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

THE SOUTHERNMOST Deal For Acquiring Acres Of Key W =!POLISH EMBASSY - IN PARIS BOMBED mi of, ast “eo ¥ '¥ ot at ) Lsthalte Pea preg Reeity Prrets 608, Conmbey pes ing atetest ts cre at thay 1 PPh LP tent of Pan ept «the = T Rate Rises Jan. | Percent For SS. today | West | Key Three) General, Senator bn January hnpy PARIS, Dec, 30—(4).—A vio. tent explosion blew in the’ door} of the Chancellery of the Polish Emmbeesy in Paris today. A watch- man injured slightly, the only casualty The Enbassy itself was un- jameges Tt is an 18th century menexa® located across a court- yard from the bombed Embassy office busiding The Polish Ambassador, Jersy Putrament asleep in his was was ~ Orange Bowl Queen May Lose Her ‘Crown As Unsticcessful Candidates Ask Thai Election Be Thrown Out MIAMI, Dec. 30,—(4).—Blonde wirene Van Wagoner is still eigning as Miami's Orange Bow! Queen this morning But the committee which chose hes IT angry contestants on Nands The 17 »ntenders et t beauty with At- unsuccessful conferred ey Earl D. Waldin, Junior, last night and said they would present the committee their peti- thon today alleges, first, that Miss Van was fitted for the } the Queen's wardrobe two weeks | before the coronation Wednesday FISHING TRIPS Visit Naval Base TO NO NAME ./KEY STARTED Chamber Of Commerce® Reports Twenty-five Visitors Take First Trip; Ge By Motor Car day of the Commerce's weekly No Name Key and R. Laubseher, the first t manager, hat 25 visitors made nt by motor car guidance of " © served He gave the visi Memorable New Years Eve ts The Beautiful SOUTH BEACH] RESTAURANT BY DANCING FLOOR | eetw Paul Baron nA nq Star VIOLA hon chenatiy Known Mos by NORMAN THE SEA FAVORS SHOW Mickey Renna EARL CARROLL Vanities Star VEIDT “hanteuse KRANICH ORCH. $3.50 PHONE 870 FOR —Por Person— $3.50 RESERVATIONS as the] | quarters 100 yarn yey. He was | not injured. Police said explosives placed or hurled at the Chancellery en- trance destroyed a heavy glass door and iron grill and broke many windows. Damage to the | building ‘was significant. Some Polish officials believed the bombing may have been done by Poles opposed to the present ' Communist regime in Warsaw. interior of the night and that none of the others were fitted at all The petition also says that pub- licity photos of Miss Van Wagon- er were featured from the first, and that only Miss Van Wagoner was pictured in a pre-coronation “crowning” photo, whereas such photos were promised all con- lection.” The angry entrants said Miss Van Wagoner “Intimated rumors of her selection were true “before the parade, and that newspaper stories of the coronation were on the street simultaneously with (Continued On Page Three) ——_————_ | tors bait and soft drinks, and all {reported having had a fine time In greetings extended to the | visitors today, the Chamber of {Commerce presented ach scar} with the following inscription You are now a part cf famous Chamber of Commerce afternoon Motor Caravan that will lead you to points on the Florida Keys, where you will be expected to battle with the deni- | zens of the deep in a test of skill (Continued On Page Four “| CYPRESS LUMBER | MOULDINGS | |STRUNK LUMBER YARD | | 120 Simonton Street PHONE 816 BOAT BAR $03 Duval Street Phone 9165 AIR-CONDITIONED Sports Results Daily Key West's Most Comfortable Bar RASA ETT — For Your Holiday Joy $1.00 per Qt. CALL ADAMS DAIRY ||| RAUL'S CLUB 455 PHONE BOXING TONIGHT. 8:30 Simcenton and Greene Street Arena 10-Round Main Event CHARLES MERCER | vs. ART SAEY ! Four Other Bouts |] Gen. Adm. $1.25 (Inc. Tax) || Reserved Seats, $2.00 (Inc. Tax) | described as in-+ {Susteren \Officials Hope For Safe Weekend Monroe County 4th In Bond Sales In Entire State During November 1949, — resi- dents of Monroe County invested $38,175 in the small-denomina- tion Series E, U. S. Savings Bonds according to figures re} leased by the Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta. These purchas- @s, averaging approximately $1,- 400 per day were exceeded only in the more populous south Flori- da counties of Dade, Palm Beach and Broward. “This is a very fine record” Henry G. Dooley, deputy direct- or of the U. S. Treasury savings bonds division told The Citizen today, “and a great deal of cred- it is due Monroe County Chair- man Jerry Trevor, Ensign E. A. Shaw, Naval Base bond officer and Carleton Smith of the NOB Industrial Relations Depart- ment.” The savings bond program is very popular in Florida, Dooley added, pointing out that while nation-wide sales in November were one per cent ahead of No- vember 1948, here in Florida No- vember sales ran five per cent; ahead of the previous year. Residents of Florida now own (Continued On Page Three) Forced Landing! Injures Two TARPON SPRINGS, Dec. 30. —(#).—Two persons were injured but not seriously last night in the forced landing of a borrowed hospital plane near here. R. N. \'West of Lexington, Kentucky, the pilot, received a cut over the left eye. He was treated at a Tarpon Springs Hospital. H. C. Matheny of Lexington also w taken to the local hospital where authorities said he was not ser- iously injured. Their wive the plane, said the party was on a business trip to Miami in the plane which | he had borrowed in Knoxville. who also were in Second Second HAPPY 4th of JULY— Drive Out to Spider's, Take Worst Road WEEK END SPECIALS Devil’s Food Layer Cake 49c Cocoanut Cream Pie 49c (With Meringue) Headquarters for Birth- day and Wedding Cakes MATCHETT'S BAKERY 901 Duval Street Phone 301 Boulevard by the Airport PHONE 9287 Big NEW YEAR'S EVE DANCE Impromptu Entertainment SATURDAY 10 P.M. Until ”? Music by the Debonairs $1.00 PER PERSON SOUVENIRS - FAVORS Reservations Suggested Come Out For A Grand Time NEWSPAPER thus became the first member of | |ombo, Ceylon IN. () Wirephoto WILLIAM G. GRAVES, 32, English instructor at Worcester Junior College at Marlboro, Mass., chalks up the equations which he says outlined a’new theory of gravitation in advance of that | announced recently by Albert Einstein. Graves, a Colgate Uriversity graduate, says he has been } working on his own theory since 1934 and completed it two months ago. INDIA RECOGNIZES CHINESE COMMUNIST: NEW DELAI, ‘Dee. 30. —().—t India has recognized the Chines: Sey Communist Government and says | diplomatic relations with Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist regim rae will cease immediately. Premier Neh government India preceded the other common. wealth’ countries in proclaiming | rec ‘ognition. But informed. soure- cognition’ tself: 1, The Communist. government ) : Gontinued on tes Fone, a Fe a ~ British commonwealth, and cond country outside the Sav orbit, to accept Mao Tze- ; Tung’s Communist regime as the legal government of the vast Asiatic nation. India’s next-door neighbor and former sister in the British colonial empire, Burma, also has recognized the Peiping govern- ment and turned her back on Chiang Kai-shek Britain and her Dominions are expected to take similar action, probably after the conference of commonwealth foreign ministers which opens January 9th in Col Mardi Gras Festival of New Or- leans, attracts tens of thousands of visitors from over the nation and Latin America. Through the efforts of Key ; West’s Latin-American Chamber of Commerce, Key West will be included in this all-important fes- | tival this year for the first time, and an ll-out effort to be made to take full advantage of the opportunity to further Key est’s interests over the United id Latin Amer! Abelardo Boza, who has direc- ted the Conga Line since ne orig- that many of the hand are the three grand away in connection Winners of prizes given with the pro Gasparilla Festival activities held in Key West re: cently. wer | tors mi can Chamber of Commerce, at Delmonico’s Restaurant Wednesday night, Decemb« ds from this activi all further pro. lla activi- ties in Key Wes for the all- civic purpe sing a fund to! gt, have Key West’s own Conga Line} and Float included in the widely Dubliciars d annual G Festival to be staged in T Visit the ) (pPebruary Wedding Ring,Store [This festival, eThree - Five Day Repair Service ~ call Now and Repaired Watches LT. GiascAway ;CTRONICALLY TESTED for ACCURACY Fine Fishing Tackle: NAVARRO. Inc. Knonles Jenclers | | Service Department sod SOUTHARD sTREET | _/hompson Enterprises, In. jue meee There mediately forthcomin, explanation of im- why is no like the famous|"3 — Seeeeeeeee es Useful Household Gifts es give three reasons for the re haa } | {tion an All the Class A or preferred Stock presently to be issued by Coe Gulf Atlantic Transportation Company, which plans to operate the ferry between Key West Leng Havana hes been registered w the Security Exchange Coma sion. In making. this announcement today, Fred J. Dion, vice presi- dent of the company, said -here that it is another step in the fix nancing necessary to complete the Carib Queen, There is upwards of $2,500,000 of work to be done on the ferry. The machinery oc the ship is vir~ tually installed, but much of the remaining work on the vessel must be on the super structure. Dion also called attention to , the fact that the Gulf Atlantic Transportation Company has uec- quired the Clyde Mallory docks las the Key West terminal of the ferry. The sale has not been re- corded with the office of Cireuit Court Earl R. Adams, so the | amount of money involved is not : known. Previously, as announced at the time in a story that in 'TheKey West GATCO has gal a ei ieee LATIN- AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MUST RAISE. $2,000 FOR GASPARILLA EVENT EXPENSES of need fon the ys, the are worn threadbare from 15 y use. Few of the 40 costurr ed are worthy to be us ;oceasion. Further, he ' Farol used with the d sadly in need of repair or placement. Fuli discussion of the subject at re the Directors meeting resulted in the agreement that at least $2,000 will be needed to cover the cost of costumes, equipment hotel expenses 70 persons—dancers, chaperones, musicians and officials to re sent the city in a manner (Conunued On Page Three? SEBS EEE eeeee Palace Theater GENE AUTRY and BARBARA BRITTON in “LOADED PISTOLS” Suseeeeesene THE — Downbeat Room Presents USED CARS | ecce 1949 DeSoto 4 Door Sedan— New Car Guarantee Chevrolet Club Sedan Studebaker Champion POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Division Phone 913 PURR O11. Dealer Sedan ¥ Grease, Sprey o: Pontiac Sedan LET US aa Change Your Oil | Plymouth Special De- ——— ss \ Luxe Tudor Sedan 2 a American Legion Buick Super 4 Door STOCK ISLAND NEW YEAR'S EVE : : Plymouth 4 Door Sedan Ford '2-Ton Pick-Up 9:00 TILL “?” Truck $1.50 Per Couple Buick Super 4 Door. Sedan Oldsmobile Harry Chipchase and His Orchestra Noisemakers - Fun Makers Sedanette Favors and Caps Plymouth Tudor Sedan— New Tires—New Motor MOST REASONABLE DRINKS | IN TOWN —Far Above Average a, \ | | ' ‘AL ALBERTUS VOCALIST | John Pritchard and Jack Crawley, 1949 1949 1948 1948 at the Piano and Guitar OPEN DAILY AT FOUR ;¢ eeee 1947 1946 1946 ew Year’s December jaa Gala | 1941 "a6" 1936 The LINDSEY MOTOR CO. 327 DUVAL STREET “Across the Street From the Southern Cross” You Have E $10 Per Person. S'us Tax Dancing - Noisemzk geeeeccccocces Wishing You A Happy & Prosperous New Year We Close Sunday at | P.M, CLOSED ALL DAY MONDAY PEREZ BROS. BAKERY 1025 WHITE STREET Eve Celebration! 31, 1919 Casa Marina Hotel Best Full Course Steak Dinner ver Enjoyed Served from 8 to 11 P.M ers - Entertainment Admission to Dancing Patio after 10 P.M. (No Dinner) $3.00 Per Person COO OOOO OEE DEOL OHO OOOO OOOO COO RODEO SOO OSESESESEES