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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15
Grand Jury Holds
One Day Session;
Returns I True Bills
20 Witnesses Are
Examined; Report
To Judge Given
TO THE HONORABLE S. F. DA-
Wis, JUDGE OF THE FOURTH
(4TH) CIRCUIT COURT DIS

Wis, JUDGE OF THE FOURTH
(4TH) CIRCUIT COURT DIS
TRICT OF MISSISSIPPI:
We, your Grand Jury, duly elect
ed, sworn, empaneled and charged
at this the regular October 1912
Term of the Circuit Court OF
Eo1mes County, Mississippi, beg
leave to submit this, our report Of
the acts and proceedings had and
done by our said body at said term:
We have been in session one day,
and during said time have made the
various inspections enjoined upon
us so to make pursuant to Your
Honors instructive charge and have
examined 20 witnesses appearing be-
fore us, and from our said examina-
tions and deliberations, have found
a "No Bills, Referred 2 Gases to
the Justice of the Peace Court, and
have found and now return into
open Court and present to Your
Honor with this report 7 True
Bills. ,
The County Records and Books of
County Officers we found, from our
necessarily limited investigation, to
be correctly kept and in erder. The
County Jail we ascertained to be
maintained in a highly sanitary con-
49,,
aition. Tn;o Co.nty E1.al ais Poor
Nouse we investigated and noted
that good farming practices had
evailee >2re, the prisoners and
inmates were well taken care of and
there was evidence of an abundance
of substantial food there at said
place. The State Farm located at
Belmont, in our opinion, was being
operated satisfactorily, and good
| sanitation practise were in evidence,
and the premises maintained in good
order and the prisoners appeared to
be well fed and receiving proper
care and supervision.
And now having reported our
acts in the premises, we beg to be
discharged, subject, of course, to
recall during the current term Of
Court when and if ordered by your
Honor. Respectfully submitted,
this October IL, 1912.
S. F. BUCHANAN,
Foreman.
ATTEST:
w. E. THURMOND,
Clerk.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15
Wins Over EIIisviNe
Holmes Jr. COLLEGE
(By William Cathey)

Holmes Junior College made it's
home debut a successful one last
Friday night as it brushed aside a
heavier football squad from Ellis
vile by a score of ~ to 7 in a bat
tie that provided fans with numer-
Gus thrill and gave the Bulldogs their
first triumph over Coach John
Reads outfit since 1899.
After absorbing a 81 to 0 shell
lacking in 1871, the Holmes lads
were jubilant indeed after their vic
tory. The Goodman group showed
every evidence of being w~ell-drilled
and w~ell-coached by Frank Branch.
In spite Of the fac: that loose
tackling occurred at various stages
of the contest the Branchmen SHOW
ed their opponents back time and
time again and broke through the
strong Bobcat forward wall to block
thre punts. A magnificent boot by
Holmes in the final half Of the tilt
resulted in an Ellisyilie frnyale
about 20 or 25 yards from the goal,
and two plays later Goodman had
registeder it second marker. Incl
dentally, Earl Howell twisted, dodg-
ed and zigzagged his way through
a hotly prususing Jones' group 70
chalk up both ~tallies, the initial
of which came in the second per od.
The losers counted their marker
on a long, high pass, which was
snagged in the end zone. Both teams
showed rugged, aggressive line play
that checked a number Of drives.
! Much credit is due the Holmes boys
for the logged resistance and de-
termination they displayed.
Friday evening the East Missis-.
sippi pigskinners from Scooba, tu~
tored by Bill Childress, will resume
relations with the men OF Coach
Branch after an absence of three
years. Judging by the humping the
Lions gave WeSson in their opening
clash of the 1912 season, 80 to 13,
Goodman should be in for another
tugh assignment.
Insofar as is known, the Bulldogs,
have never dropped a decision to
the Kemper county aggregation but
barely escaped with their hioes in
the 1886 encounter which ended Is
to 6. In 1897 Scooh, ropped a "a
| to 0 verdict and finished on
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15

Composer Raymond Scott startled
music critics by his song, 18th
Century Drawing Room" because OF
its resemblance to the classics
through a nostalgia colonial quality,
yet being withal a rhythmic dance
number. Scott followed with other
odd titles to his songs-"Mexican
Jumping Bean" and boy Scout in
Switzerland" Now he has composed
SHINE New dftties in the ;wsr' motif.
They are. Carrier Pigeon ."Secret
Agent. and Careful Conversation at
a Diplomatic Function"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15

what the commentator was for.
Modestly he replied that he had saw
ed the p~oliceman's Life. Questioning
brought out that the cop was set up
on by a robber who stabbed him Ia
times before the taxi driver could
wrest him off. Walker said he was
born and reared in Hellis Kitchen,
that 'sordid side of New York where
tough kids often grow into gang
steers. But this kid" had grown in
to a hero and now he admitted that
he wouiG iiae to use his fighting "a
bility on the Japs but that Uncle
Sam could not accept him because of
chronic asthma
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15
CARD OF THANKS.


We wish to take this method to
express our deep appreciation to all
of the friends, physicians, and min
isters for their kindness, services,
words of sympathy and comfort.
and also for the many beautiful
floral offerings during u great sor-
row in the loss of our husband and
father.
Mrs. Ephriam WEIGH -!
Mrs. Charlotte w. Cresswell
j. E. WEIGH
f. w. Welch
R. w. WEIGH
W. T. WEIGH
the short end of a 10 too reading in
1888.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15

Riding in a taxicab, / noticed IN
front of me the drivers license and
Identification card which is required
to be posted in all city cabs The
nae was Robert F. Walker and be-
low it and his picture was printed,
s4Commended for public service
AS we whisked throur' traffic, |
leaned over and ask the driver
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15
Durunt Mans Brother
Passes In Louisville

The many friends of Mn. Frank
Edwards will regret to learn of the
death of his brother, Melbourne Ed
wards, of Sturgis, who died at the
hospital in Louisville Sunday night,
October 11th.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15

On a memorial tablet of the ST.
Marks Church in the Bowery, there
is an ironic note. Here is buried Com
mander Matthew Perry who first OPP
ened up Japan to American trade in
1854 and who was known to his sail
ors as "Old Bruin.' In the restful
surroundings of this beautiful old
church, a strange feeling is now
~lyaroused when you read upon the
stately plaque above his tom, these
words about the first relationship
between the United States and ia
pam: $50 was founded the friendship
of two great nations. on either side
of the Pacific"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15

l like to go to Chinatown with my
friends, Carl Click, the author. He is
the one American to whom the Chi
nese here have thrown open their
doors in as friendly a ann as If
he were one of them. Walking along
tie narrow streets of this Oriental
Gotham community with him is a rev.
elation for he is constantly being
greeted with jovial Chinese 'hellos.'
Besides his fascinating books about
Chinatown, Carl has written an in
teresting article for this months
Coronet magazine about how Chi
nese newspapers are printed here. In
the article he describes how leisure
ly the Chinese editors compile their
news-If they don't get it in the pa
per today, tomorrow will do just as
well. All the type is set by hand be-
cause linotype machines cannot be
used to set the 10000 Chinese type
characters, each of which is a word
in itself.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15
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Getting in the scrap has become .
~ NORTH CALLAHAN

Getting in the scrap has become .
highly significant double-meaning ex-
pressionAt last, every American cit
izen has found something he can do
in the war effort. Even those who
do not buy war bonds can help gath
er the precious scrap metal. Again,
newspapers are taking the lead IN
this patriotic enterprise. A few weeks
ago, a suggestion was made in this
column that obsolete old buildings
are a potent source of metal scrap.
| am very glad to see that some of
the old buildings in New York are
being tori down now, and | hope the
idea spreads all over the country.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15

Last week a fire broke out in Is
city firehouse here and people across
the street had to yell at the firemen
sitting around outside that their
place was on fire. 1t reminds me OF
the water tower that burned down
in an Army camp ear here, before
anyone would believe the corporal
of the guard who frantically report
ed the fire in the wooden reservoir.
The officer of the day, on receiving
the report, hung up the phone; the
fire department just %sneered; and
the adjutant told him to go sober up
Now the camp has a metal reservoir.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15

Election times are here and all
candidates cant win. Some won't be
be good loosers either. But John Law
son of Fayetteville, Tennessee writes
in a refreshing slant. Says he: Il
spent four months and 20 days in
canvassing. Lost 1860 hours of sleep
thinking about the election. Failed to
plant a crop Of peanuts and Irish po-
tatoes. Donated one beef, four shoats,
and five sheep to barbecues, gave
away 172 pairs Of red suspenders'
five calico dresses, five dolls and IL
baby rattlers, kissed 1875 babies (all
over 1877, Mndled Ia kitchen fires
and put up II stoves, cut 10 cords
of wood, carried "a buckets of water,
helped thrash several crops of wheat,
shook hands $3.50 times, told TO-
O01 lies and talked enough to make
1000 volumes of printed. ! attend
ed 25 revival meetings, contributed
9 cents to foreign missions, made
love to Q grass widows, got dog bit
8 times-then got beat. For all this
have no regret for it was indeed a
pleasure, rubbing shoulders with old
friends and making new ones"
Evening star., 1942-04-15
Texan Praised for Service
As Only Chaplain in Java
By the Associated Press.

%
MELBOURNE, Australia. April Is.
LIT. william Taggart, former
Wichita Falls CTex1 Baptist min
lister and an Army chaplain for the
past eight months, was singled out
today for especial praise for his
religious work in Java.
Mai. John Kinney. chief of chap
lains, said 1t. Taggart was the only
chaplain in Java and did fine Job
helping the boys in all sections Of
the island from his arrival late In
January until he left February q.
1t. Tassart used plane transpor-
tation so much in getting about
Java the soldiers soon dubbed him
sky pilot"
The tall. youthful chaplain who
calls Abilene home, stopped sorting
bags of newly arrived mail at an
Army camp dong enough to describe
his experiences.
AT the boys wishes and my own
I tried to hold services under no
matter what conditions" he related
II conducted one service in a
ships hold. another from q gunner's
turret and still another in the end
of baggage car.
When air raids were too intense
at the camps the men lived, slept
and ate in the jungles and I held
services there too. I have q small
folding organ which saw service
with me In those jungles."
Evening star., 1942-04-15
RosenthaI Slated
For Job Of Buying
War Raw Materials
President Gives Duty
Of Importing Stocks
To Wallace Agency
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Morris Rosenthal. New York i'm
porter, was slated today to head the
new Import Division of the Board
of Economic Warfare with GEN.
tralized authority to slash red tape
in acquiring foreign raw materials
needed for the war effort.
Mr.. Rosenthal now Is an assistant
director of the board.
President Roosevelt. In an execu-
tive order yesterday, gave the b. Z.
w. full direction of purchasing
strategic materials abroad, q power
heretofore vested in great degree In
subsidiaries Of the r. r. G.
Wallace Sought Change.
Vice President Wallace, who Is
chairman of the B. z. W., and Milo
Perkins. its executive director, were
said to have been insisting since
January that President Roosevelt
make such a change. arguing that
the raw materials situation was
getting serious and too many
people in the Government were
charged with trying to obtain such
materials with no single person
directing the job.
One Official said Of the order that
1t placed in one agency the Job Of
acquiring foreign raw materials
Just as Mr.. Roosevelt came around
to the idea of giving Donald NJ.
Nelson one-man control over do
mestic war production.
While Jesse Jones r. r. G. sub
sidiaries now compiling stock piles
Of foreign raw materials are expect
ed to remain intact. 1t was explained
they would take orders hereafter
from the B. E. w.
"Lease-Lend" In Reverse.
Such orders up to now have been
given by the o. P. M. and its sue
cessor the w. p. B., and various
other Federal agencies, including
the B. E. W.. have had power to
recommend. Now B. E. w. will direct
and others will carry out its policy
orders. That was the Interpretation
the President himself placed on the
order at a press conference late
yesterday.
The new order also gave the
B. E, w. authority over what is
known as "lease-lend in reverse, !"
that is. arranging for reciprocal aid
from countries helped by United
States lease-lend assistance. and de-
termine the terms" on which such
aid shall be received.
This. competent authorities said,
meant that the board could tell the
Army or Navy to hold up q lease
lend shipment abroad If the intended
beneficiary was not doing its part
In any reciprocating arrangement.
Evening star., 1942-04-15
Near Record Approach
OF Comet Reported

rs the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. April rs
Harvard astronomers said yester-
day that the latest calculations Of
the path of new celestial object
which Is either q comet or q minor
planet" indicated that the body
probably came within q million miles
of the earth-a near record for
visitors from space-before recedins.
Two Berkeley. Calf. astronomers
computated q probable path" for
Evening star., 1942-04-15
Mexico RedoubIes Drive
Against Axis Nationals
y the Associated Press

6S the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, April l5.-A re-
cent series Of breakdowns, fires and
explosions in Mexico's South Gulf oil
fields has led to a redoubled drive
against Germans, Japanese and
Italians still In that area.
Informants at the Interior Minis
try, which iErdirecting the clean n-up,
said there Ne about $50 Axis aliens
in the oil district around Minatitlan,
Puerto Mexico and Aqua Dulce.
These sources said the aliens
would be removed as rapidly as pos
sible to interior concentration camps
where hundreds Of Axis subjects al
ready are confined.
Evening star., 1942-04-15
Nine Dutch Socialists
Doomed by Nozi Court

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April Is Henricus
Sneevliet, leader of the Dutch Revo-
utionary Socialist party, and eight
of his associates have been sem
fenced to death on charges of sabo-
tage by a German court in Amster-
dam, Aneta reported today.
The Netherlands news agency said
the sentences were among many
imposed by German authorities In
an effort to check increasing anti
Nazi actions.
Evening star., 1942-04-15

an object originally sighted more
than q month ago.
The Harvard astronomers said
that only one other large celestial
object-the minor planet "Hermes. T"
which zoomed within 47S,0oo miles
Of the earth In iss7--ever had come
closer
Evening star., 1942-04-15
Ernie Pyle Is Gronted
Divorce in New Mexico

b the Associated Press.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, April
ls.-Ernie Pyle. columnist for the
Scripps Howard newspapers, was
granted divorce from Mrs. Geral-
dine Siebolds Pyle in District Court
today.
Mr.. Pyle charged incompatibility.
They were married July Z. 1925. at
Alexandria, Va.
Evening star., 1942-04-15

In our issue Of March 2S appeared an
article titled The Case Against the Jew by Milton
Mayer. 1t was the third of series of three
articles dealing with the place of the Jewish
written by Jerome Frank and Waldo Frank
All three of the authors are Jewish.
It was the hope of the former Editor of
the Post, who purchased the articles and
placed them in the magazine several weeks
before the change of Editorship, that the
three would be considered as a whole-that
they would afford an intelligent basis for the
discussion of question which, through the
malice and stupidity of Axis leaders, has
caused untold grief in many parts of the world.
The former editor of the Post believed that
frank airing of the whole question would
serve to clear the atmosphere in this country
and perhaps help prevent anti-Semitism from
gaining foothold here
Unhappily, the third of the articles-Mr.
Mayors dlScuSSlon-has been widely mlsun-
derstood. Mr.. Mayer and the former editor
of the Post looked upon it as plea, directed
at any Jewish people who may have strayed
from the fold to return to the faith of their
fathers. That good many Jews placed this
Interpretation on the article is amply demon
strated by approving letters which we have
had from them On the other hand, during
the three weeks which have elapsed between
the appearance Of the Mayer article and the
writing Of this editorial, we have received
several thousand letters from people-both
Jews and Genties-who sincerely believe the
article was intended as an attack on the
Jewish people.
Naturally we deeply regret this misunder-
standing. The Post never has been, is not now
and never will be anti-Semitic in belief or
expression. It's not anti any group. We have
Evening star., 1942-04-15

always been as quick to publish material
setting forth noteworthy accomplishment Of
Jews as of Gentiles. We have done so because
we have always believed that good American
is good American regardless of race or creed.
That this is still our policy will be Demon
strated during the months to come by material
some of which is already in the process Of
being written.
This Editorial is being published not only
to clear away misunderstanding, but because
the new editor of the Post feels so deeply, 50
completely, that the only real cause in these
anxious war days is the cause of America
the cause of freedom. We Americans are
cohesive people who get along with one another
in peace and brotherhood. We are of many
races; we came to these beloved shores from
hundred lands across the sea, and yet by
some blessed alchemy we have all become
Americans. For many years the Post has
been, in very real sense, the spokesman for
the glories and the traditions of America
for the noble principles upon which this
country was founded. 1t will continue to be
just that-in these grim war years and after
wards-for, to the new editors way Of
thinking, there is nothing in this stricken
world even half so important as mankind's
yearning for freedom and for brotherhood.
That one misunderstood article in the Post
could have caused so much anxiety in the
minds of its readers is matter of very real
sorrow to the new editor. He regrets, above
all, that some hurt may have been done to
America at time when national unity is
needed as it never was needed before. He asks
all Post readers to believe that these words
are written in the deepest sincerity.
Evening star., 1942-04-15

The fooovne EDITORIAL aCritten BY Ben Hibbs the ne
editor of the Saturday Evening Post M appear in the
May Is issue of the Post. Uhch is noe on the press.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-05
Public Invited TO Dance Recital Tonight in MCHS Auditorium
Admission is Free
for Elaborate ProqrQm

Monahan, Polly Nank, Eliza
beth Stroth, Judy Walker,
Inez Snodgrass, Mary Ver-
nier, Sharon Trabue, Janet
Scarf
Dance for Two-Arlene Kraatz,
Helen Mari St. Aubin
Pirouette go. Carol Englebracht
Gsvotte in D-Mary Ann Ben
nett, Dawn Hameister, Sonia
Vladeff, Barbara Peters
Norwegian Dance
Ann Carol Thomas
Twinkle Little Star Janet
Kraatz, Judy Monahan, Polly
Nank. Elizabeth Stroth, Judy
Walker, Inez Snodgrass, Mary
Ter, Sharon Trabue,
Janet Scarf
Minuet Antique
Joyce Englebrecht
Our Dance-Mary Krause, Mary
Estes, Barbara Bennett
Polka ....... Mary Thompson
Little Colleen -. Nancy Henk
Dance in Jest Barbara Ben
nett, Mary Estes, Arlene
Kraatz, Mary Krause, Helen
Mari St. Aubin
Invitation to the Dance
Nancy Nickel
Spinwheel--
Janet Sherman, Ann Taylor
Nola 1890. Marilyn Sharland
Chanson Polonaise-
Eugenia Stepkowsks
INTERMISSION
Siboney Carol Englebrecht.
Nancy Nickel, Joan Reitzel,
Mary Thompson, Ann Carol
Thomas
Reed Flutes. Dawn HameisteH
Ballade-Patty Boyer, Marilyr,
Sharland, Janet Sherman
Ann Taylor, Kathryn Smith
Alice Blue Gown
Mary Ann Bennett
The Swan Joan Reitzel
Members Of the Olga Frickel
School, Detroit Studio
Passepied 49,. Barbara Peters,
Call of Spring - Judy Nickel.
Joyce Englebrecht, Nancy
Henk
Cordova-Mary Ann Bennett,
Dawn Hameister, Barbars
Peters Sonia Vladeff
Mazurka-
Patty Boyer. Kathryn Smith
Seasons Waltz - Carol EnRle-
brecht, Nancy Nickel. Joar
Reitzel, Mary Thompson, Ann
Carol Thomas
Mazurka ........ Judy Nickel
Waltz Sonia VlAded
Members Of the Olga FrickeI
School, Detroit Studio
Paul Pankotan at the piano
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-05
Marine
Group Issues
Invitations

DETROIT Unit No. l Marine
Corps League Auxiliary extends
an invitation to mothers, wives,
sisters and daughters of marines
10 join the Detroit unit.
On Sunday June 7, the Drill
Team meets from 100 TO $50
o'clock at the Veterans building
at 704 East Jefferson avenue, De-
trOit. Wives, sisters and daghters
between the ages of Is and 30 are
asked to join.
A tea is planned for June 10,
from 1870 to $50 o'clock at the
Veterans building. Mothers,
wives, sisters and daughters of
Marines are cordially invited.
Molly of the Marines is
heard over Radio Station WXYZ
on Mondays and Wednesdays at
1915 o'clock in the morning.
Further information may be
obtained by calling Detroit Tux
edo 27522.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-05
Co"gr@Mhhon,

MIR. AND MRS. GEORG E
HARGREAVES, who quietly Oh.
served their 23rd wedding anna
versary yesterday.
MIR. AND MRS. RALPH
PROVOST, who are married
five years ago today.
MIR. AND MRS. c. A. JANIS
1914 Eastman street, who tod ay
are observing their 18th wed,
ding anniversary.
RUTH HAUER, whose birth.
day anniversary occurred yes
terday.
HANS HEIDEN, who obser r..
ed his birthday anniversa ~
June 3.
FRITZ BOBZIEN whose brit n
day anniversary occurred jun
4.
MIR. AND MRS. DONAL r.
TODT of New Baltimore, WI X
announce the arrival of son
Robert Evart, born this mornir .s
in st. Joseph's hospital. I'll ie
baby's father will report to the
Federal building in Detroit fCH
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-05
Rebekahs Plan
Memorial Service

REBEKAH LODGE mem
bers last evening made plans
for the annual Memorial Serv-
ice for deceased members. The
date is set for Sunday, June II
at Gilbert Memorial B pit t
Church, at 7:45 o'clock. Mrs.
Charles Stark is in charge of
arrangements.
Rebekah Degree Staff will
meet Thursday, June Is for pot
luck dinner with Mrs. Harry
Green, at Meade. Mrs. Julia
Wolff and Mrs. Fred Hess are
assisting hostesses.
FRANK KISSELL is enter
tanning the men of Mount
Clemens High school faculty, Of
which he is a member, at a "du-
ration smoker" this evening.
The group will include Is.
ISABELLA DAVIS CIRCLE
will meet Monday evening at
the Kings Daughters Home at
3 o'clock, with Mrs. John Nc
Lean as hostess.