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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15
Meeting Of Soruh
Bennett Circle In
SubstorY of Church

A meeting of the Sarah Ben
nett circle of the Woman's So
ciety of Christian Service of the
First Methodist church of Pas
cagoula vas held in the sub
story of the church Monday af-
ternoon with Mrs. w. N. Branch
as hostess.
The meeting was opened by
the chairman, Mrs. J. M. Epting,
after which the devotional was
led by Mrs. j. F. Campbell, who
also voiced a prayer.
Following a short business per-
iod, Mrs. Epting turned the meet
ing over to Mrs. c. A. Carrier
who discussed the opening chap
ter of the boow, THE Father
hood of God" which the society
is studying at present.
This opening study of the book
which is to deal with the father
hood of God and the sonship and
brotherhood of man, proved so in
teresting that circle members
are being urged not to miss q
single meeting while the book
is being studied.
AT the conclusion Of the study
Mrs. Campbell offered the clos
ing prayer after which Mrs.
Branch served sandwiches and
coffee.
The meeting next week will be
held at the church.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15
Two Women Mail
Carriers Retire
With Wars End

When the talk gets around to
the home front during World
War II, Mrs. Chloe Neil Luke and
Mrs. Josephine Brown can quail
fly as experts on the infantry
division.
These two women, along with
Mrs. Luke's sister, Mrs. Lois Will
liams, were the first women mail
carriers in P~ascagoula and they
tramped more miles than they
can remember during the eight
and nine months they worked
at their job during 1945.
Both women decided to apply
for jobs as mail carriers when
shortage of men employees at
the post office became so acute.
Mrs. Browns husband was over
seas and she placed her three
and a half year old daughter,
Cecilia Elaine, in the government
nursery school so that she could
be free to work. Mrs. Luke's
husband is employed at ingalls,
and she decided to begin de-
livering mail after the United
States Employment Service had
sent her to the post office and
she saw how serious was the sit
uation.
Armed with a love of walking,
Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Luke said
they eve suffered with their
feet at all but that often the mail
was pretty heavy"
All in all, the months tax
ing letters to residents in East
lawn were uneventful except for
the time a dog sneaked up be-
hind Mrs. Luke and bit her.
"They stopped that route any
way next day." she said, $50 l
never had to go back, I'm glad
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15
Miss Doris Met Coy
Becomes The Bride
OIL. G.. Delcomyn

The rectory of the Our Lady
of Victories church was the set
ting for a quietly beautiful we'd
ding at TOO in the evening, Sat
urday, February 9, when Miss
Doris Mccoy. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. |. E. Mccoy of Pasca-
goula became the bride of j. c.
Delcomyn, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. c. Delcomyn of Gautier,
with the Reverend ]. j. Curley
conducting the single ring SER
vice.
The bride was lovely in a suit
of blue wool with which she wore
black accessories and a shoulder
corsage of pink roses.
Her maid of honor, Miss Dim
| pie Robinson, was attractive in
a dusty pink wool suit with black
accessories and red roses.
Miss Beulah Golf as bridesmaid
wore black and white printed
crepe with black accessories and
red roses.
The groom was attended by
Thellis Parkman of Pascagoula as
best mar and N. P. Ward of Fort
Worth as groomsman.
Following the wedding those
attending it repaired to the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. /. Z. Mccoy
where an informal reception was
held and refreshments were
served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delcomyn will
| reside in Pascagoula.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15
Howard Ellzey on USS Gustaeson

Howard E. Ellzey, 20, coxswain,
USNR, of Pascagoula, is serving
on the destroyer escort USS Gus
taeson, en- route from Pearl Har-
DOR via the Panama Canal to an
East Coast port for re-assignment
to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
The Greasy Gus operated as
a convoy escort in the Atlantic
before twitching to the Pacific.
After the war she operated with
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15

to say"
Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Luke
have returned to their house
keeping now, Mrs. Browns hus-
band mas returned from over.
seas and is working at the ship
yard.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15
DUPoNT-LACHAUSSEE

Mr.. and Mrs. Jules Lachaussee
announce the marriage of their
daughter, Laura Mae, to MI. John
Dupont, in Biloxi, January 30,
1916.
The bride and groom, who
drove down the coast on their
honeymoon will reside at 458 Por-
ter avenue in Paseagoula.
weather patrols in the North Pa
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-02-15

weather patrols in the North Pa
cific.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
Temperature in Lower Sos
And Rain Forecast Toniqht

The summer weather which bright
ened October's departure went out
with the month, and is being re-
placed today by cloudy and cooler
weather with some rain.
The weather forecaster said the Z
am. temperature Of 81 degrees
would not be increased much during
the day and tonight would drop to
the lower sos, with occasional rain.
He blamed it all on a mass of cool
Canadian air which Is replacing the
tropical mass that brought the
summer weather.
Yesterdays "a degrees at 2:2S pm.
was the highest for this late in the
year and also the recorded top for
October 81, the previous high being
80 degrees on October 81, 1919. We'd
nesday's high of 81 degrees also set
a record for that date.
The warm weather can take no
credit for the cherry blossoms that
popped out yesterday, however. G.
w. Harding, chief of horticulture
for the National Capital Parks, said
the fall variety of Japanese cherry
tree always blooms at this time of
year as well as in the spring. He
did credit the warm weather with
bringing azaleas 70 bloom.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
Crowd Braves Rain
To Greet President
AT St. Louis Station
Trumun Shukes Hands
On Train Platform
But Makes No Speech
By Joseph A. Fox
Sior SfoH Correspondent

ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL TRAIN
EN- ROUTE TO INDEPENDENCE,
Mo-, Nov. 1.-Several thousand fel-
low Missourians braved a drizzling
rain to greet President Truman to-
day when he made a 19-minute stop
at st. Louis en- route to his home
in independence to vote Tuesday.
Most of the crowd was not permitted
beyond the gates of Union Station,
but some managed to get through,
and the President. standing on the
steps of his private car, shook hands
with many of them.
Postmaster Bernard J. Dickmann
and Internal Revenue Collector
James Finnegan, Senator Briggs,
Democrat, of Missouri and Repre-
sentative Sullivan, Democrat, of
Missouri, were among the political
leaders who greeted the President.
It was Mr.. Truman's first plat
form appearance since he left
Washington yesterday afternoon.
He made no talk, however, merely
exchanging pleasantries with the
welcomers. Local Democrats pre-
sented Mrs. Truman with red roses.
The President is due to reach his
home in independence at 4:30
o'clock this afternoon.
Aboard the Presidential special is
Speaker Rayburn, who will address
political rally at Independence
tonight. President Truman is pass
ing up this affair to spend the eve
ming at the Truman farm in
Grandview with his mother, Mrs
Martha Truman, and his sister, Mary
Jane.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
Egyptian Held as Chief
Of Huge Narcotic Ring
By the Associotsd Press

CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. Police an
nounced today the arrest OF one
time poor boatman accused of con-
trolling an illegal traffic Of over
81, 100, 900 annually in Middle East
ern opiates.
1t. Col. Abdel Azziz Safwat, chief
of the Narcotic Investigation Bu-
reau, said Abu El Maati Abdou El
Feki, so, known as "the master"
had been arrested with 80 other men
and three women, and a ton of
hashish and opium worth more
than $1,640,000 was seized.
j., Safwat said it was comparative
ly easy for the gang to label boxes
of narcotics as oil, medicines, etc,
and have them transported from
Palestine to Egypt by British War
Department trucks" He added that
small boats ran opium and hashish
from Haifa and Beyrouth into Port
Said, sinking the narcotics in water
tight containers near the shore.
The public prosecutor ordered the
gang held on charges Of smuggling
and trafncking In narcotics.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
5, 900 Hotel Employees Return,
Rooms Filling as Strike Ends
Operations to Be Normal Within Few Days;
Union, Management Express Satisfaction

None of the hotels pretended op-
erations can be fully normal in all
hotels for few days. Practically all
food departments still were closed
last night, although most of them
were to be reopened today. Prac-
tically all hotel lounges and bars
were open for business within a
short time after the strike ended.
Settlement of the strike found
spokesmen for both the union and
management expressing satisfaction
with the terms which brought the
hotel paralysis to an end in its 21st
day.
1--WE are particularly gratified that
the union was able to achieve VIC
tory on practically all the condi-
tions which the hotels refused either
to grant or submit to arbitration d
said Samuel Levine, attorney for
the union.
II refer particularly to the elimi-
nation of the split shift, the liberali-
zation of vacations and the elimina-
(See HOTEL STRIKE, Page A-2.l
Evening star., 1946-11-01
One Chain Advertising
Lowest Figures Since
Controls Were Lifted

Meat prices are beginning to
level off in Washington and prob
ably will settle to about 10 cents
above the retail prices paid under
OPA, several meat wholesalers
predicted today.
This prediction came as at least
one grocery chain posted its low
est meat prices since controls were
taken off. A spokesman for the
Giant Food Stores said these prices
were being advertised 'to get Gus
toners and to try to get meat prices
down to where they should be-"
The Giant official said the stores
were asking just about what they
had paid for the meat. The prices
ranged from SO cents for steaks,
pork chops and ribs of beef to 81
cents for hamburger. Giant. he
said, had some steaks previously at
$I25 a pound which was considered
too high to put on the counter, but
had sold some steaks for IS cents
a pound.
A District Grocery Stores official
-
Evening star., 1946-11-01
| Lies |sChduffeur
Claims Immunity
In SpeedinqCdse
BY the Associated Press

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, Nov. 1
-Trygve Lie, secretary general OF
the United Nations, figured today In
a speeding case here which posed
this question:
Can chauffeur driving a United
Nations official go as fast as he
wishes and escape court action
under diplomatic immunity?
Acting City Judge Sol Rubin said
he would ask the State Department
in Washington for a ruling. He
postponed a hearing today and told
this story:
On October II Patrolman Walter
Donnelly of the parkway police
gave a ticket to Chauffeur William
Ranollo, "a, of New York, an Amer
ican citizen, for driving SO miles an
hour on a section of the Hutchinson
River parkway where the legal limit
is 40 miles.
In the back seat of the car was
the U. N. secretary.
Today the chauffeur was to appear
before Judge Rubin, but he didn't
show up. Instead the judge got a
call from Frank Betley, chief Sc
curity officer of u NJ, asking i'm
munity for the chauffeur on diplo-
matte grounds.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
BY the Assoeioisd Press

JERUSALEM, Nov. 1-Rigid
security restrictions were
clamped on all Haifa today as
l 200 Jewish refugees were trans
ferred from a dangerously listing
immigrant ship to two British
vessels for deportation to Cyprus.
Two thousand Jews, leaving a
Haifa mass meeting which pro-
tested further deportations, marched
on British street barricades toward
signs in Hebrew and English read
ing "Disperse or we Are They dis
persed after singing nationalist
songs.
: Meanwhile, the Palestine Arab
army Futuwah was summoned for
a parade and mass meeting in Nab
lus, 80 miles north of Jerusalem,
and some Arabs pictured this as a
show of strength"
General Protest Strike.
Haifa's $1,000 Jews were idle from
$50 to II am. In a general protest
strike. They held a mass meeting
on Hadar Hacarmel as the imni-
grant ship. apparently lashed to
two minesweepers, appeared in the
harbor.
The British Army, meanwhile
counted a three-day toll of five
soldiers lives. Two were killed last
night and two others were wounded
critically near the all-Jewish city
Of Tel Aviv when their truck hit
a road mine.
The Inner Zionist Council and
the Jewish National Council joined
in denouncing methods of under
ground Jewish extremists. One of
the underground groups, Irgun zvai
Leumi, broadcast declaration that
il was prepared to fight botn tire
British and any Jewish organization
which attempted to interfere with it.
Keel Paint Seen.
Of Haifa, the immigrant vessel,
identified as the San Dimitrio, but
called in Hebrew the Latrun, after
the Palestine detention camp, listed
so badly part of her keel paint could
be seen.
All the port area was under a
rigid curfew and the, security regu-
lations were so strict that even Gus
toms, health and immigration Off
cials were barred from their offices.
A general strike of all Palestine
Jews was proclaimed for Sunday to
protest the new deportations. The
announcement came as police pre-
pared security measures for, tomor-
rows scheduled Arab strike marking
the anniversary of the Balfour
Declaration, which said Britain re-
garded with favor the establishment
Evening star., 1946-11-01
Meat Prices Expected to Settle
At7OCents AboveOPACeiinqs
Daughter Of Wallace.
Surprised at Costs,
Siqns 6O-Cent Pledge

Mrs. Wesley Wallace Douglas,
daughter of former Commerce
Secretary Henry A. Wallace, who
only recently began playing a
housewives role, had an eye
opener today-meat prices at her
neighborhood store.
Mrs. Douglas visited a large gro
Gerry at Wisconsin avenue and w
street NV. to buy something for
dinner. Later, she returned to pur-
chase additional items. On the
second visit, she was interviewed by
women of the Washington Commit
tee for Consumer Protection. They
were obtaining signatures to pledges
to refrain from buying high-price
meat.
Mrs. Douglas said she did not recall
the pound price of the meat she had
bought earlier but thought 1t waS
under so cents, the figure urged as
a maximum by the committee.
But it was considerably more
than had intended to pay" she
= 1See CONSTTMEPS page Al
Evening star., 1946-11-01
Heavy Buying Extends
Advance in Cotton Futures
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Nov. Cotton fu-
lures prices for nearby positions ad-
vanced $40 a bale at the opening
today while later months we're UP
as much as SIS.
Heavy overnight accumulations Of
orders, including mill buying, was
evident. !
Shortly after midday the average
advance was s6.
Volume of trading was very heavy
during the first hour and as hedge
selling was attracted to the market
prices reacted about so per cent
from the initial advances and at IL
o'clock December was quoted at
3150 cents a pound.
The Stok Exchange IS surveying
its member firms to determine the
spot cotton and futures positions Of
the Arms, their partners ana Gus
toners.
Detailed questionnaires. covering
positions of yesterday or today were
sent to member firms carrying cot
ton accounts. Return date for the
questions is next Friday.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
NEW YORK, Nov

NEW YORK, NOV. l. HOW
much will Dewey win by?
This is the question which New
Workers. ponder four days before
election-not whether Thomas
E. Dewey will be reelected Gov
ernor over his Democratic oppo-
nent, Senator James M. Mead.
Some of the estimates of Dewey
victory go into astronomical figures
as much as a plurality of 1000, 900
votes. However, even conserva-
tives figure that he will win by
from 100000 to 100000.
And if Gov. Dewey has lead OF
250000 to 100000 votes over Senator
Mead, it appears inevitable that Irv-
ing M. Ives, for 10 years majority
leader of the New York Assembly,
will defeat former Gov. Herbert
Lehman, Democrat, for the Senate
seat, which has been occupied by
Senator Mead. If Mr.. Ives wins,
he will be the first New York Re-
publican to come to the Senate in
20 years.
The Democrats sound hopeless
Evening star., 1946-11-01
Stolen CarCrash
Kills Detective
C|inging 70 Door
Second Officer, Also
Dragged More Than
Two Blocks, Injured

One detective was fatally In
jured and another severely hurt
early today when a stolen car,
from which they hung by the
doors, crashed into a tractor
trailer at New Jersey and Florida
avenues NV.
The officers were carried more
than two blocks hanging on with
no footholds, after the car had
pulled off when they approached it
to question the driver
Precinct Detective Harry E. Ham
ilton, 80, of 821 Elder street NV,
died shortly after noon at Casualty
Hospital
Sergt. Rouse's Leg Broken.
The other officer, Detective Sergt.
Clyde o. Rouse, IS, of 1888 r street
Sc, is in Casualty with broken
leg and other injuries.
The driver of the car also was in
jured and is being held under police
guard for treatment at Gallinger
Hospital. He was identified as
Charles Scott, "a, colored, of 476 o
street NV. =
Police said a passenger, Marian
Holsten, 20, colored, also is being
treated for fractured leg at Casu-
atty Hospital.
Police gave this account Of the
accident:
Cruising about am, Detectives
Rouse and Hamilton spotted a car
that had been reported stolen at
Florida avenue and @ streets NV.
They left their car and approached
the suspected automobile, one from
each side.
AS they reached the car, it sped
away west on Florida avenue. Each
officer grabbed a door and hung on
as the car careened wildly before
it crashed into the rear Of the trail
er, driven by Howard Stubblefeld,
81, of Burlington, N. C.
Cornered by Policeman.
A passing cab driver who saw the
accident hailed passing scout car,
manned by W. E. Clark Of the
Accident Investigation Unit and
Robert A. Issacs, motorcycle po-
hceman.
Mr.. Issacs said that as he ap-
preached the car, Scott ran toward
a nearby used car lot. The police
man cornered him there.
Two Casualty Hospital ambulances
were summoned to remove the
injured.
Mr.. Stubblefield told police the
car, a 1912 Buick convertible coupe,
was travelling about 10 miles and
hour, without lights. when it crashed
into his trailer. He suffered a slight
leg injury.
Mr.. Issacs said the badly smashed
car was stolen last night near Du-
pont circle. He said it is owned by
Michael jefferson of 2480 Sixteenth
street NV.
Sergt. Rouse is a member Of the
auto squad. and Mr.. Hamilton was
detective at the 18th precinct. Mr..
Issacs said he had been detailed to
the squad car last night.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
Conservative Observers See
Dewey Plurality of 100000
Sweep Over Mead Expected to Put
Ives in Senate Scot Sought by Lennon
By Gould Lincoln
Stor StoH Correspondent.

when they speak OF the gllberna-
torial election-even though they put
up a good front for public inspection
What they are really hoping Is that
they can put Mr.. Lehman across
Mr.. Lehman who was repeatedly
elected governor in those days when
the magic of the late Franklin D.
Roosevelt was in the ascendancy
Mr.. Lehman is highly regarded
both for his service as Governor and
later, for his work with UNRRA.
which he headed. But unless the
present Republican trend is halted,
Mr.. Ives is expected to ride along
into the Senate. Furthermore, the
Republicans speak with considerable
confidence of picking up four or five
House seats now held by Democrats.
The campaign here, although ef-
forts have been made by the guber-
material candidates - particularly
Mr.. Mead-to pitch it on State is
sues, really is being decided on the
national situation. The Democrats
have found it difficult to make an
effective attack on the Dewey ad-
(See LINCOLN, Page A,lO.)
Evening star., 1946-11-01

Washington hotels made rapid
progress today toward a return
to normal operations, following
settlement late yesterday of the
most serious strike of its kind in
the city's history.
Practically all the 5000 service
employees who struck October IL had
returned to duty at higher wages,
starting in most cases with shifts
that began last night.
All the Is affected hotels were &C
cepting registrations and reserva-
tions for the first time since the
strike started.
A survey indicated that more than
half the $500 transient rooms in the
affected establishments were occu-
pied last night, and hotel operators
were unanimous in predicting that
vacancies will be few over the week
end. About 1000 of the rooms were
vacant when the strike ended-more
than at any time since the depres-
sion.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
RFC Denies 32-MiIHon Loan
For Mass Housing Output
By the Assoeiefed Press

by The NSSoCtoIeo Ff1ss
The Reconstruction Finance Corp.
has turned down a $4,000, 900 loan
to set up the Lustron Corp. OF Chi
cago in mass production of houses,
a National Housing Agency spokes-
man reported today.
Housing Administrator Wilson
Wyatt, it was learned, arranged
to meet with RFC officials this
afternoon to demand that this
and 10 other loans to prefabricators
be granted. They total $54, ,0O0, 900.
In a memorandum received yes
terday by MIA, RFC rejected the
Lustron credit and, 1t is understood,
four other loans recommended by
Mr. Wyatt last week. The proposed
$11000,000 loan to Andrew J. Hig-
gins of New Orleans was not among
those rejected; 1t has not yet been
ruled upon.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
PIebiscife Aides Get
Tonight
On Duties al Polls
Harmony Restored by
Decision to Eliminate
Race, Sex Registration

The District suffrage plebi-
scite campaign, restored to har-
mony after race and sex ques-
tions were cut out of the regis
tration blank, focused on a mass
meeting for volunteer polling
personnel tonight in the United
States Chamber of Commerce
building, 1915 H street NV.
Hundreds of volunteers planned
to assemble for instructions from
campaign leaders on their duties at
the $50 polls throughout the city on
election day next Tuesday.
Harmony was restored to the cam
paign forces at a meeting of the
Executive Committee late yesterday
afternoon, when it voted unani-
mo,lsly to eliminate from the reg
istration blank questions on sex
and race of voters.
This issue had resulted in split
in the ranks, with II organizations
walking out of a meeting OF
the general Plebiscite Committee
Wednesday afternoon in protest.
Prepare for Heavy Vote
Meanwhile, many activities went
ahead today throughout the city in
preparation for the tremendous
vote next Tuesday.
Orders were placed with printers
for enough registration blanks
without sex and race questions)
to register 100000 or more voters.
Ballots already have been printed.
They offer Washingtonians the
privilege of saying whether or not
they want local and national suf-
frage. = The voter may answer 'yes"
or mo" on each question.
To help get out the vote, the city
soon will blossom out in posters and
cards on Capital Transit streetcars.
Sample ballots will be distributed
all over town by various organ1za-
tions.
The meeting of volunteers tonight
at 8 o'clock was called to acqualnt
the judges and clerks with the
plebiscite rules. Several committee
chairmen will speak.
Leading Citizens Expected
Clifford H. Newell, chairman Of
the Committee on Precinct Organ
ization, expects a large attendance
of leading citizens from all parts of
the city, who have volunteered to
staff the polls in the 81 precincts.
The polling places at which ballots
will be cast on the two issues of local
and national suffrage for voteless
Washingtonians will be announced
Sunday.
The plebiseite Executive Commit
mittee reversed its previous stand
which would have required the re-
cording of the sex and race of each
voter.
Proponents of the original pro-
posal explained 1t had been intended
to proYide statistical information to
be used in presenting the suffrage
argument to Congress. But in the
(See PLEBIsCITE, Page A-6)