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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13
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BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The game of contract bridge
gains increased popularity every
year, and lately there has been a
tremendous advance in interest in
tournament bridge. I believe this
will continue because contract
bridge is the one game that gives
an opportunity to all, regardless
of age. to enjoy keen competition
with their fellow men and women.
Undoubtedly it provides the wild
est social contacts of any game.
Tournament bridge players know
a group of people in almost every
community in the United States.
In rubber bridge the first obi
cation is to make the contract. A
player never should jeopardize
his contract for an overtrick.
However, in tournament bridge
you must always try to make the
maximum number of tricks. Max
ing a contract of four may give
you a bottom score on the board
if everybody else makes five.
In today's hand declarer won
the opening diamond lead in
dummy then finessed the jack CT
clubs, West winning. Another
clubs, West winning. Another
dummy. The deuce of hearts was
played, East put on the seven, de-
clarer the ace. and West turned
his king of hearts face down on
the table indicating that declarer
had caught a singleton king. OF
course he Immediately turned It
over, but declarer had been warn.
ed not to try to make five-odd.
He started to play clubs and
let East cash his two high trumps.
If West had played the king nor
mally, d%eclarer would have had
to guess whether or not West also
held the queen of hearts. In that
case the proper play would be to
lead a small heart and drop the
two adverse hearts together, MAX
ing five.
Do not give your opponents any
advantage in tournament bridge.
1t might do little harm in rubber
bridge to indicate that you held
a singleton king, as West did, but
in tournament bridge it probably
would cost a top score,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13
Your CIR
Questions and Answers
On Servicemen's
Problems
By DOUGLAS LARSEN

WASHINGTON.-Here r some
questions from servicerner and
veterans regarding CT benefits:
Q-They say that all fathers will
soon be out OF the Army. I am
supporting the child Of my wife's
first marriage. Does that make
me a father?
A-As Ear as the Army is con-
cerned, you are a father.
Q--My son enlisted in the Navy
recently. He failed two Of the
courses he was taking just before
he went into the service. and this
fact kept him from getting his
hlgh-school c;1 Iona. How will that
affect his chances of taxing ad-
vantage of the educational pro-
visions Of the CT Bill of Rights
when he is discharged? Will he
have to waste a year Of these
benefits taking the last year Of
high school again?
At is possible to get training
received in the Navy accredited
as h~igh-schcol courses. This might
get him a diploma. Regardless of
what he did in school before he
went into the service, he is eligi-
bic for all the CT benefits per-
tanning to education if he serves
80 days and gets a discharge other
than dishcnorable.
Q-When a man is SERVING in
the Navy. how many children is
he able to set allotments for?
Ale may get allotments for
all the children under 10 years #
age dependent on him for support.
Q--Does a man have to apply
for the furlorgh pay the govern
ment is going to give enlisted
men, or will tie government mail
it to him without his asking for It?
A--The ttrninal-1eave pay will
be received II the form 1 bonds.
than as cash. The precise
procedure TO be required of the
veteran in making application has
not yet been announced.
Questions will be answered
only In this space-not by NALL
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13
Loans Fall Off

There have been repeated complaints
that the Treasury was moving too fast
in the redemption of certificates, on the
ground that it was releasing more
money than could be satisfactorily or
profitably employed by the run of GER
tificate holders. This was the view when
Mr.. Vinson vas Secretary of the Treas
ury. It has carried wei since Mr.. Vim
sons appointment to the Supreme Court
bench.
The most recent evidence of the
programs uneconomic workings is Of
fered by the report Of the Federal Re-
serve Bank of New York for last week.
The report shows that loans and invest
ments of New York member banks drop
ped off $3.50, 900, 900 as n aftermath
of the Treasury's redemption of certifi-
Gates on August 1. Banks and invest
ment houses consequently are out the
normal earnings on that great sum of
money, and it is questionable if the en-
tire amount can have been ~reinvested
to advantage.
Important as it is that the national
debt be reduced as fast as is safely pos
sible, it still is questionable if redemp-
tons are not coming too fast and in too
large amounts for the economic and
financial stability of the business com.
munity. There seems to be piling up 9
great backlog of idle money which coule
better be drawing interest from thu
Treasury.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13
Religion
SHAMUS' CREED
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS

oAlf1I1 10 AVOGLD
Once l went down the Tigris
River to Bagdaj on a goatskin
raft. At Aleppo l hired a grizzled
C~haldean. Shamu, of Bagdad, as
cook, interpreter. and general SER
want. AS he showed me his greasy
packet of letters of rcommenda-
ton, he said, II make good bust
ness for my master. Later, he
often repeated that phrase.
And what good business he
did make! His courage, his re-
sourcefulness, his self = forgetting
devotion; his constant care that
nobody should defraud me, all en-
deared Shamu to me; and his
memory is green and fragrant.
Often the figure of old Shamu,
in his weird combination of Orien-
tai and European clothes, recurs
to mind; and usually with a moni
ton. He lived and labored only to
make good business for his
master. I wonder if l can saw
This n thing I do. In dangers,
in storms, in difficulties and pri
vations and in personal suffering.
do l still make good business for
my Master?
For that is one secret of the
good servant; to put above all else
the cause Of the Master.
Ihou art a good Master, o
Carlst; and we would be Thy good
servants. whatever the care or
cost to ourselves. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13
BY DAVID j. WILKIE
Associated Press
AutOmOtive Editor

DETROIT, Aug. IL -(P-Man-
power shortages are being added
to parts and materials scaracities
as deterrents to high level opera
tons in the nations automobile
assembly plants.
Authoritative surveys indicate
the worker shortages, aggravated
by a high rate of labor turnover,
are being felt in the industry's
feeder plants as well as in the car
factories. One feature of the sit
uation is that in not a few in
stances labor shortages - other
than strikes are causing the
parts and materials scaracities
that force various car makers
from time to time to close down
their assembly lines and send
workers home.
Few of the automobile manu-
facturers have escaped the parts
and materials pinch and none have
been able to maintain full five
day a week production schedules
since the start of 1916 model car
output.
But even an early settlement of
all the supplier plant strikes would
not mean an immediate big bulge
in passenger car production vol
ume, according to industry ex-
perts. They point out that the sup
pliers, too, r hard pressed for
raw materials.
The industry heads generally
trace a lot of these troubles back
to the earlier coal, steel and rail
strikes.
The Hudson Motor Car co. whose
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13
Feed The Hungry

Fiorello LaGuardia's proposal to
start the liquidation of UNRRA about
October l and conclude it by December
81, this year, has brought a flood OF pro-
tests from nations unable to meet their
own needs at present or for a much
longer period of time.
Speaking at the Geneva conference
on relief and in reply to the LaGuardia
program, Prof. Zenephon Zolotas OF
Greece declared the end of UNRRA
would put certain lands "back into the
chronic inability to recover" and that
of all the countries, none was in a
more desperate plight" than Greece.
Hilary Mine, the Polish minister of in
dustry, added that widespread troubles
and unrest would follow UNRRA liqui-
dation and result in greater black mar
ket operations, rising prices and social
discomfort.
Vaslav Majer, the Czechoslovakian
minister for food, pointed out that his
country's need would amount to at least
$3.50, 600, 900 worth of food in 1947. It
was his belief that the ending of UN-
IRA would not only halt European re-
utilization but might also cancel out
The progress already made.
In addition to these protests and
others from countries not quoted, Her
bert H. Lehman, former director gen.
eral of UNRRA. cabled the conference,
II am more ant. more convinced that
the United Nations have underestimate
ed and still underestimate the enormous
task of providing even the most simple
forms of relief and rehabilitation to a
war-torn world"
Perhaps UNRRA has not been ad-
ministered to the best advantage. Ger
tainly the need for shipping when the
organization first began to function was
not met, nor has the distribution Of
foods been adequately supervised. But
the fact remains that the United Ma
tons undertook, as one Of it's earliest
projects, the feeding of millions nearing
starvation in the wake of World War
II.
That job has not been completed. Nor
can it be finished by the end of this
year. Herbert Hoover, who investigat-
ed the world food situation at behest
of President Truman, and who knows
as we'll as any man the problems in
volved in mass feeding, let it be known
upon his return to Washington, that
the need for relief could not end this
year, even if foreign crops we're prolif-
ic.
Having put its hand to the pillow, the
United Nations cannot well stop until
this job is completed. The position of
the United States State Department
assistant secretary, Will Clayton, who
supports the LaGuardia suspension pro-
posal, cannot be condoned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13

Guidepost

BY earle HODGE

BY CARLE HODGE
THE THREE BLOSSOMS OF
CHANGAN, by Keith West (Mac'
MILAN; $2.75).
Novels based on tie indulgences
OF the ancient rich seldom 80 uh-
read. Nor do those which concern
the woes that heset men who take
unto thmselves too many WON
en-.
In this story of olden China,
Keith West has woven the two
themes into a poatlc tale as exotic
and delicate as a Ming vase,
It might have been subtitle1
"or The Three Women Of Lien
Kin Wal" for il concerns mostly
the adventures, marital and extra
marital, of a vir;le but sensitive
young government Official, Lien
The author, an E%nglisnmaa VINO
has Travelled extensively IN Yum
ran and South China and has W.T.
ten two earlier novels with ChiFa
in the lyrical, thoughtful prose
supposedly adhered to by all well
bred Chinese during the early dy2-
asties.
Liens three blossoms are MS
| wife. his conrubine and his MY
tress.
No sooner has he met his FIST
love. Hibiscus, a pretty Wlaoa
whose late mates body IS uno4.'
led and scarcely cold, than Sic
has proposed, and he accepted
In charging his household !"
maintain the prestige Of his OIL,
cial position, he buys Jasmn' q
plump young servant girl. Despis
ais intentions to the contrary sns
too. succeeds in conQuerine N'
heart. Then Peony, mysteries
but more mature than her preo''
cessors, enters Lins life.
Peony is as Jealous as the otos-
two but ;toutly refuses to enc.
his household. Nevertheless Lei
is torn between his affections, anu
the womn nag and bicker.
With TYPICAL Oriental stolcisa.'
calculating and almost unemo'l0D'
al. he finally finds a solution
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13
Says
HARD TORECOCNzp
POLIO HITS fast
B. WILLIAM A. O'BRIEv ",

B. WILLIAM A. O'BRIEv w
nfantile Paralysis (wi,,a
paalysis) is difficult to y.corr.,.
for it closely resembles otbsr
seaes. The virus enters tbe bo.
by way of nose ana throat
caues a generalized i~nfecuon'
a snail number Of cases, perra
nentdamage to the spinal cord ~.
suits
The onset Of intantile parsIv,,,1.
usualS sudden, With fever. ,r,
pains, he adaches, sore throat ~!
vomiting lasting 4 few hours a,
ssvers- days. Parents nav noa..
that tn child victim dislikes "a !.
held, Eobably because Of a..
muscles and this may be The o,,,
sign which suggests that the mix
;llness finn which e seem, ;, !.
suffering Is actually infant.
paralysis.
Childrel with inisntlle paralvsi,
are l%estles, fall asleep and sws.a
sudde. ~, and become tussv when
disturbed. The n1a,h tempelaa,s
rises To a point between 80 and
100 degrees in the average .s,.
Vomiting All hcats che are or.,
ent In practically every instance
but diarrhea is not 50 cornmo,
The neck and spine are stiff. And
the child ma, cry out when his
head is moved.
Physicians o$A1 yecomren4
spina. puncturs as a mean, a
drawing Oft r sample Of spj.si
fluid for examination in the lab,.
ratory. In infantil. paralysis the IN.
lection in the spir.' cord produce,
an increase in fluid pressure s,,
an increase in the number 0: CELL
in the fluid. Mild MANTLE parsly.
sis may be present even though ito
spinal fluid is normal.
In the exceptional case O, IN.
fantile paralysis, that which goes
on to paralysis, tn, onset NAV
be either mild or sev.re. but after
the third or fourth d,y Of the IN.
ness the child, instea( Of improy.
irg, gets worse.
Some patients while apparent
convalescing find tina they ar,
unable to move an arm or a L.:
because Of muscle weakness. whit
il others paralysis develops earl,
in the illness.
Pain and sensitivfs In Tit
limbs, back, and chest are Oh
served in the infantle-paralys.
victim. When t~witchngs Occur
muscles will be affected later,
In hulbar poliomNlitis hi
spinal cord is infected near its Z.
tachment to the brain, viii result
ing paralysis Of the throat AM
chest muscles. The first sign 0
this may be the return Though tn
nose of water which the patien
has attempted to swallow, due t
failure Of the palate to dose Of
the nose.
A change TO q nasal quality +
the voice is also a commn ind
cation of bulbar poliomyeltis.
The virus Of infantile plralys.
Injuries the spinal cord. witch j
turn prevents the passage d aery
impulses to the muscles. There
a tendency for the cord TO improve
as many OF the nerve cells. thoug
huit, are not killed.
Those cells which ar. kille
cannot be replaced, ana tlis tat
accounts for the failure G. powC
to return to certain mu .claE.
!, QUESTION: ] am de7elopir
{ warts on y neck an bac'
What causes them, and VIII;
should I d. % get Ri Of then
ANSWER: Common warts al
due to a virus. Your physician ca
treat them for you.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13

QUESTION: ] am developing
warts on y neck an back.
What causes them, and what.
should I d. % get Ri OF them
ANSWER: Common warts arc
due to a virus. Your physician can
treat them for you.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13

assembly lines had beer closed
since July 80 because of the
shutting off of parts from one
strike-bound supplier, resumed
production Monday with a
schedule calling for 72O passenger
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13
TOP O. THE MORNING

Closed eyes canot see the white roses
Cold hands can't hold them, you know,
Breath that is stilled cannot gather
The cdors that sweet from them oio"
Death with a peace beyond dreaming
It's chiIG1 en- of earth doth endow;
Life is the time we car help them,
So give them the flowers now!
Leigh NJ. Hodges
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-13

Fingerpfints are now accepted so generally
there is nc longer any d sire to shun their
uses as a badge solely Of criminalism.
L. Clark Schiller, president international
Association Cor identification, warden FL
Reno. OKLA. Federal Reformatory:
Evening star., 1946-09-03
Nelson's Book Warns
Nation Of Increasing
Army Power in Peace
BY the Associated Press


| Donald M. Nelson has hoisted a
warning for the Nation to be on
guard, mot only in war but in
peace" against widening military
| influence, it was learned today.
In his book, Arsenal of Democ
racy," to bepublished this week
| the former War Production Board
chairman declared that the Army
largely took control" of the civilian
economy in 1914 after trying
throughout the war to wrest that
authority from him.
Henceforth, Mr.. Nelson wrote, the
Army will cease to be a neglected
step-chlld in peacetime and will
| become "one of the most important
and influential branches of our
government"
Warns of Military Control.
THE lesson taught by these re-
cent years of war is clear" he con-
tinued, our whole economic and
social system will be in peril if it
is controlled by the military men.
Mr.. Nelson took note Of the widely
advertised production crisis OF
1914, declaring that it was spurious
but served to divert attention from
the Army's own miscalculations. "
THE record shows" he wrote,
that in not a single instance
after the critical early period Of
1942-did an American fighting man
at the front have to go without
munitions because of any failure
in production.
The Army'S deliberate attempt to
create a contrary impression was
/ one of the most dangerous bits of
double talk I ever heard Of"
Mr.. Nelson contended that the
heads of the Army and Navy joined
with James F. Byrnes, then wal
mobilization director, to remove him
as WPB chairman in 1943 and re-
place him with Bernard M. Baruch.
The attempt was thWarted, Mr.,
Nelson said, when he got wind OF
the plan and promptly dismissed
Ferdinand Eberstadt, WPB vice
chairman who favored the Army'S
view and who was to have become
MT. BdTuCN S deputy.
/ Collaborating in the custer effort,
Mr.. Nelson wrote, we're Secretary of
War Stimson, the late Secretary of
the Navy Knox, and the then Under
secretaries Patterson and Forrestal.
They had drawn letter naming Mr..
Baruch as Mr.. Nelson's successor
and planned to ask Mr. Roosevelt to
sign it that very day." Mr. Nelson
said.
No Immediate Comment.
/ There was no immediate COM
ment from any of those Nelson
| named.
Mr.. Nelson described his three
year conflict with the Army as hav-
ing started in 1912 over the question
of whether a single coal-mining
machinery firm, the Joy Manufac-
turing Co., should be converted to
munitions making as the Army
wished or kept in behind-the-lines
production as Mr.. Nelson believed
necessary.
TT was a mystery to me then
and still is-how we could hope to
turn out a maximum volume of
munitions unless we obtained
enough coal to power the NUM-
tions-making plants" Mr.. Nelson
wrote.
He said that one of the bitterest
arguments was over the use of
Inewsprint, with Undersecretary Pat
terson, now Secretary Of War, argu-
ing that papers should be forbid
den comics and Sunday supple
ments. Mr.. Nelson contended that
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-05-10
Meat Prices Listed
By OPA In Fight
On Black Market

In the fight to control bllck
market in meats, revised lists Of
meat prices have been posted in all
Mississippi butcher shops, OPA
District Director w. E. Hoiconb
announced this week. The lists
and printed in green ink to make
them easily identified.
Major Holeomb urged that If
the shopper does not see the list
he Or she should ask the butcher.
to display it, adding that If the.
consumer will help comply with
ceiling prices at the retail level,
he will help keep prices stable.
along the entire line of distriba-
ton"
Nav Is has been set as the
deadline for sla~ughtering per
mits. Major HoIcomb said, re-
minding slaughterers who have.
lost their permits that after that
date; sli classes of slsughtasers
subject to quota restrictions must
keep complete records of their.
Strengthening operations, he said.
Retail prices of washing ma
chimes, ironing machines ana lawn
mowers have been raised slight
ly as a result of increases allowed
manufacturers to cover higher
wage rates and material costs.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-05-10

Judy ind Ray Williams and
Judy Siblev. Also attending were
Mrs. Harris Sibley, Mrs. Reu-
ben Thomas, Mrs. Mildred Tnom-
as, Mrs. Mable Christie AMI Miss
AIildEcd Thomas.
The Rev. D. VI. Campbell, ac-
conpsnicd by the Young people
Of t4e Baptist church, attended
services at Pritchard, Ala. Tues
day night.
Jimmy Dale Windham, small
daughter Of the Rev. and Mrs.
W. c. Windhsm Of Clark Col
,cge, visited friends in Escataw-
"a Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs joe Robinson and
baby and the Rev. James Will
hanson were business visitors
70 Mobile Tuesday.
Mrg. w A. Watkins of Ala
bsma l. visiting in the home Of
her soD-in-lsw and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Stewart Hubbard.
Among those who attended the
Methodist quarterly conference
at Big Point Sunday night were
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Nelson, Nj.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-05-10
Escafawpd

Mrs. Mable Christie and son
arrived by plane in New Orleans
last Wednesday from Tulsa, Okla.
where they have been visiting
relatives for the past three
months. They were met by Mrs.
Christis's father, c. K. Thomas,
and sister-iD-law, Mrs. Roy Viii
liams, who accompanied them
home. While away. Mrs. Chris
tie visited Independence and
Kansas City, Mo, where she at
tended the world conference of
the Reorgsnized Latter Day
Saints church and visited the
summer White House.
Mrs. Roy Williams entertain
ed Friday in honor Of her daugh-
ter, Carol, who celebrated her
ninth birthday. Guests were May
zell Taylor, Winston Griffin. Ed
die Sherman, Louise Brown,
Gayle and Cedric Thomas, Rod
ger Thomas, Bobbie Christie,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-05-10
BAR1A L U ELECTION

Mrs. Brenard Baria was elect
ed president Of the Baria Home
Demonstration club at a meeting
last Friday when Mrs. Edgar
Baris and Mrs. Tom Bafia were
co-hostesses. Other officers were
Mrs. VIII johnson. vice president;
Mrs. Edgar Baria, secretary
treasurer. Plans were made for
the club 20 participate 100 per
cent in the vegetable exhibit,
flower show and dress review
to be held May IA at Moss Point.
Mrs. Lamar Baria talked on
What Changes You Like in the
Postwar World?" An interesting
demonstration was made by Miss
Cain, county home demonstra-
ton agent on home lighting and
this was followed by a discus
sion. A plate lunch of sandwiches.
salad, cake and coffee was serv-
ed.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-05-10

and Mrs. Jim Golf, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dewey Parker, Ernest Graham.
]. j. Graham, Randolph Graham,
Mrs. Alma Byrd and the Rev.
and Mrs. James williamson.
Capt. and Mrs. John Hicks and
two children Of Orange, Texas,
visited Mrs. Title Bennett and
Frank Bennett and family on
Monday, Mrs. c. c. Brown ac.
companied them to spend sever
al DAVIS with her mother and
other relatives here.
The Youth Roundup was
sponsored by the young people
Of the Escatawpa Baptist church
Monday through Friday of last
week. Games, refreshments and
'fireside" chats were enjoyed by
al who attended. The Roundup
was held in an open coral on
the church grounds. On the clcs-
ing night the young people en-
joyed a chicken frv and follow
ing that a youth conservation
service. The youth meetings will
be held at least twice a month
in the future.
J. c. Bretram spent the week
end in Biloxi visiting his sister,
Mrs. Grace Dalzell.
Vivian Bennett is visiting rela-
tives in Grand Bay this week.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-05-10
THIEF LENDS HAND

Rockland, Me-, AP.-Sonleone
looted Alvin French's trailer.
Which ne had loaded with old IA
dio parts and radio and jukebox
cabinets during the night. But
French didn't mind. He was going
to take the stuff to the dump next
day anyway.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-05-10
Funeral Services
For Mrs. Thompson
Held Wednesday,

Mrs. Clara Lodelia Thompson,
10 wears old and a resident of
Pascagoula since childhood. died
suddenly at her home at 4f9 East
Convent street Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Thompson complained of
feeling i'll and died a few minutes
later. She was born in Mobile.
2 Funeral services were Conduct
ed "Wednesday at 10 a.. m. at the
residence by DR.. L. E. Green with
interment in Machpelah GENE
terry. Fails Funeral Home was in
charge.
She is survived by two daugh-
tiers. Mrs. W. ". Whatlev of Pas
cagoula, and Mrs. Peter Mehko
of New Orleans; one brother. H.
NJ. Broadus of Pasesgoula; a Sis
ter, Mrs. J. A.. Witchens of Pas
cagoula; and three grandchildren.
A seven-foot jellyfish with liz
foot tentacles develops in a six
month period from a half inch
hydroid