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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
Mrs. Robertson
Honors Mrs. Moore
At Beautiful Tea

One of the prettiest and most
elaborate private social affairs
of the year was a tea at which
Mrs. Walter B. Robertson was
hostess Thursday afternoon, Sept.
IL from 4 to 6 p. m, honoring
Mrs. William B. Moore of Seaford,
Del, who is receiving much at
tention a the guest of the latter's
sister, Mrs. George Winter.
The living room was especi-
ally lovely with an arrangement
of white double altheas and rosa
montana which filled the space
above the fireplace, and masse of
blue daisies that graced the cof-
fee table and the buffet. Hand
some lace covered the tea table
where punch was served by Mrs.
James F. Carver.
Mrs. Robertson was assisted by
a houseparty composed of Mes
danes Moore, Winter, Baylous
Stokes, j. l. Ford and Carver.
There were a large number OF
callers during the hours of re-
ceiving.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

children returned home Tuesday
morning from New Haven, Miss,
where she visited her parents. Her
sister, Mrs. Lucille Hudson, ar
companied her home.
Mrs. A. Shumock departed
Tuesday morning for a visit with
relatives and friends in Selma,
Ala.
A revival will begin at the
Escatawpa Baptist church on Sep
TENDER 81 and continue through
the 26th with DIR. William Earl
Green az evangelist and Ralph
Young as song director. DR.. Green
is the president of Clark Memo
rial college.
The Rev. and Mrs. James Will
hanson announce the arrival Of
a baby son last Thursday morn.
ing.
Mrs. J. F. Turner, ST., of Tusca-
loosa visited last week with rela-
tives here and in Pascagoula.
Mrs. Albert Greenough and
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Grierson
are spending their vacation in
New Orleans.
Students from here who recent
~ departed to enroll in colleges
include Miss Flora Carter. Blue
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

Mrs. Clyde Nelson was elected
president of the Woman's Mis-
sionary Union at their Royal Ser
vice Program meeting on Mon
day afternoon.
Other officers elected included;
Mrs. G. G. Boone, secretary and
treasurer; Mrs. D.. M. Campbell,
Young Peoples director; Mrs. A,
p. Megehee, stewardship chair
man: Mrs. Don Oliver. program
chairman; Mrs. Elton Roberts,
community mission chairman; and
Mrs. Wallace Grierson, mission
study chairman.
MI. and Mrs. G. G. Boone am
nounce the birth of a daughter
at the Jackson County hospital
Tuesday morning. The new ar
rival weighed six and one-half
pounds.
Recent visitors in the home
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
News From Escofowpo...
Mrs. Clyde Nelson Is Elected
President OF WMU On Monday

of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Eckert were
Mrs. John Bethune OF Pensacola
and Mrs. A. S. Rogers of Foley,
Ala.
Mrs, Olga Laakso and son, w.
G., we're recent visitors to the
f. G.. Bennett family.
MI. and Mrs. l.. d. Murray of
Jackson and Mr.. and Mrs. Victor
Murray of Baton Rouge were re-
cent visitors in the Jesse Len
nep home.
Mrs. John w. Sherman return
ed home Friday from Enterprise,
Ala. where she attended the fu-
neral of Miss Eileen Ackerman's
mother, Mrs. Virginia Mcleod.
Miss LATHE Linquist of Kreole
spent Sunday afternoon in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ben
nett.
Mrs. Millman Stringfellow and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
Mrs. Colmer. Jr.
Host To Weslyon
Service Guild

Nineteen members were in at
tendance at the meeting of the
Wesleyan Service Guild Monday
evening when they e r enter
tanned by Mrs. M. A. Colmer, Jr.,
in her pretty new home on Grit
fin Road. Late summer flowers
gave beauty to the living room
where the members were assem-
bled. Mrs. John G.. Hill presid-
ed and following the reading of
the minutes by Miss Katherine
Rhodes, the report of the treas
urer was given by Miss Elizabeth
Harper. Mrs. Albert Lynn re-
ported a box of Christian litera-
ture sent to N Newfoundland and a
cash contribution for oversee sup
plies sent the district treasurer.
Mrs. John Cirlot was present and
gave a report of a recent Guild
meeting held in Montgomery, Ala.
The business meeting was clos
ed with a devotional. led by Miss
Harper.
During the social hour the host
ess assisted by Mrs. G.. A.. Thomp-
son and Mrs. Edward Avera serv-
ed delicious ice cream and cake.
At this time a large basket was
brought in and some sixty pounds
of canned and packaged foods
were assembled for shipment to
England.
Miss Sue Pittman of Jackson, a
new member of the school fac
ulty, was a welcome new mem
Der.
Mrs. Morton Farley voiced the
closing prayer.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

Mountain college; Aubrey Can
field and Johnny Nyman, Mis-
sissippi Southern; and Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Lynn, University of
Alabama.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elton Roberts and
family spent Sunday in Mobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. L. Waites and
family of Biloxi spent the week
end in the home of Mrs. Erie
Golf.
Miss Patsy Breeland spent the
weekend in Mobile with relatives.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
pAscAGoulA CHRONICLE STAR and MOSS POINT ADVERTISER

During World War | numbers
of British troops were infected
with anthrax carried on shaving
brushes imported from Japan.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
MARCO LIoNIE FREDERIC

Mr.. and Mrs. ". II. Frederic an
nounce the birth of Frances Ma
rie's sister. Mango Lionie, at the
Jackson County hospital on Mon
day, September Is.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

The cornflower is called "Kai-
serblumen" in Germany because
it was the favorite flower of the
late Emperor Wilhelm.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

Brain-weight in proportion to
body-weight is about $50 in nor
NAL healthy adult men; l/l4,000
for whales.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

The roots of foxglove are pois-
onous and the leaves of the true
plant yield digitalis, a heart med
icine.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
Harness Racing
Starts Sept. 20

Ohio's best known harness
racing figures will be in charge
of proceedings when Toledo
Fort Miami Raceway opens its
big fall meeting Saturday night
Sept. Goth, Sam S. Cordovano,
president and general manager
of the Raceway, announced to-
day.
Presiding Judge will be DR..
Reuben Hilty, Lucas County
c m m issioner, and long a
familiar figure in harness racing
circles. Last year DR.. Hilty
served as associate judge and
long has been known as one of
the fathers of the harness sport
in the Toledo Area.
Serving as Racing Secretary
will be Ray jenkins of Newark,
Ohio, regarded as one of the
foremost harness experts in this
section of the country. The
Hilty-Jenkins combination is ex-
pected to prove highly salts
factory both to horsemen and
racing fans.
Fort Miami's meeting will run
through % nights closing out
Wednesday Night, Oct. 18th.
Cordovano and his associates ex-
pect several hundred standard
breds to be on hand for the en-
tire meet with some of the best
known trotters and PAGERS max
ing their headquarters at the
sporty suburban Toledo establish
ment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
Magnetic Springs
Is Pre-Gome Site

COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 5-For
the better part of 30 years, Ohio
State University's football
squads have been quartered in
country clubs of Columbus on
the night before a home game.
Precedent will be broken this
season, h viewer, when the
Bucks will spend five Friday
nights at the Park hotel in
Magnetic Springs, 33 miles north
of Columbus. On the night
before the Illinois game Nov. Is,
the squad will be housed on the
top floor of the Deshler Hotel.
The squad Will be taken to
Magnetic Springs late Friday
afternoon and returned to the
stadium Saturday noon. Other
Western Conference schools have
spent pre- game nights at Mag
netic Springs in previous years.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05

international L e gu e last
year. He appeared in 50 con-
tests in that circuit to set
new league record there.
A. A. managers will testify
he's certainly more than a
cannon fodder" rel i e f
pitcher, and his amazing
record of 10 won, 2 lost is evil
dence enough of that. Age 80
and a resident of Baltimore,
Md, the "Slivver", as his
teammates call him, is en-
ployed as an automobile me-
chanic during the off-season.
He broke into organized base
ball with Lancaster in the
Interstate League back in
1943.
In marked contrast to the
1945 season when Indian
apolis' Stan Wentzel ran
away with the "most valu-
able" award and to the year
of 1916 when Toledoan Jerry
Witte had the votes all to
himself, the current balloting
developed into a gang fight.
Lang and Mapes could not be
counted out until the final
day of voting by the So Writ
ers' Chapter members.
Other American Associa-
ton sparklers very much in
the race included Heinz
Becker and. Alvin Dark of
Milwaukee, Mike Natisin and
Ira Hutchinson of Columbus,
Ed Stewart of Kansas City,
Phil Haugstad of st. Paul
and ANDY Gilbert of Mime
apolis.
Gerkin will receive a 500.
savings bond from the league
for winning the award.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
chopPuis Is Best

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Sept. s.
Bob Chappuis of Toledo, Michigan
left halfback, is called by Fritz
Crisler, the finest passer he's had
in Is years of big. time coaching.
Crisler rates him in a class with
Bennie Friedman and Harry
Newman, two of the Wolverines
greatest. Chappuis set a com.
bined Big Nine offensive record
of 1,039 yards, of which 500
yards was by passing as he COM
bined 36 of "a. Chappuis, who
set his mark with a fractured
bone in his wrist, underwent an
operation on it and has been
working daily all summer on
passing.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
Toledo Joint
Council PIovs
Sunday

Highland Park will be the
scene Sept. z (next Sunday at
2 p. m. of an intersectional CIO
sports contest between the To-
ledo Joint Council and st. Louis,
Mo-, Joint Board softball teams.
On hand to throw in the first
ball will be Martin c. Kyne, New
York, executive secretary of the
Retail, Wholesale and Depart
ment Store Union with which
the two unions are affiliated.
Twenty-Five youths from the
Boys Club of Toledo have been
invited by the TIC to be guests
at the game.
The challenge game, the first
in the history of the labor organ
ization, will feature an all-star
team from the st. Louis unions
league against the TIC nine
which took third place in the
Local 12-UAW-CIO loop.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
Gym Hours

The Local IL gymnasium
will be open to all members
between the hours of 2 p. m.
to S p. m. and ] p. m. to $3.50
p. m. daily.
On Saturdays, for those
who can't attend sessions
during the week, the gym
nasium will be available
from IL noon until S p. m.
Red Macdonald Is in
charge of the gymnasium
and will be available for
messages, rub-downs, mira
red, and ultraviolet ray
light treatments.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
FAwN BORN ON HIGHWAY

A group of Cleveland men GO
ing toward Leesville Lake to
fish recently were surprised when
their headlights flashed on a doe
deer lying in the center of the
road. They stopped and the deer
walked to the side of the road,
leaving behind her a small bum
die lying in the road
The men got out of the car
and walked to the scene to dis
cover that the doe had given
birth to a fawn. They took some
rags from their machine and
carried the new arrival to the
side of the road out of harms S
way.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05

director of the Catholie
Y nth Organization, the
Local II heavyweight foot
ball team would hold all practice
sessions at st. Johns Field, Ban
croft st. and Parkside Blvd.
The Local II football team
will be entered in the heavy
weight division of the Toledo
Football Federation. Besides
Federation games, the Local 4 b
football team will engage out-of:
town teams in nearby Ohio and
Michigan cities. The Local IL
team recently received an offer
to play the Youngstown Vets
Bombers in a cancer benefit game
in that city. The two teams will
meet later in the season at a date
yet to be decided upon by the
management of both tie Is.
9th er semi-pro teams have
sought games with Local IL al.
ready this season.
Practice sessions will begin
at 4 p. m. Monday at st. Johns
Field, and will be held each
Monday, Wednesday and Fri.
day thereafter.
A new coach, who will replaRe
last years Bob Martin, will be
announced in a few days. Sew
eral coaches with college and
high school experience are being
considered for the position. Bob
Martin will be unavailable this
season due to the press of other
Union duties.
Many of last years Local IL
players attended the organization
meeting Wednesday and are most
anxious to begin regular field
drills so that they will be ready
when the season opens, which is
thought to be in the early part
of October.
Teams desirous of booking
games with the Local IL football
team are asked to call, or write
to, the Local IL Recreation Di-
rector, 425 Winthrop st. ~
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
Toledo Jeeps
PI0n Season

With nucleus from last
years squad which wound up
in the finals of the worlds
professional tournament in Chi
cago and the No. l performer
from the 1946-47 collegi t e
ranks already in line, things
look bright for the Toledo Jeeps
as another National Basketball
League season looms ahead.
Prize catch by the Jeeps dur
ing the off season, of course, has
been Harry Boykoff, the six
foot, nine inch former st. Johns
College star who comes into pro
ball as one of the most touted
newcomers in the history of the
sport.
Boykoff, who weighs 235
pounds, captained the st. Johns
quintet last season from his
center position and earned all
American recognition. He hit his
peak of fame when he flipped in
54 points to set a new Madison
Square Garden individual scor-
ing record.
Already sign e d from last
years team which wound up in
the league playoffs and proved
the sensation of the Chicago
tournament are Paul Seymour,
Hal Tidrick, Johnny Schick and
Bernie Mehen.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
Local II Plays
In District
Tournament

Manager Joe Schuette, of the
Local IL baseball team has his
team in readiness for the District
Tournament of the National
Baseball Congress. The Local II
All-Stars won the District title
at Norwalk, Ohio, last year, and
will be defending champions
when this seasons tournament
gets under way.
The Local IL All-Stars have
been strengthened considerably
this year and Manager Schuette
expects to bring the title back
to Toledo again.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
Record Turnout At
Meeting; New Coach
Will Be Announced

The 1947 football for Local II players and
bers started Wednesday night when number of enthusi
astc former team members and ryous attended peY
meeting at the Union headquarters From all Indications
banner year will be enjoyed by Local IL football followers
because of the fact that the largest to date
for this branch of UAW recreation.
Plans for the coming discussed with the
players and personnel of the 1t was announced that
through arrangements made with Father Jerome Schmidt
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
Local IL SoffbcII
Team Plays
Sunday

The Local IL AlI-Stars
sOftball team will play the
Spicer Mfg. Unit outfit
at 1880 p. M, Sunday, at
Highland Park Diamond No.
2. The game will be the first
of a twO-game program.
The second game, which
will start at 3 p. M, will
bring together the Toledo
Joint Council and the Joint
Board of st. Louis, Mo. Pro-
ceeds of the contests will be
donated TO the Toledo Joint
Council Athletic Fund.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
Record Crowds

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Sept. s.
Michigan's three largest home
football crowds were the VOL
verine-Notre Dame game of 1943
when 86,408 fans witnessed the
contest and the Army and Illinois
games last season. Officially the
count was the same for both
85,938-the number of seats set
up and sold.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05

An oddity in the National
League occurred on Aug. 9. Al
the Polo Grounds on that day,
Connie Ryan, who formerly
played with the Giants, belted a
grand slam home run. And, over
in Brooklyn on that same day,
Howie Schultz, a Dodger castoff
also banged a grand slam homer
against his former teammates.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05


Minneapolis, Columbus and
indianapolis likely will fight
right up to the wire on Sunday,
September 7, to determine final
ly who shall have fourth place
and the remaining playoff berth.
If two of those clubs happen to
be tied in fourth place in the
standings at the seasons close
they will play each other one
game on the following day to
e st a Bills h their final resting
places.
Hosts to the playoff opener
will be the American Associa-
tons penn nant winner and
runner-up and right now that
looks TO be the Blues and the
Colonels. The first set of elimina-
tions, a best four out of seven
affair, will find the first place
club playing the third-placers,
and the team in second battling
the fourth position outfit.
Path of the victor in the COM
plete A.A. playoffs leads straight
to the coveted Junior World
Series with the International
League winner. Last year
Montreal bested Louisville in
this classic, four games to two,
but the Association has a history
of 16 series won, 13 lost, since
the Inauguration of the inter-
league skirmish.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05


strong, turned out for the an
nual Labor Day picnic at Ma
varre Park and enjoyed a day
of sport S, entertainment,
concessions, refreshments, races,
and other recreational activities.
Immediately following the big
Labor Day parade, the many
CIO members and their families
went to spacious Navarro Park
to spend the day in an outing
which will long be remembered
by many of the picnickers.
The kiddies were treated to
free rides on the ponies. merry
go-round, the whip, shooter and
several other concessions. Also
give to the children were thou
sands of ice cream bars, boxes
of pop corn, bags of peanuts,
bottles of pop, balloons, and bars
of candy.
For entertainment of the chill
dren and the groWn-ups alike,
the Local IL baseball team play
ed the Zedlitz Meats in an ex-
hibition game which produced
many thrilling plays for the
CIO fans. A preliminary game
was played between the Colonial
Hardware team and the team |
from Collins Park, Knothole
Champions of Toledo. In the
feature game, the Zedlitz Meats
emerged the winner while the
Knothole Champions won the
victory in the junior attraction.
There was a full sports pro-
gram for the kiddies and the
grown-ups and the following
were the winners of the events.
In the so yard race for girls
under ten years of age, Joyce
Ball, 723 Grove Place, won a
tennis racket for crossing the
finish line first; Melvin Comps
ton won a fancy pocket knife
for winning the same type of
race for boys; Julia Martin, 1925
Owens street, was awarded a
beautiful lace plastic table cloth |
for winning the dash for girls
under sixteen years, while
Wayne Kautz, 957 Forysthe
street, received pocket watch |
for coming out first in the race
for boys up to sixteen years.
Twenty-six eager children COM
peted in the pie-eating contest |
was easily won by Ann |
Mattox, 3218 Mayo street.
The three-legged race, which
always affords lot of enter
talnment Tor the spectators, and |
spills for the contestants, was
entered by twenty-five pairs of
racers who dragged and pulled
each other toward the finish
line. Robert Teet and Melvin
both of Route 1, were
The victors in this attraction and
were awarded strong fishing
tackle boxes. Married men COM
peted against single men in a
Lug-of-war which was won, after
several minutes of struggling, by
he single members of the CIO.
In similar contest, the married
women avenged their marital
status and easily defeated the
single women in about one
of tugging.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05

Who holds the all.tlme major
league record for most games
pitched in season?
William II. White, Cincinnati
Nationals, 1879, rs games.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
When EwelI Blackwell, the Gin.

WHtn EWtII bIdCkWtII, IIIe OIH'
cinnati Reds ace highlander,
reeled off his winning streak of
16 straight, he bettered by five
the longest skein since Carl Hub
bells 16 straight in 1946. In
1941, Elmer Riddle, also of the
Reds, won IL straight and Ted
Wilks, of the Cardinals, also won
IL in a row in 1914.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05

Who was the bigger man,
Carnera or willard?
Willard.
How old Is Babe Ruth?
Ruth was SO last birthday,
Feb. z.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05

the baIlotlng ana helleI I1uTleT GeIkln never
won a closer game than he did this battle.
1t was clean-cut victory, nevertheless,
since he actually would have won the award
even without the votes he polled from his
own Minneapolis writers fraternity. But
Columbus Don Lang and Kansas City's
Cliff Mapes were breathing hot on his heels.
Gerkin, the automaton right handler who
is currently breaking and rebreaking all
time baseball records for number of pitcher
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
From The
Rule Book
By Wilbert "Birdie" Rule
Sports Editor
Local II Recreation Director

The American Associations perpetual motion machine
Minneapolis Pitcher Steve Gerkn today finally named
the leagues valuable player of 1947 the Baseball
Writers Chapter up with the closest competitive
voting in years.
Nine other choice Association players involved in
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
FISHING

Someone at some time or other
has added up all the fun that
comes from fishing with the con.
clusion, Fishing is a wonderful
disease; thank goodness there is
no cure!p
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05

What Is Ty CObb's lifetime
batting average?
1857.
Are the Browns the only
major league team to have won
only one pennant?
No. Cleveland in the Ameri.
can and Boston and Philadelphia
in the National are also one
timers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
Assn.
PlayoNs Pending

City, Louisville and Milwaukee probably know
their fourth playmate will be in the Shaughnesy payofs
until the last day of the already
conclusion that these postseason elmnaons
the night of September in Kansas City Louisville
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05

Players who are picked for the
National Leagues All-Star team
receive handsome gifts. Ford
Frick, president of the league,
initiated this plan many years
ago. A watch is given to players
participating in their first game
and other gifts are provided so
that if a player is selected more
than once he will receive diff.
.ferent gift each time.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05

1'1l010
into his 10th game of the September l. The old
record was &c. established in 1945 by Bufalo's John
Podgajny
Lean and loose and equipped with rubber Gerkin
spent half of the 1945 with the Philadelphia Ath
etcs then sent to Salem and Tacoma in the Western
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05

How old was Jess willard
when he won the world heavy
weight title?
30.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-05
Local 12 Football Season Gets Underway
Many CZO Members Enjoy Labor Day Picnic
Prizes Awarded
Game Winners

Members of the CIO, 5000
strong, turned out for the an
nual Labor Day picnic at Ma
varre Park and enjoyed day
of sports, entertainment,