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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-22

neighbor, achieve a common
brotherhood.
Accompanying DR.. Nelson was
Z. N. Elsey, head of the Depart
ment of Music at Mississippi Col
lege.
A number of guests and visit
ing Rotarians, who were intro
duoed by Zeke Wright, swelled
the attendance.
Following an outline of the
proposal of the Kiwanis Club
that civic groups of the city join
in the establishment of a Youth
Camp at the Old Spanish Fort,
members voted to appoint a com
mittee to attend a future meet
ing to work out plans for the
proposal.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-22
Mississippi To Have Poor Pecan Crop
This Year; Especially Bad On Coast

Mississippi has a short pecan
crop this year, assording to the
report of the United States De
partment of Agriculture, just re-
leased By D. A. McCancdiss, Gov
eminent Statistieian at Glllfport.
Condition of pecans in Mississip-
pi on August l indicates a pros
pect of only 3,770,000 pounds this
year. The State produced 1885,
000 pounds last year, and the 10
year. average from 1936-45 was
6,739,000 pounds.
Heavy rains during the bloom
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-22
Plans Are Completed For Annual Elk
3-Duy Labor Day Picnic At Beach Park

fair are used for Elks charity
funds, and to help finance the
Crippled Children's wing for the
jackson County hospital
The three-day picnic will af-
ford games and contests, bathing
beauty contests, sailing races and
will climax Monday with a par
ado by local Unions, which will
start at the courthouse at $3.50
a. M. and will finish at Beach
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than the small crop produced last
year. Oklahoma also has an I'M
usually good pecan crop, with
a promise on August l of "a
1900 0 pounds, this is 7,74O,0O0
more than average, and more
than three times as much as last
years short crop. The crop fore
cast for Texas is 81 ,000, 900 which
is IL million less than last year
and Az million less than average.
The better pecan crops in Texas
are in counties along the Red
River in the northern part of the
State.
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Plans were in process of com
pletion for the annual Labor Day
picnic, "Aluogacsap7, sponsored
by the local Elks club, which will
be held for three days this year
at the Beach Park
Long an annual event which
highlights the closing of summer,
the picnic this year will begin on
Saturday and continue through
Labor Day. Proceeds from the af-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-22

ing season in Mississippi caused
poor pollination and a light set
of nuts in most parts Of the state.
The crop is especially poor in the
Gulf Coast area.
For the Nation as a whole this
years pecan crop promises to be
about average. The present fore
cast is LOG, $4,000 pounds COM
pared with rs, zoe. 600 pounds.
Georgia leads all States this
year, with a prospect of %, 945.0 200
pounds, which is a million more
than average and IA million moro
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-22
BIRTH OF O

Mr.. and Mrs. Owen Bishop are
the parents of a six and a half
pound son who was born at the
Jackson County hospital Tues
day, August 10Th.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-22

Many lilac shoots were carried
10 America by the Pilgrims on
the Mayflower.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-22
J.. Guy Krebs
Candidate For
SHERIFF
Issues The Following
Statement
Statement
M. Friends

My Friends
Six times I have come before the people of my county where
I wos born and reared and asked them to elect me to public
office. Ihove pitched my campaign on q high plane in each
one of those races. I never stopped to the low level OF drug-
ging the name of my opponent through the mud and mire of
cut throot politics. In every race for public office thotI have
ever made I have olwoYs respected the name of my oppon-
emf. his home and his freside. I have never made q com
poiqn on fulse issues in an effort to misleod and deceive the
people. have never made q statement from the stump or
in private conversation that I could not prove. And now in
the face of this unwdrrunted and false dttock that hos been
made upon me and my fomilY. in the newspaper of this
county. ]. ]. Guy Krebs. refuse to leave the path of honor and
decency to roll in the filth OF petty politics. My opponent will
surely learn that an insidious newspaper od connot take
from me the respect and confidence of the people who have
have befiended since I entered manhood. And when they
come to slender me and my fomily or the nome of onY other
GOOD and honest man and his fomily. l hope that they will
receive the utmost condemnation Of the upright and decent
citizens of Jackson County.
Organized Gambling and Racketeering
Will Not Be Allowed
Enforcement of All The Laws Fair and Inpartiolly
Vote For
j. Guy Krebs
For SHERIFF Of Jackson County
ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 26
Man of Experience. Proven Honesty and Good Morals
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TO THE VOTERS OF
JACKSON COUNTY

This will be my final appeal to you rs
you will go to the polls Tuesday, to elect
q Tax Assessor to serve you for the next
four years.
First want to express my sincere up-
preciution for the vote you gave me in
the first primary which made it possible
for me to enter the second primary with
oleod over my opponent.
Second. I would like to osk those who
did not see fit to vote for me in the first
primary to give careful consideration
to my long experience and training in
this office and the foct that I have ot
all times strived to make you q good
and efficient Tax Assessor. For this
reuson I osk for your vote on Tuesday,.
As I have no help in moking outside as
sessments it is impossible for me to be
in my office ut oil times to meet the pub
lie. When I have been forced to be out
OF my office making assessments have
olwoYs left good and efficient help in
my office to take core of the public. !
hove always kept up-io-dote county
mops in my office showing oil the prop
ertY in the county. and these mops
hove ot oil times been open to the pub
lie.
# reelected I will continue to render
you good and efficient service. I op-
peol to the voters of Jackson County
for their influence on August 26th.
Sincerely Yours. y
]. K. GRAHAM
Candidate for Tax Assessor
paid Political Adv
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-22
E. W. ELMER
For
Floaier Representative

Your FLoATER REPRESENTATIVE must understand the
problems of the Coast and the legislative questions involved
TO get results.
He must be able 10 debate these questions on the floor OF
the Legislature with 1893 other members and must be able
TO write laws and 10 quickly analvze the bills coming up
for consideration.
II Is of the utmost importance that the Coast have the best
representation possible in these crucial times.
r. w. tBILLl ELMER was born and reared on the Missis-
sippi Coast. has served in the State Senate. and has made
an exhaustive study of the Port Facilities and the Seafood
Industry of the Coast. and knows their legislative needs.
Elect Bill Elmer and help put over the ELMER PROGRAM:
Improvement of our port facilities; development of seafood
industry; State TO refund to municipalities all amusement
taxes and part of Sales Tax; increased appropriations for
schools and better pay for teachers and bus drivers; iber-
alization of Old Age Assistance Laws and increased bene-
fits, and State assistance to war veterans. Exempting FEED
AND FERTILIZER from Sales Tax.
Competent Qualified and Experienced
Vote for F. w. (Bill) ELMER
FOR
FLOATER REPRESENTATIVE
This advertisement paid for by Jackson County friends of
Bill Elmer-Approved by f. w. (BilD Elmer.
Evening star., 1947-04-03

/ reading Of the Biblical text, The Passion.
Chapters II and 78 Of st. Matthew Charlie,
Boyer Is emese and the Mitchell Boys Choir pro-
yides background music.
WRt, i0:30-Bob Hops drops In.
WT0p. i0:30-Herberi Marshall again play,
The Nan Called X in ! new series Of mystery
stories.
WRc. ti:30-" "sedet for Winds and Piano.
by Edwin Birmingham Hill. is played.
Evening star., 1947-04-03

The question are Senator Joseih MtcsrihY, A.
iornsy Edward Arthur Hayes and Authors Ellis
ArnslI and Leo eherne.
WRc, s:00-veroniea Lake visits.
VOL, 9:30Iicis Albsnese and Ffsnes1o
Valentino offer Angus Del Is their duet.
WRc. 930-Adolphs Meajou appears.
WT0P, i0:00-van Heflin Is The Man Who
Conquered Devils Island"
VOL. 1000 Ethel Barrymore IN ! dramatic
Evening star., 1947-04-03
on The AIR ToMisRr.

WT0p, 8:00-comedisn Phil SiIvs's plays =
dramatic role in The Rapid Rise Of Eddie Al.
briohi."
VOL, 8:00-A new audisnts participation
show, which gives the listener ehanee 10 rem.
der verdict on actual court cases. Attorney
Malcolm Essfsrlin Is the quiz master.
WMAL, $780," Should the Communist Party
Be Oui!awed in the United Sfaies!" Discussing
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19
STATE OF THE NATION
Langley CoIIyers fear
I1|:W:l}: Fast

a cave, and they trembled there.
Fear was the dominant note
of their lives = terrible, terrible
fear that never left them. They
feared starvation, insecurity, pov,
erty; they feared their own kind;
they feared the whole world"
LET US LEAVE the coolie who
considers himself fortunate when
his rice bowl is full. What else
could be said to him, or to coal
miner, or to clearinghouse
worker, or to a turret lathe oper,
ator, other than, to coin a phrase:
verify, and this man was as
wealthy as king, yet it awaited
him not"
Easier, l think, to deal with the
historian of tomorrow, a half,
century or century from now,
who brings that fine, detached
perspective to bear. He too writes
of that queen of nations who says
to other nations, "You shall be
free or slave as it pleases me-"
But he sits on the easy height
of time, where puzzles have been
unraveled and he can recall.
DURING lS47. when the Amer
can Doctrine was laid out by
Harry Truman, when people
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trembled at the thought of atomic
war, when the Parnell Thomas
un>American Committee became
the modern inquisition, two broth,
ers died in a house in Harlem and
the American people damn near
forgot everything else, and every
time they opened their papers,
it was to get the latest on Lang
ley Collyer, so much so that even
Leo Durocher was pushed off
page one for the time being.
Nov that is something I have
to understand" our historian
says, because in thai particular
country at that particular time,
you could have anything, even
washing machine"
SO he riddles himself the cur
ious case of Collyer, and because
he has the world perspective -
even as you and I have today,
when we consider the age of Ma
poleon-he draws some interest,
ing conclusions. He starts with
the specific:
1. The Collyer brothers, veal,
thy, entitled to the generous re,
Taxation of old age.
2. They do not spend their
wealth, except for the bare neces,
sites of subsistence.
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knit in desperation when you
went on to explain that the an,
swer was literal, not figurative.
Property fell on him and
squashed him like bug. He was
crawling among the property,
and it got him. If he didn't die
at once, he very likely starved to
death. And it could be that the
rats began to eat him even while
he remained conscious"
OUR cOOLIE knows about rats,
and with tears of sympathy we'll
ing into his eyes, he might very
well say, 1.-THE poor man - the
poor, poor mani"
'.Not at all. Hardly poor. In
property and cash, he and his
brother were worth well over
a $150,000."
"How many pice is that?" our
coolie asks, being an ignorant
man, of course, and able to think
of money only in terms Of his
own native coin.
ooh - about forty>five million
pice. But neither he nor his
brother could spend it. They lived
as coolie lives - even worse,
perhaps. They never saw the sun
light or heard the sweet laughter
of children. Their house was like
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FRANKLY SPEAKING
Asia talks Of freedom

on this planet, all of whom are
tired of white imperialism"
THEY ARE TIRED of being
ruled and exploited by the mon,
eyed interests of England, France
and Holland who have ruled these
colored peoples without their con-
sent. They heard that World War
II was war of liberation and
they took it seriously. They be,
lieve the United Nations can help
give them independence and con,
troll of their own destinies.
The japanese, they learned
first hand, were merely another
kind of exploiters instead of
liberators. The British empire is
dying. The French and the Dutch
no longer have their old strength.
With their former oppressors
weakened by war, there are today
but two strong nations capable of
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19
Frank IY:Ns

deciding their destiny. One is
the United States, the other is
Russia. But the Indians, Polyne,
SLAMS and Africans have but to
look inside America at the Negro
ghettos and Jim Crow in the big
cities of the north, at lynchings
and legal discrimination in Dixie
to learn our national attitude to,
ward non>whites.
THE JAPS did pretty thorough
job of educating Asiatics about
our democratic double,talk. No
matter how noble the talk of
Marshall at Moscow on freedom.
they are fully aware of the terri,
BILE gap between speech and per,
Torrance
Further. there is suspicion
OF our motives in the Near
East. II looks to them as If
our oil imperialisfs are GET
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times sales are made TO lawyers
who make re,sales of paper at
fabulous profits.
The Firms are supposed to sell
into the American market at
$4,000 a ton. 1t is also clear that
the Firms are holding off of the
American market a lot of the
newsprint they could send here.
That is first, in order that they
might get higher prices and,
second, a part of the cartel ar
rangement.
1T WAS a mistake, in my opin.
ion, to remove controls on news,
print until the supply became
reasonably adequate. Even small
er daily papers have suffered
greatly and the weeklies in some
cases have nearly been put out
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19
Sen, Pei: :|s5

present time, goes through single
New York agent and no news,
paper can buy from Finnish mill
except through that cartel repre-,
sentative.
Recently, an American went
over to Finland and made a con,
tract with a manufacturer. The
other manufacturers found out
about it and put the most severe
pressure on this manufacturer to
make him stand by the cartel.
THE CANADIAN MILLS pre-,
tend to live up to fixed price
of a little over $4,000
ton, but there is a black market
with this group also. In other
words, an American publisher
can get newsprint if he will pay
big black market profit. Some,
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ting ready to move in as
Britain moves out. merely
giving a change of masters.
Our plans to bolster the fas-
cist regimes of Greece and
Turkey seems TO them a queer
kind of democracy.
This leaves only the Soviet
Union which, as these peoples
know, has abolished racism and
color prejudice. Russia fought
vigorously for the colonial peoples
at the UN meetings while we
muffed our chance. She backed
India against South Africa while
we played with words. You may
be sure that the delegates from
the Central Asiatic republics of
the USSR pointed out these in,
facts at New Delhi.
AS AN AMERICAN, I want to
see my nation in the role of world
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POT
Trusts hit free press

more than almost any other area.
ABOUT EIGHTY-FIVE PER-
CENT of the newsprint we get in
the United States comes from
abroad-Canada, New Foundland,
Finland and the Scandinavian
countries.
1t is now pretty clear that there
is cartel arrangement among
all these manufacturers, that is,
an agreement among them that
they will put only a certain
amount of newsprint in the Amer
lean market, SO they can hold the
prices up and make larger profits.
The Canadians have an asso>
citation which serves as their
cartel representative. All the
newsprint from Finland, the larg,
est European producer at the
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l tiiliih IL uidy
eventually result
in the death and
burial of what
colored peoples
of the globe call
white imperial,
ISM" 1t is some
thing that Wall
Street might do
well to ponder.
Let us remem>
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people W i'll be
able to sleep a
little better, a
little less per,
p ! e x e ly for
knowing t h a t
what t h e rats
had left is being
decently buried.
The Far East,
ern coolie of to,
lay, as well as
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5. They live in an ancient house
in a poor section of the city. All
beyond the walls of their house
threatens them.
4. They are the inheritors, the
renters, the apex, the elimination
of the economic system which
produced them and their civiliza>
ton, yet it destroys them. OF all
civilizations, theirs put the high
est premium on security, yet
made it most difficult to attain.
In a sense, they are the stereo,
type of their fellow man; deep IN
their hearts, they know there is
no security in what they have.
S. But they barricade them
selves with possessions, tons and
tons of possessions, yet it avails
them not. And at last the posses
sions fall on Langley Collyer and
squash him like bug.
so. our historian-who is also
a philosopher-puts one and two
and three and also four and five
together, and he tries to find in
the bedlam both reason and def
milton. He rereads the Truman
Doctrine, and he becomes most
thoughtful, for was not that ma,
ton where you could have any,
thing, even a washing machine,
the wealthiest of the wealthy?
Was it not entitled to the gener>
Gus fulfillment of its long nur>
tured dream? Was it not the
most secure yet the most fright
ened?
"But thank God,' our historian
signs, "that there were people in
twentieth century America, as well
as Langley Collyers." Yet he
could not cleanse from his nos,
trils the dry stink of fear and
terror that his excursion into the
past and into a house in Harlem
had evoked.
leader. Yet this is today an empty
dream. With the atom bomb, tire.
mendous wealth and industrial
know,how, we have the fear of
other peoples; but we kid only
ourselves if we think we are
recognized as their theological
leaders.
Americas practice Of divid-
people into interiors" and
"superiors" at home goes with
US abroad. Those of US ar
bitrarilY classed as inferior"
are sick of the whole mess
whether we live in Chicago
or Calcutta. Java or NADIA
gascar. And we are going to
keep on fighting in every
way possible. welcoming as
allies everybody who sincere
lY wants TO see us obtain
freedom and equality.
To put it more pointedly, the
exploited non,white nations are
drawing close to Russia and the
new peoples governments of Eu.
rope just as in America the Jim
crowed groups draw close to
Communists and the whole pro,
gressive movement. 1t cannot be
otherwise.
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of business.
There is plenty of newsprint
today, but it is being uneven1y
distributed. Two percent of the
production redistributed fairly
would take care of all the needs
of papers now, I am told.
The big chain owners like
Hearst and some of the larq-
est papers who have plenty
of money have been able TO
get all the newsprint they
want. But the smaller papers.
which could not own big mills
or contract for enormous
quantities of newsprint and
did not know the ms and outs
of the Merchandising that
was going on. have had to
suffer.
We cherish freedom of the
press, but we cannot have free
dom of the press if the little
paper as well as the large cannot
get newsprint. This is a case
therefore where monopoly and
cartelism are striking a blow at
one of our most cherished free,
doms, the freedom of the press.
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the historian of tomorrow night,
however, express a note of be-
wilderment. The coolie, for in,
stance, considers the day fortu>
nate which includes tolerable
bowl of rice.
AS often as not, he goes with.
out it, and when the great hunger
stalks through his land, whether
his land be India, China or else
where, striking down the thous,
ands and the millions too, when
the belly pinches and the ribs
show like the strings of a harp,
he will perhaps, in his fevered
dreams, call up a picture of the
colossus of colossi. the land where
no one wants for anything. even
washing machines.
DOUBTLESS. though, Langley
Collyer would puzzle this repre-,
sentative of the lesser and darker
races.
"Who killed Langley collyer?"
he might ask.
Property killed him."
1t would surprise you how readi,
~ even the lower orders grasp
philosophical concepts, but I'm
sure our coolies brows would
I wonder if enough Americans
i realize the significance of the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

@ o LANGLEY Collyer is dead.
~ and all over this mighty ma,
ton, this nation of nations, this
Queen of the Western World,
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When ration,
ing and pri c e
control went off,
the prize e re.
manned the de-
livered price, but
then the manu-,
facturers a n d
jobbers began to
deliver newsprint
generally in the
area near New
would have less
Papers located a
New York with
on costs suffered
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

Der first that those humans who
call themselves white are a
minority of this worlds popula,
ton, barely Is percent. The re.
manning rs percent are yellow,
brown and black and therefore
inferior" to the dominant white"
minority. The rs percent have
gotten tired of their status.
Delegates from 80 colored ma,
tions met at New Delhi to begin
concerted struggle to remedy
this condition. They came from
the Central Asiatic USSR repub,
lies, from all of Asia and from
Africa. They spoke for billion
humans, majority of the people
HOST of the small newspapers,
Aland especially the weekly
papers, today are being choked
and strangled because of monopo,
ly, cartelism and blackmarketing
in newsprint.
When price control was in
effect. newsprint was ration
ed and there was pretty fair
distribution of it among the
papers of the country. big and
little. There was fixed price
per ton and that was the de-
livery price.
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T wonder if enough Americans
i realize the significance of the
1nter,Asiatic conference held two
weeks ago at New Delhi, India.
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York, so they
freight to pay.
long way from
high transported
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AS AN AMERICAN. I want to
see my nation in the role of world
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-19

DURING lS47. when the Amer
an Doctrine was laid out by
Harry Truman, when people