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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-09
OF
 LABOR PROGRAM
Demands for Amendment of Federal Tax to Give
 Industry a Break
BY c. l.. SULZBERGER United Press Staff Correspondent

tOluteU fTeSS StaH NUENCSpOlluclitD
 Miami. Fla, Feb. 9(UP)-The American Federation of Labor joined business groups today in a demand for amendment of the fed eral tax laws to give industry a "break"
 The Federation, controlling one of the most powerful Hobbies on Capitol Hill, ordered its legislative representatives to seek repeal or amendment of the two taxes con- sidered oppressive by buSineSs-the capital gains and the undistributed profits taxes.
 Basis for the A. F. of L. request made in a public statement by the executive council-was that business and labor must cooperate in order to alleviate the economic depres- sion.
 Four Point Program
 The council, which concluded a meeting in Miami, Fla, yesterday, offered Congress a four point re- covery program embracing;
 1. Reform or repeal of the two levies.
 2. Expenditure of necessary" fed eral relief to care for needy unem- ployed.
 3. Opposition to any contemplated wage reductions by industry.
 4. Provision of private industrial jobs by industry rather than gov ernment.
 Much Like c. I. O.
 The Federation program differed
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Scalp OF De Valera Is Goal OfNorth Ireland
Listers Six Counties Voting Today on Plan of Irish President to Make an All=Ireland State-Many
 Irish to Boycott Polls
BY ROBERT STERLING United Press Staff Correspondent

NOnltCu IECSS ObdA COTIcSpUnuchby
 Belfast, Northern Ireland, Feb. g. (UP)-Northern Ireland votes today in an election which Prime Min ister Lord Craigavon said would show that Listers six counties are firmly opposed to Ramon De Valera s plan for an All-Ireland state.
 The electors will not vote di- rectly on whether Ulster should join De Valera's state of Fire Greland) or remain an integral part of Great Britain. But Lord Craigavon said that in choosing 52 members for the Northern Ireland parliament they would provide a conclusive answer to De Valeras contention that the partition of Ireland into two states should be ended.
 Enthusiasm Rampant
 Enthusiasm among Listers 819,00O voters was at a hing pitch as the campaign was concluded early this morning.
 Strong forces of police were held in readiness to put down disorders in Belfast that may arise from clashes between Protestant Union- ists and Catholic Republicans.
 There was some disorder in South Tyrone, near the border of Ireland, formerly the Irish Free State,)
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GENERAL DIES

Milton, Mass, Feb. g. (UP) = General Francis Peabody, 83, widely-known Boston lawyer sportsman and descendant of John En- dicott, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, died at his Highfield es- tate here today after sev- eral months illness.
 A founder of the Myopia and Norfolk Hunt clubs, he was a crew member during his undergraduate days at Harvard college.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-09
Japan Preparing For Great War Ohensiue
Will Be Fiercest Since Campaign Opened Believes China Is Near Collapse-Chinese Sources,
 However, Talk Differently
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE

United Press StaH COrreSpOndent)
 Shanghai, Feb. 9.-(UP) Japan is ready for the greatest offensive campaign since the beginning of the war in hope of inflicting such hu- initiating defeats on the Chinese that the national government will crumble, according to reports which reached foreign military experts to- day. The Japanese forces attacking along the TientSin-Nanking railroad were in full offensive motion. A second series of drives from north and south seemed aimed at the junction of the east-towest Lung hai" railroad and the north-to-south Peiping- -Hankow railroad. Finally, foreign military quarters received reports that the Japanese were al- most ready for a gigantic campaign in South China.
 More Japanese Reports
 These reports coincided with Jap aneSe allegations of widespread dis affection in the Chinese forces and with unconfrmed rumors at Hong Kong that the Chinese government was seeking British mediation to end the war.
 But from the Chinese side there was no evidence of a defeatiSt trend. Chinese sources said today that Chi nese had recaptured Wuhu, up the Yangtse river from Ranking; that they had recaptured Kaocheng, in the Pengpu sector of the central front, and that Chinese airplanes heavily bombed Pengpu and Hwai- yuan, on the central front.
 Guerrilla Warfare
 More importantly, there were ln- creasing evidence htat the more the Japanese showed superiority in mass movements, the more the Chinese were instructing their field com- manders to split their forces into small groups for Guerrilla warfare, so that whatever progress the Jap anese might make they never could feel sure of any position that was not garrisoned permanently in force.
 Japan To Reply
 Tokyo, Feb. 9.--UP).-The gov-
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MAGAZINES SEIZED

New Haven, Conn.,. Feb. 9-(UP)-POlice today arr rested 30 news stand Own- CTS on charges of selling obscene literature in con- nectiOn with a campaign to ban the current issue of the magazine ''Pic" from New Haven.
 All copies of the maga- zine were cOnfiscated by au- thOrities.
 The newsstand prOprie- tors were ordered to appear in police court tomorrow. They were released on their own recOgnizance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-09

the window facing the street. The warehouse is only a short distance from East Main street and less than 8 block and 8 half from Exchange Place.
 The safe was virtually destroyed. The outside of the front door was ripped away, large chunks of ce- ment between steel plates were bat tered out, and the handle of the safe was broken.
 How Thieves Entered
 The thieves entered the warehouse by ascending the rear stairway of Mayor Frank Hayes building at East Main and Brook streets, walking across roof, and forcing open a window on the second floor of the building. After descending to the first floor, the burglars moved the safe several feet, so that they could work behind the protective screen of bags of flour heaped almost to the ceiling.
 The same gang is believed re- sponsible for safe burglary Sum day night at the Laurel restaurant, 59B South Main street. A total of s450 was taken by the thieves after they had brought the safe from be-
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THREE JUDGES IN
 DEATH SENTENCE

Norristown, Pa, Feb. 9.-(UP)- A three judge Montgomery county court today sentenced Wendell For rest Bowers, 20-year old former re- formatory inmate, to die in the electric chair for the murder of Mrs. Wilma Valerie Carpenter, 3S, attrac- tive Camp Hill widow.
 President Judge Harold G.. Knight read the decision of the court, which heard the case without jury.
 Bowers pleaded guilty, in a sur prise move when his trial opened Monday, to charges of staying Mrs. Carpenter and attempting to attack the widows companion, Mary Grif- fin, 9, in the olyder woman's home on the night of December 1S.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-09
All Members of Auditing Crew Not in City; Be-
 Iieved in Hartford
ARMSTRONG ALSO IS
 VISITING ELSEWHERE
Hartford Accountant Is Checking City Books for
 Prosecutor Acorn

Activity in the probe of affairs of Waterbury's con- troller's office and it's alleged mismanagement was appar- ently confined to Hartford to- day as the records for the past year were scrutinized by audi tors of Griffenhagen and Associates, and a representa- tive of Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn. Until a late hour County Detective Ed ward J. Hickey had made no call to the office of City Clerk John P. Fitzmaurice with a court order for release of the election sheets used by checkers in the 1897 cleo tion.
 Auditing Crew Absent
 All members of the auditing firm of Griffenhagen and Associates, ap- pointed to check the city'S books for the past year, were absent from City Hall, indicating that they bad shifted to Hartford, following all the records which were impounded Saturday and Monday by Detec- tive Hickey.
 Also absent was William J. Arm strong, special advisor to Controller Rowland. It was believed that he also was in Hartford, working with the Griffenhagen auditors. Hartford Checker Works Check of the books for Prosecutor Alcorn is being conducted by Warren M. Brown, Hartford certified pub- lie accountant, who has worked in similar instances in past years.
 City Clerk John P. Fitzmaurice, custodian of the election record books, said today that he realized the right of the county detective to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-09
His Condition Will Be Closely Watched Dur=
 ing Mental Collapse
WARDEN IS SILENT
 ON PARESIS REPORT
CapOne's Term in Prison Would Have Ended on
 January l9, l939

San Francisco, February g.. - (UP) - Federal authori- ties decided today on the customary prison treatment for Al Capone, who was re- ported to have become insane while serving the last year of his sentence at gloomy Alcatraz Island. The man from Chicago, who was re- moved from the liquor racketS by income tax evas- ion nearly 10 years ago, has been confined in the prison hospital after a mental collapse.
 Dr. Edward Twitchell, a San Francisco psychiatrist, who was called to examine Capone, declined to comment, but the San Francisco News reported that the former gangster was suffering from pare sis, a degenerative brain disease characterized by fits of depression ana alternating oeluSlonS Of grand eur.
 Warden Is Silent
 With his customary reticence on affairs of the Devils Islandp ir San Francisco Bay, Warden James A. Johnston declined to give any information on Capone But news that came from the island indi- rectly was that Capone had gone crazy, possibly from the isolation, monotony and discipline of prison life as well as other physical ail- ments, and that before he was taken from his cell he had become drooling, idiotic figure who would spend hours at a time arranging his cot, believing arias from Pagliacci and other Italian operas, and kick
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Late Neus Bulletins
NEW CANDIDATE

Laconia, N. H., Feb. g. (UP)-Thomas P. Cheney, attorney-general of New Hampshire since October 1885, today announced his candidacy for the Republi- can gubernatorial nomin- ation.
 Observers intimated that the announcement was the first break in the Republi- can ranks by an anti-Mur- phy faction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-09
BLONDE CUNCIRL
 IS NOT BELIEVED

Boston, Feb. 9.-UP)-Little cre- dence was given today to the story of a blonde gungirl who boasted that she had participated in score of Greater Boston holdups and named her boy friend as the fin ger man" in the staying of David J. (Beano) Breen in the Hotel Metropolitan last December IT.
 Though dozen detectives con- tinued to check her incredulous tale of crime, police said her story was full of loop holes" and that she sought publicity for thrill"
 They said she had been identified as Mildred Shea, 24, of South BoS- ton and that because she carried an unloaded .32 calibre pistol in her handbag when arrested, she prob ably would be in court on gum carrying charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-09
BOY MAKES ONE
 FATAL MISTAKE

Mt. Clemens, Mich, Feb. 9-(UP) As punishment for misbehaving, Mrs. Alice M. Caffrey, 35, told her l3-year-old son, Walter, that she would not buy him the roller skates that he wanted more than anything else. She left him at home, dressed in his Boy Scout suit, when she went shopping.
 But she didn't mean 1t. When she came home she was almost as excited as she believed he would be as she ran to Walters bedroom and hid the skates under his pillow.
 A moment later she found the boy, half-sitting on the bathroom floor, half-hanging by rope tied to a door knob. He was dead.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-09
Warehouse Safe, OfEueryb dy's Market Smashed
Building Faces Brook Street, Only Short Distance From East Main Street-Safe Practically Ruined;
 Burglars Left Their Tools Behind

The safecrackng gang believed responsible for series of burgaries and attempted burgaries here in recent attempt to smash open safe in the warehouse of Every body Market at East Main and Brook streets Apparently frightened away the thieves left behind them assort they fled safe in the front of the stores warehouse Brook street only few feet inside
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-09

Washington, Feb. 9-UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Feb. 7th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year S4,599, ,24S,236.S3 $4,3S2, ,572, ,158.S8
 Receipts $3,667,742,S56.7S $2,52S,667,328.59
 Deficit s9s1, 5o5,sso.o5 s1,s5s,sS4.Sso.2s
 Cash Balance $2,995.15s,3s5.23 $l,67s,5s5,5s2.o9
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BURNED TO DEATH

New London, Feb. 9ECUP)-Louis Burton. 66, was burned to death last night when his bed caught fire, apparently from lighted cig- aret, He lived in a rooming house.
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7he Weather

Light Rain, Warmer Tonight, Thursday Full Weather Report Page 3
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TREASURY BALANCE

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The Durant news., 1938-02-03
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
CLUB INITIATES MEMBERS

The old members of the III. J. G.
international Relations Club are
making a drive in order to GET
new members from the freshman
groups.
Last Tuesday evening the new
members were initiated into the
club and refreshments were serv-
ed in the latter part of the even
ing.
John Frasca. president of the
club, has many new plans for the
next semester. The programs are
to be made more interesting and
more members are to come in.
The club is an honorary one
and a student must make good
grades and take some form of so
cial science before he can be a
member.
The Durant news., 1938-02-03
JACKSON NOTABLES
ENTERTAIN H. J. G.

The student body. faculty and
the public were given a treat on
Tuesday evening, January I8,
when a concert was presented by
three well-known jackson musl-
clans, Mr.. Robert Pitard, Mrs. T.
A. Turner and Mrs. Middleton.
Mr.. Pitard rendered several selec-
tions which proved that he merits
the distinction he has achieved as
violinist The excellent sopra-
no. Mrs. Turner. delighted the au-
dience with her singing. Mrs.
Middleton, pianist, added much
pleasure to the entertainments.
This program was made possible
through the efforts of Miss Ida
Hickman and Miss Evelyn Hen
derson of the college Music De-
The Durant news., 1938-02-03
HOLMES LOOKS FORWARD
TO TOURNAMENT


The III. j. G. basketball teams
are gradually getting into tip-top
shape, and are playing with an
eye toward the tournament to be
held at Raymond on March 4 and
5. The girls team has played
good and bad ball all through the
season, seemingly to hit their peak
every other game, and following
that with a complete let-down.
However, the team performed ex-
esllently against Moorhead in both
games and should play steady ball
from here on. Coach Frank
Branch has excellent material this
year and will have a hard time
finding bis starters, especially at
forward, the rest of the year. Ma
bel Roberts, Willard Crawford,
Jewel Middleton, Julia Frances
Persons. Mary Ann Ward and
Emma Lee Sturdivant all show
ability to play first team ball.
Coach Frank should not be both
cred about his forwards fouling
out IN important games.
The situation is almost as bright
a guard with Willodene Poole,
Gladys Farmer. mogene Reed,
Bobbye Rogers, and Ruth Echols
all good players. Ii the girls
team fails to repeat for the cham
pionship,. it shouldn't be because
of lack of material.
Although Coach Ras Branch
is not as fortunate in having ma
terial, he has again formed a pow
erful team. Centered around the
main-stay, Jack Busby. the team
is evenly balanced with Adalr, a
newcomer at center, Johnny Pow
ell playing guard pairing with
Gillian, another, veteran and Mac
Donald playing a forword posi-
ton. Brewer is capable substi-
tute at guard and Mcclellan and
several others showing promise.
The boys looked mighty good in
turning back Moorhead twice in
a row. for here they beat q real
team. The BULLDOGS shonld enter
the tournalnent rs es4ahlishna fa-
vorites and viii give the Noorhead
team a ran for the money in gain,
ing the '3S ehamniAr0hin
The Durant news., 1938-02-03
NAVAL BUILDING

''What would we do if Japan took the PhilippinesT
asks Edwin l.. James writing in the New York Times
If we were going try to whip the japanese we
would probably need navy twice the size OF theirs accord
ing experts On the other hand if followed the adj
vice of woudbe makers of foreign policy and confne
naval efforts only coastal Defense need different
quantity and different quality of warships.
The size Of the Canal locks had something to do
with the fixing Of the size 35 600 tons for building
battlehips the being constructed the maximum
agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1886.
The locks at Panama have width Of 10 feet. Thus
IS 600 battleshps with width Of " IL feet
get through Tho Saratoga and the Lexington also
with feet spare either sid although they usually
ship larger cannoe get through the canal unless
ruin a lot of paint each time they go through
Ships cUd be built longer according 70 authorities but
ship larger than JOG feet get through the canal unless
tn. locks widened.
There have capital ships with the exception of
the two new bos laid down by this country since 1920 and
completed since 1928 Ii the United States is to keep
capital ship strength of fifteen she will have to embark
expensive building program. Our construction cost
runs around 1880 per ton
If the United States foreign policy of pro-
protecting American interests wherever they be- it stands
to the warsps have the less chance there win
be of our having to them.
the smaller naval strength the greater the chance
vf receiving srie from japan which will undoubtedly
arouse large amount Of sentiment in this country
The Durant news., 1938-02-03
,DlTES HELD FOR
MRS. minnie INCOLD
AGED HOLMES COUNTIAN
PASSES

Mrs. Minnie Ingold, 70. died a,
her home at Liberty Chapel in
this county Monday night after
an illness of a week.
Mrs. Ingold was born and lived
all her life in Holmes county and
was devout member Of the Lib
erty Chapel Baptist Church. She
was a consecrated Christian wo.
man and was widely and favor
ably known all over the county
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday at IL 80 at the Liberty
Chapel Church with the pastor.
the Rev. Miller, in charge. He
was assisted by the Rev. Judson
Chastain, Lexington
Burial was In the Liberty Cha
pei cemetery with Harrel, ct Lrx-
ln9ton H. ciiarge.
Those surviving are the hus.
band, Peter Ingold, and the rol-
lowing children. Miss Ethel In
gold. Yazoo City; Mrs. Bert OAR
nell, Glenn Allen: Mrs. Alex
Grant. Yazoo City; Mrs. ]. N.
Hearn, Thornton; Virgil and
Evans Ingold, Lexington; Lewis
Ingold, Indianola. and one ADOPT
ed son. Robert Sharpe, Kansas
City. Mo.
All the children were present
The Durant news., 1938-02-03
PAID MARION
COOPER BY NEWSWRITER

Friends here of Marion Cooper
who died at his home in Clarks-
dale a few days ago will be in
terested to read the tribute paid
Marion in Captain Tom Gibson's
column in the Clarksdale Daily
Register and Daily News on
March Is, 1887. 1t was headed
'Farch Is, 1887. II was headed.
Marion Cooper
edo you know him? No. #
course you don't. Well, that is
the full name cf Coop" ,iown at
the Delta Hardware G. mrahy.
The fellow who can laugh any
irate customer into a good dispo-
sition again and then sell him
some more hardware and MAKE
him like it. You never find him
when he can't generate a laugh
somehow, and a lot of people go
to him because of that character
istic in place of looking around
in some other store for it. His
first name comes from his MAYER
nal side where the famous Cap
tain Marion of the Revolutionary
War was one of the grandfathers
and the Crooner part from the old
Virginia family Of that name. mo
he didn't get the name bv being
kin to any of those poor sImps
who sine over the radio). Coon
counts everv planter in the coun-
ty his friend and tho handsome
part Of it is that al Of the nlant-
ers connt Coop their fr'end -
Mr.. Cooper has brotler, j. ID.
Cooper, and a cousin, r. L. Coop
er IN Durant. and other friends
and relatives scattered through
out Holmes county who viii re-
member him with the same de-
gree of affection as witnessed in
the tribute paid him bv Tom Glib
son while he was living.
The Durant news., 1938-02-03
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Executors Notice to Creditors o.
p. M. Elmore, Deceased.

Letters testamentary having
been granted on the 18th day OF
January, 1888 by the Chancery
Court Of Holmes County, Missls-
sippi to the undersigned II. G.
Gilmore upon the estate of P. Nj.
Elmore, Deceased, notice is here.
by given to all persons having
claims against the estate to pre-
sent the same to the Clerk Of the
Chancery Court of Holmes Coun-
ty. Mississippi for probate and
registration according to law,
within six months from this day
or they will be forever barred.
This the 20th day of January
1888.
r. G. ELMORE,
25-6-7-8 Executor.
The Durant news., 1938-02-03
HOLMES JUNIOR COLLEGE NOTES
N..w TERM BzaiNa

go" - A&sxs8SA 09SAINC
AT H. J. G.
Following their Classification
on Saturday the students OF Hol-
mes Junior College began new
semester's work on Monday. jan
uary II. AT the chapel period OH
that morning President M. G. Nc
Daniel extended to the new stu
dents words Of greeting and wei
come. sN4N
Those who have come to Holmes
Junior College at the mid-term
are: Miss Frances Blailock, Kos
ciusko; Miss Ruby Tindall, Car
rollton; Miss "Co Wilkins. Duck
Hill; Edward Milbanks, Chaly-
beate; Clarence McCollen, Rip
ley; Albert Dicken, Durant: John
Taylor. West. Cecil Edward Coch
rane. of Mobile, Alabama Louis
Adair, Blue Mountain; Hubert
Patrick. FallSner; Lou Benacci,
Rochester New York; Henry
Hood. Berger, Texas; and Her
schel Ligon, Nashville, Tenn.
Those students who Withdrew
at the midterm are: Miss Mildred
McCreary, who at that time COM
nleted her course here; Miss Kitty
Wood, transferred to Clark Memo
rial College; Leroy Hall, Joe
Yenni and Lloyd Henry, who go
to Birmingham Southern: and
Glover Freeman and Lawrence
Minor transferred to State Teach
er's College. Armand Gritty, Aa-
ron Prestage and Doyle Bramlett
have left with the view of re,urn-
ing next semester.
Others who have withdrawn
are: Agness Stuart, who is now
employed at West Point: Helen
Sanders, who has moved to For
rest City, Ark; Mrs. Loree Paine
Robertson: Walker Weathersby,
Magruder Jones: William Tuck
er; Ward Jackson; James McDan-
iel and "Crash" Davis.
The Durant news., 1938-02-03
DRAMATIC CLUB
PLANS PLAY

The members of the dramatic
club of Holmes Junior College
have started the new semester
with o eat enthusiasm Plans for
a play and stunt are well unGer
way The stunt is "Whv Teach
ers Are Nuts or s~ The Born
That Way" and TIE play is
"Smoke Screen"
Miss Edith Thav m sponsor
and coach of the c'',' COWS that
the work is progreeein~ well and
that the cast of the rlavs prom
ises much er+nr+ai- ~ III.
The Durant news., 1938-02-03
SLEE CLUB HAS
PICTURE SHOW PARTY

On Thursday night, January
20, the entire Glee Club along
with Miss Hickman and Miss Hen
derson, attended the picture show
in Durant; the attraction was
f"1'll Take Romance" featuring
Grace Moore, noted singer. The
school bus was used as the means
OF transportation. According to
reports, a good time was had by
all.
The Durant news., 1938-02-03
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our thanks
to our friends in Durant and vi
cinity for the many kindnesses
extended to us in our darkest
hour.
MRS. LEON SANDTDGE
T. w & J. E. SANDlnGE,
MRS. i. X. MILLER
MRS. d. r. GEORGE
The Durant news., 1938-02-03

Mrs. Susan Morton, Mrs. Floyd
Patton, Mrs. Nell Davidson, Mrs.
Lou Landrum attended the cook
ing school, presented at the Strand
Theatre by the Durant News on
Wednesday. Mrs. Morton won a
box of cake flour and Mrs. Pat
ton won a ticket to the matinee.
The Durant news., 1938-02-03
PICKENS NOTES
Mrs. G. V. Maxwell shopped in
jackson Tuesday.

Mrs. Mamie Jones, accompani-
ed Mr.. and Mrs. George Taggart
Of Goodman on a business trip to
Yazoo City Monday.