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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09

Blaze Ruins
l7Buildings
New Prospect Fire
Fought By Buckets
Until Under Control
BY Winifred Ravens
tchronicle Correspondent

Seventeen tents at historic
New Prospect camp grounds near
Vancleave burned to the ground
late Thursday afternoon in a
blaze of undetermined origin.
Word spread about 5 p. m. that
the buildings were afire. Men and
cars began racing to the scene
from miles around.
BY the time two fire trucks
from Ocean Springs arrived, vol
unteers already had prevented
the blaze spreading by tearing
down the old Quitman Rouse tent,
now known as the Carl Randall
ard Ida Roberts tent.
Tabernacle Saved
The tabernacle started to burn
but was saved.
A bucket brigade was used eff
feetively in battling the blaze,
which was first discovered in the
Horace and Carl @. Roberts tents.
Straw, which had been left in the
rooms, aided the fire, which
spread rapidly to other tents.
Burned TO the ground were the
tents of Lewis Tooile. Joe Wares.
M. p. Davis. Mack Roberts. Bur-
ton and Chandler Roberts. Van
Horn and Ruble Roberts. Thomas
Roberts. Eunice Greens.
Roland and Laurin Ware, Sadie
Steed. Horace and Carl Roberts.
Paul Carter and Will Fletcher, C..
L. Decs, Tnman Ramsey, Jim Ram
sey. MRS. Mag O'Neal and Keith.
Reward Is offered
The camp committee met Sat
urday to plan rebuilding. A gFogp
of Jackson county citizens has Of
fered a 5000 reward for the arrest
and conviction of the person or
persons responsible for starting
the fire.
The new caretaker's home, just
completed, and the tents built
away from the tabernacle were
not destroyed. Most of those
which burned housed three or
four families last meeting.
Sent to the fire were trucks
from Biloxi, Ocean Springs and
P%ascagoula. The P~aseagoula en-
CINE turned back at Vancleave
when its operator heard by radio
that the blaze was under control.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09
Ditch To Be Dug
Between 2 Rivers:
Beach To Be Made

The county dredge is scheduled
to arrive in Pascagoula late this
week to start work on several
jobs including the pumping in of
a new sand beach along the sea-
wall, Beat Three Supervisor Joe
". Krebs said Tuesday.
The dredge will be towed here
from Ocean Springs where it has
been working since it was put
into operation in early September.
Seawall Work Starts
Meanwhile, work also started
this week on extension of the
seawall approximately 1900 feet
to the east. Construction is of
concrete pile and slab. When it
is completed, a fill will be pumped
in behind it and the road paral-
leling will be repaired and black
topped, Mr.. Krebs said.
First job the dredge will un-
dertske. MIR. Krebs said. is dredg-
ing of a channel TO the west from
the mouth of the Pascagoula river
for the benefit of commercial and
sports fishermen.
The former channel was filed
in by the spoils from the deep
ening of the river and it is now
necessary for small craft to go
well out into the sound to find
sufficient depth of water to reach
fishing. grounds off the mouth of
the West river.
Channel 40 Feet Wide
The channel, which will be cut
through the mud lump just out of
the mouth of the East river. will
be approximately 40 feet wide
and six to eight feet deep, Mr..
Krebs said.
The dredge will also be used 10
cut out a sandbsr in the Pasca-
goula river near Vancleave which
has been handicappine the barg-
ing of psperwood down the river.
Mr. Krebs said.
When this is completed, the
dredge will begin operation on
the beach front, with the first
pumping to be done in front of
Beach park, Mr.. Krebs said.
Groins Being Completed
The creosoted timber groins
in this ares are being completed
and it is believed they will hold
the sand beach once it is pumped
in.
The dredee will have little diff
ficultY in finding sand deposits
for pumping in the beach along
the seawall. Mr.. Krebs said. The
ls47 and ls4s hurricanes largely
swept away the former sand
beach.
MI. Krebs also said that later
plans call for dredging a chan
mel from Bayou Casotte into the
sound and for the cleaning out of
the channel in Krebs lake.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09

ing is against FEC rules. state
and prison authorities'easily could
have made Moody the goat to
cover up their own red-faces.
But Supt. Marvin Virgins at
Parchman and Gov. Wright, both
of whom knew of Moody's hard
earned knowledge of radio. as
sured the Chronicle-Star and Ad-
vertiser that the publicity would
not affect their views on Moody's
case.
Newspapers called me from
London. England, and Paris,
France" said Moody, wanting
to talk TO me. But Mr. Virgins
wouldn't even talk to them him
self"
The Chronicle on Oct. 20 ran
the ungarbled story of Moody and
his offense. IF il hadn't been for
the Chronicles story and editorial
NOV. A." Moody said Thursday
"I don't know what would have
happened 10 me.
THAT story was read over the
air by dozens of hams and when
the editorial came out it was read
too. II sure made me feel better
to know the real story was being
told.
The first of my friends to read
the story out was Bud Fielder of
T%vlertown. His call is W5FSS.
Then Robert Barr. W5GHF. of
Spring Hill. La, read it and the
editorial. I want to thank all my
hundreds friends on the 75-meter
band who wrote me and sent me
messages after that"
Sentenced For Holdup
Moody, who has spent all his
manhood to date as a convict. was
sent to prison after a S35 holdup
of a Wade grocery. His sentence
was seven years.
1T was hard, awful hard. at
first he explains. THE state
farm then vas not like it is now.
II was mean We chopped cotton
all day, from light to dark. The
guards were mean.
After I'd been there two years.
the last of the boys who went up
with me was turned loose. I was
still there. l just figured there
was no hope. So l took TO the
woods"
That was the first of three es-
cape attempts that brought
Moody'S sentence up to IS years
and olassed him as a "three-time
loser" AS are "lifers," he was not
eligible for a suspension until he
had served 10 years.
Studied At Night
After his last escape. Moody
settled down. He began a CORE
spondence course in radio. Il
studied all night sometime trying
to learn from a book. They
wouldn't let me have a light in
the cell cause It bothered the 9th
efs. Butt paid somebody two-bits
IN let me stay in the toilet with
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09
TIL Stick Close To Home,
Says Billy Frank Moody

Billy Frank Moody. ex-inmate
of Camp G, Mississippi state pen
itentiary. spent his first night in
10 years as a free man sitting al
a table in his mothers home in
Kreole.
On the table were a radio re-
ceiver and a transmitter, tn c
fruits of MGody's labor and the
instruments by which he nearly
lost his chances for freedom.
81 was listening to some of the
boys talking on the receiver" said
Moody. Sort of offhanded
threw the switch on the trans
mitter.
Turns Switch Off
"'Oh. OH, | said to myself, ii
you put it on you've broke the
law So | turned IL Off
Moody, now a blue-eyed, blond,
six-footer of 30, is known around
the world as the broadcaStlne
con-"
II was he who was discovered"
in October conducting unlicensed
radio broadcasts from his prison
cell and trustY's guard booth at
the Parchman prison.
Since August he had been work.
ing for a suspension of sentence.
The furore following his 'diScov-
cry came near costing him that
suspension.
The daily press carried sensa-
tional stories indicating that a
desperate criminal had been I'M
covered using an Illicit radio
transmitter in d campaign to gain
his freedom.
Could Have Been Goat
Because unlicensed broadcast
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09

stage the filts to argument The
FurbY fund. The girls games
will be at 7:30 p. m. and the
mems at $3.50 p. m.
Members of the local mems
team n NJ. j. Red" Bullock,
D. B. Mutt" Floyd, Boyce
Venus" Jones. Manus Bart
ling. Charles Olsen. Perry Gau-
tier and Alfred Moore.
Cared For Buck Last Year
Buck is not a stranger in the
Hightower home. Mr.. High
tower is a Stepson of Bucks
father by a former marriage
and the helpless boy was cared
for by Mr.. and Mrs. Hightower
for five months a year or so
ago.
One of several children, the
youngest of whom is less than
two years, Buck lay helpless
o nearly ii years IN the midst
of poverty and want.
A kindly neighbor. Mrs. John
Wcodcock. saw the youth lying
in his bed in the doorway of the
ramshackle house (for which
the family pays an absentee
landlord $40 . month remit and
when investigation proved he
vas Internationally fed and new.
Continued On Page 81
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09
P%uscueouIu Firm
Low Bidder On
Wayne Hospital

Pascagoula's G. and x. Con-
struction Company was low bid
der at opening of bids Tuesday
for construction of a new Wayne
county hospital in Waynesboro.
The local eompany's bid, one
of Is presented the board of SUI
pervisors, was S150,842. Contract
will be awarded at the January
meeting of the board.
The firm is operated by {. G..
Gaskin and W. Guy Krebs. Jr.
The 25-bed hospital will be of
brick, ana operating rooms will
be air conditioned.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09
Soft Drink Truck
Overturns On go:
Driver Uninjured

A soft drink truck overturned
in a ditch near Ocean Springs
on Highway 80 Saturday niaht
but the driver. Willard J.. White
Route l. Pascagoula. escaped in
jury. according to State High
way Patrolman Cecil Byrd.
White escaped from the truck.
which landed top down. By
crawling throuah the side win
dow. The truck was en- route to
PascagoulA with drinks which
had been loaded in Ocean
Springs.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09

my book.
sometimes during the day I'd
chop cotton and not wen see it.
Thinking about something in the
book l couldn't understand"
But he finished the course. re-
ceived a diploma. Every penny
of the money he got went into ra-
dio equipment. He built receivers.
ttransmifters. table models and
portables. began repairing the
prison radios. To his knowledge
he added that of electricity and
became the most valuable handy
man in camp.
Then he began experimenting
with the range of his transmitters.
Soon he could broadcast thou
sands OF miles. Il had a lot of fun.
| told people I was broadcasting
from Vancleave. Some of them
asked questions, but nobody ever
got suspicious.
"Thev knew I was doing il
down here at home. When my
brother-in-law's brother was
killed in Puerto Rico I got the de-
tails from a ham there and Sent
them to the family here. | talked
to lots of friends here
he read the Chronicles story over
the air. After that I got letters
from all over the country. They
were the incest letters a man ever
received"
About his future, Moody is de-
termined. I'm going to stick close
to home for six months till | get
this off me. I'm going to try to
work up a radio repair business
at home.
Maybe soon the governor'll
give me a pardon. I've got to get
my citizenship back before l can
take the FEC exam for a radio
license. II I do get it l want to
get a job as radio operator on a
ship"
The ham grapevine is evident
ly all-knowing. Several days be-
fore his suspension was an
nounced Moody said he began
hearing over the radio strange
talk about the contract for
W5BNK."
The contract" he said, was
the suspension awaiting the gov
ernor's signature. One ham said
one night that the top man
signed that W5BNK contract to-
day | knew what it meant.
Knew FEC Was Coming
About the alleged hectic 90
day search" made by FEC inspee-
tors before they uncovered
Moody; He laughs. Three days
before they came and took my
transmitters away I knew they
were on TO me.
"A fellow over near the river.
he's a ham too, couldn't get his
signal out when | was on the air.
He had me reported. They knew
where I was, lots of hams did.
"A friend came to me and told
me the FEC was coming. There
wasn't anything hid. How could
| hide iransmitters in the PRISON."
Moody used the call W5BNK in
the broadeastS.
I was pretty low when they
took the rig" Moody confesses.
i sat and listened to. the hame
talking about il. Bud Fielder came
on the first night and told all of
them that there was another side
Continued On Page -
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09
OLDEST
PROGRAM

New York - (APl - Because
it dates back to 1890. Lets Pre-
tend" Saturday mornings on
CHS. classifies itself as the "old-
est children'S program on the net
works" All that time it has been
produced and directed by Mia
Mack.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09
freight Train Engine
Jumps Local Trock

A freight train engine jumped
the rail on a side track near the
LIN station in Pascagoula Fri
day, requiring several hours to
get it back in running condition.
John Watts. railroad agent, said
No other trains were ineonven-
fenced, he said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09
YWBc DINNER MONDAY
At LONGFELLOW HOUSE

The YWBC will hold its Christ
mas dinner at Longfellow House
Monday at 100 p. m.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09

Sash weights, window cords
and puIleys were invented by the
Dutch about 1850.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-09

A new weighing plastic worm
has been devised for fishermen
who hate to dig for bait.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-12-06
STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP.
MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULA-

STATEMENT OF OWNERS ZIP.
MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULA-
rIoN REQUIRED EY THE ACT
0F CONGRE s OF AUGUST "a,
1912, AS ara NOED by THE
ACTS or MARCH s, 1888, AND
JULY 2, 1915 (TitIe 80, United
States Co-e. Sect,on 1881
OF Northwest Enterprise, publish
ed weekly, al Seattle, Wash. for
Decor Der @, 900.
1. The names and addresses of
he publis er, editor, managing
,litor. and business managers are:
Publisher, Prentis I. Frazier, 230S
East Madison st Editor, e. /
Robinson, 23Oe Ea.st Madison st. !;
Business Manager, Arthur Hayes
1908 East Madison st.
2. The owner is: IF owned by a
corporation, its name and address
must be stated and also in medi-
ately hereunder the names and
addresses of stockholders owning
Or holding / percent or more of
total amount of stock. If not own
ed by a corporation, the names and
addresses of the individual owners
rust be given. If owned by part
nership or other unincorporated
firm, its name and address, as well
as that of each individual member,
must be given) Prenis I. Frazier.
3. The known bondholders, mort
gagees, and other security holders
owning percent or more of total
amount of bonds. mortgages, or
other securities are; OF there are
none, SO state.) None.
4. Paragraphs and 3 include,
in cases where the stakeholder or
security holder appears upon the
books of the company as trustee or
in any other flduciary relation, the
name of the person or corporation
for whom such trustee is acting
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-12-06
MoYor Lee Stops
SYndicofed Crime

CLEVELAND, Dec. 2-(INS)-
Mayors of more than $50 cities
agreed Friday for the first time in
history to join forces in a fight
against syndicated crime.
The action came at the conclud-
ing session of the American NUM-
cipal Association in Cleveland fol-
lowing a ripping attack against
criminal elements by Virgil Peter
son, director of the Chicago Crime
Commission.
Mayor William sDevin of Seattle
moved that the conference refer
the matter to the board of trustees
for investigation and a report to
the cities.
Dorothy Lee, Mayor of Portland,
Oregon. said syndicated crime lis
a frightening problem and one
which chief executives of Amer
lean cities should take cognizance.
'The crime problem in its sym
dicated aspects has taken on a
new look which Is difficult for
local officials to combat because of
its completely"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-12-06
Twin Girls. Joined at
Heuds, Still Thrivinq

LOS ANGELES - (ANP) =
Yvette and Gladys Yvonne Jones,
twin baby girls born in General
Hospital six and a half months
ago, are. still gaining weight and
thriving, according to a surprised
medical staff here last week You
see, the twins were born with their
;eads joined together.
They were born May IL to M IS.
John Jones, 3S, who is mother of
nine other children. Doctors say it
J a miracle she had been able to
AIRY the infants in pregnancy.
Their heads are attached to the
rown, thus causing their feet to
,oint in opposite directions. When
me child lies on her back, the
ltiler lies partly on her side.
The medical director at General
Hospital said that ma attempt will
ne made "in the near future" to
separate the twins. They are too
young to undergo thorough exam
nation to learn If they can be
He said if brains are poined or
separated.
/ fthe infants are otherwise vitality
Joined, successful surgery would be
improbable. Parts of the skulls
would have to be replaced with
surgical plates.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-12-06
Teendger

Miss Harriet johnson celebrated
her 18th birthday November II
with an elegantly prepared supper
party at her home in North Morris.
The supper, prepared by her mo-
ther. was for these class and school
mates: Donah Defiritia, Ruth Hat
tula, Charlene Isacckson, Shirley
and Beverly Shaffer.
Harriet, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Aldridge Johnson, is a mem
Der of the Portland chapter Girl
Scouts. Her sister, Joan, is like
wise a member. Both are popular
In the younger set youth activities
of Bethel AME Church.
Mrs. Elmira Davis leaves Dec
ember 10, for New Orleans. La. to
spend the Christmas and New
Year holidays with her family and
friends. She viii be house guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Brown. Return
ing home. she win visit In Chicago
and other midwestern cities. She
plans to be away about 8 weeks
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-12-06

also the statements in the two
paragraphs show the atlantis full
knowledge and belief as to the
sircun stances and c onditio n 5
under which stockholders and Sc
curity holders who Go not appear
upon the books of the company as
trustees. hold stock and securities
in a capacity other than that of a
bona fide owner.
5. The average number of copies
of each issue of this publication
sold or distributed, through the
mails or otherwise. to paid sub
scribers during the IL months pre-
.edlng the date shown above was:
This information is required from
daily. weekly, semiweelzly. and tri-
weekly newspapers only)' $500.
Prentis l. Frazier
sworn to and subscribed before
re this 9th day of December, 1919.
Carlin Tatum
My commission expires 4,
1919.
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pal must enforce that he portray
himself as a girhcrazy sailor, stag
gering dizzlly into a tree at the
sight of a girl in grass skirt wig
Cling her hips" he wrote.
1T seems incongrous with the
position of principal and teachers
that the teachers form a line OF
hula-sIxirted dancers. giggling and
laughing as the principal of their
school playfully sprinkles their
bare shoulders with water. in the
presence Of an audience of adults
and children gathered for school
carnival" Excerpts from his letter
follows:
Il am not attempting to be a
reformer. nor to force my own per-
sonal convictions down everyone's
throat. but decency is decency In
any language :"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-12-06

Club Workers Fined

Five empoyes of Tom Johnson's
club. 1880 N. w. Savier St., were
fined $40 each Tuesday by Pre-
siding District Judge John r,
Mears after one of them was adj
judged guilty of violating the
states new service act.
The employees. all mattresses,
yere fined. The club was open
rom l am. to 8 am, 1t was
stated.
Deputy District Attorney John
F. Logan said the new act enables
the state liquor control commission
to make arrests and file abatement
proceedings, IL desired. In cases
where it can be proved club oper-
ates for the purpose Of providing
mixers for the consumption of al
coholic beverages under illegal
conditions.
John A. Bassett. appearing for
Johnson and employees. said he be-
lives the act Is unconstitutional
and advised his client to file suit
against the liquor commission for
trespasing on his place of business.
Johnson's employees said they did
not know liquor was consumed on
the premises in the early hours
and that customers were advised
to remove liquor from their tables
when it was seen. Bassett said all
liquor involved had been brought in
by the customers and the commits
sion operatives who made the ar
rests.
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sociol sidelines

Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence McCul-
loch and Mrs. Roy Green. all of
Seattle, were Portland visitors last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. McCulloch on a
short vacation, shared their stay
with Mrs. McCulloch's nephew
Charles Williams and family. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Fielden Stewart.
Mrs. Green visited her close friends
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Williams
Mrs. Audrey Roberts. First Lady
of Bethel AME Church wife of
the pastor). spent Thanksgiving
Day and week in Portland, Calf.
visiting her daughter and son-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. John Minor, Jr.
Mrs. ]. N. Cantrell is home from
another official trip to California
where, as Grand Lecturer for OES
of California and Jurisdiction. she
participated in the setting up of
new chapters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Dixon, Los
Angeles formerly of Portland).
are enjoying an extended VISIT with
relatives and friends in Portland.
They are house guests of Mrs.
Dixon's sister. Mrs. Ruth Flowers.
and family. Side trips. including
Tacoma with the Emerson Wilson's.
Victoria, B. c. and the beaches
Depo Bay, Ocean Park guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Flowers. They
were dinner guests Saturday even
ing of Mrs. Cora Minor.
Arriving on Thursday, from
Kansas City, Kans., were Mrs. v.
Alma Boone and daughter. Miss
Terra Boone. to visit with the Dix
ons. Mrs. Boone and Mrs. Dixon
(Clifford Freeman) were girlhood
friends.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-12-06
LOUIS ARRIVES FOR
CHICAGO EXHIBITION

CRICAGO-(ANP) = Former
Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis
arrived in Chicago this week for
his exhibition bout with challenger
Pat Valentino, Dec. Z, at the Chi
cago stadium.
The Brown Bomber has already
begun training drills for his 10
round no-decision affair with the
man whom Ezzard Charles, the
present champion, kayoed in eight
rounds after trailing him in points.
This bout will mark Louis
fourth hereunder on his current
exhibition tour. The others were
against Johnny shkor Nov. IA, in
Boston; Joe Cheshul, Nov. %, in
Newa~l, NJ j.; and Johnny Flynn.
Nov. 29. in Kansas City, Mo.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-12-06

Union Thanksgiving Services
were held at First AME Zion
Church. Rev. ]. e. Roberts. pastor
of Bethel AME, brought the mess
age.
Rev. and Mrs. Roberts, since
coming to Portland in September
as pastor and wife-back to Puget
Sound Conference, having pastored
at Yakima and Tacoma-are en-
dearing themselves to Bethel. the
community and Portland. Mrs.
Roberts is already active in the
Portland Council of Church Wo-
men, the YWCA, and many other
groups. including the interracial,
intercultural groups. Bethel's over
all program has been greatly i'm
proved and extended since their
pastorate.