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Middleton
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constant and changeable as quick
silver.
The allies tonight seemed faced
with no other choice than to strike
and strike quickly-at the base Of
the salient.
Such q counter -attack, delivered
simultaneously by the British to
the north and the French to the
south, might end for the moment
at least the danger which threatens
the allied cause.
II, however, the Germans have
been moving fresh troops and am
munition into the area during the
last 48 hours the allies will be forced
to dig in, in front Of the German
steam roller, and continue to fight
on the defensive.
Most Violent Conflict.
The conflict in the town exceeded
IN violence any other action fought
by the allies thus far.
The allies and Germans sifted
through the narrow cobblestoned
streets, sniped from half-ruined
houses and swept streets and plazas
with showers of machine-gun fire.
AS well as being important stra-
logically, this town, which until a
week ago had hundreds of inhab-
itants, is Of great historic ,impor-
tance.
Engagements of small bodies Of
troops occurred in numerous other
locations IN the Cambrai-St. Quen-
tin area.
Mobile warfare of type unseen
IN Europe since the first weeks of
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that naval station obviously are
limited in extent.
The order also will cover the naval
research laboratory at the Anacostia
station. This includes an interior
communication laboratory.
In the light Of today's order, talk
developed in the Navy Department
Of the probability that the old Navy
steel plant at Giesboro Point in
Congress Heights on the river bank
opposite Alexandria would be re-
commissioned.
This would provide q considerable
additional production of armor, steel
plate and gun shields. However, it
was estimated the old wartime
plant could not be reconditioned and
put into production short Of year
and half and at considerable ex-
pense. Built as an emergency war
plant, for many years it has re-
manned idle and out of commission.
Evening star., 1940-05-21

Silver fox farms are being started
in vast arid tracts in Chile.
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j. Navy Yard
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caliber and certain ornaments for
aircraft carriers.
In addition the plant spends con-
siderable time putting new rifiing in
guns which have been used to a
point where their accuracy has be-
come impaired. The guns are
shipped in from various naval sta
tions in the country for overhauling.
The Washington yard also has ex-
tensive machine shops for tooling
various mechanical parts for ship
and shore establishments. For many
years the yard has been turning out
aru1or plating for the small guns
and turrets for the larger, heavy
pieces.
&, $500 Workers Employed.
The naval gun factory at the yard
employs most Of the personnel. At
present there are more than $500
workers, In the entire yard. This
Evening star., 1940-05-21
Text of Berlin Con1n1unioue
Smashing Successes Claimed
On Sea and Lond in All Sectors

attack, German troops, as previ.
ously reported tn a special an
nouncement, took Laon and
stormed over the Chemin des
Danes as far as the Aisne -Oise
Canal. -
Here, during q defense against
French counterattacks, numer-
Gus armored cars were destroyed.
The city Of Rethel, which was
still controlled by enemy units,
was taken.
The Air Force shares outstand-
ingly in the victory Of the army.
The Air Force, through COM
plete control Of the air, through
destruction Of river crossings and
traffic connections, through at
tacks on marching and transport
columns, speeded up dissolution
Of the 9th French Army.
All attempts at endangering
the hanks Of our breakthrough
were nipped in the bud.
~ Successes ut Sea Claimed.
During reconnaissance over the
sea. ,befpre the French coast one
4 destroyer, terfel1
N4Vy tanker Niger sof 5,482 tons,
thu French freighter Pavon and
tND additional freighters were
seriously damaged. :.
ft1e course Of .$l58 nkel5t or
May 81 in the Dover Calais
Straits, six transports and one
tanker, with a total tonnage OF
5000 were sunk by bombs and
four additional ships Of approxi-
mately $4,000 tons were severely
damaged.
Total losses Of the opponents
In the air yesterday amounted to
At planes. Fifteen German planes
were missing.
Evening star., 1940-05-21
BY the Associated Press.

by Lle ASSOClaleQ fTcS6. .'- -
BERLIN, May 21.-The high com.
mand today issued the following
communique:
The biggest attacking operation
of all time in the West now, after
a number Of great individual
tactical successes, is yielding the
first operative effects.
9th Army Declared Crushed.
The 9th French Army, which
was on the Meuse between Ma
muir and Sedan to hold and
maintain connections between
strong enemy operation groups in
Belgium and the Maginot Line
south Of Sedan, has been crushed
and is about to be dissolved.
The army staff and Gen. Giraud,
hitherto commander of the ,7th
French Army, who assumed COM
mand over the 9th Army, have
been captured.
German divisions flow into the
breach forced by the German
thIustx German arHored,.c caxk.
and mo eofl1ed troore q ther4
head took Arras, Amiens and
Abbeville.
Thus the Germans began crowd
tnostdwAttltl1e Chhn1N cqaSSs
all the French and Belgium 1ffnfIies
still to be found north of the
Somme.
In Belgium our troops attacked
the enemy, which again accepted
the fight east OF Ghent and far
ther south on the Scheldt River.
Enemy attempts to force way
out southwark from the Velen-
ciennes region foundered.
On the southern wing Of our
Evening star., 1940-05-21
German Mail
Takes IS Days to
Reach America
By the A,socisted Press.

By the ASsoc1ated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 21.-German
mail for the United States is get
ting past the British blockade, but
it's almost round-the-world
proposition that takes As days. er
Neal Sibley, acting postmaster,
said letters from Germany were
coming in regularly, but one letter,
as an example, was mailed In Bcr-
lin March "a, crossed Poland, Rus
sia and Siberia to Vladivostok and
thence to the United States.
He said mail was being delivered
to Germany, also, but declined to
reveal the route, saying such in
formation might increase chances
Of interception by British war
vessels.
Evening star., 1940-05-21
Politics
ttons We would all rather beat
the champ than Tony Galento.
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tions We would all rather beat
the champ than Tony Galento.
There is absolutely no telling at
the present writing whether Mr..
Roosevelt will run for once q third
time. or not. But 50 far every politi-
cal move that he has made in the
current campaign has been a move
in that direction, a move to keep
the way open should he decide to
try It,"
Hughes Sure Roosevelt VIII Run.
In Delaware, unanimous indorse-
ment of Mr.. Roosevelt for q third
term was given by the State Demo-
cratic Committee after hearing Sen
ator Hughes declare There Is no
longer a shadow Of doubt but that
the President will run"
The Delaware Senator spoke on
the eve Of the party's convention
to elect q new State committee, ma
tional committeeman and commit
teewoman and delegates to the ma
tional convention.
He declared:
"Some time ago we in the Senate
were doubtful that the President
would. accept ssthird term Under
the desperate con(li itaons7 anFeAd
there is not q shadow Of doubt but
that he viii grun ana be reelected.
The entire country is demanding
tlsAt ~ha continue In charge of OH
foreign relations for the duration u
the war, and even Republicans are
joining in this move.
"You can rest assured that your
President viii be your nominee"
Connecticut Democrats chose State
convention delegates, many Of whom
were pledged to a third term for
President Roosevelt and renomina-
ton Of Senator Maloney at caucuses
and conventions yesterday in most
Of the States 169 municipalities.
The thir term movement received
its biggest impetus at the New
Haven city convention where Ma
tional Committeeman David e. Ftz-
gerald, ST., introduced a resolution,
unanimously adopted, pledging "the
support Of the Democratic party of
this city and of this State" to Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
The Fitzgerald resolution also in
dorsed Senator Maloney.
Among the other large cities
Hartford and Meriden indorsed both
the President and Senator Maloney
Waterbury adopted q Maloney in
dorsement only and Bridgeport left
its delegation uninStructed.
Evening star., 1940-05-21
Gloucester in London

LONDON. May 81 R.-The Duke
Of Gloucester, q brother Of King
George vi and chief Hason 0niceT
to the British Field Forces, arrived
here today from France on urgent
duty" The Duke, a major general,
was expected to return shortly to
British general headquarters. in
France.
Evening star., 1940-05-21
Citizens to Meet

Officers will be elected tonight by
the Chevy Chase View (Md) Citi-
zens' Association at a meeting at
the Kensington Junior High School.
A picnic supper and athletic con-
test for children will precede the
meeting.
Evening star., 1940-05-21
Turkey to Have Stadium

Night football games and other
contests can be held in the new
stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, which
Is to be completed In June, 1941.
Evening star., 1940-05-21
Bill to Deport Bridges
To Be Pushed in House
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The House immigration Commit
tee moved yesterday to obtain early
action on a bill to depart Harry
Bridges, West Coast c. I. o. leader.
Representative Allen, Democrat,
OF Louisiana, author Of the legisla-
ton, said the Rules Committee
would give him and other members
Of the Immigration Committee a
hearing today on their request for
permission to bring the legislation
to the floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-10

To American Mothers, Wage
STOP p THE M/
Stop the hteruentio1
Don't let Democratic Party historically
ton become the of intervention against the will of
Of American people,
he Republican Party Philadelphia deliberately struck of its
platform declaration against sending fight foreign soil Don't
let the Democratic Party make the mistake will be November
delegates Convention Chicago you
the opportunity history your party your country
and party keeping America foreign and ordg the Ame
people paramount
That will be the big the referendum
he following quotations leading
opinion their country above their the
Senator Edwin johnson, of (June l94O):
important history
will occur the United States of America November
dulgng threats idle talk opinion but unless the other
these
millions of peaceg of this Nation will third that will
nominate candidate fair the question
intervention had November
political issue of the generation Each
planks platforms which will peace will
worth the paper which they written The the candi
and his predictions will Pledges
candidates
Naturally hope and that the Democratic Party will be the
but the Democratic Party fails do its duty and makes the mis-
the office of President
concerned country will come before my party"
Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana; the Senate the United
States TO- 194 the appointment Henry New York
and Frank Knox Chicago Cabinet by President Roosevelt:
had hoped that the Democratic Party would be the party
the United States foolish which
the and that would not drive the people by hyte pounding
old
meeting New York the that carried the
the They old
old Now instead of having New York and Chicago
to bring them down and put them in the Cabinet ;"
Thee doubt because all the
venions the Republican these been that
But the people of the should exactly what the nom
nation of these gentlemen and the significance of their selection
These ought be particularly pleasing the
those who think ought those think so
ton putting heads the sand But it should not pleasing
longer feel that colony the British Government
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-10

is and War1nongers!
Rush Holt Of West virefnia
read the three ago pressure
from London Harry Woodrng has sue
ceeded Why does London foreign policy
than the United States Senate Did President
when he conferred with him that Wooding way?
Woodrng policy do everything
to look after America policy
thing for the Allies that necessary
his bidding without question: because
they right along with conducting along
Senator Bennett Champ Clark, o Missouri:
shall against their Knox
they both nerentont not secretly landestn openly
The writings and speeches concvey they
favor policy of American intervention They which
amount to war; and are certain to precipate
" hope day
first member Of my family who will
the United Staes
take leading inevitably
that will take along by STEP inch by
under the point
gagged in war;"
Senator David Walsh of Massachusetts Dune FL, l94O)
IF we want war; let make declaration refrain
from srepous acts which like think Of short of war; but which
all sensible the world
this in favor of the United entering
fore say let be careful not provoke invite
the point where nespabl This great its millions peo-
pie and its the only democracy
the only beacon of hope for the preservation civilization and humanity To
risk It's destruction the condition which know would be
undertake the policing the world
the name justice committing country and future generations
to a policy of wagng endless throughout the world.
do not hesitate that if this agitation for the
property against the continues
there will be developed radical spirit which will difficult
Oh the tragedy of that powerful property should
be challenging the desires of the millions
labor and sacrifice whom brings poverty whose children made
for generations to eat the bread poverty by war"
IL W rite wire Delegates Democratic
National Convention, Convention Hall, Chicago
4 support a clearcut peace antiwar plank
i'm session; give President Roosevelt discretion
II powers o proclaim a national
Il above all, keep America of foreign
III tanglements and |
AMERICA OUT OF FOREIGN WARS
I'LL Of Indiana Hon. Martin L. Sweeney Of Ohio
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
Cow Stealing Leads
Directly To Corn Thief

Stealing cows and corn is a risky
business.
If you do not believe it ask Robert
Mcclellan, a negro who was given
three months and a $25 fine in il
court Wednesday for stealing a COW
belonging to Charles Carson on Claud
Wilkes place north of Durant.
Deputy Sheriffs Alton Parker and
w. II. Majors secured a confession
of guilt from the negro who had the
COW tied out in Wilkes Grove in Du-
rant, in Mr.. Wilkes back yard, so
to speak.
When he lead the officers to the
spot where the COW was tied anoth-
err negro, Willie d. Pernell, was
going through the Grove with a sack
on his back. He was within fifteen
feet of the COW. He dropped his
sack and ran. The officers pursued
him thinking he was implicated in
the cow-stealing.
Later questioning revealed that
he was guilty of corn stealing as the
sack he dropped was full of corn.
The corn cost him So plus cost.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
Store Near Pickens
Robbed On Sunday

Mr.. George Peck, owner of a small
store on Highway 81 in North Madi-
son county was held up, tied and
gagged Sunday night Aug. rs. a
bout nine o'clock by three negroes.
According to the story told in
vestigators from the sheriff's office
by Mr.. Peck, the negroes came into
the store and ordered three cold
drinks. One Of them handed the mer-
chant a quarter and when he looked
up from the cash drawer to give the
negro his change two of the trio had
had him covered with pistols. The
merchant said he was taken to the
back of the store where his hands
and feet were bound with wire and
he was gagged with a piece of his
own shirt.
The negroes are said to have TAX
en- $16.26 in cash, a gold watch
and a few groceries. Officers inves-
tigating the robbery found that three
negroes had tagged a north-bound
bus near the scene of the robbery
and to have left the bus at Winona.
Madison County Herald.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
HJC-Stute Frosh
Come Friday 2:30

The Holmes Junior College Bull
dogs will begin their football sche-
dule with a game against the Missis-
sippi State Freshmen at Starkville
on September 10.
The game will be called at 2:3C
o'clock.
The remaining schedule is as fol
lows:
Sept. 27-Poplarville, there; Oct,
4-Ellisville, there; Oct. 10-Ole
Miss Frosh, at Belzoni; Oct 10 -
Raymond, here, 8 pm; Oct. 25-
Senatobia, here, 8 pm; Nov. l.
Perkinston, here, 2:30 pm; Nov.
-Wesson, there; Nov. 20-Moor-
head, here, 8 pm.
All of the games played at Good
man will be at 500 at night with
the exception Of the Homecoming
game with Perkinston on November
/. 1t will be played at 2:30 in the
afternoon on Branch field in Good.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
Organ Recital Given
Monday At Church

Mrs. Madge Malone Lipsey pre-
sented three of her organ pupils in q
recital Monday afternoon, at tn G
Methodist Church, at five-thirty
o'clock.
Miss Rosemary Howell, Miss Car
gill Howard and Miss Ann joyce
Odom were the three young artists
who played beautifully to a most
appreciative audience. The program
given follows:
Consolation, Morrison; Londond-
rery Air, Irish Tune; Finlandia, Sib-
elius; Wind Music, Wilson; Hosanna
in Excelsis, Armstrong-Miss How
ell.
Perfect Day, Bond; Lullaby, Tom
pkins; Liebestraum, LIT; Prelude
in E Minor, Chopin; Alteration, Ath-
erton-Miss Howard.
Venetian Love Song, Nevin; Poor
Butterfly, Hummel; Nobody Knows
the Trouble I've Seen, Spiritual; Re
cessional, Wilson; Goodnight, Nevn
Miss Odom.
Medley: Believe Me with all those
Endearing Young Charms; JEANNE
with Light Brown Hair; in the Gloam-
ing; Aud Lang Syne,-Organ, Miss
Odom: Piano, Miss Howell.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
Persons Interested Are
Invited To Appear
At This Time

The Board Of Supervisors of Hol-
mes county will hold a special meet
ing Monday morning, September IS,
at ten O'Clock. for the purpose of de-
Gliding whether or not this county
shall appropriate s2,4OO to in
stigate and carry on this year ven-
ereal disease clinics in the various
communities throughout the county,
Holmes county will be given $4,-
900 in money from the Federal and
state governments TO match the ST.
400 given by the county.
Thus $4,000 or more would be ex-
pended during this year to try to wipe
out syphilis in this county, whose
population is rs percent colored.
The plan calls for clinics in each
community to be operated by the doc
tors in that community. They are
paid for their services at the rate
of $500 per hour and everything,
including a nurse assistant, is fur
nished. Tests are given to every per-
son visiting the clinic and treat
ment is given every needy case until
the person is we'll.
1t is a we'll known fact that
the earning income Of nearly all our
colored people is not enough to get
and pay for medical treatment of this
kind.
1t is also a we'll known fact that
there are ove 100000 cases of sy-
philis alone in this state among the
colored population and $4,000 cases
among the whites.
Every effort possible is being
made by the Federal and state gov
ernments to see this disease wiped
out. The Federal government has APP
propriated seven million dollars to be
spent in this work and Mississippi
has appropriated S1o0, 600 to match
Federal and local funds.
Persons protesting these clinics or
persons desiring them are notified Of
the meeting Monday when the sup
ervisors will decide whether to make
the appropriation or not.
Already AZ counties in Mississippi
are successfully operating these
clinics.
The state and county governments
in the past have spent thousands of
dollars to get rid of cattle tick.
On Monday will be decided whe-
Their we spend a few dollars to get
rid a disease affecting the health
and well-being of every man, woman
and child in the county and state.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
Durant Schools Will
Open Monday, 18th
Textbooks To Be
Distributed On
First Day

The Durant school will officially
begin the 1940-41 session on Monday
morning Sept. 16, at $50. The day
will be devoted to registration and
distribution of the textbooks.
Children entering school for the
first time will report to the first
grade room. Second grade students
report to the second grade room.
All children from the third grade
through the 9Th grade report to the
study hall.
High school registration will start
at 1890.
Children will be permitted to en-
ter school for the first time if they
are 6 years of age, or if they will be
6 years of age Oh CT before the
beginning of the second semester.
which starts January 81, 1941.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12

ternational pea-game. But in the long
run of events as they are seen in the
light of recent history, it little mat
tiers whether a country that stands
in the way of Hitler's ambitions is at
peace or at war with him. In his own
time and in his own manner he will
carry war to that country. What did
it avail Denmark, Norway, Belgium,
and the Netherlands that they pre-
served a scrupulous neutrality toward
all the belligerents? They were throt-
tied just the same. 1t is as futile to
live by the diplomatic preuendents of
the first World War as it is futile to
fight now with the weapons of that
war.
The upshot of all this is that, for
the first time since the founding OF
the Republic, America faces a hos
tile world in arms without a strong
friends or an ally save perhap:
wounded Britain. 1t faces a hungry
insatiably grasping revolutionary
dynamic world driven ruthlessly for
ward with demonic energy by a small
group of fanatically determined mer
with one Of the most capable nations
on earth at their back, and witt
most of Europe PROSTATE under thei,
feet. We are, so to speak, One Ag
ainst the World: this is the highest
triumph of isolationism. Where are
| our friends? France is in chains
! Britain battles for her life, Japan
our ally of 1917, is, if not actively
hostile to us, noncooperative. The
South American countries? 1t is per
lious to our security to lose them
we must protect them! and they have
little to give by way of active sup
port.
1t is a dangerous delusion to be
lieve that Germany will leave us un
disturbed to enjoy the luxuries Of
wrangling over the appointment OF
postmaster at Red Oak, Iowa, or out
guessing the experts on Information
Please For the Nazis are not only
making war, but spreading world re
volution. According to the tents o.
this revolution, the United States
contains all the elements that Ger
many is determined to exterminate
This country is democratic, capitalist
free-trading (that is mountaineering
and Christian. These qualities ART
anathema to the Nazis. Hitler ha'
repeatedly expressed his corrosive
contempt for the degenerate pluto
.demecracies,' while Mussolini, calm,
Continued on page two)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
Board Of Supervisors Has Meeting On
Mon At 1000 To Decide On Support
Of Clinics In Holmes County
Douglas Lonestoff Is
Honored In New Orleans

A recent issue of the Times Picay-
une carried a picture Of Douglas o.
Langstaff, announcing that he had
been elected president of the Nat
ional Association of State Aviation
Officials. He was formerly first vice.
president of the group.
Mr.. Langstaff, formerly of Du-
rant, resides in New Orleans. As
State Inspector of Aviation in Louis
ana, he flew Governor Jones over the
flooded area of that state on August
IL. He was recently appointed M
of the five judges to go to Washing
ton, D. c. to select the boys who
were to be given scholarships to the
different ae%ronautical schools in the
U.S.A. Durant is proud to claim such
a distinguished son.