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The Lexington advertiser., 1945-10-25

actions of our Navy ever since.
Lexington. Va. Oct. 18th. 1870
Gen. Robert E. Lee breathed hi!
last this morning, result of con
gestion of the brain, in his 63rd year
Places of business throughout Vir.
ginia have been closed. Bells are
tolling and the whole community
has been thrown into the deepest
grief. Forth from its scabbard all
in vain bright flashed the sword OF
Lee; 'Tis shrouded now in its sheath
again, 1t sleeps the sleep of our noble
slain, Defeated, yet without STAIN
Proudly and peacefully.
A County Memorial for our SOL
diers and Sailors and auxiliary
corps, whether men or women, is
becoming more definite. 1t will
most likely take the shape of a
handsome, useful and permanent
monolithic concrete, tile floored
building furnished with metal tables,
chairs, book shelves-the least pos
sible wooden broad and firm
foundations sunk to hard clay and
allowed to settle so that there could
be no cracked walls and requiring
a minimum of repairs and upkeep
expense. It would provide assembly
rooms, usable for luncheons, lectures,
meetings for business or pleasure,
they could be cleared for dances un-
der supervision for the young folks
instead of road houses. There
would be checkers and dominoes.
There would be rest rooms for men
and for women where one might
relax from the fatigue of shopping
The public Library might find larg-
er accommodations and be supple
mented with space for readers and
storage for manuscripts and objects
of historic value. Somewhere it
would display the names of the SER
vice men and women of Holmes
county in all the wars and their
records would be in the Library
The ground could provide space for
pic-nicers with outdoor grills. The
building as whole might be a
Specific Memorial There might be
memorial boulders. 1t is not toe
much to have the grounds contain
park for general use.
A Much Appreciated Convenience
is the new foot bridge across the
ditch that separates Boulevard street
from the High School grounds. 1t is
a vast improvement for West Enc
and Ward children who have hae
to go several hundred yards arounc
in wet weather when the ditch i
practically impossible. Thanks tt
the City Fathers.
After Winning A Thrilling an.
suspense packed game from lit
Bena last Friday, 60, our football
team goes to Belzoni this week t
hmeet the big boys there. Durant de
feated them handily. Go over if yo
can and let the boys hear your en-
couraging voice, it helps quite 10
We have dandy team of fine boy
drilling hard daily under superio
coach. This is another high hurdl
for us to take. Our next home gam
is set for week after next, wit
Brandon, whose boys are coming Il
from Kinds county with the ide
that they will flatten US. Coach Pc
vail has other views. Our team
worth watching for their team worl
discipline, good judgement courag
A moments inattention last wee
almost allowed Itta Bena to scor
such won't happen again.
Senator Bilbo's Residence in Wosl
ington is being picketed by ma
named Bykoski followed by or
named Golditch and another name
The Lexington advertiser., 1945-10-25

than they can be bought in Lexing-
ton, Why? Mr.. Eakin still doesn't
know why ton of Winter Pea Seed
was worth Twenty Dollars more in
Lexington than they were nearer
his place. Now, old farmer, you
bought high priced machinery, with
which to harvest these seed. You
can't use the seed for sugar, they
don't make good lard and we haven't
learned to make tires of them yet
what are you going to do with them?
RSVP.
w. M. Unger,
Tchula, Miss.
The Lexington advertiser., 1945-10-25
Sgt. VinuI l. Gordon
Receives DISCHARGE

Drew Field, Tampa, Fla. Oct. g.
Sgt. Vinal L. Gordon from Durant,
Miss, was released from service with
the U. S. Army Air Force today at
the Drew Field Separation Station.
He is the son of Harry B. Gordon
of Mattawameak, Maine. His home
address is 328 S. Main ST., Durant,
Miss.
He was sent overseas with the 26th
Air Depot Group in September 1912
to North Africa and India where he
remained until his return to the u.
S. in May 1945. He holds the ETO
Ribbon and the Good Conduct
Medal.
The Lexington advertiser., 1945-10-25
Through Hazel Eyes

boy liked by everyone who knew
him. He was friend to everyone
and counted everyone his friend. He
made the world little happier for
having lived in it.
The Lexington advertiser., 1945-10-25

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Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
Medal Awarded
Father Of
Pacific Hero

WASHINGTON, May 5. (UP)-Pvt.
Elmer E. Fryar has been awarded
the Medal of Honor for sacrificing
his life to save his platoon leader
after single-handedly killing 81 Jap
anese in q rifle duel on Leyte.
The action in which Fryar won
the country's highest honor took
place last December. The medal will
be presented to his father, George
F'ryar. Denver, Colorado.
The citation said that Fryar was
covering the battalion's withdrawal
when he had the rifle duel with the
japanese, in which he was wounded.
while withdrawing to overtake
his squad, he found a seriously
wounded comrade, helped him to the
rear and soon overlook his platoon
leader. who was assisting another
wounded" the citation continued.
While these four we're moving to
rejoin the platoon, an enemy sniper
appeared and aimed his weapon at
the platoon leader. Fryar instantly
sprang forward, received the full
burst of automatic fire into his own
body and fell mortally wounded" it
said.
with his remaining strength he
threw a grenade and killed the snip
err"
The platoon leader was First 1t.
Norvis L. Davis Of Wells, Nevada.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
FELLOW MISSOURIAN FIRST
CHANGE IN FDR CABINET
Riverside Daily Press)

(Riverside Daily Press)
Robert &. flanagan, chairman of the
Democratic National committee, has been
chosen by President Truman to succeed
Frank G. Walker, as postmaster-general.
This, the first change in the Roosevelt
cabinet, will be effective June 80.
Hannegan and the President are fellow
Missourians, products of the same politi-
cal organization, and to the former the
latter is indebted, more than to any one
else, for the Democratic ce-presidantial
nomination in 1914.
In 1910 Hannegan, a lawyer, was chair
man of the Democratic committee of st.
Louis when the Democratic-controlled
legislature ordered the Republican win
ner in the election for governor Of Mis-
souri, (now Senator Forrest c. Donnell)
barred from office until the election
could be investigated That action was
roundly condemned as an attempt to
steal the election, and Hannegan was ac-
cused of being one of the instigators.
The state supreme court nullified the ac-
tion of the legislature.
When Senator Truman Joined Senator
Bennett C. Clark in proposing Hannegan
to Secretary Morgenthau in 1912 for col
lector of internal revenue for the eastern
district of Missouri much of the Mis-
souri, press bitterly opposed the nomina-
ton But Senator Truman persisted,
saying (according to Current Biog-
raphy' for June, 1943): !.
".Hannegan carried st. Louis three
times for the President and for me. If
he is not nominated, there will be no coll
lector at st. Louis. think have enough
friends in the senate to see that no other
person gets the job p S.-Hannegan
go the job from President Roosevelt.
P. S.-He handled it with efficiency and
without favoritism.
Mr.. Hannegan is primarily a politi-
clan. In the past some national party
chairmen have been primarily politicians,
others have had little or no previous ex-
perience in politics.
On the whole the politicians have been
more of success than the non-politi-
clans, although one of the most success
full national chairmen of all time was
Marcus Alonzo Hanna, an Ohio manu-
facurer who originally got into politics
to protect his business interests. It would
not be an exaggeration to say that Hanna
ran the Mckinley administration as
much as the President did, a
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
VICTORY DAY AND
DAYS TO FOLLOW

In measure Germany is setting the
pattern for any We Day celebrations
Thus, there have been actually two We
Days already-the surrender in Italy
and the end of the fighting in northwest
Germany, Holland and Denmark in one
surrender move. In the midst of sur
renders there still is fighting.
But, however the victory celebration
comes, it will be momentarily only and
will merge into the period of occupation
which in fact still leaves the mark of war.
Official information comes from Gen
eral Eisenhower that the Ninth Army
already is being changed into an occupa-
tional force. No one can venture guess
as to the length of time there will be an
army of occupation. In World War One
the territory under military occupation
was small. Now most of continental
Europe, one way or another, will be the
field. Where divisions accomplished the
work after 1918 armistice, whole armies
will be needed now.
Even war progresses.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
Lawmaker Would
Direct Output
Of Light Metals

WASHINGTON, May 5. UP)-A
bill to establish light metals ad-
ministrator to control aluminium and
magnesium production has been in
troduced by Rep. Hugh Delacy, (DD I,
Washington.
Our government investment OF
over 700-million dollars in the light
metals industry is imperiled by the
lack of coordination among the five
separate government agencies handl-
ing procurement of aluminium and
magnesium, Delacy said.
His bill would authorize the presi-
dent to appoint a light metals ad-
ministrator for q five-year term at
S12,000 per year.
The administrator would be en-
powered specifically to cancel pres
ent contracts with the Aluminium
Company of America to operate
government-owned plants. The bill
was introduced shortly after release
of letter in which Rep. Charles
Savage, (D0. Washington criticized
Alocas production record in the
plants.
Savage said in a letter to the sem
ate small business committee that
Alcoa's wage policies had jeopardiz-
Alcoa's production record in the
northwest.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
Schools Prepare
For Bond Drive
At HoIfviIle
HOITNuIE

HOLTVILLE, May 4-Pupils Of
Holtville elementary and high
schools will compete in war bond
selling contest as part of their
participation in the Seventh War
Loan, it was announced Saturday
by Mrs. Florence Finney, deputy
county school superintendent and
head of the Schools-At-War pro-
gram in the county.
During the fifth and sixth war
loans the elementary school pupils
outsold the high school pupils, Mrs.
Finney recalled Friday.
Next Thursday Holtville High
rScHoM will have a war lean assembly
to- start the campaign. Two days
later the Holtville High school band
will give a concert in the park to
open the drive in the community.
The concert will begin at p. m. and
while the band is playing the Future
Farmers of America will sell bonds.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
Big Willow Run
Plane Plant
To Be Abandoned

WILLOW RUN, Mich, May 5.
UP)-Army and Ford Motor COM
pany spokesmen have indicated that
the government owned 100000 900
Willow Run bomber plant may be
abandoned as an expended tool of
war impractical for peacetime use.
Speaking at ceremonies in which
the plant received the Army-Navy
Excellence award, Henry Ford III.
Ford Motor company executive vice
president. said:
we have no plans for the future
use OF Willow Run. The army air
forces in conjunction with the de-
Tense plant corporation, owners of
the facility, have decided that the
wartime utility Of the plant has been
fulfilled"
Ford said the plant produced more
than 5000 Lioerator bombers since
May, 1912.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
SALVATION ARMY LISTS
SERVICES RENDERED

Activities of the Salvation Army
in Ell Centro during April, as re-
vealed by the monthly report of
Major Thomas w. Pipes, included
40 meetings, 20 of them being OPEN
air affairs; II youth meetings, and
five home league meetings, at which
robes for conval escent soldiers were
made and rs robes sent to conyal-
escent hospitals.
Two destitute families were given
assistance and five homeless resi-
dents, 81 transients and 10 women
and children aided. Lodgings and
meals were provided for % service
men, and 124 lodgings and 86 meals
provided for other persons. Help all
SO was accorded the wives Of seven
servicemen.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
House Committee
Acts TO Fix
GIayuIe Prices

WASHINGTON, May 5. tUP)-
The house rules committee has clear
ed the way for speedy floor consid-
Grafton of bill to place a minimum
price on guayule and encourage its
production by small farmers.
The committee voted for a rule
which will allow one hours general
debate on the bill. introduced three
months ago by Rep. w. r. Page,
Cd, Texas, it provides that the
government guarantee a price of %
cents pound on guayule ITO insure
a dependable supply of domestic
natural rubber
The proposed floor is lower than
the present price Of guayule but
nearly twice as high as the price
was 10 years before the war. Most
Of the government-owned guayule
paintings, which amount to 10000
acres, are in California. Test plots
are in Texas, New Mexico and Ari-
ZOna.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
Lawmaker Tells
OF Atrocities
In Prison Camps

MINEOLA, N Y. May 5. (UP)-
Rep. Leonard Hall, (R), N. Y, re-
turned Friday from a tour of Ger
man prison camps and recommended
murder trials for all Germans
"from top to bottom responsible
for such living hel1s' as the Buch-
enwald death factory.
The thing that hit me hardest at
Buchenwald were. the little children,
Hall said. There were 900 of them,
all boys from six years old up. They
had been there three years and most
of them were picked up for playing
in the streets after curfeW hours.
They slept six kids to a fiVe7foot-
long wooden shelf with one cotton
blanket apiece and no mattress. Their
legs were no bigger than chair legs. ;"
Hall. with Reps. Clare Boothe
Luce, (R0, Connecticut ana John
Kunkel, (R.), /, Nebraska visited Buch-
enwald, where German records
showed 81 1872 political prisoners died
or were killed since 1884 The con-
gressional party arrived six days
after Buchenwald was captured.
I'VE must place no credence, )"
Hall said, "in statements from the
Germans that they did not know
what was going on under Hitler. We
must take the attitude that all
Nazi war criminals must be tracked
down just as we track down Ameri-
can criminals in this country"
Il still can't get the stencil out
of my nostrils," he said. "The first
thing / saw was a wagonload of 40
dead bodies piled like firewood
There was the body of a storm
trooper guard among them. He had
tried to escape the Americans by
mingling with the prisoners but the
prisoners killed him with pickaxe,
/ didn't blame them
He said the only clean building
in Buchenwald was the brothel
where 16 girl prisoners served 400
Nazis. The brothel, he said, was
now being used by the Americans as
hospital building. The former hos
pital building was SO filthy, Hall
said, that he and Kunkel got lice
'just walking through it"
Hall said the guards in the camp
were well fed and healthy in ap-
pearance as were 4all the German
civilians I saw
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
Officials 0per,
Navy Airstrip

SAN DIEGO, May 5. (UP)-High
navy and civic officials, including
Mayor Harley E. Knox and Rear
Adm w. L. Friedell, 11th naval dis
trict commandant, officiated late
Friday in the dedication of a new
37O0 foot S3,423, 600 runway at Lind
bergh Field. The new air strip,
which will be able to accommodate the
largest planes now contemplated, is
said to be one Of the largest in the
nation.
In a brief dedication talk. Rear
Adm. Friedell said THE navys par
ticipation in construction of the ul-
tra-modern runway emphasized the
Importance the navy places on San
Diegos municipal airport in its re-
lation to the progress of aviation" I"
Featuring the event was the de-
livery OF pouch of congratulatory
messages from Los Angeles to Mayor
Knox by Capt. H. B. Russell, who flew
the first airmail out of San Diego in
1880.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
Ninth u 5 Army
Readies For
OCCUPATION Duty

u. S. NINTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Western Front, May
S. UP)-The regrouping of the A.
merican Ninth army in preparation
for the occupation of defeated Ger
many began a week ago. it can be
revealed now.
The shift of the Ninth armys vet
eran divisions preparatory to TAX
ing up occupation duties was initi-
ated following the elimination of
the Ruhr pocket.
Ninth army headquarters said
American forces now stationed in
the Ruhr already have gone on a
semi-permanent garrison basis, dis
posing their units for occupation
rather than combat.
There had been reports that the
French would take over the occupa-
ton of the industrial Ruhr.
The headquarters announcement
said measures already have been
taken to facilitate the handing over
to the CED army Of territory taken
by or in the path of the western
Allies, which was scheduled to be
occupied by Russian forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
GOVERNOR GETS BILL
ON FISH, GAME LIMITS

SACRAMENTO, May 5. (UP)E
A bill giving the State Fish and
Game commission power to fix fish
and game seasons and bag limits was
On Gov. Earl Warren's desk today.
Introduced by Assemblyman Clyde
A. Watson (R9 Orange county, the
measure calls for the commission
to hold two meetings in January and
two in June to adopt seasons a1ld
limits.
Oliver J. Carter Cd Redding, who
led the fight for the bill in, the
senate, said it was requested by
sportsmen's organizations. Opposi-
ton was voiced by Earl Desmond
CD Sacramento, who asserted the
commission would have power to
send persons to Jail for violating
it's. orders.
The senate vote was 22-15 for the
bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
Berlin Emerses
From Bubble

literally at every step. At many
intersections they are dug-in tanks
and guns that are silent forever.
Berliners, reassured that the war
is over, are crawling from cellars
and moving their belongings back
from the Easements to upper floors
Law and order prevail. Only now
that the whole city IS occupied have
I been able to traverse it from one
end to another to see the terrific
scale Of the devastation caused by
bcmbings. Entire streets are oblit-
Grated.
Berliners told me that the civilians
suffered enormous casualties. In
many cases hundreds of inhabitants
were killed by one bomb.
Col. Gen. Berzarin, military COM
mandant .and chief of the Soviet
garrison, has ordered the population
to stay put to preserve order. The
Nazi party and all subsidiary or
ganizations have been disbanded and
their activity outlawed.
Within 70 hours of the publication
of the order, all members of the
Wehrmacht, the SIS, and the SA re-
naming in Berlin must register. Ex-
euctives of all enterprises Of the
party, the Gestapo, the police, se-
curity battalions, prisons, and all
other state organizations must per
sonally appear at regional comman-
dants' offices
All public utilities, electricity,
waterWorks, sewage, municipal trans
port, hospitals, food stores, and bak
cries have been ordered to resume
service. The personnel of those or
ganizations are. requested to remain
at their jobs.
Until further notice the previous
rationing system remains in force
Owners and managers of banks are
forbidden temporarily to engage in
any operations. Their strongboXeS
and safes are to be sealed and i'm
mediate report submitted to COM
mandants. All employees of banks
are categorically forbidden to remove
any valuables.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
AMERICAN BUSINESS AND
WAR COOPERATION RECORD

Three years ago there was organized
voluntarily what became known as the
War Advertising Council, Inc. It's de-
clared and single purpose was announced
then as a move, without charge, to serve
government agencies IN the development
Of home front campaigns
Each year the scope of this organiza-
tion's activities and assistance has wild
ened until last year it reached the peak
of having aided in 81 different informa-
tion campaigns in cooperation with the
Office of War Information and in addi-
ton, served 27 different governmental
agencies and departments.
Last year businessmen contributed
S3O2, PAS, IT'S worth of it's own advertising
in support of these war front drives and
activities. In the previous year the total
was $284888,441 in assisting "a cam
paigns and IL agencies.
Recognizing the even greater need in
the year ahead as the Pacific war will
head into it's final and victorious stage,
the Council has mapped a course that
will leave nothing undone to help finish
that war. Bearing on this the chairman
of the Council has told its members:
"The most tragic thing that could hap
pen in the months Immediately ahead
would be for the home front to let the
fighting front down. If war bond sales
fell off, if blood banks dried up, if spend
ing sprees carried prices to higher and
higher levels, if we failed to produce,
package and ship our war supplies, we
would richly deserve the bitterness we
would most certainly get from our fight
ing men.
"It is to play part in preventing such
a tragedy that the Council dedicates it
self in it's fourth war year."
Nor is the intention Of the Council to
lessen its efforts in postwar times. The
purpose of this program are set forth in
these words:
''To utilize some of the power of ad-
vertising in the interest Of all the people.
''To give by it's use an example of ad-
vertising as social force in a nation at
peace.
'.To give a continuing demonstration of
the willingness of business to cooperate
with national leaders and leaders of gov
ernment.
''And, by these means, to conduct on
the highest plane the finest type of pub
lie relations possible for advertising and
business"
It is through such corporation that the
war has been won and united front kept
intact in this country, economically and
for the prosecution of the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
USO ANNOUNCES NEW DATE
FOR DANCING LESSONS

Free instruction in dancing will
be given to servicemen Monday at
the El Centro USO. This has been
q usual Tuesday night feature but
has been changed for next week
only, it is announced by Miss Bar
bara Bowen, program director In
addition, bingo will be played Mon
day, the first prize to be free tel
ephone call to the home city of the
winner.
Motion pictures will be screened
Tuesday night, the film to be Lives
of A Bengal Lancer" The same
night Ralph Watts will instruct a
class in photo tinting.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
LOU BOUDREAU WAITS CALL
TO MILITARY SEnvICE

CLEVELAND, May 5. CUP)-Base-
ball may lose its first Major League
manager to the military draft next
month when Lou Boudereau, 23-year
old pilot of the Cleveland Indians
takes his induction physical -
animation, it was revealed Saturday.
Boudreau, the 1914 American
League batting champion with a
mark of .327, probably will take his
examination about June Is, club Of
ficials reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
WPB DIRECTOR STATES
LIFTING OF BROWN-OUT

WASHINGTON, May s. (UP)-
War Production Board Chairman
J. A. Krug announced Saturday that
the Brown-out will be lifted immed-
lately after President Truman for
mally declares that the war in Eur
ope is over
The brown-out, which has dark
ened most of the country's shop
windows, outdoor advertising, and
theater marques since Feb. l, was
ordered to save coal.
Krug cautioned that it may be
necessary to reissue the brownout
order next fall if coal stocks have
not been raised to a satisfactory
level.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-06
ASKS SUIT DISMISSAL

FHOENIX, Arizg May s. UPl--
James H. Kerby, former secretary of
state, has filed motion asking dis
missal of taxpayers suit for S107,-
600 charging misspending of funds
and naming him and two others as
defendants. The petition for dismis-
sal contends that it was immaterial
whether funds spent in 1882 in car
rying out state referendum and init
iative laws were appropriated by the
legislature. Defendants in the action
with Kerby are Mrs Ana F'rohmiller,
state auditor, and William M Cox,
former state treasurer.