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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-11-05
Legion Post Plnns
Membership Drive
70 Climax Noy. II

The Jackson County Post Of
the American Legion, with the
aid of its auxiliary, will open z
cspIpaign for members this
weekend and hopes to wind up
by Armistice Night when vet
rams and their friends will gath
ar at the Legion Home, Market
and Parsley streets, following the
football game between Perkin-
ton and Tulane, j. T. Hill, mem
oership committee chairman, an
nounced.
A booth will be set up on d
downtown street in charge Of
members Of the auxiliary, and
Doth men and women eligible
for membership will be asked tl
ioin. Sometime Saturday the
locomotive of the Coast Voiture
Of the 40 and 8 will arrive from
iulfport and will be seen at the
booth. The locomotive will make
/ tour OF Pascagoula, Moss Point
and Kreole with its noisy bel
and explosive fake cannon, ac-
eording to Mr.. Hill.
The auxiliary and two Legion
committees we're in session at
the Home Monday night when
the auxiliary made plans to help
in several current community
activities and one of their com
mittees met with a Legion group
to discuss operation of a portion
of the Home.
Decorating of the interior Of
the Home is proceeding and will
be almost completed for the reg
ular meeting Monday, Com
mander George Lowell said. The
house committee, headed by f.
Talbot, was successful in ae-
curing a quantity of rustic fur
nishings for the "barn-room'
buffet, but is still searching for
a blacksmith bellows and anvil
to complete the general plan.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-11-05

Sheep may die from a disease
akin to pneumonia if exposed to
cloudy or rainy weather for sew
eral days after being shorn.
The Valley settler., 1948-06-04

of the Knik Bridge. They also had home
 in A7chorag which burned recently. E,s. Shockley came to Alaska from Minnes oaa where she taught school with Mrs. Dorothy Beal before the latter came to Al asza.
 DANCE Saturday night to the strains of Vic Carl son'a Orche stra and help the MTFA.
The Valley settler., 1948-06-04
HERE

C.C. Bi7c is back in the Valley again after gDending the winter in California ri tn re1- at ives.
 lr. and Hrs. Robert Kossler were in the Wiley for Colony Day celebrat ion and then went fishing with lr. and Mrs. Clay Johns on IG,. Kos s1er is ping to the States soon and lis. Kossler pl ans to enter school in the States this sumner.
 L. Eanby returned to the Valley this last week. He returned by plane.
 Dr. FIR. Sims has gone to Valdez and will be away until June 21st ac ccording to pre- sent plans. A.C. Benner re turned home this last week. He has been employed in the Islands for the past tuo years.
 Parker Loster plans to spend the tn 1rd week of June in the Kenai Pen insula he announced this week. He will take his car to Seward via rail and drive back to Hope, but plans to fly to Homer and Sel- dovia. He probably wi1l not be back un- til the middle of the fourth week. lr. and Mrs. ME. shock1ey were visitors in Palmer this week. lt's. shock1ey is the former Pearl Anderson, Anchorage teacher. 1I. and Mrs. Shock1ey were narr jed this spr ing and have a cab in on the other side
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ported they were apprehensive over
the slippery streets that might fur
ther slow deliveries to consumers.
Maryland officials announced
that $4,000 gallons of Diesel oil OBJ
tanned on loan from the Navy will
be distributed throughout the state
beginning tomorrow.
Baltimore is Critical Area.
State Fuel Oil Co-ordinator
Emory H. Niles said the supply
situation is more critical in Balti-
more than elsewhere in Maryland
The Navy oil is to be used only to
answer emergency appeals by
householders and to meet needs OF
hospitals and institutions.
The Coast Guard reported the
cutter Madrona is breaking a path
through Potomac River ice for the
tankers Pearl G. and w. Moran. The
tankers were near Indian Head early
today.
One carried fuel oil for the Shell
Oil Co. and the other was bringing
heating oil and gasoline for STAN
dard Oil of New Jersey. Much Of this
was earmarked for railroad and in.
dustrial uses and would not 60 fal
to increase the supply for residen-
I tial consumers. .
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Veterans
Continued From First Page

trainees might cost $4,000 600 2
year go " 80
Additional veterans bills, mean.
while. were introduced in Congress.
yesterday.
Senators johnson, Democrat, o.
Colorado and Mcfarland, Demo-
crat, of Arizona submitted measure
to provide allowances for depend
ents of veterans of both World Wars
/ and II who have service connected
disabilities.
II totally disabled. the veteran
would receive an additional $50 q
month If he has wife and nc
children, $50 a month If he has q
wife and one child, SOS a month
plus SIS for each additional child
for a wife and two children; $40 ii
no wife and one child, and $25 for
each dependent parent.
Partially disabled veterans would
receive smaller allowances for de-
pendents.
A bill to establish a uniform pen
sion system under which all vet
Grams IS years of age would receive
$50 a month was explained in the
Congressional Record by its au-
thor, Representative Van zandt
Republican, of Pennsylvania, a for
mer national commander OF the
WV.
He said the plan. embodied in
bill he has introduced, would save
money and ease administration o.
veterans affairs.
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Arnory
Continued From First Page J

would be empowered to sign con-
tracts on behalf of the three-man
board.
Would Fix Rental.
4. Proceeds OF the rental of the
drill hall for non-military uses
would go to the District. while the
Guard unit would collect from soft
drink or other concessions operating
during functions at the Armory.
S. The three-man board would be
authorized to fix the rental fees for
the drill hall, but would be required
to grant a preferential rate to
schools or, other educational insti-
buttons, both public and private, as
well as to the Federal and District
governments.
A bill incorporating these features
is being whipped into final shape in
the Corporation Counsers Office to-
day. 1t will be presented to men,
bers of the House and<Senate Dis
trict Committees, weather permit
ting, at a dinner at the Maydower
Hotel tonight.
Already Have Three Bills.
The reaction on the legislators,
who already have three divergent
:Armory bills before them, is expect
cd to befavorable to this cunapro-
mise proposal. 80
The. original proposal for estab-
fishing . special board to control
the Arrnory came from Joseph G.
sMcGarraghy, former president OF
the Board Of Trade, who now Is
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Fuel Oil
Continued From First Page. J

peditious handling" In view OF the
fact that the results of the shortage
are already clearly evident"
The letter to Mr.. Krug said more
than 100000 gallons of fuel oil had
been distributed from the stockpile
here which was made available by
major distributors serving the area.
It called attention to the 100000
gallons of oil which the Navy loaned
a. distributor last week which kept
several thousands of homes from
being cold,
Weather May Hit Deliveries.
As the requests from household
ers continued to pour In today to the
Fuel Oil Co-ordinator Office, Mr..
Kennedy described the situation as
pretty bad" and said 1t might grow
worse If present weather conditions
continue. Seven telephones in his
Office were ringing constantly to-
day.
The stockpile was down to 4l,000
gallons OF fuel oil early today. but
this was increased to $1,000 gallons
when one large dealer allocated an
additional 10000 gallons, Mr.. Ken
nedy said. Yesterday the stockpile
started with 68 900 gallons.
Kerosene also was down to $500
gallons today from 1900 yesterday.
Large oil companies were await
ing the arrival of two tankers plow-
ing through the ice-jammed Poto-
mac River. while distributors re-
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u. S. Accuses Romonio
OF Brutal Compoiqn

The United States today made
| public q note charging the Com
! munist- dominated Romanian gov
eminent with wasing brutal cam
'paign to eliminate all political OPP
. position" In violation of its new
peace treaty:
Copies of the note, the State De-
partment said, have been given to
Russian and British representatives
! In Bucharest with request Tor
their comments.
The note to Romania, a counter
blow in the recently intensified war
of words with Russia, followed re-
lection late yesterday OF a Russian
protest against the United States
putting back into service wartime
airfield at Mellaha in North Africa
Protest on Base Rejected.
A Soviet charge that reopening
the airf1eld in the former italian
colony of Libya would violate the
new Italian peace treaty was re-
jected outright in a reply by I'm
dersecertary of State Lovett, made
public late yesterday.
Mr.. Lovett said that Britain, as
the power occupying Libya, had full
authority to sanction the move. He
added, however, that the arrange
ment with Britain Is to be effective
only until the Big Four decide
Libya's future status.
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chairman OF the Greater National
Capital Committee. Suggested
changes in Mr.. McGarraghy's FORM
ula came, however, from Repre-
sentative O'Hara, Republican. OF
Minnesota, James Kirkland, coun-
sci for the Senate District Com
mittee, and others at the Capitol.
Those attending today's armistice
session at the District Building in
cluded Mr.. Young and Commission
er Guy Mason, Gen. Cox, Mr.. Nc
Garraghy, Mr.. Kirkland, Harry
Wender, chairman of the District
Recreation Board, Mr.. West and
Mr.. Vests principal assistant, Ches-
ter Gray.
Revolving Fund Planned.
Mr.. Gray still Is working on an
additional point of the proposed
solution, which would provide for
the establishing of revolving
fund.- for the purchase Of equipment
and furnishings necessary to the
Armory. Monies already collected
from nonmilitary rentals of the drill
hall would provide the nucleus
around which such fund would
be built. The fund would be under
the control of the three man super
visory board.
The new bill provides that the
three members of the controlling
board may delegate their authority
to alternates, who could take off
their shoulders the time consuming
lob of handling Armory problems.
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Two Million Returning
To Work in Germany
BY the Assoeiatsd Prssa

FRANKFURT, Germany, Feb. A.
Western Germanys biggest strike
since pre-Nazi days ended at mid
night, but union leaders threatened
even more drastic action unless
German officials improve the food
ration.
An estimated two to three million
strikers began returning to work
this morning after 24-hour hun
ger" walkout which crippled bust
ness and industry in the entire
British zone and In the American
zone state of Wurttemberg- Baden.
There was no violence.
The strike was not directed
against the occupation powers but
against German officials, whom the
workers blame for today's short
rations.
william Kleinknecht, Wurttem-
berg Baden's union chairman,
warned that more drastic measures
would be taken unless the German
food administration takes steps to-:
/. Distribute the available food
supply more equitably. .-.
2. Stamp out widespread black
marketing and boarding.
8. Compel farmers to turn In their
crop quotas for rationed distribu-
ton.
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Britain
Continued From First Page.)

White Paper continued, there is no
justification for any general increase
of individual money incomes. The
word general" was emphasized.
The statement said exceptional
cases for increased incomes will be
considered. particularly when it is
necessary to build up the staff of an
undermined industry contributing
to the national interests.
Pensioners Seen Hit.
The White Paper added, however,
that each claim must be considered
on its national merits"
The Labor government declared
that increased salaries, unless &C
companied by a substantial increase
In production, would drive up prices
,aaad service charges, penaiize old age
pensin1iers and children, and in
crease export costs.
In general, the government said.
a broad-scale increase in income
would benefit no one except the
black market operator.
THE rest of the community" II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-04
Lucy Calf Hanger Die!
In Long Island; Was
Officer in OAR Here

Lucy Gait Hanger, about TO,
prominent member Of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution
here, died yesterday at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Raymond Maude
Ellis, jackson Heights. Long Island,
it was learned here today.
Mrs. Hanger. born here of an old
Washington family, was the daugh-
ter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. William
M. Gait. Her father, who was
chairman of the Executive Com
mittee for the inaugural ball Of
President Cleveland, operated w.
M. Gait IL Co., -four and feed con-
Germ, at First and Indiana avenue
NV. She was a distant cousin OF
Norman Gait, whose widow, Mrs.
Edith Boiling Gait, married Presi-
dent Wilson.
Mrs. Hanger was married in
1902 to the late G. Wallace w.
Hanger, who served with the United
States Railroad Administration and
the United States Board OF Media
ton.
She had been associated with the
OAR for many years. She was
twice regent OF the Capt. Molly
Pitcher Chapter here; third presi-
dent of the D. c. State Ofacers'
Club and D. C. State vice regent.
In the national society she was vice
president general in 1917 and 1918
and was also candidate for presi-
dent general in 1923. Also she was
organizing secretary general from
1920 to 1923 and program chairman
for six OAR congresses.
Mrs. Hanger had lived in New
York for the last 10 years.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Ham
ger Is survived by two sons, Wal
lace Gait Hanger and William Gait
Hanger, both of New York City,
and brother. William Matthew
Gait, Glendale, Ohio. Her sister,
Mrs. Edith Calf Mish, 81, died last
month in Detroit. She had lived in
Washington for many years.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. Saturday at the Episcopal
Church of the Ascension, New York.
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said, has to endure the dislocation
and hardship which inevitably &C
company imitation.
1.-The alternatives before us are
either a general agreement by the
people to act togther upon sound
and public-spirited lines or q serious
and prolonged setback in our eco
nomic reconstruction, accompanied
by a persistently low standard of
living"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-04
.CeyIon Celebrates
lis Independence


COLOMBO, Ceyion, Feb. 4-Ths
boom Of guns. the crackle OF fire.
crackers, the peal Of bells and the
whine of ships sirens proclaimed
the birth today of the new dominion
Of Ceylon.
This capital put on It's most fes-
tive garh for the day, the predomi-
nant feature of which was the
hosting of the lion flag of the Sing
halese nation.
That banner had been in con-
tinuous use for 1000 years until 1t
was hauled down voluntarily more
than a century ago, when Ceylon. a
Is 900 square mile island south and
east of the south tip Of India, be-
came British crown colony.
The island, which has a popula-
ton of more than $500 600, is rich
in rubber, tea, cinnamon and COCO
nut products. 1t has been under
Portuguese, Dutch and British rule
for ISL years.
This morning Ceylon became an
independent country once more. In
practically every home rice was
cooked and eaten at an suspicious
hour in celebration. Arches of coco
nut palms spanned the entrances
to even the humblest dwellings. J
Thousands of children marched to
temples. dressed in spotless white
and singing anthems of freedom.
Special religious services were held
in Buddhist and Hindu temples, in
Moslem mosques and at the 200
year-old Dutch church overlooking
Colombo harbor.
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Weather
Continued From First Page.)

Mr.. xanten ordered workmen to
gather ashes and sprinkle them on
hills and those streets requiring
sand. The District also was out OF
salt used to help ment the ice and
snow Mr.. Xanten was informed
by the International Salt Co. that
there was a shortage all over the
East because of the recurring SHOWS.
One of the highest points was the
circle at the Virginia side of the
Memorial Bridge. On all roads lead
ing into the circle traffic was either
completely halted or reduced to a
snaips crawl for two hours. Lee
Highway was choked solidly as far
back as Fort Myer.
Police Help Unsnarl Traffic.
The same condition prevailed
from the Pentagon to the Highway
Bridge and over Key Bridge, where
traffic was at . standstill for an
hour or more.
The situation became 80 acute
that Inspector Miller ordered all
motorcycle police to move from one
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Protestant Catholic Agreement
Held Trunscendinq Differences

to the moral law. To the prayer
of st. Augustine: Thou hast made
up for thyself and we can never
find rest until we find 1t in Thee,
we say, amen"
Against this background of COM
mon agreement, DR.. Hutchinson dis
cussed the points at issue between
the two bodies. These, he said, con-
Germ the nature of the church, papal
authority, what constitutes tolerance
and religious liberty, and the proper
basis for relations between church
and state.
On the question of church and
state, he said:
American Professionalism believes
in their separation. We may have
trouble on occasion defining just
what that involved, but we believe
the principle Is important.
Moreover, those of us who be-
lieve that the crisis of our times
requires mankind to move ahead
from the period of the separate
national sovereignties to the era of
world government, must come to see
that the separation of church and
state is the only possible status for
religion under a world state"
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U. 5. Engineer Troops
Now in Libya TO Work
On Base, Reds Say


LONDON, Feb. 4.-Tass distrib-
uted report from Rome today that
American engineering troops" have
landed in former Italian North
Africa
-. The Russian news agency quoted
small Italian news agency. Agenzia
Italiane dInformazione, which it
said is connected with italian CO.
lonial circles"
Reporting the purported landings
of an unspecified number of Ameri-
cans in British-occupied Libya, the
italian news agency was quoted by
Tass as saying:
American engineering troops
\ have landed at strategical' points in
Cirenaica and encamped west OF
; Bengasi and in the Ell Agheila
: coastal zone"
Russia protested earlier against
! the United States reopening of the
{ wartime air transport base at
Mellaha in Tripoli, west of Gre
I naica, and the presence of Ameri-
can warships in Italian ports. The
protests have been rejected by the
United States
The Tass distribution of the re-
port saying Americans had landed
! in North Africa followed renewed
| meetings here of the Big -Four
( foreign minister deputies. They dis
cussed the future of Italy's colonies
! The deputies adjourned last night
until late this week or early mex
week. Their secretaries were tt
work out a timetable for hearing
! representatives of other nations.
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busy intersection to another, I'm.
tangling the jams.
He urged all persons who could Il
remain at home and those who haC
driven their cars downtown to leave
them there until road conditions
improve.
Stalled Traffic Big Handicap.
Agreeing the morning jam was
the worst yet experienced, Capita.
Transit officials echoed the advice
to leave cars at home. The transit
movement was handicapped more
by the stalled traffic than the snow
1--WE had sweepers and sanders
out as soon as the snow became
heavy, but they were of no help be-
cause of the JAMS transit spokes-
man said.
Along Wisconsin avenue, Capital
Transit vehicles were caught for
more than an hour in an unmoving
mass of cars. Other trouble spots
were Massachusetts, and Connecticut
avenues. On the hill running from
Wisconsin avenue to the Rock Greek
Park entrance cars and buses were
stalled.
The American Automobile Associa-
ton reported a rapidly swelling list
Of motorists requesting help. One
AAA emergency patrolman, riding in
jeep, said it took "a minutes to
move three city blocks. He said
traf1ic was damned on Minnesota
avenue from Pennsylvania avenue
to Benning road.
Barrett Caught In Traffic.
Among those caught in the jams
was Police Supt. Robert J. Barrett
who called for a scout car to break
up the tangle at Michigan avenue
and Park place NV.
Pedestrians also found the going
rough. Two teachers on their way
to Calvin Coolidge High School
were treated at Garfield Hospital
after slipping down.
Miss Mabel Barley, 204 Tucker
man street NV, biology teacher
fell near her home and injured hel
hip. Miss Evelyn Morris, 900 Farra-
gut street NV, an English teacher
slipped near the school and suffered
q shoulder injury.
Airport officials said all flights
were operating through the early
phases of the storm, and probably
would continue unless freezing rain
or heavier snow occurred.
81 Below In Eastern Points.
The North Central and New Eng
land States continued to report be-
low-zero temperatures. Unofficial
record readings of 54 below zero
were reported in Lyndon. VT. and
Aroostook County. Me.
Ofiicial lows included 81 below at
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Politics
Continued From First Page.)

the Senate Labor Committee yes
tefday to oppose segregation OF
Negro war veterans in hospitals
saying such a deal would be out
rageous" and -smacked of q "Fas-
cists' creed"
White Opposes Segregation.
Walter White, executive secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, OPP
posed the segregation in testimony
before the committee.
All of this added up to no solace
for the Southern Democrats.
Senator Overton Democrat, Of
Louisiana said in letter to consti-
tuents that Southern governors
ought to call on the leaders in their
States to hold conventions and pos
sibly organize a. Southern Demo-
cratic party of our own and vote fol
It's electors
Several Dixie Democrats said
something of this sort will be
preached when the government meet
in Florida Friday to consider an
educational report. and Representa-
tive Abernethy Of Mississippi pro-
posed in a message to Gov. Fielding
Wright, of Mississippi, a Truman
critic, that Southern Governors ask
for a Showdown" meeting with
party leaders here.
Only a few Southerners de-
Tended the President. Gov. Millard
F.. Caldwell of Florida said he dis
agreed with the Presidents civil
rights proposals, but would SUPPORT
his nomination as President
Northern Democrats Calm.
Northen Democrats, meanwhile
recalling similar Southern upheayals
in presidential years remained calm
They commended that II Southern