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Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devoted to the Best interests of Key West VOLUME LXVII No. 29 Steel Workers Still On Strike With No Immediate Settlement In Sight Yet STEEL INDUSTRY STILL INSISTS PRICE MUST BE INCREASED TO OFFSET WAGE BOOST Illy A WASHINGTON. Feb. 2—The steel strike entered its thirteenth day today without any immedi ate settlement in sight, as the teel industry still insists that, if it is to grant a wage increase of 18 1-7 cents an hour as rec ommended by President Tru mans fact-finding board, the price of steel must be increased to at least $6.25 a ton to offset the advance in wages. The only blight spot in the deadlock was the report that the President and OPA Administra tor Chester Bowles are to hold a conference, presumably about permitting the stel companies to raise the price of their product. From Chicago came the re port that officials of the Inland Steel Corporation, whose em ployees at the Armour plants in Chicago, who asserted that the, company is deliberately stalling in the re-employment of former strikers. Pathetic Pleas Made For Ships AP Newsfeutures JOHANNESBURG, South Af i :ca.—A shipping bottle-neck is zeeptfig inoie than 200 Souli. Africans from v siting Europe to n unt tor missing next-of-kin, while more than 10.000 persons ae wailing in England for pas sage to South Africa. “Every day we receive path etic letters,” said an .mmigration ar.d passport officer, "but there i: little we can do. Our allocation works out at 50 berths a month, out of which urgent business and other priorities must be ac commodated. 'Some ol the S’outh Africans v. ar widows and children in : banded .n England are young fbre financial straits because of it :ng unable to return home.” The South Africans waiting ge to Europe are mostly , naturalized settlers from the Balkan countr.es, many of whom Ift their families behind. The j la*d Cross and other organiza tions have made strenuous t fio:-ts to find some trace of their kin, without success. II ANTED Kitchen and Dining Room Help of All Kinds Apply to Chef LA CONCHA HOTEL OPEN EVENINGS To Serve You DAILY and SUNDAY We Open at 7 A.M. and Remain Open 'til Midnight . . . 7 Days A Week POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Division and Francis Sts. Open Sunday Phone 9134 LA CONCHA NOTE COCKTAIL LOUNGE AIR-CONDITIONED for YOUR COMFORT Now Featuring DANCING EVERY NIGHT Music by Barroso's Orchestra and The New Cocktail ‘LA CONCHA SPECIAL* BREAKFAST Served from , * . 8:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. LUNCHEON Served from . . . 12:00 Noon to 2:00 P.M. DINNERS Served from .... 5:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. HUGH C. HODGE. Manager ©he Key ffllest ©ittzei { THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. f ! . \_‘ Truman Gives Gen . Bradley 6 Full Support 9 (Ilf Annvciilrd i WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. President Truman gave his "complete support' 'to Gen eral Omar Bradley this after noon and spoke of the "fine way" he is conducting the Veterans Adrninisjratjpn bu reau under almost insur mountable difficulties. White House secretary, Charles Hpss, stated. < . . • . Veterans of Foreign Wars in Michigan said the "Amer ican Legion is leading with its chin" in its attack on Bradley, and United States veterans in Seattle. Washing ton. wired General Bradley: "We resent the unjustify able attack made on you by the American Legion." Every veterans organization in the country, except the American Legion, announced its confidence in Bradley and his ability to conduct the af fairs of the Veterans Admin istration. Monte Nursing, Class Planned WILL BE STARTED ON MON DAY BY RED CROSS ORGANIZATION ’ j bni t ; ! v Red Cross Home Nursing Class will start Monday at the 1 High School Annex and .will run j the full semester. Instruction will; be given one hour each day. Mrs. | Evelny Connely, Registered, Nurse will teach the class. The Red Cross Chapter, at all! times, maintains a fully equip-; ped home nursing room in the] annex. The room is equipped • with hospital beds, baby bath-j inettes and all the equipment' needed to use while studying the* course. - j Miss Catherine Lowe, Home' Economics Teacher stated mat the enrollment this semester was; larger than any previous enroll- 1 ment so that it was necessary vo] eliminate all enrollments with] the exception of die!Senior girls' in the high schodl. The twenty, girls' that will' be given ihej course are as follows: Dorothy Hobbs, Amparo Ovide, Beatrice Armavor, Betty Sue I Jones, Anita Aguilar, Bertha, Perez, Marion Solano, Phyllis Roberts, Mildred Tift, Olga Al varez, Annie Russell, Winnie May Young, Catherine Ross, Ro salie Camalier, Mary Spencer, 1 (Continued on Page Five) NORTH BEACH INN COFFEE SHOP 711 North Beach Phone 453-J • Full-Course DINNER. 6-8 p.m. • Spanish Home-cooked DINNERS by Reservation PALACE THEATER BUD ABBOTT in "NAUGHTY 90 # s" News and Serial Manjr Del end, Bradley From Legion Attack ( I; / GENERAL EISENHOWER AND CONGRESSMEN RALLY TO HIS DEFENSE IN WASHING TON (By ANMorlntril I’rraK) WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Gen eral Eisenhower and many con gressmen today rallied to the defense of General Omar N. Bradley, veterans’ adimistrator, as a result of an attack made on him yesterday by John Steele, commander of the American Legion, who complained about the “antiquated and inefficient I * ■ j i'.! .• > : l! . : methods” of the Veterans Admin istration under Bradley. t i.. • . General Eisenhower declared 1 ‘ 1 V-* i he was ready to “fly to the defense of Bradley, whom he considered “one of the greatest living Americans.” Several congressmen said that the administration was being conducted ably and capably by Bradley, and added that an at tempt was made to “smear” Gen eral Bradley because the legion wanted to “regain its lost con trol” over the Veterans Adminis tration. General Bradley said that Steel had asked that the proposed site for a veterans hospital in Illinois be changed, and that he had been told that he, Bradley, would abide by the decision of a com mittee that was considering the mutter of a site, adding that the site tHe C6mmittee chose was not the ond that Steele had recom mended. ‘ ‘ u ScVCrhi congressmen declared they felt confident that a great! majority of Legionnaires were ! not in sympathy with Steele in his attack on Bradley, Mrs. Agnes Pinder Dies This Morning Mrs. Agnes Pinder, 85, died' this morning at 7 o’clock at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Harold R. Pinder, 611 Frances street. Mrs. Pinder was the mother of Sam B. Pinder, former tax col lector of the City of Key West. Funeral services will be held tomorow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the First M. E. (Stone) Church,! Rev. C. T. Howes, pastor of the church, will officiate at the serv ices. Lopez Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Burial will be in the City Cemetery. Survivors are, one daughter Mrs. Harold R. Pinder; three sons, Samuel B. Pinder, Waddell, Pinder, and Randolph Pinder, of, West Palm Beach, Fla,; eight grandchildren, one great grand child; one brother, William Saw’- 1 yei’. Pallbearers who will serve at: the funeral are Fire Chief Leroy j Torres. Captain W. W. Demeyitt, Ro!s c Sawye*' Sr., Archie Rob-j erts. Thomas Kelly and Sheriff j Berlin A. Sawyer. GULF STREAM RESTAURANT i Management of I. Wiener Division at Simonlon Ph. 9106 i Featuring A SPECIAL | Sunday Dinner Bring the Family—the Children— Get a Full-plate at Reduced Price SERVED FROM NOON to MIDNIGHT 7* | i SNACK BAR OPEN J Daily and Sunday 24 Hours A Day Around the Clock SERVING •Breakfast 5:30 to 11 A. M. •Luncheon 11:30 to 2 P. M. • Dinner 5:30 to 9:30 P. M. Meals ala Carte, at All Hours We Cater to Weddlnjri*. Cartier and Fraternal Organisations BEER and WINE SERVED DURING LEGAL HOURS KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1946 Current American Motorist Carries Story Of Key West There is a sort of happy, teen age philosophy :n tiie Florida air , these days—cheerful, hopeful, | and spiritedly confident of the fu ture, according to an analysis of the state’s early stages of postwar adjustment contained in an art ! icie by Oliver Griswold, featured ! in the current issue of the AMER ICAN MOTORIST, official publi cation of the American Automo bile Association. Mr. Griswold is now in Key West. 1 The article, entitled “Reconver sion to Leisure”, which is illus tiated with Mr. Griswold’s photo graphs, goes on to state that this philosophy “is an excellent ingre dient to mix with the bright sun shine, the brilliant flowers, and the never-aging, shining sea. It is good atmosphere for the weary, the run-down, and the as well as for those who just want ito play for a while for the fun of it.” ’ ' <■ Written to indicate to potential tourists what they may expect to find in postwar 'Florida, the art icle continues: ( Florida V/ent Military ; “Like many spots on the globe, Florida was stirred to the depths of her economy by the war; the .state as a whole was as much, if not mere, of an armed camp than i some resort areas. Huge flying fields and training schools, tak ing advantage of the year-round outdoor weather, swelled little communities with vast, milling i populations. The air swarmed with planes of all shapes and sizes. The airports bustled and jumbled, and the sidewalks of villages, towns, and cities looked like Times Square on shore-leave . week-ends. Hotels and beaches were populated largely by drill ing, studying, serious-minded young men and women who had little enough time to look up at j the star-velvety sky, even for ce- j lestial navigation practice. "But General MacArthur had I ' hardly gotten ashore in Jaj>an | before the citizens of Flox da j were whipping gut their ; brushes, lawn mowers, pruning shefcrs, hammers, and trowels to pretty for the tourist sea j idrt. Labor, as “^Sewhera.. has - been scarce - for fbeonversion [ tasks. ; it‘ mdfcf Be ‘itelhembered ; thatf the folk who used to run 1 | the charter boats, cut bait, wait ! on table, run sightseeing tours. and make fishing tackle, havo ! been in airplane repair shops, USO canteens, shipyards;"•and the Armed Forces. ! “This has meant that ever since j j tiie war ended, the owners, thein i selves, have been working, and ' working hard. Helping, are many 'joung men and women from oth i ei parts of the country who train- 1 ! cd or served in Florida, who grew i ' to love the piace, and are staying ; on. Still more are coming back ; to go into business and make the i slate their home. All of these together are working with vim and- vigor to put Florida’s house ; in order. Lots To Be Done Yet ! “Nevertheless, there is still a ! lot to be done. Reconversion to i leisure will be spotty—more rap i id in some 'places than others, and i not to be totally accomplished in dL -w- ■*. . oc-. Jt* , We Have A Supply of War Surplus FILMS ALL SIZES SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY. Inc. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Duval at Fleming Phone 19S ■mnmOpen Daily and Sunday—We Never Clos?gaHnMHi icU^SwluiA "Key West’s Exclusive Night Spot" OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY AROUND THE CLOCK WE NEVER CLOSE Featuring BAR-B-Q MEAT Charcoal Broiled CHICKEN - STEAK - CHOPS SEAFOODS nANnr MI'SICL — GEORGE - JOHX - GIS SI OALOA CUtCHESTR A—Songs. Jaek Crowley For Reservations PHONE 9190 ■■■■■■■■■■l Boca Chlca Bus No. 4 to the DootHßm one season. Some of the concen trations of Armed Forces have al? ready been disbanded, but in oth er places vacationers will have to share the total housing accom modations with remaining uni formed personnel and war work ers who have not yet gone back to peacetime jobs. "Although a number of re sorts will have room for many vacationists, some of them that ' used to provide spotless and ef . fortless service have gone a bit i down at the heel and out at the ; elbow. In any event, it will be , safest to make reservations well in advance—a service ihat the AAA, needless to say, is happy to render. “Some things in Florida have changed little, if any. There is courtesy, for instance. If you are weary of sassy clerks and wai tresses, and the general level of rudeness on the part of others who serve the public, it will be like a lullaby to hear again the sincere politeness of the South. It , still has not returned to its pre- I war level, but since courtesy and hospitality were a stock-in-trade, it never sank to the abyss of crudity observed elsewhere, What a Floridian might consider diffi dence today will still sound like smiling solicitude to a Washing tonian. Florida Keys Fishing “Among other things not chang ed —except for the better, in some ■ ways—is fishing. It is still won ; aerful in Florida. Neither sub ; marines nor bombing practice nor | mines seem to have deterred na jture from the swift operation of ; multiplication tables among the gamsters, and the reefs and bays are teeinmg. The charter boat ; situation is not so good. Many | boats were laid up or worn out jin the war, and there will be a ! scarcity until new ones arc built, 1 despite the feverish activity of boatyards to repair and recondi ftion everything that can carry an J angler. It looks as though you will he able to get out to the Gulf Stream and the reefs, all right, .but not ao often. *3nUjS "Hence bridge fishing' and skiff fishing have increased in popularity. That i* ope OfjUWf I reasons that many first'-post | war tankfuls of gasoline were j burned on trips down the Over seas Highway, whose many bridges link the myriad Florida Keys south of Miami clear to Key West. This highway, one j of the relatively few to benefit from the war, has new wonders to offer the motorist. It now passes through much new ter ritory on a magnificent road | bed with a superb surface, j “After the war started, Key [West, the sunny Southernmost city in the United States, lying at the end of the highway, was trans formed almost overnight from a quiet, restful island community to an over-jammed hubbub of Army and Navy activity. To sup ply the quadrupled population and the construction expansion, the Overseas Highway roared night and day with heavy trucks. New Highway “The older parts of the road (Continued on Page Five) OCEAN VIEW DINING ROOM UNITED STREET <j£lF Near Corner of Duval St. FOR the BEST of FOODS at REASONABLE PRICES • Breakfast, 9 to 11 •Luncheon, 12 to 2 •Dinner, 5 to 9 Jap War Message Id Guise Of Discussed By Senate Committee Florida And Ollier States Will Continue To Grow At Expense Of Other Sections NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Florida and the five West Coast far . South Western states which gained population so rapidly I during the war will probably i continue to grow, at the expense of the rest of the country, says Dr. Vergil D. Reed, associate di rector or research of J. Walter Thompson Cos., and formerly act ing director of the . Bureau of Census, in a booklet "Population and Purchasing Power”, based ; on government figures and nade ! public today. Jacksonville is one ! (if the sixteen U. S. cities over t j 50,000 population listed by Dr. Reed “as most api to retain | their wartime growth and *o con tiue to grow.” War migration to * Florida merely speeded up a civ i ilian population shift which j started in 1935, Dr. Reed'points j out. New favorable freight rates, ! the writer adds will "be an im ' por-tant factor in the location of j new industry in the South. I With a birthrate which has ; rWlilic and to 17.6 per thousand in iiritt ’from 27 in 1910 and a re- | t stricted flow of immigration, the I population fyirtic of slightly overt i alter which there may oje a slow decrease. Meantime, there will be a sharp rise in the number of old people-; by 1980, Persons; ] of over 65 years of age will num ber 22,051,000 —more than three 1 times as many as there were in i 1920. The number of those oven 65 increased by about 25 ncr cent, between 193*9 and 1940; dur-j ing the 12 months between July, l 1943 and July, the number of those over 65 increased by; I 913.000 — equivalent of a, ! Dayton. Ohio or a Syracuse, Newj York. Nearly 1,009.000 American! | women—most of them between j ; 14 and 24 years of age, left the; i farms and moved into the cities ( j and larger towns between 1940 ! and 1944, nad most of them, Dr.j j Reed thinks, will remain in the ! Portents future expansfoW! of.pur economy ate seen in thbsei population fiends by Dr. Rebd] who writes that "the standard of * living can increase to'; Very i great heights even in 4 declining l population”. He points out that! the increasing number of old ' people will bring about a tre- I mendous rise in the number of special goods and services for the aged, such as hearing aids, j medical care, travel and resorts. ! As for the 1.000,000 women who j left the farm, they will continue CASA CAYO HUESO (The Southernmost House) 1400 Duval at South St. DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE Opens 5 P.M. Daily SLOPPY JOE’S BAR MUSIC EVERY NIGHT • > by : Package Goods Specials Park & Tilford ...: sth $3.65 Golden Wedding sth 3.65 Paul Jones sth 3.65 Sunny Brook sth 4.20 Imperial pts 2.20 Ron Zorro Rum „ sth 3.00 Old St. Croix Rum sth 3.00 DRINKS at the BAR Straight Drinks 25c to 40c Mixed Drinks , 35c to 50c • Full Line of Package Goods: <Special to The Citizen) to demand the services and pro-] ducts to which they have be-j come accustomed in the cities.] Another promise for continued expansion of production which Dr. Reed points out is the fact; that families are increasing at double the rate for individuals, and because families are for many products the basic unit of consumption there will be "in-, creased demand for many types of goods at a greater rate than indicated by population increas-; es alone.” In conclusion, Dr. Reed wirtes:: “We have natural resources, the' industriay facilities, labor force,' capital, and management to turn out a national product of $200,- 000,000,00 u year. We can do it because we have already done it.! But one further important force should be considered in connee-' tion with our population and the possibilities of maintaining the high standard of production which we have attained. This is J the psychology of the population. If the people feel secure in their jobs and secure as to the peace,] there is little reason t* be con cerned about depression. If people are' ridden with fear as] to the loss of their jobs or as to 1 the security of the peace, they! will not only hesitate to spend: from their savings, but they will try to hold on to their current income. Industry as well as 1 Government must keep in mind this factor and create the great est feeling of security possible, the ‘elimate’ for prosperity. Confuse George Reese Persons Monday there was an arrest of an employee at Elks Bingo Game of n George Reese who was held on $75 bond which was estreated ,when,,RQgse did not show up at citF.hpurt Tuesday. •jBQmIi y.ou know that there are two |George Reeses in town. The other Qqorge Reese, if arge W Reese who is a 1 iling man in the Inside Machine bhop at the Naval Station and who states very emphatically that hh has never been connected with the bingo games on Duval. George W. Reese, Jr., finds now that many persons are con fusing him with the other George Reese and what was at first an amusing coincidence in names has now become quite embarassing. WANTED Telephone Operator Apply Manager LA CONCHA HOTEL SSOO Reward ‘ for Information Leading to the Arrest and Conviction of Person or Persons Who Set Fire to My Building on Stock Island. MARK A. DUFFY KeiNMfretft, Florida, taa the mo'st kquabie climate in the country,' with an average range of only 14* Fahrenheit j v * Z PRICE FIVE CENT* SUBJECT INTRODUCED BY CAPT. STAFFORD DEALS WITH DECOD ING OF MESSAGE | 1 Illy Aosorlntrd I’rrotl WASHINGTON, . Feb. 2—A ! Japanese war message, in the guise of a weather advisory, sent out on December 4, 1941. three days before the attack on Pearl Harbo. discussed this morn ing befc ...a senate Pearl Hur bar disaster committee. The subject was introduced by Captain L. F. Stafford, who was connected with the decoding of the message, the purport Of which was that Japan had decid ed to go to war with the United States and Great Britain but was anxious to remain ui, peace with Russia. Committee members said there was a discrepancy between Staf ford’s testimony today and ihat which he had given ut a secret hearing early in 1944. At that time, it was (asserted, said the time the Japanese message was intercepted was pn, the evening of December J, 1941, but today lie gave the time as 8:30 o’clock on the morning of December 4. The committee decided to ad journ before croks-qflestion of Stafford was concluded, and he will be culled to the stand again when the committee resumes its hearings next week. Temperatures 1 1 inputaluie aaia tor the nouis ending 7:30 a.m. Highest Lowest Station last 24 hours last night Atlanta 48 32 Boston 34 22 Brownsville 86 57 Charleston 53 37 Chicago 40— Detroit 38 16 Galveston 56 48 Jacksonv lie 58 34 Kansas City 45 30 KEY WEST 77 66 K. W. Airport 76 66 Memphis ~ 55 27 Miami 74 Minneapolis 13 1 -15 New Orleans 56 47 New York 35 30 Norfolk 48 31 Oklr'' ma City 52 32 Peri la . ....... 55 44 Pittsburgh 36 23 St. TMHIS 41 27 Tampa ..! ... 64 48 Junior Woman's Club CABARET in "TIME OUT FOR MUSIC" 9 P.M. VALENTINE'S DAY February 14 at r • Sugaloa PER Pfc r JN . . . 51.50 Reserve tions Call 752-J or 627