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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22
PAscAcou1A CHRONICLE STAR and MOSS POINT ADVERTISER


cherries are attractive and de-
licious. Coiorful salads and fruit
puddings lend variety.
Fruit, nut or molasses candies
are to be preferred above other
kinds. for they have the advan-
tage OF supplying additional en-
ergy, bone and blood building
materials and vitamins. Fruit
pastes can be made by grinding
dried fruits, moistening them
with a little juice and rolling
into small balls. Dates stuffed
with peanut butter are excellent.
In giving candy and other
sweets to children ii is important
to remember that these sweets
must not take the place of die
tary essentials as milk, vegeta-
bles and fruits. The best time
for sweets is Immediately after
meals, when they will not inter-
fere with the appetite for other
essential foods.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22
Floyd Fl. Boxer Dies
AT Jackson County
Hospital Saturday

Floyd Baker, AZ years old, and
a resident of Agricola, Miss,
died Saturday morning, Dec. 16,
at the Jackson County hospital.
Funeral services were held on
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
at the Agricola Baptist church
with the Rev. F. E. Runyan Off
ciating. Interment was at the
Agricola cemetery.
Surviving Mr.. Baker are his
widow, Mrs. Cammie Baper; five
daughters, Mrs. Edna Earl Will
liams, Misses Bobbie, Frances,
Peggy and Glenda Baker, all of
Agricola; three sons, Lawrence,
Dudley and Lamar Baker; six
sisters, Mrs. Otis Gibson, Mrs.
Harper Tucker, Miss Nettie Bak-
er, Meridian, Mrs. Clayton
Touchstone, Mobile, and Mrs. A
p. Martin, Agricola; two broth
ers, Jessie Baker, Meridian, and
Benny Baker, Agricola; and his
father, H. J. Baker of Agricola.
Serving as pail bearers were
Dan Vincent. Virgil Allen, c. E.
Polk, Wiley Parker, Hester Gun
ter and Clement Walls.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22
Farm Census TO
Begin In January.
Says Farm Agent

The agricultural resources and
production of the United States
at war will be measured with
the taking of the census of ag-
riculture scheduled to start the
first week of January, A. ].
Franklin, county farm agent,
announced. Basic information on
agriculture including statistics on
farm acreage, crops, livestock,
farm labor and other items re-
lated to farm operations will be
obtained.
The 1910 census of Jackson
county revealed that there were
1853 farms, covering a farm acre
age of 47,763 acres in this coun-
ty. The value of farms, land and
buildings, was set at $1,508,968
and valuation of farm imple-
ments and machinery was given
as $142,053. There were SO trac-
tors on farms and the total value
of domestic animals was $272,-
033. The total value of dairy
products was $B3,398 and all
crops harvested were valued at
$207, 486.
The first question to be asked
in the census will be concerned
with identifying information for
each farm household-the name
of the farm operator, his race
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22
Resident OF Bosin
Dies Suddenly At
Home On Saturday

Sam Overstreet, 40 years old,
passed away suddenly at his
hime in Basin, Miss, Saturday,
Dec. l6, at 1880 am.
Funeral services were held at
the Barton Baptist church with
interment at the Barton ceme-
terry on Monday morning.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Mary Lee Overstreet, Ba-
sin; two sons, Charlie and George
Overstreet; his mother, Mrs. Ma
LISA O%verstreet; one sister, Miss
Dora Overstreet, and four BROTH
ers, Irwin, Amos, Henry and vi
Wan Overstreet, all of Basin.
Pail bearers were Van M.
Bond, ]. H. Gilley, Curtis NAL
lett, J. H. Overstreet, j. r.
Scruggs and j. d. Barton.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22
Mr.. And Mrs. WiIliom
Morre Celebrate
Birthdays al PortY

In conformance with their an
nual custom of jointly celebrat-
ing their birthdays which fall
a few days apart, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Marie entertained at a
bridge party last Saturday eve
ming.
The house was gay with
Christmas greenery and motifs
which were particularly effec-
tive in the dining room where a
buffet supper was served. Dec
Grating the center of the table
was a large and ornately embell-
ished cake with appropriate i'm
scription.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mares guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Robert F.
Carter, MI. and Mrs. Raymond
r. King, Mr.. and Mrs. Halsey
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22
Plan Holiday Sweets
For Children So Not
To Enddger Health

Children, not to mention their
elders, can enjoy Christmas
sweets without endangering
health if the types and times for
sweets are wisely planned. Ger
tain kinds of sweet delicacies APP
peal to children's appetites and
benefit their bodies at the same
time.
Fruits come first on the list of
desserts that should receive spe-
cial emphasis in planning men
us. They r among the best
desserts for children and can be
served in a nuaber of interest
ing ways. For instance, oranges,
which are plentiful now, can
form the basis of several kinds
of fruit cup. Combinations of
grapefruit, orange, grapes or
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22

and age, location of the farm,
the number of dwelling units on
the farmstead and their facili-
ties such as running water, cleo
tricity, and the number of per-
sons residing on the farm. Cues
tions will be asked regarding
the agricultural labor force on
the farm, both paid and unpaid.
Inquiries will be made on the
production of fruits and berries
in 1914, he explained.
I'VE wish to impress Oh farm
ers the fact that the statistics by
the Census Bureau will be con-
fidential in all respects" he said.
"It cannot be used for purposes
of taxation, regulation or inves-
tigation. The strictest precau-
ton will be taken to see that no
information about any particular
farm or farmer will become
available to any. agency other
than the Bureau of Census"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22

California occupies more than
one-half of the Pacific coastline
of the United States.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22

The first commercial orchard of
prunes was planted in California
in 1870.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22

Sail boats are measured BY
r line length and sail area.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22

Dodd, and MI. and Mrs. Casey
Bryan
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04
EqualPayForAIl
RacesMandatory
Ruling Of Board
Mexicans, Indians, Negroes
Entitled To Same Rate
AS Rest OF Us

Differences in racial origin cannot
be used to justify wage differentials,
the Nonferrous Metals Commission of
WLB ruled when it ordered three
Arizona mining companies to abol-
ish such differentials.
The companies, whose wage rates
favored ''Anglo-American'' workers
over Mexican, Indian and Negro
workers, were ordered to establish
rates based on job content irrespec-
tive of the ancestry of the worker
performing the job.
The Miami Copper Co., Miami,
Arlz.; International Smelling and
Refining Co.; and Inspiration Con-
solidated Copper Co., both of Inspir-
alton Consolidated Copper Co., both
of Inspiration, Ariz., we're directed by
the commission to discontinue all
wage rates below $3.50.
The three companies had come be
fore the commission in a union dis
pute, bargaining agent for their en-
ployees, over the issue of the rates for
common labor.
In an opinion on the commits
sion's order, Charles Graham,
chairman, secuted the contention
that the lack of education of the
non "AnglO-American'' workers was
a valid basis for lower rates of pay.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04
As We See It
by
THE STAFF

ALFRED FAUST, New Haven bu-
reau manager for the Bridgeport
Herald, has been placed la in
the draft, has passed his physical,
and has been accepted for general
service in the Army. AL has a wife
and two children, is treasurer of
the Bridgeport Newspaper Guild,
and is an alright guy. We don't
know when he's going, but we'll
miss him and those trick headlines
which make New Haven seem like
pretty dramatic town to live in.
APPEASEMENT doesn't pay. II
took Marshall Field, Chicago's
wealthiest citizen and founder of
the Chicago SUN, more than a year
to discover that. To appease Chica-
go financial interests, Field named
Phil Hanna, editor of the hate
labor, hateRoosevelt Journal of
Commerce, as the Suns financial
editor. The big finance boys re-
fused TO be appeased-while pro-
gressive readers of the Sun, anti
dote to the Chicago Tribune, con-
tinued to protest Hanna's New
Deal damning politics. So Field
fired Hanna and Sun readers can
now take their financial and com.
mercial news straight.
BECAUSE the paymaster couldn't
decipher his signature on the pay
roll, a reporter friend of ours in
the Army is broke, and will either
have to improve his writing or use
a thumb print. To prove that he's
not illiterate, he writes:
ii yam turning tew right, but
still hav sum truble with my pees
and cues. hope there will be
job for me when get back. i
hope tew be able soon tew right
my name, as it is a noosance not
to have eny mummy.
''Luv, Ed.'
We sympathize with Ed, but con-
sidering some of the signatures we
have to decipher, we also sympa-
thize with the paymaster.
THE Electrical Workers Jour-
nal'' in its March issue just off the
presses, lashes out at top ''brass
hats who have themselves sought
to provoke animosity between men
on the home front and those in
uniform.
Directly and indirectly, virtual
ly every American family has some
one near and dear fighting for
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04
Hate Fomenters
Prepare WayFor
Fascism-- Watt
War On Labor Is Peril To
Our Country, Says
ALL. Leader

CHICAGO.-Those who are try
ing to arouse hate against labor were
accused here by Robert J. Watt, A. F.
of L. international representative, of
planting a time bomb against our
democratic institutions"
Watt made his blunt charge be-
fore an audience of 1000 en-
plOyers at national meeting of the
American Management Association.
without the American army of
production soldiers there could have
made no successful assault in the
South Pacific, no invasion of Africa
or Italy," he said. eff American
workers had not labored hard and
we'll, there might not have been the
heroic story of Stalingrad.
''Despite all this, there are a lot
of people, including the top button
pushers in Washington, who think
the way to beat Hitler is to put
labor in a straitjacket.''
Those ON top who are preaching
the ''class struggle against labor
are playing Hitler's game and lay
ing the ground for Fascism in this
country, he declared.
The only real way to preserve de-
mocracy after the war is for labor and
to start cooperative plan
ming now for postwar stability, Watt
commended.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04
Enforcement Of.
0PARegulations
By City Favored.
United Labor In Third Con
gressional District IMAM
imously Supports Plan

Plans of the Connecticut O.P.A. TO
ask cities and towns to adopt an ordi-
nance which would permit local police
and courts to enforce war price and
rationing regulations were unanimous
endorsed by the United Labor Legis-
lative Conference of the Third Con-
gressional District at its meeting
Thursday
Union Representatives pointed
out that workers and their families
are the first to suffer when O.P.A.
regulations are not enforced; and
that real enforcement will result in
direct savings to the consumer, and
more equitable distribution of
scarce commodities.
Presented by the resolution COM
n1ittee of the Conference, the follow
ing resolve was unanimously adopt
ed:
S'Whereas, Connecticut is fight
ing a magnificent battle on the
production line here at home; and
''Whereas, The distribution of
the daily necessities of life i'm a
democratic manner and at rea-
sOnable price is a policy of our
government, acting through the Of
flee of Price Administrator and To-
cal War Price and RatiOning
Boards; and
'sWhereas, the spread of black
markets can only result in harm to
workers and their families; and
''Whereas, Local enforcement of
War Price and Rationing regula-
tons is the best protection for the
entire community; and
''Whereas, Is American cities
have passed ordinances making
the violation of rationing and price
control regulations a local offense;
''Be 1t Therefore Resolved, That
the United Labor Legislative Con-
ference of the Third Congressional
District, in regular meeting assem-
bled, hereby endorses the principle
of local enforcement of ratiOning
and price control regulations; and
instructs its executive board to take
all possible action which will sup
port the move to have such an or
dinance adopted in the cities and
towns represented in the Confer
ence,"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04
Third District
UnionsPledge
Their Support
Congress Described AS More
BEAT Roosevelt And La
Dor" Than s'Win The
War" Congress; 1O2
Delegates Attend

The United Labor Legisla-
tive Conference of the Third
Congressional District, which
is made up of the A.F.L.,
C.I.O., and Railroad Unions i'm
this district, met at the New
Haven Labor Temple Thurs
day evening and unanimously
voted their endorsement of
President Roosevelt's conduct
of the war ON the home and
war front. A total of lO2 dele
gates of unions i'm New Haven
Wallingford, Meriden, and
BranfOrd attended.
Action taken by the Confer
ence included the following de-
cisions:
A concerted drive will be made
by organized labor and its friends
to defeat Rep. Ranulf Compton,
should he be renominated by the
Republican Party. The unionists
described Rep. Compton as "an
enemy of labor and of the COM
mon people"
The executive board of the
Conference was instructed to set
up ward clubs for political action
in the coming elections this fall.
kilograms were sent to u. S.
Senators Francis Maloney and
John A. Danaher urging them to
support President Roosevelt's
veto of the tax bill, on the ground
that the bill, as passed by Con-
gress, "does not provide for
equality of sacrifice by all seq
ments of the population
A resolution, which will serve as
the basis for the political activi-
ties of the unions i'm their cam
paign this fall, was adopted as fol-
lows:
Resolved, That the United La
Dor Legislative Conference of the
Third Congressional District of
Connecticut, consisting of the
ALL, C.I.O., and Railroad Unions
in this District, hereby pledge our
full support to our Commander
in-Cheif, President Franklin d.
Roosevelt, and to our heroic men
and women in the military service
of the United States, i'm their great
struggle to exterminate the NaZis
of Germany and Japan. We agree
with our President that there is no
line between the home front and
the war frontal of us, civilians
and sOldiers-are engaged in a
war for survival
Organized labor has won the bat
tie of war production to such an ex-
tent that in some fields we have over
produced. Never in the history of the
world has a nation been so completely
modified for single purpose-with
such successful results.
1.-THE enemies of organized labor
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04
Equal Treatment
Urged For Women

Women workers should be treated
the same as men when the heavy lay
offs from war industries start. So
contended the Women's Advisory
Committee bf the War Manpower
Commission in recommendations filed
this week with Paul V. McNutt,
chairman of the commission.
Many of the women who are in in
dustry for the duration will volun-
tarily quit and return to their homes,
the committee said. Next to them
those on the split shifts and young
boys and girls should be dropped, Nc
Mutt was urged.
After this shaking down. has oc-
Cured, further necessary 1ayoffs of
women who remain should be gov
erned by the same yardsticks that are
applied to men, the committee declar-
ed.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04
Conn. Stage Unions
Hold Celebration
Every Local In State Represented At 18th Anniversary
Meeting In New Haven = International President
Walsh Praises Shea = Fine Report By Brazil

Organized labor throughout the
state is congratulating the Conn. AS
ISOLATION of the international Alliance
of Theatrical Stage Employees and
Motion Picture Machine Operators
upon the highly successful twelfth
anniversary celebration held at the
New Haven Labor Temple on We'd
nesday.
Every local in the state was rep
resented when President George
Brazil called the session to order at
1880 p. Nj. President Brazil's report
was brief and to the point, and he
then introduced the invited guests,
who delivered short addresses. The
guests were ]. ]. Egan, secretary
treasurer of the Conn. Federation
of Labor; Nathan Sherman, editor
of The Union Times; Richard ].
Walsh, international president of
the I.A.T.S.E.; Harold v. Fem
mark, president of the New Haven
Central Labor Council; James
Brennan, ]. A. T. S. E. executive
board member; and Thomas Shea,
of Middletown, newly appointed
I.A.T.S.E. representative for the
New England district. Timothy Col
Inns, president of the State Fedora
ton, was unable to attend because
of an assignment by his Inter-
national.
Egan, in his address, discussed the
manpower shortage; told of the man
power drive begun by the Conn. War
Council; and. urged his listeners to
accept posts representing organized
labor on city and state bodies when
hey are offered.
Sherman told of the propaganda
campaign against organized labor be-
ing carried on in the daily news
papers, and warned that our men and
women in the armed services do not
want to come back to unemployment
and the conditions which followed
World War I.
eve have learned to produce for
war;" he said, land we must apply
what we have learned to produce
for peace. The day has passed when
able-bodied men will sell apples at
Continued on Page Three
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04
$l5,OOO,OOO Is
AFLContribution
ToU.S. RedCross
$25, 900, 900 Was Given By
A. FL. Members To
National War Fund

The American Federation of
Labor has pledged to raise $751;
600, 900 for the forthcoming Red
Cross campaign. Federation Off
Gals have recommended a mini
mum of four hours pay as the in
dividual AFL Red Cross cOntribu-
ton. At the same time, it was re-
vealed that AFL members had con-
tributed more than $25, 900, 900
to the recent National War Fund
drive.
These figures and the Red Cross
pledge we're made public by Matthew
Woll, president of the Labor League
for Human Rights, official relief arm
of the American Federation of Labor.
The recOrd-breaking total raised
by AFL unions in 80 cities for the
National War Fund, Mr.. Vol fur
Their revealed, was in part accounted
for by an honor roll of Is cities in
which union members contributed
ten million dollars. Heading this
list of cities were New York, Chica-
go and Los Angeles, each with more
than one million dollars to their
credit. lowering about the half
million mark were Philadelphia,
Boston, Seattle, St. Louis, Milwau-
kee, and Washington, ID. C. Six
teen additional cities, including
Providence, Cleveland, Memphis,
Houston, Pittsgurgh and others,
averaged contributions of $3.50, 900
each.
The general trend in the National
War Fund campaign, according to
Mr. Woll, has not only been towards
a rise in the AFL's standard of giving,
but towards a spread in the number
of labor contributors to local COM
munity chests. This is shown by COM
parsons of total results and OF aver
age per capita contributions during
the 1912 and 1913 campaigns.
A contribution of one million
dollars from labor in a single city
had never before been recorded in
any relief drive, Mr.. Vol pointed
out, and very few cities, in 1912,
had reached the half-milliOn mark.
In 1913, however, New York City
and Chicago quadrupled,
their 1912 results. In the case of
others of the twenty-five cities for
outstanding achievement, the in
crease in several Instances reached
the spectacular rate of $50 percent.
The National War Funds drive to
raise funds from AFL members was
by the Labor League for
Human Rights, which will perform
the same function for the Red Cross
during the campaign
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04
200 Conscientious
Directors In Prison

There are now 200 conscientious
DIRECTORS in Federal prisons, of whom
1915 are Jehovah's Witnesses, the
National Service Board for Religious
Directors reported this week.
1t said that directors are being sent
to prison at the rate of 200 month,
and that about IS per cent of these
are Jehovah's Witnesses who have re-
fused to accept non-combatant service.
About 500 directors were declared
to have served their terms and been
released.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04

Mention THE UNION TIMES
when shopping, and help Labor's
Own Paper grow.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04
Wonder Drug Will.
Soon Be Plentiful

Penici1lin, the wonder drug, will
soon be p1entifu1-and cheap, it was
disclosed this week by the War Pro-
duction Board. Already supplies are
being made available to civilians, it
said.
For the first time the veil of mill
tary secrecy was lifted from produc-
ton figures. In the first half of 1913
a little was turned out. but not enough
to meet military needs, but by Deem
Der output had jumped to Fl billion
units. In January production in
creased 40 per cent, while in February
II billion units were made available.
AS production rose, the price fell.
Six months ago the cost of 100000
units was $40; now it is $475.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04
F.D.R. Wanted Again
By Labor's Leaders.

WASHINGTON = Labor's top
leaders are overwhelmingly for
FDR'S election for a Fourth Term,
a poll taken by the newspaper PM
last week reveals.
The President was rated first
choice in the coming elections by IS
out of 90 union leaders who returned
answers. Gov. Dewey with seven
FIRST choice" votes was runner-up.,
Vice-Pres. Henry A. Wallace was
first choice for Vice President with
63 votes. Speaker Sam Rayburn was
second with II votes.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-04

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