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The Nome nugget., 1941-01-13
Even French Not Protected

The French do not protect their own people he said when they are persecuted by the Nazis, even those who had fought in the French Army.
 'Th. Gestapo is permitted to take them out and shoot them or send them to Germany" he add d.
 He disclosed how the Nazis had tried to take Heller's wife away.
 Friends of Heler's hid her away from the Gestapo,' he said. The concentration camp in An glade is made up of old stables and so they were successful in keeping the woman from being found"
 MT. Barr said that much of his property and some of his paint ings had to be left behind in France and Portugal. He had res ervation on the clipper but be- cause the plane was carrying more mail than usual, he was forced to come on the Excalibur. Because his wife is Polish and the Polish passport is not recog- nized at the Spanish border, MT. Baer and his wife, who has a brother and son by another marriage fighting in the RAF, spent many months at their home in St. Trop.y before the proper papers were obtained for his Wife's passage.
 "The Portuguese are sympath- etic with the British cause, but they fear the day, which they be lieV5 is not too far off, when Hit Ter will close Lisbon," MT. Baer said. Lisbon is today the only and last escape from Germany"
 Mir. Baer said that Spain was today the worst country to travel through in Europe, because there are so many secret polic- and the laws are being changed every three days"
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-13
HOLLYWOOD STAR-LITES
By Chuck Cochard


 HOLLYWOOD tExclusive) - With the passing of each year thi-re brings back that reminis- cent fever that usually ends up with your Hollywood correspond ent picking, the ten best pictures of the old year. During 1940 the same qaulity that it would there were so many pictures of be easier to pick the 50 best.
 In a special class all by itself as the greatest picture ever pro- duced is Gone With the Wind" It is also the greatest money maker in filmdom's history - and it hasn't played a popular priced theater as yet.
 The TEN BEST of 1940:
 l. Foreign Correspondent.
 g. Rebecca
 3. The Grapes of Wrath
 4. Spring Parade
 5. The Long Voyage Home 6. All This and Heaven, Too The Letter
 2. Of Mice and Men
 8. Pride and Prejudice
 9. My Son, My Son
 10. Northwest Passage.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-13

and tn. month of January is but seven days old, 1 can truthfully say that the New Year is young. What it has in store for all of us we de not know. Like the atre, whose curtain when it rises will have surprises, doubts, tears laughter for the audi-nce. But it is my sincere hope and my daily prayer that all my friends in Nome, all my benefactors will have, will enjoy, will obtain, a blessed, happy and Prosperous Year of 1941.
 Rev. E. J. Cunningham
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-13
EDITORIAL
BREAKING DOWN ANCIENT BARRIERS

Singular how a common threat against members of a family at odd among themselves will cause every member to fight to the last ditch against their assailants. Bro liners may battle against one an other in the old home or in their own yard, but just let some stranger attack on2 of them and see what happens.
 So it is with nations and races. The English speaking family has had it's family rows. In America, sons of old Britain set up two separate households, the United States and Canada. Long have they conducted themselves apart, each with a distinct national spir it. Now they are drawn together in many emergency arrange ments of a reciprocal nature.
 Ancient trade and defensive handicaps and barriers are going by the board. Arrangements are being made whereby America gets defense bass and travel anl trade routes across Canada and Britain receives aid from the States.
 Each country is brought to trust and believe in the other Doubtless the results will wit n ss many progressive develop ments.
 Not the least of these promises to be the granting of rights for an international highway route or corridor from the States to Al aska. Aviation routes, airmail services and shipping and trade rights of mutual character and benefit are evolving. Canadians no longer entertain the old fea1 of American design to acquire ther territory or absorb their pe pie. Each respects the rights of the oth-r.
 While this mood prevails why not make the most of 1t and go in for more complete mutual devel opmant plans. It's a great oppor- tunity for unified efforts that may result in opening vast areas of the Dominion and America, in cluiing Alaska and the Canadian hinterland, on an unprecedented scale Efforts to that end need not commit America to engage in foreign warfare but the mu- tual efforts can be such as doubt les will submerge many long standing barrier to progress and Vive q great impetus to both countries, never before possible, especially in the long comparat- iN y dormant domains of the Vas, Norrhland.
 Fairbanks News-Miner
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-13
Runners Up in the Ten Best Movies of 1940

Arise My Love, The Mortal Storm, Our Town, Abe Lincoln Tn Illinois, The Sea Hawk, North west Mounted Police, The Great McGinty, Waterloo Bridge, The Biscuit Eater, Young Tom Edi- son, and many others. Two best musicals: Down Argentine Way and Strike Up the Band.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-13
Einstein's Cousin Is Prisoner In France
Martin Baer, American Painter Says Hans Keller, Composer,
 Suffers Great HardShips
Manual Labor Required
Conditions at Concentration Camp Near Mines Described
 as Almost IntOlerable

Leading intellectuals and art ists of Europe, among them Hans Kell r, composer and a cousin of Albert Einstein, and Robert Lieb knecht, son of the assassinated German Socialist, Karl Lieb- knecht, were revealed to be liv ing in a French concentration camp in Anglade, seven miles from Mines.
 Martin Baer, well known paint CT and an American citizen, who has lived abroad for fifteen years disclosed how the intellectuals and artists, unused to hard phys ical labor, were being formed into work battalions' and givsn shoves to do the hardest possible work under the direction of French and German authorities. MT. Baer arrived aboard the Ex- calibur from Lisbon.
 The painter is staying in New York with his wife. a European art collector at the Hotel St. Hu- bert. He plans to communicate with Professor Einstein as his cousin as soon as possible.
 No Beds In Camp
 "They have no beds in this camp near Mines and every one sleeps on hay right on the ground without any blankets" MT. Baer said. ''There is no light or heat. In camp in the Basses-Pyren- ees there was only one toi ct for 5000. In that camp there are at present about 10000 women"
 Mir. Baer described the horrors undergone by those confined in the camps; of not knowing when the secret police would visit the camp and take some one off for an execution, or take them to Germany, neW-r to be heard from again.
 Professor Einstein he said had been able to send letters to his cousin but the cousin had not been able to communicate with him. MT. Baer explained that the French censorS did not delete anything from letter sent to a concentration camp, but rather if there was anything they found objectionable in a letter, they have the secret police inVssti- gate the person to whom it had been addressed.
 Heller, MT. Baer said had writ ten about five symphonies and was b. coming popular in Ger many at the time Hitler came to power.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-13

When I saw him last, he seem ed to have lost nearly all hope that anything could ever be done to get him out he said.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-13
Letter Of
 Thanks From Pilgrim Springs
Mrs. George Maynard;


 uses the columns of your valuable paper to thank my numerous benefactors for the many gifts they sent to Pilgrim Springs this Christmas, and to expnsss my gratitude for the kindness and generosity all showed to make the Christmas Day a day of joy and delight to the orphans of my mission.
 There are always so good, thoughtful people in the City of Nome who try to rem-mber the orphans at the Springs and who endeavor to make their Christ mas a happy and joyous one, but this year the people of Nome surpassed themselves in gener- osity, for nzVer before in the six years of my Superiorship, have l had the pleasure of receiving so many gifts and presents.
 Such kindness and generosity on the part of the people of Nome should not be paSssd over or forgotten. During the few days l am here in Nome I am making every effort to thank my good benefactors and friends, per , sonally, but there are always some who like the pious man in the Gospel, keep their right hand from knowing what the left hand has done. This latter type have given and given most gen. erously, yet their gifts bore no indication from whenoe they came, no sign or name to identify the donor I feel dreadfuly offend ed, when I am unable to express my gratitude, sither by voice or by pen but knowing that all read The Nome Nugget, I am making this local paper, to be the instru ment of my deep and sincere grat itude.
 First I wish to thank MT. Sig Wien and his loyal pilots for transporting these gifts to the mission once in the face of se- were storm. l wish to thank the thcughtfulnes and generosity of Rev. w. P Wood and his loyal congregation for the toys and sweets shipped to my children. The more deserving of thanks too were th-se benefactors, for they were mostly if not all child ren themselves and members of the Community Church. Every gift was wrapped in Christmas art paper and tied neatly with rib bon ready to give the little or phans at the Springs. Let me here thank each and every mem Der of the Good Cheer Commit tee'Who being "eldsrs" of the City, are not so old as to realize that one of the essentials of Christmas and one thing that can 1ot be removed from Christmas festivities is SWeetmI9ats-can The members of this generous Committee, realize that they once upon a time in the distant past, were children themselves, and that no stocking at Christ mas time is completely filled without candy and nuts. The mer chants in town, MT. Polet, MT. Lehmann, and MT. Seindenverg, all generously contributed fruit. Last but not least, dear Mrs. Maynard, allow me to thank you for the copies of The Nome Mug get which came not only on Christmas Day but on the many days of the past years. I say thank you, Mrs. Maynard, but l should say with truthfullness the Nugget is a welcome visitor at the Mission and members of my community tsar off the wrapper of the Nugget and read its con- tsnts even before their own per sonal letters. This is the biggest tribute I can pay to the Nugget, to show its value and apprecia- tion at the Mission.
 Since this letter is being writ ten at the beginning of the Year,
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
March 2-23 Set
For Nationally
Known Event

NATCHEZ, Miss, (SpeciaD.- in
this quaint Mississippi River town,
famed as the last stronghold of the
picturesque Old South, residents are
preparing once again for the re-
naissance of that romantic era when
cotton was king, when long packets
steamed up and down the big stream,
and when colorful plantation life
reigned supreme.
The Tenth Annual Natchez Pill
grimage sponsored by the Pilgrim
age Garden Club, which will be held
March 2nd through 23rd, will bring
to life the memorable scenes of
Dixie before the War between the
States, a Dixie that is gone forever
IN the rush of civilization, vet still
fingers in Natchez in all the flavor
OF its haunting traditions.
As in years before, thousands of
visitors, now barred from the citadels
OF Europe, will motor modern
fashion in quiet and peace along
beautiful sunken roads under Ma
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
Goodman School Will
Be Purchased For
Junior College
Supervisors Plun to
Borrow $l7,500.
For Improvements

The Board of Supervisors of Hol-
mes county will at its March meet
ing borrow $17,50O.00 for the pur-
chase, repair, and Improvement of
the town of Goodman white school
building and its grounds, for the
use as a dormitory for Holmes Coun-
ty Agricultural High School-Junior
College.
The money will be borrowed by
the Board upon request of the Board
of Trustees of the latter institution,
According to present plans the
school and grounds will be bought
for the sum Of $4,000 and $4,000
will be used to repair and remodel
the school building for use as a
dormitory. The Junior College has
been crowded for several years and
conversion of this building for rooms
will fill a long needed improvement.
$4,000 of the total loan will be
used for repairs and improvements
in the Girls dormitories.
The loan will not exceed the pre-
sent indebtedness of the county 10
per cent of the assessed valuation
and will go through unless a petit
ton signed by ten per cent of the
adult taxpayers of this county ex-
elusive of those who pay poll tax
only is filed with Parham H. Will
liams, clerk Of the Board of Super
visors of Holmes county, by moor
March 3. Should this contingency
occur an election would have to be
called before the bonds or notes
could be issued.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
Appliance Sales Up
In Durant

Household appliance sales over
the entire western half of Mississip-
pi showed an increase of 5 per cent
for the year I940 over 1889. ac-
cerding TO an announcement today
to the Durant News by W. +. Tuck
er, Jr., local manager of the Mis-
sissippi Power and Light Company.
Sale of electrical farm devices
increased 1877 per cent from 401 to
952. In 1889, over twelve thous-
and radios were sold in the Power
and Light Company's territory; last
year 1880 were sold, Electric re-
f~rigerator sales were up 81 per cent
in 1910. Washers received a raise
of 26 per cent. The gas appliance
showing the largest gain was floor
furnaces, increasing from $50 in
1889 to 1893 last year, a gain of
100 per cent.
Local appliance dealers received
their share of the increased business
in 1910 as homemakers in Durant
and vicinity bought
Cartons of Light Bulbs 500; les
Lamps "a; Refrigerators As; Ran
ges 3; Radios so; Washers /; Por-
table Fans Al; Gas Ranges &c; Gas
Automatic Water Heaters z; and
Floor Furnaces 6.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
Election Of School
Trustees To Be Held
Questions On
Trustee EeIection
Answered Here

Section 6625 of the Code of 1896
provides for the election of trustees
in common and consolidated schoo
districts with three trustees. This
election will be held at each schoo'
house at 200 pm, Saturday, March
LIST.
The meeting should be organized
by electing a chairman and secre-
tary and then proceed to elect by
ballot one trustee for three years.
The holding over trustees should
have prepared a list of names of
those entitled to vote in the trus-
tee election. The result of said
election must be certified to the
County Superintendent of Educa-
ton on or before the following Sat
turday after the trustee election,
The Supreme Court has recently
held that certain parts of the law
setting up qualifications FOR a trus-
tee or for a person to vote in the
trustee election are unconstitutional.
Under this Supreme Court decision,
any person who is a qualified cleo
tor and a resident of the school dis
trict for one year prior to the cleo
ton is qualified to serve as trustee
or vote in the trustee election.
The following questions are FREE
quently asked in regard to the cleo
ton of trustees and we are giving
the answer to these questions in
accordance with the recent ruling
of the Supreme Court.
/. Can a person who is not a pat
ron of the school serve as trus-
Continued on back page)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
College Trained Home
Economists Asked
To Register

The Mississippi Home Economies
Association is being asked cooper
ate with the National Defense Com
mission by registering all women
who have had as much as three
years college training in home &C.
onomics.
Registration is purely voluntary
and blanks may be obtained at the
office of Miss Dorothy McBee, coun-
ty superintendent of education.
Miss Marguerite Averett, Cox
burg, is in charge of Holmes coun-
ty.
This is not to be construed as an
application for a job nor need those
registering think they viii neces-
sarily be called upon for service,
according to Miss McBee, but it is a
part Of the preparation being made
along the lines of national defense.
Those desiring to cooperate who
have had the training mentioned are
asked to full out the blanks at their
earliest convenience.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
Shooting On Alfalfa
Well Expected
Any Time Now
Mud Being. Boiled
Out; Casing Set on
4,017 to 4,026

The Clint Crosby number one-
John F. Allen well in Attala county
will be shot some time Friday, ac-
cording to plans of the owners an
announcement stated here to-
day. The shooting will take place
as soon as the mud is bailed out.
Operators were down 1900 feet We'd
nesday night.
The well is located in the center
of Sc quarter of Sc quarter of Sec
ton 80, township 13 North, range
5E, Attala county, about 13 miles
from Durant. -
The casing was set on sand at a.
OF to 4,026 feet in October. There
has been no activity since except
clearing of titles. %
e. F. Stephens, partner of Mr..
Crosby, is in charge of drilling oper-
ations. Mr.. Stephens said he ex-
pected to finish the bailing out any
time and when they did finish they
would proceed at once with shoot
ing the we'll. I'd
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
Pilgrimage Garden Club Announces
Plans For 1941 Celebration

lures arbor of overhanging moss
CARRIED trees, to be transported into
another world-far from the mad
ding crowd. Before their eyes will
be unveiled all that the Old South
ever held-high columned mansions,
stately reminders of the past, still
standing in their original glory; spa
ciouS lawns dotted with massive oaks
and cedars; brilliant balls, recreated
IN the splendor of candlelight and
colorful costumes of old worn by
modern bellies and beaux, many Of
whom are descendants of those per-
sons whom they portray.
For the edification of pilgrims
to this sleepy town above the Mis-
sissippi, the Pilgrimage Garden
Club is planning a more magnifi-
cent Confederate Ball Tableaux
which bids fair to exceed in color
and pageantry any held before in
Natchez.
On the tours visitors will see TWEEN
W beautiful ante-bellum homes
sun furnished in the style of long
ago. These homes, which are still
houses of antique treasures ever for
those who have already trod their
Continued on back page)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
Methodist To Raise
Relief Fund, Mar. 7

Upon the authority of our church
leaders, March End, has been desig-
mated as the Day of Compassion
Every Congregation of the Metho-
dist Church in America will be ask
ed to make an offering which will
be used to bring relief to as many
in war torn sections as possible.
American Methodism is asked to
give $1,000,0O0 on that day-ou1
half of which will go for relief of
the war stricken millions of China
and Europe. One fourth of the of
fering will be used to help maintain
the Foreign Missions of British
MetEodism and one fourth will be
used for moral and religious works
in the camps of America where our
boys are training for military work.
| appeal to every Methodist in
Durant to be present at church
next Sunday morning when this
entire matter will be more fully ex-
planned.
Again, | appeal to your loyalty.
e. S. LEWIS.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
Interest Being Shown
In Membership Drive

More interest than usual is being
shown in the farm bureau member
ship drive now under way in this
county.
Most farmers realize, as never
before, that a farmers organization
must be maintained if we expect to
continue having the farm program.
This organization is responsible for
the program we now have, and there
is no doubt but that when the far
mers drop their organization the
United States Department of Agri-
culture will drop the farmers pro-
gram.
To become a member of the Farm
Bureau it is necessary to pay $500
as dues, but this is a small amount
compared to the benefits received
from the farm program. Besides be-
coming a farm bureau member, you
get two monthly farm bureau pap
ers, one from the Jackson Office
and n from the Washington Of
flee.
1t you have not already paid your
membership dues for 1941, please do
so as soon as convenient. Be one Of
the 1000 members Holmes County
expects to get this year.
|. w. Carson, County Agent.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
John H. Douglas, Sr.
Passes Away at Home
In Goodman
Member of Native
Holmes Co. Fumiiy
Prominent Planter

John Howard Douglas, Sr., So,
prominent planter, passed away at
his home in Goodman Wednesday,
February IL.
The funeral services were held
at the Baptist Church, Goodman, at
$3.50 o'clock Wednesday, February
IL with the Rev, Madison Flowers
officiating and assisted by the Rev.
E. w. Ford, pastor of the Presby-
terrain Church.
lnterment followed in the Hill
crest Cemetery at Goodman with
the Southern Undertaking Associa-
ton of Durant in charge.
Mr.. Douglas was born and reared
in Goodman and was a member of a
prominent Holmes County family.
He was the son of Mrs. Bette Bell
Douglas and the late w. H. Douglas
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. AL
leen Waites Douglas; one son, John
Howard Douglas, Jr., Goodman; two
daughters, Doris Douglas, Green
wood; nellie Douglas. student at
Delta State Teachers College, Cleve-
land; his mother, Mrs. Bette Bell
Douglas, Tutwiler; and one brother,
j. F. Douglas, Tutwiler.
The active pallbearers were: R.
w. Almond, f. j. Thweatt, j. D..
Neaves, Dave Ford, Hugh Cowsert
and I. E. S. Powers.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
Local Draft Board
Selection Announced
Induction of Nine
Men to Comp Shelby
February 21st

From the following named regis.
trants, nine will be selected for train
ing and service under the Selective
Training and Service Act of 1910
and will receive and Order to report
for Induction - such induction to
take place on February 81, 1941.
V-John Levy Slater, Pickens,
R. F. D. No. l.
56-James Wilburn Potts, Pick
ems, R., F. D. No. /.
97-Robert Earl Melton, Durant,
R. F. d. No. 1.
150-Walter Francis Mitchell,
Durant.
159-Alfred Allen Porter, Dur
ant.
l66-Gordon Brown Leard, Du.
rant.
176-Rex Dayton Spencer, Dur
ant.
1S1-Howard Thomas Worthey,
Pickens.
l86-Martin Egan Gray, Pickens.
221-Elbert James Thweatt, Jr.
Goodman.
222-James Ebert Tate, Pickens.
243-ohn Lester Ezell, Durant
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-13
State Baptist District
Meetings Announced

Jackson, Miss, Feb. T. Every
district in the state was represented
at the meeting of the Mississippi
Baptist Now Club district chairmen
here today. From the meeting the
chairmen went to secure a chairman
for each Baptist association in their
respective districts by February Is.
d. A. Mccall. Jackson, executive
secretary, of the Baptist convention
Board, president. Prayers were of
fered by John d. Davis, president of
the convention board, and Mrs. Ned
Rice, state W.M.U. president Frank
E. Skilton, Blue Mountain, general
chairman of the Now Club, outlined
the plan of action and led the debt
paying discussion.
Meetings in each district, to be
attended by associational chairmen
and pastors, will be held as follows
each at ten am:
District /, February 20, First Bap-
fist Church, Jackson; District 2,
Cleveland, Feb. %; District 3, Gre
NADIA, Feb. 26; District 4. Calvary
Baptist Church, Tupelo, Feb. 27,
District 5, Starkville, Feb. %; Dis
trict 6, Newton, Feb. %; District
z, First Baptist Church, Hatties-
burg, Feb. 18; District 8, First
Baptist Church, McComb, Feb. 81.
The complete list of district chair
men and Baptist association for the
Holmes County districe follows:
District 1, Owen Cooper, Jackson.
and Mrs. Webb Brame, Yazoo City.
Associations: Copiah, Kinds Warren,
Holmes, Madison, Rankin, Simpson
and Yazoo.