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Evening star., 1949-01-02
i. 5. Aid Asked for ) Tried
By Dutch as Gun-Runners
by the Asseeiofsd Press

MANILA, Jan. 1.-The attorney
for three Americans tried by the
Dutch on gun-running charges sale
today the State Department might
intervene on behalf Of the defend.
ants.
The Americans, Connie w. Sci
grist of Gore. Okla; Albert wy
Oustott Of Yuba City, Calf, and
William Hallam of Portland, o. .
were arrested In the East Indies ir
September and tried by the Dutch
in December. The Judge has re-
served decision.
They contended the planeload o1
arms they had was consigned tc
Malayan planters rather than tc
the Indonesian Republic.
William H. Quasha, their attor-
ney, said he had received a radio
message from Dan c. Seigrist Of
Wan, Okla, father of Connie, say
ing the State Department would
intercede with the Dutch and that
he was so informing the American
Consulate in Batavia.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Beaverbrook' S Paper
Denounces Tradition
OF Inheriting Titles
BY the Asseeioted Press

LONDON, Jan. |1.-Lord Beaver
brooks Daily Express urged Britain
today to abolish her centuries-old
tradition of handing down titles Of
nobility from father to son.
Titles are e personal reward for
effort" and should belong only to
the man who earned one, the Ex-
press editorial said. It said they are
frequently damaging to the young
men who inherit them"
Canadian born Lord Beaverbrook
won hts title Of baron the, hard
way himself. He was created q
baron in 1917. Under existingzpeer
age law, his title will be passed on
to his only son. 38-year -old Max
Aitken. q Conservative member OF
Parliament.
The editorial also took a crack
at this years honors list Of King
George VI, calling it uninspired
There are some good touches,
but for the most part it Is the
usual handout to the Aull, II
worthy" the newspaper said.
It praised the award of knight
hood to Australian Don Bradman,
the British empires foremost cricket
player. But 1t attacked Sir John
Boyd Orr, former U. N. Food and
Agriculture chief who became o
baron, as a prophet of woe"
Orr's predictions of world food
shortage, the Express declared. are
"a lot Of nonsense, and his theories
are accepted only because he puts
q great deal Of pathos into the pres
entation of his case"
New Barons Created.
The other new barons are Sir
Winston Dugan, governor of Vic
toria (Australia), and Alderman j.
j. Adanas, secretary of the West
Cumberland Industrial Development
Co.
The king made IS men knights
and awarded other honors.
Will Lawther, president Of the
National Union of Mine Workers,
was made a knight. Arthur Deakin,
secretary Of the Transport and
General Workers Union, was named
a companion of honor.
Another knighthood was con-
ferred on James Turner, president
OF the National Farmers Union oi
England and Wales.
The only North American to be
knighted was Albert Joseph Walsh
vice chairman of the commission
of government Of Newfoundland. He
recently helped negotiate the is
lands confederation with Canada
Sir William Gilliatt, who assisted
at the birth of Princess Elisabeth's
son, was made O knight commander
of the Victorian Order.
Mrs. Marion Kirk Buthlay, for
mer governess Of Princesses Eliza
beth and Margaret, was named q
commander of the Royal Victorian
order. She is still adviser to Prin-
cess Margaret.
Leading figures in sports, art
literature and the drama were
among those honored this year.
Privy Counsellors.
The King created three new privy
counsellors: DR.. Edith Summerskill
member of Parliament and parlia-
mentary secretary to the Ministry
Of Food; H. A. Marqusnd, membe,
OF Parliament and minister of pen.
sions, and Lord HALEY, chairman
of the Colonial Research Com.
n,ittee.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury
DR.. Geoffrey Fisher, was awarded
Evening star., 1949-01-02

the Royal Victorian Chain. This is
q personal gift of the King.
Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, atomic
scientist and chairman of the de-
tense reseach policy committee, was
granted a knights grand cross Of
the order of the bath.
Among the sports figures are
Stanley Rous, secretary of the foot
ball association, and Harcourt Gold,
rowing coach. Mr. Gold was chair
man of the Henley Regatta ste
wards.
Among those created knights
commander of the Order of st.
Michael and st. George was Freder-
ick Robert Hoyer Millar, British
minister in Washington.
Evening star., 1949-01-02

ices: Admiral Claude Bloch, Brig.
Gen. Daniel Devore, Capt. Barron
Du Boise, Commodore Dudley Knox,
DR.. Stanley K. Hornbeck, Lawrence
M. c. Smith, Charles Warren and
Rear Admiral Clarke Woodward
The Rev. DR.. Albert j. Mccartney,
pastor emeritus of the National
Presbyterian Church, and 1t. George
E. Vanderpool. Navy Chaplain
Corps, will conduct the services.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Hurry T. Black, 81. Dies

LOS ANGELES, Jan. l R.-The
death of Harry T. Black, 81, former
editor of the st. Paul Dispatch and
Pioneer Press, was announced today.
Mr.. Black died Friday at his home
Of cerebral hemorrhage.
He was editor of the st. Paul
paper for 27 years before his retire.
rnent in 1924.
Evening star., 1949-01-02

street; Sam Willett, 521 Bashford
Lane: Donald Apperson, 800 East
Bellefonte avenue; Dean Allen, 30S
East Bellefonte avenue; Lindsey
Santmire, 202 East Alexandria ave-
nue.; Robert Dameron, 112 East
Luray avenue; Harrison Simons, 713
Timberbranch drive; Joseph Con-
nell, 306 West Myrtle street; Donald
Bradley, 81 East Maple street;
James Gore, 8 West Cedar street,
and Jerry Lewis, 14S Moncure drive
The other six. unable to be pres
ent, but who also received certifi-
Gates, are:
Benjamin Vallarino, 1920 Alb
ington drive; Edward Rublee, 1908
North Pitt street; Arvin Weaver, 2l2
East oxford avenue; George Elliott.
112 East Alexandria avenue; Colby
Colvin, 519 Hilton Terrace, and
Richard Higgins, GOT Franklin street
Evening star., 1949-01-02

WE'D so YEARS-Mr. and Mrs.
George M. Roberts, 1915 Mon
roe street NV, who cele-
brated their golden wedding
anniversary today. Mr.. Rob-
erts, rs, was superintendent of
Weights, Measures and Mar
kets of the District for Is
years, retiring In 1912. They
have two sons.
-McDonough Studios Photo.
Evening star., 1949-01-02


DVe presenting Certificates
c W. Sam
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04
Week
To Be Observed
AT Local Schools

American Education Week will
be observed throughout the ma
ton next week and all schools,
both city and county, will partici-
pate with special programs.
Invitations are being issued to
patrons to visit schools during
this week. Programs in Pasca-
goula schools yer announced
Thursday by Thomas r. Wells,
superintendent.
Lake children are inviting their
parents to a patriotic and safety
program Wednesday at 2 p. m,
while Central students issued in
vitations to attend the general
assembly Tuesday at 2:30 ps m.
Beach And South
A special program will be pre-
sented by students of Beach We'd
nesday afternoon, while the two
fourth grades of South will pre-
sent a play at 2 p. m. Thursday
afternoon. The lower elementary
grades will be featured by vari-
Gus activities throughout week.
Parents of junior high students
are invited to a program Tuesday
at Ills p. m. The junior high band
give an exhibition. After the pro-
gram the parents will follow the
will play and cheer leaders will
schedule of their children for q
day.
High School Open House
A display featuring each de-
partment of the high school has
been arranged and patrons are
invited to an open house Thurs,
day. Virgil Gill, principal, said.
Education Week will be OBJ.
served by the Moss Point schoo.
system which will hold oper
house and a program of activitie:
which have not been announced
as yet.
the county USO fund drive, sale
| Tb,t.-l,., thot tEora arN AQ1 TarE
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04
Funeral Rites Held
For Charles Verbeck.
Retired Tug Captain

Charles Verbeck, rs, died at
the county hospital Friday morn
ing after an illness of about a
week. He had been in i'll health
for some time.
Mr.. Verbecke, retired tug boat
captain, was a native of Mobile
but had made his home here for
fifty-two years.
Funeral services were held
from his residence in East Moss
Point Saturday afternoon with
the Rev. Gregory Johnson Off
ciating. Interment was in Green,
wood cemetery.
Pail bearers were Bud Roberts
Preston Wilkerson, w. d. Small
Harmon Martin. Jr., Adolph Wal
dolf and Wyatt Herring.
Survivors are three sons, John
ME, Moss Point. C. A., Pascagoula
and Louis J., Mobile; one daugh
ter, Mrs. Adele Bobinger, st
Mary's, Ga; nine grandchildren
and six great grandchildren.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04
Overlooked: Set Of False Mustaches

An outstanding example Of the responsibility of a.
certain segment o. the daily press IS the dreamed up sensa-
tion made of the recent story that a Paseagoula convict
had been broadcasting from the penitentiary at Parehman.
To read the original account in the Houston, Tex, Post
and the subsequent straight-faced rewrites of the Assoei-
ated Press, was to read that heroic rec men had uncover
ed a foul conspiracy led by a confirmed criminal
The stories informed the credulous world that this
"three-time loser" this man serving SO years for armed
robbery" "a capital offsnse in Mississippi was using an I'll
licit. illegal. hidden" radio to further his plot" to receive
a parole.
We understand how a juvenile or just plain sensation
seeking reporter could write such a story. told him by a
seemingly reliable man--one Joe Mckinney, Houston, re-
gional manager for the federal communications commission.
But we cannot understand how the deskmen, the copy
readers, the editors could let such an obviously labored and
phoney story go through their hands to the composing room.
And then enters the Associated Press and tags along, wide
eyed and evidently so delighted to get a story certain to
make the page ones of the nation that it didn't bother to
think.
Nobody. Just nobody. asked a cohple of obvious ques-
tons. How could a convict secretly gather material from
which to build SO complicated an apparatus as a powerful
radio transmitter7 Is prison life SO private that a convict
could hide" SO large a device? Surely no mans cell is his
castle.
And what about that business of masternninding a
campaign to secure his freedom? 1t takes no 7S~ampaign'
to apply for a parole. All you have to- is Just that-apply.
Then you wait. But if there were some "masterihjnding'
to be done, would it not have been easier through thNmails
or in person? Billy Moody's relatives visited him at fprch-
man from time to time. He himself, as a trusty sent oNt to
bring back escaped inmates, had been in Pascagoula since
his Imprisonment.
Billy Moody is not serving a 50-year sentence for armed
robbery. He is serving the sentence for robbery (there is a
great differencel and for two attempts to escape. The at
tempts came within a few months after he was admitted
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04
Lions Club To Use
Circus Proceeds
For Sight Saving

The Lions club will sponsor a
circus on East Krebs Wednesday
to raise funds for its sight saving
and blind program, George w.
Noe, past president, announced
Thursday.
The show-Rogers Brothers =
SAID to be the fifth largest in the
country, will be presented at 3
p. m. and 8 p. m, Mr.. Noe said.
Featured will be animals and
clowns as well as the usual circus
thrills.
Members Schooled
Members of the Lions sight saw
ing committee, Mr.. Noe said. are
now being schooled by the health
department in use of the telebin-
ocular, a machine for testing eyes
and discovering if medical atten-
ton is necessary.
When they have qualified, the
members will visit local schools
and screen the pupils, starting
with those in the lower grades
who obviously have eve trouble
and continuing on through high
schoolers.
Members Of the club commit
tee, besides Mr.. Noe and Presi-
dent Tom Thornhill, are H. Doyle
Magee, chairman, G.. A. Stall
worth, j. c. Runnels, J. NJ. Smith.
J. c. Dye, DR.. R. A. Cameron, DR.
E. F. Hayles.
Robert Funkey, DR.. Harlan Hol-
lingsworth, Jack Calhoun, Phil
Scardino, Mickey Baggett, D.. E
Steinhauer and D. E. Jewell.
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they said. There are some
things that money cannot buy"
Jefferson is in dire financial
straits, but in the long run it
will prs4at from its Christian
and Democratic stand. Adm.
Tip Merrill of Natchez is head
ing a drive to raise funds for
the school, and in view of the
trustees actions we believe the
drive will receive warm-hearted
and generous support. The wis
dom of Jefferson's action is
summed up in the words Of
Methodist Bishop c.. Bromley
Oman, spoken in an interview
Tuesday at New Orleans:
"No Christian or other school
can remain free or in fact, be
American if it submits to the
dictatorship of a man with
money. American Christians be-
lieve in the free man in a free
society, free TO search for the
truth that frees. No Commu-
mist could ask for anything bet
ter than to have a community
divided on the basis of race or
creed or class"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04
Louie T. Roberts
OF Orange Grove
Dies In Hospital

Louie Freeman Roberts, SO, well
known merchant of Orange Grove
died at the county hospital Thurs
day at 8 a. m.
MI. Roberts, native of Roberts
Chapel, Miss, for the past 3S
years had made his home in Or
ange Grove. He was a member
of the Roberts Chapel Methodist
church.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Sarah Walters Roberts; four
brothers, T. J., w. H. and j. c.,
all of Roberts Chapel, and L. l.,
Mobile; and four sisters, Mrs. F.
w. Boydston and Mrs. T. M.
Wakeman, Roberts Chapel, Mrs.
c. N. CASTOR, Union Church, and
Mrs, E. ]. McKinnon, Mobile.
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Menhaden
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Continued From Page ID
because the invitation was ex
tended late in the night before
the expedition sailed early in the
morning of the following day"
State Rep. Hermes Gautier,
Pascagoula, member of the party,
stated Thursday that he person
ally telephoned a member of the
association to invite representa-
tives at 9 a. m. the day before
the trip.
Waited Until e:45
Mr.. Jordan said the party wait
ed until 9:45 a. m. for the sports
men to come. Sailing time had
been set for 0 a. m.
Amy time the sportsmen want
to-" said Mr.. Jordan, "the entire
facilities of the seafood commits
sion are at their service to make
an inspection of the industry"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04
Thonus E. Muhon
Killed In Cycle
Automobile Crash

Funeral services for Thomas E.
Mahan, 81, Pascagoula, victim of
a motorcycle-automobile collision,
were held at Clanton, Ala, Sun
day from the Assembly of God
church.
Mr.. Mahan, who was returning
home from a trip to Texas where
lie had been seeking employment,
vas travelling east near Baton
Rouge last Thursday morning
when he was struck from behind
oy a a driven by Hugo j. Tim
ner, New York. it was reported.
Impact threw Mr.. Mahan about
100 feet. killing him instantly.
A native of Alabama, near
Clanton, Mr.. Mahan came to Pas
,agoula about five years. ago when
he was employed at ingalls,.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04

Well. let's get back to it. Peo-
pie are still mad at US. But the
group includes only house
wives, lawyers and football
coaches. We said only" In our
lecture last week, we used
housewives, lawyers and foot
ball coaches because they were
the occupational groups that
first came to mind. They seem
. to be half the people in town.
Now, this week we're gonna
take it back.
For housewives, lawyers and
football coaches, substitute bird
nest inspectors, talking toucan
trainers and professors of San
skirt.
Are there any in Jackson
county? Let's hope not.
Those college football coach
es 1--WE don't have any around
here thank goodness) had better
cut out their squawks about
officiating before they ruin the
good thing they've got.
The way the sport has grown,
football in most colleges and
even junior colleges has become
far bigger than the college it
self, the coaches are better
known and in some instances
better paid than the presidents.
Now, we all know that good
football players don't matricu-
late to schools hundreds of
miles from their homes because
they like the climate or have
heard about an inspiring course
in finger painting. They are at
tracted by the stuff that jingles
when placed in the pocket with
others of its kind. And. while
we know all this, we still like
to think of the boys as pure
youths out striving for dear old
alma mater. They may be dy-
ing for cash but we like to
make believe they're dying for
Rutgers and, oh yes, building
character.
So, let's knock off that ours
ing the umpire and yelling 1--WE
wuz robbed. Go ahead and
play like professionals, boys,
but don't start talking and act
ing like pros, or so~mebody'1l
start thinking of cutting you
down to size.
a.
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and just plain CUTS he needed to undertake and complete
his studies of radio and electricity while staring down a
50-year-ong path of hopelessness. And we got worked up
over the possibility that the bad press given him by the
ridiculous stories might jeopardze his chances for a parole.
We thought the story should be told straight, excluding the
cloak-and-dagger elements. So did M. E, Virgins, Parch-
man superintendent, who told us that mot one word at
tributed to him in the stories was true. Therefore we pre-
pared the story that ran last week in the Chronicle Star and
Advertiser.
About Bilys parole; Governor Wright told us that he
will consider the case as any other case, if and when 1t
comes before him. Il have nothing to do with paroles" said
Mr.. Virgins. Wed hate to lose Billy because he is such a
fine worker. but I will not. of course. stand in his way"
We do not know what the federal government will do
about the illegal transmission charge. Billy Moody did
wrong and we suppose there will be some trouble. But we
wish him all the luck in the world.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04
NOTABLES ATTEND HOME
COMING AT PERMISSION

Among the more than 1000 at
tending the annual homecoming
at Perkinston last weekend were
H. P. Heidelberg, president of the
college board of trustees, Cong.
William NJ. Colmer, and many
others from Jackson county.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04


to Parchman. He went up at II. It may be illegal but it
certainly is understandable that a kid that age suddenly
thrown in with a brutal convict bunch would try to run
away, illegal or not. And, now, the way last weeks story
was mishandled made il appear that there was something
illegal even about Billy's wanting a parole.
1t was hog-wash. a great web of fiction woven around
ono little fact: An illegal radio transmitter had been found.
1t was illegal only because the operator was unlicensed.
Sure. it was unusual that the transmitter was used by a
convict in the state penitentiarY. But why twist it into a
wild yarn about valiant FEC inspectors on a hectic" chase
over hill and dale. finally bouncing upon the desperate
criminal? The only thing the story overlooked was a set
of false mustaches for Joe Mckinney.
Zone little point, in passing: Billy Moody was in
prison. He wasn't moving around. During the war, oc-
patton armies detected many patriot transmitters built into
vehicles so their b%roadcasts could be made from a different
place each night. How come, then, it took Mckinney and
his crew 20 days to uncover SO unusually stationary a
transmitter. They ought to be ashamed of themselves in
Stealing of Dragging about it,
Our first reaction to the story was a great big laugh.
1t was funny. Then we learned Of Biliys excellent record
since his second attempt to escape, Of the ambition, industry
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04

the county USO fund drive, said
Thursday that there are 481 Jack
son countians serving in the arm
ed forces.
THE county quota of $3.50,
therefore," he said, us a per cap
tia of only $3.50. These funds will
be sent to the national USO and
the money eventually will be
used to entertain and make com
Portable those Jackson county
boys wherever they are
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04

W1K1 s-
One Of the most heartening
actions we have seen taken IN
our state in many a day was
that by the trustees of the JEFF
ferson Military Academy at
Washington, Miss, in turning
down a profferer S50-million
endowment from the George
w. Armstrong foundation be-
cause OF the strings attached to
il. The endowment carried with
il obligations that would have
made the 147-year-old school
a propaganda mill for the teach
ing of racial bigotry and Fascist
ideas. Under the guise of teach
ing true Christianity" the
school curriculum would have
been anti Christian in principle
and action.
In a letter to the New Or
leans Item, Julian b. Feibleman,
Tulane University philosopher,
outlines the heartless, and trag-
ic contradictions attached to
the proposed Armstrong en-
dowment. We quote from Mr.,
Feibleman's letter:
"Thc endowment worth an
estimated $50-million for JEFF
ferson Military Academy makes
me wonder for which Jefferson
this college was named,
1T could hardly be Thomas,
who wrote into the Declaration
of independence that all men
are created equal; who insisted
that the Bill of Rights be in
Guided in the Constitution; and
who fought for so many years
down a proffered $50-million
dom.
II am loath to recall the great
personalities and historic fig
ures, who, under the terms of
this great endowment, could
never have qualified for JEFF
ferson.
anglo Saxons are welcomed
but Asiatics are not.
"Alas. Gandhi could not have
gotten in, nor could Nehru. But
neither could Confucius nor
Guatama Budda.
Come to think of it he for
whom the Five Books of Moses
are named could not have en-
tered. The writer of the Psalms
would have been disqualified.
No prophet, neither Hosea, who
preached love and peace; Isaiah,
who taught of Gods holiness.
nor Jeremiah, the man of sor.
rows, would have found Jer'
/, ferson's doors OPEN.
\ "But neither would those who
wrote the New Testament. Paul
the Apostle, the writer of the
Gospels, could not have entered
Jesus would have been
barred, because He was no An
glo-Saxon, and He was a Jew
and a Rabbi.
Perhaps Chapel is conduct
ed at Jefferson, and perhaps
some morning someone may
read a line which says: 'Inas.
much as We have done to the
least of these, We have done il
unto Me- And the reader
should realize, and perhaps re
mark, that jefferson could wei
be proud of an alumnus wht
wrote that line and spoke tina
verse.
"And they might pray for thu
second coming of their r
f.. deemer and Savior, but know
that when He comes He won
come to jefferson, being nj
Anglo Saxon and therefore no
welcome.
This endowment. we arr
told, is not anti. It is for. W.
are told il is for Christianity
states rights and White Suprem
acy.
christians should have some
thing to say about this. they
are cast into strange company
Chapel exercises should M
longer contain the story abou
the birthright that was sold 70.
a mess of pottage.'
Equally simple and beauti
full words we're spoken by tn
trustees of the school in turn
ing down the huge endowmen
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04
All County Boys
in Armed Service

Claiborne Koch, chairman of