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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

tt ultimate sale of the permanent Pub
lie Housing Authority units in the Eastlawn
section of Pascagoula to individuals who are
ready to cast their lots permanently with
the rest of us here in jackson County is of
paramount Importance to the future of the
city and county.
The sense of permanence and the feeling
of belonging that results from home owner
ship is of as much Importance as the addi-
ton to the tax rolls of perhaps a thousand
private residences.
The feeling of permanence would be re-
Elected in the attitude of workers in industry,
civic pride would definitely increase, and
"home" would become Pascagoula to many
families who now only live and work here
in preparation for the day they will return
to their nome or farm in this or adjoining
states.
The chances of making home owners and
real citizens of large segment of our pop
ulation is much better today than it was
several months ago when the reactionary
Republicans and the national real estate
lobby were nearly successful in the promo
ton of an abortive "cash on the barrel head
deal under the false guise of economy.
With the FILA agreeing to finance 80 per
cent of the cost of the houses, on a long term
basis, the only two major drawbacks appear
to be Cd The appraised valuation of the
units, which seems a little inflated and (2)
The unjust priority system which leaves the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

Democratic party officials say
that the resignation of National
Committee Chairman Bob Han
negan depends on whether his
doctor orders him to quit on
account of his health.
Hannegan will know the an
Swer when he returns to Wash
ington from Hawaii where he is
vacationing with Agriculture
Secretary Clinton Anderson.
Anderson has been rumored
in line to succeed flanagan in
the political post, but one DEM
ocratic bigwig asserts that An
derson may choose instead to
run for the Senate in New Mex
leo if Senator Carl A. Hatch
decides not to run in 1913.
This source believes that An.
derson may prefer a job in the
Senate. traditional stepping
stone to bigger things such as
the presidency. Anderson.
known to be suffering from
anemia, consistently has de-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
BY ADELAIDE KERR

The new head of the Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary's 100000
members expects TO spend her
main force in office in an effort
to convince American women
of the need for universal mill
tary training.
The auxiliary's new president
is handsome Mrs. Lee Hutton.
wife of a postoffice employee Of
Excelsior, MINI.
IF it is necessary to ,estab-
lish a speakers bureau OF
American Legion Auxiliary Voc
men to inform American wo-
men on this question, it will be
done" Mrs. Hutton said at the
close of the Legion's annual
convention in New York, where
the Auxiliary endorsed univer-
sal military training.
american women hold the
whip hand on this question of.
universal military training. I
understand they have showed
under their congressmens desks
with an avalanche of mail pro-
testing this measure. We mean
to keep at it until we get a
still bigger pile of mail from
women in supporting universal
military training-And that's
going to be our main job.
Many American women OBJ
iect to universal military train
ing because they think 1t means
sending their husbands and sons
to war. Actually il means build
ing up the eountry's military
strength to such an extent that
this can keep us out of war.
Moreover. such training makes
healthier, better specimens Of
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
&s@'ss;!5' f N !l!EI!Hl!Ll!llI|IEs

%WlJIaBr
By L T. ROBERTS

the outcome, but remember the
happy anticipation of actually
putting on that suit and TAX
ing that particular girl to
church. We sensed that only
then would we be a man, Civ
ing up romping through the
woods and bone-shattering
football games for the more
glamorous but less satisfying
business of counting.
That new suit business for
Sunday of Camp Meeting was
something, a decade or so ago.
We think the men and boys
were more vain on the subject,
of a new suit than even the
women were about their new
dresses and hats.
1t was a point of pride with
a man to have a new suit for
Sunday of Camp Meeting if he
had to wear overalls the rest of
the year to make up for it in
those harder times. There was
also a rigid order of dress for
the week. Wear anything avail
able on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday nights when the
crowds were small anyway; last
years suit on Friday night and
all day Saturday, when the
folks were gathering in; the
new suit for 1000 a. m. sefS-
ice on Sunday.
The order even extended
back to the Sunday before when
clean work clothes were permits
sable at Sunday School at the
home church in order to have
everything spick and span for
Camp Meeting.
The weather was cooler,
when the third Sunday in Oc-
tober was the date for Camp
Meeting, but if the day hap
pened to be as hot as October
days often are in this climate,
it was just too bad. That suit
had to be worn if it caused a
heat stroke. Only in the after
noon, after dinner and before
300 o'clock service, could the
coat be discarded and the vest
unbuttoned.
1t was a carry over from the
last generation when heavy
wool suits were worn right
through the summer by all of
the men at church on Sunday.
That new suit had to come
and had to be worn.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
Legion Auxiliary Head Wants
Universal Military Training

our county's young men.
American women need to be
told these things"
In working on that task
Mrs. Hutton will make the Gus
tomary Auxiliary presidential
tour visiting all the states, the
District of Columbia, Panama,
Hawaii and Alaska. Her blue
eyes sparkled with eagerness as
she outlined her plans. AL
though she is in the middle-reg-
lister years, Mrs. Hutton, with
her snow-white hair, fresh rosy
skin and lashing smile, could
still make the stag line CULVER.
she was born in Excelsior, went
to school there, worked as a
business woman for several
years and then married a school
friend veteran of World War |
and settled down in her home
town. The Huttons have no
children.
Mrs. Hutton came to the
Auxiliary's head via the ranks
and the road of hard work.
She served as president of the
Excelsior unit four different
times between 1922 and 1898,
moved up to the district presi-
dency and on to the chairman
ship of national committees on
child welfare, finance and re-
Mobilization.
She said that another import
ant part of the Auxiliary's pro-
gram for l947-48 will be eon-
tinuance of its rehabilitation
program.
In the last two years we
trained 10000 women to visit
the veteran who has to be hos
pitalized and help him or his
family in the way that is most
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

needed she declared. Next
year we hope to double that
number. There is important
work to be done in rehabilitat-
ing the veteran after he leaves
the hospital, in helping him to
find a job. and keep up his
spirits, and in assisting his
family in various ways. We
need thousands of American
women for this work.
Child welfare and Ameri-
canism are two other import
ant points. Through our youth
program we shall work hard
to teach our children what this
eountry's way of life has and
gives hat other countries do
not have or give"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

of industry then the hundreds
of thousands of Americans em-
ployed in these factories will
be without work. The result of
that would be bread lines from
coast to coast, and there is no
more fertile ground for the
seeds of Communism than I'M
employed, disheartened and
hungry people.
A i5-year-old High school
girl died in a Hattiesburg tour
list court of what the coroner
described as acute alcoholism.
One more pitiful youngster
added to the toll of the bootleg
gers and racketeers in Missis-
sippi. The only real answer to
the alcohol problem is a long
range one education. The
immediate answer is legaliza-
ton and strict control and SUI
pervision by state, county and
municipal governments. This
would drive out the gangsters
and racketeers who have fat
tened for many years off of
proceeds from the vicious
racket. aided and abetted by
prohibition laws which elected
also officials use to line their
own pockets.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
kWajaIein Ato|I Is Nc Picnic
Army Finds 1t Tough Even in Peace Time

good gosh, man, we don't al
low ties here. Guam is 80 miles
long, four to 10 miles wide.
Five hundred Army and Ma
Wy families are on Guam-total
population $4,000.
Maj. Gen. Francis H. Girls
void says. Were iunking
planes because we haven't mon
ey to keep them airworthy.
This climate eats planes"
Would a good-sized attacking
force find it easy to take
Guam?"
1t certainly wouldn't" the
general replied. eve could put
up a stiff fight. But you should
consider what countries would
be potential enemies and then
you would ask the question:
Why fool with Guam?'"
Some Japanese Remain
In the underbrush and caves
on the north end of Guam,
starving Japanese soldiers still
hide unaware the war is over.
No attempt is made to find
them-one by one they are kill
ed or captured.
Heavy chains run from the
roof of the Generals house to
empty torpedo tubes in the
flower beds. Decorations? No,
anchors against the next ty-
phoon.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

A year ago, this week, we
wrote about Camp Meeting,
that wonderful week of religi-
GUS services, family reunions,
vacation, new suits and dresses,
and tables heavily laden with
roast pork, sweet potatoes, and
all the wonderful delicacies of
a truly rural southern feast.
II we seek in this small space
once each year to explain how
we feel about Camp Meeting.
our efforts will be in vain. For
the span of life will be too short
and our use of words remain
too limited to give a stranger
more than a glimpse into that
mysterious something that we
shall call the Spirit of Camp
Meeting"
Once each year then, we shall
reminisce briefly for those who
have slept on the straw, warm
ed their fingers at the open fires
on the scaffolds, sat on the
benches at the long tables, and
in their early teens strolled
around the tabernacle as night
began to fall in an effort to at
tract members of the opposite
sex who strolled also with the
same thought in mind.
Spring causes the young
mans fancy to lightly turn to
thoughts of love, the ancient
bard tells us, but he wrote of
England and Englishmen of an
era long past even as Camp
Meetings as we knew them will
soon be known no more.
The first STRINGS in our man
ly chest, as we neared the fiji
teenth anniversary of our birth,
resulted from the blond tresses,
blue eyes, and pert nose be-
longing to a girl Whotented
near US at Camp Meeting, as
we recall. The year before, she
had been a scraWny youngster
in our eyes, fit only to be
teased or ignored.
But that year we could hard
ly wait for Sunday to come
Sunday at Camp Meeting when
the new suit came out to be
entered in the fall style parade.
We had a new suit that year,
oh happy day. If it had been
one of the years when a we'll
brushed old suit had to serve,
we don't believe we could have
stood it. We don't remember
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
New Beachhead

Soldiers and sailors of World
War ii suddenly have been on
fronted with one more beach
head to storm, one more enemy
to defeat.
The beachhead is the bank.
the enemy is the American"
army of forgers. C Cor CASH
Day was Sept. | when GIs
turned in their terminal leave
bonds for money.
Secret Service Chief Maloney,
whose force was charged with
protection of the country's cur
rency, warned that forgers an
ticipated a field day.
Maloney points out that most
of the $4,000 cases of forgery
of United States checks and
bonds which the Secret Service
investigated during the last year
involved GIs.
Crooks, operating singly and
in well-organized gangs, used
every conceivable dodge to steal
allotment, pension, disability
and other checks, then forged
endorsements and eashed them.
Their total haul approached
four million dollars.
The Secret Service head fig
ures the criminal element will
go to any length to cut in" on
the two and one-half billion
dollars the leave bonds brought.
He urges banks to request dis
charge papers of veterans be-
fore cashing bonds.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

The American Federation of
Labor. meeting in its annual
state convention at Jackson
this week, gave its endorse
ment to the development of
Pascagoula as Mississippi's
deep sea port. and to the con-
struction of the Pat Harrison
waterway. This was a wise
move on the part of the labor
group. for there is no part of
our population who would ben
c fit more from the completion
of these two projects than that
group who earns their living
with the skill of their hands.
The Pat Harrison waterway
would provide cheap water
transportation for the manu-
featured goods and natural re-
sources produced in the Hat
tiesburg Laurel : Meridian tri-
angle, and would bring TO this
section of the state many in
dustries that would employ
skilled labor at good wage
rates. Unfortunately Mississip-
pi has received in the past few
years more than its share of
those industries who came to
our state primarily because
they could operate at minimum
labor costs. That our people
are adapted to skilled trades
and rank with the best in the
nation is shown here in the In
gals Shipyard where the vast
majority of workmen now
classed as skilled came here
a few short years ago from in
land farms and hamlets for
their first experience with the
tools of a skilled trade.
The labor group also voted
to give Senator Eastland to
the Republicans" Unfortunate
~, most of the Republican leg
Islation. including the killing of
price controls, was passed with
the aid of our Southern Repre-
sentatives and Senators. 1t was
a sorry record for representa-
tives of the Democratic party.
II has always been our
thought that competition was
the basis of the American free
enterprise system but appar-
emily we are badly wrong, ac-
cording to Tom Girdler, presi-
dent of Republic Steel. ANY
substantial increase in the pro-
duction of steel would contri-
butte nothing but further infla-
ton. Mr.. Girdler says, and
warns the American people
that it will be better for them
to get along with fewer cars.
refrigerators and stoves in or
der to combat initiation and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
Acheson Death May Ban
Special" vIP Flights
Special to Central Press

Special to Central Press
Neutrality-suspicious. result of
the BIZ crash off Hawaii which
killer George Acheson, Jr., top
political. advisor to Gen. Douglas
Macarthur, is expected to be an
order banning such special"
flights for VIP's very import
ant persons) in the future.
Such high-ranking emissaries,
it is believed, will be instructed
to take passage on the regular
Army or Navy transport planes
operating between the Far East
and the United States.
Both the ATC and MATS
have enviable safety records
and are determined to maintain
them by following prescribed
flight procedure, which calls
for regular fuel stops on the
long trans-ocean hops.
Veterans of ATC and MATS
are at a loss to understand why
the fuel stop at Johnston Is
land, about midway between
Kwajalein and Honolulu, was
passed up by the pilot of the
Inflated BIZ.
They do not accept the ex-
PLANTATION that Johnston is too
hard to find in bad weather.
They point out that their navi-
gators never have failed to find
the tiny island-and as a re-
suit never have run short of
fuel. which was the cause of the
BIZ crash.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
A YearAgo
This Week

The state tax commission re-
Jected the county tax rolls dur
ing statewide equalization, de-
handing that the board of SUI
pervisorS up taxes on the coun-
tvs major industries Grad
ing began in preparation for
the widening and Tesurfacing
of U. S. Highway 80 between
Pascagoula and Moss Point
Dairy ratings were published
by the Jackson County Health
Department.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

put up a defense against bread
lines, relief and communism"
This is the most thoroughly
backward reasoning that we
have encountered in many a
day. Increased steel production
is needed to give the American
people those very things that
Mr.. Girdler says they should
do without and give them
at a price the average citizen
can afford to pay. Mr.. Girdler.
to our mind, is advocating that
very cycle that will bring on
the bread lines and the WPA's
again. For If the American peo-
pie can't. or won't, purchase
automobiles, refrigerators, stow
es and other processed goods
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
Paw
Telephone Bills
Once a Year
BY HERBERT C.. T T
APP Newsfeatures

Athens, w. Va.-The ITO
subscribers of the Athens Tele-
phone CO., get bills once a year,
the board of directors repairs
broken lines, and the lone oper-
ator knows voices and numbers
so well a subscriber gets his par
ty if he simply asks her to ring
over home"
The company has. provided
this community of 628 persons
with hand -crank telephone ser-
vice for 40 years. Mrs. Mamie
Mastin, widowed mother of
four, has been the operator for
the past % years.
Every subscriber is also a
stakeholder. His annual bill,
which runs to about $40, is his
share of the operating costs.
There is no profit involved.
Mrs. Mastin knows all. the
town numbers by heart and
only occasionally has to consult
her handwritten telephons book
on the II rural telephones with
II different long-and-short ring
signals. Most of the subscrib-
r she a recognize and call
by their first names just from
hearing their voices.
The switchboard is in Mrs.
Mastin's apartment, where she
lives alone. Her children are
grown and married.
Meals are brought to her there
and stockholders of the friendly
firm frequently stop in to pass
the time of day. She says she
once stayed in her apartment
exchange for three months
without going out,
There is a night bell to
awaken her for calls after the
normal 10 o'clock closing time,
but most subscribers respect her
hours and do not call late un-
less it is a real emergency.
When Concord college is play
ing a home game here during
basketball season, however she
willingly remains on the job af-
ter hours so the news service
can get the story.
Mrs, Mastin's bosses are the
seven men making up the un-
paid board of directors, Each
one is assigned a district in
which he must make repairs
himself whenever there is a line
break.
The stockholders and direc-
tors hold their annual meeting
the second Saturday in August
to elect officers and assess
themselves for operating ex-
penses.
This year the board elected
d. L. Thompson, a retired Mer-
Ger county deputy sheriff, pres
ident and voted to send bills
every three months instead of
Just once during the coming
year.
Bad connections may be a lit
tie more frequent and service a
little slower than with a modern
dial system, but Athens sub
seribers swear by their family"
company and it is doubtful if
they would trade its friendly
courtesy for the impersonal eff
fieiency of a metropolitan sys-
tenn.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

with seven men took off the
air-strip, faltered. and plunged
into the ocean. Rescue boats
were too late. Seven bloody
Mae West jackets bobbed in
water clouded with shark -chas-
er powder"
Fifty Navy and four Army
families live on Kwajalein.
Some dark, stocky members
of the Micronesian race, have
returned.
There's no fresh water. You
wonder how the people got
along before the white man
came with his distilling equip
ment. Major Bird explained
they drank coeonut milk and
when rainwater collected they
drank that. Somehow, they
managed to adapt themselves.
Were trying to do the same
thing"
Rust ate at the tenders and
hood of the Army staff car.
Everything rusts.' grumbled
Sgt. Louis Sheraek of Crooks
ton, MINI. THE knife in YOUR
pocket, engines, cameras-peo-
pie rust"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser called at
tention to Masonite's bad faith
IN the stream pollution wrangle
and deplored the Third World
War" talk brought on by Henry
Wallace's speech which result
ed in his resignation as secre-
tary of commerce.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
BY WILLIAM c. BARNARD
AP Newsfeatures

Kwajalein-The CT describ-
ed Kwajalein: mo wine, no
women, no fun atoll."
Heat shimmers off wooden
buildings lining the airstrip. A
black mongrel worries a sand
crab. A great stiffness swallows
the dogs barks. He trots away,
painting for porch shade.
Far offshore the waves pound
the reef. Dead shells of rus
ting landing craft line the
beach.
Two miles out are many
ships, radioactive relics of the
Bikini bomb.
Kwajalein-coral atoll, half
mile wide, two miles long, re-
fueling stop between Honolu-
lu and Guam, population 1,400.
Tell the veterans it's even
quieter now than it was during
the war;" Maj. c. H. Bird of
Fort Davis. Texas, said. During
the war we did average a plane
on deck every two minutes.
Now, we get about IA flights
through here a day, and believe
me, we look forward to them"
CL.-L~. n----
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
Inside Washington
Fear Forgers May Cut In
On Leave Bond Payment

MED reports that he would quit
his present post because of his
health.
No Gag
Anti-filibuster legislation is
just about as dead under Re-
publican control of the Senate
- ii was when Democrats we're
in charge of things.
Filibuster Survives Attack
The reason is that, while SOU
thern Democrats are more voci-
ferrous about it, there are 9TH
ers-both Democrats and Re-
publicans-from small-popula-
ton states who regard the fill
buster as something they might
need some day.
Senator Patrick A. McCar-
al CD, Nevada, is outspoken
for the right to fillibuster. He
explained:
IF states of small population
cannot have for their defense
unlimited debate, the more
populous states can at any time,
for punitive reasons or other
wise, deprive the small states
of their just measure of their
right to their place in the Unit
ed States"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
Same At Guam

The humidity is as bad-or
worse-at Guam, seven air
hours away. Roll up your
sleeves, unbutton your collar.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19
Sharks Dangerous

mo, we don't swim-have
you seen the sharks?" he asks.
1.-Two months ago a bomber
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-09-19

MED reports that he would quit
his present post because of his
health.