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Evening star., 1937-10-11
MISS WANG PLANS
TO ATTEND G. W. U.
Chinese Enjoys Daughter Arrives
From War zone-Helped Care
for Refugees.

Miss An-Hsiu Wang, 21-year-old
daughter of Chinese Ambassador c.
T. Wang, today was making plans to
continue in local university her
college education which was inter-
rupted by the outbreak of Sino-Jap-
anese hostilities in her homeland.
Miss Wang arrived here yesterday
to join her father and older sisters
after spending month in Shanghai
during the hottest part Of the fight
ing there, putting to use for the aid
Of war refugees the hospital expert
ence she had gained during the 1892
conflict in Shanghai.
The present undeclared war broke
out while Miss Wang was in Shang-
hal on vacation from her studies in
Peiping, one of the first of the major
Chinese cities to undergo lombard
ment.
Members Of the Chinese Embassy
staff said Miss Wang expected to
enter George Washington University
here. but that her choice of further
school work had not been definitely
decided today. Her sister, Miss An-Fu
Wang, already is student at George
Washington. Another sister, Miss
Yoeh Wang, has finished school at
Chevy Chase Seminary and now is
active as president of the local Chi
nese Women's Association in activi-
ties to raise funds for war refugee
relief work..
Evening star., 1937-10-11
ROLL CALL SEEN
BEST IN HISTORY
General Chairman Sperry Conf
dent-42,242 Have Joined
Thus Far,

Marcy l.. Sperry, general chairman
Of the Red Cross roll call here, ex-
pressed confidence today that enthu-
siasm Of workers in the drive would
result in 'the greatest roll CALI in
the history Of the local chapter.
With an impressive list of celebri-
ties adding their support. roll call
ofdcials reported 1922 memberships
have been obtained so far in the cam
pagn, with many more enlisted over
the week end expected to be reported
during the day.
Sperry said memberships were re-
ceived today from Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes, Justice Ben
jamin N. Cardozo and Temple Bailey,
noted author. Chief Justice Hughes,
Sperry said, annually makes an un-
solicited contribution Of $3.50.
Red Cross officials were given en-
couragement by the influx of enroll
ments today to hope that the goal
Of $4,000 members would be reached
by the close Of the drive Saturday.
Sperry pointed out that 1t would be
necessary to enlist 5000 members
daily to reach this goal.
Analysis of the memberships rec
orded so far, showed that the largest
number, 29.233, came from Govern
ment employees.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 11.-A bucolic
note was injected into Manhattan's
sophisticated Rialto last night, when
the young folk of the Barter Theater
came to town from Abingdon, Va, to
give q performance of Macbeth" IS
their farewell production of the Sum-
mer season.
In case you hadn't heard, the Bar
ter Theater is the troupe Of mines
veterans and neophytes, which has
been trading drama for what have
you down in the Blue Ridge Noun
tains Of virginny for, the past i've
years.
The Abingdon price scale held good
for its single performance In the big
town-40 cents cash, or Its equivalent
in produce.
And young Richard Porterfield,
manager, was frankly astonished 1T
variety OF barter which piled up in
the lobby Of the Heckscher Theater
as his first metropolitan audience
streamed through the doors.
Blase New Yorkers in evening
clothes staggered out of taxis Juggling
sacks of potatoes, beets and onions.
One couple proffered . live duck and
another bleating kid. which almost
stole the show.
When the S. r. o. sign went up,
Evening star., 1937-10-11
WOMAN, 78, IS SUICIDE
BECAUSE OF DISEASE
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Bittle Takes
Life by Inhaling illuminate
ing Gas.

Brooding over what she believed an
incurable disease, Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Bittle, 78, took her life today by in
haling Illuminating gas in a bed room
on the second floor Of her home, 1928
Park place northeast. A certificate
OF suicide was issued by Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald.
In . note to her daughter, Mrs.
Arthur R. Reeves of Lanham, Nd,
Mrs. Bittle said she was despondent
over her illness and felt it useless
to seek hospital treatment. The note
was written on the back Of q letter
from her daughter In which Mrs.
Reeves told her mother of plans to
send her to an institution for treat
ment.
Mrs. Bittle's body was found by
Mrs. Reeves sand her husband, who
entered the room, and found the Jets
open on q gas stove. Lieut.. George
DarnAll Of the homicide squad eaid
Mrs. Bittle lived alone.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
PROBE IS RESUMED
ON CIVIL LIBERTIES
Senate Body May Inquire Into
War on c. I. o. Organizers
at Memphis.
n the Associated Press.

n the Associated Press.
The Senate Civil Liberties Commit
tee will resume hearings soon, pos
sibly with an inquiry into reported
efforts to drive C. !. o. organizers
from Memphis, Tenn.
1t was reported that the committee,
acting on numerous complaints, al
ready has sent Investigators to Mem
phis.
The committee started an inquiry
into vigilante movements last Spring
during the steel strikes. Investiga-
tors were instructed to ffnd out
who was backing reported movements
against the strikers.
Committee attaches have refused to
diclose where the Investigations CEN
tered, or what was found, but have
indicated they collected . mass Of
data, suficient to keep the next hear
ings running indefinitely.
Among the organizations understood
to have been the subject of inquiry
are the Flint Alliance and the Johns
town, Pa, Citizens Committee, both
Of which figured tn the steel strikes.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
REPORTING WAR

Experience as a reporter on the
Western Breeze, the Western High
School paper, ought to be coming in
handy to Ken Murayama. Western
graduate of 1929, reported doding
bombs on the Shanghai front as
war correspondent for the Doemi,
japanese news service.
Murayama attended Western four
years, following up with four years at
George Washington University.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
MRS. HAHN'S TRIAL
IS OPENED IN 0H|0|
German-Born Blond Accused
of Murders of Two With
Poison.

BACKGROUND
Jacob Wagner, 7S, and George
Gselln1an, 81, each became pio-
lently i'll last Summer ,ohile in the
company of Mrs. Anna Hahn or
shortly atterWdrd. Both died.
During the police investigation
Mrs. Hahn's husband produced
halt-empty pial Which chemists
said contained drug fatal in
small doses.
BY the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, October 1l.-Mrs.
Anna Hahn, 3l-year-old German-born
blond, went on trial on murder
charge before Common Pleas Judge
Charles S. Bell today in what Prose
cutor Dudley Miller Outcalt has termed
"the biggest mass murder in the
country"
The smiling defendant was greeted
at the court room door by her hus-
band. Philip Hahn, and her 11-year-old
son Oscar. She embraced and kissed
them both, then patted Oscar on the
cheek.
The court room was crowded
Women predominated.
The prosecutor and his assistants
and defense counsel, Joseph Hoodin
and Hiram Bolsinger, began pre-
liminary questioning of prospective
jurors.
Judge Bell indicated readiness to
conduct night sessions beginning to-
night. if necessary to speed the seating
OF jury.
Mrs. Hahn is specifically charged
with f1rst-degree murder In the deaths
of Jacob Wagner, on June 3, and
George Gsellman, who was found
dead in bed July 6, but only the
Wagner case was on trial today.
Assistant Prosecutor Gordon Scherer
declared the State would TASK for the
chair" the death penalty by electro
cution.
Over a score OF news writers and
photographers were at the trial, which
attorneys estimated would continue
two or three weeks, due to a weight
OF expert testimony.
Judge Bell announced no cameras
nor telegraph instruments would be
permitted in the court room.
Wagner's death prompted an in
vestigation which reached to Denver
and Colorado Springs, Colo. where
authorities delved into circumstances
surrounding the death August / in
Colorado Springs hospital Of George
Obendoerfer. 81, moderately wealthy
Cincinnati cobbler. Obendoerfer was
accompanied west by the indicted
woman, the wife of a telegrapher.
Tests of the visceras of Wagner and
Gsellman, chemists reported, indi-
Gated the presence Of poison.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
LOrtOn Hound
And Great Dane
To Be Crossed

The Lorton Reformatory bloodhound
pack will have some strange bedfellows
If a breeding experiment to be carried
out by two dog fanciers here Is sue
cessful.
Planning to cross 1oo-pound Great
Dane father with bloodhound
mother, George A. Coulon and Capt.
r. r. pegelow hope to get hybrid
that will prove to be something of a
super sniffer."
Capt. Pegelow, who is the trainer Of
the Lorton manhunters, is widely
known as an authority on bloodhounds.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
WOMAN FOUND DEAD
Husband Unconscious Beside Her
in Gas-Filled Room.
Srecial Dispatch to The Star.

Srecial Dispatch to The Star
HAGERSTOWN, Md, October Ii
Mrs. Virginia Derr was found dead
and her husband, Henry Derr, uncon-
scious this afternoon in their gas-filled
apartment here. They had just moved
into the apartment and a new gas
stove recently had been installed.
Among the children surviving is Rich
ard Derr, Washington linotype oper-
ator.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
SUICIDE VERDICT

A certificate Of suicide was issued
yesterday in the case of Chauncey
McNeill, 26-year-old ensign in the
Naval Reserve, who hanged himself
Saturday night in 4 ward 1T Walter
Reed Hospital, where he was confined
for mental observation.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
Rodeo Injury Fatal.

NEW YORK, October II (R.-Wal-
ter Cravens, 30, Butler, Okla, cow
boy. died yesterday of an internal
hemorrhage after being trampled by
. steer he was trying to ride in Satur-
days rodeo performance In Madison
Square Garden.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
C.. C.. C.. Workers
Not Fair Game,
Hunters Warned
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, October lie.
Lee lie Compte. State game
warden, today warned hunters Not
to shoot c. c. C. workers.
There are 80 Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps camps in the State,
lie Compte pointed out. many of
them located in hunting terri
tory. He cautioned against shoot
ing toward the camps or where
there might be men working in
the woods.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
Federal Group to Meet.

Oficers will be nominated at q
meeting Of Local 262, National Fedora
ton Of Federal Employees, at ITO Four
teenth street, tonight. The meeting
viii start at 8 o'clock, and there will
be IN entertainment program.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
Financial Status
OF State Improves

That Mississippi .'is getting re-
suits in her gallant fight to over.
come her previous subordinate
financial status becomes more
report of the State Planning Com
mission pointing out substantial
increases in eight phases Of com
mercial activity during the first
nine months Of 1886 over the first
nine months of 1885.
The Planning Commissions re-
port shows Mississippi made sub
stantial gains in sales of passen-
ger and commercial automobiles,
household refrigerators, ordinary
life insurance, value of checks
drawn, farm income, electric pow
err output and heavy construction.
The average increase of all eight
items was CTS percent as COM
pared with an increase of 1925
percent in the same activity
throughout the nation during the
same period, giving the Magnolia
State the highest rank in average
percentage of increase.
The outstanding feature of the
Continued ON Page -Four
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
Profits
Can Be Improved

One approach to greater farm
profit during 1887 is the use of
higher grades of fertilizer, espec-
tally in the instance of nitrogen
said to be the greatest limiting
factors in crop production in most
acres in the state.
Not SO many years ago the
preponderance of complete ferti-
lizer used in the State contained
only 1867 of potash, and State
farmers wasted probably millions
of dollars on this low grade mix
ture containing large quantities of
sand or other worthless filler.
The present State fertilizer law
put an end to that wasteful prac-
tice by establishing a minimum
plant food content: During the
year closed, according to a report
by j. G. Holton, commissioner Of
agriculture, Mississippi farmers
utilized a total of 219,2 $50 tons of
fertilizer, and of LOT 200 tons of
complete fertilizer, 94,707 tons
Continued on Page Four)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
Probably Site OF
Factory Is Named
OPTION TAKEN ON
WILKES PROPERTY

Option has been taken by the
city on the property belonging to
the Wilkes estate on Highway 81
opposite the cemetery, as the
probable location Of the new Du-
rant Manufacturing Company,
manufacturers of ladies' high
quality silk hosiery.
The officials of the city r
said to be more than pleased in
the progress of the NEGOTIATIONS
so far. The decree of validaticn
has been issued which declares
.that the bonds to be issued are IN
strict accordance with the consti-
tuition and laws Of the state OF
Mississippi and more particularly
what is known as the Industrial
Law of Mississippi.
The effect of this valuation is
that bonds can never be called IN
lad into question in any court in
The state. They are forever a bind
ing obligation on the part of the
municipality until they have been
retired.
Training classes for workers
for the new concern grow larger
every day and applications for
employment are still being taken.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
YOUTH AT ETHEL
WIN IN CONTEST

Charlie Shipp and Horace
Lowery, Ethel, Attala County,
were among the forty prize win
ners which were feted at a ban
quet given by the Chilean Nitrate
Company to the winners | n the
1886 crop production contests
sponsored by the company. In
cooperation with The state depart
ment of vocational education.
The banquet was given on the
roof garden of the Robert +. Lee
Hotel in Jackson.
Mr.. Ship received first place
in the North Mississippi corn con-
test and was awarded $500. His
yield was lit bushels.
Mr.. Lowery received third
place in the same division and re
ceived $500. His yield was 92.5
bushels.
Both of the boys were students
under j. w. Riley.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
SCOUTS TO
AWARD MERIT BADGES

The public is invited to attend
a Court of Honor held by the
Boy Scouts of Durant at 80 o.
clock, Friday night, in the Sun
day School rooms Of the Methodist
Church.
At this time merit badges will
be awarded and friends and par
ents of the boys are urged to at
tend.
Sturgeon Gaskin, Scout execu-
from Jackson, will be pres
ent at the meeting and talk to
the gathering.
A meeting of the Durant Scout
Committee will be held preceding
the main gathering at 100. All
of this committee are
urged to be present and on time.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
RUBY KATE CLEMENTS
GETS ALABAMA DEGREE

Miss Ruby Kate Clements re-
ceived her Bachelors Degree OF
Science in Home Ecomics from
the University of Alabama on
January 23rd. She was the only
student to receive a degree in the
school Of Home Economics at mid
term. Mrs. A. b. Clements and
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Clements at
tended the graduation exercise.
Miss Clements visited friends in
Millport, Ala. several days before
returning home.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
Power Means
Much To State
-
CITES
TUPELO CASE

The significance of the IVA
and what it means to Mississippi
was set forth today in a letter to
the editor from honorable j. b.
Rankin, member of the House OF
Representatives from the fifth
district.
Congressman Rankin cites the
city Of Tupelo as an example.
Tupelo residents three years ago
used an average Of 42kwh per
month. Under IVA they now use
an average of 156 XVIII per month,
almost four times the amount OF
three years ago.
During the year 1886 the resi-
dents of Tupelo used 2,146,0 97 k.
VIII which cost them $38,292.16
Before IVA went into effect it
would have cost them $20S, 1929
The same conditions are said to
exist in Cornith, Bonneville, A.
mory, Okolona and other towns
in that area which have shifted
10 iva.
The complete letter from Mr..
Rankin follows:
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
Co. Club Officers
Met Last Tuesday
HOME DEMONS. GROUP
HEAR LEADER

Officers of the Home Demons
tration Clubs of Holmes county
met in the office of Miss Ellen
Scale. home demonstration agent.
at two O'Clock Tuesday.
Miss Sallie Span Swami, rural
organization specialist form the
state department, was present and
spoke to the club officers.
Mrs. S. j. Browning, West,
gave a talk on the duties of club
officers and Mrs. Harvey Brister
Harmony, spoke on cooperation
with All clubs In the county.
Miss Swami in her speech 10 the
group told Of a leadership CON
test conducted in the state.
Miss Scale read the county
council constitution.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
TWENTIETH CENTURY
CLUB SPONSORS OUT
DOOR CONTEST

The Twentieth Century Club,
woman's club OF Durant, IS again
this year sponsoring the outdoor
living room contest through the
Department of American Homes,
Mrs. Eugene Cole. Chairman, and
the Department of Conservation
Mrs. Frank Calender, chairman.
Lovely prizes will be awarded
each of the winners and the
Twentieth Century Club desires
that every home-maker enter the
contest.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
Holmes County
Subscribes Quota
DURANT RAISES $3.50
FOR REFUGEES

Holmes county citizens have
already donated over eleven hun
dred dollars to flood sufferers,
according to Mrs. Allen Ramsey,
chairman for this county. The
quota set for the county was $500.
90.
Miss Winfred Mcintyre, chair
man of the Red Cross committee
IN Durant, announces that $4,000
was given in Durant.
Reports from other sections of
the county indicate that the fol-
lowing has been reported Lex
ington, $4,000; Tchula, $4,000;
Thornton, 1900: Cruger, 10000
Pickens, $500; West, 10000; Du-
rant, 10000.
Contributions are still being
forwarded to Red Cross head
quarters every day. Anyone de.
string to contribute is asked tc
communicate with his local chair
an
The local chairman send the
money to the County Chapter
where it is forwarded directly tc
the national fund for flood relief
The Rev. Ingram is directing
the drive among the colored PEG
pie.
Those having clothing and 9th
er necessities to donate are asked
to hold them until further notice
as a call will be sent out later fol
them.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
WHAT THE iva
CONTROVERSY MEANS
Washington, d, G.
January 90, 1887.
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
! wonder ii the average Mis-
sissippian realizes what the IVA
means to him and his children,
and what it would mean to them
TO have it impaired or destroyed,
either from without or within.
It produces and delivers to our
very door a wealth OF electric en-
ergy more valuable than any oil
field or gold mine in the world.
THIS Administration has been
striving to get this power suppl
ca to our people at the proper
rates. and our enemies are trying
in every way to keep us from it..
Il every man every woman IN
Mississippi knew what this means,
no man could be elected to any
office whatsoever who is not.
wholeheartedly in sympathy with.
our program.
| have before me the report OF.
the Electricity Department of the
of Tupelo for 1896. 1t tells
a wonderful story. The resident
ial consumers III Tupelo used 2,
l46, OCT XVIII of electric energy
year, for which they paid $3S,292.
l6. AT the rates they We're paying
three years ago, before the IVA
rates went into effect. that amount
of electricity would have cost
these consumers sos, 1929, in
stead Of $38,292.16.
Three years ago the residential
consumers Of electricity in Tupelo
We're using an everage of AZ XVIII
a month. Today they are using an
average of 156 XVIII a month al.
most four times the amount they
were using three years ago. Three
years ago there rel in use by the
residential consumers Of Tupelo
Continued on Page Four)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-01-28
Social Security
Offices Now Open
NEW POSTS H.
HATTIESBURG
AND MERIDIAN

Two more Social Security Board
field offices arr open in Hatties.
burg and Meridian, bringing the
Mississippi total of offices to four
it is announced today at the Reg
ional office of the Board here.
The other two offices were
opened in November in jackson
and Vicksburg, with II. I'll. Dash
iell and 7. Sylyertis Wilcher in
charge, respectively.
Luther N. Davis. Of Haaties-
burg, is the officer in charge OF
the Hattiesburg office, located in
the Commercial National Bank
Building, III East Front st.
The Meridian office is in the
Threefoot Building, Twenty-Sec-
ond Avenue and Sixth Street, with
Nathaniel b. Bond, of Oxford, in
charge.
Mr.. Davis for the past three
years has been District Manager
OF the H0LC with offices in Hat
tiesburg. Prior to that he was
Superintc.1ant of The It'll Cou-
nty Agricplur HIGH school and
Special Consolidated Hish School
and is well known in Mississippi
educational circles.
Mr.. Bond, also widely known
in Mississippi, since last Septem-
Der has been Professor Of Socio-
logy at the University of Missi-
ssippi. Previously he was Director
of Employment of WPA for State /;
was on the faculty of Woman
College and did Y. nj. G. A. work
during the World War.
Eighty-one field offices are now
in operation throughout the
country. Managers Of these offices
are for the present on a temper
airy basis, the Regional office
points out.
These offices are assisting in
the maintenance OF wage records
of workers for whom social secur-
ity accounts have been set up and
in the adjudication of claims for
Federal old-age benefits. Employ
ers, employees and all other inter-
ested persons will be provided
with accurate information regard
ing the Federal old-age benefits
plan and their rights and obliga-
tions under the Social Security
Act.
The stats in each of the new
offices are relatively small, and
the personnel has been drawn
entirely from the civil service
lists.