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The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS

Pan American flight cancelled out today due to the condition of the runway on the field, but plan to make a flight tomorrow.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
NOTICE

Anyone knowing the where abouts of the Arctic Club Ski Tow please contact Gordon Osborne.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
CASA MARINA
WILL CLOSE
AFTER SUNDAY
Monroe April
State Pensions
Total $29,995

Payments from state and fed
eral tax funds to Florida's needy
aged, blind, and dependent chill
dren continued to climb in April,
according to the Rev. James H,
MacConnell, chairman of the
District No. 10 Welfare Board in
Monroe County.
The number of cases showed q
net increase over the State OF
1877 with an increase in assist
ance payments of SO, 1880. There
were 87,977 persons or families
on the rolls in April and they
received total of $3,569,9l4. Oh
that, $1,294,5 was state funde
and $2,725,325 was federal
and $2,725,325 was federal money
In Monroe county, SAP needy
aged persons shared in the as
sistance grants from tax funds
There were 387 dependent chill
dren in 1853 families who received
total of $29,995 in April.
Since assistance payment are
based on actual needs of the in
dividuals, not all received the
maximum of $50 in the aged and
blind programs, Father Macon
nell explained.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
Announced TOda,
BY Gunner Of
Hotel
Will Reopen Early
In December;
Ferry Failure
Reason For Closing

Casa Marina Hotel will close
for the summer months after
luncheon on Sunday. Leonard
Hicks. owner of the property. an
nounced today.
The hotel will reopen again
early In December, Hicks said.
tie added that the reason for
the hotel closing was failure to
get the Key West-Havana ferry
into operation before late fall.
There is not enough business
here IN the summer time tc
warrant keeping the hotel open
during that period" said Hicks.
Plans for general improve.
ments, including a number OF
new bathrooms. are now beinl
considered by Hicks. He said
more than 100000 in improve.
ments will be installed in the
hotel before the winter season.
Besides that, we spent about
100000 with local merchants dur.
ing the last season." said Hicks
We believe in buying what W,
can from local dealers"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
RECEIVE PROTESTS
AGAINST HAZINC NEW
HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS

cided to ask the High School
principal and the City Police
Department TO cooperate 10 see
that no further hszings be done.
In reference TO employment OF
physical education teacher the
board decided TO engage dur
ing the next school year. Miss
Janet Shupp, teacher, will be
interviewed in the next few days
by Horace O'Bryant, county
school superintendent, 20 see II
she can qualify for the physical
education teacher.
The board also decided 10 en-
ploy the woman as part time
teacher for physical education
and health education.
The board voted 10 buy 30
$1,000 bonds outstanding against
the County School system. After
Continued On Page SKI
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
End OF Berlin Blockade
Seems Near At Hand With
Conference OF Big Four
Due To Meet I'm New
York; If Agreement
Reached, Blockade
Will End Next Week
R) Wirephotos


NEW YORK, May 4.-The Big
Four is ready to hold their con-
ferences on the proposal to lift
the blockades of Berlin, it was
announced here today.
Heretofore, conferences about
disseminating the blockade have
been confined to representatives
from the United States and Rus
STA, Philip Jessup, American Am
bassador- at-large, and ]. A. NAL
TX, deputy foreign commissar,
but Great Britain and France
now will participate in the dis
cussionS.
Should an agreement be reach
ed at the conference of the Big
Four, it is expected that the Rus
sian blockade and the Allies
counter blockade will be ended
some time next week.
Further assumption is that,
with the discontinuance of the
blockades, the Big Four will
begin holding sessions in Paris
Is days from now.
The situation in Germany gen.
orally will be considered at the
conferences. The Allies were
warned today that Russia is al
most sure to attempt to halt the
organization of western Ger
many under a Democratic form
of government.
1t was said further that Russia
will try to have Germany operate
as a single constitutional state,
which would give the Soviets an
opportunity to connive for turn
ing the government into COM
munistic channels.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
FERRER SAYS HOLLINCSWORTH
COULD NOT DRIVE; OWES LIFE
TO FACT DURING RIDE UP KEYS
TaaicGb DriUer Tells Of Wild Rid
Yesterday After Youthful
Slayer Killed Mate
He Describes What
Took Place
Between Him And
Killer On Trip

The fact that John Holdings
worth, Is, apprentice seaman,
who shot and killed a shipmate
at the Key West Naval Station
early yesterday, did not know
how to drive is the reason ascri-
bed today by Rafael (Mr. Grass
Ferrer, taxi driver, why he is
alive after a wild six-hour ride
up the keys with the young STAY
er.
Ferrer, who picked up Hol-
lingsworth at Duval and Greene
streets shortly after the killing,
said the youth made no attempt
to shoot him and told how Hol-
lingsworth after his capture near
Goulds told the arresting officers
that he (Ferrer) had nothing to
do with what happened.
"He told me he was sorry he
had shot the clock off the DASH
lboard of my cab, said Ferrer to-
day as he sat in Pepe's coffee
shop. Gle also asked me why the
heck l did not pick the gun off
the floor when he fell asleep and
blow his brains out. He said hf,
deserved killing.
"When Hollingsworth first ap-
preached me l saw he was crazy
drunk. He asked me to take him
out to MONS Place on Stock
Island. When he arrived near
MONS, he told me to- drive on to
Boca Chica.
"He told me not to stop in front
of the gate, that l should stop fur
Their on. | drove on and asked
him if this was the place where
he wanted to go. He said go a lit
tie further l drove on past the
airfield
Il told him that my company
did not allow me to go further
than Boca Chica. Keep driving
he said
81 have two AS calibre guns
with me, one in each hand. | have
ten clips and a number of loose
bullets in my boots.
II have just killed a man and
don't mind killing another. To
show you l mean business I'll
shoot your clock off. Then he fir
ed through the clock, the bullet
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
School Board
Promises Remedial
Action; To Buy
$4,000 Of Bonds

Protests against the hazing of
new students at Key West High
School were made before the
meeting last night of the Mon
roe County School Board.
The protests were lodged by
Mrs. Fernando Camus and Mrs.
w. c. ClaWson, who also went
before the school board to ask
for teacher of physical educa-
ton for girls at the High School.
With reference to hazing the
board decided that the practice
should be discouraged and de-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04

passing through my accelerator
rod and hitting the carburetor
joint.
my speed was immediately
cut to 35 miles an hour. 1t would
go no faster and no slower than
that. then told him to get in the
front seat, that there was some
thing wrong with the car.
II did not want him to think
| was stalling He climbed over
the seat and sat beside me. told
him to put his left foot on the
accelerator and push it down, SC
as to show him it nearly was out
of commission.
He told me to stop the car.
We had then gone about four or
five miles past Boca Chica. He
told me to move over. Don't
move I've got you covered he
said.
He went around the back of
the cab and got in the drivers
seat. He asked me what he had
to do now, holding one gun in
his left hand and putting the
other one in his right hand peck
ct | told him to push the clutch
down as far as it would go.
shifted the gears three times for
him.
"He started driving with ono
hand. The machine started zig
Tagging. / knew he did not know
Continued On Page Six)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
Arrested Tuesday
Morning At
COuIdS
brought Back Here
With Ferrer,
Taxi Driver; No
Charges Yet Preferred

Charges have not yet been pre-
ferred against John b. Holdings
worth. 10. of Asheville. N. c.. for
the alleged Staying OF Robert Will
lima Long. of Buckeye. Arizona.
by Navy officers.
Young Hollingsworth is held
under heavy guard at the Naval
Station brig, and nothing about
charges will be considered before
the official Navy Board of Inqui-
~ completes its investigation of
the fatal shooting.
II will likely be charged that
Hollingsworth. an apprentice sea-
man was caught stealing four re-
v0lvers from the engineroom
aboard the PC-l263. a Naval pa
troll craft which is tied up along
side pier 3 al the Naval Station.
ID Is presumed that Long dis
covered Hollingsworth stealing
the weapons. When Long protest
ed. II IL further presumed. he
threw zap his left arm to avoid a
blow from Hollingsworth. The
bullet entered Longs left arm,
travelled through his heart and
emerged out his right side. Long
died INSTANTLY.
Later Hollingsworth fled out
of the Naval Station. changed in
o. civilian clothes in back of the
Monroe County courthouse and
then walked down Whitehead
street Ia Greene street. Then he
approached a. taxieab stand at the
rofncr
There he engaged Rafael (Mr.
Grass Ferrer. a taxicab driver, to
take him 10 Boca Chica Naval
Air Station. Then he forced Fer
rer to drive him nearly to Goulds,
where Hollingsworth was placed
under arrest at about $3.50 a. m.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04

yesterday (Ferrer's story is told
elsewhere in today's Citizen).
About 4:30 p. m Hollingsworth
was brought back to the Naval
Station by Shore Patrol Chief
Thomas Short. Ferrer drove back
to Key West with Deputy Sheriff
Frank Weber. Ferrer was not
held by Sheriff Berlin A. Sawyer,
but the Naval officials told Fer
rer not to leave the city without
first notifying them.
II is known now that Holdings
worth stole four revolvers from
the Pc-f263. The one he used to
shoot Long was flung on the floor
of the engineroom of the ship,
while a second one was tossed
overheard.
With the other two guns, Hol-
lngsworth threatened Ferrer all
the way up the keys.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
Clay Given
Big Ovation
In Berlin
1000 Troops,
Including 35 Generals,
Parade On Eve Of
Departure To u. S.


BERLIN, May General Luz
cius Clay, retiring military gov
ernor of the American zone in
Germany. was given q rousing
sendoff today on the eve of his
departure for the United States.
Eleven thousand troops, includ-
ing IS generals, participated in a
parade, while bands played and
planes circled overhead. Some of
the planes wrote the generals
name in the sky.
When he arose to make his
farewell address, it was plain to
Continued From Page SKI
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04

thon AMI Matecumbe. Dillon ask
ed that the Board make . qui K
decision for only little over a
month of school time remained.
The matter WAS referred 80 The
chairman of the Welfare commit
tee.
Senator Jim Franklin Answers
County Letter On Legislation
An answer was received from
Senator James Franklin % the
request of the board Of county
commissioners that he oppose leg
islation allowing railroad cum
mittee to regulate all electric, Gas
and water companies. Franklins
letter read in part II viii watch
the progress of the bill and viii
bear in mild the interest of your
board of county commissioners"
Wilson Shsws Monthly
collectiops Of sss.4oi.s3
Monroe County Tax Collector
Howard Wilson has collected Zoe
the month Of April the sum d
SIS, 40l.S3.
OF this amount SIG. $3.50 Is fof
the county and $zs. 067 - is ell
lotted to the Monroc county
schools: $500.
fSafo1k Measures Tsk<,s -.
At M6hros County Beach
II was decided that hereafter
no fishing would be allowed CA
the county pier at the $3.50. 600
county beach. Signs viii be post
ed telling the public of this fact.
Also the speed limit ON the road
through the beach has been set
at 10 miles an hour with no trucks
allowed except when driven an
the county beach on business.
Commissioner Clarence Higgs
said that he personally had
warned some motorists about
speeding at the beach. He (Higgs)
had also received many com
plants from mothers about the
dangerous speeding of scoOters.
etc.
II was also decided 10 allow
Commissioners Joe Allen % APP
point regular worker al the
colored beach at a salary of siO0
monthly. AT present the 500 Is
Continued On Page SiD
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
County Not To Act
In Racing Track Bill
Now At Tallahassee
Harry L. Strauss, President Of Tropical
Park, Wanted County To Pass
Emergency Resolution

County Commissioners last night in uuau
ousy to table emergency an.
new racing bill that would allow Horse Racine
Track to operate 20 days before and
Harry L. Straus Park had
three eesram to County Commissioners urging on the
ter The Tropical Park in his ssurs a
the Tropical Racing
season the bill in the Legislature preseased this Thur
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04

Stratus warned that Monroe
County would lose considerable
revenue if the Tropical Park were
forced to 60 out of business by
the pending legislative act.
Board Chairman Frank Bent
ley summed up his fellow MEM
bers' opinions by stating Il don't
know whether this change would
be good or bad. MIR. Straus says
that we (the county, would lose
money if the bill is enacted, but
then possibly just as much money
would be forthcoming from the
other track (Gulfstream)".
The racing bill controversy is
particularly disputed in Dade
County, where it would have far
reaching results. One of the rea-
sons given for allowing the Gulf
stream to take preference over
Tropical is that Gulfstream is
said to be locally owned while
Tropical is reputed to be control
led by out of state owners.
Roadway Around Court House
Not To Be Parked In
Board of County Commission.
ers went on record for enforcing
the mo parking order on the
roadway circling the court house
IA large sign viii be pa5iStsd q
the streets informing the publ,
that arrests will be made for vic
lations thereof.
Monroe County Tax Collector
Howard Wilson had protested
the non-enforcement of the mo.
parking" order. Wilson said that
on three occasions recently he
has been unable to take his car
out of the county garage. Just re-
Gently, he waited over a half
hour for the roadway to be clear
ed. This delay caused him to ar
rive at the local bank too late to
make large county deposit.
High School Band May
Play Before Key Audience
In a letter read by Monroe
County Clerk Earl Adams and
signed by Earl Dillon as director
of the Key West High School
band it was requested that the
county provide food and trans
portation for the local high school
band to play at Tavernier, Mara
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
Iollingsworth In
Navy Station Brig |.
ForSlayingS hipmate
More Money
.ForKey West
Cancer Fund

1t was announced today by
Louis Carbonell, Monroe county
Cancer chairman, that donations
are still being received by him
for the cancer fund. Although the
local drive was over officially the
end of April, it is not too late
to contribute, he said.
Mr. Carbonell also gave the re-
suits of both the charity ball,
sponsored by the Jaycees and the
midnight show at the Monroe
theatre, sponsored by the Bust
ness and Professional Women's
club.
Also included in the list are
the latest donations received and
not yet published. Receipts:
Charity Ball 211.00
Midnight Show 10000
Herman Holtsberg $500
Material Group of Sup
ply (U. S. Naval Sta.) 7.26
MIR. and Mrs. AL Warnock 500
p Business & Professional
Women 500
Red Talon 500
Cancer Candle Hqs.) 1888
Total 42l.59
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
Infants Body
Sent To Syracuse

The body of Nancy Lee Mullen,
age 3 months, who was found
dead Saturday in a trailer at Fl.
Taylor, was sent yesterday after
noon by the Pritchard Funeral
Home to Syracuse, N. Y, for
funeral services and burial in the
family plot.
She is survived by her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Mullen,
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs, j. P.
Breton, of Syracuse, New York.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
State Senate
Confirms Five
Key Westers
tBx The Associated Pressl

TALLAHASSEE, May 4-The
state senate late yesterday after
noon, confirmed the appointment
of Edward A. Strunk, Jr., as
commissioner of the Everglades
Fire Control District for Monroe
county.
Mrs. Isabelle Fleming, William
Arnold and Sam E. Harris were
confirmed as members of the
Board of Commissioners of the
Overseas Road and Toll Bridge
District, and Kellar Watson as
Key West harbor master.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
Report Chang
In Shanghai 70
Direct Troops
(By Associated Prs4s,

SHANGHAI, May 4-Commu-
mist troops have captured Hang
chow, 100 to the southwest, ac-
cording to information received
here. Possession of that city, it
was explained. will cut off the es-
cape of Nationalist troops to the
south. Forty thousand Reds were
reported to be in Hangchow.
A rumor persisted here that
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek
is still in Shanghai, and that he
has decided to command the ma
tionalists in the defense of the
city.
A report received here from
Nanknig was that the American
Ambassador had left that city.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-05-04
Stores Begin
Noon Closing
Thursday, May ~

All stores that are members of
the retail merchants association
begins their summer holiday clos
ings on the third Thursday in
this month. Stores will be closed
last Thursday in September
which. is the 10Th.
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