The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 13, 1949, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the crmiy, with an average fange of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXX ory Returns From Marshall Visit Seeretary Of State Surprised By Call; tTroman Had Intended Making Trip Tuesday (fy The Ansectated Press) SHINGTON, Jan. 13 T * Ve White nt man is back in the Neuse, following his un- | owed visit yesterday to —4 7} te Marshall in Pine- that even Marshall d about the was taken by nol The President said that ‘ im ge to Pinehurst Marshall before his meame effective on the day President naugurated ' the President's teted that Truman hadt ake the trip on 4t postpened it because weath Yesterday wtage of good flying ke the trip. Volunteer Enlistments In Army High Average Totals 35,000 Ver Month For Last Months; No a in Peb.. March he Vencetnved gs Jan - ry ©" ASHINGTON antes enlistments vin high gear,” it was fficially today Pr ents during the last nths has 35.000 th, making it unecessary aft men so well pleased by enlistments, it was en will be drafted and March. Be- tment standards raised, and the may be extended February years. Educators To Hold Conference In Gainesville CSpreinl to Tee Clttvens LAHASSEE, Jan. 13. 900 educators in Flor- the annual con- visors of instruc- January 17- { super t Gainesville meeting will slyzing long-range ee-day choo improvement. { es of school programs in el mentary e, and ill be presented } The educators will implementa- programs in the State School Super- Bailey said the conference meeting in ho superintendent introduced by Superinten- secon adult | for the ht of be glish om Monroe county tive part in the} M Marian Vories the Hospitality USO-NCCS BOXING BOUTS TOMORROW NIGHT 8:15 o’'Clock ‘ ination. It was predicted today that Jeveloping Tet ane i‘ commander of submarinc’| CONE CBee abe aeriaar \forees for the Atlantic Fleet, ar- | idmission, $1.25 Tax Included ' tained the previous day’s receipts | three feet high PALACE THEATER THE SOU he Krsy THERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST. FLORIDA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1949 20,000 Living In City, Rotary | Club Informed So Rote President | Revealed At Meet | | Held Today rOPPING GLUM Quoted Chamber’s 33 Growth Of City In Eight Years Increases From 13,000 The population Key West today is estimated at 20,000 per- sons, the Rotary Club was in- formed today by its President Aquiligo Lopez, Jr, who quoted figures prepared by the Cham- ber of Commerce to read to the members. | Figures quoted by President Lopez, as prepared by the Cham- j ber, showed that property values jin 1940 in Monroe County were $2,000,000 and today they are ‘ $26,000,000, that such values in! ; the city has risen from 904,000 | vin 1940 to $14,000,000. “In 1938 there were five hotels | listed with the Chamber; today Figu of (&) Wirephoto E there are more than 50 hotels | DAN TOPPING, president of and guest houses to handle our | the New York Yankees, talks tourist trade,” read President! helmamneniai New Mockiabout Hopes from the Chamber's a report that he will withdraw , “Never before in our history | his football team from the All- have we been so fortunate i America Conference. He said having nation - wide publicity Many leading newspaper, maga there will either be peace be- zines and tourist organizations | tween AAC and the National Football League or a “Yankee- at clamoring for infgrmation i i jarn” | about our city. | bscredt ae in the Stadium’ 1 Key West i fast-growing | : city that has great need of fast | means of transportation. Thei | Navy and the tourists are able to; Aan ACRESON itravel by air from here to al-| most any point in the world. “The City of Key West has de- iveloped a great dealw since the! "depression in population and in property values. Its economic life with the Navy » ang’ the, tourist business has ‘made usa | healthy, striving comunity.” President Lopez appointed a! committe today to arrange for! the ladies night dinner. Named were Harold Laubscher, Carl Hilton and Jerry Trevor. It was announced that next) Thursday night the Rotary Club =| Quizzed About Secretaryship Appearing Before Congressional Group To Determine His Fitness For Office ! i i 1 will join the Chamber of Com- Cv ane Sbaiata tear merce dinner at the La Concha | WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 Hotel to honor the speaker from Dean Acheson, nominated by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. | President Truman for secretary District Governor Morton Mc- | of state, is being questioned this Donald of DeLand will be here | afternoon by a congressional January 26 committee to determine his fit-!” Visitors today at the Rotary} ness to hold that office. Club were Sam Brownidge of Chief questioning pertains to pawtucket, R. I; Bun Baldwin, ! the American foreign policy, par- sr., of St. Joseph, Mich.; Earl D.! ticularly toward Russia Connor of Wyandace, Mich.; E. | Committee Chairman “To m Pudwig of Ottawa, Samuel | ll N Connaly of Texas said that two other witnesses will be called, but he did not disclose their nz Senator Robert A. Taft, Repub- lican leader in the senate. said that the Republicans will wait until after the hearing before an- nouncing their stand on the nom- Wiley of Sal Admiral Fife Arrives Here | For One Week nes: \ \ rived in Key West this morning Can’t Daal ‘Any’ after a flight from Guantanamo He got off his plane at Boca} Trace Of Safe. Chica field and was immediately driven to. the Howard W No trace of the safe stolen from; Gilmore, submarine tender, aty the Post House of the Florida! Naval Station, where he hoi ted | Greyhound Lines, Inc.. about 70 , | miles up the Keys from Key sete 1B vemait | West, yesterday morning, had Be Chl A been found today, the sheriff's inspecting the submarine | office reported. ces throughout the Caribbean Deputy Sheriff William Archer| Will also examine the submarine said the thieves overlooked $259| /atilities at the Key West Station | which had been hidden beneaih| He expects to be here about a) ineweatemandcicomnerieces |) (cers oe One neuen Beart eet levator Nee Tandon Gonna nisi thedd quarters. It. also was announced tha ‘i therelwaaiivitiatiy, nos cachiin| > cates SS3555 SSSSSS oA the safe. Yesterday it wa B | Ri G re) ported that $1.000 was in it. The safe weighed from 209 to 259 eae pounds, according to the P» PRIZES House manager, and was about Sponsored by Catholic Daugh- ters cf America—Holy Name Soc., St. Vincent de Paul Soc. TONIGHT at 8:00 o’Clock St. Mary’s Parish Center JENNIFER HOLT in 1021 Duval Street NGE RENEGADES” | 20 GAMES a SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS JIMMY WAKELY and DYING VET SEEKS TO CLEAR NAME JAMES H. SCHAFFNER, 25-year-old World War II vet of Buf- falo, N. Y., whose physician gives him less than five months to live, has appealed to the “people of the United States” in a “petition of right” to grant him an honorable discharge. The petition states that he contracted tuberculosis while imprisoned illegally by a U. S. Army court martial for being. ebsent without official leave to attend his wife and their new-born child. ‘Break Feaveil Between U.S. And Great Britain Over Palestine Brawl Former Sceretary Anthony Eden Blames Both U. S. and Bevin For Tense Situation (By The Anuvctated Prem) jin their Britain {| | gressors. IN FHE U.S.A. * LONDON, Jan. i3.—In British official circles a break is feared between Great Britain and the United States because of the Brit- | that the British will not ease up preparations to meet ; | firmly the situation in Palestine, : jaue to the differences between {the State of lerpel and Great Foreign mister Ernest Bevin { baccused the Jews of being the ag- He ‘cited the shooting down of five Britsh planes by "Jewish fighter planes and the re- fusal of Tel Aviv to give a satis- factory reply to the British pro- Citizen City Manager Says Police Force Big Enough In Key West *Spoke Before Jr 210 VISITORS ATTEND Chamber Here FUN NIGHT PROGRAM — | Last Night * Jaycoes Will Later Question County WHAT'S IN A NAME? And State About Law Enforcement Following « talk by Oty “ ger Ralph D Spalding betere t« Junior Chamber of Commer | which is conducting an invertiqe tion of law enforcement, 4 wer announced by the Jayoows thet the viewpotnts of the county aud the state will later be requested Attendance Ahead Of Last Year; Douglass High School Glee Club Scores Two hundred and ten tourists were present at the Chamber of Commerce “Fun Nite” program at the UMCA outdoor patio last night. This free entertainment program for visitors, second of this winters Wednesday night { Last night ot the weekly meet series, is proving very popular ing of the Jayeoes, Moenaset and is to date far ahead of last Spalding talked on ety year in attendance. fe vent, whieh has te According to Harold R. Lau- h subject for the past bsecher, Chamber manager, at- weeks, saying the size of 1 tendance at the “Fun Night” pro- slice force is adequate for gramone year ago this week, j of this size only 150 were inattendance. ‘The duties of the pot Last night’s entertainment pro- are very sharply defined. + gram Wi highlighted = with furce the city ordinen choral s ions by the Douglas | provide protection te the et lor a Wide variety of mieten High School pe Club under the direction of C. W. Jenkins. ors, such as petty theft up * Kodachrome color slides of | gp drunkenness, and tral Key West scenes photographed ; | tions,” seid Manager Sg by Mrs. Elvera Reiley and 7 | “The state and county are reeg (A) Wivephoto! site PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE in signs looked at this one twice at the corner of Sunshine Terrace and Tropicel Drive. in Los Angeles. and decided the town ought to re-name some streets. It resulted from heavy snowfall the night be- f | thus @ | to et George Luhrs were presented in a twenty minute program, on the show. Mrs. Charles F. Card, a visitor from Rahway, New Jersey, was chosen Queen of the Island and awarded prizes, sightseeing trips, courtesies in ‘local restaurants and movie tickets. Winner in a quiz a few instances a their jurisdiction Capt. Spalding stated thet size of the p me force quate in Key West for o «ity this size; the problem of any po lice force is not so much & or pay but good character amd th contest, } of i i i jestine} Stewart Mactavish, Montreal, * maintaining of that character em oo aig in the Pelestine “Continued On Page Three) fore. morale through the years - Ast AUER pal Se Oe esa ra tage The pay, he said, avermpr of 9 | Unofficially, it was declared the police force here is 68 4 %e compared with @ national of $206 06 fot patrotrw © Navy Charity Ginadials To Run From Feb. 16-18 Spalding al» ‘ | that any community gets per j well just what they ask ‘general discussion foth | meeting, the Jayoues felt thet ¢ Everybody In Key West) meeting was one of the x ] { portant and interesting on re T at | Invited To At 3 | weeks ? id : | Bob Pollock was named ¢ a | Will Be At Naval | man of the Prendemt's Her DOU EEE ee ene + Ball Committee, Joe Ponde | Seaplane Hangar | eee Lae gs i tests about the incidents. Station— Temn | : = ommittse to eid Former Foreign Minister An-| Atlanta 4 Naval personnelisin SB out the details fur the @ (®) Wirephoto, thony Eden blamed both Bevin] Augusta 41: West area today announced 0) “poi peraido shows land the United States for the] Billi 28 Navy Charity Carnival at the | A 4 DR. J. WHITCOMB BROUGH- jjire-up between Great Britain Bienes 7 eee a : a Deo reteh ae preva! Bheay ER, JR. (above), 46-year-old | and the State of Israel. Eden said] Bismark 25 ary 16 through the 18th contests have in deve paster of the Glendale, Calif. | that Bevin had been “confused” Boston She ae ter ginet and-cnalanneina al Fist Baptist Church, faces in dealing with the Jews, and] Buffalo 27;_ The governing board of the charges of misconduct with | that the State Department in the] Charleston 44 Navy, which is presenting the 1948 Li women members of his congre- , United States had not taken def-| Chicago Carnival, consists of Captain ic i | gation in a suit filed in court | inite stand or made an effort 0) Corpus Christi Frank L. Busey, USN, commands je ,aid in ending the warfare be- : : at Los Angeles by Mrs. Sadie ; Sid in ending the wa Denver ingiotticerlot th Air Stu « Expire Saturday Williams and Fletcher Edgar Detroit i Car Ge J. Wal : ; { While Great Britain is tense a Nae ets Maxweil who said they were |... the Palestine situation, + ze Ree USN. office the}, N _ oe suing for members of the | yesentatives of Jews and Arabs Galvest ce, and Cor ‘ Ae ’ church. The complaint asks ' are meeting today in Rhodes to Taereaaviite mander J Fitzgerald, USN " f ‘ : “ that a church hearing and mem- j try to reach an agreement for an Fa 2 c executive officer of the Naval f bership election be called. l armistice. ey aban Station ; + Net proceeds from the Carn Key West Airport will be distribute to the variouw : | Dimes Campaign Opens Bere Officially Tomorrow ——— Entertainment To Be Pres In Di Fach Evening evening ing Saturd | Performer: ‘from the various the city and musicians furnished through courtesy of the ented From Stage al Street will be from 8 to 9 p. m. start- volunteers night clubs in local Los Angeles Louisville Meridian Miami Minneapolis New Orleans New York Norfolk Oklahoma Omaha Pensacola Pittsburgh Roanoke St. Louis San Antonio charitabl welf the C clude the Red Cross Fund drive Every boc n n City » dancing an ‘ ment nelt dan while A BRADY'S The 1949 Mazch of Dimes gets musician's union, i v ' underway officially here tomor During the afternoon girls who Sani Erancisco po Will be aw row and preparations are being Will represent the Lions, Rotary.| 7°07 Rey ° Poultry and Eggs made to conduct an all out cam- Kiwanis and Business and Pro- | 72 2 Uassec 57 Cubera Arrives : fessional Women’s club will soli- | Tampa ee | Ta! b paign, it was announced today by Git contributions at the corner of | Washington Be City Commissioner Louis Car- Duval and Southard — Sunday or Monday Matters Raterd Kroes | bonell, who -heads the Key West’ Collections will be made by ey / ! drive. ; (Continued On Page Three) TICKET OFFICE eeaaty Roasters — Soft Toppino Construction Com- LINES tnohedeton ti “West ' pany workmen today “completed z z : H ean p a . 7 : Bertne Heruete + an Alby. 18 foot stage on Duval Your Next Birthday Party ALL AIR fae a ie - i street in , fxont- of, Carbonell’s —HAVE HERE! here ! x t ane lunchednete which will be used ean lige re PRICE TOURS | tains rare ¥ is arle We Invite Y to present enteltalnibengnesce im cart icf sight ce mere Mi Gacd — 411 Fleming St. =—Z of arrival will be annour pare Qua music, pleasant surroundings and by the Ke t Naval base Palas FOR SALE! 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