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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26
First Bale Cotton
Ginned Here, Grown
By Franklin Planter
Staple l-l/l6 Inch.
Brings 40 Cents
Louis Lipsey. Buyer

J. d. Love, of Franklin, grew it,
Farmers Gin company, Of Durant
road, ginned it, Louis Lipsey, buyer,
bought it for 40 cents pound.
The seasons first bale of cotton,
brought to town Thursday, weighed
486 pounds, was given free ginning
by Farmers Gin company, and free
storing by the Lexington compress
before its sale to Mr.. Lipsey. Thirty
dollars in cash was given grower
Love by business men and organi-
cations of town, as the First Bale
award"
The cotton. of DPL variety, was
middling l/16 inch fiber.
Merchants and others contribut-
ing to the prizes, according to David
T. Miles, were: Lexington Compress,
SIS; Holmes County Bank and Trust
company, SIS; First National Bank,
SIS; Chamber of Commerce, $40; Jun
Tor Chamber of Commerce, IS.
The award for the first bale gin
ned here is to be increased next
year, Mr. Miles said.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26

friend, which they won't let you do,
up there"
Air Smells Good
linen Roger goes into other phases
OF MS Lexington interests. 'Why, I
wasn't down here half week be-
lore was playing softball. OF course
the teams aren't nearly so good,
ana we have big league games up
.nere too, but it's lots of fun down
mere and the air smells good and
there isn't a train coming through
making a big noise, and it's cleaner,
ana there aren't so many accidents
or DRINKS"
Enumerating other advantages"
winch were not permissible in the
big city were; shooting firecrackers
on the Fourth of July, going bare
loot while uptown, and going fish
ing in a lake. A boy can take his
shirt off here, too.
Roger, who is a Boy Scout, says
Continued On Page Eight
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26
More Whiskey Seizures
Made By Law Officers

During the past two weeks, more
than four cases of mostly taxpaid
whiskey, and parts of two stills were
captured and destroyed by Sheriff
Ellis E. Wynn and his deputies. Two
Negroes were arrested on liquor
charges, and fined by Judge R. E.
McNeer of Durant.
Two-and one-half cases of tax
paid whiskey was discovered one
fourth mile south of Tchula, just
off the property of known per-
S on. One-and- one-half case
We're found off the premises of a
known person, one-fourth mile south
of Durant, according to the Sheriff.
Thirty-one bottles, or about one
and-one-fourth case were removed
from the railroad right-of-way in
Goodman.
The law officers captured Steve
Ellis, Negro, two miles north of
Durant, with whiskey in his pos
session.
Fred Lanfair, Negro, found to
possess five-gallon demijohn of
Whlskey, was arrested at his home
four miles west of Goodman.
A plea of guilty was entered with
resulting fine of 500 and costs be-
fore Judge McNeer of Durant on
Monday.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26
Last Rites Concluded
For Mrs. Ida Rainey
Wife Of LocuI Man Dies
After Lengthy Illness

Funeral services for Mrs. Ida
Roby Rainey, 80, wife of George
Rainey, Lexington r. F. D., who
died at her home at TAO a. m, Sun
day, were held Monday at 8 p. m,
at Oregon Memorial Baptist church,
with the Rev. E. G. Evans of Gunni-
son, in charge. Burial was in Odd
Fellows cemetery, Lexington.
Mrs. Rainey was born in Attala
county, near Kosciusko, November
l, 1867. She was married IS years
ago last December Is. and shortly
after marriage had moved to this
vicinity, where she had lived until
her death. She had been a member
of Harlands Creek Baptist church
from childhood. She was the daugh-
ter of Matthew Robey of Attala
county, and Matilda Sutton Robey,
formerly of Alabama. Her illness
had lasted for four years.
She leaves her husband, two sons,
Albert and Erbitt Rainey of Lex
ington, three daughters, Mrs. G. r.
Finley of Greenwood, Mrs. G.. W.
Hall of Brookhaven, and Mrs. w. A.
Gwen, of Memphis, Tenn; Is grand
children and IA great grandchildren
Pallbearers were her grandsons
George Cooksey, James Cooksey
Frank Cooksey, R. D. Dawes and
Ebert Gentry. Honorary pallbearers
We're Douglas Gilmore, Henry Fon-
vile, E. E. Shaw, Dan George, and
E. G. Blissiett.
Maxwell and Owen Funeral home
was in charge of arrapoap,apfe
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26
N. B. Montgomery
Carries Holmes County
In tuesdays Election
LBS Votes Unofficial
Count; FrunkIin First
Precinct To Report

Eleven hundred and thirty-five
voters out of approximately 1000
persons legally qualified to vote in
the county made up the unofficial
vote of 1,005 for Montgomery and
100 for Lee, which was tailed in the
democratic primary held Tuesday
in the race for Supreme Court Judge
for the first district. Judge M. B.
Montgomery, who had until recent
ly served continuously since 1880 as
chancellor of the 18th chancery
court district including Holmes
county, was well known in this
county, being adjacent to Yazoo
county, his boyhood home. Judge
Percy M. Lee, of Newton, was the
other candidate in the race.
According to accounts the cleo
ton was quiet occasion for those
who remembered or cared to vote.
No misconduct was reported, The
little precinct of Franklin won in
the race to count its votes and re-
port, having set a record of two
minutes after 6 o'clock closing time
in counting its IL votes, and tele-
phoning the ADVERTISER. Robert
Lipsey, returning officer, got in the
returns at 500, Court House Clock
time. Ten minutes later, Ebenezer
precinct official B. w. Humphrey, Jr.
telephoned in that precincts vote
of for Lee, and SO for Montgomery.
The Tchula vote, called in by w.
E. Jones, was accepted at els. with
other precinct votes tabulated, in
the order of their being called in,
as follows: Goodman, George Nit
chell 6:22; Pickens, H. S. McKie,
6:27; Bowling Green, Mrs. Sam Nc
Lellan, 6:34; Durant Mrs. r. c. e.
more, 6:38; Thornton, Joe Liberto,
GAL; Eulogy, Mrs. Lillian Hocutt,
6:48.
Results of other precinct returns
came through Miss Minnie Jordan,
Edwin T. White, and other sources.
Official tabulation will be made
by the Holmes County Democratic
committee.
Representative Will M. WHITING
ton was nominated for the third
delta congressional district, UNI
opposed, for new term.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26
Services Are Held
For {. W. Dugan
TchuIu Man Dies
After Lengthy Illness

Services for C. w. Dugan, Tchula.
who died Sunday morning, Aug. %,
We're held at the family residence,
Monday, at 8 a. m. with the Rev.
5. B. Harrington, pastor of the
Baptist church, officiating.
Mr.. Dugan, a native of Illinois.
would have been "a years old in
September. He had lived in Tchula
for ten years and had been in i'll
health for some time, having re-
tired from the mill business seven
years ago. He was a Mason and a
member of the Methodist church in
Charleston. He was married to Miss
Ora Bell Fisher SO years ago. To this
union three sons and three daugh-
tiers were born.
Surviving are his wife, son,
Charles, Jr, and daughters, Miss
Blanche Dugan of Tchula, Mrs. C.
W. Douglas of Blandville, Ky, and
Mrs George Adams of Charleston.
Burial was in the family lot of
she Masonic cemetery in Amory.
Active pallbearer were, Wilbur
Garrett, Carl Booth, D. Watkins,
Leland johnson, Archie Campbell
and Marshall Bennett.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26
Judge Davis, IA, Dies
Monday Night AT Home
Funeral Rites Held
Wednesday In IndionoIo

Judge Sidney F. Davis, "a, of In
dianola, jurist and judge of the
Fourth Judicial district for manv
years, and brother of Homer Davis,
OF Lexington, died at his home at
7:3O p. m. Monday after an extend
ed illness. Death occurred as he
ate supper after having gene for a
ride during the afternoon. Funeral
services were held Wednesday after
noon at Indianola Presbyterian
church, of which he was member.
conducted by the Rev. Walter Hall.
Burial was in City cemetery with
Masonic rites.
Judge Davis was born at Cedar
Bluff IN Clay county, July IL, 1874,
and moved to the Delta in 1891. He
married Miss Lillian Heard of Utica
In 1901. Admitted to the bar in 1909
he was elected judge in 1920. an
OFFICE ne has filled continuously
since that time. R. A. Jordan of
Greenwood had been acting as Judge
IN his stead during the past year
when he had been in ill health
He leaves his wife and four sons.
Mr.. Davis of Lexington, Jefferson
Davis. Jackson, Sidney Davis, Tole-
do, Ohio, and Howard Davis, India
nola; two brothers, John P. Davis.
Opelika. Ala; Omar Davis, Birming-
ham, Ala; two sisters, Mrs. Sally
Ross Key, Birmingham, and Mrs,
w. F. Long. Waterproof. La.
Judge Davis was Royal Arch
and Master Mason and knights
Templar. In the passing of Judge
Davis, the State has lost one of its
best known officials
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26
Rufus L. White Begins
Troining At Comp Hood

Private Rufus L. White, son, OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John R. White, is be-
ginning the first phase of training
under the new expansion program
with famed Second Armored Divi-
sion at Camp Hood, Texas.
Upon completion of the eight
weeks instruction, the enlistee will
be assigned to one of the units OF
the record breaking Hell On
Wheels" Second Armored Division
for advanced training. His assign
ment to Tank, artillery, infantry
engineer or other unit will depend
upon his desires, his aptitude and
the vacancies within the unit.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26
Volunteers Asked To Help
In Draft Registration,
Starting August Both

Countrywide Selective Service
registration will begin at a. m.
Monday, at Durant, Tchula. and
Lexington, it is announced by w.
B. Kenna, chairman. Others on the
committee are Alton B. Parker of
Lexington and Wiley HUMPHREYS of
Durant. Mr.. Kenna says it is hoped
that registration places will be pro-
vided at the City hall in each of the
three towns that are to serve.
Thirty-six free volunteer, workers
are being sought by Mr.. Kenna to
assist in the registration, which
would be two workers each day for
the Is days scheduled.
Registration will be from 8 a. m.
to IL noon, and From l to 5 p. m.
on the following days, as provided
for by law:
August 80, men born in 1922,
after August 80, 1922 August 81,
September l, men born in 1923.
September 4, 7, men born in 1925.
September 8, 9, men born in 1925
September 10, IL, men born in 1927
September 10. IA. men born in 1928.
September Is, Is, men born in 1929.
September II, 18, men born in 1880,
before September 10, 1880.
Persons wishing to volunteer to
assist in the registrations are ask
ed TO contact any of the veterans
organizations in either of the three
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26

ton money which is printed in
demonstrations like our American
money 1t can be spent only in the
American military zone and it is
illegal for Germans to possess the
American occupation money. Thew
must be paid in German marks for
their labor.
Many Americans have automo.
oiles in Berlin now, and they are all
worried about getting them out.
Since the blockade, gasoline has
been rationed to such an extent
that 1t is almost useless to have a
car. This is in keeping with Ameri-
can Military Governor Lucius d.
Gays announced policy of having
the Americans make sacrifices a.
long with the Germans as long as
the blockade exists.
Other points of this program in
clude curfew on lights. Every
night at 1l:00 the light 60 out. Gas
and electricity for cooking and heat
ing are also restricted to a few hours
a day.
Many owners of American cars
IN Berlin have had extra tanks built
in and are keeping them full of gas
IN order to be ready to try to get their
families safely out of Berlin to
somewhere in the American zone
in Germany on short notice. Most
of these families have already ship
ped their valuables home and fer
vently wish they were with them.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26
TO GIVE CONCERT TONIGHT

The Lexington School band, un-
der the direction of w. H. Scott, will
present a 45-minute concert of
marching music Thursday on the
Courthouse lawn, beginning at 7:45
p. m. The concert is warming up"
exercise of the band, heralding the
approach of the new school term.
The public is invited to attend.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26
Back To School Models

Miss Jeffie Lou Jones, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Jones, and
Miss Penelope Shepherd daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Shepherd, who
were chosen by Emporium depart
ment store of Jackson as models for
their Smart Girl in and out of Col
lege" fashion show held August II,
Miss Jones will attend MSCW this
fall. Miss Shepherd plans to attend
Belhaven college. The show was in
collaboration with Vogue magazine.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26
Funeral Held Saturday
For Mrs. R. N. Names

Mrs. r. NJ Names, SO, of Trenton,
Tenn, mother of Leo Maness Of
Lexington. died Friday at 2:15 p. m,
at her home, after a long illness.
She was a member of the First
Baptist church. She leaves her child
rem, and a number of other rela-
tives. Services were held at West
End Baptist church, Trenton, with
burial at Humboldt, Tenn, Satur-
day at A p. IN.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-08-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Kelly Criscoe re-
Gently returned from a weeks visit
in Brookhaven and McComb.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-09

II there IS any doubt in your mind
about effectiveness OF government controls
in keeping prices doWn, consider pbat
has HAPPENED to sugar. 1t is plentiful and
comparatively cheap. Remember Wben il
went to 80 cents a pound after World
Wa, II Well, sugar is controlled by Law
ande, the l947 suea, control act passed
by The first session OF The Republican
controlled sob congress. IL not only
fixes guotas, bM also rage rates and prices.
Public bearings on 1913 beet sugar Wages
and prices WiH be held January 5 to II.
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, ASK NE -
ANOTHER [
A General Quiz
The Questions

1. The Romans had an organized
system of shorthand as far back
as what year?
2. Where was the last shot of the
Civil war fired?
3. Chinook winds are peculiar
to what region?
4. How often do quintuplets &C.
cur?
S. What does mountebank mean7
6. Who was the first woman to
land from the Mayflower?
z. Coffee was first introduced in
to France in what year?
8. For every ten people in the
United States there are how many
phones?
9. How many American families
have at least one member who
plays musical instrument?
10. When was the name of the
royal family of England changed
from House of SaXe-Coburg and
Gotha to House of Windsor?
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-09

Der of options which the trainee can
exercise. He can remain for an addi-
tional six months training in the
national security training corps; he
can enlist in the armed services,
the national guard, or the enlisted
reserve corps with assignment to an
organized unit; he can enter one of
the service academies; take special
list or technical work at an ap-
proved college, or exercise other
alternatives.
For those who cannot accept any
of the above-named options, there is
enlistment in the enlisted reserve
corps for six years, with active
duty requirements of not more than
30 days year.
The first experimental unit at
Fort Knox has just about completed
the second cycle of its training,
the first cycle having ended in July.
Since last January, a civilian ad-
visory committee of "a men and
women has served continuously, Wis
iting the unit individually and in
groups. They have observed the
trainees at work, at play, on leave
in and around Louisville.
This committee, by the way,
represents fair crOss-section
of the parents, educators, religi-
GUS leaders, newspapermen and
public officials whose interest,
either personal, professional or
patriotic, makes universal
training important to them.
This committee says that as re-
suit of this year of training the boys
have benefited by definite spiritual
and moral training, sef-expression
through individual hobbies, training
for leadership, and respect for au-
thority and the rights of others, as
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-09
Ho III I1!
TOuun @:
REp0R7ERa
Expanding Viewpoint
IN WASHINGTON


A FTER listening to hours
L \ of debate over the appro-
priation for emergency Eu-
ropean aid and the consequent
Marshall plan, your Home
Town Reporter is proud to report
that members of the American con-
gress, by and large, have grown up,
have increased in stature and states
manship commensurate with the
powerful position our country holds
in the world today.
Despite political and some pro-
vincial local pressures, the vast ma
jority of the members of house and
senate, Democrats and Republicans,
lave proved they can stand above
minority pressures "back home"
and face world issues in the light Of
their own knowledge and conscience
not only for the future welfare Of
this nation, but also for the future
peace and economic welfare of the
whole world. Six years ago the story
might have been different.
Voting more millions for for
eign relief while living prices
continue to rise here at home
is none too popular in some Sec
tons of the country, and 1913
Is an election year. Despite
those factors only a compare
atively few discOrdant voices
were heard in either house or
senate. And most debate was
not over the main issue but the
method to be employed.
One congressman, white-haired
Dwight Rogers of Florida, cited the
alternatives succinctly: We either
pull out of Europe, abandon what
we have undertaken and crawl into
our own shell of isolationism-or we
declare war with Russia - or we
give economic aid to France, Italy
and Austria to halt communism and
save the economic structure and
freedom of those nations for our
own future economic benefit. Con-
gress chose the latter road.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-09
General Macarthur
Not Out of Race

Not long ago l met two gentlemen
shortly returned from Tokyo.
Both had had lengthy interviews
with General Macarthur. They
agreed that if, sometime next
spring, the general were to return
on visit to the United States and
if he accepted invitations from a
number of cities to attend demon
strations in his favor, it could be
written down with certainty that he
was an active candidate for the Re-
publican nomination.
He never said he would be. He
never limited that such was his
intention. But he talked a great
deal about "duty," chiefly the
duty he now is performing for
his country in Japan, a task
that must end soon. When it
ends the implication was that if
there were no further duties, the
General would return to a very
private life. But there was
enough stress on the word
"duty" (plus other faint signs
in the political heavens) 10 con-
vince my friends that if duty
called from the Republican ma
tional convention hall in Phila-
delphia, the general, as is his
custom, would answer it duti-
fully.
1t since has been announced that
General Macarthur will visit Amer
lea in the spring. His program has
not been announced.
According to the Goth Century
fund, cotton supplies more than
three-fourths of all fiber consumption
in the United States. Now I know
what they put into my breakfast
food.
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Enforcement Of Taft Law

HE Taft-Hartley labor act
needs at least one amendment if
1t Is to be effective; if it is to &C.
complish those purposes for which it
was intended; if it is to conform to
our constitutional system of govern
ment by law. not government by
men.
The Wagner act failed largely
for the reason that its applica-
ton was placed in the hands Of
a group Of men who were con-
stituted the prosecutors, the in
terpreters, the judge and the
jury. While the new law pro-
vides for specific changes that
were needed, it again places en-
forcement in the hands of a
board, and largely in the hands
of one man. Again that board,
or that man, is to be the prose-
cutor, the Interpreter, the Judge
and the jury. Again it is to be
enforcement by man, not by law.
The fundamental difference be-
tween our American government
and that of other nations is that mat
ter of government by law, not by
men. That is our American guar
antee of individual freedom. The in
terpretations of the acts of congress
is left to the courts. No one man, or
no group, can bitrarily deprive us
of our Individual freedom. Only the
courts and jury Of our peers can
determine our guilt. Neither the
legislative nor the administrative
branches of government may con-
denim US. That comes, if come it
must, only from the judicial branch.
That is enforcement by law, not by
men.
TO PRESERVE FREEDOM.
In wartime government by law
may be suspended as means of
preserving the nation, but we must
demand government by law in
peacetime if we are to preserve our
freedom as guaranteed each Of us
by the Constitution.
have nowhere near the abil-
ity to write such an amendment
to the Taft-Hartley act, but
there are those who have, and it
should be written and passed by
congress at the earliest possible
date. With such an amend
ment, the law would conform to
our constitutional guarantees; it
would make of it an American
law under which all it was in
tended to do can be accom-
plished. 1t will remove any pos
Sible stigma. 1t will place the
law in line with the fundamen-
tai principles Of American con-
stitutional government. 1t would
mean Interpretation, applica-
ton, enforcement by law rather
than by men.
Any encroachment, even though
it be small, on our guarantee of
government by law is step toward
that totalitarianism we are fighting.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-09
The ANSWERS
l. In SO B. c.

l. In SO B. c.
2. At Palmetto ranch, Texas, on
May ID, 1865, more than a month
after Lees surrender at Appomat-
toX.
8. Pacific northwest.
4. Once in about rs, 900, 900 times.
S. An iraposter.
6. Mary Chiffon.
7. In 1862.
8. Two telephones.
9. 66.8 per cent. The piano is the
favorite.
10. In 1917.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-09
Aid for Libraries

With some IS million rural people
without public library service, hear
ings on the public library demon
stration bill, authored by Rep:
Thomas jenkins of Ohio, drew wit
nesses from farm organizations, ed
vocational and library associations.
The bill would make it possible for
each state to receive $25, 900 to $175,-
900 annually, on matching basis,
to carry out demonstration pro-
grams in counties where there is no
library. .....
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-09
Busy Fish Spins Nest;
Reors Young Himself

The little male Stickleback is only
three to four inches long, but he's
an active fish. He builds a cylin-
drical nest of reeds and seals all
openings but one by means of
threads secreted by the kidneys.
Then he seeks out a female and
induces her to deposit eggs in the
conical opening, after which he
drives her away. After the eggs
hatch, the male destroys the nest
and rears the young himself.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-09

ond six months)
would receive a
$50 cash allow
ance monthly. If
he is the chief
family support,
he would qualify
for a dependency
allowance which
would be paid
wholly by the
government. This
allowance would
be $50 a month
for one depend
ent and SOS a
month for two or