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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-19

After spending several days with her
mother, Mrs. Percy Joyce returned to
Jackson on Wednesday.
Miss Sara Thomas visited her aunt,
Mrs. Fondron. in jackson last week.
L. j. Hand and Miss lean Hand had
dental work done in Memphis Wedncs-
day and Thursday.
Mrs. l.. J. Hand and son, Larry, Miss
Annie Alexander and Mrs. r. L.. Jackson
were in Greenwood Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. John Stubs, Mrs. Carl Long, and
children, Billy Ray and Jaenie Of Phillip,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Stubs on
Thursday.
Miss Jeffie Carter spent the week
end with friends in Itta Bena.
Mesdames Jim Bowie and J. r. Mel
ton were in Lexington on Friday.
Miss Marjorie Hathcock has returned
homo after visiting relatives in Lexing-
ton for several days.
Sam Sampler of Greenwood, was a
West visitor on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hustis of Forest City,
Ark, visited Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Nc
Crary and other relatives here on the
week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pate johnson of the Jack
son Air Base, were week end visitors
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Johnson.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-19
HAZEL BRANNON-
How Il Storted

Oliver Emmerich in his McComb Enterprise tells q
story of how it all started. We know many of our read
ers have often wondered how it happened to be:
Once there was a king and he hired a prophet to
prophet him the weather. And one evening, the king
aimed to go fishing and the lkeliest place was right close
to his best girls house, SO the king notioned to wear his
best clothes. So he asked his prophet was it liable to
come a rain before shutdown. And the prophet says,
mo, king, hit amt acoming on, not even a sizzle-sazzle."
So the king, he put on his best clothes and started
toward the fishing place. And along came a farmer rid
ing a jackass and the farmer says: King, i'm you amt
aiming to get them clothes wetted, you'd best go back
home, because hits a-coming on a rain a trash-mover
and a gully -washer."
And the king says: Il hired a high waged prophet
to prophet me my weather, and he allows hit amt a
comm on, not even a sizzle-sazzle."
So the king, he went ahead and hit come a trash
mover and a gully-washer, and the kings clothes were
wetted, and his best girl, she seen him and laughed.
And the king went home and throwed out his phrophet
and he says: "Fotch me that there farmer" and they
fetched him. And the king says: Farmer, / throwed out
my prophet, and ! aim to hire you to prophet me my
weather from this onwards."
And the farmer says: King, l amt no prophet. All
done this evening was to look at my jackass, because if
hits a-comin' on to rain, his ears lop down, and the lower
they lops, the harder hits a-comin' on to rain, and this
evenin' they was alayin' and a~-loppin'."
So the king says: go home, farmer, and I'll hire me
a jackass." And that's how it got started, and the jack
asses have been holdin' all the high-waged government
jobs ever since.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-19
WEST

Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Bowie and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lamar Bowie and daughter, Mary
Louise, visited Mrs. Bowie in McCool on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burnley Wigley are the
proud parents Of a baby girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Jackson visited
Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Carter on Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Maddox attended
the horse show in Lexington Friday
night.
Harold Gelston attended to business
in Lexington Thursday.
Mrs. John Calvin Ammons has been
elected seventh grade teacher in the
West school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Bowie and Cayce
Ellard, Jr.. shopped in jackson Tuesday.
Miss Mary Alice Armstrong and Tom
Armstrong of Itta Bena, visited relatives
near West several days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. L. Mason and Mary
Ann were in Winona Thursday after
noon.
Mrs. S. L. Murff and Miss Thelma
Beth Murff were IN Greenwood on
Thursday.
Mrs. Leo Boatwright and Miss Faye
Brister went to Greenville on Wednes-
day.
Mrs. s. p. johnson of Stringtown. Wis
tied her mother for several days last
week. Miss Thelm Beth Murff returned
with her for a visit with Mrs. s. l..
Murff. before returning to her home in
San Marcos, Texas.
Uric Alexander and Miss Annie Alex
ander were in Durant Monday.
Mrs. Walter Campbell, Mrs. Beall
Brock and Miss Annie Alexander shop
ped in Durant Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frasier have returned
from a trip to California.
Mrs. Harvey Campbell and Ann are
guests of Mrs. Bert Field and Mrs. Pate
Johnson for several days.
Betty Campbell is spending the week
in Durant with her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. George Field.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Wright and sons,
kee0 anu SOA. SHdTlcs E. Viisut, "SaO
Holmes Junior College visitors Wednes-
day afternoon.
Mrs. Deck Johnson and baby visited
relatives in the delta last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Cade and Mr.. and
Mrs. W. l.. Campbell attended the horse
show in Lexington.
Mrs. Walter Brock and sons, Walter,
Jr., and Billy, spent the week end in
Thomastown.
Mrs. Walter Brock had as her guest
last week Mr.. and Mrs. Billy Arnold
from Louisville, KY, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leslie Arnold of Camp Lee, Va, Mr..
and Mrs. T. f. DEM of Jackson, and
Mrs. Lucille Murtagh of Louisiana.
Carl Arnold and son, Carl Campbell.
saw the show in Durant Saturday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Snavely and chill
dren saw the show in Durant Thursday
night.
E. Sansing has returned after spend
ing the summer with relatives in Ala
bama and Columbus, Miss.
1t. Bobby Montgomery arrived Satur-
day from Quantico, Va, to spend . ten
day furlough with his mother before
going to California to become an in
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-19

The tGovnnah President Of tn Senate and appoints an the committees
D you want nan whe hamas liquor to appoint tn Temperance Committee. On a man VI
hMs easy MvMce and VII VI fight any attempt - reasonably tax OH produced In Mississippi
Vote For John lumpkln For Lieutenant Governor
1mAh h he First Nam on B.nx fer LAusenantG ovena.
-Ansoved BY John LxmphA
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-19
From where | sit -.
Joe Marsh

Sam Abernethy always said:
Curiosity may kill a cat - but
I'm no cat" Which In Sans way
Of saying that when he's curious
about something he goes out
and gets the facts
Seems our government feels
the same way. After hearing ru-
mors about our soldiers drink
ing too much-government peo-
pie went after the facts. They
got the evidence on what our
boys drink -. and don't drink.
The government found out
our Army's the best behaved I'm
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-19

Fielding Wright, . member Of the House,
veted for this six weeks residence divorce bin.
Gage 6s4. House Journal. 1867
Jshn Lumpkin was not a member Of the
legislature In 1885. but had he been he wsuld
not have voted for the six weeks residence d.
vsroe bin.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-19

history. More'n half Of 'em Gr1nk
becr-nothing stronger. And he
government folnd that selllnG
n beer In Army camps h ono
reason why our Army II - tsD-
Perate.
From where I sit, there isn't
much cause to worry about our
men In the Army. Looks like
they can take care O. themselves
and take care O. the Nazis and
the Japs, too.
& Ma4e
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-19
Compare the Record Of
JOHN LUMPKN
WITH THAT OF HIS OPPONENT
Candidate for Lieutenant G

Il IN grateful = the people Of Mississippi for the splendid
vote given me On August ;. / solicit your continued support,
and the support u these who voted for my opponents
JOHN LUMPKIN..
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-19
$1,000 A DAY Lost in
oil Taxes

In ls42. the Senate passed . bin placing =
reasonable tax on on produced in Mississippi.
The bin went TO the House and was placed 1t
the bottom Il thu calendar. Vigorous efforts
wese made 70 get this bin out II the committee
u the House and allow the House to vote IN
the BIN. but . powerful lobby prevented q vote
and the bin died.
Fielding Wright was attorney for one Of
the big on producers and handled their iesisia-
tive matters. Il has Teen charged that he was
largely responsible for preventing the vote IN
the House On the on tax bin which has cost
the tax ,ayers approximately s6.0oo.0o . day
since AprH. 1914.
John Lumpkin believes that on produced an
Mississippi should pay . reasonable tax. and
that our on should be refined In Mississippi n
possible. n Mississippi on Is shipped out of the
state Il should not be shipped by pipe fine but
BY railroad - ~ 70 give employment = our
people.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-19
Wright Voted for Six
Week Residence d.
v0rce Bill

Senate Bill No. 500, introduced IN the 1885
session Of the legislature, provided that .
divorce might Be granted on tx weeks residence
which would have made any county IN Missis-
sippi the same ~ Reno. Nevada
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Americas 62d Week of War
780th Week of World War II
BY Blair RoHes.

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Evening star., 1943-02-14
Allied Optimism Grows New umphs
Roads to Nazis
Turkey Is Watched
By John Grover.

Turkeys understanding with the United
Winston Churchills visit again spotlights
| the mercurial Balkans.
Germany lost more than a military
campaign in 1912. The diplomatic tides
are cunning strongly against the Reich.
The Turkish understanding is barom-
eter of Nazidom's lowered prestige.
Even If Mr.. Churchill gained no more
than a renewed and supplemented guar
antee of strict neutrality from Premier
Ismet Inonu, it is an Allied victory.
Turkey was greatly alarmed by the
gigantic pincers of the 1912 Nazi drives
in Southeast Russia and in Egypt To-
gether they threatened to engulf Turkey.
and Ambassador Franz Won Papen could
rattle the Nazi saber to back up his de-
mands on an all but encircled Turkey.
The rolling Russian offensive, and the
1,300mile rout of Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel in Egypt, took the pressure off
the Turks. The dangers of a Nazi push
through Turkey toward the Middle East
are virtually eliminated.
The growing accord between Turkey
and the Allies must be a major worry
for Hitler Turkey dominates the south
ern approaches to Europe through the
Balkans. With her cooperation, wide
front could be opened to diSperse the
Nazis' dwindling manpower and NUM-
tions.
If Turkey become belligerent along
side the Allies, the strategic possibilities
are great, from an Allied standpoint.
The whole north and west coasts of the
Black Sea are vulnerable.
The all-sea supply route through the
Dardanelles to Russia could be used if
Turkey would permit establishment of
air bases on her shores. These would
neutrallze the Axis domination of the
Aegean Sea, where Axis bases on the
Greek Peninsula, Greek islands and the
Italian islands now constitute a barrier
to Allied penetration.
The trans-Turkish railways offer alter
nate routes to supply Russia easier to use
than the transIranian route.
Internal conditions in Bulgaria. Ru-
mania and Hungary, the Axis satellite
countries, are deteriorating daily. Ru-
manian and Hungarian Armies have
been smashed on the Russian front. Al
ready there are deep rumblings from the
people. Turkey would furnish spring.
board and base for offensives across the
Black Sea, against these weakened
satellites
An Allied army stabbing up from the
Black Sea into Russia would constitute a
grave menace to all Axis communication
lines in Russia, might trap all the for
ward Fascist armies in giant sack. It
would constitute a force in the rear of
the new, shortened defense line Croughly
Riga-MariupoD the Germans have an
nounced they have built
Military analysts stress that these are
only possibilities. They would become
very real if Turkey takes additional steps
toward the Allied camp.
1t was dissolution of Germanys allies
IN the Balkans that caused the collapse
of the Triple Alliance in 1918. Here
again is an analogy that history-minded
Hitler must be pondering these days.
Evening star., 1943-02-14

in International shipping, ore develop
ments in Russia and Poland interna-
tiona1 banking and securities. Under
his corporate aegis the Union Pacific
pioneered in the development of stream
lined trains, inexpensive meals and the
resort of Sun Valley, Idaho, which is
Harriman's pet interest. Along with
Vincent Astor, he became one of the
major financial interests in developing
News Week Magazine.
Backed AL Smith.
1t also would be expectable that the
son of man whose Wall Street opera
tions evoked the public criticism of
President Theodore Roosevelt would be,
as his brother is today, staunch ad-
herent of the Republican column. Harri-
man, however, branched off in 1928
and voted for Al Smith. And where
his father had not gotten along very
we'll even with the conservative Theodore
Roosevelt, the 1882 presidential cam
paign found Hartman allied with
Teddys far less conservative namesake.
Under NRA, Hartman became a spe-
kept hand in public affairs as a men,
Der OF the Presidents Business Advisory
Council. When the first war alphabet
agencies were set up, Edward Stettinius
asked Hartman to work with him on
the great-granddaddy of the WPB, and
when it became the OPM under Will
liam S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman.
Hartman in ri, >f
raw materials division.
This, he thinks, may have been one
reason he was appointed to his present
job, in February, 1941. There was also
his experience in international commerce
and shipping. On the matter of food,
an important aspect of lease lend, he
offers the undeniably fundamental fact
Il eat"
Finally, he was quite familiar with
England and the English people. He
had long standing acquaintance with
men like Lord Beaverbrook, former min
lister of production and still an unofi-
cial power in British affairs, and Oliver
Lyttelton, the present minister of pro-
duction, and had known Winston
Churchill for Is years.
An important part OF Harriman's work
is acting as liaison man between figures
like Churchill, Lyttelton Lord Woolton.
the minister of food Lord Leathers. the
minister of war transport, and Sir Stat
ford Grips, the minister of aircraft
production, and corresponding key in
dividuals in Washington like the Presi-
dent. Harry Hopkins, Secretary Wickard
and Donald Nelson.
All the ramifications of his job are not
precisely defined. He does not have to
worry about the ALLEGATION of American
war material, which is settled ip the
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Brown
Continued From Page BIZ

contain all the necessary raw materials.
When this happens, the damage in
f1icted on the Jap merchant fleet by the
American submarines will be as mere
flea bites. In a speech before the Diet
recently, Admiral TOTO declared that
Japan has no intention of taking any
territories from the United States be-
cause she already has become un-
believably rich.
Ihere is, of course, lot of exaggera-
ton in what the Japanese admiral said
On the other hand, there is no question
that if at the end of the European cam
palgn the Allies are so exhausted that
their people consider coming to terms
with the Japs, regardless of the no
peace but surrender" policy adopted,
Japan will be among the richest coun-
tries in the world
In the meantime, the japanese are
IN position to concentrate all their
might against the United States. So
long as the Allies are fighting in Fa,rone
they will need all their resources in the
struggle against the Nazis. Not much
Will be available either for our forces
IN the Pacific or for Gen. Archibald
Wavell in the Indian Ocean. The Brit-
lSh commander in chief in India cam
not undertake any major operation
against the japanese in Burma unless
ne Is strongly backed by a fleet which
would permit him to land on the Bur-
meSe coast.
The British fleet will be too busy in
The Mediterranean or in the North At
lantic. There is little likelihood that
more units can be added to those now
IN the Indian Ocean. These are suffl-
Gent for defensive war so long as the
japanese are engaged in the Pacific, but
they cannot undertake an offensive in
VoIylng large landing at Rangoon.
A defensive strategy must necessarily
be imposed on our adnirals and Gen.
macarthur until Hitler is defeated
Ihere could be no objection to this type
Oh warfare provided the Japanese could
be induced to remain static.
In spite OF the heavy losses the JAP
aneSe have suffered since last summer
II Is questionable whether they will be
wiling to remain passive.
Ihere Is a strong tendency in Wash
lngton not necessarily to underestimate
put TO overlook Japan as something we
shall deal with after we have DESTROYED
the Nazis."
But there are many competent OBJ
servers, who appraised the situation cor
rectly even in the days before Pearl
Haroor, who believe that after we have
disposed of Hitler and Mussolini the
japanese may prove far harder nut
to crack.
And they are seriously concerned lest
the Japs run away with the ball in the
Pacific while we are fighting in the At
lantic
Evening star., 1943-02-14

Rommel back from the approaches Of
Alexandria and sent him reeling in re-
treat through Libya." One incident is
told as follows:
"A fast light tank carrying the for
ward observer left the column and darted
ahead. Behind a crest the regiment (of
"a tank destroyers) deployed and went
into position. No time was lost Every
vehicle contained its gun crew and am
munition. From each, telephone wire was
unreeled and connected to the SWITCH
board of the executive officers armored
car. Should the wire beshot out, there
was a radio beside the gunner.
Back from the observer came a radio
report Of target-an enemy tank as
sembly at a point several thousand yards
beyond the crest. That is could not be
seen from the gun position did not mat
ter. These were howitzers with high
angle fire especially adapted to indirect
laying.
Data were figured. phoned to the
guns and set. Fire Shells roared over
the crest and burst. Again the observ-
er's voice over the radio-so many yards
left, so many short. Corrections were
made. The howitzers spoke again. This
time they were target hits. Now all the
guns blasted away with volleys that
crashed into the mass of German tanks
and put them out of action. Before
enemy counter-batteries could control
them, the swift self-propelleds sped
away to a new position"
Gen. Bruce, whose doctrines were put
into effect in the attack described above
and many similar ones, was born in St.
Louis on September IA, 1894, and is
therefore 48 years old. He was grad
uated in 1916 from the Agricultural and
Mechanical College Of Texas. He is not
West Pointer, but entered World War
I in June, 1917. with Regular Army
commission as a second lieutenant Of
infantry
1t took him 20 years of peacetime
service to rise again to the grade of
lieutenant colonel. His subsequent
promotions all have been temporary.
He became a colonel on December %,
1941; a brigadier general on February
16, 1912; and major general on Sep
tember 9, 1912. He took command Of
Camp Hood on February IA, 1912 AS
Gen. McNair broadly limited, the Army
may have bigger things for him in view.
In the meantime, tank destroyer
crews whom he prepared for the Amer
ican expedition to Northwest Africa
were no strangers to gunfire. He had
made them train at Camp Hood under
live ammunition.
printed BY special arransement with the %.
Louis Post-pispatch.,
Evening star., 1943-02-14

The Allied strength and determination
mount steadily while the Axis strength
goes down and its determination creaks.
The first business of the western Allies
now is to get on with the battle for what
Mr.. Churchill called the "Tunisian Tip"
The Axis, he estimated, has 25O0oO men
in Tunisia The Allies, he said, have al
most 100000 men in North Africa. In
supreme command of all these last week
was placed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
President Roosevelt made him a full
general.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Stokes

Continued From Page BID
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African Front

Prime Minister Churchill gave the
House Of Commons picture Of the sit
uation in the fight for the "Tunisian
Tip:
The armies CAllied) now fighting in
Tunisia are still in the early stage of
building up communications, but the
enemy opposite them, although largely
an improvised army, have something
like the advantage which we had over
Rommel in front of Cairo-I mean the
advantage of lying 80 to 30 miles in
front Of their bases while we have to go
over very long, slender, tightly stretched
and heavily strained approaches in order
to get at them"
The weather, too, stormy and snowy
slowed down Allied operations in Tunisia
last week. Secretary
Bod Weather Of War Slim SON
DELAYS Bottle warned here that the
United States may
soon be receiving reports Of large mum
bers Of casualties from North Africa. but
until the armies and the weather are
both ripe for pitched battle, those dis
turbing reports may not have to be made.
Today the opposing forces are relatively
inactive. The l2ta Army Air Force and
the Raj maintain some operations
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is estab-
hshed in Southern TInisia, and the 9th
British Army, after its magnificent dSive
Evening star., 1943-02-14

bald WaVeN, commander in chief in
India; Brig. Gen. A. c. Weddemyer, rep
resenting the United States Chief of staff
Gen. George c. Marshall; 1t. Gen.
Joseph w. Stilwell, Gen Chiangs Amer
lean chief of staff, and Gen. Ho Ying-
ching. Chinese Minister of War.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Pacific Front

The japanese have given up the fight
Tor Guadalcanal. The menace to the
American supply line to Australia, and to
Australia itself, is no more. The Berlin
radio, Secretary Of the Navy Knox and
Gen. Alexander Patch, Army commander
In Guadalcanal, all told the story last
week. Resistance ended at 4:25 pm.
Feoraury 9. The Japanese took the
Island last February, and on August 7
last the Americans invaded it.
The strange, phantom battle that was
gong on around Guadalcanal last week.
much talked about by Japan and our
Navy Department but always indefinite,
apparently was naval move Of the Japs
to take off the island as MANY of their
men as they could. In the final naval
battle, United States bombers and tor
pedo planes sank three Jap destroyers
and damaged at least four others. the
Navy said last Friday. Maj. Gen Millard
F. Harmon commander of United States
Army troops in the Southwest Pacific.
said that probably 1000 japanese SOL
dierS, including virtually every high
of1cer, were evacuated from Guadal-
canal in the week before the Americans
carried out their final operations.
The Jap attempt to hold tiny Guadal-
canal will probably have a harmful effect
on the whole future course of the jap
fight. 1t is estimated that the japanese
invested more than $4,000 men, scores of
ships and about 800 planes in the fight.
The future course of the war against
Japan was plotted last week in Chung
king, and on Friday
Plan TO Hit President Roosevelt
japan DIRECTLY said that the Allied
plan was to hit the
japanese On the battlefield in China
and from the air over Japan. The
highest authority, he publicly renounced
forever the plan long talked about for
beating Japan by the stepping stone
tactic'-in other words, by retaking is
land for island moving north, the islands
the Japs took in their great swift south
ward advance year ago. The Allies
intend to stick the knife in Japan's
heart, and then the resistance on the
limbs, the islands, will Wither
American, British and Chinese gen.
erals conferred in Chungking and
reached "a complete accord in co-ordina-
ton Of offensive plans and signifying
the united determination CT the powers
concerned to insure full cooperation and
mutual assistance against the Japa-
nese."
The conferees at Chungking were Cen
erahssimo Chang Kai-shek Field
Marshal Sir John Dill, member of the
British joint staff mission in Washing
ton; 1t Gen. H. H. Arnold, United States
Army air chief; Field Marshal Sir Archi-