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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-10-18

and members of the families. In the
lining room Miss Emmaline Hardy
md Mrs. c. v. Maxwell, Jr., poured
coffee from silver urns at either end
of The table which was covered with
a cloth of oriental cutwork and lace
and conferred with a three TERED
wedding cake on top OF which was
a miniature brides bouquet. Delight
full refreshments were served the
guests.
Following the reception Mr.. and
Mrs. Hardy left for a wedding trip
to Sea Island, Ga, and the Carolina
mountains. For travelling the bride
wore a suit of black wool with
matching accessories and an orchid
corsage.
Mrs. Hardy attended Belhaven
College and was graduated from the
University of Mississippi where she
was a member of Chi Omega Soror-
ity.
The groom attended the Univer-
sity of Alabama and Yale where he
was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsi-
lon fraternity. He is prominent in
business circles in Columbus where
he and his bride will make their
home.
Out-of-town guests included Mr.
and Mrs. Carlton Billups, Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Hardy, Miss Emmaline
Hardy, Mr.. and Mrs. Jennings Har-
dy, Mrs. Mary Hutchinson, Mr. and
Mrs. Dudley Hutchinson, Dudley
Hutchinson, Jr., and Maxwell Hutch
inson, all of Columbus; Mrs. Miller
Holmes, Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Ford,
Misses Carolyn and Ann and Norm
astel Ford, Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Cald-
well, Mrs. ]. T. Caldwell, Jr., Meg
Caldwell, Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Russell, all of Jackson; Mrs. Parham
Williams and Nancy Hoover Will
liams, Lexington; Mrs. Sam Foose
and Mrs. Henry Magee, Tchula; Mrs.
Harold Barbour and Helen Barbour,
Gulfport; Mr.. L. v. Maxwell, Mem
phis; Mrs. w. A. Maxwell, Miss Lily
Maxwell and Mrs. Ed Walker, Cam
den; Mrs. Marion Rogers, West; Mr.
and Mrs. Leroy Donald, Goodman;
Miss Ann Williams and Mrs. Dick
Shelton, Clarksdale; Mrs. Yandel
Weidman, Lexington.
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pICkENS
Hmdy- Maxwell Vows
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Hordy-M Maxwell Vows
In a ceremony characterized by
dignity and charm, Miss Ruth Nance
Maxwell, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. v. Maxwell Of Pickens, became
the bride Of Mr.. James Harris Hardy
of Columbus.
The ceremony was performed in
the home of the brides parents Fri
day afternoon, October IL, at five
o'clock, with the Rev. j. Noel Hin
son officiating. A ~profusion of grace
fully festooned southern smilax, tall
floor vases of large white chrysan-
themums and TERED candelabra hold
ing lighted white tapers formed a
beautiful setting for the wedding
ceremony.
Theodore Russell, violinist, accom-
panied at the piano by Miss Carolyn
Mcpherson, played Caprice Wen
DIS" by Fritz Kreisler and Song
Without Words" by Mendelssohn.
Mrs. Hoover Maxwell sang "The
Lords Prayer" and Because. Dur
ing the ceremony Miss Mcpherson
played "Liebestraum" softly. The
traditional wedding marches were
used.
The bride was lovely, wearing a
Peshkin original model with a veil
Of illusion and gracefully holding in
her arm three. long-stemmed Gala
lilies. Her only ornament was a
diamond necklace. The bride was
given in marriage by her father,
and Dudley Hutchinson of Colum-
bus served the groom as best man.
Little Mignonne Maxwell, niece
of the bride, and Helen Barbour of
Gulfport, daintily dressed in floor
length models of illusion, formed a
ribbon aisle for the bridal party.
Dudley Hutchinson, Jr., and Hoover
Maxwell, Jr., nephews of the bride,
lighted the tapers.
Following the ceremony an infor-
NAL reception was held for guests
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YOUTH WEEK CAMPAIGN
October 22nd to the 28th

The Pickens High School and COM
munity have set aside the week of
October % to the 18th as youth
Week.. The purpose is Character
Education. youth is the time to
decide whether old age shall be a
happy consummation or a bitter re-
gret".
Dean c. Dutton Ph.D., LID, who
for seven years was associated with
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-10-18

the State University of Oklahoma,
doing this same work in the High
Schools of that State, is to conduct
the campaign. Day times he address
SEES the Junior and Senior High
School and at night he speaks to the
parents in the Churches.
These School Addresses are not
cold, educational lectures; rather
they are spiced with irresistible
humor and shot through with human
interest stories. This speaker enter
tains while he instructs and inspires.
The heart warming Messages at
night for parents, youth also invited,
are given to enrichen Home and to
make the Churches a greater power.
Results should last for a generation.
Miss Ruth Maxwell
Honored Oct. 9th
On Tuesday, October 9th, Mrs.
Marion Rogers and Mrs. c. v. Max
well, Jr., we're co-hostesses at a
luncheon in the home of the former
in West, honoring Miss Ruth Max
well.
The dining table was covered with
a cut work embroidered cloth, center
ed with gladioli, carnations and
roses. Beautiful fall flowers furnish
ed the decorations for the spacious
home.
Guests for this occasion were: Miss
Ruth Maxwell, the honoree, Mrs. c.
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
Allied Forces
Land on Borneo

MANILA, May /. (UP)-Tokyt
radio reported Tuesday that Allied
forces had landed on the east coast
OF Borneo, immense oil and rubber
rich island in the Dutch East In
dies.
The Tarakan area is one of the
largest oil centers in the East In
dies. Tarakan itself, however, is a
comparatively small island in the
Celebes sea several miles off the
east coast of Borneo.
Tokyo said the invasion forces
landed late at night and were en-
gagged in fierce combat" by the
Japanese garrison. Although the
reported invasion site was not Civ
en-, it presumably was in the wide
delta area on the eastern shore op-
posite Tarakan.
A previous landing attempt was
made at noon Monday. the broad
cast said. but was repulsed
Borneo, the worlds third largest
island covering $4,000 square miles.
and particularly Tarakan have been
bombed repeatedly since Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's American forces
swept through the southern Philip
pines.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
FL Centran Dies
In Auto Crash

John A. S. Rogers, 81, proprietor
of a refreshment stand at Main
street and Imperial Ave-, Ell Centro.
was killed instantly in a traffic ac-
cident at Santa Ana at . am. Tues
day.
News of the death came to Ell
Centro from traffic officers at San
Ia Ana who wanted information re-
garding relatives who should be no
titled of the death
1t was understood that the fatal
accident occurred while Rogers was
en- route to Long Beach to visit his
daughters, Ruth and Mildred. De-
tails of the accident we're not i'm
mediately available. The funeral
was expected to be held in Long
Beach with burial beside his wife
who died about two years ago.
Rogers had many friends in Ell
1entro, his pleasant manner and
affable disposition making him pop
ular among his acquaintance. Ali
his employees planned to attend the
funeral services.
He was born in Colorado Springs,
Colorado, February 2, 1884. He join
ed the Elks lodge on his birthday
anniversary in 1920, being initiated
at San Pedro.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01

probably through the duration of
the conference.
PLANNED BREEF STAY
1t was learned that Molotov ind:-
Gated when he came to the United
States that his stay must necessar-
lily be very brief. Some quarters
said he had already stayed here
longer than he originally planned.
The impending departure of Mol
ctov cast an air of urgency over
conference deliberations. Although
delegates have been here week,
the organization CT the commits
sions and committees which will do
the actual work is only being ac-
complished Tuesday.
tt was regarded as imperative
that as much work as possible be
accomplished before Molotov leaves
since, if past experience Is any pre-
cedent, Russian decisions will have
to he referred back to Moscow on
all controversial questions after he
goes. This, it was noted, might
drag out the conference indefin-
itely.
OTHERS EAGER TO LEAVE
Many other European delegates
are equally eager to get back to
Continued on Page 6, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
U. 5. Must Help
Feed World,
Officials Say

WASHINGTON, May l. OPP
Americans were told bluntly and
without equivocation Tuesday that
they face reW battle against
hunger on which the future peace of
the world may we'll depend.
A bleak picture of the starvation
facing Europe and the leaner fare
awaiting this nation was coupled
with an appeal for more production
and united front on the new
world economic crisis that has arisen
with the approach of the end of
the European war
Here are the Developments that
brought out the full nature of the
seriousness of the world food situa-
ton:
l. Judge Samuel I. Rosenman,
who made tour of liberated areas
of northwest Europe at the direc-
ton of the late President Roosevelt,
told President Truman that the
Continued on Page s, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01

MOSCOW, May 1. (UP)-
The Red Army celebrated
May Day Tuesday with the
most impressive display of Soviet
power in history, marching 100000
strong before an imposing array of
dignitaries including japanese am
baSsador Naotaka Saito, who stood
grim and alone in a corner CT the
diplomatic box.
Moscow's first May Day military
parade of the war brought again to
the capital the pomp and panoply
of the holiday in peace time. The
celebration was tensed to the verge
cf exultation by word from Berlin
that the red banner fluttered over
the Reichstag and final victory was
at hand
Martial Stain reviewed the pa
rade. He stood practically notion
less for two hours, his fingers
touching the visor of his cap. as
Red srmy men and steel streamed
across Red Square and hundreds
of planes zocmed overhead in per-
feet formation
Stain appea. ed in the cquare at
$50. He ran briskly up the steps
of Lenin's mausoleum. followed by
ranking government and military
officials. He wore a marshal's uni
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
War Chest Meet
Set in EI Centre

El Centro's war chest leaders for
the campaign next fall will be sell
ected at pm. Monday at meet
ing in the Ell Centro Chamber of
Commerce.
All persons who participated in
the war chest activity in the El
Centre area during the past yer
are asked to attend the meeting.
A committee to handle the cam
paign next fall will be selected, Of
ficers elected, and chairmen named.
Leaders selected at Mondays meet
ing will attend a countrywide meet
ing May Is, Jerry Robertson, FL
Centre area chairman, announced
Tuesday.
1t is requested ti:at budgets of To-
cal agencies be presented and ap-
proved by June Is SO they may be
presented to the county and state
by July l, Robertson said. This is
necessary because statewide firms
and corporations must take care of
local needs as well as the national
war fund.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
.Jupon ShuffIes
Navy Command

Press, San Francisco.
1T reflects the unflagging de-
termination of the navy officers and
men under an effective command to
beat the invading Yanks in the COM
ing defensive battle on the sea-"
The navy shakeup presumably
was in anticipation of a possible
Allied landing on the shores of the
Japanese homeland
Tokyo explained that all opera
tional forces of the navy and all
its combined fleets and stations will
be placed under unified command Of
the new organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
Senate Approves
Non.Parfisan
Office Measure
Would Leave Only
Two Places on
Party Divisions
BY LLOYD LAPHAM

SACRAMENTO. May /.
(UP.-A bill which would
make all state offices except
governor and lieutenant
governor partisan Tuesday was
held up on a motion to reconsider
after it was passed by the state
senate on a % to 13 vote.
Sen. Clarence c Ward CRJ,
Santa Barbara, who 6 ked for re-
cons liberation of the first ballot.
said the bill would strike a blew at
two-party government and if ex-
tended to national politics could re-
suit in an array of irresponsible
blocS
ASSEMBLY'S STAND
The assembly last week defeated
a bill which would have banned
cross-filing in California primary
elections and this was believed to
indicate the lever house may favor
the senate's non-partisansflip mea-
sure, although the cross-filing bill
also is held up temporarily on a
Continued on Page 6, Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
MussoIini Will Be Buried
In Public Gem metery

whether he wanted to be shot in the
front or the back. He replied in the
front They promptly shot him in
the back
With the bodies of MtIssoliui and
his mistress out of reach of their
fury. the Milan mob stormed Wit
tore prison, bowling for the life Of
Marshal Rudolfo Graziani, Fascis
Minister of War and commander D.
the Italian Fascist army still resist
ing in north Italy.
However. partisans turned Graz
iani over to Col Norman Fiske, of
Portland, Oregon of the Allied COM
mission The Marshal was taken to
Fourth Corps headquarters outside
of Milan to be held as war GRIM
inal.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
Allies Capture
2,b28.5E kazis

WASHINGTON, May l. (UP)-A
total of 2,628,529 prisoners have
been taken by Allied armies in west
ern Europe since D-Day through
April 25,. the War Department has
announced.
The largest catch in any seven
day period was during the week
ended April Is when 56i,201 were
placed in prisoner of war cages.
The interval marked the final
liquidation of the Ruhr pocket,
which netted $4,000 prisoners.
In the seven days ended ANril
IS. the bag was 1863, ,496.
OF the overall bag, 1,500,000 we're
captured in the past seven weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
BY JAMES e. ROPER

MILAN, May l. (UP) -
Coffin No. 167, plain wood
en- box containing G the
patched-up corpse of Benito Mus
solini. lay in Milan morgue Tues
day while officials hunted for room
to bury it in the public cemetery.
..Mussolini will be buried in the
Milan cemetery. wherever there's a
place for him." said an official. He
added that the dead dictator would
be accorded neither special honors
nor special insults.
Partisans said the funeral of the
man who loved pomp and ceremony
so much would be simple one.
1t was scheduled tentatively for
Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01

The brain had been removed from
Mussolini's body, and criminologists
were examining it to see what made
him tick.
The body of the" sawdust Caes-
ar" rested on sawdust, loosely
thrown in the bottom Of the coffin.
He was nude and his blood-soaked
Uniform was tossed on top of him.
In casket 1856, still next to him, was
the body of Clara Petacci, covered
by the crimson stained skirt and
white blouse in which she had died.
Casket 1856 bore the remains of
former Fascist party secretary
Achille Starace, who was executed
Monday in Loretto Square.
The partisans asked Starace
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
Bill Would Give
New Place for
Auto Stickers

SACRAMENTO, May l. (UP)-
A bill to permit stickers to be put
on side windows of automobiles to
the rear of the driver was recon-
mended for passage Tuesday by the
Senate Transportation committee
Present law requires that all stick
erS must be placed in the lower
right-hand corner of the windshield.
in an area not more than seven
inches square.
Department of motor vehicles of
ficialS. who asked for the new law,
said the space is insufficient for the
various Stickers sometimes required.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
Americans Head
For Vienna

and cut the southern redoubt in two.
Third army tanks cracked into
Austria near Ober Kappel. IA miles
east Of the border fortress of Pas
SAT-, 81 miles northwest of Linz and
SO miles from Red army forces west
OF Vienna.
NEAR BALTIC
To the r,orth, the British Second
army broke out of its Elbe river
bridgehead and stormed within %
miles of the Baltic port Of Lubbock
in new push designed to split the
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01

lndn conference disputes With TIT
Americans and British
The exact date of Molotovs de-
parture is expected to be fixed
within the next "a hours.
AS an answer to reports that
Molotov was packing his bags "in
a huff" over the decision to admit
Argentina, it was stated authorita-
lively that at Big Four meeting
Monday night in Stettinius' apart
ment, Molotov showed no indication
of displeasure. 1t was stated that
the meeting of the four co-presi-
dents of the conference was the
most harmonious and satisfactory
yet held here.
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden, who is under similar
pressure to get back to London, will
stay in San Francisco at least two
weeks more, it was understood, and
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01

Tuesday, statement which did not
preclude the possibility of Berna-
dotte's communicating direct with
the Allied embassies in Stockholm.
Bernadotte' had no immediate
word on the persistent reports that
the Germans were withdrawing from
Copenhagen and possibly all Den
mark as prelude to their sur
render.
Churchill said he would make the
announcement to Commons during
its sitting Tuesday-if any pertinent
information was available.
Churchills statement came amidst
reports from Sweden that German
troops we're withdrawing from Cop
enhagen and possibly all Denmark
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
Herriot Heads
For France

LONDON, May /. (UP) -Edouard
Herriot, freed by the Red army
from a German sanatorium near
Berlin, took off from Moscow by
plane for France Monday, Radio
Moscow said Tuesday. Herriot was
thrice premier of France and at the
outbreak Of war was president of
the chamber of deputies.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
Swedish Envoy
Admits ak
With Him mIer
Bri+ain's Premier Advises Commons
Of Plans to Give News TO World;
Will Not Wait Full Reich Collapse

LONDON, May /. (UP)-Count Folke Bernadotte
Swedish emissary repued to be negotiating with Nazi
leaders for ermanys surrender confirmed Tuesday that
he had conferred with Heinrich Himmler 10 days ago.
A Swedish foreign office spokesman insisted however,
that Bernadotte had not brought back peace
from Himmer to be transmitted to the Allies through
the Stockholm government.
ANNOUNCEMENT MAY COME ANY TINE
Prime Minister Churchill meanwhile, limited in
that official statement clarifying the entire sit
uation might be expected
Churchill said he would inform commons Immediately
of any major developments and the British Home Min
stry said the prime minister would broadcast
word of Germanys surrender received
Bernadotte partially lifted the secrecy covering his
recent activities during conference late Tuesday
in the Swedish foreign office in Stockholm.
He refused to give details of any of his discussions
with Hmmer beyond the fact that they had 10 days
in the Baltic port of Luebeck-obvously to discuss
the Allied demand that Germany surrender uncondition
ally to the United States Britain and Russia
Bernadotte and the foreign office spokesman
phaszed that reply from Hmmer had been trans
mitted to the Allies through the Swedish government
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
HIN Is End near
German Broadcast Says
Hitler Dies In Battle

LONDON at Hambur
al tina tier is dead
There immediate
The radio said that Hitler fell
breath"
The radio said Grand Admiral
had succeeded Hitler.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
BY UNITED PRESS

Admiral Soemu Toyoda. COM
mander- -in-chief of the Japanese
combined fleets. has been appointed
head of a newly-created navy gen.
eral headquarters designed to CO.
ordinate all japanese naval acti-
vities ''in the coming defensive battle
of the sea-" Tokyo announced Tues
day.
The necessity of this system at
this particular time is of immense
significance" Togo radio reported
in q broadcast recorded by United
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
Soviet Observes May Day
Midst Military SpIendor

ing officials, and addressed the
massed Soviet troops
When the chief of staff finished,
a gigantic roar of hurrahs went up
from the 100000 men massed be-
fore him. 1t was so loud it drowned
out the Kremlin chimes and the
salvcs of the Kremlin's guns.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01
Measure Fixes
Penalty on
Prisoner Aids

WASHINGTON, Ma l. (UP)--
President Truman s.gned legisla-
ton Tuesday providing maximum
penalties of a $4,000 fine and 10
years Imprisonment for any person
sheltering escaped prisoners of war
or interned enemy aliens.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-01

Exactly at 10 o'clock, General
Alexei Antoncv, army chief of staff,
mounted copper colored horse
and galloped across Red Square
to the mausoleum There he
mounted the second tier. on which
stood Stain and ether high rank