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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-10-25
Health Dept. Conducts
Community Meetings

A community meeting was held
Tuesday night, October %, at Rich
land Negro School with an attend
ance of $50.
Mrs. Ilene Carter, Health Educa-
tor of the Holmes County Health
Department, showed the following
films:
"Old Mother Hubbard" Comedy
Let My People Live" tuberculosis
ITO The People of the u. S. A"
Venereal DISEASED. A discussion
preceded each film.
Similar programs have been giver
at Lexington Negro School, attend
ance 85, Franklin Negro Church at
tendance ITS, Durant Negro Schoo
attendance $50, Tchula Negro Schoo
attendance 100.
The Holmes County Health De
partment Staff is eager to help you
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-10-25
Allen w. Rucker
Gets Silver Stur

Mrs. Emma D. Murtagh, of Pick
ems, has just been notified that her
grandson, and nephew of Sheriff
Walter L. Murtagh, the late Staff
Sergeant Allen w. Rucker, Jr., OF
Lexington, Mass, has been awarded
the Silver Star for personal cour-
age and CONSPICUOUS gallantry in ac-
ton at the cost of his own life. The
medal was presented to his father
Allen w. Rucker, ST., by Major Gen
Sherman Miles, at a formal military
ceremony on historic Boston Com
mon, Boston, Mass.
Staff Sergeant Rucker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Allen w. Rucker, the form
er Elise Murtagh, of Ebenezer, Al
Somerset Road, Lexington, Mass.
was born in Bristol, Va, and gradu
ated with distinction from Valley
Forge Military Academy, class o
'43. He served in Co. c, 50th Armor
ed Infantry, Sixth Armored Division
of Patton's Third Army, and wa:
killed in action last April z. He pre-
viously had been awarded the Purple
Heart, the Good Conduct Medal, the
Combat Infantryman's badge ant
battle stars for combat in Alsace.
Lorraine, Belgium, the Battle o
the Bulge at Bastogne, the Rhyme
Crossing, and at Frankfort and Cas-
sci in General Patton's drive acros.
Germany. The Silver Star citation
awarded Staff Sergeant Rucker read.
! as follows:
"Silver Star" 'For gallantry in &C
ton in the vicinity of Washstedt
Germany, 7 April, 1945. Armed oni.
with a sub-machine gun, Staff Sg,
Rucker fe~arlessly charged and de
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-10-25
Presbyterian Church
H. S. Pastor

1000 A.. M. Sunday School
1l:O0 A. M. Morning Worship.
The pastor will preach on the SUBJ
ject, walking On The Sea of Life.
TOO p. M. Evening Worship.
AT this hour we will continue the
series of studies on Old Testament
Characters and the subject of the
message will be, "The Most Sublime
Man in the Old Testament"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-10-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Maxwell and
Ann visited Mrs. ]. w. Maxwell,
Tuesday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-10-25
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
c. M. DAY, Pastor

c. M. DAY, Pastor
GAS A. M. Sunday School.
HOO A. M. Worship Service.
900 P. M. Baptist Training Union
TOO p. M. Worship Service.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-10-25
Methodist Church

w. p. BAILEY, Pastor
Gas A. M. Sunday School.
HOO A. M. Preaching Service.
900 P. M. Youth Fellowship.
TOO p. M. Preaching Service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
Circus Officials A1Uait
 Court Decision Friday

winter quarters after the Boston Garden appearance in June. and might even apply for receivership.
 Robert Ringing. president of the corporation, who testified last night. said the future of the show would be desperately jeopardized' by inn prisonment of the men. Whether the circus could continue, he said would be up to the board of direc- tors.
 Counsel for the sentenced men aS- serted their imprisonment would mean the closing the show and re- sultant failure to meet millions Of dollars damage claims,
 James A. Haley, vice president and a director, who is under Sen- tence of one to five years, told Judge Shea that T think the people ot Hartford are the biggest stocxhold- CTS in the circus and everyone in the circus wants to do everything they can for them"
 Ringing said there was "only one chance in a thousand" that | the show would be able to continue after the Boston engagement. If the court did not reconsider Its earlier judgment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
Maedeburg Hit Again

London, April 3-(UP) = RAF mosquito bombers dropped block busters and fire bombs on Berlin and the synthetic oil manufactur- ing center of Magdebrug, 70 miles to the southeast, last night.
 Intruder aircraft of the bomber command attacked German air fields over wide area.
 Other mosquitoes of the RAF coastal command were revealed to have blown up a medium sized tanker and the dry dock in which it was resting in a rocket attack on Sandefjord anchorage on the Norwegian coast late yesterday.
 Six medium sized vessels at San defjord also were attacked with rockets.
 The air ministry announced last night RAF bomberS during March dropped 75,O0O tons of bombs on Germany, new record. The total brought the tonange of bombs dropped by all Allied air forces oll Germany during the month to nearly 150,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03

Hartford, Conn. April - GU. P)-The six circus officials charged with responsibility for last July's disastrous fire will know Friday wEe ther they must go to prison, or will be allowed to withdraw pleas Of no contest and stand trial.
 Friday is the expiration date Of stay of execution granted when sentences were imposed February 2l, Also, it is the date set by Super for Court Judge William J. Shea for the hearing of final arguments on motion to have the sentences suspended or permit change of pleading.
 All six officials of the Ringing Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Con- bined Shows, Inc, testified at a hearing yesterday that they entered pleas of no contest to manslaughter charges with the supposition that they would receive suspended sem tences so they could continue oper- ations of the circus. They claimed, also, through counsel, that their jobs could not be filled by anyone else connected with the show and that if they were imprisoned the Icircus probably would return to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
Germans Moy Stage Weser
 River Stand
(Navy photo from NEA Telephoto)
By REUEL S. MOORE

Washington, April 3-(UP)--Mil- itary observers doubted today that the Germans would be able to make any strong or prolonged defensive stand along the Weser river.
 The Weser now appears to be the only practical place before Berlin for the Germans to attempt to check the Allied tide, and events indicate that such an attempt will be made.
 The Elbe river, which runs about midway between the WeSer and Berlin, also is good natural bar rier. But the Elbe runs almost as close to Berlin as does the Oder on the Russian front. Thus the Nazis probably would not elect to make a stand there because their defense would be too constricted between the western Allies and Rd armies.
 Lending strength to the belief that the Germans will try to stage a defense along the Weser is the retirement of German forces east ward from Holland. Likewise, en- circled Nazi forces in the Ruhr are trying to break out in direction that would carry them to the WeSer.
 U. s. First Army units are ap- preaching the upper reaches of the Weser, but they have already pro- gressed a long way from the Rhine and may be forced soon to wait for their supplies to catch up. More over, they will have their hands full stopping the attempted Ger man break-out,
 There has been a slowing down of the Allied armies in the north after the initial bursts of speed. All these factors may permit the Germans to marshal forces along the Weser.
 At best, however, the Germans cannot except to make as effective stand on the Weser as they did on the Rhine. Probably half of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
Eighth Army Neors City of Comocchio

Rome, April 3-UP)-Assault troops of the Eighth Army neared the city of Comacchio, 18 miles north of Ravenna on Italys east coast today after seizing almost half of a 16-mile long sand spit between Lake Comacchio and the Adriatic.
 The operation. in which more than 200 enemy troops and an 88- nm gun were captured, was carried out by three Allied forces early yesterday from Eighth Army posi- tions along the Pc Di Primaro Ri- yer.
 While one column pushed up the sand spit, two other forces swung around over the lake and landed behind the German defenses. An enemy gun on a small island in the Pc Di Primaro shelled the landing points, but was quickly seized by the troops moving overland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
Writer Says Nazis Through AsNation forManyDecades

andS of relatively unscathed small towns and villages.
 But with Hitler's completey mad policy of continuing the war when every German knows the game IS up, it means even the picturesque non-industrial ana militarily-un- important places are being smashed as the Allies drive .relentlessiy on
 It's difficult to be objective about Germany and the Germans when you're an American and when you daily are with American soldiers fighting to smash the enemy, but viewing the present condition oi Germany objectively any observer must be appalled, by the indescrib- able destruction.
 Before and even during the war 1t was a big story in America when the Mississippi floods or the east ern seaboard tornadoes wrought several million dollars in damage.
 But no one but an astronomer and slide rule expert could cal culate the millions of dollars oi damage done to Germany.
 An American might get an Idea of conditions in Germany If he could visualize Pittsburgh. Chicago
 Milwaukee and hundreds of othel | industrial cities, plus New Yorl and Washing ton, in ruins.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
2 Meningitis Cases Listed

Two cases of meningitis, the first appearance of this communicable disease here since December, are listed for Waterbury for the week ending March 31 according to the morbidity report of the state de- partment of Health.
 The cases are now confined to the New Haven General hospital and are progressing satisfactorily ac- cording to Dr. E. J. Godfrey, city health officer. One victim resides on East Main street and the other op Fairview street.
 An increase in meningitis has been revealed throughout the na- tion synonymous with such trends in wartime, Dr. Godfrey pointed out. However, the moral dangers presented by this illness have been reduced to an negligible factor through the application of sulfa drugs which have reduced the mor- tality rate from almost 100 per cent to almost per cent. Waterbury has been fortunate generally in being free from any epidemic proportions of this illness, 1t was stated by the health officer.
 Other local communicable dis. eases listed for the city for the weeks period consist of but ono case of scarlet fever while one case of whooping cough is registered for Naugatuck.
 State totals for all types of listed diseases are as follows: lobar pneu- monia, 39; scarlet fever, 70; menin- gitis, 5; measles, 97; whooping cough. 35; chickenpox, 131; humps, 131; gonorrhea. 28, and syphilis, 43
 No cases of infantile or typhoid fever are listed throughout the en- tire state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
.Mon Arrested
 .75Times Now Prison Bound

A sentence of one to three years in the states prison at Wethersf1eld was imposed by Superior Court Judge John A. Cornell today on John Nolan, 3S, of Waterbury, who admitted theft of Q clock, valued at $75, from the Alderson funeral home on March 12. The case was one of several disposed of at the opening of the April criminal term.
 States Attorney William B. Fitz- gerald told the court Nolan has been arrested 75 times since 1922, mostly for drunkenness and breach of peace. He stated the principal cause of the difficulty of the &C., cused has been intoxicating liquor and he recommended a prison sen- tence so Nolan would have "the benefit of treatment"
 The director of the funeral home discovered the clock was missing from the shelf shortly after the &C., cuSed visited the Central avenue parlors, the prosecutor stated. A police officer later in the evening found Nolan at tavern on Scovill street and the clock was concealed under his legs, it was disclosed. The court was told Nolan has no definite place of abode
 Ralph Nicolas, 25, of 20 Bank street, was taken into custody by Cheshire reformatory officials as a parole violator after Judge Cornell imposed a suspended reformatory sentence on a charge of using a motor vehicle without permission Nicolas pleaded guilty to taking a car owned by Frank DiStasio from in front of the Popular Market al 537 Congress avenue on March 3 He was arrested that same night when the vehicle crashed into g telephone pole on East Main street
 The prosecutor pointed out Nicho. jas was sentenced to the Cheshire reformatory April 6, 1943 on a nor. ale charge, and still has a consid. erable amount of time to serve or the sentence. The accused had beer released recently on parole. A record of three previous arrests on charge: of taking motor vehicle permis- sion also was cited.
 A suspended one-year jail Sen- tence was imposed on John Scott, 22 of 309 Hamilton avenue, on charge of attempted burglary. The accused who pleaded guilty, was arrested Sunday following a chase by resi- dents of the Baldwin street section.
 It was disclosed Scott entered a first floor apartment on River street
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
Cooler Weather Looms Tomorrow

Boston, April 3.-(UP)-The ex- tended New England weather fore cast for the next four days:
 "Tne temperature in New Eng land during Wednesday through Saturday will average from two to six degrees below the seasonal nor- mai. Much cooler weather Wednes- day and Thursday will be followed by return to near normal tempera- ture Friday and Saturday.
 "A few normals for this period follow: Boston-42: New Haven, Conn.-43: Nantucket-40; Concord. N. H.. and Portland, Me.-39; Bur- lington, Vt.-37 and Eastport. Me- S5.
 The precipitation during this same period will average from, one third to three fourths of an inch In northern New England and three 1Ourtins or more in southern New England. It will occur as rain ex- cept as snow on the high eleya- ticnS of northern New England late Tarsday and Friday"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
BY JACK FLEIsCHER

Frankfurt-on-the Aprll D. (UP) Germany has had it.
 Nobody who hasn't seen the dew astated villages, town and cities dlid the wretched Germans remaining among the rubble of American oc- cupied territory can fathom the condition of Germany.
 Realizing full well how Germany rebounded after the last war to threaten the entire worlds Secui . ity 21 years later, and recognizing the Germans traditional industry still am willing to predict that Germany is finished as a nation foi decades to come.
 When l saw Aachen and sur rounding places last winter though maybe that was an extreme and exceptional picture of destruc- tion. But now I'v seen Germany from Trier through the Moselle val lev and the Saar Basin, and acros; the Rhine through Darmstadt ano Frankfurt.
 Germany is 6 complete wrecl from bombing -- even without the devastation that goes with the bat tles for big cities.
 If the Germans quit today, ol if they had quit few weeks ago they still would have had thous'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
Goering Dead Says Coptive
BY W. R. HIGGINBOTTOM

London, April 3. (P)-A captured German general told front cor respdertS today that Adolf Hitler plans to die in battle at the head of SS Elite Guard troops especially picked for the honor of dying with the fuehrer.
 SS units already were designated for the sacrifice, German Maj Gen. Hans Boehslen said in an interview with London News-C Chronicle correspondent on the Third Army front
 Another captured German. Prince Engelbert Charles Arenberg, first German prince to fall into Allied hands, said he had received private word that Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering was dead.
 Other high Nazi chiefs still were alive and making their escape to some rideout, presumably in the Bavarian Alps, he told London Daily Telegraph corresondent on the American Ninth Army front.
 The prince, along with his princess, Valerie Marie, who claimed to be a great granddaughter Of Queep Victoria and a distant cousin of King George VI, were found in their 300-room palace at Norhrchen near Ludinhausen in Westpahhia. A dispatch from the Swiss border said Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himm- Ter spent Easter at the Bavarian town of Bregenz with other mem- bers of the Naz inner gang plan. ming a last stand in the Baverian mountains.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
Luzon Trop Faces Japs
RY H. D. QUIGG

Manila, April 3.-(UP)-U. s. as- sault troops squeezed the Japanese into a hopeless trap On southeast ern Luzon today after an amphlbl- ous landing that overran the port oi Legaspi and its airfield.
 Seasoned veterans of Brig. Gen Hanford McNider's 158th regimental combat team completed the en- circlement of the Japanese in south ern Luzon Sunday with surprise landing near Lagaspi, 200 miles southeast of Manila.
 Fire from heavy coastal batteries met the invasion craft, but opposi- ton faded when the troops hit the beaches under cover of a naval and air bombardment. Within three and half hours, the Americans had secured Lagaspi, largest port in southeastern Luzon, it's nearby airfield and started a drive to the north.
 Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the landing and capture of Legaspl which had a pre-War population of IS, 7e0, was effected with little loss."
 A to-day pre-invasion aeria bombardment, in which more thar 2000t tons of bombs were dropped on Legaspi area, had shattered the Japanese defenses and forced then to withdraw inland.
 The Japanese coastal fire failed to seriously damage any Of the landing ships or vessels in the maya supporting force commanded by Capt. H. F. McGree.
 In pushing northwest from Legas- pi, southern terminus of the Manila railroad, MacNider's troops ad- vanced through a pass onto Bicol Plain and were moving rapidly over open rice fields.
 MacNider,s drive was aimed at effecting a junction with First Cavalry and 11th Airborn Division troops flaming east and southeast through the Island below Laguna Bay.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
Crowley May Get FLA Job
BY JOHN CJTTTER.

Washington, April 3-(UP)-Sen- ators kept their fingers crossed to- day in speculating on Presid dant RooSevelt'S choice of a successor for Fred M. Vinson as Federal Loan Administer.
 They hoped it would bring no re- currence of the bitter fight that arose when the senate considered and rejected-Henry A. Wallace as the custodian of the multi-billion dollar REC and its subsidiaries.
 The loan job came into the spot light yesterday when Vinson. who had held it less than a month, was namad to succeed James F. Byrnes as War Mobilization Direct tor. Prompt approval of Vinson's nomin- ation was assured.
 Presidential Secretary Jonathan Daniels told reporters it wasn't known yet whether Vinson would continue as loan administrator, but senators generally doubted that would be the case.
 Senate Democratic leader Alben w. Barkley of Kentucky said it would take special legislation tc combine the two jobs.
 Most senators took the position that the mobilization and reconver- sion job was big enough in itself for one man. They refused Wallace both the secretaryship and the loan agen- cies with the argument that lending billions of government dollars was ful-time pob in itself.
 The only name mentioned as a possible Vinson successor was that of foreign economic administrator Leo Crowley. Friends of Crowley dis claimed any positive knowledge that he was under consideration. It was recalled that at the time the loan agencies were taken out of the commerce department there was some mention of Ambassador John Winant for the job which subse- quently went to Vinson. Winant re- portedly would like to leave his Lon- don diplomatic post. s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
Red Troops
 In Baden, II From Vienna
By ROBERT MUSEL

London, April 3-(UP)-Soviet columns drove into Baden, only II miles south of Vienna, and ad- yanced on the Austrian capital to- day. Fighting also ragged in Wiener Neustadt and Bratislava, capital of the puppet state of Slovakia.
 The Nazi Tranocean Agency re- ported that violent street fighting was in progres in Baden, Bratislava and Wiener -Neustadt.
 At the present rate of advance it appeared the entry of the Red Army into the Austrian capital could not be long delayed despite frantic Nazi efforts to organize the city for a last ditch stand.
 The Germans claimed that the attacks on Wiener Neustadt were repulsed but the Soviet advance had already cut Vienna from it's connections with the industrial south The same advance had be- gun to snap German communica- tions with their forces still fighting in northern Yugoslavia.
 1lc lllIO w lCLiS4 Neustadt, g miles south of Vienna and site of one of Germany's big gest Messerschmitt aircraft fac tories, was revealed by Ernst vor Hammer, German DNB Agency military commentator, in a Berlir broadcast.
 Heavy street fighting was unde, way, von Hammer said.
 Marshal Feodor l. Tolbukhin' Third Ukrainian Army group, by Soviet account, was only eight miles southeast of Wiener -Neustadt Sunday. The city has been bombed on numerous occasions by Italy based American planes seeking out it's aircraft plants.
 Moscow dispatches said Marsha Rodion Y. Malinoysky's Second Ukrainian Army group drove into the outskirts of Bratislava, eastern gateway to Vienna, after capturing Biskupice, two and half miles tc the southeast.
 Bratislava lies 30 miles east oi Vienna. Other Russian units were within gun range of the greater Vienna area delineated by Adolf Hitler in 1888 and less than 20 miles
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03
Farley Delay Foolish Talk Claims Bloom
BY R. Fl. SHACKFORD

Washington, April B. (UP) - The Russian version of the secret Yalta agreement indicated today that the Soviet Union and the United States might seek three votes at the San Francisco conference as well as one the world assembly to be created.
 The voting procedure for the con- ference has not been officially an- nounced, although Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., has said that it is under discussion by the sponsoring nations.
 Stett.lius, who will meet with the U. s. delegation today, will have a chance to clarify the issue at noon conference with state department correspondents. Since the furor over the secret voting deal made at YaEa, the secretary has been in almost constant consulta tion with Senators, his advisors a'cd the White House.
 The Tass (Russian News Agency version of the Yalta agreement RdVC 1AoU 1l41U O1l dAAy ooPCSV VA the voting procedures for the San Francisco barley. The White House version mentioned only that Russia would seek separate votes in the as- sembly for White Russia and the Ukrab:e and that if it were granted, the U. s. also would ask for three votes.
 The Tass report was under careful study by diplomats here. In the first place, it revealed that the Soviet request for separate repre- sentation, political importance and the fact that the share contributed to the common cause of the rout Of Hitlerite Germany exceeds those or some states which /. were consld- cred as founders of the international organization" Russia obviously was (Continued on Page 4)