The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 22, 1950, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit I , THE VOL. LXXI. No. 96 TRUMAN SEES ARMY.ON PARADE AT FORT BENNING () Wirephoto PRESIDENT TRUMAN (black arrow) watches a demonstration of the might in the nation’s modern army on parade at Fort Benning, Ga., Friday. Marching before the President and mem- bers of his cabinet is the Third Division. The presidential party flew from Washington for the demonstration. President Truman was an artillery officer in World War I. SENATE LEADERS PREDICT — TOUGH FIGHT TO RETAIN FEDERAL RENT CONTROLS wet ' * Only Hope Is Compromise To | a Annonymeus Get Any Sort | Visitor Gives $400 Of Extension To Hospital Here Two Injured In Auto Accident This Morning é }- WASHINGTON, April 22.—(4) | Two men were injured and one |—Senafe leaders expect a tough | arrested this morning: as the re-! fight on the President's request | sult of an automobile. accident for’ more federal. rent controls. at the Triangle, on the approach | | A resident of New York has sent $400 to the Monroe County Hospital as a gift in appreciation of the splendid care that he received while a Mr, Truman asked. congress . rt Ye it: ee 4 ee Ae rt are yesterday toe extend: rent) ont’! bare, AD 4 os Wa ae its crashed head-on: a ‘trols for another year. Controla visit to the Island City. Anthony L: Tamonis,» of the are scheduled to bkpire the end U. S. S. Gilmore, ‘driver of a 1941 | of June. Buick, whcih collided with the The Democratic National Gans 1949" Lincoln! of John Ovth, ‘jet mittee has, backed -up. the Presi * dent’s appeal by accusing the Deanair, California, was taken °° tothe hospital suffering: ‘cuts real estate lobby and Republicans about his forehead. He was later Of Pushing a.drive to let federal arrested on charges. of speding, hae ocd die. { In addition to the gift. the New Yorkey has forwarded letteis*.t6 hospital officials praising the staff for all their kindness, and efficiency dur- ing his.stay there. The individual desires to remain snonymous. kl dvivir i 4 Democratic Senate Leader Superintendent of Nurses hace oe riving and causing. and soott Lucas of THinois admits Louise Carlsen stated today Remiednt, eengers were with'Mr,/there will be a fight over the the money will be used to ac- Gath at i arg Sit bap : iss However, he says the quire hospital beds, which Chales Cr ime of the accident. President’s message will help are needed at the hospital. Celtichis ee ‘ Hota (those backing continued control. Q pital with and injured left should- econo paeasueaa'y repeat = er. Burchell Updike, of Turlock, "Ding Bian f B li called the President’s message 17 1 Californis Hoey lee oe ‘just another attempt to churn orza bevleves p so up some much-needed votes in, the congressional elections.” Wherry added: “I’m against any — ‘rent control extension, and I be- ilieve the majority of both Dem- (Continued On Page Four’ machines were almost totally de- molished, Trieste Will Be Returned To Italy STEAKS - STEAKS Featuring CHARCOAL BROILED (>). | i i i | the Italian Chamber of Deputies STEAKS | Palace Theater | today he is convinced the United Served from 6 P.M.-1 A.M. JOHNNY WEISMULLER and | States, France and Britain will PALM CLUB | and VIRGINIA GREY in as yee. ister to return i . a ‘Trieste to Italy. STOCK ISLAND i JUNGLE JIM | His speech climaxed long and (Ceatinued On Page Four) RAUL'S CLUB Boulevard by Airport Ph. 9287 BIG DANCE TONIGHT Music by The Debonairs AL ALBERTUS VOCALIST 50c Door Admission $10.00 DOOR PRIZE — ELECT — Julia Stuart Williams For JUVENILE JUDGE FOR HIS SAKE . . . FOR HER SAKE —Your Boy — Your Girl Elect MRS. WILLIAMS—"A Friend for the Young People” To Elect Mrs. Williams, Pull Lever 17-A 17-A 17-2 (Paid Political Advertisement) ELECT FOR.... COUNTY COMMISSIONER (Paid Political Last Week’s Door Prize Was Won by Mr. Myers, Who Was Celebrating His 10th Wed- ding Anniversary. Advertisement) Foreign : She Kev West Cilisen SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1950 Telephone Worker Strike Call Wit IN THE U.S.A $2,940 St 940 Stolen YMCA PROGRAM FOR | From Shrimp Company Here Only $200 In Cash Taken; Rest In Checks | A total of $2.940.00, in cash and checks was stolen from the of- fices of the Brunswick Quick Freeze Shrimp Company some- time between 8:15 p. m. Friday and 7:30 this morning. Fred Knight reperted the rob-' bery to the Monroe County Sheriff's office this morning. In- vestigation revealed that entry could have been effected through doors, which were latched but not locked. or any of the windows, which were not hook- ed. . Edgar M_ Orris, the watchman, who reported that he hae been on duty all night, said hat he had seen no one enter the Sites, Investigators from the Sheriff's Department found that a drawer containing the money had been, pried open. $200.00 in pennies, nickels and dimes, a check for $40,00 and one for $2700.00 had been taken from the rifled draw- er. G. G. Lewis, _ manager of § the Brunswick Company, told! authorities that the $40.00 check * was. cashable, but that the $2,- 700.00 one could not be cashed. Fred Knight stated that he was om the came to work and was still there | when Orris left this morning. * Sheriff Berlin Sawyer‘ con- ducting a thorough investigation of the rovbery . Mystery Blasts In And Near Dayton DAYTON, O., April 22.—(#) The Air Force plans tests next | week to see if recent high alti- tude dives by a jet plane speed j king can explain a series of my- stery blasts reported in the local area. Colonel F. K. Paul, the chief of the flight test division at Wright-Patterson Airforce Base, the new tests are planned » see if we an prove any- thing.” Say Colonel Paul: “Right now it is all a lot of conjecture but there is a possibil- ity that some of the dives may be linked to the series of explo- sions.” He referred to dives at near (Continuea On Page Foui: Florida’s Hard-Working SENIOR SENATOR CLAUDE PEPPER HAS EARNED Another Term in the United States Senate He Gets Things Done for Florida! (Paid Political Advt.) » LOUIS C night | job when the “watchraan’ AF Wants To Solve SERVICEMEN TO BE INCREASED MAY 1 ) i i | The Yme ‘ vicemen wi. A progr: for 1 be increased begin- rv. reported the management had of taken this action at their recent meeting. The most needed program was committec for a Saturday night dance. It was decided to change that to a three hour affair instead of the usual two hour dance. ment and prizes will play an im- portant part in making the dance the outstanding event of the week. The merning Java Club will continue on Sunday morning and a movie wilk be shown every Sunday night. Between the short ;Subject and the feature, an old fashioned song fest will be held. The Sunday night entertainment will round out the week and en- pee SEARCH CONTINUES FOR 35 PASSENGERS © OF. WRECKED PLANE 22,4). —It'ey. ‘ TOKYO, April night in Japan, and the darkness combined with the wet, foggy ; weather are hindering the search for the wreckage of a big Air Force transport plane ang its. 38 passenger: The plane is presumed to be Low in ‘the mountain country j soutttwest of Tokyo. It was last |heard from Friday night’ while lflying to Japan from the Philip- { pines. Buta daylong sky and ground hunt failed to spot the four-engined C-54. One of Frank Pickele, of General MacArthur’s Foreign. Trade Division. With three other occupation workers, Pickelle was returning to Japan from a trade conference in Manila. They were James Torrens of Washington, Bernard Adams of New York and rs. Teresa Krossner, whose home town is not yet known. After first reports that plane had crashed, search was organized, The Japanese think the plane was will be found in the foreboding | eight ¥ mountains to the southwest of i (Continued On Page Fours VOTE FOR For An Equal Opportunity For The Little Man... VOTE FOR J. the | an. intense , Was too pretty a day to go to est T. Turner, Entertain- | Y. PORTER tertainment. at no great increase in the limited budget with which: the YMCA is now operating. The committee. voted for an “Open House,” to aid in the cele- bration of Armed Forces Day, May 20. The committee approved ex- tending the use of the building to the Spanish American War Veterans during their convention here from May 14 to May 17. The veterans’ meetings will be held mornings and will not interfere with activities for the service- men. With the aid of volunteers the YMCA will remain open during the day. Mr. Turner reported the need beceuse of the number of servicemen needing the services of the YMCA. The building is open at noon now, but will open at 9:00 a. m. as soon as_ sufficient volunteers are enlisted. Gets Fight Years For Smuggling ‘Gage Into Miami MIAMI, April 22.—(4).—A. con- fessed alien smuggler has finally appeared in a Miami court for sentencing. He is Gaylord Miles Saxton who with his wife and another couple pleaded guilty to flying aliens to Miami from Cuba. Federal Judge George W. Whitehurst waited for two weeks to sentence the four. All but Saxton appeared at the original time set for sentencing, but Sax- ton disappeared. His wife said, “He told me it court.” Saxton drew a sentence of ars when he did show up | yesterday. TICKET OFFICE ALL AIRLINES - eRECe TOURS 411 Fleming St. The Associated. Press Teletype, Features and Photo Services For 70 Years Devoted to the | Best Interests of Key West | PRICE FIVE CENTS * Demand W.E. |NEW D.A.R. PRESIDENT Change Its Position In Indiana Dispute i i | .tty Che Assvcinved press) NEW YORK, Apr, 22.— | There’s a good possibility now that a nationwide tele- ; phone strike will break out before the truce expires next Wednesday. A CIO Communications Union leader, Ernest Weav- er, said today that a strike call will be issued to 10,000 installation workers with- in 24 hours unless Western Electric changes its . posi- tion in an Indiana dispute. Weaver is President ot the Union's Division” Six, which is made up of West- ,ern Electric installation workers. = If the division strikes (®) Wirephoto’ and establishes picket lines MRS. JAMES B. patton |at telephone buildings, it’s (above) of Columbus, O., isethe \likely that other telephone ‘workers will observe the The other units have threatened to strike Wed- nesday, the date set in a (Continued On Page Five) Still In Hopeless i : f \Deadlock Today DETROIT, April’ 22—4@).—“A hopeless deadlock” was a govern- ment mediator’s deseription giv- en early today to. the Chrysler auto strike, now in its 88th day. The mediators were so discourag- ed they threatened to. call off all peace talks, at least for the.time being. It was in the small hours here this morning that Arthur**Viet made the bleak report. Leaving a long-drawn bargaining session, the Regional Director of the Fed- eral Mediation and . Coneiliation Service had this to.say: Another meeting will be held (Continued On Page Five) y Hospitalizes Both Drivers Two persons were hospitalized dent at 1:15 this morning at the corner of Whitehead and Petronia streets. Lawson T. @hristopher, of the USS. Gilmore: was: sent to the Naval Hospital and Margaret Woodson. cf the Tropical Hotel, his passenger on the motorcycle he was driving, was taken to the Municipal Hospital, when Harry S. Reney crashed his motoreycle into the rear of the Christopher machine. Reney, according to po- lice who investigated the acci- dent, had turned his machine from Whitehead, when the crash occurred, Both vehicles skidded (Continued On Page Four? i WEAVER'S NOTICE—To all roa age Dis- abled American Veterans Club Stock Island Inn ‘House Fond Fund abet beets. Imper- AIR CONDITIONED BAR and | fy" “ssuthata oe RESTAURANT. OPEN - Do You Know That . EVA WARNER GIBSON Organized and directed the first and only Organized ig for boys and girls in a County— average daily a a mani hal be teak Chae alia the wall at the Hheris cheek Shere Cong wes conducted. PULL LEVER 15-A and ELECT EVA WA Representative — e |