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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-06-05
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Stearn1hip Ozark a the Clyte-
Mallory Line, arrived II port
This morning with large ship
ments d freight for Key Nea.
ateanship Medina q the same
Inc i due Monday from oatgeol
ten with freight fer Key VISIT.
Governor Cone said today, IS
Ithe legislature went into is last
week far this session. that he
| was much cOAcerAed over the
lteAMSe Of the legialat0Fs - pro-
wide revenue for All Of their an
preparations.
A letter was read last nieht
| NJ . meeting Of County Cemmis-
Ipioners, in which Berlin Fe5tpn
| eeked for q franchise to provide
Inn electric light system at IN
Der MatecuInhe. Action on the
lteauest was deferred.
i County Judge Raymond h.
Lard and family left this morn
|ina for . short stay IN Miami.
|Dsfase returning home, they In
TEND TO stop at several Of the
keys.
Miss Lnis Malone and Miss
Edith Sands left this morning Tor
Miami to visit relatives ami
friends.
Robert n. Givens, formerly of
EKey West, now Of Mimi. arrived
yesterday to visit relatives and
friends. s,sa
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-06-05

Miss Lois Malone and Miss
Edith Sands left this morning fol
Miami to visit relatives al,d
friends.
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Capt. Houser In Key West 10
Take Command OF Naval Base;
To Occupy Presidents House

President Truman is coming here
soon to resume the visit he post
poned in March. President Tru-
man has not let it be known when
he will come back here, although
he made a promise to- return to
Key West upon leaving the city
on his way back to Washington
following his last vacation here.
Capt. Houser's quarters have
been aired and a full organization
has been installed to run the
building.
Monroe county commission ex-
pressed a desire to see the new
commander of Key West Naval
Base. The members of the COM
mission want to pay their respects
to Capt. Houser and at the same
time to ask for the Nays per-
mission to use a road on Boca
Chica Field to reach the beach on
the Atlantic side of the key. 1t
would be fine picnic spot, ac-
cording to Commissioner Gerald
Saunders, who initiated the move
to have the Navy open the road.
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PRESIDENT EXPRESSED
NO TIME FOR HIS RE.
TURN HERE TO SPEND
VACATION
r EXPRE.S!SEDA.

Capt. G.. A. Houser, USN. now
commander of Key West Naval
Base, arrived in Key West at noon
today from Washington to- take
charge of the base.
He was met at the bus station
Iby Capt. Henry Cooper, USN,
who was commander of the Key
West Naval Base until relieved
by Capt. Houser, and who is still
commander of the Naval Air Sta
ton. Capt. Cooper has held both
positions and desired to retire as
commander of the entire Naval
Base. Capt. Willard Saunders,
commander of Key West Subma-
rine Base, also was present.
Capt. Houser, who was not &C
jcompanied by his family, will. for
a time, live in ALB quarters at the
Submarine Base. AS other ar
arrangements are made for him
here, Capt. Houser will move
elsewhere, because the ALB quar-
trs. the old commandants home
at the base, have been assigned
for the use of President Truman.
The fact that Capt. Houser will
be housed only for short while
lin the commandments quarters
does not necessarily mean that
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Havana OK'S Naming
Plaza For Key West;
Ceremony Held Soon
Troop s. Awards.
Made; To Leave
For Camp Sunday

In its last meeting prior to its
departure tomorrow morning for
its annual encampment at Snap
per Creek in South Miami. Troop
So, Boy Scouts of America, wit
messed awards made to its
scoutmaster, Ernest J. Avila, and
assistant scoutmaster, Arthur
Boza, Jr.
Avila received a 10-year serv-
ice star from Assistant Scout
Commissioner Archie r. Potter.
Boza was given a toilet articles
kit. He will enter the Army
shortly. Boza, highest ranking
Scout in Monroe county, is an
Eagle Scout, holding % merit
badges.
Raoul Perez, member of the
troop five years, was named as
sistant scoutmaster to succeed
Boza. In making the presentation
to Boza, Avila reminded the
Scouts that "you get out of Scout
ing what you put into it," and
recalled his Scout days when he
aspired to become a scoutmaster
All Scouts going to Snapper
Creek are due to be at the Flor
ida Greyhounds Bus station at
10:45' a. m, with baggage. Both
Avila and Potter will accompany
the Scouts during their cne-week
camping trip.
Upon its return from Snapper
! Creek, the troop will work or
the Monroe County camp at~Wesi
Summerland Key.
SCOUT 4 milking the trip. aEsl
Tony Barrera, Jose Fernandez
Robert Fernandez, Al Goehring
Jose : Hernhndez, Almond Ra,
mirez, Tohyf Ramirez Millard
Solomon, Charles Roberts, Mario
Vidal, Aurelio Villate, Emmanuel
Lopez and Ralph Henriquez.
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PLANS FOR DISTRICT z
BOARD MEETING OF
STATE FEDERATION
To DE DISCUSSED

Time Is Life" descriptive
film aimed 10 enIighten the pub
Iic o. the fact that the dread
Cancer Disease can be arrested
n property recognized and treat
ed In It's earliest stages. will be
shown I'm cooperation with the
drive to Conquer Cancer" TO
members Of the Key West Bust
ness and Professional Women's
Club nj their regular monthly
meeting Wednesday evening,
June IN. st the Woman's Club
tooms on Duval street.
Arrangements for the showing
ri the film were made last night
"a q meeting OF the board of di-
rectors. held at the home of Mrs.
Elyoise Van Coidtsnoven, presi-
dent az the organization.
Other business included discus
sion ri plans for the District z
hoard meeting Of the state fed
cratlon which will beheld in
Miami Beach on August 2 and 3.
The Key West group has been
invited 90 act as hostesses for
the Sunday morning breakfast
ON August 3. and plans were for
niuisted 10 provide table decora-
tions and favors in a motif per-
tinent 10 our Island City.
Letter From Beard hssd
A letter from the state board,
read nj the meeting, regretfully
declined the invitation of the
local group to conduct the mid
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-06-14
Australia Wants
Japan's Textiles

CANBERRA-(AP) -- Austria
las many PREPARATIONS claims
on Japan likely will be for tex
tiles, possibly textile machinery
and whaling vessels.
An Australian textile mission IL
already in Japan.
A government spokesman told
correspondents that Australia was
not likely to seek any Japanese
naval or merchant ships because
Australian experts believed they
would be more of liability than
an asset. The Australian Govern.
ments attitude toward repsra.
tons, he said, was designed ,o
avoid endangerine Jspan's eco
nomic stability. and 90 see that
claims do not make her burden
to the United Nations.
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deficit for 1947 is 400 billion
franc, or $4,000, 100000.
Andre Morice, Radical-So-
cialist member of the National
Assembly, estimates his own def
icit at 286,600 francs. or $1,000.
"And it's no more easy to
stretch a franc than a dollar"
complains Morice, who repre-
sents the department of Loire
Inferieure, whose capital is the
port city of Mates, with 100000
population.
Time-consuming legislative
duties forced Morice to give up
his construction business, but he
holds on to a job as one of the
directors of the Nantes daily
newspaper Populaire de rOuest
Fin order to make ends meet"
The, 46-year-old specialist in
social security and labor legisla-
ton has six children, ranging
from eight to 20 years old.
His salary as deputy is 100000
francs yearly. or $4,166, and he
gets no travelling allowances and
other extras such as an Ameri-
can legislators receives. Social
security family allowances. how
ever, do give him an extra 5000
francs monthly.
with this, l have about a.
600 francs month, which is not
sufficient for a person with a
large family who seriously de-
sires to fulfill his duties as a
deputy" Morice says.
Given his deputy salary and
the family allowance, he is still
shy $199 every month.
Morice is in Paris from Tues
day to Saturday, and at Nantes
over the weekend until Monday
nights. His monthly budget in
cludes rent for a Paris apart
! ment and his Nantes residence
food in Paris Cat a specially
priced legislative restauranD
food for his family in Nantes
family expenses such as clothes
| extras such as gasoline and din
ners for visiting constituents
and his secretary to answer mail
1t totals $685. per month.
'It's only because have adj
ditional income from the news
paper that I can afford a sec
retary," he says. Most of our
Continued ian Page Four,
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BP.W. To Be Hostess Group
AT District Event Breakfast;
To See Cancer Film Here

year state board meeting in Key
West, explaining that it is not
customary for the state fedora
ton to conduct two statewide
meetings in the same district
within a fiscal year. The Key
West bid for a meeting in District
z will be accepted at a la ter
date. it was stated. The mid-year
board meeting will be held in
Fort Pierce on August 9th and
10th and most cordial invitation
for a large Key West delegation
was extended the local club.
A very thoughtful "thank you"
card was received from four
members of the Lake Worth
chapter who attended the May
session, and was read to board
members by Mrs. Van Goidts-
noven.
This was the first meeting of
the newly appointed board of
directors following the installa-
ton of officers at the May meet
ing.
Board Membership Given
The board consists of Mrs. Van
Goidtsnoven, president; Mrs.
Mary L. Graham, first vice pres
ident; Mrs. Wilhelmina Harvey,
second vice president; Mrs. Effie
Pauls, third vice president; Mrs.
Claire Arlan, recording secre-
tary: Mrs. Grace Crosby, CORES
ponding secretary; Miss Marie
Hartel, treasurer.
Newly appointed standing
committees for the ensuing year:
Mrs. Rose Miller, education
and vacations; Mrs. Gladys Muhl-
berg, finance: Mrs. Frances Ed
wards, health and safety; Mrs.
Angela Caro-, international rela-
tons; Miss Gertrude Laubscher,
legislation; Mrs. Mary L. Ora
ram. membership; Mrs. Gertrude
L. Sawyer, news service; Mrs.
Wilhelmina G. Harvey; Mrs.
Vernel Hutchinson, public affairs;
Mrs. Blanche Miller, parliament
tartan, and Mrs. Kathryn Nc
Manus, radio.
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City Council Unanimously Approves
Bill Changing San Francisco
Square To Plaza de Key West
IAYOR CASTELl.ANOs
SIGNS MEASURE, OF.
FICIALS HERE To Me-
INVITED TO EVENT
] MAYOB

The Cuban Consulate announc-
ed today that Mayor cassellanos
of Havana has signed a resolu-
ton unanimously passed by IN.
City Council Of Havana changing
the name of old San Frsnciscc
Est. Francis) Square In the cuh@a
capital, to Plaza Key West
The official ceremony win he
held in the near future. Mayor
w. w. Demeritt and other city
officials will be invited by Mayor
Castellanos 10 attend the event
and the Women's Club and other
organizations here viii also be en-.
tended invitations.
Officials here were highly
pleased at the almost unprccesient-
ed action Of a foreign govern
ment so honoring an American
city. The action was taken 'ss a
tribute of gratitude" the Cuban
Consul said. "to the people Of this
town. who helped the Cuban "a.
triots during their struggle for
the freedom Of their country
The resolution reads thnt ~
purpose Is 10 render srasitud~
of the City Of Havana ~ IRE
people and government II K~v
eNfest for IL hcpor ,whieh sthss
have rendered 10 Cuba and jose
Marti." Cuban martyr and revo-
Flntionist who found haven In Ksy
West prior to the overthrow of
the Spanish.
\ The news was released
through Raoul Alpixar Pogo. at
tache to the Cuban Consulate.
I Members Of the Havana City
Council approving the resolution
were Miguel A. Cisneros. Ben,te
Fclgueras, Felix Avon. Marquette.
Hechevarria. Gutierrez Mscun.
Diaz. Cossio, Pelaez. Nibot, Val
divieSo. Alvarez. Gomez. Her
nandez and Escalante.
The original suggestion of Ha-
vana officials TO name q plaza at
ter Key West arose during Jose
Marti Week last April when KEY
West conducted celebration
honoring the famous liberator.
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Don't Fawn Over
K \ X 4
Better To Leave 1t Alone
X X 4 4
Fawn Just For Fun

SACRAMENTO.-(AP).-Yes, a
spotted flaws is cute and irresist-
ible, but just the same don't take
one home if you find it alone.
The California state fish and
game division warns soft-hearted
hunters that the fawn is not lost
or abandoned. Its mother is
around somewhere and knows
her business.
Besides, to take or possess a
spotted fawn in this state hap
pens to be illegal, and you could
wind up paying $50 fine. or
doing Is days in Jail, or both.
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lAirbor'ne Invasion
OfGa1iadian Geese

SUSANV1LLE, Calf. -(AR).--
NofpdYEis kicking about an air.
borne Invasion, that has takes
place near here. ,.
j More. than 100 Canadian hotk.
.ers-lAfge geese--have settled
along Honey Lake in Lassen
County and are busy raising
'farhifss. i}a'F t..Ess !
Some nests examined by game
wardens have as many as ID
eggs each.
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Sheriff Returns
From Convention

Sheriff Berlin A. Sawyer re-
turned last night from st. Peters
burg. where he attended the
summer meeting of the Florida
ssheriffs Association.
Sawyer. who took his chair as
director Of the Association. wit
messed the seating Of Eric Little
field. DeLand sheriff. as presi-
dent Of the organization to re-
iieve Fred Quednau. sheriff OF
Punta Gorda.
There was no business of gen.
eral public interest before the
ronvousion. Sawyer -gaports. -..S,
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Patent Granted
Grover thurman
OF Key West

tExo@ Woeoe09eoo CoRpe0Do00onts
Wev west Cntoneab
WASHINGTON. June 14.-Gro-
yer G. Truman, Key West, was
granted one Of the AS patents
ISSUED this week by the United
States Patent Office.
Truman Is the inventor of an
interviewing single. which patent
examiners ruled was different in
two respects from anything sim
liar ever previously patented or
known.
The Key West inventor filed
patent application May II. l943,
and has not notified the patent
office III any assignment Of patent
rights I'm the invention.
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Keys May Get
Supply
Running Water
KIRcHHErNER AND RAMSEY
GO TO WASHINGTON TO
CONFER WITH ADMIRAL
MANNING

Residents of Monroe county
may be granted a larger volume
Of water by the Florida X e.y $
Aqueduct Commission. it appears
from letter received by j. Otto
Kirchheiner, chairman of the
commission, and Ernest A. Ram
sey, general manager, from Rear
Admiral Manning. chief of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Kirchheiner and Ramsey lei
this mroning for Washington to
confer with Admiral Manning.
Kirchheiner was accompanied
by Mrs. Kirchheiner.'
THE pipe line from the main
land to Key West was built by
the Navy Department" Kirch-
heiner said, land one-third of
the original cost was paid for by
the commission, which received
one-third and the Navy two
thirds of the water. Since the
end of hostilities, the Navy re-
quirements of water have decreas-
ed and the needs of the commits
sion have greatly increased.
81 feel that the conference with
Admiral Manning should result in
a division of the water supply
that will put the commission in
a position to meet the further
demand of the civilian popula.
ton of the Florida Keys"
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relatives the right TO Visit a pr1SOl
diet and limits the water he can
have"
DR.. Mudd, his 18-year-old
daughter, Betty, sons, Joseph
Francis, II, and Richard D., Jr.,
is, and cousin, Thomas, returned
at 4 p. m, after an overnight trip
to the isolated fortress aboard
the National Park Service cut
ter operated by Capt. Jack De-
Weese. DR.. Mudd said he could
not speak too highly of the hos
pitality of Russell A. Gibbs, care
taker; Mrs. Gibbs, Historical
Aide and Mrs. Harry D. Good
son and Capt. and Mrs. DeWeese.
Describing the massive fortress
as unbelievable, the most col
losal thing in America" DR..
Mudd said it is difficult to imag-
inc how it was ever built. 1T is
a remarkably unique National
Monument" he continued, land
should be kept as SUCH" He urged
Key West and the Florida His
torical Society to ask Congress
to appropriate $4,000 per year
for five years to place the fort
in suitable condition as a monu-
ment. ut is truly a monument to
American engineering" he con-
Guided.
TO youthful Betty Mudd. the
! fort was positively fascinat-
ing" She and her brothers, she
said, were amazed to see the
lonely island where their great
grandfather was imprisoned
DIR. Mudd said he found md
traclls ns q III to s BIZ
gress some years ago. 1t was to
have been erected either at
Ford's Theatre where Lincoln
was shot, at the Bryantown
Md, home of his. grandfather,
now owned by another grandson,
or at the prison.
The Michigan physician visit
ed the dark cells where his
grandfather had been imprisoned
and peered through the narrow
Sits which served as windows
when his grandfather, prisoner
of Shark Island" had looked out
over the blue expanse of the Gulf
81 years ago. He said the sand
floor on which his grandfather
had lain was now covered with
concrete.
DR.. Mudd was especially
curious to know where the hos
pital used by his grandfather
and DR.. D. w. Whitehurst of Key
West during the yellow fever
epidemic in the fort had been.
He said he found no trace of a
hospital, a disconcerting discov-
cry to a physician and grandson
of the famed prisoner. DR.. Mudd
concluded that the corridors
must have been used for hospital
purposes. He recalled that it was
his grandfather's heroism during
the epidemic which eventually
won his release.
DR.. Mudd said he had hoped to
find some traces of his grand
fathers carving at Fort Jeffer-
son, but every piece of wood
there has vanished. He said he
was fascinated with water col
lecting filters through the cora
roofs which in turn deposit rain
water in cisterns.
Tortugas, inhabited only by the
Cibbses. Goodsons, DeWeeses, a
three-year-old son of the Gibbses
and multitudes of terms, at thi:
time of year, is now supplied
| with water by boat, DR.. Nude
| said. A boatload of $500 gallons
arrived few days before hi:
| visit.
The Mudds left late yesterday
for Miami on their return trip
to Saginaw. They expected to stor
at the old family home in Mary.
land, where. DR.. Samuel Mudd
| set the broken leg of John Wilkes
Booth, murderer of Lincoln, and
| for which DIR. Mudd was sen.
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BALTIMORE, Md. - As an II.
legged house burglar was being
led from the courtroom. a com.
planning witness thought the cos.
he was wearing looked familiar.
Police recovered the coat 49, N
was her husbands.
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Mudd Convinced Tortugas
| Prison, Where Grandfather
Was Jailed, Was The Worst
BY JOHN r. voSBUHGH
City Editor Of tho Key West Citizen

After spending night at Fort jefferson Dry Tortugas
his grandfather wears
of life sentence for alegedy consping in the
President Lincoln Dr. Richard Mudd Saginaw Mich
yesterday that his grandfather had
ably the worst of all prisons
whoever concocted the idea of making prison
must have been insane he declared Hardly any prison
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FIRST PILSENER BEER
COMING TO u. 81, SINCE
BEFORE WORLDsWAR'H

PILSEN. - (AP). - The first
shipmen of Pilsener beer since
before the warts beng sent to the
United States from this famous
bohemian brewery town. III
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Typical La,cnsaker:
Paris ri Deputy
Has Deficits
AstBig Worry
BY ROBERT c. WILSON

AP Newsfeotures
DARIS.-As with most lawmak-
l ers, a French deputy's main
worry is budget deficits-his gov
'ernment's and his own.
Frances estimated national
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Where To Dine and Dance Tonight
Evening star., 1947-04-12
By Constantine Brown
stor Foreign Affairs Arslyss.

ATHENS tBy Mall How long
the monarchy viii continue to rule
Greece is q question which none
ventures to answer.
King George II tnow succeeded
by his brother, Paul u was not
imposed on the Greek people by
any trick of the monarclaists or, as
is sometimes asserted abroad, by
foreign bayonets.
When this plebiscite was held there
were 1900 900 eligible voters women
have not yet received the suffrage1.
OF this number 1.700, 900 or 81 per
cent went to the polls OF these
/, las, 600 -6s.3 per cent-favored the
monarchy.
Communists Opposed King. $
The strongly organized and we'll
financed Communist Party voted
soiidly against the soyereign's return.
After restoration Of the monarchy
In Athens-which King George was
compelled to abandon when the
Germans occupied the country
some changes were made in the
government and more are expected
at intervals.
Greece, a country of 7,000, 900
inhabitants, has no less than %
leading political parties. To this
must be added at least another 20
which are described as political
groups rather than organized parties
They all have their special remedies
for Greece's troubles and these range