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Evening star., 1949-03-20

ia SSsE1pA rL ;n,s.h.s sM q srgSs ssh r ss
with bath. GE. 0396. ~ ,,,s
desired. CAN WO. $500. Apt. 1O3
North, between am. and z pm
1 1sse sse0aik;E KENYON sr.-Larae room,
hiSfs limited 'urS phone; $35 month. NO.
2 S'Pij FURNISHED BEDROOMS, With
1915 81; 4T3AsRskAGur 43ssk ST, N.w.-Nlcely
hlee lass naishBolhood, Tm Ess s2s5o e.
1871 sSho. AND HARVARD s1s: Nv; Nv;
section, for rent. Call between 10
NICELY FURN. ROOM close to j 18th II
Mt IT, ffIEAsaNr ffInEsA,ssRasNhr ieSa irvins
next bath. twin beds; empl. indi-
LADY ALONE would rent. rent. room; room;
ssG7 sG7 Grove $soIi 81. nssf = blks. from chev,
Chase Circle-Attr. furn. bedrm.,
next to bath. S35 mo-; sentleamnan
GEORGETOWN-Ec rm. for
student. walking dist. to univ. Ho.
1855 1857 SPRING RID. N.w.-Bedroom in
apt. or . girls. adjoining bath,
elf PEABODY ST. NV. Large
front bedroom, newly dec. and new
furn., single or double, conv. to
cAT1HHEDRAL AVE. nr. conn.MRoom
,sss ssd fsn!f1a fssTT!f1afsHoSgH haof RE'vis ST. W.
Master bedrm., nicely furn" pvt
bath and shower. ia. 1869.
MT. PLEASANT-P'vt. home, single
phone, laundry priv. SO; Quiet per;
son only. Ho. 1885,. Sunday all
day, ewes.
Evening star., 1949-03-20

bath; clean, refined, gentle nome
gentlemen or empl. cple. GE, sSs5.
DUPONT CIRCLE. 1927 21st st; NV.
Large room, twin beds. DU. 205l'
,saf Mns' rhSiNe E1SP; ST. N.w.-lst l.: 3
Double; cooking and laund. pr5yil.;
AMER' is9dao ISSTv ITSnv. pARK-Bis cor. rm.,
Kit privils:. 2 closets; ; tTin na,ao Ct d5le 81
bed; unlim. phone. WO. 774S: IL
LAkSE n9SM n2y.e.s sssbe oansR oa
sHhEiPHERD PARkUBeautifui master
closets; next shower and bath; 3
expos, laun. privl.. breakfasst op-
saf7 s'Pnt teoEfSsAbo fsSsA i5onsse AeE n
shower; laundry privl. Ia. b7s9s
17as RIGGS rL. NV, nr. DUPONT
S5slfsnf Somslike pi.es, Sm $3.50 ts5 sFly siS' AD
1a9s a4s1i 1FiA1RMoNr ST. NV, AID. o5s2
-Lge. front rm. with twin beds. "a
blk. from l4th st. Iansp.
WISCONSIN AVE-; Gsorsst0Tm ;se snS,Tonment aest
Gf f1 an bI aps ps741 ~sia of vi SsTVissss Sss so 0'
sTUDIO RIM, lEe., for 2; grill privls'
telephone, pvt. emit. bath. OR: S617.
13iS NEWTON ST., "a blk 14th St
sunny single front room. so. expos,
In pvt. family; unlim. phone. ALL.
SO MoNrH-1s66 Ingleside terrace
NV; close to busline. IL
NEW HAMPSHIRE HOUSE, 1712 New
Hampshire ave. n.w.-Newly deco
rated double and triple rooms; daily
maid service and switchboard serV-
BEAurffuLLY hesi THi iP0' FURN.. double bed
room, pvt. bath, exclusive section.
RA. 1915 or RA 4975.
ATTRACTIVE RIM. for 2 girls, twin
beds. unlimited phone, 30 ea. VIZ
1477 Newton st. NV, Ant. j. NO
s6i9 fao' PIERCE MILL RD:-cIean,
comfortable room. inclosed porch;
pvt. home: conv. transp. MI. s53s.
WOMAN EXECUTIVE oNLY-Larse,
beautiful room next bath; restricted;
$40. Near Dupont Circle. co. 0Sl5.
NEAR wEsTMoRELAND CIRCLE-
sinsle room; private bath; senttiie
1402 vARNUM ST: N:w.-Master
bedrm., pvt bath, for ore2 per
Sons; private gentle home. RA. 36l3.
Evening star., 1949-03-20

CoLoRED-9es q ST. N.w.-Settled
r9i s9uglsi gps,n N9s5nso NE s524, 4, -.r. ,.r..
front. twin BEDS, two single; gen
tlemen preferred, married couple,
AID. 1871 between 80 and $50. .
COLORED-A LARGE front room;
nice location; near bus stop; desire
couple or two ladies'; cooking privi-
leges. Call RA. 47SS.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04
Automobiles And axe
Pity the poor automobile ownerl

- 80 FSN NNOHhO0A CNiSA
Proportionately, he is probably the most heavily taxed
individual in the state, with the owners of low and medium
priced cars bearing a heavier burden than the man that
drives one of the low-slung luxury models.
Automobile assessments are set by the state, and are
uniform throughout Mississippi. The local county tax as
SCISSOR has nothing to do with this assessment. He is simply
furnished a mimeographed schedule by the state from
which he takes his assessments and applies them locally.
For example:
A 1949 four-door sedan in the low priced field which
sells for a base price of 81 $3.50 is assessed on the state list
at $1,000. The same model and style car in the higher priced
field which sells for $4,000 is assessed at $3.50. With the
cost of the higher priced car almost double that in the
lower brackets, the assessed value is only increased rs per-
cent on the state list.
Let's take the low priced car for example, and see what
taxes the owner pays.
If he lives in Pascagoula he will pay $4050 in county
personal taxes, and $3.50 in city taxes. In addition he buys
a license tag at a cost of slightly more than $11, or a total
of $50 in direct taxes.
He also pays, in the coast counties, nine and one-half
cents tax on every gallon of gasoline he purchases one
and one-half cent federal tax, six cents state and two cents
county seawall. Based on his annual gas consumption, this
amounts to a right hefty yearly tax.
incidentally, of the state gasoline tax the highway de-
partment gets 2602% of each dollar for highway construc-
ton and maintenance.
Frankly, we believe the automobile owner is paying
more than his burden, and that the interstate trucking
companies, whose huge trucks and trailers account for a
large part of the wear and tear on the highways, are get
ting off light. We also believe that the man of moderate
income, who drives a moderately priced car, is being dis
eliminated against in the state assessments. The example
cited in the preceding paragraphs shows a 500 of valua-
ton assessment for the moderately priced car, and less than
400 of valuation assessment for the big luxury model.
Based on the percentage applied to the moderately priced
car, the assessment of the more expensive model should
run 81 900.
1t seems to us that it would have been an easy matter
for the state list to have applied a flat percentage of assess
ment on the base price of a car. This would give the little
fellow a break, or at least make the big fellow pay his pro-
portionate share.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04
Un-Americun Censorship

The House un-American Affairs Committee, under its
new chairman Rep. Wood of Georgia, by its latest action bar
ring b~roadcasts, photographers and television from its
public" hearings takes a mistaken step in its attempt to
eliminate those factors and conditions that have made the
Committee a three-ring circus in the past.
1t was not the radio broadcasters, nor the photograph
es either, nor the newspaper reporters that accounted for
the circus day air that surrounded the hearings. 1t was
the membership of the committee itself, particularly J.
Parnell Thomas, the Republican chairman, and Rep. Karl
Mundt, Republican, who graduated to the Senate at the
last elections.
Thomas, despite the fact that he is under indictment
for accepting kickbacks from his government employees,
was reappointed to the committee by the Republican min
ority.
Thomas, prior to his indictment, acted as ringmaster
in the show staged by the Committee and his hypocritical
and cynical search for newspaper headlines and lured pub
licity based on the unfounded and rambling testimony"
of such witnesses as Elizabeth Bentley, his timing to hit
the Sunday morning headlines when daily newspaper cir
culation is greates) were the factors that brought the COM
mittee into ~disrepute with the majority of the American
people.
Following Thomas indictment, Rep. Mundt ably filled
his shoes and reached some sort of pinnacle of political
%putridness when he crawled from his Washington bed at
midnight to attempt to gain one more headline by smearing
the name of Lawrence Duggan, former state department
official, who was killed when he either fell or jumped
from his New York office window. Duggan left a wife and
children, and Rep. Mundt thought nothing of smearing
his name, and handing a burden of disgrace to his chill
dren which they would carry for the remainder of their
lives, in order to hit the headlines. Later the storm of pub
lie disapproval brought Mundt to admit that he was wrong.
It was these conditions that was responsible for the
tawdry circus atmosphere that surrounded the actions of
the committee and not the reporters. The newspaper and
radio reporters, and the photographers simply recorded
events as they were and did not create them.
Barring Of reporters, and blocking of a free reporting
of events to the American public by whatever medium
available will not change the conditions unless the attn
tude and actions of the committee itself are changed. If
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04
THIS WEEK
in Other Years

FIVE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, The national head of
the Junior Chamber of Com
meree visited Pascagoula
81 bs bies were born within the
week at the Jackson County
hospital Ration points on
vegetables and fish were re-
dtIced Vera Anderson de-
teated West Coast woman weld
yer to retain title . Reprint of
editorial by Mayor James E.
Crown, praising progressive
ness of Pascagoula.
FOUR YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Headquarters of Pasca-
goala police force moved to
Farq building -. The planting
of memorial trees on Lincoln
avenue was begun No edi-
torial carried.
THREE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, DR.. Eley Day was OBJ
served at the Moss Point Ro-
tary club =. New $780, 900 Rec
reation building on Market
street formally opened New
jackson County airport, called
one of South's finest, opened
this week Market street
raid by Sheriff Melted 300 cases
of whiskey Editorial: Ad-
Vocated restoration of Old Span
ish Fort Junior high PTA
at new school in Pascagoula or
CARRIED.
TWO YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Nearly 1000 persons
paid poll taxes Long career
of the Rev. B. II. Ellis, 83 year
old Baptist minister of Van
cleave, ended by death =.
County Supervisors voted to
buy three way radio equipped
patrol cars Editorial. The
Surplus and the Schools, Mis-
sissippi did not expend as much
as it could on schools A. p.
Moran elected first president of
Ocean Springs Chamber of
Conmerca
ONE YEAR AGO THIS
WEEK, Pascagoula and Moss
Point Libraries given books
from Eastlawn project library
=. Governor Wright asked to
divert Butane gas into Jackson
County for relief of shivering
citizens Locals take 6
championships in Golden
Gloves tournament Vet
Grams plan organization of cit
izen group to deal with PHA
house sale; charged price was
excessive Editorial: PHA
VS. FILA, criticized PHA APP
praisal of project houses.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04
OCTOPUS. EAGLE FEATURE
ESCAPE STORIES

MOSCOW -(AP)-Two stories
have been reported here recently
of narrow escapes by Russians
from an octopus and an eagle.
A Tass dispatch from SAX
halinsk told how one diver, Niko-
lai Chrednikov. got entangled
with the octopus and fought him
under the water for three hours.
He had gone below removing
a motor from a sunken ship when,
according to the message, a large
octopus grabbed his feet. For
three hours he struggled to get
away. He was not successful UNI
til another diver, Yakov Kar-
penko, came to his aid.
Karpenko was also entwined
by the octopus, but by now the
second diver was slashing out
with a large knife. He fought his
way to Chrednikov and freed
him enough so he could get at his
knife. Then the two of them fin
ished the octopus.
The second story was a lass
dispatch from Nikopol. 1t related
how hunter Andrea Azgrynni,
while hunting ducks, fired at a
50-pound eagle and wounded
him.
Although wounded the eagle
attacked the duck hunter and,
according to the dispatch, start
ed to claw his gun. Again a
friend came to the rescue. To-
gether they killed the bird. 1t
had a wing spread of about Eight
feet.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04

Dictator Peron of Argentina
continues his attack on the bas-
ic rights and freedoms of the
people of his country, with his
regime following the same
dreary patterns that mark die
tatorships, whether they be
fascist or communist. The Ar
gentine postoffice department
now refuses to distribute a
newspaper which contained an
article critical of the postal de-
partment. La Prensa, the indie
pendent and influential Argen-
tine newspaper involved, right
fully asks: What good is free
dom of the press if the public
cannot read the papers?'
y
Representative Hale Boggs
of Louisiana has reintroduced
his bill in Congress which
would make public the voting
records of representatives and
senators. The record, we learned
to our dismay several years
ago, is not available to the pub
lie. At that time we wanted to
publish what we considered the
particularly bad record of a
Mississippi senator who was
absent from senatorial sessions
as much as he was present. De-
spite the fact that he was elect
ed by the people, his record was
not available to them. In intro
ducing his bill Congressman
Boggs said: 'The members of
Congress + servants of the
people, and there is no reason
in the world why the voting
records should not be readily
available to all responsible
agencies" The bill died in the
last session of Congress, but
we hope a more enlightened
81st Congress will pass it.
G. ]. Cain, secretary to the
Mississippi department of edu-
cation, says there is a dire need
of more advanced training for
Negro school teachers in Mis-.
sissippi. Drawing on records at
the close of the 1947-48 session.
he cites the fact that more than
half of the states 6598 Negro
teachers have not been to COLI
lege. 1t is a wonder that this
condition is not worse when
the general average of Negro
teachers salaries, school facil-
tiles and per edueable appro-
priations r considered. High
sounding words as to what we
r doing for race relations and
the Negro in Mississippi will
have little effect on this situa-
ton. An honest surveying of
the situation. and honest con-
crete action to eliminate it
should be taken. More Negro
college graduates is not the an
swer. The answer lies in better
school facilities, better salaries
and more equitable educational
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04
KNOW YOUR
RED CROSS

In 1859 on the battlefield of
Solferino, where the Austrians
were fighting the allied French
and Italian armies. there was
born the idea of an organiza-
ton devoted to the care and
relief of the wounded in time
of war. The idea grew and de-
veloped and became alive In
the years 1863-64 through the
work of Henri Dunant, a Swiss
philanthropist, in whose coun-
try's honor the organizations
emblem was selected. The Red
Cross banner is the Swiss flag
colored in reverse.
In the United States Of Amer
lea, Clara Barton persuaded
President Garfield to a favor
able consideration of the move
ment, and the American Ma
tional Association of the Red
Cross was Incorporated.
In 1882 President Arthur
signed the Red Cross treaty
and Clara Barton suggested a
disaster and preparedness re-
lief program. The organization
carried on for Is years, largely
as a disaster relief agency, I'M
til 1900. In that year Mabel T.
Boardman suggested centraliza-
ton, which resulted in the or
ganization we have today - a
quasigovernmental agency with
certain definite duties and
functions established in the
congressional charter of 1905.
Travelling thousands of miles
throughout the country, Miss
Boardman organized the sys-
tenn of Red Cross chapters all
over the United States in 1910,
inaugurating the ST popular
membership that gave all Amer
lea the opportunity of sharing
in the work of the Red Cross,
performed by them and for
them wherever they might live.
Continued Next Weekl
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04
Face The Facts

Dry Mississippi collected taxes on sales of l0-million
dollars in liquor in the state last year under its To- oblack
market tax, and a group of citizens in Rankin county have
filed suit in Chancery court to force the levying Of fines
against 81 Gold Coast" bootleggers twho supply Jackson,
the state capitaD for the alleged sale of liquor. We won't
face the fact that if we brought the liquor traffic out into
the open by legalizing it and exercising necessary state
controls, we would stop graft. political c~orruptness and
take a long step towards eliminating the countless honkv-
tonks that infest our highways like sores on a sick BODY.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04

the committee under Chairman Wood continues to func-
ton as it did under Thomas, then the barring of these re-
porters will simply make it that much harder for the Amer
lean public to keep track of events. It will also enable the
committee to operate under the cover of secrecy and CEN
sorship that would constitute the very essence of un-Amer-
icanism itself.
AS its first step the committee should thoroughly over
haul its own proceedings, adopt a sincere course of inves-
tigation, eliminate its headline hunting tactics, and divest
itself of the role of prosecutor, judge and jury. If these are
done, then the committee need have little worry about
the free and open reporting of its actions and hearings.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04

eminent subsidy can make it
feasible for private interests to
build for the very low income
families.
The next housing boom, they
believe, will not start before
1850, and the bulk of the dwell
ing units will consist of low
priced houses and apartments.
1t will be stimulated, they say,
not only by a public housing
and slum clearance bill next
session, as well as the Housing
Act Of 1913. but also by devel-
opments within the industry
which will lower the cost of
construction.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04
PACIFIC SHIP GOES
TO SOUTH AMERICA

SINGAPORE = (AP) "A 20
year veteran of Pacific waters,
the passenger-cargo ship Marella
is paying her last visit to Singa-
pore.
The ship is being transferred
by the Burns Philip Line to her
new owner, P. B. Pandelis, and
after a trip to Shanghai will 20
to South America. The Marella
for the past two decades has OPP
Grated principally on the Singa-
pore-Australia route.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04

such notion was pure ''specula-
beyond the scope of my imag-
beyond the scope" of my mag
nation for such a thing to
happen. )
Some recent actions of the
Russian government have APP
peared contradictory, and have
indicated that Generalissimo
Joseph Stain may desire peace.
This may have been the basis
for the presidents statement.
However, there seems little
to support the idea, sometimes
advanced in State department
quarters, that Stain is at odds
with more war-minded Soviet
officials.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04
Desk

appropriations. When these are
obtained the Negro college
graduate will seek the teaching
positions.
Preliminary plans for a per-
manent States Rights political
party were laid at a recent
Washington meeting attended
by w. w. Wright of Jackson,
Horace Wilkerson of Birming-
ham and Leander Perez of Lou
isiana. This movement contin-
ues to attract strange bedfel-
lows. Perez, instead of plump
ing for States Rights, might
we'll take a few lessons in fun
damental human rights. He has,
for many a year, maintained as
tight and vicious a little po-
litieal dictatorship in a couple
of Louisiana parishes as that
state has ever seen. 1t was Pc
req who threatened with dire
political reprisal any person
who dared attend a rally for
Vice-President Barley at New
Orleans during the recent pres
idential campaign. Incidentally,
we wonder where that stalwart
defender of Democracy Hum
mon" Talmadge, was during
the Washington meeting.
1t must have been a bitter
blow to the States Rights lead
ers to follow the action of their
candidate for president, j.
Strom Thurmond, during the
recent inaugural festivities in
Washington. Ex-Presidential
Candidate Thurmond, Who
called Truman every name in
the book during the campaign,
brazenly forced his way into
the inaugural parade, DOTTED
his hat in a salute to the presi-
dent as he passed the review
ing stand, and got as cold a
shoulder for his efforts as any
politically expedient action ever
drew. Thurmond, of course, has
his sights on a South Carolina
political seat and whatever
guise of political convictions he
might have donned last No
vember are promptly shed un-
der the warm sun of political
ambition.
Senator Russell of Georgia
makes a great fanfare about his
bill designed to reshuffle the
balance of population by shift
ing 100000 Negro families
from the South to the North,
and bringing Northern white
people to the South to take their
place. This smacks of the late
Senator Bilbo's proposal to ship
Negroes back to Africa. In the
first place, any thinking South
ern individual knows that to
move that many Negro fami-
lies from the South would seri-
ously disrupt our economy. We
hesitate to believe that North
ern white farm families would
live under the conditions and
on the cash income that is the
lot of many of our Negro tenant
farmers. Shifting of Negro pop
ulation is not the answer, but
rather the realization of the
obligations that we assume as
the dominant race. Most of our
Negro families have lived in
the South for three and four
generations, have sunk their
roots here, many have acquired
property and are as much a
part of the South as our pine
trees and cotton. Has it ever
occurred to Senator Russell
and proponents of his bill that
they might not want to move
:. that they want to live in the
South that they want only
the small measure of economic
justice to which they are en-
titled?
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04
You're
Telling Me!
BY WILLIAM RIFT
Central Press Writer

The Russians now claim they
had built a workable plane fly
ing two decades before the
Wright brothers took off from
Kittyhawk hill. That flight, we
feel sure, is like so many other
Soviet boasts, just one of fancy.
Meat animals are to be fat.
tened with sugar made from
wood. Trying for a bigger and
better planked steak?
England's brand new Prince
Charlie has started a bank sac-
count. Can't depend much these
days on this royalty business.
! 1 ,
Teller, the little White House
pooeh exiled by the president
a year ago, is now living in the
Catoctin mountains in Mary
land, according to a news. item.
Given the boot, he naturally
took to the hills.
q
Tomatoes. according to Facto-
graphs. originated in Peru. But
not until recent years did they
catch up to politicians.
Mayor of Norwslk. Conn.,.
gets ~ cents a week less pay
than the garbage collector who.
it seems. must be cleaning up.
.
In the Bureau of Standards
time laboratory workers keep
time accurately to six-tenthsi of
one-millionth of a second. Just
a bunch of clock watchers?
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04
BABE GETS THE HANG OF IT

LOS ANGELES-(APl-At one
year old. Jimmie Weser can hang
from a bar for a minute, or chin
himself four times.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04

Wales is the land in which the
legends of King Arthur and the
Round Table originally sprang
IN
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-02-04

Wallpaper is believed to have
been developed in Italy early in
the 18th century