PRESS-CHRONICLE Tuesday Morning, July 11, 1944 JOHNSON CITY Boy Oysters Grow Up To Be Ladies By FRANCIS J. KELLY WASHINGTON, July 10. (AP) the Atlantic seaboard year Virtually every oyster thorn on will be a male, government scientists predicted today, that doesn't worry mama 'oyster used to be a boy herself. With the spawning season just starting this week in the fabulous oyster colonies of Long Island Sound, the Fish and Wildlife Servdisclosed experiments reveal a certain Bohemian giddiness in the bivalves' sex, Each female oyster's progenypotential 100,000,000 to 000 season- -starts life as a male but by the time they are yearlings about nine-tenths of them have changed sex. Some, not content with one transformation, revert to masculinity in later life, but almost all the old ones are found to have settled down as lady oysters.
Dr. Paul S. Galtsoff, in charge of shellfish investigation for the service, had to dust off his microscope at the Woods Hole, laboratory to find out what every oyster knows instinctively. Only by a close examination of their cell structure was he to determine which were males and which females. Then he labeled and reexamined them at intervals to note the sex reversals.
"The average person simply can't which is which," said Miss Rachel Carson, aquatic, biologist who. also is interested in the work. "But it doesn't really make any difference at the dinner table--they both taste The first move of a new born oyster is to attach itself firmly to a rock or another oyster shell where, barring accidents, it will make permanent residence. This naturally limits. the bivalve's social circle, prompting Miss Carson to observe: "I am afraid the romantic life of the oyster doesn't amount to much." She added that she didn't see much sense to the oyster's proclivity for changing gender.
"I should think would, just settle she said. The little oysters now being born in Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay will be table size in 1948, another campaign year. C. Of C. Directors Continued from Page One declared, "if it had adopted such a program several years ago." Winston, prominent sportsman, stressed the value of two kinds of Chamber of Commerce programs.
He said the first type would be currently carried out like civic and commercial activities and the other type "is longrange like the forestry program and like fish and game programs." He discussed the latter briefly. "A worthwhile inexpensive program cooperatively worked out among East Tennessee towns a whole to industrialists othwould help sell East Tennessee, as er sections of the country. Unite your Chambers of Commerce, sportsmen clubs, civic tions and other influential groups with a definite fish and game program and present it Winston to the proper state officials." emphahized. "It will have a much better better chance of acceptance. Agencies, like Mr.
Thoresen's district forestry office, are financed by federal funds to carry out such programs." Concluding, he said "contact with the soil keeps a nation strong and virile." A question and answer period followed the discussions, during which A. W. Griffin endorsed Winston's, plan and urged the dibut it was that this merectors to approve, group action, tivity belonged to the natural resources committee. The directors voted that William P. Pence, Chamber secretary, accompany Toby Monroe, Civitan Club president, to Nashville Wednesday to attend a relative to highway problems affecting this community.
They also voted to send the secretary, and the office secretary, Miss Kate Reece, Northwestern to the National University, Institute Evan- at IlL, August 13-19, Attending the meeting were Wallace Calvert, president, who presided over the Fred Yearout, 0. J. Jackson, Haro Thompson, R. Jackson, D. Calvin Morgan, Perry Hunter, R.
Winn, Norris M. Langford, Duncan Liles, Nat T. Winston, Floyd Dooley, William E. Tomlinson, R. P.
London, A. W. Griffin, Joe A. Summers, Ferrell B. Hannah, M.
T. McArthur, Steve Lacey, Joe P. McCormick, Carl Thoresen, William P. Pence. Bahamian Negroes Assist In Bean Picking MOUNTAIN CITY, July 10 Approximately 250 Bahamian Negroes arrived last week to.
assist in harvesting Johnson county's $1,000,000 bean crop, and an additional 250 are expected this week. The Bahamians are being housed in a camp. at Shouns. Others will be brought in later if there is need of them, county agricultural official said. Lumber Operators To Meet In Memphis ATLANTA, July 10.
(P) The War. Production Board announced today lumber operators would meet Wednesday in Memphis, to discuss the WPB's lumber control order. B. F. Sheppard, regional head of the WPB lumber section, said similar meetings have been announced for Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana.
More Women Are Needed In WAVES Entering yesterday on" the last lap of a two-week WAVE recruiting campaign in the upstate area, Yeoman Dorothy Robinson of the Knoxville Office of Naval Procurement in charge of the drive here, said that while many number interviews had been given, the actually filing applications had been disappointing: we WAVES "The has present, reached strength about of 70,000 the enlisted women and officers, but we must reach a quota of 90,000 by the end of the year," Yeoman Robinson said. Need for more enlistments is urgent, then yeoman pointed out. "Women serve at the Navy's shore establishments in this country are providing a great source of additional manpower, men for duty at sea and' overseas," she said. Young women of Johnson City and nearby towns who are qualifled to serve with WAVES can find out in detail the types of jobs in which WAVES are serving by interviewing Yeoman Robinson at the Navy recruiting office in the Johnson City post office building. As the WAVES mark the secanniversary of their founding July 30, they are taking great pride in the part they have played up to the present time in serving side by side.
with the Navy's men, in the war. Women between the ages of 20 and 36 years who can meet the qualifications necessary for enlistment are urged to apply must have two years of high school education, no dependents under 18 years of age and must be in good health. Yeoman Robinson will explain the pay rates, which will include food and quarters allowance, and will assist in filing applications. sential qualifications as the Specialized training is notesprovides all training necessary for specialized jobs. Officer candidates are accepted up to 49 years of age, but must have a college degree plus business training to qualify.
Colombian Revolt Continued from Page One ported tonight that according to a radio broadcast from Bogota, military group headed by Lt. Col. Diogenes Gil had taken prisoner President Alfonso Lopez of Columbia and several members of his cabinet and that Gil had declared himself acting president. The embassy said the broadcast over the National radio at Bogota was made by Vice President Dario Echandia, who announced that President Lopez was seized while he was witnessing army at Pasto, in southern Colombia. Sister Of Betsy Commissioner Dies ELIZABETHTON, July 10.
Dr. Allen Taylor, candidate for commissioner of education in Elizabethton's city election tomorrow, was notified today of the sudden death of his sister, Mrs. L. E. Hoppe, In Chattanoogh: She was the wife of the superintendent of the Sweetwater District of Methodist Churches.
Survivors include the husband, two sons, John and Rudolph; a daughter, Edith; her mother, Mrs. G. W. Taylor of Comer's Rock, a sister, Mrs. Bert Hitchco*ck, of N.
five brothers, Dr. Taylor of Elizabethton; Captain Francis E. Taylor of El Paso, Texas; Wallace Taylor of Elizabethton, now with the U.S. Army in England; Ralph Taylor Comer's Rock, and Rush Taylor of Elizabethton, now the Army in Jeffersonville, Funeral services will be held in Chattanooga Wednesday, War In France Continued from Page One headquarters stated, "there is no sign that the enemy has any definite prepared defensive positions short of the Seine river," which roughly parallels the Orne about 65 miles to the east. Headquarters suggested that the Germans probably would resort to a town-by-town method of strongpoint defenses, and emphasized that despite their reverses the Nazis "have not shown the slightest sign of disorganization nor of any large-scale disengagement." On the contrary, they were hurling all immediately available reserves into a stubborn attempt to make the Orne river a defensive PIPE UP FOR PEPSI EPSI OLA THE FOUNTAINS' FINEST Pepal-Cola Company, Long Island City, N.
Y. Franchised Bottler: Pepsi- Cola Bottling Co. of Johnson City Deaths JOE F. SELLERS Funeral services for Joe F. Sellers, 70, of Jonesboro, who died at a Greenevilel hospital Sunday morning at 7 o'clock following a lingering illness, will held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Fairview Church.
The Rev. A. M. Laughren will conduct the service, and interment will be in the church cemetery. Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Kate Sellers; one son, Jack, of Jonesboro; two daughters, Miss Mabel Sellers, of Jonesboro, and Mrs. Baskette of Seeford, one brother, W. H. Sellers of Pleasant Valley; one sister, Mrs. John Keys, Limestone, and two grandsons.
Pallbearers will be Harm. Atmentrout, Ross Campbell, Keys, William: Campbell, Opie Bacon and Warner Bacon. Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home is in charge. REV. F.
P. JENNINGS ELIZABETHTON, July 10. Funeral services for the Rev. Franklin Pierce Jennings, 72, who died in an Elizabethton hospital Sunday at 3 p.m., following a short illness, were held from the chapel of the Roy Hathaway Funeral Home this afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. V.
Floyd Starke and the George Westmoreland in charge. The Rev. Jennings was a native of Virginia, but had lived here during the past two years with daughter, Mrs. Campbell Correlli. He was a retired Baptist minister.
Survivors are his two daughters, Mrs. Correlli, and Mrs. G. D. Hilton of Welch, W.
one son, W. B. Jennings of Norfolk; four sisters, Mrs. Fred Schulter of Michigan; Mrs. Mattie Burrow of Elizabethton, Mrs.
S. J. Garrison of Shell Creek, Mrs. Bill Hathaway of Johnson City; and one brother, John Jennings of Missouri. Services will also be held in Welch on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m, at the First Baptist Church.
Burial will be in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Bluefield. HENRY L. AUSTIN Funeral services for Henry L. Austin, 66, who died at 8:30 a. m.
Monday at his home near Bailey's Bridge in the second district, after brief will be held as (10:30 a. m. (EWT) Wednesday at New Salem Church. The Rev. Otis King of Johnson City will officiate.
Burial will be in the church cemetery. Survivors are his widow; sons, Luther, George and Walter Austin; three daughters, Mrs. S. D. Sammer, Mrs.
Cecil Hicks' of Johnson City and Mrs. Maynard Graham of Chuckey, route one step-daughter, Mrs. Toneray las of near Johnson City; four brothers, N. R. of Elizabethton, Clem of Johnson City, George of Illinois, and John Austin of North Carolina; and one sister, Mrs.
Will Shepherd of Yancy county, N. C. The Press CHRONICLER Ration Dates MEATS. FATS. ETC.
-Book Four Red stamps A8, through 28 now valid Indefinitely. PROCESSED FOODS Book Four Blue stamps A8 through Z8 and now valid indefinitely. SUGAR -Book Four stamps 30, and 32 good for five pounds indeftnitely. Stamp 40 good for five pounds home canning through Feb. 28, 1945.
SHOES Book Three Airplane stamps 1 and 2 good indefinitely, GASOLINE 12 coupons in books good for three gallons through September 31, and B-3 and C-8 coupons good for five everywhere. B-2 and C-2 are invalid for consumer use. Drivers may exchange unused coupons for B-8 and C-8'8. Rent Control Houses, apartments and rooms, when first rented, must be rugistered by landlords, and reports must be filed with the area rent office in Bristol, each time tenants change, Forms and further information may be obtained from Mrs. W.
O. Wylie the Johnson City Chamber of Commerce office in the John Sevier Hotel each Tuesday from 10 a m. to 1 p. m. Police Court Fred Sammons of Greyhound Service Station, corner of East Main and Division streets, reported some gasoline ration coupons were stolen from his establishment Saturday.
B. M. Peregoy reported his trailer, at 102 Carr street, had been into and some clothing and ration books stolen. Cliff Eads of DeLuxe Cab Company reported the theft of a 1941 model coach. Harry Reich reported the theft of some fishing equipment.
Navy Recruits Wayne Stuart Squibb, Elmer Dean Dykes of Limestone, route 1: William Franklin Tittle of Erwin, route Carroll Rice of Flag Pond, route and Harold Lee Cansler of Midway, route 1, left yesterday for Nashville to take final physical examinations for enlistment in the Navy. With The Police Investigation of a break in the Pierce and Pierce shoe shop on Buffalo revealed that a fountain pen, a steel tape, several pennies and a few pairs of shoes, which had been repaired, were missing. Entrance was gained through a rear window. COMMITTEE NAMED MOUNTAIN CITY, July 10 -A farm home advisory committee six members has been chosen to work in conjunction with the Johnson County Farm Bureau. They are Mesdames W.
A. Potter, Lawrence: Trivette, F. E. Robinson, H. G.
Shoun, Paul Barr and Miss Callie If Your Home Burned ARE YOU FULLY PROTECTED? See R. C. Hunter Agency Hamilton Bank Phone Building 742 Esquire Opens Fight For Mailing Rights WASHINGTON, July 10. (P) A silver haired judge thumbed a comic book and attorneys ped the pages of confession magdzines today as counsel for Esquire Magazine opened their fight to retain the periodical's second class mailing privileges. Postmaster General Frank Walker ordered the privileges revoked on the ground that the magazine fails to meet the requirements of being published "for the dissemination of information of a public character, or devoted to literature, the sciences, arts, or some special industry." Walker's action was described by Bruce Bromley, attorney for the magazine, as inherently "the most autocratic control that any public official ever assumed for himself." Bromley, waving a comic book in the air, told visiting Justice T.
Whitfield Davidson of Texas: "These are the type of books we try to keep from our children, yet it goes through the mail." While the jurist examined the book without comment, lawyers produced magazines containing such titles as "I Did It for Love" and "I Married a Fiend." Bromley called them "trashy," but said they had second class mailling privileges. Aerial War Continued from Page One dearly -for the use of roads and rails even by night, night RAF Mosquito and Boston. bombers wrecked 17 trains last night, bringing to 60 the -number destroyed in the last four nights. RAF Lancasters attacked an unannounced target in northern France during the night. Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh Mallory received a message from Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, Allied ground commander in France, congratulating the Allied air forces accomplishments. "We soldiers know very well," Montgomery had said, "if been the able Allied to not dominate the Luftwaffe then our armies could have achleved little." Eastern Front (Continued from Page One) Berlin radio, which also said that an all-out Soviet attack had been launched along the Dvina river which runs through southern Latvia. Riga, the Latvian capital and Baltic seaport, was less than 120 miles ahead of the advancing Russian forces, whose spearhead at Utena might stab either in that direction or due west against Memel in German East Prussia. Larger Than 1943 Crop Much, WASHINGTON, July 10.
(P) A commercial apple crop of 268,000 bushels, 37 per cent greater than the very short crop last year, but five pre cent less than the 1942 crop, was forecast by the Agriculture Department today on the basis of the July condition. New England and North Atlantic prospects were reported varied late May and early June freezes. In the North Central area, the crop was reported materially larger than last year, and in the South Atlantic, all states indicated large increases over last year's short crops. John Parrott, Former Police Chief, Dies. John H.
Parrott, 47, of the U.S. office of internal revenue, former chief of police in Johnson City and a veteran of the first World War, died yesterday in the Vet- a erans Administration Facility Hospital at Murfreesboro following a lingering illness. Parrott was with the City police department five years, from 1934 to 1939, and was chief for most of that time. A member of American Legion, he was with the Sullivan county sheriff's the department at Kingsport and with the federal Alcohol Tax Unit before joining the Johnson City force. After leaving here, he returned to work with the ATU and later was appointed storekeeper and gauger with the revenue department with headquarters at Louisville, Ky.
He was stationed at Lebanon, Ky, at the time he became seriously ill. Most of his first World War service was on the Mexican border. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Nettie Parrott of 105 East Highland road; four daughters, Mrs. Jean P.
Shannon, Mrs. Ruth Peoples and Misses Edith and Alma Parrott, all of Johnson City; a brother, Sam N. Parrott of Seattle, a sister, Mrs. J. W.
Moore of Jefferson City, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Parrott of Jefferson City.
The body arrived here last night and will be taken to the family residence this afternoon. Funeral services will be held at 4 p. m. Wednesday at Central Baptist Church with the Rev. W.
R. Rigell, pastor, and Dr. Robert King, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in charge. Burial will be in Happy Valley Memorial Park. The body will lie in state at the church from 3 o'clock until hour of service.
Pallbearers will include Joe Thomas, Lee Greer, Gus Henry, Dr. J. T. McFaddin, Sheriff Miller Sell and Claude Taylor. Strike Ended At Southern Extract Plant KNOXVILLE, July 10, -The Southern Extract plant here resumed operations today when, all employes returned to work after an agreement to let the War Labor Board work out differences between the company and United Mine Workers, District 50, S.
Minskey, president of the company, said. Previously Fred Rusco, of District: 50, UMW, had stated that the stoppage began after the WLB in Washingb ton had granted the company's request to discontinue certain bonuses. The WLB in Atlanta had a union request for a three cent an hour wage. increase and two workers had been discharged. The had not been discontinued, Minskey said, adding bonuses, that the wage increase ruling was a recommendation, not an order and that the two workers had been discharged for failure to perform duties stipulated under union contract.
The plant, which makes tanning extract for shoe leather, had been closed since the walkout two weeks ago. "This Is The Army' Banned In Eire Austin Pledges His Support To Tom Dewey ALBANY, N. July 10. (P)- Governor Thomas E. Dewey prepared tonight to confer with a Republican congressional delegation from Massachusetts after Senator Warren R.
Austin, Vermont Republican, arden advocate of international collaboration to maintain peace, pledged support of the GOP presidential nominee. Dewey, who had luncheon with Austin, Senator George D. Aiken and Representative Charles A. Plumley, Vermont Republicans, was to meet the Bay State group at dinner. The ember delegation from Massachusetts is Headed by House Minority Leader Joseph R.
Martin, a Governor Leverett Saltonstall Senator Sinclair Weeks, longtime supporter of Wendell L. Willkie. Speaking for the Vermont group, said, "many subject including a "general, international organization for security and peace," were discussed with Dewey. The senator added: "I shall support Governor Dewey with enthusiasm, having in view both the domestic and foreign policies of this country as he has expressed it." Describing the luncheon discussion as covering "those things which we thing. the people are interested Vermonter said they included: The speeding up of victory, getAmerican soldiers home and saving as many lives as possible, "arranging conditions in America so that our boys not only find jobs but will be- encouraged to initiate enterprises of their own," governmental thrift and sion of industry "from the mendous war development to a peace basis without unnecessary dislocation of the national economy." Emphasizing that, he was ing only for himself, and not for Austin the proposed international organization would take care of political and, justiciable questions and the "necessity of maintaining sanctions of all kinds that appear, necessary to prevent and repel military aggression." War In Pacific Continued from Page One tacked Jaluit, Malleolap and Wotje in' the Marshalls.
On. Saipan, all organized resistance had ended after 25 days of the toughest, bloodiest fighting in the Pacific. Two immediate tasks faced the American forces on captured Salpan island of the far western Pacific today -ferreting out enemy units lurking caves and mountain strongholds and repairing and lengthening airfields for aerial -task force strikes at the heart of Japan. Undoubtedly both tasks were well advanced. Two days had elapsed since Nipponese resistance collapsed in 25 days of the toughest, bloodiest fighting of the Pacitic war on the rugged, volcanic island athwart Japan's supply lines to her island empire.
Importance of Saipan as an air base for bombing of and the Philippines was pointed out by Vice Adm. John M. Hoover, commander of the Central Pacific forward area. He said the island, 450 miles south of Tokyo, "offers the best possibilities for airfield development" of any captured so far in the Central Pacific. Saipan's main airstrip, Iseley Field, near the southern coast, is "far the best we have Hoover said.
The end is Saipan was "an ugly spectacle. of senseless dying, reported Rembert James, Associated Press war correspondent. Remnants of an enemy garrison that once totaled around were reeling from pa last, futile counterattack- a gesture to the emperor. There were signs of bewilderment and terror among the Japanese, American airmen reported. Desperation and panic helped to crumble the final defense as the Marines and doughboys pressed the Nipponese to the water's edge.
At one place, James reported, hopeless Japanese swam seaward as the battle roared near them. They could only return to their fate on land or drown at sea. Soldier Ballots Continued from Pare One none from within the continental United States. The Associated Press item read: received in the office of the secreNumerous requests have been tary of from boys residing in these counties, Mrs. Carr said, asking why they have not received their ballots.
"This office will send a notice to the soldiers who have inquired about their ballots, advising them that' the county election commissioners or the county primary board has neglected to furnish ballots for voting," she added. Earlier yesterday there were 26 counties on the list of those failing to mail the ballot applications filed by service men, Mrs. said, but ballots were received from Wayne county late this afternoon. "We expect other ballots to arrive daily," she said. "This office will try to get every possible ballot into the hands of the soldier voters." Counties failing to mail ballots were Bledsoe, Bradley, Carroll, Dekalk.
Dyer, Fentress, Hamblen, Lewis, Hanco*ck. Henderson, Jefferson, Loudon, Macon, Madison, Moore, Pickett, Obion, Overton, Perry, Weakley, Pope, Sequatchie, Unicoi, White and Wilson. The dealine for mailing ballots to soldiers overseas has passed and July 15 is the deadline for mailing ballots to persons in the states. PASS EXAMINATIONS MOUNTAIN CITY, July Johnson county registrants, cently passing their examination and now ready for service are Johnny Jenkins, Raleigh Smythe, Chester Greer, Earl Ray Wilson, William Trivette, Everett Love, Maynard Triplett, James Jenkins, Clyde Brooks, Fred Snyder, Phillip Winters and Luther Gentry, NEW YORK, July 10. (P) The Warner Brothers film "This Is the Army" has been banned, by government censors.
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FROM GREENLAND New York Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Minneapolis Wyandotte Tacoma still Our G. I. Joe The question of -war jobs- especially for returning veterans-is a big one and a live one. It will get more so as the in a series of ads on war comes nearer its end.
postwar opportunities Our own job security plan for Esso Marketers' employees now in uniform went into operation the day after Pearl Harbor. It has worked so well for so long that we want to pass our experience along. In general, it is based on the idea that we are saving his place for our fighting man while he's away, whether he volunteered, was drafted, or was called up as a reservist. Chief features of the plan are these 1. Each employee who has been with us a year or 4.
His rights in company retirement and benefit longer is given two months' salary as he enters the plans are protected while he is away. armed forces. 2. His dependents receive monthly payments from DETAILS of the plan have been put into a the company while he is away--up to half of his which we shall be glad to send former company pay. Soon we will announce in this newspaper further 3.
Each employee has been assured by letter from plans for making some good new jobs in the oil business for another after the war. our company president that his old job AS good or better -will be waiting for him. Experi- As we see it today, next to winning the war itself, ence gained in the Armed Forces may result in nothing is more important than the matter of post-war his immediate advancement. jobs. booklet planse address Mr.
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