The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 21, 1949, Page 1

Bolero May Invest $345,000 In Key West Dog Track Will Model Plant After Pensacola, Fla., Track; Plans To Employ From 60 To 100 Residents — Clty Commissioners last night in special session heard Charles Bolero. owner of the West track would be Pensacola dog Miamian phaniced that would be allowed the track, but thet money was neded from that 4 “We want the to be prowd of our wa! * will be operated”, said . The Mi the propesttion materializes that he end his asoctates will tell Key ot about the track in wivertixements to be placed in Tomerrow engineer amt Bolero th exact location wt toch te Apel | ‘The deg track will need from @ & 109 |ocal residents. 25 per cont of whonr would be women, wad 18 per cent men. All employ- ment would be local. ‘The city commissioners infor- wally without vote took the stand thet Bolero would be given « leowe calling for @ nominal sum enti the investment of the op- orators hed been returned. After that the lease would be raised somwhat City Attorney Ignatius Lester informed the Board that the Also that « county referendum just be hed approving of dog (eck recing. Prier to close of the special Meeting, Charlies Bolero stated that he would have in the next tWe weeks a concrete proposal to Present to the commission that he is Henry 0. Russell Died This Morning Henry ©. Ru.seli, 70, cied this morning at 7:15 o'clock in his re- silence ot 1319 Elizabeth street Funeral services will be held Seturday ot 5 p.m. in the chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home, St. Mary Star of the - Chureh. The Rev. F. J., will officiate. Bu- rial Will be in the family plot in Catholic Cemetery ons: Widow, Mrs, Mamie daughters, Mrs. Maxwell Charleston, S. C., ‘and son, wm Russell, Cleveland, Obiny brother. sister, Mrs. Miami, and Charles 3 grand- Russel! was for many years with the Peninsula Life company here until he Several yars ago. Come and See the NEW 1949 6 & 8 Cyl.—the smart- lines in body and its model engine at.., K. W. HUDSON CO. PH 1696 Aime Me “a Show You w Yo eb tgees gee se sees et — <<< HL P. Hertl, Cleveland, Ohio; | Raymond Russell, | Bridgehead ‘Over Y: Uver Yangtse ‘ ‘ . { 60,000 Troops Reported) To Have Crossed Against Sustained National Attack (My ‘The Associnted press) NANKINK April aetna have been received here that the communists have thrown a bridgehead across the Yangtse, 80 miles west of heve. It was fur- ther stated that 60,000-Red troops have crossed to the south bend of the river. Government forces are ‘report- ed to be striking: back: furiously | but have been unable ‘to stop the Red tide. The. ist objec- tive is to cut off: Nanking in the rear in the hope of. capturing was begun at noon’ yester- day. Reports went the rounds here that the Nationalist government is tottering, with the leaders un- pea to decide on concerted action ae the Reds, Body Of Clarus ‘Robert Hall Sent To Home The body of Clarus Robert Hall age 24, who died. from’ injuries received in a motorcycle accident | was sent yesterday afternoon by | Pritchard Funeral Home to Ft. | Madison, Iowa, for. funeral servi- | cos and burial. | He is survived by his mother, | Mrs. Lavine Hall, who came to; Key West upon being notified of the accident. Lewis Hearing \This Afternoon Late today a preliminary hear- ing for Alonzo Lewis, colored, | charged with breaking and enter- ing 714 Elizabeth street recently and slashing Florena Johnson, | colored, with a knife will be held | before Peace Justice Roy Hamlin} the beach. ‘ at 1014 Truman avenue. | “We should continue to keep The woman was taken to the|the beaches we have and should Monroe County Hospital and for! be trying at all times to add to; a time it was feared she might|them,” said Lopez. “Tourists die. Now she has. recovered and|during last winter flocked to will. appear against Lewis this af-| Monroe County Beach and to the ternoon. Lewis is held under}City Beach at the end of Duval $1,000 bond in County Jail. strect.” —_———_ Former President Edwin Trev- 4 8 lor introduced two guests, Paul 63 Officers Off | Brick of the da’ Council of [Boy Scouts and Captain Joseph 7 Bocelapo, which served with him) Sixty-three reserve public in- | | formation officers of the U. S. | Navy,-who have been here a wek | taking a refresher course, left by j air for Pensacola: this morning. They took off at 8 a. m. | . The officers were brought here | to study the anti-submarine work | | being carried on in the Key West Naval area. They also.went down in submarines and were carried | on surface vessels operating out of here. TICKET OFFICE "ALL AIRLINES PRICE TOURS Ce ee] : © | ty superintendent of public in- THE SOUTHERNM KEY WEST, + OST oN THE BRITISH NAVAL SLOOP AMETHYST (above) wes shelled.and grounded by Chinese Com- be. " ¥ oto via Radio: from London me munist guns on shore as she moved along the Yangtze river between Nanking and Shanghai Wed- nesday: Twenty casualties aboard the sloop were reported by British quarters in Nanking. The British destroyer Consort went to the aid of the Amethyst and munist guns along the river bank. SCHOOL BOARD TO too, was shelled by Com- ~- CONSIDER SCHOOLS O'Bryant Tells Bésetting Counties. In Passing Bond Issues For Schools @ Horace O’Bryant, Monroe coun- struction, today told the mem- bers of the Rotary Club what the* county superintendents of the state did at their Gainesville meeting last week. All of what O’Bryant had to was contained in an article carried in Tuesday issue of The Citizen, when the county superin- tendent returned from Gaines- ville. O’Bryant’s talk. before the Rotarians, at their weekly lunch- eon in St. Paul’s Episcopal Par- ish Hall, had to do very largely with bond issues proposed throughout the state to finance construction of enlarged school | facilities. Monroe County is soon going to consider a bond issue totaling about $500,000 to finance pur- school construction. During the meeting President Aquilino Lopez, Jr., told how the Monroe County Beach had been dedicated last Sunday -and_ told of the part’ the Rotary Club's beach committee, headed by Joe Pearlman, played in creation of not seen since he left Belgium. | ;chase of additional sites and for| th | Warren Boosts |Of Meeting Of FerryFromKey : ls |West To Guba — °enefit Entire™ State, Would Give City New Industry Fred J. Dion, vice presiderit of the Gulf Atlantic Transportation Company, ‘today received copies of a:statement issued by Govern- or Fuller Warren. covering the ferry which: the company plans to operate between Key West and Havana. “It if gratifying to me to learn of the recent progress of the pro- posed Key West-Havana passen- ger and automobile ferry serv- ice”, says the statement issued by the Governor, “I firmly believe that. such a/O'Bryant: “A committee of the] the Yangtse. service will be beneficial to the entire State of Florida. Tourist travel today betwen Cuba and Florida by plane and ship is’ at -an all-time high “There is every reason to be- lieve that automobile travel, made possible by this ferry ser- vice, would bring an even great- er tourist interchange. - “As I see it, the institution of is new service also would en- hance the good-neighbor between Cuba ‘and States. “Br s, it would help devel- op the Florida Keys and give Key West a new industry. It is my be- lief that this service is the first step in linking Florida with the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, by was of Cuba. - “This would complete the east- (Continued On Page Five) |'Thompson’s New Thompson’s N {ce Plant Runs In Small Way The ice plant of Thompson En- terprizes, incorporated, got under Guests at the club today were | Way at noon today, according to E. Ludwig of Ottawa, Ill, and T.| A. Maitland Adams, general man- J Hall of Muncie, Ind. Wanted! Couple to Manage Small Hotel—/| should be on full-scale produc- | ager for Thompson Enterprises. The plant, which will be a new one to displace one that burned Wanted! | 82me time ago, is now operating on a-small scale, but shortly Husband can be Employed Else- | tion, Adams said. where . . . Apartment Furnished Reply to BOX 708, CITY MIAMI - KEY WEST BARGE LINE. Inc. |)GLYDE-MALLORY DOCKS TELEPHONE 6 »;Barge Leaves Miami : Every Friday { } j ice from the mainland but should / The company is still importing later make all their here, ice right wewtwewwvvvrrvwwe BRADY’S —for—— CHOICE POULTRY 1116 White Street Phone No. 5 Rasesssese or2044 505 the United FOR UPPER KEYS ——* High School For | That Area To |. Be Discussed ? Await Report From ~ State Covering | < Situation At oun- ty School Board*are going to j study the question of establish- ‘ing a consolidated school to, serve tricts and also a High. School to | serve the Upper Keys. i He said that the report was to make recommendations, among other matters, on the’ question of establishing a consolidated school and a High School for the two | districts, and \said it was expect- ed to.arrive here not later: than one week. | .“Whatever the recommenda- ' tions may. be, it is expected that we ‘will’ follow them”,* said {residents of Tavernier and Isla- morada is serving now and is | working to get a location for the \ construction of the. proposed | schoo! It is understood that the com | mittee has been offered about 16 acres of land on Plantation Key. ; Which is about three miles south | of Tavernier at a nominal figure |It is also reported that neither j community will -be favored with | regard to the location of the pro- | posed school | Naturally each of the commu- | nities want the school to be lo- | cated in its immediate district, |so it is likely that a compromise |location will be agreed upon At present there is no high school on the Upper Keys. Both he grade schools at Islamorada nd Tavernier are now getting toc ‘small and need enlargement; sc the idea of the consolidated schoo} to serve both communities has been suggested. Edward Sweeting, a schoo! board members, lives on Upper Keys and will make arrange- | ments for the public meeting of ‘interested residents after the | state report has been received | here. | | aS {FUND DRIVE. | AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY APER IN THE , FLORIDA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1949 # Reds’ Batteries! i British Ships - {the ‘Tavernier-Islamorada — dis-j Seminary St. Shooting Man Passes Away 5:30 A.M. Following Death Of His Wife At 9:00 O’Clock Last Night a > Russell did not regain consciousness and poy of. the nature of the trouble between who died instantly of bultet wounds in Says Robeson Does Not Voice Fire On2 More | 10,000-Ton British _ | Heavy Cruiser Returned » Fire Effectively, Captain Reports (Ry ‘The Asnoctated Presa> NANKING, April 21.—Com-. | | ‘munist batteries 6n the north, <9 e | shore of the Yangtse attacked two egroes View ing ee ” |more British ‘warships today, the GaP ate tices Voeer 10,000-ton heavy cruiser London Fs ‘ussell. Bae the frigate Black Swan. Refers To Statement ge give | "The British reported that the| . Made In Paris Webber to Russell. t inumber of killed on sloop Am-| , any more shooting around P ‘thyst and the destroyer Consort} Yesterday About “Come near me and you'll get hyesterday and the London ‘and}*: N Fiehti shot,” Russell is said to Black Swan ‘today. total 30, and egroes Fighting declared. bar wounded were in excess (By The Associated Prensa) ‘< phages ran back og ~ home of 100. 2 NEW YORK, April 21—Walter | © get his revolver, bed Captain of the London announe-} White, president of the Associa- | going back and forcing te ed that he had- effectively . at- ‘give up his weapon. Just as he tacked communist batteries, but| ion for the Advancement of Ne-| reached his home, he ‘withdrew before he was able to gro People, issued a statement to- other shot. Webber ran beck ’te nendler sesiettnes 1p the crewmen} day asserting that Paul Robeson, | bo pay bape and on the sloop Amethyst. ‘ .. sell ly on floor. | Fifty-three of thé survivors on Apperican’ Negro comet fell for Then Webber found the Amethyst succeeded: in reach- short of representing ® majority sell was still ‘ing Shanghai’ by land..a-broad- of the 14 million American Ne-" n cast from that city stated. j.groes when he said in Paris. yes- tomihe Peneens British authorities in Hong joes declared that the attaeks on nda, that they would notefight aa nh tage Aes Rosie in. the: dyent ot eae ternational law, as all of them between that county, j had carried“whi flags and werethe ‘United States. Robgson made he on missions-of merey along the that statement in the course of! Russell's bigarsee tee ees 8 an address before 2,000 members badd to 01 a S etween 1e * me. British and the Communists are} ot the ‘World Peace Congress said Neighbors said expected to’become ‘more acute, | Session in Paris. | who hi worked as Hong Kong naval authorities; said that the “matter had not ended.” A London dispatch re-; fore th heard the first three ported thatthe British Admiralty: ‘€S Te loyal to thelr country, and hot. “the "shooting a had ordered. two more British, that. he was confident Robeson ‘Shout 9 Pp. m. Two of the shots warships in the Hong Kong area: did not voice their attitude’tow- | entered Mrs. Russell's heed to proceed to the Yangtse.) ‘ ard their country. | while the other went inte the The captain of the London. on; white is the author of many ar- ; Webber home. Hidatsa: oactiayrs do jad icles designed to promote the Mrs. Russell owned and opere chine-gunned British sailors whil | they were swimming from th Amethyst to the south bank. of to white and Negro audiences in year-old son by @ previous mar various parts of the country. riage living in White said that a vast majority Electric System until last week, yet; of the Negroes in the United Sta- came home about 15 minutes be- DEFENDANT VICTOR IN SUIT BY KYLES FOR $75,000 TODAY Aquilino* Judge Lopex Directs Verdict Holds Kyles Did Not Prove Case; Failed Negligence”? Charge A directed verdict in the defendant today was i ad by Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr.,/_7 > in the Cireuit Court suit for $75.-, Pfingst might have been 00 brought by Robert Kyle and. ing the, plaintiff had his wife, Helen, against Ferdin-| Show he was grossly negligent. | ing camp on Bahia Honda Key, I FE; id | testified they were injured March nquest ri ay ies 1948 in an Overseas priest, jaccident and cha Pfingst Death Of | with “gross negligence.” Kyle suf-! nto t \fered a broken neck, sought pey-| CY iment of $50,000 while Mrs. Kyle,| UL@Pus R. Hall i who suffered a fractured rib and} Pe, Ghani Cros | concussion, sought $25,000. An inquest into the death of bogie speaieaicla | Deferise Attorney Reid DeJar-|Clarus Robert Hall, United States {nette of Miami moved twice to! sailor who died in Naval Huspital bring the court action to a halt| oF injuries in a crash of ae favor of} yesterday, but each time Judge craeh Cte mates render- : Lopez denied the motions. Lovee eae se nN = in The attorney argued that te | day pit Bing it Re asd speed- in failed to| Peace Justice Roy Hamlin’s court at 1014 Truman avenue tomor , | = for yles were | TOW at 3 p. m. and O. Pfingst. hj Aitorrieys: for. the Kyles were | sry sehaeeselis > mote Judge Lopez supported the arate te ang Borique leet with two other pe Maas wgument of defense cone oa a | suffered a fractured skull and a hat the testimony of the plain-; | broken leg in the accid Gis’ witnesses had ‘failed. to e ee leg in the accident. A jury e will hear testim t nase show ‘gross negligence” on the’ Peace Theater [tomorow part of Pfingst, the defendant. | The six-man jury immediately ! GENE AUTRY and ‘eturned a verdict to that effect. | JEAN HEATHER in | embers of the jury were Neil} « UP”; Shea, Herbert Whitney, Frank ‘THE LAST ROUND- | jomaguerro, Jack C. Murray,| C@@e@@oescecssovooooocooe Paul Albury and W. T. 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