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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-21

Nrthur J. Law. The committee ;
recommendations arr filed wit h
OPA authorities for prosecution.
QUESTION STILL Open
Whether possible raising Of
prices july | would be considered
"black market action was held
open 10 conjecture,
The Detroit Retail GroCerS As
sociation. independent of the
/ Michigan group stated through 4
spokesman that its members
would not "Strike" against the
|OPA. but continue 10 seek ad-
iustmcnts Jointly with the Food
Industries Committee in the le-
Gal way
The grocerS and committee are
currently seeking 10 get more
food especially meat, for Detroit.
Interviewed privately, however,
several Detroit gTOcerS declared
they would be willing 10 go along
with the Pontiac group. One. the
owner OF three stores, said:
we are losing money on
fruits. snd this fact II due
wholly to weight shrinkage.
believe the real sentiment here
il 10 back the Outstate grocerS
in their defiance Of the OPA."
The spokesman for a concern
that operates "a Supermarkets
said however,
There II no sense In defying
OPA regulations. That viii not
alleviate the food situation"
UPHOLDS GROCERS
Sam Schwartz. president of the
Produce Receivers Association. an
organization of wholesalers, de-
Clared he was in favor of the gro
GERS stand. and had long urged
petrnit- -srncerS- tn defy the OPA-
I'VE have pointed out fre-
quently 90 the OPA that its
present ceilings make II lmpos-
sible for the grocer 20 make n
profit on quality produce II he
ope rat es honestly" said
Schwartz. "The OPA, however,
consistently refused to pay any
attention to what we said"
Schwartz conceded il was posi-
bic that some wholesalers might
yield 10 temptation TO remove
a few pounds OF produce from
sacks and crates that pass through
their hands.
EXPLAINS WEIGHT
The main reasons why
weights vary, however" he said,
''is the difference In varieties.
A standard 9O-pound orange
crate may hold 80 pounds Of one
type Of oranges and another
may hold only Is pounds Of an
other type--although both crates
are ftiii. n-
Keasey started his open de-
fiance campaign against the OPA
ceilings upon his dismissal June
Ia as chairman of War Price and
Rationing Board No. 3 in Lam
sing.
Action WAS taken by the 0PA
after KeaScy advocated flouting
Of ceiling on fresh fruits and
vegetables.
Keasey said he was acting for !
? 900 members of his association
and urged that the OPA have un-
il-Jely- to enforce Regulation
i26, Section Ia A. adding:
"Our members have always
been for the OPA and It's regu-
latlons, but II the OPA won't
force shippers TO put netted
weights on fruits and vegetables
how can We use community
prices when the weight assumed
by the 0PA isn't in the pack
age?
"Its Nashlngton's move
now"
GRIEVANCE STATED
Don Breen. president Of the
Oakland County Retail Grocers
Association. said:
I'VE have been trying for two
years to get action out Of the
national OPA. The members
just got tired Of asking for re-
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-21
OWNER is LOSER

The arrangement never was
completed however. Davidow dc.
clared. but as a result Of Koscin-
skis action. "the owner OF the
property lost everything
Senator McCaFTan tD1 OF Ne
vada. chairman of the COMMITTEES
and Senator Hatch ID Of New
Mexico. challenged Davidow's
charge with the statement that
the arrangement might we'll have
been matter of Judgment
rather than fraud or "corrup-
ton
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-21
GRIEVANCE STATED

Don Breen. president OF the
Oakland County Retail Grocers
Association. said:
I'VE have been trying for two
years to get action out Of the
national OPA. The members
just got tired Of asking for re-
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-21
Fight Naming
OF Koseiinski

WASHINGTON. June 20 lINSj
The appointment Of Arthur a.
koscinSki Of l'amtramck 10 be a
federal Judge of The eastern dis
trict of Michigan was opposed to-
day before the Senate judiciary
committee on charges that he had
engaged in corrupt and lraudu-
lent practices.
The charge was made by Larry
: Davdow, Detroit attorney and
was Immediately challenged by
two senators who insisted that he
either prove his statements or
the allegations,
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-21
EXPLAINS WEIGHT

The main reasons why
weights vary. however" he said,
as the difference In varieties.
A standard 90-pound orange
crate may hold 30 pounds Of one
type OF oranges and another
may hold only Is pounds OF an
other type--although both crates
-AfA- -ftiil y
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-21

lanto committee against b "a c *
markets Is headed 10y Mayor
Arthur !. Law The committees
recommendations arr filed with
OPA authorities for prosecution
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

Miss Tia Brown, Mrs. Craig taught
in the Pascagoula schools for
about three years. 1t. Craig has
been stationed here as a member
of the Chemical Warfare unit,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. V. Hartman
and family of New Orleans were
visitors in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Mat Sumedinger this week
Miss Dolores Byrd has returned
from a ten days visit in Jackson
as guest of Miss Miriam Clark.
Sunday marked the departure
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Bundy
for their home at Imperial, Tex
DIS, after attending the wedding
OF their daughter, Miss Mildred
Bundy to Lit Carl Rosenberg,
Friddy evening. Mr.. and Mrs
Henry Rosenberg, parents of the
groom, concluded their stay in
Pascagoula, Saturday, when they
left for their home at New Bruins
wick, N j.
Douglas Robertson was Z years
cid July 26, and that afternoon
mis- mother, Mrs. Water Robertson
gathered a few of his nelghbor-
hood friends together to help hin
eat the birthday cake and tC
romp in the yard of. their home
at 535 Washington avenue.
Mrs. Douglas P. Stevens of Co
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs.
Clinton Wheat, of Picayune, and
MIR. and Mrs. r. d. Leach, Sr., of
Birmingham. Others are Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Wheat and Mrs. E. L.
Robbins, Jr., and Mrs Charles
Smith and children, of Picayune,
Miss Dorothy Rainwater of Cros-
sett, Ark, and Staff Sergeant A.
L. GiIliland of Maxwell Field,
Ala.
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Rowe.
of Eastlawn,- Pascagoula, spent
their vacation visiting their
daughters, Mrs. Allen Stapp and
baby, Mrs. D. v. Brewer and fam
ily, and Miss Thelma Davis, at
Jackson, Miss. On their return
trip home Mr.. and Mrs. Roe
stopped in New Orleans for few
Gays visit with another daugh-
ter, Mrs. Irwin Breaux.
On Saturday morning Mrs. X.
B. McIlwain gathered few of
her friends at her home at 1866
Sarazin street in honor of her
guests, Mrs. v. B. Wheeler and
Mrs. Morris Doughty.
Misses Gene Simmons and Jean
Covington of Magnolia, returned
nome Tuesday after having Wis
tied with Miss Ann Gulley, from
Thursday of last week. The three
girls attended Whitworth college
together during the term just
closed. A pleasant incident OF
their visit was a fishing party
given by. their hostess.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin L. Felts
have returned from a visit with
the latter's sister, Mrs. T. j. Hiley
and Mr.. Hiley at Savannah, Ga
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiley are former
residents of Pascagoula, where
Mr.. Hiley was employed at In
gals.
Lieutenant and Mrs. George H
Craig depart Sunday for the for
mer's new assignment at Camp
Dugway, near Toole, Utah. Until
her marriage some months ago, as
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
May Talks On
Future Tasks For
Rotary Leaders

Rotary Club members were told
Wednesday by A. p MAY, THEN
outgoing president, that if was
within their opportunity to help
make Psscagoula cne Of the gar
den spots of the coast and j mod
el city of the South or-''if we
do not get this community NOV.
ing toward an ever higher plans
Ito see the toWn diminish to an
empty shell"
Mr.. May, director Of the USO.
reviewed the record OF bis ad-
ninisiration briefly, but stress
ed opportunities and obligations
still ahead. in the final talk OF
his administration at a well-at.
tended Rotary session at the
USO building.
He took as text for his dis
eussion Chamber OF Commerce
survey made in a western state
which showed that of more than
100000 dwellings in the state,
more than 100000 needed serious
repairs, more than 100000 were
dangerously overcrowded, 2s0,0 900
had no electric lights and 100000
had only outside toilets.
Il wonder how close a paral-
lei we could find if we really
made a close scrutiny OF Missis-
sippi, and our own area. Pasca-
goula" "
Conditions have been great I
improved here in the last few
years, he said. "When | first got
off the train in Pascagoula ON
the seventh day of September of
1941, things looked so bad that /
got back ON and spent the night
in New Orleans. Next day | re-
turned, and am glad that | did.
But there was tremendous
amount Of WORK that had to be
done in this overcrowded COM
munity, And we have accom-
plished much. There have been
great developments and improve
ments here since that date. And
say, without apology. that the
bulk of that work has been done
through the thinking and &c
leadership of this group sitting
here"
There are great opportunities
and great obligations ahead for
the community leadership. he
said. IF we do not get our peo-
pie living on a higher and ever
higher plane. and keep improv.
ing Pascagoula as a place to live,
then we might well see ii take
the other direction and dwindle
to an empty shell, and we VIII
are leaders would bear responsi-
bility for that"
Mr. Nav turned over The pres.
ident's pin and the gavel to Roy
Givens, wholesale distributor
who. succeeds him as president.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
Raise 3O-Gallon
Limit On Furlough
Gasoline Raiions

Servicemen with furloughs Of
more than 80 days are now eligi-
bic for additional gasoline, the
OpA officials announced this
week.
Such gasoline will still be is
sued on the basis Of one gallon
day, the jackson district office
said, but the former 30-gallon
limit has been lifted for the ben
eft Of released American prison.
ers of war who get leave or tenn
poraIy duty assignments for go
DAYS in this country and for the
servieemen returning from over
seas with more than 30-day
leave.
To secure these gas rations the
servieeman needs only to show his
furlough papers and the mileage
fationing record of the ear he
intends using, when applying at
the local war price and ration
ing board, OPA officials ex-
planned
More Gas For Motor Boats
Owners of motor boats will
share in the same gasoline in
crease that was granted recently
to A-book motorists, OPA dis
trict director w. f. Holeomb said
this week, announcing Increase
IN the amount that may be is
sued
Maximum rations for personal
use OF boats are stepped up from
"a to SO gallons quarterly for
iaboards and from 10 to Is gal
Ions quarterly for outboards, he
explained. Since issuances will
continue ON the basis of two gal
Ions per horsepower for inboaId
motors and 2ls gallons for out
boards, all boat owners will not
receive the new maximum. Hol-
comb pointed out
An increase is also allowed for
those using inboards ON their
boats to conduct pleasure OF
hunting parties on a commercial
basis, with the new limits set at
l25 gallons quarterly for in
boards and 20 gallons quarterly
for outboards, subject to the
horsepower limitations, the OPA
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

home of their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Cochran and Mrs.
Calhoun Carter of Basin.
Mrs. Homer Cochran entertain
ed quite number of little friends
SATURDAY. evening at her home in
honor Of her daughters tenth
birthday. There were II children
present to assist Lois in celebrat-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
Fence Is Erected
Around Cemetery
At Spunish Fort

A wire fence on creosote posts
has been erected around the
Krebs cemetery at Spanish Fort
which more than doubles the ca
pacity of one Of the oldest bur
ial grounds in Pascageula. The
size has been enlarged by rs
feet on one. side and 40 feet on
the other, increasing the footage
to approximately 200 feet square
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

ing her birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Goff and
sons visited in the home of MI.
Gof9s sister, Mrs. w. d. Cox, in
Grand Bay, Saturday afternoon.
Sunday guests in the home Of
Mr. and Mrs. Lytle Brown were
Mr.. and Mrs. joe x. Brown from
Escatawpa. Mr.. Brown has been
home on his furlough from the
Navy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tine Young and
children and Mrs. Lytle Brown
and son were business visitors TO
Pascagoula Monday.
Miss Doris Young and Annette
Wilson and David Ogborn left
Monday to attend the All Club
Congress.
Miss Alice Wilson was married
Thursday tvening to Kenneth
Matthews of Pascagoula. Mr.
Matthews was home on fur
Tough after serving three years
with the armed forces in the Pa
cific.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Mat
thews and Mr.. and Mrs. Max Will
son of Paseagoult spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Wilson.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

Peanut growers can increase
their production by increasing
the per acre yields. agronomists
of the Agricultural Extension
Service say.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

| lumbia, Miss, was guest OF Mrs
George Steele at LongfelloW
House Wednesday.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
BigPoiini

Mrs. Walter Goff and Mrs. NJ.
B. Coleman visited in the home
o. Mrs. Homer Cochran Monday.
Hubert Goff and son, Billy
Harris Golf. made a business trip
to Gulfport Friday.
Mrs. w. T. Goff and Mrs.
Butch Nelson made a business
trip to Harleston Monday.
Friends Of Mrs. Walter Robin
son are sorry to hear of her ill
ness and hope that she will soon
recover,
Miss Dolores Nelson led the
prayer meeting Wednesday eve
ming.
Mrs. Fred Ogborn and her fa-
ther, Walter Williams, visited in
Helena Monday afternoon.
Wesley Carter returned home
Monday after spending some time
with his uncle and aunt. Mr..
and Mrs. Ford Carter in Wade.
Homer Cochran and children,
Mrs. E. l.. Nelson and children,
spent Sunday afternoon in the
official added.
The largest jump goes to those
using inboard motor boats for
conducting fishing parties, since
fishing will add considerably to
our present food supplies, Major
Holcomb SAID Rations for such
purposes will be limited to 1900
gallons quarterly, a ten-fold in
crease from the previous l20-gal-
ION limit
Stamps Valid
Blue stamps NJ through So
expire Saturday, June 80 Blue
stamps which continue to be valid
are To through HI.
Red stamps E2 through J2 ex-
pire Saturday. June 30, and
stamps K2 through % remain
valid.
Sugar stamp No. Sc is good foI
five pounds OF sugar through
August 81
Airplane stamps Nos. |, 2 and
3 are good.
Gasoline coupons A-i6 are valid
through September 81.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

The divorce rate is highest
during the fourth, third and fifth
years of marriage. in that order.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
Pascagoula
Personals

Miss Rowena Park is expected
TO arrive Tuesday from Tusca-
loosa, Ala, for visit with Mr..
and Mrs. ]. A. Bishop and family.
The highlight of Saturdays
social calendar will be the we'd
ding of Miss Matte Wheat to
Ray d. Leach, Jr., which will be
solemnized at the First Baptist
church at S o'clock in the after
noon. Among the out-of-town
guests who will attend the cere-
Evening star., 1945-10-14

In the 60 sweating minutes we were there
we brought steady stream of CTS and brass
to Howard's rowing mike. There were soldiers
on their way to the Philippines, sailors on
their way to Ulithi to pick up ship group
of infantrymen in bright new fatigues and
bright new shoes. who were on their way
to replace discharged CTS in unit going to
Japan, Seabee, who was gray-haired and
SO and the father of two sons in the Army
and who had been on Two Jima since the day
after D Day.
Once in a while, the voices of the
Transport Air Group or Naval Air Trans
port Service clerks would cut across the
mike, calling all passengers for Oki or
Saipan. Each time, couple of dozen uni
forms would get up from chairs or duffel bags
and herd toward the traffic desk. In a corner
near the terminals west gate, first sergeant
W-l0-f4-45
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Isolated Guam has become 81 Grand Central Ihe
happiest n the world pass through Il far
that's where he lucky take the plane Est

side. Everyone is bushed or nervous or asleep,
everyone but the men behind the priorities
desks working to clear passengers and freight
to keep the works running smoothly. On the
walls behind the boxed-in desks are huge,
colorful murals, tourist-trade pictures of lush,
tropical scenes and nude, iodine skinned girls
looking out of place and ludicrous in the noise
and businesslike confusion.
Set Up A Rowing Mike
l HE last time we made the trek to the air
port from the hill which housed us and
Admiral Nimitz, we were off to do job of
work with Sgt Howard Duff and Corp. Bill
Lambeth, both of Los Angeles. They were
going to set up a mike and record typical
hour in the life of the terminal for the Armed
Forces Radio Service. We were to be their
contacts with the crowd.
Evening star., 1945-10-14

Then, some of them will turn up here at Agana
terminal again. Because this is also the place
where soldiers say good-by to CT life and
monotony in the Pacific and sweat out planes
that will take them through Oahu toward Cali
fornia, Ohio, Kentucky. Illinois and Maine
Evening star., 1945-10-14

The passenger waiting
room is a long, low, mod
ern building about three
times the size of the dance
floor at the Copacabana
in New York - and twice
as crowded. There are
never enough seats for the
uniform-clad crowd which
swirls in and out from pre-
dawn morning until late
at night. You have to be
careful making your way
across the terminal, to
avoid tripping over tired
Evening star., 1945-10-14

Now it's the take-of spot for men reporting
back to their units after time out on Guam,
time out to doctor the wounds they got in the
creeping, tedious battles that led so slowly and
painfully to the finish. Some of these CTS will
be going on to Japan and occupation. Others
will rejoin their units only until the paper
work is done and their points Strengthened out.
Evening star., 1945-10-14

TIVE first time we landed at Agana Air Base
i on Guam, we were pulling in from Two
Jima We were dirty and tired and happy and
felt that if we could get hot shower, a good
meal and sound sleep in clean. dry sack, the
world would do until Shangri-la came along
Evening star., 1945-10-14

infantrymen sacked out on their duffel bags
and sailors curled up on the white canvas of
their sea gear. You shove past admirals and
pilots and Britishers and war correspondents
and nurses, and, if you want coffee, you plow
and push at the line three deep around the
Red Cross stand.
Everyone is Tokyo-bound or going State
Evening star., 1945-10-14

Since then, we've been
in and out of the Agana
terminal 50 often on jaunts
here and there in the Pa
cific that we're beginning
to feel like commuters
passing through the local
railroad station in search
of the Sis.
Agana used to be the hub
of the Pacific war, the CT
Grand Central Station for
the war-bound headed to-
ward Okinawa, the Philip
pines, Saipan and China.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
BY the Associated Press,

BERLIN, Oct. 20-An American
soldier columnist said today that
German girls, taking their cue from
Goebbels, were poisoning the minds
Of American troops against the Rus
slams, and warned that unless coun-
ter measures were taken soon Amer
ican- Russian cooperation would be
endangered.
Colunnist Harold Kempner, writ
ing in "Grouper," weekly newspaper
of the American Military Govern
ment, declared the frauleins were
making all manner of accusations.
Some GIs have been taken in
by this vicious and persistent propa-
ganda campaign against our Russian
comrades" the writer said. Com
bat troops who fought their way
| through Germany and hated the
krauts are being replaced by men
who are being slightly affected by
the fiattery and bull thrown by the
frauleins.
This effort to blame everything
on the Russians, if allowed to bios
som out unchallenged, may eventual
ly nullify some Of our aims and make
cooperation with our Allies an even
more difficult job. The Russians
have fought hard in this war, just
Evening star., 1945-10-21
22O Frenchmen Lost
In Annamite Uprisings
By the Associated Press.


SAIGON, Indo-China, Oct. 20
Two hundred twenty French citi-
zens have vanished since the first
Annamite uprisings in September,
police announced today as guerril-
las continued attacks on Allied
troops
Nineteen of those missing are
known to have been assasSinated,
tlee announcement said, and 80
others are presumed to have been
killed.
A British-French communique re-
ported sniping against Allied
troops holding bridges over the Cho
River, north of Saigon. There were
no casualties. The Annamites, after
disastrous losses in the only frontal
attack they have attempted thus
far, are resorting to guerrilla tao
tics.
- Approximately 1000 French wom-
en- and children are stranded at Hue,
capital of AMMAN province, and six
RAF planes, attempting to fly food
and supplies to them, were forced
to land at Tourane, because of the
condition of the Hue airfield.
At Cap st. Jacques in Southern
Indo-China, the japanese Navy is
safeguarding big guns for the Brit
ish, while japanese army troops
are reported slipping arms to the
Annamites to keep the rebellion
going. French warships lie offshore
at Cap ST. Jacques with their big
guns trained inland.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Specifications Drafted
For Merchant Ship Radar

Suggested minimum specifications
for three types of radar to be used
on merchant ships have been sent
electronic equipment manufacturers,
Coast Guard headquarters an
nounced yesterday.
At meeting October % in Wash
ington manufacturers, FEC repre-
sentatives, shipping men and other
Government representatives will dis
cuss the proposals.
The highest type, designated
Glass "a" will provide both early
warning of approaching vessels as
we'll as cooperate with the racon
system and navigational aid identif1-
cation beacons now under develop
ment. The second highest, Glass
"B,' will operate only with the navi-
gational aid indentiication beacons
and give less warning of danger
while the third highest, Glass &C. v
will be valuable only as an anti
! collision device
Evening star., 1945-10-21
FruuIeins Poison Yunks' Minds
OnRussio, ArmyWriter Charges

as we have, to crush our common
enemy and bring about unanimous
victory.
Meanwhile, the frauleins take our
cigarettes and candy and then tell
us the mistake we made fighting the
Germans on the side of the Rus
slams.
What have we been doing to
combat the German propaganda,
spearheaded by the frauleins. to
turn us against the Russians? Have
we toughened up the newcoming
GIs against this German line? Are
we reacting to the insinuations and
remarks of the Germans which are
becoming a daily occurrence in
Berlin?
These pertinent questions de-
mand an answer and solution
1t was our war and our victory. Now
it is our peace and we intend to
keep it. But we can keep it only il
we stick with the Russians and
other Allies"
The tactics of German girls
Kempner said. are to fatter the
American soldiers and then "em.
bark on the familiar TRADE blaming
everything on the Russians charg
ing that "the Russians raped theil
sisters and mothers and looted theil
homes"