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oat Ee om ark commence 9 Be eV eea © a --——. VOL. LXX. Nationalists Claim Victory Over Reds (fy The Anwoctnted Press SHANGHAI, May 12—National Government § = officials ~— today | chimed « “decided victory” over the Reds ino sector 30 miles ferthwea of this city The communique steted that the Rete were beaten back with “great howe ond that they are oh retrewting. In other sectors, the / Gomalets are holding their Own, it was stated tm Camton, the Nationalist seat ef government. officials anaounc- e@ that their forces are determin- of tw fight to the bitter end ; the communist hordes. Fee sateen Ret. feat. CAR CRACKS UP, BURNS IN RACE; DRIVER "WALKS AWAY t declared that the re going to meet with de- wimilar te those administer- (®) Photos AN AUTOMOBILE driven by Carl Tillman of Mableton, Ga., crashes into an embankment (top) during stock car races in Lakewood Park at Atlanta, Ga. After turning over several times, ‘the car burst into flames (bottom). Tillman walked away from the wreckage. He was not ‘hurt seriously. To Island City Sy LUISE PUTCAMP, JR. Dailies (Tex.) Morning News KEY WEST. Fla. April 30.— ‘The Island City, the southernmost point im the United States, the pleee thet hes no chimneys, is husiness at the same old ~ePeson oF No. There are still a few minor celebrities in town and the usual Dade Judge \Flays Gambling Interests PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL GETS. HERE MAY 17 2s. Will Be Enroute Tot “nah eed. wah BO Visit President | Bids To Be Opened ty who had been elected or ap- | a pointed to enforce the law. ~ieuman, “nay 12ForNew Yet.Key West is remy for the summer trade. ‘The chamber of commerce (a 1 activities in the Miami area ‘athount to $100 million yearly, of which ‘amount grafters get a 25 | Percent “s! _ 9 * 'y the “Naval <Commissaty’| That money, he ‘said, is ¢given ih the ‘to Building in’ imdp- | Out in various manners for cov- j ton street has‘ béen pos oned er-UP elie S. " ‘ sas ;./ until 11 a. m., May 12, it was an-/ to charity in some c S, Seaton Rreakiont Euric’ Gas | nounced today by Gommander | so that the public would be mis” par Dutra will arrive at Boca) 4 ¢. Husband, USN, officer in| lead. Other parts of it are con- Chica Naval Air Field May 17,| charge of construction. tributed to campaign funds or are enroute to visit President Tru-| The present commissary is lo-| Used in Tallahassee in attempts man, and will be quartered over-| cated in Seminary street. The| to stop the passage of bills that night at the Little White House; bids being sought by the Navy| adversely affect gambling and at ‘the Naval Station. {is for the relocation of it, to-|tacketeering interests. Officially announced today at; gether with furnishing and in-| He exhorted the jury to make Sete fending about itself in) Key West Naval Base, it was re-/ stalling new equipment in the|@ thorough investigation that will Netiens! Geographic, Collier’s,| ported that President Dutra will | Gato building. | MeCells, Tews and Country and|be accompanied by a large en-! Dutra’d Coming Todays | To Stay Overnight In. Little’ White House’ ' Opening of bids for the relo- | cation ef Key West i even now looking for ward—-net without apprehen- men who are conniving with the Women’s Home Companion. In! tourage and will fly here fyom the Brazilian is returning that | 84™mblers and winking at the vio the m@idet of the Murry two rival] Brazil. The time of his arrival. visit, lation of the law coukbeoks have sprung up was not known at the Key West’ Leaving here on May 18, the} —— ia, SoS ‘The pest season started with | Naval Base. | President of Brazil will be flown | ° © wheertof rush around! The Little White House is be-' directly to Washir Whether R: d M Christmas time but dropped off | ing aired and made ready der the or not U: S“Navy or Army planes | WN@ 10 OSCOW erely © March instead of|coming of President Dutra. by would fly. -him to Washington Wheering inte inte May. So Key ,express orders of President Tru-| was not: known here today. West & banking more than ever | man, who invited the head of the | It was reported in ‘yesterday's Brazilian. government here: | Key West Citizen that the Pres President Truman visited: Pres~' dent of Brazil might \ conie here For the first time im many | ident Dutra jn Brazil in 1947;and on May 17. : veers the ewenk Case Marina : Hotel & guimg te stay open all; The Sun end Sand, PREACHER SEIZED, CROWD PROTE! | Says Will Assure Peace beet club Gpen to practically mo _ 2 Acad . enyone with $25 for the year, is Sy Of World; Blockade qome to etey open all but a few C . weet. this year ‘To Be Stopped Rents, i general, wre half as | Se Sere) tan © Gan ee han 5 P.M. Tomorrow tee tte Feb |. But the cut is | (By ‘The Axsociated press) BERLIN, May 10—Freight trains and trucks will begin roll- ing at one minute after midnight Thursday (5 p. m., Eastern Stand- ard Time tomorrow) over the roads and tracks that have been (Continwed On Page Eign) | Plane Bringing Man To Key West | | | | | A Comet Guard airplane has ; blockaded by the Russians since een depetehed to San Salva- jJune of last year. The counter fee the se sick seaman aboard | blockade by the Allies will be the URE Wyandotte, « cargo ves i hlifted at the same minute. oh, beck tf Key West Naval hos at The Count Guard plane was Germans. in both the eastern ' the Miami ‘and western zones are happy wd = District “4 | over the removal of the transpor- | tation difficulties. The only note of regret in the western zone is + MASONIC NOTICE There will be a Regular Meet- ing of Dr. Felix Varela Lodge No. | 64, F. & A.M. at 8 P.M., Thurs- | day. May 12, 1949, at our Temple, (®) Photo| 919 Elizabeth Street. Master Mason Degree will be | conferred in Spanish, at nearby Maryville after his release from the | All Master Masons are cordial- Palace Theater + { | 4 police sta’ He was arrested on a charge of violating a city | ly invited to attend. erdinnce prohibiting the use of loudspeakers on the city’s Fraternally. streets. A crowd of some 1,000 protesting persons flocked to | JOSE C. FERNANDEZ, the police station after the preacher's arrest. The crowd was | FELICIANO CASTRO, orderly and engaged in singing hymns. Worshipful Master, gworted out will | worked out in’the interior. Much, iTo the gambling ‘and . racketeering ,| building down considerably be- result in bring ing to justice those ! Conciliatory Vein About Lifting Of Berlin Blockade . 3 THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN T KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1949 Range Frost $181,000 | To $138,000; Committee To Study . Plans, Make Revisions : Bids submitted for the Scottish Rite Temple that will be built:at the corner of Simonton and Eaton. | ade ' Today ‘By ' | streets ranged from. $131,000. to} dollors. Dunn : ‘Is Burglarized Dunn's. ay y time this morning departed .a: cash : rej contained only a goods, ham and sundry it were missing: The “stuff” stolen was valued. .at several hundred tl ti $138,000, according to an an- Brey 's prc here for « re nouncement today by the Scot-| notiti ty. was ~dis~ employ itish Rite Temple Association, in- pene. shee scene ofthe bure- ee: force. ; corporated. )Some time‘ ago, | fi The hardest hit in all ship- The building committee and} were seen rifling the Dunn ¢ yards is Boston, where 1.700 jthe architect will ‘work with the pre & page rede -| wall rn a A eaerstbee palspokstinens Thay | BOYS Hes pen eek falt te ln wom whee C. C. Reynolds was. shot through { only 30, out of mese than 1,- hope to get the figure down to'@| one ee ‘when @ gus’found in the; 000 will lnse jobs. ‘figure that the association believ- es it can afford. None of the elintinations ‘t6*be. ip any involve! \of the architect's, drawings, had| to do with highly finished interi- or design. The committee believes it ‘can substitute certain materials and thus bring the expense of the low the.low figure submitted by: the firm that submitted the low- est bid. The Temple will be 50 feet j wide by 100 feet in length. The first floor will contain stores that the association will rent. On the |second floor will be the lodge rooms, with a roof garden above the second floor. The building will have suffici- ent foundation for one or two floors above the second. Speaks In »* over the crashing of a British air- lift plane, with four members of its crew injured, two of them so | critically they are expected to |die. Thus far 28 Americans and | 23 British have been killed since “Operation vittles” was begun. The airlift cost the British gov- | ernment $23 1-2 million and the United States government, $173 | million. | While the commander in the | Soviet zone was abrupt in an- |nouncing the discontinuance of | the blockade, Moscow Russia was “surprisingly concilatory today in ‘a statement made by a Kremlin ' spokesman. He said that the removal of | the blockade will result in an | east-west understanding that will assure the peace of the world. The tension between the Sovits and the Western Powers, he add- jed, has already been eased, and’ | the conferences of the Big Four in Paris, beginning on May 23,’he concluded, wiil remove the ten- sion entirely and establish an un- ‘derstanding between Russia and | the nations in the western bloc. MIAMI - KEY WEST BARGE LINE. Inc. CLYDE-MALLORY DOCKS TELEPHONE ¢ Barge Leaves Miami Every Fr. {a iz car’ ‘acci, dentally: went: off. Ls Try To $3,500 More Needed; Aniount Speut In Key * West Last Year By. "Red Cross;" $56,096 ‘The Island City’s. fishing fleet, which was dealt a severe blow by the Hurticanes of last year, was partly rehabilftated with thous- ands of dollars spent by the Red Cross. Key West chapter officials, who will. head the “round-up drive” Saturday ‘to collect $3,500, report that $44,596.69 was spent for dis- aster relief in Key West as the result of the hurricanes of last September and October. There were 26 fishing boats re- placed. Fishermen are again earning a livelihood because these boats were made available. Those commercial boatmen who lost their smal! tenders also received assistance. There were 8 new dinghys and skiffs purcha- sed and 9 were repaired. _The assistance of the Red Cross did not end.with the replacing and rehabilitation of boats, Mrs. Carola Nettles, executive secreta- ry of the Key West chapter, points out. Hundreds of crawfish traps were destroyed by the high and strong running seas. That indus- try was threatened unless the; traps were replaced. The Red Cross purchased mate- rial sufficient for construction of 758 traps. The disaster relief did not even end there. Roofs on homes of in- digents were replaced. Many others sought and obtained finan- (Continued On Page Four) i } ‘Drive ‘Saturday ~ "Meet Quota Fixed Of $10,000 Eight Florida Workmen Killed During April Florida workers during April, Chairman Raymond E. Barnes of the Florida Industrial Commis ‘sion Workmen's Compensation division. Industrial fatalities reported to the commission were seven less than in March of this year and three less than the 1! ported April a year ago. Two workers went down when struck by falling objects while working on construction jobs in West Palm Beach and Daytone Beach. A truck-jeep collision resulted in the death of two workers be ing transported to their jobs in « fruit packing plant Orlando Vehicle accidents caused re also the fatal injury to a salesman of automotive parts in Fort Lauder |dale and a tryck driver for « trucking.company in Winter He ven. High power line contacts ew off future job connections for 2 fruit company workers by elec trocuting them. These accidents occurred in Lakeland and in Rus kin. “The commission is directing a major part of its Workmen's Compensation activity to Indus trial safety, which has been re quested by employers and em Ployes in an effort to make Fle. dustrial accidents struck down 8 present bucking be epee’ LLLP TB, Fine Fishing Tackle, Thompson Enterprises, Inc. Hardware Division—Phone 806 live and work,” Baines said. ONE 126 | ee TICKET OFFICE ALL AIRLINES PRICE TOURS SED 411 Fiemins 0c AIR-CONDITIONED rida the safest state in which to, i Pa tH Purposes Estumeted | work, $7,588 Adequate or ‘lighting sheatd be Grew etet (all champions Estumc tect thie i» 01.200. | Harvie Geteet Me furtte . trom shemshd te @! tenner Harris Sieher! Shgigeets h« a mothers erecta © building s completely « This should te deme whee Dressing needs i the Provided fer Sen Cartes fetes staff makes fe recemenee concerning thin shes not classed fer cage funds One of two trarter ahool = preveded ant fe n by Mow Coumty Sete &- Both rooms are stteertive reasonably well -erted fr Ponciane Stent Hewes ed A cham “- torage space ats te = Improved hating tile Mooring stenhd tor gre The n« _ colored asphalt . ost $5,100 Wee : nort us Ne ed Shower for beret band amd mate SBT. Gen The pres ‘ remuteted