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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-09
! MARITIME UNIONS PLAN BIG WALkouT
National Shipping Strike Looms Unless Certain
 Agreements Made

SAN FRANCISCO May 9. = A paralyzing tieup of the Nations coastal and Great Lakes ports June Is was threatened today by joint action of seven maritime un- ions. N
 The unions yesterday voted to carry out this country's first Na- tional shipping strike unless agree inert is reached with employers by that date.
 Higher wages and better working conditions were the issues which moved union delegates. in conven- tion here to approve the 12:0l ann. June Is deadline The maritime un- ions represent l6i 900 workers. They have been demanding up to 30 per- cent wage increases.
 The strike call. drafted by a 33- man committee of delegates from seven unions, charged:
 The shipowners have adopted vicious, arrogant and unyielding attitude to the modest demands of the maritime unions. It is their purpose to repeat the scandal which followed the last war by se- curing the great merchant fleet at little or no cost to themselves, and to scrap great part of the fleet. causing mass unemployment in the industry in their greedy search for profits
 Shipping officiaIs could not bos reached forsconni1,of1t.
 PORTLAND STRIKE ENDS
 PORTLAND. Ore, May s.---whifc the threat of general shipping strike hung over the Nation. work in lower Columbia River ports re- stunned today after settlement of an 11-day-old waterfront dispute.
 The C1o Supercargoes and Checkers Union. idle since April 29 in a disagreement with employ CTS over the number of checkers to be hired, sent out about TO men to work this morning.
 Longshoremcn, left idle when the dispute halted waterfront activity, were dispatched from here. to the six or seven ships working cargo, the hiring hall reported Union men returned to the Beaver Ammunition Depot, where civilians and Seabces have been substituting during the work halt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-09
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday night.
 1tngass scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday.
 Baranof, from Seattle. scheduled to arrive Sunday.
 North Sea. from Seattle. scheduled to arrive late sunday or Monday
 Alaska, from west, due south bound Monday.
 Freighter Sword Knot. from Se- attle,. due Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-09
Two Confess to Theft
 Of MussoIini's Body

MILAN. Italy, May 9.-Two men have confessed stealing Mussolini's body, telling police they would re- veal it's whereabouts on the promise that the body would be reburied in the Mussolini family plot at Pre- dappio, the Prefect of Milan said today.
 In Rome, Interior Minister Giu- seppe Romita said the offer had been refused.
 The body was taken from an un- marked grave in Milan potteds field.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-09
FURs SHIPPED SOUTH

Beaver furs amounting to $20,000 in value were on their way this from the Fish and Wild life Office, where they had been sealed and checked, to the Seattle Fur Exchange The furs are being flown by Pan American Airways.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-09
NO COUNCIL MEETING

There will be no special meeting Of the Juneau City Council tomor- rcw night owing to failure of re- csipt of the auditing report.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-09

Chickens can see only during the day. When the light fails they go to sleep.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-09
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

Mote = Drew Pearson today continues his series exposing the lobbies which have been operating behind the scenes on Capitol HILL
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
BARCO BROTHERS..
AUTO aSMASHES
Il. INT0tDRAGLINE
VERNON H. BARcO IN HOS
PITAL. CONDITION Salts
FACTORY: IRWIN BARCO
WAS DRIVER

Warrant against Irwin L. Barco
has been issued by Officer Jose L.
Gill which will hold him for in
VeStigation following an accident
that occurred about seven o'clock
last night at Stock Island Bridge.
Vernon H. Barco, brother of
Irwin, is in the Municipal Hos
pital, being admitted at 7:3O last
night. He is doing we'll today,
Superintendent Miss Hartel, of the
hospital said today. NHei suffered
injuries to the head.
+, Irwin l.. Barco, according ito the
warrant issued by Officer GILL,
was intoxicated.atA
1.-THE car, an early Ford coupe
model, had smashed into a drag
line equipment owned by Charles
TOPPING at one end of Stock Island
Bridge. The car was wedged in
between the dragline, according
to witnesses. The front end is
twisted sideways, glass broken
and diesel oil sprayed over the car
presumably from the dragline.
Pritchard ambulance was sum-
moned to the scene and Vernon
Barco was taken out from the
car. He was too shocked to get
out himself.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
LORD HAW HAW
HANGS TOMORROW
LOST LAST HOPE TODAY IN
APPEAL TO HAVE DEATH
SENTENCE COMMITTED
tny A~Sociat~h p-esS,

LONDON, Jan. 2.-Lord Haw
Haw civilian joyce will be
hanged tomorrow morning.
His last hope lor mercy faded
out today. He had appealed to
the home secretary to have the
penalty of death committed to i'm
prisonment, but the secretary re-
fused to act on the appeal.
Joyce is only a shadow of what
he was, his bitter tongue, one
minute, denounced the Allies in
broadcasts during the war with
Germany, and, the next minute,
with his tongue then mellowed,
praised the Nazi regime as the
only hope for the redemption of
the world. h-.4
Broken in mind, as we'll as in
body, Joyce now spends great
deal of his time whining about his
innocence. He still claims that,
though he travelled under a Brit
ish passport, he is not a British
citizen, but, instead, became d
German citizen in 1910, when he
renounced his allegiance to the
United States.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
All Public Schools
To Reopen Tomorrow

All public schools in Monroe
County will reopen tomorrow
following the holiday closing
which began several days before
Christmas according to en-
nouncement made by Professor
Horace O'Bryant, principal of
the Key West High School.
There were some persons who
were under the impression that
the schools would reopen today,
but tomorrow morning is the
time for the reopening at the
regular hour.
Monroe county's public schools
include Key West Junior Senior
High School, Division Street Ele-
mentary School, Harris Elemen-
tary School, Poniciana Elementary
School, Douglass (Colored) High
School and Elementary, Marathon
10th grade) school, Tavernier
doth grade) school and Marathon
Elementry School
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
coming AFTER
KING LEARNS
CITY BETTER
WILL, THEN SIT WITH CITY
COMMISSION AS PLAN
BOARD: MANAGER BUSY
TOURING CITY

Asked when he would meet
with the City Commission as a
City Plan Board to revise and
present complete coming laws,
City Manager David King said
today he hoped first to get ac-
quainted with the city.
Hc said he is busy touring. the
city now and will soon have ideas
more clearly as to coming require
ments. .---~----.-
Present zonins laws have been
under fire frequently since the
now commission went in and sew
eral of the commissioners have
expressed themselves as against
the law and declare them partial
to groups instead of fair to all
The new city manager received
complaint from a resident about
a hole in a city street in the Mar
tello Tower section and imme-
diately promised action on it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
SUGAR STAMP 80
REMAINS VALID

According to information Civ
en- The Citizen by the local
Ration Board. sugar stamp 80
held zualidssf for the regular
five pounds of SUGAR at all stores,
without stamp 81.
There has been some confu-
sion as to the validity of the 80
stamp, without the 81, in which
it has been stated by some per-
sons that both of the stamps
were needed before a purchase
could be made. but the Ration
Board states that there is no
need for the 81 stamp along with
the SO.
The 80 stamp alone is suf-
ficient for the purchase of sugar
wherever presented.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
Mrs. Harold HawIey
Visiting In Key West

Mrs. Harold T. Hawley and
daughter. Carolyn Jaynne, are
visiting in Key West with Mrs.
Hawley's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. W. Hattrick at the home on
Fleming street. They are from
Independence, Missouri.
Upon the advice of physi~
clan. that Caralyn Jaynne, who
has been i'll for two months, be
sent to a warmer climate, il
was decided that there could not
be any better place than Key
West, and as a result thereof. it
was decided to make the trip
here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
TWO ARE KILLED
IN TRAIN WRECK
UNDETERMINED MBE r
INJURED WHEN II CARS
JUMPED RAILS

COLUMBUS, Jan. "A part
of the Seaboard Silver Meteor
train, consisting of II cars, on
its way from New York to
Miami, jumped the rails at
Blaney, S. C. today, resulting in.
two persons losing their lives
and an undetermined number
injured.
Three Diesel engines were
used in the train, and the first
two sped about a curving safely,
but the third engine jumped the
tracks and took it's coaches.
with it, rolling IFS feet before
it, came to stop and tearing
away so, ties and 80 sections of
rails. II Inl4. ~ ,..! ... 3D..
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02

Sam Pinder. Jr.. now assist
ing his father in tax collecting
office. will be interviewed by
MIR. King for q possible appoint
nent. to the job of city tax as
SCISSOR.
Coming up before the city short
ly will be reaSSessment of the
city's tax rolls on 100 percent
basis. The county has already
brought its figures to this basis.
Under the new city charter tax
millage total may be only 20 mills.
The new assessment is expected
to bring the city's books up to an
assessed valuation of around $15,-
900, 000,- as compared to present
$9,OO0,0000
1913 No Decision On Taxes Yet :
Asked by The Citizen as to pos
sible increase of city taxes, Mr..
King stated that ne could not an
sWer this question at this time
since he had not entirely made
up his budget for the coming
calendar year. o..
All departments are submitting
Individual budgets, which are to
be tailored into the whole Mr..
King said that he would make up
a tentative budget, compare this
budget with present receipts, then
possibly tailor down the individ-
ual budgets again.
II will never operate on other
. than q cash basis" Mr.. King
stated. The paY-as-You-go ba-
sis will be used with expcndi-
lures never exceeding receipts"
When the new assessment is
made up. Mr.. King will then pre-
sent to the City Commission his
recommendations for the new
millage as based on the needs of
his various departments. The
Commission will then decide on
the fnillage. In this way. most
of the responsibility will fall on
the city managers and the COM
missioners shoulders, Mr. King
sd u.sSsass.ns,e.e - . ...ees..4-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02

around and tell me all about the
weather. he recalls.
Dogs And Sun
"Takc the sun dogs, for in
stance. That's little rainbow.
When the sun dogs are laying
horizontal over the sun, it'll gen
orally get warmer. But if two of
'em arc strung out beside the
sun, you can expect pretty cold
weather"
The elderly forecaSter dis
counts the accuracy of his predic-
tions even though august judges
have 40 n rubbers and carried
umbrellas to work on the strength
of his gueSSeS
"Probably started some years
ago when | told everyone if we
had thunderstorm on the fourth
day of january, we'd have a frost
on the fourth dav of May. I'll be
DANCED if we didn't"
Arnazes Himself
Frank says he amazed even
himself with that one.
81 learned about that when |
was little. shaver and l just
thought I'd try it out"
Tho oaly scientific instrument
Frank uses is an ordinary Their
monieter. A close observer of
wind directions, he comes out of
his house high on bluff over
looking the Missouri river, checks
his THERMOMETERS and the wind,
then makes his predictions.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
BAHAMAS BIDDING
FOR SILK MARKET
IMPORT WORMS AND Null
BERRY TREES FOR MA
JoR PRODUCTION
my Associated Prcsn

NASSAU, B. l., Jan. Silk
worms and mulberry trees have
been imported to the Bahama Is
lands in an attempt to make the
islands u major production cen
ter for silk.
About Is months ago, the Brit
ish Caribbean silk Co. launched
the project, Bringing in cuttings
from Osigiar mulberry trees in
South America and planting them
on one of the 80 islands. Plans
cali for more cuttings to be
brought for planting on othdr is
lands. -
The Bahamas semi-tropical eli
mate is ideal for silk worm cul-
ture, and six crops of cocoons are
harvested each year-four more
than the number usually collect
ed in Japan.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
START SIGNINGp
APPLICATIONS FOR
HOMESTEAD EXEMS.

This morning signing of APP
rlications for homestead exemp-
tions began in County Tax AS
SCISSOR Claude A.. Gandofo's
office, and during the first hour
% owners of homes IN Key West
had signed.
April will be the deadline
for residents to apply for eX-
cmptions.
Mr.. Gandolfo said he shortly
will mail exemption applications
to residents on the keys. In most
cases. he added, the appl cations
will be returned to him, filled
out, but should that not be done
they may be handed to him
when he spends week at
Marathon and Tavernier.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
REPAIR LAMP
POSTS SOON
NO LIGHTING YET, KING
SAYS; ASKS NO VAN
DALISM

City Manager David King an
nOunced that he will take i'm
mediate steps to repairing the
dilapidated lamp posts along
the main streets and would then
repair those throughout the city.
He asked that when the lamp
posts are repaired that there be
no vandalism.
The posts now are in a ter
rible state of repair. Mr.. King
said that even though the lamp
posts are not lighted at this
time at least they could be put
in good shape.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
Business Fell Off Less
Than $4,000 AS Com
pared With Figures
For Year Before

Despite the fact that many hun
dreds of service men and women
left Key West at the conclusion
Of the war with Germany and
Japan, the sales of postal stamp
stock in the Key West Post Office
last year fell off less than $4,000
as compared with 1914, Postmas-
ter Hollon r: BerValdi said today.
He explained that, while army
and navy personnel did not have
10 pay postage for first class mail,
large percentage of them bought
airmail stamps and registered
parcels and letters and also mailed
many packages, for all of which
they had to pay. Receipts from
service people, who went away,
would have been far in excess of
the decrease had they remained
here, Mr.. Bervaldi pointed out.
In 1914 the total sales of stamp
stock amounted to 1858, 438.00,
and last year, $251 ,5843O, a de-
crease of $1l, 853.70. Mr.. Bervaldi
stated further that as last years
receipts went over the quarter
million mark, the post office re-
mains in the same bracket as it
was last year.
Postal savings deposits increas-
ed by 1854, sol during 1945. At
the end of 1914, they totaled ST.
8l0,158, and at the end of 1945,
$2l64,659.
However, there was a decided
falling off of receipts from sales
Of postage stamp stock last
month as compared with Decem-
her. 1945, when the total set
a monthly record Of $36,954.60.
Sales last month amounted to
SCI ,25421.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
COLONEL GARDNER
GIVEN new POST {.
ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT
AND DIRECTOR OF Ma
TIONAL AIRLINES
Floridn News scrvrcc)

JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 2. =
Colonel George r. Gardner, for
mer Vice-president of Northwest
Airlines and an aviation pioneer,
was elected vice-president and di-
rector of National Airlines at a
special meeting of the NAL Board
of Directors, according to an an
nouncement by c. L. Baker, NAL
president.
Colonel Gardner, a native of
Fargo, N. D., and a veteran of
two years, returned to his original
assignment as vice-preSident in
charge of operations with North
west Airlines June /, l945. He
resigned from Northwest on De-
cember Is. Colonel Gardner has
spent much time in Florida, hav-
ing lived in Lake Alfred for many
years.
Joseph A. Thomas, partner of
Lehman Brothers, was appointed
chairman of the NAL Finance
Committee and member of the
executive committee at this meet
ing. The appointment of Herbert
c. Dobbs, effective January 1st,
as vice-president in charge of
traffic, was also officially con-
firmed by the Board of Directors.
1--WE believe that the early ar
rival in increasing numbers of our
46-pasSenger DC-4 equipment,
making advisable these very not
able additions to our executive
personnel" Baker said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
President Truman To Discuss
Many Subjects In Broadcast
Arranged For Tomorrow Night
Chief Executive Of Ma
ton Returned To Of
flee Today After Va
cation Of Five Days
tBy Associated Pre.D

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. -
President Truman will broad
cast tomorrow night over all net
works, beginning at 10 o'clock
and continuing for half an
hour. He returned to his office
today after five-day vacation.
The President is expected to
discuss in detail the fact-finding
boards he will appoint to con
slider present strikes and the
threatened steel strike, when
would involve 100000 workers
in the steel and aluminium in
dustries.
In connection with his fact
finding boards, he will advocate
a 30-day ban on threatened
strikes, which will afford an
opportunity for a board to avert
them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
JOB WITH CITY; INSTRUCT SUCCESSOR

City Tax Collector Sam B. Pin
der will resign as soon as a sue
cessor can be found for his job
but he will remain until the sue
cessor is fully qualified to hold
down the position, he has inform
ed City Manager David King.
Pinder brings to close II years
of service to the city. He started
work in 1888 as a tax assessor
and served in that capacity for
five years. For the next II years
he was the assessor and collec-
tor.
City Manager King said that
he could not see continuing Mr..
Pinder, on the commission basis
as in the past. He said Mr.. Pinder
receives 2rt, of the collections In
his department, which is over $3.50
a month.
Responsible Position
+ The city manager said that Mr.
FINDERS job was a very respon-
sible one and that it necessitated
quite bit of experience.
During the course of his ca
reer, Mr.. Pinder estimated that
he has handled about $5,000,D00
in public funds and always bal
anced his books to the cent.
Il am proud of my record.
Mr.. Pinder said in discussing
the public monies he has han
died during his career.
The tax collector said that he
would not ask for a pension since
he is not the 65 years of age re-
quired. -
Interviewed BY Manager
Mr.. Pindcr disclosed that he
had been interviewed by Mr.. King
Saturday afternoon and that he
had revealed to the city manager
his decision to resign. He told
Mr.. King at that time that he
would send him a written resig-
nation. and he has done So. g
At the same time, decision was
made to remain on the job until
qualified successor is appoir!Rd-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
NO MARKER AT
j. END OF ROAD
THIS WAS WHERE ARTHUR
u BERGSTRoM WAS KILL
ED IN AUTOMOBILE

Peace Justice Enrique Esquin-
aldo, who, in his capacity as
coroner, was summoned at 4:45
o'clock New Years morning to
view the body of Arthur Berg
strom, As, of 613 .Ashe street, who
was killed when his automobile
went over the dead end of Roose-
welt boulevard on the south shore,
said this morning that the mark
er, with the red glass on it, which
was blown away during the Oc-
tober, 1914, hurricane, had never
been replaced.
What happened to Bergstrom
could have happened to anybody
else" Mr.. Esquinaldo said, ''for
there was nothing to indicate
where the boulevard ended at
Bertha street. Had the marker
been in place, the lights from a
car would show up the red on
it, so that a driver would know he
was nearing the end of the boule-
ward, but there was no such de-
vice to warn Arthur Bergstrom,
and, as result, his car went over
the end of the boulevard and he
was killed and his brother was
severely injured" "' '@ % "o
At the Key West Municipal
Hospital it was reported today
that Victor Bergstrom, As, had
passed a good night. His jaw was
broken and he sustained multiple
cuts on his head and face in the
accident that killed his brother.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
RERGSTROM'S BODY
SENT TO HIS HOME

The body of Arthur Julius
Bergstrom. At. who was killed
in an automobile accident yes
terday morning, was sent today
by the Pritchard Funeral Home
to Toledo. Ohio for funeral serv-
ices and burial.
Survivors are, two sons, VII
bert and Arthur, Jr., both in the
armed services: three sisters.
Mrs. Selma Mercanto. Penn,
Mrs. Ellen Swanson, Toledo. O.,
Mrs, Cecilia Gotberg, Detroit;
four brothers, Elmer, Carl and
Walter Bergstron of Detroit,
Victor Bergstrom of Key West,
who was injured in the same
accident.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
BACK HOME FROM
VISIT TO MIAMI

Mrs. Ethel Roberts and daugh-
ter Mrs. Elma Warren and
children, who were in Miami for
the Orange Bowie parade re-
turned over the highway last
evening.
While in Miami they were the
house guests of Mrs. La Darna
Daniels of Miami. Mrs. Daniels
Is the daughter of Frank Saun-
ders of Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
MRS. KING WILL
ARRIVE SUNDAY

Mrs. Virginia King will be
unable to come to Key West
until Sunday when Mr.. King,
the city manager, VIII drive up
and bring her back.
Mr.. King had expected to
bring Mrs. King back during
his weekend trip with her in
Miami but they were unable to
conclude their bus ness affairs
in time to make the trip back
here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
BUNDLE UP WHEN HOGS TOTE STICKS;
It'll Pour All Day If Chickens Remain In Rain
MAY MEAN COLD;SPELL COMING DOWN
by ROBERT BERWICK

&A - - - - - AfA - - - $1,000
by ROBERT BERWICK
Az Newsteaturas r.
- JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Jan.
FL look for the signs-when
hogs carry sticks in their mouths,
we're in for bitter cold spell"
That's part of the weather
philosophy of Benjamin Franklin
Mitchell, &c, sharp-cycd son of
generations of Missouri farmers
and personal weather man for the
state supreme court.
Frank, as justices of MisSouri's
highest judicial body call him, is
spare, bespectacled man who
operates the supreme court eleva-
tor. He says the signs tell far
more than most people imagine
about the weather.
"You just have to watch close"
he says.
Chickens And Rain
when a chicken runs into a
coop of morning to get out Of
the rain you can bet it'll only be
a shower. But if the old chicken
walks right out III the rain, it'll
probably be raining all day"
Frank says he picked UP his
knowledge about what the wealth.
er is going to do next from an old
farmer in Morgan County, Mo-,
on the edge of the Ozarks.
"My pappy used to run a corn
grinding Mile on his place and this
old fellow would como, and sit
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
SANDS CASE
UP TOMORROW
INVESTIGATION OF POLICE
BEATING TO BE HELD
LATER

Case of Arthur Sands, colored,
who is charged on four counts,
including resisting an officer, will
be up in city court tomorrow aft
ernoon at 200, City Clerk Roy
Hamlin said tocay. = 'Ioi2o
f, The case has also been refefi'ed
to the Civil Service Board for IN
fyestigation regarding an alleged
beating Sands is said to have re-
ceived at the hands of city police.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-02
AQUARIUM And
GARDENS FIRST
CITY MANAGER BELIEVES
THESE MOST IMPORT
ANT NOW

City Manager David King said
today that he will take up first
the most obvious projects which
will make the city better for
tourists and residents alike.
King inclined to the Aquar-
ium and Botanical Gardens pIo-
jects as the most pressing at this
time. He said he had visited
the Gardens and found them a
mass of ,oyergroWn vegetation,