicopias. SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS — i JUST RECEIVED THE NEWEST MODELS of MAJESTIC Mighty Monarch of the Air Wire Recorder-RADIO- Phonograph _seeaaaa—a Now On Display . CHR LIBERAL TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE (MAS. ar Ct a HITS ON RECORDS + Radio Repair Service Your Authorized MAJESTIC Dealer in Key Wes: AL’S MUSIC CO. Radio Service PHONE 1081 * CHARLES SMITH, LOCAL AGE! and in a se- 18, the young peo-' Ksociated Press Day Wire | Pfrervice and AP Features ‘or 67 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West e PRICE FIVE CENT: Barge Line Starts From Miami To Key West About Jan. 2 'T, SAYS TERMINAL WILL BE AT CLYDE-MALLORY DOCKS; COMPANY HEAD COMING The Miami-Key West Barge Lines, Inc., will begin operations | after January 2, it was announced today by Louis Berger, president of the company. Berger wired Charles Smith, who will act as agent at the port of Key West for the new service, that effective January 2 he had been granted a certificate to operate the line from here to Miami. Smith said he was not informed which agency granted the cer- | tific ate. It is known that Berger had appeared before the Interstate 4% ommerce Commission at Wash- ington and the state board han- \ dling such matters. | Berger said in his wire that he | was coming to Key West early |next week to confer with Smith and to set up his local organiza- tion to handle the freight destin- | ed for this city. i | Smith says he will need at least nine men to set up the lo- j| cal organization. At least three \clerks will be required, besides ‘the freight handlers and the warehouse men of the old Clyde- Mallory Docks, which will be the terminal of the new barge line. ,! The service is to be started by ‘ed using former government barges. \Each of the barges will carry uation, upwards of 200 tons of freight,’ with Russia is ill ten That’ and is handled by tugs. government | protested furs! They are expected to use the ther about alleged mistreatment inside passage from Key West to of Russians id the Miami, for the barges are of prote viewed } a pre- shallow draft that will permit liminary to Russia's declaring it them to use the intercoastal has broken off its military and ¢Ganal and the Gulf of Mexico. friendship pact with this coun-) ‘The rates to be charged by the try. ‘barge lines have not becca an- ; nounced, but Smith sa ey ‘will probably be low enough to HARRIS SCHOOL P.-T. A. weet conbeadaet He says the ' The P.-T.A. of the Harris ‘service will be much slower | School will present a Christmas than by truck and the rates will | variety show on Wednesday be considerably ‘beluw the regu- evening, December 17, at 7:30 Jar level. oI tuation In France Nearly Normal Today, (By Associ Dec. > working m actically back tkroughout France ed Press) norma announced ao well: Premier Schumann that the governmeni. w. pleased with the ind ation that ,in the ne the special. troops that had be called to duty, will be re to return to their hom But the diplomatic CHRISTMAS SHOW BY o'clock, in the — school !torium. The show will be direct there | ley, Mrs. Green of the Harris School faeylty. audi- j Seeks Divorce A petition secking a divorce | was filed, yypsterday with Circuit and ' Court kK. ‘Ross C. Sawyer by Children of the third) and t Carolyn ¥2) Elizabeth Hamilton ourth grades will take part in the show. | against Filton Grady ‘Hamilton Capt. Tou Is Elected - An Henorary Rotarian ROTARY CLUB HONORS#-—— FORMER COMMAND- ING OFFICER OF KEY WEST NAVAL BASE Harold A bership in the organization in appreciation ‘of the fine record he made while here. The Naval captain has promis- ed to do everything he can to help Key West in the futu President Edwin Trevor of the Rotary Club presented a report to the members of the visit here yesterday of 400 members of the South n Association of State Highway Officers. Then Horace O’Bryant, pal of Key West High School, introduced Director Earl Dillon of the High School Band and the members of the band. The band gave several selections, for which the Rotarians applauded yenerously Houser, officer Base Capt : of and commandi West N Washington former the Key in been of the Rotary Club, the membership voted at its in St Paul's Church Capt. Houser, son officer be Military Affairs the Navy, wa civie enterprice now made an honorary member princi luneheon today Parish Hall now 1 the mitter Jauded for hi Key West |. granted honorary mem liai Senate anc and was Southernmost we in U. 8. TWINS GARAGE | 1130 Deval Street Phone 160 duto Repairs, Painting, Body and Fender Work Geonine Auto Parts for All Cara Bahama Cocktail Lounge NOW OPEN Drink Your Cocktail to the Tune of NORMAN KRANICH His NIMBLE FINGERS Upon the Piano Will Make Your Evening Very Enjoyable BAHAMA COCKTAIL LOUNGE Your Host: AL (Let Em Live) GORDON 519 DUVAL STREET KEY WEST, FLORIDA STERLING'S F. Sterling, Manager 994 Fleming St. Phone 572 Please Place Your Order Early | for Your XMAS TURKEY |