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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-04-07
WOULD you PAY
BALANCE DUE?

We learn that we must take
back from two customers
who have moved to this Vi
cinity their pianos on ac-
count Of their inability to
finish payments. 70 return
these pianos .wouli be very
expensive. VIII sacrifice
them for balance due to re-
liable parties simply paying
either weekly or monthly
payments. Both pianos are
almost new 1858 MODELS.
One baby grand; one studio
model upright. II interest.
ed write box 1885. New Or
leans, La.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-04-07

Mrs. j. A. Crum and Mrs. J. E.
Burch were the judges Of a Beau
ty Contest held in Lexington re-
Gently.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-04-07

Nr. John F.. Anderson Of jack
son stopped over in Durars Mon
day for a short visit with Mr.. Mil
Ter Henry.
Evening star., 1938-12-26

We've never offered finer coats or bet
fer values in an fter-Christmas Sale"
The fabrics are all wool the majority
black, although we have a few in teal
blue and wine! The styles are the new
est fitted and boxy silhouettes with
sleeves, shawl or pouch collars and muffs
of luxurious furs Skunk, Persian
Lamb, Sable-dyed American Ringtail,
Kit Fox, Silver Fox, Fitch! Misses,
women's and shorter women's sizes.
Kann's-Second Floor
Evening star., 1938-11-16
Sues to Divorce Em2ey

LAS VEGAS, New, Nov. 16 F.-
Marguerite c. Empey yesterday fled
suit for divorce from Arthur Guy
Empey, World War novelist.
Evening star., 1938-11-16
Extra of School
Paper Tells
Of Flood

While fire engines were still
changing outside the Takoma Silver
Spring CMdD Junior High School
last night, two students ran off an
extra" edition of the school paper,
the Trotter.
The extra told how the Silver
Spring Fire Department, responding
to an alarm at 7:30 pm, found q
clogged safety valve permitted the
water in the boiler to overflow and
cover the basement with about
feet Of water, extinguishing the oil
burner.
The two members of the school
paper staff. Marie and Elsie Van
Horn, ninth grade pupils, who live
nearby at 71I Sligo avenue, we're re-
sponsible for the extra" They
rushed to the school when they
heard the engines and with the aid
Of John r. Small, civics teacher,
who happened to be in the building,
set up q one-page extra" Within
SO minutes 600 copies had been run
of the mimeograph press.
The extra" was distributed to
students this morning. 1t made no
mention Of the unvoiced hope of
the students that perhaps school
would be dismissed while the boil
ers were being repaired. Firemen
pumped the water out of the base :
ment and. although overcoats were
the rule during the first hours Of
the school session this morning, the
radiators were sizzling before noon
Evening star., 1938-11-16
MI. R. B. Aides Study
Plan for Employers
To Call Elections
Immediate Decision on
Change Is Held
Unlikely

Possibility Of revising regulations
Of the National Labor Relations
Board to permit the filing Of elec-
ton petitions by employers was un-
der discussion by some so regional
and Washington officials Of the
board here today, but 1t was de-
clared unlikely that any immedi-
ate decision would be made.
In its present form, the act spe-
cifies that elections may be held
to determine collective bargaining
representatives, but leaves the prob
lem Of calling or permitting such
election subject to the regulative
machinery set up by the board. In
its regulations, the board provided
that petitions for elections may be
filed by employees or their repre-
sentatives, without mention of en-
ployers.
Much Of the agitation for amend
ment to the law has centered over
desirability Of making it mandatory
that the board permit such petitions
by employers, the issue arising par
ticularly since the split between the
c. I. o. and the A. F. L. often re-
suited in union disputes within a
single plant.
The subject was only one of many,
mostly administrative questions,
discussed by the meeting Of board
officials this week. The conference
among those administering the act
Is an annual affair.
Evening star., 1938-11-16
WEDNESDAY.

writings describing the goat race
as follows:
THE goats having been well fed,
and feeling their good keeping, were
inclined to be frisky and some want
ed to exercise their butting propen-
stiles on their near neighbors. A
good start was effected, the whole
line going of amid the most tre-
mendous cheers"
Mr.. Clark told OF seeing President
Grant on another occasion and of
the Grant Club, organized by his
father, the late Appleton P. Clark,
to advocate the election Of Gen.
Grant to the presidency.
Advocate Sousa Bridge.
Upon motion Of Fred A. Emery, a
vice president of the society, reso-
luton was adopted at the meeting
approving the proposal to name the
new Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge,
now being constructed, for the late
Comdr. John Philip Sousa, famous
march king.
The society also adopted resolu-
tions to send messages to Miss Maud
Burr Morris, its recording secretary,
and Judge Robert E. Mattingly, q
member Of the Board of Managers,
wishing them speedy recovery from
illnesses. Mrs. Bessie w. Calm
served as recording secretary at last
nights meeting.
A recitation was given at the
meeting by Edward H. Hutchins
and vocal solos sung by Nathan A.
Clark, accompanied by Mrs. Eliza
beth Clark. The society will hold
its next meeting and election of off,
GERS on January II.
Evening star., 1938-11-16
Columbia Historical
-
Society Told Of
Beau Hickman
Witty Character Always
a Ready Guest, Clark
Tells Members

An address by Allen C. Clark, It's
president, on Beau" Hickman, IA
nous Washington character Of years
ago who reputedly lived on his
wits, last night featured the first
meeting since spring of the Colurn-
bia Historical Society, held in the
Mayfiower Hotel.
Mr.. Clark told how "Col" Beau
Hickman, as he was known, re-
ceived, funds from notables of the
period ranging from some years be-
fore the Civil War until the famous
characters death here in 1873. Mr..
Clark read from writings of sew
eral authors relating traits of char
acter Of Hickman; how he told jokes
and funny stories to receive funds.
Hickman, in his more prosperous
times, was well dressed in the styles
of that day and readily made the
acquaintance of notables. Mr.. Clark
said. While known to almost every
one and believed to have been a Vir-
ginian, it never was known in WASH
ington, Mr.. Clark related, why Hick-
man came here or just who the
members of his family were. He
was generally believed. however, to
have come from a good family and
had the manners and bearing OF
gentleman.
Ever-Ready as \ Guest.
Mr.. Clark quoted from one writer
to the effect that Hickman never
refused an invitation to drink"
but instead of taking drink al
ways took its equivalent in cigars
or a sandwich"
Mr.. Clark described a goat race
which took place on Pennsylvania
avenue during President Grants
administration and which was wit
messed by President Grant, Gov
Alexander R. Shepherd and a crowd
of some 10000 persons. At that
event Hickman rode an old gray
mare along the race course and
proved the center of attraction,
Mr.. Clark related.
Mr.. Clark quoted in part from
Evening star., 1938-11-16
Antitrust Accusation
Denied by lee Cream
Makers Counsel
Federal Indictments
Cannot Be Upheld,
He Asserts

Ellsworth c. Alvord, general coun-
sci for the International Association
of Ice Cream Manufacturers, one
of "a organizations accused Of anti
trust law violations in two Federal
indictments announced in Chicago
yesterday, said today the charges
were "unwarranted and cannot be
sustained"
One indictment accused the ice
cream industry of introducing in
more than 20 States legislation "os-
tensibly designed" to protect public
health, but lin fact desigred to
create and impose conditions which
would make it impossible to operate
counter freezers."
Mr.. Alvord said the legality Of
this very activity of the association
already has been specifically passed
on by the Federal courts in Illinois
and New York, as well as by the
Federal Trade Commission. AL
three tribunals held the associa-'
tions activities were proper and
legal.
A total of 20 individuals and 20
organizations, including the Interna-
tional Association, with headquar-
tiers in Washington, and the Garry
Ice Cream Co. of this city, were
named in the ice cream indictment.
Fourteen other organizations and 43
individuals were named in the other
indictment, charging antitrust law
violations in the milk industry.
Ernest H. Daniel of Washington,
the Garry firms treasurer and presi-
dent, and Robert c. Hibben, also Of
Washington, executive secretary Of
the International Association of Ice
Cream Manufacturers, were among
the individuals named in the in
dictments.
Among other defendants were DR..
Herman N. Bundesen, noted presi-
dent Of the Chicago Board of Health,
and Daniel Gilbert, chief of the
Cook County (Chicago) States at
torney's police.
Evening star., 1938-11-16
| Ice Age Relic
Found Near
Royal

The National Museum had in its
possession today a pinch tooth
found in the Skyline Caverns near
Front Royal, Va, and identified as a
molar of an extinct animal re-
lated to the living Arctic musk-ox.
DR.. Austin H. Clark, curator of
the National Museum, termed the
tooth "one Of the most interesting
fossils that has been found in this
region" A relic of the Pleistocene
or Ice Age, the tooth Is the last
molar Of the Euceratherium Amer
icanum.
First Of its kind to be discovered
in Virginia and only the second
trace OF the animal to be found
anywhere, the tooth was discovered
Evening star., 1938-11-16
Non-Clussified F. <. A.
To Map Legislation

Washington Chapter. No. l, Asso-
citation of Nom Classified Federal
Employees of America, will meet at
the Lafayette Hotel tomorrow at
BIS pm. to discuss proposed legis-
lation to make permanent the Pres
idents executive order of last June
"a. extending the classified service.
In a notice issued for the meet
ing Frank G. Morrison, national
vice president of the association,
told its members, "Only by legisla-
ton can the executive order be made
permanent. What one President
can do another can undo. Every
one knows this. This is why the as
sociation will throw its weight and
influence behind legislation that al
ready has been drafted to implement
in continuous form what the Pres
ident has done in the executive
order"
Evening star., 1938-11-16
D. 6. Boys Honored

Two Washington boys have been
invested as gownsmen in Phi Gamma
Mu, national social science honor
society, at Sewanee. They are Gill
bert Edison. son of Mrs. Bessie
Edison and grandson of the late John
Joy Edison, and Philip Wharton
Evans, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua
Evans. jr. The honor is in recogni-
ton of outstanding scholarship in
political science.
Evening star., 1938-11-16
Lecture on Concerto

Members Of the Washington Lay
mans Music Course series will hear
a lecture on the concerto by Miss
Harriet Johnson at $3.50 o'clock
tonight at the Y. w. C. A. Miss
johnson will illustrate her lecture
with recordings of Beethoven's Con-
certo No. 3 in c. Minor" which will
be played by Myra Hess, guest piano
soloist with the National Symphony
Orchestra next Wednesday.
Evening star., 1938-11-16

by Theodore Mussaeus Of Front
Royal. The first relic was uncov.
cred In a cave near Cumberland,
Md.
The molar was identified by DR..
c. Lewis Gain, who is In charge
Of mammals at the National Mu.
scum.
Evening star., 1938-11-16
Wisconsin Porty Toniqht

The Wisconsin State Society will
hold an informal get-together party
at Normandy Farm tonight. Milton
c. Steuber is general chairman of
the Arrangements Committee. A
special Capital Transit Co. bus will
pick up persons having no other
means Of transportation at the Wis
consin avenue car barn at $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1938-01-31

1GHTFOOT THE DEER was un-
easy and constantly becoming
more uneasy. His uneasiness had be-
gun with the beginning of the rain,
the rain that froze as 1t fell. All night
he had worried. When the rair, ceased
to fall he did not cease to be uneasy.
and 1t was just so when at break
Of day jolly, round. bright Mr.. Sun
chased all the clouds from the blue,
blue sky. You see Jack Frost had
formed hard crust. strong crust
over the snow. This meant that
while Lightfoot and Mrs. Lightfoot
and the twins were as much prison.
ers as ever in their yard, for they
could neither walk nor run on that
could 60 about at will. While the
deep snow was soft he could do no
more than founder about in it, and
he wisely did little travelling. Now
on this crust he could get about
easily and swiftly.
Hell be sure to pay us VISIT"
thought Lghtfoot. Il haven't a
doubt that he knows just where we
are and that we can't leave this
yard if We want to. He must be
hungry. He must be terribly hungry.
for he can't have done much hunt
ing for some time and without hunt
ing he can't eat. He must be starving
rlf he is, he will be sure to think
Of lis and will pay us visit"
Lightfoot said nothing of this to
Mrs. Lightfoot, but he became more
watchful than ever and never a
Merry Little Breeze came his way
that it was not carefully tested by his
slender nose for the dreaded scent of
Cat. Finally he got it. broad daylight
though it was, and by this he knew
that Yowler was very hungry indeed,
for he prefers to do his travelling and
hunting by night.
So Yowler the Bobcat failed to take
any of the Deer family by surprise as
he had hoped and tried to do He had
hoped that he might undetected creep
near enough to spring on one of the
twins, but in this he was disappointed.
There was nothing for him to do but
to hunt down and corner those Deer
IN their own yard, and this he started
to do. 1t didn't take him long to find
out that even there he could move
about more easily than they could, for
on a slippery surface hoofs are much
more likely to slip than are big padded
feet.
What he hoped to do was to sep
arate the twins from their parents,
Evening star., 1938-01-31

food. So now, snarling, growing, snap
ping. he faced Lightfoot, lodging the
plunges that the latter made at him,
and watching for chance to try and
dash past to get at one of the terrified
twins. But when there seemed
chance to dodge past Lightfoot he al
ways found it block by Mrs. Lightfoot.
So intent were the players of this
game of life and death that none
heard the slithering sound of skis over
the crust as Farmer Browns Boy ap-
preached, and it was not until a yell
from him broke into the snorting,
blowing, snarling and growing that
his presence was suspected Instantly
Yowler leaped away, turned to spit and
and snarl viciously, then skunk OIL.
Farmer Browns Boy had arrived just
in time for the Deer.
As for Yowler. he shortly afterward
caught big Hare whose foolish curl
oSity was the means of giving Yowler
the meal he so Sorely needed.
(copyright. 1881
Evening star., 1938-01-31

but Lightfoot was too clever for him
and kept between the rest of the fam
lily and Yowler. Yowler tried stalking
them from the surface outside the
yard, so rs to be able to leap down
on one Of them, but the big buck was
too watchful.
Ordinarily Yowler would not have
faced Lightfoot, having very great re-
spect for those sharp-edged hoofs, but
now he was desperate. He must have
Evening star., 1938-01-31
Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON w. BURGESS.

Just In time" No words can be
More important than these three.
--Lightfoot the Deer
Evening star., 1938-01-31
You Al,rays Look for

You Al,cuys LOOI: for
LOYALTY i'm FRIENDSHIP
This old world of ours would not be
such pleasant place in which to live
%. we're it not for the spirit of friend
ship. When fellow is ''up against it,
in any one of scores of ways .. ''pat
on the back,'' word or deed of cheer
or encouragement from friend ''goes
long way" And when you look for
friendship you always look for
loyalty!
Good friends "stick together" year
in and year out, in good times or bad,
like successful merchants ''stick'' to ad.
rertising. People, backed up BY many
friendships, usually ''go pIoces'' and
enjoy prosperity; businesses, backed
up BY consistent advertising, invariably
shoe profit. Hern,its seldom become
outstanding citizens and stores that do
not use advertising usually remain -.
schere they start.
You always look for loyalty in friend.
ship; it's just as important to look for
RESULTS from your advertising.
Evening star., 1938-03-29

that she was sorry she couldn't help
you out any longer"
Nothing, Bart realized, could make
him look more like chump than
this. He was on the verge of taking
the first boat for the farthest port,
when Mary called and announced her
engagement to Clay Tracey.
Il wanted you to be the first to
know, darling, us being pals and all.
Aren't you glad?"
YEAH" said Bart That's swell.
Just dandy Congratulations" He
hung up and sat down. This was the
pay-off. This certainly was. He'd
better take that boat now for sure,
unless he wanted to be the laughing
stock of the whole town. And he
couldn't stand that. But first. by
thunder, he was going to tell Mary
Irons just what he thought Of her.
He wasn't going to clear out without
giving her a piece of his mind. Any
girl who was 50 dumb she couldn't
tell when man loved her, and let him
keep on making fool of himself,
needed talking to.
MARY was sitting in wicker chair
under brightly painted um-
brella in the back yard Of her fathers
house when Bart arrived She was
reading book
why, Bart!" she exclaimed, drop
ping the book into her lap.
Listen" said Bart tensely, you've
made sucker out of me. Do you
hear! You played me for sap. You
knew I was in love with you. Oh,
don't deny it. You knew it all the
time. You knew Jane Priest was a
gag. You knew she was really in love
with Dan Bronson. You knew the
whole set-up, yet you kept stringing
me along. Well want to tell you-"
That's right. darling" Mary in
terrupted. Il did know. Woman's in
stinct. 1t has always struck me as
terribly queer that men can't see those
things. too. It's unfair, because wom-
en- can't take the initiative. They
have to be subtle"
Bart opened his mouth and closed
it. "What?" he said
Two can play at the same game
The pity is that men don't catch on
so easily"
Then Bart saw something that
struck him as queer. He saw that the
book in Mary's lap was upside down.
She had been holding it upside down
and had been reading. or pretending
to read intensely. Bart wet his lips.
He decided that he'd be on safer
ground if he kept his mouth shut and
stopped being dumb and went into
action. Which he did. And it proved
to be the proper move
tCopyright, 1881
Evening star., 1938-03-29

slipped into them unconsciously, and
20 was convinced that the fiction
writer's knew whereof they spoke.
It all came about because Mary
Irons, whom Bart had known since
childhood, developed from q stringy,
red-headed, freckled-faced country girl
into a woman whose photograph would
have done justice to the cover of any
popular magazine. College did it for
her. Bart saw her the week after
graduation, and he collapsed. Words
the informal, familiar words of an old
friend which were on his lips-stuck
in his throat. Then, suddenly, he
realized that he'd better keep on play
ing the role of palsy-walsy if he want
ed to maintain any kind of standing
In this lovely creatures eyes.
The blades of Westhaven, which
was where Bart and Mary lived, had,
It seemed, as good eyesight as Bart.
They gave Mary rush that summer,
and Bart was miserable. Not that
Mary turned down his invitations
She didn't. They did things together,
but their relationship was the same
as 1t had always been-friendly and
informal and casual.
It was when Clay Tracey, son of
the local textile mill owner, began
taking up lot of Mary's time that
Bart had his great idea. He had to do
something about Tracey. He couldn't
let Mary marry that dumbhead. He
couldn't let her marry any one.
Bart's great idea included Jane
Priest Jane Priest was one of their
gang and close friend. Bart felt he
could depend upon her
Sure, Bart" she agreed, IF it will
do any good III be glad to pretend to
be in love with you. If you don't think
Mary will mind"
But that's just what I want to
happen. want Mary to mind"
SO FOR month Bart and Jane saw
lot of each other, and people
began to talk. But If Mary noticed
she gave no indication. If anything,
she appeared more interested in Clay
Tracey, and people began to talk about
that, too.
Bart was discouraged, but he de-
cided to stick it out. He would even,
he decided, go as far as to announce
his engagement to Jane. He thought
that If Mary felt at all toward him
as he felt toward her, the announce
ment of his engagement to Jane or
any one else would arouse her ire.
But something happened. Two
things, in fact. Neither of which
Bart had anticipated.
The first happened in the morning.
Bart called James house to arrange
Evening star., 1938-03-29

for q date that
night, and James
mother told him
that last night
Jane Ind eloped
With Dan Bronson.
what" said
Bart.
1T seems" Mrs.
Priest explained.
Dan had been in
love with Jane for
ever SO long, and
she with him. but
neither realized it.
They both thought
they were Just good
friends. Then Jane
started going out
with you and Dan
suddenly became
jealous and came
over and had q talk
with Jane, and
they eloped. Jane
told ma IN toll vO,,
Evening star., 1938-03-29
-- DAILY SHORT STORY
PROPER MOVE

BART had always
sneered at nc
ton writer's who
portrayed h roe S
finding themselves
in 4 spot because
the girl one wanted
10 marry had al
ways been a pal,
and each lacked
the courage to pro-
pose for fear Of
running q beautiful
friendship. He had
sneered, too, at
other heroes who
had resolted to the
age-old trick Of ex-
citing jealousy in a
loved one by be-
traying interest in
q rival.
He had sneered,
and now he found
himself playing g
both roles, He had
Evening star., 1938-03-29

A new process has been developed in
Germany for keeping fish fresh for
a longer time. AS soon as possible
after landing, the cleaned fish are
soaked in highly diluted solution
Of 80 per cent hydrogen peroxide
and Immediately thereafter packed
In ice in the shipping containers.
Evening star., 1938-03-29
Goes Back to His Cell.

SALT LAKE CITY P).-Larkin
Connolly, about to be paroled from
State prison, started to leave with a
typewriter. He explained to Warden
Owen Nebeker he had bought it from
. fellow prisoner.
Nebeker found it to be State
owned machine. Then he dismantled
the carriage. Inside the roller he
found letter from another prisoner
detailing plans to obtain his release.
Connolly went back to his cell.
Evening star., 1938-03-29
7 Tailor-Made Service-The
Right Size Rug for AnySize Room
Beautiful
Bige|ow Rugs
in Nantasket Quality

Bring US the measurements of the space thot
should be rug covered, or let US measure it for
you, and we will have an attractive rug cut
and bound from large selection Of texture
and hooked design patterns, at very moderate
prices. Al sizes ore available For example:
Evening star., 1938-03-29

Other Sizes Proportiondtely Low Priced
RUGS FIFTH FLOOR
Evening star., 1938-03-29

Spring Cotton Knitted Curtains in balloon and
spider-web potterns. Choice Of green, rust
ecru, blue, and peach combinations. Z IA yards
long, poir----------------------
Spring Droperies with wide lateral stripe knit,
cotton combinations. Poir----------$4.25
Evening star., 1938-03-29

Novelty Cotton Chenille Curtons with Ioree
boil fringe in zi9-zoe pottern. Cream shade
only, Va yards long, Poir----------S4.95
Plain Cotton Morquisette RuffIed Curtoins
with olI-white backgrounds, lock stitching. and
picot edeine on the ruffe in blue, green, yel-
low, and peach. 2A yards long. Pair $3.50
Evening star., 1938-09-18

can see as we'll as bird. Vultures, for
example, soaring hundreds of feet in
the air, can discover things on the
ground that the human eye could not
possibly detect. Homing pigeons have
found their way back from strange
surroundings as far as 5000 miles
away from their homes. The reason
for the astonishing sense of direction
possessed by birds is still an unsolved
mystery. Whether the seat of this
sense lies in the ears or nasal pas
sages, whether birds can identify air
currents and other natural phenomena,
or whether they are possessed of So
called magnetic sense, no one knows.
Certain it is that birds are never lost.
and they can fly in any sort of
weather.
And though we can fly faster and
higher than any feathered creature,
let's give the birds hand. because
they're the originals and were per-
forming wonders a-wing countless
years before the advent of man.