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The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
Tucker Freed On
Charge
In West Court
Negro Killed At
Ellis Place
Saturday q

L. B. Tucker, Jr., white man AZ
West, was freed from a murder
charge Tuesday morning in connee-
ton with the killing of T. G. Gaines,
rs, Negro youth, late Saturday after.
noon, Feb. %, at the o. E. Ellis place
on highway 81 just north of West.
The trial was held in Judge E. N.
McLellan's court Tuesday morning
at West and Tucker, the defendant
was represented by S. R. King. The
only witness for the state was Depu-
ty Sheriff Harvey Nabors who tesd-
fled that razor, forty cents and
three keys were taken from the
body of the Negro youth who waa
shot to death about six-thirty o.
clock Saturday afternoon.
Reports said that Gaines, the Ne
gro youth, was making lot Of noise
outside the Ellis place and Tucker.
who repeatedly works for Ellis, came
out and told him he'd have to leave.
The Negro youth said he would
leave if he could get his wife who
was inside. Tucker permitted him
to enter the place to get his wife.
After they got outside he was report
ed to have hit her and she refused
to go with him.
Tucker is reported to have gone
out again telling the Negro to leave
and the Negro said he wouldn't
leave and cursed at him whereupon
Tucker hit him with a stick. The
Negro then came at Tucker with Q
razor, according to reports, after
which Tucker shot him with a re.
volver.
Sheriff w. L. Murtagh was called
and he and Deputy Harvey Nabors
came to the Ellis place to investi-
gate and arrested Tucker on a mur-
der charge. He was held in the jail
at Lexington until his trial Tuesday
when he was released.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
1916 Crop Insurance
Now Being Accepted

E. r. Trotman, County Admins
trative Officer of the AAA County
Committee, said today that applica-
tions for 1946 Cotton Crop Insurance
are now being accepted by agents
and at the AAA Office.
You can insure 75% of your nor
NAL cotton production in l946 for a
cost Of l3 pounds Of lint cotton for
each acre planted, or insure 500 Of
your normal production for a cost
Of 5 pounds per acre.
One policy, with one premium to
pay, insures a farmer against all
unavoidable natural risks. And mo
matter how much farmer plants,
or how much the crop is worth in
the market, the only way to be sure
Of an income is to protest his crop
with Federal crop insurance, Mr..
Trotman pointed out.
Taking out Federal Crop Insurance
twas described as "only setting aside
SO much each year to take care Of
loss that is almost sure to come
sometime in the future. And if a
crop is lost, the indemnity received
by an insured farmer gives him a
return for what he has invested in
the crop in the way of seed costs and
labor
Farmers are urged to drop in at
the AAA office if they have any
questions about the program. Crop
insurance applications must be filed
by April 10, 1946.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
Bulldogs and Pearl
River PIoy $50
Opening Night

The l946 Jr. College Tournament
will get under way tonight at 7:3o
when the Holmes girls meet Decatur
in the opening game.
Holmes Boys will engage the Pearl
River five to close the opening
round.
Ellisville and Raymond girls win
open the second round playing d
$50 A. M. Friday morning while
Wesson and Raymond boys ars
matched for play at 1890 A. NJ.
closing the morning session.
Friday afternoon games include:
Scooba and Pearl River girls play
ing time 2:30 P. M. and Perkinston
and Decatur meeting in boys play
an hour later.
Friday night games should b
tops" with Ellisville No. / boys
ceded team meeting Summit, while
the No. l ceded girls team will ba
Wesson Wolverines and they win
open the final first round play start
ing time 7:30 p. M. against Perkin-
ston. The Ellisville-Summit game
will follow the girls game and win
terminate the quarter-finals.
Semi-finals in girls will be played
$50 and 1890 A. M on Saturday
while the boys semi-finals will be
played 100 and 200 P. M. Finals In
both divisions are schedule for play
Saturday night 7:30 and $3.50 P. N.
Sheriff" Knight, and Frank Nc
Lendon will referee all tournament
games. William Cathey was named
timer-Scorer.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
Dr.. Former Attends
Washington Conference

DR.. Chester Farmer, formerly Of
Cruger and Tchula, now of Detroit,
recently attended the National Re-
search Council meeting in Washing
ton, D. c.
The program was in the form Of
reports of various investigations on
use of pencillin and the coordination
of these results. Various research
groups in W. S., Great Britain, Can
ada and South America were repre-
sented.
Dr.. Farmer is now engaged on a
part-time basis in this research as il
applies in the treatment of syphilis
and chronological.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
Junior College Tourney Schedule Complete;
Holmes Decatur Girls Play First Game
VFW Elects and InstuIIs
Officers March End

The Ohio Byrd Post of the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars organization
elect and install officers Tuesday
evening, March 18th, at the Lexing-
ton City Hall at seven-thirty o'clock.
Printed Cards will be mailed to
members asking that they be return
ed stating whether or not they plan
to be present. Refreshments will be
served.
All members are invited and urg-
ed to be present, said ON Eugene
Herman and j. A. Taylor, Post
Commander.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
American Legion To
Sponsor Baseball
Junior Team Will
Be Organized;
Committee Named

The Daniel w. Beau Post of the
American Legion will sponsor the
organization of an American Legion
Junior baseball team, it was decided
at the Thursday meeting $250.00
was appropriated out of the Legion
treasury to help finance the team
and business men and individuals
will be solicited for contributions to
fill out the $500 or 5000 needed for
purchase of equipment, etc.
w. H. Fincher, Jr., was named
chairman Of the committee to per-
feet plans with w. B. Kenna and
Edwin White.
The Legion will sponsor the Lex
ington school team until the sum-
mer season of June Bird. At this time
boys will be recruited from Pickens
and Tchula to join the Lexington
lads to make up the team from this
section of the county. Boys under
II years of age only are eligible for
the junior team. If boy is II after
January, 1916 he is ineligible to play
on the junior Legion team.
The season will extend to August
3 at which time the state play-off
will be held. State winners will COM
pete in the national meet.
The American Legion nationally
is sponsoring the organization of
these teams as a part of better
citizenship building program. At
present prospects are excellent for
the local team as great deal Of in
terest has been expressed in the pro-
iect.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28

services Sunday at III "A. M. and
S p. M.
Salvation by Groce
''For by grace are We saved
through faith; and that not of your
selves: it is the gift Of God: not Of
works, lest any man should boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9.
Christianity differs from all other
religions in that it teaches salvation
by grace rather than by works. Ac-
cording to the Bible "by the works
of the law shall no flesh be justi-
fed. Galatian 2:16. Our good works
cannot save us-they can only con-
denim us for "all have sinned and
come short of the glory of Cod.
Romans 1923.
When we despair of lifting our
selves by our bootstraps and turn to
God for salvation we will find that
"He is able to save them to the ut
termost that come to God by Him..
Christi Hebrews TBS. That which
we are unable to do for ourselves,
He freely bestows upon us by His
grace. Thus, salvation by grace Is
simply salvation by God with whom
"all things are possible. Matthew
1925. So there is hope for the vilest
of sinners. None need to despair of
salvation if he will trust God for
that gift of grace.
Faith is the hand that accepts this
gift. 1t is the means by which the
grace of God comes to men. Saliva
ton is "by grace-through faith, not
of works. The gospel which is the
power of God unto salvation bids
men to "believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved. Acts
1881:
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
Lexington Closes
Basketball Season
Boys Win County
Tourney; Enter Big
Black Tourney Friday

The Lexington High School Bas-
ketball teams closed a successful
season Tuesday night with two in
teresting games against the Carroll
ton cagers.
The local girls lost by score of
24-34 and the boys winning 51-48.
The boys game was hard fought
and very close throughout, provid-
ing many thrills for the spectators.
The seasons record for the boys
.eam shows fourteen wins and one
oss, including two games played in
he Holmes County Tournament
leld at Tchula Friday, Feb. %,
which was won by the Lexington
boys when they defeated Goodman
High School 47-31. The record of
games won and lost during the sea-
son follows:
Lexington 26, Tchula 16, here.
Lexington 58, West l3, here.
Lexington As, Belzoni II, here.
Lexington 54. Coxburg "a, here.
Lexington 80, Blackhawk 8, there.
Lexington 81, Kosciusko 19, here.
Lexington SIS, Coxburg II, there.
Lexington 36, Yazoo City Al, there.
Lexington 33, BelzQni 81, there.
Lexington 58, Blackhawk 33, here.
Lexington 38, Tchula 13, there.
Lexington so, West 16, here.
Lexington 81. Carrollton as, here.
County Tournament: Lexington
Al, Coxburg 8, Tchula; Lexington
Az, Goodman 81, Tchula.
The Lexington girls won five
games during the season and lost
nine, including one game played in
the County Tournament.
Both teams will enter the semi
final tournament of the Big Black
Region which will be held at Car
rollton Friday and Saturday, March
1-2.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
Russian Ballet In
Jackson Monday

With the coming Of what John
Martin. of. The New York Times, has
called "the finest company in Amer
lea, ''the Ballet Theatre, to Jackson
for one performance, Monday,
March 4, we are again to be offered
a brilliant example of what is often
called "the greatest in Russian Bal
let.
Since the company and personnel
is almost one hundred percent Amer
lean, the question is sometimes ask
ed: why this insistence on the rus
sian"7
Ballet, as an art and an entertain
ment, has a long history and an
honorable one, history which has
had its ups and down. After the
creation of the ballet "Giselle", a
hundred or more years ago, ballet,
towards the late middle Of the nine
teenth century found the Wagner
and Berlioz music-dramas diverting
attention from it; and, as conse-
quence, ballet languished.
The ballet is, of course, combi-
nation of a number of arts, cooper
ating in the production of a single
whole; and ballet achieves true dis
tinction only when it attracts to it
self the best artistic abilities and
talents of the day. The dancing, the
music, and the decor must be in
formed by single spirit. Ballet be-
came, for time, an affair of pref
tiness, banalities, waving draperies.
Intellectual music. A new spirit in
ballet was needed.
1t came out of the East.
On the classic foundation, which
came originally out Of Italy and
France, Russians like Fokine in
choreography, Pavlova and Min
sky as dancers, designer Benois,
composer Stravinsky, nurtured and
developed ballet to the finest flower
ing the world has ever seen. Such
ballets as "Petrouchka", Les Syl-
phides", Princess Auora", are a
glorious heritage Of this period. Dur
ing the earlier part of the present
century there weresporadic attem-
pts to revive American interest in
ballet, but with the passing Of the
great Anna Pavlova in 1882 little
happened in this country
December 81, 1888, marked the re-
birth of ballet in this country. For
it was on that date that beneficient
impresario, S. Hurok, restored Rus
sian Ballet to America, and through
his astute direction the length and
breadth of the American continent
has been given opportunities to
know, to love, to thrill at great
dancing, great music, great painting
n perfect collaboration.
Embracing the widest and most
complete repertoire and variety OF
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
Potients At The Hospital

Mrs. Fred Miles, infant daughter,
Lexington.
Mrs. H. c. Brock, infant son, Ebe-
nezer.
Earl T. Shelton, Goodman.
Mrs. B. w. Cox, Black Hawk.
Willie Percy Jones, Rt. /, Lexing
ton.
Orren Dell Knots, Rt. 2, Lexing
ton.
Mrs. D. B. White, infant daughter
Lexington.
Margaret Rush, Durant.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
Peoples Drug Store
Robbed Friday Niqht

Peoples Drug Store was robbed
Friday night of small sum of mon
ey which had been left in the cash
drawer.
The thieves apparently entered the
store from window in DR.. Leigh's
office.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28

The many friends of RM3ic John
w. O'Kelly, USNR, are glad to see
him back home. He received his dis
.harge at Millington Tuesday after
aree years in service, % months of
which were spent on sea duty, in
both the Atlantic and Pacific.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28

Virginia Rush, Durant.
Mrs. Arthur Jenkins, Pickens.
H. L. Malone, Jr., Lexington.
Mrs. Walter Campbell, West.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28

growing worse. The lawless element
is taking over the county and APP
parently will have complete charge
before long. II our county law en-
forcement officials aren't being paid
off they are getting lot of unfair
public criticism.
The only way our officials can
prove they are not being paid of,
in our opinion, Is to start enforcing
the law now and continue to en-
force it until this county is rid Of
the bootlegging joints that line our
public highways throughout the
county.
As an example Of how lawless
Holmes county has become we will
sketch briefly some of the happen
ings In the past few days. More
detailed accounts will be found
elsewhere in this paper.
A negro, T G. Gaines. was killed
Saturday night at the O. E. Ellis
plase just north Of West. by L. b.
Tucker, Jr., white man, who re-
portealy works for Ellis.
Earl Mclean was arrested Satur-
day afternoon in Lexington for at
tempted murder in connection with
the stabbing Of Floyd Howard Carr.
Peoples Drug Store was broken
into Friday night in Lexington and
a small sum Of petty cash taken.
John B. Crosby, Kosciusko, was
convicted Wednesday Of drunken
driving and reckless driving causing
personal injuries in connection with
. wreck south Of Goodman recently.
Crosby ran into q school bus turn
ing it around and over causing
severe injuries to one Of the occu-
pants
Calvin Thomas, Goodman negro,
plead guilty to a charge of drunken
driving in Durant Saturday after
noon. He sideswiped car in front
of the library, hit lady in front OF
Piggy Wiggly Store, and had a
head-on collision with another car
at the Peoples Bank corner.
Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins, wife Of
the reported manager of Circle Inn
on highway 81 south Durant, was
arrested in Durant Thursday night
for having case of whiskey in her
car.
Paul Pullen, Kosciusko citizen,
was found guilty of drunken driving
in Durant court Monday afternoon
He had been arrested Sunday night
o. v. Williamson and two sons, o.
w. and Kenneth, Of Attala county,
were arrested for public, drunken
ness in Durant Sunday afternoon
and paid fines of ten dollars each
IN Mayors Court. Witnesses stated
they got into car and one of them
accidentally stepped on the starter
and the car in reverse backed all
the way across the street without
anyone under the steering wheel
Fortunately no one was behind the
car or they would have been run
over.
These are just few things that
have been brought to our attention
Possibly the publication of these
will serve to arouse some conscious
ness on the part of our citizens as
to just how bad this county is get
ting.
When conditions are so bad il
isn't safe for men, much less womer
and children, to be on the streets
we think it is time that something
be done about it.
We challenge Sheriff Walter L
Mrrtcgh to do something about it
II he win close the whiskey joint:
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES
~ HAZEL sRANNoN

One man testified under oath in =
Justice of the Peace court in Holmes
county recently that he had bought
whiskey from certain bootlegging
establishment in Holmes county and
they had guaranteed him to get
through the county without any
trouble" for I'VE pay off all the
officers"
The name of the persons involved
In this are withheld for the obvious
reason that the writer does not wish
to be responsible for the death or
for any bodily harm that might
come to the person who made the
statement
At any rate the testimony was
made under oath and before court
and law-enforcement officials who
are not paid off" by anyone. He
was obviously telling the truth
when he said he had been told he
could 60 through Holmes county
Wilnout any trOuDle with MS WhlS-
key.
Whether the bootlsgger wus tell
Ing the truth about the Holmes
county officers being ''poid off" or
not We could not soy.
We do know that conoIuons In
Holmes county are as bad as any
county in the state and steadily
growing worse. The lawless element
is taking over the county and ap-
parently will have complete charge
before long. II our county law en-
forcement officials aren't being paid
off they are getting lot Of unfair
public criticism.
The Lexington advertiser., 1946-02-28
GOSPEL TALKS
Salvation by Gruce
BY n. G. valsn

Services Sunday at IL A. M. and
p. M.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-30
JOBS FOR DISABLED VETS

If the experience of the Bell Telephone System is any guide would appear that nearly all disabled veterans can be employed satisfactorily some 3zooo employees of the Bell companies returned rom the armed forces Of these about 1500 were disabled Tn some degree Approximately twothirds of these were not disabled by wounds but by tropical diseases heart or nerve conditions arthritis, or similar ailments
 Of the 800 disabled veterans, fully 1000 nave been placed in the jobs they held before the war. And all but 24 of them now re-employed Even some of the 24 found to be unempoyable may later he nlaced in suitable jobs. Furthermore, the Bell conanies have hired 689 disabled vets not previously employed
 This is an impressive record, testfying to the sincere effort these companies making to lit disabled men back into useful confirms also the eager ness of veterans even though partly disabled to pay their own way with regular jobs for regular wages
 The whole problem is not indicated by this set of figures, however. There are going to be some absolutely unemployabe for whose support of course the government assumes responsibility. And there are going to be some employers who simply cannot find enough jobs suitable for returning veterans.
 On the other hand there numerous occupa- tions sineularly well suited to men with some physical handicaps The head of school of watchnaklng m New York has reported that l7O0 jewelry stores Tn the United States have volunteered to hire watch makers they have trained And he noted that "a man doesn't have to be athlete to repair watches '
 In this and many other fields, the disabled veteran, the seriously handicapped case can find useful and satisfying occupations But the plac ing of our disabled in such jobs may call for considerable retrainng and for earnest cooperation of employers.
 Furthermore, it is not primarily problem to be left to the great corporations which have welorgan- ized personnel departments. Most of the places are in small companies retail shops It is problem every employer ought to face. For he may be able to open up a useful career to some handicapped
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-30
When America Saved Siberia
(NeW York Tinesl

(New York Times
 It is sometimes possible to have sympathy for the wretched men who appear before Soviet courts on treason charges-they usually pitfully to confess their misdeeds and one help wondering what kind of third degree it is that accounts for the eagerness The case of Gen. Gregor Semenov (the name is also spelled Semyonov and Semeonov), one of the defendants in the current Moscow trial Is diff ferent We already knew that he was terrorist a butcher and Japanese agent, which are among the charges on which he is now being tried.
 American soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen William S. Graves encountered Semenov when they were to Siberia in 1918 to hold the Irans- Siberian Railroad and aid in the escape Of Czech prisoners who had broken away in the turmoil or the revolution Semenov with headquarters at Chta, east of Lake Baikal was one of two Atamans who were nominay supporting the Kochak .counter-revolution The other was a man named Kalmkov. In his Am ericas Siberian Adventure" General Graves said that Kalmikov was the worst scoundrel I ever saw or heard of" and later added There was only one worse criminal than Semenov, and that was KamlkoV." II Semenov was not bad Kalmkoy 1t was not for lack of trying The followers of both of these men to quote General Graves again roaming the coun- try like wild animals killing and robbng the people When the counter-revolution failed Semenov fled, having the effontery even to pay visit to this country Later he sought Japanese protection and there was no need to doubt him when he said in Moscow recently that he had plotted with them for twenty five years against the Soviet Government.
 But there is one point about Senenovs history that may not be clearly brought out in the Moscow trial From 1918 to 1920 the Japanese were trying to take over Eastern Siberia. They were frustrated by the presence of General Graves troops, for Gen. era Graves at personal and professional risk to himself stood firm against this aggression In deming Semenov as We do too, the Russians might consistently acknowledge this debt of gratitude to the United States and to the memory of General Graves, who died in 1940.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-30
 CHEATERS
 IN NATION
By CLARK BEACH

WASHINGTON - Anybody who gets money from the government when he isn't entitled to it has to buck the General Accounting Of- flee (GAO).
 It's the biggest accounting outfit on earth. It has thousands of ways of nosing out leakages of govern ment funds, whether through fraud or error.
 Fifteen women, for instance, have learned how GAO catches up on marital wrong-doers. Each was married, or said she was, to two servicemen at the same time and drew wives allotmentS from both mems pay.
 Trapped by First Names
 But they didn't know that GAO has file of paid allotment checks arranged by first names. GAO fi- gures that when woman commits bigamy or adopts false surname she is likely to retain her true first name. If in the Mary" file the endorsements of two checks look alike, the cases are checked-some- times with surprising results.
 Every voucher paid by disburs- ing officer of the government is re- viewed by GAO's Audit Division. In the fiscal year which ended this July, 3s00O,OOO vouchers were checked.
 GAO filed exceptions to 417000 of the understanding in the governments receiving refunds of $43, 100000. The discrepancies arc usually the result of error and not fraud, says E. w Bell, chief of the division
 5000 Busy Checking
 Bell has 5000 bookkeeping sleuths in his division, some of them at his headquarters in Washington and some at 250 field stations.
 Largest field offices are in Cleve- land, where 800 accountants and lawyers check on payments made under Navy contracts; and in St. Louis, where 600 more keep tab on Army transactions.
 Most of the work of Bells di- vision is simply checking vouch- CTS to see whether they comply with the law and with the con- tYacts involved The division may make a complete audit, however, when directed by Congress, as it of ten is, or in the case of cost-pluS- fixed-fee contracts.
 Still Wider Scope
 It also can make an audit Of termination settlements con- tracts which the government ter minated at the end of the war be- fore performance had been com pleted.
 Another GAO unit, the Corpora tion Audit Division, headed by T. Coleman Andrews, makes commer- cial audits of all wholly owned government corporations, now num- bering about 95.