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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
REPRESENTATIVE PAPY
ADDRESSES TEACHERS
AT STATEWIDE MEETING
Asks For Ideas On
Taxation To Raise More
Funds; Consensus
Favors Sales Tax

State Representative Bernie G.
Papy told q county wide gather
ing of teachers yesterday that tax
money has not been specifically
ear-marked for school use. He
asked the group to speak freely
on ideas which they might have
for different forms of taxation
which might swell the fund.
Instructors from all over the
nation as we'll as Monroe County,
joined in the discussion. The gen.
eral consensus was in favor of a
sales tax.
Horace O'Bryatn, superintend-
ent of public instruction for the
county, introduced the speakers
at the meeting which was held at
the Key West high school.
President of the National Glass
Room Teachers, Phillip Wardner
of Garden City, Long Island, N.
Y, addressed the assembly. He
highlighted his speech with praise
of the relationship between school
systems and newspapers. Ward
ner used to be reported himself.
Director of the Florida Educa-
tional association, Birdie McAlliS-
ter, biology instructor at Miami
Beach Senior High School, reveal
ed the latest Improvements in ed
ucational set ups in Florida. She
emphasized that Florida teachers
have retirement system and
pointed out that this State is one
of the three or four which have
advantages unequalled.
She also said that the Florida
Educational Association is one or
ganization which gets sympathe-
tic treatment from the State Lee
gislature, The FEA spearhesded
recent developments in education.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
yplioOn Roms
Toward IOkyo
And Yokoliallia
Winds Thus Far
Blowing Al 80 Miles
In Tokyos Many 4
Fishing Boats Damaged
(By AsnoeIasea Pressl

TOKYO, Aug. 31--A typhoon,
said to be the worst that has
struck this area in IL years, il
headed toward this city and Yo-
kahama, 40 miles to, the south
east. -.s~ y-.
Winds thus far have attained a
velocity of 80 miles in this city.
The Weather Bureau said that
Tokyo and Yokohama are in the
direct path. of the storm. The cen
ter is due to reache here late in
the day. -
The typhoon is now roaring
across Tokyo Bay. Reports receiv-
ed here state that 40 fishing boats
have been washed up, on beaches
and destroyed and 200 have bro
ken their mooring and have, been
swept to sea.
No c casualties have been re-
ported among American. person
mel here. Trees, and telephone
poles have been blown down and
hundreds of houses damaged
along the water front. The great
est fear. is felt for low-lying areas
that may be flooded.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
CHAIRMEN APPOINTED
In CHI. OF COMMERCE
NEW CAMPAIGN DRIVE
First Group Meeting
Called For Thursday;
Sales Army Organized /;
Ciiy's Needs Considered

Nine chairmen, representing
classified business groups into
which 900 Chamber of Com
merce prospects are divided,
have been appointed, Victor Lang,
general SAFES manager of the ed
ucational-financial campaign part
of the drive, announced today.
First meeting will be held to-
morrow at IL a. m. in the head
quarters office of the Chamber of
Commerce.
The group chairmen. together
with classified divisions are: Au-
tomotive: Jack Sellers; Building
and Construction: Clarence Higgs,
Real Estate; Insurance and Utili-
ty: Anthony Demeritt; Retail and
Wholesale: Joe Allen; Restaurants
and Bars, Amusements: Mike b.
nanny; Professional: w. Curry
Harris; Diversified: Ralph Faral-
do; Fishing and Industry: Berlin
FELTON,.
These leaders will complete
building of a "Sales Army" Each
chairman will secure a Captain"
for each rs members and non
members in his group.
Conference of the chairmen and
Captains" is scheduled for Tues
day, September 6 to make final
plans for the drive which actual
'ly starts on September Is.
The business interests and citi-
zens of Key West will be present.
ed with an analysis of the Cham
Der of Commerce accomplish
ments. Under direction of Mayor
A. Maitland Adams, general
chairman of the organization, and
Robert Dopp, vice president of the
Chamber of Commerce, an ex-
banded program for work, " A
blueprint For Action viii be-
presented to the public
"The program includes the
principal needs of Key West, and
should be followed diligently if
and constructive pro-
gress and prosperity is to be Sc
cured for the community" Harold
Laubscher, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
Three Sentenced
lin Soviet
Safety Case
up Wirephoto

MOSCOW-tP-The labor tin-
ion paper 'Trud" recently sta
ted that sentences were meted
out in the Trials to officials of a
quarry in. Mass at which safety
rules had been Violated. The chief
of the quarry was sentenced to 3
years deprixaL of freedom, a shift
foreman to two years and a safety
engineer TO a fine of /, 500 rubles.
"Trud" said because of the ne
glience of these persons workers
in the clay quarry had TO work
in difficult and dangerous condi-
tons.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
Arab Refugees.
Move With Seasons

SUHKNE. HaShemite Jordan
Rl--Sixteen thousand Palestine
Arab refugees have returned to
the Suhkne camp from which
they fled last winter. Sub zero
temperatures and heavy snow
and rainfalls had chased them
from this barren wind-swept pla-
teau, 80 miles north of Amman.
They took their winter quarters
in the Jordan river valley. around
the Biblical towns of Jericho and
Shune.
But with summer came an in
tolerable heat and malaria. So
they were forced back to Suhkne.
Now Jordan government authori-
ties and international Red Cross
representatives, jointly response
BILE for the. refugees maintenance,
are. faced with the problem of
moving them again soon, go
IA L. d.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
..
You AII' Can Pay
Your City Tases
Starting Thl.rsda,
Tomorrow is the daYl

Tomorrow is the daYl
Don't forget that Sept.
marks the opening time for
payment of your city taxes.
both real and personal Four
per cent discount is allowed
if you pay your taxes in Sep
tember.
Be sure to bring your tax
statements with you to the
office of Archie Roberts. city
tax collector at the CITY Hail.
If you do not have a state.
ment. call Mr.. Roberts for
instruction.
Office hours are from 8
am. to S pm. on weekdays
and 3 am. TO noon on Satur-
days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
New Ceiling Of 1919 Is Now Set
For Civilian Workers IN NAVY Yard
Precious Limit OF
Workers On Jobs
T0taIIed LOO


Late yesterday afternoon a. uhe
Key West Naval Base word was
received from Washington ihst
confirmed story pabllshcd IN
The Citizen on Wednesday IL lat
week about the number Of civil
an employees who would be laili
off here as a result Of an order o.
sued By Defense Secretary Leslie
johnson that adversely affected
$4,000 civilian workers la the
armed services.
A dispatch from Washington
said that 283 would lose their
jobs in Key West. bat Represen-
tative George Smathers' office Be-
lephoned The Citizen that he had
succeeded in having the number
reduced to 81.
Up to late yesterday ID was said
at the Naval Base here that the
original order had not been modi-
fled. but at $50 o'clock yesterday
afternoon a message was received
from Rear Admiral Price con
firming the story the Citizen had
published week ago. -
Commander of the Key West
Naval Station. j. A. Fitzgerald.
said today that the, new ceiling
for civilian workers employed By
the navy here is 1913
The old limit Of workers 10 re-
main on the job was i,106.
The Bureau OF Yards and Docks
viii retain 537 persons. chiefly "a
construction work. The Bureau of
Ships, where repair men are used.
will retain 267.
In the clerical field. Bureau Of
Supply and Fiscal. will have a
ceiling Of 2l2 employees. Person
mel department is limited 10 two
civilian workers; Medicine and
Surgery Ito one.
I'VE don't have our final naval
budget YETI Commander Fitzrer-
aid tated-'Therefore we cant de
termine the number Of people We
will use until We know how much
Congress will allocate the Naval
Station in Key West"
Word OF a reduced cut in num-
Der of civilian lsyoffs was receiv-
ed at $50 p. m. yesterday. tllo
late for the Citizen dradline. TIE
call came directly from the 0finc
Of Rear Admiral John Dale Price.
deputy chief Of naval operation
in Washington. ID. {. At that time.
Captain J. A. Farrell. Jr.. now on
his way 10 Washington f0r new
duty was told that only 81 tenn
pOrary workers would be disnis-
sed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
|Meteorite Falls
In Russia

MOSCOW-(P)-A large meteo-
rite fell recently in the UralS
area. 1t exploded % miles over
the earth's surface.
It's fragments were scattered
over an area of about $50 square
kilomcterS. Many of there frag-
mcnts already have been found
and are being studied by Soviet
scientists. They weigh up to for
IT, Kilograms each. The meteorite
belongs to a group of rare stone
meteroirteS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
Elephant Has
Money But
No Crackers

ANTWERP. Belgium-lPD-A
coal miner from the Charleroi
area was pulling his wallet out of
his pocket to give his son a little
money to buy crackers and nuts
for an elephant in the Antwerp
zoo. The elephant picked up the
wallet and quietly swallowed it.
The elephant got no nuts or
crackers.
The mine worker got his money
back from insurance.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
Blast Lifts
Miner TO Safety

KALGOORLIE. West Austraais
|-ia-A gold miner here was in
cautions. There was an explosion
10 feet away. His mates rushed in
expecting to find him shattered.
He was merely dazed. The explo-
sion had lifted him bodily, and
the flying rocks had passed under
him. He was, however, severely
peppered by small bits, which
had forced pieces of dungaree and
flannel beneath his skin. Blood
poisoning resulted but he recov-
cred.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
Czeclls Print
Stain Works

PRAGUE R) - CZECH Com
munists are pushing a three-year
printing plan TO publish all the
works of Stain, so that every
worker can be armed with the
means of defeating reaction" The
official Czech press, agency said
that the first 100000 copies of
Stains books to be printed here
hardly enough to stock the libra
ries, information centers and fac
tory reading rooms. In the second
100000 some were available for
sale to individuals.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
SPalding Returns

City Manager Ralph Spalding
was well enough. after -a-recent
illness. TO report 10 his Office
for a short time yesterday end 10
day.
His secretary. Marie Valenzue-
la, will be installed in a new Of
flee in an ante-room 10 the right
of the City Managers present of
flee. She will act as receptionist
as well as secretary.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
y
Dies. AtSea

Learra Sertucha, 40, died at sea
Monday night at TAO o'clock on
board the steamship Mar Caribe.
He was the second engineer
He will be sent to Bilboa,
Spain, for funeral services and
burial by the Lopez Funeral
Home.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Justa Sertucha, and parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Juan Sertucha.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
And Sos
Your Old Mani!

PRAGUE - (R) - The Czechs
have a new wisecrack this sum
meT. 1t goes:
Question-Who's the greater
man, Stain or Lenin?
AnsWer-YeS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
Stores ToBe
Closed All Day
On Labor Day

Memebr stores of the Key
West Merchants Association
will be closed all day on Labor
Day, President Joe Pearlman
said today. He also stated that
the stores win be closed for a
half holiday nn Thursday Of
next week, ssS7s -. - -
The Thursday half holidays
will be continued throughout
September, MIR. Pearlman sad.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31
Revealed FBI
investigated
Gen. Vaughan
President
Resumed yillg
Before senate Sub
Committee Today
tRy Thr Ae~eeIatea f,ressD
WASHINGTON. Aug. N31--Mf

wy InF NNNNeAWttu tFeAAb
WASHINGTON, Aug. X3l-Ma-
jursGeneraI Harry Vaughan re-
sumed testifyiag today before the
senate subcommittee that is in,
vestigating charges against five
psrseD,srs ''-....s.,-'''f''
II was brought out by the COM
mittee that Vaughan had been in
vestigsied by the FBI ON charge
Of trying o. six" an income tax
case. Vaughan stated that he had
not heard Of such an Investigation
by the FBl bat that he knew the
FBI had Investigated him ON a
charge that he helped liquor in
duslries Ia try to obtain more SUI
gar at the time sugar was ration
ed.
No action against him was
taken as a result of the investiga-
ton, which. he declared, had been
done by the FIJI on tip from
some members of the press.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-31

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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-11-05
YazoO Vet Found
Guilty In Shooting
OF White Night
Club Owner

YAZOO CITY. MISS, Oct. 81
Lowell Sehaeffer, World War Two
Veteran was found guilty Of muir
der here Monday in the shooting
to death of Hardy Simmons, a
white Man who operated Yazoo
County Negro Night Club.
Judge Hugh Gillespie before
whom the case was heard deferred
sentence until next week.
AS far as could be learned there
were no Negro on either the Grand
nor Petit Jury which heard the
case.
Attorney j.. F. Barbour and Will
liam Barbour acted as special
prosecutors in the case.
The Veteran entered plea of
self-defense while the prosecution
charged premeditated murder.
Otis Wilkerson, also world war
two veteran charged with the same
crime is scheduled to be tried later
in the week.
According to reports Negro
Women who frequented the Night
Club are suspected of being behind
| +hA shooting. Both the defendants
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-11-05
White Says I. S.
Race Bias Subject
of World Criticism

NEW YORK, Oct. 27 = World
wide criticism of racial discrimina-
ton in the United States is re-
ported in an account of race re-
lations and colonialism presented
to government officials by Walter
White, NAACP secretary-on-leave,
on his return from a recent round
the-world tour.
Reporting that questions about
the contradiction of American
ideals of freedom and racial and
religious discrimination in the Uni
ted States" were encountered in
all parts of the globe, Mr.. White
asserts that incidents of discrimi-
nation "are used with devastating
effectiveness by the enemies and
critics of the United States to dis
credit American democracy"
Mr.. White also deplored the
scarcity of information being is
sued about the Negro in the Uni
ted States and suggested that "dis-
tinguished American Negroes like
DR.. Ralph ]. Bunche and Governor
William H. HASTE" be requested
to write special pamphlets for the
United States Information Service,
Setting forth the facts honestly
and tersely about the gains, as well
as the flaws, in the American race
situation
Each member of the Town Hall
Seminar, the group with which Mr..
White toured the globe, was re-
quested to make recommendations
which were used as the basis for
discussions with Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, the House Foreign
Affairs and Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committees, Secretary of
the Treasury John Snyder, and
Secretary of Defense Louis A.
Johnson and other officials. These
discussions were held in Washing
ton last week.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-11-05
His Word
BY Archbishop w. d. C. Johnson

Now when Solomon had made end of praying
the fire down from Heaven and consumed the
burnt offering and the sacrifices And the glory of the
Lord filled the house. and the priests could not enter
into the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord
had filled the Lords house, And when all the children
of Israel how the fire down, and the glory of
the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with
their faces to the ground upon the pavement and
shipped and praised the Lord, saying, He is good for
His mercy endureth forever" And Solomon, the son
of David strengthened in his kngdom and the Lord
his God, was with him and magnifed him exceedingly.
Give the King thy judgments, Q God, and thy right
eousness unto the Kings son. He shall judge thy
people with righteousness, and thy poor with good
Judgment for know that thou will help us, the faith
full Witness and the first begotten of the dead and the
Prince of Kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us
and washed us from sins in his blood, and hath
made kings and priests unto God and his father To
him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Enroll now in correspondence courses In the
ministry for missionary for evangelist. Write Chan
cellor A. Beclles, ST. James Evangelical Orthodox
Church. Archdiocese, 451 Lenox Ave-, NYC.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-11-05
One Word Group
Set For Tour

NEW YORK - Dick Campbell,
New York Concert Manager, an
nounced this week that his One
World Ensemble, the intercultural
concert quartet whose wide-sweep-
ing popularity is sky-rocketing to
a secure place among the nations
top concert attractions, has just
been booked for concert in Ogden
Hall at Hampton Institute on
November 10Th under the Joint
sponsorship of Beta Beta Sorority
and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. DR..
Nancy Bullock Woodbridge, Basileus
of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and fac
utly member at Hampton Institute,
negotiated the deal.
The novel interracial outfit which
is composed of a Negro tenor, ORR
entail soprano, Dutch contralto,
English basso and Jewish pianist,
is also slated for concerts in Wash
ington, d. G. on November 18th
under sponsorship of Sigma Gam
ma Rho Sorority, and Maryland
State College on November goth.
Campbell, the country's only full
time Race concert manager, was
the first booker to put an inter-
racial combination of this type in
the concert field.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-11-05
Dinah Washington
Ravens Take
PhiIly By Storm

PHILADELPHIA = The combi-
nation of Dinah Washington and
the Ravens did it the "hard way"
last week in reacking up a new
all time high record at the Earls
theatre here, top vaudeville house.
During two days of their week
long stand patrons in a block long
line stood as much as an hour and
a half awaiting a chance to wit
ness the two great star acts, sup
ported by dizzily paced variety
show.
The sensational twin attraction,
coupled by Ben Bart, top New
York agency mogul, has "steam
rollered" it's way to record crosses
in more than thirty theatre and
one night locations around the ma
ton.
After a brief rest following their
gold plated engagement here, the
two star attraction, backed up by
Joe Thomas, sparkling band, hit
the road for a nationwide tour ar
ranged by Dick Boone, of Universal
Attractions agency in Gotham.
Promoters throughout Dixie, the
midwest and southwest confidently
expect the two way sensation to re-
peat the box office successes of last
years spectacular crosses. The
tour begins Friday in South Bend,
Indiana.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-11-05
Peanut Grower
Says Farming Is
"A Good Business

81 am a farmer, because l find
it's a good business" says Arthur
r. Glover, who crosses close to
$4,000 a year on his 314-acre
farm near Smithfield, Va.
Mr.. Glover was reared on farm,
but found the long hours and low
pay on his fathers one-crop farm
very distasteful. So, he struck out
for the city where he worked at
odd jobs, cooked in a restaurant,
and fired boilers at cement fac
tory. "But / wasn't getting any,
where" says Mr.. Glover, who is
now So.
In 1910, he returned to Smith
field to try his hand at farming
on his own. He and Mrs. Glover
and their four sons started out as
tenants on 80 acres. Today, they
own 224 acres which cost them
$12, 1000, and they rent an addition
al 80.
eve owe lot to Mr.. Odom, our
county agent, says Mr.. Glover. He
helps us plan our farm program,
and his demonstrations on inocu-
lating pigs against cholera enabled
us to save our pig crop couple of
years ago when cholera was bad"
The Glovers have a modern,
highly mechanical farm, they own
two tractors and an assortment of
attachments, peanut picker, a
corn picker, a feed grinder, and a
moving machine.
Their principal crops are pea
nuts, soybeans, corn, and hogs.
They sell about rs hogs a year to
Smithfield packers.
One of their four sons is men,
Der of the All club. They hope he
will stay on the farm and take
over when he grows up.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-11-05
NAACP ASKS
HIGH COURT
TO BAN JIM
CROW DINER

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27-Sup-
porting Elmer w. Henderson's APP
peal to the United States Supreme
Court to invalidate the Southern
Railway Company's Jim Grow reg
ulations in its dining cars, Robert
L. Carter and Thurgood Marshall,
attorneys for the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People, have filed brief
amicus curiae with the Supreme
Court.
The NAACP attorneys asked
chat the judgment of the District
Court be reversed and that
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion be directed to enter an
order prohibiting the railroad
from requiring racial segregation
of its Negro dining car patrons.
The NAACP brief, field on Oc-
tober Il, contended that % the
Southern Railway Company's reg
ulation setting aside a separate
table in the diner for Negro pas
sengers violates the Interstate
Commerce Act, (2) that the regu-
lation Imposes a burden on inter-
state commerce in the same man
rer and to the same extent as the
state statute struck down by the
Court in the Irene Morgan case,
(3) that approval of this regula-
ton by the ICC constitutes gov
ernmental action within the reach
Of the Fifth Amendment, and (4)
that the Government has no au-
thority under the Constitution to
make, sanction or enforce, any
determinations or classificatons
based upon race or color.
ct is our belief the attorneys
assert, "that the racial distinc-
lions and determinations which
the Southern Railway is now at
tempting to enforce under its pres
ent regulations, and which the
Interstate Commerce Commission
and United States District Court
approved, are invalid, humiliating
to passengers both white and Ne
gro alike, and directly contrary to
the ideals Of democratic living to
which this country is dedicated"