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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12
BY Hazel

We've heard so much about the
good old days in Durant, way back
yonder when carloads Of strawber-
ries were being shipped out of here
a tremendous railroad payroll enjoy
ed and various other factors went to
make Durant one of the best towns In
the state.
Oh, yes, way back then everybody
had plenty of money n people
didn't know there were such things
as hard times" Even the common
est darby could dress himself up IN
a $40 Stetson hat and strut down
Main Street.
Yes, those were the good old days
way back yonder in 1902, when Du-
ant had a population of about 1881
Today we have a population Of ap-
proximately $500.
We haven't grown very much In
number Of citizens, perhaps. But we
have grown a great deal In othei
ways.
Practically every building in towr
has been built since that time. Side,
walks and paved streets have beer
built long since, sewerage and wa
ter systems installed and other I'M
provements which scores of Missis
sippi towns today still don't have.
We have one Of the finest librar.
buildings In the state and are vefi
shortly going to get a new post of
flee building. And a new schoo
building we hope.
We have the finest hotel on high
way 81 between Memphis and Jack,
son and the only fireproof structure
If you don't think Durant has pro.
crossed any, just talk to some Of th'
old timers. They'll tell you.
Yes, those were the good old days
In 1902 when 1874 carloads of straw,
berries were shipped out Of Durant
In fact, on two days there were two
train loads Of 25 cars each shipped
out of here and Durant Strawberries
appeared on the menus of every
leading hotel in eastern cities.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12
The Big
Black Folks

A column devoted to the doings of
the people now located in Durant
working on the Big Black River pro-
ject.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. C. Dye are located
at the Hotel Durant for their stay
in Durant. Mr.. Dye is superintendent
in charge o fthe work Of clearing
and snagging the Big Black to make
possible better drainage.
Late last Thursday workmen on the
project were busily engaged in snag-
ging a tree trunk Out Of the river
WHEN mitch to their surprise they
found a live beaver who probably
made his home in the roots Of the
tree.
The beaver was Of unusual size for
this section of the country, being
about two and one-half feet long
and weighing about Is pounds. In
fact, beavers have become almost ex-
tinct in this section Of the country.
The animal was very unusual as
to size and color, being more like
the specir&ns found in northern
chimes.
1t was kept in a tank at the office
until Saturday for display and then
put back in the river.
Wesley Wheeler, colored, caught
the animal.
D. c. Sheffield, chief clerk, Leland
Ferguson, clerk. are also located at
the Hotel.
Dalton Shooke, foreman, and Mrs.
Shooke have taken an apartment at
the White House, located on Madi-
son Street, two doors from the Hotel
Durant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Hossley have also
taken an apartment at the White
House. Mr.. Hbssley works in the
office which is located about tive
miles east of Durant on highway II
John w Doiron, Jr, foreman. and
Mrs. Doiron and their three children
have taken the Moorhead apartment
on Madison.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. King and Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Wilkerson have taken
apartments in the home of Mrs.
Lauraene Wilkes.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12
'Ffee 1M0viig al Durunf''
School Friday, 10th

A free movie will be shown In
Durant Friday night, January 10th.
in the High School auditorium, which
everyone is invited to see.
The same show will be given at
the Goodman Grammar School on
Thursday, January 10, and at the
West School on January 81.
The picture is being shown by the
County Agents office and is said
to be very interesting.
1t tells a story Of the Importance
of fire prevention and to relieve the
educational part of the picture a ro-
nance is interviewer.
Everyone is cordially invited.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12
w. A. Bacon To Offer
For Reelection

Hon. w. A. Bacon, member of the
House of Representatives from Hol-
mes County, made known today his
intention of running for reelection.
His name is entered on the rapidly
growing list of candidates today and
his formal announcement will be
given mex week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12
Ellis Wynn Announces
For Reelection To
Legislature Today
Popular Representative
Makes Formal Address
To Holmes Countiuns

Inc buTdIlI INCW0 tdhC6 6f<oN
pleasure in announcing today the
candidacy of Ellis E. Wynn for re-
election to the House of Represen-
tatives of the State of Mississippi
from Holmes County.
Mr.. Wynn Is a prominent farmer
of the Emory community and is ac-
tive in both civic and religious ac-
tivities of Holmes county.
He Is 81 years old. married and has
two children. He is a member and
a deacon Of the Emory Baptist
Church and for the past six years
has been clerk and treasurer of the
Holmes County Baptist Association.
He is a member of the Masonic
Lodge.
MIR. Wynns announcement follows:
To The People OF Holmes County
Mississippi:
/ take this means OF making my
announcement for reelection as Rep
resentative to the Mississippi Legis-
lature.
In making this announcement
want to express to you my heartfelt
thanks and appreciation for the honor
that you bestowed upon me four
years ago and now make it possible
that I can ask your continued en-
Representatives.
1t has been a great pleasure to
serve you during these three and one
half years and I have underworld to
the best OF my ability to realize the
sacred trust that was given me, by
you, to conduct myself in such a
as to merit your continued
approval.
To zach measure presented to the
Legislature, I gave careful and seri-
ous consideration. as to its merits
and also to its present and future
on the welfare of the citizens
and taxpayers of Holmes County and
the State of Mississippi. At all times
I cast a non-partisan vote, holding
myself responsible to no political fac
ton but solely to the people of Hol-
mes County, whom I was privileged
to represent.
Some Of the bills that I authored
and that became laws, were: A Pure
Seed Law, (making it impossible for
seed dealers to use Mississippi as a
dumping ground for inferior seeds),
-Abolishing the Agricultural Service
Commission, Gone of the parasite Com
missions feeding on the State Treas
ury and the only one ever to be abol-
ished by the Legislature),-Placing
the road from Eden to Goodman on
the Highway System.-As Vice Chair-
mar of the Agricultural Committee,
l was author of a Committee Amend
ment. making it possible for the
farmers Of Mississippi to secure pedi-
greed seed at cost from our State
Penitentiary Farms.
/ make no claim t. perfection, but
honestly fee hat I am better quail
flied to serve you a second term, be-
aus Of my experience during the
present me-.
In asking that l may be reelected
as one Of your Representatives, I
would assure YOU that III elected /
shall again treat the position as a
sacred trust.
I shall appreciate anything that
may be said or done in my behalf and
soliciting your vote and influence, I
am,
Respectfully,
ILL f. WYNN
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12
Plays To Be Given AT
School Friday Night

A series of plays will be given
Friday night for the benefit of the
Parent Teachers Association. The
plays will be given by the school in
the school auditorium.
Everybody is invited to attend. The
admission is 10c and 15c.
The school band will furnish mu-
sic.
Robert Rosson, Robert Rosson, Jr.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12

Miss Louise Order, student at Hill
man College, Clinton. spent the week
end here with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Order.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12

Cordell Hull, Tennessean, is oui
idea of a gentleman and a statesman
Probably no other man in the pres
ent administration commands more
real respect than Secretary Huh. He
Is a strong character and a big man
He has not become embroiled in
domestic quarrels and has stuck to
his business Of foreign affairs with
a great deal of success On top OF
all that he Is known as a conserva-
tive and could probably unite two
factions Of the New Deal more sue
seccfully than any other presiden.
tial candidate.
Had. be our own, choice for the
Democratic presidential nomination in
1910.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. E. Johns and two
children have rooms at Mrs. j. w.
Brister's known as the old Love home
on highway 81 south.
Robert Warrington, foreman, has
a room in the home OF Mrs. w. G.
Burnley. He will be joined in a
few days by Mrs. Warrington who is
visiting in Macon.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. p. Grant are To-
Gated in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
y. b. Clements. Mr.. Grant is n
IF the foremen on the project.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Riggs nave
AIKEN an apartment in the home of
Mrs. T. H. Moore.
More news about the Big Black
folks mex week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12

When We 90 to a gasoline station
to buy you know what we see the
price advertised thus: Gasoline 15c
per gallon, plus state tax, &c, plus
federal tax lie, total &c per gallon.
Someone has suggested it would
&c a good idea if every time we
bought any article the price would
be given along with an itemized
statement on how much tax we are
paying on it. The idea, of course,
is an aroused and indignant public
which would bring about economy in
government and reduced taxes.
But, after all. don't you think we
should be willing to pay for what we
are getting?
And we are getting a lot of gov
eminent.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12

Speaking of government, we live
in daily fear of being arrested for
some kind of form we haven't filled
out for the sales tax man, or the
social security man, or the unem-
ployment compensation, or the in
come tax man, or some other tax
gatherer for Uncle Sam. 1t would
take the fun time of one person n
practically any business in the Unit
ed States today to fill out the re-
cords we n supposed to keep fol-
the government.
The number has grown to such an
extent hat we feel new courses
should be set up in schools and bus
mess colleges teaching people to keep
books for Uncle Sam.
But then they change the forms
SO often it wouldn't be much use
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12

and son. Bobbie, left Thursday to &c
to Nashville. Tenn. to visit Mrs. ]
II. Phillips.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12
Through
Hazel
Eyes

Women are in the business world
to stay. according to Mrs. Ruth Nc
Times, charming field representative
OF the National Federation of Business
and Professional Women's Clubs, who
spoke TO a group Of business and
professional women this week in Lex
ington.
Mrs. McInnes stated she was fully
aware of the fact that lots Of men
endorse q back to the home move
for women In business so that posi-
bly, their shoes can be filled by mel.
She facetiouly asked just whose homes
they would go back to and what they
would do after they got there.
She pointed out that where women
used to do all the cooking, sewing,
cleaning, soap making, baking, wash
ing, ironing and a million other
chores, the men themselves have prac-
tscally usurped the homemaking task.
We have men In the bakeries to do
our baking, men to make our dresses,
soap Ii five cents a bar, washing ma
chimes made by men are very good,
and we can even buy biscuits
in cans. There Is truly no reason
why women should remain In the
home on a full time basis, rays Mrs
McInnes who concluded by wonder
ing just who got whose jobs.
It's worth thinking about anyway
girls, and a good comeback to the
next man who tells YOU womal's
place is In the home.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12

Newest description OF the White
House Cor Mrs. Roosevelt, which?)
The beautiful mansion on 1900 Penn
sylvania Avenue, Washington, d. c..
where Mr.. Roosevelt lives and from
which Mrs. Roosevelt commutes
cro the country"
Seriously speaking, there are lots
of people i'm this country who feel
that Mrs. Roosevelt Is entirely out
OF place in running around over the
country ~dedicating monuments and
reviewing projects and speaking TO
various organizations on what the
country's coming to, etc.
And 1t does seem a bit undignified
perhaps beneath the station of our
First Lady.
But our First Lady is a woman that
''does" things, not just talks about
ling like most of us. She has a
y derful n1ind and more energy
than = Nrfssiss3ppf mule. Her Inter-
ests ere wide and varied. While she
Is not considered a beauty h is
personally charming and very gra-
cious. There are few people who
have talked to Mrs. Roosevelt or
heard her speak who did not say In
their hearts she Is a truly great
character.
Perhaps she, with her great capa-
biiities and physical strength, is lift.
ing part of the burden of public
appearance from her husband, who
Is not as strong.
AT any rate Mrs. Roosevelt could
slide down the bannisters at the
White House and she'd stn be al
right with us.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12

Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. King and Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Wilkerson have taken
apartments in the home of Mrs.
Lauraene Wilkes.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12

More news about the Big Black
folks next week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12

John w Doiron, Jr, foreman. and
Mrs. Doiron and their three children
have taken the Moorhead apartment
on Madison.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-01-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Hossley have also
taken an apartment at the White
House. Mr.. Hbssley works in the
office which is located about two
miles east of Durant on highway ~
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Physicians Urge
Guarding Children
Against WEAKNESS
Experts Quiet Fears of
Outbreak Recommend
Simple Safeguards

Close regard for children,
guarding against over exer-
tion and fatigue, was rec
commended Thursday by Ell
Centre physicians as the
best means of protection from in
fantile paralysis.
At a conference with city off,
cials Wednesday afternoon the
physicians, including DR.. Warren
F.. Fox, county health officer, DR.
C. S. Brooks, DR.. F.. A. Burger and
DR.. Philip Hodgkin, quieted fears
of an infantile paralysis outbreak
and advised simple health rules
to keep up children's physical re-
sistance.
"The main thing is not to allow
children to become exhausted. II
they show signs of illness they
should be kept at home under a
physicians care" DR.. Fox said.
In my years as county health
officer 1 have never seen a secon-
Diary case, that is where one case
follows another in the same fam
ily."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18

NEW YORK, May 10. (UP)-The
disintegration of the German Am
erican bund in New York was fore
seen today in the filing of a de-
tailed report by Mayor F.. H. La
Guardia in which the bund and its
leader, Fritz Kuhn, were charged
with more than 40 violations OF
the relief tax laws.
The mayor transmitted the re-
port, based on a three months in
yestigation into the bund to Dis
trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey.
Although a relatively small amount
of money is involved, each of the
violations carries prison sentence
of from six months to three years.
Those nameu In addition to
Kuhn were Max Rapp, William
Leudtke, Richard Mettin, James
Wheeler Hill, Max Buchte, Karl
Kienzler and Fred Hackl; the COR
porations named were the Hackl
Press, printers of bund literature,
Kienzler & Schimpf, importers OF
Nazi swaStikas and novelty jewelry;
the A. V. Publishing Co.; and the
German-American Business League
Most of the individuals were con-
nected with the corporations in the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Ritter Goes East
With Prosecutor

DR.. Otto Benjamin Leo Ritter's
long stay at the Imperial county
Jail ended Thursday when New
Jersey officials took him east to
face trial on charges of fraud and
conspiracy
The German, a self-styled poll
tical refugee from Nazi Germany,
was dubbed "just a plain conf
dence man with a smooth, convinc-
ing line" by Prosecutor T. r. Bos-
ley of New Jersey. The prosecutor
claimed the prisoner on an extrad-
ition warrant issued in Sacramento
Monday. He scoffed at Ritter's
stories of millions Of dollars on de-
posit in various foreign lands.
Ritter was arrested by Imperial
county officers at Nogales, Ariz.,
April u as he re-entered the Unit
ed States after a spectacular flight
to Mexico to avoid arrest by i'm
migration officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Moratorium Asked
On Salary Hikes

SACRAMENTO, May 10. CUP)-
A bill calling for moratorium on
increases III state salaries for the
next two years was introduced i'll
the senate today by Ray w. Hays,
R., FrSeno.
Hays estimated the plan would
save at least $450O,O0O and pos
sibly as much as $7,00O,000.
The plan has been approved by
a majority of the special senate
budget committee, Hays said, and
will be included in recommendations
of the committee for deep cuts in
Gov. Olsons $557 100000 budget.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Army to Mobilize
100000 Troops

WASHINGTON, May Ii. (UP)-
The war department announced
today that the American army will
place about 100000 troops in the
field this summer for the greatest
training maneuvers since World
war days.
The troop concentrations will
involve over 100000 men of the
regular army and 293,996 officers
and men of the national guard,
reserve officers training corps, citi-
zens military training camps and
officers of the organized reserves.
This announcement means that
the American army will mobilize
during the summer practically its
entire initial fighting strength.
rmy officials long have figured
mat in event of sudden war the
United States could mobilize ap-
proximately 100000 officers and
,lnen to "hold the line" until new
troops could be trained.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Car Rate Boost
Opposition Told

LOS ANGELES, May 18. CUP)
Transportation experts of the
state railroad commission today
completed their case against fare
increases sought by the Pacific
Electric company and two of its
affiliates at the public hearing be-
fore Commissioner Ray L. Riley.
Counsel for the companies, now
operating under an interim order
that permits Scent local fares and
10 per cent increase in inter-
urban rates, were scheduled to at
tack the commissions findings to-
morrow and at the sessions to be
resumed June %.
The companies petitioned for
authority TO increase local fares
from five cents to seven cents cash
or four tokens for % cents, and
to increase interurban fares 10 per
cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Rifle Fire PunCfuates Harlan Coal
Strike as Pickets Storm Troopers,
Threaten to Close Down Operations

HARLAN, KY, May ID. (UP)-
National guardsmen patroling Har-
Ian county mines which are at
tempting to reopen on non union
basis fired several rounds into tree
tops near High Splint, KY, today
in answer to rifle shots from a
mountainSide above the High Splint
Coal co.
The firing occurred about two
hours after most of Harlan county
had been plunged into darkness
by failure Of a main power line
between Harlan and Lynch, KY
The report of the firing-first
serious violence to mark the un-
ions effort to force Harlan county
operators to to sign union shop
contract for operations of the re-
gion's coal mines-Was given by
Capt. Vernon Sanders, in charge
of the national guard forces sta
toned at the High Splint mine.
Sanders said about 25 men sud-
denly appeared over hill near the
mine tipple. A detachment of four
state militiamen was stationed at
the point and ordered the men to
halt.
Instead the guardsmen reported,
the men shouted:
We're going to close down the
mine"
AT about the same moment,
Sanders said, "the pickets opened
fire. Bullets started Spattering
around the guardsmen. The guards
were instructed TO return the fire
with their rifles, aiming over the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Jury De|iberates
Case for 17Hours

1t took a superior court jury II
hours to FIND Eddie White, Ell Cen
tro Negro, guilty of morals Of
fense against an 11-year-old Negro
girl.
The case was placed in the bands
of the jury at 5 p. m. Wednesday
The verdice was returned at 1880
a. m. Thursday. The jury recon-
mended leniency
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18

WASHINGTON, May Is. UP)-
The house appropriations commit
tee, acting after Director j. Edgar
Hoover of the federal bureau OF
investigation reported activities Of
foreign spies are increasing alarm
ingly, today approved a 100000
fund to finance a counter-e espionage
drive by G-men.
The fund, earmarked for emer-
gency FBI use in a drive against
spies, kidnapers and extortionists,
was carried in the $12l ,399, ,l20 state,
justice, and commerce department
appropriation bill which was sent
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Relief Works Bill
Wins Approval as
Labor Act Argued
Little Wagner Act Up
Before Assembly In
Rush to Get Through

SACRAMENTO May 18.
(UP)-A state relief works
bill appropriating $35, 5,OOO,-
900 was approved by the as
sembly social service and
welfare committee and sent to the
ways and means committee today
as the assembly prepared to debate
a little Wagner act as special
order this afternoon.
Under terms of the relief works
measure, introduced by Assembly,
man Gerald Kepple, r., Whittier,
relief clients would be certified to
any public agency for employment
on projects approved by the state
department of public works. The
program would be established as an
auxiliary to the state relief admin
istration.
Prevailing wages were specified
in the measure, but the amount
received by each worker would be
limited to a sum determined by
the relief administrator. Materials
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Masquerade Barred
As Notes Identify
Victim of Murder
Slain Man Lived for 10
Years Under Alias,
Officers Discover

Mystery surrounding the
past life of Charles Meyers,
81, murdered by S a m
Schoenburg in Ell Centre
last July, was torn aside
Thursday when he was identified
as Charles Franklin Allgood for
merly of Arizona and Iowa.
Identification was established
through letters and notes the dead
man had stored at the c. l.. Cars
ton home in Brawley months be-
fore he was fatally wounded. Cars
ton recently unpacked Meyers pos
sessions and found a letter from
Thomas S. Allgood of University
Park, Ia. He wrote him concerning
Meyers death.
The Iowa man sent snapshots OF
his brother, Charles, from whom he
had not heard since 1890. Friends
of Meyers, police, and deputy sher-
ifs said Meyers and Allgood were
the same man. The Iowa man said
he knew of no reason for his bro
ther assuming a different name.
Meyers, as he was known in I'M
perial Valley for more than II
years, died in the county hospital
July %, 1888 without revealing hi:
masquerade and without telling
who had shot him.
Sam Schoenburg, "A, is servinl
| q fiVe-year- -to-life term in Sar
Quentin for numbering Meyers. HI
was seen with Meyers a short tim,
before a fire at an Ell Centro pack.
ing shed revealed Meyers lyins
wounded in the street a block from
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18

sabotage and gigantic protest meet
ings in Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel-Aviy
and many other towns brough the
majority of Palestine's 100000 Jews
into the anti-BritiSh demonstrations
over which reinforced British troops
and police stood guard.
But most impressive and possibly
most indicative of the long strug-
gle to come was the solemn dem
onstration by 10000 Jews in Jeru-
salem who gathered at the Wailing
Wall and marched through the
streets reciting Biblical passages
prophesying the return of Israel tc
the homeland.
IF | forget thee, Jerusalem, may
my right hand be forgotten inton-
ed DR.. Isaac Herzog, chief Rabbi OF
Yeshurun synagogue, as he SYM
bolically tore up copy of the
British white Paper" in the pres
ence of the demonstrators.
Jewish groups, most of them
younth organizations, marched
through the streets with trumpets
and banners reading: I'VE shall re-
deem Zion. We shall not permit
this betrayal"
Menahem USsishkin, 75-year-old
Zionist leader and president of the
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