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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-14
Outs Should Be
Planted EorIX
Says Agent

Farmers who plant oats in the fall
usually try to do so in late Septem-
Der or October. According to the
Delta Experiment Station, October
Is is the best time to plant oats,
nevertheless, paintings as late as
November Is produced fair yields.
The production on this experiment
shows a yield of oats as follows:
Planting date yield per acre.
October Is 63.5 bus.
November l 1913 bus.
November Is 55.5 bus.
Farmers who have not been able
to get their oat crop planted should
make an effort to do so not later
than November Is. Paintings made
later than this date did not produce
satisfactory yields.
The planting dates for winter le-
gumes will correspond very f~avorably
with the planting dates for oats, ac-
cording to experiments at the Delta
Experiment Station. All winter le-
gume crops should be planted by or
before November Is. Crops planted
later than November Is will not pro-
duce, as a rule, a sufficient growth
by April l to enable the producer to
plow under d profitable amount OF
green matter. Another hazard that
late planted winter legumes may run
into IS freezing weather which will
sometime freeze them out of the
ground before a good root system is
developed.
/. w. Carson, County Agt.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-14

few. Most of their products with the excep-
ton of coffee and a few other products COM
pete with out own. They are located nearer
Europe for the most part than from us. Gull
turally and spiritually they are bound to the
old world Of Europe. Their governments, as
we know about them, are more akin to die
tatorships of Europe than they are to the
Democratic Republic of the United States.
Thus it is clear there is a long road a
head before we can claim friendship and
understanding with South America. We
must learn their language, customs and man.
ners and we must start now.
A decade at least will have passed be-
fore we can mark any real progress.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-14
North-South American Friendship

The President and the State Department
are doing everything humanity possible to
promote friendship with South American
countries.
In the past few weeks generals from
twenty Republics of the Americas were in
vited to inspect our defenses in a gesture de-
signed to promote respect and closer under
standing between North and South America.
These officers, 43 chiefs of staff and
ed key a%irforce, coast and field artillery and
infantry units from New York City to San
Antonio, Texas, in a 12-day aerial tour as
guests of General George Marshall, chief of
staff Of the United States Army and the
United States government.
They came from Bolivia, Colombia, Costa
RIGA, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Hon
duras, Peru, Panama, Uruguay, Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Ell Salvador, Mexico, Nicar-
aqua, Paragua, Cuba Ecuador, Haiti and
VENEZUELA.
The United States sought to show the
representatives of those Republics that we
are in dead earnest about protecting the
western hemisphere from totalitarianism,
that we are proceeding by preparation to
make good our word that we will protect our
South American brothers from Nazi DONNA
ton, No particular ceremony or pomp was
displayed during the trip other than regular
military procedure. Nevertheless it was i'm
pressed on these leaders that the u. S. is
getting itself in position to resist any attempt
at Nazifying any country south of us. The
true purpose was to impress them with our
strength.
If the United States is ever to enjoy
true friendship with South American coun-
tries we must find more bonds of common
understanding.
Real friendship involves perfect under
standing, literally, emotionally spiritually,
even economically.
How can one understand a country
when one cannot even speak read or write
the language of that c~OuntryY When one is
completely ignorant of the language, Gus
toms, geography, history and traditions of a
country it seems impossible to reach a ground
of understanding without which friendship
is impossible.
Thus if we people of the United States
are to seek friendship with people we cannot
even talk to we had better go to work at
once. As evidence of our friendship we must
learn to speak their language, learn some
thing of their geography, history and ira
ditions. We must know how we are alike
and learn how to bridge the gap in our
differences.
These things are fundamental if we are
to give anything but lip service to
friendship with South America.
Our schools can help speed this pro-
gram along by teaching Spanish and Por-
tuguese, by teaching history of South AM
erica. If an adequate history has not been
written than it is time someone writes one
that can be taught.
Exchange students can help a great deal
as well as tourists who speak their language
and can give a sympathetic picture of the
United States. A country is judged by the
people it rears and sends out into the world
just as sons and daughters reflect credit or
discredit on their families.
AS much now as we value friendship
with these countries we cannot help but know
that on the surface our common bonds are
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-14

Mrs. Charlie Lance and Miss Max
inc Leard played at the Jackson
Duplicate Bridge Club Monday nigh.
and won the highest trophy cups.
Miss Kathryn Durham is a Mem
phis visitor this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-14

Mr.. A. j. (Ted) Freiler attended
to business in Jackson on Tuesday
of this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-14

ing holidays: You've heard of Santa Claus, Indiana.
whose tiny p~ostoffice annually is swamped with
Christmas cards and parcels for re-maiing. Last week
the Board of Commissioners of Beltrami COUNTY.
Minnesota, held a special election in which the voters
decided, ID to 30 to create a new p~ostoffice town
named North Pole. Mimi"
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Wholesale Pork Prices
Slump During Week

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April l. Wholesale
prices of fresh pork loins declined
about 20 per cent during March, and
lard prices also dropped, the Insti-
tute of American Meat Packers re-
ported today in a review of the live
stock and meat trade.
Wholesale prices OF most other
fresh pork products showed little
change. Most grades of beef were
steady to higher throughout March
and wholesale prices of LAMB moved
upward slightly. Veaf fell sharply
in the latter part of the month.
The institute estimated pork pro-
duction last month was about 20
per cent greater than during the
same month year ago. Production
of beef and veal were about the
same as a year ago and production
OF lamb somewhat smaller. Lard
production was substantially greater
than year ago.
Marketings of hogs were estimated
to have been 20 per cent greater
than last year, whereas marketings
OF all other classes of livestock ap-
parently were somewhat smaller.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Stock Averages
CO. Stock Range Since 1927
By VICTOR EUBANK,

ASSOCld eC rFeSS FINANCIAL writer.
NEW YORK, April Air trans
port and speciality stocks attracted
support in today's stock market
while many leaders were left to
struggle unsuccessfully in lower ter
ritory.
Gains of as much as 3 points were
posted for favorites when prices were
at their best. Dealings flattened out
after the first hour and closing
trends were irregular. Transfers
were around 100000 shares.
No great amount of speculative
stimulation was derived from the
days news budget, although encour-
aging items cropped up here and
there. On the whole, sentiment was
mildly bullish, but skepticism re-
gardlng nearby turnabout in the
industrial sag continued among some
analysts.
Steels failed to get out in front,
even though the mill operating rate
this week was officially estimated
up one full point at Git per cent
of capacity. 1t was the first advance
in three weeks and was contrary to
most guesses IN the financial dis
trict.
Among stocks American Airlines
and Loft shot up to new highs for
the year or longer. Ahead the greater
part of the time-some eventually
lagged-Were Eastern Air Lines,
Pan-American Airways, United Air
Lines, Sperry, Goodyear, Western
Union, McKesson & Robbins. White
Rock, Brunswick Bake. Canada Dry
and Dow Chemical.
Glenn Martin and Douglas Air
craft tired after rising in the fcre-
noon. Inclined to hang back we're
New York Central, PENNSYLVANIA,
United States Steel. Bethlehem.
Chrysler, General Motors and
Anaconda.
Aluminium of America pushed up
IN the curb, along with Grumman
Aircraft and Montgomery Ward
"A Lower were Bell Aircraft. Gulf
Oil and Great Atlantic & Pacific.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Chicago Grain
By the Associated Press.

63 the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April despite ex-
port sale of 100000 bushels of
Canadian wheat to Europe and a
fresh batch of pessimistic crop re-
ports, the wheat market today was
unable to score gain of only slight
ly more than cent, much of which
was lost later.
The markets refusal to respond
more strongly to bullish develop
ments was the result partly of per-
slstent hedging sales in connection
with liquidation of loan wheat.
traders said. as we'll as failure of
Winnipeg prices to reflect the big
export business. Since the war be-
gan Great Britain has been buying
Canadian wheat in large quantities
at frequent intervals.
Wheat closed IA. cent higher
than Saturday; May. 1.O47s-I.O5;
July, 1,0334-7s; corn unchanged to
4 up; May, 56s4 IS; July, 577s-34:
oats UNCHANGED to IL higher
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Gas Utility Revenues
Well Above Year Auo
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SpSSidl binpdtCu W uc 0ldE.
NEW YORK, April 1.-Revenues
of manufactured and natural gas
utilities amounted to $92 BAT 300 in
January 1910, as compared with
$50, ,450,10 for the corresponding
month of 1889, an increase of 11.3
per cent, it was announced by Paul
Ryan, chief statistician of the
American Gas Association.
Revenues from industrial and
commercial users rose from $24.-
298, 800 a year ago at $27, 7,787 500 in
January 1910, gain Of IA per cent.
Revenues from domestic uses such as
cooking, water heating and refriger-
alton, ETC., rose from $59. ISL 800 in
1889 to $65,059 300 in 1910, an in
crease of 100 per cent.
The manufactured gas industry
reported revenues of $35 1857 300 for
the month, an increase of ~ per
cent from the same month of the
preceding year.
The natural gas utilities reported
revenues of $56,879, 400 for the
month. or l4O per cent more than
for January 1889.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Idle Funds Resume
Climb During Week
v tie A associated Pres,

by Tue associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, April Idle funds
resumed their steady increase last
week as excess reserves of Federal
Reserve member banks rose $50 OOO.-
600 to $3.50, ,000, 900.
Principal factors in the week. s
rise were another increase in the
monetary gold stock and seasonal
decline in money in circulation.
In the previous week, which in
cluded the mid-March tax pay
ments, there was a sharp decrease
in excess reserves. In only three
weeks this year. however, has the
supply of idle funds failed to in
crease.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Foilures Total Coins

NEW YORK, April 1 R-Busi-
ness failures in the United States
rose to 287 during the week ended
March % from 253 in the preceding
week, Dun & Bradstreet reported
today. This compared with $40 In
the comparable 1899 week.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Aluminium, Ltd,
Reports Higher Net
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April aluminium,
Ltd, and fully-owned subsidiaries,
reported consolidated net profit for
1889 of SIS, ,799 ,927, equal after pre-
ferred requirements to $20.59 COM
mon share outstanding, compared
with the 1888 figures Of $11216,959
or $15.87 share.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Visible Grain Supply

NEW YORK, April CP.-visible
supply Of American grain showed
the following changes from a week
ago Gin bushels: Wheat decreased
1900; corn decreased 461, 900; oats
decreased $4,000; rye decreased
5000; barley decreased 473,0OO.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

SHIfdg0 Cash MaTket
Cash wheat, No. red, 1.O4Ia; No Q
mlSe6' M ,05has Corn, No. / yellow. $3.50;
81; No = white, 664-1a. Cats, No. 8
mixed, aga: No white, -437s -44h4; sam
yellow, l II; No 4. LOS; sample Srads
yellow: .o6. Barley, mailing. 54-64. nom:
IeeG- 1920 nom; No. 2 barley, IS; No. 1
mating; 63. Field seeds, per loo pounds
nominal; Timothy. 1905 25 sweet clo.
yer 4,5O-5.25; red clover, 125O-i5 90:
reg top; S5o,e oO alsike, 15.0O-1s 90;
Evening star., 1940-04-01

In BANKRUPTCY recevershp eorganized under
ACT or securities assumed by such
rates OF dividend in FOREGOING
oursements based
included VI '"''' u'''oe"us "e uo'
XIX dividend Ex Also extra or extras
"a, th qHdends paid last Declared
STOCK Accumulated dividends declared this
Evening star., 1940-04-01
New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 1.-The cotton
futures market ranged lower today,
despite large sales of gray goods
in the Worth Street district, which
were estimated at close to Is million
yards.
Heavy selling, credited to Bombay
interests, disclosed limited demand
consisting of trade, New Orleans
and local operators and the list
showed little rallying power.
Midafternoon prices held declines
OF 9 points; May (old), 1851; July
(old), 1880; December, 963.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

Cooking schools In Germany are
being given special rations.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

New Orleans Prices.
r.. NEW ORLEANS. April R.-Cotton
Iutures uS1 were set back here today by poor
noon were 2 to z points not lower.
Evening star., 1940-03-01
STAR WASHINGTON D. c. FRIDAY MARCH l. 1e4o

cations, finance and currency ques-
tions are concerned.
The railways, postal service and
banks are German-named and Ger
man administered.
On assuming authority Gov. Gen.
Frank published proclamation
which said:
"The Fuehrer has made arrange
ments which will insure that this
hitherto misruled area will never
again be storm center for disturb
ing the order Of the civilized world. /"
Regiments Life.
The governor general instituted
control Of commodity prices, ra-
tioning Of foodstuf1s; compulsory,
although paid, labor to restore
communications and clean up de-
bris; summary executions to dis
courage attacks on Germans and q
Z pm. curfew.
German bombing and lombard
ment damaged Warsaw so badly
that a new capital was established
at Cracow.
Warsaw is shambles, with three
fourths of its buildings destroyed,
and the city's parks and open spaces
are dotted with the graves of an
estimated 100000 of its 1900, 900 in
habitants who were killed during
the German siege. Peasant carts
and horses are virtually the only
means of conveyance. Peddlers along
the sidewalks have repleaced most
of the city's shops.
The most common sight in the
city is long line of men and women
before German officials Offices seek
ing the various permits they must
have to do anything.
Evening star., 1940-03-01
U. 5. Envoy Completes
3-Month Tour Of China
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, China, March L.
Travelling by automobile over
China's new far western lifeline
highway, United States Ambassador
Nelson r. johnson returned to the
wartime capital yesterday after a
three-month inspection tour of
North, Central and Coastal China.
He was accompanied on his 1000
mile Journey through Southwestern
China by Judge Milton ]. Helmick
of the United States Court for
China, who will shortly fly to Hong
Kong, thence proceed by ship to
Canton to hold the first session of
his court in Japanese occupied ter
ritory.
Assistant Naval Attache Mai.
James McHugh, who drove the Am
bassador's car from Running in
Yunnan Province to Cnungking, said
the 450-mile drive skirting the
western borders of China was made
in five and half uneventful days,
during which time the party lived
for the most part on native food.
Also accompanying the Ambassador
was his private secretary, Sidney
Laffoon Of Norfolk, Va.
The new western road linking
Running. terminus Of the railroad
from French Indo- China ard of the
Burma highway, with Chungking
will be able to carry the greater por-
ton Of West China's vitally impor-
tant traffic and trade as soon as a
few more bridges are completed.
Two to three hundred miles further
inland than the existing Running
Chungking highway, the new road
will be far less vulnerable to bomb
ing attacks of Japanese planes.
Evening star., 1940-03-01
Poland 10 Live
Bears Up Refugees Of
5undered Republic
Those Remoining in
Territory Feel Soviet
And Nozi Reeimentotion
(Second OF a Series.)
BY LLOYD LEHRBAS,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

l HSoOSAutCo H1coo 0tuA "iAuCAs
poland will live again!"
! Inspired by that stirring phrase
from their national anthem, Poles
who escaped the German Russian
invasion of their homeland are
planning the rebirth of the Polish
republic-after the war-from their
exile capital, Anglers, France.
That same phrase, says Count
jerry Potocki, the Polish Ambas-
sador here. is singing in the hearts
of $4,000, 900 Poles living under their
conqueror's rule in their homeland.
The allies plan to reconstitute
Poland as a nation If they win, but
have made no announcement as to
the geographical boundaries or
composition of the country.
Germans Plan Puppet State.
The Germans have annexed about
one-fourth of Poland to the Reich
and indicate that, If they win, the
Poland of the future will be a
'puppet" state composed roughly of
one-fourth of its former area and
a population of 100000. Russia
has seized slightly more than one
half and is incorporating it into the
Soviet Union.
The proposed "puppet state" now
called the government general" is
ruled by DR.. Hans Frank.
Establishment of public order in
the German-occupied areas provid-
ed a bloody chapter in Poland's s
history.
Polish sources claim that $4,000
Poles were executed.
The "Sicherheitspoizei, uni
formed police drawn from the
Gestapo German secret police)
who were assigned to mop up"
in the wake of the German Army,
admit executions-without specify
ing the number-on charges of
Polish sniping and the murder of
5000 German residents of the
areas before the German Army
marched in.
Transported From Areas.
Large-scale transport of Poles and
Jews from the areas annexed by
Germany into the government
general area still is in progress.
German reports are that approxi-
mately 100000 Poles and 10000
Jews are to be transported to their
birthplaces" in areas outside the
German Reich.
Polish sources contend that more
than 100000 are to be deported
from their homes and huddled into
the Polish area"
Contrary to usual German prac-
tice, the administration of the
new area was hurried and not well
organized, and neutral reports as
Sert there has been considerable
friction between the army, police
and civilian administrative units.
The territory OF the government
general" is treated as foreign terri
tory as far as customs, commune
Evening star., 1940-06-10
BY LILLIAN cox ,ATHEY.

The blue cat is the most portly
member of the channel cats and
some of them reach a great size.
$50 pounds and was caught in the
Mississippi at st. Louis. However.
We find the average catfish does not
tip the scales at near this figure
This is the catfish that roams the
waters OF the larger streams and
lakes and bayouS, being especially
abundant along the lower Missis-
sippi and in the Atchafalaya River
in Louisiana. From this point mil
lions of pounds of catfish are
shipped
The present-day industry is CEN
tered at Morgan City. The fishing
season for cats extends from Sep
tember to May, though some fishing
is done throughout the year. 1t is
very interesting to note that much
OF the fishing is accomplished by the
use of 'trot lines" And the length
OF the trot lines may vary from few
RODS to more than a mile in length.
~ iillAo lpo NtsllNd VI uSll
are set according 10 the character of
the body of water in which the fish
ing is done. The snoodS are nearly
always l8 inches in length and
placed about 3 feet apart All fish
ing through the autumn and winter
is done at the bottom. Lake fishing
is always at the surface.
Catfish have the reputation of
eating almost everything. This one
is more faStidiouS. The bait used to
entiCe the cats is known as live
bait and cut bait" The first It'd
bits consist Of neat bits of shad, and
1t is claimed by those familiar with
the habits of these fish that the re-
suits are 100 per cent. BY dangling
the "fllletS' of mooneye, craWfisn
and other fishes before the cats
eager eye, the results seem to be
very much less satisfactory. Many
claim that cells are in great favor
among the catfish. Perhaps this is
because it is so difficult to obtain
Evening star., 1940-06-10

freshets cause the waters to rise in
the Mississippi, many, many miles
of adjacent country become flooded.
The cats. it may be truthfully said,
take to the woods" and "SWampS.'
Then brush lines with single hooks
are baited and tied to the low limbs
Of shrub and tree. The hooks lie
about 7 inches more or less under
the water. The fisherman Identifies
his line, which he has left to do his
fishing for him, by tying a gay-col-
ored rag to the tree The colors in
dicate to the various fishermen the
story of the catch and it is a time
of much merriment as each visits
his particular tree. placing his catch
in live box while awaiting the ar
rival of boats from Morgan City to
transport the harvest. This is tame
fishing compared with the tug of
war between angler and a deter
mined, husky fish. but it helps the
fishermen to bring home the
bacon"
Russia boasts that there are SO
nations within its borders
Evening star., 1940-06-10

and streets damaged during the
winter will be opened in the office
of County Engineer c. l.. Kinnear
at II am. tomorrow.
1t was estimated that during the
severe winter storms the thorough
fares suffered approximately $4,000
damage, the greatest in the county
in many years.
Mr.. Kinnear said that when the
Evening star., 1940-06-10

Springs, Morgan County, were
elected supervisors for the Eastern
Panhandle Soil Conservation Dis
trict by landowners in Berkeley and
Morgan Counties.
They defeated j. G. Debaugh,
H. c. Mcdaniel and Herbert S. Van
Metre of Berkeley County.
Previously named to the board |
by the State Soil Conservation |
Evening star., 1940-06-10
Conservation District
Supervisors Elected
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, June
10.-Arch E. Clohan of Cherry Run.
Morgan County; Charles c. Spring
OF Great Cacapon, Morgan County,
and j. Leslie Gain of Berkeley
Evening star., 1940-06-10

Agency were Albert Brichner, Berk-
eley County, and Joseph Under,
Morgan County.
Evening star., 1940-06-10
Natures Children
Channel Cat
Ictalurus punctatus)

the tender and delectable flesh of
the eel to offer to the canny channel
cat.
The temperature of the water has
much to do with the activities of
the catfish, When the water is cold,
there is a migration toward the
warmer waters and in the summer
the vast army moves up the stream
to deeper water. When the spring
Evening star., 1940-06-10

One-third Of Spain's livestock was
killed during the civil war.
Evening star., 1940-06-10

Shanghai, China, is trying to stop
speculation in cotton yarn.
Evening star., 1940-06-10

street improvement program is
completed the 230 miles of county
streets and roads will be in as good
condition as when they were built.
Evening star., 1940-06-10
Arlington Rood Repair
Bids to Be Opened

Bids for materials with which to
improve Arlington County roads
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-26

what we want > or 4 years from
now when they are finished.
For 90 millions we could
25 or 30 welter-weight boats.
And % or 80 such spitfires
cirdling one battleship would
make things pretty lively for
the big boat. The % million
dollar Graf Spec OF the Ger
mans she didn't last long a
gainst 8 small Britishers, down
there off South America.
We have been rushing around
voting money hap-hazard, and
hallway beside ourself. The
only thing Congress asks. how
much-and the bigger the a.
mount, the quicker the vote.
Maybe this old common sense
Hoosier boy, Willkie, will kinda
get 'em quoted down and back
on terra tirma, there in Old
Potomac town. Yours with the
lOw-down.-Jo Sera.