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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-15

hundred guilty men to 60 free
rather than for one innocent
person to suffer unjustly.
We were assigned this week
to a case in Laurel, involving a
Pascagoula man, which set us
to thinking about trials and
the legal profession and was
also the thin excuse for this
column.
But coming back from Laurel,
we stopped in McLain and talk
ed politics with a few of the
men around the DeShazo Drug
Store and other establish
ments in that Greene County
town.
People have time to talk
to you in McLain. The town
moves at a slower tempo than
our coast communities of COM
parable size and it is relaxing to
spend an hour or so there.
One man that we talked to
was making his fourth race for
Circuit Clerk-and in the Sec
ond primary, too. Twice before,
he told us, he had tied for the
office in the primary and had
been counted out with protest
votes, %recounts, or something
OF that nature.
Voting is by secret ballot in
Greene County, of course, but
not very secret as far as know
ing where the voter stands.
They'll tell who they are for.
This man we mentioned be-
fore said someone asked him
before the election how many
votes he would get in the first
primary.
"Six-hundred and sixty-sev-
en-, at least" he said he had
replied. He received GIL. Four
more people came over on his
side or made a mistake when
they marked their ballot. He
believed he knew everyone of
the 667 he had first counted as
on his side.
If the majority of the folks
in McLain r for a man, the
chance are the majority in
Leakesville will be against him.
McLain is across the river from
the courthouse and they say
folks across the river from the
courthouse never get anything"
But they go on about their
politics with a seriousness that
folks in a more urban county
might find hard to understand.
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imposed on him. But children
are not fools; and we sensed
instinctively that the big fool
of a "disciplinarian," as the
teacher fancied himself, would
never be able to hold White
hall to it.
And we knew he could never
expell Whitehall, or change the
punishment, except to scale it
Down. The teacher, realizing
that he had played the fool in
his eagerness to play any part
at all. was glad to settle the
matter quietly and let it be
forgotten. Whitehall copied out
fifty or so pages from a his
tory book and stayed a month
after school. And so it was that
Whitehall VanGook became as
great a hero as the Billy Blank
we wrote of two weeks ago. We
poor ignominious beings who
quaked at the thought of break
ing even one window in sec
ret, beheld the spectacle of
a devil-may-care fellow who
had broken about twenty with
the strictest "disciplinarian" in
the school looking on-and got
away with it.
That is the most famous
deed that Whitehall ever did.
We have never heard tell of
him since then, though prob
ably he is still circulating
around, perhaps running his
fathers business by now.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-15

The high school we attended
in New Orleans was a badly
overcrowded and badly discip-
lined institution twenty years
ago. The lack of discipline was
in part a result of the over
crowding; but even more so il
was the result of the politicili-
cation of the city's schools
system. There was little real
supervision of classroom and
school yard practices on the
part of the school board.
Some of the class room teach
ers were competent and able
workers. and tried their best to
impart the principles of educa-
ton to the students in their
charge. But quite as many
teachers had gotten their jobs
through political pull, and held
them for the same reason.
Among these political APP
pointees disguised as high
school teachers there were a
few who were terribly. incom-
petent. A few of them were
natural DULLES with exalted
opinions of their own power of
mind and the brilliance of their
own personalities. A few were
simply doddering and likeable
old incompetents, who were
quite harmless personally. And
a few of the rest were high
strung, timid little fellows who
stood in constant terror of the
boisterous students. The stud
ents, smelling the scent of fear.
like so many wolves, constantly
rebelled against their authority
and on one or two occasions
even drove them out of the
classrooms.
We recall many scenes of re-
bellious incidents which hap
pened in our student days there.
There was one student who
had a fancy name, fine clothes.
perpetual sheer on his face.
and a very peculiar personali-
ty. Let us call him for the time
being by the fictitious name of
Whitehall VanGook. His real
name sounded almost as bad.
Whitehall seemed to be a very
snooty and eruel-minded boy.
He had a sense of humor but
1t was the kind of humor that
could only be exercised at
someone else's expense. You
could be sure that if Whitehall
were laughing, someone else
inwardly ON the verge of
tearS-or at least very unhap-
py.
At any rate that is how he
appeared to his fellow students
when we were all very young.
But now as We look back on
those years, we feel that we
can guess the rest of the story;
Whitehall was not cruel so
much as unhappy; and not
snooty so much as insure of
himself. The truth probably lay
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-15
Little Evidence
0 Way
In Air Queries
BY WHITNEY SHOEMAKER
AP NeWsfeatures

Washington-In the case of
aviation detectives" a little
evidence has to go a long way.
Show one a few pieces of
gnarled wreckage and the way
the surrounding trees were
sheared off and he can lust
about tell you the speed and
altitude Of a plane before it
crashed.
Most frequently the investi-
gators spotted strategically
around the country by the
Civil Aeronautics Board have
little more than wreckage to
go on. But with the help of
skilled hands frem the airlines.
manufacturers and pilot groups
they can reconstruct the crash.
Robert w. Chrisp, CAB hear
ing officer who coordinated the
investigation of the Port De-
post. Mr., disaster on Memoir
ial Day, told some of the me-
thods he and his colleagues
use.
we look into every. angle,
study every possible cause, put
together the evidence with
eyewitness reports and what
experience teaches us and
usually come up with the an
swer,' he said.
Rules of the air require that
CAB be notified Immediately
when a crash occurs. Experts
from the closest of eight field
stations hop to the scene and
follow through with their
probe until they come up with
a solution.
Chrisp said there are no
more than "a men in the eight
reional offices at New York.
Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas City,
Fort Worth, Santa Monica.
Seattle and Anchorage.
After rounding up eyewit-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-15

long draughts from a bottle.
The funeral procession was
led by the local brass band
which the gypsies had hired
for the occasion. Two of the
gypsies' battered automobiles
were left at the starting point
one with engine trouble, the
other with a flat tire.
All the dead woman's lew
elry and trinkets had been
placed in the coffin.
As the coffin was being low
cred into the grave. a woman
member of the tribe poured a
bottle of wine over il. At a Civ
en- signal all the others flung
silver coins into the grave, and
several elambered down to kiss
the coffin.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-15

do you like to break win
doWs, Mr., Cook" he said
to the boy in a loud, ominous
voice. His manner was one of
restrained calm. He had not
figured out yet the part he
wanted to play in this scene,
now that he had the audience.
Whitehall looked at him with
disdain.
Sure | like to break WIN
dowS," he said.
"You will have to write a
five thousand word theme and
stay a week after school for
breaking that window pane.
Do you like that too?"
Sure said Whitehall.
Then WHY don't you break
another" the teacher said.
Whitehall calmly reached
down into the gutter for an
other rock and calmly tossed
it through the next window
pane. These were the small pan
es measuring about a foot wide
and a foot-and-ahalf long, of
which every large high school
building seems to have about
a million.
"A nice shot," said the teach
er, secretly egging the boy on.
Nov you can write ten thous-
and words and stay two weeks
after school. Is that enough or
do you want to break another?"
Without a word Whitehall
stopped down and got another
rock. He too was enjoying his
role extremely. A crowd of
more than a hundred boys had
gathered to watch this amaz
ing demonstration of contempt
for authorlty-and of author
ity's contempt for itself.
Whitehall broke the next
pane with the same calm. con-
temptuous motion.
Fifteen thousand words and
three weeks" the teacher said.
He took his punishment e c
ord card and a pencil out of
his inner coat pocket, put the
pencil to the card, and leaned
against the building in undis-
guised provocative gesture.
How these ham actors were
enjoying their impromptu farce!
Whitehall broke out all the
little panes in the upper part
# one window frame and start
ed or another. He broke out
all the little paneS in two win
dows. Then he said, How much
for a big one on the bottom?"
The teacher went over and
pretendei to calculate the area
of the larger pane in relation
to the smaller ones.
Three to one" he said. Eff
teen thousand words and three
weeks for a big one"
Whitehall broke a big one.
Other teachers had come in
TO the crowd. Probably among
them were a few competent
and sincere teachers who would
have ended this farce in an
instant - except for the fact
hat the other teacher was the
of the staff, and would
never have forgiven him.
What ended il finally was
he ringing of the lunch bell.
Whitehall returned 30 his
lass room a great hero, and
n no time his whispered fame
lad spread through the whole
building. Some fantastic amount
f wordage and hours had been
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-15
Sail Ships
Are Still
Practical
BY SAUL PETIT
AP NeWsfeatures Writer

ar writer
New York - Like graceful
ghosts sailing ships still travel
many of the worlds trade rout-
es as though their shippers had
never heard of s%upersonic
speeds
In an age when the average
boy grows up to believe that
the only big square-riggers
and schooners left are built on
Hollywood movie lots, wind
driven vessels of oak and iron
continue to find cargoes to haul
at speeds frequently no faster
than the MayfloWer's.
At least 80 American sail
ing vessels of more than 500
tons each r still in CONNER
cial use, according to the Treas
ury Departments bureau of
customs. Large foreign sailing
crafts still in trade are esti-
mated to number between 100
and $50.
This figure, of course, is
psinfully small compared with
the old days, when America
had 0 900 tons of shipping
under sail and fast, beautiful
clippers raced around the Horn
for the California gold rush or
carried tea and spices from
China.
While the world fleet of Siz-
able square riggers has been
reduced to less than 10, fore
and aft wind-jammers operate
in more respectable numbers.
Serving as freighters and tank
ers off both American coasts
and in the Great Lakes are 43
schooner barges and Ia schoon-
ers, all over 500 tons.
One, the 623-ton schooner
c. S. Holmes, still operates out
of Seattle as a whaler.
Aboard, windjammers are
used in feeder operations in
the West Indies between small
ports and harbors suitable for
steamers. Up and down the
west coast of South America,
they transport guano and bulk
cargoes and between the east
coast and CapetoWn they car
ry timber and manufactured
goods.
From Australia, there are
still windjammers carrying
wheat across the Pacific. They
haul fish and lumber in the
Baltic and coal, timber, salt
and wool in the British coast
al trade.
But the square-rigger finds
it most difficult to hang on.
Today, there are only three
big square riggers left in Amer
lean waters-the sailing ship
Pacific Queen and the banks
Scottish Lady and Star of In
dia.
The oldest large sailing YES
still used in this country
is the Star of India, built in
Scotland in 1863, crossing l.
3l8 tons. She now sails out on
scientific expeditions for the
Geological Society of San Diego.
The Scottish Lady, 70 years
old and also of Scottish origin,
hauls freight out of Seattle.
The three-masked Pacific
81 years old and gross
ing 1885 tons, used to make
the India and Alaska runs. She
once won a race from the Gold
en- Gate to Chignik, Alaska, in
10 days. But now the Pacific
is anchored off Long
Beach, Calf, the star of a har-
Dor exhibition there.
The late war heavily reduced
the number of tall ships. No
lne was hit harder than 73-
year-old Capt. Gustaf Erikson
Of Finland.
Erikson had built up his
ileet of square riggers to
carrying nitrate from
Swedish lumber for
Australia, case oil for Fiji and
suano from Juan de Nova.
Erikson lost eight of his IL
parks in the war, according to
he magazine Sea Power, pub
ished by the Navy League of
he United States.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-15
Inside Washington
Observers See No Relief
BY Tax Cut Even in l946

BY Tax Cut Even in ls4s
world speed record of 623 mil
es per hour now held by the
Lockheed POOR. Look for the
Republic plane to attempt the
record flight at Muroc Dry
Lake, Calf, within the next
six weeks.
CT Trainees-Some criticism
is building up against the CT
fight training program, but
there is as yet no disposition
in Congress to take any ac-
ton.
Critics assert that the pro-
gram is not improving veter-
ans job status in aviation, that
some young CTS are wasting
their educational rights, that
the program is too expensive,
and in a few instances has been
abused.
Nonetheless, its continuance
is assured for at least another
year and the Veterans Admin
istration is expected to pay out
$l25,000,0 900 to train some 65,-
900 veterans to fly a plane in
the next IL months.
Proponents of the program
assert that it has stimulated
private flying and is helping
to keep the country air-mind-
ed.
Foremen Peeved At John L.
Mine Foremen Irked-You
can look for trouble among
the coal mine foremen soon.
John l.. Lewis new contract
didn't take very good care of
supervisory workers and they
are resentful. One foreman's
local already has voted to with
draw from the UNIV.
Lewis could not do much
on the foremen's issue this
time because of the Taft Hart
ley laws provision eliminat-
ing supervisors from coverage
of the Wagner Act.
Lewis did get an agreement,
however, with the operators
to screen out certain supervis-
ors as eligible for UNIV mem
bership, but it may take weeks
to get anywhere. In the mean
time, the foremen are sore.
In the long run, however,
all parties know full we'll that
the operators will not deal
with a supervisors union not
affiliated with the UNIV and
the miners won't work with
one. So the foremen ultimately
will have to trail along with
John l..
Evening star., 1947-01-24
By Harry Macarthur

The best thing to do about 1.-TWO
Smart People," which arrived yes
terday on the Capitol screen, will
be just to tell you what it seems
to be about. 1t is a sort of trave-
logue, with the participants making
a Ieisurely jaunt across the country
by train, stopping off in the West to
buy souvenirs, taking side trip
into Mexico to dawdle at a romantic
inn and having quite gay old time
at the New Orleans Mardi Gras.
This may seem commonplace
enough at first glance, but it cannot
remain that when you discover that
the whole holiday is being managed
on New York City detectives ex-
pense account.
The hero, you see, is a man OF
great charm named Ace Connors
John Hodiak), who steals bonds in
order that he may live well and eat
trufles. The heroine Is a girl OF
great charm named Ricki Woodner
GuciJle Bald, who sets out to steal
the bonds Ace has stolen but compli-
Evening star., 1947-01-24
Starts 10th Year

Richard Wallace starts his 10th
year as a Hollywood director with
RKO Radios Technicolor special
"Sinbad the Sailor"
Wallace is the dean of directors.
He came to the movies in the days
when nickleodeons were operated in
store rooms and seats were borrowed
from undertaking establishments.
Intended for the medical profess
ion, Wallace one summer holiday
went to work as a carousel man for
a touring carnival. Show business
was more exciting than medicine.
When the carnival hit Hollywood,
Wallace remained there.
His first directing job was slap
stick affair named "McFadden's
Flats" Those were the days when
directors were too scarace to be
typed. If picture was to be filmed,
the megaphoner who was free was
assigned to turn the camera, whether
the vehicle was drama, comedy, OF
whimsy. Thus Wallace became ver-
satile in all branches of expression
Wallace's direction of "Sinbad the
Sailor" has earned him the assign
ment to direct another big Techni-
color feature for RKO Radio. This
is Tycoon" to be filmed in Mexico
City with John Wayne and Laraine
Day co-Starred.
Evening star., 1947-01-24

Gates her life by falling in love with
him. The villain elisha Cook, Jr.)
is Vicki's partner in crime, who
turks, fearing Vicki will double-cross
him by turning soft. The detective
Uloyd Nolan, also after the stolen
bonds, is bringing the hero back to
Sing Sing, but does not have any
cuffs on him because he has made
a deal to make the trip as pleasant
as possible If Ace will go quietly.
Aces idea of making a trip as
pleasant as possible is to have his
own truffles and Lucille Ball along
and who wouldn't go quietly?
Well, these people travel pleasant
ly enough until they get to New Or
leans. Ace and Vicki get dressed up
in fancy clothes to celebrate the
Mardi Gras for their last romantic
fling and over. the champagne he
explains to her the Latin derivation
of the word carnival" that it's the
farewell to the flesh, a statement
full of meaning for a man prison
bound. Then the villain turns up
threatening to kill Ace for the bonds,
shoots the detective, is shot by the
detective and everybody else lives
Dlappily ever after, Vicki and Ace
go off to serve their respective prison
terms in order, to become honest
people and the detective goes back
to work.
We were able 20 draw but one con-
clusion from all this. That Lucille
Ball certainly is a good looking girl.
X X X X
The Capitol's stage entertainment
is lavish revue with girls, girls,
comedians, singers, dancers, aero
bats, a juggler and more girls. 1t
is called ''Star and Garter" and the
girls are clad appropriately in star
Evening star., 1947-01-24

cluding Frank Capra's late entry
tits A Wonderful Life
Any of these is of quality thai
would leave the Academy voters ir
reasonably sound position should
one be selected over the Goldwyr
production.
But there still would be lot OF
skeptics believing that outspoker
Sam might have won if he hao
chosen to be tactful instead of him.
self.
X X 4
Pierce Hall Players will resume
activity on January 26 with a pro-
duction of "Twelve-Pound Look" by
j. M. Barrie. The group, inactive
since early in the war, once was one
of the most popular amateur drama
groups in the National Capital.
Members of the cast of the first
production, directed by George
Stone. include Helen Field, Janice
Volk, and Thomas Trevvett.
The performance which marks re-
sumption of Pierce Hall activities
will be an afternoon affair, 5:3C
pm, with the play followed by a
reception and tea.
/ X X x X
Jewish Community Center's drama
workshop will offer "Squaring the
Circle" for three performances, Feb
ruary "a inclusive, at Cafritz Audi
torium, Sixteenth and @ streets.
Evening star., 1947-01-24
Where and. When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
NatiOnal-"BlosSom Time; $3.50
pm.
Catholic University-"Much Ado
About Nothing: $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Two Smart People; II
am, 1:50, 4:35. 7:2O and 10 pm.
Stage shows: 1880, 1886, $40 and
9:05 pm.
Columbia-"TiH the Clouds Roll
By; Ills am, 1:50, 4:25, 7 and
9:35 pm.
'Earle-"Blue Skies; 1O:45 am,
1855, $40, $40, 7:35 and $50 pm.
Hippodrome-'Francis the First"
2:25, 4:20, 6:10, 8:05 and 10 pm.
Keith's-"The Magnificent Doll";;
11:15 am, 1:20, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and
9:4O pm.
Little-"Henry the Fifth: 2:30
and $3.50 pm.
Metropolitan "The Time, the
Place and the Girl"; 10:45 am,
1885, 3:05, 5:15, 7:30 and $40 pm.
Palace-"The Razor's Edge; 1890
am, ITO, 3:55, $40 and 9:25 pm.
Pix-"These Three; 1920, $50,
9:25 pm. and 1890 am.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10:15 am.
Evening star., 1947-01-24

and garter, plus some frilly stuff
here and there and shoes. They
dance enthusiastically and walk
around the stage while young man
named John Barry sings for them
Sometimes they do their own sing
ing in which case the words are more
easily understood than when Mr..
Barry sings.
Between these servings Of girlish
beauty and dancing ability, the
other people perform, most of them
quite ably. Chaz Chase dances, eats
cigarettes, burning matches and his
shirt and initiates Gypsy Rose Lee.
Sparky Kaye and Vince Pellegrini
perform that familiar old boxing
sketch, word for word and move
for move. Bobby Winters juggles.
Evening star., 1947-01-24
Students Pass Myrna
Dailv-as a Statue
HOLLYWOOD

without knowing. it the students
Iof Venice High School pass Myrna
10y several times each day on Their
way to classes. Miss 10y, who is
starred in Samuel Goldwyn's "The
Best Years of Our Lives" spent
four of hers in school there, where
she was known as Myrna (Freckle
Face Williams. An art major, she
posed for one of the mythological
figures adorning the school foun-
tain which still stands in the center
of the campus.
Evening star., 1947-01-24
Still Pursues Them

Nestor Paiva who, as the william
McGurk, pursued Bing Crosby, Box
Hope and Dorothy Lamour al.
through Paramount's Road to Uto-
pia," has been signed for the cast
of the stellar trio's current film
Road to Rio" Paiva will portray
the proprietor of a Rio de Janeire
night club. Road to Rio" is being
directed by Norman z. Mcleod.