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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Mrs. Eve Coulter
Pelham Dies At
Home Wednesday,

Mrs. Eve Gautier Pelham, be.
loved member of one of Jack
son County's oldest families, d,eo
Wednesday night in her 9lst year
She Mas the widow &C John Man1
Pelham who die1 in 1893.
She was born at Tchoutica
bouffe, Harrison county, January
Is. 1856, and she spent her girl
hood in the old Gautier home a.
Gautler which was recently re-
stored, and is now occupied bS-
her nephew. Hermes Gautier, and
Mrs. Gautier.
Funeral services will be con
Quoted Friday, today, at 10 a.
m. from the residence of her son,
J. H Pelham, $50 Front street,
by the Rev. friedrich Resch, rec
tor of st. Johns Episcopal church
and interment will be in the Gau.
tier cemetery. Stokes Funeral
home IS in charge
Pail bearers vii be two grand
sons, John Charles and A. "
Pelham, and four nephews. James
Gautier, Newton Gautier, Herhett
Canty ana Fernando Gautier
She was the daughter of Fer.
nando Gautier and Theresa FAY
ard Gauiier. Ten children were
born to Mrs. Pelham and her his.
band and six of them are living.
They are j. H., ] A.. J. n, and
Walter Pelham and Mrs. N. W
Alley of Pascagoula and Mrs. E.
P. Speatman of New Orleans.
Other survivors are a sister,
Mrs. Julia Cantv of Pascagoula,
and a brother, Adam Gautier Of
Biloxi; eight grand children and
four great grandchildren.
Mrs. Pelham's Goth birthday
last January was made a gala oc-
easion ~ a party in her honor
when III. and Mrs. Joe II. Pei
ham, her son and daughter-in-
law. kept open house in her honor
IN the family home. Scores OF
friends and relatives, many u
them from out of town, came to
Nsfer congratulations and best
wishes to the honoree.
Brothers and sisters who pre-
coded Mrs. Pelham in death are
Waite, Eugene and Henry eau
tier. Mrs. John O'Donohoe. Mrs.
Ada Thompson and Mrs. Emma
Johnson.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Dredge Langfiii
Launched Today
AT Ingalls, Yard

The third and next to last of
the huge hopper dredges under
construction at the ingalls, Ship
yard for the U. S. Army Engin-
GERS will be launched TODAY at
2:30 p. m, as the Langfitt in
honor of General William Camp
bell Langfitt.
Smashing the champagne over
the bow of the dredge will be
the sister-in-law of General Lang
fits grandson, Mrs. Henry Hens
lee of Youngsville, La.
Almond those attending the
ceremonies will be DR.. and Mrs.
Paul Trowbridge. Dixie Planta-
ton, Franklin, La, parents of
the sponsor, and her grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Foster, also of Dixie
Plantation; Mr.. and Mrs. Pres
colt Foster, Franklin, uncle and
aunt of Mrs. Henslee; Mrs.
James ]. Bailey, Baton Rouge, ma
iron of honor; and representa-
tives of the Engineer Depart
ment.
This christening will pay hon.
age to the 40 years spent by
General Langfitt in the Corps of
Engineers. Born in West Vir-
ginia, he attended the u. S. Mill
tary Academy at West Point from
which school he was graduated
as second lieutenant in the Corps
of Engineers. After his gradual
ton he served in various domes-
tic assignments until the Span
ish American War when he serv-
ed as major in the Hawaiian Is
lands. He served in World War
I and was promoted to Major
General IN 1917 and during this
war received many decorations.
The Langfitt will be, with her
sister dredges, the largest weld
ed ship of its type, measuring
352 feet in length and equipped
to sail anywhere in the world i'm
its work of dredging harbors.
canals and channels.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22

there. All this they expect will
take through next May to COM
plete and after that what
ever their fancy at the time
desirea.
Mr. Brown. a metallurgical
and 1rnor piercing expert. is
owner Of a factory at Minooka
producing precision tools, and
the fa.her of three sons. He
has retired and turned the fac
tory over to the three young
men, and he and Mrs. Brown
will take things easy from here
on ont.
Two of the youngsters are
twins, 23-vear-ole Charles and
Clyde who have just been dis
charged from the Navy where
they served together on the
battleship New Jersey as ma
chinistS during the entire Pa
cific campaign from Australia
to Tokyo.
Its the boys responsible
" now says Mr.. Brown.
1--WE served my time and now
I'm gong to DO those things
I've always wanted to
It looks like the pot of leis-
IRE At the end ef the rainbow
for the Browns.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Award Contract
For EasflaWn
Drain Culverfs

A contract for the construc-
ton of reinforced concrete cul-
verts in the Eastlawn drainage
canal under Polk and Lincoln
avenues was awarded Friday by
the City of ~Pascagotla to Stock
still ard Corey of Mobile for a
total cost of $~14,470.40.
The box culverts will replace
the present type culverts which
have proved inadequate to carry
under the street the volume of
water in the ditch during heavy
rains and have in a large meas
ure been responsible for flooding
of sections of the Eastlawn area
during excessive rains.
Money for the work was award.
ed by the Federal government
after the city government had
proved that the pipe culverts
were inadequate.
lao Working Days
A limit of 100 working days has
been set from the time of the
awarding of the contract for
completion of the work, accord
ing 70 the terms of the ordi-
nance published in this issue of
the Chronicles Star and Adver-
tiser.
Mayor John r. Watts also said
that with the remainder of Fed
eral funds awarded for the work
it is damned to concrete the bot
tom OF the ditch and three feet
UP the sides. The concreting
work will be started at Lincoln
avenue end it is believed that
sufficient funds are available to
carry it TO Polk avenue, he said.
The canal drains practically
the entire Eastlawn rea The
box culverts and concreting of the
canal bottom viii speed the flow
of water and eliminate the heavy
floods that the area has been
subjected to in the past. The
concrete work will also material
lv lessen maintenance cost for the
canal, ne said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Delay Purchase
OF Hotel Site
Pending Meeting

The board of directors of the
Pascagoula-Moss Point Chamber
CT Commerce at a meeting Tues
day night voted to temporarily
postpone the purchase of a hotel
site at the corner of Watts ave-
nue. and Canty street.
Plans had been made to pur-
chase the site for $4,000, but the
plans were postponed because OF
other developments pending.
Virtually all of the funds for the
purchase were raised.
A meeting was scheduled 10 be
held Thursday night at the
Chamber of Commerce offices.
Attending the meeting were
members of the board of direc-
tors, the Chambers Hotel Com
mittee, and contributors to the
purchase of the site. Final dis
position of the matter was SEIZED
uled to be made, but results of
the meeting were not available
at press time.
Freight rates 10 the Port of
Pascagoula. discussion of seafood
pollution problems and consid-
Grafton of unemployment also
claimed the attention of members
of the hoard.
Shipping Report
An investigation on behalf of
Cleveland shippers made by the
Louisiana and Nashville Railroad
and by the Mississippi Export
Railway through the Gulf, Mobile
and Ohio revealed that the Port
of Pascagoula would have to
solicit business below a line run
ming from Cincinnati to Chicago
THROUGH Indianapolis as from be-
yond this line shippers would
find it more advantageous to
ship through Atlantic ports. ac-
cording 20 a report presented at
the meeting.
The Public Health Service is
considering a survey of the sea-
food situation in this vicinity.
particularly of oyster beds, the
board was told. which would help
in solving the problem of pollu-
ton. through inadequate sewer
age facilities. of oyster beds to
the northwest section of Pasea
goula. A committee to cooperate
in such a survey was named and
consists of Joe Pelham, John
Cole. A F. Dantzler. Marshall
and J. F. Velcich.
Steps will be taken to insure
preference for residents over non
residents IN employment in local
industries, according to the Board.
Il was also announced hat an
international ehirepraetie clinic
To continue for 80 days IS sehed-
uled t. he held in Paseagoala
next spring. bringing ehiroprae-
tors from all over the world. De
tails Of housing and headquarters
will he worked out, Chamber
Of Commerce officers said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
County Welfare
Department Aids
FAB In Quarter

The Jackson County Depart
ment OF Public Welfare admins
tered assistance totaling $17,102
to 248 people in the three months
of July, August, and September,
1916, Director Clara B. Herrin
announced this week. The per-
sons receiving assistance comprise
three groups: 226 received aid
for the needy aged totaling SIS
IT'S; 4 received aid for the blind
t~otahne S277.00: and Is families,
including SO children, received
aid fos dependent children to-
falling 81, 10000. The grant for
each individual reached him in
a check mailed from the State
Department of Public Welfare
each month.
The amount of a persons
monthly grant is based upon an
individi.al budget covering the
cost of his minimum needs for
The difference between
the amount of need and the
amount OF income of financial
from any source which is
available to meet his need is
called the "budgetary deficit"
Ideally, the amount of grant
should meet this budgetary de
ficit, but in Mississippi we are
able to do this. only in aid for
the blind The maximum grant
for a family receiving aid to de-
pendent children is set by state
law and is at present too low
to cover the budgetary deficit in
these families. The large num-
Der of old people applying for
and in need of assistance makes
1t impossible for the state TO
meet 100 percent of their needs.
In most ef the counties the grants
cover n percent of the budgetary
deficit for these old people.
In addition to these programs
of financial assistance the Jack
son County Department of Pub.
lie Welffre has given special SER
vices to approximately $50 fam
lies during these three months.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Mon Charged With
Drunken Driving.
Leuving Accident

W. NJ. Farley. f104 East Con
vent street, has been charged
with drunken driving and leav-
ing the scene OF accident after
he alledgedly struck a pedestrian
at the corner of i4th and Tuck.
er streets last Friday night.
Mr.. Farley received a broken
arm. and the pedestrian, Lester
Massey. 1920 Admiral Dewey, re-
ceived decorations and bruises.
Both were treated at the Jack
son County Hospital and releas-
ed.
Mr.. Farley has been released
or 500 bond in each case, fol-
lowing his arrest by city police.
The cases are scheduled to be
heard in city court this after
noon.
E. T Cooper was fined $25 on
a reckless driving count in city
court Monday after he was CON
victed of having run a stop sign
where Lake avenue enters North
Psscagoula street, striking and
damaging automobiles driven by
N. A.. Bagbey and Mrs. Tom
Cochran, Police Chief J. f. Shir-
ley announced.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Union Church
Services Mark
Thanksgiving

Union church services in Moss
Point, a football game in Pasca-
goula and plenty of turkey and
cranberry sauce will mark the
observance of Thanksgiving Day
IN this section of Jackson county
Thursday.
With few exceptions the day
will be a holiday for the populace
and school children of the coun-
tv will leave the class room at
the regular hour Wednesday not
to return until the morning bell
rings Monday. Businesses, indus
tries and public offices and vir-
.ually all stores will close for
the day. Banks will be closed and
post offices will follow the reg
ula holiday schedule. The only
large industry which will not sus-
pend activities will be the Inter
national Paper Company mill. In
gals Shipyard, Jackson County
Mills and smaller industries will
be closed. Stores will remain
open all day Wednesday, prepar-
atory to being closed for the day
Thursday.
The ANNUAL union Thanksgiving
service of the Moss Point Metho-
dist church, the Rev. N. U. Boone.
will deliver the message and spe-
eial music will be sung by the
combined choirs of the Baptist,
Methodist a d Presbyterian
churches.
The Paseagoula Panthers will
meet n of their most dreaded
opponents. Istrouma High foot
ball team in a game at the home
field which is expected to draw
an unusually large crowd due to
the holiday The Moss Point Tig-
ers travel afield for the Turkey
Day tilt and will meet the Pic
ayune team on the Picayune
gridiron at 2 pm. Thanksgiving
afternoon. A number of fans are
expected to accompany the play
ers to give moral and vocal sup
port.
Although there will be few
church services held IN Pasca-
goula Thursday in special obser-
vance of the day, practically
every minister will deliver a mes
sage of thanksgiving to his con-
gregation at regular Sunday err
vices.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Wide Inierest In Circuit Court
Cases Tried l. County This Week
since e Given Two
Years "a Grund
Lurce a. Charge

Three cas- - card in circuit
court here II g eek-the Walter
Lowry chang|" venue hearing,
The j. NJ. Sto 1uor possession
and an Ingaus paint brush"
case--drew wide interest among
citizens of Pascagoula and Jack
son county.
In other cases last Friday, four
persons who had pied guilty to
grand jury indictments were SEN
fenced by Judge Corban.
Earl Smack was sentenced to
serve two years in the peniten-
siary for the theft of about $500
from Bacot, Cranberry, and Fra
zier, where he was employed as
a clerk.
C. B. Kingery, forgery, was
given one year in the peniten-
tiary for signing the name OF
Monroe Krebs to a check which
he subsequently cashed.
Edward Smith, negro, and Les
lie Capers were given one and
two years, espectively. for grand
larceny, to which they pied gull
ty. Smith stole $50 from a neigh
Dor in Carver Village and Cap
ers stole an automobile from
Wesley Pierce of Cumbest Bluff,
w. R. Hancock was fined 500
ard costs on a "trespassing'
charge, reduced from grand lar
ceny in a paint brush" case.
Mr. Lowry was granted a
change of venue to Harrison
county where his Ease was set
for December 9 on charges of as
sault ans battery allegedly COM
mitted against Charles Roof in
an INSTRUMENTATION labor row
here last fall which resulted in
MI. Lowry being removed as
business agent of the Boilermak-
ers Union Local here.
A half-doZen defense witnesses
testified that Mr.. Lowry could not
receive a fair trial here as the re-
suit of inflamed opinion and
five Jurors, testifying for the
state, ciinaxed the proceedings
by declaring that they could not
give MIR Lowry an impartial
hearing. They represented each
of the five districts in the county.
Stone Case
j. M. Jimmy Stone of Hurley
was found guilty of possessing in
toxicating liquor and sentenced
to pay a $500 fine and serve
ninety DAYS in jail by Judge L. C.
Corban who told him he did not
see "how they (the jury could
have done otherwise" than find
him guilty.
Defense council Pidwell Adams,
who did not call a single witness,
made an impassioned plea for an
acquittal, however, during which
he violently attacked Mississip-
pts BLACK Market Tax and
charged that the enforcement of
Continued on Page 81
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Four oscugoul
Youngsters Admit
School Breuk-Ins

Four Paseagoula juvenile in
eorrigihies, below teen-age. have
been rounded up by city police
and turned over to the child vel
fare worker of the County De.
partmeni of Public Welfare af-
ter they broke into the Central
Elementary School for the third
time in one weeS.
The youngsters, all of whom
have been in scrapes several
times before, entered the build
ing by forcing Il window and
took several dollars from desk
drawers in the building.
They broke into the building
first On Sunday, November 9.
and twice last Sunday. they adj
mitted % police. A total of eight
or nine dollars was stolen.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
New Doctor Troins
In Heulth Work
Under DR.. Hedmeg

DIR George S. Barnes, native of
Belzoni Miss, and graduate of
the Tulane University medical
.chool, has entered on a three
month itaining period in jack
on ard Harrison counties with
he Department of Public Health,
Or. Ar rev Hedmeg. director of
he heath departments Of these
wo counties, announced. Dir
Barnes attended college at the
University of Mississippi and re-
eived ms medical degree from
Tulane in 1912. He interned at
the Charity Hospital in New Or
leans and served in the u. S.
Army AIR Forces from 1913 to
1916. AT the completion of this
training period, DR.. Barnes will
be assigned a county where he
will off,ciate as health officer,
DR.. Hedreg said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Stadium
Election
Over Top
Eleven Hundred
Vote For Issue
OF Bonds Here

Qualified electors of the Pas
cagoula Separate School District
voted Saturday for the issuance
of SIPS, 900 in bonds TO build a
memorial stadium here by the
one sided margin of il04 for to
f27 against.
The issue was not carried by
as great a majority as appears on
the surface, however, since 976
votes for" were required to
carry the issue. under state law,
where a majority of the 1851
qualified electors had to register
approval of the issue in order
for ii to pass.
The small opposition vote was
about evenly divided in the four
precincts. with the exception of
Eastlawn where 1852 of 1853 voters
were for the issue.
In Scranton, the largest pre-.
cinct. the vote was sol to So:
in North Pascagoula. 266 were
for and SO against; and 1876 were
for to ~ against in the South
Pascagoula or Beach precinct.
To Honor Vets
The stadium. plans for which
have been published previously
in this newspaper, will be a me-
mortal to veterans of World War
ii and will be equal or superior
to any high school stadium in
the state.
The steel and concrete struc-
ture will seat 5000 persons and
will be used for outdoor activi-
ties of the school, as well as for
football and track meets. II will
include dressing rooms. conces-
sion booths, rest rooms. storage
lockers. and all other features of
a modern stadium.
Bronze name plates will be
erected FOR every Pascagoula
citizen who was 4 resident here
at the time he went into the SER
wire WITH a special section de-
voted TO those who lost their liv-
es. Tribute will also be paid to
each of the four branches of the
armed sorces and to the merchant
marine.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
CHILDREN CORRECTED"

Forty-seven children in Jack
son County have received glass
es. tonsilectomies, had their ade-
noids removed or other medical
corrective treatment this year
through the Health Department
School Health Correction pro-
gram in cooperation with the ply
sieians Of the county and the
Jackson County hospital. DR.. An
drew Hedmeg, director of the
health department. announced.
This represents the largest num-
Der of children to receive the
benefits under this program, ne
said. TIE examination and neees-
sary corrective steps are financ-
ed equally by the Children's Blu
reau and the County Board of
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
New Election In
Biloxi Ordered
By Supreme Court
frhe Associated Press

Jackson, Miss. Nov. 21.-The
supreme court on Monday will
haid down a decision reversing a
special election court decision in
the contest of Robert Chinn over
the JUL 16 municipal primary
in Biloxi in which c. b. Cousins.
Jr.. World War II veteran, had
been declared nominee.
This was learned here today
after the supreme court had in
structeo Tom @. Ellis, clerk, to
advise attorneys in the case of the
intention of the court and to re-
quest them to suggest managers
for a new primary to be ordered
N one precinct November 30.
Word Of the decision had al
ready leaked out in Biloxi and
Chinn supporters were celebrat-
ing as early as last night. The
letter was made public here Only
after supporters insisted on seeing
If in order that its contents might
be made known officially.
The supreme court, through the
clerk, said II WOULD invalidate all
uninitiaied ballots in. all boxes
and would throw out completely
all ballots in the West Biloxi
box where none were initiated by
election managers, as required by
law.
In The election Cousins won
over former Mavor Chinn by a
margin Of IT'S votes. More than
1000 ballots were cast July Is in
the West Biloxi box.
When the new election is held
in the West Biloxi precinct, the
court saiu, the results will be
added to The results of the. other
three boxes. less all uninitialed
ballots and the winner will then
be declared by Governor Fielding
Wright.
Ellis letter to the attorneys
broke a long and honored custom
Of the high tribunal of guarding
zealously until the secand and
fourth Monday morning of each
month the list and gist of deei-
sions which it viii hand down.
The precedent was broken, pre-
sumably. because a new election
must be held speedily and be-
cause the court desired to giS
the opposing parties time to nom
nate managers for the new cleo
ton
Lack of prior notice to the op
posing parties would normally
have required the naming of the
managers ~ the court to go over
until TIE seoord Monday in De-
cember.
THE s'1ngenee courts ruling re-
verses 4 speeial court opinion
given BY Circuit Judge J. D. Shiv-
ers of Poplarville in a hearing at
Gulfport October ~
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Retailers Discuss
Holiday Procedure
Fund Solicitation

Retail divisions of the Pasca-
goula-Moss Point Chamber of
Commerce held meetings this
week - determina holiday proee-
dure ana other problems.
Both Paseagoula and Moss
Point groups named committees
to arrange the turning on of
Christmas lights in the business
section and both divisions agreed
to disnense with any Christmas
openings, as in wartime. and to
continue to put stock out as it is
received.
Discussion BY the Paseagoula
retailers of two promotions By
school organizations involving the
selling of advertising resulted in
the turning down of both ventures
and decision to request school
authorities to present an estimate
on funds raised by advertise
ment solicited of the merchants
during The year. Merchants vot-
ed to raise a similar sum and turn
It over 10 the school in return for
books &c tickets good for all
school functions to eliminate the
necessity of buying advertising
to support certain school activi-
ties. This will also insure lar
ger attendance at school func-
tions. merchants pointed out.
Both Pascagoula and Moss
Point merchants voted to remain
open all day Wednesday and close
all day Thanksgiving Day. Mer-
chants also voted 70 close at least
two davs at Christmas time. the
25th and 26th. Moss Point re-
iailers WI remain open all day
the Wednesday before Christ
mas.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
ARREsTYoUTH

Harold Dean Peacock, Is years
old, was taken into custody Tues
day BY Highway Patrolman Bud
Gray and turned over 70 Lanett.
Ala. law enforcement officers
% answer charges of stealing an
automobile belonging to Curtis
Fl Griffin of Lanett and of cash
ing his mothers payroll check,
Officer GRAY reported this week
The boy was arrested near kre-
ole afte~ Officer Gray became
suspicious of a youth of his age
operating an automobile.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
NAB YOUTH FOR CAR THEFT

A Gfteen-year-old youth was
arrested At Kreole last week BY
State Highway Patrelman Bud
Gray and turned over to Alaba-
ma Authorities on charges Of steal
ing tie car which he vas driving
at the me of his arrest.
The youth. from Lanette. Ala.
was trned over to a deputy sher.
If from that citv following his
arrest. Patrolman Gray said.