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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-03-21
COIn1er

BY CONGRESSMAN
VIM. NJ.
The International Situation


President Truman appeared
before the Congress on last
Wednesday and with a solemn
mien and fortnight words ad-
vised the Congress that in or
der To bolster the Greek and
Turkish peoples in the fight
which they have been waging
against Russian aggression
since the cessation of hostili-
ties it would be necessary for
this country to extend some
$500. 900, 900 of assistance to
those countries. The President
did not break dc"vn this amount
as to now much each country
would get, but we can reveal
that it was $3.50. 900 900 for
Greece and S150.000,0 900 for
Turkey.
The President very frank
~ stated that this had become
necessary because British au.
thorities advised him that they
were no longer financially able
to maintain their Army in
Greece and furnish further as
sistance to Turkey.
In the time that we have
served n the national House
of Representatives we have
never witnessed = more solemn
reception given a Presidential
message at a Joint session of
the Congress, not even except
ing President Roosevelt's mes
sage requesting the Congress
to declare war upon Germany
and Japan. In fact, we believe
that the nations Legislators
fully appreciated the gravity of
the moment. The request for
$500, 900 900 of financil assist
ance TO these countries was
within itself comparatively un-
important. 1t was the implica-
tons of such action that gave
the Congress so much concern.
And well it might have, for in
our humble judgment it was
the most momentous message
that has been delivered to the
Congress by any President in
many d day. Certainly it rat
ed in Its serious implications
with the gravity of any other
message which has been deliv-
cred to the Congress in the his
tory of the Republic. For it
means a radical change in the
established foreign policy of
this country.
1t has been generally known
for some time by those con-
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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-03-21

We could moi Conscientious
" advocate the development of
our section along the taWdry
lines practiced further down
the coast, where all natural
sceiery is blotted out by juke
joints, extending almost with
out relief from Bay ST. Louis
to our county line.
A slot-machine built, gamb-
ling supported, liquor = oiled
tourist machine will catch the
vacationers; there is no use
in denying it. But it does not
develop the sort of city in
which most of us wish to rear
our children and make our
homes.
But all tourists are not adj
dictcd TO dice tables and race
tracks. and we think there is
plenty of room for develop
ment IN eur section along pure
" sporting lines-sports that
do no. require stacks of blue
chips CT bookies in order to
function.
The real fisherman requires
only; ID Fish (2) A place to
fish go A place to stay "a
A little encouragement and
very little.
While the hotel talk was GO
ing around in PaScagoula, we
went against the suggestion of
most Of our friends to advo-
cate hat ii be placed on the
riVer-between the F. B Walk
er Shipyard and u. S. High
way 90 with wharves running
out into the river. We see now
that q tourist court is going
up on that piece of property.
The idea might not have been
good, but il would have been
one of the few hotels in the
country that could have adj
vertiSe FISH FROM OUR
LOBBY THE WORLDS
BEST DEEP SEA. SALT WA
TER, AND FRESH WATER
FISHING WITHIN ONE HOUR
OF ANY ROOM. OPEN THE
YEAR 'ROUNDi
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-03-21

This week our thoughts turn
30 writing and writers, and par
%tiCularly to one writer, now
dead, those career seems to US
to typify what the business of
writing is all about.
We refer To the late E. p.
O'Donnell. who had a relative
~ b'iei career in New Orleans,
and who left behind him only
two novels and a few short
stories by which TO Judge his
talents and his promise. Pat
O'Donnell died four years ago
of a heart aiiment, along in his
mid -forties. He had been a
publisher writer for only about
ten wears. That is not a very
long career for a writer. Ten
years g about the outside span
of an athletes career, which
usually lasts from a perform
er's laie teens to his late TWEEN
ties. But the average writer
does not even get warmed up
we'll IN ten wears. There r
notable exceptions, of course,
especially amongst the lyric
poets, who seem to reach their
highest powers very early if
they are to reach them at all.
But amongst the other writer's,
the noveliSts, the dramatics,
the period of ripening is slow
er, and il is the good fortune
of many to be capable of their
finest work in their sixties,
seventies, and for = few of them
even in their eighties. The
German dramatist Goethe
wrote one of his greatest eleg-
les after having fallen in love
with a young girl when he was
in his early eighties. There be-
ing some sixty years difference
in Their ages, he realized he
was a little too old for her
old enough to be her grand
fathers father. And his sense
of tbreak, which was very
real to him even though it
may saem lucicrous to us, gave
rise 70 one of the elegies in
the German languarge.
Some literary critic once
selected a long list of the great
est works of art and estimated
from their dates that the great
est artists have generally hit
their peak about the age of
AZ. That would seem logical to
the average business man or
doctor a. other hrain-wOrker,
most pf whom seem TO look
back % their efforts during
their tNenties ard thirties or
even forties as the bluuder-
ings of beginners. There was
a great French diplomat dur
ing the Napoleonic period who
seemed to express the univcr-
sal sentiment of a man of his
years by exclaiming, why
everybody is fifty years old,
except maybe 2 few green
horns"
But this is waiting us away
from the story of Pat O'Don-
nell. to which we now re-
turn.
Pat. as we understand 1t,
was a poor, "back-of-town'
New Orleans Ifishman He had
little formal education. He
grew up in the drabness and
poverty and cultural bleak
ness oe the city's shotgun
houses: houses which in other
cities would be considered
slums, but which for some
grace cf fern and shrub and
the green fertility of the little
plots before the door, seem to
deserve some softer name IN
New Orleans.
During the l920's he was la
borer in the automobile assem-
bly, plant which tie Ford Com
pany operated there. During
that period a famous writer
named Sherwood Anderson
was LIVING in the New Orleans
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-03-21
POLITICAL


The following individuals
have formally announced in
the columns of the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser their can.
didacY for political office in
this summers Democratic Pri.
mary.
JACKSON COUNTY :
CIRCUIT CLERK
VERTIS G. RAMSAY
Justice of the Peace
DISTRICT ONE
S. H. SWENSEN
DISTRICT THREE
KATE DENNY
Board of Supervisors
DISTRICT TWO
T. ". (TIM1 BLADES
A. w. CAMBLEY
7 J. DICKSON
c. B. WILKINSON
Constable
DISTRICT THREE
L. +. (MACK) MCGOWAN
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
WAR TRIALS !

win STANLEY cup, nlgneSt aWaIo III
professional hockey.
16-Big league baseball season opens. At
tendance at all games hits 23673O,
largest in history for opening day.
May
Assault wins Kentucky Derby. pay.
ing $3.50.
14-American Bowling Congress cham
pion Of all events is Joe Wilman.
30-Indiarapolis Speedway motor race
won by George Robson. averaging
11482 mph.
June
16-Lloyd Mangrum wins National open
golf tournament in Cleveland by
single stroke over Byron Nelson.
l9-Heavyweight champion Joe Louis
retains title by knocking out Billy
Conn in eighth round in Nes; York.
23-Cleveland Indians ball club sold to
syndicate including Bob Hope and
Bill Veeck.
July
6-Pauline Betz wins women's interna-
tional tennis crown at Wimbledon.
England.
28-Herman Barron takes All-American
open golf tournament in Chicago.
August
s-Pittsburgh Pirates ball club sold to
Bing Crosby and three others for
$2,250000.
September
14-Stanley Bishop takes national anna
teur golf title at Springfield, N. ].
16-Big league baseball committee dis
solves after setting up minimum sal
ary of $1,000 and other benefits.
NS- O1ys< TNvNa S0I
In first round to retain heavyweight
title.
29-National league pennant race ends in
tie for first time in history, between
Brooklyn Dodgers and st. Louis Car
dinals.
October
s-st. Louis Cardinals defeat Brooklyn
Dodgers in three game playoH to
take National league pennant.
7-San Francisco beats Oakland to win
Pacific Coast league playoH series.
15-Cardinals take final game of world
series. beating Red Sox 4-3 to cap
ture pennant.
November
s-Army and Notre Dame play to score:
less tie in biggest football game of
year.
22-Stan Musial voted most valuable Ma
tional league player.
26-Bob Montgomery. lightweight cham.
pion, knocks out Wesley Mouzon in
Philadelphia.
28-Army defeats Navy, 81 to ID.
December
6-Marcel Cerdan, French middleweight
champion. wins decision over George
Abrams in New York.
l5-Chicago Bears win National Football
league title.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
September

5-William Heirens of Chicago sen.
fenced to three consecutive life terms
for murder of three persons: Suzanne
Degnan, 6. whose body he dismem-
bered and hid; Miss Frances Brown,
33. and Mrs. Josephine Ross, 43.
1O-Geraldine Farrar, screen and opera
star, weds Stuart Scheftel.
17-Protestant Episcopal church House of
Deputies approves liberalized canons
on remarriage of divorced persons.
Coast guard seizes gambling ship
anchored off Long Beach, Calf, to
evade laws.
29-One killed, many hurt in race riot.
in Philadelphia.
Actress Jennifer Holt marries Billy
Blackwell.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
October

9-Because nobody was killed while
working on the atomic bomb project,
Mai. Gen Leslie Groves, director,
wins National Safety council award.
New drug. pentaquine, called cure
for malaria, revealed.
16-Cattle prices on Chicago market hit
record high at $36.25 a hundred
pounds.
17-Labor bureau reports September non
agricultural employment over 40 mil
lion, down 1a4 per cent from 1943
peak
Jewels valued at $50 900 stolen from
Duke. and Duchess of Windsor in
Ascot, England.
24-Frank Sinatra and wife reconciled in
theatrical scene in night club.
28--Band leader Artie Shaw and Kath-
leen Winsor Herwig. author of For
ever Amber" married in Mexico.
29-Cashier of Mergenthaler Linotype
Co.. william Nickel. arrested in
Miami, Fla, charged with embeZ.
zling 5000, 900 from Brooklyn office.
31-Cotton exchanges reopen after having
been closed for third time in .1No
weeks. Prices down $50 bale since
Oct. 8.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
December
DlEHIE
January

8
Summerville. so.
film comedian.
29-Harry l.. Hopkins, IS. advisor to
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
February
3-Edward Phillips Oppenheim. 70. not
ed fiction writer.
Adm. Richard H. Leigh. IS. former
U. S. fleet commander.
5-George Arliss. ", stage and screen
2l-Vice Adm. Theodore S. wilkinson.
81. drowned at Norfolk. Va.
March
9-John. Cardinal Glennon. SO. Catholic
archbishop of 81. Louis.
21-Vice Adm. Howard L. Vickery, So,
former vice chairman of U. S. mari
time commission.
3O-William ]. Macdonald. rs. former
congressman from Michigan.
31-Martin Davey, 81, former congress.
man and governor of Ohio.
April
8-AlVin v. Donahey, 72, former sena-
tor and three times governor of Ohio.
22-Harlan F. Stone, 73, chief justice of
U. S. and former attorney general.
May .a T.
19-Booth Harrington, 76, novelist and
playwright.
25-John E. Erickson. SO, former sena.
tor and governor of Montana.
28-Sen. Carter Glass, 88. longtime
member OF congress. once secretary
of treasury.
June
12-Sen John H. Bankhead. Is. mem
ber of senate since 1880.
13-Maj. Edward Bowes, 72. Snowman,
sponsor of amateur hour on radio.
Charles ButterWorth 46, comedian.
22-Williarn S. Hart, IS, cowboy film star.
3O-Dr. Howard H. Russell. go. founder
of Anti-Saloon league.
July
1O-Sidney Hillman, 50, CIO union leader.
24-Arthur Gould, 80, former U. S.. sen.
ator from Maine.
N-Gertrude Stein, 72. author with
unique experimental technique.
August
1S-col; Edward Bradley. ss. long asso-
17-Channing Pollack, 66. essayist and
playwright.
2O-Fielding (Hurry Up) Yost. rs. famous
football coach.
John M. (Rags) Ragland. Al. film
and stage comedian.
24-James c. McReynolds, "a. former
U. S. Supreme court justice.
September
11-Mrs. Ida S. Eisenhower, "a, mother
of General Eisenhower.
21-Miles Poindexter, 78, former sena-
tor from Washington state.
October
4-Bernar Eli (Barney) Oldfeld. SO.
famed pioneer auto racer.
Clifford Pinchot, 81, twice governor of
Pennsylvania.
l2-Gen. Joseph w. Vinegar joel Still.
WELL 63, hero of Burma campaign.
22-Phillips Goldsborough, 81, former
senator and governor of Maryland.
November
2-Thomas L. Bailey. So. governor of
Mississippi.
1a-James j. (Jimmy) Walker, IS. for.
mer mayor of New York City.
Donald Meek. 66. comedian and char.
acter actor.
22-Edgar Pew. 76, oil industry executive
and political figure.
December
ll.-Damon Runyon. 81. famous newspa.
per columnist
Walter johnson. 50. noted baseball
pitcher.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
]lllE1l9

K0,V9 January
| --1f 1fz1.-J 60million dollar
vet housing bill
4-Ceilings on fresh citrus fruits re-
imposed to counter sudden price rise.
22-National Intelligence authority ere.
ated to coordinate all government
intelligence units overseas.
28-Meat-pacixing workers return In l34
government-seiZed plants
February
13-Harold L. Ickes resigns as secretary
of interior. following dispute with
President
15-Four.week U. S. steel strike ends.
26-Julius A. Krug, former WPB chief.
appointed secretary OF interior.
March
7-Presidential order re.opens all public
lands to homesteading, excepting
those with uranium deposits.
23-W. Averell Hartman becomes am
bassador to Great Britain.
31-Army superfortress makes first non
stop fight from Honolulu to Philip.
pines. covering 5.525 miles in 81
hours, 49 minutes.
April
1-Strike of 100000 soft coal miners
begins.
22-Army announces discharge of seven
million men since rehabilitation be-
gan May IL. 1945:
28-Army-navy munitions board plans
survey of nations caverns for under
ground installations in case of atomic
war
29-Farm prices hit highest level since
r July. 1920.
May
13--President signs "stop-gap'' draft ex-
- tension bill.
22-Emergency housing bill signed, pro-
viding 400 million dollars for build
ing material subsidies, billion dol
ri lars for home mortgage loans, pri-
critics for veterans.
25-Railroad strike ends while President
is asking congress for power to draft
rail workers.
29-Coal strike settled with raise of 1919
cents per hour, other benefits.
June
Erred vinson appointed chief justice
of u. S.
29-President signs bill extending draft
for nine months, age brackets 1914.
30-Navy conducts first experiments at
Bikini lagoon: atom bomb dropped
on fleet of 73 old vessels. Five ships
sunk, As damaged, whole area
charged with dangerous radioactive
rays.
July
1-OPA controls suspended.
11-National Farmers Union president.
James Patton. says his organization
has broken with Truman"
15-British loan bill signed
16-Draft calls restricted to 1929 group.
18-Labor bureaus index goes up 25.2
per cent since July l. Cattle sell at
all-time high of $25.75 a hundred
25-President reluctantly" signs new
OPA bill, calling it inadequate.
Atom bomb exploded under water
in navy's tests, sinking 10 battle
ships, carrier, 5 submarines and 3
small craft. damaging others.
August
l-President vetoes bill on ownership of
tidelands oil fields: signs atomic en-.
ergy control act
2-CongresSional re organization bill
signed by President.
23-Department of agriculture eases
grain controls.
31--Senate war investig ating committees
annual report urges preparedness for
quick action.
September
1-Armed forces grant terminal leave
to enlisted men.
22-Henry Wallace forced to resign as
secretary of commerce by President.
as aftermath of speech favorinR Rus
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
YlI1Izll|

January
1c2 kidnapping and
zsssssa murder oS six
u1assc<1AaeH year-old Suzanne
Degnan in ChicA-
90 starts nationwide manhunt.
24EContact with moon by radar acnieveo
by army experimenters; peam re-
fected in "a seconds.
February
s-Television in full color demonstrated
in New York. =,.
March >
7-Awards by Academy of Motion Pic.
lures: Best picture, "The Lost Week
end; best performances, Ray Mill
land in 'The Lost Weekend and
Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce"
April
1-Great. seismic wave in Pacific sweeps
coast of N. America, Hawaiian is
lands report 200 dead, many missing,
10 million dollars damage. Alaska
also hit.
6-Oklahoma City first community to in
stitute city wide rapid treatment
drive on venereal disease.
10--American Chemical society an.
nounces elements 43 and 81 isolated
during research on atomic bomb,
completing periodic table.
May
General Motors Corp. puts in claim
for $50, 1854 900 in carry-back adjust
ments of income taxes for first quar-
ter, blaming losses on strikes.
12-New record for fight between Ha-
waii and U. S. set by 1t. Col. Robert
Gould in B-29, making journey in
hours, IA minutes.
22-Film star Constance Bennett, mar
ries fifth husband. Col. Theron Coul-
ter, in Riverside. Calf.
July
Musical show "Oklahoma!" breaks
longest run record with 1405th per-
formance in New York
9-Public health service reports worst
polio epidemic since 1916 raging. with
1922 stricken since January. and
154 deaths. Minneapolis hardest hit
of big cities.
August
10-MoSS Hart, famed playwright. Weds
Kitty Carlisle, singing star.
Fifty Negroes injured in race riot in
Athens, Ga. Sixteen persons later In
dicted.
i5-Micro-wave communication is dem.
onstrated in transmission of facsimile
messages between New York and
Boston.
2O-FBl reports 13 per cent rise in crime
In first half of year. compared with
first half of 1945. greatest increase
since 1890.
30 -Bendix air race won by Paul Mantz,
flying 2O48 miles between Los An.
geles and Clevel4 nd at speed Of
d25 nnnh
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
Top Ten Spot News
Stories of 1916

(As selected by nation's weekLy
editors in Publishers
AnxiEary boU.)
Republicans saVeeb into bOwer IN
state and congressional elections
Twelpe top Nazis sentenced to
hang at end of Nuremberg trials.
Wallace asked to resign from cab
met, toIIo1Vine speech ON foreign
policy.
Paris peace FARLEY meets, tVitb 2l
nations REPRESENTED.
President Vetoes new OPA; all con-
troLs end as law dies.
Nary det0nates atom bomb at
Bikini in two tests; third cam
ceIed.
U. S. sends demands to YHgoslavia
oDer death of fVe fiers.
Nation-sVide rail strike ends Wben
Truman asks IasUs to draft
strikers.
BarNcb tells first meeting of y. N.
atom group that WoSA faces
peace or destruction.
Kidnab-mNrder of SNzsnne Deg
nan, six-year-oM Chicago child.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
November

1-Most powerful atom.smasher in the
world, 184-inch cyclotron, completed
at u. of California.
6-New operative technique disclosed to
give normal life to "blue batieS"
with defective hearts.
12-Soap prices rise so per cent. Gen.
eral Motors increases prices 3100.
15-Raincloud turned to snow by six
pounds Of dry ice pellets dropped
from plane.
New brain disorder recognized as
caused by exposure to sound waves
of shells.
17-Robert Scott in broadcast over San
Francisco radio station expounds
atheistic views: station flooded with
protests.
29-New York City license commissioner
threatens to revoke license of any
movie theater showing THE Outlaw
December
4-Landlords may legally bar children
from living in their properties, Ohio
Supreme court rules in authorizing
eviction of veteran and family.
11-Army rocket plane tested at $50 miles
per hour. Eventual speed to be 1.700
mph.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
December
.zH1l1zz

QW January
IA-1 1-"Bowl" football
scores: Alabama "a,
S. California IA; Oklahoma & M
33: St. Mary's 13; East All Stars tie
West All Stars 7 to z.
23-Bobby Riggs retains world protes
sional tennis title by beating Don
Bulge in Los Angeles
February
I7-An Engen becomes American ski
champion with jump of 259 feet at
Steamboat Springs, Colo
22-Lee Oma credited with knockout
over Gus Lesnivich. world. light
heavyweight champion. in non-title
fight In New York.
l7-Francisco Segura of Ecuador wins
u. S. indoor tennis title, beating Don.
aid Mcneil In New York.
Mputreal Canadiens clinch National
Hockey league title. Buffalo takes
corresponding award In American
Hockey league.
H-OiSiahoma A & M takes National Col.
iegiate A. A. basketball title, beating
N. Caroline 43.4O In New York.
April
e-Montreai Canadiens defeat Boston to
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
October

MARINE engineers (CIO) and masters.
mates and pilots (AFL) strike. tying
up all shipping.
11-Draft cancelled for rest of 1916.
14-Meat released from all controls by
Presidential order.
1T-Army announces all 1945 draftees will
be released by Jan. 1.
21-Air Line Pilots association calls strike
of ], 400 TWA pilots, first of its kind;
ask top salary of SIS, 900.
28-President names David Lilienthal to
head atomic energy commission of
five men.
29-Masters and pilots end strike.
31-OPA closes 1,642 local price boards.
as hundreds of items are freed.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03

Hungary becomes republic by vote
of National Assembly.
6-U N. shelves Greek dispute, involv-
ing Great Britain and Russia
9-Stalin announces new fve-year plan
for USSR.
Bataan death march," sentenced to
death by U. S. military court.
22-Argentire President Peron accuses
U. s. embassy officials of espion-
age.
23-Mutiny among native troops in Meth
erlands Indies army assumes serious
proportions.
27-Spain closes border on French side
in retaliation for similar action by
France.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03

sia. w. Averell Hartman, ambassa-
dor to Great Britain, appointed suc-
CeSSor.
3O-Secy. of Agriculture Clinton Ander-
son refuses to remove price ceilings
from meat.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
November

2-President announces 48 Estonian ref
ugees will not be deported.
5-Republicans sweep elections, win con.
troll of house and senate. Big city
Democratic organizations lose heav-
lily. State and county Offices through
out nation go to Republicans.
8-United States intends to retain con-
troll of former Japanese islands won
by American arms, U. N. assembly
told.
13-Army and navy ordered to dismiss
93.400 civilian employees by Jan. /.
15-Republican steering committees an
nounce plans for 80th congress. Main
points: Lower expenditures, reduced
taxes, elimination of all federal con-
trolls. new labor legislation, limitation
of Presidential term.
21-Nationwide strike of soft coal miners
begins.
3O-Restrictions on use of grain termi-
nate.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
March

5-U. S state department protests con-
tinued Russiar occupation of Iran
and seizD~o of booty in Manchuria.
16-SituaticR in Manchuria extremely
critical" says General Marshall
17-nfost of Russian troops reported with
drawn from Iran.N
18-International monetary conference
ends session at Savannah, Ca, after
creating World Bank and Fund.
N-Russian Delegate Gromyko walks out
of U. N. meeting in tiff over IraniaD
matter.
29-UNRRA officials report epidemics of
bubonic plague. smallpox and menin.
gifts in China.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
August

12-"Unscheduled immigration of Jews
into Palestine halted by British.
13-Turkish government rejects Russian
proposal for joint defense of Black
sea straits.
21-U. S. demands Yugoslavia release
army fliers forced down, and salts
faction for deaths of five others shot
down on August 19,
Riots in Calcutta, India, quiet down.
leaving death toll of 5000 in Hindu.
MoSlem strife.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
September

OCPtCIIIUCA
Greece votes 70 per cent in favor
of return of monarchy. headed by
George II.
1l-Russian Delegate Gromyko calls
presence of U. S. warships near
Greece insult to Greek people,
18-Civil war reported in northern
Greece.
24-Stalin spikes persistent rumors OF
new war threat.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
October

2-Crash and explosion of B-29 bomber
near Battle mountain. New. kills II.
3-Overseas airliner strikes hill near
Stephenville, Newfoundland, killing
laH 80 persons aboard, in worst dis
aster in commercial aviation history.
8-Airiiner crashes at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
killing 2, injuring 10. -
l7-Air Transport service plane crashes
: near Laramie, Wyo.. killing 13.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-03
December

5-Wilson Wyatt, housing expediter, re-
signs after controversy with RFC.
Army extends draft holiday"
through January.
6EICC approves freight rate increase
adding billion dollars to shipping
costs.