The Lamar Democrat from Vernon, Alabama • 1

mimm mm -37 ft ft WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1944 VERNON, ALABAMA VOL. 49 NO. 1 laz -a5 iS TO INSURE PUBLICATION THE SAME WEEK COPY SHOULD REACH THIS OFFICE NOT LATER THAN TUESDAY NIGHT. Tl hp wT r. J.

1 C7 pmcui; AO I I I LAMAR COUNTY LOCAL PEOPLE r. REVIVAL WILL BEGIN SUNDAY AT M. CHURCH Two Beachheads Are Captured lt Northern France, Allied armies stormed. France 'Tuesday with history's greatest invasion armada 11,000 planes, 4000 ships and thousands of smaller craft and in the first few hours seized beachheads that threatened to isolate the Normandy Peninsula and win a railroad point straight at Paris. The British radio said that at least two beachheads had been secured and that Allied formations are advancing inland." The German DNB agency acknowledged that the Allies had put tanks ashore in at least one sector.

Some six hours after the first waves of American, British and Canadian assult forces landed by sea and air on the Normandy Peninsula, Prime Minister Churc- hill told Commons that the invasion was proceeding "according to plan." 1 V- i MEWS OF cu 14 Ztt md WOMEN It! UNIFORM Camp Barkeley, Texas Master Sergeant William S. Atkins, Millport, was presented the Expert Infantryman Badge recently by Major General Carlos Brewer, commanding general of the 12th Armored Division. The award was made durine a formal military ceremony at Camp Barkeley, Texas. The Badge is presented to all infantrymen who have achieved a high degree of yproficiency in the many' phases of doughboy trining. Those qualified to receive the award are determined through a series of tests oral and demonsrative, according to regulations of the War Department A board of eight officers test each man volunteering to take the test.

Included are exercises on scouting and patrolling, first aid, fiesld sanitation, bayonet, disciplne and courtesy, field proficiency and weapons, in dividual and small unit protective measures and personal appearance. The Badge is a miniature silver musket mounted on an infantry blue field with a silver border and is worn above the left breast pocket of the soldiei's blouse in the same position as the airman's wings. Atkins is the son if Grover S. Atkins, Millport, Ala. He is assigned to Service Company of the 66th Armored Infantry Battalion at Camp Barkeley.

Funerd Services Held At Millport For Willie Dobson Funeral services for Willie Dobson, 39, who died in Arizona May 27, were held from the Millport Methodist Church last Saturday afternoon, the Rev. C. P. Hamby, pastor, and the Rev. M.

L. Hollis, Freewill Baptist pastor, officiating. The Mllport Quartet sang "Rock of Ages" and "Sometime" It Is Hard to Understand." The Rev. Hollis read the eleventh chapter of St. John, taking his text from the 25 and 26 verses.

Interment was in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Dowdle and Son in charge. Active pallbearers were cousins, Alow McAdams, Dewey Mc-Adams, Woodrow Dobson, Oswell Huff, Quincy Dobson, Woodrow McAdams, Clayton Dobson, and Elbert Martin. Flower girls included Charlotte Dobson, Peggy Dobson, Be Be Joy Hydrick. Mrs. David Ruffin, Mrs.

Elbert Coleman, Mrs. Mary Higdon, Lois Biddle, Mrs. Dorothy Prater, Mrs. Duell Champion, Mrs. Lester Blakeney, Mrs.

Blanche Hydrick, Laudis Holsonback and Mrs. Woodrow McAdams. Mr. Dobson was born and reared at "Millport, moving to South Mississippi seven years ago, where he was engaged in nwmill business. He is survived by his widow, his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. E. S. Dobson. Millport; a sister, Mrs.

Roy Hydrick, Millport; two brothers, Tom Dobson, Winchester, and Elvin Dobson. Bucatunna, Miss. CARD OF THANKS We greatly acknowledge the many words of sympathy and acts of kindness and floral offerinbs upon the death of our loved one, W. S. Dobson.

We assure our many friends that their thoughtfulness during our hours of sorrow will be a tender memory to be cherished always. E. S. Dobson and famliy. omen IN THE tfURO "jlJlanfFoivl Miss Azalia Peet, former mis sionary to Japan, has organized what is thought to be the first church in a labor camp operating under the War Food Administra tion.

The church, known as the Boise Valley Community Church was formed on Easter Sunday with thirty-one charter members at Nyssa, Oregon. Many others the camp are said by Miss Peet to be "Christian in interest if not in their affiliations." In cluded in the congregation was a truckload of Christian friends who drove ninety-two miles to attend the Two carloads were from Ontario. When Mrs. Helen Hansgen, of Milwaukee, fell down stairs ten years ago and injured her spine, physicians feared she would never walk again. But she taught herself to walk by pusning a weigntea cnair in front of her, and, although her left hand is still not normal, she has regained its use by patiently squeezing sand through her fingers for hours at a time.

Today Mrs. Hansgen is promoting the activities of the Milwaukee Goodwill Industries," organized by the Methodist Church there. Here she has helped teach scores of people, handicapped as she once was, to become useful again through the repair and making saleable discarded artciles of many kinds "from shoes and coats to chairs and Hundreds of people are "gotten on their feet both physically and economically through the Industries. And Mrs. Hans gen, as a block leader, has urged her neighbors to salvage metals and fats and furniture.

Mean while she has "adopted" three orphans soldiers and writes to them daily. Encouraged by the fact that a member of Indian young women are preparing themselves to teach in rural areas of India, Miss Aileen B. Hakim, Indian DrinciDal of the Nur Niwas School, Hissar, Inddia, says: "I hope the school will not fail in meeting the needs of the rural church. It is very hopeful when we see girls going back to their villages to take responsibility. One girl who completed her middle school course here and took teachers' training at Ambala, is in charge of one of the village schools.

Another is in training at Muttra with the intention ot coming back into village work." 4 Miss Dacy Atkins, daughter of and Mrs. J. R. Atkins, has entered Birmingham Business College to further her business career. She is a ormer graduate of Vernon High School, where she took an active part in her class in the School Glee Club.

Miss Atkins has tw6 brothers in service, Sgt. A. Atkins, and Roy Atkins, B. B. 1-C.

I' QUOTA FOR 5TH LOAN IS The quota for Lamar County for the Fifth War Loan Campaign will be $262,000 of which $154,000 must be sold in Bonds, it was announced today by TT T-1 1 vauce jonnsun, cnairman oi ine Couty War Finance Committee. Calling attention to the state slogan, "Meet the Challenge, Alabama," the county chairman declared, "These quotas are our challenge. They are large, certainly, but they seem pitifully small when we remember what boys from this county are sacrificing and the perils they are facing. Not one boy from our county has failed to meet the challenge of the battle front bravely when the time came, and we cannot afford to fail in meeting our home front challenge." Organizational meetings pre paratory to the opening of the drive, June 12, have already been held, the county chairman said, and canvassers are being trained to make personal solicitations during the period of the SOIL CONSERVATION NEWS T. B.

Russell of the Mt. Olive community has filled his large barn with sheaf oats and had two loads left over which he had run through a hammer mill, all from four acres. Mr! Russell is mighty proud of this early feed, already in his barn. He says that this will save him from feeding so much high priced corn. Kobe lespedeza was seeded on the oats at the time of top-dressing.

A good stand is established. 200 pounds of superphosphate per acre was applied to the lespedeza, but Mr. Russell thinks he should have used more fertilizer than this and he is going to apply 1000 pounds of basis slag on the four acres as son as lie can get the slag. Three acres of good per manent pasture, two acres of sericea and five acres of corn and crotalaria have been estab lished. Leonard Russell, son of T.

B. Russell is doing a thriving business with his feed mill and peanut picker. He has Added two emery wheels for sharpening plows and other tools for farmers. Leonard is a good mechanic and is farming as a side line to his other business, but he is very much interested in conservation farming. He is making a soil conservation plan on his 40 acre farm this week the Tombig-bee Warrior soil conservation district.

J. E. Prater has started bis strip rotation of Oats (lespedeza), lespedeza. His four acres of oats have been mowed nrd put in the barn. He has a good stand of lespedeza for a summer legume hay.

Mr. Prater thinks he is going to like the kobe lespedeza better tba otootan, because the kobe will reseed itself and otootan is too high priced for the seed. He has three acres of permanent pasture, three acres of sericea and two acrs of kudzu established, W. B. Cash has constructed the Nichols type terraces on 10 acres, and has seeded one acre of sericea this spring.

Mrs. Hazel Carlisle left for March Field, to visit her husband, Cpl. Ed Carlisle, who is stationed there a short time before going oversea. Mr. and Mrs.

James A Hankins of Chickasaw, announce the birth of a son, James Austin DL May 20th. KILLED WHEN HIT BY TRAIN W. C. Evans and Miss Annie Carter were killed Tuesday morning about nine o'clock when struck by the Frisco east bound freight train, the accident oc curring about two miles west of Sulligent at the Holliday cross ing. According to information ob tained Miss Carter, a passenger in the taxi driven by Mr.

Evans lived until she arrived at a local physician's office in Sulligent, wnue Mr. jLvans was Killed in stantly. DATES WITH UNCLE SAM Sugar Stamp 32 Sugar Stamp 32 in War Ration Book Four will become good indefinitely on June 16 for five pounds, Mr. O. E.

Young, Chairman of the Lamar County War Price and Rationing Board, has announced. The validation continues the household sugar' ration at the same rate as previously five pounds per person every two and a half months. Tires Getting Tight Members of the 38 tire panels in the War Price and Rationing Boards in the North Alabama OPA District went into the month of June with one of the toughest assignments facing them since the rationing of tires started. With a June quota of 16,294 Grade 1 tires, a survey of the boards inddicated that there were 7572 unfilled eligible ap plications on file as the first of the month rolled around. Norman Olsen, District Ration ing Executive, pointed out that while book holders were elieible for Grade 1 tires that the ability to obtain cer tificates still depends uppon the quota.

The announcement last mnnrt! that book holders were now eligible for Grade One tires caused the Boards through out North Alabam to be swamped with applications. "Mathematically speaking the boards will not be able to fill all the pplications of eligible Hnrine June." Olsen said, "adding the May quota of .1,525 plus the unfilled applica tions of 7572" gives a total oi 19.097 received during May and dpmands are always greater than the May demands "It means that more motorists must eo to recapping their tires nr pIsp thev will have to park their cars during June," Olsen added. Pointing out the difficulties facing some of the boards, Olsen said the Jefferson County quota for June was 3,716 tires and that the board had 2235 eligible applications on June first. "Therefore it will be impossible for the Jefferson County Boards to give rprtificates to all eligible motor ists. They will have to pick the motorists who are most essenuai to the war effort." Pointing to the plight of some of the other boards, Olsen said the Limestone Board had 340 un-filledd eligible applications on June 1st, and tht their' June quota wa sonly 318 tires.

Tuscaloosa county reported 389 eligible applications with a June quota of only 501 tires. Walker County was in also as bad shape with 462 eligible unfilled applications and a June quota of 576. DR. A. H.

NABORS The revival at Vernon Methodist Church will begin Sunday, June 11, with services daily at 10:00 A. M. and 8:00 P. M. Dr.

A. H. Nabors, pastor of First Methodist Church, Jasper, Alabama, will do the preaching Dr. Nabors is one of the outstanding preachers of the North Alabama Conference, having been successful as pastor of some of the large churches as well as an efficient Ditrict Supperin-tendent. The people of Vernon and the surrounding territory, regardless of church -affiliation, are cordially invited to attend not members of any church are also cordially invited.

Lester B. Davis, Pastor. Williams Graduates Oscar Mervin Williams, of Vernon, Alabama, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

O. Williams and husband of Marie Williams. The above 'named man was among more than 1150 midshipmen graduated May 31, 1944, from the U. S. Naval Reserve Middshipmen's School located on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, with a 'commission as ensign in the U.

S. Naval Reserve. Speakers at the graduation exercises were Captain James L. Holloway, USN, Director of Training of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, D. and Captain J.

R. Barry, USN, Commanding Officer of the Midshipmen's School. Miss Helen Morris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.

T. Morris, has entered Birmingham Business College to futher her business career. She is a graduate of Vernon High School, but was not satisfied with reaching just that goal and decided to qualify herself for a higher position by taking a business course. Helen was an active member of her class and the school Glee Club. "Obstacles which were constructed in the sea have not proved so difficult as was apprehended," Churchill said.

"The fire of shore batteries has been largely quelled "Massed air-borne landings have been successfully effected behind enemy lines and landings on the beaches are proceeding at various points at the present time." German news agencies said Allied shock forces and paratroops landed along the north coast of the Normandy Peninsula which juts out from France some 90 to 110 miles below the English south coast all the way from the Cherbourg area at the northern tip to Le Havre at the mouth of the Seine, 110 miles northwest of Paris. The Germans said the heaviest fighting developed in the area of Caen, on the main Cherbourg-Paris railway some nine miles inland from the mouth of Orne River. Air-borne troops were landing deep inland on the the official Nazi DNB agency said, in an effort to seize a number of strategic airfields, cut off the Normandy Peninsula and capture Cherbourg, one of the, two main ports for Paris. Virtually every type of American naval craft, from battleship to motor torpedo boat, joined British warships and thousands of Allied planes in laying down an earth-shaking bombardment of the invasion coast. Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the invasion in the following communique No. 1 from his supreme headquarters. "Under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces, began landing Allied armies Tuesday on the northern coast of France." He followed this with an order of the day to Montgomery's asasult troops a poignant, earnest message. Next Eisenhower broadcast a message to the peoples of all Europe, and especially to France, urging them "to continue passive resistance and to follow instructions, but not to rise prematurely." The Senior class of 1944 of the Lamar County High School wish to obtain the name of every person now serving his country.

I would appreciate it if anyone having a relative, or knowing of some person now serving in some brach of the service, would snd me a card with the name of the boy or girl, writing Student or Graduate opposite the name. Kathleen Young Box 665 Vernon, Alabama..