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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03

character he would hesitate to
attend the hearings as a mem
Der of the audience. Mr. Cham
beers says that he obtained a
"boondoggling" job with the
WPA in 1887 at a salary of
$1,000 annually. The record
shows that he received $4,000.
Representative Nixon, Cali
fornia Republican member of
the committee. explains the
variance by saying that "Cham-
bers originally was hazy on the
figure, and it was only after
the committee pressed him that
he said he had received $4,000.
On all other phases of his
testimony, particularly in his
name-calling and accusations,
the memory of Chambers has
been Photographic. The only
catch is that none of his testi-
mony has been substantiated.
Frankly we believe both Cham
bers and Miss Bentley r of
that miserable and pathetic spe-
cies of human beings who are
somewhat akin to the moth.
The warmth and glare of the
spotlight does something to
their metabolism, They flutter
and circle in it until either the
light goes out or life ends. We
believe it time for Mr. Thomas
committee to turn the spot
light off and allow Chambers
and Miss Bentley to either e
turn to their former ~obscurity
or face a grand jury on the
basis of revelations concerning
their own spying activities.
We're afraid, however, the
hearings will continue until
the presidential elections next
November.
Preston Delano. comptroller
of the currency, says that the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03
Inside Washington
Warren May Make a Tour
Of East During Campaign

Justice Robert H. Jackson
trailed Frankfurter with Is dis
sents, and Justice Wiley Rut-
ledge was third with 10.
Justice William O. Douglas
did the most work on majority
opinions, which are the weigh
ty documents announcing the
courts decisions. He wrote %
of the 10 handed down.
Next in line were Justice
Hugo Black with 18 and JUS
tice Jackson with II. Chief JUS
tice Fred NJ. Vinson, boss of
the high court, was a poor
fourth with IL opinions.
All told, the court handed
down a grand total of 223 ma
jority concurring, dissenting,
separate and per curiam"
opinions during the term.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03
You're
Telling Me-!
BY WILLIAM RIFT
Central Press Writer

ENRAGED at high prices,
Frankfurt, Germany, hausfraus
threw eggs at farmer mer-
chants who retaliated by
throwing eggs at them. There
were no casualties though
the Smelling was heavy.
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Since every egg in the mar
ket was smashed Zadok Dunn
kopf thinks the scrap should
go down in history as the Bat
tie of the Omelet.
= .
Anxiety may cause overeat-
ing-says a medieo. Not, how
ever, anxiety over the size of
the walters check.
=
That l7-year-old southern
high school catcher not only
received a Bonus of $4,000
from the Detroit Tigers but,
we now learn, also two count
EN- two) new motor ears. Al
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03
Man Again Turns to the Sea

items for industry.
Phosphate, the great source of
fertilizer, is dissolved through
out the sea. II has not been re-
covered. Yet the sea may have
phosphate deposits that can be
mined. Off La Jolla, Calf,
there is a V-shaped submarine
canyon, 1900 to 1000 feet deep,
with phosphate layers along its
bottom. This deposit was out
lined by sampling a length of
about 20 miles.
Another way to gather the
seas riches is to let ocean
plants do the concentration. At
Duke University the worlds
fastest growing crop has been
found in seaWood along along
the Carolina coasts. These
weeds increase by ten fold in
size in two weeks. They can be
cut and harvested in huge shall
low-water areas.
Duke chemists say they know
of 80 household and industrial
chemicals that can be made
/, from this seaweed. These in
clude linoleum. artificial leath-
er. insulating materials. adj
hesives. medicines. and vita
minis.
The Scottish Seaweed Re-
search Association, Ltd. report
ed seaweed good as sources OF
fabrics, plastics, custard and
ice cream ingredients, soup,
beer making, surgical and den
tai aids.
During World War II the
Navy discovered a mysterious
layer at about 1000 feet deep
that reflected sound. or sonar.
waves to the surface. Recently
California scientists identified
this layer as probably fish and
masses of protein in the form
of tiny animals on which the
fish feed.
The Californians suggested
this layer as a great new source
of sea food. They found evil
dence that the layer exists in
all oceans. and that it lies even
in areas where fish have been
considered scarce. This layer
rises near to the surface at
night. drops again with day
light.
DR.. Harden F. Taylor, of New
York, who in World War /,
made the first quick-freeze
plant for fish, says ocean wat
ers near land can be fertilized.
He says in some areas this will
double to triple the numbers of
some fish. In Scottish lochs the
fertilization already has had
some success. There baby
founders were seen to grow as
much in three months as other
founders in poor waters did in
two years.
Life in the sea is so teeming
that one acre of top water. if
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03
THIS WEEK
in Other Years

FIVE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, ard War Loan drive
set Front page picture of
Mustang named Mos Point
High School" for record set
in war bond sale ingalls,
launches huge Navy ship
Mississippi Press Association
visited Gulfport Seabee base
-. Local American Legion post
gave seafood dinner for French
officers and seamen stationed
here -. No editorial carried.
. >
FOUR YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Most processed foods
removed from rationing
200 sheet metal workers in
work stoppage at ingalls,
Ban on Sunday sale of alcoholic
beverages in county goes into
force Shortage of mail car
riers deprived 900 EastlaWn res
idents of mail delivery
September designated as GO
to Church" month by ministe-
rial association No editorial.
THREE YEARS AGO THIS
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03
PETREL MAKES LONG
AIR TRIP

PERTH, Australia - (AP) =
Robert Beattie, a railway worker,
went fishing here and hooked a
bird--a giant petrol. A band on
its leg showed it had been re-
leased by British scientists at
Signy Island in the South Ork-
neys,
Local scientists calculated that
If it flew over the South Pole II
flew 5000 miles. And if it took
a route via Kerguelen Island 1t
flew twice that distance. The pc
trel ended its travels in the South
Perth zoe.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03

The memory of Whitaker
Chambers, the renegade Com
munist who is now one of the
fair-haired boys of Henry Luce
and Time magazine. where he
Is a senior editor, continues to
be shay. and the so-ealled
investigation of the Red spy
ring by the un-American Ac-
tivities Committee, continues
to be a political farce with not
one single concrete bit of evil
dence substantiated to date
from the mental meanderings
of Chambers and his feminine
counterpart, Miss Elizabeth I.
Bentley, who embraced Com
munism on the wings of love,
she says, and then lightly
tripped away when the mortal
remains of said flame shuffled
off this mortal coil.
The whole affair has CEN
tered around a series of vague
accusations by Chambers and
Miss Bentley. with mysterious
important figures and 'slSey'
witnesses lowering in the back
ground who, we are assured by
the committee, will break the
case wide OPEN The catch is
that these mysterious witness
es never seem to material
ize. There is a mysterious MIR
j. Peters who the committee
says was once boss of the en-
tire Communist underground
in the u. S. Mr.. Peters was the
object of a frantic hunt by the
Committee and was one of the
persons, the public was told,
that would "break" the case.
Despite his mysteriousness and
the frantic manhunt. we now
learn that the mysterious MIR.
Peters" has calmly been at
tending the spy hearings. Ger
tainly if he was such a sinister
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03

WEEK, First peaeetime Labor
Day saw suspension of all bus
mess, even shipyard Sugar
stamp 38 became valid -. job
applicants streamed in from
other areas Federal funds
for Junior high operation -.
Editorial: Price controls.
E = =
TWO YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK. Lawson Evans, prom
inent civic leader, died =. Pogie
boat valued at $4,000 burned
at Quinn docks Buildings
on Horn Island placed on sale
as surplus County service
men totaled POLL; state total
2l2.000 seven juveniles
picked up for thefts Edi-
torial: Labor Day. resume of
Labor's part in war effort here.
ONE YEAR AGO THIS
WEEK, New VIEW post in
stalled in Moss Point Ban
quet marked formal opening of
Gulf Coast Laboratory at Mag
nolia Park City garbage
disposal declared unsanitary by
state board Of health Teen
ayers granted club rooms at
Chamber Of Commerce build
ing Editorial. Community
health at stake on account Of
unsanitary garbage disposal.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03

present initiation has put the
whole system of free enter
prize and freedom of the indi-
vidual on trial for its life. In
his statement Mr.. Delano points
out that the present crisis hing
es on the basic question of
whether a free enterprise sys-
tenn can discipline itself, and
whether men working in a
competitive economy can inn
pos upon themselves volun-
tary restraints which must be
imposed if the system is to
endure. He concludes with the
statement that we must fore
go what may be an immediate
advantage for the sake of the
larger and more enduring adj
vantage of ALL" We are indeed
facing a serious crisis, and a
sudden halt to the inflationary
spiral that would send us into
another 1929 crash and the re-
sulting unemployment and
breadlines might we'll mark
the end of freedom and gov
eminent as we know it.
The Communist have been
betting on such an economic
crash in the u. S. They cured
their own initiation as only
governments exercising a COM
plete dictatorship over the
people can. This was accom-
plished when Stain devalued
the Russian scurrency some
time ago, and thereby confis-
Gated the savings of the Rus
sian people. With their savings
~eonfiscated, the Russian people
had no money to spend and
therefore the demand for con-
sumner goods was relieved and
depression ended. We, of course,
being a free people can't do it
that way. We must defeat our
initiation with voluntary disei-
pline and by regulatory laws
passed by the men who repre-
sent us in Congress. To date
our representatives in Congress
have shown little inclination
to face up to facts. Past actions
also give little promise that
the Republican 81st Congress,
which will convene next JAN
uary, will do anything about
the matter so it looks like we
will continue sitting on a pow
der keg with the fuse lighted.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03
By HOWARD W. %BLAKEsLEE

BY HOWARD w. BLAkESLEE
Associated Press Science Editol
NEW YORK-Nearly a billion
years ago, life apparently orig
mated in the sea. Half a bill
lion years ago, this sea life
moved out onto land and fur
nished the ancestors of today's
animals-and, some scientists
say, of man, too.
Today man is returning to
the sea. Not to live, not in
search of romance, but to find
food and resources that are be-
coming increasingly scarce on
land.
Whether or not the sea was
the origin of life. if is by far
the greatest storehouse of the
things man needs for food and
for his material existence.
All the metals and minerals,
the 80 common chemical ele-
ments, are dissolved in sea
water. Until this century even
science thought it impossible to
mine seawater. Then magnesi-
UNI was taken from seaWater
in small quantities.
The motor age caused anoth-
err break. Anti-knock gasoline,
needing huge quantities of
scarce bromine led to a way to
extract bromine from North
Carolina coast seawater so that
now most of the nations anti
knock fluid comes in part from
seawater. North Carolina was
chosen, not because it had rich
er sea water, but for conven-
fence.
AS a stunt, to do another
thing long thought impossible,
the Dow Chemical Company,
which devised the bromine ex-
traction, also took a bit OF gold
the size of a medium pill, from
the same water. In the ocean
there is gold enough to pave
all the roads of the United
States. Gold mining of the sea
at present, however, is too ex-
pensive.
During the war magnesium
mining of the sea went into the
bio time at Freeport. Texas.
Thousands of tons of metallic
magnesium were extracted
there for military uses. In the
Freeport intake there were
also each day a few pounds OF
uranium. Like gold. uranium
may cost too much. since 1t IS
one of the scarcer elements IN
the sea. Yet il promises to be-
come far more valuable than
'oold. If ever man extracts
scarce uranium from the sea.
it can be predicted that most
of the others of high value will
become available too.
The sea contains much of the
worlds sodium, carbon, sultur,
boron and magnesium, all large
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03

strained of all its tiny plants.
would yield as much al an acre
of land.
A little stimulation of this
life potential is expected to
produce a great multiplication.
The handicap is lack of places
to fence in the sea. But nature
has provided many fences that
scientists believe can be used.
One of these is around the
Behring straits. There at certain
times small sea animals and
plants become so numerous
that the water is soupy. Univer-
sity of Washington scientists
have proposed experimenting
with specially equipped ships
to strain this ocean soup for
food sources.
The seeming impossibilities
of the sea still intrigue engin-
GERS During the var plasfics
made it possible to convert a
few cups of seawater into fresh.
wafer for dunked airmen and
wrecked naval men. Now the
Los Angeles county board of
supervisors has asked the Cali.
fornia legislature TO offer q ST.
100000 prize for a method to
convert seawater into fresh
water for irrigation. The con-
verified seawater should cost.
under terms of the proposal,
not more than SIS for enough
water to owe one acre of
ground one foot deep.
Many predictions of convert
ing salt sea water to fresh of
of using it for power, have been
made by atomic energy writ
ers.
The predictions usually are
based on an assumption that
atomic power will be so cheap
it will do anything with little
expense. But atomic scientists
and engineers do not now fore
see this kind of cheapness in
atomic power.
Man is also literally return
ing to the sea with diving bells,
planned to drop four miles,
with motion picture cameras to
drop at least two miles and
make records, and with guns
that shoot cores into the sea
bottom to bring up information.
The cores have shown there
is 10 times more radium in the
seas's bottom muds than in the
wafer. They have brought up
records of past ice ages and OF
past volcanic eras.
The plain mud of the bot
tom, and its mineral and chem
ical contents, promise to become
useful knowledge in the scien-
tific search for means to use
the stored riches of the oceans.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03
Truman. Dewey May Make
Trips to the Pacific Coast
Special to Central Press

Special 10 central Press
WASHINGTON The adj
iournment of the special ses-
sion of Congress has set the
stage for the presidential cam
paigns ahead, with President
Truman likely to journey to
the Pacific coast within the
next eight weeks.
COP presidential candidate
Thomas E. Dewey is regarded
as almost certain to go west be-
fore Mr.. Truman in the presi-
dental sweepstakes, with COP
vice presidential candidate Earl
Warren probably coming east.
On the Democratic side of
the picture, Senator Alben
Barkley of Kentucky, Mr.. Tru-
mans running mate, is slated
to concentrate on border states
where Senate seats hang in the
balance.
In fact, one of the considera-
tions behind Barkley's vice
presidential nomination was
the help he can be counted on
to give the Democratic party
in its fight to re-win control of
the Senate.
Mr.. Truman is virtually GER
tain to pitch his main campaign
battle on the record of the 80th
Congress, particularly its fall
ure to carry out his anti-infla-
ton program. However, both
Dewey and Warren are expect
ed to counter by blaming Mr..
Truman for the still soaring
cost of living.
Henry A. Wallace, the Pro-
gressive party presidential can
didate, will head westward
with his own peace and
abundance program.
The Air Force is now re-
ceiving a flying runway car
90 plane which could have
shortened the Pacific war had
it been available.
The Flying runway" is the
famed Fairchild Packet
equipped with tractor : type
landing gear. II "a land and
take off in any reasonably lev
ell area.
Perfection of the tractor or
track-type gear will eliminate
in any future war much of the
laborious airfield construction
heretofore necessary before
volume "air lift of supplies
could begin to supply beach
head forces.
The idea of the track-type
landing gear for airplanes was
first tinkered with in 1920, but
World War II had to be fought
and won before It's worth was
appreciated and concrete action
taken.
Now Is of the flying run
way planes have been put in
operation and % more will be
built.
One of the moving spirits in
pushing the experiment was
Gen. George c. Kenney, head of
the Strategic Air Command.
Kenney, as Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's air chief in the Pacific,
remembers countless crises
when he could have moved up
on Japanese islands much
sooner had he had the flying
runway
The score sheet for the re-
Gently ended term of the SUI
preme Court shows that fiery
Justice Felix Frankfurter most
often rebelled against the ma
jority's decisions. He wrote Is
of the 20 dissenting opinions
issued during the tenn.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03

Radar is an abbreviated form Of
the phrase radio direction and
ranging"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-09-03

most as remunerative as an
swering a question on a radio
quiz program.
=
Two railroads are investing
in New York City real estate.
Financially, of course, they
hope they're on the right track.
:
Australian astronomers say
they've detected radio noises
emanating from a point in the
Milky Way. Sponsored or sus-
tanning?
An Italian diver reports
sighting three cities on the
floor of the Mediterranean sea.
Now what war were THEY
hiding from?
Evening star., 1948-06-16
'RF. Sutphin, Fireman,
Elected Commander
OF District VFW

Robert F. Sutphin, 3718 Horner
place Sc, District fireman and
member of the bar, last night was
elected commander of the District
Department of Veterans of Foreign
Wars, succeeding Albert M. Arm
strong.
Mr.. Sutphin and other officers
were chosen at the windup of the
29th annual encampment of the
department, which was in session
for four days at the Mayflower
Hotel.
The new commander is a native of
Mount Airy, N. C. He entered the
Fire Department in October, 1885,
and currently is a private attached
to No. Engine Co.
Mr.. Sutphin received his law de-
gree from the Washington College
Of law in 1941 and is member of
the bar of District Court and the
United States Supreme Court.
A widower, he saw military serv-
ice both in the Army and the 5th
Marine Regiment.
Other new officers are Robert E.
Sargent, senior vice commander;
Evening star., 1948-06-16

william D. Porter, Junior vice COM
mander; Edward d. Spedden, re-
elected quartermaster; John F.
Coffman, Judge advocate, and Ed
ward D. McDonough, chaplain.
The group adopted a resolution
praising and agreeing to continue
the model airplane program spon-
sored, by the VFW, The Evening
Star, National Airport Club and the
Civil Air Patrol. Pat O'Malley, a
past department commander, is
chairman of the committee for the
VFW.
The Ladies Auxiliary presented a
$500 check for use in building a
District department cottage at the
VFW's national home, Eaton Rapids,
Mich, for District widows and or
phans of war veterans.
Evening star., 1948-06-16
Tonqonyiko Progresses

Tanganyika has a 10-year-plan to
raise her primary school population
(not including bush schools to
50,000, from 100000, by opening 150
new schools a wear.
Evening star., 1948-06-16

sitting at Georgetown House, 1924
N street NV, today are available
for jobs In the area.
In preparation for their summer
careers, the young women have been
Evening star., 1948-06-16
It's Weathervane!

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exclusively
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Evening star., 1948-06-16

trained in the most modern" meth
DDS Of handling and entertaining In
fants and school-age children, In
six-week course conducted by
Georgetown House social workers.
Evening star., 1948-06-16

so after mid.
cents an hour until midnight and night.
Evening star., 1948-06-16
Buby Sitters Awuit Jobs
After Finishing Course

Thirty teen-age graduates of the
first course of instruction In baby |
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1948-07-22
Indians Win Two
From Pleasant CITY

The Indians defeated the Pleas
ant City Midgets 5-3 on the Cald-
we'll fairgrounds last Thursday
evening. Bill Murrey, the win
ming pitcher, gave up five hits in
the SIX innings he worked, with
Luke Young holding Pleasant
City hitless in the seventh.
"Chuck" Norman on the mound
for the Midgets was touched for
six hits.
Caldwell scored all five runs in
the fourth inning on singles by
Stellfox and Christopher, and a
triple by Hanes. The Indians were
aided by a walk, hit batsman,
and two errors.
Pleasant City picked up a run
in the fifth when Coleman scored
from third on Murrey's wild
pitch. They added two in the
sixth by combining two singles
and double, to end the scoring.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1948-07-22
BateSviHe Defeats
Barnesyille Merchants
For First Victory

A four-run fifth inning enabled
Batesville to score its first Little
Mountain League victory Sunday
at Barnesville, as they edged the
Barnesville Merchants 5-4. This
win, their first in 10 games, gives
them an identical record with the
Barnesville Merchants, both
teams being tied for the cellar
position. The strong Barnesville
Legion team, undefeated in 10
games, continues to lead the
league as they trounced second
place Malaga TIT.
The game was close affair
with all of the scoring being
crowded into the fourth and fifth
innings. Batesville grabbed the
lead with a run in the top half
of the fourth, but the Merchants
came back to take the lead with
a pair of runs in the last of the
fourth. Four big runs scored In
the Batesville half Of the fifth,
and then they STAYED off Mer-
chant rally that fell one run short
in the last of the fifth.
Outside of the fourth and fifth
innings the two pitchers, Wehr
for Batesville, and Wharton for
the Merchants, were in control of
the game. Both of the pitchers al
lowed but six hits with Wharton
striking out 10, while Wehr was
setting two down on strikes.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1948-07-22
Lake Building
On Up Swing

A mild building boom is on at
Seneca lake. A number of new
cottages have already been built
and others are under construc-
ton.
At least Is cottages and other
buildings dot the shore line of
Noble county's popular resort.
Shelter houses, toilets, and pic
mic tables and charcoal grills in
the near future will be located
at various points, on both sides
of the lake.
A large number of people from
Caldwell and other local COM
munities have cottages at the
lake.
1t is expected that the Seneca
lake improvements will continue
until it is made into a top notch
summer resort.