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Jail LEGISLATION

The desire of Representative How
ard w. Smith of Virginia to have
the District Jail problem dealt with
under broad and permanent legis-
lation reorganizing the Board of
Public Welfare is understandable.
But the bill to deprive the Board
of Public Welfare of it's admins
trative control over the jail and
other municipal institutions and to
make 1t a purely advisory body has
been pending for a long time.
Meanwhile the city has been con-
fronted with a serious emergency,
fraught with real peril to the pub
lie. A series of escapes by desperate
criminals has made a mockery of
the Jail administration and has
jeopardized public safety. The jail
has become so insecure that officials
and citizens have good reason to live
in fear of another break.
1t was to cope with this grave
emergency that the special subcom-
mittee headed by Representative
Hebert of Louisiana prepared the
"Stopgap" bill to create at the Dis
trict Building new Department of
Corrections. which would take over
the administration of the Jail, leav-
ing undisturbed other functions of
the Welfare Board until such time
as the broader reforms proposed bv
the Commissioners could be author
lied and instituted. The situation
at the jail is so urgent that every
days delay in remedying conditions
only prolongs the threat of danger.
The Hebert bill would provide a
quick means Of etfecting essential
administrative reforms. whereas the
bill for general reorganization of the
Welfare Board would involve thor
ough study, as Mr.. Smith points out.
II Mr.. Smith could assure prompt
action on the long-delayed well
fare measure. emergency legislation
would not be necessary, but the
belated scheduling of the first hear
ing on the bill for next Monday
holds scant promise OF immediate
legislation, aside from the important
fact that immediate legislation could
not take advantage of the findings
OF the social welfare survey now in
progress. The public interest would
be served If Congress took action
without further delay on the Hebert
bill or on some other measure de-
signed to allay public apprehension
over scandalous conditions at the
Jail.
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military establishments of the indi-
vidual Latin American countries in
proper balance with one another
and thus prevent armament races
within Latin America itself. If sue
cessfully implemented, this might
obviate potential dangers like those
envisaged in the current situation
in Argentina. At any rate, that is
the purpose implicit in the pro-
posed legislation.
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Inter-Americun Defense

President Truman's message to
Congress outlining a program OF
inter-American military collabora-
ton marks at once the implementa-
ton Of steps already taken in prin-
ciple and their synthesizing in
unified system truly hemisphere in
scope.
The new synthesis consists in
combining two lines of action pre-
viously separate, albeit parallel in
purpose. One of these is the grow
ing military collaboration within the
framework of an-Americanism";
that is, between the United States
and the other independent republics
OF the Western Hemisphere. But
that term is misleading to the ex-
tent that it does not include Canada,
which, as a member of the British
Commonwealth of Nations, stands
outside the Pan American Union.
However, close cooperation between
the United States and Canada was
established during the late war, and
this relation is to be perpetuated
by continuing the system OF joint
defense board. In his message Pres
ident Truman suggests bringing
both these factors under one roof
by stating that "the collaboration
authorized by the bill could be ex-
tended also to Canada, whose CO.
operation with the United States in
matters affecting their common de-
fense is of particular Importance.
So far as the "pan-American" as
pect of the bill is concerned, it is an
implementation of the project en-
visioned at the Inter-American Con-
ference on Problems of War and
Peace, held at Mexico City last year
and eliminating in the so-called
Act of Chapultepec, which envisaged
a permanent system of pan-Ameri
can military cooperation to be es-
tablished at a subsequent confer
ence. Indeed. it was Mexico which
originally proposed the idea, so
President Truman's present message
to Congress has been warmly hailed
in Mexican political and military
circles.
The outstanding features of the
proposed bill would provide for
standardized military equipment,
together with training and organi-
zation of the armed forces in all the
Latin American republics, and staff
liaison for the concerting of hemi-
spheric grand strategy between
them and the United States. In
practice this would logically mean
the furnishing of such standardized
equipment by US, and the presence
of United States military and naval
missions in all the Latin American
countries Such co-ordinated
plan, designed for hemisphere de-
tense only. would logically keep the
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times as powerful as those" we have
now.
For purposes of the midair and
at-surface Bikini tests this summer
(some critics hold that the real test
will not come until naval power is
subjected to an underwater explo-
Sion) the Model T" type, which
wiped out Nagasaki, should be quite
adequate. But the point needs to be
kept in mind that atomic develop
ment is still in its infancy and that
this version of the bomb, appallingly
destructive though it is, is mild COM
pared to what can be produced in
the future. 1t is a fact that must
sober the whole world.
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Only the Model T.

In it's latest statement on Opera
ton Crossroads" Joint Task Force /
has offered a timely explanation of
why atomic bombs of the Nagasaki
type are to be used in the coming
tests at Bikini Atoll. The reason is
that more powerful ones are not at
hand at this time; if they were the
Army-Navy team in charge of the
project would not hesitate to use
them.
This clears the air of any sus-
picion that anybody is trying to
''hold back" anything in carrying
out the tests. Technical criticism
may still be voiced on other grounds,
but the statement leaves no room
for doubt that Admiral Blandy's his-
toric Task Force l will operate
against the target fleet with the best
A-bombs now available" This does
not mean, of course, that better
ones cannot be developed; it means
simply-if the words may be taken
at face value-that manufacture has
not advanced beyond the Nagasaki
type.
Actually, in terms of foreseeable de-
velopment, the present version of the
weapon may be regarded as crude.
AS one of the Crossroads" officers
has declared, it is merely the Model
T" in relation to what can be ex-
pected-a point backed up to the
full by some of the worlds most
distinguished scientists, including
DR.. Irving Langmuir, who regards
1t as almost certain" given an un-
limited armaments race, that we
will have atomic bombs a thousand
Evening star., 1946-05-15
The Druft DebucIe

The sinister effect of the form of
draft act extension finally approved
by the Senate late yesterday evening
and rushed to the President for his
reluctant signature cannot be meas
ured by anything it will do to the
military establishment in the forty
six days remaining between now and
July /, when the act must be ex-
tended again or permitted to expire.
The sinister effect is the revela-
ton of the state of mind of the
country, provided the majority of
Republicans and a highly vocal
minority of Democrats in the House
of Representatives accurately reflect
this state of mind
For it is precisely the same state
of mind that caught the people
unprepared for Pearl Harbor and
the war that followed. 1t is the
same state of mind that turned the
people away from the high idealism
which marked our entry into World
War I and in its disillusionment
blinded them to the developments
which led to World War II. 1t is
state of mind which in an alarming
sense is willing to repudiate, this
early, all of the things for which
we fought to close, but not to
finish, this past war And it is a
state of mind which emotionally
proclaims on every occasion our
willingness to make the peace stick,
but refuses to do the practical things
necessary to make it stick.
The House, or a majority Of its
members, reflected that state of
mind on April 10, when it debated
of draft act extension which called
a holiday on inductions until after
the primary elections were over. 1t
reflected that state of mind even
more clearly when on Monday of
this week it voted amendments to
the simple continuing resolution
passed by the Senate-voted amend
ments deliberately designed to kill
the draft act last midnight. In
voting these amendments the ma
jority of the House turned away
from the war leadership and swal-
lowed all the same old hokum that
its false prophets were spouting
while the Jap fleet was setting sail
for Pearl Harbor. The same men
who were fighting every sensible
precaution at that time are in the
saddle again.
1t may be unfair If not inaccurate
to blame the draft debacle on the
state of mind of the country. There
were scores of courageous men, on
both sides of the aisle in the House.
who pleaded with their colleagues
not to take the step they did, who
were willing to stand up and be
counted on how they voted and who
will 60 back home this fall and viii;
be Reelected But there was an
interval of thirty-three days be-
tween the time the House voted on
April 10, its cynically demagogic
draft holiday and the vote it took
day before yesterday to sustain the
same sentiment In that time there
has been no protest from the people,
to make the House majority doubt
full of It's position. The majority is
sure that in a gamble for votes it
has bet the right way.
The stakes, of course, are not
votes. The stakes are measured in
national security, in our ability to
follow through ard bring this past
war to conclusion that offers some
assurance of peace. The recklessness
with which these things have been
wagered, in a cheap bid for votes, is
calamitous in it's implications.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Plenty Beina Done

From the st. Louis ost-Dispatch.
A rising demand for coins is said to
be straining the United States mint's
capacity. So what do you suppose it's
doing to the United States citizens
capacity7
Evening star., 1946-05-15
And Prosperous!

From the Boston Globe.
Industrious habits of New Englanders
are the admiration of all those who
don't realize the climate is so chilly 1t
makes people work to keep warm.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Health Officers Complaint

To the Editor Of The Star:
Your editorial captioned "Quiet,
Please proceeds with excellent reason
ing until you make the statement: 1T
has the full blessing of men like Surg.
Gen. Parlan who understand what too
many decibels can do to the body and
mind
AS commissioned officer Of the United
States Public Health Service I served
aboard a Coast Guard D. E. as ships
surgeon. This was quite an experience
when enemy submarines were having
fair success. I was greatly chagrined
to discover that although 1 was in mill
tary service in combat I was not en-
titled to the same privileges and rights
that appertained to Coast Guard and
naval officers with whom served.
The law for the government of the
Public Health Service public Law 4l0,
18th Congress) specifically states that
Public Health officers are to be excluded
from the ordinary military benefits
OF mustering-out pay, Unemployment
rights and the right to retirement
uIloeT ARMY regulations.
On the eve of the hearings on the
Murray-Wagner -Dingle bill, it behooves
American doctors and the public to
investigate the machinery Of this little
known service. 1t is my belief that the
Public Health Service is far behind
many up-to-date State and county
health organizations in its conception
Of good medical practice and admins
tration. I cannot understand how the
higher level thinkers and planners of
the Public Health Service can expect to
operate liberal Federal health pro-
gram with personnel whom they have
browbeaten with unfair, unjust and
discriminatory legislation. C.B.A.
Thinks Mr.. Ickes Out of Place
To the Editor Of The Star:
While reading Harold L. Ickes' column
for April 20, entitled "Appeasement Of
Franco First Step to Next World War"
I glanced several times at the top of the
page to assure myself that 1t was q
copy Of The Star held in my hands.
Readers desirous to read polemics of
this nature turn to the pages of PM
and the Nation. In those journals
they can find such opinions as Mr..
Ickes expresses in the above mentioned
column fostered in a more pristine
state.
In The Star we look for more COM
prehensive views.
HERBERT o. WILLIAMS.
Wants Federal Traffic Laws
70 the Editor Of The Star:
For the health and safety of the
people of the United States, I believe
the Government should set up standard
traffic laws instead OF what we call
State and city traffic laws which are
different in each State and therefore
only confusing to the people who tour
the country on business and pleasure.
I believe there are many accidents
because the people don't know the laws
Of each State. If we should have the
same laws in every State, people would
get into the habit of obeying them.
When any person broke these laws, he
or she should be punished to the full
extent because there couldn't be any
excuse for not knowing the law.
JOHNNIE l.. sHANKs,
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ingthis month with Mrs. JIM. Clack
Sr. in her home in lockwood, Tenn.
Mrs. CO. Povall and son, Henry
Hooker drove to Memphis to see
Mrs. Povalls mother, Mrs. S.H.
Herbert who observed her 88th
birthday last week.
Mrs. A.Y. Brown will undergo a
mastoid operation at Grenada Hos
pital Tuesday. Her many friends are
wishing her a speedy recovery.
Mrs. RE. CRANBERRY returned to
her home at Meridian Saturday, after
a visit with her sister, Mrs. CA.
Glover.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Reedy Ellis spent
the week end in the capitol city,
with their daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Shepherd and
son of Greenwood, were last weeks
guests in the home of their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. W-P. Hammett Jr.
spent the 4th with W.P. Hammett Sr.
and Mr.. and Mrs. ED. Boyd.
VIII w. McRea, Jr. and Mrs. WV.
McRea. Mrs E-R. Lipsey and Louis
spent the Eta with Mr.. and Mrs. CT.
Owens AZ Columbia. Mrs. Owens
joined them Cor Q weekend visit with
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PUBLIC NOTICE

To the Public and to the Taxpayers
of Holmes County, Mississippi:
You are hereby notified that the
personal property assessment roll of
the above named county, for the
year 1916 and the real property as
sessment roll of the above named
county for the years of 1916 and 1947
have been equalized according to
law, and that said rolls are ready for
inspection and examination, and that
any objections to said rolls, or any
assessment therein contained shall
be made in writing and filed with
the Clerk Of the Board of Super
visors of said county, on or before
the 5th day Of August, 1916, at his
office In the Courthouse of said
county, and that all assessments to
which no objections are then and
there made, will be finally approved
by said Board of Supervisors, and
that all assessments to which object
ions are made, and which may be
corrected and properly determined
by said Board, will be made final
by said Board Of Supervisors, and
that said Rolls and the assessments
contained therein will be approved
by said Board of Supervisors; and
that
l. This Board will be in session,
for the purpose of hearing object
ions to the said assessments which
may be filed. at the Courthouse in
the City Of Lexington, said county
and state, on the 5th day of August,
1916, and,
2. This Board Of Supervisors will
remain in session from day to day
until all objections, lawfully filed
shall have been disposed of and all
proper corrections made on said roll.
Witness the signature and seal of
said Board of Supervisors, this the
3rd day of July, 1916.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF HOLMES COUNTY
BY M. l.. SMITH, President.
PARHAM H. WILLIAMS,
(SEAL) 12-tnp Clerk.
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VIC. Lipsey and family Of Mobile.
Mrs. John B. Greer Jr. spent Sat-
urday and Sunday in Summit with
her husbands parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J.B. Greer ST.. and with his sister.
Mrs. VIC. Price Jr. and family at
Pricedale.
MIR. and Mrs. NC. Frazer and
daughter Miss Betty Frazer spent
Saturday and Sunday in Memphis
with Mr.. Frazers sister, Mrs. William
Orgin. They went to Brownsville,
Tennessee on Wednesday to attend
the wedding of their sisters daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Boyd.
DR.. and Mrs. Am. Doty and Mrs.
John B. Greer Jr. were guests of
Mrs. Dotys brothers, Messers. Fred
and Dean Belk in Holly Springs
Tuesday. On Wednesday Mrs. Greer
Joined her sister, Mrs. NC. Frazer
and family in Memphis for the re-
turn trip through the Smoky Noun
tains to their homes in Columbia,
South Carolina.
NJ. Ind Ms9. Edwin White and
Carolyn re<uzaed Sunday from q de-
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LEGALS
NOTICE FOR BIDS

ne: Sell Water Coolers and Desk.
1t appearing that there are old
water coolers in the Sheriff's office
and the Chancery Clerks office
which the county does not need and
chat there is an old double desk in
the court room which is not needed,
and that all of the above property
II surplus and is not being used and
IL would be for the best interest OF
the county that the same be sold;
1t Is ordered that the Clerk of this
Board advertise for bids to be re-
ceived at the regular August, 1916,
meeting of this Board for the sale
Of two old water coolers and one
old double standing desk, the Board
reserving the right to reject any or
MI bids.
Ordered this July 2, 1916.
PARHAM H. WILLIAMS,
12-4tnp Clerk.
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LOCAL NEWS
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Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Pepper and
T. C. Pepper, Jr., of Belzoni, and
Mrs. ]. H. Hambrooke, Silver City,
New Mexico, were Sunday after
guests Of MI. and Mrs. G. T. Phelps.
Mr.. Roy Young and daughters,
Janice and Mary Arlyn, spent the
4th with relatives in Laurel and
Shubuta. They were accompanied
home by Mrs. Young's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. ]. T. Walters, of Shubuta.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Waldrop and
Virginia spent last week visiting
friends and relatives in jackson,
Newton. Louin, and Bay Springs.
Mr.. J. G.. Moore of South Miss.
a retired railroad employee of the
GIN & o and his sister, Mrs. J. d.
Lowrie, Of Marvel, Ark, are visit-
ing their niece, Mrs. Otis Stephen
son and Mr.. Stephenson
ArA IN. C1aek and ehilaren,
John Merriam and Cwin are spend'
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lightful trip to the Gulf Coast.
Mrs. Saleta Waldrup and Mrs.
Clarence Vair, Little Rock, Ark,
have returned home after visiting
Mi. and Mrs. ]. E. Jones and Mrs.
Gene Greer at Ebenezer.
Mrs. Vaude HENRY and son, Of
Brookhaven, spent last week in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Jones
at Ebenezer.
Douglas Lundy and daughter,
Patsy, are visiting his parents, MI.
and Mrs. c. L. Lundy.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Parker re-
turned Wednesday from Inverness
where they visited his niece, Mrs.
John Lick.
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NoTICE o BIDS

Re: Furnishing and Hauling Gravel
for Beat / Roads.
1t Is hereby ordered that the Clerk
Of this Board advertise for bids to
be received at the Regular August,
1916, meeting of the Board Of Super
wilson's for furnishing and hauling
Gravel to roads in Beat ] designated
to be improved under the State Aid
Plan, which designated roads appear
n Minute Book Is, on page 1866 of
the Minutes of the Board of Super
visors Of Holmes County, Missis-
uippi; said bids to be submitted for
hauling and furnishing the gravel
BY the yard, Board reserving the
right to reject any OF all bids.
Ordered this July 2, 1916.
PARHAM H. WILLIAMS,
12-4tnp Clerk.
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SUMMONS
10 State Of MissiSsinni

AAS otaSC Va NAAoSAooiRkAs
70 Adrian H. Wilkes, a nonresident
Of the State of Mississippi, whose
post office address Is First Nat
ional Bank Building, Lexington,
Kentucky, and whose street ad-
dress is unknown, and Eloise
Wilkes Hill, a nonresident of the
State of Mississippi, whose post
office address and street address
is 1901 Edgehill Avenue, Nashville,
Tennessee, and B. B. Wilkes, Jr., a
nonresident of the State of Mis-
sissippi, whose post office address
is Kennedy General Hospital,
Memphis, Tennessee, and whose
street address is unknown, and
Mrs. M. G.. Blum, whose place of
residence and post office address
and street address are unknown,
and to the unknown heirs of l..
m. Wiley, Deceased, and to the un-
known heirs of E. B. Stainback,
Deceased, and to the unknown
heirs Of Mrs. M. F. Worsham, De-
ceased, and to all persons having
or claiming any legal or equitable
interest. in the following described
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land sold for taxes on April g.,
1925, to-wit: Eh Of SWh of Sec
ton Is, Township IA, North,
kange l West, In holmes County,
Mississippi:
You are summoned to appear be-
fore the Chancery Court of the
County of Holmes in said State on
the second Monday of September,
AID, 1946, to defend the suit No.
74l9 in said Court of Southern Nat
ural Gas Company to confirm and
quiet the title of j A. Hearn to said
land and to confirm and quiet the
title and interest of complainant
Southern Natural Gas Company
therein under an oil, gas and min
eral lease held by it covering said
lands, and wherein you are defend
ants.
This the 5th day of July, 1916.
PARHAM H. WILLIAMS, /.
Clerk Of the Chancery Court OF
Holmes County, Mississippi.
(SEAL) l2-4tnp
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NOTICE FoR BIDS

Re: Advertise for Hauling Gravel.
1t is hereby ordered that the Clerk
to be received at the regular August,
1946, meeting of the Board, the
Board ~reserving the right to reject
any or all bids, for hauling gravel
from Hammett's Gravel Pit to the
State-Aid Roads located near Cru
ger.
Ordered this July 3, 1915.
PARHAM H. WILLIAMS,
12-4tnp Clerk.
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NOTICE FOR BIDS

Re: Advertise for Gravel.
1t is hereby ordered that the Clerk
Of this Board advertise for bids to
be received at the regular August,
1916, meeting of this Board, the
Board reserving the right to reject
any or all bids, for furnishing Dis
trict Five with 900 yards of washed
gravel.
Ordered this July 3, 1916.
PARHAM H. WILLIAMS,
l2-4tnp Clerk.
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Observation-Disclosures

PHrNTINcs When yeu need psiat-
ing phens TIE ADVERTISER. No
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state Of Mississippi, County of Holmes, SIS:
Swo or 70 M subscribed before me this 5h day of July 1916, and I
sIepy cert1y l an not an officer O. director of this bank.
orH A 49,. RUTH OREILLY, Notary Public