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Fast, Long-Range zx: loming Here For Visit British Consul luvites Public Sunday From 2 To 6 P.M. At Pier Baker | ‘The British consul in Jackson- ; Ville haw informed Captain C.:C; ; Adeli, USN, comander of the Key lest Neval Base that HMS Snipe ’ ; ( Wirephot | on Sunday during her visit to Key OnE. YEAR .oLD | West will be open to visiting of Sa ote Seo — public from 2 to 6 & embuinace ummedietely of | ‘The Snipe will be tied up at Se fee city Gremen im © best | Pier Baker Naval Sta- i ee trem 6 reek & the tion at abc H Beend river ot Colum: [The Snipe © ©, The pewthtet fiber: | and is employed mainly by the ; ee ee emeed By the cud. | British in escort duty and anti- em ee et water rehomed trom [submarine warfare. © ee Gem cpeteeem. He Pa ayge J c.G. a wars om ours avy, commanding officer o! i aaee ase h the Snipe, and the other seven : = officers will be entertained at a ; Public eoektall party at the Fort Taylor Club from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m. Sat- urday. Next Venday WS tes ts rnc Ke eet ; “. om August 11 and will arrive at i 5 Percenters will remain there until August and then proceed to Savannah, = Eee om Georgia, arriving there on the WHET, Semeet © AE | 20th and remaining until the 26th. es wert eheeteery (eq@eirl- | Bhe will then visit other Ameri- t ote the apereton of the “Five | can enggel hm gaara tae * o onate teentigat- | mission w er - so tet by Se-| heme base, Bermuda, after Octo- ber 11. Snipe is a fast, long-ange sloop, in August 1946, The Sewth Carolina | as the Me wie + mat » sapere that be —— a ce whee fame VO Hunt, ete hae tees dealings in Waah = etertion with the ~ gepeentiees” are ander seru eee ote omvestiqators, will toatety. Reason for because Hunt ts fempetal undergo. | tw « theed eet in ‘DRAWN FOR COURT FOR Judge Caro Fines Man $250 And Costs For Possessing Twe Slot Machines After finding a man for posses- | ston of two slot machines, Cr: | inal Court Judge Thomas S. Caro | today drew 60 names of prospec- | tive juriors for the opening of jJury trials August 15 in Criminal ; Court. John Perez, proprietor of a barber shop at 822 Whitehead Or tee & enced @eeans | street, pleaded guilty to posses- N FRANCISCO, Aug. 5. sion of the slot machines and was ” « preweiont of the | fined $250 and: costs by Judge Untow eft by Caro. The court also ordered the tulu to ty mone found in the slots turned of the | over to the, county and directed he thet_hes been | the destruction of the two ma- * Hewen for 87 days. chines tomorrow at 10 a. m. mam concthator is on | Perez was arrested yesterday Hee » the same! by Deputy $ « Bedges | ber and Constable Jose Espinoza. Hene-| Also fined this morning by kel: | Judge Caro was Dorothy J. Dar- emt unless the! vin, Tavernier, who pleaded guil- Page Six) ty to driving her car while intoxi- cated. The court fined her $50 oo ooatenenesmmeennenneenteienmmnennnedl For Sale! For Sale! Block of Four Lots, Each 50 x 100, Flagler St.. Between 2nd and 3rd te ae hat Bite owt ses agent fen lett leg teteme Secretary Lous Jahn-| fret witness to} The committee | hebly will call to the tut two army officers uapended for wmeng the “Five we y toes a te Goes Te Honolulu Por Strike Talk Hew ot themen ‘ th howe! t A atinwed Om at the meeting of the Utility: Board of the of Key West. Florida, held at 10:00 A.M., this ete. notice is hereby given that this board will meet tomorrow. August 6th. 1949, at 10:00 A.M., at the City Electric System office to discuss insurance. In the event a quorum is not present at that time. the meeting will be held at 2:00 P.M. the same | T. REGINALD PRITCHARD. Chairman, Utility Board of the City of Key West. Fla. .|mal decisions were made, Van- Jecksonville on August 13. She! long, has a draught of 1i feet and ‘OF 60 JURORS. heriff Frank Web-| Charles K 1 SOUTHERNMOST At Naval Station Chiefs Of Staff Finish Talks [With Frenchmen (By The Asuncinted Preasy PARIS, August 5—The chiefs of staff of the United States Milita- ry forces, General Omar Bradley of the Army, Admiral Louis E.. Denfield of the Navy and Gene ay Hoyt Vandenberg of the Air Force held a: three-hour gonfer-" ence today with French military leaders. It wads a most successful cenfer- ence, General Vandenberg stated after the session. He said that the Frenchmen saw “eye to eye” with the chiefs of staff. While no for- denberg added, the talks were helpful and demonstrated that the French may be depended on for wholehearted ‘support of the North Atlantic Pact. sixth R. N. vessel to hold that name, her first ancestor was a 12-gun brig which served in Nel- son’s time. The present Snipe, a’ member of the Black Swan class. of sloops, has a displacement of 2,000 tons, is 299 feet 6 inches. | | | carries six 4-inch dual purpose guns with eight 2-pounder pom- The Snipe ‘*'visited United States, including Alaskan, and Ca- nadian parts on her first good- will visit in the fall of 1947. In January 1948 she was sent to the Antarctic on the farthest-south voyage ever made by a British warship. CRIMINAL — AUGUST 15 and costs and. tevoked her dt er’s license for one year.” * ~ The juriors drawn by Judge Caro follows: Frank Papy, Wm. N. Knowles, Charles P. Thompson, Jesus R. Caraballo, Gilbert McKillip, Per- cy M. Roberts, Floyd R. Soper, Cyril H. Lowe, Pedro Pueblo, Hector Ramires, Robert R.. Brown, 'Paul L. Mesa, Jr. George G. | Parks, Joe Felton, Leonard R. Sawyer, Chester F. Albury, How- ard G. Pinder, George W. Solo- mon, Carl J. Ingraham, Wm. N. | Kemp. Wm. H. Kroll, William Sands, !Beinvenido Garcia, Charles W. | Aguero, Alberto Garcia, Ralph Vernon De Leon, Uric Wm. A. Carey, Leon Myers, Harry F. Knight, Harold 1 L. Cates, Emory J. Harris, Chas. {J. Curry, George L. Car Curry, Karl ©. Thompson, el, Fred Key, Ben- jamin F, Johnson. Archie R. Lowe, James H. Ca rey, C B. Johnson, Carl NN. ! Roker, W. J. Hjort, Harry R. Mob- terts, W. B. Curry, John Pritch- “ard, J. A. Gaiti, Geovse W. Nen- shaw, Wheeler Gandolfo, Virgil | Higgs, Arent F. Sjurcen, R. J. : Bethel, Eric 3 Edmund F. ! Sawyer, George B. Graham, Omer | Perez, Phillip Gibson, Eugene R. Albury, Jr. George Schrieber and Carlos Rios. i tar Cafe STOCK ISLAND Management turing Breakfasts - Sandwiches ALL BEVERAGES Dense Yellow Pine ‘FLOORING Four Grades To Choose From LOWEST PRICES | STRUNK | LUMBER YARD PHONE BREA BAAR MAS AG EOSIN SEI Visit Britich Ship FOR SUMMER'S ‘| sufficiently for them to fight ef- me) $ yt ae i few es : ‘OF JUNIOR C2 OF C 4 : ; ; Senator. Pepper Will “| eee Speak At 8 P.M. » | Club. in Duval street..and a swim- . ming party:at the Casa Roma. Banquet At La Concha | | From-4 to 6 p..m., will be a bus- j tess. session. of the organization at the Elks Club. Principal speak- , Chamber of Commerce will hold} ald. # tone house ‘for the-r At 6 p. m. to 7 p. m., there will Hotel Saturday ts ont. the. Stu . | ‘be a cocktail party for the confer- arrivals to atten! the State Con. das ih ye Che Benin, Then at 8 p. m., there will be. a@ banquet at the La Concha Ho- tel. The principal speaker will be U..S. Senator Claude Pi r. At 10 p. m., there will be a confer- ence ball at the Elks Club audi- On Sunday at 8p. m., there will bé a breakfast at the La Concha. At the Elks Club at 10 a. m,, ‘there will be a final business ses- sion of ‘the conference. For the! ladies at 10 a. m. there will be a boat ride. Adjournment will be at noon on Sunday. ference of the Jaycees in their Flagler Avenue Clubrooms. ‘Tomorrow at 8 a, m. ,the regis- trations of the deelgates to the conference will go forward at La Concha Hotel. At 9 a. m, there will be fishing, sightseeing and swimming, while beginning at 16 a. m.,'there will be a shopping tour for the ladies. From 2 to 4 p. m. tomorrow, there will be a card party for th ladies atthe Key West Woman's te AXEL J. BECK (left) of South Dakota, and Guy G. Gabrisison (right) of Mew dates for chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. mest in Washington the center is Rep. Hugh Scott of. Pennsylvania. the retiring chairman. The coscmnst nee session and elected Gabrielson chairman. Beck, SS, lawyer and farmer, eee beeegt Get & dark horse candidate by opponents of Gabrielson. . Chinese Nationalists Fell Easy Prey To Communists, White Paper Reveals Today State Department Document Declares Nationalists ‘Decayed’ eS a ae Home Show Plan ‘By Better Business Group, Directors Say Will Display Various Commodities And*~ Brands That Are Now Available 0, “Se heretip cof tthe ~~ | } munists began their campaign in Manchuria. Chiang proved to be a weak leader, who neither had’ the sup- Or ‘Decaying’ port of his army or the people generally. So inept were the Na- (By Tae Amnoeiated Press) tionalists they made no concerned WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—The/ fight on many occasions to stop White Paper about China (really ; the communists from capwring a two-inch-thick. book of more the arms that the United States 7 Meer feature toe Uae sammie had furnished Chiang Kai-Shek. i hss 100 panes) Sonus mished Chiang Kai-She. | In Key West Shops a lic today by the Department of forces, the Paper stated, resulted State, and among the statements' in the loss of. many mi of in it is. one to the effect that this! dellars.of asms tothe communists ; countey's' Rareher at = ewer aed “intitnated ‘that further ‘mili: | B® A ; ‘ tary help to Chiang would have tionalists of China would: not been helping the communistst in- have prevented the success of the | directly. communists against the National-|. Several contributors to the ists. White Paper believe that the peo- The Paper. referred to: the Na- ple of China eventually will toss 2’ = off the communist yoke and re- tionalists,as “decayed” or "decay- adopt a democratic form of gov- ing” under the command:of Chi- ernment. The Chinese are too ang .Ki ek It, ‘declared . that seif-reliant and adherents of ini- Chiang could not-rouse -his forces , tiativé to submit to the structures that will be imposed on them by the communist regime, the Paper stated inferentially. formed organization. j The primary purpose of the association is to improve business and business conditions in Key West and eliminate, as much as /'*" possible, the necessity for out-of-town shoppitig—-it being obviows |” that money sent out of the city in substantial amounts retards civic‘ and business expansion locally. ¢g———__—.. ‘Fulfillment of this purpose. re- quires the ascertaining of the de- Jan attractive, condensed dinplay sires and ore of Key Ai Se. of the various commodities and sumers ‘and.demonstration by*the , °tha , 7 ’ Pere istiuatithey, cc alte ty | brats that are available in Key | West . @ non-selling event t fame fectively. They did not have the will to fight, even when the com- ious: International Meeting In New York Had 35,000 Registered Delegates Lions Club Here Gets Report Of Convention; meet. this consumer demand as compentely, efficiently and at | Promote goodwill between all the same prices as out-of-town | members and the public firms. 1 ‘Detailed plans for this extuly 1 “To accomplish a_ satisfactory | — Sao and lasting result, the Association } . ' will need the fullest cooperation ¢C hb: R | ( mmmentator of every retailer and wholesaler u an at 10 A in the city, from the smallest to ; e . a . the largest. Not essentially from ie ? the Nargest Not essentially trom Qaes Great Business Fer jrily, to obtain and collate sound ; ideas to launch effective cam- paigns to stimulate local busine: K W st | I; T ade — | in satisty Key West consumers, WWCY WSU I Havana &F Justo Mendez Will Be @r At Delmonico said a statement today. “While it is obvious that such | an organization, representing a 26 countries and a membership! total of 400,000. The following Lions were in f b: tial taxpay attendance at the convention:| 01? © satin deglige irma ; could yield a political “club”, it | Sheriff Berlin A. Sawyer, Her-| wij} totally refrain from politics | man W. Urion, 1 i jonzalo Bezanil-j oy political situations or personal- | la, Paul G. Albury, Cecil Car-| ities and confine itself in this res- bonell, Louis M. J. Eisner and} pect solely to general legislative Jack Turson. ‘ representation atfecting its mem- Past President Lion Joe Allen|pers and their customers. Several Local Lions Ne Attended Sessions Restaurant Here At the regular meeting of the This Evening . West Lions Club held last vening in the den on Seminary Street with First Vice President at Justo Mendez, a con and manager of RMC rad to tion in Havana, will be tar residing gave a short address on Lionism,| “Furthermore, cliques within} night for a cocktail party at De Lovis Carbonell presiding, the | ising us hic subject, “Faith in| the organization will be eliminat-\monico Restaurant. Mend japempership: heard reports from) Yose Worke! jed and the smaller retail member; here with his family for three ceateemed —— delegates to the recent Interna-| Program Chairman J. J. Mcniane (will have as much voice in theldava He was extremely friend tional Convention held in New|US had charge of the program! affairs of the association as the!on the occasion of the good AL NNT York City and introduced the various} largest retailer or wholesaler, be-|tour of Havana recently me Lions Herman Urion, Paul G. Speakers. cause only in unity can this group}a group of local jents, * . Albury and Gonzalo Bi Lion “Doc” Herman Moore cel-| develop strength and effective-; went to Havana to rest ( Fine Fishing Tackle gave an accurate and vi ebrated the birth of his new ba-!n bans in coming to Key West cription of the various activities} bY girl weighing seven pounds, ‘One of the first times now] Acting Mayor Louis Carbone Thompron tnterpeves te Hardware Divteinn Phame 8° will be on hand tonight to greet the Cuban visitor “The people of seven ounces, by passing out ci-junder consideration by the Key congratula-{ West Better Business Association club mem.-/is the staging of a Home Show or, Exhibit. The idea behind this Ex- it is to bring, under one roof, carried on during the three day meet. With 35,000 registered del- egates, the largest in the history of Lions International, reports were given showing a net gain of 750 new clubs chartered dur- ing the year now bringing the: total to 7,500 clubs operating in DION'S AUTO SERVICE Corner White and Fleming Sts. 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