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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
Bosarge Gets 20
Years For Staying
Of Girl In Hotel

Convicted of manslaughter in
connection with the hammer-slay-
ing OF 22-year-old Lillian Pierce
Of Denver, Colo, in an argument
over who was to have the first
bath. Edward Bosarge, %, for
mer Kreole resident and a dis
charged merchant seaman, was
sentenced to serve 20 years in
the state penitentiary by Judge
l.. c. Corban in circuit court FRI
day night.
The slim, dark haired self
confessed killer accepted the
maximum sentence calmly.
The defense, conducted by
Howard A. Mcdonnell and John
Sekul Of Biloxi. was based on a
plea that the Young man was
temporarily out of his mind
when he struck the girl three
times on the head with a ham
mer in the room thew had taken
together for the night in a pop
ular resort hotel near Ocean
Springs. Bosarge on the stand
in his own defense, testified that
he didn't remember much about
hitting the Young woman after
she slapped him in the bath
room with something in her
hand ard injured his jaw.
Defense attorneys introduced
relatives and friends of the de-
PENDANT on the stand who told
the court OF visiting Bosarge II
the Jackson County jail and ind
ing MS Jaw SO swollen that he
was unable to eat. Dr.. r. c. Eley
testified that he had visited Bo-
sarge in jail to treat him for a
grippe condition and ne had ex-
amined his JAZZ at the time and
found signs that the jaw had
been broken although ne said It
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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
Six Fishing Boats
To Be Operated By
Clark Co. 0fAla.

Addition of two new snapper
boats and four deep sea shrimp
trawlers to the commercial fish
ing fleet operating out of Pas
cagoula is planned in the near
future by the Clark Seafood
Company of Bayou LaBatre, one
of the largest companies operat-
ing in Gulf waters.
One of the snapper boats, the
65-foot schooner Annabelle, is
already being operated by the
company, and returned last week
from a Today trip off the mouth
Of the Mississippi river with 5000
pounds of red snappers, consid-
cred a good catch. The Anna
belle is moored at the Ross fish
pier near the foot of Delmas ave-
nue.. 1t is powered by a 90-horse-
power Allis-Chalmers engine and
carries a schooner rig.
The company will soon put in
commission a second snapper
boat of similar type, the Onon.
dago. which it purchased from
Hermes Gautier of Pascagoula
The Onondago is being equipped
with a new mast and new boxe.
for icing fish.
Four 65-foot deep sea trawler!
are now being built at Biloxi
for the company and one il
scheduled to be completed every
thirty days, beginning mex.
month. These are powered by 81
horsepower Allis-C Chalmers mo.
tors and will carry hosting ril
in place of sail. ]. w. Clark, Of,
fetal of the company, said they
would shrimp mostly in Leuisi.
ana waters for the sea-goinl
jumbo shrimp.
The company at present is op.
Grating II fishing vessels from
Alabama to Texas, not countinl
the trawlerS now being built
Oliver j. Clark. son of J. W
Clark, is president of the firm
Most of the catch of the Pasca.
goula fleet will be transported ii
the eompany'S trucks to the Mo.
bile market.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
Pascagoula May Be Lay-Up Basin For War Fleet;
Briion Says U. S. Ships Were Top Victory Factor
Wor Freighters
Second Only To
Bottle OF Brituin

The stream of ships that be-
gan pouring from American ship
yards in 1912 to reestablish SUBJ
marine battered supply lines was
second in importance only to the
winning of the Battle of Britain
as a turning point in the Euro
pean war, Sir Amos Lowrey
Ayre, permanent chairman OF the
shipbuilding conference of Great
Britain and until recently director
Of the British merchant ship
building industry, said here Mon
day.
Sir Amos flew here Sunday
from New Orleans with Admiral
Howard L. Vickery, vice-chair-
man of the Maritime Commission
on the long last leg Of an inspec-
ton tour of American shipyards
that carried them along the Pa
cific, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
They were accompanied from
New Orleans by L. r. Sanford,
regional director for the Mari
time Commission.
The party inspected the ingalls,
Shipbuilding Corporation yard
Monday in company with r. /.
ingalls,, Jr., and Monro B. La
nier. president of the corpora
ton. and other company off
Gals.
Following the inspection trip
the party had lunch at the Long
fellow House before leaving for
Brunswick, Ga, and Washing
ton.
Pay Tribute to ingalls,
Both Admiral Vickery and the
British official paid tribute 10
the ingalls, yard for the produc-
ton record II 20 C-3 type ships.
which form appFSxnnt efy halt
OF the United States fleet Of this
type vessel.
Great Britain faced a crucial
period in 1912" Sir Amos said,
when the steady and ever in
creasing flow of vessels from
American shipyards started.
These vessels re-estahlished sub
marine battered supply lines and
in my opinion was one of the
most outstanding and decisive
factors in the winning Of the Eu-
ropean war, second only in inn
portance to the winnig of the
blitz battle of Britain"
The interchange OF ideas, CO.
operation and swapping of tech
nical advances between British
and American shipbuilding in
dustries was a factor in the high
production level maintained dur
ing the European phase of the
war, Sir Amos said.
He also paid high tribute to
Admirals Land and vickery and
the Maritime Commission for
their work in guiding I he vast ex-
pansion of American yards which
resulted in the greatest mass
production of ships the world has
ever seen.
England is not a war weary
nation despite its six years of
bitter European conflict, and the
bafterine 1t took in the early
wears of the war at the hands of
the Luftwaffe, and later from
the Nazi's last gamble with the
robot bombs.
The cessation of bombing and
lifting of the blackout acted like
a tonic on the English people, he
said. To the average Briton the
Pacific war is not a remote af-
fair aid he is determined to
prosecute IT to the fullest.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
Harrison Elected
Post Commander
AT Legion Meeting

George M. Harrison was elect
ed commander OF the American
Legion Post in Pascagoula We'd
nesday night to succeed Roy G.
Wingfield, outgoing officer.
Mr.. Harrison, manager of
Brumfield's store in Moss Point,
is a veteran of the first World
son in action overseas.
Other officers elected were E.
A. Mason. first vice-commander;
w. G.. Smith. second vice-com-
mander; W. c. Scarborough, vet
eran of the present war, post adj
jutant; A. ". Smith, finance of
iicer; l.. A. Watts, historian, and
w. w. Harris, another World
War II veteran, sergeant-at-arms
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
Is
Planned For
Mayor Sets Date
For Cledn- UP Week
BY Formal Edict

Every weed and trash pile is
someone's responsibility.
That will be the goal of pre-
liminary. steps for a gigantic
city-wide cleanup campaign in
Pascagoula sponsored by the
Civic Council. June rs to 80 has
been designated Cleanup Week
BY proclamation issued by Mayor
John r. Watts and the coopera-
ton of all civic organizations
will be asked in improving and
identifying the entire city.
AT . meeting of the Civic
Ciuncil. George B. Field was
named campaign chairman ard
other members are Mrs. r. 3.
Mahaffey and Miss Mary Guest.
The town will be divided into
sections and an organization or
group will be made responsible
for each division. Each indivi-
ual is asked to clean his or her
own property an also adjoining
vacant lots, whether business or
residential.
A meeting of the various club
heads has been called by Mr..
Field for Monday at 8 pm. at the
USO building at which time de-
tailed plans will be discussed.
The Labor Management COM
mittee of the ingalls, shipyard at
a meeting this week drew up a
petition to the city and county
officials requesting regular
clean-ups of the beach front.
Plans for the cleaning ua Of
Pascagoula include sremoyal OF
sallannsight1v end insanitary'
trash piles which have been con-
demned by naturalization off
Gals as rat harbors' cutting c.
all grass and weeds and the
elimination of paper and other
trash from the streets and from
the cutters where it interferes
with drainage as we'll as with the
sightliness of the thorough
fares.
The proclamation made by
Mayor Watts follows:
Whereas, investigation by va
rious civic organizations has in
dicated that a cleanup campaign
is necessary in Pascagoula, and,
Whereas, the Pascagoula Civ
ic Council has undertaken the
organization and direction of
such a project, and,
Whereas. the city officials are
giving their full support to and
are urging the concerted effort
of every resident in helping to
make the campaign a success,
Therefore, I. John r. Watts,
by the authority vested in me as
mayor of the city of Pascagoula,
do hereby declare the week be-
ginning Monday, June IS, and
ending Saturday. June 80, 1945.
as Cleanup Week in the City
of Pascagoula."
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
Temporary Unit
Tenants Eligible
For Navy Houses

In an initial step to adjust the
housing project accommodations
to the waning demands of Pas
cagoula, announcement has been
made by James D. Hundley, prof.
ect manager, that all residents of
the more temporary units may
apply Immediately for transfer
into one of the NNy houses.
Applications will be received I'M
til July is and assignments to
new quarters will be made as
the houses become available, Mr..
Hundley explained.
The applicants will be graded
according to seniority and those
who have lived the longest in
the temporary sections of the
project will be considered first.
InaSmuch as the move will be
for the tenants own convenience
a moving charge of $40 viii be
levied in accordance with a long
standing regulation that any per-
son moving from n house to
another in the project would be
subject to a charge, Mr.. Humid
lev said.
The turnover of tenants in the
Navy housing units is so small
that there can be no moving in
great numbers, Mr.. Hundley
said, and as a house is assigned
to a family the tenant must ae-
cept that house or lose his place
on the waiting list and there can
be little choice of location.
There are 81 three bedroom units
and 81 ne-bedroom units
in the Navy group, and q larger
number of two-bedroom resi-
Continued on page b
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15

Lexington. Ky.-The meat
shortage caught several residents
of a Lexington subdivision
charged IN grand jury in3ict-
ments with maintaining a COM
mon nuisance. The nuisance:
hogs.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
SAFE AT HOME

London-Mr, and Mrs. War
wick Fedden are living almost
directly over a big German
bomb. Dropped one night in
1910, it failed to explode Il was
covered with l6 feet of concrete
and declared safe.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15

The first school Brig. Gen.
james Doolittle attended was in
Nome. Alaska, where his father
had gone during the gold rush.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15

Gated which is one of the rich.
est counties in the entire state
has sold $500, 1854 worth of +
bonds as compared to $663, 664 in
Jackson county and yet has
ia. Lauderdale county where
reached 1913 per cent of its quo
Meridian is located reported
S67s, 1913 in sales, So per cent of
the quota, ana Jones county,
home Of Laurel. has totaled only
$3.50. 929 or 1914 per cent of the
quota.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15

In early modern times, seurvy
was the deadliest OF diseases on
long sea voyages.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
Bids For Building
Swimming Pool
Opened Monday

Bids for the construction of
the municipal swimming pool in
Moss Point will be opened by
the Swimming Pool Commission
at a meeting Monday, June is.
at the City Hail. members of the
commission announced.
Engineer a. w. Head has pre-
pared several sets of specifica-
tons and drawings which are
being forwarded to several COZ
tractors WHO might ke intere.d
in the contract. commission mem-
bers said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
jackson County Bond Sales High In
Money Value. Low In Quota Percent.

Although as many bonds in
dollar value have been sold in
Jackson county as in previous
war loan drives. only So per cent
of the quota for the Seventh
War Loan Drive has been reach
ed.
This is the report made public
Thursday by w B. Herring.
county chairman who pointed
out that this is in line with the
percentage of quota raised in the
entire country. The quota for
the county was set at $l,253.000.
Reports indicated that Of the
county division quotas will not
be reached although workers
are making every effort to go
over the top before June 80,
THE county is well organized
for this drive and the commit
tees are working hard" Mr.. Her
ring said, Every effort is being
put forth to bring our total Sig
ure of sales up to the goal set"
Moss Point reported Thursday
through Jesse Thompson, city
chairman, that the sales there
will probably fall short OF the
$4,000 quota by about $50, 900.
Chairman George w. Young and
f. G.. Trimble of Ocean Springs
declared that that city will reach
its $4,000 quota.
Rallies Held
Workers in the rural sections
declared that as a whole sales
are not coming up to expecta-
tions in the outlying sections.
A rally of workers in Pasca-
goula was held Monday noon al
the USO by Earl Hammett, city
chairman, and quotas were as
signed to individual businessmen
in a move to raise the city's
quota of S350,000 j. w. Brum-
field and Mr.. Hammett sent out
100 letters assigning quotas, ask
ing that each individual respond
via the stamped envelope en-
closed as to his willingness to
accept this amount.
M. L, Funkhouser and Hermes
Gautier, co-chairmen of the
small industries in Pascagoula
reported that the $50, 900 assign.
ed as their quota has been met
Mr.. Brumfield reported thai
S150.000 of the 100000 quota Of
the business district has beer
obtained and A. p. May report
ing for the colored division sale
that although the $4,000 quota
has not been met, progress i.
very good in that division.
Verne Barnes volunteered L
take over the task of organizing
the women in the town for a con,
certed drive and Mrs. j. o. Cole
NOiutAtCCACh ~ AAQAAkC III {
booth downtown for the last TIVE
weeks of the drive.
A rally luncheon will be hele
Monday at the USO at noon a
which time all workers and 9th.
ers called on to assist in tht
drive will be asked for reports
and suggestions. The luncheon
will be served at a cost OF 81
cents a plate.
In comparison to other coun.
ties in the state. Jackson count!
rates sixth in the 80 other coun.
ties according to The latest avail.
able figures from the state head
quarters in the amount Of the
bond sale but rates considerable,
lower than many counties as tt
percentage Of quota. Coahom'
county where clarksdale IS 10.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15

9th Reported
w ounde d From
Po~scugould Area

War department kilograms
brought tragic tidings last week
to the families of two soldiers
killed in action. Pvt. Ted B. Hin
son of Moss Point, and Cpl. Noble
S. Kirkwood of Wade, while the
family of Pfc. Jack Kleisner was
notified he had been wounded
May g., but was recovering.
Another resident of this area,
Mrs. A. B. Smith of 1911 Dupont
avenue, Pascagoula, received a
telegram from her parents in Fox
worth, Miss, saying they had
been notified that her brother,
Pvt. Walter c. Martin, had been
very seriously wounded on Luz
zon, May 26. He had been slight
ly wounded earlier and had e
turned to action.
Pvt. Hinson, son of Mr., and Mrs.
c. d. Hinson, was well known
and liked in Moss Point, where
he had worked in Hays Grocery
and had held jobs in various 9TH
er local businesses. He was a
graduate of the Moss Point High
school and the first of his class
to be killed, and was also the
first on the service roll of the
Moss Point Baptist church to give
his life for his country.
Pvt. Hinson was l9, and by CO.
incidence died on May 10, in the
18th month of his service. Earii-
er he had experienced a narrow
escape with two friends, Louis
Furby and Paul Locker, who
had trained with him at Camp
Blanding. An artillery shell had
landed near the three men, kill
ing Furby andS wounding Lock-
Ter, but only knocking Hinson's
helmet off. The young soldier
was a veteran of action in New
Guinea, Leyte and Luzon. He
has two other brothers in service,
Sgt. w. w. Hinson, at Monroe
vile. La, and Sgt. C. D.. Hinson,
Jr., who is in Germany.
On May 9, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Kirkwood, Sr., of Wade, were
notified that Corporal Kirkwood,
who had previously been reported
missing, had been killed in Ger
many on March II. Corporal
Kirkwood entered the service
about two and a half years ago
and had been overseas since Oc-
tober, 1914. He is survived also
by a sister, Mrs. Roy Porter, and
a brother, Wilbur Kirkwood.
Memorial services were held SUM-
day at the Cassel Springs Metho-
dist church, near Wade, attend
ed by a large number of relatives
and friends.
Mrs. Lahore Kleisner of Moss
Point, recently received word
that her son, Pfc. Jack Kleisner,
was wounded May 8, in Czecho-
slovakia, while serving in the
Third Army under General
George Patton. He received
chest, knee and leg wounds, and
is now in a Paris hospital. Mrs.
Kleisner received a letter Tues
day written May % from her son
stating that he was feeling all
right"
MI. and Mrs. A. M. Thompson
of Rt. l, Pascagoula, received
a letter from their son, Pvt.
Charles Harold Thompson. stat
ing that he hopes soon to be re-
leased from the hospital on Leyte
where he is recovering from
a shrapnel wound in his chest.
The young soldier did not say
what action he was wounded in
but since it was of recent occur
renee his family believe that il
was at Okinawa. Pvt. Thomp-
son was serving in an amphibious
unit.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-15
VickerY Fdvors Lay
Up Program For
For Over 5000 Ships

The possibility that a surplus
merchant marine fleet of 5000
vessels may be laid-up as a form
of peace insurance" rather than
junked after the war has brought
the Cuffs warm water ports, in
Guiding Pascagoula, into consid-
Grafton as maintenance bases for
large numbers of these war-ser-
vice freighters.
No final decision as to the dis
posal of the merchant fleet has
been made yet in Washington,
but one point of view prominent
in the discussions was expressed
last Monday in Pascagoula by
Admiral Howard L. Vickery,
vice-chairman of the Maritime
Commission, who said that the
vessels could be maintained an
nually for about fou rto five
thousand dollars each and that
this constituted one of the cheap
est forms of peace insurance
and preparedness available.
The admiral flew here on a
general inspection tour, accom-
panied by Sir Amos Lowrey Ayre,
permanent chairman of the Brit
ish shipbuilding conference, and
former director of the merchant
shipbuilding industry, and by L.
r. Sanford, regional director OF
the Maritime Commission.
Admiral Vickery said that il
would be unwise to junk the ships
in a period of unsettled interna-
tional affairs. especially since
.~ong-range rockets and rocket
planes will bring every shipyard
in America in bombing range
from either side of the ocean.
The surplus fleet which will re-
main when the present wartime
are over comprises more
than 5000 vessels, most of them
Liberty ships, representing q to-
tai investment of approximately
two billion dollars by the Ameri-
can people. These ships could be
maintained for a total of twelve
million dollars annually over a
20 year period, he said.
The Admiral said Gulf ports
were favorable as lay-up centers
because of the milder weather.
The lay-up programs would be
conducted in areas where ship
yard facilities were available for
repair work. There is a proba-
bility that dry-docks which the
navy has built all over the world
would be reassembled in the lay
up ports, SO that one dry-dock
would be placed here if 200 of the
ships were established for main
%tenance, and two drydocks if the
number was 500.
A study of the harbor and
maintenance facilities at Pasca-
goula will be made in the near
future by the commission.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
War Review
Speeding Tanks Divide
Tottering Germans
Bv Howard p. BAILEY

Slashing drives by American tanks of
the Sd Army have carried 1t Gen. Pat
tons armor almost completely across
the waist of Germany, cutting the super
highway and last two rail lines linking
Central and Western Germany with the
Bavarian Mountains in the east, where
the Nazis are expected to make their
final stand
Leipzig has been by-passed and Pilsen,
home of the famed Skoda munitions
works. has been fanked by advancing
American forces, which have now
brought Central Germany almost to the
point of capitulation. Three American
Armies, the 1st, Sd and 9th, are all less
than 100 miles from making contact
with the Red Armies. Even Propaganda
Minister Goebbels admits that there is
no hope and reports of internal revolt
are increasing.
In the Pacific area, notable success
was had in the heaviest firebomb raid
yet staged against Tokyo when an un-
specified number of B-29s dropped thou
sands of tons of the new incendiaries on
the arsenals in the Jap capital
A new and troublesome development
has come, however, with great increase
in the number of suicide aircraft attacks
on fleet units standing off Okinawa.
The Navy reported the loss of another
(See REVIEW. Page C-3.)
Evening star., 1945-04-15
BY Hugo L. Black
Associate Justice Court of the United States

things which would make people hap
stances kept him from saying No when
a less sensitive person would have done
so. His critics have classified this as
weakness. The people have not so con-
Sidered it. One Of the chief reasons why
they trusted him as they did was that
they sensed this innate kindlineSs. SLAM
der and criticism could not shake their
faith in one in whom they sensed such
sympathy and humanity.
This was the quality which made the
President a great leader of the people.
The creed of the good nelghbor, both
at home and abroad, was no mere pro-
feSsion-it was a living faith, by which
he charted his course He weighed
the distractions OF Law, politics, and
policy, in terms of their effect on people.
He spoke feelinglv of third OF the
Nation ''ill-fed. ill-housed, and i'll
clothed and the presence Of unhappy
men and women in a land of abundance
offended those gentle instincts which
distinguished his character. He was
brought about the most stupendous gov
ernmental program Of social reconstruc-
ton that our people had ever under
taken. That program was prompted by
a belief in the validity of one simple
precept, which the President loved to
repeat: Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thysef." The good-neighbor policy he
- l.
Clarity Of Vision.
The clarity Of his vision extended far
beyond the outer boundaries of our own
land. Long before Hitler sent his SOL
diers to enslave other peoples, the Presi-
dents warm heart was touched by the
human sufferings produced by Fascist
expansion. He feared, even then, that
we would be forced into the war toward
which Fascist policy inevitably moved.