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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-01
Mrs. Hottie Coley Is
Appointed Director
OF Youth Conteen

Beginning today, December /,
Mrs. Hattie Coley will be direc-
tor at the Pascagoula Youth Can
teen. Mrs. Coley, former dra-
matte specialist for the Recrea-
ton Commission is replacing
Mrs. Ruth Burns, who has re-
signed to take a position at a
hospital in Louisville, KY.
$50 that we can make several
physical changes at the Canteen
it will be necessary to close Fri
day, December l, through Sun
day, December g." Mrs. Coley
explained.
The Youth Canteen will be
open for its members Monday,
December d. New and more ta-
BILE games have been ordered
and the same diversified pro-
gram will be maintained, it was
announced.
MRS. Coley also stated mat
plans are in the making for a
vid of Newton, the Rev. Hudson
Dismukes of Newton, and Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Weeks of Jackson,
Miss.
The Rev. and Mrs. V. c. Wind
ham, Misses McMurphy and Da-
vid and Rev. Dismukes we're the
guests of MI. and Mrs. F. G. Ben
nett on Thursday,
The w. N. u. social was given
in the home of Mrs. Clyde Gun
ningham on Monday night, with
IL present. They enjoyed play
ing games and then drew names
for their Christmas social. The
hostess served refreshments of
cookies and punch.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-01

Christmas party, to be held at
the Canteen on Saturday, De
cember Is.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-01

ness authorized by law,
Yours very truly,
A F.. MEGEHEE,
Superintendent, Jack
son County Schools.
12-1 1t
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-01

Mrs. Lloyd Oliver and n~ieces,
Patsy and Peggy Breland, spent
the weekend with relatives in
Lucedale, Miss.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13

types - ordinary. 2o-payment or 3o-payment
life insurance.
mere are many advantages to continue
wartime insurance in peacetime. It is less
expensive than the usual type. It provides
Tor waiver OF premium payments during per-
1ods OF disability. There is no cash-surrender
charge, and loan and cash values start build
ing after the first year.
There are other advantages, too. But per-
haps the most compelling reasons are that
the discharged service man or woman does
not need to take physical examination when
this war-service insurance is converted and
does not have to pay higher premium for
occupational reasons.
All this sales talk is not meant to dispar-
age civilian insurance, and should not be so
construed. National service insurance IS not a
money-making proposition for the Veterans
Administration, which issues it, or for the
taxpayer. It doesn't intend to be competitive.
Issued in monthly payments. it probably will
not meet most families complete insurance
needs.
National service insurance might rather be
conceived Of as offering benefits in the nature
Of bonus in return for modest payment.
Care should be taken that these benefits are
not lost through oversight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
A Better Record

The American Civil Liberties Union has tot.
ted up the score Of prosecutions 'for utter.
ances or publications alleged to obstruct the
conduct Of the war; since Dec. z, 1941, as
against the record in World War I. The result
shows that, in the approximate time we were
in the last war Ito the end Of August, 1943)
there had been 26 federal cases involving 100
persons, as against nearly 1000 cases and more
than 1900 persons in 1918.
Granted that the Justice Department may
have done some dilly-dallying in some in
stances, the report is generally encourag ing.
The splendid record of the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation balks any charge that the gov
eminent has been lax in its pursuit OF sedl-
ton. The contrasting figures rather 60 to
prove that the country views the whole ques-
ton of disloyalty with more sanity than in
the last war, when authority was confused and
unrestrained, and the mere possession OF a
German name brought suspicion and, on many
occasions, violence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
Battle of France

We hear 50 much of factional strife within
the provisional French government that we
are likely to forget the unity, the bravery, and
the growing strength Of the underground
within France itself. 1t was something of a
surprise, then, to read report presented to
the French Consultative Assembly in Algiers
in which it was disclosed that it is the under
ground now, and not the occupying Nazis.
that is presenting ultimatums.
After patriots blew up powder factory and
German-requisitioned hotel in Grenoble. the
Nazis seized 300 hostages. The patriots told
them to release the prisoners or expect re-
prisals. The Nazis refused, and the patriots
then blew up German barracks. killing 22o
and injuring $50.
This is as encouraging as the suuabbles
Of De Gaulle, Giraud, ct AL. have been dis
heartening. And it lends strength to the appeal
uttered by an escaped member of the, under
ground to the assembly: 1--WE want YOU. too.
to be as united as we are'
With the French patriots accomplishing so
much against frightful odds, it seems little
enough for their provisional government to
give them assurance of appreciation and COM
mon aim. and to let them know that political
pickering will be adjourned until the great
coming battle is won.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
The Literary Guidepost

the movies on the strength of both
her solid musical attachments and
her stage experience, and she has
consistently and successfully used
her Broadway, Hollywood and
Metropolitan background in her
concert work
But she has seen shrewd
enough to see that making Zone
Night of Love- was not an I'M
mixed blessing. And she has been
shrewd in other ways, too. Her
defense against the charge of I'M
b1idled temperament is a model
lit really is not a cantankerous-
ness, she writes, but a stubborn
conscience that drives her to
make demands sometimes. She
may not know it. but whoever
put her book together for her has
provided a road map to fame by
the Grace Moore route.
1t reads pretty well, too. The
one Earring note is the repetition
ad nauseam of glarnor names,
some of which Miss Moore does
net appear to recognize as tar
nished. A reader might get the
impression that OUR soprano was
constantly in the lap of the too
too-upper stratum, and this would
be wrong. She certainly has work
ed, and worked hard between these
periods of big-name dazzlements.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13

YOU ne UNLY HUMAN ONCE,
by Grace Moore Doubleday, Dor
an; $3.50.
Grace Moore's you're Only HUI
man Once" is just about the best
glimpse into the mind of an impor-
tant modern singer we have had
up to now. It is not book of lit
erary quality, nor is Miss Moore
the old type of great singer
we used to look up to-in theory,
at least. But in the case of Mar
celia Sernbrich we of this gener-
alton had to wait until some of
her photograph records were re-
pressed to find out her vocal
faults. In Grace Moore's case, we
lind out everything right now ex-
cept one. That is how she sings,
which is an important omission
but not irremediable. She is still
singing.
Miss Moore is not a Cinderella.
Her people, even when they were
living in Jellico, Tenn, had en-
olgh money for comfort. They
did Cor at least her father did
object to a stage career for his
Oracle, but Oracle has never been
one to bow shyly before opposi-
ton. She got into opera by using
musical comedy to provide the
foundation-money, she got into
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
Rationing
Roundup
BY The Associated Press

Meats, fats, etc.-Book Three
brown stamps Y and z valid
through March 20. Book Four H.
point red stamps AS, BS, CO, Do,
E8 and F8 good through May 20.
Red tokens and brown one-point
stamps good as change
Processed foods - Book Four
green stamps K, L and M valid
through March 20: ten-point blue
Stamps A8, B8, C8, DE- and ES good
through May 20. Blue tokens and
green one-point stamps good as
change.
Sugar-Book Four stamp 80 valid
Indefinitely for five pounds; stamp
40 good for five pounds for home
canning through Feb. %, 1915.
Shoes-Book One stamp IS valid
through April 80. Book Three air
plane stamp l good indefinitely
A new stamp becomes valid May
/.
Gasoline In Northeast ano
Southeast, ga coupons good for
three gallons through May 8. Else
where, 1C-A coupons good for three
gallons through March 81. B and
81 and C and CT good for two
gallons everywhere except in the
Rocky Mountains and Far West
where they are good for three gal
Ions. BIZ and CO coupons good
everywhere for five gallons.
Fuel oil-Period three coupons,
valid except in the South, expire
March 49, Period four coupons
valid in all areas through Sept. 80
Period five coupons good in the
Middle West and South becomes
valid in the East and Far West
March IA, and expire in all areas
Sept &c. All coupons worth II
gallons a unit, with most coupons
worth several units each.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
There's A Time Limit

Postwar planners, officials and otherwise,
are sensib]y devoting much of their attention
to the problems that will confront the return
ing veteran And now might be a good time
to remind actual and potential veterans, al
the risk of repeating Army and Navy lessons,
that there is something they can do for them
selves That is to convert their wartime insur.
ance to a permanent peAcetine form within
the prescribed time and to keep. up their
payments on it.
Many veterans of the last war failed to dc
this and doubtless regretted it later. There
are now less than 100000 policies OF World
War Type life insurance in effect Gmany OF
which were taken out by members OF the
peacetime forces after the war and before DC
tober. 1s4o) although 45oo0 900 policies were
written in 1919.
It is unlikely that there will be a similar
discrepancy of figures in this war. The serv-
ices are seeing to 1t that their men ana women
are more insurance-wise. Yet the insurance
officers" with the fighting forces are officers
with other more important and immediate
duties Soldiers and sailors obviously have
plenty to think about IN their day-to-oay uutleS.
So some policies will unavoidably lapse. For
those reasons, a little added sales talk to
present and future veterans and their fami-
lies may not be unjustified.
National service insurance is originally a
five-year policy which should be applied for
within 120 days after induction. After the
first year and before the end Of the fifth, the
policy should be converted to one OF thrae
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
Looking Ahead

on the occasion of Colgate UNIVERSITIES 125th
anniversary, DR.. Everett Needham Case ,+s
president issued a report which roughly out.
1nies the mlversity's plans for the future. It
might seem that such plans are of no mne.
date concern. After all the worlds b;oe..+
war IS Tar from won and our tremendous fash
Oh economic readjustment is still largely a
matter OF blue prints and conjecture.
But the country's colleges have their own
"reconversion' problems too. Few Of then,
nave escaped the descriptive influence of war.
AT Colgate large percentage of the faculty
was called into service or to more necessary
jobs The civilian student body was reduced
by almost nine-tenths. New studies and new
emphasis changed the curriculum to conform
to the needs Of sailors and Marines based
there Tor flight and other training programs.
Inns disruption of normal academic life,
however, did afford IAN unparalleled oppor-
unity for taking fresh stock of our educa
tlonal ends and means" DR.. Case points out.
And though the results of this stock-taking
have not been formally reported, they will
probably fulfill DR.. Cases prediction that "our
1900 ~~A~Se
and enrich OUR characteristic contribution. !"
The end of the war is bound to bring both
need and a market for technical training
Hundreds of thousands of young men and
women will come out of the armed forces and
war plants with new skills and new interest
in technical matters.
'"The fact remains however," says DR..
Case, that the great problems of contempor-
airy civilization are not technical, but human
and social. We have been warned that unless
we can keep pace socially, morally and
esthetically with the gigantic strides of science
and technology, the balance of our civilization
becomes highly precarious If world which
his cult cannot grasp the significance Of that
warning, we have little hope indeed of right
ing ourselves
The worlds problems not going to be
settled by helicopters, television electronically
heated houses or plastics. They will be set
tied, whenever they are settled, by better
Of man as an individual and as
a component of society, Of his needs and rights
and duties.
Who is to achieve this understanding? Not
only the rulers of men, certainly, but as many
of the John Does Of the world as have the
mental capacity to receive it, AS long as there
is need for such understanding, there will be
need for liberal arts colleges. They are
needed to teach the world perspective and
reason, to help the world pick itself up after
such a conflict as this, and pursue with a
little more wisdom the distant hope that every
war will be the last one.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
BY ERNIE PYLE

LIN ITALY (by Wlreless)-A jun
TO- and miniature edition of W.
c. Fields is what Sergt. Clifford
Muncy is. You should hear his
story Of the night he fell into the
abandoned gun pit and couldn't
get out because he couldn't think
where he was.
Muncy can't be much over 5
Feet, and he is sort of pudgy and
has very narrow shoulders, and
his face has a wise, devilish, old
look like one of the Seven Dwarfs.
Muncy is 20. He comes from
Hyden, KY, up in the hills, and
he wouldn't mind at all if you call
ed him hillbilly. In fact, he sort
Of trades On it. He talks just like
the mountaineers in the cartoons.
l think it sort of hurts his pride
that he can't claim to have been
a rnoonshiner.
Everybody laughs at Muncy and
with him, and everybody thinks
he's great. He likes people, and
is uncommonly generous and kind.
It's poor day when he doesn't
survive at least one escapade that
is slightly out of this world
The gunners' tent which Muncy
dominates is a sight to behold.
1t is often the scene of rioting
and deviltry. 1t is probably the
most tired-out tent in Italy.
The top is full of holes. That
caused by their gasoline stove
blowing up frequently. One wall
has big adhesive patches on it.
That's where a happy guest tried
to carve his initials in the can
vas. The back wall bears the
marks of a nervous visitor who
vent right through it one night
during an air raid.
The two outstanding features OF
Muncv's tent are the late evening
meals cooked there and the fabu-
lous stove, which has been known
to blow up seven times in one day.
Once it exploded just as a guest
entered, anc blew him clear out
into the grapevines.
The other boys had told me all
about Muncy's stove, so one morn
ing just as he was starting on a
mission the's an aerial gunner) I
introduced myself, and said I'd
like to drop past that evening and
see his stove blow up. Muncy
said:
WED sure like to have you, but
the stoves liable to get contrary
and not blow up tonight. Lots Of
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
Indians On Warpath

Fifty thousand American Indians of manv
tribes have gone on the war path. Desp;te
the "softening' years that have interviewed
since their ancestors were ranging forest and
mountain fighting the white man whose on.
croachments were despoiling them of their
heritage they are as wiley and capable sol.
diers as the United States has on any front.
They are stalking their foes as only Indians
can, infiltrating through enemy lines. captur-
ing positions in surprise attacks, transmitting
messages in battling dialects. They have no
peers in jungle fighting.
And while these young men are on far
flung battle foreign fronts, older Indians are
Aepng home reservation lands productive.
Working in shipyards and plane factories. on
aIroads and in mines. The welding helmet
las taken the place of the war bonnet
Nor are Indian men alone doing their ire
nendouS bit. Their women are driving trucks
and tractors, aiding in cattle and sheep round
lps They too have abandoned their tradition.
handicrafts for jobs in war plants.
furthermore, American Indians are back
ing the attack with their dollars. At this years
start they had put more than 81, 600 900 into
war bonds. TWeny jurisdictions were willing
to invest tribal funds in bonds but were not
permitted to do so because the government,
as trustee, already had use of the money
An interesting sidelight is told by Civilian
Defense officials. When they arrived at the
Santo Domingo pueblo, near Albuquerque. N.
NJ, to set up raid precautionary services
they found they were centuries late. The In
dams had adapted their traditional measures
against raids to present conditions. Head
men and braves were serving as wardens
md spoilers.
The truth seems to be that American In
olans as race are taking this war more
seriously than large percentage of white
men and white women
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
Daily Prayer
FOR ENDURANCE UNTO THE
END

o God, Thou King eternal, i'm
,norta., and invisible, and blessed
and only Potentate; May we, who
cannot see Thee with the eye Of
flesh, behold Thee steadfastly with
the eye Of faith, that we may not
faint under the maniford trials
and temptations of this mortal life,
but endure as seeing Thee who
art invisible; and grant that hav-
ing fulfilled Thy will upon earth.
we may behold Thy face in heaven.
and be made partakers of those
unspeakable joys which Thou hast
promised to them who love Thy
Son Jesus Christ our Lord, and
wait His appearing; for whose
sake, we beseech Thee to hear us;
and unto whom, with Thee the
Father and the Holy Ghost, we as
cribe all glory and praise, for ever
and ever. Amen - Presbyterian
Book Of Common Worship.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13

for them at Christmas, and he is
always giving them stuff.
We sat and talked and laughed
until almost lights-out, and finally
said, well, if the stove isn't
going to blow up, I guess I have
to CO.
So Muncy jumped and said.
'Wait a minute" He turned off
the gasoline, LET the fire in the tin
bellieG stove die out and cool, then
turned the gas on again. They
let it sit that way a little while,
and all the rest got behind boxes
and things, and Sergeant Bohn
got off as far as he could and
threw a lighted match at the stove
door.
But as Muncy had feared, the
stove was contrary and wouldn't
blow up that night. They we're all
very Inundated. "a
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
With Ernie Pyle

times when we have company it
don't blow up at ALL"
So I went over that night. The
tent has a dirt floor which is swept
o1't whenever they figure inspec-
lion is about due.
Muncy once had a fastidious
streak in him, and decided to
levy a 50-cent fine on anybody
Who threw anything on the floor,
such as cigaret butts, apple cores,
walnut shells, etc. Before the first
evening was over he had fined
himself $11.50.
They have great feasts in the
ATuncy tent. Fried chicken is their
special dish. They buy chickens
from the village at S. per chicken.
Il represent $500 worth of chick
ems cooked on that old stove
there" Muncy said.
One night Sergt. Jack Bohn of
Scranto, Pa, made chicken soup
while Muncy did the rest. All
the guests, who weren't tasting
very well anyhow, thought the soup
was wonderful. But Jack couldn' t
quite get it down. Eventually he
discovered the reason-he had put
half cake Of CT soap in it, think
ing it. was butter.
Now and then they have steak.
One night Muncy was in bed when
one Of his soldier friends came in
from town feeling fine. He had
with him three or four big steaks.
Where's your sledgehammer?"
the friend asked.
lover there in that pile of stuff,
I reckon Muncy said, and went
back to sleep. 9.N
Pretty soon he was awakened
and here was this guy with all the
steaks lying on the dirt floor, and
just beating hell out of them with
an eight-pound sledge. Then he
threw them in the skillet, and
Muncy had to get up and help
share the feast, .-.. .t
Give still got rocks and mud
in my teeth" Muncy says.
To Muncy and his terminates all
Italians are "gooks." They don't
remember how they started that
It's not a term of contempt at
Ill, for Muncy loves them and
they love him.
81 don't care where I go to,
people like me-" Muncy says.
why, when we moved from our
last place all them cooks around
there cried when 1 left"
He dressed up and played Santa
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
Sickness Insurance

Inc administrations compulsory sickness
insurance proposal which is embodied in the
"agner-Mu rray-Dingell bill now before Con-
sleSS is meeting stiff opposition.
Inc bill which has reused such controversy
- closely modelled on the system OF sickness
ahce which has been in operation in
0ieat Britain since 1912. The social-securi-
" payroll tax would be raised to per
cenF Tor both employers and employees and
uie coVerage of the act would be extended
u large numbers of workers not now under
It's terms. One fourth Of the increased pay
iol taxes would be placed in a special
nleolca-care account from which payments
would be made to doctors and hospitals serv-
ing the medical needs of insured persons.
General practitioners of the patients choice
would be available for service to the extent
nat such physicians agreed to work under
terms of the proposed sckness-insurance pro-
gram The bill would make available to all
insured persons specialist and laboratory
services and disqualification UP to 80 days
year
II has been estimated that the cost OF the
insurance system would rise to $1,000, 000, 900
year by 1855.
mere would seem to be no need for this
'uoltlona] RECOMMENDATION in this country. Hos
pNallzation is widely provided by companies
Employing large numbers Of workers and even
many small concerns with no more than
aozen or two employees maintain sick funds
\" which they as well as their employees con-
"ioue. In addition to this, hospital insurance
Vah be bought at low price from reputable
eofnpanies These provisions, Of course, apply
WHY to earners. But there is also provision at
public expense for the INDECENT sick. No state
0ut has its free hospital wards.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
FOUR MEN KILLED
IN OIL EXPLOSION

MARCUS, Pa, March 12-R-
Four men were dead today as the
result of injuries suffered in an,
explosion that rocked a research
unit of the Sun Oil Company's
$13,OOO,OOO high octane gasoline
plant last night causing damage
estimated by company spokes-
man at not more than $4,000.
The men who died in the blast
were identified as John Backla,
of Chester, Pa; Ray Ortlip, OF
Broomal, Pa, and James c.
Brown, of Boothwyn, Pa, all Sun
employees, and John O'Neil of Mar
Gus Hook. a guard at the Pure
Oil Company plant across the road.
The bodies were charred and
mangled and Identification was
made through company badges.
O'Neils clothing was torn from
his body by the conclusion.
The explosion, which the spokes-,
man said occurred in research
pilot house in which work on by
drofluroic acid alkylation was be-
ing conducted, rocked every home
in this community Of 5000 and
started a fire that ragged out OF
control for nearly an hour. Flames
shot 200 feet into the air and were
visible more than 20 miles away.
The Sun plant, largest OF its kind
in the country, was dedicated last
Oct. q by Secretary Of the Interior
Ickes. 1t is estimated that millions
of gallons of high octane gasoline
are stored in four major refineries
around Marcus Hook.
The company spokesman said the
cause of the blast had not been
determined. Production will not
be interrupted. he said. No other
employees were seriously injured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
MATCH KING DIES

STOCKHOLM, March 12- Up =
Frederick Ljungberk, IS, president
of the Swedish Match Co., died
today Of kidney ailment at his
home near Joenkoeping. He had
reorganized the company in 1882
after the suicide of Ivar Kreuger
and previously had been manager
of Trummer and Co. Successors,
Ltd, in London. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
By JOHN SELBY

YOU'RE ONLY HUMAN ONCE"
by Grace Moore Doubleday, Dor
an; $3.50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-13
Our Chief Aim

To aid In every way the prosecution Il
the war to complete Victory.