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THE WEATHER FORECAST VOLUME 23 NUMBER 62. GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 11, 1938. FIVE CENTS HL I HBIEBL DB7 EflT NAZIS WILL PROVIDE GHETTO FOR JEWS President is Satisfied With Election Results An Outstanding Physician And Fine Citizen Passes WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (TV-President Roosevelt said today he did not believe the results of last Tuesday's elections constituted any threat to the continuation of liberal government. At his press conference, Mr( Roosevelt declared he thought the election returns were all right.

A questioner, referring to the President's speech on Friday before the elections, asked Mr. Roosevelt whether he believed the outcome of the voting, which le-sultcd in heavy democratic losses and republican gains, con tuted a threat to the continuation of liberal government. The President replied that he certainly did not think so. At the same time, ho predicted that he would not encounter what one of his questioners called "Coalition opposition" presumably the combining of republican and anti-new deal democrats against administration proposals to congress. He expressed the belief his con gressional program would be accorded about the same reception as before.

Mr. Roosevelt chuckled heartily when the reporter questioning iiim oh this point said bluntly he-believed there would be such opposition. For the first time the President disclosed election edictions which he made and sealed in an envelope soon after going to Hyde the Viiddle of last week. As a political prognosticator, he remarked, he was pretty good. He figured New York State results, 1 Mr.

Roosevelt said, just about the way they came out. He was wrong by one on senate races, he said, having predicted the loss of seven democratic seats. The republicans gained eight. He said he was less than twenty seats off- on his house predictions since he had figured the democrats would suffer a net loss of 65 seats whereas the actual republican pick-up was 81, with one race still doubtful. He made no prediction on gubernatorial Afternoon appointments with the cabinet and Rep.

Sam Ray-burn (D-Tex), house floor leader, gave him an opportunity tJ discuss policies in general and the 1939 congressional situation in particular. The president and his advisers will have to decide within a few weeks whether to try to push through a heavy legislative program despite reduced democratic ranks or to confine the session largely to smoothing out new deal laws now on the books. Mr. Roosevelt returned from Hyde Park, N. to find that even the final returns in two close senate races offered the ad ministration but a modicum of cheer.

Senators Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana and Guy Gillette of Iowa apparently had bested republican opposition, both men have been allied with the independent democrats often crt-ical of new deal proposals. Furthermore, Indiana republicans were demanding a recount of Vun Nuys' vote. The democrats will have exactly a three-to-one margin in the next senate 69 seats against 23 for the republicans. There ako are two farmer-laboritos, one progressive, and or.e independent. In the house, with only the seat of Rep.

Knute Hill (D-j Wash) still in doubt, the republicans had gained 81 seats, making this lineup: Democrats 261 republicans 170, progressive 2. and farmer-laborites 1. Senator Tydings (D-Md), wiioj was re-elected easily after overcoming the President's opposition in the primaries, said: predict that legislation resented to congress in the future will be better prepared and move thoroughly considered and de-i bated than it sometimes has been in the past." He expressed the opinion the stock market rise the day after election indicated that business generally has "renewed confidence in congress." "I think the country wants tie Presidents program shaped UP -tSJhsohdated and reorganiztS," Tydings added. "The people want some of the loopholes plugged up." Senator Conally (D-Tex), another who has opposed some administration measures, said ne believed republican gains would tend to eliminate much of the friction among democrats. Connally said he hoped that controversy over the reorganization bill, expected to be revived in the next session, could be i 1...

i. i 1 itvuiueu oy a compromise wm.cn would give congress the power to approve or reject any changes in federal bureaus. Secretary Wallace invited new legislators of all parties to with him on the farm problem, although he added his be-' lief that the present legislation "furnished the best framework for an enduring agricultural program." Wallace termed rep ublican gains 'a hard blow to agriculture," and said they might have been greater except for the "personal popularity" of President Roosevelt. "The outstanding conclusion from the recent election," he said, "is that people do not like business depression. They think that by voting against the party in power when a depression is on, they can do something to cure the depression." FOR MISSISSIPPI Fair and warmer tonight; Saturday, partly cloudy, probably rain in north-Hist portion.

Twenty years ago today the world was hailing thu signing of tho Armistice which ended the groat World War. of enthusiasm hailed the dawning of a new day as dictatorships had perished from thu earth and the world was safe forever for Democracy, Today the high hopes arc in the dust. Half the world is at war, and democratic nations tremble at the word of the dictators. More ruthless Prussiunism than that of the deposed Kaiser, newly fled into Holland twenty ago has overflowed from Germany and fric peoples are terrorized and brutalized in many of the nu-tionw once hailed as the most civilized. 'American has it glories from the war.

The memories of its heroes are treasured, for wolrd learned and America learn ed that patriotism burns iis ever among the American people, and that this nation has nothing to fear except from its own people. That is the Ictsson of uliis Armistice Day. 13 mayn i. l. on umjiih, Uli etiui of the Highway Safety Patrol, will hold a meeting at the Court House tomorrow, for instruction in the proper procedure in issuing the new drivers' licenses.

The meeting will be attendee! by sheriffs from a number of otliei countries. For the second consecutive day the police blotter showed no ar-lests over night. Greenwood streets will have a deserted atmosphere during the early houm of tonight, for hun- i (ii eds of Greenwood people are going up to Clarksdalc to see the football game between the Green wood and Clarksdale high school football teams. The weather man promises warmer weather for tonight which infill be received by the fans. Highway markers have been placed on the new concrete highway as far north as the airport, and traffic now has only the short distal ce from the foot of Mississippi Avenue to the airport to ravel over gravel on Highway East from Memphis to the Mississippi coast.

Traffic will soon be turned onto the concrete at the cit.y limits near Vinton Lumber Company, but work on Stone street which forms part of Highway 82 is now being done causing the delay in opening the entire stretch of Highway Greenwood has two rivers flowing across its front with a dividing line of mud right down the middle, following the work of dredging which the government dredge boat is doing now. The next rise in the river, however, will take off the debris from the dredging operations. Tuesday Greenwood people will go to the polls to select a mayor, two councilmen ami a police justice. A careful check made with the candidates this, morning gives undoubted evidence that some Fystem of getting along witn five mayors, four councilmen and three police justices will have to be worked out. Bruce Braun of the Chicago Southern Airlines was a vicitor to Greenwood yesterday and conferred with the airport committee of the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce on matters connected with the airport and service to Greenwood.

A grass fire on Dell Avenue called out the fire department s-hortly after noon today. Weiler and has on display now the Apostle's spoons, which were used at the National Eueharistic Congress in New Or leans. These spoons aie very rare and Weiler and Co. was very fortunate in securing them for display. POLL TAX RECEIPTS FOR TWO YEARS MUST BE PRESENTED AT POLLS IN CITY PRIMARY Jl wood on January 2, 1891, where he speedily assumed a leading position as a medical practitioner and citizen of the community which he loved and which loved him with an increasing tenderness as the years rolled by.

Dr. Brister was married in Greenwood on January 21, 1898 to Miss Daisy McGIatrry, who with three children, Dr. S. L. Brister, Mrs.

R. B. Wilburn and Mrs. R. Wilson, survive him No call ever came to Dr.

Brister, either in his duties as a physician or as a citizen which found him unready to answer and to give of his magnificient ability both to the service of humanity and to his community. The soul of honor, with judicial temperament, with kindly spirit, Dr. Brister ever made the problems of the growing community his own responsibility and the community relied upon him implicit ly with the confidence -in his decisions merited by but few other men who took an active part in its affairs. 'Although one of the county's busiest physicians Dr. Brister gave largely of his time to the service of his community.

For more than twenty years he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Greenwood city schools and it was due largely to him in the program of development that the Greenwood schools kept pace with the ever in creasing needs of a growing and developing community. Dr. Brister took a leading part in the promotion 7-of the- Kings Daughters hospital in Greenwood, and served as president of the Board of Control wiich directed the affairs of the hospital successfully from its inception until it was taken over by the city and county a few years ago. He repre sented Leflore County upon the Board of Control until the by-laws were changed upon the hospital becoming a city and county institution under which no practicing physician could serve upon the board. Largely by his interest and direction was the hospital constantly expanded to perform the magnificent services which it has rendered.

To him more than to any other person is due the credit for interesting J. Aron in the splendid memorial in the form of the nurses home in memory of little Lois Aron. Dr. Brister was a member of the Board of Stewards of the First Methodist Church, and was active in all of the interests of his church and its work in the community. To the people of Greenwood for the almost forty-seven years in which he lived and labored among them Dr.

Brister typified the noblest ideals of the medical profes sion and highest perfection of good citizenship and to those friends and neighbors who paid their final tribute this afternoon as they followed the funeral cortege to its last resting place, his life has been a benediction and an inspiration and their sense of loss in his passing is that of a deep personal bereavement as they join with the family in mourning the passing of a truly good and great man. At the funeral services this afternoon the following friends served as pall bearers. Active Earl Kinnebrew, Wat. Smylie, Nathan Fountain, W. L.

Craig, Warner Wells, J. W. Quinn, J. H. BSichard W.

S. Vardaman, R. Keesler Frank Wright. Honorary Allen Hobbs, George Bell, "Xllen Saffold, Upton Blaeh, Jack Humphreys, J. R.

Fergeson, Jesse Quinn, Arthur Stevens, B. M. Crawford, C. A. Maxwell, H.

Y. Frasier, W. Redditt, W. B. Chambley, Robert Gardner, F.

Parker, R. V. Pollard, D. McLeod, R. T.

Jones, C. S. Tomlin-son, Frank Young, T. H. Hargrove, O.

Simmons, C. E. Saunders of Aberdeen, Charles Sims of New Orleans, C. R. Crull, Dr.

G. Y. Gillespie, Dr. L. B.

Otken, Dr. J. P. Bates, J. T.

Kerr, Charles Edward Wright, Dr. Henry J. W. Fox, Means Johnston, L. N.

Chandier, O. F. Bledsoe, Will Gayden, Everett Hemphill, V. D. Hemphill, Pat Hemphill, Pamplin Smith, W.

W. Neblett, T. R. Wells, I. T.

Mclntyre, Harry Smith, Will Turner, Ben Bogalusa La. Members of Delta Medical As- LIC.ANS PROTEST NDIANA ELECTION O. Plans To Ask Recount on U. S. Senate Vole INDIANAUOLIS, Nov.

11 (P) Indiana Republican leaders, fighting to add to their new gains, planned today to ask a recount of votes for United States senator as returns from Tuesday's election showed Senator Frederick Var. Nuys, Democrat kept his seat by a bare plurality over Ray-niand E. Willis. The full unofficial count from the state's 3,872 precincts in 92 counties gave Van Nuys 784,155 ballots and the Republican candidate Arch N. Bobbitt, state chairman, said a recount would be sought in five industrial and mining coun ties, four of them among the most populous in thu state.

The counties are Vigo, with Torre Haute; Marian, with Indianapolis; Lake, with Gary and Hammond; Vanderburgh, with Evansville, and Sullivan. Vigo and Sullivan are in the coal mining belt. The state chairman said jierson-al investigation had given him 'reason to believe' a recount would be justified. The five counties gave Van Nuys a plurality 0f 40,477 out of a total vote of 409,919 Returns from Vigro county were slower than from other metropolitan sections. The last precincts reported last night.

Willis himself, publisher of a newspaper at Angola, refused to concede the 64-year-old Indianapolis lawyer's-re-election. Van Nuys ousted the veteran James E. Watson, Republican, from the senate by more than 200,000 votes in 1932. Legal advisers to the Republican state committee were to confer with state candidates today as the party mapped its course of action. Throughout the ticket, G.

O. P. gains signaled a comeback from the six years of the New Deal Republicans were elected to seven of Indiana's 12 seats in the house of representatives; gained control of lower house of the state legislature for the first time in 10 years, the senate staying democratic, and elected mayors in 71 off 99 cities heard from, or 11 more than in the last election. 0 GENERAL ISMET READ TURKEY Former Premier Elected To Succeed Kama! Ataturk As President ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 11 (IP) General Ismet Inonu was elected by the national assembly today to succeed his late friend and long-time comrade, Kamal Ataturk, as president of Turkey.

Ataturk, who died yesterday, once said of Inonu a reformer and strong man in his own right that "he is my conscience he is always on the alert and finds out what is wrong and criticizes me." The new leader, known as the "military bookkeeper," was pre mier for 13 of the 15 years that Ataturk was head of the state. General Inonu is popular in Turkey and has the support of the parliamentary jrroup of the majority party. Cut police patrols were reinforced, and other precautionary measures taken as the nation was settjing the problem of what happens when a strong man relinquishes the helm. It was unofficially understood Ataturk's funeral would be next Wednesday or Thursday. A group of national assembly members supported a plan to change the name of Ankara to Ataturk to perpetuate the memory of the "Father of the Turk The governnunt issued a communique consecrating the nation to carry on the "existing ord--r" established by Ataturk.

Public entertainments were closed. Salih Bozyuk, member of tnc national assembly and faithful bodyguard and friend of Ataturk attempted suicide because of grief. He was taken to a hospital with serious wounds. BT GOVERNMENT Eighty Bills of Indictment Returned By Federal Grand Jury JACKSON, Nov. 11 (JP) More than eighty bills of indictment had been returned by the U.

S. district court grand jury here today. The indictments included charg. es against: Dr. E.

J. Banks, Jackson, accused of prescribing narcotics for known drug addicts. J. K. Longmire, Jackson druggist, charge with illegally selling paregoric to drug addicts.

Mrs. Lurline B. Birchett, Vicks-burg, charged with forging narcotic prescriptions; and O. E. Calhoun, Vicksburg, accused of aiding her.

Hermenia Astrada, Mayersville charged with growing Marijuana weeds for illegal purposes. Wong Suey Gong, Greenvilie charged with concealing opium and four other Chinese residents of Greenville, Chow -Bing, Sit Sing Yee, Chin Hang Maw and Jen Yin, charged with concealing other narcotics. John L. Liberto, former postmaster at. Thornton, charged with embezzling $183.35 of postal funds, was sentenced yesterday by Federal Judge Sidney Mize to a year and a day in the federal penitentiary but suspended the sentence and placed Liberto on probation for a year.

ASKS PREPAHESS Speaker At Legion Services Urges Large Defense Forces. BILOXI, Nov. 11 (JP) James T. Crawley, Kosciusko, National Vice-Commander of the American Legion, urged at that organization's Armistrice Day program here that America should have a navy and air force second to none. Pointing to conditions in Europe and China, he said this country should be prepared for any eventuality, not for a war of aggression but for defense against invasion.

He said America was faced with a war striking at the "Vitals of Democracy" and intending to overthrow the American form of government. "Its forces may be found penetrating our homes, schools, some of our colleges and churches and in many instances it creeps into labor organizations," he said. "It may be found masquerading under a name entirely concealing its purpose." As forces working against the idea of Democracy Crawley listed politicians who are "unscrupulous and whose sole aim is a selfish realization of a personal desire." They often seize fantastic ideas and schemes for the furtherance of their cause, Crawley explained. He also listed as menaces to Democracy Sosialism, Nazism, Fascism and Communism. KILLED BY OFFICERS VICKSBURG, Nov.

11 Doctors said today the condition of Patrilman D. D. Moore-head, shot yesterday by James G. Murphy, 32, in an attempted break from the city jail, was satisfactory. Murphy, whose home police said was Waxahatchie, was shot to death by other officers immediately after i ng Moorehead.

The prisoner, fugitive from the Parchman prison farm, was arrested here yesterday on suspicion. Jailed, he drew a pistol from concealment, and tried to foice his way to freedom. The snooting followed. Officers said Murphy was sentenced in Bolivar county April 22, 1936, to seive sevent years for burglary. He escaped from Parchman six wee kg ago.

Jews Will be Compelled To Live And Do Business In Ghetto BERLIN, Nov. 11 (Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goeb-bels today warned Jews outside of Germany that their behavior a3 well as that of German Jews would 1 determine future treatment of Jews in the Reich. He said that new restrictive laws and decrees would be issued "during the next few days." Other Nazis predicted restoration of the Ghetto for the Jews nf flprmiinv under i.hi decrees promiseu Dy uoeooeis aner yesterday's upsurge of anti-Jewish violence. 46 mini th-terday's anti Jewish outburst, which vented itself in the burning and dynamiting of Synagogues and destriction of Jewish shops, was spontaneous. "Whenever any unsavory elements made a move to sieze goods there were always reasonable people about to prevent it," Goebbcls said.

He insisted theje was no looting. Trustworthy eyewitnesses yes-yesterday said they had seen shops in the Arcade between Friodrich-strasse and under Den Linden and in other parts of the city looted. BERLIN, Nov. 11 (J?) Nazis predicted today a restoration of the Ghetto for Jews under new re strictive decrees promised after the Thursday upsurge of anti-Jewish The Jews, said the Nazi inform-antSj would be compelled to live an do business only in the ghetto of their city. Their shops would be tolerated only in sufficient number to supply the needs of the Jewish communities.

(Walled in ghettoes had their origin in Italy in the 16th century. They were known in the Germany of that day as judegasse.) The Nazis are confident the new decrees will mark the final liquidation of the Jewish issue in Germany, and that there will be no more anti-Jewish outbreaks like those of yesterday in which millions of dollars of damage was done in the smashing of Jewish store windows, the looting of shops and the burning of Synagogues in a dozen cities. They attributed the present outbreak entirely to. a wave of resentment for the slaying of Ernst Vom Jiatfc, secretary of the German embassy in Paris, by a Jewish youth. The new decrees were discussed by Chancellor Hitler and his advisors in conferences until late last night.

Conferring with' Hitler were Field Marshal Goering, Chief of the four-year-plan for economic independence; Rudolph Von Rib-bentrop, Propaganda Minister Goebbels and officials of the ministry of the interior. -0- CHARLES SHELTON DIES Charley C. Shelton, 62, died at the Veterans Hospital in Memphis yesterday afternoon at 2.30, and funeral services will be held in Winona, his former home, at 3:30 this afternoon. Services will be held from the home of Mr. Shelton's sister-in-law, Mrs.

Ed. Slielton. Mr. Shelton is survived by one sister, Mrs. Lillian Pace of Winona, and a niece Miss Mildred Pace of Greenwood Charley Shelton had been a resident of Grenwood for a number of years and was connected with the city light and water plant.

A host of friends in Greenwood will join with the family in mourning his death. He was a 1 veteran of the Spanish American war having served with Company of the Second Mississippi regiment during that conflict. Mr. Shelton had been ill for several months and was admitted to the Veterans Hospital on September Dr. S.

L. Blister, for half a century a leading physician of Mississippi died yesterday evening following an illness of several weeks. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock from the First Methodist Church with Rev. Shed Hill Caffcy, pastor of the church, assisted by Dr. Edw.

J. Caswell, pastor of the First Baptist Church, conducting the services. Interment was made at the Odd Fellows cemetery. Dr. Bristcr was a native of Attala county.

Born April 25, 1864, he was graduated from the Mem phis Medical College in August 1888 and since that time has been steadily engaged in the practice of medicine in the Mississippi delta. He first located in Bolivar county immediately following his graduation and removed to Green- I Unconfirmed Reports Say President Will Make Changes WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (JP) The end of the election hubbub brought a revival today of unconfirmed reports that President Roosevelt was contemplating his first shakeup of the cabinet. Presidents sometimes make mid-term changes in their group LP. official, Jar Roosevelt "himself has given no indication that he intends to do so.

Nevertheless there has been recurrent talk in the capital that two or more members might resign or be shifted to other posts. Among those mentioned have been Secretaries Swanson of the navy, Woodring of war, Rrper of commerce, and Postmaster General Farley. A year ago an automobile company offered Farley its presidency, and some friends predicted then he would quit the cabinet tut continue as chairman of tae democratic national committer. The promotion of W7oodrmg from assistant secretary was the only change that followed Mr. Roosevelt's reelection in 1930.

The way for that change was opened by the death of Secretary George H. Dern. The only other shift in Mr. Roosevelt's original 1933 appointees also resulted from death, that of Secretary William Wroodin of the treasury. He was succeeded January 1, 1934, by-Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

The administration's projected rearmament program suggested to some capital politicians that changes might be made in the war ar.d navy posts. In sharing his forthcoming recommendations to congress. Mr. Roosevelt is leaned heavily for advice on assistant secretaries Louis Johnson of the war department and Charles Edison of the navy. Secretary Swanson, 76, has been in ill health for years.

of the responsibility for affa.rs of the expanding navy has fallen on the shoulders of the younger Edison and Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of operations. One suggestion advanced ir some quarters without his encouragement is that Woodiing may be shifted to the Philippines as American high, commissioner, succeeding Paul V. McNutt, who has disclosed he shortly will come back to the United States. As high commissioner, Wood-ring would lose nothing in rank and would receive a higher salary $18,000 a year against a cabinet member's $15,000.

Methodist Conference Will Meet In Gulfport NACHEZ, Nov. 11 (iVi The Mississippi conference of tne Methodist Episcopal church, south, meeting here, decided to hold the 1939 session at first Methoa.st church, Gulfport. The invitation was extended by James Eaton, chairman of the board of stewards of the Gulfport church and was accepted unanimously 1 at this morning's session. A PROCLAMATION The American Leo-ion has demon strated its patriotism and unselfish Service to this Community, the State and Nation, and WHEREAS, The American Legion of Mississippi, by and through its 1937 and 1938 membership made possible the Great Pilgrimage to New York and return, and to Los Angeles and return, wherein Mississippi's recreation, historical, agricultural and industrial advantages were displayed and viewed by millions of American citizens; and WHEREAS, a definite drive to obtain an early membership in order to give more time to Community Service has been launched by the Mississippi Legion, NOW, THEREFORE, E. O.

Simmons, Mayor of Grenwood, do hereby proclaim the month of November, 1938, American Legion Membership Period and call upon all citizens of this commonwealth either, through their organizations, or individually, or both, to join hands with our own Post, the Keesler-Hamrick-Gillespie Post No. 29, to the end that every World War Veteran become a member of this great Service Organization. Given under my hand and seal this the 9th day of November, 1938. E. O.

SIMMONS, Mayor.