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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
ASK PROTECTION
! FOR FIRE UNITS
PERTAINS TO BENEFITS AND
DEATH ALLOTMENTS
FOR FIREMEN

A letter was read at the Coun-
Gil meeting last night from John
w. Roberts, secretary of the Key
West Fire Department. request
ing that the Council make some
provision for continuing to pro-
vide the $500 death benefit to
firemen in the event that the
Key West Volunteer Fire Depart
ment should be abandoned under
the new administration that will
take over in November under the
provisions of the new charter
The Council voted to take the
matter under consideration. $3.50.
The resignation Of Evelio Es.
'tevez as a fireman was read and
accepted. With Clarence Roberts
being appointed as a new men
Der of the department. The ao-
pointment was confirmed by the
Council.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
OLD FISHERMAN BELIEVED MORE
ON DIRECTION OF WIND THAN in
PRAYERS FOR NEEDED SHOWERS

MA
They consulted their pastor, and
he approved their proposal.
That was. early in the evening,
and from the parsonage they went
to Uncle John DIS home and told
him about their decision.
MY dear brothers and sisters,
it won't do a bit of good to pray
for rain as long as the wind sticks
up there between the east and
northeast. Wait till it gets down
into the south, and then your
prayers will be answered.
But the brothers and sisters" /,
unsuccessful in their efforts to
persuade Uncle John D. to attend
the meeting, held it without him,
and they and their pastor prayed
earnestly for rain, and the rain
did not come, for the wind con-
tinued to shift between the east
and northeast.
saThree mornings later, when
Uncle John ID. left his home to
go down to his boat, the wind
had veered to the south He stop
ped at the parsonage and said to
the pastor, Brother, let offer a
few words in prayer for rain"
The pastor prayed, and John d.
prayed, and he remarked, as he
was leaving the parsonage:
Il got to hurry along, for the
rain may catch me before / reach
the market"
When he turned into Elizabeth
street at Caroline, two blocks
from the market, "down poured
the rain impetuously and con-
tinued" till every cistern in Key
West was full.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
COMPLAINTS FILED .
ABOUT OLD STACKS
TERMED MENACE AND FIRE
TRAPS BY CITY Of
FICIALS

The Council at its meeting last
night heard several complaints
about old buildings in different
Parts of the city which were
termed, a menace and, fire traps
by Fire Chief Leroy Torres and
City Sanitary Inspector Willard
b. Gibson recommending that
some action be taken in the mat
ter.
The places in question includes
d small building on Fleming
street opposite Longs Furniture
Store, another is a building at
Margaret and Angela, structure
at 1903 Whitehead street. and a
building at Bahama and Fleming
street, occupied by a Chinese
Laundry.
The council ordered that the
owners of these places be notified
that they must have the build
iHgs placed in a safe condition.
and in, the event that this is not
done the Council will order
them RACED. .s4s q. .4..t.
/ A letter was read from Caps
tain c. E. Reordan, commandment
at the local Naval Station stating
that 10000 gallons of fresh
water was used in extinguishing
, the fire at the old lumber shed
building here recently, stating
that due to the nearness of the
sea that the engines should have
used the salt water instead OF
the fresh water from the stree!
hydrants which is very limited
at this time.
1t was ordered that Captain
! ReordanTs letter, along with one
from the Council, be sent to the
Aqueduct Board, whereby the
I city may ascertain the amount OF
fresh water that the city may
use in fighting fires.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
URGES SEWER
CONNECTIONS
WOULD NOT WAIT UNTIL
STREET PAVING IS
COMPLETED

Two matters of decided impor-
lance to Key West we're pointed
out last night by Clarence Sweet
ing at a meeting of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce in st.
Paups Parish Hall.
He said that the State Road
Department has almost complet-
ed the regarding and repaving of
the Roosevelt boulevard along
the north shore, and added that
he thought every owner of a
residence or business place along
Division street, as far west as
Whitehead street, then along that
street to the courthouse entrance,
should make connections now
with the sewer and the water
main so that the paving will not
have to be torn up to make them
when the State Road Department
completes the job.
1T would be a shame" he de-
clared. for Division street to
Whitehead and that part of
Whitehead to the courthouse to
be torn up after they have been
put in prime condition. We may
see what would happen by look
ing at other paved streets in the
csty -where trenches have. been
dug in them to connect laterals'
to water or sewer mains"
The other matter he discussed
concerned city prisoners. He
pointed put that, in the old days,
city prisoners were used9;to pull
up. weeds in /, tiapavedi gsitiewA1ks
or do other work to keep Streets
in a presentable condition, but
now, he asserted, 1.-The Jail is
made a retreat or sanitarium for
drunks."
AT one time the city used to
hire a man to take the prisoners
out to work them. and among
the latest of prison guards of
that type was Herman (Peck)
Roberts, who used to take the
prisoners out at 8 in the morning,
work them till IL, take them to
lunch, and go out with them at
] O'Clock and keep them working
till 5 in the afternoon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20

JAPANESE BEGIN
LEAPINC TO DEATH
JUMP OFF CLIFFS AT SOUTH
ERN END or ISLAND
OF oKINAwA
UBy x-.oe,s,.s Press,

~
GUAM, June 20. Some
of the remnants of the Jap
forces today began to leap
to death off the cliffs at the
southerly tip of the island,
American flyers reported in
returning to their bases.
Rather than surrender. the
Japs are fleeing over the
plateau. which ends in steep
cliffs at the seashore. and
are diving head first to their
destruction.
, But that is not true of all OF
them. Prisoners were captured
Mfw had separated from their
comrades, bent on destruction.
and had mingled with civilians
and, whenever an opportunity
was afforded, raised their hands
in token of surrender.
A spokesman over Radio Tokyo
said that, with the loss of Ok
nawa, the people at home should
prepare themselves for greater
bombings by American planes.
From Okinawa, u. S. bombers
of all types will be able to raid
Japan, FormoSa and the east coast
of China.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20


Peter B. Roberts,. who has
conducted a fish market at
Curfy's wharf for almost a
half century, today told The
Citizen an apt story about
praying for. rain, which is
timely today because of the
differences of opinions ex-
pressed about Governor
CaldwelPs refusal to issue
"a proclamation. assigning a
day of prayer for rain.
When Mr.. Roberts was boy,
and up to the time he started to
sell fish, he went fishing with
John d. Demeritt, who, in those
days, was looked upon as one of
the most sanity men in Key
West Christianity with him was
not Zip service: it was in living
"a Cody life, and he stuck firmly
to the dietum to '''do unto others
as you would have them do to
YOU; and his hearty lament"
was famous in Key West for sew
eral decades.
In those days the Fleming
Street Methodist Church was call
ed Sparks Chapel, though it was
referred to usually as the up
town Church" Uncle John D.,
as he was called generally, was a
member of that church, so, dur
ing a drought, much like the one
Key West has gone through for
several months, a group of Up
town Church members decided to
call a meeting to pray for rain.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
COUNTRY CLUB
HOUSE QUESTION
BEFORE COUNCIL
COMING SUNDAY SET ASIDE
AS DAY OF PRAYER FOR
RAIN IN CHURCHES AND
ELSEWHERE

AT meeting of the City Coun-
Gil last night, the board was in
formed that the members of the
old Country Club organization
were to hold meeting and de-
eide upon conveying the Country
Club building on Stock Island
back to the city, the original
owners.
This was brought about
through the Junior Chamber of
Commerce requesting permission
for use of the building as their
headquarters, but due to the mat
ter of title and other entangle-
the city was unable to
grant the request.
When the building is turned
back to the city, which will be
in a very short time, it is pro-
posed to make il available to the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
and all other organizations of a
like nature which may desire to
hold meetings and give enter
tainments on the premises.
Upon motion of Councilman
Gerald Saunders, it was ordered
that Mayor Willard M. Albury
issue a proclamation setting aside
this coming Sunday as day of
prayer for rain in all of the
churches of the city and else
where.
An ordinance was passed on
its first reading fixing the pay
of employees in different offices
of the city.
Complaint was made at the
meeting about the unsanitary lot
on Elizabeth street, near the
corner of Fleming. where people
have been in the habit of dump
ing trash and other refuse on
the property. 1t was also shown
that the Reynolds building on
Duval street, between Front and
Greene, was also being used as
a dump site. The Council ordered
an investigation of both places.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
Humane Society Outlines
Program Tor Improvement
Of Dog Situation In City
Mrs. George White APP
pears Before City Coun-
ell At Meeting Last
Night

Mrs. George Mills White
appeared before the City
Council at It's regular meet
ing last night, giving a de-
tailed outline of the propos-
ed program TO be carried out
By the Humane Society
which was formerly organ
ized here. and in which she
h taking an active and prom
ineHt part.
Mrs. white presented TO the
eounrii the provisions of a tenta-
tive ordinance which she has out
lined Cor taking care Of dogs and
eats and other ANIMALS running at
large IN Key West. and asked the
c09nciis consideration toward
having the ordinance adopted and
plared into effect covering the
xarioss operations of the Humane
s<Nieiy. which Is endeavoring to
bring alsout an improved condi-
ton ln the elimination from the
streets 81 tire city of the many
worthless and unfcd dogs and
cats that have become a general
naaiHance m various parts of the
cts.
One uf the suggestions made
~ Mira White In connection with
the movement undertaken, was
thai d@a Aaanaa he effected in
iieu ~ The city auto tag license,
whirh has been discontinued, in
oFder Ia obtain some revenue that
ean b. used In partly financing
iise TFogfam 30 be carried out.
Dtisfr suggestions made were
tliat ssuieonr can be employed TO
tR kn0~n as a humane agent, 10
~ paid approximately SIS a week
o. supervise activities, and also
that q temporary shelter be af-
forsied tor dogs and cats and other
animals IN an outlying section OF
the city.
II was stated that il would re-
asaire about $500 annually to
take care 81 all expenses. includ-
ma the payment Of the agent, use
af trucks and ether equipment. in
connection with the program
Dogs with no owners would be
offered for sale al a price accord
ma to their breed. with no price
20 excccd SO for the best breed
"a Digs
1he matter was placed i'm the
hands 0f the ordinance commit
Zee Zoe investigation and consid.
efation. with q report To be made
On the subject at the next meet.
ina ~ the council.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
Lieut.. Mulberg
II In Pensacola

Arthur Murerg received a lct.
Ter yesterday from has lau'hff.
Lieutenant Victor & MuiisfE.
who had been ~ the Pseiiie is.f
two and one half yesra. ~ whieh
he stated that ho b. now station
ed al the naval aiT s'stiuu at Pen
sacOla. He Is "a the medical
corps. as q dentist. of the Unitsi
States Navy.
Lieutenant MulbsFg b. q gfsd
uate Of the dental college II the
University IL Loyuls univsI as.
i'm New ORLEANS. and be- told bass
brother that be- VIII return -
that city to marry. on June "a.
girl he met while q student thefs.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
Claimed General Sirike
win he Called In TIE
Event That he iloes
Return

WV HWFHW F*"#F
LONDON. Jans x0.~~Wssh
King Leopold expFssssma rs
determination Go EsiuFm a.
Belgium Co resame his
throne, reports r@eeivwa hwge
today state that that eoum.
try 10 on the brink 81 civil
war.
First the communists. thea
the socialists and now the
liberals have declared that
If the king returns. there will
be a general strike called
throughout the country.
Mutteringz amonn the
people indicate that. in -
| sisting the re-estmblishmenf
of the rule of the king. ne
resentment will not end wlh
= general strike. bat siwlemka
il almost sure 90 ename.
--latest advises aFp tbnt -
GUMS three great pelfs3 at
prepared 30 hold detssumssfatss@sa
against the king that masi pMsse
SO much blouslsisd 4 may 81
in civil war.
King Leopnld Naa kft1H sses
even noFe ~ hugse than - @
abroad over his eTstef las tia ST.
GUM army o. SslFTefHiig ea tfe
eve Of the British debaeif ti itif
kirk. Belgium lesasis aHtnH tiss
communists eerialisis sfai liia
ais reaSsert that BE- shuet8 So
much consideration fuf tlsp tisT
mans and NOT enough fm thF
French aud English IN thr hssuI
of peril.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
Belgium Now Reported To Be On
Brink 0f0iV1vva;, kingleOpO|d
Determined To Resume His Throne
Will Not Ask
Death Penalty For
Polish Leaders
tBx Associassa press,


MOSCOW. June 20. ~ II
was intimsted today that the
prosecutor of the 10 Polish
leaders charged with sub
versive acts against the Rus
SLAMS during their march into
Poland, will not ssk for the
death penalty. and Red Star.
semi official Soviet newspa-
psrer. bore out that intima-
lion when il said that. in
this dsy of rejoicing" the
Allies should face their prob
lens in a spirit Of unity.
While the trial was in pro-
qress, dispatch was received
here. stating that the three
Polish factions had appointed
representatives TO attend q
conference in the British
embassy here. ef which the
government of Poland will bc
recognised. The reorsanisa-
ton will be submitted 10 the
Big Three, when they hold
their conferences. for their ap-
prevail or disapproval.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
TOwnhall Meeting
To Be Held Monday

The first of a series of Town
Hall meetings will be held next
Monday evening in the court
room of the county court house,
under the direction of commit
tee that represents business men
of various callings. 80 - ~
1t is. announced as the first, of
a series of meetings, at which
plans for postwar projects in Key
West will be discussed. Civic Or
CARNATIONS are expected to be
represented at the melting.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
IL. Jos. knight
Returns To Texas

iieuL Joseph knight. son Of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph knight. who
h q Thunderbolt Flyer with the
Aviation Corps. who had been
Spreading a vacation in Key West
with hiS parents. and other rela-
tivss and friends. left Sunday on
ths return trip Co Texas. where
~ - stationed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20

SPRINGFIELD, lii "A FHir ttt-
stance of double trouble uas Ei3.
ten recently INTO thr ueefaat a
81. Johns Hospital. Tso men
came in az three . m ga cuwt.
genCy treatment
Both had eye iniufi' buif .tF-
cd IN nearby Rivertun karh Faa
So. Both had tlF sans lamtiy
name. Roscetti. although uut as.
ChIIstcncd Valentino apd ~ sea,
"a John. AttsclH iiFined imf
were twins. bat n tufuesl upi iaty
we've unrelated
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
Business Men To
Meet This Evening

There will be a regular meet
ing and dinner tonight of the
Key West Business Mems Asso-
citation, beginning at 8 o'clock,
at the Orient Restaurant, 500
Duval street. corner of Angela.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-20
Mrs. Leroy Torres
Returns From Miami

Mrs. Leroy Torres. wife of Fire
Chief Torres, who had been
spending a ten days visit in
Miami with relatives and friends.
returned to the city last night.
Evening star., 1945-12-09

way can be ruled out. Eastern
Airlines, operating II flights from
Washington to Florida daily, re-
ports solid bookings until early
January. Prospective train pas
sengers, reserving accommodations
IA days in advance, will stumble into
cosmopolitan holiday jam, home
ward bound from here to there, COM
posed principally of returning serv-
icemen, college students, persons
led by war conditions to migrate
and business travellers.
Eastern Airlines reports that for
every passenger flying to Florida,
four or five are left behind. Pros
poets are that the disappointed ele-
ment will show a rise until the line
receives 20 new DC-4s now being
converted for the Great Silver Fleet.
They are promised early in l946,"
but will be parceled out over the
line's skyway network. There is no
prospect of additional rail equip
ment for civilian, travel in the East
until redeployment, now being car
ried on intensively for Pacific serv-
icemen, subsidies.
c. H. Buford, vice president of the
Association of American Railroads,
recently pointed out that there are
l72,775 beds on American railroads
and nearly three-fourths Q14,s31, to
be exac0 have been set aside for
military use. Civilian train travel
priorities having been ruled out
early in the war as unfeasible, the
remaining sleeping compartments
and berths go on a first-come, first
served basis. And right now, for
Florida, they go fast. Within an
hour after space diagrams, for ac-
Evening star., 1945-12-09

commodations two weeks In advance
are opened daily at railroad offices
they are solidly booked. That ap-
plies to reserved seats on stream
liners as we'll as Pullman facilities.
Yet original disappointment need
not be final. Lucky hopefuls on the
waiting lists of the Atlantic Coast
Line and the Seaboard, both Of
which serve Florida directly from
Washington, not infrequently in
herit Cancelled space. Then there's
always the democratic day-coach,
with competition for seats and even
standing room damming up until
the iron gate at the track rolls clear.
Both roads run coaches through to
Florida, and well-to-do passengers
have been known to take calmly the
inconvenience to which they are
not accustomed in order to arrive
and claim hotel rooms in time to
Evening star., 1945-12-09
The Travellers Notebook
Take Your Own Transportation to Florida This
Winter by Motoring Down, if Possible, but
Trains and Planes Will Get You There, Too

Coastal vessels still being out of
the picture, the nonmotorinp yaca
tlonlst must decide on steel rails or
air. Aside from motoring, plane
travel provides greater surety in
long-range vacation planning. The
traveller not only can confirm his
reservations southwark but also for
returning, which is more than can
be done on trains. Plane reserva-
lions both ways can be obtained
months ahead, and the only fore
seeable thing that the air passenger
need worry about thereafter is bad
weather throwing flights off sched-
ule. Other than that, he's lin"
There is no hint that the l4-day
advance reservation restriction on
railroads will be relaxed in the near
future. In fact, there is every indi-
cation 1t will be stable at the two
week limit until after Florida's s
heavy season has passed. This
tends to restrict rail vacation ar
rangements, requiring a decision
whether to get hotel rvations
weeks in advance on the chance
of grabbing a berth or a chair, as
they are sold like hot cakes at
passenger counters, or trying to
locate hotel accommodations after
being committed by ones rail ar
rangements to certain resort area.
AS the hotel season approaches its
January-February peak, it is per-
hapS better to give more time to
cilnchlng a place to stay.
IT these obstacles toward achiey-
Ing place in Floridas sun app, ar
too difficult and are about to force
reluctant resolution to suffer the
winter through at home, the prob
lem can be tossed into the lap of
a travel agent. His business in
wolves cutting such cordian knots.
Those Florida enthusiasts who do
not yet have their ARRANGEMENTS
in the bag" can save wear and
tear on nerves by abandoning
thought of trip prior to the ad-
vent of 1916.
Except for an improbable stroke
OF good luck through a cancellation
hlterlng down to such a tardy ap-
pllcant, airlines trips down Miami
Evening star., 1945-12-09

prevent them from going to an
other. Boarding q day-coach, rather
than abandoning the trip, permits
purchase on an empty" II and when
available.
So, you see, you can get to Florida.
And the ODT chieftain, who knows
as well as any one knows the difficult
transportation job still ahead,
agrees. But" said Col. johnson
In conversation at the dinner given
In his honor Thursday night by the
Association OF American Railroads,
people go to Florida at their own
risk. It's going to be tough to get
back"
Such is the situation now in West
Coast travel. It's almost easy to
60. But, with one of the most in-
tense redeployment movements fan
Evening star., 1945-12-09
By JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr
Travel Editor

Travel Editor.
So you're going to take a winter
trip to Florida?
It can be done-as hundreds of
thousands from the Northeastern
States and the Midwest will do
but all signs boldly say that more
than ever before it will be vacation
planned several weeks in advance,
with these beforehand problems to
be solved: Getting suitable living
accommodations within ones price
range, swapping up transportation
reservations at almost the moment
they become available and co-ordi-
mating the two to avoid sleeping
under the palms.
Neither the railroads nor the air.
lines serving Florida's booming
resorts would feel aggreived should
individual vacation parties take the
transportation situation in their
own hands and drive the family
auto over the horizon, where sum-
mer spends the winter. For the
traveller, it would virtually reduce
the set of obstacles to that of
simply being sure of hotel accom-
modations; for the carriers, it would
contribute a welcome bit toward
relieving passenger jam that, at
the moment, is headed into an un-
precedented and critical peak.
The lai1-e-ds, frankly, are looking
to motor travel to carry that last
straw" passenger load that might
break the back of rail transporta-
ton during the Christmas and New
Year travel rush all over the coun-
try; their weather eye is trained
on the tight situation that Col
j. Monroe Johnson, head of ODT,
says will continue, as far as the
East Coast is concerned, through
March. Yet the decision to drive
is not the option of every motorist.
The danger in worn tires and the
prospect of mechanical breakdown
are factors to be weighed in a prof.
ected Washington Miami round trip.
Evening star., 1945-12-09

ming out over the United States from
Pacific ports, it's no telling when
civilians can tuck themselves into
berths or get any kind Of space.
With more or less the feeling of
scientists who waited to witness the
first test explosion Of the atomic
bomb, railroad men are looking to-
ward the Christmas transportation
(see NOTEBOOK, Page C-15.J
Evening star., 1945-12-09
JACKSONVILLE FLA. JACKSONVILLE FLA
FLORIDA BOUND?
COME THRU

Be sure to get acquainted with Jacksonville's
coiorful background of Florida pleasure :. golden
climate. exciting fishing magnificent bathing
and motoring beaches. beautiful parks. Of
the worlds largest Naval Air Stations.
Although accommodations will be somewhat
limited this season, you'll find 4 hearty welcome
and many worthwhile attractions in Jacksonville.
So plan your trip to include this gay and cosmo.
politan city.
Write for irJorn,ation and free illustrated booklet.
Frank Winchell, Manager
TOURIST AND CONVENTION BUREAU
Hemming Park
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