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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-12-07
Branch Released On
Bail; Murder Charge

Tillman Branch, Goodman, has been
released under $4,000 bond and bound
over to the Grand Jury on a charge Of
murder after preliminary hearing be.
ore Justice of the Peace Raiford Nc
Neer Wednesday in Goodman.
The Goodman man was arrested on
4 charge of manslaughter November
26th in connection with the Staying late
that afternoon of Toll Ables, also Of
Goodman. The charge was changed to
murder just before the preliminary trial
which at first had been set for Nov.
10Th. At that time it was continued I'M
til Dec. 6.
The shooting was reported to have
occurred about 1880 o'clock Sunday
evening as an aftermath of an arpu.
nent in Branch's place some time Sum
day afternoon between the two men,
The shooting took place about 800
yards north of Branch's store, accord
ing to authorities, and thirteen bullet
holes we're reported in Ables' body.
Ables' gun was not fired, according to
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-12-07

Mrs. NJ. T. Woods, Mrs. Tom Ashley
went to Phillip Wednesday to visit.
They were accompanied as far as Green
wood by Mrs. w. N. Norwood who visit
ed her daughter, Mrs. c. Wood.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-12-07

Mrs. Charles Long has gone to New
Orleans to meet her husband, Ensign
Long who has returned from a tour Of
sea duty.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-12-07

Mrs. Irene Cess, Home Service Ad-
wiser of the Mississippi Power and
Light Co, was in Durant Wednesday
and Thursday in connection with her
duties.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-12-07

Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Wilson, of Sher-
ard, spent the weekend with their
d "~hter, Mrs. w. S. Heggie and Mr..
Reggie.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-12-07

Mrs. J. E. Dollahite and Miss Melba
Tucker were Koseiusko visitors this
week
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-12-07

A retail ceiling price Of s1.l0 each
has been established by the Office of
Price Administration for over 100000
safety helmets to be sold by the Treas
ury Procurement Division. The helmets,
all made of metal, white enameled, with
cloth "gear" and with adjustable head
band and chin strap, were originally
purchased for air raid wardens by the
OCD.
The Wholesale ceiling price was es-
tablished at rs cents each.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-12-07
Ration Reminder

Processed Foods-Blue A8 through
BIZ (Book ~ now valid at 10 points
each. Good indefinitely.
Meats and Fats-Red AS through SIS
Cook ~ now valid at 10 points each
for use with tokens. Good indefinitely.
Sugar-Sugar stamps 80, 81, 80, 33, "a
good indefinitely for five pounds each.
Canning Sugar-Stamp 40 good for
five pounds canning sugar until Febru-
ary rs, 1945.
Shoes-Airplane stamps /, 2, and 3
valid indefinitely.
Gassline-A13 coupons valid through
December 81. Rationing rules now re-
quire that each car owner write his
license number and state on each gas
oline coupon in his possession as soon
as it is issued him by his local ration
ing board.
Rehabilitation Section Of Rent Regu-
lation does not apply in instance where
landlord rents a room or rooms not con-
stituting an apartment to two or less
tenants within his residence.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-12-07

District OPA Director Holcomb said
these tires were removed from ration
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
Hearst Papers
Praised

THE folIO,oing resolution qOas adopted By the
Il Cook County Council, Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States, Department OF Illinois,
at regular meeting IN Chicago, Monday, Apra17:
WHEREAS the Veterans of Foreign Wars of
United States are now, as they have always been,
engaged in program to aid the veterans of all
wars, and
WHEREAS thousands of veterans of the
present global war are returning wounded and IN
NEED OF REHABILITATION, and
WHEREAS, Mr.. William Randolph Hearst,
the Hearst Newspapers and the Chicago Herald
American in particular, have recognized the I'M
PERATIVE NEEDS of these returning veterans
and have publicized these needs through liberal
space in their pages and through their wide in
fluence have aroused public opinion nationally to
point where our LEGISLATORS ARE TAKING
C0GNIZANGE of the veterans plight
BE 1T THEREFORE RESOLVED that the
Cook County Council of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars Of the United States hereby unanimously go
on record with a vote of appreciation to Mr..
William Randolph Hearst, the Hearst newspapers
throughout our nation and the Chicago Herald
American for their most valued and effective aid
to the cause of Americas veterans today and
throughout the years, and be it further
RESOLVED that the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars of the United States, Cook County Councils
award of merit be presented to Mr.. William
Randolph Hearst in recognition and appreciation
of his efforts on behalf Of the cause Of Americas
veterans.
COOK COUNTY COUNCIL,
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
LOUISE j. ABEL.

TO TIE EDITOR:
"HEN / heard how tire Japs
w treat our war prisoners, II
made my blood boil.
To think we treat japanese
here like we were afraid we
might hurt their feelings. l
would suggest putting them all
on a boat and sending them
back 70 Japan, then we would
have more food for our own
people that need r..
If the Bell family had Jap
aneSe blood in them instead OF
Chinese. they might get treated
better And to think they have
four boys in the service.
MRS. y. u. X.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
LETTERS To The EDITOR

-drea, then leek- yoti up If you
don't. | wonder If it's things
like this that encourage the
black market.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
Should Fighters. LID. Vote?

Do you favor lowering the voting TO Is TO pemjl
who defending country TO have voice in hoy
il is run?
If sign the petition calling for a referendum when the
solicitor calls you.
Sign the petition only if you are registered voter
have been registered and have not voted in two
you will have re-register before signing.
DO not sign than petition and sign only
petition that being circulated your city exclusively
Married women permitted TO their husbands
in signing; they must their Christian names.
Example: Mrs. Mary Jones, not Mrs. John Jones.
All sgners must give their complete home addresses,
including street numbers cities and dates of the signing
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
BUDDY ENGEL,
Pack 161, Cub Scouts of
America.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE Editors
I READ in the Times about a
Il family whose income was
500 per week but their chill
dren had no shoes.
If they send an investigator
here they will find the same
thing. Our baby, 10 months old,
has had no shoes for two weeks.
i called the ration board and
was told I'd have TO come there
and apply for a stamp. Then
my petition is put before the
board and if they feel like it,
Iget a stamp.
Whoever is responsible for a
baby being allowed two pairs Of
shoes a year just never had
baby. Our baby doesn't wear
her shoes out; she outgrowS
them. I've used my stamps for
her and she is still shoeless.
It's funny. they fix it so you
can't buy shoes for your chill
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06

TO THE EDITOR:

~ lIlE Eli wv
I DON'T know if YOU and your
l. paper are in the habit Of
printing your readers beefs or
not, but thought | would give il
a try. | singled out the Times
because should this letter be
printed. il just might possibly
be seen by some of the people
il is meant for.
We in the Pacific thcater Of.
the war have often heard ru-
mors concerning black market
ing in its many phases Is it
possible that the wives and fam
lies of servicemen travelling 10
meet their husbands or rela-
tives, are being taken for a ride
by such nefarious profiteers?
What constitutes the right 10
travel, and its priority restric-
tons? We grant you that pri-
GRITTY is a necessity during war
time, but don't you think there
should be some relaxation of its
restrictions, pertaining 10 the
wives and families of the ones
who are fighting this war?
May I cite you an example Of
what l call this "so-sorry cour-
tesy." My wife and infant son
had arranged travel from De-
troit's largest rail terminal 10 a
point in Nebraska, supposedly
they were assured Of their seats.
The night prior TO their de-
parture they were notified they
would be unable TO procure a
Pullman for so days; 10 get a
coach car they needed 10 re-
quest reservations. They were
10 have met my brother, a sailor
home on leave.
Think how I and hundreds of
others feel when we return from
overseas, with not enough leave
10 take us 10 our families, and
their inability 10 come 10 us be-
cause of travel restrictions. Is
this justice, / ask you! Don't
those returning from war fronts
rate the maximum time with
their families?
In closing, all we ask. We The
men of the Pacific theater, is
that public opinion and broad
minded citizens of a free coun-
try take stock of a situation
that is bad and steadily growing
worse.
j. ID. CURD, SK1c USN.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
Invasion DAY

Whatever our business, let us
abandon that business for one to five
minutes and transport our very souls
by an act of prayer into the souls of
our men over there.
Let us pray ferventfy IN
churches, stores, houses, public con-
veyances and the streets that the
Almighty will crown the invasion
with success
That our sons, brothers, fathers,
friends shall be spared injury and
death as much as possible while
throwing the maximum of their
efforts into the glory of the cause.
THE armies of America and Eng
L land will kneel in prayer before
the invasion.
Let us kneel with them,
Our men need our prayers.
deep is the foundation of
Uorship in human nature. Men can
assoH it, may reason against it,; but
sooner can the latOS of the OUTWARD
uniUerse be repealed by human r0ih,
sooner can the sun be plucked from
his sphere, than the idea of God can
be erased from the human spirit and
His worship banished from the earth.
All other wants of men are super
ficial. His animal UantS are but for
day and are to cease tUtth the body.
The profoundeSt of all human wants
is the Dant of God" said William
Ellery Claiming, the famous Ameri-
can clergyman.
Never, then, have our defenders
needed our prayers as they will on
invasion day.
The Hearst papers; therefore,
urge all denominations to open their
churches on that day.
They urge that all Americans
PRAY, each in his own way, to the
one Supreme Being, who holds this
mighty venture and the lives of our
hberating armies in the hollow of
His hand and in the DEGREES of His
will.
God saUe America! And on in
Uasion day make the hearts of our
DarriorS like unto the heart of lion
and their faith like unto the faith of
Washington and Lincoln
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR
T AM a boy of 10 and I attend
Il the sixth grade at Hutchin-
son School. l have been work
ing hard and gathering waste
newspapers, cans, and doing
everything l can 10 help win the
war. I'm not old enough 10
carry a gun but I'm trying 10
do my part in other ways.
Today my mother and spent
two hours straining- waste fats.
so I could turn them in for
making ammunition.
took the fats TO a market
only 10 be told we didn't buy
enough meat from him, even
though we buy all our points
from him. so in the rain / took
it in my wagon TO another meat
market where we don't even
buy A loaf Of bread and the
man told me kindly 10 bring il
back Monday because he was
too busy today.
I had bought our Sunday
meat at the market. When l
returned home Mommy had me
return the meat and | told him
IF you can't buy our fats for
ammunition then we don't want
your meat for our table.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06

MOMENT
~. S. Profited
by Quick Action
ONE of the most dramatic and
" vital moments in American
history: A a. m, March 30, 1861.

me Vi the iIlOSl VI dlilotiN eN'N
" vital moments in American
history: A a. m. March 30, 1867.
The office of the Americaqm
secretary of state in wash
ington.
With curtains drawn down
party of men are sitting at a
table.
Two men sign a paper.
They shake hands, and just at
dawn they leave the house and.
like eonspirators in a ID u m as
novel get into Carriages and
drive away.
One of the signatures on the
paper that was signed and Wit
messed was that of William RI.
Seward. secretary OF state.
The other was that OF Baron
Stoeckl, Russian ambassador TO
the United States,
THE paper sold Alaska 10 the
Il United States for less than
two cents an acre-S7, 100000.
The reason for the signing at
this late hour was that Stoeck
had received at midnight a cable
from the car TO sell Alaska.
He went i'm m q tel y to
Stewards house, where the latter
was sleepily playing whist.
Stoeckl wanted the signing
put off until the morning.
No. said Seward, well 60 over
10 the state department now
with our attaches. for Seward
knew by what may be called
clairvoyance the tremendous inn
portance of getting Russia out
Of the North American CONT
nent.
The above bit of history ID
from Thames Williamson's Far
North Country (DuelD. one OF
the most interesting OF the cur
rent book on Alaska.
MIR. WILLIAMSON also tells
wi us that Seward proposed TO
purchase what is now known -
the Canal Zone. Hawaii, Gree
land. Iceland and the Danish
West Indies. but no one else
eotftf see what ne saw.
However, ne did tie up Alaska
for Us and consider the threat
that would hang over us now
If Russia, with her alliance with
Japan. were the owner OF
Alaska!
We would have Oriental COM
munism right al our doors.
Let us dn now what Seward
wanted 10 do 50 years ago. Let
us buy Greenland and Iceland.
Bermuda and some OF the
smaller West Indian islands that
rrr-isirbor-tU the PANAMA
Canal.
There is something far more
important TO us than the At
lantic Charter.
It is the impregnahle air and
sea defenses Of the L. s. a.
And why not granite me-
mortal 10 William II. Seward in
Alaska?
WHEN our delightfully."- inven-
w tive President some time
ago gave out 10 a newspaper
conference his charming little
fable about the dismissal OF
doctor new deal" and the sum-
moning Of doctor win-the-war"
ne left out Of that tale the mar
vellous, but sometimes shady,
adventures of administration
quack pr. Lend-Lease.
But whether il is Or. Lend
Lease. 'Dr New Deal or "Dr.
Win-the-war" (and with the lat
tire doctor no sound American
dlsagreeS). il all goes back TO
the arrival on tho national
scene in 1888 Of the doctor
emeritus OF all the other doc
who have offices in Washington.
His name is Doctor Boondogg>
Lcnd-leaSe. designed original
10 help those countries that all
fighting with us against the two
common enemies OF the United
States-Germany and Japan
has become part Of the adminis-
tration's giant boondoggling
operations. II is NOW an inter.
national ,NPA,
n
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
Quick Questions

I More babies are born: Ca)
3 TO 6 a. m; OBJ noon 10 3
p. m; tc) 9 p. m. 20 mid
night
I'm order 70 live Off a
garden. YOU practically have
10 live in H. IS. a saying of
Calvin Coolidge. VIII Rogers,
Kin Hubbard or Winston
Churchill.
3-Right or wrong: Bombing
OF volcanoes can start them
erupting
i-'Who was the greatest man
i'm 1914 B. c.
Whose gracious conduct az
we'll toward a thirsty
paSSorby. caused her 10 be
8nianced 20 a prince: Esther
SalOmo or Rcbckah2
5-FIIe and bis generals be-
came masters of all Asia
and half ol Europe, at the
cost Of 100000 lives; At
tia, Gcnghis Kahn. Ivan the
Terrible. Nohammcd?
ANSWERS on Opposite Page.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
6u/E STAND at Arnogeddon
w and Ue battle for the Lord"

y AZ
w and Ue battle for the Lord"
Theodore Roosevelt.
Invasion day approaches.
1t is Armageddon day.
We in America, with our English
allies, battle for the Lord of right
eousness.
Europe is in the grip of mon
ster of EVIL.
Against this monster of evil mil
lions of Americans are about to
advance.
We are on the eve of the greatest
and the most daring military and
spiritual adventure in all history
the liberation of a continent.
On certain day our brothers,
our sons, our fathers will, in the air,
by sea, by land, enter Europe to free
her.
On that day all Americans should
pray.
Catholic, Protestant and Jewish
churches should arrange for special
services for invasion day.
They should cooperate to that
end with various religious organiza
tions throughout the length and
breadth of the land.
A LII creeds should offer up to the
"A Supreme Being prayers for the
success of the invasion and for the
spiritual and physical welfare of our
beloved servicemen.
Americans of all faiths will,
shoulder to shoulder, fight for us and
for unborn generations.
They will need our fervent
prayers.
They will put full reliance on
the Supreme Being.
But they must KNOW also that
when the historic hour sounds, their
folks back home are interceding in
their behalf with the Almighty.
1t would be proper, too, if on
invasion day not only prayers should
be offered up in all churches and
private houses in the United States
but that when the announcement is
made that the invasion has begun
there should be an observance of
prayer and meditation on the streets.
All traffic should stop, for how
ever short time, when the invasion
begins.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06

THIS may be the basis later
Il Of Mr. Roosevelts fourth
term campaign but, in a two
party two-maChine national race
1thc Republicans have a ma
lority of state machines), the
debate may be freer. and more
open on that subject.
In short, these two primaries
seem plainly 10 mean that the
controlling political authorities
IN those Two states want 20 pro-
tect their status quo, are not
going 10 take up the anti-Roose-
welt movement now themselves
or let in these who would, but
similar machines throughout
the South may maintain theirs
in their own respective dual
ways
II is still the same old South.
which has preserved its status
quo for 20 years, but il is hay
ing trouble"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
knowledge Test
3y DIR. SABINA III. CONNOLLY

1-Thebes and Memphis were
great cities Of (a) Turkey;
CD Egypt; (c) Greece?
2-What poet is known as the
Bard Of Erin: (a) Thomas
Moore; (b) Thomas O'Brien;
tc) Thomas Glynn?
3-What city in Italy has a
cath dral with 10000
statues: (a) Rome; OBJ
Florence; (c) Milan?
Who was the daughter Of
Powhatan: (a) PocahontaS;
CD Mlnnehaha; (c) No
komis?
5-Sinai is famous for one OF
these reasons: (a) Here God
gave Moses the Ten Com
mandments; (b) here Christ
died; tc) here was built the
tower of Babel?
Match these columns. Then
fill out the full name:
ta) Greatest show +. r. y.
man.
(b) give me lh- p r.
city or give
me death.
(c) Tiger Of c. c.
France.
"a Wizard ~ T. A. r
Mcnlo Park
(e) lie died for y. X.
country.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
MARCH
OF EVENTS
By Benjamin
De Casseres
T CONVINCE by my pres

81" CONVINCE by my pres
L ence," said Walt Whitman,
the great poet of individualistic
democracy.
1 think that that would be a
superb motto for the United
States today when we are being
literally forced TO pledge our
selves 10 "rehabilitate" Europe
and. as Vice President Wallace
has suggested, TO actually 60
into Germany and other Euro
pean countries and teach the
people what American democ-
racy means,
Walt Whitman meant by
those five words that every
great man as we'll as every free
people does not need to propa-
gandize but teaches by example.
What a man or a country has
done convinces millions of peo-
pie just because the man or the
country has done something tre-
mendous.
The United States has con-
WINGED by its presence for $50
years.
It has been the admiration Of
the rest of the world.
Millions have set sail from
backward countries 10 America
because we convinced them that
here were liberty and material
prosperity such as the world
had only dreamed Of.
LIVERY constitution that has
IL been written since 1879 by
any people has been modelled
on our Constitution.
Washington. jefferson, Paine,
Madison and Lincoln have con-
WINGED the world that we were
capable of producing the high
est type of political thinkers.
Our free enterprise system
has convinced the rest of the
world that IN matters OF BUSH
ness as We'll as in personal mat
tefs the less government inter-
fered with the individual the
better.
WHY. then, should we 20
w abroad 10 demonstrate
what we are and what we can
do?
Since 1889 we have been do
ing it.
And for that reason let us
remain self-centered America,
rooted firmly 10 the spot, spurn-
ing all forms of iuternationalism
and all lures 10 administer
any part of Europe or Asia, the
countries of which after thou
stands of years of war and
peace ought certainly 10 know
something about ~administer-
ing their own affairs and re-
habilitating themselves after
their own periodical blood-baths.
You convince by your pres
ence, Uncle Sam. No need 10
go abroad. If any one in Eu-
rope or Asia wants advice on
how TO do things in the Ameri-
can way let him come here and
study us.
l think that IT convince by
my presence would be a good
line TO put on our coat-of-arns.
One of the most humiliating
things about our national char
acter is our inferiority complex.
Snap out Of it, uncle.
COMMUNIST propaganda in
" the L. S. A. has gotten off
the soapboX and now incarnatcs
itself in the nine muses., so TO
speak.
In a word, it is coming TO us
through a raft of Russian plays
and motion pictures.
Now we are going 10 have
Soviet Opera" Note-"Soviet
OPERA" not just opera.
Like Soviet science" Marx
ian literature" and Moscow
art" it smells of slavery.
The sappy-minded Russo
philies are whooping it up ev-
erywhere for Dear Old Russia"
Meanwhile, don't forget that
every great Russian in the seven
arts flourished under the cars
and that Red Russia has had no
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-07
Graham Board
To Rdtify Deal

Directors OF the Graham-Paige
Corp. met today TO ratify the &C.
QUESTION Of the company by Floyd
Odlum's giant Atlas Corp. Direc-
tors were summoned hastily when
details of the deal leaked out last
week.
Joseph w. Frazer, former preSl-
dent of WillyS-0verland. was TO
be elected board chairman and will
assume direction OF Graham'S war
activities, and of postwar plan
ming. None of the present officers
was 10 be changed.
Graham. which stopped produc-
ing cars in 1910. Is said TO have a
new car ready for production.
Frazer. however, may direct some
drastic changes in design TO bring
it into the low price field. Tractors
and farm implements will figure
almost AS strongly as cars in the
company's postwar plans.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-07
Social Disease
Cured in Il Hrs.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 dNS)
"A seven and one-half hour
penicillin cure for gonorrhea, just
perfected by two u. S. public
health service doctors. will speed
the return of servicemen 10 active
duty, the federal security agency
today announced. and indicated 1t
likely will be used on a wide
scale on the home front.
Zone schedule OF Ave treat
ments can be completed In only
seven and one-half hours" II
was revealed. while another
requires additional treatment
the morning of the second day"
The new wonder drug" method
requires no hospital care for pa
tients and can be used convent
emily by physicians in private
practice or by clinics.
They reported that OF l36 men,
1T were cured by the new sys.
tenn OF treatment. approximately
two-thirds OF the patients pre-
viously had been treated with
sulfa drugs. which failed 10 cure
them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-07
Man, Wife, Boy
Drown in Lakes

A man and wife and a 7-year-
old boy lost their lives by drown
ing in Michigan lakes yesterday
John T. Duncan. AZ, and his
wife, Mary, 81, of 230O Central
were drowned in Coon Lake. -four
miles south of Howell when the
boat in which they were fishing
lcapsized. MIR. and Mrs. Raymond
Maloche. of 1858 Colonial. who
were with the Duncans, were
rescued
While bathing in Square Lake
Norman Blanchini, son OF MaEC
Bianchini, 1917 ST. Joseph, was
drowned. The boy had beer
piCnicking with his family.