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

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Saun- dere to attend the Service Offi- ete Refresher conference to be twld wt Harvey W. Seeds Post No. 29 Home, Miami, on these dates. This conference is being spon- sored by, and under the direction and supervision of the Florida ‘Mate Veterans Commission. The. in purpose of these ,confer- ners is to inform and refresh the Service Officers on the latest pro- cedures, laws and regulations re- @erding veterans’ claims, and to clarify matters in fegards to protiems in each particular local- ity in the State Saunders has received notice of this selection by the Florida State Veterans Commission for mem- bership on the panel of medical out patient t. jo treatment. ¥ & Parker, manager of the VA Regional Office, and mem- bers of his staff who have had tone experience directing the va- thous VA services to veterans’ and their dependents, will speak at semmions throughout thé hours of sehool The manager and director of the Pratt Hospital, Dr. H. F, Ma- chien, also will address the visit- img service officers. Of Candidates 7 (#) Wirephoto Cc. A. (Brownie) LOLAR (above) surrendered his special @eputy commission at sheriff's office im Birmingham. Al Seturday, after telling state in- vestigators he was a lookout at « Ku Klux Klan meeting Fri- @ey night. Sheriff Holt Mc- Dowell said the commission ‘wes @ “courtesy” one issued to Lelier in 1947 because he was handling a mine payroll. Rain Breaks Up Prayer Service WISBOROUGH GREEN, Eng. ‘Villagers, holding an open-air service to pray for rain to. save their crops, had to run for. the church in order to ‘complete their prayer meeting — the rain suddenly came in a downpour. FROM: MIAME TO! Club Campaigns On: Behalf Citizen Not Acceptable . THE SOUTHERNMOST N > \ City Officials And, | Citizens Talk About Route. B. R. Kessler Of Atlantic Gulf Canal Association. In City Today B, R. Kessler and S. S. Mahler, Miami, representatives of the At- lantic Giilf Canal Association, were in Key West today conf ring with city officials and repre- sentative citizens with regard to the Key West-Miami _intracoast- al waterway. Kessler and’Mahler conferred with Edwin Trevor, president of the Key West»Chamber of Com- mece, with City Commissioners Fred J. Dion, Louis Carbonell and Hunter Harden, and with City Manager Ralph D. Spalding. Kessler discussed the lack of funds from Congress to complete the canal to Key West to Bahia | FOUR-YEAR-OLD ANTONIA KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1949. BY” FLOWN TO HOSPITAL Oneila Mujica, of Key West. arrive at Washingion by plane en route to Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. is suffering with a heart ailment that made her a “blue baby.” Citizens of Key West raised about $2,000 to help finance the trip and the operation for Antonia. t ¢ ae: ‘a WSPAPER ar (@) Wirephoto. MUJICA and her mother, Mrs. The little girl Honda and to repair the damage to the canal from Miami to Bahia Honda. Some time ago the. Atlantic Gulf Canal Association had ap- proved of the extension of the. canal to Key West, had the U. S. Army Engineérs also appreve it, but there were no funds forth- jcoming from to -carry on. the work. Mich depends upon the com- pletion of the canal. The’ city’s improvement of Garrison Bight is awaiting’ the construction: of the waterway from Bahia Honda to Key West. FOUR Arrested At Madera / Bay By Conservation Agents; Four © Plead Not Guilty Four men arrested by Monroe and Dade county state conserva- than 350 yards in length and for sing less than a three-inch mesh pleaded riot guilty when arraign- ed yesterday before Peace Justice E.R. Lowe at Tavernier. Fabin Santini, James Jerk, Cal- vin Parker, and Richard Mays were held.for action of tht Crim- inal Court at the next term and were released under $200 bond each. Joseph Knight, Monroe conser- vation agent, said today that he and George Freeman, Dade coun- ty agent, seized 1000 yards of net, which all showed openings of less than three inches: For: Best American Legion Announces ‘Selection’ Committee. To: Make Selection Only Nominations for the title of; Key West's Most Outstanding cit- izen continue to be received by the Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28 of | the American Legion. A selection "°¢ County Jail were busy today committee of nine members will)!" spreading out the net to dry. select one person from the list of {It is, valued at more than $1,000 nominations and he or she will be ;@N4.is said to be in good sha presented with a beutiful trophy! “The mesh of the net is so at the American Legion Home on) that in taking larger fish the fish- 1 zee es July 3rd. ae | YOUTH KILLS In order to correct an apparent misunderstanding by some of the organizations who have made nominations the American Legion requests that no “campaigns” be} conducted in favor of any one candidate. The selection commit- tee is to base its selection solély ‘upon the merits of each nominee as outlined in the nomination or by what they know and can ve ify concerning his civic activity. All clubs are requested to ci operate in this and to refrain from any activity designed to in- fluence the selection committee before they have had a chance to consider all applicants on merit alone. i The selection committee will | make its final selection on thé} basis of outstanding service to the { Comunity, State, or Nation andi !such service must be beyond the | | requirements of the candidate's | occupation or office. | | Nominations: will be received | | up to 8:00 p. m., June 28 at the | ; American Legion Home, or if ‘ | placed in the mail must-be post. jmarked not later than June 27. !'They may be addressed to Albert | DiNegro Jr., Commander, Arthur | Sawyer Post No, 28, American | Legion. SECOND BEST DRINKS For Your Stomach’s Sake... SPARE THREE MINUTES and Drvie Out to crash, MEN ARRE FOR USING FISHING NETS OVER 350 YARDS tion agents. for using--nets more. Knight and prisoners at Mon- | UF TO AVOID ARRES STED [Lloyd Williams Died Yesterday | dayat 1:20 payn., in the Monroe ness. * . " The body’ was sent today by Lopez Funeral Home to * Ki mee, Florida, for funeral services and burial. He leaves a sister, Miss Leo Williams, who was at his bedside when he died. | ermen also: destroy the smaller fish”, said Knight. “These men were caught in the act at Madera Bay, which is about 25 miles west of Tavernier. “That is the fish breeding ‘ grounds. It is a shame the fisher- men net the fish there, for they destroying the breeding grounds.” Knight said that he and Free- man were making a routine in- spection of the breeding grounds when they caught the men taking fish from the net. | (®) Photos} The visitor also removed $7 from | tude toward the Western power SPRAWLED IN A STOLEN AUTOMOBILE (top) is the body of a youth who shot himself to death beside a highway near Tallahassee, Fla., to avoid capture by State Patrolmen close behind. him. Patrolmen identified him as Army Sgt. Joe C. Beard, 21, of Kingsport, Tenn. -wrecked (bottom) when the fleeing auto suddenly swerved from _ the road. Patrolman M. Kenneth Hackle was injured in the The pursuing patrol car was }Lane, Lloyd Willaims, 49, died yester-} Selling, F z we one Oey An order to arrest all persons, ‘Chief Joseph Kemp today. special permission to be obtained from the City Commission to han- dle any discharge of fire crack ers or other fireworks on holiday. occasion. Then the:firing of them must be under the/supervision of the city marshal. . Chief Kemp Orders Arrest Of Pe ring Or Possessing re‘Crackers “ selling or firing fire crackers went including children, who had out from the office of ra, t #& number of complaints’ have been received from persons living .in the residential areas, that chil- dren have been discharging fire crackers, Some of the fire crack- ers are reported to be very large and. make. a terrific. noise upon discharge. This morning two young’ white boys were going down Whitehead street near Southard si Last evening a number of col ored boys were seen in the vici ity of Olivia street and Wi large fire crackers. They made a loud noise when they were dis- charged. “Such practices are against the law”, said Chief Kemp, “In the handling’ relatively | of lings at the U. S. Naval Hospital will be received at the j Works Office, Key West Station, were received case of children ers we will arrest them, but parents will be ; ents should not dren to ‘handle Cid. Snedaker Dies In U.S. Naval Hospital Ray E: Snedaker, Commander, USN, retired, 57, died yesterday afternoon at. 4:50 o'clock in the U S., Naval Hospital. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. May Rose Snedaker; two sons, Ross and. Sammy Snedaker, of Tampa; father, Rees Albert Sned- aker of Oklahoma, borther, Frank Snedaker, of Oklahoma; sisters, Mrs. Ira L. Smith, Oklahoma and Mrs. George Scofice of Chicago. The body will be taken to Tam- ! pa, for funeral services and. buri- al. Pritchard Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Commander Snedaker . was a veteran of both world wars. Mrs. Snedaker is the former Miss May Rose Curry of Key West. ‘Dead End Kid’ | Now Doctor AUGUSTA, Ga. — Remember Milty the fat boy of the original “Dead End Kids?” Well he’s a doctor now. Milty, who is Bernard Punsly of Berkeley, Cal. in real life, got his diploma from the University of Georgia’s School of Medicine in Augusta, on June 8th. Sound Sleeper ATLANTA, Ga.—Jack: Phillips, of Fayetteville, Ga. slept so soundly during a nap in Atlan- ta’s Terminal - Station, ~ that*> he was. unaware when someone” re- moved a-néw paif-of shoes from his feet. The shoe thief left a pair of battered brogans in their place. Phillips’ wallet. SS SSE Marlite Enameled Tile STRUNK LUMBER YARD TELEPHONE 816 [> Aubiter Of Its Own % | No Service To Be Policy; Two Carriers 'o Be Modernized (By The Ansoctated Press} WASHINGTON, June 21—De | fense Secretary Louis Johnsen fe vealed publicly today thet there had been much feuding semen Army, Navy and Air Force off cers in the Pentagon about the importance of each arm of the service under the so-called mer ger act, but, he added, proponents of each arm of the service hed stressed its necessity without try ing to belittle either of the other And The West 4 camer dheateers hie (hare e reeed Bm O68 Hag O conse 6 scnefimree Vant Seger te Pome (RO Reet gen PARE fee Bee & Keace eee ieee Me Some Ce ‘ms. Johnson did not say whether or not, the feuding had yet come to (he Se See ee * an énd, but he declared emphat Unite’ Sete: Poa “a oe cally that no arm of the services i Se) Tee w would be the sole arbiter of | own policy, | The Navy proponents, he vealed, had asserted that tempts were being made te pu it to an inferior position, a» pared to the Army and the A Force, or to place is in @ sort secondary or auxiliary positier | Johnson, in speaking ftrth {about the Navy, said that the | President had approved « prope tal made by him to moderniae tw ; airplane car Sat @ cost of $80 | 000,000. These carriers would tebe : the place of the super-carrier ; which work had been started would have cost more then 6608 million, and was stepped ty j Johnson when the keel and first | keel plates had been laid | Waste must be stopped in eect {of the armed services, Defens | Secretary Johnsen stated. The ‘has been and still is altegetie too much waste generally, he o¢ ; ded, and it must come to an eo | He concluded his addren: saying that the nation's arme ; Services are at a high stete of of ‘ fiviency, despite the bickertne and that it is being kept im thet | Condition because of Russia's ett TICKET OFFICE ALL AIRLINES PRICE TOURS EME 1 Fieciss 0: _ smmpeemsmemncmmesagneitire Palace Theater “ae .