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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1941-12-12

les11 pounds valued at e45Sst7e
during 1888 ahs latest year for
which figures are available. Miss
Dec1erk SAID
MiSStsdppl ranked second among
the southern states that year with
q eaten q ia07l0 600 pounds valued
a. ssa2ei6 The state also took
second pla0e In canning by account
inR for 2e25e6 caSes OF the INA
2sT cases Of canned shrimp valued
a &s2s1 s86 produced n the SIX
states borcerin& on Tire Gulf and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1941-12-12
wTuzIrrK-rKEsroS

Mr. ard Mrx Edward white an
na4zncs the enEzE=aa ana APP
moAehfnG uarr1zRe 81 their elaszs
daughter. Miss zora Patricia VII
hsie to Sergeant RoheFt Lee Pres
ton Youngest son Of Mr and Mrs.
" L Preston. Of Ada ono IRE
marriage viii take place IN The neaF
tutGre
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1941-12-12

EEEIIaI J.
OeeAn spTlngR Ms.
De q. Iesi
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1941-12-12

whik thk bafh rahe 8 sn htEh u Paeasoula and lk en-
gsFess thm unek Il dad ng attain te h3wh 8essa tnAs Il d9 last
Nrek ss IS J. eosnkas sl@g aiassy - m fcsos1nx wEa enow
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1941-12-12
Southern Fishermen
Furnish Majority OF
annual Shrimp Take
s-s=%@srpi Ranks sexsns A=
ShFtnsp~rx VITA Annuai Ca1rh
OF maNAa@ Fsumdzs

sew 0ssrafs Ia rNc fI-p
tureSqur little traw3erx hsArtnR
saeh cpsopfal nMz4sm ~ 1ksMi
oanbe ~DrweaMaun ard Odyssey
fsousA are plying tiae wahm of
TIE Our ~ MexBns ana Hoakh as
larsic these 80, faE dayx IL uEna
o. nliiinzW 81 Wara 81 EaFtnp foF.
ArserasAs dGatnE tables
operatlag from bases along Ehe
nzvose ~ l1utxfans and uae rfvprx
and hArosrx 81 N~ftxalaspga Tssas
Ala nsfns Fcrfsa ard 0eurxlm. ere
tins tTaNxra are exrarted 20 bfane
aahore more than rs naIIiinss pexnds
Of khramp during tire period b.
tween August and fsexg June
Mx8ch o. tftx shrimp easzzfst by
tie thousands q fisnermsn vii -
rushed u mMrket if~zaaedlAtelv. ard
some win De frozen or otllnru1m
PROGRESSED Nearly half oG klae eea-
asa catch however. win ha canned
90 that xhrtnnp.0ving Ameriealn
mar enjoy tfseH fasoTite So food
during the months when the Enrlrup
fleet u tied up Al - home naann
The canueFtex dotiins tne 0uif
Cosxt fran ApaMcfrtcolR Pa 70
Arkansas Pass. Texas and aIua gtne
South Atlantic. enable Americans
- enjoy shrimp al during Ehe
year. Miss LnnTA DecuerM dlrAc-
Tor OF the Sa FOOD Statistical
Bureau said to-day WIN the aid
- - - -
turS. shrimp canned from our
southern waters are dkstrEfxu1ed
throughout the country. One chair
alone. the A g. r. buys - per cent
Of ane annual canned oufpzff for is
stores Throughout the naffun~
Fishermen IN the Gulf and
South Atlantic states. wfifrh {
count for . great paFt Of tne worlds
production Of shrimp caught fSo.~
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1941-12-12

Kerch. seaport between the Black
Sea- and Sea Of Azov. Is called Rus
sias -Pompeii because OF wealth
Of ancient tumbs and relics found
there.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1941-12-12
tlae south Atlantic

tire South Atlantic.
Ouser states which play prom
fnent roles IN the Gull and South
Atlantic shrimp industry are Lou
iSiana which leads IN annual catch
and canning Georgia. Alabama
Florida and Texas
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1941-12-12

lei oug city cosssfns anSweF this
one wl1en c0es the trunk Of a
tree become q loe7
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Young Capital Flyer
Dies on Active Duty
Al UndiscIosed Point
George Everett Meeks, II.
Was Son of Copt. Meeks,
Retired Firemun

George Everett Meeks, 27, of
Washington, who slightly more than
year ago became an Army Air
Corps pilot, died Tuesday while in
active service with the flying force,
his father announced here today.
There were indications that the
young flyer was serving at one of
Americas new defense outposts-
Iceland, for inStance-but the father
said he had been unable TO learn
where his son was stationed and
the War Department made no an
nouncement
The father, Capt. George C.
Meeks, retired commander of the
Districts second FIRE engine COM
pany, said he last saw his son at
Mitchell Field. N. Y. four weeks ago.
Since then he had been sent to
some unnamed destination.
Plying was life itself" to George
his family said. AS a youngster he
won prizes for cunningly designed
models of speedy aircraft.
On October rs, 1880, he first got
off the ground-in a glider plane
He was the most talented" member
of the Eagle Glider Club, which
scared on a temporary field south
of Alexandria, Va, and established
the club record for time spent aloft
After studying at Central High
and Columbia Preparatory Schools
Evening star., 1941-08-22

defense. comes an item in an ap-
preparation bill for $35 900 900 for a
building to be erected on land which
was for many years used as the
Agricultural Experiment Station
land which, with the approval of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, was recently trans
ferred from the Department of Ag-
riculture to the War Department
in the belief that it would be kept
free from buildings.
Experience would dictate that
neither of these plans should be
lightly scrapped. The employment
of 10000 persons in place so lily
located for convenient and expedi-
tious access would seem to be Great
ing an entirely new flock of difficult
problems to add to those which al
ready exist, not to mention the
violence to the scene upon which
millions of public funds have been
lavished. Let us adhere to the es-
tablished plan for the permanent
War Department buildings!
IF, however, the present crisis is
such that a building to house War
Department employees must be ready
for occupation before unit of the
permanent War Department Build
ings, as planned, can be produced,
we suggest that building suitable
for temporary use by employees work.
ing on expanded defense activities
be erected on the land which the
War Department has acquired for
Evening star., 1941-08-22

porary buildings they should go on
the Columbia pike site and be cap
able of conversion into storehouses.
We have no faith in the temporary
life of so-called temporary buildings.
The Munitions and Navy Buildings,
erected during the World War on
Constitution avenue, in violation of
the plan, are still there after "a
years, an eyesore to the public and
a discomfort to the occupants.
Necessary sacrifices We are will
ing to make for the carefully planned
defense of the United States, but
for defense, as in other matters of
construction, We believe that sud-
den, ill-conceived decisions should
be avoided and we maintain that We
are not called upon to make unneces-
sary sacrifices, when sober thought
and sound judgment dictate lines
of action which involve no sacrifices.
1t is possible in this as in many
other affairs of life that more haste
will make less speed
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Eskimos Are Sentenced
In MansIaughter Cases
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BELCHER ISLANDS, Hudson
Bay, Canada, Aug. 22.-Peter Sala
and Charlie Ouerach. two of the
four Eskimos convicted of man
slaughter in the deaths of nine per-
sons during a religious dispute last
spring, were sentenced last night
to two years at hard labor at the
Chesterfield Inlet police post.
An Eskimo called Ablaykok was
given a one-year sentence while
Peter Quarack was given a sus-
pended sentence of two years.
Sala and Ouerach were said to
have claimed divinity, giving rise to
dissent among their tribesmen and
precipitating the deaths by clubbing,
shooting or exposure to a blizzard.
Sentences were pronounced by
Justice G. p. Plaxton of the Ontario
Supreme Court, who headed the
white mans court which travelled
13 days to reach this northern
settlement.
Seven persons in all had been held
for the court, but two Eskimo
women, Nina and Akeevik, were ad-
Judged insane and Alec Apawkok
was acquitted.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

warehouses for Quartermaster' S
stores. This land lies between Co.
lumbia pike and the Pennsylvania
Railroad, we'll out of the foreground
of Arlington Cemetery. If the build
ings could be so constructed that
they could be used permanently,
when the emergency is over, for
quartermaster' stores. they would
provide an expedient TO meet the
immediate needs of the Army
albeit, not without some serious
transportation problems
"On the other hand, if it Is found
that emergency needs can be met by
erecting one or more units of the
War Department Buildings in the
West Rectangle, according to the Of
f1cial plan, it would be consumma-
ton devoutly to be wished and one
which would serve post-defense as
we'll as immediate needs.
Hasty Choice Frowned On.
"One thing seems clear and that
is that no permanent buildings
should be erected in hastily selected
locations, or, like the Treasury
Building, they will be pointed out
by generations to come as some
bodys folly. Permanent buildings
should conform to the plan. It
seems equally clear that even tenn
porary buildings should not be
erected on the land Immediately in
the foreground of Arlington Gene
terry. If the time element is of suf :
ficient Importance to warrant tenn
Evening star., 1941-08-22
U.S.. Halls Price Fixing
For Vital Machine Part
Nv the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-Three ma
chine manufacturers were enjoined
from limiting the sale and fixing the
price of milling machine part vital
to defense industry under terms of
a consent injunction decree entered
today by Federal Judge Philip L.
Sullivan.
The companies, Kearney and
Trecker Corp, Milwaukee. Wis;
Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., Gin
cinnati, Ohio, and Brown & Sharpe
Manufacturing Co. Providence. R. l.,
were named in a civil injunction suit
instituted by Daniel Britt, head of
the Justice Departments Chicago
antitrust Office.
The suit alleged the three concerns
controlled patent on vital work.
ing part. used widely on metal work
In the manufacture Of automobiles,
tanks and airplanes.
1t also alleged that although 20
concerns applied for licenses to
manufacture the part since 1925,
only three obtained licenses, yet
under German patent obtained by
the three defendant companies its
free manufacture in Germany was
permitted.
The Government contended the
alleged restricting Of manufacture
and attendant price fixing consti-
tuted violations of the Sherman
Anti Trust Act.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Convicted SeIectee Held
Often Insubordinate
sy the Associated Press.


FORT BRAGG, N. c., Aug. 22-
The public relations Office at Fort
Bragg, in digest of the court
martial of Pvt. John Habinyak, New
York selectee. who was sentenced to
10 years and nine months in a
Federal penitentiary for insubord-
ination, quoted Pvt. Habinyak as
saying that he formerly received
wages of $40 day and that he would
not work for $21 month.
The digest was approved by Col.
Charles B. Elliott, post commander,
and Maj S. E. Murrell, judge advo-
cate at Fort Bragg.
Maj. Murrell said that except for
Pvt. Habinyak's attitude, the five
offenses upon which he was con-
victed would have been considered
minor, but that he continually re-
fused to obey orders.
Pvt. Habinyak, who was sentenced
10 serve his time in the Federal
penitentiary at Atlanta at hard
labor, was not allowed to talk to
newspaper men today Maj. Murrell
said the time and date of his depar-
ture for Atlanta would not be an
nounced. Col. Elliott ordered mill
tary police to see that the 26-year-
old selectee, who was indicted into
the service June %, was not mo-
Tested.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

he entered the Naval Academy-but
met a setback in calculus.
Then he went to the University
of Maryland-just long enough TO
pile up credits required for an Air
Corp cadetship. During his period
there he joined the rife team and
won an all-American rating for his
craftsmanship.
Young Meeks won his wings and
commission after nine months OF
intensive Air Corps training.
He went to Mitchell Field from
Langley Field, Va. At the time
month ago that his father visited
him, there was no hint that he would
leave continental United States.
Confers With Army officials.
The terse announcement of their
only child's death reached Capt. and
Mrs. Meeks at their summer resi-
dence in Woodland Beach, Md. They
came yesterday to the home of
friends in Arlington, Va, to be near
the War Department if further news
develops.
Capt. Meeks spent this morning
comforting with Army officials, and
gained the promise that the War
Department would seek details of
the flyers death Immediately by
'radiogram"
No funeral arrangements have
Evening star., 1941-08-22

7:3O pm Friday, August %. 1941: to 30
pm wednesday. August %, 1941' IN
Middle Atlantic States District Of Co
Iumbia, Virginia. New Jersey, Delaware.
Maryland. Eastern Pennsylvanis and New
York;: Cloudy showery weather tonrfht rfh
ern sections Saturday night and over
southern sections on Sunday followed by
generally fair. moderately cool weather
until about Tuesday or WEDNESDAY. wnen naa
sections The temperature will average
below normal over the north and slightly
below normal over southern sections dur
ing Ohio fde ii Waiies 5kentueky. Ohio. west Viz
sinia, western Pennsylvania). and Tennes-
see: Cloudy. showery weather over the
Ohio Valley tonight, spreading into Ten
urday night and over Tennessee Sunday;
followed by generally fair, moderately cool
weather until Tuesday and "wednesday.
mos ssecns Te Will
erage somewhat below normal over Ten
nessee and below normal in the Ohio
the Eastern States durins the past "A
hours and showers and thunderstorms
n,s % the IN a he presreEs rssen IN
q broad trough of low pressure which
extends from Michigan southwestward to
Texas Friday morning. An area of rela--
relatively C cool and considerably drier air.
eastward over the Upper MISSISSIPPI Val
derstorms in Florida and along the South
Atlantic coast and in portions of Texas
and the Southern Rocky Mountain region.
Temperatures are higher this morning over
otherWise 81 Vs temperature n e changes have been
unimportant during the past "a hours.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Three Store Chains,
Merchant Accused
Of Short Weights
D. c. Official soys Survey
Showed 239 OUT cf IT'S
Purchases Were Too Liqht

A total of % short-weight counts
against stores of three large chains
and three similar counts against an
individual storekeeper were taken
before Judge John P. Mcmahon in
Police Court today. Pleas Of not
guilty were entered in connection
with each charge and jury trial de-
manded, pending which bonds were
set at from 5000 to $500. The cases
involved meat, fowl and fish.
The chains are the Atlantic &
Pacific Tea Co, Inc, against which
there are 10 counts: the Sanitary
Grocery Co, Inc, 8 counts, and the
Acme Markets, Inc, counts. The
A. & P. and Sanitary bonds we're
set at $500 for each firm and the
Acme bond at $500.
The individual charged is Jacob
MaltZ of the 1900 block of Minnesota
avenue Sc, against whom three
counts were listed. Bond was set
at 5000.
Housewives Aided in Survey.
George M Roberts, superintendent
of weights and measures for the Dis
trict, who filed the charges, issued a
statement saying the cases were
brought to court as the outgrowth
of survey made by the Weights
and Measures Department, begin
ming in May, to determine whether
consumers receive the quantities for
which they paid. Purchases. he
said, were made for the depart
ment by Washington housewives en-
gagged for that purpose and were
made in widely separated sections
of the city.
In connection with the survey,
Mr.. Roberts said, out of DTS pur-
chases of meats and fish correct
weight was received IL times, over
weight "a times and short weight
239 times. Including all of the DTS
purchases of meats and fish made
in the survey, the weights repre-
sented averaged Al per cent more
than they actually weighed.
Criticizing the District govern
ment for refusing to give the names
of the employe or employees involved
in the counts against his firm, Elisha
Hanson, general counsel for the San
itary company. said he would request
that identity of the workers be dis
closed.
He termed withholding the names
Outrageous" and declared that the
Sanitary firm will contest the
charge that we are countenancing
such unlawful practices"
Refund Policy Cited.
Were helpless to do anything to
stop such practices unless the Gov
eminent tells us who are the guilty
parties" Mr.. Hanson said. adding
that his company periodically in
structs its employees in proper
methods of weighing.
"If we know who the guilty en-
ployes are, we can take disciplin-
ary action" he said.
He also explained that the COM
pany has made it policy to refund
money to customers who have any
complaint to make about their pur-
chases.
Every employe wears a badge
bearing his name, so there's no rea-
son not to know the identity of the
guilty employees, Mr.. Hanson said.
Mr.. Maltz, when asked for COM
ment, said he would prove his inno-
cence in court.
L. j. Hoffman. supervisor for A.
& P. in Washington. and r. T. Cas-
ties, general supervisor for Acme.
were not Immediately available for
comment
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Blood Typed at Meade
To Speed Trunsfusions

BY the Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md,
Aug. 22-Blood-typing tests ordered
recently by the War Department for
all soldiers are being given now to
officers and men of the 29th
Division.
The tests, which will group the
men in the four recognized classes,
will furnish records eXpediting
transfusions when the occasion re-
quires, Col. William H. Triplett,
division surgeon, explained.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Milo Perkins Heuds
Economic Defense
By the Associated Press.

Vice President Wallace has ap-
pointed Milo Perkins to be executive
director of the Economic Defense
Board, 1t was announced yesterday.
Mr.. Perkins now is president Of
the Federal Surplus Commodities
Corp. which has handled the dis
tribution of food among persons on
relief. He has been active in ad-
ministration farm activities for
several years.
He will be chief executive officer
of the board appointed by President
Roosevelt to coordinate the eco
nomic side of defense, including
supplies for England and her allies.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Virginia Seeks 10 Ban
Triple Taxes on U. 5.
Workers in Arlington
Law Is Planned to Aid
District Residents With
Offices in County

Triple taxation of the incomes of
persons living in Washington who
are employed in Virginia would be
abolished under proposed legisla-
ton now being studied by Arlington
Commissioner of Revenue Harry K.
Green.
The commissioner. who is chair
man of the Legislative Committee
of the Commissioners of Revenue
Association of Virginia. has been
requested by State Tax Commits
sioner C. H. Morrissett to study
possible revisions of the Virginia
tax code, he said.
The proposal would benefit several
thousand employees in the Federal
office building nearing completion on
Columbia pike and those who might
be employed in the proposed War
Department Building They would
be subject to Federal, Virginia and
District of Columbia income taxes.
The proposed amendment, however,
would not be confined solely to Fed
eral employees. but would apply to
workers in private industry in Vir-
ginia who live in the District or in
any other outside jurisdiction.
Some Exceptions.
This does not mean" Mr.. Green
said. that persons who reside in
the District and work over here, but
who maintain their legal residence
In another State, would be exempted
from Virginia taxation. Many such
persons now pay no income taxes at
all."
Mr. Green said he had been study
ing the proposal to exempt nom
residents from Virginia taxation
since the movement started to erect
Federal buildings in Virginia.
In letter to Mr.. Morrissett. Mr..
Green wrote: Il am wondering If
we cannot work out some amend
ment to Section 38 of the tax code
whereby we can exempt non-resi-
dents receiving income from labor
performed in Virginia without dis
turbing provisions to assess an in
come on business done, or property
located in the State"
Present Taxes
The District imposes a l per cent
income tax on salary brackets up to
5000; IL per cent for the next
5000; 2 per cent for the next S.
900 and 2la per cent in excess Of
BIS The Virginia rate is one
half of l per cent higher for each
bracket and under existing law, he
said, he must collect this Il per cent
difference. The revenue would not
be worth the extra expense of ad-
ditional personnel and office work
involved, Mr.. Green explained.
He said he does not believe any
income should be subject to triple
taxation and added he is attempting
to learn what .other States have
done to correct similar situations.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
General Export Permit
Allows War Shipments
nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The State Department yesterday
issued a general license for expor-
tation of numerous materials to
British Empire and Western Hemi-
sphere countries, Russia and others,
including some French territories.
The general license permits free
export of the materials under ex-
port control without the require
ment of individual licenses.
Among the articles are iron and
steel, machinery, chemicals, vege-
table products, rubber and paper.
French territories named in the
general license include Martinique
and other French areas in the West
ern Hemisphere. Other countries
include China, the Netherlands In
dies. Turkey, Iraq and Liberia.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Report
FURNISHED by the United States weather Bureau)

Purnshe by Bureau)
with lowest
considerable coudne with scattered
afternoon; gentle south and southwest winds
tonight with local thunder
showers tomorrow afternoon.
VgniaConSderabe cloudn and slightly warmer tonight 1o
lowed by local showers tomorrow.
tonight
thunderstorms.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Fire

Continued From First Page)
and 18 returned to the ship last
night after visits in Manhattan.
Capt. Albert Bjorkluf suffered
burns of both hands when he fought
his way through the rapidly spread
ing flames to warn the waitresses-
only to discover that they had
escaped. The captain then jumped
into the river and was picked up by
q pleasure craft.
Couldn't Halt Flames.
Naina Anderson, crewman, said he
found the blaze in the ships pantry
at 5 am. and Immediately went to
the quarters of Ulla Grenman, 26,
and Ami Gronstron. 43, the
Mattresses, to awaken them.
Aroused by Anderson, the crew
failed in an effort to man the jumps
and were taken of the blazing
vessel by river boatmen and police
launches.
Police notified the Federal Bureau
of Investigation at once, but there
was no immediate comment.
Police were summoned to the fire
by the motorman of a New York
Central train who, seeing the blazing
ship, blew his whistle so vigorously
that patrol cars went to investigate.
The Aurora was described by her
crew as a 4 4,500-ton vessel of 450-foot
length and 54-foot beam. They said
she left Buenos Aires July IA with
a cargo of linseed oil, rye and hides
She was awaiting orders from Hell
sinki at her anchorage.
Two fireboats, four police launches
and several commandeered craft
went out to the ship as she lay
1000 yards off the New York shore
In addition, 10 radio patrol cars,
emergency squads and ambulances
were called out. The Coast Guard
sent two vessels. -Four policemen
were treated for smoke inhalation.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
TeIeoroph Relics Suved

Relics of the first transcontinental
telegraph line, consisting Of a sec
ton Of wire and q fragment Of pole,
are exhibited in the museum at
SCOTS Bluff National Monument,
Nebr.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

been made, since it Is not known
here whether the aviator's body has
been located, or, if so, whether it
can be transported here.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
In recess.
Finance Committee continues hear
ings on 81, ,236, TOO, 900 revenue bill.
House:
In recsss.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
C3eodetic Survey)
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Depot Site Believed
Considered Seriously
For New War Office
Army Halls Construction
Of Warehouses Planned
At Arlington Troct

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