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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-02-13
Papy And Kenny
Chief Speakers
In Legion Hat

State Representative Bernie I.
Papy was the guest speaker at the
regular meeting of Arthur Saw
yer Post No. %, American Legion,
held last evening. His remarks
were confined to the legislation
relative to veterans matters which
will confront the 1947 session of
the state legislature.
Nick Kenny of the New York
Mirror was also in attendance and
gave a very interesting address.
Kenny is a member of Phoebe
Apperson Hearst Post of New
York City. Other visitors lnclud-
ed c. P. Ward, j. Vanlandingham
and Mary Fowler of Paris Post
No. /, Paris. France.
Twenty-three veterans OF World
War II were received into mem
bership. They are: Jos. M. Whit
son, Fernando Stirrup, Louis Ban
cells. Jr., Rafael Bancells, Arthur
Continued on Page Three
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Sunday Liquor Bill
Opponents ToCopy
Names OF Voters

Supervisor of Registration Roy
Hamlin has been notified by Eu-
gene Roberts, member of a group
opposing the recently passed
Sunday liquor BILL" that a
committee will visit his office to-
day to start copying the names
and addresses of Key Vests reg
istered voters.
Rev. E. S. Doherty, chairman
of the Temperance Committee
of the Ministerial Association,
said the names are being taken
preparatory to solicitation of the
entire electorate to secure sigma
lures of 35 per cent of the voters
in support of action against the
Sunday liquor BILL" possibly in
the form of a referendum.
Under the city charter, the list
of petitioners must be filed with
the City Clerk by a committee of
five. He must check each sigma
ture for its authenticity and then
present the petition to the City
Commissioners at their next reg
ular meeting.
Ordinarily, the petition would
ask for repeal of the measure to
which the petitioners are oppos-
ed, according to the charter, and
if the commission does not COM
ply with the request of the petit
TONERS for repeal or amendment
of the ordinance in question, it
must submit the matter for pub
lie decision in an election, pro-
viding three of the original COM
mittee of five has filed such
request within 20 days after the
expiration of 30-day period dur
ing which the ordinance was to
be held in allegiance after pas
sage.
Because of clause in the
charter stating that ordinances
shall go into effect Immediately
after passage, however, the 30
day period was not followed in
the case of this bill.
One portion of the opponents
of the Sunday liquor bill favors
writing a new ordinance to pro-
hibit sale of beer, wine and
liquor on Sunday, since, they
claim, only 20 per cent of the
celebrates signatures is needed
for this purpose.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-02-13
Nun To Mark 5Oth
Anniversary In
Content Sunday

One of Key Vests most be-
. loved residents will be hon
ored here Sunday when the
50th anniversary of Sister
Louis Gabriel's entry into the
Convent of ST. MarY's I'm
maculate will be observed at
a Silver Tea sponsored by the
Convent Alumnae.
The event will be held from
4 to s pm. at the Convent.
No written invitations are be-
ing issued. The alumnae are
sponsoring the event as an OPP
portunitY for Sister Louis
many friends to express their
fluctuations to her and to
show their appreciation for
her work here.
Sister Louis is one of the
Sisters who cared for Ameri-
can soldiers and sailors during
a yellow fever epidemic here
about 1900.
She has asked Mrs. Frank
Delaney. of AIS Elizabeth
street. one of her first pupils
OF halt a century ago. to have
a special seat in observing the
Golden Jubilee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-02-13
O.E.S. Officials
To Visit Key W est

Mrs. BesSy Christian, Grand
Worthy Matron, and James Ina
bet, Grand Worthy Patron of
Florida, together with several
members of their official family
will pay their official visit to
Fern Chapter on Saturday, Feb
ruary 18th, at 800 PM.
A banquet at 800 p. m. at the
LaConcha Hotel will precede the
meeting. Any visiting Stars or
MasonS wishing to attend the
banquet, please make reServa-
tons through Mrs. Isabel Elem
ing, Chairman of the Banquet
Committee, by phoning 217-W.
All Stars are cordially invited to
meet their Grand Officers at
this meeting.
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Council Names
Disarmament
Commission

(By The Associated PrexSl
NEW YORK, Feb. BUN Sc
curity Council passed resolu-
ton this afternoon to organize a
new disarmament commission.
1t was explained that the COM
mission is distinct from the com
mittee on the atomic bomb.
Gromyko, the Russian repre-
sentative, objected to separating
the new commission from that
considering the atomic bomb, and
when his turn came to vote he
abstained from casting his bal
lot, though he did not exercise
his privilege to veto the resolu-
ton.
Spokesman for the council said
that the commission, as soon as
it is named, will begin putting
into effect the program for dis
armament.
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Capital Lawyer Is
Il 4 4 Il
Retire, Relax, Rest Here
Won By Key West

Bob Smirnoff of Washington.
d. c., who has been a frequent
visitor here and ardent Key
West booster for many years.
enjoyed the satisfaction recently
of convincing his friend, Fred S.
Schow, prominent Washington
attorney, of the same belief.
On a fishing trip aboard Capt.
Frank Wicker's Barracuda, +"
Schow boated a 30-pound black
grouper and Mrs. Smirnoff land
ed a large dolphin. 1t was her
first catch of fish in her life. She
is having the dolphin mounted.
Schow expressed keen enthus-
iaSm over Cayo HueSo and said
Key West is his impression "of
the ideal city in which to retire,
relax and rest" He also looked
the Island City over for poten-
tial business opportunities.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-02-13
Great Britain Faces
Peacetime BlackOut;
Relief Now In Sight
100 SHIPS, EACH LOAD
ED WITH $50 TONS OF
COAL, HEAD FOR ENG.
LISH PORTS

LONDON, Feb. 13.-England,
Scotland and Wales are expert
encing their first peacetime
blackout tonight, caused by the
acute shortage of coal.
Meanwhile, there is reiief in
sight for the people of Great
Britain in the shapes of almost
100 ships in the English Channel.
headed for various English ports.
each ship with $50 tons of coal
aboard.
The fuel shortage adversely
affects lighting, power, heat and
transportation.
Spokesman for the Labor gov
ernment said that, in addition to
the ships plying toward English
ports, army and navy trucks.
fighting through snowdrifts. are
carrying coal to points of dis
tribution throughout Great Brit
ain.
Contingents of army and navy
men are clearing the roads OF
snow, so that the trucks may be
able to operate. In many places
snow was piled UP in drifts 10
feet or higher.
Army bombing planes have
been pressed into new type of
service. Instead of dropping
bombs, packages of food are be-
ing dropped to communities that
are snowbound.
Spokesman for the govern
ment, after explaining to the
people of Great Britain the meas
ures that have been put into ef-
feet to relieve the coal shortage,
warned them that anybody found
guilty of violating the orders VIII
be fined and jailed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-02-13
Admirals Arrive
To Inspect Base
w@~@D~-~~%l

Vice Admiral Charles A. Lock
wood, Jr., UsN, general inspec-
tor for the U. S. Navy, and Rear
Admiral l. c. Swell, USN, gen.
eral inspector of the Atlantic
Fleet, arrived in Key West this
afternoon to make a routine in
spection of the Submarine Base
and other facilities here.
The admirals arrived here by
plane from Washington. They
were accompanied. by an entire
staff of other officers, including
a captain and several command
ers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-02-13
Ripley's Chinese
Junk Captipates
OnIOOkers Here

Key Westers and winter
visitors continued to flock to
Porter Dock today to see the
famous Chinese Junk. Mono
Lei. of Robert believe II or
Mott Ripley. which arrived
here yesterday afternoon from
Marathon.
The unique and colorful
three-masted craft hove into
port with her odd Chinese
mainsail hoisted but aided by
the vessels l0-horsepower
DIESEL engine. Onlookers were
captivated by the romantic
appearance of the Oriental
ship.
Except for some Chinese
cane furniture on the top
deck. the boat gave no indi-
cation of the luxurious inte-
rior below decks. where pa
latial surroundings decorated
with Oriental artistry serve
as the sea home of the famous
cartoonist. his two secretaries
and crew of three.
Ripley has consented to en-
ter the junk in the gala water
parade off Casa Marina Sun
day morning. The boat parade
will open the ls47 Key West
International Fishing Tourna-
ment.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-02-13
Chamber Renews
ADV Membership

Key West Chamber of Com
merce directors Tuesday night di-
rected the payment of dues insur-
ing a renewal of its membership
in the Atlantic Deeper Waterways
Association, a Philadelphia Or
ganization, main function of
which is to continue efforts to-
ward waterways development
along the east coast of the coun-
try.
1t is this organization which is
reported to have powerful con-
nections in Congress making a
strong effort towards further eX-
tending the inland waterways
from Bahia Honda to Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-02-13
Few City Activities
In Budget Escape
JayceeS' Survey
TIRE WEEKS EXHAUS.,
TIVE STUDY COVERS
PROPOSED APPROPRI.
ALTON ITEM BY ITEM

Yes activities in the city's
taaI budget escaped without
sfataeai examination by the
1nnapg Chamber of Commerce.
aerarding 10 the recommended
tlona which the organization Of
fNfed a the budget hearing in
CIV Iisll Tuesday night.
The 1ayceo document, present
80 hy fSador Weintraub. was
Drawn up after three weeks ex-
hauslIve study and calls for the
following action on budget items
~ thc various departments:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES city
uanageEs salary from $4,000 to
sAsoe. city clerks 1916 salary of
sz4oe - be- unchanged. A break
dean q the 81 900 item for gen
efai operations was requested.
CaaY hmil--Requested a break
down II The $500 miscellaneous
supplies item.
legal and Judicial-Opposed
raislng City Attorneys salary
from e2.0l6 10 $4,000 and the
establishment of an assistant city
atlogney ~ $3.50 per month; OPP
poaed raising city attorneys
alenographer from $i.260 to ST.
eco; recommended that the city
managers stenographer do some
~ the work Of the city attorney;
appoaed $4,000 item for codify-
lng city ordinances.
DiEeeiog'S Pay Upheld
Civil Service Board-Advocat-
ed retention OF City Personnel
Director al 81, 400 per year. in
siead Of cutting him to $3.50
Department of Finance-Op-
p0scd raise for Tax Collector
frum $1,000 To- So, 800, of his util-
tty clerk from $1,000 to $3.50
and the assistant clerk from ST.
go % sl.620.
Department OF Public Safely
Favored retention of IA police
men and raising the pay of col
ored policemen to a par with
others, opposed increase of
maintenance and operation eX-
penses of automotive equipment
from $4,000 to $4,000; opposed
bsiy ms vehicles ($5, 1907, or car
radios for fire and police de-
psrtaents, S7.888; asked for a
breakdown Of the 81 200 general
operating expenses" and utility
ahd maintenance expense items.
FiEs OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
general operating expense items
q Al 500 and for utilities of
&l.347 advocated elimination of
oww cas- Cor chief and radio items
a sl,100 and S2,l88 respectively.
Recreation Department - OPP
posed 81 500 for softball and bas-
kethail gatekeepers and officials;
adVuC ated increase from $500 to
81 900 fur Bayview and other
parks. asked for breakdown of
Al. zoo for utilities and miscel-
tancuus items
Municipal Stadium-A k G d
reason tof $1,000 appropriation.
Sanitary Office Questioned
Sanitary Inspector - A Ike d
rcasun for spending Sl,995 for
sanitary Inspector when $4,000 is
contributed 30 Monroe County
Hcalth Clinic. Asked couldn't
County Sanitary Inspector do
both iohs?"
CsmsteEY- Asked breakdown
tContinued on Page Three)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-02-13
MICHIGAN PUBLISHER
SEES "REMARKABLE
IMPROVEMENT" HERE

II. P. Fursteneau. publisher
of the Ludington Daily News
of Ludington. Mich. told the
publisher of The Citizen this
morning that Key West shows
remarkable improvem g n ~"
since his visit here eight years
ago.
The Michigan publisher.
who is vacationing here with
his wife. conversed at length
with The Citizen publisher
this morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23
BRITAIN WILL CUT BUILDING 800 MILLION
Cripps Declares May Bal ance Overseas Accounts
 By End of Year 1948

LONDON, Oct. 23.-lR-Sir Staff ford Cripps, Minister of Economic Affairs, served notice today that Britain immediately must cut ex- pandituies on housing, factory con- struct:on and new capital machin- cry by 100000 year to help ease a deepening economic crisis.
 Sir Stafford declared the Labor Government expects to balance it's overseas accounts by the end or critical economic position in the 1948.
 Beginning a review of Britain's House of Commons, Cripps added that the problem of balancing trade with dollar countries was far more difficult than that of balanc- ing total overseas payments"
 Cripps said it was impossible to make fully accurate forecast but, allowing fol various contingencies, we calculate that we should arrive at an approximate balance of our total overseas payments by the end ol next year"
 "The problem of our dollar balance oi payments is very much more stubborn of solution and IS indeed the central problem with which we in this country, like so many other countries, are today taced," he said
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23
Governor
 |sMakiflg
 Campaign

CHICAGO. Oct BIZ The Gov ernor of Alaska declared today that Alaska's strategic importance is not sufficiently appreciated and that only through statehood can it be- come a "bulwark of defense for the Northwest, the United States and the Western Hemisphere
 Addressing the Chicago Woman's Club, the Governor said Alaska is the only part of America which extends into the Eastern Hemis- phere. And it is the only part of the United States which fronts on the Arctic Circle. If we had two Senators and a Congressman, we believe we could be better heard in Washington"
 The Governor said the Territory needed a stronger Coast Guard Service, S90,000 annually for agri- cultural research, lower freight rates and more settlers.
 He said the Soviets are develop ing Siberia, with agricultural ex- pertinent stations every 100 miles and are pushing agriculture furth- CT and further north, tieing it in with industry, mining and the mili- tary."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23
TAFT WILL
 ANNOUNCE
 CANDIDACY
Ohio Senator to Throw Hat Into Ring : Going
 After Delegates

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.--tR - Friends say that Senator Robert A. Taft will formally announce his active candidacy tomorrow for the Republican Presidential nomina- ton.
 This will place the 55-year-old Ohioan who heads his partys pol icy committee in the S~nate in a race that already has drawn the formal entry of former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota and pro- bably will have several other par ticipants, including Gov. Thomas F. Dewey of New York.
 Taft's announcement will be made in a letter to the Ohio State Republican Committee It will put him in position to begin an ac- tive drive for the delegates neceS- sary to win the nomination at next June's COP convention in Phila- delphia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23
ACTORS AND
 WRITERS AT
 RED HEARING
Editor Gorddn Kahn Be- Iieved Spdrkplug of
 Hollywood Commies

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23-lR-A capacity crowd jammed the House caucus room to hear big-name ac- tors as the House Committee on American Activities opened its fourth day of hearings on Com rnunism in the film capital.
 Actor Robert Montgomery told the committee that there are Com munists in 'he Screen Actors Guild. But, said Montgomery, never un- der any circumstances" have they succeeded in dominating the actors.
 As Montgomery put it: We have Tad in the Screen Actors Guild very militant, very small minor ity, well organized, well disciplined v
 Montgomery was the first of four actors called to testify. Others are Ronald Reagan, George Murphy and Gary Cooper.
 When Montgomery took the stand. 9 big sigh went up from the au- dience, largely feminine.
 Before Montgomery took the stand. a veteran screen writer Fred Niblo, Jr., described the Screen Writers Guild as the sparkplug of the Communist movement" in the film capital Niblo, member of the Guild, told the Congressional Committee he believes that Cor don Kahn is a Communist. But, said Niblo, T can't prove it." He said Kahn is editor of the Screen Writers Guild magazine. Niblo de- scribed the magazine. The Screen Writer as "a literary supplement of The Daily Worker
 Nibio turned phrase in stating he could not prove that Kahn was Communist. No" he said, T can't prove it any more than Gus ter could have proved that the people who were massacring him were Indians"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23
HEARING ON RATES
 NEXT WEEK
Northldnd Representatives t0 Make Protest at
 Meeting in Seattle
By CHARLES D. WATKINS


 WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-(R- Representative of Alaska are heading for Seattle to oppose pres ent steamship rates to- the Terri tory at a hearing next week be- fore a Maritime Commissioner Ex- aminer
 The Commission granted ar overall 35 percent increase in rates to Alaskan shipping last summer over the protest of the Territory.
 Alaska contended the rates al- ready were the highest in the world and rapidly increasing the cost of living in the Territory.
 The increase was granted after the Commission had worked out an interim service plan under which the government chartered ships to the Alaska Steamship Company, the Northland Transpor- tation Company for dollar year to get them to take over the service the government operated during the war
 The interim service ends next June 30 and the Maritime Com mission hopes the Seattle hearing will develop information from which it will be able to draw up plan for permanent service.
 Malcolm Miller, of Washington attorney for the Territory, and Donald J. O'Connor, economist for the Territory, are on their way to take part in presenting the Terri tory's arguments.
 Protest Barge Rates
 Meantime, the Alaska Steamship Company has entered protest against the rate schedule filed by the Alaska Freight Express Cor poration, which plans to inaugurate a barge service from the Pacific Northwest to the Territory.
 The steamship company says the proposed barge service will drain away from the steamship lines enough traffic so they will have to revamp their rate schedules, with a possible advance.
 The rates for the new barge ser vice became effective today. The action is without prejudice to the rights of the Alaska Steamship
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-CIoslng quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is Az, American Can 89. Anaccnda 35ai, Curtiss-Wrieht 5a4, International Harvester 88A, Kennecott 4814, New York Central t54. Northern Pacific 21l2, U. s. Steel 767s, Pound $4.03h.
 Sales today were l,l80,0O0 shares.
 Averages today are as follows industrials 18451, rails 50.53, utili- ties 35.53.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23

WASHINGTON, Oct. g -iR-Tht United States is leaving the back door wide open" Rep. Glen John son tD-Oklal said today as he urg- ed increased military defense i'll Al aska.
 Tn view of reports by Congress men coming back from Europe and of activities in the United Nations we should strengthen our defenst in Alaska on an unprecedented scale" Johnson told a reporter.
 If there should be an unexpect- cd attack On Alaska it would be far different from that on Pearl liar
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23
Increased Military Defense D In Alaska Now Demanded
 By Johnson; 5tates Reasons

DOT. At the latter point it was ne- eessary to traverse an ocean. but in Alaska ground forces could be lsed It is more important to guard Alaska than it was Pearl Harbor
 Johnson expressed the opinioh hat not only should air strength oe increased but that the Army's intelligence service should be ex- banded in that area.
 Every strategic point III Alaska should have an adequate air base and there should be strong round force with mobile unlts 10 reinforce troops at any polilt III event of danger, Johnson saio'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23
The W ashlngt ion Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON

N,-Trouble over poultryless Thursday might have been avoided had the White House let one hand know what the other hand was doing. On the Sunday af- terncon President Truman made his food-saving appeal to the na- ton, Secretary of Agriculture An derson ss,i outside the door of press secretary Ross, waiting to get a chance tc see the boSS's speech, But the chance never came. Poul- tryless Thursday was announced without benefit of advice from U
 s. agricultural experts who had been studying her majesty the hen for weeks, were convinced that more chicken should be eaten, ra- ther than less Later, Chuck Luckman, harassed and unenvied food cZar, was asked to accept a compromise proposal whereby the public was urged to eat stewing hens. Biggest food problem still remains grain led on the farm. It's disappearing at an alarming rate.
 Ambassadorial Report: Three tor ambassadors reported to the Presi- dent last week that there would be no war with Russia, though ser ious incident in Germany where U. S.-Russian troops are cheek-and- jowl could start almost anything
 The ambassadors were: Lou Douglas from London; Walter Be- dell Smith from Moscow; Bot Murphy from Germany. |. Al
 three urged a special session oi Congress. Truman countered that
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23
CLAIMS FOR AWARE WAR
 COMING, '3S
Louis (. Johnson Testifies Against Cabinet Mem-
 bers, Brass Hats"

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23-lR- Louis c. Johnson, former Assistant Secretary of War. said today that he and President Roosevelt knew as early as 1888 that war was coming and we could not stay out oi it.
 Johnson, who served as Assist ant Secretary from 1887 until l940 testified before the Senate War Investigating Committee which is trying to learn why detailed in dustrial mobilization plan was dis carded after Pearl Harbor.
 At first Johnson asked that his account of pre-war moves in con nection with the late President be eff the record but Chairman Brewster tR-Maine) said the testi- mony should be open to the public
 Johnson said that his efforts to prepare this country for war were blocked by two former Cabinet members former Secretary of La bor Perkins and former Secretary of War Woodring and Gen. Bre- hon Somervell wartime chief of the army's supply service.
 Johnson said that detailed in dustrial mobilization plan was ditched iiy brass hats because it did not suit the program of General SCmeryeli'
 He also said that Secretary of Defense Forrestal had made in correct and "inexact" statements about the reason for shelving the program.
 At onc time Johnson testified, Somervell even planned to get rid ot General Marshall"
 He referred to George Marshall, then Army Chief of Staff and the TOW Secretary of State.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-iR- Five doctors assigned by the Am erican Medical Association to sur vey health conditions in Alaska, list tuberculosis as the Territory's s greatest health problem.
 The physicians, Drs. Harry Bar nett, Jack Fields, George Miles, Joseph S!lverstein and Arthur Bern
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23
REGULAR BIRTHDAY NIGHT

Last Saturday night was birth day night at the Salmon Creek Country Club. Four birthday parties were given at the Club and the honored guests were Mrs. w. E. Cahill, Mrs Beulah Lee, Mrs. L. v Card and Mrs. John Payden.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-23

Yesterday, Drew Pearson called attention to the report of five physicians who investigated health conditions in Alaska. Today the Associated Press sub stantiates the report in the following dispatch to the Daily Alaska Empire aG released by Secretary of Inter or Krug).