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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18
Traffic Racket

Once more Hancock county breaks into
print with charges being made this week
that justice of the peace courts and con-
stables in the coast county are running a
traffic racket" arresting truckers and mo-
torists indiscriminately, refusing bonds and
not listing charges on receipts for fines
In January of this year the state legisla-
ture received scathing indictment of this
condition made by a special investigating
committee which charged Coast counties"
with abuse, bribery, and hijacking on the
part of county and municipal officials"
Upon investigation by the Chronicle-Star
and Advertiser Jackson county was later
given a clean bill of health, and State Sena-
tor Jesse Byrd said that the investigation
showed that the corruption was confined
primarily to Hancock county with some
spilling over into Harrison county.
The state investigating committee at that
time said that the evidence had been turned
over to the FBI and the proper courts for
action. However, 10 months later no action
has been taken and the charges of this week
indicate that the condition is still flourish
ing with group of elected officials setting
themselves up in typical gangster style to
levy tribute on the motoring public
If Gangster AL Capone or his counterpart
moved in ON us and established headquarters
in Hancock county and proceeded to hijack
the motoring public and truckers our state
government would waste little time in break
ing it up, and putting the gangsters behind
the bars where they belonged.
This condition is hurting the whole Gulf
in ~ Al
should be cleaned up simply because. it is
crooked, and 10 months seems to be long
time to sit back and watch it continue when,
according to the legislative investigating
committee, concrete evidence was unearthed
that warranted turning it over to the "FBI
and proper courts for action"
This newspaper said at the time that the
whole mess should have been given pub
lie airing, and guilty officials impeached or
jailed. With no action having been taken in
almost years time we still believe that
that would have been the proper course
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18
Palestine Uses us.
Production Methods
BY CARTER L. DAVIDSON

mines via the Diamond Trad
ing Corporation in England.
One Shipment of roughs, avera-
ging sly carats per stone, may
have two dozen stones Wirth a
total of $4,000. When perhaps
sixty pairs of skilled hands
have had turn at it, this same
shipment will have hundred
stones. weighing only so carats
but worth $4,000 or more. The
added value is the skill of
the polishers, the loss in weight
is the dust from cleaving, cut
ting and grinding.
Allowances for Theft
Sorted as to size and color,
a rough diamond goes first to
the cleaver. He cleaves the
diamond into the most valuable
combination of smaller stones,
using only diamonds as tools
for diamonds. The cleaver stud
les ana furrows the rough. and
then in a nerve-wracking Sec
ond strikes the single blow
that cleaves the stone.
From cleaver, to cutter
where the cleaved STONE is
halved for polishing. to shaper
to polisher is an average of one
months operation. Cutting.
grinding and polishing is done
by coating metal surfaces with
diamond dust suspended in
castor oil, solution that costs
the Palestine industry about
$1,000 a day. That cost, plus
labor, machcinerv - and an
average of $50,0G0 month
written off in thefts by work
ers-pdts the total cost of pro-
ducing a polished gem out of
a rough stone at SITS per ca
rat. Add to that the cost of
rough diamonds and apparent IS
the reason diamonds have for
400 years been the symbol of
wealth and romance.
Diamond cutting has become
Pdlestine's No. l export indus
try within a period of eight
years.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18

you are not conversant with the fact drive
along Polk avenue when the Central Elemen-
tary school is letting out, or along Washing
ton avenue when the Beach Elementary
school pupils start for home. Both these
streets carry an extremely heavy load of
vehicular traffic, and both are SO narrow
that when the youngsters, ranging from first
grade pupils upward, travel them there is
room for but one line of traffic This is a
dangerous condition and we owe it to the
health and welfare of our children to correct
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18
BGat8sss
BY NOLLE T. ROBERTS

whether you clip or pluck. You
can clip every ten weeks,
pluck every thirteen. Some
times the wool is as much as
five inches long when it is har-
vested.
Meanwhile, the rabbits spend
their days in hardware cloth
hutches and produce the wool.
They eat anything but get few
carrots because too much green
stuff is not good for them,
according to Mr.. Snyder, and
is too expensive.
Rabbits eat hay. They do, too.
saw them. They not only eat
hay, but they like it, particu-
larly soy bean hay. That's
what Mr.. Snyder feeds his rab-
bits, together with an ounce
and a half of grain" which
Is ordinary dalry iced mixed
with oats, two parts to one.
A little green stuff-rape or
carrots--every other day COM
pletes the menu.
The "woolers" have indivi-
dual hutches 18 by SO inches
and the brood does have twice
as much room. Each rabbit has
his individual hutch and are
clean in their habits. There
was no unpleasant odor around
Mrs. Herring's or Mr.. Snyder's
hutches.
Mr.. Snyder's hutches are
fout-tiered affairs and are
portahles. They are placed in
the shade of pecan trees and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18
Civil Rights Must Be
Protected, Says
Justice Department
BY BRAcK CURRY

Washington-The Justice De-
partment says new legislation
is needed to strengthen Uncle
Sans hand in protecting your
civil rights.
This is the reason it gives:
If local officials fail to pro-
tect your civil rights, the fed
eral government is powerless
in most cases to intervene.
Suppose, for example, that
you are the victim of a mob
attack. The federal govern
ment cannot prosecute the mob
under normal circumstances
To do so it must prove that
an officer played a part in the
mob action.
Suppose, again, that you are
beaten or murdered by a po-
lice officer after being arrest
ed on { false charge.
What Court Says
The Supreme Court has rul-
ed that in such case the fed
eral government can prosecute
only if the police officer at
the time he committed the Of
tense had the clear purpose of
depriVins you of specific fed
eral right.
This means a right made spe-
cific either by "the express
terms of the Constitution or
laws of the United States or
the d cisions interpreting
them
The Justice Department
maintains that the federal gov
ernment should have the pow
er to act when local authori-
ties fail to protect your civil
rights. This means cases of mob
attack, for instance, even
when no police officer takes
part N the attack.
Says Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Lamar Caudle, head of
the departments Criminal Di-
vision
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18
Sidewalks For Children

The Paseagoula city government is plan
ming on Jumping number of proposed side
walk projects into one contract and putting
it before the voters of the city to decide
whether or not they will be built
We believe this the right and proper ap-
proach to the problem, but we hope that the
project will not be loaded down with pro-
posed sidewalks where they are not badly
needed to the point that the people will vote
against the entire project.
Sidewalks are needed throughout the city,
we believe, but just now they are most bad
y needed in the vicinity of our schools. If
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18
AP Newsfeature

III ANCW
M4thanya, Palestine-Jewish
artisanship gearcd to Ameri-
can-type production lines will
produce an estimated $32,000.-
900 worth of cut and polished
diamonds in Palestine this
year, from an industry that
began eight years ago with
$1,000 debt.
Palestine's diamond indus
try, second only to Belgium
as the worlds cutting and pol
ishing center. has revolution
lied the centuries-old art of
turning grubby looking rough
diamonds into the scintillat-
ing gems.
There are 80 well-lighted,
ventilated factories in the
country, employing some 1000
craftsmen who earn from SIS
TO $l00 a week. Many of the
workmen, Jews young and old
bear IN their forearms the tat
tooed numbers that were put
there in Nazi concentration
camps.
Fourteen of the 33 factories
are in Nathanya. birthplace of
the industry in the Holy Land,
and others are in Tel Aviv, Je,
rusalen and other cities.
The production line methods
of Detroit are adopted, with
diamonds passing from one pol
isher 10 another. each applying
his own special type and num-
ber Of surfaces.
American jewelry stores alb
sorb most of Palestine's finish
ed diamonds. Last year plants
here turned out S24, 1000, 900
worth of gems, 81 percent of
which went to United States
markets.
Diamonds polished in Pales-
tine range from huge stones
(the biggest was 90 carats) the
size of golf balls, to ones so
small it takes 200 of them to
make one earat-one-fifth of
a gram.
Rough diamonds flow to Pal
estine from South African
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18

are quartered according to
their age and purpose, that is,
the woolers in one section and
the brood does in another and
the weaned young rabbits in
still others.
Mr.. Snyder figures his rab-
bits net him a dollar per rab-
bit per month. And he says
he can tend to the whole bunch
in Is or 20 minutes, morning
and evenings. The Snyder's
have five children, three of
them in school and the rab-
bits go a long way toward sup
porting the family.
Oh, yes, they are good to eat,
too. But at SIS a piece, they
are even more expensive than
the boiled ham you can't find
at you: butchers these days.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18
Wallace Case May Affect
Elections

President Truman's action in
ousting Henry Wallace as his
secretary of commerce prob
ably will have adverse effect
on House Democrats this year.
One well-posted Democrat
commented that the voting for
House candidates may be af-
fected by the presidents fir
ing of Wallace. He said that
this was the only result of the
Bvrnes-Wallace feud that could
have affected the elections.
This Democrat pointed out
that there are many labor dis
tricts the Democrats can lose
because Wallace was expelled
from the Cabinet. These are
districts where the Wallace
name has a stronger pulling
powee than the Democratic
party designation.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18

Tiny diamonds. usually
destined to stud milady's wrist
watch or similar vaMables. are
called "brilliants,' Clipped
from larger, irregular stones.
So skilled are the hands and
ewes Of the men who grind them
that they. with the aid only of
an eight-power magnifying glas
an elgkt-power magnHying glass
and a tool that serves only to
hold the stone, grind as many
as 81 separate reflecting sur
faces on a diamond the size of
a grain of sand.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18

ldDDitS were solIietHlIlS mat
brought Easter eggs, until we
were five or six years old, and
then were the pets your dogs
ran when you wanted them to
run possums or coons or foxes.
Here recently, we read of
rabbit ranches on the West
Coast where folks eat rabbits
like we eat chickens, during
the meat shortage.
But it was only this week
that we learned that few fam
lilies N Jackson County are
making a living out of raising
Angora rabbits, the pink-eyed,
long-haired variety that origi-
mated near Angora, Turkey,
which is also where Angora
goats and cats came from CEN
turies ago.
To those of us familiar only
with cotton-tails and swamp
rabbits, the idea of "plucking"
or clipping fur from a rabbit
is ridiculous enough to bear
investigation.
But you can pluck" a rab-
bit, folks, just like you pluck
a chicken. Or shear him like
you snear a sheep. You can if
you have the right kind of
rabbit and know how, that is.
There are two schools of
thought regarding the separa-
ton of the rabbit from his fur:
the clippers and the pluck
ers." Mrs. S. j. Herring, who
lives north of Escatawpa in the
fork Of the Wade and Lucedale
roads, likes clipping; Ellsworth
A. Snyder, of Big Point, likes
plucking. No one knows which
the rabbit prefers.
Mr., Snyder, with 1873 rsb-
bits, is the sections biggest
wool producer and has started
most OF the others in business
by selling them breeding stock.
Walter Goff of Wolf Ridge,
Mrs. John Wilmington of Es-
catawpa, Hugh Roberts of Big
Point and Paul Roberts of
Hurley, as well as Mrs. Herring,
are some of the other produc-
ers.
No matter whether you
clip" or pluck" the wool
you receive is white gold"
according to these folks, who
ship il off to Irwin, Texas,
where they receive in the
neighborhood of $13 a pound
for it.
Now that seems like a lot
of money per pound--and it
is--but you must remember
that Angora rabbit wool is
very special stuff, said to be
eight times as warm, pound
for pound. as ordinary wool,
and exceptionally strong and
light.
The government bought a
lot of it during the war for
lining aviators' jackets and
helmets before they flew out
into the wild blue yonder
where il is colder than a north
wind off an iceberg.
Domestically it is used for
baby clothes, scarves, mittens,
sweaters, coat Innings, and sim
liar items.
Rabbits, or at least Angora
rabbits dc not reproduce as
fast as the joke books would
have you believe, according to
Mr.. Snyder. The females, or
does" are about seven months
old before they produce their
first i;tter which may be as
many as 10 little Dummies but
will average five. She will
produce four or more litters
year and is as good, if not
better, "woolern than the
buck rabbit.
Il takes the wool from eight
rabbits to make a pound and
you get a crop" four or five
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18
Special to Central Press

Special to Central Press
Washington-The AFL is all
set to capitalize on the anti
Communist split in the CIO
United Electrical Workers.
third largest union in the
CIO.
At its recent convention the
CIO reelected left-wing lead
ers and voted down an anti
Communist resolution. TIL e
right-wlng faction plans to
carry on the fight, however, at
the local union level.
AFL's electrical workers now
are prepared to encourage and
aid the fight. The AFL union
amended its constitution to
make membership more invit-
ing. Class "B" memberships
were eliminated and now any
local union can come in with
full voting rights
This will open the way for
CIO electrical workers to de-
sert to the ranks of the AFL.
II also should appeal to the
independent Union of Tele-
phone Workers which las been
on the fence for months try
ing to decide whether to af-
filiate with the AFL or CIO.
Dan Tracy, reelected presi-
dent of the AFL elea .rical
workers after six years gov
ernment service, is expected to
press the raid" on CIO ranks.
In the furniture field, the
AFL already is busy &elcom-
ing local unions which eolit
away from the CIO furniture
workers organization because
of its alleged domination by
Communists.
The Administration may de-
eide on an all-public board to
administer wage stablizati m
controls in the future. The
present board, composed of
public, industry and labor
members, took severe punish
ment during the recent ma l.
time strike.
Labor leaders roundly cri-
ticized the tri-partite age icy
and demanded the resignation
of industry and public repre-
sentatives for their opposition
to the seamen's wage increase
demands.
The AFL even threatened to
withdraw its members from
the board, and may do so yet.
An advisory committee of
the Office of Reconversion cur
rently IS studying the whole
question: of wage controls and
how they should be admins
tered.
Reconversion Director John
r. Steelman is known to lean
toward an all-public board to
wind up the stabilization pro-
gram.
There's that old saw about
the i'll wind--and the watts of
Gerger-sour breezes from Biki-
nj arc no exception. For in
stance the real estate sales
men III the PASTORAL estate
areas of Virginia and Mary
land outside the nations cap
ital.
Many w "a ingtonian S,
yearning for private acres,
come and look and price and
regretfully start to turn away,
shocked by the initiation. At
that moment the alert real es-
tate dealer in many cases says,
You know, an awful lot of
people are buying property out
here. They feel certain that, if
another war comes, there will
be an atomic bomb dropped
on Washington and they think
this is good safe place to be-"
-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-18
Capital
Comment

AFL Planning to Capitalize
On cIo Electricians Fight
Angry Locals May Quit clio
In Anti Communist Struggle
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-05-18
3vrnes Returns From Paris
Diplomatic Sources Consider Parley
Almost Complete Failure; Report Due

WASHINGTON, Nay l8.-(A?D
Secretary OF state Games 4.
B4:ucS returned from Paris to-
day and imcdiateiy reported TO
President Truman On lhc fail
IRE of tnc foreign ministers con-
ference so far as 10 agree on
European peace settlements.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-05-18
WEA 4 EEIR

FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly clcudy and cooIcr to-
night and Sunday. scattered
showers in east taniai,t.
Evening star., 1946-05-09
British Negotiations
For Egypt Withdrawal
Are Begun in Cairo
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

CAIRO, Egypt, May s.-Negotia-
tions for the withdrawal of British
forces from Egypt, at the crossroads
of the British empire, began today
IN the police guarded Egyptian
Foreign Ministry.
Reliable sources said the British
were asking one year in which to get
their forces out, while Egypt was
urging that the withdrawal be COM
pleted in six months.
In the background was the dec
laration to the Egyptian Parliament
yesterday by Premier Ismail Sidky
Pasha that he was willing to nego-
tiate terms Of a mutual assistance
pact with Britain. one of the con-
ditions Britain has set for with
drawal Of her military. naval and
air forces after an occupation of
ga years.
Will Make Forces Available.
The premier also told Parliament
Egypt would make armed forces and
facilities, including the right Of
passage through her territory, avail
able to the United Nations in ac-
cordance with the San Francisco
charter.
Sidky Pasha, who was celebrating
his list birthday, opened the for
NAL discussions with speech in
which he expressed confidence in
the sincere desire of both the Brit
ish and Egyptian delegations to
work for complete independence of
the Nile kingdom.
During the preliminary negotia-
tions that led to the British offer
to withdraw her military forces, he
said, I'VE had at our disposal new
ideas fostered by the war"
Among these now ideas, he said.
were the principle that every one is
boss in his own home, the principles
OF liberty and the principle of safe
guarding them under a collective
system,
Must 'Liquidate Past"
Frail Lord Stansgate, British Sec
retary Of State for air and head OF
the delegation from London, re-
piled: To-day we fortify the mill
tary alliance which has brought us
victory with a true union of hearts.
1t remains for us to liquidate the
past by settling the program Of our
withdrawal"
More important for the future, he
added, was agreement on arrange
ments for the continuation of our
alliance"
Sidky Pasha, alluding to Britain's
announced intention to withdraw
and renew her alliance with Egypt,
told the negotiators 1T is up to you
gentlemen to build on the basis of
these principles and I am very hope
full OF the result"
Evening star., 1946-05-09

street and Rhode Island avenue NE.
was adopted.
Two new members, Orville H.
Freeman and Forna Weinrich, were
enrolled at the meeting, held in
Bateman's Store, 2004 Rhode Island
avenue NE.
Evening star., 1946-05-09

of them minor items. Both actions
are effective Immediately.
Retail ceilings, on portable type
writer's are being increased 31a per
cent. The price raise is IL per
cent for other typewriters and busi-
ness machines, including calcula-
tors, cash registers and dictation,
duplication, addressing and book
keeping machines.
Evening star., 1946-05-09
British Plan to Withdrew
From Egypt Hit by BIomey

SYDNEY, Australia, May 9 (P.-
Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey, wartime
commander OF Australian forces in
the Middle East, expressed the opin-
ion today that Britain's decision to
withdraw her forces from Egypt
would have "disintegrating effect"
on the empire. ---------.- --.--
II find it impossible to believe
that Britain really intends to aban-
don control of the Eastern Mediter-
ranean," Gen. Blamey said. IF the
proposal is carried out to its indi-
Gated conclusion, its far reaching
effects on empire relationships,
which cannot at present be fully
foreseen, must obviously have a dis
integrating effect. We will be enter
ing upon new phase in empire his
tory, because the strategical unity
of empire relations is centered
around this canal zone."
Australian newspapers voiced edi-
torial concern over Britain's decision.
Richard Gardiner Casey, former
British resident minister in the Mid
die East, said the proposed British
move was difficult to believe" From
a general British viewpoint, he
added, there was no more direct i'm
perial interest than that of COM
munication through the Middle East.
Evening star., 1946-05-09
Rhode Island Ave. Group
Honors 7 Past Presidents

Celebrating its 38th anniversary,
the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens
Association last night honored two
OF its past presidents, Harold j. Clay
and Charles F. Green, sr.
The incumbent president, Chester
F. Bletch, announced that George
E. Keneipp, recently appointed Dis
trict traf1lc director and a former
resident Of the section, has been in
vited to speak at the June meeting.
A resolution requesting installa-
ton Of traffic light at Twentieth
Evening star., 1946-05-09
0PA Allows Increases
In Price Of 1ypewriters
By the Assoeiutsd Prsss

OPA yesterday raised retail price
ceilings on typewriters and removed
controls on table salt, baking soda
and scores of other products, most
Evening star., 1946-05-09

Manufacturers being
to compensate for higher labor and writer's
material costs Dealers being said
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-07

Mayor Of the City of wyandotte,
do hereby recommend that the
citizens Of the City of Wyandotte
do whatever they can to observe
Boy Scout Week and give their
support to the Sustaining Member
ship Campaign which follows at the
close Of Anniversary Week.
The Boy Scout Movement offers
unusual opportunity for volunteer
service. 1t needs men to serve In
various capacities as leaders Of
boys. hope that all who can, will,
through the organizations with
which they are connected, enlist
for such personal service. Anything
that Is done to increase the effec-
tiveneSs Of the Boy Scouts Of Amer
lea is a genuine contribution to
the welfare of this Community, the
State and the Nation.
In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand s1d caused the
seal Of the City to be affixed.
Done this fifth day Of February,
In the year Of our Lord, one thous-
and nine hundred and forty-six.
Louis w. Benin,
Mayor
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-07
Lduds Scout York in Community

The Boy Scouts Of America, In
corporated February 8, 1910, and
chartered by Congress June Is.
1915. - celebrating its thirty-sixth
birthday anniversary during Boy
Scout Week from February 8 to IA.
In the past SO years the more than
IL million present or former mem
bers have rendered notable service
TO our community and our nation.
Now that our country has success
fully concluded the war, the Boy
Scouts OF America will again con-
tinue to render noteworthy service
through many years of peace.
In times Of distress from floods.
hurricane, tornado and other dis
asters our Scouts have demonstrate
ed the effectiveness of organized
boy service. During the period of
economic stress they contributed
IN many ways to the relief Of suf-
fer1ng. Their services rendered dur
Ing OUR four years Of war cannot
be estimated In dollars and cents.
The Boy Scouts have also con-
tributed to a deeper appreciation
by the American people Of the high
conception Of good citizenship.
Therefore, ], Louis W. Benin,