The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1947, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average tange of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL, LXVIII. Ch Dr. Delio Cobo Is New President Of Cuban Club Group HE SUCCEEDS RAYMOND DELGADO; JUAN LO- In Germany ToBe Merged PRESIDENT Dr. BIDAULT OF FRANCE TO MEET WITH MARSHALL AND BEVIN WITH THAT OBJECT IN VIEW (By Axnociated Prenny No. 248 Delio Cobo was elected tthe year 1948 at a meeting held | last ‘night at the newly com- ipleted club rooms on Duval street. Dr. Cobo succeeds Ray- mond Delgado. Other officers were elected as | follows: Juan ‘Lopez, jdent; Vicente. | Vice president; first vice presi- Molina, second Julio Cabana, president of the Cuban Club for | LONDON, Dec. 16,—Foreign Minister Bidault of France has been invited by Secretary Mar- shall 1 Britain to join them in a merger of three of the four zones in Ger- many. The three ministers are to hold; a meeting tonight, and it was, said that Bidault is favorable to} the merger of the French zone} with the American and British 1 zones if France is granted cer- | &! tain concessions in Germany. He! : Esquinaldo, | of the United States andj nero, Abelai Foreign Minister Bevin of Great|Caraballo, Frank |Evelio Cabot Antonio Alonso, Adolfo Lopez, Mario Rios, Rai- jmundo Beire, and improved. destroyed by fire ten months jago. The front porch has been ; recording secretary. Directors elected were Enrique Jr. Antonio Sali- rdo Boza, Frank Canalejo, Sr., Jose Fernandez, and Benjamin Fernandez. The club has_ been enl It was partia iminated and closed in. A new and larger meeting and did not reveal what the conces-, 8eneral recreation hall has been sions are. The Western Bloc of nations is| {made on the second floor. It is planned to have a dance to merge their zones because of ,#d_ general house-warming par- the inability of their representa- | ¢: tives to come to an agreement} with Foreign Comissar Molotov of Russia, regarding German and Austrian reparations, Molotov ; - had insisted that Russia begin! now to collect reparations out of | current products in Germany and Austria, a proposal that neither } Marshall, ‘Bevin and Bidault} would countenance. Molotov is on his way to Mos- cow, but Marshall will not begin hi8geturn trip. to Washington! Thursday afternoon. He! fe confident Mat before his leaving, he and Bevin would; come to an understanding with! Bidault regarding the merging of; the zones. Mrs, Reynolds Died Last Night Mrs. Ida Reynolds. 71, widow | of George W. Reynolds, for} many years clery of the circuit | court, died last night in her resi-! dence, 1409 Reynolds avenue. | Funeral services will be held; Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, ' in St. Paul’s Church, where the | body will be placed at 2 p. m., Rev. James H. MacConnell will : officiate. Buria! will be in fam- | ily plot, City Cemetery. Lopez; Funeral Home is in charge of ar-: rangements. Survivors: Three nieces, Mrs. Margaret O’Brien, Mrs. Lillian Keene, and Mrs. Anne Thomas; | nephew, David O’Brien. Capt. and Mrs. Stuart Arrive y Friday night at the club. Teachers Due Monthly Pay July, August TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 16. — Common school teachers under contract or, entitled to contracts to teach, last summer are due monthly Salaries for last July and August, Attorney General J. Tom Watson has advised Colin English, state school superin- ‘ tendent. Under the new school law, says the attorney general, the teachers are to be paid for twelve full months, in which they teach ten. The legislature did not intend this summer pay and vacation period to be with- held from the teachers in the very first vacation period follow- ing passage of the school act, he said. Superintendent English had asked the attorney general's opinion in a salary case from Dade county, but Watson said his opinion applied to all coun- ties. . The state began making its payments to the counties under the new school law in July, and have continued to remit each month since that time. Army, Airforce Recruiters Here The U. S. Army and U. S. | { | | Air Force Recruiting Service an- ! nounced today that Ist Sgt. Burt have arrived at their home, 625 | Dallas ene Bion pierre eee Eaton street, from Washington, ' ley of ns realiet petals for the winter. Their daughter, ! Se oie RE, eves Mrs. Cooper C. Lightbown, and) ‘os! feed OU a : granddaughter, Carol, are staying | Gada ough Friday, December with them. ; { 17-1 Mrs. William McKillip, Mr. ' Odes T. Pogue, and Mrs. Peter Brown, of St. visiting Captain and Mr: Mrs. Pogue and Mrs. Brown, nee, McKillip, are sisters of Mr: Stuart. Eric G. Curry Captain D. H. Stuart, U. S. Navy (retired), and Mrs. Stuart, Starting at 10 a. m., on the morning of the 17th, pales a ill answer all ques- tersburg, are. and Mosley wil es a Ms 5 Suit, tions pertaining to army and air- force recruiting. An Old Gun Kills Boy, 12 LEECHBURG, Pa. — While | playing with a century-old shot- : ifie | gun, from which his grandfather Certified had never been able to extricate Public Accountant (a shell, Russell Bills, 14, and his « SYSTEMS - TAXES) brother, David, 12, went into a avaN? | darkened room so they could ‘watch the flash. When Russell Announces | switched on the lights, he found | David dead. The old charge had NEW OFFICE ®t. 58 LOCATION UPSON BOARD 524 SOUTHARD STREET} salen T: Phone 1368. | STRUNK LUMBER YARD oe O° | | | | i | | P: Coast Plains Of Palestine Scene of Fight JEWS AND ARABS, FULLY ARMED, BATTLING NORTH OF TEL-AVIV; JEWS HAVE UPPER HAND | (By The Axsocinted Preas) JERUSALEM, Dec. 16.—Con- jtingents of Jews and‘Arabs, fully jarmed, are fighting a battle on ithe coastal plains of Palestine, | it was reported here this after- | noon. i It was added that the Jews are getting the better of the' fight. The report said that the: Jews had surrounded the Arabs, who have taken refuge in a! long string of buildings north of Tel-Aviv. Number of the casualties has not been reported. Jews are pouring shot into the houses, but the Arabs are still returning the fire. The report did not say wheth- | er or not British troops had taken action to try: to stop the clash. The only announcement made by headquarters of the British command was that. up to today, 253 Jews and Arabs had been killed since the action of the United Nations to partition Palestine. I Appelrouth Dies Suddenly Isadore Appelrouth. pro- Prietor of the Store of Fash- ion, died of a heart attack at 2:40 o'clock this. afternoon while upstairs over the store. He had a heart attack about @ year ago, but aparently had recovered. He had no warning of the attack, that tock his life this afternoon. Mr. “Appelrouth had been in. Key West in business for many years, and was among the leading drygoods mer- chants in Key West. é No funeral arrangements have yet been made. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jennie Appel- routh and four children, Triggerless Gun Wounds Youth NEW YORK.—Robert Harriott, 15, accomplished the almost im- | Po: le when he shot him ‘accidentally with an old 32 {ber revolver that lacked both a| { trigger and hammer - spring. Tired of pointing the weapon and yelling bang, the boy placed a rubber band on the hammer to give it some spring, then snap- bed it at his chest several times. One chamber of the gun was loaded and the boy was wounded in the che; Property Sales Herman M._ Holtsberg wife transferred two properties, one at Waddell and Alberta streets, and the others at Wad- idell_ and William streets, for | $10,500, according to warranty | deeds filed yesterday with Cir-| cuit Court Ross C. Sawyer. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Moylen, y transferred property on C y Key to Treva Estes, for $1,300. Vernallis T. DiNegro and hus- band transferred to Claude Salis property near Southard and | Fri streets, for $250. Octavio Lacedonia transferred to Julio Lacedonia property on Big Pine Key for a nominal sun. Clara L. Russell and husband | and | | husband property on Matecumbe Key for a nominal sum Ap ply To Wed a marriage rday with An application for license was filed County Judge Raymond R. Lord by Hugh H. Sanders, 21, of Thayer, Mo., and Irma M. Sands, 20, of 2746 Saples Ave. SANDY ‘araballo DY'S GARAGE Next to La Concha Hotel 404 Duval Street Phone 501 No Service too Complicated Flats Fixed to Complete Overhaul ES Oo, hl IOV IVI IVI III IIR LIVI IVT OS NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1947 =a Barges Yyyf YY On Ja DENT OF BARGE SYS.) TEM, SAYS RATES TO, BE LOWER The first consignment of gen- ‘eral freight for Key West will reach the city January 3 by way jof the Miami-Key West Barge Lines, Inc. i This announcement was made} \here this morning by Louis Berg- er, Miami, president of the com- NO AY Mexieo is a land of contrasts, from the influences of its ancient Indian cultures to its Twentieth Century democracy, from its tropical states to its mountainous pla- teau, from its tremendous mineral output to its still developing farm land. At the center of its great central plateau is the PaciriG OCEAN > Key West Citize SOUTHERNMOST Arriving Here nuary 3 Husband’s Arrest Caused Her Death PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Five hours after her husband had been held without bail on a charge of arson, Mrs. Celeste Millarg, frail, 22-year-old wife, collapsed and died in a living om chair, where she had been itting without speaking after returning from her husband's ing in police court. beautiful capital, Mexico City, which surveys a country that pro- duces everything from gold to oil, from handicraft products to great paintings. Her 22,000,000 people share an area of 760,000 miles, which touches on both the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, the United States and the heart of Central America, Her permanent representative at the U.N. Headquarters is Luis Padilla Nervo. Her flag kes vertical green, white and red stripes with a centered crest. SEVERAL ORDINANCES TO [BE CONSIDERED TONIGHT AT COMMISSION MEETING A Resolution Appointing* Victor Lowe City Clerk Pleads Guilty Will Be Taken Up At To Driving Drunk Session James R. Stock pleaded guilty in’ Criminal Court today to a charge of driving while intoxi- cated and was fined $75 and Several new ordinances and resolutions will be introduced for discussion at tie meeting tonight pany, who also said the firm has} ae six barges and two tugs to go‘ company, on a visit this morn- into regular service between Key ! ing to the office of Comdr. F. M. West and Miami. Berger added that the rates of the would be considerably lower | the Navy here than the truck rates from Miami; Smith said they discussed the to Key West and that they | question of carrying freight for i . poe pene) NAVY: would cover the cost of delivery "hie Navy ran its own barge C2 We IGE Ue Say Weds [line from. Miami to Key West “We have a certificate to be-' until June 30, 1946, then disco: gin operation on January 2 tinued it. Bi worked at the {from the Interstate Commerce Miami terminal of the N 1 Commission,” said Berger. “We operation and conceived the ide: will operate under strict rules of operating an independent and regulations of the ICC. Our ba line between the two rates will be lower than the usual rates paid for freight de- livered in Key West. “The rates will be low enough to compensate for the delivery of freight in Key West or Miami. We will not handle the delivery of freight, but the handling charges will be covered by the rates.” Berger was accompanied by Charles Smith, local agent of . supply Department of The barge line will have its terminal at the old Clyde-Mal lory docks lying betw ter dock and the Navy B: Ba be hauled b; the inland wate 3ahia Honda, and thence Gulf of Mex Por- The tugs far a in the | West. Other officers of the barge company are Fred F. Cain, | Ramsey, USN, operations officer | as | co to Key! at 8 o'clock of the City Commis- sion. Due these: : A resolution appointing Victor Lowe as City Clerk. A resolution providing for the payment of a total of $19,710 in interest on the 1938 and 1943 refunding bonds, which is due January 1. An ordinance fixing the terms of operation of travel bureaus for consideration are Jin Key West. An ordinance providing that costs shall hereafter be collect- ed in City Court. An ordinance making Windsor To Entertain Children At Park Christmas Party BEX YOUNGSTERS TO HONORED AT YULE- TIDE AFFAIR; EACH. TO GET GIFTS the barge line, and by Fred Dew- hurst, traffic manager of the costs by Judge Thomas S. Caro. Edward B.. Wright pleaded guilty to driving without a driv- er’s license, and was fined $1 and costs. vay street, with the in the south- lane a one traffic traveling easterly direction. An ordinance declaring Eliza- beth street between Angela and Division streets to be a one-way street, with traffic moving on a northwesterly direction. An ordinance providing for no parking in Windsor lane and Elizabeth streets. ! SENTATIVE GAVE RE- PORT OF ACTIVITIE AT MEETING Thirteen agencies were repre sented at the luncheon meetin of the Council of Social Agenc Friday. Chairman George M iils White called upon a representa tive from each group to report activities of the — preceding month. F. W. Eddy, director of the USO, announced the closing of that organization as of December Burglars Enter . , oC 121, 1947, to which the public is Milton S Store| invites He also advised that the Jactivities of the organization Burglars who entered Milton’s} would continue — under the * aground on treasurer, and Nelson H. Hunt ley, secretary. )13. Agencies Represented At Social Council Meet EACH AGENCY REPRE-* Relief Leaves To Aid Sister SS Relief, a s: > tug, for Jamaica late Monday, v she will make an effort to re float the tug Killerig which went Moron Point some time ago. The Relief and the Killerig are both the property of the Merritt Chapman poration The tug Willet, the same company, Boston, Mas: dismantled ful ty the left Scott tlso owned by hes gone to , where she is to be A new, more power has been purchased from Navy by the company have received from other agen Victor Lowe, program chair- man of the Christmas Tree Fund, | last night stole jewelry valued stated today that the annual at about $300, according to a re- Jewelry Store on Duval street | YMCA, effective January 1 | 1948. ' Father Johnson in reportin, s}cies in th city in thir we Miss Green, of Wesley announced that Christmas ork, ‘ Hou plan |House, where gifts and a little noon. transferred to Rosalie Pinder and |p the varied program for all age groups at the Catholic Com munity Center, estimated that between 12,000 and 15,000 people use the building each month Mrs. Helen McNeil, executive secretary of the American Red sf reported that approxi spent by ting were on Christmas Tree party for chil-' dren of the city would be held; this Saturday morning at Bay- view Park. port submitted to police today. Entrance was gained to the store by way of a rear window. The owner of the store had not reported what jewelry had been | and oranges and will be able to stolen at edition time. listen to the High School Band — ae = and the High School Glee Club. ready cash will be distributed y Both of these groups will be on, among the residents of the home. | that organization in hand to entertain the children. | The colored children of Key fishermen whose — boats On Christmas Eve, baskets of West will likewise hold their |@amaged in the freak torm 0 food will be given to the less, Christmas Tree program at the | November 8, 1947, and the fish fortunate of the city and also a Douglass School immediately af-|etmen whose nets were burned visit will be made to the Poor ter school this Friday after-| in a fire in Marathon October 25, | ! Mrs. Ruth Lange, supervisor |of the State Welfare Board, ad- | vised that there were 700 act in Me county 9,000 in grants. Jane Whidden of the City Each child will be given candy ely $10,000 is being l bbb b bab babbebrbnbndndndn bn bnrdnbntntndndndnintndndnbntnd, FABRICS for Your New SLIPCOVERS & DRAPERIES (MANY HAND-BLOCKED PRINTS) Onna! OCTETS jr A Collection of Those Ori, YOUR HOUSE — THEIR HOUSE CAROLINE SHOP 223 ANN STREET Corner of Ann and Caroline Streets recetv- department is bus for the Community Party for children y Adams, attendance and Mr. Anheir, Veterans , both spoke — of cooperation they PALACE THEATER Paul Kelly and Adrian Booth in “Spoilers of the North” News and Features TONIGHT IS PRIZE NIGHT mee eeeeeeeeesessesssssoseseene aad were under w ind that religious pictures which the sponsoring at Division would continue after ay the the Avs, man Nyberg, W of the VEW. work of that group. of the — Municipal tressed the — nece various organizations who must © funds for thew work in co operation in order that there be no overlapy date chosen for ti “n Others who attended the m fare Chait reported the Miss Hartel Hospital, ity for the ie in the campe ; Mi SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS ervice and AP Features 7 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West Going Higher And Higher SPEAKER SAYS SHIPMENTS OF RELIEF SUPPLIES OVER- SEAS TO SPIRAL COST OF LIVING ! i (By Associatea Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, — |Food prices still are incréasing and will go still higher as soon | as overseas shipments of emerg- ency supplies begin in large i volume, a Republican spokesman ' said this afternoon. | He stated that the emergency | relief programs, with the gov- ;ernment purchasing tens of mil- lions of dollars of commodi- j ties, will result in the spiraling jof the prices of foodstuffs at j home. He added that it was an ‘y matter for Americans to un- lerstand that the greater the ; Volume of supplies taken out of j the American market for foreign ‘shipment the more pronounced would be the tendency for prices , to increase in the United States. | Since 1945, he explained, the cost of living in this country has gone up $400 a year for a family {of four, with almost all of the increase going for food. irvey made in 34 major cities in the United States of American families, each with an income of from $3,000 to $3,300, showed an increase in the c of living of 33 per cent. Three Saved Bui ektews Dies UNIONTOWN, Pa—Left. at home with his four brothers and sisters while his parents were away, Otto Fitzsimmons, 8, was j able to help thxee sof the chil- ‘dren escape from their’ burning j house efter the kitchen oil stove j exploded, but he ‘eould not find his three-year-old brother, Er- !vin, who was burned to death His body, wa§ found under the kitchen sink, where he ap - ently had sought refuge , the flame: : s Three, Forgets One BREWERTON, N. Y.-—Louise Redhead, 14, was left in charge of the children of Mr. and M Floyd Frye, Sr., while they were visiting a daughter, Julia, 6, in a hospital. Discovering flames shooting from a living room heater, Louise | grabbed the children and ran to the home of a neighbor, fi t- ting a 2-year-old boy > in a bedroom. The parents, bearing the siren, rushed home and ca ried the child from the burnt -building, but he died en row to a hospital 4 Cooperation In This Family TORONTO.—Two siste: | Thomas Snowden and M n, had daughters | to them within two hours at t | different hospitals 0 Steven! ‘with our DEPENDABLE FORD Brake Service onroe Motors 1113 White Street PHONE 725