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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
BETANCOURTS
VISIT KEY WEST

Dolores Pons Vida dc Betan-
court and her son, Ignacio Bet
ancourt, arrived here Friday
morning from Havana to spend
a three day visit with Mr.. and
Ms. Charles Sturrup of nc
Porter Place.
They left Sunday nigh: for
New York, where Ignacio will
take up dramatic. acting. Ignaelo,
who was T14 of the Signal
Corps, has recently been dis
charged from the Army, after
serving 43 months in the serv-
ice, SO of which were spent over
seas in Africa and Italy. AS a
radio teletype operator at Allied
Forces Headquarters.
This was the first visit here
of the Betancourts since 1921.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
BiGk6ring Develops Between
Great Britain And Russia
At United Nations Meet
STATIONING OF FORC-
ES IN DIFFERENT
AREAS BY NATIONS
LED TO ARGUMENT
tRH,Assocraies Press,

LONDON, Jan. 22.-BickeTing
developed today between Great
britain and Russia at the con-
ference of the United Nations
organization.
For several days Russia had
been irked because of adverse
comments that had been made
about aer maintaining troops in
northern Iran, and today Rus
sia's representatives protested
against the retention of troops
by Great Britain in Greece and
Java, or 1ndonesia.
They declared that the pres
ence of the troops in those
countries was causing unrest,
which might lead to serious
consequences.
Russia had believed that Great
Britain had instigated the COM
ment about the presence of Rus
sian troops in northern Iran.
HGl L vi ClSIl la AlS1t.
Bevin said that Great Britain
had NJ ooen concerned in in.
itiating Iran discussions.
Bevin said he would make al
statement in detail before the
UNO's council of ii about the
Iran affair, but, meanwhile,
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
called meeting of the British
cabinet this afternoon to con-
slder the Russian charge. Attlee
added that the matter will not
come. IN for debate in parlia-
ment.
Another British spokesman,
whose name was not revealed,
asserted there was nothing to
fear about the presence of Brit
ish troops in Greece and Java,
adding that Great Britain was
anxious to withdraw the troops
as soon as political conditions
have been stabilized.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
Million Weeks,
Million Dollars
TEACHER OF lS0o'S EARNED
JUST Sl0.s0 FOR
TEN WEEKS
OBy Associated Press)

LuNENBURG, Mass.--A Miss
Putnam, who taught school in
Lunenburg in 1927, didn't get
rich on the job, for she was paid
only $1,000 for 10 Weeks-ana
even as late as 1851, a dictionary
apparently was a rare and valu-
able item, according to old rec
ords discovered here.
The secretary's record of
meeting o. the committee o.
School D.stric No. 7 in 1881
shows that the thrifty town
fathers were taking no chances,
They voted to have a drawer
in the teachers desk enlarged
and made a suitable repository
for the dictionary belonging to
the district"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
PRESIDENTS, FAMOUS MEN
Early Education ReUie,ced BY Writer
4 * X
HAVE VISITED ISLAND CITY

Miss Euphemia Lightbourne, as
sisted by her niece, Miss Nellie
Bethel. Then there was . school
on Caroline street conducted by
Miss Young. The latter was for
girls, while in 1852 as school for
boys was conducted by Lieuten-
ant Daniel BeltzhOoVer, United
States Army, this was held IN
the barracks. Many of the prom
inent business men of this city
attended a school conducted by
John M. Bethel.
Sisters Arrive
The Sisters of the Holy Names
of Jesus and Mary saw the need
here for school for young
ladies, and in 1868 a convent UNI
der the direction of sisters OF
their sisters of this religious or
der, was opened at the corner OF
Division and Whitehead streets.
AS the patronage increased the
present location was purchased,
and twice the convent has been
enlarged to meet the needs OF
its patrons.
In 1869 a Catholic school FOR
boys was opened on Duval street,
and there are yet living, men
who recall the days at this IN
etitution which was under the
direction of the resident pastor
of St. Marv's Star of the Sea
Church, William J. Cappick. Tor
many years an instructor IN
schools and colleges in the. north
was engaged to teach here. Later
the school was transferred to the
building known as st. Joseph'S
echcol and taught by the Sisters
of the Holy Names of Jesus and
Mary. These might be considered
the pioneers in education in Key
West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
Four Military
Discharges At
Ii Make Vet
AP New sfeatures

AP NewsfeatureS
BALTIMORE, Jan. 22.-Love
of excitement and a bad case of
hay fever got Donald j. Robbins
four discharges from three diff
ferent branches of the armed
forces at the age of 1.-two from
the Navy, and one each from
the Coast Guard and the Army.
He enlisted in the submarine
service at Is and was sent to
submarine school at New Lon
don, Conn. Things went fine for
six months-practice escapes
with a Momsen lung in the
Nays huge pressure tank, prac-
tice dives in the schools old S.
type subs-plenty of excitement.
Then, somebody squealed,"
Donald laments. They told me to
re-enlist in six months when l
turned IT,"
But nine days later Donald was
wearing a Coast Guard uniform.
AS his unit prepared to ship over
seas, a last-minute check discloS-
ed again that he was too young.
Came Jan. IL, 1914, his 18th
birthday. Donald shipped into
the Navy once more, this time
legally, but after a scant four
weeks came hay fever and anoth-
er discharge. Itt.l D.. ...,
When l became 49," he re-.
calls, Il went through selective
service into the Army" With the
paratroopers hay fever raised its
ugly head in the middle of a
parachute jump, the boys sew
enth.
The first sneez hit him just as
he had fastened onto the static
line, which automatically opens
the Chute. His attacks had been
causing him to become temper
arily blind.
Halfway down l went totally
blind" he says. why 1 escaped
with nothing more than a broken
ankle, I'll never know. Guys
break their backs often with their
eyes open"
That's how he garnered his
fourth and final discharge, and
why he carries a cane as he goes
about his work at a Baltimore
funeral home.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
DOIiar-A-Year
Man High Paid
On This Scale

AP NeW sfeatures
BALTIMORE, Jan. 22.-J. Al
bert Eklund, 81, retired Balti-
more mail carrier, put in $500
working hours free.
Eklund volunteered for the
back breaking chore of helping
10 get war ration book No. to
Maryland citizens. The ration
book IS becoming about obsolete
as q World War ! tank, but to-
day the eX-postman is still busy
filing the books away.
He refused pay, explaining
that he gets a pension for his
81 years as d mail carrier.
Leo H. Mccormick, Maryland
OPA director. says he believes
Eklund has set a national record
Tor voluntary hours of work.
When he started his volunteer
assignment in January, l943,
Eklund was among 300 workers
preparing the ration book. Elk
lund ievised and put into
operation the filing system which
now keeps him busy long after
the ration book has become ex-
tinct. His files, with a card for
every ration book issued in
Maryland, contain we'll over s.
600 900 names.
Eklund usually works eight
hours a day. But many times,
when things were more active,
he would take work home and
toll over index cards until late
al night. OPA officials estimate
that he has contributed we'll
over $4,000 worth of mis- time.
He says he thinks he'll have
the files completed in about
three months. But he won't
quit them.
If they'll let me, I'd like to
stay here working until the
whole OPA closes down." he
says.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
CAPTAIN REARDON
GIVEN MEMBERSHIP
IN LIONS CLUB

Captain c. E. Reordan, COM
mandant at the local naval
station, was informed this morn
ing he had been elected an hon
orary member of the Key West
Lions Club ''for outstanding
service in this community"
Notification was sent to hiin
by Gerald Saunders, Lions
secretary, who said the club
hoped to induct Captain Reordan
on January 81. Mr.. Saunders
added that Captain Reordan IS
the first man whom the CLUB
has so honored.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
Shows Changing OF Street
Names Would Cause Confusion
Description OF Properties
Navy Photo

In your editorial about the
proposed changing of the names
of streets in Kew West" COUNTY
Clerk Ross c. Sawyer said this
morning, you overlooked the
main argument against any
such action: the confusion that
would be caused in the descrip-
tons in thousands of deeds rec
orded in the county clerks office
since Key Wet was founded. y
Mr.. Sawyer then pointed out
that, in a deed, the situation of
lot is fixed definitely by stat
ing that it begins on this or
that street so many feet from
the corner of certain streets,
with the particular corner speci-
fled, as northeast or northwest,
southeast or southwest.
Besides, Mr.. Sawyer stated, all
squares in the city are bounded
by streets, and, were their names
changed, more confuS on would
be caused.
IF proponents of the chang
ing of the names of Key West
streets are interested in fancy
names, they can be found i'll
hundreds of platbooks in my
office of subdivisions on the
upper KEYS that were abandon
ed as such after the 1925 crash.
But if the proponents wish To
find the streets with fancy
names in the subdivisions, I adj
wise that square and a COM
pass, four engineers and seven
linesmen be taken along tc
locate them"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22

Unlike most CUES of it's size,
Key West has frequently had the
honor of entertaining prominent
personages. The earliest record
is that of John James Audubon
who came here in 1882. The
worlds greatest ornithologist,
Audubon was delighted with the
island and the hospitality ex-
tended him. He found the white
headed pigeon here, and plenti-
full on the nearby keys.
At the close of the war be-
tween the states, Jefferson, Davis
and Mrs. Davis arrived here on
their way to Cuba. In 1880 Gen
eral U. S. Grant accompanied by
General Phil H. Sheridan arriV-
ed here on their world tour
From here they went to Havana
thence to New Orleans. More
recently Key West has been host
.o- General Pershing, Mayor
James Walker, Governor Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, President Taft,
President Coolidge and President
Hoover.
Distinguished Cubans have
frequently made visits to this
city and one Of the outstanding
events of recent years is the
San Carlos International Ccle-
bration, which brought to Key
West a great many of Cuba's
honorcd citizens.
1891 Education
To rever to the first settlers
and their problems, one, it APP
pears was the education of their
children. People of education
and culture as were these first
residents, it is but to be expected
that they should turn their at
tentionS to education as soon as
possible, and it is recorded that
in March 1881, two years after
the city had been surveyed and
mapped, the citizens met and
adopted a resolution for the
opening Of a school and thg
Reverend Alva Bennett selected
/ for the position. Four yeh rs
later this educator died and
| A1dan M. Jackson chosen as his
| successor. 1t was not until 1870
that the public or free school
system was introduced in Key
| West, and the first school Of It's
! kind was opened in the Masonic
Temple on Simonton street with
Eugene O. Locke as instructor.
Mr.. Locke for many years was
an outstanding figure in the
/ legal profession, and clerk of the
United States court in this city
until he moved to Jacksonville,
During the years between the
first school conducted by Rev
I erend Alva Bennett, and the
opening of the public school I'M
der the direction of Mr.. Locke,
there were several private
] schools. OF these one fondly re-
! calls the school conducted by
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
SEASON ON SNAP
BEANS EXPIRED

The local OPA office an
nounced today that the season
for snap beans expired January
20 and will make a current
wholesale selling price of S4.62
on a % pound hamper.
In Key West the retail price
is permitted to remain January
31St at 26c per pound.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
Steel AT Its
Lowest Ebb I'm
United States
SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND CIO WORKERS
ARE NOW OUT ON STRIKE
OVER COUNTRY


WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Pro-
duction of steel today is at its
lowest ebb in the United States
in so years, it was declared by
representatives of the steel in
,dustry.
Seven hundred fifty thousand
Go steel workers are on strike,
as a result of which reconversion
is said to have suffered a decided
setback.
The strikers are holding out for
President Truman'S recommended
ton of an advance of 1872 cents
an hour, but Benjamin Fearless,
president of United States Steel,
who represents the industry, de-
clared that the greatest increase
the companies can give, without
suffering financial loss, is Is cents
an hour,
Because of the Walkout of steel
workers, the number of idle men
IN the country reached 100000,
a record high during the postwar
period. Settlement of the meat
packers strike is still at a stand
still, and CIO General Motors
employees, who had agreed to &C
cept an advance of 1912 cents an
hour, today increase the amount
to 80 cents an hour on the offers
expiring yesterday without &C
ceptance by General Motors.
Plate glass workers in Pitts
burgh returned to work this
morning after a strike that lasted
three months. The men will OBJ
tain an advance of 10 percent in
wages.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
CROWLEYS HAVE
VISITORS HERE

Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Crowley
of 800 Caroline street have as
their guests, Jack Bazzanatti and
wife, of Boston, who will remain
here for a visit of two weeks.
Mr.. Bazzanatti is operator of
night club in Boston.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
NEW TREATMENT

CLEVELAND,-Various types
of flowers, such as asters, carna-
tions, azaleas and geranlumsi
can be treated now with a chem
icaI compound which Is absorb
ed through their roots nj makes
the plant toxic to insecl pests.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
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No Settlement In
Sight For Strike
Of Electric Units
(By Associated PressD
WASHINGTON Ian. %

Other strike news today:
Two hundred thousand
General Electric and West
inghouse employees are still
on strike with no immediate
settlement In sight. t.
The impasse in the meat
packers strike rs caused. by C
these differences, CI0 els
holding out for ian advancAefn,
1917 cents an hour. a. f.. Of ,
L. for l712. while officials of
meat-packing houses offer Is
cents.
Two cents an hour separate
the CIO and the Ford Motor
Company. Go asks l7h
cents increase an hour in
wages. and Ford offers two
cents less.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
NOTICE

There will be meeting of the
Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows, Cuba Lodge No. Is. held
this evening at 1880 at hall on
Elizabeth street.
LUIS ALFARO. Noble Grand.
Santiago Rodriguez. Sec.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
Macarthur Issues
NeeU Directive On
Jap Steel Nils

TOKYO, Jan. 22.-General
Macarthur issued a directive
today that will culrninate in
the .disTnantling cf AGO steel
mills in Japan. Meanwhile.
the plants are being guarded
by American soldiers.
He also issued an order
that will dissolve I8 holding
companies in Japan, and an
other order that will break
the grip Of IA Japanese fam
lilies on industries in Japan.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
NOTICE

Bicycle licenses have arrived.
and 1.o on sale at the Office of
the City Tax Collector. Your
name. address and serial number
of the bicycle is necessary when
applying for license.
SAM 3. PINDER.
Tax Collector.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22

This is the second in a
series of articles as written
by Miss Marie Cappick some
years ago for The Citizen on
Key Wesl history.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22
Yw~ ts
Temperatures
Highest Loves

Temperature data for the a hours
ending 7:30 am.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-22

~ ~ 81 aIaIaIA yaL. IS
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-28
CARL TH0M5EN HERE ON PICTURE TRIP

Leaving for Taku Harbor today aboard Hal Williams charter yacht Joby was Carl Thomsen, Los An geles photographer, who has film ed coastal country from Vancouver up through Dawson, and will pho tograph Taku, the Joyce Lodge and Skagway before returning to Van couver.
 Thomsen has 10000 feet of col ored film todate In the business for several years, he has shown his reels before the Sierra Club, in the Los Angeles Museum and to var ious associations throughout the Western States.
 Thomsen's pictures of Vancouver Island took first awards in the an- nual Southern California contest, sponsored by various camera clubs, this year and he placed second with films of the Caribou Road last year.
 He will film Skagway's Fourth of July celebration before returning to Vancouver July 5.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-28
WASHINGTON YACHT
 SITkA BOUND TODAY

MT. and Mrs. J. G. Jones of Fri day Harbor, San Juan Islands, Wash, arrived late Wednesday on their first trip to Alaska aboard their yacht.
 They hope to leave here today for Sitka and may or may not stop at Juneau on the return trip. They will go no farther north, but may return through Frederick Sound
 Aboard are MT. and Mrs. L. E.. Fowler, also of San Juan Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-28

LET YOUR money earn four percent. Buy Alaska Finance Cor poration demand notes. (295-tf)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-28

One out of every 5 families in the United States is dependent up- on milk for a livelihood.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-28
JOHNNY AHLERS HERE

Johnny Ahlers, former business man of Juneau, now residing in Se- attle, but handling an agency, is in Juneau, calling on the trade.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-28

The bread fruit tree is a native of Polynesia and Malaysia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-28
MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports from Marine Stations at 1:30 P. M. Toady

MARINE FORECAST FOR PERIOD ENDING SATURDAY EVE of Southeast Alaska and outside waters Dixon Entrance winds under Is miles hour Variable cloudness
Evening star., 1946-04-17
Britain Will NationaIize
Biz Part Of Steel Industry
By the Associoted Press

LONDON, April 17.--Britain's iron
and steel industry is to be brought
largely under public ownership, John
Wilmot, Minister of Supply in the
Labor government, told the House OF
Commons today.
Mr. Wilmot said the government
reached its decision after studying a
report by iron and steel industrialists
who had outlined a five to seven year
program of reorganization at an es-
timated cost of s672 ,000, 600.
After full consideration the gov
ernment has reached the conclusion
that the position of the industry
and its Importance in the national
economy necessitate a large meas
ure of public ownership and that
legislation for this purpose should
be prepared" he said.
Evening star., 1946-04-17
Mrs. Minnie Levy Dies;
HeIped Found Blake PTA

Mrs. Minnie Levy, 50 New York
avenue NV, died yesterday at
Emergency Hospital
Mrs. Levy was one of the organ
izers of the Blake School Parent
Teachers Association and had been
instrumental in having free lunches
provided for underprivileged chill
dren in District schools. She was
active in several charity organiza-
tions and was a past president of
the Sisterhood of Adas Israel Con-
gregation.
She Is survived by four daughters,
Mrs. Pauline Feldmann, Mrs. Theo
Walker, Mrs. Gertrude Berkow, all
of Washington, and Mrs. Rhea
Mittman of Allentown, Pa; five
sons, Alfred, Louis, Gilbert, Lester
and Raymond Levy, and a sister,
Mrs. Sarah Small, all of Washing
ton.
Funeral services will be held at
/ pm. tomorrow at Geiers funeral
home, 3605 Fourteenth street NV.
Burial will be in Adas Israel Con-
gregation Cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-04-17
By George Kennedy

How one can see in absolute pitch
darkness is being demonstrated to-
day and tomorrow at Fort Belvoir
by the Army Engineer Board.
It's the infra-red method that so
much has been heard about. There is
no exaggeration about it. The equip
ment allows one to see without de-
creasing the darkness one BIT
The engineer board took the lid
off infra-red yesterday when it
opened a three-day show of equip
ment it has developed and similar
devices taken from the enemy.
Infra-red shopping and signaling
in the dark was one of the hush
hush things toward the end of the
war. The Germans and the Japs
had it as well as the American
Army and Navy. Navy ships were
signaling one another with it at a
range of several miles in the combat
zone to avoid voice radio signals. The
Army had rifles equipped with infra-
red lamps and telescope sights with
which GIs went hunting at nights.
Used on Okinawa.
These rifles were used on Oki-
nawa, but there were not enough
OF them to have much effect on
front-line fighting. Infra-red was
also used in aerial night fighting
and antiaircraft work.
At the demonstration yesterday,
somebody first explained that when
white light passes through a prism
it breaks into an arc of the primary
colors (the spectrum and that in
fra red is the invisible light at the
inner edge of the arc, just as ultra
violet is the invisible light on the