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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-11

the more current ones cost be-
tween 20 and so grand to pro-
duce, depending upon how many
sets are used, how many actors
are in the cast, and what size
wad the stars demand. Weekly
box office crosses range from
$4,000 to $4,000 depending
upon how big the theater is, and
how much is charged for card
board. Top ticket for top smash
will cost you $3.50, and 75c
more if purchased through a
legitimate ticket broker.
A lot moore money-it will
run anywhere from 100000 to
$500, 000-is sunk into a musical
hit, and the amount depends
upon how lavish the sets, extrav-
agant tn costumes, and whooped
up the star=studded cast. Sell-out
musicals will gross from S3l 900
to $4,000 weekly, depending
again upon the size of the thea
ter and the price of tickets. To
see the most expensive musical
shows in town, if you're lucky
enough to get a ducat-go to
Mexican Hayride" or Song of
Norway" or the new Sadie
Thompson" familiar stage play
Rain" set to music). You'll pay
Sc for an orchestra seat, bought
at the box office.
None but the sucker will pay
blac kmarket prices TO furtive
and seedy characters, unscrupu-
lous bell boys or other chiselers
who try to turn a few crooked
bucks by selling tickets with
more than fixed brokers' fee of
rs cents added to the price.
Mail-order sales, made way in
advance and directly through the
box office, grow in Importance
as Broadway becomes the Great
White Way of all the country,
scattering seeds of little Broad
ways all over the postwar
U.S.A., theatrical folks hope.
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Rowing Reporters

zled Heaven" Both of these stars
sturdily pull weak plays while
the three actors in the lead are
luckily cast in hit shows.
HOTTEST HITS
The five hottest hits, judging
by advance sell-outs and by the
size of the boom-town hordes
who push. fight, stand in block
long lines for accomplishing
hours on holidays, election days,
Holy Days or rainy days to get
tickets, are two Americana
spiced musicals, the old okla
homa" and the new women's
rights saga, "Bloomer Girl"
Tops too, are 1.-THE Voice Of the
Turtle" which gives audiences
the sneak thrill they'd get from
watching q love affair through
a window and II Remember
Mama" a play which has no
sex, no crime, no suspense
just simple goodness - but is
dragging 'em in. Harvey" is a
new comedy WOW in which q six
foot, one-inch imaginary rabbit
has zoomed to stardom. The rab-
bit is already q by-word, and will
be the next animal pet Of toy
and souvenir manufacturers be-
cause of the exalting talents of
endearingly wacky Frank Fay,
who makes him his companion
both at home and at bars.
Other hits which have been
running SO long that they ac-
copied as Broadway fixtures are
suavely melodramatic Angel
Street which will celebrate its
fourth birthday soon and the
nostalgia valentine, Life With
Father" which is galloping into
its sixth successful year in New
York and on the road, and is ex-
pected to out-live two other past
perennials, "Abie's Irish Rose"
and Tobacco Road" This play
is fast using up all of the chill
dren in the theater, and grown
up graduates from the juvenile
cast now form a stable alumni
society, ID Of whom are in the
Army, Navy and Air Force.
Dramatic hits like these and
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BY EPSIE kINARD
NEA Staff Correspondent


NEW YORK-Loftiest names
on Broadway, where thousands
of Joes, gobs, war workers, visit
ing firemen and their feminine
counterparts queue up to buy
their first glimpse of flesh-and-
blood actors, are strenuously
sincere Margaret Sullivan and
girlishly glamorous Mary Mar
tin, who, judging by the biggest
salaries knocked down on the
street, are tops.
Until Margaret Sullivan yield
ed her bright spot in "The Voice
of the Turtle" 10 actress Betty
Field, she starred as Broadway's
highest. paid performer. For her
verbal juggling feat in comedy
based on a furlough story where
conversation is tossed back and
forth as airily as ball that
never falls, she earned $4,000 a
week, which included q piece OF
the shows profits.
4. Diaphanously draped Mary
Martin pockets around $3.50
every Saturday night-a salary
which includes percentage of
box office receipts and varies &C
cording to the take-for singing,
dancing and strip-teasing in
that set-to-music fantasy, "One
Touch of Venus" a last years
click which is still packing 'em
in.
Third runner-up to the two
gilded gals in the Broadway
sweepstakes is veteran funny
man Bobby Clark, who for his
fire-cracker wit, precision-timed
innuendos, broad winks, shouts
and glares earns big chunk of
change in Mexican Hayride,"
plushy musical hit.
Following close behind il not
neck and neck with Clark on the
fast Broadway track are pneu-
matte Mae West, who's c"Cath-
crime Was Great" is a come-up-
and-scc-mc version of a Russian
history. Queen Ethel Barrymore
OF the theater's royal family,
stars in tcar-jerking "Embez-
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If our children are not to be
the victims of that false sense of
security which Maginot Lines in
spire, we must establish affirm
alive and dynamic agencies Of
peace. - DR.. Everett Case, pres
ident Colgate u.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

~CIENCE is baffled by mysteri-
Gus radio waves from outer
~ space that are pouring down up
on the earth. They are similar TO
the waves that carry television, radio
and radar signals and, for want of
better name, they are now being
called "coSmic static"
We're they sent out as messages
by the inhabitants of some distant
planet, which is a member of some
other solar system than our own and
which is far beyond the range of our
best telescopes? Or are they merely
the result of some unexplained phe.
nomenon far out in the Milky Way?
Science has no answer. Yet they
are being detected at Wheaton, III,
by Grote Reber, senior member of
the Institute of Radio Engineers, with
a huge sheet metal mirror over 81
feet in diameter.
Instead of gathering light rays
from distant parts of space as tele-
scope mirrors do, the metal mirror
focuses the short radio waves on a
sensitive antenna.
In operation the giant apparatus,
shown on this page, slowly scans the
sky, pointing at any spot visible in
the heavens. When no cosmic static
is intercepted the recorder merely
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

stellation Of Sagittarius. II is in this
same region of space astronomers be-
lieve is the center" of the pinwheel-
shaped galaxy of stars that contains
the sun and earth.
Sagittarius is about 10000 light
years away from the earth and il
therefore takes highland any radio
waves generated there-30,000 years
TO reach us. Thus if the mystery
waves were transmitted by civiliza-
tion on a planet near Sagittarius they
must have been sent out into space
some 10000 years ago.
Is that civiliZation-if il ever ex-
iSted-now dead? Or does il still
exist so that man on earth might try
10 return the mystery signals? And
will it exist for another 10000 years,
the time needed for mans messages
TO plunge back through space to the
original transmitter?
Again science has no answer. II
might be worth while TO try the ex-
pertinent and hope civilization on
earth will remember the year
3l945 AD.-to see what happens.
The mysterious origin of coSmic
static raises anew the idea that many
stars of the universe may have plan
cts just like those of our sun. This
is the new whirlpool" theory of
planetary origin which Professor
George Gamow Of George Washing
ton University recently explained for
readers of The American Weekly.
Every star in its natural evolution,
said Professor Gamow. would have
planetary satellites and thus the pos
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

SibilitieS are greatly increased that
planets like the earth exist in great
numbers in SPace.------l-
If this is true, then perhaps many
planets have living beings on them
who might be either ahead, or be
hind, the earth in the development Of
creatures like man.
Perhaps the radio waves, which
man calls static because they are a
meaningless tumble and undeci-
phered, are really coded messages
from other worlds. But all this is
speculation at present, says Mr.. Reber
Best scientific explanation of cos
mic static is that the stars are pour
ing out atoms of their substance into
space; atoms often hit by the bull
cts" of light radiation called photons
In these impacts the atoms in space
are split apart into positive particles
(protons) and negative electrical par
ticles (electrons).
AS the electrons approach the pro-
tons they are slowed down and their
energy of motion is converted into
radio waves.
This is no strange feat, for the
oscillations Of electrons in the antenna
of any radio station create present.
day broadcasting signals.
Broadcasting is achieved by trans.
hitting on a single wavelength so
that one can tune in different stations
and not get the Conglomerate scramblM
of signals from all stations at once.
The coSmic static waves, how
ever, come in on all wavelengths as
if they had a random origin in the
splitting apart of atoms. II is for this
reason, says Mr.. Reber, that they
would seem not 10 be messages from
intelligent human beings on some yet
unknown planet. But even he admits
he does not know.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

draws a
straight line When
cosmic static is encountered the zen
writes a wriggling wavy pattern.
So great is the amplification in
the apparatus that man-made static
generated by motor car ignition sys.
TENS, or by opening and closing OF
light switches, can cause interfer-
ence and put sharp spikes and bumps
in the relatively smooth curve Of
the cosmic signals.
The mysterious and so far unin-
telligible waves have the frequency
used for short wave radio transmits
sion, television, radar, and frequency
modulation (FMD radio They really
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

COulu DC u cdltu
in so m @ man.
made devices.
T h s thought
has led to spec
ulation a bout
their origin, with
the pos S / bility
that they were
d / S p a { c h e d
as m g s S a g q s
from some other
planet.
Mr.. r @ b r S
The New COsnic
Static Is Quite
Different From
the Ordinary
COsmic Ray Par
ticleS That Bend
When They
Travel Through
the Earth's Mag
netic Field.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

great radio de-
tector shows the
most inten sc
waves come from
the region of the
SkV in the CON
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

sibilities are greatly increased that
planets like the earth exist in great
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
Mystery Radio Waves Bombarding Us
From Outer Space MoY Be Signals
From Another Planet - the Experts
Admit They Don't Know
BY ROBERT ID. POTTER
Science Editor

%CIENCE is baffled by mysteri-
Gus radio waves from outer
~ space that are pouring down up
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Banks and u. S.
Offices To Close
For Armisfice

The mathematical laws of the
calendar place Armistice Day
November lion a Sunday
thissweek,- depriving most work.
ers and business lei of a regu-
lar holiday but permitting Sun
day observance of the 9th an
niversary of the close of HOSTILE
ties in the First World War.
Federal offices and banks will
observe a legal holiday Monday,
but local businesses and the In
gals shipyard will be on schedule
as usual. The Pascagoula Post
Office will suspend all window
service Monday except Station
No. | at Market and Lincoln.
There will be city delivery only.
The Moss Point Post Office will
have no window service Monday.
but regular carrier service will
be maintained.
The United States Employment
Service office and the Federal
Public Housing Authority offices
in Eastlawn will be closed Mon
day.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Recommendation On
Holiday Closings
Mode BY Merchants

Recommendations on store clos
ing hours for the approaching
holidays were made at a meeting
Of the executive committee Of the
retail division of the Chamber of
Commerce at a meeting held
Tuesday afternoon at the Cham
bcr's offices.
For Thanksgiving, November
22nd. recommendations were that
foo dstores remain open all day
Wednesday, November 2lst, and
close ali DAY Thursday, Thanks
giving Day. Other stores would
follow their regular Wednesday
procedure and in addition close
all day Thanksgiving Day.
For Christmas Recommended
lions we're that all stores close
all day Christmas Day, which
falls on Tuesday, and the follow
ing day remain closed
For New Years Day it was
recommended that stores close all
day Tuesday and follow then
usual procedure on Wednesday.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Negroes Fined BY
]. P. On WhiskeY.
Gambling Charges

Viola Swar, negro, was fined
$3.50 in justice of the peace court
Monday after She was charged
with having Intoxicating liquor
in her possession by deputy sher-.
ifs who raided her cafe and beer
parlor on Testament street Sat
urday night. According to Dep
uty Sheriff John R. McNeal, six
gallons of untaxed liquor were
found in her possession.
Willie Moffett, negro, will be
tried on charges of possession of
Intoxicating liquor Saturday be-
fore Judge B. B. Hobby in Moss
Point following a raid on his resi-
dence by Deputy Sheriffs Nc
Neal, T. D. Harrison and John
G.. Flynt.
Willie Warfield, negro, was
charged with operating a gambl-
ing house on Dupont street Sun
day and was fined $50 by Judge
Kate Denny in Pascagoula after
he entered a plea of guilty. Eight
negroes playing at the time of
the raid were arrested and fined
from SIS to $40 on gambling
charges.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Rotary Ladies Might Audience
Hears Glorious New Era Predicted

did in war, a statue of a peace
full and prosperous nation will
be the lasting tribute to our
war dead
Alton May, USo director. was
POSTMASTER and each Rotarian
introduced his wife or guest.
President Roy Owens welcomed
the guests and Mrs. f. Fl. Bacot
responded for the wives.
Dinner music was by the Pas
cagoula High School orchestra
under the direction of II, H.,
Goodwin with vocals by Kitty
Harris and Ellen Faulkenberry
A girls sextette composed of
Mary Evelyn Eubanks, Rather
inc Wright. Margaret Rutledge,
frankie Trest. Mary Mccoy and
Jeannine Pelham sang Duke Ell
lington's Mood Indigo" and
George Gershwin's The Man l
Love, accompanied and direct
ed by Miss Eugenia Esson, music
director of the high school.
Miss Katie Thompson. junior
high school voice teacher. rem
dered Michael Arne's The Lass
with the Delicate Air and Ste
phen Fosters Beautiful Dream
err, accompanied AT the piano
by Miss Laura Marie Hudson,
Rotary Ann.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Y.W.B.C. Seeks
Funds For Street
Christmas Lights

The Young Women's business
Club Of Pascagoula, this week
opened a drive to raise funds to
install Christmas lights in the
main business district of the
city, Miss Annie Lee Cole,
president. announced.
Lights were strung across
P%aseagoula street from the cor
ner Of Jackson avenue to the
post office and down Delmas
avenue II the court house in
1899 and 1910. Because of the
war II was necessary to discon-
tinue this seasonal lighting for
the past four years but plans
are being made to re-install the
colored lights for the Yuletide.
Originally 80 strings of lights
were used and present plans call
for the hanging of all these
strings and possibly a few more
permanently. Miss Cole ex-
planned that substantial wiring
ana the eolored globes will be
used 50 that they can stand the
weather from one year to the
next and eliminate the cost of
installation each season.
The cost of this project has
been estimated at $500 and con-
tributionS will be requested
from merchants to defray the
expenses. Miss Cole, said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Little The0ter To
Present arsenic
And Old Lace"

The Little Theater has an
nounced arsenic and Old Lace
the three-aet comedy that con-
vulsed scores of theater and mo-
ton picture audiences, as its
next production and has set
Tuesday at 8 p. m. as the time
for try-outs, H. H. Douthitt,
chairman of the casting commit
tee announced. Try outs will be
held in the 18th street commu-
nitv house auditorium and the
public IS invited to participate.
The cast is a large one, Mr.. Dou-
thitt explained. and anyone in
terested in theatricals, whether
a member of the Little Theatef
group or not, is invited TO try
out. Preliminary try-outs for the
membership were heard Thurs
day night.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Shipyard Leads
With rs Percent
OF Victory Quota

The Victory Loan Drive moved
ahead in Jackson county this
week with some sections report
ing slow progress and others
Boosting of a strong start.
Some committees had not be-
gun intensive campaigning but
were laying plans to concen-
trate their efforts in a few days
drive during the next week. Few
groups had any figures available
on the progress made.
ingalls, Shipyard led in the
county with approximately IS
percent of its S350,000 quota al
ready accounted for. A number
of the departments in the yard
have already gone over the top,
members of the drive committee
representing management and la
Dor, reported and, with the ex-
ception of a few, all are making
a good showing.
James Lane, chairman in Pas
cagoula reported $48,476.25 in
Pascagoula, only a small part OF
the 5000, 900 goal. He announced
a meeting of block leaders and
committee chairmen for Novem-
Der 20 at 2 p. m. at the Chamber
of Commerce.
T. r.. Wells, superintendent of
Pascagoula schools, explained
that the Pascagoula schools have
a voluntary quota of $4,000,
a part OF the $4,000 goal as
signed to the county schools. OF
this amount about so percent has
been obtained, he said.
T. l.. DeLashmet, chairman in
Moss Point, had no figures from
his chairmen and leaders in that
city nor had Mrs. DeLashmet who
is chairman of the women's di-
vision. Nc report was available
from Ocean Springs. Only one
bond drive had been held in the
Moss Point High school and So
705.65 resulted. Additional rail-
lies are being planned in that
and other schools IN the town,
however.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
County Observes
25th National
Education Week

Know your school better will
be the theme of National Edu-
cation Week in Jackson County
which will join the rest of the
country in celebrating the 25th
annual observance from Novem-
Der IL through II.
Parents and all other citizens
are being invited to visit the
school OF their choice in PaSca-
goula, Moss Point and through
the county during the week.
Special programs in line with
the observance will be held at
regular assembly periods for the
students. school officials said.
In Pascagoula the Kiwanis
Club and the Rotary Club will
hold their luncheon meetings
Tuesday and Wednesday, res
pectively, at the high school
cafeteria and instead of a lunch
con program usual at these ses-
sions, members of the Beta Club,
national honor society, will con-
duct the men through the high
school and trade school follow
ing the meal.
THE school will continue as
usual on that day." Mr.. Wells
said, in order that the visitors
may get a cross section of an
average day at school,
A mimeographed sheet bearing
information about the school sys-
tenn will be distributed through
the week.
The general theme of the ma
tional observance is Education
TO Promote the General We'll
fare" with such sub-titles as
Emphasizing Spiritual Values,
Finishing the War Securing
the Peace" Improving Econom-
ic Wellbeing.s Strengthening
Home Lie Developing Good
Citizens and Building Sound
Health suggested to develop the
subject.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Session
circuit Court
Set Monday
Court Faced With
HeovY Criminal
And Civil Docket

The November term of circuit
court for Jackson County will
open at 9 a. m. Monday at the
court house in Pascagoula with
20 cases awaiting grand jury
action, more than 80 civil cases
and about as triable criminal
cases on the docket. Judge L. c.
Corban of Biloxi will preside.
pies and l.. K. Mcintosh, county
attorney, will represent the state.
District Attorney Luther Ma
Sixtv-two names have been
drawn for Monday from which
the grand and petit juries will
be selected. Thirty-six addition
al names will be drawn for the
second and third weeks. lndi-
cations are that court will con
tinue for the full three-week
term.
No murder or manslaughter
cases await the attention of the
grand jury but appearing on the
list to be placed before this body
are burglary and larceny, grand
larceny, robbery, assault and
battery with intent to kill, rape.
attempted rape, forgery, deser-
ton Of minor children and big
amy.
Heavy Civil Docket
On the civil docket appear Is
cases against Masonite Corpora
ton of Laurel for the killing
of fish. Several cases which have
been continued because litigants
were in the armed forces will
probably come before the court
in this session. Some of the cases
are bond forfeitures where de-
PENDANTS failed to appear and the
cases were continued. One in
wolves an attempt to recover
money over the ceiling price paid
on a truck and another is suit
for the removal of a tenant for
non-payment of rent. The un-
lawful collection of taxes is the
charge in still another action.
Criminal charges include main
tanning a public nuisance. tres
passing, driving an automobile
while intoxicated, burglary and
larceny, assault and battery,
reckless driving, grand larceny,
bigamy, having intoxicating
liquor in possession, beating a
board bill, petty larceny, forgery.
using profane language, disturb
ing the peace, operating a dance
hall on Sunday, resisting arrest,
operating a gambling house, and
operating pinball machine.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Home Service OF
Red Cross Assists
Hurd of Herring

The Home Service Departr ,
of the Jackson County chapt SS
the American Red Cross w 40
sist any veteran with defecu.t
hearing by supplying specialized
information regarding biologists,
teachers of lip reading, adjust
ment to hearing loss, medically
approved hearing aids, vocational
guidance, training and employ
ment, Miss Nellie Tallman, exc
cutive secretary of the chapter,
announced. Anyone desiring such
assistance may call at the Ameri-
can Red Cross office in the old
Central school building on South
Pascagoula street.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Continue War
Fund Collection
To Reach Quota

With every section of the coun-
~ still short of the assigned
quota, committees continued col
lections for the National War
Fund in the county and for the
United War Fund and Commu-
nifty Chest in Pascagoula. Coun-
ty chairman f. A. Khayat an
nounced that efforts would be
continued until the goal had been
reached. The drive has also been
extended in the state.
In the Pascagoula section
where the quota for the COM
bined drive was $4,000 with
$4,000 for each fund, $4,000
was reported by Hermes Gautier,
head of the drive in this sec
ton. In the Moss Point district
Chairman T. l.. DeLashmet re-
ported $4, 800 of the $4,000 quota.
In Ocean Springs only $500 of the
$1,000 goal was reported col
lected.