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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05
BIG BLACK PROJECT
PUSHED IN MADISON
AND YAzO0 COUNTIES
DRAINAGE PROBLEM SEEN
NEAR SOLUTION

Madison county's board of sup.
ervisors has passed an order to
comply with the requirements OF
the federal government in order
to secure federal funds for the
Big Black drainage project, ac-
cording to Mack Boykin, Walden
attorney and chairman of the
committee.
Yazoo county has postponed
action until Monday week when
they will hold a meeting and go
into the project.
Claiborne county has not yet
made known whether or not it
intends to cooperate with the
other counties in securing right
of ways in order to secure fed
eral funds.
Madison, Yazoo and Claiborne
constitute the three counties
which had failed to date in
cooperating with the project.
Official feel confident that the
project can be pushed to compile
ton when the rest of the land
owners signify their intention of
participating.
Property owners in Holmes
county have already made the
necessary concessions to achieve
the project and a large number
of citizens attended a recent
meeting of Jackson where it was
discussed.
The project is expected to re-
habilitate acreage which is now
swampy and subject to seasonal
overflows. Elimination Of a NAL
arial breeding ground is also
contemplated.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05
VOLUNTEER GROCERY
STORE WILL OPEN
DURANT SATURDAY
w. E.. ALLEN MANAGER OF
NEW CONCERN

The Volunteer Grocery Store
opening in Durant is expecting
a capacity crowd to be present
Saturday morning when it throws
open it's doors at 800 sharp, &C
cording to w. E. Allen, manager
of the new store.
Mr.. Allen comes to Durant
from his home in Starkville
where he was associated with
the Volunteer Store. He will
move his mother and father Mr..
and Mrs. w. p. Taylor here at
an early date and they will make
Durant their permanent home.
Fifty five pound sacks Of SUI
gar will be given the first fifty
customers to enter the store Sat
urday morning and a lively
scramble is expected to result.
Baskets will be given away
every two hours and drawings
for the baskets will be at 9 o.
clock and IL in the morning and
continue at 1, 3, S, Z, and 9 o.
clock at night.
The public is cordially invited
to visit the new store and inspect
the full line Of quality merchan-
disc on its shelves.
These are only a few of the
advantages and savings offered
to the consuming public by the
Volunteer Store Owners.
Volunteer Stores represent the
cooperation Of individual endeav-
or. No corporation is in control
of the group. Members Of the
organization own their own
and belong to the group
because they believe in the intel
cooperation of home store
owners, as this gives the owner
The customer, both a better
'hance Of success and sstisfAots
on.
Members of the Volunteer
in North Central Mississ-
ippi represent the highest type
of home owned stores. Most of
the members are pioneers in the
community. They are interested
in progress-progress as inter-
preted in the new era of business
which means keeping the dollars
at home, %patronizing the farm
ers and pleasing the home peo-
pie.
The Volunteer Stores organiza-
ton have offices in Chicago, San
Francisco and New York, who
search the markets from one
side of the country to the other
for quality merchandise at re-
asonable prices. More than 60
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05
DEMONSTRATION CLUBS
TO HAVE CASTALIAN PICNIC

Over $50 members of the Home
Demonstration Clubs of Holmes
county will enjoy a picnic at
Castalian Springs on August 10.
1t viii be an all-day affair,
according to Miss Ellen Scale,
home demonstration agent, and
everyone member is asked to
come promptly at $50 and bring
a picnic lunch.
Miss Olive Dowell, district
agent, will be present and tell OF
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05
ROTARY CLUB ENJOYS
ADDRESS BY SMILEY

The Rev. G. M. Smiley, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church
was principal speaker at the Du-
rant Rotary Club Tuesday
The Rev. Smiley gave a splen-
did address on Cooperation"
and his message was thoroughly
enjoyed by those present.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05
DIXIE THEATRE WILL
HAVE JUBILEE WEEK

Next week will be Jubilee
Week at the Dixie Theatre, &C
cording to an announcement Of
Manager Odom, and admission
for everyone throughout the en-
tire week will be IL cents.
Elsewhere in this issue of the
News is found the program OF
the Dixie for the week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05

her recent trip to Cuba. Demon
strations will also be given on
preserving watermelon products.
The rest of the day will be de-
voted to recreational activities.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05

A conclusive and forceful message to parents is present
ed this week by Stems Dairy, one of the territory's out
standing business institutions.
graphically illustrated is the healthy baby fed on good
grade "A" milk, bottled in a modern uptodate plant, with
sterilized equipment. Human hands do not touch this milk.
In the lower right is a child, fate to be determined, who
has been fed Bootleg milk product of an unlicensed
dairyman, who may even have unfit and unhealthy employ
es on his payroll.
Death turks in such milk and the danger is more present
as the bacteria accumulates. The drawing is sufficient warn
ing to those who have been careless.
). +. Steen is a native Mississippian. He was born in
Madison County. He has been at his present location for IL
years. For the last six years he has conducted a modern
sanitary dairy. He has approximately so cows, all grade or
registered Jersey ~cows-Deliyery is made twice daily.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05
THR \
HAZEL YES
People are being warned in
these parts not to 60 to jackson
By Hazel Brannon

u les s t n e y
have Sc in their
pockets to pay
for riding on
their Streets.
that is, if you
to go
over 80 miles
an hour. And
it makes no
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05


it makes o
difference what time of the day
it is. five o'clock in the morn
ing or five in the afternoon. 49,.
We know of a town in Alabama
that used to have a speed cop
like those jackson cops. and
when time came to build a new
highway it was thought for a
long while it was going to be
built around the town. They
changed cops and tactics.
Wonder how long it'll take to
get a road built around jackson
SO some Of our good citizens
WON'T have to 60 through IT,.
people who get out of bed at
four o'clock in the morning to
get business tended to and don't
have time to lose one hour at
Jackson's city hall trying to get
q check cashed while the city is
still asleep.
And then to add insult to in
jury, so to speak, have the desk
sergeant start to lock up one OF
the parties the cop saying, II
amt got no more time to be
messin' with you,) while the
other party goes to get a check
cashed. all because between
the two of them they lacked II
cents enough to pay the fine In
fact, had it not been for the fact
that the jailer happened to know
the person about to be locked up,
he would have been put in Jail.
All because of lack of 7 cents.
W. never knew 7 cents could
be SO important!
And then they wonder why
people have such little respect
for law.
Kindness and consideration
for others sometimes pays cash
dividends as well as gaining for
one real happiness for having
been of service to others. Witness
the Connecticut man who left a
tidy sum to a small boy who
once retrieved his hat and refus-
ed to accept q ten cent reward.
Again the old lady in the east
who left a hundred dollars to
every person who sent flowers
to her funeral.
If the trend of skirts means
anything we are headed for pros
perity in this country. In pros
porous times women are noted
for their lack of dress. in
length at least. Then bad times
come along and the stylists get
together and plan ways for us
to use more dress materials.
Then dresses get longer. VIZ sug-
gest that they strike a medium
and stick to it.
Mississippi's death rate is low
er than the national average and
lowest in the south while the
birth rate is higher than the
national average and highest in
the south. This record stands as
high as any state in the union
and is a glowing tribute to our
state health department and DR..
Felix j. Underwood, it's execu-
tive officer.
In 1910 there will be a greater
number of white people than
negroes living in this state, ac-
cording to recent estimates.
Since 1890 the white population
has increased from 42.3 percent
to 49.7. This reveals a 20.7 aver
age increase for white popula-
ton and only a 8 percent for
negroes over a 40-year period.
It can't be long before Mississ-
ippi is going to face a serious
Of employees for white
labor Jobs.
Someone we'd like to meet: A
person who doesn't greet you
with, "Well, is it hot enough
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05

Martin L. Smith, genial mem
Der of the Holmes county Board
of Supervisors, advises us that
IT'S Mississippians had a wonder
full time on the Know Mississippi
Better Train and that ITS of
them have the earnest desire TO
make the trip again.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05
BAPTIST PASTOR WILL
RETURN FROM REVIVAL

The Rev. w. r. Haynie, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, will
return Saturday from near Ben
tonia where he has been conduct
ing a revival at the Concord
Church.
Services will be held as usual
at the Durant church Sunday.
Bill Haynie, son of the Rev.
Haynie. has been with his faith
er helping conduct the revival
by leading the singing.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-08-05

Someone we'd like to meet: A
person who doesn't greet you
with, WELL, is it hot enough
for youf"
Evening star., 1937-01-24

N. j., and Mrs. Thornton Wilson of
Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
The funeral will be held from the
Danville residence tomorrow after :
noon.
Evening star., 1937-01-24

ured in the recovery of the Bugher
jewels.
New York police said they went to
the home of Mrs. Johnson's employer.
where they found the other $4,000
gem hoard which they said Morcis-
check also had mailed to her. She
was taken into custody in her own
apartment in East Seventy-sixth
street.
Police said the package apparently
had not been opened and that Mrs.
johnson said she did not know what
it contained.
Questioning of Hansen in New York
continued past midnight. The police
said all of those questioned during
the evening were friends of Mrs.
Johnson.
She was quoted as saying she had
known MorciScheck for about 20
years, but that she had not seen him
since he went to Washington three
months ago. The Associated Press re-
ported police said she told them
Morcischeck had worked for a num-
Der of prominent families in Con-
necticut and check was being made
to determine If the s50.000 in gems
belongs to any of them.
Mrs. Bugher's late husband, at one
time a deputy police commissioner in
New York, was nephew Of Mrs.
Dewey. When she died in February,
1881. her estate, finally valued in ex-
cess Of $3.50, 900, was thrown into court
by the discovery of three wills, with
conflicting provisions.
In the first, dated October rs, 1923,
George Goodwin Dewey, only son Of
Admiral Dewey, was named residuary
legatee. Two subsequent wills, dated
April %, 1925, and May 2, 1925, ex-
cluded Dewey and made the princi-
pal beneflciaries her nephew. Edward
Beale Mclean. then publisher of the
Washington Post, and Frederick Me-
Lean Bugher, her grandnephew. Dewey
fled caveat, but after the case had
gone to trial with q noted array Of
counsel, an out-of-court agreement
was reached. The terms were never
made public.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
ACCIDENT CAUSES
SOUGHT |NSURVEY
Four States Participating in
Study Sponsored by
U. S. Agencies.
nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, January 23.--Tne
Nation and State launched today o
Federal-sponsored survey intended to
eliminate automobile accidents by de-
tecting their cause. -.
Four States-New York, Connecti-
cut, Massa chusetts and Rhode Island
ARE participating in the survey. Rus
sell H. Kirschner CT New Haven, Conn.
director of the New York study, said
its scope might be extended later to
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the
Midwest.
Kirschner is preparing detailed re-
pcrts from State Motor Vehicle
Bureau files on approximately 1000
fatal accidents. or one-third Of the
estimated number in New York in
1886. The data will be sent to Wash
ington, where statisticians will COM
pile charts and graphs showing acci-
dent trends.
Common Factors Sought.
Fundamentally" Kirschner said,
cit is expected the statisticians will
6cch, do ldI do POSSlplC, SOlAiiAAoA AoS0
tors in automobile accident trends.
Pointing out that the record in
each case shows what disposition was
made, Kirschner said that on this
basis, directors Of the survey could
"consider the advisability Of stricter
law enforcement.
The project is financed by the
Bureau Of Roads, Federal Depart
ment of Agriculture, and administered
by the Board of Highway Research Of
the Division Of Engineering and In
dustriai Research, National Academy
Of Science.
Physical Conditions Rated.
Krschner said that since New York
accident reports deal with physical
conditions. "the board will be able
to draw conclusions as to what ex-
tent highway construction, weather
and illumination are involved in ac-
cidents."
Meanwhile, Maj. John A. Warner,
superintendent of State Police, said
he had instructed troop captains to
caution roadhouse proprietors against
selling liquor to any person apparently
under the influence Of intoxicants.
Mai. Warner said he expected this
action to reduce traffic accidents.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
THREE CONVICTED
IN EYE SWINDLE
Voelker Case at Milwaukee One
of Several Involving $780,.
100000 Losses.

e the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, January 23-The
Federal Government convicted three
men yesterday in its opening onslaught
on a ring it claims has swindled gull
lible eye sufferers of $20,000,000.
Hanecy, Milwaukee attorneys accused
of being cashiers for the ring. and
Sam Birnstein, New Orleans, were
convicted by a Federal Court jury of
mail fraud and conspiracy in q case
in which Herman and Alvina Voelker
of RipoE, Wis. claimed they were
swindled of $4,000. s. - ,
- The Voelker case was the first Of
three the Government has called to
trial Ten persons were indicted In
connection with the three cases, but
not all are defendants in all three.
Mackett is indicted in the two others,
trial Of which is scheduled to start
next week. Herman Schwartzman,
Washington, D. c., is among several
indicted with him.
Federal Judge F. A. Geiger set Mon
day for hearing on a motion of coun-
sci for Mackett and Hanecy for a new
trial.
The first counts were based on the
transfer of checks given by Voelker,
and the third charged the trio with
conspiracy to defraud.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
Jewels
Continued From First Page)

he told of his reputed find and subse-
quent dispatch of the package.
Frederick Mclean Bugher, son of
the victim, was reluctant to discuss the
robbery with newspaper men, though
voluble in his praise OF the police
The shock Of the robbery 50 unne.ved
Mrs. Bugher that she was confined
to bed last night.
Bugher said his mother had bought
some of the jewelry and had inherited
q part, some from Mrs. Washington
Mclean, and other pieces from Ad-
miral Dewey's widow.
He listed the articles as incl'lding
two emerald rings and several lesser
canary diamond pendants, one OF
which contained SO diamonds; 'ew-
elled bandeau that once belonged to
a Spanish duchess; pair of diamond
earrings, a 12-karat diamond ring,
two diamond necklaces, each with
pieces.
Police say the jewelry was no. in
sured.
According to the police, Morcischeck.
who is booked as a German, claims to
be of German-Swedish descent. He Is
said to have been in Paris at the out
break OF the World War, and to have
served during its duration as an or
derly on hospital duty in Paris. He
was in a detachment that was as
signed to a prison.
The late John w. Willys, automobile
magnate and former Ambassador to
Poland, became interested In Morcis-
check, according to his story, and
brought him to this country after the
war. He worked as butler for Willys
for two years and later was employed
in other homes in New York and else
where over the country. He is said
to have been known in New York as
Morris and Morrison, but explained
that was only because OF the difhcult
spelling and pronunciation of his real
name, and that his employers knew
this.
Hired Through New York Agency.
Mrs. Bugher acquired him through
a New York employment agency in
November, and he came here with ex-
cellent recommendations. Police have
withheld the identity Of other en-
ployers being unwilling to connect
their names with the case.
The Associated Press reported from
New York last night that authorities
lhere said the jewelry would be held
until Mrs. Bugher arrived to iden-
tify 1t.
The arrest of Mrs. johnson then
was announced after she and three
others. including a woman, had been
questioned for hours.
New York police described Mrs.
johnson as a domestic employed by
an aged multi-millionaire.
An intercepted telegram to Hansen,
an unemployed elevator operator.
which read presents coming. Give to
Isabelle to give to Agnes. j. NJ" fig
Evening star., 1937-01-24

veteran river men agreed there was
no acute flood danger.
At Harpers Ferry the Shenandoah
continued . recession that started
Friday. The Potomac at that point
was rising only a few inches an hour.
Harpers Ferry residents said the water
was several feet below the street level
and well below the point where 1t
it would threaten the temporary Po-
tomac River Bridge.
The Potomac Bridge at Hancock,
Nd, was closed Friday evening when
two minor supports weakened, but
reopened today for traffic after repairs.
Water was near the level Of a tenn
porary bridge over CScapon River ct
Great Cacapon. near Berkeley Springs.
and suspension of traffic there in case
Of another foot rise was indicated.
Road workmen watched both cross
ings to warn trafiic. A spread from
the Potomac, near Okonoko, west of
Evening star., 1937-01-24
BILLS URGE WRONGFUL
STERILIZATION FELONY
Two Measures Are introduced in
California Legislature to Make
New Crime.
y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO. Calf, January
23.-Echoes OF the sensational Ann
Cooper Hewitt sterilization case
reached the California Legislature to-
day in the form Of two bills making
wrongful sterilization felony.
Assemblyman Gardiner johnson ex-
planned the San Francisco case brought
out the fact there is no provision in
the States criminal code applying di-
rectly to illegal performance of a
sterilization operation.
One bill would throw increased
safeguards around the residents Of CAL
ifornia, which leads the Nation in the
number of sterilization operations
performed on mental detectives and
criminals.
The second bill would set up State
board of eugenics to pass on applica-
tions for eugenic sterilization.
Miss Hewitt, heiress to the fortune
of the late inventor, Peter Cooper
Hewitt, accused two San Francisco
doctors Of conspiring with her mother
to perform a sterilization operation
on her in 1884. She claimed her
mother wished to make 1t impossible
for the girl to produce an heir to the
fortune. The case was dismissed
against the doctors by trial Judge.
and Mrs. Hewitt was not prosecuted.
Evening star., 1937-01-24

here, approached the level Of the 3.
q o. mainline tracks.
There was no interruption to high
way travel in this area. although
some feeder streams we're bank full
and some county roads were showing
water.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
FARLEY TO BE GUEST

Postmaster General James A. Farley
will be guest Of honor at q dinner OF
Emory University alumni in the Ra-
leigh Hotel tomorrow at 7 pm.
Other notables invited include Sen
ators Russell and George OF Georgia
Barkley of Kentucky and Pepper OF
Florida; Harllee Branch. Second As
sistant Postmaster General. and L. W.
(Chip) Robert, former Assistant Sec
retary OF the Treasury.
Roy M. North will be In charge Of
ARRANGEMENTS, 1t was announced.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
CHARLES RAINE DIES;
WAS DANvILLE RESIDENT
Funeral to Be Held in Virginia
City Tomorrow for Insur-
ance Man.

By the Associated Press.
Charles Raine Of Danville, Va, died
last night at Walter Reed Hospital.
where he had been q patient for about
two weeks. He was go.
Raine, an Insurance agent. is sur
vived by his widow. two daughters,
Bessie and Marion Raine Of Danville;
three brothers, Ashby Raine Of DAN
Vile, Chalmers Raine Of Mullins. s.
c., and Rev. Michaux Raine of Rich
mond, Va. and three sisters, Mrs.
Clemence Sydnor Of Lynchburg, Va;
Mrs. George Lewis Of Elizabeth City,
Evening star., 1937-01-24
Scandal Killed Jackson's Wife.

When the future President Andrew
jackson was "a he married q Mrs.
Robards of the same age before her
final divorce was granted and only
learned that the divorce was incom-
pIete when the husband sued. So they
both remarked. More than 80 years
later when jackson was running for
President the old scandal was re-
hashed by his enemies and SO bitter
and virulent was the attack that Mrs.
jackson died of grief soon after her
husband Yas elected President.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
FLOOD PERIL Low
IN WEST VIRGINIA
Potomac Rising Only Slight.
Iy at Harpers Ferry.
Shenandoah Drops.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTTNSBURG, w. Va. January
23.-While all streams In the Eastern
Panhandle except the Shenandoah
River showed rises responding to rains
which stopped only about noon to
give way to snow and colder readings,
Evening star., 1937-01-24
WEDDING FEE BOUNCES
Judge Plans Third Meeting With
Bridegroom, to Get Cash.

GERING, Nebr (P).-Charles H.
Thomas and County Judge c. o. LYDIA
have met twice, professionally, and
are scheduled to meet again.
On october "a. 1886, Judge LYDIA
performed marriage ceremony.
Thomas, the bridegroom, paid the fee
with a check for So.
At the second meeting Thomas was
asked about that check. The Judge
said it had bounced
On February Is Thomas will (the
judge hopes bring SO. Cash this time.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-31

$35.2s.
w. Frank Worrell. 2 lots North
Main St., $17.06.
J. S. Worth. Est, lot Hyman
Heights, S10.24.
AL Wright, 1 house and lot Mt.
Home, $1.90.
Arthur c. Wright, / filling sta
ton, East Flat Rock, $13.65.
Gene Wright, 4 lots Davis
Grove, s2.73.
Mrs. Grace Wright, 1 lot near
Flat Rock. S5.57.
J. r. Wright, Est, l lot End
Ave., E., $20.4S.
T. E. Wright. 1 house and lot
East Flat Rock, $1,000.
Miss Clara Wulburn, l lot
Druid Hills, $4.0S.
Mrs. Mildred r. wager, 2 lots
Palanza Park, 5000.
Elouise Yelton. houses and
lots lst Ave. and Whitfield Street.
$24.39.
Mrs. Nell Yelron, II lots Pa
lama Park. $32.5S.
Mrs. Nell and j. II. Yelton. l
house and lot Hebron St., $32.76.
Mrs. Nell Yelton. lot Mt.
Royal, lot Mt. Royal, $13.65.
Mrs. Nell Yelton, / lot FASH
fern Court, 1888.
Mrs. Nell Yelton and Mrs. M.
Morrow, lot Druid Hills, $l0.18.
o. f. Yelton, 2 lots Mount Airy
Sub-div., SLAB.
Mrs. Lcona Allen Young and
Mrs. Zeta B. Lentz, l lot Druid
Hills, $l0.18.
w. F.. Young and Wife, 4 lots
Laurel Park, 1-2 acre Laurel PIX.
$16.S4.
w. c. Zickgraf, 6 lots Greater
Druid Hills, $l2.l2.
Charles F.. Zimmerman, Est.
/ lot Flat Rock Road, $19.49.
Charles +. Zimmerman, Est,
! lot Maxwell Sub-div., $3.4l.
DR.. T. A. Zuncr, 2 lots Echo
No. / Laurel Park, 1922.