The Richland Beacon-News from Rayville, Louisiana • 1

KFFP FAITH 1 -ailfL 1TI lYARBOND? bybuying MEAN MORE THAN A WAR BONDS 1 tt nn iimriTiipiiT 1 LIBERTAS ET NATALE SOLUM VOLUME LXXVII. RAYVILLE, RICHLAND PARISH, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11th, 1945. NUMBER 28. I Tl fl SMALL COTTON CROP FORECAST (Evangelistic Services eglJ Sunday At First missian Armv ivioves After Declaration Of Thousands of Japs Seared Or Crushed During Bomb Blast 60 Per Cent of Hiroshima Wiped Out By Fury Of the Atomic Bomb Explosion, Pictures Of the Ravaged City Reveal ar Against Japan Boll Weevil Menace Grows More Acute The boll weevil situation in Louisiana has gradually become more acute because of the frequent showers throughout the cotton areas, points out J. B.

Garrett, entomologist, S. U. Agricultural Extension Department. Many farmers seem to think there is no use in trying to control the weevil but if they do not take steps to protect the bolls the weevils may get a good percentage of them, he says. "The records at the federal laboratory at Tallulah have shown that in many instances two applications of poison after the weevil migration has begun have paid good dividends," Mr.

Garret asserts. The recommendation of the Tallulah laboratory is three applications of poison at intervals of Molotov Tells of Tokyo's Appeal For Mediation By Russia In June; Says U. S. S. R.

Seeks To Speed Peace, End Suffering leased by Kwangtung army headquar-attack Iters at 3:30 a. m. Thursday, Japanese that the damage from the single bomb, which was described only as so small that a fighter plane might have carried it, equalled that of an ordinary 150-Superfort raid. Everything appeared to have been burned and melted down in a few furious minutes of annihilation. iiapust nurcn nere Evangelistic services at the Rayville First Baptist Church will begin next Sunday morning, August 12th.

Every member of our church is urged to be in his place at the house of God on this the first day of the meeting. We have but one brief week set aside for this important business of an evangelistic meeting, so let's be sure to make the best of it. Dear member, please be sure to be there, bring your friends and come unto the house of God with a prayer on your heart, that God shall bless the saved and save the lost. "Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found, call ye upon Him while he is near." Isaiah 55. Our visiting preacher for this meeting is Rev.

C. A. Molpus, pastor of the First Baptist church, Belzoni, and our music director for the week is Mr. E. A.

Alexander, of the First Church, Monroe. There will be two services daily through the week, at 10 a. m. and 8 p. m.

Please join your pastor in earnest prayer, faithful effort and hopeful expectation for this evangelistic effort in our church and community. Most cordially yours, J. H. HOOKS, Pastor. Newspaper, Radio Men Will Attend War Program In Monroe Task Force 30, a War Department program aimed at bringing a firsthand factual study of the war in the Pacific to weekly newspapers, daily newspapers and radio stations in towns and cities of the Eighth Service Command, will be presented at 10:30 a.

August 17th in the Frances Hotel at Monroe. Newspaper editors and radio executives of the Monroe area have been invited to attend the meeting. The three-hour program will include discussion of military strategy in the Japanese war, redeployment of forces to the Pacific, logistics, war produc tion. Army demobilization plans, showing of combat films, question and answer periods, and luncheon of Army rations. Veterans of the war in Europe and in the Pacific will present the pro gram.

They include Colonel Robert L. Bacon of Harlingen, commander of the 359th Infantry, 90th Division, when it closed the Falaise Gap after the German break-through at Avranche, and who later commanded the task force which took Metz and captured the only remaining bridge across the Saar River; Lieutenant Colonel Teddy H. Sanford of Pawnee, Oklahoma, commander of the 235th Glider Infantry of the 82nd Airborne Division, first regular organized American infantry battalion ever to fly into combat: First Lieutenant Ernest Davis of Dallas, who lost an arm in combat over Europe and was captured by the Germans; and three enlisted veterans of Okinawa, Technical Sergeant Geo. F. Swain, Technician Fifth Grade James W.

Pratt and Pfc. Jessie L. Pennington. Major Thomas F. Carroll, "chief of the officer procurement branch at Eighth Service Command headquarters, accompanies the group as public relations officer.

Similar task forces are covering all other service commands simultaneously. State Guard Inspection On August 16th Lt. Warren Hunt, acting commander of Company D. Fourth Battalion, Lou isiana State Guard, has been notified that the Federal Inspecting Officer, Major Schneider, will inspect the Rayville Company, Thursday night, August 16th. Company has been greatly handicapped recently due to the resignation of Captain Hubbard, commanding officer, and Lieutenant Thompson, executive officer." Many of the enlisted men have resigned and the membership is now at a critically low point All members of Company are requested to make every possible effort to attend the inspection next Thursday night since the future of the company may depend on the inspecting officer's report LETTER FROM PFC.

ESTES E. SUMMERS Camp Boston, France, July 10, 1945 Dear Mr. Mangham, I just received two copies of the Beacon-News. This is the first I've had since I left Germany. There must have been some mistake because I left Co.

about 10 months ago. I am now in Co. D. The issue I received today reminded me of the old school days at home, when I read the commencement exercises held on Thursday night I haven't visited the school since shortly after I graduated in 43. Plenty has happened since that time.

I've been over here nearly 21 months. have five campaign stars or at least one silver one which represents the same. They are Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Central Germany, and the Rhineland. I had a few interesting experiences around the Ruhr pocket and at Krefeld, near the Rhine. I am at this camp waiting for over sea shipment I hope to get to come about two years since I've seen my folks and friends at home.

If I reach the Pacific instead of a trip through the States Til send you the change of address. Sincerely, ESTES E. SUMMERS Government Says 1945 Yield Will Be 17 Per Cent Less WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. The agriculture department today forecast a United States cotton crop for 1945 of 10,134,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight based upon information as ofi August 1.

This would be 17 per cent or 2.096,- 000 bales less than 1944 production and 2,159,000 bales less than average production for the 10-year (1934-43) period. The indicated lint yield per acre of 269.7 pounds is 39 pounds above average and had been exceeded in only three years 1944, 1942 and 1937. Allowing for average abandonment of acreage in cultivation as of July 1, 18,034,000 acres 10 per cent below acreage harvested in 1944 and the smanest during. any of the past 60 years. A report from the bureau of the census shows 132,541 bales of cotton ginned from the crop of 1945 prior to August 1, compared with 48,182 bales for 1944 and 107,053 bales for 1943.

This year's crop generally is late and there have been numerous com plaints of poor stands. Weather dur ing the last half of July, however, has been beneficial in most areas. Per acre yields are expected to be below those harvested last year in all states except Florida, New Mexico and California. However, above average yields are in prospect for all states except Missouri, Oklahoma, California, Kentucky and Illinois. SEED IS REMOVED FROM TOT'S LUNG Monroe World of Sunday.

Two-year-old Robert Frith, underwent a trying day yesterday with a watermelon seed lodged in his right lung, but he was finally brought to Vaughan-Wright-Bendel Clinic here last night and the seed was removed by Dr. Joe P. Brown with the aid of a bronchoscope, only instrument of its kind in this part of the state. The child, son of John Frith, a farmer living about a mile and a half north of Rayville, swallowed the" seed while eating watermelon about 10 o'clock yesterday morning. He was rushed to a Rayville physician while apparently "choking to death." Still later he was rushed on to the Charity Hospital here and last night he was taken to Dr.

Brown who has become quite well known in this section for his successful operations of this nature. The bronchoscope, employed in removing foreign objects from lungs, is narrow tubular instrument equipped with a small electric lamp for examin ing bronchi in order to locate objects and speed their removal. Civilian Jeep Priced By OPA The civilian jeep the peacetime four-wheel-drive counterpart of the military jeep built for the armed forces was provided with a dollar-and-cent ceiling price by the Office of Price administration this week. The retail ceiling price is $1,090, f. o.

b. Toledo, Ohio, plus taxes and the customary trade additions for transportation, handling and optional equipment. Builder of the car is Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. "For buyers who want a one-half ton truck with the four-wheel drive fea ture the 4hew ceiling price is in line with present prices for the military jeep and, after alowance for the extra cost of the four-wheel drive, compares favorably with the prices on ton trucks that carry only a two-wheel drive. "The jeep is being priced as a 'new product in the automotive truck field, and the pricing action is not connected in any way with reconversion pricing of new 1945 passenger cars." Notice Regarding Canning Sugar Issuance The Richland Parish War Price Rationing Board has been notified by the District OPA Office that no canning sugar is to be issued after August 31st Anyone who has not applied for canning sugar for the 1945 canning season is urged to file an application at once as this board will issue no sugar after August 31, 1945.

No additional sugar can be issued to persons who have already received an allotment for 1945 canning sugar. RAYVILLE SOLDIER DECORATED IN ITALY With the Fifth Army, Italy Corporal Woodrow M. Templeton, of Ra ville, Louisiana, recently was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in combat in Itaiy. He served on the Fifth Army front in the 329th Field Artillery Battalion with the 85th "Custer" Infantry Division. His wife, Mrs.

Janice L. Templeton, lives on Route 1, Rayville. Non-Fiction Bond: You Can Write. Hobbs: Working With. Tools.

King: The Crochet Book. King: The Knitting Book. Marshall: Chesf In An Hour. Renouf: Stamp Collecting. Rine: A Dog's Life From Puppy-hood to Old Age.

Stearns: How to Sell What You Write. Thomas: What to Do About Your Invention. I time, the broadcast said, the Soviet army suddenly opened the attack against Japanese forces with its ground forces. Simultaneously, the broadcast said the communique added, a small number of Soviet aircraft started bombing attacks on Manchukuo territory. There was no indication of the exact location of the attacks.

The broadcast was recorded by the Associated Press. Manchukuo, territory taken from China by the Japanese, is also referred to as Manchuria, its name before the Jap seizure. RUSSIA DECLARES WAR AG.AINST JAPAN London, Aug. 8. Russia tonight declared war on Japan effective at 4:01 4 p.

m. (CWT) and revealed that the Japanese government, backed by Em peror Hirohito personally, had previously asked her in mid-June to mediate peace with the Allies. (Moscow dispatches put the time as mid-June. A Moscow radio broadcast recorded in London, however, said it was mid-July.) Russia's fateful decision, which took the mighty Soviet Far Eastern armies to war against Japan at one minute after midnight Russian time, was communicated by Russian Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov to Japanese Ambassador Naotake Sato in Moscow and by Russian Ambassador Jacob A. Malik to the Japanese government in Tokyo.

President Truman announced the news in Washington just as the Moscow radio broadcast it to the world at 2 p. m. (CWT). Calling correspondents hurriedly to the White House, the President said: "Russia has declared war on Japan that's all." Molotov revealed in a press conference in Moscow that in mid-June, while Superfortresses were tearing Japan's industries to bits in raids of steadily mounting intensity, Japanese Ambassador Sata transmitted to him a request for Russia's mediation. This was followed up by a personal message from Emperor Hirohito.

Molotov at once informed President Truman, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the Japanese request. Molotov kept both the United States and Britain advised of every step in succeeding exchanges with the Japanese. The revelation that Japan had had enough and was asking Russia to mediate peace even before the Rus sian war declaration and presumably before the atomic bombing was regarded here as of tremendous significance. It was asked at once: If Japan wanted peace before, how long could she hold out now? There had been detailed reports that Russia had been asked to mediate weeks ago, but the Allies were silent. Moscow made its announcement at 8 p.

m. (2 p. m. CWT) in the form of a note read to the Japanese ambassador by Molotov. It made three points: 1.

After the rout of Germany Japan is the sole power which stands for continuing the war. 2. The United States, Great Britain and China gave Japan a surrender ultimatum July 26 and Japan rejected it 3. "Thus the proposal made by the Japanese government to the Soviet Union for mediation in the Far East war has lost all foundation." This was the first revelation of any such Japanese request. 4.

As the result of the Japanese rejection, "the Allies asked Russia to join them and thus shorten the war, decrease the number of casualties and contribute to speedy restoration of peace. 5. True to its obligation as an ally of America, Britain and China, Russia accepted the proposal "and had joined the declaration of the Allied powers of July 26 this year." 6. Russia considers her policy the only means of speeding peace, minimizing sacrifice and suffering and giving the Japanese people an opportunity of ridding themselves of the dangers of the destruction suffered by Germany after she refused to surrender. 7.

"In view of the above stated, the Soviet government declares as of tomorrow, that is, Aug. 9, the Soviet Union will consider herself in a state of war against Japan." Moscow radio said that Molotov called in the American, British and Chinese ambassadors, W. Averell Har- riman, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and Fu Ping-Chang, and notified them of the Russian declaration. "The ambassadors expressed their satisfaction with the decision of the Soviet government," Moscow said laconically. When the declaration was made Chinese Premier T.

V. Soong and Foreign Minister Wang Shih-Chleh were in Moscow conferring with the highest Russian leaders. Marshal Josef Stalin received them last night GUAM, Thursday, Aug. 9. Japanese by uncounted thousands from the searing, crushing atomic blast that annihilated 60 per cent of the 343,000 population city of Hiroshima Monday, photographic and other evidence indi cated today.

Tokyo radio, which said that "prac tically all living things, human and animal, were literally seared to death," reported that authorities were sua unaDie to cnecK tne total cas ualties. Photographs showed that not even stout concrete structures in the heart of the city, presumed to have been air raid shelters, escaped. The structures still stood but their insides were ap parently burned out. Both General Spaatz, who an nounced from his strategic air force headquarters here that 60 per cent of Hiroshima had been "completely de stroyed," and Tokyo radio warned that more atomic Domoings could be ex pected. Spaatz declared that other Super-forts were ready to follow the B-29 "Enola Gay" which Col.

Paul W. Tib-bets, of Miami, piloted over Hiroshima to drop war's newest and most devastating weapon. Tokyo radio, which referred to the bomb only as something new in its home broadcasts, urged the Japanese to keep their spirits firm and predicted that a defense against the bombs would be developed. Tokyo referred to the bomb as "atomic" in its foreign broadcasts. Spaatz announced that reconnais sance photographs showed that 4.1 square miles of Hiroshima's built up area of 6.9 square miles were wiped out and that the destroyed area included five major industrial targets.

The photographs disclosed that the damage extended beyond the area of complete destruction. Except for the fire-blackened concrete structures, the center of the city was utterly erushed and burned. The mighty force had smashed it flat. The only section that appeared to have escaped was the harbor area. Buildings there were still standing.

Officers at B-29 headquarters who had studied the photographs estimated First Baptist Church Services DR. JOHN IL HOOKS, Pastor Services Sunday, August 12th, as follows 9:55 a. m. Sunday School. 11:00 a.

m. Morning Worship Service, sermon by the pastor, subject: "Why We Need A Revival." Psalms 85:6. 7:00 p. m. Training Union.

8:00 p. m. Evening Worship Service, sermon by the pastor, subject: "Plainly How To Be Saved." John 10:9. An especially good attendance is urged for all these services, as our evangelistic services begin with the morning worship service. Come with a prayer in your heart, and bring your neighbors and friends With you.

NOLAN R. GOODSON HAS SEEN MUCH EXCITEMENT IN PACIFIC BATTLES Aboard the USS Petrof Bay in the Pacific. Nolan R. Goodson, seaman first class, USNR, Route 2, Rayville, helped polish off Japanese planes and shipping when this small aircraft carrier fought at Okinawa, Iwo Jima and in other engagements that sometimes carried her within 15 miles of enemy-held bases. Fighting off suicide planes, torpedoes, bombs, strafing and surface and underseas attacks has been a daily routine for the PETROF BAY since she first tangled with the Japs in September.

1944, at Palau. Pilots from the carrier have knocked down 20 Jap planes and the ship's gunners have accounted for five more. Five flags painted on the bridge signify that three Jap cruisers, a destroyer and a merchant ship have fallen victims to the PETROF BAY. Officers, pilots and men aboard the carrier have won 103 decorations for outstanding devotion to duty from September, 1944, to February, 1945. 18 of the awards being Navy crosses, the Navy's second highest award, while 37 have been Silver Star Medals.

During the Battle for Leyte Gulf, officers and men stayed at their battle stations more than four days without a letup, undergoing attack most of the time. Meanwhile, her planes were blasting the enemy, reurning to refuel, then going back into the fray. Of four escort carriers taking part in this action, the PETROF BAY was the only one to emerge without a hit. Start now getting your hens in condition for fall laying, with Chek-R-Ton and Purina Layena Mash or Pellets. 2t SEED FEED STORE FOR SAT.F.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 8. The army suddenly launched an against Japanese forces on the eastern Soviet-Manchukuo border early Thursday morning, Japanese time, a Kwang-tung (Japanese) army communique broadcast by Tokyo radio said. According to a communique re- 'Lt. N.

J. McConnell 'Awarded Silver Star 2nd Lt Nathaniel Julius McConnell, son of Mrs. E. L. McConnell of Monroe, formerly of Rayville, has recently been awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany during the period between December 10, 1944, and May 7, 1945.

The coast artillery corps (anti air craft) officer had previously received the Bronze Star Medal and a battlefield commission, which elevated him from staff sergeant to the rank of second lieutenant. At that time only 15 men in his division had received such promotions. The citation stated in part: "On one occasion when roads were congested with traffic and the enemy planes attempted to bomb the concentration, Lt. McConnell directed his column to an area where they could disperse. Disregarding his own personal safety, he returned to the road and directed two other columns to a safe area.

The planes bombed the area, but his bravery and coolness at the risk of his own life saved many lives and much needed supplies. Near Germany his quick thinking and supreme courage forced the surrender of 20 heavily armed enemy. His leadership and gallantry have been notable in all actions." Lt McConnell entered the service from Louisiana when the National Guard was mustered and has served overseas about one year. He has recently been assigned to the army of occupation. Terming the capture of the 20 Germans "an interesting experience," Lt.

McConnell described the incident to his sister, Mrs. Prentiss Lowe, of Min-den, in a recent letter: "We were about five miles from the C. P. The situation was fluid as it always is when we dash through the country. I had to go to the C.

P. and most of the route was through woods, and the woods had not been cleared out; so the jeep driver and I started I with a carbine rifle (which I later found wouldn't fire) and he with a P. 38 Hun pistol. After going a couple of miles, we suddenly crossed a rise and came upon a cross road. We saw a bunch of guys on both sides of the road and in the woods in front hit the ground and disperse.

Ah ho I also noticed they had on Heine hel mets and, too, I observed a guy lining his rifle sights upon me as I stepped or hopped out of the jeep with the driver on my heels. I took the safety off my carbine and the driver unlimbered his 38. We ducked behind the jeep, but on giving a closer look I knew a jeep wasn't much against the eight or 10 bazookas I saw menacingly directed on us! "What a feeling! After some furious calculating I decided now or never! So I stood up and summoning as large and authoritative voice as I could, I waved my arms and yelled, 'Come on At the same time I told the jeep driver (who speaks German) to tell them we weren't going to hurt them to just come out "Did I sweat out a couple of seconds! But they did start putting up their hands and some, still carrying their bazookas, came out all around us. "We very gently relieved them of their guns and lined them up in front of the jeep and marched them back to where we had come from. Nineteen men and one officer." Methodist Church Services JACK H.

MIDYETT. Pastor Services for Sunday, August 12th, are as follows: 9:45 a. m. Church School. 11:00 a.

m. Morning Worship Service, with, sermon by the pastor: "Atomic Power vs. Heavenly Power." There will be no evening service. The pastor will be away on his vacation for two weeks including the third and fourth Sundays of this month. Hence, there will be no services on those Sundays in August.

Services will be resumed the first Sunday in September. White Registrants Will Tg Inducted The following white registrants will be forwarded for. induction to Fort TlimVll KhrevAnnrt To a.ti A i i Samuel Dixon Walker. John H. Burns.

George Harry Wilson. Soviet four to five days apart, beginning! when about ten to fifteen per cent of the squares are infested in small Gotten on light soils, and when about infested on rich soils, where there are 1 1 1 1 1 ri At i to increase again put on two applica- uuns laiei iu piuieci uie young dous that have been set when the first three applications were made. "This practice in all probability will prove profitable this year because those late set bolls are going to need protection from the migratory weevils. The regular showers that have been taking place, of course, have stimulated plant growth and the stalks are larger than they normally would be. This excessive growth and cloudy weather serve as a protection to fallen squares and make it possible for large numbers of weevils to hatch out that I would otherwise perish in hot, dry weather.

"There is a good supply of calcium arsenate on hand and there is no reason for a farmer not to protect his crop if he wants to do so," believes Mr. Garrett. LIBRARY NOTES August 11th will be the birthday of Carrie Jacobs Bond, one of the well-loved composers of. America. She will be 82 years old or should we say, 82 years young? For such as she are really ageless.

The songs she has composed and written will live on for so long as human sentiment is held within the heart. Not only in America, but through out the world, she is famous for her songs: A Perfect Day, Just A-Weary-in' For You, When God Puts Out the Light, I Love You Truly, and many more. She is the author also of her biography. The Roads of Melody, and many books for children. She lives today in a rambling old house, quaint and interesting, under the shadow of the Hollywood Bowl.

With her wise and understanding heart she has shown herself to be the friend of many who have come to her for counsel and sympathy. Her home is called "The End of the Road," but to many who have come there discouraged and weak, it has been the beginning of a new and fuller life. In drawing her countless friends around her, she has filled the lives of many with her own indomitable courage and love. How many young people have gone to the altar for their wedding vows with the lovely strains of "I Love You Truly" echoing in their hearts? They cannot be counted. But around camp ireSf in smaU homes, in cafes and in nwv TiarM the sanes she has have been favorites for years because they touch the human heart iin a way that causes each to vibrate jtQ her melodiea through their own ex- periences.

George Matthew Adams has said of her: "As a frjend of all and as a great woman, however, she is an example for all the world to note and love. She has had her share of heartbreaks, sorrow and suffering, but she came triumphantly through them all. A universal Mother, I would call her, and an undying friend." Besides this one great woman in American music, there are many composers of whom we should be proud. There is something about our American music that speaks for itself, something distinctive, something that shows the real America. In the library you will find many books dealing with music In general and some of our own American composers and music.

Come in and ask for them. Let us have the pleasure of sending for any that we do not have. We wish to remind the public again that for several weeks the library will close on Wednesday afternoons and remain open on Saturday afternoons. This gives the staff at the library their usual half holiday each week and at the same time it lets them give service to people who come in from the country on Saturdays. Story hours are still popular with the children.

If you have not been coming, start next Monday at four o'clock. You will be well rewarded. One of the most interesting "gift" books which has come to the library in some time is one sent out by the Insurance Company of North America. This is an illustrated catalog of the historical museum assembled by this company over a period of many years. The Historical Collection of the Insurance Company of North America.

A few of the books which we have recently placed on our shelves are: Fiction Gardner: -The Case of the Empty The Lost Wagon Train; Majesty Rancho; Man of the Forest. Gunther: Troubled Midnight. Haycox: Rim of the Desert. Kyne: Parson of Panamint. Lutz: The Mystery of Mary; The Prodigal Girl; The Voice In the Wilderness.

Perkins: The Emperor's Physician. Raine: Justice Deferred. Shaw: Rickshaw Boy. I a Parish School Board Members Guests of Kivvanis Club The members of the Richland Parish School Board were guests of the Rayville Kiwanis Club at the luncheon hour last and the program was dedicated to this body of representative citizens. The School Board Day program was sponsored by the Committee on Public Affairs, Jim Aycock, chairman, in charge.

He presented Horace Mangham, a former member of the School Board, as the speaker for the occasion. The talk was an expression of appreciation that the Club had the honor to be host to this body of representa tive citizens, and the speaker took occasion to voice the opinion of the high type of citizenship composing this body and the satisfactory service they were rendering to the people and to the children of the public school system of Richland parish. The re sponsibility, always great, is even i greater now, claimed the speaker, in view of the conditions provoked by the war. Juvenile delinquency was named as one of the distressing situ ations and the greatest foe to public education. It was stated that the school board directors, the teachers and others entrusted with the work of providing educational opportunities for the children, today are faced with a dual responsibility, that which has always been theirs and in addition now they must assume a great many of the responsibilities being neglected and shirked in the homes.

The following school board members attended 'the luncheon: President S. W. B. Colvin, C. B.

DeMoss. W. H. Eddins, E. C.

Calloway, A. B. Halley, E. J. Archibald, R.

R. Rhymes and Mrs. P. B. Hatch, Sr.

Mr. G. L. Gladney, local representa tive of the Federal Land Bank, was also a guest. Mrs.

C. E. Gay rendered several beautiful violin selections, accompan ied by Mrs. J. Y.

Abraugh at the piano. Kelly brought to the attention of the club its obligation in the matter of working to secure an air field for Rayville, and the Committee on Public Affairs was instructed by President Jake Joseph to work in cooperation with a committee of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen or tne town. Next Tuesday will be the election of delegates to the District convention to be held in Jackson, October 8th. President Jake Joseph in charge of the program. MASONIC LODGE NOTICE The Master Mason degree was con-fered on three candidates at the regular communication of R.

F. McGuire Lodge, F. and A. Wednesday evening of this week. Some petitions for degrees were received, and other business attended to.

There will be no special meeting of the Lodge next week. Our next communication will be our regular meeting of August 22nd. J. B. SHARP, W.

M. H. I. SOREY. Sect.

Navy Accepts Four Richland Youths The following 17-year-old applicants were accepted by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station, Room 303, Postoffice Monroe, during July, and are presently on inactive duty await- ing transier iu oa.ii uicgu, vam, recruit training: Landrum, Billy Rayville. Thomas, Huey, Thompson, Arnett Taylor, Alto. Ward, Carl, Route 1, Delhi.

Naval enlistments are now effected a- A t-i on a quota basis and 17-year-old men who wish to join are urged to contact the Monroe Recruiting Station, to be sure they are eiigmie unaer present, requirements Nicholas S. Bade Nicholas S. Bade, 82, died in a Monroe hospital Sunday The funeral was held in the Mulhearn Funeral Home in Monroe, Monday at 2 p. m. Interment was in Amity Church cemetery.

He leaves his wife and the following sons and daughters: Mrs. Jennie Smith, Winnsboro; Walter Bacle, Winnsboro; Ernest Bacle, Maselle, Mrs. Mabel Smith, Winnsboro; Mrs. Eulah Dendy, Hughes Springs, Mrs. Lottie Kelly, Monroe; and Mrs.

J. W. McCarty, West Monroe. Pallbearers were: G. C.

McCarty, Homer Bacle, H. C. Newcom, W. M. Carter, Paul Martin, and C.

E. Frost. It was plain now that they had been discussing strategy and tactics in a (Continued on page 3).