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The union times., 1945-09-01
On OnTheScene
 In Washington
By Travis K. Hedrick Will Truman Assert Real
 Leadership?

A decision on whether the Demo- cratic majority in the 79th Con- gress is going to be permitted to drift aimlessly or be skiIlfully guided along a progressive course in coming months will be found in the message Pres. Harry s. Tru- man is drafting for presentation on Sept. 5.
 A strongly worded call for ac- tion on unemployment compensation, broader social security, the full em- ployment bill and other legislation liberals regard as positive "musts" within the next three months is urgently needed primarily for the good of the country but also for the continuance in power of the Demo- cratic party.
 Anything less than a firm de- mand for the minimum program now so necessary, will be an invi- tation to the COP to ''come and get it'' in 1946. And the RepubIi- cans are pot unaware of the oppor- tunity.
 COP Chairman Herbert Brown ell, IT,, who has often whistled his way past Old Guard burying grounds, is again talking about winning control of Congress" but this time he has a real chance if the Truman forces fail to assert leadership and take the helm in Congress.
 Certainly it cannot be denied that the scuttling of the liberal program, with the mass unemployment re- sulting, would mean a roll of some 7 million or more jobless by the summer of 1946. And those unem- ployed millions would spell enough votes to throw out the Democrats in the HOuse-and possibly even in the Senate-in the elections that fall.
 If, as expected, Truman comes out f1atly for a New Deal program and demands that the majority fall in line to enact it without a dilly or daily, it will mean that both the President and Democratic Chairman Robert E. Hannegan have discarded the latter's Or1glnal pOl1Cy or trying 10 get along without the accepted and positive CO operation of organized labor's po1iti- cal strength.
 Axe for Pappy O'DanieI
 Down Texas way, the people are mapping long-range program to rid that state and the nation of its pom pous demagogue-W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Danie1.
 Sen. O'Daniel recently evicted l6 families from an apartment building he bought for his small family and has also moved his fas- cist weekly paper hereto indi- cate he expects to remain in Wash ington for long time.
 Although O'Daniel's term is not up until l949, Texans are already moving to bring about his defeat in
The union times., 1945-09-01
LITTLE LUTHER

We said MT. Dwoth, surveying the evening again without those terrible black headlines. o normal"
 You should have examined, Pop," said Because what have normal then I'm zenship to the asylum"
 Of course you're too remeber, Mr. DwOrth said thcred be little unemployment and of turning heads with high ether"
 If accepted, Pop then did many people they could higher wages and jobs?"
 Mr. Dlworh shook his head sadly Every said, derand is that business has work this self without those Washington telling to do"
 Of course I'm remember Pop but didn't into beaut of depression back in 29 all by sef?"
 "Acdents happen of economies" DiIworh prosperity Everybody wait"
 Well while waiting aren't belyfu demanded
 Son. I'm surprised you," tstsked MT. been reading Wesbrook Pger all that the workers living off the fat of land have to do is around and collect unemployment
 Oh yeah said Little Luther, and how would you like Is 20 bucks a week?' having And besides of the efort"
 But, Pop, the is Remember?'
 "Well let it briefly Luther. The make sacrifices"
 "And while they're waiting sacrificing Pop business be doing?"
 Business, boy will normacy"
 Riding on the backs of the workers again, eh, Pop?"
The union times., 1945-09-01

the primary that summer. As a first step, the plan calls for the election of Rep. Luther A. Johnson (D.Tex.) as governor this fall. His opponent, from present indications, will be Lieut.. Gov. John Lee Smith. Smith is rabid conservative and regarded as reactionary by the fol- lowers of the present governor, Coke Stephenson, who is no liberal.
 Should Johnson be elected gever- nor, his next step will be to begin an intensive campaign to unseat Pappy- an endeavor in which he will receive heavy support from many important Texas Democrats who are very, very tired of ODaniel and his antics.
 Democracy, apparently means all things to all people. We have recent ly been given prime example by the outbursts of our Sec. of State James Byrnes and Britain's new Foreign Minister, Ernest Bevin on the Bull garian elections. Both the US. and Britain growled that the Bulgarian election law was not democratic not representative enough for Byrnes and Bevin. Who was not represented in the Bulgarian balloting? Only the extreme right-the rulers who led that nation into war with us and on the side of Hit1erite Germany.
 Byrnes is asking that the Bull gars achieve a state of democracy that has not yet been attained by his native state of South Carolina where such democratic ele- ments" as poor whites and Negroes are denied the ballot. As for Bevin he and the newly elected Labor party are still unwilling to apply their formula of democracy to In- dia's teeming millions.
The union times., 1945-09-01

SOuths0est Georgian published this notice on Page One:
 'I had material for good pa- per this week, but since I could sell only few advertisements I have decided that this week anyway would just go to press with what l already set. l apologize if your article is not in. Perhaps we will be able to get it in next week. | ap- preciate the cooperation some of you have given, and 1 feel sorry for those of you who are SO poor you cannot afford a small ad.''
 JOEY FEINMARK. son of the well-known Harry, was a member of the crew of the mine-sweeper which cleared Tokyo Harbor of its mines before the US. Navy entered it. Before being transferred to the Pacific. Joe saw service in the Eu- rOpean theatre.
 Japan is now telling its people that they didn't really lose the war. They just mislaid it.
 MARKING Russia's entry into the war against Japan, the AnGriI- la (Tex.) Globe ran Hotpoint line reading:
 BEAR HUG STARTS
 TO KEEP the nation informed about the changes in the labor market during reconversion, the War Manpower Commission has instituted weekly survey of em- pIoyment based on telegraphic re- ports from field offices of the US. Employment Service. The reports will show the extent to which cut backs have affected employment and the number of job openings available in each area. They will include figures on estimated total layoffs, name of plants that laid off over 500 workers, with the apI prOximate number laid off, ap- prOximate number of unified openings, with a brief indication of the major types of work in- .vOlved.
 BECAUSE a limping machine was making fiends out of reputable folks, the Burton (O.) GeGugG Times-Leader apologized thusly:
 ''The Rs in our linotype have not been dropping too well. Just why, we haven't been able to fig ure it out. In reading some of the society items in this newspapers, we were rather appalled, that a great many hostesses have been en- tertaining groups of ''fiends" :" The editorial was captioned ''You Are Our Friends"
The union times., 1945-09-01
AS WE SEE IT

Continued from Page One) percent of workers involved was prOportionately higher than for most recent years. Strikes lasted on an average of 5.6 days in 1944 as compared with five in l943 and ll.7 in 1942.
 CONCERTS are being extended by the organized labor movement of Connecticut to the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, who now have 20 locals in this state, with the number continually increasing. These locals are one of labOr's inn pOrtant contributions to good gov. ernment, which means not only de- cent treatment of public workers, in the matter of wages and work ing conditions, but also improved services by government to the gen. eral public. The support of the Conn. Federation of Labor, and local central labor unions, has been an important factor in the growth of these state and city employees unions. More power to them!
 INTERESTING headlines in- clude this one from the Panpa (Tex.) NestV: ONE R M E D GUARD TO SEEK BIRTH ON ELEVEN. And the Detroit (Mich. ) Free Press announced: U. s. CON SUL IN WINDSOR SLATED FOR POTS IN AFRICA.
 ONE of the legislative monstrosi- ties of the war has been the Smith Connally Act, enacted at time of histeria to curb labor. It has been repeatedly attacked not only by or- ganized labor, but by conservative newspapers as we'll as an instru- ment for provoking rather than re- straining strikes.
 Absurdity of the law became all the more apparent as the war end ed. One of its provisions, for in- stance, requires that before a strike may be called employees must vote on the issue by secret ballot under the National Labor Relations Boards direction. Such ballot must contain the position: ''Do you wish to permit an interruption of war production?"
 The war is over, but the N. L. R. B. must continue to spend its funds and manpOwer on such votes, and retain the same wording on the bal lot, since the law remains in effect until "six months after cessation of hostilities," unless Congress designates otherwise.
 PUBLISHER Robert R. s. Bick- ford of the Fort Cdines (Ca.)
The union times., 1945-09-01

LABOR DAYMESSAGE
By HARRY s. TRUMAN President of the United States

Six years ago the workers of the United States and of the world awoke to Labor Day in world The denocraces of Western Europe had just accepted the challenge of totara- ism We the United States had years of grace but the issue squarey joined at that hour we now know There was to be no peace until tyranny had been outawed.
 Today stand the threshold of new world We must do part in making this world what should be-a world in which the bgoes of and class and creed shall be permitted warp the souls of
 We enter upon an of great problems but live to face problems Our and did faer the of saving freedom They will faer in task of making freedom secure And high in the ranks of those women as grateful world will always remember the workers all free nations who produced the equipment with which victory was
 
 The tasks ahead are great and the opportunities equally great Your determined meet those tasks and fulfill those opportunities
 We recognize the importance and dignity of labor the right of every American citizen wage which per
 init him and his dependents maintain decent standard living
The sub., 1945-10-11

When the Japs did come, they came in a series of five determined hights-156 planes in all. For an hour and a half the ships in that little force were under constant at- tack, with only a 10-minute lull between vicious, suicide corps as- saults.
 By the end of half an hour the destroyers had been forced to sep arate and one of them was hit and put out of action. The other, fir- ing all her guns at once, knocked down a dozen enemy planes in the first 90 minutes of the battle. In another hour she had shot down a total of g Jap attackers, firing every gun on the ship, as fast as her gun crews could load and reload.
 The 5-inch guns of the main battery accounted for more than half the planes knocked out of the sky that day. As soon as one plane was sent into the sea, trailing 3 plume of smoke and flame, another was taken under fire. One plane only, of all those taken as a target by the main battery guns, escaped undamaged.
 we got five planes that were way out of machine gun range said the gunnery officer, who also saw four other Jap craft splashed by the combined fire of the 5-inch guns and the machine guns. Five more planes closing in on the ship were left smoking or flaming in the air, as the 5-inch guns were shifted i to more dangerous, undamaged, targets. Those five planes crashed, Or the machine guns got them.
 The machine gun battery fin ished Is Nip planes, trying to bore through to the transports beyond the heroic screen of little ships.
 Three Jap planes, badly hit crashed the ship. They were part of a covey of ten enemy craft which bounced on the destroyer at
The sub., 1945-10-11
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tended by many military and civ. ilian technicianS.

tended by many military and civ- ilian technicianS.
 Three principal methods of cam ouhaging were used, one being to completely conceal or cover an in- stallation, this being the most ex- tensive and costly type of opera ton. Whole towns were built over the roofs of huge factories with cloth, wire, lumber and other material constructed in a manner to continue the patterns carried on from adjacent streets. Realism was extended to decoy automobiles on the streets and even so far as the family wash on the clothes line. To maintain the illusion at night, light leaks were permitted in the synthetic village above while rigid blackout conditions were main tained in the plant below.
 In . greater number of cases sf- forts were concentrated on dis guising the installation i. e., chang ing it's identity by producing, through the use of paint and spe- cial construction, a different effect 1 without actually concealing the plant or airfeld.
 In most cases, camoufiag0 con- sisted only of toning down, by paint and other means, and install lation thus making it less conspi- ! cuous to fast flying enemy planes. The camoufiage effected in the irt- terior of this country was in the Middle West where few airfields were neatly fitted into the pattern of the surrounding countryside for the training of pilots who were to be sent to operate from the cam oufaged airfelds abroad.
 While the cost for all passive re- sistance measures, including in ad- dition to camou1age, blackout pre- cautions, ventilating systems, pro- tective construction and air raid shelters of some 37 major industrial installations along our coasts was approximately $22,000,000, an idea of the serious results of an attack might have had is gleaned from
 study of intelligence reports on German camoufage. It is known, for example, that the Nazis con- structed hundreds of decoy airdelds
 to protect their actual operating fields. In the city of Hamburg the
 Germans went so far as to change | the contour of the Elbe River through the use of extensive con- struction and decoy bridges. That
 this and other deceptive measures paid dividends to the Hitlerites cannot be denied. Our camouflage, if it were the means of saving only one major manufacturing plant, with it's invaluable lives, produc- tion, machinery and time, would , have paid for itself many times.
The sub., 1945-10-11

once. eight from the bow and two astern. When it was all over, all ten Jap planes were accounted fors but the ship had been hit by Q medium bomb and by huge Baka bomb released by low-fying Bet- ty. She had 8 suicide plane aft and another in the rigging. The three planes that met an end by crashing the ship were not counted in her bag of 9 shot down by her own fast st-firing, steady-pounding gums.
 Explosions had put the 5-inch guns out of action. The ship was badly ho1ed, both engine rooms and one f1reroom were flooded. A fire ragged aft of number two stacks ammunition was exploding; and the ship was engulfed in thick black smoke.
 Yet the brave and heroic action of men and officers who risked their lives to fight the fire and jet- tison ammunition, saved the ship to fight another day. She was lowed to a safe island anchorage, her mission accomplished!
 It was a proud day for the men aboard that destroyer. And it was proud day for the men and women at naval ordnance plants in the United States who gave the destroyer her hard-hitting guns.
The sub., 1945-10-11
NOW TT
VitaI '. s. Plants Were We'll Camouflaged Against Attack

The extensive camouhage built early in the to pro- vital installations the threatened rnges of the United States gradually being removed That can ouage insurance American production designed in of attack vital meand therefore lives IS generally recognized The fact that were not serl ous attacked and the insurance not collected should not depreciate the importance of the project.
 At the outbreak of war the War Department found It. self in position of having to protect it's manufacturing facilities against the impending threat of attack by air or sea- Interceptor planes in sufficient numbers to provide adequate defense of coasts not available We did not underground manufacturing facilities such as the British and Germans constructed.
The sub., 1945-10-11

me nrSC step takeH Oy us war Department was to define the areas within which vital installations were to be protected by extensive camoufage. These areas were not to exceed 200 miles inland from either the East or West Coast nor 100 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico.
 The second step was to assign priorities in keeping with the im- portance of the industries within those areas, while the third step was the actual camouhage opera tions executed under the direction of Chief of Engineers, U. s. Army.
 The country's leading architects, engineers and artists were invited by the Engineers to assist in fur thering this program. A special course in the technique of camou- faging of major installations es- tablished at the Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, was at
The sub., 1945-10-11
BE TOLD
''MissiOn Accomplished

Troopships at anchorage off Okinawa made juicy, vulnerable target for Jap planes There no doubt the Japs would attack.
 The task of heading them off assigned to couple U S. destoyers and handful of landing craft support ships Their mission to aid Navy planes on coOat pa to to and report aircraft and keep them from getting to the transports.
The sub., 1945-10-11
Record Price For
 Wainwright Story

General Jonathan N. Wainwright, "hero of Bataan," is writing his experiences in Japanese prison camp and they will be printed in 8 series of articles by many of the nations newspapers.
 King Features Syndicate is said to have paid Wainwright $155,OO0 for his literary effort, the largest price ever paid for newspaper serial.
The sub., 1945-10-11

The first sugar cane grown in what is now the United States was produced in Louisiana in 1771.
The sub., 1945-10-11

Postal money order service was established by an act of Congress in 1864.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-04-27

About 1900 workers were
killed in work accidents in 1914,
and 23,500 killed in off-the-job
accidents.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-04-27
Moss Point Bond
Presents Annuul
Spring Concert

Members of the Moss Point
High school band presented their
annual concert Friday evening at
the school auditorium under the
direction of james Bishop, band
master.
The program included several
"boogie woogie" numbers, seiec-
tions by Sigmund Romberg, Ray
mond SCOTS TOY Trumpet" and
patriotic and classical selections.
The high school boys quartet,
composed of Felix Cirlot, Donald
Coleman, Don Blanchard and
Raymond Upton. also contributed
to the program, singing Viking
Song" and "Hoodah Day.
The program was concluded
with the playing OF the "Star
Spangled Banner"
Joan Of Arc, the French pa
1 fstaf .~ LL. Z-H " a.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-04-27
Memorial Service
For Henry Ford
Held On Monday

Memorial services for Henry
Ford, Jr.. who was killed in ac-
ton in Germany, were conduct
ed Monday night at the Church
Of God in East Moss Point.
The auditorium of the church
was decorated with flags and
flowers and at the altar was
placed a large picture of the ser
viceman surrounded by white
lilies. red roses and blue holly
hooks. The Rev. Mary Mccoy led
the large number of relatives and
friends in the opening PRAYER
which was followed by a solo by
Mrs. Johnnie Provost.
E. A. Khayat was speaker for
The occasion and, using the 23rd
Psalm as a basis for his remarks,
ne recalled the life of the young
nan through school years and up
% the time of his induction. He
poke of the supreme sacrifices
being made today, predicting that
a better world will come from
hem. and he declared that Hens
" Ford had died to preserve an
deal which he had lived his 81
ears Freedom is bought and
maintained at a dear price, he
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-04-27

Pfc. Joseph r. Clark Of Es-
catawpa who is with a medical
detachment in Germany has re-
Gently been awarded the Bronze
Star medal for ''heroic achieve
ment in action against the
enemy"
While his comrades were be-
ing subjected to heavy motor and
artillery fire, Pfc, Clark repeat
edly exposed himself to fire in
order to administer emergency
medical treatment to the casual
ties in the forward combat areas,
working promptly and efficient
ly to relieve the suffering of the
wounded.
According to the citation ac-
companying the medal pfc.
Clark's aggressive initiative, de-
votion to duty, and courageous
ness in action are a great asset
TO himself and aided in the saw
ing of countless lives"
Besides the Bronze Star Pfc.
Clark is entitled TO wear the Eu-
experimentation : Middle East
campaign ribbon with three bat
tie stars.
His wife, Mrs. Sallie v. Clark,
resides in E~scatawpa.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-04-27
Merry Lindsey Circle
Has Meeting AT Home
OF Mrs. Obenhousen

A meeting Of the Mary Lindsey
Circle of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service of the First
Methodist church of Pascagoula,
was held at the home of Mrs.
j. G. Obenhousen, 707 10th street,
Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
The session was opened with
sentence prayers after which a
devotional was led by Mrs. E. w.
Rush.
A stuy on "sThe Indian in Amer
lean Life" was then ably given
by Mrs. N. d. Farmer and Mrs.
c. r. Wilson.
The next meeting will be held
with Mrs. Farmer, GOA nth street,
Tuesday evening, May /, at 7:30
o'clock.
A salad course was served by
the hostess at the close of the
session.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-04-27

Joan Of Arc, the French pa
triot, was born on Jan. 8, in the
countryside of Romremy.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-04-27
MOSS POINT
Baptist

Baptist
The Juanita Byrd Critic met in
the home of Mrs. Joe Canfield
with Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Tim
Blades as hostesses on Tuesday
evening. Mrs. j. 7. Thompson
led the program, Mrs. &C. Sci
denspinner the devotional and
Mr.. ]. N. Rape presided over the
business meeting. During the So
cial hour refreshments were
served to the ten members pres
ent.
Mrs. ]. F. Brock entertained
the members Of Circle Three in
her home on Monday afternoon
Mrs. r. c. Eley presided and
Miss Adah Head led the pro-
gram. During the social hour the
hostess served refreshments t
the large number present.
Methodist
The monthly business meeting
of the WSCS was held in this
church on Monday afternoon
Mrs. John Cirlot presided anc
Mrs. j. M. Rivers led the pro
gram, titled THE Church in Eu.
rope" The meeting was CLOSED
with a prayer.