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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-07-20
Gasoline Crisis Not
Passed. Worms OPA
Director Holcomb

Stressing the fact that the need
for gasoline is still crucial, w. E.
Holcomb, OPA district director,
this week declared that power
ing the Pacific war will take g.
400, 900 more gallons of petroleum
products daily at the peak of the
conflict that are being used to-
day.
Many local boards reported a
run on their gasoline departments
recently at expiration of basic al
lotments," he said. 'This was I'M
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-07-20
Fasilawn S Meets

The Eastlawn Methodist Wo-
mans Society of Christian Ser
vice met at the church Monday
at which time the group con-
Guided a series of mission studies
which has engaged the attention
OF members for the past several
weeks. The next meeting viii
be held Monday at 1870 at the
church.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-07-20
Miss Gene Ellis
Host To Members
Of Whistler Club

Mrs. Gene Ellis entertained the
Whistler club in her home Tues
day evening.
Mrs. Forest Crabtree received
high score prize, Miss Olive FL
kin the bingo prize, and Mrs. 7.
L. DeLashmet Jr., was presented
with a guest prize.
A salad course with iced tea
was served after the games to
the following members and
guests: Mesdames Forest Crab
tree, Frank Mixson, J. c. Avent,
7. l.. DeLashmet Jr., W. w. Jen-
kins, Hartwell McCollum, and
Misses Frances Brooks, Olive
Elkin and Jane Coulson.
Peppermint is a herbaceous
naranniaI nlonf
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-07-20

A single root will produce
peppermint plants for about four
years.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-07-20

Peppermint is a herbaceous
perennial plant.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Philippines Cleanup
Raises Jap Casualties
To Total Of 423,245
By the Associated Press.

MANILA, July 9.-Counting Of
1924 Japanese dead in the Philip
pines in the last week and capture
of 1886 has raised total enemy cas-
ualties in the campaign to 423 ,245,
Gen. Macarthur disclosed today.
American casualties for the week
were placed at "a killed and 210
wounded for a campaign total Of
54,000.
While Gen. Macarthur announced
formal liberation of the Philippines
July 5, the cleanup continued.
Richard Bergholz, Associated Press
correspondent. reported from North
ern Luzon that rains and landslides
of the typhoon season were i'm
peding but not stopping American
flame e-throwing tanks in the wild
mountains east of Baguio.
Igorot tribesmen, who use spears
as we'll as modern carbines, are CO.
operating with the American reg
ulars in hunting down the fugitive
enemy remnants
Air supply is the key to opera
tions in the mountains, Mr. Berg
holz said, with an average of so
big flying boxcars delivering sup
plies daily.
On Mindanao, in some OF the
worlds worst fighting terrain, Maj.
Gen. Roscoe N Woodruff's Oath
Infantry Division continued probing
through the forests and jungles in
pursuit of the remnants of the
Japanese Tooth Division, in hiding
northwest of Davao.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
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neral T home, aa sss T r. /. ave. We % INV. Notice ice
of funeral later.
TURNER. THOMAS s. On Sunday, July
.,,s 3, 1912; at his % %rssidenee. l42e e. Sc;
3Ae HaSSd g. s omss M porSny ssSysd father S4n. Of
May Del Gaudio. Remains resting at
Chambsrs' funeral home, b17 1Ith st. Sc
Services at Fort Myer Chapel. Fort Myer. Yer.
Va: at ! pm. 1nterment in Arlinston
National Cemetery II
WALKER, EMMA CATHERINE. De-
EMMA cATHEsiaE li f ri s9 WAfkER sa th. beloved saS
wife Of Alpha Walker, loving mother OF
MIS- Nav Lsnostsr MTs poTohy Tosn
send, Mrs. Frances johnson. Wilson, Roy
and Ollie Moore. She also is survived BY
sna hd. o oshss
e the John +. Rhines n CO. ar funeral Fssns soms
ssg G 'nH July M ie IS sh.n at nns fsbs 4sh St. s
Funeral wednesday July u. at Am,
taSm s. south Hnssp capitol De and rsu . cth n.
ment Mount oiiSet Cemetery. 10
WILLIAMSON. MARY r. On Friday.
July 8; 1s4s; e her % rssidenss & SSss Brown an
years, widow Of John r. Williamson serv-
ices at the s. H. Hines Co. funeral home,
29O1 14th st NV, on Tuesday. July 10, at
10 am. Interment Glenwood Cemetery. Q
woRRICK, WINNIE LEE. Departed this
life on Fridsy; July 9. lg45; At oaliinser
ard worrick. OF Chapel Hill,. Nd; devoted
sister Of Helen, Minnie. william, Clifford
and Daniel Armstead. She also is survived
tives and a host Of friends. Relatives and
friends may call at the John T. Rhines d
Co. funeral home, 3rd and Eye sts. s.w..
after pm July Q. Funeral Tuesday, July
10, at 80 pm, from the Grace NJ T.
Church, Chapel Hill Md. Interment in
church cemetery
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Trade Treaty Signed
BY Russians and Poles
BY the Associated Press.

f3g tne hSSOClAtcC FIcss-
LONDON, July 9-The Moscow
radio said today that Russia and
Poland have signed trade treaty
giving each other a most favored
nation" status.
The agreement was described as
providing for an exchange of goods
totaling $120, 900 900 during the sec
ond half Of this year, compared with
trade turnover of only S28, 600, ,00C
for a whole year under the Polish
Soviet trade treaty Of 1899.
The broadcast said Poland will
deliver. to Russia 10000 tons of
coal and coke, Ct 900 tons Of steel
and iron. 5000 tons Of zinc, 10000
tons of cement, $4,000 tons of cal
cinated salt and cotton and wool
fabrics prepared from raw materials
delivered to Poland by the Soviet
Union.
Delivery of Soviet materials to
Poland will help to provide work
for - a number of Polish indus
tries" the broadcast said.
Conclusion of the trade treaty
and agreement on a mutual ex-
change Of goods creates favorable
conditions for further development
of the economic ties between the
two countries, which completely cor
responds to the friendly relations
which have been created" the re-
port added.
Evening star., 1945-07-09

ment begun by Senator Taft, Re-
publican, of Ohio, to spell out the
authority Mr.. Stettinius will have
to vote for the use of American
military forces to enforce future
peace-said the chances for adop-
ton look slim.
Eight Critics Seek to Appear.
This Senator, who preferred to
remain anonymous, said Charter
hackers seemed likely to have the
majority vote needed to prevent any
amendment.
Today's hearings gave Charter
proponents their opportunity to ex-
plain the document, a process they
are expected to conclude Wednes-
day. Eight critics who have asked
permission to appear then will have
the opportunity to talk, with indi-
cations the committee will want to
close the hearings by the end of
the week.
Senate consideration might begin
next Monday, If the chamber is
not then occupied with the Breton
Woods monetary agreement, Chair
man Connally of the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee said.
Evening star., 1945-07-09

No, that policeman you've been
seeing in a rowboat at the Water
Gate for the last 10 summers isn't
there because he loves music. It's
because he loves the water.
Pvt. Thomas D. Bailey learned to
love boats when he was boy on an
island in st. GATHERINGS Sound. st
Mary's County, Md. When he Joined
the police force. Is years ago this
month, he rode bicycle, but as soon
as he got the chance he changed to
boat in the harbor patrol. Now
his job is patrolling the Potomac
from Arlington Memorial Bridge up
to Chain Bridge, with duty at the
Water Gate on concert nights.
MY big job at the concerts is to
keep the motors quiet" he said. Ar
irving well ahead of time in his
small, radio-equipped launch, he di-
rects canoeists to their moorings and
larger craft to safe anchorages
Before the concert starts he and q
fellow officer then transfer to two
rowboats and, one on each side OF
the barge on which the orchestra
plays, they move about silently
during the program. making certain
no motorboats come or depart with
a disturbing roar before the music
ends.
Few Canoe Capsizings.
Canoe capsizings haven't given
him much trouble recently. Pvt
Bailey said. Except the time last
July when I pulled that Naval lieu
tenant out of feet of water" he
recalled. It was just after the
orchestra played the National An
them, and the crowd gave them
both q big hand.
This summer for the first time
Pvt. Bailey is alternating with Pvt
william J. Cryer on the Water Gate
assignment, one taking the night
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Rites for Dr.. Brooks
ARRANGED tomorrow

Prominent District clergymen anc
laymen Of all faiths and races will
be present tomorrow at funera
services for the Rev. DIR. Walter
Henderson Brooks, pastor of Nine.
teenth Street Baptist Church for
SO years, who died at his home
at 1886 Eighteenth street NV! or
Friday. DR.. Brooks was "a years
old.
Funeral services will be held al
the church, Nineteenth and l streets
NV, at pm. tomorrow. DR.
Brooks body will lie in state at
the church from ii am. to 10 pm
today and from 10 am. to noon to-
morrow. Burial will be in Lincoln
Memorial Cemetery.
The Washington Federation OF
Churches will be represented by DR.
Frederick E. Reissig, executive sec
retary. Dr. Reissig will deliver q
short eulogy.
The Rev. George E. Schnable
president Of the Washington Minis
terial Union and pastor of Albright
Evangelical Church. announced the
following committee will be present
at the funeral services: DIR. Clarence
C. Crawford, pastor of Calvary Bap-
tist Church: DR.. M. P. German, pas
tor Of Bethany Baptist Church; DR.
G. H. Garner, pastor of Sixth
Presbyterian Church, and DR.. S. T.
Spotteswood. pastor of John Wesley
A. M. E. Zion Church.
Officials of the Nineteenth Street
Baptist Church said DR.. Walter
l.. Wright, president of Lincoln
University at oxford, Pa, the school
from which DR.. Brooks was gradu-
ated 70 years ago, will be present
The main eulogy will be delivered
by DR.. Stuart Nelson, dean of the
school of religion Of Howard Uni
versity. The Rev. Jerry A. Moore,
Jr.. assistant pastor to DR.. Brooks,
will conduct the services.
Evening star., 1945-07-09

shift for a week while the other
handles the daytime patrol.
known by name to most of the
Capitals boat owners, Pvt. Bailey
doesn't hesitate to be firm in uphold
ing the law, and with as many as
900 boats of all kinds out on the
river ON hot summer afternoons
it's a real job. He must enforce
many regulations similar to those
affecting motorists on land.
II don't have much trouble
though" he said, "even with drunks
1 haven't had to take in more than
four or five persons on intoxicatior
charges in five years" But he still
has to watch for speed demons who
break the mile-an-hou limit
and also sees that all craft display
lights after dark. Then there Is the
fishing law For violations he issue:
tickets and takes offenders to court
just as shore police do.
Slate Clear on Drownings.
Drownings from capsized canoes
formerly were serious problem, but
last year for the first time, he said
none was reported, and SO far this
summer the slate again is clean
Other drownings occur, however
with many bodies that are picked uI
being clasSed as suicides.
Another change Pvt. Bailey at
tributes to the war. Many of tht
canoes which a few years ago al
ways had a friendly couple aboard
now are manned by several lonely
girls.
AS for the music at the Water
Gate, Pvt. Bailey said, Padding
around in the boat I don't havs
much chance to listen. But I really
don't understand it." he adds, "sS
I'll leave it to those who do"
Pvt. Cryer also said he "doesn't
know much about music" But" hs
added II elioy it."
Evening star., 1945-07-09

1 the snack were captured Win the
exception of Slovak partisan, who
dived through window and
watched the subsequent develop
mentS from woods nearby.
The party was taken to Brati-
slava and later to Austria and
MauthauSen. There the trail is
not so clear, as the SIS elite
Guard) made every effort to oblit-
crate it. There is no record of
their entry there nor of the dispo-
sition Of their cases.
Burned Secret Documents.
Zutter said he and all other de-
Fpartment executives in the camp
were ordered to burn secret docu-
ments before the arrival of the
American armies. There certainly
was not even the pretense Of trial
The interpreter now in custody
said he went to Mauthausen from
Berlin with two German agents and
started interrogation of the group
January 7. He said he remembered
Mr. Morton we'll because Of his in
sistence that he was a reporter.
Zeireiss in his deathbed statement
also mentioned briefly examination
of the group.
He said some members of the
party were beaten on order of one
of his underlings and that slivers
were pushed under the fingernails
| 80 ottarc ~, on oHart RI ~, a Ja thar,
| talk.
Zeireiss declared he had nothing
to do with this torture and he did
not mention execution of the group
asserting they were taken later to
Dachau. There was nothing to bear
out this assertion, however.
Marched to Execution Chamber.
The interpreter, who must remain
unidentified at this time, said he
returned to Berlin after the first
interrogation, but was sent back
after week to get more informa-
ton.
On the second day of his new
visit the interrogation had not been
completed, he said, and he saw the
men, including Mr.. Morton, being
marched in the direction of door
leading to the execution chamber.
One of the interrogators then
told me-" he said, that all would
be executed right then" He said
zeireiss had received telegram
ordering their execution.
Adjt. Zutter, who also is in Al
lied custody, said the telegram
ordering the execution went over
his desk and that 1t was signed
'Kaltenbrunner."
/ Group Shot to Death.
The cellblock where Mr.. Morton
and the others were held at Mauth-
ausen is called "the bunker" In the
basement are execution rooms, in
cluding a gas chamber and three
incinerating furnaces.
In these furnaces during the last
three weeks of the war more than
500 bodies were burned daily, in
mates of the camp said. Between
the execution chamber and the in
Generators is cooling room where
The bodies were stored.
The gas room, where thousands
were slain, was built to resemble a
shower room with sprays in the
ceiling.
Mr.. Morton's group, however, was
shot to death, according to Orn-
stein, who was one of those assigned
| to the execution room.
Ornstein said the group was shot
about pm, on January "a.
Faced Dummy Camera.
i In the execution room where the
4 Ishootings were carried out dummy
camera was rugged up. Prisoners
were told they were to be photo
graphed. After facing the camera
! they were told to turn and an SIS
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Morton
Continued from First Page

|
executions. was shot while trying to
escape and later died.
| One of the Germans held, an in
terpreter who was present during
the interrogation of the group in
Mauthausen, said that some were
beaten and tortured in an effort
to wiring information from them,
but Mr.. Morton underwent the in
terrogation without difflculty or
hardships"
When we questioned Morton, y
the interpreter said, "he asked about
his fate and stressed that he was
no soldier. He reported he had
nothing to do with the group off,
cially.
He asked me whether he could
not be allowed to send a telegram
to the Associated Press, pointing
out to me that the press is rather
powerful and could put some pres
sure on the development of nego-
tiations.
He cited the instance of a press
campaign concerning censorship in
Yugoslavia. Mr.. Arndt Zone of the
interrogatorS said he would pass
this suggestion on"
Telegram From Berlin.
Nevertheless, a few days later the
telegram came from Berlin saying
the execution Is "du vollziehen'
(to be carrieds out) This telegram
was signed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner
who was Himmler's right-hand man
and chief of the German security
police Che is held by the Allies. The
message was received by Adolf Zut-
ter, adjutant of the camp, and
passed on the Zeireiss.
That same day, according to the
interpreter, the men were told to
change their uniforms for prison
garb and were led down to the
execution room.
William Ornstein, a Polish Jewish
prisoner, whose duty it was to re-
move the bodies from the execution
chamber, recalled the execution of
IA. He also removed the dog tags
of two of the Americans (not Mr.
Morton and turned them over to
American Investigators later. Both
dog tags identified members of the
group.
Mr. Morton few to Slovakia Octo-
ber 7, 1914, from Italy, in one of six
Flying Fortresses sent to evacuate
a group of flyers massed at a land
ing strip in the hands of Czecho-
slovak Partisans near Banska
Bystrica.
i Germans Counterattacking.
A number of American and British
officers and men went on the same
fight. The planes were received
enthusiastically by Slovaks at the
airfield.
Mr.. Morton wrote short story
about the evacuated flyers and sent
it back with the planes, which left
about half hour after landing
Mr.. Morton then remained in
Banska Bystrica with the rescue
mission.
The Germans were counterattack-
ing heavily against Czechoslovak
forces at the time and the front
was collapsing.
The party decided to march
toward the Russian lines and for
days travelled through bitter cold.
On December IL they reached a
shack near Polomka and remained
there to recover their strength.
On December 26 the shack was
fired upon from all sides BY a large
group of German troops, Ukrainiar
soldiers Of 1t. Gen. Andrei A. Was
SOW and Slovakian Hlinka guardists
Mr.. Morton and all the others ir
Evening star., 1945-07-09

officer then stepped up and shot
each In the back of the neck.
Ornstein said that he remembered
one member of the group had to
be shot twice and that an SIS officer
came into the cooling. room to fire
the second shot.
He also remembered that one off,
Ger standing in the room before the
fake camera protested angrily, as
serting: Il am an American officer,
why should I be executed?"
After each prisoner was shot
Ornstein, watching from a small
peephole in the door, hurried into
the room. removed the body and
swabbed the floor.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Businessmen to Meet

The Columbia Heights Business
Mems Association will meet in the
Tivoli Theater lounge at 1890 pm.
tomorrow. A luncheon get-together
at 11:45 am. in the Ding How
Restaurant. 1419 Irving street NV,
will precede the meeting.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Power From Loeb Lomond

A hydroelectric generating sta
ton is to be established on famed
Loeb Lomond in Scotland within a
short time.
Evening star., 1945-07-09

FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
Evening star., 1945-07-09

BROOKS, REV. WALTER H.. Onlcers
and members of the Industrial Club of the
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church are re-
ouested to attend the funeral services OF
our beloved pastor, Rev: WAITER H
BROOKS, Tuesday, July 10, 1945. at !
MISS NJ. ALICE WILLIAMS, President;
Evening star., 1945-07-09

BRYSoN, WILLIE J. Departed this
life suddenly, on July /, 1915, at Cas-
ualty Hospital WILLIE j. BRYSON. He
leaves to mourn their loss three aunts, two
uncles and a host OF other relatives aha
friends Funeral from the chapel of SH
Joseph's funeral home, 306 L ST. NV
Tuesday, July 10, at pm, Rev. Jesse
Mccoy Hanson officiating. Interment
remetery
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
Two Men Cut In
Fight Near Tip
Top Inn Sunday

c. E. Gill, taxi driver, Near
thur street, and M, d. Breland,
GOT 18th street, were seriously
cut in a fight Sunday night near
the Tip Top Inn, Telephone ROAD,
and three men were arrested and
placed under bond by police in
connection with the alleged at
tack.
j. c. Hamilton and Herbert
King, who reside near Vancleave,
were charged with assault and
battery with knives and released
under $500 bond and c. B. Lame,
who lives near Tip Top Inn, was
charged with assault and battery
and bond was set at $3.50. Inves-
tigating officers were c. T. Will
son and Claude Groves, city po-
licemen.
Gill was cut in the back and
physicians feared that the knife
had pierced the lung, and Bre-
land suffered a slash to the ribs
on his side. Both men were placed
under medical treatment.
According to police, Gill and
Breland said they we're waiting
by the side of the highway for a
taxicab when an automobile pass
ed and turned into Rrolroad street
and in a few minutes turned and
in a few minutes turned and
came back. 1t stopped the sec
ond time, they said, and three
men who occupied the car with
women companions accused the
trio by the side of the highway
Of throwing a bottle into the car
and breaking the glass. The men
told police they denied throwing
any bottle but that the men in
the car jumped out and began
attacking them with knives.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
Mrs. c. c. Clark
Speaker All 9TH
Annual Banquet

With approximately 100 in at
tendance, the Young Mems Bus
mess Club Of Moss Point enter
tanned the merchants at the sew
enth annual banquet Monday
night at the Community House.
The chicken dinner was pfepar-
I'd and served by the women Of
the Library Association.
Mrs. c. C. Clark Of Gulfport
was the principal speaker for the
occasion and special guests ware
the Rev. Clark. husband Of Mrs.
CLARK; Pvt. Clifford Pugh who Is
home after having been wound
ed in Europe; and Sgt. Burdette
Curtis and Sgt. Edwin Wells,
both of whom are liberated pris-
oners of war,
E. A. Khayat. president, x
planned that the first banquet was
given on decision Of members Of
the organization to show some
appreciation to the merchants
for their response to the many
calls for donations and partici-
patton in various causes and
drives. Tina initial banquet was
such a success that the custom
has continued.
Forest Crabtree, Vice president,
introduced the new YMBC Off
GERS who are Frank Mixson, pres
ident; Ray Williamson, vice pres
ident; Frank Spann, secretary;
A. L. Bresemann, treasurer;
Bergeron, sergeant-at-
Talk on Women
The swimming pool project,
which had its inception at the an
nual banquet of 1914. was pre-
sented by A. W. Head and the
awarding Of the contract am
nounced.
Mrs. Clark took as her subject
Woman in the Postwar World"
and gave the men present insight
on many Of women's secrets.
The women will run the world
in the postwar era" she said,
'but no more so than they are
it now and have always
done. Women have always had
mentality than men but
that is one of their secrets be-
cause man is wary Of a woman
with any intelligence. He likes
a woman furry and It didn't take
the woman long to discover that
her best pose was to be a sym,
pathetic dumb dora"
Some of women's foibles haue
a definite industrial value, Mfs
Clark salds quoting in particular
that of the cosmetic trade which
had its beginning and prenome-
nal growth in woman's fear and
vanity.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express Our sincese
appreciation to cur friends and.
neighbors for their sympathy
and kindness shown Us curing
the death Of our beloved moth
er. Sallie B. Painia. who died
June 3, lg45.
Special thanks to DR.. W. r.
Kell and Or. J. 7. Thompson.
Thanks to Rev. A. II. Bennett
and wife. also to G. ". Lockett.
undertaken. Thanks for The beaus
tiful floral offerings.
Signed Children: F. L joyce
and wife; c Palma and wife: 2.
Palma and wife; P. Painia and
wife; B. Painia: E. Painia ana
wife; c. 3 Cologne and wize
S, :. Clark and VIE. ard
grandchildren. -