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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26
Navy Day Plans
Will Include Hop
For Connolly Grew

The $500 school children of the
Pascagoula- Moss Point area will
have an opportunity today-Fri-
day-to go aboard a first class
fighting ship-small though she is
the destroyer escort USS Con-
molly. Navy Day will be observ-
ed tomorrow with inspection
tours for grown-ups, and by the
first full-fledged dance in honor
of the crew since they have re-
turned from the troubled waters
of the South Pacific.
Today children will be conduct
ed through the ship by officers
and men from | to 4;30 p. M, with
the hour from one to two being
reserved for eolored children and
the remainder for whites.
Thursday began a three-day Sc
rieS of shrimp suppers for the
crew at the Beach Park Pavilion,
with one third of the crew dining
each evening in this typical Gulf
Coast manner.
On Saturday-Navy Day-the
general public will be welcome to
inspect the rugged little ship from
the hours of $50 to 11,30 a. m.
and | to 4:30 p. m. No visitors
will be taken aboard during the
noon mess. The same visiting
hours will be observed Sunday.
The goal of the Pascagoula-
Moss Point Chamber of Com
merce who are sponsoring the
hospitality program, is ito make
the boys glad they came to Pas
cagoula instead of an expected
order to New York" This is their
first extended visit to an Ameri-
can port since the return from
the Pacific.
Many of the crew will attend
the publies presentation of the
play claudia by the Little The
alter Saturday night. A dance
will follow in their honor at the
USO, with members of the ESQ
and the 1910 Club serving as
hostesses. The ship will leave Oc-
tober % or 80 with mobile as the
next port Of call.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26
City To Require
Casualty Insurance
For All Toxi Cubs

The city ordinance requiring
taxi cab operators to carry liza
bility and property damage
will be fully enforced beginning
December /, Mayor John r.
Watts said this week following
a meeting of the taxi cab oper-
ators Monday at the Chamber
of Commerce offices.
At the meeting taxi cab oper-
ators, representing virtually
every cab operation in the city.
voted unanimously to request
the city to enforce the ordinance.
The ordinance has been on the
city books for some time but has
rat been enforcer by this or pre-
vious administrations. Mavor
Watts 81 d.
The ordinance requires the
cabs to carry the liability and
property damage insurance, as
well as stipulatine a 500 bond
for drivers. The December |
deadline was set in order to give
the operators time to secure the
insurance, Mr.. Watts said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26
Animal Trap Co.
Buys Airport For
Plant Expansion

The Jackson County Airport,
10 .ted at the Intersection of
Highways 80 and old Mobile
Highway, has been purchased by
the ANIMAL Trap Company of
Mississippi for the future ex-
pansion of the Southern branch,
d. M. Williams, manager of the
company, announced Thursday.
The company expects to take
possession OF the property about
March / and until that time will
continue to operate at the pres
ent factory site on Lake avenue.
The hangar and office build
ing on the field will be convert
ed into a factory and a second
building Of comparative size will
be added to the standing struc-
ture, Mr.. Williams said. Little
remodeling of the hangar build
ing will be needed other than
the installation of heat and lights,
he said. A new plant has been
anticipated for some time but
wartime restrictions made it inn
possible.
At present only wooden decoys
are manufactured at the factory
and approximately 1000 dozen
Ct these are shipped a month to
practically every hardware job
Der of any size in the United
States. Decoys are also shipped
from this plant to the company's
factory in Canada for redistribu-
ton for Canadian trade, Mr.. Will
liams said. With additional fac
tory space the output of this
item will be increased and the
adding of other wood products
in the near future is planned,
he said.
The Mississippi branch was
opened here in 1910. The par
ent company is located in Lititz,
Penn. About so persons r en-
ployed at the local factory. This
section is particularly well
adapted for the location of such
a plant as the lawer part of gum
timber, that part which is under
the water, is used in the manu-
facture of deeoyS.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26
War Fund Nears
End AS Workers
Make Last Drive

The countrywide War Fund and
the Pascagoula United War Fund
and Community Chest Drives en-
tered their final phase this week
as chairmen urged their teams TO
complete solicitations by the last
of the week so that final figures
could be computed by Ovt. 81,
In few quarters were definite
figures available on the progress
of the drive but section heads re-
iterated their conviction that the
individual quotas will be met by
the closing date.
At the Ingalls, shipyard where
an unofficial quota of $4,000
had been aimed at, a total of
$9,954.88 was reported collected.
Hermes Gautier. city chairman of
the drive reported approximately
$3864 raised in the town and
Thomas r. Wells, superintendent
of city schools, announced that
the school children were respon-
sible for $1,000, binging the total
of $14.8l8 with many teams still
to be heard from. Mr.. Gautier
dedeclared that he himself can
see a considerable additional
amount and he added that all
drive captains r being called
into meeting Saturday at the Of
flee of A. F. Megehee TO give
account of their campaigns, If
every assignment has not been
accomplished, he said, those indi-
viduals or businesses not contact
ed will be turned over to other
workers so that there will be
complete eoverage and everyone
will be given an opportunity to
contribute.
c. b. Wilkerson, chairman in
Moss Point, reported that few of
the chairman have turned in dol
lars and cents reports. Women
heading the four wards for the
house to house canvass, however,
Continued or Page 81
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26
Negro Woman Is
Killed BY Hit and
Run Truck Driver

Viola Foster, negro, was criti-
cally injured Friday evening
when she was struck by a hit
and run driver as she was ross
ing the Highway at Byrd's Cross
ing. She die dabou two hours
later in the Jackson County hos
pital.
The vehicle which struck the
woman was identified by eye
witnesses as a truck bat detailed
description was not available, po-
lice said. The witnesses said after
the truck hit the woman the driv-
er speeded up and continued on
his way.
Officers of Sheriff d. o. New
mans department and county and
state highway officers we're con-
Quoting a search for the truck.
A vehicle corresponding to the
limited description was stopped in
Ocean Springs shortly after the
accident but was found to be the
wrong truck officers said.
Funeral services for the 81
year-old woman were conducted
by the Falls Funeral Home at
Three Rivers with intermen. n
the cemetery there. She is
vived by two daughters. a grand
daughter, four sisters and nine
brothers.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26
OIL. Gill Killed By
Auto In Fall From
Bicycle Tuesday

Ohio Lee Gill, 54-year-old In
gals office worker. was killed
instantly Tuesday night when
he was struck by an automobile
On Market street near Dupont
avenue.
The automobile which struck
the man was driven by Chris
Brewer, 10, who testified at the
inquest held Immediately fol-
lowing the accident that Mr.. Gill
fell from the bicycle which he
was riding along Market street
directly in the path of the auto
mobile. No charges were filed
against the driver after the II
ener's jury returned a verdict
of accidental death. There were
no eyewitnesses to the accident.
Investigating officers were Po-
licemen c. 7. Wilson, H. K.
Rogers, G.. E. Mullins and c. E.
Hawks. Police said the bicycle
was unframed and had evident
ly not been touched by the car.
Both Gill and Brewer weTe
proceeding south on Market
street when the accident occur
red.
Members of the coroner's jury
summoned by Coroner H. A.
Fails were Walter S. Lowry,
II. w. Slater. George d. Rigby,
H. S. Shaddox, Charles Ferrer,
and l.. C. Beckham. The ver-
dict was that Gill "came to his
death accidentally as the result
of being struck by an automobile
and suffering a crushed skull"
The accident was unavoidable
n the opinion of the jury.
Mr.. Gill came to Pascagoula
about two months ago and was
making his home with his sis
ter, Mrs. Hugh Warren at 524
Continued on Page SKI
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26

Ninety-eight per cent of the
products leaving u. S. farms
travel by truck.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26
Mayor Urges Gas
Users To Avoid
Waste This Winter

Gas consumers Of the Pasca-
roula and Moss Point area were
urged this week by Mayor John
r. Watts to avoid wasteful and
unnecessary use OF gas during the
coming winter months in order to
assure that the city natural gas
system, which is already over
loaded, will be able to fulfill the
community's normal require
ments.
In a detailed statement show
ing the rapid growth OF consumer
requirements since the system
was installed in l94i, Mayor
Watts said the number Of Gus
toners has grown in that period
from 300 TO 1885, and that in the
last two years alone the city's re-
quirements during the peak win
ter months have almost trebled.
The city system purchases gas
from the United Gas Pipe Line
Company, and delivers IL through
Its many miles OF community
lines to homes, businesses, COM
munity settlements and to the
City Of Moss Point. During the
peak winter month of l943, the
Mayor said, the city system used
23,434,000 cubic feet, while the
figure In the corresponding month
for 1914 reached So, 453, 900 Gu
bic feet, and in l945 II reached
81. $751;, 900.
In order to deliver this heavy
load through the city system,
he said. the pressure at the i'm
take lines has had to be steadily
increased until il has now reach
ed a ceiling beyond which II is
not advisable to 60, since the
valves in the transmission lines
are designed TO carry only $50
pounds pressure and are already
In the neighborhood OF this fig
ure. Since a high level Of EN-
ployment has been maintained
at the shipyards, the postwar
period has brought no reduction
n the Sc needs.
There Is enough gas to maintain
service at a satisfactory level pro-
viding all consumers cooperate
by not wasting gas in cooking,
in unnecessary use of hot water
or in heating rooms and houses
beyond the point necessary for
health and comfort.
1.-THE city has operated the nat
ural gas system for four full
years." the Mayors statement
continued, without any import
ant interruption of srevice. This
has not been a bad record dur
ing the troublesome war time pc
Rod and while no trouble is
expected, il is impossible to tell
how cold il will be this winter.
For this reason your cooperation
is earnestly requested
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26

Theftwo month organization
al period of the Pascagoula XII
wants club will be elimaxed Tues
day with a Charter Night ban
quet for members and their wives
at which the clubs charter will
be presented by Lawrence James,
of Gulfport, governor of the
louisiana Mississippi West Ten
nessee district.
The banquet will be held at
the 18th Street auditorium and
will be an informal affair for
members and their wives. All
members who have joined any
time during the two-month or
g~anizational campaign will be
registered as charter members.
The charter will be received
by R. B. McIlwain, president of
the local club, who will make an
inaugural talk, and also welcome
a delegation of visitors from the
Gulfport club, which sponsored
the Pascagoula unit. c. II. Bran
don of the Gulfport club will
make response.
Local guests will include rep
resentatives of civic clubs of Pas
cagoula and Moss Point and rep
resentatives from the city and
county agencies.
Kiwanis began in 1914 when
the first club was organized in
Detroit. BY 1916 the organiza-
ton had grown to twenty club
and was organized as Kiwanis
International. To date the club
has grown to almost 1900 chap
tiers and 161.835 members. The
motto of the club is I'VE Build
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26
Plan Intensive Campaign
To Raise Quota Of Victory
Loan Opening On Monday
Chuirmen and Committees Numed
To Woge Jackson County Campaign
For Stute's Second Largest Quctu

With a past record of never
having missed a quota, Jackson
county braced itself for a mann
moth effort to top the second
largest quota in the state for the
last war call-the Victory Loan
Drive which officially opens
throughout the nation Monday.
Although the quota of $720,000
for the county was contested by
Chairman w. B. Herring, state
war bond officials refused to low
er the amount, expressing the be-
lief that Jackson County would
have little difficulty in raising
the assigned sum and drive
chairmen throughout the county
prepared to plunge wh6leheated-
ly into the campaign to prove that
Jackson Countians will not fall
short of what has been asked in
this last drive.
The naming of committees, des-
ignation of leaders and develop
ment of plans to send every citi-
zen's hand deeper into his bank
account than ever before occupied
drive leaders during the days pre-
ceeding the campaign which will
continue until December 8.
At Ingalls, where the largest
quota in the County-$350.0 900
has been accepted, C. L. Wallace
and w. H. Crosby were named
to represent labor andyTom Bates
and Phil Ware were appointed to
represent management. w. r.
Guest, Jr., will represent man
agement in administrative depart
ments and Ben Dukes will serve
as business manager.
Name Workers
''This $3.50, 900 is little more
than half of what we raised dur
ing the last War Loan Drive"
ingalls, representatives said, land
we feel confident that that figure
will be reached"
t. l.. DeLashmet, Moss Point
chairman, and Mrs. DeLashmet
who heads the woman's division
in Moss Point, announced their
chairmen as follows: Escatawpa,
c. R. Nelson, j. r. Golf, L. c.
Gordon; Business district, John
Hill and Jesse w. Thompson; en-
ployees in business district, Cyril
Slyfield and Gregory Wood; Moss
Point mill of the international
Paper Company, James Gautier
and Wilbur Harris; jackson Coun-
ty Mills, E. A. Khayat; Ward 1.
Mrs. Jesse Dethloff; Kreole, Mrs.
Gene Ellis and Mrs. F. E. Mar
tinez; and Escatawps Mrs. A. w
Thomson. Mrs. DeLashmet an
nounced that the Fortnightlv Club
and the Moss Point Woman's Club
will sponsor the drive in Wards
2, 3 and 4.
In Pascagoula. James Lane,
chairman. announced that in ad-
dition to the Kiwanis and Rotary
Clubs, each of whom last ac-
cepted a quota of $4,000 per mem
Der. the Young Women's Bust
ness Club and the Junior Wo-
mans Club had accepted a quota
Continued on Page Sikh
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26

DAYS with the Veterans Admin
istration there to familiarize
himself with the practical appli-
cation of the many features of the
bill. This conference will prob
ably be followed by further study
on his part in the Veterans Ad-
ministration in Washington. He
will also attend the Both annual
convention of the Financial Ad-
vertisers Association at Hot
Springs. Va, on November 1929.
In making the announcement
officials pointed out that, with a
separate department of the bank
Continued on Page 81
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26
YANKs TRAINED CHINESE

AP Newsfeature
Thirteen generals were among
a group of eombat-seasoned Chi
nese, the first foreign officers ever
to receive u. S. Army staff train
ing in their homeland. who grad
uated from an infantry school in
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26
Escort Connolly Brings Grew
Back Unframed From Jap-Chasing

They went out fighting and
came back alive-the crew of the
u. S. S. Connolly, destroyer es-
cort-thus making a prophet of
their captain.
For after more than a year of
escorting conveys, running hunt
er-killer missions and searching
for survivors of sunk vessels III
the Pacific area, the ship. sleek
in her gray war paint, and warn
ingly pointed with guns, came.
into port at Pascagoula Saturday
with a rev not a man of which
has been wounded during the
months of service. And no CON
voy of which the Connolly was an
escort lost a ship.
The Connolly was sent to Pas
cagoula for the annual nationwide
celebration of Navy Day which
will fall on Saturday, October q,
and will remain in port here UNI
til Monday or Tuesday when she
leaves for Mobile with Charleston
as her ultimate destination. The
| ship will be open for inspection
to children today, Friday, from
| p. m. to 4:40 p. m. and to the
public Saturday and Sunday from
$3.50 to 1880 a. m. and from | to
4:30 p. m.
The destroyer escorts captain
is 1t. Comdr w. A. Collier and
there are ten other officers, five
of the original group having been
transferred to other duties. OF the
original crew of about 200 men,,
ITO are still aboard the ship. Pas
cagoula is the second port in the
United States the ship has touch
ed since sailing from San Fran
cisco in September, 1914. She
locked at San Pedro for three
! day en- route here.
Wear Many Ribbons
The men on the Connolly wear
the American Theater ribbon. the
Pacific Theater ribbon with stars
for the Two Jima and Okinawa
invasions and the Philippine Lib
Grafton, Five men of her COM
plement have been recommended
for the Navy and Marine Medal
for rescue work in rescuing sur
vivors of the U. S. S. Bowers,
another destroyer escort. Seven
teen survivors were taken aboard
from the Bowers while under
heavy air attack off lie Shima in
the Ryukyus.
And if one incident can be iso-
lated from a year of thrills and
narrow escapes Is the most excit-
ing, the vote of the men would
/ undoubtedly be cast for the
time when the destroyer escort
anti-aircraft fire brought down a
Japanese suicide plane while on a
lone hunter-killer mission in the
China Sea.
The ship had been sent to To-
cate and destroy a reported jap
! anese submarine last April ID
(Which fell on a Friday, tool and
as darkness closed in a Japanese
VAL was spotted setting her sui
eidal sights on the destroyer es-
cort." Connolly officers remem-
bered. And then four more SIM
liar planes appeared in the sky.
Combat Air Patrol planes fur
nishing aerial cover for the lone
vessel took care of the four but
the original plane was shot down
by the Connolly, crashing only so
feet from the bridge structure.
Picking up Japanese airmen
afloat in the China Sea was an
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26
Joiners Out
In Union
Controversy
Men Ask Incentive
Pay Opposed BY
Metol Trades Dept.

A disagreement within the
carpenters union of the AFL
Metal Trades Council, involving
the proposed installation of in
centive bonus payment in De-
partment IL at the ingalls, ship
yard. resulted this week in an
unauthorized walkout of approx
imately two hundred joiners of
Department IL. The ingalls, man
agement pointed out that sit is
IL is entirely an inter-union mat
helpless in this controversy as
ter"
The company said it was will
ing to extend the incentive
bonus system to the joiners of
Department IL; but added that
the company would only recog-
nize and negotiate with the
duly authorized representa-
lives of the Bargaining Agent,
which is the Metal Trades De-
partment affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor
The striking joiners want the
bonus system but the Metal
Trades officials oppose its ex-
tension on the grounds that il
is bad trade union practice"
Ranking officers and business
officials of the joiners union
Local 500. Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners-also Off
cially opposed the proposed in
centive pay system and have
called the members back to their
jobs. Late Wednesday, three
days after the walkout had be-
gun, several leaders Of the strik-
ing Ioiners said that approxi-
mately 200 of the $50 members
of Department IL were still out.
The non-striking members OF
the department, they said, in
cluded leadermen, warehouse
men and helpers, along with
other joiners.
The walkout was also opposed
by officials of the Metal Trades
Council, which includes the Car
penters union, and which is the
official ALL bargaining agent by
virtue of the NLRB election in
1910.
Walter Lowry, financial sec
rotary and business agent, of
Local 500 of the Boilermakers
union, and an official representa-
tive of the Metal Trades Coun-
ell. said that the council and
official AFL policy opposed
bonus and incentive pay systems
as a matter of principle.
Permission To Fire
He said that the Metal Trades
Council had instructed the strik-
ing joiners to return to their
work, and that on Wednesday
it had given the ingalls, manage
ment authority to fire all men,
bers who stayed out, adding that
the Metal Trades Council would
replace them"
The striking joiners, most of
whom are supervised by the
Hopeman Brothers Company,
and whose work is the furnish
and finishing of ships, held sew
eral meetings during the week
to discuss the matter, AT one
meeting, held in the courthouse,
Lowry entered and spoke for a
few minutes, over the protests
Continued on Page Ski
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-26

The scherzo in music takes its
name from the Italian word for
Joke"
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1945-09-07

dirba is Strides musu tevynes
labui?
Wis tik atsirado tokiu tam
suoliu kurie savo "lyderiui' net
paplojo. -. Nera padyvo jei-
gu p. Bujenauskas nepritaria
kokiai organizacijai arba jos
veikejams, bet labai zemai pa
sirode nupuoles vartojimu TO-
kiu issireiskimu apie zmones
kuriems jis toll negali prilyg-
tt. Kur jo zmoniskumas?
Prisiminus Misijos delegatq
.dalyvavima San Francisco kon-
ferencijoje, ju ten nuveiktus
darbus, ir uzprasyma pamaldQ
uz Lieutva, didesniam Lietu-
viu tautos nelaimes isaiskini-
mui Americas visuomenei, prize
ko galima prilyginti toki EMO
gu kuris anuos veikejus smer-
kia? Ponas Bujenauskas ma
tyt pritaria tai panelei kuri
persistacius. save iStikima Lie
tuvaite, begiojo pas San Fran
cisco arkivyskupa protestuoda
ma kad misias uz Lietuva ne
laikytu? Kokia jusu Saline
Ar nors vienas doras EMO
gus gall pasidziaugti jusu el-
gesiu ir jusu plepalais?
Bendrai Ansonijos Lietuviai
yra nuosirdus zmones ir geri
patriotai, daug pasidarbave A
merikos karo pergales reika-
luose bel pastangose kovoti ul
Lietuvos nepriklausomybe, bet
stai isgirdus (kaip jie save
vadinasi lyderiu) tokius nesva-
rius burnoiimus, visiskai att
ma nora ka nors bendro ture-
I'll su tais zmonenis.
n TonIluSI ianp
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1945-09-07
LIETUVISKAS RADIO
PUSVALANDIS

Jau labai greitai isgirsime
Americas Lietuviu Radio Bal
so Detroite radio programus.
Siuo laiku darbas varomas pir-
myn ir tariamasi SUI radio sto-
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skyrima Lietuviams. NUNS
Lietuviams kaip darbo EMO
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abejojame kad viskas iseis ge-
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Aukos radio programo re
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Radio steigejai yra stipriai
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rie dar neprisidejot, dnokit sa.
vo auka LietuviSku radio pro.
gramu paremimlli. Rep.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1945-09-07
RENNSYLVANIJOJE
SPlTTsBURGH
STREIKAI

Pereita savaite Pittsburgho
distrikte streikavo 10 anglia
kasyklu, kurios tulos streikuo-
ia dar ir dabar. Angliakasi
skaicius tuose streikuose sic
ke per 1000.
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kai streikuoja del nuovargio il
stokos gero maisto, jie jieskc
maziausiu progu gauti pasils;
ir neina dirbti.
Streikuoja 1900 darbininky
Oliver Iron and Steel Co.
Taipgi pereitos savaites pa.
baigoje nedirbo Creigton stik,
10 dirbtuves 5000 darbininku
Baigesi IL savaiciu streikas
Combustion Engineering Co
600 darbininku Monongahels
dirbtuveje.