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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-02
Letters

EDITORS NOTE: The following
letter was received this week
from the Rev. O. c. Roberts, Jr.,
of Vancleave, who was the first
pastor of the Eastlawn Metho-
dist Church and is now a mis-
sionary to Africa.
March Is, 1947
Editor, The Chronicle Star:
This is just to let you know
that your weekly report on jack
son County is still much appre-
ciated. The February End and
9th editions arrived today and
have been thoroughly enjoyed.
Would also like to remind all
our friends that we are still a
live and often think of them. And
though the Chronicle brings us
lots of news, we still like to re-
ceive letters.
We have been here at our pres
ent post since mid December. |
am teaching half-time in the
Misunderstanding school and do
ing the administrative work.
Martha is teaching half-time and
looking after the home. Our stu
dents are neither bright nor dull,
good nor bad, but just like those
most other teachers teach. My
specially, of course, is their reli-
gious instruction and l do a bit
of preaching as well. Besides the
misunderstanding here at Old
Umtali we have also the primary
school Cup to eighth grade) and
the theological school. Students
plus staff plus Workmen make
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-02
18th Anniversary

Many years of t~ireless and faithful service
to the aims and detectives of Rotary Club
were rewarded this week, and a local citizen
given high honor, with the election of Ed
Virgins as governor of the l4lst district of
Rotary International Mr.. Virgins was chos-
en- at the district convention at Biloxi and
his elevation to this high post is an apt re-
hinder to his fellow citizens that the Pasca-
goula Rotary observes its 18th anniversary
this year. Those who know Ed Virgins know
that Rotary has been the absorbing interest
of his civic life, and that he has brought to
the Rotary program all the %unflagging energy
and dedication of his nature. Ed Virgins and
Rotary indeed have become inseparable;
one might say that Ed Virgins is the Rotary
program p%ersonified. His election seems to
us to be only due recognition of this fact. In
his new post he will be governing officer of
IS Rotary Clubs in the 141st district, which
embraces Mississippi and parts of Louisiana.
This shows how far the Pascagoula club has
travelled since its founding 25 years ago; and
to both the club and to its "~favorite SON" we
say congratulations on a Rotary job we'll
done.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-02

We can see how it was diff
ferent in the old days when
horses were so much a part
of ever day living and a mans
prosperity was judged largely
by the horses he drove. Our
information about this is large
ly based on stories, since the
T-Model was the general mode
of travel during our early
years.
Horse trading was a great
business and sport, we hear,
and the horse traders used tao
tics that would make a Holly
wood used car dealer blush for
shame.
Our great grandfather, earn
Roberts, was a horse trader
both by profession and nature.
He passed on before our time
but we would have given any
thing TO know him for he was
a story teller without peer and
known as a man who found
great enjoyment in life.
During the Civil War, we are
told, he was nearly killed and
prayed a funny sort of prayer
while he was scared.
He didn't ask forgiveness of
his sins or for another chance
to do right, he said later on.
He just promised the Lord that
if he got out of that scrape
he would never worry about
anything again and enjoy life
to the fullest.
And he lived UP to it.
It's a good thing that he
didn't promise to tell the truth,
or he would have been out of
luck as a horse trader. He pull
ed all of the ruses p~racticed
in that era, including using shoe
polish on the gray hairs on a
black horse, lying about a
horses age and swearing to it,
and selling halt, lame and blind
animals solemnly represented
as being in the best of condi-
ton.
1t was a game as we'll as a
business with only one hard
and fast rule for the profess
sional: always get some boot
in the trade. You couldn't have
snapped the best horse in the
world for the sorriest sway
backed nag in the country I'M
less the horse trader got some
money, too.
If they ran out completely,
or their horse died or some
thing, we guess they bought
another horse outright. We
never learned the straight of
that end of it.
But we do know that swap
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-02
Water Safety

Summertime is happy time for most peo-
true on the Gulf Coast. But summer means
swimming, boating, wading, fishing, and
these sports, harmless as they seem, each
year bring tragedy into the lives of some
score of families living along the coast.
Drowning accidents are tragic events. They
occur when people are happiest, in ~carefree
moments Of sport and relaxation. When a
family or a group of young people set out for
the beach or the river or swimming pool on a
summers day, excitement runs high and
death is the fartherest thing from the
thoughts of all. Nobody is sick. Everyone on
the party is eager, alert, excited-literally
trimming with health. This very excitement
and eagerness leads to most of the drownings
which take place, for many do not pause to
use good judgment but set out for deeper
water or start off in leaky or unstable boats
even though they cannot swim; or cannot
swim nearly as well as they think they can.
And that is how these summer tragedies
take place. A poor swimmer gets in trouble.
In a split second he is drowning-a sight so
unbearably pitiful that human instinct al
most cannot stand it. That is why people who
cannot swim at all, so often go to the aid
of drowning people, although it means going
to certain death and even adding to the peril
of the man in trouble. For no matter how
brave a mans intentions are, the second he
loses control of himself in the water he too
becomes a poor drowning wretch who will
''clutch at a straw and pull anyone under
who is near him. 1t is thiss swift change from
extreme heroism to sudden deadly panic
which makes drowning the pitiful and tragic
fate that it is. Panic is what causes so many
of these incidents to result in the deaths of
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-02
Il E. ~k~
So s!RNIl!E INV H|!Ll!'!l'
BY NOLLE T. ROBERTS

This may not be the Wettest
spring in the history of the
county, but it will certainly
take its place as one of the
wettest and one of the most
difficult years in which to get
a crop planted.
Corn should be knee high,
here the first of May, but we
have seen very little corn at
all in III trips around the
county and some folks have
told us that they have plant
ed as many as three times
without getting a stand.
The seed literally washes
away, they say.
And since corn planted now
isn't likely to make more than
nubbins, it looks like that
scarce item will be even scare
er this year and the price will
no doubt remain out of sight.
Some of the best corn we
have eel was at Alfred Whites
in the Bonnie Chapel section
and it was nearly six inches
high only three weeks after
having been planted, They were
blowing it out with a tractor,
the day we were there, a whole
middle at a time.
That's really the way to
farm, not only because it does
The work better and much fas-
ter, but it breaks the old end
less circle of growing corn to
feed your horses so you will
have them to grow more orn
with next year.
OF course, life's a circle any
way-like eating to live and
living to eat-but most of us
prefer an ever expanding cy-
Gle like working hard this
year so that we can eat bet
ter next year, in a manner of
speaking.
But setting a tractor up in
the barn all winter without
having to throw it twenty ears
of corn must be a pleasure
since the corn can be sold or
used to fatten hogs or other
stock.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-02

Special to Central Press
Washington - Diplomats are
watching with interest the pos
sible reaction that President
Truman's new foreign policy
will have on the attitude of
Soviet satellite states toward
the United States.
Some foresee the possibility
that those nations will become
even more restrictive in their
controls. such as the lessening
of democratic liberties. Others
anticipate that the various gov
ernments may become more
amiablc, at least in paying lip
courtesy to America.
So far, little information has
been given the people of coun-
tries like Yugoslavia and Po-
land of the aid policy toward
Greece and Turkey. Even the
Moscow radio, which is an in
fluential source of news in the
Balkans, has said little about
the aid plan, presumably I'M
certain what the effect of the
news would be there.
Meanwhile, United States Of
ficials are letting the matter
rest, trusting that in time the
news will be heard. They fore
see a powerful weapon in di-
plomacy if Greece is restored
to something like normal pros
perity while the Russian satel-
lite states have a tough time
making ends meet.
The proposed direct relief
appropriations means that aid
will be withheld from unfriend-
ly states. This policy is likely
to break down. however, if
starvation faces any large seq
ment of the population in such
states, since success Of the
American plan depends on the
hope that the masses, finding
nothing to gain in Commu-
nism, ultimately will force a
return to democratic ways.
49,
The Russian conception of
who won the war" was stat
ed bluntly by the Soviet en-
bassy Bulletin, official voice
of Moscow in Washington.
The Kremlin-inspired period
ical stated: I'm the world strug-
gle against Fascism-the sec
ond world war-the Soviet
army made the greatest contri-
button
The Bulletin went on to say;
'"The theater of war over which
the Soviet army struggled had
an area roughly six times that
of all the other theaters of
war where Allied troops bat
tied the German-Fascist coali-
ton.
1T is also a fact that the hui
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-02

ping and haggling and lying
was as much a pastime as a
business for they would rather
stick their best friend than a
perfect stranger and priced
their reputation as a slick trad
er even above the money it
made them.
II was a fine life, spent trav-
cling about the country side
on the back of your stock in
trade. Ii didn't even matter
whether you traded very often
or not. Folks were always glad
to see you and there was food
and a bed and good company
where ever night found you.
If you failed to trade, three
days would probably be spent
before the matter was settled
and the trader was full of
fried chicken and his horse
getting fat in the barn by that
time.
We wonder if there is an hon
est to goodness horse trader
left in the county. Not a truck
driving stock buyer but a
bana fide "hoss snapper" who
makes his living by trading
horses.
If there is, we are willing
to make a trade. If he will let
us know when he will be in
Pascagoula, we will swap the
best chicken dinner the town
provides for some stories OF
trades he has made.
1t sounds like a good bust
ness to us and we would like
to hire out as an apprentice.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-02

man losses sustained by the
Soviet army were more than
six times the losses of all other
Allied armies combined"
No mention was made of the
billions of dollars in war ma
terial poured into Russia at a
time when the Red forces were
fighting with their backs strict
" to the wall.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-02

nearly a thousand people on our
800 acres. We are quite happy
here but think often of the time
when we shall cross the ocean
once more.
Our hopes and prayers are
with you.
Sincerely,
@. c. ROBERTS, Jr.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-02
Capital


Watch Reaction of Soviet
Satellites to u. s. Policy
Russian Bulletin Boasts
Red Army Won the War"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-02
POLITICAL
AMMO

&1& M AA&
NOUNCEMENT
The following individuals
have formally announced in
the columns of the Chronicle
Star ard Advertiser their cam
didacy for political office in
this summers Democratic Pri-
mary.
STATE SENATOR
Jackson. George and Greene
Counties
G.. L. BEAVERS
R. E. HORNE
SHERIFF AND TAX
COLLECTOR
R. A. HELM
j. GUY KREBS
JOHN r. McNEAL
NOLLE T. ROBERTS
x. L. WALKER
LAURIN r. WARE
CIRCUIT CLERK
VERTIS G.. RAMSAY
TAX ASSESSOR
LAWRENCE GOFF
KNOX GRAHAM
w. G.. JOHNSON
BoAR OF SUPERVISORS
DISTRICT ONE
II. W. COCHRAN
billiard E. JONES
DISTRICT TWO
T. v. (TIM) BLADES
A. w. CAMBLEY
T. j. DICKSON
l.. C. (BILL) JOHNSON
EDWARD A. KHAYAT
LESTER E. MACK
j. H. ROBINSON
c. B. WILKINSON
DISTRICT THREE
H. (Mac) BOWMAN
JOHN j. (Jack) HOLLISTER
JOE V. KREBS
WILLIAM II. (Pie) MOORE
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
DISTRICT ONE
H.. H. PARKER
S. H. SWENSEN
DISTRICT THREE
KATE DENNY
CONSTABLE
DISTRICT TWO
M. c. STEVENSON
DISTRICT THREE
FOSTER BARROW
LEVERT J. pistol Pete
BOSARGE
l. F. (MACK) MCGOWAN
w. F. (BILL) STEPHENS
Evening star., 1947-03-03
Agreement Drawn Up
On Philippine Bases
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

MANILA, Mar. 3.-A member of
United States Ambassador Paul v.
McNutt's staff said today formal
United States Philippine agreement
on American military base sites in
the islands probably would be signed
sometime next week.
He said the Ambassador would
leave shortly afterward for home,
travelling via Europe.
A high Philippines source said
the agreement provides this setup:
Navy: Its big base on Samar
island, its Subic Bay base (near
Manila) for medium ships and sub
marines, it's Sangley Point air base
and a rest camp at Baguio, the sum-
mer capital north Of Manila. ,,ys4
Army: A major development at
Clark Field, in the foothills country
north of Manila; ferry-route air.
fields on Leyte island and on NorthA
ern Luzon, and possible retention Of
Fort Mckinley, in the Manila area.
1t also would retain its own rest
camp at Baguio. Nichols Field and
other Manila installations would re-
vert to the Philippines-with Mich
OILS becoming an international air.
port.
This source said one point re-
mained to be settled: whether
American servicemen in the islands
were to have extraterritorial rights,
rather than be subject to Philippines
law.
Evening star., 1947-03-03
.Friede Named Chairman
For Annual Shrine Circus

Herbert A. Friede has been
named chairman of the Arena Mao
agement Committee for the sixth
annual Shrine Circus.
The circus. for the benefit of the
Amas Temple Charities and Ac-
tivities Fund. has been scheduled to
start at Uline Arena April q.
Nathan G. Robinson will be chair
man of the Safety and Guards
Committee and Julius, B. Gay and
Harper L. Twining will direct the
Ticket Committee.
George E. Harris and Russell M.
Brown will supervise the Greeters
Section, and Wilfred E. Lawson the
parade floats.
Circus headquarters, 1915 K street
NV, announced that ticket reser-
vations are now available.
Evening star., 1947-03-03

Ing that power stations now had
nearly II days stocks on hand as a
result OF the, drastic ban, warned
that the crisiS might recur unless
restraints on the domestic use Of
electricity were retained.
Although fines up to $1,000 and
two years in prison were prescribed
by the government for violators of
the electricity ban. no prosecutions
were made during the three-week
period. Householders and other
domestic users Of power still are
subject to penalties, but they have
been put on their honor" to CO.
operate in the five-hour-per-day
switch-offs.
Evening star., 1947-03-03
Britain Removes Ban
|0n Factories Power,
Keeps Home bIackoui
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

LONDON, Mar. 8. - Britain
lifted the last phase of her ban
on electricity powered factory
production today and hundreds
of thousands of workers returned
to their jobs after three weeks
of idleness.
But even on the first day of
normally over strained generating
plants stalled production in some
key areas, imposing 45-minute
load shedding" that cut power by
IS per cent in Southwest England,
10 per cent in the Southeast and
Central parts of the island and S
per cent in the Mideast.
While most of the blacked- -out
factories were redpened, government
leaders warned that coal reserves
were still desperately low. Com
pulsory daily f1ve-hour electricity
cuts in homes and offices remained
In effect and the street lighting
blackout will be maintained.
Many Plants Unable to Open.
Official quarters awaited detailed
reports before estimating the cost
Of the economic breakdown, but
some business circles said the loss
in production as a result of the
widespread industrial shutdowns,
would run over $500, ,O00, 600. Nearly
5000, 900 workers were unemployed
during the crisis, according to gov
ernment estimates.
Many factories were unable to
open today despite the restoration
of power because of the shortage
OF coal or lack of parts from sub
sidiary plants. The Ford Motor Co.
plant at Dagenham, with $4,000
workers, was unable to open be-
cause of lack of coal.
A few plants announced that
they would respond to Government
appeals for the running of night
shifts to cut down the drain on
power generators during the peak
daytime periods, but most of them
awaited the results of a Govern
ment consultation with industry on
the tradition upsetting measure.
The Firestone tire factory in Lon
don, with 1000 employees, was one
of the first to announce a change
over to nightWork.
Coal Stocks Built Up.
Electric power of all industries
except those essential to public
health and welfare was shut, off in
SO English and Welsh counties on
February 10 because coal stocks at
the power stations had fallen to the
critically low level Of nine days re-
serve. Electric power was restored
to industry in 30 counties, including
London, just after midnight. Last
Monday factories in eight Midlands
counties resumed work after two
week shutdown.
A government spokesman, report
Evening star., 1947-03-03
BY the Associated Press

The names Of Hollywood ceIebri.
ties, big-time politicians and indus.
trial figures studded list of refunc
recipients made public today by ths
Internal Revenue Bureau.
More than $1,000 individuals and
corporations are on the list, which
the bureau sends to Congress annu.
ally. 1t enumerates all refunds o1
$500 or more during the last fiscal
year.
Chairman Hoffman of the House
Expenditures Committee to which
the report was submitted, is on the
list.
So are the Brooklyn Dodger.
baseball team. the Bank of Eng.
land, the Democratic National Com.
mittee and a British warship.
Mr.. Hoffman was shown to have
received an income tax refund OF
81 $50.
Others in politics include Gov
and Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York. $577.83; Senator Bilbo, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi, $852.52; Repre-
sentatives Katherine st. George
Republican, of New York, 81, ,1(4
Weichel, Republican, of Ohio, $3.50;
jenkins, Republican, of Ohio, ST.
449; Senator Moore, Republican, OF
Oklahoma, $1,125; Representative
Thomas, chairman OF the House
Committee on Un-American Activi-
ties who with Mrs. Thomas received
a $1,754 refund.
Dodgers Get $18,412.
The Brooklyn Dodgers we're cred
tied with refund of $18,412 dur
ing the year ended last June 80;
the Bank of England, as agent for
the British government, $3,843; the
Democratic National Committee,
s1,o74 in employment taxes; his
majesty's ship Saker, 81 ,467 in mis-
cellaneous taxes which weren't ex-
planned further.
The larger refunds in the estimat-
ed total of $3,035, ,877 900 made dur
ing the year went to industrial con-
Germs. The top was the $47,168, ,578
return to the Aluminium Co. of
America. This company's total in
cluded $41 ,567 ,939 in excess profits
taxes and $487 ,098 in income taxes
paid in Pennsylvania, in addition to
Evening star., 1947-03-03
&c. & P. Cumero Club
To Hear Mohr TONIGHT

Harvey Mohr, professor of applied
color photography at the Depart
ment Of Agriculture Graduate
School, will address a meeting Of
the Chesapeake & Potomac TeIe-
phone Co. Camera Club at 8 O'Clock
tonight in the penthouse, 725 Thir-
teenth street NV.
After the lecture on color finn
there will be demonstration OF
making a color print by the new
dye transfer process" Mr.. Mohr
formerly was an ofncer In the Army
Air Corps photography intelligence
division, and studied at the Inter-
national Research Laboratories in
New York.
Evening star., 1947-03-03
Movie Strike Leader
Found Badly Beaten,
Bound on Highway
BY the Assoeiated Press

BAKERSFIELD, Calf. Mar. 5.
Sheriff's officers reported early
today that Herbert X. Sorrell,
president of the Conference of
Studio Unions and movie strike
leader, had been found badly
beaten and bound hand and foot
on a highway.
Kern County sheriff,s deputies
said Mr.. Sorrell told them he was
kidnapped last night on street in
San Fernando by three men In
black sedan. All three, officers
quoted him, were armed, "and one
OF them wore police officers uni
form and q Los Angeles police off,
GERS badge"
Mr.. Sorren told the authorities he
was handcuffed, bound with rope,
and driven to q spot 80 miles north
and east OF Bakersfield, then thrown
out as his assailants drove on.
Sheriff Asks Roadblocks.
A sheriff's teletype broadcast
stated that the three men are con-
sidered dangerous and asks that
roadblocks be thrownup throughout
Mojave, Kern and Los Angeles
countless
In Los Angeles, Mrs. Frieda Sorrell
said her husband told her he was
expecting a visit from some men
with whom he planned to transact
some business.
MIR. Sorrell was taken to Ridge
crest Hospital in Inyokern, where
hospital attendants said he had a
cash on his head, that his jaw was
swollen, and that he had been placed
under sedative. They said x-rays
would be taken to determine the full
extent of his injuries.
Mr.. Sorreil's CSU lost its fight
for sole jurisdiction over set con-
struction in the studies in an AFL
ruling. The rival AFL union, the
International Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employees, won the set-build-
ing rights under an Executive Coun-
Gil ruling. Mr.. Sorrell's men have
been on strike since last September
The CSU ended a similar jurisdic-
tional strike in December, 1945, on
what Mr.. Sorrell claimed was the
understanding that his men were
to control set building on the movie
lots.
Mr.. Sorrell told authorities he did
not know the identity of his alb
ductors nor their motive.