The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 8, 1949, Page 1

memes eae net atisiebeiel ae coh 1) Mae an saan YOL. LXX. No. 83 iHOMPSON COMPANY TO BEGIN BUILDING: SHORTEY: NEW PLANT Company Officials Say: Work Will Begin In Two Or, Three Days; Home Delivery Normal Construction of a. new con- ste block ice plant by Thomp-. » Enterprises, Inc., following | \es Sy t week’s fire which totally de- yo ‘eyed the old plant, will start po two or three days, A. Maitland ams, general manager of the \‘npany, said today. i m*)Vork is now underway dis- | pt ntling the wreckage of the old | ant. ~w@ared, the Thompson company { will begin the construction of a new plant. It will be “of concrete block fonstruction and truss. roof. Be-'! yond that Adams said that plans } weren't entirely complete — yet, | and no building permit, showing the cost of the structure, was as} yet available. i Ice is now being delivered to} homes normally, Adaws said. On; the plant's Caroline street plat- form sales will be made to ice! consumers from 6:30 a. m. to 6} p. m. Formerly they sold ice | there up to 10 Pam. ‘ The ice is being brought to} Key West from Miami and other mainland points. Adams indica- | ted the cost of the ice being de-! livered hi is very expensive. “We said Adams.” That is, the original cost of the ice plus delivery | charges down here. You can be re an't get out cost of. it,” Sailor Found Guilty | Of Home Trespassing Harrell Fined $25 aaa ees As soon as the ground is! Lin sd 2 in DUES EHO Ie etn Se Nn rr ane mA DO Rodgers Says “Little Man” Needs Aid Everybody Else Has MISSING! Lobbyists In Congress; Recommends Organizing Committee {By The Associated Prexs) “little man”, in a thin envelope, is really the “forgotten man”, so far as lob- bying in congress is concerned, Representative Dwight Rodgers, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, de- 4 poses today, preliminary to an- ‘|nouncing that he mend to the house to appoint a lems of the “little man.” Big business and small busi tions all have lobbyists in Wash- ington, Rodgers asserted and added that the only time the fed- eral government takes any no- tice of the “little man” is when j it sends him a tax bill. a= Card Parties W. D. GREENE (above), radio \Called Off By repairman of Augusta, Ga., left Commerce Be dy home to go to work Jan. 4, and Sunol been eee soto by re The Friday evening card part- tives nor acquaintances. He is | ie; sponsored by the Chamber of 26, weighed 185, and was 6 feet. | Commerce have been cancelled, Linch. He had ruddy complex- | it was announced today. The ion, black hair, brown eyes. parties, which were scheduled ; for the entertainment of our win- ter visitors, haven't been as suc- cessful as was expected, so an- other function is being planned ‘to offer as a substitution. Although the weekly ber-sponsored “Fun Nites” and fishing trips have entertained 1,478 people so far this winter, the card parties were attended by only a few more than fifty sure that we’ll finish the new plant as rapidly as possible.” Cham- WASHINGTON; Feb. 8.—The | who gets his salary } will recom- | Ss . . “, [committee to consider the prob- } ness and big and small corpora- | The Key F THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAP R T. FLORIDA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY § Cardinal Sentenced To Life ‘Imprisonment In Hungary On ‘Treason Charge; Appeal Filed| if LIFE IMPRISONMENT CARDINAL MINDSZENTY Bat Higher Court Can » . Pecrease*Or Increase | Sentence; Called “Pravesty Of Justice’ ‘By The Associated Press) BUDAPEST, Hungary, Feb.8. ~Josef Cardinal Mindszenty was sentenced to prison for life today phy the judge of the people's’ thi before which he was tried last week on a charge of treason. When he was adjudged, guilty last ‘Saturday, the prosecuting at- 4 torney argued for the imposition of-a “hard sentence,” which was equivalent fo death by hanging. It had been rumored presecuting attorney, and practi- cally everybody in court’ ‘this. «morning thought that the penalty would be death. ** But the judge, before reveal-, ing this .decision, declared that the Cardinal had “confessed” and: | that he had led a life’ far - away’ ‘from worldly ambitions. Because Legion To Out Maine Legion, will be Stock Island. The ritual team West Guard of hoi duct the ceremony people during the past four weeks. As one. tomris; “We a ‘Colby To Be ME: *Peould’ “do Tittle hee i df TBtay bridge every evening before we left home because the weather At Chamber Fun r9 was getting so cool. Down in Key West where the evenings are so ae seaei (tes Seieeilty"s satter:} Night Wednesday perfect, we would rather stay harged with | trespaneing jn pe ‘5 Ifotels, restaurants and firms home of Charles T. Archer, 621) Guy Colby, . popular, .square| that are displaying Chamber pos ‘ wroline oe was iy ged !dance caller on radio's: famous } ters listing what entertainment is ”y # jury in Criminal Court be- .N ae -o-| available for visitors, are asked ye | gram, will be master of ceremop-| off the list. When the substitu. Judge Caro sentenced fthelies at the Chamber of Commerce! tion is announced, the public young man to pay a fine of $25 ‘Tourist Fun Night party Wednes- | will be advised. and costs for the misdemeanor, a | day evening a total of $45.65. | Beginning at 8-p. m., Mr T Harrell himself took the stand | by will coniuct a half hour class Unemployment and testified that he was looking | of instruction for those who Z for his wife in the Archer home. | aren't familiar ‘with square dan- He said that when Deputy Sheriff | William Archer reached there he! fired one shot into the ground. County Solicitor “Allan B.! Cleare, Jr, in statement to the jury, lauded Deputy Archer's | firing into the ground. “No of-} ficer has a right to shoot a man committing a misdemeanor,” said | Cleare ve jury consisted of Edwin F. Tr John W. Nelson, Ulric Gwynn, Charles L. Albury, Wil- liam Duval and Stanley C. Key. Three trials are scheduled to be held in Criminal Court tomor one is to be held Thursday and the remainder of the docket is to be disposed of on Friday Among the trials scheduled for row tommorrow is one of Pedro Ace-| vedo, who was arrested last No- vember for assaulting Mrs. Cruz Vega, a Puerto Rican woman, with a hammer. Acevedo claimed after he was arrested by city police that the woman was a witch and had placed spells on hin Police Looking j ciety of deceptive ben¥ers. Later For Tampa Girl City police are searching for Evelyn Pauline Lyle, 16, of 8414 Ninth street, Tampa, who is said by he sther to have run away from her home January [7 and} believed to be in Key West Eve- Iver said to be 5 feet, 6 inch tall with brown stringy hair. She “s wearing a colored shirt and lue jeens when she left’ her MIAMI - KEY WEST BARGE LINE. Inc. CLYDE-MALLORY D2OCKS TELEPHONE 6 | Barge Leaves Miami | Every Friday } ‘Step, Polka, Schottisch and oth-! ‘Dr. Rudolph Ayala. |of Dr. A. A. Gonzalez Hospital, Tampa, Florida. General Practice Office Hours: 10-12 and 2-6 Daily Except Sunday 409 Fleming Street PHONE 1075 ° ° cing. From 8:30 to 11:00 p. the party will be featuring the Virginia Reel, n in full swing} ' Benefits Up To $6,742,279 Two er old time dances. TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 6.—To Music will be furnished by|tal unemployment benefits in Fred Henning and his orchestra] 1948 amounted to $6,742,279, an and refreshments will be served There will be no charge or ad- mission. increase over 1947 of more than $100,000. August led all other months with a total of $954,008. } Chairman Barnes of the Flor- ida Industrial Commission says: “Although payments were great- er in 1948 than formerly, the number of payments showed a for; instance, in 1940, | 5,806 weekly payments were} made, totaling $6,353,112.13, | whereas in 1948 our records show | that only 495,824 weeks of unem- formerly» of Key; ployment were compensated. The a resident of Miami, | cit-us workérs and cigar employ- Max Marks Gets Appointment By Governor Max Marks, West, now who has been appointed by Gov-| Cos continue te be the lorpest Shee a wiles Warten a8 “an-i0-4 fing claims for ‘benefits. The | spector for the State Hotel Com- summer oad of lay-offs in the mission, arrived in Key West yes- terdav to conduct a 10-day spection of local ho:els, rooming houses, { citrus industry and the short per- | i of unemployment in the Tampi. cigar industry seem to be In motels, | apartments an i ; the leading factors in this di- restaurants. geti® Marks played baseball in Key} © Compensation. payments. in for six years, He pitched) Tonnary 1949 were $555,401, an| for several teams, and had a va-| Jenuary 1949 were $585.401, an ary a year ago. This is probably due to tapering off of construc- tion and tourist activities, and general demand for services and goods from these source: ‘Fine Fishing Tackle’ Thompson Enterprises, Inc. Hardware Division—Phone 886 he played in the | League and in the bama League. In recent years he had been in in Miar His territory: prises Dadé and Southeastern Georgia-Ala Moneoe: countie Former Resident Physician of Dr. Trelles Clinic and Staff Physician NE 1108 Eg 1 eens TICKET OFFICE | ALL AIRLINES | PRICE TOURS | ° GH 41) Flentos S* {now line the {tary j for more than iwo-score years. | together achievement of a boyhood desire. i f }own one {ed the old gentleman knock down wit show a sound held Work Rites Plans Tomorrow of the nor of initiation. The colors recently purchased semtence was characterized as a for the Honor Guard will be of- direct “slap at the Roman Catho-| ficially dedicated at this meet- pe sige and a” “travesty, of aa is | Counsel for the Cardinal. filed tican. Cancer Society a motion fer-vepeal...It was. film membership in attendance. Details of the Maine Observance will be GUN COLLECTOR, OLD COWRGY HERE Andy Palmer Has 5,000"— announced. tomorrow evening at the Legion Home, on Hungary in a trunk with a false Key will con- to --thé plained Memorial oy of those reasons; the judge said: he was disposed to be “lenient.” |A moment later he - sentenced ' the Cardinal to prison ‘for lif j His six co-defendants received | Varying penalties, one as low as | 15 years in prison. That sentence: {was imposed. on the Duke de RONALD, SCOTT, 13. (above), is charged. with murder at i Esterhazy, the defendant who| Caruthersville, Mo. in the A regular meeting of Arthur, Was reputed to be the richest] sheoting~ of his 14-year-old Sawyer Post No. 28, American ™@ in Hungary before the war.} uncle: The shooting took place The chief charge against him was on’ Tuesday while the boys that he smuggled $30,000 out of é 7 bs ‘were on ‘a hunting trip near anion their home. at Holland, Mo, (In countries behind the Iron Saag Bd eek ence Curtain, the sentence was hailed | 7% ,as “merciful,” but elsewhere in ' Europe, London reported, »« Gives Program Ia Fighting: Depression (By 'The Associated Press) ‘4, that the higher court either could reduce the sentence increase it to the death, ‘penalty. ‘ jand- increase. of the ih beating down depression of Agriculture stated today. ends, hé added, is for by ‘President Truman. ' wild with (®) 5 Wireehone i WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—More employment, greater production | country’s buying power are chief factors in the United States, the Secretary) Thé ‘best way to attain those congress | Gj to follow the program outlined $58,860.00 To Be Allowed To Serco, Walks And Sewers; This Is Amou } To Be Raised By Tobacco Tex { Oe rena ae aan ht om Seph aedire sapere RAiaee calling for $658,725 for the year 1949. is $102,318.49 more than the actual expenditures for 1947 and $54,149.37 more thai aéiual ex- Penditures for the year 1948. Millage rate for the city will remain. about'the same ind assess- ments are likewise te remain as they were in 1948, Where is the additional money coming from? The answer is simply that owners of new construction built in 1948 will mainly pay for the increase. The staggering new ‘construction of almost $1,000,000 in the | fast-growing Key West-will absorb the increased and still — 1949 taxpayers to pay about the same amount es they did in | Summary of the budget as compiled by Charles R. Roberts shows | the following figures: t 1947 Actual 1948 Actual * ‘1949 | Administrative ane Finance $ 64,696.09 ~~" $ 53,822.28~ “$ 56,300.00 ' Public Safety 116,006.24" 117,254.12.” 137,200.00 | Public Welfare 59,892.53 51,268.16 37,200.00 ! Public Service 192,502.97 199,831.41 202,000.00 #e | Legal Obligations 111,283.13 116,456.88 *"' 12%,500.09 Adv. & Miscl. Expenditures 11,850.55 4,696.85 ~- 38,550.00 Contingent None “8,896.85 5,000.00 Streets, Walks, Sewers None 52,122.53 - 58,800.00 TOTALS— $556,231.51 $604,400.63 $658,550.00 The Police department whichyy. last year received $50,247.21 will this year receive $60,700, and the |Fire department will receive ; $76,000 -as compared with $67,- | 006.91 last year. The local radio station which received specific payments of ; $1200 in 1947 and $1,100 in 1948 is not listed this year, put | instead a new account not pres- ent in 1947 or 1948.0f Advertis-, ing and Public Information has been created and granted at } 2000 ‘Out be this josome- 1 These capital improvements in machinery, buildings. Station. ‘Net ll of the for the radio station, as other the past 6 years has shawdered payments are to be made from | the burden: She said that under | this account. Just how —- Present revenue only six. books the. station will receive is [could be purchased monthly, net to the discretion of ‘the City | enough for a city of 20,000 yeur- Commissioners and the City | igents arse myer ae sched Manager. _ One of the brighter features of | (tourists). ; the budget is the solvent position| «Golf Club Amounts Raised of the city. By paying $13,672, in $358.08 1947 and $3,279.68 in 1948 - the retired all of its general debt obligations. The credit for these | An_ amendment wasy passed granting a raise of $358.08 to the Key West Golf Club. The armend “My gun collection now num- bers more than 5,000 items which walls of The Mili- Inn at Dearborn,” said Palmer. “What I am mainly down here in Key West for is to seek! out old weapons that may line the walls of some old homes and other buildings, “If the guns have histories I may be hated in acquiring them. Guns have been my hobby in June, 1927, just after his wife and two children were trampled to death ina cattle stampede near Nogales, Ariz. two days be- fore his 43rd anniversary. “I sold all my property that wouldn't fit into a shoulder pack age, Alaska,” said Smoky. walking 4,000 miles later I reached my without a lift. “Then I decided to walk back tothe states frem Anchorage. On the return tripI accepted a ride now and then. When I run low on cash I do odd jobs—not confining and not permanent. 1, don't know where I'm going to wind up and I'm in no particular hurry to get there.” “After destination ‘The collection I have in that time gotten the is As a boy in southerr longed for the time when I could my own. I hunted with my grandfather and watch- Mlinois, I of Dr. J. A. Valdes Wishes to Announce that Dr. George Lawson Eye Surgeon of Miami, Fermerly Associated With Dr. Bascom Palmer, Will Hereafter Be Associated With Him in the Practice of Eye Surgery 417 EATON STREET Telephone 332 at Hours by Appointment and started walking for Anchor-! and a year} payers and its elected officials in | Cable Will ‘Aid ee this obligation through the years and ‘retiring it when i§ ick V ae ] able to do so, is a credit to ‘the i Satan . of | ing point EROMIAMInENeIge eves SS Cable, the 210-foot tug of | oe money from lenders in the | tthe Merritt-Scott-Chapman cor- poration, has left for South Pa: Miss., to go to the aid of a ves- sel that has gone aground. The Cable, which is berthed at the at the Key West Naval Station, will be gone for some time. The | full Key West crew and all the years to come. $10,000 is allotted in this year’s budget for the development af Garrison Bight. This is the first year that money has been re- leased for this needed develop- ment on Roosevelt boulevard. Though unless an explanation of amounts involved are made. the i Hook ¥ or Today | as in past years have been for ge oe a capital improvements. All of sive preliminary hearing this) *8@3® have enriched Key Wert afternoen to Leslie Hook, a| [o*Pavers. since the taxpayers sailor who is alleged to have as-| 37° t#€ Owners of the City. saulted his wife, Billie, “in Duval | street Sunday night. t Hook was arrested _ by vet PALACE THEATER Shore ‘Patrol while he allegedly broke ‘through a window of the JOE YULE and RENIE RIANO in home of his wife, at 524 Margaret | + street. He is said to have torn | JIGGS AND MAGGIE clothing, and other articles inside | IN SOCIETY” cae home. | FOR SALE | QUALITY USED CARS } | MOULDINGS | Lindsey Motor Company | 404 Duval St.—Next to La Concha Hotel—Telephone 501 ninagcee ‘ supplies. were taken aboard the | penditur te yeh rer: al Cable before she pocbented: prior have likewise been arge, the true picture of the| + Of ‘ity’s finances are not presented | |Arraig nment Many expenditures for 1949 { | STRUNK LUMBER YARD| TELEPHONE 816 i ian inant es ae lS | ig oe . " ‘ os Bis payments totaling .more than ment was offered by Mayor A Weapons; Cameron | wild ttimeys Wille, Teed ball ay Gling eyolicy ok boom! and | Sieg pon ckiaid Mek cee City {Maitland - Adams. The Mayor Started Wanderings | “Nearly all the guns1 have | Dst:he usserted, is the surest/Councilmen and the succeeding| said: “I do not play golf, but I ‘ = lave weal prenecy Gal Bete ase ens way. to bring on depression. {City Commissioners. Both the | believe that the golf course is one More Than 20 Years Ago for use as they. were i “1 : Unemployment is becoming} Councilmen and their successors} of the biggest assets in the city on : deve the cole, Ut olden toa: keneral; he’ said) and efforts| have done nobly in retiring this | of Key West. The gelf course to Andy Palmer, of Dearborn, “8¥8: The collection contains; should -be ‘made before it is too ) obligation : | day is in its finest shape. in his- Mich., who collects guns and Weapons used in every battle in} tate to curb that tendency, which |” the City had been forced to | tory.” weapons of all kinds, arrived voces ee alee States has par- is evident throughout the United | g9 into debt by this amount of Asks for $10,000 here this morning just ahead of oe including World War States. Congressmen should | $100,000 during the trying days |. Businessman Neil -Suuumiers iSmoky Cameron, veteran cow-, EP ,, | chamber of |oousitet well the report that) of depression and years prior. | asked t , $10,000 puncher and former Arizona _;,Sttiding into the Chamber of | 2,000,000 men and women have| oh sascanaiticda ae Batter the Meson Rey West ecntetpat Sta mail rider. opeence bey came, short,| been thrown out of employment! City Fathers shouldered the dium (Wickers’ Field).-Saunders Both men came to the Key down here to celemnte be “amé|since last December, and should! burden and gradually reduce {tia commissioners that $10. Next Chimber “etc ree Cen eren to estenraté/his’ GSrd take active speasures now toistop | ihe ainount uailat isicen Goer {000 improvements in the stadium f ace ommerce birthday anniversary, and he} any further unemployment. existent. H id ble Key W 2 where they were interviewed by might also go to Cuba, re’ pale rae would enable Key West to-briag a reporter of The Citizen. smoky started his wanderings ne hanesty of the city’s tax- | a minor league team fo trflin in !the city during the winkes He asked that the allotment of $10, (000 earmarked for Garr | Bight be transferred to the cit stadium. om Commissioner Fre = Dign |speaking as an ex-valiphever (Dion had a try-out with a big j league team, and was an excep tionally good infielder tm hie duy) | likewise commented on thi | dium expenditure as. did+ | payer Fernando Camus who sai {that he would submit plans and | specifications to the city | mission. After cor hearing Camus’ speak Commissioner Louis Carbonell who Acting Mayor last night (Mayor A, Maitland Adams wa ' (Continued On Page Three) STRAND consitiones —apaniontaeappsaiianeantnggee so nanenapess Tuesday & Wednésday-ONLY THE BIG CLOCK co Three Godfathers Jon Pedro Armendorts, Jr, aud Walter | MONROE 22:0 i Tuesday and Wednesiay BUSH PILOT Rochelle and & Ceming: Killer McCoy Jack La tue ime Wilh Mickey Raoney. Brian Donley» and Aew Blyth “ ames: