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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-28
Baptist Association
Meets Al Antioch

The Holmes County Baptist AS
ISOLATION will meet Sunday after
noon, at three o'clock, at the An
tioch Church. Mrs. w. f. Grace
will have charge of the program.
The Lexington church will have
charge of the devotional and DR..
B. Frank Smith will speak on "The
Spiritual Value of the Six-Point Re-
cord System"
A representative of the Goodman
"hurch will speak on "a Library
for Every Church"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-28
Duront Baptist Church
Announcements for 3 lst

Bible School GAS. Robert Irby,
superintendent.
Morning Worship 1880. Sermon
topic: "The Church and its Compe-
tition."
Training Union Z pm. The Union
will dismiss in time to reach the
Methodist Church by 8 ~o'clo-S for
the commencement ssrlnon honor
ing the High School graduating
class. There will be no evening Sc
lnon at the Baptist Church, ard d.
our members are urged to attend
union service for the able message
to be delivered by DR.. Godbold.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-28
BPW Club Meets
Toniqht At 500

Miss Georgia Mcintyre and Miss
Mary Phillips will be hostess to the
May meeting of the BPW Club IN
the horne Of the former tonight al
light o'clock, I'll members are ure
ed 10 o. present.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-28

Mrs. j. R. Estes and son, HattieS'
burg. are visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. r. NJ. Lyon here this week
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-28

Mrs. M. T. Woods spent the week
end in Jackson with her daughter,
Mrs. Jimmy Elliott.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-28

Mrs. Merrill Mitchell left this
week for Dallas, Texas, where she
1oined her husband.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
REGISTRATION:
OF Is, I0-Year-OIds

Young men between the ages Of
10 and 10 will register for selective
service on June 30. The registra-
ton will include youths whose goth
birthdays fell between December 81,
1941, and June 30, 1912. Under pres
ent law, the first age group is not
subject to military service but the
latter group can be called.
Informed sources report the posi-
bilities Of proposal to lower the
minimum age for compulsory serv-
ice to 10 years-and possibly 10. An
estimated 1900 900 persons are in
each age group.
When, the selective service act
was revised by congress after Pearl
Harbor, the war department recon-
mended making 19-year-olds subject
to the draft. The senate acted IA
vorably but the house voted to place
the minimum age at 81. A COM
promise resulted, permitting 20
year-olds to be drafted.
Rep. Andrew J. May Of Kentucky.
chairman of the house military af-
fairs committee, expressed the be-
lief that the house would be willing
to lower the age minimum. How
ever, Sen. Lister Hill of Alabama,
Democratic whip, said he expected
no immediate action. New draft
classification measures are expected
to be acted upon in the near future.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
MEXICO:
National PRIDE

AS Mexico moved toward war,
government officials explained the
necessity for such a step. Mexican
national pride demanded that the
deaths Of 81 sailors killed by Axis
torpedoes be avenged.
A solemn demonstration in mem
DRY of the dead sailors drew thou
sands of people to Mexico City's
huge central plaza. President Man
uel Avila Camacho, members of the
cabinet and congress appeared at
the demonstration. The memorial
program was followed by a pageant
at which the Nazi banner was
burned amid cheers for Roosevelt
and other Allied leaders and boos for
Hitler, Mussolini and Emperor Hiro-
hito.
Many German, Japanese and Ital-
ian business houses were painted
with slogans "Down With the Axis!"
and down With Hitler!"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
TRANSPORTATION:
Lonely Highways

BY June, 1943, the Office of Elmer
gency Management reports that TO-
100000 passenger cars will 60 off
the roads-leaving about 5000, 600
unless car pooling can be made eff
fective on nationwide scale.
According to DEM statistics, the
average passenger load per mile
last year was less than 2 persons,
although the average car capacity is
AZ persons. The War Production
board reported some labor-manage-
ment committees have enabled
workers to form their own car pools
by indicating on conspicuously post
ed maps the home location of every
man driving car to work and of
every man without a car.
Meanwhile the Office of Defense
Transportation banned operation Of
all sightseeing bus services and re-
stricted use of chartered buses to
such essential operations as trans
porting members of the armed
forces, war workers and school chill
dren.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
MANPOWER:
Mobilization

In a program to promote fullest
utilization of manpower a program
was announced in Washington which
directed the u. S. employment serv-
ice to prepare and maintain lists of
skilled occupations essential to war
production in which a national short
age exists. Preferential referrals of
workers would then be made to en-
ployers engaged in war production
in order of their priority before MAX
ing referrals to other employers.
Further the employment service
was directed to analyze and classify
occupational questionnaires distrib-
uted by the selective service system
and to interview persons skilled in
critical war occupations and refer
them to war job openings, and in
crease its activities and facilities
necessary to provide additional ag-
riculture workers.
In addition assistance to the farm
er in helping him meet serious Ia
Dor situation was seen in an order
to the Farm Security administration
to increase mobile labor camps to
make agricultural workers availa-
BILE. The Office of Defense Trans
portation is to assure adequate
transportation facilities for such
workers.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
RUSSIAN FRONT:
TWo Ofensives

AS the NaZis began massing new
panzer divisions for the first 1912
thrust at Moscow from the west,
further to the south their forces
scored a strategic victory as they
forced withdrawal of Russian troops
from the Kerch peninsula. Their
goal in that section of the front was
Of course the vital oil fields of the
Caucasus.
Around Kharkov, to the north Of
the Kerch area, Marshal Semeon
Timoshenko's armies of the Ukraine
held the offensive after more than
two weeks Of steady intensive fight
ing. Success by the Russians at
Kharkov would expose rear lines of
main German units attacking the
Caucasus.
Just across the narrow strait from
the Kerch peninsula the Russians
were reported to have heavily re-
inforced their defenses on the Cau-
casus shore and the Soviet Black
sea fleet was said to be massed
near the strait and loomed as Hit
ler's biggest obstacle in any Jump
toward the oil treasure.
United Nations strategists hope for
successful stand by the Russians
In the Caucasus region. For If Hit
Ter can be kept from this oil his time
table will be once more upset. Some
experts expressed the suggestion
that the threatened Moscow often
sive was feint to lure heavy Rus
sian defenses away from the oil
fields. While the moral effect of
Moscow's fall might be bad, the loss
Of rich supplies of oil in the Cauca-
sus would be far more damaging to
the Allied cause.
Both the Nazis and the Russians
were claiming that the other had
suffered huge losses in tanks and
other armored material all along
the front. In three days of fighting
on the Izyum-Barvenkova front, the
Russians reported the destruction Of
rs German tanks.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04

is mere trickle compared with
the increasing flow that is to come"
Washington: Nine-tenths of all
factory workers earn 40 cents an
hour or more, according to Secre-
tary of Labor Frances Perkins. One
tenth of the factory workers earn
81. 10 or more.
San Francisco: Ten thousand Jap
anese, evacuated from Pacific coast
al states, will be moved to reloca-
ton center to be built in the Big
Horn area Of Wyoming.
London: The 800-year-old cathe-
dral at Exeter suffered a direct
bomb hit and was damaged badly.
Holland, Mich: Approximately
10000 persons attended the 18th an
nual tulip festival.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04

who are said to have become in
creasingly impatient with his slow
ness in bringing France into full col
laboration. Nazi party leaders were
extremely critical regarding Lavals
handling Of the Martinique affair.
Jacques Doriot, former Commu-
mist, has been suggested as Lavaps
successor. Rumors from Vichy stat
ed that he might enter the govern
ment or form his own collaboration
list regime in Paris. In May 16
speech, Doriot evinced his own read
mess to take over if Laval was un-
able to carry out satisfactory pro-
gram.
However, informed persons in
Vichy believe that Laval is COM
paratively secure for the immediate
future.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04

Ottawa, Ont: United States tour
lists entering Canada will be given
ration books emitting them to only
20 gallons of gasoline on a yearly
basis, not for each entry.
Washington: A five-pointed white
star within a blue circle has been
adopted as a new insignia for all
U. S. combat aircraft to remove the
possibility of confusion with enemy
planes.
Washington: The army will SUBJ
stitute steel and zinc buttons, coat
ed with brass. for those made of
solid brass.
New York: Glenn l.. Martin, pio-
neer aircraft manufacturer, stated
that Americas warplane production
Is nearly twice that Of Germany, but
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04

BRIG. GEN. JAMES III. DOOLITTLE
Jap planes "neuer had a chance"
called these u. S.-made machines
the best in the world.
Japanese pursuit planes which
rose to challenge the American
forces during the daring raid
s'never had q chance" he said.
Doolittle later told Of the great
disappointment of two-thirds of the
volunteer fliers who were secretly
trained for the job attacking Japan.
They were ''heartbroken" he ex-
planned. because the limit of the
number of planes to be used on the
raid forced them to remain behind
at the last minute.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
u. S. FARM FRONT:
Additional Assistance

An agricultural appropriation bill
for fiscal 1943 was passed by the
senate and sent to the house. The
bill, which totaled $500, 383, sos, in
cluded $185, 900, 900 loan authority as
we'll as authority for the Commodity
Credit corporation to sell surplus
corn and 125,000,0O0 bushels of
wheat for hog and cattle feed at SUBJ
parity prices.
About the same time the bureau
of agricultural economics announced
that the General Maximum Price
Regulation together with other con-
trolls, would affect about 80 per cent
of the commodities in the bureau Of
labor statistics wholesale price in
dex as we'll as about rs per cent Of
the products and services in the
bureau of labor statistics cost of liv.
ing index
Also affected by the price regula-
ton was rs per cent of the items in
the index of prices paid by farmers,
including interest and taxes, as well
as commodities processed from
about so per cent of the farm prod
ucts in the index of prices received
by farmers.
Meanwhile the Agricultural Mar
keting administration began pur-
chasing large quantities of dried
whole milk weekly on an offer and
acceptance basis for United Nations
and other needs. Under the offers
Of at least carload lots should be in
the hands of ANA not later than 2
p. m. Eastern War time each We'd
nesday.
The ANA also moved to prevent a
shortage of strategic vegetable seed
by contracting with 10 producers
for the production of 1886, 900 pounds
Of carrot seed and Its, 900 pounds
Of onion seed in 1943.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
WITHHOLDING TAX:
EMPLOYERS RESPONSIBLE

In far-reaching, all-inclusive pro-
posal, the treasury department rec
commended to congress that 10 per
cent Of an individuals estimated
taxable income be withheld at the
source.
The Withholding tax, according to
the treasury department, would
Tighten the taxpayers burden, speed
the governments program to COM
bat imitation and aid in collecting in
come taxes from small wage earn.
ers.
Under the plan, 10 per cent of a
single persons income in excess Of
Sill week would be withheld; 10
per cent of a married mans income
over $26 week would be withheld
and an additional exemption of SIS. so
week would be granted for each
dependent child or additional de-
pendent.
Treasury officials estimated the
plan would produce $500, 100000 in
its first full year of operation. Tax
payers would be credited next
March for the part of their taxes
already paid under the plan. En-
ployers would be responsible for col
lecting the tax.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
SHIPBUILDINC:
Vital Front

With the launching of q cargo
vessels the nation marked its OBJ
servation of National Maritime day.
War Shipping Board Admins
traitor Land said that by that
date 1873 ships had been deliv-
cred into service since the be-
ginning of the year." approx
lnately IS per cent more than
were delivered i'm all of last
year." Two ships day are now
being delivered under Shipping
Boards program and by fall
there will be three a day. This
means ships put into active war
service"
Maritime Commission Vice Chair
man Vickery estimated that by the
end of 1943 American shipyards will
be able to turn out 100000 tons
of shipping or Gin two years will do
more than twice as much as the
World war yards did in five years."
President Roosevelt on Maritime
day said, Il can assure you that we
will perform this near-miracle of
ship production. The nations ship
building capacity has been increased
more than 500 per cent. That of it.
self is an outstanding achievement.
Despite this progress, he stated, the
country still is confronted with a
serious ship shortage, partly be-
cause of the heavy toll taken by
enemy U-boats.
But the submarine menace, like
other problems, sis being solved"
said the President.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
LAVAL ON SPOT?
Nazis impatient

The removal of fuel from French
warships at Martinique was an
nounced by Secretary Of State
Hull, who stated that further de-
mobilization work is in progress and
proceeding satisfactorily.
Meanwhile rumors were revived
that Pierre Laval might step out as
chief Of government in Vichy. La
val had conferred In Paris with Ger
man military and political leaders
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
Weekly Analys
Nazis Battle Two Fronts Campaign in Russia ntensfe

In discussing these labor mobiliza-
ton programs, War Manpower
Chairman McNutt stated that If it is
possible to insure full and effective
utilization Of manpower through vol
untary cooperation, sit will be I'M
necessary to put into effect legal
controls" to limit freedom of action
of workers and employers. Skilled
labor shortages have forced 1874 out
of 700 war contractors to reduce pro-
duction, he said, and estimated that
by the end of 1912 war labor forces
will be boosted by approximately
$4,000, 900.
Four-f1fths Of all jobs in vital war
industries can be and many will be
handled by women, he stated.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
DOOLITTLE:
To Do More

More raids on Japan were prom
ised by Brig. Gen. James H. Doc
little, commander of the u. S. air
fleet which bombed Tokyo in mid
April. In a nationwide radio broad
cast he praised workers and manu-
facturers of American airplanes and
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04
AIR SCORE:
Against Nazis

Three German planes are being
lost to every British plane downed
in Africa, according to British, Ca
madam and Australian airmen visit
ing in New York. However, they
pointed out, that the Axis still holds a
so per cent superiority in the number
Of fighting planes. Special praise
was heaped upon the Curtiss-W Wright
P4O American pursuit planes. The
men are touring U. S. plane fac
tories.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-04

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns. they
are those of the news analyst, and not
necessarily of this newspaper.
Evening star., 1942-04-20

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Evening star., 1942-06-16
4S-Hour Week Is Called
Best War Work Limit
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 16-Secretary
of Labor Perkins said yesterday the
48-hour week and the 160-hour
plant production program had be-
come the "optimum-best working
average-for labor and management
for the duration of the war"
Addressing delegates from the
United States and Canada to the
convention of the Pattern Makers
League Of North America, Miss
Perkins said:
Mass production war workers
must have a limit to their work In
order to produce their best and 48
hours a week is that limit with but
few exceptions"
She said that while it was taken
for granted that women would 60
into war production work, she felt
that there was "too much loose
thinking on the subject of women in
war"
II believe that it is a mistake to
call the mothers of young children
into factories or into any other
form of war work until we use up all
the other reserve" she said. "The
system of family life in America is
more essential than what these
women have to offer"
Evening star., 1942-06-16
France Now Military Area
To Nazis, Vichy Press Says
By the Associated Press.

ASS t2Ab hSeoSAetS2 tpoc.
VICHY, Unoccupied France, June
16.-A front page article in the
newspaper L'Ehort said today the
Germans no longer are primarily
interested in collaboration, but for
the time being regard France as a
strategic and economic space" Of
military Importance.
(The article nowhere men,
toned the prospect of an Ameri-
can-British invasion establishing
a western European front against
the Germans, but said clearly
that the Germans were taking
strong precautions along the
coastal area.)
The article said "the problem Of
cooperation of our two peoples has
been eclipsed in German preoccu-
patton.
"A strategic and economic space
that is what France stands the risk
of seeming to Germany during these
several months of military offen-
sive: A sort of great highway paral-
lei to the sea front through which
armies must move from one point
to another of battle, and must be
able to move easily and without
risk"
The article added that "it is con-
sequently vital above all that this
passive battle sector should not in
the least be unnecessarily troubled
by the activities of England or the
United States or Russia, and trans
ferred by their agents into an active
sector of disorder and agitation"
Evening star., 1942-06-16
10 Seek Ban
On Funds for-U. ).
Press Releases
$28, 900, 900 Allotment
Would Be Eliminated
Under Senator'S Plan

Senator TydingS, Democrat, OF
Maryland, said today he will offer in
the Senate Thursday proposal to
cut off the s28,000,000 which, &C
cording to a Budget Bureau survey.
is being spent on Government press
releases and pamphlets.
Senator Tydings is chairman Of
a special committee investigating
expenditures of the Federal Gov
ernment. He said he would offer
the legislation, based on informa-
ton compiled in an investigation
of Government expenses, when the
Senate reconvenes Thursday.
The revelation by. the Budget Bu-
reau that 100000 had been spent
on the preparation of Government
publicity material was made in a
report to the Appropriation Com
mittee of the House.
1941 Activities Covered.
The survey covered activities In
194l and showed that the Govern
ment had produced 283,982 1926
copies of handouts, pamphlets, etc.
The Budget Bureau has taken
steps to cut down the amount and
cost of publicity, but it was pointed
out that in some war agencies the
quantity is rising.
The divergence between the num-
ber of Government releases required
by law and those which were put out
at the instance of officials was noted
in the Budget Bureau report. The
survey showed only 14,806, $50 docu-
ments we're issued as required by
law, while the remainder were not
required.
Figures on Cost Given.
1t was estimated by the Budget
Bureau that the cost of printing
and duplication amounts to $780,
89l annually. The value of print
ing and duplicating equipment in
use in Federal agencies, outside of
the Government Printing Office,
was set at $3,675,695
Senator Tydings, said that his
committees investigations had gone
beyond the Budget Bureau report
and had indicated that the actual
cost of Government publicity was
In excess of the s2S,0OO,O0O figure.
Evening star., 1942-06-16

High praise for the B-26s the
men and women in your employ
have sent to Army Air Forces has
come coincidentally from two far
flung battle fronts as Gen. Oelos
c. Emmons in Hawaii and Gen. IS.
b. Buckner in Alaska report the
magnificent part your bombers
played in the recent successes OF
Midway and the Aleutian Islands.
"A flight of four of your airplanes
attacked a cruiser or battleship in
the former engagement and scored
one positive hit, with another prob
able.
In the Aleutian Islands a group
of B-26s made three attacks on the
main japanese task force, sinking
a cruiser and scoring two hits with
torpedoes, besides dropping tor
pedo on the deck of a carrier.
May I extend my gratitude to
you and your company for the ex-
tremely important part you have
played and are playing and I am
sure will continue to play in the
success of the Army Air Forces
both at home and abroad"
Evening star., 1942-06-16
Meade at Attention
For Marriage at a AM.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md,
June 16.-It's 1t. and Mrs. Donald
E. Stingel now, thanks to 1t. Col.
Frederick C. Reynolds, Fort Meade
chaplain.
1t. Stingel, from Pittsburgh, and
Miss Rita Marie Sweeney, Annap-
oils, of the post judge advocates S
Office, met once for lunch, and kept
meeting for lunch.
In Baltimore Sunday they de-
cided to get married. They reached
Fort Meade at $3.50 am, routed
Mai. Arthur B. Foster out of bed,
who woke up Col. Reynolds and to-
gether they aroused Capt. William
S. Nelson, jr., to be another witness.
At 4 am, with Col. Reynolds Off
ciating and the other two officers
likewise garbed in bathrobes, there
was a wedding.
Evening star., 1942-06-16
Mexican Held on Charge
Of Aiding Axis Subs

e! tie Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, June 16.-Special
government agents arrested Alberto
Barradas Lagunes, a, today in the
Mexican Gulf port of Veracruz and
accused him of trying to arrange a
fuel oil supply for submarines in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Police Chief Miguel z. Martinez
said a Japanese, who was being
sought, supplied the money with
which Barradas allegedly attempted
to get three Cubans to make a trip
to sea in their boat with supply Of
Diesel oil.
Actual charges against Barradas
were fomenting unrest and pos
seSsing false passports.
Evening star., 1942-06-16
BoNpIoyer Tosses
Object to Fielder;
Finds It's a Bomb
Rx the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, June 16.-A
colored fielder in an impromptu
baseball game couldn't find the
ball when it landed in some
bushes, but he found something
else, and tossed it to another
player.
1t landed on its blunt end as
the other player Sidestepped.
The players took it to the po-
lice station. 1t was a ga pound
bomb stamped by the United
States Army Ordnance as con-
tanning TINT.
Police began an investigation
to determine how the bomb
happened to be lying there by
railroad tracks, and told two
frightened ball players the bomb
was deadly land it was plain
lucky it landed on its tail in
stead of its nose"