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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29
10th Centuries To Hold
Music Recital Friday PM.

In observance of National Music
week the Twentieth Century club
will present in recital Friday even
ing, May Z, at 800 o'clock in the
Durant High School auditorium Miss
Marjorie Trusty, violinist, member
of the music faculty at Millsaps col
lege
Miss Mariana Underwood and
William Crout, junior student pianist,
Of Millsaps college,, pupils of Mrs.
Mrs. j, l.. Roberts, will also be pre-
scented.
The public is invited.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Miss Gladys Rhyme, of Memphis
spent the weekend with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs NJ, E, Rhyme.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Mrs. J. M. Fowlkes returned Sat
urday from Jackson and is recover
mig from her recent accident.
Mrs. Donald Hull and Claire are
visitors in the home of Mrs. Annie
st. Clair this week.
Mrs. Lorene Horton arrived Tues
day for a visit with Mrs. Andy Nit
chell and friends.
Mrs. Harry Watson of Lexington
spent Monday afternoon in Durant.
Visitors in Kosciusko Saturday
were Rose Counts, Mary and Ann
Bowie, Mrs. Charles Kealopher, Mrs,
Claude Estes and Mrs. Jessie Lewis
and Mary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe F. Guess and Joe,
Jr.. of Aberdeen, will leave for
Newark, New Jersey, in few weeks
to make their home where Mr.. Guess
will be in the home office of Pru-
dental Life Insurance company. He
is former Durant boy, the nephew
of Mrs. Zouella Bacon, and the son
of Mrs. CASTOR A. Guess, of Lex
ington.
Mr. and Mrs. j. P. Durham and
Mrs. Charles Durham were visitors
in Kosciusko Saturday.
Miss Louise Durham left Monday
for Cleveland, Ohio, where she will
attend the bridge tournament there
Sid Holbit, of Detroit, Michigan
and ]. c. Baird, of Baird, Mississip.
pI, visited j. p Durham Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs M. H. Taylor, from
Biloxi, visited relatives over the
weekend.
Miss Louise Durham was a visitor
in Lexington Friday.
Mrs. Monte Thompson is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Gotten, in Shawnee
Oklahoma.
Mrs. Nell B. Stone, of Jackson, re
turned Tuesday after several days
visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. r. Smoot
Mrs. c. A Doster and Mrs. J. M
Howard attended the music festiva
in Jackson recently. Mrs. Howard
had as guest over the weekend, Mr.
and Mrs. c. M. Jackson of Univer-
sity, and Mrs. S. A. Dobbs of Chicago
Mrs. Florence Majors attended the
funeral of Oscar Boyett in Sails Sat
urdav.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Charles Hendricks was a weekend
guest OF his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
|. B. Hendricks, in Edwards.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Stanley Woodall is reported to be
improving at rne Veterans hospital In
Jackson
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Mrs. J. M. Howard was q visitor to
Jackson Friday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Mr.. and Mrs w A Henley and
Bill were visitors in Greenwood
Sunday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Lamar Hays was visitor in Lex
ington Wednesday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

The seventh and eighth grades of
Durant High school visited the Ma
tional cemetery in Vicksburg We'd
nesday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Mrs. j. M. Fowlkes returned Sat
urday from Jackson and is recover
mig from her recent accident.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Mrs. Donald Hull and Claire are
visitors in the home of Mrs. Annie
st. Clair this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Mrs Lorene Horton arrived Tues
day for visit with Mrs. Andy Nit
chell and friends.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Mrs. Harry Watson of Lexington
spent Monday afternoon in Durant.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-04-29

Visitors in KOsciusko Saturday
were Rose Counts, Mary and Ann
Bowie, Mrs. Charles Kealopher, Mrs.
Claude Estes and Mrs. Jessie Lewis
and Mary.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Rifesf0E. A. Stouffer,
Newspaperman, Set

Funeral services and burial for
Elwin Aloysius Stouffer, 80, news
paperman, will be held Saturday
morning in Akron, Ohio.
He died yesterday after he had
apparently fallen on the basement
stairs at his home, 1925 Biltmore
street NV. He was pronounced
dead on arrival at Emergency Hos
pital.
Mr.. Stouffer, known as AL was
reporter on The Star for several
months in 1914.
He was born in Cleveland and
attended St. xavier's University,
Champion College and University
World Cruise, school that took
students around the world.
Mr.. Stouffer was a reporter on
Middle Western and Southern
papers and during the 1905 had
been assistant State administrator
for a Federal public works agency
in Florida. He came to Washington
in 1943 as a reporter for the WASH
ington Post and worked two years
on the Detroit Free Press before he
returned to Washington last sum-
mer to do free lance writing.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Muriel Stouffer, from whom he was
separated; daughter, Ann, 4, both
of Washington; two daughters by
previous marriage, Susan, 16, and
Judy, IA, both Of Jacksonville, Fla;
a brother, William B. Stouffer,
Akron, and sister, Mrs. Eunice
Heaney, Jacksonville.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Mrs. Annie Demaine
Dies in Alexandria

Mrs. Annie Lyles Demaine, IT,
part owner of an Alexandria funeral
home, died Unexpectedly yesterday
at the George Mason Hotel. where
she had lived the last 1s years.
She was in partnership with her
son, Windsor Wheeler Demaine, jr.,
in the firm of William Demaine &
Son, funeral home, $40 South Wash
ington street, Alexandria.
Mrs. Demaine, a lifelong resident.
of Alexandria, was graduated from
st. Mary's Academy. She was the
widow of Windsor w. Demaine. for
mer owner of the funeral home.
After his death in 1929 Mrs. De-
maine and her son took over the
company started in 1871 by Will
liam Demaine, great-grandfather Of
Mr.. Demaine, jr. 1t was successor
to the business of Henry and Jo-
seph Inge, which had buried George
Washington.
Mrs. Demaine spent much Of her
life working for United Charities.
She was a member Of st. Mary's
Catholic Church.
Besides her son she is survived
by daughter, Mrs. John A. Lannon,
jr., Richmond, Va, and three grand
sons, John A. Lannon III, Windsor
Lannon and Windsor Wheeler De-
maine III.
Requiem mass will be celebrated
at $50 am. Saturday at st. Mary's
Church. Alexandria, with burial in
wv Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Clifford Whyte Dies;
Builder Of Bridges,
Native Of District

Clifford Riddle Whyte, SO, engi-
neer OF bridges for the District since
1928, died last night at George
Washington Hospital. He had been
there two weeks and had been in
Ill health for two years.
Many of the Districts bridges and
underpasses were built under Mf.
Whyte's direction. Sousa Bridge
over the Anacostia River, Independ-
ence Avenue Bridge over the Tidle
Basin, the Michigan Avenue Bridge
over the Baltimore q Ohio Railroad
tracks and the p Street Bridge over
Rock Creek were among his prof.
ects. He also had directed construc-
ton of the Fourteenth street over
pass, the Thomas Circle and Scott
Circle underpasses and the Virginia
avenue underpass.
Was Washington Native.
Mr.. Whyte was born In WASH
ington, the son OF Thomas D. and
Rose Riddle Whyte. He attended
District public schools and in 1912
was graduated from Lehigh UNI
versity with mining engineers de-
gree. He had worked in the District
Highway Department after his grad
uation until World War I when he
served with the Army Engineers.
He returned to the District gov
ernment after the war as assistant
engineer to David McComb, then
engineer of bridges.
Mr.. Whyte accepted q position
with the Bureau of Public Roads
from 1921 until 1926, when he went
TO Pittsburgh as the city's highway
engineer. Later he went to Phila-
delphia as construction engineer in
the building Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Terminal.
Funeral Saturday.
He returned to Washington in
1928 and was made engineer of
bridges. He lived at 1760 Euclid
street NV.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Helen Darlington Whyte, and al
brother, Russell I. Whyte, Brook
dale, Md, with the Commerce De-
partment.
Funeral services will be held Sat-
urday at Fort Myer Chapel with
burial in Arlington Cemetery. The
time of the funeral has not been
announced. ...
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Father Walsh Discusses
Living Space With Japs
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Mar. A. Nations that
honestly need living space" for
overcrowded populations ought to
have some way of getting it without
plunging the world into war, the
Rev. Edmund Walsh told the Tokyo
Industry Club.
He is vice president of George
town University, Washington, D. c.,
and heads the university's School
of Foreign Service.
Japan has been badly over
populated for years and, despite
war losses, her population is
steadily increasing, observers
say)
when additional space for neces-
sary immigration is honestly needed,
when the population pressure is
authentic and natural, not alleged
or artificial, then appropriate nego-
tiations should ensue before some
competent tribunal, with compen-
sation and protection assured to the
conceding country. =
otherwise, organized force could
again plunge the world into
reciprocal slaughter"
Evening star., 1948-03-04
RitesforA. H. Stevens,
Rea|tor, 10 Be Held

Funeral services for Albert How
ard Stevens, 10, Washington realtor,
were to be held this afternoon at
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church,
Bancroft street and Connecticut
avenue NV, with burial in Con-
gressional Cemetery.
He died Tuesday at Georgetown
University Hospital after several
months illness. His home was at
3248 o street NV.
Mr.. Stevens had been head Of the
real estate firm that bears his name
at 3272 P street NV. for the last
six years but had been in the real
estate business for 43 years.
He was born in Washington, the
eldest son of Albert Charles and
Ida Little Stevens. He attended
Virginia Military Institute and the
University of Virginia. He left the
university to enlist in the Army at
the outbreak of the Spanish-Ameri-
can War. He. saw duty in Puerto
Rico and the philippines and be-
came an ofiicsf In the Regular
Army.
Mr.. Stevens went into the real
estate business in 1905, but was not
connected with any firm. During
the 1920s he was in the same busi-
ness in Philadelphia and Atlantic
City.
He was a member of the Wash
inptofl Real Estate Board. Kappa
Alpha Fraternity and was a for
mer member Of the Chevy Chase
Club. -
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Margaret Harrison Stevens; a
daughter, Miss Alberta Mary Ste
vens, student at Mount Vernon
Junior College, and a sister, Mrs.
Ida Stevens Malcolm OF Wash
ington,
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Nursing Students Training
In Hiqh Schools Studied

School officials today began look
ing into complaints that District
high school girls entering nursing
schools are inadequately prepared
because of stress on theory rather
than practical application.
The complaints were made by two
professors at Georgetown Univer-
sity's school of nursing, DR.. William
T. Taylor and DR.. Richard Weber.
Norman J. Nelson, first assistant
superintendent in charge of the
public high schools, said today he
will ask all high schools to report
to him on girls who have gone to
nursing schools to check their
standing with students from other
systems.
DR.. Taylor said the feeling that
girls came to the Georgetown nurs-
ing school without sufficient prepa-
ration had been evident for some
time. AS solution, the school three
years ago instituted practical lab
oratory course in pharmacology in
which the student nurses get prac-
tical experience rather than all
theory. The weakest subjects
seemed to be mathematics, chem
istry- and biology, he said.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Mrs. Ida Camp Ladd Dies;
Widow Of Street Enqineer

Mrs. Ida Camp Ladd, sS, WASH
ington resident for the last so
years, died yesterday at her home,
5375 Nevada avenue, NV, after a
long illness. She was the widow of
John w. Ladd, a former assistant
engineer of streets for the District,
who died in 1918.
Mrs. Ladd was born, and educated
in Petersburg, Va. She and her
husband had lived in Norfolk be-
fore they came to Washington in
1888.
Survivors are four sons, DR.. John
M. Ladd, physician with the Vet
erans Administration, with whom
she lived; Capt. william A. Ladd,
Norfolk; James G. Ladd and w. P.
Ladd, both of Washington; two
daughters, Mrs. Lewis H. Russell,
Washington; Mrs. Robert w. Baker,
Westfleld, N. j., and a sister, Mrs.
Leila Clay, Norfolk.
Funeral services will be held Sat-
urday in Petersburg with burial
in Old Blanford Cemetery there.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Four Pennsylvania Mines
Shut Down by WuIkouts
BY the Associoted Press

PITTSBURGH, Mar. About D.
900 Western Pennsylvania miners
were idle today in work stoppages
at four mines.
The return of 300 miners at the
Isabella pit, Greene County, a Weir
ton Steel Co. mine, was offset by a
new shutdown at the Montour No.
4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Co.
in Washington County.
Still idle were the Jones g. Laugh
line Steel Corps Vest No. mine,
Washington County; the Hillman
Coal g. Coke Co. mine at Poland, in
Greene County, and the Coverdale
mine of the Castle Shannon Coal
Corp, at Coverdale, near Pittsburgh.
All the disputes were described as
local in nature by officials of the
United Mine Workers. They stem
med from grievances,
Evening star., 1948-03-04
70 CIassrooms Built,
40 More Planned for
Montgomery Schools

Twenty additional claSSrooms to
house approximately TOO students
have been completed at six Mont
gomery County schools, Assistant
Supt. of Schools Edgar M. Douglas
announced today.
Construction of about 40 more
classrooms to house an estimated
400 pupils either is under way or
will be started in the near future
and should be completed by Sep
tember.
The 20 claSSroomS already COM
pleted were built under bond issue
of approximately $1,30O,000 author
lied by the county commissioners in
1916. The 40 classrooms scheduled
to be ready for occupancy this fall
are being built under a $2,000,000
bond issue which is part of the S.
100000 authorization approved at
the 1947 session Of the General
Assembly.
Projects Completed.
The following projects already
have been completed:
Four classrooms, an artroom,
library, home arts unit, an Office
and health rooms at Montgomery
Hills Junior High School. Cost of
the work, including architectural
services, was $230,951.
One classroom at the Rockville
Elementary School, $17,660.
Two classrooms and an activity
room at the Pine Crest Elementary
School, 5,436.
-Four classrooms at the Pleasant
View Elementary School, $100,177.
Four classrooms at the Gathers
burg Elementary School, $61,O03.
Five classrooms, an activity room,
health room and Office at the Wood
lin Elementary School, $141,821.
Nearing completion are four
classrooms and an activity room at
the Lynnbrook Elementary School
at cost of $138,380.
Mr.. Douglas said additional ex-
penditures will be needed for land
scaping and improvement of the
grounds at these schools.
Facilities Under Construction.
School facilities now under con-
struction or which will be built in
the near future and which should
be ready by September Of this
year include: f5t1EF.S n
Six classrooms and a cafeteria at
the Westbrook Elementary School,
Heating Plant at Montrose.
One classroom, central heating
and inside toilet facilities at the
Montrose Elementary School, $21,-
$40.
Two classrooms at the Bradley
Elementary School, 1000. 4
Two classrooms at the Alta Vista
Elementary School, $4,000.
Four classrooms, an office, teach
ers' room and kitchen at the Pleas
ant View Elementary School, $116,-
600.
A temporary building for the
Montgomery County Junior College
on the Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School site, s25,O0O.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
U. 5. Position in Palestine
Is Weak, Stassen Declares
By the Associoted Press

BY the Assoeioted Press
HANOVER, N. H, Mar. 4.-Harold
E. Stassen says the American posi-
ton in Palestine is very weak
The Republican presidential as
pirant told a rally in Berlin last
night that he did not see any way
the United States could act except
through the United Nations.
at would be definitely wrong
he added, ''if this country did any
thing alone"
He said, however, that America
should take the leadership in see
ing that the U. N. partition deci-
sion is carried out.
Once again he proposed U. N
police force with the United States
supplying its share of troops for
keeping order in the Holy Land.
Mr.. Stassen's comment on Pales-
tine came after he demanded that
President Truman personally inter-
vene to stop steel prices from rising
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Office Workers 10 Refuse
To Sian Anfi-Red PIedqe
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 4.-Delegates
to a convention of CIO United Of
flee and Professional Workers voted
overwhelmingly yesterday to in
struct officers of the union not to
sign non-Communist affidavits re-
quired under the Taft-Hartiey law.
The vote was 720 to 68.
Under the act, the affidavits are
required of a union before 1t can
utilize facilities of the National La
Dor Relations Board.
The convention, the unions sew
enth, had before it today reso-
luton committing it to support the
third party candidacy of Henry A.
Wallace. The resolution had been
scheduled for a vote last night but
action was deferred.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Mass for H. {. Brooks,
Spanish-American
Veteran, Celebrated

Requiem mass for Harry @.
Brooks, "a, said to have been Wash.
ingtons youngest spanish-Ameri-
can War veteran, was celebrated
this morning at Holy Trinity
Church, Thirty-sixth and o streets
NV, followed by burial in WASH
ington National Cemetery.
Mr.. Brooks, a Capital Transit
motorman for the last 80 years,
died Unexpectedly Sunday ct his
home, 5000 o street NV.
He was born In Eimira, N. Y. At
the age Of IA he volunteered In
the Spanish-American War. In
1901 he was with the 7th Cavalry
Regiment and later served In the
Philippines from 1902 to 1904. He
was discharged from the Sd Cavalry
at Fort Myer 80 years ago.
He had been active in charity
work and during World War II
he aided Catholic chaplains to dis.
tribute religious articles to service.
men IN nearby posts and camps.
He was past commander of ths
Cardinal Gibbons Post, Catholic
War Veterans, and member OF
Camp Harding. Spanish-American
War Veterans; Pearl Harbor Post,
Regular Veterans Association; Nam
resa Retreat League, Holy Name
Society, Washington Council
Knights of Columbus, and the Old
est Inhabitants.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Nettie J. Brooks; two sons, Clar-
ence j. Brooks, Arlington, and
Charles J. Brooks of Washington;
two daughters, Mrs. Loretta Kelly
Of Washington and Mrs. Frances
Suitland; a foster son,
Henry Ross Brooks Of Washington;
3 brother, Frank w. Brooks, Ell
mira; a sister, Mrs. Catherine
Kohler, Middletown, Pa, and eight
Evening star., 1948-03-04


He had been in Cuba two weeks
on visit with his wife to a sugar
mill at Soledad. On his return from
Soledad to Havana Monday, he was
confined to bed.
Mr.. Rentschler often had been re-
ferred to in Wall Street as Mitch
ellis heir apparent" The friendship
between the two men began back in
1914 when Mr.. Rentschler, as chair
man of the Miami Conservancy
District of Ohio, had charge of float
ing $35, ,000,0 900 bond issue through
the National City Bank.
Took Part in Family Business.
Mr.. Rentschler was born in Ham,
ilton, Ohio, which his forbears
helped to found.
After his graduation from Prince
ton University he returned to Ohio
and took part in the family busi-
ness. a steel foundry.
Director of several corporations,
Mr.. Rentschler was life trustee of
Princeton and the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology.
He also was trustee Of the Car
negie Institute of Washington and
a member of the Metropolitan Club
of that city
He lived at Locust Valley, Long
Island.
Mr.. Rentschler once took an ac-
tive interest in politics and was
elected a delegate to the Ohio Re-
publican State Convention in 1910
and 1912.
Served ON Aircraft Board.
During World War I he was ap-
pointed a special adviser to the
Aircraft Production Board because
of his industrial experience.
One of the Rentschler companies
did substantial business in sugar
mill machinery and through this
he acquired an expert knowledge
of the sugar industry. After World
War I the National City Bank,
which held extensive sugar inter-
ests in Cuba, sought his services
during a financial depression in
Cuba resulting from sugar crop
failure.
The bank management was so
impressed by his ability that in 1923,
when he was 38 years old, he be-
came the youngest member of the
banks Board of Directors. Six years
later he succeeded Mr.. Mitchell as
president.
Active in Bank Holiday.
During the bank holiday OF 1888
he served as chairman of the Clear
ing House Committee.
Besides his widow, Mr.. Rentschler
leaves four daughters, Mrs. Faith
Atkins Witter of 651 Park avenue,
New York, and Phoebe, Mary
Coolidge and Susan Helen Rent
schler.
He also is survived by two broth
ers, Frederick B., chairman of the
board of United Aircraft Corp, and
George A., chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee of Lima Hamilton
Corp.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
His body will be taken this after
noon aboard the steamer Florida,
en- route to New York and Hamilton.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Bethesda Raiders Seize
Nine on Gambling Charges

Bethesda detectives yesterday ar
rested nine men on gambling charges
in raid on janitors' quarters in a
Bethesda apartment house.
The men, all oolored, were charged
with conducting a lottery. A hearing
will be held at $50 am. Monday in
Bethesda Police Court.
Police said those arrested include
Frank Williams, 81, in whose quar-
ters the raid was made, and James
F. Hayes, "A; John w. Daugherty,
"a, and Emmitt Witcher, "a, also
janitors in the apartment house.
Detectives declined to disclose the
address of the apartment house.
Evening star., 1948-03-04

in the Nacional
Hotel at Havana
last night.
He had been
chairman of the
National City
Bank, the coun-
try's Sc on d
largest, in C e
1910. Prior to
taking that post
he h a d been
president since
1929, when he
S u c c e e d e d
Charles E. Nit
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Auttruirn

- ABRAMsoN, SAMUEL AND ANNA c.
dwelling of the monument in memory Of
C. ABRAMSON, beloved parents of Bertha
Raffell, Nathan and Dorothy G. Abramson,
win take place at the Adas Israel ConSre-
cation Cemetery Sunday, March. Z, 1948,
ct IL noon. Relatives and friends invited.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
DrathH

WHITE. CLIFFoRD 3. On Wednesday,
March 3. lgzs ep q Gs1pfs HvT MasaingsSSnn y I5Sn
Euclid st. NV, beloved husband of Helen
D. Whyte and brother Of Russell ].
Whyte. Remains resting at the 8. a
NV. Funeral services at Fort Myer
Chapel, Fort Myer, Va, on Friday. March
S, at pm. Interment Arlington Ma