The Richland Beacon-News from Rayville, Louisiana • 1

For Buy U.S. DEFENSE BONDS STAMPS MASS EVERY PAY DAY BOND DAY LIBERTAS ET NATALE SOLUM VOLUME LXXVII. RAYVILLE, RICHLAND PARISH, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd, 1945. NUMBER 1. 131 Local Light and Water Pvt.

Oliver G. Walters IN FRANCE Grand Jury Returns Twelve Bills of Indictment Receive Letter Relative To Death of Charles Hubert Gammill Soviet Armies Ten Miles Nearer Berlin Reds Drive Toward Kustrin, Within 41 Miles of Nazi Capital Yanks Seize Naval Base At Olongapo; Subic Bay Secured Gen. MacArthur's Forces Take Calumpit, Smash Across Pampanga River To Within 28 Miles of Manila; Grande Island Taken The grand jury for Richland parish for the ensuing six months was em panelled and charged on last Monday morning by Judge C. J. Ellis, Judge the Fifth District Court, and after being in session until Wednesday, made its report.

Twelve bills of indictment, all -for misdemeanors, were returned. While there are no petit jury cases resulting from this session the grand jury, the petit jury has not been discharged yet, as there are several cases left over from the last term of court; and if tlTe persons indicted are apprehended, they will be tried by the petit jury selected for the spring term of criminal court. Dept. Superintendent Brands Statement False H. W.

Blakeman, Superintendent of the Light and Water Department of the Town of Rayville, wish to make this statement to the citizens of the town. In regard to the statement made by Mr. J. R. Aycock (as stated by him, coming from someone else), in his article printed in this paper last week, under the title "Wake Up Rayville," saying that an employee of the municipally owned plant was heartily in accord with the Louisiana.

Power Light Company proposal to wholesale power to the Town at the city limits (this proposal being offered to the Town Council at a recent meeting), I wish to state and can prove, that this part of his article is a misrepresentation of the truth and that I resent any such ungrounded statement. I was the only employee of the plant present at said meeting and I made no such statement to the Town Council, or any one else. In fact, what I said was, that I would NOT from the Louisiana Power Light Company, under any such contract, for the reason that it would cost us more and that it would rob us of the right to be independent in the operation of our plant. I also pointed out some of the Advantages of interconnection axd some of the dangers in the whole group, both pro and con, Of the twelve indictments found byjspiendid soldier and an outstanding the present grand jury, there are two character. His loss will be deeply for carrying concealed weapons, two ejt by his many friends, for simple battery, two for parking "Sergeant Charles H.

Gammill was car at night without proper lighting, buried in Belgium. A Protestant PVT. R. L. MOORE, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Nathan J. Moore, of Rawille. who recently arrived safely overseas. Private Moore went into service on August 5th, 1943.

He was first stationed at Fort Mason, where he served nine months with a military police outfit Later he was transferred to the 275th Infantry Division, wearing the "Trailblazer" insignia, and was sent to Camp Adair, Oregon. Then he went to Fort Leonard Wood. and from there to a port of barkation on the East Coast, now somewhere in France. He is Mrs. Sallie Hobart Mrs.

Sallie Hobart, 86, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frances Green, in Rayville, Friday of last week at 5:22 p. m. Funeral services were held at St. David's Episcopal I and I feel that the Council and my-iaence.

iev. xari ivionsingo oniciat-self treated the visitors with the i lnS- Interment under the direction of courtesy due any one coming before a Mulhearn Funeral Home of Rayville public of our fair and progres- wa3 in Mann cemetery twelve slve little town. (The offer was notimiles north of RayvilIe- considered.) Active pallbearers were Dewey E. I feel that I have contributed in a'mgni, xxenry oieveaaun, flares, and one each for destruction fish by poison, disposing or pledged cotton, receiving stolen seed cotton, and violating stock law. Capt.

H. Hubbard was foreman the grand jury, and the following other representative citizens composed the inquisitorial body: W. N. Murphy, Wesley D. Taylor, S.

M. Hixon, W. A. Garner, F. P.

Mulhern, Edwin H. "FL I. MoTnnis. d. Rrown.

Humble. Doyle McDaniel and Mclntyre. rCayVllie oOIQier IS Si Washington, Jan. 30. The War Department announced today the names 1,702 United States soldiers wounded in action.

Included was: Pfc. Donnie L. Dallas, whose wife, Mrs. Etta M. Dallas, resides on Rayville Route 1.

H. J. Rush, Sr. Mrs. C.

A. Blatchford was called to AljiTflnHa TViHnw 2fith. arrnnn Rush wh( wag critically iu having suffered a heart attack and then double pneumonia. He pased away at 9:45 o'clock Friday night D('uwu" survived by his wife who was Mtes (Mamie Oden of Arcadia, whom he married on Februarv 26th 1896- his Mr. Rush, better known as Harmon, Mra Stewart, of Bujh Jtewar of New Orleans; a son, Harmon of Alexandria: and his sister.

a. tford: who were all with him at the time he died. Harmon Rush was born at Lake, In 1870, his parents moving to Louisiana' when he "was -only six months old. His parents were Dr. H.

and Marv Rilev Rush. If the had LONDON, Thursday, Feb. 1. The Red army, dashing unchecked across the frozen approaches to Berlin, was 3 miles from the Nazi capital by its own account today and a scanty 45 according to the alarmed German radio. The Soviet communique late last night announced the capture of Beyersdorf, 63 miles northeast of Berlin a distance equal to that from Philadelphia to Newark, N.

J. This represented a 10-mile advance in 21 hours for Marshal Gregory K. Khukov's First White Russian army, which took the big communications center of Landsberg in passing. One report from the German radio placed Marshal Khukoy's men north of Frankfurt-On-The-Oder In the Oder river valley, not more than 45 miles from the capital, and driving on Kustrin, a rail center 41 miles east of Berlin, scarcely more than the distance from Washington to Baltimore. The Soviet communique reported continued advances along the entire eastern front, from East Prussia, where surrounded German divisions were squeezed inside less than one-fifth of the province's territory, to besieged Budapest, where 8,200 prisoners were taken Tuesday.

The Moscow bulletin made no mention of besieged Breslau and the Si-lesian sector where Marshal Ivan S. Konevs First Ukraine army is operating, but the Berlin radio, contending that the line west of Breslau had been stabilized, acknowledged Russian crossings of the Oder at many points in that area and placed the northern end of Konev's line at Sorau, 45 miles inside Germany and 30 miles west of the Oder. Sorau is 84 miles southeast of Berlin. In the First White Russian army's sector dlrectlv east of Berlin, the So viet communique announced capture of Topper, 70 miles due east of the capital and 11 miles west of Schwei-bus, a town which fell to Khukov's army earlier in the day. Marshal Stalin issued two orders of the day Wednesday, the first announcing the fall of Landsberg and the second proclaiming the capture of Friedland and Heilsberg, south and southwest of Koenigsberg in Cast Prussia.

Committee Chairmen Of Kiwanis Club Make Reports The noonday luncheon of the Rayville Kiwanis Club last Tuesday was taken up principally with reports of the various committees of the club following their first month under the present administration, and it was one of the best general reports of Kiwanis activity in the history of the club. Nearly all of the committee chairmen not only made written reports, but commented on these reports and pledged renewed efforts for the months to follow. Secretary Bob Har- eis was in charee of the program, and expressed satisfaction as did Fresi-. cnurcn nere saturaay arternoon at a 20 miles from Monday's beachheads o'clock. Rev.

E. F. Hayward. rector of Zambales coast to win Olango-St. David's church, officiating.

Inter- sixth army columns roiled 10 ment was in the Rayville Masonic mllea southwest of San cemetery under the direction of Mul- toward a Juncture with the Eighth hearn Funeral Home of Rayville. which would seal off Bataan penln- small -urav at ot n.n.iot i way at least. success of the local plant. I feel that I have contributed some part to the reliable and high quality service that it has rendered the past twenty-two years. We did get lots of letters of praise on our display lighting during cnristmas-time before the war.

I am proud of that, for I did have a part in it. nave cnampionea me cause 01 municipal ownership for many years, both in Rayville and other towns. I have attended committee meetines at toe stale clnitol interest if mu tne fatate Capitol in interest or mu-, nicipal ownership. I had the pleasure Active pallbearers were Warren Hunt, David P. Burk, W.

T. Jones, W. II. Eddins, Dennis Mann and Her- vey S. Mangham.

Honorary pall bearers were R. S. Hargis, J. Abraugh, H. A.

Mangham, W. W. Kelly Ralph Bloom. Sam Fragala. rea tiarrison joraan ill, j.

C. Gresham and D. M. Tomb. The survivors are a daughter, Mrs.

Frances Green, of Rayville, with whom she has made her home since rt ft children. Miss Margot Green, of New Orleans: Corporal E. B. Green, 7 and Lieutenant W. H.

Green, of the United States Army. or sitting in at a session or tne state' TV 7 senate as a guest of our Senator and esteem of wid circle of The following letter was received recently by Mr. C. A. Gammill, in regard to his son, Charles Hubert Gammill: "5 January 1945 "Mr.

Charles A. Gammill, "Box 449, Rayville, La, "Dear Mr. Gammill: "Your son. Sergeant Charles H. Gammill, 38336762, was killed in action in Germany on 13 December, 1944.

"You have the deepest sympathy of the officers and men of this organization in your bereavement. Sgt. Gammill was held in high regard by all members of the Command. He was a Chaplain officiated at the burial "May I express my own personal sympathy in your loss. "Yours most sincerely, "ANTHONY J.

TOUART, "Colonel, Infantry, i Commanding." Sergeant Gammill leaves besides his parents, four brothers, Marley, Ambers, Truett and Robert Gammill, all of Rayville; three sisters, Mrs. Albert Thomason of Mangham, Mrs. Leo Lockewood, Lillie and Edna Gammill, of Rayville, and a host of friends to mourn his loss. Farmers Applying For Crop and Feed Loans Mr. James E.

field supervisor for the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office, stated that farmers of Richland parish are now applying for loans to finance the production of their 1945 crops. Applications for loans are now being written In the City Hall, Rayville, Louisiana. He stated that, in addition to financing the production of regular crops such as cotton and corn, loans were also being made for the production of those crops vitally needed this year in the war effort Plans for 1945 call for increased production of many food crops. The need for funds necessary their production will be given consideration with the view 5 tnat Credit be extended where 1 op mty maximum contributions to tne ooa Production Program, Emergency Crop and Feed loans are available to farmers, either owners or tenants, who own or can make arrangements for land to farm, who own or have the use of necessary works tock and equipment with which a first lien crops to be fi danced. Loans are also available for I the purchase or production of feed I uvestucs to oe ieti xor tne marnet, oreeamg animais wiui tne in- "vestocK.

These loans win De made to farmers whose cash requirements eluding local banks and Production Credit Associations, loans in an amount sufficient to meet their needs. Mr. Moore emphasized that these loans are not restricted to selected applicants but are available to all farmers who can establish, eli- gibility, according to the terms of the loan regulations and authorizing act. NOTICE The public is hereby notified that the Richland Parish War Price and Rationing Board No. 5339 is now located in the building between the Bus Station and the old Caspari building.

Office hours: 8:10 a. m. to 4:00 p. m. Union Prayer Service At the union prayer service next xuesaay arternoon tne roiiowing men in the armed forces will be especially remembered: Joe Davenport, Joe Ver- non Boles, and Billie Hubbard.

All relatives and friends of these and other men and women in the service are urged to be present for this service. WARDEN HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB Miss Pearl Le Fevre met with the Warden Home Demonstration Club on Tuesday, January 23rd, in the home' ot Mrs. Nannie Le Fevre Miss Le Fevre gave a demonstra- tion on the way to test the germina- tkn of seeds, which, if followed, will and farmers. She also told us about the imDortance of inoculatin our 1 lived only a few days longer he andtto farmland who can give as security Mrs. Hobart i3 a-Jiative of-Ohio.

0f the Sierra Madre range flanking and removed to Rayville thirty-two the Luzon plains on the east, thus sev-years ago, where she has made her ering enemy routes of retreat, home ever since with her daughter, Seizure of olongapo gave the Mrs. Frances Green. Since her resi- a drydock and extensive dence here she has endeared ir facJut.iea. to many admiring friends. This lova- Rear Admiral Arthur Struble sent ble lady, with her sweet nature and his warshlpa lnto Subic bay Tuesday brilliant and witty mind, was the life afternoon shortly after a small of her household and good company of Maj Gen Charle3 3Iairs llth alway for her friends.

She remained Mmi nn ciranA flt the his wife would have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. He had Just passed his 75th birthday, on Janu- ary 21st. Wormon Rush will be sadlv missed Reported Missing In Action Through the medium of an official telegram from the Adjutant General of the U. S. Army at D.

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Walters, of Rayville, were notified Tuesday that their son, Private Oliver G.

Walters, U. S. Army, was missing in action since January 5th, 1945, somewhere in France. However, there is still some doubt as to whether Private Walters is missing or not, since Private R. L.

Moore, in a letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan J. Moore of Rayville, stated that Pvt. Walters was with him.

His letter was dated later than the 5th, so Mr. and Mrs. Walters are hoping that the message from the War Department was an error. Private Walters has been overseas since late in November or early in December, 1944, and with the U. S.

Army on the Western front. He is the youngest of three sons. The other two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Walters are also in the U.

S. Army. Tf 0 ntVi nv TT1 flnolr DieS III IMOlirOe Hospital Mrs. Ida Belle Clack, 52. wife of uiacn, 01 ttayvme iwuie Two, died in a Monroe sanitarium last Sunday, January 28th, at 9:05 p.

m. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock, at the resi Payne. Henry O. Smith, Oscar F. Ruff, Carl E.

Dickens, Norman Mo- Knight and Richard Ruff. Honorary pallbearers were Dr. T. M. Sayre, P.

Gwin, W. D. Byrd, Jack Adair, Earl Battenfield, Jack Freeland, Eu gene Jeffries and Ben G. Hardy. Mrs.

Clack is survived by her hus- band- Luther E. Clack; five children, miS3 iva Belle McGowen, Rayville: Francis Clack, Rayville; J. Clack and Luther E. Clack, Rayville; two brothers, T- J- McAllister and G. P.

McAllister. Rayville; and a sister, Mrs. Lottie Barnett, Rayville. 4r. mmmnnihr where she ii JT axiection ana aevouon oi ner iuiui whom she made happy as the good, wifo nd mother.

While the heart- broken family grieve her loss, it is of comfort to tnem to Know tne Beautiful life she lived for their advantage. The Beacon-News offers its condol-l ences to the bereaved family. Pfc Floyd Battenfield Wounded In Action Mr. A. L.

Battenfield, of Transyl vania, received a telegram irom tne War Department recently informing him that his son. Private First Class Floyd Battenfield, had been slightly wounded in action in Belgium on 4 IV. I Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Battenfield, of llVanavTvania find sister-in- 1 vw.i.

law of Pfc. Flovd Battenneia, nave JZ tT I uemg awuo ti Methodist Church Services JACK H. MIDYETT. Pastor Services for Sunday; February 4th, are as follows: 9:35 a. m.

Church School. 11:00 a. m. Morning Worship Ser- vice, with sermon Dy tne pasror. "Standing Alone Before the Altar." The Lord's supper win De ODservea.

6:30 p. m. Methodist Youth Fellow ship. 7:30 p. m.

Evening Worship Service, with sermon by the pastor: "Ten Rules of Life." McLemore-Gathright A wedding of interest to many friends was that of T. J. Gathright. of Orange, Texas, and Mrs. Roberta McLemore, of Girard, Louisiana, which was solemnized In Monroe, at the home of Rev.

Brooks, December 27th, 1944. Mr. Gathright Is an electrician at the shipyards at Orange, Texas, where the couple will make their home. XXX CARD OF THANKS We want to thank our many friends for their sympathy, help and floral offerings at the departure of our be- loved Mother and Dad. We want especially thank Cornel j-ewis ana wife for all of their kind deeds, also the Mulhearn Funeral Home.

Thanks again and God bless every one of you for everything. LEROY TOWNS END AND FAMILY, MACK TOWNS END AND FAMILY, JAMES TOWNSEND AND FAMILY. MURPHY TOWNSEND AND FAMILY, MR. AND MRS. BILL FINELY AND SON, MRS.

J. H. HOLLEY AND FAMILY. MR. AND MRS.

L. HILL, JR. of of or of of of Jr J. in by totil his office by his constant associ- crease to be marketed and, as securi-ates. He was a member of the First y.

lien is required on such ton. I was at that time instrumental in getting a bill tabled and later de- feated; this bill being one designed to give governing bodies a right to sell municipal property without the vote of its citizens. I felt that the bill was detrimental to municipal ownership and I made a fight against it. I had the full force of Rayville's Mayor and the Council behind me at that time and this is a matter of record. I still feel the same about municipal owner- snip, si-iu itei Lxia.i uie ciuzens ox the town have a right in all matters pertaining to the operation of the Light and Water Department.

I have full faith in the present gov erning body; I believe they intend to do that which is rieht and to the best interest of the town as a whole. do not believe that they would do any-': tning against tne wisnes or tne people of the Town of Rawille. A. 1 1 J9 1UI UIAC U113 vpjJVl-j hp. v-o.

WJr W. Blakeman, am not tne type, nor aia come irom a type oi peopie maue Baptist Church, where thousands paid to him at the Hixon Funeral Chapel, this being are relatively small and who are un-a request of his. Flowers, messages able to obtain from other sources, in- General MacArthur's Headquarters, Luzon. Thursday, Feb. 1.

Eighth army troops secured Subic bay, Includ ing Olongapo naval base, Tuesday without opposition, and the United States Seventh fleet then entered the bay while to the east the Sixth army seized Calumpit and crossed the Pampanga river, 28 road miles from Manila. Fleet entrance into the good anchorage and repair base on the fringes of Manila bay followed unimpeded occupation of Grande Island, Subic's "little Corregidor." American guns which were defending Grande Island when it fell to the Japanese in 1942 were recaptured. Olongapo was dotted with dugouts piVboxes all abandoned The surge of the Sixth into Calum pit, in an advance of 13 miles southward down Pampanga province, carried motorized units of the 14th army corps safely through a narrow stretch of land compressed between two swamps. Beyond, the plains open wide to Manila with no good defenses for the Nipponese in between. While the Yanks of Lt Gen.

Robert Eichelberger thus advanced more than sula. The two army elements are pushing toward each other along a winding road cf 60 miles from the Zambales coast to San Fernando. Other Eighth army units landed on Grande at the entrance of Su- bic bay, whose waters can supply the United States Seventh fleet a fine base on the very fringes of Manila bay. The Yanks were OR the moye an 'actors. They cleaned out enemy Fort stotsenburg.

They punched closer to the summer capital tv, highway junctions near the foothills bay entrance. Reporting from Subic bay, Associated Press War Correspondent James Hutcheson said: "We found no Japanese on Grande Island but the American guns which composed this small pre-war fortress were still there pointing disconsolately out to sea." Admiral Struble was prepared to nhell the island but called off the bombardment for the same reason that he cancelled one prior to the Eighth's Monday landings. No Japanese could be seen. Thirty-eighth division units reached Olongapo at the base of Bataan peninsula Tuesday evening 36 hours and 21 minutes after they hit the beaches on the Zambales coast. They reached Subic town, eight miles from the former American naval station, 10 hours after the landings.

The Eighth units moving toward westbound Sixth elements are within 25 miles of the Juncture which would seal the doom of any Japanese caught on Bataan. At Calumpit, scene of a gallant stand by Americans and Filipinos at the start of the war, the Americans secured bridges spanning the Pampanga river. Church Notes REV. A. R.

CATES, Pastor The regular monthly meeting of the joint Sunday School Workers' Conference will be held at the Alto church next Wednesday night, February 7th, at 7:30 o'clock. The program committee will have charge of the meet- 1 i 0 rl ,1 1) 1 euuiJCi "uict.s, aim uiuw 1 terested in bunoay bcnooi worn are 1 rrn1 Ia nf An The Holly Ridge Bible Class will meet next Thursday afternoon, February 8th, at 3:30 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. L. L. Robinson.

Services next Sunday: Sunday School at 10 o'clock. Preaching services: Rayville at 11 o'clock. Archibald at 7:30 o'clock. Awarded Two Medals Pfc. Alton J.

Porter has been awarded the medal of honor for bravery, and also the Purple Heart for wounds received in action. Friends will be pleased to learn that the news from the hospital is that he is improving nicely. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.

W. Porter, of Rayville Route LOST Three folding chairs, on Ray-ville-Winnsboro highway. MULHEARN FUNERAL HOME, Rayville, La. dent Jak3 Joseph cause or municipal ownersnip ana receiveu a. ieuer iuju.

A new member. John Lewis, man- promise the people of this town that five days after he was wounded He ager of the local business of Scott the need will never arise for any self- stated that his injury was nothing Truck Tractor Company, was in- styled Paul Revere to wake up the serious being shot in the left arm. ducted as a new member. In the ab- Vople of Rayville. (Frankly.

He said it was very painful but he sence of Dr. H. P. Corry. chairman of I think the people of Rayville hoped to be able to "join his com-the Committee on Kiwanis Education.

are asleep.) I assure you that H.lpany soon has seen much aotn. of the stuff that would cause me nope lor mm n. opecujr cw.clJ. nrt letters of love came from every walk of life, and as his sister was told rl Mr- Raleigh Jarreau, who will take Tll flPP Funeral services were at 3 clock by the pastor of his church. He was laid to rest by the side of his son.

Alex Oden Rush, who preceded him in death many years ago. There quite a few of the older friends here who will sorrow with his family in his" death, and The Beacon-News has known him and his family for many years and wil join with words of sympathy. MISS SARAH MARGARET BOIES GRADUATES FROM LOUISIANA COLLEGE LAST WEEK Climaxing a four-year college course. Miss Sarah Margaret Boies, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

J. C. Boies, Rayville. graduated from Louisiana. College last week.

She received a Bachelor of Arts deeree and will be awarded her diploma at annual graduation exer- cisea in May. English was her major subject and Spanish her minor subject. At Louisiana College, Miss Boies was outstanding in all activities. She was a member of the College Boosters, Cadmian Literary Society, Spanish Club and Young Woman's Auxiliary. She was secretary of her class when she was a sophomore and later became co-ed vice-president of the Student Council.

Miss Boies was a fea- ture iter on the staff of the college newspaper and was reporter for sev eral organizations. She was a graduate of the Rayville high school. Class of WADE BROTHERS MEET IN USANCE The G. A. Wades, of Route 2, Delhi, were pleased to learn that two sons have met in France while on a rest period.

Willis and Arnold have been together since entering the Army un- recently they separated after ieavjng Italy. While together they took pictures and they look well and happy. Besides Willis and Arnold, Mr. Wade has two other sons and a step young in spirit to the end of her useful life, and was a companion for her daughter and grandchildren in the home, ever being as young as they. The love and sunshine she provided in that home will always be a treasured memory to those of her loved ones, and a source of friendly admiration to her intimate friends.

Her life of love will always be green in- the hearts of her family. We never knew, or met, a braver, happier spirit than the one who has just been called to her reward The Beacon-News asks the privilege to offer sincere and profound sympathy to the bereaved family. McRAY LAKE The Bible Study Class of Union W. S. C.

S. met with Mrs. E. C. Williamson on Monday afternoon, January 29th.

The meeting opened with a circle of prayers for our church and pastor, I for the church and Christians in every land, ending with the prayer for peace, in unison. Mrs. F. B. Hatch gave the first chapter of the study, "The Word of His Grace," by Costen J.

Harrell. Studies in Paul's letter to the Ephe-sians. Cards with the outline were given each one. Also references to Paul's prayers. The book of Ephesians is a "Handbook For Christiana." The epistle is both profound and practical.

Its grandeur is like the Milky Way; its direc tions for every day living are like the quiet intimacy of an old flower gar- den. 1 The site of Ephesus, that great an- cient pagan city, is now almost a total desolation. Only a little Turkish vil- whoro th. pm flourished. Ephesus and the Temple of Diana are dust, but the letter W.

H. Baudin. The great missionary who had traveled the roads of the empire proclaiming the Word of God's Grace, was shut in as an eagle in his cage. but mind and spirit are forever free. The letters which Paul wrote from Rome have proved more effectual than his personal ministry could ever have been.

They have gone to the ends of the earth, to lands of which Paul had never dreamed. This is an illustration of how God makes the wrongs of earth to serve his purposes. The meeting closed with, a prayer in unison. The hostess, assisted by her sons, Jimmie and Ed, served tempting sandwiches, cake and hot tea. REPORTER Edwin Myrlck, who was of this committee last year, gave new member the lecture on Kiwanis and pinned the Kiwanis button on President Jake Joseph read a let ter from the Lieutenant-Governor of the North Louisiana Division of this District, complimenting the Club and its past president, Jim Aycock, upon the Achievement report for 1944 just received by him.

nPV. rvrrfAm Tiort TSlAQfflV Will fee in charge of the Boys and Girls Committee, W. W. Kelly, chairman, and the occasion will be the celebration of National Boy Scout Week. Start Fighter At Home On Furlough SSgt.

Ivy H. Sullivan. brother-In- law of P. L. McGee, now of Baton Rouge, has returned to the States af- ter 28 months in Africa, Italy and Corsica.

Sere-eant Sullivan left the States in August, 1942. First he was stationed in Cairo, Egypt, with the U. S. Air Corps. He made the entire North campaign in the chase of Rommel across North Africa to Tobruk and then to Italy.

Aside from the dark days during this campaign in Africa and Italy, the sergeant enjoyed a few peaceful hours in historic Palestine, in Rome and Naples. He recalls the value of one canteen of water which each man was allowed per day, in the African desert. He was last stationed in Corsica before coming home. One item much appreciated was the glass of milk for each man provided by the Red Cross as the returning men landed in the United States. He will return for active duty about February 15.

He is spending the fur lough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Sullivan in Start and in Baton Rouge with his sister, Mrs. McGee. o- FOR SALE Walnut dining room suite, table, buffet, china cabinet, 6 upholstered chairs; good condition; half-price.

Call MRS. J. W. SUMMERUN, after 6 p. to-, phone 228.

23-2t I aouoie cross tne iown mat xi.ve worked for all these years, regardless uncalled far and unconstruo. tlve Insinuations that may be placed against me. HENRY BLAKEMAN Colored SelecteeS To Be ITnrllirtPfl UlUUllVU List of colored selectees to be in ducted by the Local Board. Richland Parish, on Februarv 7th. 1945.

at 10:00 o'clock a. Elisha Dawson. Alto. Horace King. Mangham.

Overton Prier, Jr, Rt, 2, Rayville. Curtis Q. Simmons, Rt. 1, Rayville. Andrew 1 nomas uaviaon, xu Rayville.

Clyde Emmette Schoby. Rt. 1. Mangham. Alonzo Chatman, Rt 1, Mangham.

Frank Jenkins, Dunn. Landers Prier, Rt 2, Rayville. Oscar Smith, Rayville. J. W.

Wafer, Rt 1. Rayville. Henry Lavender, Mangham. Ross Seaberry, Girard. Cleveland McDonald, Holly Ridge.

Jessie M. Jackson, Rt. 2, Rayville. James Bradley. Rt, 3, Rayville.

Clordius Lavender, Rayville. Dan Armstrong. Warden. Larkin Coleman, Rt. 3, Rayville.

Lewis Turner, Holly Ridge. Joe Johnson, DelhL Enus Higgins. Rayville. Edward Lee Dunn, Rt. 1, Mangham.

Leo Harris, Holly Ridge. Willie Minor, Rayville. Eddie Lee Brooks, Rt. 1, Mangham. Ambros James Warren, Rt 1, Rayville.

Allen C. Star, "Mangham. Clarence Anderson, Rt. 3, Rayville. M.

P. Samiton, Rt. 3, Rayville. Leroy Robinson, Rayville. McKinley Staten, Rt.

3, Rayville. Rufus Lee Banks, Rt. 1, Mangham. FOB RENT furnished room with I One private MRS. G.

F. PURVIS. Phone 176, Rayville, La. garden seed and to be sure to see that which Paul wrote to the Ephesfans we got garden seed inoculation for our abides! The prison prayers of Paul garden seeds and not inoculation for.CEph. Phil.

and Col. 1: field seeds. 9-13) were read by Mrs. E. C.

Wil- The club was asked to give their liamson, Mrs. C. N. Hatch and Mrs. son in service.

All four sons serve Copes, Mrs. D. K. Corley, Mrs. V.

P. overseas, and Clyde, the step son, has Copes, Mrs. L. M. Williams, Mrs.

How-recently enjoyed a thirty-day leave at ard Cavlness and Mrs. Dean, who was view on farm family outlook for 1945. Miss Le Fevre also discussed the farm family spending plan. After the adjournment of the meet- ing with the club collect, the hostess! served refreshments to the following: Mrs. Ben G.

Copes, Mrs. G. B. Williams, Miss Le Fevre, Mrs. Oliver visitor this month.

The next meeting will be held on February 27th, in the home of Mrs. G. B. Williams. REPORTER FOR SALE Broke Mares and Mules.

J. R. AYCOCK, l-27-2t. Rayville, 1 home, after about twenty months of overseas duty. FOR SALE One Farmall Tractor and Disc, in good condition.

OSBY MAXWELL, Rt 4, Rayville, 2-3-6 1. Near Zebedee..