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recruitment bill comes up today in
the House and indications are it
will touch off battle over the draft
and present discharge systems.
Written by the House Military At
fairs Committee in an effort to side
track proposals to halt inductions
and force speedier demobilization,
the measure seeks to induce men
now in the service to re-enlist.
The idea behind it is that il
enough men do, draft calls can be
stopped sooner and veterans still
In uniform can be mustered out
more rapidly and in larger numbers
Two Senators last night came
forward with new plans to get more
men out of uniform:
l. Senator johnson, Democrat, of
Colorado drafted a bill to require
the discharge within six months of
all enlisted men with two years or
more of service.
2. Senator Connally, Democrat, of
Texas called on the Army to classify
all its men and release them by
steps.
Former prisoners of war would
60 out automatically under Sena-
tor Connally's plan with quick dis
charges to follow for all men with
combat service, fathers, married
men and those in upper age
brackets.
The House bill holds out these
inducements to men to sign up for
another hitch:
l. Enlistments for only two years
II the recruit wishes. The present
Army period is three years, the
Nays four.
2. Optional retirement after 20
years Of Army service, instead of 80.
This would conform with the Nays
system.
3. Travel pay of cents a mile
home and back for a furlough be-
tween the time of discharge or re-
lease and re-enlistment.
4. The option of taking muster
ing-out pay before re-enlisting, in
stead OF waiting until the end of
the new enlistment period.
S. A re-enlistment bonus, based on
the highest grade held by the men
re-enlisting. Generally, this bonus is
$3.50 for a. master sergeant, a tech
nical sergeant or a staff sergeant,
and $75 for sergeant, corporal or
0 private.
6. Continued free mail.
7. Extension, for the period of re-
enlistment, of the time a veteran
may avail himself of BENEFITS of the
G. I. Bill of Rights.
The legislation is almost certain
TO become the vehicle for a drive
to halt the draft at once and to
force the armed services to dis
charge fathers and men with two or
more years of service.
A Republican move to force action
along those lines already Is under
way in the House.
But Military Affairs Committee
Chairman May expressed the opin-
ion-backed up by congressional ex-
perts-that any such amendments
would be out of order because the
bill is intended specifically to get
men into-not out of-the armed
forces.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Four More Paralysis Cases
Reported Over Week End

Four new cases of infantile paraI-
ysis were reported over the week
end by the Health Department
today.
The new cases are a 7-year- old
girl living in the 1900 block of
Hilltop terrace S. E.; 5-year -old
boy from the 600 block of Mac
Arthur boulevard, Brookmont, Md,
and a 7-year-old colored boy from
the 1900 block of Queens street,
Alexandria, Va.
The total number of cases this
year hospitalized in the District are
90 local cases and 70 from nearby
Maryland and Virginia. At this
time last year. there were 140
resident cases, 96 out-of town cases
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Jap BaA|eship Picked
For Atomic Bomb Test,
New York Times SAYS
By the Associated r.ess-

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE
New York Times says in a dis
patch from Tokyo that the
damaged $4,000 ton japanese
battleship Nagato, taken over by
the United States Navy at the
Yokosuka naval base, will be
towed 500 miles to sea where an
atomic bomb will be dropped on
her in an experiment that may
determine the future form of
the worlds navies.
After relating that the Nagato
had withstood an attack by 500
naval planes, the Times dispatch
continues with regard to the atomic
experiment:
That is the present plan of the
United States Navy, which wants to
ascertain these details: Whether the
bomb will cause the destruction of
single ship; what it will do to a
task force; what effect 1t will have
on the water.
Recalls MitchelIs Test.
THE Navy hopes to obtain the
answers in one of the greatest ex-
periments of its type since Brig.
Gen. William L. billy Mitchell
sank four warships from the air in
the early 1920s."
Continuing, the Times dispatch
says:
Reports from Hiroshima and
Nagasaki indicate that the force of
the explosion is up and out, not
down. From the Nays viewpoint
the most dangerous effect of the
atomic bomb could be under water,
where the pressure of water greatly
magnifies the effect of a torpedo
or mine.
The Navy will invite the press to
attend this experiment, as it did
Gen. Mitchell's effort.
The Nagato suffered three direct
hits July Is, but the 14-inch steel
armor plate Of her turrets with
stood the blasts of Admiral William
F. Halsey, jr's concentrated air at
tack. Her damage was extensive,
but superficial. Now she will stand
her greatest test.
Notifications Follow.
THE experiment will exceed in
potentialities the attack by British
Lancasters carrying 18,000-pound
bombs that sank Germany's pocket
battleship Scharnhorst in Altern
Fjord off Norway in December, 1913
While our Navy always has con-
tested the assertion of air power
exponents that the plane has rem
dered the battleship obsolete, and
while it has used these giants with
effect in this war, Gen. Mitchell's
experiments did lead to a modifica-
tion of naval concepts and of bat
tleship design.
"Batueships have since undergone
structural changes de-
signed to protect them from air
attacks.
"It is not known whether the
atomic bomb at sea will have the
same effect because of the wide area
for expansion as 1t does on land
targets, where hills or mountains
concentrate its power. There is a
tentative theory that the effect OF
the atomic bomb on water will be
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Two Army Flyers Killed
In Nebraska Crosh
By the Associated Press.

O3 lht AsSOCIdLkd PIesB.
LOUISVILLE, Nebr.. Sept. IT,
Two men from the Lincoln Army
sirfield were killed yesterday in
the crash of an advanced training
plane near here.
The Lincoln field identified then,
as End 1t. John Whiteman, Clar.
idge, Pa, and End 1t. John G. Wild.
ney, Cav City, Okla.
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Moss Point Rotary
Hears Of States
Huge War Bases

A veteran civilian engineer
of the u. S. Department of en-
gineers told Moss Point Rotarians
Thursday that the Mobile office
had supervised an enormous con-
struetion program during the
war including $500, 600 900 in
military projects for the state of
Mississippi.
The speaker, Ray Ross, a MEM
Der of the construction division
for the past thirty years, said
that Mississippfs share represent
ed about one-fiftn of the pro-
gram handled by the Mobile Of
flee. He listed the cost of the
largest state projects as Camp
Shelby, $50, 000,0 900; Gulfport Az
iation Machinists school, $24,000,-
600; Keesler Field, $26, 600 900;
Camp Van Dorm, $40, 000 900;
Ordnance Plant at Aberdeen,
SIS, 0O0 900.
Over the whole area handled
through this office, he said, the
gigantic program-all in. addi-
ton to the normal peacetime riv-
ers and harbors work-jncluded
Is ordnance plants, 81 airfields.
six general hospitals, l3 army
camps, % prisoner-of-war camps,
nine supply depots.
One of these airfields-not in
Mississippi-"still so secret that
| cannot divulge its location, COW
ers 800 square miles and is the
base of research efforts by some
of the greatest scientists in the
world"
Il can tell you of n type of
problem that was solved there"
Mr.. Ross said. "A German robot
bomb was captured intact and
was sent to the field for test
ing. However, the Supermen
had been clever enough to re-
move some of its vital meehan-
ism. The scientists at the field
had orders to devise a substitute
for these parts, and it was rush
job. They completed the task in
two days, and. was there when
the bomb was launched"
Claude Blanchard, president,
president at the meeting. Mr..
Ross was INTRODUCED by Wesley
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Clothing Reaching
Europe: 22.373 Lbs.
From This Area

Clothing contributed by the
American people will reach mil
lions of war victims overseas be-
fore the winter sets in, according
to a report from Henry J. Kaiser,
national chairman Of the United
Clothing Collection. The report
stated that citizens OF the Pasea-
eoula area haa1xsaseetea a total
Of 22,373 pounds during the drive.
Mr.. Kaiset's general report was
made public this week by Mar
win Funkhouser, local chairman
of the drive. Every person who
helped our community collect
this quota Mr.. Funkhouser said,
"shohld feel proud of having par
ticipated in a great cause We
are all glad to know that the
clothing is now on its way yer
seas to relieve the suffering peo-
pie"
The report stated hat the
United States had reached and
exceeded the quota of $50, DOC, 900
pounds set by the late President
Roosevelt. The first large ship
ments of clothes began within
thirty days after the drive ended.
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Mississippi Flag
First Flown On
R~ecapiured Soil

Headquarters u. S. Forces, Ma
nila-The Mississippi State Flag
carried by a loyal Mississippian
was the first Allied banner raised
on the soil of recaptured Borneo
in the village of Victoria when
the Australian 9th Division
stormed across its beach on the
morning of June 10th as one
phase of the three-point Brunei
Bay landing.
The Mississippi banner with
its field of stars and bars in the
upper left hand corner preceded
the Union Jack and the flag of
Australia.
The flag was carried by 1t.
Cmdr. Nelson Levings, USNR, OF
Gulfport, who accompanied the
first Australian assault wave as
liaison officer of the U. S. Navy.
Eager beaver, he pushed across
the beach, sometimes ahead of
the lines of infantry, entered the
town of Victoria and flung the
flag to the breeze from a shatter-
ed building. 1t was there, fly
ing free, to greet the succeeding
waves as they passed through
the town to the airstrip, a mile
or so distant.
Late in the evening after the
beachhead was secure, the COM
mander retrieved his flag, folded
it carefully, and returned with it
to his ship.
I'm saving that flag to plant
on the soil of Japan when we
land there" he remarked.
Commander Levings-his full
name is Thomas Nelson Trimble
and he is therefore known, not
appropriately, as TNT-is a ma
tive of Moorhead and attended
the Sunflower Agricultural High
school there and Mississippi
Heights Academy at Blue Noun
tain. He had training in the first
world war in the Student Army
Training Corps, at the University
of Virginia. but the war ended
before he saw combat service.
But ne. was ready when war
came again. When Japan struck at
Pearl Harbor on Dec. Z l,941, he
offered his services to the U. S.
Navy on the following day. Com
missioned early in 1912, he was
not called to duty until May
when ne was assigned to a cruis-
er for convoy service.
This was followed by a tour of
duty at the Navy Recruiting Sta
ton at New York, where he ham
died some half million NAVY per-
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State To Seek Pollution Injunction
Against Masonite AT Laurel Wednesday

A suit filed by the state of
Mississippi for an injunction e
straining the Masonite Corpora
ton of Laurel from diseharging
harmful wastes into Tallahala
creek and the Pascagoula river
system will be heard next We'd
nesday in chancery court at Lau-
rel, marking the first legal eff
fort by state officials to end a
condition of fish killing and
stream pollution which threat
ems the destruction of all aquatic
life in these rivers below Laurel.
The suit will be heard before
Chancellor George Neville and
will be argued by James T. Ken
dali. assistant attorney general,
assisted by Forrest B. Jackson,
Jackson attorney. The state asks
a temporary injunction prohi-
biting the discharge of harm
full effluent" by the Masonite
plant while the hearings are in
progress, and it asks that the in
junction be made permanent
and perpetual after the final
hearing.
The effect of the injunction, if
granted, would be to order
Masonite to observe a law that
has already been on the state
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Civ Rolls Show 20 Per Cent Increase
As Result OF JaYcee Registration Drive

An intensive campaign of the
Pascagoula Junior Chamber of
Commerce to encourage all quail
flied citizens TO register as voters
was climaxed Wednesday with
d parade of automobiles, floats,
horses and banner bearers, and a
program of Citizenship Day"
speeches before the courthouse,
where scores of new citizens add
ed their names to the rolls.
A tabulation at the close of
citizenship Day" July 81,
showed that TIA persons had reg
istered that day in the county,
and that a total of 313 had regis
tered during the month of July
when the campaign was on. A
total of 273 names We're added
in the city of Pascagoula proper,
which brought an increase of APP
proximately 20 per cent in the
permanent registration figure OF
lila names
These figures bore evidence OF
the effective citizenship eduea-
tionaI work of the Junior Cham
ber5s members and Of the attend
ant publicity for the project. Dur
ing the campaign members spoke
at numerous gatherings and as
sembled statistics and argument
reminding citizens of the need
for q greater participation in the
popular government and for an
increased sense of responsibility
in the election of public officials.
Registration To Continue
Leaders of the Junior Cham
Der Of Commerce pointed out that
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State Seeks Post
War Road Project
Costing ~S3O.OOO,OOO

Members of the state highway
commission began meeting this
week with county supervisors TO
determine what roaGs will be
constructed in the states post
war farm-to-market program,
and plans were discussed by state
officials in Jackson for financing
a 100000, 900 system in the post
war years by means of matched
county, state, and federal funds.
In order to achieve the largest
possible program, T. j. Lowry,
highway commissioner from the
northern district, submitted a
proposal to Governor Thomas l..
Bailey this week that the state
appropriate $4,000, 900 from its
general surplus to be used to
match both county and federal
funds for the maximum available
program.
Mr.. Lowry pointed out that the
state is assured $l0,000,0 900 from
the federal government during
the first three postwar years for
farm-to-market roads If matched
by the state and counties. He said
his proposal would allow a key
road system for the state during
those wears, whereas otherwise
the system would get but $780,
600, 600.
The executive committee of the
Mississippi Association of Boards
of Supervisors and the state high
way commission at a recent meet
ing climaxing several prelimi-
nary sessions agreed to a plan,
Lowry said, under which the
highway department would match
5000, 900 of the federal money,
thus making $l0,000,0 900 available
for 1900 miles of roads now
maintained by the highway de-
partment but not on the regular
federal aid system.
The group agreed that an adj
ditional 200 miles of county
roads would be chosen to com
prise the first increment of the
farm-to-market road system in
the state. Mileage for each coun-
ty would be determined by APP
the same formula for each
county that is used by the fed
eral government in assigning aid
to the states-basing dne-third
on area. one-third on rural pop
ulation, and one-third on rural
delivery and star route mileage.
With the state matching S.
100000 of the $40, 100000 of fed
eral funds. counties would be
urged to match their part of the
remaining $4,000. 900 under the
plan approved by the commits
sioners and the executive COM
mittee of the supervisors, Low
ry said,
This, he points out, would give
the counties, at most, a 100000
600 county farm-to-market sys-
tenn, not including the new $10,-
100000 of state roads.
If the state would appropriate
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registration should still go on by
qualified persons who have not
registered during the campaign
and that no time limit has been
passed because the campaign it
itself is over now. ,
The Citizenship Day" parade
parade began at four in the af-
ternoon on Lincoln street near
the ingalls, shipyard, and passed
down Pascagoula street to Delmas,
and thence to the court house.
Included in the parade was the
automobile of the chief of police.
the big shiny truck of the fire
department. six horses and one
pony bearing the names of local
movies, twenty-four Boy Scouts
with their pennants, the Moss
Point High school band. aboard a
truck. and automobiles of the
Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks, the Civic Council. the PTA
council. the Central PTA, the
Lake PTA. Beach PTA. South
PTA, United Service Organiza-
tions; following these cars were
several pretty girls riding wheels
of the Bicycle Club, an automo-
bile of the 20-40 club, a troop of
Girl Scouts, ana an automobile of
the Moss Point Young Mems Bus
mess Club. Senior Hostesses.
Girls Service Organization, Ser
vice Wives Club. the High Jinx.
Panther Revelers. and Arts and
Krafts Clubs, an $50 cab. the cast
ana director of the Paspoint Little
Theater production of the play,
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HOSPITALITY JANE RETURNS

Paris-The only Seine river
steamer to survive the battle of
France was laid up all through
the German occupation because
a vital part was missing.
But when the Germans left,
the part mysteriously turned up
again.
Capt. Frank Flanagan of To-
ronto. senior supervisor Of the
Knights of Columbus wal service
in France, took the boat over and
named her Hospitality Jane.
Now Jane ehugs merrily up
and down the river every day
taking service men and women
on sightseeing trips.
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State In Good
Shape With More
Than S1S.OOO,OOO

The state Of Mississippi is now
in one of the soundest financial
phases of its history, with a cash
balance Of more than 1900, 900
and a sinking fund sufficient to
care for all its full faith and
credit bonds, w. r. Hough, act
ing director of research and sta
tistics of the state tax commits
sion, announced this week in
Jackson.
Mr.. Hough's report, contained
in a supplement to the tax com
mission Bulletin 29, asserted that
during the fiscal year ended June
80 the state collected $36,878.00
into its general fund, from which
it expended only see, 807. 608. This
left a surplus, which added to
the surplus carried over at the
beginning of the year-$8,6 800 .532
brought the total cash balance
to $18, ESQ, 927.
On July /, the supplement
shows, the state had 21.754, 100
in the state and retirement fund,
or more than enough to cover the
face value Of all outstanding state
fun faith and credit bonds.
The balance does not include
highway bonds secured by the
states six cents per gallon gaso-
line tax but which are not a di-
rect obligation OF the state.
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Raids, Arrests,
Result In Fines
OF Over $500

Fines totalling several hun
dred dollars were levied in JUS
tees of the Peace Kate Denny'i
court and B. B. Hobdy's court in
Moss Point as a result of raids
conducted last week by Sheriff
D. 0. Newman's office.
The place of Henry Aiken. Jr.
negro, residing near Moss Point.
was raided Thursday BY Deputy
Sheriff John R. Mcneil and un-
taxed liquor seized. Aiken was
tried before Judge Hobby Friday
and fined 5000 and costs.
Caledonia Davis, negro, also re-
siding near Moss Point, was ar
rested in a raid Sunday by Sher-
iff Newman and Deputy Mcneil
and fined 500 and costs Monday
by Judge Hobby for possession of
untaxed liquor.
Will Payne, negro. Dupont ave
nue., was arrested following g
raid Friday by Deputy Mcneil
and fined $3.50 and costs before
Judge Denny Saturday on the
same charge.
Jesse Mitchell, negro, was fined
SIS and costs on charges of dis
turbing the peace following his
arrest at 100 am. Sunday by
Deputy Mcneil because of the
loud playing of a music box in
his establishment at that time.
Sampson Jones, negro, was
fined $50 and costs, and $25 and
costs by Judge Hobby, on two
charges of assault and battery af-
ter an alteration with his wife
Saturday.
Woodrow Robinson, negro. was
fined $50 and costs by Judge
Hobby on charges of assault with
a knife.
Fines totaling $l10 and costs
were levied against Norman w.
Dodson and Cleo Margaret
Stokes, alias Peggy Dodson. b,
Hobby on a series of eharg
es following their arrest by Dep
uty Mcneil.
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technical advisor to the Merchant
Marine Commission of Brazil.
The order was placed by Lloyd
Braziliero, the government owned
shipping corporation of Brazil.
Captain Celestino is a director of
the Braziliero corporation and
president of the Merchant Marine
Commission, and was a resident
of New Orleans for many years.
The vessels cost $2,665, 900 each.
base price," which means that
air conditioning equipment and
other refinements will be in adj
dition. They are to be built on
the basic CO design of the United
States Maritime Commission, and
will incorporate special design
features worked out by George
G.. Sharp, New York naval archi-
tect, acting as special design agent
for the Brazilian government.
Smart and efficient stream-line
design VIII be Characteristic of
the CO vessels. They are small
er than the 1880 ton displace-
ment Cas- which the yard has built
Tor the past five years. The Bra
lillian ships will have a 10000, ton
dlsplacementt and $500 dead
weight tonnage. They are 442
feet in length, SO feet at the
and of 39h feet moulded
The contract for the construc-
ton of ships for the Brazilian
government has been approved by
the United States Maritime Com
mission.
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ingalls, Shipbuilding Corporation Awar' Ill Contract To Build
IA c. Design All Welded Cargo Ships For Brazilian Government
Vessels To Be Of I2.000-Ton Displacement
With Base Cost Of $2.665.000 Each: Volume
Of Work AT Yord Totdls Over $l00.000.000

The Brazilian government has awarded the ingalls, Ship
building Corporation a contract for the construction of IA
442-foot, stream-lined cargo vessels at a total cost of $685.
100000, to be delivered in 1916, Monro E. Lanier, president
of the corporation, announced by telephone from New York
late Thursday.
Added to orders for CO vessels, Army sea-going dredges
and diesel locomotives, the Ingalls, shipyards in Pascagoula
now hold q backlog of contracts for future deliveries total
ing more than $l00,000.000.
The Brazilian government notified Mr.. Lanier by cable
Thursday that authorization for the contract had been
awarded to the Ingalls, corporation. Bids for the construction
program were opened July 30. Negotiations leading to the
successful bidding were carried on by Mr.. Lanier and other
officials of the company with Captain Mario Celestino, rep
resenting the Brazilian government, and Capt. E. E. Brady,
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Shipyard Workers
See Negro Badly
Cut In Yard Fight

Workers in ingalls, shipyard
witnessed a bloody cutting
scrape Wednesday between two
negroes OF the porter department
when Ike Ratley, about 35, of
1853 Market street, seriously
wounded John Spikes on the
back, arm and neck.
The fight broke out q few
minutes before the starting whis-
tie near No. 2 eanteen at the
south end of the ways. Ratley,
who was arrested by Officer c.
G. Groves after being held by
plant guards, told the police that
Spikes had been molesting him
for several days, "cursing him.
as they worked about the yards,
and that Wednesday morning
Spikes came at him with a piece
of iron" Ratley drew a hawk
bill' pruning knife and slashed
him a number of times, Men and
women workers looked on while
the bloody fraeas took place.
Spikes was taken to Jackson
County hospital in a serious con
dition, and police were not able
for the time being to get his
version of the fight.
Ratley was charged with as
sault with a dangerous weapon
and held on $500 bail.