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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-09-03
The Armed Forces

The War Department raised from
As to so the maximum age at which
men "who have character, skills or
apitudes which make their enlistment
desirable and who are otherwise quail
flied" and who have draft board per-
mission may enlist in the Army. They
will be assigned to overhead units or
installations where they WI release
younger men for general military
service, and if fit, they viii be used
for combat duty, War Secretary
Stimson said.
Marine Corps enlisted men, as well
as Navy enlistees, may now apply for
flight training to become Naval
aviation glider pilots, who act as CO.
pilots for large transport gliders.
During the week, the 45, 000-ton
battleship Iowa-heaviest vessel ever
launched in the U. S.-the aircraft
carrier independence, the cruiser
Boston, and two d~estroyers, the Glen
non and letters, were launched. The
Red Cross and the Navy jointly an
nounced a new rescue project under
which buoyant waterproof bags con
tanning emergency fod, water and
medical supplies, cigarettes, etc., viii
be dropped by Naval patrol blimps
to seamen awaiting rescue, before
they are actually picked up by rescue
vessels.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-09-03
Miles Roy Promoted
To Corporal Now

sh ewore black accessories. Her only
Camp Polk, La, Aug. 26 Especially
John NJ. Ray, Pvt. lei has been
promoted to Corporal it was an
nounced today by Colonel Paul
Steele.
Cpl. Ray is a member of Thirty
First ArMored r Ct, Co. "a 31st
Auad PeN He is tn on of Mr..
and Nj -. c. Ray of Darant.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-09-03
Executive Secretary
OF Holmes Chapter
Makes Report

Makes Report
The summer months have been
filled with activity for our Holmes
county chapter Of the Red Cross.
First Aid Glasses have been held
in Durant with Miss Carter and Mr..
Thompson as teachers, in Tchula
with Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, Mrs. Lola
I Flowers and Miss Flowers, instruc-
tors and in Cruger with Mrs. Jones
and Mrs. FLOWERS teaching.
Mrs. Mary Gillian gave this in
~struction in Goodman in the early
summer and Mrs. Vera Sims, in the
Coxburg community has held four
classes. A class was taught in Pick
ems by J.. NJ. Barry, highway patrol
man out of the Jackson office and
West was given training also by this
instructor. In Lexington the jay
GEES, 100 per cent strong, have just
completed the course with Mr.. Hoff
and Mr.. Walker teaching.
The classes have been held dur
ing the summer months. Mrs. w. 7.
Hand, county First Aid Chairman for
the Red Cross, is planning a class to
be held in Durant with Mr.. Barry
as instructor and the Jaycees in Lex
ington voted unanimously for the
advance course which will be given
in September.
Certificate cards are issued from
National Headquarters for all of this
work and our county is being well
trained in First Aid. That is one
of the branches of work which has,
been assigned the Red Cross under
the Defense Program and already
Holmes county has over 500 trained
workers.
Another branch of work which is
a Red Cross responsibility is prepa-
ration to train for proper nutrition
and for mass feeding in ease Of
emergency QUE Nutrition Program,
Mrs. J. +. Williams, county chairman,
has given this instruction in Lexing
ton and Durant, the classes being
taught by Miss Allene Mccormick.
Organization is under way for classes
at West and other sections of the
county during September. Certifi-
Gates have been received on this
training also.
Home Nursing, a vitality important
brancl of Red Cross work, and also
one Of our Defense work response
bilities gets q response from all. Mrs.
Norman f Weathersby, county
chairman, is doing a fine job in
organizing mis- work. Mrs. Alton
Parker has taught this in Lexington,
Mrs. Simon in Cruger and Mrs. Ida
Moore has held a class in West and
at this time is giving the instruction
to a group in Durant, and to a
group of colored women in the West
community. Certificates are issued
on this training and all of these. in.
structors must qualify and be certi-
fled by National.
Our summer production quota will
be forwarded to headquarters by
September 18th.
As stated, this is the summer work.
Sweaters have been knitted, flannel
shirts for boys, heavy flannel con-
velescent robes and outing flannel
paiamas have been made by workers
all over the county. Mrs. w. A
Ramsey, volunteer service chairman,
with her co-chairmen Mrs. W. A.
Ramsey and Mrs. Carruth have this
work well organized. Each town in
the county has a key worker and
sewing and their distribution of the
work has been so effectively done
we are happy to say we can send in
our quota lover the top" before the
time limit date.
The last work we have been as
signed has been given US through
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-09-03

This story is told about Dwight
Morrow, former ambassador to Mex
leo. A friend came up to him and
told him about a man who was ours
ing him to the skies. Morrow was
said to have replied "What has
that mar got against me? ] never
did anything FOR him"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-09-03
THROUGH
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BY HAZEL BRANNON

1T is better to remain silent and
be thought a fool than to open ones
mouth and remove all doubt,
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-09-03

Mrs. D. l.. Brown and Mrs. Philip
Williams, Jackson, Ala, are guests of
Mrs. Walter Odom this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-09-03

- Men r dying for the Four
re Freedoms. The least we can
~ do here at home is to buy
War Bonds - 1919 for War
~ Bonds, every pay day. A
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Restoration Of Part
Of A. D. A. Fund Cut
Appears Likely
Mcclellan Promises Aid
For Rent Collections;
7. V. A. Fight Brewing
By J. A. O'LEARY.

A compromise that would give
back to the Alley Dwelling Au-
thority part of the cut made in
its funds by the Senate Appro-
priations Committee appeared
likely last night as the Senate
prepared to begin debate tomor-
row on the wide variety of econ
omy slashes IN the So, lbs 600, 900
independent offices supply bill.
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat, of
Tennessee. in charge of the bill, con-
ferred yesterday afternoon with
John Ihlder, director of the Alley
Dwelling Authority, and later indi-
Gated willingness to allow the
agency some operating expense %
collect the rents on its low-cost
housing projects. He said no final
agreement had been reached as to
the amount.
MIR. Ihlder had made the point
that the committees action in pro-
hibiting use of the agency's unex-
pended balances and receipts from
housing projects would deprive 1t of
the only funds available for opera
tion and maintenance of its low-cost
housing developments. and would
even prevent collection of the rents
The major fight in the bill-the
first in which the economy issue has
been brought to heads gather
ing, however, around the Tennessee
Valley Authority. Two long-stand-
ing advocates of Tennessee power
development will be arrayed on op-
posite sides In the battle that was
brewing last night around a COM
mittee proposal to require T. v. A.
to deposit its revenue from the sale
of power in the Treasury to await
transportation, instead of using
the revenue as a revolving fund for
future operations.
Senator McKellar will lead the
fight to abolish the revolving fund
system, while the veteran Nebraska
Independent, Senator Norris, served
notice he will oppose the change, on
Continued on Page A-1o, Column -
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Fire Damages
Berlin Forest:
Children Blamed

(! the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 25.-A fire in the
Grunewald Forest in Berlin caused
considerable damage to valuable
timber stocks" and was controlled
only after hours of tedious work by
fire brigades, the Berlin radio said
tonight.
The fire was attributed to care
lesSness of playing children"
The public was warned against
lighting open fires in the forests,
saying they might spread and place
"an unnecessary strain on the al
ready heavily engaged defense
forces"
Der Grunewald is 7,500-acre
forest in the southwest part of
Greater Berlin, between Charlotten-
burg and Potsdam. 1t is a favorite
resort of Berliners, an area of small
lakes and fine homes. The popular
Wansee borders the area on the
south,
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Announcement

AS contribution to the effort the Washington
papers will effective Sunday 1912 suspend making
of special deliveries subscribers who fail to receive their
papers from the regular carrier
This curtaiment in service will undoubtedly effect
subscribers occasionally This STEP however necessary
order to conserve rubber and vital transportation facilities
The Washington Newspapers request subscribers to
tnue to advise their Circulation Departments regarding theft
non-delveries other service difficulties order that
remedial measures be taken delivery
far as possible.
AS their contribution, pledged
effort in order to maintain possible
of prompt and regular service
The Evening Sunday Star
The Times-Herald
The Washington Post
The Washington Daily News
Evening star., 1942-04-26
II japanese WarpIanes
Shot Down Over Darwin
~ tts Assoeiates Press

by Lht ASSOCldteo FTtsS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus
traha Sunday, April 26.-Allied
air fighters shot down eight Japa-
nese bombers and three fighters
yesterday over the North Australian
port of Darwin. one of three stra-
tegic Allied positions raided by
enemy planes, Gen Douglas MacAr-
thurs headquarters announced to-
day.
The other targets of Japanese
raiders, a communique said, were
Port Moresby, New Guinea, and the
Solomon Island port of Tulagi.
All three were heavily attacked,
the war bulletin said, but the raid
ers encountered brilliant" inter-
ception.
Twenty-four japanese bombers,
escorted by fighters, we're said to
have participated in the raid on
Darwin. while Port Moresby was at
tackled by Is Zero" type fighters
Eight bombers carried out the raid
on Tulagi.
The communique indicated the
raiders caused only minor damage
and mentioned no Allied air losses.
Evening star., 1942-04-26
BY MIRIAM oTTENBERG.

What about gas masks for civil
ians?
AS far as present plans go, civil
ians, whether they live in Iowa or
New York, are not going to get
them.
Some non combatant m sk s.
about 5000, 900 of them-wil be pro-
duced. but only as a trial run. to
give experience to personnel anG
test the plants that are now being
converted for turning out gas masks
on a grand scale, If that becomes
necessary.
Protective workers may get them
Air raid and fire wardens. men who
may have to so into contaminated
areas. These may 90 direct to the
workers or may be kept at depots
for distribution.
Some masks viii be distributed for
training purposes, but the present
program doesn't call for sending
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Civilians Wont t Get Gas Masks,
Danger Discounted by Army

out the 100000 gas masks that
would be needed to take care of
every one in the three coastal areas
"a 3oo-mile strip on the Atlantic,
Pacific and Gulf of Mexico.
The question is whether everyone
should have a gas mask now.
Neither the War Departments S
Chemical Warfare Service, which is
the authority on such matters, nor
the Once of Civilian Defense, which
has to carry through the program,
is going to say there's no danger OF
a gas attack at any future time. but
Mai. Gen William N Porter. chief
of the Chemical Warfare Service,
has said that under present condi-
tons he did not expect gas to be
used by our enemies against the
continental United States.
Gas can be an effective weapon in
the field. Gen. Porter pointed out.
Soldiers who have to hold O par
Continued on page AS, Column ID
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Union Maintenance
Clause Is Ordered
In kearny Contract
Four Employer Members
Dissent in Decision
OF War Labor Boord
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The War Labor Board yester-
day ordered a maintenance of
membership clause included in
the C. I. o. union contract of the
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry
dock Co. of Kearny, N. J., whose
plant the Government once
seized but later returned to pri-
vate management.
The board voted, eight to four,
with the employer members dissent
ing, to require the company to enter
into such an agreement with Local
16. Industrial Union of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers of America.
Under terms of the clause, each
employe who is a member of the
union at the time the contract goes
into effect, or who voluntarily joins
it thereafter, would be obligated to
maintain his membership in good
standing during the life of the
agreement.
The w. L. BIS action affirmed in
modified form recommendation
made by the former National De-
fense Mediation Board last summer.
The modification provides that the
company, instead Of automatically
discharging a union member re-
ported by the union to be no longer
in good standing, may submit the
case to grievance machinery. If the
union is upheld, the employe can
continue to hold his job by allowing
the company to deduct from his
pay any dues and fines owed the
union.
A strike followed the company's
fSee KEAPNFY. pace A1D
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Paraguay Party Accused
OF treason, Dissolved

By the Associated Press.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, April 25.--
The Liberal Party and all activities
supporting 1t was ordered dissolved
today by presidential decree.
The decree accused the party Of
high treason"
The Liberal Party which Presi-
dent Higinio Morinigo dissolved was
one Of Paraguay's two major politi-
cal parties prior TO the present
regime.
The Liberals ruled from 1904 TO
1896, with the Colorados as the prin-
cipal opposition, until the depres-
sion resulting from the Chaco war
brought about its fall. The present
regime Is not dependent on parties,
but on an army clique, for its sup
port. Most Liberal leaders, includ-
ing former Presidents Eusebio Ayala
and Jose Gussiari, are now In sxils
in Argentina.
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Washingion-Bound Train
DeraiIed Near Atlanta
y, the Associated Press.


NORCROSS. Ga. April 25.-Both
locomotives and several cars of a
Southern Railway Atlanta to Wash
ington passenger train toppled of
the track here tonight after strik-
ing a stalled truck.
One engineer suffered an injured
arm and several passengers were
shaken, Claim Agent p. L. Ward for
the road said.
The accident occurred near the
station in this small town % miles
north of Atlanta. about 80 minutes
after the train left Atlanta.
The two occupants of the truck
leaped out after 1t stalled on the
track and escaped injury.
The second locomotive derailed
Just after the truck was hit, along
with the cars. The lead engine ran
more than 100 feet before falling of.
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Chinese Counterdrive
Checks laps at One
Point in Burma
Enemy. However, Thrusts
Forward in 3 Columns
Around Touneeyi
ey the Associated Press.

NEW DELHI, India, April 25.-
The hard-pressed Chinese de-
Tending the Allied left flank
counterattacked tonight to halt
a japanese drive six miles west
of Taunggy, but, the strongly
reinforced enemy struck fu-
riously with tanks, artillery and
planes on both sides of their
stalled comrades.
The Japanese, striking through
the Shan states within 100 miles
of devastated Mandalay, thrust for
ward in three columns around
Taunggyi in an effort to encircle
the outnumbered troops under Gen.
Joseph w. Stilwel, u S. A.
One Japanese spearhead which
reached Hopong drove abruptly
northeast in the direction of Loilem,
% miles away. while another
column sought to move west and
encircle Taunggyi. Still third
unit was striking out 16 miles
farther west of Taunggyi.
The Chinese. almost devoid of air
support. inflicted heavy casualties
and captured several trucks and
other material
Heavy Fighting i'm Center.
Heavy fighting also was reported
in the Center on the Sittang River
front, and on the British-held right
on the Irrawaddy.
The Chinese of the center and
| their British Allies were reported
officially TO have held their posi-
tons. The central front is south
of Tatkon and the British are
drawn up behind the Pinchaung
River near the burned oil center
of Yenangyaung.
The Japanese were attempting to
overrun Burma and isolate China
before the steaming monsoon mid
May bogs down their mechanical
might.
The fighting was confused, but it
See BURMA, Page A-loD
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Reynolds Would Seize
Cars Doing Over 40

Senator Reynolds, Democrat of
North Carolina, yesterday proposed
a national 40-mile speed limit with
violators penalized by confiscation
of their automobiles He said he
would introduce a bill to this effect
tomorrow.
President Roosevelt recently sug-
gested that the States limit highway
speed to 40 miles an hour as a
measure to conserve tires.
Evening star., 1942-04-26

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN (From German Broad
casts, April 25.-Gen. Henri
Honore Giraud, for the second
time in his career as a French
Army officer, was a fugitive from
a German prison camp tonight,
presumably trying to make his
way through enemy country to
freedom.
Gen. Giraud had been a German
prisoner since May 81, 1910, when
German armies cut of the forces
he was commanding in Northern
France in the Battle of the Bulge.
The German announcement that he
Evening star., 1942-04-26

LONDON. April Is (P).-The Ger
man radio said today it was of
ficially announced that Maj. Gen
Gerhard Berthold, commander of a
German infantry division, had been
killed on the, Smolensk front.
Evening star., 1942-04-26
St. Nuzoire Evacuation
Reported Ordered
Py TIE Associated Press.

Py Tie Associated Press.
MOSCOW. April 25.-A Tass dis
patch from Stockholm today said
Field Marshal Gen. Karl Rudolf
Gerd Won Rundstedt, German COM
mandant in western occupied coun-
tries. had ordered mass depor-
tation of residents at St. Nazaire,
France, in reprisal for the upris-
ing which accompanied the British
commando raid of nearly q month
ago.
Evening star., 1942-04-26
u. S. Troops Arrival
Hailed by Free French

LONDON. April Is t4l.-The ar
rival of United States troops in New
Caledonia was described by Free
French source tonight as highly
welcome step to insure the common
defense Of the Allied lifeline to'
Australia and New Zealand"
He said the Free French agreed
1cen Nr-yTT rN rDSYNJTA Y,or-. A z
Evening star., 1942-04-26
DoyIight Attack
On France Hits
New Peak
81 the Associated Press.

LONDON Sunday. April 90
The Royal Air Force daylight Of
fenSive over France reached a
new peak yesterday with six
large-scale onslaughts in ii
hours in a fiery aftermath to a
! second violent night attack on
RoStock, German Baltic Sea port.
The Germans retaliated by send
ing large numbers of bombers over
the west of England last night and
early today, cascading high ex-
plosives and fire bombs on one
town.
Maintaining attacks over the
longest daylight raid period of the
war, the r. A. F. pounded targets at
Cherbourg, La Havre, Calais and
other points between Saturdays
dawn and sunset.
During these operations the f1erc-
est air battles of the year ragged
with swarms of the latest type Ger
man fighters challenging the Brit
iSh at levels ranging up to five miles
high over a 25o-mile front.
Takes Advantage of Daylight.
The R. A. F. took advantage 'of
the lengthening daylight hours to
wage its massive offensive which
forced the Germans to put into the
air the greatest number of fighters
encountered during any one day of
1912.
The success Of these sweeps and
the comparatively small British
losses-l5 fighters and one bomber
appeared to indicate the Nazis,
even by straining to the limit, now
are unable to muster enough fight
ers to match the r. A. r. German
losses for the day were given Of
ficially by the British as eight
fighters.
While Spitfires and Hurricanes
weaved and dived in dogfghts.
American-made Bostons unloaded
their bombs on targets along the
German-held coast even as Rostock
still famed and crumbled from its
second straight British assault.
Pilots of British fighter planes
reported there was tremendous
fighting" yesterday high above
France between British craft and
formations of 10 and 20 German
Messerschmitts and Focke- Wulf
1o9's, Germany's latest and best
fighters.
Germans Return to Attack.
After the first retaliatory raids
on England last night, the Germans
again sent over large formations
around last midnight, and the town
they singled out experienced short
but sharp attack. Although bombs
fell In residential districts no fatal
casualties had been reported early
today. One enemy bomber was re-
ported downed.
In addition to heavy attack on
docks at Cherbourg and lie Havre,
and factory at Calais, the r. ATS
targets yesterday included COM
munications at Abbeville and Mil
itary installations at numerous other
places in France.
Enemy fighters were in encoun-
tered In strength during the at
tack on Abbeville, and there were
many combats," the communique
said.
Hardest blows, however. were
dealt at Rostock. second of Hitler's
great Baltic bases for the German
armies of Norway, Finland and
Northern Russia to be turned into
a black wreck by British bombs.
Nearly million pounds of explos-
ives were used to blast that old
town in two of the most violent Al
Lied air raids of the war, the
British said.
Bomber Shot Down.
A German bomber was shot down
on the Northeast coast of England
shortly after noon yesterday. Two
other enemy planes flew over the
south coast in the early morning
hours. killing one person with ma
tSee RAIDS. Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Russian Units Reach
Important Highway
Feeding Nazi Front
Number of Enemy-HeId
Villages Reported
Retoken in Drive
b. tb. Associated Press.

KUIBYSHEV, April 25.-Red
Army cavalry units, scorning the
spring swamps which have
begged down other ground
forces, have taken a number of
German-occupied villages and
reached an important highway
feeding the German front. dis
patches to Izvestia said today.
The horsemen were reported to be
harassing the Germans at every
turn by lightning raids on villages
despite the efforts of German planes
and artillery to check them.
(The midnight communique of
the Soviet Information Bureau
broadcast from Moscow reported
that units of the Red Navy sank
a German ship of $4,000 tons in
the Barents Sea. Presumably
the ship was being used to REIN
force German forces in North
ern Finland.)
Height is Captured.
On the Karelian front, it was re-
ported that a unit of Russian
GuardiStS attacked a hilly sector
where the Germans had been for
tifying the crests during the winter
and captured an important height,
German efforts to recapture the
height were repulsed, Izvestia said
The newspaper reported the Rus
slams also we're continuing their
advance in the Bryansk sector
where guerrillas in contact with
the Red Army are supporting the
attack.
The lighting on the southern
(See RUSSIA, Page A-lO.)
Evening star., 1942-04-26

Page "A
At the call of the President,
an estimated $4,000 District men
will register under selective serv-
ice tomorrow in preparation for
the greatest inventory of man
power for war production in the
Nations history.
Throughout the country and its
territories the call for all men be-
tween IS and "a, inclusive, will draw
more than 1900, 900 men to enroll
ment centers.
In some communities, including
nearby Maryland and in Alexan-
dria. registration began yesterday 10
keep interference with the war pro-
duction effort at q minimum. 1t
viii continue in the Maryland coun-
ties today.
President Roosevelt will set an
example for the Nations older men
by registering during special White
House ceremony ut 1880 am. to-
morrow in the cabinet room of the
White House executive offices.
Aides VIII Register There.
Several White House aides, in
cluding Harry L. Hopkins, princi-
pal presidential assistant on war
supply problems, and Secretaries
Marvin Mcintyre and William D.
Hassett also plan to register there.
Although commander in chief of the
Nations armed forces, selective
service headquarters informed the
President, it was said, that he is not
exempt from the obligation of regis
tering. He will perform his duty
under supervision of Local Board
No. 8.
This As through 64 registration
will affect the majority of public
officials, including several members
of the cabinet and the Supreme
Court as well as most of the House
and Senate.
Commissioner Young's Office in
the District Building also will be
the scene of special registration
ceremony when the 60-year- -old
(See REGISTRATION, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1942-04-26
French General
Escapes Nozis
For Second Time
Giroud FIees
Prison Camp;
Reward Offered

Picture on Page A-2.)