Enterprise-Journal from McComb, Mississippi • Page 1

McCain, Wm. '-omj. 1-1-13 Dept. of Arcrav a Ona Newspaper Wcrld Interested to this -c J- fTTfW Tim 1X3 Ji Jilfil McCOMB FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR NO. 16G McCOMB, MISSISSIPPI, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1948 AN ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY BNYKRPNIia TALIMEO JOURNAL IITAILItHEP lOS CONCOLIDATKO UNI 14 Palestine Lists 114 Dead Over Easter Weekend Fairly Quiet Holy Week Is Followed By More Bloodshed In Strife-Torn Land Meats Um i of race jumil .11 ijlJHi.nitnHii im i i Up- vv is i iti v- i -J JJJ V-v.

A -y. 4c-: rt JZJ i i linn i i iiHIT jinn jifin i 1 1 ii riii 'ii irfniiwrtAiriWili iiin'rnfi m' NEA Telephoto. Renewal of fighting in Palestine after a fairly quiet Holy Week brought death lo a reported 114 persons' over the Easier weekend. In the above picture the Jewish flag fiies over a heap of rubble that was an Haganah outpost on the Jerusalem-Jaffa road, until it was destroyed by a raiding party of about 300 Arabs in recent fighting. TUTS FINEST WIN 'BATTLE' OF NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE RAILS ACCEPT WAGE INCREASE OF 15c HOUR Carriers Approve Proposal Fact Finders Unions Are 'Disappointed' Of WORKING RULES CHANGED Boosts Will Mean $1.24 More In 8-Hour Working Day For Operating Personnel By The Associated Press Chicago, March 30 The Nation's railroads Monday agreed to adopt a Fact-Finding Board recommendation that wages of some 125,000 workers be increased 15 2 cents an hour.

The unions representing the workers, however, withheld ac tion on the recommendation with which they said they were" very disappointed." The unions' general chairman will meet next Monday in Cleveland to decide their position. Working Rules Changed The wage increase, along with certain changes in working rules, was recommended Saturday by President Truman's board on railroad engineers, firemen and switchmen, three classes of operating personnel. The increase is identical to that accepted by conductors and trainmen, also operating workers, in November. At that time the engineers, firemen and switchmen refused to go along with the others and invoked the machinery set up under the National Railway Labor Act for settlement of disputes. Last September the same amount of increase was awarded to 17 unions of nonoperating workers, clerks, telegraphers and similar classes, of employes.

The boosts will mean $1.24 (Continued on Pasre Six) 'Senior. Day' At Southwest Will Attract Students Southwest Miss. Jr. College, Summit, (Special) Southwest Junior College will hold itg annual Senior Day Wednesday to familiarize Regional High School seniors with its campus, curriculum and activities. Dr.

H. D. Pickens, president, has extended a cordial invitation to seniors of Pike, Walthall, Amite and Wilkinson counties. The number of senior attending is expected to be one of the largest crowds in the history of senior day. Guest students will be met on arrival by groups of college students, who will accompany them on tours of the buildings and grounds.

Dr. Pickens offers a well planned and entertaining prQgram for the high school seniors. The schedule is: 10:00 Registration. 11:00 Tour of the campus with Continued on ft- I MISSISSIPPI INEWS FLASHES I OF INTEREST I Official Actions. Those Of Slate People Noted In Dispatches From Far And Wide Kosciusko Traffic Claims Another Kusciusko, Miss.

A second fatal automobile-bicycle accident in less than a week has been recorded on Highway 12 within the Kosciusko city limits. Eight-year-old Charles Stokes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stokes of Kusciusko, died in an Easter Sunday tragedy when his bicycle was struck by a car driven by Samuel J. Downs of Mc-Cool, police said.

Only four days ago, a World War It Victor Edward Alston, 22, was killed on the same thor-oughfara when his motorcycle was hit by an automobile in an unavoidable tragedy. Whittinglon Eyes Future Clarksdale, March 29 W. M. Whittinglon ot Greenwood, who drafted Sunday by a group of Delta citizens to again run lor Congress at a meeting in Greenville, wired J. B.

Snider of Clarksdale Monday he would probably not give his decision until next Thursday. "Am deeply moved," said Mr, Whittington in his telegram. "Probably Thursday before I can announce my decision. Letter follows." Mr. Snider served as chairman of the citizens' meeting in Greenville.

'Continumt on Pair Sit' Officers By McComb Cited On Safety Honor Roll Of Nat'l Council Chicago, 111. 'Special) For going through the entire year of 1947 without a single traffic fatality, 303 cities with populations between 5,000 and 10,000 have won places on the Honor Roll of the National Traffic Safety Con- test. McComb is one of eight Mississippi cities winning a place on this Honor Roll, ac-mording lo the Safety Council. Others are: Aberdeen, Brookhaven, Cleveland, Corinth, Picayune, and Yazoo City. The National Safety Council, which conducts the contest, announced that this morks an increase of 150 from the number on the 1946 Honor Roll.

Oklahoma had the highest per nf Hnnnr TtnU winners with 16 out of 22 reporting cities. Among the Oklahoma winners was Hobart, incorporated in 1901, which state records show has never had a traffic death in its history. The Council does not know of any other city in the population group which equals this record. Each of the cities will receive a framed "Honor Roll" certificate in recognition of its outstanding record in the traffic safety field. A total of 594 cities in the 5,000 to 10,000 population group participated in the Honor Roll section of the contest.

OARD FINALLY ETS LEWIS UP TESTIMONY After Merry Chase Yesterday, Last Night, UMW Chief Deigns To Appear By The Associated Press John L. Lewis has bowed to a Federal court order in the soft coal fact-finding dis- pute. The United Mine Workers chief I left his Washington headquarters 15 minutes in advance of the 1 p. m. (McComb time) deadline set for his appearance before Piesi-dent Truman's inquiry board.

He was accompanied by his attorneys. Yesterday and last night, Gov- 'Onntimipd on Paore Sii) ExNon-WPA' Grid Star Likes Railroad i A V. VV" JIMMY ARRINGTON the man who voted for the wrong Congressman in a Mississippi election some years ago and accordingly had to play on the "Non WPA" teaminthfs first annual "Relief Bowl" of Collins, his home city; the man whose baby in lime to get him and wife both home Irom the carnival; the man who lived through the time when the "twister" came out of a carnival sideshow at Collins, wrecking 25 homes was speaker before a large group of convulsed railroad supervisors last night in McCol-gan Hotel's Palm Room. Jimmy's hairline if anything has slipped since this picture was taken. iegisktaf JT7J mmt -1 iiois I I HERBLBC3E3 by OLIVER EMMEIUCH Alf Stone, perhaps the most renowned tax commission chairman in America, will be the featured speaker at Mc-Comb Rotary Wednesday.

Charles Gordon, managing editor of The Enterprise-Journal wrote to Mr. Stone requesting a photograph. Now grasp something of the modesty of the man from his reply, "I am sorry that I do not have a picture available" he said -'When I started out in life I was known as the ugliest white child in "Washington county, a iepu-tation which was not calculated to inspire a desire for having pictures taken. 1 have been shy along that line ever since." it so happens that Alf Stone is a very handsome individual. So an Enterprise-Journal photographer will be on hand to flash a few bulbs when he speaks.

Incidentally Alf Stone has not always hailed from Washington county. If memory doesn't fail somewhere aiong tne line he was once a resident of Summit, Mississippi. Any girl can be attractive if she has the right clothes, a designer. And the Natchez Democrat adds, "Arid any clothes can be attractive if they have the right girl" Our friend, Mrs. Alta Stratton, editor of the Southern Herald of Liberty, asks the editorial question, "Shall the South secede?" Insofar as the national Democratic Party is concerned it seems that the crowd has already gone off and left us.

It is as if the board of deacons or stewards of a church decided to rob a bank. To walk out wouldn't really be secession in such a case. But call it hat we may, there definitely seems to be a separation in the offing. A folder coming to this office states that Harold Stassen now has greater popular strength in the nation outside the South than has Harry Truman. Harry Truman has reason to be genuinely lonesome if he is thinking of his Southern friends in terms of a crowd.

Thai lonesome road you have heard so much about is the road Harry Truman is going to travel along when he treks through Dixie. The municipal election date has not as yet been set in McComb but it will likely be held in August. That is, the August of this year. At this time the people will vote on the following offices: mayor, selectmen, assessor, tax collector and chief of police. The people of Norfield community had genuine reason to be frightened Friday evening when the wind blew with almost tornado force.

As a matter of fact, insofar as the owners of the Owens Cafe are concerned, it was a real tornado. The cafe was completely razed and the residence adjacent was seriously damaged Trees were uprooted, barns were unroofed, chicken houses were flattened. This is another reminder of a hazard to this area and a selfish reason why we should support the American Red Cross. Another indication of the success of Pike County's Development Committee's farm program: Enough hybrid seed has already been received in Pike County to plant 5,000 acres of corn. Farmers know the value of hybrid seed corn.

This project alone (aimed at doubling our corn yield) is sufficient to justify the cost of the program. The members of the Pike County Poultry Improvement association were in session in McComb Monday evening. These men and women are in dead earnest. And as a result of their sincerity of purpose you may well expect to see them chalk up some real achievement. Jimmie Arrington was in McComb last night.

This reminds the editor of something a citizen from Chattanooga told recently. Jimmie was speaking at a banquet in Chattanooga and met a man by the name of S. R. Arrington. Asked, publicly if he knew the man he replied, "Sure.

He's old 'Slales Rights' Arrington." And xtt this time he took off his States Rights button and handed it over to S. R. Arrington. J. A.

THORNTON ADDED TO CITY POLICE FORCE J. A. McComb and Fike county resident for many years, has been added to the staff of patrolmen of the McComb Police Department, Chief E. R. Sanders said today.

Patrolman Thornton began his duties with the department during the past week-end. Picture Shows Of City, Summit, To Be Open Sunday Moving picture theaters of McComb, including the Palace and State, and Summit's Fox Theater, will be open Sunday afternoon until six o'clock under the law, signed Monday by Governor Wright, making Sunday operation legal. Operation of picture shows between 1 p. m. and 6 p.

m. was made legal in Mississippi when Governor Wright signed a House bill legalizing such operations, the bill having been offered by three World War II veterans, i Representatives Phil Mullen oil Lafayette county, W. A. Winter of Grenada county, and Brinkley Morton of Tate county. The bill amends a blue law enacted in 1822 so as to eliminate Sunday shows, baseball games football contests from the Sunday prohibitive statute.

Cities desiring to prohibit Sabbath Day showings must vote on the issue, under provisions of the bill which makes them legal on a statewide basis. A petition of I Vint itiift on T'ture Six EISENHOWER POSSIBILITY, LEADERS FEEL By Howard Suttle Washington, D. C. National Democratic leaders, recalling the political situation in 1912 wherein a Republican split resulted in election of Wood row Wilson, are joining the Dixie-inspired clamor for retirement of President Truman and nomination of "someone who can win." And the men most of ten mentioned as the best possibility to restore unity among the Democrats is Dwight David Eisenhower, who led the United Nations armies to victory in World War II, returned to become Army chief of staff and recently retired to write his memoirs and become president of Columbia University. The current "catch" in this plan, however, is that General Eisenhower, boomed several months ago as a possible Republican candidate, issued a statement that he was a candidate and would not accept the nomination.

Among those who would like to see Eiccnhowcr win the Democratic nomination at the Philadelphia convention, beginning July 11, is a native Mississippian, George E. Allen, Tupelo, former member of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, erstwhile District of Columbia Commissioner and ex-secretary of the Democratic National Committee. Al though Allen has riot issued any public statement concerning the matter, since he is a close friend of both the president and the general, it is not known here that the Mississippian looks with favor upon the current Demo- (Continued on Pirt Six Held For Killing Of Catherine Rossie 'it EDWARD SANT 25-year-old grave digger, is shown here in jail in Clovis, New Mexico, shortly before officers, including Private Detective A. E. Crawford of Jackson, who is given credit for breaking the 20 -months-old case, headed him back toward Jackson, on the charge that he killed Catherine Rossie, 22, Crystal Springs girl, by beating her to death with a blackjack near Jackson on the night of July 4.

1946. because she resisted his advances. He is now in the Hinds county jail at Jackson. 8 8 pi II IK. If II -At" 1 1 hi 1 1 I 30 Me Of m41 COMPENSATION BILL DEBATE BEFORE HOUSE Bill Making Membership In Labor Organizations Unlawful For Officers Downed EXPANSION BILL PASSED Create New Boards To Administer Practical Nurse, Cosmetology Beauty Shop Programs Jackson, Mar.

30 The House refused Monday to make it unlawful lor peace officers to belong to labor organizations and then approved bills providing more or less "closed shop" operations for practical and registered nurses and beauticians. t.iiy expansions cut 1'assea On the Senate side, the muchly discussed bill regulating the expansion of municipalities by limiting it to 50 per cent in any one year, was sent and passed to the House. It primarily affects the 200 per cent expansion program of the City of Jackson. It had previously been passed, defeated and recalled on a motion to re- consider. House defeat of the bill to prohibit law enforcement officers from belonging to unions which assert a right to strike to assist in obtaining its demands, came on an amendment by Rep.

J. E. Mcllwain of Lowndes county, which struck the enacting ciause from it. The vote was (JU to 47. Right Of Citizenship Argued Declaring that the bill "destroys the right of citizenship" Walter Ray of Madison county, in urging its defeat said "if other people have the right to join labor unions, so do the peace ofticers." Asked by Kep.

Boyce Hoile-man of Stone county whether he believed the House and Senate had a right to organize a union and strike for higher wases. the Madison countian answered: "Right now, I do think so." After disposing of the measure, Rep. H. M. Ray of Alcorn county called up the measure providing a workmen compensation law for the state, and the House agreed to consider it upon reconvening at 10 Tuesday morning.

Two new boards were created by the House to administer new programs that would be placed under state regulation practical nurses and cosmetology beauty shops. In the other bill, fees tor registered nurses were raised and existing statutes changed as to age and limits and appointment oi members to the State Board of Nurse Examiners. Under the registered nurses act, if the Governor fails to make appointments to the board from a list recommended by the Examining Board within 60- ckiys, then tne board may fill the vacancies existing. Persons now serving as practical nurses are permitted to obtain licenses upon recommendations of two licensed physicians and by two former employers. One of the requirements for being licensed as a practical nurse is to have completed a course of study in graded schools and successiul-ly completed the eighth grade, or to have successfully completed an accredited course for the training of licensed practical nurses.

Miss Evelyn Gandy of Forrest county authored and steered to passage the bill creating a state ooard of cosmetology of three members appointed by Governor Wright. Eligibility tor ooard on I'auo Kour) Assembly Of God's Revival Meeting Is Continuing This Week Revival meetings now being conducted by Evangelist D. P. Holloway in the Assembly of God church are- increasing in interest and attendance nighily, Pastor J. W.

Holloway said today. The evangelist will speak on the following subjects this week: "Signs of Christ's Second Coming," "The Rist of AntiChrist," "Falling Shadows of Coming Events," and "The Great Tribulation." The public is invited to hear all these messages and to enjoy special singing each evening. THE WEATHEH MISSISSIPPI: Partly cloudy and warmer today and tonight. Wednesday mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Cooler in north portion this afternoon.

Moderate southerly winds on the coast becoming occasionally fresh Wednesday. McCOMB: Showers and mild temperatures tonight and Wednesday. Lowest tonight near 62 degrees. Jimmy Arrington Gives Railroad Men New Insight Into Reason Lines Were Tve Said All I Intend To. Edward Sant, Confessed Killer Of Catherine Rossie, Says In Jackson Broudit Into Collins In Long Ago McDonald, Hester InmW lfJLICO JUlllUl High For 1947-48 Betty Hester was honored by her fellow students of the McComb Junior High School with election as "Miss Junior High," for 1947-48, while Jimmy McDonald was chosen as "Mr.

Junior. High." Complete results of the annual "Who's Who" contest follow: GIRLS Miss Junior High Betty Hester; Most Popular Mary Ester Best Dressed Masel Mc-Michael; Cutest Ava Burton Al-ford; Best Athlete Kay Page; Most Intellectual Prudence As-saf; Most Versatile Betty Hester; Wittiest Bobby Pittman Prettiest Harriet Schilling; Teacher's Pet Julia Ann Widman; Biggest Flirt Constance Burch; Best Sport Myra Beck. BOYS: Mr. Junior High Jimmy McDonald; Most Popular John H. White, Best Dressed Benton Crawford; Cutest Jackie Sar-phie; Most Athletic John Lowe-ry; Most Intellectual Benton Crawford; Most Versatile Jimmy McDonald; Wittiest Halleen Solomon; Most Handsome; Jim Lewis Garner; Teacher's Pet Bennie Vacarella; Biggest Flirt Bob Stockman; Best Sport Thomas McCaskill.

The Eighth Grade had a meeting in the auditorium of Grammar School and the following were elected officers: President Jimmy McDonald; Vice-president Betty Hester; Secretary Ava Burton Alford; Treasurer Benton Crawford; Class Sponsor Miss Hazel Neville. YEAR IN JAIL GIVEN TRIO IN WEAPONS PLOT Three Defendants Plead Guilty To Charges Of Conspiracy To Ship Arms To British Honduras By The Associated Press Biloxi, Miss. Three defendants, including a former army lieutenant colonel, today pleaded guilty in Federal Court to charges of conspiracy to ship arms and ammunition illegally to British Honduras. The three, former Army Lieut. Col.

William Marsalis, George W. Rappleyea of New Orleans and Anthony St.Phillips of Covington, pleaded guilty in Judge Cidney C. Mize immediately sentenced the three men each to serve one year and a day under the first count of an indictment returned last fall. Five-year sentences, given on (Continued on Page Six) DR. GLADYS RATCLIFF IS IN BAPTIST HOSPITAL.

EARLY RECOVERY HOPED Her large clientele and other friends hope that a stay in Bap- tist Hospital. New Orleans, to tist Hospital, New Orleans, to which institution she was conveyed Saturday, will immediately benefit Dr. Gladys Ratcliff, one of the region's best known and respected medical practitioners. It is understood the McComb physician may undergo an operation while in the clinic. Exlra Picket In Parade Brings Scramble In Which Several Demonstrators Got Hurt 'WAR' LASTED SIX MINUTES 1100 Members Ot United Financial Employes Union Are Out On Strike By The Associated Press Number 11 Wall Street, in New York the main doorway to the financial capital the world the New York Stock Exchange.

This morning at 7:58 (McComb time) there was a riot outside that door-way. It involved about 100 police" and 150 pickets supporting the strike of 1100 members of the AFL United Financial Employes Union. The trouble started over a police rule that no more than three pickets could parade before the Stock Exchange. A young woman, identified as 19-year-old Claire Johnson, started to make it a four-picket parade. The police rushed her off under a disorderly conduct charge.

Then the other demonstrators moved in not only the white collar clerks of the Stock Exchange but also scores of brawny workers from the waterfront; members of the AFL Seafarers International Union and the 'Sailors Union of the Pacific. They made a rush at the four cops guarding the entrance way against more than three pickets. Fists and nightclubs began swinging. The raiders were thrown back. They re-lormed and made another rush.

Police began swarming in from all directions captains, lieutenants, sergeants, foot patrolmen, motorcycle police, radio car police, detectives. That was at two minutes to eight. Six minutes later it was all over. Men and women, police and demonstrators were strewn all over the sidewalk, bruised, bleeding, and torn. Pieces of police night sticks were lying about.

There was moaning and screaming. Ambulances and patrol wag- iCoTttimipft on PK Sir Engineers Are Alerted For Up-Mississippi Flood By The Associated Press Memphis, Tenn. The District United States Engineers have been for a possible fight against Mississippi river floods in Illinois. Trie muddy Mississippi passed the 47-foot mark at Caro yesterday, exceeding flood stage by seven feet. Meanwhile, the official river forecaster at New Orleans, Stephen Lichtblati, said the river will rise slowly below Natchez during the next two weeks.

Lichtblau said the river is expected to exceed flood stage slightly by April 15 at some points above New Orleans. However, he said it will miss flood stage of 17 feet at the Crescent City by half a foot. The forecaster predicted no danger of floods in the lower valley except for the batture dwellers on the river side of the levees. At Baton Rouge the predicted stage is 36 feet, or one foot above flood level. The New Orleans stage today is 13 510 feet.

The river stage at Baton Rouge is 610. 9 When the Gulf Ship Island Railroad first began making efforts to get lined up to come into Collins and other parts of that section of Mississippi, trouble in getting right-of-way, was encountered, Jimmy Arrington, Mayor-Editor-Lawyer of Collins Monday night told the Louisiana Division Supervisors Club. The situation grew so heated, Arrington recounted, that it became necessary to hold a mass meeting to discuss and iron out the proposition. Some of those at the meeting advanced the argument that the section had. no use for a railroad.

"Those of us who live around here," one speaker said, "don't want to go anywhere else. And, certainly, people who don't live here already don't want to come in here. So, what do we want with a railroad?" Another, speaker then took the floor and told the assembly he had a good reason for letting the lines come on in, "I'll tell you what we can do with the railroad," he said, "By we can sue em! "And they certainly did," Arrington added. Mr. Arrington, one of America's best known and most aravel-ed speakers and humorists, possessor of the proud boast that he uses the railroads more than any other Mississippian, addressed a regular meeting of supervisors of various departments of the Louisiana Division held Mon day night in the Palm Room of 'h 7r McColgan Hotel, with H.

T. Lev is, district traffic agent, Jackson, and president of the club, acting as toastmaster. The Collins wit was presented to the audience by Supt. T. J.

Casey and made one of his outrageously funny talks, bringing Continued on Past Sixj Jackson, Mrch 23. Edward Sant, 25-year-old grave digger of Clovis, N. returned here to face a charge of murdering Miss Kaiherine Rossie, 21, almost two years ago, denied Monday through his attorney he had killed the former Clarksdale girl. The statement was made by E. B.

Todd. Jackson attorney, retained by Sant's mother, after Sant ha'd detailed incidents leading to the slaying south of here and had re-enacted the crime at the scene in the presence of Dist. Atty. M. M.

McGowan, Sheriff Albert Jones and other officers. Jackson, Miss. (Special) "I ain't gonna say no more. I've said all I intend to say." Edward Sant, 25-year-old confessed slayer of Miss Catherine Rossie, brought to Hinds county jail Sunday night, declined to discuss the brutal murder of the pretty Crystal Springs girl on the morning of July 5, 1946. Private detective A.

E. Crawford and J. P. Shelton, identification officer of the state Highway Patrol, arrived here with the confessed killer shortly before 9 Sant, who left Jackson 20 months ago shortly after Miss Rossie's body was found in a lonely area five miles south of here, was picked up by the officers in Clovis, New Mexico Friday afternoon. The former stove repairman, who turned grave digger after leaving Mississippi, wore a khaki shirt, khaki trousers and brown high heeled boots when the officers brought him into the Hinds county courthouse.

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