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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-04-24
Jackson, Mississippi
March 81, 1941.

Reconciliation of the depository accounts is shown in detail on pages
2 to g. inclusive.
Interfund receivables of $3s,511S3 represent the total amount
borrowed by certain county funds from other county funds, according
to details o. pages 9 to IL, inclusive. ~
Fixed assets amount to $1,941 ,95s.75 and represent the total cost
of the physical properties of the county, such as court house and JAIL
schools, hospitals, county farm, roads and bridges, and road machinery.
There is practically n o commercial value attached to these assets. They
are only valuable for the use that IA be made of them and when 3D.
solete must be replaced through bond issues and paid for by the tax
payers.
Notes Payable totaing 43,24e.74 represent borrowed money and
notes given for road machinery. A list of these payables is presented
0 page IL
Interfund payabtes are the same as inter-fund receivables, ex-
planned above.
Trust funds amounting to $l859.65 consist of pension and land
redemption funds. The pension funds have been returned to the State
Auditor and will not be handled through the county.
Details of bonded Indebtedness totalng $8124O0O0 arr presented
m.schedule 8, pages 13 and IA The following groups compose the issues
O outstanding:
General County Funding, Courthouse, Jail and Hospital ---$ 1859 100000
Road and Bridge Construction 625O000
n1-1 c.-I..a4A O. a o. n
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-04-24

Meetlng
The Junior Beethoven Music Club
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-04-24
OPERATIONS - EXHIBIT "B"

A detailed statement of receipts and disbursements showing the
ource and use of taxes coming into your hands is shown at pages 16, ct seq
You re invited to study this statement carefully. For your convenience
we present the following summary thereof:
REVENUE
Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Increase II Percent of
1939-4O 1889 Decrease Revenue
pooL Tavo, ona Iond
Evening star., 1941-07-31
HabituaI Criminal
Statute Urged for
D. {. by Jurist
Judge Dovidson Cites
Long Record in Giving
Defendant Heavy Sentence

Intlmating that Washington needs
an habitual criminal statute so
those who continuously commit
crime may be retired" from society,
as are the insane, Federal Judge
7. Whitfield Davidson, sitting in
District Court today imposed a
heavy sentence on a colored' man
with a record of felonies.
Judge Davidson imposed a three
to 10 year sentence on Henry Snow
den. colored, found guilty yesterday
by a jury of larceny of an automo-
bile. The defendant protested this
morning that he was innocent and
said that he had paid the penalty for
his previous crimes.
The jurist then recited from the
record a lengthy list of crimes, in
cluding grand larceny and JOY riding,
and told Snowden that those who
try to earn their livelihood by crime
instead of by the sweat of their
brow, as the Good Book says, soon
find that this cannot be done.
Judge Davidson then referred to
statutes in a number of jurisdictions
that provide life imprisonment for
habitual criminals and Indicated
that something similar should be
tried here.
Snowden's co-defendant, Prince
Simmons, colored, received a SEN
tence of 13 months to years in jail
although he had testified that Snow
den had nothing to do with this
crime and pleaded guilty to taking
the automobile. Assistant Unitc
States Attorney Stephen Miller
| prosecuted the case.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Police Seeking Moforist
To Warn Of Rabies Dancer

Police on the Eastern Seaboard
broadcast a lookout today for an
Illinois motorist believed to have
been bitten by a dog which devel-
oped rabies after the motorist left
home.
The message, relayed from Mary
land to Washington, and sent from
here to Virginia, said:
Notify E. B. Erann of AL South
Monroe street. Hinsdale, Ill, that his
dog died of severe case of rabies and
instruct him to take necessary hos
pital treatment"
The message, authorized by the
Hinsdale chief of police. did not
give the motorists tag number or
probable route through the East, and
only implied Mr.. Erann had been
bitten by the mad dog, police said.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Band Concert

BY the Army Band at the east
front of the Capitol at 7:30 pm. to-
morrow. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy,
leader; Karl Hubner, assistant.
PROGRAM.
Overture. "Sakuntala" Goldmark
March song, Keep En- Flying
Ross
Sung by the composer, Lanny Ross.
Song POTS and Pans - Ross
Sung by Mr.. Ross.
March, Faith in America" Mayhau
Mosaic, Echoes From the Opera
Tobani
Morceau, whispering Flowers
Blon
Fantasy, "Reminiscences of Scot
land" Godfrey
Solo. "Xylomania" ----- Young
Joseph L. Young, -xylophonist.
Novelty, Military Escort" Fillmore
CIn five ways.)
Finale, "Amparito Roca" Texidor
The Star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Agriculture Players
AT Treasury House

A variety show to aid the sale of
Defense bonds and savings stamps
will be staged by Agriculture De-
partment employees at $50 o'clock
tonight at Treasury House, Four
teenth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue NV.
The program will include con-
cert by the department orchestra
and choruses, an original one-act
play, a demonstration of square
dancing and a showing of the mo-
ton picture THE River"
Produced by the Agriculture Play
ers and written by Robert l.. Oshins,
the play is titled Hell Herbert"
Sergt. Alvin c. York, World War
hero, here to attend the opening
of a motion picture of his exploits
in that war, was the feature at
traction at Treasury House last
night. Music was furnished by the
Alexandria Va) American Legion
Band and both Sergt. York and
Representative Patrick Of Alabama
spoke. a..
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Trade Board Check Shows
Ample Hotel Facilities

The Greater National Capital
Committee of the Washington Board
of Trade has announced that ample
hotel accommodations are available
in Washington, following a survey
made after the circulation OF re-
ports that an acute shortage of hotel
rooms existed here.
Much of the criticism of Wash
ington's ability to handle out-of-
town visitors, resulted, it was said,
from the annual spring influx of
thousands of tourists and business
men coupled with the occurrence
of three large national conventions
the American National Red Cross,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton and the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States. Ten days
after the Cherry Blossom season,
the announcement said, Washing
tons untitled hotel Accommodations
dropped 20 per cent.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
D. {. Man Dies, Wife Hunt
As Car Crashes on Curve

Pinned beneath the wreckage
when his car rolled over five times,
George v. Martin, So, of 2909 Rit-
tenhouse street NV. was fatally
injured yesterday after his machine
left the Lakes-to-Sea highway on
a curve 10 miles east of Du BoiS,
Pa, the Associated Press reported.
Mrs. Martin was thrown free of
the wreckage and escaped with a
broken rib Mr.. Martin died en-
route to hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin we're on their
way to Cleveland when the accident
occurred. They had planned to
stop at Franklin, Pa, to visit rela-
tives.
A son of the couple, DR.. George
V. Martin. jr., is assistant chief sur
geon at the military hospital at
Indiantown Gap, Pa.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Film Premiere, Parade
And Radio 10 Keep
Sergt. York on the Go
Reception and Visit
To Senate Also Slated
For World War Hero

Sergt. Alvin c. York of Tennessee
was almost as busy launching NOV
ing picture premiere in Washington
today as he was capturing Germans
on a. French battlefield back in
1918.
His schedule. drawn up by pro-
moters of the film, Sergeant York"
called for an appearance at 9:15
am, and was to continue far into
the'night with broadcaStS, a lunch
con, press conference, dinner and
even a parade OCCUPYING the heros
time to the last minute.
At 9:15 am. he was a guest on a
radio program over Station VOL,
and at $50 he rehearSed another
program with Brig. Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey and Maj. Gen. George B.
Duncan. At 10:15 Sergt. York re-
hearSed an invocation he was to de-
liver to the Senate at noon.
Invocation in Senate.
At Ills the visiting hero was In
terviewed over Station WRC. and at
noon he was to give the invocation
in the Senate while Mrs. York and
their son Woodrow listened from the
gallery.
At 1890 the Yorks were to be
guests of the American War Moth
ers at a luncheon in the Carlton
Hotel attended by Gov. Prentice
Cooper of Tennessee and Senators
Stewart and McKellar.
The schedule says further:
1:45 pm-Sergt. York visits the
Lincoln Memorial.
2:15 p.m.-Mrs. York and her son
go sightseeing.
2pm.-Sergt. York is available for
press interviews in his suite at the
Carlton.
3:15 pm-Sergt. York visits Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars at Walter
Reed Hospital at their request.
6p.m.-Sergt. York is interviewed
for Nationwide broadcast over Sta
ton VOL.
He'll Lead a Parade.
$50 pm-The Yorks are guests
of the Tennessee State Society at a
dinner at the Willard Hotel.
7:30 p.m-Sergt. York attends a
reception in his honor.
7:45 p.m.-Sergt. York broadcasts
over Mutual network with Gen
Hershey and Mai. Gen. Duncan.
8pm-Sergt. York leads parade oi
dignitaries and Tennessee Society
members to Earle Theater to see
premiere of Sergeant York"
8:30pm-Sergt. York hroadcasts
from Earle over Station WMAL.
11:30 pm.-Sergt. York and other
dignitaries appear in special broad
cast over WMAL.
In addition, Sergt. York was tc
visit the Senate Military Affairs
Committee and the Department oi
Justice II hts time permits.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Additional Property
Ordered Placed on
District Tax LIST
Animal Rescue League
And Christian Home
Lose Exemptions

Restoration of the property of the
Young Women's Christian Home,
235 Second street NE, to the Dis
trict real estate tax rolls was Or
dered today by the Commissioners
on recommendation by the Real
Estate Tax Exemption Board, headed
by Walter l.. Fowler, District budget
director.
The home, used as residence for
more than 100 women earning SAL
aries of not more than 81 l,260 a year,
has an assessed value of S168, ,40l.
The annual tax bill would be s2,947.
The Commissioners also refused to
continue tax exemption for the
Washington Animal Rescue League
property at II o street NV, which
has an assessed value of S23, ,346.
The annual tax bill would be $408.
Was Exempted in 1887.
In the case of the Young Wom-
ans Christian Home the inveStigat-
ing board said that in exempting the
property in 1887, Congress intended
the home to be a charitable insti-
tuition to provide temporary care for
young women who might be
stranded in the District. 1t added:
Relief from taxation of real es-
tate used for such purpose might
be justified, but here we find that
the home is being used for women
up to "A years of age, who are en-
ployed and receiving salaries UP
to 81 ,260 per year. We are also ad-
vised that instead of being tempo
rary, that girls can remain during
good behavior or until such time as
they are transferred or their salaries
raised above the limit of 81, $50"
In the case of the Animal Rescue
League, the board said:
Your committee is of the opinion
the league is engaged in very hu-
name work, but does not believe
that our present exemption laws
were designed to exempt from reaI
estate taxes institutions of thi:
character"
Church Property Affected.
The institution is maintained
through the Community Chest, do
nations and income from an en-.
dowment fund.
The Commissioners also ordered
back on the tax rolls building ir
the 100 block of c street NE. having
an assessed value of $45 ,528, owned
by the Second Church of Christ
Scientist, which is used by a care.
taker and for storage of church
property and for distribution o.
church literature, and a building
in the 310O block of Wisconsin ave
nue. NV, owned by the Protestant
Episcopal Cathedral Foundation
having an assessed value Of SIS, ,545
This Is q three-story frame dwelling
which Is rented by the foundation
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Board Acts
To Acquire Land for
Five Play Centers
Acreage Would Cost
S400, 900; Commission
Begins 2-Doy Meeting

Action looking toward acquisition
of approximately 10 acres OF land
at a cost of more than 100000 In
connection with five Washington
recreation centers has been lnStl-
tuted by the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, Norman
C. Brown, appraiser and associate
land-purchasing officer, announced
today as the commission began its
two-day meeting for July and
August.
Mr.. Brown said one. of the most
important actions involved about
three acres in the Fort Reno rec
reation area, largest in the North
west section of the city. He said
the greater part of the land, mostly
taken up by colored residences, had
been obtained through private ne
gotiation and that condemnation
proceedings had been authorized to
insure acquisition of the remainder.
The Fort Reno recreation project
is tied in with both Wilson High
SIIlOOl anu hllCc bcdl l1lkll
School and more than 100000 al
ready has been spent in its Develop
ment.
Mr.. Brown said the commission
also acted to complete the Francis
Junior High School Playground at
TWenty-ffth and M streets NV, a
colored project.
He also announced the addition
of small parcel of land to the
Harrison School Playground at
Thirteenth and v streets NV, and
said only two lots remained to be
acquired to complete the recrea-
ton center. He said he hoped the
two lots could be obtained through
negotiation without resort to con-
demnation.
Land acquisitions in the Northeast
sector in connection with the South
Dakota Playground at South Da-
kota avenue and Charming street
and in the Piney Run Parkway south
of Benning road near Forty-second
street also were announced.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
0'DdnieI Named Member
Of Senate D. T.. GROUP

Continuing what is by now a Texas
tradition. w. Lee ODaniel, new
Senator from Texas. has been named
by the Democratic Steering Com
mittee to the Senate District Com
mittee, He succeeds to the post
held by his immediate Texas sena-
torial predecessors, the late Senators
Morris Sheppard and Andrew Jack
son Houston.
The Steering Committee last night
assigned Senator ELECT O'Daniel to
the District Committee and to the
Commerce, Claims and Irrigation
and Reclamation Committees.
Mr.. O'Daniel is expected to arrive
here next week to take the oath of
Office.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Coffee to Give Talk
On Overtime Pay Bill

Representative Coffee, Democrat
of Washington, author of a bill to
grant overtime compensation to
Government employees, will address
a rally of C. I. O.-United Federal
Workers at the Commerce Depart
ment auditorium at pm. tomor-
row in the interest of the measure.
The Coffee bill would give time
and one-half compensation for
hours worked weekly in excess Of
80 by employees receiving less than
$4,000 annually; double time for
Sunday, and establish O 10 psf
cent night difierential.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Irving Johnson, Writer,
Commissioned in Navy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Irving johnson, author and sea
rover, has been commissioned a
lieutenant commander in the Naval
Reserve and ordered to immediate
active duty in the 14th Naval Dis
trict, covering the Hawaiian Islands.
Comdr. johnson has sailed around
the world three times as captain OF
the schooner Yankee. He and his
wife have written several sea adven-
ture stories.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
County Completes
Sending Draft Quiz
Special Dispa tch to The Star


MARTINSBURG, w. Va, July 81.
The Berkeley County Selective
Service Board here has completed
sending questionnaires to Berke-
ley County's original registrants.
The county had $500 registrants
in the original list but this has been
supplemented by the ITS men who
have become 81 since october 16.
Names of the new men will be
lntegrated after each 10Th man in
the old registration list from $50 on.
Three volunteers among the new
21-year-old registrants have offered
their service. They. are David Will
son billiard, John Allen Hess and
Anon Mccoy Coils.
Evening star., 1941-07-31

In July, Beware OF:
|. The hours between $3.50
and $50 pm. All four OF the
persons killed in traffic in July,
l94O, we're fatally injured within
this three-hour period
2. Crossing a street at a point
other than a crosswalk. Two
pedestrians met death by this
action in July last year.
The two other traffic victims
were fatally hurt while either
crossing a street at an uncon-
trolled intersection or driving
an automobile.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Make July Safer

Every blot is District traff1c
death. The toll thus far ex-
ceeds that reported here during
the same period last year. Keep
the July calendar clear.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
July, l94l

July 3 July s July JuIyll July l3
. . . . .
July "a July 29
Evening star., 1941-07-31
July, l940
July s July " July IS July 70
. . . .

Toll in Previous Months.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Summer Wedding At St. Joseph s

The wedding of Miss Helen Pra- nulis, daughter of Charles Pranulis of Fox street to Edward Budris, son of MT. and Mrs. Anthony Budris of Oakville took place this morning at g o'clock.
 Reverend J. J. VaIantiejus per- formed the ceremony at St. Jo- sephs church, which was attrac- lively decorated with gladioli in va regated colors. Professor Alexander AleksiS played a special musical program with Miss Joan Lucas as soloiSt.
 The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Joan Pranulis, as maid of honor, with Miss Nellie Macei- mas and Miss Doris Bebrin, as bridesmaids. Bronis Stocks was bestman, and the guests were ush- cred by Stanley Pranulis, a brother of the bride and Peter Vitukus.
 Escorted to the altar by her fath- CT, the bride wore white mollsseline de soie, the fitted bodice having a sweetheart neckline, and long sleeves ending in points at the wrists. The skirt was very full. A sweetheart cap of net held her full length veil. She carried a prayer book marked with an orchid.
 The maid of honor wore orchid dimity, the bodce having short puffed sleeves, and the skirt bouf- fant. Her picture hat of leghorn had streamers of orchid and she carried Colonial nosegay.
 The bridesmaids were also at tired in dinity, one in aquamarine, the other in yellow. Each wore a leghorn picture hat and carried old fashioned bouquets.
 Guests from Bethlehem, Oakville, Danbury, Oxford and this city att tended the reception at Quaker Inn.
 The couple left for 8 trip to Att lantic City, Washington, and Vir- ginia, the bride travelling in a pink bengaline suit with white accesso- ries and an orchid corsage.
 Upon their return MT. and Mrs. Budris will reside on Fox street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
LalUn Party Honors
 MT. Mrs. A. Zappone

MT and Mrs. James Zappone of Rockdale avenue recently entertain ed with lawn party at their home in compliment to their son, Anthony E. zappone and his wife, the form CT Roberta Davis.
 Teh guests, all relatives presented the couple with a purse.
 Those attending included: MT. and Mrs. G. Ciarlone, MT. and Mrs Anthony Ciarlone and daughter, Mona; MT. and Mrs. Roland Gull mette and son, Roland, Jr.,;; MT. Mrs. Arthur Ciarlone and son, Ro- bert; MT. and Mrs. Andrew Ciar- lone, MT. and Mrs Louis Ciarlone, and son, Donald; Margaret Ciarlone John Lamese, MT. and Mrs. Leonard Yannielli; Antonio zappone, Flor ence zappone, MT. and Mrs. D. Puhto.
 MT. and Mrs. John Zappone and son, John, Jr,; MT. and Mrs. Joseph Zappone, MT. and Mrs Anthony Antonacci, MT. and Mrs. Leslie Da- wis and son, Edgar, Beverly Davis, MT. and Mrs. Anthony E. zappone, MT. and Mrs. James Zappone, and sons, George, James, Jr., and Rich ard.
 students from Waterbury and vicinity enrolled at Vassar College for 1941-42, are Miss Joan Lilley of Kellogg street, Miss Edith Terry Bronson of Cliff street, and also Miss Ethelinda Marlor of Fairview street, Naugatuck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
Vivian Carlson Weeds John Hall

Palms, white gladioli and pink roses will be attractively arranged today in the home of Carl Carlson of New Britain for the wedding of his daughter, Miss Vivian E. Carl son to John Brownlea Hall of West Main Street, this city.
 Dr. John Currie Walker will of ficiate at the four o'clock ceremony, at which Mrs. G. Phillip Peterson, of Wethersfield, a cousin of the bride, will attend as matron of hon. or, with her daughter, Marcia Pet erson, as flower girl. pr. Ralph B. Lopez of Woodside avenue will be best man.
 Given in marriage by her father, the bride will be gowned in white lace, the fitted bodice having a sweetheart kneckline, and the bouf fant skirt of tulle inserted with lace. She will carry white roses with baby breath.
 The Alice blue gown of the ma tron of honor will be styled simil- arly to that of the bride. Her bou- uuet will consist of tea roses with baby breath.
 The flower girl will wear pink or-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
-Borman Studio. .

James Tanning of Watertown i entertaining his son and daughter in-law, MT. and Mrs. Joseph Han ming and their daughter, Judy, oi White Plains, New York. MT. and Mrs. Planning have just returned from a trip to Toronto.
 Following is list of students wll6 are registered from Waterbury and vicinity to enter the College of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station. N. J., this fall: Mary Elizabeth Col ins, 97 Cloves terrace; Eileen Mary Cruess, 52 Wall street; Ann Theresa Jackson, 12l Columbia boulevard; {; Elizabeth Jane McEvoy, 27 Norton street; Anna Mary Paul, "A Edson avenue; Eleanor Marie Russo, 45 Stephana Lane:, Margaret Patricia Sullivan, 56 Chambers street; El- eanor Louise Devine, Strawberry Hill road, Norwalk; Catherine Lil- liam FitzGerald, 1915 Park avenue, Bridgeport: Virginia Marie Sejman. 142 Hubbell place, Devon; Maria Therese Zernitz, 227 Highland street, New Haven.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
Margaret Heitn1a1 Becomes
 Bride or Lucien 4. Wolff

In a setting of white gladioh and palms which decorated the altar of St. Margaret's Church this morning, Miss Margaret Louise Heitman, daughter of Mrs. Henry Herman Heitman of Arch Street and the late Chief Henry Heitman became the bride of Lucien F. Wolff. II, of Wood Street, son of Mrs. Frederick Faber of Baltimore. Maryland and the late Alfred F. Wolff of this city.
 Reverend Edmond J. Wolff, s. J., of Weston College, Weston, Mass, Uncle of the groom, united the couple in an eight o'clock ceremony During the nuptial Mass which fol- lowed Mrs. James Kelly of Forest Hills, Long Island, 8 cousin of the groom rendered Hansen's Ave Marie.
 Miss Meta Heitmai1, the twin sis- ter of the bride, attended as maid of honor, with George T. Began as bestman. Guests attended from Maine, Hartford, New York and Baltimore.
 A gown of white imported dotted swiss over white ta!feta was worn by the bride. It was fashioned with a long fitted torso bodice having a square neckline outlined with self pleating, and three-quarter length sleeves. The bouffant skirt termin- ated in an ld-fashioned sweep. Her shoulder length veil was draped from a Julia cap of illusion. She carried a cascade bouquet of white gladioli blossoms.
 The frock of the maid of honor was similar to that of the bride. With it she wore a calot of dotted swiss having an upsweep bow. Her cascade bouquet consisted of red gladioli blossoms.
 The members of the bridal party and their immediate families att
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
Hompson-EUon
 Troth Announced

MT. and Mrs. Thomas Carroll of Bishop street, announce the en- gagement of their daughter, Ernes- tine Evon, to John Thompson, son of Thomas Thompson and the late Mrs. Mary Thompson of Maple street.
 The wedding will take place on August 30 at 8 o'clock at St. Thomas church.
 The Misses Mary and Regina Tanning of Watertown left today for $ trip to Niagara Falls and Canada.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02

gandy, in basque style, with full skirt. She will carry a Colonial nosegay.
 Sixty guests will attend the re- ception to follow at the home. When leaving for 8 trip to New Hamp- shire and Maine, the bride will travel in a black bengaline suit with black accessories.
 The bride is graduate of Con- necticut State Teachers College at New Britain, and has been teaching in Newington. The groom was ed- ucated in Scotland, and is affiliated with the Scovill Mfg. Co.
 Upon their return MT. and Mrs. Hall will reside at 24 Overhin Ave nue, New Britain.