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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
Visitor Arrested
On Cove With
Small Sponges

Carlysle E. Beedle, a visitor
from Akron, O., was arrested yes
terday for having understood
sponges in his possession and was
held under $50 bond for appear
ance in Criminal Court Tues
day.
Beedle was arrested by Joseph
Knight, state conservation Of
ficer, near Pirates Cove. Beedle
said the understood sponges were
given to him by an unidentified
man from whom he purchased a
bunch of regulation-sized sponges.
The man was arraigned before
Peace Justice Ira Albury. The
bond was fixed by Albury when
Beedle said he had to be back
in Akron by the middle of next
week. Beedle engaged Attorney
John Sawyer to enter plea of
guilty to the charge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
Mar. 80 Deadline
For Exemptions

Filing of homestead exemptions
with the County Tax Assessors
office will be closed March 30,
Tax Assessor Claude A. Gan
dolfo announced today.
Unless. homestead exemptions
are filed by householders the tax
payer has to pay the full coun-
ty tax of $3.50 for each $1,000
of assessment or the city tax of
$24.5O. If they file homestead ex-
emptions the tax rate is reduced
to $3.50 per $1,000 on the county
tax rate and $5.25 on the city
rate.
Up until today 1878 homestead
exemptions had been filed. Gan
dolfo estimates that about 1890
taxpayers are entitled to get
homestead exemption.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07

The blossoming Of Red Cross
flags and banners in the business
section to signalize the opening
of the Key West Chapters fund
campaign on Monday, March 10,
is virtually the work of one man.
Lawrence Parker. a veteran,
contributed hours of work to ex-
press his appreciation of Req
Cross services during the war. He
surveyed the areas where flag
displays would be most effective.
then aided by Red Cross staff
personnel at headquarters, fas-
tened the flags in pairs. The sew
eral hundred flags were then
personally fastened to light poles
by Parker. During his service as
a Sea Bee he held the rank of
seaman, second class, as gun
merry instructor. He resides at 62l
Caroline street. r Y =.
Hailing originally from Pensa-
cola, he has been in Key West
four years, having come here af-
ter his discharge due to injuries
to his hearing on the rifle range
where he was instructing. He
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
Police To Bar
Magazine Girls
Selling In Street

C4ty Attorney Lancelot Lester
said isslay that visiting maya
faHe solicitors here are exempt
tfugn = citY license fee since they
age naftiCipsting In interstate
cemnefCe ie added. however,
tllAi thg etty police power can be
efsasaeea against the street sales
atsa fuF Impeding traffic.
Severed girl solicitors and at
haM ung young man have been
maatliNd that they need not buy
q tily tioonse beat that they must
aisa refrain from seeking sub
arflpaions on the street Ordi-
aagiis the soliciting group was
nlssie o. pag q siCense Of S62.50.
~ plan % So into the sub
80 aaa~ sN@mi@@vuatheE ordi-
Naurta IN uthcr cities and see
@hetlser FeEulatory taxing can
- aone. Lester said
TIE pfphlem Of dealing with
ssa1ns wpmcn magazine sub
afilsefs ahu have pcstered serv-
av mspu and other residents for
mtaRaEinF subscriptions came up
e. Tsaeasiay nights City Commits
etam uleplsng 40 that time, IL was
sisMMeaged that the girls be made
g. pas kea so (city license fee)
aBanre bui the interstate COM
mNfVg plutcetion was overlooked.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
Red Cross GiUen
500 By Elks; Life
Membership Voted

Key West Lodge No. ssh.
Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. contributed
Slo0 TO theNRed Cross at last
nights regular meeting.
which was conducted as Past
Exalted Rulers Night. Seven
tY-five members attended.
Past Exalted Ruler Pres
seY L. Weatherford. present
secretary. was. by a unnani-
nous vote of the lodge.
awarded an honorary life
membership. In keeping with
the event the various chairs
were filled and the meeting
conducted by Past Exalted
Rulers.
Trustees of the lodge were
authorized TO purchase three
$1,000 U. S. Government.
Series G. bonds. Officers for
the ensuing year were nomi-
mated for the election TO take
place at the next regular
meeting. March 20.
Five new applications for
membership were received.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
Marshall Arrives
I'm Berlin From
French Capital

BERLIN. March 7.--Secretary
of State Marshall. on his arrival
here from Paris was highly
pleased, he stated. over the asr.
cess of his talks with high GOV.
eminent officials in France.
This morning, shortly before
he left Paris for this city. be
placed a wreath on tho grave 81
the French unknown soldier a
the Arch of Triumph.
Marshall, shortly after his a..
rival here. began a series of
conferences with commanders Of
occupation troops in the Amer
lean zone of Germany. He VIII
remain here till Sunday and viii
then fly to Moscow. where the
conference of the Big Four b
scheduled to begin ON Monday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
LEE HILLS, MANACINGA
EDITOR OF MIAMI
HERALD, ADDRESSES
ROTARY CLUB |

Future of Key West and Miami
is closely linked in the opinion
of Lee Hills, managing editor OF
The Miami Herald, who spoke
before Key West Rotary Gu b
members and their womenfolks
at the annual ladies night party
at Casa Marina Hotel.
Hills said that what is good for
Key West also is good for Miami,
and he cited the natural advan-
tages of Key West and said both
cities are faving an area of ex-
panding prosperity+se ss--++-s-.ss...e4
More than l25 persons attend
ed the affair. Earl A. Adams,
president of Key West Rotary
Club, gave the address of well
come, while Mrs. Helen Scher
responded for the Rotary AIMS.
Prof. Horace O'Bryant, prin-
cipal of Key West High School,
introduced the speaker, and told
how much the people of Key
West appreciated the Miami Her
aid for coming down here every
day.
Key Vests biggest property
lure for northern visitors is
largely undeveloped," Hills said.
This huge resource is in your
keys-and from your point of
view, of course, the keys closest
to Key West are the ones to talk
about"
Hills guessed" that before
many years have passed the
Overseas Highway will thread
its way past dozens of bulkhead-
ed islands that will have become
the winter homes of some of the
most famous families in the
United States.
He said that 10000 cars a
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07

the Fleet Sonar School which is
a unit of his command. This
morning he called upon Capts.
E. S. Hutchinson, USN, COM
handing officer of the Subma-
rine Squadron 4; Henry M. Coop
er, USN, commanding officer of
the Submarine Base, and Capt.
A. G.. w. McFadden, USN, COM
handing officer of the Sonar
School.
The admiral will leave here
tomorrow to continue his tour of
installations Throughout the
Caribbean. He is travelling aboard
the USS AlbeRarle, a l4,O00-ton
seaplane tender, under the COM
mand of Capt. E. H. Eckelmeyer,
USN. ....
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
tFFkaL NJ iDE FOR
RED CROSS WORKERS
~ RESfDENTflL Area

Afs Ruth Riggs. chairman of
residential organization of the To-
gai kra Cmss appealed today for
tmiumtrer residential canvassing
wtHkrga Volunteers are asked TO
Tali Ho3 m attend ionight's spe-
eial meetlna az lhe City Hall.
kaeh volunteer will be asked
81 eanFaa only "a very small area
lea hs aT hcF ncighborhoOd.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
lO2 Find Jobs
In Key West,
Knight Says

Jobs are being sought through
the Florida State Employment
Service office in Key West by 50T
applicants, including 28i veterans.
and 1874 women" jeff III. knight.
Jr., manager, said today. In Feb
ruary, Knights office placed ie2
employees, of whom 81 were
World War ii veterans. knight
urged employers 10 list their job
openings with the employment
service for the dual purpose Of
filling their own needs and help
ing to maintain the economy u
the community.
Job applicants include proies-
sional and managerial. IS; cler-
ical and sales, il6; service. 81:
skilled, 102; semi-skilled, ii3.
unskilled, 70. and agriculture.
20. The greater number Of sppli-
cants by individual occupation
are truck drivers, general office
clerks, carpenters. laboTcrs and
maids occupations.
Current job openings. tOtaling
40, at the local employment of
flee, show a demand for wait
reSses, sales clerks, clerk typist.
salesmen and domestic help.
=. Employer job orders and APP
plications for jobs should be
made at the Florida State En-
ployment Service office. 3l4 ST.
monitor street, knight said. Job
orders will also be taken over
telephone 489.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
Palestine Traveller
Speaks Here Sunday

Charles Cottingham, author and
traveller, will show As nm moving
pictures and relate his experiences
in Jerusalem and the Holy Land
at the Congregational Church at
1870 pm. Sunday. Cotter is civ
il engineer and for Is years was
examiner of aero-devices in the
us. Patent Office.
One of Cotter's publications,
"One Hundred Years in Motors,
has had wide circulation and is
a good authority in this line.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
10000 Troops
In Palestine
On Manhuni
INV Tae Assoc1atea Pre.sp

Thy Toe AssOefAte0 Preaat
& JERUSALEM, March Z. Brit
ish occupation troops began a
manhunt this morning at dawn
on far greater scale than has
been attempted since unrest be-
gan in Palestine.
Twenty thousand men were
pressed into service to search for
members of the underground in
northern and central sections of
Palestine, and up to noon 81
Jews had been arrested as sus-
poets.
Several arms caches were dis
covered and confiscated.
Tel-Aviv has quieted down and
the marshal law there has been
discontinued.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
Johnson
Died Wednesday

Robert Thomas johnson, 46,
whose home was at 7l2 White
head street, died Wednesday af-
ter a lingering illness.
Funeral services will be held
Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock
from the chapel of Pritchard
Funeral Home. Rev. j. Ii. Wool
ridge, pastor of the Glad Tidings
Tabernacle Church, will Off
ciate. Burial will be in the family
plot in City Cemetery.
Survivors are mother, Mrs.
jamie Johnson, brother, Joseph A..
johnson.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07

= = 7
Key West has wonderful
weather, and my only hope is
that one day l can come back
here and just fish"
Rear Admiral Carl F. Holden,
USN, commander of the Train
ing Command of the Atlantic
Fleet, who arrived here yester-
day, made this statement today.
"The weather at Norfolk, Va,
was awful, simply awful" said
Admiral Holden. But we got
down here and find it is just
lovely, almost too lovely for
words.
Il hope that one day l can
come back to Key West and just
fish. 1t must be wonderful to
fish in such fine weather"
Admiral Holden is inspecting
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
Rotarians Told Key West
Facing Era OF Expansion

month had passed over the Ov-
erseas Highway and in later
years people of Key West would
think the number small.
when that traffic doubles, as
it surely will, Key West will be
we'll on its way to taking its
rightful place as one of the great
Continued on Page Four
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
OKLAHOM1NS BRING
PHEASANT DINNER Nv
VISIT TO KEY VEST

Mr.. and Mrs. J. n. Rose. OF
Tulsa, Okla. recently arrived in
Key West to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
George Butler. The visitors
brought with them a pheasant
dinner.
The Roses shot 40 pheasants
on a recent South Dakota hunt
ing trip and had some canned
for their trip. They are making
a 12-month tour of the United
States, living in a large house
trailer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
Truman Calls Off
Trip To,Key West
tIndefiflitely To-day
VISIT CANCELLED BE-
1 CAUSE OF DEVELOP
MENTs AT WASHING
TON

President Truman today can
celled his trip to Key West and
points in the Caribbean "indefi-
nitely," according to an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch from Wash
ington.
Presidential Secretary Charles
Ross said the President had can
celled the trip here because of
developments" Ross would not
say what these developments
were.
''The Caribbean trip has been
postponed indefinitely because Of
developments" was all Ross
would say about the postpone
ment.
President Truman in Washing
ton today conferred with the
members of his Cabinet on ques-
tions of Greek relief and other
problems, the Associated Press
said.
All arrangements for the
scheduled arrival of President
, Truman in Key West at about
2:30 p. M, tomorrow, were i'm
mediately cancelled.
President Truman had been
scheduled to remain here until
Tuesday and to go fishing.
The Navy Department an
nounced today that it had can
celled the formation at las pm,
tomorrow at which all officers
and men of the Submarine Base
here we're supposed to have been
readied for the Presidents visit.
Sailors and Marines had been
scheduled to form an almost solid
line from Southland street gate,
where the President was. to en-
ter the Base, to the comman-
dant's quarters, where, Truman
was to remain for his stayys,
Several Secret Servtc} linen
who came to the city yesterday
and today in advance Of the
Presidents party Immediately
withdrew from Key West
Some flags had been posted al
ready on Division street for
President Truman. He was OK
pected to travel down Division
street to Whitehead and thence
to the Navy Base.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-07
ADMIRAL WANTS TO COME BACK

Thinks Feather Is Almost Too
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
State Advertising Saved
By Gov. WaIlgren

Gov. Mon C. Wallgren came to
the rescue of the states tourist
industry, by making $43,22S avail
able out of his emergency fund.
The money is to be used to ans
wer the mountain of inquiries pill
ing up from prospective tourists
who have read the states adver-
tisements in national magazines.
The recent legislature appro-
priated $145,00 for tourist adver-
Using to be placed this spring but
adamantly refused to provide funds
to reply to people who clipped
the coupon appearing IN the ads.
This action of the legislature.
said Governor Wallgren. provided
national advertising in reverse for
the State of Washington. The ads
ask readers to send in for inform
alton about our state but there is
no money to answer these thou
sands of inquiries.
under the circumstances the
state would get black eyey with
every one of these people. They'd
wonder what kind of a state we
are.
81 am left no choice but to
file with the secretary of state
notice of my intention to set aside
the necessary money from my
emergency fund"
Inquiries in response to the ad-
vertising are pouring into the
state department of conservation
and development at the rate of
1000 day, with a peak of 5000
for a single day, Art Carton, d.
rector of the department, announ-
ced.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07

covenants prohibiting sale or rem
tai to or occupancy by members
of minority groups, of that pro-
perty, have been the most evil
method of combining Negroes in
particular and some other Ameri-
cans to lesser extent to slum
ghettoes where exorbitant rates
are charged for broken down
property. 1t is out of these slums
that the Bigger Thomases, so ell
oquently portrayed by Richard
Wright in Native Son." develop
ed.
More jails is not the answer.
The courage demonstrated by the
Seattle Housing Authority and the
success which has attended its
efforts can do more good than
all the repressive measures SOC
iety can take. The Congress can
do its part by promptly passing
without cripling amendments the
Wagner-Taft- Ellender bill with
strong provisions in it that there
shall be no discrimination in the
expenditure of Federal funds for
housing because of race, creed,
color or national origin.
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ATTENTION
VETER A ms!
BY elenwood T. Brown


All veterans who have served
in the Armed Forces of the United
States, on land on sea or in the
air, outside the continental United
States in time of war are eligible
to join the Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States of
America.
Lewis Ford Post No. 289 invites
your membership. Meet us each
LIST and Bird Friday each month
at s p. m. at our regular meet
ing place 1857 21st Ave. at East
Jefferson st. Bring your Honor
able Discharge.
In unity there is strength Many
benefits can be derived by unit
ing with us. You can be advise
on all matters concerning veterans
and many new proposals can be
made and effected in our organiza-
tion that can not be effected by
single effort
Remember to apply for your
Terminal Leave Pay before it is
too late. Now is the time.
Keep your National Service Life
Insurance in force. Make every eff
fort to convert it into a permanent
plan of insurance 1t will come in
handy some day to provide pro-
lection for your loved ones when
you have to quit the walk of life.
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Join the crusade against Cancer
Mail your check now to -
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MORE ABOUT
IMMUTABLE LAW
CONTINUED from page u

NNOutlHueQ from page
where from where they are. Negro
beggars are now roaming the
streets of Seattle.
Through the hour glass the sand
of time is running swiftly until
the compensation checks are no
more. Then what? Even in war
time Negroes were not fully in
tegrated into all fields of industry
or commerce. Presidential direct
ives were necessary to force some
firms to employ them. Today, Ne
groes are faced with the stern
necessity of standing ON their own
feet as never before, which should
produce a wholesome and salutary
effect.
Seattle is on the high road to
becoming truly great City. The
day of Vice and Corruption is at
an end. Longing for the Good
Old Days of easy pickings is use.
less. Crying over money spent
foolishly during the war is in vain,
what is needed is a concerted
effort to control the Rip Tide.
In the attempt to control the
Rip Tide of retrogressfon one
must fully realize the enormity
and completely Of the task, with
its many sided intricacies, all of
which are apparently charged and
laden with discouraging conse-
quenees. To successfully do so,
one must bid defiance to the
traditions of the past, a tradition
of meek servitude, and branch
out into new fields of progressive
endeayor.
The old Fashioned Negro had
many traits forced upon him from
the Powers that be" which are
heartily disliked by the Negro of
today. There was one excellent
trait, however. the "Old Time"
Negro possessed to a remarkable
degree and which is sadly lack
ing in the Modern Negro, and that
trait was resiliency. The ability
TO bounce back. The harder he
was pushed down the higher he
would bounce back. A trait tat
enable him to survive and flour
ish under almost insurmountable
Rip Tides of the past.
Today, impending events cast
their shadows before them. There
will be a period of lessening in
comes, increased labor strife and
more racial troubles as economic
retrogression reaches its climax.
Beyond the horizon, however,
cleaning feeble, a new light of
progressive thought is being nur-
tured into a powerful beacon of
hope to rescue the unwary and
offer haven and economic secur-
ity from the perils of Rip Tides.
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More About -
HOUSING
(C.ntinued from page L


lie housing projects in the United
States that provided for occupan-
cy by both Negro and white
tenants. A number of these are
in cities like New York and Ber-
kelley, Calf. and some of them in
Southern and border states. In
virtually every case Negro and
white tenants have soon overcome
any skepticism about their neigh
bors and have learned to live to-
gether in complete amity.
NORTH is NOT BLAMELEsS
One of the most serious falla-
cies of this problem of housing
is the belief that the North is
blameless, when, as a matter of
fact, there is more segregation of
Negroes north OF the Mason and
Dixon line than there is in the
South. The United States Supreme
Court having outlawed city ordin-
ances or state laws enforcing rae
ial segregation, property holders
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More About
TEXAS CITY
Continued from page u
Identified Dead

Among the identified Negro
dead of the Teas City disaster
are:
Mark Davis.
C. Aldridge,
German Sheavers.
George williams
Job Scott
Willie Latson
Marion Randall,
Hugh Bradley
Thurman ellis,
John Garrett,
Wade Battle,
James Randall.
Harold Bradford,
Emmett Matthews,
Jesse Jones,
Willie Hightower,
w. c. Coleman,
Kulin Tor Colin) Jones,
w. C. Coleman,
Moses Jones.
The explosion occurred during
the school period when Sabotage
children were in classrooms. Geo
rye Sanders, principal of the
Booker T. Washington junior high
school here, said. 81 was seated
in my office when suddenly the
building shook, simultaneously the
windows began to shatter and
books fell from their shelves as
If shot by an atomic bomb"
"The panic-stricken children fled
from their classrooms after being
hit by flying glass;" he reported.
Il sounded the fire alarm and
when the children reached the
streets l told them to run home"
Six Doctors to Scene
Meanwhile six Negro needles rush
ed here to administer the injured
and have been working night and
day without any thought of COM
pensation. They are Drs. H. J.
Minor. w. j. Lymon, l.. Es Smith,
e. B. Perry and Howard Mason of
Houston, and DR.. E. G. Etter of
Galveston.
Efforts to determine the number
of Negro workers employed at
Monsanto Chemical have proved
futile. but it is known that scores
were employed there as we'll as at
the Republican Refinery Grain
mill.
The known dead, Monday, April
IA, had reached 40S, in this city
of $1,000, with the injured being
well over 1000, but how many
of the dead are Negroes, and
how many Negroes were injured
is unknown. Identification by
races is made doubly difficult by
the fact that many of the vic
Tins are discolored with grease,
burned, manned, and faces black
ened, thus holding up an accurate
count of the number of Negroes
dead.
Latin-Americans Hard Hit
Latin-Americans suffered heav-
lily, too, as their particular section
like the Negro community, VISA in
a part of the city nearest the
explosion.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
Seattle NAACP OFF to Good
Start in Membership Drive


The NAACP branch of Seattle
launched it's 1947 membership
drive with kickoff dinner April
II at the First A. M. e. church.
A goal of 5000 memberships for
1874: was announced by Mrs. Aug
usta Shannon, membership chair
man, 1908 f. Madison Street, who
feels quite confident that Seattle
will attain its quota.
Mrs. Airline Yarbrough has done
an outstanding job of publicizing
the Seattle membership drive, the
kickoff dinner of which drew a
crowd of more than 100 persons.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
BOOKS ABOUT NEGROES

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New biography of Frederick Douglass
THE WORLD AND AFRICA by w. E. B. Dubois $500
An inquiry into the part Afrco played in world history
MY LIFE STORY by Joe Louis $2Z5
New autobiography.
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WE HAVE TOMORROW by Ano Ponemps $500
Biographies of ~ greet Negro Americans.
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History in and picture
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Over 900 pages Of short stories. essays.
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