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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-06-09
Bridge Tournament
To Be Held Friday

A benefit bridge tournament spon-
sored by the Twentieth Century Club
IF Durant will be held at the Hotel
0urant Friday, June 10, at s O'Clock
?. NJ.
All bridge players are cordially in
vited to attend the tournament. A
small admission will be charged.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-06-09
Second Term Of Summer
School To Open At H. J. C.

The second term of summer schoo,
will open at Holmes Junior College
in Goodman Monday. June 20.
A large number of new students
have already registered for the new
session and many more are expected
to enter. Students are allowed to
register for n term Of school or
they may attend more than the three
weeks.
According to a statement made by
S. F. Allen. Business Manager of Fl.
j. c., many new students are reserv-
ing rooms daily for the fall term of
1938-39.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-06-09
District Meeting Of FSA
Held in Winonu

A district meeting of the Farm
Security Administration organization
viii be held in Winona on Tnursday,
June 9. with representatives from
al of the counties in this district.
Frank Whey, Farm Security Adj
ministrator of Holmes County, Miss
Margaret Ajax. Home Supervisor, and
Miss Edna Francis, ali of Lexington,
represented this county at the meet
ng.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-06-09
Delta Council To Hold
Annual Meeting
Al Early Dale
Holmes County Is First
To Complete County
Council Plans

Looking forward to the organiza-
ton of the entire Delta into an in
tegrated unit, the communities oil
Holmes County this week were or
ganized for affiliation with the GEN.
trail body Of the Delta Council. Hol-
mes was the first county in the Del
ia to complete its organization.
The Delta Council was formerly the
Delta Chamber : of Commerce. It's
work is directed toward attacking
the larger problems Of the Delta COM
mon to all the residents of the Sec
ton. In flood control legislation, le-
gislation for agriculture and for road
construction, and for studies toward
reforestation, the work of this organ-
ization has been outstanding
B. M. Jones, Mileston, prominent
planter of this section, is directing the
organization of Holmes County.
The following were named as mem
bers of the County Organization
Committee by B. M. Jones, Holmes
chairman:
J. T. Thomas. Jr., Cruger; G.. w.
Crow, Tchula; A. B. Archer, CRU
ger; Lewis Parker, Cruger; H. L.
Nichols, Lexington.
This committee put on an inten-
sive drive for members in the reor-
ganized Delta Chamber of Commerce
and secured a total of 80 active mem
bers who are representative leaders
in farming and business in their COM
munities. Several others have sig
nified their intention Of joining the
Delta Council in the near future.
Cruger is to be especially c~ongratu-
lated for dts membership.
Under this plan Of reorganization,
the members Of the County Organize
tion committee contacted and secured
the ballots Of 30 per cent Of the Hol-
NEE County members Of the Delta
Council IN an election Of the ~F7olmes
Council Those elected to
the County Council were Lewis Park
err, Cruger; B. NJ Jones. Mileston:
J. T. Thomas, Jr., Cruger; Lee Hines,
Tchula; A. B. Archer, Cruger. The
County Council held a meeting on
Tuesday June Z, at Cruger and elect
ed the two board members Of the
Delta Council (the equivalent Of the
old Board Of Directors Of the Delta
Chamber Of Commerce. The two
members elected were: ]. T. Thomas,
Jr., Cruger and B. M. Jones. Miles
ton. They will serve as representa-
tives Of Holmes County on the Delta
Council for the ensuing year.
These committeeman endeavored to
enlist as members Of the Delta Coun-
Gil the representative leadership Of
the county. Membership in the or
ganization is in three classes, indi-
vidual junior memberships, individual
senior memberships and sustaining
memberships. including large indivi-
dual operators and business estab-
lishments.
The organization of this integral
ed system of affiliation with a CEN
trail body which can officially repre-
sent the Delta is under the direction
of John Pettey. Greenwood. president
of the National Cotton Seed Products
Association. Other members of the
general organization committee are
Howard Stovall, Stovall; Mayor Mil
ton Smith, Greenville; J.. T. Thomas,
Cruger; and Charles Cason, Green
vills.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
RGps
Fear Plea

DETROIT, Feb. 8 U.N.SO.-A
basic fault in the American indus.
trial system-not fear of govern.
mental action-is the cause of the
current business recession, Presi.
dent Homer Martin, of the United
Automobile Work ers Union,
charged today.
Answering a statement of a
well known industrialist of the
old school" that industry cannot
progress because of fear of Gov,
ernment, Martin said:
From 1920 to 1929 business
was not afraid of anything. Ger.
tainly it was not afraid of gov
ernment. 1t had things its own
way. And yet we had the depreS-
sion. 1t wasn't matter of being
afraid of anything. It was a mat
ter of something being basically
very wrong. All of President
Hoover's ponderous optimism
failed to check the decline"
Martin said the industrialist
made his statement "at a func.
ton I attended while in New
York last week"
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
MRS, ROOSEVELT
FLAYS TIPPING

G.N.S). Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt's sentiments on tipping
today found widespread support
among those persons who dislike
buying their hats back" and
leaving sizable tips in restaurants.
She said tipping tends to keep
down the wages of service work
ers and prevents them from know
ing how much they will earn each
week. She would like to see the
practice eliminated and if this
were not possible, that the en-
ployer in a service establishment
pool the money so collected for
equal distribution among the EN-.
ployes affected, as a separate
fund.
The First Lady said the ten
dency of many employers of serv-
ice workers to allow customers
tips to make up a great portion
Of the workers wages keeps such
wages inadequate.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Boiler Kids
Sister WedS

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Feb. 8
GNs0.-Frederick B. Snite, jr.,
the self-styled "boiler kid" today
lost his best friend and constant
companion, but gained a brother
in-law.
Terrence ]. Dillon, Of Hudson,
Mich, who travelled from China to
Chicago and later to Miami with
his paralysis-stricken classmate,
and the "boiler kids" sister, Miss
Mary Loretta Snite. were married
here today.
Young Snite nicknamed himself
the boiler kid" recently when he
broadcast from the Iron lung" in
which he has been constantly en-
cased since stricken with infantile
paralysis while on a world cruise
with Dillon.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
POLICE BAFFLED
BY jewel THEFT
IN PALM BEACH
British FinanCier's Wife
Robbed of $4,000

PALM BEACH, Fla, Feb. 8
GN.SO Authorities today were
without definite clues in their
search for a thief who Sunday
stole 500, 900 worth of jewelry from
a home occupied by Mrs. Philip
Hill, wife of an English financier.
The thief apparently had OBJ
tained complete advance knowledge
of the home. The jewels were
obtained from their hiding place
in closet off Mrs. Hills bedroom,
authorities said, but the thief ig.
nored about $4,000 worth Of
jewelry Mrs. Hill had left on q
dressing table in her room. .
PICTURES RUSHED
Pictures of the missing jewelry
are being rushed to New York
from London to aid authorities in
CLlSII IluA4G 4OI OIlC SCLIAo, uCSCIlDcQ
by police as being "of just about
all kinds"
All servants in the home have
been questioned, officers said, but
none was able to give any clues.
The jewels were taken some time
Sunday and the theft was discov.
cred Sunday night after Mrs. Hill
returned home from a golf course.
HOME OF HEIRESS
Mr.. and Mrs. Hill came here
recently and took up residence in
the home of Mrs. Margaret Emer.
son, heiress to a drug fortune. who
is now in Europe.
Hill amassed his fortune In the
drug business in London and also
is a high official in the Insurance.
company which holds insurance on
the missing gems. 7
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Approve ZOning
Adjustment Board

Establishment of a board Of
zoning adjustment for the District
of Columbia, as provided in a zon-
ing bill recently introduced in the
Senate, vas endorsed by the execu-
tive committee of the Committee
of One Hundred, at a meeting yes
terday at the Cosmos Club.
The proposed board, it was
pointed out, would have authority
to waive or modify otherwise rigid
requirements in individual cases
for the purpose of obviating hard
ships to owners of land, which
would arise from a technical en-
forcemert of zoning regulation"
The committee also endorsed other
general principles Of the bill.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08

, After praising the work Of lend
ing aid to students and fitting
them for future occupations, Mrs.
Roosevelt extended an invitation
to the committee to visit Presi-
dent Roosevelt at the White
House House tomorrow from 4
until 6 p. m.
TAUSSIG CITES PROGRESS
Charles w. Taussig, chairman
Of the committee, made the prin-
cipal address at the session. His
talk traced the history of the NYA
from its founding in September,
1885, up to the present. He said
$132, ,486, ,403 had been made avail
able from emergency funds to aid
nearly half a million youths be-
tween Is and Is.
Leigh Gerdin, who attended the
session, was singled out as ex-
ample No of the NYA movement.
Through aid from the NYA, Ger
din was enabled to continue
studies at the University Of North
Dakota and won a Rhodes Scholar
ship in competition with other
North Dakota scholars.
NOTABLES ATTEND
Other speakers included Aubrey
Williams. NYA advisory director:
DR.. Charles H. Judd, University of
Chicago, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
K. Lindsey. This afternoon and to-
morrow the committee will hold
executive sessions.
Among prominent personages
who attended the meeting were
Owen D. Young, chairman Of the
board of General Electric; John
L. Lewis, chief Of the CIO, and
Glenn Cunningham, famous run.
ner.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
FOrgers Trapped;
Victim Illiterate

DETROIT, Feb. 8 N.NSO.
Trapped by an *" William Dake,
%, and his wife, Frances, 10, were
held for action of the Federal
grand jury today on charges of
stealing a $28 WPA check.
They were arrested after the
check Of Samuel More showed up
in WPA offices with the signature
of More neatly written on it.
Moore, unable to write, had always
signed his checks "X."
The Washington times., 1938-02-08

horst was killed in a holdup engi-
neered by the two girls.
You wouldn't think they were
bad girls if you heard them de-
Scribed yesterday, though.
Pokerfaced Ethel was just "a
nice, clean, wholesome kid until
she got to playing around with
marhijuana-the. loco weed, ac-
cording to her counsel, and Jenny
was "this sweet child" But. un-
fortunately. neither by their ex.
pressions or court attitude gave
much support to their dramatic
counsel.
EtheTs counsel tried to run in
q second-degree murder guilty
plea-a bargain offer to escape
the chair-but the State would
have none of it.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Hook, NAM Head,
Raps New Deal

PITTSBURGH. Feb. 8 d.N.sJ.
President Hook. Of the National
Association Of Manufacturers, says
the current recession will grow
into a disastrous depression unless
the Federal Government ceases
punitive measures against bust
ness. and adds:
Excessive and unwise taxa
ton, restrictive legislation, Gov
ernment competition with pri-
vate enterprise, and the unwar-
Fanted abuse Of industry are mil
ltating against that steady flow
Of earnings which we have de-
scrthed as 1ndust1y's Ne Blood
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Antidote for 'Hangovers':
Use Milk Before and After

NEW YORK, Feb. 8 0.N.S0.
Do your knees wave like a swing
ing door after too many "old
fashioneds?" Do your eyes move
independently and solemnly, and
does your brain function like a
musty head-cheese?
Well, there is an old fashioned
cure for that old fashioned feel
ing today.
DR.. j. C. Norris, of Emory Uni
versity, at Atlanta, Ga, told a
conference of milk producers
about it. Rich milk in copious
quantity before and after a Ses-
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
WIDOW is KEPT
FROM STAND

NEWARK. N. j., Feb. 8
U.NSJ.-By stipulating the cor
puS delicti already had been estab-
lished, defense counsel today sue
ceeded in keeping from the wit
ness stand the widow of William
Barhorst, a bus driver, for whose
Staying Ethel Bunny Sohl and
Genevieve (Chippy) owens are on
trial.
The State contends that Bar.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
D DOG-POISONER. 0
OF ANACOSTIA.
GETS z VICTIMS.
Pets Found Dead; Police
In HiIICrest Search

The dog poisoner Of Hillcrest
was abroad again last night and
this morning tears of little child
ren fell to mark success Of the
latest expedition.
Jeanette" nine-year-old collie
and devoted guardian Of four-year-
old Betty Atwell. of 2768 Atwell
Rd. S. E., was found stiff in death
on the Atwell front lawn this
morning-victim of the person
who has killed more than a hun
dred dogs in a year.
SECOND VICTIM
Beside jeanette" lay the body
of a handsome police dog whose
owner, as yet unidentified, is prob.
ably waiting for familiar scratch
at the back door.
Both pets apparently had been
killed by strychnine, the deadly
poison employed in every instance
by the poisoner to dispatch dogs
in slow and terrible agony.
Presence of the person has
spread suspicion, fear and heart
break through the once peaceful
Anacostia community where a pet
romped on almost every lawn until
year ago.
Dog lovers and police have
formed special patrols in the COM
munity in an effort to apprehend
the poisoner, but so slyly are the
death-dealing tidbits spread that
no clue to the identity Of the per-
son has been found.
IDENTITY IN DOUBT
It is possible that the person
is some highly respected member
of the community, we'll known per-
haps to the pets marked for death,
who steals out at night to distrib-
ute strychinine wrapped in meat,
investigators pointed out.
1t Is not even known whether
the animal killer is man or
woman.
At least one resident Of the COM
munity has moved away because
Of the activities of the dog killer
and others have declared they will
leave unless their pets are safe
guarded. Cats as well as dogs
have been poisoned.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08

sion with the more frivolous liquids
will prevent that" feeling, said
the doctor.
He explained that rich milk or
cream delays rapid absorption of
alcohol into the system even when
the alcohol is taken to excess. And
if you can delay absorption you're
all set.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08

Can Parents Sue If Sons Sent to
College Don't Pay Them Back? Read
One Legal Answer OF This Compli-
Gated Question IN The American
Weekly With Sundays Washington
Herald-Times. Thousand of Fathers
and Mothers Have Faced the Problem
Presented by This Law Suit, But
Their Troubles Before q Judge.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Commissioners Ask
D. C. State Flag

The Speaker of the House yes.
terday received from the District
Commissioners a bill which would
provide for selection Of a flag for
the District Of Columbia similar
to these now used by the various
States. The measure was referred
to the District Committee.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
TREASURY CONDITION

Q.N.SO. Treasury balance as
of February S: $2,981 1853, ,778. .O2;
internal revenue, $7,597 ,443.53;
customs receipts, $4,656,249.51;
receipts, $3,641,064,366; expendi-
lures. $4,57O,284.181.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08

The Aztecs' Holy Bird Of Cruelist
Rites Tanned At Last. An Explorer
Finds . Way to DOmesticate the Shy
and Beautiful QuetEal, Whose Yard
Long Plumes Bedecked the Baby Vic
Tins of Dreadful Sacrifices and
Helped Destroy MOntezuma's Empire
400 Years Ago. See The American
Weekly With Sundays Washington
Herald Times.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
CATHERINE.

On the back of the neatly in.
scribed envelope was the address,
Catherine Miller, care of j. A.
Raley, Clements, Md. Clements
is near Leonardtown, in st. Marys
county,
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
LOST MOTHER
WRITES TO BABY

The postman brought brighter
news for 6-year-old, blue-eyed little
Catherine Lorraine Connolly this
morning.
Kindly Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley
Jennes, who have been caring for
the child since her mother dis.
appeared several days ago, re.
ceived a letter, postmarked Clem'
ents, Md, from Mrs. Connolly. It
read:
"Sister Jennes:
II am working at a wonder
full place. I will send you 81
for the baby Friday. Then I
will pay for the gas and also
give you a few dollars or some
groceries if you will bring the
baby down here to me. Also my
clothes. Take good care Of my
baby and you will be more than
paid.
Here is the address. Write
me and let me know something.
"Your sister in Christ.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
First Lady Opens
Meeting Here on
NYA Plans for Year
Tdussig Traces Work of Agency and Cites
Progress in Assisting u. S. Youth

With informal talk the achievements of the National
Youth Administration Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the
twoday the administrations advisory committee
day in the Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

A YOUNG man entered Detroit hotel
~ just another patron. He emerged
four days later distinguished fig
ure. The cost of this distinction to
him was forty cents
Stopping to pay his bill on departure, he
found it didn't match his figures.
"See here, this statement isn't right" he
said to the cashier.
eff it isn't, we'll make it right, sir. Have
we overcharged you?'
mo. But you haven't entered all the
items against me. | made some telephone
calls not listed here"
The clerk checked back on the telephone
records. Nothing could be found
Undaunted, the guest insisted another
search be made. The entry was finally dis
covered on the account of another man with
the same last name. The guest paid it and
thanked the clerk. 1t was small sum but
the hotel was doubly grateful, because it
prevented blow-up by the other man -
one of it's best customers, but with a hair
trigger disposition.
A year later the young man paid another
visit to the hotel The manager called on him
and extended to him the hospitality of the
place. Today his credit is unlimited there,
and nothing is too good for him.
That was more than common honesty. 1t
was honesty with whole conscience, some
times called scrupulousness. 1t was also i'm
mensely more clever than simply calling at
tention to the mistake and letting it 60 when
the clerk couldn't find it. And it won the
good will of an entire establishment.
There are innumerable ways to cheat -
which means there are just as many ways OF
being rigidly honest talked the other day
with dealer in roofing supplies. He told me
some builders in his community put tile roof
on with iron nails. They save few dollars
but shorten the life of the roof. However, one
man, who takes pride in his work, never uses
anything but copper nails, whether the con-
tract requires it or not. Word has passed
around about this man being absolutely
honest in little things, and he is getting the
big things - the choicest contracts.
1t was the first ]. Pierpont Morgan, l
think, who used to say, 81 know one man l
wouldn't lend a cent if he offered me mil
lion dollars in security, simply because he's
crook. But there's another one to whom Id
lend million on his word alone, because he
never cheats"
Complete honesty, born of character and
not of expediency, is the greater cleverness
in the long run. When citizens committee
in Chicago few years ago wanted to clean
up rotten municipal mess, it turned to a
lawyer eighty years old to lead the fight.
LAWYERS had come and gone, some honest,
some corrupt, but Frank J. Loesch stood out,
so stalwart in character and so uncomPro-
rporatton
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Sn.a'tches i

No DICTATORSHIP can afford to
be without an outside enemy.
Grievances against the foreigner
must be kept alive as an excuse
for demanding political unity.
Returning travellers report that
Hungary has law that all movie
houses must fash on the screen,
at every performance, two maps.
One shows Austro-Hungary be-
fore the Versailles treaty dis
membered her; the other indicates
the territories taken from her
after the World War.
HAvE you ever heard the soda
clerks shouting numbers to each
other? Here are few which we
recently persuaded nimble-
fingered mixer to translate for us:
"81" water for the customer.
"61" - cup of coffee.
"87" we've run out of that
item on the menu.
"37" take special pains for this
customer.
"Watch the pump" - the girl
you're serving has pretty eyes.
"Stretch it"-give this man a
big one; he looks hungry.
"87H" - the girl in the corner
has pretty legs. M.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
he Greater C|everness
BY WILLIAM F. MCDERM01

missing in principle that Chicago instinctively
looked to him in crisis. Today, at IS, active
and militant, he enjoys the affectionate
regard of three million fellow citizens.
During the war a manufacturer with
government contract cheated on shoes, put
ting on paper soles instead of leather. One
doughboy, whose feet were cut and bleeding
because of that crookedness, remembered.
Years later he passed on million-dollar con-
tract. One bidder was uncerefnoniously ruled
out the paper-sole racketeer.
Have you noticed how seldom we hear the
expressions "He's man of honor" and "His
word is as good as his bond" nowadays? The
"smart" thing may be to get by with sharp
deal; but the really clever thing in the long
run is an untouchable integrity.
A broker told me not long ago of the in
volved procedure connected with the trans
fer of real estate. Then he wistfully recalled
the practice in his boyhood days in Sweden.
"When my father sold his farm, he and the
buyer went arm in arm out to corner OF the
field The money was paid over; then my
father reached down, picked up handful of
dirt and placed it in the hand of the other
man. They shook hands. The deal was COM
pleted and the title was never questioned"
Could such thing be done if absolute
honesty didn't inhere in the persons involved
- even in the very customs and character
of the entire community?
Probably no man ever had longer or
more distinguished career in the world of
who, though past seventy, is still driving
force in athletics. For forty-two years he
was the idol of students and graduates
of the University of Chicago. Yet he is more
admired for his rugged character and uncom-
promising honesty, no matter what the cost.
An eminently successful businessman told
recently how his whole life had been changed,
forty years ago, by little incident on the
baseball diamond. Stages champion baseball
team was defending its college title. The bat
ter had singled and one of Stages men was
racing home with the winning run.
Stagg came rushing up to meet him. Get
back to third base?' he shouted. "You cut it
by yard.''
"But the umpire didn't see it" the runner
protested.
"That doesn't make any difference?'
roared Stagg. Get back!'
1t cost game but character battle was
won.
"When saw that" said the businessman,
81 determined always to play square. I've
done it to the best of my ability and my life
has been immeasurably happier for it,
1t can be made game this matter of
abiding integrity. And the cleverest player
is not the one with the greatest talent but the
one who gives his conscience the freest rein.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Mosozins Section

THISWEEK
FICTION
STAR Dust
IN Hollywood tks Unexpected Ah~oys Hoessns
BY MARGARET AVER BARNES
Nivssrotsd BY AtosskeN Frontz
COUNT D'AMsRos WINDOW s
Another Stirring Adventure Of "tks Myskstsss"
BY SAX RoHMER
NIvsfrstsd BY c. c. BsoN
A SILENCE IN TAPpAh VALLEY =
A Powerful G'ieeins Dreme
BY MAX BRAND
Nivssrofsd BY Rolek Psjisn Cois~an
ARTICLES 4 FEATURES
The GREATER CLEvERNEss 2
Integrity Psys- snd Brings Hseei.sss
BY WILLIAM F. MeDERMOTT
SPfEDi 8
Con Nan Ever Top tho Bot-Fjy's Record?
BY GEORGE W. GRAY
Drowiess BY Jsek Mvsrov
"NoTHlko LIKE AMERICAN PiE' -
Bot Anna Nsssis Dlsevssss Otkss Goodies, Too
BY GRACE TURNER
Ii In ColnS
WAET.HlGH IN BEAUTY 10
Wien Your Woistiins Is Slender
by MARTHA LEAvHT
Dsowins BY Major Fs.sn
POSED BY WINTER ~
Tie Snopskoofss Gets Snow Pictures
Pketesresk
TIE FIRST WOMAh7 -
New Foets About tie Ancient "Pskins We~os"
BY Roy CHAPMAN ANDREWS
Pbetosrspk
Evening star., 1938-01-09

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