The Richland Beacon-News from Rayville, Louisiana • 1

For Buy U. S.DEFENSE BONDS STAMPS MAKE EVERY FAY DAY if BOND DAY LIBERT AS ET NATALE SOLUM VOLUME LXXVI. RAYVILLE, RICHLAND PARISH, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5th, 1944. NUMBER 27. 13 ill II lit II IB II II.

SPEAKS ON RADIO OVERSEAS Chas. McKenzie Favors Disbanding Bureaus After War WILDCAT WELL TO BE DRILLED IN WARD FIVE Senator Overton Sp eaks On Radio Tuesday Evening DeMoss Nominated For School Board Member Ward One Run-off Elections Slated For Wards Two and Five NAZIS RETREAT ALONG ENTIRE FRENCH FRONT Brest Peninsula Is Threatened By Allies; 22,000 Prisoners Captured fJ The Democratic Executive Committee for the Parish of Richland met last Tuesday and declared C. B. De-Moss nominated for Member of the School Board from Ward One, he being the only candidate, to file before the deadline last Saturday. A primary election called for September 12th will be necessary to settle the question of nominations of Democratic candidates for the School Board from Wards Two and Five.

In Ward Two there are five candidates for the two places to be filled: Ben I. Andrews, E. C. Calloway, W. H.

Eddins, John G. Higgs and C. W. Sorey. In Ward Five, where one candidate is to be named on the Democratic ticket, there are two candidates, the present encumbent, T.

W. Stark, and Cecil G. Pardue. In Ward Two the term now held by W. H.

Eddins is expiring with this year, and in addition, another member of the Board is to be named due to the increase of population in this ward. The Second Ward is now entitled to three School Board members, the' same number as police jurors. Must Belong to Car Pool War Price and Rationing Boards have been instructed to refuse all gasoline rations to holders of and card holders who use their cars for home-to-work driving and cannot show that they belong to a car pool and are regularly carrying a full car load. The only exceptions to this rule are those persons who use their car during the day for business purposes, such as a physician. Growing concern over the breakdown of motor transportation is the reason for the stringent action.

It is stated that today we have leas than 23,000,000 cars on the road, and about 4,000 of these leave the roads every day. When we get down to 20,000,000, a serious breakdown in essential transportation is inevitable. Enforced car snaring is the only answer. After August 1st, if a car owner doesn't belong to a car pool, he will get only enough gasoline rations for thirty days of home-to-work driving, instead of the usual three months' rations he has been receiving. And he won't get his supplemental rations until he can prove to the Board that he has obtained sufficient passengers to fill his car.

There are just too many cars going "back and forth to work daily, half filled, and the man in the street knows it. Holly Ridge Youth Is War Casualty WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. The Navy department announced today 213 casualties of navy, marine and coast guard forces. The list of dead, wounded and missing in action, included: Lawrence E.

Spriggs, private first class, United States Marine Corps, wounded. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Spriggs, Holly Ridge.

FBI Conference Will Be Held In Monroe Aug. 17 Mr. A. P. Kitchin, Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans, Louisiana, Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has announced a new series of FBI Law Enforcement Conferences to be held throughout the State of Louisiana during August.

These conferences held at regular periods are for the' purpose of extending training in law enforcement, for the discussion of 'mutual problems, and for the working out of plans for cooperation among law enforcement agencies, Federal, State and local. They were initiated during the war time emergency to organize the handling of internal security investigations by all Law Enforcement Agencies, and proved an effective medium of law enforcement planning and training. In the ensuing series there will be discussions of the proper manner of searching persons and places, discussions of certain phases of presenting cases in court, and there will be a dissemination of information concerning wanted persons. There will also be an instructive motion picture. Leading law enforcement officers are active in these conferences throughout the State.

The conference in Monroe will be held at the Rialto Theatre, 325 Trenton West Monroe, on August 17th, from 9:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. A CARD We wish to thank our friends for the many acts of kindness shown us at the time of the death of our wife and sister.

We deeply appreciate the floral offerings and other evidences of love and friendship. May God's blessings be shared by each of you is our prayer. CHARLIE CLACK, THE DICKENS FAMILY, BARBECUE Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Thursday, Aug. 3. An American tidal wave pouring across Brittany today threatened to lop off the entire Breton peninsula as Lt.

Gen. Omar E. Bradley's armor raced toward Rennes, communications hub halfway across. All along the British-American front out-flanked German defenses were crumbling in withdrawals ranging from retreat to near rout. Lt.

Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British smashed through the Nazis' sagging center in a mid-peninsula drive, thrusting a seven-mile salient eastward from the old Norman capital of Vire for a total gain of 17 miles souin rrom uaumont, springboard of their four-day-old offensive. A late dispatch from British headquarters at the front described this as the beginning of "the great retreat," and spoke flatly of a breakthrough a word much avoided since the offensive across the Orne bogged down. Thousands of Germans were penned in traps behind the British and American lines.

About 22,000 prisoners have been taken on the entire front, more than 20,000 by the Americans in their ten-day drive. British troops were fighting in the streets of Vire and to the east, three miles north of their spearhead on the Vire-Vassy road, they captured Estry. Farther north, five miles below Vil-lers-Bocage, key to the Nazi defense perimeter in the Caumont sector, the town of Aunay was threatened with encirclement. Two miles below it the British stormed Ondefontaine and fierce fighting raged there. Bradley's men in the west swept in two directions from captured Brecey, advancing on St.

Pois, five miles northeast, and also striking some miles southeast. Villedieu-Les Poeles, ten miles north, by-passed In the southward SUrsre. fell to the Ynnka nl Amort- can columns stabbed eastward in the direction of Paris. They were within a mile of Juvigny Le Tertre. 15 miles east of Avranches, widening their coastal corridor along which rolled columns of armor and supplies toward Brittany and paving the way for new snares for the Germans in Normandy.

The Americans stabbed more miles beyond captured Pontorson in Brittany, toward Brest, an important Atlantic port at the tip of the Breton peninsula. The port was threatened with isolation, and there were strong indications that another American force was near to Rennes. Headquarters remained secretive about the exact position of this force, which, if it captured Rennes, would chalk up a 45-mile gain since taking of Avranches two days ago. On the eastern hinge of the French front, in the British Caen area, bitter fighting continued against enemy armor in the TillyTLa-Campagne sector, but the wheeling movement of the British in the Caumont sector to the' west threatened at last to crush German resistance below Caen. Stabbing spearheads were splitting into pockets the chopped line of Marshal Erwin Rommel, the ore-time "desert fox" who, said German broadcasts, is now in the hospital with a brain concussion as the result of an Allied air attack.

The Allied war of movement rapidly was fashioning three huge pockets and one small one for the enemy, and today liquidated another. Triumphantly heralding General Dempsey's break-through, a British staff officer declared: "Rommel must stand and fight on the high ground between Villers-Bo-cage and Caen, and I think we shall destroy him there." MACON RIDGE HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB Our meeting thi3 month was in the home of Mrs. Ezra Rundell. Miss Le Fevre could not be with us this month. Mrs.

J. K. Kennedy read some leaflets on nutrition and picnics. We discussed our August meeting. August is our vacation month.

We will have a barbecue on our regular day at six in the afternoon, at Mrs. Barefield's. All club members are in vited. We were glad to have as our guests Mrs. E.

E. Barefield and Miss Frances Travis. We raffled off the rest of our bingo prizes. They brought $2.58. Delicious refreshments were imtvpiI to Mrs.

E. E. Barefield, Miss Frances Travis, Mrs. R. E.

Phillips, Mrs. Mona Lee Kennedy, Mrs. J. K. Rundell, Mrs.

John Frost, Mrs. Ruth Russell, Mrs. Ezra Rundell and Mrs. C. C.

Barefield. REPORTER FOR SALE One Farmall regular disc harrow; one AC combine No. 40. ALLEN BRUNSON, Mangham, Rt. 1 o- NOTICE TO BANKS Notice is hereby given that the Richland Parish School Board of the Parish of Richland, Louisiana, will on or before 10 o'clock a.

September 5, 1944, receive sealed proposals covering the deposits of school funds of the Richland Parish School Board, for a term of two years, beginning September 5, 1944, and expiring September 5, Bid3 must be made in confnrmltv with requirements of law covering WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Demobilization of all WAF and emergency bureaus as a first step in reconversion was recommended Tuesday by Representative Charles E. McKenzie, who just returned to his congressional offices from Louisiana. "We have hundreds of these bureaus and agencies set up as emergency and war measures," McKenzie said, "and as soon as the war is over there will be no further need for them and they should be disbanded immediately." The congressman said he feared there would be efforts to continue these agencies after the war and that he would make every effort to have them disbanded.

This is one of the most important phases of post-war planning, he added. McKenzie declared he was glad he had no opposition in the September primary election and could be here in Congress when these important issues are decided instead of back in Louisiana campaigning. Drafting of Men Over 25 To Be Resumed WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. State draft directors have been ordered to resume drafting men over 25 who are making no contribution to the war effort.

The order, selective service officials said today, took the form of a letter from Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey directing them to conform to the national policy. This policy permits deferment of men 26 through 29 only if they are making a substantial contribution to the war. Some state directors simplified this policy by ordering a "holiday" for all men over 25, regardless of jobs. Hershey's letter said enough time now has elapsed since the policy was announced in May to make it clear to all local boards.

Hershey also asked for a review of all 1-A's those subject to induction in order to remove from that class the older registrants whose jobs entitle them to deferments. Some local boards have been slow in placing these men in occupationally deferred classes, it was said. Cecil G. Pardue Offers For School Board Member Ward Five Yielding to the solicitation of numerous friends, Mr. Cecil G.

Pardue, of Mangham, has entered the race for Member of the Richland Parish School Board from Ward Five, sub- mitting his claims to the Democratic Primary Election to be held September 12th. Cecil Pardue, as he is popularly known, was born in Mangham in 1908, the son of Mrs. Linda Pardue and the lateDr. G. C.

Pardue. He has made his home in Mangham all of his life to date. He is married and the father of a son 10 years old and a daughter 12 years old. He holds the responsible position of property supervisor for the Prudential Insurance Company, his territory covering the parishes of Richland, Tensas, Franklin and Madison. He is also engaged in the operation of his own farming property.

He is a young man of the strictest integrity and possessed of business judgment and a patriotic interest in public affairs that would specially equip him as good timber for member of the School Board. Mr. Pardue enjoys the confidence of all the people to whom he offers his candidacy and claims a wide circle of friends in his community, and to them he needs no particular introduction at our hands. His candidacy is commended to the voters of the Fifth Ward for serious consideration. Presbyterian Church Notes REV.

A. R. CATES, Pastor August is vacation month. We will have regular services next Sunday, August 6th, then the pastor will be absent from the pulpit for the remainder of the month. Services next Sunday: Rayville at 11 o'clock.

Archibald at 8:30 o'clock. HENRY PHILLIPS WRITES FROM NEW GUINEA Dutch New Guinea, July 16, 1944. Dear Mr. Mangham: Thought I would drop you a few lines to let you and all my friends of Richland parish know that I am getting along just fine. It's been a good while since I wrote to you.

Well, it's not much news around this part of the jungle to tell. I am still receiving the paper and enjoying it very much. Sure wish I was back in good ole Rayville. I guess you have heard about the invasions that were made over here. I was on one and I know now what war is like.

I have seen a few raids also. I have had the experience of sleeping in fox holes. Sure will be glad when this war is over. How are all the crops around Rayville? I guess by the time you get this letter people will be picking cotton. Well, news is short, so I will close for this time.

Hope to see you all again some day. Keep the paper coming. Yours truly, HENRY PHILLIPS Ed. Pfc. Henry Phillips is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. W. H. Phillips, of Archibald. Yes, we are quite sure that this young friend of ours, along with thousands of other American sons, now knows that "war is hell." CHARM KURL PERMANENT WAVE, 59c! More than six million women have given themselves Charm-Kurl Home Permanent Waves.

Absolutely harmless, easy to ao. Thrill to the joy of natural-looking curls and waves. Wonderful for children's hair. MORGAN LLNDSEY T-8-10 Well Will Be Located On J. Sartor, et al, Property The derrick has been erected and drilling rig i3 to be moved in right away to drill for oil in Ward Five of Richland Parish.

The well is to be drilled by J. A. Humphreys and Associates. Mr. Humphreys is an independent operator of Dallas, and has been successful in other operations.

The well is to be drilled to test the Tuscaloosa formation or to a depth of 6,000 feet. A large block of acreage has been secured in Township 14 North, Range 6 East and Township 15 North, Range 7 East. The location of the first well, where the derrick is now being set up, is in the SW4 of SWli of Section 27, Twp. 15 6 East, on the property of J. M.

Sartor, et als. C. W. Sorey Offers For School Board Member Ward Two The attention of the voters of Ward Two of Richland Parish is called to the formal announcement of Mr. Clifton W.

Sorey as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Member of the Richland Parish School Board from Ward Two, subject to the will of the electors in the Democratic Primary Election to be held September 12, 1944. Mr. Sorey is a native of Richland Parish, having been born near Ray-ville, and has made his home in this community. Ward Two, ever since. He is the son of U.

R. Sorey and grandson of the late Ben Sorey, the latter named being one of the pioneer settlers of the parish. Hi3 mother was a Chennault, sister to the late John Chennault of Gilbert, father of the famous Major General Claire I Chennault. Clifton Sorey i3 a contractor and also engaged in farming. All of his manhood he has taken a keen and patriotic interest in public affairs.

He has made a study of the public school needs of this Ward and Parish, and hi3 friends believe he can be of valu able public service if elected on the Parish School Board. Being a man of family he feels a deep personal interest in the welfare and betterment of the schools, as well as the desire to be of service to the community in this important position He promises, if elected, to give that full measure of service which comes from sincere interest, honest endeavor and a study of the public needs in school affairs. Kiwanis Hears Talk On Social Security The program of the Rayville Kiwanis Club last Wednesday was in charge of the Committee on. Public Affairs, with T. J.

Coenen, chairman, introducing Mr. Joe H. Simpson, manager of the Monroe office of the Social Security Board, as the guest speaker. Mr. Simpson explained the responsibility of the Monroe office relative to old age and survivor insurance, and offered the facilities of his office to assist all claimants in this territory.

Following his talk he answered quite a number of questions asked by the members of the club. Mr. H. L. McKnight, of the Wild Life department of the Conservation Commission, spoke briefly on the proposition of showing a picture of Ducks Unlimited here, and the club voted to request Mr.

McKnight to bring the picture to Rayville, which will be shown free at the cafeteria room of the Rayville high school building next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. The public is cordially invited, and especially those interested in the preseravtion of wild life and the continued increase in the population of wild ducks. An interesting letter from Lt. Col. Lasley Richardson, with the American Army in France, was read by Jimmie Thompson.

The program next week will be by the Membership Committee, Edwin Myrick, chairman, and the subject will be "On to Vicksburg." The District convention will be held this year in that city. Tanks, Trucks Gone, Jerry's Got to Run WITH THE 5TH ARMY The 1st Armored Division's commander, Maj. Gen. Ernest N. Harmon, has released a box score which explains what makes Jerry run.

Since May 23 the 1st Armored chased the enemy 191 road miles, killed or captured at least 8,812 Germans and wounded an estimated 13,200. The 1st Armored destroyed 135 tanks, 43 of which were the vaunted 60-ton "Tigers." Thirty-one self-propelled guns and 77 antitank guns, and 183 trucks were destroyed. (Capt. A. P.

Parham, of Mangham, is a tank commander in the 1st Armored Division, and the news item above, clipped from "Stars and Stripes," in Italy, will be of interest to home folks.) Union Prayer Service The Union Prayer Service which is held at the Episcopal church each Tuesday will meet with the Methodist ladies at 3 o'clock, Tuesday, August 8th, for the regular weekly prayer service. A period during the program will be given over for prayer for the boys and girls in uniform. Those interested are invited to be present. XXX FOR SALE 80 acres of land, 60 acres in cultivation, one 5-room house, one 2-room house, located about 3 miles southeast of Rayville. See W.

F. JOHNSTON, or W. A. JOHNSTON, 8-5-2t. Rayville, La.

Will Address Voters of State Every Tuesday Night Senator John H. Overton spoke over a statewide radio hook-up last Tuesday evening in behalf of his campaign for reelection to the United States Senate. He reviewed his services to Louisiana and the nation during his more than twelve years' service in Washington. "My paltform will be the record of rny service and the promise that such a record holds for the future," the Senator said. "Upon that platform I submit my candidacy to all the people and all the factions of Louisiana." Senator Overton pointed out that the traditional policy of Louisiana has been to have one Senator from central and north Louisiana and one Senator from south Louisiana.

Senator Allen J. Ellender of Houma, Terrebonne Parish, is the Senator from south Louisiana and will serve until January, 1949. "The three opponents who have announced against me are all from south Louisiana," the Senator said, "and should any one of them be elected the policy of fair division will be set aside and there will be two Senators from south Louisiana and none from north or central Louisiana." Increase of the sugar quota allotted to Louisiana, cooperation with Senator Bankhead of Alabama to secure parity for the cotton farmer, raising ceiling prices on farm products, and securing prisoner-of-war labor for harvest are among his services to agriculture, the Senator said. Senator Overton is chairman of the Flood Control Subcommittee and of the Rivers and Harbors Subcommittee of the Senate, holding these appointments because of his seniority in the Senate. In these positions he has secured large appropriations for flood control on the Mississippi, Atchafa--laya, Ouachita, Red and other rivers.

"In the post-war period I shall undertake to make floodproof the valleys of all the rivers and large streams of Louisiana," the Senator said. Senator Overton will speak over the same network, including Alexandria, New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Monroe, Lafayette, and Natchez, Mississippi, each Tuesday evening at 9:15 and each Wednesday morning at 6:15 during the campaign. Simpson Appointed Manager of Monroe Social Security Office Monroe, Aug. 2. Joe H.

Simpson, has been appointed manager of the Monroe office of the Social Security Board, according to an announcement made by James B. Mar-ley, regional director, in San Antonio, today. Simpson comes to Monroe from Baton Rouge, where he was assistant manager. He succeeds Philip L. McGee, who has transferred to the Baton Rouge office as manager.

The new manager of the Social Security Board's Monroe office entered the service of the Board in Washington on February 8, 1937. His first field assignment was in the New Orleans office. He transferred to the Baton Rouge office as assistant manager on January 20, 1943. The responsibility of the Monroe office, said Mr. Simpson, is to issue social security account numbers, to furnish information concerning old-age and survivors insurance, and to assist claimants in completing their claims.

The parishes served by this office are: Caldwell, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas, Union and West Carroll. Anyone desiring information regard-, ing hi3 rights, benefits or obligations under the old-age and survivors insurance program is invited to contact the office, said Mr. Simpson. This may be done in person, by telephone, or mail. -o- BESS LAKE NEWS Mr.

and Mrs. Willie Walker had as their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Walker and family, and Mr. and Mrs.

John Walker and family. Mr. and Mrs. J. Cr Allen had as their guests Sunday Mr.

and Mrs. Mal-lie T. Crawford and family. Mrs. Andy Allen and daughter were the guests of Mrs.

Ieon Hanson Sunday. Mrs. Charlie Overstreet was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Buck Keen Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. "Red" Warn had as their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Crawford and family.

Dorothy Dean and Julia Anna Gill are visiting Mrs. Clara Bell Givens, in Winnsboro, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Clark had as their guests Sunday Mr.

and Mrs. M. O. Walters, Mrs. Albert Garrison, Mr.

and Mrs. George Slation, and Mr. and Mrs. Elvie Hales. Mr.

and Mrs. B. W. Walters and Jessie Lee Walters are visiting relatives in Polkville, this week. Private Winford Tod Crawford, who is stationed at Camp Stewart, Georgia, is now taking his basic training and would enjoy hearing from any of his old friends.

Mr. Vie Dilmore and Una Mae visited Mr. and Mrs. Odis Bradshaw last Sunday. METHODIST SOCIETY OF CHRIS-TUN SERVICE Tuesday, August 8th, 1944, at 3 p.

m. Zone Six, composed of Tallulah, Delhi, Rayville and Crew Lake Societies, will meet at the Rayville Methodist Church. All members are urged to attend. "Stewardship" is the theme for the afternoon program. Mrs.

A. J. Ensminger, district secretary, of Wisner, i3 planning to be with us. MRS. W.

L. HALEY, Zone Leader NOTICE I am applying for clemency. 7-23-3 1. HOYT DAVIS CORPORAL OTIS LANDRUM, son of Mr. and Mrs.

G. B. Landrum and husband of Mrs. Otis Landrum. Cpl.

Landrum entered the Army on December 28th, 1942, and received his train ing at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland. He was later sent to Camp Stewart, Georgia, then on maneuvers, before being sent overseas. John G. Higgs, Enters School Board Race In the proper place in this week's issue of The Beacon-News will be found the formal announcement of Mr. John G.

Higgs, of north of Holly Ridge, as a candidate for the office of Member of the Richland Parish School Board from Ward Two, submitting his claims to the decision of the Primary Election to be held September 12th. Mr. Higgs is a native of Winnfield, Winn Parish, and removed to Richland Parish in August, 1929, making his home on a farm north of Holly Ridge, where he has since resided. Mr, Higgs is a high class citizen, a successful farmer and deeply interested in the promotion of public education. Two members are to be elected at this time from Ward Two.

Due to the increase in population as disclosed by the last census, this ward is entitled to three members of the Parish School Board. If honored with one of these positions, Mr. Higgs will merit the confidence the voters repose in him by giving service to the public compar- able with that he has displayed in the handling of his personal affairs. He is a citizen of one of the most populous and successful farming sections of the parish, where there is a large number of children of school age. He knows their needs and may be counted" on to take care of their interests.

Street Repairs Being: Made The paved streets of Rayville are being repaired by a crew of workmen under the supervision of the Rayville Light and Water Department, H. W. Blakeman, superintendent, and Fred Christian in charge of the labor. The broken and rough places in the pave ment are being removed and repairs made at these places, which is greatly improving the appearance and convenience of the public thoroughfares. pfc.

joiin j. McAllister wins combat infantry badge Somewhere in the Southwest Pacific Area, with the 37th Infantry Division. For exemplary conduct in combat, Pfc. John J. McAllister of Rayville has been presented the Army's newest award for infantrymen, the Combat Infantryman Badge.

Awarded for exemplary conduct in combat or for combat action in a major operation, the new medal is a silver rifle on a blue field with a silver border, imposed on an eliptical silver wreath. Private McAllister is the son of J. T. McAllister of Route 2, Rayville. Since starting his tour of service on May 26, 1942, he has been stationed on New Zealand, Fiji Islands and Guadalcanal.

He is a veteran of the New Georgia campaign, and is a member of the infantry regiment which repelled the Japanese attack on Hill 700 in four days of historically intense fighting which saw the annihilation of more than 1,700 ot Japan's 6th Imperial Division, infamous for the 1938 Rape of Nanking. JAMES W. LOGAN RETURNS TO UNITED STATES New Orleans, August Aviation Radioman first class James W. Logan, of Archibald, Louisiana, a member of flying boat squadron VP-14 which flew from eight different island bases and five seaplane tenders in the South Pacific, has returned to this country for rest and reassignment, according to a Navy Department press release. Their work included long, wearisome patrols to watch for enemy shipping and aircraft, escort for surface forces, night bombings and "Dumbo" or rescua missions.

Squadron VP-14, along with its sister squadron, VP-53, rescued a total of 79 Navy, Army and Marine aviation personnel who had been shot down or forced down in the Pacific. Aviation Radioman Logan, like his mates, welcomes a rest but is also anxious to return to the thick of the fight. (Young Logan arrived home the first of the week.) WHERE IS YOUR SHARE (QM) Of the eight million tons of paper needed for salvage in 1944, the War Production Board says 38 per cent is in hiding in American homes and farms, while the other 62 per cent is to be found in the files and store rooms of American Industry. If the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts don't find those home-hidden hoards of waste paper before next fall, school children hope to dig them out. 4.

of SENATOR JOHN H. OVERTON, candidate for relection to the U. S. Senate, who addressed Louisiana vot ers over the Louisiana network Tuesday evening of this week. The Senator proposes to speak via radio every Tuesday evening in the interest of his campaign.

Mrs. Julia I. Gwin Mrs. Julia I. Gwin, 71, of Mangham, died in a Shreveport sanitarium late Friday afternoon of last week following a serious illness of several days; however, she had been practically invalided for several years prior to her death.

At the time of her last illness she was visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. Gladney, of Mind en. The survivors are two daughters, Mrs. T.

A. Judd, of Mangham; and Mrs. J. K. Gladney, of Minden; two grandchildren, Miss Julia Judd, of Mangham; and Thomas Gwin Judd, of U.

S. N. Memphis, one brother, Mr. I. M.

Newberry, of Rayville; one sister, Mrs. H. H. Nash, of Mangham; and two sisters-in-law, Mrs. John R.

Anderson, of Oak Grove; and Mrs. G. C. Pardue, of Mangham. Funeral services were held at the Mangham Baptist church Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Rev.

C. W. Jones, pastor of the Mangham Baptist church, officiating, assisted by Rev. C. F.

Almond, of the Baptist church of Delhi. Mrs. Gwin was born' in Monroeville, October" 12, 1972, moved with her family to Richland Parish in .1878, and since that time it has been her home. Early in her girlhood she united with the Alto Baptist church, where she kept her membership until she moved to Mangham and united with the Mangham Baptist church in 1897. She was a consecrated Christian all of her life.

In 1893 she was married to Levi Jackson Gwin, a member of one of the oldest pioneer families of this part of the State. He preceded her to the grave in 1922. This devoted Christian wife and mother gave the best of her noble life to the making of an ideal home for her loved ones, and with sincere and humble charity lived the life of a good neighbor and friend, who, with tender faithfulness discharged the duties of life. This gentle lady enriched the community in which she lived and left to her devoted daughters and other members of the family a legacy of nobility and service which will remain green in their memories always and be ever present as an inspiration. She was as reliable as the attraction of gravity, as generous as autumn, as hospitable as summer, and as tender as a perfect day in June.

She forgot only herself and asked favors only for others; and begged for the opportunity to do good to stand by a friend, to support a just cause, to defend what she be- lieved to be right. Through the years of illness suffering did not dim the light of her sublime spirit. To the members of the bereaved family The Beacon-News and its editor extend most sincere sympathy and condolence. CAPT. CLAUDE V.

MclKM ORE AT MIAMI BEACH, FLA. Capt. Claude V. McLemore, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Cage McLemore, of Rayville, recently returned from the South Pacific war zone, now is being processed through the Army Air Forces Redistribution Station No. 2 in Miami Beach, Florida, where his next assignment will be determined. This is one of the Redistribution Stations within the AAF Personnel Distribution Command. At an AAF Redistribution Station, AAF returnees from theaters of operation are examined by specially selected medical and classification officers whose joint findings are used in recommending new assignments. Theme of the AAF Redistribution program is designation of each man to duty for which he is best fitted.

Returnees live at a Redistribution Station under conditions that encourage natural response to processing, the greater part of their two-week stay being devoted to rest and recreation. AAF personnel, enlisted men and officers alike, are assigned to a Redistribution upon their return to the United States, but do not report to the station until completing a furlough or leave of three weeks. Captain McLemore, a P-38 and F-39 pilot, won the Air Medal with oak leaf clusters. During 14 months in the South Pacific, he flew approximately 100 missions, probably destroying one Zero. The 23-year-old captain graduated from the Rayville high school in 1937 and from Northeast Junior College, Monroe, in 1941, and entered the Army in December of that year.

A CARD -We are sincerely and deeply appreciative of the many kindnesses shown us by our friends at the time of the death of our loved one, Mrs. Julia I. Gwin. The comforting words of sympathy, the beautiful flowers, and other tender ministrations have aided us to bear our sorrow. That God will abundantly bless each of you i3 our prayer.

MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF MRS. JULIA I. GWIN. BUY WAR BONDS! Mr. and Mrs.

O. A. Garland and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Spencer gave a very delicious barbecue in the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Spencer recently. Those enjoying the delightful event were: Mrs. Mason McEnery and daughter, Elizabeth, of Oak Ridge; Mrs. Lonnie Robinson and son, Hugh, Miss Betty Fay Spencer, Mrs.

C. D. Spencer and children, Charles, Lois, and James, Mrs. Mary Jane Roberts, all of Shreveport; Mr. and Mrs.

A. J. Spencer and children, Ann and Leonard, Mrs. G. E.

Farrar and children, Martin and Ralph, Mrs. M. L. Hendrix and Miss Ruby Knight, all of Rayville; and Theodore Barham of Oak Ridge. XXX iiscai agencies or Louisiana, particularly to Act No.

39 of Louisiana Legislature of 1934. All bids must be sealed, marked "Sealed Bids" and either mailed or delivered to the Secretary of the Richland Parish School Board, Rayville, Louisiana, on or before the date named above. The Richland Parish School Board reserves the right to accept or reject any part of any or all bids submitted. J. B.

THOMPSON, JR, 8-5-4t. Secretary. FOR SALE Hot water heater and SO-gallon tank, for wood stove. T-29-tf W. E.

COATS, Delhi. La..