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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-03-13
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Miss Mary Hopkins of West spent
the week end here as the guest Of
Mrs, Hamilton Ledyard.
Dave Burrough of Winona tram
sacted business in Durant Tuesday.
Miss Martha Taylor and Mr.. Joe
Helm of New Orleans spent Sunday
and Monday here visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Mcbride
arrived Tuesday to visit her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Taylor. They
returned Thursday accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor who will visit
with them at their home in Center
Point, Texas.
Mrs. Ruth Geotes is spending sew
eral days on the Mississippi Gulf
Coast where she is visiting her son,
Harry, who is a student at Gulf
Coast Military Academy.
a
Mrs. Robert Jackson of West spent
spent Saturday here visiting her sis
ter, Miss Pauline Carter.
2
Mr.. and Mrs. Clay Aldy spent the
week end in Meridian visiting rela-
tives. -.
4
c. S. Hill has returned to his home
at Castalian Springs after visiting
relatives and friends in Memphis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Stokes of OK
ford spent Saturday in Durant visit
ing friends and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marcus Love spent
Sunday in Oxford visiting in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Stokes.
J. T. Nicely visited relatives and
friends in Winona Sunday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-03-13
Present Day Club Meets
With Mrs. Steed

The Present Day Club met Tues
day March eleventh in the home OF
Mrs. Quitman Steed with twelve
members present.
During the business session, pre-
sided over by the president, Mrs
Kenneth Van Keuren, little CaroI
Ann Watkins was chosen to repre-
sent the club in a beauty contest,
sponsored by the Band mothers, on
April third.
Mrs. G. w. Drane, Jr''s resigna-
ton was accepted with much re-
gret.
A Parliamentary Drill was con-
Quoted by Mrs. William Weaver.
Mrs. F. v. McCullar was chair
man of the following program or
child welfare:
"Be not too much his Parent,
Trespass not his Solitude"
Response-Solving Personal Pro-
blems with Children.
Guiding Your Child Through Ad-
olescence-Mrs. R. B. jenkins.
Training Children the use OF
Money-Prepared by Mrs. Curtis
Howard, read by Mrs. Chas. Wat.
kins.,
Current Events - Mrs. Kenneth
Van Keuren. "a -. ~,
{. Delicious refreshments were serv-
ed by the hostess.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-03-13

Mrs. George Povall and two chill
dren of Lexington spent Thursday nj
Durant visiting her parents, DR.. and
Mrs. r. c. Elmore. Mrs. Povail and
children expect to leave April 2Sth
% go to Lake City, Florida to join
Mr.. Povall who is in training at
Camp Banding.
Mrs. Beatrice Hines and Mrs.
Gary Burdette of Kosciusko were
guests of Mrs. Albert Tatum Thurs
day.
Miss Lauree Durham of Jackson
spent the week end here with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. p. Durham.
Robert Payne Neblett, Jr. of Pick
ems visited friends in Durant Tues
day.
Miss Nancy Ann Tatum spent the
week end in Kosciusko as the guest
of Miss Rose Ann Tatum
Miss Julia Lockhart and Mrs. W
P. Kimbrough of Itta Bena were
the guests in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs, ]. P. Durham Sunday.
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A. b. Ritter of Memphis spent the
week end here visiting his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. o. Ritter.
Hon. David E. Crawley of Kos
ciusko was a visitor in Durant Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. B. Guess, Mrs.
Annie st. Clair and Mrs. Charlie
Lance were Kosciusko visitors Fri
day.
The many friends of DR.. R. c
Elmore will be glad to learn that he
returned to his home here Tuesday
after remaining in the Baptist Hos
pital in jackson for six weeks where
he received treatment. His condition
is much improved,
Rev. and Mrs. E. S. Lewis will
attend the Bacon : Pratt wedding
which will be held in Jackson OF
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John James Of Miami
Fla, Mr.. and Mrs. John Heskett an,
family Of Helena, Ark, Mr.. and Mr.
Charles T. Phillips of Memphis wer
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. f. Phillips, las
week.
Mrs. f. A. Turner of Grenad
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. c. +
Phillips.
Mr.. c. f. Phillips, Sr. is in tn
Baptist Hospital in Memphis an
will have a major operation on Sat
urday of this week. 1t is hoped b
his many friends here that he wi
enjoy a complete and quick recover
and will be back with us soon.
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Society Clubs : Personals
Miss Howard Hostess to
Womon's Club Tuesday

The Durant Woman's Club met
Tuesday afternoon, March lltn, IN
the home of Miss Sara Howard iot
its regular meeting,
After dispensing with the business
the president, Mrs. Baine, turned .ne
meeting over to Mrs. r. ]. Ham. kol'
call was answered by giving quota
tons from well known characters
after which "The Star Spangieo
Banner" was sung by the entire
club. Mrs. H. ]. Montgomery gave
an interesting review of the current
play by Thornton Wilder, .out
Town" "Spring, Lovely Spring
was then sung by Mrs. Ham, MIS-
Doster. and Miss Frances Allen, ac-
companied by Mrs. j. H. STREE
World Famous Paintings, edited by
Rockwell Kent, vas reviewed oy
Mrs. Ham.
After the program the hostess
served delicious refreshments to the
following guests: Mrs. c. g. van
Keuren, Mrs. A. NJ. Shepherd n
Mrs. Cargill. Members: Mrs. M. u
Baine, Mrs. A. L. Stevens, MISS
Mamie Clark, Miss Frances Aleu-
Mrs. H. j. Montgomery, Mrs, c. A
Doster, Mrs. J. H. Street. Mrs. X. D.
Ham, Mrs. f. S. Lewis, Miss Porle
| Rice. Mrs. J.. R. Joyce, Mrs. }. M.
Howard Mrs. Horace Weir, Mrs. H.
C. Stevens, Mrs. w. P. Taylor, MIS-
NJ. P. Smith and Mrs. ]. f, Sweeney
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-03-13
and Mrs. Guess Are
Parents of Daughter

Mr.. and Mrs. James CASTOR Guess
of McComb the arrival of
an eleven pound daughter, Annis,
born on Friday, March 18th.
Mrs. Guess nee Miss Eugenia
Weeks is the daughter of Mr.. Joe
A. Weeks of West.
Mr.. Guess is a former resident
of Durant.
The paternal grandmother is Mrs
Leila Guess of Jackson.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-03-13
Vegetable Laxative
Makes Happy Friends

Here's a laxative that usually acts
thoroughly as harsher ones but is a
gentle bersaadey for intestines when
used this way: A quarter to a
Tablespoonful of spicy, aromatic
BLACK-DRAUGHT on your tongue
tonight; a drink of water. There's
usually time for a good nights
rest, with a gentle, thorough action
next morning relieving constipa-
TONS headaches, biliousness, sour
stomach, bad breath.
BLACK DRAUGHT is a splendid
combination Of vegetable ingredi-
ents, CHIEF of which is an "intesti-
nal onic-laxative" that helps I'm
part tone to lazy bowel muscles.
It's economical. % to 40 doses: Csc.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-03-13

Mrs. l. U. Donald of Goodman
visited friends in Durant Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Foster of
West visited friends in Durant Tues
day.
Sidney Herrin of H~attiesburg
spent the week end in Durant visit
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. 5.
Herrin.
Mrs. VI. T. Woods and Mrs. Tom
Ashley spent Sunday in Phillip visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Mcclellan.
James Hillard Odom, Miss. State
College, S~tarkville, spent the week
end with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. H. Odom.
Mrs. Annie St. Clair returned TO
Jackson Monday after spending sew
eral days here as the guest of Mrs.
f. B. Guess.
Johnny Dinas, student at Miss.
State College, spent the week end
here with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. h. Dinas
Friends of Mrs. R. C. Elmore will
regret to learn that she was con-
fined to her bed the past week be-
cause of arthritis.
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Mrs. Harry Gwinner arrived from
Birmingham, Ala. Wednesday to
visit her parents, DR.. and Mrs. r.
C. Gilmore.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Heskett and
three children of Helena, Ark. were
guests in the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. f. Phillips last week.
+ 4
Mrs. w. f. Rubush was called to
Kentwood, La. to the bedside of
her mother, Mrs. Broyles, who is
critically i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Ramsey and
little son of Birmingham, Ala. came
Saturday to visit his mother, Mrs.
G. B. Ramsey. Mr.. Ramsey return
ed to Birmingham Sunday while Mrs.
Ramsey and son will remain here
for several weeks.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-03-13
u. D. C.'s Entertained
By Mrs. Bacon

1t was in the lovely home of Mrs.
Zouella Bacon with Mrs. R. l.. Coop
er, co-hostess, that the Durant Daugh-
ters held their March meeting.
The reception rooms were ar
tictically decorated with bowls OF
beautiful spring flowers heavily lad
en- with the sweetest Of perfume.
The hostess assisted by Miss Pearl
Mcgee met every n with a hearty
hand shake and happy smile.
The business session vas presided
over by the president, Mrs. R. l..
Cooper an dSecretary, Mrs. A. l..
Stevens, during which all officers
we're. reelected.
Miss Pearl Mcgee conducted a
sweet and most impressive memorial
service for one of our beloved men,
bers, Mrs. Florence Crawford How
ard, who. passed to her reward in
December. Lovely flowers were
placed in a vase to her memory by
her friends as they spoke enduring
words. Mrs. Bacon presented the
flowers to her daughter, Miss Ruth
Howard, who responded with sincere
appreciation. The service was closed
by all singing, "Bless be the Tie
that Binds"
We were happy to have with III
n of our cherished honorary mem.
bers, Mrs. John Davis. Also the
following guests: Miss Ruth Howard
Mesdames Shamburger, Lewis, Joyce
Hewitt, Justice and Winbdrn,
of Durant, Mrs. Will Mcmillan OF
Kosciusko and Mrs. Anthony anc
Bryan of Pickens.
The hostess served a deliciou;
salad plate with tea, assisted by Miss
Pearl Mcgee, Mesdames Winborn anC
Shamburger.
The chapter will meet with Mrs
J. b. Brown, April End.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Odom wen
to Starkville Sunday. They were ac
companied by their son, James Hill
lard and Johnny Dinas, who return
ed to Miss. State.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Myers of Green
vile spent the week end here visit
ing relatives and friends
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Mrs. Lemmeul Walters spent the
week end in Alexandria, La. visiting
Mr.. Walters.
The many friends of Miss Gertrude
McCune will be pleased to learn tina
she returned home Tuesday after al
appendectomy at the Baptist Hos
pital in Jackson last week.
Mrs. J. d. Alsbury, Mrs. Eugene
Cole, Mrs. Irby Johnson, Mrs. Zou'
ella Bacon, Mrs. Leila Landfair, anc
Mrs. Ina Angle were visitors in
Jackson Thursday.
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Mrs. G. w. Drone, Jr.
Hostess to Bridge Club

Mrs. G. w. Drane, Jr. entertained
the Thursday Bridge Club in her
home Thursday afternoon.
All Of the club members were
present. /
Mrs. Paul W. Odom was the VIII
ner of the high score.
Delicious refreshments were serv-
ed at the conclusion of the games.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-03-13

Mrs. w. f. Rubush was called tt
Kentwood, La. to the bedside OF
her mother, Mrs. Broyles, who i:
critically i'll.
Evening star., 1941-08-31

Through a suitable Intermediary, I
have offered the United States Duala,
in the Cameroons.
De SouIIe Offers and Port Gentil, in
US. Bosses Gabon, and Pointe
Noire, in French
Equatorial Africa, as naval bases.
I have asked only that the United States
make use of these bases to counteract
Dakar and make it more difficult for
Hitler to thrust deeper into Africa, as
he undoubtedly will do as soon as he is
able to release some forces from Russia"
Secretary of State Hull. whose de-
partment would be embarrassed by the
prospect of having to recognize the right
of Gen. de Gaulle to lease bases in Free
French territory when we still have for
mally good relations with Vichy, said he
knew nothing of the offer.
On the eastern front of Europe, Hitler
and Mussolini met on Monday and talked
until Friday, when it was first disclosed
that they were meeting. The initial
secrecy was similar to the secrecy about
the recent Roosevelt-Churchill meeting,
and Berlin papers tried to find a paral-
lei between the two sets of conferences.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
End Of Second Year War Witnesses Many Developments Unovb

week took the Estonian capital and port
of Tallinn, used by the Russians as
naval base on the Gulf of Finland. The
men defending Tallinn found themselves
in a sort of minor Dunkerque, chokeo
off from their comrades and, in a worse
position than the men at Dunkerque.
with no place to retreat to. German
reports said that air and naval attacks
had sunk % transports and 10 war ves-
sells in Tallinn belonging to the Russians.
Moscow disclosed officially what had
been reported several days ago-that the
great Dnieper River dam, industrial pride
of the Soviet Union, had been destroyed,
letting into the Lower Dnieper River
great masses of water that must have
flooded over the countryside. The
Dnieper marks the eastern extremity Of
the Russian advance into the Ukraine.
From the eastern side of the river,
Marshal Semeon Budyenny, general Of
the Russian troops in the south, issued
dramatic appeal to besieged Russian
forces at Odessa to defend that Black
Sea POI ito the last drop of blood"
Evening star., 1941-08-31

The two men issued a communique coun-
tering the Roosevelt Churchill eight
points of peace. They said:
The new European order which will
emanate from this victory (of the Axis
will remove as extensively as possible the
causes which gave rise in the past to
European wars. Destruction of the Boil
shevist danger and of plutocratic ex-
ploitation will create the possibility Of
peaceful, harmonious and profitable CO.
operation of all peoples of the European
continent in the political as well as in
the economic and cultural spheres"
During last week, despite the hopes
of Hitler and Mussolini, the Germans
and those fighting beside them in Rus
sia, Firms, Hungarians, Slovaks and Ru-
manians, found the destruction of the
Bolshevist danger a slow work. The
attempt to take Leningrad is still an
attempt which the Russians are resisting
vigorously, and the coming of cold
weather in that far northern place is
near
Consolidating their holdings behind
the line of the front which they have
established in Russia, the Germans last
Evening star., 1941-08-31

Friday night his surgeons decided to
operate, 10 try to extricate the bullet
beneath his heart.
Colette turned out to be not Com
munist, but De Gaullist, from Caen, in
Normandy, from where Marshal Petain,
head of Unoccupied France, once said
boatloads of De Gaullists depart almost
daily for England, across the Channel.
The day after the shooting author
lties of German-occupied France made a
sweeping roundup of enemies to the
regime of Vichy and of occupation and
by midafternoon they had placed more
than 300 persons in protective custody"
some of them from among the legion
naires. In Paris the first three so-called
Communists convicted by special courts
were guillotined.
Investigation of Colette's home in
Caen was said to have disclosed that he
fought side by side with British troops
at Dunkerque and had been evacuated
with them to England. 1t was learned
that Colette once was a member of the
Fascist Croix de Feu party of Col. Fran
co.'s de la ROGUE, and there was no
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Middle Eastern Front

Almost dormant since the conquest of
Syria was completed in July, the Middle
Eastern front last week became once
more scene of action, quick, but i'm
portant. The occupation of Iran lays
a road between the forces of Britain and
the forces of Russia 1t provides a
southern gateway into Russia for the
transportation of goods from the United
States. 1t sets up a buffer protection
for India in case Germany might want
that rich jewel of empire. 1t keeps out
Of German hands Iran itself, rich in oil
and fronting arms of the Indian Ocean.
The British and Russians promised they
would withdraw troops from Iran as
soon as German agents there had been
ousted, but whether troops are there or
not, the campaign of last week eStab-
fishes British control over Iran.
Early Monday morning British and
Russian troops entered Iran, which was
protected by a small
Invasion army of 10000 SOL
Four-pronoed diers. The eastern
border of Iran was
penetrated by British troops from
Baluchistan, the southern border by
British sailors in the East Indian squad
ron under Admiral Sir Geoffrey Arbuth-
not, the western border by British in
Iraq and the northern border by Co.'S
sacks streaming down on the attacked
country through the narrow mountain
two; lie of Ia
The British operations were directed
from Simla summer capital of India, by
Gen. Sir Archibald P Wavell. newly
appointed commander in India, who
engineered Britain's brilliant desert cam
paign last winter against the Italians in
Libya.
But primarily it was a diplomatic war.
Both the Russians and the British tried
to make it plain that they were not
waging war against the Iranians. They
based their invasion on complaints
against the presence of German agents
in Iran, although the Iranian Minister
in Washington, Mohammed Schayester,
branded this complaint 'preteXt." For
eign Minister Molotov of Russia handed
a note to MohammeG Saed, Iran Min
lister in Moscow, the day of the invasion
in which he called attention to a para
graph in the 1921 Russian -Iranian treaty
giving Russia the right to send troops
into the country In the interests of self
defense" if Iran proved incapable of cop
ing with any action of third power en-
dangering Russia.
The British Foreign Office declared
there was no intention of threatening
the independence or sovereignty of Iran,
and that as soon as the German threat
diminished, the British troops would
leave.
In Tehersn, the Iran capital, the Brit
lsh Ambassador, Sir Reading Bullard,
Evening star., 1941-08-31
ROOSEVELT PROGRAM is TRACED
Writer UphoIds Presidents Methods

rope We had already, for three years,
formulated the policy that we would
oppose Hitler, whose aggressions in Eu-
rope paralleled those of Japan in China,
which the Hoover administration had so
roundly denounced.
After the election the President, still
maintaining his policy that peace could
be maintained only by keeping Britain
fighting, declared we would share our
armaments with Britain, $3.50. Two
weeks later, Gen. Marshall head of the
Army, announced that the United States
would turn over Sc flying fortresseS to
Great Britain.
BY this time, the clamor of the isola-
tionists that we were being led into war
rose to a roar. At every step of the
progress of our foreign policy to main
tain peace by keeping Britain fighting
while we armed, the isolationiSts con-
tended that the President was leading
us headlong into war. That he was
offending Hitler there can be no doubt.
That Hitler did not dare to make the
United States a belligerent also was OBJ
vious Yet it was clear that if Hitler won
and Britain was defeated, our turn was
next. 1t was, therefore, imperative, in
order to preserve the peace, that we
give to Britain every possible aid. The
interventionist policy was proving itself
as a practical peace policy. 1t was keep
ing us out of war. 1t had won at the
polls. Twice it had been Endorsed in
Congress by sound majorities.
In late December, 1910, with these
three victories back of him, the Presi-
dent, in a speech internationally broad
cast, gave his country and the world a
slogan defining the national policy: I'VE
must be the arsenal of democracy. For
us this is an emergency as serious as
war itself" Again a cry went up that
the President was heading us into war.
A week later he asked Congress for au-
thority and for funds sufficient to
manufacture additional munitions and
war supplies of many kinds, to be turned
over to those nations which are now in
actual war with aggressor nations. Our
most useful and immediate role is to act
as the arsenal for them as well as for
ourselves" There the peace policy of the
President found its first ringing slogan.
and his peace policy was bringing us
peace.
In mid-March the lendlease bill was
passed by Congress. The national for
eign policy had victory at the polls
and three sustaining votes in Congress
to support it. The following April we
extended our bases into Greenland, and
again the isolationists accused the Presi-
dent Of leading us into war. But war
Evening star., 1941-08-31

evidence that he had switched to the
Communists.
Nevertheless, it was announced that
Colette would be tried by the new Red"
section of the appellate court, sc up
especially to try Communists, and that
the investigation of the assassination at
tempt will be aimed at uncovering posi-
BILE Communist links.
The Vichy Ambassador to Occupied
France, Fernand de Brinon, attacked the,
American press and radio in connection
with the Laval-Deat assassination at
tempt. He said in broadcast that the
stirring up of Moscow, London and
Boston radios had done their work" in
bringing about the shooting. (Station
WRUL in Boston broadcasts by short
wave daily to The European continentD
So goes the v in France.
Thousands of miles from Versailles. in
the steamy jungle of Equatorial Africa.
at Brazzaville, on the Congo River, Gen.
De Gaulle, the idol of Colette, received
George Weller. foreign correspondent
for The Star and the Chicago Daily News
This is what the general told him:
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Brown
Continued From Page C-lO

believed. While figures regarding Brit
aims strength in that area are mill
tary secret. It can be said that the pres
ent strength of the Imperial forces is
upward of 100000 hardened, we'll
trained and well-equipped men. 1t is
probable that the Turkish army in Ana
tolia-Some 100000 men-will be added
to this force In addition, Britain reckons
on the remnants of Marshal Budyennys
forces which are making their way as
fast as possible towards the Caucasus.
In the fastness of those mountains
an army, even somewhat depleted of
tanks and airplanes, can make an excel
lent showing. And SO far the Russian
soldier has shown that he can fight at
least as well as the Germans-provided
the politicians don't play some unex-
pected trick on him. But even then, 1t is
believed that the British and Turkish
lorces can make things hard for Hitler.
In recent months much larger quota
u. airplanes, tanks and armored cars
than the British are entitled to under
the existing agreements with the United
States has been sent TO Africa and the
Middle East. Although this means that
the training of our own men will be
somewhat retarded. the danger of Ger
many's obtaining the real life nerve of
war-oil-has been recognized in Wash
ington.
Every available assistance has been
sent to the British Middle Eastern COM
mand which is being strengthened with
new arrivals of troops and war materiel
from every corner of the Empire and
from the United States. An invasion Of
Britain is considered now as an illusory
threat. But the results of the forth
coming battle for the oil fields and the
Mediterranean is the key to the defeat
or the victory of the Axis.