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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-07
Cabrera Talks
Before Rotary

Sebastian Cabrera. Jr., who is a
member of the Key West Rotary
Club, today reported on the in
ternational convention of the Ro-
tary Clubs at San Francisco, to
the members of the local club at
the MONDAY luncheon in ST,
Paul's Parish Hall.
Cabrera described the sights
of the convention, and told of
the entertainment of approx
mately $4,000 persons who APP
oeared in San Francisco for the
gathering. Later Cabrera went on
trip to the Canadian Rockies,
and told of a snowstorm there
late in June.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-07
Article On Everglades Park
In Saturday Evening Post
Should Interest Key Westers

A magazine article which
should captivate every Key West
er, will appear in The Saturday
Evening Post dated for next Sat-
urday, August 8. Entitled Papa
OF the Everglades National Park, "
the story is written by Theodore
Pratt, veteran writer on South
Florida.
AS many people no doubt
suspect. the article deals with
the 20-Year fight of a0.Year-
old Ernest Francis Coe of Mi
ami for what is now Uncle
+ Sans third largest national
park and the second largest in
the country. In some measure
The Citizen publisher shares
the accolades. having made
Everglades National Park
major objective Of its edi-
torisl policy for many years. al
though opposed by substantial
people.
Pratt tells of the threats which
Coe received on his life as hunt
ers resented his proposal to set
aside 5000 square miles as a pro-
tected area. Finally Coe won fol-
lowers. He persuaded hunters to
the view that they would have
more game, not less, since the
park would become so filled with
game that the animals would
overflow to adjoining hunting
areas.
Goes ventures into the 1000
600 acres of wilderness. most o.
it the only true tropics in the
country, are made withl only
a Stick as protection. despite 4
myriad of rattlesnakes, mecca
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-07
Lou Carbonell
Throws Hat In
Election Race
PROMISES STREAMLINED MU-
NICIPAL GOVERNMENT IF
HE AND HARDEN GET MA
JORITY: FACES COOPER

City Commissioner Louis Car
bonell today announced his cam
didacy for reelection in the No
Ivember 4 city election.
The decision of the junior
member of the CITY governing
body increases the number
of candidates in the race to
two. Commissioner Albert
Cooper announced his candi-
dacY several weeks ago.
Carbonell defeated William T.
Doughty, Naval Base personnel
official, last year in a special
election, called to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation
of Commissioner w. c. Sweet
ing. A. G. Roberts, plumber, also
was in the race until the last few
days when he withdrew.
Il will stand on the record
have made thus far" Carbonell,
popular restaurant man, said in
announcing that he will enter the
race. 81 have adhered to the
wishes of the people at all
times, with especial attention to
cutting down expenditures"
Carbonell's decision leaves
Commissioner Hunter Harden the
only commission member COM
ing up for election who has, not
announced his candidacy for re-
election. Mayor w. w. Demeritt
and Commissioner John Car
bonell have two years to run in
their term of office. Harden is out
of the city, but is expected to
announce his entry upon his re-
turn.
Csrbonell said he hoped
thst the voters will also elect
a man who will share the view
point Of Harden and himself
on city matters. IF we do get
a majority. he added. II
promise one of the most eff
cient and sfreamlined city
governments I'M Ftorids.. ~
Dubbed "the watchdog of the
treasury" by Mayor w. W.. De-
merritt, who has been his oppon-
ent on number of commission
votes on city problems. Carbonell
has stressed keeping the city
expenditures to a minimum con-
siStent with efficient municipal
operation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-07
Sailors Fined After
Leaving Accident
Involving 3 Cars

/ Steven ]. Bakor and Paul j.
Rregor, sailors from Boca Chica
Navy Air Station, were ar
raigned in Municipal Court this
afternoon on charges arising from
an accident at Fleming and Will
liam streets at 4:45 o'clock this
morning.
Bakor was charged with OPP
Grating car under the influence
of intoxicants, causing an acct
dent and leaving the scene of an
accident. .Bregor was charged
with driving under the influence
of intoxicants and leaving the
scene of an accident.
! Police said Bakor was driving
Il car containing Bregor,' Robert
A. Baum and Robert Smiley, al
so Boca Chica sailors, when it
crashed into a station wagon at
the Fleming and William street
corner. Officer Wilson Joliey was
called to the scene, but the sail
ors, with Bregor now driving,
had left.
: A trail of water caused by a
radiator leak, however, led Jolley
to the corner of .Grinnel and
Caroline streets, where he found
Officer Harry Lee Baker had
the sailors under arrest. Bakor
was released this morning on
$3.50 bond to the Shore Patrol,
and Bregor on 500 bond.
I Bskor and Bregor were each
sentenced to pay a $50 fine
by Municipal Judge Enrique
Esquinaldo after they pleaded
guilty to the charges.
! Also in court was Miss Ruth
| Goodspeed, who uses a station
wagon to scarry pupils to- and
from her school. Miss Good
speeds Nursery School. The sta
ton wagon is owned by Miss
(, Regime Guertin of 1913 Fleming
street. When struck by the Ply
mouth driven by Bakor and
owned by James Knowles, ANIL,
the station wagon was driven
into the rear of Buick owned
! by Richard Burford. Both cars
were parked in front of the Ply
THAN Hall-Nursery S h 90
building on Fleming street.
The station wagon received a
crumbled fender, broken front
and rear lights, smashed radiator
and gas tank. Miss Goodspeed
said she needs the car badly for
. her schools transportation. Bur-
ford said damage to his Buick,
which was showed Is to 80 feet,
amounted, to $125. The crash
awakened number of people in
the neighborhood.
A Navy officer told the court
that Bakor was an escaped priS-
oner at the time he took the car.
Knowles said the car was taken
without his permission. He said
he had no liability insurance.
Bakor, apparently i'll, slumped
into a chair during the arraign-
ment and told the Judge that he
would take care of the damage
costs.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-07
SmatherS To Give
Decision Tomorrow
On Governor Race
TALKS WITH L. CARLO.
NELL ON PHONE; To
VISIT HERE IN SEPT
AND SPEAK AT PARK

Rep. George Smathers of Mi
ami will announce tomorrow
whether or not NE will run for
governor in 1913. In a telephone
conversation with City Commits
sioner Louis Carbonell yesterday
afternoon, Smathers revealed
that he will issue a statement
Friday morning regarding his
proposed candidacy.
The 33-year-old Congressman
also told Carbonell that he will
visit Key West for three days
early in September. During his
stay here he will speak in Bay
view Park and explain his stand
on the controversial issues which
marked the recent session of Con-
greSS and on other matters OF
current interest.
Smathers will return to North
Carolina at once to visit his
1dtner, VINO is Ill.
Reported by Washington cor
respondents to have rolled up
distinguished record, especially
for a freshman congressman.
Smathers has been under con-
siderable pressure to run for gov
ernOr. While vacationing in
North Carolina he received so
/ many telephone calls and other
messages on the question that he
finally decided to fly to Miami
and make the decision which he
| will announce tomorrow.
Smathers is one of several
public figures prominently men
, toned as possible successors to
Gov. Willard F. Caldwell. Others
are Dan McCarty, 35-year-old
! ex-Army colonel. and ex-Spealler
of the State House of Represen-
tatives; Atty. Fuller Warren.
1886 candidate for governor and
Attorney General Tom Watson.
McCarty, South Florida citrus
grower, recently spoke here at
Junier Chamber of Commerce
installation dinner. At that time
he told The Citizen that if he
continues to receive the encour-
aging response which he had re-
ceived to that time, he would
probably be a candidate.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-07
Property Sales

Dolphin Company, Miami, sold
to Suzanne Dorm, Miami, prop
erty on Grassy Key for $1,000
according to a warranty deed fill
ed yesterday in the office of Cir
cult Court Clerk Ross c. Sawyer.
Josefa c. Dominguez sold to
Melvina D. Wallace, Duval street,
property near Duval and Olivia
streets, for nominal sum.
Key Farm Land Company, Mi
ami, sold to Mr.. and Mrs. John
A. MacRae, Rock Harbor, prop
erty on Key Largo, for a nomi-
nal sum.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-07

Where to Dine and Dance TONIGHT
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-07
Luubscher VIII
Talk To Lions

Harold A. Laubscher. manager
of the Key West Chamber Of
Commerce, will address the mem
bers of the Lions Club tonight
on the program and other actiV-
tiles of the Chamber.
He is also expected to de
scAbe the effort of Key West
merchants to promote greater
trade in Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-07
Watson's Fate
Up TO Jury By
Late Afternoon
GOVERNMENT HAD FIN.
ISHED IT'S CHARGE TO
FEDERAL COURT JURY
AT NOON

Indications were at noon today
that the fate of David Joseph
Watson, negro Navy cook, on
trial for murder of a white ship
mate, would rest with the Fed
eral Court jury by late this af-
tcrnoon.
Defense Attorney John G.. Saw
yer. Key West, had started his
argument in an effort to save
Watson from death in the kill
ing of Benjamin Leroy Hobbs at
noon today. The trial was to be
resumed at 2 p. m.
Sawyer began his defense ar
guments before the jury after
u. S. Attorney Herbert S. Phil
lips had concluded summing up
the governments case before the
jury. Phillips took only about ten
minutes 10 sum up the case.
After the other defense attor-
ney, A. c. Dressler, Miami,
argues before the jury, then Phil
lips would finally sum up for
the government. That concluded,
Federal Judge John w. Holland
would submit his charges to the
jury.
Phillips said that the govern
mcnt had proved beyond rea-
sonablc doubt that the Federal
Court had jurisdiction in the
case because Hobbs was killed
on the USS Stribling as it lay
moored TO a dock in the Navy
Base here. /.
1.-THE defendant, Watson, has
made a written statement in
which he admitted he had COM
mitted the crime of murder"
said Phillips TO the jury. There
Is no question, then, about the
crime having been committed by
Watson.
The only question that is be-
fore you Is the mental condition
Of Watson at the time he killed
Hobbs. II he knew right from
rong at the time he killed
young Hobbs, then he is guilty
of first degree murder. In other
words, his mind was not diseased
OF the time of the killing.
Watson knew he was going
10 kill Hobbs, for he said to
him: 4 know you. I'm going to
report you Then he struck Hobbs
on the head with a wrench. Next
he deliberatelM tied rope
around the sailors neck.
Then Watson left the scene,
but he came back. He found the
body still warm, so he choked
Hobbs. Then he committed an
immoral act upon Hobbs. There
Is no question of the guilt of this
man. nor of his mental condition
al the time he killed Hobbs"
Phillips told the jury that first
degree murder was premeditated
murder and then Watson had
prcmediated the killing.
Before Phillips began charging
the jury. the IA jurors were
taken from the room while Judge
Holland read to the lawyers pres
ent the charge he planned to
make to the jury at the con-
clusion of the case.
Judge Holland made several
deletions with reference to the
jurisdiction of Federal Court
from his charge to the jury in
the first trial of Watson here
last November.
Then the Judge read his charge
as il related to the insanity OF
the defendant. He explained as
he went along. Dressler, who had
rewon a retrial for watson on the
ground the judge had failed to
charge the jury at the first trial
(rnnt;o,,aJ On paoa TXenl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-07
Off On Cruise

USS Clamagore, a submarine,
will leave for St. Petersburg to-
morrow to spend the weekend
on recreation cruise for it's
crew. She is expected back on
Tuesday.
The Valley settler., 1947-07-24

VALLEY "a
Announces ITS OPENING
3d.. on
010nOAy 20, I947
The BOARD or DIRECTORS TAKE PLEASURE
IN STATING That 1Hf. BANK VIII BE
MANAGED BY JACK fMAzE FORMERLY WITH
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN ANCHORAGE
BANKING CONVICTIONS THROUGHOUT THE
TIE TERRITORY AND STATES
The BANK OPERATES UNDER a TERRITORIAL
CHARTER AND IS EXAMINED BY THE
TERRITORIAL BANKING BOARD.- TIE LAWS
GOVERNING The OPERATION Or HE RANK
ARE SET UP BX The TERRITORIAL BANKING
BCARO-A MtMe t#th1f TIE AMERICAN BANKERS
ASSOCIATIONS *=..
EMPLOYfES ARE 6ONDfD AND All CASH on
HAND IN THE BANK IS INSURED AGAINST
FIRE, BURGLARY ENTERTAINMENT ETC.
The BANKING hours VIII Be
WEEK DAYS Io:ooAM 10 I2:oo NOON
Eco EN-. TO. 500 Pm.
Evening star., 1947-02-27
icebreoker in Rendezvous
With Mount Olympus
Bv Lee Van Atto

Representing the Combined American Press.
ABOARD THE U. s. S. MOUNT
OLYMPUS IN THE ANTARCTIC,
Feb. a R.-The icebreaker Burton
Island made q rendezvous with the
u. s. s. Mount olympus today at
the northern edge Of the Ross ice
barrier after a record-breaking
three-day run through the great ice
mass.
The sturdy little ice smasher
emerged from the barrier early in
the day and saluted the awaiting
flagship. The two vessels edged be-
hind an ice wall that cut of the
choppy seas, and the transfer OF per-
sonnel to the Mount Olympus soon
followed.
The 200 veterans Of Little Amer
ica's air operations were happy to
leave the cramped quarters Of the
Burton Island for the more spacious
headquarters vessel.
No one regretted the unexpected
ease with which the little icebreaker
completed its passage through the
Ross barrier. During the three-day
passage, only q few areas were seen
where the ice had packed into i'm
penetrable masses.
The two vessels will sail tonight
for Wellington, New Zealand, where
all aboard are scheduled for shore
leave. The icebreaker Northwind is
expected to join the convoy along
the route.
Evening star., 1947-02-27
Exhibit of Presidents Portraits
By Cuban Artist Opens 7onight

From a centuries -old secret proc
ess OF leather work, handed down
by Arabs to their first sons, Cuban
artist has evolved an unusual por-
trait gallery of United States Pres
idents which will 60 on display at
the Pan American Union tonight.
Prof. Javier A. Montero of the
Polytechnical Institute Of Ceiba del
Aqua, Havana, learned the secret
while studying art in Spanish Mo-
rocco 20 years ago. His informant
was a grateful father, whose first
son the artist had saved from dying
Of a knife wound.
Combining sculpture and paint
ing with the Arab process, Prof.
Montero has produced lifelike three
dimensional portraits in. leather Of
the Presidents from Washington to
Truman, all neatly framed In ma
hogany.
George Washington's snowy jabot,
Abraham Lincoln's mole, Theodore
Roosevelt's mustache and other IA
Evening star., 1947-02-27
BY the Asseeiofed Rrsss

The State Department tried out
a livelier and more tuneful radio
program on Moscow and Leningrad
today in the hope that more Rus
slams would tune in "The Voice Of
America"
Revamped at the suggestion of
Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith,
today's one hour Russian broadcast
was arranged to include:
About 10 minutes Of news instead
Of the previous Is minutes; 10 min
utes of music with Jerome Kern
airs displacing Turkey in the
Straw a book review: 10 more
minutes Of popular music; news
headlines, and q technical feature
on current science.
: Assistant Secretary Of State Ben
ton directed the changes on the ad-
vice of the Ambassador and the EN-
bassy staff. news correspondents
and the scattered few Russian list
eners.
Mr.. Benton told reporters yester-
day that I'VE have q lot to learn"
and acknowledged that I'VE could
not have had much Of an audience
at first"
Evening star., 1947-02-27
Motion 10 0uash Arrest
In Knife-Carryinq Studied

The question Of whether a man
charged with carrying deadly wea-
pons was under technical" arrest
when a policeman told him to @step
outside a store where he was shop
ping viii be raised again next We'd
nesday in Municipal Court.
A motion to quash the arrest
Tuesday Of Vincent Matthew Harley,
a, colored. 1900 block OF Ninth
street NV, was submitted to the
court yesterday by Defense Counsel
Charles Schaeffer.
Mr.. Schaeffer claimed the arrest
was illegal because no misdemeanor
was committed before Police Pvt.
John A. Payne Of No. Is Precinct
made the technical" arrest. 1t also
was charged Pvt. Payne failed to
inform Harley Of his constitutional
Evening star., 1947-02-27

nous presidential features stand out
in relief.
It took Prof. Montero seven years
to complete the gallery, and he says
it is his last. 1t all began, Prof.
Montero explained yesterday, after
he read the lives of Lincoln and
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
~ 1T gave me the idea that this was
a land Of freedom" he said.
The artist, who has ready smile
and Latin American courtesy, is Wis
iting the United States on goodwill
tour.
The fourth-term Presidents por-
trait was the first he undertook. His
latest-and favorite, II he has one
is President Truman's.
Done entirely from pictures, the
work is extremely painstaking-a
slip Of the hammer and chisel on
the treated leather, and the whole
piece is ruined. The painting is done
in aniline, water colors and oils.
The showing here, which begins at
9 o'clock tonight, is to continue until
March Is.
Evening star., 1947-02-27
Henry
Continued From First Page.)

Arrears of pain, darkness and
cold"
(The first passage apparently
is paraphrased from "Asolando,"
a collection of poems published
on the day Browning died. The
other two appear in 'Prospice,"
out are not exact.)
The quoted passages express the
philosophy of all who have chal-
lenged the perilous Antarctic from
the beginning. It is especially true
of Shackleton's men, all Of whom
died in World War I within year
after they survived the narrowing
winter maroonment in the Ant
arctic.
Headed north through dense fog,
the ships are leaving Antarctic wa
ters after two months Of explora-
tions. These have radically changed
the map of the worlds nth largest
continent. Yet, the surface Of that
area is still little better known than
that of the planet Mars.
AS black Scott Island, lone sentry
at the Ross Sea gate, vanished In
the white mist. the air explorers
Evening star., 1947-02-27
BUDGET
Continued From First Pare.)

Of the support behind each figure.
For example, some Of the Sena-
tors who voted the $4,5O0, 900 ,0oo
level regarded It as the lesser OF
two evils. Likewise, on the "no"
side men with conflicting view
points found themselves standing
together. Some were registering
their opposition to any cut In
President Truman's estimates, 9th
|ers were voting mo" because they
favor the $1,000, ,00O, 900 reduction.
Until the budget ceiling is set
tied. uncertainty will continue as
to how much would be available
for tax reduction. Some members
Of Congress 60 further, and insist
that there viii be no way of telling
what will be available either for tax
or debt reduction until all Of the
separate appropriation bills have
passed.
Chairman Knutson Of the House
Ways and Means Committee said
any budget cut below $6,00O, ,0O0, 600
would not leave room for the 20 per
cent across aboard income tax
cut he has been advocating.
A $4,500,0 900 slash would allow
only 10 per cent cut, the Minne-
sotan contended, adding that ''the
House will never accept" that figure.
Senate Vote on Ceiling.
Here is the vote by which the
Senate adopted the $4,500 900 900
budget ceiling.
Evening star., 1947-02-27
|Stote Department Trying Out
|LiveIier Broadcast to Russia

He added, however, that better re-
ception was promised by a new short
wave frequency to be used for the
first time today and by other tech
nical changes to be made next
month.
Gen. Smith advised that the Rus
slams prefer current popular Amer
ican songs-"anything but the most
extreme forms of jazz"-to folk
songs Of the Turkey in the Straw
type"
Referring to the first broadcast
the Ambassador informed the de-
partment:
"At the end of the first IS min
utes you played Night and Day.
Everybody remarked that was what
they had been waiting for"
Gen. Smith made this criticism
Of early news broadcasts:
Talk on fertilizer dull and life-
less.
Item about Byron Price, war
time censor, being made United
Nations deputy secretary, failed to
explain censorship has been abol-
ished in the United States.
Russians have keen appetite for
news, but want background"
Evening star., 1947-02-27
C~I()
Continued From First Page.)sa

- Z
legislative effort to stack the cards
against workers that can only re-
suit in industrial chaos"
He said powerful employer in
terests" are pressing for enactment
Of labor legislation which would
drastically weaken labor's bargain
ing power and materially increase
the already disproportionate powe.
Of industry"
The union official declared that
ever since workers started forming
industrial unions employers have
cried Communist at them," adding:
1.-THE attacks of this sort against
the United Electrical Workers have
been particularly heavy because the
UEW has been particularly effective
In winning better wages for the
workers of the industry"
The House Labor Committee to-
day heard Atwood r. Wynn, head
of the Confederated Unions Of
America, group of independent
labor organizations, urge Congress
to enact laws that will tend to
dispense with the discrimination
which has been shown to independ-
ent laboring people and provide pro-
lection of such independent organ
izations from the attacks OF the
major labor organizatinos."
Evening star., 1947-02-27
Labor
CONTINUED From First Page.)

direction Of Committee Chairman
Hartley, who returned the wave.
Later, during an unusually heated
exchange between Representative
and Mr.. Green, MIR. Hartley assured
his audience that "Da Preem" was
not there ''to preserve order"
The mysterious handout stated
that it was from the "ofiice of the
chairman" and contained "high-
lights" Of Mr.. Green's testimony
before the luncheon recess. The
committee attache who distributed
the copies returned later to make
sure all reporters had the helpful
little document.
When reporters called for more
and more copies, the entire supply
mysteriously disappeared. When
asked the origin Of the release, the
distributor said to see the clerk. The
latter denied knowledge Of it, and
Chairman Hartley did likewise.
Some one suggested maybe Mr..
Hoffman got 1t out since 1t de-
scribed his examination Of Mr..
Green. He denied it. After much
among committee men,
bers, Mr.. Hartley ordered the hand
out Withdrawn.
"I'l bet you a $40 sack Of peanuts"
said Mr.. Hoffman, 'the committee
stan put 1t out. III ask that they
be put under oath and we'll see
whether they did or not"
Mr.. Hartley limited that commit
tee members were in on the mystery
Of the release but he did not identify
them.
House Approves Subpoenas.
I'VE have members trying to help
out on one thing or another and
trying to get some publicity" he
said. IT never saw this, though 1t
is supposed to come from my Of
fee"
Meanwhile the House empowered
its Labor Committee to use sub
poenas to compel the appearance
Of witnesses In an investigation Of
alleged labor racketeering."
The action. was taken on vote
of 34S to 40 over protests Of Rep
resentative Marcantonio, American
Labor, Of New York that the In
curry is another labor busting,
strike busting movement" aimed at
smashing "the rights Of labor"
Chairman Hartley replied that
representatives Of labor will be given
full opportunity to be heard.