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Mississippi in a Muddle ~ Over Black Market Tax. JACKSON, Miss, Dec. 26.—Gov: ernor Tom Bailey is a prohibitionist. He is also an unhappy man.

ter if the church people would quit taking potshots at him because he sponsors the 10 per cent black market tax—a tax levied on liquor dealers only-—and because he hasn't used the national guard for cleanup campaigns.

revenue his black market tax brings in. Mississippi Baptists are on record demanding repeal of the black market tax. The Methodist tefperance commission takes the same stand. The Jackson ClarionLedger and the Tupelo Leader, editorially, are crying for purity and real prohibition.

will be the residence U. 8. with Mrs. Churchill Frank Clarke of Quebec, a

Tough on Governor It's pretty tough on a nondrinking governor. Rep. Littleton Upshur of Green-| Governor Bailey figures the Methwood, newspaper publisher, lawyer odists and Baptists ought to lay off and stanch prohibitionist, 1s tead- him and jump on the sheriffs. ing the governor's forces. Mr Up- Without saying anything about it, . Shur plans to introduce a bill when he has been mailing Mississippi the legislature meets Jan. 1 requir- sheriffs lists of liquor dealers in ing the black market tax collector their counties and suggesting all to send each circuit judge a list of [they have to do is “collect a little liquor dealers in his county and evidence.” - The sheriffs haven't ~ making payment of the tax prima taken the hint. facie evidence of law violation. Mississippi doesn't appropriate a Periodically, dry Mississippi nas dollar to its sheriffs for law enhad trouble with its conscience, and forcement. has tried to do something about| In the other 53, bootleggers can liquor. In the administration of get away with almost anything. former Governor Hugh White, the] The state highway patrol is helplegislature appropriated $25,000 to|less. The ex-sheriffs in the legisdry up Rankin county, just over the |lature took care of that. State law Pearl river from Jackson. Gover. limits the patrol's jurisdiction to . hor White called out the national ‘crimes committed on the highway

guard, and then, after three months, {discovered he'd spent the $25,000.

Wasson’s Curtains, Fourth Floor

Home for Spring!

cand they're bug-proof !

Roadhouses 15 feet off the pavement are secure in violating the

| Rankin county is still wide open.’ |law.

Mississippi has local option on beer. But only 31 counties want even that. One Mississipoi idee holds that a man can drink beer, but he violates the law it ne giv. a bottle to his wife. Gentlemen in this county leave a bottle on the table where it is “stolen” by the

property, a husband is without legal recourse,

FRANCE STUDIES TREATY ACT PARIS, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—A spokesman said today the French governmeht was studying Monday's communique from Moscow on peace treaties, and probably would decide

by 90” ‘ngs With oneheaded and ready to

this week whether France: would ‘agree to the proposed procedure.

side hems

good woman. Since beer isn’t legal |

| WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U. P) |—In goughig out the earth's sur-

By PATRICIA CLARY

OF OLD WORLDS

Explorers Find Evidence in ~~ Seven Locations.

professor. the weather for years. &

face in the course of world war

National Geographic society report- ain ob rain nine days out of 10 ed today.

tion during 1945 the society report- | setting wet the 10th day

ONE~—That extension of Gibraltar'’s underground defenses opened up an ancient cave in which were found fossils of antlers, jaws, sets of teeth and vertebrae. Other caves on Gibraltar yielded pottery, stone tools and otfier remains indicating occupation “possible from the Mousterian period to Roman times.” TWO-—The design of an ancient Celtic wood temple, probably built between 500 and 300 B. C., was revealed by digging for ajirfieids in England. THREE—Examination of bomb craters in Canterbury, England, disclosed evidence of an ancient

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| research, Physics and Mathematics

umbrella now and then himself.

B-295 TO EXPLORE NORTH POLAR AREAS

‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U. P.). —The army air force is already at work on plans to protect this country from aerial attack via the |“short cut” route across the Arctic, {it was learned today.

Behind this preparation is the | realization that long-range bombers

»{ rockets and other strides in aviation The University of Chicago re-

are transforming the Arctic into a new world crossroads and a new

| front line of American defense. | Plans are in the formative stage | today for a new undertaking under which flights of B-20 Superfortresses will frequent the top of the world, flying to the North Pole to learn all that can be learned of the weather, land, resources, ice formations, seas and sea currents. There are still huge areas north of Alaska about which little or nothing is known. Large unknown land masses may be found there. But the most immediate goal will be to gbtain weather information. Cold air masses which affect the weather in the Atlantic and Pacific

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north. In their general movement towards the southeast, these air masses cause storms when they meet warmer

areas. Experience of the war has shown that oceans, once a bugaboo of aviation, may be flown in safety if adequate weather intelligence is available. Experts say the same will be true in the Arctic.

ANKARA RADIO GIVES WARNING TO RUSSIA

LONDON, Dec, 26 Soviet Russia was warned by the Ankara radio today that the Turks would “fight to the last Turk and doomsday” rather than cede par's of their homeland to Russia. A’ commentator made the statewent in reply to .a ‘etter prominently printed in Moscow papers demanding for Russia 10,000 s uare

Black sea coast adjoining:

the Batum of' fields. ’

By DAVID C. WHITNEY United Press Stall: Correspondent

gold “ruptured dick.” which the nathrough, years of ‘war, can now be

has the cash. Current asking prices range from

token of honorable the armed services. -

a driver's license.

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build up in the icy vastness of the |

currents moving | Magnetic pole in the center of the northward from tropic or temperate Sverdrup islands group, 530 miles

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miles of Turkish territory along the) The money. he sald. was in eight

N. Y. Stores 'Get Rich Quick’ By Selling Army Honor Emblem

__ NEW YORK. Dec. 26. —That little |

tion's fighting men sweated for | to obtain a license from the army |

bought by any grafter or grifter who emblems, and that the stores are

35 cents to $25 in New York stores for the gold emblem which decorated _Trajan’s forum in ancient Romie and more recently was adopted by the United States as the | rushing mail-order business in “rupfrom

I was able to buy a 35-cent sew-on emblem from one of the uniform

to say there are no required honorable dis--nd finally, apologized. for being so strict. :

city built there soon after the Roman conquest in 43 A. D.

i Towns 23,000 Years Old

Also in 1945 Russia reported find- | fessor said ing ancient settlements between |

new island in the Laptev sea off northern Siberia was charted. Soviet scientists dug up fossil remains of a giant whose skull measured 33 inches in circumference and whose shin bone was 33 inches long.

of gravity

air or rain cloud will move. ported finding towns built on 16 Astronomical Accuracy different levels 250 miles from | Baghdad. The towns were built one above the other and beneath all was | evidence of ancient nomadic life. | A pre-bronze age settlement was | discovered near Haifa while the site ; of Beth-Yerah on the sea of Galilee yielded ruins of pre-Chrisitian periods, | Ancient Mexico City | An ancient city of eight large] | mounds was discovered by an expedition to southern Mexico. This dis- | covery, by the seventh National | Geographic society-Smithsonian In. | stitute expedition, indicated a mi- | gration from the gulf coast of Olmec culture which came before Mayan civilization. . British explorers flying over north | polar regions located the north

express weather mathematical terms.” he said. -

nearer the geographic pole<than the Boothia peninsula, the long-ac- | cepted location. The first total eclipse of the sun | visible in the United States since! 1932 also was witnessed this year. the society said.

THEFT OF $5000 + FROM CAR REPORTED

Jesse Reynolds, 35, of Rockwood Tenn. spent » costly Christmas holiday in Indianapolis, He wld police yesterday that between the time he parked his car in front of 1309 N. Illinois st. Christ. mas eve and the time he returned to it yesterday, someone removed $5000 in cash from the locked glove compartment, 7

bundles of $500 each and $1000 in} i loose bills of small denomination.

“But wé thought maybe you were | an F.B.1. man,” the clerk said. i The army public relations office

| explained that stores are required!

| adjutant general's office in Wash. | {ington in order to sell discharge | | supposed to ask to see discharge | papers. “Whether they do or do not is| another question,” a public relations | officer added. To | One Manhattan firm is doing a |

| Fanciest iapel button offered | the returned serviceman is one that

small enameled replicas of service | ribbons. These cost from $5 up.

SON & CO.

Offers Scientific Plan to ‘Aid Weatherman's Accuracy,

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26.—Dr.| Jacob Bjerknes, University of Galt. frst fornia at Los Angeles meteorology | has been ‘*alking about

-Today he worked on a mathemat-

11, men accidentally uncovered new |} formula with which, he said, remains of earlier civilizations, tife the weatherman could be right as

. | But picknickers and sports fans In a review of scientific explora- | ijl must take their chances on!

Dr | —bLetter-perfect—{fore~—— . | plained.

'n the reach of exact scientific meth-

“With present methods and with the most experienced forecasters, pbout one in five forecasts are wrong, said Dr. Bjerknes, who ad-| mitted he got caught without his|to arrive Jan. 14 in a San Pran-

He pointed out that a physicist 25,000 and 100,000 years old, and Ajcould forecast mathematically just how fast an object will go when it falls to earth under the influence

The weatherman, -he said, ought

tu be able to forecast mathemati-| cally exactly how fast a body nf cold!

“Our ultimate aim would be to

|and seek the answer in terms of physical laws. :

of gases could well be apfed to the weather, Dr. Bjerknes !said, adding that the physical law {of gravity was the basis for pro- | verbally accurate astronomical pre(dictions. . { But the weatherman won't ever {be as accurate as the astronomer, | Dr. Bjerknes warned. The weather-| {man has more problems; —=

Tomorrow Forecasting {

Bjerknes said the weatherman, | ting globe with irregular distribuwho now bats around 800 could ton of

MORE INDIANAPOLIS

Two city veterans are scheduled

| cisco port aboard the Isaac Wise.

The weatherman would be right | They are Pfc. Paul Richmond, 557 more often if he knew more about] Udell st, and Pfc. Roscoe Weather

| physics and mathematics, the pro-

2427 Ralston st. City veterans listed below as reported arriving at a San Francisco port Dec. 20 aboard the Fondulac are: Sat T Leveston, T.

Bdward V. Morris, T. Sth Gr. Louis th Gr. Walter L. Lytle tlre, WOJUG Jay Smith, ist Sgt. Paul Parks, 1st Sgt. Lucius T. Ross, T | Theodor W. Blech, T. Sgt. Jesse Daniel Jr, 8 Sgt. Albert ©, Burzlafl, Sgt. R ard D Knapp. Sgt. Edward PF, Leopold and Pvt. Brentferdeen Carpenter.

WANTS BULGARIAN REPUBLIC LONDON, Dec. 26 (U, P).—Bul-

forecasting in|garidn Communist Leader George

Dimitrov’ urged the national as-

As a start toward finding the sembly in Sofia yesterday to abolmathematical terms for weather, ish the monarchy and proclaim a Dr. Bjerknes’ . researchers select new Bulgarian republic, Radio

typical day-to-day developments on | Moscow said today in a broadcast the weather maps, ask themselves | why such developments take place, monitors.

heard by Exchange Telegraph

The physical laws about move: Hundreds Sent Back H

“Astronomy deals with distinct! \bodies in empty space,” he ex-, Atty. Gen. Clark was asked if th “But meteorology deals department of ] vith a ontinuous medi of 7 | make public names and ; {an ater vapar enveloping a of } who were interned, : oceans and continents. of deported. wi 4 boost his day-to-day average to 900 Many of these have mountains| This information has been withw ‘in our time" through using more fO'MINg large obstacles to the in-|neid throughout the war. The res« = scientific methods in meterologica) [cessantly moving atmosphere.

MEN COMING HOME

1%: It or | | MY Ll i i ls y .

Or Deported. WASHINGTON, Dee. ; dred of enemy aliens In parts of the country who disappeared into internment ¢ during the war are as quietly being’ restored to home communities or being deported. tf ry

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|son given has been that anonymity {was enforced for the protection of |those held and their families. | “I will look into the ides of make |ing those names public and see k what can be done,” the 3 general said. A 16,062 In Custody % Throughout the war period, with special emphasis on Its early {months, 16,062 enemy aliens were {taken into custody by the federal bureau of investigation. These acs tions were taken on complaints or information given to the FBI un- = der the espionage act. E Disposition of those cases was) Released after preliminary hearings, 5706; deported, 1193; died before = any action could be taken, 149; pars oled to citizen friends of members, 5741; interned in American camps located at various parts of the country, 3124; “miscellane~ ous,” 59, ; Of the 160,062 investigated were Germans; 5428 Japanese; Italian; 12 Hungarian; 11 Romans fan; one Bulgarian. 4 Co Chae Dak Ree

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