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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-14
Plan Devised To Get Juvenile
Court Here Electromagnetic
Matter Taken n
Up By Attorney
General Watson
STATE OFFICIAL ON
CASE IN INTEREST
OF COUNTY

John G.. Sawyer, attorney for
Philip Bailey, a colored boy,
who has been confined in the
county Jail since July 26 of last
year, on a charge of juvenile
delinquency, because there has
not been any court in the county
in which TO try him, said today
that he had a long conference
yesterday, in Miami, with At
torney General ]. Tom Watson
about the case, and that the lat
ter had devised a plan whereby
the court would be functioning
in a few days.
Il had intended to begin a
mandamus suit in behalf of the
boy" Mr.. Sawyer said, but
Attorny General Watson decided
that we could settle the matter
IN far less time by instituting
quo warranto proceedings
against Juvenile Judge Frank o.
Roberts.
Mr.. Watson told me that,
shortly after his return to ITALIA
hasSee, he would write to Mr..
Roberts instructing him to try
Bailey, and that, when he did
so, |. as an assistant attorney
general for the nonce. would
bring the suit in circuit court,
requiring Mr.. Roberts to show
wherein he has the power to
act, as his Office was abolished
by legislative act in 1945. Mr..
Roberts will then file an, answer
declaring the law to be uncon-
stitutional and basing his de-
claration on a decision of the
supreme court in a similar case,
and then we will have a hearing
in circuit court. Should the
court decide the law is uncon-
sittutional, then that will be
the end of the case, because l
know of nobody who will appeal
from the decision.
But should the law be held
10 be valid, then we will go to
the supreme court for final de-
cisiOn. and Mr.. Roberts will
serve as judge while the case is
pending"
Attorney Sawyer has been
among fairly large group of
Key Westers, including A. H.
Parrish chairman of the board
of county commissioners, and
the Rev. John f. PickenS, pastor
of the Poinciana Community
Church, who have been endeav-
oring for several months to
straighten out the juvenile court
snarl in Monroe county. They
take the position that, as the
adjustment of the court was
done bv "a local law under the
guise of a general law, as the
supreme court ruled in a simil-
ar case, where population brack-
cts were used in having the
law passed, the law is uncon-
st.tptionals efy '"
MIR. SaRXsrg said he did not
know when Mr.. Roberts will
receive his letter from Attorney
General Watson, but that he
expected il would be in a few
days, basing his opinion on what
the attorney general had told
him.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-14
Fire9Sunday On
~ siRnGlilE1ls
l.. :. Division Street '|1

A fire was discovered at 100
o'clock Sunday morning in a
two story apartment building at
the corner of Division street and
Eneas Lane, just a short distance
from Francis street. Considerable
damage was caused by the blaze
to the furniture in one of the
rooms of the building, with slight
damage resulting otherwise to the
structure.
The alarm was sounded from
box 223, corner of Division and
DuVa streets.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-14
Tuesday Deadline
For Auto Licenses

AS soon as County Tax Col
lector Howard E. Wilson opened
his office at 9. o'clock this morn
ing, a line began to form of
persons who wished to purchase
l9A6aasao eaile.vlicensassplates. .
All, morning the line reached
put into, the lobby, and this
AFTERNOON II Continued to stretch
outIinto THE lobby, fffms tomor-
row rs the last days4hat plates
may be bought without running
the chance of being penalized.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-14
City. Water Will
Be, Softer Soon
New Filter And Sitting
Plant Completed
This Month

New filter and sitting plant at
Florida City for Key Vests
water pipe line is expected to be
completed next month, MOB
Public Works Officer Allen Hoar
said today
This viii soften the water and
take away some of the brackish-
ness, Commander Hoar said.
0 There has been some COM
plant in the past as to corrosive
elements in the water which
caused razor blades to rust and
made soaping difficult.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-14
Sawyer, AIbury
Off To Confab

Sheriff Berlin A. SAWYER, ac-
companied by State Attorney
w liam V. Albury, left this
morning for st. Augustine to at
tend the annual sheriffs' con-
venton to be held in that city.
The convention will be con-
vened tomorrow morning land
will be adjourned Thursday
evening. Sheriff Sawyer is the
cha rman of the host committee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-14
U.s. Congress
Convened Today

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. -
Congress was convened today
following vacation Of % days
for senators and representatives.
With important legislation
facing congress, it appears that
its members will have little time
this wear. for campaigning. All
representatives are UP for re-
election. and orro-third Of the
members of the senate will be
candidates to succeed themsel-
YES.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-14
q E. GONZALEZ. MD.
KEY WEST, FLORIDA

January l4th. 1916.
To Monroe County Medical Society.
To City and County Officials.
To My Patients:
On December 31st 1945, published
notice that | would discontinue practic-
ing medicine on that date because DR.. H.
c. Galley had ordered me to stop practicing.
l took my case to the Secretary of the
Florida State Board of Medical Examiners,
and l have been advised that all Temper
airy Permits to practice Medicine, given by
the Civilian State Defense Council will
not expire until six months after the Gov
ernor of Florida declares that the Emer-
gency is terminated.
Therefore | will resume my Practice
OF Medicine of this date.
DR.. E. GONZALEZ.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-14
Recall Weekly Mail Service
To City, Weather Permitting

led. NOTE: This is the first
in a series of articles as writ
ten for The Citizen some
years ago on the history of
Key West by Miss Marie
Cappick. well known local
writer.)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-14

Associated Press Day Wire
Service and AP Features
For sc Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Sailor in Serious Condition
After Street Alteration

Carrill E. Straley, %, seaman &c,
United States Navy. was reported in
critical condition today with head
injuries suffered when he was
knocked to the ground by an un-
identified asSailant, police reported.
According to the report, Seaman
Straley, stationed at Camp Brad
ford, Va, was struck in the face
by sportily dressed stranger early
today in the 1900 block of Four
teenth street NV. He was taken
to Emergency Hospital and later
transferred to the Naval Medical
Center, Bethesda, Md.
In another alteration, police said
Merrill Rolf, 80, of 1896 Eleventh
street NV. was stabbed last night
by an unidentified colored man in
the HOO block of Tenth street NV.
He was taken to Emergency Hos
pital, where his condition was said
to be good. James L. Gargan, 20,
a Marine, stationed at Quantico,
Va, suffered lacerated ear when
he went to Mr.. Roff's assistance, DO
lice said
Evening star., 1946-03-09

word of English, but I spoke to her
in my few, feeble words of French" "
That the lack of words did not
prevent an understanding is testi-
fed to by their courtship and mar
riage last June %.
There have been a few difficulties,
too, since Mr.. Funk was returned
home last September. Jacqueline
wrote him often, but always in
French, which he has never learned
to read. His bride equally could
not read his replies in English. She
got around this by asking French
friend to read her his letters, but
for while Mr.. Funk could find
no one to turn her French into
English for him.
Then one night Mr. Funk teletyped
message to a friend in Detroit
about the unread French letters
piling up at home. The friend
knew French, and soon Mr.. Funk
was sending his wife's letters to
Detroit for translation.
Since parting, both bride and
groom have been boning up on each
others language, and Mr.. Funk
hopes Jacqueline will greet him in
English when she steps off the
transport on Friday. But he's in no
hurry about her learning English.
"She makes the best onion soup
in France" he said, "and now it's
time she learned to put those onions
to work on good, thick American
steak"
Evening star., 1946-03-09
First War Wives From Pacific
Welcomed Here by Husbands

Six war wives from the Southwest
Pacific-the first group from that
area to reach Washington-were
joyfully welcomed to their new
homes here today by their husbands
from the Army, Navy and Marine
Corps.
Arriving at Union Station about
9 a. m. from Australia and New Zea-
land, the party included one a
month-old baby boy, whose father
had never seen him and the golden
haired 412-year-old stepdaughter of
a Navy lieutenant.
The baby. Paul Franklin Tucker,
and his mother, Pamela Noeline
Collins Tucker of Auckland, New
Zealand. were among the first off the
train. Mrs. Tucker rushed to the
arms of her husband, Leamon E.
Tucker, former Marine private first
class.
Married in Auckland when Pvt.
Tucker was stationed at the Sd
Marine Field Depot, they were
separated when he left for the
United States last September. He is
a clerk at Sears Roebuck store on
Bladensburg road, and lives at 727
Yuma street Sc.
Major Greets Wife.
Mai Gilbert G. Ackrovd of the
Military Personnel and Training
Division, Judge Advocate Generals
Office, met his wife, Valerie Ander-
son Ackroyd, whom he had met and
married in Auckland, during his SO
months in the Pacific Theater. Mrs.
Ackroyd was barrister in Australia
Maj. Ackroyd's home is at 1922
Coryell lane, Parkfairfax, Va.
Danielle Langley and her mother,
Mrs. Ruby Jean Langley, came from
Perth. Australia, to be greeted by 1t.
Ben G. Langley, U. S. N, of the
Bureau of Personnel. The child,
who had not seen. her step-father,
whose name she now bears, since he
left Perth early last year, Rugged
him, but when asked to give him a
big kiss for benefit of the protogra-
pliers, she coyly shook her curls.
1t. Langley, with 10 years naval
service, had been on duty on a
minesweeper in Manila harbor
when the Japanese attacked. Later
his ship went to Australia.
The Langley's were married last
February. The family resides at
623 Jefferson street NV.
Former Marine Staff Sergt. Irving
w. Knight, an electrician, of It'll
Mount Vernon avenue, Alexandria,
Evening star., 1946-03-09
National War Museum Here
Sought by Military Group

Early establishment of a national
war museum here will be sought bv
the American Military Institute, its
Board of Trustees has decided.
The organization. composed Of
service and civilian specialists in the
history of warfare, explained in a
statement made public yesterday
that it views the project as urgent
ito guide the American people
toward sound and realistic atti-
tude toward national security"
Many private collections would be
available If suitable place for ex-
hibition were provided, and the pro-
posed museum would not compete
with existing technical and scien-
tiflc museums, it was argued.
The trustees decided to sponsor
the proposal at a recent meeting in
the Office of DR.. Luther H. Evans,
librarian of Congress, a member Of
the board
Brig. Gen. Donald Armstrong,
commandant of the Army Industrial
College, is president of the insti-
tItP
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Analyst Asks Court
.ToCite 4B. & 0. Aides
BY the Assoeiosed Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 9.-Randolph
Phillips, New York railroad analyst
filed petition in Federal District
Court yesterday asking that Roy
Barton White, president, and three
other officials of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad be cited for contempt
Of court.
The petition accused the B. & O.
officials of actions obstructive of
justice and derogatory to the dignity
and authority" of a special three
judge court which approved with
minor notifications last fall the
railroads s50o,O00,000 debt adjust
ment plan.
Mr.. Phillips was main objector
to the plan, contending it was not
proposed in good faith.
Russell l.. Snodgrass, financial
vice president; John j. Cornwell.
former general counsel, and Arthur
H. Dean, New York attorney who
represented the railroad at last falls
hearings, were the other officials
named in the petition.
The petition argued that deletions
were made in the minutes of exec
utiVe committee meetings, that the
company failed to produce records
and memoranda called for by the
court and that certain testimony
at the hearings was altered after
it was transcribed.
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Summers Urges Nation
To Back District lis
Fight 10 Win Suffrage

Terming Washington's lack of a
voice in national affairs IAN ever
present danger" to the democratic
philosophy of Government, Repre-
sentative Summers, Democrat, of
Texas, last night charged the peo-
pie of the Nation with the RESPONSE
bility OF rectifying the situation.
Speaking over Nationwide NBC
hookup, the chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee declared it is
the duty not only of Washingtonians
and the Congress but also "of the
other people of the country to give
these citizens whatever can be given
without endangering the public in
terest."
considering our philosophy of
government and the fact that we
have preached SO much about the
injustice of taxation without repre-
sentation, why should the people of
Washington be completely voteless?"
Mr.. Sumner asked.
He urged the Nation to get be-
hind the Summers resolu-
ton, of which he is coauthor with
Senator Capper, Republican, of
Kansas, a measure, he asserted,
which would enable Congress to
give Washington as much voting
power as is consistent with the
dominant Federal interest in the
District.
The resolution, which provides for
an amendment to the Constitution
to enable Congress to grant the Dis
trict representation in Congress and
among the presidential electors
should be help to Congress it
SELF" he asserted.
Mr.. Summers pointed out that
having District representatives in
the House and Senate would give
Congress "the opportunity to get
advice and guidance on Washing
ton matters from representatives of
the people of Washington them
selves men qualified to speak
about Washington affairs, men re-
sponsible to the people of Wash
ington"
The Sumners-Capper resolution is
before both the Senate and House
Judiciary Committees. The House
group has not given it consideration
during this Congress. The Senate
Judiciary Committee pigeonholed
the measure by recommitting it to
subcommittee on February 25.
Evening star., 1946-03-09

met his wife Janet Kerr knight, of
Wellington, New Zealand, whom he
had married in 1912 He has bought
a home for them at sos East Alex
andria avenue, to which they hope
to move soon.
Here From Sydney.
Mrs. Phyllis Linkins, a girl with
red hair and green eyes, Sydney,
Australia was met by her husband
James w. Linkins. former Army
corporal in the Medical Depart
ment, who now is an employe of the
Capital Transit Co. They will live
at 1913 Fifty-second avenue, Coral
Hills, Md. She said they had writ
ten each other every day since
they were separated more than two
years ago.
Corpl James C. Henderson, who
has just re-enlisted in the Army
after 131A years service, greeted his
wife Marion Cotton Henderson, of
Auckland. They will live at 2516
Seventeenth street NV, while he
is on duty here.
Accompanying the group on the
train from San Francisco was Miss
Charlotte Castle of the American
Red Cross. She reported that Mrs
Winifred L. SkoW of Australia had
left the train at Omaha, Nebr., to
visit relatives who will come with
her to Quantico, Va, where she
will rejoin her husband, Marine
lst 1t. Duane Skow, now on duty
there.
Mrs. M. C. Becker of Victoria,
Australia, got off the train at Mar
tinsburg, w. Va, to meet her hus-
band, former Marine Gunnery Sergt.
William S. Becker, at Washington
Grove, Md.
The party was met at the sta
ton by Army, Navy. Marine Corps
and Red Cross personnel, and a
platoon of military police.
Meantime, another war bride is
expected from England. She is
believed by her husband, I'd 1t.
Ardie K. Davis, jr., to be the first
English war bride of an American
soldier in the recent conflict. She
is Mrs Ena L. Davis of Colchester,
about so miles from London. They
were married December 8, 1912. She
is among 2,444 wives and children
of American servicemen scheduled
to arrive in New York on the
Queen Mary next Saturday.
1t. Davis is in the Regular Army
and stationed with the Transporta-
tion Corps in New Orleans. His
aunt is Mrs. E. S. Simmons of 9705
Switzerland road, Silver Spring,
Md.
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Kensington School Plan
Described Before T.. Of T..

Plans for new Kensington Ele-
mentary School to replace the pres
ent building were described by AL
fred D. Noyes, chairman of the
Montgomery County Board of Com
missioners, before the Kensington
Chamber of Commerce last night.
MIR. Noyes said a five-room build
ing will be ready for occupancy in
September. He added that this will
be the first unit of the new school
structure. AS materials become
available, he explained, additional
units will be built.
County Supervisor Willard F. Day
described the functions of the coun-
ty government. He said his Office
issues monthly reports of the work
being done by the various county
departments and that copies are
available upon request.
Evening star., 1946-03-09
District Is Joker in 'GoodeuI
New Copyrighted Card Game

Washington's voteless plight fig
ures prominently in a new card
game on file at the copyright office
of the Library of Congress.
The game, called "Goodeal," is the
invention of a man named Junius
w. Harworth of Detroit, Mich, who
describes it as having educational,
historical, geographical and politi-
cal' values in his foreword to the
volume of rules.
Mr.. Harworth also goes on to say
his game, played with So cards, is
designed to fill in the void" be-
tween election days and to educate
Evening star., 1946-03-09

spectacular" Is added to enjoyment
Of the music itself. In addition, he
said, composers today are willing
to write for two pianos because the
relatively small amount of musical
literature so written assures any
worthwhile new work a public hear
ing.
The Dougherty- -Ruzicka combina-
ton has been glad to cooperate
and feels it has introduced more
new items, many of them musically
controversial, than any other duo
pianists.
Mr.. Dougherty also composes. He
has written a number of songs, not
of the Tin-pan Alley variety, in
Guiding a Nautical Sonata" based
on early American sailor tunes, and
a one-act opera.
Mr.. Ruzicka is also a painter who
works in water colors. He had a
one-man show in Hartford, Conn.
is planning another and has sold
several of his pictures. He describes
his brushwork as unconventional,
"but not as extreme as some of the
music we play"
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Son S Body Claimed
By Mrs. StammIer;
Leaves for Michigan

Mrs Clara Stammler of Column
bus, Ohio, who came here Thurs
day to urge a fuller investigation
Of the death of her son and an air.
plane pilot, left by train for Chel-
sea, Mich, late yesterday with her
sons body. She was accompanied
by her daughter, Mrs. Rosalie Burns
Of Chelsea.
Mrs. Stammler's son, Wilbur
Stammler, 38, and George Leist. 25,
the pilot, were found shot to death
early Tuesday in a Wardman Park
Hotel suite. Stammler had adopted
Mr.. Leist February in a court pro-
ceeding in Shreveport, La. Mr..
Leist's wife, Ruth told police the
shooting followed an argument over
terms of the adoption.
After an interview with Coroner
A. Magruder Macdonald, Mrs.
Stammler, distraught and weeping,
said she was satisfied with the
coroner's certificate that Stammler
had shot and killed Mr.. Leist and
then killed himself. Before the
conference, she told reporters she
came here to demand a further in
vestigation and would fight to my
death to clear the name of my dead
son."
Funeral arrangements for Mr..
Stammler have not been completed
but a friend said the burial might
be in Quincy, Mich.
Otis Beall Kent, Washington at
torney and friend of Mrs Stammler,
said she now is satisfied with the
investigation conducted by the po-
lice and the coroner, who issued the
certificates of murder and suicide.
DR.. Macdonald said he reviewed
the facts in the case for Mrs.
Stammler and was able to clear up
her doubts.
mo new facts were developed ex-
cept what was contained in the
original investigation. She has
accepted them." DR.. Macdonald
said.
The coroner asserted all the facts
which led police to decide that the
case was murder and not self-defense
are in police records available to the
public.
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Ex-GI With French Bride Solves
Language Problem by Te!etype

Fred Funk of 1900 F street NV.
is going to New York Wednesday
to claim his French war bride when
she steps off the U. S. S. Goethals.
He hopes she has learned little
English during their sixth months
separation, but if she hasn't, it
won't matter much.
A Western Union maintenance
man by day and teletype operator
for the Detroit News Bureau by
night, Mr.. Funk told today of meet
ing his bride while TIA with the
9th Air Force Service Command in
France.
'I was strolling around Cren with
the CT blue book of French phrases" 4"
he related, when friendly French
couple named Boucaut invited me
into their home for a glass of wine.
They introduced me to their daugh-
ter, Jacqueline. She didn't know
Evening star., 1946-03-09

Celius Dougherty and Vincenz
Ruzicka promise good attempt to-
morrow afternoon when they play
Milhaud's Concerto for Two Pianos
and Orchestra with the National
Symphony Orchestra. They are
fairly confident now, but such was
not the case when they first saw
the work.
The duo pianists, whose first
names never appear in the billing,
yesterday said the concerto was
about the most difficult item they
had attempted in eight years of con-
cert appearances. So far as they
know, it has had but one other
public performance with an or
chestra in this country.
Dougherty and Ruzicka decided
playing two pianos together would
be pleasant way to make a living
while they were students at the
Juillard Graduate School in New
York City. They were not disap-
pointed. AS Mr.. Ruzicka explained
yesterday, audiences enjoy pianos
in pairs because something of the
Evening star., 1946-03-09
Army's Advice
On Food Sovinq
Asked for D.

Commissioner Guy Mason said
yesterday he has called on the Army
to advise heads of District institu-
tions on military techniques of food
conservation.
Mr.. Mason said he had asked the
military district of Washington for
aid, and representatives of Brig.
Gen. Robert N. Young are to meet
with city officials at pm. Wednes-
day in the boardroom of the District
Building.
The plan is in connection with
the Nation wide drive to conserve
food. During the war the Army
made extensive studies of food saw
ing and elimination of waste.