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DAILY CLARION-LEDGER. JACKSON. MISS THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1940 PAGE FIFTEEN by the college sorority, to bring a GROWING PAINS by phillips FIRE SET TO 3 CARS WHILE OFFICERS LOOK ON Buddy Elrod Suffers With Broken Hand Offense Hits Top Notch In State Eleven BY ERLE 'JOHNSTON OU nd Gi EdiUr his back, and ran the straps over his shoulders. Mrs. Huff weighed 90 pounds.

In her lap she carried a kitten. Jack Huff, packing his mother on his back, made those seven miles on the top of Mt. Le Conte in exactly five hours. He stopped only a few times, and that was for his mother to rest, rather than him. "She's the only person who ever came up the mountain backwards," he says.

They still talk about it with awe around Gatlinburg. Mrs. Huff stayed a week on the mountain, in a tent. But it rained all the time. She never saw the sunset.

Finally the dampness became too much for her. One afternoon Jack wrapped her in a raincoat, put her into her chair, and packed her back down the mountairl. Soon after that he started building a long cabin for her, so she would have a drier place to stay the next time. But she didn't live to see It. That old cabin Is the original house of today's Le Conte Lodge.

Jack would like to keep it, for sentiment. But he says it isn't built right, and soon it will have to come down. STARKVILLE, Oct. 30. (JPh-It was revealed today that Buddy Elrod, Mississippi State college's candidate for all-America end, suffered a broken hand last week in the North Carolina State same.

He will be out of the game Saturday against Southwestern at Memphis and possibly longer. The reserves stole the show today in scrimmage with Tailback BUI Jefferson and Wingback Blondy Black the outstanding ball carriers. The first team was used Three brand new automobiles burned to the ground here yesterday In a fire of Incendiary origin while the chief of police and practically his tire force looked on. (Don't get excited, Mr. Editor, this is now it happened.) The police force was Invited to the city auditorium by a representative of the Automobile Underwriters Detective Bureau to witness a demonstration of How it is difficult to burn an automobile, unless it is deliberate." Sam Tranum, the automobile underwriter detective representative om Atlanta put on the exhibit and finally burned the cars after exhausting all "accidental" sources of starting a blaze.

The exhibition was conducted for the purpose of showing law enforcement officers, firsthand, the difficulty In burning the modern motor vehicles un-les the blaze if of Incendiary origin. Casing Is Run At Crosby Test Clint Crosby has set 4086 feet of 5 1-2 inch casing at he No. 1 Allen in Attala county. Sec. 33-13n-5e, it was learned here yesterday.

The casing will be perforated near 4018-25 to test the area which recorded a kick on the schlumber-ger. It was reported the casing will be perforated either Saturday or Sunday. Marshall County c. Ross of Memphis, who has an interest in C. B.

Blosser's Marshall county test, the No. 1 Stans-back in Section 19-33-4 said here yesterday the test is drilling ahead sparingly. IJEsqutrt Feature. Inc "You're Just the man I've been wanting to see, -reneral. I've been having a little trouble with this lately." in lignite at 535 alter setting did feet of 16-inch surface pipe.

Setting of the pipe was accom STATE COLLEGE, Oct. 30 Taking up where it left off against North Carolina State last week, Mississippi State's offense was outstanding today as the Maroons went through a lengthy scrimmage session in preparation Jor Saturday's tilt with the Southwestern Lynx in Memphis. Three Maroon teams saw action during the workout, with the second eleven showing the most punch against the "red shirt" defense. Billy Jefferson, tailback, and Blondy Black, wingback, sparked the attack of the second-stringers aided by hard driving Charles Yancey, sophomore fullback. Jefferson, who scored once and passed for another touchdown i against N.C.

State, looked to be near his peak for the year as he ran and passed the defense ragged. 1 While overshadowed by the unexpected showing of the second team, the performance of the Maroons regulars was up to par. With Harvey "Boots" Johnson, described by many North Carolina sports writers as "the greatest running back we have seen in many years," heading their attack, the regulars were impressive but did not play very long. With preparations for the Lynx game slated to taper off following today's scrimmage, it is probable that Coach Allyn McKeen will use the same lineups against Southwestern. Buddy Elrod and Arnold Moore will be on the ends for the first team, with John Tripson and Bill Arnold at tackles, Hunter Corhern and Guy McDowell at guards, and Ben Griffin at center.

In the back- SnavelyGets More Knocks On Coaching Roving Reporter plished after a difficult drilling better education to the mountaineers. Pretty Pi Phis come from all over to teach there. A girl named Pauline Whaling came down from the north, to teach the mountaineers. She was out of Monmouth College 4n Illinois, and Northwestern University. But whether she taught, or got taught.

I can't quite decide. For she married Jack Huff, and came to the mountain with him. And when their little boy was born, he came to the mountain too a husky, tow-headed example of a good life. For seven years Pauline Whaling has been on the mountain, working with her own hands, helping run things. She Is beautiful in her heavy boots and leather jacket.

She leaps around the terraces of the lodge like a gazelle. She was up at 4 this morning to see Jack off on an early trip down the mountain. She herself has hiked the tough eight-mile Newfound Gap trail in two hours flat. She is bountifully happy. "Up here is peace," she says.

A mountaineer's strength is in his heart, and not necessarily in a big body. Jack Huff weighs only 150 pounds, and stands sort of folded up with his hands in his pockets. But his walking feats are astounding. He has walked 15,000 miles up and- down this mountainside! He kept count of his round trips 'until three years ago, and at that ime they had passed 1000. is seven miles each way, and exactly a mile gained in altitude.

He has often made two round trips in one day, packing great loads up the trail on his back. There are some mighty: men in these mountains. Listen to this Andy Huff is Jack's father. He owns the big Mountain View Hotel down in Gatlinburg. He has lived down there for 40 years, but he has never seen his son's lodge up here, although it's only two vhours by horseback.

"I just havent got time to go," says Aandy Huff. But Jack's mother saw Le Conte Lodge before she died. She made one trip. Just one. That trip sounds like a legend, but it's She came up on her son's back! It was 14 years ago.

Mrs. Huff was a semi-invalid. She wanted to see the sunset from the peak before she died. So Jack made a light wooden chair. He put arms on it for her, and a board rest for her feet.

He put her in it; they lifted her onto job in pushing through "pacK sana Ross said. This test is about four By STANLEY THE OLD HOME TOWN miles southeast of Bylialia. WREN HE SPOKE IH CXA TOWM Dawson Stakes Location Joe Dawson officially staked his By Ernie Pyle- THE COYS PUT A UE DETECTOR If farmout location near the Pickens THE PLATFORM THE MACHINE field yesterday. Dawson's test is BLEW A FUSE TWO MINUTES ANt VJRECKEO SIXTEEN RADIOS A the No. 1 L.

Wilson, 440 leet north and 220 feet east of the ANt A MACHNE southwest corner of the southeast on vine By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK, Oct. 30 GP) Sports Trail Detours: Carl Snavely is being accused of everything from using short wave signals from the bench to stealing the clothes from the naked reverse, but we still think football games are won by the lads on the field. The theory is that the game should be played by the boys, both mentally and physically, and that when a coach starts to run the team by remote control he is taking it out of their hands. This bench braintrusting is deemed unethical, yet it's perfectly legal for a coach to send in a stream of substitutes, each carrying a mesaage concerning the play to call. The only differ quarter of Section 3C-12n-3e, just northwest of the No.

1 Wilburn. Kingwood Oil Company has the drilling contract. Issaquena County The report that E. C. Johnston is taking over the No.

1 Charping confirmed here yesterday. Mr. Johnston and W. E. Hall were in Jackson yesterday morning.

It was understood that Johnston wants to make a drill stem test at 5,000 to 5,020, where the test formerly was abandoned, and then carry the test deeper. Jones County 2 jgfci Huffs own living quarters. And Jack is still building. Jack Huff seems timid at first, but he really enjoys talking to people if he likes them. They say he can size up a new arrival in ten seconds.

If the new arrival is a heel, Jack Huff is polite but his conversation becomes a minimum. Few vacationers can out-think this product of the Smokies. He listens nightly to the radio news; he absorbs scores of passionate orations on world affairs from his guests before the big fireplace; he reads the papers and magazines. He is a man of many abilities, too. He builds his own cabins; he has a flair for architecture; construction is his hobby.

And he weaves. On the big loom in the dining room he has woven all the lovely curtains for the lodge windows. He got his weaving, among other things, from the Pi Phi Settlement School down In Gatlinburg. That is a school founded 28 years ago LE CONTE LODGE, Great Smokies Park, Oct. 29.

Jack Huff is a mountain man. All of his 30-odd years have been spent here in the Smokies. And for 17 of those years he has been the entrepreneur at the top of Mt. Le Conte. He owns the Le Conte Lodge.

Seven months of the year he feeds and beds and maybe entertains the hikers and horsemen who come up the trail. Jack Huff was just out of high school when he first came to the top of Mt. Le Conte, and he had visions of building a mountain-top tent camp for hiking vacationers. That was long before there was any thought of a National Park, and before there was even a horse trail up- here. Everything that came up had to come on men's backs.

Today three pack horses arrive every afternoon loaded with supplies, and the lodge consists of a whole row of cabins, and two small lodges, and a big house for the LI'L ABNER field will probably be Johnson at tailback, Walter Craig at right half, Toxle Tulos at fullback, and Wilbur Dees at quarterback. The second eleven will have Gran ville Harrison and George Varnado at ends. Homer Jones and White at tackles, John Patrick and ence is that a substitute must wait until a play is run off before he opens his trap. We saw Elmer Layden call the signals on a half-dozen consecutive plays in the Notre Dame-USC game last year, using players as carrier pigeons. Harold Grove at guards, and Em- mitt Ray at center in the line.

The backfield will be Jefferson, at tail REPORTS ON APfcOMlSIN POLITICIAN FROM HOO-TSTOVSIM back, Black at right half, Yancey at fulback and Marvin Campbell Speaking of Notre Dame, any at quarterback. Jacobs To Extend day now we are expecting an ad something like this to appear: By Al Capp For sale or long-time lease: one first team, slightly used. Apply thft fifW'r rp pirwrBMKcr G-GROAN IS tiAl Air? RECKON SOFf Fistic Empire To IMS rfuActfifn YitiAe Elmer Layden, Notre Dame. LATER: WHILE ALL DOCPATCH BACHELOR AM HAIN'T iip nw MOCSlt (-TMA5S TH WAt' TH NEW THASS- ARE PEACEFULLY DREAMIMG NIGHTMARES THET KIEW DAWfF rr mm a LOUP- STYLE SWING moosic BUT AH ALLUS SOUNDS AH-H GROAN I as' vTT WISHES SAME "TiT RHUMB BUT rhumba-eo 'em all into fine shape fo' th' race DOES YD' ABOUT THE RACE TO-MORROW- EACH GIRL 5NEAKS UP TO THE HOUSE OP HER BELOVED EACH CARRYING A CENEROUS AMOUNT OF PARFUM SEEMS HAPPY BOYS AM' GIRLS MAN WHUT Wheat and Chaff: Two former professional baseball players, Dixie Howell and Hillman Walker, are on the coaching staff at Arizona 1MTTW VOR.K- 30 INS) I Mb-AK WNQINVJ AWAY WIF- GAL TOLE I nINK WAY T'DO IT FO' SCREAMS OUT A CARE IN TH' ME" PE POUt CAT Tn GAL T' KEEP MOAN) WORLD State college, but the baseball GALS MIND EF AH MFANDPC. Fromoter Mike Jacobs today tacitly admitted recognition of the handwriting on the walls of empty extension of his pugilistic emnire's KtCKIM' HER PARTNER coach at the school is Bill Kajika-wa, a Japanese.

Incidentally, Ari T. N. Smith's No. 1 Hollifield, 20-8n-12w, is drilling in black Bhale at 5071 in a sidetracked hole. Grenada County Womble and Williams No.

1 Connecticut Life Ins. Section 28-23n-5e, is drilling at 1641. James Papadakis is drilling at 537 in sandy shale at his No. 1 Holcomb, 13-22n-2e Gulf Stakes Location Gulf Refining Company has officially announced location for a test in Attala county, the No. 1 S.

J. Peeler, NE SE Section 35-15n-9e. A derrick is on location. Yazoo Wildcats Arcarea Reserve Company's No. 1 Holmes, 22-12n-le, is drilling in chalk at 4827.

E. M. Deloach's No. 1 Wilbum, 6-12n-lw, has reached 5331 in chalk. Lee County R.

L. Shoemaker's No. 1, 33-9s-6e, is reported to be shut down at 950. Prentiss County Home Development Company's No. 1 Allen, 8-7s-9e, is drilling at 2149 in sandy shale.

Tallahatchie County Marshal Young's No. 1 Ogilvie, 32-25n-2w, is drilling in hard shale at 3953. Warren County W. O. Allen's No.

1 Tom Henry, 4-7n-4w, is drilling in shale at 6776. Barnsdall Makes Location Barnsdall Oil Comnany has made location in the Tinslcy area for a No. I T. R. Woodruff, 810 feet south and 410 feet east of the northwest corner of Section, HOME.

-ALONE? IN TH SHINS' HAWKINS boundaries to take in Chicago, troit and Indianapolis. The fore- i It. 1 11-. PAMCE. zona State is being picked in that sector to win the Border Conference football title and wind up in the Sun Bowl again.

Hiw brother fought uuuuiga Liicvu jug occino ixixaiiy perceive have to do with the fact that at the moment boxing is fet-ered by the worst shortage of top "flight fighting men in years. What he is about to do to alleviate this situation is stir up some interest beyond the narrow, confines of New York In the hope that Joe Louis, which may be the reason Quido Massare Is confining his sports activities to playing plenty of guard on the University of Kansas football team. The brother, whose name was scrambled to Charley Massera, went out in the third round in his bout with the Bomber. Jacksonians 1 1Q-3t DICK TRACY Bv Chester Gould ILL SAV WELL, KID, WERE ILL BET YOU NEVER GOSH, GENTLEMEN. I HAVE A YES, JUNIORS QUITE i ent such as abounded until lately; He is tieing up with James Nor-ris of Chicago, in broadening the scope of his operations, with New York's Madison Square garden to be cut in on the proposition as he begins a auest for contenders 'to be cut in on the proposition as he begins a quest for contenders to meet the various champions he controls.

A sample of how things have been going can be gleaned from the fact that on Friday night there will be a fight for the middleweight title here, with a gent STARTING OUT NO WELL VERY SPECIAL INVITATION A BUSINESS MAN (THATS lookweVe got almost arent NOW. YOU WONT HAVE RIGHT, TO EXTEND TO YOU ILL RUN ALONG wer FIFTY BIKES TO WORRY ABOUT CHIEF IN BUSINESS LIKE THISTHAT DAY YOU SAW ME STANDING BUT, FIRST, I MUST IN OUR LOT H1M ANY AAORETRACYJ OH, TO CLASS HAVE A MAP A AA A ux TODAY Army Volunteers Turned Down If Teeth Are Bad ON THE CORNER HELLO BUCK. 1 HERE ARE THE STUBS named Ken Overlin in one corner -as the defending champion against Just how serious the problem of "dental preparedness" is was pointed out by Miss Gladys Ey- nonentity, who couldn't be rated better than a fourtu rater. This it i Iff bin gucg cicu li. nc wuu, iuu, In the meantime and thereafter, -promoter Jacobs would like to know what he is goiag to do about Joe Louis.

Billy Conn and the rest. Up until now it always has been possible to dig up somebody to rmeet Louis when the time rolled around, but the supply has van- 1940 by Thy Cnief Trftm 'key was supposed to lend his chin -to the cause, but he got all crossed up and lent it to Max Bear instead and with that left Baer as (Continued From Page Eight) considering an early end to their bachelor estate. Officials could give these men small comfort. In this year of crisis Uncle Sam feels he has a bigger claim than Cupid. All of the draft board members looked weary yesterday, and grave as they faced the weightiest responsibility of their voluntary task classifying the registrants in their areas.

"It would be easy for us to classify our men if they all were either single without dependents or married with wives and children to take care said one, "but that won't be the case. "I happen to know one of the men in my district whose number was among the first drawn. He's married, but his wife works. Serious Problem "So maybe we ought to classify him as Al, but there's another problem for us to consider. "This man has a little business he built up from nothing.

If we were to send him to camp, he might have to sell out all his stock and break his lease." The draft board member rubbed his forehead with the palm of his hand. He sighed. he continued after a thoughtful pause, "AH we can try to do is see that every man receives the same consideration everybody else does. "If a registrant feels that he oughtn't to be sent into training, he has a right to appeal our judgment to the state board. "Why, he can take his appeal all the way to the president." The draft board member didn't look so worried after he'd said that.

It was comforting thought to feel that everybody, even the president was ready to do his part to make the draft work. Bv Walter Berndt SMITTY ricn, supervisor or mouth health, state board of health yesterday, who stated that the regular army turns down about one-fourth of those who try to enlist because they do not have six teeth with which to chew and six teeth with which to bite. "We don't have to bite, the enemy," Miss Eyrich remarked, "but the United States Army knows that good sound teeth are necessary for healthy soldiers." Declaring that good sound teeth are necessary for healthy civilians too, the mouth health supervisor named as an important essential that teeth be conditioned by a dentist frequently. "Teeth are tatle tales," she stated. "They tell many things.

Teeth indicate whether your health is good or bad. They tell whether you have good habits of eating and cleanliness. They tell whether you have personal pride and want to look your best. "If you do," she urged, "go to your dentist every few months and follow his advice." Pointing to present hopeful Indications, Miss Eyrich said that young people now take a greater interest in their teeth than did young people twenty years ago. A recent careful examination of junior high pupils in Jackson showed 44 per cent with OK mouths, which the supervisor called "good." Public health and army officials think that conscription will find draftees' mouths at least 30 per cent better than in 1917, she explained.

the one heavyweight around now with even remotest pretensions to a title fight. The Galentos, Godoys, Paychecks, John Hery Lewises, Al Et-tores, that crowd long since happily have departed the scene leaving it vacant save for the quaking hulk of Baer. As for Conn, he undoubtedly will relinquish' his light heavyweight championship in December, when his period of grace between defenses expires, unless he should be bumped off by Lee Savold, a heavyweight, in then late November bout. And even if Conn retains his 175-pound title, who is there for him to meet? After that you come" down to Overlin-vs-Belloise for the middleweight title, with neither of these to-f light contenders, and after them comes Fritzie Civic as welterweight champion, successor to Henry Armstrong, who seems to be through to further complicate Promoter Jacobs' predicament. Then you get to Lew enkins as an inferior lightweight champion with few challengers, and after that but why go on? In a few words promoter Jacobs needs some fighters and quick, or a new business.

Jg- By Milton CanifC TERRY AND THE PIRATES Nfl" TIME FOR AND VOU THAT AWPyL CRAWLED SALCONy SCEME5-THIS CHOPSTIOC NATCHEZ, Oct. 30 Hon. Geo. W. Davidson of Meridian, Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of and Accepted Masons, officially visited the Masonic Lodges of Vicksburg, Mississippi on Monday evening.

The members of Harmony Lodge No. 1 and Andrew Jackson Lodge No. 2 of this city attended this meeting to the hill city. An interesting and instructive program was arranged. CHOFSTCK JOB SAID HE HAP AROUND THE rwwy po vou i was just LOOK AT ME SO W0NPERINJ6 WWy STRAN6ELV TM 60 6H0RT I OF BREATH WHEM yOD DID iALL THE MAN IS SEND1W5 VOU LOCKEP VP, AAV, AW WHAT HU SHEE TO My bank: with ransom note THE tZOMEO New Senator Will Inherit Roberts' Committee Posts LET SUP THAT AMD JULIET ft VOU WERE ON BUT THE DRAGON ACT HAS COME I THIS PLOORJ rr LApy has a i Things couldn't help being all right with that sort of teamwork.

Patrolmen Watch Burglars Attempt To Empty Store Patrolmen John Sutherland and S. B. Barnes found a reward for1 patience. Hiding in the bushes back of Millstein's Store Tuesday night they caught two negro burglars in the act of hauling off a large quantity of merchandise. Wallace Saunders.

17, and Carl J. Reynolds, 19, Fannin Road negroes, had gained entrance to the store by breaking through a skylight window. The officers said they saw them throw the following stolen goods from atop the building: Four sweaters, eight shirts, 17 dresses, eight blouses, 23 slips, eight gowns, 11 step ins, four coat sweaters, one short sports coat, two large coats, two pair of shoes, one pair xt slippers, 23 pain of hose and 16 pairs of socks. Scheme to 1 HIM VP I "injr SfLF BLES 2SS it's nf DVDB LA SH BZM Ahi AND T7 UENWCKllJ 1 WAS SET TO DENT A SKULL GOOD yf THIN A SLOW 1 I it ri on contingent expenses, and a member of the drainage and judiciary committees. In his communication yesterday, Governor Murphree, who as lieutenant-governor is president of the senate, congratulated Senator Wolfe on his election and stated that he is "well-qualified" to perform the duties of his new office.

Until his election to the senate Newly-Elected Senator Oscar Wolfe of Bolivar county, who succeeds the late Senator W. B. Roberts of Rosedale, was notified by Acting Governor Dennis Murphree yesterday that according to custom, he will inherit the committee assignments which had been given to his predecessor. Most important of these posts which will be filled by Senator Wolfe Is the vice-chairmanship of the powerful senate finance committee, which is headed by Senator John Kyle of Sardis. Senator Wolfe also will become Yice-chalrman of the committee on if Tuesday, Mr.

Wolfe was represen mo tative from Bolivar county, a post he has held for a number of years. 3 His unsuccessful opponent in the special election was w. B. Alexan der! of Cleveland..