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Receiving Home
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through no fault of their own" she
said. 1T is disgrace to the COM
munity to have them further re-
moved from an education"
Answer Expected Daily.
Miss Margaret Pepper, assistant
to School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
said DR.. Corning expressed the same
sentiments. She said an answer
from the boards question to the
corporation counsel is expected daily
eff they say we cannot furnish
teacher, I don't know what the
next step will be-" she said. But
we are studying the entire problem.
Paul Kirby, welfare assistant di.
rector, said another possibility the
board has considered is to hire 6
supervisory teacher to direct a pro-
gram carried out by students from
teachers colleges in this area. HI
said the schools have expressed in.
terest in the plan, but that 'all oul
plans are tentative until we see how
much we are allowed in our appro.
priation next year."
Urge Education Facilities.
In a special resolution last week
the Youth Problems Committee O.
the Federation Of Citizens Asso
Citations urged immediate formation
of educational activities for young.
sters out of school because they art
confined to the home.
Meanwhile this is the problem
facing board officials and DR.. STAY
sky at the home:
With enough facilities for abou
10 children, the home has an aver
age occupancy of 103, 10 per cent O
them colored. DR.. Stavsky saie
about seven enter the home eacf
day.
About 40 per cent of the occu
pants are "delinquents," charged by
police and awaiting court action
All of this type, the superintendent
Evening star., 1948-04-25
THE SUNDAY STAR Washington, D. c. A-9
SUNDAY, Is,

daylight time only this year. The
Senate has passed bill, introduced
last June by Senator McGrath,
Democrat, of Rhode Island, giving
the Commissioners authority to In
stall daylight time any year they
see fit.
Should the House pass its bill
there still might be a conference
necessary for a compromise agree
ment, which further would delay the
time Switchover.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

tee will hold a public hearing at 10
m. Tuesday on the bill to permit
electrical contractors of five years
experience here to continue in busi-
ness without passing a master elec-
tricians examination. The measure
also would apply this so-called
grandfather clause" to certain
other crafts and businesses affected
by an act of 1914.
The Miller subcommittee will hold
an executive session Wednesday
morning for further study of the
bill to include private hospitals In
the law authorizing construction Of
the new Washington Hospital Gen.
ter in the site of Naval Observatory.
This measure was sent back to
the Miller committee by the House
District Committee last week, with
requests for further study of the
hospital needs of the city now, and
how they may be met.
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will leave mostly children under Il
years of age, he said.
About Is church groups send vol
unteers to help direct recreation
programs for the youngsters, DR.
Stavsky said. The Board OF Educa-
ton also has made available educa-
tional Aims on varied subjects.
In the absence of an organized
program, he said, attendants have
been carrying on limited training
for preschool-age children and have
furnished some instruction in read
ing and writing for older children
with the limited facilities available
Urges Tutoring Program.
Because of the indefinite stays OF
the occupants of the home and the
age differences, DR.. Stavsky said he
thought the program should be
largely a tutoring program, even
an individual matter"
And would the children, with
their varied backgrounds. respond
to attempts at education?
II think they'd lap it up DR.
Stavsky said. ANY educational
program run properly can be stimu-
lative, no matter who the students
are"
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Saturday Proclaimed
Child Health Day Here

Next Saturday has been pro-
claimed Child Health Day nationally
by President Truman and for Wash
ington by the Commissioners.
The city heads urged all District
residents-particularly parents. doc
tors, nurses and teachers-to CO.
operate toward improving the health
of school-age children.
1.-THE health of American children
should be and is a public respon-
sibility Of National importance as
the future strength and greatness Of
our Nation depends to large extent
upon its children" the Commission
ers declared.
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Los Angeles as it is for him to drive
along Route So"
The Naval Reserve Training Uni
based at Anacostia Naval Air Sta
ton participated in the ceremony
by flying over National Airport ane
the Districts II private flying fields
in WV" formation.
Skyway certificates designating
them Wright Way airports also were
presented the following area private
fields: College Park, Beacon, Hyde
Washington Virginia, Alexandria
Falls Church, Schrom, Queens
Chapel, ERGO, Springfield, and Davis
Flying Service.
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SKYWAY ONE PILOTS HONORED HERE-Among visiting pr-
flyers who received awards at National Airport yesterday
for the Westinghouse Angeles route
planes Mrs. Florence Myers ST. who flew from
Benedict Field Booth Corner Pa She received the award Tor
active pilot at the luncheon and is being
congratulated by Delos Rente nominee to be Civil Aero
nautics Administrator. Just behind Mrs Myers F. p H.
Siddons president the Board of Trade who is
looking with M Hadey chairman of the trade boards
aviation committee Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
|PubIicists to Heor Kingsley

Donald Kingsley, assistant ad-
ministrator of the Federal Security
Agency, will speak on 1.-THE Human
End of the Government" at the
luncheon meeting of the National
Capital Forge of the American
Public Relations Association at 1915
pm. tomorrow in the Hotel La
fayette.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-22

John Wesley Cook, son of H. /.
Cook, 300 Monroe street, Pas
eagoula, is one of the is initiates
into the Scabbard and Blade,
honorary military fraternity, at
Mississippi State College. Form
al initiation ceremonies are sche-
duled for November 2.
Cook is a member of the senior
class of the Air Reserve Officers
Training Corps and executive Of
ficer of Company X, holding the
rank of Cadet First Lieutenant.
He expects to receive his Re-
serve commission of second lieu
tenant in May. He is a graduate
of the Pascagoula High class of
AZ, attended Bowling Green
Business University in Kentucky
and served three years in the
U. S. Air Corps, 26 months Of
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-22
pTA Holds October Meeting

The Gautier Parent-Teacher
association held its October meet
ing at the school house Thursday.
Mrs. Francis Clifford was IN
charge cf the program and Henry
Gautier OF Pascagoula was guest
speaker. His talk was on Scouts
and their duties. ]. c. Trussell,
ST., principal of the school, gave
a short talk on the cooperation
of the parents with the school,
After the business meeting MEM
beers and guests adjourned to the
cafeteria where hostesses Mrs.
H. B. Rollins and Mrs. Eddie
Jones served cakes. coffee and
soft drinks to nineteen members.
The attendance prize was won
by the 18th and 9th grade.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-22
Benefit Football
Come Sponsored By
Mobile Optimists

The Mobile Optimist Club will
sponsor the football game be-
tween Notre Dame High school
of Biloxi and the University Mill
tary School of Mobile Thursday,
November 4, at Laid stadium
with the proceeds to go to the
boys work and camp which are
a part of the clubs program.
A feature program will mark
the game which is expected to
draw about 10000 spectators. De
tails of the program will remain
a secret, club officers, said, but
Joe Mason, formerly of the
Orange Bowl and now manager
of the stadium, has promised a
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-22

colorful show between halves.
The money realized from the
game will be used to send some
boy to camp who would other
wise be unable to attend and will
also be used to finance the gen.
general program of boys work,
officers declared.
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tifully decogated with cut flow
ers. Contests we're enjoyed and
Mrs. Marion Montgomery re-
ceived the prize. Mrs. Philip
Chestnut captained the winning
team in the other contest. Every
one wrote a short note OF "Ad-
vice to the Bride" A color scheme
of green and yellow was carried
out in the refreshments of yellow
and green iced squares and minis
and fruit punch. Betty Gray Rob-
erts, Msyfax Gautier, Mary Elsie
Peterson and Betty Lee Thomas
assisted the hostess with serving.
Lee Thomas was released from
Touro Infirmary in New Orleans
Friday where he has been for
the past ten days. He is recup-
Grating at the home Of his moth
~er-in-law, Mrs. Kate Parsley.
Mrs. Thomas and son Mike ar
rived home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Shaw and
son Talmadge and Audy Kent
Ladner visited Mr.. and Mrs. John
Brock in Melvin, Ala. over the
weekend.
Miss Katherine Jean Roberts
and Miss Hazel Switzer left Fri
day for Tampa, Florida.
Marby Penton spent the week
md with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. A. Penton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Lebatard
and daughter, Miss Edna, visited
.elatiges in Biloxi Sunday after
aeon.
James McGrath accompanied
Wallace Quinn as far as Florida
IN his way to Maryland Sunday.
Mr.. McGrath returned Wednes-
lay. Mrs. Quinn left Thursday to
join her husband in Maryland
where they will spend the winter.
DR.. and Mrs. William Quinn
and son moved to Jackson, Miss.
where they will make their home
and DIR Quinn will practice
medicine.
Alton Roberts visited Lee
Thomas in New Orleans Satur-
day and while there he attended
the Ole Miss Tulane game.
Perry Gautier, a student at
Mississippi State spent the week
end with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Newton Gautier.
Miss Elizabeth Guillotte, a stu
dent nurse at Mercy Hospital in
Vicksburg, visited her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Napoleon Guillotte
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Eddie Ladnier visited her
daughter, Mrs. Robert Register
in Mobile over the weekend.
Tommy Roberts, Andy Bond,
and Hermes Ladnier returned to
San Diego, Cal, Tuesday after
spending 4 ten days leave with
their respective parents.
Miss Betty Lee Thomas spent
the weekend with Miss Shirley
Hastings in Pascagoula.
Mrs. Dorothy Rouse and Mrs.
Walter McVeay were business
visitors to New Orleans Wednes-
day,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter McVeay
received word from their son,
Pfc, Burnett McVeay, that he
has been transferred from Korea
to Yokahoma, Japan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Rouse and
sons, Elton, Vernon and j. l..
and daughter Dolores, visited
their son-in-law and daughter,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-22
News From Coulter -.
Parent Teacher Association Holds
October Meeting AT School House
Joint Birthday Party

Nj. and Mrs. Carroll Clifford,
Jr. honored Carroll Clifford, Sr.
and Henry Lebatard with a joint
birthday party Tuesday night.
Friends who helped the honor
guests to celebrate were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Wilkerson, Mr. and Mrs.
Francis Clifford and daughter.
Jackie, Mrs. Paul Lebatard and
daughter, Miss Edna, Mr. and Mrs.
James Lebatard and Mrs. Jose
phine Jordan, and Mrs. Henry
Lebatard.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-22

which were spent in the Pacific
theater where he saw action in
New Guinea, the Philippines,
okinawa and Japan. He is a
junior in. the school of engineer
ing at State College, majoring
in mechanical engineering.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-22
ADDITION

In the write-up of the meeting
of the Catholic School League
last week the name of Mrs.
Mack Hudson was omitted in re-
porting the appointment of a
chairman to head the Carnival
Ball committee. Mrs. Hudson
was appointed chairman and
Mrs. Vincent Moore co-chairman.
Mrs. w. J. Spratley, the treasur-
err, gave the financial report.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-22
DISPLAY NATIONAL AND
STATE FLAGS

An innovation at the Pasca-
Point bank is the
display of the United States and
the Mississippi flags above the
entrance to the bank. This is
to be a regular occurrence in the
future as a daily reminder of
patriotism to nation and state,
according to E, A. Khayat, as
sistAnt vice president of the bank.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-22
Shower For Miss Roberts

Miss Hazel Switzer honored
Miss Katherine Jean Roberts
with a bridal shower Tuesday
night at the home Of Mrs. j. c.
Trussell, ST.. The house was beau
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Holloway in
Popularville over the weekend.
MI. and Mrs. NJ. A. Penton had
as Sunday guests Mr.. and Mrs.
Pete Storich and three grand
children from Mobile.
T. L. Rouse spent the weekend
with his brother and sister-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Rouse
and family.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-22
SERVING ON CRUISER

Maurice p. Acosta, fireman,
USN, husband of Mrs. Alice E.
Acosta of 1897 Polk ave, Pasca-
goula, Miss, is serving ABOARD
the light cruiser USS Huntington,
now cruising in the Mediter-
ranean Sea as a part of the Sixth
Task Fleet of Admiral Richard
L. Conolly's Eastern Atlantic
and Mediterranean Forces.
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BOOKS

in degree by the stupidity of
tie court which has convicted
him and his ten colleagues of
the Joint Anti-FasciSt Refugee
Committee for contempt of Con-
gress. Opposite degrees, l mean
What an Indictment of our cul-
ture that such an artist can be
facing Jail sentence for his
support of the LoyaliSt cause in
Spain.
My Glorious Brothers is the
story of Judea in the second
century before Christ, of the at
tempt of Antiochus Epiphanes,
King of Kings, to force the
Greek way of life upon the
Jews, and to exact tremendous
tribute from them. 1t is the
story of Judas, the Maccabee
and his four brothers, the sons
of Mattathias, who arose at the
time of need to lead their people
in the battles for freedom. The
story is told by Simon, one of
the brothers, who is trying to
clarity for himself what man
ner of men are these, his peo-
pie, the Jews, who will fight so
long and bitterly rather than be
enslaved.
AUTOMATICALLY, it is an in
teresting study, of a nomadic
tribespeople who had turned to
farming, who had developed at
that early age artifacts similar
to but more advanced than had
our own agricultural Indians of
the Southwest in their most ad-
vanced civilization. And more
astoundingly, had developed a
moral code which is the basis
for much of our modern mores,
and which was way ahead of,
and therefore in conflict with,
the Greek and Roman civiliza-
tons of craven images and slave
economies.
There is much in this book
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-16
Labor leader
asks refruction
by magazine

LOS ANGELES - A demand
that the New Republic magazine
publicly retract untrue, mis-
leading and eminently unfair
references to the Los Angeles
Industrial Union Council (CIO)
has been sent to the Truman
publication by Philip M. Connel-
ly, council secretary treasurer.
In an article on the candidacy
of Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas
3D., CalifD, the New Republic
had charged that the Independ-
ent Progressive Party here-the
Wallace party-is Communist
controlled" and implied that
Connolly is Communist.
Connolly said that these i'm
plications are untrue, and that
he did not-as the magazine de
clared-say that the CIO would
endorse Mrs. Douglas only "over
my dead body
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Just q simple cose Of q
non with too much Rope

handled, it ought 70 be interest
ing.
But Hitchcock didn't handle
it properly. The story concerns
two brilliant-it says here-and
eccentric youths w h o believe
themselves superemen n d to
prove it decide to cold -blOOdedly
kill one of their pals whom they
consider an inferior type.
This they do, with their trusty
rope Then they sta. his corpse
in a box and serve a circle of
friends-including the victims
papa buffet supper off the
box.
The only thing is they aren't
quite the supermen they make
themselves out to be and their
former teacher-portrayed in a
somewhat beWildered fashion by
James scientifically gets the
goods on them.
AS l say, the idea is not bad.
but in putting the thing on the
screen, Hitchcock has commit
ted several bad blunders; he
didn't bother to max the two
boys real, believable characters;
and he seems to have forgotten
everything he knew about using
the camera to tell a story, dra-
matically.
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utlVeS TO formulate plans
for a tighter Taft Hartley
law, which apparently will
be placed before the new Con-
gress early in its session."
The meetings, which will run
for five days at the Hotel Cav
alier, Virginia Beach, Va, will
be closed to the press. An NAM
official rejected an In Fact re
quest to cover the sessions, say
ing: They've never been open
to the press before, mostly be-
cause the press just doesn't give
damn about them"
The NAM conference is des-
cribed as an Institute of Indus
trial Relations. A copy of the
agenda, made available to In
Fact, shows that it includes
discussion on tightening the
Hartley act to achieve the
following:
/. A ban on industry-wide
bargaining
2. A prohibition on strikes for
illegal detectives, such as I'M
ion security and union hiring
halls.
3. Either restriction or out
having of collective bargaining
for health and welfare funds.
4. Authorization to the NLRB
to fine unions, such fines to be
paid to workers who want to
scab but are prevented from so
doing by alleged threats" on
picket-lines.
The new anti-1abor program
is linked with an NAM propa-
ganda campaign now in progress
which seeks to minimize the eff
fectS of the Taft Hartley law.
Canned NAM editorials describ-
ing h law as boon" to
workers have been appearing in
many newspapers in recent
weeks, In Fact reports.
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mon in this book are psyche
analysed, which is becoming to-
days method Of revealing char
acter in fiction. But they are
people
And l like Fasts dedication:
To all men, Jew and Gentle,
who have laid down their lives
in that ancient and unfinished
struggle for human freedom and
dignity"
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MOVIES

pleasure
The Rope" must report,
SGdly. Is not the old Hitchcock
OF 80 Steps fame.
II is. instead, a take-off on
the Leopold-Loeb case. Per Sc
my this is turning out to be a
most erudite piece-there's moth
ing wrong with that for a dra-
matte theme. In fact, properly
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-16
UOPWA urges boycott

NEW YORK-James Durkin,
president, United Office & Pro-
fessional Workers of America
(CIO), this week urged all inter
national and local unions to
cancel any Prudential Life In
surance group policies covering
their members until the COM
pany agrees to bargain with the
Office Workers.
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BY BOB BENNETT

THE ads tell you that the thing
L TO remember b out The
Re pe"-if you should happen TO
wander in late-is that the body
Is in the box.
Au contraire. as we used to
say in college French. the thing
to remember about The Rope"
is that the later you wander in
the better. In fact, if you get
in just in time for the newsreel
and the coming attraction and
then beat it-quick-you won t
miss a damned thing.
As an old. and devoted, Hitch
cock fan. it make me feel like
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down, but How
ard Fast w o n.
H i s ability to
tell a story NOV
ingly and well
is matched only
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NAN meets to draw plans
for unti-Iobor drive i'm 40

NEW YORK FP)-The 1949 offensive against labor
is already in the formative stage
An exclusive story in the Oct II issue of In Fact weekly
newsletter reveals that the National Association of Manu-
has scheduled Oct meeting of 200 top
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Fast scores
again with
Iotest book
Reviewed by JOAN PLACE

4 NYBODY should know bet
I a ter than to start to read a
Howard Fast book at 1890 at
night. When l finished My GlOr-
iOuS Brothers at $50 am. | was
exhausted and exhilarated. l
tried at a couple of chapter
heads to break away and put it
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which helps US to undo rstand
the Israel Of today, and the
problems of discrimination. But
don't get me wrong. It is first
and foremost, a Howard Fast
book-a great story, and well
told. Some critics said of his
last novel, Clarkton, that there
was not enough development of
character. Neither Judas nor ST.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-16

a cad TO kick the
old master in
the groin when
he so obvious
ly down, b u t
business before
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MY GLORIOUS BROTHERS,
by H o ward Fast. Little
Brown and c O m pony,
$2.75.
Evening star., 1948-11-13
China
Continued From First Page

Monday for Shanghai with the first
batch Of $50 nonofiicial evacuees. A
spokesman said the passengers will
be divided evenly between Amer
leans and other foreigners.
Gen. Chang paused In his direc!
ton Of the war long enough to
promise the governors of II prov!
inces below the Yangtze that trans
portation would be provided to move
foodstuffs into the areas of greatest
need. He urged provincial officials
not to hinder the food shipments.
In Peiping a delayed pro-govern.
ment dispatch said the Nationals
had abandoned the Manchurian port
Of Hulatao. All troops there were
repeatedly withdrawn by sea to
North China's port Of Chingwang-
tao, near the sea anchor Of the
Great Wall. .
These dispatches also reported
the dissolution Of the Manchurian
high command. The top command.
er, Gen. Wei Li-huang, will face
an sinquiry into the Manchurian
debacle, the dispatches said. Nam
churian field commander, Gen. Tu
Li-ming, was reported at Tangshan,
mining center near Tientsin.
On this score, Gen. Flu Tso-y
broke his silence today. He blamed
the loss Of Manchuria on corrup-
ton and ineficiency. The North
China commander said the Reds,
reportedly pouring troops through
the Great Wall Of Manchuria, would
not take North China without o
fight.
Evening star., 1948-11-13
.Trumans Visit Scene
.0f Dr.. Mudd Detention
By Joseph A. Fox
Strr Sso{f coryesnondsnf

UNITED STATES NAVAL BASE,
Key West. Fla, Nov. l3.-The Tru.
man family went sightseeing today.
Taking it easy on this lands end,
the President, who was Joined late
yesterday by Mrs. Truman and their
daughter Margaret, took them so
miles into the Gulf on the yacht
Williamsburg for a look at Jefferson
Island in the Dry Tortugas, which
once was the place of detention OF
DR.. Samuel Mudd, Maryland physi-
clan who set the leg of John Wilkes
Booth, Lincoln's assassin.
Mr.. Truman, an ardent student OF
American history, visited Jefferson
Island on a previous trip to Key
West, but he wanted to have more
time to look the place over and
show it to his family.
The President, on his first vaca.
ton since last spring, is taking care
of only routine White House busi-
ness. He is getting mail every day
and answering the bulk Of 1t. A lot
Of it Is congratulatory messages
and letters on his surprise victory
in last Tuesdays election.