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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-18
Ship Scheduled To Arrive Saturday For
First Cargo In Port Development Plan
S. S. Sea Breeze
To Load 1000 Tons
Of Roilrood Ties

The first export cargo under the
new port development plan was
scheduled to be loaded at Pasca-
goula this weekend by the S. S.
Sea Breeze, 10,000-ton cargo
steamer of the Isbrandtsen Steam
ship Lines, according to agents
for the vessel.
The Sea Breeze was scheduled
to arrive in Pascagoula Satur-
day morning, although the sched-
ule was not definitely established
at this writing.
The vessel discharged cargo in
Mobile the latter part of this
week and was to complete dis
charging sometime Thursday, and
load some cargo at Mobile Friday,
agents at Mobile said.
According to the tentative
schedule she would leave Mobile
probably Friday night, lay off
Horn Island pass until Saturday
morning and then come up the
P~ascagoula channel to berth at
the city docks.
To Load Railroad Ties
She is scheduled to load ap-
proximately 1000 tons of cross
ties for export to Belgium. The
ties have been accumulated on
the port commission property adj
jacent to the city docks which is
under lease to LaCoste, Inc, who
are furnishing the ties for tn e
Belgian import-export firm who
will take delivery at Antwerp.
It is probable that the vessel
will tie up at the city dock some
time Saturday and lay over here
for the weekend with cargo load
ing scheduled to begin Monday
morning.
Meanwhile, other phases of the
port development plans were
moving ahead. Harold w. eau
tier, attorney, was completing
necessary legal details in connec-
ton with the issuance of $250,000
city-port commission bonds.
Funds from the bond issue will
be used to extend the city docks
approximately 500 feet to give
berthing space for two vessels
and erect a warehouse of approx
imately 10000 square feet. This
would enable the port to handle
general cargo. in addition to the
five-year railroad tie program
which is handled through open
storage at the north end of the
dock property
Finish Channel in April
The dredge Diesel of the Stand
ard Dredging Corp. was SEIZED
uled to arrive here Friday to as.
sist the dredge Cartagena in the
completion of the deepening Of
the Pascagoula ship channel to
81 feet. but due to a breakdown
she was taken to New Orleans
for repairs and her arrival will
be delayed for some time. How
ever, the channel dredging should
be completed some time in April
The United States engineers
office at Mobile said that the
hopper dredge Hyde, which is
presently working at Norfolk
will arrive here April l to begin
work on deepening Horn Island
pass to 35 feet.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-18
Internul Revenue
Collectors To Be
Here For Advice

Two deputy collectors of In
ternal Revenue have been assign
ed to this section of the state TO
assist taxpayers in the prepare
ton of their 1s48 income tax re-
turns and declarations of esti-
mated tax for the calendar year
of 1949, which are due March Is,
1949, Eugene Fly, collector of IN
ternal Revenue, announced.
Following is the schedule of
dates, Alfred A. Raymond will
be in Pascagoula at the Old Cen
trail school building on February
81, % to % inclusive and from
March 2 to IS inclusive. He will
be in Moss Point at the City Hall
on March 2.
c. B. Touchstone will be in
Gulfport at the American Legion
building on February II, %, IS
to % and March l, 2. 4 to is, in
elusive; and in Pascagoula at the
Old Central school building on
February "a and March 3.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-18

American Merchant Marine, and
the Washington, both operated by
the United States Lines in serv-
ice between New York and Eu-
rope.
The formal responsoring of the
609-passenger ship, which saw
service in World War II as the
Gen. W. P. Richardson, is sched-
uled to take place in late April
when the ship is to be delivered
by ingalls,, commission officials
said. Her stem-to-stern refurh-
ishing and conversion was done
at a cost of approximately S.
600 900. The work started a year
ago.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-18
County Bulldozer
Program Set To
Start Next Week

The county has completed the
purchase of a lowboy. equipmept
for moving the Patton county
owned bulldozer, which is sche-
duled for delivery Monday, Feb
ruary 2lst, A. ]. Franklin, county
farm agent, announced this week,
With the delivery of the lowboy
the county-sponsored program of
stumping and clearing of rural
farm lands will get under way
sometime next week, Mr.. Frank
lin said.
A total OF Al applications have
been filed for the stumping and
clearing of approximately 300
acres Of county lands. N. c. Ever
EFT, chancery clerk, also announc-
ed this week. Applications for
the clearing of county farm lands
must be made with Mr.. Everett
and the estimated cost paid in adj
vance by the applicant.
The cost has been set at $500
per hour of work. with the bull
dozer capable of clearing an esti-
mated acre an hour. The work
for farmers will be done on an
actual time basis and when COM
pleted, the deposit will be applied
against the actual cost and either
9 refund will be made to the ap-
plicsnt il his deposit more than
covers the costs, or he will be bill
ed for additional time taken In
the work.
Based On Costs
The bulldozer rental is under
the supervision of the rural COM
mittee appointed by the board of
supervisors, and the costs are bas-
ed on operation, maintenance and
amortization Of the original cost.
Mr.. Franklin also said that a
farm demonstration has tentative
~ been scheduled for both east
and west jackson county on
March Is and 10. Exact places
and times Of the two demonstra-
tiors win be announced at d later
date he said.
Two bulldozers will take part
in the demonstrations, one equip
ped with a stumper and the other
with a blade for clearing land and
moving dirt. Plans also call for
the use of two or three sets of
heavy discs, Mr.. Franklins said.
The land used in the demonstra-
ton will be stumped, cleared, the
holes filled and put in first class
shape for cultivation as a demon
stration of the time saving value
of modern equipment, Mi. Frank
lin said. Each demonstration will
require from five to six hours.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-18
Richardson To Be Transatlantic
Liner Under New Name of La Guurdiu

When the Richardson begins
her new life as a passenger YES
sci after conversion from a troop
ship at the ingalls, Shipyard here
she will bear the name La Guar
dia in honor of the late Fiorello
La Guardia, mayor of New York.
The announcement was made
simultaneously with that of the
charter of the big snip to TIL e
American Export Lines by the
Maritime Commission.
The 1871 gross ton Richard
son will be the third largest liner
flying the American flag in trans
Atlantic service, bowling only to
the America, queen" of the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-18
Open Meeting
Marks Second
Year Of Local IA

The local group of Alcoholics
Anonymous will celebrate its sec
ond anniversary with an open
meeting Sunday at 3 p. m. in the
sub-story of the First Methodist
church of Pascagoula. Two guest
speakers. both widely known in
AA circles, will talk. Alcoholics
Anonymous is an organization
which has gained international
recognition and praise for its
work with the chronic drinker.
The purpose of the group is to
assist the individual to overcome
his addiction to alcohol.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-18

The Oregon Territory was a
mammoth area from which the
states of Oregon. Washington,
Idaho. and parts of Wyoming and
Montana were later carved.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-18

Peter Hele of Nuremberg. q
18th Century German. is gener-
ally credited with the actual in
vention Of spring power in a time
piece.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-18

Gliding and soaring are the
simplest types Of flight.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-18

The downbeat of a birds wings
drives it forward.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
BLA(k0UT IS THREAT
 INl0ND0N
Wildcat Strike Pulled Off Aqainst State- Owned
 Power System

LONDON, Dec. 13-R- Some 16O0 workers joined spreading wildcat strike today against the state-owned British power system.
 By late afternoon 2,600 of Lon don's 10000 electrical workers were idle and the sprawling city was threatened with a return to the wartime blackout.
 Labor Minister George Isaacs told the House of Commons gen. eral power cuts may be inevitable in the circumstances" Isaac said troops, called out when the strike began yesterday, will try to main- tain essential services.
 Strikers, who walked out against the advice of union leaders in a wage dispute, threatened to spread the stoppage to all of London's government-owned power stations unless the troops were called out Of the struck plants.
 The big blow fell today when 400 men left their jobs at the Barking Station-largest in Britain
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
PERJURY IS
 ALLEGED AT
 TRIAL TODAY
New Witness Gives Im- portant Testimony-Mrs.
 Roosevelt Involved

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 13-R-- Another professed ex-Communist testified at the Harry Bridges per jury trial today that Bridges was member of key National Com mittee of the Communist party in 1886.
 The witness. Manning R. John- son, Negro now living in New York, said arout 50 members of this committee were selected at a convention at Manhattan Center, NY, in the summer of 1886.
 The committee members were picked, he said, by the "all power iul" political bureau of the Con- munist party.
 National committee members were chosen, he continued, on the basis of their particular district or in- dustry, adding:
 Emphasis was laid on persons in basic, strategic, mass production industries such as steel, mining, marine, packing, railroads and so forth"
 BRIDGES UNDER ALIAS
 Asked to name the persons att tending the national committee meeting immediately following the convention, Johnson started off with Earl Browder. Several names were familiar, such as William Sohneiderman of California. Bridges was the 18th named. He said Bridges went under an alias 'Rossi."
 Johnson testified he had been a government witness in l9 or 20 trials and hearings involving Com niunists.
 He said he voluntarily left the party few months after the 1889 Nazi-Soviet pact.
 References to purported letter written by Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- velt were injected into the trial Uy QtlciiSc COulloCl yCotSiddy. ~<1v ernment attorneys made strenuous objections.
 A witness undergoing cross examination was told the letter condemned him for allegedly mak- ing false statements during an earlier investigation of the west coast CIO longshore leader. The letter was not introduced in evidence, but Bridges lawyers said they would seek to get it in later. The man was Kermit c. Krolek. an acknowledged ex-Communist who testified he saw Bridges pre- side at Communist meeting in Long Beach in May. l936.
 In New York, Mrs. Roosevelt denied having written the letter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
HISS CALLED
 CONNIE BY
 BULLITT

NEW YORK, Dec. 13-tR-A former superior of Alger Hiss in the State Department testified to- day a former US. Ambassador in 1e47 had referred to Hiss as Communist.
 The witness was Dr. Stanley K Hornbeck, former Ambassador to the Netherlands, called as a de- fense witness in the second Hiss perjury trial.
 Hiss once served as assistant to Hornbeck when the latter was Political Affairs Adviser in the State Department.
 Hornneck testified his friend, William c. Built, former Ambas- sador to France and Russia, spoke of Hiss as a Communist two years ago. This was the second conver- sation Hornbeck had with Built in which Hiss name came up.
 Yesterday, Hornbeck said that in the early 1940's Built had told him Hiss was fellow traveller"
 However, the witness upheld Hiss reputation and declared there IS absolutely no question" the defend- ant did not take the papers he is accused of passing to a Russian spy ring courier.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
FAITH OF HAW WAIIANS SHATTERED
 BY RECENT SHIPPING STRIKE; x
 CAUSING MANY TO LEAVE ISLANDS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13-LR- Rep. Crawford (R-Mich) said to- day that the 177-day shipping tieup in Hawaii this year has shattered the faith of the people"
 "They don't know when it will be repeated he told reporter.
 Crawford spent a few days in Hawaii on his return from a 3o,OO0-mile tour of the Pacific Is- lands.
 "The strike of longshoremen,' he said, "is the most terrible thing that has happened to Hawaii in 50 years.
 Tt is a tragic thing to find that young people think the situation is so insecure they are anxious to get back to the mainland.
 Young executives, with good jobs, are leaving"
 Crawford said that Harry Bridges, President of the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse mems Union, has three-Way hold on the sugar business in Hawaii
 He can tie up production on the Hawaii docks, in the fields, and on the west coast" he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
COLD NIp5 CROPS IN
 GAL. BELT

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13-h-- Extensive loss to truck crops was reported today but warming sun promised break in two-day cold snap.
 In the Imperial Valley, farmerl feared the midwinter pea crop was an almost total loss from tempera- lures as low as 24 degrees, with heavy damage to tomatoes. squasE and possibly to some citrus.
 Last years midwinter crop from the valley totaled 4.183 carloads. valued at $7.514,648.
 Otherwise, temperatures over Southern California today ran two and more degrees above yesterday, hut it was still cold enough to freeze a few car radiators, coat puddles with ice and bring out mittens and mufflers.
 Citrus growers said fruit which escaped loss from temperatures as low as 2l degrees in some orange belt areas early yesterday would miss further loss today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
 HEALTH DEPT. NURSE KILLED BY HUSBAND

ANCHORAGE Alaska, Dec. 13- R-Anchorage police said today that a middle-aged construction worker and his wife were found shot to death in their home Satur- day. They listed it as a staying and suicide.
 The victims were Don Fulton, 45, and his wife, Ruth, 40, wellknown nurse with the Territorial Health Department.
 Eight dinner guests arrived at the. Fulton home and waited an hour before they discovered tfie bodies. Mrs Fulton was lying in the bathroom with two bullet holes in her chest. Fulton was stretched on the bedroom floor with a gaping hole in his head.
 Police said they believed the couple had quarreled, and Fulton shot his wife, then took his own life. A packed suitcase in the bed room contained womans clothing and Christmas wrapped gift of a diamond encrusted wrist watch en- graved ITO Don from Ruth
 A request that the bodies te sent to Rochester, Minn.. was re- ceived from Mrs. Fulton's mother Mrs. Grace Haugsrud, who lives in that city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
25 KILLED
 IN CRASH
 OF PLANE

KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 13-tR All 21 passengers and a crew oi four were reported killed in a Pakistan transport plane crash last night 45 miles north of here.
 It was reported that two Pakistan Army Generals were among the passengers.
 The two Generals, according to officials of the Pax Air Company which operated the plane, were believed to be Maj. Gen. Sher Khan and Maj Gen. Iftikhar.
 The plane, twin-engined DC-3, crashed in desert country. It was first spotted by aerial searchers early this morning and rescue parties were sent to the scene of the crash
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
WARD I5
 NOW ON
 U. 5. SHIP
Consul, Imprisoned by Reds, Safe with Stdff-
 Gouged by Commies
(By Associated Press)

A US. diplomat is homeward bound after suffering indignities at the hands of the Chinese Con- munist government. Angus Ward Consul General at Mukden, is aboard the US. merchantmen Lakeland Victory after being handed over with his staff at TientSin.
 Ward said the Communists, who had held him in prison on what the State Department said were trumped up charges, charged him S7,OO0 to move his party of 20 from Mukden to Tientsin. a distance of 600 miles. The Communists also charged his party four times the formal rate for food, Ward said.
 In Tel Aviv, the US. representa- tive advised the Israeli government to avoid any inflammatory mea- sures against the United Nations plan of internationalizing Jerusa- lem. The LIN. Assembly voted Fri day to take over control of the Holy City despite strong objections from Israel and Hashmite Jordan
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
POLICE GUN STOPS GIRL,
 SPEEDY GAR

DARIEN, Conn.,, Dec. 13-tR- Police Lieut.. Frank Standing said that a woman who identified her. self as Dionysia c. Skouras, 23, daughter of Spires Skouras, Presi- dent of 20th Century Fox Film Corp, was arrested early today after she had been wounded by a police bullet fired in an attempt to step her speeding car.
 The wound was superficial, Standing said and Miss Skouras had been committed to sanitarium for observation after being booked on charges of reckless driving and driving without license. Dr. Allan Ross, police surgeon, said Miss skouras was nicked slightly by a bullet which passed between the ring and middle fingers of her right hand.
 Skouras told reporters that his daughter had been "ill lately"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
BULGARIAN RELATIONS
 NEAR BREAK
Communist Press Says US. Minister "Lies" = Spy
 PIofwifh Tito Charged
(By the Associated Press)


 Diplomatic relations between the United States and Communicated Bulgaria were near the snapping point today
 In Washington, Undersecretary of State James E. Webb yesterday called in Dr. Peter Voutov, top Bull garian representative, for a stiff warning.
 The United States charged its Minister in Sofia has been sub- jected to a series of indignities. Articles in the Bulgarian press said the US. State Department and Minister Donald R. Heath deliber- ately lied in denying the Minister had never seen Traicho Kostov, former Vice Premier, who is the central figure in the current purge trial.
 Kostov, with 10 co-defendants, is charged with plotting to make Bull garia subservient to Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, arch-enemy of the Soviet Union. The charges against the II said the plot was motivated and encouraged by British and American intelligence.
 U. s. SPYING
 A newspaper article signed by the political department of the Bull garian Foreign Office recently ac- cused the US. government of en- gazing in spying and subversive activity through official represen- tatives.
 At Kostov's trial today, defense lawyer Luben Dukmedjiev had vir- tually nothing to say in defense of his client.
 My task as defense lawyer for Traicho Kostov is quite difficult, :" he said. He praised Bulgarian authorities, who, he said broke the hands of the traitors"
 The defense lawyer said there was a gap on the bench where the II alleged spies and saboteurs sat. He said among the missing were Tito and his Interior Minister, Alexander Rankovic.
 Dukmedjiev told the court it's verdict would not only be against the II defendants but against Titoists and Anglo-Americans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
PLANE IN
 CRASH IN
 POTOMAC
AirIiner Off Radar Path Goes Down = Four
 Dead But 19Survive

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13-tR-A Capital Airliner wandered off a 1adar path leading into fogbound National Airport last night ano crashed in the mud of the Potomac River, carrying four of the B per sons on board to their death.
 The 19 survivors-an amazingly high number for a plane crash were taken to the hospital at Bol- ling Air Force base, located nearby Many were badly hurt.
 Government officials laid plans for prompt inquiry into the cause of the crash.
 The dead were Mrs. William Chertow, of Brooklyn, NY; Ne vile Lassiter, a government em- ployee who lived in Arlington, Va, and the pilot and co-pilot, w. J Davis, 45, and Lloyd L. Porter, 28 both of Alexandria, Va.
 SPEED IN RESCUE
 The bodies of Davis and Porter were recovered from the partly marged wreckage hours after the crash.
 Navy and Air Force men who sped to the scene in crash boats credited number of factors foI the high rescue rate. High on the list were luck and the relative calm of the survivors-most of them servicemen going home to spend Christmas.
 The plane, DC-3, arrived over Washington during what officials called one of the worst traffic days in the history of National Airport.
 The field was blanketed by fog and soaked by steady rain. Weather conditions were described as approximately minimum"-400- foot ceiling and visibility of about 4 of mile.
 The DC-3 took its place over the field in a stack" of planes which at one time numbered 40 aircraft, all waiting for chance to land.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
The w ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON scopyrisnt. ls4s. by Bell Syndicate. Inc,


 WASHINGTON - Now that the case of Congressman Parnell Thom- as has been disposed of, the Justice Department might take a look at another Congressman, this one a Democrat. He is Victor Wickersham of Mangum, Okla, likable gentle man, with considerable skill at manipulating the Congressional payroll.
 Congressman Wickersham states in his self-penned biography in the Congressional record that he was reared on cotton, wheat and dairy farm near Mangum, Okla, and on wheat and poultry farm near Greensburg, Kans." For a farm boy, the Congressman has come a long way. He now operates his own real estate business, not merely in Oklahoma, but right in the na- tions capital, and has one real estate agent drawing money from the Congressional payroll.
 It is important to remember that Congressional payrolls are net paid for by member of Congress. They are paid by the taxpayers. and allot-
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-13
By VERN HAUGLAND AP Special Washington Service


 WASHINGTON, Dec. l3 - The Irter.or Department has started the reservations -izing" of Alaska. Its goal: to speed development of the Territory.
 It is doing so over the protests O. the Agriculture Department and some Congressmen. Their argu- ment: setting aside large chunks of Alaska for use as Indian Reser- vations will retard rather thar hasten Alaskan development. In the final hours of his author .ty as Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug offered more than 3C0o square miles, in the form o1 three reservations, for about 90C of the Territory's 35,O00 natives.
 One of these would set aside lCC ,Oo0 acres of Prince of Wales and SukkwaD Islands, in the Ton gass National Forest of Southeast Alaska, for the 360 natives of Hyda- burg Village.
 AGAINST PULP HOPES
 Krugs sudden action came as surprise to opponents of the reser- yation plan, and particularly to the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The latter is anxious to reserve Tongass National Forest for orderly development of an Alaska pulp-mills industry.
 Secretary of Agriculture Grammar two years ago told Senator Butler tR-Neb) that his department strongly opposes the creation of any large Indian reservation on National Forest Land in Alaska"
 Brannan said each pulp mill in Alaska would involve an invest ment of from $20,ooo.oOo to $3o.- o00 ,000.
 Prospective investors would no consider such a project if any large area of National Forest Land were granted to the Indians, Brannop said.
 Grammar said the Secretary of the Interior in 1945 recognized the possessory rights of the native vil- lages of Hydaburg, Klawak and Rake to 273,000 acres of Tongass forest land, and a year later indi- cated l,924,00O additional acres of Tongass land would be so recog- nized.
 DISRUPT SALE
 "The percentage of the total com- mercial forest area which may be subject to the establishment of In- dian reservations is only one indi- eaton of the degree to which such action might disrupt or complicate the sale of timber from adjacent land,' Grammar said.
 Pointing out that Kake's claim, as reported by the Interior Depart ment, covers a 75,000-acre shore line strip of commercial forest land two miles wide and 75 miles long, controlling access to several times that area of National Forest land behind the strip, Grammar added: Indian claims may be expected