The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1947, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with. an average tdnge of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXVIII. No. 258 8,300 NAVAL MEN HERE NEXT MON 8 THE Ireds SES 5 | | | | | | | | Hotel and virtually hotel in the city reported rooms well filled with and visitors. There were a number of prom inent perens mend the list of vieitere William 1. White. of William Allen White ugene Lyons, well-known "i Gen Ales ander Barmine, formerly of Rv sia, were among those in the city. White, Lyons and mine called upon Lee dard, executive secret City Civil Servier Be Mrs. Goddard at th 417 Mnited street, White has been v 2h ter, who lives in Holly lly oe came down for» day or. two, Whité went th Rusta same time ago with a groun that inelided Eric Johnston, formerly dent of the United St 1 her of Commerre, White ic a roving\reporter for the Read er’s Digest. Gen. Rarmine, who property in Grinnell near South ard street, was author of the hook. “One Who Survived" fol ving his flieht rom Furene je ahead of the an squads of the Soviet government Lyons is now working “Life of Herbert Hoover.” author of “Utopia and books. son of Kan Gen. Re H. Goa- v of the and Rus on the He is other to VISITING THE FELTONS Me. and Mra. J. B. Morton, of pa, and their son-in-law and wghter, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mager, of Chicago, are visiting nd Mrs. Merrill Felton of Lowe's lane. County Commission Will Hold Meeting Late Today AN INFORMAL*® SION THIS MORN- ING ON SE ROE, COUNTY BEACIL County Commission will w meeting later to bids for the purch Jation of about 100. se in Cir- cuit Court room in the County building, Chairman Frank Bent- ley announced earlier today. The commission members, Bentley, Gerald Saunders, Clar- ence Higgs, Eduardo Gomez and W. A. Parrish held an informal } (STRUNK LUMBER YARD TELEPHONE 816 aT Many Noted Names maa Seaeete-at ‘Toll Of Dead Hotels Throughout City! ° Well Filled In Palestine Nearly every room 2 $3 West available to tour has been invaded by the biggest in-! Fighting, 424 flux of visitors ever to reach the | te) city this early in the season, a! survey made today showed. pA WELVED ARABS: EWOPERIT. Cars from about every state in! ISH SOLDIERS, ONE JEW the nation have been pouring in! to Key West ever since Christmas| DIE TODAY WHEN JEWS Day, and today virtually ail the! ATTACK ARAB BUS rooms and cottages usually al- loted to as taken (ity ‘The Axavetated Pres . La Coneha| JERUSALEM, Dee. 29.—The every ether! toll of dead in Palestine, as a re- their! sult of clashes betweén Jews and tourists | Arabs, still continue to increase. |It was reported today that the ‘number totals 424 since Novem- ‘ber 29, the date the United Na- tions decided to divide Palestine between Jews apd Arabs. Jews and Arabs have engag- ' ed in several gun skirmishes to- day, the worst of which occur- red near the Damascus gate. At the gate was a bus occu- pied by Arabs, and a passing au- | tomobile, occupied by Jews, opened fire on the bus. Arabs in! other cars gave chase, with Bri-, tish soldiers trying to break up the running fight. By the time it had ended, 12 Arabs, two Br tialg goldigse and a- Jew — were dead. ¢ Sree ow ~” Commission To Name City Mer ame City Mer. r ° Tomorrow Night At special meeting of the City Commission tomorrow night it is expected the new city manager, who is slated to be Captain Ralph D. Spalding, USN (Ret.) will be named. Captain Spalding is due take office on January 1. The commission will also con- sider several ordinances and r solutions, One of the ordinances to be considered is one that would tax every package of cig- arettes sold in Key West. three cents a package. 2 HELD meeting this morning on the site of the new county beach at West >; OF MON.| Martello Tower. There had been some discus- sion about changing the plans and the contract held by Charles Toppino and Sons to build a swimming pool instead of Jay- ing the sand on the beach. It was finally decided to Iet the work go ahead as it is. hold Pine Flooring —— ah PRESCRIPTIONS trevcatcoce wedienta | Compounded by expe 4enced | Pharmacists » Dp iv o GARDNER'S PHARMACY (EQUIPMENT At A_ BIG 1114 Division St. Cor. Varela | SAVI Nearly All) New Phone 177 Fi Delivery | | 8-ft. refrigerated display cabinet 1 R. C. Allen combination adding machine and cash register ;1 detectogram computing scale BATTERIES CHARGED 1 reseiable try seals The Modern Way 1 re x14” shelves and other Drive in, in 30 to 45 minutes and! 97 Pen your car can be on its war! | Callat REID'S GROCERY Lou Smith AUTO SERVICE| 130 Duval Street Phone No.$ White at Fleming,or At 1020 Georgia Street Bi poe Undecided | Where Vittorio Emanuel Will Be Interred * PROBABILITY IS DIED IN EXILE VICTOR EMMANUEL IL Free Mail For Gls Will End On New Year’s SOUTHERNMOST N KEY WEST, FLORIDA, i WILL; BE BURIED IN ALEX-; ANDRIA WHERE HE, DIED YESTERDAY | (By ‘The Aawocinted Prenad 1 ROME, Dec. 29.—Funeral ser- ! vices for Vittorio Emanule, III, | Ita king for 46 yea who } died yesterday in a hospital in Alexandria, Egypt. have not yet | been completed. Neither has - it been decided whether or not his body will be brought to Italy or be buried in Egypt. It vices will held be tomorrow morning in Alexandria, and that! the probability is he will be bu- | ried in Egypt. Former Queen the bedside when the former monarch died, but his son, Um berto, who served for one month after his father’s abdication 1946 was in Lisbon, and arrang- ed immediately to go to Alexan- dria to arrange for the funeral. Umberto Jeft Italy when the Italians voted down the mon archy. Dwarfed in the later years of Elena was at was said that funeral ser-} E w SPAPER IN MONDAY, DECEMBER WAR IN SELF DE) dines in an ante room of the aggresive war as early as 192! Friday and defiantly declared defense. inj - |Congressman Seribner his reign by the advent to power of his colorful and dynamic pre- micr, Mussolini, Victor Emmanuel ILI of Italy, though never such an outstanding figure as the ex-Kai- !ser of the perfect constitutional men- CHANGE WILL RESULT IN arch, whole-heartedly devoted to DECIDED INCREASE POSTAL RECEIPTS (By The Axssocinted Press) WASHINGTON, The privilege of United States arm- ed service IN Dee, 2! personnel at Midnight the Post Office de- partment announced today. Since the franking order went into effect in March, department five billion pieces of 1 been handled free of ch the department for GIs. But beginning on New Yeut's Day, Gls to stamps for their personal mail. their mail ends Wednesday, stated, more than! 1 rge by has | will have buy Postmaster Hollon R. Bervaldi said today that his office has handled hundreds of thousands of pieces of franked mail since | went into effect. He | the order said further the discontinuance tice of free personal mail for men in the armed services, the postal receipts in the Key West office will greatly increase. that, as a result of of he prac- | Property Sales Julius Brown and transferred a property ler avenue some distance from White street to Hyman Altman, 1324-A Seminary street for 300, according to warranty deed filed’ Saturday with Cir- cuit Court Clerk Ross C. yer. M. Louis Curry transferred to Susie A. Gardner a property on Key Largo for a nominal sum Le ead BRADY'S | ——for CHOICE POULTRY 1214 White Street hoes: eal POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Division at Francis Phone elst) CHAMPION Outboard Motors $127.00 Rn es reed | 4 franking* others } on Flag. | Saw- | i ‘when, Black Shirts’ | \of royal decrees which that ener getic |him—even the one the wellbeing of his people and devoid of any desire to mix in politics. His position as king he once defined as that of “permanent undersecretary to successive. pre miers.” By that he meant that he wai always available to the spokes- men of the people, picked from their parilament, for consulta- tion and advice based on his long experience, knowledge of — his- torical precedents and the like. | ties. he did not venture to go. | He was severely criticized under the menace of the, march on Rome in| October, 1922, he hastily sum-} moned Mussolini to form a cab-! inet and thereafter signed with} apparent meckness the long roll) statesman placed before, giving the! grand council of the fascist party | the right to pass on the all-im-; portant question of succession to’ the throne. But his defenders. and thev! were many, argued that he yield-! ed to Il Duce beeause he was! normally convinced that the, Sstern discipline of fascism was! the one thing Italy most needed, at the time. Moreover. he was running true to the traditions of his house in doing everything possible to avoid civil war and bloodshed. even at the cost of, apparent loss of personal pres- tige. ' Although he made a number of surrenders to Mussolini in po-| litical matters. King Victor could on oceasion, show great military and civic courage. He was pecially brave when a bomb was, (Continued On Page Eight) st ‘Groceries at Cost or the late Edward VII of}, ‘AL POSTMASTER SAYS England, was a living é@Xaiple ~ NAVARRO, Inc. MEMBER OF CON SIGNAL NAVAL AP- PRUPRIATIONS UNIT DUE TOMORROW Congressman Exrett P. ner, who-is,a mentier of the Na val Sub-Comimittée of Appropri- ations, will grrive in Key West tomorrow to “atake an inspection | of the Key West Naval Base, it was announced today at the base. Representative Scribner arrive here by airplane, and will be West ranking manding officer of — Key i Naval Base and other ‘officers of the base here. It is reported that Represen- ! tative Scribner has under con- 29, sRES Serib- | met at Boca Chica Field by; 1942, the Beyond that ,in the ficld of poli-| Capt. Cecil C. Adell, USN, com- THE 1947 U.S. AL FENSE, SAYS TOJO HIDEKI TOJO, premier of Japan at the time of Pearl Harbor, International War Crimes Trial court at Tokyo in the trial of himself and 24 other Japanese political and military leaders charged with conspiring to wage 9. Tojo took the witness siand Japan fought the war in self- To Inspect Naval Ba Civil Service Bd. | Meets Late Today Annual report of the Civil ‘Service Board is expected to be | 'made at a meeting of the group this afternoon, Lee H. Goddard, | executive secretary, said during the forenoon. 1 Several appointments have to be approved board will also by the will, Beginning A New AP Newsfeaiures Serial Story WHITE FOR A SHROUD By DON CAMERON sideration the appropriation cov- Key West Naval Base year. ering the for next He will find a more men on duty were attached to the Key West Naval Base a year Six of- ‘ficers and 25 men have already ben sent here to become instruc- tors in the new Advanced Un- Iderseas Weapons School, which was moved here from New Lon- don, Conn. It has been learned that the congressman is also interested in the former German U-Boat, the JSS U which is now sta- tioned in the Submarine Base First Wante acl MEC MANIC GOOD PAY - STEADY JOB TO RIGHT MAN Opposite Bus Station great many here than ago. Reid’s Grocery 130 DUVA Will Sell Our IL, STREET Entire Stock of APLE and FANCY GROCERIES AT COST Beginning 9:00 A.! Tuesday and Wednesd: .M. TOMORROW. lay, Dec. 30th and 31st This Is Your Chance to Stock-Up At A Sig Saving i} i i That “murder will out” was never so dramatically por- trayed as in this tense story of death during a blizzard. The frayed nerves of Red Rock citizens are almost shattered as the blinding show makes the town... WHITE FOR |A SHROUD Starting Today in The Citizen Ve bhd dt ttt) i 1 t \ j | !in New Jer: Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 67 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CEN}: H Nine Ships To Arrive In Key West, Adding 2,500 Officers, Men —-*WILL BE PUT THROUGH | SPECIAL COURSE OF New Cold Wave ‘TRAINING WHILE AS- Hits In Upper SIGNED HERE Middle West: i ly next month NEW YORK STILL DIGGING OUT OF RECORD SHOW-| FALL; NUMBER OF DEAD; FROM STORM SET AT 70 (iy Associated Prens) WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. upper midwest is in for another , the Weather Bureau announced today, with the mer- the te Naval Base will be expan ,ded to approximately 8,300 offi | cers and men, it was announced today at the Base. Nine destroyers Key and destroye ‘escorts and one larger vessel art | scheduled to arrive here with an additional 2,500 officers ;men and will remain in —The. West undergoing — training development Arrival of the nine bring to approximately vessels of all kinds, cury going down to zero or be-| destroyers, de submarines, and smaller ve The cold wave is now , ; : iin North ! iu os are now in Key Wet Nava Ke and ships will 35 Naval including escort cold spell, low zero. centered northwest Dakgta. Meanwhile, New York City still digging out of Friday's vec- ord Traffic in Manhat tan and Brooklyn has almost re- turned to normal, but the Long , Island Railroad is still behind + with most of its trains. thousand away the Greater New York, and the job is finished it mated that it will shave cost be tween $3 and $4 million. Seventy deaths have been traced to the sto: including 31 in New York | chusetts. eee are ne about 9.900 0) ficers and men permanently signed to Key West. Then the ,are to be about 300 officer }men who are coming to the Advanced Underseas —Weapor 1001, which is shortly movin here from New London, Conn The officers and men of ships will put their vessels th a special training course, prin jeipally to study anti-submariw when ' warfare. It is expected when these ships leave here other will be assigned to the area tor training. snowfall. un schedule the Twenty clearing men ar snow in is esti- Local Boys See Biscaml Seca Documents On: ortugal Sentences | Freedom Train Cambado Bandits, seoursaster tony mariner SRGRTON. Donn Avs ITroop No. 253, Scouts P. Seniences ranging fro a fou , Braun, Gilbert Gates and Is montis’ imprisonine Al Gy ADEE, Ce) fh years’ and 28 years’ banis hment ; Moore and Sea Scout Bob were passed on the main prison- {Braun were in Miami to vic crs in the mags trial of bandits ‘the historic documents disp! concerned “in, last year's Cam-{e@ on the Freedom Train. Joi bodo battle with Portuguese | in& the line of thousands, thy trops. {waited four hours, but The Spaniard Demeirio Garcia the seeds of American Freed: Alvarez received 10 years follow. | repaid them they said. fo ed by 12 years’ banishinent, with | discomfort. in. waiting [1 the alternative of 28 years’ ban-jturn in line ishment. Among hte As he is Spanish, and stated | played were during the trial that he belonged | Independence, to a band of anti-Franco gucril- | Rishts, The las, he is faced with the dilemma | of having to return to Spain to! stand trial there. the ! documents The Declaration + The sill agna Carta, ‘Tl Gettysburg — Addie of the United ; Lincoln The Charter N of Na u today a after ecm r b. The other Spaniards have been | Hons and the League exile. the train included the S. II hower’s personal five-star fla |fkag flown by Commodore P< Southard streets. Fand Shima Jima Flag a test showed the fire alarm |General Washington's account said Chief Torres, “It may have | President: Truman ammemmmmm, PALACE THEATER sentenced to banishment without | #9ns, The Unconditional: choice and the Portuguese Silvino! render Paper of Germany Sixteen were acquitted jE. F. (Supreme Headquarte Ses | Allied Expeditionary Foree False Alarm Is the flag flown on the Ll souri in Tokyo Bay on the Shortly 7 am j when he visited the Japane false alarm sounded from lIslands to open them to t Fire Chief Leroy Torves says The boys got a thrill on the alarm did not come in from! Paul Revere’s commission a system was O. K., the Chief | the situation at Valley Forge said. \the proclamation of the Phil been caused by falling limb, | — though.” DEANNA DURBIN in Lest YouForget! “14. ne yours: Joae Domingues to four years'{ Japan. The Flags on display {General of the Armies Eisen Sounded Tod ‘ | SOUNTEE LOTAY | oF the sapancse Surrende: Box 22, which is at Thomas and j world for trade, the Iwo Ji the box or by telephone. Later} messenger for the Colonial : “It's just one of those thir ij pine Independence, signed News and Features | We Still Serve the Finest and Only Charcoal Broiled Steaks In Town WEAVERS STOCK ISLAND SEALED BEAM HEADLIGHTS ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS 121 Duval Street wrome 520 (2 ee