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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-01-20
Miss MtBee Names
Women Chairmen
9TH War Loan Drive

Miss Dorothy McBee, Holmes County
Women's Chairman for the sale of War
Bonds announces the following commit
tees for 4th War Bond Drive. These
women will make a house-to-house can
vass in cooperation with the mems COM
mittee to make Holmes county go over
the top in meeting the $701 100000 quota
in the 4th War Loan Drive.
Cruger-Mrs.. M. w. Estes, chairman;
las, Mrs. John Campbell, Miss Addie
Downer, Miss Nola Matthias, Miss Ruth
O'Reilly.
Durant-Mrs. Walter Odom chairman;
Mrs. j. w. Drane, ST., Mrs. A. S. Tatum,
Mrs. Dan Comfort, Mrs. H. L. Herring
ton, Mrs. R. c. Elmore, Mrs. NJ. D.
Baine, Mrs. ]. M. Howard, Mrs. R. E.
Rosson, Jr., Mrs. Norma Alsbury, Mrs.
w. H. Counts, Mrs. B. B%arranco, Mrs.
Floyd Durham, Miss Georgia Mcintyre.
Goodman-Mrs. Hal Terry, chairman;
Mrs. Bob Fugate, Mrs. w. j. Hollum,
Mrs. ]. T. Shelton, Mrs. Dave Forde,
Mrs. D.. X. Gulledge, Mrs. Cecil Gle
ments, Mrs. Zilpha Mansell. Mrs. Clar-
ence Torrance.
Lexington-Mrs. B. S. Beall and Mrs.
I. w. Carson. chairmen, Mrs. E. H. Shad-
dock, Mrs. W p. Lewis, Mrs. J. F. Will
liams, Mrs. N. B. Hooker, Mrs. Homer
Davis, Mrs. George Patterson, Mrs. John
Howard Beall. Mrs. d. 7. Ruff, Mrs. W.
B. Kenna, Mrs. d. c. Lundy, Katherine
Mcleod, Mrs. w. NJ. Vincent, Mrs. H. Fl.
Johnson, Mrs. Claude Bailey, Miss Julia
Heinrich, Mrs. w. l.. Hooker, Mrs. S. E.
Henry, Mrs. Herman Diggs, Mrs. Edwin
White, Mrs. Adam Heinrich, Mrs. M. B.
Brown, Mrs. T. NJ. Williams, Mrs. w. E.
Moore.
Pickens-Mrs. j. f. Maxwell, chair
man; Miss Ruth Maxwell, Mrs. Annie NJ.
Guyton, Mrs. Hood May, Mrs. J. D.. Nc
Kie.
Tchula-Mrs. w. E. Jones, chairman;
Mrs. William Penn, Mrs. w. r. Hud-
dleston, Mrs. C. R. Hamlin, Mrs. Oliver
Nixon, Mrs. J. j. Kazar, Mrs. CASTOR
Lyon.
West-Mrs. C. B. Cade, chairman;
Mrs. NJ. S. Rogers, Mrs. W. L. Wright.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-01-20
What Holmes County
farmers Are Doing
In Soil Conservation
BY A. P. Carroll and R. J. Ross

BY A. p. Carroll and X. j. Ross
Messrs. Louis and Leo Lowentritt, on
South Horseshoe Plantation, have con-
structed more than twenty miles of
drain bitches durfing the past two years.
From their statements these drain
bitches have made reliable crop land
out of land which, in the past, has been
doubtful.
Prior to 19a1 they naa used shovels
and inadequate ditching tools to open
the drain bitches. Banks were not drag
ged back sufficiently to permit free
drainage into the bitches. Many bitches
were placed too far from the natural
drain when originally dug and continued
to be kept up in the same place.
This land lies along drains or declivi-
ties running for a great distance par
allel to the lake. In most instances
there is no natural connections with a
water course for these drains, and the
bottom frequently shows a fall of less
han one foot per mile. Facing these
problems any substantial rainfall, sew
eral days must pass before this water
he'd carries off the water.
After a careful study by the Soil Con-
servation District technicians or these
problems the slight fall in the land the
oil types and the results obtained from
he drainage systems being used, they
suggested a very wide slipping drain
Itch with the banks being pulled back
or fifty to sixty feet on either side of
he ditch. This permits free drainage
rom the field into the main drain
iitches. At the lowest places in these
hem to bitches going into the lake.
Mr.. Lowentritt states that prior to
,utting in these drains, land ON each
ide of the ditch from one hundred Feat
o one hundred yards was planted each
| wear but always lost its crop because of
water impounded by high ditch banks and
inadequate bitches. Another large body
Of land on each side Of the ditch for
IS entire distance made satisfactory
crops only when flood rains did not
occur Since the establishing of the
aew drainage system the fields on each
side of these bitches have become sure
crop land, because the banks on either
side have been dragged back to permit
free drainage into the channel which is
sufficiently wide to carry off the water
despite it's slight fall.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-01-20
John R. Hoover
Passes IN Pitkens

Just before the dawn Of January 10Th,
angels came and ministered unto him,
and all pain disappeared, and the sweet
earthly abode to dwell in the house Of
his Lord foreverl
All thru the night the softly falling
snow had transformed the bleakness of
winter into rare and faultless beauty.
"God makes such nights all white and
still"
How symbolic Of the pure unsullied
spirit of Gods child who had lived,
loved and wrought well.
John Hoover was a descendant Of pio-
neer families of Mississippi. long prom
inent in civic, religious and home life
in Holmes county. He was the son of
Britton Thomas Hoover and Francis
Nance.
On May Goth, 1896, he was married to
Willie vanarsdel and to this union were
born three children, Mrs. Newton o.
Holt, of Chicago; Mrs. Parham II. Will
liams, of Lexington, and Britton Thomas
Hoover, II, who three years ago pre-
ceeded him to the Great Beyond.
Other members of this family group
include six grandchildren, Mary Holt
and Nancy Holt, of Chicago; Private
John NJ. Holt, of Madison, Wisconsin;
Parham, Jr.. and Nancy Hoover Will
liams of Lexington. and sister, Mrs,
Clyde v. Maxwell, of Piekens, also sur
vive him
Living in Pickens since boyhood, he
has been identified with some of its
most outstanding business enterprises.
Since young manhood he had been an
active and official member Of the Meth
odist Church.
John Hoover was essentially a good
man. Resentment or unkindness could
find no place in his big loving heart.
He was possessed of an unusual person
atty. Acquaintance became friends
without conscious effort on his part,
Friends loved him because he loved
them.
His deep appreciation of the really
worthwhile things of life, his keen sense
of humor, his ready wit and engaging
smile made a place for him in the heart
ana Ike OF MS Uuic
Though passed his three score years
and ten, time had dealt gently with John
Hoover. Active in body. alert In mind
Joyous in spirit, he was yet young when
he left on that wintry morning to go
to the land Of eternal spring where he'll
never grow old.
Funeral rites were held at the Pick
ems Methodist Church at $3.50 O'Clock
Sunday afternoon, conducted by the
Rev. f. C. Driscoll. assisted by the Kew.
f. w. Ford, Goodman; the Rev Henry
S. Robinson, of Durant, and the Kew. A.
Y. Brown, Of Lexington.
Interment was at Quiet Ridge ceme-
terry by the side of his beloved son
Active pallbearers were, Hoover Max
we'll, Ed Atkinson, ST., DR.. E. d. Pepper
Doyle Simpson, Hardie McKie. owen
Buford, John Marlborough. and Wallace
Worthy, all Of Piekens and Will Hoover
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-01-20
Gus Courts Shows
Whut Good Colored
Former Can Do

Gus Courts, good colored citizen of
Pickens, Route /. brought in a basket
of beautiful turnips this week which
which were raised from his Victory gar
den on the place which he owns and
farms.
Gus is a good example of wha hard
work and thrift can accomplish for a
colored man and his family on a South
ern farm. The only help he has is his
wife, Mary, and two daughters, Gussie
May Is, who finished the Sth grade
school last year and is staying home to
help farm this year, and another daugh-
ter, Martha, Z, who is in the second
grade.
His son., Ira Courts, %, is in the
army and has been overseas in England
for about six months. He has been in
the service a year.
Gus and Mary and their two daughters
farm a 96-acre place near Pickens. They
have everything they need and want 60
eat at home for Mary has lone lots of
canning and preserving. They have 400
chickens large enough now to eat and
milk five cows. They lave already kill
ed five hogs and have four sows now
on hand each with ten pigs. They rails
ed seven bales of cotton last year..
In addition Gus raises his own work
animals and has three mules, two mares
and one horse on hand.
This year Gus will run his own crop
and not have to borrow a cent to make
it. He is in good financial shape and
plans to stay that way.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-01-20
Holmes County Farmers Will Receive "A" Award
In Military Ceremonies Monday In Lexington
Public Is Cordially
Urged To Attend
Meeting At 2:3O

Holmes county farmers will receive
the highest award given by the govern
ment in appropriate military ceremony
in Lexington Monday afternoon, jan
uary "a. The program will start at $3.50
o'clock.
The coveted "A" award has been won
by only five Mississippi counties. II
will be presented by Capt. J. A. Doe, Of
Camp Shelby.
In winning this award Holmes county
farmers made a definite contribution to
the Food for Victory campaign sponsor
ed by the government as a necessary
part Of the war effort.
All of the goals set up by the govern
ment were met and exceeded by Folmes
farmers and their families. Goals were
exceeded as follows: Cotton acreage,
4%; egg production, 1870 pullets and
laying hens, 17%o chickens raised for
meat, 17qo; brood sows, 1870; beef cat
tie, 49o; beef cattle on feed, 25To; Irish
potatoes, $40; sweet potatoes, 1879. In
addition gardens were planted by SO
per cent of the farm families.
The ceremonies are open to everyone
and the public is urged to attend. The
complete program is given elsewhere in
paper.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-01-20
U BONDS

Don't stop,
Until we go over the top.
Millions their money would give.
For the privileges to live,
In the U. s. A.,
As you do today.
Shucks. this war hasn't been won,
Your duty hasn't been done.
The biggest and bloodiest battles lie
ahead,
With their horrible list of wounded and
dead.
For millions the coming Of tomorrow.
Means nothing but grief and sorrow.
Be a hacker,
Don't be a Stacker.
Help bring the war to an end,
By buying bonds with the money you
spend.
Vas sub.
UNCLE DUNK DICKENS,
RID Prosperity Hill. USA.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-01-20
Potients At The Hospital

Mrs. C. S. B~lankenship and baby girl,
Lexington.
Lamar Taylor, Lexington.
E. T. Branch, West.
Mrs. Mahlon Stephenson, Lexington.
Mrs. Guy Holder and baby girl, Lex
ington.
Kittrell Steele, Lexington.
Marjorie Dean Ray, Lexington.
Mrs. Ruby Miller and baby girl. Iehula
Eric Norquist, Lexington.
Miss Ida Samuelson, Tchula.
Applis Williams, Lexington.
Colored
Applis williams. Lexington.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-01-20

Charles Henry Jones. grandson of Mr..
and Mrs. G. II. Peacock, and a frequent
visitor in Durant, is recovering from
an attack of pneumonia and an appen-
dectomy at the same time in the hos
pital at Water Valley. He is able now
to be brought to his home in C~offeeville
and is expected to recover fully.
Mrs. NJ. T. Woods, Mrs. Tom Ashley
and Mrs. A. X. Dinas were Jackson
visitors Wednesday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-01-20
AGRICULTURAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
TO The FARM FAMILIES OF
HOLMES COUNTY
LEXINGTON
Monday, January "a, 1914
2:30P. N.

II. L. Nichols Chairman Holmes County War Board
'rogram Chairman ----~L w. Carson, Secretary War Board
Invocation ---Rev. A. Y. Brown, Pastor Methodist Church
ong-"America'-Led by Rev. Homer Robertson, Pastor Baptist
Church
|Address-T. M. Patterson, -- Chairman State War Board
Recognitons: 1. Members of War Board. 2. Board of
Supervisors. 3. Superintendent of Education. a. Triple A Com
nitteemen. 5. Triple A Administrator. 6. Soil Conservation Com
nissioners. T. Soil Conservation Technicians. 8. Farm Security
Administration County Administrator. 9FSA Home Supervisors.
10. Vocational Teachers. IL. Extension Workers and All Club
Leaders. IL. President Home Demonstration Council. Is Com
munity and Neighborhood Leaders. ID. Local Editor. Is. Secre-
tary National Farm Loan Association. 16. Head of County Health
Department. IL. Presidents of Rotary Clubs. IS. President,
Junior Chamber of Commerce. 10. Holmes County Chairman
Boy Scouts.
Address,. B. Anders, State Coordinator Soil Conservation Ser
vice.
Presentation of "a Banner, by Capt. j. A. Doe, officer in Charge
OF Quartermaster Market Center, Hattiesburg.
Acceptance on behalf of Farmers of Holmes County by K. d.
Henry.
Song-"God Bless America"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
HURLEY, MMAHON
 TO MEET SEREY

Hartford, Nov. 2-Major Robert Sevey, a veteran of this War who served on the staff of Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers, and Con- gressman John w. Mccormack, Democratic majority leader of the House from Massachusetts, will be the main speakers at statewide rally in Bushnell Memorial Hall in this City, Sunday beginning at 7:3O p. m.
 Congressman Mccormack is him. self a yankee division veteran of the first world war. Sevey participated in the planning of the present of- fensive. General Devers is the corn- manding general of the European Theaters of operation. Former Governor Robert A. Hur- ley and Brien McMahon, candidate for the U. s. Senate are the other speakers. The rally is sponsored by the Democratic State Veterans Divi- sion headed by former mayor Dem his P. O'Connor.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02

New York, Nov. 2-In an OFFICIAL statement urging the deferment or Congressional action on postwar con- scription until after the war, the Federal Council of Churches or Christ in America today declared that such action now might be so ln- terpreted as ito prejudice the post war settlement and jeopardlze the possibility of achieving the kind or world order reflected in our govern ment's war aims"
 At the same time it was made clear that the statement did not consul tute a pronouncement of judgment for or against conscription.
 The war aims of the United Ma tions defined in the Atlantic Char ter, the statement pointed out, an- ticipate the establishment of per- manent system of general security and encourage "all other practicable measures which will tighten for peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armaments."
 Approved by the executive coIn- mittee of the Council, which rep resents 25 national denomlnatlons with a membership of more than 26 900 900, the statement will be sent to the Senate and House Military Affairs Committee together win a request that open hearings be held on any postwar conscription bills and that representatives of the churches be given opportunity to present tneT l views.
 Expressing the belief that the peace should establish procedures TOT controlling military establishments everywhere, the statement declared that i've cannot now foresee the precise nature or strength of the armaments that may be required by the world community when there shall have been established a gen. eral system of international secur- ity."
 ment follows:
 The Congress and the people of the United States are now conS1d- ering the possible adoption of legis- lation providing for postwar m1li- tary conscription. The Executive Committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in Amer ica recommends that Congressional action on this matter be deferred until after the war. The churches believe that the peace should estab- fish procedures for controlling mili- tary establishments everywhere. To this end the Christians of many na- tions are now directing their ener- gies. They are doing this not only in obedience to conscience but also because the war aims of the United Nations as defined in the Atlantic Charter anticipate the establishment of a permanent system of general security and encourage "all other practicable measures which will tighten for peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armaments."
 We cannot now foresee the precise nature or strength of the armaments that may be required by the world community when there shall have
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02

home until we could prepare forged identity and ra- oh cards for them One day the GeStapo caught her. didn't know it until the next day when she managed somehow to get message to me.
 "The GeStapo had broken her right arm, her left leg and her jaw. They had hurled her small body time and time again against the wall of the torture chamber. She warned me to move quickly She knew she could not resist much longer telling what she knew.'
 DOZENS OF PROBLEMS
 Each move brought dozens of problems for Helene T have clothes and possessions scattered in at least dozen places in Paris and Lord only knows how many elsewhere. When we got word to move, we moved-quickly" Usually Helene tried to stay with friend avoiding the necessity of registering.
 "You can imagine the problems of running 8 house under these conditions" Helene continued. Somehow we managed to do it. We got food and clothes on the black market. Our biggest clothing problem was for American fliers. Theys too big to look French When we had lot of them at once once We had 30 in one group and had to buy them 8 boat to sail them to England-it was awful Food easier Often ate in restaurants frequented by the Gestapo The greatest danger was double agents
 men working with both the Gestapo and the resist ance mad selling to the highest bidder"
 In the beginning of May 1944 Helene and her husband left Paris to lead the Maqlis in the field Here in the country the danger was multiplied, for strangers-especially women-are easy to spot T can assure you' said Helene quite conversationally that it has been awful not being able to sleep TOT four years without open for the GeStapoS m. call"
 But the ojb had to be done. When it was done when the Maquis triumphantly fought into orleans and to junction with the American Third Army, m the vanguard rode Helene, modern Maid Of orleans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02

Arson. A man bought several dozen boxes Of cigars and had them insured against fire. When he had smoked them he put in claim against the insurance company that they had been destroyed by fire. The company refused to pay and the man sued. The judge ruled that the company had given the man
 policy protecting against fire and must pay As soon as the man accepted the money, the company had him arrested on charge of arsOn.-Sunshine Magazine, March, 1944.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Postwar Conscription
 Deferment Advocated
Federal Council of Churches Not PronOunCement Of
 Judgment For or Against Plan

I been established general system of international security. We are not here pronouncing judgment for or against conscription but we are pointing out that for the United States to change now. is historic policy might be so interpreted as to prejudice the postwar settlement and jeopardize the possibility of achiev- ing the kind of world order reflected in our governments war aims.
 We are committed to working for a postwar settlement that will in- sure to all nations peace, security and justice. To this end we pledge ourselves anew in the hope that peo- pies everywhere may be released from the burden of competitive ar maments and given the opportunity to develop world community in ac- cordance with Christian principles
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Iz,0oO Planes
 Blast Reich
RY LEO s. DIsHER

United Press War Correspondent)
 London, Nov. 2-(UP)-More than 2,OO0 American warplanes lombard ed Naz oil and railroad targets from the Ruhr and Rhineland to central Germany today in a smash ing daylight follow-up, to the RATS triple night strike at Oberhausen, Cologne and Berlin.
 A half-dozen aerial task forces, numbering well over HOO Flying Fortresses and Liberators and 900 Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters, famed out over the reich for the great daylight assault.
 Synthetic oil refineries in the Ruhr Valley and at Merseburg in central Germany, the Bielefeld freight yards on the Rhine and other unannounced targets in the western half of the Nazi homeland all came under the American bomb sights.
 Dense cloud formations obscured most of the targets, forcing the raiders to drop their bombs by in- strument, but it was indicated that the attacks were concentrated and highly effective.
 The huge Leuna plant at Merse- burg apparently was the major tar- get-its 18th attack of the war by the U. s. 9th Air Force. The Leuna refinerieS, sprawled out over an area two miles long and 5000 feet wide, form one of the biggest synthetic units in Germany. They produced more than 50,O0O metric tons of synthetic oil products monthly be- fore the start of the American bombing offensive.
 The widespread daylight attack came as the battered Ruhr and Rhineland still Smoldered from fires Stoked during the night by hundreds of RAF heavy bombers and Mos quito raiders.
 Thundering out through thick cloud formations blanketing the Ruhr, some 500 giant Lancaster and Halifax bombers cascaded great weight of high explosive and fire on Oberhausen in a swift, concentrated assault that set great fires leaping through the city'S war plants and railway yards.
 Swarms of German night fighters rose to challenge the raiders and a communique said three of the enemy planes were shot down in a furious gunf1ght over the target.
 Seven bomberS were lost in the Oberhausen assault and the Diver sionary raids on Cologne and Berlin The raid on Cologne was the tenth since last Saturday in a sus- tained offensive that Allied air con- manders have promised will destroy that Rhineland city as forward base and communications center for the German armies of the west. Pail Of Smoke
 Returning Mosquito pilots said g towering pail of smoke and flame still hung over Cologne last night from the 2,500-ton blow struck at the city A hours earlier.
 Huge areas of the city have been reduced to smoldering rubble heaps under the inceSsant Allied bombing, but air ministry spokesmen said a much greater weight of bombs will be needed to knock it out completely Lying at the crossing of many ol Germany's most important traffic routes, the Cologne railway yards were equipped to move 14,000 freight cars 8 day, in addition to 8 great flow of water traffic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02

Earl Dillon and Ann Mccarthy will be rootlng TOT Notre Dame when the Irish eleven invade New York
 week from Saturday to face the mighty Cadets rom west Point in battle of undefeated rivals P!iVaOt James O. Kolesnik is now receiving his ian mall a' Camp Croft, S. c. Julius Racenet of Falls Avenue, Oakyille hopes to take in the Gants-Green Day Packers pro pgskin tussle in New 4ork one week ioi Sunday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
FASHIONS ARE FUN

Several little sequins
 Arranged in . row. Lock pretty ules
 when topped with . bowl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02

Editor, Tall Tower Topics. Recently had the good fortune to former Waterburian now fellow Combat Correspondent who's been in the Pacific almost two years He's Staff Sergeant Al Lewis, whose
 parents live on Hillside Avenue and who still calls Water
 bury his home, though he hasn't seen the Brass City m years Al was in the class after mine at Crosby but we at Crosby went to New York and got job as an office boy on the old Graphic Later he went to the Mirror From New York he went to Washington, and he'd been
 reporter for the Washington Post for eight years when he enlisted After first serving correspondent with
 ground unit, he transferred to an air wing and he's been writing aviation stories for over year now
 The two of us had several chats about the home town We discovered number of mutual friends During his years in Washington, Al arranged his vacation each summer so he could spend it with his parents at the beach at Milford. He's looking forward eagerly to reunion with them when he gets back to the States My best to the gang at The Democrat. Sincerely Sgt Ray Fitzpatrick Marine Corps Combat Correspondent