The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 14, 1950, Page 1

at Joe Sirugo, head of the Sun-, ‘shine Construction Company, re-' mee to City Manager Ralph D. | | Spalding today, that the oa /} given the county by the U. s| Navy bicstn,4 ‘out to be plain or clay, ~ “It is abgolutely unsuitable a | PITTSBURGH, Feb. 4). Wipro ne anes purpose for which we need D DAY | city manager to have the boats | marl,” Sirugo told the city mana- \ ger. “We need rock fill for the | poads and ht building the houses i i ing SP at the eastern } “Strangely, about 85 per cent “of the houses that we are build- ‘ing are benig put out for Naval _ personnel or Navy employes. We appeal to the Navy for er soil to take from Dredgers’ city. .manager promised ‘Sirugo that he would look into the matter and see what could be ‘done. The Navy agreed to let the county have 15,000 cubic yards of marl from a designated spot at Key. | ~ Sirugo was building a roadway out from the Dredger’s Key road, leading to the designated spot. What Sirtig6 found only white clay, he said. Sirugo also appealed to the ‘at the eastern end of Garrison ; Bight removed to safer points in the Bight. Sirugo is blasting lrocks out of the .Bight and he CONGRESS URGED | Maine Menai Services To Be Observed Tomorrow ~ The Maine Memorial _ services x. will be observed tomorrow at 5 p.m, inthe Maine plot, City General, Rear Cemetery. Program follows: od ‘Admiral Visit foe eee ot Naval Station Introductory | Remarks—Albert Musical Selection—Key ‘West L. DiNegro, Jr., Post Commander, ion dollars per year came fears accidents may happen, if the boats are not moved. “All boats between First and Fifth street in the Bight should be moved at once,” said the city manager and asked The Citizen to carry notice to that effect. “It Shrimp Fleet From Gold” Mine |sSorios for boat ewes to Bad weather kept the shrimp jing. operations at the Bight) ‘will | fleet.in the harbor of Key West! endanger them.” ‘today. Sirugo said he is having in, painted for posting along, gaining at Washington may cick ret. i te et ey “Pink of talk produces progress some of President Truman’s labor advis- ‘mi High School’ Basia under dhe’ ak Lieutenant General Hull and from a brewery and dis rection of Mr. Earl Dillon, Direc- tor. Invocation—Mrs. Gloriana Bay- ly, Chaplain, Arthur Sawyer Unit No. 28, American Legion Auxiliary. Memorial Address—Lt. W. A. Rennie, Chaplain, U. S. Naval Station. Musical Selection—Key West High Schocl Band. Rear Admiral Parsons are visit- ing the U. S. Naval Station, ac- cording to an announcement to- day by the information officer of Key West Naval Base. General Hull and Admiral bias union. The union said Parsons are both connected with the headquarters of the Army and Navy in Washington, and will remain here for a few ede _ Testing. which said veral of his ships would deave for the shrimp areas. There was virtually no shrimp "at the Thompson Docks, the A & B Fish docks, the Charley Toppi- | no and Sons docks, the old Por- ter Dock Company or the Clyde- Mallory Docks, from which two companies are now operating. . The work. of transforming the held Porter Docks into a shrimp pro- cessing plant is progressifig, ac- ‘son, cording to Guy Lewis, local man- Mary Curley. ager" of the Brunswick Deep Donnell: died Saturday , Freese Company. within 14 hours of one another;’ The City Electric System was and busy stretching a power li ht on from Duval and Front ’streets ‘to j the Porter Docks ‘today. Lewis said that probably he would start employing about 100 women op Thursday or Friday. } The women will be “used to be- head the shrimps as. they are brought in off the boats at the Porter Docks. ica Break ak Up Plot To Seret «| Murder President Of West Germany BONN, Germany, Feb. 14.—(@). —West Germany's ages min- istry says police have broken up a yy DISABLED AMERICAN. VE NOW ON DISPLAY AT 507 * “hae which the blasting # Ars ‘Should Be Taken By Office Seekers TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 14.—(4). Attorney General Richard Er-} yin says candidates for Political | party committe posts should be | required to take the state’s anti- communist loyalty oath. Ervin says such a party officer “in a technical-and constitution- al sense” is not a, public. officer, But he says he performs duties of “paramout publie concern.” The. »Anti-Communist © «law, } passed by the 1949 Legislature, applies to candidates ofr all pub- lic offices and al] employees of the state, counties and cities. Woman Sent Back To US. Under Guard In Secrecy FRANKFURT,, Germany, Feb. 14, —- (). —Authoritative Ameri- Ervin Says Oafhs | Memorials to the ee: get Fleet Reserve Association, /B. the McC: Camp fephe 5, United can Legion. ? Salute to the Dead —Firing ee, Key’ West ‘Guard of en 14.—(/) —Former Silver Shirt ley was _ bond today soon after he had been freed- on parole from federal prison. Pelley had been taken into custody on a North Carolina charge of violating a suspend- ed: sentence. A hurried court pag was called on a Writ Mabeas Corpus. Judge pw ,Phillips of Superior Court ‘granted freedom on hond. with the agreement that Pel:ey would attend an extradition ‘hearing in In- dianapolis later today. *"Taps—Elbert L. Buchanan, Key, West Guard of Honor, Lowering of the F iad ey. West Guard of: Honor. Benediction—Harry. J. Metzger, ‘Post ‘Chaplain, Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, American a Arrest Made In Bomb Attempt On Cohen’s Life LOS:-ANGELES, Feb. 14—(). —The police of Los Angeles have TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 14. made ah frrest in the“recent -—- (4). — Former Silver Shirt bomb: attempt on the life» of leader William Dudley Pelley, gambler Mickéy Cohen. Yleft the Terre Haute Federal Booked on suspicion of attenpt- ‘Penitentiary on parole today, but ed murder is Moe Shammon. 38 was taken: into custody at the years old. whose brother, ; Max,!'gate by an Indiana sheriff. ‘was shot and killed by’ Cotten inj Almost immediately, Pelley's 1945. After the'shooting, Cohen’ attorneys started a court fight surrendered to police. Cohen was prevent his being taken to Ash- exonératéd’ on the ‘grounds of ville, North Carolina, to serve a self-defense. But. the: .victim’s two-to-three-year term. for. vio- brother, who was in. jail.at the lation of a suspended sentence, time, is said to have threatened. Pelley’s’ attorneys filed a. peti- vengéatice. tion: with the’ circuit court seek- ‘ Eight. days ago, Colten’s $100-.ing his release on a Writ of Ha- | ean sources in Frankfurt disclose that a woman employe of the! Military Security Board in. Ber-| Hanpowe® | int has “been Sent “back to “the United ‘States, ‘The woman was (Contiued On Page Five) { flight | from Havana, fifty juled to old Laubscher, manager of, Chamber of Commerce; to-} day. The its of the planes might here, the following day continue their flight to Ha- remain. over-,}. Palace Theater: 1 900 Los Angeles home was jarred .beas Corpus. Sheriff John Trier- ; by. an’ @xnlosion. The room where weiler met Pelley as he left the Mickey usually slept was ‘blown penitentiary, The sheriff .was to bits. Cohen and his wife, served with notice of the filing of }asleep in ‘another part of the the Writ. house, eseaped uninjured. f Meanwhile, the sheriff took Now the police are saying that , Pelley to his office. ‘There, the Shammion has not been able to! former silver shirter relaxed with furnish an, alibi; that he has not a cigarette and a soft drink while accounted’ satisfactorily for his! awaiting the next move of ‘his whereabouts that Monday morn- attorneys. ing ‘when Cohen's “home was} Pelley was sentenced to ‘the dynamited. And*that’s why. they! federal prison in Terre Haute for are-holding the brother of the ‘15 years for wartime sedition. man. who was killed five , yeats Two. deputy sheriffs enroute to 0 in Cohen's office. { (Comminneg On Page Six) ee und Scenicruiser On Display February 16 Corn Ducat \and: Fleming Streets P.M } 2:30 P.M. r er Ma 1950 CHEVROLET SEDAN [we nnouncement Is To Be Made Shortly Sales As Soon As Possible .... +. te four he q ing 739-million tax dollars ‘ut } of iFine Fishing Tackle tee in a statenent: ; “Illicit operators are enjoyi a steadily expanding business Jat nod iy =. the go it, genie the workers.” © excise pa ie plic These perm the federal treasury. - H. W. Blazy, oy ae Alcoholic beverage taxes npw for geenral repairs. and alter yield an estimated more tian tions to his home at a two-billion © dollars' per "6 street, for construction of a is be- frame garage at a cost of $900; to} _ j Mrs. 0. K. Bireman 2020 Seiden- petce of our country and the rg avenue,’ for” construction of | peace world.” oe two-car garage and of a drive- ot pe way at a cost of $800; to H. W. | Pinder, 707 Love lane to enclose a back porch at a cost of 200, \to W. A..Newman, 2123 Plag ‘avenue, to bulid @ wire fence at a cost of $100. Navy's Seeretary Samay a 1943 tax increase. ‘Explosion, Fire Caused Loss Of $5,000 To Home Following the explosion of a kesosefie stove at 9:15 a. m., to- day, fire swept.a two-story house at 611 Elizabeth street and caus-. ed an estimated loss of =) 000, Spends Vacation Salas, colored, who said he had carried $2,000 fire insurance. sea Fg -~ to Pt. Worth, Tex There was nobody injured by the explosion. a bh ie vacttion sige Carswell Bave seid thet & Both No. 1 and No. 3 engine 3%, ome, contact with the plane efter companies responded to the fire her@ the ship sent three meosages cay alarm. They used pumps to carry Bose’ Wid ‘not ing it was in trouble. water from the mains to the blaz- the oe and| The last radio from the piene Ne his, wife were jh til about jtold of engine and inetrusent “There was a heavy smoke lai be tter th aNd bree * down by the’ fire, which attracted | Wee® @ ter their arrival. Tt was) trouble, and, in sddition, supposed to be on “off-the-re- | joy Th cord” ing. he meee Wee visit. from over Queen Charlotte a awe crowd of tot eee off Vancouver island. ISeven Men Jun Jump 2 805 Persons. poedgeege te peny }. Have Registered From B-29 Wher Ordered By Pilot FT. WORTH, Tex. Feb 14 ().—Eighith Au Force headquer ters at Carswell Air Force Biee in Texas says that « 8-38 tem er is mieing on « flight trem Eilson Air Force Base in Aleeke ee McChord Air Base #t Tseeme Wash. and from the Alp Base ai Spokane, Wash _/ A ‘total of 2,865 persons) had} The plane normally istered to vote in the May | the shout 16 = primaries and in the November iret time « elections, according to John Eng-|, MACON, Ga, Feb. 14.—-/P).—| been reported as mine ay land, county supervisor of regis-|Seven men parachuted from an/ According to Bight Alt tration today. Air’ Force B-29 bomber near) headquarters, the first “cineews They ‘have until March 31 to! Robins Air Force Base today, but) said that the plane war Nevins register. Today, Monday, Febru-| the plane iater landed engine trovble and was demend Fe 20, and Monday, February 27,| One of the airmen who mped ing. The second word wan thet England's office will be open] Was reported injured the plane had dropped from stat j until ‘6 p. m; to receive registra- The plane was headed for ‘the feet to 16,000 feet where tions‘of those who are working.| air base when it radioed, The 6ffice remains closed,all day in distress. The wes ‘Saturday in accordance with; to jump. The pilot-and | state law. stayed with the ship antl TK TICKET OFFICE | ss BOAT BAR Duval Sirect Phone S168 Thompson Enterprises, Inc. Hardware Division—Phone 608 ARE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL for the SUPPORT GIVEN by OUR FELLOW CITIZENS