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at this session of the Congress
to drive a wedge into the solid
Democratic south-that the seed
of discard has been sown? Need
/ remind you that many of you
representing so-called North
ern States on this side of the
aisle would not be here today
had it not been for the fact
that in season and out of season,
in lean years as we'll as in good
years, it has been the South
who has nutured and kept
alive the Democratic party?
Never in the history of the
country since following the Civ
il War have our Republican
brethren been as adamant or as
nearly successful in thrusting
one of these so-ealled force bills
down the Threats of your SOU
thern brethren who have been
the benefactors of the party.
Just how far this can be contin-
ued without a sehism in our
ranks or Just hoy long our peo-
pie will stand for this | cannot
say.
But again let me call your at
tentien to another salient fact.
Suppose the sponsors of this
legislation should be successful
in order to appease this organic
ed minority of colored voters by
the enactment of this atrocious
legislation. How long do you
think it would be before they
would be back to you asking
for something else? What is the
next step after this? Federal
legislation abolishing the right
of the States to hold primaries
and thereby force the vote upon
the negro in the South? And
then when in order to main
tain office these or some other
sponsors of similar legislation
would no doubt be asking for
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-30

more the company's revenues
on its investment is increased.
1t stands to reason that if the
company had only a thousand
subscribers using its facilities in
Mississippi, the cost of service
would be beyond the reach of
all but multi-millionaires.
We have no idea of the fig
ures, but we do know that dur
ing the past several years the
number of telephone subscrib-
ers in Mississippi have increas-
ed to a considerable degree,
yielding the company a materi-
al increase in gross revenue.
In connection with this, it
might be pointed out that the
Mississippi Power Company
announced this week that re-
duced electrical rates will go
into effect on April 1st, in
both rural and urban areas, in
the % southeast Mississippi
counties served by the compa-
ny. The reduced rates, the an
nouncement says, will result in
a $400, 900 annual savings to
the power company's $1,000
customers.
What made possible this e
duction in rates? Increased sales
of electricity in the area and in
creased efficiency of operation,
the company says. AT the same
time, the company says that it
has invested eight and one-half
million dollars in new construc-
ton throughout this area during
the past five years. 1t seems to
us that the position of the Mis-
sissippi Power Company, in its
overall operation, is similar to
that of the telephone company,
yet the power company extends
its customers a voluntary reduc-
ton in rates while the tele-
phone company gets one rate
increase and asks for another.
= =
Indications are that the pub
lie service commission does not
look with any particular favor
on the company's second re-
quest. Several attorneys have
interested themselves in the
case on behalf of the public,
and an organization has been
formed in North Mississippi to
combat the proposed raise. I'm
less the company presents a
case must stronger than that
presented so far, we believe that
the commission should not only
deny the requested increase,
but that the company itself
should increase the efficiency
of its service in proportion to
increases already granted in
areas where the service is not
up to par.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-30

Conditions revealed in the operation of the
state parole board and the Industrial and
Training School at Columbia merit the full
attention of the state legislature, not in the
correction of surface conditions by the dis
missal of this or that political a%ppointee, but
by eliminating those factors that make pos
sible such conditions.
Charges made in connection with the oper-
alton of the parole board by Senator Fred
Jones of Inverness are shocking, and if true,
the board is operating an employment racket
for politically prominent persons, which is
little more than peonage. Prisoners, we as
sumo for the most part negroes, are paroled
to politically prominent persons as house
hole or farm servants under conditions at
times so bad that the prisoners have return
ed to the penitentiary of their own accord.
Documentary evidence proving his charges
has been filed with the legislature, Sena-
tor Jones says, and the charges have not as
yet been publicly denied by the parole
board.
At the Industrial Training school at Col
umbia conditions were, if possible, even more
shocking. Underfed teen-age children were
forced TO labor unbelievably long hours on
the institutions farm. Average schedule re-
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Hrnrlamtattnn
FROM
FROM
HIS MAJESTY, THE KING OF
JOY XII

HIS MAJESTY, THE KING OF
JOY XI
Hear Ye: That, whereas, On
Friday the sixth day of February
1913, Ammo Domino,
/, my Queen and my royal court
will be enthroned and
Whereas, the Coronation Cere-
monies will take place at the
Eleventh Street Auditorium, be-
ginning at nine of the clock, and
Whereas, l earnestly request
the presence of all my loyal sub
jects and
Whereas, l have made provision
for their attendance at the royal
coronation and have provided
seating arrangements around the
royal ballroom floor and in the
royal balconies for the populace
and
Whereas, / and my queen are
particularly DESTROYS of your
presence, l, King of Joy Xl, do
proclaim the hours from nine
until the end of the ball a time of
fun, frivolity and merriment for
all.
KING OF JOY XI
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BY DANIEL DE LUCE
AP NeWseatures

On the Greco-Bulgarian From
tier-They are a people that
the world forgot. They live in
no-man's land where the only
law is a gun.
The Pomaks are an example
ON Communism seeking the
poor.
Of this lost race" inside Eu-
rope, historians confers that
nothing of its origin is certain.
Pomak's r not even mentioned
in most famous encyclopedias.
There are, however, 100000
Pomaks along both sides of the
Greco-Bulgarian border, cling
ing to tiny, rocky farms in the
Rodope mountains which their
forefathers settled before a
Norman conqueror set foot in
England.
They are Moslems but seem
to have no blood kinship with
the Turks, although they once
fought for the Ottoman Empire.
Many have blond hair, blue
ewes and almost Nordic features.
Their females are yelled from
the cradle to the grave. Elders
who have visited Mecca cry
the words of Mohammed from
needle-pointed minarets, but
most of the faithful have never
been farther than Is miles
from where they were born.
Much of the mountain terri
tory is sprinkled with Pomak
villages is, by default under
Communist control in the Greek
civil war. Taxes" of corn, dom
keys and home-woven clothing
are collected with sub-machine
guns.
In one afternoon, / saw half
the population of Pachni, a mile
from Bulgaria, flee to Glavki, a
village four miles deeper within
Greece, because Greek rebels
demanded a ton of corn.
Taking advantage of the re-
bells daylight absence. the viii
layers trekked off with wives.
children and winter food re-
serves, since at Glavki they
could be protected by an out
post of 90 Royalist troops.
Glavki was quiet. Soldiers
dozed at lookout stations while
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-30
YOU'RE TELLING MEL
BY WILLIAM RIFT
Central Press Writer

ion to express after the Joe
Louis-Joe Walcott fight.
Zadok Dumkopf's comment
on that brawl was a classic:
1T looked to me as though Joe
won it,
In one year 1000 marriage
licenses that were not used
were issued in New York City.
Cupid must be trying for a rec
ord in near misses.
Chicago soon will be the
smartest town on earth. The
American Association for the
Advancement of Seienee-thou-
sands strong-will hold its big
geSt meeting there.
Grandpappy Jenkins COM
plant is that the new look
makes too many a gal look like
an old girl.
Beteh Dollar DER is wearing
what he calls his shopping
suit" these days. It's a football
uniform complete with protec-
tive pads and helmet.
John Mason postcards that
they're sending a group Of psy-
chiatrists to that Ohio town
where a pottery plant burned
down. Why? To take care Of
the cracked pots
Russia's Joe Stain has re-
turned to his desk from q vaca-
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People The World Forgot

young bare-bottomed Pomaks
begged a share of their Ameri-
can rations. Old women
trudged in with huge bundles
of firewood on their stopped
backs. Tobacco was hung to
dry on racks beside sagging
stone-and-timber houses.
At dusk, the village locked it
self in. All windows were
suffered and doors bolted. A
new squad, more alert, took
over the lookout duty. Night
belongs to the rebels.
Pomaks, some students theo-
rize, may be originally of Bull
gar stock or a ~tribe-Kumans
or Pecenegs-which wandered
south across the Danube in the
18th Century to halt in the
peaks of Thrace. Fifty thous-
and are under the Greek flag,
100000 In Bulgaria.
When western statesmen, in
1878, carved up the Sultan's do
main in Europe, 81 Pomak vii
lagos fought off the acquisitive
Bulgars and set up an independ-
end republic. Bulgaria annex
ed it in 1886 and that was the
last of Pomak self-rule.
Perhaps with tongue in
cheek, Greece sent a Pomak del
egation to the Paris peace con-
ference last year. Bulgaria was
demanding Greek Thrace. The
Pomaks claimed part of Bull
garia. The conference snubbed
both.
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Inside Washington
Taft VS.. Dewey Scrap
Becomes Free al

universal military training, ex-
tension of the social security
program, housing, educational
aid to states and government
assisted medical aid.
Despite this difficult agenda,
the COP leadership hopes to adj
journ Congress after a session
of less than six months in time
for members to attend the Re-
publican and Democratic con-
ventions in June and July.
Marshall Plan
There is a growing belief In
Congress that President Truman
and the State department began
selling" the Marshall Plan too
early and that the edge will be
off public enthusiasm by the
time legislators r called upon
to vote.
The governments strongest ar
gument for the plans adoption
checking the spread of Com
munism in Europe-is being ar
gued against with increasing
force by periodicals, and the
arguments are finding receptive
ears among congressman and
senators looking for a platform
for their opposition.
Real reason behind the
mounting congressional opposi-
ton to the plan, of course, is
the large OUTLAWS involved
which again jeopardize any
large tax cut for Americans.
These tax cuts were labeled by
Republicans as one of their
strongest gambits to capture the
presidential elections next
year.
Tax Cut Strong Gambit
However, the argument of no
money for Europe in order to
make way for a tax cut is con-
sidered too blunt in some Re-
publican strategy circles.
They desire, instead, to re-
duce the program greatly from
President Truman's recommen-
dations on the ground that the
smaller sum can do the same
work.
Then, with this accomplish
ed, push ahead with a tax cut
somewhere in the neighborhood
of the $40 billion dollars pro-
posed by House ways and
means committee chief, Harold
Knutson (R), Minnesota.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-30

Hearings will reopen next
Tuesday in Jackson before the
State Public Service Commits
sion on the application of the
Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany for a rate increase which
would yield the company an
additional ST, 100000 annually
on its operations in Mississippi.
The present request, action on
which was postponed three
months ago by the commission,
marks the second substantial
increase in rates asked for by
the telephone company In less
than a year. The first request,
filed in January, 1947, was for
an increase in revenue of ST.
300 1000. The public service COM
mission subsequently scaled
the request down and granted
the company a revenue hike OF
$500, 900 as a result of this first
request. This increase became
effective in May, l947.
The increase granted the COM
pany amounted to rs percent
of its gross revenue IN the
state and was, of course, re-
Elected in a substantial increase
in rates to subscribers through
out the state. Judging from COM
plants in this area, as well as
from most other parts of the
state, the increased rates were
not followed by a proportion
ate increase in service or etfl-
cheney afforded its customers
by the company.
The company maintains that
the increase is necessary be-
cause it is operating in Missls-
sippi at a loss of approximate
w $40 900 monthly. On the same
basis it has filed requests for in
creased revenues in most states
in the Southeastern regions.
In almost all instances these
deficit figures have been dis
pulled by attorneys and experts
representing either the public
service commission, or the pub
lie in the state involved. Ger
tainly the figures seem doubt
full in the face of earnings re-
ported by the parent company,
which last year were fat and
healthy and reflected in sub
stantial dividends to stockhold-
ers.
Like virtually all monopolies
in the public utility field, the
operation and rates of the tele-
phone. company depends on the
volume of service sold its sub
scribers. Exchange installa-
tons, cables and telephone lines
are more or less a fixed cost
and the more subscribers that
use the basic installations, the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-30
BY CONGRESSMAN VIM. M.
COT MFR
COLMEh
Mississippi and the Democratic
Party

PdrtY
On January goth Governor
Fielding l.. Wright, in his inau-
gural address, raised the ques-
ton of whether the South
should continue to remain in
the Democratic fold if the eff
forts of the parN's national
leaders should continue to be
directed against those states
constituting the "Solid South,
in order to appease the negro
and radical left-wing voters of
other sections of the country.
The implications of his state
ment were stronger than his di-
rect statements.
While this action on the part
of our fortnight governor has
stirred up considerable news
paper comment. and has been
the subject of discussion to
some extent behind doors of
the inner-couneil of the high
command of the Democratic
party, there is nothing new
about the question raised by
Governor Wright. The ques-
ton of whether it is to the adj
vantage of the South to contin-
ue its policy of remaining in the
party regardless of the party's
policy toward that section,
which has always been the bull
wark of the party, has been
raised many times before. For
instance, ten years ago, and to
be exact, January 81. 1887,
when the House was consider
ing the Anti-Lvnch Bill. in the
debate that ensued. | sounded
the following warning to the
members Of that body
Do you not realize
that an attempt has been made
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a federal statute making it man
datory upon all States to grant
social equality and the right of
intermarriage among the races.
Is this what we have to expect?
Do you want this? I warn you
that you are playing with fire.
No organized minority, regard
less of race, is ever satisfied
with the advances made in the
matter of legislative enactment.
There is always a demand for
more and more.
Certainly in a time when the
democracies of the world are
being threatened. this is no
time for petty pickering and po-
litieal gestieulations.'
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THIS WEEK
in Other Years
KING OF JOY xI

FIVE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, the Moss Point Ship
yard was awarded a govern
ment contract for wooden bar
ges the county Civilian
Defense organization meeting
was attended by state leaders
as guest speakers Civic
Council urged coming laws to
cover building in the Lincoln
avenue Market street section
the nursery school opened
in Pascagoula as a move to re-
lease more women for war work
-. opening date of South
Elementary school announced
city ordinance passed max
ing dim-out regulations pre-
scribed by the U. S. Army local
law . No editorial was car
ried.
FOUR YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, the ingalls, woman
welding champion, Vera An
derson, to meet Mrs. Edna Slo-
cum of the West Coast for the
national woman's welding I'll
tie USO to join in nation
al celebration of third anniver-
sary of the organization
Federal government paid state,
schools $833,000 last year in
lieu of taxes on federally owned
housing in Pascagoula. No edi-
torial was carried.
THREE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, bids were submitted
for construction of recreation
program to include a recrea-
ton building on Market street,
Negro recreation building and
charging of Municipal Beach
Park and installation of addi-
tional facilities chairman
of War Production Boards
Ship Sterilization program ask
ed withdrawal of Metal Trades
Councils request for a strike
vote in Pascagoula First
annual banquet of the Cham
Der of Commerce drew ESQ
persons. Editorial comment was
made on the success of the first
year of the Chamber of Com
merce and a second editorial
expressed fear that jackson
County was well on its way to
being the shiny" capital of the
state.
TWO YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, announcement was
made of the opening of recrea-
tional facilities within the
week clothing drive lag
ged as Europe's destitute suf-
fered Hermes Gautier was
elected to succeed A. L. Brese-
mann as president of the Cham
Der of Commerce. Editorially
Governor Bailey's proposal to
decrease the number of high
schools was deplored in view
of the fact that lack of edu-
cational facilities was already
a grave handicap in the State
of Mississippi.
ONE YEAR AGO THIS
WEEK, the Golden Glove tour
nament opened Chamber
of Commerce announced that
offices would be opened in Moss
Point each Thursday by c of
c personnel contracts for
the construction of the Van
cleave school were awarded
bicycle tags went on sale
in Pascagoula for the first time,
An editorial request for feder-
al aid for education and larger
state appropriation from the
treasury surplus was asked and
the request of a Hattiesburg
civic club for the dredging OF
Leaf River to the point of its
iuncture with the PaScagoula
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ton sporting a deep coat of
tan, says a Moscow report. APP
parently, the sun refused to be
vetoed.
Eager that a peace treaty be
concluded Austria sent bottles
of wine to the diplomats. To
be swallowed, no doubt, after
and not before signing.
Now there's a coin-operated
quiz game. Put in a slug instead
of a coin and, we imagine. you'll
get a phoney answer.
A reader wants the "Volga
Boatmann song, once so popu-
lar, to be broadcast on the ra-
dio. Might not work - how
could we hear him through the
soundproof Iron curtain?
>
Glass nails are on the mar
ket. Now the clumsy amateur
carpenter can not only whack
his thumb but also get a silver
in his eye.
The Aga Kahn says he really
doesn't want to buy Palestine.
Smart man. II he's looking for
trouble he can find it a lot
cheaper elsewhere.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-30
PLANS BIG POWER DAM

OSLA-AP - The newspaper
Faedredandsvennen of Kristi-
ansand, reports that a private
hydro-power company plans to
build a giant dam at Bykle,
north of Kristiansand.
According to the plan, the new
dam will be twice as large as
the biggest in Norway up to
now.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-30
POWERFUL MICROSCOPE

Moscow-AP - A i00-Kilovolt
microscope able to magnify 300
900 times has been produced in
the Soviet Union.
An announcement says mem
hers of the electron and micro
scope branch of the Ministry of
the Electric industry have been
working on the mechanism for a
year and a half.
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Somebody has suggested that
Charleston, S. C., may have
been the site of the Garden of
Eden. What's he trying to do
start a war with California?
An ammunition dump explo-
sion in Switzerland caused a
landslide in the mountains. Now
even the Alps have a New
Look.
Pink pants for men arc advo-
Gated by a fashioner. It's items
like that that make he-hales see
red.
Why wait in awarding the art
prize for 1913? Let's give it
now-to that cartoonist who re-
Trained from depicting the New
Year as a nude baby CARRIED
only in a ribbon.
=
A Utah woman killed a cou-
gar with a bow and arrow.
That's a new way to put the cat
out.
A Los Angeles bank teller
drove off a robber by tossing
silver dollars at him. Here
after, we bet, that crook won't
be so earger to go after hard
cash.
Though he IS a trifle late
in making his claim. Yawn
Yawn thinks he deserves some
sort of prize. He is the only
man in town Who had no opin-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-30
Too Many Candidates?
Odd COP Predicament
Special 10 Central Press

Special to Central Press
Washington.-The Republican
convention in Philadelphia next
summer looks like the most
wide open race in many a year.
For many months, it appeared
that the battle would be be-
tween Senator Robert A. Taft
(R), Ohio, and Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York with for
mer Gov. Harold E. Stassen of
Minnesota as a lone wolf can
didate, and a few favorite sons
to add some spice.
However the drum-beating
for Gov Earl Warren of Cali
fornia on the west coast stepped
up the pace. Then, when Mil
waukee sponsors of Gen. Doug
las Macarthur started passing
out buttons and plastering sign
boards, the COP rank and file
knew that there would be a
firstrate contest at the conven-
ton.
Lurking in the background, of
course, is Gen, Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, who is not saving any
thing but who cintinues to act
like a man who would accept
if he were drafted.
AS matters now stand, the
COP, unlike the Democrats,
have too many, not too few,
candidates.
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OF T

Tokyo - AP - Looks like
three-fourths of Tokyo's popu-
lation may go without a bath
this winter.
Anyway, there are 1855 pub
lie bath houses using electri-
city which may have to close
down because of the power
shortage. and that's where
three-fourths of the Japanese
IN this capital battle.
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River to make the stream navi-
gable for barge traffic was
backed.
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Congressional Headaches


The Both Congress has more
than its share of headaches in
prospect now that body has e
convened for its second session.
Topping the list is the issue up
permost in the minds of nearly
everyone: how to cope with the
high cost of living. Republican
leaders consider this their No.
| worry.
Sharing doubtful honors with
initiation is the Marshall plan,
on whose implementation Pres
ident Truman has set an April
| deadline. There is also the
side issue of Chinese aid. The
administration is now working
out details on an aid program
for China.
Here are some other matters
high up on the congressional
docket:
Tax reduction and budget
cuts, extension of rent controls,
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Russia's Joe Stain has re-
turned to his desk from a vaca-