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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11
SLOPPY CONTRACT

Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Sycks.
managers of the Botanical Gar
dens on Stock Island, will short
ly move to Cudjoe Key to raise
stephanotis blossoms. They are
making the move so that there
will be no interference with
their paintings. I think that the
resolution as passed by the city
commission empowering. the
Sycks to remove all pIans ex-
cept reasonable anaonntM for
The city and Garden Club was
p vague" sort of an agreenlen:.
1t should have been quite defin-
5te about what couId have been
femoved and certainly the Syeks
would be entitled to all they
planted for their labor spent in
keeping up the rest of the gar
den. My belief however, is that
no city plants should have been
removed. Other complaints of
the Sycks is that when the new
hospital was erected $4,000
worth of plants were plowed
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11
SOCIAL ANGLE

The social angle is all important
when new navy groups come to
town. Key West has always been
been known for its hospitality to
Navy. with some exceptions dur
ing the rushy years of war when
there just weren't enough facili-
ties TO handle the thousands of
men here. It's getting that way
again. However. there are USO's
and Dance Patio's at the Stations
which can get the boys started.
These weren't here at. the start
Of the past war. Then if the
projects and points of interest
program get underway so that
there Will be plenty to see and
guides available, why more in
tercst will arise. Finally. there
are the winter seasons social
events which are coming up.
E2sccs are planned by various
ciG.s and organizations to which
the men will be welcome. There
are number of nice places no "
springing up in which the men
can dine and try the exotic foods
Of Key West. There are of
course station athletic programs
end there is a full city recreation
program. Noted with interest are
such points as art showings or
the golf tournament of the Jay
Gees What you plan for the
tourist can be planned for the
Navy
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11
CORAL ROCKETS
BY L. p. ARTMAN, JR.

getting in more training through
more good flying days. This is
factor which has been claimed
quite a bit for the city and
am glad to see that naval heads
concur. In other localities there
are fogs and great storms and
SHOWS, but here there are rarely
days in which planes are all
grounded. Another point Cap
tain Reardon emphasized is
that the psychological factor IS
great. IF the boys were operat-
ing over freezing cold waters
where they: knew that if they
were dunKed that possibly they
would last only about a minute
in the icy waters, there arises
some thoughts in the flyers
minds which are not conducive
to good flying. However, if they
have fairly warm water as is
the case around Key West why
they have good chance of
getting ashore without effects
from exposure. While in short
Coast Guard Air Sea Rescue
Service here quite a few flyers
and in one case three doctors
and a young doctors son were
pulled out of the water after
hours of exposure in the wafer
and On RATS with no great i'll
effects. One flyer was brought
in from the Gulf Stream off
Rebecca where he had been for
fours days. Another flyer crash
ed at nights near the Boca Chica
bridge and swan to the old
bridge himself and walked to a
nearby FeSideHee. ''aE.-a,.--' -
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PERMANENT CONSTRUCTION


Took a flying trip up to Mi
ami yesterday and noticed a
number Of things Must get a
story on all that permanent con-
struction gC-rG up at Boca Chica.
Solid concrete block buildings
about three or four on the left
side OF the road and two or three
on the right side are now COM
pleted since the month or so I
have been up that way Those
guards on the highway at Boca
Chica who stop cars now put tin
plates on your front bumper
which are removed when you get
10 the second guard. The field
is alive with TBMs, torpedo
bombers and some few small
SIMS converted for land use.
The cay was beautiful yesterday
and l could just imagine how fine
the flyers felt kicking around in
that beautiful blue with the puff
fy cottony clouds Navy has
great deal of recreation here
now but one thing the boys in
blue usually like are facilities
where they can meet the local
folk A great many boys like to
get off the base entirely during
liberty hours and relax in a CT
william atmosphere.
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WORLDS BIGGEST
FISHING PIER

Charter boats are much bet
ter organized up on the keys
than down our way. There are
scores and scores of boats up
There Another point which
comes to mind is the fact that
the Series of concrete arches
over the Various deep channels
comprise one Of the greatest
Fishing piers in the world.
Every day you make the trip
to Miami you pass anywhere
from one hundred to two hund-
red ardent fishermen seeking
everything from the lordly tar
pom to the orange mouthed
tasty grunt. Every so often there
is small crowd gathered
around someone fighting a big
fish.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11
NAVY ARE TOURISTS

one OF the important phases of
the program TO entertain tour
lists here viii have to be shunted
aside for the present as far as
being aimed directly at tourists.
These are projects SUCH as aqua
rum, Botanical Gardens and
other obvious facilities for tour
Isl enjoyment but did you ever
stop to think that the navy COB
IS one Of the greatest tourists and
sightseers anywhere. When the
boys in blue get off the stations
they ike to get around and see
something new. So all these
tourist programs can be continu-
cd as well as before except that
thought should be applied to
adapting them somewhat to the
Navy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11
DAILY REMINDERS
BY
Standard Press Association
ToDAY.s ANNIVERSARIES

1857 = Alexander Hamilton,
Revolutionary soldier, New York
lawyer, a Constitution Trainer,
first secretary of the treasury
born in the West Indies. Killed
in duel with Burr, July II, 1904.
l8l3-Tunis A. M. Craven, ma
val officer, Civil War hero, whose
After you, pilot" cost him his
life, born at Portsmouth, N. H,
Lost at sea. Aug. 5, 1864. =
1925 - bayard Taylor, famed
New York man of letters of his
generation, born in Chester Coz,
Pa. Died Dec. 10, 1878. ,
1912 - William James, famed
Harvard philosopher-pSychologiS
manifestation of Americas high
est genius in this field, member of
the famed family, born in New
York. Died Aug. rs, 1910
1870-Alice Hogan Rice, Louis
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11
SOME FISHINc!

Noticed on the trip Wednes-
day that the old wooden bridges
are still being torn down and
that the workers have gotten
down as far as Niles Channel
Bridge. When these wooden
bridges were first thrown open
fish were caught by the hund-
reds. You see no one except an
occasional sponger or CONNER
cal fisherman had been up
through these keys. l have seen
thirty or forty big eight pound
Snappers brought in in a few
hours, huge fifteen foot sharks,
one large manta and many sting
arees, taEpon galore fifty or
sixty, porkfish, and grunts by
the, hundreds. Well it's not like
that now but there is good fish
ing on these areas. Fish in the
blue channel and make your
sinker hit rocky bottom.
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under before they were gwen
a chance to remove them to
another part of the garden.
Reason for the present dilapl-
dated condition of the garden Is
that labor costs have become
abortive for this type of work.
Once 200 visitors a day were
shown through the garden. An
other case of sloppily worded
contract and action through
which the city loses two wen
known botanists.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11

of liquor advertising by mail into
dry territory.
1937-More than 100, 900 idle in
growing auto strikes.
1912 - Japs start invasion of
outer Dutch East Indies.
1944-More than 1000 Ameli-
can-English bombers battle SINH
lar number of German planes
over Germany and the Channel.
1945-American forces deepen
and widen their foothold on Lu-
zon. Germans in Belgium begin
to fall back.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11
MARATHON MOVIE

Scene around. Marathon was
Just like a movie. Coming in Oh
a fairly high bridge, scores of
ehafter boats and commercial
boats were heading around a
point of land just off Marathon
Yacht Basin There is one new
concrete block house going up
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11
TODAY IN HISTORY

1905 - The Territory of Michi-
gan created by Act of Congress
population some 1000.
1843-So-called Weaver's Riots
in Philadelphia, prelude to the
Native American riots of the next
year.
1861 = Vassar Female College,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Incorporated.
J. 1888-Beginning of the histor-
ic great blizzard in the North
west states. +'&' ,se
1910-7Glenn H. Curtiss makes
flying history by flying 55 miles
an hour carrying passengers
1917 = u. S. Senate passes
measure prohibiting the sending
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11

at Marathon. Around the little
island was spread the beautiful
blue waters with the Gulf
Stream not so far away. Under
the bridge mingled the Gulf of
Mexico and the Gulf Stream.
You couldn't have seen a more
picturesque little setting.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11
roDAY's HOROSCOPE

~ Today favors the development
Of guide or teacher, net necest
sarily in school, but bne who
will lead weaker minds along the
road to knowledge. There is a
mercurial disposition. and a deli
cate conception. Tt favors a dual
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11
MORE FLYING HOURS.

Captain Reardon, with whom
/ was talking yesterday, was
Praising Key Vests wonderful
climate ana stated that naval
aviation heads are realizing that
Key West weather is a means of
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11
HUGE BREADsBAKING


WASHINGTON. Enough
bread is baked every week on
one of the $4,000 ton U. S. bat
tleShips to satisfy the average
one day consumption of every
individual in a city of $500
population.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11

vile, KY, author, author of Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch, !"
born Shelbyville, KY. Died Feb.
10, 1912.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11

Asked about the 2 factor of
weather regarding submarines,
Captain Reardon said the wealth
er was not such a factor there.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-11

occupation, but in any case, you
will dig deep.
Evening star., 1946-08-09

further reduction to SOL TIL work.
ers is to take effect by January,
1s47. BY April l, 1s47, a reduction
to 474.000 employees is called for
and the amendment set the July l,
1947, figure at AT 1853 employees.
Subsequent passage OF the Third
Deficiency Act and the fact that
all departments and agencies are
Jumped together without any spe-
cific personnel cuts set up for each
makes it appear certain that some
agencies will fare better than others
in the matter Of personnel slashes
and raises the possibility that the
personnel reductions set up by the
Dirksen amendment will not be met
Federal officials characterize the
present situation as lone big mess. u
They contend that the personnel
ceiling set up by the amendment is
unavoidable because it doesn't take
into account the individual problems
OF agencies during the next year
The Budget Bureau is firmly COM
mitted to policy of personnel
slashes wherever possible, but agency
heads hope that the additional dis
cretion given it by the Third De-
ficiency Act will mean a more care
full and judicious pruning of Federal
staffs.
Evening star., 1946-08-09
3 Economic Advisers
Take Oath; Curbing Of
Initiation First Task

With President Truman looking
on, the three members of the Coun-
Gil of Economic Advisers were sworn
in today at the White House.
The oath was administered by AS
sociate Justice Bennett Champ
Clark of the District Court of
Appeals. The President then pre-
sented commissions to the three
advisers.
They are DR.. Edwin G. Nourse,
council chairman: John Davidson
Clark and Leon H. Keyserling.
The council probably will set up
its Offices in the State Department
Building, it was indicated.
DR.. Nourse, vice president of the
Brookings Institution, in state
ment after the ceremony declared
the immediate task of the council
is to hold inf1ationary forces down
SO that we do not get into a run
away boom. 1t is to everybody's
interest to help in this effort. Beat
ing imitation now will be the best
means Of providing for the future
economic health of our Nation
DR.. Nourse declared the coun-
Gil, set up under the Employment
Act OF 1916 is not a fifth wheel
on machine already adequately
equipped. 1t might be better likened
to driving band, which ties many
important wheels together in a
eompleX but powerful mechanism.
Evening star., 1946-08-09

Observatory in San Juan, Puerto
Rico, said there had been 158 since
Sunday-crumbled during a 40-sec-
ond tremor yesterday morning and
reports from the Dominican Repub-
lie said the panic-stricken people
jumped from balconies to the street.
Frightened residents refused to
spend the night in their homes and
stretched out in the open.
In Haiti, which Jointly occupies
Hispaniola Island with the Domin-
lean Republic, the tremors knocked
pedestrians off their feet, while in
the Puerto Rican towns of Aguadilla
and Mayaguez panic developed. In
Ponce, on the Puerto Rican south
coast. school children rushed from
classrooms.
Call for Doctors, Nurses.
In Ciudad Trujillo, capital of the
Dominican Republic, the American
Embassy sent request to naval dis
trict Headquarters at San Juan for
doctors and nurses, while Is doctors
were reported to have arrived at
Ciudad Trujillo from Curacao, Meth
erlands West Indies. Food was being
dropped to refugees in the interior
and the Red Cross was setting up
emergency camps.
Observers returning from flights
along the north coast-which a Pan
American Airways pilot said took
the heaviest beating"-reported
cliffs breaking down and sliding
into the sea, altering the entire
shoreline. Another observer said the
course of river between Julia Mo-
lima and Cabrera in the Dominican
Republic had been altereS.
Evening star., 1946-08-09
Trailer Plunge Kills
1.-Two District Children
On Vacation in Utah

A vacation trip to the West Coast
turned into tragedy for Washing
ton family when two children were
killed in an auto accident Wednes-
day on the road between st. George
and Cedar City, Utah, it was learned
here today.
The children were Richard Irving
Brossard, 4, and David Arthur Bros
sard, 3, sons of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
Stratford Brossard of 1889 Girard
street NV.
According to information received
by relatives here, the two children
were in trailer attached to the
auto driven by their father. Mr..
Brossard, his wife and two other
children, Robert, 18 months old, and
Evan, 7, and friend of the family,
Gordon Hoxey of Salt Lake City,
Utah, were in the auto.
The trailer went over an embank-
ment and dragged the car with it,
so that the auto fell on top Of the
trailer. Those in the auto suffered
only minor injuries, it was learned
here.
Funeral services will be held in
Salt Lake City tomorrow. Place of
burial was not known here.
Mr.. Brossard, who is in the real
estate business here, came to Wash
ington from Salt Lake City In 1881.
His wife also is from Salt Lake City
He is a nephew of DR.. Edgar B.
Brossard, tariff commissioner. The
Brossards left Washington late in
June and were bound for California
at the time of the accident.
Evening star., 1946-08-09
4 Youths Held Here
In Auto Joy Rides

-Four youths, accused of stealing
automobiles for joy-riding, were
ordered held for action of the grand
jury yesterday by Municipal Court
Judge Ellen X. Raedy.
In one case, Robert Kennedy, 10,
Of the 1700 block of w street Sc,
and Patrick J. McCafferty, 20, of
the 3100 block of Mount Pleasant
street NV, were charged with
stealing a car from a parking lot
at Fourteenth and Park road NV.
Kennedy Was fined $25 by Judge
Raedy for driving without a permit.
Bond was set at $1,000 each on the
stolen car charges. Police said the
stolen car belonged to Herbert l..
Bright, 3017 Military road NV.
The other two youths, Lindy
Pettitt, 18, of the 200 block of
Twenty-flrst street NE. and Louis
Spinelli, 10, Of the 900 block of
Fourth street NE, were arrested
August l at Fourth and F. streets
NE.
Policeman Thomas Walter of
precinct No. 8 said three juveniles
were with Pettitt and Spinelli at
the time and had been turned over
to juvenile authorities.
Evening star., 1946-08-09
II Stained Glass Windows
Placed on Exhibit at T.. U,

Under the sponsorship of the
Ladies of Charity of Washington,
II designs of a stained glass win
dow to be placed in the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Concep-
ton at Catholic University, honor
ing the foundress of the Sisters of
Charity of st. Vincent de Paul, are
on display at the Shrine, officials
today announced.
The annual competition will con-
tinue for another two years and all
Catholic high schools and colleges
are eligible to offer designs, officials
explained. This years first prize
winner is Miss Lois Levy of the Col
lege of Mount st. Joseph's on the
Ohio. Miss M. Lehy of st. Joseph's
College at Emmitsburg, Md, won
second prize and third place went
to Miss Charlotte Hipsley of Seton
High School, Baltimore.
Further information on the contest
can be obtained from Mrs. George
R. De Bruler, 3041 Sedgwick street
NV, officials explained.
Evening star., 1946-08-09
Ex-Army Officer Is Accused
OfImpersonution to Get His File

Horn and asked to see the file on
Capt Silver. When asked for Gre
dentials he told Navy officers they
had been stolen from his car, the
FBI said.
After he left, Navy officers saw
that the picture in Silvers file was
that Of the Capt. Horn"
The FBI explained that the Navy
Department as well as the War De-
partment checks all persons applying
for civilian jobs in the Far Eastern
sector
Next, according to the FBI, Silver
went to the headquarters OF the
Military District Of Washington and
again called for his own file. Again
he was refused because Of lack of
proper credentials and the FBI was
called into the case.
Silver was a member Of the ROYAL
Canadian Air Force until 1943 when
he transferred to the Army Air
Force. At present he Is associated
with the Asia Anyways in the 1900
block Of Sixteenth street NV, ac-
cording to the FBI.
Evening star., 1946-08-09
Navy Reports 131 Injured
In Cobrero-Bohio Area

The Navy reported in Washington
today that approximately 131 per-
sons were injured in the Cabrera
Bohio area of the Dominican Re-
public as result of yesterday
earthquake, the second heavy tremor
in five days.
The Cabrera -Bohio area is located
on the already stricken northeast
coast of the West Indies Island.
Twenty of the 131 injured, the
Navy said, have been hospitalized
in Cabrera.
The Navys report was based or
information gathered from its own
personnel and native residents in
the area.
The tremor which first shook the
island at 8:35 am. (EST) yesterday
was accompanied an hour and a
half later by tidal wave that swept
few hundred yards inland in a
marshy area of Escocesa (Scotch)
Bay on the northeast coast.
Conflicting reports on the size of
the wave were received. One said
it was about 4 feet above the mean
sea level while another said it was
no more than l to feet high.
Residents of Matanzas estimated
the wave there at about 8 feet.
Population Evacuated Area.
The Navy report said the wave
affected an area limited to Escocesa
Bay between a point east of Matan-
zas extending northwestward to the
vicinity of Pozo Amarillo.
No lives were reported lost since
the population evacuated the area
when the water receded following
the tremor.
A Navy reconnaissance plane re-
ported very little damage to houses
and villages along the coast line;
some bridges had been dislocated
but others were still standing: and
that Matanzas appeared the worst
affected.
The San Carlos, United States
seaplane tender, and three Domini.
can patrol craft are lying offshore
ready to help.
State Department officials re-
ported today that all American dip.
lomatic officials in the Dominican,
Republic thus far have escaped in.
Jury in the Caribbean earthquake.
Evening star., 1946-08-09
10 Billion Red Claim
For Reich Reparations
Rejected by Britain
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Aug. s.-Russia's claim
for $4,000, 100000 in reparations
from Germany has been rejected
by Britain, which has urged the
Soviet government to join other
occupying powers in administering
Germany as an economic whole.
The British government last night
released the text of a statement
communicated to the Soviet, Amer
ican and French governments July
%, at which time Philip Noel-Baker,
Minister of State, announced Brit
iSh acceptance of an American pro-
posal for economic cooperation be-
tween the United States and other
occupation zones.
Claim Never Accepted.
The statement said in part:
ut is fundamental principle of
the Potsdam agreement that during
the occupation Germany shall be
treated as an economic whole. This
provision is unqualified, uncondi-
tional and unambiguous. It is laid
down that the payment of repara-
tions should leave sufficient re-
sources to enable the German peo-
pie to subsist without external as
Sistance.
His majesty's government has
never accepted the Soviet claim to
$4,000, 100000 worth of reparations
from Germany Moreover in the
view of his majestys government,
the point at issue is not whether the
Soviet government has a claim to
reparations from Germany to the
value of any specific amount.
Unless and until Germany as a
whole has an export surplus, the
Soviet government in the explicit
and unambiguous terms of the Pots
dam agreement. to which it was a
party, is not entitled to take by
way of reparation goods currently
produced or stocks"
Red Contention Answered.
The statement referred to Rus
sla'S contention that assets could
not be sent from the Soviet zone to
other zones because deliveries had
hardly begun on specified industrial
capital equipment in the Allied areas
earmarked for the U. S. S. r. and
added:
In the view of his majesty's
government, this stipulation is in no
way relevant to the point at issue"
The British government expressed
the hope that it would be informed
lat the earliest possible moment"
whether Russia agreed with Britain's
position on German economic unity
and, If SO, whether it was ready to
set up Immediately the necessary
machinery in Germany to put these
principles into practice"
Evening star., 1946-08-09

A hearing for a former Army man
who is charged with impersonating
an Army officer in an alleged at
tempt to get his own service file
from the War Department was set
for August 20 after an appearance
before United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage today. Bond
was set at 81 500.
The man, Ernest j. Silver, 26, of
the 1700 block of N street NV, was
arrested by Federal Bureau of IN
vestigation agents yesterday after
military authorities had asked for
an investigation.
FBI spokesmenN said Silver, who
was honorably discharged as an
Army captain last March, had ap-
piled for a civilian position in Korea.
When his application was turned
down, he decided to look at hts file
in the War Department to discover
the reason, the FBI said.
Silver went first to the Navy De-
partment, wearing his old Army
uniform, the FBI said. He report
edly told officers there he was Capt.