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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-11
Plan 40 Million Dollar Expansion
Proqram In Eleven Southern States

j. H. Friend, ce-pfesident of
international Paper Company, in
charge of the Southern Kraft
Division, made public today for
the first time details. Of the COM
pany's s4O,000.ooo expansion and
modernization program during
l947, l948 and l949 in eleven
southern states.
Highlights of the program are:
l. This years expansion alone
win increase the productive ca
pacity of the Southern Kraft Di-
visions eight mills by 100000
tons per year, which is about
one-eighth of the existing capa-
city. When next years portion
of the big building program is
completed, the total post war in
crease in capacity will amount to
about AGO. GOO tons of kraft board,
kraft paper. and kraft specialties.
The total post war increase per
day will approximate 1,275 tons
of beard and paper. This comes
close TO equalling the total pres
ent capacity of the company's
Georgetown mill. which is today
the largest single paper mill in
the world.
Modernixe Plants
2. Only a portion of the $40,-
100000, however, is being spent
for additions to mill capacity.
Existing plants r being further
modernized and their efficiency
greatly increased. The program
also includes appropriations for
acquisition of additional south
ern woodlands and for the pur-
chase and installation on a vast
ly increased scale of mechanical
equipment for handling wood in
the forests, at the mills and
at intermediate transshipment
points. Converting plants in the
South are also being enlarged and
improved.
3. So far this year well over
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-11

$4,000 has been spent each day
on labor and material for the
building program which is giving
daily employment to about 1880
men at the Southern mills Of the
company.
4. When this years work is
completed about $50 permanent
new jobs will be created in the
mills, swelling the payroll by an
estimated $730,000 a year.
5. Because of the greatly in
creased pulpwood requirements
Of the expanded mills, almost
2,700 new jobs will be created in
the woods labor of the region to
meet the increased timber re-
quirements of the mills. This
figure does not include an anti
cipated rise in the employment
Of other transportation industries
in the South.
Most Funds for South
Since the war a total of more
than SAL, 000, 900 has been appro-
priated for expansion and mod
ernization of the facilities of the
international Paper Companies
in the United States. OF this to-
tai SAC, 000, 900 has been earmark-
ed for the South and the balance
is for the improvement of the
company's northern properties.
This money does not include
large expenditures for normal re-
pairs, regular and deferred main
tenance, and replacement work.
which last year amounted to more
than $4,000, 900 in the South
alone.
MI. Friend made his announce
ment ON the eve of the company's
50th anniversary celebration
which begins June IA. During the
coming week thirty-one mills and
plants of the company in the
United States will hold birthday
celebrations and most of them will
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-11

international Paper Company's
Southern Kraft Division spent
$185, 900 in 1916 for educational
work on better forest manage
ment, for fire prevention, and for
developing improved methods of
tree cultivation.
In 1916, more than a million
cords of pulpwood were obtained
by the company from selective
cutting, thinning and salvage
alone. The use of 1855 cords
of slabs and 151,686 cords of
hardwood in 1916 was another
major contribution to conserva-
ton and improvement of the for
est stands throughout the South
ern states.
Such conservation practices
have been increased on company
owned lands by intensive fores-
try practices leading to the con-
tinuous development and growth
of timber stands. But, since less
than 10 percent of the pulpwood
supply of the Company comes
from its own holdings, it is i'm
portant for the company to help
maintain good forest production
on all the woodlands of the South.
When the Southern Pulpwood
Conservation Association was
formed in 1889, the member pulp
and paper companies specifically
committed themselves
q. to cut our own forest
lands in a manner which will
maintain and build up the forest
growing stock, and to promote
like cutting on all forest lands;
to secure insofar as possible the
full compliance of our wood pro-
dueers, and to cooperate with
appropriate Federal and State
agencies also to employ the
necessary qualified personnel to
insure compliance with these COM
mitments.'
To carry out this program, the
Woodlands Department of the In
ternational Paper Company's
Southern Kraft Division employs
nearly one hundred foresters.
Forest fires are the greatest
single problem faced by the grow
ers of trees.
Fire destroys go percent more
trees in the South each year
than all the trees cut for pulp
wood, not to mention the billions
of seedlings killed and the dam
age to the top soil. And it takes
a generation or more of slow
growth for the burnt area to come
back.
Fire losses can be fought in
the South, and are being fought
very successfully wherever fire
control programs III put into eff
feet.
Less than one percent to three
percent of the trees are destroy
ed by fire in protected areas.
But 60 percent of the forest
lands of the South are still I'M
protected and it is here that the
vast majority of fires occur. Here
the percentage is las percent.
Each year, more than 100000
acres of Southern forests are
burned.
The fight against forest fires
progresses steadily in the South.
During 1916, two additional
states, Alabama and South Caro-
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1948 may total as much as 700
tons daily. When all of next
years part of the program is
completed, a total of some 1875
tons daily will have been added
to the capacity of the company's
mills in the South since the
end Of World War II.
All Areas to Benefit
All areas of the South where
the company has mills will derive
benefits from the expansion pro-
gram. The largest expansion
programs are those at Panama
City, Florida; Bastrop q mills)
and Springhill, Louisiana; and
Camden, Arkansas. Other mills
affected are in Georgetown, South
Carolina; Mobile, Alabama; and
Moss Point, Mississippi.
In first announcing the overall
expansion program last fall, John
| H. Human, president of Inter
national Paper Company, said:
"One of u detectives is to
achieve the lowest possible cost
of production by modernization
of equipment, Improvement in
techniques and methods, and the
substitution of the best modern
equipment for that which has
been put out-of-date by techno-
logical advances. Low-cost pro-
duction is very important to the
South and to our employees. Only
low-cost production makes low
prices possible, and low costs
helps us to expand markets and
thus bring more money into the
southern states. Furthermore, a
company which has an adequate
margin between costs and prices
can afford to do the research
work which again leads to in
creased sales and larger income
for the South.
ITO our employees, low costs
are the best possible form of job
security. They mean that we can
get business and afford TO take
business even under temporary
unfavorable conditions.
Expansion Necessary
Expansion of our productive
capacity has been made neces-
sary by the tremendous growth
in the demand for kraft board
and kraft paper which has taken
place during the past two decades,
but the demand has been stimu-
lated by the magnificent service
performed by kraft containers OF
all kinds during World War II
when this product of the South
was a major factor in helping
America to win the Battle OF
Supply.
Our expenditures during the
next two years also reflect the
inability of the Company to mod
ernie its equipment during the
war years or Immediately there
after"
Following is a summary of the
major improvements to be made
at each mill and the increases in
capacity to be realized by the
end of this year, together with
what the Improvement will mean
in terms of jobs and payrolls:
Bastrop and Louisiana Mills
Increased pulp and machine ca
pacity at the Bastrop mill, which
is devoted wholly to the manu-
facture of Cremfibre, will raise
potential output from 270 tons pei
day as of the first of the year tc
about $50 tons a day by Deeem-
Der 81. 1913.
At the Louisiana Mill, also ir
Rastrop. which makes kraft pap
er and kraft speeialtieS, the i'm
Continued on Page y
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POLES HUNT AMBER

Szczecin, ~Poland-AP-Polish
seafaring men report the Western
Pomeranian sea coast "abounds
with amber. Plastic artists have
decided TO establish Poland's first
factory for amber articles.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-11
Otis Mill. Livermore Falls.
Maine

Another original mill of the In
ternational family; new system
for bleaching groundwork pulp
has made possible production of
new grades of groundwork print
ing papers; wallpaper raw stock is
one of the principal groundwork
speciality papers. international
Continued on Page q
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Continued on Page q
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

Saturday. Jan. 3rd
.AYD'S Mite Club, Sat, Jan. 3, Du Sable,
81 E. 49th St. Band, Floor Show, Food,
Drinks. Admission 6Oc
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

In the light of the witch hunts
and red scares going on today. it's
easy to understand how Mr.. Hines
would find a publisher for his
book. For Lonely Crusade is at
the height of fashion. It's packed
by the type inch with every kind
of anti-communist villification.
wondered who besides the publish
ers was paying Mr.. Hines.
Lonely Crusade deals with a
college-bred Negro, Lee Gordon,
who is bitter because he can't find
white collar job, and takes a
job as an organizer for a union.
=
FOR reasons which are not dis
closed by the author, Lee Gordon
is a rabid anti-communist. To
him, communists are scheming,
era fly, ignorant, INSCRIPTIONS,
grating, thieving, etc. people who
are only interested in busting the
union and duping the Negro peo-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
sCORECARD

*#"*Excellent; '**Good; **Fair;
Indifferent; None, stinker
Anthony Adverse
1855 Best Years of Our Lives
- Black Narcissus
1t Had To Be You
*** Body and Soul
**** Crossfire
80 Deep Valley
Forever Amber
1888 Gentleman's Agreement
*** Great Expectations
l Love Trouble
Black Gold
**@ Kiss of Death
- Life With Father
*** Long Night
Lost Moment
$3.50 Monsieur Verdoux
~ Ride the Pink Horse
*** Romance of Rosy Ridge
$50 Secret Life of Walter
NIFTY
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
Movie beet
Verdoux was the
top film Of At

fortunately, it hasn't been shown
in Chicago yet.
ONE of our reliable and prac-
tically unbiased scouts submitted
report on at Had To Be YOU
Rhetorically, he asks: "Why did
it have to be me?" l guess the
answer is that suffering cleanses
the soul. Anyway, his dossier says
that this turkey has to do with
lot of dreams by Ginger (mother,
dear mother, come home to me
now Rogers.
1t seems that Ginger has a
dream man and this character
Nightmares her right out OF
marrying couple of solid citi-
zens and finally she marries some
one else. Anyway, she got married
and they ate weinerschnitzel for
ever after.
Why do things like this have
to happen to weinerschnitzel?
BLACK Gold' proves that
anybody who has an oil well and
a couple of million bucks and
good horse can win the Kentucky
Derby. 1 guess that's right. But
I'll never know.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

pie. One of the main communist
characters is an illiterate, knife
welding Negro character who
cares little for Marxism but uses
the party because it uses him.
Well, you see how it goes.
Mr.. Illness book is replete with
corny writing, scurrilous charges
of anti-Semitism among Negroes,
empty and illogical political jab-
Der.
He plays heavily on the line that
Negro men only go into progress
sive movements to satiate desper-
ate desires for white women and
that white women cannot resist
the fascination of Superseded, !"
big, brutal Negro men.
LEE Gordon continues his Lone
ly Crusade in the end to take
the rap for murder committed
by Luther, the knife welding
Negro communist.
There is nothing to compliment
about this book. Mr.. Illness
writing indicates that he knows
nothing about labor and trade I'M
ion organizations. He knows moth
ing about communists but has
only repeated all of the scurrilous
lies that he has read or heard.
Lastly he knows darn little about
his own people, the Negro people.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

The Natl. Board of Review, no
''red' organization lit was orig
inally organized by the movie in
dustry itself to ward off the
threat of government censorship,
through its honest selections, has
done a service to the public: Holly
wood producers should see the
handwriting on the wall and real
ize that only their progressive
films stack up against the best Of
the foreign output Shoeshine.
Odd Man Out. Great Expectations,
To Live In Peace and The Over
landers were the five foreign Sc
lections included by the board. :.
HOLLYWOOD is mourning two
makers of fine films, Ernst Lub-
itsch and Mark Hellinger. Lub-
itsch's film, The Lady In Ermine.
interrupted by his death, is being
completed by Otto Forever Am
beD Preminger, but will be signed
by Lubitsch alone. Hellinger's
plans for further production of
Hemingway stories (as followups
to The Killers, under the David
o. Selznick banner, will probably
be dropped. He left one unreleased
film, Naked City. a saga of New
York, which is said really to cap
ture the flavor of Manhattan
Character actor Richard Haydn
makes his debut as a director at
Paramount, holding the reins on
TatIock Millions Al Jolson has
been selected as the B'nai Births
man of the year; the sequel to his
biography will be filmed by MGM
instead of Columbia, with Gene
Kelly impersonating him, unless
the studio can borrow Larry Parks
to resume the role he held in
The Jolson Story
Hollywood irony: The producer
of Grapes Of Wrath. The Ox-Bow
Incident and Gentleman's Agree
ment.. Daryl F. Zanuck, is now
rushing to completion his latest
film, The Iron Curtain. The script
was written by Milton Krims,
whose finest past credit was Con-
fessions Of A Nazi Spy Will
some people never learn? -.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
Worlds greatest
abb artists

Although Henry a. Wallace
this week addressed a nation
wide Mutual network audience
from the studios of WGN here.
Col. Mccormick radio station
refused TO carry the speech in
Chicago.
To those who felephoned
WGN TO complain. officials ex-
planned that commercial spon-
sors of broadcasis M ndaY
night refused TO relinquish
their time. That alibi was con-
tradicted by WGN's manager
himself, Frank p. Schneider.
who said that the Tribune STA
lion turned. down Wallace be-
cause the political nature of
his address is in conflict with
the stations policy governing
broedcasting of political
speeches"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

hitting, intelligently-done films
about anti-Semitism were among
the best of this year.
To wind up this list, 1 have
Boomerang" and Great Ex-
pectations."
I'm pretty sure that film like
"Shoe Shine" the superb Italian
job belongs in this list, but I'M
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
BY BOB BENNETT

N the columnists' union, a
i little man comes and takes
away your card couple of days
after New Year if you've failed to
write piece looking back over
your shoulder at what's what with
the past year. I'd sooner be cited
by the un-American committee
than be caught without card. AS
who wouldn't?
The past year, I think, was by
and large a pretty dreary one for
the average movie-goer. The same
pap, some of it not even warmed
over, was served up in the same
old dishes.
As cultural medium, the ma
jority of the films continued to be
an insult to the intelligence and
a libel on the American people.
The average Hollywood product
was, as in the past, sleek and
slick-but it still wasn't art be-
cause It had no CUTS and, just as
important, no real understanding
of the film as art. A camera, it
seems, is just black box which
takes pretty pictures instead of
what it really is-an instrument
even as the piano and violin are
instruments in the hands of artists
AN instrument for communicate
ing the significant realities.
There were, however, before we
all break into sobs, a couple of
films that made going to movies
a pleasure rather than a chore.
I've had several months or so
to think it over. and I still in
sist that Charles ChapIin's
Monsieur Verdoux." was the
best picture of this Year-or any
other for that matter.
1t marked the real coming to
stature of Chaplin as mature,
serious peoples artist; it marked
the final Towering of a great
satirist.
That it had only a brief two
week showing in Chicago and has
since disappeared is a sad com
nnent on both the monopoly that
runs the city's theatres and on the
people who go to the movies.
recommend that all you guys
who have been kicking your
selves for having missed il.
hesiege your e g h b o h d
theatres with letters. phone
calls. petitions and personal SOL
icitafions asking that it be given
a showing.
I have only a few other posies
left. One certainly should go to
Sam Goldwyn for his BEST Years
of Our Lives" Another should go
to the same gentlemen for his
Secret Life of Walter Nifty"
with the Incompatible Danny
Kaye.
"Crossfire'' and "Gentlemen's
Agreement" couple of hard
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

****Excellent; '**Good; **Fair;
Indifferent; None, stinker
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

some people never learn?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
Books
lonely Crusade is a blot
on the work Of Negro writer's
Reviewed by VICTORIA STEELE

Lonely Crusade novel by Chester Knopf
ugh first reaction read the
first few chapters ugh
through the rest of this blot the written
recently by American Negro writers terrible
That had done to the Chicago Star the
this dagreeable reading review Chester
Hines Lonely Crusade
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
;3S:S:S; k'Sz:k
McLane must
be good loser!
BY BARNARD RUBIN

APIOIN MdCEan6 I1g1LS MS
ID Tooth film battle in 1.-THE
Walls of Jericho" bringing his
record up to 100 per cent for
defeats.
He hasn't won a single fight yet
on the screen.
The half a dozen disc jockeys
on the British Broadcasting Cor
poration network have gone over
big and are now among the top
radio favoritess with the British
radio public. :.
The Catholic Legion of Decency
cycling the television industry. :.
John O'Hara working on new
novel which will probably hit the
book shops in late 1948.
Some of Marlene Dietrich's old
sexy blues records being re-
issued.
Several Hollywood film COM
panies dickering with the idea of
producing films in Holland next
Airlines Terminal Theatres, Inc,
has been formed in Detroit to
operate short subject theatres at
major airports.
When Lauritz Melchior starts
his annual Wagnerian cycle at the
Met Jan. l, he will be "a pounds
and one corset lighter.
Ethel Waters will go on a con-
cert tour with the Hall Johnson
Choir in February under Allen
Adler's sponsorship.
Broadway liquor stores report
serving a lot of customers but
their crosses are behind last
years. People buying cheaper
products.
Paulette Goddard's and Burgess
Meredith's new project is film
dealing with the movement Of
Jews to Palestine.
Duke Ellington's transcribed disc
jockey program will be syndi-
Gated to an expected $50 outlets.
Tommy Dorsey ditto to about
100.
From the current issue of Va
riety:
"The State Department Il
is dumbfounded.
"Of various artists sought by
England and its dependencies, and
by the Scandinavian countries,
the Negro baritone paul Robeson
is top attraction.
with Robeson's present pre-
occupation in liberal causes, the
State Department can't under
stand it."
Randy, aged IL, had a problem
on his mind, according to Joe
Randy explained his predica-
ment this way to his friend Willie:
ITS this way, see.. I've. carried
Jennie's books for two weeks now,
took her to the movies twice and
bought her four sodaS. Do you
think I should kiss her?"
Willie thought hard. "No," he
decided. you've done enough for
her already" ..
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

It's A Wonderful Life was the among them
hat meant the least Boomerang. though this was
eliminated in the screen version was originally a
olea against anti Semitism, and remained message
f tolerance Crossfire and Gentlemans Agreement
are two of Holywood's finest and most courageous
attempts to meet an important problem head-on: and
harlie Chaplins Monsieur verdous. selected as the
'est film of the year, particularly gratifying to
his columnist, who selected it months and months
ago.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

Gross national sales hit a new
high in the July-September quar-
ter of 1947, reaching an annual
rate of 1892 billion as compared
with 1929 billion in the previous
quarter.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
I:lI wood.
Board chooses 5 progressive
U. S. films as best Of year
BY HAROLD sALEMsoN

Is gratifying that the five films selected b,
the Natl Board of Review the year aong will
two British Italian Australan were of an essen
TALLY progressive nature
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
WHAT'S DOING

Rates: &c per word, 8 lines mini
mum. Deadline Monday afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-30
LANCER Talk 10 High Light
|EIks Educational Farley

An address by Chairman LANCER
of the Senate Civil Service Cor INIT
tee at 8 o'clock tonight will high
light the second day of the three
day Elks Educational Conference in
the Metropolitan Baptist Church,
1925 r street NV.
Slated for today are talks by edu-
Gators and Government ofiicials on
the present status of Negro educa-
ton in the United States and meas
ures for combating illiteracy.
Among speakers listed were: Dr..
Martin jenkins, professor Of educa-
ton at Howard University: DR..
Janet McAllister, professor Of edu-
cation, Miner Teachers College:
Col. Campbell c. johnson, executive
assistant to the director, ONCE OF
Selective Service Records; Joseph
Albright, special assistant to the
Veterans Administrator, and DR.
Roscoe c.. Brown, Public Health
Service,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-30
Births Reported

tFrom D. C. Bureau Of Vital Statistics
Elijah and Ada Anderson, boy.
Harold and Winnie Bays, boy.
william and Lois Betty. boy.
W vHfief and a Beansee t Bohannon girl
Edwin and Madeline Brown. girl.
Wesley and Mary Buchanan, girl.
Thomas and Viola Donahue, boy.
William and Evelyn Dunn. girl.
Joseph and Gertrude Dyer. boy.
=. nest and Lucille Fiore, boy.
BeaWoolys and Anna Grimes boy.
Joseph and Gilberts Hentz, boy.
sernsrd a and Vivian MAJ Msthe eSs boy
George and Alice Mcdowell. boy.
Hush ~. and kstnertn ,s. Peek so girl
John and Laura Quinn. Boy BOY.
Ohm and Florence Sc veggio boys (2).
rbs an. AND ASss bs girl
Ralph and Mary Taylor, eirl
Matthew and Myrtle Todd girl.
49nn and n Christine arR W yaEs F, hav
Charles ss and and RUBY RUBY wisemi hii boy.
James and Dolores Aylor. girl;
Golonius and Margaret Best, boy.
Leon and Lille Bush, boy.
William and Viola Chapman, boy.
Oscar and Martha Cheek, girl.
John and Carrie Goats, girl.
ferov and Lorraine Delaney. girl.
Thomas and Lucille Dlxson. girl.
BENJAMIN and Alice Holmes. boy.
Christy and Laura Kileore, girl
Alexander and Mary Johnson boy.
William and LOUIS Jones. boy.
Henry and Mary Mayo, boy.
John and Ruth Mur~hv. boy
Herman and Alma Mcknight, girl.
Charles and Mary Scott, girl.
Julian and Ann Speight, girl;
Roosevelt and GLADYS Williams, sirl.
James and Bertha Williams, boy.
James and Elaine Wright, boy.