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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
House Hears Plea
To Bar Communists
By the Associated Press

Representative Rich, Republican
lof Pennsylvania yesterday read tc
the House newspaper article
quoting a Catholic Church Official
as saying Communists have pene-
trated the Federal Government, and
Mr.. Rich demanded that I'VE clean
these Communists out"
Representative Rankin, Democrat
of Mississippi said Communists are
running all over the world tryine
to destroy Christianity" and de-
lclared "it Is time for Congress to
wake up"
Mr.. Rich read an article quoting
the Rev. John F. Cronin, assistant
director of the Social Action Depart
ment of the National Catholic Wei
fare Conference, as saying Com
munists have penetrated so deeply
into Federal Government depart
mentS that public investigation OF
the situation would shake the
country"
The Catholic official was quoted
further as saying that some 1000
active Communists now hold Fed
eral jobs in Washington.
The House passed a resolution
continuing an appropriation for en-
ployment Of legal counsel to oppose
in the Federal courts challenge
OF the right of Congress to deny
salary to Federal employees with al
legged Subversive connections.
The case reached the courts after
Congress had withheld funds in an
appropriation bill for payment of
the salaries of several Government
workers whose Americanism had
been questioned by the old Dies
Committee on Un-American Activ-
tiles. The employees contested the
action and the courts subsequently
ordered payment of back salaries
to them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
Churchill 10 Visit Tom
OF Roosevelt Today;
Backs British Loan
By the Assoeiated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 12.-Accom-
panied by small party of relatives
and friends, Winston Churchill to-
day left the Waldorf Astoria Hotel
for Hyde Park to place a wreath on
the grave of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
After his visit to the estate of the
late President, Britain's former
Prime Minister is scheduled to visit
Gov. Dewey and to spend the night
at the Executive Mansion at Albany.
He will return to New York to-
morrow.
MIR. Churchill was accompanied by
his wife, his daughter, Mrs. Sarah
Churchill Oliver, and Col. Frank
Clarke, the Churchills' host during
their Florida vacation.
Backs British Loan.
Mr.. Churchill arrived here last
night after saying farewell to Presi-
dent Truman and Secretary of State
Byrnes and talking "off the record"
to the Overseas Writers Associa-
ton at a luncheon at the Hotel
Statler in Washington.
After the luncheon the British
Information Services said Mr..
Churchill had agreed to allow pub
LEGATION of one question put by the
newsmen, and his answer, in the
following form:
IN reply to question put to him
by correspondent about the loan
agreement, Mr.. Churchill said that
while there were some points in it
to which he objected, he personally
thought it most important that it
should go through not only in the
interest of Britain and the United
States but also of the economic
recovery of the world
Sits for Portrait.
While in Washington, Mr.. Church.
Ill finished sitting for a portrait of
the Big Three at Yalta which is
being painted by Douglas Chandor,
the Britist artist, to hang in the
Capitol. 1t will show President
Roosevelt with Mr.. Churchill on one
side and Premier Stain on the
other.
President Truman drove to the
Mayf1ower Hotel late in the day
to see the portrait. He was accom-
panied by Speaker Rayburn and his
military aide, Brig. Gen. Harry H.
Vaughan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
Maid Of Cotton Finds the Men
Are Intrigued by White Shirts
Mississippi Miss
Turns On Charm
At Press PurIey

Secretary of War Patterson is
"just the cutest man." Gen. Car
(Toohey) Spaatz is gruff, Gen. Oma,
Bradley is "just as nice as he car
be"-thoSe are some of the impress.
sions of Southern woman of q
who has been meeting the wa,
leaders.
She is Gwin Barnwell of Green
wood, Miss, the cotton industry's
1916 Maid of Cotton.
'Ah was just so surprised" she
said at a press conference arranged
by the National Cotton Council in
the Mayflower Hotel. "Ah heard
Mistah Patterson make a dignifled
speech during the wah. All thought
he would be so dignified he wouldn't
have time fob me. But he showed
me all the new guns and the draw
lngs Of the new bombers. He was
just as NIGEL"
Fame? She's experienced it al
ready. When she returned to Duke
University last week there was q
sign over her old room, "Gwin Barn.
well slept here"
Men? She's met hundreds OF
them since she started a tour of 80
cities as the Maid of Cotton. They
all ask her the same question
Where can get white shirt?"
Il used to say something about
OPA," she said, "butG have been
told not to mention OPA in WASH
ington-that it's very touchy sub
ject."
Miss BarnWell has cotton back
ground. Her great great great
grandfather, Confederate Gen. Ben
jamin Humphreys, a Governor of
Mississippi, was one of the first
planters in the delta. Her mother
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
Yugos|avia Proposes
New Envoy 10 U. S.;
Approval Studied
By NewboId Moves. Jr.

+ Yugoslavia has asked the United
States to agree to appointment of q
new Ambassador here, and there
has been an exchange of communi-
cations on the matter, but as yet
no settlement, Secretary of State
Byrnes said today.
His statement indicated that the
controversy as to whether the United
States will carry out its "condi-
tional" recognition of the Yugoslay
regime continues unresolved.
The man Belgrade wants to send
is Sava Kosanovitch, Minister of In.
formation in the government a,
present, it was learned. If accepted
he would replace Stanoje Simitch
former Ambassador of King Peter
and the defunct interim government
OF YugoSlavia, who acted unoficially
as Marshal Tito's emissary here
until his departure on February 2;
to take over as Foreign Secretary
in Belgrade.
Request Rumored for Days.
The Yugoslav request for agree
ment on Mr.. Kosanovitch had been
rumored for several days, but until
today State Department officials
had denied any knowledge of the
development. Behind their reluct-
ance to confirm receipt of the pro-
posal lies a many-horned dilemma,
in the making since last Deem
Der 81.
On that day Undersecretary of
State Dean Acheson told Ambassa-
dor Simitch that the United States
was prepared to recognize the Tito
government as soon as it received
assurances that the new regime
would stand by existing treaties
and agreements" between Yugo-
slavia and the United States.
One existing agreement" was a
consular agreement granting the
United States "most-favored-
nation" economic status, which tech.
nically would make it possible fol-
our Government to inquire as to
what economic arrangements Yugo-
slavia has with Russia and other
Russian satellite countries and to
demand the same terms.
No Assurances Received.
Recognition of this agreement, ii
Is considered obvious, would intro
duce a new and unacceptable factor
into Russia's situation in the Bal
kanS.
This consideration, it is believed
may account for the fact that, to
date, the Tito government has re-
Trained from supplying assurances
that she will recognize existing
agreements" At any rate, as Secre-
tary Byrnes made plain today, the
assurances have not yet been given.
1t has been the opinion of many
observers that while the State De-
partment's original intent doubtless
was to recognize Marshal Tito's
government, it probably was more
than willing to have contamination
OF the recognition indefinitely de-
layed as result of Yugoslavia's I'M
willingness or inability to meet our
conditions.
The Yugoslav request for agree
ment on Mr.. Kosanovitch's appoint
ment now appears to have brought
the issue to a head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
Anniversary Of Pope 5
Coronation Marked
|At Catholic University

How the personality of Pope Plus
XII has grown on the American
people was the theme of the Very
Rev. Msgr. Ignatius Smiths ser.
mon today at mass at the Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception al
Catholic University in commend.
ration of the recent anniversary Of
the Pope's coronation.
Millions of our American people
non Catholic as well as Catholic
are fascinated by the marvellous
personality of the supreme pastor
and shepherd of Christendom,
Msgr. Smith said.
People are touched by the Pope's
humanitarian efforts, the speaker
said, and impressed by his courage
in defending the rights of the
downtrodden against aggression OF
totalitarian governments. They
are won by his piety and "by the
prayerfulness that kept him on his
knees day and night during the
war;" he said.
Msgr. Smith added that many are
indignant" at the goddess villifica-
ton and communistic SANDER" to
which the Pope is subjected.
The most Rev. Amleto Cicognani
the apostolic delegate, presided at
the mass and afterward held a re-
ception. The celebrant was the Very
Rev. Msgr. Luigi Raimondi, auditor
OF the apostolic delegation. The
apostolic delegate was attended by
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francesca Lar
done, the Rev. DR.. Pascal Parente
and the Rev. DR.. Aloysius Ziegler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
Mayor of FoIIs Church
Not to Seek Reelection

Mayor M. H. Haertel of Falls
Church announced last night that
he will not be q candidate for re-
election.
There will be vacancies for mayor
and three councilmen. The council
men whose terms expire are j. H.
Mccarthy, Edward Knouse and
Walter Follin. Candidates must file
by April II for the June II elections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12

salvation from famine" Mr.. Carlson
told ADA directors, land sees a Ma
ton whose milk output is dwindling,
whose COWS are being forced into
slaughter houses, whose sons are
leaving the soil-and whose farmers
are promised only more of the same
kind of thinking that brought this
tragedy arout.
Certainly we must share the
American food that is now in such
short supply. But just as certainly
we must end once and for all the
twisted philosophy of sharing scar
city that has caused these Short
ages"
The dairy leader asserted Amer
lean farmers cannot meet goals of
dairy production under current Gov
eminent policies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
Dairy Leader Demands
More Liberal u. S. Policy

CHICAGO, Mar. IL P.-D. T
Carlson, president of the American
Dairy Association, said today there
must be immediate Government
policies ito help the American
farmer save the world from starva-
ton" in what he termed '+the most
critical food situation in the history
Of the modern world"
1.-THE world looks to America for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
Cuban Sugar Mission
To Come Here Soon
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

HAVANA, Mar. 12.-Cuba's sugar
sale mission will depart for Wash
ington by plane next Monday to
resume negotiations for American
purchase of the 1916 Cuban crop, it
was announced yesterday after a
meeting between President Grau
San Martin and Guillermo Belt,
Cuban Ambassador to the United
States,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12

DEAL" he said yesterday, land, be-
sides, there are countless advan-
tages to living at home. If had a
car, I could do even better"
Mr.. Cane has been committing
between Philadelphia and Washing
ton for Is weeks and expects to
continue indefinitely. He is taking
an accelerated course at George
town and considers himself 1.-THE
equivalent Of q sophomore"
The Pennsylvania Railroad dis.
lance between the two cities Is 1915
miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
deIphio-D. c. Commuter
Reports He Is Sowing Money

To the list of Washington's long
distance commuters add the name
Of Charles ]. Cane, Is.
Young Mr.. Cane, q student at the
Georgetown University School of
Foreign Service, leave his home in
Upper Darby, Pa, a Philadelphia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
Coronation Anniversary
Marked by Pope at Mass

VATICAN CITY, Mar. IL R.-
Pontif1cal mass was celebrated in the
Sistine Chapel today in honor OF
the seventh anniversary of the
coronation of Pope Plus XII.
Gregory Peter Cardinal Agagian-
ian of Armenia sang the mass In
Armenian in the presence of the
Pope, "a cardinals and the diplo-
matte corps.
The Pope participated in the
ceremony and responded twice in
Armenian: Peace to ALL"
After the ceremony the cardinals
met with the Pope to offer their
greetings.
Papal banners were hung at Vat
lean City and Offices were closed but
no further celebration was planned
The Pope scheduled no audience
for the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12

oObuUs III OAIlc
to make q lis
pm. train for
w a S h in & t o n,
W h ich arrives
here at 3:15 pm.
After attending
classes, he leaves
on a 9 pm. train
and is able to
open his own
front door before
midnight. He
has no classes on
s a t ur d ay or
Sunday.
The student
lives with his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12

!" - They are fighting against a
reactionary Fascist dictatorship"
Leftist elements in Greece have
asked for postponement of the
scheduled March 81 elections. Sun
day British Foreign Secretary Err
nest Bevin in note to the Greek
government counseled against any
postponement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
Hundicruft Trude SOUGHT

China is trying to encourage
foreign trade in handicraft products,
known as small stuff" in the China
trade jargon, which accounted for
II per cent of that country's export
trade before the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12
McCrury to Give Recital

Lyman McCrary, concert organist,
will give recital at $3.50 o'clock
tonight in st. Clements parish
hall, Seminary road, Alexandria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12

mother, Mrs. e. J. Cane, and feels
he is amply compensated for the
long trip to and from classes.
y ind am saving money on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-12

Tuberculin testing of dairy heards
was introduced in 1890.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-11-14

The difference between the amount
OF need and the amount of income
or financial help from any source
which is available to meet his need
is called the ''budgetary deficit"
Ideally, the amount of grant should
meet this budgetary deficit, but in
Mississippi we are able to do this
only in Aid for the Blind. The Max
imum for a family receiving Aid to
Dependent Children is set by state
law and at present too low to cover
the budgetary deficit in these fam
lilies. The large number of old peo-
pie applying for and in need of as
sistance makes it impossible for the
state to meet 1909 of their needs.
In most of the counties the grants
cover 71% of the budgetary deficit
for these old people.
In addition to these programs OF
financial assistance the Holmes
County Department Of Public Wei
fare has given special services tc
twelve people during these three
months.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-11-14
Public Welfare Dept.
Reports on Services

The Holmes County Department
of Public Welfare has administered
assistance totaling $26,818.50 to 615
people in the three months of July,
August, and September, 1916. The
persons receiving assistance COM
prise three groups: 534 received Aid
for the Aged totaling S21,469.50, 80
received Aid for the Blind totaling
$2604.00 and AZ families, including
81 children, received Aid for De-
pendent Children totaling $2745. 90.
The grant for each individual reach
ed him in a check mailed from the
State Department of Public Welfare
each month.
The amount of a persons
monthly grant is based upon an in
dividual budget covering the cost
of his minimum needs for living
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-11-14
Reprinted from Jackson Daily News)
HAZEL IS BEING GOOD

That something is wrong to the point of rottenness in
the administration of justice in Holmes county is plainly
evident by the written record of the last circuit court session.
Although the docket was filled to overlooking with indct-
ments only four felony cases were tried by jury and in each
instance defendants were promptly found not guilty. One OF
these defendants was tried for murder. In another indict-
ment five persons were jointly charged with manslaughter.
A third was charged with assault with intent to kill and a
fourth with possession of gambling devices. All went free
and juries didn't waste much time, either.
Six other cases, mostly indictments against bootleggers,
were continued until the next court term. Eight cases were
passed to the files" which means there is nightly little
likelihood they will ever be resurrected, and twenty-five cases
We're nolle pressed, despite the fact that the grand jury, at
least, thought that evidence against defendants warranted
open court hearings.
Seven defendants pleaded guilty and got by with SEN
fences in which the court tempered justice with quite a bit
of mercy.
Only one case tried in open court and resulting in con-
viction was that of Miss Hazel Brannon, courageous editor
of The Lexington Advertiser and charged with contempt of
court" sentenced to pay a $50 fine and serve a 15-day Jail
sentence, punishment being suspended conditioned on two
years good behaviour"
Well, Hazel is being g~ood-damned good! She dug out
OF the court records the figures above Capitalization Daily
News.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-11-14
CURRENT COMMENT
By Henry Willis

The Country Club is an Asset to
the City, well worth whatever it
costs to keep up. And the cost is
ridiculously low as compared with
similar recreation facilities else
where. Maybe if we provided an at
tractive place our young people
will go there instead of to the
Joints" so thick set along the high
ways. In Tom Lail as President and
his beautiful and energetic wife the
Club has selected a r~esourceful pair
to lead for the coming year. Sunday
A to 6 PM, was the first reception
day. Miserable day though it was a
fair number showed up and report
that they were glad to have been
there, the considerable effort was
well worth while. A bouquet to the
Club.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-11-14

while we owe 275 billions of bonds.
Each man, woman and child owes
$2,O000.00. The interest alone is S
billions a year. If we are not plain
fools we will allot many billions to
our armed forces for many years to
come. The advice to "'trust in Prov
idence and keep your powder dry" is
still exceedingly good. We could
have it up-to-the-minute by making
it read;-"Trust in Providence and
keep the atom bomb" So, that 20
per cent surtax on your little hun
dreds of income will likely stay
there for a long time.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-11-14
ALL uy Singing
Central Baptist

There will be an all-day singing
at the Central Baptist Church six
miles west of Isola Friday and Sun
day nights November 1917.
The Simpson county Quartet
from Magee will be there
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-11-14
A JUDGE WITH COURAGE
(Reprinted from "As / See IT. column by Capt. Tom Gibson
in the Delta Farm Press

IhGpTTNCIU ITUm "A i Dee II CUIUHH Uy OdpL. q UIUcOH
in the Delta Farm Press)
In Holmes County in Mississippi we have a Judge Davis,
who is a man of much courage. He gave a pretty stiff jail
sentence to little Miss Hazel Brannon because she checked
the testimony of a witness.
Miss Brannon is in the newspaper world and has the
record of trying to make the county a cleaner place to live
and Judge Davis told her she had better clean her self before
she started to clean the county.
He held up the sentence saying that he would hold it
over her head and that the next time she crowded him he
would not have to 4 try her case, all he would have to do was
to just slap her in Jail without any trial. That sounds like a
German or a Russian procedure.
Miss Brannon has been trying to have certain ungodly
situations cleaned up in her community and has been putting
up a valiant fight for some time and her campaign for law
and order met with rebuff from the now famous judge, Davis.
He says that it is all futile.
Yes it is futile if you don't have the support of the
courts. We are all sure of that.
Miss Brannon is one of the best known members of the
Mississippi Press Association and is held in highest esteem
by them all. She always conducts herself as a lady and has
constructive ideas that she presents at their gatherings. She
is efficient in her business and has a state full of friends
who feel that twenty-seven years is long enough for a judge
to hold office in Holmes County.-DeltaF Farm Press.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-11-14
Letter To The Editor
Friars Point, Miss.
Oct. Goth. 1916.

Friars Point, Miss.
Oct. 30th, 1916.
Judge S. F. Davis,
Durant, Miss.
Dear Sir:
1t was great reading judge where
you took verbal pokes at Miss Hazel
Brannon and sentenced her to Jail
because she was trying to develop
a better community 4.
These reformers should 60 to Jail
and / believe you are the man with
the courage to do it. The idea of
trying to make Holmes county a
decent place in which to live is a
most monstrous sarcasm And as you
say futile"
1t was foresight too, not to put
her in Jail this time but to put the
fear of the Lord in her heart and
threaten her, SO if she ever tried
to carry out her old line of thought
and develop a cleaner situation in
her community, that you would put
her in Jail without a trial. Just like
LAG AlL3lAOlotAOAA VI NOllStdtlCG bG-
Beverly or some of the New Deal
rulings from which there is no ap-
peal. Just slap them in the Jail
house.
That was a clever retort too where
you told Miss Brannon to 60 clean
her self. Such remarks as that make
the people respect the court
1t is an odd thing though, Miss
Brannon has fooled the Press Asso-
citation of Mississippi, with which
she has been associated for a decade
or more. They all felt that she was a
very high class kind of person but
now that you have thrown on her
the glare of publicity in such a
pitiless manner l am sure she will
be without friends in the organ
iZation
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-11-14

Mrs. w. e. Walker of West, under
went a major operation at the Hol-
mes county Community Hospital
Wednesday and is seriously i'll. Her
son Harold, of Memphis was called
to be at her bedside.
Mrs. o. w. Broome is visiting re-
latives in VickSburg this week.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-11-14

DR.. and Mrs. William B. Fitzger-
aid and their two children of Rule
vile, Mrs. R. L. Fitzgerald, Cleve-
land, and Mrs. R. L. Fitzgerald OF
Jackson were Sunday guests of Mrs.
Cecil Mason
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1946-11-14

Complimenting you for your
courage and for the Southern Gull
ture that you have exhibited,
] am yours truly,
TOM l. GIBSON.