The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 3, 1949, Page 1

THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1949 VOL. LX¥ No. 105 S -aman ELECTRIC BILLINGS TO ‘CITY (ity Commissioners Expect To Have* Electric System Pay For All Future |Crowe Resigns As Lighting Charges Made To City SRD Agent | _ City Commissioners last night voted unanimously to allow Mayor} J. A. Crowe, who had been A. Maitland Adams and Commissioner Fred J. Dion to work out an} With the State Beverage Depart- agreement with the City Electric System whereby the City of Key| ent for the last three months, West pay no more to the electric company: for the power it uses than supervisor. Crowe handled the the City Electric System pays in lieu of taxes. (Both Adams and|‘epartment’s work in Monroe Dion are members of the City Utility Board.) Siete funene, tothe, de In the past year, the City Elee-j i trie System has received $22,000 for electric bills rendered, and P ART OF COUNCIL has paid the City of Key. West F ial ommaaenan te oty| KOR ~SERVICEMEN ON $4,000, and besides use all the YMCA IS ELECTED lights, etc., needed in the city. If Will Elect Rest ABOUT SIX HOURS LATER, CAPTURED AT GOULDS BY STATE HIGHWAY PATROLMEN; JOHN B. HOLLINGSWORTH, WHO ALLEGEDLY FIRED : Cel SHOT, HELD IN DADE COUNTY JAIL A third-cless petty officer was shot and instanily killed early this morning at the Naval Station by an eppeeatice seaman, who loter fled and wes captured at Goulds at 6:30 a.m. The dead man was identified this afternoon by Navy officers as Robert William Long, 23, cf Buckeye, Arizona. me next of kin is an aunt, Mrs, ‘Nellie Long, ‘Under ‘abvect amd helng’ hell at ‘Dele Gea TET ois Teke . Hollingsworth, 18, of Asheville, N. C.. who allegedly fired the shot that killed his shipmate, and Rafael (Grass) Ferrar of Duval étrec!. taxicab driver, who is being held momentarily. @s a maforial wit- ness. An official Board of Inquiry is} already working on the case at | NONSUPPORT the Naval Station.It will be sev- eral days before a report is re- ceived from the board. As nearly as could be learned from officers at the Naval Station this agreement could be worked out, many unlighted areas in Key West, would promptly be illumi- nated at no cost to the taxpayers of. the city, Of Council In tivities, including Boca Chica ee ee The crying need for more city s i and Destroyer Squadron Six. { Bo craft. “Where ai at oe lighting in Key West. becomes About Week; Council Those elected during the last - . ipparently no more acute as the city’s residenti- T i i} al areas are extended. Last.night, ‘o Help Programs Lee Sendoya, whd received 192 a large delegation of residents : j votes, and Ralph Holtcinger, who asked that some lighting be-given| | Flection of part of a Service| wi) represent the Naval Station. | residents in the aréa surrounding | Men’s Council of the Key West] Bill Haynie, who received a’ 6th and 8th streets, The City} Armed Services YMCA‘ was an-' total of 182 votes, ‘and “Chips” por i bd ck tea to pve nounced today by Forest Turner, a ae we represent the gate the matter, and see what: gq jubRon Four section. could be done for the residents’ poser’ = the institution, which | Robert L. Veach, who received concerned. : is at Jackson Square. 164 votes, and Edward Gabriel, | Bicycle Ordinance To A total of 258 ballots were cast who received 161 votes and who, Be Enforced in City | in the elections, which closed! will represent the” Fleet Sonar After hearing Taxpayer Sam | with the selecting of representa-| School. Hart ‘tell ‘the dangerous con tives of the Naval’Station, Sub-} Turner was pleased with the oe » Fleet... Sonar or et on % the city’s. side-} In ebouihaln week elections will | ing’ things,” said Turner. the ission told City also be held at the YMCA for the | enlisted men will turn to. am Manager Ralph ding to have) selection of representatives of | help the YMCA put on its pro- the law enforée prohibiting bi-|‘other sections of the — ac- grams.” cycle riding on tity sidewalks. To Investigate Possibility Seer Re Reds Intended To Trap was asked by city commissioners. to investing the pare? te having a ramp placed at the enc Am ¥ WV. hit I Th of White street. This ramp would erican ars aps n e be used by the owners of out- board motor boats. At. present, there is no place in the city for them. to load and unload their boats, Commissioner Louis Car- bonell referred to. them as “out- casts”. They aré, now, not allow- ed to use either the city or the . witnesses to the actual shooti: week were: though the report was paige others aboard the ship. The bullet entered the ect left arm, ran up his’ arm, through his héart and came Lena his right side. It is presumed the dead sailor put up his arm to ward off a blow from the gun held by. Hollineseeah Then Hollingsw Tan up the-upper deck | ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN KEY WEST, around which the 27th Annu pease Taub alegre teen Ren aah gen ay of Common Prayer in English, and conducted as nearly like the first English Service in 1549 will take place there Wednesday, 10:00. A.M. be the reall for -hé potunted to i pd after he injury was dress- DIOCESAN CONVENTION CELEBRATES _ ae FOUR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF [isc 22" COMMON PRAYER BOOK IN ENGLISH from the grounds of the Naval , e e Whangpoo, : Nationalists Say hee 27th Annual Convention Of The Episcopal Church, Diocese Of South Flor- (#) Wirephoto Station, went to the rear of Mon- roe County Courthouse where he} BOB HOUSTON of Union, N. ida And The Annual Meeting Of The Woman’s Auxiliary Open Here Today, May 3rd, And Special Activities Are Scheduled Through May 5th; Organi changed into civilian clothes. J. campaign manager, tries to He next appeared on Duval] convince Pamela Sue Miller, 2 street gnd hired Ferrar, who op-| that she should picket the erates a taxicab near the corner] campus of Bradley University of Greene street, to drive him]. at Peoria, Ill. in support of her out to Boca Chica. dad’s candidacy as explained Ferrar told Dade County au-| i thorities that as the cab neared| DY the sign. As Pam saw it, it So Informed * Commander Of U. S. Whangpoo to stop the warships county beach, The sdvigebility of from escaping from the river and zation Of Convention 5:30 O’Clock This Afternoon the gate to Boca Chica Naval Air| ¥@S ® lost cause, maine rite! at Reynolds Fleet That Steamed ‘leave them as close-up targets | i es Station Hollingsworth turned to . Gaiet wne i: pid Hecatise 7 for communist bateries along the! When the Convention 0 CH and sai Ex editer . of the large Merve ‘of rocks Out Of River shoreline. | delegates representing the many é " eep going. I have two P i > loaded guns. One is pointed at there, it was stated. (By The Associated Prensa) So anchors of the American parishes and missions of the B ll T. L ris 1 B k 4 : : “ig 2 i bo Representative Papy Given SHANGHAI, May 3.—Today Warships were weighed and, led Episcopal church of the Diocese il 0 cea 1Z¢€ OOKIE bare Mien eeanesnn pees Speaks A ut City Stand On Bills the 1,400. Americans who are by the flagship Eldorado, ran to ¢¢ south Florida takes place t pis ? Representative Bernie C. Papy| temporarily stranded in Shanghai Pe" water beyond the Whang- S| e is to be instructed to vote for the |jearned why the American fleet P00: i a Pa. pba: ieatties Gane te Betting Introduced In House; bill increasing Hcense fees for! pulled up anchor suddenly last The 1,400 Americans in Shang- jeproduction of the first com- beer and wine, establishments, Thursday and went beyond the hai were told that they would be munion service under the new | % e ° and to vote against the bill pla-| mouth of the Whangpoo River.- evacuated when the fall of the Prayer Book of Edward VI, ‘Sponsor Predicts Big Revenue going.” R Hik - Ferrar also said that Hollings- ent es worth then fired pple the PRE hits» Poon bullet. striking the dashboard -of f on the cab. Fe tt drove rapidly up WASHINGTON, May 3—Hous- the Overseas Highway. ing Expediter Tighe Woods today In the meantime the Shore Pa-| would not venture a guess as to trol of the Navy had details of|the sum that landlords may in- the men searching for Hollings-| crease rents under the new worth, They called on Sheriff} He said that about 14 million Berlin A. Sawyer and Deputy | renting units are still under rent- cing the Norberg Thompson! Commander of the fleet said city to the Reds was imminent. which will be held at 10 a. property out of the city limits:| he had learned through Nation-; Cannon fire from Nationalist Wednesday The vote for ene the apie alist sources that the Commun- and Red guns can be heard plain- ~~ Qn January 21, 1549 the prayer - Ses was unanimous, but the vote | ists in the event they got control | ly in Shanghai, as the Reds con- book was compiled by a commis- M 4 i excluding, the Thompson proper- | o¢ Shanghai, had intended to tinue to advance slowly toward sion under Thomas Cranmer, onroe s uota ty was 3-0 with Mayor A. Mait- sink a ae in the mouth of the the city. then Archbishop of Canterbury land Adams and Commissioner ——-—-- was adopted, a new era of Buble In Bond Drive E Prohibit Wearing Sheriff Frank Webber. control, and that it would be Jeft - ri 4 The State Highway Patrolmen|to the owners to determine what Louis Carbonell. passing. worship was begun in the Masks In Public ot ye geays! Fred J. Dion in- tr t i ‘ 112 000 on the keys were contacted. Two] the advances in prices should be. i" church. The present concle ‘at i jluced the motion, stating that r. € d R A Se tPauliatkoR eo ES at el t s (By The Aasoetated Presa) piped > Ngee dae oodman heports At Sits cue ineon es , road blocks were placed, one at He will be ready, Wood warn- : Som a | Rock Harbor and the other at|ed to act if the landlords charge will hear the service much fie jee ALES TR SSeE ahr Goulds. Ferrar was beyond Rock | more htna they are legally enti- House Also Considers Meeasure That Would be taken off city assessment rolls ; way it was performed in 1549. jp Seeectalese Re ee! bill, designed to legalize the op-| Harbor by the time the road|tled to won't be evemme, # precedent oaks For Further Dut During the reign of Edward VI_ TAMPA, May 3.—J. J. Trevor, gration of vookie houses, was in-| block wan placed there, States sandadbelic: subeipinons pee agg yay ep ¥ (1547-1553) a commission of some chairman of Monroe County Sav- troduced tday in the House of| ‘Two State Patrolmen were on| will have much to do under tiv main, Me a (gdb 16 members took over the gov- ings Bonds committ Representatives. Its sponsor de-| duty at Goulds. They were Pa-|law in fixing rent scales, Wood Want Financia) Statement ‘| Filling Post Sr ernment at the death of Henry today that he has received the ‘ clared that the adoption of the] trolmen John H. Pace and C.|said. He thought that rents will From.Coumt “a cer Quarters, Naval Air Station VII. This commission acted for quota assignment for the Oppor- ’ pil] would result in the payment] M, Simpson. They saw Ferrar’s| adjust themselves satisfactorily Aocmiven jeer mat was the} Vaeated By Dr. amas d the 10-year old monarch and tunity Bond Drive from V._ H./ of $33 million in taxes to the|taxieab approaching the block. | when the law is functioning geu- mdtion asia a crag Monroe Rolland G b A (Seaplane Base). while its nominal hez was Northeutt, chairman of the State | ge) : Drawing their revolvers the two | erally County Hospital authorities send onand Greenburg At He was graduated from ie Cranmer, ae \eomupission clevied BAVISDEY, eomnitts | aThe pul provides: thee te op- one 's estonbed the a, piel; SS ae = wa Chi ae Trier High School, Winnetka, the Duke of Somerset a ,rotec . Gy opehe eh * erator of a main bookie ho ingsworth made no _ effort i) : Soke fan rtiag ceneioaoners| Boca Chica Field lenin ceil Poa derarvnae ual t0F, while the an on had B ond es for the de f pay a license ot sion a year| use the two weapons he was car- Fourteen Fires ef ~ Cliffor, rag bd ea ne ‘ no rig. io do so, ne heless SCE Zeh: , and $1,000 for each branch, in ad- J rying. * erntheught Sich iy should nove | tenant (unioravode, U3. Rect. | org ee Mae I the disnlute Somerset received While tre promotion period tor | gion to the atate's “alse” fron) | Both Holingrworth and errar | agtanoy A paral an insight into the hospital’s op-| of chi [rein »| 1942; and from Harvard Medical the appointment. During this cs pila ae a Bee the betting, as now is done at] were taken at once to the Dade DB p erations, particularly since, the |°t Chicago, recently reported to} school, Boston, in 1945, receiving time and for some years previous Te ee eee ob legalized betting at horse and] County jail. Hollingsworth was ne ee aiebatie Gatos city grants $15,000 SC early to the |}AMti- Submarine Development | his commission as an ensign June the reformation was taking place rh ft 2, i ; an h E bonds Ba | dog tracks. ; held _incummunicado, but Ferrar | _ tea yee Ratt duct the hospital, Combtinoher L. Car-|Squadron ONE (VX-1), Boca} 23, 1945. Cranmer had been authorized by , (1) all sales ol ae wrath, are |, 28 the Hyuse also, a bill was (Continued On Page Six) ‘| sou tL Gta mtd Fire Chief Leroy bonell said that éne of the main| Chica Field, for duty. Dr. Good-| Prior to reporting for duly at the dead King to draw up a set we we pri ot my se races igine introduced to prohibit the wear- Tor 2 Sody < plakedivio” City reasons for the pligtit of the hos- | man is filling the post which was| Key West, Dr. Goodman was vice book to, be used in the ae BS a fears ane seriod |i2& of masks or hoods on streets ae St Ralph a sigsadaeny pital is that ptivate, doctors are patie Grong {attached to Air Group FIVE as English church. The English patall rive, Period | or in public places. While the Ku SPECIAL Total loss from the fires wa Setting up their own’small hospi. | V#cated by Dr, Rolland Green-| Fright Surgeon. language was coming more and pouBiily paral last year’s Secu- | yyy Klan is not mentioned, it is '35¢ ota gine "act bee. 5 ha tals. The -commissioner said that | DUP on February 25. Dr. Goodman is the son of Mis. more into vogue an dsince alll Ks S , President "Trum: an will official (Continued CBg eam A Si ROLL FILM port. 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