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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28
Key West In
Days Gone By
i; IA TAKEN FHol1 FILES
OF TIE CITIZEN OF
APRIL Is. 1887

Senator Arthur Gomez intro
duced a bill in the senate today
that provides for a salary Of
$4,000 for the county assessor and
a like sum for the tax collector.
Should fees in either office fall
short of that amount, the county
commissioners are directed to
make up the difference. Other
bills fix the salary of the county
judge at $4,000, with $1,000 ex-
'penses, and of the clerk Of the
criminal court at $l25 monthly.
Mrs. Eliza Hinde, who had
been visiting her son and daugh-
ter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Huey
Hinde, returned yesterday to
Miami.
Miss Gerry Knowles is leading
in the contest for May Day
Queen, which is being conducted
by the Island City Young Peo-
pies Union.
Representative Bernie c. Papy,
who is attending the legislature
now in session in Tallahassee,
has written to several Key West
friends, suggesting that they re-
quest ]. Mark Wilcox, represen-
tative in congress from this dis
trict, that he assist in obtaining
for Key West some projects that
the federal government has in
view for the state of Florida.
Arthur Sawyer Post of the
American Legion will hold a
meeting tonight to name dele
gates to the Legion's state con-
vention to be held in Lakeland in
May.
]. r. Showers, head of the
Showers Music Company, who
left Sunday afternoon on a bust
ness trip in Miami, returned. this
morning.
Today The Citizen says in AM
editorial paragraph:
Clean Up and Paint Up may
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28

q Today the house, on motion of
Representative Papy, killed 4 bill
that would have fixed the salary
of the Monroe county solicitor.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28

A wedding dance will be
held Friday evening at the Cuban
Club house.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28

Miss Gerry Knowles is leading
in the contest for May Day
Queen, which is being conducted
by the Island City Young Peo-
pies Union.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28

7 Today The Citizen says in an
editorial paragraph:
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28

Mrs. Simon P. Kemp left for
Miami this morning to visit rela-
tives and friends.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28

Today The Citizen says in an.
editorial paragraph:
Clean Up and Paint Up may
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28

Mrs. Eliza IHinde, who had
been visiting her son and daugh-
ter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Huey
Hinde, returned yesterday to
Miami.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28

The Key West Realty Company
has sold the land, known as the
biological station at the head of
the island, to Julian J. Marks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28

L. P. Artman, Jr., left for Mi
ami this morning for a stay of
several days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28

Correct this sentence: Lets
not stop; it's only a dog fight"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28

Steamship Cuba arrived from
Havana yesterday afternoon with
80 passengers for Key West.
Twenty-six other passengers
were bound for Tampa.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-28
APRIL 20. 1887

-oOo
APRIL 20. 1887
q Today the house, on motion of
Representative Papy, killed 4 bill
that would have fixed the salary
of the Monroe county solicitor. 4
Three contracting firms that
are constructing units of the Ov-
erseas Highway bridges filed re-
QUESTIONS today with WPA for
more workers.
Former Key Westers, now re-
siding in Miami, will hold get
together party in Miami Friday
night. j. Waldo Leon is chairman
of the committee. :.
Joseph Richardson has been re-
elected as Master Counsellor of
Robert J. Perry Chapter, Order
OF DeMolay. 49,
The Key West Realty Company
has sold the land, known as the
biological station at the head of
the island, to Julian j. Marks.
Steamship Cuba arrived from
Havana yesterday afternoon with
80 passengers for Key West.
Twenty-six other passengers
were bound for Tampa.
L. P. Artman, Jr., left for Mi
ami this morning for stay of
several days.
Mrs. Simon P. Kemp left for
Miami this morning to visit rela-
tives and friends.
A wedding dance will be
held Friday evening at the Cuban !
Club house.
Today The Citizen says in an |
editorial paragraph:
Correct this sentence: Let's /
not stop; it's only a dog fight"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
Along The Cape Fear

mington in the spring of 1859.
Archibald Henderson in his in
PRODUCTION to "The Prince Of
Parthia," says that a conspicuous
instance of the neglect OF our
native drama is afforded in
"The Prince Of Parthia" publish
ed more than a century and a
half ago.
Although there was no scarcity
biographical and encyclopedia re-
ferences to Thomas Godfrey, no
where was significance attached
to the fact that this noteworthy
beginning of American drama
was made in Wilmington. It was
here the first American tragedy
was completed and from Will
mington the manuscript of 1.-THE
Prince Of Parthia" was dis
patched to Philadelphia, God
frey's native city for its first
production. The Philadelphia
production of the native tragedy
was the first native epic Of the
theater to be produced on the
American stage, Henderson
points out, and ironically adds
that it is in Wilmington where
Godfrey sleeps unsung in an
unmarked grave"
Since Henderson wrote his
complaint, the North Carolina
Society of the Colonial Danes
of America have erected a gran
lite monument in the corner OF
St. James graveyard, where God,
frey is buried.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
FORMER RECORDER
WILL SERVE TERM
Joe Dawson Loses Appeal
From Sentence Before
Supreme Court

RALEIGH, Oct. 2e-{P)-1oe
Dawson, former judge of the
Kinston Recorders court, must
serve a three to five-year prison
sentence for involuntary man
slaughter, the Supreme Court
ruled today.
The court found no error in
Dawson's conviction in Lenoir
Superior court last April. The
trial grew out of an automobile
accident near Kinston on Oct.
10, 1916 in which Robert Bruce
johnson, Navy chief petty offic-
er was killed and his wife was
seriously injured.
In the case, the court overruled
contentious by defense attorneys
that Judge @. K. Nimocks had
erred in his charge to the jury
and in admitting evidence that
Dawson had been drinking at
the time his car collided with
Johnson's machine.
"The states evidence tends to
show that the defendant had
been drinking prior to the time
of the collision, and was drunk
at the time of the collision and
for some time thereafter"
Wrote Associate Justice E. B.
Denny.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
UNITED STATES DENIES INVOLVEMENT"
IN ALLEGED R0MAN|AN CONSPIRACY;
SCREEN WRITERS DEFY COMMITTEE
Contempt Charges
Feature Hearing
Chairman Thomas Prom.
ises Real Fire Works
Are Due Today

WASHINGTON, Oct. 90
(UP)- Four more prominent
Hollywood movie-makers defled
the House Unamerican activities
cimmittee today and were charg-
ed with contempt of Congress
for refusing to say whether they
are or had been Communists.
That raised to eight the num-
Der of movieland luminaries who
have chosen to risk Jail rather
than divulge their political al
legiance.
Today's reluctant witnesses
were Writer Samuel Ornitz, Di-
rectors Herbert J.. Biberman and
Edward Dmytcyk, and Writer
producer Adrian Scott.
The Congressional CED-hun-
tiers wasted no time in. citing
them for contempt and in pro-
ducing Communist party men,
bership cards alleged to have
been issued to each.
Only two of six witnesses cal
led at today's hearing proved
willing to talk about Hollywood
Communism and their own poll
teal beliefs.
President Emmett Lavery of
the Screen Writers Guild, who
was listed by the committee as
one of the hostile" witnesses,
refuted any possible suspicion
that he was connected in any
way with the Communist party.
He said he was a Democrat and
opposed to Communism, but
didn't like the tactics employed
by the committee in its investi-
cation.
Equally willing to talk was
Dore Schary, RKC executive in
charge of production. who also
registered his opposition to Com
munism but %scoffed at the idea
that the Reds h, We gained a
major foothold in Hollywood.
Communist efforts "to domi-
nate any organization or guild
Tin Hollywood) have been de-
feated," he said.
See CONTEMPT On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
'BLITHE SPIRIT
CAPTURES CROWD
ITALIAN Players Handle
Coward Comedy In Fault
less Manner

The current ITALIAN Associa-
ton season was opened last night
in the New Hanover High School
auditorium with Noel Coward's
"Blithe Spirit" before the larg-
est audience that the Thalians
have had in many a moon.
The play reading committee
who selected this comedy hand
ed the Thalians a decidedly diff
ficult assignment from every
point of v~iew-acting, lighting eff
fects, special effects and lots of
other things of the theatre. These
difficulties seemed but to stimu-
late them, as all credit must be
given for last nights perform
ance. This credit has to be spread
around all the way from the di-
rectors on down the line.
The Association was most
fortunate in having for the title
role, Ruth Caplan, whose inter-
probation of the behaviour of a
disembodied spirit was splendid
in every detail, and whose diction
was most refreshingly clear and
vivid. How she managed to glide
silently and gracefully around
the stage like quicksilver is her
secret, but it was the audiences
delight last night. Her grey cos-
tune and makeup lent verisimili-
tude that was uncanny and eery.
Aldyth Carroll and Robert Red
mayne as Mr.. and Mrs. Condo
mine, made a convincing couple
of married folk who spoke their
minds in no uncertain fashion.
They were keenly alert to Mr..
towards lines, and handled them
intelligently. Frances Edmonson
and Clifford J. Watts as DR.. and
Mrs. Bradman added clear and
resonant voices to their acting
abilities, with the result that they
gave sterling performances.
Difficult Role
Elizabeth Pearsall had a diff
cult role entrusted to her care in
the character of Madame Arcati,
See BLITHE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
ENGINEER BLAMED
FOR SHIP BLAST
Death OF 10 Persons Laid
To Negligence OF Island
Queen Officer

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 29-(P- The
explosion and destruction by fire
of the excursion steamer Island
Queen at Pittsburgh on Sept.
9, when 10 persons died, was at.
tributed to negligence on the
part of the chief engineer, the
St. Louis Coast Guard office dis
closed today in releasing the
report of Capt. Ross Willoh, St.
Louis, marine inspector and heao
of the investigating board.
The Coast Guard said Capt
Willoh's investigation, held in
Pittsburgh the day after the dis
aster, disclosed that Chief En-
gineer Fred Dickow of Cincin-
natl, who was one of the victims,
was welding a loose deck STAN
chion on a metal brace running
from deck to ceiling, in the vi
cinity of fuel oil bunkers con-
tanning approximately $4,000 gal
Ions of fuel oil.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
Aid Program
Nearly Ready
Lovett Expects Marshall
Plan Can Be Submitted
In Ten Days

WASHINGTON. Oct. 29-UD-
the Marshall plan for Europe
an recovery will be ready for
presentation to Congress within
10 days, and will include pro-
posals for outright gifts as well
as loans to needy countries. it
was disclosed officially today.
Undersecretary Of State Rob-
RI A. Lovett told a news con-
terence that administration
leaders will reach final deci-
sions next week on a number
of still-unsolved questions, in
Guiding:
/. The amount # money Con-
gress will be asked to appropri-
ate. and how it should be di-
vided between repayable loans
and direct grants-in-aid.
2. Whether foreign aid should
be handled by an existing gov
eminent department, or a new
agency created especially for
the purpose.
Marshall In Charge
He said that Secretary of
State George c. Marshall is re-
turning to the capital tonight,
after six weeks OF the United
Nations Assembly in New York,
to take personal charge of the
conferences which will climax
months of preparation.
Borrowing a phrase from col
legiate fraternity-hazing, Lovett
described the forthcoming week
of decision as Hell Week" for
administration officials.
He said that one big problem
is already out Of the way. The
administrations proposals for
emergency or "stop-gap" aid to
France, Italy and occupied
areas have been put in final
form and will be formally SUBJ
mitted to the Bureau of the
Budget Friday.
While a number of major de-
cisions remain to be made on
the long-range recovery pro-
gram, he said, a speeded-up
timetable has been fixed under
which full details on the Mar
shall plan will be ready for pre-
sentation to the White House on
Nov. Z, and to the Senate and
Houe Foreign Relations COM
mittees on Nov. 10.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
DECISION IN airline s
CASE TO B, ,sssss-.altD
Counsel For Piedmont Ridicules States
Claim That CAB Erred In Awarding
Certificate To Winston Firm

torney for State, told the CAB
in an oral argument that the
Charlotte concern was "the
only legally-qualified applicant
for the routes, because, he con-
tended:
/. Only State applied for al
most exactly the routes grant
ed Piedmont, which had not
proposed so extensive a system.
2. State had no adequate le-
gal notice that Piedmont would
be a competitor for the routes.
Hence did not challenge the
Winston-Salem firm in earlier
hearings.
3. Piedmont should have been
excluded from consideration for
the same reason that South
East Airlines, of Gastonia, and
other applicants were ruled Out
in the original Southeastern
See AIRLINE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMA


- The development of drama
in Wilmington is one of the in
teresting stories in the cultural
history of the Cape Fear val
ley. In 1853 Governor William
Tryon wrote from Brunswick tc
the Bishop of London recon-
mending for ordination orders a
talented young actor named Gift.
fard, who gave as his reason for
desiring to enter the ministry,
that he was most wearied OF
the vague life of his present pro-
fession, and fully persuaded he
could employ his talents to more
benefit to society by going into
holy order and experimenting
the education Of youth in this
Province"
The records indicate that Gift
fard and his company offered
performances of a high order.
The governor concluded his let
ter: IF your Lordship grants
Mr.. Giffard this petition, you
will take off the best player on
the American stage"
COLONIAL THEATRE-There
is evidence that Wilmington en-
joyed theatrical performance
during the Colonial period,
James Iredell in 1887 refers in a
letter to "our players" which is
presumed to connote a company
of players here. There are rec
ords of plays presented here as
early as 1897.
| Thomas Godfrey came to Viii
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
Charges Hurled"
In Trial Court
Indictment Alleges Diplo-
mats Plotted With MANU-
For Overthrow

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29-R-
The State Department denied to.
night that the United States gov
eminent twas in any way involv-
ed in any conspiracy" in Ro.
mania, as charged, at the current
in Bucharest of political
Juliu Manu-.
The Indictment alleged chat
discussed with American
diplomats plans for the violent
overthrow of the Communist
regime in Bucharest. Manu- was
of the National Peasant
pesseIddns SEA qo!qM AIRED
earlier this year.
In response to inquiries about
the case, the State Department
made this comment:
"The State Department denies
the overall assertion that this
government was in any way in
volved in any conspiracy"
Meanwhile department officials
said that approval had been given
for proposed visits to this coun-
try by two former Romanian
foreign ministers reported to be
in Switzerland.
The two are Grigore Nicules-
cu-Buzeti and Constantin Visoia-
nu. Both were foreign ministers
in the latter half of 1914.
On another aspect of the
Manu- trial, State Department
officials said that the American
ministers in Bucharest, Rudolf
E. Schoenfield, had reported here
that after several weeks of per-
sistent requests he had received
permission to have members OF
the legation staff attend the
trial. Three seats were assigned
to the legation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
OREGON GOVERNOR
BELIEVED KILLED
Wreckage OF Plane In
Which Smell Was Passen-
ger Sighted From Air

lanai FALLS, Ore, Oct.
29-R-A plane which crashed
in fragments over fog-bound
Lake Mountain was identified
by a license number today as
the craft in which Oregon's gov
ernor, secretary of state, and
state senate president vanished
on a hunting jaunt last night.
Oregon's acting Adjutant Gen.
eral Raymond F. Olsen said pi-
lots flying overhead reported
"the plane so badly damaged
that no one could be alive" He
said they saw no sign of life,
and were able to read the Ii
cense number on the wreckage.
Aboard the plane when it took
off from here last night were
Governor Earl Smell, So; State
Senate President Marshall Cor
See OREGON on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
Fred Register To Poll
Committeeman Today
On Question OF Date

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29-R-
Tobacco men and federal Off
Gals made plans to open flue-
cured tobacco markets in North
Carolina and Virginia next
week.
Markets were closed Tuesday
as a result of the British ban
on American tobacco imports.
Conferences on reopening the
markets began Immediately
after the Agriculture Depart
ment announced a program OF
Commodity Credit Corporation
purchases of tobacco for Great
Britain.
Fred S. Register, of Hender-
son, N. c., chairman of the to-
bacco marketing committee
told a reporter today he expects
the markets to open next Mon
day.
Register said the decision on
the exact date must be made
by the marketing committee,
which he heads and which in.
cludes warehousemen, growers
and buyers from the tobacco
states. He said he will poll the
committee by telegram tomor-
row from his home at Hender-
son.
Announcement of the open
ing" he said, "can be expected
not later than Friday"
Register said the markets to
reopen will include the Old
Belt, the Middle Belt and the
Eastern Belt. He said the Bor-
der Belt completed business be.
fore closing this week.
Charles E. Gage, director Of
the Agriculture Departments
tobacco branch, said the CCC
purchase of tobacco for Britain
likely will restore prices "par.
TALLY" to the level existing be.
fore Britain stopped buying, bu'
will not put prices up as much
as they were a year ago.
Federal tobacco experts also
indicated that growers of flue
cured leaf can expect cuts il
quotas for 1948 planting - al
least 80 per cent from the 1941
quotas.
They say the British ban has
accentuated a trend toward
lower quotas. Hearings on quo.
tas will be conducted for the
flue cured area in Raleigh,
N. c., Nov. S before an an
nouncement Of the 1948 pro.
gram.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
TO MEET
in PHILADELPHIA, PA.
WRONG CAP-FIRE

CITY, N. J.,
Oct. 29-(AP)-Abe AIianell
So, took a lighted candle with
him when he went under his
house today to turn off a
water pipe.
At Atlantic City hospital
where he was treated for Sec
ond and third degree burns of
the arms, face and chest, he
told officials he opened the
wrong cap-the one on the
gas pipe.
Firemen estimated S200
damage was caused to Allan
ellis home in a fire that result
ed from a flash explosion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
BIG CARGO PLANE
FOUND IN HILLS
Bodies Of Three Occupants
Oh DC-3 Being Brought
To Sylvia

SYLVIA, Oct. 29-B Rescue
teams were working tonight to
bring out from the 1000 foot
|Smoky Mountains near here the
bodies of all three occupants of
a big cargo plane found wreck
ed today after it disappeared
from Charlotte almost two
weeks ago. Two officials of the
Civil Aeronautics Administra-
ton from Charlotte were at the
crash scene starting an exami-
nation.
The DC-3 two-engine plane
was found this morning in the
mountainous Caney Creek re-
gion of Jackson county, 10
miles west of Sylvia, by Sheri-
dan Phillips, who was hunting
bear. The discovery ended a
search described by Capt. R.
M. Howard of the Army Air
Search Rescue Service, based
at Pope Field, near Fayette-
vile, as the most extensive
ever conducted by air in the
Southeast.
The wrecked plane yas identi-
fled by its registration NUM-
Der ar by the remains of
the baby chicks that were it's
cargo as the ship operated by
Strato Freight, Inc, of Pitts
field, Mass, that left Charlotte
for Gainesville, Ga. the rainy
night of Oct. 16.
Strato officials identified the
dead as Saul E. Kornish, Otis,
Ind, pilot; Robert Piper, Pitts
field, formerly of Osawatomie,
Kans., co-pilot; and Dwight
Coulter, Pittsfield, a company
executive
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
MRS. T.. J. PREST0N
TAKEN BY DEATH
Widow OF Grover Cleve-
land Dies AT Sons Home
In Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Oct. 20 -(R)-
Mrs. Thomas Jex Preston, Jr.,
widow of President Grover
Cleveland, died unexpectedly
here today at the home of her
son, Richard F. Cleveland. She
was 80.
Cleveland, Baltimore attorney
and civic leader, said his
mother had come to Baltimore
from her home in Princeton,
N. j., to help him celebrate his
fiftieth birthday.
Last night, she joined in a
-sAeIO qua 4e Jared 6TueJ 4e!nb
land home. She died about noon
while sleeping, her son said.
Mrs. Preston married Presi-
dent Cleveland at the White
House when she was % and he
was 40 years old.
Five years after Mr.. Cleve-
lands death in 1908, she was
married to Thomas Jex Pres
ton, Jr., a retired professor OF
archaeology.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
U.S.. BRITAIN SIGN
NEW TARIFF PACT
One Hundred Trade Agree,
ments Will Be Ratified
By q Nations

LONDON, Oct. 2e-P-Brit-
ain announced today a new
Anglo american tariff agree
ment embodying concessions"
on both sides and called for a
reinvigorated campaign to sell
British goods in the United
States.
Boards of Trade President
Harold Wilson told the House of
Commons that tariff pacts also
have been concluded with IA
other countries during six
months Of international trade
negotiations just ending in &C.
neva, Switzerland. Details, he
said, would be disclosed about
Nov. 10.
See U. S. On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
MORNING STAR
Washington Bureau

W~ASHINGTON,O ct. % - FL
nal decision in the Civil Aero
nautics Board hearing today ir
the cases of State Airlines and
Piedmont Aviation, for the right
to serve Wilmington and inter-
mediate points to Cincinnati,
Ohio, may not come for the
next two or three weeks.
Meanwhile, counsel for Pied
mont Airlines, Inc, of Winston
Salem, branded as utterly I'M
realistic" and "of no merit
whatever" the claims of State
Airlines, Inc, of Charlotte, that
the Civil Aeronautics Board
erred in awarding to Piedmont
a series of feeder" air routes,
one of which would connect
Louisville and Cincinnati with
Wilmington.
Phil Schleit, Washington at