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The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-23
HoppY Birthday Club
Elects Mrs. Cossugne

Mrs. Rodney Cassagne was
elected president of the Happy
Birthday club at a meeting at the
home of Mrs. James c. Dye Fri
day evening. Other officers are
Mrs. j. E. Cockrell, vice president:
Mrs. j. M. Dustin, secretary, and
Mrs. Dye treasurer.
The meeting was given a holt
day air through the use of holly
and other Christmas decorations
throughout the house.
In the dining room where a
chicken dinner was served buffet
fashion. the table was conferred
with an arrangement of silvered
magnolia leaves. cedar and tall
red lighted candles.
After dinner a tree quiz and a
game gave prizes to winners.
Mrs. Dye was assisted in serv-
ing and entertaining by her
daughter, Monica, and Mrs. w.
w. Van Devender.
Other guests were Mesdames
John Reid and Clifton Hawthorne.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-23

family a pleasant surprise last
week by paying them a brief Wis
it en- route to Miami, Fla, where
he customarily spends the win
ter. Both he and Mrs. Hill are
avid chess players and have en-
joyed many games.
Brother Sister Ill
Sandra Garfield and c. A.
Farmer, daughter and son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Calvin Farmer. are con-
fined to their homes due to i'll
ness.
Wanda Scott is visiting her sis
ter. Mrs. Bonnie Daley in Moss
Point.
Henry Bryant has returned
from Waukesha, Wis.
Edwin Kaps and Eugene AL
mond spent Monday in Mobile.
L. K. Hudson is confined to his
home with flu.
Mrs. G. c. Hill and Helen spent
Thursday in Mobile.
J. ii. Vernon, Floyd and Sidney
Lacy visited the Jack Hudsons
Sunday.
Miss Margie Thornton, Luce
dale, visited her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Thornton, over the
weekend.
Lester Hill and friend, Drexel
Ward, visited the Veterans hos
pital in Biloxi Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. G.. S. Walker, Pas
cagoula, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Hudson Sunday.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-23
New YWBC Heuds
Will Be Installed
AT J~onudry Meet

New officers of the Young
Wornen's Business club will be
installed Jan. o. Miss Dorothy
Richards was reelected president.
Other officers are Misses Marie
Dannelly, vice president; Ann
Krebs, secretary; Adeline Dag
gctt, treasurer and Gloria Rich
ards, reporter.
Members Of the club gathered
at Longfellow House for a recent
Christmas banquet. A turkey dim
ner was served to guests seated
at a table gay with seasonal dec
orations of holly and lighted red
candles.
Miss Richards turned the pro-
gram over to the program chair
man, Miss Frances Warden, who
introduced Miss Billie Koch for
a reading. STORY Of the Christ
mas Bells" and Miss Katherine
Wright, a guest, VINO sang Want
ing You" Gifts were exchanged
from a grab bag and carols were
sung.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-23
EGYPT BUDGETS
FOR PALESTINE

Cairo = Cap - The RESPONSE
BILE daily "Al Ahram", quoting
Ministry of Finance sources, said
Egypt will allot 100000, 900 for adj
ministration of Egyptian-occupied
Palestine.
The Egyptian army holds the
narrow coastal strip in the GAIA
Peninsula, occupied during the
Palestine war. The money would
be included in Egypt's fortheom-
ing annual budget, al. Ahramn
said.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-23
BY Mrs. Jack Hudson


a Christmas program and
Christmas tree were held Thurs
day night at Wilson Springs
Methodist church. Santa Claus ar
rived at conclusion of the pro-
gram.
@ r. Bullock went to Magnolia
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs, Erwin Kaps ar
rived Thursday at the home of
Mrs. Kaps' parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Tx. Hudson. Among those who
called to welcome them were Mr..
ard Mrs. Charles Hudson, Mr.. and
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-23
Six Corol Singers
Guests Of Kiwunis

Mrs. p. J. Higginbotham pre-
sented a sextet of students at the
Kiwanis club Tuesday. They en-
tertained members with a group
of Christmas carols, accompanied
by Mrs. Higginbotham.
Members of the sextet were
Louise Knight, Betty Ferrer, Ma
RE Scott, Donna Taylor, Emily
Dickinson and Ella Faye Taylor.
They chose as their selections,
GLORY to God on High" Carol
of the Bells" and several others.
DR.. F. c. Minkler was chairman.
Wallace Ramsay, Gulfport, was
a visiting Kiwanian.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-23
News From Wilson Springs /.
Christmas Tree And Program Held
Thursday At VS. Methodist Church

Mrs. Jack Hudson, Mr.. and Mrs
Eugene Almond, Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Hudson, MI. and Mrs. p.
II. H.nkel, Jr., j. b Bullock, FL
len and Milton Bullock, joyce
Thornton and Mr.. and Mrs. Larue
Porter.
Mrs. L. K. Hudson and Mrs. Eu-
gene Almond spent Monday with
Mrs. J. II. Lacy, Moss Point. They
also visited Mrs. Vernon Lacy
and Mrs. Floyd Lacy.
Michigan Visitor
j. NJ Laubenthal, Grand Rap
ids, Mich, gave the c. c. Hill
Evening star., 1949-12-10
On the Other Hand
AMA's $2,25O,000 'Skirmish' May
Bring Revolution, Rather Than War

started the people thinking by this
time. If. so, it may not be 50
good, from the AMA's standpoint.
Sees Case of Doctors Overstated.
For, inevitably. the ANA cam
paigners have overstated their
case and misrepresented the thing
they oppose. Destroy the sacred
relationship between doctor and
patient" Take away the pa
tients freedom to choose his own
doctor" That sort of stuff. They
have been laying lot of eggs and
one day there will be chickens
coming home to roost. The people
are due to discover that, while
they have been saved from stat
ISM they still have their aches
and pains and still lack the price
of adequate medical care.
Furthermore, it is hard to be-
lieve that the run-of-mine doctors
who have been willing to accept
the ANA philosophy can sustain
for very long the emotional pitch
of the campaign they find them
selves in. They are going to get
bored. Other run-of-mine doc
tors who have been intrigued by
the notion of the Government
guaranteeing their bills, but who
have gone along with the ANA in
order to stay in business, are 60
ing to get worse than bored.
The ANA may find it has
started not war but a revolution
in it's own ranks.
Evening star., 1949-12-10
New Workers Urged
To Pray for Rain 10
End Water SHORTAGE
BY The Asseeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 1o.-New
York City, restless with fear over
its water crisis, moved on new
fronts for relief today-and did
not forget to ask divine assistance.
While the city government
wrestled with the problem on q
material level. Water Commits
sioner Stephan j, Carney asked
churches and svnagogues to pray
for help.
Francis Cardinal spellman,
Roman Catholic archbishop Of
New York. told his parishes to
add prayers for rain to the mass
for the next three months. Other
churches and the Jewish con-
gregations planned comparable
steps.
Balk at Car Washing Ban.
Although the water level in
the reservoirs dropped again
yesterday, the city ran into its
first organized resistance to the
save-water campaign.
Some auto laundry owners
baked at the new ban on car
washing and said they would defy
the shutdown order.
Were criminals in the eyes of
the public" protested Abraham
M. Bell. president of the Produc-
ton Auto Laundries Owners As
lsociation, adding:
"No state of emergency has been
proclaimed. I don't see why our
industry should be Disseminated
against. The CIO Automobile
Workers Union has told us that
without a state of emergency we
are obliged to pay the men their
salaries even If we keep our doors
closed"
Face Water Shutoff.
He said the shops would stay
open and wash any car that
comes in.
Water Commissioner Carney re-
piled that an owner viii be fined
i S. for the first offense and his
water will be shut of if it is re-
peated. The city has the legal
power to enforce such bans in a
water shortage.
Evening star., 1949-12-10

for any eventual showdown with
the West.
Purges in the ranks of the Com
munist Party in Czechoslovakia,
Bulgaria and Romania have re-
suited in replacing some local
Communist leaders with Russians
sent directly from MVD head
quarters in Moscow. While the
appointment of Marshal Konstan-
tin Rokossovsky as director of
Poland several weeks ago was
done with great fanfare, the
placing of Moscow officials in
other countries receives no pub
licity whatever.
In some responsible quarters In
Washington the appointment of
Marshal Rokossovsky is likened to
the Nazis' naming of Baron Won
Neurath as governor Of Czecho-
slovakia with discretionary powers
on the eve of the outbreak of
World War II.
The sweeping changes now oc-
curing in the satellite STAKES are
intended to strengthen the Pc
riphery of the Soviet sphere. The
British and French general statfs
believe that the Russians may
have decided to take much
stronger attitude toward the West
between 1850 and 1852. If this
is correct the present purges ap-
pear to be the most elementary
precautionary measure.
Discomfort Alleged to Be Growing.
Despite Russian propaganda
that the so-called peoples repub-
lies" in Central and Eastern
Europe and in the Balkans are
grateful for their liberation" from
capitalist-imperialist influence, it
Is an open secret that discomfort
in all those states is growing by
leaps and bounds.
Evening star., 1949-12-10
Adenauer Demands
West 5 Army Include
Force Of Germans
BY the Associated Press

KOENIGSWINTER, Germany
Dec. lowest Germany's Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer was re.
ported last night to have urged
German representation in any fu-
ture Western European army de-
spite Allied disapproval of such
talk.
DR.. Adenauer's remarks that
only German military forces could
guarantee his country's security
were made before closed meet
ing of the Christian Democratic
Party, which he heads. The party
press chief later confirmed the
statement.
The Western Allied High Com
mission in Bonn Thursday ''let 1t
be known" informally that it dis
approved of German officials dis
cussing possible rearmament.
Speaking to his party, the Chan
cellor repeatedly took strong
stand against warmongering and
international race for armament" :"
But Wilhelm Wegener, CDU
Party press chief. quoted DR..
Adenauer as saying the Allies
should consider which is more
dangerous: German contingents
in European army or the Com
munist danger from the East.
DR.. Adenauer told his party fol-
lowers that if German contingents
were to be included in European
army European federation must
be formed first. He also declared
that German troops would have
to have equal rights with those
of other nations. He would not
permit German mercenaries to
serve in such an army, he said.
Emphasizing Germany's need
for security in these times of East
West tension, DR.. Adenauer was
quoted as asking:
But If so much Is being talked
about security today, what about
Germany's security?"
He repeatedly referred to the
peoples police" force which has
been organized in the Eastern
Soviet zone and which, under
Russian sponsorship. he said con-
stituted a regular fighting force.
The Chancellor's statements ap-
peared to be an enlargement on
declarations he repeatedly made
Monday that he was "fundamen-
tally against rearmament Of Ger
many in any form, but that Ger
many would be willing to contrib
ute to a European army If the
Allies wished 1t.
Evening star., 1949-12-10
Dry Weather Shuts
Rubber Shoe Plants
Employing 1000
Rx the A.sesiated Prsss


NAUGATUCK, Conn.,, Dec.
The dry weather has
caught up with the rubber
footwear industry.
The Naugatuck footwear di-
vision of the United States
Rubber Co. announced yester-
day it's waterproof and fabric
shoe plants would be shut
down between December %
and January 4. About 1000
workers will be affected.
General Manager w. E. Bit
tie blamed 1t on the weather.
He said:
During the past winter we
were faced with generally un-
satisfactory consuming wealth
er throughout the country.
We have passed through . fall
which In large sections OF the
country Il the dryest on rec
ord"
Evening star., 1949-12-10

my, the present national ad-
ministration. A resounding report
on the campaign of the past year
was adopted.
1.-THE first skirmishes were ended
and won," said the report. "Un-
fortunately, the war was not.
Compulsory health insurance
will be made key political issue
in the next Congress and in the
Congressional elections.
The report also revealed that
the voluntary assessment" Of $25
per doctor ordered by the House
of Delegates a year ago had been
met by all but 20 per cent Of the
doctors, with a total Of $780,
900, and that most of this money
has been spent. More than $1,000,
900 pieces of campaign literature
have been distributed.
Drafters of Report Held Mistaken.
And this has only been skir-
mish. with the war yet to come. The
report indicates that the doctors
Armageddon is due in the next
session of Congress; that a major
conflict will occur then over
health insurance. The men who
drafted the report, whether the
deluded doctors themselves or the
high-priced publicity outfit now
helping them spend their money,
couldn't be more mistaken.
There doubtless will be some
committee hearings on the sub.
ject in the coming session and
some fervid oratory on the floor
of the House and Senate. but a
real battle is wholly unlikely. The
advocates of compulsory health
insurance are not ready for it.
They know they have not got the
votes and can do nothing more at
this time than continue their ef-
forts to educate Congress and the
country.
In this connection it probably
can be said that the campaign Of
the ANA against health insurance
is playing directly into the hands
of those who favor a Government
system. 1t is only in the last year
or two that the American people
have thought very much about it.
Advocates Of insurance, lacking
funds and any personal financial
interest. had made scarcely dent
In the national indifference. But
the AMA's expensive and fren-
zied campaigning should have
Evening star., 1949-12-10
Youth Fellowship
Plans Carol Evening

The Young Peoples Fellowship
of st. Johns Episcopal Church,
Wisconsin avenue and Bradley
lane, Chevy Chase. Nd. will spon-
sor a family carol evening at
7::30 pm. tomorrow in the parish
hall.
The fellowship Is being assisted
by the st. Cecilia Junior Choir
and members Of the Sunday
School.
Evening star., 1949-12-10
Judge Co||et Quits Hospital;
To Resume Post in March
BY the kssoeiotsd Press

Judge John Caskie Collet Of
Kansas City was released from
Walter Reed Hospital last night
after being there nearly two
months and headed home by
train.
Judge Collet, a Federal Circuit
Court of Appeals judge and for
mer economic sterilization direc-
tor, had been in the hospital since
he sustained a heart attack Octo-
ber II while on visit here. He
is a close friend of President
Truman.
I'm going to do q lot Of tinker
ing around at home for the next
two or three months" Judge
Collet said, "but I expect to be
back on the job Con the Circuit
Court bench) next March"
Evening star., 1949-12-10
This Changing World
Drastic Red Purges Carried on in
Soviet Union as Well as Satellites

The Russian takeover in Poland
is the result of the increasing un-
derground activities of the Polish
masses which could not be checked
by their own leaders. Similar
moves are reported from every
satellite country. These have beer
accentuated by Marshal Tito's
Haunting of Moscow's authority
The Yugoslav dictator has admin
istered severe blow to the pres
tige of the once almighty Kremlin
The purges in the top Com
munist hierarchy in Czechoslo-
vakia and the reported increase in
the number of MvD guards in that
country were necessitated by
CzechoSlovakia's industrial and
military Importance. Not only are
there important uranium mines
in that country, but the Skoda
arms factories have been greatly
improved and modernized since
the war. They are supposed to
produce the war equipment for the
Eastern German army, which is
expected to reach its full peace
time strength of 165 900 men by
next summer.
In the last few months there
have been important sabotage ac-
tivities in Skoda. Workers have
been mercilessly punished, OF
course, with executions and
what is worse-shipment to the
uranium mines. where frequently
they do not live more than six
months.
Guerrillas Reorganized.
The Prague leadership ap-
parently was not sufficiently from
handed in its dealings with the
workingmen. MVD specialists
from Moscow and other parts of
Russia, long experienced in the
handling of unwilling workers,
now have taken their places. .
Similar situations are reported
from Bucharest and Sofia, where
the slightest show of weakness on
the part of the new native rulers
appointed by Moscow-is han
died with unusual harshness.
All this information adds up to
one thing: The Kremlin is tight
ening it's Western lines against
any possibility of detection in
the event of war. The remnants
of the defeated Greek guerrillas
are being reorganized in Bulgaria
and Albania, German volunteers
estimated to number 10000 have
been sent from the Eastern zone
to Bulgaria as the core of new
forces which Moscow Is building
up and expects to have in readi-
ness some time next spring.
One Albanian port has been
transformed into a Soviet sub
marine base and now is being
garrisoned by some 1000 Red
army troops. A revolutionary out
break against Moscow's puppet
dictator. Enver Hoxha, which was
last October, has been
delayed because Of some misun-
derstanding between the leaders
Of the revolution and Marshal
Tito.
This has given Moscow good
chance to strengthen its position
In that strategically important
satellite In the Adriatic.
Evening star., 1949-12-10
Area Veterans 10 Receive
$26,OOO,O0O in Dividends
By WilIiom ]. WheotIev

BY Williom }. WheotIey
District area veterans Of World
War II will share an estimated
26,000,000 in National Service
Life Insurance dividends during
the first four months of next year.
The average check will be $175,
on a national basis, although in
dividual payments will range from
80 cents to $528.
Distribution is expected to be-
gin in about q month. Approx
mately 100000 checks a day will
be mailed until all of the 16,000.-
900 policy-holding veterans have
received their dividends.
Evening star., 1949-12-10
Highway Bridge Repair
To Begin Monday

The Highway Department will
begin repairs to the Highway
Bridge on Monday, taking one lane
q day until ali four lanes have
been repaired.
The work win be done between
$50 Am. and 4 pm. each day 80
- not to interfere with rush-hour
trafiic.
Evening star., 1949-12-10

VIII oNl AAAS pAAS
week just end
ed. Its House
of Delegates,
which speaks
for the associ-
alton some
times to the sur
prise Of the 140,-
900 m e m b e r
doctors held
It's q n n u a l
meeting h e r e.
righ t in thu e
camp Of what
1t c h ose s to
aDNcidnr ifc ono
Evening star., 1949-12-10

NV ASS
countries but in
the U. S. S. r.
itself.
These are not
regarded by Of
fetal analysts
as the usual
lend Of the year
liquidation Of
superannuat e d
goods" but as
q definite indi-
cation that the
Kremlin is fill
ing all the gaps
in preparation
Evening star., 1949-12-10
.Spoin DEGREES 1850 Amnesty

MADRID. Dec. 10 (P.-General
amnesty in honor Of the 1850
Holy Year for all prisoners serv-
ing less than two years was de-
creed yesterday. Prisoners serv-
ing greater sentences will have
them cut by one-fourth.
Evening star., 1949-12-10
Bring Revolution
Bv LoweU MeUeft

The American Medical Associa-
ton brought it's war on "socialized
medicine" "statism," "commun-
ISM" and the rest into Washing
Evening star., 1949-12-10
Rv Constantine Brown

Reports reaching Washington
from Europe tell of drastic purges
being carried on not only in the
Co1,;at cofo11ito
Evening star., 1949-10-31
Americas Siberia .....
u. S. Forces Stymied by Elements in
Efforts to Improve Conditions on Island

work is being done in the most
extravagant way possible.
Huts Made Of Packing Cases.
Thousands Of dollars must be
spent after every big blow to
patch up the present housing.
buildings, public utilities, etc.
There are no longer any hangers
to repair; q typhoon took the last
one in July. The machines stand
out In the open for the salt spray
that goes from one side of the is
land to another and all mainte-
nance Is in the open. Some des-
perate mechanics are sheltering
their tools in huts they built
themselves Of P-80 packing cases
which, of course, have a tenuous
existence. -,.., F.
One gloomy commanding officer
estimated that his men were
spending 30 per cent Of their time
just making it possible for them
selves and their families to live.
Naturally the men leave as soon
as they can. which Is another de-
terrent to efficiency.
All this effort is being wasted
on buildings that will never be
any good. I'VE have to keep run
ming to stay where we are; actual
ly we aren't even accomplishing
that" one veteran of the struggle
asserted. II can't see much i'm
provement since I came here for
a brief stay during the war"
Yet the service to the airlines-
valuable now, priceless in case Of
trouble-goes on day and night,
typhoon or no typhoon. Okinawa
does its job but 1t Is beginning to
get q little tiresome waiting for
a sensible, decent decision from
Washington about the future.
tReleased BY The Bell Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1949-10-31

UdStC l1lQUSLIleS ~ S'S0'
are organized into a few big units
that control the bulk of produc-
ton, each doing billions of dol
lars of business a year, stretching
across State lines. Being mass
production industries, turning out
their products on an assembly
line basis, each Of them employs
hundreds of thousands of persons
which, of itself, endows them with
public character that imposes
tremendous responsibility on their
managers.
States Within State.
They are economic states with
in the political state.
Since the hundreds of thou
sands of persons employed in one
of these giant industrial empires
do the same sort of work and
have the same sort of problems
it is essential that the union en-
brace all of them and have its
representatives to deal with rep
resentatives of industry to protect
their common welfare. Which
means what has come to be called
"industry-wide bargaining"
But it's deeper than that, as the
historical background shows.
Who started the trend toward
concentration and monopoly? It
wasn't labor. It began with in
dustry and it began a long time
Evening star., 1949-10-31
Solves Nothing
Big Labor Castigated as Scapegoat
Under Harassments of Strikes

ago. Even as long ago as 1890
it disturbed some of our thought
full public men SO much that a
Federal statute was enacted to try
to curb and regulate this concen-
tration-the Sherman Anti Trust
Act. That, of course, hasn't
stopped it. Perhaps nothing
could. Perhaps we were headed
inevitably in that direction.
The trusts" as they were called
then. gained tremendous power In
politics because Of their economic
power. They overawed politi-
clans, big and little. For a long
time they were able to resist the
organization Of their workers into
unions. Bloodshed was part of
the angry, bitter saga of union
ization. ..
Steel. for instance, finally
yielded to organization only yes
terday figuratively-in 1895.
Still Power in Politics.
These great industrial empires
still are the most powerful force
in our politics. despite careless
talk about labor now being the
"big monopoly" It was they who
put over the Taft-Hartley Act,
for example, proving they are
still stronger in Congress than
labor. a fact than anybody who
knows anything about Congress
knows. If some of the big en-
pires had had their way COM
pletely that law would have beer
much more restrictive and would
have opened the way to break
big unions that operate in big in.
dustry. But milder counsels even.
tually prevailed, including that
Of the more enlightened indus.
trialists.
4A1C OASdl11Adt1Oll VI IdUOI 1lU(
big unions is a natural defensive
maneuver in this advance o.
monopoly which has gone so far
for instance, that 63.4 per cent o.
primary steel production is nov
controlled by six companies, 68.'
per cent of automobile production
by only three companies, and 10(
per cent Of aluminium production
by three companies, according tx
a recent Federal Trade Commits.
sion report.
Industrial and financial mo.
noply. Of itself, is the problem, MOI
labor''s necessary organization tt
protect itself against this concen.
trated power. It is because con.
troll Of so much of our industrial
capacity is concentrated In so few
great corporations that a strike ir
anyone of them can so quickly
paralyze a considerable part of oul
industrial mechanism.