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5 EENWOO i- I'll' VOLUME 32 NUMBER 55. GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, MISS MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 3, 147. FIVE CENTS GRI ilj 1 IV ill ff I A -n- ROTARY SPEAKER Candidates For Senatorial Post THIS DAY Rotarians Hear Sen. Eastland Annual Meeting Miss. Conference Methodists Will Convene At Grenada In Yearly Gathering Wednesday Night iMake Pleas To State Voters By ROMNEY WHEELER They Seek To Succeed Sen.

Bilbo I LzX 1 III if, 1 fey i i I ft Hi Wi SEN. JAS-O. EASTLAND -0- Car Owners Buy 5,452 Car Tags Sheriff Foreman Reports Sales For Month Of October. Those little white and black automobile tags that go on the back of cars in Mississippi found Leflore county car owners purchasing 5,452 licenses in October. Tags ordered from the Motor Vehicle Commission were 330.

The amount of taxes collected for October tag sale was amount collected for the MVC was $15,721.02. Delinquent and additional taxes collected by the Sheriff were Tags sold for the fiscal year November 1, 1946, to October 31, 1947, totalled 7,203. Tags ordered from MVC 345. Around 400 tags a day were sold during Sheriff Foreman said. The $4260.93 collected was mostly back taxes on cars.

A person purchasing a tag now is required to pay any taxes due on the car regardless of who the car belonged to when taxes became due, as required by legislation enacted. The Sheriff's office is gi-d to explain motor vehicle laws Lo patrons. If they do not have the required tonnage and are caught and penalized, it has. not been due to any neglect on the sheriff's office as every car owner has had this matter thoroughly explained. 0 Community Chest Drive Starts November 4th OUR GOAL $21,000.00 $21,000 20,000 $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 'a I Being Fact and Comment On Greenwood, Leflore County, and Mississippi.

Cotton, the foundation of the economic structure of Mississippi, keynotes the program of the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation to be held in Jackson, November 5-7. As the farmers gather in conference to discuss such measures as price supports, parity formulas and soil conser4 vation, the farm women will be demonstrating their skill in a rot-ton dress revue, and the farmers' daughters will be glamorizing cotton in the first Cotton Queen Contest ever sponsored by the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation. The lirst post-war examination for probational appointment to the position of Substitute Lierk, $.79 per hour, has been announced for the I'ost Office at Sidon, Mississippi. State Superintendent J. M.

Tubb announces that between now and Thanksgiving time emphasis will be given throughout the schools of Mississippi to securing contributions for the Society of Crippled Children and Adults. All trasses have been suspended at the Mississippi State College today and tomorrow to give-students an opportunity to vote in their home precincts tomorrow in the general election. V. P. Kimbrough, chairman of: the Church Board of the First Christian Church, has asked that every member of the Board be present tonight for a board meeting.

The hour is 7:30 and plans for the State Convention will be considered. Also, very important business for the local church. Lt. Russell Parker, reported missing in action since an Oct. 17, 1947, parachute drop over China, is "alive and well." Mr.

and Mrs. Edgar Parker Laurel, his parents, said they received word yesterday from the adjutant general that their son, on detached service with the American Craves Registration Unit, is afe. Three Leflw County 4-II Ciob members will be among the 19S outstanding farm boys and girls of Mississippi honored at the Third Annual Mississippi 4-11 Club Round-Up in Jackson, No--vember 13-14. Leflore County 4-II youths who will participate in the Rond-Up are: Baruara Randall, Sidon; Charles Barren-tine, Greenwood; Noelee McCool, Morgan City. Hugh Andrew Keys, young negro living on Wildwood, was killed near Craigside yesterday afternoon when a pickup truck overturned.

(Several other negroes were hurt. A Lee ambulance answered the call and brought the injured to Greenwood colored hospital. Congressman Will M. Whitting-ton will address the Kiwanis Club Thursday, November on "Fiocd Control." The Kiwanis Education Committee is in Charge of the program and urges that ali members be present. The local unit of the National Guard will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock at" the armory.

All members are asked to be The international food situation will be among top subjects before the 29th annual meeiing of the National Association of Commissioners, Secretaries and Directors of Agriculture at Biloxi Nov. 10-13. 0 Food Handlers ToBeX-Rayed Mobile Unit Will Be Used Wednesday For Purpose. AH food handlers of Greenwood will be given a chest X-ray Wednesday, according to a member of the Leflore County Haa-lth Department. These workers number around 900.

Saturday 4o6 people took advantage of the mobile X-ray unit for chcst examination. Tuesday, the unit will, be at the colored school where students over 15 years will be X-rayed. The unit will also be at the Planters Oil Mill that date for those who desire to have X-rays made. The unit will also visit communities of the county in tnv Iv-re. Information may ail its be obtained at the Health Depart ment.

0 THE WEATHER MISSISSIPPI Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Warmer Tuesday. TEMPERATURES Sun. Max. 60.1.

Min. 51.7. Today Max. 64.8. Min.

53.9. River gauge S.13. Tells Club Of Dire Need Rehabilitating Euopc To 1're-vent Communism Spread. "The way to peace is to confront Russia with superior forces on every front." Senator James O. Eastland slated today in addressing the Greenwood Rotary Club on the European situation.

His address, broadcast over Station WGRM, was heard by inSny listeners in the city and adjacent areas. Senator Eastland was introduced by Curtis Whitington. Senator Eastland said that the world today In tha most critical period of the Christian era as the threat of communism was spreading to other parts of the world. "Our country is endangered more than at any time in its history," Senator Eastland said as he reviewed how communism was expanding abroad and America attempting to solve the objectives of the Soviet Union. "The Marshall plan is one of the United States policies it hopes to adopt to arrest communism.

The matter is vital and essential to our safety," the speaker said. Continuing the Senator said in part: That Stalin had won great victories at Teheran, Yalta and Pottsdam and that agreements made by the Soviets had been violated on every hand. Countries that had been agreed to Wave an Allied control were taken over by Russia and oppomnts of communism were being murdered by thousands. Leaders of communism were brought in to these countries. Mass rape, pillage and looting were carried out and men by the thousands taken from Europe and Asia and placed in slavery where they remain today in concentration camps worse than anything of Hitler's days.

"Russia is telling the people of Europe that you must come to us for food," Sen. Eastland continued." Dealing with the former appeasement policies, the Senator said, has resulted in 119 million people of Europe and 130 million people of Asia disappearing behind the "iron curtain," but the policy today of stopping the communistic expansion by Harms if necessary but peaceably if possible is America's answer. He told of the proposed and planned attack on" Turkey by Russia but following the reaction in the United States, this plan was called off. He also related the similar incidents affecting Greece. Showing that air bases in Turkey and Greece would immobile America and cut off supplies Asia, Africa, Australia and India, would place America where it could not wage a war against the Soviets.

"Russia's plan is to create chaos diplomatically and economically," he stated. "The adoption of the Marshall plan with Europe cooperating is what Congress must decide," he said. "We must build up Europe economically and industrially in order that we may have future trade." "Russia is after Germany and that day the Soviets accomplish that purpose will be the day that the United States becomes a sec ondary world power ana com- muuism win uuiiuiiaic nic wuiiu, he said. "The success of this plan depends in largo measure on Russia's willingness to cooperate by swapping the manufactured prod ucts of Europe for food. Senator Eastland told of how Europe was devastated and that America must help rebuild the continent describing Germany as the heart of Europe.

In conclusion Senator Eastland said that universal military training was necessary while Russia was feverishly preparing for war. We must be prepared and stay prepared." A large guest list was present today that included Rotarians from Itta Bena and Indianoia. -o- LEFLOUE COTTON QUEEN I rr Miss Margie udobley is repre senting Leflore County Farm Bu reau in the Mississippi Farm Bureau contest for Cotton Qneen. Miss Mobley is a member 'of the 4-H Club, Future HomeraaKers Club, and has served as football quea, cheer leader, and program chairman for her junior class inj school. S3 Communist Inspire China's Civil War PHILADELPHIA, Nov.

3 (P) There is no civil war in China, only a fight of democracy against communism, says Archbishop Paul Yu Pin of Nanking, China. The Roman Catholic leader declared there are 1,000,000 soldiers fighting for the communists in-the northern parts of China. "These are not just Chinese communists but an international group including Koreans, Japanese and Russians," he said. "Even the communists do not say they are waging a civil war, but term the present conflict a 'preliminary' war a total global war between democracy and communism." O- Polish Leader Lands In England Head Of Pol'sh Government-In-Exile Finally Makes pearance After Flight LONDON, Nov. 3 (P) Stani-slaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the wartime Polish go vernment-in-exile, was reported in the House of Commons to have reached Britain by air for sanctuary promised by the British government.

Christopher Mayhew, under secretary of state for foreign affairs, told Commons that "I have been infirmed that Mr. Mikolajczyk arrived in (this country and was given leave to land." Mikolajczyk disapperaed from Warsaw two weeks ago. His whereabouts, remained a mystery kuntil today. The Polish government already had ordered an inquiry into his flight into exile. 0 SS Top Officers Are Convicted American Court Charged Aides With Wholesale Murder.

NUERNBERG, Nov. 3 fP; Lt. Gen. Oswa'id Pohl and his top aides in the S. S.

administrative office were convicted of multiple crimes today by an American court which branded the defendants as wholesale murderers. Pohl second in the S. S. only to Heinrich Himmler and his close associates listened grirrAy as the tribunal described him and his fellow defendants as "monsters of depravity" who built a system of concentration camps and traded lives for loot. Convicted with Pohl were his two main deputies, August Frank and George Loerner, both SS generals, and Kart Fanslau and Hans Loerner, division chiefs.

Joseph Vogt, SS colonel was ac quitted, the court ruling that he nad never been more than a book- keeper. Woman's Club Urges Voting Chairman Of American Citizenship Committee Calls On Voters To Ballot. Mrs. John T. McMillan, vhair-man of American Citizenship.

Greenwood's Woman's Club, has issued the following statement relative to voting in tomoi row's election as well as ail elections: "In the forthcoming election, a well as in 'ai'i others, whether it be city, county, state or national, it is our privilege and duty to cast our ballot for the or woman of our choice. "With social and economic unrest on either side, we must avail ourselves of, this opportunity to select the person best suited for the tasks at hand regardless of political or religious affiliations. Only by astutely using this right of franchise can we adequately fill all branches of government. "Therefore, the Greenwood Woman's Club urges every club member and qualified voter of Leflore county to fulfill his obligation to society by voting in Tuesday's election." Travelers Hear Rep. Whittington Talks To Club On Price Control And European Emergency Relief.

Congressman Whittington spoke to the Travelers' Ciub Saturday noon at the regular meeting of the club at the Greenwood Leflore Hotel. His speech was of intense interest from beginning to end. He spoke on "The Control of Prices and Foreign Relief in Europe." Mi. Whittington- discussed the farm program. He stated that every dollar that had been paid to the farmers in farm iclit v.

as doKar earned by the farmer. He also said that the appi-opiiation had been cut about half in two at the last meeting of Congress. In speaking of taxes, he said he believed that our progress depended on the lowering of taxes, so that savings and investments would be encouraged. Also that tax laws on cooperatives have been carried too far in exempting them from taxes. In dealing with the labor problem he stated that no organization should have enough power to strike against anything thiat would cut off services to the public.

"No organization should be allowed to strike against any form of government, be it municipal, county, state, or the United States government." Mr. Whittington closed his speech by some interesting facts concerning communism. He stated that six of the eight countries which now have totalitarianism were brought about by popular vote, and not by a revolution, and that we must have faith in our institutions to overcome the issues that are now threatening our country. "Communism is definitely on the March." Mr. J.

K. Garner won tne attendance prize. Visitors weie Rev. J. H.

Kyzar, pastor of First Baptist Church and Postmaster Ray Hall. The following committee chairmen were appointed: Membership: B. T. Attendance, John T. Hicks, and Holiis Na-bors; Highways and Objectives.

Claude E. French; Fellowship, Carl Williams; Finance, Charley Brown; Scout Committee, S. R. Evans, E. A.

Nichols, Jess Houck, and Russell Welch; Publicity, Blackstone. Goodman Child Dies In Tool Box GOODMAN, Nov. 3 (P) Nine-year-old Billy Hall died in a closed tool box where apparently he had fallen asleep at his home here yesterday while his parents searched for him. He had moved all the tools from the box and his head rested en a pillow. He had been missing about an hour and a half from the back yard of his home.

His mother raised the lid of the tool box and found his lifeless form. Efforts to revive him by artificial respiration and with the use of a pulmotor were futde. parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.

D. Hall, surmised that the lid of the Sbox had fallen shut after the boy had dozed off to sleep. Billy was a fourth grade pupil here. His father is president of the Goodman school board. Funeral services were set for 4 p.

m. today. The North Mississippi Annual Conference of the Methodist Church will convene in the new church at Grenada, Mississippi, Wednesday night, November 5, at seven o'clock. Bisfyop U. V.

W. Darlington will preside at the conference. These annual meetings of the Methodist Church have great interest to the membership of the local churches because it is at this of conference that, the ministers are appointed to the various churches. in the North Mississippi Conference there are' 170 pastors serving 574 local churches. In addition to the number of active pastors serving charges, there are 31 ministers in the membership of the Conference who are on the retired roll, serving special appointments, or in school as theological students.

The. three Chaplains are Rev. J. H. Brooks and Rev.

M. H. Twitchell in the Navy, and Rev. Benton B. Bailey in the Army.

There are 70 ministerial students enrolled at Mill- saps College -who are preparing to become active pastors Mississippi. The Conference has lost by death during the past year the following ministers: three retired ministers, Dr. V. C. Curtis, form er pastor at Greenwood; Rev.

W. H. Mounger, and Rev. E. S.

Lew is; and two active pastors, Kev. A. C. McCorkle, Batesville, and Rev. A.

IS. Brisco, Myrtle. Bishop A. Frank Smith, in charge of the Houston, Texas area, will preach twice each day of the Conference. Saturday night, November 8, will be Youth Night, when the young people from all over North Mississippi 'will attend.

The inspirational speaker will be Rev. A. Carl Adkins, pastor at Mobile, Alabama, and the Youth Choir from the First Methodist Church at Greenwood, under the direction of E. H. Blackstone and Mrs.

J. H. Montgomery, has been invited to sing. They will sing the Anthem "The Holy District Superintendents of the North Mississippi Conference are: Aberdeen, Rev. W.

B. Baker; Corinth, Rev. L. P. Wasson; Rev.

N. J. Golding; Greenville, Rev. J. W.

Wroten; Greenwood, Rev. R. G. Lord; and Sar-dis, Rev. C.

A. Parks. Continued on page eight 0 Membership Drive! Off To Good Start Around 234 Legionnaires Paid Up For Cowing Year. Hush Midcfieton. 1st vice-com mander and membership chair- man of Keesler-Hamrick-Gilles-pie Post No.

29 of the American Legion stated this morning that the post is off to a good start on its 1948 membership drive with 234 members paid up for the coming year. Early in October every 1947 member of the post was mailed an application blank inclosing a self-addressed stamped envolepe and according to Chairman Middleton the present 1948 membership is largely the result of the letters sent out. Nineteen hundred and 47 members who have not done so are asked to use the stamped envelope sent them to mail in their 1948 dues. Legionnaires who were asked! tgj come to they Legion Hut byv the Membership Committee yesterday afternoon to get prospect cards responded, and will start at once to secure' renewals, reinstatements, transfers and new mem-berg. Legionnaire Anthony Bileulo, a member of the Membership Committee, will take 1948 memberships at the, Appliance Center on Howard Street.

Legionnaire Bilel-lo has the honor of having been chairman of the Membership Committee in 1946 when the "local post reached the all time higli of 1052 members, and he is ready to assist in every way he can to see his own record broken in 1948. Choir Rehearsals Start Tonight Combined Groups Will Practice For Yuletide Program The first rehearsal of the combined choirs of the city will be held at the First Baptist Church to-morrow (Tuesday) night at 7:30 according to an nouncement made by P. B. Hin- man. Members of all church choirs and -all singers of the city are both invited and urgred to be present.

The group is planning to give excerpts from the oratorio ''The Messiah" by Handel, on Sunday December 21. Miss Shirley Cannon, public school music director, will direct the chorus. JACKSON, Nov. 3 (P) The political following of "The Man" Theodore Bilbo goes on the election block tomorrow, ana the. man who can win a major portion of it may become junior United States senator from Mississippi.

Thrice elected to the Senate, Bilbo had a following of never less than 90,000 votes. In his last race, 1940, he polled a cleat majority with 97,280. Political observers are speculating that 000 votes may be enough lo elect his successor, if 200,000 cast ballots. Who will get those votes tomorrow? Five Democrats and one Republican are bidding for the seat vacated by Bilbo's death lat August. One alone Forrest Butler Jackson, 46, longtime confidant and personal attorney for Bilbo c'iaims "The Man's" political inheritance.

Aering Rep. John E. Rinkin (D-Miss.) of Tupelo and Paul Burney Johnson, of Hattiesburg, son of the late Mississippi governor, have conducted Bilbo-type appeals to the "common man." Two candidates Circuit Judgn John Cornelius Stennis of Delia lb and Rep. William Meyers Colmer of Pascagoula (D-Miss.) nave aimed their campaigns largely at the vote which opposed Bilbo. Republican Candidate L.

C. Collins of Jackson, 77-year-old timber estimator, has made no itump speeches. He is expected to poll not more than 4,000 votes in predominantly Democratic Attorney Jackson believes he can hold 65 percent of the oid Bilbo vote. He has waged a clamorous 'campaign for it, devoting halt his speeches to abuse of his opponents, and the other half to "white supremacy." Paul Johnson, 31-year-old Marine combat veteran, claims the Bilbo vote will 'scatter like But he insists at least 40 percent will favor his candidacy. Still a power in Northeast Mississippi, but largely ignored by voters elsewere, Rankin has ar6used "little enthusiasm for his anti-communist, anti-negro, anti-foreign aid platform.

Nevertheless, is cf-ted to claim sonns Bilbo following. Judge Stennis has avoided vituperation and has bid for middle-of-the-road support. Rep. Colmer, powerful in South Mississippi despite the opposition of organized labor, seeks the same vote but with fierce appeal for support against "outside in terference" in Mississippi race-re'iations. Unopposed Democratic state-house officers will be elected tomorrow.

Gov. Fielding Wright has the nominal opposition of George Sheldon, 71, independent Republican, but Sheldon says he expects only a few thousand protest votes. -0-- Labor Party Gets Setback Election Returns Show Party Is Losing Prestige In England. Nov. 3 (P) Britain's major party leaders rallied their forces for a new period of intense political activity, today as they took stock of returns from Saturday's municipal elections, which observers of all leanings agreed had resulted in a setback for the ruling labor party.

Returns from all but two of tho 388 boroughs in England and Wales which voted for municipal councilmen gave the conservatives a net gain of 618 council seats, while labor sustained a net loss of 644. Labor party leaders nkly admitted that the outcome was "disappointing," and conservatives acclaimed the result as a sharp swing to the right whih showed the handwriting on the wall. Evcen the conservative organs, however, refrained toay from backing editorially the demands of Winston Churchill and conservative party chairman Lord Woolton for a natiinal election to throw the labor government out. The wartime prime minister last night proclaimed that "the result deprives the Socialist (labor) government of any mandate they obtained at the general elections" in 1945. "Henceforward," he declaj-ed, "they will govern without the moral support and against the will of the people." Lord Woolton said (that tha elections showed that "the voters of the country have no confidence in the government." I believe the government should? recognize this fact, shouM recognize that the House of Commons no longer represents the political convictions of democracy, and should seek another mandate," ha said.

i Here are the live Democrats who seek election tomorrow, No- "vember 4, to succeed the late Theodore G. Bilbo as United States senator from Mississippi. Top, left to right: Rep. John E. Rankin of Tupelo, veteran Mississippi congressman, and Forrest Jackson, attorney of Jackson yvho was Bilbo's protege and.

counsel. Center, left to right: Congressman William Colmer of Pas-cagonla, and Circuit Judge John Stennis, DeKalb. Paul Johnson, of Hattiesburg, son of the late governor, is the other Democratic candidate. L. R.

Collins, of Jackson, a Republican, also is a candidate. (AP Photos.) 0 Gallaspy Buys Piggly Wiggly Mer'dian Man Purchases Popular Grocery Establishment Lv Greenwood. W. H. Gallaspy of Meridian is the new owner of 'the Piggly Wiggly, popular grocery and food establishment of Greenwood, the sale being consummated today.

Purchase was made from Mr. and Mrs. Allen Gary who have been operating the store the past 24 years. Mr. Gallaspy was merchandising superintendent of Sears Roebuck Co.

retail store in Meridian for the past 13 years. He expects to be joined here by Mrs. Gallaspy as soon as living quarters can be arranged. Greenwood, extends a royal welcome to these new residents and from Meridian reports, they will form a valuable asset to Greenwood. -O- Car, Truck Wreck Claims Two Lives Oil Transport And edan Smash Head On Near Newton NEWTON, Nov.

3 (P) A heaI-bn collision of a sedan and a heavy oil-transport truck here yesterday brought instant death to two persons and critically injured a third. City marshal F. D. Copeland of Newton listed the dead as Jerreau of Oscar, and Pearl Disher Hines of New Roads, Frankie Murdin Cline of Otcar, was reported near death at Newton Infirmary where he was taken following the crash. An unidentified girl, abouh 12 years old, was suffering from shock.

Copeland said the driver of the oil truck, booked as Clavence Wheeler, was held without charge pending investigation. The truck was owned by a Jackson, concern..