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Evening star., 1941-04-10

and agreed with him on the nature
of the statement.
I'm the interest of national de-
fense and the preservation of law
and order, submit practical and
fair plan as basis of settling the
Ford strike and reSuming work at
once" the Governor statement be-
gan.
Il make this proposal with the
knowledge that what l propose does
not completely satisfy the desires of
either the company or the Union.
But the welfare of our Nation and
of the IS 5000 Ford employees in this
crisis is of utmost importance"
At the Rouge plant there was a
noticeable increase in the size OF
the picket line this morning. One
picket captain said the number OF
men parading before the plants
gates was being increased ito i'm
press Ford with the union" During
the morning the unions sound truck
announced several times, I'VE want
a big crowd tonight"
Turning Point Indicated.
The Governor announcement
came following indications that
mediation efforts were approaching
a turning point Henry Ford and
Gov. Van Wagner had conferred
last night and earlier this morning
the Governor said, Il know that
Mr.. Ford wants the strike settled
quickly so that work can be resumed
at once"
After operations at the vast River
Rouge plant, worlds largest indus
trial unit, employing $4,000 workers,
were halted by the strike, the Ford
Co. closed manufacturing branches
in II other cities.
Last nights Ford-Van Wagner
meeting, also attended by Harry H
Bennett, Ford personnel director
was the first consultation of the
founder of the vast automotive in
terests with mediators in the first
strike ever called in one of his
Michigan plants.
oON. OH w WdSOllCi odiu al VSi w al "
that while we did not reach our to-
days objective of settling the strike
at the Ford Motor Co. and of set
ting a date for work to be resumed
l am far from discouraged.
He said he had telegraphed Presi-
dent Roosevelt a detailed report of
the days developments and added :
"All parties are aiming for a quick
settlement of the strike with a
Singleness of purpose. We must
maintain the feeling of confidence
and trust"
| An informed source expressed be-
lief that the "deadline" for a strike
agreement, after which it would be
certified to the Defense Mediation
Board, is elastic and that as long as
Gov. Van Wagner is convinced il
| can be settled here in a reasonable
Evening star., 1941-04-10

time, administration sources have
assured him no certiflcation would
be undertaken.
u. A VIC. l. o. leaders have
listed their strike demands as con-
tractual agreement, 10-cent hourly
wage increase, seniority and g1iev-
ance procedures and substitution Of
uniformed protection men for the
Ford service department.
Testimony of strike violence in
terfering with a mail delivery and
interrupting navigation on the
Rouge River, and of striker shout
ing ito hell with national defense
went into the record yesterday at a
hearing before Federal Judge Arthur
J. Tuttle to determine If perma-
nent injunction against picket in
reference with employees should be
granted the Ford Co.
Evening star., 1941-04-10
Axis Commission Meets
To Discuss Problems
3, the Associated Press.

Es the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 10.-The principal
commission set up by the three
power axis pact met today and dis
cussed military, political and eco
nomic problems under the chair
manship of German Foreign Min
lister Joachim Won Ribbentrop.
Japan was represented by her
Ambassador to Berlin. Hirota Oshi-
ma, and Italy by her envoy, Dino
Alfieri.
Evening star., 1941-04-10
D. c. Stations to Garry
Pope's Easter Message
Ry The Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, April l0.-Pops
Plus XII will deliver his Easter mes
sage Sunday at pm. Is am, E. S.
TD and his words, in Italian, will
be broadcast on short wave lengths
Of 3106 and 1894 meters, it was
announced today.
The address will be heard in the
Washington area on Station WRC
and WJSV at 6 am. VOL will make
u rebroadcast at l pm.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-09-11
2,045 Additional Stote
Selectees Called For
October

Receipt of two calls from Fourth
Corps Area Headquarters involving
2,045 additional selectees from Mis-
sissippi was announced today by
Brigadier General Thomas J. Gray
son, State Director of Selective Ser
vice. Both calls are for October ap-
plication.
Under Requisition No. Ia a total
of 1880 white selectees will report
for induction at Camp Shelby at the
rate of 118 each on October 1-3,
October 6-1O and October 1v-14.
New Requisition No. Is covers
S65 colored selectees for induction
at Camp Shelby during the period
of October 7-24. OF this total, las
will report on October II and 144
each on October 1924.
General Grayson called attention
to the fact that 968 men from Mis-.
sissippi are awaiting induction in
September, making a total of 3,01a
required from our state on calls al.
ready received for September and
October.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-09-11
Moyfieid-C Carr Vows
Made in Jackson

An event of widespread interest
va the marriage of Miss Nancy Hell
On Carr of Jackson to Mr.. Edgar
Galloway Mayfield, Jr. of Tchula
which was held at five o'clock We'd
nesday, September 10, at the Gallo
way Memorial Church in Jackson.
Miss Carr is the daughter OF the
late Ira Thornton Carr, prominent
Delta planter and Mrs. Ira Thornton
Carr. The bride has made her home
IN Jackson for the past two years
where she has been attending Mill
saps college and is. a member Of
Phi Mu social sorority.
MI. Mayfield is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar Galloway Mayfield. Sr. of
Tchula and the grandson Of f. c..
Mayfield of Durant. He is a grad
uate of Mississippi State college and
is now connected with the Merchants
and Farmers Bank of Tchula.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-09-11

Miss Mary White Nelson of Gin
Ton and Miss Mary Beth Lassetter
Of Nashville have returned to their
homes after visiting in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Harrington.
Miss Louise Crider has accepted
q position as teacher in the Jericho
High School in Baldwin.
Friends of Mrs. Charles Long will
be glad to learn that she has re-
turned to her home in Jackson af-
ter having undergone an appended
tamy at the hospital in Kosciusko.
Friends of Miss Annie Lee Thorn
ton will be interested to learn that
she has accepted a position in Vicks-
burg at Carriers Beauty Salon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lamar Hays. Miss
Carolyn Hays, Mr.. and Mrs. r. M. Ly-
On spent Sunday in Philadelphia with
Hr- Hays father, G. F. Hays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack DeLoach re-
turued to Greerville after visiting
relatives and friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Myers of Green.
vile spent the week end in Durant
Carl Herrin was a business visi.
Cor in Memphis Wednesday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-09-11

Miss Eloise King left Thursday TO
return Z school at MSCW, Column
bus.
Mr.. and Mrs. Htrace Weir return
home Thursday after a delightful trip
to North Carolina. where they visit
ed their daughter, Mrs. Kenneth
Seawright and family. On the re-
turn trip they stopped in Bonneville
to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Bennett
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Porter and
daughter. Emma Alice, spent the
week end in Memphis with Mr. and
Mrs. w. H. Dawson.
Mrs. Norman Doty Porter is spend
ing this week in McCraw with her
mother and father.
Mrs. Erie Hanna and son, Erie
Wayne, of Marion, Ala. spent last
week Win utE SlSbcIs "is' Hhos
Mitchell.
Miss Helen H~ightower of Memphis
visited her sister, Mrs. Merrill Nit
chell last week.
Mrs. w. X. Burt of Grenada spent
several days last week with her
sHughter. Mrs. Andy Mitchell.
The many friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Barwick will regret to
hear of their moving to Pace. last
week. The will be missed very much.
Mrs. Monroe Sawyer and son,
Hugh, of Memphis visited her sis
ter. Mrs. Will Elmore and other re-
latives last week.
Mrs. w. H. Grist and two sons.
Billy and Bobbie have returned home
after spending several weeks in Chi
cago visiting relatives.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-09-11

Members of the Durant Order OF
the Eastern Star that visited the
family of the late Mrs. Henry Canon,
Deputy Grand Matron OES, in Val
| den on Saturday were: Mrs. J.. D.
Alsbury, Mrs. Irby Johnson, ~
| Frank Edwards, Mrs. Eugene Cole,
Miss Pearl Mcgee, Mrs. Howard MI
| chell, Mrs. Charlotte Cresswell, Mrs.
G.. H. Peacock, Miss Grace Peacock,
Mrs. George Fulmer, Mrs. Walter
Durham, Mrs. Walter Durham, Jr'
Mrs. w. E. Durham, Mrs. Walter
Odom, Mrs. Ross w. Rhyme n Mrs.
Jake Herman.
C. J. Moore of Bay St. Louis has
been visiting relatives and friends IN
Durant.
Mrs. Heggie Herring, Mrs. B. NJ
Davis and little daughter, Marilyn,
of Jackson spent Saturday here
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Heggie
Mr.. and Mrs. l. Bernard have re-
turned to their home here after a
delightful vacation to Memphis and
Amory.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Vandiver at
tended the wedding of Mr.. Edgar
Mayfield, Jr. to Miss Nancy Helen
Carr, which was held in Jackson at
the Galloway Memorial Church at
five o'clock on Wednesday, Septem"
Der 10th.
Miss Alice Phillips has returned
from Miami, Fla, where she visited
her sister, Mrs. John James.
Mrs. Pearl Phillisp spent several
days in Jackson last week visiting her
sons, Charles and Eugene Phillips,
The many friends of little Charles
Grimes will regret to learn that he is
ill at the Community Hospital in Lex
ington. Every wish is extended for a
speedy recovery.
Mrs. Herbert Jordan enroute from
New Orleans to her home in Louis
Vile stopped over last week for a
short visit with friends here.
Mrs. C. J. Moot went to Jackson
Sunday to visit her brother, George
Beall. Jr., who is critically i'll at a
hospital there. !
Friends of Miss Pauline Carter
Carter, teacher in the Durant High
School, will regret to know that she
underwent an operation at the hos
pital in Kosciusko. It is hoped that
she will have a speedy recovery.
Miss Ann Elizabeth Grimes left
Sunday to return to school at MSCW,
Columbus. Miss Grimes is a Senior
student this year and also president
of the student government.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Campbell and
two children, Ruth Ray and Don;ld,
left Monday to go to Nashville, Tenn.
where they will spend their vacation.
Drennen Cox of Jackson spent
Friday night with his brother. Franz
Cox and Mrs. Cox.
Mrs. R. C. Gilmore has returned
home after a wtek's visit to Biz
mingham, Ala. with her daughter,
Mrs. Harry Gwinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bobbie Deckard and
Mr.. and Mrs. r. J. Deckard and son.
Charles have returned to their res
p~ective homes in Chicago and Fay
cite, Indiana after visiting Mrs.
Deckard's mother, Mrs. ]. r. Dicken.
Miss Katherine Carr of Yazoo City
has been the guest of Miss Eloise
King.
Miss Katherine Moore expects to
leave Monday for Memphis where
she will enter school at Tennessee
State Teachers College.
Mrs. N. z. King was called to
Dallas, Texas Sunday because Of the
sudden illness of her daughter. Mrs.
Perry Dennis, Jr.
Miss Ruth Hightower IS visiting
friends in Pittburgh, Penn. this week
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-09-11

Mrs. A. K. Dinas has returned
home after visiting friends and re-
.atives in Aberdeen for two weeks
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Drane, Jr.
and son, Thomas Walton, of Jackson
spent the week end here visiting re-
,~atives. Thomas Walton remained
for a visit with his grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. W. Drane.
Miss Marybelle Perkins left Fri
day to go to McComb where she will
resume teaching in the High school.
Miss Gertrude McCune, Mrs. M.
D. Baine, Mrs. Nj. T. Woods, Mrs.
Kenneth Van Veuren and Mrs. Tom
Ashley went to Jackson on Mon
day.
Mrs. Gladys Cade and Mrs. Merry
Tate of West were visitors in Du-
rant Monday.
Miss Edwina Martin went to Rose
dale Thursday to teach in the Rose
dale High School.
Miss Earline Moss left Wednes-
day to go to Gulfport where she
will teach this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Witt and sons,
Junior and Jimmy, left Wednesday
to go to Bowling Green, KY and
Cincinnati, Ohio to visit.
Miss Florence Nelly left Thurs
day to go to Natchez where she will
be a member of the school faculty.
Mrs. B. T. Peterson returned to
jacksonville, Texas Sunday after
spending several days here visiting
her sister. Mrs. J. w. Justice. She
was accompanied home by her moth
er, Mrs. Emma Ellington, who has
been visiting in Durant,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Morris of Lex
ington were guests in the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Justice on Sat.
urday.
Mrs. Jack Hodges, Nh. and Mrs
Ralph Dogan of Houston, Texas
visited friends in Durant Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Ferguson Of
Vicksburg arrived Monday to visi'
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. D
.Alsbury, after spending a week.
vacation in New Orleans.
j. w. Justice returned to Wickliff
Kentucky after spending the week
end here with his family.
Mrs. Charlotte Cresswell attended
the funeral of Mrs. Henry Canol
which was held near Meridian o;
Sunday.
Glanton Morris Of Columbus visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Justice ovel
the week end.
MI. and Mrs. j. B. Shamburger arr
moving into the home of Mrs. Ina
Angle this week.
Mrs. S. w. Leard of Jackson spenr
the week end with her mother, Mrs
Zenobia B~lankenship.
Mrs. Luther Harper Of Nashville
was guest in the home of Miss Mae
Jenkins last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Fly of Jack.
son spent the week end here tisitine
relatives and friends.
Hubert Lanfair was a visitor ir
Jackson Saturday.
Billy Mansfield, student at French
Camp Academy, spent the week en-
here with his father, C. G. Mansfield
Mrs. Zouella Bacon, was a visitor
in Yazoo City last week.
Mrs. Nola Simpson of Sails spent
Sunday here as the guest Of Mrs
Graham Field.
Mrs. Wanda Evans enroute to
Gulfport from Chicago visited Miss
Martha Field on Sunday.
The Twentieth Century Club held
the first meeting of the wear on
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-09-11
Society . Clubs . Personals

It's the dere # this paper to bMh a fn@ account all them in DWant The ceS cu@@
can show your ut is to have lrv visits men toned in this paper Also let your trends NS
through these columns when you go away W will appreciate our leaders pNnng IN or tunng IN locals
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-09-11
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-09-11

Miss Eloise King left Thursday to
return to school at MSCW. Column
bus.
Evening star., 1941-12-01
U. 5. Right 10 Withhold
Witnesses Is Affirmed

The Government, In a criminal
trial, is not under duty 10 place
upon the witness stand every person
who may have some knowledge of
the crime being tried. the United
States Court of Appeal held today
in affirming a District Court denial
of habeas corpus for James Curtis,
twice tried by iuries on charge Of
robbing a drug and liquor store at
81 Florida avenue NV on January
s. 1887. and twice found guilty.
Curtis. vino unsuccessfully en-
deavored to have the Government
use a lie-detecting machine, known
as pathometer, in his case, is now
serving a two years and two months
to FIVE years sentence He contend
ed that persons present at the al
legged holdup were deliberately with
held from testifying by police, that
he was denied the right to have wit
nesseS summoned in his behalf and
that the Judge at his second trial
enormously refused to receive in evi-
dence a police Incidental.
The appellate court today, in an
opinion written by Associate Justice
Harold NJ. Stephens and subscribed
to by Chief Justice D. Lawrence
Groner and Associate Justice Wiley
Rutledge, who also heard the ap-
peal. concluded that these conten-
tions were without legal merit. The
Government was represented by
United States Attorney Edward NJ.
Curran and Assistant United States
Attorneys Charles B. Murray and
Bernard Margolius.
Evening star., 1941-12-01
Station Redcaps Gain
By Wage-HourL Law,
Probers Are Told
Veteran Baggage Carrier
Says Poy and Working
Conditions Are Better

Since enactment of the Fair Labor
Standards Act, redcaps at the Wash
ington Union Terminal have been
making more money, and their work
ing conditions are better. This
opinion was expressed today by Will
liam l.. Brown, redcap here more
than 20 years. at a hearing held by
the Wage and Hour Division at the
Labor Department.
Pursuant to a Senate resolution,
the division is investigating wages,
hours and working conditions of red
caps in stations throughout the
country. Previous hearings have
been held in Chicago, ST. Louis and
New York
In addition to the Washington
Terminal, the hearings here will
cover conditions prevailing in the
Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio
stations in Baltimore. and in rail-
road terminals in Birmingham At
lanta. Savannah, Jacksonville. Tam
pa and Durham. 1t also will include
Seaboard Airline stations in Florida
Evening star., 1941-12-01
1aImadge Refuses Pardon
For Six Georgia FIoggers
a, the Associs,ed Press.

By the Associate Press.
ATLANTA. Dec. Gov. Eugene
Talmadge today refused to pardon
or parole six convicted fioggers who
were identified at their trials as
members Of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Governors action followed a
sensa tional hearing last week at
which the six white mems plea for
clemency was opposed by large
number Of Atlanta ministers and
other persons.
The convicted fo9eers had carried
on q reign of terror in suburban
Atlanta for several years. according
to Assistant Solicitor General Dan
Duke.
The men are Dan Edison, Walter
Forster. w. T. Walton, RAYMOND
Bryon, George Cameron and Henry
Cawthon.
The State Prison and Parole
Board had previously refused to
recommend clemency.
Evening star., 1941-12-01
Ace of d. PoIicewomen
Soon Will Join Park Force

A woman who can shoot, ride. play
or coach basket ball: direct physical
training, teach school. is law grad
uate and can do detective work. soon
will become the first female opera
tive attached to the Park Police
While final details on her trans
fer have not been completed. plans
are under way. it was revealed yes
terday. for Miss Beatrice Ball, for
the last 10 years policewoman with
the Metropolitan Police Department,
to take charge in a short time of
all Park Police cases dealing with
juveniles and women.
Capt. Mark H. Raspberry. Park
Police chief. said the addition of
Miss Ball will represent "a long
awaited asset" that woman op-
erative among the 90 members of
the force has been something needed
for years. Her transfer is scheduled
to take place January !.
Capt. Rhoda Milliken. head of the
Metropolitan Women's Bureau, de-
NllNN DdiI o1lt VI VIC bOH'
operatives on the staff. She said
recommendation for her change to
the Park Police had been sent the
Commissioners and awaited their
approval
Miss Ball came to the Metropoli-
tan Police Department 10 years ago
as a policewoman after passing the
civil service examination. Before
that she had been doing Y w c. A
Evening star., 1941-12-01
Struggle Already Ours.
kessersmifh Asserts
o. .he A,snc.ated Press.

~ TrE AcN''' - lN'A Z L''H"
HAVANA, Dec. George Mes
sersmith. Ambassador to Cuba ana
An7bassa designate to Mexico
said last night that war already is
at the very threshold l. Of the
Americas and that victory would
REQUIRE unprecedented sacrifices.
The envoy was one Of group OF
United States. Cuban and British
officials nm the program Of meet
ing snonsored by the Cuban Amerl-
can Allied Relief Fund.
Mr.. Messersmith said, ''it is for
us in the United States and for all
Of us in Cuba and every one Of the
American republics 10 realize that
this struggle is already ours" and
that sacrifices borne today by the
peoples Of Europe and the Far East
must he assumed likewise by us be-
fore Il is too late .
EVERYTHING We wish to conserve
4 AZ stake in this struggle: our
political freedom and our Govern
ment. our sovereignty and our lib
ertv Of speech. our schools and our
homes-in short. our very existence
as free peoples ."
Evening star., 1941-12-01

ages is concerned. She said she had
bought no cellophane ribbon and
would try to see that her gifts are
not wrapped more than once to con-
serve paper. As far as the gifts
themselves are concerned, Mrs.
Roosevelt is not limiting herself
even this year, to purely practical
things.
Christmas will follow the usual
pattern at the White House except
that the only child sure to be in the
Executive Mansion on Christmas
morning is Diana Hopkins, young
daughter of Harry Hopkins.
Mrs. Roosevelt also announced
that the Once of Civilian Defense,
of which she is director, will send its
first representative to England late
this month. Miss Eloise Dawson,
who Is in charge of the women s
groups for the o. C. D.. will 20 by
Clipper for a three-Weeks' tour of
Inspections of civilian defense activi-
ties in England. Later. women from
II organizations VIII go IN pairs 10
see what phases of the British civil
ian defense program can be used
here.
Mrs. Roosevelt took exception at
her press conference to an article
appearing in a local paper this
morning which charged that the o.
c. D. planned to absorb the w. P. A.
and the Red Cross. She termed the
reference to the Red Cross perfect
~ ridiculous" and said the only way
that the w. P. A. would be used by
the o. c. d. would be to train VOL
unteers willing to take over some
of the community projects elimi-
mated by the w. P A. when its ap-
preparation was cut.
Evening star., 1941-12-01
British Fleet Changes
Command in Far East
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SINGAPORE. Dec. Rear Ad-
miral Sir Tom Phillips, lord COM
missioner of the admiralty and vice
chief of naval staff since 1899, has
been appointed admiral In command
of the British fleet in eastern waters.
1t was announced today.
He will succeed Vice Admiral Sir
Geoffrev Layton. commander in
chief of the China station since 1910.
who will return to the United King
dom to take over another post
Sir Tom. who served in the World
War as a captain was chief of staff
and flag captain to the commander
In chief in the East Indies from
1925: director of plans for the
admiralty from 1858: commodore
commanding the Home Fleet
destroyer fotillas from 1889, and
aide -de-camp to the King