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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-05-25
Pickens Graduation
Exercises Held 23rd

The graduation exercises of Pickens
Consolidated school were held in the
auditorium Tuesday evening at 8
o'clock and the following program
given;
Processional-Miss Ernie Mae Thorn
as, pianist.
Invocation-Dr. w. r. Marlborough.
Salutatory-"The Birth of the Brook"
Laura ". Ingram.
valedictory-~rhe Meeting Of the
Brook"|Lucile Pilgrim.
Piano INSTRUMENTATION "
Ingram.
Baccalaureate Address - DR.. J. w
Young.
Mr. H. p. st. John awarded the
diplomas.
Miss Dorothy McBee was prevent
ed from being present due to Ill
ness.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-05-25
Highway II Being
B Iocktopped

Highway IL from McAdams to
Durant is being blacktopped this
week with a large crew working to
push the job to a rapid completion.
This section of the highway was
completed several years ago with
the exception of the top surface. It
was built by the government ana
without cost to the county or state.
When the presen work is COM
pieed it will be a first class high
way in every respect.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-05-25
Casey Griffin Runs For
Constable Of Beut z

The News is authorized to
the candidacy Of Casey Griffin for
Constable of beat 2, subject to the
action OF the Democratic primary on
Tuesday, August 8.
Mr. Griffin says that il he is
elected he will perform the duties
of the office to the very best of his
ability and treat everyone fairly.
He says that he will appreciate
the earnest consideration of each
and every voter.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-05-25
|Chuncery Court Recessed,
Has Light Docket

Chancellor M. B. Montgomery re-
cessed chancery court Wednesday af-
ternoon until Monday morning after
a light docket this week.
Routine matters of divorce, guar
dianship, estates, etc. were heard.
In attendance at court also was
Miss Anita burden, court stenograph-
sr,, Yezoo City.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-05-25
First Baptist Church
Services

Bible School 9:45.
Morning Worship 1880.
Subject. Supreme Wisdom"
b. T. U. $50.
Evening Worship 7:30.
Subject, The Greatest Thing"
There will not be any midweek
services on account of the revival at
che Methodist Church.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-05-25
Fifty-0 One Members
Enroll In Chamber
OF
Body Will Try To Get
CCC Camp To Finish
Park; Highwuy Il

Fifty-one firms and individuals rave
Joined the Durant Chamber Of Com
merce and paid their dues, accord
ing to a report by Charlie Knott,
secretary-treasurer, at the meeting
held Monday evening In the City
Hall. at
plans were drafted to try to secur
for Durant another CCC camp In the
innanediats future with the idea in
mind Of pushing the work on the
Holmes County State Park to COM
pIetion.
A resolution was adopted urging the
Mississippt state Highway Commits
sion to cof<tste Highway II, between
Durant Lexington, at the ear
Hest p >ttefft.
Final p. '-ade Dsys to be
held here e, " lay beginning
Saturday. Jun. - made.
The date had tE ally set
for Saturday, May q, ~ 20 the
delay in securing tick ~ cash
prizes will not start un Nune 8.
It was decided to give a ticket with
each Csc cash purchase to each GUS
toner.
$25 in prizes will be given away
each Saturday at 400 p. NJ. 1t was
decided t have the capital prize OF
$40, the second and third prize S. each
and the fourth and fifth, $3.50 each.
II the ticket holder for the CAPT
tai prize is not present the $1,000 will
be added to the capital prize the
following Saturday and build up until
the tickethobder Is present. The other
four prizes will be given away to
some ticketholder who Is present in
Durant that day.
Any person interested in the devel-
opment of Durant Is invited to become
a member Of the Chamber Of Com
The roster follows:
Powder Puff Beauty Shop, The
Lewis Grocer Co., Henry Irby, Du-
rant Coca-Cola Bottling Co., A. H
Browns Garage, White House Cafe,
J. d. Alsbury, Chas. Long, Jr., J.
M Howard, The Style Shop, City Tea
& Coffee Shop, PIGGY wggly, Right
Way Cleaners, Blanton's Service Sta
ton, Cities Service Station, Mer-
chants & Farmers Bank, Lyon &
Sinclair Refining Co., Standard Oil
Co., California Cafe, Odom Bros,
Southern Undertaking Association,
Howell & Heggie. d. v. Pound, w. H.
Henley, W. j. Dodd, Jr., Spotless
Dry Cleaners, A. B. Clements, ].
c. Robertson, Hotel Durant, Hotel
Durant Coffee Shop, Hotel Durant
Beauty Shop, Hays Standard Service
Station, Ray Brothers.
Browne Brothers, Durant Dry
Goods Company, Peoples Bank of
Durant. William A. (Billy) Bacon,
The Durant News, Wiley H. Browne,
likes Cafe, r e. Irby, Southern
United Ice Company, Miss. Power &
Light Company, Terry's Barber Shop,
Claud Wilkes, City Drug Store, Mans
field Service Station, City Shoe Shop,
j. r. Brown.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-05-25
Graduation Exercises
To Be Held Friday
Is Durunt Seniors To
Get Diplomas; Poris
Principal Speaker

Roy H. Paris Will deliver the bac.
calaureate address at the commence.
ment exercises Friday evening, May
26, at the Durant High School build
ing.
Thirteen seniors will receive their
diplomas. The are:
Irene Boatwright, Mary Bowie, Ro.
bert Bowie, Emma Kathryn DeLoach
Johnny Dinas, Edwin Gray, Maury
HUMPHREYS, Mary Katheryn Kealho.
pher, Clara King. Malcolm Longi-
motif. Jack Moore. Dorothy Taylor
The complete program follows:
Professional | Guentzel
Trumpet Quartette
First Speaker-Jack Moore
Jesus, Joy of Mans Desiring-Bach
Pianos-Mary Jane Rbby
Dorothy Davis
The Glee Club
Second Speaker-.Malcolm Longinotti
Address--LeRoy IN Paris
Presentation Of Diplomas
Marcus Love
The Star Spangled Banner - Smith
Trumpet Quartette
Glass night exercises were held
Wednesday night.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-05-25
.t0o Graduates Get
Awards al Holmes
Junior College
s6 Sophs and q High
School Seniors; List
Holmes Students

So Sophomores and % High School
Seniors swell the ranks to 100 stu
dents who are candidates for gradu
alton from Holmes Agricultural High
school and Junior College. May "a,
1889.
Following are listed the names Of
graduates who reside an Holmes
County:
The High School Seniors:
Annie Brown
Vida Mae Burreil
nellie Hightower
Ruth Hightower
Bearnice Mann
Roy Mcdaniel
Annie Mae Parker
Lynn Tallafcrro
Biny Wheeler
The College Sophomores:
Daisy Abel
Fannie Burney Brown
Mary Maxine Carroll
Josephine Louise Counts
Esther Ruth Cowsert
Helen Elizabeth Cowsert
David Donald
Thomas Vernon Donald, Jr.
Dorothy Louise Foster
Mary Nell Hand
Ilene Holder
Airline Howard
Mamie Ingram
Audrey Grey Meeks
Mary Franklin Moore
Janice La Verne Robertson
Evelyn Stanford
Patty Thomas
Joan Walt
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-05-25
T. N. Williams III
In Lexington

The many friends of county agent
T. M. williams will regret to learn
that he has been confined to his
home this week due to a rather Sc
rious illness.
hope is expressed for his
early recovery.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-05-25

Hazel
Eyes

Hazel Brannon
From Hon. 8. T. Roebuck, who
left jackson Tuesday afternoon for
washington to try to get some more
money for roal building. comes the
following letter:
miss Hazel Brannon, Editor
The News
Durant, Miss.
Dear Miss Brannon.
4 understand that there 10 quite
a bit Of controversy as to Mississippi
IL. No one with any authority has
stated where, when nor what type
construction No. IL will have.
More work has been put under
construction during the past twelve
months than ever before In h his
tory Of the state. We are getting
to projects all over the district and
state as rapidly as possible and we
Win get to No. II just a. soon as
We can. It ts physically impossible
20 nut all of the work under con-
tract at one time and we have tried
to be Fair to every county In the
stats and district IN the awarding
Of contracts and, we have fully and
strictly complied with the laws as
to making awards.
we regret exceedingly that we have
been unable to build all of the roads
that are needed In the state, up
to this time, but. It h to be remem.
bsred that three years ago there
were no roads, and we have done
IN three years what other states
have taken twenty years to do.
All of the money will be put under
contract, we hope, by the end Of the
year. and the projects will be taken
as provided by the law. It is i'm
possible for US to put all of the
money under contract within the
next sixty or ninety days, but we
are going to continue to do III best
We appreciate very much the cour.
tesies extended to us by the press
and we assure you that we will
do our best K be fair to every Sec
ton and that we will get to each
project as Dol rs we can.
Yours very truly,
s T. ROE1BUCK.
Commissioner.
VIZ know that Commissioner Roe
buck intends to get to Highway II
a. soon as he can
what we are interested in Ii the
approximate date the oad a and
will be built and his word that it
will be one of the roads let let be-
fore the year is out.
WE are not pushing Mr.. Roebuck
to let the contract In 60 or 30 days
All we want is his word given that
the contract for a concrete or num-
Der one type Of road between Durant
and Lexington will be LET before the
end Of the year.
II the Highway Commission can
save the State Of Mississippi money
by taking time TO get additional funds
from Washington and make our
money go further then 1t Is certain
ly its duty to do this and we GER
'tainly won't find fault with its mem
,bers for doing so.
Citizens of Lexington have circu-
lated q petition directed to Mr.. Roe
buck and the Highway Commission
requesting q concrete or number one
type Of road.
Citizens of Durant have done like
wise.
w suggest that delegations from
the two towns set a date to go to
Jackson and present the petitions
at the same time.
Arrangements might he made
through the Chamber Of Commerce.
Our friend, Stokes Sanders, of the
Kosciusko Star-Herald has this to
a regarding paving highway II:
t4Tyhn Dnfrapf News Ia pdulv hard
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-05-25

Jackson and present the petitions
at the same time.
Arrangements might be made
through the Chamber Of Commerce
Our friend, Stokes Sanders, of the
Kosciusko Star-Herald has this to
say regarding paving highway II:
1.-The Durant News Is unduly hard
on Sidney Roebuck about the paw.
ing Of that part of Highway IL from
Durant to Lexington. This link OF
the road should have been paved As
part Of the priority system but In
stead the road was diverted from
Lexington to Pickens. This was be
fore Roebuck became Commissioner
but that is when our Durant friends
should have raised up. Now there
are several counties like Attala, with
little or no paving and the present
law states that these counties must
come first. Highway II should be
paved from one end to the other
and tina will eventually be done"
W. agree with Mr.. Sanders that
the highway from Durant to Lexing-
ton should have been paved before
the road from Pickens to Lexing-
ton. It serves five or six times as
many people as does the Pickens-
Lexington road.
OF course we don't blame the peo-
pie in Lexington for wanting and
getting their road to Pickens paved,
We'd like to have all the country
roads ~concreted.
However, politics or whatnot, the
people Of Lexington and Durant are
now solidly together In wanting an
A grade road between the two larg-
est towns In the county.
The communities of Goodman and
West will be served as well when
II from Durant to Lexington is paw
ed. 1t being only eight or nine miles
from either of these points to Du-
rant.
Evening star., 1939-07-21
Public Address System
To Describe Symphonies

Brief descriptions of the numbers
to be played at Sundays sunset
symphony" by the National Sym
phony Orchestra will be broadcast
over a public address system in an
experiment to determine the audi
ence reaction to the innovation.
Efrem Kurtz will conduct the
concert at the Potomac Water Gate.
c. c. Cappel, manager of the Or
chestra, announced that program
notes will be broadcast at succeed
ing concerts on Wednesday and Sun
day nights if the experiment proves
popular with the audience.
BrySon Rash Of the National
Evening star., 1939-07-21
The Senator sAffairs
To Be Aired Before
Referee September Is
Weekly Magazine Files
Petition for Corporate
Reorganization

The affairs of the Toga Press, Inc,
1926 K street NV. which publishes
the Senator, a weekly magazine,
will be aired before Fred J. Eden,
referee in bankruptcy of District
Court, on September l3, following its
request to reorganize and get fresh
capital.
Justice Oscar R. Luhring in Dis
trict Court late yesterday signed an
order, after the company had. filed a
petition for corporate reorganiza-
ton, approving the request; con-
tinued the firm in possession Of the
property and referred the petition
and proceeding to Mr.. Eden. Justice
Luhring'S order also requires that 30
days notice be given by mail of this
hearing to the creditors of the firm,
which is faced with liabilities ag-
gregating $84 900, as we'll as to stock
holders and the Securities and Ex-
change Commission. Within 80 days,
under the order, the firm is required
to file a schedule of property, credi-
tors and stockholders.
Directors Authorize Action.
The company filed its petition un-
der Chapter 10 of the Bankruptcy
Act of 1888 and told the court that
this action was empowered by the
board of directors yesterday. The
petition was signed by Harry New
man as treasurer of the company and
filed through Attorney Stephen G..
Ingram.
Continuity of publication is alb
solutely essential and would be
destroyed by an adjudication in
bankruptcy" District Court was told
in the petition.
The court was advised in the petit
ton that there has been a gradual
increase in circulation of the last
several issues and of advertising. the
principal source of revenue. Operat-
ing overhead and publication costs
have been cut in half during the past
month, the petition declared.
Assets and Liabilities.
There are no assets other than the
good will of the company as a going
concern and the value of the name
of the Senator, the petition said
Of the $4,000 liabilities, the court
was Informed, some S35 900 represent
trade accounts and wage claims. and
the balance is chiefly advances and
loans by the stockholders and Of
flcers.
-Four suits have been instituted in
Municipal Court by former employees,
claiming unpaid wages and commits
sionS. the court was advised in the
petition. and the Normandy Corp,
which owns the building where the
firm is located, has instituted a land
lord and tenant suit to recover pos
session of the rooms.
Evening star., 1939-07-21
Little Named N. Y. A.
information Chief

Herbert Little, former newspaper
man, has been appointed director
of information for the National
Youth Administration, Administra-
tor Aubrey Williams announced yes
terday. For the last 10 months Mr..
Little has been regional N. Y. A.
director for the Middle Atlantic and
Great Lake States.
Prior to his Government service
he was Washington correspondent
for the Scripps-H Howard newspapers
and the United Press. He lives in
Alexandria, Va.
Evening star., 1939-07-21
Plan to Burn Manila
Is Charged to Ramos
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA. July 21-Evidence pur-
porting to show Benigno Ramos had
advocated the burning of Manila
and the capture of all Americans
in the city was introduced by the
prosecution yesterday in the Sakdal
party founders trial.
He is charged with rebellion
growing out of the 1885 uprising of
Sakdalistas, in which so persons
were slain.
Evening star., 1939-07-21
No No. Is

COLUMBUS. Ind (P).-"Wildcat"
Harry Watkins wanted to hout su-
perstition by competing in a race
here next Sunday in a car num-
bered 49,
Other drivers-who didn't want
to be in a race that had a No
13 car-asked officials to throw out
Mr. Watkins entry. They refused,
but the protests became so en-
phatic Mr.. Watkins withdrew Of
his own accord.
Evening star., 1939-07-21

ing with the Organizing Committee
OF the congress especially in the
establishment Of the Pan American
Center, which will serve as a CO.
ordinating Office for delegates from
the Latin American republics.
Evening star., 1939-07-21

ton. as the Pan American Union
delegate to the Seventh Worlds
Poultry Congress and Exposition in
Cleveland, Ohio, from July % to
August 8, 1899.
The division has been co-operat-
Evening star., 1939-07-21

Broadcasting Co. has volunteered
to announce the program, and q
loud-speaker system will be in
stalled by the American Amplifier
6S Television Corp.
Evening star., 1939-07-21
Colon Named Delegate
To Poultry Congress

DR.. l.. s. Rowe, director general
OF the Pan American Union, yester-
day announced the appointment of
Jose L. Colcm, chief of the unions
division of agricultural Co-opera-
Evening star., 1939-07-21

Some bus companies in Japan are
carrying war wounded men at re-
duced rates.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-22
House Refuses to Kill Bill
Aimed at the Chain Stores

OLYMPIA - The house rosred
down today on q voice vote a mo-
ton by Rep. Cecl Csliison, D..
Kitsap, 10 XIII a bill known as the
unfair trade practices act. aimed
at chain stores.
The senate passed and sent 10
the house a bill requiring oharita-
bic hospitals 70 admit contract
doctors and their patients. The
vote was % 70 Is after a vigorous
debate tn which the bin vas de-
scribed as aimed 10 settle the fight
between two factions Of doctors
over the trend toward socialized
medicine.
The senate also approved a bill
giving courts more Latitude in
granting lenieney 10 first offend
ers IN crime by providing that
their sentences may be suspended
and later cancelled on good behay-
Tor 10 remove the criminal stigma
Of q conviction.
The senate resJrrected. amend
ed and passed bill killed yestsr-
day which would give life insur-
sncs~1ompznies the right to ez-
tend Veir corporate life up to 50
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-22
In
The Mu,S

Erica Mann, daughter of Thomas
Mann. exiled German author, said
at Boston dinner that too much
marching has given 81 per cent of
Nazi youths flat feet
Capt. c. r. l. (PaU Roark. Brit
ish polo player injured when his
pony crushed him during a game
last Sunday. remained in a coma
at Pasadena. Calf, and surgeons
said his chances for recovery were
doubtful Bobby Tracy, film
actor, and Miss NIaybelle Cecil. the
nurse assigned TO him during a
recent illness. have applied for
marriage license at Hollywood . :.
Last rites were conducted at San
Francisco for Miss Agnes Tobin.
whom many critics considered the
greatest American poet since Walt
Whitman Make Rosenbloom,
colorful prizefighter who is turn
ing movie actor. reported to Hol-
lywood police that yeggs stole
$4,000 from his Slapsie Make
night club :.
Betty Cradle, blonde actress
wife of Jackie Coogan. has re-
turned home from a Hollywood
hospital and is recovering rapidly
from an appendicitis operation ..
War Memorial opera house in
San Francisco was sold out for the
first OF two concerts by Marian
Anderson. Negro contralto. TO
whom the Daughters Of the Amer
lean Revolution refused the use OF
their Constitution hall in Wash
ington, D. c.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-22
YOUTH INJURED
IN AUTO CRASH

r. A. Ramey, about 20, of 1927
Market st. was unconscious and
in serious condition Tuesday at St
Joseph's hospital after his car
collided with parked truck Mon
day night.
Hospital attendants said the
young man suffered possible frac-
lures of his skull and coIlarbone,
and was considerably cut about
the face and body.
Ramey's car. according to in
formation obtained by police Off
GERS. was going north on Court c
alta high rate Of speed when it
crashed into parked fuel truck
at 18th st. The truck owners
name was not reported.
The passenger auto was re-
portedly demolished in the col
lision. and wreckage was strewn
through the alley for many feet.
Ramey was removed to the hos
pital in a police ambulance.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-22
ACCUSE THIRD
INDY N SYN I'iII'i

OLYMPIA a warrant nas Is.
sued today for . third man In con-
neetion with the dynamitlGs of tha
Sanitary Dairy and Olympia Mia
Producers association plant three
years ago for when tao msn Nsre
arrested yesterday
The warrant named John us*
Lsrklu. Police arrested ~ A.
LsvesqUs and J. fatfifs ami
charged them In superior court
with su5sngering life snd property
by explosives LeysAaus snd Pat.
fico we're jailed In lsru u ~ 300
bail each.
Lefes4ss and Psffiso we're
suspected when they sought 10
force payment Of insurance Pat
rico owned the building and
Lsys.que formerly grned shs
dairy The dynsnitinx damage
Was sstimatssi At 80 600
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-22
Roosevelt Moving
Into "War Zone"

MIAMI. F1A.- President Roose-
welt today moved into the war
zone" where the divided fleet VAS
staging msnsuyers testing the de-
lenses Of the Panama canal
Latest sdyiees from the cruiser
Houston Indicated today that
Roosevelt was IN the neighborhood
Of southeastern Cuba ready % par
tlcipate in the solution OF problem
20 now engaging naval strategisis
directing the war games In which
more than 100 snips were psrtici-
psting
The Houston VAS part ~ the
defending force Whoes task was 10
meet. attack and destroy a the
oretie enemy approaching from the
sea toward vital American de-
fenes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-22
lIGH I
An Inside Picture of
Financial and Polit.
ical America

WASHINGTON - Harry
Hopkins silences since shift
ing over to the commerce de-
partment have been heavy. but
not weighty enough to hide
the fact that he has under
taken a political houSeclean-
ing. He is getting rid of all
Hoover and Roper holdovers
suspected of indifference to-
ward the new deal.
Within week he called for the
resignation of every bureau chief.
and then dropped those he regarded
as undesirable. Frank Bell. COM
missioner of fisheries. was let out
because he was originally an APP
pointee of ex-senator c. c. Dill of
Washington. While aboard ship
returning from Lima. Foreign and
Domestic Commerce Chief Dye
itNtAFNh n W II tltSS w ant NOQi
resignation, it said. land where
would like to be transferred to-"
Dye replied that he wished to
remain in Washington, but was
dispatched to London. He is a
career Republican. Press reports.
OF course. explain that these and
others axed off. requested their
demotion or decapitation.
News Of the Hopkins house
cleaning has excited business men.
who cannot forget Harry's admis-
sion Of political abuses in W. p. A.
II has definitely slowed down any
movement for reconciliation be-
tween private industry and the
government.
President Roosevelt's personal
and social neglect of democratic
congressman melted sharper criti-
cism at the house harmony (?)
caucus than his indifference to
their political ideas and wishes.
The boys pouted because so many
have not been invited down to
White House parties and confer
ences.
Not more than 10 per cent of
the new members have ever seen
+. D. r. except at public appear
Continued on Page 4, Column 81
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-22
KILL ; BANDITS
DURING HOLDUP
Trio Is Shot Down by
Officers While in
Crowded Flat

NEW YORk-Three Negro
bandits attempting n hoidup
Of a dozen men and women
damned into a small Harlem
fiat for a party. were shot and
killed today in a fight with
three policemen. One Of the
bullets wounded l9-year-old
girl.
The bandits walked into the
party In James Lloyd's basement
rooms and announced = holdup Wss
in progress. Lloyd slipped out to
the street where he met patrolmAn
Sanford Johnson. Negro. who vas
off duty and In civilian clothes.
Johnson hailed = squad ear
containing Detective. Michael
GaIeBto and Frank !. shallow
and all three entered the base
ment apartment
One Of the bandits started firing.
Gslento killed him and another
bs ndit. Johnson shot down the
third. Ruby mccoy. 10. a Negro.
fell with body wound
Fngerprlnts identified the rob
befs as ex-conyicts John Del
Vale. ~. jerry Sloan. 20. and
Angelo Martinez, ~. all OF New
York