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BAA 3 ee mS Se a8 a ErPoSueoses ese 4 > BZ 5 PP ee cnt etuns 3 £1. sERETE TERE EE Bn fH) GAD. PAGE EIGH? stants 4 este GREETS PRESIDENT 2 (®). Wirephoto “PRESIDENT TRUMAN (left) welcomes Chile's President Ga- briel Gonzalez Videla to the United States at the National Air- port in Washington. Both flash broad smiles. In the center is Felix Nieto del Rio, Chile's ambassador to this country. The Chilean president, his wife and daughter arrived by plane from Key West for an official state visit. They are guests of the Trumans. Oh ta tdi tn tnt tin tn tan do tn nn nn nn nn nin ntti tint Dn tnt KEY WEST NEWS Of Days Gone By Taken From y . The Files Of The Key West Daily Citizen $244444444444444444444444444444464446884 10 YEARS AGO ports from Good progress is being made or say. the addition to the naval dispen- | KM OM sary which is being built in the} The Key West Merchants’ As- Naval Station by the Southeast- | sociation today joined the Cham- ern Construction Co., and on, ber of Commerce and the Rotary which 30 men are being emplcy- | Club ,in the fight to have Con~ Havana this morning Who Knows? 1. What _ position Root hold in the government? 2. What is the largest single U.S. import in dollar value? 3. What’ was the population of the continental U.S. in 1940? 4. What is the present estimat- ed population? 5. What is the present nation- al debt? 6. Who is U.S. Ambassador ‘to Great. Britain? 7. What U.S. government, agen- ey is known as A.E.C.? S 8. Who said, “There ‘never was » a good war or a bad peace?” 9. The Seim ‘is the Parliament of what nation? 10. What is the value of the monetary gold holdings of the US.? | The Answers 1. Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt { 2. Coffee; $795,502,000 worth in (1949. 3. 131,669,000. 4. 150,604,000. $256 billion. . Lewis W. Douglas. 6 ws 8. . Benjamin Franklin, in 1773. 9. Poland. 10. $24,320,000,000 — three-fifths of the whole world’s stock of monetary gold. 1 Moving Business Anxious to buck up busines the proprietor of a large sto: engaged an “efficiency expert’ whosé chief delight. was changing the departments aroynd. One day 4 section would be at the top of the building, the next it, would be in the basement or else where the restaurant used to be. After three weeks of this an old lady approached a wo looking shop-walker and as if he would tell her where the kitchen utensils were. “No, madam,” he replied, wear- ily, “but if you stand here for a few minutes. I'm gure you'll see them go by.” repaved by the company own expense. at its “House was occupied musical comedy, The Love ”” and the indications are full house. will attend another the performance tonight, because ‘tickets for Virtually all the seatg have been sold, did Elihu: . Atomic Energy Commission. | night at the presentation of the! THE KEY WEST CITIZEN STORM ON ATLANTIC—AND HERE’S RINGSIDE VIEW * SOME DARING BUT UNIDENTIFIED CAMERAMAN has brought you this spectacular picture of a raging storm on the Atlantic 100 miles off Nantucket Island, Mass. Crewmen on the United Fruit Line freighter Mabay clutch the rail and life lines to keep from being washed overboard by waves crashing on the deck. The men at left are. putting new lashings on hatch covers to * prevent flooding of the hold. Bound from Cuba to Bostgn, the Mabay ran into the storm that » took 18 lives on two fishing vessels in this area. Brush Fi ire e Put Out) This Morning A brush fire in Louisa called city ‘firemen from both | —Adv. engine houses at 10:30 a.m. to- day. There was no_ property! = damage, but a woman who tele. phoned Fire Headquarters re-' ported a house on fire. Mail The Citizen to Relatives | CUT ME OUT WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS IN THE LINE OF THREE FLIGHTS DAILY e ra TO HAVANA TO KEY WEST Childr ens Leave Arrive Leave Arrive . Flight Key West Havana Flight Havana Key West T Y |} 982 10:15 A.M. 11:00 A.M. | ‘951 8:00A.M. 9:45 A.M ({ 954 1:45 P.M, P.M. | 953 12:30 P.M, 1:15 P.M. iy 956 4:00P.M. 4:45P.M. {| 955 3:00P.M. 3:45 P.M. COME TO THE ‘TROPICAL TRADER AEROVIAS “Q” S. A. () Wirephoto i | Take me io any drug store—Ask for Blis-To-Sol, 50 or 75 cents. Test: Blis-To-Sol yourself. If it fails to relieye athlete's foot—itching of! eczema, ring worm—if it fails to remove soft corns and callouses, ! street | mail empty bottle to Blis-To-Sol, Macon, Ga., your money refunded. ed, 5 ie ot Delegates from the Rotary: Club of Key West to the confer-| ence of the 167th District of Ro- tary International, which is be- ing held at Hollywood, Florida, pand m gress vote money at once for deepening the Northwest Chan- nel. A resolution is going forward at once to the War Department ages are to be sent to {Ruth Br Oewn and _ both | Flori ators urging their as- Visiting “ith the” Exchange |f-72@ Duval Street” Phoné’ 1000 ROGELIO GOMEZ, Agen’ Chub. at their regular’ weekly 1 luncheon at the Victoria Restau- ie ERED sa * “ch _ -—— - 2 eee \rant yesterday at noon, Charles ooo COCe CCC CO CHOSE SOL LE SEE'eHOR902E9 0000 cgeeccccescecee- =300 S. Baxter, the developer of Key Largo club sites, and the person. al representative of Senator Wil- liam M. Butler, of M: chu: addressed the club on the lines For Your Money + respensibility for fi April 14, 15, and 16, leit yester- | Stance in the matter. of development he proposes to day over the highwoy. BaD follow on the South Beach prop- * * * 20 YEARS AGO iy anh wanes 0 “The fishing in your city was' In the event the Key West Elec- | purchase from the South Shore the ‘best I have had in all of Flor- ttic Company discontinues the | Development Comapny. ida—and your guide ‘Brau’ operation of its trolley c: here x * M Saunders, the best one I have next fall and the full bus system} One of the most active real ever had, und I have had many , iS put into effect, the car tracks | estate buyers in the city today of-them in other cities,” so writes Will be removed and those parts}T. S. Shrout, of Owen R. E. Cooley, Supervisor of the of the streets that are torn up as, Mr. Shrout was impr tewn of Tuxedo, N>-Y., in a letter 2 result of the removal wal be } mens with the city. tothe Chamber of Commerce, na, oe ae “ 2a ili aaa u the speciat Junior cramer ot| SPENCE, SAYS HE WILL | Coémmerce-Lions Club W hitd Way. Committee turned in its tpt report on the wae Wey TN'TRODUCE BILL TO by.-Charles E. of eee | Bet Nr “END RENT CONTROLS ebalimaan of the Of the lights on Ba val sduring the tourist season,| There Will Be ee > = Satine Provision In It jing Committee said it would giv Representativ s of the ) cities the right to end controls by ‘action of their city council or local referenda. | City councils or the people in a WASHINGTON, April 14.—(#).. referenda could decide whether 1- _—Representative Brent Spence of | °F not they wanted controls. If effect | Kentucky they voted against them within oe |six months, the federal controls | would end, he explained. If they Giving Cities Right To End Controls Industrial Com s@At ih the city hérefrom . Tallaha ‘or purpose of se to it that lawsgoverning workmen’s cc pensation are put into here=and enforced. “x i a bil! to extend rent con- Spi@ay-The Citizen says in an/ tls until July, 1951, with al voted for them, they would stay elitoria}. paragraph: cities local option provision in effect until June 30, 1951. 2“The census will soon be over,| Present federal rent controls} Spence said his plan would said today he will in-; but tie-consensus is with us al- | ¢XPiTe nest June 30th. Spence |take the issue “back to the peo- ways.” told reporters after a White | | ple.” ate SS Ga a House call that he does not be. | He said he did not know, but 33 25 YEARS AGO | lieve Congress will pass a “hard|believed Mr. Truman would be and fast” measure extending} much opposed to the idea. He a — : ‘av-| controls for a year as urged by|said he had discussed it with poeta - Nag Reavtie ation, | President uman. ‘Tighe E. Woods, Federal Housing i anized at eh" Womans A Spence described his proposed | Expediter. He said Woods ex- ub legislation ag a compromise bill. | pressed interest and promised to building last night. a The of the House Bank- | consider it A Key West Garden Club, h just sent the local libra umes of detective stor he-hopes—so. his letter t Will not be too full of murders to. suit Key West readers.” Mis: ‘Wardlow, the librarian, expr es the. opinion that the new fic-' tian will prove very popular. ; 4 oe | “It w rousing send-off Key | West gave Claribel Contreras, and Robert Dopp who left on the | Havana Special yesterday after- | noon for Washington where they | will be guests of Ruth nae Owen. % ¥*- * George Allan England, widely: known magazine writer who has spent several winters in Key, West is scheduled to arrive here frern Havana this afternoon, re-| MOR Grade ‘A’ Ga. DRESSED and DRAWN Fryers » 53c Government Graded ‘Good’ CHUCK Roast » 49c Wilson‘s Laurel SLICED ‘Bacon » 35c Fancy No. 1 YORK Apples 3. Je COLORED—QUARTERED—MIOLO MARGARINE and Quality Too! 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