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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-02-19
Legislative Digest
Special To The Advertiser

and prohibition continued to be spot
lighted as House Temperance COM
mittee reported a do Pass" recon-
mendation the bill of Mrs. Zelma
Price and Harvey Ross, both of Co
homa, calling for state liquor stores
in counties which vote wet in a spec
ial election, to be held this summer
Committee action followed an open
hearing which drew throngs, most OF
whom argued against any repeal OF
present prohibition statutes.
The Price-Ross bill was set as
special order of business" in the
House Wednesday afternoon, Febru-
airy 10.
Meantime the Senate was expected
early in the week to take action on
a bill to repeal the ten per cent
"black market" tax, which applies
largely to liquor.
Also in the Senate, which has the
Jones bill similar to the Price-Ross
bilD before committee, a new bill
was offered by Senator w. A. Nc
Graw of Yazoo, an avowed bone
dry" which calls for a statewide
refendum on the whole ~liquor-pro-
hibition issue.
Meantime the Senate, after brisk
debate, voted to cut the amusement
tax from its present rate (about 10 to
IL per cent? to two per cent, in line
with the sales tax. Opponents de-
clared that if any taxes + to be
cut this time. the tax On movies is
not the place to start. Advocates
said the movie theatres pay a tax out
Of proportion to other industries,
which have only the two per cent
tax.
The House passed easily a bill to
exempt all motor vehicles from all
ad valorum taxation--state, county,
or city--and to raise license tags fees
to make up for the differ |
ence; counties and cities would be
refunded stated sums which authors |
Of the bill said will more than make
up for loss through exemptions. Be-
cause Of the complicated ad valorem
assessment processes in the state, ad-
vocates said this would be helpful
o officials as well as to motor own
srs. The bill also would change from
pay load" to actual rated axle-load,
he method Of taxing trucks, and fur
her simplify truck tax laws.
A Senate approved bill to clarity
grant of land to Kinds county for
memorial stadium, finally cleared
he House. Work on the project, for
which a bond issue has already been
'oted, is to start in April.
A Child labor" bill, sponsored by
he Childrens' Code Commission, was
to the Labor committee
I the House. which plans further
.aorings on the proposal this week.
A series of deficit and other small
appropriations already approved by
he House, were passed by the SEN
tie.
The House passed a measure to Sc
alcoholic and durable pat
ants from others at the states two
sylums; and a companion bill to
'rohibit commitment of any person
D either asylum without ar exami-
Iation by a mental board.
Before quitting for the week, the
appropriated $1,250,000 to be
dded to a similar amount now
valuable for construction at the
tate Sanitarium at Magee, while
he House passed a measure designed
0 cooperate with other states in re-
fleeing paroled convicts.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-02-19

o. was wounded in World Wa
II and would like to know if my
compensation check is subject to
seizure by creditors?
A-No.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-02-19

States, particularly
in Virginia, you will
come upon numer-
Gus instances Of
c h C h p e W 8
marked as follows,
George Washing.
ton w%orshipped in
this pew on blank
date" Evidently, it
was his custom to
attend public wor-
ship in whatever
community he spent
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Bring your PRINTING PROB
LENS to The Advertiser. We con
print anything and do it quick! We
appreciate your patronage. Phone
Lexington ll6, collect.
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Q-Have I recourse to civil courts
if | do not like the decision of Vet
Grams Administration on my claim
for compensation.
A-No.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-02-19

We1l-cured alfalfa hay is consider.
ed by livestock men as forage of
highest quality.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-02-19

Q-Must a veteran have 10 per
cent or more service-connected disa-
bility to be eligible for treatment?
Amy veteran with an establish
ed service-connected disability is en-
titled to outpatient treatment for
the service-connected disability re-
& 1less of the degree of disability.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-02-19

An 80 pound lamb will supply 40
pounds of meat.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-02-19
Christian Fellowship
Lesson for February 22, Is4s

GEORGE WASHINGTON was a
splendid example Of Christian
fellowship. If you will travel through
the older portion of the limited
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-02-19

A AS pound hog will supply about
$50 pounds of meat.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-02-19

Q-I lost last months subsistence
check before / was able to cash it at
the bank. What should / do?
AGO to your local Veterans Ad-
ministration office and explain what
has happened. The office will take
necessary action either to recover or
to replace your check.
Evening star., 1948-03-05

arrival In Hollywood of Willie Bion
He said the same conspiracy" ex.
listed In the Hollywood movie In
dustry as in the old Bioff Browne
days.
Bioff, who was convicted of ex-
torting $3.50, 900 from the producers
under threat OF calling a Nation
wide strike of movie operators, was
formerly Hollywood agent fol-
George E. Browne, Chicago rack
eteer, when Browne was president
of the AFL stagehands union.
"This conspiracy goes on now and
has since 1885," Mr.. Sorrell testi-
fed. When Bioff went to Jail foa
extertion, some of the producers
should have gone with him for con.
spiracy."
Matthew Levy, attorney for the
Stagehands, shouted an objection
demanding to know If that was a
formal charge.
Testimony ON "Payoffs" Slated.
when they conspire with one
man to deprive a lot of workers OF
their rights, that's criminal con-
spiracy," Mr.. Sorrell replied.
''It started with Bioff and Browne.
It's going on now with Walsh and
Brewer, and I'll prove 1t.
Richard Walsh succeeded Browne
Evening star., 1948-03-05
SorreII Probers Ask
FBI Fingerprint Check
OF Red Party Card
BY the Asseeia,sd Press

Congress has called on the FBI fol
fingerprint tests Of q Communist
Party card allegedly issued to Her.
bert K. Sorrell in 1887 under ths
party name of Herb Stewart"
Mr.. Sorrell, president Of the AFL.
Conference of Studio Unions, ha.
sworn under oath before a House
Labor Subcommittee that he wa,
never a member of the Communist
Party. The committee has been in.
vestigating movie labor troubles.
As MIR. Sorren finished testifyins
yesterday that he had never seer
or handled the Communist member
ship certificate before, Representa-
tive Owens, Republican, Of Illinois
handed the card to him and asked
him to eximine it thoroughly.
Mr.. Sorrell turned it over in his
big fingers-he is an ex-prizef1ghter
and declared:
"Td say it looks very much like
my handwriting, but it is not my
handwriting"
Mothers Name on Card.
The witness acknowledged that
his mothers maiden name was
Stewart and said, II suppose that's
why they put it on there"
MIR. Owens said that the word
Stewart" on the card starts out
with the letters 80" with the small
20" written over with It,"
"It looks like you started to write
Sorrell and then wrote Stewart
doesn't it?" Mr.. Owens asked.
That's the way it looks" Mr.
Sorrell agreed.
The witness then handed the card
back to Chairman Kearns, who tolc
reporters that the FBI would make
tests to see whether the card also
bore any old fingerprints Of Mr.
Sorrell.
THAT way we can tell whether
this card is a fake, as Mr.. Sorrel
claims" Mr.. Kearns said. HE swore
he never handled 1t before, and II
the old prints are there 1t will be
something else again"
Earlier, the committee had hearC
a story of dynamiting by Chicago
mobsters, skull-cracking and other
violence in a Hollywood moviestrike
Mr.. Sorrell told the committee
that the trouble started after the
Evening star., 1948-03-05

as president of the Stagehands
Union Of the international Allianc,
of Theatrical Stage Employees and
Roy Brewer succeeded Bioff q,
IATSE business agent. .
George Bodle, Mr.. Sorrell's at.
'torney, told the committee he will
introduce court testimony showing
that the producers paid Biof and
Browne $4,000 a year for each
major studio and $25, 900 a year fol
each minor studio as "payof men
to prevent strikes in the movie in
dustry.
"And they haven't changed one
iota," Mr.. Sorrell said. The same
deal is going on with Walsh and
Brewer as went on with Browne and
Biof1. They just changed places
that's ALL"
Mr.. Sorrell's union group and the
IATSE are the major antagonists in
the current Hollywood labor con-
troversy being Investigated by the
committee. .
Evening star., 1948-03-05
Orphans 10 Benefit
By Mrs. Allies Will

I District orphans eventually are te
benefit under terms Of the will OF
Mrs. Mary e. Allies, who died here
February "a, leaving an estate valued
at SIS, 1852.
Mrs. Allies was the widow of Milton
e. Allies, one-time president Of the
Riggs National Bank. Her will and
petition for probable were filed in
District Court.
After the death Of Mrs. Allies
children and grandchildren, the body
of the estate is to 60 toward helping
District orphans and educating
Catholic priests. The will specified
that the part to aid the orphans and
Evening star., 1948-03-05
priests is to 60 to the head OF the
Catholic church Id the District for

priests is to 60 to the head of the
Catholic church In the District foa
that purpose.
Meanwhile, after certain other
bequests are taken care Of, the resi-
duary estate is to be placed in trust
from which two daughters and q
son are to receive income for life
They are Mrs. Margaret Allies VIII
mer of the Highlands Apartments
Miss Mary Allies. 2126 Connecticut
avenue NV, and Milton E. Allies. jr.,
1920 Prospect avenue NV.
Other bequests included one OF
5000 to st. Gertrude's Guild for use
of the guilds school of arts and
crafts. The viii also made provision
for bequests of 5000 to each of Mrs.
Allies two sisters.
The will named Mrs. Wilmer and
the latter's husband, Pere A. Wilmer
executors.
Evening star., 1948-03-05
Dr.. r. c. Wurrinq, ST., Dies

BALTIMORE. Mar. S up, DIR,
Frederick c. Warning, ST., So, CHIEF
Surgeon Of the Western Maryland
Railway Co., died yesterday at
Mount Wilson Sanitorium. A grad
uate Of the University OF Maryland
Medical School, DR.. Warning has
been associated with the railroad
for 81 years.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
HeadIiners

IN DETROIT Gary Batherson
(right) saved Marlene Padar's life
when they broke through the ice
on a pond where they were playing,
then suffered painful aftermath of
heroism when Marlene insisted on
bestowing a big smooch OF his
shrinking cheek.
IN CRANSTON, r. 1. Frank
Trifolgio, serving a f%our-year term
for automobile theft, escaped from
state prison by stealing a prison au-
tomobile.
IN TORONTO Mary Richard
son attended the annual convention
of the Prospectors and Developers
association, was the lucky winner of
the door prize-a genuine gold brick.
IN DAYTON -. Carrot H. Pump
ley, only fireman at a school hav-
ing Is furnaces, was ordered to bed
by his doctor to ecove from a bad
attack of overwork.
IN PECATONICA, Ill. -. A farm
horse, marooned on an isolated piece
of wooded farmland for more than
a week by flood waters, was kept
from starvation by fodder dropped
to him from an airplane.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
Day by Day in Laurel

Nh. and Mrs. Ralph Lumsdon had
as guests Saturday Mr.. and Mrs.
John Erfle and son Wayne, Dick
Hemphill, Bobby Bradbrook and Jim
Chafftee, all of Rapelje.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. l.. Bondurant
and son Lewis spent Sunday in
Rapelje the guests of Mr.. Bondur-
ants parents, Nh. and Mrs. Roy
Bondurant.
The sixth birthday of Buzzie Her.
bert was celebrated March Is, when
his mother, Mrs. Clarence Herbert,
was hostess at a st. Patrick's party.
Games were played and a lunch
was served to jamie Huntington,
Judy Alters, Orlo Boughton, Clariss
Ward, Dickey Egnew, Denny Not
tingham, Billy Peterson and the
honor guest, Buzzie Herbert.
Miss Beverly Gunter, a student
nurse at Rochester, Mimi, arrived
to spend a vacation with her moth
err, Mrs. H. o. Gunter and other
relatives. At the conclusion of her
visit Miss Gunter will leave for
Chicago to receive advanced train
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Noteboom
Of Fairview were guests Saturday
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Crutcher and
attended the basketball tournament
at the gymnasium in the evening.
Mary Ann Kobbe and Jane Jack
son, seniors in the Hardin high
school spent the time during the
tournament at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. P. A. Johnston.
Mrs. Eva Richardson will enter
tain at a family dinner at her
home on Easter for Mr.. and Mrs.
Homer Sheets and son Clayton, Mr.
and Mrs. A. w. Richardson, Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Freund and child
rem, Danny and Bonnie Lou and
and Mrs. Henry Freeman and
son and daughters, Wayne and Mar
lene.
Miss Lois Crawford will arrive
home Friday from Dillon where she
is attending Montana State College
for her Easter vacation.
Mrs. C. H. Anderson returned
Friday from a visit with friends
in Glendive, Wibaux and Hodges.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Benin and
Mr.. and Mrs. Alec Benin and their
families plan to spend Easter Sun
day in Billings the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Philip Zeiler.
Bud Edwards is home to spend
until Sunday with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Edwards. He is at
tending University of Colorado at
Boulder.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chuck Belinak and
Miss Grace Stadalman spent the
week end the guests of friends in
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
GOVERNMENT
Expensive

Total per capita cost of running
the federal government for one
year has zoomed $201 since 1899,
according to a report by the Tax
Foundation. 1t now is about S27O
a year, compared with 500 in 1899.
War, of course, was mainly re-
sponsible for the increase.
Total estimated expenditures
for the fiscal year 1948 are 37.7 bill
lion dollars. War and its after
math accounted for almost % bill
lion of that.
But the blueprint for 1949, said
the foundation, registers an in
ease 1t quoted President Tru-
man:
"In the fiscal year of 1949, 70 per
cent of our expenditures reflect
the costs of war, the effect of war
and u efforts to prevent a future
war"
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
ACCIDENTS:
WOmen's

Accident rate among girls and wom-
en- has been reduced by about one-half
in the past 35 years as a result of mod
ernization of the American home, ac-
cording to statistics compiled by Metro
politan Life Insurance company.
Illustrating the reduction in home
hazards, the statisticians said, are the
shift from oil lamps and gas for light
ing to the electric light bulb, replacing
of the traditional coal stove by the
modern gas or electric range, and use
of central heating instead of stoves and
fireplaces.
Mortality from burns fell from 1913
per 100000 in 1911 to IA in 1946-a
decrease of sc per cent.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24

EDITORS NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those Of
Meten Newspaper Unions news analysts and not necessarily of this newspnprl
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
TREATY.:
so Years

Communist expansion was going
to meet a roadblock if the nations
OF western Europe had any voice
in the matter.
Britain, France and the Benelux
belgium, Netherlands and Lux
embourg) nations adopted a So
year treaty for a political, eco
nomic and military union of west
ern Europe in an out and out move
to check the communism that
threatens their independence.
Delegates from the five coun-
tries completed their efforts after
more than a week around the con
ference table. The alliance was a
direct out-growth of the union of
western European n a o S sug-
gested in j a n by Ernest
Bevin, British foreign secretary.
The treaty was believed to bind
the nations to mutual assistance
in the face of aggression. mutual
aid in the economic field, cooper
alton in improving their living
standards and a measure of CO.
ordination of colonial resources.
1t was just a beginning, but a
good me-. In the eyes of U. S.
government leaders the alliance
o. only a desirable but nec-
esary element if the Marshall plan
for recovery is to work at all.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
" WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS -
Masaryk's Death CrystaIlizes Red
Menace as US. Prepares to Act;
Spring Rash of Strikes Breaks Out

Released by wNU Features
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
NERVES.:
WarLike

The alternate, ostentatious flex-
ing of muscles by the United States
and Russia was, it appeared, shift
ing in status from a cold war to a
war Of nerves.
There were the u~nmistakable
signs of the military preparing TO
reassert itself. Many reserve Of
ficers had received letters point
ing out that, although they were
not being called to active duty
Immediately, they would do well
to prepare themselves for such a
possible eventuality.
In the Pentagon building in
Washington army planners were
working late at their desks. Pro-
curement officers we're reported
to be showing great interest in &C.
ment factories, since cement is
vital in building underground shell
tiers and Notifications.
Russian troops were said to be
massing in eastern Germany, but
no one would venture to say
whether this was pure bluff, a
threat of retaliation to the Mar
shall plan and union of western
Europe, or a show Of force in
tended to influence the coming
elections in Italy.
But President Truman himself pre-
cipitated the worst outbreak Of
war filters when he publicly pro-
claimed that his faith in the at
tainment of real world peace had
been shaken, although he still be-
lieves real peace is possible.
In this crisis the u. S. govern
ment vas s%tressing these points
which e m b o d i e d administration
policy for meeting the situation:
1 The European recovery plan
l. should be carried out promptly.
. The U. S. encourages forma-
10 ton of what Marshall called a
political association in western Eu-
rope as the first step toward re-
storing stability.
. Spread of Communist govern
~ ments anywhere in the world,
including China is opposed by the
American government which will
do everything in its power to block
communism.
a The U. S.. will continue to
" work for world peace wher-
ever possible.
Finally, any estimate of the sit
uation must include this inesca-
pable conclusion: Neither Russia
nor the U. S. wants war now; and,
more important, neither could af-
ford to fight nj This particular
decade continues to be a period
worked by a shifting Of forces and
consolidation of strength where it
will do the most good if and when
the real showdown comes.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
Consumer Income Up

Consumer income rose in January
to a record high annual rate of 2l0.8
billion dollars, the commerce de-
partment announced.
The figure for December was 2l0.4
billion dollars. The January rate,
according to the department, was
7 per zen higher than the l947 av-
erage of 1868 billion.
January's increase over December
came despite a slight downturn in
wages and salaries.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
SAY UNCLE:
Palestine

People continue to ask the Arabs
and Jews of Palestine to stop their
futile wrangling.
France, China and the United
States sent an appeal to the Jews
and Arabs of Palestine and also
to the six Arab state members of
the United Nations, asking them
to take steps to promote a truce
in the Holy Land fighting.
There was no real confidence
among delegates of the three ma
tons that their request would be
needed. Russia, the fourth coun-
try taking part in the big power
talks on Palestine, ~refrained from
joining in the appeal because the
Soviets have taken the typical
stand that there is no need for the
big powers to consult with the
Arabs and Jews.
Most observers thought the
truce appeal looked like wishful
thinking. For one thing, no group
among either Arabs or Jews in Pal
estine is in a position to control its
dissident members and thus guar
antee a truce.
Moreover, the idea of a military
truce does not bear upon the heart
of the problem. The United Ma
tons is still committed, on paper,
to partition, while the Arabs adam
antly continue to reject that pro-
posal and the Jews assert just as
strongly that they will accept
nothing else.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
MASARYK:
Death in Prague

Whether Jan Masaryk, Czecho-
slovakia's foreign minister, took
his own life or was l~iquidated by
the Communists really didn't make
any difference. .
The Communist government had
announced that he had leaped to
his death from a first, second or
third-floor window GU. S. news
D. readers could choose their
version) of the foreign office
in Prague.
Later reports by ''highly authori-
tative persons" insisted that Mas
aryk had been murdered by Com
munists. An alleged Eyewitness
testified that he had seen Mas
aryk's body after its reported fall
to a concrete pavement and that
it bore no evidence that the fore
ign minister had died in such a
manner.
Supporting the murder theory
was the fact that Masaryk was re-
ported to have met President Ed
Guard Benes the day before his
death, and the two we're said to
have planned something the Com
munists wished to prevent.
Unidentified Czech officials who
have escaped from Prague re-
ported also that President Benes
was a prisoner of the Communist
regime.
But whether Jan Masaryk, son
of the founder Of the Czechoslo-
vakian republic, had been muir
dered or goaded to suicide by his
intolerable position, 4 thing was
certain: Communists had killed
him just as surely as if they had
put a pistol to his head and pulled
the trigger.
If Masaryk took his own life it
was not just because he was seek
ing an escape, but because it was
the last service he could do for his
country-throwing light, by his
own destruction, on the terrible,
destructive force that is commun-
ism.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24

Frank Harris of Billings visited
here last week with his sister, Mrs.
Minnie Marsh who is making her
home with her daughter, Mrs. C.
L. Starbard and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Roberts and
family were dinner guests Sunday
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Smith of
Park City.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
SHIFTING WORLD
Nobody Worries About 'T;ssick' Now

City jewellers of 300 years ago
the inhabitants of London in the
year 1649, for instance-were only
half as likely to be killed in ac-
cidents as are the m~etropolites of
today.
But they were several times as
likely to die from tuberculosis or
other diseases with such fearful
names as spotted fever, puppies,
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24

rising OF the lights, plague in the
CUTS, tissick, imposthume a d
others, says a study of early and
present : day mortality by North
western National Life Insurance
company.
The kings horsemen were the
fastest traffic to contend with in
1913. The automobile was still $50
years in the future.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24

Miss Shirley Wilson, a student at
Colorado teachers College in Gree
ley, accompanied a schoolmate, Miss
Laverne Albright on a visit dur
ing their spring vacation with rel
atives of Miss Albright in Denver,
after which they spent the remain
der of the week at Miss Albright's
home in Cortez, Colo.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-24
STRIKES:
Miners

Widespread strikes in the ma
tons soft coal fields were touched
off by John L. Lewis latest foray
into the national scene. a demand
for S1OO-a-month pensions for his
miners.
The United Mine Workers leader
had asked rank-and-file reaction"
to his charge that coal operators
had ''dishonored' the l947 contract
by failing to grant pensions. And
his miners produced the exact re-
action he wanted as almost 100000
of them in IL states quit to sup
port Lewis stand at the very out
set of the difficulties.
It was not a strike in the techni-
cal sense of the word. Lewis, In
all his power, simply had nodded
his shaggy head and his men,
quick to catch the signal, walked
away from their jobs.
The current mine contract does
not expire until June 30, but it
provides that the miners need
work only as long as they are will
ing and able"
Impact of the soft coal walkouts
showed first in the nations steel
industry where output is threat
ened if the shutdowns continue for
any length of time. Many of the
C | O S e d m i are ''captives"
whose entire output goes to the
steel companies.