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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-01-25

Miss Edith Rhyme, Grenada, spent
the weekend at home.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-01-25

Pvt. Claude Bridges, of MOP, Flora,
and ]. r. Bridges, of Oak Ridge. Tenn,
attended the funeral of their mother,
Mrs. J. R. Bridges, this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-01-25

Mrs. J. D. Alsbury and Mrs. Eugene
Cole were Jackson visitors Monday.
Bradley beam., 1945-04-07

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
 Lou Holtz tells the following story about his famous friend, Lapidus:
 Lapidus met a friend of his and said, "Where have you been? |. His friend replied, Atlantic City" "Where did you live," asked Lapi- dus. "The Benjamin Franklin Hotel," came the answer. |. Lapidus said, But the Benjamin Franklin Hotel is in Philadelphia" "No wonder" commented his friend, Ut was such long walk to the beach!'
 Give a woman an inch, and she thinks she's ruler.
 Some daughters are finding it difficult to look as young as their mothers.
 We ran across lad who is going to get along all right in this world. Haunted by someone because of an inordinate number of freckles on his face, he replied good-naturedly:
 ''They ain't freckles. Y'see, we been goin' swimmin' most every day, and them spots is just my iron constitution rustin' on mel"
 Suspicious Soldier: "I'm not eat ing at the Squadron mess hall any more."
 Cook: "How come?"
 Soldier: "You know that dog they've been feeding at the door,"
 Cook: Sure, I've been giving him his food for three weeks now"
 Soldier: Well, today he went over to D Squadron mess"
 A visitor to an asylum asked an inmate his name.
 George Washington" was the reply.
 "But," said the perplexed visi- tor, Hast time was here you were Abraham Lincoln"
 That" said the man sadly, twas by my first wife"
Bradley beam., 1945-04-07

Says Kate: 'Im pretty dull customer, maybe you'd better interview somebody else" But we perseyered; result she halls from Iola Kans., and was employed by the J. c. Penny Company branch office in that town. Alter the War, she expects to return to her former position. Kate, who works at Base Intelligence Office, is devoting most of her time at present developing the newly formed Wac's Club of which she is Presi- dent. Kate hopes that all the girls will eventually sign up with the organization whose club house will open in the WAC Area in the near future. Kate claims sine has no big ambitions in life, likes to read occasionally and attend the movies. Spends most of her time with her Senior Gremlin Group made up of Ann Olivier, the Andrews Sisters and Mary (Imp) (Sackey) Pantelis.
Bradley beam., 1945-04-07
Quick Trial!
All Official FAF Photos.

London CCNiS)-Lord Vansittart, tough minded Briton who has de- voted much time and study to the problem of how to deal with defeat CT Germany, said only two factors need be considered in deciding the fate of war criminals the loca- tion of the gallows and the length of the drop"
Bradley beam., 1945-04-07
Nazi Youth Ages

U. s. Sd Army (CN)S1-The 52- year-old German soldier captured in the Frankfurt suburbs may have been trying to crack sardonic joke, but this is what he told an American Colonel who asked what a man his age was doing in the Army:
 "I'm a member of the Hitler Youth"
Bradley beam., 1945-04-07

Bill is pretty we'll known fellow about Bradley Field for a number of reasons. In the first place, he's the soldier who drives Colonel Johnson, our Base Commanding Officer, his daily rounds; secondly, he has written a good deal of poetry, much of which has found its way into the BEAMS pages throughout the years he has served at this Base. Back in civilian life, Bill was coal miner in his home town of Pittsburg Pa., but was taking course in electrical welding at a trade school when the Army tapped him on the shoulder. After the War he hopes to go into business, using the GI Bill of Rights as springboard. Married Bills wife, Florence, lives near the Base and works at the Red Cross Unit at the Base Hospital Both he and Florence are await ing the arrival of their first child who, Bill claims, Had better be boy
 All Otttcidl FAF Photos.
Bradley beam., 1945-04-07

A member of the Base Legal Board and Claims Officers, staff Max is especially qualified for his job, having practiced law in his home state of New York for many years before entering the Service. Max Brooklyn lad, attended St. Johns College' School of Law from which he was of that schools first graduates. He has served as Special Deputy Assistant Attorney GeH- eral in election fraud cases in New York. After the War he expects to return to his postwar practice and maybe pray for judgeship. Max and his wife, Marion side in Elm Plains at present, where they patiently CD await the arrival of an heir slated for an August delivery. When not busy wading through the inevitable legal wordage, he spends his time wondering what's going to happen next, reading eating and catching up on his sack tme
Bradley beam., 1945-04-07


 "Brrrr, it's cold" said Andy when we inter- viewed him last Wednesday. And no VOL der, besides the fact that it was cold, ne isn't quite used to this climate yet after spending thirty-one months baskins in the warmth of Panama sunshine. Back in the old days, Andy was employed as a shipping clerk by the Westinghouse Electric Com pany in his home town of Trenton, N. J. His postwar ambition is we'll defined: to settle down in Florida where he and his wife, Mary, presently living in Warehouse Point, have an interest in fishing camp. "No snow there," says he. Andy is bus on sports and claims more than a passsns interest in trap shooting hunting fishing, baseball, horseback riding, etc. He has won War Bonds while in Panama for his prowess and wood chopping technique at bowling. Andy has brother servicing in France.
Bradley beam., 1945-04-07
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Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-05
Witch Jurors
AT Death Scene

The II Jury members hearing
the rctrial of Mrs. Rose Neres, so
called Witch of Delray' before
Judge Paul K. KrauSe
today were TO visit the scene Of
the death Of Steve Max at Mrs
Neres boarding house. 1894 Me
dina
Mrs Rose KaSa. . Of 1897 Me
dla. who was one of the prime
states witnesses in the original
trial yesterday testified that she
had seen Max climb a ladder 10
the attic Of Mrs. VcrcS' home and
then fall head first from the attic
window about FIVE minutes later.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-05
Cancer Clinic
Begins Exams

The Cancer Detection Clinic al
Noman's Hospital, financed by the
American Cancer Society fIe1d
Army. is open today. ready TO
begin examinations for the dis
covery Of early symptoms of the
disease.
Or. Grace NJ Perdue is medical
director Of the clinic. and con-
Sultants include Drs. Harry Mel
son. n. +. Johnston, Gertrude
Mitchell, Frances Ford, b l. John
stone and Donald Beaver.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-05
Oranges Drop
Under Old Peg

The prices of oranges, which
scared to the dollar -a-doZen mark
when ceilings were lifted Nov. 10.
are slowly dropping again in the
face of A bumper crop arriving
IN Detroit
George f. Thierwechter, man
ager of the Detroit Union Produce
Terminal, said that at yesterdays
auction the average price paid for
oranges A case was S4.52. This
is - cents less than the old cell
ing Of S5.31.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-05
Ewes NfUCC
For AIiHnOny

Delinquent alimony payers re-
ceiving benefits from the Michigan
Unemployment Com pens alton
Commission may soon be turning
their checks -eueE-+s-t -fttrrrti OF
the court.
Circuit Judge Joseph A. Moyni-
han, faced with an increasing
number of dellnquencies, today
said he would ask the MUCC to
participate in such action where
minor children are dependent upon
alimony.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-05
82d 10 Parade in n. Y.
On Return From Reich

WASHINGTON Dec. 4 QNSl
The war department announced
today that the entire S2d Airborne
All-AmeriCan' Division of $4,000
-p4eF-'4- parade through n Q
streets Of Manhattan when il re-
turns from Berlin in January
Exact date Of the parade and its
route VIII he announced later.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-05

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Detroit evening times., 1945-12-05
Lightning Hits Plane

PARIS. Dec. 4 UNS) - Ten
military personnel were killed last
night when lightning struck a
British iour-motOred plane on
route 10 England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05
No Opposition Met
 By American Units
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Cologne spans had been wrecked.
 The German DNB News Agency said all the Rhine bridges between Cologne and Wesel had been de- Stroyed, but t did not make clear whether the Cologne bridges were included in that list.
 The fall of Cologne would give the three Allied armies virtually undis- puted possession of Q i00-mile stretch of the Rhines west bank as for north as Arnhem and open the way for Q grand assault against the Rhur.
 German resistance west of the Rhine was disintegratlng rapidly as armored and infantry divisions of the Canadian First and American N!hth and First armies closed against the river on i00-mile front extending from Arnhem to 8 point south Of Cologne.
 The remnants Of three German armies were compressed into as many narrow pockets centering around Cologne, the Homberg -Duis- burg bridge, and the WeSel bridge IS miles farther north.
 All three enemy strongpointS were under heavy attack and giant tield guns of the American Ninth army at Homberg were ranging Il miles beyond the Rhine to pound the great Krupr factories in Essen, Ger many's biggest war production cea- ter.
 5000 Enemy Losses
 Unofficial estimates at Allied headquarters placed the German losses in the battle of the Rhine land at more than 00,000 killed, wounded or captured, and hundreds of prisoners were being rounded up hourly in the 2l-mile corridor be- tween the Rhine and the Maas.
 Lieut.. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges U. 8. First Army launched tine grand assault on Cologne early to- day, attacking on an eight-mile front looping around the city's peril meter from north to southwest.
 Tanks and mechanized infantry columns of the Third Armored Oi- vision which broke through to the Rhine north of Cologne over the week end swung down against the city early today and rammed into It's northwestern outskirts without meeting more than scattered rear guard opposition.
 Attacking in two parallel columns, the Third Armored captured Lon- gerich, i% miles northwest of the city limits and sent tank patrols racing ahead to the edge of Col ogne proper.
 To the south, veteran infantry
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

men of the l04th '"rimberwolf" Di- vision captured Widdersdorf, two miles weSt-northwcst of Cologne, and fought their way through a maze of trenches and minefields into the city's immediate suburbs.
 On the l04th right flank, the Eighth Armored Division broke through the toughest link in the German defenses of Frechen, three miles weSt-soithweSt of Cologne. German infantrymen were cleared out of the town Sunday morning, only to come charging back few hours later to re-establish them. selves fin the debris Uttered streets
 Early today, however, the town was finally cleared and the Eighth was reported slugging It's way for ward toward the city limits.
 Stol2heim and Geuel, just south of Frechen, were captured by tank and infantry teams Of the Eighth, put ting them less than two miles from the city.
 United Press aWr Correspondent C. R. Cunningham reported that scores Of German town" in the path of the Third armored division were reduced to smoking ruins by the Germans and American croSsfire. Fast-ranging armored columns of the Third division cleared most Of the l8-mile stretch of the Thine bank between Cologne and Neuss, exxept for a large pocket of Nazis trapped against the river midway between the two cities.
 % Towns Captured
 Twenty.slx towns and villages were captured by the Americans in past "A hours in narrow sector just west of the river within three to five miles south and southeast of NeuSs.
 From Neuss northward to a point north of Honberg--a distance oi about l6 airline miles--American Ninth army troops were astride the west bank of the Rhine and moving up powerful tank forces for pos stblc thrust across the river into the Ruhr valley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

(C0ntinued from Page D tered Neuva Viscaya Province and seized Santa Rosa, IT miles south- east of the Japanese stronghold of Bagliio.
 At the same time the 2Sth Divis- ion frightened the southern half of the vice by capturing Digdig, a juno ion on the roads leading to the Cagayan valley.
 The thrust carried the 18th Di- vision to within P miles of a june ton with the 32nd forces at Santa Rosa and their combined drives were rapidly clearing the Villa Verde trail and Balete Pass road.
 Fierce fighting still continued in the mountains east of Manila, with the Japanese reportedly at- tempting heavy counter-attacks irl so far futile attempts to rush the Americans from high ground east of Montalban.
 Coincident with the Guerrilla of- fensiye in the north. Mitchell medi- um borbers attacked Basco airfield on Bataan Island, just north Of Lu- zon.
 Bataan, principal island a group Of the safr,e name, ig cEi!y l25 miles from the northeastern tip of Ilicos Norte Province. where the guerrillas waged perhaps their greatest single campaign yet.
 Volckman's Filipino forces com pletely demoralized the Japanese with hit-run tactics, in which the Gtierrillas augmented their Ameri- can army equipment with razor sharp bolos.
 Their method was to silently en- velope the enemy garrison. strike swiftly and then vanish into the jungle before the Japanese could collect themselves for a counter attack.
 Volckman has been in northern Luzon almost entirely since the left Bataan. He was awarded the dis ttnguished service cross January 27. but has been too busy to receive 1t personally.
 MacArthur'S communique mean- time disclosed that a big American air fleet. composed of all types Of bembers, raided airdromeS along the west coast of Formosa without aerial opposition. Thirty Japanese planes were destroyed on the ground. although four American bombers were lost to enemy anti"aircraft fire.
 Medium bombers also swept over the Pescadores Islands off Formosa, sank a 7,000-ton freighter-trans- port and shot down two Japanese planes.
 During the weekend. troops Of the American Division strengthened the American hold in the Philippines with the seizure of Ticao and Burias Islands in the sibuyian Sea. They were the 18th and 20th islands in the Philippines invaded by the Americans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05
Mario Rootto Escapes Jail

Rome, March 6--tUP)-Gen. Mar 10 Roatta. on trial as one of Fas- cism's leading war criminals. es- caped from Regina Coeli jail during the night.
 The interior ministry offered 8 9l 900. .OOO-lire (elO.OO0) reward for information leading to his re-arrest.
 R0atta, former army chief Of staff under Mussolini. was permitted to leave his cell under guard about 10 D. m. last night to visit q friend. Maj. Eugenio Rossi. at the nearby military infirmnry. Roattas wife joined him in Rossi's private room.
 An official announcement said Italian Carabinieri were stationed in front of Rossi's room and in the hallway during the visit. At mid- night, however. it was discovered that Roatta had escaped.
 R0asi, who was under treatment for heart ailment. two other army officers. the corporal who carried the keys to the infiEmary, and ell
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

cinnati area and Louisville was ex- pecting 6 30.5-foot waterhead, more than five feet below tho danger mark.
 A peak. i've feet above flood stage was forecast for Paducah, Ky where sewer outlets which drain into the river were being closed.
 High water flooded lowlands in the Wheeling area, cutting trafflc between that city and Ohio points The river was stationary and hit a peak of 55.2 at Huntington.
 Thirty-five families were evacu- ated at Marietta. O., above Parkers- burg. w. Va. where the third crest was expected by Thursday.
 Two thousand men were thrown out of work at Jeffersonville. Ky. when the Jacksonville Boat & Ma chine Co.,. making Navy boats, was forced to suspend. Three other war plants in northern Kentucky including the Newport Rolling Mil Co.,, were closed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05
Forts Again She'll Tokyo
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Superfortress base on Saipan.
 No fighter opposition and only meager anti-aircraft fire were en- countered. One plane crash-landed ir tl1e sea between Japan and Sai- pan, but the surviving crewmen were rescued within an hour by c Navy amphibian.
 Another plane, running low on fuel, made a forced landing on one of the captured airstrips on em- battled Two. took on additional gas- oline, and returned to the Marianas.
 Tokyo broardcasts disclosed that a special students fire crops had been formed in the enemy capital to in- sure the presence at all times of a regular corps of students at each fire station. Three shifts day will be operated.
 All primary high schools in For- moSa have been colsed fin view Of the increasing tempo" of teh Amer ican raids on that strategic island. Tokyo added. The broadcasts were recorded by the EGG.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

(Continued from Page D clause making mandatory the in- cluSion of the water bonds was ruled. The city is now below that debt by $l,l32.000 and seeks to have this water debt lifted thus increas- ing It's borrowing ability :o $2.6l7.- GOO.
 The city also seeks permission to forfeit its present grant to float further water bonds in amount Of $500, 0,O0O. No further water bond is- suance is anticipated for the next two years, at least.
 Hearings on the citys pension bill and the costs of living bonus for employees whose salaries are set by Charter have not yet been assigned for hearings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

the northwest coast.
 The Japanese counter attacked the Fifth Division in daylight yes- terday. but were repulsed with the loss of several hundred enemy troops.
 Behind the front. other Marines were mopping up enemy stragglers and by.passed strong points. The Marines blew up the entrances to many fortified caves whose occu- pants refused to surrender.
 Carrier planes teamed with army Llberators in an attack on Chichi ip the Bonin Islands. just north O. Two.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05
MAN ABOUT TOWN

Al solson hes fallen mAdly ln love s-"she reel thlngl" A technical nurse he met on an Army tour. ,,
 Anita Colby is at the Tucson Medl. cal Center tArla), . pneumonia vice time Bhubert Alley expects owen Anderson, last seen in "De- elsion," to be the next Mrs. Cho. dorov. She was once Mrs. Helmut DAntine Ann Marlowe, the eal who pioneered "Rinso White" on the radio. quietly married the Ever. sharp Take It or Leave 1t sponsor Martin Straus) three wks ago Dolly Haas, the actress, and her groom, N. Y. Times drama crayon- ist Al iilrschfield, just had an in- age Sir Alexander Korda is again wooing his estranged lady Merle Oberon) with posles by the punches The B. Kclloggs of the cereal tribe are readying Q flash Jan Sebastian, conductor of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05
River Climb Seen Likely
By United Press

Government forecasters predicted Monday that the fiood-swoilen Ohio river would climb higher if appreci. able rains fells in the Ohio valley watershed. Skies were cloudy. threatening rain.
 The river moved slowly from be- low Pittsburgh to Louisville. Ky. with at least three creste sliding south between Wheeling, W. Va. and Marietta. O., between PoTts- mouth, O., and Cincinnati and be- tween Cincinnati and Louisville.
 The first crest drove lowland res- idents from the river bottoms c week ego. It moved out of the cin-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

Modifying and strengthening the Esneh baTrage In Egypt has just been started for tho Egyptian 0ov- eEnment. and the o0.000. 600 project will enable the irrigation twice year. ly of 600I000 acres in the Kena and oirga provinces by July. iel7.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

Inc carabinieri entrusted with guarding Roatta were arrested. R0- atta's wife was questioned.
 Roatta was under charges Of or- ganizing Q special service unit o0 military intelligence for carrying out political aSsasslnations and other undercover work both in Italy and abroad.
 His trial continued in absentla this morning. The prosecution has been demanding his Imprisonment for life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

ThomaSt0n avenue.
 The Swedish Weaving club will meet tomorrow night at the home of Mrs. J. M. E. Johnson on Parker street.
 Troop 10, Girl Scouts, will meet to- morrow evening at the home of their leader, Mrs. Frank Carney on Chapel street.
 The weekly player meeting of Gospel Hall will be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock.
 Mrs. Norman Cables of Patterson court is chairman of the annual bridge party of the Waterbury Pulp lie Speaking club to be held on April OtE, ct the YMCA.
 MT. and Mrs. Albert R. Forgue of Monmouth avenue are parents of a son, Albert Raymond, Jr., born Feb. 23 at the Waterbury hospital.
 Mir. and Mrs. Franklin w. War ren of Suffolk street, accompanied by Miss Eleanor Hallock Of Naug- atuck left Saturday for q months stay in St. Petersburg, Fla.
 Mir. and Mrs. Paul Egan of Faber avenue have returned home after visiting their daughter. Mrs. Char lotte Burns at her home in Brook lyn. N. Y.
 Marshall Dubay of Wateryille, Be, is spending few days with his brother and sister-in-law. MT. and Mrs. William Dubay Of 55 Downes street.
 Kenneth Waters, son of MT. and Mrs. James Waters of 65 Wheeler street, has been promoted to first class private, at Myrtle Beach Army Air Field. s. O., where he is an ad- Tlinistrative and technical clerk.
 The Casper s. Davis Drum corps will meet tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock in their club rooms in the rear of the post.ofiice.
 The Tithers' association of Grace Methodist church will meet this evening at T:3O o'clock. The official board will meet at 6 o'clock at the church.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

Australian airmen returning home after four years overseas service complain that they are granted only i4 days leave on dlsembarka- ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

Argentina today ranks second only to the United States as Q world supplIer of Vltamin A with annual production In the neighhorh0od of % tTilllon units.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05
Stettin Now
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05
TROOP l6TO MEET
 TUESDAY EVENING
Session to Be Held at Home of Leader, Mrs.
 Frank Carney
FAYETTEVILLE Correspondents Phone-3-65ll

Waterville, Mar. 5-Sgt. Francis M. Fahy, chin turret gunner on an Eighth Air Force Flying Fortress has been awarded the Air Medal for meritorious achievement while par ticipating in heavy bombardment missions over Nazi Germany. Fran cis is the son of MT. and Mrs. John Fahy of 35 Edgehill avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05
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 Most Of Isle

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05

Troop 3l, Boy Scouts of America. will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Drum Corp rooms on Thomaston avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-05
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gains in the direction of Naugard 22 miles northeast of Stettin and 20 miles from the Baltic.