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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-07
Cars and Washing
Machines to Be
Sold at ~ Prices

A bright picture was painted
for Mr.. and Mrs. America this
week bv the Office of Price Adj
ministration with the promise of
plenty of washing machines by
the first of the year, more meat.
new kitchen and aluminium wear
and automobiles at 1912 prices
The OPA also reminded house,
wives that point value on butter
has been decreased four points
a pound for this month.
Officials of this department
predict that household washing
machines will be back in the
stores this fall at 1912 prices and
that there will be a quantity o.
them on the market by the first
of 1916.
Slaughter quotas have been
increased, OPA officials said,
which will bring more meat to
the average citizens table.
Those bent and mended pots
and pans can be discarded soon in
favcr of shiny new aluminium,
but il will probably be a question
of first come, first served. Shop
pers are warned that these items
have been off the shelves in the
stores for a long time and there
will be undoubtedly be a rush
for their purchase.
After several months of study,
CPA has devised a procedure by
winch manufacturers may COM
pute their own ceiling prices,
it was announced, but ANY ru-
mors that ceiling prices on new
ears are known now is absolute
~ false"
Red stamps becoming good the
first of September tire Ii through
Q1, and will expire December
8. Srgar etamp 80 also became
COED Tor the purchase of five
#Asunas Of sugar.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-07
Youthful Thief
Escapes Jail to
Continue Crime

Robert Gipson took up his one
man crime Wave-only Temporal
rily interrupted by incarceration
where he left off when he es-
capped from the Jackson County
jail last week via a rope of sheets
and a hole in the roof.
He returned to the Cole Tow
ing Co, scene of his first crime,
where he broke into a tug tied
at the wharf. Food and a few
other items we're missed from the
Boat Thursday, according to of
ficials of the company, and the
police were notified. Deputy
Sheriff j. R. McNeal searched the
towing company grounds but fail
ed to find the 17-year-old offend
er, who obviously was still in the
neighborhood, for Thursday night
he returned again. The second
time he boarded a tug, crept by a
Waterman, stole a wallet con-
tanning about S28 from a captain
of one of the boats. He went on
to a second tug where the watch
man and men he had called when
he saw the marauder saw him
coming from the engine room.
One of the men grabbed the boy
but he slipped through the mans
arms and, clad in bathing trunks
stolen the preceding night, dove
into the river. He went ashore
down the river and disappeared
into the underbrush. The boy is
still at large.
Investigation Friday revealed
that the boy had been hiding out
under the warehouse at the tow
ing company where he had made
himself a bed with blankets and
saeets taken from one of the tugs.
Gipson was arrested several
weeks ago after ne broke into the
Cole Towing Co. warehouse and
took a suitcase, clothing and sew
eral tools which he later used to
gain entrance into the Comus
where he robbed the nickelodeon.
When arrested as he walked
along the highway toward Mo
bile he was carrying nearly a
suitcase full of nickels and dimes.
loot from the music machine. At
that time he said he had escaped
from the work farm at Gulfport.
He also said he had worked at
the Cole Towing Co, for about
a month.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-07
YWCA Office OF USO
In P~dscogoulo to Be
Permanently Closed

Among the changes that have
come with peace will be the per-
manent closing OF the YWCA of
the USO office in Pascagoula at
tire end of the week, according
TO an announcement bv the di-
rector. Miss Molly Burrowes.
Miss Burrowes came to the
office a year ago. In a statement
Thursday she said that commit
tees working with her will carry
on such activities as the 20-40
club and the Arts and Crafts
Center, Other clubs will be
handled through the YMCA,
headed by A. p. May.
She departs Sept. 10 for New
York where she will be given
further assignment.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-07
Support Of Recreation ,
Voters in Referendum
Prisoner Of Wur
Escapes. Captured
BY County Officers

Gunther Stengel. German pris-
oner of war who had escaped
from the Saucer Camp, was re-
captured in Jackson County by
Sheriff d. o. Newman and Depu-
ty Sheriff John McNeal last week.
Sheriff Newman was notified by
Gene Ravens from the Elico for
estry tower that the l8-year-old
German, still wearing his pris-
oner of wal clothes, had come TO
his home and asked for food. The
youth was held at the Havens
home until arrival of the officers
who brought him back to the
Jackson County Jail and later
turned him over to a detachment
sent from Saucier Camp to return
him to the pow. ranks.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-07
c. Of {. Asks for
Maintenance OF
FPHA Housing

Re-opening Of the Federal
Public Housing Authority dormi-
tories recently closed and the
maintenance of all other unoc-
cupied dwelling units on a
STANDBY status to take care of
the anticipated high employment
level during the coming year was
requested by a Chamber of Com
merce committee in a letter sent
this week to the National Hous-
ing Agency.
The letter, undersigned By
members of the Chambers Com
mittee for the Redistribution of
Public War Housing. states that
the scheduled man-hours for
1916 are in excess of the wartime
peak, due largely to extension
OF Maritime Commission con-
tracts at the ingalls, shipvard and
reconversion of other industries"
The committee also urged that
t~railers still in Pascagoula should
be removed from surplus status
and held available, pending de-
vclopments, Oh until building re-
strictions can be removed, FILA
loans can be reasonably grant
ed, ana building materials again
become available"
The committee members are
w B.. Herring, chairman; j. w.
Brumfield, A. v. Smith, Warren
McC ieskey, w. r.. Guest, H. B.
Harrison, and II. F. Gautier.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-07
RAIN OF

st. Petersburg, Fla.-When it
rains mere every one gets an eve
ming Independent free.
The papers offer, made origi-
nally on Sept. 10, 1910. has stood
since then, with an average of
less than four and a half papers,
a year oeing given away.
For regular paid-in-advance
subscriptions a record is kept
and each time the sunless days
add up to six, each subscribers
credit is advanced a week.
Street sales on rainy days
+ free too.
st. Petersburg as you might
have guessed. calls itself the
sunshine city,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-07

The scenes above show
principal buildings a n d
assets of the cifY's recrea-
ton program whose con-
tinued maintenance d Q =
ponds on the passage Tues
day of a one-mill tax or
dinance which will be SUBJ
mifie6 to the vote along
with a one-mill sanitation
tax. Al top is an artists
sketch of the white rec
reafional building on Mar
ket street. one of the finest
in the south. which is
nearly completed; below
it is a sketch of the small
er colored building. o n
Dupont, also near compile
tion; below is the beach
pavilion which is part oil
the bathing facilities af-
forded at Beach Park.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-07
DR.. WALDEN HEARING

Hearing on charges of practie-
ing medicine without a license
filed against DR.. Dewey Walden
of Pascagoula was postponed
Thursday because of the inabil-
ity of DR.. Walden's attorney to
be present. Tentative date of
September 10 has been set, ae-
cording to Judge Kate Denny,
justice of the peace.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-07
All PRIZE WINNER

Among the winners in the va
rious activities which highlight-
ed the All conservation camp
held DIT Magnolia State Park and
attended by 80 All Club bows
was Edmund Jennings of Jack
son who rated third in forestry.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-07

In the United States meat
which is not federaily inspected
may not legally Re shipped across
state liLes.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-09-07

India increased its population
by more than $4,000. GOO between
1881 and l94l.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07

Distinguished Flying Cross
and other medals, eliminated
two-year romance that began
while he was stationed at Sell
fridge Field with his marriage
TO the former Sally Wellington
of 61O Blaine in November,
1912.
Gehrig severely wounded, was
one of the last 10 leave Corregidor
before il fell to the Japs. A native
OF Cohocton, ~ Y, he had been
transferred 10 Australia before re-
turning 10 the United States.
The announcement from Miami
lsa named I'd 1t. James D. Bue-
scher of 1874 Ward, I'd 1t. Ed
ward l. Beechem of 1880 Gains
boro. F/O Santo FaSan of 642l
Piedmont, S/Sgt Rudolph Alvira
of 1925 Twenty-third. S/Sgt. Juel
r. NoguesS Of l4S2S Glenfield, Sgt.
Harold ". Korte OF 213S Van
Dyke. T/5 Stanley Nalepa of 3S4s
Thirtieth and Sgt. Leonard l. Pio-
trowski Of 1858 Geimer, Ham
tramck.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07

Arid has 5 outstanding advantages:
1. Does not irritate skin. Does not rot
dresses and men shirts.
Z. Prevents under-srm odor. Helps stop
perspirstion safely.
:. A pure, white, anussptie, stainless van.
iShinE cream.
4. No waiting TO dry. Can be used right
after shaving.
s. Awarded Approval Seal Of American
Institute of Eaunderins - hsfniess TO
fabric. Use Arid regularly.
More women use Arnd than any other
deodorant. Try a jar today at all
good drug. department or ten cent
stores. 500 and 50s lbIEJ tax.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07
Every Plane Hit,
Not a Pilot Lost

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 uNS)
The navy disclosed today that
Composite Air Squadron 81 estab-
lished a record during 68 days of
action at Oklnawa by not losing
single plot or creWman, al
though nearly all its planes were
hit by japanese anti-aIrcraft fire.
The squadron, which was based
on a CaSablanca-claSs carrier. is
now back IN the United States
for lcaNo and rcasSignmeni.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07
50 Years on Job;
Furrier Is Feted

Memories of Old Detroit-when
it was "the Beautiful instead -
"the Dynamic"-were served cp
in abundance at dinner Saturday
night rendered to Leonard Roeh-
rig, rig, II z, of 33467 Helen, By officials
and fellow employees Et Annis
Furs.
The affair, at the Stockholm
res tauran [, was in honor OF
Roehrig's half-century of service
with the fur company. A gold
watch was presented to him.
+ Roherig was hired as fur
cutter by Newton Annis, founder
of the firm. Born in Wyandotte,
of pioneer family. Roehrig already
has served an apprenticeship with
a furrier there before venturing
upriver to the "big city"
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07
Is Killed in July
Traffic Accidents

Five pedestrians and five auto
passengers were among July's 13
traffic victims. the Police Acct
dent Prevention Bureau reports.
Two pefsens killed were auto
drivers.
Largest group of victims for the
year were in the 81 and over age
ypnnn
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07
Sinatra
To Rescue

SAN PEDRO. Cal. Aug s
SD-Frank Sinatra had an
other fan today-5-year-old Duke
Jones. whom he pulled from the
oily waters Of Los Angeles Har-
Dor.
Sinatra was talking with a
group of friends az the California
Yacht Anchorage Club when the
boy tumbled past them into the
water from the second floor OF
the building.
The singer raced 10 the guard
rail and dived into the water. he
clutched the child and Dukes S
father. Mac Jones. OF San Pedro,
also dived IN 20 ioin the rescue
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07

Nsrdlsy products Tor Emsues
are created in England and fn.
iihed in ihs U. S. A. from the
ohqinal English formulae, COM
bininq imported and doms'ie
Ingredients. Ysrdlsy oi Londen,
the., $40 Fifth Avenue, Roeks.
teller csn'sf, hs~ Isfk 20 n. Y,
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07
Poland Lifts Censorship

NEW YORK, Aug. 6 fNS1-
The Warsaw radio reported today
that the Polish provisional govern
ment had terminated censorship
of domestic mail, kilograms and
telephone conversations.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07

Brown eyed blond Eli
leen Burns, 10, VINO is the
first to qualify in the 1916
Miss Michigan contest. She
is a Mackenzie High gradu-
ate and wants to study
music. Miss Michigan will
receive a $4,000 college
scholarship and a trip to
Atlantic City to enter the
annual Miss America finals.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07
lamour BuYs Ranch

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 6 GNS)--
Dorothy Lamour has revealed that
she and her husband, Mai William
r. Howard III. have bought a al
acre ranch near Riverside.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07
Bafaan Hero Awaits
New War Assignment

pilot back from Bataan and Corregdor 1912
marry Detroit girl today of nine officers and enlisted
from the Detroit who have returned from
and waiting in Miami Fla for reassgnmen the army
nounced today.
Gehrig, whose feats early the Pacific him the
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07
DE MAND S f:

MUCH has been written, much said,
about feminine hygiene. Too
often, however. women overlook ny.
giene in the REAL sense of the word
49, under.arm cleanliness and sweet.
ness. You cannot be attractive and
appealing with undef.arms moist,
stained and smelly.
There IS now simple safe wsy TO
prevent under-am odor and help keep
your dresses free frop perpltatlon
STAINS and smell. il IS Arid, a new
vanishing cream deodofant which
safely helps stop perSpirluon.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07
Tanqier ParIey DELAYED

NEW YORK, Aug. g. GNS)-
The London radio reported that
the Tangier conference, scheduled
to begin in Paris today. had been
postponed at the request of Brit
ain.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-07
Robbed of 500 by Pair

Joseph Fox, At, Of 1868 Monica
was robbed of S700 early yeSter-
day by two masked holdup men
as he parked his car at home.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-02-16
IS GETTING UP NIGHTS
GETTING YOU DOWN?
Thousands say famous doctors
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irritation Of the bladder caused by
Excess acidity in the urine

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-02-16
Ecturus To Washington.

n Charlotte EIobgood mas t.
..raad +, Washington, d. G., after
.aas4..r about two weeks with her
I4rc..@. Mr. and Mrs, J. NJ. Hob
.5aa. aa Andrews avenue extern
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
Strike

Continued from Page Hnc)
pational descriptions, holiday pay,
extension Of vacation plans, vaca-
ton pay and pay schedules.
Concillators who met with both
parties in an effort to settle the
differences finally certified the
case TO the War Labor Board for
a hearing and decision.
The petition to hold the strike
vote was filed on January l. and
as required under the Smith-COn.
nally Act, the employees had to wait
30 days. generally termed n cool
ing Off period while further eff.
forts at settlement were made. No
agreement was reached and the
strike vote was taken yesterday.
Hone to Avert Strike
Joseph w. Parker. president of
the Detroit Edison Co., stated to-
day:
THE vote does not necessarily
mean a strike. We believe that the
union and our employees recognize
that any interruption of power will
hurt their cause and do some irrep-
arabic damage to the community.
to the record of all civilian war
workers and TO the confidence of
the men overseas.
This dispute was certified TO
the War Labor Board January %.
We will use every reasonable
means to avoid any service inter
ruption."
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
Pick of the Air Today

$3.50 Johnny Long Band;
10000 Fred Waring Music;
1890 March OF Time, Cecil b. De
Mile.
MBS-S:30 Sammy Kaye Varieties:
$50 Antonini Song half-hour;
1920 Swings the Thing.
Friday
NBC-9 a. IN. Mirth and Madness:
100 .. IN. Sketches with Melody;
4:15 Stella Dallas.
CBS-9:l5 a. m. (repeat $3.50 p. M,
School OF the Air;
400 House Party;
6:15 Lyn Murray Music, Hollace
Shaw.
BLU-ll a. m. Breakfast in Holly
wood
1890 p. m. Farm and Home Pro
gram,
2:3O Ladies Be Seated.
M3S-l:l5 Lopez luncheon music;
2:15 Jane Cowl;
$3.50 Smoothies Sing.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
Daily Market Report

CARROTS No. l. don punches.
sl.75-2.
CAULlFLoWER-No. !. Uu.. $500
ESQ.
CELERY-No. l. bu.. S2.2.5O
DRY oNlONS-No. /. 50 lbs. Sl.25-
l.5C.
PARSNIPS--No. |, bu., s2.25-2.50.
POTAToES-No. |. S1,75-2.00 bu.
PUMPKINS No. |. bu.. 50-75c,
RUTABAGAS-No. ], bu.. soc
$l.25.
-SQUASH-Hubbard. No. /. bu. s0c.
1875.
TURNlPS-No. /. boz. bchs sl.S5.
LIS.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
Gold Star

Continued from Page Duel
years ago. He was graduated from
Michigan State Normal College
here in 1888 and had taught at At
lants. Mich, and Harsens Island
Consolidated School He earned
his master OF museums methods de-
gree at University of Iowa and
when he was indicted last May %
was assistant director Of museums
at the University of Colorado.
He received his Army trainin-
at Camp Roberts, Cal, Camp Cnai
fee. Ark. and Fort Meade. He We
sent overseas at Christmas tim
and was killed in action Jan. 20.
He served in the ground forces as
a sharp shooter.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
Pacific

Continued from Page Hne)
Olongapo and it's battery of Japa-
nese defenses was inexpUcably un
defended 1t is the key to the
western side of Bataan.
No noteworthy skirmishes were
reported as the 18th Corps rolled
across the formidable Pampanga
River into Calumpit, 2S road miles
from Manila. Behind them lay a
dangerous and narrow, swamp-bor-
dered corridor.
Another Sixth Army column
swung west toward junction with
the Eighth Army at the head Of
Bataan.
Small. bitterly won gains were
reported on the northern battle for
Baguio.
Chinese conceded some of the
gains the Japanese have already
claimed in China. In Burma, Nip
ponese commanders gathered Their
forces for a last ditch defense of
Mandalay against three Allied col
umns relentlessly closing in.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
Kiwaniis

Continued from Page ure)
ing over and utilizing the land and
Improvements after the war, the
general idea being that what be-
comes Of these projects after the
war is largely a matter for the ad-
joining communities, such as Ypsi-
lanti, TO decide. The buildings will
be handled by the government, but
Ne land and permanent improve.
ments will be at the disposition OF
the different communities.
Time was given over to some Of
the shortcomings Of the project
types OF buildings erected. mum
bers OF housing units constructed
and reasons given for some Of the
mistakes.
Mr.. Schermer stated that some
of the mistakes were due to un
certainty as TO the number OF units
needed. due to miscalculations as
to the number Of men needed at the
Bomber Plant. Great credit is due
the Ford Motor Company and all
connected with planning the great
enterprise from the fact that they
have been able to build the ships
which were needed and to fill their
government orders by using about
two.thirds the number Of men to get
the work out as was originally cal
culated, he said. However, the
housing units constructed were
Quilt in accordance with the esti-
mated number OF employees, and as
a result, more we're built than have
been needed. which accounts for
the large number of unused units
in the project.
A total OF nineteen million dol
lars has been expended in build.
ing the project which includes all
land. buildings and improvements
such as pavements. water works
and sewers. all of this being the
property Of the federal govern
ment
Guests at the meeting included,
Glenn Hart, L. S. Army; Roland
Loefiler Detroit, Frank Ser
vaites. Leslie Moon. Floyd Stone
and George L. Berkebile. all OF
Ann Arbor.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
Captives

Continued from Page One)
with no barbed wire. no guard
10 bar their free passage.
Little by little they talk OF
fo>d, chiefly. then they talk OF
wives, children, sweethearts,
and parents from whom the
majority have heard nothing
for more than three years.
Among the few possessions
carried out In their quick de-
Parture were rs word mes
sages from loved ones and
few pictures Of wives, chill
dren and grandchildren.
They talked in low tones Of ia
panese brutality and the death
march OF Bataan, OF the final ter
rifying week Of bombing and bonn
bardrent which hit Corregidor. OF
men dying like flies. OF disease. o.
ten hours daily In prison camp
under the hot sun in fields. or
waist high in water OF rice paddles
unGer hard eyes. OF frequent beat
ings and shootings.
These experiences lay heavily
upon them. Details were painful
to recall. Yet many of them
foreswore the probability Of re-
turning home Immediately to stay
and drop just a few Japs first.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
turore

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mag know soon to what extent
the Nazis have weakened their
western defenses by the shift of
troops eastward.
Lose Many Men
In the south the Germans In the
Colmaar pocket lost by Allied es-
innate 5000 killed and $500 cap
tured in two days as French troops,
aided by two American divisions,
partly by-passed Cernay, where the
Nazis had put up stiff resistance.
A London report said the German
10th Army of 10000 was in full
retreat south Of Strasbourg.
North Of Strasbourg. L. S. Sew
enth Army troops without Opposi-
ton captured Gambsheim, eight
miles from Strasbourg and two
from the Rhine, suggesting n Ger
man withdrawal from the Rhine
bridgehead.
Far to the north, British and Ca
nadians mopped up In the dikes Of
the Mass Island bridgehead north
Of Tilburg in Holland.
Thick weather grounded Allied
air might In the west again yester-
day as the First and Third Amer
lean armies pushed through slush
and rain against a 40 mile section
of the Siegfried line in an assault
approaching proportions Of a full
scale offensive.
See Gun Flashes
A Stockholm dispatch quoted
! travellers from Berlin as saying
flashes Of artillery fire from the
eastern front could be seen In Ber-
lin. These sources said from 10
to 20 evacuation trains left the
Reich capital daily, taking resi-
dents to the southern province of
Saxony. In the crowded capital,
many civilians lined up at Army
soup kitchens for meals. the report
said. and In the east, Danzig and
Stettin on the Baltic were being
evacuated.
The Russians scored new success
ses all along the eastern front. In
East Prussia, their grip was tight
ened on shelled Konigsberg; in Po-
fish Silcsia, first Ukraine Army
troops took 0derwalde on the Oder.
IS miles west of Katowice in Ger
man Pomerania, Flatow, Jastrow
and 30 other communities We're
taken by Zhuknv's forces which
threatened to cut the northeastern
priyince from Germany, and to
spear TO Stettin, Berlln's Baltic
port In German Silesia. Berlin
said, the Russians had crossed the
oder at several points.
Take Prisoners
In Hungary. $500 prisoners were
/ taken by the Russians yesterday,
as Budapest defenders were wedg.
/ ed into a narrow area of the cap.
/ ital.
A U S. Fifth Army patrol in
Italy stabbed deep into German
lines east of the Serchio River and
withdrew after bitter five-hour
/ fight nine miles east of Castel Nuo-
vo, near Rondinaio. Across the en-
/ tire front German mortar and ar
/ tillery crews were extremely scnti-
/ tive to patrol tests.