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COM1 VOLUME 33 NUMWEK 243. GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 10, 1949. FIVE CENTS! GREENWOOD Senator Stennis Has The Mumps THIS DAY Anti-Poll Tax Bill Shapes Up For Test East, West Envoys Hurry Up Decision Ask Close Check Atomic Equipment Sen. Eastland Applies Epithet Youtb Revival Completes Plans Liquor Tax Stamps Backfire WASHINGTON, June 10 A new liquor tax designed to boost the capital's income has boomeranged, and officials are asking Congress for an emergency law to protect the city against loss of revenues. Tax stamps will go up 50 per cent on Aug.

1, and wholesale and retail liquor dealers have been buying up large quantities of them at present tax rates for use in sales after the 1 higher taxes become effective. District tax collector Guy W. Paarson began rationing stamps but district auditor A. Polker-ton said yesterday he didn't think this was legal. Press Women Name Officers WASHINGTON.

June 10 (P) Senator Stennis (D-Miss) has the mumps. The 47-year-old Senator came down with mumps on both sides yesterday a few days after his youny son, Jobji Hampton Stennis recovered from the disease. Frank Smith, one of the? Senator's aides, said Stennis will remain at home about 10 days but will keep in close touch with his office, by telephone. -O- President Truman Visits Little Rock WASHINGTON, June 10 (P) President Truman flies today to Little Rock to rejoin his old Battery at another reunion of the 35th Division of World War I. The onetime captain of Battery 129th Field Artillery, will mix with old cronies, look in on a ball tonight, and have 7 o'clock breakfast -Saturday morning with his battery mates.

The president worked last night to complete an address to be delivered ai. 3:30 p. m. (Eastern Standard Time) Saturday, highr lighting the observance with the buddies with whom he served in France. With Secretary of State Ache-son working at Paris on the German problem and the Senate soon to take up the north Atlantic pact, the prospects for peace are expected to have heavy emphasis in the talk.

Mr. Truman's take-off in the "Independance," the White House DC-6, was timed at 12:30 p. m. (Eastern Time) for the three and a half hour flight to Arkansas. He will return to Washington immediately after Saturday's talk.

Making the trip with the president are secretaries Charles G. Ross and Matthew J. Connelly; John R. Steelman, assistant to the president, budget director Frank Pace, an Arkansan and the president's three aides Ma j. Gen.

Harry H. Vaughn of the Army, Rear Admiral Robert D. Dennison of the Navy and Brig. iGen. Robert B.

Landry of the Air Force. As he did in the reunion last year" at Omaha and two years ago at Kansas City, Mr. Truman plans to march with the" other 35th Division vetei-ans in their annual parade Saturday morning. The president likes nothing better than to get out one of his American Legion canes, a Battery arm band and strut along for the several blocks from his hotel to the reviewing stand. However, both official and fam ily matters prevent him from be ing away from Washington very long at this time.

Mr. Truman "expects to be air borne on the rgturn trip in time to be back in Washington "by 7 p. m. (Eastern Standard Time) Saturday. The president called in his cabinet this morning for a review of developments since last week meeting and scheduled a brief calling list of visitors pre paratory to his departure -O- Committee After Passport Dodgers WASHINGTON, June 10 P) Rep.

Nixon said today the House Un-American Activities Committee will urge that Philip O. Keeney be prosecuted for trying to leave the country without a passport. "The committee is dead serious about pressing this matter with the Justice Department," Nixon told newsmen. appears to me that Keency's attempt to leave without a passport was a criminal violation." Nixon said, too, there should be a full scale investigation of operations of the Polish liner Bat-cry, the ship on which Keeney booked passage. Communist Ger-hart Eisler fled the country on the same ship.

Keeney is a 58-year-old New York librarian who testified yesterday he had been unemployed since the Army fired him in Japan in 1947 for reasons he never has learned. Keeney's wife, Mary Jane, also appeared before the committee. She S3id s-he once had Gerhart end Mrs. Eisler to dinner. She added that she herself is no communist.

Keeney told the lawmakers that after he lost his job in Japan he was offered one in Czechoslovakia, but couldn't get a passport from the State Department. He said he tried to leave anyhow, after Mrs. Carol King, a New York lawyer, told him a passport was not required by law, but when Keeney tried to board the Batory he was turned back by a government official. Mrs. King also has represented Eisler in several cases.

Keeney said that during the Avar he had access to secret information of two government agencies, the Coordinator of Information and the Foreign Economic Administration. The committee spent all day yesterday questioning Keeney and his wife, who is on the United Nations editorial staff. Being Fact and Comment On Greenwood, Leflore County, and Mississippi. Final arrangements for a loan for extension of electric power lines were made today by representatives of the Tippah, County Electric Power Association, a cooperative. A search is underway today for Meivin Gardner, 40, who has been missing from his home near Hat-ties burg since noon Wednesday.

The Consul General of France, M. Lionel Vasse, will arrive in Jackson on June 13 to bestow a high military decoration on a Mississippi World War II officer in the name of the Republic oi France. Frank W. Chambers, Jackson, will receive the Croix de Guerre with Silver Star for exemplary conduct in the liberation of France, 1944-45, the decoration being made by the high French diplomatic official. Boys from each of the eight-teen Delta and part-Delta counties will attend the Boys Conservation School at Leroy Percy Park near Hollandale, June 20-24.

This camp-school is sponsored each year by Delta Council in cooperation with the Mississippi Forestry Chemurgic Association to stimulate interest forestry, soil conservation, and game and wildlife conservation. Cotton ginners of Mississippi and Louisiana will split a two day convention this Monday and Tuesday, June 13 and 14, between Greenville and Stoneville, according to Ralph Boyce, Brandon, president of the Louisiana-Mississippi Cotton Ginners Association. Labor Law Repea Gets Bis Setback P.y MAX II ALL WASHINGTON, June 10 (P) The Senate warmed up today for its hottest labor fight over how-to handle strikes that could cause national emergencies. General debate on changing" the Taft-Hartley act neared an end, to come after speeches by Senators Humphrey Murray and Neely Next will come the one-by-one consideration of amendments to the Truman administration's bill for Haft-llartley repeal. "National emergency" amendments may be taken ui Tuesday and some senators say this battle may continue the rest of next week.

That also happens to be the week John L. Lewis has set aside for a coal strike. With coal supplies high, a one-week stoppage isn't considered a national em ergency. But it brings sharply to the attention of Congiess the possibility of a longer strike beginning in July. President Truman was asked yesterday at his news conference about the work stoppage Lewis has called for his United Mine.

Workers. The President catalogued Lewis as a headline hunter, and said also that this is not supposed to be a strike but a sort of special sit-down. He said he understood that its object was to use up coal and put the miners in a better bargaining position. On one thing, the President and Lewis are agreed: They want an end to the Taft-IIartiey provision for court orders to stop national emergency strikes. Lewis has been heavily fined under this provision in the past.

Mr. Truman has expressed the view that the President already has inherent powers to deal with an emergency. As much as Lewis hates the whole Taft-Hartley law, however, his strategy in calling a walkout during debate on the law's repeal has dismayed some of the lawmakers who are for repeal. Likewise, it has encouraged the friends who say that the timing is bound to help their effort to preserve much of the law. The administration repealer, for which Mr.

Truman expressed continued support, does not authorize either injunctions or gov-rrnment seizure of plants to delay strikes in vital industries. UNIVERSITY HONORS BACHELORS' WIVES BETHLEHEM, Pa. mencement for Twos" will be observed by Lehigh University at its annual ceremonies June 20. Not only will married seniors gtt certificates of recognition as well. Each wife of a bachelor will be cited for "devotion and understanding" which "encouraged her husband in the successful completion of his college career." THE WEATHER MISSISSIPPI Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers tonight and Saturday.

TEMPERATURES Thurs. Max. 89.9. Min. 67.9.

Today's Max. 84.9. Min. 73.00. River jjabge 17.76, fall 0.39.

By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, June 10 (P) Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.) called today for a close military check before atomic materials are sent abroad, "even to the friendliest of -ountries." The Michigan senator said he wants to be sure that the military liaison committee approves in advance Atomic Energy Commission decisions such as that which sent radioactive isotopes to a research division of the Norwegian military establishment. "The point is not whether a country is friendly to us," he told a reporter. The liaison committee is composed of two high tanking officers from each of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Chairman David E. Lilienthal of the atomic agency insisted during an exchange with Vandenberg yesterday that the fact Norway is a friendly country had some bearing in the commission's decision to send it the isotopes.

Lilienthal was appearing before the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee as it continued its hearings on charges by Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa of "incredible mismanagement'' by the commission chairman. The congressional group met Lehind closed doors again today (9 a. m. EST) to decide how to carry out the inquiry. Hickenlooper wants to present evidence that certain key AEG employes who he doesn't want to name publicly have been questioned about their loyalty, associations and character.

The committee has failed twice to decide how the Iowan can go about this, since Lilienthal has protested that any such method identifier the person concerned to his co-workers. 0 Penn Railroad Has New Boss By LEE LINDER PHILADELPHIA, June 10 (P) Walter S. Franklin, six-foot-six and partially bald, isn't scared at the. prospect of running America's largest railroad. "Why should I be?" he asks.

Franklin assumes the presidency of the Pennsylvania Railroad next Thursday. The giant PRR sprawls 12,000 miles across the U. S. countryside, employs some 135,000. It's a big job and physically the towering Franklin is a big enough man to handle it.

He tips the scale at 225. Beneath his grey business suit there's plenty of muscle. You'd never know he was 65. Mentally, too, Franklin is, capable of running the Pennsy, biggest privately-owned railroad in the world. He's been in the railroad business 43 years, ever since graduation from Harvard University.

Twice before he's been pi'esi-dent of railroad. In 1929 it was the Detroit, Toledo and I ronton; two years later the Wabash. "They might have been smaller than the Pennsylvania," Franklin told a reporter, "but they were railroads." Franklin succeeds M. W. Clement who takes over the newly-created post of chairman of the board of directors.

Clement was PRR boss-man for 14 years. 0 Jury Indicts Auto Promoter CHICAGO, June 18 (P) Preston T. Tucker, promotor of a novel automobile that never got into mass production today was indicted on charges or mail fraud, sec violations and conspiracy, Seven associates were indicted with him. A 31-count indictment was returned before federal Judge John J. Barnes by a grand jury which spent 12 weeks since Feb.

12 investigating affairs of Tucker md his corporation Maximum possible penalties for conviction under the indictment would amount to 155 years imprisonment and $70,000 in fins for each of the eight defendants. The counts are 25 of mail fraud, five of violating regulations of the securities and exchange commission and one of conspiracy. The indictment charges that a total of was spent by the defendants on the promotion and building of the car. The sources of the money were sales of dealer franchises, sale of class A stock and accessories for cars sold before delivery of the automobiles. Judge Barnas fixed bond at 625,000 each for Tucker, Cerf, Pierce and Karsten.

Th? bail for the others was set at $10,000 each. The defendants are accusea of taking advantage of the unusual postwar consumer demand for cars and spreading "false aid fraudulent statements and repre sentations relating to a proposed completely new automobile which was represented to poscass and combine features of advanced construction and design not here-tofore contained in any mass pro duced automobile" Four young people from various parts of the South will be Greenwood during the week of June 19 to 24 to direct the annual Youth Revival at the First Baptist Church. The guest minister this year will be Rev. James Crain of Laurens, S. C.

His outstanding work in the revival last year resulted in his being selected to conduct the services this yeav. Rev. Grain recently graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louis ville, Ky, and while he was attending this seminary, he filled the pulpit at the Baptist Churcn in the, town of Ilebbardsville, Ky. Aetinsr as the personal worker for the revival will be Mrs. James Crain.

Mrs. Crain is a graduate of Converse College of Spartenburg, S. C. She will also help with the various programs for the young er the music tor the revival is under the direction of Miss Erin Stuart, chairman of the music committee, and she will have as her pianist, Miss Charla Walters of Laurel, Miss. Miss Walters has recently been elected presi dent of the Student Council lor the next term at Blue Mountain where she will be a senior.

John ny Smith of Boque Chita, Miss. a senior at Mississippi College, will work with Misses Stuart and Walters in the preparation of the music for the revival. He will lead the congregational, singin and also direct the young people's choir. He will also organize and direct a cherub choir composed of the pupils from the Junior De partment of Sunday School. Everyone is urged to set asid the week ot June 19 through the 24th as Youth Revival Week.

The morning services will be from 7:00 to 7:45. The evening services will be from 7:30 to I here will also be a short prayer service beginning at 7:00 each evening. All young people and adults are invited to share in the opportunities of these services. Rev. Harrison Dies Suddenly Rev.

William Wirt Harrison, 72-year old Presbyterian mims- ter, died suddenly at his resi-East Claiborne Street following a heart at- dence, 103 last night tack. Funeral services will be held Sunday, June 12 at the First Presbyterian church, the hour to be announced later. Rites will be conducted by Dr. J. P.

Marion. Burial will be in Odd Fellows cemetery with Wilson and Knight in charge of arrangements. Rev. Harrison had loyally and faithfully served as pastor at Helena, St. Joseph, Fort Smith, York, South Carolina and Greenwood.

At the time of his death he was serving supply minister at Morgan City and Tchula. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sallie Humphreys Harrison, Greenwood; a son, W. Harrison, Arlington, and two daughters, Mrs. Orren T.

Pickard, Sarah, and Mrs. Reynolds Carey, Decator, also the following grandchildren: Taylor Pickard, Sallie Lise Pickard, Mimi Carey and Jan Carey. Lee Staten Dies At Charleston Lee Staten, GO, of Charleston, succumbed yesterday afternoon at the Charleston hospital where he had been a patient the past month. He had been in ill health the past two years. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock with the Rev.

John Edwards, pastor of the Charleston Presbyterian church officiating. Burial will be in New Hope cemetery with Williams and Lord in charge. Mr. Staten was a lifelong resident of Charleston. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Presbyterian church.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Rosa and three brothers, Eldridge Staten, II. B. Staten and Albeit Staten, all ot Charleston. O- CITES DANGERS OF lvITE-FLYING NEW YORK, OP) It's easier for today's kite-flying youngsters to draw electricity dowrn a kite string than when Benjamin Franklin made his discoveries.

For. that reason, says Frank L. Jones, president of the Greater New York Safety Council, modern kite-flying can be far more dangerous. Jones says that if a kite comes into contact with power lines which were nonexistent in Frank-lyn's day it may conduct enough electricity to cause serious accidents. He warns against using thin wire or wire-threaded cord for a kite.

If wet, ordinary string or chord will also conduct electricity, vhe says. I WASHINGTON, June 10 (P) An early House test shaped up today on anti-poll tax legislation, a major part of President Truman's civil rights program. Shelved yesterday by a House administration subcommittee, the measure apparently has a good chance to be salvaged when it goes before the full 21 member group next Wednesday the subcommittee had suggested further study of proposals to abolish poll taxes by constitutional amendment. President Truman told his news conference yesterday that such proposals are just intended to prolong the agony. The bill set aside by the subcommittee would make it unlawful to require a voter to pay a poll tax before he could cast a ballot for federal officers.

The bill's advocates contend such a requirement inv some southern states makes it almost impossible for negroes and poor white citizens to vote. Chairman Norton (D-NJ) of the administration committee predicted approval of the bill next Wednesday. She has been a leading advocate of poll tax repeal, which was requested by Mr. Truman and endorsed by both the republican and democratic national conventions of 1948. Supporters of repeal bills said they are "sure of at least 10 of the 21 committee votes and are confident they can pick up at least one other from among four members listed as "doubtful." If their claims are accurate, the committee will set a repeal bill on its way to the House floor next week.

Several times in the past, the house has voted to outlaw poll taxes, but no such bill ever has cleared the Senate, when southern members traditionally have talked such measures to death. -O- AMA Now Own Program ATLANTIC June 10 (P) The American Medical Association's fight against enactment of compulsory health insurance legislation crystalized today in a program designed to encourage the expansion of lay-sponsored medical care plans The program was unfolded yesterday when the AMA's House of delegates policy-making body of one organization adopted a set of 20 principles for lay-sponsored plans seeking AMA approval. Dr. James R. McVay of Kansas City, chairman of the AMA's council on medical service, said the action was "a positive, decisive, progressive step toward the expansion of, voluntary health in surance.

Heretofore the AMA has recognized only those medical care plans sponsored by its federated county and state groups. It has been indifferent to numerous plans operated by labor, farmer-consumer cooperative and other groups including city governments. Medical care plans cover doctors' fees for stipulated services but do not cover hospital expenses. Hospitalization plans- such as the AMA sanctioned Blue Cross, do not cover doctors' fees. McVay said there are 171 voluntary health plans now operating in 3 states, exclusive of 92 sponsored by medicial societies.

He said his has met with leaders of lay 'groups in the past two years in an ellort to formulate a work agreement between the AMA and the existing voluntary health plans. From these meetings, MeVay said, developed th-e 20 principles adopted here yesterday. These specify that medical care plans must be non-profit making comply with AMA's principles' of medical ethics, be adequately financed. Be devoted exclusively to health service, have high quality personnel and employ only licenced physicians. It also is specified that: "Any plan desiring approval under these principles shall agreu to such periodic reviews and to abide by such regulations as may be deemed necessary by an appropriate accrediting body of the AMA in consultation with representatives of the sponsors of the plan.

McVay's emphasized the AMA itself would not sanction medical care plans without prior approval by county or state medical societies. -0- PREFERS FEDERAL PRISONS HOUSTON, (P) A 36-year-old Louisiana man took things calmly last night when arrested in the Houston Postoffice. Guard Wiley Payne caught tne man as he attempted to break into two postal boxes. At the police station the arrested man told Lt. Joe Clark he was rifling the boxes because he prefers federal prisons over state penitentiaries.

Police are checking into the man's record while holding him for postal inspectors. Offers PARIS, June 10 (JP) The foreign ministers of the east and west sought today to salvage some accords from the debris of differences accumulated over discussion of Germany's future. Soviet foreign minister Andre? Vishinsky yesterday accepted an American request that the east-west trade and traffic talks in, Berlin be ended by Monday. The western powers previously had told Russia they were tired of jockeying in the foreign ministers' council and wanted to get results. If the Berlin talks do not produce an agreement by Monday the big four foreign ministers will step in.

The current Berlin negotiations for an east-west trade and traffic agreement are being stymied by the western-blessed rail strike. The United States, England an France have told Russia that no accord is possible as long as the, Berlin rail strike continues. Unless the strikers return to work within the next 21 or 4S hours, the Berlin negotiators will have to report to the foreign ministers Monday that they hava failed to agree. Meanwhile the problem of concluding peace treaties with Germany and Austria is up in tha air. Western officials have said the) ministers may propose the for mation of a four-power commission to continue studying German peace treaty prospects if thg present Paris conference breaks up without any positive agreements.

The main function of such a commission would be to lay the groundwork for another foreign ministers conference at some future date. The commission also might bo assigned the task of tackling; aspects of the Berlin situation which require quick four-power! action. It is believed that Russia and the west are not far apart on the issues holding up an Austrian independence treaty. But neither; side is keen on concluding an Austrian treaty and withdrawing occupation troops while neighbor ing Germany is so unsettled. -O- Rev.

Whitaker Lions Speaker Lion Alec Whitaker, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Itta Bena. made a very inspiring and interesting talk to the Greenwood Lions Club today at their regular meeting. The topic of his talk was how civic clubs can continue to bo successful. He stated that the Greenwood Lions Club, according to all reports has had a very successful year, and that if they continue to apply their "tenacious stickability" on all projects that they undertake, they will continue to be successful and justify their existence in the eyes of tha community. Lion Kay Garner was in charge; of the special program today, ano Lion President Henry Orsborn complimented Lion Garner on tha fine work that his committee had; done this year.

Guests today were P. D. Pepper, Jackson, Louis Reid, Birmingham, Don Short and Tom Blake, Greenwood, Lion Joe Heard was accepted into the club as a transfer fr om the Lions Club in Indianola. Lion Elmer Gwin won the attendance prize. -0- Vacation School To Close Sunday Commencement exercises for the Vacation Bible School of tha First Baptist Church will be held on Sunday, June 12 at o'clock.

The Beginner and Primary Departments will give a demonstration of the work that has Teen done in these departments. A pageant, "More Like Thg Master" will be portrayed by tha Junior and Intermediate Departments. After this, parents and friends will have an opportunity to see the handwork. This school will long be remembered as ono of the most successful schools that has ever been held in tha church. The faculty has dona superb work throughout tha school.

All parents and friends ara cordially invited to attend tha exercises qn Sunday evening. I CHEAP HOUSE STOLEN DALLAS, June 10 It really was a low-cost housing project. The builder had almost completed his five-room bungalow at a cost of only $165. Police wrecked his building plana yesterday. His secret: materials for hous had been stolen.

WASHINGTON, June 10 UP) In an angry scene, Senator Eastland D-Miss.) dismissed C. B. Baldwin, who was Henry Wallace's campaign manager, from the witness chair of the Senate hearing today and called him a S. O. B.

in the full-words version. Baldwin had refused to answer a question whether or not he is or has been a member of the communist party, and had accused Eastland of "fighting against negro rights." Baldwin, former administrator of the Farm Security Administration, also had shouted that Eastland represented "the Cotton Council," an organization which Baldwin said is made up of "plan tation owners. Despite the epithets, moved toward physical Baldwin is a man of neither violence, medium balding. height, round-faced. Eastland is a of about six sturdily-built man feet.

Both are in their 40s. The hearings were by a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on bills that would require the registration of communist and communist-front organizations. Baldwin appeared as secretary-treasurer of the Progressive Party. He had a' prepared statement which called the bills "part of the anti-communist hysteria that has been whipped up since the end of the war." But he never got to read the statement. First off, the question about past or present communist party membership was put to him.

Ealdwin wanted to know the basis for the questions. He asked if the policy of asking, if it had been approved by the whole Senate. Eastland said no, just by the subcommittee. When Baldwin tried to argue about it. Eastland rose from his chair and stai-ted to walk away, sayintr that.

Baldwin's prepared statement would not be accepted for the committee iecord. Hotly protesting, Baldwin said he had been annearincr before Congress committees for 15 years and "I have never been so insulted in my life." He told Eastland he would gladly "take an oath of allegiance to the United States." But Eastland told him the committee was through with him. That is when Baldwin accused Eastland of fighting against the rights of negroes and Eastland came back with his cussing out of Baldwin. Just before he turned on heel and walked away from witness chair, Baldwin said would like to protest action of his the he the full Senate Judiciary Committee in putting out a list of communist-front organizations that included the Progressive Party. "It's a damnable lie," Baldwin yelled.

Double Slaying At Hattiesburg HATTIESBURG, June 10 (P) A coroner's jury returned a murder and suicide verdict in the fatal shooting yesterday of Robert S. Porter, 65, and Miss Jessie A. Mclnnis, 47. Coroner Buford E. Hudson said that Miss Mclnnis was fatally wounded while she was eating dinner.

John Mclnnis, 67, the woman's uncle, was wounded slightly by pellets from a 12-gauge shotgun. Porter's body was found in the front room of the Mclnnis home. He had been fatally wounded by a .38 caliber pistol. John Mclnnis said that Porter had been in ill health and had only i-ecently been released from a hospital. Mclnnis said he knew of no reason for the shooting.

-0- Church President Miss Emma C. Shipman (above) of Brookline, is the incoming president of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. The church is the mother church of Christian Science. (AP Wirephoto.) 1 a i i I I I 1 i I Bv CLEM BROSSIER BILOXI, June 10 Mrs. J.

Oliver Emmerich of the McComb Enterprise Journal is the new president of the Mississippi Federation of Press Women. She was elected at the Federation's annual meeting here last right held in conjunction with the Mississippi Press Association's 83rd convention. She succeeds Mrs. Mary Cain of Summit. Elected with Mrs.

Emmerich were Mrs. Velma Taylor of Charleston, vice-president, and Mrs. E. D. Hales of Mindcnhall, treasurer.

Miss Constance Pilkington of Columbus was re-elected recording secretary. The Federation voted to ask the Press Associatino to allow its president to sit with the Associa-t tion's board of governors. She would act as a non-voting member until the Association could vote on a constiutional amendment making her a full member. Rachel Shute of the Columbus Commercial Dispatch was awarded first place in the Federation's annual excellence contest for the best news story in a daily newspaper. The story described a water shortage threat to Columbus as a result of a Luxapilia River flood.

It appeared Jan. 5, 1949. Hazel Brannon, editor and publisher of the Durant News, won first place for the best news story in a weekly newspaper. She covered the September, 1948, trial of "Black Jack" Powell in Jackson. Olga Reed Pruitt's editorial in the South Reporter at Holly Springs urging parents to pay more attention to their children's care and environment won her first place in the weekly newspaper editorial classification.

iss Shute won first place in the daily newspaper feature story division for her description of "The Cedars," the oldest home in Columbus. A feature on dairying in the Franklins: County Advocate gave first place in the weekly field's feature story contest to Mrs. P. H. Gaugh, while Charlotte Capers' society colum "Miss Quote" in the Jackson Daily News won honors in the Daily Field's column section.

Miss Brannon won first place in the weekly column classification with a discussion of the attitude of the German pepole. Helen Crooks won first place for the Meridian Star in the daily newspaper woman's department contest, and Miss Brannon's Lexington Advertiser was judged the best weekly edited and published by a woman. 0 More Cuts Coming On ERA Funds By DON WHITEHEAD WASHINGTON, June 10 (P) Some senators said today they will push for a cut in European Recovery funds even if it means the resignation of Economic Co-operator Paul Hoffman. The ECA chief yesterday gave the Senate Appropriations Committee a hint which he confirmed later to reporters that he will quit if recovery funds are cut too much. He was recalled to continue his testimony this morning (9 a.

EST). Senator McKellar committee chairman, said Hoffman had shown "a very improper attitude" and was trying to "put pressure" on the committee. "I doubt the committee will foe threatened," McKellar said. Senator Maybank (D SC), chairman the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, said "Hoffman is a good man but I'm going; to vote for a cut." Hoffman told the Senate group he would try to get along on this amount although he believes it will take $4,000,000,000 for the full 12 months. "I wouldn't want the responsibility of carrying out a program I don't think can be done for less than $4,000,000," he said.

Senator George (D-Ga.) said he would favor spreading the over the entire year. "It's ridiculous to say that we mustn't cut these foreign funds when the prices of food and materials have dropped," George said. Senator McCarran a member of the Appropriations Committee, said he would not be surprised to see the committee make a "big cut" in the funds and then spread them over 12 months. jh -M -t "5 i.