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This Day THE WEATHER TEMPERATURE! Mailnan 76 defee. Minimal 41 Rainfall MO. River gauge 4.71. Fall till. OXOXO! GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 7, 1943.

American Forces Near Capua, Important Point On Rome Road; Mud Halts Russian Advance The WorW Today Germans CfeiM III a Yankees Stage Five-Run Rally InEighthtoVro Bombers Break Loose With Big Rally To Take Lead In Series Before Record Crowd. By SID FKDEIt -YANKfciji STADIUM, NEW YORK, Oct. 7 Breaaing loose with a five-run blast in the eighth inning, the New York Yankees downed the St. Louis Cardinals 6 to 2 in the thiro tilt of the World Series today, before an all-time record Series crowd of 69,900, to take a 2 to 1 lead in games in the 1943 fall classic. CARDS Klein, 2b Walker, cf Musial, rf W.

Cooper, Kurowski, lib xOdea Sanders, lb Litwhiler, If Marion, ss Brazle, Krist, Brccheen, AB It A 4 0 0 2 2 0 4 0 110 1 3 11X00 4 0 1 3 2 0 3 112 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .0 0 9 2 0 4 0 2 3 0 0 2 0 0 2 4 1 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jewiih People Will Observe Yomluppur Holiest Day In Synagogue Begins Friday Evening, Con Uniting Through Saturday. Yom Kippur, the day of.Atone-ment, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, will begin Friday evening at six o'clock and will be observed until Saturday evening at six. Special services will be held at Temple Beth Israel, conducted by Rabbi Bob Sehur, and at the Synagogue. Vom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is essentially a day for self-examination. It calls the Jew in judgment before the bar of his own conscience.

The Day of Atonement is regarded as the most solemn day in the Jewish Religious calendar. Its central theme is that of repentance for wrongs committeed by the individual, and for the determination on his part to avoid sin wherever possible. It demands on the part of the Jew the recognition of his sin, his confession before God and his own soul of his wrong doings, and wherever possible, the undoing of wrong that he has done to others. It is intended to make sin hateful to the Jew. day is of such importance to the Jew that even those who at other times are not especially observant of religious forms gather together to worship the Being Fact ami Cents Oh Greenwood, Leflora CeMty, a4 MiMiHippI FOR GREENWOOD; Utile temperature change thin after mien and tonight.

Thomas K. Main, hus um-sunii'd tho duties of assistant county ait out in Lauderdale and Kemper counties succeeding Ike R. Laird who has joined the iirmi'd forcoR. Main will devote most of his time to 4-11 work, Greenville will hold a run-oft primary between incumbent 'Muyor Milton Smith and Edward itiav wnu bivu ill uiiu Mi nimi i A.u.. election for mayor with GaO votes each.

Slate Superintendent of Education S. Vamliver announces that a number of schools already are co-operating in fire iirevcntion activities this week, tut stated that he is anxious for all schools to join in tho program. Greenwood Lodge No, 118 F. M. will confer the Entered Apprentice degree tonight at 7:45 at the Masonic Temple.

First Lieut. Albert Hartman of Brookhaven, shot down a JU-52 air transport cstcrday in an air attack near Home. Supervisors W. S. Vardanian, A.

Foreman, L. Ely and P. Stainback are in Jackson today attending the state meeting of Supervisors. Hoy Hew, chancery clerk, also went with them and will attend the Chancery Clerks Association convening at this time. A liarn owned by W.

M. Whit-tington, located about one-half mile northeast of the city limits, was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, according to the Fire Department. A quantity of feedstuff was destroyed along with the structure. Origin of the fire was not determined. Open House at Station No, 1 is being observed by the Greenwood Fire Department this afternoon in observation of Fire Prevention Week, The Junior Auxiliary will assist as hostesses.

'Refreshments of coca cola and cakes will be served to visitors. Dr. A. Doty, retired physician of Lexington, is in a Jackson hospital for treatment for a broken hip. October-i5, has teen 31 2 6 24 14 4 TOTALS Batted for Kurowski in 9th.

YANKS ABBBO Stainback, cf 4 0 1 1 Crosetti, ss 2 10 2 Johnson, 3b 4 110 Keller, If 3 10 2 Gordon, 2b ,4012 Dickey, 4 0 2 6 Etten, lb 4 0 19 Lindell, rf 3 11 3 Borowy, 2 11,2 zSternweiss 1 1 0 0 Murphy, 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 31 6 8 27 7 A 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 Bv innings: CARDS 000 200 0008 YANKS 000 00105x 4 Rung batter in Litwhiler 2, Johnson 3, Gordon, Etten. Two-base hits Walker, Kurowski, Borowy. Three-base hit John-snn. airifie Crosetti. Double plays Crosetti, Gordon and Et ten; Marion, Klein and ax- jsiarneo.

run kwuio i.y York 3. Left on faasaavlltt 1M1 I designated as Army, and SchooH AMERICAN FIFTH Army battering forward close the main German defenses in Southern Italy along the Volturno river and are only three miles from Capua, a principal defense point on the road to Rome. GERMANS CAPTURE town of Coo on the island of Coo and also take several landing strips on that island. AMERICAN BOMBERS sweep full length of Italian peninsula to attack railroad yarda of Venice, destroying warehouses and engine shops. AMERICAN TASK force bom-- bards and bombs Wake island which has been heavily fortified by the Japanese.

-LORD MOUNTBATTEN arrives at New Delhi to asauma command of the southeastern sector of the global war. RUSSIAN ARMY still slowed by mud aa Germans dig in along Dnieper river, and Germans assert that Russians are developing a new drive around Leningrad. IMavel OaWahefe AreitoehA Heavy Bombardment By Surface Craft and Airplanes Wrecks Jap Installations. By The' Associated Press Japanese defenses on stolen Wake Island appeared over--dud-M-l aftct kin bombing Tuesday of the tiny ra eific speck wnich the Nipponese converted into a strong air Whe island, on which a gallant hand of marines held out against violent attack until Dec. 22, 1941, lies 2,300 miles west of Hawaii, 1,500 miles northeast of Guam and 1,300 miles from the great Japanese naval, base of Truk, north of the Solomons and New Guinea where Gen.

Douglas Mac Arthur was painfully amputating bases from the Japanese octupus. The Navy withheld details until the task force returns. The blow at Wake followed rather closely four apparently related moves in the central Pacifier. 1. A carrier plane bombardment of Marcus bland, between Wake and Japan, on August 30.

2. A carrier bombing of Tarawa and other principal bases of the Gilbert Islands on Sept. 18 and 19. 3. The seizure' of Nanumea.the extreme northern island of the Ellice archipelago, by Marines on Sept.

4. 4. A recent conference of the three ranking U. S. admirals at Pearl Harbor, submarines carried the war right to the front door of Japan.

Radio Tokyo said the undersea craft penetrated Tsushi- Continued On Page Five Ebenezer Couple Injured In Wreck Mr and Mrs. T. J. Brown of ine jwenezer community near Lexington, sustained bruises and. cuts in a car wreck this morning en route to Greenwood.

The wreck was caused, reports" stated, when a tire on the car blew out. The accident occurred about two miles below Sidon. The injured couple were brought to the Greenwood Leflore Hospital in a Lee ambulance. Reports state tney are resting comfortably, al though still suffering from shock. 1 VOLUME 2K-NUMIIKK 32.

Miller Reveals Campaign Plans War Fund Drive County Chairman Outline Campaign To Open Soon In Drive for 17 War Appeal Agencies. How the National. War Fund, which opens it campaign here soon, serves soldiers, sailors and marines on the military front was explained in a release today by C-. A. Miller, drive chairman of the local NWF.

"Since we are involved in an all-out war and hundreds of our local boys are away from homo, citizens are naturally more concerned about how the NWF aids our fighters," the chairman said. "The NWF serves two other fronts, however the home front and United Nations front," The three distinct organizations in the NWF which serve U. S. fighting men are the USO, the United Seamen's Service and War Prisoners Aid. More than 1,800 nationally managed and community-conducted USO centers are located in the U.

while 145 USO units operate overseas for American fighters. These centers provide leisure-time recreational, cultural and spiritual services. Over 1,000 professional entertainers give nightly performances at these units. There are 10 USO omits operating in military areas in Mis-sippi alone. The United Seaman's Servico provides means for conserving the strength and spirit of merchant seamen, brothers in dungarees to members of the Ar-imy, Navy and Marine Corps.

This is the only organization which provides recreation and social welfare services for the men who vital war materials. Over 500 different services have been performed for distressed members of the merchant seamen by the USS. More than six million men constitute the "barbed wire legion," prisoners of war. The War Prisoners Aid keeps "alive the morale of these men by not only keeninir them alive physi- cally-wTOr foMaftoTTnerdlclnfe; but also bv preserving ineir minds and spifits for better days to come. These men are reached through the War Prisoners Aid committee.

'Briefly, that tells how the National War Fund fills vital needs of the military front," tho leader said. "You will note that they are all human necessities, not supported by taxes but by public gifts. Therefore, we must give generously to the NWF drive." 0- Funeral Services Sam J. Ingraham Kites Will Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon At Calvary Baptist Church. Funeral services for Sam J.

Ingraham, 67, who died suddenly yesterday at his home on Avenue will be held at Calvary Baptist Church Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock conducted by Dr. R. Tullos. Interment will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery with Williams Funeral Home in charge, Mr. Ingraham was a native of Selma, but made his home in Greenwood for 25 years.

He is survived by six children: Cpl, Jim Ingra'ham, S. Army; Mrs. Joe Allen Rogers, Duck Hill; Ben Ingraham, Drew; Miss Ingraham, Mrs, Bessie Tillman, Mrs. Charles Doze, all of Greenwood; also a brother, W. A.

Ingraham, this city. Pallbearers will be; Eld ridge White, Hubert Nelson, A. Carl, Walter Shurden, Joe A. Mitchell, Vance Rogers. Functions THE FUCNTIONS REPORTER THE (This is the sixth of a series of articles specially designed to acquaint our readers with the various functions of the Press in a democratic community), A reporter is of necessity an impersonal observer of ttjie happenings of the community.

Officially, it matters little to him what action a town council may take in any given matter. As an impartial observer a news item stating one side of a controversy is just as important as an item conveying the other side. In other word. he is not a biased witness of any event. He is interested only from the standpoint of news.

Perhaps the actions of a reporter at a meeting sometimes seem unusual, but they have to be unusual because he is, as we have said, only an observer and not a participant in an event. It will lie noticed that he doesn't FIVE CENTS (Battfe Ftf RcZ2 Begins As Nazis Launch Attacks Germans Throw New Divisions Into Battle Against Montgomery's Eighth Army. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 7 W) The battle for Rome has begun with the Germans launching powerful infantry and armored attacks in the Termoli area along the Adriatic where the Eighth Army of Gen. Sir Bernard L.

Montgomery stands 130 miles east and slightly north of the capital city. Official announcements at Allied headquarters today said the Germans had shifted an entire armored division from the west side of the peninsula and thrown it into an onslaught against Montgomery's forces. Gen. Montgomery's troops also have been reinforced for the showdown fight, and have beaten off the attacks, Gen. Dwight P.

Eisenhower's communique announced. Two British destroyers brought naval artillery to the -aid of Montgomery, driving boldly into -the narrow Adriatic and pounding railway and military targets to the northwest of Termoli, countering and dislocating the German attack just as naval forces were used to assist in the offensive against Naples. The Northwest African Air Forces also were intensely active over Gen, Montgomery's front for the first time in weeks. Both RAF and A. f1-- TermoB as far a Pesears en Adriatic, and inland far a Alfedena, halfway to Rome on the TemoU-Rome highway-While fresh German tank units hastened to oppose the Eighth Army's flanking threat, the Germans rushed the task of ing the Volturno river 20 miles north of Naples against Lt.

Mark Clark's Fifth Army which reported dogged progress northward despite extensive demolitions and heavy rains which impeded the movement of heavy equipment. Further information from the front said the crossing of the Volturno by Fifth Army elements, which was reported yesterday, was only along the main tributary of the Volturno system, commonly known ag the Calore. The German defenses on the north bank of the Volturno itself across the plain from the mountains to the Tyrrhenian Sea are still intact, it was stated here. Although the crossing of the Calore, an eastward extension of the Volturno, constituted a flanking threat to the enemy river line, a military spokesman said the Germans were believed to be holding the northern bank of the Volturno "in some The headquarters communique said merely that "The Fifth Army has made further progress and is working forward to the line of the river Volturno." This stream has been a favorite defense position, for battles in Italy from the time of Hannibal, and the Germans were apparently ready to take advantage of its possibilities for a strong oelay-ing action. (ALLIED HEADOU ART Algiers, Oct.

7 American I heaw bombers atttacked the railway junction of Mestre, five miles northeast of Venice, in a raid yesterday, smashing at freight yards, warehouses and engine shops, it was announced Continued On Page Five brutish enemy with whom we still have to come to full grips. Oh, yes, even the throwback to barbarism among; the Japs experience fear fear not only for their hides but, strangely enough, for their reputations among respectable peoples. President Roosevelt said that the wont thing he could devise in the way of comment on the beheading was to call the Nipponese uncivilised for perpetrating this act, because nothing gets under the skin of a Japanese more than to be called barbaric. F. D.

R. was very right, (Ciallaaii rage a) Khrcnb Honors local Iwwspapsr Special Program Today Given Honoring Greenwood Commonwealth. 'The Greenwood Kiwanis Club honored members of the staff of the Greenwood Commonwealth at its luncheon today in observation of National News-prper Week. Leon Roscborough in his usual fine manner was asked to present the guests by President J. Auwell Peebles and the following were introduced to the Club: 'i Sumter Gillespie, Littleton Upshur, Tom Shepherd, Mrs.

Viola Stainton and Mrs. Roy Wilkes. i Attendance tabs were awarded by Carl Kelly to Noland Howard, 1 year perfect attendance, nd Doug Vaughan, who has Completed four years' perfect attendance. I Dr. V.

M. Sandifer drew the attendance prize and the name flrajwn was Corporal Andrew Jtoswell. yrrcsiuent Peebles then pre- nted Jay Hardwick who out- ned a program that has been idopted try Kiwanis Internation- Keeping America Amen- n. This undertaking will be iponsored by the national in which the Green- rood Club will lend one hundred ict cent cooperation. Stressing the idea of preserv ing and safeguarding of American freedoms, against the insidious forces at -work to destroy Americanism, will be publicized through the mediums of the press and other publicity agencies by the Kiwanis clubs throughout the nation.

'c Guests at today's meeting also Included Lt. Andrew Wyper, 1A. Paul F. Betts, Lt. Frazier Yearley, GAAF, Lt.

Powell Lee and Charles O. Axley. In a resolution paying compliment to the Greenwood Commonwealth for its service to the community and state was given -umter Gillespie, publisher, by president Peebles, The resolution follows: I it resolved, by the Ki-Wsnig Club of Greenwood, Mis- in regular monthly the Boar-of-Dtrs I tors, wishing to express to the Greenwood Commonwealth its appreciation and cooperation, is observing National Newspaper Week by having a special program at its -weekly meeting October 7, in honor of the local paper. "The Kiwanis Club of Greenwood further feels that the cooperation of the Commonwealth has contributed to Greenwood and this community a great piece' of work during the year in publishing all Kiwanis news and has helped the Club in carrying out its objectives in its program of service. "Be it further resolved that we also commend the Commonwealth for its civic interest in promoting and publishing so many times, articles and advertisements in the interest of the war effort and again to thank them for their splendid contributions to this great cause, "This resolution adopted this 28th day of September, 1943.

t'J. H. Peebles, President. "Albeit J. Brewerton, Secretary." 0 (fo Injured In Lccal Accident Richard Galey Hurt When Motorcycle Strikes Car In East Greenwood.

Richard Galey of this city was injured last night about 8 o'clock when a motorcycle he was riding collided with a car driven by A. Maddox of Drew, according to the Police Department. The ac cident occurred at the intersec tion of Carrollton Avenue and Stone Street. 7 Young Galey was accompanied on the motorcycle by Miss Bern-ice Taylor but she escaped any injury, it was reported. A Williams ambulance carried Galey to the Greenwood Leflore Hospital.

Reports this morning state that although he was hurt about the face, chest and legs, his condition is not regarded as serious and Be is resting comfortably, 0 STOCKHOLM, Oct. 7 German soldiers, expressing dis approval of the Nazi persecution of Danish Jews, nave been assist ing them to escape to Sweden, according to statements made by refugees to the Swedish press toCay. The refugees said German sol diers in some instances had changed into civilian clothes in order to help the Jews without drawing attention to themselves. Thig assistance, coupled with the atd that members of the Danish police force have given the Jews, might explain how more than Jaws have been able to reach Swtdan. To Strong Places On Russian Line Mud, Rain And Flood Combine To Halt Effectiveness Of Red Army Attack.

By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Oct. 7 UP) The Germans clung tenaciously to their strong defensive positions along the entire Russian front today, while General Mud and his commanders, Rain and Flood, gave serious combat to the Red army- (The German communique announced a major Russian attack south of Velikie Luki, northwest of Smolensk and north of Vitebsk, and added that fighting was still in progress. In the Ta-man peninsula in the Caucasus and in the region south of Zap-orozhe the Germans said only local fighting took place.) The Soviet communique last night was the most laconic 'in months, saying only, "No important changes occurred at the front." Everything in Moscow, however, leads to the conclusion that the Red army will not be bogged down thus very long. The weekly Moscow News tyoi- fied the feeling here: "If the Germans think this sea son will give them an opportunity to rest up after the tension of the summer and concentrate their attention on other theaters, they are gravely mistaken. The Hitlerite command will nave to reconcile itself to haying its main forms tlfct tJti.

The newspaper's military re-' viewer, Col. Nikolai Akimov, de-' dared that the weakness of the operational position of the troops makes it impossible for the Nazi command to remove any of its forces from the eastern front. On the contrary, the Germans are still obliged to use up reserves to combat the Red army. LONDON, Oct. 7 Fierce but inconclusive for stra- (Continued On Page 6.) 0 Turner Re-Named Vocational Head Eric Turner, vocational director of Greenwood High School, has been re-appointed area representative in Greenwood for the government's Engineering, Science and Management War Training program.

Dr. Lee H. Johnson, Jr. of the University of Mississippi announced Wednesday. Dr.

Johnson, who as institutional representative for the ESMWT at the is iversity directs the program in north Mississippi, also said that a course in advanced industrial accounting is already in progress in Greenwood under the direction of C. R. Gartin with the assistance of J. A. Moody, Mr.

Turner's duties as area representative are to direct the organization of courses to be given for employees and management personnel in local industry and business. LONDON, Oct 7 (JP) Radio France at 'Algiers, in a broadcast recorded by Reuters, declared today that the American Fifth Army is now only three miles from Capua, one of the most important centers of enemy resistance on the road to Rome. 0- Dear By Jimmy Arriaftaai Collins, Miss. I see where us cigarette fiends are being notified that our supply of tobacco will be cut nearly in naif next year. I smoked cigarettes made out of rabbit tobacco and corn silks until I was 19, and since nave smoked the kind composed of 40 per cent tobacco and 60 per cent taxes.

Us folks have got to have something drooping out of our mouth but maybe the old fashioned licorice stick will come back into style. God of their fathers. It is likely this year that thousands of Jews serving in the armed forces will hold services wherever they may be. Traditionally, the day is marked by special prayers and the abstinence from food and drink from eventide to eventide. The purpose of the fast is to turn man's thoughts away from material things and to emphasize spiritual values.

The scripture reading for the morning of Yom Kippur is taken from the 58th chapter of the Prophet Jsa-iah, who says "Is not this the fast that I' have chosen? To loose the fetters of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke Is it not to deal thy bread to the" hungryr And that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him. And that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" In a sense, this scriptural quotation sounds the qeynote to a day that every Jew is taught to hold sacred, 0 Funeral Services For Mrs. Johnson Services for Mrs. N. K.

Johnson Held At Inverness. Funeral services for Mrs. N. K. Johnson were held -at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the home of W.

D. Richards at Inverness with whom she and her husband resided. Rev. S. E.

Ashmore, pastor of the Indian-ola Methodist church, officiated. Interment was made in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Greenwood. Mrs. "Johnson died suddenly Tuesday morning. She had resided in Inverness for 22 years and was a member of the Methodist church.

Surviving ava. her husband, N. K. Johnson of Inverness; a daughter, Mrs. Walton Hughes; two grandchildren, Jack and David Hughes, all of Greenwood and a sister, Mrs, Annie Mac Nolan, Pallbearers were: Active Eoy Simmons, William Ervin, R.

R. Knight, Joe Halbert, George Baird Joe Prichard, all of Inverness, Honorary-W. D. Richards J. L.

Campbell, J. H. Hicks, M. L. Halbert, J.

C. Young, "Dr. W. L. Ervin Joe Prichard all of Inverness.

5, New York 4. Base on oaus Borowy 3 (Musial, Sanders, jdar-ion); Brazle 2 (Crosetti, Keller). Strikeouts Brazle 4 (Keller. Borowy, Lindell, Etten jBorowy (aanaers, diugic, wv'i Marion) Murphy 1 (Litwhiler). SERIES PLAY BY PLAY First Inning.

Cardinals On the second pitch Klein flied to Stainback in center. With the count one and one, Walker doubled down the left field foul line. Musial walked on five pitches. W. Cooper bounced into a double nlay.

Crosetti to Gordon to Etten. No runs, one hit no errors, one left. First Inning, Yankees Stainback singled to left. On the first pitch, Crosetti sacrific- Continned On Page Two Ray H. Martin Named Assistant To J.

S. Vandiver Former Morgan City School Superintendent Is Assistant State Superintendent, Ray H. Martin, former superintendent of schools at Morgan City, hag been named assistant state superintendent of education by State Superintendent of Edu cation J. S. Vandiver.

Mr. Mar tin will assume his duties tomor row. The appointment of Mr. Martin as assistant state superinten dent fills the vacancy created by the resignation of H. M.

Coen, who left the state post for serv ice in the army. Mr. Martin hag served as assistant supervisor of the War Production Training program for the past two years. He received his B. S.

degree from Mississippi College 1917, had vocational agriculture work at Mississippi State College and was granted a teacher's license in 1924. He received his M. degree from Cornell in 1936 where he majored in school administration. Following World War No. 1, he studied at Beaune University in France, Prior to his appointment as supervisor in the war production training program M.

Martin was superintendent of schools at Morgan City for a number of years. A veteran of World War he was stationed overseas for nine months. Martin is a native of Rankin County, is married to the former Jewel Turnipseed and is the father of two girls, Rachel, a student at Belhaven College, and Virginia, a student in Liberty. Ha is a member of the Methodist Church, Mason, a Legion-aaira and is active in Church work. cay at the Mississippi state rair, i The Mississippi State Pardon Board will meet next Tuesday for its regular October session, according to Miss Gertrude McCune, executive secretary.

On October 12 and 13, the board will conduct hearings on petitions for executive clemency. W. Shurtleff, A. who has been in Cuba, has arrived safely in England, according to a message received by Ms parents, Mr. and Mrs.

W. A. Shurtleff. Otha A. Blayloek, 25, of Aberdeen was instantly killed and Raymind Otis Clvert, of Aberdeen was painfully injured when gravel trucks they were driving jist night sideswipped.

Gov Elect. Thomas L. Baliey and Lieut. Governor-elect Fielding Wright have accepted invitations to attend a luncheon for the state press Monday at the Edwards Hotel, it was enounced today by J. Bi Snider, president Ai- II A Ui 11112 ciniion.

The State Convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union today reaffirmed its stand against any changes weakening the present liquor, divorce and Sunday observance laws. They al.so voted to continue to work for the elimination of beer and wines in those beverages at present legal, 0 -Fiinpral Sprvires Mrs, Ellen Boyd Williams, past state president of the Mississippi Women's Federated Clubs, died at the Greenwood Leflore Hospital yesterday afternoon after a long illness. She was Mrs. Williams had made her home for the past year at Swan Lake with her daughter, Mrs. Madison Dale.

A leader in civic and club affairs, Mrs. Williams was a past president of the State College for Women Alumnae. In addition to her daughter, she leaves a son, Lt. James M. Yeagef, stationed in the Aleutian Islands.

Funeral services were held this morning at 10:30 o'clock at Lee Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Edw. J. Caswell officating. Interment was made at Kosciusko cemetery.

Pallbearers were: Mr. Chas. S. Whittington, Cecil Hall and 'Avan Whittington, from Lamar Boyd, W. B.

Brown and H. W. Stigler from Drew. of The Press As DeWitt MacKenzie Seev- The War Situation Today applaud when a speaker makes some remarks that please the audience. He doesn't join in the program, unless it is to stand when the national anthem is sung.

He- is merely an onlooker and is reporting the course of events, not for the benefit of those at the meeting but for the whole community. To paraphrase a famous poem "his is not to reason why." That phrase adequately describes the reporter's attitude toward any assignment he is called upon to covar. He should not be expected to take part in ths proceedings unless. he is personally interested as a member of the group. A reporter recently covered a temperance meeting -and was Mked to express his opinion on the liquor question.This he declined to do.

and rightly so, because he was attending the meeting as a representative of his newspaper Ciatlii Or Pan Ml One respectfully submits that it would have a salutary effect the world around if we could have a special official declaration that the heaviest punishment compatible with civilized practice I will be dealt out to all Japanese who had anything to do with the beheading of the captive Allied airman in the Pacific theater, and that any other instances of such savagery will meet similar retribution. It would be a great thing for American morale In particular and for Allied morale in general, not only militay but civilian. It would create both moral and physical tear i Aa camp of a.