davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
Building Program Is Off
To Start AS U. S. Eases
Many Wartime Restrictions
Several Projects Begun As Building
Scenes Make Redppeurdnce In City:
Expect More Supplies In Neor Future

building of hundreds of thous-
ands of small homes was financed
in the years before the war.
Under these arrangements the
prospective owner is enable to
finance a home for owner-occu-
pancy with a down payment Of
10 percent of the cost. The loan
is made through the bank under
FILA supervision and is guaran-
teed by the government agency.
W. B. Herring, president of the
bank. said that a number of APP
plications for homes in the $4,000
to-$8,000 class had already been
received.
Order Not Yet Clear
Restriction on all private and
public building has been lift
ed during the week in Washing
ton, when the order which con-
trolled all wartime private con-
s~truction, known as Order L-41,"
was abolished as of October is.
Local building and supply men
said the picture was still not
clear to them and one said
he had been informed by his trade
association that substitute regula-
tions concerning the sale of mate
rial in private building would be
withcoming. Until he found out
whether this we're so, and until
the nature of the substitute regu-
lations was determined, he said
that the situation in the supply
business would remain unsettled.
However, he added, the govern
ment has. stopped buying in most
fields and although some supplies
like lumber, paint and mill work
We're still hard to get. there was
little doubt that such inventories
would be building up for private
work before long.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
Committee To Be
Named By Taxi
Operators Friday

A meeting of all taxi opera
tors in Pascagoula has been
called for 3 p. m, Friday at the
Chamber of Commerce offices in
the old elementary school build
ing on South Pascagoula street.
Purpose of the meeting will
be for all taxi operators OF the
city to name their own commit
tee to work with the city Trans
%portation Committee in studying
the taxi cab situation and draw
ing up of a recommended set of
standards for adoption by the
city which would have to be met
by taxi operators before a city
license to operate is issued.
A brief meeting was held Mon
day afternoon at city hall which
was attended by a number of
taxi operators, city officials,
members of the Transportation
Committee, and Verne Barnes,
secretary of 1.-The Chamber of
Commerce.
Following discussion of the sit
uation it was decided to call the
meeting for Friday afternoon at
which the operators would choose
their own committee to aid IN
drawing up the recommenda-
tons. A number of taxi cab or
dinances from cities in Missis-
sippi of comparable size to Pas
cagoula have been secured by the
Chamber of Commerce and these
will be used as the basis of the
study and recommendations.
An effort will be made to per-
sonaliy contact every operator IN
the city, but if some r not CO.
tacted they are still urged to at
tend the meeting which is open
to every taxi operator Of the eitJ-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
Growers. Buyers
Prepare To Move
1915 Pecan Crop

One of Jackson County's oldest
businesses will officially spring
into life in about ten days when
the pecan crop begins moving.
Although advance figures re-
leased for the state as a whole
report the crop bids fair to being
the second largest in history, of
ficials of the Lewis Pecan Sales
Company, whose warehouses will
be open for the 55th consecutive
year, estimate that the crop in
Jackson County will be only
about rs percent OF normal. Rain
during the polination season was
given as the reason for the
smaller crop.
With the moving of the crop.
H. p. Plateau of Fontainebleau
is making preparations for re-
opening his Smelling plant for the
season. The only plant of its kind
in the county, Mr.. Plateau EN-
ploys IL persons in the little
frame building where thousands
of pounds of pecans are graded,
shelled, regarded and shipped all
over the country during pecan
months.
Pecan prices are expected to
open at about midseason prices of
last season which will bring to
IN grower about Is cents per
pound for the Stuart, Success and
Lewis varieties, 30 cents per
pound for Schley and is and Ia
cents for seedlings.
Jackson County is the original
home of the paper she'll pecan
and in this county originated
practically every standard variety
including Schley, Success, Stuart,
Lewis, Pabst, Hale, Russell, and
others. Lewis Company officials
pointed out.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
Buried In Cuve-In
At Bayou Cosotte,
Boys Recovering

Bobby Krebs, 9-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe v. Krebs, re-
turned to his home in Bayou
Casotte Tuesday from the Jack
son County Hospital where he
was under treatment for nine
days for injuries suffered when
he and Bud Morris, 8, were buried
under approximately a ton of dirt
in a cavern near their home
September 9.
The little boy suffered several
fractured ribs and internal in
juries and although he is still
confined to his bed his condition
is improving rapidly. Bud was
released from the hospital after
being under observation and
treatment for minor injuries for
three days.
The accident occurred when
the boys dug into a big bank of a
pit made when dirt was dug to fill
in the site of the ingalls, Ship
yard. Two companions of the
little boys al to the Morris home
hnearby and told Mr.. and Mrs,
Morris who rushed to the scene
and dug out the children. When
Mr.. and Mrs. Krebs arrived on
the scene the boys we're free of
the dirt but were unconscious.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
WAR FUND DRIVE

Although Jackson County has
not been officially notified of its
quota, plans were moving ahead
this week under the direction of
E. A. Khayat county chairman.
for the War Fund Drive which
will be held in October.
Miss Louise Carr, elementary
school supervisor in the county,
has been appointed chairman of
county schools. Mr.. Khayat an
nounced. A special appeal will be
made through the schools and the
churches, Mr.. Khayat said.
Committees are in the process
Of formation and personnel of the
different divisions will be noti-
fled at an early date. Plans are
also being made for a general
meeting TO be held in Pascagoula
in the near future, Mr.. Khayat
said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
.South's Finest
Tennis Players
In Matches Here

A series of exhibition TENN
matches featuring the south's
finest players will be sponsoree
by the Pascagoula Knights of Co
lumbus Sunday afternoon at 2.30
The matches will be played Oh
the Pascagoula High school ten
mis- courts.
Numbered among the SEIZED.
uled players will be George Per,
of Keesler Field, holder of thu
Alabama and Louisiana singles
title. and former Kentucky title
holder; Dick Mouledous of New
Orleans, national boys champion
Charles Hartridge of Mobile, Mo
bile city champion. and Gul
States doubles champ. and J. c.
Sanford of New Orleans. former
Cotton States singles title hold.
er, and runnerup to Pero in the
l945 Alabama state champion
ship.
The men will play a group Of
singles match between two out
standing women players, Mrs.
Lucy Masterson. women's Eas,
ern States clay court champion
and Alabama and Georgia WON.
ems singles title holder. and Mr.
A. f. Mouledous, mother of tn
national boys champion. who
holds the New Orleans singles
title for women and was for three
years Louisiana state title holder.
The matches are being spon-
sored by the Knights of Colum-
bus and proceeds will go to the
organizations building fusd.
Folding chairs will be arrang-
ed to scat more than 200 speeta-
tors for the matches.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
New Unit Formed
To Fight Soaring
Venereal Rates

A sharp increase il the vene-
real disease rate in Jackson
County vas reported this week
at an organization meeting at the
Health Department Monday to
establish the jackson County So
cial Protection Board IS a means
OF checking the problem.
Organization of the new board
was sponsored by the Health and
Safety Committee of the CHAM
Der of Commerce. Officers nam
ed were K. w. Burnham, chair
man; Annie Lee Cole, vice-chair-
man, and Norma Fortenberry, sec
rotary.
Charles Gillespie, guest speak
er, member of the State Depart
ment of Health at jackson, point
ed out that the greatest threat
from venereal diseases comes in
the period following wars, rather
than during wars, because war
time controls are relaxed in many
fields and there is a general at
mosphere of dislocation and re-
Taxing morals.
The highest venereal rates were
registered following the First
World war, and this threat is pre-
senting itself at the present time,
he sid. As en- example he point
ed out that since We Day, $4,000
cases have developed among
our troops in Germany.
In Jackson County, it was
brought out, the rate is up more
than 30 percent for the present
year. There have already been
655 cases of venereal infection re-
ported in the county through Aug
ust, greater than the total number
of GAG for all OF 1874, and pro-
ceeding at a rate almost twice as
great as the 476 registered in
1913.
The new committee will work
to check this threat through med
ical and public Information chan
nels and in any way the prob
lem can be approached.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
R~EFREsHER COURSE

Athens, Ga, AP.-An out
standing coed at the University
of Georgia is 70-year-old Mafy
Cutler White a Methodist mis-
sicnary to China for IL years and
the survivor of a japanese in
ternment camp. She's the author
Of two published books, and s
now enrolled in a feature writ
ing course Ito shake the rust Of
the old pen"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
Charter and Board
Voted By Local
Community Chest

The newly organized Pasca-
goula Community Chest elected a
permanent board Of directors of
fifteen members and adopted a
constitution defining the scope OF
its activities at a meeting Wed
nssday afternoon at the USO
The new board is composed of
81 teen directors, elected in groups
Of five FOR staggered terms of ono.
two and three years in order to
provide a continuity Of leader
Ship from one year to the next.
The three-vear members are
Marvin Funkhouser, II. F. Gau-
tier, Mrs. Herman Cole, Ed. Gal
loWay, and E. A. Elliott; the two
year members are Forrest Grant,
Forest Megehee, Mr.. c. A. Carrie,
i B. McIlwain. and Arthur Allen,
u. The one-year members are
R. w. Sims, Earl Hammett. Leo
fosenblum, J. F. Velcich and Mrs.
: II. Gray.
A. F. Megehee, former c.
hairman o. the War Fund drive,
.erved as temporary Chairman.
The constitution states that the
object of the organization shall
De to act as a central organiza-
ion or united agency in the city
If Pa~scagoula in behalf of the
citizens and such charitable, edu-
rational, philantkropie or civic or
carnations as are, or may be-
come, members o. this association;
. receive, acquire and collect
money or other property and to
distribute and apportion said
funds among the beneficiary
member organizations"
According to The constitution,
an organization which desires TO
participate as a regular be.esici-
airy of the chest revenue must
consist OF a going organization
of COMMUNICATIVE scope with 2
responsible board of directors"
Each beneficiary organization
must submit to the Community
Chest an annual estimate of its
bun get and an itemized state
ment of its disbursements. The
beneficiary organization must
abstain from soliciting or col
Letting funds from the general
public unless BY express permits
siene Of the Community Chest.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
t LOAN QUOTA

Jackson County has been as
signed $780, 900 of the states II
million dollar E bond quota for
the country's first Victory Loan
drive which will start October 20,
according to official notification
of w. b. Herring, county chair
man. The quota for all other
bonds is $4,000.
This represents a decrease as
compared with the quota of ST.
253,000 assigned for the last War
Loan Drive for this county. Jack
son County has a record of ex-
ceeding the quota in every cam
paign.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
HOLD THE LINE

Baltimore, AP. - Clothesline
hunger prevented the Stars and
Stripes from making its debut
at the Baltimore Stadium. Off
Gals preparing to hoist the fiag
for the first time at a night base
ball game found the rope cut. T.
park official explained that flaE
ropes were frequently taken by
persons who used them FOR
elotheslines.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
CANCEL TRIP TUESDAY

Due to the fact that Tuesday
Sept. rs, is statistical report day
for his office, Nick Duncan OF
the area OPA rent office, has
announced that he win not be
in Pascagoula as is usual on each
Tuesday.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
NO WARD LIKE HOME

Merthyr. Glamorganshire,
Wales, AP.-Some women in
Merthyr are seeking to solve their
housing problems by entering
public institutions azd tx Gg
the r children with them. acco. >
ing to Alderman T. E. Rees, the
mayor.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
Gov. Bailey Talks
To Local Baptist
Fellowship Group

Christianity and the Golden
Rule are not vague and mystical
concepts but the most practical
way of life that a man a follow,
Governor Thomas L. Bailey said
Tuesday night in a talk to the
Fellowship and guests of the
First Baptist Church Of Pasca-
goula.
1T really isn't hard to prac-
tice the Golden Rule if a fellow
viii just make up his mind to
practice it," he said. III all OF
us could make up our minds to
live by this principle we could
abolish every i'll involving the
great question of human rela-
TONS
Governor Bailey emphasized
the need for a drawing together
of all groups and individuals in
spirit, and for the submerBence
of petty differences. In his own
boyhood, he said, he could re-
member "doctrinal debates" be-
tween preachers of various de-
nominations, who would argue
unimportant points of doctrine on
the platfor mall day long, and who
sometimes had to be separated
by a partition.
But fortunately, he said, the
trend has been away from such
narrowness. To-day people are
more inclined to grant that there
is more than one road which
leads to heaven, and each man
has the right to travel on the one
of his choice, il he believes ii is
the right one
III we look around at n am
other. we viii find that we are
much the same sort OF
people. We strive for the high
est and the best, though some
times we fall short of it. W. think
pretty much alike. A lot o, us
look pretty much alike
Il sometimes think we give
Christianity a mystical, imprac-
teal meaning. But whoever
thinks that the Christian way is
this and nothing more, is missing
something. II is one of the great
practical principals of life. Some
times | think we have emphasized
the Cross-hearing and burden
bearing side too much, instead OF
the joyousness and love that are
so important a part of Christian
ity. Why, it was the long-faced
Puritan, who thought he was
moret pure than anyone else, who
built the stocks all over New
England, and who thought it
was his Christian duty to kill
the cat on Monday who caught
the rat on Sunday. That stern
and narrow view of the Christian
life is wrong
The real spirit of Christianity
Governor Bailey said. was outlin-
ed when Christ said: IL have
come that We might have life,
and that ye might have life more
abundantly.'
THAT ve might have life more
abundantly'-that is the hopeful
and happy side of Christianity
which is too often forgotten.
That is what 4 great statesman
of our own time meant when he
said that America must know a
more abundant life. Some peo-
pie said he was thinking of a
glorified WPA, but he was not
ne was thinking of life more
abundantly' for the people o.
America
The governor said that he
hoped that the people of the
world would put on n last
great Junk drive now that the
war was over, to gather up al
the Junk of hatred, meanness
md evil out of their hearts ano
east it away"
Governor Bailey was present
ed to the Brotherhood by the
Rev. L. E. Green, pastor. Supper
vas served to several hundred
members and guests, at which
guests and the boards of visiting
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21

Six out of ten of the $1,000
een coupled dwelling units IN
the United States in 1914 had
/ eehenical refrigeration, compar-
ed with l5,OOO,C COO or A percent
In 1910.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21
ingalls, VA Record and Low Bid
Won Contract, Capt. Celesiino Says

The ingalls, Shipbuilding Cor
poration was awarded a contract
for the construction of IA YES
sells for the Brazilian govern
ment not only because they we're
the lowest bidder, but also be-
cause of their outstanding and
excellent record in the shipbuild-
ing business, Captain Mario de
Silva Celestino, director of the
government : owned steamship
line, Lloyd Brasileiro and presi-
dent of the Brazilian Merchant
Marine Commission, said here
in an interview last week.
1t was the Lloyd Brasileiro line
that recently awarded the ingalls,
corporation a $38,000,0 900 contract
Cor the construction of IA CO
vessels. Captain Celestino was
here with Mrs Celesuyp who
.hristened the S. S. Sea Stallion
launched at the yard last Friday
Frankly I had never heard o.
he ingalls, Shipbuilding Corpor-
iton uatil we began negotia-
tions for the construction o. %
vessels for our line he said.
However, their bid was followed
by an Investigation which re-
vealed a record of shipbuilding
that was not only good II
vas excellent. AS a result In
gals was awarded a contract for
construction OF Ia of the vessels
and Canadian Vickers a con-
tract for six
Captain Celes,ino talked OF
Brazil, Its problems, its relations
with the United States, ard its
personalities as a market in our
expanded post war South Ameri-
can trade.
Understand Brazil
The basis of better trade rela-
ions between the United States
nd Brazil, he said, is a fuller
understanding Of the Brazilian
consumer market, the extention oi
rade credits to reputable ahd
table Brazilian concerns and tbs
selling of things in Brazil that the
laZilian consumer wants.
Brazil, suffering from lack Of
needed supplies during the wa
ears, offers a potentially tire
aendous market for manufae
ured goods and machinery, h
.dded.
Better steamer connections be
.ween the two countries is alst
something vitality needed, he
aid. Prior to the war it wa
,aster for a passenger to go from.
lew York to Europe and then
o Brazil than directly from New
FORK to Brazil.
Good Ally
Also joining in the interview
SaS Captain f. f. Brady. USN,
echuical advisor to the Brazil
an Merchant Commission, who
old o. Brazil'S part as an all
# the U. S. during the war. He
told of the remark Of a high u.
S. official who said that with
n the limit of her ability, Bra
I'll is the best ally we have
Brazil lost a total of 26 ships
and l,400 men by torpedoing ane
accident during the curse of
the war, sent $4,000 troops abroad
that fought through the Italian
compaign together with a large
contingent of trained aviators,
Tive hundred Brazilian wounded
are being treated now in La
Garde hospital at New Orleans,
ne said.
He told of the mobilization OF
supplies and ships and the seiz-
ure by Brazil of the Italian liner
Conte Grande. and the German
liner Wyndruk, which were turn
ed into the u. S. troop ships Mon
-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21

New Hampshire had no state
flag authorized and described by
law until 1909.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-21

The first white male child born
on Manhattan Island was Jean
Vigne in 1914.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-07

theater except an occasional
clearing of threats. As German
civilians appeared in the news
reel many prisoners strained
forward 10 catch glimpses of
those they might know.
Although thoroughly schooled
to show no emotion, not a few
of the Germans were swallow
ing hard, their lips in tight thin
lines as they filed out. One
plumpiSh red-haired man was
rubbing his eyes with the backs
of his hands. Another, a young
boy, grinned nervously. Most
stared ahead Strengthened up
perceptibly when they realized
newspaper reporters weer scrut-
inizing them. There was no jok-
ing, laughing or talking among
themselves as when they were
going into the theater.
Prisoners who had seen the
six minute movie were standing
in little groups of two or three,
smoking and saying little as
they watched others line up for
the show.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-07

African Division of the Air
Transport command He stated
that it is now being used in the
redeployment of troops from
Europe.
Recently the Oran ATC base
finished its task as the Div
sion's C-54 E training school,
where full crews including pi-
lots, naviagtors, .adio operators
and flight clerks were trained.
The training was lnaugurated
mainly for the recently started
"Skyrocket" run, linking New
York to India in less than 48
hours. The C-54 Skymasters are
used on the Casablanca-K arachi
route on regularly scheduled
flights.
The Base is also the pivotal
stop for flights from Italy and
Southern France e-the-UHited
States and thousands of air
evacuation cases are being
rushed from front-line hospitals
to hospitals in this country.
Col. Franklin pilots the ad-
ministrative BIS plane which
he has named Double Trouble"
and regularly flies the transport
route on routine check flights.
In all, Col. Franklin has more
than $500 hours in the air and
has been flying since June, 1881.
when he graduated from Kelly
Field as a pursuit pilot. He
also did some commercial flying
for United and Northwest Air
lines and in 1887 became assist
ant chief Of the Air Carrier Di-
vision of the Civilian Aeronau-
tics Authority in Washington.
He was commissioned a captain
in the Air Transport Command
in 1912.
Before coming overseas, Col.
Franklin served as commanding
officer Of the Domestic Trans
portation ATC Division at
Flushing, Long Island. He is a
class five pilot-highest obtain
able rating in the ATC-and
one teSt-hopped C-54s, which
now are establishing a new ATC
record in the NAFD "Skyrock-
et' route.
Colonel Franklin has been
commander of the Oran base
since September. 1914. Recently
he received a signal honor from
the French Foreign Legion at
nearby Sid Bel Abbes when he
was made an honorary PFC in
that military organization. The
rating has been awarded but
few American officers by
Frances Legion Etrangere.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-07
Tears Up Ticket;
Officers Check
His Motives

The actions Of Walter O'Neal,
10, OF 1898 Floyd, Mount Glenn
ems, are under investigation by
Sheriff's deputies after he alleg-
eddy tore up a summons given
him Tuesday night for failure
to have an operators license.
Deputies Leon Kandt and
William Woolcott reported that
they noticed a car speeding on
South Gratiot and when they
sought to stop the car by sound
ing the siren the driver kept on
going. When O'Neal could not
produce a drivers license the
deputies gave him a summons
but on driving away they no.
ticed that the youth had ripped
the ticket up.
They stopped him again and
he became disorderly the depu-
ties stated and they took him
to the Sheriff's office. Deputy
Kandt stated that as he was be-
ing booked he threatened him.
The deputies have urged the is
suance of a warrant charging
with resisting an officer and
disorderly conduct.