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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15
Beer Supply Cut
|0ff From Holmes
| Roadside Place

JACKSON, Jan 13.-The supply
of beer to four retail outlets in AL
corn and Holmes counties, against
which complaints had been filed, has
been cut, off State Director w. w.
Pierce of the Brewers and Missis-
sippi Beer Distributors Committee
announced today.
Three of the outlets affected by
the shut loft ordered are located in
Corinth and the other on U. S. High
way 81, five miles south of Durant.
State Director Pierce said all
four outlets had been the source
of numerous complaints and that
law enforcement authorities in both
counties recommended the shnt-5ff
action. None of the four Were pro-
perly qualified under the Mississippi
law to sell beer at retail, Director
Pierce said
Named in the shut-off order, which
went to all wholesale beer distribu-
tors in the htate, were Eli burrows,
operating Burrows Cafe; Clyde Tim
lake, operating Timlake's Cafe, and
G. R. Dixon, operating Dicks Cafe,
all in Corinth, and Mrs. Mandy Nc
Lain McDaniels Polk, operating an
establishment known as Eagles
Nest" or "Mandy's Place., near Du-
rant.
The Committees action at Corinth
won the praise of the city governing
authorities. Shortly after the shut
off orders were issued Mayor Frank
X. Hughes and the Board of Alder
men voted approval of the action at
a regular meeting Of the Board.
Director Pierce stated that the
shut-offs in Alcorn and Holmes CO.
unties brought the number Of such
actions since the Committee was or
gained two ana one-half years ago
to SO. In addition. he reported, 16
outlets have lost their state permits
ty revocations, 419 warnings have
been issue, 10 places closed by IN
junction, 231 outlets correced und-
esirable condiations after warnings,
4 were placed on probation and two
elected to voluntarily surrender
their permits.
Credit for the splendid improve
ment in conditions surrounding the
retail sale of beer in Mississippi"
director Pierce said, "is due to the
fine work of state and local law
e, 'orcemeD; authorities The Conf
m'ttee has give:i them every assis-
lance within its means"
"Continuation of the cooperation
between the authorities and the Com
mittee, and of the industry's Self
Regulation program in Mississippi.
insures against disruption of the
constantly expanding efforts to
maintain wholesome conditions sur
rounding the sale of beer in this
state" he said.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15
Form Bureau Proves
Helpful to Formers

The Farm Bureau has again de-
monstrated to the farmers through
out the country, and especially the
cotton farmers of the South, its
beneficial influence. Although there
was great pressure on Washington
this week to leave pricec fixing for
agricultural commodities in the hands
of Mr.. Henderson, the farmers or
ganization we're able to place Mr..
Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture,
in position to "veto" any I'M
favorable price ceiling placed on
farm commodities.
Perhaps it would be well for you
to remember 1914, just prior to the
United States entering the first
World War. It was that year that
the BUY a Bale of Cotton Cam
paign" was put into action. There
was no demand for cotton and no
organization to help the farmers.
The bankers. lawyers, and others
were asked to buy bale Of cotton
and help the farmer. At the time
we had about one-half the surplus
cotton that we have today. The
price of cotton has been unusually
good for the last several months in
spite of the great surplus we are
now holding in storage. / am sure
that you agree with me that the
Farm Bureau has had no little part
in bringing about this favorable posi-
ton of the farmer.
Your farm organization needs
you now as never before, do your
part by joining the Farm Bureau
now.
!. w. Carson, County Agt-
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15

An affairs stand now Japan is having to
fight her own battles alone. Indications for
the future are that she will continue to do
30 without any aid from her axis partners
Germany and Italy are both fairly well &C.
cupied.
Thus Japan's importance in this world
war and her value to her partners resolves
itself into how long she can continue to
wage war alone, if compelled to rely wholly
upon her own equipment and her own re-
sources.
We hear the question frequently asked: :
How long can Japan hold on?" None of
us, of course, know the true answer. No
nation in the world really knows what the
Japanese have in the war of an army, navy,
an airforce, or how much reserve supplies
she has on hand to carry her along. She has
been preparing for this war long time, we
all know.
Engineers and executives in industry who
have spent years and billions of American
dollars building the new economic world in
the Orient are returning now to this country,
driven out by the war. Our losses there are
immense.
Their opinion is practically unanimous
that Japan has no vast reserve stores on
which to draw for an endless war.
The expert opinion of the economists and
military experts is that if the blockade tigh-
tens around the China Sea, Japan can carry
on as at present for possibly eight or ten
months--even year. But that is on the pre-
sumption that she is able to maintain the Of
fensve and sustains no overpowering re-
verses from Russia on the north, China on
her west and the allied Powers on her south
borders.
Her economic resources have been strain
ed almost to the limit by her long drawn
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15

ials. A few days earlier, OPM had
prohibited use Of molasses in making
such beverages, starting Jan. Is. Ac-
cording to that agency, wartime
uses have resulted in 800 per cent
increase in demand for industrial
alcohol. Beverage-makers, like the
auto men, were quick to pledge CO.
operation. Lewis S. Rosenstiel, board
chairman of Schenley, summed it up
saying there is one purpose today
besides which all else is secondary
cooperation to the fullest extent
in the war effort =. whether it
be in the further use of facilities
for the production Of alcohol or in
other ways helpful to the winning
Of the war" No beverage shortage
is anticipated by OPM. since there
is more than q five-year's supply
on hand in the country.
-oOo-
THINGS TO WATCH FOR A
Donald Duck short lin the making)
in which Donald squawks-as only
he can-upon getting his wartime
tax bill; then sees swarms of planes
and tanks, and is placated, ending
up by concluding he oughta pay even
more barber chair with an
extra seat in which the hair-cutter
himself rides around, sitting while he
ships lots of black-out items
featuring phosphorescent (glows in
the dark cloth-among doll whose
glow is designed to give reassuring
company" to its child owner caught
in the dark less wilderness in
books and magazines; no chlorine
for paper-bleaching after February
Isl
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15

essity Is going to be the mother Of
much invention as this war goes
IN. Already the suddenly-acute rub
Der situation has spawned a new
machine capable Of saving $4,000, 900
pounds of rubber a year. That's IT,
600 tons, more than years yield
of 100000 Far East rubber trees.
With the nation now having to de-
pend more on reclaimed rubber,
John l. Collyef, president of the
b. F. Goodrich company whose en-
gineers developed the new inven-
ton, is making the device available
to the nations rubber-reclaiming in
dus.ry. What the machine docs is
save for reuse the rubber surround
ing the wire bead" used in all tire
rims. These wires are imbedded SO
firmly thai heretofore reclaimers
have found it practical to just cut
off the whole edge section and throw
it away-and the loss aggregated a.
bout 1900 tons year. The new
machine Sits the rubber and pulls
out the wire with shearing action
that leaves the rubber in good shape
for retaining.
FEELING 'SCRAPPY'?-You can
do a real good turn toward helping
HEX the Axis by joining--or starting
a scrap-metal collection drive. I'm
Gle Sam needs that leaky old wash
boiler, that rusty old bedspring, The
steel mills are really getting de-
sperately short on scrap. The flow
of such Junk" is naturally much
slower in cold weather anyway, and
all during tbs milder months the
steel production pace was such that
the mills couldn't build up their
scrap stockpiles as they ordinarily
do. Automobile "graveyards" offer
a tremendous source of scrap steel.
It's true that disable parts that can
be recovered from these auto grave
yards are, logically, being taken off
and stored up against the expected
demand for them as new-part manu-
facture dwindles . +. but there's still
a great lot of useful scrap in the
frames, motors and bodies of those
highway haSbeens"
--oOo-
LIQUID" ASSETS-All beverage
distilleries in the land have been or
dered by OPM to produce all the
190-proof ethyl alcohol they are cap
able Of making from corn or oth<
grain, because this type of alcohol
is important in making smokeless
powder. plastics, other war mater
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15

out war with China, which has begged down
into stalemate. She can produce from her
ores and minerals on hand the armament
and weapons to make requirements for pos
sibly year-stil barring a disaster But
she has to feed her 80, 100000 at home, now
under nourished feed and equip her armies
from the Siberian border to Borneo; armies
which are spread out dangerously thin and
which even now are inadequately equipped
Imports of raw materials are the life line
of her army and navy and her air force
With both cut, Japan becomes desperate
nation.
Obviously in her quick thrust in the Pac-
fife, Japan's aim is to seize the rich islands
to the south for supplies, needed urgently
She is seeking rice for her granary to feed
her people and armies; the ores, copper,
aluminium, hemp, oil, coal and other sup
plies to be needed for requirements as the
wear and tear of war begins to tell and the
Allies swing into action with a smashing
victory.
The history of wars is that economic
progress and actual warfare do not travel
hand in hand. Hitler has been unable dur
ing his two years of occupation in a dozen
conquered nations to develop even frac
tional part of the natural resources of the
lands he has taken.
Wells and mines are ruined; plants are
wrecked; tools are destroyed; transporta-
ton is interrupted; roads are blasted Japan
has been in China for more than four years
and looked to that rich and undeveloped
country with almost untouched resources to
fuel the war machinery for the Imperial
Government. And Japan has not been able
to develop anything like an auxiliary sup
ply from all China.
Now Japan looks to her conquests in the
South Pacific for her replacements There is
no reason to believe that she will be any
more successful in that venture than she has
been in China or than Hitler has been in
his wholesale burglaries.
Experts who are intimately acquainted
with the peoples and countries in the China
Sea area, the present Nippionese sphere OF
military action, give the opinion that it will
take minimum of five years to develop from
those lands raw materials and supplies to
equal even one half of the imports from
other lands which have been cut off COM
pleteIy in fortnight. The Japs haven't the
men, the capital the tools or the ability to
do the job.
In the meantime it is fairly reasonable to
assume that the nightly proves of the Al
lies, far surprising anything Japan can Of
Fer in resistance, are not going to remain Idle
for many months while Japan carries on
unmolested against our people.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15

alarmed. You see, his mother lives
Or did live-right in the shadow of
the Santo Domingo cathedral in Man
lila, the great church which was ru-
th!essly destroyed by Jap bombs last
week in their raid on that open city.
Until that time, Moses had kept IN
frequent touch with his mother by
cable. Now, he says, he has not heard
from her since. He is afraid-well,
that she too is gone. As he told me
this, his chin Quivered and his strong
dark eyes filled with tears. You must
keep your chin up, l told him. He
promised he would.
-oOo-
Dr.. George Gallup of the Gallup
Poll is an sbsent-minded man. A
former associate Of his told me a.
bout an extreme instance Of this.
Besides his polling activities, DR..
Gallup is a member of the public
relations firm of Young and Rubi-
can. Often he works long hours at
his desk and even misses meals One
day, he was crowded for time and
ordered his lunch sent into his Of
flee. Meanwhile, in order to study a
wall map, he sSs> down on q chair
outside in the hall After awhile, a
boy appeared bearing a lunch tray
and entered his office. So absorbed
was DR.. Gallup in his map study, he
gave the boy a mere glance. The
latter, finding no one in the office,
came out with the lunch, looked
around then took it away. To an as
sociate who had joined him DR.. Gal
lup then remarked abstractedly, 81
wonder why that boy is carrying
food all around this office"
-oOo-
One Of the saddest things about
this city is the lack Of acquaintance
among its residents. Hundreds of
people live in one big apartment
house, yet never know each other
except by occasional sight. It is so
rare to meet some one you know
on the street in town that such a
HiCCtHiS 10 uoilcu oS duuOSI pUG-
nomenal coincidence. Strange faces
pass in the night or in the daytime,
it makes no difference, because this
is taken for granted by those who
are lonely. But if you accost New
Yorker in public without first hav-
ing met him, he will probably think
you are hoodlum or that you are
trying to get fresh. Many a time
see a most interesting-looking per
son in street-car or on a bus and
think that it would be nice to know
him or her; yet the memorable feel
ings follows that in all probability,
] will never see that person again.
DO
Manhattan Musing: the bright
lights of Broadway may be bril-
liant goal for an actor but for q
bomber-pilot they might be just a
shining target.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15
BEHIND THE SCENES IN
AMERICAN BUSINESS
BY John Craddoek

NEW YORK, Jan IL. - OVER
DRIVE'-No startling change, but a
shift into a super-high gear in the
conversion of all Americas indus
trial resources to war need is III
dictated by President Roosevelt's lay
ing down the two-year requirements
in planes, tanks, guns, shipping -
and the 56 billion cost The pl ocess
has been going on for months, but
now it's absolutely "all-out" and the
response of industry is: Wen do
the job" The auto industry, veritable
keystone Of Americas industrial ST.
ucture, comes to complete stop IN
making passenger ears and even light
trucks, come January 3l-but is fast
shifting into "overdrive' gear on ar
maments. c. E. Wilson of General
Motors says his company hopes to
produce two billions worth of war
materials in 1892, and reach year
ly rate of three and three-quarters
billion in 1943. And X. T. h ler Of
Chrysler said its production of tanks
is going to be tripled, on top Of
1941 output, which was double what
anyone had hoped it would be-
-OOo--
But there'll be plenty of changes
in shopping habits, delivery facili-
ties, personal transportation and
others phases of American life. AL
ready proposed is GEOGRAPHICALLY"
instead of daily delivery of milk,
and consolidation of delivery routes
to avoid duplication of truck mile
age. Larger containers for foods,
especially those using tin are COM
ing. Two-trouser suits are on the
way out; so are vests of double
breasted suits. Nylon, which had been
counted on to take up much of the
slack in hosiery yarns when silk i'm
ports were stopped last August, it
self is now in such need for para
chutes that civilian use of it for hos
iery, underwear and other uses has
been cut by 20 per cent. Maybe
cotton stockings soon will be badge
Of honor--a small-enough token of
American ability to take" at least
that minor shock to vanity.
900 q
ANTI-WASTE WEAPON Nee
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15

For some time l have been try
ing to learn how to tell Chinese
from Japanese when / see one. Of
course in New York the chances
are Is to / that if you meet an Or
iental on the street, he is a China
man, because there are about 3d.
600 Chinese here and 1000 Japs.
Now / realize that it is hardly fair
at this time to compare the two nat
ionalities-even in looks But curiosi-
ty is powerful thing and l have
gone to the hes: authorities about
t.A's s~cb,c-1. They differ. One man
who has spent great part of his
life in Japan and China shook his
head. "You can't always tell,' he
replied to my question, except u.s.
ually the Chinese are physically lar
ger" Another, the author of famous
books on these people laughed when
l asked him, then admitted that this
was no new question to him. He said
he hated to compare the Japs and
Chinese now because the latter are
his friends. A typical Jap is smaller,
thinner and has higher cheek bones
than the average Chinaman, he stat
ed, but added that there are so many
of both who are not typical in ap-
pearance that it is easy, even for
him, to get the two mixed up. But
he told of one way he can dis
tinguish them, way he uses in this
city. when / see an Oriental near
me on the street or in the subway
he said, 81 just say, 'Ho La Ma"
which means in Chinese, How are
you?" If the man replies that his
feet hurt or it is hot day or that
he has a headache, / know that he
is a Chinaman. But if he glares at
me and says nothing, know that he
is q Jap"
A local college professor has just
undergone quite an embarrassment.
He was in the draft age, it seems,
and was recently indicted into the
Army. During the holidays, the stu
dents of one of his former classes
decided to send him a telegram of
greetings. Since there were about
80 students in the class, all Of them
naturally could not very well sign
their names SO they simply put
down as the signature, the college
number of the class which is "42-1-
6OB". During its course, the tele-
gram fell under the eyes of the
watchful FBI and they investigated
thinking the sender might be a spy
communicating with another secret
operative. But all they found was a
shy college prof and on the 9TH
er end, a chagrined group of his
pupils.
In restaurant where / often eat,
the walters are Filipino boys. Lika-
Bile little fellows, they are, and I've
been talking to them lately about
their country. And are they mad.
Every one of them, / believe, would
give part of his own life to take
a wham at the Jars for bombing
their country. One of these, Moses
Meritas, is especially Infatuated and
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15
Myers-KeoIhofer
Marriage Said

An announcement coming as a
great surprise to their many friends
was that of Miss Virginia Myers, dau-
ghter of Mrs. Sallie Myers, to Char
les Kealhofer, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Kealhofer, all of this city. The
vows were spoken on December
26th. At present the young couple
is at home with his parents.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15
Ocean No Defense

At a Chamber Of Commerce meet
ing in San Francisco in 1885, Major
General james C. Breckenridge, of
the United States Marines said, "The
ocean is no more defense than
moat-"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15

Planes for Spraying
U. S. Marines were first to use
the airplane to spray large arevs
OF ground for the elimination OF
mosquitoes and larvae.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15
Real War Horse

Old Tom, battle SCARED war
horse of the United States Marines,
served 80 years before being re-
tired. He actively participated in
battle and was wounded once.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-15

Manhattan Musing: the bright
lights of Broadway may be a bril-
liant goal for an actor but for a
bomber-pilot they might be just a
shining target.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-12-17
Christmas Season To Be Ushered In
By Presentation OF Messiah Sunday
Thirty-third Annual Rendition
At III. S. Gymnasium
Sunday Night
125 Singers from College and
Community Make Up Choir
Personnel

Bluffton's observance of the Christ
mas holiday season viii be ushered
in with the 33rd annual presentation
Of Handel's oratorio, The Messiah
by the Bluffton college choral society
at the Bluffton High school gymnas-
ium Sunday night at o'clock.
Presentation of the widely cele-
brated oratorio will be made for the
10th time before local audiences, al
though it has been given in success
sion for 33 years. Prior to 1905
it had not been an annual affair
here.
Appearing in the chorus are 125
singers from the college and COM
munity under the direction of Prof
Russell A. Lantz, head of the col
lege department Of music.
ORCHESTRA
An orchestra of about 35 pieces
will accompany the choral society ir
the presentation of the oratorio. The
organization plays under the direc.
ton of Prof. Sidney Hauenstein, OF
the college music faculty. Mrs. H
P. Mann, also of the college music
faculty, will be the pianist.
Soloists are: Hardin Van Deursen
baritone, voice professor from the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
Mrs. Hardin Van Deursen, soprano
WJR radio soloist of Ann Arbor
Mrs. Roy Ramseyer, controlto
Bloomington, H., member of the
Cadman quartet; F. Marion Cheney
tenor, soloist of the Lima Chora
society.
REHEARSALS SINCE FALL
The large gymnasium-auditoriun
at the high school has ample seat.
ing capacity for the large crowds
that attend the annual performance
Rehearsals have been progressing un,
der the direction of Prof. Liant;
since early fall.
Bluffton college and high schoo
students as well as residents of th,
community form the membership o.
the choral society. Many of tn,
choir members have been singing il
"The Messiah" for severad decade,
and a few almost continuously sine,
the first performance.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-12-17
With The Sick

P. w. Stauffer, Bluffton High
school and Bluffton college instruct
or, underwent an appendicitis opera
tion at the Bluffton hospital We'd
nesday morning.
After an illness of several weeks
Prof. H. w. Berky of Bluffton col
lege resumed his teaching this We'd
nesday afternoon.
Forrest Mumma is confined to his
bed with complications at his home
on North Mound street.
Charles Oehrli, who has been
suffering from a heart ailment, is
somewhat improved at his home on
Poplar street.
Miss Lucille Steiner, who has been
i'll with pneumonia at her home on
Poplar street, is much improved.
Condition of Peter Gratz, who has
been i'll at his home on South Jack
son street, remains much the same
Water Sommer, Bulffton school bus
driver, is convalescing from an oper-
alton at the Bluffton hospital.
Mrs. Clayton Murray who under
went am operation at Bluffton hos
pital is convalescing at her home
on West Elm street.
Cecil Kuhn, employe at the Cen
tral Ohio Light and Power Co.. is
convalescing from knee operation
at his home on Cherry street.
Condition of Samuel Kohler, who
is quite i'll at the Bluffton hospital
remains about the same.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-12-17
Candy Shortage Hampers Santa Who
May Not Be Able To Fill Stockings

mas eve to buy their sweets may
find the candy counters empty in
many Bluffton stores.
Merchants here have been able to
obtain only small portion of their
usual candy stocks and are not near
ly able to meet the demand for the
sweets. Consequently most dealers
have been limiting the amount of
candy that may be purchased at one
time.
Candy manufacturers have been
limited in the amount of sugar
which they can use for making
candy.
There are several other reasons
for the candy shortage. One is that
the sweet tooth of the nation can
not be satisfied by foods from ones
own kitchen. Therefore there is
more buying of candy to take the
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