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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Tickets For First
Little Theuter
Play Go On Sale

Tickets for the Paspoint Lit
tie Theatel's first big production
of the season, Brighten the
Corner" will be on sale Monday,
September 80, at the two Peele-
Williams Drug Stores in Pasca-
goula and the Burnham's Drug
store in Moss Point, according to
announcement made this week
High school students will be adj
mitted for 81, a reduction in reg
ular prices. .
The sparkling three-act come
dy will be presented two nights,
October 8 and 8, at the South
Elementary school on Lincoln
avenue.
The plot deals with the situa-
ton arising when. as a result
of a quarrel Jeri Carlson leaves
her husband. No sooner has she
gone than = rich and eccentric
uncle arrives and how the hus.
band gets his wife's best friend
to pose as Jeri, leads to amusing
situations guaranteed to give the
audience a hilarious pick up"
Members of the cast are James
Church, Mrs. James T. Thompson
Mrs. Tom X. Skayze, Jane.
Sweeney and Milton Peterzeli
with supporting roles played bS
Mrs. P. j. Higginbotham, Albir
Krebs, Don Olien and E. H. era.
ven.
At the regular monthly bust
ness meeting. it was decided tina.
the Little Theater will presen'
two one-aet plays with musica
selections, early IN November, TO.
the benefit of the Twelfth stree
library fund.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Community Chest
Board Meeting Is
Called Wednesdd

A call meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Community
Chest will be held Wednesday,
October 2 at Ills p. m. at the
Country Club Immediately fol-
lowing the meeting of the Ro-
tary Club, E. A. Elliott, secre-
tary, announced. All applica-
tons for Chest funds must be
submitted at this meeting with
a proposed budget from the APP
plying organization. New Of
ficers will be elected for the
new year at this time.
Five new members of the
Board were appointed at the
meeting Wednesday to serve
three year periods, They are DR..
Thomas Stout, Hugh Fletcher,
Roy Givens, T. T. Justice and
Mrs. John Cole. Board members
whose terms have not expired
are, two year term. Arthur Al
len, ST., r. B. MeIlwain. Mrs
c. A. Carrier, A. F. Megehee.
retiring president, Forrest Grant
and three year periods. NJ. l.
Funkhouser, II. F. Gautier, Ms
Herman Collie, Ed Galloway ano
Mr.. Elliott.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Automobile Owners
Told Apple cotton
Must Be Filled

Jackson County automobile
owners were urged this week to
pick UP their tag applications at
the sheriff's office prior to Ooto-
Der | as the application must be
filled in prior to obtaining Ii
censes.
The chief clerk in the office
of the sheriff and tax collector
stated that the applications pos
itivelv would not be filled in by
employees of that office and that
tags would not be issued until
the thirty-five-bland had been
filled out.
A receipt for personal taxes
will also be required, it was said.
Application blanks may be
picked up daily at the sheriff's
offices in the Jackson county
court house and licenses will be
sold throughout the month of Oc-
tober.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Two Krebs Street
Businesses Robbed.
$40 In Gosh Stolen

Two Krebs avenue businesses
we're entered Sunday, and police
expressed the belief that at least
one burglary was the work of
children.
Pugh's Florist shop was enter
ed while the proprietor had
closed the building and gone to
lunch Sunday. About $40 which
had been left on the counter was
taken. According to the police
there was no sign OF forced en-
trance and apparently a pass
key had been utilized.
Sunday night Humphreys
Grocery was entered through
a small transom-like windows
over the adjoining shed. About
~ cartons OF %sigarettes were
missing, police said, and several
items of food had been opened
and partially eaten. The doors
Of the refrigerated meat con-
tainer were left open.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
PLAN DREDGING

The Mississippi State Highway
Department at Hattiesburg has
applied for permission to dredge
approximately 10000 cubic yards
of sand from a bar on the right
bank of the Escatawpa river op-
posite Moss Point for highway
use, according to a release by the
War Department of the United
States Engineers office at Mo
bile. Plans may be obtained
from the engineers office. Room
8, Building 8, 1901 Grant street
and any protest from the stand
point of navigation must be re-
eeived at the engineers office
not letter than September 81.
today.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Biloxi Mechanic
Jailed Following
Alleged Assault

Deemes w. Dye, 80. native of
Birmingham and employed rs a
mechanic in Biloxi, is held in
the jackson County Jail in lieu
of a $500 bond following an al
tercation last Saturday after
noon during which Charles
Hemphill of Gulfport was shot
through the chest and Highway
Patrolman Eugene Rodriguez,
48, hospitalized with decorations
about the face and a possible
fracture of the cheekbone.
Dye, who weighs 2l0 pounds,
admitted taking Mr.. Rodrigues
gun from him following Dyes
and Hemphill's arrest between
Ocean Springs and North BIZ
loxi. Dye said in the county
jail hele that he served for five
years IN the army, two of them
at Keesler Field, and that he
was taught, sif a man pulls a
gun OIL you, take it away from
him"
Hemphill was shot accidently
during the scuffle over the gun
in Mr.. Rodrigues automobile, the
officer said. Dye said that the
officer fired twice at him after
Henfphill had been wounded
and walked away.
Dye stated that he had Hemp
hill had begun drinking Friday
night and had travelled to Pas
eagoula on Saturday just prior
to their arrest He admitted that
they had stopped by the road
side to take a drink but declar-
ed they were bothering no one
and that he resented their ar
rest. He said the officer drew
his gun after he (Dye) had in
quired where they were being
taken and that the scuffle en-
sued.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27

Up Taxes
$l24,8S0
Tax Commission
Indie q They
Will Accept Rolls

The Jackson County Board of
Supervisors yesterday liked the
personal tax rolls by $124,980
and a representative of the Mis-
sissippi Tax Commission indi-
Gated that the raise would be
satisfactory and the rolls APP
proved.
1t was approximately hale of
the raise requested by the COM
mission when they refused the
rolls last week and demanded
that four brackets in the per-
sonal rolls be hiked a total of
nearly a quarter-million dollars.
Raised yesterday was the ina
chinery, tools, implements, and
equipment division by $54, $50
from S950,66 to top the million
dollar mark and meet in full
the commissions demand for a
six per cent boost.
The "raw material and sup
plies for manufacturing pur-
poses" was liked by SIC, 900,
less than the 100 per cent boost
asked by the commission but
still. a substantial amount. The
original assessment, as approved
by the board and rejected by
the commission, was for $I2l,-
500.
The board refused to raise the
lumber and other manufactur-
ed forrest products" and the
manufactured products brack-
cts, but the commission seemed
in a mood to overlook it. They
had demanded a 100 per cent
boost from the $50, 400 assess
ment In the first case, and a
10 per cent boost from $48, 173
in the latter.
The hearing was held at 1000
o'clock at the court house with
the board, a representative of
the commission, and council for
the major county industries pres
emf. The ingalls, Shipbuilding
Corporation, International Pa
per Company, and Jackson Coun-
ty Mills were principally effect
ed by the boost.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Gulf Horse Show
Will Be Held AT
Old Airport

The scene of the First Annual
Gulf Coast Horse Show has been
shifted from the Recreation Ball
Park 10 the Old jackson Coun-
ty Airport on Highway 80 be-
tween Pascagoula and Moss
Point but the show will go on
rs planned on October 5 and 6,
Junior Chamber o. Commerce
officials said this week.
A. c. Moss, horse show chair
man for the Javcees, said that
the show was moved to the new
site because. of the objection oil
thes health department to the
show being staged on the bal
diamond. He said, however, that
the new location was more cen.
trail and expressed the belief
that il was superior to the bal
park as a show place.
Entries have been received
from nearly one hundred exhi.
bitors in seven states, Mr.. Moss
stated, and plans call for parades
in Pascagoula tomorrow at 1000
o'clock and next Saturday morn
ing. Mayor John r. Watts has
agreed to proclaim both Satur-
lay and Sunday as "Horse Show
Days" Mr.. Moss said.
The stables at the abandoned
Jackson County Fairgrounds will
be used to house the show horses
expected to arrive here the lat
ter part of the week and ar-
rangem ants have been made to
accommodate out-of-town exhib-
tors and visitors.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
First OF Huge
Hopper-Dredges
Launched Friday

The first Of four huge sea-
going hopper dredges being built
at the ingalls, Shipyard for the
u. S. Army Engineers will slide
down the ways at the local yaro
Friday at 2;30 p. m. and will
be formerly christened the
"Comber'' by the granddaughter
of the man for whom the float
ing plant" is named. The spon-
sir is Miss Barbara Comber of
Panama and her grandfather is
the late William George Comber.
Although Miss Comber's atten-
dants had not been announced
at a late date, present on the
launching stand will be officials
of the u. S. Engineers Depart
ment, of the Ingalls, Shipbuild-
ing Corporation and a number
of other notable guests.
Miss Comber, who is is years
old, is visiting in the States as
the guest of her uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Wait, in Wa
ban, Mass, both of whom will
accompany her to P~ascagoula.
The name Comber was chosen
for this first vessel in honor OF
the civilian engineer whose out
standing service record as 8
member of the Corps of Engin-
GERS brought distinguished recog-
milton. He became connected
with the Engineer department
Mississippi River commission ii
1888, and became successfully
observer, chief of party and as
sistant engineer. He was with
the Isthumain Canal commission
then resident engineer of the
Pacific division. Later Mr.
Comber was n charge of all ca
nal dredging. He then joined
the construction division of the
u. S. Army in charge of dredg'
ing at Boston, New York. Phil
uuGlpIisd anu 1ildt fCStOil. III itAe
he became consulting engineer
on dredging with the Chief OF
Engineers office and is credited
with bringing about greater econ
omy in dredging and many inn
provenents in the design Of
dredges. Mr.. Comber's death &C.
CURED in 1928.
The Comber and others of its
type are the largest all-welded
craft of their kind. The foul
dredges are 5000 cubic yard ca
pacitv sea-going hopper suction
dredges and will be added &c
the constant growing fleet Of
dredges now being operated by
the U. S. Engineers in the do
velopment and Improvement OF
harbors where water dredging i:
necessary, The design and con
struction of the dredges are un.
der the supervision of the Ma.
rine division of the U. S. En-.
gineer district office. Philadel.
phia. Pa.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
No Bids Offered
On Bridge Repair
Pile Driving

4 Efforts of the Mississippi High
way Department to repair the
dangerous bridges on Highway
90 between Pascagoula and eau
tier were delayed again this week
when no bidders offered to drive
The piling.
The bids were scheduled to be
opened on Tuesday, September
"a, but the district office in Hat
tiesburg reported that there were
no takers even though the propo-
sition had been advertised for
three weeks, in accordance with
law.
The advertisements ran in
Jackson newspapers.
The advertisements for bids
will be re-run Immediately, Of
ficials said, and efforts redoubled
to have the 100 pilings driven
and the two longest and most
dangerous bridges repaired. They
are the two next to the main
bridge, travelling west on the
highway from Pascagoula.
Long Delayed
Repair of the dangerous sec
ton was long delayed until the
proper length piling-60 to 70
foot-could be secured by the de-
partment. Dangerous bridge signs,
warning lights, and watchmen
have been maintained on the sec
ton for many months and have
prevented a disaster forecast by
this newspaper and civic groups
here.
Meanwhile, work continued
this week on the widening and re-
surfacing project between Moss
Point and Pascagoula where the
highway will be widened to 20
feet and recapped. Moving ma
chimes We're also at work in the
county on the shoulders of the
highway
The fill between Moss Point
and Escatawpa has been raised,
in accordance with promises of
the department, and will be re-
surfaced in the near future. Off
Gals said. The new fill, widening
Of the highway, and the repair
Of the bridges in the Pascagoula
river section were the major
points won locally after a long
and bitter fight with the high
way department.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
WESLEYAN SERVICE GUILD

A meeting of the Wesleyan
Service Guild of the Moss Point
Methodist church was held at the
church Thursday evening of last
week.
The session was devoted 10
business and il was directed by
Mrs. John Hill. the president.
Those attending were Mes
danes Hill, Wannon Suthoff,
Henry Miles, w. NJ. Rasmussen,
George A. Thompson and Miss
Elizabeth Harper.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
.. [. V. Eogles
In Season Opener
Here Saturday

TIE Our Lady of Victories
Eagles will begin their football
season here Saturday night when
they tangle with the Biloxi In
dian B team at the high school
field.
Game time is at eight o'clock.
The Eagles will start Dubus-
sion and Olsen at the terminals,
Moore and Anderson at the guard
berths. Rouse and Kelly as tsckl-
es and 0'Brien at center.
The backfield will see Walk
er At quarter, Olsen and Zelen-
ka at the half positions, and
Blount at full.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
The Red Druke"
Roided BY Deputy
In Oceun Springs

"The Red Drake" located just
west of Ocean Springs on u. S.
Highway 80, was raided Saturday
by Deputy Sheriff John r. Nc
Neal and Special Deputy John
G.. Flint on the complaint of
Ocean Springs officials, accord
ing to MI. McNeal, who he said
told HIM the place had got
ten out of hand"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Three Men Held
By Police Face
Federal Charges

a Paseagoula citizen until the
arrival of police, three men were
arrested early Saturday morning
on Cedar street on suspicion and
later were turned over to FBI
Tor investigation on federal
charges.
They were Ernest Arnold,
James Arnold and Clovis Armont
Colwell, according to Chief of
Police j. E. Shirley. The men
were taken into custody by City
Policemen N. w. Golf and S. M.
Holyfleld after officers were no
titled they were acting SUSPECT
ously.
Joe Cole, former law enforce
ment officer in several Mississip-
pi towns, who resides at 241 Ce-
Oar street, held the men at the
point Of a shot gun when they
endeavored to leave the scene in
their automobile after he OBJ
served them prowling around the
Eldorado cafe.
Ernest Arnold was found to
be wanted by FBI officers for the
theft of an automobile in another
state and Colwell was also held
on a stolen motor vehicle charge.
These men were turned over to
the u. S. Marshall in Gulfport.
James Arnold was released under
bond on federal charges. All
three will face charges in feder-
al court in February, police said.
Police said Colwell admitted
stealing the green al Oldsmobile
in which the men were arrested.
The a vas bearing a Georgia
license and inside was found a
Kentucky license. Colwell also
told officers he served in the
federal reformatory in Mansfield,
o., from 1881 TO 1887 for auto
theft, police said, and served 38
months, beginning in 1912, in the
Ohio State penitentiary for bur-
glary. Neither of the Arnold
men made any admission of any
kind, investigating officers said.
Calls Halt With Gun
MI. Cole said a neighbor, Mrs.
Will Collie, called him about $3.50
Saturday morning and told him
some men were prowling about
her house. When he went out
side to investigate, Mr.. Cole said
he noticed an automobile parked
on the end of the Pascagodla
river bridge and that after he
went back in the house he heard
three men approach the car, slam
the door and start the car. Short
ly afterward he said he saw three
men walking toward the cafe.
When they returned to the car and
drove back of the cafe, he said he
phoned the police. The men then
drove around the block and the
three again got out and walked
toward the cafe, But they saw the
headlights of an automobile and
he said he heard one say they had
better go because il might be the
law.
Il had gotten my gun by then
and was standing in the shadow
of a tree in front of my house,
he said. Whey they started to
leave | called to them to wait.
| told them they had waited too
long to get away. They started
explaining they were lost and
looking for the shipyard. l Just
told them O. X, here were the
policemen and they would be glad
to show them where the shipyard
Was-that it sure wasn't behind
that cafel"
Officers expressed the opinion
that the men had attempted to
burglarize the cafe where a win
dow Greer was found torn off
and the window glass was brok-
en-. Tools found in the car were
sent to the FBI laboratory to as
certain whether they had been
used in removing the screen,
Chief Shirley said. He said about
sic in nickels was found in the
car
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
MRS. E. A. PARKER COUNTY
P-TA CHAIRMAN

Announcement has been re-
ceived of, the appointment of
Mrs. E. A., Parker of Pascagoula
as county P-TA chairman.
The choice is a particularly
happy m as Mrs. Parker has
been intimately connected with
Parent-Teacher association aeti-
vties since her son first entered
school seven years ago and is
thoroughly conversant with every
phase of its work.
complete and operate a waste dis
posal plant for the disposition of
its waste as contained in its efflu-
ent.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27

The populated area of Egypt,
bordering the Nile river. has an
average density OF l,045 persons
per square mile. more than twice
that OF Belgium, the most thick
ly populated country in Europe.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27

The word Ounce is derived
from me name of a famous seho-
lastic professor Of biology at Ok
ford, Joannes Duns Scotus.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27

The paving stores on the porch
at Mount Vernon were imported
from England by George Wash
ington.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27

Ether first was used in a SUI
gical operation in 1912 by DR..
Crawford Williamson Long.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-03-28
Beck Pay Awarded
To If. r. Workers

New York City Under Pressure
of AFL Building Trades unions, the
city authorities agreed at meeting
in Mayor O'Dwyer's office at City
Hall to pay $1,800,000 in back wages
to 400 carpenters, electricians, plumb
ers and painters on the municipal
payroll.
This was the first official step to-
ward recognition of these workers
rights to obtain prevailing rates of
pay for work in the construction
field.
The city officials also agreed that
the AGO city employees henceforth will
receive prevailing rates of pay and
that the same principle will be ap-
piled to 5000 additional city en-
ployes doing related work.
The back pay settlement OF $780,
600, it was reported, represented
about so percent Of the total claims
covering periods Of as long as 10
years.
The awards averages more than
81, 300 per worker but in some in
dividual cases far iexceeds that
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-03-28
Support For Chinese Cooperation
Seen Aid To Prosperity For Lobor

New York City-QLNS).-Support
from American labor in helping the
industrial cooperatives of China to
build sound peacetime economy is
important in the effort to raise living
standards throughout the world, II
was emphasized in an interview at
the offices of Indusco, in New York,
with Kuang- -mien Lu who has just
arrived in the United States. Lu
was one of the original group that
planned the industrial cooperative
movement, personally organized the
first cooperative in Paochi, Shensi, in
1888, and has headed the organiza-
ton. and promotion work in North
west China since that time.
China is at the beginning of her
industrialization, the visitor pointed
out, and he added if the industrial
cooperatives can be developed salts
factorily they will help China to avoid
innumerable miseries and conflicts
that were part Of the industrializa-
tion of the western world.
81 think the working people Of this
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-03-28

national situation when it opened
with: GAS Americans we believe that
the best and only way to solve the
differences that may come between US
is by the honorable and hallowed
way of free vote. We stand before
the world today as pleaders for other
nations to settle their differences by
this method. Therefore we cannot
longer stand for the condition that
still exists in 7 of our southern states
whereby the people are denied free
vote by the archaic and inexcusable
poll tax"
The statement added:
Twice before when this issue has
come before the Senate, filibuster
has prevented the Senate from vot-
ing on it. Two-t thirds of the Senate
must concur before a filibuster can
be stopped.
Therefore we call upon the Ameri-
can people to observe the week of
March "a to 81 as Abolish the Poll
Tax Week and by all the powers of
(Turn to Page Six) ..
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-03-28
Senators Call Upon Nation To Demand
Vote On Bill AboIishing Poll Tax

Washington, d. C. - (ILNS). -
Senator's Homer Ferguson of Mich
igan, Republican, and James M. Mead
of New York, Democrat, jointly called
upon the American people to observe
Abolish the Poll Tax Week, March
24-31, in order "by all the powers of
free expression in this great
democracy" to guarantee that the
leaders of the bipartisan Senate
brought before the U. S. Senate and
passed.
Senators Ferguson and Mead are
leareds of the bipartisan Senate
Steering Committee on H. r. Z, the
antipoll tax bill, which has the sup
port of organized labor.
Filibuster Reported Planned
According to informed sources, the
poll-tax section of the Democratic
Party is making great behind-the-
scenes effort to keep the antipoll tax
bill from coming up. The Senators
call for Abolish the Poll Tax Week is
one answer to such effort.
The joint call touched on the inter-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-03-28
AFL TeIegrophers
Collect Back Pov

Washington, D. c.. = QLNS). -
The agreement between the AFL
Commercial Telegraphers Union and
the Western Union Telegraph Co.,
which has just been ratified by the
union membership, provides for $40,-
100000 wage increase for $4,000
workers throughout the nation.
Twenty-Five million dollars of the in
crease is in back pay for an average
of $500 for each worker, with some
getting more than 5000.
The big total in back wages is be-
cause the average wage increase of IL
cents an hour and a minimum hourly
wage of 55 cents goes back to No
vember, 1943.
The agreement was negotiated
without strike and covers all cities
in the United States, with the ex-
ception of New York, where the CIO
American Communications Associa-
tion agreed to arbitration after 5
weeks strike which cost the workers
heavily in lost time.