The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 1950, Page 1

OOO at mean ela Contract Signed By Sirugo, City This Morning Work was started today by Joe Sirugo, president of the Sunshine Construction Company, on the dredging of the eastern portion of Garrison Bight. The contract was signed this morning by Sirugo and by Mayor Louis _M. J. Eisner. Eisner on be- half of the City of Key West un- der which Sirugo will dredge the Bight without cost to the city. Sirugo agreed to deliver marl in any reasonable amoun = tany- where in the city to the City for! $1 a cubic yard, or for 50 cents | a yard ‘delivered at the Bight. Likewise, Sirugo agreed to sell any lot owner marl delivered in the city at $1.25 a cubic yard. Sirugo will dredge the Bight to a depth of seven feet, the con- tract specifies. To dredge it deep- er would enhance the Bight in the event of hurricanes, it is thought. This morning, Sirugo was get- ting his machinery on the Bight and this afternoon the first of the marl was hauled out of the wa- = = Sa SSS urance Rebate tks Are Being ived In City Weterans in Key West are awaiting the mail- these days. Checks from the United government for insur- febate are starting to into the Island City. | Teday The Citizen was in- of one veteran who $198. Per those veterans and families who want to how much the check be, it can be figured iy. The government is paying per $1000 insurance held per month. Assuming a veh tan carried $10.000 for three years, his return will be exactly $198 | —$5.50 per month for $10,000 [imeurance and then 36 (menths) times $5.50. Those men who were 40 years or older when thev en- | | tered the service will receive | ter. less than the 55c per month Much of the marl will have to per $1,000. They will be be blasted. peid on a graduated scale. Who is the veteran who re- ceived the $198? That's a secret. Do you blame him? > City Manager Ralph D. Spald- ing, who worked out the details of the contract with Sirugo, said today the city would enter into , contract with other contractors on ate = the same terms as that just om- ——— | pleted with Sirago. tock Exchange x,rigeii actin te city will get the dredging of the ! Bight without eost to it”, said the ° Suit ey elle. tosees nget te il radi ng On | heir property at reasonable cost,” Selective Basis |State Road Session Hashana were on highly eee West In March tive basis today : ' first half of the two-| March meeting of the State n the general tendency Road Department will be held in dd but no real selling | Ke¥ Ment, - sald: Representative Seabied ia had Bernie C.. Papy and Chairman ligited AGsinky to Frank Bentley of the Monroe County Commission today on their return from Tallahassee. Some 500 contractors and oth- ers are expected to attend the March meeting, since the State! Road Department is to parcel out (Continued On Page Eight) Laubscher Is In Miami Attending Chamber Meeting Harold R. Laubscher, manager of the Key West Chamber of Commerce is in Miami today at- tending a meeting of the direc- tors of the United States Cham- ber of Commerce. The directors are meeting be- hind closed doors. Problems “the p), {national administration doesn’t seem to take seriously” are being discussed. NEW YORK, the mul wt 7 started nibbling at picked group of shares, helne teady the entire result xture of these maneuvers of advances and a few of the gains to two points or so. Ture was ata rate of 600,000 shares for the two ( | and Mathieson two points at one On Page Eight) Booth Qualifies For Senate Seat Against Pepper EF, Jan 21 ' Republican paticiate <1 A total of 58 directors of the 7 Chamber and the delegates of th. Pepper j local Chambers of Commerce, in- Bie iy aa lt cluding Key West, heard Secre- y of Commerce Sawyer talk is) «rats, Repre it night, but the subject of his Smoathers, J. H.|@ddress was as secret as the . geil peer {sessions have been. Fort Meade. have{| One of yesterday’s delibera- P race. None} (Continued On Page Eight) HOTEL LA CONCHA ARTERDECK La ¢ TICKET OFFICE ALL AIRLINES PRICE TOURS |411 Fleming St. Phone 124 = 2 oncha Today and Monday LAST TWO DAYS Seithanaibit Gifts ' INVENTORY SALE Beautiful Gifts At As High As 50% Discount DOROTHY RAYMER, 616 DUVAL ST. t Supper inday Evening, to 8:00 P. M. M \ YOU CANE SSS N.Y. Police Take » No Chances As New Bank Opens NEW YORK; Jan. 21.—(#). —Hundreds of passersby and motorists were made curious by the presence of large po- lice detachments in the heart of Manhattan’s rich Fifth Avenue district last night. The explanation was sim- ple. Millions of dollars in cash were being moved into a new bank. And police just weren't taking any chances, Mayor Eisner To Head Red . ral } Cross Drive. Mayor Louis Eisner has accept- ed the chairmanship of the an- nual fund drive of the Key West Chapter, of the American Red Cross. Announcement that the city’s executive would spearhead the campaign this year was made Saturday by Lee Goddatd, chair- man of the Key West Chapter. Goddard said he had selected Mayor Eisner from a list of pro- minent citizens because he felt the city’s executive was the en- ergetic leader that the fund drive would nee Slated to get under way in early March the drive is slated two weeks. A goal of $10,- 000 has been set for the county. Boston Police Are Checking On Two Brink Employees BOSTON, Jan. 21.—(4).—Two employees of the armored car company that got robbed of one million dollars have been ques- tioned by Boston police. The men, both employed by Brink’s Incorporated were questioned throughout the night. They are a maintenance department work- fer, William Manter, and a guard, Gerard Pfaff. After questioning, | both men agreed to headquarters until No charges were placed. Manter was picked up night after a police alarm had been sent out for him. He'd fail- ed to report for work yesterday, remain at later today. and was located at his home in. suburban Waltham. Pfaff was brought to headquarters a few hours later, and the police said they wanted Pfaff to help in the questioning of Manter. However, the men were placed | arate rooms and questioned separately by detectives who moved back and forth between the rooms. No charges have been placed against either man One of the detective ed that the police were going again piece the Brink’s mainten- ance department w is de- (Continued On Page Four) LAST DAY OF SALE MONDAY On the Garage Grounds of the Casa Marina grounds, Some very good used carpets. Two coffee urns at $5.00 each. One house- hold washing machine in need of repairs, mosquito netting, window shades, -metal beds, metal bed springs, and metal’ flour boxes. Terms: Cash. All sales final and purchases must be removed from grounds same day. Casa Marina Hotel. Ask for Frank Cannon... Please, no phone calls. last | xplain- | araw & Largest Giver To: March Of Dimes | Key West helped assure adequate care to every victim (and would- be victim) of polio for as long as he needs it by giving NOW, in in- creased. amounts, to the 1950 March of Dimes, when Bank President Jerry Trevor presented with a check for $200. This check was double the gave during the last emergency drive. Chairman Harvey. ‘stated that this was the largest contri | bution to date-and that it actually? represented 10 percent of the total] contributions to date as only $2,000 of 1 $15,000 goal has been} | reached with the drive - one-half over. Chairman Harvey spoke mo highly of Bank President Je: Trevor and the staff of our local! bank for their interest in the especially children, to the time spent in helping them with their monetary difficulti they occur. the road to a successful goal. Polio epidem in 1949 were the worst in the nation’s history. More than 40,000 people were raged across widespread areas | The epidemics are over, and Key West in particular, suffered during a polio siege that people will long remember. For thousands who have been stricken with polio, who must live with the disease the tragedy of polio has hardly begun. Of last year’s tinued care and | main from other years. | dren. They are depending heavily | upon the ish financial assistance in the long, hard pull along the road to irehabilitation. They need your help. March of Dimes receipts for last r totaled $26,000,000. Pa- tient care alone in 1949 cost $31,- 000,000 in March of Dimes funds. (Continued On Page Four) New York Papers Say O'Dwyer May Have To Resign NEW YORK, Jan. 21. —(®)— Persistent reports are circulating here that Mayor William O’Dwyer may have to resign be- cause of ill health. Three of the |city’s morning newspape are ‘carrying stories to this e However, a close aide of the Mayor says he puts no stock in | the reports. | The aide says there’s nothing {wrong with the mayor that rest won't cure, O'Dwyer is vacation- ing in Key Largo with his bride. Mayor Scotches Rumors Mayor O'Dwyer has_ scotched ‘rumors that he will retire. | The stories were given impetus when his personal physician flew to K Largo yesterday to join the vacationing mayor. To the rumors that he might quit be- cause of ill health, O'Dwyer said (Continued On Page Eight) | Palace Theater DEANNA DURBIN anc EDMOND O'BRIEN “For The Love Of Mary” { a |RAUL'S CLUB Boulevard by the Airport PHONE 9287 | Big Dance Tonight Impromptu Entertainment 10 P.M. to 2:00 A.M. Music by The Debonairs S0c Door Admission $30.00 H DOOR PRIZE || (Door Prize Increases $10.00 Each Week If Not Claimed On First Drawing) |The Florida National Bank of This generosity; fives the drive a big boost along} C. B. Harvey, campaign director,' amount Mr. Trevor and the bank, health of all citizens of Key West, } in addition; i Stricken in major outbreaks that, from coast to coast. | locals { Most of these patiénts are chif="here. How much will be needed in said that for the past ten days| | | | the place. torney, FRED STROBLE, 68, chin in hand, stares at the floor as jury returns verdict convicting the bruial sex slaying of six-year-old Linda Joyce Glucoit at Los Angeles. He faces death state gas chamber, but first must be tried on his plea of not guilty by reason of insenity. Mis Public Defender Al Matthews, sits at (left), i : i } 5 —— ti = Sr i ist ' i i HME te? it .: | | H te i a a ! f i Police Kill TWO WORLD TRAVELERS HERE; PLAN TO LIVE Shooting Fray ON VIRGIN ISLANDS Find Three Small Islands In Virgin Group; Hail From Lizeolechire. Eraland An Englishman and his,wife who are intending to go to live on! _. the Virgin ‘Islands, but who'are’in the meantime sailing erownd the | world, aré at present in Key West. | They came here aboard the lia Falaise. a 4)-fopt ketch with an Gangster In ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. Jan. | victims, 17,000 will require con-\21-(4#)—One man_was_ killed,} treatment this’ another wounded and a third cap- | year. Many thousands more re-' tured just before daybreak today; * in a Shooting afffay with police Police said the three men were March of Dimes to furn- trapped in a grain mill late last) night. The trio was ordered to! surrender. The men refused andj} hid among sacks of grain. Then) they tried to make a break for it! this morning, and police opened fire. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, police they have been trying to run down a gang that has been loot- ing Pennsylvania grain mills. { According to police, they track- ed the men late last night to the Grubb and Brennan mill, caught them in the act of robbing ; and, The deac man was identified as| Frank Stadler of Baltimore; the wounded man was also of Baltimor captured as Earl F banon. 400 Railroad Men Co On Strike At 6 A.M. Today | PITTSBURGH, Jan. 21.—(4).—| Four hundred members of the! Brotherhood of Railr Train- | men went on strike this morning. | As scheduled, the trainmen struck at 6 a. m. th Monongahela | conecting railroad | The railroad trainmen struck as} the result of a nine-months d puté involving the violent death of a brakeman. The company fired the conduc- |! tor who had been in charge of| the crew at the time, and the dis- | charge upheld by a Presiden- tial fact-finding board. However, | the union is protesting the dis- missal. A major steel plant, Jones and} Laughlin’ at Pittsburgh, has been closed down. by a strike of train- men on a railroad owned by the} steel company. | The strike involves only 1,200) trailworkers but 12,000 were forc- ed into idleness when the main (Continued On Page Eight) WEAVER'S STOCK ISLAND INN Air Conditioned Bar and Restaurant Open || All Night | auxiliary motor, and are now tied of Duval street. They are Captain and Mrs. Ste- phen Cliff who hail from Lincoln- | shire, in England, but who have found that life in the Caribbean can be very sweet. | “Two years ago we found three: islands in the Virgin Island group”, said Mrs. Cliff on the ab- sence of her husband today. “They {contain about 40 acres and are in- 'tensely wild. j “But we believe we can grow a little farm produce, keep some |pigs and cows, and such things. ; We love it there and now we in- | tend to go back and build a home there.” The Pear, ands are called Prickly Nectar and Eustacia and Cliff believes that th: are beautiful. They ing here for a few 4 fore continuing on to H Grand Cayman, their next ports of call Also at the Porter Dock are the Neco, a 46-foot motor craft hail- ing from La Cro Wisconsin, and the 42-foot Ca Wa which hails from New York On board the Nec and Mrs. C. D. Ge Mrs. Kenneth Dahl Mrs. Robert Johns, while the Ca-Le-Wa are Captain Mrs. Leslie Levi. Mr. and } George Mohn and David Plc The Neco came here from Mi ami, and she will put out to sea (Continued On Page Eighy) La Concha Hotel DANCING on the “QUARTERDECK” | TONIGHT | Ws ® From 9:00 O'Clock P.M. Until 1:00 O'Clock A.M. a Latin American Orchestra Music Furnished by “Le Cubaney Orchestra” * : i e jot commense navigation between the United States and lreland. up at the Porter Dock at the foot | It culled the treaty “The oe ———=— comprehemive of fis kind © Ireland has signed with jcuntey,” adding thet i be deemed « fitting eupre of the close ties which bund § people of the United Stetes emt | Ireland.” | The treaty, which must | Proved by the Senate, i design led to provide « legal fremewe ’ a Gussie Moran's Engagement Gets Comment Aplenty NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—(? for general economic retest Tt , z , Ships between the twe count here's plenty of comment today snd their development “in & on Gussie Moran's announcement mony with médern oom that she will wed a handsome | conditions.” British business man in India| Gussie is the Santa Monica, Cal- | ifornia tennis star who jolted the staid Wimbledon tennis cham-| Application Forms pionships by appearing in lace R ° ved B The trimmed panties |hecety v 4 London, her prospective! r-in-law, Economists Nicho Citizen Toda avenport, says all he knows Atte M bout Gussie is that, in his words She is a very good tennis player}, Today The Citizen and there was a lot of fuss about | fe forms 4-755 from the tures her panties.” ‘of Land Management, Deeper In fornia, Gussie’s mother) ™ent of Interior, Weshengt isn’t so sure about this engage- | ment. Mrs an hears there's ‘not much w Calcutta, Ir : dia. And. sa sr a Tr x } likes t ss a euge. The full story ed by The Citizen carte ays Mrs. Moran Ger. | week ras been engaged several There are only « few es before tion forma, and they will be 3ut the seventh-ranking U. S. buted ima first cums woman's tennis amateur says she erve basis will marry the M n 7 dhs (CSrateranteona TEETER AVS N live re utt j BOAT BAR 503 Duval Street Phone Ghee AIR-CONDITIONED Sports Results Daily Key West's Most Comfortabts Ber _semmnnnaan cams SUNDAY MENU Spanish Been and Cream of Chicken Soup Prime Rib of Beet Roast Turkey Roast Chee Chicken and Rice Baked Mees Incid bridegroom is said t spective what . 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