The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 1, 1949, Page 1

os -—_ Te Be He And Two Others tf Wott of New Jersey and = eter t fake for the Perle: cheogeomehip meat June, @ Pewsages fet fet ws met the unly tight he ater! hee eee iaten wild ae lew oxphened ‘they | | } : Hey Wester gaterest in the op rwteee ot ther -eer Cross in war ~ Pee ¥ ahapter chair. a a? oy ah invitation | @eneral to at "Paws the Red Crom did for preweness ot during the ee fot tate Burke ‘as Sam ry Wet | oe Key West | wer, whe is cha the ennuel fund cam. will tell the story of the! Geometry the § Red Cross! me cmbet fares. * Qoewtls. Lee Goddard, US +H celate the work done by ot Crate tn this community te Heent hurricanes, | Wheat the Bet Cron on ree OR Capectatly the we =e military reservations hike | te leet, Will be the topics of | em A. Primeetl field din oe & the Newal Station, and) Mie Betty Bennett, feild divector @ the Noval Hoxpital wen : i WH the He ear cH, Hewes of volunteer workers fr the enmuel fund campaign. wih «begins March 6, will be Bete! wie tne meeting ’ orkers we have fre quicker $16,000 goal will te reeehed,” Marries said j Matecumbe Land Gees Por $21,000° } | | with a! Louis Renounces Championship; Promoter Of Bouts Called As Witnesses Before Grand Jury Presumably, the Grand Jury | has switched its investigation in- te the gambling situation in Key | West and Florida Keys to a probe | ite «police $=protection around) Monroe County Schools, it be- fame evident today. This morning City Manager | D, Spalding, Police Chief domph Kemp, ang Julio Caban- | *, @ member of the county school beard, were called as witnesses | Defore the Grand Jury Ht is known that Cabanas, as a mentbér of the school board, is @issatisfied with police protec- | tiem around the schools in the! afterneen hours when the schools (Cantinged On Page Six) With Snowfall Strikes Coast A coastal storm w'ich devel- eped over the middie Atlantic eoast yesterday morning has be- ome one of the severest sterms | Wd | deepening, Storm warnings are fying from Eastport to Delaware ter Gnd) «small = craft weaning bre displayed from Del- aware kwater to Hatteras. It has caused high winds and heavy ! drifting snow over southern New | England, southern New York, eastern Pennsylvania and the New Jersey area. The heavier snow hes fallen in Connecticut with 16 inches of snow at Hart- ford. Ten inches occ: York and 7 inches was reported at Boston Seme light snow is falling in New Mexico, northern Texas, eastern Colorado and South Da- kota and light snow flurries are occurring over most of the Great Lake region but over the remain- der of the country the weather wes fair. The skies are ciear oVer the Southeastern States but the temperatures are much lower this morning. The freezing line ips as far south as southern Jeorgia and southern Alabama. Below zero weather is occurring in northern Minnesota and the lower 20s occurred as south | as Virginia and Tenne: | Magician At Kiwanis Club Dick Bartholomew, retired ma- gician and escape artist, will | demonstrate to members of the A pier of yperty Key West Kiwanis club tonight frontage of 00 feet along the| some of the tricks that made him Atlantic Ovean ut the as 009 }one of the leading entertainers a Bow! didivision on PET! few years back. Matecumte went for $21,000, ac-) Classed with such magicians as Sorting t @ warranty deed filed | Houdini, Blackstone and the peeterdey im the office of Circuit) great Raymond, Bartholomew Geert Clerk Bari Adams played on the leading stages Mee Bleabeth Di Pietro, 4! across the country. He gave an eitiew of Mew, sold six hun-| exhibition here during the March dred toot tots, cach « oy Moy of Dimes free show series on Du- at in depth, te Mr. an TS | val street. =. ‘ t Mitehell! of Wor-| ‘The appearance of Bartholo- cheste: Mans mew was arranged by John Pear- He plane fer improvement of | son, program chairman of,the lo- the property were announced | cal Kiwanis club. Tonight's meet- here | ing will start at 6:45 p. m. at the ~ | South Beach restaurant. —— ——— ] FOR SALE) Howard Piano Fine Condition Piano Tuner Telephone 625.) indeey Motor Company 404 Duval 61. —Next to Le Concha Hotel— Telephone 501 LS LOLOL, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS You are requested to meet at the Ley Memorial Church on Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock for the purpose of at- tending the funeral of Past Chancellor Robt. Whitehead. J. WINFIELD RUSSELL. Secretary. EWSPAPER KEY WEST. FLORIDA. TUESDAY; MARCH 1, 1949 THE SOUTHERNMOST N ONE CAUGHT IN VA _s DESPERADO SLAIN, ST MANHUNT % $ eg 4 (#) Wirephotos THE BODY OF DESPERADO BILL RAY GILBERT is, wrappéd ina sheet on the floor just after he was shot to death by a posse of officers in an auto court ‘at-Phoenix, Ariz. The fugitive and a companion. George Adolph Schmid, were hunted for'the slaying of Ernest Winstead, his wife, and their neighbor, Willis Pugh, near Needles, Calif. Right: Schmid (extreme right) was captured by two rookie policemen at Phoenix several hours before. Gilbert was trapped and slain: The cap- tive is talking with Sheriff James Stocker of San Bernardino, Calif, in whose coiinty Mr. and Mrs. Winstead and Pugh were killed. Between them is Florence Margaret Chisholm of Phoenix who was kidnaped by the desperados and taken on their trip’ into California. She escaped from them Friday night. : SOUTHERN SENATORS GIRD FOR | FIGHT AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS BILL; SHOWDOWN ON THURSDAY * * | MOUTHFUL Sen, Taft, Republican Leader, Says His Party’s Line Of Action To Be Fixed Tomorrew! Southern senators. .ée ..girding. themselves for the fight ag t the institution of the “gag” rule in the senate, and Senator Scott | Lucas, leader of the administra- ; tion forces, said today. that the + showdown will begin on Thurs- day. Senator Tom Connolly of Tex- as said the , South ready to swing up into the saddle to wage. its battle against the administra- tion's civil rights program. Southern senators, who oppose | particularly the anti-poll tax, an- ! (By The Associnied Prox) WASHINGTON, March 1. Aeres Of Land At Boea Chica; County’s Suit Heard Soon Cliairman Frank’ Bentley, “de- claring that only roi are to be di. is ussed at tonight's meeting of the Monroe County Commission. d today that a $60,000 check in payment. for 762 acres of land at Boca Chica Naval ti-segregation, anti-lynch and an- ir Fie! < a y me “ ti-diserimination in jobs of the ea Pet een Received { by civil rights program, declared i a ae y 3 iat i nadie Pace envi sai he had urn the challenge with all the fortitude | pe aie “BS Snaoe & patos y Mare aa bg behalf of the U.S. Navy and. is- (#) Wirephoto GLENN KURITZA, 4, was fit- ted with 2 plates of false teeth in Houston, Tex., Friday. The lad never grew but four teeth because his tooth buds never formed. His dentist says he'll have to wear false teeth the sued by the United States Di: triet Court for South Florida, over to County Aitorney Paul E. Sawyer. Payment of the, check stops a friendly condemnation suit filed by the Federal govern- ment for the Boca Chica land. Sawyer, Bentley said, would earmark. the check: for payment of the award later to be made They had agree? with Senator Lucas to sidetrack the disputa- | tious’ civil rights measures until such time veral essential bills had passed, but the | President evidently had objected , to that procedure and had ad ed Lucas to first launch the bat- tle for the civil rights program regardless of what may happen 'to other atters. Pigs when the county’s condemnation The President’s order may pro-| 7&St of his life. suit against the Kéy West Realty voke the bi filibuster in the - Company is tried and the jury nation’s history, and seemed cer- | makes an award for 280 acre; of tain to aggravate the’ split b: tween the White House and Sou- thern Democrats. Republican senators today r Latin Revue To Be Given Fun land the county seeks at Meacham Field, the county airport. ‘The county's suit has _ be; filed in the courts and it is ex- fused to say what course the ee pected to be settled some time will pursue in the fight. The visitors will be enter- shortly. leader, Senator Robert A. Taft, | the Chamber of Com- ASSEN PS stated that they will hold a pol- | Fun Nite, program tomor- Firemen Called icy meeting tomorrow, and that; evening with an outstanding a formal statement of their atti-| tram of rumba and conga A tude may be made public after | dancing, it was announced by B A Fr the session. y Miss Gertrude Laubseher, chair. DY Auto tire Southern senators are reported | man of C ponsored tour- ie to be trying to enter ist entertainments. Firemen of No. 1 Station were greement with Republ A ks American Revue, un- called to Thomas street near the s that may tie up der the direction of Alb Boza, Monroe County Clinic at Flem- some civil rights measu jlocal entertainment 1 , will ing street at 11:10a. m. today to ABER i pee presente It features acts extinguish a fire that started in | which a part of the show an automobile owned by some Air | Night in Havana,” which will be unidentified Navy chief petty STRAND consitioncad, nted at the Cuban Club on officer. Both front seats of the = 2 Sth ear were damaged. but apparent- “Tuesday and Wednesday SHANGHAI GESTURE with 1 local cast consists of ia Costa, Micky Diaz, Chiqui | AifonsgyQ@nelia. Casado, Diana j Diaz, Mike Mariseal, Dona Chor- ly there was no other loss. Ce TICKET OFFICE id. oth HUSTON S and community NCONQUERED 3 also ‘scheduled, and: ALL AIRLINES noper. Paulette Godgara. | “efreshments will be served. No Howard De Silva, Boris Karloft admission charge is made and all | PRICE TOURS tourists and winter visitors are MON AIR i} invited RE 4 viewing St. ROE COOLED P ee ee eee saibsai ot rs : hee a TN Tuesday and Wednesday * Austin Taylor TROUBLE IN TEXAS th Palace Theater General Contractor | ax oe | Roland Winters and PHONE 814 Coming: RAILROADED | an nr Seo. Yours |. PERRAZZO FLOORS John Ireland and Shella Ryan Docks of New Orleans”, TILE ‘6. —* Arranging For Truman's Visit; Yacht Williamsburg Reaches Here Yesterday Advance detachment for the coming of President Truman nes. Russia Says 14 Percent In e ee Sunday arrived at Key Wost Naval Station today. . | at the Naval Station and tied up right in front of the administratios Broadcaster .In _—_—__,__| building, only a relatively short distance from the Little White Moseank Incnhuue House to be occupied by President Truman and his To Suppress Uprisings (By 'The Anaucinted Press) LONDON, March 1. — Radio | Moscow, while commenting today on consumer price cuts in Rus- | Sia, said that 14 per cent of the people of the United States are starving. The spokesman declared that there is wide unrest in the Uni- ted: States, and that the army is | being enlarged so as to have troops available in ull parts of | ithe country to. repress any. pos- sible outbreak because of food shortages. of f Then the spokesman asserted that Russia has a more abundant supply of foodstuffs than ~ any other country in’ the world, and that it was that circustances that | led the Kremlin to issue its de- cree reducing prices on 45 basie classifications of commodities.” ‘i PS Peas nc ace tle heen cca al “District Manager the Western the ocvasion of man's last visit to November that the men, the wire services the radio nen sent out @ total of 500) | weer eS ae te throughout ‘Stocking, 70, died’ yester- |day afternoon in his’ residence, i’ 1102 Washington street er at be sent out | sotbint au Tse ‘cleaning @ (liamsburg. It is being put inte top condition for the coming ef the President. It is not known ‘present wheth Mrs and her daughter, Mar come, down with Mr Last November Mors, | and-her deughter |Short illness. i _The bedy was sent to Evans- | | ville, Indiana, today by hearse to! | Miami railroad and thence to its; | destination by the Lopez Funeral | |Home, for burial in the family | |plot and funeral services: t | Survivors: Two “brothé: | Stocking, Louisville, “Ken John A. Stocking, Evansville, Indiana; one sister, Mr Ben | Schriefer, Huntingburg, Indiana. H 1 | 4 x & (P) Wirephoto MRS, BILLIE MORRISON (above), 36, told police at Den- ver, Colo,, that she impersonat- . : Thee ed a man 20 years because “its | cece EEE the easier to get along in the world | dent and his official staff im tae as a man.” Her daughter dis- | Little White Houee closed the secret after they en- {| President Truman will teewe gaged in an argument. Police i Washington at 6:30 a. m. Sunday held both for investigation. jin the airplane, The independ Seb: | ence He is scheduled te arreve , Carl} tucky, Temperatures At 7:30 A.M., EST i . ~ {at Boca Chica Naval Air Field | ppoint Judee {here at about noon Station— Tenet Oo” | He will be met by Adminal W Adin Is B G S : !H. Leahy, USN, Naval attache et l Acauete >, war roup < JAYS, | the White House, who hus been Billings 24 B abe | visiting at Key West Naval Ste Birmingham 26 R wa o S oy | | tion for some time; Captain €. ¢ Biawites a eversing » tane | Adell, USN, commander of i Roston | Reversing its own previou 5 + be . > <= Buffalo 17' stand, the Monroe County Bar|. § New. hen Charlestén. 32 . U. S. Navy here, and Mayor A Che 4 as voted unani-| Maitland Adams and City Mom icago 14 ind a resolution to| avor Ralph D. Spalding Denver 31 nd to the state lepisla-| : pests 15: ture that the municipal judge | Le = 5 ship of Key Welt be maa cee: (RR. J, Whitehead Ft. Worth tive rather than by appointment; * Hleheat Galveston i of the city commission Di | y Jacksonville | Several months ago the asso- | MICG T@s y Kansas Citv ciation passed a resolution call Cd KEY WEST ing for election of the city judge! Robert J. Whitehead, 7 all , Key West Airport | and considerable controversy re-| at 5 o'clock yesterday altersuen Louisville 19) sulted ‘in the Monroe County Heapitel Meridian 32 Heretofore attorneys His residence was at 1310 Jotm Miami 50 to Key West v ite hee treet Minneapolis 5) considered eligibl | ervice i te ‘ Memphis 27/ ship in the assoc tomorrow New Orleans 44° of the ab Chu “ New York 27) ing, pros be placed at | Norfolk 3, now fil clock ' Oklahoma City be made known to Su s Sahn 3iship. Afte: itable Pittsburgh Roanoke St. Louis an Antonio an Francisco Seattle Tallahassee Tampa Washington hedulc other Just Arrived ... NEW SHIPMENT ZENITH RADIOS | NOW ON DISPLAY J. R. STOWERS CO. 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