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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-30

LEO W. oedA Gull ADdoh Ddllh-
ef, is in our opinion one of the
most courageous citizens on the
Coast and deserves the sincere
congratulations and heartfelt
thanks Of his fellow citizens.
Mr.. Seal signed 30 bills Of COM
plant against establishments in
Hancock county operating slot
machines. Prior publicity has
shown that a Bay st. Louis
banker and a son of a former
mayor virtually controlled the
slot machine racket in that city,
which since has barred the de-
vices. The present bills are
aimed at machines operating in
the county outside the city
limits.
The slot machines constitute,
to a large extent, a tightly con-
trolled racket in Harrison and
Hancock counties, as is the case
in all places where they operate
openly and without molestation
from the law. The racket gives
rise to graft and corruption that
inevitably weaken the moral
fibre of the county or commu-
nifty involved. II is interesting
to note that District Attorney
Luther w. Naples and State
Attorney General Greek l..
Rice refused to have any part
in signing the bills. Perhaps
they had their legal reasons. It
does remind us, though, of our
own situation in relation to the
operation of the Sage Patch
club. II is a curious thing that
elected public officials are so
often helpless in the face of
open violations of the law.
Mrs. Thomas L. Bailey. pro-
hibitionist state tax collector
who sought and was elected to
an office that handles the col
lection of the 10 per cent BLACK
market" tax in liquor sales in
dry Mississippi, is busy these
days seeking paddock action
against approximately 100 es-
Establishments in the state for
the illegal sale of liquor. How
ever, the action is sought not
because the boys have been
peddling a product whose sale
is prohibited by law, but be-
cause they have not paid to
Mrs. Bailey the state tax on the
illegal product
The paddock action is sought
against 100 places, when there
are several thousand such es-
Establishments operating openly
adjacent to Mrs. Bailey's head
quarters at Jackson, along the
Gulf Coast, up and down the
Delta river cities, in and out Of
Hattiesburg, Laurel, Meridian
and virtually any other city of
any size in the state. But these
boys have the states blessing
because, like good citizens, they
pony up with their taxes, from
which Mrs. Bailey's office gets
its cut and the state the rest.
As we have pointed out so
often before, the situation sim
ply encourages graft and cor
ruption and gives the state as
fine n collection of fostering,
roadside bootleg joints as can
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-30

1t is highly necessary here fur
Their to state that the commercial
Shrimp which we call usually the
Lake Shrimp, White Shrimp or
Common Sea Shrimp affords ov-
er 95 per cent of our commercial
Shrimp fishery. has definite pc
culiar and now we'll understood
patterns of development. .
The facts are these. Lake
Shrimp breed from the 18th of
February to the 18th of Septem-
Der. and a single female may pro-
dHce as many as eight hundred
thousand eggs at a single spawn
ing. The ripe eggs are produced
over an extremely unusual range
in space and range in time, name
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-30

The original forest area of the
United States is estimated at
$40. 000 900 acres in addition to
100, 000. 900 acres of non-commer-
cial forest. The present area of
forest is estimated at 49,, 044
acres.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-30

What is believed to have been
the earliest surviving piece of
glass was produced about 5000
years ago.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-30

Animal husbandry and farm.
ing are each believed to have be-
gun about 10000 years ago around
the eastern end of the Mediter-
ranean.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-30

About one-third of the con-
tinental United States is forest
land.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-30

Lichen is a combination of al
ga and fungus growing in part
nership.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28

research contributors to the
American Cancer Society.
DR.. Diller, 40, was born in North
Woodstock, N. H. She received
her bachelor of arts degree at
George Washington University In
1925, took her masters and doc
tors degrees at the University of
Pennsylvania. She Joined the In
stitute of Cancer Research eight
years ago.
DR.. Diller showed enlarged pic
lures of the fungi. One is black
fungus, common in soil and milk
products, named alternaria. An
other Is grey, common In the
tropics, known as syncephala-
strum racemosum. DR.. Diller said
that how this tropical form got
into Philadelphia cancers is a
mystery.
There are also some common
yeast fungi not yet identified.
DR.. Diller cautioned against ac-
cepting results so far as proof
that fungi cause cancer.
"A great deal more work must
be DONE" she said. "A single re-
search group could spend years
exhausting the implications OF
these findings. To millions OF
Americans, cancer research is q
matter Of tragic urgency"
One queer fact has developed.
The tropical fungus. when taken
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
Butcher Wage Talks
Pressed as One Chain
Grants s. Increase

The possibility of strike next
Tuesday added weight today to
contract negotiations between
1000 AFL butchers and their
chain store employers.
That date was set by the butch
ers as deadline for settlement Of
terms with Safeway, A. & p,
American and Food Fair stores.
Prospects for an agreement were
frightened with the announce
ment that Giant stores have given
the union an increase of IS a
week, or Ill cents an hour. p.
The other stores have offered
6 cents an hour. M. G.. Curtis,
financial secretary of the Anal
gamated Meat Cutters and Butch.
er Workmen of America, Local
SIS, said today.
Meetings were under way today
between the butchers and Food
Fair and A. & P. representatives,
and others are scheduled tomor-
row and Friday with Safeway and
American.
The local will meet Monday
night to take a definite stand for
or against a strike. Mr.. Curtis said.
Another strike threat backed up
demands of AFL stationary engin-
GERS for a 50-cents-on-hour pay
boost from 10 Washington hotels.
The engineers of Local 80 filed
notice making a strike legally pos
sible Friday.
The engineers control hot water
and boiler systems at the Carlton,
Shoreham. Statler, Wardman
Park, Willard, Washington.
Raleigh, Hamilton. Lafayette and
Continental Hotels. They now
have a wage scale of $3.50 an
hour.
A meeting was planned today
at the Office of Joseph c. McGar-
raghy. attorney representing the
hotels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
Professor Urges
Use of Books in
| Science Exams
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-Remem-
Der how you used to bone up for
tests in school, trying to remember
everything in the book?
And your grades depended upon
what you could remember?
That, says Prof. Jacob Verduin,
is not good idea, at least for
teaching science students. He urges
letting students open and use their
books during examinations, while
making the tests fairly tough.
The memory tests with closed
books don't test students ability
to use information, he told the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science. DR.. Verduin
is associate professor of plant
physiology at the Franz Theodore
Stone laboratory of Ohio State
University, at Put-in-Bay, Ohio.
The student should learn how
to use facts, and open book tests
can be designed to encourage this,
DR.. Verduin said. You're more
likely to remember facts that you
use a few times. he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
New Deposits Of Uranium
Reported in Soviet Zone
By the Associated Press

BERLIN, Dec, 28.-The British
licensed Sozialdemokrat said to-
day new uranium deposits of low
grade had been found near Werni-
gerode in the Russian zone.
Sozialdemokrat said the deposits
were located along the Wernige-
rode Nordhausen railway track
in the Harz Mountains Of Thur
mgia.
The paper said the Wernigerode
City Hall had been ordered evac-
uated to make room for Wismuth
Corp. mining offices.
German technicians and Rus
slams have disagreed on the quail
ity of the ore, Sozialdemokrat said.
The Germans look on 1t as in
ferior grade, but mining prepare
tions are continuing anyway under
Russian order, said the paper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
|Cunard Plan 10 Build
Biggest Liner Reported
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. 2S.-Maritime
circles reported today the Cunard
Line is planning to build liner
bigger than the 83,673-ton Queen
Elizabeth-now the worlds largest.
The reports said the huge trans
Atlantic ship will be faster than
anything presently in service. 1t
may be powered with gas turbine
engines now being developed for
marine propulsion.
II the keel is laid down early In
1850 she will be ready for the
Southampton-New York run some
time in 1854.
Robert Grail, general manager
of Cunard, refused to comment on
the rumors. Frank Dawson, depu-
ty general manager, told news
men he would neither confirm nor
deny them.
Similar secrecy surrounded
plans for the Elizabeth, completed
in 1910, and the 81 ,235-ton Queen
Mary. which entered service in
1896.
Shipping quarters said the new
leviathan of the seas could be re-
garded as Cunard's reply to chal-
lenges by the United States Lines,
France and Holland for the At
lantic luxury trade.
A 69.000-tonner is being built
for the United States Lines, which
now has the 26,314-ton America
as its ace on the Atlantic run.
The new ship Is expected to be
ready in 1852.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

The Reconstruction Finance
Corp. said today the wartime
arrangement for pooling patents
on synthetic rubber production has
been ended.
Producers now are free to retain
the fruits of their own research
and benefit commercially, the
RIGS Office of Rubber. Reserve
announced.
The pool-ending stipulations,
agreed upon after months of dis
'cussion, were described as formal
lied" last Friday. They leave in
the pool all patents and pro-
cedures in joint use up to March
81. 1949.
Pool members and the RFC-
almost the exclusive maker Of
GR-S, the tire synthetic, and
butyl, the inner tube synthetic
will continue to enjoy use Of proc
eSseS put into the pool before then.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
End of Wartime Rubber Pool
On Patents Announced by RFC

The pool was set up IL days
after Pearl Harbor with six par
Elephants: Goodyear Tire & Rub
Der, B. F. Goodrich. Firestone
Rubber. U. s. Rubber. Phillips
Petroleum and Standard Oil
Development. All patents and
technical data on synthetic rubber
production we're utrned over to the
Government and made available
to all pool members.
Oficials said termination Of the
agreement was undertaken some
months ago In accordance with
the Rubber Act Of 1948. Ofilcials
said the act was intended to en-
courage competitive development
Of new processes.
One of the more recent major
accomplishments under the pool
arrangement was development Of
cold rubber" an improved type
OF synthetic especially useful in
tire making,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
Suspicious Fires Probed
AT New York Hospital
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-Two
suspicious fires-the fifth and
sixth this month-were discovered
behind locked doors in two build
ings of Bellevue Hospital today.
None Of the fires caused much
damage, but the latest blazes re-
suited in five separate investiga-
tons to determine whether a
pyromaniac is roaming through
the tunnels that connect the many
buildings in the hospital.
Two OF the six fires were
marked off as accidental. The
others were listed as definitely
suspicious. All were discovered
shortly after midnight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28

heroes in the comics. That is q
wholesome sign. he said.
The chief psychological damage
probably is mainly from the crime.
horror, hate and fear type Of
comics, he added.
OF 1881 Massachusetts, children.
IS per cent said they liked to read
comic magazines.
One Third Like Heroes.
One-third said they Liked those
in which the heroes or heroines
were brave. heroic. good fighters,
pretty or handsome.
Thirty per cent liked those with
funny or exciting situations. Ten
per cent liked cowboy themes.
Eight per cent preferred books in
which the heroes or: heroines were
kind, true friends, moral, or mod
est. Only 2 per cent said they liked
the comics because they were ed
ucational.
Comics have been bitterly criti-
cized, and also defended, DR.. Aver
Ill said. but there Is no more
reason to link the comic magazines
causatively with juvenile hayward
ness and crime than to the movies.
the radio, or thu more. sensational
and erotic literature Of the day."
Problems In Radio Active Wastes.
The problems OF, getting rid Of
radioactive wastes safely must be
solved before atomic energy can
be widely used for peacetime work.
DR.. Conrad P. Straub of Oak
Ridge, Tenn, said last night.
DR.. Straub, sanitary engineer
Of the United States Public Health
Service. is on loan to the Health
Physics Division Of the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Atomic En-
ergy Commission.
The radioactive wastes are
gases, liquids or solids produced
In atomic energy work. Some
are extremely dangerous to hui
mans. Some remain dangerous
for many years, others for only
short periods Of time.
Four Prizes Awarded.
Four science prizes, totaling
So 500 were awarded today.
The $1,000 George Westing-
house science writing award for
the best story of the year in q
newspaper went to Lester Grant,
SO, New York Herald Tribune, for
a series of Is stores on THE
Challenge of Cancer" Grant is
a Nieman fellow. Mr.. Grant for
merly lived in Washington and
was a member of the staff of The
Washington Star.
The $1,000 George Westing-
house science writing award for
the years best story in a maya
zine went to George w. Gray, s.,
a free-lance writer Of Sparkill
N. Y.
The $1,000 Theobald Smith
award and medal for research in
medical science, given to recipi-
ents who must, be under IS. went
to DR.. Seymour 8. Kety, "a. pro-
fessor of clinical physiology, Grad
uate School of Medicine, Uniyer-
sity of Pennsylvania.
The Sigma Delta Epsilon {wom-
ems graduate fraternity awards
of $500 for the best paper describ-
ing original research went to DR.
Ruth v. Dippell. 20, research as
4 sociate of Indiana University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28

cODefI. Ar WHSpIOLO.
from cancers and injected into
cancer susceptible strains Of mice,
kills the animals in q few days.
It doesn't cause cancer when so
injected, but poisons the mice.
After the same fungus has been
cultivated outside the bodies OF
animals for some generations 1t
gradually loses its power to cause
death.
Were Reported Years Ago.
In mouse leukemia, which is like
the blood cancer of humans, all
the body organs except the heart
contained a yeast-like fungus.
DR.. Diller reported that just
before this century began many
investigators reported they had
discovered fungi in cancers. But
these reports were not verified.
She said the fungi have escaped
notice since then because OF
difficulties In detection. They
have been mistaken, she said, Tor
broken-down blood vessels.
Use of new stains revealed the
fungi. DR.. Diller said that fila
ments from these growths can be
seen running from one cancer cell
to another. Sometimes the fila
ments push into tissue cell, and
wind around the cells NUCLEUS.
Comic books let children escape
into an imaginery wonderland in.
stead of helping them live in the
modern age, DR.. Lawrence A. Av.
Grill of State Teachers College
Worcester, Mass, told the asso.
citation.
Thus they are living like theil
parents and this is bad. he said.
Reflect Age Of Superlatives.
Children, in their fanciful idea
and pretending to be comic bool
heroes, just reflect the presen
"aee of superlatives," he said. "Mal
has not yet dared to come to grip
with basic and imperative ques
tions-of democracy, Of famil.
preservation, OF morality. of so
cial and political and civic right
eousness."
DR.. Averill said 80 per cent o
children. in one study. admired
and Identified themselves with tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
Soekorno Calls for Amity
Toward Former Masters

JACARTA GETAWAY, Java,
Dec. % P.-President Soekarno,
who headed the rebellion that led
to independence for the new United
States of Indonesia, told his peo-
pie today to show good will and
hospitality toward their former
Dutch masters.
About 100000 cheering 1ndo-
nesians damned into the square
before the government palace to
greet DR.. Soekarno as he arrived
to establish the capital Of the
new nation that officially came
into being yesterday.
Calling for work and work and
work." to build prosperity for the
U. S. l., DR.. Soekarno added:
1--WE now are on peaceful terms
with the Dutch and other for
eigners. They are all our guests.
Show hospitality toward them"
Recognition Was Assured.
American recognition Of Indo-
nesia has been in the cards all
along.
This country vigorously pro-
NOTED the settlement with the
Netherlands which brought indie
pendence to the 77,0o0, 900 Indo-.
nesians and likewise defended
their leaders against Soviet bloc
attacks in the United Nations.
The administration is hopeful
that the republic will not only be-.
come a strong barrier against the
advance of communism in South
east Asia, but will also contribute
increasingly to world recovery.
Therefore, it is ready to con-
slider an early loan to finance a
revival of Indonesian trade. To-
ward that end, long-standing
500, 000, 900 loan application has
recently been busted of by the
Export Import Bank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
Two Children Found Drowned

BEDFORD, N. H., Dec. % B.-
Bodies Of two youngsters missing
in woodlands here were found
today In Stebbens Pond. sThir-
teen-year-old Irene Biron and her
young cousin, Robert Bourque, Z,
had been objects Of a widespread
search by posses since they dis
appeared Tuesday afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
GoIIinger
From First Page

comatose white woman mentioned
above was, She had no money
Such people should be seen as soon
as possible, regardless Of their
financial status. Then, If later
they are found to be INDECENT,
and condition is satisfactory. they
could be transferred
"Other hospitals have been get
ting by with this sort OF business
for a very long period; can't some
thing be done?"
About a week later, another
admitting officer wrote that he
had a call from an Emergency
Hospital doctor for. the transfer
LOT three patients. Two Of them
were accepted, the doctor wrote
butsi it was recommended that the
third, ineligible for care at Gal
finger. be hospitalized at Emer-
gency.
about 1885 pm, same tname
OF the ineligible patient) arrived al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
Science
Continued From First Page)

to better processes of canning and
preserving 1t probably is getting
its full value. Families with in
comes above $4,000. however, are
spending only about rs per cent
more.
Education Is Factor in Diet.
Adequate diet. according to DR..
Stiebeling. is about as much a
matter of education as income
More milk for all income classes,
she said, would correct many Of
the present deficiencies. The Ma
tional Research Council, she aid.
now has in press a report show
ing more than 100 nutritive sub
stances In milk.
Actually. milk consumption has
declined during the past year
Even last year. when 1t was cheap
er. the consumption was not ade-
quate.
More milk drinking would make
the Nations diet adequate In
calcium, she said. In order to
bring 1t to standard In the essen
tial vitamins thiamine and nico-
tinic acid. there should be more
meat, poultry and fish and more
whole grain. An adequacy of as
corbic acid. lack of which causes
scurvy and a host Of conditions
which may be akin to scurvy, de-
mands more citrus fruits and to-
matoes.
Excessive Fat May Cause Cancer.
Much of the improvement In
the diet of the poor, she stressed,
has been in more calories in the
form Of fats, sugars and starches.
This, she said. is not an unmixed
good. Sufficiency Of these filling
foods tends to cause neglect Of
more essential elements. There Is
some evidence that they lead to
shorter life expectancy. due to
diabetes. high blood pressure and
heart diseases. A diet high in fat,
it now appears, may increase the
likelihood of cancer.
Despite ups and downs. DR..
Stiebeling said, the American diet
has improved markedly for both
rich and poor during the last half
century.
Great increases in the germina-
ton Of seeds by exposure to very
high frequency radio waves was
reported to the association by DR..
Herbert Jones of the University
of California. His experiments
applied to carrot, beet, onion and
tomato seeds, but presumably also
are applicable to grains.
Heat Generated in Seed.
Failure of seeds to terminate
has been a major cause of agri-
cultural losses and many methods
have been tried with Indifferent
success to improve the germina-
ton. A major result of the high
frequency waves, DR.. Jones said,
seems to be an increase of the
heat inside the seed itself.
Length of the index finger in
comparison with the ring finger Is
a sex-linked hereditary character,
according to a report by DR.. V.
r. Phelps of Tulane University.
Girls have long index fingers
more frequently than men and
they seem to be tied up closely
with the gene which determines
sex. A long index finger in males
indicate that this gene has had q
more normal influence in fashion,
ing the individual, DR.. Phelps de-
clared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28

Because 1t might give the wrong
idea about irish asylums. Belfast,
Northern Ireland. banned the
Hollywood fiirn Snake Pit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28
Indonesiu
Continued From First Page.)

He has served in Washington as
chief of the State Departments
visa division and was Ambassador
to the Dominican Republic and
to Panama and Minister to New
Zealand before being made Min
lister to Finland two years ago.
Mr.. Dow. 81. is a graduate of
Georgetown University and its
Foreign Service School. He en-
tered the career foreign service
In 1899.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-28

Sydney, Australia. reported its
two millionth Food for Britain
parcel has been dispatched.
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Evening star., 1949-04-24
Super-Cobinet Established
In BuIqorion Government

SOFIA, Bulgaria. April % (P).
"A super-cabinet called the
bureau of ministerial council was
set up In Bulgaria today to ex-
ercise broad policy making pow
ers. 1t replaces a government
committee which previously had
co-ordinated only foreign and
national defense policies.
The announcement indicated
Premier Georgi Dimitrov. who is
absent on leave in Russia. is still
taking an active part in govern
ment affairs. 1t said the change
was made at his suggestion.
The new bureau, the announce
ment said, will direct current af-
fairs Of the cabinet. "currectly de-
eide questions Of state" and SUP
ervise the execution of govern
ment decisions.
Dimitrov is In the new bureau.
SO is Vassil Kolarov. foreign min
lister and acting premier: Kimon
Georgiev. vice premier and min
lister of electrification: Georgi
Traikov, vice premier and minister
of agriculture: Vulko Chervenkov.
president Of the science, arts and
culture committee. and Anton
Yugov, minister Of interior.