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Title: The star
Uniform Title: Star (Port Saint Joe, Fla.)
Physical Description: Newspaper
Language: English
Publisher: W.S. Smith
Place of Publication: Port St. Joe Fla
Creation Date: April 16, 1943
Frequency: weekly
regular
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Subjects / Keywords: Newspapers -- Port Saint Joe (Fla.)   ( lcsh )
Newspapers -- Gulf County (Fla.)   ( lcsh )
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Spatial Coverage: United States -- Florida -- Gulf -- Port Saint Joe
Coordinates: 29.814722 x -85.297222 ( Place of Publication )
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Additional Physical Form: Also available on microfilm from the University of Florida.
Dates or Sequential Designation: Began in 1937.
General Note: Editor: Wesley R. Ramsey, <1970>.
General Note: Publisher: The Star Pub. Co., <1970>.
General Note: Description based on: Vol. 2, no. 7 (Dec. 2, 1938).
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VOLUME VI PORT ST. JOE, GULF COUNTY., FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1943 NUMBER 28
VOLUME VI P O R TT ST. JOE, GULF COUNT,4 FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1943 NUMBER 28


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Representative Joe Jenkins of
Alachua started the first fireworks iIIIIlIIIl IIIIlllIIIIIllllllllIllllllll !II Ulll llllIl illll ilIli
of the 1943 legislative session at SOMEWHERE IN PACIFIC
Talla.hassee when he tossed a bill:
into the hopper that would outlaw P 1
the "closed shop" in Florida and ,
give all citizens an equal right to :
work in this state, regardless of .
whether or not they are a member '
of any labor organization.
The measure was approved Mon- -.* -..
,day by a 66 to 25 vote and has
gone to the senate, where up to .
yesterday there has 'been no indi- '-
cation of its fate. .,.
Forty~six members of the house .
Tuesday joined in introducing a I '
bill that would clamp sharp regu- I
lations upon labor unions and, re-
- quire them to file reports andi rec- ..
cords with the secretary of state. .t '
The powerful labor. bloc under-
took to kill the resolution by pro-
posing several amendments, all of
which were defeated in a two-hour
debate that found the house pretty
evenly divided, and the bill went HAlc Walter Kirby, who for
to the house labor committee, some time was stationed at.the
Legislators cracked down on Jacksonville navy hospital, sev-
'boardis and commissions when the eraf weeks ago was transferred
ses'9on had barely gotten under- to San Francisco, Calif., and is
-way. Representative Clay Lewis of now "somewhere in the Pacific"
Port St. Joe asked, the house to carrying on his duties as hos-
'albolish price-fixing in the laundry, pital attendant on some battle-
dry cleaning, dairylbg and 'barber- wagon. .
ing industries. *
Lewis, in favor of abolishing the Completes Special Course
laundry board, said "house mem-, Gaston C. Brock, seaman second
'bers should 'get on record right class, of Port St. Joe, recently was
now whether they're in favor of I graduated at Charleston, S. C.,
elbolishing some of the boards and I from a class of navy men selected
commissions." for special training in detecting
The house 'Tuesday, with only Iand destroying submarines. The
10 minutes discussion, voted. 82 to anti-submarine training is a part
10 to abolish the (laundry and dry of the navy's comprehensive pre-


cleaning board, and the bill was
passed on to the senate.
Other bills introduced were one
to lower the legal voting age from
21 -to 18 years; a proposal to have
county tax assessors make prop-
erty valuations for municipal as
well as county, state, school and -
district taxes; a bill to abolish the
state highway patrol; repeal of the
state's 90-diay divorce law and re-
turn to the 12 months residence
requirement, and many others of
minor importance.
Wednesday the house unant-
mously passed a senate-approved
-bill re-enacting, as a two-year
- 0-- Pno M R-. mnn ni th qn-nT11 d


paredness program in which regu-
lar duties are supplemented. ,by
brief but intensive courses in vari-
oeus phases of naval warfare,
A
Star Going to Two More
S/,Sgt. Louis J. Herring is the
latest soldier to request that The
Star be mailed to him, and this
week his sister subscribed for him
at the special servicemen's rate
of $1 'per year. We presume that
Louis is in North Africa, since
the paper goes to him through the
New York postoffice.
And in the, navy, out at San
Diego, Calif., Jesse V. Stone,


emerg'enuy measoure LB ,o-, SO,M3,C, has requested that he be
seventh cent of the gasoline tax sent The Star each week. Mrs.
first enacted in 1931 and continued T. H. Stone, his mother, subscribed
by each biennial legislature. at the special s'rvieemen's rate,
CITY GAS TAX LAW and now Jesse will get all the
news from home each week.
TO BE RE-ENACTED
Albert Thomasson Promoted
The city of Port St. Joe. will ap- AlbertThoasson, son oMrs.
ply, to the 1943 legislature for re- Alli V. Thomasson of Wewa-
enactment of the special act al- lie V. Thoasso of Wewa-
lowing for the collection of a gal- (Continued on Page 2)
lonage 'tax on gasoline within the
city limits. NoTice of the applica- MEATS MUST CARRY
tion is carried, in this issue.. OPA GRADE STAMP
While the measure, which must
be re-enacted at each session of iStarting yesterday, all Florida
the legislature, calls for collection butcher shops must have official
of not in excess of one. cent per OPA grades stamped on all cuts I
gallon, -the city has never found of beef, veal and mutton, and'
it necessary to collect more than must have the price per pound for
one-half cent per gallon. all grades posted where the cus-
tomer can see them.
N 0 T I C E .State OPA Director Butler says
Turn right now to the Port the- this will stop butchers from selling
after advertisement and see if cheap cuts as 'better grades and
your name is in it. If so, you can also protect the Housewife from I
call at The Star office and get a getting infected "black market"
free pass to the Port. meat.


3B Classification Chief M. O. Freeman Quits

Now Eliminated When Officer Hudson Is


Start Fireworks

In Legislature:


trants qualify them to be placed
in Class HI-D.
The Gulf county, local board is
now reclassifying into their proper
classifications all registrants who


Those In This Group Are To Be
Reclassified By Local
Boards

General Vivian Collins, state dl-
rector of selective service, has an-
nounced that recent changes in
selective service! regulations, el-
fective last Monday, eliminates the
classification of Class III-B ana
changes t h e requirements for
classification in Class III-A. At
the same time a new classification,
that of Class III-D, was created.
Registrants have been classified
previously in Class IHl-B by rea-
son of dependency and activity,
but with the elimination of this
class, all of these .registrants will
be reclassified by local board's
into their proper classification un-
der current regulations.
Changed. regulations for classifi-
cation in Class III-A now require
that in this class shall be re-
tained oir placed any registrant
who with- his child, or children
maintains a tbona fide family re-
lationship, provided such status
was acquired prior to December 8,
1941; except that such a regist-
rant shall not be retained or
placed' in Class III-A if (1) he is
entitled to be placed in Class II1-C
or (2) he is within a group which
the director of selective service
has directed or hereafter directs
shall be classified or reclassified
without reference to their eligi-
bility for Class: IH-A deferment.
A new- c-la'TsFiiaiohn" of Class.-
III-D was created,, and in this clas-
sification will be placed those
registrants deferred by reason of
extreme hardship and privation to
a wife, child or parent.
Single registrants with collateral
dependents and registrants with
wives only, can no longer be. de-
ferred by reason of dependency
unless the status of such regis-


under the changed regulations are golden opportunity (for post-wa barge captain and refusing to re-
now classified in a classification, improvement), since you are the lease him without bail seemed to
for which they no longer, qualify. closest state to South America, gripe the officials, and they de-
The Gulf county board, which is which will be the nation's number handed that Officer Hudson be
preparing to send out family sta- one market after the war. If you dismissed forthwith.
tus blanks, requests that all men do not have the ports and air fa- The demands were made to City
turn in their present family status, cilities you'll find shipments will Commissioners B. B. Conklin and
particularly birthdates of their go from New York." C. J Sullivan, since Mayor J. L.
children, since this information Which 'brings up another matter Sharit was out of town, and after
will determine the classification in pertaining to Port St. Joe: We al- consideration of the matter and at
which .they are to be placed. ready have one of the. finest bar- the behest of a numbatter of citizens
..---- bors on the Gulf, but we are do-who met with the two commis-
Returns From Buying Trip ling nothing to securing an airport sioners at the efty hall, Officer
Emmett Daniels returned Tues- -andi when the war is over, travel Hudson was relieved of his badge.
day from Jacksonville-, where he 'by air and freight shipments by The two representatives from
had been for several days on a air will be the thing, and a city !The t o manager of the
.the office of the manager of the
buying trip to stock up the men'S without an airport will be left out port at Panama City, in the course
store he recently took over from in the oold. of their confalb with Commission-
L. L. Zimmerman. ers Sullivan and Conklin, stated
----- FATHER OF MRS. MILES that for some unknown reason
Taken To Hospital IS TAKEN BY DEATH crews of ships making stops here


Miss Ruth Moore OConnell was
taken to a Dothan hospital last
Friday for treatment. She was ac-
companied by her mother, Mrs.
plorazell Connell.



RATION NOTES

Sugar---iStamp 12 good for five
pounds through May 31.
Coffee-Stamp 26 is good until
April 25.
Gasoline-"A" coupon 5 valid un-
til July 21 for four gallons.
Shoes-Stamp 17 (in sugar book)
good for one pair until June 15.


William Count House, 71, father
of Mrs. Carlos Miles of this city,
passed away April 8 at Plateau,
Ala. In addition to Mrs. Miles, he
is survived by his widow, Mrs. W.
C. House, and, two other daugh-
ters, Mrs. Geraldifie Felmere of
Utica, N. Y., and Mrs. C. H. Line-
!berry of Plateau, Ala.
Funeral services were held last
Sunday morning at the, Dawes Bap-
I tist church in Mobile, Ala., and the
Masonic lodge of Chicksaw, Ala.,
conducted services at the grav.,
Mrs. House expects to arrive it
Port St. Joe this week-end to make.
her future home.


disliked Officer Hudson and that
(Continued on page 6)

MAINTENANCE FUND
IS APPROVED FOR BAY

A news item from Washington
states that on approval of the
budget bureau and army engineers
the, house recently passed legisla-
tion to appropriate funds to the
amount of $1,178,000 for river and
harbor improvements in Florida
during the fiscal year beginning
July 1.
Among the projects was $28,000
for maintenance of St. Joseph's
Bay.


Labor Measures


Clay Lewis Asks Abolishment
Price-Fixing Boards; Other
Measures Introduced


Suspended By City Board


WEWAHITCHKA YOUTH Two Incidents Bring Demands
HELD AS JAP PRISONER From District Manager
Of Ports
The war department made Of Ports
public Saturday the names or
230 United States soldiers from As the, result of two incidents
the southeastern area who are that occurred last week, the plac-
held as prisoners ofa war by the in in jail of an oil barge's cap-
Japanese in unnamed camps. tain on a drunk and disorderly
Included in the list was the charge and, the shooting in seaf.
name of Pvt. Ohn W. Williams defense of a sailor he was taking
soname of PMrs. Ohn W. Williams oto jail on a like charge by Police
Wewahitchka. Officer Bill Hudson, Port St. Joea
___ was without a police force for al-
most. a week, outside of Sammy
Says Florida Davis, who was deputized -as a
special officer.
Has 'A Golden Facts of the matter seem to be
that Officer Hudson placed an oil
Opportunity' barge captain in jail and the man-
ager of 'the Port of Panama City,
wyho also has jurisdiction over the
Georgia Governor Says We Should port here in regard tb keeping oil
Prepare for Post-War Trade flowing to the east coast, averred
With South America that detention of said captain was
holding up the flow of oil, and de-
manded that Hudson be fired in
Speaking Monday at a luncheon order to prevent occurrences of a
in Orlando, Governor Ellis Arnall like nature in future.
of Georgia predicted that freight This happened Wednesday of
rates which Southerners contend last week. On Thursday night a
are unfavorable to the South, will sailor from one of the barges was
be equalized within a year. arrested 'by Hudson and while he
He .also declared that if the was attempting to put the man In
Southeast makes concrete plans jail he grabbed Hudson by the
now for economic and industrial throat, thiew him to the. ground
activity after the war, this section and was choking him. Hudson
can move .ahead rapidly. stated that he was unable to make
"When the' war is ov" the fed- a sound and was N, losing
eral government undoubtedly will consciousness, when he drew his
make many grants for all kinds of ot the sailor
projectsrevolver and, shot the sailor 'in
projects to afford employment," he the fleshy part of the side, inflict-
said, warning that states must inga superficial flesh wound.
have definite programs set up in The, sailor was treated by a lo-
order to receive these grants or cal physician and then taken to a
they would "find the money gone Panama City hospital where, at
before they can prepare plans." last reports, he was entirely out
Of particular interest to Port St. of danger.
Joe, whose fine harbor facilities The incident of the shooting
are strategically located for both was investigated by the port man-
import and export trade with South ager and others, and dismissed as
America, was Governor Arnall's of no particular importance, but
statement that "Florida has a the matter of locking up the oil


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PAGE TWO


LASSIFIED ADS

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MODERN STORAGE facilities. We
make your moves easy. Padded
vans; every load insured. VAN
HORN TRANSFER & STORAGE
CO., 28 First St., Panama City,
Fla. Day phone 92. Night phone
414-J. 5-21*
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE
1941 2-DOOR FORD SEDAN for
sale.; $795 cash. In good' condi-
tion. Call at Creech and Brooks
Laundry. 4-9tf
FOR SALE
TO BE SOLD-Large black hog,
weight about 180 pounds; to be
sold at pen April 19. :Marked crop
and under-square in each ear. J.
N. Walker, Port St. Joe. 4-16*
LEGAL ADVERTISING


THE STAR, PORT ST. JOE, GULF COUNTY, FLORIDA


FAT COLLECTION
DEPOTS NAMED

All housewives of this section
are urged to take the waste fats
and oils they have been saving
either to the McCoy Grocery or
the Kenney Mercantile Company.
These two concerns have been
designated as receiving depots
to handle this vitally needed ma-
terial for war purposes.
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(Continued from Page 1)
hitchka, who is now "somewhere
in the Pacific," writes that he hah
made his third rating within a
ye ar, having been promoted to


I the. Circuit Court, Gulf County, petty officer-machinist mate 2n1d


Florida.
IN CHANCERY
LEE G. HUGHES, Plaintiff,
VS.
ADELINE G. H.UGHES, Defendant
The State of Florida:
TO: Adeline G. Hughes, whose
residence is unknown.
You are hereby ordered to ap-
pear on the. 3rd da3y of May, 1943,
before the above styled Court to
the bill of complaint for divorce
tiled against you in the above en-
titled cause.
WITNESS the Honorable Ira A.
-Hutchison andl E. C. Welch, Judges
of said Court and the seal of this
Court in the City of Wewabitchka,
Gulf County, Florida, this 26th day
of March, 1943.
(Court Seal) J. R. HUNTER,
Clerk of Circuit Court,
Gulf County, Florida.
E. CLAY LEWIS, Jr., 4-9
Attorney for Plaintiff. 4-30
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
City of Port St. Joe, Florida, will
apply to the Legislature -of the
State of Florida at its 1943 session
for a special act applicable only to
the City of Port St. Joe, Florida,
authorizing and empowering the
City Commission of the City 5f
Port St. Joe to levy and collect a
tax of not to exceed 1 cent per
gallon on each and every gallon
of gasoline or other like products
of petroleum sold or stored, within
the City of Port St. Joe, and to
exempt said city from the pro-
visionso any and all other exist-
Ing laws prohibiting municipalities
from levying and collecting any
gasoline tax or other tax measured
or computed by the sale, purchase,
storage, distribution, use, consump-
tion, or other disposition of gaso-
line or other like products of
petroleum..
CITY OF PORT ST. JOE
By: M. P. TOMLINSON,
City Auditor and Clerk.


class.

Promoted To Ensign
W. T. Moseley Jr., who is now
attending the navy officers' train-
ing school at Tuscon, Ariz., has
been promoted to the rank of en-
sign, according to word received
by Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Dickens
from their daughter, Mrs. Estelle
Mloseley.

T/Cpl.. Lonnie E. Stockman, with
the field artillery at Camp Gor-
don johnston, Carrabelle, visited
over the .week-eandi with Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Traweek.

The Star is like a letter from
home to your man in the service.
Send it to him for only $1 a year.


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FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1943'

Newest development to increase
the range o- aircraft is an auxili-
ary gasoline tank, detachable in
flight by ,ulling a trigger, and-
made of molded plywood.


v* A VALUABLE

DOCUMENT
Your doctor's prescription is a valuable-
document. More than a piece of paper
bearing queer words and odd characters,.
it represents his years of training, expe-
rience and skill applied directly to your-
individual case. As such, the prescription.
deserves the care and accuracy exercised.
by our registered pharmacists and the:
purity and uniformity of the prescription
chemicals and drugs we dispense.
We use, Merck Prescription Chemical

LeHardy Pharmacy
We Fill Any Doctor's Prescription
Phone 5 Port St. Joe


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Be Paid In Advance



The Star is endeavoring to comply with the request
of the United States government to conserve news-
print, and in order to do so, we are holding our
present subscription list to the number of papers
distributed on January 1, 1943. This means that the
only way we can put 6n new subscribers is by cut-
ting off those old subscribers who have failed to re-
new their subscriptions within two weeks after
being notified.
The postoffice department has always required that
subscriptions be paid in advance, but it has been our
habit in the past to carry subscribers whom we knew
would eventually pay up. This we can no
longer do and still give a "break" to new subscribers.

During the past month we have cut off 57 sub-
scribers who were in .arrears. Twelve of these
-have come in and renewed their subscriptions, and
the names of 21 new subscribers have beer. added to
our mailing list during that period. We can still
place-24 new subscribers (or old subscribers who de-
sire to renew their subscirptions) on our mailing list.




THE STAR

"Your Home Town Newspaper"


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This man was taught not to drink water


D DRINKING WATER IS'SCARCE in North
Africa. And what there is, is likely to
be bad.
So before our soldiers landed there, they
were weaned away from water. A dash of
iodine in their drinking water served the
double purpose of disinfecting it, and making
it taste awful.
By the time the boys landed in Africa, they'd
lost all taste for water except in safe, prepared
drinks.
SThe favorite prepared drink is lemonade.
Field Ration K provides it-along with veal,


pork, sausage, coffee, bouillon, malted milk"
tablets, biscuits, chocolate, and chewing gum-
all in a 33-ounce pack.
Sounds like somebody was taking pretty
good care of our boys, doesn't it? And that's
right. American soldiers are the best-fed,
best-equipped, best-cared-for in the world.
But keeping them that way takes money.
So much money, that, .to help-pay for ft, every
one of us must loan at least 10% of his income
to Uncle Sam through War Bonds.
War Bonds are a swell investment. They
pay you back $4 for every $3. Save at least
10% of every paycheck with U. S. War Bonds.


SAVE WITH U.S. WAR BODS AT L CT |A -..

EVERYBODY...EVERY PAYDAY... A LER)I Iv/o



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COSTING'S DEPARTMENT STORE

"ST. JOE'S SHOPPING CENTER"


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,D A 1 1 THE STAR, P ST. JOE GULF CUT FR PAGE THREE


You'll Be Seeing

Stars At the Port

"Star Spangled Rhythm," PlayTng
At Port Sunday and Monday,
Has Everything

If ever there was a picture to
make every movie fan happy, it's
Paramount's unparalleled, musical
comedy, "Star Spangled Rhythm,"
playing at the, Port theater Sun-
day and Monday with just about
everything imaginable in the way
of entertainment and just about
everyone on the Paramount lot. It
is without doubt the best and big-
*gest show in Hollywood( history-
a feast for eyes, ears, heart and
funnybone.
Any film which utilizes the di-
versified talents of more than 40
stars, giving them all a chance to
strut their stuff and making that
stuff an integral part of the story,
really has something! And that
is exactly what "Star Spangled
Rhythm" does.
Among the 40 stars you'll find
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Fred Mac-
Murray, Franchot Tone, Ray Mill-
and, Victor Moore-, Dorothy La-
mour,' Paulette Goddard, Vera
'Zorina, 1i-ary Martin, Betty Hinut-
ton, Dick Powell, Edidie Bracken,
Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Wil-
liam Bendix, Rochester, Macdonala
iCarey, Jerry Colonna, and more,
and more!!
.Don't get the idea that "Star
'Spangled Rhythm" is just a revue
--it isn't. It tells the story of Vic-
tor Moore, Paramount studio gate-
man, who has deceived, his sailor
-son, Eddie. Bracken, into believing
-that he runs the studio. When Ed-
d.ie shows up at the studio with a
-group of friends, something dras-
tic has to be done, and Moore and
Betty Hutton, his switchboard op-
erator friend, do it. Before very
long, every one of the stars' is
-helping them do it, and it all adds
up to really hilarious fun.
All the stars perform against a
background of music, dancing and
comedy, making ".Star4S.panglea
Rhythm" the greatest entertain-
-ment of its kind.
Advertising doesn't cost-it PAYS!
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SOME MEATS RATE
LOWER POINT VALUE

Lower point values for sauasge
products and some pork cuts went
into effect Monday.
Attributing its action to slow
sales and a resultant danger or
spoilage', OPA announced point re-
ductions ranging from 14 to 50 per
cent on such products as wieners,
bologna, pork sausage, chitter-
lings, scrapple and pork neck and


We Have a Rat!

The Star has been published for
almost seven years, and never yet
have we had a rat in the building.
Now we have one. I
We've had numerous families of
field mice move in on us from
time to time, and' they were speed-
ily taken care of by a couple of
small traps, but never have we had
a rat.


backbones. We've a pretty good idea who
Pork sausage, wieners, bologna foisted this rodent off on us. We
and liver sausage were cut front have a number of chickens and
7 to 6 points a pound when no non- have been buying Purina feeds
meat filler is added. Products con- from Horace Soule at the St. Joe
training non-meat filler, such as Hardware. He's got plenty of rats
cereals, were reduced from 7 to b in that dump and we've: a sneak-
points a pound. ing suspicion that he sent this one
,Neck and) backbones were cut to us with that last 100-pound bag
from 2 to 1 point a pound, and of growena we ordered.
chitterlings fiom 4 to 2. Chances are, however, that the
___ __ rat left there 'because he didn't
GEORGE GASKIN NAMED like the company. But chances are,
GECOUNTY GAME WARDEN RGEtoo that Horace planted him o
COUNTY GAME WARDEN us to eat up the chicken feed so
he could, sell us some more.
George Gaskin of Wewahitchka We've bought a huge rat trap
this week was appointed; as con- and we wouldn't be surprised to
servatiion officer for Gulf county find' a rat in it tomorrow-or
by the state fish and game corn- maybe Horace.
mission. He replaces J. K. Prid- -----
geon, who ;recently resigned. It pays to advertise-try it!


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A Martin Theatre 3 Port St. Joe, Fla.
THEATRE OPENS SATURDAYS SUNDAYS AT
1:00 P. M., CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE
DAILY AT 2:45 P. M.

SUNDAY MONDAY April 18-19



'Star Spangled



Rhythm'

With More Stars Than We Can Name

ALL YOUR FAVORITES *

HERE TO THRILL YOU
In One Big Grand Picture !


spa -wwldj' 4?

S We do not waste coffee this way. li
,is precious in wartime.
Timber is precious too. Wood is,
'' vital in War, an essential raw material.U
Forest fires damage wood needed for;
war supplies, and destroy young trees
4 which are the future forests.
Let's be as careful with our forests
1 ias we are with our coffee.,


N.OW, mpre than ever, you want
'to stay on the job and do your
full share of the work which must
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HowYou Can Help

i aful while smoking in the
,J, ro Ash your cigarette be-:
--' foethrowing away. ,,. -~

y _Never brn brush on'awindy
day.S'Take no chances.
s.-~~~ -" "f

Be sure your match is out.
SBreak it in two.

i Report persons setting woods
fires to Forest Wardens or
County Officers.

REMEMBER
A burning match, a glowing cigarette, a
V smoldering campfire can be just as dis-
astrous to our forests as an incendiary
bomb. Forests are vital to victory.


WE NEED TIMBER TO

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FRIDAY APRIL 16 193









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THE STAR
Published Every Friday at Port St. Joe, Fla.,
by The Star Publishing Company
W. S. SMITH, Editor

Entered as Second-class matter, December 10,
1937, at the Postoffice, Port St. Joe, Florida,
undel- Act of March 3, 1879.

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The spoken word is given scant attention;
the printed word is thoughtfilly weighed.
The spoken word barely asserts; the printed
word thoroughly convinces. The spoken word
is lost; the printed word remains.

Our Country t"., Right or Wrong


A PERSONAL CHALLENGE
We on the home front face one of the most
personal challenges of this war to date. That
challenge is whether or not we are willing to
sacrifice to a sufficient extent to lend our
government -thirteen billion dollars within the
next few weeks.
To do the job, you and'I, and everyone we
know, are going to have to dig down in our
sock-to dig out some of those dollars we
have salted away for a rainy day-as well as
too take a good hunk out of this month's pay
check or other source of income.
This is ,a job that has to be done. Sure, we
on the home front are feeling the pinch of
war-if you want to call it that. We have
gasoline rationing, food rationing, higher
taxes, and a lot of other little discomforts.
But they are nothing compared with the
agonies faced daily by our men-men from
Gulf county among them-out there on the
fighting fronts of the world.
Yes, we know that this constant demand
for more money out of our pockets and out
of .our pay checks-an increasing amount
each rionth-is monotonous. But so is sitting
in a fox-hole or lying in a slit-trench day af-
*ter day, slogging- through the hell of a hu-
mid jungle or that of Sahara sand. Your
editor knows what it is like, although his ex-
perience was more with mud, snow and rain,
and he feels that no matter how much we
do here at home, it will not be enough when
we think of what our men are going through.
Our sons, friends, brothers, husbands and
others we know are doing that for us. They
are facing something more terrible than cut-
ting down on a few things that we once
thought were essentials to the American stan-
dard of living in order to do it, too. As Sec-
retary Morgetnhau has said: "Shall we be
more tender with our dollars than with the
lives of our sons?"
This Second War Loan now under way is
an order to the home front to go on a new
offensive. Your dollars are the weapons in
this attack. They will make possible the pass-
ing of the ammunition to those boys of ours
up there in the front lines. To win this war
is going to cost more and more money-and
more and more lives. But the price of free-
dom. is high-has always been high. We can
not, we dare not let our fighting men down.
You can't let George do this for you. You
must pitch in with your dollars. Just keep in
mind those boys in the front lines. They give
their lives-you lend your money!
Don't wait for someone to come around
and ask you to do it. Do' it today-and do it
until you feel worthy of them-it's a personal
challenge to you!


Wonder what our men living in deserts
and jungles, battling night and day, think
when they get reports of congressmen fight-
ing for their blocs, playing politics as usuil,
while they risk their lives to save the kind of
government this kind of congressman makes?


The little things may not matter so much
---but they can make plenty of racket.


ONLY ONE EYE ON THE FLAG
Millions of Americans are doing only half-
hearted fighting in the nation's greatest and
most important war. They have only one eye
on the flag, and the, other eye-the best one
-is on the pocketbook. They attempt to ac-
complish that impossible feat of eating their
cake and having it, too, as they undertake a
Victory March down Easy -Street.
The curse of complacency, unconcern, over-
confidence, greed, selfishness and partisan
politics that is rampant all the way from
Washington to Podunk, is condemning our
country to a long war that will exact tre-
mendous, shocking cost in lives, suffering,
sorrow, sacrifice, material and money.
While American soldiers, marines and air-
men fight, suffer and die in foreign lands to
defend the American way of life, these sel-
fish citizens continue to "get theirs while the
getting is good." While the guns of a thou-
sand warships roar their defiance of the Axis
threat either to rule or destroy and sailors
die, these "let George do it" citizens go their
selfish way with a "So what!" attitude. The
only time they evidence any interest in this
life and death struggle is when something
happens to interfere slightly with their pleas-
ures, conveniences, business, job or everyday
life.
Most of us, it seems, have yet to learn that
the road to victory is a tortuous one that
leads through a hell of blood, sweat and tears.
To travel it successfully, we must keep
BOTH eyes open on the flag as it leads to
war. Our country must be the master, for we
can have but one master in this crisis if we
are not to have a foreign master thrust upon
us. Therefore, we must rid ourselves of such
masters as greed, labor dictatorships, busi-
ness-as-usual, dislike and distrust of Britain
and Russia, New Deal and anti-New Deal
partisanship, and class prejudices. There must
be UNITY and DETERMINATION
WE MUST KEEP BOTH EYES ON THE
FLAG OR LIVE UNDER A FOREIGN
FLAG!-Florida Legionnaire.


REMOVE THE MILLSTONE NOW
The Florida National Bank of Jacksonville
has been running some striking newspaper
advertisements on the necessity for changing
the federal income tax laws to meet present-
day needs of the taxpayers. One of its recent
advertisements said:
"Remember how a few years ago the gov-
ernment solemnly talked about 'Freedom
from debt freedom from want free-
dom from fear, etc.?'
"The 'Freedoms' theory is a great one-but
why doesn't Uncle Sam practice it with in-
come taxes? Instead of freeing his taxpayers
from debt and fear, the present income tax
system perpetuates a peculiar type of peon-
age because the taxpayer is never out of debt.'
"Last year's income taxes hang around his
neck like a millstone. Let's adopt the pay-as-
you-go plan now and make the 'Freedoms'
an actuality rather than a pretty theory."


Lewiston, Idaho, banned slot and pinball
machines, and Citizen Ed Klonick told re-
porters the town might as well be folded up
in a tent and given back to the'Indians. Pretty
soon he got a letter from a Nez Perce In-
dian: "We don't want it. You just fold it up
and keep it."

A married man living with his wife all the
time; gets an income tax exemption of $600,
while a single man gets $500. A difference of
$100 for living with a wife. There ought to
be a new setup. Anyobody ought to know it s
worth more than $100 to live with some
wives.-Abbeville (Ga.) Chronicle.

It is rumored that there will soon be a 10
per cent rise in liquor prices. It's beginning
to look like those who indulge will have to go
to the bank for a loan when they want to
purchase a pint or two.

Keep smiling-and buy War Bonds!


"They Give Their Lives-You Lend Your Money"


s BY GEORGE S. BENSON
Pr es deo t-vaCinfy CoUey
Searey. Arkadsas

Endowed Inertia
Approximately 2,000,000 men have
left the farms of the United States
to enter war and war industries
since the Pearl Harbor raid. The
only thing that can replace the con-
sequent shortage of manpower is
power equipment. This statement
was madd in middle January by
Rep.- Leslie C. Arends of Illinois on
the floor of the House of Repre-
sentatives in Washington. The short-
age of farm machinery is well
known to every farmer.
On a farm regularly using horses,
ene man might do nearly two men's
work with a tractor, but the few new
tractors being built will never re-
place the worn-out tractors this
year, not to mention farm teams.
Farm hands are being imported to
the United States from Latin Amer-
ica. Every farm worker is a real
help but not all' imported laborers
are suitable for all kinds of farm
work.
Busy Keeping Idle
Nothing seems more apparent to
a serious observer than that liter-
ally thousands of government em-
ployees in admittedly essential in-
dustries are having a hard time try-
ing to justify the existence of their
highfalutin jobs. Read this recent
utterance by Rel. Forest A. Har-
ness of Indiana on the floor of the
House.
"There is hardly a Federal agen-
cy, emergency or regular, where the
pruning knife cannot be used to
great advantage We have one
civilian employee for every three
men in fighting uniform. I am
sure we can weed out upward- of a
million Federal Employees who can
go into the essential private fields
now crying for help."
An enterprising planner in the Na-
tional Capital recently got up some
cardboard 'signs to be used in over-
crowded rooming houses for the pro-
tection of night workers who sleep
*inh'ddtffie. The sign read:
"Qfiiet Pledse-A war worker
is-resting here."
But the sigfis',found an unexpected
use. Just for lhorsegplay, some jok-
er took 'the signs 'to certain big al-
phabetical agenciegad posed them
around'on de9'7o f1irbeaucrhts who
seemed to have nothing to do. Ban-
ter on this subject 'goes on in Wash-
ington endlessly. Jtst the same, it
is a vitally serious matter.
There is a government bureau in
Washington whose job it is to select
occasionally some item of food that
appears to bean especially good bar-
gain anrd recommend its immedi-
ate use by housewives. The selec-
tion of' any product implies that its
supply exceeds the demand, that the
price is right and that eating it up
is a *patriotic' act.
There is'another bureau in Wash-
ington wh6se duty it is to keep a
Idok-out for'fdod scarcity. It pays
attention to specific items in which
a shortage seems to be developing
and urges that farmers increase
their production of such things to


improve -their profit per acre, also
as an act of patriotism.
Dry Edible Beans
The whole thing looks pretty good
on paper bt:? in practice (to coin a
phrase) it shows human fallibility.
For instance, on January 16 news-
papers announced a new "Victory
Food Special" to American house-
wives, namely, dry edible beans.
The hint was broad-too many beans
on hand. Specialists wrote blurbs
of praise about the food value of
beans. Experts in cooking published
formulas for making beans taste
good. Wives and mothers, bent on
service to home and country, sallied
forth to buy beans.
The next day, January 17, an offi-
cial press release by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture began urg-
ing farmers far and near to increase
their acreage of dry edible beans;
500,000 acres more this year than
last, a gain of about 17.5 per cent
from 2.8 million to 3.3 million acres.
A bonus per acre to farmers plant-
ing above a certain minimum was
announced. At the same time a 25c
increase in the "support price" was
proclaimed for new No. 1 beans at
country points.
Not Hard to Keep
This is a sample of planned econ-
omy. One planner sees a shortage
coming, another one sees a surplus.
If beans were things that would not
keep, like bananas or cantaloupes,
you could admit that the planners,
after all, might be seeing eye-to-eye.
But beans will keep indefinitely in
a clean dry place. If there is to be
a shortage; if the Army is going to
need beans in a few weeks to win
the war, there is no point to choking
the immediately available supply
down the necks of the civilian popu-
lation.
This is not a preachment against
beans. They are good food. I am
offering no protest against setting
up inducements and making- arbi-
trary price bids to stimulate pro-
duction of any military necessity.
My protest is only against bun-
combe. A Washington correspond-
ent I know, remarked bitterly, "It
looks like the planners will have to
have a co-ordnator to keep them
from playing both ends against the
middle."
Will Congressman Harness' sug-
gestion come to anything? Can we
thin out the idle minds and bodies
in Washington and send back a mil-
lion people to the food producing
farms?

The best part of a girl's life is
that which comes between the
lipstick and the broomstick.



Aid to Enemy
"Any American who wilfull~y^
neglects to pay his taxes on
time or to invest every cent he
can in War Bonds is surely giv-
ing aid and comfort to the
enemy We have a job to
do and wv are all called for
service to our country. Our
dollars are called to service
too. Let us all ask ourselves,
'Shall we be more tender with
our dollars than with the lives
of our sons?' Secretary
Morgenthau.


FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1943


THE STAR, PORT ST. JOE, GULF COUNTY, FLORIDA


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W AR RATION BOOK lIllIllIlllll! llllll lllllll llllllllllllllllllll Illilllll
3 IS TO BE MAILED << SOCIETY

People of Gulf county who lllllllllilllllllll llllll llllII IIlllllllllllll lllilllllll
struggled through the line-up pro- ATTENDING 0. E. S.
ceduro to obtain their copy of Ra- GRAND CHAPTER
tion Book 2 will no doubt rejoice | Miss Myrtice Co-odyv Mrs. R. V.


at the OPA's decision to mail ou
War Ration Book No. 3.
The book will be mailed ou
some time in June and will be
real combination book, containing
a variety of miscellaneous stamps
including those for coffee, sugar
shoes, processed foods and meats

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Griffin Grocery Building
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Coburn, Mrs. Fred Maddox, Mrs.
J. A. Christmas andi Mrs. W. S.
Smith left Sunday evening for
Jacksonville to attend the Grand
Chapter session of the Order or
Eastern Star, state of Florida.
They expect to return tomororw.
Miss Coody, and Mrs. Smith are
delegates from the local 0. E. S.
chapter and Mrs. Coburn is grand
page.

P.-T. A. WILL MEET
NEXT THURSDAY
.Regular scheduled meeting ot
the Parent-Teacher association will


BAPTIST CHURCH SERVICES
R. F. Hallford, Pastor
9:45 a. m.-Sunday School.
11:00 a. m. Morning worship,
Topic: "What Price Revival?"
7:00 p. m.-B. T. U.
8:00 p. m. Evening worship.
Topic: "Detours to Hell."

METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. 0. D. Langston. Pastol
9:45 a. m.-Church school.
11:00 a. m.-Morning worship.
6:30-Youth Fellowship.
7:30-Evening worship.
The Woman's society meets
Monday at 3 p. nm.
First Tuesday after first Sunday,
official board meeting.
Wednesday, 7:30 p. m., prayer
and Bible study. Choir practice.

EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Services every Sunday evening


be held. at 3:30 p. m. next Thurs- at 7:30 o'clock.
day, April 22, at the school house. -
At this time the newly-electea Q U E S T I O N S
officers will be Installed and a Bataan Anniversary
round table discussion held. All
members are urged to be present. Where is the redhead who wouldn't
learn-
W The farmer's son?
KIWANIS NEWS NOTES He was a sergeant on Bataan.
The box supper recently spon- Where is the shy, soft-spoken
scored by the Kiwanis and Pilpt interne-
club was not so well attended, but The butcher's son?
approximately i100 was raised for He was a doctor on Bataan.
the hospital and high school band. Where is the handsome young
Band Director Frank Lodwick was playboy-
present with members of the band The banker's son?
and gave several numbers during He was a captain on Bataan.
the evening. These are some questions that
At the meeting Thursday eve- often annoy:
ning of last week a War Bond Have we forgotten
sale was held and $125 worth of The valiant of Bataan?
bonds sold. Capt. B. H. Dickens -Ruth Allen Smith.
Jr., was the guest of hi$s father, B. 4 4 ,
H. Dickens at this time and made BAPTIST G. A. MEETS
a few remarks.
a few remarks. The Baptist Intermediate Girls'
Auxiliary met at the church last
Eugene Miles, in the U. S. Mer- Thursday afternoon with Mrs. L.
chant Marine, who recently re- E. Voss in charge. After a mission.
turned from London, Eng., leftary program the usual social hour
Wedcensday for New York afte4 was enjoyed with Willodean Low-
visiting here four days with his ery as hostess.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Miles .
J. L. Sharit s.: for Tampna IV--
M5r. and Mrs. Howard Farr of nos3ay on :.us:n1s. lie, expLcs to
Ochlochnee and Mr. and Mrs. Mar- return today.
vin Corham of Thomasville, Ga., tL u a
were week-endi guests of Mr. and Send The Star to your man in
Mrs. George Cooper. the service-only $1 per year.


BUY WAR BONDS AND
HELP rUP.;t',.:: I~iAT
OM HISITLERI


A DOLE-may not live long enough
to fay for his imsars murders by
actually sitting in the "hot scat."
But electricity is already hastening
the day .of his doom!
Electricity drives delicate ma-
chines that turn out time fuses-
and thundering presses that forge
tank armor. Electricity is a basic
part of every bayonet, bomber and
battlehLip-of all America's roar-
ing wAr production.
Even when war began, America
had more electric power than all


the Axis countries combined. It's
no military secret that today ou?
power supply is far greater. And
it's no secret, either, that the elec-
tric companies under experienced
business management supply about
seven-eighths of it!
Free Americans set world pro-
duction records primarily because
they are free-- because they have
grown up under a business system
that encourages initiative and in-
vention-ins.mad of reducing thenw
to the ranks of Azxs slaves


Free Ametednik are freely giv.
ing billions of dollars to help put
Hitler in the chair. But once he's
there, a cent's worth of electricity
will finish the job! Which goes to
show what BIG things penny.
priced electricity can do!


FLORIDA POWER
CORPORATION
IN THE SERVICE OF
CUSTOMER, COMMUNITY
AND COUNTRY


iure a tough break for the racing
!Vbby boys. Why, some of 'em ac-
trally didn't get here until after
'e "All Clear" had sounded.

Rep. Buck Hancock thinks it
would be a ,ood idea to make the
industrial commission publish the
names of all those getting paid for
',ot working so that wnen a farmer
needs help he can hunt up some
of the folks enjoyin' this "rockin"
chair" money and put 'em to wdrk
-with a provision that if they re-
fuse legitimate employment they
can be taken off the roll. "Either
that," says Buck, "or abolish tht
cockeyed commission and get back
to the old-fashioned idea of en-
couragin' folks to try and make
an honest livin'."

Legislative owls accustomed to
s'.alking- out around midnight for
-a bite to eat and a bottle of brew
found every door locked ane
barred against them on Saturday
right. The army taxes over the
town on we.ek-ends, and solonw
found they were no more import-
ant than anyone else when the cur-
few went into effect along about
11:30.

2OYS SCOUTS MEET TONIGHT
A full attendance at the. regular
meeting of the Boy Scout Troop
this evening is expected. We must
get ready fof- the Camporee to be-
I;: at Day Harbor from April 30
to May 2, and must know how
many are planning to go'. Bring
your dues and pay up, as we need
some equipment for the Camporee.
The only source of income is your
dues. Be on time.
0. D. Langston, Scoutmaster.


SUNDAY MONDAY
April 18 and 19

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NEWS J L Tinderwood


TUESDAY WEDNESDAY
April 20 and 21


"Whistling Iln Bixie"

"PRICE OF VICTORY"
Chapter 10 of Serial
"Valley of

Vanishing Men"


THURSDAY and FRIDAY
April 22 and 23

"TENNESSEE




JOHNSON"

NEWS EVENTS
Also Mrs L E Voss_
"DER FUERER'S FACE"

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THE STAR, PORT ST. JOE, GULF COUNTY, FLORIDA


FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1943


PAGE FIVE


Illlll lllllllllllllllllll llllllll;IIIIIIIIIIi llu llllllllll' I It pays to advertise- try itf

Sitting In With

the Lawmakers DIR i. C. CO'E
By RUSSELL KAY DENTIST ---
--. (Florida Press Association) Office Hours: 9 to 12- 1 to 5
SSundays By Appointment
.,lllllllllll11 HI ilillllllluli~ i llH i W litilli : fliBiuilld!lli Costin Building Phone 88
Like a flock of camouflaged .
tanks in a battle- area, the big guns | ----- _---_------
of Florida's 1943 legislature took
their seats in house and senate last
week to remain almost completely
hidden behind the avalanche oz
floral tributes that adorned every
desk. So profuse were the flowers
that the scene resembled a oross
between a flower show and a gang-M E
ster funeral. Everyone had at least L 4 A MARTIN THEATRE
two huge bouquets, while the desk
of Senator Baker was creaking un- BEN RIVERS, Manager
der the weight of a dozen or more Opens Daily 2:45, Continuously
-so covered, in fact, that the gen
tieman from the 23rd couldn't find Saturday 1:00 Sunday 1:00
room enough for an elbow, much
less his feet. SATURDAY, APRIL 17

During previous sessions one B IG HITS
could find attaches running around -- Hit No. 1---
as thick as roaches in a boarding
house kitchen. Any legislator with '-- ..
less than four or five of these Sn C a''.
"mother's little helpers" was con- .
sidered as eccentric .or just ,plain '. -'"-
dumb. From the time of his elet- .
tion up until the session was all
but over, a member of the house
,or senate received almost as many -,."
applications for such jobs as he ",.
did requests for pensions, but this V '
year most of the boys have had t tlI'1,,. .
get down on their knees and beg : 3
before they could induce compe-
ent stenos to fool around up he-re 5 I'- '
on such a measly stipend as six i.- .
trifling bucks a day. I asm fold Chapter 12 of Serial
the situation is so bad some of tie
fellows are studying shorthand "SMILIN' JACK"
and learning .to play a typewriter.
----- HIT NO. 2

I can remember back when it, BLACK GOLD
used to take no less than there ROMANCE!
sessions of hard labor and a gay .
whirl of expensive night life to U F ,-('
even get a racing bill introduced.
but this 'time the lawmakers put '
one through extending the season "l & ",-i :
almost before the chaplain could ,. '
say "Amen." In fact, it d.
rizzled through about three jumps /
ahead of the mechanical rabbit, i /
\.which any experienced greyhound '.
*-ill. tell you is plenty fast. 'It was L -








THE STAR, PORT ST. JOE, GULF COUNTY, FLORIDA


JAPS LOVE LIFE, TOO




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SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC-U.S. Navy Photo-You've heard many stories of how Jap
soldiers would rather die than surrender. It is about as true as the yarn that the Jap is a superman. Above
you see some of the Japs captured by our boys on Guadalcanal. They could have died if they wanted,
but they choose to live and to smoke American cigarettes donated by the doughboys who encircle them
at the Pacific base to which they were transferred from GuadalcanaL


CHIEF FREEMAN QUITS
WHEN HUDSON FIRED

(Continued from page 1)
many grievances had been filed by
captains of ships making port
here.
Furthermoer, according to Com-
missioner Sullivan, one of /hese
port officials made the statement
that "the air of Port St. Joe
stank," that his job is "to keep oil
moving from Port St. Joe and Pan-
ama City from Texas, and that hs
was going to keep the oil moving
if he had to see the whole of Port
St. Joe out in the middle of the
bay."
When Chief of Police Marvin 0.
Freeman learned that Hudson had
been dismissed he immediately re-
signed his position, stating, ac-
cording to witnesses, that "if sol-
diers, sailors or marines are al-
lowedi to come in here and beat up
my police officers and the city re-
fuses to back up these officer
when .they endeavor to enforce the
laws or protect themselves from
bodily harm, then I feel that I am
'a man without a country', and am
handing in my resignation."
As a result of this series of in-
cidents, a special meeting of the,
board of city commissioners was
held Tuesday night and, the entire
matter threshed out by the., com-
missioners.
Commissioner Sullivan, at the
meeting, outlined. -the matter as seT
forth above *and made the state-
ment that he and Mr. Conklin had
deemed it necessary to ask for
Hudson's badge in the interest of
harmony and co-operation with the
government authorities.
Mayor Sharit took the stand that
Hudson should not have been dis-
missed, stating: "These men off
'the ships do, or attempt to do,
whatever they like, without any
consideartion for our community
while they are here. These men
particularly, Ibeing visitors, should
be on their good, behavior while
here instead of getting drunk and
raising sand.
"I d6n't uphold these happenings
but I dbn't blame Mr. Hudson for
acting as he did as, according to
his statement, he was being stran-
gled by one man and another wag
standing by with a stick of wood
waiting for a chance to use it. I
also feel that the sailor is better
off with a flesh wound in his side,
rather than if he had killed Mt
Hudson and then been caught and
electrocuted for.the death of a po-
lice officer.
"I feel that we should give our
officers the complete backing and
-support of the city in carrying out
-their duties.
"I further believe that Mr. Free-
-man should not have quit his post
when Mr. Hudson was suspended.
but should have been more than
,ever on the jodb during this time.


.very time someone turns in a
complaint, concluded the mayor,
"we won't be able to keep a police
force I feel that, with no other
officers oil tie job or available,
.hat tue city would be making a
mistake in letting Mr. Hudson go,
and I move that he be reinstated
subject to dismissal at the will of
l.e commission."
"I don't believe in having the
i.my or navy or any other outside
;roups coming in here and telling
us how to run our city," said Com-
nissioner Sullivan, "but I dio feel
-at we should try to work in har-
nony with these outside groups,
nd if they feel that closer co-op-
eration will result through the dis-
charge of Mr. Hudson, then I fa-
vor it.
"I don't think it fair to Mr. Hud-
son or to the city to reinstate him
as the outsiders who come here
vill continue to have trouble with,
him. I think highly of Mr. Hudson
md admire him, but i have but
one duty, and. that is to see that
the best interests of the city of
Port St. Joe are served," concluded,
Mr. Sullivan.
"Allow me to suggest," said Mr.
Sharit, "that the manager of the
port at Panama City be invited
'mire to talk the matter over with
is at luncheon. ''m going to write
;im, asking him to eat with us and
also ask him to come here and ex-
plain just what he means by say-
ing that 'Port St. Joe stinks'."
Mr. Conklin interrupted at this
point, saying: "I suggest that Mr.
Hudson be reinstated until after
the meeting with the port manager
Tuesday, in order that the city
have police protection during the
interim, since we have been un-
able to secure men to serve. This
doesn't mean that I am altering
my decision as to suspending Mr.
Hudson. unless it can b.e pointed
out to me that I am unalterably
wrong, but in the interest of pub-
lic safety and welfare I will agree,
to his reinstatement."
"I think we should reinstate Mr.

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Hudson, subject to the will of the
commission," said Sharit, "and
then if facts show that he should
oe fired, we'll do it, but I'm still
of ihe opinion that we should not
allow outside interests to come in
here and tell us how or how not
to run our community."
Reinstatement of Officer Hudson
was concurred to >by Commis-
oiuuer Conklin, but -Commissioner
aillivan stood his ground that Or-
icer Hudson should be suspended
for the best interests of the city.
Officer Hudson was present at
the meeting, andi when called upon
to make a statement, said, in part:
"'If it comes to the point that a
bunch of drunks and outlaws can
come here and, tell your police or-
ficers what they can do and can't
:lo, what's the use of having a po-
lice force? Why not just turn the
streets over to .them?"
Chief of Police Freeman was not
present at the meeting.

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Lieut. Henry G. Hughes, pilot in
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day from Monroe, La., for a week's
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in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Rush Chism.

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