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THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A.VOL. LXXI. No. 25 KEY WEST FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENT*

THREE PERSONS AREHOSPITALIZED HERE INWEEKEND ACCIDENTS

PLANS TO FREE “BIG MO” 150 Boats In 30 DaysTo Work Shrimp Beds\ \ j, I

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SSOO DamageSuffered ByAmbulanceIn CollisionThree persons were hospital-

ized, including a man who fell atthe passing of an ambulance,which was answering a call toone accident and which figuredin a collision with a car, all with-in the space of a few minutesearly Sunday.

At 8:15 a. m. a light truck driv-en by Leo Sandoval, 809 Whitestreet, left Roosevelt boulevardnear Fifth street and ended upin a mangrove swamp.

Sandoval was pinned in thewreckage of the truck, whichwas upside down in the man-groves and had to be extractedby City Patrolman Ray Atwelland three volunteers, who enter-ed the water and got the driverloose.

A Pritchard Funeral Home am-bulance was answering a callfrom this accident, when it fig-ured in a collision with a cardriven by Mrs. Abraham Carey,who lives in Petronia street.

A passing car picked up Mrs.Carey and also Sandoval, anddrove them to the Monroe Coun-ty Hospital. Harry Pritchard,driver of the ambulance, was un-injured, but the ambulance it-self suffered about SSOO damage.Mrs. Carey’s car suffered a lossof aoproximately $250.

With the passing of the ambu-lance along Truman avenue, Is-aa< Mesa, who lives at Grinnellstreet, tonpled in the street nearthe earner of Grinnell and Tru-man. A Lopez Funeral Home am-bulance took Mesa to the CountyHospital. -

All three of the injured personswere X-rayed at the hospital,and they were held there all daySunday for observation. Mesasuffered cuts on the head andseemingly was otherwise unin-jured.

The Pritchard Funeral Homeambulance was passing alongTruman avenue at Palm avenue,when it collided with Mrs.Carey’s car.

The truck driven by Sandovalis owned by James Brown, alsoof 809 Whitehead street. Patrol-man Atwell arrested Sandoval,on a charge of being intoxicatedat the time of the accident. Hewill be arraigned in court later.

Happiness InMarriage LecturesTo Be Given HereBy JESSIE GIBSON

With the whole hearted sup-port of civig and spiritual leadersof the city, the Key West Worn- jan's Club will sponsor a series :of lectures concerning “Happi-ness In Marriage”. ■Under the direction of Mrs.Margarita J. Davis, Field Direc-tca of the American Red Cross at:the U S. Naval Hospital, and jchairman of the Welfare Com-jinittee of the Women’s Club, lec-tures will be presented eachTuesday evening in the highschool auditorium beginning Fe-bruary 14.

’ The hope and objective of theseries”, says M>s. Davis, “is toawaken the community to somerealization of this problem andinspire citizens to seek a solutionto it We hope to lead other or-

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A&B Fish DockTo Be ExtendedTo Handle Boats

There will be 180 shrimp beets; operating out of Key West a St1 days, Berlin Felton, one of thepartners of the A and B FishCompany, announced today histating he has plans made for extending hit dock,

i “We have opened up newshrimp beds in the lest fewweeks, and they look so toedthat Pm buying a spec’ini floatof boats to go catch them,’' wd

. Felton today.I "In order to accommodate theboats, it will be necessary for

j me to extend the dock at the footof Front street, if the U. S. ArmyEngineers grant me permtsiun todo so.

I “I plan on building the dorkabout 100 feet with a SO-foot

; wing. It will be built in the formof an L. I estimate the costs of

1 the work will run about SB,OOOj. “Within a radius of 100 milesof Key West a fleet of boats has

1 had good luck in finding shrimpin unlimited quantities. 1 don't

, want to reveal the exact where-about of the shrimp yet.

i "There are eight boats out b-; day on the new beds. Some un-’ usually good catches of shrimp

have lately been brought in here,and 1 figure that more bools arenecessary. 1*

A story was carried Saturdayby The Key West Ctlurn tklleigof the new shrimp beds that hadbeen opened up off this city

Three Persons DieIn Florida AutoAccidents

TALLAHASSEE. Jan. SO. -i f*—At least three persona (netdeath in Florida highway amdents over the weekend Anotherwas killed by a dynamite blmt.and two others were injured ina plane accident.

Three men were killed whentheir automobile hit a bridgebetween Dunedin and Ozon..Police Chief Eugene Sheets saida search was on in the fwrt flowing creek spanned by the bridgefor a possible fourth occupant.

Truman SelectsWhitehurst AsFla. Roving Jud“r

WASHINGTON. Jan 30 -4*l—An announcement from theWhite House here says PresidentTruman is appointing a manfrom Fort Myers to be a rovingFederal District Judge in Flori-da

The nominee is George WWhitehurst, a retired judge of t* eState Circuit Court where heserved for more than 30 years

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GUERRILLA LEADER Russians EndBlockadeOf Berlin

BERLIN, Jan. 30.—(^P).—TheRussians have ended their block-ade of Berlin the same way theystarted it, without an official ex-planation.

Soviet guards are passing alltrucks through the frontier postsat Berlin and Helmstedt withonly casual checks. During the

j past ten days, they have been| holding up traffic at some timesjand speeding it up somewhat at

l other times.j Allied officials believe theRus-I sians had a pschological reason

i for invoking the little blockade.

| Key West to Be■ In TelevisionBroadcast Soon

The island of Key West andj sections of the Florida Keys willI be featured in a nation-wide te- j] lcvision broadcast to be releas- jed soon, it was announced today

l by Harold R. Laubscher, Mana-j ger of the Chamber of Com-I merce.

Laubscher, who has returnedj from a Florida State Advertisingj Commission meeting in Tallahas-j see, .has made it known that a| color movie film, made in KeyWest last summer, has been com-pleted and adapted for televisionbroadcasts. It will be made avail-able to television broadcasterssooon.

The movie, a 30 minute filmshowing points of interest aboutthe city and action shots of fish- jing scenes also includes interest-!ing shots along the Keys. The *film was* made last October un-der the personal direction ofHowe Sadler, present head ofthe Advertising Commission.

Lauhscher, in a report of lastweek’s meeting of the Commis-

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UndersecretaryVoorhees Here

T. S. Voorhees, Undersecretary:of the U. S Army, and Brigadier jGeneral S. B. Hayes, USA, arriv- ;ed at the Key West Naval Station \Saturday. They will be here for jthree days, inspecting the KeyWest Naval Base and its activi-ties.

SECURITYPermits IssuedEstablish RecordIForJanuary

oi

Total of building permits issu-! ed this month amounted to $282,-225, a record for the month inthe city’s history and exceedingJanuary, 1949, by $175 225, ac-cording to a statement today byRoy F. Butler, director of the De- 1partment of Public Service. J

j Permits have been issued to-;i day to M. B. Lane, 618 Grinnellstreet to remodle a hall into abathroom and to make generalrepairs on his home at a cost of$1,500; to George Allen, 717Poorhouse lane, to put anew

: roof and make general repairs to *his home at a cost of S4OO.

To Eugene Rosam, 1424 Cath- jeine street to construct a frame!garage at a cost of $200; to H.,D. Van Waggoner, 709 Emmastreet to build a small frame;building at a cost of $l5O.

To Tom Smith, 1215 Varela*street for making minor repairs l,at a cost of S2OO. and to the]Church of God to erect a gospel

! tent at a cost of S3OO.

Captain NelsonIs Named ToSucceed Busey

Captain W. T. Nelson, USN, jcommanding officer of the USSHoward W. Gilmore, has been'named to succeed Captain F. L.Busey, USN, commanding officerof the Naval Air Station, aschairman of the Board of Gov-Jernors for the 1950 Navy Charity,carnival.

Under Captain Busey’s leader-ship the planning for the carni-val has gone along well. Heturns over a good organization toCaptain Nelson. <

Captain Busey is being relievedas Commanding Officer of BocaChica in the near future.

Commander C. W. Fielder, JUSN, executive officer of BocaChica, was appointed as the third ,member of the Board of Govern-ors. '

The Naval Air Station Bandfrom Jacksonville is tentativelyscheduled to plaV for the dancesat the carnival. However, thereis a possibility that a name bandmight be selected.

The Buick to be awarded isexpected in Key West at anytime. It will be the first of itsmodei to appear in this area. It isbeing brought from the north es-pecially for the carnival.

General Meeting !Tonight Of KeyWest Chamber

Dr. W. H. Walker, president ofthe Miami Chamber of Com-merce, will address members ofthe Key West Chamber of Com-,merce at Harris School Audi'oi - 1iurrt tonight at 8 o’clock. Dr.Walker will discuss plans for theproposed International Trade

j Mart and Exposition that isI planned for Miami.

Details of the exposition are

; particularly interesting to com-| munities in South Florida. The j

j Exposition, it is recalled, is the! outgrowth of plans that were

! originally laid for a World's Fairin Miami.

In the past few montns, plansfor a Worlds Fair, as such, havebeen discarded with an Inter- jAmerican Exposition being sub-1

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A FORMER DUTCH ARMY jCAPTAIN, R.R.P. "Turk" Wes- ]terling (above), is the leader of ithe Indonesian guerrilla forces !which have attacked Jakarta in ja rebellion against new UnitedStales of Indonesia.

2,877 Children IAttend SchoolsAs Of Jan. -JO

There were' more than 258!public school children attending ]Monroe Schools this month than ithere were ir, the month of Jan-uary, 1949, it was announcedtoday by the office of HoraceO’Bryant, superintendent of pub-lic instruction.

This was 2,877 uscompared with 2,819 children at-tending the public schools inJanuary, 1949.

Here is the attendance recordsof January:

1949 1950Key West High

School 781 784Harris School 429 488Truman and Reynolds

Schools 545 615Poinciana School 210 294Marathon School 77 85Matecumbe School 56 57Tavernier School 74 80Douglass School 447 474

Total... 2,619 2,877

Florida Collected$4,500,000 FromIts Gasoline Tax

II TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 30.—(/P).—Florida collected more than

i four ancf a half millian dollarsthis month from its seven ' centsa,gallon tax on gasoline.

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Steal Hub Caps;,Pair Arrested

Two Miami men were arrest-ed at 9 a. m. Sunday by Patrol-man Joseph Cerezo on chargesof stealing hub caps from a carbelonging to D. E. Mallard, 189-DPoinciana Place, which he hadparked at County Beach.

The men identified themselvesas Clarence E. Griffin and FrankH. Kinkoffer, both of Northwest60th street, Miami. They wereturned over to County authori-ties after Mallard swore out awarrant for them, |

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(JP) Wirephoto 1f SAM HOBSON (above) livas

the workingman's dream. Ha'sj the clerk in the Kroger com-

pany's warehouse in Memphis—and he holds more stock inthe firm than its president.President Joseph B. Ball saysso himself. Hobson started outwith $2,800 worth of stock in1908. Now it's estimated at

i $92,000.

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THIS PHOTO DIAGRAM, based on the Navy's maneuver chart,details the projected plan for "Operation Pull-Off." an all-outattempt to free the USS Missouri from the Chesapeake Bay mud-bank near Norfolk. Va. The operation is scheduled for Feb. 2.Part of the effort will be by the Missouri herself. Powerfulwinches on the battleship's deck will haul on nine cables (blacklines tanning out from Missouri) to four-ton anchors imbeddedin the bottom of the bay. Two windlass-type beach salvageships, the "Windlass" and the "Salvager", will be linked to theMissouri by low cables and will haul against beach gear cablesanchored far astern. Five sea-going tugs, held together by alead lug and two harbor tugs pressing k from opposite sides,wttt work in a surging or Cocking pull. Heavy broken lines out-line channel dredged from Missouri's stern to main ship chan-nel, a half-mile away. Other tugs will work alongside the Mis-souri wit htwo harbor tugs alternating in pushing against thebow of the ship in a "whipsaw" motion to help break the suc-tion grip of the mud. Mooring lines (light broken lines) frombow to stern are intended to keep the big ship from turning outof the dredged channel.

iMacArthur WantsMore AmericanPower In Pacificj TOKYO, Jan. SO-'i/k-Tti,

j Amercian Joint Chiefs of Staffare due here on Wednesday.They will meet with Field Com-manders who long have been

■ concerned by Communists gainsin Asia.

j The Joint Chiefs will be told: that the American military posi-

-1 tion in the Far East should bestrengthened.

i General MacArthur and hist aides are expected to stress thatpoint before the chiefs of staffleave Japan on Saturday. '*

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Denham AlarmedAt Power Of AFLTeamsters’ Union

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30——The general counsel for theNational Labor Relations Board,Robert Denham, says that he isalarmed at the possibility tha?the AFL Teamsters’ Union evermight exercise its full power.

Denham declared that if theTeamsters ever exercise theirconcentrated power they couldinfluence virtually every indus-try in the country.

In a speech prepared for theAmerican Trucking Associationsmeeting here, Denham said thatthe potential strength of the mil-lion-man union is sufficient todwarf the economic power ofthose so-called monopolistic gi-ant unions into relative msigni-fiacnce

Denham also said that despitethe Taft-Hartley law aimed atcurbing abuses of union power,we stiil have a long way to gobefore the intent of Congress willbe realized

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COMMITTEE MEETINGTUESDAY TO DECIDEFATE OF USO-YMCA

Turner Prepares ]To Close JacksonSquare Building

Forrest Turner, director of theUSO-YMCA was today preparing

jto discontinue the Jacksoni Square building in accordancej with instructions received Fridayfrom New York.

j However, at a meeting sche-duled for tomorrow afternoon at

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300,000 TELEPHONEWORKERS MAY WALKOUT WEDNESDAY

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—</P>. ;—More than 300,000 telephone jworkers looked to Union Presi- jdent Joseph A. Beirne today for jmore definite word on weather :there will be a nation-wide phone istrike this week.

Beirne has scheduled a news!conference late today here. He is |expected to give some details of *his plans at the conference.

Mor than one-third of the !members of the CIO commuruca- jFOR SALE! FOR SALE:

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MASONIC NOTICESpecial Communication of An-

chor Lodge No. 182, F. & A.M.,this evening (Monday, Jan. 30).at 7:30 P.M.

Conferring of Entered Appren-tice Degree.

j All Members and Sojournersinvited to be present.

| By order:MERVILLE E. ROSAM. JR..

Gerald H. Adams. W.M.Secretary

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