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70 invade Ahyssinia will be re-
born.
Note well HE details of Mr..
Eden's statement: Gone are the
days when We might have tried
10 turn the nlisfortunes Of rival
Power to our own imperial adj
vantage. We have no territorial
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Must be in tho Forum Office
on Tuesday to insure publiea.
tio. during the current week.
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The regular meeting Of the Bu-
siness and Professional Club will
be held Monday. March l1th at
7:30 pm. business of Importance.
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The final meeting for the Mem
hership Campaign will be din
ner meeting at 6 80 pm. Monday.
All captains and workers will
make their reports. Any Of the
workers who find it impossible to
attend the dinner will be expect
Cd at the meeting which will be
at Ills at the Central Building
The West Side Branch has a goal
Of 500 members that they are
working hard to reach.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-03-14
Rev. j. w. Storms
To Speak At YWCA
Fellowship Hour
Mar. 18th, A r. NJ.

The regular fellowship hour
that is conducted once each month
at the West Side SN9a will be
held sunday, March 10th from
4 % 5 Pm. Mrs. Ollie Walton
will be IN charge of the program.
Rey. j. w Storms, pastor Of the
Allen A. VI Il. church VII Sc the
speaker. Music viii be furnished
by the Ofpheunl cloral Singers
with Mrs. Myrtle I4aily, leader.
The Industrial Committee spon-
sors this pyt Of the YWCA ac-
tivities. The purpose Of the fell
lowsllip hour Is to furnish tie
members and friends the oppor-
tunity to develop the spirit Of fell
lowship. The public is cordially
invited to attend A social hour
will follow the program
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
Tax Commission Goes
On Token Hunt

Chairman ALI Stone of the State
Tax Commission has set aside the
week of August $3.50 to be devoted
exclusively to a statewide roundup
of tokens. There is an increasing
shortage of these sales tax tokens
and the manufacturers are unable to
supply them, as a result of aluminium
and brass being on the defense
priority list.
Under the plan, the one-mill alum
mum tokens will be bought for so
cents per pound, with the brass five
mills bringing rs cents per pound.
In cases where merchants desire to
count and wrap the tokens, face
value will be paid. Mr. Stone asks
all merchants having more tokens on
hand then they need to get them
ready for the sales tax representa-
tives when they call during the week
of August $3.50 There has been
no change in the law, and merchants
should continue to collect tokens on
all sales.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
752,572 21-Yeur-OIds
Register In Second
Registration

AN interesting feature in connecs
ton with the second Selective Service
Registration on July l is the ac-
curacy of estimates made by National
Selective Service Headquarters as
to what the registration would be in
the various states. According to of
ficials reports total of 752,572
twenty-one-year olds signed up for
possible service in the armed forces
of the United States, as compared
with $4,000 estimated by Selective
Service Headquarters.
Twenty-Five states, including Mis-
sissippi. registered a few less thap
estimated, Mississippps registration
being 10,5l1 against an estimate of
1884 Nineteen states and the Dis
trict of Columbia over ran estimates
by sufficient margins to make the
net gain shown above for the nation
as a whole.
In the first registration on Octob-
err IS, 1910 Washington's estimate
for Mississippi was 255,00 and re-
gistration reached 257,303.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
RuruI Carrier Exemin ion
Applications CIosees ,

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an ex-
animation to fill the position of ru-
raj carrier at Goodman, Mississippi.
TIE examination will be held at
Durant, Mississippi.
Receipt of applications will close
on August 20, l941.
The dote of examination will be
stated on admission cards mailed 10
applicants after the, close of receipt
of applications. and will be about Is
days after that date. The salary Of
d rural carrier on a standard route
OF 80 miles served daily except Sun
day is $500 per annum, with an
additional $40 per mile per annum
for each mile or major fraction there
of in excess of 80 miles. Certain al
iowances are also made for the
maintenance of equipment. The Ex-
animation will be open only to citi-
zens who are actually residing in the
territory of the post office where
the vacancy exists, who have been
actually residing there for six months
next preceding the closing date for
receipt Of applications, and who meet
The other requirements set forth in
form 1877. Both men and women, if
qualified, may enter this examina-
rlon, but appointing officers have the
legal right to specify the sex desired
in requesting certification of eligi-
bles Form 1877 and annIicatiop
blanks can be obtained from the
facancy office mentioned above or
from the United Civil Service Com
mission at Washington, D. c. APP
plications must be on file with the
Commission at Washington D. c.,
prior to the close Of busia IS on the
date specified above
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
New Train Schedules
Were Effective On
August 17lh
Sweeping Changes
Will Benefit
Service

Sweeping readjustments of Hi
nois Central passenger train sche-
dulles and equipment, to improve ser
vice and to meet the needs of nat
ional defense, were made effective
Sunday, August IT, according to j.
V. Lanigan, passenger traffic mana
ger. One result will be to release
for special movements. such as the
carrying of troops, fifty-one addition
al passenger-train cars-more than
enough equipment for three full
troop-trains daily. practically doub-
ling the railroads excess capacity
available for such purposes
Notable among the service i'm
provements will be a further separa-
ton Of the passenger business and the
mail and express business through
the establishment of a special mail
and express train. Largely relieving
train No. 3, The Louisiana, of such
double duty, this change will make
possible the speeding-up of No. 3's
schedule by nearly two hours be-
tween Chicago and New Orleans,
the new time being % hours 35
minutes. Other Chicago-New Or
leans schedules will be improved to
lesser degrees. Connections will be
safeguarded, and times of departure
and arrival will be made more con-
venient.
In addition to the speeding-up of
certain trains, the "tuning-up" pro-
cess of the Illinois Central passen
ger service will include the pooling
Of cars between separate runs for
more efficient use, the discontinue
ance of the handling of passengers
on so-called mixed trains and the
abolition of schedules on which
dwindling patronage on longer just
flies the retention of cars. Besides
releasing needed equipment for troop
train use, these changes will reduce
track occupancy and contribute to
more expeditions movement of the
remaining passenger trains and all
freight, according to Mr., Lanigan.
''The problem of so utilizing rail-
way capacity as to handle the traffic
coming up this fall will call for a
higher degree of cooperation than
ever between the railroads and their
patrons" said Mr.. Lanigan. "The
actions we are taking are based up
on general program formulated by
the railroads as whole to keen pace
with the needs of national defense"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
w. B. Nicols Appointed Oil
'Americonism Committee

Hon. w. B. Nicols of Grenada, has
received notice from headquarters of
the Mississippi State Bar that he has
been appointed as one of four MEM
bers of the Americanism Committee
of the State Bar Association. Hon F.
c. Holmes, of fernando, is chairman
of the committee and Hon James B.
Hillman, of Philadelphia, and Hon.
Earl w ngo, of Hattiesburg are the
other n mbers.
The above articles was carried
in the Grenada County Weekly, the
past week and the many friends he,a
of Mr.. Nicols are proud of the honor
that has been PLACED on him.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
Holmes Co. Farmers
Lost S29,676 10
Soil Conservation
Fcii-re To Toke
tdvcntoqa AAA
Cuuse o. Less

County Agricultural leaders this
wees warned the farmers of Holmes
County that unless they take imme-
date steps 70 earn their full soil
building allowance under the l9il
AAA farm program they will lose
opportunity 70 use his money
Or the improvement Of lie soil on
their farms.
County Administrative Officer Mr.
f. r. Trotman said the farmers of
the county last year lost $29,676.0O
by failing to earn their full soil
building allowance.
Under the 1910 agricultural con-
srvation program Holmes County
farmers had S75,343.00 available for
carrying out approved soil-building
practices. or this amount, farmers of
the county earned $45,667.00. Be-
cause some farmers failed to earn
part or all of their soil-building al
lowance, total of $29,676.00 re-
verified to the national treasury.
County Agent l. w. Carson said
there is still time for farmers to car
ny out soil-building practices such as
terracing, applying limestone g. sup
erphosphate, seeding permanent pas
lures, and planting trees.
Announcing that breakdown of
machinery had temporarily halted
the output of basic Stag and that the
amount of this material available
for farmers this fall will be limited
TO orders already filed, the county
agent advised farmers to plan to
obtain limestone and phosphate SUI
fieient at least to apply these mater
ials on 25 percent of the acreage
seeded to winter legumes.
With the difficulties farmers face
in obtaining winter legume seed,
limestone and basic Stag, the county
agent suggested that farmers likely
viii have to give more attention to
terracing and other practices in or
der to earn their full Soil-building
under the 1871 AAA pro-
gram.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
County Troinine School
Needs Cooking Stove

The Holmes County Training
School, in trying to meet the needs
of the undernourised Negro children
of this community, finds itself very
much in need of cooking stove.
II any friends to a cause such as
TINS mas a stove which you can do
without, and will make this cause
GIT OF same, or sell real cheap. please
call e. W. Williams, and he will great
ly appreciate it.
May also thank the many friends
who so often give our school reading
materials.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
Annual Colt Show
Set For Friday
Record Crowds Is
Expected At
Lexington

A free barbecue lunch will be serv-
ed to an expected crowd of from
10000 to $4,000 at the tenth annual
Holmes county brood mare and colt
show at Lexington tomorrow, Friday,
August %, in Wilson's Pecan
Grove.
$500 in cash prizes offered by
the County Board supervisors will
be given entries in the show expect
ed to be around 400. C. J. Good
ell, State College, and L. B. Robinson,
Centreville, will judge the events.
Among the features of the day will
be a $40 prize to the person who
enters the greatest number of brood
mares with colts at side.
A special S25 prizes will be given
TO the holder of lucky ticket among
the owners who enter mares and
colts in the show
A new class in saddle horses is
offered for the first time this year
and also a saddle class for colored
people only. S13 in prizes will be
given in each class.
The Mack Unger Brown Allen
special is offered again this year.
Each year Mr.. Unger gives a $500
cash prize for the best Brown Allen
colt, $500 for second and $500 for
third prize.
Final plans have been perfected
and record attendance is expected.
Every person in the county is cor
daily urged to attend.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
Beef Cuttle Tour
Set For Aug. 29

All interested beef cattlemen Of
the county are invited to participate
in beef cattle tour in Tate and
Pamela Counties on Friday, Angus,
10Th.
The party plans to leave the
County Agents Office at 7:45 am.
farmers time) and arrive at the
Tourist Court on Highway 81 at
Sardis at 1890 am. farmer
timel.
We believe that a tour of this
kind will be beneficial to anyone in.
terested in raising beef cattle.
Every member of the party who
made this tour on July 80 was high
IN his praise of the tour.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
Gin Operators Asked
To Attend Meeting

Gin men and gin operators of
Holmes County are being invited to
attend meeting in the Court House
at Lexington on August 26 at 1000
am, daylight saving time. Mr..
Francis Gerdes, Senior Cotton Tech
nologist, from the Stoneville Federal
Gin Laboratory will be chief speaker
on the program. Mr.. Gerdes will
discuss common. gin problems from
a practical point of view in this
meeting and will be glad to have
questions raised by members of his
audience.
All gin men of the County are
urgently requested to attend this
meeting.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
Edwin Lipsey Purchases
White Foced Steer Golf

Edwin Lipsev in franklin Com
munity, purchased his All Club
white faced steer calf from B. h.
Maxwell, Pickens, last week. Young
Lipsey is starting early with the
care and management of his calf
in an effort to put out winner and
at the same time learn what must
be done TO profitaoly ra.se beef cat
tie
E1win's calf is from 4 registered
sire and dam, and viii weigh ap-
proximate'y 800 pounds at four
m nshs OF age.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
Holmes Farmers Urged
To Plant Fall
Gardens By Agent
AkA Encourages
Gordens By $500
Conservation Payment

+ Many Holmes County farmers are
participating in the United States
Department of Agriculture's Food
for Defense program could make
substantial contributions both to-
ward the defense food campaign and
feeding themselves this winter by
planting fall gardens now, County
Agent |. w. Carson said this week.
In this day of rising prices the
farmer has a never-before equaled
opportunity to prove his value TO
his country by living at home the
year round" he, said "This can
not be accomplished fully without
fall gardens, which have been woe.
fully neglected all over the county
for the past 80 years"
The county agent said there is no
'need to elaborate on the value of
fall gardens both as a money-saver
TO the family and as a tremendous
factor in improved family health
through better diets. He declared no
better recommendation toward. solu-
ing the nutrition problem could be
made than to ask every farm family
20 plant fall garden and tend it
carefully.
Mr.. Carson said the agricultural
conservation program of the AAA
this year had encouraged the grow
ing of home gardens and the volun-
teer releasing of land for cotton.
A food conservation payment of
$500 was offered by the AAA for
the growing of a home garden and
the putting up of at least 200 pts.
of fruits and vegetables. or by grow
ing, harvesting and storing of other
designated food products listed un-
der the food production end storage
practice.
Because the diversion of acreage
from cotton under the AAA farm
program has enables Holmes County
farmers to increase the acreage
planted to soil conserving and feed.
crops such as cowpeas,
soybeans and lespedeza, farmers
will have more hay for harvest this
summer and fall.
County Agent |. w. Carson this
week emphasized the Importance of
eutting" hay at the right stage and
handling it in the proper manner.
High quality hay has fine stems. an
abundance of lease, and a pea-green
color. Hay cut at the right stage,
the county agent said, has a higher
protein and vitamin content than
when 1t is cut too late. Hay cut too
mature is less palatable and has
higher percentage of fiber that is
hard to digest.
The best time to cut Iespedeza is
when it is in full bloom, and soy
beans, when the seed are from half
to three-fourths developed. Cowpeas
should be cut when the first pods
begin to turn yellow and before any
OF them are mature enough to shatter
their seed during handling.
The county agent emphasized the
Importance of farmers harvesting all
of the hay possible as one means of
increasing production of dairy pro-
ducts called for under the food-for-
defense program, and also for feed
ing workstock and cattle in a self.
sustaining program.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
Grady Thorntons'
Daughter Dies

Friends here of Mr.. and Mrs.
Grady Thornton, former Durant resi-
dents, will regret to learn of the
death of their five months old daugh-
ter at a Jackson hospital Monday
night.
Funeral services will be held at the
family home in Vicksburg on Well
nesday morning.
Mr.. Thornton worked here last
summer on the Big Black river pro-
ject and they have many friends
who will be grieved to learn of their
loss.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
Dr.. Jasper W. Weber To
Preach At Methodist
Church Sun. Morning

DR.. Jasper w. Weber, former Pre-
sident of Wood Junior College at
Mathiston, will preach in the Metho-
dist Church Sunday at Ii O'Clock.
There will be no evening service.
Sunday school and Leagues will
meet at regular time and the circles
at clock Monday afternoon.
Rev. and Mrs. E. s. Lewis are
having a short vacation with relatives
at Mathiston and other places.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
,cimes County 5apTlsts
To Meet CT Mt. Pleasant
aaay, Aug. ; lst

The Holmes County oaps.st sun
Scnool Association will meet at
Pleasant Church on august 81,
100 pm. daylight saving time
.ionai will be given by Lexing-
and the following points on the
andard of Excellence will be dis
.5sea:
l. The Use of Bibles in the S. s.
Goodman.
-. Preaching Atteudance-Durant.
Mrs. Flowers will give the high
lights of her week at Rdgecrest.
Ali ). 5. are urged to send as
any representatives as possible and
department officers are request
i 10 nave this reports ready.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21
deferred Registrars
Have Right TO
Appeal Cases
Stote Director Gives
information Received
From Hershey

Any Selective Service registrant
who was deferred from military
training and subsequently reciassl-
fled by his local board has the same
right to appeal as originally obtained
Brigadier General Thomas j. Gray
son, State Director of SelectlVe
Service announced today.
Stressing particularly its applica-
ton to cases of registrants whose
periods of deferment for occupation
al reasons expire, the State Direc-
tor cited memorandum recently is
sued by Brigadier General Lewis b.
Hershey, Director of Selective Ser
vice. which clarifies Selective Service
Regulations affecting the appeal
rights of registrants. General Her
shey's memorandum to State Direc-
tors stated:
mo classification of registrant
IS permanent and any time prior 20
induction the case of a registrant
may be reopened and his classified
ion considered anew. When the case
Classification considered anew, the
dete "miEation of the local board
upon such consideration shall have
the effect Of a new and original
ella sification even Though the re
gistrant is again placed i'll the class
that he was in before the case was
reopened Under these pi DIVISIONS
there is no distinction in purpose
and effect between the considera-
ton of the original classification of
a registrant and the subsequent re-
opening and consideration of his
classification.
General Grayson commented on
the memorandum as follows:
General Hershey emphasizes that
some local boards have enormously
construed Regulations to apply on
ly to original classifications, which
misinterpretation has resulted in the
continuance of improper classified
tions and the refusal to change
registrant's Classification where
there has been a change in his cir
cumstances. However, the memoran-
dun is timely also in its clarified
ton of the appeal rights of regis
trants who have been deferred for
occupational reasons.
Local boards should bear in mind
that when classifications of regis
trants who were deferred because
they were contributing in their civil
ian occupations to the national heal
til, safety and interest - in indus
trial agricultural, or professional
activities are reconsidered they
must again be given notice of class
ification and accorded the same
right to appeal before induction as
when they were classified original
ly."
While any registrant who is re-
classified may appeal within 10 days
after mailing of his notice of classi-
fication, General Grayson said, he
urged that those who have occupa-
tional deferments, or their employ
ers, anticipate such action if they
desire extension of deferment.
"Any registr./t whose period of
deferment for an occupational rea-
son is expiring, or his employer,
should formally request his local
board for an extension well in ad-
vance of its expiration" he said.
"This will not only facilitate ac-
ton on the case. but also will Alp
TO prevent interference with the
National Defense program.'
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21

Mrs. Rosilee Keim and Miss Betty
heim and Mrs. f. L.. Reddock of
Vicksburg visited in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Charlie Rivers the past
Sunday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21

Miss Leola Crawford of Amory will
arrive Friday to spend the week end
with Mrs. Richard Harden.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-14
Patterson
Fest Proves
Huge Success

o.UTICA-With the seating
capacity sold out. the Father
and Son banquet, given under
the auspices of the Congrega-
tional church in their dining
rooms Thursday evening, was a
very successful affair.
Speaker of the evening was
Rev. JOS Kennedy, pastor OF
the Mount Clemens Presbyteri-
an church, and music was fur
nished by the orchestra of the
Center Line schools. Novelty
numbers were given by a group
OF young men from that city.
Gifts were presented to- the
oldest father and son present,
youngest father with son pres
ent and the father with the most
sons In attendance. The oldest
father was John Altz who has
passed his 81st birthday. Earl
Dawson, aged "a, was the young
est father, and Frank Chapoton
was a winner with three of his
six sons at the table.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-14
Around the Town

Speaking before a joint meet
ing of the Utica and Washing
ton Farmer clubs, held in the
parlors of the Utica Methodist
church. on Wednesday evening,
was William Adam of the state
highway department, Lansing.
Mr.. Adam also showed slides
in illustration of his lecture.
Mrs. William Erwin, of Utica,
gave several piano numbers.
A cooperative dinner was
served at $50 pm.
o
Mrs. Oral B. Wright, of De-
troit, spent Thursday of last
week with her husbands aunt,
Mrs. Cora c. Harris. Mrs. Har-
ris is convalescing from an at
tack of influenza.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waiter Rehse
spent the weekend with Mrs.
Rehse's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. G. Burrill, in Clare, and tran
sacted business in Reed City.
A Father and Son banquet
will be held at the Methodist
church on Thursday night, Feb.
q. Music will be in charge of
the mems quartette of the Met
ropolitan Methodist church, De-
troit, there will be a magician
present and a good speaker. All
men should reserve that date.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Kraft and
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Gamble
were Sunday dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Rehse.
The annual Day of Prayer
service for Utica and neighbor-
ing towns will be held in the
Congregational church, Utica. on
Friday, Feb. %, at 2 pm. This
event is worldwide and is there
fore international and interde-
nominational. The speaker for
the afternoon will be Mrs. Phil
ip Gentle, of Detroit, and the
music will be furnished by the
ladies quartette of Warren. The
meeting Is open to all.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Simmons,
Misses Kathryn and Margaret
Simmons, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Dawson and son, Mrs. Evelyn
Wyatt, of Utica, Miss Margaret
Bell, of Ann Arbor; Mrs. Dan
Reese, of Detroit; and Edwin
Cooper Of Lewiston, Mich, drove
to Frankenmuth for dinner on
Sunday. The event was in hon.
or of the birthday anniversary
of Mrs. Wyatt.