The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 7, 1950, Page 1

|Sup reme Court Has Not Yet Ruled On State Sales Tax | TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 7. —The State Supreme Court has made-no immediate ruling on a jcase attacking the new Sales tax. The court yesterday heard ar- we S. Gaulden, a West Palm Beach 7 apartment owner, — Hai His attorneys attacked the levy = (#) Wirephoto}0n rentals as unreasonable and elena claimed it was in reality an ad a © PON NY OOHEM teoks over his wardrobe amid the | valorem-tax such as the Florida one rr © Geeleet bem wrecked his $100,000 home in | constitution forbids. ~ Bape ie Attorneys for the State fended it as a valid excise tax. Gauldenjs attorneys claimed that the sales tax law was defective ——--—-———_ | because its title failed to serve! notice that the body of the act] - County Board To contained a provision that it would become effective only on tone EET Crash Tehye Meet Tonight arty: Get Prison fe 0 Cansides Marl oepet injery. Damage was estimated at The copies es heard three miles away. ehem Ge wife and thelr maid were asleep in comeleert a pram o pool passage of companion acts. These acts donate state cigaret- te taxes to cities and turn the 7th cent of the gasoline tax over to the counties for road building. guments in a suit brought by L.! de-; * Merey Killing * Leased A&B ° Fish Company Dock; To Truck ;out of Key West headed for the markets in New. York, Philadel- phia, Washington and New York, it became known today. E. J. Toomer, of Thunderbolt, | Georgia, who recently brought! 12 shrimp boats to Key West, said! today he is getting organized at! { \ “shrimp. are beginning to roll. | Did Was Murder”; i Defense: “She Had Gancer Phobia ... ” BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Feb. 7. —(#).—The so-called mercy kill- ing trial of Carol Ann Paight is, expected to reach the jury later! today or tomorrow. The presecution up. summation. _ See Page Four For Article On Discovery Of Shrimp Beds i In This Locality 'the A. and B. fish docks and will! | begin shipping shrimp tomorrow i % f | The first of his boatsdiave been The ‘defenss hax beer tt Assistant State’s At {out on the new shrimp areas Re os we . since Saturday, and several of to™ey Otto Saur said, “I don't, thom sare achesuled 640 turn think anyone will deny that | with the holds filled with shrimp|C@tol Paight loved her father, | by. tomorrow. deeply.” But, he continued, the He has leased ge | 21-year-old girl knew what she has “summed | the di } Space from the A & B Fish Com-| Was doing when she shot and erm. Statange bocgmeting wnight. of “thal cul [handle the-cing of the boca pnd]. "Parol Ann w charged with f m,. ao Count ‘or % ~ ff Lo d andle the icing of the boats, an rol Ann is charged wit av: : munty Cometenion: the jet in London has built 3,000 boxes in which the| ing mitted second * degree ae poee? oublc yards of mcr! that shrimp are shipped, 100 Pouncs}murder when she Killed her fa- iNT . Mave heen offered by the U. to a box, to the markets. any sah Pe i te a “ 4 Dr Key, He: is: oe say +S hi -_ f Bercqgeen | echeduled to be ecgeeia™ rid maa or ge Rely cancer, ‘The defense contends Nevy says the mart mast be re: ated by Thompson Enterprise: that she was temporarily insane a trom Dredgers’ Key be-| “Chief and Mrs. Peter D. Owe Inc, has not sufficient capacity | Whe" she fired the fatal shot in he fest-of the month, andjin London have inquired about to handle all of Toomer’s busi-| is hospital room. ‘ sty will consider re-|the homesites. that the Depart-' ness. The prosecutor charged, “What ‘ Hemme the beds for the remain-| ment of Interior, Bureau of Land| When the full 200 boats of the|She did, im the misguided notion der of Che month Management, is leasing and gell-. shrimp fleet, many of them en-|that she didn’t want her father eet gucete| Me mart has yet been taken! ing on. Sugarloaf Key. jroute to Key West get into op-|to suffer, was murder.” — cay from Garrison Bight by Joseph! tie naval man and his wife | eration they will demand about}; Saur said that the girl went ’ Siruge head 4 the Sunshine Mat 4 in | 800 tons of ice each day, |home after hearing that her fa- a hohe ae Were married in Key West in, ‘ Kite Wha, [CeMetruction Company. Insur~ Toomer has arranged ‘for a fleet {ther had cancer. He said she got! most a « 1942.. They like the Island City, { —oe por to cover any losses -guffer- ‘and Want to return here as soon| 9! trucks qpcraied py Lanasa &ja gun and fired a practice shot. Bae “ od by oeighboring property from 7 ; Wexler of St. Augustine to oper-|Then, he said, she-picked up her om as Owéns retires from the Nav 7 J Pp ) ieevvtens | Slasting has not yet been ob- Chief Ow Y-! ate between Key West and New mother and went. back to the io fet : sk ens is'sogn to com-| York City to handle the shrimp. hospital. camer’ plete’ his twenty-year service; Chica Vigna is the local represen- PaRINanaG The prosecutor demanded . . i) 0 with the Navy, and if he can ac-| tative of Lanasa & Wexler. “Aren't. th Gi cation ek ace iy perations! quire one of the homesites, he/ Within half an hour after the] jviee an ote eee Bets ee & ‘Continued On Page Five) | shrimp reaches the A & B. Fish — oan Gua Officers Mi took Sea {docks, the first truck will bel _ ak gree uy eee ” ’ ade: : x .,| smuggled the gun into the hos- | és {headed for New York, Toomer| S$" ; : a dba An ee | said today. pital carefully waited until Capt Of W: ater oe The 100-pound boxes of shrimp | the coast was clear . . . and when Renegotiating are packed in ice. About 180 to/She fired the shot, stood away | KV Pet P\ ‘ 190 boxes at a time are shipped vk her father so thet the gun-| . in each truck. The trucks stop} Powder would not burn him. | Finn bagel ge Tariff Concessions & Miami, in Georgia, South Car-| Again, the prosecutor demand- i ‘abou rahe Olina, North Carolina, and at se-;ed . . . “Aren’t those all con- ' Lames Outy Bee | SWASHING TON: Feb. 7-4) —\veral ather points enroute tol<sioum, sadinnall aclor" . t onth, | Cuba and the United States have| New York to be reiced. He quoted the defendant as | " M Nett, told | begun to renegotiate tariff con-| Ice is blown over the top lay-|saying after the shooting that | thes ler there quiry that for | Cessions granted by the Cuban er of boxes piled in he trucks, (Continued On Page Four? government under the agreement of 1947 The state k allow wa Vheard He Ship rep ter mar | warship ties that were lowered time on American imports of ny- lon hosiery, rubber tires a { Conversations began yesterday Jand are } to ten days. Government Es to say whether Cuban sugar was involved in the talks. Willing To Cut i caaeleeeneemenel | eeeeeeeeaeaaa Palace Theater BARBARA STANWYCK and ADOLPHE MENJOU in GOLDEN BOY” WASHINGTON, Feb Senator Tom Connally ays he believe: cooperation willing to cut adminis Marshall re eee eee eeese SCTENCE SOCIETY weet FLA tere On Christian Science " Revelation ste STAMLEY ROSS * few Yor WEAVER'S STOCK ISLAND 5B INN Air Conditioned Bar and Restaurant Open All Night Mu » SOOO) * UDITORIUM 5 temenere Beree! a? ©7ERIeS FER 6 ‘ eet WELCOME 0 6 PM tariff} The bottom iays of bo department said the Cubans want to change the du-| at that) and! foot of Duval street. tubes and ribbons and trimmings.| xpected to last a week} officials declined} Marshall Plan Aid: 1—P).— | pending below the three billion, llion figure asked by Pre- xes are not} |affected, for only the top layer needs any ice enropie. For the present, Toomer’s fleet | of boats is using the docks of | the Gulf Oil Corporation at the There they buy gaso’ine and oil. The boats use coniderable fuel, and that i }Soing to be a big item in the | operating expenses of the boats. |_ The average boat unloaded at j Thorapeon Enterprises S {about 4,000 pounds of shrimp. | They are all big ones, and make | about 16 to 17 to a pound | Toomer it only takes {about hree ho reach the vit Key West. Then the ships + dragging the bot- tom for the shrimp. They bring in about 4,000 pounds or shrimp _{in two to four days. TICKET OFFICE ALL AIRLINES PRICE TOURS 411 Fleming St. Phone 124 GM Stockholders Cut Melon Of Some. $66,000,000 NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—(4).—| The stockholders of General Mo- | tors corporation are in for a new year’s present. It’s a divident of $1.50 a al on common stotk, which means that holders of GM common stock will get a windfall of $66,000,000. | BOAT BAR | 503 Duval Street Phone 9165 AIR-CONDITIONED | Sports Results Daily Key West's Most Comfortable Bar Close Out Sale Brand New 14-Foot Plywood BOAT and Hospital Charity BALL | Friday, February 10 Elks Club Annex. 9 P.M. ADMISSION $1.50 For Reservations, Phone 420-W or 1185-R | (Mornings) TRAILER Less Than Factory Price SOUTHERN CROSS HOTEL Phone 9132 326 Duval St. | savings deta indicates today. According to the annual, report WILLIAM oC Soe penta savings svete in OS e: Key eu for 1949 = | the Con: Toomer Organizes Plant To - Ship Shrimp Out Of Key West Trial Of | ToNew York (Carol Ann Paight Goes To | Jury Today Or Tomorrow © Prosecutor: “What She * 'Postals Savings ‘Decrease Eight - Percent In 749 Number Of Depositors Here Now Up About Three Percent (Prom Washingto: Key West Correspondent. inem) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 7.} '—-Key West follows the trend of fears by economists that the con- | suming public has dipped deeply | into its savings reserves, built up ‘ during the lush war and early post war years, a survey of postal ‘edicto. $1,705,710, ax eight percent on the on deposit in 1943. Nationally the outstanding principal to the credit of postal savings depositors, represented by certificates of depoSit, was $3.277,402,270, a decrease of $101 727,713 from the amount for 1as vear. Postmaster | Donaldson said. The number of depositors de- creased from 4,111,373 to 3,964,- 509, a decrease of 146,864 or 3.6 percent. The number of deposi tors using the postal savings tem in Key West in 3,947 in 1948 to 4,086 in gain of three percent. In Key West depositors were credited with an average amount of $419 each, a decrease of 12 (Continued On Page Four) General Agent Ricou Coming To Key West Earl J. Ricou, general agent of the State Department of Con- servation, is expected to artive tomorrow in Key West to con- sider the taking of shrimp from the new areas discovered off the city recently, according to Joseph Knight, M oe county agent of cvation Department checking the utilized by Knight has been phoats and the crews rimp fleet so far here, but the shrimp are taken so far off shore that the State Department ation has no power. np that ge that n them, being taken are so la state law would ap, said Knight. THE TradeWinds Club], Presents DONALD VAN WART At The Piano x *& & OPENING TONIGHT 9:30 P.M. to 2:30 A.M. General J. M.! are Bill Lantaff In (City In Interest Of His Candidaey. | Dade Rep. William C. om | Lantaff, ‘candidate for man from this’ district, arrived poh Key West ‘today’ to begin organ-| ization of. his Monroe county ! campaign. He was accompanied here’ by Jimmy Eckhart, one of his key workers. Lantaff is seeking the’ congres- sional seat being vacated by i | Waging a completely indepen- dent campaign, Lantaff said. he would make his race on the basis of his record of two terms in the Florida legislature from Dad? county, and on his program for a strict economy in the federal} government. {* The candidate estimates that} the taxpayers’ of this country can be saved least three billion )dollars a year,” through ¢ onsoli- dation ot over-lapping federal - agencies, stricter budgeting methods and co-ordination of ser- ; vices of the federal government. | He also has pledged support to a move to remove exorbitant ‘war-time federal excise taxes and cessation of deficit spending } Lantaff has compiled an envi- able record in the state legisla- ture and was voted by the hous ;and senate as a member of the | most outstanding delegation in | the house in the 1949 sessions. | While in Key West, Lantaff | pledged his active support in | Congress to assure completion of |the Inland Waterway project to | Key West. | The congressional candidate, also declared Congressman | from this district. I will do évery- thing possible to help maintain | and expand tt val Base. The strategic importance of this | cility cannot be underestimated.” {Robert Dopp Named Campaign Manager Robert Dopp, one of y better known civic lead-! | We srs, is Monroe County campaign nager for Bill Lantaff. Dopp nd Lantaff are old frineds from ty of Florida days. ‘Lantaff arrived in the city, last! ht, s held for his friends and | quaintances. He will be in the jcity until Thursday, ! attend meetings of EES Rotary, Jaycees; BPW. ALL MODELS OF PASS!) FROM $82.00 TO $135.00 TWINS GARAGE | “Your Friendly Studebaker Dealer” '™@] 1130 Duval Street and an informal meeting} :-!untarily out of England, and, will | impres: he Kiwanis,! tion he got on a visit to’ Engla {last Christmas. PRICES REDUCED by STUDEBAKER Effective Feb. Ist February 24, CIO Workers Union Says; Federal Government Asked , For Postponement Of Strike | firms and ty, wht fll ges tions of $100 éach: Columbia Laundry, Florida National Bank, Bernie Papy,bus {inessman, William R. Porter, re tired and Thompson Enterprise Inc. These voluntary contribution: totaling $500 have greatly strengthened the committ e's be | lief that the people of Key West j Sincerely want the local YMCA 'to be continued Today hundreds of letters are in the mail to individuals and | firms throughout the city asking |their support. It is entirely po: | sible however, many persons not receiving a letter will wish t jmake a contribution to th worth-while project. Member j ships are at the rate of $10 eac {and there is no ceiling on th !number each individual or firu | might hold. Anyone desiring to take ou one or more of these membc ships might call at the YMCA of fice on Whitehead street or ma their check to P. O. Box 307 Duke Of Windsor Plans To End Long Exile LONDON, Feb. 7. — (#) A London newspaper, the Evenin: Star, says the Duke of Windsu plans to end his long exile fron {England with his American Duchess sometime this year The former King has lived vol except ! for visits. He is said to have been d by the friendly rec ENGER CARS REDUCED Telephone 1870 RE 0 oy ei o- "To “TEP £Fe Fe