The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 18, 1950, Page 1

Company = ¢ ee 3 KEY WEST FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1950 - : fi “Big Mo” Goes ~ |Way To Cuba ~ | NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 18—0P)— The “Big Mo” still has her nose stuck in the mud of Chesapeake Bay, near here. A dozen tugs made two efforts to move the big battleship shortly after she was me & 2 " z - | grounded yesterday and at high | tide last night, but they couldn’t : b Rejects $100 * Month Pension Offer Made To Employes DETROIT, Jan. 18—(4).—The ClO Auto Workers Union has handed the Chrysler corporation @ seven-day strike notice. The ac- tion followed rejection of a com- pany offer of $100 a month pen- sions, which the union described @s unsound and inadequate. ‘The Company had offered a pension pian allowing workers to retire on $100 a month, including} federal social security benefits. But the union's Chrysler director, Norman Matthews, claimed that total benefits in the offer amount- ed to only about five cents an hour. In a recent pension agree- ment between the union and the Ford Motor Company, workers’ gains were estimated at about ten cents an hour. Se far there is no ‘indication that the union will break off ne-' gotiations following rejection of the pension proposal but Mat- (Continued On Page Six) FIRE SWEEPS THROUGH A implement building. an oil company warehouse and a filling station. Damage was estimated at about $300,000. Smoke obscures the sky behind the wreckage of the Engle Tractor and Impli- ment Company (left) on which BUSINESS BLOCK DESTROYED BY SWEEPING FLAMES judge her an inch. An Army Engineers dredge from Baltimore now is at the scene, and’ two heavy Navy tugs are expetced to arrive tomorrow from New York. However, veteran Navy men predict that the battlewagon will ; be freed only after a new chan- nel has been dredged from the main ship channel to the spot ‘| where the Missouri lies stranded, ={ When the Missouri ran aground, she was on her way to Guantan- amo, Cuba. It was her first cruise under a new skipper, Captain W. D. Brown. 1120-140 Planes iReach Key West From! Cuba Today Between 120 and 140 airplanes, in flight from Havana to Miami, stopped today at Meacham Air- field for refueling and for rest for the pilots. About 90 of them had arrived before noon and the others came a shortly afterwards. The planes had participated in | the air maneuvers at Miami and then took off for the flight to Cuba last week. Receives Bids For (#) Wirephoto BUSINESS BLOC at Springfield, Mo., and destroys a large farm fell a wall of the brick next door. Askoy Sails Soon For Havana; Await 300 Wonei, Girls Attend Generator Parts _ | Medges, owner of the 55-foot schooner, was said his soon! Mf ‘ G would sail for Havana as soon as parts for the repair of a gen- any roups eratr for his . plant arrived. Later the Askoy is going to the Penama Canal and then set sail for a number of South Pacific Islands, where Hedges will pre- pare a series of léctures on life of the natives. auriliary power Dance Given By USO-YMCA For Officers, Enlisted Men Of Aircraft Carrier Also in his party, is Mrs. Hed-| Upwards of 300 women and ges, Miss Louisa Inge, L. H. | girls attended the dance given by Wheeler, Edward Carus, Richard the enlisted men and officers of Barden, and Fred Johnson. the USS Cabot in the hanger deck of the carrier, which here. undergoing repairs to i flight deck. Captain Charles L. Lee, USN, commanding officer of the USS Cabot, said after the dan it was the first party of this kind ever held on the Cabot, and that his men greatly enjoyed dancing $1,000 Reward Is Offered For Arrest Of Gunman PENSACOLA, Jan. 18.—(4).— There's been no official explana- e that | < | Body Of Edward |Burda Recovered _; ‘From Coal Mine MAHANOY CITY, Pa., Jan. 18. :—(@).—The body of Edward Bur-| Air Conditioning At Seaplane Base On February 6, sealed bids will be received by the U. S. Naval Station fer the air conditioning of Building 60 at the U. S. Na- val Air Station, Seaplane Base. The work will consist of fur- USS ‘Cabot; Participate re ida was recovered today 150 feet ishing and installing three air conditioning cabinets; nine indi- i tens PE i vidual air conditioning units; 4 jmine where he was trapped last} compr s, together with a con- [Building Permits | | Building permits in Key West! the. rescue team: “Badie never! arren ppoints 'wo Members To tate Boards | below the surface of a hard coal so far issued this month total] had a chan: $120,400, which is considerably | ahead of the entire month of Ja iC . N : ] : direc-| yy e Te tor of the Departmen of publie| Claim Victory ed $107,300, Roy F. Butler, : TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 18.—() i ei e, ae Apne : | Seng = > —Governor Warren made an ap- | “The rate at which permits are 0 ie ( h ace I dd <|pointment to the State Depart- being issued this month indicates. UVEF URINCSE BOGS | Meee eee Affaire this that the construction under way} papEy Formosa, Jan. 18—(/P), | morning. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. CONTRACT TO DREDGE | From All Over GARR'SON BIGHT State Of Florida 4 A widespread search Was or TO. BE SIGNED SOON sc There will be a meeting of-the}the city may enter into sim- Aleut fame ==: pe City Commission at 4:30 tomor-| ilar contracts with other contrac-| at 4 o'clock. row afternoon at which will be | TS. The plane was last sighted | considered a contract with the| , “After all, the city gains the} north along the Florida private contractor to dredge the dredging of Garrison Bight. It) Keys. Tt wes inter tected at a will be a great improvement, one | Locka Field, Miami, channel and eastern end of the} that would cost the city a lot of| Airports oo ee for Garrison Bight. money if it were not for the con- | ndrth as Charleston, Care. Under the terms of the con-| tractor, or contractors, dredging | ina were checked today by tele tract as drawn by City Attorney] the Bight.” Phone and other communication. M. Ignatius Lester, the contrac-| As explained by Captain Spal-| Th¢ Plane was piloted by 1% tor would sell the marl dredged }ding, any lot owner, who needs ree Gecrge Cluett, a memier out of the bight to any lot own-| mari to fill in his property, van Neen eat York manutne- er at $1.25 a cubic yard. get the material from the com-| Coast Guard beats ia couthers The contractor also would have | tractor at $1.25 a yard. waters stood ready o ty “ “« ‘ jon the to grant the city any “reasonable ‘A large section of the land! search if needed, amount” of the marl at $1 a|beyond White street has been Planes were into the cubic yard. Then the contractor | filled in”, said City Manager air from Army's Ped @ may dispose of the remainder of| Spalding. “It has been a great Florida, Coast Guard Aur Station. approximately 75,000 cubic|/improvement. There will be at Miami and $t. Petersburg. eed yards of marl for his own use. | much more of the land filled in ; i i City Manager Ralph D. Spald-|as result of the contract between George Cluett was one of « ing said today that it is hoped|the city and the contractor.” . < pd whe P&S ee ee ere tictpating in the All-American A\: Public ‘Swamps’ Gandolfo’s "Swi soit « meunon ow Office Inquiring Abou faa Pree lee Inquiring t : Cluett ook tt 106 Acres OF Homesites ~ 4% Monroe County fax Assessor if F i Claude Gandolfo told The Citi- HAPPY AGAIN | zen this morning that his office] W@® Worried about her son's ite | was ‘swamped’ with inquiries re-| 2PPearance. She phoned My * ' garding the 106 acres on Sugar-, Hancock of the CAA this morning loaf Key offered by the United| t inquire about the youth States Government for the first} There are only three fiekte im time in the history of Monroe} the state uf that are de County. ignated clearance ports of entry Gandolfo has asked The Citizen} They are Meacham Wield, Ke | to inform the public not to call at | West, Miami Aw his office regarding the matter,| Port, Chaulk’s Flying Service ‘ j but instead to make application Miami. - | direct to Washington. Cluett should have cleared fr As soon as Gandolfo receives’ “ne of these fiekts This he ; the photostatic copy of the Sugar-|°t do, and may souuiiily oat Key land from Washington, | Prowecutet fog thus viokation i ell make ae oo in illi T | ie Citizen, and the public can Ph ips urt | Over To Raiford then call at his office to choose ithe homesite that they desire | As stated in The Citizen yes- | terday, all prospective leases are tien for the firing of three shot- gun blasts at the home of Pensa- cola Ci Manager Oliver J. Semmes, Jr. The incident occurred early yesterday, and Semmes said he knew of no reason for the attack Assistant Chief of Police George White said the person firing the Yontinued On Page Six) —_—_— FOR SALE Used Furniture and Car- pets + Consisting of Bed Frames, Springs, Box Springs. Chests, etc. Also Metal Flower Boxes and many other items. Some Plumbing Supplies and Painters’ Scaffolds. FOR SALE on the Garage Grounds of the Casa Ma- rina Hotel. TERMS: Cash. All sales final and purchases must be removed from grounds same day. Ask for Frank Cannon. Please, no phone calls, with the young ladies of Key ‘West. Outside the women and girls, there were very few civilians on the Cabot last night. Among the civilians were Mayor and Mrs. Louis M. J. Eisner and Mr. and (Continued On Page Two) Peter Wagner Is Found At Spanish Channel Peter Wagner, owner of a fish- ing boat of Marathon, who was reported missing yesterday after- leaving Key West, was found last night in Spanish Channel] near No Name Key, according to the Coast Guard which had conduct- ed a search for him, Wagner was not in any danger, {he said, as he was approached in the channel. He said high winds forced him to anchor and he had the authorities to let them know he was all right. WEAVER'S STOCK ISLAND INN Air Conditioned Bar and Restaurant Open All Night in Key West this y« lish another record for the year,” said Butler. ‘Knight Burns Fishing Nets Thirty-five hundred yards of nets, taken in the arrest of men who were charged with illegal fishing, were destroyed today by Joe ght, Monroe County state cénservation agent. The men were charged with illegal fishing at the last session of Criminal Coudt. Knight burned the nets. To Be Torn Down Bids will be received January 27 by the Coast Guard headquar- jters, Miami, for removal of a building at the Key West Coast no way of communicating with|Guard Base and of some piling treatment of a case of polio was | which is under the building. | The building is wooden - and lis 150 feet long by 35 feet wide. The building is to be torn down ;and removed from the Coast Guard property Corner ANGELA and THOMAS STREETS THURSDAY - FRIDAY SATURDAY Benefit First Presbyterian Church ar may estab- | "RUMMAGE SALE: "=" taney ‘ationalists claim|. He named W. H. Cates, of Tal- —The Chinese jtoday that the Chinese Commu-| l#hassee, to represent the Third nist invasion plans for Hainan| Congressional District in the de- id have been upset. Accord-|Partment o the Nationalist C and- a bond dealer, is a mem- Met. the. land “Chisne "Kai ber of the Tallahassee City Com- * ., mussion. Shek’s air force and navy have made an invasion impossible. | ,,He succeeds Tom H. Barnett, of Mariana. The Ground Commander Gen- eral Hsueh Yueh, known as the ittle Tiger”, says more than| ,000 Communist invasion craft, mostly junks, have been sunk. $31.000,000 pent One Soldier, Burn | By March Of Dimes|27 Others Badly iTo Combat Polio COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Jan. 18—()—A_ savage brush first is burning itself out in the | “More than $31,000,000 Was /| foothills o* the Rockies southeast | spent in 48,000 cases of polio in the; of here. The fire roared through United States in 1949,” stated C.|Camp Carson yesterday, killing B. Harvey, campaign director ofj one soldier and seriously burning the 1950 March of Dimes. |27 others. Thirty-nine buildings The National average cost for} were destroyed. Gale force winds drove the i $2,000,:and in spite of careful] flames 10 miles to within striking treatment, approxirhately 20 per-; distance of the small town of cent of these cases will be per-;Fountain, but during the night manently impaired in some man-| the winds died down and the ner flames were brought under con- | “Give to the March of Dimes so| trol just north of Fountain. The ‘that an early end to the polio|fire then headed back over the menace may be expected” urged| scorched brush and timber land, and camp authorities said that it will die out unless there is an- other shift in the wind. When the fire was at its height, some 7,000 volunteer fire fighters used shovels, bulldozers and wet gunny sacks to battle the flames. Hospitals in Colorado Springs re- ported a regular parade of civil- ians seeking treatment for burns (Continued On Page Six) Warren also appointed Dave Gaskin, of Wewahitchka, to the State Livestock Sanitary Board. cc hecaRiaal aaI, POOR OLD CRAIG |. SERVICE STATION Francis at Division Phone 9134 Your PURE OIL Dealer LET US SS =; j al Administrator Region No. 6, of the Bureau of Land Management Department of Interior, Washing | ton, D. C | The 106 acres has been set aside ! for acquisition by the public as j homesites The majority of the homesites range from 8-10ths of (®) Wirephoto MICHAEL MASON, 3, was a ve sad boy last week when he | 4M acre t 2 acres : found his dog dead. A Wire- ab erat or ss resional ad- Photo of him sobbing over the | p.,.4u of Land Management, had body of the dog was distributed | on)y one photostatic copy of the by the Associated Press, and | homesites that were all number- he received hundreds of offers | ed in the two sections 13, and 14, of anew dog. Now, Mike's hap- | on Sugarloaf Key py. He has chosen one of the | A Citizen reporter in fooking dogs offered him. It is a black | t Mr. Price’s copy asked if dupli Cocker named “Big.” which | (Contiued On Page Five) was given Mike by Maj. Harold x T. Neal of Midwest City. Okla. | Adenion! Fife Is Traffic Snarled ‘Making Inspection Near Commissary Of Naval Station | Rear Admiral James Fife, J Because patrons do not use the commander of the Submarine parking lot provided b: U. S. Division of the Atlantic Fleet, and Navy in the rea e Commis- his staff Key | sary at d Virginia D / streets, th loped quite make a routine a traffic pro PREP SCARE RRS og ippon* Some of the mot f ar-) Four rest if the violati continue,! Commander Walter Small. US. according to Police Chief Joseph NV who was formerly station im Kemp toc lan Wee on send aaa “The Navy has provided a large | of the USS Clamag aaa (Continued On Page Five) the staff officers with Admiral a Fife. | ites i ie CSAC tO, AR 3 : 503 —— a Phone 9165 | DODGE Job Rated Trucks AIR-CONDITIONED Sports Results Daily (tic GPee « Key West's Most Comfortable Baz | Navarro Inc., 601 Duval St. Seite nit ate RRR | to write for application form No. | | 4.775, care of HS. Price, Region. (Qn Monroe Charee s Eori Wayne Pitltips, 32 ' Washington, Pa, whe wa: « rested some time ago te: | theft in Key West, will be | ferred from Palm Beach Je RaifordPrison for the Monde County sentence. | Phillips was taken te Wee > Beach for questianing « ction with the muni Sculptor Leno Laseari apd ed fe, Lowise m 148 afte & theft conviction for the ear . | Sheriff Joon Kuk of We | Palm Beach said today thet Phe ps was being turned ower ¢ Raiford penitentiary efter NOUR Adams, Thompson Pay $25,000 Por 18 City Lots Eighteen lots near Pirwt street Se berg avenue ae $25,900, according warranty deed filed tm the { Court Clerk Ee K \dam esterda Purchaser ¢ the prem were A. Maitiend Adare John N. Thompson, son of BS jberg Thompson, and the sells was William R. Porter Sseeceeeeeen Palace Wm. Parker end Patricia White tn “THE WRECK OF THE | 7