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The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28

cles and guns. The higher pay and
higher enrolment would likely
mean pay roll of 100000 month.
A few full time employees would be
needed, gas and oil for a number of
trucks. It's time we decided wheth-
er we want it or not. Nearly all the
old Battery B boys became officers
or non-coms due to their training,
more responsibility, higher pay.
Two Fine Young Men book from
the wars are the Barrett brothers,
w. B. and T. r., who have resumed
their old places, practically, in the
community life. Will again as an Of
ficer of the First National Bank and
Dick resumes the Texaco Agency at
its "Oil Town" plant. Will, a War
rant Officer in the Coast Guard
which is part of the Navy in war
time-and Dick a Warrant Officer
aboard a Destroyer and chiefly con-
cerned with pointing Of the big guns
in action of which he saw much.
Both sought and got sea duty though
the Coast Guard used Wills great
experience in such matters in their
shore offices for more time than he
quite liked. Both were released with
what amounts to the Navy's coveted
well done" in their records. Back
home both, with quiet efficiency, re-
sumo their places in business, steam
ahead without a splash.
Woods Fire Domags Il real md
great. Young timber is killed and
some years of growth thus lost to
the owner. Older timber is damaged
and stunted at least and may be per-
manently ruined. II we would under
stand how very destructive forest
fire is we would not start 50 many.
Several years ago this county set a
tax OF &c an acre on woodland and
sought to reduce fire losses. The
move over the state got In politics
and we abandoned any part in it, it
seemed so badly managed.
A Correction. Lost week a colored
man told me that Steve Broom's
body had been found. Glad to have
that solved, the item was written
and handed to the printer, almost at
once. Later it was found to be in
error but there was failure to recall
the item. The disappearance is still
mystery.
The Burning Bushes und Yellow
Bells Flowering Almond and For
sythia) all over town are particular
ly beautiful just now-along with
the jonquils.
The Difference Between intelli-
gence and education is this-that in
telligence will make you good liv-
ing. Charles F. Kettering in Sum
day night broadcast.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28

King George, Va. and Washington,
d. c., will arrive Sunday for q two
weeks visit with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. c. A Glover. Her many
friends win be interested to know
she is serving as secretary of Mrs.
Jessie Summer, Republican congress
woman from Illinois, while her hus-
band is finishing his law course al
George Washington University.
DR.. and Mrs. A. M. Doty visited
the Emmette and Ernest Dotys in
Kosciusko Sunday. Friends of Mr.
Emmette Doty will be glad to know
he is greatly improved after an ex,
tended illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. L. Kirk, Cleve
land, spent the weekend with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Tate.
1t. and Mrs. John B. Greer, Jr.
are visiting her sister, Mrs. M. c
Frazer and family in Columbia, S
c.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. P. johnson anc
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Williams attend
ed the Lawrence Tibbett concert il
Jackson Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jessie Russell anc
family and Mr.. and Mrs. E. l. Rus
sell visited Mrs. j. ]. Stevens at Wes
Sunday.
The many friends of Mr.. Merrill
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
LOCAL NEWS

1t. Col. c. A. Glover, Jr.. LEFT
Friday for Houston, Texas, where
he viii be division manager Of East.
ern Air Lines.
Mrs. Marcia B. Jackson and her
mother, Mrs. o. w. Broome, were
Sunday guests of Mr., and Mrs. L. C.
Boatwright.
Mrs. J. r. Patterson has been at.
tending to business in Memphis anc
visiting relatives there and in Dyers.
burg, Tenn, for the past ten days.
Lexington friends of Mr.. w. o
Marshall will be glad to know hs
is improving after a critical illness
His sons, Chester and Doyle, anc
daughter, Mrs. c. o. Buck, Jr., O,
Memphis, have been at his bedside.
Mrs. Joseph Billingsley. Jr., Of
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28

at Kings Daughters Hospital In va
zoo City and Mrs. Clyde N. Russell,
the former Katherine Lehman, Is
nursing him.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28

his home recently. He Is patient
Eakin will be glad to know he Is
expected to recover from critical in
juries received in an explosion at
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29
Atomic Plan Differences
Summed Up By Baruch
u. S., Russia Agree
On Three Phases;
Speed-Up Sought

New York, June %. 49, (Ap)-
Analysis prepared in short form by
Bernard NJ. Baruch showed today
that the United States and Russian
programs for world atomic control
agreed in three phases, left IA 9th
erS open for negotiation and were
in head on conflict on three points.
including the veto
Baruch's efforts to speed the dis
cissions of the United Nations atom
IC energy commission by reducing
the expressed views of all II mem
bCrs to a black white, yes or no
basis were received by the dele
gates with some reservations.
Cover 80 Main Points.
Tho summary. with exceptions
fOotnotcd and opposing views sum-
med up in parallel columns, cover
ed 20 main points and showed the
areas of agreement and disagree
mcut between the L. S. and Russian
plans and the supplementary modi-
fiCations proposed mainly by PO-
land, France and Australia.
1t showed that with the exception
ton of Poland which endorsed the
Russian plan without reservation,
the atomic commissioners generally
favored the American plan and that
some regarded both programs as d
common ground for negotiations.
BY unanimous Vote Of the - ma
titl atomic working committee yes
terday, Australian Foreign Minister
Herbert c. EVatt, the commission
chairman. Was delegated to name a
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29
Youth Held
For Staying

Chicago, Jun o29 -OI1-Statc'S At
torney William i. 1uchy said today
that at the present moment, ! am
satisfied" that d l7-year-oId Uni
versity Of Chicago student IS the
man" in the kidnup-slayins OF Su-
zanCc Dc2uan, uu, as the matter
stands now, | have mot Vet deducted
sufficient evidence To prove nm
guilty beyond all reasonable doubt
The states attorney statement
to reporters this morning was made
after he said police had discovered
nine points of similarity between I'm
gerprints on the Degnan ransom
note and those Of the student, Will
lam HeirenS.
The new turn in the Investigation
Of the brutal staying and dismem-
berment of the siX-year-old Degnan
child after she was Kidnapped from
her North Side homo last January 7
came yesterday shortly aftcr f.ch-
ard r. Thomas, -, an eN-conVict
held in Phoenix, Ariz, repudated a
story he told there that ne Was the
kindapper. Chicago police officials,
who have questiC' ed some 1000 per
sons in efforts to solve the crime,
had flown to Arizona to interro2ate
him
Tuohy and other top ranking po-
lice and state attorney officials
worked through the night and early
morning hours after the discovery
late yesterday
Heirens, strapped on the bed in
the Bridewell jail hospital, remain
ed silent through hours of questions
after Tuohy said he had told him
of the similarity.
Touhy, leaving his office at the
criminal courts building az $50 a.
m. after an all night investigation,
told reporters that no charge had
ben placed against the youth in re-
gard to the case. He declined fur
ther comment.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29
Charges Brought
Bv lndustrialist
In Stokes County

Raleigh, June 29-lPl-ThWmond
Chatham, WinS,on-Saiem industrial
ist, brought charges of election ir-
regularities against two members o.
the Stokes COuCty election board to-
day, opening the latest controversy
III what State Chairman W 7. Joy
ner termed the bittcreSt campaign
in his experience.
Chatham's charges were presented
tC the state elections board as it met
to canvass returns from the June
- run-otf primary, in which Rep.
join H. FClger defeated Chatham by
a margin of 2,778 votes, after Fol-
ger had trailed by 50 votes in the
first primary.
A petition embracing the charge,
OF irregularities asked that the board
remove Miss Laura Ellington, chair
man of the Stokes board, and Carlos
E. Davis, board member, for falling
to perform their dutles.'
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29
Draft Extension
Measure Signed
By Mr.. Truman

Washington June % - ~ -
President Truman signed into law
today legislation extending the draft
oct until next March and prohibit
mg the induction of Is year olds.
Product Of long controversy be-
tween the Senate and House, the
legislation permits the drafting OF
l9-year-olds and non-fathers up to
the age Of Is, although i'm practise,
men over 25 have not been inductcd
for sometime.
In fact, the army already has an
nounced if viii levy no draft quotas
for July and August The new law
does not change the existing re-
Qulrcment for Is year olds to regis
ter, il simply prohibits their actual
induction
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29
HOUSE U?HCLDS VETO

Washington, June 70. =
(AP)-The House upheld
President Truman's veto Of
the amcndment-lade OPA
extension bill today, tn US
killing the bill. The House
vote was l73 to override the
resident and 142 to SUSTAIN
him. A two-thirds major
ity is necessary to override
a veto. The vote Of both
branches is necessary to
override but one branch
can sustain veto. 1t is now
possible that there will be no
price and rent controls aft
er Sunday midnight.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29
NoiotOV SiHcks Meeting.

MOlOtoV thus far has blocked con-
vocation Of such a conference on the
ground that the big -four must be IN
agreement among themselves on the
fundamentals of the treaties with
Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania
and Hungary before calling in the
smaller nations,
Byrncs has urged that the big four
hear the general peace conference
views on the problems still at issue
and already has served notice he in
tends to takc these questions to the
United Nations General Assembly
i'm New York IN September ii the
conference is not held before that
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29
WEATHER,

FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Considerable cIoudiness, little
change in temperature tonight
and Sunday. Scattered showers
and thundershOWerS mostly i'll
afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29
Three Chief Provisions

The measure, he said, should con-
tam three -hief provisions:
!. An extension of stabillzation laws
for full year,
2. Conti7 ued stabilization subsidies
on scale sufficient to prevent Sc
rlouS increases in food prices in the
next six months and to allow an or
derly end OF subsidies during the
flrst half of next year. He said he
considered Sl.250000 900 the maxi
mum needed for these purposes.
3, An expression of congressional
policy on ending price controls and
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29
TRUMAN VETOES OPA BILL
Agency Due To Die
Sunday At Midnight

Washington, June % lAP)residcnt Truman vetoed the
much amended ORA extension bl today bitterly calling it "a
formula for nfIation.'
And these developments followed swiftly:
l. Chairman Spence iD Of Kentucky Of the House Bank
ing Committee pleaded with the House uphold the President
He tcld Of plans offer simple solution continuing OA
q tnnll1 IL
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29

the Senate on such resolution
today and that the Senate would
not meet Sunday
This apparently left open only
one course if there is to be any
action before the Sunday dead
line. This would be to override
the President S veto and make
the trimmed down OPA bill a
law.
A call for Republicans 10 over
ride the veto was sounded by Rep.
WolcOtt (R) Of Michigan, top re-, X
ing Republican Of the Banking Com
mittee.
Any one voting 10 sustain the veto
Wolcott told the House, is voting
to destroy price CONTROL
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29

2. Democratic Leader Bark
ley said that there was ono
chancc' of committee action in
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-29
"The bill continues the govern
ment's responsibility to stabilize
the economy and at the same
time it destroys the governments
power to do So"

The President called upon Con-
gresS to act and act now" on a bill
t0 give America "adequatc assur-
ance Of completing successful tran
sition to a sound peace-timc econ
Onny."
Evening star., 1946-11-10
HE'S A RINGER
IA O-Second Close -Up)

TRICK CHAMP. Every sport has a
champion, but most people are sur
prised to hear Jimmy Risks title.
Slim. wavy-haired Jimmy is National
Trick Shot Horseshoe Pitching Cham
pion. At IL he started tossing equine
footwear in his native Montpelier,
Ind. Now at 81 he can do things with
horseshoe that Daniel Boone could
mt do with squirrel gun.
jimmy won the American straight
pitching championship three times,
but devotes himself to trick shots
which net him about $4,000 year
at rodeos and county fairs.
Among his stunts are throwing
ringers at pegs he can't see; lighting
kitchen matches; knocking ashes off
a cigarette, with the shoe going on to
ring a peg. and knocking an apple off
an assistants head.
vrPS. Recently Jimmy gave dem
onstration for President Truman and
Admiral Chester Nimitz. The Presi-
dent scurried around, placing pegs
for Jimmy and behaving just like
any duffer in the presence of a
master.
Admiral Nimitz is a fair pitcher,
jimmy found, but the President is
more of picnic-type twIler.
Of the 100000 barnyard golfers
in the country. only Ted Allen, a
professional from Columbus, Ohio,
gives Jimmy serious competition.
He and Allen used to battle nip-and-
tuck in national tournaments. Jimmy
won the last time they met.
Jimmy doesn't gamble and fire.
quently spurns sizable bets with local
champs who haven't seen his awe
some accuracy. Mexican gamblers
offered to make him rich if he would
haunt the purse-jangling Juarez
horseshoe courts. He refused.
High point of his career came
when he was performing at Tinian
last year on USO tour. Rain began
to fall in torrents but the CT audi
ence didn't bulge. Although he was
almost blinded by rain. Jimmy gave
passable show.
Then, before he could signal, his
assistant was placing matches against
the stake. Jimmy gulped, but fired
away. For one brief instant the
matches fared in that tropical down.
pour. The applause was louder than
the storm. J0E DAvlD DR0VM
Evening star., 1946-11-10
Artillery! Come up fast!"

Wv THE l7lst anniversary of the
U. S. Marine Corps, its Comman-
dant, General A. A. Vandegrift,
says: 1T was during Japanese
counterattack on Guadalcanal that
a Marine stood up and shouted these
Evening star., 1946-11-10

words The enemy heard him, faltered in his attack and
then etreated He thought artillery was ready and
waiting for him. Actually we were ready up a point
but with artillery because there was none in that
have always remembered these words the quick
thinking Marine who shouted them and how his bluff
aveted possible tragedy But in the long we found
real artillery reliable than ruses.
In each mans le situations like this one arise He can
take the gamblers chance and - sometimes it off
successfully In the long un however, it is nothing to
depend True belongs the whose strength
real because is backed by courage and character His
heavy artillery always reliable and he keeps it close by
Evening star., 1946-11-10

Names and desc!ip<ioas 4 all ehanactsrs ia
Aetioa stories and ssmi- -aetiea articles In this
which happens 10 BE- ths sane a. that of any
psrson. living or dead. h eafirely eolneidsntaI
Evening star., 1946-11-10
The Cose of the Rigid Bride

The Cose OF the Rigid Bride
she yelped too, but held her position.
Don't touch meT she said.
why? What's wrong?"
I'm drying my nail polish"
LIFE IN THE lSo0s. In going over
some important papers that our wife
had thrown into the wastebasket, we
came across a menu of the once
famed Kinds Restaurant in Philadel-
phia. 1t was headed up with note
from the proprietor: Il do unhesitat-
ingly guarantee to serve the best in
quality and most in quantity" Some
items from the menu:
Sirloin steak ........ .2Sc.
Porterhouse. ........ .35c.
lenOcflO1n. DOC.
Potatoes, coffee included.
A footnote on the card read, CRITI-
CIsM OPENLY INVITED.
Who'd kick?
This Week M.sasin.
FOR A BITTER ERICA
WILLIAM |. NICHOLS, Ekhu
BAU FROM TIE GRAVE. 4
BY N. !. BseiIevu
THE GIRL WHO UNDERSTOOD. ....... 6
BY n. Gordon Green
BY Lynn Ceesiosd
MAN SNAPS DOCS. 10
BY RulpI Bass
HOW TO RUN A BRIDGE.
By A. 1. Sl.eS
DON'T SHOOT nv pADs". -
By loais Berg
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS. ............f n
BY 6aSlY Post
1e A cRUsADERi. i....................2 -
kv Ajies Ferdyes
Csvss BY Eie Sekssi
6ct1ou stories and semd-Aetioa srticiee n this
Z,aanxine are wholly innaGinary. Anv nama
Evening star., 1946-11-10
IN!nkMM;H;c

SIGN noted in a small-town jewelers.
shop: There are only two kinds of
people who open the backs of watches
- jewellers and FOOLS"
SHOCK. A brand-new bridegroom
we know decided to surprise his wife
by coming home early from work -
but she surprised him instead. As he
let himself quietly in the door, he
saw her sitting rigidly on the living
room sofa, her arms outstretched be-
fore her, CLASSY stare in her eyes.
The poor chap yelped with fright and
Evening star., 1946-08-15
Victim Of Kitchen Blast
Doing Nicely in Hospital

Thomas NJ Parsons, 38, Federal
Reserve economist, who was injured
seriously in kitchen gas explosion
which wrecked his apartment at
l725 New Hampshire avenue NV.
yesterday, is doing nicely" at
Mount Alto Hospital today, hospital
attaches said.
The victim, recently discharged
from the Army, suffered third
degree burns in the blast. William
Russell, janitor in the apartment
building, told police he found Mr..
Parsons unconscious on the kitchen
floor Immediately after the explo-
sion shook the building. Police said
the stove gas jets were burning but
the oven jets were on but not lit.
Evening star., 1946-08-15
Louisiana Negro Found
Dead After Jail Release
By the Associoted Press

SHREVEPORT, La, Aug. Is
The fatal beating of a 28-year-old
Negro near Minden, La, was re-
vealed yesterday with the filing of
coroner's report attributing death
to multiple bruises and abrasions
sustained at the hands of a person
or persons unknown"
Sheriff o. H. Haynes OF. Webster
Parish said that the dead man,
John c. Jones, and a colored COM
panion had been held in the parish
jail after being identified by Cot
ton Valley, La, woman as the two
men she saw attempting to enter
her house through a window.
The sheriff said the men were
Evening star., 1946-08-15

released Thursday after they had
denied the charges and the woman's
family had made no formal charges
against them. He said the body of
the dead man was found less than
"a hours later on the bank of Dor
cheat bayou, 7 miles from Minden.
Deputy Coroner T. A. Richardson,
who conducted the inquest, said
that it was not possible to fix the
time Of death but that a watch
found on the body had stopped at
10 o'clock.
Evening star., 1946-08-15
Digging Proves Costly

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. IS LP.-
1t costs s75 to dig a hole 1S inches
too deep in Philadelphia. Magis.
trate James T. Donnelly fined eight
construction workers $75 each yes
terday for violating a city ordinance
which prohibits excavations below
water level.
Evening star., 1946-08-15

Hilburn, Barney Z.
Hilleary, Leo Paul
Hoffman, Louis
Hudson. Howard r.
Hull. julius Henry
Htcheon. Lily s.
Hurley, Daniel v.
Hynes, James A.
Irwin. E. Louise
Jacobsen, Samuel e.
jacob, Wilma JANE
Jamison, r. H.
jam, Edmund Carl
Jennings, George H,
Jennison. E. NJ.
Jones. Harry F..
kehoe. William A. il
Kelley, Robert E.
kneipp, Robert F.
kjar, Albert W.
Landau. Irwin s.
Lande, Allen Charlie
Lane, Stephen B.
Leonard, Robert 8.
Lewis, Sydney
Lieberman. Simon M
Martin, John G.
Miller, Alice Emily
Miller. Edith !.
Monaghan, H. J. II
Morgan, Albert M.
Morris, Minnie
Myers. Robert Holt
McCabe, Edward A.
Mckay, James c.
Mckay, Richard X.
Mcmillan. George M
McMunigal, r. C.
Newmyer, Alvin L. jr
Neumann, John w.
Olson, Charles Paul
Parrish, Mareie M.
Parsons, J. NJ. tr.
Evening star., 1946-08-15
PAWS. William ".

PAWS, William W.
Peck, Frances V.
Peter. Humphrey M
Poole, Edward Otey
Rasbury. James T.
Rawls. Vernon c.
Reed, John Howard
Reyes, John T.
Reilly, John F.
RenZulli, X. M.
Richards, Donald A.
Richter, Willy o.
Roark. Ray Willard
Rogers, Charles +.
Rogerson, B. st. J.
Roseman, Armin
Ross, George A.
Scanlan. Alfred J.
Schreyer. Thomas P.
Shapiro, Philip E.
Smith. Hugh r. H.
SnaVely, Charles T.
Sommer, Joseph A.
Stanley, William S.
Stein, Ralph
Stempil, I. william
Stewart, Riggs T.
Stohlman. Z. F.
Stone, William J.
Sweeney, Michael J.
TalbLTtt, George w.
Tayloe, William c.
Thompson, w. D.
Tibbits, Arthur H.
Toomey, James c.
Walaity, Joseph J.
Webster, John M.
Weidberg, Harry S.
wilkins, w. Y, jr.
Wood, Walter P.
Young. Don. L.
Zachry, w. B.. jr.
Evening star., 1946-08-15
British Fuirs Planned

The British Industries Fair will
resume operations in London and
Birmingham next year, and will be
held annually in May thereafter.
Evening star., 1946-08-15

Inc SucceSSluI
Allies. stephen
Alfino, Anthony P.
Allen, Wilbur r.
Armfield, George Met
AtchiSon, Bernard J,
Babbage, John D.
Baker, Ray E.
BatZell. Elmer E.
Boyle, Charles w.
Brew, Francis W.
Brownstone. r. r.
Buckley, James T.
Bulloch. Mansard
Burgoyne, John A,
Burke, W. L. P.
Busby, Charles W.
Busch. Margaret T.
Canney. John o.
Caputy. Victor W.
Carliner. David
Carroll. Charles T.
Carter, c. P, 5r..
Carver, J A, jr.
Charno, G. H, tr.
Christie, Alfred, Sd
Collins. Thomas B
Collins, Leonard c.
Conlyn, Andrew G.
Corie, Joseph
Costello. William j.
Crump, N. M.
Curtis, Floyd J.
Dach. Joseph
Evening star., 1946-08-15

applicants follow
Dalton. Donald H.
Da wilson. James c.
Davis. Frank E.
:. Dean. Paul r.
de Lagarde, H. w.
Donner, Sidney r.
Donohue, J. D.
Dorset, Harold l..
Dudik, Betty Z.
Dunn, John W.
Durkin, James p.
carp, Thomas S.
EiSenberg, Bernard
Estes. Earl w.
Ewing, l.. Clark
Farmer, Lyle c.
Farmer, Guy
Finzel. Hubert H.
Foley, Paul j.
Fox, James P.
Furman. John p.
Gamboa, M. c.
Garlock, c. H.
Goheen, Willard
Goodwin, Norton
Gray, w. l., jr.
Gribbon. Daniel M.
Harness, c. l..
Harrison. Cecil r.
Hart, Leslie F.
Ha wilkins, Paul M.
Head. James F.
Heald, Robert Louis
Hester, James G.
Evening star., 1946-08-15
Results of D. &. Bar Exams

A total of 152 applicants, including
13 women, passed the June examina-
tions for admission to the District
Bar, the Committee on Admissions
and Grievances, District Court,
announced today.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-05-16
Scanning Dept. News

Mrs. Eunice Reid, Scanning Super
visor, states that production is really
going up. That is, if those cutters
just keep her line with plenty to
do.
Seems as if everybody in the seam
ing department either spent the
weekend away or hS visitors in
their homes and there are just too
many of them to tell where every
body went, but they all seem to have
had big time, Millie Hudgins is
spending her spare time wondering
why Eloise Mcbride insists on sew
ing next to the stairway and says she
found out Sunday afternoon. Eloise
what are you up to?