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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-17
Meat Surplus in Sight,
New Worry for Jones
BY PAUL MALL0N

WASHINGTON, July 10
w From a dearth. we seem
about to hop into an overabun-
dance OF meat on butchers
hooks.
The first arrivals OF large
quantities of beef cattle in Chi
cago and ST. Louis this week
herald a period of heavy farm
marketing of beef similar TO
that which has developed in
hogs-and for the same reason.
When a steer, lamb or hog be-
comes fat, there is only one
place for him, the market.
With more livestock in the
country today than ever before
and feed at premium, it is evi-
dent that before Sept. l the
market must be flooded with all
kinds OF meat.
This Superabundance is almost
as bad as too little.
1t means that much OF the
cattle anu hogs which ordinarily
would be kept for the coming
winter supply will be used now
to the disadvantage OF all con-
Cerned.
Curing Of the meat shortage
in this way, therefore, will only
quiet for a time the popularity
recognized necessity OF again re-
organizing the administrations
food program.
CINCE the cauStic Congress
~ left town, Food AdminiStra-
tor Jones has put out an opti-
mlstlc prophecy that he will eX-
pand all food acreage nearly
one-third next year. -
This makes pleasant news
paper reading, especially over
an empty plate, but only for per-
sons with short memories.
This same administration ex-
pected a large increase in food
production this year, insisting
upon its optimistic figures be-
fore Congress as late as Janu-
airy.
Now it comedies production
will be less than last year.
Any impressive hopes for eX-
panSlon will await definite
program curing the causes of
decreasing production $3.50 farm
labor fears, prices and diSor-
DERBY marketing fears, and
farm machinery fears.
Behind all the publicity, the
situation still obviously calls
for a strong. nonpoltical.
mathematical single head at the
top here
One food director. empow-
cred TO direct production, mar
ketlng and price fixing, could.
II able To handle figures and
people, call IN the farmers.
packers and OPA price experts
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10 make a united resistance,
they moved in.
France was a victim Of dis
unity created by both NaziS and
Communists but the work of
the Communists was the dead
lier at the fatal moment be-
cause they continued their Sabo-
tage in the factories and their
treason in the army up TO the
hour of Hitler's triumph. y
They did this because Stain
was the still Hitler'S ally
through treaty which touched
Oft the war and they were able
10 do il because the French,
then, like-tis, today foolishiy
continued TO regard the Com
munists as liberals, or at worst
radicals. and 10 give these enc
mics the protection Of their
equalitarian. liberal laws.
IT WAS a mistake 10 do so
L but we. in this country. who
never took any lip from Hitler.
did try 10 appeaSe Stain by
dealing generously with the
Communists.
He would have had more re-
spect for us and the two coun-
tries would understand each
other better today, if we had let
them 90 just far enough TO iden-
tify themselves Enthusiastically
and then given them the works
as we gave it 10 the bundiSts.
That, Of course. would have
left at large that element OF
sneaks known as the fellow
travellers who associate politi-
cally and otherwise with the
avowed Communists but cannot
be convicted under our laws Of
being actual members of the
party or conspiracy
They would be a problem still
but not dangerous if we were
TO treat them Just as we have
treated those who ran with the
Nazis but didn't actually join
them.
Those nonjoining pro-Nazis
are in the doghouse if not in
the jailhouse, which\\is as II
should be. but the difference
and the danger is that the pro-
Communists are not only all at
large but buster than ever and
are cultivated. consulted and
encouraged by the national gov
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ANSWERS on Opposite Page)
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TO THE EDITOR:

I'M BURNED up! Why should
Il we, the people, support
Max Stephan? Who is he to en-
JOY a fairly comfortable life
While our men are dying? II
harboring an enemy isn't trea-
son, juStMhat is?
Stephan was given life sem
tence. However, his lawyers are
going 10 try and free him. IL
they should fail. ne probably
will be paroled within 10 years,
after every one has forgotten
what he was imprisoned for
and will he be deported then?
l doubt it.
1t ought 10 be OF great joy
10 the boys overseas. fighting
for their lives. TO pick up an
American newspaper and read
of the reprieve. They're prob
ably shouting now, "Hurrah!
Let's send more NaziS 10 the
States 10 be well cared for"
MISS c. :. WEIDER.
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Quick Questions

What woman member Of the
House of Representatives re-
Gently proposed strong
military alliance with Great
Britain?
2-The new miracle" drug,
penicillin. is secured from
particular part Of what
substance you may find IN
your kitchen?
3 What country provided the
setting for the novel, How
Green Was My Valley?
4 Is the Mayo Clinic located
in Montana, Missouri or
Minnesota?
5-What is the meaning OF
RID in a mailing address?
6--What internationally famous
magician, now dead, would
YOU naturally suppose wrote
The Great EXtricator'
In poker. what kind Of
hand is known as a fluSh1
ANSWERS on Opposite Page)
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The World In ReDiesU
Beetles and Barges
By MAI. GEN. DAVID PRESCOTT BARRows

Authority den tho University
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MISS c. $. WEIDER.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-17

THE extraordinary feature OF this war is
the fact that American armies can only
come to grips with the enemy by expeditions
across the worlds two greatest oceans. Our
armies, which have to go by sea, have 10 be
large enough and powerful enough to attack
with success two of the most formidable
armies in the world.
The supply problem, or "logistics'-the
art of moving men and supplies in warts
for us a most formidable job, never before
undertaken on like scale and never before
believed possible.
What is called the Zone OF the Interior
the source of all that armies require, is for
us separated by the earth's broadcast oceans
from the theaters of operation where we
intend to give offensive battle.
But for the enemy his zones Of the
interior are at hand Immediately behind
his fighting front, at least in the case Of
Germany armies can be served by railroad
lines and motor routes that are relatively
short distances from the distribution points"
wherefrom fighting troops are served.
DUT this logistical problem, unprecedentedly
ID great though it is, is not the whole of our
embarrassment, for after crossing the seas.
and even though attack be launched
across the comparatively narrow waters of
the British Channel and the Mediterranean,
our armies will have TO land from ships on
coasts we'll organized to destroy landing
parties even before they make the shore.
In 1847, Gen. Winfield Scott landed an
American army of more than 10000 men
three and half miles below the port Of Vera
Cruz and after landing captured the enemy's
city and port with it's ancient Spanish castle
of San Juan de Ulua.
The landing of troops was effected in
single day, using about IS surf boats, holding
so to 80 soldiers apiece, which had been towed
to the point of invasion by the naval vessels
which escorted the expedition. 1t was sue
cessful, and for its time, remarkable
achievement.
But the debarkation was unopposed.
SCOTS landing place was beyond the range
of the guns of Vera Cruz Notifications and
the Mexican garrison remained in the city.
The troops won their beachhead without
resistance and were covered by the guns of
the American feet.
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NOTHING of this kind can be expected
~ when the troops of the United Nations
cross the Mediterranean or the British
Channel. 1t must be assumed that every
practical landing beach on the thousands of
miles of coast that encirce Hitler's fortress
of Europe is covered by cose-beach defenses.
The situation may be somewhat different
in the great extent of the Pacific Ocean over
which we are now contendng with Japan.
Landings may probably be effected without
encountering beach defense by reason of the
fact that the islands are so numerous and
the forces of Japan inadequate TO occupy
them all.
This was true at Attn, where Massacre
Bay was left open and afforded undisputed
landing area for the American assault.
IN THE tropical seas on both sides Of the
i equator. islands are innumerable. Only
certain ones can be garrisoned and present
an organized resistance to offensive landings
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This 10 The Readers Column. No
subjects within good taste are
barred. Say what you think, but
sign your name and address-Rbd
write ss briefly as you can.
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plete program so that every one
involved would know precisely
what is expected OF him and
what he is TO do.
Until This is done, no conf
dent solution seems possible.
The administration undoubtedly
will get around 10 IL eventually,
but probably not until forced
by the pressure of events yet
to come.
THE FCC-Cox dispute has de-
Il volVed into Straight-out
liberal-conSerVative fight, as AL
most everything does here
sooner or later.
In the political argument. the
merit of facts on either side, as
usual. has become lost.
Consistently, the news &C
counts carry. for instance, an
implication that Chairman Cox
of the f4etse- investigation conn
mittee accepted a $500 fee
from local radio station in his
district for appearing before
the FEC in it's behalf
This would be a violation of
federal law.
If this is true. Mr.. Cox should
have been indicted and tried
long ago, as the charge is nearly
a year old.
His explanation (Which is not
clear and is seldom published
alongside the charge) is that he
took the amount in stock and
turned it over TO a charity and
that the payment was not for
legal services for a government
department anyway.
What is more important than
either the charge or the eXplana-
ton is that the Justice depart
ment completely controlled by
liberalS) has never made a move
TO indict Cox.
The defending New Deal lib
erals seem content TO reiterate
il day after day, TO muss up
and embarraSs the House inves-
tigation of FEC.
The investigation seems 10
have fairly good case against
that equentl v hot-headed
agency. but the case is likely
TO be Smothered by the embar-
RAISING presence OF Cox at the
head of the investigating COM
mittee and by the cloak Of war
secrecy with which President
Roosevelt has protected the
commission files.
THE size OF the Italian feet,
Il as detected by our spoilers
at the outset of the Sicilian
invasion. was five battleships
and . or 10 cruisers.
This rather formidable feet
was unbalanced and deficient
in deStroyerS and aircraft car
rierS, large numbers of which
have been sunk.
cur authorities were aston
iShed, however, when most of il
lay huddled at SpeSia in the
Italian boot. only a few miles
from Sicily. during the initial
stages Of our Sca-borne invasion.
They knew II would have to
come out sooner or later. or
Scuttle itself but apparently
the Italian admlrals were too
afraid of our superior air power
TO move.
Nothing could be a better
harbinger OF SUCCESS for our
campaign.
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A combined force, navsi, army and s% IN
just effected landing IN the New GeoeelA
islands
However, landings such ~ those nov n
progress there can only be successful when
the attacking side has clear naval and str
superiority over the defense. Otherwise. y
will suffer from enemy land bases close xt
hand and from both surface and submarine
vessels emerging from strong nearby enemy
base.
1t is certain that the American Army he's
made the same elaborate preparations for
beach landings and assaults In the Pacihs
that it has made for similar assaults on Ned.
terranean islands the Mediterranean coast
of the European continent.
At least it can be announced that the
army has built great numbers Of specially
designed landing barges to put assaulting
parties ashore and TO give both greater
attacking power to these parties and protect
them while on the perilous movement from
transports to beach and to make this danger
Gus trip as brief as strong motor power can
supply.
These landing barges vary in size from
small vessels holding 25 or 30 men and which
presumably form the first wave Of attack. up
to barges holding considerable numbers Of
troops, and, finally, sea-going carriers bear
ing tanks and medium artillery
DARGES OF simple character were used
ID in the first World War although when
the British army landed at Galipoh they
were unprovided. In fact, an old shallow
draft steamer, the RIVER CLYDE, carrying
over 1000 men. was driven right upon the
sands from which the men waded ashore.
Other troops were landed by ordinary ship
boats which lost heavily by having hung on
barbed wire entangements set in the surf
and by exposure to fire.
The loss of life from machine gun nests
and from few field guns within effective
firing range of the beach caused heavy initial
casualties among the British forces BY pluck
and herosm men were landed and found
shelter under the cliffs Of the shore.
This was the initiation of modern mill
tary devices in landing directly under strong
fire. To improve landing methods the British
army later built special baEges with pro-
tective ramps These were called beetles"
They were the prototypes Of the present
landing boats and barges devised by our
army.
THESE American barges are selfpropelled
i by powerful engines. All doubtless have
some armor protection. All have heavily
plated ramps, to be dropped from the square
bows and to facilitate debarkation, but when
lifted are able TO shield the troops standing
in the open holds behind them.
Besides being self-propeled these barges
are maneuverabe, can probably avoid smell
FIRE by Tagging and varying their courses.
Our troops have been efaboratefy equipped
for landing assaults and for the gaining Of
beachheads where the assaults succeed Every
fNp IF hpa hat j. l..
ings has been devised, tested and supplied.
Troops who will engage in this hazardous
type of warfare have been thoroughly trained.
They have been practiced in all details OF
occupying barges, in arranging themselves
and their Weanons in the harces and for Tia
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26
GOODMAN

Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Donald and sons,
Leroy, Jr. and Bill, are spending vaca-
to7 days al Eureka Springs. Ark.
The Rev. f. C. Driskell came up from
Piekens Sunday morning and preached
at the Methodist Church, filling his
regular appointment. There was no
service at the Methodist Church Sunday
evening, Mr.. Driskell going over to
Sehrock TO begin a series of revival SER
vices
Mr.. and Mrs. Adlai Donald, Mrs. ]. r.
Perry, and Toy Wynn motored to Camp
Mcclellan Sunday to see Private Adlai
Donald.
Friends of Aux. Julia Frances Jones,
while recovering from a tonsil operat-
for several months, were glad to well
eome her home again for a short fur
iough. She is stationed in California.
Mrs. Mollie Schrock and Sylvia Claire
sehroek returned home Sunday after
3 visit To the Mauldin family at Baton
Rouge. Mrs. Mauldin and daughter,
Jean, accompanied Mrs. Schrock home
and will visit in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. b. Parker.
Mrs. T. J. Donald, Mrs. E. II. Robins
and daughter, Dorothy Christine, from
New 0rlans, are guests in the /. U. Dom
aid home.
Miss Pauline Hand visited relatives
at West the past week end.
Corp. Roy Mcdaniel came up from
Camp Shelby to spend the week end with
homefolks.
Misses Judith Ford of Gulfport, and
Edwina Ford of Memphis, were visitors
last week in the home of their parents,
the Rev. and Mrs. E. w. Ford.
Mrs. Ernest Butler and little daugh-
ter, whose home is in Greenville, are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Davis.
David X. Gulledge returned home Sat-
urday after a summer spent working in
Orange, Texas.
Mrs. Carl Hansen spent several days
with her sister at Moss Point last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Tyler visited
relatives in Memphis last week, motor
ing zap as car guests Of the Rev. Madison
Flowers. Mrs. Flowers went up to
| Memphis for medical examination.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26

Mrs. Pate Carter and son, Pate, Jr.,
Of Memphis, are visiting her sister, Mrs.
billiard Odom.
Ensign James Odom, USN, graduates
from Harvard University on the 25th
of this month and will spend a day or
two with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
billiard Odom, before further assign
ment in the service of his country.
Miss Dot Woodward and Frank Cress-
we'll spent last week here with friends
and relatives.
Ralph Walker of McComb, was a Du-
rant visitor last week end.
Mrs. Irby Johnson was a Jackson Wis.,
itor Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Sharpe spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Baine
and family.
Mrs. Ebert Mcdaniel and three sons
are spending a few days with Mrs.
Charles Ray.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Knott and son,
Allen, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Penn, are WIS.,
iting in the home of C. A. Knott this
week.
Mrs. Abbie Mccain of Memphis.
Misses Sadie Taylor, Lucy White, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster of Greenwood. were
guests of Mrs. Eula Nettles and family
Sunday.
Herman Anderson, Jr, Army medical
student at Ole Miss, spent Saturday and
Sunday with his aunts, Mrs. Grace Webb
n Mrs. Mary Phillips.
Mrs. Clyde Webb of Indianola, spent
the week end with her mother, Mrs.
Grace Webb.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Hardin and daugh-
ter, Miss Annie Belle Hardin, and Mr..
and Mrs. C. W. Hardin and family, all
Of Grenada, we're Sunday guests of Mrs.
Pearl Phillips.
Pvt Charles Kealhofer of New Orleans,
spent the week end here with his wife.
Mrs. Walter Durham, Jr., spent SUM-
day with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Morrough, at Ebenezer.
Miss Katherine West has returned
here after attending the University of
Tennessee this summer.
Roy Williams spent the week end at
Oxford with friends.
Friends of Mrs. C. E. Long will regret
to learn that she is in the Baptist Hos
pital at Memphis.
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Miss Emma Kathryn White returned
home Thursday after several weeks
vacation at Joliet, Illinois.
Mrs. j. E. Daniel and sons of Winona,
returned Tuesday after spending sew
eral days here with relatives.
Ethridge Cain left Wednesday for
jackson to report to the Navy.
Friends of Miss Marjorie Weaver will
be glad to learn that she is now i'm.
proving after having her tonsils re-
moved at the Community Hospital in
Lexington.
Levi Bishop returned to Pascagoula
after spending last week here with his
family.
Mrs. j. s. Moorehead of Memphis, is
the welcome houseguest of Mrs. Halle
Rivers for a few days this week.
Mrs. George Fulmer and Miss Mar
tina Fulmer are visiting Mrs. j. W.
Query in Fort Worth, Texas, this week.
First Lieutenant Richard Bankhead
Drane arrived in Durant Tuesday from,
Cuba to spend his leave with his wife
and parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Drane,
ST.. This is ~Bankhead's first visit home
in 20 months, having served in Puerto
Rico and Cuba with the Army Air
Force.
Cpl. Gordon Leard, U. S. Army. is
spending a ten-day furlough with his
sister, Miss Maxine Leard.
Miss Gertrude McCune returned to
Jackson after spending her vacation
here with her mother, Mrs. w. E. Nc
Cune.
Mrs. Albert Bell accompanied her sis
ter, Miss Mary Frances DeLoach, as far
as Jackson Friday on her return home.
Miss Melba Truitt of Winona, visited
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Trui:t,
over the week end.
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A!SmM . GMA . N.s>youum

Mrs. Christien Stevens of Memphis.
is visiting in the lrby home for a few
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. f. Irby spent Sunday
in Lexington with relatives.
Nj. and Mrs. Clyde Mansell Of Hous-
ton. returned to their home after spend
ing last week here with relatievs.
Mrs. Kate Bishop is spending this
week with her son, Madison Bishop, at
Sails.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Wilson of Sherard,
spent the week end here with their
daughter, Mrs. w. s. Heggie.
Miss Rosemary Howell and Miss Jerry
Yerborough we're Jackson visitors on
Thursday.
Miss Jerry Yerborough of Columbia,
returned home Saturday after a delight
full visit in the home of Miss Rosemary
Howell.
Mrs. Ben Ayers of Kosciusko, is spend
ing this week with Mrs. Albert Bell.
Miss Katherine Weeks of ~Possumneck,
spent the week end with Miss Margaret
Rivers and Miss Lena Armstrong.
Miss Norma Neal Walker of Memphis,
is spending this week with Miss May
Brown.
MIR. and Mrs. w. T. Pege and daugh-
ter, Mary Alice, of Dayton, Ohio, are
visiting Mrs. J. f. Daniel here this week.
Nj. and Mrs. C. S. Crider are visiting
in Tennessee this week..
Miss Florence Nelly was a K~osciusko
shopper Monday with Mrs. Kenneth Van
Keuren.
Mrs. Charles Walters returned Satur-
day after spending last week in Men,
phis with her sister, Mrs. Tom Conn:
Robert Kealhofer of Lexington, spent
Monday in Durant.
John l.. Watson and Miss Vivian Will
son of Jackson, visited Mrs. Joe w.
Hughes who is convalescing from IN
operation, Monday.
George E. Riley of Jackson, visited
Mrs. Joe W. Hughts and the J. P. Dur
hams one day this week
Ellis Hood of Greenwood, was a bust
ness visitor in Durant Monday.
Mrs. Frank Edwards spent Tuesday
and Wednesday in Sturgis with relatives.
Miss Stella Jackson of Sturgis, return
ed Tuesday after spending several weeks
with her sister, Mrs. Roy Kolb.
W. r. Carnes and two little sons,
Arthur and Eddie Lee, of Biloxi, are
visiting his sisters, Mrs. J. L.. Leslie
and Mrs. C. f. Burell.
Ira Hendricks and Marcus Rogers
leave September 9th for San Diego,
Cali, to join the Marines. They are
to receive their boot training there.
Mrs. H. F. Devices and family spent
Friday in P~elahatchie with her father,
H. s. A~delsheimer.
Miss Dorothy King returned to her
home in Fulton, Kentucky, Tuesday after
visiting friends in Durant.
Miss Mabel Taylor of Jackson, visited
friends in Durant over the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. A. C~lendinning Of
Jackson. returned after spending sew
eral days here last week.
Miss Louise Crider of McAdams, spent
Sunday here.
Hermon Odom, Jr., spent Thursday in
Crystal Springs with relatives.
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.pTA Committees
Named For Year

PROGRAM: Mrs. Walter Odom,
Miss Mary B. wilbur, Mrs. Sharp.
FINANCE: Mrs. McCullar. Mrs. Nor
wood. Mrs. Hayes Irving.
PUBLICATIONS: Mrs. Clark Stevens.
Mrs. W. H. Counts.
CHILD WELFARE: Mrs. II. Z. Brooks,
Mrs. ID. NJ. Barranco, Miss Mamie Clark.
MEMBERSHIP: Mrs. H. c. Mitchell,
Mrs. w. c. Martin, Mrs. Clyde Stokes,
Mrs. o. B. helms, Mrs. Gordon Allen.
PRESS AND PUBLICITY: Mrs. c. H.
Carruth, Jr.
HOSPITALITY; Mrs. Edwin Steen
Mrs. p. r. Roby, Mrs. W. f. Oliver, Mrs.
Clarence Robertson.
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Purents Asked To
Join Duront PTA

When we consider the fact that re-
gardless Of freezing and rationing Of
foods and regardless of the size OF our
army and the amount and kind of de-
tense ana war work required of civil
ians, our children are our very own re-
sponsibility, we will find time and
means tor providing for their develop
ment during war as we'll as during
peace.
The PIT. A. keeps the public conscious
of it's responsibility to childhood-our
future leaders and citizens. We need
to touch more homes INT more parents.
This problem of education is not a re-
sponsibility of the school alone but must
be considered a cooperative undertaking.
Don't fail your child by failing to join
and attend the PIT. A.
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Miss Marjorie Massengill and Miss
Dorothy Massengill of Grenada, return
ed Saturday after spending last week
with Mr.. and Mrs. r. f. Spruill.
Miss Dot Woodward spent the week
end with Mrs. C. w. Cresswell.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-26

~ sims now TO have your sss Meeting equipment carefully
checked. Cool weather will soon be here. Let your Repair
Oeoler do this imporsont work while he hos the time. Know
your Cos oppiionces and equipment ore in tip-top shcpe for
efficient, continuous service.