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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
Williams Urges Ho|me!
Citizens 10 Buy Bonds
$4,000 Quote Set
For May; Action
Now Is Urged

The ollowing announcement
should be of interest to Holmes coun-
ty citizens coming from p. H. Will
liams, county chairman of wal saw
ings bonds and stamps:
"You know, we've got a big job
to do right here in Holmes County.
Our Government has set a quota of
$41,200 for us in its War Savings
Program for May. The amount of
Wan Bonds and Stamps that we must
buy is a lot bigger than what we
have been buying. Now, we don't
want to fall down on this job while
every other county in America equals
and exceeds its quota. Every citizen
Of this county must make up his mind
to buy War Savings Bonds and
Stamps to the limit in order 10
meet this quota set for US by che
United States Government. Ten pcr-
cent fifteen percent, yes. and even
twenty-five percent of our incomes
mus be used for the purchase of
War Savings Ponds and Stamps.
This isn't a two percent war, ray
friends. This is a total war that will
take a good many billions OF our
dollars. Now let's get in there and
show the rest of the United States
that Home County recognizes the
nee Q its government. Buy WAY
Say ; Bonds and Stamps to the
limit all yoI M possihl. afford.
NAL yea pledg3 now d double
IL e.tl.y month hereafter until Hoo
mes county goe over the top in
this %trive."
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07

Hon. Thurman Arnold, Assistant
Attorney-General of the United
States, will be featured speaker at
Delta Council annual meeting in
Cleveland on May 8. Mr.. Arnold's
address will be presented at 300
pm. in the gymnasium of Delta State
Teachers College and will be broad
cast over several Mid-South radio
stations. Recent outstanding activity
of the Acknowledgement in war in
dustries Investigations makes MI. Ar
nold's address of paramount interest
and Importance to entire Delta area.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
Funds Asked For
Chino Relief

Mrs. F. V. McCullar, Durant chair
mar for the China relief drive, asks
all those who have not contributed
to this worthy cause to please do so
without delay, She hopes to raise
from SIS to 500 in Durant.
Holmes county's quota, according
to Pat M. Barrett, county chair
man, is $500 and he is asking COM
munity chairmen all over the county
to finish their drives as soon as
possible.
Mrs. Louis Longinotti and Mrs. F
C. Calender are co-chairmen with
Mrs. McCullar.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
Gwin Case Continued
In Circuit Court

The case of the State VS.. Sam
and Gillian Gwin, charged with muir
der Of Guy Wheeler, carnival worker
last fall in Cruger, was continued
at the May term of Circuit Court in
Lexington this week.
One of the witnesses for the de-
Tense was sick in the hospital at
Greenwood and the motion for con-
tinuance was granted on those
grounds by Judge S. F. Davis.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
Jurors For Court
Listed Today

Jurors serving this week at the
criminal term of Circuit Court in
Lexington were:
Jury number one: Dennis E. Nc
Bride, C. H. Rogers, L. L. McNeese,
Sid Owens, George Mitchell, H. l..
Nichols, Jr., Clifton McGinty, c. E.
Wilson, G. F. Byrd, R. D. Majors,
f. E. Carpenter, NJ. L. Moore.
Jury number two: j. f. Parson,
C.. A. Moore, G. P. Sharpe, G. A.
Gordon, B. B. Farmer, Ed Tate,
Alton Ferrs'l, S. S. Truitt, julius
Flowers, J. W. Trice, R. R. Truitt.
r. O. Duke.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
Drive For All Scrap
Metals Will Me Made
Here, May 11-16
Community Leaders
Named To Heed
Drive In County

Members of the County Board Of
Supervisors and other county rep
resentatives were called into a Dis
trict meeting Saturday afternoon in
Greenwood by the State President Of
the Board Of Supervisors Association
to organize a scrap metal-rubber-
paper campaign.
At a regular meeting of the Hol->
mes County Board of Supervisors,
May 4th, the county was organized
to carry on this campaign under the
leadership Of Aessrs. P. H. Williams
and W. A. Ramsey in charge Of
County Civilian Defense the week
of May 18th.
Leading citizens have been select
ed to serve in Is communities Of
the county where collection centers
have been set up. These local rep
resentatives will be in charge Of
weighing and paying for the scrap
brought in for sale. In all communi-
ties with the exception Of Lexing-
ton, Tchula, and Durant, where scrap
yards are now in operation the pub
lie is instructed to bring their scrap
to the cotton gin where the materials
will be weighed and paid for.
The following citizens have agreed
to handle the scrap centers.
West-Harvey Campbell.
Goodman. D. Neaves.
Pickens|. X. Thomas.
Ebenezer-B. w. Humphrey.
Howard-H. M. Brock.
Thornton-Mrs. Celeste Dickard.
Cruger-C. T. Charles.
Lexington-O. ]. Beatty.
Acona-Mrs. j. D. Smith. Jr.
Emory-Andrew Smith.
Bowling Green-Mrs. Hugh Nc
Lellan.
Mileston-L A. lunches.
Tchula-O. j. Beatty.
Durant-O. j. Beatty.
Prices to be paid for old iron ~
follows:
100 to 500 lbs. 25c per hundred.
500 to 1000 lbs, soc per hundred.
1000 to 1000 lbs. 35c per hundred.
, 200 and up, 40c per hundred.
Higher prices will be paid for
copper, brass, etc. Prevailing prices
will be paid for old rubber, tires,
tubes, etc.
The County Council is requesting
that scrap paper be donated to the
County Civilian Defense Council SO
that the money it brings can be used
in buying paper, stamps, etc.
Remember you are requested to
make a sacrifice. We know you are
busy, but we also know that the gov
eminent is needing these materials
in its War effort.
DO YOUR PART IN THIS SCRAP
CAMPAIGN-WEEK OF MAY IL.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
w. A. Ramsey
Thanks All Citizens

Sheriff Wa. Ramsey today ex-
pressed his appreciation to Holmes
county citizens who attended the
civilian defense training school held
in Lexington five nights last week
for two hours each night.
Eighty persons completed the
training representing bvery COM
mrnity in the county.
Those attending were from Du-
rat were W. S. Heggie, W. p. Tay-
lor, Perry Roby, Clyde Thompson.
W. F. Tucker and E-obert Irby.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
THROUGH
HAZE [
Y 5
Westbrook Pegler says some OF
.
BY
Hazel Branno.

Westbrook Pegler says some OF
our best minds have 9een toying
with the idea Of 4 t. o~4o.nertood
to be c ioyeJ by ...e entire world at
the emu of the present conflict. This
brotherhood is to be enforced by the
USA, needless to say.
Pcgler says these persons, in his
opinion, are either crazy or just be-
ing politicians. Russia, he says, will
plan the peace of the European on
tinent If Dur side wins. On the basis
of Russia planning the peace he x
poets that it will be little different
from Germany's peace with Poland.
Russia will not be asking our ad-
vice or permission any more than she
is consulting US now in the conduct
of the war and our own people twill
pick up their marbles and come in
home to be more nationalistic than
ever, but very militaristic too"
Wen throw in our two bits worth
with Pegler. In our opinion there
is no eason why the USA shouldn't
be nationalistic and every reason why
it should be. We have the grandest
country in the world and the highest
standard of living. More than that
we have real freedom of thought and
being. I'VE are speaking Of America
as it was a few years ago and as
it will be again.)
It sounds frightfully narrow and
selfish, to say nothing Of downright
ignorant, but we cannot see how
America is going to profit any by
tying up with a great brotherhood
of nations and trying to police the
entire world.
Such a political tie-up or union
would also naturally call for
omic collaboration. In that field it
would be America who would foot
the bill from now on just as she
Is footing the bill today through
lend lease.
America cannot underwrite the
economic security Of the world VITA
out her own standard of living being
reduced considerably compared to
what it is now. The burden of taxes
heaped on our people due to the
present conflict is heavy enough now
to insure our standard of living be-
ing reduced in the future without
entangling ourselves to police the
whole world.
The alternative we have to such q
union is bound to be the same as
that advanced by the late Woodrow
Wilson -. keeping a standing army
and a navy and air force to protect
ourselves from here on out .
to enact universal, compulsory mill
tary service.
1t seems to us that enacting such
military service and keeping our all
force and army and navy up to a
high standard for our own protection
is the wisest safest and cheapest
course for America to follow.
1t is far better to tax ourselves
to keep ourselves protected than it
is to become involved in European
struggles every 20 or % years
and a great deal cheaper.
To think that we can make men of
all nations want to do right and divide
up with all other nations is a beauti-
full but idealistic and foolish dream.
We had better start dealing with real
tiles instead of daydreaming by our
leading politicians.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
Special Agent Visits
Durunt On Check-up

MIR. f. C. Kraft, Jr. special agent.
was in Holmes County this week and
was in Durant on thursday check
i.g up on se,ectees needing treat
ment. dc stated that probably no
srrest would be made in Durant
territory for selectees not attending
clinics this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
Dr.. 6. T. Gillespie
Heard Here Sunday

nr. q. T. Gillespie Of Belhaven-
c. ege, will be heard at the eleven
O'Clock : y at e Dur-nt Presby-
erian oh. ere W be a con-
gregational meecing after the morn
ing worship service and all church
members are urged to be present.
There will be no evening srviex. /,
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
J. L. Hester Reelected
School Bourd Member

The trustees of the consolidated
schools of Holmes County met in
The County superintendent office
at two o'clock Friday, May l, 1912.
They unanimously reelected j. L.
Hester as Holmes County School
Board Member from Beat No. one.
His term will expire the first Friday
in May 1947.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
Roy S. McMurtruy
Nov Lieut.. Colonel

Friends here of Major Roy s.. Nc
MURRAY will be glad to know he has
BEEN promoted from major to lieu
tenant colonel and is now stationed
at Camp Banding, Fla.
He is the grandson of Mrs. r.
H. Hewitt, of Durant.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07

Miss Mamie Ingram, who has been
q member of tn, Crowder school
faculty for the past year is now at
home with her parents. She attended
the concert given by Richard Crooks
in Jackson Wednesdal night.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
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(Mississippis USO War Fund Campaign begins May nth. The
state quota is $780, 900 out Of q national quota OF $32. 900 900
to provide spiritual, recreationaI. welfare and social needs for
the men and women Of our armed forcesl
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07
Your Commander in Chief Says
rig WHITE HOUSE


mot ~ .AsAisss alns viii ~ win this war.
unttsdiy. unstise1Aoly. snA without inter-
rapti ion or dslsy, ~ have oeaeUly prenissd to give
our sa . nouns is tias e gus. saaks planes and
ships.
w shall kssp that premise, ana one proaiss,
sore . that ~ shall prsssrvs xe then. wherever they
ny b. and without regard " rases creed or color. ta
noral ana spiritual values q ths dsnocretie ideals and
srssdon for which thsy ns ars fighting.
Bscsss the $50 = ua1tsdly dedicated to that
hieh purpose, and because tAss h1o purpose 10 . vital
part Of eb 100 Of Winning this var. ths u1o should BE-
supp1tsd By svsryoody . eAssz4G11y. generously. and
n@.
Very sincsrs1y yours.
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Evening star., 1942-06-18
Annapolis Color Girl
Arrives 10 Honor
Winning Company
Flag to Be Presented
Lote Today; Midshipmen
Graduate Tomorrow
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, June 18.-Beauty
took its place today in the June
week program at the Naval Acad-
emy when Miss Ruth Helena Reed
of Madawaska, Me. made her ap-
pearance for the color presentation
ceremony.
The presentation will honor both
Miss Reed and the academy'S out
standing 18th Company in prelude
to tomorrow's flnale-actual gradu-
alton. 1t is scheduled for $50 pm
The regimental dress parade will
precede the presentation of colors
to the winning company in regi-
mental competition.
The color girl, chosen by the mid
shipman commander of the winning
company, will make the presentation
of the national colors and the regi-
mental flag to the company COM
mander.
Yesterdays program included a
full-dress parade by the $500 mid
shipmen prior to the presentation
of awards. A crowd of visiting par
ents, sweethearts and friends was
permitted to witness the spectacle
along with veteran officers.
The review and award ceremony
were followed by Admiral and Mrs
j. r. Beardalps garden party, given
by the academy superintendent and
his wife for seniors
The youngsters (third class held
their hop last night.
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Fairfax Orders
$4,000 Police
Radio System
Alexandra Company
Given Contract to
Install Equipment
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, June 18.-Instal-
lation of a two-way radio system
for the police department was ap-
proved yesterday by the Fairfax
County Board of Supervisors.
The board accepted a contract
submitted by Frank c. Mallinson of
Alexandria to install equipment for
radio communication between po-
lice headquarters and the six patrol
cars operated by the county. The
cost for the system will be $1,000.
Regulations for administration
and disbursement of the $4,000 fund
in the new county budget for hos
pitalization of INDECENT persons also
were adopted.
A medically INDECENT person is de-
fined as one who has lived in the
county for at least a year imme-
diately preceding the filing of an
application for aid. The resources
OF the applicant or of the head of
his family must be such that he is
unable to pay for disqualification.
Except iii cases of emergency,
pdlltllIS I1luSC De referred Dy COc-
tor for disqualification, and the mat
ter is then handled by the County
Public Welfare Department or the
Health Security Administration.
The new regulations will serve to
clear up misunderstanding on eligi-
bility for disqualification that have
caused considerable complication in
the past.
A resolution. asking Gov. Darden
to reappoint Howard c. Rogers of
Hamilton, in Culpeper construction
| district, a member of the State
Highway Commission for another
term, also was adopted by the board.
Thomas I Piggott of Lee district
was named member of the County
Board Of zoning Appeals to take
the place of the late Mrs. Annie
T. Staub. Kenneth Dove of Lor-
ton, who previously had been ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy, advised
the board he could not accept be-
cause he is employed by the District
government.
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Mount Rainier Votes Ban
On Use of Town Trucks

Fraternal, religious and civic Or
ganizations in Mount Rainier, Md,
no longer will be able to borrow
town trucks and other equipment
for use at picnics and outings un-
der a ruling passed by the Mayor
and Town Council
The action was taken on the rec
ommendation of Corporation Coun-
sill Bert E. Sager, who said that
the town could be held liable for
injuries suffered in accidents in
volving town equipment.
The Council also approved sew
eral parking ordinances, including
one-hour parking on Perry street
between Thirty-fourth and Thirty
fifth streets: no parking on the
east side of Thirty-second street
from Perry street to Shepherd road
and reserved parking for buses on
Rainier avenue from Thirty fourth
street north to the alley on that
street.
Authorization was given for the
paving of a small section of Up
shur street to complete its connec-
ton with the haywood Gardens
Apartments. Payment of $3.50 for
condemned property at Twenty
eighth street and Taylor avenue
also was authorized.
Evening star., 1942-06-18

houses have complained that wom-
en- roomers have been the ones who
made the advances, and not their
husbands.
Despite the larger number of
rooming houses already in opera
ton, Mrs. Hoffman said Washing
ton is destined to face an even more
serious housing problem in the
next three months, unless the vast
reservoir of rooms in private homes
is opened to to the ever increasing
influx of Government employees.
Owners Of many private homes
have told her they would be glad to
open their doors to the war work.
ers if they could be given assur-
ance that undesirable tenants could
be evicted. Existing rent laws pro-
tect a tenant from eviction as long
as he pays his rent and is not guilty
of immoral conduct.
To remedy this situation, Mrs
Hoffman has proposed an amend
ment to the Rent Control Act pro-
viding that the owner and the
tenant be parties to a written
agreement in the form of a simple
lease which could be terminated
after a weeks notice by either party.
The Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations recently gave its indorse-
ment to a similar plan in order, it
said, that a backlog of $4,000
Washington homes" might be
opened to accommodate the grow
ing population, without putting the
owners in a legitimate rooming
mouse business.
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Virginia 10 Curb Funds
Allowed for CITY Streets
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. June 18.-The State
Highway Department shortly will
notify cities in Virginia that con-
struction funds of $500 a mile for
city streets which also serve as
State highways will continue to be
made during 1923, but that
unless conditions improve no con-
struction funds will be approved in
1884.
The action was taken by the State
Highway Commission on the recon-
mendation of Brig. Gen. James A.
Anderson.
Gen. Anderson told the commits
sioners that the cities are unable to
obtain materials for such work. but
are asking that the funds be ap-
proved and held until the emergency
is over.
He recommended that for the
coming fiscal year beginning July l
$500 mile be approved for cities
requesting the ALLEGATION and be
held until such time as they could
use it.
Evening star., 1942-06-18

VINO. because OF the acute hOuSlng~
shortage, have been forced to tol-
crate conditions in the rooming
houses in which they live, she thinks
some Improvements could be made
in the new code.
Overcrowding will be reduced to
a certain extent by a regulation
forbidding the use of any room for
sleeping purposes which does not
have at least so square feet of floor
space per person. More adequate
and up-to-date sanitary facilities
also are required, but even these,
in Mrs. Eoffman'S experienced
opinion, will fail to contribute all
the essential elements of a content
ed life to a war worker away from
home.
Entertainment Problem.
Ten persons for every bathroom,
as allowed in the new regulations,
is regarded as too many persons,
especially in houses in which near
ly all the roomers go to work at the
same time, or where women pre-
dominate. Women, as a rule, 1t is
said, spend nearly twice as much
time in a bathroom as man, be-
cause they wash their own gar
ments. while man will send all
his soiled garments to laundry.
Mrs. Hoffman believes, too. that
something should be done for the
girls who want to entertain, and
the answer might be in permitting
guests in the bedrooms until a
reasonable" hour so long as the
door remains open.
Some of the rooming houses do
not allow girls to entertain boy
friends" she said. Some others
only allow the boy friends as far
as the reception rooms, and in a
big rooming house the reception
rooms are usually crowded with
other guests. The girls have no
privacy You know the resllt?
ClandeStine meetings elsewhere.
Many of these Government girls
are young-some are probably look
ing for husbands-and I do think
a concession to them which would
allow visitors in their rooms with
the doors open would be big con-
tribution to their welfare and hap
piness."
Rule to Reduce Thefts.
One of Mrs. Hoffman's minor
complaints against rooming houses
is removed in the new code-a regu-
lation requiring lock and key
for each room used for sleeping
purposes. This, she pointed out,
will reduce the number of wholesale
thefts which have occurred in re-
cent months. Cases have been re-
ported to the police, she said, in
which burglars have ransacked
nearly nearly every room in room
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Planners Face!
Issue Of Plaza
Dormitories
Proposal Likely to
Bring Fight at
June Session

The question of building Govern
ment dormitories for war workers
on the Union Station Plaza, accord
ing to well founded reports, may
come before the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission for
approval at its June meeting, which
opens today.
Such a proposal, if pressed by war
agencies, might prove as explosive
as the former campaign to erect
dormitories on the Mall or convert
the inner panel to automobile park
interest in the plan involving the
Mall. the commission succeeded
after a long fight in diverting
dormitories and parking spaces to
West Potomac Park areas.
The question of sites for additional
dormitories is on the agenda for
tomorrow session. A representa-
tive of the Public Building Admin
iStration will meet with the COM
mission.
Used in First World War.
During the First World War, Gov
ernment hotels for women were
erected on the plaza and were the
center of annual controversies until
they eventually were torn down to
make way for the improvement of
the plaza in its present condition.
Chairman Frederic A. Delano. an
outright foe of utilizing prominent
park areas for temporary war struc-
lures, is in the Northwest on a
presidential mission dealing with
roads in Alaska.
Reports will be made at today's
session of the commission on various
coming amendments, land transfers
and highway changes. In connec-
ton with zoning, provisions affect
ing parking areas and commercial
adjuncts to hotels will be considered.
Recommendations with respect to
these have been drawn up. Pro-
posed suggestions for rooming and
boarding houses also will come up
for action.
A progress report will be made on
the plans for the parkway to Suit
land, Md, which eventually will
serve employees of the new Govern
ment building being erected in the
suburb. A site for the new USO
building also will be announced.
Whitehurst to Be Heard.
Capt H. c. Whitehurst, director of
highways, will take up the problem
of co ordinating transportation.
These matters, which have become
an acute city problem because of the
great increase in population. have
been before the commission for
some time.
At tomorrow's meeting, reports
will be made on the legislative sta
tus of various District problems.
Plans for a new Bureau of Stand
ards building will be studied, as well
as matters involving the proposed
new State Department Building at
Seventeenth street and PennSyl-
vania avenue NV An agreement
is sought to expedite the building.
John Nolen, director of planning,
will report tomorrow on meetings
held under the sponsorship of the
commission with various war hous-
ing agencies to coordinate hous-
ing with community facilities in the
District and nearby Maryland and
Virginia. Regional thoroughfare
studies made in cooperation with
Maryland and Virginia officials also
will be considered
In the absence of Chairman
Delano, Vice Chairman A. E..
Demaray of the National Park Serv-
ice will preside.