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freshments in the cafeteria.

st. Johns Episcopal church
held its annual parish meeting
Tuesday evening at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Copeland. The.
Rev. E. A. DeMiller conducted
the meeting and reports were
given by Mrs. A. N. Tins, George
Arndt. Katherine Snyder and
Henry Terry, Jr.
Pvt. w. c. Chambers, Keesler
Field public relations director,
presented the film. The Secret
Weapon" at the weekly Rotory
Club meeting. Frank Corson and
George Ditton were visiting Ro-
tarians.
The Past Matrons' club met on.
Thursday night at the Masonic
Temple TO elect officers. Elected
were Miss Josephine Friar, presi-
dent; Mrs. A. c. Gottsche, vice
president; Mrs. p, Endt, secre-
and Mrs. Robert Rupp,
treasurer. A box supper was
served. The next meeting will
be held on March Q with Mrs. E..
Armstrong.
Margie Westbrook, Evelyn Ward,
Peggy and Betty Eglin, cheer
leaders during the past football
season, entertained the team at
supper at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Westbrook Saturday.
Miss Mary O'Keefc was guest of
honor and was presented a COR
sage of camellias. The supper
table was decorated in red and
white with Valentino favors.
The Alpha Gamma Sigma So
rority met Thursday afternoon
with Katherine King. Nine pdeg-
ges were present. Plans were
discussed for a banquet and ar.
rangements made for a candy
sale.
The Home Makers club met
Monday afternoon at the home of
MRS J. c. Dickey with Mrs. Os-
car Heffner as co-hostess. Mrs.
Ellis Harry sang, God Bless
America" The March meeting
will be held with Mrs. Carl Lind
strum. II was decided to have
music at each meeting. The hos
tesses served tea, sandwiches and
cake to Mesdames Lindstrum, r.
Barnhart, r. Palfrey, c. d. Tod
eenbier. r. Palmer, N. c. Nissen,
G.. Humphrey, Ellis Handy, and
Miss Cora Pattison.
The Youth Canteen was the
scene of a Valentine party Mon
day evening arranged by Misses
Bernadine Wulff, Sadie Hodges.
and Oscar Heffner. The center
was decorated in red and white.
The ''Teen-agers" assisted at the
door and snack bar, Mr.. and Mrs.
Art Fifield led the grand march.
and Oscar Heffner, Earl Taylor
and Chester Snyder conducted a
quiz contest. Mrs. Chester Sny-
der won the entrance prize.
Mrs. Marcus Shanteau spent the
weekend at Perkinston Junior
College with her daughter, Kath-
crime, who is Q student there.
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NO. .. ls4s

An Ordinance entitled an ordi-
nance TO amend Section ! of Or
dinance No. 2l.ls24 so as TO des-
ignate that portion of that COR
tain building en- the East Side of
Ker Street in the City of Pssca-
goula. Mississippi. recently leased
by the City from E. Barq. known
as No. 202 Ker Street. as a Mum.
cipal Building and designating
the same As the place wherein
the City Police Department shall
maintain its headquarters and
wherein the City Police Court
shall be held and conducted.
Be ii Ordained by the Board of
Mayor and councilmen of the
City of Psscagoula. Mississippi rs
follows;
Section |. That Section | of Or
dinance No. 21-l924 be and the
same is hereby amended SO as to
read as follows:
Section |. The Municipal Hall
and place of official residence and
business of the City of Pascagou-
la, Mississippi, and place of Coun-
ell meetings and the place of
transaction of public business
shall continue and remain in the
building on the North side of
Delmas Avenue known officially
as the City Hall since the adop-
ton of Ordinance No. 21-1924, in
which building shall be the City
/. offices and City records and place
Of all meetings Of the City Coun-
Gil, and in which building shall
also be kept one of the City fire
engines, the hose, apparatus and
equipment supplied by the City
and the Central Fire Company
No. One, for use by the said Fire
Company and known as the Fire
mems Hall. The upper story of
said building shall be used and
occupied by the City, together
with the Central Fire Company
No. One as provided by the terms
of the contract heretofore entered
into between the City and said
Fire Company. That portion of
that certain building situated on
the East side of Ker Street in said
City known as No. 202 Ker Street
recently leased by the City from
Z. Barq is also hereby designated
&C Municipal Building and in
which building the Police Depart
ment of the City of Pascagoula
shall maintain its headquarters
and which building is also here
by designated as the place in
which the City Police Court shall
be held and conducted"
Section 2. The present City
Hall being vastly over-crowded
and it not being practicable to
continue to hold the Police Court
therein, and the same being ne
cessary for the protection of the
public health, safety and welfare,
1t is Ordained that this Ordinance
shall take effect and be in force
from and after its approval and
adoption, but same shall never
theless be published as provided
by law.
The above and foregoing Ordf-
nance having been introduced in
writing by Councilman Beckham
at this a regular meeting of the
Board of Mayor and Councilmen
of the City of PascagouIa, Missis-
sippi, held on Tuesday, February
20, l945, and the same having
been marked introduced and filed
by the Clerk and having been
read and considered paragraph by
paragraph. section by section and
then as a whole, il was on mo-
ton duly made and unanimously
carried, duly and regularly adopt
ed in the manner provided by
law and by the following vote,
to-wit:
Beckham, Aye
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The yak. beast Of burden in
Tibet, is ais important TO its ma
tional economy as the reindeer Is
TO the Lapp or the llama to the
Peruvian.
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Saarbrucken is the chief city
of the historic Saar district in
Germany.
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NONRESIDENT NOTICE
No. sies
THE A OF MISsIsSlPR

To DOROTHY HAMMERS:
You are summoned to appear
before the Chancery Court of the
County of Jackson in said State
At Rules. on the Second Monday
of March A. D., 1945, to defend
suit No. gl89 in said Court of
Daniel A. Hammers. Wherein you
are a defendant, and wherein
Complainant seeks an annullment
and divorce as fully set out in
bill on file.
This LIST day of February A.
D., 1915.
(SEALl
FRED TAYLOR,
Clerk, Chancery Court,
Jackson County. Mississippi.
BY Mrs. Del S. Taylor, DC.
NyOrfrr on cATE or "a 000 M
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Legal Notices
NONRESIDENT NOTICE
No. 9leS

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: LOUISE CULIPHER KIN
NEY. 1880 Albemarle Drive,
Norfolk 3, Virginia.
You r summoned to appear
before the chancery court of the
County of Jackson in said State,
on the Second Monday of June
A. D., l945, to defend suit No.
9185, in said Court of Roy A.
Kinney, Wherein you are a defen-
dant, and wherein Complainant
seeks a divorce as fully SET out In
bin on file.
This 30th day of January A. D.,
1945.
FRED TAYLOR,
Clerk. Chanrerv Court
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City of Psscagoula, Mississippi,
do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing is a true and or
rect copy Of Ordinance No. Z,
1916, which Ordinance was duly
adopted by the Board of Mayor
and Councilman Of the City of
Pascagoula at its regular meeting
held on Tuesday. February 20,
l945. as same appears from the
minutes of said meeting in my
custody.
Given under my hand and seal
Of office, this the 10th day of
February, 1915.
V. P. DEJEAN.
Clerk. City of Pascagouls,
Mississippi
(SEAL)
1t 2-23
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FRED TAYLOR,

Clerk, Chancery Court,
Jackson County, Mississippi.
At %, 2-9, PIG, 2-23
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Ocean Springs
cToo Late for Last Week

Too Late for Last Week.
The PTA met Wednesday af-
ternoon in the school auditorium.
Announcement was made that
$126 was cleared at the recent
food sale. Part of the gymnasium
was paid for and there was a dis
cussion Of an April entertainment
The 18th and LIST grades won the
attendance awards. Following the
business session Mrs. Albert West
brook, Mrs. ]. c. Edwards and
Mrs. Roy Dennison served re-
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PRED TAYLOR.
ADVERTISEMENT

At %, 2-s, 2-ls, 2-23
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FRED

OF SALE OF 100000
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FRED TAYLOR.

Clerk, Chancery Court,
Jackson County, Mississippi.
At %, 20, 2-16, 2-23
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All women of Hurley and the
surrounding communities who T
interested in enrolling in a Red
Cross home nursing course are
urged TO contact Mrs. j. B. Glib
son, ST., at the Hurley post Of
flee.
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Plenty OF News

President Truman assured WASHINGTON re.
porters, when he first took over at the White
House that whenever there was news to give
them he would pass it on.
He has kept his word The fact is he tells
SO much and speaks SO rapidly during press
conferences the reporters have difficulty keep.
ing up with him.
And as it turns out, he invariably has a
full bag of things to tell them about
case in point is the conference on Friday
OF last week. In his customary quiet manner,
as if what he had to say as simple as an
nouncing he'd just bought new necktie he
revealed that he expected to meet with
Premier Stain of Russia and Prime Minister
Winston Churchill of Great Britain in not
more than forty days:
He announced the appointment of Gen.
Omar N Bradley commander of the 18th
Army Group, head of the Veterans Admin
istration succeeding Brig. Gen. Frank T.
Hines;
He said there would be an announcement
soon from San Francisco on the world security
council veto question:;
He declared that civilian train travel must
be reduced because of battle plans and said he
would not hesitate to put Federal controls on
travels if facilities became too strained
He proposed that Congressional salaries be
raised to $4,000 or $685. 900 year. They now
get $4,000;
He rejected labor proposals that the Little
Steel wage sterilization formula be revised
upward. He said survey would be made
later but for the present, the formula stood;
He announced the appointment of Paul M.
Herzog of New York as chairman of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board succeeding H.
A. Mills.
If Washington rumorS prove true, it is ex-
Ipected he will soon announce further cabinet
changes. When the San Francisco Security
conference finally adjourns, Washington seers
forecast that Secretary of State Stettnius will
resign and that his successor will be James
F. Byrnes of South Carolina.
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Air Supremacy

Air supremacy literally means that power
can put up enough warplanes at any time and
any place to dominate any situation arising
from enemy attack. 1t means also that it has
a sufficient air force to attack. in addition to
planes in reserve to overpoWer and defeat
assaulting air forces
This gives a report by the Office of War
especial significance The report indicates
that the japanese cannot dominate the air at
home and the thousand and one positions they
must defend against Allied attacks by land,
sea and air Japan, says the owl, has no
more than 1000 combat planes and 600
ali and ground personnel.
This is too small, it adds for Japan to
''1nount adequate strength at all critical points
of its own defense area. Japan, therefore,
cannot hold air supremacy.
Conceding that Japan has made improve
nents in the quality of it's warplanes, the re-
port says:
''Most significant overall factor in the Japa-
nese air force of today, is the comparably
greater increases in production of fighters as
against other types.
Like the German, the japanese, for some
time, have been fighting against superior Of
fensive air forces. Faced with defending the
homeland, as Germany was during the past
two years, the Japanese, since early 1943 have
placed overwhelming emphasis on defensive
air power which must be bitter pill for the
japanese air planners who evsioned their air
power primarily for offensive purposes
An article to the New York Times from its
Washington bureau adds
The report emphasized that Japan S 1000
combat planes were in contrast Ito con-
siderably larger number of American
Army planes in the Orient. The Navy's
plane strength in that theatre was not dis
closed but the Navy has total of 81 900
combat planes.
The owl report asserted that japanese
pilot ability, Of a high order in l94142
has not kept pace with the expanding
responsibilities Of air Defense against our
constantly growing forces. The answer
pest sviators are dead
This information when taken in conjunction
with Admiral Mitscher's revelations concern
ing Japanese suicide bombings as noted in
these columns few days ago. suggests that
Japan will suffer as complete defeat in the
all as Germany Luftwaffe did in Europe
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The Johnson Act

Reading accounts Of Senator Johnson's de-
tense of the johnson Act before the Senate
Finance Committee we are reminded of a
review of road company's performance Of
Richard II by Eugene Field when he was
reporter in Denver. So and SO played the
King, commented Field, ''as if he expected
someone to play the ace"
Time has had its way with Hiram johnson,
the venerable Senator from California who
has retained his seat in the upper branch
no longer the valiant fighter of his noviciate.
Instead he now raises no more than "wee
voice in the Wilderness" And in consequence
Congress is about to legislate the johnson law
out of existence.
The act bearing his name provides that
private American investors may not make
loans to nations in default on war debts II
was during the years that foreign powers were
lapsing in payments on their loans from the
United States, following World War that
Senator johnson introduced and engineered
the passage of his measure.
His colleagues feel that whatever its merit
at the time of it's adoption, the Act no longer
can serve useful purpose. With it's. repeal.
which appears certain, there will probably
be flood of American capital into foreign
channels, which may be wise but on the other
hand may involve investors in more losses
than profits.
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The Literary Guidepost

ans most effective weapon.
Bibiana and her friends believed
it wasn't enough to make trains
run on time; they thought the
Spanish civil war was a precur-
sor of World War II, and that what
they fought for then was being
fought for now.
But in this book they are caught
neatly between the devil and the
deep blue sea; the Facists try to
kill them, the democratic powers
to squelch them. In their words,
they 'fell for Democracy the
great makeshift, the great COM
mon denominator, the great Irish
Stew" They were guilty of hav-
ing crusaded against Hitler too
early These are little words. but
justified by the experiences through
which Neumann has put his char
acters.
The climax is tense and stirring.
Neumann can do wonders with a
plot, but once in a while I caught
him taking something out of his
sleeve. Practically the whole story
is a cutback; after reading about
the death in the present, you re-
turn to other days to Learn what
led up to it. Neumann holds things
out on you while he digs into the
past. That's fair il it works. but
there were a couple OF spots where
wanted him to hurry on faster.
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ton, ct cetera. He landed on Lu-
ION November and proceeded to
organize the pickering and feuding
guerrillas of Cavite, Batangas and
western Laguna provinces.
He moved around boldly in full
Army uniform, establishing coast
watcher stations and a courier net
work-and discouraging the guer-
rilla practice of killing couriers
for their guns. He helped crashed
aviators escape He personally
sneaked into Nichols Airdrome at
Manila to estimate the Nips'
strength there.
After the Lingayen invasion his
guerrillas knocked out communica.
tons and blocked highways. In
February he commanded 10 guer-
rilla rifle companies which shared
with paratroopers and amphibious
troops the spectacularly success.
full liberation of internees at Los
Banos. During those Guerrilla op.
erations the Japs captured a letter
signed "Vanderpool Major General
Staff Corps" Apparently the Japs
didn't know what the General Staff
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Lee Miller Covers The Pacific

Corps was. They decided this med
dler was bigshot and hunted hard
but vainly for Major General
Vanderfuru" which was as close
as Nips could come to pronounc.
ing the name.
Van has just received the Legion
Of Merit for those operations.
Now he spends much of his time
pouring over maps and aerial
photos and Jap documents, taking
telephone reports and collating all
available information for guidance
of the tacticians.
But he likes to get Up front and
see the terrain for himself. He
was with Brig. Gen. Dusty Dalton
when sniper killed the general.
That will make me a little more
careful for a month or so,' he
said thoughtfully. Il was getting
too cocky.''
But the next day he was Up
there again watching a brisk Skin
mish.
Van says he will stay in the
Army after the War-''in some
army anyway" is the way he puts
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Daily Prayer
FOR. THOUGHTS OF VICTORY

FUN lhOOOT L VI 'ISAo
Grant us, Almighty God, mlhdS
attuned to victory. AS Thou mast
given up triumph over the cfue,
and lawless nation that Scorneo
Thee and Thy Son and Thy Law,
so give us, we humbly enlrea'
Thee. victory over whatsoever IN
our own lives is unworthy. En-
large our understanding to a com,
prehension of the new, longer ana
larger tasks that now confront U.s.
Enable us to rise above all lea
and suspicion and rivalry anu
consciousness as we set ourselves
to the work of creating Oe''el
world for all mankind. Give Us
great patience and tolerance am
persistence of purpose. Turn Oh.
thought more and more TO o..
brothers needs and to Thy no!
will, through which victory No.
been granted to us. Keep allye y, II
our hearts the present neeoS VI
our valiant service men and "ou'
en-: and make us passionate pa,
triots OF land ruled by love CIV
by law. Amen.-W.I,b.
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BY LEE G. MILLER

WITH THE 25TH DIVISION AT
BALETE PASS, Luzon.-(By Wire
less)-One of the most interesting
soldiers in this veteran division is
Staff Sergeant-beg pardon, l mean
Lieut.. Colonel Jay D. Vanderpool,
also known Ito Japs) as Major
General Vanderfuru.
He is short and wiry-there' no
suet in his 140 pounds. He used to
box and play football, and although
his job here is primarily desk job
he gets plenty Of exercise blowing
around the front lines.
Van is regular Army. His par
ents are dead and he is unmarried.
His grandmother, Mrs. Belle Smith,
lives near Wetumka, Okla. Van S
father moved around great deal
when he was kid, and his educa-
ton was snatched in five states.
He enlisted in 1886 at 10 and was
assigned to the Field Artillery. It
took him three years to make pfc
and his permanent rank is still only
staff sergeant.
Van has more than $50 points to-
ward discharge, but he is not in
tereSted in going home except for a
brief leave. Soldering is his pro-
fession.
Van was commissioned a second
lieutenant eight months before
Pearl Harbor. He was at Pearl
on that fateful day The 25th Di
vision lost a score of men to Jap
strafing. The following October the
Division left for Guadalcanal, and
Van began to show his stuff
For instance, the time he won a
Bronze Star for being damn
fool" as he says. His pistol was
empty when a Jap, armed with a
grenade, confronted him. Van
brandished the empty pistol and the
Jap surrendered If he had been
a little smarter or Drawer he might
have wiped out Van and the five
men following him.
Van fought with the 18th through
New Georgia and Vella Lavella.
But when the. Division was training
in New Caledonia for the Philippine
invasion they picked Van for a
special assignment.
In October of ~ he embarked
from New Guinea in submarine
with three officers, 10 men, and 20
tons of radio equipment, ammuni-
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Morning.
M@SpeaM'ltIzZ/
BY M/SGT. KEN MILLER

First Sergeant Aaron R. Wooten
OF Atlanta, Ca, veteran of 10
years in the Army, has met some
sharp barginers during his time.
Many times he has come out on the
short end of the deal, he admits.
A veteran of 80 months in India,
Sergeant Wooten is high in his
praise of the Indian merchant as
a trader. And he should know for
only once in all the time he spent
in India did he come out on the
long end of deal with a native.
One time in southern India he
saw a star sapphire in one of the
native shops. He stepped in to
inquire the price and was told 300
rupees, about 800 in U. S. currency.
1t was more than the sergeant
wanted to pay and after some argu.
ment in which the Indian remained
unimpressed, Sergeant Wooten told
the merchant to keep his ring. AS
he was about to leave the shop he
lighted clgaret with one of those
hameless lighters, nationally ad.
verified in this country for 81. The
Indian was slightly amazed at the
performance and Immediately
wanted to know how much it cost
IN American money.
Sergeant Wooten told the Indian
$50 rupees. After more argument
deal was made. The merchant
received the lighter and the SER
geant walked out with the sapphire.
Lieutenant William A. Swartz
whom we interviewed for this
column recently, is lamenting the
fact that in his three years of ser.
vice with the Army Air Forces he
has never had flight in a military
aircraft, and he held a commercial
pilots license in civilian life. Well.
this department has nearly five
years in the Air Forces and no
flight. Twice we have edged our
way near a plane, but some mean
old MP always run us off the flight
line.
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Montgomery Orders Three Tire i,
German Soldiers klllea

TwENTY-FIRsT ARMY GR %
HEADQUARTERS, June lo..- been
Three German soldiers have i D5'r
de &c ap by German an. '1 .atsr
toner for concealing plS'9i' rndet
they had been disarIneo uss an.
terms of surrender, it VISA
nounced officially tonight. I'm.
Field Marshal Montgone-' The
ed the execution warrants ,I.b. d
executioner, Friedrich H stf,c Al
Hanover. has been an ofi' i9.2
German executioner SIM. .,..+v .
and will serve III that oaps st ret.
the British-occupisd area o.
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BY w. G. ROGERS
''The Inquest" by Robert Men,
mann Dutton: $2.50\


Between a November Tuesday
and Saturday, when the inquest
which gives this novel its title
takes place, Neumann ba~es the
dramatic story of Bibiana Saints,
passionate daughter of a Kiev Jew
and an Italian countess.
The background is the war, and
the scenes are laid in the heart of
the Fascist-democratic struggles:
Italian cities, Berlin, Paris and
London.
The English novelist Shilling
meets the heroine by chance,
spends night with her and then
is visited by police who tell him
Miss Spiers . doesn't know the
name then Miss Hermann
no again? =. well, Bibiana?
that clicks has been found
dead.
Shilling can't rest until he gets
to the bottom of it all, and he un-
covers an intriguing trail. Bibi-
ana was an antiFascist. She had
worked at it most of her life. and
hadn't scrupled to use what is re-
garded by most novelists as wom-