The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 4, 1949, Page 1

rangers germans ih | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an Tange of only 14° Fahrenheit —o Licas Club Moves To Clean Up Stock Island Carnival Matter Taken U At Club Session |"ARDINAL ON TRIAL Last Night’ |", Tells Operator Of Show That Gambling And Lewd Performances Must Cease At Once ’ The Key West Lions Clup. will withdraw its support of the care4 nival’ now being conducted" on Stock Island upless the gambling | | | and the lewd shows cease. { This was ‘the decision, follow-] ing a meeting of the Lions Club | last night, of the committee that | went out to the carnival grounds { and announced to the operator, | | Lee Bistany that the club's sup+| - port depended upon his agfee- ment. with sthe) organization not; to run gambling games or to con- | duct any lewd shows. ‘ There were five members of; the committee which was head- } ed by City Commissioner Louis ! Carbonell. | “The club was very indignant | about the situation as putlined ; to the members of the organiza- | tion”, said Corbonell. “The com- mittee went out and told the op- | erators of the carnival that.they)) would not stand for any. more gambling shows. “We found dice games in op- eration. They were el f leah) (®) Wireplioto | Son. It is the first time in his- som yorals uae! Wires Protest tors that they must live up to! . “their agreemcat= sith. ther JOSEF CARDINAL MINDS- ZENTY (above) on trial before “a Hungarian Peoples Court at Budapest on a charge of trea- tery that a prince of the Cath- ‘olic Church has been brought into ‘court for civil trial. Car- dinal Mindszenty pleaded part- ly gulity to the charge at the ‘court session yesterday, wah. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. PS KEY, WEST. FLORIDA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1949 Ice Plai itl Ra lag a ert panic a Lg EI LOT op BT Bt ee na nani none stb eae * | Bill Given Him... Clerk Earl Adams Says Bentley Gave Him Bill With Higgs’ Name On It Read Higgs’ Name *: As Authorizing Work, But Did Not i Write Document ~" ; 3, i i i Monroe County Clerk. Earl Adams today stated that his Phone at the courthouse has | been busy with -local citizens. wanting to know why*he read County Commissioner Clarence ; Higgs’ name as authorizing the! Island on private property by} Charles Toppino & Son. | " Commissioner Clarence Higgs! had protested strongly at the last | regular meeting of the Board of county commissioners the use of his name authorizing the work ; done on private property. Clerk Earl Adams said that the story in Wednesday's Citizen was correct, but citizens thought that the story implied that he wrote Higgs name as authorizing the work. The County Clerk said that the bill for $295 by the Charles bout Trial . it the following: “For grading, ithor- Toppino & Son company was | handed to him by Board Chair- | man Frank Bentley. The bill with Charley Toppino’s letter heading on same had typed on working, spreading and rolling | road on Stock Retail Price Drop Much Less Than Wholesale (By ‘The Associated Prenap WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. — A congressional committee decided today to hold a hearing in an. at- tempt to find out the reason of construction work done on Stock the disparity of farm prices as} Washington; compared with commodities. A spokesman for the commit- tee said that farm prices have dropped 35 percent below their peak in February, 1947, but that rices for commodities had de- creased only about 15 percent. Further price drops were pre- dicted for farm supplies and re- tail commodities during this The committee’s object is to determine why retail prices for commodities have not , reacted further than what they have to the downtread in the wholesale market. the prices for William L. Smith | Engineman On (Speetal to The Citizens GREAT LAKES, Iil., Feb. 4.—- ! { ‘Kremlin Tells Russian |People About Refusal Of Truman To Meet Stalin Does Not, Explain Truman ‘Would Meet Stalin In Washington; Afv The Ansbeinte? Pree) LONDON, : Jan, 4—Russia al } Préss and radio finally . informed the Russian people today ‘that j@ conference ‘with ‘Truman be- hind the Iron Curtain had been} rejected by the President. ° Nei- | | ther the press .nor the" radio ex-' § plained that .the- President had‘ Stalin ‘Invited To U.S. | ; Premier Stalin's proposal to hold i q “FORGOTTEN MAN?.” CANNOT ESTIMATE LOSS, MANAGER ADAMS - Fire Started By Backfire Of Engine; Plant Immediately Became Blazing Inferno; No One In jured; General Alarm Sent In By City Fire Chief Key West will be without ice for some. time, it was determined this afternoon when the Thompson \Iee Company, a subsidiary of the Thompson_ Enter- prises, Inc., was almost totally destroyed by fire, _ It was impossible to estimate the damage this. aft- ‘ernoon, but A. Maitland Adams, general manager of ' the company, said it would run “yery heavy.” =~ 4 | Starting when one of the engines in the ice: plant i backfired, the blaze spread with amazing rapidity... By said he would-be. pleased to con-} fer with Stalin ifhe went to Instead, it was stated that Rus- i sia’s attempt to bring peace to not to permit. gambling or any | ley. Higgs, and Saunders, lewd shows. | $295." “After we told them that they | ing Commissioner Clarence Higgs agreed that we were right, and agreed to close all that sort of | ¢ thing.” Ke said that he did not authorizeze the construction work because after conferring with Legal Ad- ly Ambassad Carbonell added that the com-j * mittee will go out to the. carni-| val grounds every day until Feb.| * Trial Of Cardinal ruary 15, when the show is (ie Vine Anavetnted Presa) scheduled to come ‘to an-end, to! , LONDON! Feb. 4—The Buitish see that no gambling or any else Bovernnient today formally pro goes on, “We simply are not going to stand for that sort of thing,” said testetl to the Hungarian govern ment because of its decision to ‘ bar ‘the British Ambassaaor anu Camonen ‘members of his staff in Hungary | There have been reports of | trom, attending the trial of Josef several sailors and some civilians | Cardinal Mindszenty on a charge losing considerable money on the | of treason. gambling games which were be- Hungary's foreign minister re Bnei operated) by nivel plied that, because of the small- | Spore: DEED mtwyer, 4! Hess ef the courtroom, no foreign member of the Lions Club com-| giblomats, including Russia's, | mittee, told the operators of the had been permitted to attend the | carnival, in front of other mem- | jr i bers of the committee, last night) “the ‘restricted accommodation that no further gambling would) was not borne out this morning be tolerated by Monroe County.) when the: trial was resumed. | ro, statement given The Cititen| Fewer than one-half of the seats s n the courtroom were occupied. | dent of the Lions Club, regarding | ' The pideecution tried to con- | Pieetrnival on Stock Islands a8 pect the action of a duke in tak- | jollows i h 2h . i Jing $29,000 out of Hungary in a} : ee ‘serletrperg et lene trunk with a false bottom with | a sights 2 situ-| one of the counts against Cardi- | ation which existed at the Carni-| ODP 2 e : . nal Mindszenty, but the witness! val op Stock Island, In contact-| said the Cardinal had not known ing with the | management to’ anything whatever about spirit- | bring the show to Key West, it] ing the money out of Hungary. | was definitely stipulated that| only shows of clean entertain- | <= ment nature bre brough to the| , ‘ a DGE Job Rated Trucks | » Joby Haast i H island that there be no gambling ufets Vi TRUCK FOR YOUR JC in connection with the shows and rides. | Since the opening of the shows Tuesday evening this club has been making every effort to} Navarro Inc., 601 Duval St. right this and deplores the situa- tion which has been evidenced | —————_—___—___—_ during the three nights which} the show nas operated. | This club has appointed a} to enforce the con-| Galvanized Roofings | committee tract originally agreed upon by! STRUNK LUMBER YARD the management of the show und the Key West Lions Club! gear ls snd obring about an entirely. ARMOR IESE changed picture during the bal ance of the carnival's ment in this area.” vv engage. Fine Fishing Tackle ABU AL Thompson Enterprises, Inc. sioner. CHARITY BALL viser Paul Sawyer and Commis- | Harry Harris, he had} found that it was not a dedicated } road and hence not on public propettys =" =" oer No bids were legally needed on the construction work, be- cause the amount involved was under $300. ———— | William H. Smith, chief engine | man, USN, husband of Mrs. Mar- | jorie L. Smith, 1410 Pine street, Key West, is serving aboard the submarine USS Jrex with the At- lantic Fleet, now undergoing major overhaul at the Naval he world had been frustrated by the United States. -And then the radio spokesman .continued at* great length ‘to criticize the West- ern Powers’ for Organizifig* the North Atlantic Military ‘Alliance, which clearly was ainied at the Soviet Union. F The Soviets “did not ‘say any-! thing about that part of the President’s statement ~ that, as more than’ one Western Power was concerned in the differences with Russia, that they should be hdealt with by the United Nations. {One of President Truman’s , neighbors in . Independence, Mo., today sent Premi¢r’ Stalin a ca- blegram inviting him to see the President in the neighbor’s home : at 1228 Cedar evenuc, Indepen- , dence. He said that the message cost-him $1612, and added that Et reply to it). Mrs, Valenzuela Died Last Night | Mrs. Mary’ Valenzuela, 69, died | in her residen¢gé9-A Porter / Shipyard, Charleston, S. C! The] Place, at 10:45, o'clock Iast night. } a Ir is one of the most modern units of our submarine force and is equipped with the Navy's pilot model Snorkel, a breathing de- vice that enables a submarine to remain submerged for extended ! periods. Smith, who entered the Naval Temperatur At 7:30 A.M.. EST __ service Dec. 8, 1937, received his recruit: training at the Nava r Training Center, San Diego, Cal- y service will be held at} 8 o'clock tonight. in. Pritchard} Funeral .Home.’ Requiem Mass | will be said at 10‘o'clock tomor- | row morning in St. Mary’s Star} Rosa lowed by burial in the Catholic! Cemeter Survivo are: One. daughter, 1| Miss Anna Valenzuela; four sens, Joe, Edward, Waldo and John, a iAulon Temp | ifornia and cight grandchildren, Atlanta 39 : Reine! Augusta 46 Billings 8 j Birmingham 52 . " | Bismark AW the Boston 31 ods | Buffalo 34 Char ston 49 = Chicago " Recognizes the Corpus Christi 53 Denver 11 BI Pas «|| LEGALITY OF NON-ASSESSABLE El Paso 31 Ft. Worth 38 RR Soa | POLICIES OF MUTUAL CO.'S Kansas City 20 . KEY WEST 72 Key West Airport 7” Los Angeles 35. e R eugene 40 The Leading Case is am carly case in Meridian 58 | the United Staies Supreme Coutt decided in 1859, Cited by Miami 67 | all the states as Authority for their Decisions. j Minneapolis 10 Memphis 39 ae ; Ren tOnleans 61 is is the case of the Union Insurancé Company vs. New York 3B Hoge, 21 Howard 35, wherein the Court Said: Norfolk 45 Oklahoma City 31 — WANTED — “It is argued. . premium, without any further ++ That a person Insured upon a cash liability, cannet be a member. This argument is not well founded either principlé or au- “Now. the cash premium may as well represent the Insured in the common fund . ..-and this class of company has been so long engages in the business of insurance. it may well be that they can determine, with sufficient certainty for {Omaha -6 Pensacola 64 5 Pitt-burgh 38 | thority. St. Louis 30 San Antonio 46 an Francisco 42 Seattle 32 Tallahassee 58 r 63 are on 37 all prectical purposes, the just ium between cash and: Notes. sessing the Authority ... To Take Cash Premiums afe at the Present day, in operation in several of the States and it has difference in the rates of prem- These Mutual Companies pos- || ‘Dr. Rudolph Ayala never been supposed that the Mutual Principle has been there- by abrogated.” of the Seca Catholic Church. fol-' 7 | railway system | ' : | i { | i i t ' 1 { (@) Photo | NAVAL AIRMAN JOE VOGEN,’ 23, from; Brooklyn, N. Y.ris sit: 2 * of the year, Last Dec. ‘9-he was ordered to stay with a plane which was grounded by ! he time the cit t ing inferno. firemen arrived, the plant was a blaz- Fire Chief Leroy Torres, upon his arrival at the plant, immediately turned in a general alarm. ;men from the Navy install ¥Chief Harry Baker, were High School Band To Raise Funds For Travel The Key West High ‘unds for ‘joined together to ral and are a bus for transportat which advertise Key West fit on top of state. tags. These local tags have the words School | taved in, burying most of Band and boreal ee have Méchinery of “und Fire- ations, under command of soon on the job, ~ Volunteers from many sections of the city quickly turned out.and 20 minutes after the alarm was | There was no one iniufed in | the batkfizing of the engine or the subsequent fire, Adams r2- engine trouble at the base. No | We Like. Key West” on them vealed. further order has come—and Joe is still sitting in the plane. Sicily Plans Railway Project | ROMB—(4)A ten-year” prd-! gram costing 8,000,000 lire 3,000) to bring Sicily’s gut- (dated and shattered rail- | ways up to modern standard was disclosed recently by the Transport Ministry The new project includes elec- trification of the whole Sicilian Some kilo- meters of track must be replaced Collects Lost Mines Stories NEW YORK Pr) Raymond Dow, civil en collects stories about lost mines. He has | 2,000 of them, as well as a pile of worthless stock. For the stock, as well as the storie: collector, not an Rehabilitator he merely is a estor ‘Coming Tuesday E. L. Miller, counselor for Vo- cational Rehab: ation «in district. has informed The Citizen jhe will be at the Monroe County Health Clinic next sday aft- ernoon, 2 to 5 o'clock, to inter- W prospective client FOR SALE! FOR SALE! Good Used Cars TWINS GARAGE Your Friendlv Studebaker Dealer TELEPHONE 169 any membef of i above dates. If office or phone 82-1505.” , with a picture of a basketball player and musical instrument. They are made of rustproof material and show up at night. They'can bé-had by contacting tions or calling 1474, Examination To Be Held For | Aviation Cadet | (Speciel to The Citizen) MIAMI, Feb. 4—-Another avi ation cadet mental examination will be conducted’ by Captain Harold A. Willbanks at the 5 Army and U. S. Air Force cruiting station, 25 N. E. 3rd St., Miami, on February 10 and 11 The announcement reads: “All interested applicants be tween the ages of 20 and 261 single or married, and who have two years of college or able to} pass an equivalent examination, | may report at the recruiting of- | fice at 8 a. m. on either of the! further informa- { céme in to the} tion is desired, FOR RENT | OFFICE SPACE Call at 517 Duval Street | Palace Theater JIMMY WAKELY and “CANNONBALL” TAYLOR in “COWBOY CAVALIER” | | BRADY’S | CHOICE POULTRY j 121 Duval st. i} | The-fire attracted a large crowd {| of citizens. But most of them fear- ed the blazing exhaust pipe on the engine might blow up. It was ' explained by City Electric Com these organiza-; pamy linemen, who alse respond- ed to the general alarm. that the governor of the engine had burned out. Must Sign Name To Communications Regardless of how often The Citizen states that writers of all letters published in The Forur must sign their names and giv their addresses, anonymous co munications continue to be sent to the editor. Such lettets are n published by The Citizen, The following information about let sis given at the top of the Forum column: The Citizen welcomes ex- pressions of the views of its readers, but the editor reserves right to te any items which are considered libelous of un warranted. The writers should be fair and confine the letters to 300 words, and write on one side of the paper only. Signa- ture of the ‘writer must accom- pany the letters and will be Published unless requested otherwise. this 1 to 4 Rooms in Heart of Duval S|, XA Plastic Nu-Flo AUTO PAINT Roy’s Key West Auto Parts Phone 442 USO-NCCS * 1€21 DUVAL STREET Championship BOXING ‘ d Fi Former Resident Physician of Dr. | Trelles Clinic and Staff Physician ‘214 White Street = Phone 540 of Dr. A. A. Gonzalez Hospital, \“*****#*#*e04 422000 Tampa, Florida. SOE PRAGA SG IN itt MAIR Bo, |General Practice POOR OLD CRAIG i i : 10- i SERVICE STATION | ‘RUSOE eek es ary fo sg = Eee at Division : Phene 9134| e our URE OIL Dealer J. L, CRUSOE, Agent, | PHONE 107% MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE €O. |} Gauteng Bea ‘LET US ma On| Change Your Oil | Seeeeevescosesoseseeseoos’ BOUTS Tonight at 8:15 0 Clock General Admission $1.25 Children (under 12) 75c (Tax Included) TICKETS ON SALE AT BOB'S SPORT SHOP and USO-NCCS Sponsored by Wemen's Aux. of Monroe County Hospital BARMAIDS > Friday, Feb, 25th, 1949 i iy | BARTENDERS Apply . . . | BAHAMA BAR \ . 519 Duval St. | { | Hardware Division—Phone 886 | | tg AS EARLY AS 1859 THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES RECOGNIZED THE LEGALITY OF THE NON-ASSESSABLE POLICY, 9:30 P, M. PRITCHARD’S ORCHESTRA pAmerican Legion Home Stock Island STickets $1.50, Tax Incl. RAAAAAAAMAABABAADAARAA MIAMI - KEY WEST BARGE LINE. Inc. 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