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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
FROM PILES OF THE CITIZEN
Or JANUARY 2, 1886

DR.. William R. Warren, at
meeting held by the Key West
Rotary Club today, briefly re-
viewed The Rotarian Age. a
book written by Paul Harris.
Z. R. Lowe, justice of the
peace at Tavernier, is in Key
West on official business today.
County Tax Collector Frank
H. Ladd said today that of the
approximate 1900 owners OF
automobiles in Monroe county
only 225 of them have yet purch-
ased licenses for the current
year. He also said that thus far
he has issued 10 licenses for the
operation of slot machines in
Monroe county.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
CITY WIDE RED"

Another matter which comes up
through all the ages is the queS-
ton of prostitution. When the
Navy first came in Key Vests
"red-light district was closed up
tightly. OF course as has been
the services experience in many
cities in Florida and throughout
the states near the big camps, this
did not stop the ancient profess
sion. It still flourisheS and
through many of the barrooms
there are the usual pickups and
along the streets the same. There
are plenty of places to go for
these girls. Automotive transpor-
tation being one of the principal
means. This is the old question
which has plagued the world. To
allow prostitution under strict
supervision or to forbid it entirely
and see it crop up all over the
city. This all works back to the
question of supply and demand
and even more so to the lawful
expression of these desires, which
in themselves are not bad. The
lawful expression is, of course, IN
family life and it is encumbent
upon peoples to make, the family
an exciting, stable means of this
expression. But man is ever linn
tied and probably will never solve
this problem. We can only work
toward solution. III.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02

Miss Virginia Shine, who has
been spending the Christmas and
New Years holidays with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. E.
Shine, will leave tomorrow for
Tallahassee to resume her stud
les in the Florida State College
for Women.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
DIR. SUNSHINE

Understand that in some Flor.
ida cities health cards for, fooc
handlers are done away with.
cannot see this because while il
is not an absolute safeguard il
is a help. A great deal of atten-
ton to public health matters ir
the city can be done. While Key
West is blessed with sunshine
which doctors declare is the
greatest doctor in Key West, still
there is some disease present
which needs attention. With mod
ern medical facilities giving such
quick relief it is a wonder that
anyone would want to carry g
communicable disease around
with them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02

Today The Citizen says in an
editorial paragraph:
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02

mot every man who wears
glasses is able to see straight"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02

LAST SATURDAY the month
~ Army dance was held at the
Officers Club. Col. r. E. Turley
is commanding officer of Army
Forces here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02

CAPT. AND MRS. Wales Ben
nam are in Key West. Mrs. Ben
nam is the former Alice NAL
oney. They are staying at the
La Concha Hotel and will be
here for ten more days. Then
they will leave for Cleveland,
Ohio, where Capt. Bennam is
stationed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
CITIZENS SEEK
JUNIOR COLLEGE
CONGRESSMAN Clark To Talk
AT Mass Meeting Here
Thursday Night

With interest in the proposal to
establish a Junior college in Will
growing hourly, arrange
ments we're completed late yester-
day afternoon for a Citizens meet
ing to be held in the auditorium OF
New Hanover High school tomor-
row night at 8 o'clock, according
to DR.. John Hoggard, chairman of
the City-County Board of Educa-
ton.
Purpose of the meeting Thursday
DR.. Hoggard pointed out,
will be 10 crystalize sentiment in
favor of the Junior college project
and toward that end, officers and
members of all Parent-Teacher Or
CARNATIONS in the country, veterans
organizations and auxiliaries and
other interested groups have been
contacted in order that the attend
ance tomorrow night may be rep
resentive of the citizenry of Will
mington and New Hanover county.
See COLLEGE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
STATE OFFICIAL
SUPPORTS RULING
Opinion Concerning Drain
age Damage Al Carolina
Beach Upheld

State Attorney General Harry
Mcmillan has backed County At
torney Marsden Bellamy's view
tina. local government agencies
have no responsibility for drainage
Of private lands.
McMullan's opinion, printed in
this months edition of Popular
government, stated categorically
mat municipalities are under no
ooIlgation to provide a means
Vi carrying off surface water col
lected on private property"
Inc attorney = generals views
were expressed as an answer to an
an enquiry by Emmett H. Bellamy,
attorney for the town of Carolina
Deach' who asked whether the re-
sorts authorities were responsible
tof property damage caused by the
o'eFlloW of the beach's fresh water
! 1e early last month.
Said Mcmillan:
Inc weight of the authority
".eNS 20 be that a municipality is
SIiosr no obligation to prevent the
na'uIaI How of surface water or to
n.0Yeet individual property owners
70 provide a means of carrying
surface water OF to protect in
see RULING on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
GUARD FLIERS
DROP PENICILLIN TO
STRICKEN MAN AT SEA

ELIZABETH CITY, Oct. %. Up,
- The U. S. Coast Guards Air-Sea
Rescue unit here reported three
rescue missions in progress stimuli
%taneously Tuesday, n of them
involving a 28O-mile flight to sea
off Cape Hatteras with p%enicillin
for a pneumonia-stricken seaman.
The other missions saw danger
ously i'll persons, one of them a
78-year-old woman, flown here
from remote Cape Hatteras on the
outer banks.
1t. Comdr. Gilbert R. Evans.
air base executive officer, plotting
a Martin Mariner with Ensign L.
N. Donahoe as co-pilot, answered
the call of the stricken seaman,
who was ill aboard the American
freighter Berkeley Victory"
With seas to rough to risk a land
ing, the crew aboard the Coast
Guard plane dropped a raft carry
ing the penicillin and oxygen.
In the two other rescue flights,
Mrs. Eva McAbbe, reported in a
critical condition from loss OF
blood, and Mrs. Lavinia Austin,
10, suffering from blood poisoning,
were flown to a local hospital by
coast euardsmen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30

A FRIEND INDEED-Thanks to
Mr.. w. w. Storm of the Whining
ton Iron Works, Inc, Along the
Cape Fear can get back to that
vexing problem of when the flrst
electric light plant was established
here in Wilmington.
"On March l., 1886 electric
lights first made their appearance
in Wilmington, being furnished
by a private corporation. The
plant was operated at the machine
shop of Burr and Bailey (now the
Wilmington Iron Works., located
in the block surrounded by Front.
Second, Market and Dock streets"
so reads page 1877 of "The Book
of Wilmington by Andrew j.
Howell. Now Mr.. Storm was
gracious enough to call this fact
to our attention.
PLENTY MORE - The original
story appearing here in this col
umn Was given to MIR. Storm by
an on-the-spot observer OF the
small initial plant. And the next
time you happen to meet Judge
John J. Burney you ask him for
an experts opinion as to the rela-
tive merits of the first-hand evil
dence as compared with circum-
stantial evidence.
The different version as to where
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
Teachers Farley
Scheduled For City
Over 500 Members Oh Edu.
cation Association Ex-
pected Here Nov. 8

With some 300 to 1000 teachers
expected to attend the one-day ses-
sion here November 8, plans were
all but completed yesterday for the
annual meeting of the Southeastern
district, North Carolina Education
association which will convene at
New Hanover High school. Faculty
members of New Hanover schools
will Get as hosts fer the occasion
and a full program fof the day has
keen arranged, according to T. i.
Hamilton, Jr., prin 'ipal of MINIS
who is in charge of meeting details,
The sessions will get underway
d. 2 p. M, with d general meet
ing to be addressed by President
Charles Phillips OF tae North Car
DINA Education association. Prof.
Phillips, widely known in educa-
tional circles throughout the south,
will address the principals, teach
ers and educational officials pres.
ent on the subject of THE Program
Of The North Carolina Education
See FARLEY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
Along The Cape Fear

the first electricity was generated
here probably came about in this
manner.
Prior to 1900 the Port City was
lighted by both electricity and gas.
The lights we're concerned with
are the old carbon type.
THEN THE COMPANY - Well,
after lights ere no longer a novel
ty here the Electric Light and
Power Company vas established
at the foot of Orange street.
But by that time you were no
longer considered a city slicker if
you boosted that Mrs. Edison's
smart son, Thomas, had made
more than a toy when he came
forth with his incadescent lamp.
MORE TO COME - Now even
if we can settle where the first
electricity was produced Along
the Cape Fear, VIC still have many
a bit of interesting information to
excavate before we could safely
lay aside the whole matter.
For example, what e~nterprising
merchant in the Port City was to
light his stock of merchandise with
the n~ew-fangled electric bulbs? A
number of readers, no doubt, could
produce this information.
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
RAILROAD REPORT
REVEALS DEFICIT
ACL Monthly Statement Is
sued Here Shows $780,
AL Lost In 9 Months

A deficit of S249, AL in net rail
way operating income was shoWi-
by the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
road for the first nine months of
1916, according to the monthly
statement of revenues and expen-
ses as released by the general
office Of the company here yester-
day. "a
Net Railway operating income Of
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
company showed a deficit Of $249,-
42l for the first nlne months Of
this year, according to the month
ly statement of revenues and ex-
penses released at the companys
general offices here today.
Net operating income amounted
to S., 812, 1872 during the corre-
spending period in 1945 and $l0,-
1872, 813 for the first nine months
of 1914.
The report also disclosed oper-
sting revenues from January l to
September 30 amounted to $685.
33s, 535 against s113, 452, 1897 for the
corresponding period last year and
s123, 281, oo6 for the nine months In
944. An increase was shown in
operating expenses, which totaled
s85, 1872, 144 for the nine months
against so3, 915, TIA for the period
in 1945 and s73. 2o7, 1853 for 1914.
Net operating revenues, accord
ing to the report, were Stab, 421
from the first Of the year through
Sc ptember, a sharp decrease from
S29, 536, 623 for the nine months last
year and $50, O74, 038 for the coz
responding period in 1914. The
amount required for taxes was ST..
See REPORT On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
COUNCIL TO OPEN
BIDS AT SESSION
Special Meeting Scheduled
For Thursday To Talk
Construction

The City Council will meet at
10 o'clock tomorrow morning In
a special session to open bids on
installation of a $500 sewer
main and it's lateral drains or
Central Boulevard in Sunset Park,
which City Manager J. R. Benson
has described as the most urgent
job in the city's sewer extension
program.
The installation, which has
emergency priority, will replace a
main which Benson recently de-
scribed as almost completely
broken down..
City Engineer, J. A. Loughlir
said yesterday that he is expect
ing two OR three bids.
Although opening of the bids is
the only official business on it:
agenda, the councils meeting may
develop into a discussion of otner
and more general business. Ben
son said last night that he hoped
to develop some progress on the
recruitment of the five-men ad-
justment board that supervise ap.
peals under the CT zoning law.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
Squadron Departs

With one screaming power dive
over the Cape Fear river at:noon
yesterday, eight Helldivers from
Navy Bombing Squadron II wound
UP the city's %three-day Navy DAY
celebration at noon yesterday ana
then turned North to rear towards
Norfolk.
Two other units Of the Tokyo
Bay SCARED squadron-last resi-
due of the Wilmfngton's air-sea
Navy Day cast-will remain at
Bluethenthal Field this morning
for minor repairs, Jesse A. Par
ker, manager of the clty-county
airport, said last night.
The six fighting ship whose ar
rival here Friday launched the
Navy Day celebration left Whining
ton for their several destinations
yesterday morning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
Labels
so a.
suppression"
Sinking Bad
Production Chief Warns
Nation Against Talking
U. S. Into Recession Z
POINTS TO RECORDS
Civilian Official Says Three
Problems Stand In Way
Oh High Output
WASHINGTON. Oct. 90

WASHINGTON, Oct. 90
(P) Civilian Production
Chief John D. Small Tuesday
cautioned the nation against
talking itself into a business
recession.
He declared an industrial
decline "is not inevitable" if
labor and management use
common sense, reasonableness
and restraint.
Taking cognizance of predictions
from some quarters that a recess
ion may start within the next few
months, Small told a news confer
ence:
1T looks like al atmosphere is
being built up in thinking that way.
All this talk creates fears. If re-
peated enough times, people will
begin cutting down, retrenching
and won't go ahead with their plans
end we will have a recession"
Although saying he does not ex.
pect a drop in production and EN-.
ployment, Small added that lever
II 1t comes, I don't think it Will
amount to much"
In support of his optimistic
views, Small pointed to CPA's pro.
ouction report for September, which
showed continued peak output Of
most consumer goods.
Examples cited
For example, shipments Of sew
ing machines increased q pei
cent over the previous month, vac.
uum cleaners IL per cent; refrig.
orators Z per cent; and electric
irons 5 per cent. Small declines
were noted in washing machines,
electric and gas ranges and radios.
See SMALL On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
0NSL0W RESIDENT
SHOT AT SE!AICATE
Sheriff Holding Gus Ganey
Following Killing
Last Night

Gus Ganey, 42-year-old service
station operator of Seagate is in
New Hanover county Jail charged
with the murder of Julius Franklin
Henderson, "a year-old Jackson
vile driven attendant, Sheriff
officers reported last night.
According to Deputies Porter Da-
Wis and Ernest Priest, who investi-
gated the fatal shooting, Hender-
son, in the company of Jasper
Westbrook, also of Jacksonville,
drove into the service station ope-
rated by Ganey on the Wrights-
vile Beach highway, near Seagate
at approximately 7:15 o'clock last
night. i
Ganey is reported to have walk
ed to the right side of the parked
car and fired two shots from a
.25 calibre automatic pistol in the
direction of Henderson, who was
seated under the steering wheel
of the vehicle. One of the shots
entered the body of Henderson,
just below his arm pit on the right
See RESIDENT On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30

On the question of the military
forces which the Big Three are
maintaining in the foreign
countries we have an unusual OPP
portunity to make things much
worse or to begin making them
con siderable better. 1t depends
on the outset on how the ques-
ton is put. The fact is that
all of the Big Three have armed
forces today in places where they
did not have them in 1889. They
are not only in Germany and
Japan but in the places which the
Axis had conquered and was then
compelled to evacuate. They are
in Poland, Austria and Yugoslavla,
in Italy and the Italian empire,
Greece and I%ndonesia, in Man
churia, Korea, North China and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
Molotov Puts
Proposal
To Assembly
Idea For World
Peace Causes Excite
ment Among Delegates
SPEECH IMPRESSES
Soviet Leader Criticizes
U. S. Atomic Plan; Blasts
Churchill, Baruch
NEW YORK, Oct. 29-(P

NEW YORK, Oct. 29-(R
- Soviet Russia, for the sec
end time in history, called
Tuesday night for universal
disarmament and hurled a
challenge to the Unit
ed Nations assembly to take
up the new proposal immedi-
night.
However, the Russian delegation
to get the other delegates
to sound off in a night session and
contented itself with a demand
that those delegations wishing to
discuss the disarmament proposal
be given the opportunity.
The moments were tense as
Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian for
eign minister, sought to prevail en-
the assembly to begin discussion
of his new f%our-point idea imme-
diately. Great Britain objected
that long speeches Tuesday night
would not be desirable and Mclo-
TOW finally admitted it was too late
to settle the point.
The assembly then adjourned. at
1907 Pm. EST. until Wednesday
See MOLOTOv on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
Local Chest Drive
Tops 100000 Mark
Campaign Head Extends
Closing Date To Satur-
day For Late Reports

The Wilmington Community
chest has passed the 500, 900 mark
in its fall campaign last night, but
chest leaders announced that they
are aolding this drive open until
Saturday in order to give 63 still
unreported major firms time to file
their returns.
At C o'clock last night, Louie F.
Woodbury., Jr., and Richard S.
Rogers, campaign co-chairman,
announced that a total of SOL, 152
had been pledged of their $106, 204
goal.
At the same time, they offered
to send a chest representative to
collect returns any of the So unre-
ported firms that might request it.
In encountering the drives ex-
See CAMPAIGN On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
The Weather

FORECAST
South Carolina and North Carolina -
Partly cloudy and continued rather
warm Wednesday and Thursday.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau) -.
Meteorological data for the "a hour
ending 1870 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am. "a; 1870 am. 50; 1870 pm. 79;
1870 pm. 70.
Maximum 70; Minimum 81; Mean So;
Normal 81.
Humidity
1:3o am 100; 7:30 am. 90. 1870 ON.
Sc; 1880 pm.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1850 pr -
100 inches.
Total since the first of the month -
Ash inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by o.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington $1,000 1857 am. 8:l4 am
1886 pm. 8:57 pm.
Masonboro Inlet 1854 am. AIT am.
IL :04 pm. 5:22 Pm.
Sunrise $50; Sunset 5:22; Moonrlse
1880 am; Moonset 1922 pm.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at
am. TUESDAY,. (missing) feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30

GoodChances
b Democrats
Ranking Administration
Advisers View Senate
Races With Alarm
GUFFEy, WALSH CITED
ppnublicans Get Probable
EDGE Against Lehman
In New York State

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29-
rP)-Top-ranking admins
+ration advisers conceded
privately Tuesday night in
~las+-minute forecasts that
Republicans have an excel
lent chance of winning Senate
contests next Tuesday in four
major eastern states with a
o+a] of 1913 electoral votes
p more than Thomas E. Dewey
received throughout the country in
his 1914 Presidential race.
At the same time, they feared
The COP has better than an even
csance Of picking up four addition
>, eastern Senate seats in states
Wit. a total of % votes in the cleo
to:ial college.
Tthese forecasts prove accurate.
The results would be a boon to the
1913 Republican Presidential can
di6ate. whoever he might be - and
many Observers think it will be
Dewey again, despite the beating
he took from the late Franklin D.
Roosevelt two years ago. Mr..
Roosevelt then received 432 cleo
toeial votes to Dewey's SO.
Despite their privately-exposed
gloom. Democrats are convinced
they'll retain control of the Senate
BY a narrow margin. Republicans
must gain 10 seats to overthrow the
present Democratic majority.
East Of River
Here's how prominent Democratic
Observers are look at the picture
See COP On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
'0bscurity
Cloaks Basis
0fStatement
Administration L d e
Make No Qualification
OF No Strike Talk
MEETING ARRANGED
Observers Debate Possibili-
ty O. n d e r standing
With John L. Lewis

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29-
(UP) The administration
kept it's plans for pre-
venting a soft coal strike
cloaked in obscurity.
There was no explanation
President Truman's state
ment that there would be no
strike beyond the fact that
spokesmen for the govern
ment coal administration would
meet Friday with President John
L. Lewis of the United Mine Work
ers (AFL).
Mr.. Truman's statement suggest
ed to some observers that there
was an understanding between
Lewis and the White House.
Any such understanding would
have to carry assurance that the
government would negotiate a new
wage agreement in compliance
with the demand originally served
by Lewis October 81. He asked a
new contract to replace the one
signed after the government selz-
ed the mines five months ago.
Yet Secretary of the Interior J.
A. Krug, who was touring the Far
West, said that the government
NOT reversing its previous
stand. Krug had notified Lewis
last week that the contract could
not be reopened.
On Notice
Lewis then replied that the con-
could be reopened on III
See OBSCURITY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
So To Bed

Once was all right, but twice
was too much for Howard Kest-
er, of 106 Borden Avenue.
1t seems that on Monday and
again Tuesday, the planes COM
prising the visiting Navy Bomb
ing Squadron Seventeen were
referred to as Hell-cats.
That was more than Howard,
a young encyclopedia Of aerial
nomenclature, could bear.
Losing patience he called to
explain that the Navy Day cele-
bration visitors were Helldiv-
ers, or, moro technically sB-
2C-4s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
ORGAN WARNS
THAT STRIKES ARE
NATIONAL MENACE

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. %.
-U.R- The International Team
ster's union (AFL), which claims
to be the worlds largest labor
union, said Tuesday that strikes
have become a national menace.
An article on wildcat strikes in
the International Teamster, Of
fetal union magazine, warned that
strikes must be curtailed or the
nation will sink into chaos and
organized labor will perish"
"They are ar invitation to in
flation and depression" the article
said.
1--WE are not going to sit quietly
looking out the window while a few
a gitators kick this union to pieces"
See WARNING on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30

The COLLINS got DR.. c. K. here
Yesterday.
On the eve of Halloween, Char
les Kelly, alias "Dr. C. X" the So
year-old self-styled Negro wizard,
whose %professed magic powers
encompassed the healing of the
sick, the rescue of the jobless, and
the restitution Of Grant husbands,
if the price was right, drew three
concurrent sentences of seven to
10 years in state prison for obtain
ing money under false pretenses.
Kelly pied guilty to all charges
in Superior Court yesterday after
four Negro witnesses had testified
that he had collected money from
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
Today and Tomorrow
RY L LIPPMANN

the former Japanese island empire
in the Pacific.
There are where they are by
agreements among the Big Three
made during the war under their
common strategical plan for Win
ming the war. But since there is no
common diplomatic plan for the
settlement of the war, these forces
are a constant cause of conflict
threat, suspicion and embarrasS-
ment. They are the nettle which
statesmen will have to grasp II
they are to make any progress
towards a workable settlement
among the great powers.
Thus far, howeve~, no one of the
See LIPPMANN On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-30
Don't Crowd

NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-(P}--Yoz
can telephone Marshall Stain in
Moscow now. A three-minute chat
will cost you SO Sunday, or $12
weekdays, from anywhere in the
United States.
The American Telephone and
Telegraph company announced
Tuesday all restrictions on radio
telephone calls between Moscow
and the United States have been
lifted.
The phone company didn't pro-
mise that the Marshall will answer.