The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 30, 1949, Page 1

Bentley, Higizs Exphin: 9 - Helicouter, Small Machine To Be Used While Big Dragline Outfit Is Under Repairs “ County | mmissioners Frank Bentley. Clarence — Higgs Called at the office of ‘The Citizen this morning to explain their side of the story in the case of the truck drivers protest of the small drag line machine which is rented from Charles Toppino. Bentley emphasized. that the county commission, not the in- dependent trucksters, rents the marl digging apparatus. He also stated that the small machine had been sent out by Toppino because the large one, after two years of service, was in need of repair. The repair job was to be com- pleted over the past weekend, but the work requires more time than first estimated. In order to keep. the truckmen occupied. Bentley. said in defense of the contractor, Mr. Top; sent out his only other available dragline. Commissioner Higgs said, “We are in business with the people of the community in order to give them mar! cheaper.” In defending Toppino, Commis- sioner Bentley added, “We ac- cepted Mr. Toppino’s offer of the machine when the large. one broke down. We accepted it, why shouldn't the truck drivérs?”* After suspending work for a few hours yesterday, “the truck. men were back on the job at Dredger’s Key, using the smal machine, POSTMASTER COUNTY COMMISSION DEFENDS TOPPINO- 'Bloodhounds In Man Hunt No Trace Yet Found Of John Calvin Russell Who Escaped From Pinellas County Jail (By The Associated Press) CLEARWATER, Aug. 29—A helicopter was pressed into ser- is searching the woods in the vi- cinity of Round Palm Harbor for John Calvin Russell, charged with murder, who broke out of the Pinellas county jail on Sun- day night. Bloodhounds also are being used in trying to track down Rus. sell, but, up to early this after. noon, no trace of him has been found. He is believed to be hiding in swamps, and it was over them ‘that the helicopter circled today. The sheriff of Pinellas offered a reward of $500 for Russell's capture. Russell is 34 and has been ar- rested several times. He also was detained at Chattahoochie for ‘several months to undergo a men- tal examination. REVEALS RECEIPTS. INCREASE FOR 49 OVER ’48 Compares Postal Receipt ‘Totals; Says Result Indicates Growth Of Pow A 5 ostmaster Hollon R. Bervaldi said today that-a comparison of postal receipts of this year with receipts for the same period in 1948, indicated upswing in the welfare and business of Key ‘West. The. month of July, 1949, brought in postal receipts totaling $12,572.72. Last year at the same time, the receipts “amounted to $10,918.31. Bervaldi stated that another in- dication of prosperity, not reces- sion, for Key West, could be de- termined by estimating the in- crease in the number of people who have moved into beach cot- tages and motels. Pony Wont Take A Rest CHATSWOOD, N.S.W., Austra- lia—(/)—Maurice Woodware, the builder, decided his pony had} grown too old to carry him to! work, so bought a utility truck. But it just didn’t work out. , Prince fretted, appeared on thei doorstep every morning to let the ' boss know it was time to get go-' ing, couldn't understand when Mr. Woodward went off in the new- | fangled herseless carriage and j left his faithful pony behind. It got so pathetic that Wood- ' ward now. hitches Prince beside ! the track and takes him along. { This Is | Martello Tower Week Old, new and prospective mémbers ate invitéd to at- || tend the formal opening of |; anew ART EXHIBITION at Martello Gallery, f TONIGHT 7 to 9 o Clock JOIN the Key West Art Historical Society! Truman School heeion September-1-- ~~ ui, The registration for pupils of{ the Truman Elementary School! will be completed between 9 a. m., and 3 p. m. on Thursday, Sep- tember 1. All pupils in grades two, three, four, five, and six who expect to attend this school should be on; hand to register at the time des- ignated below: Grade 6-A will register at 9 a. i m. Grade 6-B will register at 9:30 a.m. Grade 5-A will register at 10:00 a.m. Grade 5- a.m. Grade 4-B will register at 11:00 a. m. ‘ Grade 3-B will register at 1:00 B will register at 10: :30, p. m. Grade 2-B will register at 1:30 m. the-‘echool: bell. wil; ting _be:! ; tween periods. Former pupils of ‘this school as asked to report to’ the room that they occupied at: the close of school last year. They: , Will be directed from there. New , pupils should report to the teach-! er at the desk in the center ge the hall. Parents are urged to accompany | their children to the registration! and visit their child’s new teach- ,er. This affords an excellent op-* | portunity for parents to become, better acquainted with the teach- ers and school. There appears to be several be- ginning school children who are! not'fegistered yet. Parents are re- | quested to register them on or be- fore 1 p. m. Thursday, September; 1. A birth certificate is necessary. Key West Blinds @ For Ventilation nad Sunlight Control @For Storm Protection STRUNK LUMBER YARD PHONE 816 vice today to aid the posse ve fease, and despite ,ticians consid eirt extremely un- | ‘likely that this high level will be | , dustrial PRESIDENT TRUMAN WAVES. deci an‘optti automobile’ as he is arivon through streets of downtown Philadelphia after arriving to ‘addfess the anntal Am Truman arrived ‘with his military — Gen. ‘Harry H. Vaughai staff, Last Year’s Death Rate Was. Only? &> = « One-Fifteenth Of What It Was In 1916 NEW YORK, Aug. 30—Polio re- | mains a relatively uncommon dis- | the increased | number of cases reported in the | past decade the death rate has; followed a downward trend_over | the yéars, according ‘to the statis- | ticians of the Metropoliton — Life | Insurance Company. if Even the epidemic years show jcomparatively limited areas seri- | ously affected, and the outbreaks | in any specific area usually occur | a number of years apart. In New York City, for example, the dis- yease has heen of unusual preval- j ence only four times in the past 20 years—in 1931, 1935, 1944, and | 1949. In the largest of these out- breaks, in 1931, when 4,138 cases were reported, the case rate was! jonly 2.3 per 1,000 of the popula- ' ‘tion at ages under 15. The statis- | reached in the city in 1949. | The death rates from polio in recent epidemic years among chil- dren insured in the company’s in- department have been! well below those recorded in earl- ier decades. In 1948, when the ‘number of cases reported was , Sreater than in aj ear since 19- 16, the death rate of 2.4 per 100, | 000 among the insured children! + was only one fifteenth of the 19- i 16 rate and less than one half the 1931 rate. | Hospital Repor I ‘For Commissioners cial report from Monroe county hospital will be presented to the city and county commis sioners before their regular meet ing in September. The report, said William R. Warren, Jr., administrator of the ill be complete. hospital, | EE BALAI EEE UE TESTS Fine Fishing Tackle | Thompson Enterprises, Inc. Hardware Division—Phone 8! ESE ET EES 08 1 TICKET OFFICE ALL AIRLINES PRICE TOURS GS cs Fiomins 5t ~~[Insurance Co. Points» Out jthe agenda was the MAJOR GENERAL VAUGHAN. SAYS ing DID NOT USE HIS OFFICE IN ANY FIVE-PERCENTERS ACTS Polio Relatively Uncommon in Life Key West Shown ‘In Hix Feature Key West is in the news again, this time as a featured item in Hix's “Strange As It Seems,” released August 29 to Newspapers ‘throughout the country. The Hix drawings and, fadt stories, accompany- ing them:-are syndicated by ~ United Features. The item reads: “Chimneys are a. tarity in Key West, Florida; and are used only for ornamental purposes . . . the mild | climate:, makes central heating’ unnecessary.” Thank you, Mr. Hix. l Lda uhndeadeudeubea Officers Election By YMCA GSO; Name Committees Members; of the YMCA-GSO met recently in the Patio Garden of the YMCA-USO for their semi- monthly meeting. | The most important topic on election of officers: Miss Reola McHugh 5 elected President, Miss Lil- Weaver, Vice-President and Miss Helen Crusoe was re-eected as Secretary. Installation of the | new officers will take place on Monday, September 12th at the }repular meeting. Plans were discussed for the Labor Day picnic and dance. Those on the refreshment commit- McHugh, Valma tee are Reola Emery, and Clara Armayor The decoration committee con- sists of the Misses Wini Cruz, rley Smith, Joyce Thompson, Lillian Stewart, Joyce. Bradley and Doreen Cruz. John Pritchard's. orchestra will play for the dance. ms (®) Wirephoto : Legion convention, Mr, and others of- his White House - Admits He Has Known John Maragon Since 1941, Explains About Rate ‘Track Matter (By The Amociated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Ma- jor General Harry Vaughan, Pre- sident Truman’s military, aide, in testifying today before the senate sub-committee that is investigat- ing five ters, said that he {had not time since he has had White House connections to promote the interests of anybody or to curb the interests of anybody. He admitted that he has known John. Maragon since 1941, but had, he, tne ag a‘reference in any of ‘his teiyeeien, t received deep freezers as gifts and. had distributed them among friends. “But,” he added, “those freezers were given to me by old- time frineds, and the gifts: had nothing to ‘de with the two’ trips to, Europe-by Maragon and a 'rep- resentative of a perfume company in Chicago to obtain oils to use in making perfumery.” Vaughan explained that what he had done for that company he had done for other concerns that were helping at the time in the rehabilitation: of Europe. Besides, the perfume oil that the Chicago company received from Paris’ was j the means of providing work for many persons in the United}, States in the manufacture of per- fumes. As to the report that Vaughan had helped a racetrack man to obtain lumber: to be used at his track, when lumber was a scarce material, Vaughan explained that all he had done was to in- troduce the racetrack man to Housing Expediter Tighe Wood. Immediately after the introduc- tion, Vaughan added, he left the company of the two men. Vaughan said he wished to stress the fact that President Truman knew nothing whatso- ever about any transaction in connection with Maragon or any other five-percenter. Questioned about $2,000 each he had ‘received from Maragon and the racetrack owner, Vaugh- an said the money was given to him for the Lemocratic campaign fund in 1946 and was used in the interests of Democrats in con- gressional elections that year. Finally he admitted fhat it was epi On Page Four) ~ VETERANS!! $100.00 DOWN and $80.00 MONTH We Can Build You A New 2-Bedroom Home Model House Open 2312 PATTERSON AVENUE 1 P.M. to 8 P.M. Every Day PHONE 598 influence at. re ealings with contractors.or any- pipting the 25th house today, andy Vaughan admitted-that: he ‘hac Ie is expetced that sale of the fof an economic ‘Construction Company's a ‘Withstand Huricane’s Fury; | {Only Minor Damage Done Palm Beach Storm Acted As Testing Laboratory .For 700 New Model Houses The distastrous hurricane that swept the Palm Beach and other resort areas of South Florida proved a natural testing labora- tory for houses being constructed here by Sunshine Construction Co., and Flury and Crouch, Incor- porated. Bill May, a salesman located here in conneetion with the mil- lion dollar “yhousing development now being carried out by Flury and Crouch, returned yesterday from his home in West Palm Beach after a thorough inspection trip. He reports that the more than 700 houses erected in the Palm Beach area by his firm suffered ‘|only minor damages. The houses are exact prototypes of the 100 being erected ‘here. Despite winds of 167 miler per hour velocity, only six. of the many hundreds of Flury and Crouch houses suffered any dam- ages at all. in the Palm Beach area, May reports. These damages consist of a few shinglés blown off five of the houses andthe small canopy-over the entrarice Way ripped from the sixth. Total damages to all hous- baba run less than $100, he sta- May explained that a model of the houses going up here was that atno:time has he helped Ma-| placed in a wind tunnel and sub- ragon:in» his ‘reported activities | jected to wind velocity of 200 among. five-percenters. - Neither | miles per hour. before the houses itted Maragon to use| were placed’on ‘thé market. Sunshine Construction is com- as-40-inere to-put up at-this time. 100th house . will be reached shortly, the company states. R ° ussia Sees U.S. Fear Of Depression ploscow—(#)—Peter Borisov, who visited the USA as a guest oftthe Al!-American Congress in Défense of Peace has summed up impressions of the country in namya”. ~“The American people,” he said ense that they are on the eve depression by comparison with which the 1931 catastrophe will seem utterly tri- Discussing the _impre Culture and Life, said the Soviet writer talked with many repre- sentatives of progressive Ameri- can intelligensia. Their state- ments reduced themselves to one: genuine cultural life in the USA is being trampled by reaction. BOAT BAR 503 Duval Street, Phone 9165 AIR-CONDITIONED Sports Results Daily Key West's Most Comfortable Bar St. Francis Xavier's School Conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Will Hold Its Annual Registration for Students on THURSDAY Sept. 1 9:30 to 11:30 and 1:00 to 5:00 Registration Fee . . . 50c *Drive To Next Three _— Clinics Planned $10,000 Is Needed To Expand Progra; Business Clinics To Be Organized _. Victor Lang, general sales man- ager for the educational-financial _, campaign of the Chamber of Commerce, announced today that in setting up organization plans. The campaign period will con- tinue for the next three weeks. [Baker Hearing : Postponed Again Today smal oes Away From Field, | Peace Justice Roy Hamlin said t Hi hear- yet. The approximate total will be ‘oday that the preliminary he 600. Of this total, 233 aye “ ing for Harry Lee Baker, police | members of the organization lieutenant, has been indefinitely |"oupins $8175 to carry on the tothe selling “Of the work and purpose of the Chamber of Com- sae gs oy ad West. fons last week wi voted to financing the expanded program. ‘ The list of firms and individu- Baker of forcing them to turn over their own money to the Am- erican Legion aa after there sea ing them on suspi absént from the py ait station on hurricane wi duty. “TL set the date ing as soon as these lt0 Boca Chica Field,” Hamlin ! said. . ea ‘ chanics,” ty Co regular periods duri: latter mman ing port of uext Week end. Gill be of only oné hour’s duration. Chair- men will head each group and poets om Mayor “A. ‘Maitland pres -g yr ‘al Chairman of the announce . the rp leaders Dera near future. Officer Of Naval Station Leaving. Commandihg ‘offider‘of the Key} ; West Naval Station, Captain J. A. Farrell, Jr. leaves tomorrow for San Francisco, ; Washington, D. C., where he has been_ transferred ‘to the office of the Chief of Naval Opetations. < Has Big Early. Captain Farrell, accompanied e o Morning Fire~ by his wife and:son, will pick up (By The Associated Preae) the family car’in Miami and make SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29— the rest of the trip by motor. He may stop off at the Naval Acade- San Francisco had a fivé-alarm fire early this morning. my at Annapolis, Md., where the It destroyed a large warehouse captain was graduated as an of- ficer. and adjoining buildings at a loss ranging from three to five milli- Comander Fitzgerald is acting as commanding officer of the Na- val Station. on dollars. I D C CBRE as firemen were injur- ~ e ighting the blaze, and 48 ron Tum overs pieces of apparatuses of various kinds were pressed into services Korean Cross to fight the flames. r Even with the use of all those ROME—(#)—When a workman | Machines, it required two» ~and ,| was unable to remove a granite | one-half hours to get the Fife un- cross from atop a Korean Catho-} der control. lic School building, Communists} Reason for that, the fire chief covered the cross with a metal | Said, was because gasoline. and drum, Fides, the International | Other explosives were: stored in Catholic News agency, reported |the warehouse. Following’ each from Seoul explosion, flames shot into the The report said that when Reds | ait from two to three hundred occupied Won-San they took over | feet. the Benedictine Schoo} for use as a Communist School. A workman was ordered to remove the cross atop the building but the heavy stone was too much for him. Palace Theater PRESTON FOSTER and MARY STUART in “THUNDERHOOF” ° AMI - KEY WEST LINE. Inc. CLYDE-MALLORY DOCKS TELEPHONE ¢ Barge Leaves Miami Every Friday Mrs. Ricketts DAY SCHOOL 1409 Truman Avenue PHONE 347-5 Will Reopen Sept. 6 OPEN | EVERY DAY EXCEPT MONDAY OPM. to 1 A.M. PRE-SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION SEPTEMBER 1 and 2 Transportation Available Fiyst.two weeks will be devoted :