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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-09-01
Rotary Club Gives
Boating Trip For
Moss Point Scouts

bers of the Moss Point Boy Scout
A boat trip was given the MEM
troop yesterday by the members
of the Rotary club, now sponsors
of the troop which was formerly
under the sponsorship of the
YMBC. The boat was furnished
by Claude Blanchard, a Rotarian
Charles Torres was leader at
the regular meeting held on
Thursday of last week at which
the boat trip was one of the
main topics under discussion. j.
told many of his experiences as
f. Thompson was present and
a Scout. The meeting was closed
with the Lords Prayer.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-09-01
Ben F. Pickett. Jr.
Wounded In Action
In France Invasion

Just a few hours after she had
received a letter from her son.
T/Sgt. Ben II. Pickett, IT. Tell
ing her that he had been wound
ed IN the knee in action in
France, Mrs. Pickett received a
telegram from the Adjutant Gen
erals office in Washington an
nouneing that he had been IN
iured.
Sgt. Pickett wrote that after
ne vas hurt he was flown to Eng
land in a PA and placed in a
hospital While he still Is unable
20 walk. Sgt Pickett hopes that
his recovery will be swift.
He is the son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
B. H. Pickett, Sr., Of 314 Canty
street.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-09-01

The earth has 5~7,5l0,00O square
miles of land surface.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-09-01

The University of Finland was
founded in 1890.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-09-01

The boa constructor Of South
America IS the largest of snakes
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-09-01

In 1925, Sing Sing prison was
known as Mt. Pleasant prison.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

asked TO bear the financial burden of
these shelters.
Prime Minister Churchill has said
that he considered the repudiating
Chamberlain Unite paper of 1889 a
"breach of solemn obligation" in
these words:
"As one intimately and respon-
sibly concerned in the earlier stages
of our Palestine policy l could not
stand by and see solemn engage
ments into Which Britain has en-
tered before the world set aside for
reasons of administrative conUen-
fence or for the sake of quiet lite.
should feel personally embarrassed
in the most acute manner it l lent
myself by silence or inaction to Dhat
| must regard as an act OF repudia.
ton.
IL regret very much that the
pledge of the Balfour declaration,
endorsed as it has been by success
size governments, and the conditions
under which we obtained the man.
dote hoDe oofh 0een UIoidfed 0y the
governments proposals.
81 select the one point upon
Which there is plainly breach and
reputation of the Balfour DECLARE
tion-the provisions that JerUish i'm
migration can be stopped in fue
years, time by the decision Of an
Arab majority. THAT IS A PLAIN
BREACH OF A SOLEMN OBLICA-
TION."
Mr.. Churchill has NOW a chance
to live up to these courageous words.
England should open the gates of
Palestine and admit the Jews not
only of Hungary but from whatever
other parts of Europe they have
escaped from the heel of the Nazis.
Common humanity demands this
act-NOW.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
Well. Mr.. Churchill?

THE telegram from Alex Wilt, ex
l. ecutive director of the American
league for a free Palestine, to Will
liam Randolph Hearst, should result
in England throwing open the gates
of Palestine to at least those Jews
in Hungary who have visas for
Palestine.
To refuse would make England
particeps crin,inis in the great Nazi
crime against European Jewry.
Mr.. Wilt says that the Interna-
tional Red Gross has given assur-
ances that the Hungarian govern
ment will act favorably in this great
human cause.
The only obstacle to getting these
hard pressed Jews safely to their
homeland is now the British govern
ment, which closed the gates of
Palestine to them some months ago.
England has a mandate over
Palestine from the League of Ma
tons.
She closed the gates despite her
agreement and promise to keep them
open.
MIR. WILLIS committee has sent
1V1 an appealing letter to Prime
Minister Churchill containing these
vital points:
German leaders have threat.
ened to exterminate all Jews in
Europe before the war ends
2-The urgency is great to get all
the Jews out of Europe as soon as
possible.
84Hungary has given the Jews
chance to escape.
At is therefore suggested that
Britain Immediately establish refu-
gee emergency shelters in Palestine
5-The British people will not be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
Can BallenSer Explain?

A WEEK ago when it leaked out
"A casually that most of Detroit's
ranking police officials would be re-
tired to make way for younger men,
the idea was spread (also casually
and quite unofficially) that the af-
fected Heads were worn out and
weary, and actually welcomed an
opportunity of turning in their
badges.
Had that cunning rumor been al
lowed to permeate the public mind,
Police Commissioner John Ballenger
might have gotten clean away with
one of the most ruthless and appar-
emily unjustified purges in the his
tory of the Detroit Police Depart
ment.
Fortunately the sly propaganda
has been checked and found false.
Superintendent Louis Berg and
most CT his senior associates are NOT
anxious to retire.
They are being railroaded out of
office.
They are being squeezed out in a
sneaky manner.
This newspaper believes the peo-
pie of Detroit are not accustomed to
the underhand sort of deal being
cooked up for them,
THIS newspaper believes the PEG
i pie of Detroit will not tolerate it
unless Commissioner Ballenger and
his boss, Mayor Jeffries, come
through promptly and candidly with
convincing explanation.
The people of Detroit will insist
upon knowing WHY.
Superintendent Berg and his key
subordinates have guided the depart
ment through the gravest phase of its
existence.
They stuck unswervingly at their
posts when the department was para
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
7 Text of Alex Wifi telegram
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST,
MoCI OJrD ChI

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST,
McCLOUD, CAL
INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS has confirmed
to us that Hungarian government will release
all Hebrews holding Palestine entry visas. We
take liberty of bringing to your notice cable to
Winston Churchill from Hebrew Committee of
National Liberaton
'n view of repeated threat of German
leaders to eXterminate all Hebrew people of
Europe before hosilities end the task of evacuat-
ing as many Hebrews from Hungary and other
Balkan countries as possible is of extreme
urgency. The opportunity to save Hebrews of
Hungary is at hand They are permitted to leave
and countless thousands of men, women and chill
dfcn can save their lives if only there are permits
to enter Palestine. We therefore suggest that his
majesty's government start without delay estab-
lishment of emergency refugee shelters in Paes-
tine. Establishment of these shelters should be
publicly proclaimed and broadcast to people of
occupied Europe so that process of evacuation can
start Immediately. 1t is not suggested that finan-
cal burden of this program fall upon British
people. Though Palestine is not British colony
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

lyzed by disclosure of graft and cor
ruption, with many of the executive
personnel on their way to trial and
prison.
Lesser men would have wavered
and their panic would have been re-
Elected Immediately through the
entire department.
But not they.
Under the fine leadership of for.
n. Commissioner canon, they
closed ranks and rallied the depart
ment morale almost exclusively by
their own steadfast example.
WHAT has happened since then
w that Commissioner Ballenger is
so eager to be rid of them?
What have they done amiss?
What have they failed to do that
they should have done?
There is no crime wave in Detroit
and there has been none recently.
The department is functioning
we'll despite the fact that it is badly
undermined, because of the drains
of military service.
Superintendent Berg and his top
heutenants always have been consid-
cred good policemen and good execu-
tives. -.
Without even bothering to check,
we think all the former police COM
missioners under whom they served,
would vouch for that, publicly.
Have they, then, suddenly be-
come bad policemen and bad eXecu-
tives?
If they have, Commissioner Bal.
lenger and Mayor Jeffries should
say so.
If not, Commissioner Ballenger
and Mayor Jeffries owe it to the
regulations of these men and to the
public of Detroit, to explain just why
they are being so arbitrarily hatch.
eted.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

New York City. what body
OF water, would YOU paddle
from one end TO the other?
Name of the English organ
lzation which is similar 10
our Girl Scouts
-IFHe- or faiSc,: tai the trial
Mountains form a natural
boundary between Russia
and the Balkan states. (b)
Stalingrad is situated on the
Dnleper River Co the Dnie-
sier, the Dniepcr, the Don
and the Nolga all empty into
tfe BfaCk sea
Why Is a football PLAYING
field called a gridiron?
Would YOU say that tho
ocean has an average depth
of one mIler-twe-aAa- stfaf..-
ter miles. five and a half
miles or 10 miles 9
inscriptions place
the Garden ~ Eden between
Tigris and EuphratcS rivers
What do We call this part of
The world today
ANSWERS on opposite page)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

but inundated land entrusted TO his majestys
government by League of Nations, land in
which Hebrew immigration and settlement was
officially granted to the Hebrew people as right
and not through tolerance, we offer the cOmpro-
mise of emergency shelters so that task of saving
lives be not affected by political or boundary con.
troversies, the settlement of which we are ready
to postpone until day of victory"
None of arguments previously adduced by
British government to Justify forcible exclusion
of desperate refugees can be valid against emer-
gency refugee shelters, and we must not allow this
change to go by default. Delay in graspng this
opportunity may also give Hungary occasion to
alter its position. You must help us arouse public
opinion.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
BEHIND ~
THE NEWS
BY Paul
Mallon

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The
w international bank created
in the woods at Breton rs mis-
named.
1t is nothing like a bank, eN-
cept that it will he place Tor
foreign nations to get money;
1t is really a credit guarantee
institution.
Only one-ffth of~itS proposed
loans for rehabilitation and de-
-%elnpment will be made directly
by il. The otrrr-fear.fltthS will
be guarantees of loans by pri-
vate bankers.
As a matter of fact the nego-
tiations at Breton Woods did
not want to call il a bank. but
could think of no other word.
a bank. as you know, is a place
where people deposit h ir
money, which is taken by the
banker and loaned TO bring
profit 10 the institution. Any
comparison Of that formula to
what twas Set-up- BRETON
Woods is hum orouS If not
ironlcal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01

than Argentine and Chile
break the peace, What
mountains? ta) Sierra Ne.
vada mountains. tb) Andes
mountains tc) ApennineS.
5 Match these columns cor
rect.
wlih malice 10. v Gettysburg a..
ward none dress
b u pray that our "a letter o. Hor.
heavenly Father ace Greeley
may Assuagt the
anguish 81 your
Bereavement "
:. would save l. Emanrps'i
the Union +" proclamation
II d order and y letter a. Mrs
declare that AL BiXbY.
pFrFhs he'd a.
slaves henceforth
EnsH 30 free
{ Fourscore ara 2 secoue insuEu-
IL, ~ wears AEo raj address
ANSWERS on opposite page
Brain Game
1==A-Shert moral story IN winch
the characters are usually
beasts is called what
= II YOU proposed 10 take a
canoe trip from Montreal 10
TUesdey, August |. 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
Knowledge Test

knowledge Test
BY DIR. sABINA CONNOLLY
docs ante bellum mean
(aD before the war. tcl dur
ing the war. Co after the
war
Another name for avocado
is: Ca armadillo pear. tbj
crocodile pear, &C. alligator
pear.
3-One Of these place names is
Flanders: (a) Behind him
lay the gray .' tbl
In helAs-ti 4e-f-s5fy4-
PIES blow fci 80 We sang
The chorus from -z 70
the set
4-Words that arc spelled the
Same but differing IN sound
sEd meaning are called taJ
homonyns, tbl heteronYmS.
G. antOnynS.
5-A Statue Of Christ is in
ScrIbed sooner snail these
mountains cru0hlo mo dust
&C The DETROIT TIME,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
OF Personal Note IN CabitaI

Mr.. Melvin Gusdorf was the guest
Of honor at stag dinner given
Thursday evening at the Statlel
Hotel by large group Of his friends
In celebration of his fiftieth birth
day anniversary.
Ensign Louis Simon, son of Mrs
Morris Simon, came from California
and spent the week with his mother
and sisters. He is en- route I'd Holly
wood, Fla.
Mrs. Albert Newfleld Of Hartford
is visiting her sisters, Mrs. Louis
Loeb and Mrs. Marc Goldnamer.
1t. and Mrs. Emil Hess are the
guests here of Mrs. Hess parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Seidenman
following q visit in Birmingham
Ala, with Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Hess
parents Of 1t. Hess.
Mrs. Helen Bensinger is In Sche-
nectady, N. Y, visiting her son and
daughter-in- law, Mr.. and Mrs. SAM
uel Bensinger. Another son, 1t
Mark Bensinger, with Mrs. Ben
singer and their children, are In
Ithaca, where he is attending Cor
nell University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Viner are at
Miami Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Saks and
their children have returned from
Ventnor, where they spent the sum-
mer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Ney have re-
turned from Ventnor, where they
spent the summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. s. Kann have as
their guests their son and nephew
Mr.. Stuart Kann and Jackie Kann
of youngstown.
Mrs. Lee Kerngood, who spent the
summer at vindabona. Braddock
Heights, will spend the winter in
Frederick.
Mrs. Abe Cohn has returned from
Miami and is again at the West
chester where she and Mr.. Cohn
have an apartment.
Mrs. Charles Mele OF Newport
News Is visiting her brother in law
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
land sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Nat Aaron

and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Nat Aaron
son.
Mrs. .. j. Kaufman has returned
from Boston where she spent the
summer with her daughter, Mrs.
Louis CHASER.
Mrs. Morris Gewirz has returned
from Newport News, where she was
q guest at the commissioning Of the
IShangri La.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Riefkin have
returned from q visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. Julian Brylawski at their coun-
try home on the Patuxent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24

Strobe, have returned to their home
In Chevy Chase from 0lenora- on
Senaca, N. Y, where they spent the
summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. STROBE
land their daughter, Miss Audrey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24

Our Summer Selling Hos Left Us With These
Fine Quality Single Comments and Small Groups
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
GROUPS. APPOINTED ITO FURTHER PLANS
Coordination Sought in Victory Garden, Nutri.
 ton, Consumers Com.

Three committees were chosen yesterday to give basis to a coordin- ated program for the city's war gar- den committee, nutrition council and consumers committee at a meeting held yesterday at the of- flee of Civilian defense. Mrs. Mark L. Sperry chairman of the CDVO office made the appointments.
 Plans call for the establishment of consumers information center to be established at the CDVO head quarters for the aid of consumers and gardeners. Ms. Walter Tor rance md Mrs. John Tufel will be in charge with volunteer workers manning the lesk.
 Tho coordinated committee will give advise on planting victory gardens assignments of the city garden plots, facts on home-can- ming and distribution of consumer supplies.
 Mrs. Julius B. Smith will serve as chairman of h 6 combined group. O [ h CT committee ap- pointees include Miss Eloise Kicke- forth, Miss Margaret Chagnot. Mrs. Walter Green and Mrs. John Fos- ter, education committee; Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Warren Kaynor. price panel.
 Also, Mrs. Frank Kenney. Mrs. William Burke, Fay Clark, Mrs. Carl Heebner and Mrs. Frederick Van Valkenburg, publicity; Mrs. Merton B. Allan, war garden coIn- mlttee; Mrs. Robert Munger, con- sumers' retail committee.
 Also, Mrs. Henry Weisman, Mrs. J. B. Walling and Miss Alice Me- Linden, displays; Mrs. Donald Post, Mrs. Sailsman Weller and Mrs. Matthew Colney, block leaders. vol- unteers for the information desk will be Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Kaynor. Mrs. Munger, Mrs. Burke, Mrs. Al: Ian, Mrs Foster, Mrs. sperry and Mrs. Green.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08

while those at some distance kept growing.
 T had been working with hac- tera ever since I lad been grad- uated from st. Mary's Hospital I was always on the lookout for an- tibacterlal agents. So 1t was per- fectly natural that I should inves- ugate when I noticed this.
 Accordingly I grew more of this mould from the original by inoculating broths with 1t and letting 1t develop at ordinary room temperatures. This l discovered, when diluted from 500 to 800 times, was two or three times as effective as pure carbolic acid. But I also noticed something else: It was practically the first antiseptic stopped the growth of bacteria, did not affect white corpuscles.
 Nov this was most important. For the white blood corpusles themselves are germ killers, and omst antiseptics are as destructive to their allies in the war against disease as they are to the bacteria causing the disease. Penicillin is unlike the sulfa drugs inasmuch as 1t is non-t toxic. And while 1t does not kill the bacteria, tprevents them from developing"
 AS Professor Fleming walked about his laboratory he took up one test tube after another, show ing me how the penicillin was pro- duced. The whole process seemed simple. Nor did he fail to mention that others had carried on many experiments to determine the therapeutical value of the new drug. Notwithstanding the eminence he has attained, he still remains h unassuming farmer boy who was born 60.odd
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
TRUCKS DAMAGED
 IN GARAGE BLAZE
Mechanic Saved One Ma. chine; Bremen Given
 Lively Battle

Two tank trucks, pickup truck, and an automobile were badly dam aged last night in fire which virt- ually demolished the garage of the F. & s. oil Company on South Leonard street. The blaze, appar- ently caused by Q short circuit in the pickup truck, left the company with only two tank trucks In oper- ating condition.
 According to Fire Marshal DeE1- nIs J. Lahey and Captain Eugene Legge, the blaze started under the truck on the right side of the i've stal lgarage about 8 o'clock as the truck was being repaired by 8 me" chanic.
 The mechanic, John France, tried to extinguish the blaze with hand pump, but 1t soon go out of control. Whue waiting for firemen to arrive, France removed a large tank truck to the yard. When he tried to re- turn to the building, he was diven back by the flames
 Firemen of Engine 3 and il, Truck 2, and the Booster company di- rected by Deputy Chief Stephen Bloomfield fought the flames for an hour before bringing the fire under control.
 All the tank trucks in the gar- age were empty. The passenger auto, & l042 model, was owned by Mrs. Charles Stevens, Middlebury Road, mother of Bertram Stevens, owner of the P. & c. Go.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08

man who IS responsible for the cure of several dread diseases as well as for the great advance in the treat ment of wounds during the present war. Heretofore, possible infection made 1t unwise to close any war wound before six hours. With peni- cillin, closure can be started at once.
 Along one wall of the dun-col- ored room in which he works is 0 long table filled with test tubes, retortS, microscopes and several Bunsen burners. Along another book cases also filled with appara. tus. There was nothing about the place reminiscent of the sterilized sanctums of American researches. Nor did the man hi . self fit in with the usual conception of a modern scientist. Instead of the accepted white coat, he had on well-worn, spotty, pin striped blue suit. A cigarette was in his mouth. His conversation was as simple as his dress and his manner.
 STOPS BACTERIA GROWTH
 Taking up a flat pint bottle, which was lying on Its side, he ex- plained that the green mould in It was penicillium, while the amber colored liquid upon which this wavy green mass floated was the fliud from which peniclilin was extracted.
 In telling of his discovery, he saird: Some l8 years ago l was working on some bacterial cultures. While doing this, the cover of the dish in which they were being grown was removed. A few days later I noticed that a spot of mould had formed. A mould Spore in the air had fallen on 1t and grown there. But l also noticed another thing. This was that the cultures nearest the spot of mould had disappeared,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08

Editor, Tall Tower Topics. :" The big fatal hour for major battle not yet struck On the road to tnee i944 defences our casualties grow The way to Bern is filled with traps of death America must heed the facts
 Our invasion of enemy territory destructive and costly During the 37 days of Scian campaign 40 per cent of all 31-mm guns Iii action there were oe sroyed S6 per cent of the 77mm guns 22 per cent or the lO5-mm howitzers and 54 per cent Of the Sf-nm guns were loSt
 Let me quote General McNary, Deputy Chief of Staff "As we the enemys main poSltion ngntlng VIII he tougher and our losses in and equipment VIII increase In Sicily the Germans had only three ana one-ha divisions It toox the two best armies of the United States and Great Britain composed oI thirteen divisions five weeks to overcome the bitter defense o1 an enemy whose air cover has been removed ana WHOSE supply lines were paralyzed by our oVerwnelmng ar superiority Today in Italy we are faced With aPPro mately 20 German divisions - beyond Italy ana the Alps beyond the Alps many more German dlVlSlons. Atthe present time Germany IS capable ot opposing many at least ten times the German forces defeated m Sc The fighting ahead will be hard and bloody If we become overcondent or sit back and coast either in the Army or on the production front will be inviting disaster
 That our bombing attacks on Germany are effective is shown y the fact that the Nazis are now divertng their aircraft building energy to defensive 9hter to stop our bomberS These raids are expensive not only to the enemy but also to us For example m recent attack on Regansberg BTs were ooo destroy the plant which producing more than zQO Messerschmitts month Our planes then proceeded 10 tho North African bases Every inch of their way rom the Belgian Coast to the Alps was hoty contested by a
 
 was high. We lost 50 B-17s and their crews
 The Germans lost 135 fighters in the air. In the number of planes lost the score in this one raid was much in our favor but actually the Germans lost 13o pilots and 135 motors for theirs were singleengine
 planes We lost 800 men, for there ten men in the crew o B17 and 2S6 engines for there are four engines in olr Ewing Forresses Since May 1st up to and includ ing october 2Srd our 9th Air Force Command and the RAF operating from England have lost in combat 1S41 large bombers this means that with each nomner @ eulpped with four engines we lost during this time 7T04 bomber engines, and with ten men to a crew means loss of lo,41O It must be remembered that with at least 50 per cent of the shot down Tn aerial combat landing safely and with practically all the fighting going enemy territory that 50 per cent of the enemy flyers probably live to fly again. whereas taken prisoners
 Those figures do not include planes lost that were so badly damaged in action that they cannot be used agan in combat They do not include men killed and Wounoed in planes that return to their bases in England Axel Neisen, Commander Clifford R. French Post No. 22 American Legion Thomaston.