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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-06

among the leaders in its class. He
succeeds President West, author,
Rotary District Governor, who sue
ceeded j. S. Vandiver, who went
from there to be State Su%perintend-
ent Of Education two terms and is
now President of Chamberlain Hunt
Academy at Port Gibson.
Pluns For q Won Memorial ere 60
ing forward. Recently Commander
Povall of Daniel w. Beall Post of
the American Legion and some of
his committee went to Durant to
consult with Commander King and
some of his lieutenants Of Preston
Hudson Post about Memorials and
related subjects. No attempt was
made to reach definite conclusions
but information and ideas were ex-
changed and substantial agreement
was found as to the desirability Of
lasting and worth while memorials
that should be useful, handsome and
permanent. The Preston Hudson
members were a fine and keen lot Of
first class business men who stream
ed in quickly at the call Of the Com
mander. No complete plans have
been prepared but r taking shape
in responsible heads.
August Wos The Foremost Month
in World History. The Atomic Bomb
alone would make it that. Then
Radar was revealed, a method OF
finding the direction and distance
and course and speed if moving-of
any desired object. The full import
of neither is understood yet. In Aug
ust the biggest war in history was
brought to an end by unconditional
surrender of two of the most mill
taristic nations the world ever saw.
A recount Of all the crowded Incl
dents of the month would fill a
library.
Puy Rolls Still q Live Topic. We
must have them to give our farmers
a market for produce as well as cot
ton. If our farmers r not pros
porous the balance of us will suffer.
Some of our best business men have
been delegated to see to a hotel, a
good pay roll and market in itself
and relieving us of the need to send
visitors, travellers, prospectors to
Durant or Greenwood to spend the
night. That makes a distinct bad i'm
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-06
CURRENT COMMENT
BY Henry Willis

The Orderly Discharge Of Service
men apparently planned to avoid as
Ear as possible, an unemployment
congestion during the shift-over
period seems about to be badly up
set by insistent demands for inn
mediate discharge and return home.
The Army and Navy seemed to have
planned to bring the men home over
a period Of a year and a half in Or
der that discharged men might find
prompt acceptance in re-converted
industries. Thus to prevent a serious
unemployment problem.
The New Football Coach. 1t. Col.
Allie Povall, had a good turn out of
nineteen candidates for the team at
first practice. That speaks well for
full team, possibly two teams to
70 into the season with. Another
team so that scrimmages might be
held in practice would 60 far to
make a winning team, though 1t is
not by any means expected that we
will win all our games. A team must
play better team in order to improve
their own play. Coach has tentative
plans to bring out town support for
the team. The encouragement of full
stands and cheering is necessary for
q young team to make it show up at
its best. It is a town duty to be at
the games and cheer-on the team.
There are expenses too-uniforms,
travel, officials-that your small
entrance fee will help meet. The
Colonel may plan a game for the
Rotarians to sponsor, they to e to
the attendance. Another to the
Chamber Of Commerce, another to
the Business and Professional Wom-
ems Club, others to Churches, etc.
We can boost the team which will
boost the school, which will boost
the teachers, which will boost the
city, which will boost the morale of
every citizen. Lets GO!
Many of US Remember Milton Hor.
ton who lived just beyond Beulah
Church in the curve of the road
where it forks. His son B. II. Hor-
ton, is the able President Of Sun
flower Junior College at Morehead,
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-06
.AttoIo Lists Holmes
Rood Improvements

Road projects approved by the
Attala County Board of Supervisors
for postwar Improvement will hit
Holmes county's boundry line at
two separate places, according to the
list published in the August 30th
issue of The Star-Herald.
They are the projects from Sails
to Newport thence to the Holmes
county line at or near Goodman, a
distance of 16 miles; and from West
then on West-K osciusko road to beat
line, Ill miles.
These roads are included in the
program slated for the State of Mis-
sissippi under the terms of the new
Federal Aid Highway law.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-06

will result in the richest gold mine
in Canada. Not far from Yellow
knife on the edge of Great Bear
Lake, radium is being produced in
large quantities and a mineral known
as tantalum is found in this neigh
borhood too. Oil from Fort Norman
is expected to supply these enter
prises and the Canadian government
is planning to construct a modern
highway to the town of Yellow
knife which is already growing by
leaps and bounds. According to his
tory books, it was less than a hun
dred years ago that there was a
gold rush to a place called Califor-
MIA. Maybe this will be another one.
Joe warns however of INSCRIPTIONS
brokers who r flooding the mails
with alluring literature about great
fortunes to be made quickly and
cautions that all mines are a gamble
and should be invested in only after
careful investigation through reput-
able people.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-06
preston on strangers.
The Delta Agents Aysoci,

va
The Delta Agents Association
Scholarships announced here in
JULY has just been awarded to
(girls) Miss Edna Corinne Feather,
Hushpuckena, Bolivar county and
(boys) to Bobby Joe Moser, More
head, Sunflower county. Each schol-
arship carries $4,000 cash and the
college supplies work enough to pay
the balance of the tuition at least.
Another of the girl applicants was
so close up that means was found to
see that she too-Mjss Gwendolyn
Arbuckle, Charleston, Tallahatchie
county-will receive $4,000 for the
year. 1t has been the Associations
practice to award a second year to
the holders of the scholarships if
they made good the first year. This
years selections have such fine rec
ords in and out of school that it is
almost certain that they will make
good. If such is the case there will
be another award not sooner than
two years hence. The Yazoo Delta
Local Agents Association is COM
posed of Delta Insurance Agencies
representing the safe Stock Com
panies. All three Lexington Agen-
cies are members and contributors
to the Scholarship funds. For some
fifteen years the writer has been a
member of the Committee that "a
warded the Scholarships. Every one
of the holders has made good in col
lege and in after life. The Agents
feel that no better use could have
been made of the amounts that were
awarded.
A Peorl Horbor Report" is out.
Its contents are chiefly remarkable
for conveying no information. The
Army wasn't ready and the Navy
wasn't ready and somebody ignored
a warning that morning. The Japs
destroyed our fleet-eight battle
ships several cruisers and d~estroyers
--riddled our Army planes on the
ground, burned ~arsenals and sup
plies, killed 5000 men at a loss to
them of lot plans. The only explana-
ton is that the pacifists in and out
of Congress had brought the country
to such a state of mind we couldn't
magazine an attack on U.s. Why
hadn't we whipped the world in
World War l? The preachers told us
to be passive and lovable and soft
headed and we were, but they
didn't tell the Huns and the Japs
and Thor and Bushido were ignored.
The cost to us was a million casual
ties and three hundred billion dol
lars and much else we don't know
yet. Put your trust in Providence, of
! course, but keep your powder dry.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-06

city is said to be as little like Amer
lea as any place in the world, it
isn't that way for them. Some of
them even reach down and grab up
a handful of the good earth and
whoop and shout for Joy. You can
have the rest of the world, they say.
Just give us the good old U.S.A.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-06

DOT is already available in dusts
for farm crops but at this late date
little will probably be used this sea-
SON.. A dust containing 3ee is very
effective against several field and
garden pests and detailed recon-
mendations will be sent out before
next spring stating the pests which
it will control and those for which
it is of no value.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-06
So This Is New York
BY North Callahan

One of the funniest sights this
town has seen in a long time was
that of Mayor La Guardia being en-
braced and kissed by General De
Gaulle. Now it's odd-looking enough
for one man to be hugging another
but when they are the size and
proportions of these two double
named individuals, the event reach
es the stage of the b~urlesque. Butch
La Guardia is just about five feet
tall and almost that wide, it seems.
General De Gaulle is way over six
feet and as slender as a piece of
French toast. So when the General
in traditional Bourbon style bent
over to salute our little Butch on the
cheek, the latter had to tip-toe up
wards and the clinch resembled a
stubby end on a high school football
team tackling a giant fullback on a
college varsity eleven. But both men
came out of it in fine fettle and each
then gave the other a medal-prob-
ably for GOODNESS under fireyness.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-06

Joe Doctor who has predicted so
well the development of atomic en-
ergy now forecasts another develop
ment. A group of Wall Street men
have just left for the last mineral
frontier in America-the Arctic ter
ritory of Canada. Several gold mines
are being developed in the Yellow
knife section of this area and some
mining engineers predict that this,
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-06

Gertrude Killebrew, Lexington.
Rt. 4.
Georgia Lee Simms, Durant.
Mrs. Jessie Fillyaw, Durant.
Mrs. Katheryn Harvey, West.
M. E. Blake, Lexington.
Mrs. Kathleen Ravens, Lexington.
Edna Hellon Herrin, Lexington.
Joyce Thweatt, Goodman.
Robert Thweatt, Goodman.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-06

gold rush to a place called Califor-
mia. Maybe this will be another n
Joe warns however of INSCRIPTIONS
brokers who are flooding the mails
with alluring literature about great
fortunes to be made quickly and
cautions that all mines are a gamble
and should be invested in only after
careful Investigation through reput-
able people.
There is much talk of but little
sight of nylons here. If some one
were running for election right now
and could promise the return of
these slow but sheer items for our
women folks, he would undoubted-
ly be elected without a run. Red
points may be one thing and blue
points may be oysters, but when it
comes to wearing dingy stockings
our women would rather 60 hungry.
Some of them have already averred
that what they want for Christmas
this year is not SO much stockings
bullying with interesting boxes, but
interesting boxes bullying with stock
ings in various nylon shades.
Recently l attended an event in
which Alan Curtis, the movie actor.
was master of ceremonies and DON
aid Novis, the singer, was one of
the performers. I was struck by the
contrast in these two men, the form
err a young, handsome film star, the
an entertainer of the old
school. The difference was notice
able even when I talked to them be-
fore and after the performance. AL
Curtis is handsome and gave
many of the young girls apparent
heart-throbs, his act vas straight
and not too colorful, while Novis
who is not as brilliant in his vocal
izing as he once was, had plenty of
lively personality and held his audi
ence tense from the time he appear
ed before them.
Robert Miller, S, of this city got
tired of it. In fact he had a banker
ing for the small town he once
knew. This dislike of the big city
and it's times and habits reached a
when he was set upon and
by heat-irritated boys in the
where he was playing. So
Robert proceeded to hop a train and
out of town. Down in Red Bank,
New Jersey, he was spotted riding
in comfortable loneliness on the
freight train and taken to the local
police who in turn saw that he got
quickly and safely back to his anxi-
u parents in Gotham. They were
not surprised, they said. Robert had
often threatened to do this. Now he
knew what it led to.
New York has some new COM
muters nowadays. There have al
ways been people here who live in
the suburbs and take the train or
even boats to work each day. The
new commuters make their first
stop here after leaving the European
Theater. They're all in uniform and
many of them practically 60 wild
when they see Her Free Majesty
the Lady with the Lamp, the Statue
of Liberty in the harbor. l suppose
that all these fellows will remember
New York very pleasantly because
it is their first glimpse of home in
a long, long time. And although this
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Cupt. Henry Brown, Yunk Ace
In Europe, 'Sufe in Nozi Comp

In his cadet days, she revealed. this
good fortune kept him In the air
forces when he was slated to be
washed out"
I'm in Stalag Luft No. g." Capt.
Brown continued. which is an old
camp and everything is very nice. I
have lot of friends here and we
have a swell time. The Red Cross is
doing good job over here and
I'm glad I'm a member of it."
Asking his mother to send some
packages with warm clothing, he
said, Send food-mainly chocolate
candy. Large bars"
"I know you must have worried
about me, but as I told you when I
was home I will not be hut All I
need now is haircut" His sec
ond letter consisted chiefly of re-
peating his requests for concen-
trated food and for warm clothing.
HE always has been lucky" Mrs.
Grant said, land we're particularly
happy that his luck did not run
too thin when he crashed"
Mrs. Grants youngest brother,
she said, was stationed at bomber
base in England when Billy"
crashed and he had arrived at Capt.
Browns base on a 48-hour pass,
planning to meet him on his return
from the last mission. He heard
Evening star., 1945-01-27
New Ration Program
Expected 10 Avert
Buying Rushes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Acting to allay fear OF another
sudden invalidation of food ration
stamps, the OPA has set forth a
definite policy on cancellation of
food stamps.
Hereafter the agency announced
yesterday, red stamps for meats and
fats and blue for procesSed foods
viii expire four months from the
date of issuance. This replaces the
program of indefinite validity for
these coupons which had been In
effect since last spring.
Sugar stamps also were given
fixed expiration dates again. No. "a,
now in use, will be invalid after
February 28. The next sugar stamp,
No. 35, will be valid February /
for five pounds and remain good
through June Q. Sugar stamp No
SO is scheduled for valuation May /
New Series Each Month.
OPA will continue to validate q
new series of red and blue stamps
at the start of each month. usually
five of each color at time. Since
they will be good for four months
this means that four blocks of each
Evening star., 1945-01-27

His mot ther Cant Brown.
feels sure he won't get hurt be-
cause he is blessed with good luck.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Taft Promised LIST
OF Needs in Fight for
CCC Subsidy Curbs.
ay the Associated Press.


Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
battling to put a limit on Com
modify Credit Corp. farm subsidies
won a promise from administration
farm officials today to present an
itemized statement of probable SUBJ
sidy needs.
War Food Administrator Marvin
Jones told the Senate Banking Com
mittee he would undertake to get
this list ready by Monday. Until
then hearings on bill to extend
the Gees life from next June 30
to June 80, 1947, and grant it addi-
tional borrowing powers are sus-
pended.
Nearly 2 Billion Spent Yearly.
Senator Taft said he figures Gov
ernment subsidies of all kinds are
running about 81 300 O,0O0, 900 a year
He estimated $1,000, 100000 for the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. and
$700,000,000 to $800,000,000 for the
CCC.
The CCC bill, introduced by Sen
ator -Bankhead, Democrat, of Ala
bama would increase the agency's
borrowing power from $4,000, 900 900
to $4,000 100000.
Senator Taft contended that as
drawn it would let the CCC spend
the whole $4,000 100000 on sub
sides, land in the next six months
If they want to-
I'VE ought to write in definite
limit on subsidies instead of saying
here's $2,000.000000 you can spend
as you please" he told other COM
mittee members.
No Objection to Limitations.
Mr.. Jones said he had no objec-
.tion to trying to work out some
limitations, but argued that Con-
gress, by directing loan programs,
made most of the agency's COM
mitments He also said any limita-
tions should leave the CCC free to
meet any food emergency which
might develop.
Senator Taft suggested hmita-
tions by items might be placed on
some of the major programs and
a lump sum provided for other pro-
grams, to be used at the Gees dis
cretion. Mr.. Jones agreed that an
arrangement of that nature might
be workable.
Evening star., 1945-01-27

kind will always be IN use. expiring
on . staggered basis.
The drst red and blue stamps
to expire under the new system
will be those which came into use
December and 3, respectively. They
will not be valid after March 81.
They include:
Red, Q5, RS and SIS; blue, ks,
VS.. rs, AZ and B2.
The new policy clears up uncer-
tainty which has prevailed since
late last month, when OPA inval-
idated without warning all food
stamps put in use prior to the start
LOT December.
Housewives had been promised
advance warning of any cancella-
ton, but the agency said the emer-
gency measure was warranted be-
cause food supplies were at dam
gerously low level.
The new program. OPA said was
designed to prevent accumulation
of large backlogs of unused sta... IS
as well as avert last-minute buying
rushes. With four months to spend
each series Of stamps housewives
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Rules for Rental Brokers
Placed in Effect Here

The District Rent Control Ad-
ministration has announced it has
placed in operation revised regula-
tions controlling sales and rentals
of rooming houses by business
chance brokers.
Regulations originally were sched-
uled to 60 in effect January / but
after protests by brokers, the ad-
ministration received suggestions
and revised the regulations.
Brokers will have to furnish the
rental Office the name and address
of the proprietor and the street ad-
dress of the rooming or boarding
house involved in any transaction.
Originally, the. agency had asked
for wide range of information.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Maurras Defense 10 Give
Final Arguments Today
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LYON. France, Jan. 27-The de-
fense prepared to present final argu-
ments today in the trial of 76-year-
old Charles Maurras, royalist editor
for whom the state has demanded
the death penalty on charges of
treason and collusion with the
enemy.
Defense witnesses testified Maur-
ras was the only Frenchman who
denounced the Hitler peril from the
beginning One witness who had
lived in Nazi concentration camp
for 36 months asserted he had rea-
son to believe that the Nazis re-
garded Maurras as the No. l enemy
of French-German collaboration.
A subeditor on Maurras' paper
testified American newsmen inter
viewed Maurras in Lyon after its
liberation. Maurras had told the
court that in the interview he ex-
planned his belief that restoration
of the monarchy was a necessity,
but that in all events France should
have a truly French government.
Evening star., 1945-01-27

the radio exchange between Capt.
Brown and the rest of his flight inn
|mediately preceding his crash land
ing In Germany. when he said, Il
don't have scratch, But my -
- motor won't rum" FLAX had
disabled the engine the captain ex-
planned.
Describing the earlier instance of
his luck, she said when he was
training at Spence Field, Ga, he re-
ceived three pink slips for unsatis-
factory performances, which were
supposed to wash" him out. How
ever, he went to the commanding
officer and told him the slips we're
the result of not being able to work
with his instructor. Following a
subsequent test fight with the COM
manding officer, he received salts
factory rating.
by this slim margin" Mrs. Grant
said, "he was able to join the fight
and score his victories.
At the time Capt. Brown crashed,
he was credited with 16 German
planes in the air and "A on the
ground.
HE has plenty of spirit" his
mother concluded, land I know
wherever he is, he will get along all
right and If it's possible for him to
have any fun, he will have it,"
Evening star., 1945-01-27
THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c. ~ A.


will be able to space expenditures
evenly over the period, OPA said.
Seek to Avert Rush.
| While definite expiration dates
were In effect prior to last March,
each series Of stamps was good for
only about seven weeks. This led to
buying r,lshes, the agency said
when the program was abandoned
This is the schedule OF expiration
dates for other red and blue stamps
Red-T5, US, VS., WIS and ks,
valid December 81, good through
April %; VS., rs, Az, B2, ca and
DE-, valid January %, good through
June 2.
Blue-C2, DE-, E2, F2 and ca, valid
January l, good through April %;
H2, J2, K2, L2 and M2, valid Feb
ruary /, good through June 2.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Three Flyers Who Crashed
Forced 10 Pay Bus Fare
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla, Jan. 27-An indig-
nant serviceman wrote the Miami
Herald yesterday that a bus driver
who rescued" three Navy flyers
after their plane crashed into the
sea near the overseas highway, COL
lected fares before bringing them
to Miami.
The serviceman asked that his
name be withheld He said the
driver stopped the bus and waited
while the flyers made way from the
partly submerged plane to shore,
then required S2.13 in fare from
each.
R. c. Solliday, assistant district
passenger agent of the Florida
Motor Lines, said he did not know
that the driver had collected fares.
He suggested that a letter to Traf-
fic Manager T. B. Osteen at Jack
sonville would bring a refund.
II think the three men should
have been brought to Miami free of
charge, by all means" commented
Mr.. Solliday.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
G. w. Sets Up Center
To Help Ex-Servicemen

A center to advise returned serv-
.icemen on their education has been
established by George Washington
University at 720 Twenty second
street NV. Dr. Edwin w. Davis,
former education research director
of Vermont, will direct the center
and serve as an associate professor
of psychology.
The center will advise veterans
trying to decide on future vocation
and the courses they should take,
DR.. Davis said. If the veteran de-
cides to register at the university,
he will come under the university's
Office of Veterans Education, to be
] administered by DR.. Donnell B.
Young, zoology professor. The serv-
ice is open to any veteran, however.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
BY PAUL BEACH.

Dear Nom: Well, here am, the
guest of the German government fol
the duration. I am not hurt, MOI
do I expect to be hurt"
In this tone Capt. Henry w
Brown, top American fighter ace In
Europe when his plane crash LANDED
in Germany October 8, just after
he had scored his 30th victory
wrote the first letter his mother
Mrs. Addison w. Grant, 5017 N
Twenty fifth street, Arlington, has
Evening star., 1945-01-27
|Selectee Misses Bus;
Writes He's in Prison
By the Associated Press.

NORTH ATTLEBORo, Mass
One fellow wasn't On the bus when
the North Attleboro 4 elective Serv-
Ice Board sent its 4S-A van quota to
Fort Banks for prein tuction ex-
animation.
He wrote this note oNt,,e board:
Sorry, but 4 will have to MS the
bus. I am doing two years 81. -tch
in State Prison"
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Jap Who Sank Punuy
Leaves Youth Corps
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
! Another indication of Japanese
I. political unrest came from the
Tokyo radio yesterday with an
nouncement that Col. Kingoro
Hashimoto, whose flyers sank the
United States gunboat Panay in
China's Yangtze River in 1887, had
resigned as a central headquarters
director of Japan's youth corps.
Hashimoto was the army COM
mander in the Yangtze area when
the Panay was sunk.