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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11
LABOR HEARING
 SCHEDULED FOR
 SOUND REGION

SEATTLE, Nov. 1.-The La Fol lette Civil Liberties Committee has scheduled a hearing next month on anti-labor activities in the Puget Sound region.
 Although the exact dates have not been set, Secretary Costigan of the Washington Commonwealth Fed eration said that one matter the committee will be asked to investi- gate in an alleged anti-union cam paign at Bellingham. A recent squabble between rival lumber un- ions at Bellingham resulted in a court injunction prohibiting pick citing of mill.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11
STRIKE OF STAGE
 HANDS ENDS;WAGE
 INCREASE GRANTED

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. 1.-The strike of the stage hands union against the Selznick International studio has been settled, and work resumed on the picture "Rebecca." ."
 One hundred members of the un- ion quit their jobs when the film company failed to make a sched- uled ten per cent wage increase
 The union announced that the dispute was settled under the only terms to which we would agree"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11
PEACE IN CHRY5LER
 WALk0UT5

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 11.-Fed- eral Mediator Dewey predicted op- timistically today that -CIO Chrys- Ter negotiators probably will reach a written agreement by Monday.
 The prediction comes at a time especially bleak for more than 56,- 900 idle Chrysler workers.
 The Michigan Unemployment Commission has ruled that Chrysler workers are not eligible for bene- fits.
 Federal Mediator Dewey said that the conferences toward a settlement is continuing today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11
(oflgressnlen
 Given Thrill

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Nov. H. Congressmen lived few anxious moments in flaming airplane yes terday, but the blaze was extlng- uished almost immediately.
 House and Senate members of the Military Affairs committees had just taken off for Shreveport, La, in an army airplane. The pilot dis covered one of bis gasoline tank caps was cracked and turned back to their airport for repairs. When the pilot started his motors for a second takeoff a backfire ignited gasoline sprayed over the plane. Air port attendants quickly put out the flames.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11
L0ND0NERS GO TO CENOTApH
 IN REVERENCE
Woman Cries 'Hypouifes and Policeman March,
 es Her Away

LONDON, Nov 11-Several hun dred persons, lining Whitehall, site of the Cenotaph. World War dead memorial, stood in two minutes si- lence today while policeman led an hysterical woman away.
 The woman darted out of the crowd at the end of the silence per- iod, crying "Hypocrites! Hypo- critesl Twenty years after the war;
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11
NO PEACE
 IN CHINA

HONGKONG, Nov. 1.-The Brit ish Ambassador to China, Sir Arch ibald Kerr. denied today that his recent conversations with Chinese leaders at Chungking dealt with Sino-Japanese peace terms.
 Said Sir Archibald: My talks at Chungking at no time dealt with Sino-Japanese peace terms. The conversations were strictly relevant to problems at hand"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11
E DIVORCED FROM
 FILM STAR HUBBY

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. 11.-Mrs Suzanne Morris has been granted an uncontested divorce from her film star husband Chester Morris She charged the actor with extreme cruelty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11
CALLS FOR RED
 GROSS JOINING

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.-Presi- dent Roosevelt last night asked that the Nation join the American Red Cross during it's annual membership roll call. The call begins today and ends November 30.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11
SWIM CHAMP BETTER,
 QUITS HOSPITAL

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. It. Physicians reveal that former Olym- pic diving champion Georgia Cole man has improved so greatly that she has been released from the hos pital.
 Miss Coleman was taken to a hospital last week suffering from a serious liver ailment. She has been in poor health since she was strick- en with infantile paralysis two years ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11

THE HAIRY Ainus or Japan are primitive race occupying a posi- tion comparable to that of the Indian in America.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11

ALASKA contains a number of known oil fields, under govern ment control.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-11

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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
}. D. Truitt Passes At
Bethesda Home

J. ID. Truitt, resident of the Be-
thesda community for over so years,
died at the home of his son, Star
key S. Truitt, at Emory. Funeral
services were held at Pleasant Ridge
Church by the Rev. Judson Chastain.
Interment was raade in Pleasant
Ridge cemetery.
MIR Truitt was a native of Mont
gomery County but had moved TO
Holmes county over so years ago
where he engaged in farming until
recent years. MIR. Truitt was a
member of the Baptist Church.
FGe is survived by the following
children: W. L. Truitt, Minter City;
Miss Frances Ada Truitt, Emory;
f. f. Truitt, Schlater; Mrs. ]. F.
Frazier, Greenville; S. S. Truitt, EN-
DRY; E. E. Truitt, Mrs. E. w. Eu-
banks, Bethesda. A sister, Mrs. Mollie
Davis, of Schlater, also survives.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
J. Stewart Watson
Announces Today
Popular Official Seeks
Reelection; Statement
Made To Electors

The News Is authorized to an
nounce the candidacy of Senator ].
Stewart Watson for reelection to the
State Senate, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary in August.
Mr. Watson has served in the Leg
islature and is completing his first
term in the senate. His many friends
will be interested in the following
announcement.
To The People OF Holmes County:
In announcing for reelection to the
office of State Senator from the
21st Senatorial district, 1 promise to
give careful consideration as I have
IN the past, to all matters, that come
before the Senate. I promise to sup
port those measures which are for
the best interest of a majority Of
the people. I will appreciate your
support in the August primary.
Sincerely yours,
J. STEWART WATSON.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Home Demonstration
Council Meets

The Home Demonstration Council
held the first meeting of the year
Thursday January 26th.
The Finance Committee was APP
pointed. Chairman Mrs. J. l.. Brad
dock: Mrs. B. A. Mcbride, Mrs j. S.
Devil. Exhibit Committee: Mrs. w. E.
Grace, Mrs. I. e. Hearn, Mrs. T. H.
Brister.
II
Mr.. T. M WILLIAMS, County Agent,
talked to the Council on THE County
Agriculture. Program" Mr. Williams
gave the total acres in the county
and how the land was used. The
fertilizer bought and how this had
been decreased by winter cover crops
He also gave interesting information
on income from cotton in the last
eleven years, feed bought and live
stock in the county. Mr. Williams
stressed the need of having an income
from crops other than cotton.
County Council hand books were
given TO each member This book
contains instructions for council worl
and score for Goa ell certificates
and included letter from the State
Council President, Mrs. c. A. Rob
erts.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Better Business Institute
EnroIIs New Members

Twenty more members have enroll
ed in the Durant Better Business
Institute bringing the total enroll
mert to dato up to AZ members.
The first meeting will be held
one night next week at which time
the definite meeting night. time and
place will be decided by members OF
the organization.
Enrolled members will be notified
as to the time and place of the first
meeting.
The final drive for members will
be held Friday and anyone interest
ed is asked to phone either Robert
Irby or the News office for particu-
lars.
Complete information about the or
ganization is carried on page of this
weeks News. If you are not famil-
lar with the organization you are
urged to turn to that page and &C
quaint yourself with the aims and
purposes of the organization.
Additional members enrolled this
week ARE:
S. w. Weems, Jr, Julius Guion,
Mark Love, Ed Gunedge, w. A. Ba-
con, f. H. Eubanks. B. F. Friedman,
The Style Shop, w. ]. Dodd, Melba
Tucker, j. L. Maxwell, Mrs. t. l.
West, DIR. WI r. Weaver, j. L. Lon
ginotti, Ray Bros, Herrin Bros, j
p. Durham Mrs. J. E. Dollahite, Miss
Georgia Mcintyre, Mrs. w. E. Nc
Cune.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Mrs. A. H. Brown Winner
Window Garden Contest

Mrs A. II. Brown was awarded
two pictures for first prize in the
Winter window Garden Contest spon-
sored annually by, the Present Day
Club of Durant
The window gardens were judged
Friday afternoon by Mrs Kate Hun
oldstein and Mrs L.. Grant. They
were accompanied by Mrs. R. b
Jenkins, chairman of the committee
on the project, and Mrs. o. H. Pal
mer, club member.
Mrs. G. w Drane won second place
and was given a ported plant.
All fthe workers CHM, RDLo
All of the windows entered in tbs
contest were exceptionally beautiful
and it was only after long deliberation
that the judges could pick out the
two prettiest.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
500 Planters Hold
Mass Meeting In
County Seat

group, is selling his product in an
unprotected market and is buying the
necessities of life on a protected
market. Industrial products, protect
ed by tariffs are today selling on the
American market at or above the
farmers cotton, taking account of
the inflated value of the dollar, SELL
ing in the open market, is bringing
him only so percent of parity With
his income cut in half and the
price of products he must buy BOZ
stored by the government to full
parity, the farmer is seriously threat
ened.
1t is impossible to increase the
farmers purchasing power by reduc-
ing the protective tariff and thus
reducing the premium he must pay
for manufactured products, Mr.. Sto-
wall argued. The nations of the
world now have all placed CORE
spending tariffs on our goods in
retaliation, so that we can not now
act by ourselves in reducing these
barriers, without openly discriminate
ing upon the industrial employees Of
the United States. BY reducing the
buying power of the industriaists
group, we would thereby further re-
duce our own domestic consumption,
because those people are our good
customers, he maintained
Parity income for the cotton pro-
Queer as calculated by the Depart
ment of Agriculture would be APP
proximately 1872 cents pound ON a
100000 bale crop at the present
level of commodity prices.
Under the conditions, the planters
agreed it is necessary for the gov
eminent to intervene with legislation
and guarantee the unprotected farm
er relief.
In preliminary remarks, Read Dunn,
| assistant manager of the Delta Coun-
ell, called attention to the fact that
ed as necessary temporary adjust
ment by the Council.
The Council, he reminded the plant
ers, maintains that the only perma-
nent solution to the cotton dilema
is to increase the consumption through
expansion Of foreign and domestic
| markets and through advestising and
research. This program is now being
undertaken in the interest of the
cotton section by the National Cotton
Council of America, which was form-
| ed by the Delta Council.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Paralysis Drive Nets
County Almost $50;
State Matches Fund
Contributions Of Each
Town In Holmes Co.
Are Listed Today

The sum of S231.S4 was raised in
Holmes county from activities to eel
citrate the Presidents birthday, ac-
cording to Joe herman, county chair
man, today. In addition about 500
was sent to the President in birth
day cards.
Holmes county will net about $3.50
in funds with which to fight infan-
tile paralysis from the the drive.
MIR, Berm9n, speaking for the
county and community chairmen. said
that he desired to thank everyone
in the county who contributed in any
way to the success of the drive.
The state of Mississippi, under its
Social Security law, can be called
upon to match any local funds fol
the care of crippled children. Thus
the nearly $3.50 which Holmes county
has raised will amount to twice the
amount, when matched by state funds.
The county fund will be admins.
tered by a county committee which
will be appointed by DR.. Felix ].
Underwood, state health officer and
chairman of the state committee on
the celebration of the Presidents
birthday.
Following is complete report on
the funds raised in each community
Place Amount
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Holmes Teachers To
Hold Meeting Friday
MEA Secretary Speaks;
Dinner Basketball
Game, Are Slated

Holmes County Teachers Associa-
ton will meet at Holmes Junior
College Friday afternoon at 4:30 &C
cording to an announcement Of Miss
Dorothy McBee, county Superinten-
dent of Education.
M. C. Mcdaniel, president of the
Junior College, has arranged a de-
votional and musical program for the
meeting.
W. N. Taylor, secretary of the
Mississippi Educational Association
will be present to address the teach
ers and J. r. Calhoun will talk on
teacher placement. Mr.. Taylor will
speak on the teacher retirement fund.
A dinner will be given for the
teachers after the meeting in the
dining hall of the school, after which
they will view the basketball game
between Wesson and the Junior Col
lege.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Musical Program To Be
Presented At H. J. c.

The w. p A symphony orchestra
from Jackson, Miss. is to give a pro-
gram at Holmes Junior College on
Friday evening, at 7:30.
This orchestra is made up largely
of professional musicians who have
belonged to big symphony orches-
tras. They render the best music
only as artists of their calibre are
able to do so. There is to be a
movement from Mozart's a major
piano concerto and other numbers
of equal classic and artistic worth.
The public is urged to take advan-
tage of this opportunity to feed their
soul with an evening of genuine mu-
sic pleasure.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Committees Appointed
By Womun's Club

Program Mrs. A. l.. Stevens.
Mrs. w. P. Taylor, Mrs. Rob-
ert Ham, Mrs. D. j. Crawford,
Miss Frances Allen.
Budget-Mrs. w. E. McCune, Miss
Mamie Clark, Mrs. ]. NJ. Howard.
Courtesy Mrs. r. C. Gilmore, Mrs.
Joe York, Mrs. NJ D. Baine.
American Citizenship Mrs. d.
Crawford, Mrs. R. C. Stevens, Mrs.
Joyce. -
American Homes-Mrs. R. C. Ell
more, Mrs. Mark Love, Mrs. A. L.
Stevens.
Gardens-Mrs. G. B. Ramsey.
Education-Mrs. c. A. Doster, Mrs.
NJ d. Baine, Mrs. ]. WI Rice.
Library Extension Mrs. w. P. Tay-
lor.
Conservation--Mrs Phil Wilson,
Mrs. Mark Love.
Highway & Memorial Tree Plant
ing-Mrs M d. Baine.
Fine Arts-Mrs j. WI Rice.
Art-Mrs Horace Weir.
Music-Mrs Robert Ham.
Literature-Mrs E. s. Lewis.
Public Welfare-Mrs. w E. Nc
Cune, Mrs. w. P. Taylor, Mrs. III. J.
Montgomery.
Child Welfare-Mrs. Joe York.
Legfslation-Miss Frances Allen.
Press and Publicity-Mrs. H. j.
Montgomery.
International RELATIONSHIPS r. C.
Stevens
Motion Pictures-Mrs. j. w. Rice.
Radio-Mrs. Mark Love
Safety Council Miss Clark.
ParliamentaTian-M r. c. Ell
more
Historian--iMiss Mamie Clark.
Custodian-Mrs. D. ]. Crawford.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Services At First
Baptist Church

Bible School Gas.
Morning worship 1880.
b. II. u. 6 p. M.
Evening worship p. M.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday, 1900
p. NJ.
Croir practice "Wednesday 7:45 p. NJ
Christ wants fellowship not patron
age. God honors no draughts where
there are no deposits The church
is Gods earthly depository.
w. r. Haynie, Pastor.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Three Girls Injured In
Accident On 81 South

Three MSCW goods narrowly es-
capped death early Sunday night on
highway 81 when they ran around
a woman lying in the middle of the
road and crashed into a concrete
bridge.
Miss Ann Elizabeth Grimes and
Miss Mary Cooper, popular DuraSi
girls, and Miss Coopers roommate
at MSCW, Miss Margaret Rosetta
Greenville, were riding south of town
on highway 81 about $50 o'clock
Sunday night They were going about
thirty miles per hour and saw some.
thing light lying in the middle Of the
road. They thought at first it was
piece of paper but when they
came up on it closer saw that i,
was a woman lying crosswise across
the middle of the road. They ran
around her to avoid hitting her and
hit the bridge.
Miss Cooper suffered a bad cut
from her lip to her nose and severe
bruises. Miss Grimes and Miss Ro
ella each suffered badly sprainet
ankles, bruises and one of them re
ceived a blackened eye. The front
end of the car was considerably
damaged.
The woman was brought to towr
by passerby and turned over t.
authorities She was booked as Bar
bara Fox, Kosciusko, and was tried
for public drunkenness in Judge
Williams court and fined 500 and
costs.
The woman has been transferred
to the Jail in Lexington.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Ginning In Holmes Is
Under that Of 1887

Ginning of the 1888 cotton crop
up to January 16 is 25,740 less than
the previous season according to the
latest report.
Up to January 16 Holmes county
gins have ginned 41,317 bales of cot
ton as compared with 67,057 bales
up to the same date in 1888 from
the 1887 crop.
The decrease is thought to be the
result of the cotton reduction con-
troll program now in effect.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Pot M. Barrett Candidate
For County Attorney

Pat NJ Barrett, we'll known and
popular Lexington attorney, will rul
for County Prosecuting Attorney and
the News today carries his name in
the candidates column.
MIR. Barrett will make a formal
statement to the electors next week.
Watch for his notice.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
through
Hazel
Eyes
BY
Hazel Brannon

Forty-two members have signed up
to take the course in salesmanship
in the Durant Better Business Insti-
tute, according to the latest report.
This Is splendid showing and one
that Durant might well be proud
of. We have an idea the AZ people
who have signed up for the course
will be glad for their interest before
the course is over.
An examination of the forty topics
to be studied by the group as listed
on page s of this issue will show
anyone that the course is certain
to be interesting and worthwhile.
Much good can come out of the
institute, both TO its members and
the community.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02
Dave Ions ii Has
Paralysis Stroke

The raany friends of Mr.. Dave
Longinotti will regret to learn he
was stricken with paralysis early Fri
day night and has been in a critica'
condition.
He is reported considerably i'm
proved today, however, and much
hope Is held for his recovery.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02

If the Ground Hog saw his sha-
dow today at noon when he came
out he's not as old as we think ne
is. Instead of staying out to BRING
us warm weather he probably got
blinded by the rain and rushed back
in the ground to keep from drowning.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02

President Hoover says FDR's an
nounced departures in foreign policy
prescribed measures which would pro-
woke international i'll win and posi-
bly, lead to war.
VIDE don't know of any nations Mr.
Roosevelt's utterances would offend
other than Germany. Italy and pos
sibly Japan.
Certainly those three countries have
nothing for us in the way OF good
will. They like us just about as well
as they like Great Britain and
France.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02

Will Whitaker. firecracker editor
of the Grenada County Weekly, pass
ed through Durant today and left
us a copy of his current edition.
In it he tells of coming to work
on Friday morning and finding where
the shop had been broken into. No
thing was stolen for there was moi
ing to steal but the tools and thieves
have no use for tools because they
mean work.
The thieves must have gotten IN
side, Mr.. Whitaker said, and real
lied they were in a country printing
shop and thrown<up their hands in
disgust and climbed out again, know
ing full we'll that next to the county
poor house, they could have found no
more unpromising territory.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02

Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt will
tell OF "A Typical Day at the White
House." on Tuesday evening, March
Z, at 500 at the Grand Theatre in
Natchez.
The First Lady is brought to Nat
chez and Mississippi by the Pilgrim
age Garden Club and will be an added
attraction at the 1899 Pilgrimage
which opens this year March 4. 1t
will continue through Mach 10.
This is the eighth annual Pilgrim
age and so well have former Pill
grimages been handled they have at
tracted national attention.
Beautiful ante-bellum homes of Nat
chez are thrown open so that
throngs of visitors from all ovei
the nation can view the splendor OF
the old south as typified in the homes
of that era.
Every Mississippian should certainly
know Natchez.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-02

So much noise he's been made about
the gambling and whiskey joints
across the line from Memphis. Reams
of copy have been written about
Jackson's Gold Coast But nobody
has anything to say about Mississip-
pf Gulf. Coast
We haven't been on the Gulf Coast
since last spring but they tell us that
everything down there Is still, as al
ways, wide open.
Why don't they start crusade
down there?
Or in Vicksburg, the historic bat
tleground of the Blue and the Greys?
Or in ante-bellum Natchez?
Way such rank discrimination?
Could 1t be that authorities real re
that people drink whiskey and are
going where II is sold? And they
are afraid of losing some business?
Surely not.
But 1t does seem that q consistent
policy should be followed all over the
state in regard to the liquor thaffic
One can nelp out DluSn ht uIe
picture Mississippi presents to hun
dreds of thousands of visitors. On
entering the state from Memphis
they find all the whiskey they want
until they get to Jackson which we
hear is dry now. ct may be open
again before we go to press) They
go on down the line to south Mis-
sissippi and get anything they want.
Especially when they hit the Gulf
Coast
Could Vt be that Jackson, consid-
ering itself the center of the state,
(which It isn't for Durant isl. and
thinking itself the center must be
the heart and must be pure?
It will take much more than a few
acknowledgements officials to deal with
the liquor traffic in Mississippi.
It will take an intelligent, SANE
view of the question by an inform
ed public that win see to it that the
prohibition law is either enforced OF
repealed.
One or the other should be done.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-30

of this place but for several years
made his home with his children,
died of a heart attack Saturday at
the home of his daughter Mrs. Jess
Lehman and family Of New London.
He was aged four days less than 6S
years. He was an invalid for many
years. He was married to Elizabeth
Lemley who survives with one son
David of Bluffton and four daugh-
ters, Mrs. Aaron Hilty of Pandora,
Mrs. Walter Cupp of Rockport, Mrs.
Charles Richardson OF Rudolph and
Mrs. Jess Lehman Of New London,
number of grandchildren, one bro
ther Louis Risser and four sisters,
Mrs. William Basinger, Misses Lizzie
and Lena Riser, all of Pandora and
Mrs. Otis Mcbride of Lima also
survive. Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon from the home of
his daughter Mrs. Aaron Hilty.
The Cheerio photograph studio
over the Amstutz store has been at
tractively remodeled this spring.
The studio is divided into three
large rooms, waiting, work and
camera rooms. The waiting room has
walls of sky blue line striped de-
sign and pink ceiling and the camera
room is the reverse, pink walls and
blue ceiling.