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v- PAGE FOUR GREENWOOD COMMONWEALTH, GREENWOOD, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 24, 1947. "is- Greenwood Commonwealth The Foreign Situation By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst WORM National Broadcasting: Co. 1240 ON YOUR DIAL MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed bids will be received by the State Highway Commission, at Jackson, Mississippi, until 10:00 o'clock a.m., Tuesday, February 25, 1917 and shortly thereafter publicly opened for Construction of Grading, Drainage Structures and Bridges on 7.192 Miles of the Greenwood- Telephone No. 33 1 SUMTER GILLESPIE Publisher. LITTLETON UPSHUR Editor.

5 VIOLA STAINTON Adv. Mgr. i TOM SHEPHERD City Editor. i -t Entered at Greenwood Postoffice ag Second-Class Matter. MONDAY -News cot ton closing.

3:45 4:00 4:05 4:25 -Dick Jcrgens i Lorenzo Jones, NBC Young Widow Brown, NB( News I Afternoon Jive Commonwealth News -Afternoon Jive By HAL BOYLE NORTH" MIAMI, Fla. Feb. 24 (A) Capt. Roman Proske has come about as close as a man can to knowing how it feels to be eaten alive. The tanned little wild animal trainer has been scratched, bitten or mauled at least once a year during the 33 years he has been working with "the big and on a few occasions he has been an impromptu piece de re 4:45 Home Town Program 5:00 News.

NBC I 5:15 Les Taul 5:45 Sports 6:00 Supper Club, NBC Man Behind The Music 1 NBC 6:30 Miss. News Record of the Day wall knocking me unconscious. "The tisrer ran with me to the farthest cage and laid me down in front of the bars. It was then he began to eat. "But the clowns and midgets and the rest of the circus people poked at him with" sticks and clubs and yelled, 'Don't eat Proske! They were my friends those people.

"Then the circus owner, annoyed because all the customers were leaving, walked up to the cage. He was a quick cool man. "He said. "What is all this In Europe a circus owner is a very great man. The clowns and midgets stood still and said very respectfully, A tiger is eating Proske, Herr Direktor.

"With no noise to startle him, the tiger again began eating on me. This was what the direktor wanted, for the tiger's bent head was against the bars. He stepped up with his revolver, held it directly against the animal's head and emptied it. "The tiger leaped straight into the air. As he fell he caught my opportunistic him -for his seen the ap-Vienna-born operates the America, is less sensa- sistance tor an tiger who mistook dinner.

"At least I have petizer," said 1 the captain, who now only tiger farm in Proske said there Grenada Highway in Leflore, Carroll and Grenada Counties known as Federal Aid Project Nos. F-2S5 (1) and F-2S5 (2). Contract Time: 200 working days. The attention of bidders is directed to the Special Provisions governing selection and employment of labor. The minimum wage paid to labor employed cn this eontrae; per hour shall be: Skilled Labor, 75 cents; Unskilled Labor, 40 cents, and Intermediate Grades, 50 cents.

Plans and are on file in this office. Proposals may be secured upon payment of $3.00 which will not be refunded. Certified check or bid bond for five per cent (5 per cent) of bid, payable to STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, must accompany each proposal. Bidders are hereby notified that any proposal accompanied by letters qualifying in any manner the condition under which the proposal is tendered will be 6:45 Kaltenborn, NBC I were in 1939. Many neat "rackets" for bringing aliens across the borders and on to our beaches have been uncovered.

If 138,000 persons are coming in legally, it might be that as many more are eluding the drag-nets of our border and port authorities. There is considerable likelihood that quotas will be stepped up. For one thing, there is a more intense humanitarian attitude on the part of average Americans. Moreover, a great many citizens of foreign parentage are exerting influence to bring relatives and other unfortunate families to our shores. If that be the case, Congress should take no such steps without assuring that the persons brought here are carefully screened so that we get the best of those clamoring for admission as potential citizens.

Furthermore, there should be no question left as to obtaining of citizenship within a specified time. No alien admitted to this nation should remain an alien any longer than it takes to complete necessary tenure and prove qualifications. The burden of screening applicants for immigration to our country should be placed in the hands of our diplomatic service, with consedarable restraint from If only one applicant in 10 can be admitted, he should be the very best of the lot. We are thinking, too, of the Estonian group which sailed a 33-foot boat 8,000 miles hither and yon across the Atlantic in mid-winter, finally arriving at the Virginia capes. Does anyone doubt that such a hardy, spirited group would make ideal American citizens? SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Mail) All mail subscriptions must be paid 3 months In advance.

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I. Q. NBC 10: 10: 00 Three Sons 15 Darkness NBC 10:30 Art Mooney Orch, NBC. 11:00 News. NBC 11:05 Sign Off TUESDAY 6:00 Home Town Program 6:15 Yawn Patrol 6 4 5 Fa 6:50 AP "News 7:00 Musical Clock his rhip and part of his paw had me jaw.

He was dead, but they to pry his teeth open to get 30 Stanley's Request Time. 45 News 0- Garwood Van N. Y. NBC :00 Honeymoon in Last week our column remarked that while the German peopel are thoroughly beaten physically there are many who aren't beaten mentally and would launch another war if they could; yesterday the truth of this was demonstrated. American and British military forces- struck- suddenly in their z.ones against a widespread Nazi underground movement.

They arrested some hundred of plotters, including a number of high ranking officers in the Hitlerian SS (Elite Guard) organization the fuehrer's crack blackguards. British officials said the movement had ramifications in the Soviet and French zones and that its aims included restoration of German militarism and a Nazi dictatorship "in order to lead the nations of Europe against Russia." The plotters claimed to have a secret bacteriological weapon to use against the occupying powers. Of course this isn't the first time the Allies have encountered the Nazi Frankenstein's monster since the occupation, but Sunday's drive was the biggest thus far made against the underground. Indications are that we needn't be unduly concerned over the current situation, especially since the Anglo-American team is on the alert and both headquarters have indicated that they don't consider the movement particularly dangerous. However, what we do have to worry about is potentialities about the fact that militarism still lives in the Reich.

To be sure, as U. S. Authorities in Berlin point "as long as we are able to maintain our army in Germany, detection and suppression of future subversive movements can be made before they become dangerous." Still, control of the situation is contingent on maintenance of an adequate Allied military force there, and as signs now read it will be many vears before our troops can be withdrawn from the Fatherland. The consensus of impartial observers is that militai-y occupation must continue until the German population has been reeducated in democratic ways and that will be a long and arduous job. When I toured Germany last year I reported in this column that the toughest section of the population to educate was that between the ages of 14 and 35.

This all-impoi-tant group, representing the youth of. the country, was thoroughly Hitlerized that many Allied experts believed it never could be won over. In short, the educational program would in the main be effective only among the very young. Con ONE WAY TO CUT H. C.

G. :30 Radio Revival :00 News a tiger begins chewing on you. Preliminary shock dulls the pain. "You just feel helpless like a little mouse," he said. The closet he ever came to being a full ccurse dinner for one of his temperamental pets was in Budapest many years ago.

He told me the story as we sat in a little garden by his cottage house trailer, pausing now and then to call over and calm one of his dozen yowling tigers. Proske 'is a quiet slim man who suddenly explodes in-electric Austrian gestures and accents, and makes his adventures sound funny rather than tragic. Listening to him as he acted out the drama I eoulln't tell at times whether his right hip was disappearing down the tiger's gullet, or whether he had sunk his own teeth in the beast's flank something Proske is quiet capable of. One moment in the Budapest circus ring Proske had been the master cf eight tigers. One seized him by the hip in his jaws and Proske instantly became a morsel.

The tiger ran around the ring with the other seven chasing him for tidbits. As the tiger streaked out of the arena into the tunnel leading to its own cage, a quickwitted assistant closed the gate behind him trapping the other tigers in the "Hitting him with my fists was' like trying to knock out an elephant," said Proske, "then my head banged against the tunnel Old Man II. C. G. the high cost of government has a lot of folks, including Congressmen, puzzled these days.

Everybody seemingly wants to cut expenditures, every out." Proske spent six months in a hospital, and immediately went back to training "my cats." He is "a bachelor, doesn't drink or smoke, and in a very matter-of-fact way is resigned to being killed eventually by one of the tigers he has given his existence to. "They have taught me so much more than I could ever teach them," he said with genuine humility. "They have been my life, and they will be my death. "When you get a certain age'' he is 48 "you don't hear so well. You don't move so quickly.

It is then one day the cat gets you." Proske made a comic grimace as he mocked the tiger that will get him: If we are to admit more immigrants, they one, talks about it, but no one seems to do should be of the sort whom we would wel 9:05 Dennis Day 9:25 Cotton Openings. 9:30 Road of Life, NBC 0:45 Joyce Jorden, NBC 10:00 Fred Waring. NBC 10:30 News 10:35 Calofirnians Orch. 11:00 News .11:05 Calif ornians Orch. 11:15 Home Town Program 11:30 Words and Music, NBC 12:00 Miss.

Valley Boys. 12:15 Slim Douglas 12:30 Musical 12:45 News, NBC come as fellow-citizens and next door neighbors. Any other ought to be kept out, re gardless of the piteousness of their plight. 1:00 Lumn' Aimer "PROPAGANDA" AGENTS Senator Homer Ferguson, Michigan, face and Nothing considered an irregular bid, and such proposals will not be considered in making the awa.d. WALTER SP1VA, Director.

Feb. 4-7-11-15-19-24. NOTICE TO DEALERS IN MOTOR GRADERS The Council of the City of Greenowod, Leflore County, Mississippi, will receive bids up to 7:30 o'clock P. M. TUESDAY, March 4, 1947, for One (1) Motor Grader, Diesel-powered, tandem drive, weight approximately pounds, wide front axle, leaning front wheels, equipped with electric starter, lights, scarifier and fully enclosed cab, for use in the Street Department.

Bidders to specify delivery date. The Council reserves the right to anv and all bidsaml to accept the bid of the equipment dealer or manufacturer who can make the quickest delivery. This February 18, 1947. BONNER DUGAN, (SEAL) City Clerk 2-24-lt CHANCERY SUMMONS The State of Mississippi, To William Connor, Post Office Address and Street Address: 437 East 49th Street. Chicago, Illinois: You are summoned to appear before the Chancery Court of the County of Leflore, in said State, on the Fourth Monday of March, A.

1947, to defend the suit No. 8838 in said Court of Fannie Connor, wherein you are a defendant. This 22rd day of February, A. 1947. (SEAL) A.

R. BEW, Clerk Feb. 24-Mar. 3-10 "He will wrinkle his say, 'Old Proske hah! but bone and 1:15 1 :55 2:00 2:30 Jazz Jamboree News Afternoon Round-up. Pepper Youn; NBC gives some figures on the subject of "propaganda agents" which should surprise all Am A tiger growled from a nearby cage just then, and Proske slapped his small light riding crop in the dust and laughed and laughed.

2:45 Right to Happiness. NBC 3:00 News Cotton Closing. ericans even, hard-bitten newsmen. He says there are 23,900 "propaganda agents" on the federal payroll, plus 22,700 in temporary jobs. If so, that total is equal, or In ancient Rome a man campaigning for office wore a white toga and was called eandidatus (clothed in white); whence the English word, candidate.

nearly so, to the combined editorial staffs of all 1,780 American newspapers. From a newspaper's viewpoint that is too much propaganda. We wouldn't be sur prised if a couple hundred average newspa per reporters couldn't do the work of those Next time yta hve neuralgia or head. ch get quick relief with Capudin. Acta fast because it's liquid no tinur lost waiting- fur iU ingredient to dta-solve.

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Barrett, Deceased. No. 8937. In the Chancery Court of Leflore County, Missississippi: Letters testamentary having been granted on the 24th day of February 1947, by the Chancery Court of Leflore County, Mississippi, to the undersigned upon the estate of G. M.

Barrett of the County of Leflore, Mississippi, Deceased, notice is hereby given to ail persons having claims against said estate to present the same to the Clerk of said Court for Probate and registration according to law within six months from this date they will be forever barred. This 24th day of Rebruary, A.D., 1947. (Mrs.) Alice Price Barrett, Executrix. Feb. 24, Mar.

3, 10. mate work and do it better. sequently it would take a eration or so to remould man opinion if it could be NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Notice is hereby given that until March 28, 1947, at 2:00 p.m. sealed bids will be received and opened on the above date by the Board cf Trustees of the Brazil Consolidated School District of Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, in the School House of said School District at Stover, Mississippi for the construction of Four Additional Class Rooms to the Brazil Consolidated Building, Stover, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi according to the Plans and Specifications now on file in the office of the County Super-intendent at Charleston, Mississippi, and on file at the said School Building at Stover Mis-sssippi. Copies of said Plans and Specifications may be secured on deposit of $25.00 to guarantee safe return of all documents.

Bids must be accompanied by a certified check or Bidders Bond in an amount equal to five per cent (5 per cent) of bid to guarantee Performance Bond. The ItanfiH at all. American Army authorities in Germany point out that subversive activity "must naturally be ex Yet there's one way that we can lop billions off the burget by refusing boondoggling projects in your own area and insisting that the same be done in other sections. Let's illustrate a case in point: For several decades there has been talk of an Ohio River-Lake Erie canal, via Youngstown, one of America's great steel-producing centers. Lately the project has been revived and Army engineers are holding barings with an eye to constructing the 105-mile artery at a cost of an estimated half-billion dollars.

Here is one of those unnecessary projects which from some angles approaches the ridiculous. It is loaded with political dynamite because Pittsburgh and the Allegheny valley district is opposed to the project, wanting a similar canal via the Allegheny-French Creek route: The Youngstown area wants the canal to probably bring in iron ore. The economy, however, is so small that it would take years to make the canal pay its initial cost. The retail price of steel or coal would be affected but little. Counties and communities along the route would lose valuable, taxable property by condemnation proceedings.

Consumers everyhere, as taxpayers, would pay for the canal, and the cost would come from the pockets of people in the Portlands, in Palm Beach, in Chicago and in Greenwood. Some opponents doubt the canal would even operate as anticipated. Water supply is one dubious factor, to say nothing of the gigantic task of driving the canal over the "hump" between Youngstown and Lake Erie. If eastern Ohio and a part of western Pennsylvania are to benefit by "this piece. pork barrel construction, js it not possible that similar "bait'' vili be offered the folks in a hundred other sections of the United Washington Daybook By JANE EADS WASHINGTON The footsteps of American it GOT YOUR CHILD? ti JTiVJ I i'f IT pected rom a people who are de- completely indoctrinated in tionalistic propaganda and are still smarting under a 1 TIGHT, jMi-j 5 I MUSCLES ARE My feat." You get the full significance of the estimate when you see, as I have, the bitterness and hatred in the glances which many Germans direct at Allied nationals in the Reich.

It is the Board of Trustees reserve the right to reject any and all bids and waive formalities. This the 17 day of February, 1947. II. T. PENNINGTON, President of Brazil Consolidated District Board Of Trustees.

Attest: B. L. TATE, Secretary of said Board. school children and world travelers again are turning to Mount Vernon, the plantation home of George Washington, and the rose-planted acres which enshrine his tomb 16 miles south of here. From 1937 through 1941 an average of 750,000 persons annually visited the home to which Washington first took his wife Martha in 1759.

The number of visitors dropped 75 percent during the war years, but in 1946 the number climbed again to 637,000. Children and service people, who during the-war constituted one-third of the sightseers, now total only one-tenth of the crowds. Englishmen who visit the home of the Father of Our Country are most interested in the fact that the estate was named after a countryman Admiral Vernon, under whom Washington's elder half-brother, Lawrence, original builder of the house, had served inv the. West. Indies.

They are also, interested in the beautiful Italian marble fireplace mantel which graces the banquet hall a gift from a Mr. Samuel Vaughn, a Britisher. i Most visitors spend a great deal of time in NOTICE TO TYPEWRITER REPAIRERS The Council of the City of Greenwood will receive bids at their regular meeting to be held on TUESDAY, March 4, 1947, at 7:30 o'clock P.M. in the Council Chamber of the Greenwood City Hall for maintenance contract for a period of onyear on all typewriters belonging to the City of Greenwood in City Clerk's Office, Tax Assessor's Office, Light and Water Plant, Police and Fire Department, and Street Department and Mayor's Office. The Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

This February 18, 1947. BONNER DUGGAN. (SEAL) City CJerk 2-24-lt same look I saw in the eyes ot the Germans who signed the treaty of Versailles after the first World War. You knew then that they would fight again if they could. We can't expect that feeling ever to change among those members of the population who were more than mere youngsters when Hitler's Reich collapsed.

Still, there is hope for the new generation which, by and large, seem friendly enough to the occupation forces. The chimes in the tower old St. Michael's Episcopal Churcr in Charleston, S.C., have crossed the ocean five times since the church 6ef fvlEnTEiOLATUM Poor little chest muscles all sore and "achey" from hard coughing? Quick, Mentholatum. Rub it on back, chest, neck. Your child will like that warm, gently stimulating action.

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Announcing Feb. 24-28. NOTICE TO DEALERS IN PARKING METERS The Council of the City of Greenwood will receive competitive bids for the installation of not exceeding five hundred (500) parking meters on certain streets within the said Each bidder must submit with his hid the design of each parking meter, the method and manner of operation, and the regulation thereof. Bidders must furnish copy of proposed contract to be submitted to the City for use of meters. Bids may be submitted in units of one hundred (100) meters.

The Council will consider any type of standard parking meter and reserves the right to reject any and all bids and may accept the bid for the parkin meter that they consider best suited for use in said city. Bids must be filed with the Clerk of the City of Greenwood on or before 7:30 o'clock P. March 4. 1947. This 18th day of February, 1947.

BONNER DUGGAN, (SEAL) City Clerk 2-24-lt THE ADDITION TO OUR STAFF Announcements (All political announcements, are strictly cash in advance) Wre are authorized to announce the following candidates subject to the action of the voters of Leflore county in the Democratic primaries: FOR HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER Northern District T. J. LOWRY States. Before the end of the list is reached, the total cost of such boondoggling might run $10 billion or twenty of them. We would hesitate to say that Army engineers do not know what they are doing insofar as construction is concerned.

But we believe that all government spending projects should be weighed carefully to see if the potential benefit measures up to the cost. If we could cut many billions from budgets of the current year and from those of ensuing eras. specting the general's peaceful study and the upstairs corner bedroom in which he died in 1799. Generally, however, most popular comment concerns the lovely view from the southeast veranda overlooking the broad Potomac, an eighth of a mile away. After Washington was laid to rest in a quiet, tree-shaded grave in the vinyard of the estate, tha property was left to his nephew, Judge Bushrod Washington, and by him to his nephew, John A.

Washington. The latter's son John Augustine Washington, became the last private owner. In 1860 the mansion and the tomb and 202 acres of land were purchased for 200,000 by Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union. Both the OF FOR SENATOR FRANK E. SMITH FOR REPRESENTATIVE LITTLETON UPSHUR MB.

T. J. CRAIN OF NASHVILLE ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTSMAN DESIGNER Mr. Crain has had wide experience in designing and drawing plans for all types of structures including residential as well as commercial. government of the United States and the Common FOR SUPERVISOR Beat 2 JOHN W.

WARE RUSSELL KEARNEY FOR SUPERVISOR Beat 3 S. VARDAMAN WE ARE NOW IN A POSITION TO DESIGN "AND-OR" CONSTRUCT YOUR BUILDING REQUIREMENTS. PRELIMINARY SKETCHES AND COST ESTIMATES FREE FOR SUPERVISOR J. ELLIS WILLIAMS wealth of Virginia had refused to buy the property. The Association, founded in 1S58 by Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, of S.

is the oldest patriotic association of women in the. United States. Incorporated under the laws of Virginia, it holds Mount Vernon "in trust for the people of the United States." The Association consists of a regent and vice regents who represent the various states women "outstanding "in education, social background and finance." Mrs. L. M.

Hanks of Madison, is the present regent. All members are elected for life. Washington loved Mount Vernon. Once he wrote: "I can truly say I had rather be at Mount Vernon with a friend or two about me than te be attended at the Seat of Government by the officers of state and the representatives of every power of IMMIGRATION SKULLDUGGERY More than 138,000 aliens are annually being admitted to the United States as immigrants at the present more than 170,000 other persons are caught seeking illegal entrance. If that many are caught, how many are successful in eluding the Kvatchful eyes of our immigration officials? Today's immigration quotas are being filled at a record rate and the pressure has been increased for relaxation of the quotas, now based on nationality blocs already within our borders.

Much of the pressure is in favor of those would-be immigrants in the lower quota groups to wrhich a majority of displaced persons belong. Illegal entries foiled by American border officials are 11 times greater today than they WW IM RED BALL BAG Dairy Mule FEED BABY CHICKS Registered DUROC BOAR For Service. CHAMBLESS PHONE 2278 FEED SUPPLY E. Li nstruction Co. owe It a lo Cottondale Milk GRADE A Whole Raw Milk-Telephone 10S2 Greenwood 166 (collect) Ruleville COTTONDALE DAIRY Ruleville, Miss.

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