The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 27, 1950, Page 1

VOL. LXXI. No. 23 LOGS AND ICE JAM A M . @? Lewiston. Four bridges and a dam down the river will be rising water breaks the jam. OUNTAIN RIVER IN IDAHO The logs _were floated downstream from northern Idaho for a lumber THE SOUTHERNMOST NE KEY WEST FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1950 ESTERN 1 Cannon Formall Qualifies | |For Congress Pat ‘Cennén’ Monday’ formally |e ‘\ filed his qualifications. with Sex | INE about a:countembipekads\. of retary of State R. A. Gray asa viet zone: asthe answer fto Russia’s candidaté: for’ Congress from the 'Fourth Congressional District. | In discussing the important ‘Blockade Reds’ May Be Answer To Present Conditions y ( threatened if warmer weather or many was revived) today as 400 trucks piled up in a ¢ozossal traf- question of ways and means of fic jam'at the city of “Helmstedt, CITY TO BUILD YACHT BASIN] 4 H. M. Hedges, of Chicago, own- er of the 55-foot schooner, As oy, before departing ‘from Ki West at noon today, urged the cit- izens of the city to build a yacht basin as. quickly as possible. “Key West has no_ suitable yacht basin”, said Hedges, who was here with his three weeks awaiting parts for a damaged motor. “Every passing | ship here dangerously rocks every facht that is ‘berthed at Porter or ¢lsewhere in Key West. BRIDE vessel for “Wed” the Askoy spent., apa proximately. $1,500 during our three-week stay here. I alone spent’ $1,000 for equipment and supplies for my schooner. Then the crew spent at least $500, for food, cigarettes, entertainment and other things while we were here. | “A proper berth for yachts }would be a good thing for Key | West. Even if a yacht remained here only a day or two, the own- ers and their crews would leave plenty of money in Key West { “Up at Fort Lauderdale they | have a fine yacht basin. So have | many other cities in Florida. They provide water and gas and ele tricity. They charge nominally for those services, but yachtsmen like to stay there, and many do hoto from er Studios) MISS DRUCIE SYNDER. | the G@eughter of Secretary of the {so the entire winter. Tressury John W. Snyder and | “It is only by the grace of God Mrs. Gnyder, in her wedding | that the Askoy wasn’t badly dam gown ot Washington. She mar- | aged during our stay here. There ried Maj. John Ernest Horton, | have been several yachts damag ermy fticer from Wichita, |©4 by reason of passing ships Kens mn Washington's Nation- | (Continued On Page ght) Jan. 26. She had Margaret Truman, daughter of the President, as her maid of @i Cathedral Vandals Destroy _|Several Benches At ¢ ‘ounty, Beach Issue Permits j Ji ary Of Vandals have wrecked several n, anuary of the benches placed at Monroe | Ded County Beach for the benefit of A poul $250,000 the users of the park, and the de- struction brought a threat to calling for a{close the beach every evening at! $29,606 neluding | 6 p. m be built by The benches were made ‘by the action Com-| County Commissjon at a cost of today in the of-| about $40 each. Many benches F Bulte rector of | were plac the County Beach f Public Ser | and now the commission finds (Continued On Page Eight) to be built by 2 = CC INTELL TTR OLE at 2205 POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Prancis at Division Phone 913 Your PURE _OIL Dealer LET U Grease, Spray o Change Your Oi) Fine Fishing Tackle Thompson Enterprises, Inc. Merdware Division—Phone 886 March of Dimes Benefit Ball TONIGHT 9:00 P.M. - 1:00 A.M. La Concha Rainbow Room Music by HERB ROSE and ORCHESTRA Floor Show - Door Prize Adm., $1.00 Person (Tax Incl.) Sponsored by V.F.W. AUXILIARY SPECIAL OFFER 1948 WILLYS JEEPSTER Meater Radio Overdrive .. White Wall Tires $1095.00 LINDSEY MOTOR CO. 327 DUVAL STREET Across from Southern Cross | -| quarters for the reducing the steadily mounting} where the big highway from West, national debt, Cannon said, “The |}Germany to Berlin enters the safest and most logical way to | Soviet sector. ? | _ This “creeping blockade” by the Russians, regarded as little more ‘than a nuisance at first, is begin- ming to have serious repercus- ! sions. Two formal protests have, ; been sent to the Russian com-! mandant at Berlin — protests Which have gone unanswered. ; ‘The American commandant of |! Berlin, Major General Maxwell! ‘| Taylor, has taken a dim_ view of| the situation. He said today: “I am not worried by an out-! tight blockade which Soviet au- thorities might apply. We'can &: Band Practices \Monday In Mcneela vvvvvvvrvveve~re* WORD FROM WALLACE LONDON, Jan: 27.+TheWest- | rn Allies in’Germany are talk-' i } i | McCloy Says Reds iBegin “Creeping” Berlin Blockade NEW YORK. Jan. 27.—(). Cloy’s views said Thursday the commissioner believes the and are designed to keep the Western Powers from becom- ing too prosperous. McCloy has been in the United States for consulta- tions with the U. S. Govern- ment. LONDON, Jan. 27—(P).— The Russians today are tight- ening their squeeze play in pe with that.” He continued: “But I am con- cerned that this pecking at truck traffic will shake the. confidence. sof buyers abroad in the«.desira+ , bility of doing business . with ‘Commissary Written Permission Given For Use Of Old PAT CANNON | t save money for the taxpayers is to discontinue some of our stag : . : West Berlin. This harassment r gering European. expenditures ‘could serigusly harm fhe recovery ,_, Navy Buildings Dillane: | ana: divest.some.of hose moneveRe War Sen trade unless it is Preparing Toe Move towards domestic projects which would benefit our own people and do,much to strengthen our promptly checkelp.” So said General Taylor. The counter - blockade’ helped the Allies overcome the' big Sd-| viet blockade of Berlin last year. The. Soviet occupation area felt, the . pinch—hard—even as. the! airlift kept Berlin from starving. | ' On Monday the Key West High School band will have-comodious | own economy. new quarters in the old Commis- “In any event, we should more sary building of the U. S. Navy/carefully scrutinize the activities in which to practice, Horace O'- of those countries now requesting Bryant, county superintendent} of ;°U" help, being careful to aid A only those whose governments public instruction, announced to-|° : Bee ed crtae yee 1an8 ideologies are more inclined sys toward; ours; and deny it to O'Bryant said that the written | those wh tendencies and ac- permission of Captain C. C. Adell,| 4." 7 eres USN, commander of the Key tions lean towards un-American- Naval Base, had been reciv- | '8™S d that Ear! Dillon, the band was now preparing the} Whether that counter-blockade will be revived may depend on! what the Russians do about; breaking the Berlin highway traf- | fic jam in the next few days. In‘! jany event, the Allies have made it plain that they won't take this new blockade lying down—and that some kind of economic re- prisal will be threatened. Man Ran Amok though I fully realize that we can no longer live as isola- band to practice|tionists, I firmly maintain that there must be some _ stopping point in our European spending, even though we be the wealthiest country in the world. \d in. The Navy permission is revoc- jable without notice, but 7.500 ‘square feet of floor space in the i } ;Commissary building had been}! “A more judicious and cor ° ° ° {made available to the band. Dil-j}vative foreign spending program | M “K ll d parucaire, and ne sl look after | maintain our own domestic econ- | ° ° peste tn the dl encmade i o tameres oe Ad Cer AM YUrINg ary, as requested by the ' the American Way of Life,” non concluded. Can- 100 Purchasing °50 Auto: T: Agency : Vhere Endangered By Wild Shots;-, MIAMI, Jan. 27 )—A man | ran amok with a gun at the Dade County Automobile Tag Agency | day until it leaves for Tampa where it will participate in the & parilla Week events Hug Firenien Vidal Answers Alarm From His Home e Counterfeit ‘Ring Broken U pby Fermin Vidal is a fireman sta-| today, wounded two persons and 18 — 8 Ps tioned at No. 3 Fire station. At} was shot dead. (Seerel SEFVICEMEN [620 p.m, Vidal was playing| The ticng began outside the| See : S cards at the fire station, when| building. He burst inside with _NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—()—|the game was interrupted by the|the smoking gun in his hand and Secret Ser men have teamed ! soundin of an alarm which came} began to fire from Truman avenue : Vidal hastily threw down t Faur men have been arrested so} cards and boarded the fire en far. gine. As he turned the corner ¢ndiscriminately. | About one hundred persons in j the office purchasing 1950 auto- mobile tags were endanered The dead man was identified up with New York City police to break up a huge counterfeit ring. le treasury agents followed a]to Truman avenue, Vidal looked as Weston Thomas Kinsey 1 from Los Angeles two days (Continued On Page Two) s : é ieee to New York City. — ~ | Enlisting the aid of New York (Continued On Page Five) NOTICE... -./ Former 'Custdmers of¢Bobby © | | | ‘DODGE Job Rated Trucks. Fit The Joh—Lant Longer... Better Whitehead CALL FOR i | Pert : Comfort. - | BOAT BAR enter aafely 2 Swe nave ‘|. APPOINTMENTS at G Ss TRUCK FOR YOUR, JORI : Adorable Beauty Salon Navarro Inc., 601 Duval St. |$24 Simonton St. Tel, 1914 1503 Duval Street. Phone 9165 | AIR-CONDITIONED Sports Results Daily | Key West's Most Comfortable Bar { | } WEEK-END SPECIALS Lady Baltimore Bar Cake 49c |, Boston Cream Pie _ 49c |! Headquarters for BIRTHDAY and WEDDING CAKES MATCHETT'S BAKERY |, 901 Duval Street | BOXING TONIGHT. 8:30 Visit the Wedding Ring Store Three - Five Day Repair Service e@All New and Repaired Watches ,} ELECTRONICALLY TESTED for ACCURACY Simonton and Greene Street Arena 10-Round Main Event “RED” CAMERON vs. Coast Guardsman PALASCKI Four Other Bouts Gen. Adm. $1.25 (Inc. Tax) Reserved Seats, $2.00 (Inc. Tax) ——$<$—$ i Knonles Jenelers 504 SOUTHARD STREET | PHONE 301 | | Germany. They have cut down the number of trucks through each hour, from Berlin. This is about one-tenth the normal traffic. BAAD 6444442 AA DDE Jo Ann Mullins Wins “Miss March Of Dimes” Contest Of $160,000 Last NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—() Three bandits robbed the home jof New York Nightclub Owner Billy Rose while he and his wife attended a show last night. The $100,000 loss in furs and jewelry taken by the gunmen didn't seem to impress the master showman Rose quipped: “I'm had on her war paint to: that, he referred to the his wife, former swim star nor Holm, had worn to the st Rose said the gems were valued at around $250 000. And just as if he wore a lucky diamond horseshoe on his shoul- der, Rose explained that, anyway, the bandits had left undisturbed a $500,000 collection of paintings and $75,000 worth of antique ver In addition to a two-foot s how safe containing the stolen jewe the bandits took $600 in cé from a dresser rand a (Continued On Page Fo! Bargains: Used Outboard Motors 1949 Evinrude 2a H. P. 1949, Mer Sportwin, rourr 4 Rocket, P. 100. 'ALLIGOOD MARINE 629 Front Street Phone 1696 Your Authorized Johnson Dealer STOCK ISLAND INN Air Conditioned Bar and Restaurant Open All Night RN ALLIES MAY PUT SQUEEZE .PLAY ON SOVIETS Russians Today Tightening ‘Squeeze Play’ In Germany a Billy Rose Robbed ‘Night At His Home «: | | | WEAVER’S | i | } | | (#?) Wirephoto IN HIGH GOOD HUMOR, for- | mer Vice President Menry A. Cotumbia House un-American Activities Committee in Washington on Thursday. He said he had “ab- solutely nothing to do with” wartime shipments of uranium to Russia. He hed asked te be heard after Radio Comments- tor Fulton Lewis, Jr.. sait Wal lace helped the Russians get supplies of atomic materials. CAA officals met the oe non in County Courthouse «ith County Commexsoners telaters $% {Meacham Airport and they ter [red represemtatives of the jand radio | To bar the pres: and radix ; county commision meetings « ¢ violation of stéte law Hat om o ase, the Commigsioners isk for the secret seessan This was the work of the and since the CAA « capew {make # fin wostmes Kay Faraldo Is Y re aveste ; ) e airport when the nus scquires the Came j toners acceded to the wmsamn ' quest 1 itt weting wa n the tw ! . . ‘ eight cand s ‘ and worrying any dime uld to help mcs” Kimball Leaves research 6 . For Wa sur 1 by « Miss March of Dimes c \ shington 4 We at 3 K s Queen of March of Dimes t \ Name \ 474.00 K (Continued On Page Four) Tt Bi La Concha Hotel QUARTERDECK DANCING THURS.., FRL., cand SAT. 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