The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 18, 1950, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only|14° Fahrenheit Che 4 THE VOL. 92 1. LXXI, No No. Demands Reds Punish Those Guilty And Pay_| Indemnity To All WASHINGTON, Apr. 18. (‘AP)—The United States has rejected a Russian claim that an American plane flew over Soviet ter- ritory and has levelled a counter charge against Russia. In its note delivered to- day in Moscow, the United; States said flatly that Rus-) sian planes shot. down the missing American Navy patrol plane over open wa- ters of the Baltic Sea. ? The note démanded that Russia punish those respon- sible and pay appropriate indemnity for the lives of the ten men lost in the| plane. The charge and the de- mand are made in a formal reply to Russia’s protest of | April 1]th that an Ameri-| — can plane had flown over} Latvia and exchanged gunfire with Soviet aircraft on April 8: | The Americans also demanded that the most strict instructions be issu- + \LEE AND GR/ ) } 1 NT MEET Pepper Says ed to the Soviet Air Force to prevent any new inci- (Continued On Page Four) General Strike Ties Up Port City Of Brest BREST, France, April 18.—(A). A general strike has tied up the Western France port city here as labor unions mourned a worker killed is yesterday's bloody two-hour riot. . Non-Communist and Commun- ist unions joined in the 24-hour Claude Pepper, campaign to Key West gathered in. Bayview Park. Pepper told his audience last nig’ and other big business interests Senate into the “Hoover Said Pepper: “Tne line is our political philosophy Who is on the people’s side and | who is on the big: business’ side. That's what the people want to know.” He accused his opponent of trymg to put “shackles” on labor by..voting for the Taft- Hartley law that was aimed at breaking the strength of unions. dividing ir ‘{ The veteran Senator with 14 walnut: Ree. Jieter gee years seniority told how Key and in shipping and transport) nag gone from $2,250,000 to $8,- are idle. 3 ; 000,000 in the Island City. Bank The dead worker, 24-year-old | Poe 10 had iumned paniehl Meee, Fee one by @/ from one and a third million to stray e a | oy seven million also hurled tear gas bombs to/ “7, jis stirring manner, Pepper disperse a howling, rock-throw- ing Communist mob. The rioting occurred when police prevented 2 demonstration! (Continued On Page Four) MAKE THE BOAT BAR Your Baseball Headquarters Sit In Air Conditioned Comfort and Get Quick Results ,, American League, National League, American Association, Texas League. International League, Florida International League, So. Atlantic League and Southern. Association con- tests. All team standings posted immediately after games end. CALL 9165 ELECT FOR.... COUNTY COMMISSIONER (Paid Pe said that he hud supported the Democratic party 99 percent af the time and that he was'opposed to a compulsory or yoluntary FEPC, and wauid. vote against it United States senater, tha torial race is Ed Ball, head of the AGAIN Ed Ball Is si. \State Cabinet Has: brought h ht, addressing over at his duPont empire. are trying to di main opponcut ive hi wilderne Oe 2,000 person: SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST FLORIDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1950 U.S. Charges Russia With Downing American Navy Plane Over Baltic Sea T APPOMATTOX Main Opponent In Senate Race Bernie C. Papy And J. Y. Well Reeeived By Barge Gathering Of Voters Porter Talks is re-clecti in the sena- He said that Ball im out of the | ames Briic ‘Of Arms-Ai e. Head d To Europe, Resigns WASHINGTON —The of dollar Bruce A director handed tion to President Tr is understood that d program is wants to return gident arm: he life. However that Bruce lor to Le e na yndon. Lewis except’ during time of war. He @ i stated that he would vote for a bee FEPC during any future war- Epa aac the same as he did during the there'll’ be a couple (Continued On Page Six) in the high ranks o ‘ matic corps, His bre Palace ete PENNY SINGLETON and ARTHUR LAKE in “BLONDIE’S SECRET” (Beneueeeeae Fine Fishing Tackle, Thompson Enterprises, Inc. Hardware Division—Phone ns U-S mbassador t CHARLIE Terry Shand Appearing Nightly at PERKY LODGE +411 Fleming St. arms-aid prog to ha now BOLERO (P) billion- pril 18 the m, Jamed his resi, Bruce uman told , the the ve that under to med Our prese! Douglas, to London of brothers f the dip! other, David, © France. Presents TICKET OFFICE | ALL,AIRLINES | PRICE TOURS | Phone 124 ylitical Advertisement) |The ‘state cabinet veleased” a tor ‘of money here this morning. ' will (®) Wirephoto MAJ. GEN. U.S. GRANT III of Washington (left) and Robert E. Lee IV (right) of San Francisco meet at Appomattox, Va., wheer their ancestors arranged the surrender of the Confederacy in 1865, They are snipping the ribbon in ceremony marking the restoration of McLean House in which Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee laid dow. his sword to Union Gen. U.S. Grant, and ended the Civil War. The surrender site is now a naiional shrine. Released Funds Of $225M To Cities TALLAHASSEE, April 1 se of $225,000 from the s Refiet and_ Pension | | fund’ was authorized. The money go to Florida towns. The state retained nearly $7,000 for administering the fund. The State Aviation Division, j had $9,000 re ed to it for ex- penditure on airmarkers, The money comes out of the release > The r ' Beach and Flagle is mileage tax paid by airlines for the right to travel over Florida. The Aviation Division said the will finance about three hundred 1 arkers The, state has 264-markers now und has a goal of 1,100. Be- fore the war, Florida was most completely airmarked state in the union. But all the aerial suides had to be destroyed for becurity sons, The state park service was authorized to buy the Flagler beach house of refuge reserva- tion from the federal government. The cost comes to some $1,300. servation will be develop- bathing beach and be Tomoka State Park ed part of the as a an off-chance Development. The tract is between Daytosa Beach. Florida's Hard- Working SENIOR SENATOR CLAUDE PEPPER HAS EARNED Another Term in the United States ‘Senate He Gets Things Done - for«Florida! (Paid > mains Adve.) » LOUIS CAR Lets NOT Have Another Thompson Deal VOTE FOR J. Y. PORTER | City Housing Survey Starts ‘On Wednesday lio! Urges Cooperation Of Citizens Of | This Community i sing Autiority A special housing survey to determine future housing needd jin Key West is getting under way starting tomorrow. This sur-} ;Yey is being conducted for The , Housing uthority of the City of Key West in order to deter- mine housing need, income limits, | and racial distribution for con- templated additional units for low income families. The survey is being conducted , by the office of George W. Sim- ons, Jr., Jacksonville city plan- jing and zoning consultant, with local interviewers under the sup- ervision of Ray Curry, Mr. Sim- ;ons’ representative here. The results of the survey will serve as an accurate guide for the local Housing Authority in its future planning and all {citizens interviewed are asked to cooperate by supplying the in- formation requested. The en- tire city will not be covered {but only enough to supply the Housing Authority the informa- tion required. Agrees That Refinancing Not Advisable John Nuveen & Co., an inv ment organization of Chicago, h through its Miami representativ {Frank C. Carr, notified City Comptroller Charles Roberts: that it is not advisable for the city to} ‘refund its outstanding callable{ 3%-5%e bonds. at-this-time.. They now agree with the} | thinking of Charles Roberts, whet has advised the. commission not! ito consider re-financing at this ‘time. The Nuveen letter was very complimentary ef the City and its financial status. Portion of the , Carr letter read: “Key West has enjoyed excel- lent growth in recent years, and we believe will continue to pros- | per and grow. This means in- creased valuation against which (Continued On Page Five) Building Permit ‘For $8,000 Issued Today By Butler | A Building permit was issued today to William Darby, 1720 Von Phister street, for the con- struction of an $8,000 concretd block residence. Other permits} ued today by the office of Roy Butler, director of the Depart- {ment of Public Service, were: Matchett’s Bakery, 901 Duval (Continuea On Page Six) F. ‘Returned In the. deaths of an unusual hum- jis Georgi Malenkcv who’s now The Associated Press Teletype, Features and Photo Services For 70 Years Devoted to the | Best Interests of Key West | IN THE U.S.A. | | | _PRICE FIVE CENTS Commissioners Vote To Reconsider Cancelling Of Curry Sons Taxes Maitland Adams Resigns, But | Resignation Not Accepted City Commissioners last night-unanimously agreed to reconsider the $5,682.95 tax cancellation given to.owners of William Curry Sons Company property at a 2 o'clock ‘special session Saturday, April Commissioners. not present were A, Maitland Adams and John Carbonell. Prior to. approval of the miniites of the last meeting, Commis sioner C. B. Harvey asked’ that the minutes be corrected to show that he objected to the 1949 tax. assessment being lowered for Wm. Curry Sons property. Harvey explained that the tax reduetion being given to the property owners amounted to 30% and further- No True Bill July Mob Case OCALA, © April 18.—4?).—A poses Grand Jury’ has returned No” True Bill” in its investi- gatas of mob. action. in Lake} more that other taxpayers could likewise delay payment and get a County last July. ksettlement at a later date. The. jury, comprised of 13 And then. City Clerk Victor white-men and three negroes,} Lowe read the resignation of went into ‘session yesterday atl Time-Bomb Commissioner Adams. Ocala in an effort to determine } Adams’ letter of April 17 fol- lows: | if there were civil rights viola tions. ot The mob action came after four “Hon. Mayor and City Commis- sioners City of Key West, Florida Negroés attacked a young White. farm wife and beat her husband. Three Negroes convicted in; iLove Motive the case testified before the! “Gentlemen: Grand Jury. |» LOS ANGELES, April 18.—(P).1. “Please accept this letter as In making its report, the jury —Police have an idea that a loves my resignation as City. Commis- commendéd Sheriff Willis V. Mc-. Motive might have been behind| sioner, effective at once. I have pseu for vrotecting the Negroes Yesterday's time-bomb plot at the! decided to take this step because “from great violence” at the Los Angeles International Air-\ of vicious, unfair and unjustified j hands of thé mob. port. attacks made against me by the An airlines stewardess, Betty. mela, has told police that she s in love with John Henry, ; Grant, who's now being held on ; inv tigation of murder. {; Miss Sucmela says she had the impression that Grant was going, to divorce his, wife and anges her, In fact The panel included residents of | Marion, Leke and Sympter coun- w local daily newspaper during the past week. It is impossible for me or any other citizen .to..suc- cessfully combat newspaper =per- secution. Also, I. do not have the time or the inclination to enter into a-controyersy which might continue indefinitely, even though of other Jeatling Soviet, figurés. All these reports . have. started the west speculating that Russia may be undergoing a wholesale puree, perhaps as im- portant as the one in the mid- thirties, — President ‘Truman and Secre- tary of Stete Dean Acheson said today that the views of Republi- cans will be solicited in an effort ‘to establish “a true ‘bi-Partisan foreign pclicy.” That's what the President and Acheson said in a statement issued after — calling GOP. Senator Styles. Bridges of New Harapshire to. the White House for an unusual conference. The White House statement also offered assurances that Re- publicans will be kept informed on foreign policy ‘matters. d. Recently the Russian leader- ship took special pains to warn Having Another | space might be seaget available to he was in di ae ‘Political Purge ise'simor” Mis’ Suones ‘told police she rept “Los Angeles a ae the past six months Moscow has les. from Ww: Tor Co announced, the deaths of no less She says Grant told her lie was} justified, and Tam sure all of children. admirals, some of them relatives, "0. Gren. ‘ ment for apy other ga jly young, in their forties. And! Grant's’ wife and their two] q similar situation, None of you u airplane. yesterday when - the} ond 1 am ‘sure you were .enti bomb was found. There wete: 13) i i f “Phe local daily. news: did As the last of the baggage was badis Ob Pane Zour being loaded. Grant rushed | to coe 5 the plane be . stoppe¢d—he- ict So: rh Ws ws Of he'd. put a-bag full of gasoline} — lic t _ One reason why such a. purge” ndl might actually. be in, progress is- baggage he paper tong = and may be ill. There’s some rea~ | j son to believe that fake pictures Soh wih ae Gee which showed an apparently the time-bomb was cleverly de- healthy Stalin voting in an elec- | signed, and had the plane taken other members of the. Politburgt pioded: in the ba; ’ compart- might be expected if Stalin dies} co and then ee tre ri the} One likely successor to Stal! * paratus. He-s a seasoned oppor-+ Will Impr ove funist and might not hesitate to 2 Lord’s Court, ing in his way. There are 13 Politburo mem-; given recently tnat there is an! unusually large number of alter- Some improvements, perhaps. buro vacancies might be expects, sale of which was consummated yesterday, will be made by the statement’s today. Soviet. citizens not to gossip} Lord's Court, located at South said one general, foreign spies chased for $55,000 by Richard H, might be around, even in thei, Crotty and Jerome E. Quinn, ‘time the pial ree sitet me LONDON, April 18.—1/P).-In_ voanage, Ww! than 15 Russians generals and S¢P#rated from bis wife and had} you would have voted adjust the Russian press has reported small children wete on a waiting] were obligated to me in any w, other persons on the plane, - \ (Continued On } Baus 2 the ticket office and asked that on the plane. And’ just then a@ the Stalin.situation. He. is aging, caught fice. singeing the handler’s were sent out, recently, pictures] Tater, a police: -siiecthlist said? tion..A struggle for power among) off the bomb would haye ex- or becomes incapacitated. (Continued On Page Five) boss of the Communist party ap- kill those he suspected of stan: bers, and the impression has been| Say New Owners whates, an indication that Polit-» an addition to Lord’s Court, the new owners, according to their about the. armed forces, because,| and Elizabeth streets, was pur- uniforms of Soviet. officers. 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