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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

Daniels Of Vaughn visited friends
here Saturday.
NJ. A. Hanna has been kept quite
busy the last two weeks thawing up
water pipes and renewing bursted
ones. Much damage was done by
the recent cold and snow. In places
snow can still be found after two
weeks.
MIR. and Mrs. G. N. Taggart of
Goodman were dinner guests OF Mrs.
Mamie Jones Monday.
Mr.. Tommy Simpson OF Cameron
was a business visitor Monday.
Miss Julia Mitchell was a business
visitor. in Canton Monday.
Miss Isabella Thompson of Jack
son visited friends here Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. McDaniels of
Tchula were in town Sunday. Mr..
and Mrs. Dennis Anderson and son
returned home with them for a few
days visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thurmond Fulton
spent the weekend with her parents
at Rolling Fork.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. D. McKie are on
the sick list.
MIR. and Mrs. T. o. Buford spent
the weekend in Lucedale with her
parents.
Among those on the sick list this
week are Mrs. C. H. Ingram, Mrs. l.
D. Mcpherson, Misses Minnie and
Pulia Pearce, Misses Molly and Mag
gle Henley, ]. M. Marlborough, Edwin
Maxwell and Hood May, Jr. We
wish all them a speedy recovery.
Mrs. j. E. Maxwell and mother,
Mrs. E. w Ford, of Goodman were
recent visitors to Jackson.
Mrs. Dudley Hutchinson and son,
Dudley, Jr, have returned to their
home in Columbus after a pleasant
visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. V. Maxwell.
MIR. and Mrs. Beaman Allen, Miss
Katherine Dendy, Mrs. Johnny Muir
tagh and Mrs. Susan Morton motor
ed to Memphis to see Gone With
the Wind"
w. L. Murtagh has gone to De-
troit, Mich. to bring back a Lincoln
Zephyr car.
W. S. Owen and son William, have
returned from Ohio where they pur-
chased a Buick ambulance and Flu
neral Coach to be used by Maxwell
and Owen Funeral Home.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

Miss John Ada Walton and John
Allen Cade were visitors to Lexing-
ton Saturday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

Miss Anne Elizabeth Spengier was
a visitor to Yazoo City Wednesday
of last week. She was the dinner
guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Camp
bell.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

The many friends of Miss Jayne
Birch, a student at MSCW, will be
pleased to learn hat she is rapidly
recovering from an appendectomy
at a Columbus Hospital. Miss Birch
formerly lived in Durant.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

G. c. Gibson, former shipping
clerk of the Lewis Grocer Company
in Durant, has recently been ap-
pointed by the Spiegel Company Of
Chicago, as their representative for
Holmes, Carroll and Montgomery
Counties.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

NJ. J. Presley was a business visi
tor to Yazoo City last week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

Miss Meredith Jenkins of Good
man vas a recent guest of Miss
Elizabeth Dicken.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

Mrs. c. c. Reed was a bushes:
visitor to Lexington Tuesday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

Albert Dicken of Ethel spent Sun
day with his grandmother, Mrs. j.
A. Dicken, and aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth
Dicken, before leaving for Tusca-
loosa, Alabama, where he will enter
the University.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

Mr.. and Mrs. George Peacock, Jr.
have moved here from Grenada and
II located in the apartment of Mr..
and Mrs. j. T. Idom. Mr.. Peacock
is an employee of the 1. c. Rail-
road.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

Mrs. Blanche Vance of Jackson
spent the weekend in Durant with
her mother, Mrs. Jennie Frizell.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

w. S. Owen and son, William, have
returned from Ohio where they pur
chased a Buick ambulance and Flu
neral Coach to be used by Maxwell
and Owen Funeral Home.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

Messina Jones and Miss Mavis
Daniels Of Vaughn visited friends
here Saturday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-02-08

w. l.. Murtagh has gone to De,
troit, Mich. to bring back a Lincoln
Zephyr car.
Evening star., 1940-03-31

Town (the famous town" in Nebraska where
homeless and wandering boys have built up
self-governing, self-dependent community. 1t
was swarming with big boys, little boys, lads
of twenty nationalities. watched the young
sters as they flocked to the famed friend of
friendless boys.
This is the way out" he told group of
us adults Scatter boys clubs like this
throughout our Cities and our prisons will be
half-empty inside Of a few years"
Evening star., 1940-03-31

such as sports, manual training, music. art
dramatics, library, printing. But that isn't
ALL Take health. Each kid gets thorough
physical overhauling. Last year alone 1900
boys were put through rigid medical exami-
nations And to remedy the defects that those
examinations disclosed. there were 1877 opera
tions, 1000 treatments in hospitals and l 300
dental services provided the boys
NLUB directors go right into the homes to
see how the boys families fare. Help is often
provided on the spot. Four hundred mothers
and sisters of the boys were given medical
attention during 1899.
That's all in the routine, but routine is only
a small part of the whole picture. The main
idea in the Union Leagues project is to show
the boys what real American citizenship
means, and to help them achieve it.
One of the major objects is to give the boys
an opportunity to assume responsibility
They themselves run the clubs. Counselors
are employed to train talented boys for lead
ership, and these are encouraged to take the
helm. It's democracy all the way through
Many boy who has since become leader
in business got his start in club administra
ton.
Best of all, the Union League members and
the boys of the clubs really get together
Busy. influential men take time to invite the
boys to their homes - and to visit the youths
in their own humber quarters, too. FIRE.
uuently, Union Lacquer will have young
ster downtown to his Loop club for dinner,
and the boy in turn will have the Union
League member as his guest at the boys
club. It's done hundreds of times yearly
What dividends have the Union Leaguers
been paid on this investment? Well, the cut
in delinquency and crime rates of the run
down neighborhoods since the clubs started
operating indicate that at least 500 boys have
actually been saved from major crime. In
reality the number is far greater; the 500
figure represents bare minimum. Since it
(Contjnved on poge 73)
Evening star., 1940-03-31

game rooms, clubs and classes, library and
playground, $500 strong. For the first time
in decade. the police of the district had
breathing spell, and it was safe for women to
be abroad at nights.
Its the solution to the crime problem"
the delighted Union Leaguers agreed. Lets
expand"
They bought choice lake site in Wisconsin
and paid 100000 to build splendid summer
camp for the lads of teening city districts.
They took them there by the hundreds for
taste of the country. Fresh air. llimitable
space. woods and meadows, grass and trees
and flowers wrought miracle.
In few years the members felt the urge to
do more. A delegation from the club visited
the chief of police.
"You locate the worst district in Chicago
and we'll build club there" the Union
League members promised him. The Chief
looked at his dime-spotted map and put his
finger on an area
That's worse than the Bucket of Blood
section ever was" he told them.
Inside year splendid three-story struc-
ture, with GYM swimming pool and the best
facilities stood like lighthouse for the thou
sands of boys there. Into it the Union League
members poured $4,000.
You enter through the broad doors - and
homelike scene greets you. A fireplace with
a CHEEKY blaze, comfortable chairs. reading
lamps, rugs on the floor and pictures on the
wall invite you to make yourself comfortable.
Boys take their hats off unconsciously as they
enter The toughest of them become subdued
This is a home - the kind they've dreamed
of and have seen pictured in newspapers and
magazines, but never have known before.
Here $500 more boys find delight, en-
couragement and opportunity Recently it
was visited by Father Flanagan of Boys
Evening star., 1940-03-31

SAA Wv - NAAeA ~ w
club was opened by the
Union League. Today, the
Leagues 1000 busy bank
ers, merchants, manufac-
turers, lawyers, executives,
doctors and Others are
caring for more than 5000
of the most desperately
poverty stricken. under
fed, underprivileged
youths to be found in the
darkest slums of Americas
second city.
That amounts to three
kids on the shoulders of
each and every Union
Lacquer. A batting aver
age of a cool three thou
sand" For these boys
they have provided a half
million dollars for build
ings and over the last
twenty years they have
paid out another million
for running expenses.
Not a dime of the an
nual stake is solicited out
side the membership.
Union Leaguers never
throw a charity party or
resort to any trick money
raising scheme. They dig
right down into their own
jeans and pay the bills.
They've never had a def
cit, even in gloomy 1882
and 1888. Every dollar
needed is laid on the line
the first of each month.
Pledges are collected on
the members bills the
same as charges for meals
and dues.
There are all sorts of
activities at the boys
clubs, of course - more
than a hundred varieties,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
Not All War News

cred shy about inviting relatives
for visits if Junior Chamber of
Commerce statistics can be taken
as an index. The chamber reported
only one group of tourists out Of
approximately 1000 who registered
during the first ten days the figures
were kept came at the invitation OF
relatives.
Ira A. Bost of Maiden reported
38 peaches growing on a 17-inch
limb of an apricot tree in his yard.
A humble bee flew into the auto
mobile of B. c. Blanks of near
Roxboro and caused a wreck which
sent Mrs. Blanks to the hospital
with injuries.
Thieves broke into the state pris-
on camp near Oxford and stole
$25 worth of hams and several
suits of civilian clothes belonging
to prisoners. A ground toad
with a fifth leg was found by A. B.
Tyner of near Rosewood.
Wayne county officers just didn't
have the heart to coniscate Nellie,
a blind mule captured in a raid on
a still, and returned her to the
wife of one of the men arrested. . .
S. L. Warren of Mt. Olive exhibited
a 29-ounce potato grown on his
farm. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
OFFICERS
JOINING BRITISH
Mittelhauser's Staff Re-
fuses To Stop Fighting,
Leaves Syria

ANKARA, July 9.-R-Persons
returning from Syria reported today
that about 5000 French officers, IN
GLIDING the staff of General Eugene
Mittelhauser, has crossed the border
into Palestine and Joined British
military forces there.
Tension was reported growing IN
Syria as the result of Arab dlsor-
ders, a division of sentiment among
French troops and expectation Brit
ish forces might move in from Pal
estine.
General Mittelhauser, commander
in-chief of Frances Near Eastern
armies, recently announced the ces'
sation of hostilities in the Near East,
| Indicating the end of collaboration
with the British there.
The British, who have warned
they would not countenance any
| German or italian effort to use
| Syria as a base of operations, we're
reporting massing troops along the
frontier, leading to the belief action
of some sort might be imminent.
Observers said that while the ma
iority of the French soldiers under
Mitteihauser seemed opposed to con-
,inuing the war against Germany,
it was doubtful whether they would
resist if the British attempted to
move in.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
Navy May Take Over
N. E.. Patrol Boats

MOREHEAD CITY, July 9.-P)-
The U. S. Navy make take over the
North Carolina navy almost anytime
now.
Captain John A. Nelson, fisheries
commissioner and commander-in-
chief of the states Navy" has been
asked by the U. S. Navy for COM
plete specifications of two large
North Carolina ships, the "Hatter-
as" and the John A. Nelson"
The Navy, it "a explained, might
want to purchase or charter one or
both of these boats. Both were re-
Gently inspected by an agent of the
Navy department to see if they could
be used in an emergency.
Conservation officials are frankly
concerned since the law enforcement
work of the inland fisheries divi-
sion would be seriously hampered
by the loss of the patrol boats.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10

CHARLOTTE, July "a lit
tie red fox crept YEARLY into an
Office in the crowded downtown
scct'-a yesterday to contribute his
bit toward relaxing war = weary
Charlotteans' minds.
The fox, apparently fearful that
his taunt "you can't catch me"
flung at the hounds as he scam
pered over hill and dale might
boomerang, appeared relieved
when placed in : Gaze. (He came
out to pose for his picture with a
pretty girl, thought There was
speculation whether little Sir Rey-
nard hoped a fast freight on his
trip into the eli j.
But the little fox was not the
only traveller in the Carolinas. AT
Clemson college, S. c., SO hives OF
bees went off for their annual sum-
mer stay at Mountain Rest in Oco-
nee county where they will make
1Oc pounds of sourwood honey to
school year they also take an oc-
casional jaunt to the coast as part
of the college horticulture depart
ment's experiments.
A lawyer in Greensboro, attempt
ing to get his client released from
grand jury duty, obtained, instead,
his election, as jury foreman.
Asheville folk might be consid-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
F. D. R. REPORTED
NOT A CANDIDATE
Rep. Sabbath, However,
Stakes Life He Will
Be Nominated

WASHINGTON, July 9. - up -
Representative SABBATH D-Ill.) said
after a visit to the White House to-
day that President Roosevelt was
not a candidate for a third term but
that he could not refuse 1.-THE nomi-
nation that will be given him."
Talking with reporters after his
chat with the chief executive, the
Illinois representative said:
st told him that if he is thinking
of coming down to Chicago to stop
the nomination it is useless because
not even he can prevent it. He owes
it to the party, to the nation and to
the world to accept.
SABBATH said Mr.. Roosevelt at this
point threw back his head and
laughed, and then said he did not
know whether he would go to Chi
cago.
He is going to be nominated and
elected and I will stake my life on
it," SABBATH declared.
Chairman Gillette O-Iowa) an
nounced that several requests" had
been received by the senate cam
paign expenditures committee for an
investigation of 'the alleged high
pressure telegram campaign in be-
half of Wendell L. Willkie."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
Telescope May Have
Military Importance

CLEVELAND, July 9.-R-Dr.
Matthew Luckiesh reached into
hi= desk drawer and brought Out
a neat, black metal telescope.
"Here is the only one of these
in the world" he said proudly.
with it I could see from here to
Chicago 1920 airline miles.)
Nothing but ultraviolet rays
come into my telescope. Put a
machine to discharge them any
where within the horizon and I'll
pick 'em up. By going up in an
airplane, of course, I could stretch
out the horizon as far as I wanted
it."
Practically, the instrument re-
mains in that strange, unknown
land between today and tomorrow
but DR.. Luckiesh, one of the
worlds greatest authorities on
light, feels ut should have some
military uses"
Il thought of a telescope such
as this during the World war; he
said, recalling the wageless hours
he spent discharging his duties as
national research council camou-
flage chairman. 1T would have
been useful in conveying darken-
ed tr%oopships, for the pilots could
have slgnaled back and forth with
light, free from much
danger that enemy submarines
see them.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
SPORTS
BY EDDIE BRETT

NEW YORK, July Scoop
rade: Postmaster General Farley
has been patrolling Wall street for
two weeks trying to raise enough
millions to buy the Yanks. 80. Al
so, the firm which does the clubs
accounting has received a rush or
der for a complete financial state
ment on each of the farm clubs. . j..
So there is something in the. air be-
sides the gentle zephyrs. The
300 shares of stock owned by Presi-
dent Ed Barrow are currently val
ued at around $500, 600. -. If
Farley does take over, it is pretty
certain he'll ask Barrow to re-
main as general manager and Joe
Mccarthy as manager.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
ENGLAND, CANADA
IGNORE PARTIES
Fighting Men Wanted AT
Head OF Government,
Regardless OF Party
BY JOHN LEAR

OTTAWA, Canada-(Correspond
ence of the Associated PresseCan'
ada has thrown English politics into
v and arrived at the same
A united front against Adolf Hit
Ter.
In Britain the demand for an "all
out" scrap forced Conservative Ne
vile Chamberlain to resign as prime
minister in favor of a coalition
headed by Winston Churchill.
In Canada, it is the conservatives
who are pressing Prime Minister
Mackenzie King, a liberal, for stern
er prosecution of the war.
In each case, the public has indi-
Gated it does not much care what
is the name of the party in power
as long as it is the party that is
willing to fight Hitler the hardest.
Widespread grumbling against the
slowness of the King governments
defense preparations in Canada par
alleled complaints about the Cham
berlain government in Britain.
1t came out in newspaper edito-
rails and demands in the house OF
commons for the prime minister's
resignation.
1t reached its height with the
capitulation of France, when Con-
sentative Leader r. 3. Hanson went
privately to the prime minister and
told him that if the war effort were
not speeded up at once the oppo-
sition would put the issue up to
commons and the people.
Prime Minister Kings reply was
a blanket law authorizing the gov
eminent 10 mobilize all materials
and money-for the war. Included
was a CONSUMPTION provision to COM
pei all able bodied men to fight to
defend Canada from invasion.
This measure silenced some COM
plants, but not all. Its failure to
set up a detailed mobilization plan
led left-wing M. P.'s to question
whether the burden of compulsion
would not fall heaviest on labor and
recruits in the fighting ranks while
bankers and businessmen would be
let free to reap their usual profits.
Prime Minister King has denied
any such intention.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 19ao

which opened its semi..nu,
meeting yesterday. He suggastSi
that if the fishermen redu nse' .a
number of nets and do not c,t as
more than so or so per cent If S WI
run each year, they would VIZ
find the number of shad incr suon
ing. 0'S
Fewer delegations than us,,,,
appeared asking for changeS '0a.
tn fishing laws. The board bo,
reports from the heads of varion.
divisions. Today it will hear mou'
reports by division heads and ~.
on the recommendations of a %
C amercial and inland fisbins
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
Decreases In Annual
Shad Catch Forecast

MOREHEAD CITY, July 9.-R
DIR. Robert A. Nesbit,. in charge
of the research station of the u.
S. Bureau of Fisheries at College
Park, Md, said here fishermen
have been catching too many
shad in North Carolina and have
not been permitting enough of the
annual run to return to sea and
spawn the next year.
Nesbit spoke to the state board
of conservation and development
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
White Man Is Held In
Staying And Robber,

GEORGETOWN, S. c., July o.
PA man wearing a black mask
entered the home of q. c. Burgess
on the edge of Georgetown late
last night and shot and killed him
and robbed him of an undetermined
amount of money.
Mrs. Burgess was shot in the
neck. She was taken to a hospital
here. The wound was reported by
hospital attendants to be a flesh
wound.
A short while later officers ar
rested a suspect, a white man, but
his name was not disclosed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
Britain Spending 50
Millions Each Day

LONDON, July 9-R-brltaln
now is spending f9,5OO,oOos OF
s3s, oOO, 900, a day Of which TO-
sou. 900 or SIG, 100000, is going 10
the army, navy, and air FORCE
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir
Kingsley Wood told the house Oh
commons today.
Sir Kingsley made this an
nouncement in asking a vote OF
credit for Fl, 600, OOO. 900 about
$4,000, 900. OOO).
The government already has
been given a blank check as lar
as appropriations go and parila'
ment votes it money from time
to time to pay the bills.
The last vote Of credit was
f7OO, 900, 900 about $2,SOO, OOO,OOV
in March.
The chancellor said f575,OOO,-
of this already had been spent.
He warned that the gap between
revenue and expenditures was
widening and that additional
taxes must be imposed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
CITY HALL is OPEN
AGAINST THE LAW

LOUISVILLE, KY. R-City Off.
Gals were embarrassed by the re-
port of Building Inspector Fred
Erhart.-
Erhart discovered the DOORS of
the city aldermen's chamber had
been swinging inward since 1870.
violating an 1893 law requiring
doors of public buildings to swing
outward. They felt better when the
inspector reported "a city churches
also violated the law. i
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
Flashes
OF Life
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK-Tracy Murney, 80,
may be exactly what the sign on
his shirt front said: deaf mute.
Thanks for anything" but Benson
Whitman, a deaf mute %passerby,
was puzzled because Murney didn't
respond to his hand signs.
Whitman suggested in writing
that Murney was strictly a phoney
and a scuffle ensued. Along came
Patolman Henry O'Connor, W h o
himself knows the sign language.
Murney went to Jail on Wittman's
complaint of begging.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
PERSONAL

Ralph Guldahl has bought a
home on the Bing Crosby develop
ment near San Diego, Calf. .
They say Dopey Dean, the clown
on the Charlotte IN. c. club is
being groomed to take over A
Schacht's old role at Washington.
Charlotte is a Washington farm. . .
Gabby Hartnett, another bitter
ender, has refused point blank to
catch a night game. Joe Louis
will referee the Jack Trammell-
Eddie Blunt fight in Youngstown,
Ohio, July IS.