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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13
ARMY MORALS

Genial Mark McCloskey, the Fed eral Security agency's recreation ex- pert, has the soldiers moral lapse figured down to one crucial hour This hour is the one during which him back to camp.
 McCloskey, whose job it is to worry about such things and work with the Army and Navy, has doped out that if time drags heav- fly during that hour of waiting the soldier may make for honky- tonks-and who's to blame him?
 The smart thing to do" Me Closkey. says, Ifs to brighten UT the terminals. Give the boys g place to shoot pool, get some gooc
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13
LOOK and LEARN %sy c. GORDON

What plural following Talsman grouse, calf?
 What four other by which the States known?
  What builds bushes, 
 What the city
 ANSWERS TaisEaai1s grouse old Glory slsr-spanged Banner Stars Stripes Red White Blue Bitminous The wasp Cleveland
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13

fense contracts, 90 percent Of the orders awarded during the last half of l94O went to 500 large concerns. And IA of them got 95 percent of all contracts over $l00,000, amount ing to $6,668,800. 900.
 Despite the frantic pleas of De- fense officials for speed, a num- Der of these orders have clauses forbidding sub-contracting without the permission of the primary con- tractor.
 No wonder defense production is tagging.
 NOTE The Defense Contract Service estimates. that 50 percent of the machine tools in the coun- try are either idle or working less than eight hours day.
 MELLON ART GALLERY
 Both the building and contents of the Mellon financed National Art Gallery, which opened recently in the Capital, have been the tar get of heated criticism by archi- tects and artists.
 Some have derisively described the Greco-Roman structure as 'mausoleum"; others have cas- doubt on the authenticity of cer' tain of the prized old masterpieces It is alleged that two of the Ru' bens and one Van Dyke were no actually painted by them, but b. pupils.
 Brilliant, witty Ned Bruce, Wht as head of the Federal Fine Art Section has done more than an! man in U. s. history to promop art in the country, has tended t' his own knitting. But the othe day, when a friend asked him fo his opinion of the $50,000 Meilor collection. Bruce replied with { quiet smile. Its perfectly Duv een."
 NOTE The late Lord Josepf Duveen. noted British art dealer sold the late Secretary of ths Treasury most of the masterpiece of his collection.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13

MT Hopkins probably will have to confess to President Roosevelt that the war has changed as much real estate the WPA, but then he argue that it is costing more
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13
Tobruk Sill Holding Out
 Against Axis
German, Italian Forces Un- able 10 Crash British
 Qualifications

CAIRO, May 13. = The British headquarters announced today there is no change in the situation at Tobruk, 80 miles west of here, where the Axis forces have been trying for weeks to break through the British Qualifications.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13

ester Evans pcnickers
 little headway against drouh the natural dangers cigarette help.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13

With the German Army in back of him. Benito Mussolini is pretty tough fellow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13
Washington Merry
 Go-Round

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13

The Dal6 Alasxa Empire has tn largest paid circulation of any Al aska newspaper ~~-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13

Empire Classifieds Payi.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13

Weather: Highest. 43; lowest 34; cloudy.
Evening star., 1941-05-11

COINCIDENCE. Richard Connell, whose gay
short stories have appeared in THIS WEEK
Magazine, recently wrote short novel about
a workman who saved up all his life so that
he could retire and go fishing Then he retired
and found that, after all, he liked working
much better than fishing.
When it came to filling in the details of his
story. Connell pulled down an atlas and, more
or less at random, decided to locate his story
in Ashtabula, Ohio Then, at random. he de-
cided to make his workman plumber by
trade. He was just trying to think up name
for him when his wife, Louise stopped by
Darling " she began. Stop said Con-
nell That's the name for our character"
A few months later the story came out and
letters began to pour in from people saying
that there was, in fact, plumber named
Darling in Ashtabula who planned to retire
and then refused to accept his annuity because
he loved plumbing and hated fishing.
Ever since that time Connell has been try
ing to figure out the odds on such combina-
ton of condolences. According to one statls-
tician the chances are about one in ten mil
lion - so Connell will have to write lot of
stories before it happens again
SPLINTER. The droll wooden face WHICH
Charlie Mccarthy has made famous was
originally modelled from the face of friend of
Edgar Bergen. He was actually that home
Evening star., 1941-05-11

- A DE HAD been quietly discussing trends of the
w times "a gracious sray-haired lady and II
" when suddenly she said fearful thing
she said mothers were going out of fashion" She
meant that the pedestal had been kicked out from
under maternity - that the name Mother" had
lost its magic - that children longer felt the
ancient reverence for the women who had borne
and reared them.
Was she serious - this mother whose own chill
dren, knew regarded her with the full measure of
love and devotion? She was. She had been speaking
of general condition which she herself, praise God
had escaped but which she had seen all about her.
But had she read the signs Alright?
thought of the Notwithstanding implications be-
hind her tragic statement Mothers are going out of
fashion, of the dependence of civilization upon the
guidance and inspiration of motherhood through the
ages; of Emerson's observation, Men are what
their mothers made them" and Lincolns simple
tribute, "All that am or hope to be. owe to my
angel mother" And suddenly it struck me that in
this selfconscious century, what Lincoln said might
be considered "hokum" by some.
remembered Cornelia, the Roman mother who,
when asked for glimpse of her fabulous jewels,
presented her two sons, and said, These are my
jewels"
Was that 'hokum," too?
And Rizpah, watching through the long night to
keep the beasts of prey from the bodies of her two
sons, hanged for the sins of their father.
And remembered the ancient queen whose little
son was dying of the plague of how he looked at her
no longer prince but parlah of disease - and
asked her to kiss him good night. And she did kiss
him, because she was his mother. and caught the
plague from him, and died with him.
And that other mother, nOblest and sweetest
of them ALL whose name Mary - tenderest
legacy of the dying Jesus to untold generations of
man: Behold my mother
! REMEMBERED my own mother.
Time and | have become old friends since she
died; what hair still fingers Loyalty on my head is
gray; have lived full life and known many people,
but in all my memory she remains the dominant
and best experience Her presence has never left me-
She was devout Christian, but she persuaded
my father to discontinue his studies for the Epis-
copal ministry and to the theater. where with
his plays he could bring his message to greater
audience than he could reach from the pulpit
1t was she who taught my brother, Bill, and me to
read and to pray; she who with my father, nstiled
religion ideals of citizenship and love Of Coun-
try, and whatever possess of the qualities OF
faith, hope and charity.
She was strong character and a great soul, at
once driving power and inspiration to all.
And when not yet forty, my father died, leaving a
small estate that began to dwndle, she taught
her what it was to fight.
With the courage of supreme realism, she put her
sheltered past behind her and turned Our family
Evening star., 1941-05-11
THE HOuEST THING ALIVE"
A Message for Mothers Day
BY CECIL 3. DE MILE
Noted Moiion- Picture Producer
Noted Motion Picture Producer

home at Pompton New Jersey into school for
girls. And she made go of it, till sudden disaster
brought the venture to an end.
Then, marshang our chief remaining assets she
gathered up my fathers plays together with those
he had written with David Belasco and not only
brought about lucrative, long lasting revival of
those dramas throughout the country but built one
of the chief and most successful agencies for play
wrghts in New York City
These things she did for her sons.
She sent Bill to Columbia University, me to
Pennsylvania Military College; fostered in us the
love of the theater which both had inherited from
father; helped to write plays. and me to pro-
duce them, and with a clarity of vision which did
not then fully realize, encouraged me to cast my
lot with the despised and infantile movies" She
lived to see that encouragement justified, to
motion pictures become one of the most powerful
influences the world has ever known.
And before she died, she was writing scenarios for
them herself.
WHAr a woman she was, And what a mother.
1t was for her strength. courage. mind. ideals and
integrity that respected her; but it was for her
goodness her everlasting devotion and greatest of
all, her understanding, that we loved her,
Am l to believe that there are more mothers
like her; no Rizpahs women like that ancient
queen?
Some young mothers, perhaps, may lack dignity
and some children may lack gratitude story as
old as man himself More important some young
mothers nowadays may thoughtlessly leave to the
schools the teachings which they themselves should
nstill in their children - teachings which schools
alone can never mpart completely.
Home life is deteroratng, and that is the greatest
curse of these restless times. For it is in the home
that children learn with greatest force respect for
authority, true regard for others, love of the
beautiful, and hatred of the cruel.
And, yes, there is plague of irreverence abroad
in the world
But these things not new. Reaction,
believe, is sure to come perhaps is already here.
Guns roar in Europe; fathers and sons peer fear
fully into the omnous night of no mans land,
and think of home; women hurl their bodies over
those of babes to shield them from the bombs. and
die in the name of motherhood; and over the bodies
of slain young in every war torn field and town,
modern Rizpahs watch through the terror-ridden
night and weep.
Statesmen talk of Straitened economic order to
follow peace; yet women. sitting by the broken
hearths of their demolished houses, already plan
the reconstruction! For these not times that
destroy homes, but that build them; these are the
times when men need women most, and when
women rise to their noblest heights
And there shall be no new order" of mother
hood 1t shall always be as Coleridge said. and man
shall take comfort from it forever:
"A mother is mother still,
The holiest thing alive"
Evening star., 1941-05-11

ly," says Bergen, but very much loved
Now Charlie has become personality in his
own right. A large per cent of the mail that
comes to Edgar Bergen is addressed to
Charlie Bergen, and many people call Bergen
Charlie instead of Edgar. Bergen wonders if
he is losing his original identity.
SUSPENSE. Georges Duhamel, the French
poet and playwright once went with friend
to hear lecture by famous old German
professor.
Duhamel understood very little German,
but it soon became apparent to him that the
lecture must be extremely fascinating While
the speaker rushed along. growing more and
more passionate, the audience excitedy craned
its necks, waited open-mouthed. and even
leaned forward eagerly to break into hearty
cheers when the lecturer finished
What was t." Duhamel asked his friend.
why we're they so excited? What were they
waiting for so desperately"
''Oh. nothing unusual" the other replied.
They were just breathless with excitement
waiting for the verb M.
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1941-09-19
Home Registration
Office Seeks Rooms

TIE raseaaoula noaua rlsglslrn~
ton Bureau has esEahlkhsd lts
offices IN the pAacaanula Can.
mnally House building md has
had > large nunhef ~ inquiries
during re past several daes. L -
ann0meAa - AAf1n naFa1. mIo l.
chairman q tie COMMITTEES Ii
ehNens.
Although tbs bslfeaa has rsnefsed
Aaflneg g roesna which ars sail.
able faf aefenss naFkeTs ard ognsra
zsy few apartments and houses
have been listed Persons having
fhese fselilsi3z foT rent aFn urgently
requested - tesphons 1s7 nheFe
tAseg slI - takea and listed TIsese
Is no charge fof ines Services Il
TIE entire pfeIect i being opefaled
suieElg IS 9 part a 61e National
DefeIzse W0EFam.
I1eFs 5 , great demand aos
roosn8 alza apartments axae faana
residents W60 eaa enusaf4 lhsif
aeues into naeh facilities ere urNod
= ~ % hssp 0ul during t1e emery.
e1s<S aaa ngAszlnx shoTtAEs
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1941-09-19
Two Dances Planned
For This Week. End

The FhneaeoulA neefeaslnn1
Council = sponsoring > dance to-
ne fon-eosranisaluisd Officers from
keaain Enla 70 be given on sat.
aroa5 night IT tae paaeaRuain cEnn-
munity House These 0~fflurra mgIf
bring their Osn orchestra from Ehnsf
heAdqeAkEefA ~ Hit0zI
Admission % uas dasee atu b b.
invitation only. II was announced
81 MF4 T. n Wells. recreation
supervisor. who hmA been acting A.
hostess FIR tbs dances given fnf ths
soldiers.
There also sili b. : puhiie dance
~ TIE Community Hoszsa tunlehf
following the PaAeaaoufa-lons
Beach fassbali game. This dance :
being sponsored By she Defense
Council and > small adm1asion fsa
HiiI BE- charged
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1941-09-19
KLEcrIoS NOTICE

To he QaaAfied Esertarx Of tie c,ty of
fsacaE9qia4 Mieziasiprfs
rot ARB HEREBY NOTIFIED that en-
the t6 dAE u September, 1871. the
Beard q MAYOR sna gouneilmsn II he
Ci1T q Fezeaeouie. aH1sfed thss a. eIer-
tim k bed IN said City On ne 1ssh
aAy u oetabeT, 1871. foF tie p4Feazs II
snbmtuug % The qualified ~aiertors ~
sd eftF tie falagwiax pEopnsIs4sns
shall the City 81 PAseHzaula. Mss.
siprL grant % the sinslne Rive Kiassxis
Poser Associative o. Laasdale hfasks-
RiE9L 3 frenehAss = eater ske eorp.xAts
limits = TIE City and - eonstrae4. matn-
tstH And ppefete an a~iarfr1e eraAamiszsn
hHe or szstezs asanE and seFuss any ae1
Al strse1. atlsrx. sss4nes. pubII1 hizk-
SAYS, bridges sa1 osAer Sablfe pIzeas
ard CROSSINGS Il ahe parts u sha CITY
4 P~@se4xoalss Mississippi. Described -
faIs9ss
Bern - = posnt shaas go fsst
BorEk u the tol hrkaxs ass fram
theaes raa In az eGs4sxly alreezAsn
following . certain sizD ED efass
RAFh Cesar Street. Ftaz Street. Las
Stress and Paeensaais Street GhsAes
rgz sn > eezzheAsaeTiY aiFeessod 3ot
NMza4 shs ssath mAFafs - 1ae
stfax AeHes eFaas Tezsskaas Ezs8
ahe ks4nett s3Hs@ thszza ia
soath Is he wesE nArssa q -
ausszs thence cnaa ferteT Suset F.
nsszss 20 eastward aaz efaN
B1rsaaa Street,
80 aetaa - - I'D sa ne rexalag
pasHE pA@as n az CaB q FAsea0eala
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1941-09-19
Parent Teachers
Hold Organization
Meeting "Wednesday

The rasnakoaM Illen axhusA
pArent Traef4M AMsN8tApn heaa
Is saitiAi nsreune e re lf&is A.
srhoN rear. wesneaaar aftsFuNsaw
81 use rektcsa nualtoffam. uttA Mira
~ + AvWFA WeasAanN Nattaas
falsinass matters fM ire feaF NNfs
sakrn ~ ard eszsnltssea vsEs A..
pointed
ne nenaau oswneA uath aAaas
attending Eep<ailSM ua LMaa
PRAYER Ia unsana IL ua& An
naunrea t4af Ne Hsel4sn iW Ne
Rxsga puNrMm uunla M Tegsnne
81 Chslahocd
Mrs r. W mKAAson save nn h.
teresttne taik % 7ctrazlan Gnu
@ns4aip
A history anlu VS. czsdutlsd y
Nir4f usiA prtnctpMf ~ tn pa2.
caeasaia nlgh school Aaaxna ths
naesnhexx q ahs aauaciA1ton.
The msnstSra voted 80 Faise ire
dues II tics n~lananef1tain ffun M
cenaA 10 90 ee41u - N1as Some 4
un dues may be feEMined b ne
local organization. NE kfaAsaFy X
aided and purchases be mace q
material Tor uae Ia 10 association
un9Fame ard othnf purposes Ia
NE past the entire = eeaM dues
sent 10 tne state association
f. r. Wells made : tnIk. annoATh-
hsg The manner of operating Tie
senooA 10 meet me ovm-sFawdel
conditions
II also 80 announced that o.
district meeting viz be held i
rerklnatan 1anloF CAalaewn on 0cto.
bpf J
The committee ehnlgmen 90.
paInled 70 srse during Ire yeal
are spiritual fz1noati8n. Mgk r
W Hgaksn1a. library. Miss Ellis
Rosvfs and Mn. ". e. unllasl
membership MIRA Q. q M1Co4
MrN Calvin nclding. Mira !
MyNna ana Mls. a c. roWan,
publicity. MsA ". T. aYafkman
IT.. pulslicatiun. Mra Il d Ma
hAfgeys program. MFa Henfy W
Iaatiegs fifsuee. Mrs W n Maf.
ring. MF2 r. A. niaflap vigil OF
end Mrs W. M Awartwons. haspa4
laiity. Afs Klsla 11zaFnt0m Ms
CecA White. MIR r. . MegNcua
MHe Cora Belle WaIkeF ara MFa
EFneA4ine pxma
AfA 0nullar. ehaiFman q thE
pfuefafn cQmmitgee. announced {
very Interesting psogram e Be held
a. tie Ocf0asg MEETING based %
Dte Yourself e. Others See Yoa
Tue uetoaeF meeting Viii hs held
st night 80 that sosns ~ tita fklasll
Ct lie children might attend.
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1941-09-19

agent toxeensx wlfh ne grand fnry
rourn. p~itt surg fuuaa. wfinsNs
ro.xn6 ana oitices for ne hsaNes
ard Ire atsirtss and counsy a..
soRneyN
me third f1aw wGn hoase the
yAilOft quarters and 4 kisr1,4n m
which 10 pFvpAre fnna fn pteaaesA
ana on this faer dntxzzitaslm wkii
be pruxlded Tor the a~ccnena1afion
Of jufiss vhi1h mag - heA ca
Outs over night. ard ancea4 q the
balrony IN The eoaf4 funGn N1a be
had directly from NE third fssw
corridor.
The iourt flcox vii hoszss me
jail exclusively. Hhich wl1 e 81
the latest maet mnsaeFn design.
controlled from Tie outside hAn -
that attendants 90 n0t have q cunae
In contact with The prisoners
The FIRST or main fioor. ~ the
building wA - raised several feet
abe The natural grade 81 tha
grounds, So thAs : basement may
b. 11 ilructed underneath wiih lLs
fi00r only : les leef below lhe sur
fare o. tie ground T1n VIII per
mii tie hoNsinx sf two Important
departments Of uxe county b the
courthouse which hcfelnfofa have
occupied space Ia other buildings
the county health and welfare DE-
parlmenis
The inclusion of a basement IN
the building nlno makes possible
another unusual but very desirable
feature-an automobile entrances d.
rectly into the building. where the
sheriff. o. his deputies. may drive
tn. 20 the ELEVATOR. which wIB lead
70 all fioaFs. including The AL %
unload nnrnly prisoners. ard wAli
also make Il possible for the aged
or inflSm eliants of the welfare
Department 10 be brought fisnt -
the door Of that department without
having 70 80 up u auNn stairs.
Contrary 70 first news articles
concerning the construction a. the
uew Ssurt holze Il viii nos o.
necessary 70 hold err election on the
issuance Of the st0on00 bond4 an
iezss 10 per cent o. more af the
qualified electors 0ho are tax.pay-
ers, file petitions with tire beard u
supervisors. as stated IN the official
notice of Intentions 60 issas ttse
bonds. published IN another section
q this paper.
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CONTINUED from Pare Onel
ain mean that another business
avenue VIII be opened TO the city
OF PascagoulA. He added also that
the supervisors would 60 further and
make efforts TO have the city Of
ficials Of PascagouiR provide the
riaht-af-way for the proposed new
street 50 inst II could extend 20
South Pascagoula street
with the opening Of the ncw
street. It Is planned 70 have the new
building face north. 10 better facili-
tate % ventilation In the build
ing and also te relieve possibility Of
congestion Of traffic on Ker street,
particularly when there r cars
parked there during court session.
especially when . funeral service
might be conducted at Our Lady Of
Victories Church on Ker street.
He told Of the study Of the vart-
Gus eourthouses In Louisiana and
Mississippi before planning the
building proposed for jackson
County. The supervisors went fur
ther and consulted the local Of
ficials Of the county government
and took their advice as to requisites
70 fit the local need.
lie then vent into the detailed
plans for the structure.
While the cost Of construction at
this time might be q little more
than It would be later. he stated
that this would be overcome by the
low interest rate at which the bonds
viii sell at this time. Il is planned
to sell the bonds at a ate Of not
more than 2 3-4 per cent interest
rate. which would affect q saving
Of approximately 500 900 In interest
over the period Of IS years IN which
the bonds are to be retired. The
saving VIII be far greater than the
additional cost Of materials and the
increase viii go principally TO labor.
He stated that the total cost of
the building would be $3.50 900 of
which $4,000 Is now on hand and
can be transferred from the general
fund for that purpose.
Mr.. GHutier reported THAT the
supervisors realized that the city
Of Pascagoula and Jackson County
wer growing and that they must
keep in step with progress. making
decisions accordingly and do what
they think is best. jackson County
cannot afford to go backward ct
this time and must keep going for
ward. he said Neither the shipyard.
or wooden mills are war babies he
said. Both were started long before
the thought o. the war conditions.
He said that the shlpyard proved
that America could build Grips
cheaper By having 100 more WORK
ing days each FEAR than the north
ern shipbuildinR centers.
The members Of the Business
Club gave Mr.. Gautier : rising vote
Of thanks for the information he
had impaired TO them and urged
that other citizens Of jackson Coun-
g glfe their endorsement TO the
proposed court house
Guests a. the club besides Mr.,
Gautier were Johnny Walker. Buck
Fletcher, DT. I. W. Moody. vertls
Ramsay Joe Blackwell. and DR.. ".
]. Smoot.