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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
VISITING JUNEAU

Marietta j. Black, Rose Black
and Eleanor Gunek of Ketchikan
are stopping at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29
The W ashingto
Merry Co. Round
BY ROBERT s. ALLEN

Editors Note: While Drew
Pearson is on brief vacation
The Washington Merry Co
Round is icing written by his
old partner, Robert S. Allen)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1947-08-29

CALIFORNIANS HERE
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Christoff-
erson of San Mateo are registered
at the Baranof Hotel.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. 23@A-Clos-
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau
mine stock today is 5, American Can
SO, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss- Wright
55S, International Harvester 36ss
Kennecott As, New York Central
1915, Northern Pacific 20, U. S. Steel
sos, Pound $4.03.
Sales today were $4,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: In
dustralials, 1885; rails, Att; utili-
ties, $3.50.
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Evening star., 1947-07-17
U.,N. Effort 10 Pick
Police Unit Likened
To Broken Record
By Hal Boyle !
Associated Press Staff Writer

I LAKE SUCCESS, July IT,
Watching the Security Council try
to pick . world police force for the
Omitted Nations Is like listening to
p bad phonograph record.
! The music. comes out pretty IS
you please until . certain point.
Then the needle sticks. and all you
hear IL . grinding noise-'Ur-r-ruh,
Ur-r-r-ruh, Ur-r-r-ruh."
/. The Security Council has been
stuck at the same point since last
April 80.
! It gets stuck whenever the Coun-
cil starts to take up the question
pf what size military or police force
the United Nations should have
Jpr how much each country should
contribute.
J This is pretty much as If an
apartmerS, house roof caught fire,
and the tenants began quarreling
over which fire station to call and
how many firemen to ask for. The
more they quarrel the closer the
fire spreads toward their own
apartments. d..
Report Takes Is Months.
It took IS months for the mill
tary staff committee-made up OF
the chiefs-of- staff OF the five big
powers-to bring out = report OF
any kind on setting up United
Nations police force. The report
came then only after strong British
pressure.
! Russia promptly took exception to
d third Of the reports Al sections.
Z And since that report was handed
alp the Security Council has been
unable to reach agreement on a
single point disputed by Russia.
Here is the point where the needle
sticks:
I Basically, Russia wants the United
Nations navy, air force and army
made up on a principle OF equality
that is, each country would con-
tribute the same number OF ships,
planes, tanks and foot soldiers.
Flan Is OppOScu.
The United States and the other
leading powers think this is mill
tarily screwball, as all countries
don't have the same kind Of fight
ing equipment. China, for example,
could contribute plenty of infantry
men but couldn't dig up an aircraft
carrier.
4 Andrei Gromyko's answer to this
As that such variations" could be
considered and worked out later.
The other countries think 1t would
be better to start out with the idea
pf each country contributing pro-
portionally more or less Of each kind
Of weapon, depending on the GUAM
tity it has.
+. So there the matter rests. But
the Security Council is still trying
to play the record through. Like
this:
The British delegate proposes that
the Military Staff Committee 60
ahead and determine how large an
overall United Nations force will
be necessary, thus postponing the
question of its makeup until later.
Record Sticks Again.
mol" says Mr.. Gromyko. He
says he wants no hypothetical prob
jens. He just wants the Security
Council to agree on his equality
principle" first, then work 1t out
later.
So the record sticks again, and
the verbal music goes round and
roend. The Security Council moves
Evening star., 1947-07-17
OTHER CONVENIENTLY LOCATED A&p SUPER MARKETS

NV. SECTION
34OO Georgia Ave. NV.
o4z8 0eoroio Ave. NV.
70 Kennedy St. NV.
z4 Wise. Ave. NV.
$3.50 Wise. Ave. NV, =.
lin Bethesdo)
Evening star., 1947-07-17

on to discuss some other topic-like
the trouble in the Balkans.
Thus the United Nations, two
years after its founding In San
Francisco, is still an organism with
many mouths and moral viewpoints,
but no real muscle.
In a showdown of force it couldn't t
defend itself against a pack Of angry
march hares. For as yet Military
Staff Committee doesn't command
even a single -barreled shotgun.
Evening star., 1947-07-17
Puwnbrokinq in China

Pawnbroking was probably carried
on in China as early as 1000 years
ago. Usually the borrower could
take three years to redeem his prop
erty and he could not be charged
q higher rate than per cent.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Winning Without Ronting

Mr.. Rankin still has a job that pays him as
much as the Senate post and hasn't been
kicked out in the cold in his old age. But
his defeat is evidence that all the people
of Mississippi do not subscribe to the rantings
and rawlings of a man who has a consistent
record as a dispenser of hate and prejudice
and who has just as consistently substituted
rabble ~rousing for progressive thinking.
The state can we'll do without the services
of Forrest Jackson, too, we believe. His de-
feat and poor showing is concrete evidence
of the fact that the late Senator Bilbo won
his races on "The Man" personality and not
because a majority of the voters always
agreed with his tactics and expressed be-
'liefs.
Judge Stennis conducted a dignified cam
paign. He refused to rabble rouse or to at
tempt to play on the ~prejudices of the voters.
And he was elected. The state could have
done far worse.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

potatoes by the system used
here from the draw-bed plant
ing in the spring to the bank
ing in the late fall.
We understand that up in
Jones County, where they grew
potatoes for the starch plant,
that they have simplified it a
whole lot. They make up no
fridge" in the spring, but flat
break and strike off rows with
a turn pillow. Then the draws
or vines are dropped in the fur
row, with the growing end rest
ing upon the dirt, of course.
Another trip with the same
pillow covers the ends, and later
the rest of the ridge" on that
side is completed with another
trip. Then the vines are turn
ed-but only once-and no trips
made on the other side to COM
plete the ridge.
q
II may not make as pretty a
ridge or even as many potatoes,
but it certainly eliminates a lot
of work compared to the stick
'em, water EN-, and turn 'em
twice for killing that we were
used to. Some farmers also
have diggers that take a row at
a time and eliminates a lot of
that work.
No doubt Ira Ravens, who is
vocational teacher at Vancleave
now, has seen this process in
operation and would be much
better to explain it than we are.
Mr.. Ravens grew up near Van
cleave and is a practical farm
er as well as a college-trained
man. He also knows local soil
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
THIS WEEK in Other Years

THREE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, the opening OF, the Ar
mold v. Walker Shipyard in
Pascagoula was announced
Seven hundred and fiji
ty electrical workers were off
their jobs at ingalls,
President Franklin D.. Roose-
welt, with Vice President Harry
S. Truman, was elected by a
landslide for his fourth term.
Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser deplored
the light vote in the General
Election where only a few
more cast ballots in the county
than in 1910.
TWO YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, ingalls, employees led
in the Victory Loan Drive with
seventy-five percent of their
quota met Approx
mately twelve hundred jackson
countians paid tribute to former
prisoners of wal in ceremonies
at the Escatawpa school, spon-
sored by churches of that COM
munity the War Fund
Drive continued in the county.
Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser called for
a City Plan in Pascagoula
Continued the fight
against stream pollution
Attacked 1.-THE Bilbo Record"
A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK,
funeral services were held for
Thomas l.. Bailey, 48th Govern
or of Mississippi, who died
while in office Mrs. Per-
ry A. Thompson was named
winner of the 1916 Lawn and
Garden Contest, sponsored by
the Ingalls, Shipbuilding Cor
poration Former Gov
ernor Hugh L. White was NAM
ed by Masonite to a committee
to study stream pollution.
Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser lamented
the fact that only five percent
of the county's voters partici-
pated in the General Election.
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This newspaper supported the candidacy
of Congressman William M. Colmer in the
six-man race for the Senate seat of the late
Theodore G.. Bilbo because we honestly be-
lieved that he was the man best qualified
for the job.
But any chargrin that we feel in having
lost our vote Is certainly tempered by the
citation brought by several factors which
came to light in the election.
The first of these was the election of
Judge John C. Stennis, and the second was
the. decisive defeat administered to Com
gresham John E. Rankin of the First Dis
triot,
Mr.. Rankin ran fifth and last, to all ex-
tents and. purposes since the Republican
candidate Just came along for the ride. He
even trajled young Paul Johnson, who never
seemed to have his heart In the race or any
intentions of winning.
There is nothing personal in our feeling
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

derby native, who unfolded a
tale that was sad to hear. Lake
Salvatore, he said, is barren"
Oil wastes from nearby drill
ings have drained into the
lake, killed off the feed of both
fish and wild fowl and made
an industrial cess pool of it.
The oil discovery. of course,
has brought presently of a sort
to Lafitte and Barataria. Many
a ecajun' has deserted fishing
and shrimping and gone TO
work in the oil fields. Wages
are good, and the pleasant oak
shaded road between Lafitte
and Barataria has more than
its share of bar rooms and
dance halls. The bayou still
stretches like a smooth black
ribbon through the marshlands.
the whole scene. is as beauti-
full and as peaceful a it was
Is years ago, or 200 years ago.
A large part of Louisiana's
coastal marsh lands face the
same fate, we were told, as
new oil fields are developed
and unless measures r TAX
en- to halt the uncontrolled
dumping of wastes the whole
area may become barren" and
Louisiana's trapping industry
as well as its hunting and fish
ing will become a thing of the
past. Our own state, with its
expanding oil industry. might
well learn a lesson here and
save many of our streams and
lakes from this fate. We want
our oil industry in Mississippi,
and we want it expanded. We
believe that it, and the huge
reserves of natural gas, can be
the vehicle to lift the entire
economy of our state and bring
to our people a level of pros
perity that they merit. But it
is also our belief that we can
have our oil development. our
industry and our streams and
lakes, too. The only way that
s Hhis can be accomplished is
through vigorous action by the
state government and the state
legislature. The problem should
be studied, and out of the stud
les should come a pattern of
state laws within which our oil
development could continue,
our industries profitably oper-
ate, and our streams and lakes
saved for future generations to
enjoy.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

AL this has changed, though.
for \ few years back oil was
discovered near Lafitte in the
vicinity Of Lake Salvatore.
Stopping At LATTE. We struck
I'D d conversation with an ell
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

the navy department across the
Potomac river to the sprawling
Pentagon in Virginia. Close by
him are the secretaries of the
army and the air force. Back
in Washington is the secretary
of the navy and big navy brass.
Forrestal wants all the admin
istrative officials. under one
roof and there is plenty room
for them in the Pentagon. He
wants all activities coordinated,
including press relations. He
has named genial, efficient
navy Capt. Bob Berry as his
top press officer.
However. the navy high COM
mand still stays in the old build
ing. The navy's brass doesn't
want to cross the Potomac, but
wants to remain in the old
shacklike buildings Temporal
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

SIX YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Russell and Francis
Moates, members of a well
known Pascagoula family and
former football stars in the high
school, were killed in an auto
mibile wreck near Theodore,
Ala, which also took the life
of George E. Robinson, Jr.
The appointment of A. P. May
as the director of the newly or
ganized U.S.O. was announced
Moss Point city officials
prepared to sell $4,000 in
school bonds.
Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser urged Pas
cagoula voters to approve a
$65,000 bond issue to match
federal funds for school inn
provements.
FIVE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, "The Case of the Phan-
tom Barber" was prepared for
presentation to the Grand Jury
-. Pascagoula citizens pre-
pared to vote on two ordinan-
ces, one raising the salary of
city officials and the other levy
ing a tax for general improve
ments Registration for
gasoline rationing was an
nounced.
No editorial was carried.
FOUR YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, a meeting was called for
the formation of a county
Chamber of Commerce
OPA demanded a heavy reduc-
ton in the use of gasoline in
this county A contract
was let for the paving of por-
tons of seventeen streets in
Pascagoula.
Editorially, the Chronicle
Star and Advertiser, in an open
letter to the Grand Jury, called
for a thorough investigation of
charges of graft, corruption
and inefficiency in some law
enforcement agencies in the
county.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Brnrlamtattntt

WHEREAS, November 18th, 1919 an armistice was signed
by the Allies with the German Peoples Government, the Kaiser
having abdicated after having caused the world to be drenched
in blood and fled to peaceful Holland, there handing his sword
to a border guardsman was permitted to take up the life of a
dutch country squire by a democratic, l~awabiding and peaceful
country; and,
WHEREAS. for twenty years thereafter there was an un-
easy. peace. which was broken by the raving and ranting of
more satanic war lords and finally flames of actual and more
horrible war Embossed upon a world desiring only peace; and,
WHEREAS. the flower of youth, manhood and woman
hood of our beloved country and our Allies was laid upon the
altar and a vast toll of innocent lives sacrificed that liberty,
freedom and justice might live, that our way of life might he
preserved unto us and posterity. The material resources of our
great country having been fed to a hungry wal machine are
dangerously depleted and these God given gifts are replacable
only by His Divine will; and.
WHEREAS. in remembrance and memoriam of the preci-
Gus lives sacrificed in the ranks of servicemen, servicewomen
and civilians in this late world war and cognizant that but by
the Grace of Almighty God we might have been numbered
with the slain;
NOW. THEREFORE, /. Felix William Crlot, Mayor of the
City of Moss Point do designate, Tuesday, the 18th day of
November, ls47 as MEMORIAL DAY for our valiant warriors
who made the supreme sacrifice, and in so doing l request all
of our citizens, business establishments and industries to OBJ
serve one minute of meditation and silent prayer in humble
gratitude to Almighty God and ask for his love and mercy
upon the loved ones of those who made the supreme sacrifice.
beseeching Him for strength and courage to do our part to
preserve peace and the democratic institutions of our great
country and the world. do this at the stroke of the hour of
eleven o'clock A. NJ. on said date. I further request all our
citizens to attend the memorial services to be held on the
lawn at the City Hall, beginning at ten-thirty o'clock a. M on
said date.
Given under my hand and the seal of the City of Moss
Point this 5th day of November, ls47.
FELIX WILLIAM cIRLoT. Mayor.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
- N !EEI!!I!!ll|IEs
B, L T. ROBERTS

Had we stayed in the hog
business as we mentioned a
couple of weeks ago in this col
umn, we might have formed
a partnership this year with
Napoleon Guillotte of Gautier.
Mr.. Guillotte has an estimated
thousand bushels of sweet po-
tatoes, which he is now in the
process of digging.
If we had gotten together on
this thing, his folks and ours
could have eaten potatoes and
pork from now to spring and
laughed at the high prices in the
stores.
It wouldn't take many pota-
toes like the one from his patch
that was brought into the office
this week to make a bushel. 1t
was fifteen inches long, thir-
teen and one half inches around
in the biggest place, and weigh
ed four and one-half pounds.
1t would bring thirty-five cents
at current market price.
The potato was nicely shaped,
too, and not knobby and scaly
like some overgrown spuds. 1t
might have been an overgrown
brother of a prize-winning po-
tato at a fair.
We venture to say that MIR
Guillotte can sell every potato
he has without even trying and
that half the people living on
farms in our county will be buy
ing potatoes out of the grocery
store before spring. Those
potatoes will come from
George and Green County and
from Mobile County in Alaba-
ma, unless they r shipped in
here from points further away.
It's an old theme with US in
this column. but we are still at
a loss to understand why this
should be so. We can't grow
corn as profitably as Illinois,
vegetables as early as Florida
or California, or fruit as nice as
that produced in Washington
state but this might we'll be the
sweet potato capital of the coun-
try.
We were kidding about the
hogs-about having stayed in
that business, that is--but we
are dead serious about this
sweet potato deal. AT three
hundred and fifty bushels to
the acre and four cents a pound,
the return would be over five
hundred dollars to the acre.
Any farmer will tell you that
you can grow three hundred
and fifty bushels of potatoes to
the acre here. Some people
have produced considerably
more than that. And you could
certainly get four cents a pound
for them this year while they
retail in the stores for double
that amount.
But there is a lot of back
breaking and time-consuming
labor involved in growing sweet
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Capital


Epecial to Central Press
Washington.--It is the great
singlelheaded Department of
National Defense with ex-Wall
Streeter Jimmy Forrestal at the
helm, but there is still a lot of
gripping and grouching Over the
physical setup of the armed SER
vices merger.
The split Of the army and
navy is still around.
When Forrestai took over the
big job he promptly moved from
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

One day several weeks ago
while we were in New Orleans
we took the opportunity to vis-
it Barataria and Lafitte, two
"CAjunn settlements on Bayou
Barataria that hold a wealth of
boyhood memories for us. We
revisited the scene after a lapse
Of some Is years and the chang
ses were both startling and sad
dening.
When we were a %youngster
of some ia or is years of age
we acquired. together with two
companions of the same age,
: dilapidated house boat
which we kept at the juno
ton of Little Barataria, Big
Barataria and Bayou Villars.
We also jointly possessed an.
oldeskiff with small inboard
motor which would move along
atethes rate of three or four
miles an hour. no startling
speed but then in those days
neither were we in much of
afhafrys
Torysome two years we spent
alrnost every weekend and
most of the summer on the
hohseboat. Fishing and hunt
ing occupied our time, with
swimming thrown in for good
measure during the summer.
Inxthose days there We're no
roads to Barataria or LaFitte
and the section was a paradise
for hunters and fishermen. Two
miles away from the house
boat as we remember it,
Bayou Villars ended in Lake
Salvatore. The lake abounded
with fish, crab and wild fowl,
and most families of the sec
ton drew their income from
it by fishing for the New Or
leans market. Our hunting
equipment consisted of a single
barrel shotgun. but during the
duck. season We never failed to
get our limit. which was then
IS daily. At times we have. seen
the surface of the lake literal
" covered with thousands of
feeding ducks.
AL this has changed. though,
for a few years back oil was
discovered near Lafitte in the
vicinity Of Lake Salvatore.
Stopping at Lafitte. We struck
up a conversation with an ell
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
You're Telling Me!
BY WILLIAM RIFT
Central Press Writer

An Illinois farmer is expert
menting with the breeding of
cows only weighing 20 pounds.
In the hope, no doubt, this will
make them smaller targets cur
ing the hunting season.
1t is easy for Winston Church.
il to travel incognito. All he
needs do is leave his cigars at
home.
Beer makers convention was
held in Cleveland. Zadok Dunn
kopf thinks it must have been a
high-rather than a white-col-
lar affair.
A New Jersey stock farmer
is experimenting by playing
dinner music as his hogs r
fed. Won't work, for we i'm
aglne, half the fun a pig gets
out of his vittles is hearing him
self eat.
The office topper says things
could be Worse-that 60-day
distillers' holiday to save grain
will end just before New Years.
The United Nations flag will
be a white globe on a blue field.
Very Appropriate, as the world
has been looking pretty pale
lately.
A noted dentist says the aver
age mouth is five percent larger
than it was 10 years ago. Well,
we've got lots moreto talk about
today than we had in 1887.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07

conditions and the problems
of the people here.
The Vancleave school was
fortunate in obtaining his serv-
ices and we believe he will
prove a major asset to that COM
munity and all of Jackson coun-
fu
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-07
Petkov R~epercussions

FeAAVN
Bulgaria's execution of anti
Communist leader Nikolai Pet
kov, despite pleas of the United
States, has settled, for the time
being, the question of American
recognition of the Sofia govern
ment.
Had the Red regime in Bull
garia needed the United States
and cammuted Petkov to even
a life sentence, the chances are
that Washington would have
decided within six months or so
to recognize Sofas regime.
However, the Red action. Bit
terly denounced by the State
department, has closed the door
on diplomatic relations with the
Bulgarians for a long time to
come.
Continued on Page 81
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built for use in World


lily" built for use in World
War |.
High-rankers admit that
studies are going on to place
all the services top personnel
under one roof. These studies
will go on until Forrestal even
tually issues an arbitrary order
for the navy to take off for
Pentagonville. Then the cries
of anguish from the navy brass
and blue will respond from one
end of the capital to the other.
But not til then will the inner
ger be complete.