The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, April 26, 1946 Page: 2 of 14
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FRIDAY, APRIL L>fi. 1!M(»
THE CLARKSVILLE TIMES
Cl Joe’s Ti aiJ;
Cheers Hungry.,
War Torn Itaiv
Bemt — The GI is
it Jt»ly — most of him
mbut his trail still lu-s
; plain to see onon 'h-
Where he nass il. in
y;bcr«d.' The j?trl« am1
children. esperhil’.’-.
. But all of Italy n :i>. :i
thing of him.
^crfWKh the kid- .
and Chop
Uf|#1*rer,i •lor-’ ' n .
Few Yanks who lie
: -.1
...•Spirit of tile Jittri
•justSfit* >■■■'■'
■-atWKV of 1.-st ■ .
.. tcfom* and tin
a. .Two" and s.
. M»e .jifte-'m-
e-.-iipnar* "d
With th- ' ! I
Sonv cf H. •*:'
as wh -s. ■
Cp fjan-e or
keeps, tlh"k t-
tlie lads Wio va-i
as redeployment :
. ;Aud some — ind
lucky — have s>:K
:• .in tj»e shop of i
of wedlock.
The count”)" i l-
y armies l'»»e 1
marched time c r
rShbTH* t!'e more
—tor ions pr -r- r
■Well of i'-.<vi
Cassun and C1 ■
mfcrr,~’""
•res from er
«>put b0-"
Mr rub'll- c l >
A' destructively”
oflp he bronylit to
lie v.i-
tfB* tlrpe const’tu
Italians r'rl- ovr
r^dnirt''7'' tie f
Bankhead Plaits
Plenij Farms
For Servicemen
SHIPEITSCO
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Washington Thousands of
former servlet* men may get a
live at owning their own farms
if Bunich .id iD-Aiu.) is cor-
it
f
Tlie A!, bnma senator, co-tutthcr
<■!’ Hit present Federal Farm Ten-
ant Ac. ray.-. Congress will approve
a t.lr of amendin nts to the
Bi'.nkluad-.loi’.es tenancy act to
ep: n the entire pro-ram to. vet-
t runs
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lit i\«; 1 ok i*it 11 itt
l*ltl\ 1
lilts,. V
■ Siieciacular prims take
o examples of spring-anci-
Vi'.ie is a fan of bnphi’y
id white cross-barred b.ick-
.1 tones of the colorful fig-
- Brooke Cadwall.ider- tio-
wln’.e il’.e backs are trade
1 anticipate no great difficulty
in getting <•(' iigrrasional approval."
iht senator rani "The present act
is limited to tenants, sharecroppers
and others who have earned their
living by agriculture. My aniend-
iit-i'.. would give former service
men this > me status if they are
Qualified.*'
130-calibreJ
| carbine j
Maybe You Know 2,283 SS Men
What He Means! Are Poisoned
-4s
Coble to i
power umtj
Searchlight, s,„„„ ,
| face painted black, j
protects broad ray j
[ of invisible light
(IP) Newsfeatures
Johnson City, Term — A Vir-
ginian recently spent a weekend
here, and after returning home
wrote this letter to the manager of
a centrally-located hotel:
"Several weeks ago my wile end
I spent a week-end at your hotel
having a nice room on the railroad
With Arsenic
RJ
FRIDi
UNRR
Rats
‘Bla<
Counter-
of the
Nuernberg. Germany, —
intelligenre Corps agents
Uni.led States Army revealed that
2283 Schulz Stafel (SS) men In a
camp .near Nuernberg were deliber-
atrlv poisoned with arsenic last
Friday.
The agents announced they, had
side, and we have wondered ever riisrmwrcd fo„; fuu bottlea In whS
1*2-. <
j since why it is that your switch
j engine has to ding and gong and
| fizz and spit and clang and bang
' and buzz*and hiss and bell and
I wail and pant and rant and howl
j and yowl and grate and grind and
' puff and bumb and click and clank
; and chug and moan and hoot and
arsenic had been under the floor of
the German bakery that supplied
bread to tlie camp.
Col. Samuel T. Williams of Den-
ton. Texas, commanding officer of
tlie 26th Regiment of the 1st Divi-
sion. winch guards the area, said
no arrests had been made, but ail.
*«v\IFER8COPE* WAS DEATH RAY FOR JAPS—Photo-diagram above
shows tlie "si
i toot and crash and grunt and gasp fj.,krry employees were being invest'
; and groan and whistle and sneeze . krated.
liperseope.” one of the most jealously guasded secret weap- , and wheeze and squeak and blow , CIC' agent8 each loaf of *
ol the war, credited with 30 per cent of the Jap casualties on Oki- and jar and jerk and rasp and jin- b~7 had" been painted’on the bot-
A U. S. lighter could see and kill the enemy in total darkness, dIg «r»n tmomr ooh ......._____*»„m
<‘jo lighted, it'll e isy prey
top of the carbine.
Science Girds
For Cancer War
Million Would Return
Nearly 'l.O'O.i-JO i-ddicrs. sailors
: nd marine- Iiojm- to g-.t back cn a
h'im. pieirrably their own. when
leUn.M'fl .liter the war. This data
came Irom surveys by the armed
r\ .ei . while men were on duty. , „ , ... .
•We have had more than eight \ c,tlzens of the
yfai' experieiuv now under the
n teiiaiu;. program." Bankheod
It has proved a , , , . ,
del, iiinned by tlie secretary of
pawn
using a beam of infra-red light invisible*to the naked eye, from the
scar Flight mounted under his carbine. Enemy, unaware that he was
to marksman sighting through telescope on
gle and twang and rumble and ; lom with arsenic, and, according
jangle and ring and clatter and ! to williams, it was necessary to
yelp and hum and snort and growl t;,ke the loaves individually from a
and thump and boom and clash jptie at tlie bakery, poison them
and jolt and jostle and shake and iand then replace them.
1 not
i for
more than live d:ys a nunth
county farmer committee-
screech and snarf and slam and
i throb £ nd crink and quivver and
I rural community.
Tim would be incr.ajcd to $5
proved "a remarkable ic!"1 >,Uls expenses with the limit
... . . _ rlitt i ninrn hv tlie *;i»r rot.*.! fv nf
• ir.cl 1 m pretty certain Con-
v.a*
crA St -earns ■
t( nl-c- tlicii
t’
:>f
Germans <- 1< ■
p’anes Wasted !
signs in two ! •
the treve'-r a’r*
througli the stn
Cities.
Here as rvervvl
into the eve<--' •• sper
ItaliB”S wlio learned : I
familiarly a. bent lii>
prodj
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P.
tV* mil
T of • h ' .
, * rail
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fact, hi-
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la^gmee
land
e But
and pi-
ed bc-
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■ Work:
“APO's” and • PX nr
the letters ns h- did In
fturdy refusal, rq 1 are. Ih--
forced nil who wru'd dial with him
— bartenders, waiters, policemen,
sales clerks — to gel some smatter-
ing of English.
V NANNIE CONNLI.I.
:im MONDAY
Funeral verviu .i were held Mon-
day - fterr.oon ai the Cl rksville
Methodist churc-ii for Mrs. Nannie
Connell, who diad Sunday at the
He left much of his transport, home of her son. J. -C. Connell.
Da dak- Ttev. Richar^vIrvin was in
HUMwp, sold as surplus prep-rty.
novv'spe?9s carabinieri to the sedne
now spe
of a disorder, or hauls UNRRA
workers about their reli_ef business.
His locomotives, soon. - will ply
I<aly*s railways
He left his cloth’n-. or many
lieces of it. Rare is tlie Italian to-
day who does not wear one or more
GI items v- shoes, field jackets.
Bbtrt, sometimes the entire uni-
form sans insignia.
He left a nation-wide preference
lt»r the cigarettes he smoked, ar.d
gbve away, md used for tips —
ahd. not infrequently, sold on the
ibek market.
And. it must ke said he left
some stenped-on toes, some ruf-
charge of the servife which w*9S
followed by burial in Whiterock
cemetery.
Mrs. Connell, the former Miss
Nannie Joreu v.:s born near Mem-
phis, Tennessee. November 8. 1870.
She was married to John Connell
of Mt. Vernon. Arkansas fifty-six
years a o. They moved to Clarks-
vil e in. 1897 and spent the remain-
der of their lives here. Mrs. Con-
nell wss in California a year be-
fore her death, returning last De-
cember to Dallas. She was a mem-
ber of the Methodist church.
Survivors include three daughters,
four sons, three sisters, and uvo
brothers. Daughters are Mrs. C. D.
:h 90 ot tin* nation's
j ier.cling physicist... chemists, biolo-
' •*i>t> and doctors, the commitee
| will promote and guide research
! and experimental work in the wide
j variety of scientific fields related
j to the cancer problem." the article
I states in p£rt.
j While scientists have gained
i considerable knowledge about can-
i cer in the last 50 years, there is
'much they do not know, such as
j what controls cell growth; what
! natural defenses the body h:s
| against cancer—if any: what blood
I deficiencies cause leukemia, a can-
[ cerous blood disease; the relation-
ship between c ncer and sex hor-
mones. and many other aspects of
the situation.
"Just when all the unknown fac-
tors in the cancer problem will be
solved, no ore can say," the arti-
cle states. "But enough is already
known to provide a solid founda-
tion for further experimental and
reasearch work.” -*
feelings, some in’ured vanity. -p7yne 0f Stanton. Tex., Mrs. Rob-
even some active dislike. ert, Tsvlor of Monterey, Calif., and
Despite the army's effor's to MrS. Evelyn Evans of Clarksville,
soften his Impact upon the heri- sons are E. M. Connell and 'J. C,
tors of the civilization of ancient Connell of Dallas. F. L. Connell of
Rome, the GI wrs often, by Italian Monterey, Calif.,'and H. H. Con-
prds, rude, crude, inconsider- nell of Ennis, Texas. Sisters are
Be was too often, conciously Miss Annie Jones, Mrs. Addie Bos-
eonqueror: he was too sure weu and Mrs. Dell Harris, all of
bat everything American was good whom live in Tennessee, Brothers
and everythin? not American bad. are will Jone*. of Miller, Ark., and
jjlga. beet-use -he lived, when he was Hugh Jones of Humboldt, Tenn.
HARLEM FARM CONVICTS
caT'cht AFTER BREAK
Twenty-
eighteen
survive.
one grandchildren
great-grandchildren
and
also
not in the lines,, on, tpe fat of the
land. The best hotels were set
aside for him and officers. He fed
daily, off Uncle Sam or at prices
gesrbd to his pocketbook, off such JIMMIE MeFATftIDGE ON
I food as the wealthiest Italians FARM JOURNAL
I: could not -often buy end most -
I Italians had forgotten existed. Eugene Butler, vice-president and
• Many of them felt it to be their editor of The Progressive Farmer,
constitutional right to get drunk widely circulated farm journal of
■ uuubiuubiuiuu ligiii* tu get utuim v* luci.v uuuiuiru xauii juuumi ui
1 when on three-day pass and, full the South, has announced the ap-
I of wine, or 'grappa." grew unruly pointment of J. M. (Jimmie) Me-
of wine, . _ ...
when crossed. : Fatridge of Sulpher Springs, for-
ransr to a Fault mer county agent of Red River
on the other side of the led- County, as associate editor of the
publication.
Announcement
The state inspector for the Texas State Department
of Health has recommended that Smith Dairy be
*l *“*tl* a permit to use the
Gride “A” Label
milk produced as all sanitary requirements
“A” milk are being followed.
on the entire herd ir tested regularly for
and Bang’s disease,
a graduate of Texas A. A M. in Dairy
r supervises the production.
l is in charge of distribution and
Houston. l/P) — Twelve felons
who participated in an Eester
morning break from Harlem State
Prison Farm No. 2, near ' Sugar-
land. were recaptured by 1 p. m.
Sunday.
The break wis discovered at 9
a. m., and Texas Rangers, state
highway patrolmen, Harris County
deputy sheriffs and prison offi-
cials began a search with blood-
hounds.
They caught four of the convicts
hear ihe scene of the prison farm,
and the other eight were appre-
hended near Ciattdine in Harris
County.
The convicts, who surrendered
peacefully, were believed headed
toward Houston.
They escaped after sawing the
bars of the jail.
cn' - will expand it to Include both
vc’cr.uis ci-.d deserving farmers"
Cor.mess already lits vet d $2">-
‘luO.Oiitl to help former service men
become farm owners
The Bankhead amendments
v.o-.ild open tin entire farm tenant
program to them v.ih an animal
authorization of $50,000,000 for
f. rm purchases and loans.
Must Slum Ability.
Under the present act a prospec-
tive farm owner first must be ap-
proved by a county committee of
farmers.
This committ e also must ap-
provc the farm he is about io buy.
its cost, and certify that tlie pros-
pective bujer has suOlunce to suc-
ceed
Farm Security Administrattion
officii Is here say some 40,000 for-
nu r tenants and sharecroppers
now art* buying farms under the
programs with repayments averag-
ing above 94 per cent, an excellent
record emong federal rural loan
programs.
There is a top limit of $12,020 on
those farm purchase loans which
can be repaid over 40 years with
interest at the low rate of 3 per
cent on the unpaid balance.
| Annual payments vary accord-
ing to crop returns with payments
suspended during years of drought
and misfortune.
Average loans to date have been
about $6,000. At this rate the spe-
cial $25,000,000 fund for veterans
would enable about 4,000 to bc-
come farm owners,
i Under the Bankhead amend-
ments a veteran first must be cer-
' ttfied for a farm loan by the Vet-
\ erans Administration., Then he
must obtain aid of ’ the county
} farmer committees,
j No Down Payment.
| Loans could be made without
any down payment. In these cases
i the veteran or tenant is expected
to provide livestock, machinery
j and other supplies for production.
I The Bankhead amendments also
j provide numerous other revisions
and clarilications in the present
tenant act which is limited to fam-
ily-size farms as determined by
the secretary of agriculture. Coun-
ty committees may modernize end
repair farms or provide buildings
'and equipment in order to give
buyers a good chance at success
The Farm Security Administra-
tion is authorized to borrow funds
for loans from the government
Reconstruction Finance Corpora-
tion. It'receivts annual appropria-
tions for administrative expenses.
One amendment would assure each
state at least $100,000 a y ar for
administration.
The present . allocation formula
has limited tenancy operations in
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Ver-
mont and NeVada.
a..ii
ulture.
Senator Bankhead said he would
a>k hearings early in the news ses-
sion if the Senate Agriculture
skyrocketed over 98 per cent „ . ... . „ , ,
1 i roar and rattle and yell and smoke
Pacific Coast states. The real es- - and smell and shriek all night
late inflation has been somewhat : long.
less in the northeast, from Maine ! “Our district meeting v.lil be
to Wisconsin. held in Johnson City soon and we
In the medium-priced brackets, i wish to reserve a nice room .and
six to twelve thousand dollars — jbatli for the duration of the con-
the rise he s averaged 57 per cent. I fere nee. ’
JUSTICE HARLAN F.
|STONE DIES
j Washington. — WP) —Harlan F.
I Stone. 73. chief justice of the
| United States, died Monday night
of a cerebral hemorrhage a few
hours alter he had been stricken
ill on tlie bench of the Supreme
Court.
Committee. Companion legislation
is .-ponsored in the house by Rep-
iv i-ntative Flannagan (D-Va).
HOUSING COSTS SHOW
HIKE 65 PERCENT
FIVE JAPS DIE FOR
KILLING IT. S. AIRMAN
s
iBy Associated Pressi
National Housing Agency
Shanghai. China, ifPi — Ameri-
can military authorities hanged a
stiff-faced Japanese General and
four of his subordinates for the ex-
ecution of three captive American
airman at Hankow in December,
1944.
Tlie executions, in the gloomy
lias completed a survey'on housing Ward Road jail. Were the first con- :
ios s. And its report, released, shows ducted by Americans in the China-
a pru-e rise of more than 65 per cent theater
in iov. -priced homes. j ’ _0_
Dwellings which sold lor $6,000 ; Linen was first manufactured in'
or less in 1940, for hist, nee, liave : England by Flemish weavers in i
1253.
CITY DELIVERY SERVICE
We make your pickup and delivery requirements
our personal business.
New electric entry and grind stone tools sharpen
to razor edge anything from hedge shears to pre-
cision cutting instruments.
Guns and fishing reels repaired.
CLIFTON COOK Phone 523
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CLARKSVILLE DRY GOODS COMPANY
Home Furnishing Values
Beauty for every room in your home is afforded you in this new spring showing of CURTAINS and DRAPERY,
.-ee this collection today. It-'s offered just in time to help you with your spring redecorating. Shop at Clarksville Dry
uood s Co., a thrifty, happy place to shop. - ~
Wald rep Insurance Agency.
Early Hearings.
Another change would remove
present pay limit of $3 a day and
Mk for
: ia the ONLY
"Mai Milk
. . . And you’ll always be
healthy, son, if your mother
includes plenty of it in yonr
diet. Remind her that CHILD
HEALTH DAY is May 1.
hm
Curtain Drapery
42 WIDE
Put a festive look into your every room with bright new
curtains and drapes. Floral, solid colors or striped drapery.
See our exciting array today.
*2.49 yd.
%
ease .
gases, smol
UNRRA h<T
perts are
Italy, Yus
and the
The firstl
Italy, whej
death”
traced to
area. UN<
of DDT.
dusted wltl
runs were!
fleas at t|
vaccine
and was
to the poirj
Then, U|
ley Oracle,
rector of i|
stro.v the
running
oned food I
using new|
ferent typ
is was
weeks.
Similar
lng in
where
destruction
The
run with
cats and
ing the ftl
man occug
Gran ari|
storeroon
reserve
Greece an
In the
munition”
eludes
to Italy,
650 to th(|
pounds
supplied
a week.
By thesG
the cariiel
phus and T
r serious |
stocks.
TO FEl
AT COI
Washlnl
was repoif
160,000,0
Germany I
A total of
marked fd
Departmel
the 12
Food Id
United Sl|
the rate i
rice and
delivered |
This fd
Departme
ease and |
Clay, dep
REGINA
CURTAINS
21^ YARDS LONG
Ruffled marquisette cur-
tains. Your sparkling spring
lovelier when you add these
lovlier when you add these
curtains to your windows.
They are made with lavishly
full extra-wide ruffles. In
white, pink and blue shades.
A real value.
$4.98
TAILORED
CURTAINS
21/4 YARDS LONG
A very beautiful curtain
n natural cream. You will
m
like these for a touch of
Spring.
CHENILLE SPREADS
Velvety soft cotton chenille tufting which brings real ex-
dtement $o your best bedroom with their sparkling designs
--------— Mvwiwvu* nnu tueir iparKiinc'
Df beautifully blended colored florals. A real value.
$9.90 - $11.90
plained.
Sj
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We
in br
green
W-
$
CANNON TOWELS
Thick texture Turkish towels, closely woven for quick
absorbancy. Solid designs and wash-fast eelors. In
white, blue, gold, greet* or red. 40c and 78c.
I
m
SHEET BLANKETS
WHITE, SIZE 81 x 99
"d * wU,,*r ■h~t- “»*“■*
$1.98
BATH MAT SETS
LADY CHRISTIANA
Fine* quality ohenllle seta in shades to blend
you* bathroom color scheme. $3.98 $4.98..
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