The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 27, 1949, Page 1

—-—— VOL. LXX. No. 204 JOHN MARAGON (right), Washington mystery man, smokes a cigarette as he testifies in Wash. ington before the Senate Investigating Committze in its five percenter probe. The Greek-Ameri- _ SUSTAINED. WINDS PLA\ (@) Wirephoto can hed taken the witness chair after an accountant testified that Maragon made bank deposits ‘of $119,608.61 during a-five-year period in which he said his income was only around.$30,000. On advice of his counsel, Myron G. Ehrlich (left), Maragon spent most of his time refusing to answer questions “on the ground that my answer itis tend to incriminate me.” Jersey Thieves | Held Here; Await Extradition Three youths arrested two days ! ego by Deputy Sheriff Frank Webber are being held in the County jail until extradiction pa- pers and an officer from Freehold, N. J. arrive in Key West. The trio are Vincent Heller, 17, his brother, Edward ‘Heller, 18, and John Moore, 16, wanted for breaking and entering, robbery. and larcency of an automobile from’ an amusement park in New 'Yy: When swrrestedon-.charges,. of: Preiss in Key West $140" in nickels were found in their pos- session. Botanical Signs Rate Praise Note From Visitor Labeled tropical flora in the grounds of Key West schools have received the attention «due. them. Horace O'Bryant, superintend- ent of instruction for the county, has a letter from a summer visit- or praising the method of ident- fication. The letter was by Verona Wade Malone of Anderson, Indiana. She wrote: “On. the school grounds in Key West, we found the trees and shrubs identified with sign: I want to express my appret tion for the theroughfulness which made it posible for us to learn the names of the beautiful and strange ti we saw there.” Mrs. Malone also stated she and her family enjoyed the visit to Key West and that they plan to return in the near future. Israel Seeks Australian Cattle SYDNEY—()—Israel ing for stud cattle in Australia and New Zealand. Eliyahu Hop- ovetzki, an Israeli expert now in Australia, says he hopes to buy } 2,000 stud cattle in Australia and j New Zealand for Israel. On his way to Australia, Hop- ovetzki spent 20 days in India examining cattle breeding there. He said he would be in Australia and New Zealand for several months. BINGO PARTY EATS Legionnaires, Auxiliary and Guests American Legion Home STOCK ISLAND SAT., 8:30 P. M. Door Prize written | is look-| |$6,500 Receive Chapter For Polio Patients Last Call Issued For Training Class At Local School Students wishing’ to. enroll; in * the Diversified. Cooperative Traning classes at the Key West High School must do so Monday or Tuesday at the latest. William G. Chapman, ee classes~ warned. that the pregram was already AL ed, but that he could find room | for aselect few if they called to enroll-immediately, Chapman can _ be_ reached through telephone number 833. Russia Preserv Folk Songs | MOSCOW—()—The work of Ikeollecting the folk songs send ‘sagas of the scores of nation- alities making up the USSR goes on without interruption. “Izves- | tia” recently told of the acti ties of one of the the best-known is folk-song collectors of Russia, the director of the Russian People’s Chorus of Northern Songs, A. Y. Kolotilova. Kolotilova, in 40 years of work among the Russians in the Ar- changel and other northern dis- tricts, has discovered more than} 700 folk songs, taes and_ epics which have been handed down generation to generation by word of mouth alone. Dream Prediction Slightly Off Beam MELBOURNE—()—A school bus driver, J. C. Doherty, had a \troubled dream the other nght. He dreamt a rear wheel of ‘his bus fell off. Next day he checked all four wheels of his bus. His journey to the school was uneventful. But another of the schoo buses had an accident. A ri wheel came off. No one was jured. Dreamer Doherty drove out) and picked up the stranded pupils, NOTICE Occupational Licenses for the year 1949-1950 will be due October 1, 1949. All applications for liquor, beer or wine licenses must be filed with the City Clerk in sufficient time for action to be taken by the City Commission at a regular meeting in September. VICTOR LOWE, City Clerk. | 1 lfantile Pi anf d By Local Monroe County Gets Aid From National Organization For Infantile Paralysis The. Monroe County Chapter of the*Natiorial Foundation of In- ralysis. received from national headquarters of the March of Dimes organization yes- terday a check for $6,500 to a: sist in payment of local polio pi tients’ medical care, it was nounced today by Chapter Ch: man Mrs. Wilhelmina G. Harvey. The money was reqdested from the emergency epidemic aid fund because the local Chapter, which retains 50 percent of March of Dimes proceeds each year for fi- nancial tients, whos full costs unaided, has run out of funds. So far this year, national head- quarters has advanced $4,341 748.25 to Chapters a result of increased incidence of infantile paralysis plus a heavy carry over of cases from 1948, year of high- est incidence since ‘1916, Mrs. Harvey said. The Monroe County Chapter provides treatment and braces for persons struck with polio as far back as 1946 when Key West experienced its worst polio epidemic according to Mrs. Harvey. The Mouroe County Chapter is presently providing funds for the care, in whole or in part, of twelve patients stricken this year and also continuing to pay costs cf care for twenty pa- tients en in former years. C omplains Of Diversion Of State Road Funds (Ry ‘The Associated Press) ORLANDO, Aug. 27—Chairman Alfred A. McKethan of the State road bi tha ays large backlog of highway projec is due primarily to diver highway funds from dling es, license fees and ot! Speaking to more thar sons at a civic gathering, McKeth- 1 that the $173,642 funds on of tax- 3,000 addi- of paved road. Pointing out that the would } n income of approx- imately 000,000 from state {and federal sources for road con- struction ond maintenance this vear, McKethan said the funds e “pitifully inadequate’ to meet the ne in the state SO TICKET OFFICE ALL AIRLINES PRICE TOURS ME 6t) io mtee 8C. Palace Theater ROD CAMERON and GALE STORM in “STAMPEDE” that while the hurricane may not Pompano. eee ee > AT 120 MILES, WITH GUSTS REACHING 1 (By The Anmoalafed Prensa) MIAMI, Aug. 27.—The hurricans is now roaring in the Gulf of Mexico in a northwesterly. direction,. after having left behind a | death toll of three and millions of dollars in damages. United States Senator Spessard Holland said he hed been in- formed three had been killed. but gave no further information of the reporied dead, except a 20-year-old boy who was drowned in Miami before the hurricane struck east coast in the vicinity of ; ‘Miami Planes, Not even a guess has yet been. made of the damages ‘done to property by the hurricane. It will run into many millions of dollars, with the Palm Beaches and Lakeland sustaining the. greater damage. National Guards are on duty in West Palm Beach to stop any at- tempt at looting. Many store fronts were blown in there, leav- ing the stocks of stores a ready: prey for thieves. § Grady Norton, head of the Mi- ami Weather Bureau, said teday Eleven airplanes that ‘put down at. Key West Airport yesterday by reason of the high'winds at Miami One by one the big airplanes that’ usually put down at Miami yesterday. They remained over- night when their pilots took off again, when the winds had subsi- ded in Miami. ‘Both the Aerovias Q Airlines ahd the Faraldo Flying Service took cate of the pilots while they. remained here. Treasury Offers $1 Billion In 91-Day Bills be classéd as “great”, yet it was a very severe blow. with sustain- ed winds. 6f. 120 miles an hour and gusts that reached 150 miles. } Anemometers were _ blown! away in all areas where the. full force of the blow was felt. Squirrel Worries ‘Mother’ Cat MOSCOW—(#)—Antics of’ one of the younger members of her. family have driven a good-nat-. ured mother cat at the Moscow. zoo to the edge of a nervous! breakdown. It's an ever-continu- ing puzzle to her as to _ just how! her smallest valong-the Cage they livé in without mortal danger. But just wait till she sees him crack a nut! For the baby isa young orphan- ed Russian squirrel. * ° Italy Builds Ships , ROME—(/)—Férty-nine } mér- chafit’ ships * totaling ~ 217,380) gross tons are under construct ion in Italian shipyards, the Mer- chant Marine Ministry has an- nounced. night, the Treasury announced an offering of $1,000,000,000 91-day bills to refund an issue of approx- similar ills coming due. Septentber 1 and to leave the Treasufy an extra $100,000,000 in cash. This continued “deficit _financ- ing” -operations begun a few weeks ago when it became nec- essary to start borrowing to meet the government’s current expen- ses since that were running above revenues. ¢ Treasury , also. served no- banks it willwithdraw. $359,500,- 000 from’ its accounts in private banks, half on Aug. 30 and the other -ha:f-September 1. KEY WEST ARTIST ANSWERS ieee aps Cyril Marshall Plans Inspired Educational Program Rak Me LURE OF WEST INDIES ISLE By DOROTHY RAYMER . July. They were impressed with Key West's temporary loss is the natural beauty and with the the Virgin Islands immediate, possiblities for cultural inter- gain. Cyril L. Marshall, artist,!ests. During casual conversation craftsman and_ instructor, has with a friend, Cyril mentioned turned his gaze toward a_ more’ that the school’s needed _ special southern horizon. He and_ his training courses. He was immed- wife, Catherine, expect to leave iately asked to call on the supe here within a few days for St.,intendent of public truction Croix. one of the Virgin islands. and within a month, the new job Marshall will teach manual materialized. arts at one of the High Schools! Marshall told of the drastic and also conduct evening classes’ need for industrial and educa-: for a veteran's trade school in tional changes in the United St. Croix. His contract cails for , States owned islands. The group a year’s work with option. He was purchased from Denmark in expects to paint in his spare time 1915 when World War 1 threa- -]and to take an active part in the tened with German control of life of the islands. ‘the Panama Canal Zone. Since “As yet,” he said, “The country then. the territory has been a down there is undeveloped. Of. liability for two reasons, Mar- course that is part of the lure of shall explained. the spot and my wife and I hope! First cause of financial dif- it stays that way. By that I mean ficulty was the decline in de- we would like to see the islands mand for sugar cane export, remain uncommercialized. It is once the main crop. Second rea a wonderful place to paint.” son is the ambition’ of natives to The Marshalls made a vaca-} become white-collar workers in tion trip to the Virgin Islands in (Continued On Page Two) YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO: SEE The Beautiful New 1950 STUDEBAKER NOW ON DISPLAY IN OUR SHOWROOMS THE TWINS GARAGE 1130 Duval St. Phone 169 (My Tae Ansociated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—Last ‘tice through the Federal Reserve, | U.S. came into Meacham’s Field here a civilian technician lost t rescued. “The six Navy men Italy Has More Livestock Than Prewar Figures released Office war years. Central Statitics tle and oxen at the end of compared with 7,667,000 equal the pre-war level. G pared with 1,828,000 in 1938. Only horses have not the pre-war level, 720,000 against 791,000 in 1938 The Agriculture gram aims at Ministry expects to ra obtain better meat through selective br eding. Soviet Has Deer Horn Farms of this species possess medicina this valuable product and to per mit the spotted deer to multiply RAUL'S CLUB Boulevard by Airport Ph. 9287 Big Dance Tonight Impromptu Entertainment 10 P.M. to 2:00 A.M. |] Music by The Debonairs AL. ALBERTUS VOCALIST 50¢ Door Admission $10.00 DOOR PRIZE (Door Prize Increases $10.00 Each Week If Not Claimed On First Drawing). ' ROME—()—IKaly’s cattle pop. ulation new exceeds that’ of’ pre- by show there were 7,923,000 head of cat- 1948, ten years ago. Pigs total 800,000 more than the 1938 figures, while sheep | now number 2,174,000 head com- reached numbering 8,000,000 head of cattle before the end of 1950. The number of pigs to 3,700,000 and to production qualities highly valued by special The spotted deer is found only in the Maritime District of the Soviet ‘Far East, The deer farms have a double task — to collect SUBMARINE LOST IN coheed =" Key West Navy Ship (2) Wirephoto THE SNORKEL-EQUIPPED U..S. SUBMARINE COCHINO, shown at her launching in Groton, Conn., in April, 1945, was lost while o na training cruise in Arctic wafers. An explosion in the battery room and fire which followed destroyed the veccel,)::}. crew of the Cochino, All the Navy Department announced. Six Navy submariners and: Ron 4 officers live } ‘ighty-four crewmen hed to the U.S.S: ihe a sister sub which rescued the Cochino’s crew. a a a a acs aa ‘Storm Cancelled { ! 1 | | | Thomas One Plane F light - It was announced this morning by the Key West.office of Nation- al Airlines‘that the somewhat er- ratic Southern hurricane caused a minimum’ disruption’ 6f ‘ser vite out of Key West, with the cancel- lation of only one trip last night,’ jand that because of the weather} in Miami. Service here was resumed this \ morning and operations are ex- a northwesterly direction ab: pected to be “schedule and rou-, tine”. There may be a few minor adjustments of schedules through the central and northern Florida’| area through the day, but for the most part National Airlines sche- dules will operate with minimum delays throughout. It is exepected at this time that Key West opera- tions will remain at normal. Some areas in the upper state may be temporarily isolated due to road washouts and blocks but National airlines will do every- thing possible to maintain com-! munications and _ transportation links to all cities on the Bucca- MOSCOW—(#)--In the Soviet) neer Route. Far East special farms are busy! “The cancellation of last growing deer horns. This sounds i night's flight due to hurricane like a strange occupation, but in} conditions in the Miami area”, fact it is a profitable one. For the | stated Douglas Blythe, National's deer are the exceedingly rare! Key West manager, “was the 4th spotted deer and the young horns | trip cancellation in Key West over a period of better than 11 Mattingly Owns Duval Restaurant Jim Mattingly at 431 Duval street in which A. Weaver, who was shot rant jand killed by his wife Tuesday night, was formerly a cook. MIAMI - KEY WEST BARGE LINE. Inc. CLYDE-MALLORY DOCKS TELEPHONE 6 Barge Leaves Miami Every Friday BOAT BAR 503 Duval Street. Phone 9165 AIR-CONDITIONED aa nett ne ct lap RN NE A LERNER LEE LN LEER NEED aise CES informed Thej| Citizen that he owns the restau- | Underwater Craft Left Here About ‘Year Ago Reports “a. None. Of Cochino’s:. Crew Lost In Ocean, Accident The USS Cochino, a submarine that sank in the Arctic Ocesy Thursday, was formerly attached to Subron 4 at the Key West Ne- val Station, it was announced to- day by Key West Naval base. According to word from Wash- ington, none of the crewmen who died ‘in. the lent, were mem- bets: of ‘the ‘of the Cochino. Itis und here that the six crewmen, died were mem- bers of the USS Tusk, which fig- ured in the Tescue of Cochino’s crew. ‘ The Tusk ‘had put into “Key West Naval “Station, but was never attached to the station. The Cochino left here about « year ago for New London, Conn. at. the time several submarines were transferred there, Other submarines from Panama and other points around the Caritbe- an were transferred here, so that there are now about “12 “sume. rines stationed at the Key West Naval Station. There is no information avall- | | | J the conference today MIAMI WEATHER BUREAU, Advisory No. 19B, 10:00 AM, EST, Aug. 27, 1949: Lower, warnings at 10:00 a. m. on the east coast south of Mel- ‘ bourtie andv around Lake Okee chobee. Change to Ssbiltheast storm. warnings from Melbourne to St. Augustine. The hurricane center was near Lat. 28.6 N Long 82.9 W.-or about 50 miles north-northwest of Tam Pa at 10:00 a. m. EST. Moving in it , 16 mph. Strongest winds are ’ about 70 mph with some.gust» « little higher. Northwestward moveemnt with a slow turn to a more {jfirtherly course is expected todaye Kemay regain some force ovef tf x treme northeastern Gult-of Mex co and precautions against hurr cane winds is advised in the Ap alachee Bay area. Heavy gales will continue over the remainder of northern Florida for the rest of the day. Hurricane warnings are db played east of Carrabelle.to Cedar Keys and storm warnings where from Ft. Myers tG Piifiame City on the west coast ancdemthe east oast from Melbourne to Char leston else NORTON Weather Bures Examinations Held Ror City Hall Job Civil service examinations were held ths morning at City Hall for clerk-typists tor Lowe, city clerk who com ducted the examinations, an- | nounced that six persons apple The selectee will be detertnin ed at the meeting of jservice board next wa | Further openings in fe "will be considered at a later date Lowe said. 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