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Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Ch DEPARTMENT ACHESON, WEBB HEAD § { t | t *(&) Wirephotos ! DEAN ACHESON (left), was siappelaved Secretary of State Fri- day efter the resignation of Secretary George C. Marshall. James E. Webb (right), Director of the Budget. was appointed Under- secretary of State to succeed Robert A. Lovett, resigned. The appointments were announced in Washington by Presi- dent Truman at a press conference. Webb is from Oxford, N.C. DEFINITE ACTION TO BRING PEACE TO CHINA TAKEN TODAY So Nanking Reports; Said Further U, S., No formal cai incement by j the Nationalist government was i made Moaestei the report | was neither affirmed nor ‘de-! nied, but the opinion was ente! tained among foreign observers , that it was true. | (Shanghai echoed ment regarding the message from there said that, vid further that Chiang “fervent hope” was entertained ; k intended to appeal to’ that peace was near at hand, be-! ted States, Great Britain’ cause of the dire plight of refu- | nee to act as mediators in’ gees that had arrived in that city. France ’ —Definite taken by the Na- nment to come to with the commun- eported here today as been that senti- report. A gove on which to A city council spokesman said h pence { that thissweek 800: refugees -had sch @ Move was under- been found dead in Shanghai viieated at noon today streets either of. starvation or winists who were at- Tientsin. Their com. ¢*Pesure, and that, during the tan order to cease las month, the dead found in the that had been streets totaled 3,000). i COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THURSDAY NIGHT AWARD INSURANCE TO ONE CO. ee of the south front grounds er Kry fT THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER INz KEY WEST. FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1949 Describes New Treasury erves In Patrol ‘That Tracks Foreign Secretary Bevin So Corce: | | $20 Note | LONDON, Jna. 8.—Great Britain's foreign office announced to- | One of thé planes came down in flamés, and its pilot was killed: j Federal Reserve notes of the $20. edi thai Wal cAviv. cofficiels wad J ewish Pilots Shoot Down e e.e ina 3 4 ; 4°: 3 Five British Planes’ While - 4 a 5 , Over Egyptian Te About Situation He Remains In His London Of fice (By The Associated Press) PC ee ey lee | day that Jewish fighter pilots had shot down five British Royal! | peelnlite em i WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The| a ae while they were on reconnoitering flights over! ' Secretary of the Treasury has re=, 27%. : leased the following information Ipformaiion has not yet been received here about what happened to! relative toa change in the en- the other four pilots. » graving on the reverse side of ‘he British spokesman’ declaré | denomination; | Secretary Snyder announced admitted that two British planes ;that the Bureau of Engraving had been shot down, though no land Printing has begun produc. Teason for the shooting was j ing Federal Reserve notes of $20. 8!¥¢" ee « |denomination bearing a new en- _ Foreign Minister Ernst, Bevin Herricanes { jgraving of the White House on Considered the situation so seri = ' ous he stated that he would res {main in‘his office over the cae end, instead of going to his coun- of the White House. south front Hee place, as had been his prac- | | the reverse side. The new en- (Special fo The Cltizen) ‘ graving was made from a photo- ; GREAT LAKES, Ill, Jan. 8.—} Edward L. Nance, aviation chief! i oe an on NE ‘ Associated Press Day Wire, Features ana Photo Services For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS ATOR rn for several days became | i quiet. | t | change tof 1929. | Visible windows could be clearly | foliage. land grounds of 1929. | Federal Reserve banks will be | j supplied from time to time as production of the new notes per- mits, and as a carryover stock of notes of the 1929 design is re- duced. | The Secretary of the Treasury | is authorized by law to determine the “form and tenor” Reserve notes, and it was in exercise of this descretion Secretary Snyder in the $20. note an- nounced today. It is believed the public will find the new note mere attractive artistically, as well as more acceptable _up-to- date in its White House Port: ture. Various structure altera- tions and modifications of the grounds are evident from exam- ination of the new engraving in comparison with the sion. of Federal the that approved the The 1929 ver- | - FARMER IN TOP-HAT TURNS GOVERNOR t The structural changes include a, baleony -added-to--the south portico at the second floor level and the four chimneys of the present time in place of the two! Individual panes of all discerned in the 1929 design, but} in the new engraving the bottom i I 1 portions of the windows are of} solid colors, giving the impres- sion that they are open. 1 The grounds are a deeper green in the new design, due to the presence of additional trees and shrubbery and to heavier The White House in the engraving, whereas in the! 1929 portrait it blew straight out. | flag | hangs at an angle from its ae | | s » ———___—___—_—_-——- | Lettering beneath the building | Vote Stood Three To # has been changed fram "White we tia G : Police A | ] ; D House” to * ‘The White House.” two tow Giving Potiey “A Rundown Deer "the desien tor the tron of the' rf 815.000 To Key SUTTON, N. D.—UP)—Most| pete remains. une anged. West Insurance Co, North Dakota hunters kill their ty Commissioners deer by the conventional method Temperatures with a gun. But not Kenneth ted to carry the Leininger of Sutton At 7:30 A.M, EST ge on the He was enroute to a friends |—=-—_—_—$—_$_—_—_—>—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—">"~ t the Key home ina nearby town to pick up! — Station— Ti ! pany instead 4 tifle on the opening day of the | Atlanta ' eason when a deer suddenly | Augusta ! jong the sc eompered in front of his car. | Billings mpanies ~The deer slipped on the icy ! Birmingham the last county | road. Leininger’s car also slip- ' Bismark ped, plunging into the animal.1 Boston sompted by Leininger whisked out a hunting | Buffalo is knife and slit the deer’s throat. | Charleston the board _ ; Chicago tative Bernie C.) of the business as had been the! Corpus Christi x Collector procedure in the immediate past.| Denver erators of the “Mr Wilson told the board that | Detroit mace Company at the present time the Porter} El Paso the insurance ON Alien Company carried a larger | Ft. Worth ted $45,000 percentage of the City of Key | Galveston $15,000 each were West's business than his firm and | Jacksonville t vunty clerk fo. this reason he thought that| Kansas City the county the Key West Insurance company | KEY WEST should carry the bulk of the| Key West Airport Pay wested County's busines |Los Angeles ming year all“ Replying to Mr. Wilson. Mr. ; Louisville vip Freeman informed Mr. Wilson Meridian . ne many that the Key West Insurance | Miami ; ter sat ON Company was now carrying all ineapolis rd operated of The City Electric Syste . ‘ urance business, which sys ir Pag hh wned by the City of Key!New York Mr. Papy that west ' Norfolk 46 wed 3 alah Another firm, the Atlantic Mu- ; Oklahoma 49 Company tual Fire Insurance Company | Roanoke 47 no Was represented by Joseph L. Crusoe,! St. Louis 49 F which participated in the insur-/ San Antonio 43 1 trans: ance business last year, was not} San Francisco 45 represented at the meeting in: Seattle 2) t told the person, he had tendered his pol- | Tallahassee 37 t want all jey for renewal with the County! Tampa 37 tomy © third’ cig: | Washington 39 Casement Sash STRUNK LUMBER YARD i TELEPHONE 616 PALACE THEATER DEANNA DURBIN and DICK HAYMES in 2nd Audubon Show MONDAY, JANUARY 10 | High School Auditorium | 8:15 P. M. “UP IN CENTRAL PARK” | Adm. 75c, Tickets at Beachcomber PIITTITITITIT Tir) It was further announced that the British government has’ is- sued orders to its airforce com- mander in the Palestine area that . if the Jewish flyers attack Brit- ain’s aircraft again to return the fire The spokesman expressed the regret of the British govenment over the incident because of the observance of the cease-fire order by both the Arabs and the Je ritory to see if the truce was be- ing observed, They had radioed that there was no activity in the} +vanks of either the Arab or Jew-| ish troops. A short time after-! ward, the attacks were made on the British planes. It was further said that, be- planes, he explained, were on} routine flights over Egyptian ter-! | machinist’s mate, USN, husband of Mrs. Rose Mary Nance, 506 Francis street, Key West, is ‘serv- ron 23 with the Atlantic Fleet. * chanic and is in charge of the ma- terial stockroom, and is a mem- ber of a team actively engaged in locating, reporting, hurnicanes in United States and s.; Caribbean waters. He entered the Naval service his recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Winois. cause of the incident, the British i were sending troops to Transjor- ldan at the request of the author- ities there. —— es (®) Photo FARMER W. KERR SCOTT, with his wife, poses with the top- hat and cutaway coat he chose of Nerth Carolina. for his inauguration as governor This picture was made in their farm home near the town of Haw River on the eve of his inauguration. NO ADMISSION is ies! a La Every Friday. THE ‘RAINBOW ROOM will be OPEN for DANCIN Dance to the Music of Hector Barroso and His Orchestra Hotel Concha and Saturday FROM 8 P. M. TOITA M. e NO COVER ing with the Navy Patrol Squad- | Nance is an aviation chief me-} and tracking | on August 20, 1941, and received | e@| the town.” ast 1 tot | : (A) Wirophoto | THE NAME OF ACTRESS JUNE MILLARDE (left), an heiress also known as Toni Seven, has been linked with that of U. S. Senator Warren M gnuson (right), Democrat of Washington state. He was listed as “necessarily absent” from the first session of the 8lst Congress. A mild mys tery developed over the current whereabouts cf the 43-year-cld senator, but his office in Wash- ington said it knew nothing to bear out published reports that Miss Millarde left New York late —~ Fire 3 Shots At Burglar He Sees In Duval wa [sete members ot are ate Man Surprised At W! he Republica 5 | |4SidSwigh a mnceung they call SOMME nay Hetir Today a “conference”, but the results Dp, Pernandes \ m Re are essentially the same. It is | these ,_pre-convening meetings | [9g Key West On | |Seventieth Trip ! s At Burglar eon iGrist Mill {By REP. GEORGE SMATHERS About the time Texas kicking off in the Orai game last Saturday, I was wa ling in the door of the House that officers of the two partic: are selected for the ¢doming Con gress, and decisions are reached on major changes in gencral pol icy governing the operation of the Congress. H | It. seems ‘to be impossibl. tof Dr. Ernesto A. Fernandez, a Cuban lawyer, is on his seventieth trip in Key West | Seen In Rear Of trace down a definite, fixed ori-| today. He frequently comes | gyn. ety yo gin of the caucus as a means of] to the United States to rep- | gyn, ator, as : political organization. For onc! yesent interests of clients, | nots a thing, such meetings (defined as : * Jin the rear of P | the p of prior consulta- angen has made it a point | 44... te tion to agree upon'a united front) | Slways to come to Key West | 1)" labors have undoubtedly been held since! QF teave here to return to the jt : ‘ mankind first began to form so-| Cuban capital Ee EN ene rere cial and. political yroups. “Thit| He mode bis first visit here | ing an wutomobs caucuses have been the core of{ #1895, and has kept a record Patrolmen ‘Rene: Rated party politics in the United State of his trips since that time. is an established fact, h He arrived here from New ‘ and they probably had a great| YF: where he had attended | tan n Uy ideal to do with the growing to legal matters, and will 5 stor th sentment in the Massachusett eer plane for Havana on ' ad D {colony which led to the outbreak | ““One@Y- I at t j of hostilities in the 1770’s and to ee I Ithe American Revolution. OW ae a f The first record of an organiz established caucus, co have been able to determine | Scents oe ridge Receipts Sul Increase | m {Tom Dawes b: He | elect only a grade school ¢ Was recognize er in his day highly-placed was the founder of a 1 political leaders. Daw fopenly enough at the town-mee ut th of those 7 been decided, not, at sessions of Club.” John those sessions “s€ | sors, collect | representat ! chosen before ve office preside? Boston oute« 1 already often than C us vrot ctmen, usse: ward. n j As an t of r ci Hh trol in Cor s the ¢ ) i4 : 4 waxed and waned con iI ve ’ \in effectiven Betwe 103 | Showed a de i Jand 1911, while Joe Cannon month 25 Speaker of the House, t 1 , eae party Sen ere aper b De FOR SALE! FOR SA uous, to say the least. The will; cen t 194 : vere shorn fro tion Ci z a Cantina! On Page Six . TROPICANA eee s= SIE 6 GOOD: FOOD MIAMI - KEY West f TICKET OFFICE RELAXING | BARGE LINE. Inc r fo} E MALLORY DOCKS ALL AIRLINES ATMOSPHERE |,|" TELEPHONE. + ; és > Leaves Miami PRICE TOURS [Bf Open From 5:00 PM. eR Re GHB 411 Fleming St.