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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-22
Meeting Of Central
School PTA Al The
School Oh esdoY

At the menthly meeting of
Central Scfsol Parent-Teacher
Association at the school We'd
nesdav the session was ably di-
rected by the president, Mrs.
R, H. Terreson and was marked
by an unusually large attendance.
During the business period Mrs.
A. l.. Painter was selected dele
gate to the coming state asSo-
citation meeting. The other dele
gate will be the incoming presi-
dent, who will be elected at the
April meeting.
Mrs. T~erreson appointed Mrs.
H. B. Cole, chairman and Mes
danes A. l.. Painter and c. H.
Tucker as a nominating commit
tee for officers for the ensuing
year.
The hour of meeting was then
changed from 800 to 2:30 %. IN.
Because of the state conven-
tion next month the April meet
ing of the Central PTA was NOV
edfrom April II to May "a.
Plans were completed for the
cake walk which will be held
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-22
Miss Westfoul And
Mr.. Leigh Married
Sunday Morning

A wedding of much interest
to their many friends in Moss
Point, Pascagoula and Thomas
ton, Ga, is that of Miss Flossie
Westfaul and Mr.. Alfred T..
Leigh which was solemnized in
the East Moss Point Baptist
church Sunday morning at nine
thirty with the Rev. Monte A.
Davis officiating. The beautiful
and impressive double ring cere-
mony was witnessed by a large
number Of friends and relatives.
The church was beautifully dec
Grated with baskets of pretty
azaleas, bridal wreath and fern.
Previous to the entrance of the
bridal party Mr.. Earl Perkins
sang 81 Love You Truly" with
Mrs. Monte A. Davis at the
piano.
At the first strains of the we'd
ding march by Mendelssohn the
bridal party entered and met the
officiating minister at the altar.
The bride entered with her
father, Mr.. Robert Westfaul who
gave ner in marriage. She was
attractivelv dressed in a lovely
blue ensemble with black access
sories and carried an arm bouquet
of pink carnations.
Her attendant was her sister,
Miss joyce Westfaul, radiant in a
white ensemble with navy blue
accessories and wore a corsage of
pink carnations.
Mr.. Frank Clarence served AZ
best man.
The bride is the attractive
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Westfaul Of Moss Point and the
groom is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Johnson Leigh of Thomaston, Ga,
MI. and Mrs. Leigh left inn
mediatelv after the ceremony for
a honeymoon trip down the coast.
They will be at home in Thomas
ton, Ga.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-22
Executive Board OF
South School PTA
Plans Spring Work

A meeting of the executive
committee of the South School
Parent Teacher Association was
held in the school auditorium,
Tuesday afternoon, March II, at
200 p. M, with the president,
Mrs. Max Dossett in the chair.
Considerable time and thought
was given to the planning of the
activities of the association for
the remainder of the spring
Mrs. Wade Hilliard, the sec
fretary, read q letter from the
state body announcing that the
annual Mississippi Parent-Teach-
er Association convention viii De
held at jackson, April 1917.
Plans were made for sending
delegates.
Mrs. ]. A. Green was introduced
as the new hospitality chairman,
who is serving in the unexpired
term of Mrs. E. A. Park.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-22
Legion Sponsors
Midway Show To
Open Murch 80

The Al Wagner Cavalvade of
Amusements, which has wintered
in Pascagoula at the Jackson
County Fairgrounds, will open
at the old fairgrounds at the
juncture of Highway 80 and the
Mobile Highway, under the aus
pieces of the Jackson County Post
of the American Legion.
During the winter months a
crew which was never fewer
than '65 men and now numbers
200, rebuilt and reconditioned the
show which is said to be the larg-
est tented organization in Amer
lea. Recently nine diesel light
plants were installed on a heavy
wagon and r ready for use and
several new rides, built since the
war, have also arrived. AT the
time of the opening of the show,
approximately 500 show people
will comprise its personnel.
The Pascagoula engagement
will continue for eight days be-
fore the show begins its tour Of
various parts of the country which
includes playing as featured at
traction at the Memphis Cotton
Festival in May and at the state
faids at Louisville. XIV, Huehin-
son, Kans., Michigan, Indiana and
Iowa.
There are 20 stage shows and
% major rides on the mile-long
midway in the show. There will
be two special children's matinees
on each Saturday the show is
open here with all children Of
school age admitted free at the
front gates from noon TO 5 p,
III. and a price Of . cents given
them on all rides.
The 50-car show train will
leave here for Mobile TO play a
week there under the auspices
Of the Mobile Shrine Temple for
the Shriners' crippled children's
fund.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-22
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD

Funeral services for Euston
Leonard Clements, known to his
friends as Candy Roberts, who
died in a NAVY hospital follow
ing an operation necessitated by
wounds received in the South
Pacific, were conducted by the
Rev. John F. Brock with inter
ment in Zion cemetery. Young
Clements was reared by his aunt
Mrs. Myrtle Roberts Jordan of
Escatawpa following the death of
his mother when he was an in
FAINT. He enlisted in the Navy
in 1914 and served IA months
in the South Pacific. On his re-
turn to this country he spent
a 30 day furlough with his aunt
and her family before reporting
to the hospital in San Diego for
medical treatment.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-22
c INSTITUTE

The Escatawpa branch of the
Reorganized Church OF Jesus
Christ is holding a regional in
stitute TODAY, Friday, through
March "a. An informal banquet
will be held today at 8 p. m. at
the Moss Point community house
at which time the guest speaker
will be A. d. Mccall. On Sat
urday at 9 a. m. there viii be
a program at the church with
general PRAYER service at 9 a.
m. forum discussion following
and a basket lunch at noon. AT
40 p. nj. there will be a preach
ing service. On Sunday prayer
service will be held at 9 a. M
general class at 10 a. IN. and at
II there will be q sermon. A
basket lunch viii be served at
noon and at 2 p. m. a dediea-
ton service is planned.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-22


at Central School March q, a
change having been made in the
date.
Mrs. Terreson also appointed
a number of committees to ar
range Tor the MAY Festival to be
held on May 3, at the school.
AT the conclusion of business,
Mrs. Hal Lee announced the two
operettas that were the feature
Of the afternoon. They were Civ
en- by the children of the second
and third grades under the direc-
ton of Miss Kathryn Maxwell.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-22
Negro Fined $500
For No License To
Operate, Ddnce Hull

Wheeler Higgins, negro, was
fined $500 and cost of court this
week in Justice OF the Peace
court on a charge of operating a
dance hall without a lieehse. He
operates an establishment known
as "Essie's Place" in the Little
Pearl Harbor' section Of Moss
Point.
Deputy Sheriff John r. Nc
Neal made the arrest Saturday
night.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-22

American Red Cross workers
in a military hospital arranged
a wedding on the ward for a pa
tent whose injuries had result
ed in paralysis ard who was on
fined to his bed. The complete
ceremony included scenic effects,
flowers banked high around the
bed. bride-to-be and attendant
sttractively dressed, appropriate
musical selections and a short
wedding reception including re-
freshments.
Evening star., 1946-01-12

%; male enlisted, SO, and SPAR en-
listed, 20.
March Is, the male enlisted score
will drop to IS, and on April 2 to "a.
The Coast Guard said the Feb
ruary Q cut will apply to all ranks,
but the subsequent changes will not
apply to yeomen, storekeepers and
pharmacists mates.
The Coast Guard, which had a
wartime strength of 10000, had cut
its force to $4,000 as of January /.
This was six weeks ahead of the
initial rehabilitation program, it
said.
Since the hostilities ended. the
Coast Guard has been transferred
from the Navy back to the Treasury
Department.
Evening star., 1946-01-12
Transports 10 Bring
14,5O8 Troops Home
Today From Abroad
Ply the Associated Press.

lnt hshuClhtcu
Five transports carrying 1887 serv-
icemen are scheduled to arrive today
at two East Coast ports and at four
Pacific Coast ports 1911 men are
due to debark from 40 vessels.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York-John Sullivan from
Bremen, GIT troops, including part
of the 175th Infantry Regiment;
Thomas Benton from Antwerp, 538
troops, including 25lst General Hos
pital; miscellaneous troops on fol-
lowing: Joseph Lee from Barry
Wales, %; Thomas H. Sumner from
Barry. 10.
At Newport News-Moses Cleve-
land, due originally January 8, lit
troops, including Company c, 145th
Engineer Combat Battalion, Detach-
ment B.
At Los Observation-Disclosures on
following: La Sale from Leyte,
1881: Cumberland Sound from
Manila, 613; Kitkun Bay from
Okinawa, 1853; Kittson from Yoko-
hama, 1899; LIST $50 from Pearl
Harbor, number of troops unde-
termined.
At San Observation-Disclosures
personnel on following: Wichita
from Saipan, S62 Navy. 176 Army;
Elkhart from Sasebo, 1904 Navy:
Renate from Pearl Harbor, 479
Army: Pastores from Pearl Harbor,
l64 Navy; LIST 785. lis Navy; S.
Hall Young. Santa Teresa and Carl
Barth, few troops each.
At miscellaneous on fol-
lowing: John Lykes from Nagoya
1,l95 Army; Cape Douglas from
Okinawa due yesterday, 1912 Army
At San observation-disclosures per-
sonnel on these vessels: Karnes
1,755 Navy and Marine Corps; escort
carrier Bougainville, 298 Navy, Ma
rine Corps, Coast Guard; destroyer
Eberle, six Navy; minesweepers
Scrimmage, Scuffie, Sentry, Signet
Scurry, Specter, Saunch, Serene
Shelter, Strategy, Strenth, Success
and Supreme, 262 Navy; LSMs, /, 65
125, 185, 22s, 253, 27o, 1854 and AIS
total 130 Navy,
Evening star., 1946-01-12
Pickefing Injunctions,
Strike Vote Mark
Southwest Tieup
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 12.-While
the Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co. moved to halt picketing in it's
major exchanges by court injunc-
tion, the Southwestern Telephone
Workers Union independently was
asking its members today to vote
on the question of striking in SYM
pathy with Western Electric equip
ment workers.
Throughout Missouri, Kansas, Ar
kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, tele-
phone workers are being polled on
the question of sympathy strike,
union officials said. j. C. Atwood,
adviser to L. L. Corson, acting
president of st. Louis Local n of
the Association of Communications
Equipment Workers independently
said here that polling was planned
before the company acted yester-
day to obtain injunctions to halt
picketing.
Temporary injunctions halting
picketing were granted at Topeka,
Wichita, Salina and Kansas City,
Kans.; Dallas, Houston and Austin.
Tex. and one covering the whole of
Oklahoma, all served by Southwest
ern, and at Atlanta, Ga, served by
Southern Bell.
Petitions have been filed at st.
Louis, Hutchinson, Kans.; Manhat-
tan, Kans., and Kansas City, Mo,
and are expected to be acted on to-
day or Monday.
At Wichita ACEW attorneys petit
toned Federal Court to set aside the
injunction on grounds a State court
had no Jurisdiction in matter in
volving interstate commerce.
When the restraining order was
granted at Dallas. Ray Hackney,
president of the Texas Plant Divi-
sion of the Telephone Workers
Union, said every telephone work.
er in Dallas" was ready to walk out
IN a strike against the company.
Picket lines were reported dis
persed peaceably after union lead
ers were served with notice of the
restraining orders. At Atlanta the
picket lines were broken up late
last night when the court order was
served, and telephone union off,
cials called mass meeting of tele-
phone workers with ACEW strikers
for 10 am. today to consider the
Injunction against legal picketing."
At Atlanta, the Southern Bell an
nounced yesterday it would seek
restraining orders in Is other
Southern cities.
Evening star., 1946-01-12
Veteran Pickets Phone Pickets
Because Strike Prevented Call

Mr.. Cromer carried a large hand
painted sign saying, Strikers, he
didn't let you down" The sign was
illustrated with a drawing of a CT
holding telephone.
He started picketing about II I'M,
and said he intended keeping 1t
up until s pm. today and all day
tomorrow. He said he would like
to picket during the week but could
not do so because of his job as
card-punch operator in the Agri-
culture Department.
Il am nonunion," he said, land I'm
against unions as they are now. We
are short Of men overseas. These
guys (the regular pickets) are not
working, so why don't the draft
boards reclassify them and send
them over?"
Mr.. Cromer's home Is in Bloom
ington. but while here is living at
1926 Twenty-first street NV. His
wife is in Bloomington with their
child, Alan Barry, 1l2 years old
While in service Mr.. Cromer was a
radioman.
Evening star., 1946-01-12
$500 to Be Returned
From Austria in Month

VIENNA, Jan. II (P).-Gen. Mark
w. Clark, commanding United
States forces in Austria, told his
troops yesterday in a memorandum
to all units that 4,500 officers and
enlisted men would be redeployed
from Austria within the next month.
Gen. Clark said it was a matter
of vital interest to me to return to
the United States men not needed
here"
The generals message followed
two days of uneasiness among the
troops, particularly in Vienna, where
at least 500 messages have been
dispatched to President Truman,
Senators and newspapers demanding
to know why rehabilitation was SO
slow.
Gen. Clark said 1900 men would
leave Austria on January II and
5000 more about February s. He
said he expected further quotas in
February and succeeding months.
Evening star., 1946-01-12
Manila Army Paper
Now Published Under
Direct Censorship
Py the Associated Press.


MANILA, Jan. 12.-An Army off,
Ger exercised supervision today over
material carried in the army news
paper, Daily Pacifican, including its
popular Mail Bag" column In which
soldiers air their views.
Col. w. E. Waters, heading the
information education section of
Army Forces, Western Pacific, said
the policy had for its aim building
up rather than undermining the
Army.
In an earlier statement, staff
members of the newspaper whose
judgment hitherto had been final in
what was carried, said "our hands
are now bound"
Parallels Honolulu Action.
The new policy in the case of the
Daily Pacifican was instituted few
days after the Army newspaper,
Stars and Stripes, at Honolulu was
cautioned by 1t. Gen. Robert C.
Richardson, jr., mid-Pacific Army
commander, against printing deroga-
tory references to Army authorities
as individuals.
Gen. Richardson emphasized that
the newspaper was free to express
its views and those of its readers on
subjects such as rehabilitation, but
must observe the caution or face
punishment under the articles Of
war
The statement by the staff of the
Daily Pacifican, issued yesterday,
said New restrictions on freedom of
expression imposed from above no
| longer enable us to bring the full
news and the full truth to our CT
readers"
Barred Subjects Listed.
Today, IN an explanation of the
policy, Col. Waters used the Mail
Bag column as an Illustration. He
said that henceforth a supervising
officer will bar from the column let
ters touching on such controversial
subjects as race relations, religion
or officer privileges versus enlisted
mems privileges.
Nothing can be done at this
command level about such problems
and 1t does no good to provoke i'll
feelings" he explained
Staff members of the Daily Pa
cifican said supervisory officer
prevented publication of a list Of
Representatives and Senators to
whom soldiers might write their
views about demobilization. Col.
Waters said the list was incorrect
and the Pacifcan would print 1t
after 1t was brought up to date.
Evening star., 1946-01-12
Coast Guard Discharge Scores
To Be Cut Points Februuv2

A two-point drop in Coast Guard
scores, effective February
2, was announced yesterday. Other
reductions will be effective in the
next two months.
AS of February 2, the discharge
scores will be:
Male officers, Al; SPAR officers, 30;
male enlisted. 38; SPAR enlisted, "a.
The present discharge score is
male officers. 43; SPAR officers, 80;
male enlisted, 40, and SPAR enlisted,
rs.
On February Is, the discharge
score for both male enlisted and
SPAR enlisted personnel will drop
to 81 and % respectively.
On March 2. the score will be cut
to: Male officers, 40; SPAR officers,
Evening star., 1946-01-12
0'DonneI| Wins $4,000
In Suit Against Paper
BY the Associated Press,

by tuc heSOClhleu FTeSS,
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. PA jury
yesterday awarded John ODonnell,
Washington correspondent of the
New York Daily News, $25 900 dam
ages in a libel suit Mr.. ODonnell
had brought against the Philadel-
phia Record.
The verdict came after five-day
trial in Common Pleas Court.
The award was reduction of
previous sum of $50,000 granted in
January, 1912. and set aside in
March, 1943. An opision written
by President Judge L. Sauffer Oliver
for the three. judges of Common
Pleas Court ruled the original award
was excessive and was based on
erroneous instructions to the jury
by Judge Joseph Sloane.
Mr.. O'Donnell's suit was based on
an editorial appearing in the May
18, l941, issue of the Record.
Evening star., 1946-01-12
DemobiIizution
Continued From First Page.)

training period for new recruits in
order to step up the flow of re-
to relieve long service
men overseas. The training period
was reduced from II weeks to l3.
Gen. Eisenhower also was reported
to have cautioned all commands
against giving veteran troops any
retakes in basic or other elemental
training just to keep them busy.
There have been loud CT gripes
about such a madework routine.
Cross-section of Gripes.
A cross-section of other CT de-
mobilization gripes was made public
by Chairman johnson of the Senate
Military Subcommittee assigned to
investigate the entire rehabilitation
tempest.
From foot-high stack of cables
on his desk, he produced such
samples as:
Dogs, horses, Hitler's silverware
and CT brides get rides home but
high point men wait for weeks and
months'-a soldier in Germany.
For Gods sake get eligible high
pointers home for discharge
WAC in France.
I'VE small brass want out, too."-
A homesick second lieutenant.
Senator johnson said most Of the
scores of cables protest the Army is
we!ching on promises to release men
at the end of two years service.
Others complain because fathers are
being released; because low-point
men in the United States have been
freed; because men who have not
been overseas are being released.
Some cables carry scores of names.
Others are from single soldiers.
Many soldiers list their point totals
along with total and overseas serv-
ice. Quite a few are from officers,
he said.
Thirteen "GI voters in Tokyo" Of
fered, Don't forget us and we won't
forget you"
A combat infantryman in Aus
tria was less polite He asked What
the hell is going on in Washing
ton. Get your travelling papers in
order, if I ever get home you better
travel fast and far"
Congress got us in, how about
getting us out?" asked an entire
company from Germany.
Senator Johnson did not expect
what Gen. Eisenhower and Admiral
Nimitz say Tuesday to eliminate
need for thorough congressional
probe. He told a reporter: I'VE
are after lot of details and will
go ahead with our inquiry"
Specialties Disregarded.
The Army Air Forces announced
yesterday that some soldiers with
long service will be automatically
released regardless of the need of
men with specialized qualifications
A revised directive stated that
any AAF enlisted man who reaches
the War Department critical score
OF so points and has 42 months of
service will be released, regardless
of his military occupational spe-
cialty rating.
Any enlisted man who has As
points with minimum of two years
OF service will not be retained if he
is surplus to the command to which
he is assigned.
Any enlisted man who has 36
months service will not be retained
unless performing duties in a spe-
cialty which is not surplus.
Evening star., 1946-01-12
Auto Workers
Continued From First Page.)

s cents recommended by President
Truman's board was based on Ger
tain assumptions which in the
opinion of General Motors are un-
sound"
The board tried to justify this
amount in part by devious take
home pay arguments it declared.
Actually. the recommendation is
based on the assumed ability of
General Motors to pay this excess
wage. The board made its own
forecast of the future operations of
the business and its own estimate of
profits that might result from such
operations"
Wants Better Agreement"
Referring to the boards recon-
mendation that the company REIN
state its contract with the union,
the statement asserted that many
provisions in the contract were or
dered by the National War Labor
Board" and were mot arrived at
through collective bargaining, but
were accepted under protest and
only because of the war.
"A better agreement must be de-
vised through collective bargaining
to assure efficient and uninterrupted
operation Of General Motors plants"
Only other development on De-
troit's labor front was the Packard
Motor Car Co.'S announcement that
nearly 1000 employees, made idle
when the Packard plant closed for
inventory December "a, would be re-
called to their jobs Monday, enabling
a partial resumption of production.
Parts shortages have resulted in
other layoffs, the company said,
precluding IAN estimate as to when
full production in all departments
can be resumed"
Ford Motor Co. and UAW-CIO ne
gotiations on the unions wage de-
mands are scheduled to be resumed
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1946-01-12

have requested an audience with the
Senators when they reach that city,
probably tomorrow.
Richardson Cuts Points.
Gen. Richardson announced low
ering of discharge points from so to
4S and said that would qualify more
than 5000 officers and men of his
mid-Pacific command for immedi-
ate release. Gen. Richardson pre-
sumably acted in line with Gen.
Eisenhower's authorization to thea
ter commanders to release all but
essential personnel.
Collaborators on the Manila de-
mobilization petition released copies
OF the letter to Congress which in
cluded this excerpt:
I'VE know full well that defeated
nations must be policed, re-educated
and guided. We have no complaint
to make on this, but why must a
million men be retained when our
leaders have deemed but 200, 1000 as
necessary for occupational pur-
poses?"
Merchant seamen also entered the
Manila picture, with protests that
they were being kept rotting" on
ships In the harbor for months be-
fore cargo was unloaded.
Reasons for Remaining Cease.
In Shanghai, Gi Demonstration
Spokesman David M. Miller, Gulf
port, Miss, said reasons for Yank
troops in China had ceased to exist.
He contended that Chinese in this
area are handling repatriation, most
American equipment has been sold
and that Gen. Wedemeyer himself
said larger number of troops was
not necessary for establishment of
an American military advisory group
Other CT speakers included Corpl
Stanton Weinberg of Philadelphia.
In Tokyo, Gen. MacArthur's s
spokesman said rehabilitation
would be kept at a steady pace by
filling every available space on every
ship sailing for the United States.
THAT means we even will 60 into
next months quotas If necessary to
I'LL the ships" he added
Two ships are scheduled to sail
from Yokohama for Seattle tomor-
row. They are the Eastland with
/ ,949 men and 1874 officers and the
Kenton with 1920 men and 95 off,
GERS. The Case Perpetua will said
Monday for Seattle with 1895 men
and los officers.